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For Distinguished Work In South Carolina Newspapers and a Significant Impact On Readers

ROBERT ARIAIL Cartoonist The State

In memory of those we've lost over the past year: Charlie Nutt | Owner and publisher, Free Times Bill West | Columnist and senior editor, Lexington County Chronicle & The Dispatch News, SCPA Bulletin Sue Brown | First female production manager, Aiken Standard Ronald James Cartledge | President of Shared Services, The Post and Courier Dr. Dick Gannaway | Publisher, The Lancaster News Roger Alan Quinn | Former publisher, Herald-Journal Dot Jackson | Former writer, The Greenville News Keith Gedamke | Photographer, The Sumter Item Don Law | Former associate editor, Aiken Standard; Writer, Herald-Journal and The Times and Democrat Roger Linton Sovde | Former general manager, The Herald

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Land of opportunity or close to slavery? 2016 News Awards

Foreign workers find hope, exploitation in S.C.’s hospitality industry

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Tony Bartelme The Post and Courier

Ana Cabrera (left), a student from the Dominican Republic, came to Myrtle Beach with high hopes of a summer of cultural exchange but left disappointed and in debt. With her is Angel Tejeda, another foreign visitor who is part of a federal complaint alleging that students were exploited as a source of cheap labor. BY TONY BARTELME || tbartelme@postandcourier.com

ummer 2016: From Russia, Turkey and Thailand, they come here legally to make a little money and learn about life in America. By the tens of thousands, they flow into the nation’s coastal areas, a massive seasonal wave to fill jobs that the hospitality industry claims it can’t fill with locals. From the Ukraine, Philippines and Jamaica, they make their way to Myrtle Beach, the Isle of Palms and Hilton Head. They fill dilapidated apartments. They pile into fading motels on the Grand Strand’s second rows; they sleep two to a bed, in moldy rooms crawling with roaches and bedbugs, rooms tourists on Trip Adviser call “despicable” and “the worst motel I’ve ever stayed in.” And though many paid recruiters thousands of dollars to get here, these foreign workers make minimum wage or just a few pennies more, as housekeepers, waitresses,

and clerks in surf shops — work that keeps South Carolina’s $19 billion tourism industry humming. Migrant workers have long been an important part of agriculture here and across the country. But the same increasingly can be said about workers in the nation’s tourist centers. A Post and Courier investigation shows that our coastal hospitality industry is hooked on a steady flow of temporary lowpaid foreign workers, many lured here on the pretext of “cultural exchange.” It’s an addiction that provides undeniable benefits for operators of restaurants, theme parks, hotels and resorts. Employers don’t have to shell out payroll taxes for employees here on one visa program. That’s a roughly 8 percent discount on labor costs. And businesses often get excellent workers. Many are intensely motivated to do their jobs well, seeing their time here as a chance to learn

English or earn money for family members back home. But, as with any addiction, this unevenly regulated system can have a major impact on participants and the community at large. Interviews with more than 40 foreign workers, along with examinations of lawsuits and internal government documents, reveal how temporary workers here and in other tourist hotspots have been victimized by sexual predators and thieves, cheated out of wages, forced to live in filthy and overcrowded housing and threatened with deportation if they complained. Many paid thousands of dollars to get jobs that promised a glimpse into American culture. But, as one expert says, they ended up learning what it’s like for the country’s working poor. Human rights activists call the situation “close to slavery.” Please see LABOR, Page A5

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Is it business or pleasure? Those serving on MUSC Board of Trustees enjoy fine food, posh hotels, spending nearly $560K in five years BY LAUREN SAUSSER and DOUG PARDUE lsausser@postandcourier.com dpardue@postandcourier.com

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Do you think the MUSC Board of Trustees should reduce its spending on hotel rooms A $160 bottle of Barolo, Italy’s fabled and meals? Go to postandcourier. com/polls to vote. “king of wines.” A $6,400 farewell dinner at Peninsula Grill, described by one restaurant Inside reviewer as “unapologetically indul- Graphic detailing MUSC board member expenses. A4 gent.” A $37,430 Christmas banquet, including $5,600 for cocktails, at year. Charleston Place, one of the Holy A Post and Courier investigation City’s top luxury hotels. found that the unpaid 16-member These are some of the perks that board has spent some $560,000 for members of the Board of Trustees food, drink and lodging since 2011. of the Medical University of South And that doesn’t include an extra Carolina enjoy when they gather in $290,000 spent to wine and dine memCharleston for six or so meetings a bers of the MUSC Board of Visitors,

who function as community ambassadors for the public research university but have no governing role. All told, members of both boards spent nearly $850,000 in five years. The trustees’ spending continued even after internal auditors and the General Assembly’s watchdog agency warned the board about its “inappropriate” and possibly illegal habits in the late ’90s. MUSC leaders say board members follow the rules regarding spending and reimbursement. The Board of Trustees developed those guidelines in WADE SPEES/STAFF 2015, but records show, on at least one occasion since then, a board member MUSC Board of Trustees Chairman Donald R. Johnson (center) addresses business on Aug. 12. The board had convened in Charleston to broke them. celebrate the groundbreaking of the new $385 million MUSC Shawn Please see BOARD, Page A4 Jenkins Children’s Hospital.

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stealing hope

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‘There never was a baby’ A new kind of con artist trolls adoption websites, preying on people desperate to become parents BY LAUREN SAUSSER lsausser@postandcourier.com

The first text messages arrived just before midnight. My name is avalyn and im due july 29th with a baby girl Im looking to get to know a family and see if were a good match Melissa Carroll read the messages with rapt attention. She had miscarried five infants in four years, all of them lost during the first fragile months in her womb. More than $40,000 of fertility treatments hadn’t helped her conceive the baby she so desperately wanted. Here was Avalyn, offering an answer to her prayers. Avalyn told Carroll she’d found her through an adoption website. She explained that she was a college student already struggling to raise one child. She couldn’t support this baby, too. And she was due any day.

I am having contractions Im at the hospital I am at 4cm and they have sent me home again. I am miserable. Carroll started making plans to bring the baby home to Northern Virginia. She called her adoption agency and told friends she’d be flying out of town. She raced to Target and bought $800 worth of diapers, wipes, bottles and baby clothes. She thought she was ready. Then the text messages abruptly stopped. Avalyn seemingly vanished. The reason? The baby didn’t exist. It had all been a cruel hoax. “I fell for it hook, line and sinker,” Carroll said. Please see ADOPTION, Page A4

INSIDE

ONLINE

A closer look at two scams and adoption industry pressures

Podcast chronicles hunt for prolific adoption scammer in South Carolina

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SECOND PLACE Cartoon Open Division

Walt Inabinet The Times and Democrat

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Robert Ariail The State

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CRISISCONSCIOUS Spartanburg eyes urgent care center for mental health

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MENTAL HEALTH BY THE NUMBERS

By Bob Montgomery bob.montgomery@shj.com

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Danny Gossett recalls the painful day he nearly took his life. He had just been evicted from his apartment, and he had nowhere to turn. He ended up on the streets. “One day I got so depressed I was going to take a bunch of sleeping pills and end it all,” said Gossett, 46. But his cousins talked him into going to the hospital emergency room’s behavioral center. There, “They told me I needed mental health help,” he said. He followed the ER doctors’ advice and went to the Spartanburg Area Mental Health Center, got treatment for depression and with his family’s help landed back on his feet. He now lives at Archibald Rutledge Apartments in Spartanburg and is much happier. “I’m not ashamed to talk about it,” he said. “If not for my cousins, I might not have made it.” Gossett acknowledges he was lucky.

Number of people in the Spartanburg area who need behavioral/mental health services.

1 in 6 Number of people in need who are able to access mental health services in Spartanburg.

$1,036 Average cost of 3.2-day inpatient stay at Charleston’s crisis stabilization center.

$3,870

Larry Seil Herald-Journal

Average cost of equivalent stay at a local hospital.

24/7 How long the Charleston and Asheville, N.C., crisis care centers are open

$277,640

SEE MENTAL HEALTH, A9

Financial support annually from Spartanburg County for the Spartanburg Area Mental Health Center.

$40.3 million Cost of Spartanburg Regional Health System’s upﬁt of the hospital’s emergency center pavilion. — Sources: Spartanburg Behavioral Health Taskforce, Charleston-Dorchester Community Mental Health Service, Spartanburg Area Mental Health Center, Spartanburg Regional Health System

Danny Gossett, who was once homeless and considered suicide, now is living a productive life at the Archibald Rutledge Apartments in Spartanburg. BOB MONTGOMERY/BOB.MONTILLUSTRATION BY LARRY SEIL/GATEHOUSE MEDIA

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SERIAL KILLER PROBE | WHO IS TODD KOHLHEPP?

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Zak Dennis Herald-Journal

FACE OF FEAR Story by Daniel J. Gross and Zach Fox | Illustration by Zakerij Dennis

eputy Rilie Ronson was new to the job. As part of her training on how to execute search warrants, she was one of a small team of deputies conducting a foot search Nov. 3 on a desolate 96-acre property in Woodruff. Then the deputies heard knocking. The noises were coming from a standard metal shipping container on the site, and at first were thought to be from falling acorns. But Ronson insisted they were something more. The deputies knocked back on the grooved steel walls. They were greeted immediately by a scream. It was Kala Brown. Brown, 30, a missing Anderson woman who deputies had been searching for, had been found — alive. SEE KOHLHEPP, A5

INSIDE ■ A timeline of Todd

Kohlhepp’s life, A5-A6 ■ A look at the layout

of Kohlhepp’s acreage near Woodruff. A5

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LETHAL INJECTION

A death knell for executions in SC? “Most of us will not live long enough to see this sentence carried out.”

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— U.S. Rep. Trey Gowdy, about the death penalty in South Carolina

By Allison M. Roberts allison.roberts@shj.com

Carol Wright is hoping she lives long enough to see Marion Alexander Lindsey die. In September 2002, Wright’s daughter, Ruby Nell Lindsey, was shot and killed by her estranged husband. Marion Lindsey had followed Ruby Nell as a friend raced her to the Inman Police Department, pulled up behind the car in the police department parking lot, and shot her through the window as she tried to hide in the back seat. An Inman officer who had

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arrived to help shot Lindsey, injuring him. But Ruby Nell died at the scene. Marion Lindsey was convicted of murder and sentenced to death. “There’s not a day that goes by that I don’t talk to her or think about her,” Wright said. “That was my baby. I’m trying my best to outlive him because I want to be there when they kill him.” Marion Lindsey, 42, has been sitting on South Carolina’s death row for 12 years, and it’s possible he will never be executed. Like other prison systems across the country, the S.C. Department of Corrections can’t purchase the drugs necessary to carry out lethal injections. The drugs are not available in the SEE DEATH PENALTY, A14

ZAKDENNIS/GATEHOUSEMEDIA

DEATH PENALTY NATIONWIDE Lethal injection

Electrocution

Gas chamber

1,262 deaths

158 deaths

11 deaths

■ Since 1976, there have been

1,262 executions carried out by lethal injection.

158 executions carried out by electrocution.

■ Since 1976, there have been 11 executions carried out using a gas chamber.

33 states

8 states

Hanging or ﬁring squad

■ Lethal injection is used

■ There are only eight states

in 33 states as well as U.S military and federal government cases.

that offer electrocution as a choice in execution: Alabama, Arkansas, Florida, Kentucky, Oklahoma, South Carolina, Tennessee and Virginia

3 deaths ■ Since 1976, there have been three executions carried out by hanging and 3 by ﬁring squad.

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THE KARMA OF GILLS CREEK

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THE CREEK WE THOUGHT WE KNEW

Gills Creek timeline 1740s Settler Jam mes Gill lends his name to the creek

1785 On the we est bank of Gills Creekk, Thomas Taylor estaablishes a plantation, a portion of which will become the city of Columbia. Wade Hampton e establishes two plantaations, “Woodland ds” and “Millwood,,” on the creek’s easstern bank.

1796 Slaves builld Taylor’s gristmill allong the creek. The e mill is sold to John and E Edward Fisher, who use it to spin cotton. Th he mill’s ruins stand just below what’s now the Fo orest Lake dam surrounded by property d developed by the Coope er family.

C. 1870 Samuel De ent dams the creek to power a saw mill, thus ccreating Dent’s Pon nd (now Forest Lake).

PHOTOGRAPHS BY TRACY GLANTZ tglantz@thestate.com

Erich Miarka, director of the Gills Creek Watershed Association, walks on the dam at Hughes Pond.

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1900 Rockyford d Lake and Spring Lakke are created by dams

TOUCHED, BUT UNSULLIED SO FAR What is Gills Creek, this stream that bubbles up from beneath Hughes Pond among extravagant WildeWood homes, near Richland County’s northeastern border? Like almost every lake in the 76-square-mile Gills Creek watershed, Hughes Pond is a product of man, this one dammed for aesthetics and not much else. Some of the cleanest water in the watershed

is here; it hasn’t had a chance to be polluted yet. Upstream development and runoff will eventually sully the water quality, but not here. Below the pond’s earthen dam, you might not realize the creek itself is there, a trickle in a patch of woodlands just beginning its roughly 20-mile journey to the Congaree River on the opposite side of the county. “People don’t realize how good of a resource

it is,” said Erich Miarka, director of the Gills Creek Watershed Association, a nonprofit group devoted to protecting the great drainage basin. “But if you can get people down to the creek, and they’re starting to use it on a daily basis, and they like it and it looks pretty to them, then hopefully we can start generating some awareness and get some people to care about it.”

1912 Dent’s Pon nd is purchased d, the dam is expanded,, and Lake View recre eational park is established d for swimming, camping, etc. – a cool escape for city reside ents

1917 Constructiion of Camp Jackson (n now Fort Jackson) b begins; the 200-acre G Gills Creek Swamp is d drained, and the creek iis artificially straightened.

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Bower’s Be each recreation area is built near what’’s now Lake Katherine; city residents get there b by way of trolley unttil the service is discontinued in 1923.

1923 Dent’s Pon nd is renamed Forest Lakke, and Forest Lake Club is organized. John Hugh hes Cooper buys the L Lake View property and a develops homes surrrounding Forest Lakke.

Alex Potash, 15, left, and Robby Winterstein, 14, explore the sandy bottom of what used to be Upper Rockyford Lake.

Robby Winterstein, 14, left, and Alex Potash, 15, explore the grassy bed that used to be Upper Rockyford Lake. Now, unrestrained, Gills Creek meanders through sandy soil, carving its own path.

NEW NORMAL TRANSFORMED AND TRANSFORMING From Hughes Pond to Bell’s Pond, upper Gills Creek then makes its way through the Army’s Fort Jackson for about four miles. There, it is largely independent from interference some 100 years after the Army drained a 200-acre swamp and straightened parts of the creek to suit its needs. Re-emerging in the land of civilians, the creek feeds what used to be Upper and Lower Rockyford lakes.

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It might not be exactly what we want, but here, Gills Creek is becoming what it wants to be. Amid the new expanse of grassland, Gills Creek is reinventing itself, reforming a web of snaking water channels, shifting the soft soil, asserting its identity.

Where there were lakes 11 months ago, now there is prairie and the beginnings of a forest. Laid bare by broken dams and since then left to nature’s whims, the suburban lakes have transformed into entirely new ecosystems, with lush tufts of bright green grass providing homes to new creatures where bass and carp once swam. The creek crisscrosses the ground, becoming itself again.

“It’s a dynamic system. It’s always changing,” Miarka said. Since the flood, people often ask him when the creek and its lakes will get back to “normal.” “Well, that is normal,” Miarka said. “Floods are normal.

It’s a normal part of the system. They shape the creek.” We’re not only looking at the new normal. Here, we’re looking at what Gills Creek would be if we had let it be.

Forest Acres becomes a city.

1936 Bower’s Be each is closed, and the lan nd is sold to developerss.

Reach Ellis at (803) 771-8307.

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A series off lakes are created byy dams throughou ut mainly the upper and middle parts of the wate ershed.

‘A WHOLE DIFFERENT WORLD’

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A dock looks out over tall grass in what was once Lower Rockyford Lake.

1930s-60s

1960s-2000s

But those lakes were spectacular and special in their own right. From his back porch, Mark Greiner used to ffish in Lower Rockyford Lake. He’d put a remote-controlled boat in the water for fun or take his jonboat out to fish. Friends and family members would visit to enjoy the scenery and everything the water had to offer. His family moved into the house more than a decade ago simply because “it’s a lot better to live on the water than not,” Greiner said. “It’s beautiful when the lake is full,” he said. “It’s a whole different world when you’re sitting on the lake on your back porch and you can fish or just enjoy the fresh air.” Greiner and his neighbors didn’t sign up to live on a grassland. The water lured them, and they look forward to having their lake back once the dam is repaired, hopefully by next spring, he said. “I want water there,” he said. “It’s just not a good sight for me, knowing what it used to look like.”

Heavy com mmercial and residentiall development occur thro oughout northeast Richland County, Co olumbia and Forest Acres.

OCT. 3-5, 2015

CORRALLING THE CREEK

WORKING, SHOPPING, PLAYING

TODAY: Gills Creek, at its headwaters, serves as our beautiful backyard, where we have dammed it to create private lakes and tony neighborhoods. Here, too, though, the creek accepts the early rush of stormwater from decades of breakneck development upstream.

A 1,000-ye ear rain event causes floo ods of historic proportion ns throughout the Gills Creek watershed, killing nine people in Richland County and causing hundreds o of millions in damage.

THE WILDS

COMING MONDAY: Gills Creek flows freely past golf courses and urban shopping centers. It sinks and narrows through concrete culverts under some of our busiest intersections. We see it where the roads dip and the trees thicken in the green urban canopies of Forest Acres.

COMING TUESDAY: The creek passes sleepy Columbia neighborhoods toward lowslung, springy farmland where the ground flattens to make planting easier. Canopied swampland brings cooler, clearer water and the promise of the bottomland forests of Congaree National Park.

Source: Gills Cre eek Watershed Association .................................................

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STATES TO WATCH THESE TOSS-UP STATES HAVE 158 TOTAL ELECTORAL VOTES:

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South Carolina’s

economy by the numbers

South Carolina doesn’t rank well in energy or poverty, but its economy overall is growing well. Here’s a by-the-numbers look at 10 aspects of life and work in the Palmetto State.

48 South Carolina’s ranking on a list of the most energy-efficient states, according to a study by WalletHub.com. That’s essentially last, because the personal finance website didn’t have enough information from Alaska and Hawaii. The state ranked 47th in home energy efficiency and 40th in car energy efficiency. The bottom of the rankings was dominated by Southeastern Conference states, with Kentucky 40th, Georgia 41st, Tennessee 43rd, Mississippi 44th, Arkansas 45th, Alabama 46th and Louisiana 47th. Oklahoma was 42nd.

$21.94

Average hourly earnings of all South Carolina employees in private industry during August, according to the U.S. Department of Labor and the Bureau of Labor Statistics.

S.C. ranks in the bottom 10 in WalletHub’s rankings of the best states for teachers. The state ranked 32nd for average starting teacher salary, adjusted for cost of living; 38th in median annual salary for teachers, adjusted for cost of living; 24th in teachers’ income growth potential; 42nd in school safety; 33rd in pupil-teacher ratio; and 35th in public school spending per student.

27 PERCENT Children under age 18 living in poverty in South Carolina. Locally, 25 percent of children in Richland County and 19 percent in Lexington County are living in poverty, according to state Department of Health and Environmental Control statistics quoted in Palmetto Health’s Community Health Assessment Report.

4.8 PERCENT Increase in the Real Gross Domestic Product in Columbia in 2015, according to the U.S. Bureau of Economic Analysis. Elsewhere, Charleston’s GDP grew 6.6 percent; Greenville’s grew 2.3 percent and Sumter’s increased 1.5 percent.

15 PERCENT Rate of available parking spaces in downtown Columbia parking garages, which is a new low, according to a September report from Colliers International. In mid-2015, the vacancy rate was 21.5 percent. The lower rate is blamed on new multifamily and student housing in the central business district, according to Colliers.

Who leads

Clinton leads by a percentage point

Ohio

Trump leads by 2.8 points

Michigan

Clinton leads by 4.7 points

Pennsylvania

Clinton leads by 2.4 points

New Hampshire

Trump leads by 1.6 points

Maine

Clinton leads by 4.5 points

North Carolina Georgia

Trump leads by 1.5 points

Trump leads by 4.6 points

Colorado

Clinton leads by 2.9 points

Nevada

Trump leads by 2 points

New Mexico

Clinton leads by 4 points

Arizona

Trump leads by 4 points

Iowa

Trump leads by 3 points

90,100 Number of construction workers in South Carolina in September, an increase of just under 3 percent over the same month in 2015, according to the state Department of Employment and Workforce.

Growth in the number of residential building permits issued in August compared with the previous month, according to the U.S. Census Bureau. A total of 3,028 residential building permits were issued in August.

But that lead may be shrinking.

But that lead may have evaporated, and Clinton could win the state.

Source: Real Clear Politics ................................................................................................................................................

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7 PERCENT 16.6 PERCENT The office vacancy rate in Columbia in the third quarter, which is a decrease of .4 percentage points from the previous quarter, according to Colliers International. Downtown, the vacancy rate dropped from 11.5 percent in the second quarter to 10.9 percent in the third. Colliers warned that asking rental rates are likely to rise. In the third quarter, the asking rents in the Columbia market was $16.83 per square foot per year. That’s a 4.2 percent increase from the third quarter of 2015, according to Colliers.

Total electoral votes

Florida

From staff reports

$161,098 Median price of homes sold in August in Columbia, according to SC Realtors. That’s a 3.9 percent increase over August 2015. In Charleston, the median price was $241,315 in August, an increase of 11.3 percent from the previous year. Statewide, the median price increased 5.7 percent to $184,789.

State

or weeks, Donald Trump has been emailing potential donors saying he has a path to victory Tuesday. The email includes a map, highlighting states the Republican presidential candidate must win. It starts with Florida. While many voters will cast ballots Tuesday, U.S. presidents are not elected by popular vote. Instead, they are elected by winning 270 electoral votes, awarded to states based on the combined number of U.S. senators and representatives those states have. Some states really are not in doubt. South Carolina, for instance, has not voted for a Democrat for president since 1976, and polls suggest the state is “likely” to

go Republican again Tuesday, giving Trump its nine electoral votes. Other states — California, for instance — predictably are Democratic, and polls suggest will give their electoral votes to Democratic candidate Hillary Clinton. In Clinton’s case, California — where the Democrat leads by 22 points, according to Real Clear Politics’ average of polls — will give her 55 electoral votes. When the electoral votes from the states where there is a firm leader are awarded, Clinton leads Trump by 216-164. That lead for Clinton reflects the GOP’s weakness in large, diverse states — California, New York and Illinois, to name a few. Winning just those three states gives the SEE STATES, 6A

Trump’s states

Clinton’s states

Leans Trump: 9 electoral votes

Leans Clinton: 48 electoral votes

South Carolina

Virginia, 13; Wisconsin, 10; Minnesota, 10; Oregon; 7; Connecticut, 7; Maine, 1st District, 1

Likely Trump: 92 electoral votes Indiana, 11; Texas, 38: Missouri, 10; Utah, 6; Montana, 3; South Dakota, 3; Tennessee, 11; Alaska, 3; Kansas, 6; Nebraska, 2nd District, 1 Solid Trump: 63 electoral votes Louisiana, 8; Mississippi, 6; Alabama, 9; Arkansas, 6; Kentucky, 8; Idaho, 4; Nebraska, 4; North Dakota, 3; Oklahoma, 7; West Virginia, 5; Wyoming, 3

Likely Clinton: 53 electoral votes Illinois, 20; New Jersey, 14; Washington, 12; Rhode Island, 4; Delaware, 3 Solid Clinton: 115 electoral votes Massachusetts, 11; New York, 29; California, 55; District of Columbia, 3; Hawaii, 4; Maryland, 10; Vermont, 3

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The world's biggest natural catastrophes in 2015 Munich Re, a large re-insurance company, identified these incidents as being the most damaging natural catastrophes last year.

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The Post and Courier

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Charleston’s territorial expansion began before Joe Riley became mayor in 1975, but the city limits expanded greatly during his 40 years in office. Riley’s predecessor, the late Mayor Palmer Gaillard, first extended the city’s reach by annexing parts of West Ashley and James Island between 1960 and 1975.

The Post and Courier

4.4% 28.8%

30.2%

Riley Charleston Mayor Joe Riley often talked about the need to enhance the city’s public realm: the parks, sidewalks and other shared spaces that all the city’s residents can enjoy. Much of the mayor’s work has involved renovating existing public spaces, such as White Point Garden, Hampton Park, Marion Square and many more. But the city also created many signature new public places during Riley’s 40-year tenure.

STAFF

BUILDING THE FUTURE

A6: Sunday, July 3, 2016

6.7%

40 years of

1975 2015

City lines then and now

14.9%

69.8%

At 11 locations, mostly on the rural edges of the Charleston metro area, a new wave of town-sized developments could create more than 78,000 homes. That’s enough housing for about 200,000 people, which roughly equals the number of people the tri-county area has gained since 2000. It will take decades to build out these developments, but their size will eventually reshape where Charleston area residents live and work. If the metro area gains 200,000 residents over the next 15 years, as it did during the past 15, many will call these mega-developments home.

45.2%

Peninsula West Ashley Johns Island Daniel Island James Island

1970

New wave of mega-developments

2010 120,083

The Berkeley County mega-cluster

96,650

Nexton (1), Carnes Crossroads (2), Wildcat (3) and Cane Bayy Plantation (4) abut one another, along U.S. Highway 17-A and U.S. Highway 176. Together, they are permitted for more than 33,000 housing units – comparable to the number of homes in Mount Pleasant. Each of the four has a different developer. All but Wildcat are currently under development. Cane Bay includes a Del Webb retirement community and was the nation’s ninth best-selling master-planned community in 2015, selling 520 homes according to real estate analytics firm RCLCO. Nexton is notable for its business-oriented commercial development, and a goal of becoming a regional jobs center as well as a residential community. A new $80 million interchange on Interstate 26 will connect directly to a “spine” road that will run through Nexton to U.S. 176 near Cane Bay, creating new options for traffic.

80,414 71,275

70,174

65,925

66,945

69,855

46,755

43,165

City 38,789

35,157

34,636

1990

2000

2010

Peninsula

1940

1950

1960

1970

1980

Peninsula vs. city population changes

City’s growth over the last century Growing numbers of tourists and restaurant customers obscure the fact that the number of people living on the Charleston peninsula has plunged since 1940. All of the city’s population growth came from areas annexed by the city since 1960.

Summerville

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Ingleside

This block-size redevelopment of once-polluted land began with the S.C. Aquarium’s opening in 2000 and helped transform an otherwise forlorn stretch of the city’s waterfront.

The city converted a series of old railroad buildings into its new visitor center, in part to move the center of tourist activity north, and in part to freshen up a largely abandoned part of the city. The project opened in 1990 and eventually included a new bus shed, fountains, a new parking garage and renovated sheds for other museums and public use.

Goose Creek

Ladson Cane Bay Plantation in Berkeley County already has thousands of residents, and could be home to 25,000 or more when com pleted. It was among the nation’s top-selling master-planned communities in 2015, when this aerial photograph was taken.

Liberty Square

Charleston Visitor Center

Located in North Charleston, Ingleside sits between Palmetto Commerce Parkway and Interstate 26. The development is permitted for 5,425 housing units, including multi-story apartments. Infrastructure work has been ongoing. A large commercial center with a Bass Pro Shops location is part of the development, and plans call for a new partial interchange on I-26.

Gadsdenborough Park

St. Stephen

Site of a former public housing complex, this new park between Washington and Concord streets opened this year and is about as big as Marion Square. It features a large central lawn ringed with flowers, a playground and public restrooms. It eventually will be framed by new construction along Calhoun and Laurens streets.

Lake Moultrie Jamestown

St. George

Corner

Huger

McClellanville

Summerville

Berkeley 3

Longborough Park This small park with a fishing dock was built along the Ashley River as part of a large project that razed old apartment buildings in favor of new single-family homes. The park actually opened years ago, but when a question arose over public access this year, Riley urged City Council to acquire it through eminent domain.

For an interactive look at Joe Riley’s impact on the city of Charleston during his 40 years as mayor, go to postandcourier. com/joe-riley

Joseph P. Riley Jr. Park The city built this stadium in cooperation with The Citadel, whose college team shares the field with the city’s minor league baseball team, the RiverDogs. City Council named it after Riley, partly for his vision of nearly every seat having a view of the Ashley River and partly because he’s a big baseball fan.

The $150 million makeover of the city’s former municipal auditorium was the most expensive city building project in Charleston’s history and included extensive landscaping on both its George and Calhoun street facades and also helped lead to the public-private makeover of the small Theodora Park across the street.

Bulls Bay

Dorchester County

Online

Gaillard Center

1 2

Charleston

Summers Corner Located on S.C. Highway 61 in Dorchester County, Sum mers Corner is under development and selling homes starting in the high $200,000s. The 6,000-home develop ment is part of WestRock’s larger East Edisto plan, and includes new public p schools and a performing p g arts center.

Mt. Pleasant

County Johns Island

Airport

2015

Spring Grove

Park West Blvd.

Cainhoy Road

Edisto Island

Also part of WestRock’s East Edisto plan, Spring Grove is expected to have 4,500 homes, clustered in village-like developments of various sizes. The development, p near Ravenel, has not begun. g

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River

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While this hotel and retail complex is privately owned, its opening in 1986 included a public parking garage and interior public connection between Meeting and King streets. The project is widely considered among the most important in revitalizing King Street.

Wando High

River

1972

Airport Rd.

Brandon Lockett The Post and Courier

Pakistan, Afghanistan Oct. 26

Winter Storm Niklas

Severe storms

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Selection of catastrophe

Earthquake

U.S. Feb. 16-25

Severe storms

Loss events

Hydrological events

Wan Daniel Island

Mount

FILE/STAFF

1988

2015

Magnolia

1990

Located on former industrial land where environmental cleanup work is ongoing, Magnolia is an urban-style development where 3,500 homes are expected within Charleston’s Neck Area. The project stalled during the recession and fell into bankruptcy, but WestRock is expected to step in as the new developer. A development agreement with Charleston runs through 2025.

FILE/STAFF

Long Savannah

2015

A 4,500-home development at the western edge of Charleston’s “urban growth boundary,” Long Savannah abuts as-yet undeveloped city and county parks, and will be connected to Bees Ferry Circle by a new parkway built at the developer’s expense. Construction has not begun.

The only construction so far Berkeley County elementary, middle and high schools on the property. Detailed plans are expected to be released this fall. The property is in the Charleston city limits, and is larger than the Charleston peninsula and Daniel Island combined.

With 2,030 permitted housing units, Carolina Park is already home to hundreds. The development was permitted more than a decade ago but froze up, with just eight homes built, when the recession hit. It was revived after going through a change of ownership. Wando High School, the largest in the state and Mount Pleasant’s only public high school, sits along the entrance road.

15 years of tri-county area population growth Berkeley Co. +42%

Charleston Co. +25%

Dorchester Co. +59%

’00

548,945

’10

664,608

’15

744,526 SOURCE: U.S. CENSUS

REPORTING BY DAVID SLADE, GRAPHIC BY BRANDON LOCKETT/STAFF

The first wave The Charleston area’s first mega-development arrived in the 1970s. Here’s a look at the area’s 20th Century mega-developments, several of which are still growing.

3 Upper King Street

2 Riley Waterfront Park Built on the ruins of early wharves, this park quickly became one of the city’s most popular spots and helped move tourists away from residential streets. Its opening in 1990 showed that Charleston was recovering nicely after Hurricane Hugo. City Council recently renamed it in honor of the mayor, who scrutinized many of its design details. SOURCES: U.S. CENSUS BUREAU; CITY OF CHARLESTON DEPARTMENT OF INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY GIS DIVISION

When Riley took office in 1975, resuscitating King Street below Calhoun was considered a huge task. But the city’s work north of Calhoun — improving sidewalks, adding trees, burying power lines and changing traffic back to two ways — helped make this one of the city’s liveliest areas. CITY RENDERING BY J. EMORY PARKER; BRANDON LOCKETT/STAFF

1 Dunes West + Park West Originally a single Mount Pleasant development, Dunes West was approved for 8,437 homes in 1990, the largest development the town has seen. Later divided into two developments, Dune West and Park West, both are nearing the final stages of construction.

Daniel Island

Like Cainhoy Plantation, Daniel Island was part of the Guggenheim Foundation’s land holdings in Berkeley County. Charleston annexed Daniel Island in 1991 and it became the area’s first mega-development governed by a development agreement. Approved for 7,500 homes, about 5,500 have been built.

Crowfield

A 2,850-home development created by what was then Westvaco Development, in the late 1980s. The development was a large contributor to the city of Goose Creek’s growth. It’s just over half the size of Carnes Crossroads, also in Goose Creek.

Sangaree

“City-size Subdivision Underway” was the headline in 1974. Sangaree, near Summerville, was among the nation’s largest developments at the time, with 3,000 homes planned. The first homes were priced between $25,000 and $33,000.

Belle Hall

Located on both sides of Long Point Road in Mount Pleasant, Belle Hall was approved for more than 2,000 homes in 1988, and includes Belle Hall Shopping Center and the Belle Hall Apartments. Belle Hall was part of a wave of large development along Long Point Road that included the smaller Longpoint and Snee Farm subdivisions.

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s it really so hard to conduct the public’s business in public? Apparently it is for the Medical University of South Carolina Board of Trustees. Or its members think so. The trustees have tried more than once to hold meetings without notifying the public, as the law requires. And when they last did meet, on Sunday, they voted to restrict people who attend their meetings. Board members would have passed new “rules of decorum” for meetings on Friday, but The Post and Courier protested, pointing out that due notice of the meeting had not been made, as required by law. So the board met on Sunday, most via teleconference, apparently for the sole purpose of limiting the profile of Healthcare Workers United, whose representatives attend most board meetings, often holding signs and standing silently along the perimeter of the room. The group’s mission is to call for higher wages, an improved grievance process and more diversity at MUSC. The board cannot ban the HWU people from attending a public meeting, but it did agree unanimously to ban signs, and to bar anyone from approaching board members during a meeting. Thomas Dixon, one of the HWU representatives, said the board is “trying to ... limit our freedom of speech and freedom of expression.” A frustrated MUSC President David Cole said his administration has taken steps to include minority voices. The protesters have been invited to participate on a diversity committee. And five senior leaders at

MUSC, out of 17, are black. That’s encouraging. But if the board too were truly interested in hearing from diverse voices, it could take some simple steps: It could meet in a larger room. Colcock Hall is not large enough to accommodate enough chairs for staff members and visitors. There should be no need for protesters to stand. The panel could provide time on its agenda for public comment as other boards do. Each speaker could be given two or three minutes. And board members could respond with pertinent information. Who knows? Perhaps board members would learn about things that need their attention — things that won’t fit on a sign, if, of course, people still could hold signs. But it appears the board really, really doesn’t want HWU people there. It was so important to them that the board planned to convene members, who live across the state, for a special meeting to get “rules of decorum” in place before their next board meeting a week from Thursday. The rules also say anyone who interrupts board meetings or uses profanity will be warned and then asked to leave — as if to suggest that people standing silently holding signs is akin to people interrupting and cursing. MUSC has won national respect for its health care and research. It is a strong asset for the Lowcountry and the state. The school’s board also should be exemplary — beginning with being transparent and following the law.

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y blocking a House bill to strengthen the state’s Freedom of Information Act, Sen. Margie Bright Matthews is inadvertently demonstrating the need for greater transparency and accountability. Ever since the FOI bill was approved by the Senate Judiciary Committee on March 16, she has kept it from a vote by the full Senate — and deprived that body of a helpful discussion on its merits and demerits. So much for transparency. Only last week did Sen. Matthews explained her objections to the media. She sees no need for a separate office to review complaints by people unable to obtain public information. Perhaps she has never requested information from a bureaucratic functionary and been given the run-around instead. She also is concerned about limiting what governments charge for providing printed information. Evidently, the Walterboro Democrat is not be aware of instances when citizens have been charged fees so exorbitant as to discourage them from proceeding. The bill would merely cap the fees at what copying businesses would charge. Yes, some people might make unreasonable requests for information that would mean big headaches for small governments. But the proposed FOIA complaint office would handle complaints from those governments just as it would complaints from the public. And yes, staffing that office with a judge

and an assistant would cost money. Sen. Matthews estimates it would cost up to $141,370 a year. But without that office, such complaints go to a regular courtroom, which also has a judge and staff. A specific judge of the Administrative Law Court who deals solely in FOIA cases could actually expedite resolutions. And people who feel aggrieved over being denied or overcharged for FOIA requests might be more willing to appeal to that special judge than to an ordinary court. Legislators regularly say they want government to be open and accountable, but often they don’t take steps to ensure it. This bill, however, has won wide support — up until now. Sen. Matthews’ intransigence has led members of the House to try a different strategy: A panel has rewritten a Senate FOIA bill that would make police dash-cam and audio recordings subject to FOIA laws. It now reflects the House bill that is now in limbo, and a conference committee could agree on it. It is well worth the extra effort, but it is a pity that South Carolina legislators have to go to such lengths to make public information available to the public. Sen. Matthews has said that she is being bullied by proponents of the bill. Imagine how the public feels about being stonewalled by a senator who would diminish their access to information they have a right to obtain.

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State’s failure hurts families A

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Spartanburg County mother explained to lawmakers last week about the human cost of government failure. She told lawmakers that there are real consequences to the state’s failure to develop a computer system to track child support payments. She read lawmakers a list of 10 mothers who have simply given up trying to collect child support from their children’s fathers. Because South Carolina alone among all 50 states does not have such a system, fathers who want to avoid making payments can ignore deadlines and stay ahead of the system by moving from county to county. The failure to establish the system also has cost taxpayers millions in fines. Congress passed a law in 1988 requiring all states to establish such a system to track child support. The state has had 28 years to build the system. It has not. Congress set a deadline in 1997 for states to have their systems up and running. South Carolina has been paying fines to Washington since then, $145 million in fines. Much of that has

The state’s failure to develop this system has enabled irresponsible adults to ignore their obligation to their children and push that ﬁnancial burden onto their mothers and onto the taxpayers. been paid by the companies the state has hired to develop the system, and state officials blame those companies for the delay in implementing a computer system. But that’s not good enough. A computer project that is 20 years behind isn’t incomplete because you chose the wrong vendor, or even a succession of wrong vendors. Sooner or later, you have to admit that the problem might be your own. The state’s failure to develop this system has enabled irresponsible adults to ignore their obligation to their children and push that financial burden onto their mothers and onto the taxpayers. And there’s not a strong light at the end of this tunnel. The Associated

Press reports that Department of Social Services officials estimate the state has put $150 million into this project and will spend about $200 million more before implementing a system — plus another $120 million in fines. Even so, it will be another three years before the system is online. Another three years. This is a level of waste and inefficiency that can only be accomplished by government. And senators hearing about the problem had to agree that the problem predates the current leaders in DSS, so no one is held accountable. That’s an outrage. At the very least, South Carolinians deserve a fuller picture of how this project failed over the course of three decades, how failure followed failure and whether there is something in the structure of state government that allows this staggering level of ineptitude. And state families deserve a working system to make sure child support payments are made and received by the children who need them.

EDITORIAL

New moped laws would hurt poor

he S.C. House has passed a bill that would effectively put many of the working poor out of their

jobs. The bill would require that mopeds be licensed and insured. And it would require a valid driver’s license to operate one. Lawmakers behind the bill say it would increase the safety of moped drivers. But this is the kind of bill that is written and passed by lawmakers who can’t see past their own economic status. They see mopeds on the roads. They are annoyed as they try to move around them and keep up with their schedules. They see mopeds in all kinds of weather and road conditions and see a safety problem. And they hear the comments about “liquorcycles.” They assume that most of those riding mopeds have lost their driver’s licenses due to drunken driving and have resorted to riding a moped. But there’s another big factor to

consider. And that’s the legions of the working poor who use mopeds to get to work. Some of them have indeed lost their licenses due to driving under the influence. Others simply can’t afford to buy, maintain, pay taxes on and insure a car. This bill would put most of those expenses on mopeds. By doing so, it would put this last mode of transportation out of the reach of many. What would they do? They would lose their jobs. South Carolina has few big cities where people can work and live within walking distance. We don’t have much public transportation. Bus routes may not run close to where they live or work, or run on the schedule their employer requires. So many of those people depend on mopeds to get to work. They would simply lose those jobs if the cost of this transportation included taxes, registration and insurance. That wouldn’t benefit anyone in South Carolina. It wouldn’t help the

families who depend on these paychecks. It wouldn’t help the taxpayers who would have to pick up social benefits for misplaced workers. There are worthwhile reforms that can be made to the state’s rules regarding mopeds. Any law that forces moped riders to obey the traffic rules that apply to other motor vehicles would improve safety. Requiring moped riders to wear reflective safety vests and have operating lights on their bikes might save lives. But costing people their jobs by raising the cost of riding a moped isn’t the answer. And taking away the last transportation option for those who have been caught driving under the influence seems counterproductive. South Carolina doesn’t need to take more people out of the workforce. The safety improvements that would be seen from this bill would be overwhelmed by the social and economic damage it would do. The Senate should reject the bill.

EDITORIAL

Update state’s election process

Michael Smith Herald-Journal

housands of South Carolinians may be stuck standing in lines for hours Tuesday because South Carolina has an obsolete and inefficient election method that should be updated. We should be making it easier for people to participate in elections, but for some reason the General Assembly has resisted any effort at voting reform. You’d almost think lawmakers have a vested interest in keeping turnout low. Remember that if you’re stuck in line Tuesday. It’s common during a major election for voters to wait about an hour to vote. In elections with greater than average turnout, the wait can be much longer. On Election Day in 2008, lines in Boiling Springs grew to hundreds of voters, and the wait grew so long that many just gave up and went home. That cuts people out of the democratic process. It shouldn’t be tolerated, and it doesn’t have to be. Part of the problem is that South Carolina doesn’t have an early voting program. The Palmetto State does have absentee voting, and it’s fairly easy to vote absentee, which is why absentee voting is way up this year.

their convenience over a period of two weeks or more, they wouldn’t be forced to take an hour or two on Election Day to wait in line to cast their ballots. The other problem is that while the state insists on sticking to an obsolete election system, it doesn’t properly maintain that system. State law suggests that voting precincts include fewer than 1,500 voters More than 12,000 Spartanburg County to ensure smooth balloting. More than half of Spartanburg County’s precincts voters had cast absentee ballots by have more than 1,500 voters. Some Halloween. But there are obstacles. You must go have more than 4,000. And Spartanto the county Voter Registration Office burg County isn’t alone in this. New precincts have to be established to vote absentee or request a mail-in ballot. You also must provide a reason by the General Assembly. And more precincts take more machines and for voting absentee, and many voters more poll workers, which cost more think the rules are stricter than they money. are. The result of concentrating too What the state needs is an effective early voting system that allows people many voters in too few precincts is long lines and voters inconvenienced to cast their ballots over a period of for trying to participate in democracy. a couple of weeks without having to You may see state lawmakers or justify their desire to vote early. Many candidates for the General Assembly states, including North Carolina, campaigning on or before Tuesday. offer voters an early voting option, If you do, ask them what they’ll do to but South Carolina lawmakers have allow early voting and to make it easier refused to approve such a plan. for voters to cast their ballots. If South Carolinians could vote at

What the state needs is an effective early voting system that allows people to cast their ballots over a period of a couple of weeks without having to justify their desire to vote early.

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New excuse for muzzling free speech

CATHERINE RAMPELL

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round the country, colleges have found a new excuse for shutting down free speech: safety. Unwilling to either defend controversial speech or cop to censoring it, college administrators are instead increasingly invoking public “safety” when they cancel events. Ben Shapiro, a young conservative firebrand who has criticized Black Lives Matter, has recently been disinvited from two college campuses due to “security” concerns. A month earlier, DePaul had barred Milo Yiannopoulos, a sort of professional troll and informal spokesman for the racist, anti-feminist altright, from returning to campus. An earlier visit resulted in student protesters storming the stage, with one protester allegedly assaulting Yiannopoulos; security hired for the event did not intervene. When the College Republicans invited him back, an administrator said a review of video footage of the previous event revealed “it is clear that it would not be possible for DePaul to provide the security that would be required for such an event.” Last week, Yiannopoulos was also disinvited from an event at the University of Miami, again because of unspecified “security concerns.” Lest you assume that only inflammatory conservatives get barred from campuses for supposed safety reasons, consider the cancellation of a scheduled talk recently at Newman University in Wichita. The student history club had invited Kansas Supreme Court Justice Carol Beier to “discuss topics such as how to get into law school, what it is like to be a judge and what role judges play in the judicial system,” according to the Wichita Eagle. Sounds like a relatively innocuous speech, no? But anti-abortion activists vociferously objected to her presence because the judge had previously ruled in favor of abortion rights. The administration caved. “We worried about safety of students, and about perhaps having a guest on campus not be treated right,” the provost told local media. Exactly what kind of “safety” is being safeguarded in these cases remains ambiguous, of course. Is this primarily about students’ emotional safety and mental well-being, per the typical usage in the term “safe spaces”? Or is this about safety from physical harm? The elision here may be deliberate, particularly given that hurtful words are so often conflated with actual violence — which, to some, justifies retaliating with not just passionate counter-speech but also actual violence, as has happened on several campuses when protesters turned rough and rowdy. Indeed, administrators are justified in fearing violence when there is an inflammatory speaker. But somehow schools still manage to provide sufficient numbers of security officers at other potentially unruly public events When it comes to inflammatory speech, colleges seem to be making a calculation about what will result in less-bad PR: accusations of censorship, or the photos of their officers removing an unruly protester who has just pulled a fire alarm or attempted to assault a controversial speaker? And so appealing to “safety” becomes schools’ escape hatch. The heckler’s veto lives on. —Catherine Rampell is a columnist with the Washington Post Writers Group. Reach her at crampell@ washpost.com.

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Too much secrecy in Duncan T he Duncan Town Council’s problem is not just that its website is down. It’s that the council is conducting the public’s business in private. The council recently decided twice that it would meet in private, closing town residents and taxpayers out of its discussion. Council members refused to let their constituents hear their reasoning and debate about decisions they would make on behalf of those constituents. What were the delicate matters that had to be discussed behind closed doors? What were they so concerned about that they would refuse to let town residents hear the discussion? Duncan Town Administrator Cam Fant said they “brainstormed about what they’d like to see on the website.” The town is working on a new website and members were discussing its eventual content. Another closed session was devoted to purchasing a new police vehicle for the town. The council later voted to do so in open session. It’s hard to see why these discussions should be held in private. It’s particularly hard when you realize that

state law requires the council to meet in public. The law requires this because town residents have a right to know the reasoning on which the council bases its decisions. The law requires this because Duncan taxpayers have a right to know how their money is being spent. The law requires this because our system of government works best when the people are informed and consent to the acts of the government. The members of the Duncan Town Council apparently have forgotten this and apparently never read the S.C. Freedom of Information Act. That state law sets forth specific requirements for going into private session. Public bodies like the Town Council are allowed to go into closed session to discuss disciplining or firing an employee, to discuss negotiating contracts and receiving legal advice on those matters, to discuss security devices and a few other specific matters. It is stretching the law to discuss buying a police car in closed session, but there is no way to stretch the law far enough to cover discussing behind

closed doors what to put on a town website. What’s more, before a council can legally kick the public out of its meetings, state law requires it to cite the specific legal exemption it is claiming for its closed meeting, and then the council has to take a vote to go into a closed meeting. The Duncan Town Council did not follow these requirements of the law. The council isn’t the only public body to violate state law by meeting behind closed doors too often, without legal grounds and without legal procedure. Other councils and boards do it as well. Public officials are too fond of secrecy. They seem to think that voters and taxpayers shouldn’t worry about public issues. They should just sit back and trust their elected leaders to do whatever those leaders decide is best. That’s not how democracy works. Duncan residents and all South Carolinians do not deserve to be kept in the dark by our elected officials. We have a right to know what our governments are doing and discussing.

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We must work together Please, please, let’s work together to stop the violence and the hate going on. Divided we can’t solve our problems. We must work together as one to get our great country on a better course. It starts in the home, schools and gatherings. Show respect for each other, even if different. We all shouldn’t be the same nor have to be. In most of these police cases we are seeing with men being shot — black, white, Latino and Asian — there is a common denominator. There is a lack of compliance. If a police officer says stop, stop or a tragedy may happen. If a police officer says to put and keep your hands up, do so or a tragedy may happen. If you run, assault or make swift moves when told to stop, a tragedy may happen. Rarely in the news reports is there mention or reinforcement of the root cause of these deaths: noncompliance. Parents, siblings, friends, reinforce compliance first. If an officer does something wrong, then have it on video and report it. Even in the sick case that took place in Charleston, where an unarmed man was shot repeatedly in the back, if he would have stopped and complied there would be no tragedy. It’s not right for the police to shoot in such a case, but don’t give them the reason. Put yourselves in their shoes — would you feel safe with a noncompliant, possibly threatening person? I would expect city, county, state and national leaders to stop bashing and playing politics with this issue. It’s once again simple. Comply with legal instructions, and let’s avoid this tragedy taking place in our nation. First step: Comply. Next, work on training and on understanding and respect for each other.

Robert Speiss Spartanburg

Seize these opportunities I recently traveled to Washington, D.C., with more than 700 of my fellow American Cancer Society Cancer Action Network (ACS CAN) volunteers from across the country to urge Congress to support lifesaving policies that help people prevent and better treat cancer. I called on lawmakers to increase federal funding for cancer research, support legislation to improve patient quality of life and remove cost barriers to colorectal cancer screenings for seniors. When I met with Sens. Tim Scott and Lindsey Graham’s offices as well as that of Rep. Trey Gowdy, I told them that Congress should seize these opportunities to put partisanship aside and make ending cancer as we know it a top national priority. I let our lawmakers know that people and families touched by cancer in South Carolina and across the country are counting on them to support legislation that would help make cancer history. With one in two men and one in three women being diagnosed with cancer in their lifetime, we can’t let this year pass without taking legislative action on these important issues. I know our conversation made a difference in the halls of Congress, and I encourage you to add your voice. Visit www.acscan.org to be connected to people like me in your community. Jim Weeks Volunteer, American Cancer Society Cancer Action Network, Spartanburg

This hero needed no cape After recently going to see “Sully” in

theaters, it made me recall that fateful day in January 2009 when Capt. Chesley “Sully” Sullenburger saved 155 people, and the entire country as well, from plunging into the chilling depths of the unknown. At the time, we had no hope and no sense of conviction as a nation. Bleeding from wounds caused by corporate greed, governmental apathy and an economic meltdown, we seemed helpless — until we witnessed the impossible happen. And for the first time in a long time, we believed. We believed in ourselves and our country — and maybe, just maybe, Superman didn’t have to wear a cape after all. I hope all too much that belief is still in our hearts and minds as we advance further in a year full of grief. We are made strong by those who make us believe we are strong — and to them, we owe an endless thank you. Stuart Luckadoo Rutherfordton, N.C.

Trying reverse psychology Clever Herald-Journal commissars are using powerful reverse psychology to get Donald Trump elected president, and I love it! For example, the Sept. 17 edition had negative Trump articles on the front page again and also on pages A3, A6, A7 and A9. My Republican friends were furious at first, but upon further analysis of the powerful reverse motivation of unfair overkill, we gleefully understood and set about easily inspiring even people who have never voted to get fired up to go to the polls and vote for Trump, against the desires of the totally biased liberal media. Very clever of you, Herald-Journal. Bruce E. Barnes Spartanburg

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Nikki Haley living in Fantasyland

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ikki Haley’s 44th birthday is this week. You would think her a little old for fairytales. But a bizarre, little-reported remark the South Carolina governor made this week suggests that, age notwithstanding, Haley lives in Fantasyland, at least insofar as American history is concerned. The comment in question came the day after her Tuesday night speech in response to President Obama’s State of the Union address, in which she cuffed Donald Trump for his strident anti-Muslim, anti-immigrant bigotry. Haley told reporters, “When you’ve got immigrants who are coming here legally, we’ve never in the history of this country passed any laws or done anything based on race or religion.” Some observers found that an astonishing thing for her to say as chief executive of the first

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state to secede from the Union in defense of slavery, a state that embraced segregation until forced to change by the federal government. Others observed that any fair reading of Haley’s quote makes it pretty clear she was speaking only in the context of legal immigration. They’re right. The problem is, even if you concede that point, Haley is still grotesquely wrong. She thinks no immigration laws have been passed “based on race or religion”? What about: The Naturalization Act of

1790, which extended citizenship to “any alien, being a free white person”? Or the Chinese Exclusion Act of 1882, whose title and intent are self-explanatory? Or the Immigration Act of 1917, which banned immigrants from East Asia and the Pacific? Or Ozawa v. U.S., the 1922 Supreme Court decision that declared that Japanese immigrants could not be naturalized? Or U.S. v. Bhagat Singh Thind, the 1923 high court ruling that said people from India — like Haley’s parents — could not become naturalized citizens? So yes, however you slice it, Haley is wrong and Haley is ignorant. But one wonders if Haley is to blame. Americans, the historian Ray Arsenault once said, live by “mythic conceptions of what they think happened” in the past. And as school systems,

under pressure from conservative school boards, retreat from teaching that which embarrasses the nation’s self-image, as ethnic studies classes are outlawed, as textbooks are scrubbed of painfully inconvenient truths, as standards requiring the teaching of only “positive aspects” of American history are imposed, we find those mythic conceptions encroaching reality to a troubling degree. Suddenly, slaves become immigrants and settlers. The Civil War has nothing to do with slavery. Martin Luther King becomes a tea party member. And America has never passed laws “based on race and religion.” Yes, Haley’s ignorance might be willful. There’s surely a lot of that going around. But it might also be that she’s simply part of that generation that has been taught fairytales

under the guise of history. Such teaching will leave you comfortably indoctrinated in a kind of civic mythology — and wholly unprepared to interpret or contextualize what’s happening before your eyes. To wit: What makes Donald Trump’s proposed restrictions on Muslims troubling is not that they represent the coming of something new, but the return of something old, a shameful strain in the American psyche that we have seen too many times before. It is not a deviation from America, but the very stuff of America, an ugly scapegoating that has too often besmirched our character and beguiled us away from our most luminous ideals. This is something all of us should know, but do not. As a state official, perhaps a candidate for vice president, perhaps eventually a president of the United States, Nikki Haley might someday change history. It would be good if she understood it first. Contact Mr. Pitts at lpitts@miamiherald.com.

More diploma options will create better workforce

THOMAS A. WILSON

Guest Columnist

outh Carolina is considered one of the best states in the nation to do business, yet we are approaching a point where we will be unable to keep up with the workforce demands of business and industry. For far too long, the educational bureaucracy has forced students into a standard diploma track, removing their ability to follow any technical-field aspirations they may possess. While we should never discourage students from pursuing higher education at a baccalaureate institution, we must begin highlighting the many opportunities that our career academies and technical colleges can provide, including those high-skill manufacturing jobs that pay extremely well and provide amazing benefits. It is with this in mind that I encourage state leaders to support multiple diploma paths. Giving students additional options that cater to their post-secondary goals will better prepare them to become highfunctioning and productive members of society. Each year, more than a million students in this country drop out of high school, not because they don’t like their teacher or don’t understand the work but because they find school unrelentingly boring and irrelevant. Giving schools and teachers greater flexibility in teaching relevant courses is the whole idea behind multiple-diploma pathways, with many states offering at least two diploma tracks. Adding diploma options does not mean abandoning the state-mandated number of classes for graduation; it means giving students the option to complete courses relevant to their career interests. South Carolina is in a prime position to offer three paths to graduation. In addition to pre-

paring our students for a traditional college setting, we can also support those students more interested in pursuing a two-year technical degree by giving them the freedom to complete pathway-specific courses in conjunction with career-specific electives. Going even further, we can offer a diploma that is geared toward those who may want to enter the workforce directly, while still laying the foundation for post-secondary educational opportunities if they so choose. Some critics may have a kneejerk reaction to what they perceive as a “dumbing down” of the curriculum. I would encourage them to compare the reading level of a technical manual at Boeing to the classic Beowulf. Our students entering the world of advanced manufacturing can attest to the fact that their on-site training and instruction is far more difficult than their scholarly studies. South Carolina Commerce Secretary Bobby Hitt has done yeoman’s work attracting business and industry to the Palmetto State, and he along with other leaders can attest to the fact that a strong and viable workforce is crucial if South Carolina wants to compete for and retain business and industry. After spending the majority of my career in Georgia, it was a great relief to return two years ago to a South Carolina that was much stronger and more economically diverse than when I left more than 30 years ago. Yet I fear that continuing with this one-sizefits-all approach to education will not give our students the skills they need to survive and thrive in our new global economy. As the 2016 legislative session gears up, I encourage all of those passionate about education to become actively engaged in the political process and to advocate for common-sense measures that can improve public education. Dr. Wilson is superintendent of Anderson School District 5; contact him at TomWilson@ anderson5.net.

The state of the presidency: spent

resident Obama’s Tuesday night address to Congress was less about the state of the union than the state of the presidency. And the state of this presidency is spent. The signs of intellectual exhaustion were everywhere. Consider just three. After taking credit for success in Syria, raising American stature abroad and prevailing against the Islamic State — one claim more surreal than the next — Obama was forced to repair to his most wellworn talking point: “If you doubt America’s commitment — or mine — to see that justice is done, just ask Osama bin Laden.” Really? Five years later, that’s all you’ve got? Indeed, it is. What else can Obama say? Talk about Crimea? Cite Yemen, Libya, Iraq, the South China Sea, the return of the Taliban? “Surveys show our standing around the world is higher than when I was elected to this office,” Obama boasted. Surveys, mind you. As if superpower influence is a Miss Universe contest. As if the world doesn’t see our allies adrift, our enemies on the march and our sailors kneeling, hands behind their heads, in front of armed Iranians, then forced to apologize on camera. (And our secretary of state expressing appre-

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ciation to Iran after their subsequent release.) On the domestic side, Obama’s agenda was fairly short, in keeping with his lame-duck status. It was still startling when he worked up a passion for a great “new moonshot”: curing cancer. Is there a more hackneyed national-greatness cliche than the idea that if we can walk on the moon … ? Or a more hackneyed facsimile of vision than being “the nation that cures cancer”? Do Obama’s speechwriters not know that it was Richard Nixon who first declared a war on cancer — in 1971? But to see just how bare is the cupboard of ideas of the nation’s most vaunted liberal visionary, we had to wait for the stunning anachronism that was the speech finale. It was designed for inspiration and uplift. And for some liberal observers, it actually worked. They were thrilled by the soaring tones as Obama called for, yes, a new politics — a post-partisan spirit of mutual understanding, rational dis-

course and respect for one’s opponents. Why, it was hope and change all over again. You’d have thought we were back in 2008 with Obama’s moving, stirring promise of a new and higher politics that had young people swooning in the aisles and a TV anchor thrilling up the leg — and gave Obama the White House. Or even further back to 2004, when Obama electrified the nation with his Democratic convention speech: “There’s not a black America and white America and Latino America and Asian America; there’s the United States of America.” Tuesday night, Obama did an undisguised, almost phrase-for-phrase reprise of that old promise. Earnestly, he urged us to “see ourselves not, first and foremost, as black or white, or Asian or Latino, not as gay or straight, immigrant or native born, not as Democrats or Republicans, but as Americans first.” On cue, various commentators were moved by this sermon summoning our better angels. Good grief. I can understand falling for this 12 years ago. But now? A cheap self-quotation, a rhetorical mulligan, from a man who had two presidential terms to act on that transformative

vision and instead gave us the most divisive, partisan, tendentious presidency since Nixon. Rational discourse and respect for one’s opponents? This from the man who campaigned up and down the country throughout 2011 and 2012 saying that he cares about posterity, Republicans only about power. The man who accused opponents of his Iran treaty of “making common cause” with Iranians “chanting death to America.” The man who, after Paul Ryan proposed a courageous, controversial entitlement reform, gave a presidential address — with Ryan, invited by the White House, seated in the first row — calling his ideas un-American. In a final touch of irony, Obama included in his wistful rediscovery of a more elevated politics an expression of reverence for, of all things, how “our founders distributed power between … branches of government.” This after years of repeatedly usurping Congress’ legislative power with unilateral executive orders and regulations on everything from criminal justice to climate change to immigration (already halted by the courts). There is wisdom to the 22nd Amendment. After two terms, presidents are spent. Nothing shows it like a State of the Union valedictory repeating the hollow promises of the yesteryear candidate — as if the intervening presidency had never occurred. Contact Mr. Krauthammer at letters@ charleskrauthammer.com.

OPINION Sunday, June 12, 2016

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It’s interesting to watch opponents of I-526 take victory laps over the recent setback. I certainly can’t fault those who live in its path, since all of us are interested in preserving that little snapshot of the way we want things to be. Reasonable solutions might have been found for some of those personally impacted. If not, compensation for lost value is not a new concept. I do find some consternation with “professional” objectors who use all change as a platform to advance their own status. Traveling north from Florida, the shortest and best route is Highway 17 North. Eventually Highway 17 turns into Savannah Highway and is funneled together with local traffic using the route to move about town. Sort of like trying to force everything through the mouth of a too small funnel. Have you been on the Savannah Highway parking lot lately? I-526 could perhaps have channeled much of this traffic around at least part of town. Most major cities have a circumferential road for interior traffic relief — except Charleston. Some of us recall the years of objection to the improvement of 17 South, between Charleston and Beaufort. Many of the same characters objecting to I-526 led that fight. It took a horrible bus wreck that killed a number of young Marine recruits to make those objections fade away. The road was much improved — albeit at a cost probably many times what it would have cost when originally conceived. What disaster will it take to finally take to see the I-526 problem solved? And how much would have been saved in cost and inconvenience had the deal been done originally? FRANK LOFTIN Beverly Road Charleston

Enough pools

The Post and Courier Staff

What we need in West Ashley is not another large building with a large concrete parking lot that would attract more people. We have no lack of people. Within a few blocks of the area being considered for an aquatic building are two large public pools. We also have an active swim league and AAU teams for tri-county children. Then what do we need in West Ashley? We need a moratorium on new apartments and other buildings that will require removing all the trees to make room for buildings, parking lots and more traffic.

We need to re-purpose what is already in place but is not being used. We need rules concerning apartments and motel and hotels. Affordable apartments should be set aside in every apartment complex and even in motels. Trees should be left in place. We need more parks for people to enjoy and to beautify the area. There should be more landscaping to make the area look inviting. We have plenty of places to eat, sleep, live and shop. But much of it looks bare and drab like an industrial area. One thing that attracts people to Charleston is the water, beaches and marshes. We are steadily ruining that feature. Marshes provide a place for sea animals to breed, and they also filter our water. Runoff from roofs and concrete lots and roads causes flooding and other problems. We need to build only what will prove of use to our community. If it’s a good idea, then taking time to get it right will not hurt the project. PATRICIA SMITH Melrose Drive Charleston

Ballet surprise

Editorial

A place to live in Charleston

ity leaders and residents have been debating for a long time whether the peninsula has too many hotel rooms. And indeed the conversation took on new life Tuesday when developer Michael Bennett got key city approval toward building still another megahotel — this one at 411 Meeting Street. But his plan also shines a light on another pressing issue that needs answers: What can be done to increase affordable housing when property values continue to climb and development is rampant? In order to build a 300-room hotel, Bennett intends to tear down the 159-unit apartment complex called The Courtyards. Rents there range from $980 a month for a studio apartment to $1,665 for a two-bedroom unit. In local context, those are considered affordable. But in order to raze them, he agreed to build as many new apartments as he will remove. The difference is that the new units will almost certainly command much higher rent. Costs at a nearby apartment building range

Was it really 40 years ago that my family decided to walk to a “Spoleto Ballet” at the College of Charleston? What a beautiful balmy June night. What a beautiful setting. Stately live oak trees dripping with Spanish moss. It was surreal. We found seats just before the lights went out. Minutes later they came back on. Before us stood a stage full of young, pretty ballerinas, their backs to the audience. Slowly they turned to face us, topless. The audience gasped, my family gasped, my mother really gasped. Yes, I attended a Spoleto topless ballet in Charleston 40 years ago.

from $1,621 for a studio to $3,912 for a two-bedroom unit. Mayor John Tecklenburg says Mr. Bennett has agreed to talk with him about mitigating the loss of affordable housing. But the mayor is looking for more permanent answers. He says housing availability is one of his priorities citywide — in West Ashley and on James Island as well as on the peninsula. He and his staff are working on several initiatives. Mr. Bennett’s property is in a circumscribed area with special zoning. It allows him to build as many hotel rooms as he wishes — because the project includes at least 20,000 square feet of meeting space. Mayor Tecklenburg says the city is weighing whether to beef up what is required of developers to ensure that buildings in the city have diverse uses — and that there isn’t a hotel on every corner. Mr. Tecklenburg says developers could be required to replace affordable housing, even if it is not on site. Or they might be allowed to contribute to a city fund

designated for affordable housing. His staff is also assessing whether more should be required with the city’s mixed-use zoning designation. Perhaps developers could be required to provide more affordable units — possibly 20 percent of the total project’s units, instead of the present 15 percent. And where those units now must be maintained at affordable prices for at least 10 years, one possibility is extending that to 15 years. One particularly encouraging idea is the possibility of establishing a land trust aimed at providing affordable housing. The Historic Charleston Foundation is working with the city on that concept, and Mr. Tecklenburg has approached the Coastal Community Foundation about directing funding in that direction. The mayor recognizes that changes are needed as soon as possible. He intends to take affordable housing recommendations to City Council this summer. At the frantic pace of development in Charleston, there is no time to waste.

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ROBERTA WEINGARTEN Lockwood Drive Charleston

A winning block Kudos to Mount Pleasant for blocking the development of 240-plus apartments at the end of Ben Sawyer Boulevard last year. I hope the town prevails in the recently filed lawsuit from the developers. Hopefully, the developers will take their plans to another town. I hope the town successfully blocks more development proposals. Enough is enough. CHISOLM WILSON Pocahontas Street Mount Pleasant

Bates wins May Golden Pen

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alph Stoney Bates Sr. of Mount Pleasant has won The Post and Courier’s Golden Pen award for May for his letter to the editor “What a Marine veteran vividly recalls on every Memorial Day.” From that letter by Mr. Bates, a retired Marine major: “I, like many combat veterans who have lost friends or relatives in combat, handle Memorial Day usually by avoiding the public gatherings where politicians give lofty speeches that often relate to jockeying for political positions rather than creating an atmosphere of reflection. “I am sometimes with close friends. But most of the time it’s just me and my wife in a quiet time together; I pop a beer and have a toast to all who have died serving our country in combat. Then I have a very personal toast to my cousin Frank Kitchens, KIA 17 April 1970. I brought his body home to his young widow for burial. He was 19 when he died, killed in an ambush, in a jungle, surrounded by his friends. “And I’ll raise my glass again to Richard ‘Dick’ Maddox, KIA 23 September 1968. He was my relief in Vietnam. We served together. He was a friend of mine. I didn’t know him long. But, in those times, in that place, it wasn’t necessary to know someone long to know someone well. “He was hit when his jeep ran over a mine on a road, in a valley so inappropriately named ‘Happy.’ I had traveled that road so often. He was med-evac’d to the Naval Support Activity Hospital at Marble Mountain. I rushed out to see him, after I got the word. He was badly burned. Through gauze-covered lips, his last whispered words to me were ‘Semper Fi, mate. Semper Fi.’ He died. He was 32.” The letter concluded: “Memorial Day is for remembrance. For some, every day is Memorial Day. For me and for many others it’s personal. “Semper Fi, Dick. “Semper Fi, Frank. “Semper Fi.” Golden Pen winners are invited to an annual luncheon with The Post and Courier editorial staff.

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State funding is needed for the restoration of the Fireproof Building on the corner of Chalmers and Meeting streets.

Save history from Haley vetoes

ov. Ni k k i Ha ley made the right call by vetoing a proposal to “study” moving the Confederate Relic Room from Columbia to Charleston. The Relic Room ought to remain in Columbia, adjacent to the state museum. It is the capital’s oldest museum, and there is no reason to bring it to Charleston, where there already is a wealth of sites related to the Civil War. But there are other budget vetoes, related to historical and cultural sites, that lawmakers should override when they return to Columbia. At the top of the list is a $1.5 million allocation needed for the restoration of the Fireproof Building on Chalmers Street in Washington Park, across from City Hall. This historic building, owned by the South Carolina Historical Society, is of national importance and deserves to have the state’s assistance for a thorough restoration, inside and out. The 1827 building was designed by Charleston’s Robert Mills, who also designed many of the state’s historic courthouses — and the Washington Monument in the nation’s capital. It was built by the state as a safe reposi-

tory of public documents. Rep. Chip Limehouse, R-Charleston, who was instrumental in getting the allocation in the state budget, cited the historical importance of the Fireproof Building — and the importance of state support to help maintain South Carolina’s “historic infrastructure.” “It’s what drives our economy,” Rep. Limehouse said. “We need to do a better job maintaining our historic infrastructure than we have done maintaining our transportation infrastructure.” To that list could be added the Gibbes Museum of Art, one of the state’s most important Beaux Arts structures, which would receive $350,000 toward the cost of its renovation, recently completed. And the USS Laffey, a World War II destroyer at Patriots Point, which would receive $50,000 to help offset its restoration cost. Both allocations were vetoed by Gov. Haley, along with that for the Fireproof Building. Of her vetoes of budget items, including the Laffey, Gov. Haley wrote, “Each of these items represents a local project of interest to community leaders and elected representatives, and each has merit so long as members of those

communities choose to support them.” Actually, the Laffey is one of the main exhibits of the Patriots Point Naval & Maritime Museum — a state museum. As such it deserves the ongoing support of state leaders and elected representatives. During his 22-year career in the House, which will end this year, Rep. Limehouse has successfully worked to educate his colleagues about the necessity of providing for South Carolina’s most important historic structures, including the Old Exchange Building and the historic Charleston Courthouse. Add to that the Fireproof Building. Legislative support for its restoration was vetoed by the governor last year, and the veto was overridden. This year’s allocation will finish the job, along with funds raised privately by the Historical Society. The Legislature should ensure that the job gets the assistance it warrants. Rep. Limehouse is retiring at the end of this term. Other members of the Charleston delegation will need to follow his lead in support of the state’s “historic infrastructure,” here and elsewhere in South Carolina.

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Lewis Barbecue Texas pitmaster brings magnificent brisket to Charleston Lewis Barbecue

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CUISINE: Texas barbecue REPRESENTATIVE DISH: Beef brisket ($21 a pound) ADDRESS: 464 N. Nassau St. PHONE: 843-805-9500 BAR: Full bar WEB: lewisbarbecue.com HOURS: 11 a.m.-10 p.m., Tues.-Sun. FOOD: SERVICE: ATMOSPHERE: PRICE: $$$ COSTS: Barbecue, $18-$22 pound; Sandwiches, $8-$11; Sides, $2.50-$3.50 PARKING: Lot NOISE: 83 dB

here does brisket come from? There are a few ways to answer that question. Anatomically, brisket comes from the forequarter of a cow, so if the flame’s gone out of your butcher shop visits, it’s 100 percent accurate to purr a request for “beef breast.” Geographically, brisket is all over the map, but the kind smoked indirectly over hickory or oak wood comes from Texas. Most relevantly, though, brisket at the three-month-old Lewis Barbecue comes from a gleaming stainless steelfronted holding case that’s just a bit bigger than a hotel minibar. There are four such cases behind the restaurant’s meatcutting station, the public front of a massive operation that includes a dedicated sausage cooker and four smokers, each spacious enough to accommodate more than half a ton of brisket. None of that clockwork is visible to customers: The brisket arrives as if by magic or barbecue-loving stork. First, the counterman opens the cabinet to find nothing within. “It’ll be fresh,” he promises. And lo! The next time he swings back the door, there’s the awaited jiggly brisket, roughly the shape of West Virginia and black as justmined coal. From a polite distance, it’s hard to make out the gullies of fat running over and around the meat, but it gives off a magnetic glint that could stupefy the clearest-eyed carnivore. Best to practice your lines beforehand: Sliced, not chopped. A little from the

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tomato-based sauces birthed in the Southeast. It’s a brilliant solution to a regional conundrum that ought to have a bright commercial future. For PHOTOS BY WADE SPEES/STAFF now, it’s a gift to the turkey After a workday at the former Navy Base, colleagues Al Dawson (left) and Rex Bolin grab breast, and the only appropria bite —or a bit more than a bite — at Lewis Barbecue, which is now open on North Nasate finisher for the El Sancho, sau at Isabella Street. a honking sandwich of pulled to briefly address the ways in which Texas and South Caro- pork, split sausage and pickled lina barbecue culture diverge. red onion. crusty bark and tender meat, Under no circumstances, expansively rich beef juice and Early on, Lewis raised local though, should the green hackles by taking a boastful structuring smoke. sauce (or its more tentative stance toward his neighbors The fact that respected pit red counterpart) come close at Home Team BBQ, but masters can get a brisket half to the brisket. Make like a he’s now playing the role of right and half wrong hints at dry martini drinker and pass its degree of difficulty. Brisket humble citizen. For instance, an unopened bottle over the is basically the differential cal- he hasn’t complained about melty prime-grade meat, if culus of barbecue. And Texan the majority of customers tackling his brisket with a fork you must, but beef this good John Lewis has mastered it and knife, which looks as silly deserves to be left alone. through years of study and After all, you’re paying $21 a to a Texan as shelling boiled practice, culminating in his leaving Austin’s La Barbecue, peanuts and eating them with pound for it. That price has reportedly scandalized cusa spoon would strike a South which seized a spot on Texas tomers reared on $3 barbecue Carolinian. Monthly’s list of the state’s sandwiches. If it helps, think Nor has Lewis gotten all best barbecue joints within On an especially warm evening, many preferred inside high and mighty about sauce, of Lewis Barbecue as an altermonths of its 2012 opendining. native to a steakhouse rather which is considered so suing, and bringing brisket to than a substitute for a buffet Charleston. Straight talk: The perfluous in central Texas stocked with banana pudding fatty side, please, plus a little painfully dry. But when a bris- brisket’s magnificent. The fun that many joints don’t offer and hash. venue in which it’s served and it. Instead, he’s roasted green from the lean end. ket falls into the former catOr just imagine you’re in In most barbecue joints, egory, as Lewis’ version did on excellent add-ons that go with chiles for a citrusy sauce that’s Texas, where the going rate for closer in consistency to the lean brisket is quietly ignored, each of the three times I tried it are just gravy. salsas served at taquerias than Speaking of saucing meat, because the cut only has two it, its lean portion is a canvas Please see LEWIS, Page E17 the thickened mustard and this is probably a good time settings: Perfectly cooked or for the contrasts between For more photos go to postandcourier.com/ galleries

WHAT OUR STARS MEAN: 5 stars: Exceptional; sets a standard for dining excellence. 4 STARS: Superior; worth a trip beyond your neighborhood or culinary comfort zone. 3 STARS: Solid example of this type of dining. 2 STARS: Adequate if you’re in the neighborhood or seeking this type of dining. 1 STAR: Generally disappointing dining experience. WHAT OUR $ SIGNS MEAN: One $: $5 to $15; TWO $$: $15-$25; THREE $$$: $25-$50; FOUR $$$$: $50 +

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Bibb wedge at 5Church Charleston.

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5Church Charleston is housed in a former church building.

5Church Charleston Downtown Charleston presses pedal on some dishes a little too hard BY HANNA RASKIN hraskin@postandcourier.com 5Church Charleston is located in a former church, as Mad River Bar & Grill was before it, but the restaurant’s done a fine job of fumigating any lingering messages of humility and selfless compassion: There’s a giant mockup of a five-dollar bill posted beneath the arched Gothic window at the back of the main dining room, and the entirety of Sun Tzu’s “The Art of War” has been painstakingly transcribed on the scissor-trussed ceiling. According to a server, it took the artist three months to write out every word. “If you look closely,” he said, leaning in conspiratorially, “You can find Dale Earnhardt’s name.” That’s a tough punchline to pull off in the Lowcountry. But I suspect it goes over big in Charlotte, where 5Church originated in 2012. Charleston is the restaurant’s first stab at expansion, although an Atlanta location is scheduled to open within months. Comedy isn’t the only thing

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that 5Church brought direct from the Queen City. It also hauled in its menu, more or less intact, and its name, which is an understandable source of confusion for customers and cab drivers (unless your driver is a fool for food news, asking for 5 Church will land you at an art gallery one mile away.) The ambiance, too, is pure Charlotte: Like a NASCAR race, the restaurant is slick, loud and feels like it was focus-grouped to thrill crowds. The small number of Charleston diners who care whether a restaurant reflects its surroundings probably won’t care much for 5Church, or for the fledgling chain using its newest address to build up the brand’s reputation. As owner Patrick Whalen said in a statement Please see 5CHURCH, Page E21

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Words from “The Art of War,” by Sun Tzu, fills the vaulted ceiling at 5Church Charleston restaurant, now open at 32b North Market St. downtown. Mad River Bar & Grille operated in the former church building until November 2014.

ummer is the time for present thinking, so far be it from me to suggest you look ahead to next spring, when your CSA delivery will at some point contain a gaggle of the first itty-bitty squash deemed fit for picking. Should you want to be prepared for those little darlings, though, you’d do well to schedule a visit to the new Butcher & Bee while the sit-down restaurant is still serving its marvelous grilled squash, a local foods master class in a bowl. There’s nothing overly complicated here, seemingly nothing you couldn’t pull off on a warm June night, with wine bottle open and windows cracked. Thick wedges of squash are grilled and tossed with a spot-on basil pesto, then scattered with enough shattered almonds to remind you of the restaurant’s dual citizenship in the Lowcountry and the Levant. Of course, a few pesky details could trip up the replication process. How exactly does the Bee kitchen, led jointly by chefs Chelsey Conrad and William Mote, achieve a pesto that penetrates every square millimeter of the squash without sloughing excess oil? What’s the secret to the gorgeous grill marks that allude to fire without presenting as ashy blackk ened scars? These kind of puzzles might well demand a second round. While you’re at the table, you’re likely to delve into the other seasonal vegetables that make up the vast majority of the menu, divided into smaller snacks (the kale slaw lives on!), larger snacks and traditional entrees. And here’s where things get weird. Despite all of the excellence encompassed by preparations such as the squash, or a lovely mass of grilled okra pods empowered by anchovy paste, there are a few items that clunk hard.

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Kebab platter with lamb, beef, freekah, and spiced tomato.

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The new Butcher and Bee location is now open on Morrison Drive.

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Whipped feta with fermented honey. Kohlrabi dusted with sumac, so pretty in the company of right-angled watermelon radish slices, was nearly too firm to fork. An over-minted melon gazpacho finagled its way into the precise unhappy medium between smooth and chunky. Yet at Butcher & Bee, which Y existed for five years as a sandwich shop and BYOB late-night destination before this May graduating into its current full-service incarnation on North Morrison Drive, the blunders don’t reg-

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The new Butcher and Bee location is now open on Morrison Drive. ister as particularly problematic. Because far more than perhaps any restaurant in town, Butcher & Bee feels like a culinary laboratory, where the experiments are informed by the chefs’ command of flavor and curiosity about ingredients likely to deliver it. For instance, if you’ve heard anything about Butcher & Bee 2.0 (which was preceded by a similarly formatted Bee in Nashville), you’ve probably heard about the whipped feta. It’s a mound of peppery, cus-

tardy cheese, depressed at the center in traditional Middle Eastern dip style. The feta’s fine, but it’s really the honey that fills the hollow which deserves top billing. The Bee starts with a cup of astoundingly good honey from Horsecreek Honey Farms in Bowman. (To the restaurant’s credit, the menu is remarkably modest about sourcing, perhaps because taste is most telling.) Then it stirs a tablespoon of homemade fermented chili oil into

the stuff, so the blend sparkles with sweetness and heat. That’s a terrific example of what happens when you cross local products with a global mindset. Owner Michael Shemtov is part Israeli, and his enthusiasm for that culture’s cuisine is conveyed through the eggplants, olives, pomegranates and dates that have become increasingly trendy with each successive feat of deliciousness by chefs such as London’s Yo Y tam Ottolenghi, Philadelphia’s

Michael Solomonov and New Orleans’ Alon Shaya. Still, those nods to the Sephardic diaspora are somewhat superficial compared to Butcher & Bee’s Israeli soul. The mood in the modernlooking dining room, with its clean white walls and concrete floors, is scrappy, optimistic and confident. To be fair, in a restaurant setting, those characteristics don’t translate directly into Please see BEE, Page E19

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Nursing change Health professionals look for ways to encourage moms to breastfeed longer By Alyssa Mulliger | alyssa.mulliger@shj.com iger@shj.com

egan Brown n always knew she wanted to breastfeed when she becamee a new mom. After she and her husband,, Hunter, did some d it was best for their research, they decided newborn, Walton. “The he health benefits are just so well documented, ed, and it’s a wonderful connection that you ou can have with your baby,” said Brown, 26. 6. “It was very hard in the beginning and didn’t seem so wonderful at times,, but I knew that if I could stick with th it then it really would be worth it.” An increasing number off new moms such as Brown are heeding g the advice of health-care professionals als to breastecent reports feed their newborns. But recent show there's room for improvement mprovement in getting women to continue ue breastfeeding exclusively beyond the first st few weeks. Organizations such as the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, vention, World Health Organization and American merican Academy of Pediatrics recommend mend mothers exclusively breastfeed their eir babies for at least six months in orderr for mom and baby to receive the full health alth benefits. SEE NURSING, A9

Megan Brown said she decided to nurse her son, Walton, now 5 months old, when he was born after researching the benefits of breastfeeding. TIM KIMZEY/ TIM.KIMZEY@SHJ.COM

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Irene Pena, a nurse with Bon Secours St. Francis Health System’s Community Wellness Health Outreach program, teaches a diabetes class for Latinos called “Celebrando La Salud + Diabetes Self Management Education” at the Sterling Hope Center in Greenville on Friday.

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This story is part of ongoing coverage by The Greenville News focusing on neighborhoods in the shadows of our community and the people who live there. Largely bypassed by economic progress that is transforming Greenville and facing challenges of transportation, economic opportunity, education, health care and gentrification, they are the Unseen Greenville. Learn more at UnseenGreenville.com.

he image that haunts Irene Pena is the 47-year-old kitchen worker who lost two toes to diabetes because he couldn’t afford his medicine. For Bonnie Acosta, it’s the young mother suffering from kidney failure who can’t pay for dialysis. There are many more stories like those, the women say. Stories of Latinos in Greenville who for one reason or another don’t get the health care they need. They’re among the many cases they see every day through the Community Wellness Health Outreach program. “One of the main problems is language,” said Acosta, a bilingual social worker who links people in need with help. “But access to care and not being

“Access to care and not being that familiar with some of the resources that are available are other barriers.” BONNIE ACOSTA SOCIAL WORKER

that familiar with some of the resources that are available are other barriers.” Whether it’s because of the language barrier, low-income jobs, a lack of insurance or cultural differences — many come from small villages without doctors or hospitals so they don’t expect those services here either — health care is out of reach for many of Greenville’s Latinos. “The need is huge,” said Rut Rivera, Greenville coordinator for PASOs, a statewide nonprofit affiliated with the University of South Carolina’s Arnold School of Public Health which helps improve health and access to services for Hispanic families through community workshops, case management, and partSee HEALTH, Page 4A

‘The coverage gap’ Obamacare has meant affordable health insurance for millions of Americans, but Jim Connor is one of 123,000 in South Carolina who have fallen through the cracks

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Radiation therapists Jacqueline Poe and Jim DeSautels mark points for Jim Connor’s radiation treatment at Bon Secours St. Francis Hospital. Connor has lost nearly 100 pounds since last year when he was diagnosed with esophageal cancer. BY LAUREN SAUSSER lsausser@postandcourier.com

im Connor earned between $50 and $75 a week delivering pizzas in Summerville until a cancer diagnosis sidelined him late last year. The problem is — one of many problems, in fact — Connor has no health insurance. He can’t get a federal discount to purchase an Obamacare policy. He’s 12 years too young for Medicare. His employer doesn’t offer any coverage. On Dec. 14, when Connor tried to apply for the low-income Medicaid program at the Dorchester County office, an employee told him he wouldn’t qualify for a policy because he wasn’t disabled or blind. A spokeswoman for the state Medicaid agency said federal and state

Gallery For more photos of Jim Connor, go to post andcourier.com/galleries. requirements prohibit her from discussing the alleged conversation, but as Connor recounts it, the Medicaid employee suggested that he drink some green tea and research his cancer diagnosis online. “I was in tears,” he said. “She has no clue.” In her Republican address to the nation earlier this month, Gov. Nikki Haley called President Barack Obama’s signature health care law a disaster. She said it’s a “health care plan that has made insurance less affordable and doctors less available.” Please see GAP, Page A5

Radiation technologist Christopher Meecha helps Jim Connor, 53, of Summerville prepare for his CT scan. Connor is relying on hospital charity at Roper St. Francis Hospital to stay alive.

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A Season to Heal New pastor of Mother Emanuel tends wounds amid the clamor

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The Rev. Dr. Betty Deas Clark, pastor of Emanuel AME Church, leads the Palm Sunday service when a Congressional delegation visited as part of a Faith & Politics pilgrimage. BY JENNIFER BERRY HAWES || jhawes@postandcourier.com

orning fog lifts with the bustle of Sunday worshippers in fine suits and hats who climb the twin staircases to Emanuel AME Church’s front entrance. Two white tourists in jeans pause on the front sidewalk to read a makeshift memorial covered in gestures of grief and comfort. Inside, majestic two-story stained glass windows rise behind the Rev. Dr. Betty Deas Clark, who is about to lead her inaugural service after being assigned the first permanent leader here since an avowed white supremacist killed nine worshippers, including the church’s pastor. They died in a fellowship space beneath the crimson pews that stretch before her.

Clark steps to the podium in an unadorned black robe. “If you’re a regular worshipper here, you can sense there’s a difference in the air,” she begins, lacing her words with mystery. “It just feeeeels a little different. You can’t really put your hand on it. But let me just sit and tell you, it’s the mooooving and the shifting of God!” Her voice springs warm and strong, husky around the edges, to fill the sanctuary in waves of softness, then rising in exclamation points. She promises no abrupt changes. For now. “But we all understand that every cook fries her chicken just a little bit differently!” she says, Please see CLARK, Page A6

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Charleston RiverDogs pitcher Sean Carley is like many minor leaguers who are making less than minimum wage.

Living the dream? Minor League Baseball By The Numbers

$1,100-$2,150 Minor league salary range from Single-A to Triple-A per month

$507,500

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Bonus money Yankees paid to their 2016 draft picks

RiverDogs pitcher one of many minor leaguers struggling to make ends meet BY GRACE RAYNOR graynor@postandcourier.com The kitchen in Garrett Broshuis’ new Connecticut apartment sat mostly barren except for a makeshift dining room table. He and his baseball-playing roommates made it out of two sawhorses and a piece of plywood because they couldn’t afford a real one. They couldn’t afford living room furniture either — a couple of $30 air mattresses from Walmart acted as beds for a few of the teammates — and outside, the growing grass had yet to be cut all spring. By every indication, Broshuis said, this place was “a dump” that none of them were proud of — and now, the dump had somehow gotten dumpier. It was full of toilet water. “I had gone to pick my then-fiancee — now wife — up from the airport, and I was already concerned about what she was going to think about this place,” Broshuis says now, about a decade after the incident. “We get to the place and my roommates are standing

at the door and they just have a look on their face … the tenants above us had left the toilet overflowing, so we had water streaming through the living room ceiling.” The water would turn into mold after the landlord ignored the problem, and the baseball players would sleep there every night unable to afford a new place or a lengthy hotel stay. It was one of dozens of grueling minor-league struggles that Broshuis endured during his five-year career in the San Francisco Giants farm system, and one of many examples of why now he is actively trying to change Major League Baseball’s wage practices. Four days after his final season in the minors ended in 2009, Broshuis took the LSAT exam and quickly enrolled in law school at St. Louis University. He graduated as the valedictorian of his class and is now in the process of representing dozens of former minor leaguers who are suing MLB, the commissioner’s Please see BASEBALL, Page C5

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Visitors explore the deck of El Galeon, which is docked at the 11th Street docks on Saturday in Port Royal. The ship is be open to the public from 10 a.m. to 7 p.m. daily until May 1. Tickets are $10 for adults and $5 for children ages 5-12 and can be purchased at the dock or online.

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Docking tall ship a tall order

As part of a series of events meant to commemorate the 450th anniversary of Santa Elena, public tours of El Galeon will be offered from 10 a.m. to 7 p.m. through May 1. Tickets are $10 — or $5 for ages 5-12 — and can be purchased at the docks or online.

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Bringing the vessel to Beaufort County not without its challenges

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It takes a lot of planning to bring a tall ship into a small port.

It was a challenge this past week when the El Galeon arrived in Port Royal Thursday to cheering crowds, and it was a challenge 450 years ago when explorer Pedro Menendez de Aviles first sailed into the sound

of the same name in search of a potential outpost. “We were told it was impossible,” Beall said, laughing as he stood on the dock at Port Royal Landing watching the crew tie off the 125-foot tall sailing ship. “(But) the reason (the crew of El Galeon) was able to come into Port Royal is for the same reason the Spaniards were able to come here,” said Andrew Beall, executive director for the Santa Elena Foundation. “Because of the great harbor.” The arrival of the massive ship is part of a month-long

series of events meant to commemorate the 450th anniversary of Santa Elena — the Spanish settlement that lasted more than two decades on what is now Parris Island. On Thursday, El Galeon and her crew retraced the exact voyage made by de Aviles from St. Augustine to Santa Elena in 1566 down to even the day, but getting the nearly 500-ton replica of a 16th Century Spanish cargo vessel to Beaufort County took some doing. SEE SHIP, 19A

A grand opening celebration and ribbon-cutting will be at 11 a.m. April 30 at the Santa Elena History Center, 1501 Bay St., Beaufort. An interactive exhibit will be unveiled. A barbecue festival with music, performances and demonstrations will follow from noon to 3 p.m. in the courtyard across North Street from the center. Details: www.santa-elena.org. ...................................................................

JAY KARR jkarr@islandpacket.com

Swiss exchange student and basketball neophyte Joelle Zingg, 17, photographed on Tuesday, achieved her season-long goal and scored a basket while playing in the final quarter of Beaufort Academy’s final game of the year.

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Exchange student makes a point — 2 points, really ..........................................................................................................................................

Swiss student Joelle Zingg had never before played competitive basketball, but she wanted to score just one basket ..........................................................................................................................................

Her teammates were determined to help her meet her goal ..........................................................................................................................................

Zingg’s lesson from the season: Go out and have fun ..........................................................................................................................................

BY WADE LIVINGSTON

wlivingston@islandpacket.com

Joelle Zingg didn’t realize she’d been fouled, much less that she’d earned two free throws. A teammate clued her in. Zingg, whose blue eyes complemented the No. 4 on her Beaufort Academy jersey, stepped to the line.

The junior guard had specifically worked on her free throws the day before the Jan. 14 contest against Bible Baptist. But this was a real game. And her mother was there — Miriam Griessen sat in the corner of the Beaufort Academy gym. She’d traveled from Switzerland to watch her daughter play. “Everyone was, like, yelling ‘JOELLE!’ ” said Zingg, a Swiss

student attending Beaufort Academy through the Rotary Youth Exchange program. “And I was (thinking), ‘That’s so much pressure.’ ” Zingg shot her first free throw. A miss. Her coach had told the other Eagles before the game to try to get her a basket. After all, her mom had come all that way. Zingg, who’d never played organized basketball before the 2015-16 season, had stepped onto the floor that night preoccupied with scoring. That was her yearlong goal, simply to score. Just once. Zingg readied for her second attempt. The game was in hand, a

blowout. Pride was the only thing riding on the shot. She looked nervous, her mother remembers. She missed. She saw the clock winding down, saw her mom in the stands. She’d been on the floor about 20 minutes against Bible Baptist, had managed to get a steal and grab a rebound. But no points. “I’m sure she probably put some pressure on herself,” Eagles varsity girls basketball coach Scott Huebel said Tuesday. “She took some shots early that were ill-advised. She had some layup opportunities she missed. She was disappointed after the game.” Beaufort Academy went on to beat Bible Baptist that night. But the Eagles would lose their next seven games. And as their final game approached, Zingg still hadn’t scored. SEE STUDENT, 7A VIDEO

For video of the shot, click on this story at islandpacket.com.

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An employee of Harris Pillow Supply packs pillows for shipment on Thursday in Beaufort. The company is moving to the former location of Beaufort Liquidation in November and December to allow for more warehouse space for their growing business.

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Family pillow-making business is a feather in Beaufort’s cap Harris Pillow Supply in Beaufort plans to double its staff in the next five years and soon will begin renovating the building down the road on Parker Drive previously home to Beaufort Liquidation and 84 Lumber. BY STEPHEN FASTENAU

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It’s quiet just inside the doors of Harris Pillow Supply, but the silence is misleading. Summer, an 11-year-old black lab mix, greets you and wanders freely throughout the 22,000square-foot space off Trask Parkway. Past the offices of

president John Harris and his son, Patrick, green carpet extends the length of the warehouse, and all the equipment needed to make and ship pillows is within sight. The family shop makes and J. Harris sells pillows to hotels, private labels who sell the pillows online and for customer buyers like interior designers or walk-up business. And business has grown. Harris Pillow plans to double its staff in the next five years and soon will begin renovating the building down the road on

Parker Drive previously home to Beaufort Liquidation and 84 Lumber. The plan is to be moved in by November. The company recently received a $225,000 grant from the county for the work on the new building, P. Harris assuming Harris Pillow meets its goal of adding 25 jobs. With the ability to go vertical with storage, the new space will double the size of the current building. Spray foam insulation, new heating and air, office space, lighting and a surveillance system will go into the

work. “Our feathers have to be climate-controlled,” John Harris explained. Harris Pillow was started in 1956 by John’s father, William, who traveled to hospitals, hotels and nursing homes cleaning pillows in the Chicago area. The company began producing a machine to clean and renovate old pillows and has been making its own pillows the past 20 years. The company has been in Beaufort in its same location since 1980. About eight years ago, the building grew by 10,000 square feet. “We thought we’d died and gone to heaven — we’d never fill

it up,” Patrick Harris said. “It quickly filled up.” All sectors of the business have grown, except for sales of the pillow renovation machine the company still builds and markets. Private label sales have been particularly lucrative in recent years. Companies buy Harris pillows to custom specifications and add their own names to it. The products are then sold on sites like Amazon, Wayfair and Zulily. Toddler pillows are among the hot items. The pillows are typically 13 inches by 18 inches, and the company produces about 1,000 to 1,200 daily. UPS comes and goes about three times a day. New equipment will help automate some of the processes. Current machines weigh the pillow filling to 1⁄10 of an ounce, and someone holds the pillow cover while the machine blows in the filling. A new machine would weigh the filling and eliminate the need for the cover to be held. Precise weighing is important. The St. Regis Hotel in New York City once requested pillows filled with Hungarian goose down, John Harris said. The product costs $64 a pound — or $4 an ounce. A new conveyor system is also planned and another machine to clean residue from the completed pillows. New staff could include a maintenance person, someone to work on the website and more personnel to man sewing machines. The expansion should solidify the company in the area it has operated more than three decades. Daisy Smalls, one of the company’s 22 employees, started at Harris Pillow the Monday after she graduated from Battery Creek High School in 1980. She has sewn pillows — the best at it, according to John and Patrick — collaborated on ideas for products and worked in the office. “I grew with it,” Smalls said. “It’s just like family, and I love it here.” Patrick Harris plans to keep the business in the family. His son turns 2 next month. Stephen Fastenau: 843-706-8182, @IPBG_Stephen

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Man accused of shaking private in public Orangeburg County Sheriff’s Office

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A 47-year-old Orangeburg man faces a charge of indecent exposure after allegedly shaking his private part at a woman on Tuesday. According to an incident report, the man drove his truck into the middle of a Charleston Highway woman’s driveway at 7:40 p.m. The woman told deputies that she watched the man from inside her home. She said the man exited his truck and appeared to be intoxicated. She then walked outside to see if he needed help.

That’s when the man began using profanity toward her and threw trash into the ditch in front of her house, she said. The woman grabbed her iPod and began to record video of him as she waited for law enforcement to arrive. The man walked toward the woman, as though he may charge her, but he turned around when she retreated for her home, the report said. Then the man allegedly grabbed his pulled his penis from his pants and shook it at her. He left the area in a gold Chevy S-10. When law enforcement arrived, deputies saw the

man’s truck was blocking the entrance to the woman’s driveway. The woman also showed deputies the video she recorded. Moments later, deputies found the man about half of a mile from the woman’s house arguing with another woman in the yard. Deputies placed the man under arrest for indecent exposure and transported him to the Orangeburg County Detention Center. The deputy noted that while transporting the man to the jail, the man continuously laughed about what he did and told deputies that there wasn’t anything wrong with it, the report said.

Oar-deal over: Man facing row of charges MARTHA ROSE BROWN T&D Staff Writer

Santee police arrested a Manning man Monday for allegedly using a wooden oar to hold up a Santee gas station. Michael Harold Brown, 42, of Williams Lane, is being held at the Orangeburg County Detention Center where he faces charges of first-degree assault and battery and armed rob- Brown bery. He’s scheduled to appear in bond court this morning. Police believe Brown robbed Rivers County Store at 8851 Old Number Six Highway on Friday morning. Brown allegedly grabbed a wooden oar that was for sale inside the store, armed himself with it and demanded

the clerk give him money from the cash register. The clerk managed to get away from him after a struggle, but the robber got away with cash and left in a gold Lincoln Town Car. Santee Police Department Cpl. Curtis Mizell said that tips in the case came through almost immediately. An Elloree volunteer firefighter heard a dispatcher relay a description of the vehicle over the emergency radio system. That’s when the firefighter saw a gold Lincoln Town Car drive along Highway 267. He noted the vehicle had a dealer tag from a Manning car dealership. See Brown, A3

Orangeburg is primary focus of Hillary, Bernie

Martha Rose Brown The Times and Democrat CHRISTOPHER HUFF, T&D

Surrounded by county, state and national officials, Democratic presidential candidate Hillary Clinton speaks to the crowd at First Circuit Solicitor David Pascoe’s annual oyster roast and ﬁsh fry Friday at the Orangeburg County Fairgrounds.

Who’s poking around? Obsessed gamers flock to real landmarks in Pokemon craze

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“It’s probably one of the best things to come out on the phone,” said Tim Hatcher (far right) who was playing “Pokemon Go” with fellow sailors Nathan Hoyt and Bob Grady from the Navy Nuclear Power School. Brad Mennell (left) was also playing the game Monday in Marion Square.

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BY DEANNA PAN dpan@postandcourier.com

ponent’s Pinsir, a thorned beetle-like bug. Are you playing Pokemon “You’re gonna get your (butt) kicked,” Go? Go to postand On another searing 90-degree day his buddy sneered. at Waterfront Park, children splashed courier.com/polls to vote. Berry arrived in Charleston on Friday their parents in the Pineapple Fountain for a friend’s bachelor party. He started while a bearded tourist from Connecti- his forehead. playing “Pokemon Go” at Rita’s on Folly cut furiously tapped the screen of his A battle raged between Dennis Berry’s smartphone. Beads of sweat pooled on Doduo, a two-headed bird, and an op- Please see POKEMON, Page A6

Don’t let Grinch steal it

Beth Harrison The Post and Courier

Survey: 23 million Americans have had packages taken

Inside Police caution “Pokemon Go” game can potentially lead players into trouble. A6

Ocean creatures add an ‘ouch’ to summer Sea nettles, stingrays deliver painful surprise at Lowcountry beaches

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Packages delivered to a Charleston home Wednesday sit on the front porch. An estimated 23 million Americans have had shipments stolen from their homes, according to a recent survey. Customers are urged to take steps to help thwart holiday thieves. BY CHRISTINA ELMORE celmore@postandcourier.com A delivery truck pulls into a subdivision, loaded with holiday goodies that traveled for days across the country before landing on your doorstep. Just as your gifts arrive, so does a real-life Grinch who hauls off the boxes before you even get a chance to open them.

This holiday season, at least one insurance company wants you to pause to consider that an estimated 23 million Americans have had their deliveries stolen at some point or another. The figure was released this month as the result of a survey completed by Princeton Survey Research Associates International on behalf of insuranceQuotes.com. Researchers questioned 1,000 adults, then adjusted their findings to reflect known demographics as reported through

2010 census data. With no set time frame in mind, participants were asked if they’ve ever lost a delivered package due to theft. Laura Adams, a senior analyst with the insurance company, said the responses they received were stunning. “It was much higher than we thought it would be,” Adams said. “We know that it’s been a Please see PACKAGES, Page A4

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Sea nettles, a type of jellyfish, have been spotted at area beaches as the water becomes warmer, and stings have become more common. Some beachgoers have been stung by stingrays. BY BO PETERSEN bopete@postandcourier.com Sea nettles have moved in for the summer, those gooey, saucer-like jellyfish that dangle tentacles armed with hundreds upon hundreds of cells that fire venomous barbs. Lifeguards at Isle of Palms County

Park flew the purple flag Friday and Saturday because so many were in the water, and hundreds of stings were reported at Folly Beach. Purple advises swimmers that dangerous marine life is present. Lifeguards in Horry County on Sunday and Monday advised beachgoers not to swim, and asked the National

Weather Service office covering the county to issue the advisory. Four-year-old Sloane DeFelice of Mount Pleasant had a tentacle catch on her leg as she swam Saturday afternoon in shallow water on a boat trip to Dewees Inlet near Isle of Palms. Please see JELLYFISH, Page A6

Poll Will the increase of jellyfish and stingrays in the water deter you from going to the beach? Go to postandcourier.com/ polls to vote.

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These solar panels were installed on the rear of a James Island home, so they’re not seen from the street. Some neighborhood associations don’t allow visible solar panels.

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Solar panels are making more sense, but there are many considerations

olar panels are making more sense, and cents, than ever for South Carolina property owners, but they also must find good answers to detailed questions before determining if these panels really are a bright idea for them. Take the case of the Star Gospel Mission. The downtown Charleston ministry recently received a new set of solar panels on the roof of its shelter at 474 Meeting St., but only after its conservative governing board took a close ROBERT look at the pros and cons. The mission’s director, the Rev. Bill BEHRE Architecture Christian, says the new solar panels & Preservation “are a milestone for us, but I also think it’s a milestone for the city.” The economics were a no-brainer: Not only was the $58,443 installation paid for in full and up front through a Palmetto Clean Energy grant, the solar panels themselves are expected to generate about $5,500 a year in ex-

tra income for the nonprofit, or more than $150,000 over the system’s lifespan. Those numbers are buoyed by an odd twist, one that allows the nonprofit to sell its solar-generated electricity back to S.C. Electric & Gas at a higher rate than it buys electricity from the utility. But it just wasn’t as simple as seeing those dollar signs.

Roof details While Star Gospel had mulled solar panels for its building off Meeting Street, the discussion didn’t heat up until they heard from Dave McNeil. McNeil is president and CEO of Hannah Solar Government Services LLC, a business that works with governmental agencies and private companies on solar installation. McNeil knew about the Palmetto grants, which were targeted for transitional housing in South Carolina, but only those buildings whose roofs were less than five years old. That contingent was put on the grants because housing with older roofs would see less financial benefit, because the panels would have to be removed and replaced

whenever a new roof was added. So that’s the first question: How old is the roof? The newer, the better because any solar installation would have to be removed and replaced when it’s time to replace a roof. And the type of roofing material can be important, too. Solar panels can be installed on any of them, McNeil says, but some types of roofs, are better than others for solar installations. Standing seam metal roofs or flat roofs where ballasted solar systems can be installed with no penetrations to the roof are the best, because there is almost no chance of the roof ever leaking due to the installation. Also, whatever vents and mechanical equipment are on the roof also are important. Viewed from above, the odd pattern of panels on Star Gospel’s roof mostly reflects what the installers had to work around. “Even a four-inch pipe coming up 2 feet can cast a shadow,” McNeil says. “If shade hits the solar panel, it turns it off.” Please see BEHRE, Page E3

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Middleton Place celebrates exotic, showy camellias that boast historic roots from 1700s

BY LIZ FOSTER || lfoster@postandcourier.com

fter the chill of the winter begins to fade, the camellia bush, the jewel of the Southern garden, prepares itself for its coming-out celebration, having waited in the shade of its protective leaves for its time to bloom.

In an otherwise drab landscape, the camellia bursts forth with color and vibrancy, while other blooming plants are left to cower in the coolness and wait for warmer days. Middleton Place, 15 miles northwest of downtown Charleston, is home to “the most important and most interesting garden in America,” according to the Garden Club of America. It houses centuries-old camellias — red, white, pink and combinations thereof — delicately cared for, ready for the public to enjoy as the camellia “season” opens in early February. “Beauty & History: Celebrating Camellias at Middleton Place” will kick off Feb. 6-7, with special programming featuring Middleton horticulturist Sidney Frazier, who will lead a workshop on camellia

propagation, care and maintenance, a reception and lecture with Max Fleming, a former director of tea horticulture research. The event will continue with guided camellia walks on the plantation grounds through March 19. The old Carolina estate of Middleton Place dates back to 1741 when Henry Middleton acquired the property as part of a marriage dowry with his bride, Mary Williams. Today, within the first moments of arrival on the property, visitors are whisked away to a beautiful, historic and timeless place. Ancient oaks drape moss over the dirt roadways, sheep graze on the grass on the Please see CAMELLIAS, Page D3

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J.J. Pringle Smith (Middleton descendant) and his wife, Heningham, photographed circa 1950, were instrumental in rejuvenating the gardens at Middleton Place in the 1920s and 1930s.

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ichens are the Marines of the botanical world. They are the first organisms to go where nothing else dares. Large patches of crustose lichens can be found on top of Table Rock. Early growth looks a little like nature vomited, but as the organisms’ populations mature, a community evolves and ecology changes. A thin likeness to soil begins to accumulate. Mosses and ferns find purchase. Organic mats begin to build up as mosses and ferns live and die, giving way to more complex lichens and, eventually, flowering plants. Lichens allow nature to climb a

mountain and plant her trees. These crusty organisms are often stuck to dying trees looking all scaly and parasitic when they’re actually a complex partnership that’s invaluable to the environment. Lichens may TONY as one BERTAUSKI appear organism, but they’re made up of a fungus, the dominant partner in this relationship, and algae. Recent research discovered yeast also can be a third party in this partnership.

What’s happening in this gettogether? A fungus cannot photosynthesize so it cannot produce its own food. Typically, it decomposes organic matter or parasitizes plants to get what it needs. Algae can photosynthesize to manufacture carbohydrates. In this arrangement, fungi and algae form a team, or a symbiotic conglomerate. Some sources describe lichens as fungi practicing agriculture. Fungi get food from the algae and algae gets water and nutrients from the fungus. Fungi are really no more than threads called hyphae. Open your

Halloween pumpkin, you’ll see what I mean. The hyphae penetrate the algae to make their everlasting pact. Crustose are crusty lichens that cannot be easily removed from a surface. Foliose lichens are leafy and loosely attached. Fruticose lichens are similar to foliose lichens but look more like miniature shrubs. Lichens can be found almost anywhere, from porch railings to boulders. If you’re interested in macro-photography, these are the places you should seek. A veritable forest on a miniature scale can be found on the back side of a storage shed. Please see BERTAUSKI, Page E4

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Rays hammer Nailers South Carolina blanks Wheeling to capture Game 1

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South Carolina’s Austin Fyten (right) celebrates a Stingrays goal during Game 1 of the ECHL Eastern Conference final on Friday night.

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Stingrays 3, Nailers 0 BY ANDREW MILLER apmiller@postandcourier.com South Carolina Stingrays forward Jared Staal rarely gets a chance to play in front of his famous older brothers. Eric Staal, who plays for the New York Rangers, and Jordan Staal, who plays for the Carolina Hurricanes, were coming back from watching the second round of the Tour Players Champi-

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defeat the Wheeling Nailers, 3-0, in Game 1 of the ECHL’s Eastern Conference finals. For more photos from the South Carolina’s Austin Fyten had a goal and Stingrays’ Game 1 victory, go to an assist and Vitek Vanececk stopped all 33 he postandcourier.com/galleries. faced as the Stingrays won for the sixth time in seven games at home during the ECHL Kelly Cup Playoffs. The Stingrays lead the best-of-7 series, 1-0, onship in Ponte Vedra Beach, Fla., and wanted with Game 2 scheduled for Saturday night at to catch their little brother’s ECHL playoff game the North Charleston Coliseum beginning at Friday night at the North Charleston Coliseum. 7:05 p.m. The Staal brothers just missed Jared’s firstperiod goal, but got a chance to see the Stingrays Please see STINGRAYS, Page C3

Stingrays now top dogs Rays top Gladiators, move into first place in South Division

The curious S.C. Hall of Fame case made for Flint Rhem BY GENE SAPAKOFF || gsapakoff@postandcourier.com

from 1924-1936. The hard-throwing right-hander pitched in four World Series, twice against New York Yankees teams led by Babe Ruth and Lou Gehrig. This was a time when baseball was king in America. There was no NBA. The backwater NFL had teams in Duluth, popular dance mix. Pottsville and Frankford. Why now? BJ McKie, Greg Buckner, Richard But Rhem was a drinking man when alcohol Wieters and the other honorees hadn’t been was the drug of choice among ballplayers and born when Rhem left Clemson and started his other Americans. Unfortunately, he is perhaps major league pitching career in the 1920s. No best known for going AWOL from the Cardione under 92 had been born. nals on a day he was scheduled to pitch against What took so long? Among Rhem’s fellow the Dodgers in Brooklyn. Rhem claimed he new Hall of Famers, only former New Engwas forced into a taxi by armed men, driven to land Patriots wide receiver Troy Brown can New Jersey and forced to drink whiskey. match his professional accomplishments. “They made me drink awful stuff,” Rhem No state has made more colorful contributold St. Louis manager Gabby Street, as tions to big league history. The list includes Mookie (Wilson) and Gookie (Dawkins) and PHOTO PROVIDED reported in 1930. Few who knew of Rhem’s habits bought the Pokey (Reese). Don’t forget Shoeless Joe Jack- Flint Rhem during his days with the St. Louis Cardinals. story, and he later admitted the whole thing son, Hurricane Hazle, Van Lingle Mungo, was a hoax. Bobo Newsom, Dooley Womack, Willie Mays Which probably helps explain the eight-decade induction Aikens and James Island’s Stormin’ Gorman Thomas. delay for a S.C. Athletic Hall of Fame founded in 1960, nine When it comes to colorful baseball tales, it’s hard to top Flint years before Rhem died at 68. Rhem, who came from Rhems, S.C., named for a founding family member. One of nine children, Rhem won 105 games in the majors Please see RHEM, Page C6 hen the South Carolina Athletic Hall of Fame class of 2016 was announced this week, Flint Rhem’s name stood out like a Cole Porter tune wedged into a

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Dachshunds are coaxed down the ice as they compete in the Wiener Dog Races on Friday at the North Charleston Coliseum.

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Stingrays 4, Gladiators 1 BY ANDREW MILLER apmiller@postandcourier.com It was an old school hockey game Friday night at the North Charleston Coliseum. Well, besides the more than 100 dogs roaming around the concourse at the coliseum and the Wiener Dog races on the ice during intermissions, the game between the South Carolina and Atlanta Gladiators had a turn-back-

the-clock feeling to it. With both teams battling for playoff position, the two ECHL South Division rivals went after each other with plenty of hits, a couple of fights and an intensity that is normally reserved for the ECHL Kelly Cup playoffs. Kelly Zajac and Stephan Vigier each had a goal and an assist, and Mark Dekanich stopped 26 shots to lead South Carolina past Atlanta, 4-1, Friday night on the Dog Days of Winter before a crowd of 3,491 at the North Charleston Coliseum. Please see STINGRAYS, Page C4

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Dan McGuckin of Johns Island reels in his line while shark fishing off Seabrook beach.

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he Coastal Carolina baseball team is bringing home to Conway the school’s first national championship in any sport after knocking off Arizona in Game 3 of the College World Series finals in Omaha, Neb., on Thursday. Chanticleers coach Gary Gilmore said, “We’re not the most talented team in America. We’re just the national champion. That’s all that matters.” For more on the game, see Page C1. To see more photos and a video, go to postandcourier.com/multimedia.

EABROOK ISLAND — They were barefoot, dressed in T-shirts and swimsuits, with plans to be out on this beach as late as 3 a.m., because they have learned that after midnight you catch the biggest sharks. The four men, professionals in their 20s and 30s, are the face of the new power brokers in coastal and offshore fishing — recreational anglers who virtually have supplanted the commercial industry in South Carolina as a lobbying force for fishing rules. For each person holding a commercial saltwater fishing license in the state, there are now more than 300

Poll Should the state further limit the number of recreational saltwater fishing licenses it issues? To vote, go to postand courier.com/polls. people holding saltwater recreational licenses, according to the S.C. Department of Natural Resources. The money they spend for gear and licenses is in the billions. Individuals, clubs and groups are coalescing into a political advocacy bloc as hard to ignore as the large chunks of bonita hanging from the hooks of Please see FISHING, Page A9

Mike Popovich of Mount Pleasant prepares his fishing weight before casting into the ocean to fish for sharks.

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Carolyn Walters reacts after her turn bowling during her last Thursday morning outing at Pinz Bowling in Mount Pleasant. She and her friends have been going to the lanes every week for years.

Social security plan Recent social media faux pas become teaching moments for Clemson football coaches, players

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No. 1 Huskies cruise past No. 2 USC in battle of unbeatens No. 1 UConn 66, No. 2 S. Carolina 54

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COLUMBIA — With the sellout crowd of 18,000 at Colonial Life Arena loud and engaged well before the opening tip, the energy in the building matched or exceeded anything South Carolina faced a season ago. But in terms of basketball, the Gamecocks still have work to do to catch up to Connecticut. That much was evident Monday night, when the biggest crowd ever to see a women’s basketball game in the Palmetto State was silenced by the 10-time national champions. Breanna Stewart scored 25, and second-ranked South Carolina couldn’t muster enough offense to keep up with the top-ranked Huskies in a 66-54 loss than ended USC’s 45-game home winning streak. “I’m not surprised by what happened tonight,” said Huskies coach Geno Auriemma. “We knew we were playing a great team. We knew we were playing a team that’s almost unbeatable on their home court. They’re probably going to go back to the Final Four like they did last year. They’re that good.” Although South Carolina (22-1) trailed by as many as 21 points in the third quarter, Monday’s contest was a closer game than last year’s 87-62 loss in Storrs, Conn. And it left Gamecocks head coach Dawn Staley looking forward to the next time, perhaps at the Final Four in Indianapolis. “The hard part is to get back there. The easier part is to play UConn again,” she said. “I think our players understand what the road is ahead of us. If we get to that point, the more times you play UConn, the better feel you have for them.” The capacity crowd, much of which was lined up outside two hours prior to tip-off, was the largest to see an NCAA women’s basketball game this season. It watched the Gamecocks fall into an offensive funk early, and again in a third quarter where the Huskies (23-0) effectively secured their 60th consecutive victory. USC forward A’ ja Wilson, the Gamecocks’ leading scorer at 16.7 points per game, limped to the locker room with a lower left leg injury with 4:19 remaining in the half. Wilson, who has battled shin splints for much of this season, said she was kicked or kneed in the leg while battling for a loose ball.

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Coastal Carolina’s David Parrett (left) is congratulated by teammates, including Seth Lancaster (26) — holding an inflatable shark — after scoring against TCU during Saturday’s CWS game in Omaha, Neb. The Chanticleers won, 7-5, and face Arizona for the title.

OLUMBIA — That South Carolina has itself a perennial and popular women’s basketball Final Four contender is old news. Even in a 66-54 loss to No. 1 Connecticut on Monday night at Colonial Life Arena, the No. 2 Gamecocks improved on their 25-point setback in Storrs last year and did so before a raucous sellout crowd of 18,000 and an ESPN2 television audience. “They have a great fanbase here,” UConn head coach Geno Auriemma said. “We couldn’t get into the damn arena. People were lined up from here to Atlanta, it seemed like. We couldn’t get in; guys wouldn’t get out of the way. Cars wouldn’t move.” Dawn Staley’s Gamecocks (22-1) and the fans who support them have become ambassadors for women’s college basketball, lobbyists for commitment from athletic departments and fanbases across the country that doubt this sport can make an impact. Monday night’s game wasn’t a big-picture big deal for either team; both are likely locked into another Final Four run with UConn (23-0) the heavy favorite to win its fourth straight national championship. It will not make much of a TV ratings ripple, either. But the target audience — coaches, players and athletic directors — was surely paying attention. Maybe not every school can get two men’s basketball players — in this case Sindarius Thornwell and Duane Notice — to lead cheers before the game. Not every place can start a game with 18,000 people (minus a few hundred UConn fans) waving white towels to the tune of “Sandstorm” before tipoff. Most athletic departments don’t have a spare nickel that isn’t budgeted for football investment these days.

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Connecticut forward Breanna Stewart (30) grabs a rebound against South Carolina’s A’ja Wilson on Monday in Columbia. Stewart had 25 points, 10 rebounds and five blocks in a 66-54 win.

Read David Caraviello’s blog at postandcourier. com/blog/spur-of-themoment. Get more USC sports news at postandcourier.com/gamecocks.

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MAKING GRADE $185 MILLON PLAN

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ABOVE: The new Spartanburg High School, part of a $185 million building plan approved by voters in March, is scheduled to open in 2019. PROVIDED

Traffic flows along East Main Street near the Wal-Mart and the former Lan-Yair Country Club golf course (the future home of Spartanburg High School). TIM KIMZEY/TIM.KIMZEY@SHJ.COM

Spartanburg District 7 starts school year planning new buildings After voters OK’d a tax hike, work begins on initial steps

The Spartanburg District 7 board of trustees listen to Ron Smith, managing principal at McMillan, Pazdan and Smith Architecture discuss the proposed building plan at a meeting in October. JOHN BYRUM/JOHN.BYRUM@SHJ.COM

By Zach Fox

10-mill tax increase, roughly the equivalent of an additional $40 on a home valued at $100,000. The increase affected all taxable property, adding an estimated $6 on In October, Spartanburg School District 7 unveiled a $185 million building a car valued at $10,000 and about plan. The plan proposed a new Spartanburg High School and a new elemen- $60 extra on a business valued at tary school to replace both Chapman and Houston elementary schools, each $100,000. of which would close. Students from the two schools would be moved to the Opponents of the plan criticized new school. McCracken Middle School would be moved into the newer por- the district’s claim that it would tions of Spartanburg High, primarily the Freshman Campus. only cost $185 million, citing a planned 5 percent interest rate on the $185 million worth of bonds. The new high school would be Estimated to cost $36 million, the That interest rate meant the built on the Lan-Yair Country Club new elementary school was estidistrict would pay back roughly site, former home of a golf course, mated to open in fall 2018. $351,083,494 between 2022 and on the east side of Spartanburg. Moving McCracken Middle into 2047. The new elementary school would the newer portions of the high Supporters of the plan argued the be built in the Drayton community, school building was estimated to cost would be worth it to provide which is in the midst of a large-scale cost around $11.6 million. The new students with modern, and safer revitalization. McCracken had an estimated open- facilities. ing date of fall 2020. The new Spartanburg High, the WHAT HAPPENED: most expensive portion of the plan, A building project of this magwas estimated to cost about $128 nitude was not free for residents, The referendum went before million, and given a scheduled however. voters during a special election on The plan came with a proposed opening date of fall 2019. March 15.

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Vote totals showed turnout was much higher than expected, at 23 percent. A total of 4,524 people, or 63 percent, voted for the plan. A total of 2,667 people, or 37 percent, voted against the plan. Soon after the results were certified, district officials began fulfilling the steps required to build a new school. A S.C. Department of Transportation traffic study recently showed that only minor adjustments will be needed to handle traffic at the new high school site. Efforts are underway to solidify schedules, subcontractor contracts and timelines for construction on each portion of the plan.

WHAT’S NEXT: Construction on the new schools is expected to start this fall. SEE PLAN, C2

HARD WORK PAYS OFF

New superintendent planning big things for Union County Schools William Roach took office at the beginning of June By Zach Fox zach.fox@shj.com

Bill Roach, new superintendent of the Union County School District. Roach is on Twitter and wants teachers to understand where students are digitally. TIM KIMZEY/TIM.KIMZEY@SHJ.COM

New Union County Superintendent William Roach wants students, faculty and staff to live by the mantra of “Hard work pays off.” “We’re trying to mentor kids, help them with growth and prepare them for the future, whatever that is. College, the military, whatever they choose to do,” Roach, 45, said. “In our state, we talk about college and career ready. I use the analogy — we want them to be college

and career ready, not college and career eligible. There’s a big difference.” Roach, who took the job at the beginning of June, said the maxim is something he emphasized in his last job as assistant superintendent of administration with the Pickens County School District. An increased emphasis on using technology to enhance learning is one of Roach’s biggest goals, he said. Roach is on Twitter, @UCSupt. Union County schools, along with Spartanburg School

District 4, have been the only districts in the area without a presence on social media. Roach said now more than ever, teachers need to understand where students are digitally and catch up to them. “I’d love to see us become more technologically minded, while not forgetting what the purpose is, and that’s to educate kids,” he said. “Sometimes what you have is technology takes the place of learning. I think it comes down to making SEE HARDWORK, C2

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Carolina Panthers (17-1) vs. Denver Broncos (14-4) Levi’s Stadium, Santa Clara, Calif. 6:30 p.m. EST Sunday, CBS

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MR. NICE GUY Meet Luke Kuechly. He’s friendly. He’s caring. He’s the boy next door. Oh, and he just leveled your running back. By Eric Boynton eric.boynton@shj.com

he Carolina Panthers’ ultimate “aw shucks” boy-next-door type is the last guy any ball carrier wants to tangle with in the heat of battle on the football field. Ask any player on the roster who the nicest player on their team is and a massive majority of Panthers are going to answer the same: Linebacker Luke Kuechly, an odd ode to a guy whose position requires as much ferocity as any in the game. Kuechly, the best at his position in the NFL, looks straight out of casting for

Luke Kuechly has returned an interception for a touchdown in each of the Panthers’ playoff games this year. BOB LEVERONE/THE ASSOCIATED PRESS

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Peyton Manning

Different strokes

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The two Super Bowl starting quarterbacks present an interesting contrast in approach and demeanor forged through both a generation gap and the distinctive traits of their very different personalities. Cam Newton vs. Peyton Manning could be a matchup for the ages. Page C4

The Carolina defense is ready to ride herd in what could be the last game for future Hall of Famer Peyton Manning. And while members of the Panthers’ D say they respect the veteran signal-caller, there won’t be an intimidation factor on Super Bowl Sunday. Page C9

Which players are the most likely to come up with a big play on Sunday? What stats did starters for both teams put up in 2015? What path did the teams take to get here? All of those questions are answered in this section. Pages C7-8, C10-11

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BY HANNA RASKIN hraskin@postandcourier.com

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Customers order lunch at Roti Rolls parked at the Medical University of South Carolina. Every Wednesday, local food trucks descend on the Horseshoe at MUSC as an alternative to cafeterias.

Rolling solo Unlike many cities, Charleston’s food trucks tend to be solitary when serving at a site

Hanna Raskin, Angie Blackburn, Teresa Taylor and Chad Dunbar

BY HANNA RASKIN hraskin@postandcourier.com

efore Phil Shen and Kim Pham set out on the crosscountry eating tour that would star in their 2014 cookbook, they sketched out a route that took them through all of the food-focused cities they were anxious to visit. They drew a line that wiggled south from their home in the Bay Area to Austin, Texas, jutted east to New Orleans and then turned northward to Charleston. But when Shen and Pham did some preliminary research on Charleston, they realized it wouldn’t fit in “Food Truck Road Trip.” “We tried to find a truck to put in our book, but we didn’t find enough,” Shen says sadly. They rerouted through Charlotte. Charleston isn’t short on food trucks: The best estimate is there are now 40 mobile restaurants rolling through the Charleston area, provided they’re not laid up with flat tires or faulty exhaust systems. And since the first trucks hit local streets about six years ago, at least a dozen more have already come and gone. Yet trucks here have followed a very different trajectory than what’s become the norm in places like Philadelphia and Portland, Ore., where trucks represent the creative vanguard of the city’s culinary scene. “Portland has the right idea,” says Shen, who with Pham created Behind The Food Carts, a blog about food trucks. “It’s more like street food culture in Asia: There are parking lots covered with trucks that come in and out, and then Please see FOOD, Page D4

Pulled pork p garlic noodles served by Pink Bellies food truck.

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Americans from Boise to Bangor know by now that when they yank the cover off a Weber Grill and wheel it out of the garage for another season of hot dogs and beer-can chicken, they’re not fiddling with barbecue. And yet books about smoked meat bloom in spring as reliably as dogwood trees. This year’s crop of barbecue books includes two excellent titles, both of which are especially relevant to the Lowcountry: John Shelton Reed’s simply titled “Barbecue,” an entry in the University of North Carolina Press’ Savor the South series, and Rien Fertel’s “The One True Barbecue: Fire, Smoke, and the Pitmasters Who Cook the Whole Hog.”

Barbecue The authors share a deep reverence for Southern barbecue and the traditions associated with it. But Reed and Fertel are propagating two very different messages. Reed’s book is a collection of recipes, so he’s more or less telling readers that they too can produce superlative barbecue so long as they can scare up a cooker, a pair of thermometers, starter chimney, aluminum foil, wire brush and squirt bottle. “I’m not going to tell you how to cheat, though,” he writes in his introduction, alluding to liquid smoke and Crock-Pots. “You’ll have to figure that out for yourself.” There aren’t any recipes in Fertel’s book, devoted to underscoring the absolute impossibility of replicating the miracles that occur within the South’s most storied pits. “Several pitmasters have maintained that their sauce recipes emerged from their dreams,” he confides. West Tennessee’s legendary Ricky Parker, presented in the introduction as “the man who counted hogs to keep both himself and barbecue alive,” is dead by Fertel’s last chapter. To be fair, Fertel’s focus is whole hog barbecue, which Reed concedes is out of reach for most hobbyists. “Frankly, I leave whole-hog cooking to the professionals, and you might want to do the same,” Reed writes, suggesting first-timers concentrate on shoulders. “When you’re pretty sure you’re ready to cook a hog, videos aplenty on the web will show you how, sort of, or (since you’re reading this and seem to be a holdover from the Age of Literacy) you can find instructions in a number of Southern cookbooks.” Reed is unapologetically opinionPlease see BARBECUE, Page D6

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Tragedy at the lake Man drowns after leaping from back of truck into Lake Greenwood By Adam Benson abenson@indexjournal.com

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A Gray Court man drowned Sunday night at Harris Landing in Greenwood after reportedly jumping from the back of a moving pickup truck over a bridge and into Lake Greenwood. Crews recovered the body of 41- yearo l d Carlos “Chip” Childs Jr. at 10:16 p.m., capping off a four-hour search that included personnel from Abbeville and Greenwood counties, the S.C. Highway Patrol and state Department of Natural Resources. Greenwood County Coroner Sonny Cox confirmed the death in an email, saying the cause of death was pending an autopsy. It was a gripping scene, as friends and family of Childs including his daughters and mother crowded the entrance of a boat ramp where his body was wheeled into an ambulance and taken from the site. Police and other officials lined the Harris Landing bridge for hours, though traffic was never diverted. About 40 people gathered in the parking lot of a gas station and bar across the street during the search. Law enforcement officials on the scene told the Index-Journal a video of Childs’ jump into the water was taken, and many of his friends and relatives had seen it. Kristi Lumley, a state Department of Natural Resources spokeswoman, said an eyewitness saw Childs enter the water and never resurface; and that account helped divers pinpoint his location in the dark.

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She also confirmed that Childs jumped from the pickup truck at about 6:30 p.m. Contact reporter Adam Benson at 864-943-5650 or on Twitter @ ABensonIJ.

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Dogs kill goats at Dalzell farm Farmer asks community for help BY JIM HILLEY jim@theitem.com “Christmas” was born on Christmas Day 10 years ago, said Harold Johnson, owner of Tree House Nursery in

Dalzell. Her mother died in childbirth, so the baby goat was bottle-fed by hand until she was old enough to eat on her own. “She would follow me everywhere, like a puppy,” he recalled. “She was a

real sweet goat.” Monday night, Christmas was maimed and killed by two loose dogs in the woods behind Johnson’s nursery operation, and another goat was injured. The night before, the same dogs attacked and killed more than a dozen goats at the 60-acre nursery and farm on the Thomas Sumter Highway. A

photo he took with his cell phone showed the gruesome toll of goats and lambs. “They don’t eat them; they just kill them for fun,” he said. Besides selling plants and gardening supplies at the nursery, Johnson also raises goats at the farm.

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Woman’s rescue exposes suspect’s dark past Solicitor says at least one murder charge imminent for a ‘very, very dangerous man’ BY GLENN SMITH and GAVIN JACKSON gsmith@postandcourier.com gjackson@postandcourier.com WOODRUFF — Todd Kohlhepp portrayed himself to the outside world as a hard-charging, coffee-guzzling businessman whose thirst for life and

professional success made him the perfect real estate agent to help people sell or find a home. With a broad smile and a power tie tucked into a crisp Windsor knot, Kohlhepp beamed from his firm’s web page, boasting of advanced degrees, professional accolades and a passion for flying planes and racing cars. His

bio trumpeted a can-do attitude from a man who didn’t understand what “it can wait til tomorrow” means. Kohlhepp apparently applied that same drive to darker pursuits as well, constructing a chamber of horrors at a sprawling expanse of woodlands where Spartanburg County sheriff’s deputies are now digging for bodies, authorities

said. The 45-year-old agent had been operating under the radar for years, ever since he was awarded a South Carolina real estate license despite being an excon who had done time for a sexually based kidnapping in Arizona. South Please see PAST, Page A4

Kala Brown was found chained in a storage container on a 95-acre property in Woodruff on Thursday.

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A child cries after being picked up by a caretaker at Oakdale Baptist Church following a shooting that injured one adult and two children at Townville Elementary on Wednesday in Townville.

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14-year-old injures 3 after killing father

Boy in critical condition after being shot in leg

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A 14-year-old shot and killed his father as he sat on the couch in their home on Wednesday before he got behind the wheel of a black pickup, pulled onto a rutted dirt road and headed to Townville Elementary about three miles away, according to authorities. There, as children were led outside for recess, the teenager rammed the truck into a chainlink fence surrounding the playground, stepped out and opened fire, authorities said. A bullet struck student Jacob Hall in the leg and a second boy was shot in the foot. First-grade teacher Meghan Hollingsworth managed to herd the children to safety inside the building even as she was shot in the shoulder. Among those heading out to the playground was Katrina Jones’ 6-year-old niece. She said her niece told her that she heard the gunman say, “I hate my life,” moments before the shooting. The shooter, who authorities said never entered the school, was subdued by the first emergency responder on the scene — an unarmed 30-year veteran of the Townville Volunteer Fire Department named Jamie Brock. Hall was airlifted to Greenville Health System’s Pediatric Trauma Center where he was listed in critical condition Wednesday night. Hollingsworth was treated and re-

The details were few, but some emerged Wednesday about the Townville Elementary teacher and two students shot by a teenage gunman. The teacher, Meghan Hollingsworth, was released from AnMed hospital later in the afternoon along with another student, who hasn’t been identified. The third victim, young Jacob Hall, was still fighting for his life. The boy’s parents, Rodger and Renae Hall, released a statement as their son was in critical condition after being airlifted to the Pediatric Trauma Center at Greenville Health System, where the most-serious cases in the area are treated. “We appreciate the community’s support, especially the Townville Rescue Squad who treated Jacob onsite and brought him to the hospital,” the parents said. “We appreciate everyone’s thoughts and prayers and ask for privacy during this difficult time.” The hospital said Wednesday it expects to provide an update on the boy’s condition by 11 a.m. Jacob was shot in the leg. The other student was shot in the foot. Hollingsworth suffered a gunshot wound to the shoulder as she tried to close a door to the school and led children to safety. The College of Charleston graduate

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TIME RUNNING OUT Officials warn residents against riding out storm

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Gov. Nikki Haley pleaded with residents to evacuate ahead of a Category 4 hurricane that battered Florida on Thursday night as it took dead aim on South Carolina. Haley, warning that the storm surge from Hurricane Matthew has the potential to be worse than Hurricane Hugo in 1989, begged residents to â€œunderstand the seriousness of the storm.â€? â€œWhen weâ€™re looking at storm surges that surpass Hugo, you know itâ€™s a problem,â€? Haley said. As if to reiterate the threat, President Barack Obama declared a state of emergency in South Carolina ahead of the stormâ€™s arrival. Officials said roughly 280,000 people had evacuated the coast as authorities implemented lane reversals on Interstate 26 to aid with moving people from the eastern part of the state. The lane reversals will end Friday, Haley said, and officials plan to shut down high bridges once winds pick up. The evacuations depleted hotel space in Greenville, Spartanburg and Asheville, North Carolina. Haley said there were limited hotel rooms in Anderson County and in Charlotte. Evacuations from the Charleston region slowed to a trickle Thursday as hundreds of buses

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Above: Shannon Nelson loads sandbags at the doors of a closed business on King Street in Charlestonâ€™s historic district Thursday. Below: Dave Victurine, left, Tim Shannon and Emily Rigsby board up buildings in Charleston.

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On Pawleys Island, a picturesque sliver of land almost certain to flood under the fury of Hurricane Matthew, Paul Saylor has given official notice that he plans to welcome the storm from the most precarious of positions. By Thursday afternoon, he was the only one residing among the 600 homes on the island to sign an evacuation refusal document that makes clear the price for staying. â€œI have been informed that Town of Pawleys Island is under an evacuation given by the governor of the state of South Carolina,â€? it reads. â€œI have refused to comply with the evacuation and leave the island.â€? And then it asks for next of kin information. â€œI said to these guys, â€˜What do you want to do? Give me a tag for my big toe?â€™â€? Saylor said of the form to which he penned the name of his wife, who is staying elsewhere in Miami. â€œShe hasnâ€™t complained,â€? he deadpanned. See STAY, Page 7A

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Lawsuit: Man suffering stroke jailed after stop Suit says trooper took selfi f e during Aiken Countyy arrest BY CHRISTINA CLEVELAND ccleveland@aikenstandard.com

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A Kershaw man has filed a lawsuit that says he was suffering a stroke when he was arrested during a 2014 traffic stop. The lawsuit says former S.C. Highway Lance Cpl. Jeff Fortner, pictured here, took a selfie during the stop.

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Woodhurst breaks silence on controversy By Adam Benson abenson@indexjournal.com

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With less than a week to go before her runoff election against challenger Chastity Copeland, Republican Clerk of Court Angie Woodhurst broke her nearly eight-month silence with the Index-Journal about a controversy that has swirled around the clerk’s office for more than a year. In a 1,539-word statement transmitted to the newspaper from her county email address on Tuesday, Woodhurst responded to media coverage surrounding her re-election bid. On Tuesday, Woodhurst surrogate Dennis Clark told the paper’s executive editor, Richard Whiting, that Woodhurst did not want any statement published unless the paper agreed to publish her statement in its entirety. Whiting told Clark the paper would not be able to honor that wish, noting it is standard practice for a newspaper to paraphrase and quote whole segments of statements. The paper did agree to send to Woodhurst the elements that were both paraphrased and excerpted in whole before publishing the story, which Clark agreed to on Woodhurst’s behalf. But on Wednesday, Clark said Woodhurst wanted to withdraw her statement entirely, saying the Index-Journal took her statement out of context. Whiting told Clark that in addition to publishing quoted portions of the statement, the paper additionally planned to post the entire statement on its website and direct readers to that link. That statement, which was made public record because she distributed it through her county email, was also sent to other media and Clark published pictures of it on Facebook. In her emailed statement, Woodhurst directly addresses circumstances that led County Treasurer Sharon Setzer to alert the council last October that $211,000 disappeared from a child support fund run by Woodhurst’s office between October 2014 and April 6, 2015.

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Eight people none linked to Woodhurst’s office were eventually charged in connection with financial identity fraud following a five-month investigation that led county leaders to adopt a revised cash management policy. In November, County Treasurer Sharon Setzer reported Woodhurst’s office has become the only one to violate that policy, which requires each department to file a reconciled bank statement each month with Setzer’s office. “I can assure every resident in the County of Greenwood that I, as well as the other employees of the Clerk of Court offices had no involvement with the funds taken from the child support account and have complied with all policies as directed,” Woodhurst wrote. “I worked in family court and served rules and warrants on 1/3

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Byrnes High School biology teacher Teresa Schiltz has paid into the state pension system for years and is looking forward to enjoying retirement, but she’s concerned by the plan’s growing debt. JOHN BYRUM/JOHN. BYRUM@SHJ.COM

Number of state employees in 2015

Pension crisis looms as state retirement system debt continues to grow

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Number of state employees earning less than $32,448

$43,694

Annual costs of living for a one-parent, one-child family in the Columbia metro area Source: SC State Employees Association

Rising contributions State employee contributions to plan/each paycheck 2010-11 2011-12 2012-13 2013-14 2014-15 2015-16 2016-17

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Retirement is still a few months away for Byrnes High School biology teacher Teresa Schiltz, but she’s looking forward to the day when she can travel to Europe after a rewarding career. Like thousands of other teachers, Schiltz, 56, has paid into and earned a pension over the years — a nest egg for retirement, and modest compensation for turning down a more lucrative career in private industry when she was younger. “I look at my pension as the reward in the end for giving my life to education for the lesser salary I received,” she said. But like many of the

$21.3 billion Estimated pension shortfall

of 75% Rate state employees earning less than $40,000

321,000 retirees and active participants in South Carolina’s retirement system, Schiltz is concerned about SEE PENSIONS, A9

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Sen. Massey questioning hold of N.A. dashcam film BY MAAYAN SCHECHTER mschechter@aikenstandard.com Although South Carolina Sen. Shane Massey said he GRHVQÂśW NQRZ WKH VSHFLÂżFV UHODWHG WR WKH )HEUXDU\ 1RUWK $XJXVWD RIÂżFHU LQYROYHG IDWDO shooting of an unarmed man, he said itâ€™s ÂłGLIÂżFXOW WR XQGHUVWDQG ZK\ D GDVKFDP video would need to be withheldâ€? for almost two years. 2Q )HE IRUPHU 1RUWK $XJXVWD 'HSDUWPHQW RI 3XEOLF 6DIHW\ RIÂżFHU Justin Craven fatally shot 68-year-old (GJHÂżHOG &RXQW\ UHVLGHQW (UQHVW 6DWWHUwhite Sr. as he sat in his vehicle, reportCraven edly unarmed. According to reports, Craven approached the driverâ€™s side of the vehicle, shot â€œthree or fourâ€? times into the vehicle and then stated â€œthe suspect grabbed my gun,â€? later telling investigators he feared for his life. The Aiken Standard, along with other PHGLD RXWOHWV ÂżOHG D )UHHGRP RI ,QIRUmation Act request to view the dashcam IRRWDJH WKDW FDSWXUHG WKH RIÂżFHU LQvolved shooting â€“ all requests were denied by both the City of North Augusta and the S.C. State Law Enforcement Division. The newspaper and The Associated Satterwhite 3UHVV ODWHU LQ -XO\ ÂżOHG D FRPSODLQW against North Augusta and SLED requesting to view the dashcam footage. That complaint has yet to make it to a judgeâ€™s desk. 0DVVH\ D 5HSXEOLFDQ IURP (GJHÂżHOG ZKRVH GLVWULFW DOso covers portions of North Augusta, made the comments during a legislative workshop on Thursday. Massey was one of several legislators on the Thursday Please see MASSEY, Page 15A

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Sen. Shane Massey, R-Edgefield, said heâ€™s open to discussing making dashcam footage that captures officerinvolved shootings more readily available to the public and the media after a public information request is filed. Massey made the comments during the 2016 Legislative Workshop for the Media on Thursday in Columbia.

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By DAMIAN DOMINGUEZ ddominguez@indexjournal.com

A social justice group issued the first words spoken on behalf of the family of Demetric Cowan since the 38-year-old died while in law enforcement custody. Cowan died Sunday morning while in custody at the Greenwood County Detention Center. The State Law Enforcement Division and the Greenwood County Coroner’s Office are investigating his death. His family reached out to Bruce Wilson, founder and CEO of the Greenville-based nonprofit group Fighting Injustice Together to discuss the death at a press conference Wednesday where the group asked that law enforcement release video of Cowan’s arrest and booking. More than 20 DEMETRIC family members COWAN gathered behind Wilson at a lectern at the American Legion Post 224 at 1310 Cambridge Ave. E. Reporters stood before the group, cameras rolling and notes being taken as the family showed solidarity while Wilson addressed the media. The family did not speak at the press conference and Wilson said the family asked for privacy while grieving. “There are some things the family knows about this incident, and some things they don’t,” he said. Cowan is survived by his widow and five children, ranging in ages from 9 to 20, and was active in his community, Wilson said. “They also do know on Saturday morning,” he said, “he was healthy and he was alive.” See ANSWERS, page 4A

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Bruce Wilson, founder and CEO of Fighting Injustice Together, speaks about Demetric Cowan’s death at a press conference Wednesday while surrounded by Cowan’s family.

Matthew mauls Palmetto State Storm downs power lines, trees in its path BY JIM HILLEY jim@theitem.com

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“It’s just all over,” said Sumter County Sheriff Public Information Officer Ken Bell when asked Saturday morning about damage and road closings in Sumter County. “Now, the frustration begins,” said Gov. Nikki Haley Saturday as Hurricane Matthew worked its way northeast along the South Carolina coast, leaving behind a path of destruction stretching from Florida to North Carolina. Tonyia McGirt, public information officer for the Sumter Police Department, said Sumter police have been out in full force. “There are a lot of downed trees throughout the city and, of particular concern, power lines downed with the trees.” Roads were being closed as quickly as they were being opened around the Sumter area during the early morning hours and into the day Saturday. Many high-

ways in and out of town and many major streets were closed or made impassable. Police scanners cackled incessantly during the day Saturday with reports of downed trees, downed power lines, flooded roads and power outages. McGirt said downed trees were being cleared as soon as possible, but warned residents to remain home if they could. “Don’t go around traffic cones or barriers,” she said. “They are there for your protection.” According to the National Weather Service, nearly 5 inches of rain had fallen at Shaw Air Force Base by 11 a.m. Saturday, and wind gusts of 56 mph. NWS forecasters were predicting at least another inch before the storm moves out sometime about midnight. Reports of from 10 to 15 inches were common in areas near and along the coast. John Quagliariello, warning coordination meteorologist for the NWS in Columbia, said during Haley’s press

SEE MATTHEW, PAGE A9

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A downed tree leans on powerlines across Seargant Road near Navigator Circle in Sumter County near the Linwood Plantation subdivision.

Lowcountry campers fill Poinsett BY RICK CARPENTER rick@theitem.com People with trailers and recreational vehicles who exited the Lowcountry for higher ground were happy campers at Poinsett State Park last week. On Friday, the campground overflowed with campers escaping the coastline, which was expected to take the brunt of Hurricane Matthew. The campground includes water and electrical services as well as public showers and restrooms. Friday morning, before the rain started, they were busily cooking breakfast, preparing to go fishing and playing Frisbee in a field. Deb Lecuyer of Seattle has been on the road in a recreational vehicle with her husband since June 1. They had planned to visit Myrtle Beach this week but saw the hurricane headed that direction. “We decided to get out of the path and head inland,” Lecuyer said. If Charleston survives a direct hit, they plan to head that direction on Sunday with about a quarter-million other drivers. Joe Dadamo arrived at Poinsett from Mount Pleasant on Thursday with his wife, a dog, an ll-year old and a newborn. After serving 20 years in the Coast Guard Reserves, he remembers being dispatched to New Orleans after Hurricane Katrina. He said the Coast Guard goes in after an event to rescue those who stayed behind or got caught in it.

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RICK CARPENTER / THE SUMTER ITEM

Jan Cooke, left, and Farrah Mitchell of Conway were using a converted school bus as a camper for three adults and four children. They were leaving Poinsett Friday and heading to Baker Creek State Park near McCormick.

How Duke prioritizes restoring power BY RICK CARPENTER rick@theitem.com Whether you live in Sumter or you are staying here while power companies restore power to the coastal area, you may be wondering how electricity providers prioritize restoring power in a community. Ryan Mosier, in charge of corporate communications for Duke EnergySouth Carolina, said the company prioritizes repairing power plants and

the lines that carry the power from them. After that, the next in line are what the company refers to as customers who provide essential service to a community such as hospitals, police stations and fire departments. Mosier said those are obvious areas of public safety and what might save the most lives. After restoring power to those essential services, Mosier said the electric company restores power to areas that affect the most people.

“We repair damage that will return power to the greatest number of customers in the least amount of time,” Mosier said through an email to The Sumter Item. Duke Energy restores service to the smallest groups of connections and individual customers last. Mosier said late Thursday the energy company was finalizing plans to move crews into hard-hit areas to restore power as soon as possible, following the prioritization schedule.

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was because many lawmakers thought the Supreme Court overreached in its 1RYHPEHU GHFLVLRQ WKH (GJHÂżHOG VHQDWRU VDLG â€œThis was the latest example of the majority of the court knowing where WKH\ ZDQWHG WR JR Â´ 0DVVH\ VDLG Âł7KH\ knew what they wanted the law to be DQG KRZ WR JHW WKHUH 7KH\ ZHUH PDNLQJ WKH ODZ 7KDW ZDV QRW WKH LQWHQW RI WKH *HQHUDO $VVHPEO\ Â´ &ULWLFV GLVDJUHH Sue Berkowitz, director of the South Carolina Appleseed Legal Justice CenWHU LQ &ROXPELD ZKR WHVWLÂżHG DJDLQVW 6HQDWH ELOO LQ FRPPLWWHH KHDULQJV said the timing of donations and legislative action gives the appearance that FRQWULEXWLRQV LQĂ€XHQFHG ODZPDNHUVÂś GHFLVLRQ PDNLQJ â€œThe most frustrating part is weâ€™re all being represented by the legislature, not just the special interests, but all of us,â€? %HUNRZLW] VDLG

Who received donations Seventy-nine state lawmakers and a Senate candidate reported receiving campaign contributions from automobile dealer interests since December 2015, according to Ethics Commission ÂżOLQJV Please see STATE, Page 5A

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Supply, demand and death in a party city How a college drug ring hid in plain sight in downtown Charleston

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Charleston police investigate 97 Smith St. where a gunman shot Patrick Moffly in the chest in his apartment on March 4. According to police and other sources, Moffly had connections to a drug ring of present and former local college students (at top). BY TONY BARTELME and DOUG PARDUE tbartelme@postandcourier.com dpardue@postandcourier.com

t was one of Charleston’s bigger drug busts: A network of present and former College of Charleston students and other 20-somethings accused of funneling hundreds of thousands of dollars of cocaine, pills and other narcotics into downtown’s white-hot party scene. But the bust only hinted at a problem that’s

been hiding in plain sight for years: A drugand booze-fueled culture around the college that generates enormous profits for young drug dealers even as it increases risks of addiction and violence. A Post and Courier examination of police and court documents, along with interviews with people knowledgeable about the drug ring, reveal an eye-opening portrait of audacity and excess. Operating from million-dollar homes steps away from the college’s oak-shaded courtyards, networks of students and

former students stamped out pills by the thousands with a factory-grade press using chemicals from Chinese internet suppliers and other sources. They obtained large amounts of cocaine from suppliers in Georgia and marijuana by mail from states where its use is legal. Then they found a steady supply of customers among the thousands of students and other young people who pack downtown’s historic district. Please see DRUGS, Page A5

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Keeping tabs on the public

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Police agencies are using contact with citizens to build massive databases containing intimate details about people’s lives

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Federal investigators slammed Baltimore police for aggressive and discriminatory stops that unfairly targeted black residents without legal justification. Police officers sometimes justified their stops by calling them consensual “field interviews,” federal officers found. BY GLENN SMITH and ANDREW KNAPP gsmith@postandcourier.com aknapp@postandcourier.com

olice forces across the United States are stockpiling massive databases with personal information from millions of Americans who crossed paths with officers but were not charged with a crime. A person can end up in one of these databases by doing nothing more than sitting on a public park bench or chatting with an officer on the street. Once there, these records can linger forever and be used by police agencies to track movements, habits, acquaintances and associations — even a person’s marital and job status, The Post and Courier found in an investigation of police practices around the nation. What began as a method for linking suspicious behavior to crime has morphed into a practice that threatens to turn local police departments into miniature versions of the National Security Agency. In

the process, critics contend, police risk trampling constitutional rights, tarnishing innocent people and further eroding public trust. Law enforcement agencies have for decades used what’s known as field interview or contact cards to document everything from sketchy activity to random encounters with people on the street. But the digital age has greatly expanded the power and reach of this tool, allowing police to store indefinitely reams of data on those who draw their interest — long after any potential link to a crime has evaporated. “They pose a different threat than the NSA. ... But they can reveal a much more invasive picture of a person’s life,” attorney Stephanie Lacambra of the Electronic Frontier Foundation, a California-based digital-rights advocacy group, said in response to the newspaper’s findings. “The public should be concerned.” Please see POLICE, Page A6

“They pose a different threat than the NSA. ... But they can reveal a much more invasive picture of a person’s life. The public should be concerned.” Stephanie Lacambra Electronic Frontier Foundation

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ONE YEAR LATER

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The Walter Scott effect North Charleston traffic stops are half what they were before his shooting, but critics wonder if this is tangible change or will the old ways return?

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A North Charleston police officer crosses Rivers Avenue, 2 miles from the location where Walter Scott was fatally shot by North Charleston police officer Michael Slager, who was charged with murder in Scott’s death. BY ANDREW KNAPP aknapp@postandcourier.com

he year before Walter Scott saw blue lights behind him, police in North Charleston stopped nearly 200 people a day for traffic violations. A year later, about 100 motorists are pulled over on an average day. Call it the “Walter Scott effect.” Since Scott was stopped on April 4, 2015, millions have seen the video. It shows a white policeman shooting as the 50-year-old black man ran away. It led to the officer’s arrest on a murder charge. As the months passed, the police made fewer stops. All told, more than 26,000 people were pulled over in the nine months after the shooting, compared with 54,000 in the same period the year before — a 51 percent drop. A Post and Courier analysis revealed this significant shift recently at a police agency beleaguered by allegations of excessive force, traffic stop quotas that buoy statistics and tactics that burden minority communities. It’s likely, North

Charleston officials said, that the impact of Scott’s death on patrol officers played a role. But their explanation of the drop — shown in two years of data obtained through S.C. Freedom of Information Act requests — has confounded critics who have long sought lasting changes to a Walter Scott practice they thought unfairly targeted impoverished black residents. And if crime continues creeping back up, some activists expect the relentless stops to come back. “You could call this a ‘Walter Scott effect’ locally,” said Charles Epp, a University of Kansas political science professor who studies the intersection of policing and race relations. “But it’s important to remember that this sort of Please see EFFECT, Page A4

About the series April 4 marks the one-year anniversary of Walter Scott’s shooting death by a North Charleston police officer. The Post and Courier staff has written stories that delve into issues surrounding the case: TODAY: North Charleston police stops drop dramatically after shooting. MONDAY: Scott family disappointed with defense team, police efforts. TUESDAY: Chief Eddie Driggers: Police “growing through” the tragedy. WEDNESDAY: For residents of troubled community, memories linger. THURSDAY: Activists: Calls for reform of the department fell on deaf ears. ONLINE: To read the stories and see video and more photos, go to postandcourier. com/one-year-later

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EVERY OTHER BREATH Sure, the rainforests are a big deal, but when it comes to oxygen, something you can barely see is even bigger — plankton. Plankton produce half of the oxygen on Earth and suck out massive amounts of carbon dioxide. But from South Carolina to the open ocean, scientists are seeing dramatic changes in these mysterious creatures. Life on Earth literally began with them, and they could very well determine the climate’s fate. Oh, and they’re beautiful.

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t’s early in World War II, and America’s fate is tied to the sea. In the Atlantic, Nazi U-boats pick off convoy ships, threatening the lifeline to Europe. In the Pacific, Japanese subs prowl the depths, testing a fleet battered at Pearl Harbor. Meanwhile, American war planners know little about this new underwater battlefield. Mastering its terrain could prove decisive. In a secret report, the leader of a hastily assembled group of scientists called Division 6 writes about an urgent need to understand the ocean “for service in a national emergency.” New sonar instruments would be the tool. You could ping the ocean bed, then use the bounce to calculate the seafloor’s depth and shape. But sonar operators soon pick up something odd: The seabed seems to move up and down. More pings, and Navy technicians uncover a pattern: This “false bottom” rises at

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An Urgent Mystery night and descends at dawn. What is it? Must be alive, the Division 6 scientists think. Squids? Schools of fish? Has to be something pervasive; the sonar picks up false bottoms in all of the world’s oceans. Whatever it is, could American submarines hide under it? Could enemy subs? Division 6 doesn’t answer these questions before the war’s end, which only stokes more curiosity. Scientists begin calling the falsebottom the “deep scattering layer.” They toss nets into the layer; they haul up a few squids and fish but not enough to explain those scattering pings. Then, with fine mesh nets and

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realization that this was a terrorist attack, it wasn’t just some freak accident.” For Brannen, the one image that sticks in his mind is that of the twin towers smoking in the background and the Statue of Liberty in the foreground because it really was American liberty under attack, he said. “When 9/11 happened, I said, Please see BRANNEN, 3DJH $

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Flowers and pictures are displayed by a name along the north reflecting pool at the 9/11 Memorial on Sept. 13, 2013, during a ceremony marking the 12th anniversary of the 9/11 terrorist attacks on the World Trade Center in New York. Today marks the 15th anniversary of the Sept. 11 attacks.

Gardening, yard work gives local woman a â€˜sense of peaceâ€™ 2016 News Awards

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It took three people to lift Jackie Watkinsâ€™ 65-pound watermelon. Jackie started gardening after her husband Emmett passed away in 2015.

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Pastime helps resident cope with the death of her husband BY DAN BROWN dbrown@aikenstandard.com

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Less than a year after nine worshippers were slain at Emanuel AME Church, state lawmakers struggle over gun reforms. While a movement to stop senseless bloodshed across our state grows stronger, so does the determination of advocates to protect the rights of gun owners.

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A police officer tries to calm the Rev. Anthony Thompson whose wife, Myra, was inside Emanuel AME Church leading Bible study when a young white gunman opened fire, killing nine worshippers. In this June 17 photo, the pastor suspects his wife has been shot inside but isn’t certain she has been killed.

Emanuel victim’s husband pushes for tighter gun controls BY JENNIFER BERRY HAW A ES jhawes@postandcourier.com

hen the Rev. Anthony Thompson got home from church on June 17, he was glad he’d arrived before his wife. Myra had asked him to pick up groceries, and he’d forgotten. He ran back out. She still wasn’t home when he returned. She, too, had Bible study that night, although she went to her longtime church, Emanuel AME. He’d thought about joining her rather than going to the Re R formed Episcopal Church he pastors a few blocks away. It was her first time leading Bible study, and for hours they’d analyzed a passage the small group would study. “Jesus said, ‘Whoever has ears to hear, let them hear...’ ” But Myra recognized his duty to his own flock. “No, you take care of vacation Bible school,” she insisted.

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The Rev. Anthony Thompson and his wife Myra posed for a photograph before heading to a wedding several years ago. It is among his favorite pictures of her. “She looked so beautiful,” he said.

Thompson had put the groceries away and untucked his button-down shirt when his home phone rang. It was one of his members. “Rev. v Thompson, put your wife on the phone! I got to talk to her.” The woman sounded intense, irritated even. “She’s not here.” “You Y need to go to the church.” “I just left church.” “No, not your church. Y You need to go up to Emanuel.” “Why?” he said. “I heard there’s some shooting going on.” It was the first mention of a tragedy in Charleston that later would force this mild, gentlemanly pastor to fear for the security of his own congregation. But it also would push him to stand up for gun legislation aimed at preventing the Please see VIOLENCE, Page A6

Coming home New pastor at Mount Zion AME deeply impacted by church massacre

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SECOND PLACE Profile Feature Writing or Story Daily Over 40,000 Division The Rev. Kylon Middleton greets James and Polly Sheppard at Mount Zion AME Church. Middleton was the late Clementa Pinckney’s best friend and now leads worshipers at Mount Zion, daughter church of Mother Emanuel AME, where Pinckney was pastor. Polly Sheppard survived the massacre that left nine people dead.

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craps of leaves still cling to their branches in fading slivers of orange and yellow on an unseasonably warm morning, even by Charleston’s standards for Advent. Clouds block blue skies of promise as 10 a.m. approaches, the most segregated hour of the week. The front door sits open in welcome at Mount Zion AME Church, now 133 years old, the unshowy daughter of Emanuel AME just a few blocks away. Inside waits its new pastor, one close to the tragedy that six months ago left Mother Emanuel bathed in blood and wounded by the loss of nine worshippers at the hands of a young racist. The Rev. Kylon Middleton stands before a small Bible study. Twelve are gathered, as 12 were that summer night at Emanuel. Much as this church needs money, he warns, tithing shouldn’t come from pressure at church or guilt at home: “God cannot accept our gifts as bribes.” He arrived here just weeks ago from a thriving church in Hemingway. Charleston born and bred, his presence marks a homecoming, although a bittersweet one. At Mother Emanuel, he lost a friend who was like a brother, Please see HOME, Page A7

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A physical expression of praise brings some worshippers to their feet at Mount Zion AME Church in downtown Charleston. The Rev. Kylon Middleton, the late Clementa Pinckney’s best friend, is the new pastor who leads those on hand in warm, lively worship.

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Becoming Mr. Pendery Citadel cadet realizes his transgender identity

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Cadet Captain Kenton Pendery is all smiles after receiving his diploma from The Citadel on May 7. Pendery came out as being transgender during his senior year in the Corps of Cadets. BY JENNIFER BERRY HAWES jhawes@postandcourier.com

he Citadel’s imposing barracks stood oddly silent just before last weekend’s commencement, a long dumpster awaiting the spoils of yet another year from the 173-year-old Corps of Cadets. Kenton Pendery, a senior, strode briskly across the quad’s cement checkerboard floor to the room he shared with a female cadet. What passed for disarray at the military college awaited him — plastic storage bins, overflowing trash cans — as he packed up from a life-changing year, even by the

standards of most senior years. It was the year when Keisha Pendery became Kenton Pendery. People had begun to call the cadet “he.” And as a student teacher, he had stepped in front of a German class at Wando High School that had never known him as a female. “Who’s that?” a student asked the classroom teacher. “This is Mr. Pendery.”

Body of a woman Arguably, at no place in Charleston could a transgender student raise more eyebrows than at The Citadel, a tradition-bound

realm of physical strength, conformity and strict hierarchies of authority. Yet, as Pendery began his transition into a male, the school’s leaders by coincidence were tackling their transgender policies in an effort to be proactive before the nationwide controversy arrived at the front gates. The changes should be in place before the next school year begins. They will impact a school where some alumni still remind cadets of the “good old days,” meaning those without women, even though this marks the 20th year they’ve been part of the corps. Please see CITADEL, Page A6

Run, run COOKIE RECIPE

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AS FAST AS YOU CAN IT’S THE GINGERBREAD MAN ‘Shark Tank’ winner bakes hundreds of delicious treats each year By Jose Franco jose.franco@shj.com

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Baker Kim Nelson has a sweet Christmas tradition. Nelson, the owner of Daisy Cakes and a winner of the reality show “Shark Tank,” bakes hundreds of gingerbread man cookies for Ballet Spartanburg’s “The Nutcracker,” which ran Dec. 10-12 at the Chapman Cultural Center this year. Nelson has appeared on “The Nate Berkus Show,” “Anderson Cooper,” “ABC World News with Diane Sawyer,” the “Today” show, “The Taste,” and QVC. Her cakes have been featured as a prize on “The Price Is Right” and “Wheel of Fortune.” On a recent Tuesday afternoon, Nelson was rolling out gingerbread dough at her Daisy Cakes bakery. The sweet smell of brown sugar, molasses, allspice, ginger, ground cloves and cinnamon wafted through the air. Each year, Nelson bakes close to 500 gingerbread man cookies as a fundraiser for Ballet Spartanburg. “This is Trish McCallister’s recipe that I’ve been making for quite some time,” she said. “My daughter took dance at Ballet Spartanburg for 15 years and they are near and dear to my heart. I like to do this to give back to the community.” Nelson said her recipe will make 40 to 45 gingerbread man cookies depending on how thick you roll out the dough. “I am guessing this is about the size of your hand,” she said of her gingerbread man cookie cutters. In her cookbook, “Daisy Cakes Share

Kim Nelson, owner of Daisy Cakes, works in the kitchen at the bakery making Gingerbread Man cookies on Tuesday in Spartanburg. TIM KIMZEY/TIM.KIMZEY@SHJ.COM PHOTOS

A Slice of Love,” she writes, “rolling dough is like relaxation therapy for me.” Nelson rolls out the dough, cuts out the gingerbread man cookie shapes and lays them on a baking sheet before putting them in the oven for 12 to 15 minutes. At the end of the cooking session, Nelson’s ovens were filled with baking cookies and baking pans lined up on a table were filled with hundreds of

Kim Nelson makes the hundreds of cookies as a fundraiser for Spartanburg Ballet’s “The

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Reining in Hunger Seasonal eateries prepare to open, new restaurants in the works By Alyssa Mulliger alyssa.mulliger@shj.com

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From classic diner fare and café sweets to upscale dishes and international cuisine, the Tryon International Equestrian Center at Tryon Resort features plenty of dining options for a variety of palates. The equestrian center opened in June 2014 with The Legend’s Cheeseburger at Legend’s Grille at the sanctioned horse shows and Tryon International Equestrian Center in Mill Spring, The Tuna Tacos appetizer at Legend’s Grille. has worked relentlessly to N.C. TIM KIMZEY PHOTOS/TIM.KIMZEY@SHJ.COM build a reputation as a premier destination with onsite shopping, entertainment and dining. The site, located just over the state line at 4066 Pea Ridge Road in Mill Spring, N.C., boasts three signature restaurants that are open year-round. Once the spring season kicks off next weekend, several seasonal shops and vendors also will open during horse shows.

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Farm-to-table gourmet dishes are the focus of Legends Grille, where a casual dress code meets upscale dining. The restaurant serves lunch and dinner and can seat about 75 guests between its dining room and screened-in patio. An adjoining members-only section is open during horse shows. Executive Chef Carl Schultz said he uses local, fresh ingredients in preparing items like the Chef’s Cobb Salad with oven roasted turkey, lean ham, Swiss and Roquefort cheese crumbles, smoked bacon, olives and hard-boiled eggs. “My approach to food is very simple,” Schultz said. “I like to take very high-quality ingredients and do very minimal things to them.” Schultz said he uses a farm co-op comprised of about 30 farms within 150 miles of the restaurant. He said he reaches out to the farmers to source healthy ingredients for his dishes. Guests can begin with starters like fried calamari, oysters on the half shell or a bowl of loaded potato soup. The menu features a selection of burgers like the Legends Signature Cheeseburger served with red onion and Bibb lettuce on a brioche roll and a side of hand-cut

The Tree Tops Restaurant is located at the Lodge on Lake Lure in Lake Lure, N.C.

Legend’s Grille at the Tryon International Equestrian Center in Mill Spring, N.C. LEFT: Some of the most sought-after items at Roger’s Diner at the Tryon International Equestrian Center in Mill Spring, N.C., are the ice cream sundaes and hanspun milkshakes.

french fries. Another favorite is the Legends Jumbo Lump Crab Cake topped with homemade special sauce and served with coleslaw and hand-cut fries. Schultz’s entrees feature Black Angus chopped steak, Scottish salmon and mahi mahi served along sides like

fresh fruit, local greens and creamy risotto. “The seasons predict what I’m going to cook and they predict what is on the plate,” Schultz said. “I thoroughly enjoy the weather predicting what is going to be on the next menu and what is going to be

the special for that evening.” The restaurant’s menu changes four times a year, but Schultz said a few core items will always be available, such as the tuna tacos made with sashimi tuna, avocado, rice SEE DINING, A12

FOOD DESERTS

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Robert Jackson, with Jackson Farms II of Lyman, stocks his table at the Hub City Farmers’ Market on a recent Saturday. The market offers access to fresh produce and locally made goods in an area once deemed a food desert. TIM KIMZEY PHOTOS/TIM.KIMZEY@SHJ.COM

CITY LOOKS AT WAYS TO ADDRESS LACK OF ACCESS TO HEALTHY FOOD IN LOW-INCOME COMMUNITIES

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By Alyssa Mulliger alyssa.mulliger@shj.com

Brian Hair lives on the south side of the city of Spartanburg, miles from the nearest full-service grocery store. The closest food outlets within walking distance of his residence on South Church Street Extension are convenience or dollar stores that offer little, if any, produce or nutritious food. “I like a lot of fruits because I’m trying to eat more healthy,” Hair said. “The Sav-A-Lot is a good couple miles up the road. Especially on this side of town, a lot of people are not able to travel there without transportation.” On the west side of the city, Tonja Smith is closer to several large supermarkets, but has struggled to find affordable, organic foods for her family. “We try to be healthy and do a lot of clean eating,” Smith said. “There are a lot of things I’ve seen at markets and organic stores that I just can’t afford to shop at.”

Life in a food desert Access to healthy, affordable food is a challenge for millions of Americans, chiefly those living in low-income neighborhoods, where having a vehicle could be a luxury. Based on the U.S. Department of Agriculture’s Food Access Research Atlas, nearly 4,783 residents in the city of Spartanburg, or about 12.9 percent of city residents, live in low-income and SEE FOOD, A4

The farmers market has accepted SNAP for several years, and a state Department of Social Services program will match produce purchases, up to $5, for SNAP users.

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About this story Reporter Alyssa Mulliger, who covers the city of Spartanburg for the Herald-Journal, started researching the issue of food deserts in the city after working on several stories about redevelopment efforts in the Northside community. In February, Alyssa began reaching out to organizations and interviewing community leaders who are working to address healthy and affordable food access in Spartanburg.

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A crowd gathers as chef Maurice Frazier dumps blue crabs onto a fold-out table in the middle of the dance floor in early May at Sweet 221 Lounge in Summerville.

‘Free crabs!’

Crab crack tradition thrives at some area bars

BY HANNA RASKIN hraskin@postandcourier.com

ave Cobbs and Maurice “Reese” Frazier, 31-year-old double cousins, typically buy about eight bushels of blue crabs for crab night at Sweet 221 Lounge. Even still, Cobbs, who owns the strip mall nightclub, and Frazier, who does the cooking, tend to put aside a few boiled crabs in Styrofoam boxes for safekeeping. They know if friends and relatives show up late, there otherwise won’t be anything left for picking. “Seafood on the table!” the club’s DJ cries as soon as he sees Frazier toddling across the still-empty dance floor with a plastic tub full of crabs percolating steam. Frazier dumps the crabs on a long folding table, draped in black plastic for the party and surrounded by women ready with little red plaid paper serving trays. “That’s right! Seafood Thursday!” Customers bundle as many crabs as they can into their disposable dishes, balancing bodies atop bodies, with legs and claws hanging over the edge. Then

they return to their high-backed barstools to eat. Back in the kitchen, Frazier, sweating from tending a 100-gallon crab pot and hustling through the massive room, which measures 4,000-square-feet all told, is getting ready to heat another bushel. “As you can see, they don’t last three minutes,” he says.

‘Really big in Charleston’ Free crab cracks are a Charleston bar tradition, although nobody knows when and how it got started. The why is the least of the mystery, at least from the patrons’ perspective: Crabs are delicious, and even more so when boiled in spice and bathed in butter. “People like crabs. Especially Charlestonians,” says Cobbs, who was a full-time barber before in 2014 opening Sweet 221, billed as “where the grown and gorgeous come to party.” He still cuts hair. Giving away more than 500 crabs a week isn’t cheap, but Cobbs says it’s an unavoidable business Please see CRABS, Page D5

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Debbie Webster raises sheep at Whispering Pines farm in Mauldin. She is the first USDA Certified sheep’s milk cheese producer in the state.

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Whispering Pines, debuting on the Upstate Farm Tour this weekend, started out as a horse training/riding farm in Mauldin . ...............................................................................................................................

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he road to Whispering Pines farm and stables is just outside of downtown Mauldin. “The farm was here,” said Debbie Webster, “and the neighborhoods and businesses kinda grew around it.” Whispering Pines has been around since 1980, starting out as a horse farm and stable where Webster – also known as The Horse Lady – operated Upstate Equestrian Ministries and a therapeutic program for special needs children and a vocational program for high school students. The sheep and goats arrived about 18 years ago, when the farm began live Nativity events. Shetland sheep and pygmy goats were raised as pets and for the

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Upstate Farm Tour What: Self-guided tour of 22 farms across Greenville, Spartanburg, Pickens, Oconee, Anderson, Laurens, Abbeville, Greenwood, Cherokee and Union counties When: 1-6 p.m. Saturday and Sunday Cost: $30 in advance per vehicle or cycling group for all farms, all weekend; $35 at the gate; $10 per vehicle or cycle group to visit an individual farm. Button tickets available at www.carolinafarmstewards.org

Farm tour tips DO bring a cooler and extra money for on-site purchases. Some farms have farm stores, and there are four first-come meal stops along the way (Happy Kritters Ranch, Possum Kingdom Kreamery, Forx Farm and Greenbrier Farm). BY SUSAN ARDIS

sardis@thestate.com, @foodsusan

wool. Debbie and her husband, Alan, head up the only 4H Dairy Sheep and Goat Club in the United States. They schedule volunteer opportunities for folks to come out and learn about the animals and life on the farm. Debbie Webster’s life hasn’t always been easy. Injuries from an automobile accident in 2001 sidelined Webster’s horseback riding career. Then, about 13 years SEE WEBSTER, 5C

DO NOT bring pets as they can be a hazard to livestock and pose food safety threats to produce growers. DO keep an eye on your children. These are working farms with potentially harmful equipment, electric fences and large animals. DO NOT enter private homes unless given permission. DO remember to wash up after petting animals. Hand sanitizers will be provided at each farm. You may be asked to disinfect your shoes to prevent farm-to-farm transmission of germs. DO NOT arrive early or after tour hours. DO map out your route before you go, allow about one hour or so per farm. Plan on visiting only three or four per day. Find a pdf map at www.carolinafarmstewards.org. ......................................................................................................................................

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Nut Stuffed celery from “The Post-Courier Cookbook.”

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Loved and lost

50th anniversary of ‘The Post-Courier Cookbook’ a cause for remembering influential food editor BY HANNA RASKIN hraskin@postandcourier.com

y 1967, the Junior League of Charleston had sold 200,000 copies of “Charleston Receipts,” a cookbook so instantly iconic that New York City department store B. Altman and Co. devoted a massive display window flourished with sweetgrass and Spanish moss to the title. But it loomed singularly back in the Lowcountry, where it dominated conversations of shrimp paste and cool o’ the evening cocktails. Its reach was so complete that when Renie Clark, the adored wife of Citadel president Gen. Mark W. Clark, was in 1966 asked to write a foreword to another Charleston cookbook, she reflexively referenced the best-seller. “Gourmet food, the receipts passed down for centuries, served in these old historic homes, seem to taste more delectable with each passing year,” she wrote,

prompting readers to turn to the recipe for she-crab soup. Except there wasn’t a she-crab soup recipe in “The Post-Courier Cookbook,” as its author, food editor Charlotte Walker, acWalker knowledged in her purposefully deferential introduction. “I guess she’d already tangled with the Junior League,” former colleague Betsy Clawson says. (By all accounts, Walker wasn’t adversarial, but she was foremost a newspaperwoman, or in other words, professionally inclined to scratch at the establishment.) “This book is designed to supplement, not replace, the many fine cookbooks homemakers already possess,” Walker wrote 50 years ago. “It makes no attempt Please see COOKBOOK, Page D5

And the book is yours to keep In honor of the 50th anniversary of “The Post-Courier Cookbook,” The Post and Courier has digitized the volume. It’s available for free online at postandcourier.com/cookbook

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My Brother’s Keeper is a hardcore Christian band based in Aiken. Its members are Mark McFall, Eric Buffett, Mark Garvin, Josh Randall, Ryan Buffett and Zakk Cherner.

Aiken band rocks to sound of its own beat BY STEPHANIE TURNER sturner@aikenstandard.com

hough Aiken band, My Brother’s Keeper, adopted its name from a grim biblical story, its mission is nothing but wholehearted. “Our goal is to draw God to the edge of His throne, for His ear to hear the words of our hearts,” states the band’s biography. “So, if it takes the strum of a guitar, the beat of a drum, or even a scream to touch a life, (it) will be done.” The band formed in 2010 and plays hardcore and metalcore Christian music. “When we started, we weren’t sure what kind of style we wanted to do,” said Mark Garvin, guitarist and vocalist. The style evolved as the members of the band wrote its songs. “We wanted to be different SUBMITTED PHOTO than everyone else,” Garvin My Brother’s Keeper is a hardcore Christian band based in Aiken. It said. “We wanted to be break released its debut EP, ”My Brother’s Keeper,” in 2012. that stereotype of (Christian bands).”

What’s in a name The band’s name stems from Genesis 4, the story of Cain and his brother, Abel. When the Lord showed favor toward Abel, Cain was infuriated. That anger eventually overtook Cain, and he killed his brother. When the Lord inquired about Abel’s whereabouts, Cain replied, “I don’t know. ... Am I my brother’s keeper?” &DLQ¶V ÀLSSDQW DQVZHU VWUXFN members of the Aiken group, who spun the phrase’s connotation into a more positive idea. “We took it and use it the way

We are the artists. God has placed the brush in our hands. Now he paints the picture. My Brother’s Keeper biography

that we are our brother’s keeper,” Garvin said. “We look after each other.”

Band’s beginnings When brothers Ryan and Eric Buffett had a set of songs, they

wanted to record, they looked into ¿QGLQJ D VLQJHU Ryan plays the keyboard, while Eric is a guitarist. The two soon found Garvin, who also plays guitar. When singer Mark McFall, drummer Josh Randall and bassist

Scott Popham came on board, the original lineup was formed. Popham eventually left, and Zakk Cherner has since stepped into the position.

The music While the members have performed covers, a good majority of their focus is thrown into producing their own lyrics set to their own sound. Every member contributes to the process in his own way, according to Garvin. The band has played around the Southeast. Locally, it has appeared in spots such as HIC Warehouse Indoor Skateboard Park on (GJH¿HOG +LJKZD\ DQG 7KH ,URQ Heights in Augusta. The band has released at least two EPs with its original music, 2012’s “My Brother’s Keeper” and 2014’s “Treachery.” Both can be purchased at mybk band.bandcamp.com. “My Brother’s Keeper” is available digitally with the customer being able to choose his own price. “Treachery” is $3 for a digital copy or $5 for a physical copy. The band is at work on another album. “We are the artists,” the band’s biography states. “God has placed the brush in our hands. Now he paints the picture.” For more information or to book “My Brother’s Keeper,” visit its Facebook page or email mybk band@gmail.com. Stephanie Turner graduated from Valdosta State University in 2012. She then signed on with the Aiken Standard, where she is now the features reporter.

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Judy Holmes of Chicks that Click took this photograph of Trinity CME Church in Augusta. The historic structure is slated for demolition.

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Women’s photography club working to preserve historic church through pictures ing and the property was acquired by Miracle Making Ministries in 1998. (The nonprofit has leased the building from Atlanta Gas regional women’s photograLight.) We own a lot of real estate in the area phy club, Chicks that Click, where the church sits and we’ve torn down has taken on a community some houses and rehabilitated others.” service project to raise awareWilliams said he’s spent 15 years raising ness about a historic black money for the Trinity CME building and church in Augusta, Georgia that may be Miracle Making Ministries did make infrademolished, Trinity Christian Methodist structure improvements to the building during that time. Episcopal (CME). “It served as a ‘base camp’ for our inner The church’s origins date to 1840, when city after-school programs and more,” Wilcongregants met beneath a brush arbor. It is said to be older than the CME branch of liams said. “We retrofitted it to our use.” However, Williams said his organizaMethodism and the church is considered a tion had to vacate the building in 2003, so sister church of St. John United Methodist the contamination cleanup by Atlanta Gas Church in Augusta. The church’s history, from the current Trin- Light could begin. “We have succeeded for a time in delayity CME Church’s website, said St. John UMC ing demolition,” Williams said. “The church supplied white pastors for Trinity CME durwas slated for demolition in the spring.” ing its first 13 years. Then, Trinity members Williams said there is more than one pooled resources and a Rev. James Harris, said option other than demolition to accomplish to be a slave preacher from Athens, Georgia, the necessary cleanup without razing the served as Trinity’s first pastor. church, but he said alternatives will likely On April 1, 1998, the church and proprequire significant money and support erty were deeded to Atlanta Light and from parties interested in preserving the Gas Co., with the last church service to be historic structure. conducted in that building being done the following day. The current Trinity CME Church is now Images helping to create a visual record of church in a different neighborhood, according to Chicks that Click formed in 2013, Robert Williams of the nonprofit Miracle with six charter members. It has since Making Ministries. grown to include more than 50 members, according to co-founder Pamela Cook. Efforts to save structure The club is open to women by member not entirely new referral and is based in North Augusta, Christine Miller-Betts, executive director of the Lucy Craft Laney Museum of Black “Trinity CME figures into our organizaSouth Carolina. History in Augusta, poses for a photograph titled “Amazing Grace,” taken by Pamela tion’s community redevelopment efforts,” WilCook, inside the historic Trinity CME Church, which is slated for demolition. liams said. “Our plan was to restore the build- See CHURCH, page 3C By ST. CLAIRE DONAGHY sdonaghy@indexjournal.com

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Charlie B’s Ranch Arena in Seneca drew in thousands of music lovers during the 1970s to hear big-name bands such as ZZ Top, Fleetwood Mac and REO Speedwagon.

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Clockwise from left, Cody King, Brad Medlin, Kyle Nicholson and Michael Gray hit the road as Ploma Drive when they were still in high school. The three remaining members of the band will honor Gray’s memory as they take the stage at Rock the Ranch Saturday in Seneca.

SENECA — Four Seneca natives, and lifelong buddies, were living large during high school. Kyle Nicholson, Cody King, Michael Gray and Brad Medlin started a band in 2004, practicing in the bonus room of Medlin’s parents’ house. Ploma Drive formally debuted the following February in the Daniel High School gym. “We had a lot of fun; we were doing stuff a lot of

high school kids weren’t doing — playing shows in Columbia, Rock Hill and Clinton on the weeknights,” Nicholson said. “Our parents were trying to rein us in, making sure we’d done all our homework. We thought we were big-time rock stars … hot shots.” Ploma Drive recorded on two different occasions under the direction of Seth Bolt from the band Needtobreathe. The high schoolers also opened for Bolt’s SEE ROCK, PAGE A5

GOTTA CATCH ‘EM ALL

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Cole Emory, 24, left, Kale Bonner, 30, center, and Tevin Gilliam, 24, engage in a Pokemon battle at the Daniel Morgan monument in downtown Spartanburg Tuesday. The site is a “gym” in Pokemon Go, a cellphone game that has ignited a worldwide craze. ZACH FOX/ZACH.FOX@SHJ.COM

City catches Pokemon fever Interactive cellphone game takes people to all kinds of places

to each other, then proceed on their way. Each time they stop, they swipe at their screens, trying to catch virtual creatures that By Zach Fox appear around them. zach.fox@shj.com The global craze of Pokemon Go has found its way to downGroups of teens and town Spartanburg. 20-somethings, cellphones in WHAT IT IS: Pokemon Go is hand, stop periodically, talk the latest Pokemon game from

Nintendo. The game features detailed GPS locations, showing a map of streets, landmarks and buildings that players encounter while searching for Pokemon. Since it launched on July 6, Pokemon Go has seen a huge surge in users, and has more daily active users than Twitter. Estimates show the game

has added billions of dollars to Nintendo’s stock value. HOW IT WORKS: The game can be downloaded for free on all smartphones. Players can sign in using a Gmail account or can create a Pokemon Trainer Club account if they don’t want to use a Google account. SEE POKEMON, A5

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A bronze statue depicting Nina Simone is featured at the Nina Simone Plaza in the heart of downtown Tryon, N.C. PHOTOS BY DAN ARMONAITIS/DAN. ARMONAITIS@SHJ.COM

Tryon, NC, residents hope ﬁlm wins Oscar By Dan Armonaitis dan.armonaitis@shj.com

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TRYON, N.C. — Last year, singer-songwriter John Legend and rapper Common won an Academy Award for their collaborative song, “Glory,” which was featured in the major motion picture, “Selma.” At the beginning of his acceptance speech, Legend invoked the name Nina Simone. Quoting the iconic singer-songwriter and noted civil rights activist who died in 2003 at age 70, Legend said, “It’s an artist’s duty to reflect the time in which we live.” This year’s Oscars ceremony will be televised at 7 tonight on ABC, and Simone’s legacy will once again be touched upon. The biographical film, “What Happened, Miss Simone?” received an Academy Award nomination in the Best Documentary feature category. How the film fares might be of particular interest to residents of the town of Tryon, N.C., which has embraced its heritage as the birthplace of Simone. Along Trade Street

The Nina Simone Birthplace Restoration Project hopes to turn Simone’s childhood home into a museum.

in the heart of downtown is the Nina Simone Plaza, which features a bronze sculpture depicting the famed musician who was born as Eunice Waymon. Last Tuesday morning, Crys Armbrust sat in his living room a few blocks away from the plaza and contemplated the significance of Tryon being Simone’s birthplace. “Any other place on the face of the Earth would give much to be able to claim that Nina Simone was born in their town,” said Armbrust, who is the founder and executive

director of the Eunice Waymon-Nina Simone Memorial Project, which spearheaded the creation of the Zenos Frudakis-designed sculpture that was dedicated in 2010. Armbrust, a Florence native and former University of South Carolina professor, moved to Tryon 14 years ago. Although he said he spent every summer of the previous four decades in the small western North Carolina town, it wasn’t until he moved here permanently that he decided something needed to be done to increase awareness of Simone’s connection to Tryon.

“I knew with the help of others that we could make a substantial difference in correcting what I personally perceived to be an error in judgment about local cultural assets,” Armbrust said, noting that up until then, there was little evidence in Tryon of the town being the birthplace of a woman that Rolling Stone magazine ranked as the 29th greatest singer of all time. Simone’s professional music career began in 1954, and she developed a unique musical style that combined gospel, jazz, blues, pop and folk with her background as a classically-trained pianist. Not content to rest on her laurels, she began challenging the system by performing songs that spoke, often in harsh terms, to the AfricanAmerican experience during the civil rights era. Among her greatest works are “Mississippi Goddam,” “Four Women,” “I Wish I Knew How It Would Feel to Be Free” and “To Be Young, Gifted and Black.” “As a child of the ‘60s, I SEE SIMONE, D5

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People gathered for the New Music Confab at the Royal American on Aug. 26 listen to the Folly Beach band Ashes of Old Ways.

Music City

Charleston’s indie scene benefits from new venues, critical mass, cross-pollination of performers BY ADAM PARKER aparker@postandcourier.com

harleston long has had a reputation for being a sleepy town when it comes to popular music, conducive to the solo singer-songwriter types and cover bands, but not really a vibrant “scene” that cultivates edgy original music. That’s all changing. With an increasingly robust second tier of music-friendly clubs and bars, Charleston is becoming known as the pop music hub of South Carolina, according to several musicians and managers. One of the bars at the center of the action is The Royal American. Others, such as Tin Roof, The Sparrow in North Charleston and, now, the Commodore, are adding breadth and depth to the indie scene. And it’s not just the growing number of good venues that’s raising the musical profile of Charleston. A local record label, Hearts & Plugs, has become the star at the center of this pop-music solar system. Another label, Shrimp Records, provides a platform for local musicians such as Bill Carson, Joel Hamilton and groups like Shovels & Ropes and Punks & Snakes. “Charleston has been a magnet for talent (rePlease see INDIE, Page F7

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Valorie Miller (left) and Andy Sparrow of Asheville, N.C., were among the performers at the New Music Confab.

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"A year ago, I couldn’t have done this ... A year ago, I couldn’t have walked this, let alone climbed any obstacles." — ROBERT CONE Gotham Knights team member on losing weight

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The Gotham Knights near the final turn on the second Connie Maxwell Mud Run on Saturday at the Connie Maxwell Children’s Home farm. From left, Robert Cone, Steve Salisbury, Brian McKenna and Bryan McCall have worked out together every day during the last year.

Mud run gives F3 members opportunity to test their mettle By ETHAN JOYCE ejoyce@indexjournal.com

ounding the final turn of the Connie Maxwell Mud Run, Brian McKenna needed to celebrate.

He peeled off his black shirt as he and his three teammates approached the final bend, revealing a Batman logo draped across his chest. His running group, appropriately named the Gotham Knights, finished with a time of 1:04:43.

There were 102 teams that competed in the 5k, 30-obstacle event. But in the fray of muck and costumes and whipping winds, the Gotham Knights were just four guys maintaining a daily routine. McKenna started working out

with F3 Greenwood which stands for fitness, fellowship and faith in May of last year. His teammates Robert Cone, Bryan McCall and Steve Salisbury showed up since then. See RISE, page 8A

Mud run ■ Results from Saturday’s competition can be found in Sports, 2B

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Mosque leader ‘angry, frustrated’ over violence BY DEANNA PAN dpan@postandcourier.com Shahid Husain didn’t ask for this. Husain is an associate professor in the department of ophthalmology at Medical University of South Carolina. But in his spare time, he volunteers as president of the Central Mosque of Charleston. And lately, that time is spent searching for the right words to express his horror and disappointment when another terrorist attack is perpetrated in the name of some twisted

version of his faith. “We are angry, frustrated. This horrific crime has no place in Islam,” he said. “Our congregation, members of the congregation and we as Muslims of Charleston, strongly condemn, very strongly condemn, such acts of violence.” Just after 2 a.m. Sunday, a gunman opened fire inside a crowded gay nightclub in Orlando, Fla., killing 50 people and wounding 53 others in the deadliest mass shooting in U.S. history. Authorities say the gunman, identified as American-born Omar Ma-

teen, pledged allegiance to the Islamic State in a 911 call shortly before carrying out the massacre. He had previously been investigated twice by FBI agents for possible ties to terrorism. Husain woke up late Sunday. He heard the news. Then he canceled all of his plans and prepared to field phone calls from the local media. This is his burden as a Muslim in America. To speak out against terrorism. To show people who might believe otherwise the true face of Islam. “This is our job,” he said.

“Many people will think probably Islam is a religion of terror, a religion of killing people, but that’s not true. Islam means peace.” The mosque was quiet Sunday afternoon. The round tables in the reception area were still flecked with crumbs from the previous night, when about 400 congregants broke their fast for the holy month of Ramadan. A city police officer stood guard until midnight. Ramadan is a month of blessing, forgiveness and charity, Husain said. Fasting until sundown helps Muslims

deepen their relationship w it h God. For someone to murder innocents during Ramadan is a n even greater crime, Husain he said. “These people claim themselves as Muslims and followers of Islam, but basically, they’re totally derailed; they’re totally misguided,” Husain said. “I don’t know what Quran they’re following, what hadith they’re following.

There’s only one Quran we follow. The Quran says if you kill one person, it’s like you killed the whole mankind and if you save the life of one person, you save the whole mankind. These are the words of God.” On Sunday night, worshippers at the mosque will make du’a, or pray to God, on behalf of the victims in Orlando and their families, Husain said. “We just want to show our solidarity,” he said. “We are with them in their grief.” Reach Deanna Pan at 843-937-5764.

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Stephanie Jadrnicek The Journal, Seneca

ike any young lady born and bred south of the Mason-Dixon line, I grew up on sausage gravy and biscuits. Most Sunday mornings, the scent of sausage sizzling in the frying pan wafted through our house. Though my dad never joined us on our pilgrimage to Sunday morning service, making sausage gravy and biscuits was his way of partaking in the weekly family ritual. As with other hidden gems of my childhood, I took my father’s sausage gravy for granted. Steaming, freshly baked biscuits just appeared upon the table along with a cast-iron pan of gravy thick enough to keep anyone warm through the winter. Each serving held the seasonings of last year’s harvest, because the sausage in my family’s freezer never sat in a grocery store — it came directly from the farm. On a cold morning every fall, my father COMMON would wake us well dawn. We GROUND | before reluctantly arose from bed, threw on some old STEPHANIE clothes and trudged out JADRNICEK the door. A group of families always gathered together to help with the yearly butcher. Large hogs hung head-down from tripods, which always reminded me of teepees when I was little. Outdoor makeshift worktables were arranged by placing a sheet of plywood over two sawhorses. Fortunately, I was the baby in the family, so most of the work fell onto my two older sisters. From my short height, I stood at eye level with the chopping tables, just tall enough to watch everyone’s quick handiwork. To this day, I am not squeamish. I never balk at handling raw meat, and I aced my anatomy class without flinching. I believe I owe this ability to butchering day. The day’s work was usually done by early afternoon, and a bountiful feast followed. Afterward, we took home our supply and packed it into jars and freezers where it awaited the next batch of sausage gravy. In my 20s, I strayed from the downhome goodness of sausage gravy. Transplanting my roots to the west coast, I dabbled with a vegetarian diet and developed a taste for wheatgrass juice, filling my body with only the most nutritious foods. I had all but forgotten the taste of sausage gravy until visiting home one Christmas morning. Resisting every healthy bone in my body, I heaped a large ladle of warm gravy onto a piping hot biscuit — it was divine. Sometimes to truly appreciate something, we have to first leave it behind. Since that Christmas morning, I’ve indulged on many other Christmas mornings while visiting my family in Virginia for the holidays. But last Sunday morning, a certain spirit filled me and soon the scent of sausage sizzling in my own cast-iron pan wafted through my house as I attempted to replicate the gravy I’d grown to love. I baked the biscuits from scratch, because anything less is unacceptable. And although breakfast tasted good, it wasn’t quite right. The biscuits were a little too sweet and the gravy wasn’t thick enough. I guess there are still some things you can only find at home. STEPHANIE JADRNICEK is an award-winning columnist and feature writer. She may be

One more year R

emember to bring along your badge of courage and a plentiful supply of patience if you’re going anywhere near Tiger territory these days. I went to the grocery store like it was any other Sunday afternoon. With my shopping list and tote bags in hand, I walked into Publix on Tiger Boulevard, planning on my quick in-and-out weekly run. As soon as I entered the store I saw them — they were gathered in parent-child pairs and trios stocking up for a long semester. The observer, or rather, the eavesdropper I am, overheard numerous converCOMMON sations as I perused GROUND | the aisles. Many parents were using this STEPHANIE trip to the grocery JADRNICEK store as a teaching opportunity — guiding their fledglings out of the nest with a little bit of instruction. Some of these child-adult hybrids were heeding their parents’ advice, soaking it all in for fear of soon having to go it alone. But many were glued to their smartphones, merely passing the time until sweet freedom soon arrived. I ran into a pair of students in the produce section. They didn’t share in the privilege of having parents show them the ropes. Very far from home and facing a language barrier, they were simply trying to find the best deals. They asked me if all the vegetables were organic. At first, I thought this was their preference. But I soon figured out they were pinching pennies to make their American dollars stretch as far as possible. For a moment I stepped into their shoes. I thought how frightening it would be not only to start college (which is scary enough in itself) but to do it alone in a foreign country where everyone speaks your second or third language. But I felt certain they would be fine. Probably much better off than some of the other students I came across. Especially the ones who had evidently never gone grocery shopping before in their lives. I could see the frustration on their parents’ faces as they attempted to pass along a little bit of last-minute knowledge before they left their little ones in the big, wide world. Then there was the young man questioning why his father was filling the cart with so much food. The father, ready to cut the cord, replied that his son would need plenty because he wasn’t planning on returning until Thanksgiving. As I watched all these parents dropping off their kids at college, it reminded me that I will be in the same boat this time next year. And then my heart sank. I saw the looks — particularly on some of the mothers’ faces. After all the preparation, the applications, the worry over acceptance letters, their babies were finally ready to fly. So although the chaos set me back a little in my Sunday agenda, I paused in a moment of silence to empathize with the parents’ emotional plight. And I thanked my lucky stars that I have one more year. STEPHANIE JADRNICEK is an award-winning columnist and feature writer. She may be reached at stephanie@upstatetoday.com.

Predicting weather patterns the old-fashioned way

y grandmother doesn’t believe in meteorology. She uses other more reliable indicators for her weather forecasts, mainly birds, cows, the sun, the moon and her most dependable source — her legs. She’s also an avid fan of the Farmers’ Almanac, which evidently gives a more accurate two-year prediction than the seven-day forecast offered by The Weather Channel. However, my grandmother recently misplaced her almanac. And since we’re already so close to the end of the year, she’s going to wait until January to get the next one. So she’s stuck with what she has on hand. Ever since I was a little girl my grandmother’s taught me things one just can’t learn in a classroom. For a long time I thought she was psychic. COMMON For example, if we GROUND | were playing Rummy and we heard a long whistle from a freight STEPHANIE train, she’d say it was JADRNICEK going to rain. Sure enough, within the next few hours, raindrops fell from the sky like clockwork. When you’re 6 years old, this seems nearly prophetic. She said it was going to rain and it did, therefore she must see into the future. It wasn’t until years later that I learned how moisture, temperature and cloud coverage affect sound waves. Another technique she uses to determine weather patterns is simply looking out her window at a field full of cattle. If all (or most) of the cows are lying down, you can bet your bottom dollar it’s going to rain. And her theory goes even further. If there’s a cold rain or snow coming she can even tell the direction of the wind, because the cows will turn their backs against the cool breeze. Not too long ago, just before days of rain set in, my grandmother saw a sun dog. Many of you are probably wrinkling your forehead with the same look of confusion I wore when I first heard of a sun dog. My thoughts had immediately shifted to constellations or some type of vegan hot dog. Sun dogs, also known as mock suns, are a pair of bright spots on either side of the sun. Often coinciding with a luminous ring known as a halo, sun dogs are an atmospheric phenomenon created by light interacting with ice crystals. Since a relentless rain followed my grandmother’s sun dog spotting, my sister said she hoped grandma never sees one of those again. But her greatest tools are her legs. For as long as I’ve known my grandmother, she’s been paraplegic. She fell from the bucket of a tractor while picking apples more than 40 years ago, breaking her spine in three places and rendering the bottom half of her body paralyzed. But nothing can keep a good woman down. My grandmother is resilient. We played ball together, swam in the pool together and I’d play on her wheelchair for countless hours. I figured everyone had a paraplegic grandmother until I discovered otherwise, then I felt sorry for all those kids who didn’t have one. Ironically, my grandmother can best sense a brewing storm with her legs. It’s caused by barometric pressure, and I’m not sure how she feels it. But if she can predict the rain by watching cows and sun dogs, I’m certainly not going to question her authority. STEPHANIE JADRNICEK is an award-winning columnist and feature writer who’s a newbie at The Journal. She may be reached at stephanie@ upstatetoday.com.

2016 News Awards

THIRD PLACE Column Writing Daily 14,000-40,000 Division

David Lauderdale The Island Packet

Muhammad Ali wasn’t always widely admired

BY JAMES WERRELL

jwerrell@heraldonline.com

One of my favorite teachers in high school, Arnold Brix, used to inject controversial current events into the daily lessons about U.S. history. One question I remember in particular: Is Muhammad Ali a traitor or hero for refusing to serve in the Army? It’s surprising to me today that, back then, the class was ambivalent about that. Opposition to the Vietnam War had not reached full steam in the spring of 1967, and Ali’s refusal to be inducted into the draft was seen by many Americans as an act of cowardice, not the principled stand it is portrayed as now. This also was before the full Ali persona had evolved. He was heavyweight champion of the world and acknowledged as a brilliant fighter, but he had only recently converted to the Muslim faith and the white sporting establishment was reluctant – if not downright hostile – about calling him by his adopted name instead of Cassius Clay – which Ali referred to as his “slave name.” “Why shouldn’t he be drafted like everyone

2016 News Awards

SECOND PLACE Column Writing Daily 14,000-40,000 Division

James Werrell The Herald

We only care about the beautiful animals

BY JAMES WERRELL

jwerrell@heraldonline.com

Of course you shoot the gorilla! Who would question the decision to shoot a gorilla – even an endangered lowland gorilla – when the life of a 4-year-old child was threatened? Well, tens of thousands of people from around the world, that’s who. A Facebook page called “Justice for Harambe,” the name given to the 17-yearold gorilla, received more than 100,000 “likes” soon after it was created. The page was described as a way to speak out about the “murder” of Harambe. Thousands of other critics, including members of animal rights groups such as PETA, have called for a criminal investigation of the boy’s parents. Others have taken officials at the Cincinnati Zoo to task for their decision to kill the gorilla, which was to have been used in an effort to breed the rare species in captivity. As the story has been pieced together, a 4-yearold boy visiting the zoo over the Memorial Day weekend was pestering his mother to let him jump into the gorilla enclosure. She took her eyes off of him for an instant, and he managed to flop over the railing, crawl through some bushes and plunge 15 feet into a shallow moat in the yard where the gorillas were kept. As onlookers screamed, Harambe, a huge male gorilla, grabbed the child by the leg and roughly dragged him several feet as the boy’s head banged on the concrete. Zoo officials rushed to the scene, where they reviewed their options. A dart gun would not act quickly enough to knock out Harambe before he might harm the child. Trying to coax him to surrender the boy also was judged to be too risky. Zoo Director Thayne Maynard made the call. Noting that the gorilla was capable of crushing a

JEFF MCCURRY AP

Harambe, a western lowland gorilla at the Cincinnati Zoo, was fatally shot Saturday to protect a 3-year-old boy.

coconut with its hand, he said the noise of the crowd had disoriented Harambe and made him nervous, and the only reasonable choice was to shoot the gorilla. “We are heartbroken about losing Harambe, but a child’s life was in danger and a quick decision had to be made by our Dangerous Animal Response Team,” Maynard said in a statement posted by the zoo on Facebook. In all, the child was in the enclosure for about 10 minutes. The death of the gorilla was unfortunate but necessary under the circumstances. The important result is that the boy was saved, relatively unscathed. Any parents in that situation would have wanted zoo officials to do whatever necessary to save their child. Those who posted hateful messages on social media, such as “that animal is more important than your (expletive) kid” and “u should’ve been shot,” need professional help. It also is doubtful that many of those who have been so highly critical of the boy’s mother have ever had to deal with a rambunctious 4-year-old boy. Putting aside the heated argument for a moment, this incident needs to be

viewed in a larger perspective. As so often happens, this is an example where the outpouring of grief is greatest for a “noble” animal, a beautiful beast, one to which we can ascribe human feelings. Many of the critics claimed Harambe was trying to “protect” the child, ignoring the possibility he might unintentionally have crushed the boy’s head like a coconut. We love the cuddly giant pandas, the sleek and beautiful big cats, the elephants and rhinos whose numbers are dwindling. They’re all so majestic and photogenic. But we don’t often pay as much attention to the fact that thousands of humbler species of plants and animals are on the brink of extinction around the world. Amphibians – the environmental canaries in the coal mine – are disappearing with alarming regularity, due in large part to climate change and destruction of habitat – things we humans should be working to control. Bats, necessary for insect control and plant pollination, are dying by the millions, with five species now endangered in the United States. Few of us have ever heard of the Gunnison sage grouse, but it is the most endangered bird in North America, soon likely to go the

way of the carrier pigeon. GOP presidential nominee Donald Trump was berating California wildlife officials last week for diverting water to protect the endangered delta smelt, a 3-inch fish that resembles a bait minnow. Trump implied that giving that water to farmers instead would solve the state’s drought problems. That’s the kind of thinking that has led to habitat destruction worldwide. The notion that we can accommodate any and all of the needs of humans at the expense of wildlife is a big part of the reason that lowland gorillas are facing extinction. It’s why those desperately trying to save the gorillas have resorted to efforts to breed them in zoos. It’s a sad commentary about how little we regard and how much we still have to learn about the intertwined relationship of all living things. Harambe should have been living and procreating in a lowland forest in central Africa. Instead, he was a captive in the Cincinnati Zoo, a last-ditch candidate to save his species. Ultimately, we’re all complicit in his death. James Werrell is opinion page editor of The Herald.

CHARLES HARRITY AP file

Muhammad Ali speaks at an anti-war rally in 1967.

else?” some of my classmates asked. “He shouldn’t get any special treatment just because he’s a famous athlete.” But Mr. Brix, a compelling, combative, wiry guy with a heavy New York accent, was adept at deflating our preconceived assumptions. “What does he stand to gain?” our teacher asked. “If he’s drafted, he won’t be stationed anywhere near the front lines. He’ll go around entertaining the troops with boxing demonstrations, and he’ll be home in a year or so.” Brix, a World War II navy veteran, pointed out that Ali would pay a horrendous price for refusing to be drafted because of his religious beliefs. And he was right – Ali was stripped of his title, convicted of draft evasion, sentenced to five years in prison, fined $10,000 and banned from boxing for three years.

He stayed out of prison as his case was appealed and, that same year, the U.S. Supreme Court overturned his conviction for evading the draft. But he didn’t return to the ring until 1970. Because of his unwavering assertion that “I ain’t got no quarrel with those Vietcong,” he sacrificed three of the prime years of his boxing career during which he undoubtedly could have made millions of dollars. But it’s a decision he apparently never regretted. Many of the homilies for Ali, who died a week ago at age 74 after a long battle with Parkinson’s disease, seemed to imply that the public admired his refusal to be drafted from the start. Not so. He was reviled by many as a draft dodger, even as someone who aided and abetted the enemy. Many found his conversion to Islam, and his close association with his mentor, Malcolm X, to be both alien and threatening. And Ali didn’t entirely shy away from the notion that he was different from the more mainstream, nonviolent civil rights leaders of the day, such as Martin Luther King Jr. and Ralph David Abernathy Sr. Ali also pointedly distanced himself from other revered black boxers, such as Joe Louis, whom he saw as too accommodating to the white establishment. Ali, by contrast, could seem dangerous both

inside and outside the ring. But that was just one side of the man who declared himself “The Greatest” and then lived up to that self-bestowed title, ultimately becoming the most recognizable man in the world. In the course of his life, he demonstrated that, in addition to being a great boxer, he also was a showman, a poet, a deft comedian, as well as a seriously caring, generous and religious man. No one would ever say his boxing talents were beside the point; he was an unparalleled athlete first and foremost. But that was just part of the mix that elevated him to global fame and universal adoration. Ali, after he quit boxing and as his disease ravaged him, became more embraceable. It was easy to forget the younger, angrier, more threatening Ali. But we shouldn’t succumb to hazy nostalgia. Ali became “The Greatest” in large part because he stood up to the white sporting establishment, stood up for his religious beliefs, and stood up to all comers in the ring until age finally took its toll. Ali became a cuddly goodwill ambassador in his later years. But he wasn’t always that way – and ignoring the younger Ali would diminish him. James Werrell is opinion page editor of The Herald.

The beguiling allure of the summer Olympic Games

BY JAMES WERRELL

jwerrell@heraldonline.com

Women’s Olympic beach volleyball: Come for the bikinis; stay for the sport! Actually, the bikinis worn by the women’s volleyball players are an issue only for a few cranks on social media who complain they are too revealing. For this sport, however, they seem entirely utilitarian and well suited to the need to be able to leap, sprint, slam and dive. And do it on sand. The bikinis worn by the volleyball players, it should be noted, also are considerably more ample than those worn by many of the Brazilians on the beaches of Rio. But attire aside, it’s the sport that grabs you. After only a few minutes of watching, you’re locked into this duel in the sand, an amazing display of physical prowess and stamina – or, should we say, grit. For fans of the Olympics, it’s customary to root for countrymen. It’s also practical. We’ve never heard of most of these people before, so if we

MARCIO JOSE SANCHEZ AP

In beach volleyball, America was represented by the team of Kerri Walsh Jennings and April Ross.

want athletes to cheer for, we cheer the Americans. In beach volleyball, Americans were privileged to be represented by the team of Kerri Walsh Jennings and April Ross. These two made it all the way to the semifinals before falling to Brazil. They would come back and beat Brazil later to win the bronze medal. But their performance was more astounding than that. They lost only three sets during the entire competition, the last two to Brazil. And those were only the third and fourth lost sets of Walsh Jennings’ Olympic career. Dating back to the 2004 Olympics in Athens, the 38-year-old has 26 wins and, now, one loss. Many of us probably will forget her name soon after

the Olympic torch is extinguished, but for now we know we have witnessed greatness. And that really is the attraction of these Games. Some, of course, are content to let this quadrennial event slip by without notice. Others binge on the Games, watching every event they can. Many more, it seems, tune in for a glimpse and end up watching well past a sensible bedtime to see how the men’s kayaking finals turn out. That’s the beauty and, in a way, the absurdity of the Olympics. When else would we set aside time to watch a kayaking competition? Or field hockey? Or javelin throwing? Or dressage? Or archery? Or rowing? Or badminton? And why, every four

years, do we go absolutely nuts over girls in spangly outfits bouncing around on beams as wide as a credit card or hurling themselves impossibly high into the air and cartwheeling across the floor to the sound of bad music? It has to do with excellence. There’s something about watching the best athletes in the world in their sport – even if it’s table tennis – as they compete for gold. We’re willing to put aside the somewhat creepy fact that these people have done nothing else for the past four years but concentrate on their sport to the exclusion of most other normal human activities. But that, too, adds to the drama. One of the semifinal races for the 110-meter hurdle event featured a runner from Haiti who got tangled up in the first hurdle out of the blocks and ended up on his back. His Olympic Games were over in less than a second. All that training for nothing! But he got up and finished the race anyway. It was heroics on the small scale, the human scale, the poetry of individual achievement. And that’s really why we stay up too late to watch. James Werrell is the opinion page editor of The Herald.

2016 News Awards

FIRST PLACE Column Writing Daily 14,000-40,000 Division

Andrew Dys The Herald

Stop fretting about hotels and start worrying about Airbnb BY STEVE BAILEY

2016 News Awards

THIRD PLACE Column Writing Daily Over 40,000 Division

Steve Bailey The Post and Courier

f we don’t build it, will they not come? Or will they just check in at the Holiday Inn in Mount Pleasant or West Ashley and drive downtown — circling, circling, circling the Market in search of a parking spot. We are a people united, united against the dreaded hotel. You would think the four-star Restoration Hotel on Wentworth belched smoke and had a rooftop toxic waste dump instead of a rooftop bar designed for its rich guests from away. Repeat after me: Bailey No! More! Hotels! But answer me this, too: Where are we going to put all these people who keep coming? We like to complain about how they are destroying our way of life almost as much as we like to enjoy the way of life they help make possible. We are one of the best restaurant cities in America. We have a dozen small theaters, dozens of galleries and good music downtown. We have our magnificent gardens. And much more in a city of 130,000 people. Most of our visitors come and go. Some, though, fall in love and make Charleston home. They come to school here or send their kids to school. They buy homes. They retire here. They

start companies. Steve Parker spent a single night with a friend on his first visit to Charleston. In 2007, he returned for his bachelor party. When it came time to find a new home for the ad agency he started in his New York apartment with a frat brother, he considered places like Nashville, Louisville, Raleigh and Charleston. Twice he came back to Charleston with his wife. Could we live here? The answer: definitely. Today, Parker’s fast-growing digital advertising company, Levelwing, has 44 employees in Mount Pleasant, and an A-list of clients such as Mercedes, Firestone and Gildan. He’s looking to hire another eight or nine employees if you are interested. “The growth is going to happen whether they like it our not,” says Parker, 42. “They should pivot their argument to say, ‘How do we do this in a smart way?’ ” Our current case of hotel hysteria is not smart. Charleston is growing — a good thing — and we are going to need not only more hotels, but more of everything to accommodate it. More housing, more and better transportation, better schools and more services, particularly for the residents on the peninsula. The concern about hotels is all about the peninsula, the jewel of Charleston. How much more can we take? Where is that “tipping point” when “we” are consumed by “them.” That will happen

only if we fail to take advantage of the enormous opportunities all around us. For such an old city, hemmed in by the Cooper and the Ashley, Charleston — the peninsula — still has plenty of room to grow. In fact, it desperately needs to grow its local population, which has fallen by half to 35,000 since 1940 and continues to edge down. The changing economics of Charleston have made the WestEdge with its acres of parking lots and the Neck district on the upper peninsula hot properties, potential homes to thousands of residents. Farther up the peninsula is the longstalled Magnolia project, ridiculed for its bridge to nowhere, but it was and is exactly the right idea to turn a polluted wasteland into a vast new mix of commerce and housing. And then there is maybe the biggest opportunity of all as the State Ports Authority begins selling off waterfront piers on the Cooper. The SPA cares about raising the money for its new North Charleston terminal, but even more important for the shape of the city is what goes there next. The generations of Charlestonians to come need a strong say in that. Finally, blocks and blocks on the peninsula remain underused and worse. The growth is creating opportunities all over town to develop housing for regular people not just the rich, to build offices and, yes, hotels, too. It doesn’t have to be a zero sum game.

Our guiding principle should be residents first. What the 5.5 million people who came here last year like best is what we like best: Charleston is a living city, not a museum like Williamsburg or a Disneyland like Key West. The tourists love nothing more than to go home and talk about the local they met outside City Hall. This living city is what we must protect. Lost in the noise about the hotels is the real threat of the Airbnb short-term rentals, a potential doomsday machine for the peninsula. Our mantra should be no displacement of residents. New hotels should not be allowed to do that and neither should short-term rentals. Airbnb has the potential to displace huge numbers of residents at a time when we are trying to rebuild the neighborhoods. And regulating hotels is far easier than regulating short-term rentals. We’ve been regulating hotels forever; who knows the unintended consequences of a new industry built by Airbnb? Get this wrong, and there will be no going back. We need to step back from the barricades of the hotel wars. We are missing the big opportunities before us, and the real threat right next door. Steve Bailey is a former Boston Globe columnist who has returned to his hometown. He can be reached at sjbailey1060@yahoo.com.

Buddy, can you spare a minute? West Ashley just says no BY STEVE BAILEY

yan Cockrell has spent two years making a movie about his hometown’s “addiction” to cars. Now all he needs is an ending. Bill Moody and Keith Waring are about to give him one. The two West Ashley city councilmen are the perfect heavies every good movie needs, the tag-team leaders of the effort to kill the reviled bike lane across the Ashley River. What could be a bridge that brings us together is going to be instead a river that divides us if they get their way — and Bailey they probably will. The bike lane has become more than a bike lane — it has become a symbol of old-fashioned Charleston intransigence. Faced with growth, the only answer to more traffic is more roads, wider roads and more roads still. It is not going to work: We can’t build enough roads to fix our problems. We should be getting people out of cars, not putting more people in more cars. To be against the bike lane is to be in a familiar place in Charleston: on the wrong side of history.

In their documentary “Backpedal,” Cockrell and his colleagues at Lunch+Recess, a tiny production company on Broad Street, take dead aim at Conde Nast’s poll that four years in a row has declared Charleston the best city in America to visit. “But what if you live here; is Charleston really the number one city?” they ask on their website (www.lunchandrecess.com). “Every time you get on a bike you run the risk of getting hurt or killed by a frustrated driver.” “Backpedal” isn’t going to be a “Blackfish,” the award-winning documentary that brought SeaWorld to its knees over captive killer whales. But in an era when opinion is shaped by YouTube, TripAdvisor and the like, the documentary will feed a narrative of a city increasingly divided between its downtown and its suburbs, its rich and its poor, and those in cars and those who aren’t. The Charleston Inc. marketing machine makes much of all those “best” ratings. But we are nowhere to be found on Bicycle Magazine’s list of 50 top bike cities in America. The 136-year-old League of American Bicyclists rates South Carolina No. 44 in the nation and lists five “bikefriendly” cities in the state, including Columbia, Greenville and Spartanburg. Charleston doesn’t make the cut.

And on it goes. Walkscore.com, which rates how walkable cities are, gives Charleston an average score of 39, which means you need a car to do almost anything. While some of the peninsula neighborhoods get high marks for being walkable, Charleston overall ranks with Tulsa and behind Detroit. This is the famed Charleston brand we have worked so hard to build? Moody, Waring and their allies on the city council might be relics, but they aren’t stupid. They can count, and they know who votes and who doesn’t. In a city of 130,000, about 25,000 people voted in the last mayoral election, maybe twice the usual turnout. The median age of those voters: 55 or older. Moody, Waring and the new mayor, John Tecklenburg, know who elects them, and those voters aren’t riding bikes to the polls. These are the data that matter to them. Never mind that the test of the bike lane City Council had allegedly been waiting to see showed a one-minute delay for drivers at the peak of the morning rush hour. One minute. Moody and Waring dismiss the test as inaccurate and say a bike lane over the Legare bridge is a short-term solution to a long-term problem. “My colleagues that voted in favor of the lane

closure have heard loud and clear from their constituents and changed their mind,” Moody wrote me in an email from the South of France. Said Waring: “I am for a way across the Ashley. I am against that alternative.” And the mayor? In the past, Tecklenburg has said he is “sympathetic” to a bike lane. But six months after succeeding Joe Riley, he is looking like a nice guy who has his heart in the right place — and is in danger of becoming one of the least important people in the room. Charleston is divided enough. We should be bringing West Ashley and the peninsula together, not excluding people from the roads and bridges. A bike lane that runs to West Ashley also runs from West Ashley. Just saying no is not acceptable. Until we start getting smarter by embracing density, staggering working hours and funding mass transit appropriately, our traffic nightmares are going to only get worse. More cars are not the answer to more cars. The Ashley River bridge is a good place to start getting it right. Steve Bailey is a former Boston Globe columnist who has returned to his hometown. He can be reached at sjbailey1060@yahoo.com.

Take wrecking ball to antiquated local housing projects BY STEVE BAILEY

he Charleston Housing Authority wants to preserve Gadsden Green, one of the city’s oldest and largest housing projects. It should, instead, want to tear it down. Gadsden Green is a symbol of the problems and oppor t u nit ies confronting Charleston as poor and middleincome residents alike are squeezed Bailey off the peninsula by a voracious tourism-fueled economy that builds hotels but not much else. Plagued by crime, drugs and flooding (Flood Street literally runs through the place), the 264-unit Gadsden Green is the “hardest sell” of all the city’s housing projects. And those on the long waiting list will sometimes get back in line rather than go there, says Donald Cameron, the authority’s executive director for 35 years. “I don’t like it, but it is someplace to stay for now,” a woman sitting on her front step told me. She is 52, has been at Gadsden Green for two years and like everyone else I talked to had no interest in having her name in the newspaper. “Everywhere is crime,” she said. “I can’t even bring my grandchildren here. I am afraid something will happen.” Gadsden Green is all black and has been since it was built in 1940. Just across Harmon Field is Burke High, which last year was 98 percent African American.

About a mile away, the city’s largest housing project, 417-unit Meeting Street Manor and Cooper River Court, is also all black. Beside it is Sanders Clyde Elementary, which was 97 percent African American last year. And we wonder why America can’t bridge its racial divide. In a handsome brochure celebrating the housing authority’s 75th anniversary in 2010, Cameron told about how the city’s worst black slum was torn down in the late 1930s and replaced by Robert Mills Manor, which was then “whites only.” “Yes, segregation had raised its ugly head,” Cameron wrote at the time. Segregation, in fact, never went away in Charleston’s public housing. Fifty years ago, Charleston ran two public housing systems: one for whites and one for blacks. Today, Charleston has only one — and it is for blacks. Ninety-nine percent of the authority’s residents are black, and 90 percent of the 1,200 families on the waiting list are black, Cameron says. What the housing authority has done, against difficult odds, is help African Americans remain on the peninsula as gentrification has forced them out. About 6,000 black residents — or half those still on the peninsula — now live in housing provided by the authority. In 1980, there were 28,000 blacks on the peninsula. Cameron differentiates between then and now by saying the days of Jim Crow were politically sanctioned. Today, segregation is driven by economics. “The result is the same,” Cameron says. And he adds: “I don’t think it is healthy.”

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The city of Charleston’s Gadsden Green public housing project. So what to do about it? Cameron’s answer is to keep doing what he is doing. That means building a few apartments like the 60 or so he is planning at the foot of the old bridge and some senior housing nearing completion by the aquarium. Meanwhile, he will try to maintain the current 4,100 units in the face of reduced federal subsidies. With luck, the authority will celebrate its 100th anniversary — or its 150th — looking a lot like the one we have today: decaying projects filled with a permanent black underclass. We have to do better. Some cities already are. In Boston, the housing authority is facing the same pressures we are: aging public housing projects and no money to improve or replace them. Rather than standing still, the Boston Housing Authority asked developers for propos-

struction, says Sarah Barnat, who will help manage the project for Corcoran. All current residents in good standing are guaranteed a place in the new development, which will be done in phases over a decade. In a recent community meeting, residents wanted to know how they could get in on the first phase, she said. Bill McGonagle, who heads Boston’s housing authority, says rebuilding Bunker Hill is just the start. “The federal money for public housing as we know it is gone, and it is not coming back,” he said. “This is the future for better or worse.” Count Cameron as a skeptic: “I just don’t know that it is appropriate for us.” If Charleston and Boston have similar needs, they also have similar assets: Both have strong property markets and decaying housing projects in prime locations that could accommodate much more density. Think what is about to happen in the city’s new WestEdge district next to Gadsden Green, and what is already happening on the upper peninsula near Cooper River Court. Once upon a time these projects were welcome replacements for rat-infested slums with colorful names like “Rotten Borough” and “Cool Blow.” As Charleston has been transformed, the projects have become relics, frozen in time, not serving their African American residents but isolating them from their own city, generation after generation. Shame on us if we can do no better.

als on all its properties, particularly its older federally subsidized projects. Already, Boston has signed a deal to rebuild the largest housing project in New England, the 1,100-unit Bunker Hill behemoth in the city’s Charlestown neighborhood. Boston developer Corcoran Jennison Associates and SunCal of Irvine, Calif., will replace the public housing units one for one and add 2,100 market-rate units. The key to making the numbers work is Boston’s hot real estate market and roughly tripling the density, allowing the market-rate units to subsidize the public housing units. The developers will own the buildings, but the housing authority will ensure affordability for low-income residents through a 99-year ground lease. One of the trickiest issues will be Steve Bailey writes regularly for overseeing the transition, moving the Commentary page. He can be residents out and back in during con- reached at sjbailey1060@yahoo.com.

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LIFE HAPPENS

Broken wrist can lead to bad hair day

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Time to consider Ireland

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NC law has 1 tall woman worried

PAM STONE

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o last Friday afternoon, I broke my wrist — of course, horse related, it’s always horse related. The conversation, approximately one minute before I mounted up, went like this: “OK, I can’t afford to get hurt so before I get on, is there anything I need to know about this guy? Any buck or rear?” “No, nothing like that, he’s too lazy.” We walked sedately half way around the arena. He stopped, I clucked for him to walk as I squeezed with my calves and his response was to rear up ... and fall over, scrambling to the right until he landed on his bum, outside the arena, beneath an oak tree. I’m a church goin’ gal and even though I caught sight of my left wrist crumpling grotesquely upon impact, as far as I’m concerned, the good Lord grabbed me under the armpits and flung me far out of danger (I mean really far, I mean, like, Chesnee) to the left. And I am eternally grateful not to have been eyeballing that horse’s back coming down upon me, crushing my chest and pelvis — a common and sometimes fatal, scenario. It’s sort of like if a big rig cut you off and you rolled your SUV and found yourself ejected somewhere on the side of the road with just a broken bone. Your first thought would be, “Seriously? I’m still alive? Well, thank you! Thank you very much, indeed!” So that’s how my Memorial Day weekend began. There was no operating room available when I got to the emergency room and was sent home in a splint with a hefty dose of oxycodon. I returned Saturday for surgery with plates and screws, only to return Sunday at 4 a.m., whimpering and cussing because I got behind the pain by not taking enough meds. In six weeks, this will all be behind me. I’m ever so grateful for my support team consisting of Paul, who drove me hastily to ER and sat quietly as I came to from surgery, announcing, among other things, the drugs must be great because I dreamt (Donald) Trump had the nomination. Paul also has blearily headed out to the barn at 7 a.m., sharp, to feed and muck stalls, while assorted horse friends and my sister have taken turns hand-walking my horse, Forrest, as he continues his own rehab. The biggest surprise of all is learning what I can do with just one hand! I’ve always had big ol’ man hands. Which is why I never wore delicate, feminine women’s wrist watches. They look ridiculous around my big, bony wrist — I always wore a vintage, round-faced men’s watch with a thick, leather band. Don’t ask me why, but it always made me feel like Amelia Earhart. I’m pretty sure she’d never have worn a dinky, girlie one. I have found that in my crustacean-like workhardened claw, I can open a bottle of Advil — that’s right, squeeze the cap with two SEE LIFE HAPPENS, D5

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think,” I announced to Paul after watching an episode of “Travel with Rick Steves,” “We must consider retiring to Ireland.” “I thought you were all about retiring to some medieval Italian hill town,” Paul replied, not looking up from the highlight reel from Kobe Bryant’s last game. “Yes,” I mused, “but when we win the lottery, we can have both. And actually, I scratched off the hill town and have now decided on Lake Como.” “To be neighbors with the Clooneys?” “Well, not her, but him.” “Ah.” said Paul. I could tell by this brief reply he had exercised his courtesy to the extent that he could as he really wanted to watch Kobe. And if I continued in attempts to divert his attention toward a subject that was all fantasy, anyway, he would be less than receptive. Actually, he’d be pretty cheesed off. During a commercial, I found my chance. “So, Rick Steves said that the town of Dingle,” I began, pouring a glass of something white and on sale, “has only 1,900 inhabitants.” “Probably because nobody wants to live in a town call Dingle.” Paul muttered. “Possibly. Especially as it’s shaped like a peninsula,” I offered. “In fact, it is a peninsula and you and I rode horses along the beach there on that vacation we did forever ago.” “Yeah,” Paul grunted, “and it poured the whole time. And you sold me on that trip by saying ‘It hardly rains in August.’ So why would you want to go retire in a town with 100 people less than the town we live in, now?” Kobe was back on the screen scoring basket, after basket, after basket. “I wonder, since it was his last game, if the other guys just let him win?” I asked, only to receive a snort in reply. “Anyway,” I began, to no one in particular as Paul was now fully immersed in his program and had turned the volume up to drown out any more blarney, “Not only is Dingle charming and small and crime-free, but it also has 52 pubs.” Paul immediately muted SEE IRELAND, D5

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his recent legislation that was allegedly hustled through in North Carolina, opponents will tell you, is far less about bathrooms and far more about the denying of civil rights. The governor argues no civil rights have been changed. Others who aren't sure can read the bill in its entirety. But the bathroom aspect of it, the new “you must use the bathroom that corresponds with the gender recorded on your birth certificate” (although it appears no one told Pat McCrory that it is legal in North Carolina for a transgender to change their gender on their birth certificate), has quite frankly, made me pretty nervous. I mean, I go into North Carolina a lot on business, and in some of the larger cities there have been clashes as supporters have stood with cardboard signs reading, “NO MEN IN WOMEN'S BATHROOMS!” while proponents shout back, “NO HATE IN MY STATE!” And then in the meantime, I might have to go to the bathroom. All flatchested 6-feet, 2-inches of me. Now, what would you do? Listen, I've been called “Sir” enough in my life by cashiers, not quite looking up as they've given me back my change (as well as one that stared me straight in the eyes and replied, “if you say so,” upon my correcting her) to know that I could probably pass as a guy. An incredibly skinny guy with a penchant for hair bands, but a guy. Seriously, if you saw me walking along with Caitlyn Jenner, you'd probably think, “Huh, she looks OK, but weird that she didn't get breast implants.” So which bathroom should I go in if I encounter protesters or suspicious glances? And keep in mind this could be after lunch and two sweet teas and my SEE LAW, D4

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Keith West, right, shakes the hand of Clarendon School District 2 superintendent John Tindal after being named the new football head coach and athletic director at Manning High School. West, who quarterbacked Sumter High School to the 1987 4A Division I state title, will be a head coach for the first time after 23 years as an assistant.

BY DENNIS BRUNSON dennis@theitem.com MANNING – Keith West is finally getting the opportunity to do something he has longed to do for a very long time. West, who quarterbacked Sumter High School to its first 4A Division I football state title almost three decades ago, was named the new football head coach and athletic director at Manning High School on Thursday. It will be his first head coaching gig. “I’ve put my name in the hat once or twice,” West joked when asked how many times he’s applied for head jobs during his 23 years as an assistant coach. The 46-year-old West replaces Tony Felder as head coach. Felder resigned the position after three years as head coach, going 2-8 in the 2015 season. Felder was 11-19 at Manning and didn’t lead the Monarchs to the 3A state playoffs in any year.

West replaces Brian Joyner as AD. Joyner held that post for three years as well. “I was excited,” West said when Clarendon School District 2 superintendent John Tindal officially offered him the positions. “I was hoping that I would hear from him. I’m just as happy as I can be. I’m thankful to have this opportunity here in Manning.” West will come to Manning from Westwood High in Blythewood, where he has been the quarterbacks and wide receivers coach since 2012. Among West’s other stops as an assistant are Sumter, Greenwood, Lugoff-Elgin and Ridge View. “We’re very pleased to have him coming to Manning,” Tindal said of West. “He comes with a lot of great references and people having good comments about him.” Tindal said there were 40 applicants for the positions before he narrowed the list down to 17. That list was eventually whittled down to eight candidates.

Tindal said West was not the first one offered the positions. However, he’s more than comfortable with him in the roles. “In the end, we believe he’s the right person to lead our athletic program,” Tindal said. Tindal said the school board made the decision to merge the head football coach and AD positions together after having them split up for the three previous years. “One, we felt like it was important to do that in order for the head football coach to have the final say in who is on his staff,” Tindal said. “And, two, we felt like we needed the two together because the two supplements packaged together would make the job more attractive.” West was the starting quarterback at Sumter for three years, leading it to two state championship games, winning the title in 1987. He moved on to

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Former Greenwood High standouts Josh Norman, left, and D.J. Swearinger embrace after Sunday's NFC championship game at Bank of America Stadium in Charlotte, N.C. The Carolina Panthers defeated the Arizona Cardinals 49-15 to advance to Super Bowl 50.

Greenwood High teammates relish NFC title experience By MICHAEL CHRISTOPHER mchristopher@indexjournal.com

Carolina, which was hosting its first NFC title game in franchise history, forced seven turnovers, setting a new franchise postseason record. Luke Kuechly returned an interception for a score, marking the first time a player had a picksix in back-to-back playoff games in NFL history. Norman said he was proud to be a part of the Panthers’ stellar defensive unit. “I’m extremely proud of this whole group,” the first-year Pro Bowler said. “This secondary that I’ve been with, since... oh my gosh. This year I can’t describe how close I am to them, it’s almost like they’re brothers to me. “It’s unreal that we come out there week in and week out with people doubting us, denying us. (Saying) ‘The weakest point in (Carolina) is the secondary.’ I think we had seven turnovers (Sunday). I think we put on pressure. I think we came to show up who we really are, and that’s what thieves do.”

There could only be one winner. Sunday’s NFC championship was a special game for two former Greenwood High School graduates in Carolina’s Josh Norman and Arizona’s D.J. Swearinger. The conclusion of the game left each player with different reactions, but both noted how hard they each worked to get there. The Panthers routed the Cardinals 49-15, setting several franchise marks along the way. “Every play counts,” Swearinger said. “You can’t miss tackles, you can’t drop the ball. You can’t miss your blocks. You’ve got to be a pro. You’ve got to be a pro at the highest level, and the best team will win. At the end of the day the best team, in games like this, whoever wants it more will win, and that’s something I’m going to take with me the rest of my career and hopefully I’ll see a few more of those.” See TEAMMATES, page 3B

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Carolina Panthers linebackers Thomas Davis, left, and Luke Kuechly make a tackle on Darren Fells during Sunday’s NFC Championship game at Bank of America stadium in Charlotte, N.C.

Rivera: LB Davis has surgery, expected to play in Super Bowl By STEVE REED Associated Press

play with,” Panthers coach Ron Rivera said Monday. “So we are excited about that possibility.” Rivera did not know which forearm bone Davis broke. He said the 11-year NFL veteran may need to wear a brace on his arm similar to the one worn by New England Patriots tight end Rob Gronkowski.

CHARLOTTE, N.C. — AllPro linebacker Thomas Davis had surgery Monday morning on his broken right forearm, but is expected to play in the Super Bowl on Feb. 7. “My understanding is if everything goes well it is something he can mostly certainly See DAVIS, page 3B

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CAROLINA PANTHERS

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It was once a rite of passage in the NFL. Every summer, teams would pack up their operations and travel across the state or beyond for the annual ritual of bonding and football. Itâ€™s becoming more of a rarity as more teams opt to hold training camp in the comfort of home. In 1999, only the Browns and Dolphins held camp at their home facilities, with every other team traveling to a separate location. Now only a dozen teams hold camp off site, with 10 of those using college campuses.

Coming off a Super Bowl appearance and boasting a star-filled roster, including reigning NFL MVP Cam Newton, the Carolina Panthers are drawing fans in record numbers to training camp at Wofford College. The Panthers are one of a dozen teams remaining that hold training camp away from their home base.

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Saturday morning the Panthers took to the practice field as fans gathered to watch at Wofford College. Jonathan Stewart signs autographs prior to a recent practice. JOHN BYRUM/JOHN.BYRUM@SHJ.COM

$8 million Economic impact of the Carolina Panthers training camp in 2015, a record. With attendance heading for a record high, the economic impact could be even greater this year. Source: Spartanburg Convention and Visitors Bureau

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Blood, sweat and cheers

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No longer stuck on sidelines, cheerleading involves fierce competition, acrobatic stunts and some serious risk

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Emma Stevenson (left) and Abby Bietel fly through the air during basket tosses at cheerleading practice at Wando High School. Brandi Sanichar (far left) prepares to catch Emma. BY GRACE RAYNOR graynor@postandcourier.com

achel McNulty was the first to notice. “Brandi’s not OK!”she screamed. “Brandi’s not OK!” Brandi Sanichar, a Wando High School cheerleader performing across the gym at a competition, was lying on the ground — she blacked out for a second after taking a knee to the face when a stunt went wrong. And though Sanichar somehow rose to her feet to finish the dance portion of the routine with her teammates, of one thing assistant coach McNulty was sure of: Something about

from the bridge of her nose. “The trainers fixed her up, her mom came Is cheerleading a real sport? Go to in and it was, ‘You’re going to the hospital,’ ” postandcourier.com/polls to vote. Smith said. The prognosis: Sanichar’s nose was broken in Sanichar was off. two different places. For starters, Sanichar looked off balance, A pyramid stunt in November 2015 that something head coach Tyler Ann Smith picked Sanichar and her teammates had mastered up on, too. hundreds of times in practice had gone awry “I knew that something had happened to her during the competition. because she was disoriented going into the As a base, Sanichar was responsible for helpdance,” Smith said. ing support the flyer, who was supposed to do a “How she got through it, I don’t know.” front flip and a spin down from the stunt after Sanichar’s head was also throbbing, she relayed, and as she walked off the mat she bled Please see RISKS, Page A6

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Charleston RiverDogs pitcher Sean Carley is like many minor leaguers who are making less than minimum wage.

Living the dream? Minor League Baseball By The Numbers

$1,100-$2,150 Minor league salary range from Single-A to Triple-A per month

$507,500

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$5,831,200

Bonus money Yankees paid to their 2016 draft picks

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Adam Poore taking his talent to new heights BY BRANDON MAUK bmauk@aikenstandard.com After winning his third North American title, Adam Poore is aiming ever higher, no matter where it takes him and no matter who he faces. The Aiken native’s kickboxing career has taken him all over the globe. With a 30-13 record as an amateur member of the World Association of Kickboxing Organizations (WAKO), KH KDV KDG WKH RSSRUWXQLW\ WR ¿JKW LQ Western and Eastern Europe and Latin America, among other destinations. In doing so, he’s faced opponents of varying class sizes, and has used a balanced, adjustment-heavy approach with every matchup. ³:HOO DQ\WLPH \RX ¿JKW XS LQ D heavier weight class, against larger opponents, it’s going to be a lot harder on your body because the strikes are going to carry a lot more force,” Poore said. “I was able to use speed and movement against them though, so they really couldn’t keep up with my pace.” Fresh off winning the light-middleweight (156 pounds) title in Las Vegas in July – after having to move up a weight class after his scheduled opponent couldn’t qualify – Poore,

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Three-time North American Kickboxing Champion Adam Poore is an Aiken native who trains in Augusta. He hopes to fight professionally this year and will participate in the World Games in 2017 after winning the 156-pound championship in early July. 27, is currently preparing for the PanAmerican Championships in Cancun, Mexico, in November, and a victory there will qualify him to compete in the World Games in Wroclaw, Poland in July 2017.

He certainly would love the opportunity to represent his country on one of the biggest athletic stages in the world, especially after losing at the Please see POORE, Page 2B

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Lakewood High School’s Zaire Cain collapsed during football practice last summer and had to be resuscitated. He spent the better part of the next six weeks in a medically induced coma. He recovered and went on to earn All-State honors at this year’s strength meet with an eye on returning to the football field for his senior season.

BY JUSTIN DRIGGERS justin@theitem.com

t was a only a few weeks ago when Brain Jackson was talking with a group of students that he received some of the best news he’d heard in months. “Hey coach,” they said, “Zaire’s back to normal.” Thinking about it for a moment, the Lakewood High School football head coach couldn’t help but respond, “But he’s so silly and goofy.” “Yeah,” the students said. “That’s Zaire. That’s how he was before.”

It was a welcome description of Zaire Cain, although there have been many more for the rising LHS senior. Standing 6-feet-2-inches and weighing 330 pounds, Cain’s somewhat imposing physique is offset by his easy-going personality. “He’s a big, lovable teddy bear,” Jackson said. “Heart of a lion, very courageous.” And a talented football player, too. Although he throws discus and shot put for the track team and is a standout in the weight room, Cain’s passion lies on the gridiron -- something he hopes will carry him to college one day. Jackson was hoping to harness that

passion when he took over the Gators last season and implemented the WingT running attack. Cain was going to be a vital cog on both the offensive and defensive lines. However, all of those plans changed one fateful morning last July, and although “normal” is the best description Jackson could have hoped for after that day, he can’t help but think of Cain as something few people ever get to witness. “He’s a walking miracle,” Jackson said.

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Carpenter returning to form after life-threatening injuries to his legs BY KYLE DAWSON kdawson@aikenstandard.com Ryan Carpenter stepped out into the January cold, beyond unprepared for the freezing conditions wearing gym shorts and a T-shirt. Any discomfort from the frigid temperatures couldn’t have possibly matched his feeling of relief – after all, he had just nearly died in a Conway hospital. Carpenter, midway through his junior year at Coastal Carolina as a member of the Chanticleers’ golf team, returned WR FDPSXV IRU DQ XQXVXDOO\ LQWHQVH ¿UVW spring workout. That day, a Wednesday, Carpenter felt his legs fail during a set of trap bar squats, before which he vomited during medicine ball speed squats and after which the vomiting continued and was DFFRPSDQLHG E\ YLVLRQV RI ZKLWH ÀDVKHV “(The trainer) was yelling at me and telling me to get back into the workout pretty quick,” he said. “ ... I was about to lift it up, and I can’t remember how many pounds I had on it, but before I did he stopped me and put 10 more pounds on each side and then told me to go. And he was sitting there, right on top of me. I did like two or three, and I was done. My legs just gave out.” For the rest of that day, and the Thursday that followed, he could barely walk, feeling he had no strength in his legs. Carpenter had to grab onto railings to pull himself up stairs, not an uncommon behavior after a taxing leg day in the gym. At the time, he thought it was just the aftermath of a bad workout. On Friday, he drove himself to the hospital – arriving with four hours to spare before his kidneys failed, according to his doctor. “When I got there, the color had drained from my face. My eyes were going black,” he said. “My heart was barely beating. It was very, very low.” The need for the hospital visit, his legs and back swelling to extreme levels and his body locking up while watching TV SUBMITTED PHOTO the night before, all happened so sudCoastal Carolina golfer Ryan Carpenter practices his golf swing while hooked up to an IV. Carpenter, a denly for Carpenter. former South Aiken High School golfer, spent seven days in the hospital in January recovering from leg Please see RYAN, Page 2B injuries that nearly resulted in severe medical procedures and kidney failure.

CLOVER’S STORIED BASKETBALL HISTORY

Roosevelt’s mighty ‘‘ run

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fter his mother Nannie passed away in 1990, Charles Bryson was rummaging through the contents of her trunk. He pulled out a folded newspaper article, stopping when he unfurled it to read the headline: “Roosevelt’s Mighty Tigers” Bryson beamed, his mind warping back to 1970. -----------Like the yellowed newspaper article, the Roosevelt Tigers’ 1970 basketball state championship has largely been forgotten. It was the Bryson last state title claimed by a 1A black school; all of South Carolina’s schools integrated the following school year. The 1970 championship run was a final chapter in the Roosevelt School’s history. The school building was constructed in 1955 and enrolled

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Clover administrators pulled Roosevelt’s championship trophies out of storage last winter and displayed them in the school’s trophy case alongside the Clover High memorabilia.

students from first to 12th grade. But by 1969, black students in ninth and 10th grade were already attending Clover High School and Roosevelt’s successful

basketball coach, Donald McNalley, took a job at Clover before the school year started. “We wanted our basketball season to be at Roosevelt, since

it was gonna be the last one,” Bryson said a few weeks ago. “(Clover coaches) had told us that if we came over there, they

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Clemson coach Dabo Swinney and Nolan Turner on the day the defensive back committed to Clemson at Vestavia Hills High in Alabama.

No fear Clemson freshman Turner embraces late father’s legacy, coach Swinney’s friendship BY GENE SAPAKOFF gsapakoff@postandcourier.com

ESTAVIA HILLS, ALA. — Dabo Swinney took his place on stage before a giant crucifix that saddest of Sundays. People smiled. To be gathered inside Hunter Hills Church of Christ in Prattville, Ala., on March 27 was to know Swinney as a humor-filled best friend all the way to the horrible end of former NFL fullback Kevin Turner’s six-year battle with Amyotrophic Lateral Sclerosis. “I was a walk-on football player at Alabama,” Swinney said in the eulogy, “and I was a walk-on coach at Clemson.” It was Easter. Swinney and his wife Kathleen drove 300 miles from their Clemson home to Prattville that morning. A perfect day for a funeral, Swinney thought along the interstate. The church was sprinkled with men who played football with Turner

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Former NFL fullback Kevin Turner (right) lived long enough in his battle against ALS to see his son, Nolan, sign to play college football at Clemson and for his old friend Dabo Swinney.

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6ZLQQH\ RZHV TXLWH D ELW WR *HQH 6WDOOLQJV CLEMSON — abo Swinney’s college football playing career was not the stuff of legend by any stretch of the imagination. He was a walk-on at the University of Alabama in 1989, and in three years as a scholarship player from 1990-92, the wide receiver managed just 81 yards on seven receptions. Not that any Crimson Tide receiver during that era caught a lot of balls or racked up a bunch of yards. Gene Stallings was the head coach, and his offensive plan was to run

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relentlessly at the opposition while letting defense take care of the rest. The best example OUT OF of his LEFT FIELD coaching style came SCOTT in the ADAMSON Sugar Bowl at the end of the 1992 season, when Stallings’ No. 2 ranked Alabama team thrashed brash and topranked Miami, 34-13. The

running game was more than enough to bowl over the Hurricanes, while the defense stalked and stuffed Heisman Trophy-winning quarterback Gino Torretta. The trash-talking players at “The U” were as quiet as church mice once the ﬁnal whistle blew. So it might seem a bit odd that Clemson boss Dabo Swinney, who oversees one of the most proliﬁc offenses in the nation, credits Stallings with molding him into what he has become — as both a coach and, in many ways, a man. “If not for him, I wouldn’t be here,” Swin-

ney said. “He’s been a great mentor for me, he’s a great friend … he’s been a big-time inﬂuence and example in a lot of ways.” On the surface the coaches couldn’t be much different. Swinney is excitable. Stallings was often stoic. Swinney likes to air it out and play a wide-open offense. Stallings would just as soon pass on that whole passing thing. Swinney leads his team down the hill while running full-throttle. Stallings ambled out SEE ADAMSON, PAGE C4

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Friday night fun is contagious in Walhalla

lemson men’s basThe storefront (Littleketball coach Brad john ColiBrownell recalls seum) is a time a few years ago impreswhen he was particisive, but pating in the Prowl and it’s the Growl Tour, an event goods in that allows Clemson the pancoaches the chance try (the to interact with Tiger Swann fans. PavilOUT OF While mingling with ion) that the Clemson faithful, a LEFT FIELD might woman came up to him, be the tugged on his shirt biggest SCOTT sleeve and leaned in. upgrade ADAMSON “You know,” she of all. whispered, “I like basketball better than “What’s been really football.” nice about it is, when Brownell remembered it comes to recruiting, that exchange last you have a complete sell Friday when the ribbon now,” Brownell said. was cut on the new and “Certainly the arena improved Littlejohn speaks for itself — that’s Coliseum and Swann all really exciting. But Pavilion. what’s as important as After years of playing anything is the Swann in an aging, run-of-thePavilion in the backmill arena and practichouse of our facility. ing across the street, There a recruit can Clemson has a beautiful see the lounge, a video facility and all the ameroom that’s as good as nities one would expect anywhere and a player from a school in the Atlocker room that’s as lantic Coast Conference. good as anywhere. “What’s super about “It makes Littlejohn the new Littlejohn and and the Swann Pavilion the Swann Pavilion is feel a little bit like their the pride you feel when home.” people come see it,” Brownell is passionBrownell said. “You see ate about his program, how impressed they are and got emotional when with the commitment talking about how much Clemson has made to a the positive changes new basketball operahave reshaped the tions center.” basketball landscape in There’s no question Tigertown. the “structural” part of “I want there to be Clemson hoops was in pride in basketball need of a major upgrade. at Clemson,” he said. Certainly, players “When I was looking could be sold on a great into this job, I had more education and campus people tell me not to life, but playing in an take it than to take it. unremarkable gymnasiThey told me they didn’t um and having to gather care about basketball on the concourse for here and that it wasn’t meals wasn’t exactly a important. And I said, recruiting tool. ‘We’re going to make Now, a kid who might them care, and make be leaning toward Clemit important.’ There son based on geography, are people here who do familiarity or comfort care. And this is a great with the coaching staff example.” has no reason not to SEE ADAMSON, PAGE C6 come.

ometimes, when we plop our bottoms on bleachers during a football Friday night in the fall, we forget the kids on the ﬁeld are just that — kids. Some haven’t reached the age where they can drive without an adult in the car. Most of them aren’t old enough to vote. And if you placed a rotary telephone down in front of them, they’d probably just take a photo of it with their iPhone and laugh about how ridiculously antiquated it is. But between the growing pains, the increased seriousness of their studies and the threshold between childhood and adulthood they’re desperately trying not to trip over, there should still be room for fun. That’s what was so heartening about seeing Walhalla’s kids celebrate their Apple Bowl victory over West-Oak last Friday. They had fun. And it was not just in the winning, but also in the preparing and playing. “Having fun is rule No. 1,” Razorbacks coach Padgett Johnson said. “We want them to have fun. That doesn’t mean not taking what you do seriously, though. We try to also teach them to have delayed gratiﬁcation, because there’s a lot of work that goes into that fun.” Back when Johnson got the job, there were more than a few eyebrows raised. Sure, he brought a lot of enthusiasm to a place where football hype was in short supply, but he had no experience in the high school coaching profession. And even though he has enjoyed great success at the recreation

league level, this is a whole new ballgame. So all throughout the spring, and then after fall camp OUT OF opened, LEFT FIELD we wondered SCOTT whether a wideADAMSON open offense and a wide-eyed coach could somehow make the Razors competitive. Well, based on Week 0, the answer is yes. But maybe the bigger reason is because practice is no longer an exercise in futility. The kids seem to actually look forward to it. “My son used to dread practice,” the father of a Walhalla player told me during the waning moments of a Razorbacks practice earlier this week. “And now he can’t wait to get out there. With Coach Johnson, there’s a plan, a mission statement and a reason for what they do. He’s made everyone a part of the process. “And he’s made sure they’re having fun.” Football is work, and when done right, it’s hard work. Any competitive sport requires serious effort and a lot of sweat. But there are those us (and I’m raising my hand, here) who enjoy putting in the effort because, well, you know … fun. “One thing I said when we talked before the season started was that we’d be a fun team to watch,” Johnson said. “And the word fun is the key. When you enjoy SEE ADAMSON, PAGE C5

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All-Day Saturdays come in a variety of shapes and sizes during college football season. I embarked on one of my own last Saturday by catching VRPH HDUO\ PRUQLQJ Ă€LJKWV WR Lexington, Kentucky, after wrapping up our high school coverage the night before. It wasnâ€™t a Saturday spent entirely watching football, but it was one spent entirely around it. And that, to me, is about as good of an All-Day Saturday as there can be. This week will be back to normal, as I will be sitting in the newsroom likely shouting at the TV for the Clemson vs. Louisville game to hurry up as deadline draws nearer. Thatâ€™s obviously our marquee game of the Saturday schedule, but by no means does that suggest there wonâ€™t be plenty worth watching before then. Â‡ Noon â€” No. 22 Texas at Oklahoma State, ABC Both teams enter this one in need of a turnaround. Texas has had a week to sit around DQG UHĂ€HFW RQ D ORVV at Cal, and Oklahoma State opened Big 12 play last week with a loss to Baylor. This could turn into a shootout, especially if Rock Hill product Mason Rudolph has his way with the Longhornsâ€™ secondary. Interestingly enough, the visitor has won this game each \HDU VLQFH Honorable mention: Noon

Â‡ 8 p.m. â€” No. 3 Louisville at No. 5 Clemson, ABC This is the big one. Plenty has been said about this matchup all week â€“ and it started back when the Cardinals blasted Florida State â€“ and the anticipation will build all day leading up to the night game at Clemson. And it will continue to build during the Tigersâ€™ seemingly neverending bus ride to the stadium. This one has all the implications â€“ College Football Playoff, ACC Championship and Heisman Trophy â€“ you could want in a prime-time game. is a huge opportunity for the Louisville has passed its early Volunteers to live up to their WHVWV ZLWK Ă€\LQJ FRORUV DQG enormous preseason hype. the Tigersâ€™ defense â€“ espeHonorable mention: 3:30 cially that defensive line â€“ p.m. â€” No. 8 Wisconsin at will give the Cardinals their No. 4 Michigan. Vegas is biggest challenge of the seasquarely in the Wolverinesâ€™ son. corner, with the line climbing Â‡ 9:30 p.m. â€” Oregon at WR Â˝ points after opening at Washington State, Pac-12 0LFKLJDQ KDV EHHQ ULGLQJ Network a maize-and-blue hype train This is the late-night choice even longer than Tennesseeâ€™s, for the week, unless you can and Wisconsin has thrived in ÂżQG D ZD\ WR VWUHDP WKH the underdog role. p.m. kickoff between Nevada Â‡ 6 p.m. â€” No. 18 Utah at and Hawaii. Destructive ofCal, Pac-12 Network fenses and self-destructive This could be a classic. It defenses square off on the could also totally be a dud. Palouse, and the Cougars may But the battle between Calâ€™s actually have an edge. Their offense, the best in the Pacrun defense seems better 12, and Utahâ€™s defense, the suited to handle the Ducksâ€™ leagueâ€™s second-best, is too rushing attack than Oregonâ€™s enticing to pass up. A win here pass defense looks like it can ZRXOG PRYH WKH 8WHV WR stop Washington Stateâ€™s passEXW PRUH LPSRUWDQWO\ WR LQ ing game. Crazier things have conference play in a South di- happened â€“ after all, Oregon vision that doesnâ€™t have a true MXVW VXIIHUHG D EDIĂ€LQJ ORVV WR favorite. Colorado.

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The two top-ranked and undefeated teams in the ACC square off tonight, as the fifthranked Clemson Tigers play host to the third-ranked Louisville Cardinals, who are favored to win by two points. If the Tigers are to win, their defense will have to control Louisvilleâ€™s great quarterback, Lamar Jackson. Can they? Yes! Look for a high-scoring game with the Tigers burying the Cardinals in Death Valley. Clemson 42, Louisville 36 â€” No. 14 Miami at Georgia Tech, ESPN2. How could you not be excited for Mark Richt vs. Georgia Tech? Richt ZHQW DJDLQVW WKH -DFNHWV while coaching at Georgia, and his new club has won six of its past seven meetings with Georgia Tech. Â‡ 3:30 p.m. â€” No. 11 Tennessee at No. 25 Georgia, CBS I pointed out last week that Georgiaâ€™s game with Ole Miss ZDV ÂżOOHG ZLWK XQNQRZQV Honestly, I think I know even less about the Bulldogs after watching the pasting they received in Oxford. Tennessee certainly comes into this with PRPHQWXP DIWHU VFRULQJ RI WKH JDPHÂśV ÂżQDO SRLQWV Saturday to snap an 11-game losing streak to Florida â€“ and the Vols likely wonâ€™t have to try to slow down Nick Chubb, whoâ€™s not expected to play due to a high-ankle sprain. This

Truly an experience unlike any other KYLE DAWSON kdawson@aikenstandard.com

BY KYLE DAWSON kdawson@aikenstandard.com AUGUSTA â€” Call me Charlie Bucket. Or I guess you could call me Augustus Gloop, given the rate at which I consumed Masters Club sandwiches over the last week at Augusta National. (LWKHU RQH VXLWV PH MXVW ÂżQH EHFDXVH ,ÂśYH JRW D JROGHQ ticket. Ticket No. 057 to be exact, which will hereafter be known as Lucky No. 57, the ticket that allowed me and my 12 handicap â€“ selectively estimated, of course â€“ to play Augusta National Golf Club on Monday. I was one of 28 media members covering the Masters last week to win the lottery to play the course the day after the tournament concluded. I donâ€™t remember much about how I reacted after reading my name on the list, other than covering my mouth out of fear â€“ and uncertainty â€“ of what would come out, and that I texted my dad as soon as I got back to my car. We were gathered up for a meeting on Sunday to go over the ground rules â€“ all of which were common sense to golfers, like, you know, bring golf clubs and donâ€™t dress like a hobo â€“ and were told that weâ€™d be playing the exact VDPH VHWXS DV WKH ÂżQDO URXQG RI WKH WRXUQDPHQW /DWHU WKDW QLJKW VKRUWO\ DIWHU ÂżOLQJ P\ ÂżQDO VWRU\ RI WKH week, I had one goal: Beat 7 on No. 12. Weâ€™ll get back to that. We were treated as if we were members for the day, and that included a drive down Magnolia Lane. One does not simply drive down Magnolia Lane. The Google Maps car got chased away from Magnolia Lane. The closest I had come to driving down Magnolia Lane was by watching playersâ€™ recordings of themselves driving down Magnolia Lane. Given that golden opportunity, I milked it for as long as I could. I drove roughly 4 miles per hour, with Andre 3000 narrating from the CD player, because it was an experience I didnâ€™t want to end. And that was before I even got onto the course. I walked around before my tee time, more Ricky Bobby than Rickie Fowler: I wasnâ€™t sure what to do with my hands. I met my playing partners, guys from media outlets in Australia, New York and Texas. â€œHow long is your trip home?â€? Âł$ERXW KRXUV RI Ă€LJKWV <RXUV"Â´ â€œAbout an 18-mile drive.â€? I called upon the wisdom of Arnold Palmer â€“ if it works for The King, it will work for me â€“ for my tee shot on No. 1. Arnie, back from a long layoff in time for last yearâ€™s ceremonial opening tee shot, just didnâ€™t want to miss the ball. Of course, Palmer was 85 years old at the time and KDGQÂśW KLW D JROI EDOO LQ ÂżYH PRQWKV DIWHU LQMXULQJ KLV shoulder in a fall at home. I just hadnâ€™t hit range balls, thanks to my beloved 2003 Ford Taurus not wanting to start on the worst possible day for a car to not want to start. , GLGQÂśW PLVV WKDQNIXOO\ WKRXJK , GLG EULHĂ€\ EODFN RXW on the downswing, and I did a little pre-planning by hitting it closer to the eighth green than the short grass on No. 1. I didnâ€™t hit a shot solidly until my third on the second hole, where the green funnels the ball from near the center back to a back-right pin location. Naturally, I disregarded that, starting my 7-iron approach from 171 yards right of the green, allowing it to fade back â€“ yes, Iâ€™m a lefty â€“ WRZDUG WKH SLQ &DOO LW D UHYHUVH 2RVWKXL]HQ , OHIW P\VHOI about 8 feet for birdie, which I converted. I immediately contemplated giving up the game for good, as nothing would top a birdie at Augusta National, but we pressed on. That earlier planning trip to No. 8 paid off in the form of a par on the lengthy par 5, and I made up for missing the ÂżUVW IDLUZD\ E\ KLWWLQJ LQWR LW IURP WKH QLQWK WHH Please see AUGUSTA, Page 2B

Return of blazer shines light on Clemson’s progress under Swinney

abo Swinney got a funny look from his wife, Kathleen, in their kitchen Wednesday morning when she saw what he’d chosen for his National Signing Day attire. The Clemson head coach was wearing a bright orange blazer, the same one he was given by the school when he was officially named to his current position. And while he joked about his wife’s reaction to the gaudy coat during the school’s signing day webcast, it was clear he chose it for what he considered a special occasion. It may not have been the most fashion-forward choice, but it was impossible to miss the juxtaposition — intentional or not — of just how far the Tigers’ program had come since the first time Swinney donned the jacket. About three weeks after his team played for a national title, Swinney addressed the media in the WestZone after Clemson signed its second straight top-five recruiting class —and easily its most star-studded — and it was clear the blazer represented the realization of the vision he presented way back on Dec. 1, 2008. The Tigers had gone 3-for-4 with prospects who announced on signing day, but the big news of the day was the one they didn’t get — Paramus, N.J., defensive

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lineman Rashan Gary, who picked longtime leader Michigan with little emotion. OFF THE I have BEAT | no idea whether STEVEN SwinBRADLEY ney knew what Gary planned to do, but the fact that he picked the special jacket out of his closet that morning made one thing obvious: missing out on the nation’s No. 1 player would be barely a bump in the road for Clemson’s program at this point. Instead, as Swinney discussed the players who did sign with the Tigers, he talked about ﬁnding players who weren’t just talented athletes, but were the right ﬁt for the Clemson program. Swinney talked about Christian Wilkins — Clemson’s highest-ranked 2015 signee — who is an enormous talent with an even bigger personality. The big defensive tackle made one of the biggest plays of the Tigers’ season by catching a fake-punt pass to turn the momentum in the Orange Bowl win over Oklahoma. SEE BRADLEY, PAGE C4

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Clemson head coach Dabo Swinney speaks to the media during a National Signing Day news conference on Wednesday in Clemson.

Messi puts on magic show for American audience

t was all too predictable. After watching the United States Men’s National Team ripped to shreds by 5-foot-6 Lionel Messi, the inevitable “what if LeBron James grew up playing soccer?” talk was rekindled. Almost without fail, whenever the U.S. team advances far enough in a major competition to brieﬂy make soccer a relevant topic in our country, we end up falling ﬂat on our collective face against some nation a fraction of our size — Argentina, in this case — and the question surfaces: Why aren’t we dominant in men’s soccer like we are in everything else? And almost without fail, the discussion on sports talk shows and so-

cial media turns brieﬂy to how much better the U.S. might be if Kobe Bryant or Julio Jones or Dez Bryant or OFF THE (insert BEAT | freakishly STEVEN athletic BRADLEY superstar in a major American sport) had made soccer his chosen profession instead of (insert respective major American sport). I get it. There’s no doubt that if the elite athletic specimens in America all grew up with a ball

at their feet instead of in their hands, we’d have a much deeper talent pool with which to stock our roster. But if we can take anything from the U.S. team’s 4-0 shellacking at the diminutive hands of Messi and the Argentines in Houston this week, I’m not sure how it’s coming to the conclusion that what we need is more athleticism. After all, while Messi is lightning quick, particularly with the ball at this feet, here’s guessing he wouldn’t run a 4.5 in the 40-yard dash or even be able to get 225 pounds off the rack in the bench press if he were invited to the NFL Combine. I’d bet my life savings — paltry though they may

be — that he can’t dunk a basketball. And Messi is widely considered the best player in the world and arguably the best of all time (though I’d say he probably needs to win a World Cup to justify that title). Point being, I’m sure there are U.S. athletes who did grow up playing soccer who are on par with Messi athletically. What they don’t have is his touch to bring a ball under control immediately while moving at breakneck speeds, his vision to pick an inch-perfect pass in the split second before a gang of defenders arrives to harass him, his skill to run at full speed while the ball stays stuck SEE BRADLEY, PAGE C6

Remember, sports are supposed to be fun

s a father, I’ve begun to have my first encounters with youth sports since, well, I was a youth. It’s funny how your own experiences color your perspective. When I was probably 12, I attended Rick Pitino’s basketball camp at the University of Kentucky. If you could see me as I type this, I’m putting air quotes around the words “Rick Pitino’s.” I say that because Pitino’s involvement in the camp was really in name only. It was limited, from what I recall, to him popping in to speak to the campers for about four minutes before one of his lackeys handed out certificates with Pitino’s photocopied signature. I’m sure he was very involved behind the scenes, of course. I don’t remember much of Pitino’s speech, but I know there was a portion where he basically informed us there wasn’t a single player there with a snowball’s chance of getting on Kentucky’s radar, not even in a towel-waving practice player capacity, so we should all focus on our schoolwork. It was inspirational stuff. As a scrawny 5-foot-7 rising eighth-grader who wasn’t all that athletic, surely I knew I wasn’t destined to sign a shoe deal someday. On the other hand, one could question the merits of crushing the hoop dreams of a room full of kids who aren’t even shaving yet. Pitino was just being honest and putting things in perspective. But we all realize our own athletic limitations organically at some point; having them pointed out by a coach who just took his team to the Final Four isn’t the ideal way. Perhaps not coincidentally, eighth grade was the last time I ever played competitive basketball. And after spending a majority of my free time up to that point shooting hoops any chance I got, I probably haven’t even owned a basketball in 20 years. This week, I had my first encounter with such a camp since then, as we dropped our 6-year-old daughter off for Tiger Tennis Camp at Clemson University. Having known Clemson head women’s tennis coach Nancy Harris — who is pretty much the nicest person you’d ever meet — from my days as a sports writer, I knew Molly was going to be in good hands. Of course, with more than 100 campers in this session, coach Harris can’t give all the instruction herself, so Molly’s group — the Purple

Campers, ages 4-8 — were led by Clemson assistant coach Maru Brito, who was a twoOFF THE time BEAT | All-ACC player for HarSTEVEN ris and BRADLEY played on a Final Four team as a Tiger. Also among the coaches were current pro and former Tiger All-American Keri Wong — who has been ranked as high as No. 156 in the world in doubles — and Seneca resident Wendy Van Ooteghem, who was actually my late mother’s doubles partner for years on the local club circuit. At the end of every session, when I’d ask Molly how camp was, her response was consistently: “It was awesome!” At the end of the ﬁnal day, which was graduation day, coach Harris spoke to the entire Purple Camp, posed for pictures with each camper and gave them each a signed — by hand — graduation certiﬁcate. As we left, Molly asked, “Daddy, when do I get to come back to tennis camp?” Maybe it’s me, but that’s the feeling you should have when you leave. As opposed to, you know, having had the seed planted that you might as well just quit the sport altogether. This probably comes as a surprise to exactly no one, but people take youth sports way too seriously nowadays. I’m sure they did when I was a kid, too, but I can’t tell you how many calls I got during my time as sports editor here accusing me of being biased toward Daniel High School or Seneca … or Walhalla. Strangely, I don’t recall ever being accused of favoring West-Oak, where I actually went to school. I’ve been berated at high school games by parents who claimed I left out their kid’s “triple” — it was really a routine groundball that got misplayed into a three-base error — from a recent article. I’ve seen a boy in 5and 6-year-old soccer whose dad had obviously taught him how to make a two-footed, studs-up tackle (which would earn you a straight red card in college or pro soccer regardless of whether you snapped your opponent’s leg like a twig, which is a very possible outcome). Are winning and losing important? Of course. At a certain SEE BRADLEY, PAGE C5

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ith an abundance of smart phones now in their grasp, the amount of teens using their cameras and apps offered on the devices seems to grow year after year. But with the gadgets, often comes a risky and dangerous side. Students at a Colorado high school reportedly found What do themselves on you think? that side of the Comment on technology this this story at month after aikenstandard. VFKRRO RIÂżFLDOV com discovered the students were â€œsexting,â€? or sharing graphic images of themselves, using a smartphone app. The case involves an â€œunspeciÂżHG QXPEHUÂ´ RI &DQRQ &LW\ +LJK School students, who were suspended after â€œexchanging hundreds of explicit photos of students as young as eighth-graders,â€? according to reports by The Associated 3UHVV ZKLFK VWDWHG VFKRRO RIÂżFLDOV learned about the sexting from a tip that came through a state student safety hotline.

Sexting: What parents should know t Talk to your children: If parents plan to send children to school with a smartphone, they should have conversations about how to use it properly. t Have the passwords to your kids smart phones and devices: Being able to get into the phone or device allows the parent to not only see their activity, but to also make sure theyâ€™re not the target of any online dangers. t Visit online resources to learn about technology, smartphone applications: Burgess advises using the National Center for Missing Local authorities have since been investigating the case and prosecutors are deciding which students could face criminal charges. Since the story has made headlines, many have found the case isnâ€™t just unique to Colorado. The AP reported in a matter of weeks this month, two 14-year-old boys on New Yorkâ€™s Long Island were arrested on felony child porn charges after one was accused of recording the other having sex with a girl; and 16 students in Green-

and Exploited Childrenâ€™s website www.netsmartz.org t Not all sexting cases will result in criminal charges, but statutes do exist in South Carolina regarding those that involve minors. t Sexting could affect a studentâ€™s future resulting in possible suspension or expulsion, college eligibility or loss of scholarship. â€“ In I formation provided by Ca Capt. Maryann Burgess from the juvenile division of the Aiken i Department e of Public Safety brier, Tennessee, were charged with sexual exploitation of a minor after exchanging explicit photos on their cellphones. The issue is also familiar to Aiken authorities, according to Capt. Maryann Burgess, who works in the juvenile division of the Department of Public Safety. â€œWe deal with it quite frequently,â€? Burgess said. â€œWe have had cases in the past where an older boyfriend Please see SEXTING, Page 12A

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NORTH AUGUSTA â€” The City of North Augusta maintained a holding pattern on Project Jackson on Monday night. During a regularly scheduled meeting, the body held a public hearing on the projectâ€™s municipal improvement district, or MID, which creates D WD[ Ă€RRU IRU ÂżQDQFLQJ WKH GHYHOopment. The measure was passed initially Oct. 26 of last year, but had to be revisited because it was not implemented in time. â€œWe passed the municipal improvement district, but it has not been put into effect; and I think it had to be put into effect within 120 days, and we werenâ€™t ready to do that yet,â€? said North Augusta Mayor Lark Jones. â€œ(A MID) LV D WD[ ÂżQDQFLQJ tool that requires the owners of the property within the district, which we have designated to be Project Jackson, to pay the taxes necessary to Jones fund the project, even if the tax assessor does not appraise them for as much as theyâ€™re supposed to be.â€? The example Jones gave said that if the hotel that is to be part of Project Jackson is agreed upon by the City and developer at $50 million, but assessed at $45 million, the developer would still have to pay taxes on the agreed upon amount. The MID is a tool to ensure the City knows the amount of tax money that will come from the development. Two individuals spoke at the public hearing â€“ Bob Pettit and Richard Fletcher. Pettit asked for City Administrator Todd Glover to break down the MID process in laymanâ€™s terms, while Fletcher asked what would happen to the tax funds should the hotel go out of business, which he stated was highly unlikely. Glover responded to Fletcher by stating that the MID would protect the City from missing those tax dollars. In other business, Council did not discuss two agenda items that were tabled, one being a text amendment change to the North Augusta Development Code and the other a

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Area runners fare well at Boston Marathon BY DAN BROWN dbrown@aikenstandard.com Five local runners journeyed to New England to run in Mondayâ€™s Boston Marathon. Three men and two women from the area participated in the 120th running of the marathon, on the third anniversary of the 2013 attacks which killed three people and wounded more than 260 others. April Waters and Meghan Hendrixson competed in the Womenâ€™s 18-39 age group, according to the marathonâ€™s website. Tim Hawkins competed in the

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PICKENS â€” The race for Pickens County sheriff will be among the highlights of Tuesdayâ€™s Republican primary election in Pickens County. The race pits current Sheriff Rick Clark against former Assistant Sheriff Tim Morgan, who served in that capacity for 22 years under longtime Sheriff David Stone. Clark defeated Stone in the June 2012 primary before beating Morgan, who ran as a petition candidate, that November. Clark has declared his

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OCONEE COUNTY â€” Tracie Happel is in her 25th year as a special education teacher, with this year being her ďŹ rst in Oconee County after spending the previous 24 in Wisconsin. Happel has spent the year at both Walhalla High School and Tamassee-Salem Middle and High. But Happel isnâ€™t in the classroom today, and she

faces the reality that she may have taught her last day in Oconee County. Happel told The Journal on Monday Happel that she was placed on paid administrative leave pending an investigation that she allegedly used derogatory words

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sent two detention center ofďŹ cers and another inmate to the hospital. Drotning and Lee are charged with second-degree assault and battery, which upon conviction carries a penalty of up to three years in prison, a ďŹ ne of up to $2,500 or both. Collins,

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Financials show $1M shortfall in addition to general-fund advances BY STEVEN BRADLEY THE JOURNAL

SENECA â€” After Oconeeâ€™s county administrator recently told council its venture into the broadband Internet business was down almost $5 million, a closer look showed the project is another $1 million in the red beyond that. A ďŹ ve-year total of the Fiber Optics Creating UniďŹ ed Solutions projectâ€™s ďŹ nancials compiled through audits and obtained by The Journal revealed an additional shortfall of $904,315 on top of the $4,959,141 it has been advanced from the countyâ€™s general fund budget. The total net loss for the history of the project is $5,863,456. At councilâ€™s April 19 meeting, coun-

THE MAN IN THE BLUE JEAN JACKET James â€œJimâ€? Patrick White graduated from Clemson University in 1989 in blue jeans and a blue wash button-down shirt. â€œA blue jean jacket and jeans were kind of Jimâ€™s college uniform,â€? said Rachel Glavis, Jimâ€™s sister. â€œIt was back in the â€˜80s when jeans ďŹ t tighter.â€? Jim is the only Clemson alumnus who died in the Sept. 11, 2001, terrorist attacks. He worked in the World Trade Center for global ďŹ nancial services

ty administrator Scott Moulder said Oconee had been unable to recover through user fees about â€œ$4.8 to $4.9 millionâ€? of funds itâ€™s invested in the FOCUS project. The ďŹ nancial struggles led to council voting unanimously to conditionally approve the award of a lease agreement to Seneca-based One Tone Telecom for the full management and operations of the FOCUS project in hopes of recouping the countyâ€™s losses. The projectâ€™s biggest shortfall came in ďŹ scal year 2012, when the majority of the investment into building out the project came â€” about $9.5 million, which was offset by $6.5 million in grant funding

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A visitor reaches to touch a name engraved at the Sept. 11 memorial site to remember the victims of the 2001 attacks on the World Trade Center in New York. Clemson University graduate James â€œJimâ€? Patrick Whiteâ€™s name is among those etched on the memorial.

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ďŹ rm Cantor-Fitzgerald. He was 34 when he died and is survived by his brothers, Mike and Greg, sisters, Rachel and Debra, and mother, Joan. His father, Al, passed away in 2014. â€œWhen 9/11 happened, I thought that Jim was no longer working there,â€? Jimâ€™s Alpha Tau Omega fraternity brother Wes Few said. Few, who is from Greenwood, told The Journal that he felt the same emotions that others experienced that Tuesday â€” anger, shock and helplessness. â€œAround Thursday or Friday morning, I was sitting at my desk at a law ďŹ rm and getting emails from people about Jimâ€™s death. It was like living 9/11 all over again,â€? he said. â€œThere had been this feeling of guilt because I thought it didnâ€™t have a direct impact on my life, and then two or three days later I had to â€Ś think, â€˜Jim is no longer with us.â€™â€? Like Rachel, Few has fond memories of Jim in his denim jacket. â€œJim would come down that hill

Second from left, Jim White is pictured with his siblings, Rachel, Debra, Mike and Greg at Debraâ€™s graduation from Virginia Tech in 1999. â€œJim was the type of guy who would help anybody out,â€? Mike said.

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Owner â€˜resentfulâ€™ of cityâ€™s portrayal of deck collapse CLEMSON â€” Clemson resident Ed Harris, owner of the Calhoun Street property where a deck collapsed Saturday evening, said Tuesday he feels for those

County Detention Center this month. In a news release Tuesday afternoon, SLED announced misdemeanor charges against inmates Kenneth Strother Collins, Jacob Daniel Drotning and Travis Javon Lee for their alleged roles in an April 16 ďŹ ght that

SENECA â€” Sunday marks the 15th anniversary of the Sept. 11, 2001, terrorist attacks. Almost 3,000 people died that Tuesday, and countless family and friends were affected. In remembrance of both victims and survivors, The Journal spoke with a retired Army colonel who was at the Pentagon on Sept. 11, and loved ones of a victim who perished in the World Trade Center.

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Early on Jan. 27, 1953, Earl Young was laying bricks at a job site near what is today PruittHealth-Aiken on Laurens Street, just north of downtown Aiken. Before the morning was over, the young man was a hero. Young, 89, who died Monday, helped pull four people to safety from the rubble left by a gas explosion at Jones Electric on the western side of Laurens Street, according to a story in the Aiken Standardd on Sept. 27, 2009. The blast, which occurred shortly after 8:30 a.m., killed 10 people. For his bravery and heroism, Young received a plaque that year from Aiken Public Safety at the unveiling of an historical marker to remember the explosion and honor the 10 Aiken and Graniteville residents who died. Author and Aiken native Allen Riddick recounted Youngâ€™s story in his 2011 book â€œMemories of Growing Up and Living in Aiken, SC.â€? â€œWhen I talked to him, he had never talked to anyone about that event,â€? said Riddick, who interviewed Young for the book. â€œHe helped saved a life.â€? Young, who was working with his brother, Norris, that morning heard the noise and felt the ground shake, although they were at least a mile from the explosion. He told Riddick he thought it might have been the old boiler in the basement of Aiken Elementary School RQ &KHVWHUÂżHOG 6WUHHW QRZ KRPH RI WKH Aiken County Public Library. â€œIt was as loud a noise as Iâ€™ve heard,â€? Young said in Riddickâ€™s book, adding that the shaking caused many people to think the explosion had been an earthquake. Young said he and his brother jumped in their car immediately after hearing the blast and â€œheaded for uptown to see what had happened.â€? 3ROLFH DQG ÂżUHPDQ ZHUH RQ WKH VFHQH Young told Riddick, but not many

Aiken County law enforcement agencies have been handing out cop cards, personal trading cards bearing images of public safety officers, to members of the community to help foster improved community relations.

Budding program fostering relations between community, police agencies

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AREA DEATHS Carolyn Green, Jacksonville, Florida Marie Lucas Robertson, Aiken Ariyah Jones, New Ellenton William Pope, Aiken

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All of the cards are sponsored by differr ent local companies, Abdullah said. Some of the card sponsors are Recleim, The Pot Smoker BBQ, Palmetto Wellness, and Bridgestone. These sponsors paid to have a certain number of cards made for different deputies and it allows the agency to have them Please see CARDS, Page 7A

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Tripp Girardeau reports on crime and courts for the Aiken Standard.

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He was fast of fist and foot â€” lip, too â€” a heavyweight champion who promised to shock the world and did. He floated. He stung. Mostly he thrilled, even after the punches had taken their toll and his voice barely rose above a whisper. He was The Greatest. Muhammad Ali died Friday at age 74, according to a spokesman for his family. He was hospitalized in the

Phoenix area with respiratory problems earlier this week, and his children had flown in from around the country. Family spokesman Bob Gunnell said Ali, who had Parkinsonâ€™s disease, died of septic shock. While itâ€™s not clear exactly what transpired with Ali, people with latestage Parkinsonâ€™s often have difficulty swallowing.

Nearly 90 percent of days last year, one or more states were flying the American flag at half-staff to memorialize the deaths of military members, public officials, police, first responders, prominent citizens and victims of mass killings and disasters, The Associated Press found in analyzing information from all 50 states and the federal government. A look at some honorees: FAMOUS NAMES Epigrammatic baseball great Yogi Berra, known as much for his quips as his Hall of Fame career with the New York Yankees, was recognized in New Jersey, where Republican Gov. Chris Christie lowered flags for a resident he described as a â€œnational treasure,â€? as well as a World War II veteran. Christie has been notably open to extending flag honors to famous people who arenâ€™t public servants, including E Street Band saxophonist Clarence Clemons in 2011 and singer Whitney Houston in 2012. Some critics noted Houstonâ€™s drug use; Christie said it shouldnâ€™t outweigh the New Jersey nativeâ€™s impact on culture. Former U.S. Sen. and actor Fred Thompson, a Republican whose roles in American public life spanned from real-life Senate counsel at the Watergate hearings to fictional district attorney on NBCâ€™s â€œLaw & Order,â€? was honored in his home state of Tennessee. Civil rights leader Julian Bond, who led the NAACP for a decade, was honored in Georgia, where he had been a state representative and state senator. Texas Gov. Greg Abbott lowered flags on what the Republican proclaimed Chris Kyle Day, in honor of Navy SEAL and â€œAmerican Sniperâ€? author Chris Kyle, considered the deadliest sniper in U.S. military history. He was killed at a Texas shooting range in 2013.

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early every day, somewhere in the country, the Stars and Stripes was lowered to half-staff last year in one of the most significant official gestures of mourning and respect, an Associated Press analysis found. The centuries-old practice can be a visible, public answer to extraordinary loss, as when more than four dozen people were killed last month at a nightclub in Florida. But as the nation marks Independence Day on Monday, flag buffs have noted that the honor has been extended more widely over time, including to celebrities and police dogs. And some have questioned whether the country has lowered the bar on the lowering of the flag.

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INSET: World heavyweight champion Muhammad Ali shouts â€œJoe Bugner must go!â€? to Malaysian fans on June 15, 1975, during a training session for his fight against Bugner in Kuala Lumpur. ABOVE: The boxing gloves Muhammad Ali used in the 1965 rematch with Sonny Liston.

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et me tell you about the Pat Conroy I knew. We were not friends. But I don’t think he realized that. From our first conversation, he acted like I was at the very least a Somewhat Great Santini. And I’m not. But I’m not sure the writer of novels that sold millions of copies and made dashing movies ever discovered this before he passed away Friday at his creekside home in Beaufort. His dearest friends and family were there with Pat and his classy wife, Cassandra King, when he passed on across the water. This group had only a month to digest this gut-punch from pancreatic cancer. Already, one thing stands

clear: Conroy thought a lot of us were Somewhat Great Santinis. You don’t have to watch a presidential “debate” to see that the world needs more of that. My beautiful bride and I were invited to the Conroy home shortly before Christmas in 2012. What we found tells all you need to know about Pat Conroy. It was a book-signing drop-in. The dining room table was filled with crumpets and seasonal signs of wonder. Looking over a living room of polite nibblers was an actual Great Santini — a Jonathan Green original painting blaring out the jazzy, pizazzy Lowcountry that Green and Conroy have tried to get us all to hear and see. This was not a book-signing for Conroy. Or Cassandra, who also writes popular novels on the national stage. It was for Maggie Schein. It was for the original version of SEE CONROY, 17A MORE INSIDE

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‘The water is wide, but he has now crossed over’ . ..................................................................

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Pat Conroy, who arrived in Beaufort as a teenage Marine brat and found both a home and palette for his best-selling novels, died Friday at his home on Battery Creek. “The water is wide, but he has now crossed over,” said his wife, Cassandra King, through a family friend. Conroy, 70, was diagnosed with pancreatic cancer only four weeks ago. When he announced it Feb. 15 on Facebook, he said, “I intend to fight it hard.” He died at 7:43 p.m., surrounded by loved ones and family. Stomach pain was at first thought to be pancreatitis. But further testing confirmed shortly before the public announce-

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A funeral Mass for Pat Conroy will be held at 11 a.m. Tuesday at St. Peter’s Catholic Church, 70 Lady’s Island Drive, on Lady’s Island. Interment will be private. The family will receive friends from 5 to 7 p.m. on Monday at Anderson Funeral Home, 611 Robert Smalls Parkway in Beaufort. Conroy, 70, died Friday evening at his home in Beaufort. ...................................................................

ment that it was pancreatic cancer, which spread rapidly. His lyrical novels painted harsh pictures of inadequate schools, an abusive father and South Carolina’s military college, The Citadel.

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hile new life continues to be pumped into the heart of Spartanburg’s downtown, the city’s western end, known as the Grain District, has been sitting like a diamond in the rough. Dotted with vacant buildings from the departure of the Spartan Grain and Mill Company complex that closed 25 years ago, the 45-acre area is clogged with debris and overgrown with kudzu in many places. “I would like to see locally owned retail (shops) and a restaurant,” said Eric Lyda, office administrator at Event Rentals on West Main Street, pointing across the street to an empty storefront that was

Deteriorating buildings dot the former Spartan grain mill property in the city’s west end, where developers and city officials say is ripe for redevelopment. ALEX HICKS JR/ALEX.HICKS@SHJ.COM

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BY JENNIFER BERRY HAWES the week of Thanksgiving. jhawes@postandcourier.com U.S. District Judge Richard Gergel issued a brief order late Last-minute questions about Tuesday postponing the start of Dylann Roof ’s competency proceedings in Charleston until to stand trial have prompted Nov. 21. It does not identify the another delay in the Emanuel nature of the competency quesAME Church shooter’s federal tion or why it has arisen now. death penalty case, this time The killer’s evaluation is unpushing jury selection back to derway and expected to be

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Malcolm Graham is the brother of shooting victim Cynthia Graham Hurd, one of the Emanuel Nine. She is pictured in an illustration on Malcolm's wall at his Charlotte home. "It was really an attack on a race of people," he said of the event.

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ine-year-old Kennedy Singleton had a question. “Why did that man shoot my granny?” It was a tough question, but Kennedy’s aunt, Denise Quarles, calmly told her niece that the man didn’t understand her

grandmother. Granny had done nothing wrong; the man just didn’t like black people. Then, Kennedy asked another tough question. “Will I be shot in a church, too?” So go the family conversations in the wake of one of South Carolina’s most horrific crimes, when a basement Bible study became a bloodbath a year ago. On the evening of June 17, 2015, a 21-year-old white man

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from the Midlands joined a Bible study at Emanuel AME Church in downtown Charleston. An

hour later, Dylann Roof is charged with starting a racisminspired rampage, interrupting the discussion by shooting nine African-American churchgoers dead. Among those killed was Myra Thompson, nine-year-old Kennedy’s grandmother and Quarles’ mother. As they prepare to mark the first anniversary of the shootings, SEE LEGACY, 7A

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prosecutors have said they will seek the death penalty. The difference of opinion over Roof reflects historically differing attitudes toward the death penalty between black and white South Carolinians, according to the USC poll, released Saturday. The poll – on race relations a year after the Emanuel Nine massacre – also found stark differences in how South Carolina’s white and African-American

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residents view the criminal justice system. The poll found: A A majority of black South Carolinians – 64.7 percent – said Roof should be sentenced to life without parole if found guilty. A Just three in 10 African-Americans – 30.9 percent – said Roof should be SEE POLL, 6A

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How hot it was that sun-beat week, watering the yard every day, the curled leaves and dry ground, green wings of zinnia breaking the soil. They sat together around a green table, prayed, sang, then opened the gospel— the lesson that night was seed sown on stony ground. What can we know of the human heart, entangled in all that we’ve been taught? A boy from here sat with them about an hour, then aimed his hate and opened fire. How quick we were to act, focused on that festering flag, quick to take it down and move forward, move on— these aren’t the same. After weeks of heat, it rained the day the governor said to take it down. Are we somehow different now? How would we know?

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We furled a flag. We furled a flag. A girl was slung across a room, a man who ran shot in the back. The broke and broken schools remain. What has changed, beyond that square of empty sky where it once flew, the opened door of clouds and blue? The lesson that night was stony ground. Not birds, not thorns, not the good soil. What grows up quick among the stones. What has no roots, what withers away. A friend calls change a perennial plant. A second year takes nurture and luck. If it comes back another year, a better chance that it will stay. Water well the just-sown and just-up. Water long in morning light. Water long and soak the roots to learn the lesson of that night. Learn the lesson of that night. Ed Madden teaches at the University of South Carolina and is the author of three previous books of poetry. He is the current poet laureate for the City of Columbia.

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Robinson and Keller Ridgeway. There will By ST. CLAIRE DONAGHY also be food, a cash bar, a raffle and a silent sdonaghy@indexjournal.com auction. Advance tickets are on sale now Local talent is tuning up for a Night of and tickets will be sold at the door. Music benefit for Meg’s House, which pro“It’s a fun night out vides emergency shelter and services to to support a wonderful domestic violence victims. cause,” said Meg’s House Meg’s House is a community-based executive director Alice nonprofit serving women and children in Hodges, noting the shelter McCormick, Edgefield and Greenwood has previously hosted two counties. music benefits with both Sept. 30, from 7 to 11 p.m. at Sundance local and regional talent. Gallery, 146 Maxwell Ave., in Greenwood, Hodges said local talent ALICE five musicians will take the stage to raise has volunteered for the HODGES funds to support items and services not September show. typically covered through grants received by “It’s a blessing for someone to call and the shelter. say they want to be a part of it,” Hodges The musician lineup includes headliner said, noting Louise Robinson reached out guitarist and vocalist Ashby Stokes, along to her. “These music events are becoming a with Becky Greene, Steven Galloway, Louise signature for us and they are growing bigger

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reenwood photographer Jon O. Holloway has seen them at the start of tours and their musical careers, as well as those solo artists and bands who are seasoned and road-weary from living out of vans. Since the Music on Maxwell music series started in 2008 at Holloway’s Sundance Gallery, he has captured images of performers who have graced the stage. “We’ve had a wide variety of musicians from all over the world,” Holloway said. “We send images to the musicians to use and several have used them on their websites and CD covers.”

Through the years, Holloway has experimented with different types of cameras, including a large format 8-by10 camera that he has in his studio and gallery space. “That camera used to belonged to the (late) photographer David Nichols of Nichols Studio in Greenwood,” Holloway said. “I bought it from David and the camera does not move very easily, so I typically just use it in the studio and I have a Speed Graphic view camera that I use in the field.” The large format images are not perfect, Holloway said, noting they often have brighter peripherals than those taken with other cameras. “They can be soft,” Holloway

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Music on Maxwell is going Americana for its fall season that kicks off Aug. 25 at Sundance Gallery, with Melodine and Clarence Bucaro. Established in 2008, the listening room music series at photographer Jon O. Holloway’s studio and gallery on Maxwell Avenue in Greenwood offers a mix of roots-based music. SUBMITTED “We will be back in action at the The Honeycutters are scheduled to play Music on end of summer,” said Nick Hyduke, musical director for Music on MaxMaxwell on Nov. 10.

well and Sky Complete Productions. “The first show, with Melodine, a new group, will appeal to rock fans. The second show, with Underhill Rose, will go over with traditional bluegrass fans. “The Honeycutters in November are among the most-requested bands we’ve had and we are bringing them back,” Hyduke said. “We close out Dec. 1, with Star and Micey, who are personally managed by the head of Thirty Tigers.” Seats are sold through season and individual ticket purchases. Tables

for parties of eight are also available. Food and beverage are sold during the concerts. There is a season ticket pre-sale with tickets to the four shows for $75. Call 864-227-1188 to purchase tables for eight. “This series has done everything from hard rock to gospel, and everyone in between,” Hyduke said. “People have been kind enough to stay with us. With this upcoming season, it’s definitely Americana and will be very popular.” Holloway describes the band lineup as “comfort food for the ears.”

All shows start at 7:30 p.m. There is a season ticket pre-sale with tickets to the four shows for $75. Call 864-2271188 to purchase tables for eight. ■ Aug. 25: Melodine with Clarence Bucaro ■ Sept. 15: The trio Underhill Rose with Trey Ward ■ Nov. 10: The return of The Honeycutters, with Cicada Rhythm ■ Dec. 1: Star and Micey

ABBEVILLE tudents at Long Cane Primary School, dressed in masks and their favorite superhero costumes, lined up in the hallway with big smiles and plenty of visible excitement as they prepared to meet their favorite superheroes. The students stayed on their best behavior through the last nine weeks waiting for this day. One little girl, decked out in a costume, looked up at the principal with eyes full of excitement and asked, “Is Superwoman going to be there?” Long Cane is a Positive Behavior Interventions & Supports (PBIS) school. As a PBIS school, the students earn stars every day for good behavior. If they earn enough stars by the end of the nine weeks, they get to attend a themed celebration. This final nine weeks theme was Superheroes. Four volunteers dressed up as superheroes for the students. Hunter Mills dressed as Spiderman, Scottie Mills as Captain America, Charlton Goodwin as Batman and Cat Gray dressed up as Catwoman. The party was sponsored by the PBIS committee members at Long Cane Primary School. “Eighty-eight percent of the students get to fully participate in the program.

kpearson@indexjournal.com Nine percent get to participate in half of the activities, and only three percent have to completely sit out,” said Long Cane principal Millie Ricketts. The faculty and staff helped set up four main stations around the school for the students to enjoy. At the first station, students met their superheroes in the library, took a class picture with them, then wrapped them up in toilet paper for a little fun. The second station was the bubble station, where students practiced using their superpower breath. The students tried to blow the biggest bubble and catch it on a wand. At the third station, the children played a game called kryptonite. The students were divided into two teams. The first student was given two pointers to pick up a ball of aluminum, walk it down to another bucket, drop it in and run back to hand the pointers off to another student. The fourth station was the dance station, where the children danced to their favorite songs in their superhero costumes. The faculty spoke about how much the students deserved the celebration, especially with the end of the school year. “These are really great students,” school counselor Donna Brown said as she helped classes pose for their picture with the superheroes.

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Bringing to life the two royal sisters of Disneyâ€™s movie â€œFrozen,â€? are Taylor Firth as Anna, left, and Becky Bereswill as Elsa. The two perform as the characters in Disney on Iceâ€™s â€œFrozen,â€? which will soon be at the Colonial Life Arena.

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Melanie Morningside, played by Karla Fischbach, and Kirk Douglas, played by David Skeen, are two of the residents of Kooshog Lake, in Paladin Productions presentation of â€œThe Great Kooshog Lake Hollis McCauley Fishing Derby.â€?

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The cast and director of aladin roductionsâ€™ ne t play believe their audiences will connect to the story. The traveling theater company will present orm Fosterâ€™s â€œThe Great Kooshog Lake Hollis McCauley Fishing Derbyâ€? for private and public shows this month. â€œEverybody will get something different out of this,â€? said Bob Franklin, director and the companyâ€™s co-founder.

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Kooshog Lake is a fairly quiet town that is annually invigorated during the time of LWV ÂżVKLQJ GHUE\ The town is in the midst of preparing for another year, when investment banker James Bell becomes stranded with its colorful characters. Brad King plays James Bell. â€œHe thinks heâ€™s a heck of a lot more important than he actually is,â€? King said. One particular town member who becomes interested in Bell is Rhonda Borkowski, played by Chrissey Miller. â€œSheâ€™s assertive, business-minded and comes on a little strong,â€? Miller said. Bellâ€™s presence also impacts Melanie Morningside, played by Karla Fischbach. Morningside, who is healing from a broken heart, starts to develop feelings for Bell. â€œI think it helps her healing process to get over her last boyfriend ... and the wounds she has,â€? Fischbach said. Another of the townâ€™s members is Sienna, played by Carla Cloud. â€œSheâ€™s crusty,â€? Cloud said. â€œSheâ€™s been hurt and has built up some walls. Thatâ€™s why sheâ€™s kind of crusty. Deep down, she still has hope.â€? One of her close friends is Kirk Douglas, played by David Skeen. â€œKirkâ€™s pretty laid back and has a way with words that no one else does. Heâ€™s wise in his own way,â€? Skeen said. The show plays with themes such as love and age. Âł7KHUHÂśV RQO\ ÂżYH RI XV LQ WKLV VKRZ ... but there is something in here that just about everybody can tap into,â€? King said.

Ticket information 7KH ÂżUVW SXEOLF VKRZ ZLOO EH DW + 2GHOO Weeks Activities Center, 1700 Whiskey Road, at 7 p.m. April 16. Advance tickets of $1 can be purchased at H. Odell Weeks Activities Center or at Smith Ha el Recreation Center, 400 Kershaw St. .E. If tickets remain, they will be $15 at the GRRU 3URFHHGV ZLOO EHQHÂżW WKH &LW\ RI Aikenâ€™s arks, Recreation and Tourism department, and dessert and coffee will be served at intermission. For more information, call 803-64 -7631. 7KH VHFRQG DQG ÂżQDO SXEOLF VKRZ ZLOO be at 7:30 p.m April . at St. Johnâ€™s United Methodist Church, 104 ewberry St. S.W. Advanced tickets of $1 may be purchased online at www.bit.ly/1qo4 94. Remaining tickets will be $15 at the door. 3URFHHGV ZLOO EHQHÂżW $UHD &KXUFKHV Together Serving, or ACTS. For more information, call 803-649-3800 or email event actsofaiken.org. For more information on aladin roductions, visit www.paladinproductions. org.

Want to go? WHAT: â€œThe Great Kooshog Lake Hollis McCauley Fishing Derbyâ€? performance WHEN: 7 p.m. April 16; 7:30 p.m. April 22 WHERE: April 16: H. Odell Weeks Activities Center; April 22: St. Johnâ€™s United Methodist Church COST: $12 in advance; $15 at the door FOR MORE INFORMATION: Call 803-642-7631, 803-649-3800, email event@actsofaiken.org or visit www.paladinproductions.org

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Aiken artist creates unique jewelry, more

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John Sanders is a designer who creates leather cuffs and other products through his company, Joxasa.

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John Sanders runs the company, Joxasa, which specializes in custom leather products. He is pictured working on a project in the studio space of his home.

You have to love (your work). You have to be passionate about it because thatâ€™s what going to get you through the dark months and the long nights. John Sanders

Currently, Sanders does everything from designing and creating to packing and shipping. Every piece is made to be an onetime product. Sanders said he will try and accommodate customers who perhaps like his style but donâ€™t prefer leather. â€œIf somebody wants something, and I have the ability to do that, ... sure, why not Letâ€™s go for it,â€? he said.â€? He said he is looking into manufacturing and would like to one day open up his own facility with a small staff. Sandersâ€™ merchandise is sold through his website and in select stores such as re-fresh, 137 Laurens

St. S.W. Whoever raises the most money for S CA Albrecht Center for Animal Welfareâ€™s 016 Walk for Animals event will win a pet collar made by Sanders, in addition to a mountain cabin trip. For more information on the event, visit www.letlovelive.org or call 803648-6863. â€œYou have to love your work . You have to be passionate about it because thatâ€™s what going to get you through the dark months and the long nights. ... Itâ€™s been a journey but Iâ€™m completely more focused with my line now and doing things I havenâ€™t done before,â€? Sanders said. For more information on Jo asa,

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John Sanders creates various leather products, such as this cuff, through his company, Joxasa. visit www.jo asa.com. Stephanie Turner graduated from Valdosta State University in 2012. She then signed on with the Aiken Standard, where she is now the features reporter. She primarily covers health topics, arts and entertainment, authors and restaurants.

BRIAN PARR Health and Fitness

Case of the missing beach body Now that spring has arrived you may have noticed that your eating and exercise habits over the winter (or past several winters) havenâ€™t been kind to your body. For some people this comes as a surprise, and they wonder where their beach body from last summer went. For others, their beach body may long gone, but they want to lose some weight and get in shape before summer. Obviously, this will mean making changes to what you eat and your exercise habits. If you want to lose 5 to 10 pounds and get back in shape, this means small changes to your diet and exercise designed WR PHHW \RXU ÂżWQHVV JRDOV ,I \RX KDYH PRUH VLJQLÂżFDQW ZHLJKW WR ORVH you will need a stricter diet and an exercise program that will help you to burn calories and build your VWUHQJWK HQGXUDQFH DQG Ă€H[LELOLW\ While diet and exercise can help you get back in shape, staying in shape requires making lasting behavior changes. Here are some TXHVWLRQV WKDW ZLOO KHOS \RX ÂżQG your missing beach body now and not lose it again in the future. When did you last see it? Many people can identify a time in their life when their lifestyle changed and weight gain began. Commonly, this is getting married, starting a new job or having children. Other people notice that they have gained weight, but canâ€™t SRLQW WR DQ\ VSHFLÂżF UHDVRQ ZK\ In both cases, healthy eating and exercise routines get replaced with RWKHU OHVV EHQHÂżFLDO KDELWV 7KH UHsult for most people is gaining weight, either very quickly or slowly over time. Understanding what led to your weight gain is important for making FKDQJHV WR Âż[ LW How long has it been gone? 7KH ORQJHU \RX KDYH EHHQ LQDFtive and eating poorly, the longer you have been developing these XQKHDOWK\ KDELWV 7KH FRQVHTXHQFH is that it will be more challenging to undo the damage these habits have caused and teach yourself new habits that are consistent with better health. Your task is relatively easy if you have just gained a few SRXQGV VLQFH ODVW VXPPHU 7U\LQJ to reverse years or decades of inactivity and unhealthy eating is a bigger challenge, but one you simply must take on. Where did you last see it? 7KH HQYLURQPHQW KDV D KXJH LPpact on our health, largely through LQĂ€XHQFLQJ RXU DFWLYLW\ DQG HDWLQJ behaviors. In many cases, weight gain may be at least partly a consequence of where we spend our time. For example, a new job that involves long commutes by car and workdays spent sitting can make gaining weight almost inevitable. Quitting that job probably isnâ€™t reasonable, but knowing how it has affected your health allows you to focus your efforts on increasing your activity outside of work. For many women, weight gain occurs after graduating from college, getting married, and having children. While there are many contributing lifestyle factors in this case, the change from an active college campus to a more sedentary environment certainly plays a role. 2QFH \RX ÂżJXUH RXW ZKHQ DQG where you last saw your beach body you will have an idea of what you need to do to get it back. Keep in mind that the type of behavior changes you need to make to lose weight and get back in shape are GLIÂżFXOW DQG ZLOO WDNH WLPH WR DGRSW While you shouldnâ€™t expect any miracles in the next month or two, developing healthy eating and activity habits can have a miraculous effect on your weight, your health and how you feel in the years to come. Brian Parr, Ph.D., is an Associate Professor in the Department of Exercise and Sports Science at USC Aiken where he teaches courses in exercise physiology, nutrition and health behavior. You can learn more about this and other health and fitness topics at http://drbrianparr.wordpress.com or on Twitter @drbrianparr.

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umter native Quiana Anderson Reed, crowned Mrs. South

Carolina United States on May 29, will vie for the national title Mrs. United States in just over a month in Las Vegas, Nevada. Anderson, 33, is a graduate of Newberry

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Sumter native Quiana Anderson Reed won the title of Mrs. South Carolina United States at the May 29 pageant in Charlotte. She will travel to Las Vegas, Nevada, to compete in the Mrs. United States pageant Aug. 1 through 4.

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You have to be a “Mrs.” to enter the Mrs. United States pageant. Quiana Anderson Reed is shown with her husband Karl Reed. The couple married in 2015. He will be competing in the World Kickboxing Tournament the week before her pageant. She told him “... it is a must he have all of his teeth and no black eyes before boarding the plane for Vegas.”

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She won that first competition, Sumter’s Miss Teen Awareness pageant, “which promoted young girls throughout Sumter County practicing abstinence and being positive role models,” she said. She also won her second competition, being named Miss Sumter Teen USA, the preliminary for Miss South Carolina Teen USA. What she and her family were not prepared for was the huge expense of entering a pageant such as Miss S.C. Teen USA, Reed said, and the necessity of raising the funds through support from friends, family and local businesses. There were some losses and disappointments, both in competitions and her personal life, but Reed soldiered through, as her beloved father decided to leave the family. Supporting them emotionally became a priority for Reed and a motivating factor in her pageant competitions. “You can hide a lot behind a smile, a sash and a crown,” she said. With help from her strong network of friends and family, in 2009 she won the national title of Ms. United States.

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f you’re a connoisseur of good beer and a good time, then Friday the 13th could be your lucky day. From 6 to 9

p.m. beer lovers can listen to good music, dance, visit with friends

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and — perhaps most importantly — taste more than

Local leaders educate on TB; curbside trash pick up coming 75 YEARS AGO – 1941 Nov. 17-23 A regular transportation schedule has been established between Sumter and Shaw Field. Greyhound buses make 11 round trips daily except Sunday and nine daily including Sunday, transporting civilian workers and soldiers back and forth. All free military transportation was suspended on Nov. 12, the day the schedules went into effect. • The Army has made a move for possible extension of the maneuver area to parts of Sumter County. While negotiations are in the early stage an official yesterday secured the approximate number of landowners in certain districts. Included were areas west of Highway 521 (Camden-Sumter-Manning), west

of Highway 15 (Bishopville- SumterPaxville), Stateburg district, Middleton, Manchester, Privateer, part of FulYesteryear ton, parts of in Sumter the Concord District, SAMMY WAY Mayesville and Shiloh districts were not included. • The Sumter Chamber of Commerce is preparing an annual yearbook, called the “Sumter Chamber of Commerce Blue Book and Buyer’s Guide” for the organization year 1941-42. It was announced today by Marion Moise, chairman of the membership committee. In addi-

tion to lists of the officers, directors and committees of the Chamber of Commerce, the book will contain the constitution and by-laws of the corporation and a classified business directory listing each member in good standing of the Chamber of Commerce with business affiliations, addresses, telephone numbers, and nature of the business. • Marion S. Moore, 907 Meadow St., Columbia, former captain of the Columbia Fire Department, has accepted the position of fire chief at Shaw Field. He reported for duty at the post on Nov. 13. 1966 — Edmunds High School senior class magazine sale leaders reChief Moore was granted a view plans for the drive with Principal W.S. Jackson. From left are leave of absence by the CoMary Wayne Adams, advertising manager; Angela McIntosh, secrelumbia City Council for the tary; Larry Chewning, senior class president; Jackson; Margaret Mulduration of the emergency.

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Sumter Senior Services’ Microbrew Festival is a fun night out in downtown Sumter that also raises matching funds for the agency to provide essential services to the area’s elderly citizens. This year’s festival is Friday night, with 5:30 p.m. check-in at the Sumter Opera House.

brew beers and ales at the Downtown Sumter Microbrew Festival. The festival sponsored by Sumter Senior Services is one of the area’s most highly anticipated events, and tickets always sell out, said Janice Williams of SSS and RSVP, the Retired Seniors Volunteer Program. She’s advising beer lovers to buy theirs before Friday. Festival goers stroll Main Street and side streets, stopping in at participating shops to taste a selection of beers, most of which are not easily available. Eleven downtown businesses will serve as venues for the beer tastings, and each will also provide food to complement the beer. They are Thompson Construction Group Inc., Law Range Barber Shop, la bella vita, Sumter Board of Realtors, Main Street Tavern, Clark Law Firm, James Formal DOWNTOWN Wear, C. Anthony’s SUMTER Menswear, MICROBREW Naomi and FESTIVAL Warner, Side Bar and BereWHEN: 6 to 9 p.m. Friday, May 13; sign in at 5:30 p.m. nyi Inc. During the WHERE: Sumter Opera festival, those House, attending can 21 N. Main St. enjoy the PHONE: (803) 773-5508 music of 4-Way TICKETS: $25 advance, Stop, the vari$30 at door ety band that ONLINE: sumtermicrobrew was so popular festival.org last spring. The five musicians in the band — George Moore on drums, Ron Denning on bass, Gary Mathis on lead guitar, Jervey Geddies on keyboards and Tom Ross on Sax, all of whom also sing — play oldies from the ‘50s to the ‘80s, classic rock, rhythm and blues, country, Carolina beach music and soul. New to the festival this year are three microbreweries from Columbia, Williams said.

len, vice president; and Ronda Dabbs, treasurer. Absent is Betty SEE YESTERYEAR, PAGE C4 Payne, class sponsor.

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Marie Speel is one of few who write to SCDOT to thank them for removing dead animals from the road. This note reads: “Paula, Bobbi and Mr. Steve, I just want to ‘Thank you’ for doing a great job in helping the animals. God bless you!” The crew keeps the note on their bulletin board.

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ou’re driving to work when you see a deer lying dead in the road, obviously struck by a vehicle. An hour

or two later you drive the same route, and there’s no sign of the animal.

Steve Avin mainly uses a pitchfork to remove small dead animals from the roadway, as he did with a cat on Monday. The body on Wesmark Boulevard had been reported before he got to work about 7 a.m. that day. By 9 a.m. he had reports of possums on U.S. 76 East.

What happened to it? Here’s the likely scenario: “Mr. Steve,” who works for South Carolina Department of Transportation in Sumter County, spotted the deer during his patrol of state roads in Sumter County, removed it from the road and disposed of it. That task falls within Steve Avin’s job description, as he removes not just animal carcasses, but truck tires, tree limbs, items that have fallen from the beds of trucks of all sizes and more. “It’s all about driver safety,” said James Wells, his supervisor at SCDOT. Avin has been at this job for a little more than two years, having previously worked on DOT’s bridge crew. A heart attack meant he had to seek less strenuous work. He was a good employee, Wells said, so the job was perfect for him. “It took a while to get used to it,” Avin said of the job, but now it’s become fairly routine. And as Wells noted, he understands the importance of what he does, which prevents many wrecks that might otherwise be caused by hazards in the road. Most of the animals and objects he removes from the roads are small, Avin said, but when they’re larger — deer or massive recaps shed from overheated tractor-truck tires, for example — they could be deadly for drivers and their passengers. In these cases, he has to use a winch to hoist the objects up and onto his truck. Not many people know about Avin’s job, but Marie Speel is an exception. She often calls SCDOT’s maintenance department when she sees

Retu eturn rning ing to provide musi PHOTO PROVIDED cal entertai rtainment for the town Sum S ter Microbre Downw Festival will be plays a wide varie 4-Way Stop, whic ty h the corner of Main of music. They’ll be in the gaze bo at and Liberty stree ts from 6 to 9 p.m.

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Civic League Milk Fund begins; county wins beautification award ABOVE: Avin often saves collars from dogs and cats he removes from the roadway, in case the owners try to find out what happened to their pets. He was carrying this one on the back of his truck last week. RIGHT: From left, Paula Cearley radios a report to a SCDOT road crew as James Wells, Steve Avin and Bobbi Prescott look over a list of calls that came in before Avin arrived at work around 7 a.m. He takes calls about animals and debris in roadways and patrols other roads five days a week. PHOTOS BY IVY MOORE / THE SUMTER ITEM

Sumterites head for active duty; curbside trash pickup begins

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75 YEARS AGO – 1942 Jan. 26-Feb. 2 Census report shows that 8,904 bales of cotton were ginned in Sumter County from the crop of 1941 prior to Jan. 16 as compared with 34,385 bales obtained from the crop of 1940. • Maj. Burton M, Hovey Jr., commanding office; Maj. Daniel A. Cooper, executive officer; and Maj. James W. Gurr, director of training, all of Shaw Field, have been

appointed temporary lieutenant colonels in the U.S. Air Corps, regular army. First Lt. W.A. Thompson, post adjutant, administered the oath to the officers. The officers will wear silver leaf insignias, designating their rank as lieutenant colonels. • No-light landings were practiced by aviation cadets at Shaw Field during the past week, and as far as post authorities can ascertain, this is the first basic flying

school in the United States to give cadets training in this type of landing. In fact, no-light landing is an entirely new thing. The advanced school at Kelly Field has recently been giving students this type of training, but it has not been a universal practice. The last phase of night flying for the upper class, 42-D, at Shaw Field was completed Friday night. • The Sumter YMCA Juniors, with eight victories to their credit,

will find the going very tough this week in trying to keep their perfect record intact. Tomorrow the Juniors face the 457th School Squadron quintet from Shaw Field on the Sumter Y court. • Commissioner of Internal Revenue Guy T. Helvering has issued a statement again calling attention of motorists to the revenue act which imposes a “use” tax upon

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75 YEARS AGO – 1941 Sept. 29 – Oct. 5 On Saturday afternoon between the hours of 2 and 5:30 a total of 2,038 people visited the Livestock and Better Farm Living Train while it was parked at the A.C.L. depot in Sumter on exhibition. A halfhour broadcast was made by county agents Eleazer and Bowen that carried listeners through the entire length of the train. This was made possible by station WFIG and Wilcox DesChamps, local cattleman, who sponsored it as a public service feature. Various farmers and Clemson and railroad specialists were interviewed, and a running explanation of the exhibits was carried on by Bowen. This

makes a total of 62,665 persons that have visited this train at the 27 stops it has made over the state. • The annual drive for the Milk Fund of the Civic League will start about the 20th of October. Yesteryear We are most in Sumter grateful to SAMMY WAY W.S. Hirshberg, who has kindly consented to act as chairman and in his capable hands we are sure of success. A small amount of the money raised is used by Miss Antonia Gib-

son for medical supplies, but practically all as the name implies, is spent for milk for the undernourished children in the schools, milk in the homes for those of preschool age and milk for a few old and helpless people. • Trophies for the show of the South Carolina Hereford Breeders Association, which will be held at the county fair next week are now on display in the front show window of Fishel’s Jewelry Store and Galloway & Moseley. • Trezevant Anderson, a black native of Sumter, but for many years in government service in Washington, now 1991 — Air Force Maj. Rich Abney, a military nurse, listens to Furman retired and living in Waldorf,

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White’s heart. Men account for between 20 and 25 percent of the nurses at Shaw Air Force Base Hospital.

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Drill Sgt. Javier Solivan demonstrates the proper parade rest position to new recruits as they go through reception at Fort Jackson last week. During reception, recruits complete paperwork, undergo medical screenings, and receive shots and haircuts. They are also issued their uniforms and dog tags.

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Jamie Bowen, 18, of St. Matthews, joins other recruits as they try on their uniforms for the first time Thursday.

ach year, up to 50,000 Army recruits are transformed from civilian to soldier at Fort Jackson in Columbia. They come from all backgrounds and from every corner of the country to join the long line of men and women who have kept America free for 240 years. Fort Jackson last month launched a yearlong celebration of its centennial. When it turns 100 on June 2, 2017, Fort Jackson will have trained an estimated 5 million soldiers. Today, it is the nation’s largest basic training facility. To commemorate the fort’s anniversary and its impact on Columbia, The State during the next 10 weeks will follow future soldiers from the 2nd Battalion, 60th Infantry Regiment as they go through “boot camp.” Last week, the recruits received their first taste of Army life, from haircuts to inoculations to indoctrination to the uniforms they will wear throughout their Army careers. Watch for our coverage in the weeks ahead as we follow members of the next generation of American soldiers. Also, this fall, look for a book we’re publishing on Fort Jackson, its history and its impact on the Midlands. — JEFF WILKINSON

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Obituaries inside the Palmetto section

Charles Holley, Cayce Sara Holley, Cayce Judy Horne, Saluda Rolando Howell Sr., Hopkins

Gussie Radden, Camden Vanessa Sinkler, Columbia Harriett Threatt, Hopkins Theodora Wannamaker, Columbia

Ethel "Bea" Jones, West Columbia Master Sgt. Robert Kelly, Lugoff Owen Matherly, Columbia Martha Padgett, Chapin

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BY SUSAN ARDIS Recruit Noah Hall, of Bainbridge, Ga., gets his hair cut. This week, the recruits resume the Red Phase of “boot camp,” which includes basic tactical training, rappelling at the Victory Tower, learning Army heritage and learning the seven Army core values of loyalty, duty, respect, selfless service, honor, integrity and personal courage.

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David Adam, Lexington Jerry Alert, Columbia James Benton, Ulmer Wallace Henzler, Pelion

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our time starts... now!” I actually heard those words spoken by Padma Lakshmi in the Top Chef kitchen during a taping of the Bravo TV show in Charleston. I’ve been on set twice, but strict confidentiality agreements limit what I can – and can’t – say. I found out about the Charleston season back in March, through a news release the day after Jeremy Ford was declared the winner of Season 13. Faster than you can say “pack your knives and go,” I was on the phone and exchanging emails with Bravo’s Top Chef production staff, trying to get information and/or access to the show. But, Columbia isn’t Chucktown, so I wasn’t sure if I would even be considered. Somewhere, though, the culinary competition gods must have been smiling on me. After exchanging about a dozen emails, I met Rebecca Boswell, director of communications for Bravo & Oxygen Media at NBC Universal, at an I-can’t-tell-youwhere location. Boswell is handling the press for Season 14 so I got to follow her around the Top Chef kitchen set, standing where told, trying to stay quiet and out of camera range. Boswell told me about some of the challenges that filming in Charleston presented: 1. It’s the smallest location, so far, so trying to keep everything under wraps is hard. The contestants can’t really get out and walk around town (even those who are eliminated early). This is also the first time the show will stay put, shooting in one location during the production cycle. 2. There’s only one Whole Foods, a perennial sponsor of Top Chef, and it doesn’t close down when the chefs are sent out to shop. 3. Finding spaces to film has been hard since Charleston is an older city and available spaces tend to be small. SEE ‘TOP CHEF’, 5C

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Richard Peterson of the Lake Murray Chamber of Commerce watches purple martins fly in and around Bomb Island on Lake Murray. Thousands of the birds are returning after largely bypassing their long-time roost there in 2014.

Purple martins again fill the sky Improved habitat will attract more to Lake Murray, one bird-watcher says BY TIM FLACH

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urple martins again are flocking to Lake Murray, delighting bird-watchers and shoreline residents for another summer. Thousands of the birds are returning to their long-time roost on Bomb Island, relieving anxiety lingering when they went elsewhere in 2014

THE SPECTACLE THAT THE BIRDS CREATE HAS BECOME A SUMMER STAPLE ON THE 650-MILE LAKEFRONT. for unknown reasons. They returned last year, but in smaller numbers. “The birds are back, but the population is much smaller than it was,” said Sidney Gauthreaux, director of the Radar Ornithology Laboratory at Clemson University. “It’s

not really as spectacular as years past.” No one counts, but the roost has been as large as 1 million birds at times, according to unofficial estimates. It’s one of the largest roosts of purple martins in North America.

Their numbers today are fewer, apparently due to higher mortality when the birds winter in South America and less reproduction, Gauthreaux said. After their young leave the nest, the birds spend the summer consuming insects on trips that cover hundreds of miles before returning to their large communal roost on the island. The roost at the lake apparently began to build sometime

in the late 1980s, officials say. By 1994, researchers were estimating its numbers in the hundreds of thousands. The spectacle has become a summer staple on the 650mile lakefront. Boaters sail near Bomb Island in July and August to watch the acrobatic cloud that the birds create at dawn and sunset as they depart and come back from hunting food. SEE PURPLE MARTINS, 5C

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SOUTH CAROLINA REMEMBERS

Obituaries inside the Palmetto section

Alice Anderson, Columbia

Carmichael Glenn, Columbia

George James, Castle Hayne, NC

Bruce Smalley, Chapin

Gerryleen Bickley, Lexington

Bennie Gunter, Gaston

William Lyerly, Columbia

Timothy Thomas, Augusta

William Cotty, Columbia

Lonnie Hutson, Blackville

Linda Peake, Blythewood

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SOUTH CAROLINA REMEMBERS V. Edward Baker, Pelion Charlotte Boyd, Winnsboro Rev. William Coble, Chesnee Samuel Davis, Wagener Anthony DeCrescenzio, Lexington

Isla Ford, Lake View Christopher Gardner, Camden Robert "Bobby" Hipp, Columbia Daniel Keels, Blythewood Annie Livingston, Columbia

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WHAT: Charleston International Jazz Festival WHEN: Friday-Jan. 24 WHERE: Woolfe Street Playhouse, 34 Woolfe St.; Gaillard Center, 2 George St.; Sottile Theatre, 44 George St.; Barsa, 630 King St. COST: $15-$80 (jazz jams and family day are free) MORE INFO: www.chasjazzfestival.com

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Schuur, who has performed around the world with major stars such as Ray Charles, Quincy Jones, B.B. King, Stevie Wonder and others, has been nominated for five Grammys and has won two. She is known for her fine piano playing and bold, silky vocals. She keeps her voice in good shape by drinking a lot of water, she said. Schuur is accustomed to playing in small ensembles and before big bands and orchestras. She will bring her own arrangements of Count Basie tunes and other classic songs to Charleston, she said.

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Gibbes Museum to reopen on May 28 after renovations BY ADAM PARKER aparker@postandcourier.com The $13.5 million renovation of the Gibbes Museum of Art is nearly complete. The Gibbes plans to reopen to the public May 28. The building isn’t the only thing that’s undergone a makeover. The museum contracted with Blue Ion to create a new website and logo that updates the image of the 111-yearold institution. The two-year renovation project was meant to restore aspects of the

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Gibbes’ original mission as a community arts space. Its first floor now will be accessible to the public for free. It will feature an education center that includes classrooms, artist studios, lecture and event spaces a cafe and a museum store. It will open to the garden in the back, part of the city’s historic Gateway Walk founded by the Garden Club of Charleston. “I think there is a second cultural renaissance taking place in CharlesPlease see GIBBES, Page F6

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mily Shown stood at Lowe’s next to the displays of kaleidoscopic paint chips, gazing intently at three pieces of paper in pale shades of gray. She and her husband, Alan, were choosing paint for the nursery of their first baby, a boy, due in the spring. The difference between the three grays she held in her hand — Passive, Agreeable Gray and Alpaca — was little more than a shift in perception, a blink of an eye, a tiny adjustment in temperature. Shown moved the chips closer to the fluorescent shelf lighting, then away, closer to her. She shook her head.

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“See, it’s warmer here,” she said. “What I get hung up on is the light and whether it will make it peaceful and serene or too bright.” Then she explained that she is a hair colorist, which makes her perception of color all the more acute. “We wanted something on the cooler side,” she said. “It’s frustrating because as a hair colorist people will sit down and say, I see red in my hair, and I just put green in it, which is on the opposite side. We see different things, and in the light it all changes.” She frowned, then she laughed. “Hopefully, we can make a decision quickly and get it done!” she said. Shown hit on one of the many hurdles on the path to picking the right paint color for a space. It’s a com-

plicated and subjective process that, in addition to light, involves time of day, paint quality and dryness and environmental conditions — not to mention the ability to think straight amid the increasingly large number of colors on the market, the subtleties between which are often little more than a drop of yellow or blue and are enough to drive one crazy with doubt. “It’s maddening,” said Bernie Clark, the paint department manager at Lowe’s on James Island. He gestured toward the color chips of three major brands and burst out laughing. “It’s gotta be several thousands. Isn’t that something?” Please see COLORS, Page D4

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EW YORK — Hollywood’s summer, which kicks off with the fittingly combative “Captain America: Civil War,” will be a season of struggle: for box office, for originality and for opportunity. More than ever, the big tent of summer moviegoing is held up by a forest of tentpoles stretching from May to August. The swelling size of the summer movie has turned the season into a game of survival. The possibility of bombing lurks as an ever-present threat, testosterone often dominates in front of and (especially) behind the camera, and few non-sequel, non-reboot films dare to compete. Box office and stress levels run high in equal measure. “It’s a different landscape than 2002 when the first ‘Bourne’ movie came out,” says Matt Damon, who returns to the franchise in Paul Greengrass’ “Jason Bourne” (July 29). “It’s like a high-stakes poker game that I don’t want to be in. The swings are just so brutal. Ben (Affleck) just opened ‘Batman v Superman’ a few weeks ago.

sparagus (Asparagus officinalis) has been called the “food of kings” and remains a popular delicacy in the vegetable kingdom. Discovered more than 2,000 years ago in the eastern Mediterranean and Asia minor regions, the delicious edible AMY sprouts became DABBS popular with early Greeks and Romans. In fact, the name is from the Greek word, meaning “sprout” or “shoot.” Later, it would become popular at the French court of Louis XIV and eventually make its way here with the colonists.

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It’s hard work being a professional choral singer. You have to spend hours at a piano plunking out your notes. You have to sing in ritualized and often very weird ways to warm up the throat and vocal chords, slowly and carefully at first, then with more and more energy. You have to pace yourself vocally to protect a notoriously fragile instrument susceptible to the slightest wisp of cool air or pollen particle.

Video T see a performance To of The King’s Counterpoint choir, go to postandcourier.com/features. You have to support every breath, using your diaphragm to draw air in and push it out while remembering to keep your shoulders and neck relaxed, throat open, palate raised and sinus cavities resonating. It’s hard enough to sing the Renaissance and Baroque repertoire, with

its intricate polyphony, fast runs and often sacred texts. But then you’re asked to sing modern stuff, and that can take some extra learning. Stamina. That’s what’s needed most. And intelligence. Preparedness. Patience. These are the qualities David Acres is cultivating in his new chamber choir, The King’s Counterpoint. Acres and his wife, Judith Overcash Acres, started the choir in 2014. The couple married in 2013, after Please see MUSIC, Page F7

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his year, the Charleston International Jazz Festival ramps it up. Two Grammy Awardwinning artists join the roster of this second festival, performing one after the other at the Gaillard Center on Saturday. Headliners Cuban trumpet phenomenon Arturo Sandoval and American pianist-singer Diane Schuur might add a bit of cachet to the event, but the large cache of local musicians involved is impressive in and of itself. The festival is presented by Jazz Artists of Charleston, and it signals the organization’s intentions to provide a platform for local and regional artists, as well as opportunities to introduce Charleston audiences to national and international musicians, according to executive

director Mary Beth Natarajan. “And then we also want to have an element of the festival that supports our youth jazz artists,” she said.

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Fortunately, you don’t need a royal title to enjoy asparagus today. The Liliaceae, or lily family member is related to onions and daylilies and is widely available year-round, with the most delicate spears coming to market in early spring. If you have ever harvested and eaten homegrown asparagus, you can understand why King Louis XIV had greenhouses erected on the palace grounds for all-seasons asparagus consumption.

The kitchen’s often a room to experiment — with decor, as well as food and drink. Over the years we’ve seen yellow, turquoise, avocado green, greige and white take their turns as favored hues. But right now, black is back. “It makes perfect sense, style-wise,” says New York City designer Elaine Griffin. “We began seeing the rise of black appliances as sleek and stylish nonwhite alternatives to pricier stainless options at the new millennium, and black as the ‘new neutral’ wall color has been gaining popularity over the past decade.” You can go ultramodern or traditional when bringing black into the kitchen. High-end, Euro-style lacquered cabinetry from companies like Boffi, Poliform and Bulthap is sleek and sexy. Marble countertops and

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ffshore accounts conjure images of bad behavior by the rich and shady, and for good reason: they have been used to dodge taxes, fund organized crime and facilitate corruption. But many people use offshore accounts for more than just hiding bribes and laundering money. Really. And offshore accounts can be financial tools for more than just the ultra-wealthy, too. Regular people use them to simplify transactions with relatives overseas, or to keep money in places where they travel often — or for more distasteful reasons, like to hide money from a soon-to-be exspouse. These accounts and trusts, and the shell companies sometimes set up to control them, have come under scrutiny this week after a massive leak of confidential documents from a Panamanian law firm has shown how some of the world’s richest people hide assets to

avoid paying taxes. It is impossible to say how many accounts are for legitimate purposes rather than illicit ones, according to Mark Matthews, an attorney and former IRS deputy commissioner. “My sense is there is a vast majority of people who have legal reasons,” he said. An offshore account is simply a financial account or trust held somewhere outside of that person’s home country. Americans can hold them overseas and many foreigners hold them in the U.S. They can be set up by companies or individuals. Regulators, particularly the U.S., have cracked down on them in recent years. An exact measure of how many offshore accounts exist and who they are held by is tricky because of their nature: many are specifically designed to offer account holders anonymity. Here are a few common reasons an individual who isn’t among the world’s superrich might hold an offshore account: Family Immigrants often maintain accounts in

their home country to make things simpler to manage when back home or to help care for relatives who stay behind. Financial ties can last for generations through inheritances. “It’s not the mega-rich, you see other people who were otherwise middle class,” Matthews said. There can be confusing or tricky situations, of course. Matthews said these can come up if a family business is maintained in a home country or if there are family secrets. Matthews tells of a case where a woman never told her husband of an account established years before by her father because he didn’t “want her to marry that American.” “I wish I could sell the movie rights, the stories of these families are amazing,” Matthews said. The U.S. has made several efforts to force and encourage citizens to reveal their offshore holdings, including a voluntary disclosure program that started in 2009 that has brought more than 54,000 disclosures and $8 billion in taxes.

Convenience There are an estimated 8 million Americans living abroad. That means there are that many people who might want easy access to local banks to deposit their paycheck, pay bills or get cash. “There seems to be the presumption that if you have an account in a foreign country you are trying to hide money from the government,” said Jane Bruno, whose Floridabased tax consulting and preparation business specializes in helping Americans living overseas. The easy access abroad can create some thorny problems at home, though. Bruno said efforts to crack down on wrongdoers holding offshore accounts have made it daunting for people living overseas who try to follow the law. Unlike most other countries, the U.S. taxes its citizens on all income, regardless of where it is earned or where they live. That can make for some anxiety-producing tax paperwork. See OFFSHORE, page 2E

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EAR DAVE: How do you decide whether or not to sell collectible memorabilia when you’re getting out of debt? — WILLIAM DEAR WILLIAM: In most cases, there’s a pretty wide spectrum of emotional involvement when it comes to this sort of stuff. I mean, there’s a big difference between having a baseball signed by Mickey Mantle from a day that you and your dad met Mickey at the stadium, and buying a baseball a few years ago that he autographed and seeing it has gone up in value. With the first, I’d be tempted to tell you to keep it unless you’re literally about to lose everything. In it,

you have a deep, emotional connection — a personal story about you, your dad and one of the greatest baseball players of all time. It was a sentimental, once-inDAVE a-lifetime kind of thing. In the second SAYS case, it’s just a purDAVE RAMSEY chase you made as a COLUMNIST hobby. That kind of thing can go without a whole lot of thought. If what you own doesn’t have some kind of deep sentimental and emotional connection to family or a major life

event, then it’s just stuff. I hope this helps a little, William. There’s nothing wrong with having some nice things. But there’s a big difference between you having things and your things having you. Never let “stuff” stand between you and your family’s sense of security and financial well-being! DEAR DAVE: Recently, I got a speeding ticket. I’m also following your plan, so I was wondering if a speeding ticket is a good reason to dip into my emergency fund. — ARIEL DEAR ARIEL: Well, it depends. Certainly you have to pay the ticket. In most states you could lose your driver’s license for not paying a

speeding ticket. You’d have a real emergency then, wouldn’t you? I would advise looking at the situation this way: what is the amount of the ticket in relation to your income and overall financial health? If the ticket is $100 and you make $200,000 a year, then stop worrying and pay the ticket. But if you got slapped with a $300 ticket and you only make $20,000 a year, then that could be an emergency. If you can cash flow it out of your budget, then leave the emergency fund alone. If not, then dip in for just enough to pay the fine and replace the amount as quickly as possible. I mean, you’ve got to get it

paid, right? That’s an interesting question, Ariel. I’m glad you’re working to get control of your money. Just remember to slow down a little when you’re behind the wheel! Dave Ramsey is America’s trusted voice on money and business, and CEO of Ramsey Solutions. He has authored seven best-selling books. The Dave Ramsey Show is heard by more than 11 million listeners each week on more than 550 radio stations and digital outlets. Dave’s latest project, EveryDollar, provides a free online budget tool. Follow Dave on Twitter at @DaveRamsey and on the web at daveramsey.com.

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Jamie Bowen, 18, of St. Matthews, joins other recruits as they try on their uniforms for the first time Thursday.

Recruit Noah Hall, of Bainbridge, Ga., gets his hair cut. This week, the recruits resume the Red Phase of “boot camp,” which includes basic tactical training, rappelling at the Victory Tower, learning Army heritage and learning the seven Army core values of loyalty, duty, respect, selfless service, honor, integrity and personal courage.

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Singleton propels Bucs to win in opener Chas. Southern 4, West Virginia 3 BY JEFF HARTSELL jhartsell@postandcourier.com Chris Singleton pointed skyward after one of his two hits on college baseballâ€™s opening day. His mother, he knew, would have been proud. â€œI can imagine if she had been here, she would have been screaming the whole game because I played well and we won,â€? Singleton said after driving in three runs to spark Charleston Southernâ€™s 4-3 win over West Virginia on Friday at Riley Park. â€œWe played well today. We competed and got a big win to start the season. Iâ€™m just happy for this team.â€? Singletonâ€™s first college game since his mother, Sharonda ColemanSingleton, was killed at the Emanuel AME Church shooting last June was yet another inspiring moment for the CSU sophomore. Earlier this week, Singleton acknowledged feeling increased pressure this season due to the attention his story has gained over the last eight months, and he struck out in his first at-bat on Friday. But with two runners on and CSU trailing 1-0 in the fourth inning, Singleton smacked a two-run double Please see BUCS, Page C6

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the drama. And finally, there was a call â€” illegal procedure, repeat the down. And one play later, there was a repeat ference between The Citadelâ€™s big- of the upset The Citadel had pulled in gest victory in a quarter-century and this same stadium 25 years ago. South Carolinaâ€™s greatest escape in a Tyler Renew rushed for 174 yards dismal season turned out to be a yel- and two touchdowns, the second a low officialâ€™s flag. backbreaking 56-yard surge up the It sat there, on the turf at Williams- middle with 6:07 remaining, and Brice Stadium, after Pharoh Cooper The Citadel stopped USCâ€™s last gasp caught what appeared to be a game- on fourth down in the final secwinning 94-yard touchdown pass onds to secure a 23-22 victory. The with 39 seconds remaining Saturday. Bulldogs engineered the first vicThere were boos from the crowd, there tory by a Football Championship were consultations by the officials, there was a delay which only extended Please see CITADEL, Page C6 COLUMBIA â€” In the end, the dif-

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dance record that first year, drawing 234,840 fans, and set a hile the Citadel baseball team spent this week record at 292,661 in 2015. There were a lot of Thirsty on sparkling Bermuda Grass preparThursdays in between. ing for its season-opening weekend The Citadel has won five Southern Conference series against Virginia Tech, CharlesTournament titles in the friendly confines along the ton RiverDogs employees were elsewhere at Joseph Ashley River. P. Riley Jr. Park, busy in their zaniness laboratory A 20-year anniversary seems like a good time for coming up with new ideas for 2016. GENE a top 20 list of baseball â€” and baseball-related â€” Itâ€™s hard to top â€˜Go Back to Ohio Nightâ€™ or â€˜National Laundry Dayâ€™ at a ballpark that has changed Charles- SAPAKOFF highlights at The Joe. ton culture by the turnstile turn since it opened in 1997. The RiverDogs shattered the franchise attenPlease see SAPAKOFF, Page C4

BY JENNA FRYER Associated Press DAYTONA BEACH, FLA. â€” Her name is Amelia, and boy, can she fly. Sheâ€™ll be forever treasured by Dale Earnhardt Jr., even though he wants nothing more than to give her away Sunday. Amelia Earhart is the nickname of the sleek and superfast Chevrolet that Earnhardt drove to three wins last season. The car never finished lower than third in five races, and Earnhardt couldnâ€™t find a reason to keep her out of t he upcomi ng Daytona 500. The decision Earnhardt Jr. was easy. Instead of building a new car specifically for the â€œThe Great American Raceâ€? â€” what most teams do every offseason â€” Earnhardt opted to give Amelia another shot at getting to victory lane. She delivered Thursday night when Earnhardt won a 150-mile qualifying race to up her record to four wins in six starts over the last 13 months. â€œThe car really does everything I ask it to do,â€? Earnhardt said after his win. â€œWhen you have a car that you know

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Citadel players celebrate a 10-8 victory over No. 11 South Carolina at Riley Park in 2014.

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A crowd of more than 6,000 watched the Gamecocks beat the Tigers, 3-2, in 11 innings in 2012.

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OLUMBIA â€” Tyler Renew pleasantly recalled his former favorite football game at Williams-Brice Stadium. It was Oct. 10, 2010. Renew, a Columbia native, sold peanuts that afternoon, and a lot of them, as South Carolina surprised top-ranked Alabama and the college football world. The upset of No. 1 is now No. 2 on his list. Renew ran for 174 yards and scored two touchdowns Saturday in The Citadelâ€™s 23-22 upset of South Carolina. From start to finish, he was symbolic of Citadel perseverance stamped on one of the great

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Clemson wide receiver Charone Peake had 60 receiving yards and a touchdown to help the Tigers defeat Wake Forest, 33-13, at home on Saturday.

There is more football ahead for Charleston Southern. That was the focus on Saturday night at Bryant-Denny Stadium following a 56-6 loss to No. 3 Alabama. CSU fell behind 49-0 by halftime and was overwhelmed by the Crimson Tide, but head coach Jamey Chadwellâ€™s team is focused squarely on the FCS Playoffs. The Bucs will find out their playoff destination during Sunday morningâ€™s NCAA selection show.

â€œI thought our guys came out and competed in the second half which was good to see,â€? Chadwell said. â€œOur main goal was to come out here and stay healthy which I think we accomplished that. Theyâ€™re obviously a really good team.â€? Alabama put that on display from the opening kickoff, scoring touchdowns on its first three drives while forcing three-and-outs on CSUâ€™s first three series. Derrick Henry rushed for touchdowns of 17 and two yards to push his nation-best total to 21. Jake Coker hit Richard Mullaney for a 21-yard touchdown, and added a 30-yard scoring strike to Calvin Ridley. Please see CSU, Page C3

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Fatigued Gamecocks at Bama on Monday BY DAVID CARAVIELLO dcaraviello@postandcourier.com COLUMBIA â€” They may be ranked No. 3 in America and have a third consecutive SEC championship secured, but the South Carolina womenâ€™s basketball team is not immune to the wear and tear of a long regular season. That was evident their last time out, in a victory over Georgia which clinched the SEC title outright. With nine healthy players and one of those sitting due to a coachâ€™s decision, USC saw a 16-point lead whittled down to five in the final minutes. The Gamecocks again battled turnovers, missed free throws and periods of stagnancy on offense, due to what head coach Dawn Staley called mental fatigue. Perhaps understandably, given that USC had come off a stretch of five straight games against ranked opponents, including its only loss Feb. 8 against No. 1 Connecticut. The Gamecocks played without wing Asia Dozier, who missed her fifth straight game with a right hand injury. There was no reserve forward Jatarie White, out with an illness. There was no backup point guard Bianca Cuevas, who sat due to a coachâ€™s decision. Staley hopes to have White and Cuevas back for Mondayâ€™s 7 p.m. game at Alabama. But thereâ€™s no question the Gamecocks (25-1, 13-0 SEC) are feeling the cumulative effects of a rigorous season, and itâ€™s showing at times on the floor. â€œWeâ€™ve played a tremendously hard schedule. This league is unforgiving. I know a lot of programs would trade places, having to deal with this fatigue. But it is what it is. Our bench is shorter. Our focus is more of a draining sort of focus, where they can only pay attention for short periods of time,â€? said Staley, whose team has played 11 ranked opponents.

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Quarterback Lorenzo Nunez, who started two games earlier this season for USC, has four carries in USCâ€™s last three games.

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DAYTONA BEACH, FLA. â€” When he was in second grade, Denny Hamlin wrote a letter to himself wishing for a Daytona 500 victory. His childlike cursive stated he wanted to win the race in 1998. Hamlin had to wait considerably longer, just not as long as team owner Joe Gibbs. With a Hail Mary move Sunday, Hamlin ended Gibbsâ€™ 23-year drought at the Daytona 500. It gave Hamlin his first Daytona 500 victory in 10 tries, and Toyota its first in â€œThe Great American Race.â€? â€œYou couldnâ€™t have written a better ending,â€? Hamlin said. â€œItâ€™s the pinnacle of my career, for sure.â€? Hamlin pulled out of line with a lap to go and chased down teammate Matt Kenseth. He staved off Kensethâ€™s block, and wedged between Kenseth and Martin Truex Jr. Hamlin stayed in the gas for a door-to-door dash to the checkered flag that ended in a photo finish with Truex. He beat Truex by 0.010 seconds, the closest finish in the history of the race. â€œI donâ€™t know where that came from, I donâ€™t know what happened, I canâ€™t even figure out what I did,â€?

For more photos from the Daytona 500, go to postandcourier.com/ galleries. had no use for the victories his drivers collected in the exhibition races leading into Sundayâ€™s season opener â€” Hamlin and Busch each won one race in the buildup to the opener. But the three-time Super Bowl-winning coach was focused only on the 500 and his four drivers brainstormed on the best way to get a win. â€œThe thrill in football, you canâ€™t get any more excited than that, winning a Super Bowl. Itâ€™s the same thrill over here,â€? Gibbs said. â€œMost people never get to have a dream in life. Iâ€™ve had two from an occupational standpoint. Iâ€™m probably one of the most blessed guys in the world.â€? CHUCK BURTON/AP Hamlin, Kenseth, Busch and Denny Hamlin celebrates in Victory Lane after winning his first Carl Edwards stuck close together Daytona 500 on Sunday. for most of the race, and they got assistance from Truex, who became Hamlin said. â€œIt all just came with Kyle Busch the teamâ€™s first a de facto JGR teammate this year together. But this wouldnâ€™t be Sprint Cup title in a decade, won when Furniture Row Racing moved possible if it wasnâ€™t for Toyotas stick- the race for the first time since Dale to Toyota. ing together all race long.â€? Jarrett in 1993. Gibbs, who in November celebrated Gibbs had made it clear that he Please see DAYTONA, Page C2

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TLANTA â€” Even with the eternal promise of spring training, itâ€™s hard to get excited about the Atlanta Braves. This former powerhouse is in the midst of a massive rebuilding project, which might bode well for the future but doesnâ€™t figure to yield much in the short term. A year ago, the Braves finished 67-95 â€” their worst mark since 1990. All signs point to another grim season. â€œI think there is a plan in place here and itâ€™s going to keep getting better and better,â€? new general manager John Coppolella said hopefully. But, he added, â€œItâ€™s hard. I hate losing. Itâ€™s not fun for me.â€? Catcher Tyler Flowers, one of the many newcomers on this yearâ€™s roster, compares the current period to the late 1980s, when the Braves struggled on the field but began putting together the team that would win 14 straight division titles beginning in 1991. â€œI was a kid when the last run started, but I think it was along the same lines,â€? the 30-year-old Flowers said. â€œBring in some young, talented guys, kind of groom them, get them comfortable in the environment and get them consistent. Then, all of a sudden, you can run off a nice string of success.â€?

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Denny Hamlin (11) beats out Martin Truex Jr. at the finish line Sunday to win by 0.010 seconds â€” the closest Daytona 500 finish ever â€” at Daytona International Speedway in Daytona Beach, Fla.

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LEMSON â€” Shaq Lawson has a declaration. â€œIt would be great,â€? announced Clemsonâ€™s junior defensive end, â€œto have Deshaun up there in New York for the Heisman (Trophy ceremony).â€? Jordan Leggett has a request. â€œI definitely plan on him being there,â€? said the Tigersâ€™ junior tight end, â€œand I hope he takes me with him.â€? Forgive the top-ranked Tigers for catching Heisman fever. No Clemson player has ever been invited to New York City as a finalist for college sportsâ€™ most hallowed trophy, and sophomore quarterback Deshaun Watson has a clear path to becoming a pioneer of sorts. Jeff Scott has an awareness of what he has in Watson, though the Tigersâ€™ offensive coordinator did not wish to specifically stump for Watsonâ€™s candidacy. â€œIâ€™m not going to get into that. I just know heâ€™s obviously the leader on our offense, on an offense thatâ€™s having a lot of success, on a team thatâ€™s having a lot of success,â€? Scott said. â€œSo all those things are important. If we keep taking care of our job, winning games and he keeps leading our offense, heâ€™ll have plenty of opportunities to get recognized at the end of the year.â€? Watson has no interest in daydreaming. â€œFor me, with the Heisman talk and all the stuff thatâ€™s going on, I worry about myself and my teammates. That outside stuff is going to take care of itself, and I just keep playing ball,â€? said Watson, who received a personalized letter last week from the Heisman Trophy Trust indicating he was on its radar.

COLUMBIA â€” Six weeks ago, he wasnâ€™t just South Carolinaâ€™s starting quarterback â€” he was the Gamecocksâ€™ quarterback of the future. â€œHeâ€™s our starting quarterback, and heâ€™s going to be it, barring injury, for a long time,â€? former USC head coach Steve Spurrier said of Lorenzo Nunez in early October. Now, with two games remaining in South Carolinaâ€™s first losing season in over a decade, plenty has changed. Spurrier is no longer in charge of the Gamecocks, having resigned in the middle of his worst campaign as USCâ€™s head coach. Former offensive line coach Shawn Elliott is running the team on an interim basis. And Nunez has become a bit player in a USC offense now led by another quarterback in Perry Orth. In between, Nunez suffered a sprained throwing shoulder on the final drive of USCâ€™s Oct. 3 loss at Missouri that kept him on the shelf for several weeks. But even after returning from that, his playing time has come in small bites â€” a touchdown run on a reverse against Texas A&M, and broken plays against Tennessee FILE/ GWINN DAVIS/ FOR THE POST AND COURIER

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Heisman Hopefuls Derrick Henry

Ezekiel Elliott

Alabama, RB Vegas odds: 2 to 3 Three 200-yard efforts, a TD in every game for the Southeastern Conferenceâ€™s top team.

Ohio State, RB Vegas odds: 9 to 2 The MVP of last yearâ€™s national title game has at least 100 yards in all 10 games.

The short list of Heisman Trophy candidates, listed with latest Bovada Las Vegas odds:

Leonard Fournette LSU, RB Vegas odds: 9 to 2 He is still college footballâ€™s No. 1 rusher despite two poor games.

Deshaun Watson

Corey Coleman

Clemson, QB Vegas odds: 7 to 1 The only quarterback still on the Heisman board, and best player on the best team.

Baylor, WR Vegas odds: 25 to 1 Twenty receiving touchdowns through eight games catches plenty of attention.

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Carolina quarterback Cam Newton is sacked as Denverâ€™s Von Miller reaches for the loose ball during the Super Bowl on Sunday in Santa Clara, Calif. The Broncos won, 24-10. BY BARRY WILNER Associated Press SANTA CLARA, CALIF. â€” Peyton Manning gave himself a chance to have a Super ending to his career. Von Miller and the Denver defense made the plays to secure the title for the Broncos. Manning and Panthers quarterback Cam Newton were harassed all game Sunday, and the Broncos made enough big plays for the 24-10 victory, Manningâ€™s 200th and perhaps his last before retirement.

He wasnâ€™t the star â€” game MVP Miller seemingly was everywhere on every Carolina play â€” but Manning really hasnâ€™t been the headliner in this injury-shortened season â€œThis game was much like this season has been, testing our toughness, our resiliency, our unselfishness,â€? he said. â€œItâ€™s only fitting that it turned out that way.â€? Emulating his Broncos boss, John Elway, the 39-year-old Manning can ride off with the Lombardi Trophy after leading Denver to its third NFL title, first since 1999 â€” when Elway was

the quarterback. â€œIâ€™ll take some time to reflect,â€? Manning said when asked if Super Bowl 50 is the end. â€œI got a couple priorities first. Iâ€™m going to go kiss my wife and my kids. ... Iâ€™m going to drink a lot of Budweiser tonight. Take care of those things first.â€? Denverâ€™s suffocating defense kept Newton jittery all day. Despite wearing gold shoes before the golden Super Bowl, Newton couldnâ€™t finish Please see BRONCOS, Page C4

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COLUMBIA â€” Laimonas Chatkevicius wanted the ball. And his teammates at South Carolina kept feeding it to him. T he Ga mecock sâ€™ 6 -11 center responded with a career-high 27 points Monday night, keying a frontcourt barrage that overwhelmed Oral Roberts, 84-66, at Colonial Life Arena. Behind the big Lithuanian, USCâ€™s frontcourt players scored 24 consecutive points in the second half as South

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Coll. of Chas. 72, Navy 58 BY ANDREW MILLER apmiller@postandcourier.com Five minutes into the game, it looked like it was going to be a long night for the College of Charleston. The Cougars missed their first five shots from the floor and stood around helplessly as Navy jumped to an 11-0 lead, making five of their first six shots of the game. Last yearâ€™s College of Charleston team might have panicked and wilted under the pressure. This isnâ€™t last yearâ€™s Cougars team.

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Christian McCaffrey Stanford, RB Vegas odds: 50 to 1 Leads in all-purpose yards, but Stanford isnâ€™t a playoff contender.

COLUMBIA â€” South Carolina will host No. 1 Clemson in a noon kickoff at Williams-Brice Stadium The Nov. 28 contest between the Gamecocks and Tigers will also be televised by either ESPN or ESPN2, the SEC announced Monday. The exact network will be determined following this weekendâ€™s games. The Palmetto Bowl will mark the sixth noon kickoff for South Carolina this season, and the fourth at Williams-Brice Stadium.

Barry pours in 22 points to help Cougars sink Navy

Carolina pulled away. â€œThatâ€™s what built the lead for us,â€? Gamecocks coach Frank Martin said of his teamâ€™s play in the paint. â€œWe got them in foul trouble. We got them tentative. â€Ś Thatâ€™s the way the game should have started.â€? Chatkevicius made sure it finished that way, scoring 19 in the second half. South Carolinaâ€™s frontcourt scored 28 of the Gamecocksâ€™ final 29 points, and forward Mindaugas Kacinas finished with a double-double of 12 points and 13 rebounds in addition to his teamFILE/MICHAEL WISER/FOR POST AND COURIER mateâ€™s career night. â€œItâ€™s all on the team. They gave me College of Charlestonâ€™s Canyon Barry had a game-high 22 points Please see USC, Page C5 in the 72-58 win over Navy on Monday night in Annapolis, Md.

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Canyon Barry scored 22 points to lead four players in double figures as College of Charleston rallied to defeat Navy, 72-58, Monday night before an announced crowd of 672 at Alumni Hall in Annapolis, Md. The Cougars (2-0) outscored the Midshipmen, 72-47, over the final 30 minutes of the game. â€œI expected Navy to come out swinging,â€? said College of Charleston coach Earl Grant. â€œI warned the guys that this was going to be a physical, competitive game. Navy delivered. They came out with a lot of spirit and knocked us down early. We put four guys into the game at about the Please see COUGARS, Page C5

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MIAMI GARDENS, Fla. — When Deshaun Watson was intercepted just before halftime Thursday night, Oklahoma seemed to have everything going in its favor heading into the break. The Sooners found themselves with a one-point lead, and they made no secret about how happy they were, as quarterback Baker Mayﬁeld took off and celebrated their 17-16 advantage in front of a large section of Oklahoma fans. Add in the fact they had all the momentum following the interception and were enjoying the prospect of not having to face Clemson defensive end Shaq Lawson for the remainder of the night, and things were downright peachy for the Sooners.

don’t confess to have covered college football for decades — I’ve barely been alive for three of them, and I don’t have a ton of years to draw from. But for the life of me, I can’t recall a team that has played the disrespect card more than the Clemson Tigers. However FROM THE they’ve PRESSBOX | been able to manipulate seemingly ERIC every week SPROTT has worked like a charm to this point, but it doesn’t seem right that they should have to play it anymore after what they did to Oklahoma on Thursday night. Sure, the first half wasn’t always a thing of beauty — far from it at many times — but the second half of Clemson’s 37-17 Orange Bowl victory was nothing short of a masterpiece for the Tigers, who now get to play for their first national championship since the storied 1981 season. I honestly couldn’t comprehend how Clemson — not only the No. 1 team in the nation, but the only undefeated team in the country — was a three-point underdog heading into the game. Oklahoma, undoubtedly, is a quality team, but its place as the favorite was wholly unjustified. By the sheer amount of trash talking Oklahoma players did throughout the week, I’ve been telling close friends since our Journal crew arrived in south Florida on Monday night that I felt like the Tigers were going to win by double digits for two reasons — the first being the disrespect card, and the second being it felt like Oklahoma was trying to convince itself it could come away with a win. In the locker room after

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Clemson quarterback Deshaun Watson throws oranges into the crowd after the Tigers’ Orange Bowl win over Oklahoma on Thursday.

MIAMI GARDENS, Fla. — Deshaun Watson may have only spent two seasons in orange and white, but his pledge to Clemson came as a high school sophomore. He bought into head coach Dabo Swinney’s vision that Clemson could win a national championship not just someday, but someday soon. After an Orange Bowl performance by Watson Thursday that featured two touchdowns — one passing and one rushing — in a 37-17 win over Oklahoma, the sophomore

‘From the get-go, I knew that if we put the work in and the grind, we’d be at this point.’ Deshaun Watson Clemson quarterback quarterback who is ﬁnally one year removed from ACL surgery said he committed to Swinney and Clemson “for moments like this.” “From the get-go, I knew that if we put the work in and the grind, we’d be at this point,” Watson said. “And now we’re here.” “Here” is a 14-0 season

with only Alabama sitting between Clemson and the program’s second national championship, which the Tigers will play for on Jan. 11 in Glendale, Ariz. “Here” is the Tigers’ fourth straight bowl win over a ranked opponent and second in as many seasons over Oklahoma. “Here” is 17 wins in a

row, 10 straight games of 500 yards or more on offense and 51 straight wins by the Tigers when entering the fourth quarter with the lead. And Clemson surely celebrated “here” after the ﬁnal buzzer sounded on Thursday at Sun Life Stadium. The celebration on the ﬁeld wasn’t one of a team that was focused on the game that sits 11 days away. Head coach Dabo Swinney was asked after the win how he’d try to balance the joy with the knowledge there’s one more game to go. SEE NOTEBOOK, PAGE C5

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Pharoh Cooper works out for NFL during USC pro day By PETE IACOBELLI Associated Press

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COLUMBIA — South Carolina receiver Pharoh Cooper put on a show for NFL teams on Wednesday, including sessions as a punt returner and throwing passes out of a wildcat formation. The versatile, 5-foot-11 junior’s best 40-yard dash time of the day was 4.61. By being able to demonstrate his versatility, he hoped to erase a less-than-impressive showing at the NFL scouting combine last month where a balky quad muscle kept him from running and led to some dropped some passes. Cooper was much more on his game in front of personnel from all 32 NFL teams. “It’s a big relief to have this over,” Cooper said, smiling.

Cooper was an all-Southeastern Conference performer who caught 69 passes for 1,136 yards as a sophomore and 66 passes for 973 yards last fall. Cooper was the headliner, but South Carolina’s pro day was thinner on star power than in recent seasons. NFL coaches and general managers flocked to Williams-Brice Stadium to watch high draft picks such as cornerback Stephon Gilmore, running back Marcus Lattimore and defensive ends Melvin Ingram and Jadeveon Clowney work out the last few years. This time, there were no head coaches or GMs in attendance. Clowney, a first overall pick of the Houston Texans in 2014, was on the sidelines, laughing, talking with old teammates and encouraging See COOPER, page 3B

PHOTO BY ASSOCIATED PRESS Wide receiver Pharoh Cooper runs the 40-yard dash Wednesday in front of NFL coaches and scouts during South Carolina’s Pro Day, at Williams-Brice Stadium in Columbia.

Thurmond bolts past Ninety Six By ETHAN JOYCE ejoyce@indexjournal.com

mond coach Mack Hite and his team are proud of. “Any time you can win on the road in this region, it is huge, no matter who you are playing,” Hite said. “They have a great program, Coach Ellis does a phenomenal job, and they have been the measuring stick. “Obviously, we want to get wins any way we can get them against a program that is very good and a team that is very good, and you have to play your best baseball against them.” Ninety Six coach Chad Ellis said loading the bases was a chance to get out of the situation. But that risk can sometimes yield an opposite effect. “It happens, but it is just a game,” Ellis said. “You live by the sword, you die by the sword. “We died by it tonight. But you have to take that risk there down 1-0 and try to give your defense the chance to make a play. But [Cartrett] did a good job in not allowing us to do that.”

NINETY SIX Trailing 1-0 to Strom Thurmond on Wednesday night with runners on first and third, the Ninety Six High School baseball team needed to squeak out of the sixth inning with as little damage as possible. Wildcats pitcher Ethan Joyner kept the Rebels stable through the first five innings until two quick hits caused a jam. Ninety Six intentionally walked the next batter, creating force outs at every base. That decision played out as poorly as it could for the Wildcats. Strom Thurmond cleanup-hitter Henry Cartrett walked into the batter’s box and smoked a grand slam into right-center, sparking a late offensive burst to give the Rebels a 9-0 victory. Strom Thurmond had 12 plate appearances during the sixth, scoring seven runs on seven hits. The win pushes the Rebels to 5-0 in Region II-2A play, something Strom Thur- See THURMOND, page 4B

Dixon making most of his opportunity By MICHAEL CHRISTOPHER mchristopher@indexjournal.com

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Former Emerald High standout Bradley Dixon is excelling in a platoon role for the College of Charleston baseball team.

Going into this college baseball season, Bradley Dixon knew he’d have an opportunity to be in the starting lineup with several injuries to the College of Charleston squad. It was only last year the former Emerald High School standout was enduring an injury of his own. Dixon’s freshman season was cut short after hurting his right knee. He was redshirted after spraining his ACL and MCL a week before the opening of the 2015 season.

Dixon said he learned a lot, soaking up knowledge from players such as Carter and Blake Butler, who were drafted by the Cincinnati Reds. “Learning from them really taught me how to play the game and play the game the right way, the way it’s supposed to be played,” he said. “Just having a different view from being in the dugout rather than being in the field helped me out a lot.” There wasn’t one particular aspect of his game that Dixon wanted to focus on but rather See DIXON, page 3B

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"I want our returners to dwell on it ... What are you going to do about it?" — DAWN STALEYY USC women’s basketball coach on the team’s loss against Syracuse

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COLUMBIA awn Staley wants the Gamecocks to remember the hollow, empty feeling in the locker room after top-seeded South Carolina was ousted from the NCAA Tournament — short of a second straight Final Four appearance. Staley talked before the season began about how this group needed to put in the work to return to the top instead of simply expecting success to follow from the program’s first-ever Final Four appearance in 2015. That gap showed up in Sioux Falls, South Dakota, where the Gamecocks’ season crashlanded with a come-from-behind effort by Syracuse in an 80-72 upset in the Sweet 16. Staley’s players were in tears Friday night and the coach — who reached three Final Fours as Virginia’s star point guard — said it was OK if they were crying because it was the last game for five of them, including two-time Southeastern Conference player of the year Tiffany Mitchell. But Staley said there should be no tears for their NCAA Tournament loss, which showed they needed to put even more work in to guar-

antee it wouldn’t happen again. “I want our returners to dwell on it,” Staley said. “What are you going to do about it?” In Staley’s view, that means more time in the gym improving. And despite the loss of Mitchell, the threetime SEC champss should be a title contender again in 2017. The dominating frontcourt of A’ja Wilson and Alaina Coates will be back for South Carolina (33-2) to cause more havoc underneath for opponents. The 6-foot-5 Wilson, the reigning SEC player of the year, finished with a team high 16.1 points a game and 103 blocks. Coates, at 6-4, had 20 double-doubles this season — she averaged 12 points and 10 boards — and was often on the other end of Wilson’s inside passes. The Gamecocks also get a boost from two highly regarded Atlantic Coast Conference transfers in Kaela Davis and Allisha Gray, both who become eligible after sitting out this season. Davis averaged 19.2 points a game two seasons ago at Georgia Tech, where she became the fastest player ever to reach the 1,000-point level. Gray was a starter at North Carolina, who averaged a team-best 15.8 points a game in 2015. See GAMECOCKS, page 3B

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TIGERS’ DRIVE TO PERFECTION Clemson takes on Alabama in national championship game

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Wayne Gallman and Deshaun Watson can help the Clemson Tigers win their second national championship in school history with a victory over Alabama on Monday night.

lucky young children whose parents push Monday bedtime back an hour or two on a school night, they might feel the same way Deshaun Watson once did as they watch a football game and let their imaginations soar. “It’s every football player’s dream to play in a national championship,” said Watson, Clemson’s 20-year-old quarterback. “Of course, I’ve dreamed about it.”

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Center for Birds of Prey anticipates next 25 years

In 2016, marks the center’s silver anniversary. “This 25th year thing is invigorating for all of us,” Elliott said. “Did I see this all coming? The answer is no. But we’re following what we thought were all the right markers. I don’t think we need to be any bigger, we just need a few more resources to do what we want to do.” There are a number of things the center envisions looking toward the next quarter center:

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AWENDAW ne Christmas morning more than six decades ago, Jim Elliott, the founder and executive director of the Center for Birds of Prey, found a Daisy air rifle under the family tree. “I ran outside, poured BBs in it and waited for something to move and shot the first thing I saw,” he recalls. “I couldn’t believe I actually hit it and ran over to collect and it was a bird, a red-bellied woodpecker, and it was warm and still breathing and I watched it die.” Elliott, who is now 69, remembers crying over the incident but also being affected by the beauty and delicacy of the creature. “I thought it was the most beautiful thing I had ever seen,” he said. It was also the beginning of a life-long love affair with creatures of the air thta a quarter century ago prompted Elliott to start the Charleston Raptor Center — now the Center for Birds of Prey — that is part of the umbrella Avian Conservation Center. From a five-acre site next to his house where Elliott began treating injured hawks, eagles and other raptors while working in commercial real estate, the center has grown to a 152-acre campus where visitors can see raptors fly and learn about them. It’s also Elliott’s full-time job. The center’s 12 staffers teach thousands of students about raptors each year as they visit schools and bring the birds with them. Over the years, 7,000 birds have been treated at the center’s medical clinic and released into the wild.

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Taking stock Early next year, the center plans a stakeholder meeting and will invite anyone who has been involved with the facility to share their thoughts on what it is doing right and what could be improved and where they see it in the future. Involvement could range from foundation representatives who have supported the center to volunteers who have helped out or one of the thousands of school kids who may have seen a raptor demonstration. Marking the anniversary Next September marks 25 years since the center formed as a nonprofit. An event marking the occasion will be held on the center’s campus, although details are still being worked out. Outdoor pavilion The center envisions an outdoor pavilion so raptor demonstrations can take place even in rainy weather. Currently there are wooden seats for visitors, but there’s no shelter, so demonstrations can’t be held in the rain. The cost is estimated at $200,000 for the center, which has an $800,000 annual operating budget. ASSOCIATED PRESS

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Hilton Head Island resident Justin Walker, right, interviewed on July 19 for a job at Montage Palmetto Bluff resort. The growth of such businesses in Bluffton is hurting Hilton Head’s ability to attract hospitality workers.

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BUSINESS OWNERS FEELING THE SHORTAGE While the worker shortage started to emerge in the early 2000s, according to employers and developers, it is now affecting operations. Aunt Chilada’s Easy Street Cafe on Pope Avenue shuttered its main, upstairs dining room from May to mid-June because it was short servers and hosts. Zaxby’s new south-end location opened one week late in April because of a worker shortage. And Reilley’s Bar and Grill on Greenwood Drive has been searching for a second chef for more than a year. The resorts and hotels also say they’re more challenged than ever to fill jobs. Sonesta Resort delayed the opening of its pool bar for several weeks this spring because it lacked staff to operate it. The Omni Hilton Head Oceanfront Resort was short 50 employees, 15 percent of its staff, in June, even after flying 90 international workers to Hilton Head for the season. Sea Pines Resort too has struggled to fill all of its jobs after rebuilding several facilities, including the Beach Club and Plantation Golf Club. And an anticipated doubling of the number of rooms at The Inn & Club at Harbour Town will mean even more hospitality workers will be needed. Disney’s Hilton Head Island Resort and the Holiday Inn Express also confirmed they’re short more workers than in past years. Other hospitality companies, including Marriott Vacation Clubs and The Westin Hilton Head Island Resort & Spa, declined to talk about their specific shortages this year but said filling jobs is a challenge every summer. “It’s certainly not ideal and requires a lot more work than it should,” said Tim Freisen, general manager of The Westin. At the start of the season, his resort sometimes closes its seasonal restaurants two days a week for lack of workers. And dozens of island restaurants, ranging from fast-food eateries to tourist hotspots, are also feeling the shortage. “When you’re hiring, it’s usually out of a big barrel of choices,” said Troy Dempsey, general manager of Hilton Head’s Popeyes Louisiana Kitchen, which has consistently struggled to stay fully staffed since opening in September. “On Hilton Head, it’s more like a small bucket.” Some employers admit that they are having to lower standards to fill jobs. “It’s become, ‘One man’s trash is another man’s treasure,’ ” says Steve Carb, president of Hilton Head’s largest employer, SERG Restaurant Group, which operates six Hil-

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FRANKLY THE GROWTH OF BLUFFTON HAS BEEN INCREDIBLE. AND THE REALITY IS THAT IT IS ABSOLUTELY CUTTING INTO WHO WE’RE ABLE TO HIRE. Jay Wiendl, general manager of Sonesta Resort on Hilton Head ton Head restaurants. “Forget about getting qualified employees. Sometimes, you just need a warm body.” Even when establishments find enough workers, many still struggle. For example, between 50 and 75 percent of Zaxby’s new hires leave in a matter of days, according to a manager. Park Plaza Cinema on Office Park Road, which has been looking for two more employees since May, has been left in the lurch several times when other new employees quit without notice, the owner recently said. And Skillets Cafe and Grill in

Coligny Plaza, which keeps a “Help Wanted” sign up year round, is now filling kitchen jobs that once required years of experience with staff who have none. Ten years ago, a worker who consistently failed to show up for work was blacklisted and would not be rehired, said Brendan Reilley, whose family owns eight establishments under the Coastal Restaurants And Bars umbrella. Now, workers fired for minor offenses are usually shuffled from one CRAB restaurant to another. “We had a no-hire list, basically,” Reilley said. “I don’t think we have a no-hire list anymore.” Meanwhile, the ways that some Hilton Head employers have historically brought in workers to fill shortages — including a student visa program and a public busing system — are in need of improvements if they are to continue consistently supplying workers, say activists. For example: A Some workers stand in the aisles of Palmetto Breeze buses during their hours-long commutes to Hilton Head jobs because there aren’t enough seats. And because of a limited number of routes, missing the bus

means missing a full day of work, hurting both workers and employers. A better transportation system could mean more workers coming to the island. A Some foreign-student workers say they are being brought to the island under false pretenses. More accountability could increase the likelihood that students get the experience they were promised and that more students would want to come to Hilton Head. “It’s not hard to find guest workers that feel duped, feel outraged that they were promised something that they don’t get,” said Meredith Stewart, an attorney with the Southern Poverty Law Center, a nonprofit that specializes in civil rights and public interest litigation. “They feel like cheap labor.” “If people are feeling like they are taken advantage of ... what does that say about us?”

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THE NEW COMPETITOR: BLUFFTON The largest reason for the island’s worker shortage is the growth of its neighbor, Bluffton. “Frankly the growth of Bluffton has been incredible,” said Jay Wiendl, general manager of Sonesta Resort. “And the reality is that it is absolutely cutting

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businesses are struggling to maintain quality service without the staff to support it. “Today, what’s happening behind the scenes is those (Hilton Head) employers are scrambling to find ways to get those positions filled,” said Hilton Head Mayor David Bennett. “And at some point, it could be that they just aren’t able to scramble anymore.” All signs point to the shortage growing worse as rent on the island increases and new employment opportunities spring up in both Bluffton and Jasper County, creating competition for both local workers and those who make hours-long commutes.

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into who we’re able to hire.” For decades, thousands of workers from around Beaufort County — and even neighboring Jasper, Hampton and Colleton counties — were willing to commute an hour-plus for tourism work on the island. Then, Bluffton began to grow, multiplying its population 12-fold through annexation and development in the past two decades. The once-sleepy town of about 1,275 residents is now home to nearly 17,000, according to 2015 census data, and even that number likely is far SEE JOBS, 18A

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METAIRIE, La. enjamin Alexander cannot speak, but he is determined to be heard. He cannot type without a hand to support his, and yet he writes and writes, his inner voice shouting out his thoughts. He returns repeatedly to the “fiend” that tried to silence him, the autism he sarcastically calls his “gift.” “Who in the hell gave me this gift?” he once wrote. “Please, take it back.” Ben is a junior at Tulane University, an English major with a 3.7 GPA and a computer full of essays, one of them published in a local journal and another on the university’s news site. He wants to help educate people about autism and challenge stereotypes. That’s not easy because he still needs some assistance when he types, leading some to doubt him over the years. On a recent evening, Ben’s father settles him at the keyboard and rests his hand under his son’s arm. He lightly squeezes Ben’s forearm, a subtle move that sets him into action. Ben begins to punch the keys with one finger. “I . am . not . stupid . as . some . people . used . to . think,” Ben types. He unwraps his arm from his dad’s and hits the period by himself, causing the computer to read each word in a robotic voice that he doesn’t really like, but needs. Later he adds, “I want people to know I am here.” Others on the autism spectrum have remarkable achievements, but Ben has far surpassed expectations. It started at age 8 with simple one-word responses that blossomed. By the time he was 10, one of his first essays — “My Adventure in Life” — won a state writing prize in Louisiana. He’s 22 now, and his writing is an outlet for strong opinions, anger, pride in his accomplishments, and a longing for so much more. “My life began when I began to type to communicate,” he wrote in that early piece. “I can now tell you my story.” The Parents As the sun rises over the leafy streets of suburban New Orleans, Ben’s parents, both surgeons, start their day well before he does. They joke that they haven’t slept in 20 years because of their son’s erratic sleep habits and their own demanding schedules. This particular morning, Ellen Schneider enters her son’s room, adorned to the ceiling with tributes to his beloved New Orleans Saints football team, and rouses him for his day on campus. “Come on, B-man.” She leads him to the bathroom to use an electric toothbrush. “Oooh, you’re gorgeous,” she says, as she looks into his wide hazel eyes and wipes his bearded face with a towel. Ben is not tall, but he’s strong. His mother, slight in build, is no longer as able to steer him physically when he gets distressed. So his father accompanies him at Tulane and other public places. This morning, Ben is calm, having taken his medication — pills for everything from epileptic seizures to anxiety. He eats sliced apples and bread for breakfast while laughing to himself or babbling: “Aw aw, mm mm, bip bip.” The soft sounds seem involuntary in some moments, self-soothing in others. This daily existence, with its many ups and downs, has tested the resolve of his success-minded parents, both age 55. His mother is an ophthalmologist, his father an obstetrician. They also have two daughters, Hillary, 25, and Lexi, 15. “We cure things with our hands. We cut it out. If it’s something that needs to be removed, we remove it,” his dad, Sam Alexander, says. But with Ben’s condition, “we couldn’t do that.” Even so, they refused early on to accept the idea that their son would never amount to much. “Ben, we’re going to fix this,” his mom remembers saying to her young son as she watched him squirm in frustration. When Ben was born, there was no indication that anything was wrong. Family videos show a smiley, chubby-cheeked boy with curly red hair just beginning to form words. “Hello,” he seems to utter in one video, after picking up an old telephone receiver. In the months that followed, however, Ben lost those first few words. He stopped looking people in the eye. His parents often would find him off in a corner spinning around and around. Doctors initially told them to be patient, that it wasn’t unusual for some kids to have delayed speech. But then, when Ben was about 2 1/2, came the diagnosis they feared: autism. Often called pervasive developmental disorder, it was accompanied by epileptic episodes, which worsened in adolescence, as did his erratic behavior. “I guess using the word ‘autism’ just had such a horrible, horrible connotation,” his dad says. “It felt like he died.” Ben never spoke again. As a child, he started running away. He once took off from his grandparents’ house, past sprawling live oaks and thick brush to the edge of Interstate 10, where his frantic father found him and

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Ben Alexander’s mother, Ellen Schneider, washes his face at their home in Metairie, La. scooped him up. Ben later wrote that running was his attempt “to escape from autism.” Though advised to keep their expectations low, his parents stayed up nights surfing the internet for help. They took him from specialist to specialist, to Miami, Boston and Chicago, and tried any number of recommended therapies. As a preschooler, Ben balked at “applied behavioral analysis,” in which participants on the autism spectrum are rewarded for repeating tasks — arranging blocks in a requested pattern, for instance. For Ben, the reward was often Goldfish crackers. “I hate f -ing Goldfish,” he wrote in one essay, using salty language that appears frequently in his written work and conversation. He felt like an animal in training. Eventually, he saw Dr. Stanley Greenspan. The Maryland child psychiatrist used a technique called “floortime,” which allowed Ben the independence he craved. He could initiate the activity with his parents or therapists, who would play problem-solving games with him on the floor. In his writing, Ben recalls how the doctor in blue jeans and Birkenstocks encouraged him: “It does not matter how fast you get there, so long as you get there.” Emerging talent Ben’s parents say they sensed his abilities early. As a child, he used a book his mom made, pointing to photos of the zoo, the park and other places he wanted to go. He learned letters at preschool and at another school his parents helped found for students with autism. His parents read to him constantly. They didn’t know he’d also been scouring books around the house, including his older sister’s math texts and even the massive “Physicians’ Desk Reference,” from which he memorized names of some drugs and their uses. Ben’s parents had heard that a nonverbal boy in India was writing poetry about his autism, and they wondered: What if Ben could communicate that way? So they tried facilitated communication, a controversial method where another person supports the typing hand of a nonverbal autistic person to help him “speak” using a computer. One afternoon, dad asked 8-year-old Ben a question. “Who is the president of the United States?” “G-e-o-r-g-e-w-b-u-s-h,” Ben typed on a portable keyboard, according to his father, who supported his typing hand. “You’re not going to believe what your son just did,” Sam Alexander told his wife in a call. These days, dad often only needs to hold Ben’s forearm loosely when he types, or he places his flat hand atop his son’s wrist to steady him in moments of higher anxiety. Ben has “motor planning problems,” as his parents describe it, meaning that his brain knows what to do, but the connection between the knowing and the execution has somehow been lost. For some reason, they say, human touch and verbal prompting help bridge that connection. When typing, he appears to be directing his own finger to particular keys. His eyes alternate from keys to screen. He often sees and fixes his mistakes, though his parents also point out errors. Never say never Today, Ben is living the life of a college student. After breakfast, he reclines on the couch to watch TV until his father returns from a morning surgery to take over and his mom heads to her own practice. It’s nearly time for Ben to take a test in music history. Dad puts on and ties his son’s shoes, and they head to Tulane. In his classes, Ben sits with his dad at his side, often in a back corner with easy access to an exit. Sometimes, his father places his hand over Ben’s mouth to quiet him, or nudges him to participate in a discussion. Should Ben have an occasional outburst or simply get loud enough to be distracting, his dad walks him out of the room for a few minutes to calm down. More often Ben is engaged in class, clicking the laptop mouse so the computer voice announces, “Speak!” when he has a question or comment, his way of raising his hand. During a screenwriting class this semester, he contributes to a discussion on the movie “The Social Network.” “I loved it because I found it ironic that a guy who was socially inept started a social network,” Ben says through his laptop voice, as the instructor nods in agreement. The young man who doesn’t speak also offers his thoughts on writing dialogue and keeping it conversational. Dr. Paul Lipkin, director of the Interactive Autism Network at the Kennedy Krieger Institute in Baltimore, says as few as 10 percent of people on the autism spectrum have no real language, and most of those tend to have low intellectual abilities. And though many experts point to studies debunking facilitated communication, Lipkin is less skeptical, even if Ben seems “really rare.” “As physicians,” he says, “we never say never.”

“Who in the hell gave me this gift? Please, take it back.” — Ben Alexander, referring to his autism in his writing

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“THAT DAY CHANGED EVERYTHING FOR ME.” Lt. Larry Payne

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LT. LARRY PAYNE THE 911 TAPE

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After he was shot while breaking up a methamphetamine operation, Lt. Larry Payne got hold of the recording of his 911 call.

At the first pre-PTSD class taught by the Richland County Sheriff’s Department, Sgt. Kellye Hendrick had a key message for her fellow deputies.

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“If you have been involved in a critical incident, don’t self-medicate. Does everybody know what I mean by that? Drinking, taking medication.

“One of my girlfriends, she’d come home and say, ‘You listened to your tape today, didn’t you?’ I hadn’t even said anything to her. “I don’t know if it was just (my) physical features – I don’t know. She would know I had been listening to it.” ......................................................................................................

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“I can stand here in front of you guys and tell you I did it. I did it. I drank because I wanted to forget what happened to me. But that caused me two problems. One, it gave me a really bad headache the next morning when I woke up – and two, it just made my feelings worse.”

When the sheriff urged Capt. Roxana Meetze to get counseling, she pushed back. It wasn’t until things came to a boiling point in her personal life that she was willing to seek help. “I covered it up for a little bit longer, and it just came to a head, mainly for home issues. My relationship was gone – it was over. “I was still having trouble coping with the anger and the guilt. After I pretty much lost my family structure, that’s when I decided something’s got to give.” .........................................................................................................

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GETTING IN FRONT OF PTSD

MASTERING THEIR DEMONS Richland deputies learning to recognize PTSD early

BY GLEN LUKE FLANAGAN

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arry Payne has carried two bullets in his body for the past 10 years of his law enforcement career. The 42-year-old lieutenant now works in internal affairs at the Richland County Sheriff’s Department. He’s comfortable enough with his wounds to crack jokes about them – noting with a wry smile that it still sounds funny to tell folks he has a bullet in his butt. But Payne’s grace didn’t come easily. He was shot in 2006 while breaking up a methamphetamine lab and has struggled with post-traumatic stress disorder since. Now, though, he is part of an innovative new program at the sheriff’s department, in which deputies are trained to recognize the signs of PTSD in themselves and their fellow officers. It’s standard for departments to offer counseling after an officer is involved in a stressful situation – it’s unusual to try to pre-empt it. But addressing the stress thoroughly is what helps many sufferers recover, experts say. Talking about it also might help law enforcement agencies, just like military branches, change their tough-guy culture that forces officers to suffer in silence – or worse, make mistakes on the job that could have terrible outcomes. A University of British Columbia study found that emergency personnel experience post-traumatic stress at twice the rate of the rest of the population. When Randy Scott resigned in 2013 as chief of Columbia’s police department, he said he was suffering from post-traumatic stress caused by several incidents in his career, most notably the death in 2005 of a deputy he helped hire when he worked for Richland County. Many emergency departments, like other workplaces, have employee counseling or mental health intervention programs. But with PTSD, early identi-

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The Richland County Sheriff Department is requiring all deputies to take a class on post-traumatic stress disorder, featuring deputies who have been involved in a traumatic event themselves. Sgt. Kellye Hendrick uses her own experiences in teaching the class.

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“I WAS NOT GOING TO ALLOW HIM TO THROW THAT AWAY FOR SOMETHING THAT IS OUR RESPONSIBILITY TO HELP HIM FIX.” Richland County Sheriff Leon Lott

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fication is key, say Payne and four other Richland deputies who helped develop and are teaching classes in the program based on their own experiences with PTSD. ‘AN EXCELLENT COP’ Payne almost didn’t get to teach the class – in October 2011, he tried to resign from the sheriff’s department, after a flashback during a traffic stop almost turned ugly. “I pulled over a guy on the

interstate,” Payne said. “As I approached the car, (the driver) was reaching up under the seat. Now, he might have dropped something, he might have put a gun under there, he might have put a beer under there – there’s no telling what he was doing. But as soon as I saw him reaching under the seat, I went back to that mode that I went to that day.” When Payne asked the driver for his license, the man reached under the seat again. Payne drew his gun, pointed it at the back of the man’s head and started pulling the trigger, he said. He stopped himself when he realized the man was

holding a wallet. Fortunately, Payne said, the driver never realized he had drawn his weapon. After that, he sent the sheriff a letter of resignation. “That day changed everything for me,” Payne said. He’s still in law enforcement because Sheriff Leon Lott wouldn’t let him quit. As soon as Lott got Payne’s letter, he called the deputy into his office and sat down beside him. “He was an excellent cop,” Lott said of Payne, who was a sergeant at the time. “I was not going to allow him to throw that away for something that is our responsibility to help him fix. We had thought Larry was fine. He had went through our PTSD program – he had successfully completed it. He was on the job. We just didn’t know what was going on inside him.” IT CAN COST CAREERS

Despite Payne’s close call on the road, Lott said officers with PTSD usually are a danger to themselves, not to the public. Payne isn’t alone in his struggle. Lott said many deputies have PTSD – they just find ways to cope with it. But he has seen it cost some officers their careers. “When you realize what you have and you address it, then you’re able to control it,” Lott said. “It’s when you don’t address it – when you ignore that it’s there, when the department ignores it’s there and your fellow workers ignore it – that’s when you have issues.” The department’s new program aims to teach deputies early on about what PTSD looks like and how to deal with it. It’s also meant to help them understand the process of investigating a “critical incident” – getting SEE PTSD, 10A

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Scratch N Spin in West Columbia was began by owner Eric Woodard as a record store and now is one of the few record stores that are surviving in the internet age by diversifying into vintage comics books, cd's, toys, movies and video games. They are also tapping into a new interest in vinyl records.

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am Edwards, 20, of Columbia is a frequent visitor to Papa Jazz record shop in Columbia’s Five Points. On Friday, he emerged from a browsing session in the landmark shop with a couple of gems from jazz greats Oscar Peterson and Clifford Brown. For Edwards, a University of South Carolina music major, the ultimate musical experience doesn’t involve iTunes downloads, YouTube videos or a streaming service like Pandora. Edwards prefers to listen to his music the old fashioned way – on 12-inch vinyl records, complete with the signature pops, scratches and a much higher range of sound

Audio-Technica Professional: $649.99 AMAZON.COM Vive turntable: $31.95 Allen Mauldin is the comic book manager at Scratch N Spin in West Columbia.

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ALBUMS MAKE THE MUSIC A LITTLE MORE SPECIAL. JEFF WILKINSON jwilkinson@thestate.com

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FCC sets stage for next generation of wireless services: Super-fast 5G BY JIM PUZZANGHERA

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Federal regulators last week opened the door to the next generation of wireless services, making the U.S. the first nation to allocate a wide swath of airwaves to deliver super-fast 5G access. The Federal Communications Commission voted unanimously

BUT THE BRAVE NEW WORLD OF 5G IS STILL BILLIONS OF DOLLARS AND SEVERAL YEARS AWAY. Thursday to clear the way for mobile devices to send and receive signals over high-frequency spectrum that has had only limited uses until recent technological advances. The agency also laid the

groundwork to auction a large amount of that spectrum to wireless companies while allowing more open or shared uses of the rest – all with flexible rules in hopes of duplicating the regulatory environment that helped

fuel innovation in the existing fourth-generation networks. “By not getting involved in the technologies that will use the spectrum, we’re turning loose the incredible innovators of this country … and with our oversight to protect competition we ensure that the forces that drive that innovation and improved consumer service are alive and well,” FCC Chairman Tom Wheeler said. But the brave new world of

5G is still billions of dollars and several years away. The FCC hasn’t set a date for an auction of licenses to use the new airwaves. And IGR, a wireless market strategy consulting firm, estimated it would cost $56 billion to develop, test and deploy technologies to use the spectrum in the U.S. through 2025. The fifth generation of mobile service since the first bulky cellular phones were introduced in the early 1980s promises to deliver data at least 10 times faster than today’s 4G networks. Experts said 5G is the key to expanded wireless uses, such as autonomous vehicles, internetSEE WIRELESS, 15B

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Charlestonâ€™s street signs are a way to see the Holy City through a different lens, one that sheds light on its history in both pragmatic and whimsical ways. These photos take a trip through the alphabet from A-Z, reflecting not only the creativity of those who named the signs through the centuries, but also giving a glimpse of life in the surrounding neighborhoods today.

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Jamie Udet, left, Xavier Ruffin and Devon Clarkson, soldiers in training with D Company, 2nd Battalion, 193rd Infantry Brigade go through weapons training with grenade launchers at the Bastogne range.

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Jamie Udet and other privates with D Company, 2nd Battalion, 193rd Infantry Brigade go through weapons training at the Bastogne range.

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Above: Devon Clarkson of Columbia completes the confidence climb on the confidence course during basic training at Fort Jackson. Right: An instructor demonstrates proper technique during grenade training. SEAN RAYFORD online@thestate.com

RECRUITS ENTER ‘RIFLEMAN PHASE’ After the initial shock of Red Phase – the first phase of U.S. Army basic training in which recruits are shocked out of their complacent civilian persona and taught the basics of being a soldier, down to the tying of their boots – basic training at Fort Jackson continues with the “rifleman phase.” A soldier is nothing without his or her rifle. And in White Phase – the second of the Red, White and Blue phases – recruits are taught how to use their

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weapons, engage the enemy, protect their fellow soldiers and live to fight another day. In a word, soldiers learn marksmanship. The training is progressive and becomes more difficult as it progresses. Not only do recruits learn to fire their rifles, they also learn to use heavy machine guns, rock-

et-propelled grenades and hand grenades. As Fort Jackson continues a yearlong celebration of its centennial, The State newspaper is following five South Carolina recruits and other members of D Company, 2nd Battalion, 193rd Infantry Brigade as they move through basic training. Check out upcoming editions for our coverage of the Blue phase. On Sept. 11, we’ll cover the company’s graduation and family day.

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City eyes 45-acre area as key piece to redevelopment By Bob Montgomery | bob.montgomery@shj.com

once Auto Fleet. That potential could be realized sooner rather than later, thanks to the new 10-story AC Marriott hotel under construction at North

Deteriorating buildings dot the former Spartan grain mill property in the city’s west end, where developers and city officials say is ripe for redevelopment. ALEX HICKS JR/ALEX.HICKS@SHJ.COM

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Dogwood Stable President Cot Campbell, left, stands with Paul Oreffice in the saddling area of the paddock at Saratoga Race Course in July. In the background is Dogwoodâ€™s Money Changer, who won a 6 Â˝-furlong claiming race on the day this photo was taken.

Aikenâ€™s Campbell receiving Saratoga honor Racer chosen for the Walk of Fame BY DEDE BILES dbiles@aikenstandard.com Cot Campbellâ€™s success in thoroughbred racing has earned him many honors. The Dogwood Stable president will receive yet another later this month when he becomes a member of the Saratoga Walk of Fame. An induction ceremony is scheduled for Aug. 26 at Saratoga Race Course in New York. â€œThis is one of the greatest thrills of my life,â€? said Campbell in a telephone interview. Campbell has known about the New York Racing Associationâ€™s plan to recognize him for a while, but the Aiken resident wasnâ€™t Please see CAMPBELL, Page 13A

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Delilah Hallman of Aiken, left, receives a high five from her husband James after scoring a strike while bowling Friday evening at Strikehouse Bowl.

Alley not prepared to give up space for proposed turning lane BY DAN BROWN dbrown@aikenstandard.com Itâ€™s a lot like most bowling alleys. Thereâ€™s the thud of the bowling ball as it lands on the lane, followed by the echo of crashing pins and mufĂ€ed applause. High Âżves are common. But outside, not far from Lane 14, lies Dougherty Road, which lies precariously close to Strikehouse Bowl. TrafÂżc trying to turn right onto Whiskey Road quickly stacks up. It is 5 p.m. on a Friday night, and the corner of Whiskey and Dougherty roads, where the bowling alley sits, is snarled with rush hour automobile trafÂżc. It is the end of the workweek and hundreds of motorists have places they need to go, but in this trafÂżc, nobody is going anywhere anytime soon. As negotiations between StrikeHouse Bowl and the City of Aiken enter the Âżnal frames, both sides remain split over land no bigger than a typical bedroom. The owners of this 144-square-foot parcel of land on the northeast corner of StrikeHouse Bowl are embroiled in a right-of-way dispute with the City, and this dispute is holding up a much needed intersection expansion and improvement.

Property critical to expansion project The disputed wedge of road is included as part of

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Eastbound traffic on Dougherty Road stacks up in the right turn lane Friday near StrikeHouse Bowl. a $1.2 million road improvement project by the S.C. Department of Transportation to add an additional right turn lane from Dougherty Road onto Whiskey Road. The Dougherty/Whiskey intersection was deemed to be one of the top Âżve most dangerous intersections in the city, according to a SCDOT trafÂżc study. More than 13,000 vehicles travel Dougherty Road daily, according to the 2014 Dougherty Road Corridor Study. Between 2002-12, there were 205 vehicle ac-

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cidents on Dougherty Road, and of those 205 accidents, 45 involved injuries, though no fatalities, according to trafÂżc study Âżgures. By moving the Dougherty Road project up the priority list, the project moved from its 2040 Long Range Transportation Plan to the Âżscal year 2015-1 Please see ALLEY, Page 11A

Drivers asked to be cautious as school starts BY TRIPP GIRARDEAU tgirardeau@aikenstandard.com Aiken County residents can expect their familiar summer trafÂżc patterns to change signiÂżcantly Monday morning as school buses and parents hit the road bright and early. Lt. Jake Mahoney with the Aiken Department of Public Safety said drivers need to be prepared for the Âżrst day of school and expect delays.

â€œAll commuters need to be extra alert as they adjust to the changing trafÂżc patterns,â€? Mahoney said. â€œThey should expect some delays, especially in the areas surrounding our schools, and, if possible, take alternative routes to avoid those congested areas in the morning.â€? Residents heading in to work early Monday should plan on leaving for work 20 to 30 minutes earlier than usual, giving themselves additional time, Mahoney said. The greatest delays are expected

to be around the busy parts of East Pine Log Road, where Millbrook Elementary, Kennedy Middle and South Aiken High schools are located, Mahoney said. â€œWe ask parents to be patient, obey the signals and directions of the school crossing guards,â€? Mahoney said. â€œRemember the safety of the children is our priority.â€? Drivers also are reminded to be aware of and observe trafÂżc safety rules around school buses, in particular, passing a school bus

that has stopped to load or unload students. Lance Cpl. Judd Jones with the South Carolina Highway Patrol reminds residents to be aware of school zones and the speed limits within those zones when the warning lights are Ă€ashing. â€œLaw enforcement always takes school zone speed limits extremely seriously,â€? Jones said. â€œThe speed is brought down at times when Please see DRIVING, Page 13A

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NEWS DIGEST Reports of gunshots spark chaos at NC mall RALEIGH, N.C. — Witness reports of gunshots ringing out inside a busy North Carolina mall caused chaos Saturday afternoon as shoppers ran screaming for the doors or sheltered in stores while dozens of officers arrived. Police said hours later they were investigating but hadn’t confirmed whether any shots had been fired, adding no one was found wounded by gunfire although there were several minor injuries among people running away. The shopping complex in an affluent area of Raleigh was put on lockdown while helicopters buzzed overhead and numerous law enforcement vehicles swarmed the shopping area.

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Student loan debt up 58 percent at USC By Avery G. Wilks The (Columbia) State

COLUMBIA — The gut check over student debt hit Isabelle Cooper even before she got to the University of South Carolina. Cooper grew up in Irmo, dreaming of the typical college

experience. But, while filling out government aid forms, she learned her USC degree would come with about $20,000 in student loan debt. “I just couldn’t wrap my head around that,” said Cooper, now a 20-year-old rising junior. “I just broke down crying, like, ‘I can’t afford to go to college.’ ”

Cooper is among the thousands of USC students every year — and millions more across the country — who take out loans to pay for college. More than half of USC’s graduates leave school with student loan debt. At USC, the average those students owe has risen by more than 58 percent in the past decade.

USC students are not exceptions. Coastal Carolina leads the state in public college student loan debt. In 2014, almost three of every four Coastal grads – 74 percent – left school with debt, owing a statehigh $35,207 on average. SEE DEBT, A8

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because physicians can’t perform the procedure here past 20 weeks, even if they believe the mother or fetus will probably die. “We’ve had them go to Georgia, New Doctors at the Medical University of Jersey and Colorado,” said Dr. Scott South Carolina are sending pregnant Sullivan, the director of matneral-fetal women outside the state for abortions medicine at MUSC. “And of course

we’ve had some women who don’t have the money for that. They just can’t access the service.” Republican lawmakers believe the new 20-week abortion ban will save the lives of unborn babies, who, they say, can feel pain in the womb. But Sullivan, also chairman of the South

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Guarding against Ebola Joint Base Charleston runs world’s first simulation that tests advanced Transport Isolation System

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Several states have passed legislation requiring that every rape kit that was part of a criminal complaint be tested for DNA evidence. South Carolina lacks such a law.

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Senior Master Sgt. Kristen Smith (left), Col. Nick Conger (dressed in protective clothing), Maj. Stephanie LaPierre (portraying the infected patient) and senior airman medical tech Bryant Wilson await the cargo doors to open in the rear of a C-17 to begin the transfer of the infected patient from the Air Force’s Transport Isolation System to an awaiting ambulance Tuesday. The exercise simulated the transport of an Ebola patient from Charleston to Walter Reed National Military Medical Center in Bethesda, Md.

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of jail? And they still haven’t been able to come with any good advice.” The “S.C. Pain-Capable Unborn Child Protection Act,” passed by the General Assembly and signed into law by Gov. Nikki Haley earlier this

BY DERREK ASBERRY dasberry@postandcourier.com 30,000 FEET ABOVE VIRGINIA — Quarantined inside of a large isolation chamber on a military flight from Charleston to Maryland, Air Force Maj. Stephanie LaPierre silently read “She Went to War.” The book is about war veteran Rhonda Cornum, who was held captive in 1991 after her helicopter was shot down during the Persian Gulf War. “I guess it’s kind of a coincidence that I was reading that book while I was inside,” said LaPierre, who volunteered to act as an Ebola patient for the military simulation. Outside of the isolation room, about 35 military staffers and medical professionals went through the steps of securing bags for the flight while routinely checking her status. Their mission: Use the $7 million technologically advanced isolation unit to transport an Ebola patient to Walter Reed National Military Medical Center in Bethesda, Md.

The sun rises over Joint Base Charleston’s line of C-17s on Tuesday.

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More than 300 packages of evidence collected from Charleston-area women who reported sexual assaults have never been tested for DNA that could help arrest rapists, some from cases dating as far back as 1989. The number is actually higher, since some of the more than a dozen law enforcement agencies responding to a Freedom of Information request from The Post and Courier said a complete inventory was not feasible without a significant investment of time. For instance, North Charleston agreed to go back to 2010, when the city started using the current system to keep track of cases. The City of Charleston was able to go back to 1989. Janie Ward Lauve, executive director of People Against Rape, has been pushing for the testing of all the rape kits that were accompanied by a criminal complaint. “I’ve had many women tell me it’s very frustrating,” she said. “The exam is very intrusive. After a woman goes through all that trouble, the kit should at least be tested.” Testing old kits has identified serial rapists in other states when the profiles matched other unsolved cases. For instance, 10,000 kits that were discovered in a police warehouse in Detroit in 2009 were tested and led to the identification of 477 serial rapists Please see KITS, Page A4

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