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Sumterites take to the streets on Saturday during a demonstration calling for an end to violence in local communities.

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Activists rally in South Sumter area to protest violence BY BRADEN BUNCH braden@theitem.com (803) 774-1201 Nearly 300 people braved the rainy forecast Saturday morning and marched two miles through South Sumter to promote their message of a community frustrated with the seemingly recent rise in criminal activity, especially violent crime. Deemed the “Stop The Crime and Violence Weekend,” supporters of the event made the circular route starting at the corner of Manning and Atlantic avenues, walking through both retail and residential areas, hoping their effort will help

People of all ages and from every corner of Sumter County showed up for the march. to stem the tide of what they say has been an unacceptable increase in criminal activity. “The support has been overwhelming. The good thing about it

is that the support has been from all over the county,” said State Sen. Kevin Johnson, D-Manning, who

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Running in penny-tax circles Roundabout at Wilson Hall-Wesmark intersection on table One of the many projects tied into the penny tax renewal involves turning the intersection of Wesmark Boulevard and Wilson Hall Road into a traffic circle.

EDITOR’S NOTE: This is one in a series of stories examining the proposed projects for a renewed penny sales tax, which Sumter County voters will be asked to approve in November. Money raised by the tax will go toward a series of building, infrastructure and other projects throughout the county.

BY BRISTOW MARCHANT bristow@theitem.com (803) 774-1272 Renewing the penny sales tax could give drivers a new perspective on a couple of Sumter roadways. Or it could leave them spinning in circles.

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Officials hope to use $900,000 in new penny tax funds to improve the sometimes chaotic intersection of Wilson Hall Road and Carter Road/Wesmark Boulevard. And if

the dollar signs line up correctly, the four-way stop could turn into Sumter’s first traffic roundabout.

SEE ROUNDABOUT, PAGE A7

U.S. aids displaced Iraqis as airstrikes help Kurds KHAZER CAMP, Iraq (AP) — President Obama justified the U.S. military’s return to fighting in Iraq Saturday by saying America must act now to prevent genocide, protect its diplomats and provide humanitarian aid to refugees trapped by Islamic militants on a mountain ridge near the Syrian border. “This is going to be a longterm project” that won’t end and can’t succeed unless Iraqis form an inclusive government in Baghdad capable of keeping the country from

breaking apart, Obama said at the White House. Obama spoke after airstrikes from U.S. fighter jets and a drone killed several small groups of Islamic State extremists that were attacking Kurdish forces and refugees. The military support helped clear the way for aid flights to drop food and water to thousands of starving refugees. But the help comes too late for many of the religious minorities targeted for elimination by the Islamic State

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group, which swept past U.S.trained and equipped Iraqi government forces in recent weeks and now controls much of Iraq. A delayed response by the Shiite-led government in Baghdad left Kurdish forces struggling to contain the Sunni extremists’ advances. With nowhere to go but up-

hill, Kurdish-speaking Yazidi refugees sought shelter in the mile-high Sinjar mountains, where their ancient religion holds that Noah’s ark came to rest. U.S., Iraqi and British cargo planes dropped tons of food, water, tents and other equipment to the refugees Friday and Saturday. Iraq’s defense ministry released a video showing people in the Sinjar mountains rushing to collect food and water as the Iraqi government’s fleet of C130 cargo planes dropped 20 tons

of aid at a time. But at least 56 children have died of dehydration in the mountains, UNICEF’s spokesman in Iraq, Karim Elkorany, told The Associated Press on Saturday. British officials estimated Saturday between 50,000 and 150,000 people could be trapped on the mountain. And Juan Mohammed, a local government spokesman in the Syrian city of Qamishli, told the AP that more than

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Get ready to travel the world with Passport Fair BY IVY MOORE ivy@theitem.com The Sumter Post Office wants to make it easier for you to travel the world. To that end, postal employees will host a Passport Fair from 11 a.m. to 3 p.m. Saturday at its headquarters, 311 N. Main St. It’s all to provide “an opportunity for both parents and children to make applications at a convenient time,” Sumter Postmaster Venusa Frazier-Gantt said. “Normally, passport applications at the Sumter Post Office are only accepted Monday through Friday from 10 a.m. to 2:30 p.m.” During the fair passport clerks will be available to answer questions and help in completing applications. Applicants should be able to complete

them and get them in the mail on the spot. Those attending the fair can elect to apply for a Passport Card, which will allow them to travel by land and sea only between the U.S., Canada, Mexico, Bermuda and the Caribbean. Less expensive than the familiar Passport Book, the card will fit in your wallet. It cannot be used for air travel, however. In order to complete a new application, the following are required: • Two forms of ID. To apply for a Passport Book or Passport Card for the first time, applicants need proof of U.S. citizenship in the form of a certified birth certificate (including official seal) issued by the city, county or state (not a photocopy), or a certificate of citizenship or a naturalization certificate. You will also need a valid form of

photo identification, such as a current valid driver’s license, government ID or military photo ID. • If you are renewing, you need only bring in your old passport. Children under 14 must be accompanied by their parents. • Passport applications for both the book and the card also require two recent identical photographs, which can be taken at the Passport Fair for a $15 fee (in addition to application fees). • Applicants must also provide a photocopy showing the front and back of the applicant’s photo ID made on plain, white 8½-by-11-inch paper. • The fee for first-time adult applicants for a Passport Book is $110, not including photographs; for children under 16, it is $80. The fee for a renewal is $110. The fee for an adult Passport Card is $30, for children under 16,

$15. There is also a $25 execution fee. An expedited process is also available. Personal checks, money orders, debit and credit cards will be accepted. •Visit the Postal Service website at www.usps.com/passport to get information on passport application costs and to download a passport application form. Customers can save some time by having the application form filled out before coming to the Post Office. For the latest information on passport deadlines and other travel requirements established by the U.S. State Department, go to its website at http://travel.state.gov. Travelers can check the status of their passport applications online at: http://travel.state. gov/passport/get/status/status_2567. html. Call (803) 773-9311 for more information.

Ministry sets woman on voyage across country BY JIM HILLEY jim@theitem.com (803) 774-1211

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In the next few days, many residents of the Midlands may see a strange sight, that of a young woman pushing a three-wheeled cart alongside U.S. 15 and 401. The young woman is Therese “Terez” Simoneau, who is on her way from St. Petersburg, Florida, to Niagara Falls, New York, to support the Impact Masters Commission in Fort Wayne, Indiana, where she is attending ministry school. “I am training to go into prison ministry,” she said Saturday just south of Sumter. According to her website supportterez.com, Impact Masters Commission is a two-year program located at First Assembly of God in Fort Wayne, where students gain hands-on training paired with online college courses. Simoneau said she has been traveling for five weeks and expects to be on the road for a total of about three months. “It’s great way to travel,” she said. “You notice so much you never see from the window of a car.” Her goal on the 1,300-mile trip is to raise the $13,000 needed to cover her tuition and living costs and hopefully have some extra for operation costs, according to her website. The 22-year-old said she makes about 20 miles a day, and each day a few hours before sunset she starts looking for a place to stay. “I usually ask someone if I can pitch my tent in their yard,” she said. She said people have been very good to her. “I have really had my faith in humanity restored,” she said. “There were a lot of people who said I could never do this,” she said. “But my message is that people can overcome hardships, and I really want people to know they can overcome whatever odds are stacked against you.”

Sumter school board meeting on Monday The Sumter School District Board of Trustees will have a regular meeting at 6 p.m. Monday at the district office at 1345 Wilson Hall Road. According to the provided agenda for the meeting, Superintendent Frank Baker will present updates including information on the AVID Program at Sumter High School. The public is welcome to participate in the open session which will begin at 6 p.m. before board members go into executive session. The board members are scheduled to discuss the personnel report during executive session. The agenda also lists the superintendent evaluation among other items that board members plan to discuss during Monday’s meeting.

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Therese “Terez” Simoneau is making her way from St. Petersburg, Florida, to Niagara Falls, New York, to support her ministry studies.

C-17 from Joint Base Charleston on Iraq mission CHARLESTON (AP) — One of the cargo planes that dropped supplies for refugees in northern Iraq was a C-17 from Joint Base Charleston. The Air Force told South Carolina news outlets that the Charleston plane along with two C-130 cargo planes dropped 5,300 gallons of water and 8,000 meals to refugees in northern Iraq on Thursday. The Air Force says the C-17 took off from an undisclosed forward base and was over the drop zone for about 15 minutes. The plane is one of more than 50 C-17s that are based in Charleston. “It was a Charleston crew and they executed the mission very well,” Col.

John Lamontagne, the commander of the 437th Airlift Wing based in Charleston, said in a statement to The Post and Courier. “We’ve received lots of positive feedback and while we expect this performance from our crews, we are still very proud of their professionalism, dedication, and expertise.” The C-17, which can operate with only a three-person crew, has been used extensively in the recent wars in Iraq and Afghanistan. While the members of the state’s congressional delegation said they supported President Obama’s decision to launch air strikes and provide humanitarian aid in Iraq, Republican members

criticized the president saying he doesn’t have a long-term strategic plan for the region. “Air strikes in Iraq that are not followed up by air strikes in Syria are not going to get to the root cause of the problem,” U.S. Sen. Lindsey Graham told CNN on Thursday. And his colleague, U.S. Sen. Tim Scott, released a statement saying the threat from the Islamic militants known as ISIS — The Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant — has been known for some time. “The lack of foresight from the White House is disappointing and I certainly hope these targeted strikes are not too little too late,” he said.

NORTH CHARLESTON — No injuries were reported when six cars of a CSX Transportation train derailed near a train yard in North Charleston. Area media outlets report that the 64-car train was entering the yard shortly before dawn on Saturday. Several cars which are hopper cars designed to haul scrap metal turned on their sides. The cars were empty and crews hoped to have the cars back on the track Saturday afternoon.

2 exposed to rabid bat in Spartanburg County COLUMBIA — The state Department of Health and Environmental Control says that two people have come into contact with a rabid bat in Spartanburg County. The health agency says the two may have been bitten while outdoors in the Old Canaan Community. Health officials have advised the two to discuss treatment with their doctors.

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Clarendon council to recognize New Zion’s Olivia McConnell BY JIM HILLEY jim@theitem.com (803) 774-1211. The people of South Carolina and many across the country know 9-year-old Olivia McConnell of New Zion as the girl who asked the South Carolina Legislature last spring to name the Columbian Mammoth as the state’s official fossil, sparking a controversy that received national attention. What many people outside the area may not know is that for years, she has been raising money for the March of Dimes through her lemonade stand in New Zion. “She has been doing it since she was 5,” said the girl’s mother, Amanda McConnell, on Friday as family members brought Olivia home from a summer camp in North Carolina. “This year she raised $9,500, and she has raised close to $20,000 total. This has been the biggest year so far.” Because of her fundraising success, the young girl has been nominated as the March of Dimes Youth Volunteer of the Year, an award that will be announced later this year.

When asked, Olivia said her efforts are inspired by a cousin. “My aunt came home last year with a little cousin, Jacob, and every time I see him, I want to help little babies,” she said. Amanda McConnell said the lemonade stand has grown to also sell T-shirts, which are available in stores in the New Zion area. “She has sold around 360 shirts,” she said. Amanda McConnell said all the attention has been very unexpected, but she said Olivia has put it all in stride. “The only reason that she ever liked to get the media attention is because it gets the word out about her causes,” she said. Amanda said her daughter is now working on a children’s book about the story titled “Can You Dig It?” “We hope that it will be out in the fall,” she said. Olivia said her recent experiences weren’t going to change her goals in life, which include becoming an Egyptologist. “I am just going to keep doing what I’ve been doing,”

she said. For other young people who want to learn from her experience, Olivia said people should just try as hard as they can. “Anybody can change the world, no matter how big or how small,” she said. “Take care of each other and help people who are sick, and keep trying to set records to help people,” she said. Clarendon County Council will present Olivia with an award at its meeting at 6 p.m. Monday in the Clarendon County Administration Building. “We really appreciate all the support we have received from the community,” Amanda McConnell said. On Thursday, Olivia returns to school at Carolina Academy in Lake City. “We have no idea what the future holds for her,” Olivia’s mom said.

When not taking on the South Carolina Legislature, Olivia McConnell sells lemonade at her stand in New Zion to raise money for the March of Dimes. PHOTO PROVIDED

Charleston County maintains 1700s dirt road colonial era and when President George Washington used it during his travels down the coast. Those who are aware of the road’s special history and who are trying to protect it have scored a recent victory. The road was placed on the National Register of Historic Places this summer. Selden “Bud” Hill, director of The Village Museum, helped the effort. His home is one of about a half dozen along this stretch and sits next to the historic St.

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Elks Lodge wants you to get active Justin Smith, Esteemed Leading Knight of the Sumter Elks Lodge No. 0855, rides his bike off Loring Mill Road on Friday. The first and third Saturdays of the month, he can be found heading up a cycling group that meets at 2 p.m. at the lodge, 1100 W. Liberty St.

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As a registered nurse with Tuomey Healthcare System, Smith knows the importance of being active. â€œI started out walking and Members of the Sumter Elks that turned into running,â€? he Lodge No. 0855 are encouraging the community to be more said. â€œI do and can still run, but itâ€™s not my favorite thing. I active. A couple of them have start- was looking for something a little more friendly to the ed up a bicycle club and hope to add a kayaking group soon. joints, and I kind of took up The bike one meets at 2 p.m. biking three months ago. Iâ€™ve really kind of caught the bug the first and third Saturdays for it.â€? of the months at the lodge, His wife, Jeanette Roveri1100 W. Liberty St. Smith, is the one kicking off â€œItâ€™s for riders from professional to beginner and open to the kayaking club that will adults of all fitness levels that meet at the lodge and use Second Mill Pond, which is locatwant to peddle their way to a healthier lifestyle,â€? said Justin ed next to the organizationâ€™s building. Smith, Esteemed Leading â€œA lot of people are getting Knight. â€œItâ€™s free. Just bring into it, and we have this beauyour bike or anything with tiful place here for the commupeddles and wheels to have a nity to enjoy,â€? she said. little fun.â€? Similar to the biking one, While Elks Lodge members do ride and support the club, it you donâ€™t have to be a member of the Elks Lodge, itâ€™s free and is not an Elks sponsored club you just need to bring your nor do you have to be a memown kayak for now. ber to participate, he said.

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Itâ€™s also not a â€œlodge function,â€? but if the club proves popular, the group may look into providing rental kayaks, Roveri-Smith said. The facility is also open for public dining.

Both activities are not guided tours but a chance for people with similar interests to get together and be active, she said. The kayaking club will probably meet on Saturdays, but a

start date has not been set yet. For more information on the bicycle club, call Justin Smith at (803) 983-7350. For more information on the kayaking, call Jeanette RoverSmith at (803) 840-3770.

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Environment contributes to obesity in children

ccording to the Centers for Disease Control, about onethird of kids are overweight or obese. Overweight kids have an increased risk for becoming obese adults, which can lead to multiple chronic health issues including diabetes, high blood pressure, high cholesterol and heart disease. Type II diabetes, once considered an “adult onset” obesity-related disease, is now appearing in teens and younger kids. A recent study published in Pediatrics shows that 51 percent of parents with overweight or obese children think their kids are a normal weight. Approximately 42 percent of overweight kids and teens do not think they are overweight. Obesity rates have doubled in children and quadrupled in teens during the past 30 years.

Many parents with overweight kids are in denial, having the misconception that their overweight child is still holding on to baby fat that he or she will eventually lose. Ignoring the reality of having an overweight child can lead to an obese teen, which increases the risk for physical, emotional and psychological issues. Today it is easier to Missy overeat, at any time, Corrigan anywhere. Snacks have doubled in size, restaurants are serving larger portions and more people are eating out. Children have more than doubled their consumption of soft drinks, fruit juices and refined carbohy-

drates such as breads and cereals. This increase in calories, processed foods and sugar all contributes to weight gain and health issues. At the same time that our kids are consuming more, they are also moving less. Instead of being physically active, kids are spending more time in front of the TV, playing video games or working on computers. Today’s environment does not promote or match the needs for a healthy body or lifestyle. To prevent excess weight gain or to help an overweight child improve his or her situation, start with these simple tips to improve eating and exercise habits.

SET A GOOD EXAMPLE Do what you are asking them to do. You can’t ask a child to eat fruit when

you are snacking on a candy bar.

OFFER HEALTHY CHOICES Limit sodas and fruit juice and provide more water. Make healthy snacks, and only allow kids to eat at the kitchen table during designated meal/snack times instead of in their room or in front of the TV. Limit fast foods and sweet treats to once a week.

EXERCISE DAILY Provide opportunities for daily physical activity, enroll your child in a new sport, play outside, and limit time spent in front of the TV or computer. Missy Corrigan is associate executive director of the Sumter Family YMCA. She can be reached at mcorrigan@ ymcasumter.org or (803) 773-1404.

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MARCH FROM PAGE A1 represents about half of Sumter County, including most of the South Sumter area. â€œAlthough people might think the crime occurs in a certain section, the folks realize that weâ€™re all in this together, and if you donâ€™t stop it, it goes from one community to the next.â€? According to Sumter Police Department, the South Sumter area has been the site of at least a dozen shooting incidents this year, although none of them have been fatal. The outbreak of shootings prompted city police earlier this summer to set up checkpoints and canvass the South Sumter area, hoping to gain additional information into the violent crimes. Officials with local law enforcement have said in the past that information has been hard to come by, possibly because of people fearing repercussions. â€œA lot of these people canâ€™t live safe in their homes, and if you donâ€™t feel safe in your home, thatâ€™s a terrible situation,â€? Sumter City Councilman Calvin Hastie, one of the organizers of the event, said during the rally. â€œWeâ€™re tired of the violent things that have been happening in the city of Sumter, certainly in this particular area, but we wanted to pull the different communities together.â€? The councilman also disputed some of the recent comments of Sumter Mayor Joe McElveen, who at several public events during the past week downplayed the notion of Sumter having a crime problem. â€œBeing the mayor, thatâ€™s sort of his position that he has to have. But for those of us who live in these communities, we donâ€™t have to have statistics to tell us that crime is bad,â€? Hastie said. â€œHeâ€™s trying to protect the image of all of Sumter, but our point is, if one part of Sumter is struggling with violence, it affects us all.â€? The march was the culmination of several recent organizational meetings by community leaders from throughout Sumter County. Sumter County Councilman Eugene Baten said organizers plan to continue promoting the message that violence is unacceptable, especially to the teenaged and young adult population in the area. â€œWe know that we have a lot of young people out here that need our

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Local protestors marched by the hundreds on Saturday while carrying signs decrying the violence that has plagued several communities in the Sumter area. support, and weâ€™re going to try to work with these young people to make sure they have what they need to turn away from violence,â€? Baten said, adding many of the problems are exacerbated by issues of unemployment, education and sometimes poor parenting. â€œA lot of time, we want to put the blame on parents, but a lot of times, we need to help the parents,â€? Baten said. While organizers called for area churches to address the issues in their sermons today, Hastie said there are also plans for future town hall meetings, as well as an effort to consolidate faith-based mentoring programs in the county. â€œAll of these churches have separate mentoring programs, but we donâ€™t know about each other, so weâ€™re trying to pull them together,â€? Hastie said. â€œThis is just the beginning of the things we are going to do,â€? Hastie said.

Even children decided to speak out against recent violence in Sumter on Saturday.

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IRAQ FROM PAGE A1 20,000 starving Yazidis are fleeing across the border, braving gunfire through a tenuous â€œsafe passageâ€? that Kurdish peshmerga forces are trying to protect. Some women lost their children along the way because of exhaustion and fear, and at least nine Kurdish fighters were killed while defending the columns of refugees, Mohammed said. â€œThey are barefoot, tired and left everything behindâ€? in Iraq, Mohammed said. Without significant help soon, those who havenâ€™t crossed yet â€œwill be subjected to genocide.â€? The U.S. military officially withdrew its combat forces in late 2011 after more than eight years of war. It returned to battle Friday when the two F/A-18 jets dropped 500-pound bombs on Islamic State fighters outside Irbil. Gen. Ahmed, the peshmerga spokesman at the Khazer checkpoint on the frontline outside Irbil, said it was a â€œgood hit,â€? but the impact wasnâ€™t yet clear. The Kurdish general spoke on condition his last name not be used.

Obama was adamant Saturday that that U.S. troops canâ€™t bring peace to Iraq. â€œWe can conduct airstrikes, but ultimately thereâ€™s not going to be an American military solution to this problem. Thereâ€™s going to have to be an Iraqi solution that America and other countries and allies support,â€? he said. The Pentagon said the militants were using the artillery to shell Kurdish forces defending the capital of Iraqâ€™s autonomous Kurdish region, home to a U.S. consulate and about three dozen U.S. military trainers. Iraqâ€™s embattled Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki waited until Monday to call in aerial reinforcements for Kurdish fighters trying to contain the Islamic Stateâ€™s advance. It was his governmentâ€™s first show of cooperation with the semi-autonomous Kurdish regional government since Iraqâ€™s second-largest city, Mosul, fell to the extremists in June. And so Kurdish officials were particularly pleased by the return of U.S. air support as well as the military trainers coordinating tactical responses with Kurdish peshmerga forces in the Kurd-

ROUNDABOUT FROM PAGE A1 â€œOur original proposal was to add a traffic light and a turn lane,â€? said Sumter County Administrator Gary Mixon. â€œThen DOT said it was actually a good candidate for a traffic circle.â€? The ultimate shape of the intersection will depend on the results of a formal study the S.C. Department of Transportation will perform if the project gets approval, but traffic officials think a roundabout or traffic circle would alleviate the main problem drivers have with the intersection. During peak traffic times, lines of cars can back up in four different directions as drivers take

turns going through the stop signs â€” or sometimes not, creating the potential for wrecks and even more traffic backup. If replaced by a circular intersection, traffic could flow almost continuously around a center island, with cars entering the circle yielding to traffic already moving around it. Or at least thatâ€™s the way itâ€™s supposed to work. â€œThatâ€™s a concern some folks have raised, that drivers in Sumter just arenâ€™t used to it,â€? Mixon said. The determining factor could be cost. DOT engineers think a circle could cost the taxpayers less than installing

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stop lights and turn signals, but that will depend on whether the intersection can grow to accommodate the circle. â€œWeâ€™ll look at the right-ofway issue, and whether we have to purchase any right-ofway,â€? said Bener Amado, DOT program manager for the Pee Dee region. The costs involved will also be weighed against the traffic data. Between 2010 and 2013, the state Department of Transportation recorded 13 crashes at the intersection, five of which injured drivers or passengers and eight of which damaged surrounding property. None of those wrecks were fatal. In May 2012, DOT did a traffic study at the intersection

strategic gains â€” and have been very effective, said Iraqi Foreign Minister Hoshyar Zebari, a Kurd.â€?

that recorded relatively high levels of traffic. Between 7 and 8 a.m., 827 cars rolled through the intersection, while between 5 and 6 p.m. 1,300 vehicles passed its stop signs. If the penny tax project is approved, DOT will do a new traffic study before work begins. â€œWe do feel a roundabout at this intersection would be a good call,â€? Amado said. â€œA turn lane with signals is a typical improvement, but a roundabout would be more economical cost-wise.â€? Where other roundabouts in the state have been approved, Amado said users have reported improved driving experiences because the circles elim-

inate the traffic backup problem. Drivers who are unsure of the plan may get a taste sooner rather than later. DOT is already planning to put a roundabout at the intersection of Pinewood and Kolb roads, and is considering Wedgefield and Pitts roads for another. As with other road projects on the penny tax list, Mixon said the county could seek grant funding to supplement the cost of the project, whichever way traffic planners decide to go. â€œItâ€™s one of our most hightrafficked intersections,â€? he said. â€œAs growth continues, we will need to address it quickly.â€?

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Carolina politics: the gift that keeps on giving

n a Friday column on this page, my colleague, Senior News Editor Braden Bunch wrote of South Carolina’s never boring politics which supply constant chuckles and guffaws for smarmy reporters on metro newspapers in the northern regions of our fair land and for latenight talk show comedians. It’s a gift that keeps on giving. For example, former Gov. Mark Sanford got the ball rolling just a short few years ago when he took a leave of absence from the Governor’s Mansion to hook up with his honey in South America. However, that escapade didn’t kill his career. He regrouped and got himself back in the U.S. House of Representatives, where he is now cruising toward re-election. Yes, the Palmetto State, as Braden posited, offers both quality and quantity in political follies. Braden quoted TV’s “Daily Show” host Jon Stewart during a comment about South Carolina’s wild and crazy politics as thanking the state for stepping up its game in bringing guffaws to the nation. It’s

COMMENTARY the gift that keeps on giving. Speaking of that, this year’s poster child politician is the disgraced former state treasurer Thomas Ravenel, who spent some time in the federal hoosegow for having snorted too much cocaine. Now he has managed to get his name on the ballot in the U.S. Senate race to challenge Lindsey Graham Hubert D. along with the Democratic party’s desigOsteen Jr. nated sacrificial lamb Brad Hutto. Not satisfied with appearing on the nauseatingly tacky “reality” show, “Southern Charm,” Ravenel secured even more notoriety by fathering a child by a much younger woman who appeared on the show. But enough about state politics; we’ve had our fair share of zany politics in our neck of the woods, going

way back, say in 1970 when two writein candidates popped up to run for the State House of Representatives. They will remain anonymous. Candidate No. 1, who we will call “John Smith,” showed up at The Item one day and presented a Polaroid photo of himself holding a telephone, which he claimed to be using to call South Carolina congressmen in Washington “to get things done.” He didn’t elaborate. However, he did express his concern “with the problems off everyone,” in said in his press release. He also said he was concerned “about our young people” and “about our narcotic problem.” Describing the other candidates in the race, he identified them as “jacklegs” who are “very cunning.” He went on: “They are phonies, they go around shaking hands and even take a big part in church.” As for the other candidate, “Tom Jones,” he was deeply concerned about “the young people who are being unduly influenced into buying cheap wines.” He warned that the cheap wines were “readily available

in every food store in town … the alcoholic content in some of these wines is 14 percent, and even college students find this wine an easy way to get their kicks ... these cheap wines are not aged properly, they are not fermented properly and have ‘alcohol added’ on their bottles. Churches, civic organizations and even our own representatives are not lifting a finger to do something about this situation.” But “Tom Jones” promised he would “do something constructive to change the situation by attempting to outlaw cheap wines” if he is elected. I’m not making this stuff up. Needless to say, neither candidate received many votes. Both men have since gone to their rewards. But long ago, they added some spice and amusement to local politics. They meant well but weren’t quite ready for prime time. But neither is the tacky former state treasurer who would be a better candidate for “The Gong Show” rather than even “Southern Charm.”

NOTABLE & QUOTABLE A LOOK AT GETTING AMERICA RUNNING In “How to Get America Moving Again,” George Schultz — a former Secretary of Labor, the Treasury and State, and director of the Office of Management and Budget — writes in The Wall Street Journal that “the world is in turmoil and needs a stronger U.S. It’s time to wake the sleeping giant by taking these specific steps to rev up the economy.” Read it online at www.wsj.com: Adm. Isoroku Yamamoto, who led the Japanese fleet at Pearl Harbor, had spent some time before World War II in the United States. After the attack, he allegedly said, with a sense of foreboding, “I fear all we have done is to awaken a sleeping giant and fill him with a terrible resolve.” Well, the giant is sleeping again. What does it take to wake us up? How many times can we be kicked in the belly before we take notice? The world is awash in change that affects us and our allies. We must recognize this and strengthen our military capabilities, set effective strategies, and be prepared to support our principles and oppose those who seek to destroy them. To do so, we must get our economy really rolling again. How? Everyone knows how. We just need to take action. (1) Cleanse the personal income tax system of deductions and lower the marginal rate on a revenue-neutral basis. (2) We all know that corporate taxation is an anachronism. Why do we want a system that encourages American companies to re-incorporate abroad? Let the earnings they make in other countries be taxed there, and that’s it. (3) We all know that the maze and uncertainty of the regulatory octopus is stifling the economy. Regulations are needed, but they can be made simpler and designed to work better. (4) While we are reducing uncertainty, why not take the mystery out of the Federal Reserve? (5) Get control of spending. Otherwise the burden of servicing government debt when normal interest rates return — a burden that already amounts to hundreds of billions annually — will be unbearable. Notable & Quotable is compiled by Graham Osteen – graham@theitem.com.

LETTERS TO THE EDITOR STOP IGNORING PROBLEMS AND START FIXING THEM I understand that money is short but it’s time Sumter County government really did something about its road conditions. Highway 441 behind our famous Shaw Air Force Base is a disgrace. Potholes on our Blue Star Highway (U.S. 76/378) are just being ignored. Should I even mention Broad Street, the first impression of our town for many visitors? Or 521? Come on! It is time to pay attention to pothole problem in Sumter. It really has become a true saying, “You can tell when you enter Sumter County.” I will continue to drive slow in the passing (left) lane until the potholes are repaired in the right lanes, and I encourage every other resident to do the same to show our disgust with those in charge of not fixing the problem for their citizens. C. Grossman Dalzell

A BIG THANK YOU FROM SUMTER JUNIOR DIXIE BOYS Our 2014 State Junior Dixie Boys state championship baseball team would like to thank the kind folks of Sumter and Manning for their overwhelming support during our World Series run last week in Bossier City, La. From donated money, snacks, Gatorade and water, our team was blessed beyond measure with material needs for our trip. Just as important were the encouraging texts, phone calls and messages that our players received. We especially want to recognize the Sumter American Legion baseball program that permitted our players to run

onto the Riley Park field during the recent state American Legion playoffs. That was a treat for our boys! Sumter is known statewide for baseball excellence, and this starts at the little league level. The success of these baseball and softball programs would be much more challenging without the countywide support of the penny tax several years ago that brought us better facilities and parks in which we play. We appreciate the efforts of Mrs. Rose Ford, Phil Parnell and the entire Sumter County Recreation Department staff. Recreational sports provides an excellent platform to teach our youngsters the value of teamwork, accountability, responsibility and leadership. As a community, we all had a part in our team’s consecutive state championships and World Series appearances. We were proud to represent Sumter. Coach John W. Holladay Sumter

A MODERN DAY PARABLE There was a man named Uncle Sam who lived in a very nice house, debtfree, with lots of mostly well-mannered children, who supported him financially. They loved their father and, out of this devotion, trusted him. Then one day Uncle Sam received a letter in the mail asking for help. It was a worthy cause, so Uncle Sam replied with a check, which made him “feel good.” He liked that feeling so much that when more letters came, he sent off more checks. And the requests kept coming — all worthy causes and he kept mailing out checks. One day he realized that his readily available resources were depleted — not to worry; without a thought to his own children’s welfare, Uncle Sam

went out and borrowed, and borrowed, and borrowed, ad infinitum. The checks kept going out. Uncle Sam found himself in insurmountable debt. His children could barely keep up with the mortgage payments on the debt. Their house needed lots of repairs they could not afford. The way of life they once enjoyed seemed to be vanishing before their eyes. And Uncle Sam’s mailbox keeps filling up. The debt keeps piling up. What will the children do if the lending houses call in the loans? Do you have a solution to the children’s problem that seems reasonable? Julia Talley Sumter

LOTT SHOULD BE CHARGED WITH ACCESSORY TO MURDER Can we believe that Sheriff Leon Lott of Richland County fired a deputy (Ken Proffitt) for three accidents since 2012? The State (Thursday, July 31) quoted Lott saying, “This is something that we don’t want our deputies to be doing.” Where was this philosophy when he hired George Mickens, with the driving record that he had attained? Lott goes on to say, “We hold them at a higher standard. We expect them to go out there and protect the public and to drive in a safe manner.” Maybe if Lott had this viewpoint a couple of years ago, Tommy Hawkins would be alive today. In my letter to the editor (Thursday, June 7, 2012) I stated Lott should have been charged with accessory to murder for allowing Deputy George Mickens to continue on the force. My opinion hasn’t changed. Bill Boatman Sumter

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DR. YOLYNDRA S. GREEN

FRANK W. YARBROUGH

Dr. Yolyndra Shavon Green, 35, departed this earthly life to be with the Lord on Tuesday, Aug. 5, 2014, at Carolinas Medical Center in Charlotte. Born on March 8, 1979, in Sumter, she was the beloved daughter of Algie Mae Jennings Green and the late Ashby Green Sr. She was a resident of Charlotte. Dr. Green attended Sumter High School and graduated with the Class of 1997. She continued her education and graduated from Francis Marion University receiving a bachelor of art in sociology, a master of art in counseling from Webster University and a doctorate of philosophy in human services with specialization in counseling studies from Cappella University. She was a published author of numerous childrenâ€™s books. She was employed at Central Piedmont Community College, Charlotte, and as an online doctoral professor at University of Phoenix. She was a member of the Eastern Star and Sigma Gamma Rho Sorority whose aim is to enhance the quality of life within the community. She was named in Whoâ€™s Who Among College Students. She received Christ and was baptized under the leadership of Bishop Fraiser of New Hope Ministries, where she served in various areas of the church. She was a member of New Hope Ministries in Sumter. While residing in Charlotte, she attended New Beginnings under the leadership of the Rev. Dr. Michael L. Henderson. She was a dedicated member committed to whatever it was that she put her hands to do. She was dedicated to working with the battered women of North Carolina, as well as teen mothers. She was a representative of the hearing impaired and blind organization. Survivors are: her mother, Algie Mae Green; one brother, Ashby Tyrone Green Jr. (Lavette) of North Carolina; a nephew, Ashby III; her fiance, Ralph Alexander of North Carolina; aunts, Rosa Lee Green of New Jersey, Rosa Lee (Leroy) Jennings, Margaret (Willie) Montgomery, Frances Montgomery, Martha Mickens, Rebecca Simon, Evelyn (Billy) Prioleau, Elder Janie (John) Dingle and Minister Susie Laidler, all of South Carolina; uncles, Marion Alston of Florida, James (Cami) Simon of North Carolina, Ivey Jennings, Fred Prescott and Sammie Green of South Carolina, and Kenny Green of New York; a grand aunt, Catherline Jennings of South Carolina; and a host of other relatives and friends who will cherish her precious memories. She was preceded in death by her father; grandparents, Alex and Joree Covington Jennings, and Irvin and Mamie Green; three uncles; and two aunts. Funeral services will be held at 2:30 p.m. Tuesday at New Hope Ministries, 95 Community St., Sumter, with the Elder Russell Rogers, pastor and eulogist, assisted by the Elder Boone, Elder Janie Dingle and Bishop Jeffery Johnson. The family will receive friends and relatives at the home, 123 N. Pike W., Sumter. A wake service will be held from 5 to 7 p.m. Monday in John Wesley Williams Sr. Memorial Chapel, Williams Funeral Home Inc., 821 N. Main St., Sumter. The remains will be placed in the church at 1:30 p.m. The procession will leave from the home at 1:15 p.m. Flower bearers will be cousins, classmates of Sumter High School class of 1997, Francis Marion University class of 2001 and Sigma Gamma Rho Sorority Inc. Pallbearers will be cousins, classmates of the Sumter High School class of 1997 and Francis Marion class of 2001. Honorary flower bearers and pallbearers will be professors of Phoenix. Interment will follow in the Hillside Memorial Park, 3001 Cains Mill Road, Sumter. Online memorial messages can be sent to the family at williamsfuneralhome@sc.rr.com. Visit us on the web at www.williamsfuneralhomeinc.com. Services directed by the management and staff of Williams Funeral Home Inc., 821 N. Main St., Sumter.

Frank W. Yarbrough, 73, husband of Patsy Edgemon Yarbrough, died Saturday, Aug. 09, 2014, at Tuomey Regional Medical Center, Sumter. Born in Pamplico, he was a son of the late Willie and Mary Howard Yarbrough. He was a member of Providence Baptist Church where he served as a deacon. He retired from Prothro Chevrolet. He was an avid deer hunter and member of Russell Wallace Hunt Club, formerly know as Nelson Wilson Hunt Club. Survivors include his wife; a son, Lynn W. Yarbrough of Sumter; a daughter, Patricia Charlene Yarbrough Brady (Ken) of Sumter; two granddaughters, April Johnson (Mike) and Jessica Amerson (Joey); three great-grandchildren, Dustin Johnson, Nathan Amerson and Kyleigh Bramlett; a brother, Herman Van Yarbrough of Columbia; and a number of nieces and nephews. He was preceded in death by two brothers, Jerry Yarbrough and Willard Yarbrough; and four sisters, Anne Louise McDonald, Dorothy Griffin, Lena Mae Lucas and Dixie Lee Turner. Funeral services will be held at 3:30 p.m. Tuesday at Providence Baptist Church with the Rev. Graham Bochman and Pastor Wayne McElveen officiating. Burial will be in the church cemetery. The family will receive friends from 6 to 8 p.m. Monday at Elmore-Cannon-Stephens Funeral Home and other times at the home, 2350 Stanford Drive. Memorials may be made to Providence Baptist Church, 2445 Old Manning Road, Sumter, SC 29150. Elmore-Cannon-Stephens Funeral Home and Crematorium of Sumter is in charge of the arrangements.

JOHN M. COOPER JR. John Milton Cooper Jr., age 80, died Thursday, Aug. 7, 2014. John Milton was born in Mayesville, a son of John Milton Cooper Sr. and Margaret Louise â€œMaggie Louâ€? White Cooper, on Nov. 26, 1933. He attended Mayesville schools and graduated from Presbyterian College with a bachelor of science degree in accounting and Bible. He was married to Leila Grace Roseborough from Lugoff for more than 53 years with whom he had two boys. Surviving is their older son, John Milton Cooper III of Hopkins. Their younger son, Job Kenyon Cooper, married to Tracy Vogel of Blythewood, who died at age 25 of leukemia. They â€œadoptedâ€? many young men and a few young ladies into their family circle and served as youth advisers for groups at their church and for other activities. He always had a listening ear and a word of encouragement for these young people who were welcome at his home at all times. â€œJohnnyâ€? is also survived by his sister, Verna Louise Jenkins of Sumter (formerly Laurens); nephews, Kirk Roseborough of Jacksonville, Florida, Thomas Edward Jenkins and wife, Suzanne, of Moore; nieces Lynn Jenkins Young and husband, Joe Young, of Charlotte, and Lisa Jenkins Sapp of Wedgefield. Also surviving are great-nieces and nephews and a number of cousins.

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An Elder Emeritus of First Presbyterian Church (ARP), John served in many capacities including deacon, elder, Sunday School class officer, youth leader, church visitor, on various session committees and Presbyterian committees for a number of years. In recent years, he was fondly known for his faithful service as usher/greeter on one of the doors facing the cemetery. John was in the Armed Services, stationed in Germany for several years. His work experience included being a salesman for Carolina Wholesale Hardware, the South Carolina State Department of Education as auditor for bus shops and manager for Internal Services. He was asked to return briefly after retirement to help with the transition of a new state superintendent. His contagious smile and his cryptic mischievous sense of humor will long be remembered. Memorials can be made to First Presbyterian (ARP) Church, Missionary Support, 1324 Marion St., Columbia, SC 29201, or Mayesville Black River Cemetery, PO Box 441, Mayesville, SC 29104. Burial services will be held at 3 p.m. today at Mayesville Black River Cemetery, Florence Highway/U.S. 76 out of Mayesville. The service will be performed by the Reverends Neal Mathias, David Lauten and Paul Pepin. Online condolences can be sent to the Cooper family by visiting www.kornegayfuneral.com. Kornegay Funeral Home Lugoff-Elgin Chapel is in charge of arrangements.

DOROTHY M. LEVY Dorothy Mae Meadows Levy, 77, entered into eternal rest on Wednesday, Aug. 6, 2014, at Tuomey Regional Medical Center, Sumter. Born Aug. 28, 1936, in Monroe, North Carolina, she was the daughter of Johnny Meadows and Leona Chambers Meadows. She leaves to cherish her memories: her husband, James Levy; her daughter, Regina Levy, and grandson, James Larce, both of Charlotte; an aunt, Clara Chambers of Sumter; sisters and brothers-in-law, Olivia (Virgil) Brooks and Doris Shipp, both of Tampa, Florida, Ronetta (Eddie) McNair of St. Petersburg, Florida, John (Juanita) Levy of Pinewood, and Sarah (Wilbert) Perry and Andrew (Gwen) Levy, both of Sumter; and a host of nieces, nephews, cousins and friends. She was preceded in death by her parents and her brother, Robert Meadows. Funeral services will be held at 11 a.m. Monday at John Wesley Williams Sr. Memorial Chapel, Williams Funeral Home Inc., 821 N. Main St., Sumter, with the Rev. Dr. Ernest Jackson officiating, eulogist. The family is receiving relatives and friends at the home, 1700 Newlevy Drive, Sumter. The procession will leave from the home at 10:30 a.m. Floral bearers and pallbearers will be family and friends. Burial will be in the Walker Cemetery on Oakland Avenue in Sumter. Online memorial messages can be sent to the family at williamsfuneralhome@sc.rr. com. Visit us on the web at www. williamsfuneralhomeinc.com.

Services directed by the management and staff of Williams Funeral Home Inc.

EARTHA LEE MARTIN BISHOPVILLE â€” Eartha Lee Martin, the wife of Mr. Harry Martin, entered eternal rest on Wednesday, Aug. 6, 2014. The family is receiving friends at the residence, 103 Lightwood Knot Road, Dalzell. Visitations will be held from 1 to 7 p.m. Monday at the mortuary. The funeral service will be held at 1 p.m. Tuesday at the Jerusalem Stuckey Baptist Church in Bishopville, with Pastor Julia Sanders officiating. Burial will follow in the Cooksfield Cemetery, Dalzell. Online condolences can be sent to the family at wilsonfuneralhome@sc.rr.com. Wilson Funeral Home, 403 S. Main St., Bishopville, is in charge of arrangements.

Edward Daniel Porter, 82, husband of Edna Best Porter, passed into eternal rest on Friday, Aug. 8, 2014, at Tuomey Regional Medical Center, Sumter. Born in Sumter, he was a son of the late Robert Austin Porter and the late Carrie Mitchell Porter. He was a member of Crosswell Baptist Church where he served as a Sunday school teacher for more than 40 years. He was the owner of Porterâ€™s Cabinet Shop which he operated for 50 years. Survivors include his wife of 56 years; two sons, Edward D. â€œEddieâ€? Porter Jr. (Debbie) of Sumter, and Robert B. â€œRobbieâ€? Porter (Tonya) of Clemson; and three grandchildren, Robert Austin Porter, Mary Elizabeth Porter and Katherine Abigail Porter. He was preceded in death by six sisters and two brothers. Funeral services will be held at 11 a.m. Monday at Crosswell Baptist Church with the Rev. Charles Owens officiating. Burial will be in Sumter Cemetery. The family will receive friends from 5 to 7 p.m. today at Elmore-Cannon-Stephens Funeral Home and other times at the home. Memorials can be made to Crosswell Baptist Church, 604 Mathis St., Sumter, SC 29150. Elmore-Cannon-Stephens Funeral Home and Crematorium of Sumter is in charge of the arrangements.

RUBY J. FREEMAN Ruby Jean â€œJeannieâ€? Freeman, 49, wife of Michael Shamp, died Friday, Aug. 8, 2014, in Newnan, Georgia. Born in Sumter, she was the daughter of the late Leslie â€œJeffâ€? Davis and Sarah Dixon Freeman. Surviving are her husband of Sumter; a brother, Gerold Freeman of Cayce; her sisters, Susie Sackett of Sumter and Joyce Freeman of Connecticut; and numerous nieces and nephews, including Jessica, Tabitha, Bubba and Dean. Memorial services will be held at 2 p.m. Monday in the Chapel of Elmore Hill McCreight Funeral Home, 221 Broad St. The family will receive friends following the service. Online condolences can be sent to www.sumterfunerals. com.

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BARBARA MOORE BISHOPVILLE â€” Barbara Moore entered eternal rest on Aug. 8, 2014, at Carolina Pines Regional Medical Center in Hartsville. The family is receiving friends at 12 Victory Road, Bishopville, Wisacky community. Funeral arrangements are incomplete and will be announced by Wilson Funeral Home, 403 S. Main St., Bishopville.

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NEW ZION â€” Levi Evans Sr., widower of Mary Lee McKenzie Evans, died the night of Friday, Aug. 8, 2014, at Carolinas Hospital System in Florence. Born in New Zion on May 15, 1923, he was a son of the late Lillie Evans. Family will receive friends at his residence, 1078 Melton St., New Zion. Services are entrusted to Samuels Funeral Home LLC of Manning.

CHARLESE P. LLOYD CAMDEN â€” Charlese P. Lloyd, 61, of 716 Market St. in Camden, died Friday, Aug. 8, 2014. Plans will be announced by Collins Funeral Home.

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AROUND TOWN The Sumter County Republican tional Federation of the Blind Party will hold the grand openwill meet at 7 p.m. on TuesGOP to celebrate headquarters ingSumter of its 2014 victory headquar-new day, Aug. 12, at Shiloh-Ranters at 6 p.m. on Tuesday, dolph Manor, 125 W. Aug. 12, at 710 Bultman Drive Bartlette St. Transportation with a reception featuring provided within the coverage Gov. Nikki Haley, Rep. Murrell area. Contact Debra Canty at Smith, S.C. Republican Party DebraCanC2@frontier.com or Chairman Matt Moore and (803) 775-5792. For informaothers. tion about the upcoming gala, call (206) 376-5992. The Sumter Chapter of the Na-

PUBLIC AGENDA CLARENDON COUNTY COUNCIL Monday, 6 p.m., 411 Sunset Drive, Manning

SUMTER COUNTY LIBRARY BOARD OF TRUSTEES Tuesday, 5 p.m., library

SUMTER SCHOOL DISTRICT BOARD OF TRUSTEES Monday, 6:45 p.m., 1345 Wilson Hall Road

LYNCHBURG TOWN COUNCIL Tuesday, 6 p.m., Teen Center, Magnolia Street, Lynchburg

SANTEE-LYNCHES REGIONAL COUNCIL OF GOVERNMENTS BOARD OF DIRECTORS Monday, 7 p.m., 36 W. Liberty St.

SUMTER COUNTY COUNCIL Tuesday, 6 p.m., Council Chambers PINEWOOD TOWN COUNCIL Tuesday, 6:30 p.m., town hall

LEE COUNTY COUNCIL Tuesday, 9 a.m., council chambers

TURBEVILLE TOWN COUNCIL Tuesday, 6:30 p.m., town hall

SUMTER HUMAN RESOURCE MANAGEMENT ASSOCIATION Tuesday, noon, Sunset Country Club

SUMMERTON TOWN COUNCIL Tuesday, 6 p.m., town hall

ARIES (March 21-April 19): Keep your EUGENIA LAST conversations light. Build up the people around you. What you do to put others at ease will bring you greater opportunities in the future. Network and socialize and a prosperous offer will come your way.

The last word in astrology

TAURUS (April 20-May 20): Keep your emotions in check. Don’t allow stubbornness to take over, leading you down a dark path. Focus on being a team player and make positive changes at home that stay within your budget but add to your comfort and convenience. GEMINI (May 21-June 20): Travel, communicate and get involved in activities in your community that will allow you to shine. You can improve your reputation and bring about new opportunities if you are a participant who shows promise, integrity and good faith. CANCER (June 21-July 22): Get out and take part in something out of the ordinary. Getting to meet people from different backgrounds will open your mind to new ideas that can help you advance. A social event will stimulate your personal life. LEO (July 23-Aug. 22): Personal problems will arise if you let emotional issues fester. Make whatever changes are necessary to avoid discord at home or at work. Taking on too much will make you look bad. Stay within your means physically and financially. VIRGO (Aug. 23-Sept. 22): Give and take will be necessary if you want to get things done. Expect to face opposition that could result in a financial setback. Focus on what you can do to keep the peace. LIBRA (Sept. 23-Oct. 22): Participate

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in community events or get together with people you’ve worked with in the past. Joining forces with others who share your concerns will make a difference. An entertaining evening will bring about a chance meeting and a personal change. SCORPIO (Oct. 23-Nov. 21): Take care of personal matters that will improve your attitude, appearance or expertise. Taking a different path will lead to an unusual perspective on a situation you face. Making your surroundings more conducive to your needs will boost your spirits. SAGITTARIUS (Nov. 22-Dec. 21): Take a trip or plan an adventure that will help you make an important decision regarding how or where you live. Taking part in an event that is different from anything you’ve ever done will be eye-opening. CAPRICORN (Dec. 22-Jan. 19): Don’t hold back when dealing with relationships, feelings and what your plans are for the future. Sharing is part of getting to know where you stand and what direction you’re headed. Someone from your past will play a role in your future. AQUARIUS (Jan. 20-Feb. 18): The changes you make now will have long-term effects. A positive approach will bring you greater stability and help you make the right choice. Partnerships will weigh heavy in a decision you make. Home improvements will bring you greater comfort.

ACROSS 1 Hedren of The Birds 6 Artist Monet 12 Junk 47 Down 16 USN noncom 19 Adored ones 20 Shakes awake 21 “If that doesn’t work . . .” 22 With it 23 Panels installed atop houses 25 Chevron or BP 27 Med. school subject 28 Vegan staple 29 May, in SpiderMan 30 Use as a source 31 “I’m a Believer” quartet 34 Guaranteed winner 36 New Testament king 37 Unseal, in verse

WEATHER

AccuWeather® ﬁve-day forecast for Sumter TODAY

TONIGHT

MONDAY

TUESDAY

WEDNESDAY

THURSDAY

Heavy t-storms; variably cloudy

A couple of thunderstorms

Thundershower

A morning t-storm in spots

Mostly sunny

84°

71°

84° / 71°

85° / 72°

89° / 68°

87° / 67°

Chance of rain: 70%

Chance of rain: 65%

Chance of rain: 60%

Chance of rain: 45%

Chance of rain: 25%

Winds: SSE 4-8 mph

Winds: ESE 3-6 mph

Winds: N 3-6 mph

Winds: WSW 6-12 mph

Winds: NNE 4-8 mph

TODAY’S SOUTH CAROLINA WEATHER

Gaﬀney 78/69 Spartanburg 80/70

Greenville 78/69

Columbia 86/74

Temperatures shown on map are today’s highs and tonight’s lows.

Sumter 84/71

IN THE MOUNTAINS Aiken 86/71

ON THE COAST

Charleston 88/75

Today: Variable cloudiness with showers and thunderstorms. High 82 to 88. Monday: Variable clouds with a thunderstorm around. High 82 to 89.

LOCAL ALMANAC

LAKE LEVELS

SUMTER THROUGH 4 P.M. YESTERDAY

Today Hi/Lo/W 83/70/t 82/65/pc 100/80/pc 85/66/pc 94/77/s 83/65/pc 90/77/t 86/69/s 93/75/t 87/67/pc 107/86/pc 72/58/pc 87/68/pc

SUN AND MOON 7 a.m. yest. 357.80 75.52 75.14 97.20

24-hr chg -0.13 -0.10 -0.03 +0.03

RIVER STAGES River Black River Congaree River Lynches River Saluda River Up. Santee River Wateree River

0.22" 1.00" 1.72" 24.63" 35.35" 30.06"

NATIONAL CITIES City Atlanta Chicago Dallas Detroit Houston Los Angeles New Orleans New York Orlando Philadelphia Phoenix San Francisco Wash., DC

Full pool 360 76.8 75.5 100

Lake Murray Marion Moultrie Wateree

84° 72° 89° 69° 102° in 2007 59° in 1950

Precipitation 24 hrs ending 4 p.m. yest. Month to date Normal month to date Year to date Last year to date Normal year to date

Mon. Hi/Lo/W 87/72/t 81/64/pc 100/74/t 78/66/t 96/77/s 84/64/pc 91/78/pc 86/68/s 93/75/t 85/68/pc 107/87/t 73/59/pc 84/71/pc

Myrtle Beach 83/73

Manning 86/72

Today: Heavy thunderstorms. Winds east-southeast 3-6 mph. Monday: A thunderstorm. Winds northnortheast 3-6 mph.

Temperature High Low Normal high Normal low Record high Record low

Florence 83/72

Bishopville 85/71

Flood 7 a.m. 24-hr stage yest. chg 12 3.34 +0.01 19 3.81 -1.15 14 2.68 -0.28 14 2.75 -0.03 80 77.74 -0.59 24 9.53 +4.01

Sunrise 6:40 a.m. Moonrise 8:03 p.m.

Sunset Moonset

8:14 p.m. 6:27 a.m.

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High 9:03 a.m. 9:46 p.m. 10:01 a.m. 10:38 p.m.

Ht. 3.3 3.9 3.4 3.8

Low 3:48 a.m. 3:59 p.m. 4:40 a.m. 4:54 p.m.

38 Business-jet pioneer 40 Staying power, so to speak 41 Glinda’s creator 42 Ladle, for instance 45 Backyard or patio 50 Concerning 51 Asparagus servings 54 Shakespearean teen 55 Pester 56 German camera 58 Conversation filler 59 Closed, as blinds 60 Degree for George W. Bush 61 Region e. of Detroit 63 Hammer or chisel 65 Thimbleful of a taste 66 Motel worker 67 1770s in the US and 1790s in France

73 Male turkeys 74 Male monarque 75 Prefix for sweet 76 Ocean bottom 77 Boo follower 78 Toward the center 80 Melodic 83 Lone Ranger’s farewell 87 False front 88 River through Lyon 89 Cameo stones 91 Pharaoh’s cross 92 Grumpy or Doc, per their beards 95 Slow period for business 97 Double Stuf cookie 98 Large vases 101 Go sky-high 102 Drain-cleaner chemical 103 TWA competitor 105 Obama’s paternal ancestors 108 Slalom accessory

City Asheville Athens Augusta Beaufort Cape Hatteras Charleston Charlotte Clemson Columbia Darlington Elizabeth City Elizabethtown Fayetteville

Today Hi/Lo/W 73/66/t 85/70/t 87/71/t 88/74/t 81/72/sh 88/75/t 76/68/sh 81/71/t 86/74/t 81/71/t 81/69/sh 80/70/sh 80/70/sh

Mon. Hi/Lo/W 76/66/t 87/71/t 87/71/t 87/75/t 81/74/t 87/75/t 78/69/t 85/72/t 87/74/t 82/71/t 80/71/t 81/71/t 81/71/t

City Florence Gainesville Gastonia Goldsboro Goose Creek Greensboro Greenville Hickory Hilton Head Jacksonville, FL La Grange Macon Marietta

Today Hi/Lo/W 83/72/t 89/74/t 76/69/t 79/69/sh 87/74/t 72/65/r 78/69/t 72/66/r 88/78/t 92/74/t 90/72/t 85/71/t 84/70/t

Mon. Hi/Lo/W 83/72/t 89/74/t 77/69/t 79/70/t 87/74/t 75/67/t 80/69/t 75/67/t 87/78/t 89/74/t 93/73/t 88/71/t 87/71/t

City Marion Mt. Pleasant Myrtle Beach Orangeburg Port Royal Raleigh Rock Hill Rockingham Savannah Spartanburg Summerville Wilmington Winston-Salem

Today Hi/Lo/W 76/68/sh 87/74/t 83/73/t 86/73/t 89/73/t 75/67/sh 76/69/t 80/71/sh 88/74/t 80/70/t 88/77/t 81/72/sh 71/65/r

Weather(W): s–sunny, pc–partly cloudy, c–cloudy, sh–showers, t–thunderstorms, r–rain, sf–snow ﬂurries, sn–snow, i–ice

110 Face-to-face exam 111 Loch __ monster 112 New frat brother, perhaps 114 Auspices 115 Inuit headgear 117 Annie Oakley, notably 121 Right-angle fitting 122 Granola descriptor 123 Time for raking 124 Royal order 125 Conniving 126 Choir member 127 Queen’s quarters 128 Performs great, so to speak DOWN 1 Frank McCourt book 2 Solemn assent 3 Silent-screen superstar 4 Thick board 5 Shekel spender 6 Holler 7 Without a clue 8 What a lot may be filled with 9 Handy to have 10 Bashful 11 Half a figure eight 12 Smooth switch 13 Factory 14 Prof. rank 15 Little Women sister 16 Little Red Book author 17 Spotted horse 18 Went (for) 24 Prepares, as 72 Down 26 Require defrosting 29 Preposterous 31 Exxon merger partner 32 Offer a thought 33 Overly sentimental 35 Self-esteem 36 Is sporting

SATURDAY’S ANSWERS CROSSWORD

SUDOKU

39 Offend the nose 41 Craft-beer server 43 Interior designs 44 Totaled 46 Sculpted form 47 Online letters 48 Home in the woods 49 Old-style oath 52 Mouth tops 53 Testified about 57 Wheel of Fortune purchase 62 Destructive weather 64 Seafood garnish 66 When shadows are shortest 67 Doggie 68 In a highstrung manner 69 Blackboard as-

Ht. -0.5 -0.7 -0.7 -0.7

REGIONAL CITIES

PISCES (Feb. 19-March 20): You’ll attract unusual people. Before you decide to share your personal secrets, get to know more about the people you’re dealing with. Ulterior motives are present. Romance will highlight your evening and improve your love life.

THE NEWSDAY CROSSWORD PSEUDO-ASTRONOMY: Looks right, but not quite By S.N.

THE SUMTER ITEM

signment, perhaps 70 Tuscan city 71 LP material 72 Coffee alternative 73 Turn to slush 78 “As __ to recall . . .” 79 Much TV Land fare 81 Rotation line 82 Bricks that click 84 Resistant to stretching 85 Declares acceptable 86 First Oscar winner for animated films 90 Unsettled 93 Singing syllables 94 Swelter 96 Set off 99 New Hampshire city

100 Snobbish ones 103 College of Cardinals selections 104 On __ (winning big) 105 English odist 106 Annual sports awards 107 Nozzle 109 Mess up

111 Final Four org. 113 Web computer language 116 Purloin 117 Cul-de-__ 118 Suffix for nectar 119 Comics cry of dismay 120 ACLU concerns

JUMBLE

LOTTERY NUMBERS PICK 3 SATURDAY

PALMETTO CASH 5 SATURDAY 16-28-29-30-34 PowerUp: 5

9-8-5 and 4-8-5

MEGAMILLIONS FRIDAY

PICK 4 SATURDAY

9-16-61-70-75 Megaball: 7 Megaplier: 5

2-3-0-5 and 3-6-6-3

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POWERBALL

Mon. Hi/Lo/W 79/67/t 88/75/t 83/74/t 86/73/t 88/74/t 77/69/t 78/69/t 82/71/t 89/75/t 84/70/t 88/77/t 81/71/t 75/67/t

SECTION

Stewart hopes warm weather leads to wins B4

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SUNDAY, AUGUST 10, 2014

PRO GOLF

THE ASSOCIATED PRESS

McIlroy still leads at Valhalla— barely

Rory McIlroy hits out of the bunker on the 14th hole during Saturday’s third round of the PGA Championship at Valhalla Golf Club in Louisville, Ky.

Late birdie enough for 1-shot lead atop crowded PGA leaderboard BY DOUG FERGUSON The Associated Press LOUISVILLE, Ky. — Rory McIlroy celebrated his final birdie with a smile and a slight pump of his first, knowing that 8-foot putt gave him the outright lead Saturday in the PGA Championship. “It’s a great position to be in,’’ he said. He’s just not used to it

being so crowded at the top. McIlroy has won all three of his majors with the lead going into the final round — by eight shots at the 2011 U.S. Open, three shots at the 2012 PGA Championship, six shots last month at the British Open. Now comes another major test for Boy Wonder — a Sunday shootout.

PREP FOOTBALL

Punting potential

More rain in the morning at Valhalla allowed for a deluge of birdies in the lowest scoring round in PGA Championship history. Six players had a share of the lead at some point. McIlroy could see it on the leaderboard. He could hear it on a golf course resounding

SEE MCILROY, PAGE B3

USC FOOTBALL

Air attack solid, but Carolina D stifles run game BY WILLIE T. SMITH III Greenville News

200-plus competitors to win the camp and would’ve been considered an All-American if not for his age. At 15 years old, Harvin beat out 5-star junior prospects Austin Seibert and Andrew Galitz, who have committed to

COLUMBIA — South Carolina managed to squeeze its first football scrimmage in on Saturday at Williams-Brice Stadium. Although the event was delayed by 30 minutes due to heavy early morning rain in Columbia, Gamecocks head coach Steve Spurrier was pleased with his team’s effort. “It was a good scrimmage, I think,” said Spurrier. “Nobody got hurt, which is SPURRIER very good. I thought our defensive line stopped the run very well.” While Spurrier was pleased his team made it through the hour and 45-minute session without injury, he found plenty to complain about. “I thought our offense didn’t run the ball very well at all,” said Spurrier. “The quarterbacks hit a few here and there but, overall, it was pretty sloppy. We still can’t snap the ball to the quarterback in the shotgun very well. “We’ve only got two centers and they played a bunch last year so we should be a lot better at that.” The offense was charged with only one turnover, which game when safety Chaz Elder picked off a Perry Orth pass. The Gamecocks secondary, which has been a point of emphasis for the team considering the youth and inexperience of its cornerbacks, had several other interception chances, but dropped each one. “We’ve got to do better,” said USC defensive coordinator Lorenzo Ward. “We’ve got to catch the ball. (Spur) Jordan Diggs knows he’s got to catch 1,000 balls. The rest of them do too. J. J. (Kadetrix Marcus)

SEE HARVIN, PAGE B6

SEE USC, PAGE B6

MATT WALSH / THE SUMTER ITEM

Sumter punter Pressley Harvin III won the Kohl’s National Invitational Scholarship Camp in Wales, Wis., on July 19-20 to establish himself as the nation’s top ranked punter for the 2017 class.

Sumter’s Harvin III has established himself as one of nation’s best after winning the Kohl’s National Invitational Scholarship Camp BY MICHAEL CHRISTOPHER michaelc@theitem.com

ive seconds. That’s the amount of time Sumter High School sophomore Pressley Harvin III says it takes to make a game-changing play with his foot as a punter.

The 5-foot-11-inch, 225-pounder showed that foot off as he won the Kohl’s National Invitational Scholarship Camp in Wales, Wis., on July 19-20. According to the kohlskicking.com website, Harvin is the top ranked punter in the class of 2017. Coaches observations

on the organization’s website said, “Pressely is one of the most impressive punting prospects that we have seen in years. He smashes the football.” Harvin averaged 51 yards per punt and 4.2 seconds on his hang time. The Gamecocks sophomore beat out

CLEMSON FOOTBALL

Coaches ‘encouraged’ by offense’s performance in Saturday’s scrimmage BY MANDRALLIUS ROBINSON Greenville Online CLEMSON — According to coordinator Chad Morris, Clemson’s offensive players should feel lucky to have their names on the back of their jerseys. Otherwise, few onlookers could identify them. “Nobody knows who they are,” Morris said Saturday after the first scrimmage of fall camp. “Nobody cares to know who they are right now, except for their parents and grandparents and all their rel-

atives.” The disregard is partly a byproduct of the abundant attention Clemson’s defense has generated this summer. Six senior starters have returned to the defense, including five in the front seven. “When they talk about Clemson they ain’t talking about these guys. They ain’t talking about us on the offensive side of the ball,” said Morris, who is not surprised the spotlight has turned away from the offense considering the consistent performers it

lost. Three-year starting quarterback Tajh Boyd, All-American receiver Sammy Watkins, 1,000MORRIS yard rusher and former Sumter High standout Roderick McDowell and AllAtlantic Coast Conference left tackle Brandon Thomas left the program. Only four current offensive players — senior guard David Beasley, junior center Ryan Norton, senior receiver Adam

Humphries and junior tight end Stanton Seckinger— have logged more than eight career starts. Clemson closed last season ranked in the Top 10 of the Bowl Subdivision in total offense, passing offense and scoring. Morris believes few outsiders expect these unproven Tigers to break into the Top 25. “You’ve got to go earn the respect. You’ve got to play with a hard edge about yourself. You’ve got to have that ticked-off approach,” Morris

said. “We’re ready to fight anybody and everybody. That’s got to be these guys’ approach. It don’t matter. Waterboys? It don’t matter.” The waterboys were safe Saturday, but the offense did take the fight to the defense early. The first-team offense opened the scrimmage with a 13-play, 70-yard touchdown drive. Senior quarterback Cole Stoudt capped the series with a 5-yard pass to

SEE CLEMSON, PAGE B6

SPORTS

SUNDAY, AUGUST 10, 2014

MLB ROUNDUP

Royals beat Giants 5-0 for 6th straight victory KANSAS CITY, Mo. — James Shields threw a four-hitter and Alex Gordon homered as the Kansas City Royals won their sixth straight, beating the San Francisco Giants 5-0 on Saturday night. The Royals have won nine of 10 to move with 1 1/2 games of AL Central-leading Detroit. The Royals, who have not made the playoffs since beating St. Louis in the 1985 World Series, are in second place in the AL wild card standings. Shields (11-6) gave up three singles in the first four innings. He allowed only two Giants to reach second base. RAYS 4 CUBS 0

CHICAGO — Jake Odorizzi struck out nine in six scoreless innings and combined with two relievers on a five-hitter to lead Tampa Bay to a 4-0 victory over the Chicago

Cubs. Evan Longoria drove in a run and scored two. Yunel Escobar added two hits and three RBI. Ben Zobrist had two hits and scored twice for the Rays, who improved to a major league-best 15-6 since July 12. They will try to complete the threegame sweep on Sunday. ORIOLES 10 CARDINALS 3

BALTIMORE — Caleb Joseph homered in his fifth consecutive game, Nelson Cruz hit his 30th and Delmon Young also went deep as Batlimore beat John Lackey and St. Louis 10-3. All three home runs came with a man on against Lackey (1-1), making his second start since coming from Boston in a July 31 trade. The righthander gave up nine runs and 13 hits in five-plus innings to fall to 14-8 lifetime against Baltimore.

BLUE JAYS 3

TIGERS 2 TORONTO — Nolan Reimold hit a gamewinning double in the 10th inning and Toronto rallied past Detroit 3-2, spoiling Max Scherzer’s bid to become the first 14-game winner in the American League. Danny Valencia singled off Joba Chamberlain to begin the 10th and Reimold followed with a double to the wall in left-center as Valencia scored without a play. INDIANS 3 YANKEES 0

NEW YORK — Corey Kluber pitched four-hit ball for a superb six innings and Jose Ramirez hit his first career homer as Cleveland ended a 4-game skid with a 3-0 victory over the New York Yankees. Michael Brantley also homered and had three hits for Cleveland. From wire reports

SPORTS ITEMS

Venus tops Serena, reaches Montreal final MONTREAL — Venus Williams defeated Serena 6-7 (2), 6-2, 6-3 Saturday for the first win against her sister in more than five years and advanced to the final of the Rogers Cup. The 34-year-old Venus hadn’t beat her 32-yearold sister in five matches going back to Dubai in 2009. Top-ranked SerV. WILLIAMS ena still leads the alltime series 15-11. Unseeded Venus started with strong serving and took a 3-1 lead before Serena tied it 3-3. The younger sibling and defending champion prevailed in the tiebreaker, taking a 4-0 lead. The second set was all Venus, who earned two service breaks while her sister struggled with unforced errors. Serena made two errors and dropped serve to trail 4-2 in the third set. Venus — who dropped serve only once in the match — served for the win at 5-3. Venus hit a rocket serve on her third match point that Serena returned into the net. Serena had 19 aces and nine double-faults, while Venus had six aces and two doubles-faults.

WIE SIDELINED BY FINGER INJURY PITTSFORD, N.Y. — Michelle Wie has a finger injury that forced her to withdraw from LPGA Championship next week at Monroe Golf Club and will sideline her at three to five weeks. IMG Golf said Saturday that Wie has a stress reaction in a bone in her right index finger. The U.S. Women’s Open champion withdrew from the Meijer LPGA Classic on Thursday in Michigan after playing nine holes in the first round. IMG said she was examined by hand surgeon Dr. Tom Graham of the Cleveland Clinic.

PARK LEADS MEIJER LPGA CLASSIC BELMONT, Mich. — Inbee Park made two long birdie putts on the back nine Saturday and finished with a 3-under 68 to remain a stroke ahead after the third round of the Meijer LPGA Classic. Park had a 13-under 200 total at Blythefield Country Club. South Korean rookie Mirim Lee was second after a 67. Norway’s Suzann Pettersen was another stroke back after a 69. From wire reports

SCOREBOARD

CHS’ Graham shines in final season on Morris College baseball squad

yan Graham has completed his Morris College baseball career. Out of Crestwood High School, the recent graduate played three years and has a year of eligibility remaining. He was primarily a first baseman this past season, but also played third base and pitched. For the second consecutive season, he was recognized as the team’s defensive player of the year. He received a plaque. “I improved my range,” Graham said, adding that during practices he fielded balls while at shortstop and second base to give himself extra repetitions. In 17 games, Graham hit .279 with four runs batted in. He had a 5-game hitting streak in midseason, with three two-hit efforts during that span. “I’m more happy with the way I hit this year,” said Graham, a captain the past two seasons. “I was seeing the ball bet-

ter and just waiting on it more.” He hit below .100 in Barbara 15 Boxleitner games in his second season. “I went in a slump. I couldn’t get out,” said Graham, who batted .300 in 13 games his first season. “I was rolling over everything. I was out in front and couldn’t get my timing.” Graham managed to lift his batting average despite a nagging quadriceps injury he said he played with from the fourth game on. He suffered the injury hustling to first base to beat out a hit. The right-handed batter also was hit on the front elbow by a ball. He said he couldn’t lift or bend his arm without pain the first few days afterward. “Everything I did, I felt it,” he

said. “It was really tough.” To deal with the quad, he said he stretched twice as much as his teammates did. Graham iced the elbow after every game and wore an arm sleeve when he played. He was a relief pitcher, usually the first guy out of the bullpen, though he did start toward the end of the season. “He (the coach) just called me whenever,” he said. His longest outing was four innings against Benedict College. He allowed two hits and three earned runs. He pitched a scoreless inning in an earlier game against Benedict. Graham graduated with a degree in mass communications and is searching for a job. He said he will be Crestwood’s varsity baseball assistant coach this year. Send updates about area athletes to Barbara Boxleitner at BKLE3@aol.com.

Washington Atlanta Miami New York Philadelphia CENTRAL DIVISION

TV, RADIO TODAY

7 a.m. – International Soccer: Liverpool vs. Borussia Dortmund (NBC SPORTS NETWORK). 9 a.m. – NFL Preseason Football: Green Bay at Tennessee (NFL NETWORK). 10 a.m. – International Soccer: FA Community Shield Match from London – Arsenal vs. Manchester City (FOX SPORTS 1). 11 a.m. – PGA Golf: PGA Championship Final Round from Louisville, Ky. (TNT). Noon – Youth Baseball: National Youth Championship Under-12 Finals Game (CBS SPORTS NETWORK). 1 p.m. – International Soccer: Mexican League Match – UNAM vs. Atlas (ELREY). 1 p.m. – NASCAR Racing: Sprint Cup Series Cheez-It 355 from Watkins Glen, N.Y. (ESPN, WEGX-FM 92.9). 1 p.m. – Professional Tennis: Rogers Cup Women’s Final Match from Montreal (ESPN2). 1 p.m. – International Basketball: Kentucky vs. Puerto Rico from Nassau, Bahamas (ESPNU). 2 p.m. – PGA Golf: PGA Championship Final Round from Louisville, Ky. (WLTX 19). 2 p.m. – Major League Baseball: Los Angeles Dodgers at Milwaukee (TBS). 3 p.m. – Arena Football: Orlando at Cleveland (CBS SPORTS NETWORK). 3 p.m. – Professional Tennis: Rogers Cup Men’s Final Match from Toronto (ESPN2). 3 p.m. – Women’s Amateur Golf: U.S. Women’s Amateur Championship Match from Glen Cove, N.Y. (GOLF). 3 p.m. – WNBA Basketball: Indiana at New York (NBA TV). 4 p.m. – Amateur Swimming: U.S. National Championships from Irvine, Calif. (WIS 10). 4 p.m. – Major League Baseball: Chicago White Sox at Seattle (WGN). 5 p.m. – Horse Racing: Saratoga Stakes Special from Saratoga Springs, N.Y. (FOX SPORTS 1). 5 p.m. – LPGA Golf: Meijer LPGA Classic Final Round from Grand Rapids, Mich. (GOLF). 6 p.m. – Youth Baseball: Little League World Series Mid-Atlantic Regional Championship Game from Bristol, Conn. (ESPN). 6 p.m. – WNBA Basketball: Atlanta at Chicago (NBA TV). 8 p.m. – Major League Baseball: Playoffs Conference Championship Game -- Washington at Atlanta (ESPN, WPUB-FM 102.7). 8 p.m. – Arena Football: San Jose at Arizona (ESPN2). 8 p.m. – High School Baseball: Perfect Game All-American Classic from San Diego (MLB NETWORK). 9 p.m. – WNBA Basketball: Tulsa at Seattle (NBA TV). 10:30 p.m. – Major League Soccer: Houston at Seattle (ESPN2).

MONDAY

10:45 a.m. – International Basketball: FIBA Under-17 World Championship Game from Dubai, United Arab Emirates – United States vs. Phillipines (ESPNU).] 1 p.m. – International Basketball: Kentucky vs. Champagne Chalons-Reims from Nassau, Bahamas (ESPNU). 1 p.m. – Major League Baseball: New York Mets at Philadelphia (MLB NETWORK). 3:30 p.m. – Youth Baseball: National Youth Championship Under-12 Finals Game (CBS SPORTS NETWORK). 6:05 p.m. – Talk Show: Sports Talk (WDXY-FM 105.9, WDXY-AM 1240). 6:30 p.m. – Youth Baseball: National Youth Championship Under-12 Finals Game (CBS SPORTS NETWORK). 7 p.m. – Major League Baseball: Los Angeles Dodgers at Atlanta (ESPN, SPORTSOUTH, WPUB-FM 102.7). 8:30 p.m. – NPF Softball: Chicago at Pennsylvania (CBS SPORTS NETWORK).

MEIJER CLASSIC PAR SCORES

Saturday At Blythefield Country Club Belmont, Michigan Purse: $1.5 million Yardage: 6,414; Par 71 Third Round Inbee Park 66-66-68—200 Mirim Lee 70-64-67—201 Suzann Pettersen 69-64-69—202 Line Vedel 68-69-68—205 Beatriz Recari 70-69-67—206 Haru Nomura 70-67-69—206 Lee-Anne Pace 70-70-67—207 Katie M. Burnett 71-68-68—207 Paula Creamer 69-70-68—207 Giulia Molinaro 71-67-69—207 Amy Yang 68-67-72—207 Cristie Kerr 72-72-64—208 Lydia Ko 69-68-71—208 Sydnee Michaels 69-70-70—209 Azahara Munoz 68-70-71—209 Gerina Piller 68-70-71—209 Sandra Gal 65-72-72—209 Dori Carter 70-73-67—210 Ayako Uehara 72-68-70—210 Kris Tamulis 70-69-71—210 Shanshan Feng 69-69-72—210 Katherine Kirk 67-70-73—210 Dewi Claire Schreefel 71-72-68—211 Jodi Ewart Shadoff 69-73-69—211

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GB – 3 1/2 6 1/2 8 11

W 64 62 61 59 49

L 52 53 53 57 65

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GB – 1 1/2 2 5 14

W 66 62 52 50 45

L 51 54 62 66 70

Pct .564 .534 .456 .431 .391

GB – 3 1/2 12 1/2 15 1/2 20

FRIDAY’S GAMES

Tampa Bay 4, Chicago Cubs 3, 10 innings N.Y. Mets 5, Philadelphia 4 Pittsburgh 2, San Diego 1 Baltimore 12, St. Louis 2 Miami 2, Cincinnati 1 Atlanta 7, Washington 6 Milwaukee 9, L.A. Dodgers 3 Kansas City 4, San Francisco 2 Arizona 5, Colorado 3

SATURDAY’S GAMES

St. Louis at Baltimore, 4:05 p.m. Tampa Bay at Chicago Cubs, 4:05 p.m. N.Y. Mets at Philadelphia, 7:05 p.m. San Diego at Pittsburgh, 7:05 p.m. L.A. Dodgers at Milwaukee, 7:10 p.m. Miami at Cincinnati, 7:10 p.m. San Francisco at Kansas City, 7:10 p.m. Washington at Atlanta, 7:10 p.m. Colorado at Arizona, 8:10 p.m.

TODAY’S GAMES

Miami (Hand 2-3) at Cincinnati (Cueto 13-6), 1:10 p.m. N.Y. Mets (Za.Wheeler 7-8) at Philadelphia (K.Kendrick 5-11), 1:35 p.m. San Diego (T.Ross 10-10) at Pittsburgh (Morton 5-10), 1:35 p.m. St. Louis (Lynn 11-8) at Baltimore (Gausman 6-3), 1:35 p.m. L.A. Dodgers (Kershaw 13-2) at Milwaukee (J.Nelson 2-2), 2:10 p.m. San Francisco (Lincecum 9-7) at Kansas City (D.Duffy 6-10), 2:10 p.m. Tampa Bay (Cobb 7-6) at Chicago Cubs (T.Wood 7-9), 2:20 p.m. Colorado (F.Morales 5-6) at Arizona (Miley 7-8), 4:10 p.m. Washington (G.Gonzalez 6-8) at Atlanta (A.Wood 7-9), 8:05 p.m.

MONDAY’S GAMES

N.Y. Mets at Philadelphia, 1:05 p.m. Detroit at Pittsburgh, 7:05 p.m. L.A. Dodgers at Atlanta, 7:10 p.m. St. Louis at Miami, 7:10 p.m. Milwaukee at Chicago Cubs, 8:05 p.m. Colorado at San Diego, 10:10 p.m.

NFL PRESEASON By The Associated Press

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PA 16 39 7 10

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PA 13 6 27 34

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N.Y. Jets 13, Indianapolis 10 Washington 23, New England 6 Baltimore 23, San Francisco 3 Kansas City 41, Cincinnati 39 Denver 21, Seattle 16 San Diego 27, Dallas 7

W 66 61 62 56 51

L 49 55 56 59 64

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FRIDAY’S GAMES

W 63 61 58 55 51

L 51 53 59 62 63

Pct .553 .535 .496 .470 .447

GB – 2 6 1/2 9 1/2 12

SATURDAY’S GAMES

W 71 67 61 48 45

L 44 48 54 68 70

Pct .617 .583 .530 .414 .391

GB – 4 10 23 1/2 26

FRIDAY’S GAMES

Tampa Bay 4, Chicago Cubs 3, 10 innings N.Y. Yankees 10, Cleveland 6 Baltimore 12, St. Louis 2 Detroit 5, Toronto 4 Kansas City 4, San Francisco 2 Houston 4, Texas 3 Boston 4, L.A. Angels 2 Oakland 6, Minnesota 5 Seattle 4, Chicago White Sox 1

SATURDAY’S GAMES

Cleveland 3, N.Y. Yankees 0 Toronto 3, Detroit 2, 10 innings St. Louis at Baltimore, 4:05 p.m. Tampa Bay at Chicago Cubs, 4:05 p.m. San Francisco at Kansas City, 7:10 p.m. Texas at Houston, 7:10 p.m. Boston at L.A. Angels, 9:05 p.m. Minnesota at Oakland, 9:05 p.m. Chicago White Sox at Seattle, 9:10 p.m.

TODAY’S GAMES

Cleveland (Carrasco 3-4) at N.Y. Yankees (Kuroda 7-7), 1:05 p.m. Detroit (Price 11-8) at Toronto (Buehrle 11-8), 1:07 p.m. St. Louis (Lynn 11-8) at Baltimore (Gausman 6-3), 1:35 p.m. San Francisco (Lincecum 9-7) at Kansas City (D.Duffy 6-10), 2:10 p.m. Texas (N.Martinez 1-8) at Houston (Keuchel 10-7), 2:10 p.m. Tampa Bay (Cobb 7-6) at Chicago Cubs (T.Wood 7-9), 2:20 p.m. Boston (R.De La Rosa 3-4) at L.A. Angels (H. Santiago 3-7), 3:35 p.m. Minnesota (P.Hughes 11-8) at Oakland (Hammel 1-4), 4:05 p.m. Chicago White Sox (Joh.Danks 9-7) at Seattle (E.Ramirez 1-5), 4:10 p.m.

MONDAY’S GAMES

Detroit at Pittsburgh, 7:05 p.m. N.Y. Yankees at Baltimore, 7:05 p.m. Tampa Bay at Texas, 8:05 p.m. Minnesota at Houston, 8:10 p.m. Oakland at Kansas City, 8:10 p.m. Toronto at Seattle, 10:10 p.m.

NATIONAL LEAGUE EAST DIVISION

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THURSDAY’S GAMES

AMERICAN LEAGUE

Detroit Kansas City Cleveland Chicago Minnesota WEST DIVISION

Los Angeles San Francisco San Diego Arizona Colorado

Denver Kansas City San Diego Oakland

MLB STANDINGS By The Associated Press Baltimore New York Toronto Tampa Bay Boston CENTRAL DIVISION

Milwaukee Pittsburgh St. Louis Cincinnati Chicago WEST DIVISION

Baltimore Cleveland Pittsburgh Cincinnati WEST

GOLF The Associated Press

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Atlanta 16, Miami 10 Buffalo 20, Carolina 18 Jacksonville 16, Tampa Bay 10 Chicago 34, Philadelphia 28 Minnesota 10, Oakland 6 New Orleans 26, St. Louis 24 Cleveland at Detroit, 7:30 p.m. Pittsburgh at N.Y. Giants, 7:30 p.m. Green Bay at Tennessee, 8 p.m. Houston at Arizona, 8:30 p.m.

THURSDAY, AUG. 14

Jacksonville at Chicago, 8 p.m.

FRIDAY, AUG. 15

Philadelphia at New England, 7:30 p.m. Tennessee at New Orleans, 8 p.m. San Diego at Seattle, 10 p.m. Detroit at Oakland, 10 p.m.

SATURDAY, AUG. 16

Green Bay at St. Louis, 4 p.m. Baltimore at Dallas, 7 p.m. N.Y. Giants at Indianapolis, 7 p.m. N.Y. Jets at Cincinnati, 7 p.m. Buffalo at Pittsburgh, 7:30 p.m. Miami at Tampa Bay, 7:30 p.m. Atlanta at Houston, 8 p.m. Arizona at Minnesota, 8:30 p.m.

WNBA STANDINGS By The Associated Press EASTERN CONFERENCE x-Atlanta Washington New York Chicago Indiana Connecticut

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WESTERN CONFERENCE

W x-Phoenix 25 x-Minnesota 24 Los Angeles 14 San Antonio 13 Tulsa 12 Seattle 11 x-clinched playoff spot

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GB – 1 1/2 11 1/2 13 14 15

FRIDAY’S GAMES

Washington 74, Indiana 61 New York 71, Connecticut 66 Tulsa 79, San Antonio 62 Los Angeles 80, Atlanta 77, OT

SATURDAY’S GAMES

Minnesota at Phoenix, 10 p.m.

TODAY’S GAMES

Indiana at New York, 3 p.m. Washington at Connecticut, 4 p.m. Los Angeles at San Antonio, 4:30 p.m. Atlanta at Chicago, 6 p.m. Tulsa at Seattle, 9 p.m.

PGA CHAMPIONSHIP

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MCILROY

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with cheers from every corner. The 25-year-old from Northern Ireland found an extra gear, closing with three birdies on the last four holes for a 4-under 67 and a one-shot lead over Bernd Wiesberger. Right behind were Rickie Fowler and Phil Mickelson. Still very much in the picture were Jason Day, Henrik Stenson and Louis Oosthuizen. “Tomorrow standing on the first tee is going to feel different than how it felt a month ago at Hoylake because you don’t have that ... it is going to be a shootout,’’ said McIlroy, who was at 13-under 200. “You know the conditions are soft. Guys are going to make birdies. And you know that you’re going to have to make birdies as well.’’ He did his part late in the round, rolling in a 20-foot birdie putt on the 15th hole, hitting 9-iron from 172 yards that landed with a splat next to the hole for an easy birdie on the 16th hole, and getting up-and-down from a bunker on the final hole. “It’s not the biggest lead I’ve ever had,’’ McIlroy said. “But I’m still in control of this golf tournament.’’ Sunday is shaping up as a thriller, typical of the final major of the year. Wiesberger closed with three straight birdies — the three putts were a combined 3 feet, 6 inches — for a 65. Playing in only his sixth major championship, the 28-year-old Austrian now gets to play in the final group at a major with the No. 1 player in the world. “I’ve not been in a contention in a major championship, so I don’t know how it’s going to turn out,’’ Wiesberger said. “I’m just trying to enjoy it as I did today. ... From now on, it’s just a bonus, really.’’ Fowler, a runner-up in the last two majors and the first player since Tiger Woods in 2005 to finish among the top five in all three of them, gets one last crack. He played bogey-free for a 67 and was two shots behind. Fowler will be playing in the penultimate group with Mickelson, the five-time major champion who turned his game around with strong finish. Right when he looked to be fading from contention, Lefty turned it on with a long birdie putt on the 14th hole, two more birdies, and then he narrowly missed an eagle putt on the final hole. He had a 67 and was three shots behind. “That birdie putt on 14 was really the one that got me going, because I needed to finish strong to get back in it,’’ Mickelson said. Mickelson was at 10-under 203 with Day, who played in the final group with McIlroy on Saturday and had to settle for a 69. The PGA Championship does not bill itself as the toughest test in golf. It assembles the best field of the majors and lets them slug it out over four days. Add a super soft course from morning showers, and cheers rained down from every corner. The average score was 69.57, though it felt easier to former Masters champion Adam Scott, one of nine players with a 66 or better. “Doesn’t get any easier,’’ said Scott, who was six behind. “Seems like 4 or 5 under is about even par today.’’ For all the birdies, two pars early in the round were important. Day hooked his tee shot so badly on the second hole that it cleared the stream and landed in a bog. It eventually was found in knee-high vegetation. Day had to remove his shoes, roll up his pants and wade across the stream to get there. He blasted across the fairway into the rough, hit wedge onto the green to 8 feet and made it. The tee was moved forward on the par-4 fourth hole, making it play 292 holes. Seven players made eagle. McIlroy was not one of them. He hooked his tee shot into the woods and had to take a penalty drop to get a clear look at the green. McIlroy made a 12-footer for par to stay in the lead, and he made birdie on the next hole. Fowler, Day, Wiesberger and even Ryan Palmer and Jim Furyk took turns joining McIlroy atop the leaderboard. Through it all, Boy Wonder never fell back.

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Phil Mickelson lines up his putt on the first hole during Saturday’s third round of the PGA Championship at Valhalla Golf Club in Louisville, Ky.

Lefty in the mix at 3 shots back BY PAUL NEWBERRY The Associated Press

PAR SCORES

LOUISVILLE, Ky. — Phil Mickelson is feeling a lot better about his longest winless streak in more than a decade. The way he’s playing now, it might not last much longer. Lefty, you see, is back on a hot streak. Mickelson birdied four of his last five holes Saturday to keep himself in contention for his sixth major title, shooting a 4-under 67 that left him three shots behind leader Rory McIlroy at the PGA Championship. He’ll play in the next-to-last group on Sunday with Rickie Fowler. “I’ve put myself in a position now where if I ... play the way I feel I can and shoot the number I believe I can, I’m in a position to win the golf tournament,’’ the 44-year-old Hall of Famer said. “That’s what feels good.’’ As usual, it was quite a ride for the guy who conceded early in the week that he’ll always be a streaky player. A couple of birdies on the front side pushed his score lower. Back-to-back bogeys after the turn stymied his surge. Then, just like that, he got it going again, sparked by a 22-foot putt at the 14th. “I needed something to get it going,’’ Mickelson said. “Knocking that one in gave me a little bit of momentum.’’ He kept right on going at No. 15, where a 158-yard shot from the rough plopped down 6 feet from the flag for another birdie. The approach shot at

The Associated Press Saturday At Valhalla Golf Club Louisville, Ky. Purse: $10 million Yardage: 7,458; Par 71 Third Round Rory McIlroy 66-67-67—200 Bernd Wiesberger 68-68-65—201 Rickie Fowler 69-66-67—202 Phil Mickelson 69-67-67—203 Jason Day 69-65-69—203 Louis Oosthuizen 70-67-67—204 Henrik Stenson 66-71-67—204 Mikko Ilonen 67-68-69—204 Ryan Palmer 65-70-69—204 Jamie Donaldson 69-70-66—205 Graham DeLaet 69-68-68—205 Steve Stricker 69-68-68—205 Hunter Mahan 70-71-65—206 Adam Scott 71-69-66—206 Kevin Chappell 65-74-67—206 Lee Westwood 65-72-69—206 Joost Luiten 68-69-69—206 Jim Furyk 66-68-72—206 Brandt Snedeker 73-68-66—207 Danny Willett 68-73-66—207 Bill Haas 71-68-68—207 Victor Dubuisson 69-68-70—207 Marc Warren 71-71-66—208 Brooks Koepka 71-71-66—208 Sergio Garcia 70-72-66—208 Ryan Moore 73-68-67—208 Jimmy Walker 69-71-68—208 Ernie Els 70-70-68—208 Alexander Levy 69-71-68—208 Billy Horschel 71-68-69—208 Nick Watney 69-69-70—208 Justin Rose 70-72-67—209 Jonas Blixt 71-70-68—209 Brian Harman 71-69-69—209 Charl Schwartzel 72-68-69—209 J.B. Holmes 68-72-69—209 Chris Wood 66-73-70—209 Daniel Summerhays 70-72-68—210 Luke Donald 70-72-68—210 Kenny Perry 72-69-69—210 Edoardo Molinari 66-73-71—210

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the next hole was even better, as Mickelson zeroed in from 197 yards and left the ball merely 3 feet from the cup for his third straight birdie. He finished with one more on the par-5 18th, just missing a 45-footer for eagle, his knees

buckling as the ball curled toward the hole but stayed just above it. “It’s so fun for me to be back in the thick of it, have a chance, being contention heading into Sunday and not having to get up at 6 o’clock in the morning to tee off — if I get to tee off,’’ Mickelson said. “It’s been a nice change.’’ His last win came at the 2013 British Open, where he turned in one of the great closing rounds in major championship history at Muirfield, giving him the third leg of a career Grand Slam. It’s been quite a struggle since then. Mickelson missed the cut at the Masters, a tournament he has won three times. He tied for 28th at the U.S. Open, nowhere close to completing his slam, his putting such a mess that he began experimenting with a claw grip. He needed a strong finish at Royal Liverpool just to finish tied for 23rd in the British Open, his hopes of keeping the claret jug pretty much doused in the first two rounds. But Mickelson is used to these sorts of ups and downs. That’s pretty much been the trademark of his career. Last week in the World Golf Championship, after another discouraging start, he suddenly turned in his best round of the year — a 62 in the final round. Now, he’s looking for another finish like that at Valhalla. “I just kept the momentum going throughout the round’’ at Firestone, Mickelson said. “I need to do that again tomorrow. That’s the bottom line.’’

TODAY’S TEE TIMES The Associated Press At Valhalla Golf Club Louisville, Ky. Fourth Round 8:25 a.m. — Shane Lowry, Brendon Todd 8:35 a.m. — Bubba Watson, Chris Stroud 8:45 a.m. — Robert Karlsson, Shawn Stefani 8:55 a.m. — Freddie Jacobson, Rafael Cabrera-Bello 9:05 a.m. — Colin Montgomerie, Brendan Steele 9:15 a.m. — Graeme McDowell, Marc Leishman 9:25 a.m. — Kevin Stadler, Gonzalo FernandezCastano 9:35 a.m. — Koumei Oda, Francesco Molinari 9:45 a.m. — Pat Perez, Jason Bohn

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9:55 a.m. — Vijay Singh, Hideki Matsuyama 10:05 a.m. — Fabrizio Zanotti, Brendon de Jonge 10:15 a.m. — Thorbjorn Olesen, Ian Poulter 10:25 a.m. — Richard Sterne, Zach Johnson 10:45 a.m. — Cameron Tringale, Matt Jones 10:55 a.m. — Scott Brown, Geoff Ogilvy 11:05 a.m. — Patrick Reed, Jerry Kelly 11:15 a.m. — Edoardo Molinari, Branden Grace 11:25 a.m. — Luke Donald, Kenny Perry 11:35 a.m. — Chris Wood, Daniel Summerhays 11:45 a.m. — Charl Schwartzel, J.B. Holmes 11:55 a.m. — Jonas Blixt, Brian Harman 12:15 p.m. — Nick Watney, Justin Rose 12:25 p.m. — Alexander Levy,Billy Horschel

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12:35 p.m. — Jimmy Walker, Ernie Els 12:45 p.m. — Sergio Garcia, Ryan Moore 12:55 p.m. — Marc Warren, Brooks Koepka 1:05 p.m. — Bill Haas, Victor Dubuisson 1:15 p.m. — Brandt Snedeker, Danny Willett 1:25 p.m. — Joost Luiten, Jim Furyk 1:45 p.m. — Kevin Chappell, Lee Westwood 1:55 p.m. — Hunter Mahan, Adam Scott 2:05 p.m. — Graham DeLaet, Steve Stricker 2:15 p.m. — Ryan Palmer, Jamie Donaldson 2:25 p.m. — Henrik Stenson, Mikko Ilonen 2:35 p.m. — Jason Day, Louis Oosthuizen 2:45 p.m. — Rickie Fowler, Phil Mickelson 2:55 p.m. — Rory McIlroy, Bernd Wiesberger

SPORTS

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Tony Stewart drives during a practice session for today’s Cheez-It 355 at Watkins Glen International Watkins Glen, N.Y.

Time right for Stewart to heat up at The Glen BY JOHN KEKIS The Associated Press WATKINS GLEN, N.Y. — Tony Stewart didn’t compete at Watkins Glen International last year, breaking his leg in a sprint car accident in Iowa just days before the Sprint Cup race at a track he’d dominated for a decade. Stewart broke two bones in his right leg and was sidelined for the remainder of the season as his streak of consecutive starts in Cup ended at 521. “I still deal with pain every day, but that’s something that’s not even going to probably go away by the end of the year,’’ Stewart said this week trackside in Iowa at the Knoxville Nationals to mark the one-year anniversary of his crash. “The reality of it is there might be a point where it will never totally go away, but it doesn’t keep me from doing what I love to do.’’ Smoke is back at Watkins Glen in need of a win, and the weather-

man is cooperating. The forecast for today’s Cheez-It 355 at The Glen is sunny STEWART with temperatures in the mid-80s. That means Stewart will be in his element. “I like it when it gets hot and slick. It kind of plays into our hands,’’ said Stewart, who qualified 13th. “This is the part of the year when the temperatures are at their highest, and we tend to pick up. I think we can handle the slicker conditions sometimes a little better than some of the guys around us. “A lot of guys panic because they know it’s going to get slick. I get excited when I know it’s going to get slick.’’ The last of Stewart’s NASCAR-record five wins at The Glen was in the rain-delayed 2009 race on a hot, steamy Monday. He muscled an ill-handling car in the early going, then held off road race ace Marcos

Ambrose over the final 21 laps for his seventh triumph on a road course, second all-time to Jeff Gordon’s nine. “It’s great to have Tony back,’’ Gordon said. “Tony is such an important part of this series and our sport and such a great personality and talent that when he is not here we all feel it.’’ Stewart needs a victory and quick. He ranks 19th in points with only five races remaining before the 10-race Chase for the Sprint Cup championship begins. Six drivers and 53 points separate Stewart from the top-16 cutoff necessary to make the Chase, but a victory Sunday would change all that. A win and he’s in. “When you’ve won five races, it gives you that confidence that you know how to win, and know what you have to do to get to Victory Lane,’’ Stewart said. “I know what I feel I need. It’s just a matter of going out and practicing and putting yourself in that position.’’

CHEEZ-IT 355 LINEUP By The Associated Press After Saturday qualifying; race today At Watkins Glen International Watkins Glen, N.Y. Lap length: 2.45 miles (Car number in parentheses) 1. (24) Jeff Gordon, Chevrolet, 129.466 mph. 2. (9) Marcos Ambrose, Ford, 129.138. 3. (48) Jimmie Johnson, Chevrolet, 128.968. 4. (4) Kevin Harvick, Chevrolet, 128.859. 5. (41) Kurt Busch, Chevrolet, 128.816. 6. (47) AJ Allmendinger, Chevrolet, 128.701. 7. (88) Dale Earnhardt Jr., Chevrolet, 128.186. 8. (20) Matt Kenseth, Toyota, 128.179. 9. (2) Brad Keselowski, Ford, 128.052. 10. (31) Ryan Newman, Chevrolet, 127.867. 11. (22) Joey Logano, Ford, 127.761. 12. (55) Brian Vickers, Toyota, 127.51. 13. (14) Tony Stewart, Chevrolet, 128.205. 14. (1) Jamie McMurray, Chevrolet, 128.131. 15. (51) Justin Allgaier, Chevrolet, 128.026. 16. (99) Carl Edwards, Ford, 127.839. 17. (11) Denny Hamlin, Toyota, 127.782. 18. (26) Cole Whitt, Toyota, 127.715. 19. (18) Kyle Busch, Toyota, 127.575. 20. (27) Paul Menard, Chevrolet, 127.573.

21. (17) Ricky Stenhouse Jr., Ford, 127.562. 22. (13) Casey Mears, Chevrolet, 127.322. 23. (42) Kyle Larson, Chevrolet, 127.309. 24. (15) Clint Bowyer, Toyota, 127.278. 25. (78) Martin Truex Jr., Chevrolet, 127.245. 26. (34) David Ragan, Ford, 127.243. 27. (43) Aric Almirola, Ford, 127.197. 28. (16) Greg Biffle, Ford, 127.192. 29. (95) Michael McDowell, Ford, 127.177. 30. (5) Kasey Kahne, Chevrolet, 127.012. 31. (3) Austin Dillon, Chevrolet, 126.819. 32. (77) Nelson Piquet Jr., Ford, 126.715. 33. (38) David Gilliland, Ford, 126.704. 34. (32) Boris Said, Ford, 126.571. 35. (83) Ryan Truex, Toyota, 126.508. 36. (23) Alex Bowman, Toyota, 125.824. 37. (98) Josh Wise, Chevrolet, owner points. 38. (33) Alex Kennedy, Chevrolet, owner points. 39. (36) Reed Sorenson, Chevrolet, owner points. 40. (66) Joe Nemechek, Toyota, owner points. 41. (40) Landon Cassill, Chevrolet, owner points. 42. (7) Michael Annett, Chevrolet, owner points. 43. (10) Danica Patrick, Chevrolet, owner points.

The Sumter County Recreation Department is currently taking registration for its fall soccer leagues. Registration will run through Thursday and there will be leagues for ages 3-5, 5-6, 7-8, 9-10, 11-12 and 13-18. Players will be placed in leagues based on their age as of Sept. 1, 2014. The registration fee is $35 for ages 3-5 and 5-6 and $45 for the other leagues. No late registration will be taken. A coaches meeting will be held on Tuesday at 7 p.m. at the recreation department at 155 Haynsworth Street. For more information, call the recreation department at (803) 4362248 or visit www.sumtercountysc. org.

FOOTBALL FLAG REGISTRATION

The Sumter County Recreation Department is currently taking registration for its flag football league. Registration will run through Thursday and there will be leagues for ages 5-6 and 7-8. Players will be placed in leagues based on their age as of Sept. 1, 2014. The registration fee is $40 for ages 5-6 and $50 for 7-8. No late registration will be taken. A coaches meeting will be held on Thursday at 6 p.m. at the recreation department at 155 Haynsworth Street. For more information, call the recreation department at (803) 4362248 or visit www.sumtercountysc. org. Tackle Registration The Sumter County Recreation Department is currently taking registration for its tackle football leagues. Registration will run through Thursday and there will be leagues for ages 9-10 and 11-12. Players will be placed in leagues based on their age as of Sept. 1, 2014. The registration fee is $60. A coaches meeting will be held on Thursday at 6 p.m. at the recreation department at 155 Haynsworth Street. For more information, call the recreation department at (803) 4362248 or visit www.sumtercountysc. org.

BASEBALL FALL REGISTRATION

The Sumter County Recreation Department is currently taking registration for its fall baseball league. Registration will run through Aug. 21 and there will be leagues for 7-8 year-olds, 9-10, 11-12 and 1314. Players will be placed in leagues based on their age as of April 30, 2015. The registration fee is $45 and no late registration will be taken. A coaches meeting will be held on Thursday, Aug. 21, at 6 p.m. at the recreation department at 155 Haynsworth Street. For more information, call the recreation department at (803) 4362248 or visit www.sumtercountysc. org.

SOFTBALL

Ambrose wins Nationwide race BY JOHN KEKIS The Associated Press

WATKINS GLEN, N.Y. — With The King atop the pit box at Watkins Glen International, Marcos Ambrose wasn’t about to disappoint. The aggressive Australian dueled early with Kyle Busch to fall off the pace in the NASCAR Nationwide race, then was flawless the rest of the way Saturday, holding off a hard-charging Busch at the end to win the race for the fourth time in his last four starts. “It’s just something special. I’m just so thrilled for the guys,’’ Ambrose said. “I had my tongue hanging out the whole day. There was nothing left. I tried to hold him back. Another lap and I would have been in trouble.’’ Ambrose raced to three straight victories at the track from 2008-2010, then missed the 2011-2013 events after failing to

find a sponsor. Ambrose’s future in NASCAR AMBROSE with Richard Petty Motorsports remains in doubt, and he desperately needs a victory in Sunday’s Sprint Cup race to have any chance of making the Chase for the championship. “There’s a lot at stake, a lot of stuff going on in my mind,’’ Ambrose said. “If I can repeat my performance today, I’ll be happy.’’ At least Ambrose will start from the front row alongside Jeff Gordon, so the catbird seat will be up for grabs as soon as the green flag waves. “Maybe this will give him a little more incentive,’’ Petty said. “He’s just unreal. He’s doing his job, for dang sure.’’ Joey Logano finished third, followed by Penske teammate and polesitter Brad Keselowski. Matt

Kenseth was fifth as Sprint Cup drivers dominated on the speedy 2.45mile road course. Points leader Chase Elliott finished sixth, Ty Dillon was eighth, and Regan Smith had a difficult race and came home 17th. That boosted Elliott’s lead in the standings to 12 points over Smith and 13 over Dillon and Elliott Sadler, who was seventh. Ambrose led 48 laps of the 82-lap race for his fifth Nationwide victory, all on road courses and a series record. The race became intense early when Busch and Ambrose, who started together on the second row, tangled in the chicane, or inner loop, on the sixth lap. Busch drove inside of Ambrose entering the quick fourturn section, a move reminiscent of one Ambrose made when he stunned Busch in the same place in the 2009 event and went on to win the race.

FALL REGISTRATION

The Sumter County Recreation Department is currently taking registration for its fall softball league. Registration will run through Aug. 21 and there will be leagues for age 8-and-under, 10-and-under and 12-and-under. 7-8 year-olds, 9-10, 11-12 and 13-14. Players will be placed in leagues based on their age as of Dec. 31, 2014. The registration fee is $45 and no late registration will be taken. A coaches meeting will be held on Thursday, Aug. 21, at 6 p.m. at the recreation department at 155 Haynsworth Street. For more information, call the recreation department at (803) 4362248 or visit www.sumtercountysc. org.

BASKETBALL FREE SPIRIT LEAGUE REGISTRATION

The Free Spirit Church League is accepting player and team registration for its fall basketball league. The league is open to boys and girls ages 5-12 based on their age as of Sept. 1, 2014. There will be leagues for age 6-and-under, 7-9 and 10-12. The registration deadline is Aug. 30. For more information, contact Deacon David Glover at (803) 9831309 or Burnell Ransom at (803) 425-5118.

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The 15th Annual Churches Challenge Golf Tournament & Praise Rally will be held Aug. 22-23. The praise rally and dinner will be held on Friday, Aug. 22, at Alice Drive Baptist Church at 1305 Loring Mill Road beginning at 6 p.m. The event will be open to the players, tournament sponsors and their families. Gospel group The Last Generation will provide entertainment. The tournament will be held on Saturday, Aug. 23, at Sunset Country Club. The tournament will be split into a morning flight and an afternoon flight. The signin time for the morning flight is 7 a.m. with a tee time of 8, while the sign-in time for the afternoon flight is 11:30 with a tee time of 1 p.m. The format for the tournament is 4-man Captain’s Choice. The team must have a minimum handicap of 50 and only one player on each team can have a handicap of 8 or less. The entry fee is $45 per player and that includes the praise rally and dinner for the players and their families as well. Registration deadline for the tournament, which is hosted by the Christian Golfers’ Association, is Friday, Aug. 16. There will be a $50,000 hole-inone prize. The person who makes the ace will receive $1,000 while the church for which the player is playing will receive $50,000 from sponsor Jones Automotive Group. The winning team as well as the second- and third-place teams will receive prizes. All cash prizes, with the exception of the $1,000 hole-in-one prize, will go to the churches of the respective winners. There are many different sponsorship opportunities available to businesses as well. For more information, call the CGA office at (803) 773-2171. If no one answers, leave a message. PAR 4 PETS TOURNAMENT

The Par 4 Pets 3rd Annual Golf Tournament will be held on Saturday, Sept. 20, at Crystal Lakes Golf Course. The format for the tournament is 4-Man Captain’s Choice. The entry fee is $160 per team and $40 per player. The tournament is limited to the first 20 teams. Prizes will go to the top three teams and prizes will be given to closest to pin on all par 3 holes. The last day to register is Sept. 5. Money raised from the tournament goes to K.A.T.’s Special Kneads. For more information on the organization, check it out on Facebook or go to katsspecialkneads@yahoo.com. For more information on the tournament, call Kathy Stafford at (803) 469-3906, Teresa Durden at (803) 917-4710 or Mike Ardis at (803) 775-1902. 4-PERSON SCRAMBLE

The Links at Lakewood Golf Course will host a 4-person scramble every Thursday. The cost is $25 per person and includes golf, prizes and food following the scramble. Call the pro shop at (803) 4815700 before 4 p.m. on Thursday to sign up.

RACQUETBALL YMCA TOURNAMENT

The Sumter Family YMCA is taking registration for its first racquetball tournament scheduled for Saturday. Late registration is being taken now. The cost is $25 for YMCA members and $32 for potential members. There will be six divisions Open, A, B, C, D and novice. The tournament will run from 8 a.m. to 5 p.m. For more information, call (803) 773-1404 or visit www.ymcasumter. org or www.facebook.com/SumterYmca.

CHEERLEADING RECREATION DEPARTMENT REGISTRATION

The Sumter County Recreation Department is currently taking registration for its cheerleading program. Registration will run through Thursday and it is open to children ages 5-12. The registration fee is $50. A coaches meeting will be held on Thursday at 6 p.m. at the recreation department at 155 Haynsworth Street. For more information, call the recreation department at (803) 4362248 or visit www.sumtercountysc. org.

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WR Benjamin shines in Panthers’ 20-18 loss First-round pick nabs 32-yard TD reception vs. Bills BY STEVE REED The Associated Press

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Carolina wide receiver Kelvin Benjamin (13) reaches for a pass as Buffalo’s Corey Graham (20) defends during the Bills’ 20-18 victory on Friday in a preseason game in Charlotte.

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Bortles solid in Jaguars debut JACKSONVILLE, Fla. — Blake Bortles was solid in his preseason debut, throwing for 117 yards and leading a second-half drive for a field goal to help the Jacksonville Jaguars beat the Tampa Bay Buccaneers 16-10 on Friday night. The third overall pick in this year’s draft completed 7 of 11 passes, including BORTLES a 31-yarder down the middle of the field to Mike Brown to set up a 26-yard field goal that gave the Jaguars a 10-3 lead late in the third quarter. Denard Robinson’s 23-yard TD run snapped a 10-10 tie with 6:27 remaining in the game. Jacksonville also scored on Winston Guy Jr.’s 68-yard interception return in the first quarter. In addition to throwing the interception that was returned for a score, Josh McCown was sacked twice and lost a fumble. SAINTS 26 RAMS 24

ST. LOUIS — Mark Ingram had eight carries for 83 yards and a 22-yard touchdown in the first half and New Orleans won its preseason opener without Drew Brees, beating St. Louis. Sam Bradford didn’t play either, held out by the Rams as a precaution coming off knee surgery. Greg Zuerlein was barely wide left on a 59-yard field goal attempt on the final play after missing a 46-yard attempt with just under six minutes remaining. Rookie Michael Sam, the first openly gay player drafted in the NFL, made a solid debut as a reserve defensive end for St. Louis. FALCONS 16 DOLPHINS 10

ATLANTA — Miami’s Ryan Tannehill and Atlanta’s Matt Ryan produced touchdowns on their only possessions, Sean Renfree led two field-

goal drives in the second half and the Falcons held off the Dolphins in the preseason opener for both teams. Rookie quarterback Seth Lobato led Miami to the Atlanta 5-yard line with less than 3 minutes remaining before fumbling a shotgun snap. Defensive end Nosa Eguae recovered for Atlanta. Tannehill was 6 for 6 for 62 yards, including a 6-yard touchdown pass to Brandon Gibson, to open the game. Ryan was just as strong, completing each of his seven attempts for 53 yards on Atlanta’s opening drive. Jacquizz Rodgers capped the drive with a 2-yard scoring run. BEARS 34 EAGLES 28

CHICAGO — Jay Cutler, Jordan Palmer and Jimmy Clausen threw touchdown passes and Chicago beat Philadelphia in its preseason opener. The Bears rattled Nick Foles in the early going, intercepting two passes, even though they were missing Jared Allen. The five-time Pro Bowl defensive end and prized freeagent acquisition missed practices this week with his wife giving birth to a girl. VIKINGS 10 RAIDERS 6

MINNEAPOLIS — Matt Cassel led a crisp touchdown drive with Minnesota’s firstteam offense, and the Vikings broke in their temporary new home stadium by beating Oakland in their exhibition opener. Teddy Bridgewater relieved Cassel at quarterback after one series, and the rookie’s first name was rhythmically chanted during his first two snaps by a crowd eager to see the firstround draft pick in action. Playing into the third quarter, Bridgewater’s debut was mixed at best: 6 for 13 for 49 yards, two sacks and one fumble the Vikings recovered. From wire reports

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CHARLOTTE — The Panthers are hoping rookie Kelvin Benjamin helps fans forget about the departure of veteran receiver Steve Smith. So far, so good. Benjamin, the team’s first-round draft pick carried over his strong play in training camp in his NFL debut with a spectacular 32yard touchdown reception in a 20-18 preseason loss Friday night to the Buffalo Bills. The 6-foot-5, 240-pound Benjamin turned in the play of the game when he raced down the left sideline, stumbled after contact with cornerback Stephon Gilmore but maintained his balance and concentration long enough to haul in a diving catch in the end zone from Derek Anderson. It’s the type of play the Panthers envisioned Benjamin making when they selected him 28th overall.

“The whole time I was stumbling I kept my eyes on the ball and I followed it all the way to the ground,’’ Benjamin said. “In a split second I just stuck my arms up between the ball and the ground and caught it before it hit the ground. It was crazy.’’ Rivera called Benjamin a young, dynamic player who is living up to his billing as the 28th pick in the draft. “We knew he had big play ability and those are kind of the big plays we are looking for,’’ Rivera said. That was a rare highlight for the Panthers offense, which played without Cam Newton. Newton was held out to further rest his ankle following offseason surgery. Rivera said he expects Newton to play Aug. 17 against Kansas City. The Bills offense struggled, too. Buffalo’s first-team offense reached Carolina territory on its first three possessions but managed just three points after being stuffed on a pair of Fred Jackson runs near the goal line. Quarterback EJ Manuel finished 9 of 13 passing for 96 yards and rookie Sammy Watkins out of Clemson

caught his first three passes of the preseason for 21 yards after being shutout in a 17-13 loss to the New York Giants on Sunday. Manuel doesn’t seem all that concerned. “We did a very good job at executing what we wanted to execute,’’ Manuel said. Anderson finished 5 of 7 for 65 yards and a touchdown and twice did his best Newton impersonation by running for a first down on third and long. Anderson played three series, but the other two resulted in punts. “We just need to be cleaner,’’ Anderson said. “Get in and get out of the huddle and see things better.’’ It looked like the Bills would score early against the Panthers, with Manuel marching 78 yards behind two grabs by Watkins — his first since joining the Bills as the No. 4 pick in the draft. But Carolina stopped the Bills twice from the 2. Watkins said his chemistry with Manuel is getting better with each passing day. “It’s building,’’ Watkins said. “We’ve got a long way to go, but at the same time we understand that he’s young and I’m young and we’ll get better.’’

Denver RB Ball returns to sideline ENGLEWOOD, Colo. (AP) — The Denver Broncos are content to wait for running backs Montee Ball and C.J. Anderson to heal. Coach John Fox said Saturday he doesn’t plan to bring in any free agent running backs in light of Ball’s appendectomy or Anderson’s concussion. “We are always looking to improve the team. That goes on 24/7, 365, really, but right now there is nothing pressing,’’ Fox said. “We feel good about the group we have.’’ That group includes just one back who’s ever played in an NFL game, Ronnie Hillman, plus three undrafted free agents in Juwan Thompson, Brennan Clay and Kapri Bibbs and firstyear pro Jerodis Williams, who played for Minnesota in last year’s preseason. Anderson, third on the depth chart, is being treated under the conditions of the NFL’s concussion protocol after getting knocked from Denver’s 21-16 win over Seattle on Thursday night. Ball returned to the Broncos sideline five days after undergoing his appendectomy and said he was feeling good but didn’t know when

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Denver running back Montee Ball returned to the sideline on Saturday after having five days off to recovery from an appendectomy. he’d be back in full pads. Ball said he expects to begin running next week, although the Broncos don’t plan on using him until the season opener Sept. 7 against Indianapolis. “We saw plenty of him a year ago and saw plenty of him in the offseason,’’ Fox explained. Ball said he awoke at 2:30 a.m. Monday with a sharp pain in his right side. He

was under the knife 12 hours later. He said he’s lost six pounds, dropping to 209, but is starting to regain flexibility in his trunk. Ball called his operation a “quick, painless procedure,’’ but said it “restricted a lot of my movement early on. I feel great now. Right now I’m able to move around but I’ll listen to the training staff and my body and I’ll come back stronger.’’

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Oklahoma and Miami, respectively, but Seibert and Galitz earned All-American nods. Harvin was moved to the top group of the camp after winning the competition in his first group. “When I first got there I thought I was going to be in the middle of the pack, but the group I was in wasn’t the group that was nationally ranked,” Harvin said. “I came in thinking it was going to be about training, but what happened I did not expect at all.” Sumter High football head coach John Jones hopes Harvin can have a successful impact this season for the defending 4A Division I state runner-up. Jones said Harvin kicks the football well and can change field position in a moment, but in order to be special he will have to work with his teammates to excel. “We feel like he can be a special player for us and a special punter anywhere in the country as long as he keeps working at it every day,” Jones said. “The thing about it is we also realize at the same time he’s on a punt unit, he’s got 10 other guys with him that have to make sure everybody’s doing their jobs. “It doesn’t just come down to one special guy,” Jones added. “Some kids get all the credit when they win a ball game, but there are 11 of them on a unit, and if one of them is not doing what

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sophomore tight end Jordan Leggett. “Very impressed with the way Cole started, very efficient operating the system,” Morris said. “To see these guys come out with that urgency they had and challenging them a little bit, it was good.” Stoudt and freshman quarterback Deshaun Watson each tossed two touchdowns. Watson closed the scrimmage with the first-team offense. Nine receivers caught passes. Sophomore receiver Germone Hopper notched three, including one for a touchdown. Redshirt freshman running back Wayne Gallman scored the only rushing touchdown. Junior C.J. Da-

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Sumter punter Pressley Harvin III, center, kicks during the Kohl’s National Invitational Scholarship Camp in Wales, Wis., on July 19-20. Harvin won the camp with an average distance of 51 yards and an average hangtime of 4.2 seconds. they’re supposed to do it doesn’t matter how good anybody else is.” Becoming a top punter is something in which Harvin is putting in a lot of work. He attended a Kohl’s training camp in Atlanta in February. The Kohl’s staff saw potential in Harvin and he earned an invitation to the Wisconsin camp. After the Atlanta camp, Harvin said he practiced every day for at least two to three hours. “I would do at least 100 drops every day in practice and would work on flexibility,” he explained. “Flexibility is really the key to any good kicker because if you’re not

vidson led with 25 rushing yards. The offense committed no turnovers. Yet, head coach Dabo Swinney said the unit was flagged too frequently for formation and substitution infractions. “Those are self-inflicted penalties that we have to eliminate to be a great team,” Swinney said. “For a first scrimmage, physically, I’m encouraged. I like our team. We’re nowhere near ready to play though. We’d get our butts kicked today, if we played today.” Swinney also said if the Tigers played Saturday, junior tackle Isaiah Battle would have competed. Instead, he sat out of the scrimmage to recover from the minor leg injury he suffered during an intense drill Wednesday. To compensate for Battle’s

flexible you’re not going to get the ball where you want it to be. “I really think I could be an All-American athlete,” Harvin said. “Really what I need to do is work on my flexibility, lowering my drop a little bit more so I can get more hang time and distance.” Jones said there is no doubt Harvin has the potential to really boot the football “We knew he could kick the football,” Jones said. “He makes that thud sound when it comes off (his foot), and he booms it pretty well. Last year being his first year and working through everything we knew down the road he was

absence, the staff mixed various combinations along the offensive line. Junior Joe Gore worked at both tackle spots. Senior guard Kalon Davis slid to the edge as well. Even Norton played some at guard Saturday. Morris and Swinney praised the linemen for how they handled the shuffle, except during the short yardage period. According to Swinney, the defensive line dominated that round of the fight. Morris asserted that he wants the offensive line to counter in the next round Wednesday. “When you come into these first scrimmages, it ain’t about trying to trick somebody,” Morris said. “We’re trying to see what we can do, if we can line up and knock somebody off the ball.”

going to be a weapon we could use special teams-wise.” It’s one thing to punt in a competition and another to do so in a high school football game though. Harvin knows he must continue to work hard. “It means that I need to still keep what I already have and get better at it because it can easily go away,” he said. “Because if I go back and don’t have the same work ethic or even better, I won’t come out and stay No. 1 in the class ranking. “I need to work harder in the weight room, on the field in practice,” he explained. “I need to take everything real

USC FROM PAGE B1 dropped one. We’ve got to be able to get off the field in third down situations.” The USC offense had more success through the air than on the ground as quarterbacks Dylan Thompson, Connor Mitch, Perry Orth and Michael Scarnecchia completed 27 of 44 passes for 344 yards and three touchdowns. Starter Dylan Thompson, who only played a couple series, completed nine of 15 passes for 114 yards. His totals include a three-yard pass to tight end Jerell Adams. Redshirt freshman Connor Mitch, who was believed to be in the lead for the job as the Gamecocks number two quarterback, completed six of nine aerials for 52 yards. Perry Orth provided excitement late in the scrim-

serious and have smaller goals first. My big goal is to be an NFL player and an AllAmerican, but it all starts from every small goal like having a good punt every practice and I need to keep my grades up.” Jones said right now Harvin will be SHS’ starting punter, but every day everyone’s job is up for grabs and nothing is guaranteed. “It all comes down to what you do Monday through Thursday,” the Gamecock head coach explained. “Friday night is the easy part. It comes down to putting in the work Monday through Thursday and getting better.

mage, completing two touchdown passes. The first was a 55-yarder to wide receiver Pharoh Cooper with the second a 15-yarder to freshman Deebo Samuel. Orth completed 9 of 13 attempts for 147 yards, including the squad’s lone interception. The performance apparently put Orth back into the backup quarterback discussion. “We don’t have to make that decision for a while,” said Spurrier. “They’re both in it right now, but we’ve still got more practice time.” The Gamecocks will participate in Fan appreciation Day today at The Colonial Life Arena. Doors will open at 1 p.m. USC’s next practice session will be Monday at 10 a.m. at the Proving Grounds. It is closed to the public.

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AFTER: Wesley Solomon and LaDawn Collins examine the table she has completed, using a piano keyboard under glass as the center leaf. Collins is currently working on a similar table with parts from another salvaged piano.

What’s old made new again ‘Picker’ reclaims, O redesigns vintage items

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Collins, who describes herself as a “picker,” goes through the hardware salvaged from an old upright piano she recently obtained. Each different part of the piano will be used in some manner, repurposed or alone as art. In her new shop, Hartre, she redesigns and repurposes furniture and other items.

ne person’s discard can be made into another’s treasure. That’s happening every day at Hartre, the new shop operated by LaDawn Collins on the northeast corner of West Liberty and Sumter streets. But that is far from the entirety of her work. As her business card says, Collins is involved in “redesign, rustic, industrial, vintage ... reclaimed furniture, painted furniture, custom furniture designs and reclaimed glass.” Her presence in the store has attracted a lot of downtown’s foot traffic. Even before she opened a week ago, Collins was getting a lot of what she calls “pop-ins,” people who noticed her working in the shop, came in to see what was going on and ended up making a purchase or putting in an order. Collins and her partner, Beth Williams, who handles the books and other business details for Hartre, have restored a former flower and gift shop that burned in April 2013. “I do all the construction (of the redesigned and rebuilt pieces),” Collins said, laughing. “I’m much too much of a free spirit to have to worry about making sure the taxes are paid on the 20th of each month. Beth also goes around with me when I’m picking, and we do design jobs, like one we just finished in Washington (D.C.).” Collins recruited local and re-

BEFORE: This old piano will have its keyboard used in a table like the one at top, which Collins has already completed. gional contractors for the building’s makeover: The shop now features new floors, newly bare brick walls, open rafters and little evidence of the fire that nearly destroyed the building. In fact, it’s much like Collins’ work: resurrected and re-purposed. The resulting look, like that of many of the items inside, is of a revered, classic building that has been lovingly cared for. It all fits with Collins’ motto as stated on the store’s sign: Redesigning the past to fit our modern day lifestyles. Some examples: An old piano rescued from a fire

sits in a corner like an organ donor, many of its parts already transplanted, used to restore vitality to another piece of furniture or two. Like one before it, also saved from a fire, its keyboard will be the focal point of a large dining table, its remaining parts hung on the wall as art or incorporated into other original designs. An office vignette sports an old typewriter at a simple desk with a vintage chair, ready for a serious writer or a student. Around the large open space are

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Huge still seized; Father Tony’s actions speak loudly 75 YEARS AGO – 1939-40 Jan. 1-17 Snow, sleet and rain ushered New York into Sumter this morning. It was the first snowfall of the winter for the city. Early this morning a mixture of snow and sleet fell for more than an hour. Early risers saw a thin blanket of white on protected spots, but by 10 o’clock rain and a rise in temperature had washed away Yesteryear all trace of in Sumter the snow. • Sumter’s SAMMY WAY Green Dragons midget and Junior Y cage teams returned to Sumter Saturday night, having won all four of their holiday games, taking double-headers from the Winston-Salem and Roanoke Y teams. The Midgets making the trip were Sambo Roddey,

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1939 — Thomas Otis Bowen Jr., son of Mr. and Mrs. T.O. Bowen, was the first birth in Sumter in 1940. He arrived at 8:15 a.m. Jan. 1. Young Thomas will receive $5 provided by the Standard Oil Co. to start a bank account. Harold Owens, Otis Moore, Lauren Booth, John Marshal and Tommy Hughes. The Junior team consisted of Randolph Bradham, Charles Shaw,

Dick Burns, Danny McKeiver, Raymond Baker and Charles “Pap” Propst. Accompanying the teams were Charles Rowland, manager, and Austin M. Francis, coach. • The crippled Sumter Generals lost a hard-fought basketball game last night in Winnsboro, S. C. where the Royal Cord downed them under a 45-31 score. The Sumter team was playing without the services of two of their regular players, Bernard James and Jimmy Bryan who were confined to their beds with colds. However, the team rebounded to defeat St. George by the score 63-20 at the YMCA gym. • One of the largest stills ever uncovered in South Carolina was seized Wednesday afternoon by federal officers about one mile north of the Ashwood project in the Mannville section of Lee County. Five individuals were lodged in the Sumter County jail yesterday but are now out on bail. Seized and destroyed by the of-

ficers: One upright boiler and connections, one 120-gallon wood steam distillery with a 300 gallon capacity, eighteen 500-gallon fermenters, 5,000 gallons of spent mash, 50 feet of fire hose, one 60-gallon whiskey barrel, 2,000 feet of vat lumber, a large number of implements. • Dr. C.R.F. Baker narrowly escaped serious injury yesterday morning when the car he was driving skidded into a bridge in Green Swamp on the Columbia road. Baker was going on a hunting trip and was going around a sharp curve when his car started skidding and the back of his car hit the bridge first and turned over several times on the right side of the road.

50 YEARS AGO – 1964 Nov. 1-7 One of Manning’s most active businessmen is a man who lost both legs due to an ailment several years ago. Paul Floyd Sr. is owner and opera-

tor of a freezer locker concern and conducts a farm at the present time, though both legs have been amputated above the knees and he is confined to a wheel chair. Floyd was also the owner and operator of a plant manufacturing tobacco curers, in the development of which he pioneered. He was instrumental in developing and perfecting the “Torridaire” automatic tobacco curer. • Ronnie Garrington, the 10-year-old boy who had a kidney transplant operation almost six months ago in Richmond, Va., has taken a turn for the worse, according to relatives here. A citywide drive last summer supported by the citizens of Sumter netted thousands of dollars to be used for Ronnie’s expensive and delicate kidney operation. His father, R.P. Garrington, donated one of his kidneys to be used in the operation. • Judy Gamble was crowned

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Saunders-Oswald Mr. and Mrs. Carl Frasier Saunders III of Dalzell announce the engagement of their daughter, Mary “Mollie” LeNoir Saunders of James Island, to Mr. Thomas Hepworth Oswald II of West Ashley, son of Mr. and Mrs. James Thomas Oswald of Clemson. The bride-elect is the granddaughter of the late Mr. and Mrs. William Elliott LeNoir, and Mr. and Mrs. Carl Frasier Saunders Jr. of Sumter. She graduated from Thomas Sumter Academy and the College of Charleston with a bachelor of science degree in sociology and a minor OSWALD, MISS SAUNDERS in hospitality and tourism management. She is employed as a catering coordinator at the Charleston Marriott. The bridegroom-elect is the grandson of Mr. Thomas Hepworth Oswald of Greenville and the late Elizabeth Barton Oswald, Mrs. Nancy Eileen Jernigan of Powdersville and Mr. Raymond Edward Denz of Port St. Lucie, Florida. He graduated from Daniel High School in Central and The Citadel with a bachelor of science degree in criminal justice. He is employed as a police officer with the Summerville Police Department. The wedding is planned for May 30, 2015, at St. Anne Catholic Church in Sumter.

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Green-Boyle Mr. and Mrs. Douglas Yancey Green of Bishopville announce the engagement of their daughter, Lindsay Dalton of Columbia, to Mr. Adville Barnes Boyle IV of Columbia, son of Mr. and Mrs. Adville Barnes Boyle III of Sumter. The bride-elect is the granddaughter of the late Mr. and Mrs. Henry Lee Clyburn of Camden, and the late Mr. and Mrs. Francis Laval Green of Bishopville. She graduated from Clemson University with a bachelor of arts degree in communi- MISS GREEN cation studies. She is employed as a pharmaceutical sales representative for Reckitt Benckiser. The bridegroom-elect is the grandson of Mr. and Mrs. George Byard McEwen Jr. of Sumter, Mr. Robert Edgar Wilder of Manning, and Mrs. Adville Barnes Boyle Jr. of Pawleys Island and the late Mr. Boyle. He graduated from Wofford University with a bachelor of science degree in finance. He is employed as a broker with Keenan Suggs Bowers Elkins. The wedding is planned for Oct. 4, 2014, at All Saints Parish, Waccamaw on Pawleys Island.

EARLY WEDDING & ENGAGEMENT DEADLINE: The deadline for engagements and weddings to publish in the Sept. 7 edition of The Sumter Item is noon on Aug. 29. Engagement and wedding announcements of local interest are published on Sundays. The normal deadline is noon on the preceding Monday. Call for holiday deadlines. Engagement and wedding forms may be obtained at The Sumter Item or downloaded from www.theitem.com. Photographs must be vertical and of reproduction quality. For information, call (803) 774-1264. ANNOUNCEMENT FEES: $95: Standard wedding announcement with photo $90: Standard wedding announcement without photo $75: Standard engagement announcement with photo $70: Standard engagement announcement without photo If you would like your announcement to include information that is not on The Sumter Item’s form, there will be an additional $50 charge.

Daughter is hurt by drunk mom’s loose-lipped remark DEAR ABBY — My husband, “Pete,” and I are at a point in our lives where we’re ready to start a family. We have already Dear Abby started tryABIGAIL ing. We both have college VAN BUREN degrees, jobs and own our home. I have talked with my OB and have started making myself “baby-ready.” Friends and most of our family are happy we’re trying to start a family. The problem is my parents seem less than enthused. One night last week, my mother, dad, Pete and I were enjoying some local enter-

tainment and drinks together. Mom got a tad sloshed and told me she wishes my older brother and his wife had a child first, “no offense to me.” They have been trying for years and have gone to fertility clinics, but due to the cost, decided to stop trying until my sister-in-law earns her degree. I have talked to her about our plans, and she was happy for us. Abby, I can’t stop thinking about what my mom said. I fear bringing it up with her because she may not remember she said anything. Is it wrong for me to hold onto this? Pete and I are financially and emotionally ready for a happy addition to our family. I know he’ll be a great dad. I wish my mother would realize this, too.

“No offense’ in Ohio DEAR “NO OFFENSE” — You are an adult and a married woman. You should not need anyone’s “enthusiasm” beyond yours and your husband’s to bring a child into this world. You stated that your mother was “sloshed” when she made the remark. Alcoholaddled individuals often make inappropriate comments. Who knows what she meant when she said it? It may be she was thinking about the pain your brother and sister-in-law are experiencing because of their infertility issue. Because her comment was hurtful, I think you should let her know so she can clarify -- if she even remembers

saying it. And if she doesn’t, suggest she cut back on her drinking because memory lapses can be a symptom of a drinking problem. DEAR ABBY — My friend “Merle’s” daughter got engaged, and Merle threw an engagement party for her and the husband-to-be. The couple announced where they were registered in the Facebook invitation (which I thought was truly insensitive). People arrived for the engagement party with gifts. I did not take one. I figured I’d wait until the wedding, which is a year away. I also thought, “What if they change their minds and don’t get married?” Was I wrong not to take a gift? I guess I just don’t un-

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Family’s travel teaches hard work, service BY MELISSA NELSON-GABRIEL Associated Press Writer PACE, Fla.. — The Murset children spent their summer doing chores — just not at their own home. Financial planner Gregg Murset and his wife Kami loaded their six children, ages 7 to 16, in the Phoenix family’s RV to do volunteer work at the homes of families in need across the country. Murset said he wanted to combat the mindset of the “entitled generation” one chore at a time. “I think they initially thought, ‘Dad, the chore thing has gone too far, you know, you are crazy.’ But as we started reading stories about the people we were going to go serve, it all started to jell for them. They saw the bigger picture,” Murset said on a recent morning as the family did chores at the home of Nicole and Todd Blancheri in the Florida Panhandle town of Pace. Eight-year-old son Wyatt Blancheri has Hurler syndrome, a rare genetic disorder that progressively damages his organs and brain. Because Wyatt’s parents are often busy with his medical needs, household chores like cleaning the fish tank, vacuuming, mowing the lawn and washing the car sometimes go undone. The Blancheris watched as the Mursets pulled ladders, hoses and other cleaning supplies from the RV and set to work both inside and outside their home. “They are doing a lot of those chores that we just honestly don’t have time to do,” Nicole Blancheri said. “It means a lot to us that they have so generously donated their time to help us out.” Adam Murset, 11, mowed the Blancheris’ lawn and helped wash their car.

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Sterling Murset washes a car at the home of Todd Blanchieri, left, in Pensacola, Fla., in July. The Murset family is touring the country doing chores for families in need like the Blanchieri family. Adam said he wasn’t thrilled when his dad first proposed spending the summer doing chores for others. But he said meeting children like Wyatt and doing work at Ronald McDonald Houses around the country has been a good experience. The reward in helping families like the Blancheris is about giving back or sharing their earnings with people who need help, Murset explained. “The next generation thinks ‘We are entitled to whatever we want.’ Not in my house,” said Murset. For instance, Murset — who

has a parenting website — recommends requiring a child to work for the privilege of having a cellphone. “You’ve got to tie work and reward together,” Murset said. “Especially in that cellphone, it seems like that is such an integral part of a teenager’s life, but you tie it to where they have to make them pay for some of it, it makes a big difference.” Murset has also developed a cellphone app that allows parents to assign chores to their children. The kids keep a log and are rewarded points that correlate to a monetary value determined by their parents.

The children can then decide whether to save, share or spend what they have earned. Murset said his older children occasionally complain that their friends don’t always have to work for the things they want. But he said his years as a financial planner taught him that successful people work hard and are smart with their money — a lesson he fought to instill in his kids from the time they were toddlers, having meltdowns in stores about things they wanted. The Mursets’ travels took them 6,500 miles from Arizona to the East Coast and back. A

public relations firm helped arrange for publicity along the way, and the family was frequently written up in news reports. And Adam has learned a lot about doing yard work. “I’ve done lawns, like what I did today, and we’ve pulled trees out and done other things like pulling weeds and picking up leaves,” he said. He added, “At first I thought it was a little crazy because I would have to spend the summer, a month of the summer, away from my friends and stuff, but then, after we started doing it, it became fun and it’s been really fun.”

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“I grew up on a farm and ranch, redoing pieces of furniture with my dad and my grandpa,” Collins said, “and then I kind of let that go through college and my past career.” While her husband was stationed at Eglin Air Force Base, Florida, she became part of a spouses group that wanted to raise money to sponsor families over Christmas. “Eight other spouses and myself worked out of my garage building children’s furniture,” she said, planning to try to sell them at a holiday craft show. The six children’s kitchens they’d made by recycling other pieces sold out in 10 minutes, netting the group “more than $700 to sponsor a couple of needy families’ Christmas. “I’ll also have some of those (similar) pieces in here because that’s how I started,” Collins said. The kitchens use parts salvaged from contractors who have remodeled homes and are custom made to fit the spots where they’ll be placed. She has also printed a couple of books with photos of past projects for customers to browse for ideas.

A section of a tree downed by the January ice storm is refitted with casters from an old piano to make a portable table for use on a porch or patio.

THE PICKER Collins is a self-described “picker,” scouring the countryside for items of all types, networking with other pickers, attending auctions. Wherever there are quality pieces of furniture, industrial equipment, antiques and anything else that catches her eye, Collins can see a useful, new future for it, and at Hartre she sees it realized. “If I see a house that has stuff sitting outside, I go up and ask the house,” she said. “I knock on the door and say ‘I see you have stuff sitting out front, would you be interested in selling any of it?’ “I go to auctions around multiple states. When I’m back home in New Mexico, I go to some really amazing recycle yards and get some cast iron pieces and brass pieces that I use in other pieces.” Thrift stores, salvage yards, garage sales and contractors are also sources for parts for Collins’ redesigns. Collins also is accepting “great quality consignment pieces for customers

and giving a 70-30 split. Anything that would go into a house, if it’s in great, clean shape.”

THE DESIGNER “The designer side of me, people can come in, and we design their children’s spaces, or their kitchens, or their living rooms or whatever,” Collins said. “I can design entire rooms and keep a low cost because so much of what I do is reclaimed. I also do entire homes.” Individual pieces of furniture are often requested, too. “If a customer brings in an Ethan Allen magazine and says ‘This bed is $3,000, can you find it cheaper for me?’ I start calling my pickers, and they do their picking. I can redesign the bed and save a lot of money for the customer. “I also keep a book of things that people are looking for.” Collins prefers using older reclaimed pieces, she said, because of “their lines, they’re solid hardwood, have excellent construction and a lot of elbow grease

“We’ve been in Sumter one year,” she said, “and my husband will be retiring, and we plan to stay here for a while. We love it here. When we left Washington (two weeks ago) and came back into Sumter, we almost had tears in our eyes because it is such a sweet town, and the people I’ve met have been wonderful.” Collins’ children attend Millwood Elementary School, and she is currently doing some work there. “I’ve been hired by Millwood to redo 11 benches, two chairs and a buffet for the new principal that’s coming into the school,” she said. “I’ll be using paint that was going to be disposed of, reclaimed hardware pieces. The buffet I’m rebuilding was going to waste in an old barn; it’ll be used for storage in the entrance to Millwood.” Collins is also an artist, and she’s shared some of her skills with students. “I talk to kids about saving and recycling, too,” she said. “I got old glass from restaurants, and every kid made two Christmas tree ornaments, one for the school tree and one for home.” The children also used old jewelry, beads and other reclaimed materials for their trees. “I’m hoping to work with all elementary schools eventually,” Collins said. She helped “run a Kids in Art program in Florida that brought in about $20,000 a year through art auctions for art in the schools, and I want to see that happen again. I’d love to do that here.” Hartre is open from 9 a.m. to 2 p.m. Monday through Friday. When it’s closed, look for Collins’ sign that reads “Sorry ... Out to live. Be back soon!” Reach Collins at (334) 868-3528, and check out her Pinterest page at www. pinterest.com/ladawnc/hartre.

YESTERYEAR, FROM PAGE C1 Miss Farm Bureau Queen for 1964-65 from a group of 12 contestants when the Clarendon County Farm Bureau met for its annual beauty and talent contest and business session. She will attend the state annual convention meeting in Columbia in November. She succeeds Nina Elmore of Alcolu and is the daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Sam O. Gamble of Manning. • A large representation from Sumter is expected to attend the 10th anniversary meeting of the South Carolina Mental Health Association in Columbia tomorrow. Attending from District No. 2 Schools will be Audrey Copeland and E.D. Brunson, both members of the local Mental Health Board of Directors, and William Alston, guidance counselor from Hillcrest School. District 17 schools will be represented by Dr. L.C. McArthur, who is scheduled to participate in the program in the discussion group for “Dropouts.” Also attending will be Ethel Burnett, guidance counselor from Edmunds High School, Carolyn Foxworth, Kathryn Holdom, secretary of the M.H. Center Board, and M.R. Newton. • Edmunds students picked up the choicest roles in the Little Theater play “Death Takes a Holiday.” They’ve been practicing several nights a week for the past few weeks for upcoming production. Ann Staub captured the lead as Grazis, a charming and gentle girl of 18, but oddly remote. Natalie Moses plays the part of Rhonda Fenton, a handsome, straightforward English girl of 24. Mike McKinnon is Major Whitread, a tanned, distinguished soldier, about 40. Corrado, a beautifully mannered young man of 22 and son of a duke, is portrayed by Steve Vetter, and Gayle Rubin takes the part of Cora, a maid. • Christmas Seals will soon be prepared for mailing and the 1964 Christmas Seal Campaign will officially be under way in Sumter County, according to Beverly Wolff Dwiggins, Honorary Seal Chairman of the Sumter County Tuberculosis Assn. The 1964 Campaign opens Nov. 15 and continues through Dec. 31. • Thomas Sumter Academy is now in its seventh week of operation. A total of 112 students are enrolled in grades one through 10. Both students and faculty are proud of the

and pride has gone into them. “Everything I do and everything I believe in is reusing what we have to save money, and let’s keep it out of junkyards. I try to keep my prices lower and more affordable, and then my customers know they’re getting high quality pieces, and that’s important to me.”

are reupholstered sofas and chairs, chests and cabinets; an old grammar school desk with two cubbyholes and a chalkboard top holds a vintage wooden train set. Bowls of old metal screws, casters, nails and hardware sit on countertops, along with Collins’ tools. While the shop is an open, airy space, there’s something old that’s new again — or about to be new again — wherever you look. “In my opinion, it’s saving a part of history,” Collins said. “A lot of pieces I get are from the Industrial Revolution, and so it’s furniture ... from when America and furniture businesses right here in Sumter were thriving; I want to save that. Everywhere I’ve ever been from my childhood, wherever we went, my parents taught me that that’s important. I’m teaching that to my children.”

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recently remodeled building. • A Sumter attorney and civic leader John S. Hoar took second spot on the slate of officers elected to head the South Carolina Mental Health Association for the coming year. He was named vice-president at the meeting of the association in Columbia. Mrs. Hazel O. Gee of Florence was elected president. • What do you do if you’re just 13 years old and recently had your arm amputated because of cancer? If you’re John Lee Broadway of 15 West Bartlette St. in Sumter, you learn to paint pictures of animals with your left hand. Naturally, John doesn’t like his new situation – it all happened so suddenly – but he isn’t wasting time complaining or worrying about himself. He’s too busy learning to do new things with his left hand – things that seemed so commonplace before. Like playing baseball. “I can still hit a baseball,” he said proudly. “I hit one across the yard and up against that house.” • Mayor Robert E. Graham has proclaimed the week of Nov. 8-14 as National Distributive Education Clubs of America (DECA) Week. Special activities of the Edmunds High School chapter of DECA are planned for next week. • A couple of flying buccaneers from Sumter will embark on a flying treasure hunt to the Bahamas this weekend and spend next week flitting from one sparkling isle to the next. Dr. Clyde McManus and Gene Stokes, a pair of flying enthusiasts who own their own Cessna 172 aircraft, will make their second trip to the Bahamas in quest of adventure, vacation and a list of prizes offered by the Bahamas Ministry of Tourism and affiliated groups. • The Edmunds High Gamecocks won their homecoming game over the BrooklandCayce Bearcats, 26-0. Ginger Montague was crowned Homecoming Queen by Edmunds Principal W.S. Jackson. The top two high school bands in the state, which belong to Sumter and Brookland-Cayce, performed with skill at halftime and were rewarded with loud applause from the goodsize crowd. Tommy Edens, his arm apparently recovered from an injury suffered over two weeks ago, passed for two touchdowns. • Directing the publicity of

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1989 — The string beans are high as an elephant’s eye in James Croskey’s Salem Avenue garden. He thinks they got gargantuan in response to a special fertilizer mix he used. What will Croskey do with the big beans? His wife will cook them, of course.

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1964 — Edmunds High School band captain Chuck Holladay and drum major Leigh Anne Farrell display a big trophy won Saturday in state competition at Camden. EHS band finished a close second to Brookland-Cayce. They’ll march Friday at the EHS homecoming game with Brookland Cayce. the Sumter County United Appeal is a committee headed by John S. Hoar and Hubert D. Osteen Jr. The campaign for $127,181 is now in its mop-up phase and rapidly approaching its conclusion. Serving with the co-chairmen on the committee are John Quackenbush, Radio Station WFIG; Howard Moore, Station WDXY; Reid Beebe, Station WSSC; Mike Karvelas, Sumter News Service; and Mrs. Julian Propst.

25 YEARS AGO – 1989 Aug. 4-10 Tony Myers was recently named 1989 United Way Campaign Chairman for Sumter County by the United Way of Sumter, Lee and Clarendon counties. • Arthur Winn’s last name and “win” as in victory may be

spelled differently and refer to different subjects, but last year and four times this year the two could have easily been interchangeable. Winn races at Sumter Rebel Speedway, tying for the overall points standing in the Thunder and Lightning class last year and is in second this year, winning four times. • If you go to a nearby golf course and get to a hole with a pond on it and see an object that resembles some type of air tank, don’t be surprised. Attached to that object might be diver Whitney Ray. Ray dives for golf balls, donned in SCUBA gear from head to toe. • After a life-long career in the grocery business, Marvin Knopf is betting that his new seafood store will overcome a slow summer and eventually become a big fish in the expanding sea of Sumter retail businesses. Martin’s Seafood Market opened Dec. 26 at the corner of West Liberty Street and Alice Drive. Knopf, who worked 29 years with the Winn Dixie chain of grocery stores and retired in 1981, started his seafood business at the urging of his son-in-law, who owns a similar business that is thriving in Moncks Corner. • It’s amazing what can be accomplished when opposing sides come together to resolve their differences, Sumter County Council Chairman Ruben L. Gray said Tuesday. Gray and other council members were pleased with the compromise reached by residents of the Guignard Park Subdivision and officials of the Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals. Subdivision residents were vehemently opposed to the SPCA’s proposal to develop a pet cemetery near their homes until the two sides met and came to terms July 22. • Sumter County Council

voted unanimously Tuesday to file an appeal against the final operating permit DHEC issued for the GSX hazardous waste landfill. The appeal will be filed separately from the one already prepared by Citizens Asking for a Safe Environment, though it may address some of the same issues. And though it cannot contribute financially, the Sumter County Legislative Delegation is also preparing an appeal, Sen. Phil Leventis said. The appeal will revolve around three issues: site suitability, the completion of a study on the groundwater beneath the facility and greater financial assurances. • Sumter attorney Ernest A. “Chip” Finney III has resigned his post as a public defender in pursuit of a more lucrative private practice. But the 33-year-old Finney, who unsuccessfully campaigned for solicitor in 1986, may be before the public eye in 1990 if he decides to make another run for the office won three years ago by Wade S. Kolb Jr. • In sports, one of the top priorities of any participant is to set and conquer goals. Pole vaulter Curtis Bedont had a three-way sweep concerning goals in the National Junior Olympics in Boca Rotan, Washington July 29. “To have a good time, to make it over 14 feet and to learn more about national competition,” he said of his goals at the event. “I did all three. I did 14 feet. I met a lot of people from everywhere and I learned it was tough. There are a lot of good people out there.” • Driving down Purdy Street, Father Tony Rigoli notices a young, handicapped man walking along the road. Rigoli slows his vehicle and asks the man if he’d like a ride. The man smiles, answers yes, and gets in. Rigoli takes the man to his job. The man gets out of the car and says, “Hey, what do I owe you?” Rigoli just shakes his head, and tells his passenger that he owes him nothing. “I was a stranger; you took Me in.” Actions speak louder than words; parishioners and friends of Rigoli agree that that is one of the loudest and most authentic messages the 43-year-old minister has given to Sumter’s St. Jude’s Catholic Church. He is returning to school in San Diego, Calif. For one semester before beginning a new pastorate in his home church in Buffalo, N.Y. Reach Item Archivist Sammy Way at waysammy@yahoo.com or (803) 774-1294.

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The Greater Sumter Chamber of Commerce’s Primetime 2014 networking and membership event is right around the corner. While this year’s theme is “Tailgating for Business,” the theme at the last one in 2012 was Chamber Paradise and included a luau theme. drive are given free tables at the event, Milligan said. “We will be having a giant tailgate party to celebrate all these new members and the volunteers who worked so hard,” she said. “You will meet new members, enjoy appetizers and listen to wonderful music as well as have some fun and have the chance to win great door prizes.” This year’s theme is “Tail-

gating for Business,” so people are encouraged to come dressed in their favorite team colors. “We try to be creative with the themes and to pick something fun,” she said. “With the event in the fall and football season on its way, tailgating seemed a fun choice.” Musical entertainment will be provided by DJ Howie D, and about 250 people are expected to attend.

While the event is free and open to the public, only chamber members may rent booths. Reservations are required by Tuesday. Sponsorships ranging from $250 to $500 are still available, too. “We are lucky enough to have First Citizens Bank as our presenting sponsor, but we do have gold- and silverlevel sponsorships available,” Milligan said. “We also have

our food sponsors: Wikked Wings, Golden Corral, Aberdeen Catery out of Camden and a special sneak preview from Willie Sue’s, which will be opening this fall.” Table sponsorships for members are also still available for $100 each. For more information or for a sponsorship, contact Milligan at (803) 775-1231 or at Nicole@sumterchamber. com.

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Thompson Industrial Supply, a South Carolina-based lubricants distributor and provider of professional reclamation services for industry, has announced promotions in operations and sales. David Bochette of Sumter will head warehouse management and operations at Thompson’s Sumter plant. Edward Weathers of Columbia will steer the company’s sales and marketing efforts in bulk lubricants, greases, industrial fluids, industrial supplies and lubricants technology applications in the greater Midlands area. Bochette is a native of Sumter and has worked in heavy industry in the area for more than 20 years. He has considerable experience in fleet operations and maintenance. Bochette has been with Thompson since August 2011. Weathers graduated from Clemson University in 2011 and holds degrees in applied economics and statistics. He was active in several campus organizations including Sigma Nu fraternity. Weathers is an Orangeburg County native and joined Thompson in October 2011.

Belk stores across the country are hosting free engagement parties during August, and the Sumter location, at 1057 Broad St., will hold its event from 1 p.m. to 5 p.m. Aug. 24. The event will include displays of favorite wedding gift registry merchandise and feature refreshments, giveaways and drawings for prizes. Certified wedding registry specialists will also be present to help engaged couples create their registry. Those who create or add to their Belk wedding registry can register to win prizes such as $1,000 cash; $1,000 Belk gift cards; two nights at the Inn on Biltmore Estate; and Carolee jewelry for bride and wedding party valued at $2,000.

Ward’s named to best barbecue lists Men’s Journal recently took a road trip to name the 18 best barbecue spots in America, with Sumter’s Ward’s BBQ named No. 16 in the nation. Only one other location in South Carolina made the list, as Scott’s Bar-B-Que in Hemingway appeared directly ahead of Ward’s. The writers complimented the Carolina-style, vinegarbased sauce as “perfect for sopping up with a side of hush puppies.” They also recommended trying the hash over rice with a side of hush puppies and some sweet tea.

Discount museum passes available at BI-LO From now through Sept. 30, you can get special discounted Family Fun Passes for the South Carolina State Museum at BI-LOs. Normally, they cost $149, but at the grocery chain’s stores the passes will be $99 apiece. Sumter’s store is located at 2055 Wedgefield Road. Besides the $50 discount, shoppers who purchase these passes will receive other perks such as free general admission for a year and free planetarium, 4D theater and blockbuster exhibit tickets. Pass holders will also receive other exclusive member benefits including previews of special exhibits and a subscription to the museum magazine as well as e-newsletter and discounts in the store, in the café, on events, on birthday parties and more. If you purchase the pass soon, you can access the museum’s new planetarium, observatory and 4D theatre Aug. 15, one day before it opens to the general public. For more information, call (803) 898-4924.

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Earth-moving tractors and equipment made by Peoria, Illinois-based Caterpillar Inc. are seen in Clinton, Illinois. Caterpillar and several mining companies have evacuated employees from Liberia.

Ebola starting to take an economic toll WASHINGTON (AP) — Caterpillar has evacuated a handful of employees from Liberia. Canadian Overseas Petroleum Ltd. has suspended a drilling project. British Airways has canceled flights to the region. ExxonMobil and Chevron are waiting to see whether health officials can contain the danger. The Ebola outbreak, which has claimed nearly 1,000 lives, is disrupting business and inflicting economic damage in the three African countries at the center of the crisis: Guinea, Sierra Leone and Liberia. So far, analysts say the crisis doesn’t threaten the broader African or global economies. “We must make sure it is controlled and contained as quickly as possible,” said Olusegun Aganga, trade minister in Nigeria, which has confirmed nine cases of Ebola. “Once that is done, I don’t think it will have a lasting impact on the economy.” The World Health Organization on Friday declared the outbreak an international public health emergency. The WHO didn’t recommend any travel or trade bans. But it cautioned anyone who had had close contact with Ebola patients to avoid international travel and urged exit screenings at international airports and border crossings. “When you have a widespread outbreak of Ebola, you can end up with a panic,” said John Campbell, senior fellow for Africa studies at the Council on Foreign Relations. “People won’t go to work. Expatriates will leave. Economic activity will slow. Fields

won’t get planted.” The World Bank estimates that the outbreak will shrink economic growth in Guinea, where the crisis emerged in March, from 4.5 percent to 3.5 percent this year. Ama Egyaba Baidu-Forson, an economist at IHS Global Insight who focuses on sub-Saharan Africa, is cutting her forecasts for growth this year in Liberia and Sierra Leone. She warned that prices would rise as food and other staples become scarce and that the region’s already fragile governments would run up big budget deficits in fighting Ebola. Baidu-Forson says the countries hit by Ebola ultimately could require financial help from the International Monetary Fund. In the meantime, multinational companies that do business in the resource-rich region are scrambling to respond to the crisis. Among them: • Heavy equipment manufacturer Caterpillar Inc., based in Peoria, Illinois, has “evacuated less than 10 people” from Liberia, company spokeswoman Barbara Cox said by email. In a statement, Caterpillar said: “The health and safety of our people is our top priority.... We will continue to monitor the situation closely.” • British Airways has announced that it’s suspending flights to and from Liberia and Sierra Leone through Aug. 31 “due to the deteriorating public health situation in both countries.”

STOCKS: THE MARKET WEEKLY REVIEW

SUNDAY, AUGUST 10, 2014

THE SUMTER ITEM

NEW YORK STOCK EXCHANGE Name

Wk Last Chg Chg

A-B-C ABB Ltd 22.47 +.20 -.36 ACE Ltd 100.32 +.34 +.11 ADT Corp 35.50 +.78 +1.50 AES Corp 14.75 +.36 +.05 AFLAC 59.19 +.51 +.07 AGCO 48.80 +.60 +.57 AGL Res 51.27 +1.36 -.34 AK Steel 9.53 +.05 +.40 AOL 43.40 +.86 +4.05 AT&T Inc 34.47 +.26 -.86 Aarons 25.29 +.24 -1.11 AbbottLab 41.69 +.16 -.34 AbbVie 52.82 +.39 +.34 AberFitc 41.40 +.69 +3.01 Accenture 78.87 +1.37 +.17 Actavis 205.79 +1.85 -11.10 AMD 4.12 +.02 +.15 AecomTch 34.52 +.43 +.43 Aeropostl 3.30 +.06 +.10 Aetna 76.74 +1.52 -1.99 Agilent 55.24 +.19 -.83 Agnico g 38.48 -.19 +.86 Agrium g 90.44 +.01 -.10 %MV0IEWI AirProd 132.67 +1.51 -.45 AlaskaAir s 43.21 +.45 -1.24 Albemarle 60.92 +.32 -.83 AlcatelLuc 3.32 +.01 -.05 Alcoa 16.10 +.10 -.31 Alere 34.54 -.22 -5.41 AllegTch 40.36 +1.66 +2.59 Allergan 156.83 +4.91 -8.79 AllisonTrn 29.47 +.43 -.21 Allstate 59.67 +.36 +1.53 AllyFin n 22.95 +.13 +.05 AlphaNRs 3.76 +.13 +.39 AlpAlerMLP 18.16 +.05 -.23 Altria 41.63 +.48 +1.13 Ambev n 6.82 +.09 -.08 Ameren 38.13 +.76 -.49 AMovilL 22.92 +.38 -.53 AmAxle 17.64 +.30 +.12 AEagleOut 11.37 +.33 +1.01 AEP 50.52 +.68 -1.29 AmExp 87.47 +1.45 +1.00 AHm4Rent 17.64 +.08 -.33 AmIntlGrp 52.45 +.39 +.40 AmTower 98.11 +.87 +3.76 AmeriBrgn 75.43 +.47 -1.87 Ametek 51.69 +1.20 +3.15 Anadarko 109.23 +2.11 +3.61 AnglogldA 17.80 +.21 +.71 ABInBev 107.68 +.89 +.64 Ann Inc 36.67 +.65 +.12 Annaly 11.45 +.01 +.26 AnteroRs n 57.09 +.99 -.19 Aon plc 84.56 +1.08 +.62 Apache 100.38 +1.81 +.06 AptInv 33.24 +.07 -.31 ApolloGM 24.48 -.25 -1.72 ArcelorMit 13.95 +.05 -.36 ArchCoal 3.11 -.01 +.16 ArchDan 49.04 +.52 +2.47 ArcosDor 7.99 -.28 -2.26 ArmourRsd 4.22 +.02 +.02 ArmstrWld 54.50 +.90 +1.51 Ashland 100.81 +1.35 -1.10 AssuredG 22.70 +.73 +.33 AstraZen 68.49 -1.52 -4.10 AthlonEn 44.45 +1.43 +.15 AtlPwr g 3.60 -.12 -.05 AuRico g 4.37 +.11 +.29 Avnet 41.09 +.21 -1.51 Avon 13.70 +.16 +.47 Axiall 40.35 -.06 -2.56 BB&T Cp 36.12 +.16 -.34 BCE g 43.95 -.51 -.98 BHP BillLt 71.04 +.33 +.09 BP PLC 47.40 +.04 -1.01 BPZ Res 2.48 +.03 +.03 BRF SA 24.93 -.15 -.29 BabckWil 29.13 +.62 -1.94 BakrHu 68.33 +.74 -.17 BallyTech 74.70 -.80 -3.00 BcBilVArg 11.79 +.27 -.37 BcoBrad pf 14.85 -.25 -.58 BcoSantSA 9.69 +.23 -.21 BcoSBrasil 6.64 +.16 -.13 BkofAm 15.20 +.08 +.22 BkNYMel 38.50 +.08 -.23 &EROVEXI Barclay 14.56 +.16 -.53 BarVixMdT 13.43 -.29 +.35 B iPVix rs 33.21 -1.41 +.20 BarrickG 18.69 +.20 +.48

BasicEnSv 24.09 +.39 +.07 Baxter 73.90 +.13 -1.07 BerkH B 130.90 +1.95 +5.07 BerryPlas 24.50 +.27 -.31 BestBuy 29.66 +.63 +.49 BBarrett 21.74 +.56 +.68 BioMedR 21.69 +.19 +.25 BitautoH 62.77 +.68 +5.94 Blackstone 32.98 +.35 +.56 BlockHR 32.69 +.31 +.68 BdwlkPpl 19.20 +.19 +.40 Boeing 120.63 +.79 +.98 BonanzaCE 57.78 +.61 +3.59 BoozAllnH 21.18 +.18 +.11 BorgWrn s 61.92 +1.16 +1.01 BostonSci 12.33 +.07 -.26 BoydGm 9.46 -.15 -.29 Brandyw 15.54 +.21 +.08 Brinker 45.55 -.01 +1.12 BrMySq 49.19 +.54 -.62 Brookdale 32.98 -.20 -1.19 Buenavent 12.31 +.08 +.25 BungeLt 80.29 +.33 -.51 CBL Asc 18.74 +.15 +.04 CBRE Grp 30.50 +.02 -.45 CBS B 59.23 +2.33 +2.20 CBS Outd n 32.42 +.25 -.91 CF Inds 246.87 +3.06 -5.72 CIT Grp 48.58 +.13 -.17 CMS Eng 29.13 +.63 +.12 CNH Indl 8.54 +.17 -.40 CNO Fincl 16.37 +.07 +.34 CSX 29.54 +.27 -.05 CVS Care 77.81 +1.70 +1.32 CYS Invest 9.15 ... +.21 CblvsnNY 17.99 -.18 -1.18 CabotOG s 34.16 +.85 +1.41 'EPPSR4IX Calpine 21.58 +.13 -1.06 Cameco g 19.26 +.20 -.07 Cameron 72.60 +1.61 +2.88 CampSp 42.67 +.53 +.71 CdnNR gs 66.22 +.19 +.25 CdnNRs gs 42.02 +.99 -.02 CapOne 78.88 +.84 -.31 'EVFS'IV CardnlHlth 70.94 +.94 -1.43 CareFusion 42.49 +.38 -1.26 CarMax 50.57 +1.18 +.61 Carnival 36.45 +.13 +.01 Caterpillar 103.28 +1.34 +2.76 Cemex 12.63 +.20 +.13 Cemig pf s 8.55 +.01 +.21 CenovusE 30.53 +.47 -.15 CenterPnt 24.33 +.45 -.16 CntryLink 39.86 +.91 +.80 ChannAdv 16.24 -.20 -5.82 Chegg n 7.03 -.12 +.59 ChesEng 26.59 +.66 +.52 Chevron 127.86 +2.21 -.04 ChicB&I 59.50 +1.47 +.27 Chicos 15.64 +.34 +.01 Chimera 3.22 +.03 +.04 'LM1=;RH ChinaMble 55.34 +.38 +.80 Chubb 88.34 +.87 +1.36 CienaCorp 19.12 -.07 +.02 Cigna 90.60 +1.85 -.16 Cimarex 138.79 +4.66 +1.69 Citigroup 48.45 +.39 +.35 Civeo n 25.35 +.40 -.25 CliffsNRs 17.51 +.42 +.16 Clorox 88.25 +1.01 -.95 'SEGL CobaltIEn 14.20 +.54 -1.54 CocaCola 39.45 +.10 +.16 CocaCE 46.00 +.79 +.69 Coeur 7.97 +.31 +.42 ColgPalm 65.18 +.73 +1.23 Comerica 48.83 +.25 -.46 CmtyHlt 48.24 -.18 +1.00 'SQT7GM 'SQWXO6W ConAgra 30.96 +.16 +.57 ConchoRes133.33 +2.41 -3.23 ConocoPhil 81.33 +1.74 +.63 ConsolEngy 40.16 +.20 +1.21 ConEd 56.90 +1.56 +.81 ContlRes 147.52 +5.41 +2.21 CopaHold 133.60 +6.24 -18.92 Corning 19.94 +.26 +.06 CousPrp 12.53 +.15 +.26 Covidien 84.00 +1.46 -2.93 '7:-RZ2+ '7:0K2+W CrestwdEq 13.03 -.07 -1.54 CrwnCstle 77.43 +.83 +3.96 CrownHold 46.35 -.10 +.39 Cummins 141.39 +2.02 +2.40

D-E-F DCT Indl 7.84 +.12 DDR Corp 17.63 +.08 DR Horton 20.62 +.51 DSW Inc s 27.67 +.85 DTE 74.72 +1.65 DanaHldg 23.30 +.62 Danaher 74.87 +.91 Darden 47.21 +.42 DarlingIng 19.06 +.46 DeanFds rs 15.81 +.19 Deere 86.98 +1.61 Delek 32.61 +1.46 DelphiAuto 68.47 +1.16 DeltaAir 36.24 +.63 Demandw 52.88 -1.28 DenburyR 16.55 +.19 DeutschBk 33.30 +.70 DevonE 74.38 +.91 DiaOffs 45.54 -.11 DiamRk 12.43 -.02 DicksSptg 42.50 +.60 Diebold 36.56 -.01 DigitalRlt 64.61 +.61 DirSPBr rs 26.75 -.97 DxGldBll rs 46.66 +.10 DrxFnBear 18.33 -.52 DxEMBear 30.61 -.88 DrxSCBear 16.05 -.48 DirGMBear 10.55 +.42 DirGMnBull 24.68 -.98 DrxEMBull 31.62 +.85 DrxFnBull 95.02 +2.55 DirDGdBr s 15.29 -.05 DrxSCBull 68.74 +1.91 DrxSPBull 72.67 +2.42 Discover 60.05 +.90 Disney 86.85 +1.34 DollarGen 58.05 +.37 DomRescs 67.85 +2.09 DowChm 52.28 +.96 DrPepSnap 60.40 +.46 DresserR 63.04 +.08 DuPont 65.04 +.64 DukeEngy 71.75 +1.15 DukeRlty 18.01 +.16 Dynegy 27.66 +1.06 E-CDang 15.03 -.07 E-House 11.58 +.37 EMC Cp 29.09 +.18 EOG Res s 107.78 +1.72 EP Engy n 19.54 +.44 EQT Corp 95.16 +1.63 EastChem 79.86 +.89 Eaton 67.71 +.99 EVTxMGlo 10.11 +.09 EdisonInt 56.92 +1.37 EducRlty 10.55 +.03 EdwLfSci 94.71 +.34 EldorGld g 8.20 -.02 Embraer 38.22 +.86 EmersonEl 62.80 +1.01 EmpStR n 16.07 -.01 )QYPI\ EnCana g 21.69 +.39 EndvrIntl 1.11 ... EndvSilv g 6.13 -.13 EngyTEq s 55.71 -.06 EngyTsfr 56.66 +.30 ENSCO 49.15 +.71 Entergy 72.68 +1.11 EntPrPt 75.28 +1.23 EnvisnH n 35.32 -.63 EqtyRsd 65.02 +.48 EsteeLdr 74.20 +1.00 Evercore 49.70 +.46 ExcoRes 4.61 +.20 Exelis 16.41 +.23 Exelon 32.12 +.56 Express 14.39 -.08 ExtStay n 22.35 +.47 ExterranH 42.65 +.05 ExxonMbl 99.74 +1.47 FMC Tech 61.24 +1.26 FamilyDlr 77.09 +.71 FedExCp 147.85 +1.83 FidlNatF n 28.01 -.21 FidNatInfo 55.20 +.34 FstHorizon 11.57 -.03 FstRepBk 46.40 +.21 FT ConDis 32.57 +.41 FT Utils 22.39 +.28 FirstEngy 32.35 +.90 Fluor 72.21 +1.09 FootLockr 50.20 +1.95 FordM 17.09 +.27 ForestOil 1.99 -.01 FBHmSec 41.10 +1.26 FrankRes 54.27 +.76

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How To Read The Market in Review The list includes the most active stocks in each exchange, as well as stocks of local interest. Stock Footnotes: cc â€“ PE greater than 99. cld - Issue has been called for redemption by company. d - New 52-week low. dd â€“ Loss in last 12 mos. ec - Company formerly listed on the American Exchange's Emerging Company Marketplace. g - Dividends and earnings in Canadian dollars. h - temporary exmpt from Nasdaq capital and surplus listing qualification. n - Stock was a new issue in the last year. The 52-week high and low figures date only from the beginning of trading. pf - Preferred stock issue. pr - Preferences. pp - Holder owes installments of purchase price. q â€“ Closed-end mutual fund; no PE calculated. rt - Right to buy security at a specified price. s - Stock has split by at least 20 percent within the last year. wi - Trades will be settled when the stock is issued. wd - When distributed. wt - Warrant, allowing a purchase of a stock. u - New 52-week high. un - Unit,, including more than one security. vj - Company in bankruptcy or receivership, or being reorganized under the bankruptcy law. Appears in front of the name. Mutual Fund Footnotes: e â€“ Ex-capital gains distribution. f â€“ Previous dayâ€™s quote. n - No-load fund. p â€“ Fund assets used to pay distribution costs. r â€“ Redemption fee or contingent deferred sales load may apply. s â€“ Stock dividend or split. t â€“ Both p and r. x â€“ Ex-cash dividend. Source: The Associated Press and Morningstar. Sales figures are unofficial. iSR2KGr 131.51 +1.42 iShFltRtB 50.79 -.01 iShR2K 112.27 +1.08 iShUSPfd 39.40 -.02 iShUtils 104.01 +2.02 iShREst 72.14 +.54 iShHmCnst 22.71 +.53 iShEurope 45.62 +.41 ITC Hold s 35.93 +.36 ITT Ed 8.59 +.28 ITW 84.60 +1.56 Infosys 57.87 +.72 IngerRd 59.93 +1.03 IngrmM 27.72 +.13 IntcntlExch 191.35 +3.00 IBM 186.63 +2.33 IntlGame 16.34 +.05 IntPap 48.02 +.66 Interpublic 19.37 +.12 InvenSense 24.33 +.42 Invesco 37.85 +.04 IronMtn 33.90 +.69 iShCorEM 52.27 +.48 ItauUnibH 15.24 -.18

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MACHINE SHOP AUCTION- Saturday, August 16 @ 10am. 13 North Congress St. York, SC. Due to Owner's Death, Complete Liquidation Vertical Mills, Grinders, Lathes, Shop Tooling, more. Tony Furr, 704-791-8825. ncaf5479/scal2893r. www.ClassicAuctions.com ONLINE ONLY AUCTIONS! Antiques, Estate Furniture, Real Estate, Artworks, MORE! Visit www.rhlee.co m for scheduled events & details. R.H. Lee & Co. Auctioneers, Inc. Ridgeway, SC 803-337-2300 SCAL192 ADVERTISE YOUR AUCTION in 107 S.C. newspapers for only $375. Your 25-word classified ad will reach more than 2.6 million readers. Call Donna Yount at the S.C. Newspaper Network, 1-888-727-7377.

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Gospel 98.3 Radio Station, Sumter,is seeking an experienced Sales Manager. Interested candidates will be responsible for local sales and day to day oversite of the station. Candidates should have a proven track record. Qualified applicants should send resume to: PO Box 951, Columbia, SC 29202 or email asnipe @wfmv.com. No phone calls, please. EEO / Women & minorities are encouraged to apply.

Locally established Heating & Air condition Co. looking for Exp. Service Tech. (2 yrs min. exp) Needs to have good driving record. Pay range from $33k-$46k a year plus health insurance, retirement, bonus and commission available. Apply in person at 1640 Suber Street. Openings for Operators Chemical Division (with Class A CDL License) Proven leader in the industrial cleaning business (water-blasting & vacuuming) has Immediate openings for Chemical Operators who operate chemical cleaning equipment and vehicles including pumps, tractors, tankers, etc. in industries such as paper mills, steel mills, nuclear plants, manufacturing, refineries, automotive, power plants, chemical plants and tobacco plants. â€˘Must have a valid CDL license (class A) with tanker & HAZMAT endorsements, and a good driving record. â€˘Able to pass drug tests (preemployment, random, annual, etc) â€˘Have mechanical skills. â€˘On call 24/7 â€˘Must be physically fit to wear respirator and enter confined spaces. â€˘Able to travel Apply on line at www.thompsonsout heast.com for Chemical Operator. EOE

Help Wanted Full-Time Sales people needed for local car dealership. Experience a must! Call 803 494-5900 Experienced Service Electrician & Helper. Send Resume' & References to P O Box 1694, Sumter, SC 29151

Child care providers needed (FT/PT/Sub) for local daycare. Prefer at least 6 months exp. Must be HS graduate & dedicated worker. Send resume to P-369 c//o The Item, PO Box 1677, Sumter SC, 29151 Auto Mechanic needed ASAP. Apply in person B & C Automotive, 601 Broad St. 803 -774-2026 Central Carolina Technical College vacancy: BOOST Simulation Technician/Temporary Grant Position. Specific duties can be found at www.cctech.edu/aboutus.htm. Apply online at http://jobs.sc.gov or apply in person between 8am-4pm, Mon-Fri at the Personnel Office, Central Carolina Technical College, 506 N. Guignard Drive, Sumter, SC 29150 or fax a SC State application to 803-778-7878. CCTC is an EOE/AA employer.

Experienced Floral Designers needed. Full and part time. Please call Laura at The Daisy Shop 803-773-5114

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Looking for outgoing, personal, and organized person to work in a healthcare setting. Computer skills needed. Will train. English/Spanish preferred but not required. Send all responses to P-Box 257 c/o The Item, PO Box 1677 Sumter SC 29151

Alice Dr School Area 4 BR 2 BA carport, fenced yard, $1200 Mo. + Dep Call 704-345-8547

340 Rast St. 1500 sq ft office space. $1,090 onth. Contact Century 21 Hawkins & Kolb for more info. 803-773-1477.

3 homes for rent. 1300 - 2100 sq ft., $850 - $1200 mo. 3 br, 2 ba, (near Shaw AFB). 646-460-4424.

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Near Shaw: 3BR/2BA, Palm Harbor MH Lg Lot # 46. Previous rental reference required. $550/mo + dep. Mark 803-494-3573, 803-840-3371

MONEY FOR SCHOOL Potentially get full tuition & great career with U.S. Navy. Paid training, medical/dental, vacation. HS grads ages 17-34. Call Mon-Fri 800-662-7419

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Senior Living Apartments for those 62+ (Rent based on income) Shiloh-Randolph Manor 125 W. Bartlette. 775-0575 Studio/1 Bedroom apartments available EHO

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GUARANTEED PAY! CLASS-A CDL FLATBED DRIVERS NEEDED! Local, regional, OTR. Great pay package/benefits/401k match. 1yr exp. required. Call JGR 864-488-9030 Ext. 319, Greenville and Gaffney SC locations. www.jgr-i nc.com

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3 Bay Garage with 2 lifts. Call Bobby Sisson 803-773-4381

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REDUCED: 6 Middle St. 3BR & 4th optional/2BA. C/H/A. New construction. Fin Avail. 775-4391, 464-5960

4351 Birch Ct. 2BR/1BA $375/Mo., 23 W. Patricia Dr.. 2BR/1BA $485 /mo, 1175 Flamingo Rd 3BR/2BA $550/Mo, 11 Cresent 3BR/1BA $600/mo. Most Sec deposit starting at $250, Sec. 8 Ok. Call 773-8022

STATEBURG COURTYARD 2 & 3 BRs 803-494-4015 2, 3 & 4 Bedroom Trailers for rent, Cherryvale & Dogwood Area $250 & up. (803) 651-9926

3600 Dallas: Dalzell, 3BR, 2BA. Big Lot. Big storage & workshop. 1/2 ac lot. Financing Available. 775-4391, 464-5960

428 Green Swamp Rd 2BR/1BA Trailer. City Water & Sewage, New C/H/A $350/Mo + $300/dep. $312 electricity dep with Duke. Don't call unless you have dep. 803-840-7860 Nice 3BR/2BA SW on 1 acre. 5 min. to Shaw, all appl's, $650/ mo+dep. 803-983-0371

Vacation Rentals ADVERTISE YOUR VACATION PROPERTY FOR RENT OR SALE to more than 2.6 million South Carolina newspaper readers. Your 25-word classified ad will appear in 107 S.C. newspapers for only $375. Call Donna Yount at the South Carolina Newspaper Network, 1-888-727-7377.

REDUCED for quick sale 411 N. Magnolia, Hrwd floors, C/H/A. Garage, workshop & shed. Comm. lot on Lafayette also available. Fin Avail. 775-4391/ 464-5960

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For Sale by Owner 111 Alice Dr $120,000. 108 ft corner lot, masonry veneer, new roof, 3BR 2BA w/ceramic tile/floor, Lrg LR with buck stove insert in F/P, dining room, family room, kitchen with handmade pine cabinets, dw, hardwoods. Ceiling fan in every room except LR. C/H/A, Patio 2 Car garage, brick fence in back yard with white rod iron gate. Contact # 1-617-276-3306

Commercial Industrial Church Facility located at 16 Kendrick St. Move in ready. 10,195 sq ft on 2.35 acres with 1,040 sq ft picnic shelter. Chapel, Fellowship Hall, Sunday School Rooms, Office Complex and Full Working Kitchen. Contact Talmadge Tobias at ReMax Summit 803-491-4573. Lease or Sale- Owner financing avail, 5200 sq ft Building. Large fenced lot, 5 offices, kitchen, reception office, shop area. 822 S Guignard Call 803 968-5762

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Completely Renovated: 2425 Trinity Rd. (Lynchburg). 2,200 sq ft DW 5BR/2BA on 5 ac lot. Must sell. Financing available. 803-775-4391, 464-5960

S.C. Construction Services We specialize in Energy Systems, also offer Duct work, Dry Wall, Floor Encapsulations, and mobile home repairs. Call 803-847-7824 for more details.

Manufactured Housing Looking for your DREAM HOME? LOW CREDIT SCORE? Been turned down for bad credit? Come try us, we do our own financing. We have 3-4-5 bedroom homes. For more information, call 843-389-4215.

Mobile Home with Lots FSBO: 10 +/- acres plus custom built D/W MH $85,000. For a list of amenities & info, send email to: papatom@ftc-i.net.

Mobile Home Lots MH Lot For rent $165/mo. Peaceful neighborhood. Incl's water & Sewage off Camden Rd. 803-983-3121

Farms & Acreage 5.1 acres (Lee Cty)for lease (cheap) for farming or ranching on long term basis. Mth or yrly. 561-502-8598 Owner lives in Fla.

Land & Lots for Sale Williamsburg Co. - 749.6 acre Black River Tract. Pristine hunting/recreation tract on the scenic Black River. Premier hunting for deer & turkey with opportunities for ducks. Managed well for wildlife & ready to enjoy now. $1,375/acre. Call Curtis Spencer 803-773-5461 or visit www.afmLandSales.com for additional properties.

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LEGAL NOTICES Summons & Notice SUMMONS AND NOTICE STATE OF SOUTH CAROLINA COUNTY OF SUMTER IN THE COURT OF COMMON PLEAS C/A NO: 2014-CP-43-1339 Bank of America, N.A., Plaintiff, vs. Eva M. Lillard, Troy Lillard, Christine Lillard, Michelle L. Key, Patricia Davis, and The United States of America, by and through its agency, the Internal Revenue Service, Defendants. TO THE DEFENDANT(S) Troy Lillard: YOU ARE HEREBY SUMMONED and required to answer the Complaint in the above action, a copy of which is herewith served upon you, and to serve a copy of your Answer upon the undersigned at their offices, 2838 Divine Street, Columbia, South Carolina 29205, within thirty (30) days after service upon you, exclusive of the day of such service, and, if you fail to answer the Complaint within the time aforesaid, judgment by default will be rendered against you for the relief demanded in the Complaint. NOTICE: NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that the original Complaint in this action was filed in the office of the Clerk of Court for Sumter County on June 27, 2014. NOTICE OF PENDENCY OF ACTION: NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that an action has been commenced and is now pending or is about to be commenced in the Circuit Court upon the complaint of the above named Plaintiff against the above named Defendant for the purpose of foreclosing a certain mortgage of real estate heretofore given by Jewell Lillard to Bank of America, N.A. bearing date of December 21, 2009, and recorded December 21, 2009 in Mortgage Book 1133 at Page 2538 in the Register of Mesne Conveyances/Register of Deeds/Clerk of Court for Sumter County, in the original principal sum of One Hundred Thirty Eight Thousand Four Hundred Twenty Two and 00/100 Dollars ($138,422.00). Thereafter, by assignment recorded in the said ROD Office on April 13, 2012 in Book 1169 at Page 3326, the said Mortgage Electronic Registration Systems, Inc. (MERS) as nominee for 1st Choice Mortgage/Equity Corp. of Lexington assigned said mortgage to Bank of America, N.A., successor by merger to BAC Home Loans Servicing, LP fka Countrywide Home Loans Servicing, LP. This mortgage was modified by Loan Modification Agreement dated May 31, 2012 and recorded April 3, 2013 in Book 1185 at Page 1984., and that the premises effected by said mortgage and by the foreclosure thereof are situated in the County of Sumter, State of South Carolina, and is described as follows: All that certain piece, parcel or lot of land with improvements thereon, situate, lying and being in the Stateburg Township, County of Sumter, State of South Carolina, and being shown and delineated as Lot No. 203B of Autumn Place Subdivision on that certain plat of Michael C. Turbeville, III, PLS dated March 22, 2005 and recorded in Plat Book 2005 at Page 170 in the Office of the RMC for Sumter County. Aforesaid plat is specifically incorporated herein and reference is craved thereto for a more complete and accurate description of the metes, bounds, courses and distances of the property concerned herein. This description is in lieu of

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Public Hearing NOTICE OF COUNTY COUNCIL PUBLIC HEARING The Sumter County Council will hold a public hearing on proposed amendments to the Sumter Comprehensive Plan on Tuesday, September 9, 2014, at 6:00 p.m. in the County Council Chambers located on the Third Floor of the Sumter County Administration Building (13 East Canal Street, Sumter, South Carolina). The following request is scheduled for consideration: MA-14-01, 2030 Comp Plan 5 Year Update (County) Request to update the Sumter County Comprehensive Plan to reflect minor changing conditions. Documents pertaining to the proposed request(s) are on file in the Office of the Sumter City-County Planning Department and are available to be inspected and studied by interested citizens.

SUMTER COUNTY COUNCIL Larry Blanding, Chair Mary Blanding, Clerk The Sumter City Council will hold a public hearing

Melissa Erin Corley Haley July 19, 1978 - August 10, 2011

Johnny Happy 1st Anniversary! Thank you for a wonderful 1st year and many more together. I want to thank God for giving me a wonderful husband. I will love you for a thousand years. Your wife, Tricia Hudson

Announcements Tuesday, August 12, is the last day to redeem winning tickets in the following South Carolina Education Lottery Instant Game:(644) Lucky Loot

In Memory NOTICE OF BOARD OF APPEALS HEARING The City of Manning Board of Appeals will meet on Monday, August 25, 2014, at 6:00 p.m., City Hall, 29 W. Boyce Street, to hear the following appeal:

My girl, it doesn't seem like three years since you were called by name to go to your heavenly home with Jesus. The ache in our hearts is as fresh as the day we were told you no longer took earthly breaths. Many things have changed since that fateful day; some have not. We love you just as much as ever and forever while we miss you more with each passing day. We miss your ready smile and your caring helpful ways. I am so grateful for each time you left me saying, "I love you, Mom." I regret the chance was not there at the end, to hold your hand, hug you, kiss your cheek, or encourage you with our love. I hope you now praise God in the angel choir and "dance in the skies" until we will one day join you. We love you forever, Mom and Dad, your children, big brother, and the rest of your family and friends

Request No. A-2014-02 by Esther Parker to appeal the administrative decision to be allowed a six foot privacy fence in the front yard instead of the required thirty inches in accordance with the city's ordinance. Documents related to this appeal are available for public inspection during regular business hours at City Hall, 29 W. Boyce Street, Manning, SC 29102.

In Loving Memory Edith J. Fuller 03-20-38 - 08-10-10 Four Years you have been gone, enjoying your heavenly home. Sadly Missed Your Loving Family

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THE SUMTER ITEM BUILDING PERMITS • Ronald E. and Janice J. Kittle, owners, Donald Buddin dba Sumter Roofing, contractor, 1365 Kentwood Drive, $6,650 (reroof and vinyl, residential). • Keith E. and Laura A. Cox, owners, Welch’s Quality Builders & Roofers LLC, contractor, 1175 Malone Drive / 1480 Malone Drive, $10,800 (reroof / garage door / metal fascia / siding, residential). • Ravenel Dupree and Nancy Cantley, owners, Welch’s Quality Buiders & Roofers LLC, contractor, 944 Ridgehill Drive, $7,220 (reroof / pain four windows / screen, residential). • Anthony P. and Deanna J. Zito, owners, Craig Drennon dba Storm Team Construct, contractor, 1125 Malone Drive, $19,307.76 (remove / replace shingles / fascia / soffit / gutters / patio screen, residential). • Barbara Collins, owner, Craig Drennon dba Storm Team Construct, contractor, 2791 Ridgehill Drive, $7,982 (remove / replace shingles, residential). • Wilima M. Cooper, owner, Jeffrey D. Haas, contractor, 1151 Rockdale Blvd., $10,652 (reroof, fascia, residential). • Colleen L. Blackmon, owner, Shelwood China, contractor, 2455 Lorentz Drive, $5,550 (reroof, residential). • Michael Holliday and Lind Ammons, owners, Square It Up Roofing Inc., contractor, 40 Caledonia Court, $8,800 (reroof, residential). • Richard D. and Mary L. Roarick, owners, Richard Roarick, contractor, 20 Cheyne St., 500 unheated square feet, $8,560 (detached two car garage, residential). • Lorraine T. Leali, owner, Gregory Willis Baker dba Baker Roofing, contractor, 1450 Morris Way Drive, $6,750 (reroof, residential). • Mark E. and Phyllis J. Allen, owners, Jason Singletary, contractor, 60 Old Spring Court, $5,900 (reroof, residential). • Bryan and Sherry A. Fain, owners, David M. Strother dba MBG Construction, contractor, 1210 Kentwood Drive, $10,516 (remove / replace shingles, residential). • L. David and Jeannine K. Hardee, owners, Heather L. Alsbrook, contractor, 945 Ridgehill Drive, $6,500 (reshingle, residential). • Kevin L. and Dawn M. Hitt, owners, Sharon H. Chapman, contractor, 1130 Fallingwater Lane, $8,000 (replace roof, residential). • Rod and Diane B. Benenhaley, owners, Jeffrey D. Haas, contractor, 1185 Meadowcroft Drive, $13,666 (reroof / fascia / four windows, residential). • Matthew M. and Melissa Hackworth, owners, Jeffrey D. Haas, contractor, 3310 Tamarah Way, $19,138 (reroof / vinyl siding / fascia / seven windows / gutters, residential). • Donald J. and Ivey O. Smith, owners, Shelwood China, contractor, 2605 Carriage Drive, $8,900 (reroof, residential). • Mark A. and Sheila Y. Ayers, owners, Phil Griffin, contractor, 2946 Lake View Drive, 1,700 heated square feet and 1,400 unheated square feet, $138,000 (new dwelling, residential). • Delores* and Oliver* and Robinson, owners, Craig Drennon dba Storm Team Construct, contractor, 741 Longwood Drive, $7,313.82 (remove / replace shingles, residential). • Dean K. and Mary J. Hawkins, owners, Craig Drennon dba Storm Team Construct, contractor, 910 Trailmore Circle, $6,027.28 (remove / replace shingles, residential). • Matthew J. and Rachel V. D Eufemia, owners, Craig Drennon dba Storm Team Construct, contractor, 3301 Ashlynn Way / 1085 Inabinet, $9,159.50 (reroof, residential). • David S. Reeser, owner, Sumter Home Insulators Inc., contractor, 3315 Valencia Drive, Dalzell, 1,620 heated square feet and 528 unheated square feet, $140,000 (new dwelling, residential). • Albert David Sr. and Beth Barkley, owners, Craig Drennon dba Storm Team Construct, contractor, 1788 Kolb Road, $7,321.95 (remove / replace shingles, residential). • Mark and Alice Christman, owners, James Miller Construction, contractor, 2975 Caitlynn Drive, $6,000 (new roof, residential). • Leslie Pola-Blakley, owner, Craig Drennon dba Storm Team Construct, contractor, 1090 Twin Lakes Drive, $5,770.12 (reroof, residential). • Roland Jr. and Dorothy Rivers, owners, Craig Drennon dba Storm Team Construct, contractor, 3160 Caitlynn Drive, $8,908.88 (reroof, residential). • F. Lyde and Bertha D. McCaskill, owners, Monroe Construction Co. LLC, contractor, 1088 Saltwood Road, $7,465.98 (reroof, residential). • James L. and Joanne T. Eidson, owners, Monroe Construction Co. LLC, contractor, 6441 Francis Marion Ave., Dalzell, $10,183.55 (reroof, residential). • Great Southern Homes Inc., owner and contractor, 3230 Lauderdale Lane, 2,205 heated square feet and 363 unheated square feet, $99,157 (new dwelling, residential). • Duane E. Mincey, owner, Monroe Construction Co. LLC, contractor, 2644 Lorentz Drive, $5,797.46 (reroofing, residential). • Kevin E. and Melanie l. Graening, owners, Monroe Construction Co. LLC, contractor, 956 Saltwood Road, $7,678.76 (reroof, residential). • Timothy A. and Linda M. Darrah, owners, Monroe Construction Co. LLC, contractor, 3175 Caitlynn Drive, $8,486.49 (reroof, residential). • James D. and Rebecca G. Prater, owners, Monroe Construction Co. LLC, contractor, 1350 Malone Drive, $11,546.07 (reroof, residential). • Robert and Luella Magazine, owners, Monroe Construction Co. LLC, contractor, 1175 Inabinet Drive, $15,000 (reroof, residential). • Rachael M. Baker, owner, Welch’s Quality Builders & Roofers LLC, contractor, 882 Trailmore Circle, $5,870 (reroof — metal fascia, residential). • Harrison C. and Walker Cor Ojimma, owners, Michael A. Walters Builders, con-

tractor, 5670 Dubose Siding Road, $8,500 (repairs to drywall, insulation, paint, residential). • Bankers Trust Co. of California, owner, Shelwood China, contractor, 1000 Twin Lakes Drive, $7,100 (reroof, residential). • Troy L. Louk, owner, Grier Roofing LLC, contractor, 1823 Dunbarton Drive, $14,870 (remove / replace shingles, residential). • Leslie K. Eisenhour, owner, Grier Roofing LLC, contractor, 2370 Fontana Drive, $5,605 (remove / replace shingles, residential). • John M. Sherbert, owner, James Daniel Burleson, contractor, 1390 Malone Drive, $9,228.88 (replace roof and vinyl siding, residential). • W.R. Properties of Florence LLC, owner, Hawkins and Kolb Construction Co., contractor, 380 W. Wesmark Blvd., $190,000 (interior completion of existing unfinished area, commercial). • Jeffrey M. and Ashlynn Caines, owners, David Windham dba Windham Roofing, contractor, 3215 Matthews Drive, $5,400 (reroof, residential). • Heath M. Jaberg, owner, Harvey McDonald, contractor, 1860 Lynx Lane, Wedgefield (mobile home, residential). • Jimmie Jr. and Evelyn J. Dow, owners, Harvey McDonald, contractor, 4765 Patriot Parkway (mobile home, residential). • Loren G. and Amber Mae Purcell, owners, Hankins Construction Co., contractor, 4180 McCrays Mill Road, $42,500 (enclose back porch and breezeway / redo kitchen cabinets and tops, residential). • Ricky McLeod, owner and contractor, 4540 Pond Loop Road, 448 heated square feet, $5,000 (bedroom / bath and kitchen addition, residential).

PROPERTY TRANSFERS • Alexander Nathaniel Estate to Sandra Marie Rich, one lot, three buildings, 526 President Drive, $5 etc.; Alexander Nathaniel Estate to Baptist Educational & Missionary Convention of South Carolina, one lot, 529 President Drive, $5 etc.; Alexander Nathaniel Estate to Larry C. Weston, one lot, one building, 523 President Drive, $5 etc.; Alexander Nathaniel Estate to Larry C. Weston, one lot, two buildings, 531 President Drive, $5 etc. • Thomas Davis to Wateree Baptist Association Ld, one lot, one building, 318 W. Bartlette St., $5 etc. • Federal National Mortgage Association to Julia D. Jackson, one lot, three buildings, 12 Folsom St., $35,100. • Superior Performance Investments LLC (trustee) to Alice D. McNeill, one lot, one building, 1701 Brigatine Drive, $102,900. • John Croom to Tammy Simmons, three buildings, 1425 Trappers Run Drive, $5 etc. • Janice Hughes to Andrew John Tafelski IV, one lot, 2166 Balclutha Lane, $23,500. • U.S. Bank Trust NA (trustee) to Gregory and Linda M. Wesley, three buildings, 4330 Peach Orchard Road, $35,000. • Hurricane Construction Inc. to James E. Riley, 3210 Lauderdale Lane, $235,990. • James E. and Earther R. Riley to Kyle and Christy Ragan, one lot, one building, 2836 August Drive, $146,900. • Ginko LLC to James Aaron Dyson Construction LLC, one lot, 4020 Queen Chapel Road, $18,000. • Jason S. Tremmel to Derald L. and Wanda L. Lawson, one lot, one building, 948 Tristan St., $132,900. • Roger A. Weatherly to U.S. Bank NA (trustee), 1170 Craig Road, $21,965. • Johathan Brent Waynick to Nicholas R. and Lori A. Jung, one lot, two buildings, 40 Huron Court, $222,000. • Lee’s Preserve LLC to Mitchell and Sharry M. Williams, 3430 Sawmill Drive, $87,000. • City of Sumter to Kimberly P. Geddings, one lot, 1A Thomas Drive, $92,100. • Tony L. Pate to Tony L. and Betty N. Pate, one lot, two buildings, 5 Glenwood Drive, $5 etc. • Raymond E. and Rosalyn I. Moran to Frederick E. Jr. and Laura T. Brogdon, one lot, one building, 1101 Cutleaf Drive, $168,900. • Heirs of Robert C. Johnson Sr. to Gail McFadden Roberts et al, one lot, one building, 1-3 Belton Court, $5 etc. • Robert T. Schmidt Jr. to Frank Lee Garrett, one lot, one building, 1697 Peach Orchard Road, $130,000. • James Aaron Dyson Construction LLC to Yvonne V. Allen, one lot, 4020 Queen Chapel Road, $136,500. • Nehemiah Community Reinvestment Fund Inc. to Twuan Wright, one lot, one building, 401 Continental Road, $139,050. • Wells Fargo Bank NA (trustee) to Anitra Player, one lot, three buildings, 539 W. Hampton, $50,000. • Darren L. and Diane L. Raabe to Timothy Jay Oliver, five buildings, 3710 E. Brewington Road, $220,000. • James L. and Mary Ann Collins to Federal National Mortgage Association, one lot, one building, 1760 Polaris Drive, $111,104. • Lucy H. Miller to Dustin M. Schultz, two buildings, 9980 Haha Lane, $176,900. • Elder L. Holmes to Elder L. and Mattie L. Holmes, one lot, one building, 60 Amherst Court, $5 etc. • Paul Mickens and Thelma O. Mickens Estate to Carver A. and Tamikka Y. James, one lot, one building, 9 Pembroke Court, $49,500. • Clemmie A. Epperly to Linda Nickell, one lot, two buildings, 4243 N. Lake Cherryvale Drive, $40,000. • Edward G. Fort to Edward G. Fort, two buildings, 3000 Claremont Road, $486,000. • Debra B. Stone to Jody E. Stone, one lot, one building, 102 Bon View, $5 etc. • Robert S. and Micki W. Ogburn to Robert S. and Micki W. Ogburn dba Somo Properties, Cannery Road, $5 etc. • Christopher E. and Audrey M. Gippe to Gary Lloyd, one lot, one building, 2995 Foxcroft Circle, $192,500. • Joyce Link et al (trustee) to Larry Dove Gainey Jr. and Laura Lynn Gainey, one lot, one building, 1063 Nottingham Drive, $66,900.

• Gregory D. and Brenda C. McLean to Gregory D. McLean, one lot, one building, 3200 Ashlynn Way, $5 etc. • Bobbie and Garrett J. Clark to Bobbie Clark, one lot, one building, 3491 Traditions Place, $5 etc. • Jared J. and Sara C. Hutchinson to Wongjittraporn Suwarat and Teerasukjinda Ornusa, one lot, one building, 2255 Beachforest Drive, $285,000. • Hurricane Construction Inc. to Gerald and Norma Townsell, one lot, 1061 Rockdale Blvd., $269,100. • Ronald Wayne Ford et al to Jessica Simmons, two buildings, 2525 S.C. 261 South, $38,000. • Green Tree Servicing LLC to John K. Reed, one lot, 4185-4189 Third St., $1,200. • Norene James et al to Hayward Weary, one lot, one building, 7 Third Ave., $900. • Henry Tindal Jr. to John K. Reed, one lot, 1009-1011 Old Pocalla Road, $600. • Lakendra Graham to Kenneth Lee, 1150 E. Brewington Road, $500. • Carolina Construction of Sumter LLC to Ashley N. Bullard, one lot, 4060 Queen Chapel Road, $145,500. • Wilfred J. and Naomi B. Taylor to Naomi B. Taylor, one lot, two buildings, 4330 Granada Drive, $5 etc. • William H. and Frances E. Orne to William H. Orne, one lot, one building, 12 Martha Court, $5 etc. • Manley and Ruby Dubose to Manley Dubose Estate and Ruby Dubose, five buildings, 135 W. Fulton-Manning Road, $5 etc. • Robert E. and Char Rink to Charlotte Rink Estate, one lot, 5624 Oakhill Road, $5 etc. • James and Marie Brad Carter to James Carter Estate and Marie Bradley Estate, one lot, one building, 724 Branch St., $5 etc. • Shelton and Carolyn W. Brown to Carolyn W. Brown, one lot, two buildings, 15 Beard Drive, $5 etc. • Sheila L. Satterwhite to Sheila L. Green, one lot, one building, 3265 Sarah Glen Drive, $5 etc.; Sheila L. Satterwhite to Sheila L. Green, one lot, 3255 Sarah Glen Drive, $5 etc. • Jeffrey M. Davis to Jeffrey Clinton Davis, 2780 Bertha Circle, $5 etc. • Henry Lewis Jr. to Jamesetta Drayton-Bey, one lot, Weeks Street, $5 etc. • Letitia M. Baker Estate to Sharon Gallahar, North Brick Church Road, $5 etc.; Letitia Mayes Baker Estate to Alpheus J. Baker Jr., one lot, two buildings, 2869 Sequoia Drive, $5 etc.; Letitia W. Baker Estate to Sharon Gallahar, one lot, 9 N. Main St. East, $5 etc. • Laura A. Jenkinson to Eric C. and Lauren D. Liberty, one lot, one building, 3135 Expedition Drive, $112,000. • Andrew P. Smith to Andrew P. and Areil C.H. Smith, one lot, one building, 3285 Raffield Court, $5 etc. • Williamsburg Subdivision LLC to Gainey Construction Co. LLC, one lot, 3150 British Lane, $159,800. • Isaac Sr. and Estelle and Isaac Jr. Weston to Isaac Weston Jr., one building, 2460 Elizabeth Drive, $5 etc. • Henry Pressley (1/2 interest C) to Jessie S. Pressley et al, 5645 Borden Road, Rembert, $5 etc. • Kingstree Forest Products Inc. to West Point Plantation LLC, North Kings Highway, $260,000. • Nancy Nash Reynolds to William M. III and Helen J. Reynolds (co-trustees), $5 etc.; Nancy Nash Reynolds to William M. III and Helen J. Reynolds (co-trustees), Goodwill Road, $5 etc. • Robert E. Myers to Barbara W. Myers, one building, 6620 Mount Sinai Church Road, $5 etc.; Robert E. Myers Estate to Barbara W. Myers, three buildings, 140 Vineyard Circle, $5 etc. • Citimortgage Inc. to Sharon Tindal, one lot, four buildings, 300 Pine St., $55,000. • Michael S. and Angela M. Larkins to Alf Holdings LLC, one lot, two buildings, 1199 S. Guignard Drive, $5 etc. • Jack Walter Prince Jr. and Todd Bradshaw to Jack Walter Prince Jr., one lot, one building, 1858 Hialeah Parkway, $70,000. • Charles M. and Penny R. Smith to Charles M. Smith, 4365-4375 U.S. 15 North, $5 etc.; Charles M. and Penny R. Smith to Charles M. Smith, 4340 Hardaway Drive, $5 etc.; Charles and Penny R. Smith to Charles M. Smith, one lot, 4415 U.S. 15 North, $5 etc.; Charles M. and Penny R. Smith to Charles M. Smith, 4465 U.S. 15 North, $5 etc.; Charles M. and Penny R. Smith to Charles M. Smith, 4615 U.S. 15 North, $5 etc.; Charles M. and Penny R. Smith to Charles M. Smith, 55 Browntown Road, $5 etc.; Charles M. and Penny R. Smith to Charles M. Smith, 65 Browntown Road, $5 etc. • Larry R. Sr. and Linda S. Hummel to Solid Rock Baptist Church of Sumter SC, 940 Santa Fe Trail, $5 etc. • Jack Walter Prince Jr. to Jack W. and Jennifer M. Prince, one lot, one building, 1858 Hialeah Parkway, $5 etc. • Wilkes Builders Inc. to Emily L. Morris, one lot, 3194 Girard Drive, $160,000; Emily L. Morris (lifetime estate) to Wilkes Builders Inc., one lot, one building, 930 Grimble Court, $110,000. • Deutsche Bank National Trust Co. (trustee) to Corey Montgomery, one lot, two buildings, 226 and 230 Cuttino Road, $42,000. • John R. and Karen D. Michalik to Karen D. Michalik, one building, 6471 Meeting House Road, $5 etc. • Joyce D. Shorter to Eric M. and Erin R. Prince, one lot, one building, 1236-1240 Alice Drive, $250,000. • Ashlyn S. Sanders to Carrie L. Burnett Trust, one lot, two buildings, 101 Gleaton Ave., $123,750. • Marla Talley to Cristopher G. Meyer, one lot, one building, 231 Haynsworth St., $143,000. • Maxine Molina (lifetime estate) to James K. and Giri Kadek E. Huggins, one lot, one building, 691 Aidan Drive, $168,500. • Joshua M. Nicholson to Francesca M. Rivers, one lot, one building, 3095 Oldyork Road, $144,000. • R. Capers Dixon et al to Angela Paige Logan Jones et al, one lot, 30 Eveningshade Lane, $28,000.

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• Jimmy D. Saunders to Ronetta I. Moses and Reginald G. Brewer, one lot, one building, 134 S. Main St., $75,000. • Thomas E. Pearson and Lila M. Marshall to Lila M. Marshall, one lot, one building, 228 Lemmon St., $68,956. • Robert S. Singleton III and Y’onie N. Singleton to Corey J. Scott, one lot, one building, 820 Marigold St., $83,000. • William C. Jones Jr. (all interest) to William Caldwell Jones Jr. and Gloria Hunt Jones (trustees), two buildings, 2204 Pinewood Road, $5 etc.; William C. Jones Jr. (all interest) to William Caldwell Jones Jr. and Gloria Hunt Jones (trustees), $5 etc. • Mary J. Gass and Victoria R. Jenkins to Mary Jane Gass et al, one lot, one building, 4245 Cotton Road, $5 etc. • Colleen M. and Wallace L. Frohling to Ava Winford, one lot, one building, 5564 Schellin Drive, $212,000. • Fred L. Hatfield Jr. to Denise H. and Shane A. Larson, one lot, two buildings, 885 Farrier Court, $325,000. • Gainey Construction Co. LLC to Chieko Taylor, one lot, 2601 Moonlite Drive, $135,450. • Federal National Mortgage Association to Jesse McLeod dba Vestco, one lot, two buildings, 401 Rogers Ave., $16,500. • Randy L. and Joyce A. Cartner to Russell Jr. and Ara Thomas, one lot, three buildings, 2264 Stanley Road, $179,000. • Secretary of Housing & Urban Development to Amanda Prince, one lot, one building, 637 Sierra St., $65,850. • Kebrena A. Smalls to Kebrena A. Henry, one lot, one building, 1741 Mossberg Drive, $5 etc. • William Brown to Gerald Connor, 3005 Earlene Court, $5,500. • Marie Mills Baker to Michael David Boykin, 185 Eastern School Road, $5 etc. • Cassandra Thompson to Cassandra Thompson and Willie Thompson Jr., one lot, two buildings, 539 Carrol Drive, $5 etc. • Billy and Eliza J. Julious to Billy Julious, one lot, one building, 54 Albert Spears, $5 etc. • Robert A. Kelly to Robert A. Kelly and Carolyn K. Dozier, 153 Chappell St., $5 etc. • Robert W. Austin to Diana M. Adams, one lot, two buildings, 2369 Crossfield Road, $68,000. • Alicia A. Davis to Christopher A. Oelze, one lot, one building, 90 Kentwood Court, $147,000. • Samuel Keith and Rasheed Roy and Rhonda Yvonne to Reginald Carlos Coleman, Providence Township, $5,000. • Gwendolyn G. Mack and Jacqueline G. June to Gwendolyn G. Mack and Jacquline Glisson, one lot, one building, 19 Charles Lane, $5 etc. • Willie James Josey to Willie James Josey (trustee), 5885 Halley Road, $5 etc.; Willie James Josey to Willie James Josey (trustee), Rafting Creek Township, $5 etc. • John E. Jr. and Alice O. Shorter to John E. Shorter, one lot, two buildings, 2307 Paper Birch Ave., $5 etc. • Flossie E. Johnson and Dorothy J. O’Neal to Latasha Quaneck Walkes, one lot, 134 Plowden Mill Road, $19,000. • Louise Kimbrell to Dianne D. McKenzie et al, one lot, one building, 2239 Graystone Drive, $5 etc. • George Jr. and Catherine G. Kraynak to Kitty L. and Alexis Kelsey Caples, one lot, one building, 1042 Plowden Mill Road, $7,000. • Carolyn T. Hatfield to Rowland P. Alston, Harvest Road, $19,800. • Lindsay Conyers Jr. to Lindsay Jr. and Eloise Conyers, one lot, one building, 5592 Cold Stream Drive, $5 etc. • Christopher G. and Jennifer G. Meyer to Edilma E. Meyer, one lot, three buildings, 100 Lucky Court, $80,000. • John W. and Teresa L. Hancock to Kelly Janae Thomas and Jay Christian, one lot, two buildings, 360 Mallard Drive, $330,000. • Gainey Construction Co. LLC to Samantha M. Austin, one lot, 3150 British Lane, $159,800. • Naomi M. Davey-Ross to Naomi M. Pinto and Cyril J. Pinto Sr., one lot, two buildings, 882 Kolb Road, $5 etc. • Etta M. Gordon to Jonathan M. and Kana Voss, one lot, one building, 893 Ridgehill Drive, $85,000. • Mungo Homes Inc. to Paul and Crystal Simniok, one lot, 1839 Talisker Drive, $173,000. • Ann M. Self Estate to Marvin E. McMillan Jr., one lot, one building, 1071 Arnaud St., $87,000. • Forman U. and Linda P. Irick to Linda P. Irick, three buildings, 2775 Britton Brogdon, $5 etc.; Forman U. III and Linda P. Irick to Linda P. Irick Linda P, one lot, 15 Yellowstone Circle, $5 etc. • Raymond Capers Dixon et al to Angela Paige Logan Jones et al, one lot, Eveningshade Lane, $28,000. • Stacy M.L. Crim to Nancy Jane Crim, one lot, 7475 Saxton Road, $5 etc. • Nancy Smalls to Christopher L. Smalls, 5460 Cane Savannah Road, $5 etc. • David R. Jr. and Rebecca B. Burr to Ventures Trust 2013-i-nh, three buildings, 1300 Florence Highway, $106,000. • Secretary of Veterans Affairs to Peter Nguyen and Mimi Right, one lot, one building, 1481 Ruger Drive, $101,000. • George J. Callan to Anthony Smith, one lot, two buildings, 4915 Solstice Drive, $5 etc. • Wallace R. and Jean M. Brown to Benjamin A. Ramaekers, one lot, one building, 4260 Mossyoak Lane / 3380 She, $130,000. • Stephen F. Arscott to S2mfe Properties LLC, one building, 135 W. Wesmark Blvd., $5 etc. • Butler Properties LLC to Nova Molecular Sumter LLC, one lot, one building, 208 S. Magnolia St., $92,000. • Kevin A. and Ann B. Caldwell to Anne B. Caldwell, one lot, three buildings, 115 Planters Drive, $5 etc. • Nanako Wilder to Perloff Enterprises Limited, two lots, one building, 325 N. Main St., $51,000. • Witherspoon Farms LLC to Flo Fund Domestic LLC, $1,593,373.

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Preparing for deer season can take weeks W

ell, I suppose I’m ready. I spent most of last weekend and a large part of last week Earle working on Woodward deer stands and overall AFIELD & preparation AFLOAT for the South Carolina Archery deer season that opens on Friday. It started a couple of weeks ago when Coffee Pot and I went down to the hunting property and yanked down a couple of stands that I’d left up for two years. They were easy to take down; I just took a utility knife and sliced the main straps holding them to the trees and let them fall. I don’t trust those nylon straps after about two to three years. The sun and heat rots them pretty quickly. Those were brought home for some

reconditioning. So last Thursday night I spent a little time putting brand new straps on both of the stands and giving them a good onceover. You can order replacement parts from almost all of the stand manufactures, which I’ve done, and that includes straps, cables and seat cushions. On Friday afternoon, after work, Coffee Pot and my hunting partner, Jack, met at one of the properties that we hunt and began to work. First things first; let’s hang a stand. Last year I was hunting from a stand that was about 75 yards from where the new stand is. I paid attention and noticed that almost all of the deer I saw were coming from one general area and passing through this one spot in the trees, and then dispersing a bit on my side of the opening. Some of the bigger deer swung too far out of range to get a shot. It seemed prudent to move the stand to a location that was convenient to the pas-

sageway where deer would funnel into and not out of the hole in the trees. While it was not overly hot, it was extremely humid and it didn’t take long for us all to soak through our clothing. By the time I got finished installing the stand, I was wet and spent. Because I like to have options, I also erected a ground blind on the opposite side of the passage so that I can hunt the area regardless of wind direction. I did not feel up to brushing it by the time we got it up, I was done. On Saturday morning, CP picked me up and off we went to his hunting club on the other side of the lake. Coffee Pot has a new Rhino utility vehicle and that was going to be our mode of transportation. The boy likes his Rhino. CP’s club is more of an organized hunting club than what Jack and I are. They have club stands that stay up all year and almost all of them needed some sort of cleanup.

We were assigned an area and down the road we went… quickly. Like I said, CP loves his Rhino and the fact that it will run better than 40 miles per hour on a dirt road is not lost on him. It was hold on and get low! We trimmed brush and limbs from stands, swung the bush ax a few times and cleared back roads of debris left by the ice storm. In short, for a few hours we pretty much worked our fingers to the bone. We got out just before the rains came in. I’ll admit to being a bit sore on Sunday. I made it back out to the aforementioned ground blind on Monday afternoon and began the work of brushing it in. A sprinkle of rain began just as I got to the passageway that it overlooked. Nice and cool, but extremely humid. As I trimmed the shooting lanes, I took the brush and stuck it all around and on top of the blind to act as camouflage. The blinds all come in a camouflaged pattern, but they still

stick out like a sore thumb. Putting brush all around them does wonders for the appearance. I also trimmed stuff from the tree stand. Tuesday was for working on the other piece of property that we lease, but other than a few limbs, not much else was needed to be done. I guess that majority of the work is done and I can now sit back and wait a couple of days, which may be the hardest job of all. I did notice while I was sitting in both the ground blind and the tree stand that my mind was already shifting to a hunting mode. I could visualize deer coming through trees and making their way to the opening of the passage through the thicker trees, passing by all those rubs that they made on the smaller pines last year. With stands set at 19 and 20 yards, respectively, from the center of the passage, if all works according to plan, I should be in the driver’s seat. Good luck this year!

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The Crested Floating Heart, a non-native floating leaf aquatic plant, can be seen in several areas throughout Lake Marion and Lake Moultrie. In August of 2006, the aggresive plant was identified in a 20-acre cove near Eutaw Creek in Lake Marion.

Santee Cooper to spray lakes for crested floating heart MONCKS CORNER (AP) — The state-owned utility Santee Cooper will spray herbicides on lakes Marion and Moultrie this month. The Moncks Cornerbased utility says the aerial spraying is scheduled from Aug. 5 to Aug. 15. Chemicals approved by the Environmental Protection Agency will be sprayed by helicopter to combat the aquatic plant known as crested floating heart. Officials say nearly 3,000 acres of the more than 5,000 acres infested with the plant will be sprayed. Santee Cooper hopes the spraying will improve lake access and recreational opportunities and help prevent the spread of the plant to other parts of the lakes.

Waters infested with invasive plant SC DEPARTMENT OF NATURAL RESOURCES In August of 2006, a non-native floating leaf aquatic plant was identified in a 20-acre cove near Eutaw Creek in Lake Marion. The plant was identified by South Carolina Department of Natural Resources staff to be Nymphoides cristata (Crested Floating Heart). Plant samples were shipped to Ms. Colette C. Jacono at the USGS Center for Aquatic Resources Studies in Gainesville, Florida for confirmation. The plant had been found in Florida as early as the late 1990’s, but had not been identified outside the state prior to this find in the Santee Cooper system. The plant was likely present in this cove in Lake Marion as early as 2004, most likely introduce from a backyard water garden or fish pond. The plants began to aggressively spread within the cove in mid 2006, in spite of treatment efforts. Applications of herbicides proven to control most floating

leaf and emergent vegetation showed little or no efficacy on crested floating heart. The plant began to spread outside the cove into other areas of the Eutaw Creek area in late 2006 to early 2007 and demonstrated the ability to infest open water areas and high energy areas where native floating leaf plants do not typically thrive. Low water levels experienced in 2007-08 exposed most of the plants to nearly dry soil conditions, as well as, freezing temperatures, neither of which provided any control. By late 2008, the plant had spread to other areas of Lake Marion, both downstream and upstream from its original infestation. The plant is readily spread by boat traffic, as well as, wind and water flow. Nymphoides cristata has proven to be one of the most aggressive aquatic plants known to the Santee Cooper system. www.eddmaps.org/county. fm?sub=11616&id=us_sc_45027

Wildlife service offers dove hunting opportunities SC DEPARTMENT OF NATURAL RESOURCES Dove hunting opportunities have been expanded for South Carolina sportsmen this year with the U.S. Fish & Wildlife Service offering 20 additional days for the dove season. The S.C. Department of Natural Resources has selected this offer and the dove season will be 90 days rather than the 70 of past years. As a result, the 2014-‘15 mourning dove season in South Carolina is Sept. 1-6 (noon until sunset); Sept. 7-Oct. 11; Nov. 15-29; and Dec. 13-Jan. 15.

Legal hunting hours for mourning dove season, except for the first session, are from 30 minutes before sunrise until sunset. The daily bag limit is 15 birds. In addition to more days afield this year, South Carolina hunters may also hunt doves over fields which have been top sown with wheat, according to Clemson Extension Service Guidelines. These guidelines now allow for top sowing of wheat without covering between Oct. 1 and Nov. 30 when evenly spread on a wellprepared seedbed established by heavy tilling. Spreading rates

may not exceed 200 pounds of wheat per acre. Fields to be hunted may not have wheat that has been sown more than once on the same ground. Piling, clumping, or concentrating of wheat is not a normal agricultural practice and may result in a baited situation. For further information on the proper guidelines for planting wheat, please visit your local Clemson Extension Service office or check: http://www.clemson. edu/extension/natural_resources/ wildlife/publications/attracting_ doves_legally.html

Santee Cooper System Crappie: Good. Captain Steve English reports that crappie seem to have settled into a healthy summer feeding pattern and some nice fish are being caught right now. However, while some fish can be caught around deep brush more fish are up relatively shallow where they seem to have followed the shad. Bream: Good. Captain Steve English reports that he has seen lots of bream beds but not a lot of fish actually on the beds. However, with the full moon Saturday there should be a lot of fish spawning. Largemouth bass: Slow. Captain Steve English reports that bass fishing activity is light to non-existent on the Santee Cooper lakes right now. If anglers are willing to put in a lot of time fish may be catchable around cypress trees, but there is no easy pattern right now. . Lake Murray Bream: Very good. Lake World reports that bream fishing is still very strong. The best bluegill have been found surprisingly deep in 15-20 feet of water, while good shellcracker have been caught shallower at 4-12 feet. Catfish: Fair to good. Captain Chris Simpson reports that the spawn is still affecting the bite a little, and he hopes that the final wave of the spawn will take place this week and then it will be finished for the year. The best pattern is anchoring on points and humps and fan-casting to depths of 3-30 feet with dip baits and shrimp. Striped bass: Fair to good. Lake World reports that striper have generally moved into the big pool at the lower end of the lake, and right now there is lots of tower fishing with down-lines in 35-60 feet of water. Trolling has also been strong with plugs at the same depths. Report indicate that night fishing is picking up. Lake Wateree Crappie: Fair to good. Veteran tournament angler Will Hinson reports that the crappie bite is pretty good on Lake Wateree right now, but the key is to focus on main lake brush. Fish can be caught from the river run to the dam out on the main lake. Largemouth Bass: Fair to good. FLW Angler Dearal Rodgers reports that the deep bite on Lake Wateree is pretty good right now. Fish around ledges, humps and points with deep water nearby. The best action is coming on jigs and Carolina rigs, but it’s worth throwing deep-diving crankbaits, too. Lake Greenwood White Perch: Good. Captain Chris Simpson reports that perch are balled up in large schools in most every major creek and large cove on the lake. Start out searching in 18-20 feet of water and look for a large ball on your graph; some days they may be as shallow as 5-10 feet of water and other days they may be deeper. . Catfish: Fair to good. Captain Chris Simpson reports that the pattern remains about the same on Lake Greenwood, but the fishing has slowed a bit because of the spawn in the last week or two. Anchor on points and humps and fan-cast to depths from 2-20 feet of water, and be prepared to move after 30-45 minutes if there is no action. Lake Monticello Catfish: Fair to good. Captain Chris Simpson reports that the big fish bite

is starting to get a bit more predictable, but with another wave of fish still likely to spawn it may not get very consistent for another week or so. In contrast, the small fish “numbers” bite has been really good. For both big and little fish the best action has come in the 40-60 foot range. Lake Russell Bream: Good. Guide Wendell Wilson reports that this is still a great time of year to catch decent-sized bream on Lake Russell as bluegill continue to bed in coves all across the lake. Crickets and worms fished in the backs of coves will catch fish, and bream can also be caught with poppers on a fly rod. Lake Thurmond Striped and Hybrid Bass: Good. Captain William Sasser reports that two-pound fish that were stocked in the lake last year are everywhere, and off pretty much any point or in any cove on the lower end anglers can catch fish on herring. Crappie: Good. Captain William Sasser reports that crappie fishing continues to be strong. Fish are in the main river channel, but they are also in short coves and little creeks near the channel. The best pattern is to fish minnows vertically about 10 feet down around brush in 20-25 feet of water in these areas. Lake Wylie Largemouth Bass: Fair to good. FLW Professional and Guide Matt Arey reports that there are two main patterns for catching bass on Lake Wylie right now. First, fish can be caught offshore. Schools of fish will be found around humps, deep main lake points, the areas where creek channels swing in front of points, and other depth changes. Lake Jocassee Trout: Fair to good. Captain Steve Pietrykowski reports that trout fishing is still pretty good on Lake Jocassee, although the bite has changed in last month or so. Now that warmer water from Lake Keowee is being pumped back into Jocassee the intake bite has slowed in the morning, and the fish are also concentrated in the main lake. Lake Keowee Largemouth and Spotted Bass: Slow to fair. Guide Brad Fowler reports that bass fishing has slowed on Lake Keowee as water temperatures have warmed, although the general pattern remains pretty similar. Early in the morning fish are chasing bait pretty well around shallow, flat points, and throwing topwater lures around shallow water has been producing. Striper: Good. Striper are biting very well, mostly in mid-lake down to dam. All downlining pretty much at 30-60 feet deep. And sometimes in main channel suspended over the channel or off long points that swing in close to channel. Lake Hartwell Catfish: Very good. Captain Bill Plumley reports that channel catfish are biting very well on dip bait, although cut herring and night crawlers will also catch fish. Fish are spread out on the lake and can be found in 10-20 feet of water. Striped and Hybrid Bass: Fair to good. Captain Bill Plumley reports that striped bass are in an unusual patter for this late in the summer, and instead of being grouped up in deep water in the lower lake they are a lot more scattered out than usual.

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Bear Grylls takes celebrities on crazy survival adventures on “Running Wild with Bear Grylls,” airing Monday at 8 p.m. on NBC.

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