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The 6th annual PigTales Barbecue Festival is just a month away, and organizers need cooks, cooks and more cooks.

Founded in 2007 by The Item and The Clarendon Sun, it is one of the Harvin Clarendon County Library’s biggest fundraisers and is now organized by Ikey Brunson and the Friends of the Library’s own Kay Prothro. The overall competition this year will be held September 29th and will pit Clarendon County’s best cooks against some of the best from Sumter, Orangeburg and Williamsburg counties, with a few cooks from Charleston and Greenville thrown in as well.

Voting will be done by judges and through $1 tastes. Tickets can be purchased starting at 10 a.m. for $1.

Teams with the most tickets will vie for 1st, 2nd and 3rd, and the judges will also select a favorite.

Make sure to check back with The Item and The Clarendon Sun for event announcements as PigTales gets closer.

For more information, call Ikey Brunson at (803) 433-2273 or Gail Mathis at (803) 435-8511.

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BEAT THE HEAT this season

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SOMETHING FOR the kids

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PREPARATION IS KEY this hurricane season

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LANDMARKSBerkeleyAND County • Clarendo The Santee Cooper lakes, both Moultrie and Marion, cover Berkeley, Calhoun, Clarendon, Orangeburg and Sumter counties. Altogether these counties boast Revolutionary War battles sites, grave markers of war heroes, museums dedicated to preserving watershed moments in state and American history, beautiful churches that have sheltered the worship of Jesus Christ for more than two centuries and wildlife reserves, swampland and nationally recognized, pristine forests.

BERKELEY COUNTY

The Berkeley County Blueways consist of 175 miles of waterway comprised of 23 paddling trails in Lake Moultrie, lower Lake Marion, the Santee River and Francis Marion National Forest. For more information, visit www.berkeleyblueways. com, email berkconsdist@homexpressway. net, or call (843) 719-4146.

Mepkin Abbey, a community of Roman Catholic monks, was built in 1959 on the Cooper River, S.C. 402, north of Charleston, where historic Mepkin Plantation once stood. Guided tours of the church are provided at 11:30 a.m., Tuesday

through Saturday; and 3 p.m., Tuesday through Sunday. The abbey is closed to visitors on Mondays. Groups of 10 or more visitors are asked to make reservations by calling (843) 761-8509.

The Moncks Corner Train Depot was once the first destination for mail and news from the outside world and also served as a platform for farmers to sell goods.

Renovated in 2000, it now serves as the town’s Visitor and Cultural Center, and the facility can rented for special occasions, meetings and seminars.

CALHOUN COUNTY

Aeolian Hill, which sits two miles east of St. Matthews on S.C. 6, was built by the Rev. John Jacob Wannamaker in 1875 and served as the main house of Aeolian Plantation. The plantation is named due to the strong winds that swept across the land, and the name translates roughly to “where the wind blows.” The plantation covers 395 acres, which includes 158 acres of planted pine trees, 34 acres of pecan trees and meadows and 147 acres of cropland.

Belleville Plantation and Cemetery dates back to the Revolutionary War

when Col. William Thomson and his new bride, Eugenia Russell, bought 400 acres of land on Buckhead Creek. Located on the Congaree River near Fort Motte in St. Matthews of U.S. 601, the site almost became the state capitol after the war, but lost out by a couple of votes.

The Calhoun County Museum and Cultural Center, located at 303 Butler St., St. Matthews, contains an art gallery, along with agricultural galleries and a research room with archives. Open 9 a.m. to 4 p.m. Tuesday-Friday, the museum also offers research opportunities by appointment only. Right now, the museum’s prime feature is the map collection of Dr. John L. Ward, which showcases the original, complete Robert Mills Atlas of 1820. For more information, call (803) 874-3964 or visit www. calhouncountymuseumandculturalcenter. org.

CLARENDON COUNTY

The Clarendon Cup Race Series will conclude 4 p.m. Oct. 13 with Spooky Sprint at Summerton United Methodist Church. Races are held rain or shine.

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LANDSCAPES on County • Orangeburg County • Sumter County & Williamsburg County Overall male and female winners from each race will win $100. For more information, call The Zone at (803) 435-5200. Results from prior races can be seen at strictlyrunning/ Gprptresult-7d.asp.

Larry Gatlin and the Gatlin Brothers will perform at 7:30 p.m. Sept. 6 at Weldon Auditorium in Manning. For tickets, call (803) 433-SHOW. The Lake Marion Coast Guard Auxiliary Flotilla 12-1 holds its monthly meeting at 7 p.m. on the third Wednesday of each month in the fire department training room at the Emergency Service Complex, 219 Commerce St., Manning. The public is invited to attend all meetings, which are moved periodically to the second Wednesday of the month due to fire department training.

Time changes are noted in advance For more information, call Flotilla Commander Joe Livingston at (803) 707-4016.

The Manning Farmers Market is open 8 a.m. to noon Saturdays through October at Manning Municipal Park, corner of Church and Boyce streets. For more information, call Manning City Hall at (803) 435-8477, ext.

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ORANGEBURG COUNTY

The Elloree Heritage and Cultural Museum on Historic Cleveland Street in downtown Elloree, about seven miles from Santee off Exit 98 at Interstate 95, was founded in 1998 as part of the downtown area’s revitalization efforts and boasts a rotating series of exhibits in its 10,000-square-foot facility and specifically focuses on rural life of the past. Opened Oct. 5, 2002, the museum’s Farm Wing is its oldest, continuously run exhibit. For more information, call (803) 897-2225 or visit elloreemuseum.org.

The Neeses Farm Museum, 6449 Savannah Highway, S.C. 4, Neeses, contains historic artifacts like clothing, butter churns, a wood-burning stove, a cotton gin, a hand-made plow, grain cradles, saws and other farm items. Displays include pottery, arrowheads, jewelry, regalia and more as part of a Native American cultural exhibit and exhibits on World War I and II. School tours are popular, giving children a glimpse of life on a farm 100 years ago. For more information, call (803) 247-5811.

Orangeburg National Fish Hatchery, located at 427 Lakeview Drive on the S.C. 21 bypass in Orangeburg, is one of more than 60 federal fish hatcheries located in the United States. Operated by the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service, the hatchery produces a number of species, including striped bass and red breast and bluegill sunfish, which are used to stock lakes and streams throughout the southeastern United States. Nose sturgeon are used for research and development at the site. The aquarium is open from 8 a.m. to 3:30 p.m., Monday-Friday. For more information, call (803) 534-4828 or email the hatchery at orangeburg@fws.gov.

Vallentines Cotton Gin, located in historic Cope, operates from late September through December and allows visitors to follow the progress of cotton from the field to the bale. An adjacent general store displays merchandise from the 1930s through the 1950s. For more information, call (803) 5340442.

SUMTER COUNTY

The Palmetto Tennis Center, located inside Palmetto Park in Sumter, boasts

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24 state-of-the-art tennis courts for day or night play. Three on-site tennis professionals offer private lessons and group clinics for beginners and advanced players 3 and older. Other amenities include two ball machines, stringing services and a pro-shop. Individual lessons are $25 per 30 minutes; $45, for an hour. Group lessons may also be purchased for $23 per person for two people; $15 per person for three; $12 per person for four; and $10 per person for five or more. Hours are 8:30 a.m. to 9 p.m., Mondays-Fridays; 8:30 a.m. to 6 p.m. Saturdays; and 1-9 p.m. Sundays. The center is closed Thanksgiving, Christmas, Easter and during inclement weather. For more information, call (803) 774-3969 or email palmettotennis@sumter-sc.com.

Poinsett State Park in Manchester State Forest encompasses 1,000 acres of separate trails for hiking, biking and trail riders, and also contains Sumter’s 14-mile portion of the Palmetto Trail, a 425-mile long trail from the mountains to the seat spread across the state. The lake at Poinsett is the perfect setting for a relaxing ride in a paddleboat, which can

be rented at the park’s office, while Lake Marion is obviously ideal for kayaking and canoeing. The park office is located at 6660 Poinsett Park Road, Wedgefield. For more information, call (803) 494-8177.

picnicking, but the most fun comes from placing your hand on the handprints and seeing the water flow. Bring a towel and sunscreen. For more information, call (803) 436-2640.

The Sumter Aquatics Center, 115 S. Lafayette Blvd., is open for all swimming noon to 5 p.m. Tuesday-Friday, 11 a.m. to 5 p.m. Saturday and 2 to 6 p.m. Sunday.

Admission is $3 for swimmers 13 and older; $1 for non-swimmers 13 and older; $2 for swimmers 3-12; and free for swimmers 2 and younger. Passes may also be purchased at $60 for 13 and older, $40 for ages 6-12. Children 12 and younger must be accompanied by adults at all times.

Swimmers ages 13-18 must sign up for an official ID. For more information, call (803) 774-3998.

Swan Lake Iris Gardens, one of the premier swan observatories in the world, is located on West Liberty Street in Sumter. Its renown is due in part to its status as the only public park in the United States serving as home to all eight species of swans, including black necks, royal white mutes, coscorobas, whoopers, black australians, whistlers, bewicks and trumpeters. Tables are located throughout the grounds, and a large playground features an antique fire engine that is perfect for climbing. The Bland Gardens feature a boardwalk, on which visitors may meander through a cypress swamp, and a gazebo popular for spring weddings. Call (803) 778-5434 for more information about reservations for any of the park’s facilities or email tourism@sumter-sc.com.

The city of Sumter opened Spray Parks on May 12 located at Crosswell Park, corner of Lafayette Boulevard and Yeadon Street; North Hope Park, 904 N. Main St.; and South Sumter Park, corner of South Sumter and Atlantic streets. All three parks have playgrounds and green space for

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DNR to host seminars for gator hunt

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he state Department of Natural Resources is planning a series of alligator hunting seminars for public hunt participants, hunting assistants and other parties interested in the hunt, which begins noon Sept. 8 and runs through noon Oct. 13.

One seminar was already held Aug. 11, and the next is scheduled for 10 a.m. Sept. 1 at the University Center of Greenville, 225 S. Pleasantburg Drive, Greenville. Other dates will be announced at dnr.sc.gov.

The seminars will cover topics including alligator capture and handling techniques, rules and regulations, alligator hunting equipment and processing, along with other helpful information. In addition, DNR has invited alligator hunting equipment manufacturers and retailers to display and demonstrate equipment in conjunction with the seminars, though the agency does not endorse any type, brand or make of such equipment. Onpremises sales are restricted at certain sites.

The 2012 Public Alligator Hunting Season will allow selected hunters a chance to help DNR cull the animal’s numbers in South Carolina. The deadline for applying for DNR’s annual permit lottery was June 30. Permitted hunters may take alligators in public waters and on private land where permission is granted; hunting is prohibited on Wildlife Management Areas and Wildlife Refuges affiliated with the U.S. Federal Wildlife Service. The permits cannot be used on lands enrolled in the Private Lands Alligator Program.

In 2011, hunters took 472 alligators during the month-long season, with the average gator measuring nine feet in length.

Hunters took 473 gators in the 2010 season. Three-hundred permits are allocated for each of the four units on which DNR allows the hunt. On average, DNR officials see about 900 hunters selected for the permits pay the $100 fee to hunt alligators.

For more information, call (803) 734-3886.

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Beat the heat this deer and dove season

By Earle Woodward earlew@theitem.com

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t is upon us – Perhaps the biggest two days of the year, excluding Christmas and Thanksgiving, are at

hand.

I’m referring to the opening days of deer and dove season, both of which are absolutely huge in South Carolina. Believe me, there will be folks taking vacation days on Aug. 15 to usher in the deer season.

While that day is restricted to archery only, there are literally thousands and thousands of bow-hunters in the state and many, if not all will take to the woods that day.

Dove season is opening just a few

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weeks later, on Sept. 1, and it is no less a big deal than the deer opener.

Looking at them in chronological order, for deer season I can tell you that it is going to be hot. The bugs are going to be wicked, but I can also tell you that it’s not going to stop a real, dyed-in-the-wool bow-hunter from taking his bow in hand and climbing into a tree stand.

There are a few things that you need to keep in mind this season. Have you checked over your stand to be sure it is safe and in working order? I personally know people have had had tree stands give way on them and the resulting injuries were nothing to sneer at. Even if you are wearing a safety harness, which should always be the case, that quick, unexpected drop of even a few feet can cause serious injury.

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fashion, and you have a ladder or steps close by the drop zone, not to mention limbs to contend with, this all adds up to a mess that can break your limbs and cause serious gashes. Check your stand before you hang it in a tree.

So let’s assume that all of your equipment is safe and working properly; how about you? As I mentioned above, until mid- to late-September, it is going to be hot. Opening day could very easily top out at 95 degrees or more, and the air could be flat-calm. To that mix, add a long-sleeved shirt, long pants, boots, gloves, a face mask and hat. I’ll be you’ll be sweating bullets, which can be very dangerous.

If you sweat it out, you’ve got to put it back in. I know it’s inconvenient to carry a lot of fluids with you, but don’t take this lightly. If you’re going to be in the stand for a couple of hours, especially in the afternoon when it’s so hot, you need to stay hydrated.

Drink plenty of water or Gatorade. I like to freeze bottles of water and carry a couple of them in my backpack. I can then lean against them while sitting in the tree, which cools my back and helps melt the ice into drinking water at the same time.

I’ve been so hot by the time I’ve descended in the evening that I was close to heat exhaustion; all it takes is one wrong step getting out of the stand or coming down the ladder to really mess up your day. Just a couple bottles of water, a safety harness and a stand in good condition can make all the difference in your season.

It’s also going to be hot as blue blazes the first day of dove season.

I have been a part of almost 40 dove-opening days, and I’ve never known one to be cool ever, so plan for it!

While we all love to show off our wing-shooting prowess, the dove season-opeener is still one of the largest social events of the year for any huntsman. Anytime you put a group of hunters together, add a gaggle of gun dogs to the mix and a cooler full of Cokes and Pepsis and even youngsters on their very first hunt, and the stories begin to be told and the exaggerations start to build until it’s hard to tell what’s the truth and what’s a crock of something other than lemonade.

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waiting on the hunt master to signal the start of the event, but once out in the open, under the searing rays of the sun, in the very hottest part of the day it’s a different story, and body temperatures can go up really fast. You need to drink all the cold water that you can. Great care is needed, especially for the youngest and oldest hunters.

At least with dove hunting, long pants and shirts are not required, and it’s perfectly all right to put a cooler full of drinks beside your dove stool. A nice wide-brimmed hat is a really good idea.

But there is another concern, that of Spot the hunting dog.

Black and brown dogs can really soak up a lot of heat, and they need a way to stay cool, too. The best case would be to hunt around a pond where Spot can take a quick swim to stay cool, but most dove hunts are done in a cut corn field or sunflower field, generally devoid of any standing water, so what to do?

Try a camouflaged umbrella to provide a bit of shade for your hunting buddy and try a block of ice. It’s really easy to freeze a gallon milk jug full of water and take it to the field with you; once there, simply cut the top half of the jug off with your knife and give Spot a chance to continually lick the block of ice.

Dogs don’t sweat like we do, so evaporation due to perspiration doesn’t help them stay cool. But they do lose a lot of heat through their tongues, that’s why they pant, so the ability to lick ice really helps reduce their heat load. Dogs have been ruined by hunting too hard in the heat; don’t let it be your dog. The better your pride and joy feels, the better he or she will perform in the field.

Perhaps the best of all would be to find a dove hunt that is scheduled to take place around a water hole late in the afternoon.

That way, both you and Spot can stay cool.

The next month will see some of the hottest weather and some of the hottest hunting of the year. Hunting this time of years does not have to be miserable, but it is still going to be uncomfortable.

Hey, you’re in the south and it is August and September, so live with it. Be careful, dress light and drink plenty of fluids, but most of all, have fun.

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PREPARATION IS KEY this hurricane season

By Bobby Baker bbaker@theitem.com

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t has been 23 long years since Hurricane Hugo blasted through South Carolina’s coastal areas before ramming through the midlands.

Before the 2012 Atlantic Hurricane Season got underway in May, weather experts were predicting an “otherwise normal season,” with AccuWeather predicting 12 tropical storms, including five hurricanes and two major ones at Category 3 or higher.

They were early in making their predictions.

The season’s first storms were early, too, when Tropical Storm Alberto and Tropical Storm Beryl both formed several days before the start of the season, which begins May 1 and runs through October each year. Such an occurrence had not happened since the 1908 season.

Then, two more formed before the end of June, marking the first time four storms were named since record keeping began in 1851.

To make things even weirder, no storms formed at all in July, the first time such a thing had happened in three years.

Still, meteorologists are predicting an otherwise ho-hum season, but AccuWeather Meteorologist Tom Kines said in May that one can never be too careful. The average season has 11 storms.

“You can have two hurricanes (in a season), but if one hits you, then all of a sudden it is a bad year,” Kines said.

“You shouldn’t put your guard down.”

Twenty years ago, Hurricane Andrew was the first storm in a late-starting season that produced only six named storms. Andrew ultimately devastated south Florida on Aug. 24, 1992. And the year of Hugo, 1989, was a normal season nationwide with 11 named storms and seven hurricanes overall. But Hugo still ravaged South Carolina and its inland counties like no hurricane ever had, and it has forever changed the way South Carolinians regard tropical storm talk in the news and social circles, Kine said.

A hurricane is an intense tropical weather system with a well-defined circulation and maximum sustained winds of 74 mph or greater. Known as typhoons in the western Pacific and cyclones in the Indian Ocean. Sumter County Public Safety Director Robbie Baker said now is the time to make preparations for a hurricane, not when a storm is heading this way.

“If you prepare for a hurricane, then you’re pretty much prepared for any kind of disaster,” Baker said.

“Everybody has a responsibility to take care of yourself and your family if disaster strikes,” Baker said.

“Government will respond, but don’t expect assistance the first day. The roads might be impassable, and it will take time for help to arrive. I tell people to be ready to take care of our immediate needs for at least three days.”

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Boating for a cause

Group paddles from Wyboo to Charleston for the Parker Miracle House

By Robert J. Baker with provided photos bbaker@theitem.com

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boat ride is always a fun trip.

A boat ride for a good cause is even better. More than 20 folks boarded boats at Wyboo in late May and trekked to Charleston on the open waters of Lake Marion and its subsidiary rivers.

“This is an annual boat ride that we take each year for the Parker Miracle House Foundation,” said Linda Parker, the wife of Larry Parker, the namesake for the Parker Miracle House.

The house is a home away from home in Charleston for leukemia patients and their caregivers, a $500,000 project that was more than four years

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in the making when it opened in 2008. Larry and Linda Parker had partnered with the American Cancer Society to renovate an old house on Calhoun Street where leukemia patients can stay for free while they are receiving treatment for cancer.

A Sumter native, Larry Parker began his fight against acute myeloid leukemia in 2002. A patient at the Medical University of South Carolina in Charleston, Parker was able to find a perfectly matched bone marrow donor in his younger brother.

It wasn’t his first brush with the disease: He had watched at age 4 as his father, Edward “Wilbur” Parker, died from AML when the man was just

26. Parker’s youngest daughter was also diagnosed with acute lymphocytic leukemia (ALL) when she was 3.

For Parker, building the house was a way to help people who might not have been as fortunate as he found himself during his own struggle. Parker spent 100 days at a Charleston hotel as he was receiving treatment.

“I was able to have a place to stay there,” he said. “But when you have leukemia and then get a bone-marrow transplant, you need to stay close to the hospital and in a clean environment.

People can really rack up hotel bills. And there are families who can’t afford that.”

Parker is now in remission and continuing his victory over the dreaded disease by helping those who might not otherwise be able to help themselves. His namesake has 17 bedrooms, each with their own bathroom, thermostat, TV and DVD players and wireless Internet.

“The Miracle House is … designed to provide adequate living space, a positive and supportive atmosphere and an alternative for patients who must travel great distances in order to receive specialized treatment not available in their own communities,” Parker said. “Insurance does not cover their stay in local hotels and patients must pay out of pocket for all living expenses.”

Checks can also be mailed to the Parker Miracle House Foundation, 2492 Princess Pond Road, Summerton, SC 29148.

For more information visit parkermiraclehousefoundation. org or call (803) 478-4986.

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Edisto Island Serpentarium has lots to offer reptile fans

By Robert J. Baker bbaker@theitem.com 14 AUGUST • SEPTEMBER 2012 | LAKESIDE

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n a sunny Saturday afternoon in late June, a snake handler is seemingly about to touch one of the most dangerous snakes in the world.

He tells his gathered audience – which includes about a dozen children younger than 12 – that he has bitten before, and that he might not make it if bitten again. He asks one youngster to tell his beloved wife he’s sorry and reaches in a small wooden box. He jerks what looks like a coral snake to aplomb and makes a big deal out of wrestling to submission.

“It’s a fake!” one little boy squeals in delight.

“It is a fake,” says the handler, Laurence van Sertima, a biologist with the Edisto Island Serpentarium, which sits about two hours southeast of the Santee Cooper lakes.

“This snake is a very shy snake,” Sertima said, noting the rubber coral snake in his hands. “It’s a snake that would die with too much exposure. Taking it in and out every day would kill it.”

Sertima’s bravado was well-understood by an audience who had seen him in fact handle quite venomous snakes during his hour-long demonstration June 23. One of those snakes was a diamondback rattler.

“I am not afraid of being bit,” Sertima said. “I have been bitten before. But I know how to deal with this snake. I know what his triggers are.”

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person, can see everything from Sertima’s snake demonstration to a regularly scheduled gator feeding.

“Once here, you can view these beautiful creatures in both our indoor and outdoor facilities,” according to the Serpentarium’s main brochure. “Alligators and turtles swim and play in large outdoor ponds in our outdoor gardens, while other reptiles bask in the large indoor solarium.”

Snakes taken from various places around the world are displayed in hand-painted scenes native to their regions.

“Only here can you spend hours watching snakes in their natural environments,” Sertima said. “Our non-venomous enclosure houses a variety of rat snakes, black races, coachwhips, water snakes and others. Guests may enjoy safely watching them swimming, sunning on logs or climbing in the trees of our large, landscaped, open habitat.”

Sertima said that the Serpentarium’s ultimate goal is to show visitors that they have nothing to fear from reptiles.

“As the first true Serpentarium in South Carolina, this facility is dedicated to the recognition, preservation and study of the world of reptiles,” he said. “We provide educational and exciting displays of reptiles both from around the world and native to the region.”

Outdoor exhibits are open 10 a.m. to 6 p.m. daily, except Sundays, through Aug. 19. They will be open 10 a.m. to 6 p.m.

Thursday-Saturday through Sept. 29. Indoor exhibits will be open only from 10 a.m. to 6 p.m. Oct. 4-27, and the facility’s annual Christmas lights will be displayed 7-9 p.m. Fridays and Saturdays from Nov. 16 to Dec. 22.

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Laurence van Sertima has seen many a snake in his day. He’s also had to listen to many a myth about his favorite creatures. He tries with each of his snakehandling demonstrations at the Edisto Island Serpentarium to dispel these myths.

: Snakes chase people.

Myth TRUTH: A lot of people seem to have a story about being chased by a snake, or they know a friend of a friend who was. But herpetologists, people who study reptiles and amphibians, never seem to have these experiences. They find snakes, even deadly ones, always trying to escape. One must realize a snake has nothing to gain by chasing a person. : Rattlesnakes add one rattle a year.

Myth TRUTH: A rattlesnake adds one rattle every time it sheds its skin, and can shed several times each year.

Rattles can also break off. Determining a snake’s age by counting rattles usually results in an inaccurate estimate of the snake’s age. : Snakes travel in pairs, with survivors seeking Myth revenge for one killed.

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Myth TRUTH: Snakes can bite or strike in any direction from any position. Coiling does, however, increase the distance that a snake can strike. : Snakes go blind during the dog days of Myth August.

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The Haves and the Have Nots

By Yana Mathis

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’ve been a hard worker my entire life. I remember boiling peanuts as a child and putting them in the little brown bags and sitting in front of my father’s business in Darlington. We would sell them to the race fans and parade crowds of the Southern 500 back in the day.

I believe I was driven to be independent as a child because I wanted my own money. My mother was a war bride who grew up in the war zone of Czechoslovakia and could squeeze a penny to death. She hated debt! Unfortunately, I was a daddy’s girl, and he was a spender. He would say about me, “She can make the money, but she spends it faster than she can make it.”

I am not proud to admit, nor am I proud to say, that I used to fuss at my mother.

“But, mama, some debt is good,” I’d tell her. “There’s good debt and there’s bad debt.”

I definitely have a

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different opinion about that today, especially after seeing people lose their homes or struggle mightily to keep them.

The housing market is still suffering despite historically low interest rates. There are some homes that have gone into foreclosure that really surprised me because I thought they had no money worries. On the other hand, there are some buyers I’ve had with cash money to buy up these homes that at first glance you wouldn’t suspect were as comfortable as they are.

All the political rhetoric out there this year seems to have divided our country in half. You hear that the “haves” have more than their fair share, and that the “have nots” should be entitled to some of that money.

I think the lines are not so clear. For example, I have seen people who legitimately need society’s help, people who are simply looking for shelter, not to purchase a home. Meanwhile, some of the other “have nots” have put different priorities over investing in a permanent roof over their heads. They buy brand new cars with outrageous payments, gigantic flat screen TVs and have cell phone bills higher than some car payments.

While the ultra-wealthy will always be in a different league, whether they inherited their money or came up with a great invention, I am not jealous of this group of people. They come with their own set of issues and seem to have more problems than the Average Joe. The group I really admire – OK, the group I’m even a little jealous of – are the people who have worked hard their entire lives and have saved just a mere 10 percent of what they’ve earned, watched carefully where their money went, avoided frivolous spending and disciplined their wants while focusing on their needs. These people, more

than likely, cooked at home as opposed to eating out; they likely took their lunches to their jobs, drove their cars about 10 to 13 years before trading, fixed their broken things before buying new ones.

These are the people that are debt-free, have plenty of money in the bank and are coming to me to buy investment property.

They are savvy enough and have a personal relationship with their banker that they are getting fixed loans with 25 percent down and interest rates of about 2.5 percent. They’re smiling all the way to the bank each month because someone else is making the payments for them, including taxes and insurance.

As of writing this at the end of July, I pulled statistics on the last 30 days of activity in Clarendon County on the Realtor’s Multiple Listing Service (MLS). Only 16 homes had sold, not including those for sale by owner (FSBO), compared to 56 new listings in the same time period. Of the 16 homes sold, the average sold/list percentage was 87.24 percent. In other words, a home listed for $100,000 was actually sold for 487,240.

However, keep in mind that this average is based on the very last offered price before the home received a contract of sale on it. In

many instances I looked at the history of the listing and saw where the price had already been dropped numerous times over the life of the listing.

My message gleaned from this information is simple: Save, save and save. If you want to own a piece of the ubiquitous American Dream, you must have a good credit score, a decent amount of cash for a down payment up to 20 percent if possible, eight months’ emergency fund and, most importantly, realistic expectations. Our generation wants everything instantly, and we forget that our parents and grandparents worked years and years to save up for their first started homes.

Don’t judge or be jealous of those who have it. Instead, look at your spending behavior and determine why you don’t. Don’t sweat it if you want to keep spending and not worry about home ownership, because they’ll always be an investor willing to let you rent his house so you can make his payments!

Yana K. Mathis is a Realtor with The AgentOwned Realty of Manning. She hopes everyone has a safe end to their summer and said readers serious about wanting their own homes can email her at yanakmathis@gmail.com.

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From antlers to pens

Manning man turns woods with nature’s leftovers Story and photos by Robert J. Baker bbaker@theitem.com

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hile Manning resident Carl Purdy doesn’t grind bones to make his bread, he does use a type of bone material in his woodworking projects.

Purdy uses antlers – from moose, deer and other animals with them – to make beautiful pens that his wife sells at craft shows. Robin Purdy is creative herself, making placemats, bears and even Christmas trees out of yo-yos that she stitches together in her free time.

Both have always been good with their hands and creative pursuits that appeal to the eye, but Purdy only recently began working with woodturning equipment in the last few years.

“I just kind of got lucky in that I knew a fellow getting rid of some equipment,” Carl Purdy said in late May while working on the lathe he said he “picked up pretty cheap.”

“I’d done woodwork all my life, but never woodturning,” he said.

The difference, Purdy said, between the two is that many woodturners consider themselves artists.

“Now, I wouldn’t go that far with what I do,” he said. “But I guess most people think of woodworking as cutting boards and nailing something together. Woodturning is something different. But I think both can be artistic.”

Whether he considers himself an artist or not, Purdy does consider most of his skills to be self-taught.

“I like to learn things on my own, I guess you could say,” he said. “I know there are classes, I’ve seen some offered in Columbia. But I’ve gotten most of my information from books and the Internet.”

And, of course, he’s practiced on lots of wood.

“There’s been a lot of trial and error,” he said, laughing. “I’ve messed up a lot. But that’s how you get better.”

Purdy works primarily with a lathe, a machine tool that rotates a workpiece – typically wood – on its axis to perform

various operations like cutting, sanding, knurling, drilling or deformation with tools applied to the workpiece. The finished product is one that has symmetry about an axis of rotation. They can be used not only in woodturning, but in metalworking, metal spinning, and the potter’s wheel is a type of lathe.

“People make all kinds of things with lathes from candlestick holders to gun barrels to table legs to baseball hats event,” Purdy said.

Purdy first began using his to make pens, however. He prefers what he calls “exotic woods.”

“I like Central and South American woods,” he said. “The grain is highly visible and it is a lot sturdier to work with I think.

There’s a lot more depth to it visually.”

He began working with antlers after being given a pair by a friend.

“I had a friend who had been stationed in Alaska, and he had a Moose head here,” Purdy said. “He was getting rid of it, so he gave (the antlers) to me.”

Antlers have a different feel in the lathe, Purdy said.

“They’re a bit rougher, and you can see the bone marrow,” he said. “It reminds me of that nursery rhyme about ‘grinding bones to make bread.’”

Different animals also have a different feel to them.

“Moose antlers are a lot more dense than those of, say, a white tail deer,” he said.

Aside from pens, Purdy has also focused on making wooden eggs, which his wife also puts on display at various craft shows.

“I’ve worked on a few bowls, but nothing has really come of that,” Purdy said. “They can be quite hard.”

He said he’s going to continue to find new things to make, but he’ll learn as he always does through trial and error.

“I’ve messed a lot of stuff up,” he said, joking. “Still do. And I guess as I keep going, I’m going to mess up some more.”

Purdy’s pens can be seen at www.etsy.com/sursyshop.

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Left and Right photos: Carl Purdy of Manning works on a lathe in his shop off of Bloomville Road.

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hat started as a simple plan to give kids and families something fun -- and free -- to do on a wayward September Saturday has turned into something of a tradition. Kid’s Day of Clarendon County will return 10 a.m. Sept. 22 to the fields behind Manning High School, and organizers are looking for more kids, more attractions and more fun. “We’re getting ready now,” said Kim Johnson, cochair of Kid’s Day. “We invite civic groups, church groups, school groups and anyone to come be a part of this wonderful event.” The event is based on a similar enterprise started in Lexington County nearly 12 years ago. Todd Heldreth, then the Clarendon School District 2 coordinator for auxiliary services, got the idea from his son’s chiropractic office.

“The whole point is that parents get to come and can leave the wallet at home,” Heldreth said.

“It gives kids a good time to just be kids, and parents don’t have the hassle of worrying about buying anything.”

Just about anything goes during Kid’s Day, with Central Carolina Technical College and the F.E. DuBose Career Center providing healthy snacks along with face and nail painting and hair coloring.

The Zone usually provides some action with a peppy obstacle course, and kids have a chance to mount heavy machinery provided by many state agencies. And a helicopter or two usually makes a grand entrance.

For the event’s fifth year, organizers are hopeful they can draw more attention from Clarendon County’s other two school districts. “We would like support and participation from all of the county,” Johnson said.

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The Omar Shrine Temple and several bike groups got together June 2 for the Santee Bike Rally, an event to raise money for the Shriners Children’s Hospitals.

“We had Shriners come up from Charleston and they met us here,” said Stokes-Craven Ford owner Dennis Craven. “From here, we’ll ride on to Santee with a police escort.”

With entertainment from Eddie Bush and the Jeffrey Alan Edwards Band, along with Bill Furr’s H-D Drag Bikes, riders had a lot to look forward to. Overall six shrine clubs joined the event’s ultimate feature, a poker run that left Berkeley and Dorchester counties, along with Florence, Edisto, El Bab and Myrtle Beach.

“The first bike was out at 11 a.m. and the last one came in at the Santee Mall,” said organizer Lynn Stack. “We had more than 2,000 bikes participate.”

Stack said the event is one of many fundraisers undertaken annually for the children’s hospital, whose goal is to provide the highest quality care to children with neuromusculoskeletal conditions, burn injuries and other special healthcare needs within a compassionate, family-centered and collaborative care environment.

“Shriners Hospitals for Children has a mission to provide Robert for the education of physicians and other healthcare By profes-

sionals (and) conduct research to discover new knowledge that improves the quality of care and quality of life of children and families,” according to the Omar Shrine Web site. Overall, a network of 22 hospitals works to accomplish that mission, providing expert, no cost orthopedic and burn care to children younger than 18.

“It’s great when you can have people come together to do something they love and have it be for such a good cause,” Stack said.

Participants in the rally partied well into the night as the live music filled the air around the Santee Mall.

“We had a lot of people,” said Craven, who noted it was the temple’s first attempt at such a widespread event.

“We’ve held other fundraisers before, but nothing quite like this,” he said.

The group is already planning its next event, which is another first, its Charity Gala and Celebrity Golf Classic, which will be part of the temple’s Homecoming Ceremonial from Oct. 17-20.

The gala will be held 6:30 p.m. Oct. 17 at the Omar Shrine Temple, 176 Patriots Point St. in Mt. Pleasant, with a ticket price of $100 per couple. It will feature a night of food, friends, drinks and dancing. The Celebrity Golf Classic will be held Oct. 18, with a team fee of $400, or $100 per person, at Miler Country Club and Pine Forest Country Club.

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What to expect in a cyber hack

By John DuRant john@durantinsurance.com Computers are a necessary evil of today’s world.

I was born in the era of party lines. I can still hear my dad’s voice in his calm, but firm way.

“Son, you need to get off the phone now,” he’d say with emphasis. “One of the neighbors might need to use it.”

We’ve come a long way to an era where computers can be both a boon and a bane for today’s business. For insurance agencies and other businesses, it wasn’t that long ago that the fax machine revolutionized the way we communicated with our companies, suppliers and customers.

Today, we primarily use email and smartphones to conduct much of our business.

With different modes of communication come different risks that require different insurance coverages. Where businesses were once concerned with covering property and general liability, we are now faced with even bigger liability exposures involving the theft or destruction of information via cyber exposures.

Generally speaking, your general liability policy will not cover cyber issues. There may be arguments for coverage under the GL policy but if you want to make certain you have the most appropriate coverage available you need to have a separate Cyber Liability policy. It seems almost every day I read a story in the news of a corporation’s computers being hacked, resulting in millions of dollars losses in attorney’s fees, fees to set up call centers to communicate with customers and credit

monitoring services.

There are typical cases where an employee loses data through the loss or theft of a laptop. More and more, though, I see the losses coming from hacks or breaches of a computer system. In these cases as well as physical losses of mobile computers this is what you can expect.

You will have to set up a call center if the loss is big enough to communicate with your customers to explain what has happened. Attorneys will have to be retained for the inevitable lawsuits that will be brought. You will have to provide credit monitoring services for each customer affected, which can run up to $200 each. You do the math. Your company’s reputation will sustain a big blow, requiring a considerable amount of money to pay a public relations firm to rectify. If you do much of your business online you can suffer loss of business income which will severely affect your bottom line.

Then there is cyber extortion where you are asked by the criminal to pay money before they can “let you go”. You will need a cyber-liability policy to pay for restoring the system and tracking down the perpetrator.

Unfortunately, this is the world we live in. Fortunately, insurance companies have adjusted to the exposures and many offer policies that can help you retain your customers and reputation.

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VENISON IS GREAT WITH THESE DOWNHOME RECIPES

Venison Steak Au Poivre

Start to finish: 15 minutes • Servings: 2

1 teaspoon each black, green and white peppercorns 4 noisettes (small, tender, round cuts from the loin) of venison 1 tablespoon butter 1 tablespoon canola or vegetable oil 2 ounces brandy 1 teaspoon red currant jelly 1 scant tablespoon heavy cream Salt

Heat over to 200 degrees. Place a large serving dish in the oven to warm. Using a pepper mill or mortar and pestle, coarsely grind the peppercorns, then spread them on a plate.

Press the venison noisettes into the pepper, one side at a time, to evenly coat. Do not coat the meat too thickly. Set aside. In a large, heavy skillet over medium heat, combine and butter and oil. When the butter has melted, add the venison and cook 1 to 3 minutes per side, depending on the thickness of the meat, for medium rare. Season with a pinch of salt during cooking. Just before the venison is done, pour the brandy into the pan. If cooking on a gas burner, carefully tilt the pan toward the burner toward the flame until the brandy ignites. Otherwise, use a match to light it. When the flames have died down, remove the serving dish from the oven and transfer the meat to it. Set aside. Leave the skillet on the heat. Use a spatula or wooden spoon to scrape the bottom to loosen any browned bits. Add the red currant jelly and stir.

When the jelly has melted and the pan juices are reduced and syrupy (there should be a couple tablespoons worth), stir in the cream. Allow the sauce to simmer and reduce a bit more.

Pour the sauce over the venison.

Recipe from Hughe Fearnley-Whittingstall’s “The River Cottage Meat Book.”

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Venison Stew

Start to finish: 6 hours, with 1 hour active Servings: 4 to 6.

1 cup all-purpose flour 2 pounds venison stew meat, fat-trimmed 2 tablespoons olive or canola oil 3 cloves garlic, minced 2 cups chopped onions 1 cup sliced carrots 1 cup diced celery 5 cups beef broth 1 cup diced potatoes 14.5-ounce can stewed tomatoes ½ cup sliced mushrooms Salt, pepper and ground cloves to taste

Cut venison stew meat into half-inch cubes. Place ½ cup of flour in a shallow bowl. A cube or two at a time, dredge the meat through the flour to coat evenly, then shake off any excess. Set aside. In a large, heavy skillet, heat the oil over medium-high heat. Add the garlic and the meat, in batches if necessary, and brown on all sides, about 1 minute per side.

Transfer the meat and any oil and garlic remaining in the skillet to a 3- to 5-quart slow cooker. Add the onions, carrots and celery. In a large jar with a tight-fitting lid, combine the remaining ½ cup of flour and 2 cups of the broth. Seal the jar and shake vigorously to combine. Pour this mixture into the slow cooker and stir to combine. Stir in the potatoes, tomatoes and mushrooms. Cover the slow cooker and set on high. Cook 4 to 6 hours. When the stew has about 1 hour cooking time remaining, season to taste with salt, pepper and ground cloves.

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Left: Photo provided, The Col. Henry Laurence Benbow Camp No. 859 of the Sons of Confederate Veterans from Manning held a ceremony May 6 at Union United Methodist Church cemetery in the Wilson’s Mill community outside of Manning to honor six Confederate veterans of the Civil War. Below: Photo provided Dr. David Woodbury of Manning and daughter Naomi harvested this 400-pound hog in Clarendon County recently.

ABOVE and FAR RIGHT: Photo provided Laurence Manning Academy fourth-grade students met with Virginia’s Pride Garden Club members Mary Fleming and Kathy Cramer on May 9 before summer break for the students’ Good to Grow Program. The children were excited to harvest potatoes, broccoli, carrots and sugar snaps that they planted earlier in the year; they took the produce back to their classrooms to share with each other. The club plans to continue the program in the fall as the children enter fifth grade.

Right: Photo by Debbie Wiljanen This baby porcupine provided hours of entertainment for Mark Pekuri and his sister Debbie Wiljanen during a vacation recently to Michigan’s Upper Peninsula. Pekuri said the porcupine walked into the middle of an old dirt road in front of his sister’s driveway several time each day to nibble on salt left from winter road clearing.

The little guy was hard to |photograph, Pekuri said, because he 34continued AUGUST • SEPTEMBER 2012 LAKESIDE to spin his backside at the camera.

Right: Photo provided by Genia Baker The Clarendon County Dixie Boys AllStars, coached by Tommy Harrison, were second only to Sumter in their district after their last game July 7.

Below Right: Photo provided George photographer Jackie DeBusk, recently chosen as a 2012 South Carolina State Park artist-in-residence, provided three canvases to Santee State Park during her time at the park in March, including the one seen here, which she digitally altered in Photoshop to give a matte painting look.

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Santee Indian Mound

shows Clarendon’s rich history

By Robert J. Baker bbaker@theitem.com

L

ocated within the Bluff Unit of the Santee National Wildlife Refuge is a man-made object that could be as many as 20,000 years old, four times as old as the pyramids in Egypt.

The Santee Indian Mound was a “cultural Mecca” for the Santee Indians, and when Chief William Coon first opened up about the mounds in 2002, he said he believed them to have been first used as a burial ground.

Now, it’s the only Santee mound remaining in the area as others over the years have disappeared. When Interstate 95 was being constructed, Koon said, three of the mounds were bulldozed to make way for the highway. No one knows what happened to the remains and artifacts that would have existed within them.

Koon and other tribe members, who live throughout the state, travel to the mound monthly to see to its continued maintenance.

Indian mounds are mysterious snakes of dirt rising along the river floodplains, sacred calling cards left by another people from another time. The Santee Indian Mound is perhaps the best-known in the entire southeaster. Piled hundreds of years ago as daises for burial grounds, temples or the homes of chiefs who were considered descendants of the sun, the mounds are 36 AUGUST • SEPTEMBER 2012 | LAKESIDE

scattered in remnants across the Lowcountry, as well as the state and nation.

If you roam or hunt a Lowcountry woodlands, you might well have stepped across one. With the area’s Santee River a major trade route for any number of coastal and inland tribes, the mounds are relatively commonplace. Still, tribal groups and archaeologists keep most of them a closely held secret as mounds are illegally looted for trinkets.

It’s a crime that can be prosecuted as a felony under state laws governing burial grounds, archaeological artifacts on public lands, and under federal laws pertaining to public land. To tribal descendants, it’s no different than grave robbing. To archaeologists, it’s like burning rare books.

“A lot of them have been dug into for centuries,” said Chester DePratter of the S.C. Institute of Archaeology and Anthropology.

“It’s an atrocity and a disrespect when someone will go in and desecrate a mound,” said Chief James Caulder of the Pee Dee Indian Tribe of South Carolina. “Your mother and father and brother and sister are buried in there. You don’t want to see someone dig up that box to see what’s in there.”

Not so long ago, mounds routinely were excavated. But in the

1970s, the remains of nearly 30 Santee tribe natives were unearthed at the mound in the wildlife refuge. The tribe’s descendants waged a years-long battle to repatriate those remains, and attitudes began to change.

Today, archaeologists rarely excavate a mound.

“There’s a newfound respect for the wishes of descendants,” DePratter said. “These sites are sacred sites to Native Americans. It’s their ancestors.”

To archaeologists, the mounds remain a scarce, irreplaceable insight into cultures in the region and how they dealt with the environs.

“Every little clue is important to understanding past societies,” DePratter added.

The Charleston Post and Courier contributed to this feature story.

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GET THAT HOG! DNR ADVOCATES CULLING OF FERAL HOGS

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By Robert J. Baker bbaker@theitem.com

o Department of Natural Resources spokesman Brett Witt, there are few things in South Carolina as dangerous as a feral hog.

Though they are not particularly tasty, hogs are high on the list of animals DNR would like to see more hunters bag.

“Their culling removes a nuisance that is equally extremely destructive to habitats throughout the state any other animal,” Witt said.

Wild hogs have been present in the South Carolina plains since they were released by the Spanish in the state’s coastal areas in the 1500s. Historically, their range was geographically limited to floodplains of major river systems. Eurasian wild hogs were invading the mountains of the state by the early 1900s, and by the 1980s, the pigs were found in only 26 South Carolina counties. Thirty years later, they have been documented in all 46 counties, with small scattered populations in the Piedmont related to human translocation.

More than 36,888 of the animals were harvested – the DNR term for hunted – in 2009, and the estimated population for the wild animals in 2010 was 150,000. They are not protected in the state, and there is no closed season or bag limit on private hunting.

“Feral hogs are incredibly intrusive and destructive of native habitats, and that’s made all the worse by how smart they are,” Witt said. “they can easily figure out how to get into things and just absolutely destroy them.”

While he’s heard no actual reports of the wild animals hurting humans, he said they should always be handled with extreme caution, even by experienced outdoorsmen.

“I’m unaware of anyone actually being injured by one,” he said. “But if you do see a boar, for example, they do have tusks. And any feral animal as destructive as this one should be handled with extreme caution.”

The state has few restrictions on the hunt of these animals, although they may not be hunted at night or transported while still alive. Witt said hunters are helping not only other wildlife, but property owners as well. A report by the state’s Wild Hog Task Force – which includes state universities and colleges and wildlife management groups – released in 2009 showed how damaging the animals can be.

“Wild hog damage can include destructive rooting activity, depredation of crops and livestock, spreading disease to livestock and humans, property damage, competing with native wildlife, vehicle collisions, attacks on humans and more,” the report stated. “Wild pigs have also been widely implicated in the declines and extinctions of numerous native species of flora and fauna, as well as in the spread of various noxious weed species worldwide.”

The group did not estimate property damage amounts for the state, but said worldwide hog damage could be as much as $1.5 billion.

“They’re a nuisance, plain and simple,” Witt said.

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The ‘friendly’ pest revolution Former Clemson student, professor work with African farmers Story and photos by Andra Stevens

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nsects are a big part of Dr. Walter Manyangarirwa’s life.

They’re a passion he shares with his former faculty advisor and Ph.D. supervisor, Orangeburg native Dr. Gloria McCutcheon.

Manyangarirwa first met McCutcheon in 2004, while she was at the Africa University near Mutare, Zimbabwe, the country’s fourth-largest city. A private, Pan-African and United Methodist-related institution, AU has more than 1,200 students from 22 African countries and grants undergraduate and graduate degrees in several areas.

McCutcheon visited that year to teach students and farmers there how to identify and use certain insects to control other major pests.

A pioneer graduate of the university’s agriculture program, Manyangarirwa was a young faculty member with a growing interest in entomology and pest management.

McCutcheon, an associate professor of entomology at Clemson University, had previously completed groundbreaking work on insect/ plant interaction, identifying species of “friendly” pests and their usefulness in producing better crops.

Though halfway across the world, Zimbabwe shares a unique trait with South Carolina: Its similar agroecosystem sees the country grow similar crops like corn and soya beans, as well as leafy green vegetables. Pesticides, expensive and outside the reach of most rural farmers, were still a major priority for farmers who could obtain them in order to increase crop yields, reduce hunger and help farmers make a better living for themselves and their families.

McCutcheon wanted to help these farmers reduce their use of pesticides, particularly in an area where health was already severely challenged. Through working with “friendly” pests, she saw real potential in helping farmers combat hunger and get better crops on the continent.

The pair’s meeting was serendipitous in the end due to their shared interests. All the possibilities resonated with McCutch-

eon, and a graduate assistantship was created with colleagues at Africa University to allow Manyangarirwa to begin doctoral studies in entomology at Clemson under McCutcheon’s supervision. It gave the young entomologist exposure to some of the best in the field and enabled him to take courses at Clemson while doing field work at one of the largest research centers in the state.

“He spent the summer at the same research center where I did my research, on soya beans in my case,” McCutcheon said. “It is called Edisto Research and Education Center.

There were four entomologists doing research and extension work. Walter was around some of the best in the country as far as entomologists go.”

While studying with McCutcheon, Manyangarirwa also returned to Zimbabwe to further his research while also teaching at Africa University there.

“The Clemson experience was definitely a defining moment in my career,” says Manyangarirwa. “Having worked with Dr. McCutcheon and Dr. Powell Smith at the Edisto Research and Education Center enabled me to sharpen my skills in handling insects. All my advisors are people who lead by example and they are hard-working individuals. I truly cherish having worked under their supervision.”

After earning his Ph.D. from Clemson in August 2009, Manyangarirwa returned to Africa University where he is now continuing his work on alternative pest control strategies while serving as the school’s deputy dean of agriculture.

That work involves identifying natural parasitoids that control major pests – pests like stem borers for corn and bean stem maggots for beans. A parasitoid is an organism that spends a significant portion of its life history attached to or within a single host organism in a relationship that resembles parasitism.

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Unlike a true parasite, however, a parasitoid ultimately sterilizes or kills, and sometimes consumes, its host. Ultimately, a parasitoid means a more dire prognosis for the host.

In addition, Manyangarirwa oversees Africa University’s plant disease clinic, where farmers and extension workers bring plant samples, specimens of insects and weed species for identification and advice on control measures. The service benefits local farmers, particularly those growing horticultural crops such as brassicas (a plant group that includes radishes, turnips, rutabagas, cabbages, cauliflower, canola, rape and kale) and tomatoes. He also collaborates with several nongovernmental organizations, including International Relief and Development (IRD) and Mercy Corps, advising on peanut and sugar bean production as well as community garden projects around Zimbabwe.

But seeing his students carry what they learn from their research back to their home countries is the work that is closest to Manyangarirwa’s heart. And McCutcheon is his most important role model now that he himself supervises student research.

At both the undergraduate and graduate level, Manyangarirwa’s students are investigating herbicides and integrated pest management on everything from brassicas to potatoes and sugarcane. Their research results widen the knowledge available to farmers and, once they graduate, that knowledge and its benefits are widely shared.

“There has been a multiplying impact,” said McCutcheon.

“To me that was always one of the most appealing things about AU, that you are able to interact and work with people from a significant number of countries. They learn and they are able to take what they learn to their home communities. That has had and will continue to have a tremendous impact.”

For both Manyangarirwa and McCutcheon, the personal growth from their relationship has been just as rich.

“Clemson as an institution thrives on a strict work ethic,” said Manyangarirwa. “I have always used Clemson as a benchmark in terms of teaching quality and standards. With the experience that I gained from Clemson, I can proudly count myself as one of the experts in Entomology in the country.”

“It is and has always been an amazing experience, “said McCutcheon, who has since retired from Clemson and now teaches at Claflin University in Orangeburg. “It gave me an opportunity to interact with people who are concerned about their environment and conservation. It’s certainly been a major part of the gratification of my work as an entomologist and research scientist. It has been a chance to integrate my faith as to how we should be good stewards of the environment and an opportunity to share my beliefs internationally.”

Andra Stevens is the director of communications for the Africa University Development Office. She can be reached by emailing astevens@gbhem.org.

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CAMPING

The five counties encompassed by the Santee Cooper lakes, Berkeley, Clarendon, Calhoun, Sumter and Orangeburg have numerous campgrounds with plenty to offer the family looking for an old-fashioned vacation.

ANGEL'S LANDING

1556 Viper Road Pineville, SC 29468 Phone: 1-800-315-3087 Owner: Al Jones

Amenities: Campsites; full hook-ups; all sites have docks. 185 sites. Electric and water hookups, cable TV hook-ups, pull through RV sites, shower facilities, dump station

BLOUNT'S LANDING

146 Chokeberry Circle Eutawville, SC 29048 Phone: 803-492-3210

Amenities: Camping only; water and electricity at all campsites; bath house, boat ramp; tackle and bait shop, restaurant and general store, electric and water hook-ups, shower facilities, RV sites, tent sites available

CAMP EDISTO

120 Recreation Drive Branchville, SC 29432 Phone: (803) 274-8574

LAKESIDE MARINA AND RESORT

107 Cypress Shore Road Eutawville, SC 29048 Phone: 803-492-7226

Amenities: Wi-Fi available, pets allowed, golf packages available, laundry facilities, dump station, tent sites available, RV sites, shower facilities, cabins/cottages/rooms available, electric and water hookups, sewer hookups, cable tv hookups

LAKEVUE LANDING

1543 Camp Shelor Road Manning, SC 29102 Phone: 803-478-2133

Amenities: electric and water hookups, sewer hookups, pull through RV sites, RV sites, dump station, lounge on site, restaurant on site, pets allowed

MILL CREEK MARINA AND CAMPGROUND

216 Lake Marion Lane Vance, SC 29163 Phone: 803-492-7746

Amenities: located on Lake Marion, motel units available, full service restaurant and bar, general store with bait and tackle, fishing pier for campers, RV sites, shower facilities, pets allowed, dump station, electric and water hookups, sewer hookups, cabins/ cottages/rooms available

MOUNTAINEER CAMPGROUND

4665 Five Chop Road Cameron, S.C. 29030 Phone: 803-534-6453

Amenities: Sewer hookups, electric and water hookups, cabins/cottages/rooms available, pull through RV sites, dump station, pets allowed

PACK'S LANDING

9890 Pack's Landing Road Rimini, SC 29125 Phone: 803-452-5514

Amenities: cabins/cottages/rooms available, shower facilities, tent sites available, restaurant sites available

SALUDA RIVER RESORT

1283 State Road Silverstreet, SC 29145 Phone: 803-276-7917

Amenities: historic district, water front location, pets allowed, restaurants on-site, outdoor pool, golf packages available, dump station, tent sites available, RV sites, shower facilities, cabins/cottages/rooms available, electric and water hookups, sewer hookups

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Compiled by Bradrick McClam / Special to Lakeside

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Protect yourself if you rent

he downward economy has taken its toll on the housing market. Many people are choosing or finding it necessary to live as renters rather than homeowners. Other renters are students, anxiously awaiting their first foray into residential independence. But these same people may be unaware of how to safeguard their belongings in a rental situation. Oftentimes renters mistakenly forego financial protection and are then left high and dry in the event of a burglary, flood or fire.

Laptops, MP3 players, global positioning systems, jewelry, and cell phones are at the top of the list for would-be thieves. Furniture and clothing are also expensive to replace. According to MetLife Auto & Home(R), the average person is estimated to have approximately $20,000 in possessions. In a rental property, individuals such as a superintendent or landlord may have access to your home, as may hired contractors. It’s important to protect all of your belongings so you don’t have to pay out of pocket if something is taken or damaged.

Renting an apartment is not like living in an on-campus dorm or in a private residence, where belongings are typically covered by a homeowners insurance policy. Landlord’s insurance only protects the actual property -- not your valuables or the cost of temporary housing -- and it doesn’t protect you in case of a lawsuit. You should investigate rental insurance, which is something that, despite the warnings, 80 percent of college and other renters do not do, according to research.

“For a few hundred dollars a year or less, you can purchase a solid renter’s policy that covers protection for your valuables -- up to $75,000 -- as well as protection against personal liability,” said

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Mario Morales, an underwriting manager at MetLife Auto & Home. “Imagine experiencing a fire or other disaster in your apartment, and having to replace all your valuables not to mention all the furniture, pots, pans, dishes, and other necessities at your own expense. Hopefully, you won’t have a theft or experience a fire. But, if you did, you’d know your valuables were protected.”

When safeguarding your apartment and choosing a rental insurance policy, consider these important tips from MetLife Auto & Home: * Ask whether the renters coverage pays actual cash value or replacement cost. With “actual cash value,” your coverage will pay only for what your property was worth at the time it was damaged or stolen, due to depreciation. “Replacement cost” coverage will replace the item at current prices. * Take advantage of a discount for multiple policies. Often insurance companies provide a discount when a person has multiple policies, such as renter’s insurance, car insurance, or life insurance. * Add extra protection for unique items with special value.

For expensive items such as jewelry, furs, fine arts, sterling silver flatware, antiques, and other collectibles, renters should add an “endorsement,” which provides additional protection above the monetary limits of a traditional policy. * Keep track of possessions with a personal property inventory to help when filing claims and keep a copy in a safe place outside the apartment. MetLife’s Life Advice Series advises that every home have a personal property inventory because it will help you determine the approximate value of your possessions, and consequently, how much insurance you need to cover your personal property.

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