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Now dry, pumpkin patch, maze drawing big crowds

BY KONSTANTIN VENGEROWSKY konstantin@theitem.com The South Carolina Department of Education released statewide test scores today for South Carolina Palmetto Assessment of State Standards, Aspire and the ACT from the spring 2015 administration.

SCPASS SCPASS is a statewide assessment administered to students in grades four through eight. All students in those grade levels are required to take the SCPASS except those who qualify for the South Carolina Alternate Assessment (SC-Alt). SCPASS includes tests in two subjects: science and social studies, The percentage of Sumter School District students, by grade level, who had “Met” standards or were “Exemplary” on the SCPASS for science and social studies were: • Fourth grade: 57.2 percent (science), 76.2 percent (social studies) ; Fifth grade: 59.8 percent (science), 64.3 percent (social studies); Sixth grade: 51.3 percent (science), 69.5 percent (social studies); Seventh grade: 54.6 percent (science), 57 percent (social studies) ; Eighth grade: 53 percent (science), 60.4 percent (social studies).

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Caitlin Bradley, 4, leaps from one row to the next as she and McRee Holcumb, also 4, hunt for the perfect pumpkin at Willard Farms in Sumter County on Thursday. See more photos from Willard Farms at www.theitem.com.

Since rains, Willard Farms still a popular agricultural destination

BY JIM HILLEY jim@theitem.com It was a long, hard slog for Jay Willard to get his pumpkin patch and corn maze near Gable open for fall festivities this year.

Each week, another batch of rain would turn his fields into mud.

Toward the end of September, he got seven inches in one day.

Then came October and the 1,000year flood.

“We just started having people take their shoes and socks off and roll up their pants legs,” he said.

Sunny skies have now mostly dried out his fields, and visitors are streaming in to pick pumpkins, get lost in the corn maze, scarf down a burger or hot dog and soak in the rural South Carolina atmosphere.

Thursday was a gorgeous fall day, and Willard Farms was swarming with preschoolers from Carolina Academy in Lake City and Laurence Manning Academy in Manning.

A quick poll of the youngsters showed an overwhelming number of the kids liked pumpkins.

Unfortunately for reporters, the preschoolers running amok at Willard Farms didn’t seem willing to answer questions with anything more than a “Yes.” Teachers keeping an eye on the tykes seemed to be having fun as well.

Nancy Atkinson, a kindergarten teacher at Laurence Manning, said she was having a great time.

“We picked the perfect pumpkin,” she said. “We enjoyed the hay ride, and we had a lot of parent involvement.”

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Cindy McCabe said the children and teachers engaged in a number of fun activities.

“We read some stories, played in the playground for 20 minutes; we rode the wagon to the pumpkin patch, and everybody got a pumpkin,” she said.

Willard said the farm has been busy since the rains moved out.

“It’s surprising we have had as many people come out so far,” he said.

The farm is open from 9 a.m. to 5 p.m. Friday and Saturday and from noon to 5 p.m. on Sundays.

“On weekdays we have school groups and a few other groups from 9 a.m. to 1 p.m.,” he said.

People come for more than just the activities, he said.

“Three years ago, our burgers were

ACT Aspire assesses student readiness in English, math, reading, science and writing, according to the ACT Aspire LLC website, the administrator of the test. The test measures student growth from grades three through eight and early high school in college and career readiness, the website states.

The percentage of Sumter School District students, by grade level, who were “ready” or “exceeding” on the ACT Aspire were: • Third grade: 59.2 percent (English), 50.8 percent (math), 21.7 percent (reading), 10.1 percent (writing), 22.1 percent

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Travel back 200 years at Backcountry Harvest event

BY IVY MOORE ivy@theitem.com It’s that time of year when the leaves change color and start to fall to the ground. It’s also the season when crops are gathered and sent to market.

In 1800, Sumter’s settlers were preparing for the winter, taking measures to sustain themselves when the summer gardens and fresh vegetables were scarce.

When the harvest was plentiful, there was reason to celebrate.

From 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. Saturday, Sumter County Museum’s Carolina Backcountry Harvest will recreate an 1800 harvest celebration as observed by early settlers here, and the staff invites the public to join them. Costumed staff and docents will be performing some of the everyday harvest chores and will be able to answer questions from guests.

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“They’ll also give demonstrations,” said Annie Rivers, director of the museum. “Backcountry Manager Deborah Watts will be cooking over an open fire, and she’ll have samples of both breakfast and dinner foods.”

On the menu will be biscuits and fresh-churned butter, roasted chicken — Watts’ famous “chicken on a string” — roasted fall vegetables and pies. Suanne Richendrfer will be baking bread in the backcountry’s brick oven, and Mel Welch will demonstrate spinning and weaving.

Blacksmith Rich Crissinger will be in the backcountry’s forge making tools needed on the homestead.

“We’ll have the toys and games available for people to use,” Rivers said, “and we’ll have a table full of toys for sale on a table in the gazebo.”

She said both children and adults always enjoy playing with the vintage toys, which include stilts, Jacob’s lad-

der, Graces (hoops) and others.

Homestead buildings will be open for visitors to see the log cabin, settler’s house, smokehouse, barn, commissary (storehouse), loom house, outhouse, blacksmith shop and gardens. The settler’s house and the commissary are original buildings built between 1812 and 1836; they were donated to the museum 25 years ago by the Rollins family.

The other buildings were built from salvaged parts of derelict buildings in the county.

The Williams-Brice House will also be open for self-guided tours during the harvest event, Rivers said. It is a fully restored Edwardian-style home built in 1916. The house boasts several permanent collections and exhibits, including those on local military history; a history of Swan Lake-Iris Gardens; memorabilia from

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Deborah Watts, the Sumter County Museum’s Backcountry Manager, serves up stew cooked over an open fire to guests at the museum’s Carolina Backcountry Harvest event Saturday as museum director Annie Rivers looks on at right.

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9th cooperative formed under ACA closing

BY TOM MURPHY and BRUCE SMITH The Associated Press A South Carolina health insurer has become the ninth insurance cooperative formed nationwide under the Affordable Care Act to fold.

Consumers’ Choice Health Insurance Co. said Thursday that it will not sell policies in 2016, a decision that will leave 67,000 individuals and business customers looking for new coverage.

Ray Farmer, director of the South Carolina Department of Insurance, said Consumers’ Choice and state regulators reached a mutual decision to shut down the company’s business. He said the company was in a “financially hazardous condition.”

“I did not have the confidence that this company would be a viable entity throughout the entire year of 2016,” Farmer said.

Consumers’ Choice joins cooperatives in Tennessee, Kentucky and Colorado, among other states, that have shut down for next year, leaving some consumers on the overhaul’s public insurance exchanges with fewer options.

Officially called Consumer Operated and Oriented Plans, these nonprofit co-ops were devised during the overhaul’s creation in order to inject more competition into insurance markets. They were seen as a fallback option by liberals who wanted a government-run insurance program to compete with corporate insurers that control the market for commercial coverage in the United States.

The federal government provided more than $2 billion in taxpayer-financed loans to help seed the co-ops, and a total of 23 were created.

A report released last summer by the Health and Human Services department’s inspector general’s office said that only one out of the 23 — the co-op in Maine— made money last year.

Consumers’ Choice said it was hurt, in particular, by smaller-than-expected payments from a provision of the law designed to stabilize premiums while insurers built their business on the new public exchanges.

Insurers who incurred higher-than-expected costs were supposed to get help from a program funded by other insurers that had lower-than-expected expenses.

But in 2014, the government collected only $362 million from insurers that did well.

Meanwhile, companies with sicker-than-expected patients requested nearly $2.9 billion in payments to help cover their claims. The imbalance meant that insurers would get less than 13 percent of what they sought.

Take a Kid Mountain Biking reset Event cancelled by rain will now take place Saturday

BY RICK CARPENTER rick@theitem.com The Take a Kid Mountain Biking event will go on as scheduled Saturday at Palmetto State Park, park Manager Zabo McCants said.

McCants said children who have not signed up for the event — which was originally rescheduled for Oct. 3, but was delayed because of the heavy rains that were expected that day — may do so at the event Saturday morning.

Take a Kid Mountain Biking has become an international event sponsored

by the International Mountain Biking Association, Subaru, Specialized bicycles and Clif Bar to introduce children of all skill levels to mountain biking.

While registration begins at 8:30 a.m., events begin at 9:30 a.m. Participants are required to have an adult or guardian with them, and they must provide their own bicycles capable of riding on wooded trails.

Local volunteers from Southern OffRoad Bicycle Association, Sumter Chain Gang and South Carolina State Parks Mounted Ranger Patrol will provide professional adult guides who will divide riders into experience levels.

The event will include a bike mechanic available to ensure bike safety, and it will include a skills course.

Each rider must wear a helmet. If you don’t have one, loaner helmets will be available.

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provide a free lunch to all participants, and FTC will supply water, ice and cool drinks.

After the event, children and adults can tie-dye event T-shirts for $5 with Ranger Russ Stock and stay around for an opportunity to take a selfie with a snake.

Because of the flood, only the northern section of the trails at the park will be open. Volunteers are working to get the southern section open in the next few weeks.

Take a Kid Mountain Biking is a free event, open to the public. Palmetto State Park has been recognized for its outstanding series of mountain biking trails, and several statewide and regional competitions have been held there.

For more information, call Poinsett State Park at (803) 494-8177.

The park is at 6660 Poinsett Park Road off S.C. 261, south of Wedgefield.

Sumter Rotary clubs pass out dictionaries

BY RICK CARPENTER rick@theitem.com Third-grade students were beaming Thursday as Rotary clubs throughout Sumter started giving away Webster’s dictionaries to every third-grade student in the area, regardless of whether the schools were public or private.

The Rotary Club of Sumter Palmetto delivered more than 350 dictionaries to five elementary schools Thursday. Students were surprised to receive the gifts.

Many Rotary clubs across the country are participating in the Dictionary Project which aims to give every third-grade student in the country a free dictionary that they can use throughout the remaining years of their education.

The project is a combined effort of the Rotary clubs of Sumter, Sumter Palmetto and Sumter Sunrise. While Thursday’s distribution was for schools assigned to the Sumter Palmetto club, other clubs will distribute throughout the county in the coming weeks, if not already.

Shelly Galloway, president of the Rotary Club of Sumter Palmetto and a spokeswoman for Sumter School District, said one of Rotary’s goals is to promote literacy worldwide, and providing dictionaries to third-grade students helps promote a lifelong love of learning.

“A dictionary is a powerful reference tool that goes beyond the spellings, pronunciations and definitions,” Galloway said. “It serves as a companion for solving problems that arise as a child develops his or her reading, writing and creative thinking abilities.”

She said students were very appreciative to receive personal dictionaries, but their eyes lit up even more when they were told the dictionaries were theirs to keep.

“The hugs, thank yous and smiles from the students touched the hearts of the Rotarians who participated in the distribution,” she said.

Dr. Shirrie Miller from the Sumter club organized the overall project, and Ike Jenkins’ Lakewood Interact students sorted the dictionaries by school.

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Lynn Kennedy, City of Sumter events manager and a representative of the Sumter Palmetto Rotary Club, presents third grade student Tayshawn Hall with his personal dictionary as Zakiaya Hodge, in back, looks on. Rotary Clubs throughout Sumter have been presenting the dictionaries to every third-grade student in the area.

Bond lowered for friend of suspect in black church massacre COLUMBIA (AP) — A federal magistrate on Thursday lowered bond for a man accused of failing to tell authorities all he knew about the suspect in the massacre of nine black people at a Charleston church last June.

U.S. Magistrate Judge Shiva Hodges lowered the bond for Joey Meek after his attorneys urged the judge to reduce his $100,000 bond set last month. His lawyers asked for the lower bond based on a pretrial report on Meek’s finances and criminal history. Hodges set the

new bond at $25,000.

Authorities say Meek lied and failed to report to law officers all he knew about Dylann Roof’s plans to shoot parishioners at Emanuel AME Church.

His attorneys have argued that Meek’s bond should be lowered because he has been in solitary confinement since his Sept. 17 arrest, is not a flight risk and has a limited, nonviolent criminal history. Meek is on probation, having pleaded guilty earlier this year to possessing a stolen vehicle, accord-

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Meek, his attorneys and his family declined to comment as they left the courthouse.

Hodges said Meek will be under electronic monitoring and must stay with his grandparents. He will be under home detention except for church, education, employment and treatment.

Meek must avoid all contact with the surviving victims as well as any potential witnesses, including his brothers and his girlfriend.

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Competitors watch as the entry grown by Ron Wallace is loaded onto a scale during the giant pumpkin contest weigh-off at Rochester Fair in Rochester, New Hampshire, on Sept. 19.

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kins nearly the size of a Fiat. From the pumpkin patch in his Rhode Island backyard, Wallace has become the rock star of giant pumpkin growing.

He was the first person in the world to break the 2,000pound, or 1-ton, barrier when he grew a 2,009-pound pumpkin in 2012, and he previously broke the world record in 2006. A friend calls him a “mainstreamer,” someone whose passion for the hobby has spread word to the broader public.

Wallace, a country club manager, has spent 27 years at it, swapping ideas with growers worldwide. About 30,000 people grow giant fruits and vegetables competitively, and pumpkins are most popular, said Andy Wolf, president of the Great Pumpkin Commonwealth, which he calls “the NFL of pumpkin growing.”

“All walks of life. Doctors, lawyers, farmers,” Wallace says. “The bond is giant pumpkins.”

It all starts with the seed.

Top growers know their pumpkins’ lineage back generations, and the Great Pumpkin Commonwealth keeps records.

Seeds from Wallace’s 2,009pound pumpkin have sold for more than $1,000 in a charity auction. Wallace has seen counterfeits sold on eBay. Still, many growers freely swap seeds with each other or lobby top growers to use a seed they think is promising.

Like most serious growers, Wallace ties plants’ blossoms closed and hand-pollinates them so he can be sure of the mother (the seed) and the father (the pollinator) and protect them from bees carrying pollen from a neighbor’s squash.

The vines can grow 1 foot or more daily, and pumpkins can put on 45 pounds per day, mostly from water. The best pumpkins every year follow the weather. If conditions were right in the Ohio Valley, growers there might see a string of huge pumpkins.

When there’s a drought, as in California, don’t expect a bumper crop.

Standing in Wallace’s fields, a person feels smaller. Around the edges where he grows flowers and vegetables, his sunflowers have reached 18 feet. A tomato plant produced a 5-pound tomato. Wallace has spent more than two decades painstakingly researching soil science and experimenting.

This year, he launched a product based on his growing program, Wallace Organic Wonder. It includes among its ingredients mycorrhizal fungi.

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ing hundreds or thousands of dollars per year. If they’re lucky, they can sell what they grow for a holiday display for $1 a pound, maybe more for a state record, but they say they rarely make money or break even.

One place these pumpkins won’t end up: pumpkin pie.

They’re too big to be tasty.

Many growers branch out.

Wallace’s friend Joe Jutras, of Scituate, is a 2007 pumpkin world record holder. Now, he’s going for the trifecta: world records for heaviest pumpkin (check), longest long gourd

helps deliver water and nutrients.

“For growers who are competitive, it’s year-round.

They’re studying, they’re researching, they’re building greenhouses, they’re looking at genetics,” Wallace said.

“Most competitive giant pumpkin growers aren’t taking summer vacations.”

Wallace, who’s single, works up to 40 hours a week on his hobby, checking for mice and disease and burying vines, keeping pumpkins covered in sheets to protect the skin.

Most growers end up spend-

(check) and heaviest squash (still working on it after a squash that was on track to break the record split).

The weigh-off is the moment of truth. Crews check for holes, cracks and rot, which would disqualify the entry, before putting it on the scale.

“You can do anything. You can tinker with professional plant hormones or whatever fertilizer you think’s going to give you an advantage,” Wolf said. “The only thing you can’t do is somehow doctor the actual fruit.”

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Clinton seeks to close book on Benghazi WASHINGTON (AP) — Hillary Rodham Clinton strove to close the book on the worst episode of her tenure as secretary of state Thursday, battling hours of Republican questions in a hearing that grew contentious but revealed little new about the 2012 attacks in Benghazi, Libya.

She firmly defended her record while seeking to avoid any mishap that might damage her presidential campaign.

Pressed about events before and after the deaths of four Americans, Clinton had confrontational exchanges with several GOP lawmakers but also fielded supportive queries from Democrats. The most combative moments focused on accusations about the Obama administration’s shifting early public accounts of the attacks.

However, there were few questions for the Democratic presidential frontrunner about the specific events of Sept. 11, 2012, which Clinton said she continues to lose sleep over.

“I have been wracking my brain about what more could have been done or should have been done,” she told the House Benghazi Committee.

The panel’s chairman, Trey Gowdy, R-S.C., portrayed the panel as focused on the facts after comments by fellow Republicans describing it as an effort designed to hurt Clinton’s presidential bid.

Democrats have pounced on those earlier remarks and have pointed out that the probe has now cost U.S. taxpayers more than $4.5 million and, after 17 months, has lasted longer than the 1970s Watergate investigation.

Gowdy, a former federal prosecutor, said the Republicans’ efforts were not a prosecution.

Contradicting him, Rep. Adam Smith, a Democrat from Washington, told Clinton: “The purpose of this committee is to prosecute you.”

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House Benghazi Committee Chairman Rep. Trey Gowdy, R-S.C., above left, and the committee’s ranking member Rep. Elijah Cummings, D-Md., above right, have a heated discussion on Capitol Hill in Washington, on Thursday as Democratic presidential candidate, former Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton, right, testified before the committee.

In one tense moment, Republican Rep. Jim Jordan of Ohio accused Clinton of deliberately misleading the public by linking the Benghazi violence at first to an Internet video insulting the Muslim Prophet Muhammad. Clinton, stone-faced for much of the hearing, smiled in bemusement as Jordan cut her off from answering.

Eventually given the chance to comment, she said only that “some” people had wanted to use the video to justify the attack that killed Ambassador Chris Steven and three other Americans and that she rejected that justification.

The argument went to the origins of the disagreement over Benghazi and how President Obama and his top aides represented the attack in the

final weeks of his re-election campaign. And it reflected some of the raw emotion the deadly violence continues to provoke, something Clinton will have to face during the next year of her White House bid even if the Republican-led special investigation loses steam.

For Clinton, the political theater offered opportunity and potential pitfalls. It gave her a high-profile platform to show her self-control and command of foreign policy. But it also left her vulnerable to claims that she helped politicize the Benghazi tragedy.

“There were probably a number of different motivations” for the attack, Clinton said, describing a time when competing strands of intelligence were being received and no clear pic-

ture had yet emerged.

Speaking directly to Jordan, she said: “The insinuations that you are making do a great disservice” to the diplomats and others involved.

“I’m sorry that it doesn’t fit your narrative. I can only tell you what the facts were,” Clinton said.

There were no gaffes for Clinton and — beyond that exchange— few heated interactions. She never raised her voice as she had at a Senate hearing on Benghazi in January 2013, when she shouted: “What difference, at this point, does it make?” Given that Republicans campaigned off that oftrepeated sound bite, the lack of an indelible image from Thursday’s hearing will have suited Clinton’s campaign fine.

Instead, it was the panel’s members who engaged among themselves in the nastiest fight, with Clinton merely observing. Democrats pressed for the release of the full transcript of a Clinton adviser’s private testimony, drawing Gowdy into an angry debate. The panel eventually voted against the release, all five Democrats in favor, all seven Republicans against.

Thursday’s appearance came at a moment of political strength for Clinton. A day earlier, a potential rival for the Democratic nomination, Vice President Joe Biden, announced he would not join the race. Clinton also is riding the momentum of a solid debate performance last week.

Gowdy said important questions remain unanswered: Why was the U.S. in Libya, why were security requests denied, why was the military not ready to respond quickly on the 11th anniversary of 9/11 and why did the Obama administration change its story about the nature of the attacks in the weeks afterward?

“These questions linger because previous investigations were not thorough,” Gowdy said.

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Students from Carolina Academy search through the corn maze at Willard Farms for plaques that signify they found all of the areas of the maze.

BACKCOUNTRY FROM PAGE A1 Carolina Coca-Cola Bottling Co.; Sumter County history; Emma Wilson, founder of Mayesville Institute; and American Revolutionary War hero Gen. Thomas Sumter, also known as the Fighting Gamecock.

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SCORES FROM PAGE A1 (ELA); • Fourth grade: 56.4 percent (English), 32.2 percent (math), 21.2 percent (reading), 12.6 percent (writing), 29.8 percent (ELA); • Fifth grade: 62.1 percent (English), 37.8 percent (math), 24.7 percent (reading), 13 percent (writing), 36.6 percent (ELA); • Sixth grade: 57.4 percent (English), 35.2 percent (math), 27.8 percent (reading), 28 percent (writing), 37.2 percent (ELA); • Seventh grade: 58.8 percent (English), 18.5 percent (math), 22.4 percent (reading), 15.7 percent (writing), 30.2 percent (ELA); and • Eighth grade: 60 percent (English), 14.4 percent (math), 35.6 percent (reading), 16.4 percent (writing), 34.9 percent (ELA).

ACT The ACT is a national college admissions examination that consists of subject area tests in: English, math, reading and science. The ACT also includes a 40-minute writing test.

Aspire and the 11th grade ACT tests administered this past

spring are new assessments reflecting more rigorous academic standards and expectations, according to the education department news release.

The percentage of Sumter School District 11th grade students who scored “ready” on the ACT by subject area were: 21.4 percent (English), 6.3 percent (math), 13.2 percent (reading), 8.1 percent (science).

“While overall, we are disappointed with our scores, we recognize that they derive from new assessments that reflect new and more rigorous academic standards,” said David Trombly, Sumter School District director of testing and accountability. “We must continue to raise the expectations of both our students and those of us who are responsible for educating and supporting them so they can become college and career ready and meet the Profile of the South Carolina Graduate. Schools are continuing to work on more effectively implementing the new ELA and math standards and providing the kinds of resources and engaging instruction necessary to make our students successful.”

Help is still needed To help the public know of more ways it can help flood victims, The Sumter Item will list fundraisers and places to donate money, food or clothing.

Here’s what we have so far: • The Social Justice Consortium of the Upper Lowlands, in conjunction with the South Carolina Health Financial Management Association, is seeking financial donations for their recently launched Dry Shoes for Kids Campaign.

This fund will go a long way in reaching the needs of so many school children in Sumter, Lee, Clarendon and Kershaw counties after this historic and tragic flood.

There are hundreds of school children and their families that lost all of their belongings.

All checks should be made to SJC, Attn. Dry Shoe Fund and may be mailed to P.O. Box 548, Sumter, SC, 29150 Attn: Wilson or may be dropped off at the following locations: Church of the Holy Comforter, 213 N. Main St., UBI Inc., 110 E. Liberty St., Sumter; Bullock Funeral Home, 1190 Wilson Hall Road, Sumter; or Graham Realty, 519 E. DeKalb St., Camden. Donations are also being accepted at any area

branch of NBSC. For your convenience, a GoFund Me page, GoFundme.com/SCKidsDryShoeFund, has also been set up.

• The South Carolina Realtors, in partnership with the National Association of Realtors, is offering assistance to South Carolina’s flood victims through the Realtors Relief Foundation. The foundation is providing mortgage or rent relief up to $1,000 to those who qualify.

Assistance is available to qualified applicants for either monthly mortgage expense for the primary residence or cost of temporary shelter because of displacement from the primary residence resulting from the historic floods. Assistance is limited to $1,000 per applicant and one grant per residence.

The deadline for application submission is Nov. 30. Money is limited, and applications will be processed on a first-come basis.

See the full list online at www.theitem.com.

FARM FROM PAGE A1 voted one of the best in the state,” he said. “I think that draws some of the people out.”

Besides burgers, fries and hot dogs, visitors can also try the ice cream or cake.

Willard said he was really pleased with the pumpkin crop this year.

“We had the highest yield and larger pumpkins than we have ever had,” he said. “That’s really strange because we are not really a pumpkin-growing area.”

Also for sale at the market are a variety Willard Farms jellies, jams, pre-

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“A lot of the products are made with stuff we grew on the farm,” Willard said. “We don’t jar it ourselves, but it is stuff we grew, unless it is something we can’t produce.”

He said the maze and pumpkin patch will be open until Oct. 31.

“We will have some Christmas activities on the weekends in December,” he said. “We’ll open back up in April and May for strawberries, and after that we go with summer produce.”

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BY MALCOLM RITTER AP Science Writer NEW YORK — Where did dogs first arrive on the scene? Scientists have long debated that question, and now a study of doggie DNA from around the world is pointing to Central Asia.

Man’s best friend may have evolved somewhere near what is now Nepal and Mongolia, researchers say.

Previous studies have suggested southern China, the Middle East, Siberia and Europe as the place where our first domesticated animal arose from wolves at least 15,000 years ago.

For the new work, Adam Boyko of Cornell University and others analyzed DNA from 549 dogs that represented 38 countries in Africa, the Americas, Asia, Europe, India, the Middle East and islands north and east of Australia. The animals weren’t house pets but rather “village dogs” that wandered freely in the streets or fields.

The researchers examined the DNA for signals of where the dogs had the most ancient roots. That pointed to Central Asia. The analysis did not

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Dogs play on a street in Lumbini, thought to be the birthplace of Buddha, southwest of Katmandu, Nepal, in 2012. Researchers say man’s best friend may have evolved somewhere near what is now Nepal and Mongolia. tackle the contentious question of when dogs appeared.

Results were reported in a paper released Monday by the journal Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences.

Even Boyko doesn’t think the work will end the debate among scientists.

“I’m not pretending my study alone is enough to rally the community together,” he said.

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Both Allen and Leno are well-known for their devotion to cars and their vast collections of classics.

Allen specializes in American muscle cars from Detroit.

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The musical won 10 Tony Awards during its run on Broadway.

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• Crossing the Big Muddy on “Z Nation” (10 p.m., Syfy, TV-14).

• Thackery strives to return to his hospital on “The Knick” (10 p.m., Cinemax, TV-MA).

CULT CHOICE Hugh Beaumont, Ward Cleaver of “Leave It to Beaver” fame, stars in the 21-minute 1940 short documentary “Buyer Beware” (10:07 p.m., TCM), warning consumers about shoddy merchandise.

SERIES NOTES Francis needs a partner in deception on “Reign” (8 p.m., CW, TV-14) * Molly mulls her future on “Dr. Ken” (8:30 p.m., ABC, TV-PG) * A killer escapes capture with some fancy motorcycle stunts on “Hawaii Five-0” (9 p.m., CBS, TV-14) * A two-hour “Dateline” (9 p.m., NBC) * “20/20” (10 p.m., ABC).

Copyright 2015, United Feature Syndicate

Trinity Missionary Baptist Church

Let’s Celebrate

TMBC 106th Church Anniversary A Legacy of Faith Striving to Build God’s Kingdom through Preaching, Teaching, and Love: Our Ancestors, Our Legacy, Our Future!

Help us celebrate our long-time members, those that have toiled in the vineyard building God’s Kingdom but yet kept the faith!

Sunday, October 25, 2015 • 10:00 AM Guest Messenger: Pastor Stanley Hayes, Sr.

Enon Missionary Baptist Church Moderator, Sumter Baptist M & E Association

Rev. Larry C. Weston, Pastor 155 Wall Street, Sumter, SC 29150

Phone (803) 775-4041 • Fax (803) 775-4378 Email: tmbc@sc.rr.com Website: www.mytmbc.org

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FRIDAY, OCTOBER 23, 2015 H.G. Osteen 1870-1955 Founder, The Item

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EDITORIAL

‘Major bust’ a win for Sumter T o the folks who from time to time complain about The Sumter Item running too much crime news on the front page, we were pleased to run a crime story that should be more to their liking. It appeared in the Thursday, Oct. 22 edition under the screaming headline, “Major cocaine bust.”

This is the kind of story that should make everyone in the community proud of local law enforcement led by Police Chief Russell Roark and Sheriff Anthony Dennis and all the officers under them for their role in hopefully dealing a death blow to a major statewide cocaine distribution ring and sending to prison the filthy vermin who were a part of the ring involved in a string of violent shooting incidents in South Sumter that began last year and terrorized the neighborhoods in that part of Sumter.

As Police Chief Roark told The Sumter Item, the investigation got underway after nine shootings in January

through May of last year, presenting a challenging situation for law enforcement investigators. The challenge was more than met with the Wednesday announcement.

Nineteen suspects are behind bars thanks to the combined and cooperative efforts of not only local authorities but the S.C. Law Enforcement Division, the FBI and numerous other state agencies.

It took a lot of teamwork during a period of a year to put a stop to a crime spree that infected other parts of our state. The magnitude of the crime spree can be seen in the front page photo of what law enforcement seized: cocaine, firearms, $750,000 in cash and many vehicles.

The crime spree apparently started in Sumter, and for the time being, it has ended in Sumter.

We hope that law and order will continue to prevail.

Thanks to city police, its chief, the sheriff and his deputies, we are more than confident that our community is much safer.

LETTERS TO THE EDITOR WE ARE RATS IN A MAZE In response to Mr. Young’s letter dated Oct. 21, 2015, I think we need to address the larger issues connected to all the calamities that are occurring in the United States today.

We have a media and a government that have misled the American people for decades.

Whether it is because of the lack of accurate information known by the general population or the fanatic control mechanisms used by the government, we as a people are essentially living in a dark age of ignorance.

We are all under constant surveillance by the government (NSA and CIA), and everything about us is known and observed.

Our every word and movement are constantly monitored. We may not know this or appreciate the magnitude of this program, but it is what it is. We live in a state of fear and absolute control.

So what do we do? We are mere rats in maze.

We have lost all concepts of liberty and personal control of our lives. We are at the mercy of the controlled media and an Orwellian global government.

We may criticize the minor details of our daily lives, but nothing will change, unless we change.

It begins when we become of aware of our dilemma and begin an education process on our own.

We must search far and wide to find out who we once were, before the gates of our prison planet were forever closed.

JOSEPH C. VALCOURT Sumter

CONSPIRACIES NOT NEW Demonizing and vilifying our government and elected

officials has always been with us. I’m old enough to remember President Eisenhower being accused of aiding and abetting communist by a small but vocal group that seemed to think everyone was a communist except for themselves. And I remember JFK being accused of taking orders from the Vatican.

But lately the demonizing and vilifying has become more intense and quite the vogue.

It brings to mind the following quote from Franklin D. Roosevelt: “Let us not be afraid to help each other-let us never forget that government is ourselves and not an alien power over us. The ultimate rulers of our democracy are not a President and Congressmen and Government officials but the voters of this country.”

I would add that during the 2012 general election only 57.5 percent of eligible voters nationwide exercised their right to vote while participation in many state primary elections set record lows.

Many would say their choices were unacceptable.

But what reasonable and sincere person is going to subject themselves and their families to such coarse and personalized criticism?

We currently have an elected official who served our country with distinction including being held a prisoner of war for 5-and-half years, during which time he was tortured.

He was recently belittled by a flashy candidate who currently leads in the race to be the Republican nominee for the highest office in our country.

FDR knew of which he spoke.

WILLIAM Q. BRUNSON Sumter County/New York City

Iran marches, Russia rules, Obama watches G uess who just popped up in the Kremlin? Bashar al-Assad, Syrian dictator and destroyer, now Vladimir Putin’s newest pet.

After four years holed up in Damascus, Assad was summoned to Russia to bend a knee to Putin, show the world that today Middle East questions get settled not in Washington but in Moscow, and officially bless the Russian-led four-nation takeover of Syria now underway.

Does the bewildered Obama administration finally understand what Russia is up to?

President Obama says Russia is doomed to fail in the Syrian quagmire. But Russia is not trying to reconquer the country for Assad. It’s consolidating a rump Syrian state on the roughly 20 percent of the country he now controls, the Alawite areas stretching north and west from Damascus through Latakia and encompassing the Russian naval base at Tartus.

It’s a partition. It will leave the Islamic State in control in the interior north and east. Why is this doomed to failure?

Putin’s larger strategy is also obvious. He is not reconstructing the old Soviet empire. That’s too large a task.

But he is rebuilding and reasserting Russia’s ability to project power beyond its borders. Annexing Crimea restores to the motherland full control of the warm water Black Sea port that Russia has coveted since Peter the Great.

Shoring up a rump Alawite state secures Russia’s naval and air bases in the eastern Mediterranean.

Add to that Russia’s launching advanced cruise missiles from warships in the Caspian Sea to strike Syrian rebels 900 miles away and you have the most impressive display of Russian military reach since the Cold War. For Obama, of course,

COMMENTARY

these things don’t matter.

“In today’s world,” he told the U.N. last month, “the measure of strength is no longer defined by the control of territory.” That he clearly believes this Charles fantasy Krauthammer was demonstrated by his total abandonment of Iraq, forfeiting U.S. bases from which we could have projected power in the region (most notably preventing, through control of Iraqi airspace, the Iranian rearming and reinforcement of Assad’s weakening regime).

While Obama counts on the arc of the moral universe bending toward justice, Putin acts. As soon as the ink was dry on the Iran nuclear deal, Iran’s Qasem Soleimani flew to Moscow (a sanctions violation that we blithely ignored) to plan the multinational Syria campaign he is now directing.

His Shiite expeditionary force is comprised of Iranian Revolutionary Guards, Iraqi Shiite militias and Lebanese Hezbollah fighting under the cover of Russian airpower.

They are pounding nonIslamic State rebels, many equipped, trained and allegedly supported by the U.S. and Obama’s vaunted 60-nation coalition.

What a comfort to be pulverized by 60 to 90 Russian airstrikes each day but to know that Belgium is with you.

The immediate Russian objective is to retake Aleppo, the eastern part of which is the rebels’ last remaining urban stronghold.

Russia is not fighting the Islamic State. On the contrary.

Its attacks on the antigovernment, anti-Islamic State rebels have allowed

the Islamic State to expand, capturing rebel-held villages north of Aleppo, even as the Shiite expeditionary force approaches from the south.

Apart from the wreckage to Obama’s dreams of a “reset” with Russia, think of how these advances mock Obama’s dreams for Iran, namely that the nuclear deal would moderate Iranian behavior.

What has happened since the signing of the deal in July? Iran convicts an American journalist of espionage, contemptuously refusing to offer even the most minimal humanitarian gesture.

Iran brazenly tests a nuclear-capable ballistic missile that our own U.N. ambassador said violates Security Council resolutions.

And now Iran’s most notorious Revolutionary Guard commander takes control of a pan-Shiite army trying to decimate our remaining allies in the Syrian civil war.

Obama’s response to all this? Nothing. He has washed his hands of the region, still the center of world oil production and trade, and still the world’s most volatile region, seething with virulent jihadism ready for export. When you call something a quagmire you have told the world that you’re out and staying out. Russia and Iran will have their way.

“60 Minutes” asked Obama: Are you concerned about yielding leadership to Russia? Obama responded dismissively: Propping up a weak ally is not leadership. I’m leading the world on climate change.

Upon hearing that, anyone in any conflict anywhere who has put his trust in the United States should start packing his bags for Germany.

Charles Krauthammer’s email address is letters@ charleskrauthammer.com. © 2015, The Washington Post Writers Group

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AROUND TOWN UM Church, 421 S. Main St. A giveaway event will be held at 11 a.m. on Saturday, The Sumter County Educators Oct. 24, at the home of Association – Retired Community giveaway event to be held in will Viola Shaw, 186 Green hold a luncheon meeting at Lane,Bishopville Bishopville. Food and noon on Wednesday, Oct. drinks will be served at 28, at Golden Corral, 2385 noon. Donated items to be Walmart Blvd. given away include: clothes for infants, children The Next Generation Teaching Boys to Be Men Organization and adults (including big will hold a fun festival 11 and tall for men); beds; a.m.-4 p.m. on Saturday, box springs and mattress Oct. 31, at the old fairsets; sewing machines; grounds, Silver Road, Mantelevisions; electric heatning. There will be food, ers; recliners; and much more. Music will be provid- fun, games, horseback riding and more. ed by Lisa Bradley, Kendra Shaw and Frederika Wilson. The Sumter Branch NAACP Apostle Brandon Etheredge will host its 32nd Annual Freedom Fund Banquet at 7 p.m. will speak. Call Viola Shaw on Friday, Nov. 6, at the at (803) 428-3488 for deSumter County Civic Centails.

Clarendon School District One ter, 700 W. Liberty St. Dr. will conduct free vision, hear- Lonnie Randolph Jr., president of the South Carolina ing, speech and developmenState Conference, NAACP, tal screenings as part of a Columbia, will speak. child find effort to identify The Shepherd’s Center will students with special hold its annual flea market needs. Screenings will be held from 9 a.m. to noon at from 7 a.m. to 1 p.m. on the Summerton Early Child- Saturday, Nov. 7, at the Shepherd’s Center, Trinityhood Center, 8 South St., Lincoln Center, 124 Council Summerton, on the followSt. ing Thursdays: Nov. 12; Dec. 10; Jan. 14, 2016; Feb. The Sumter Chapter of the 11, 2016; March 10, 2016; National Federation of the April 14, 2016; and May 12, Blind will meet at 7 p.m. on 2016. Call Sadie Williams at Tuesday, Nov. 10, at Shiloh(803) 485-2325, extension Randolph Manor. The spot116. light will shine on Eric Swinton and the associate The Post 10813 25th annivermember is Shirley Davissary banquet will be held at 6 p.m. on Saturday, Oct. 24, Abrams. Transportation is provided within the allotat Lincoln Trinity Center Gym, 26 Council St. For fur- ted mileage area. If you know a blind or sight-imther information, call (803) paired person, contact the 773-6700, (803) 968-5219 or chapter president, Debra (803) 406-0748.

Canty, via email at DebraThe Sumter High School Athletic Booster Club will hold an CanC2@frontier.com or via telephone at (803) 775oyster roast and silent auc5792. For updated information fundraiser from 6 to 9 tion, add the group to your p.m. on Saturday, Oct. 24, at the Sumter High Athletic contacts on the recorded Fields. Tickets are $35 each message line at (206) 3765992. or $65 per couple and can Lincoln High School Preservabe purchased by calling tion Alumni Association will (803) 481-4480, extension 6273. Sponsorships are also hold its fifth annual flapjack available at $1,000 for eight fundraiser from 8 to 10 a.m. on Saturday, Nov. 28, at Appairs of tickets and $500 plebee’s, 2497 Broad St. for eight tickets. Menu will Cost is $7 per person. Call consist of oysters, barbeEssie Richardson at (803) cue and collards.

775-2999 or James Green at The Sumter Branch NAACP (803) 968-4173. will meet at 5 p.m. on Sunday, Oct. 25, at Emanuel

FYI The National Kidney FoundaThe Muscular Dystrophy Famtion of South Carolina is in ily Foundation Inc. (MDFF), a needDonate of unwanted — vehicles non-profit acyour vehicles unwanted for organization, a even ones that don’t run. The cepts vehicle contributions. good cause car will be towed at no To complete a vehicle docharge to you and you will nation, make arrangebe provided with a possiments by calling (800) 544ble tax deduction. The do1213. Donors may also visit nated vehicle will be sold the organization’s Web site at auction or recycled for at www.mdff.org and click salvageable parts. For inon the automobile icon to formation, call (800) 488complete an online vehicle 2277. donation application.

ARIES (March 21-April 19): You can make EUGENIA LAST a difference if you voice your opinion and do your best to bring about positive changes. Let your competitive nature put you in a position where you will have greater control over your life, environment and future.

The last word in astrology

TAURUS (April 20-May 20): Network, share your interests and put more into your relationships with the people you find most uplifting. An opportunity will come from a most unusual source. Don’t rule out anything before you have taken time to investigate the possibilities.

GEMINI (May 21-June 20): Be prepared to make last-minute changes in order to avoid a situation that could get ugly. Use discipline and you’ll avoid emotional reactions from unreasonable people. Learn from past mistakes instead of repeating them.

CANCER (June 21-July 22): Choose to make personal improvements instead of focusing on what others do wrong. Build your self-esteem by working hard at doing your best. It’s easy to hide behind a negative attitude, but you can rise above it if you show courage.

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SCORPIO (Oct. 23-Nov. 21): An interesting idea will grab your attention. Look for ways to incorporate new concepts into your current lifestyle in order to bring about a healthier balance between work and play. Too much of either will lead to costly consequences.

SAGITTARIUS (Nov. 22-Dec. 21): Don’t overreact to what’s going on around you. Evading difficult issues will not make them disappear.

Eventually you will be forced to be honest and share your thoughts.

You’ll have more fun if you deal with matters promptly.

CAPRICORN (Dec. 22-Jan. 19): Don’t rely on anyone to handle important personal matters. You can get a lot more done if you work alone. Plan a nice surprise for someone who means the world to you. Your efforts will be appreciated.

AQUARIUS (Jan. 20-Feb. 18): Observe others’ reactions and you will know where you stand. A LEO (July 23-Aug. 22): Socialize and chance to put money aside will you will meet someone important. help you feel at ease and in control.

Your insight and the expressive A change of attitude regarding way you interact with others will someone or something from your result in exciting opportunities.

Initiate the changes you would like past will improve your outlook.

PISCES (Feb. 19-March 20): Don’t to see happen. A day trip will help you relax. count on anyone to honor a VIRGO (Aug. 23-Sept. 22): Socialize promise and you won’t be disappointed. Rely on yourself and with friends who contribute as much as you do. Surround yourself your resources in order to finish what you start. Keep your personal with people who are supportive, affairs a secret and you’ll sidestep progressive and forward-thinking. someone trying to damage your Make a romantic move that will reputation. bring you closer to someone you

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Today: Sunny and pleasant. High 77 to 82.

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PREP TENNIS

USC WOMEN’S BASKETBALL

TSA aims for another No shortage of conference upset in SCISA semis challengers for Gamecocks

BY DENNIS BRUNSON dennis@theitem.com B.J. Reed said her Thomas Sumter Academy varsity girls tennis team advancing to the semifinals of the SCISA 3A state tournament is “icing on the cake.”

That doesn’t mean, however, that the Lady Generals are simply satisfied to playing today at 2 p.m. against Ashley Hall at Palmetto Tennis Center.

“We’re excited to be there, and we have nothing to lose,” said Reed, whose lower bracket third-seeded team beat No. 2 Heathwood Hall 5-4

on Monday in Columbia.

“We want to play hard, play smart and give it all we have. Those are the things that we can control. We want to do that REED and then we’ll see what happens from there.”

TSA is 9-7 on the season while Ashley Hall comes in with a 14-4 record after beating Ben Lippen 8-1 on Monday. The No. 1 Lady Panthers are looking to play for the state title for the sixth time in nine years, but they haven’t won a title since 2010.

SEE TSA, PAGE B5

BY PETE IACOBELLI The Associated Press

CHARLOTTE — SEC coaches were lining up to anoint South Carolina as the team to beat during media day on Thursday, and then more than ready to talk about bringing the Gamecocks down.

South Carolina is the preseason favorite to win the Southeastern Conference women’s basketball championship for a third straight year, a feat only Pat Summitt’s Tennessee Lady Vols and Auburn have been able to pull off.

It’s not going to be easy for the Gamecocks to join such elite company.

“It’s a loaded league,’’ said Mississippi State coach Vic Schaefer, whose Bulldogs are one of those other teams thinking title run. “It’s a STALEY nightmare every night.’’

Several teams believe they can give South Carolina a run for the championship.

“You’ve got to put them on top, but it’s amazing this conference how much stronger it’s gotten from top to bottom,’’ said Tennessee coach Holly Warlick, whose club was picked second in the preseason poll.

SEE GAMECOCKS, PAGE B4

PREP FOOTBALL

Momentum shifts home After 2 road victories, Sumter High returns to Freddie Solomon Field eyeing 3-0 region start

BY DENNIS BRUNSON dennis@theitem.com After two successful road trips to Florence put it in a great position in Region VI-4A, the Sumter High School football team returns to Sumter Memorial Stadium today to try and continue a march to the region title.

The Gamecocks will play host to an improved Carolina Forest at 7:30 p.m. on Freddie Solomon Field. They will be trying to improve to 7-2 overall, but more importantly, 3-0 in region play.

“It’s certainly on their minds; winning the region is one of our (preseason) goals,” said first-year SHS head coach Mark Barnes. “We’ve talked about if we want this to be the program we want it to be, we need to be winning region titles.”

Sumter was impressive in its first two region contests, both trips to Florence War Memorial Stadium. It knocked off 2-time defending region champion South Florence 35-0 and followed it up with a 42-7 thumping of West Florence.

The Gamecock defense has had three shutouts this season and given up just seven points in two other games.

“Everybody is a lot more confident in their positions now,” said defensive end Richburg Canty, who is second on the team with 13 1/2 tackles

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Wide receiver Colin Washington (11) and the rest of the Sumter High School football team look to take another step toward a Region VI-4A SEE HOME, PAGE B3 title today when they face Carolina Forest at 7:30 p.m. at Sumter Memorial Stadium.

MLB POSTSEASON

Mets soar into Fall Classic on strength of Murphy’s bat N.Y. infielder homers in record 6 straight postseason games

BY RONALD BLUM The Associated Press NEW YORK — In the 1960s, the idea of the Mets winning a World Series was as farfetched as man walking on the moon. Just 88 days after Neil Armstrong took his giant leap, the Amazin’s were champions.

Now Tyler Clippard is convinced an extraterrestrial has led the Mets back to the Fall Classic.

“He’s not human. He’s

not on this planet right now,’’ he said of Daniel Murphy. “Another life form jumped into his body.’’

Heading into a World Series matchup that opens in Kansas City or Toronto on Tuesday, it seems as if it is in the stars whenever the Mets are successful.

In 1969, there were

hard-to-fathom catches

by Tommy Agee and Ron Swoboda in the Series against Baltimore. Cleon Jones reached first base on a hit batsman call during a Game 5 rally when manager Gil Hodges showed a ball with shoe polish to an umpire.

In 1986, there was Mookie Wilson’s grounder that went through Bill Buckner’s legs at first base to cap a three-run, 10th-inning rally in Game 6 against Boston after the Mets were twice down to their season’s final strike.

Now there’s Murphy, who has seven home

SEE METS, PAGE B2

THE ASSOCIATED PRESS

The New York Mets are back in the World Series for the first time since 2000 after sweeping the Chicago Cubs in the National League Championship series.

Daniel Murphy has been the catalyst after hitting a homer in six straight postseason games to set a new MLB record.

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FRIDAY, OCTOBER 23, 2015

AREA ROUNDUP

SHS cross country places 3rd at Region VI-4A meet FLORENCE — Sumter High School finished third in the Region VI-4A meet on Wednesday at Freedom Florence.

Socastee won the meet with 40 points followed by West Florence with 79.

Sumter had 88.

The Gamecocks’ Brandon Poston finished fourth overall in a time of 17 minutes, 48 seconds. Teammate Anthony Gabriel was sixth in 17:53 and both earned all-region honors.

Rounding out the scoring for SHS was Tobias Favor in 25th (20:01), Davis Fuller in 26th (20:03) and Stacey Shaw in 27th (20:06).

JUNIOR VARSITY FOOTBALL WILSON HALL 28 CHRIST CHURCH 0 Wilson Hall defeated Christ Church’s ninth-grade team 28-0 on Thursday at Spencer Field.

Burgess Jordan tossed two touchdown passes for the Barons, a 71-yarder to Landon Van Patten and a 52-yarder to Mills Herlong.

Brad Goodson scored on a 69-yard run and Palmer Richburg scored on a 5-yard run. Herlong was 4-for-4 on extra point attempts.

Richburg led the defense with 13 tackles and Herlong and Emory Moore each had an interception.

HARTSVILLE 32 LAKEWOOD 24

KELLEYTOWN — Lakewood High School fell to 3-4 with a 32-24 loss to Hartsville on Thursday at Kelleytown Stadium.

Javonte Jones rushed for 123 yards and a touchdown for the Gators. He also ran for a 2-point conversion.

Lamont Dudley rushed for 94 yards, scored a TD and ran for a conversion. Dajon Howard rushed for 104 yards and Malik Richardson scored a TD and ran for a conversion.

B TEAM FOOTBALL WILSON HALL 42 HEATHWOOD HALL 8 COLUMBIA — Nathan Harris ran

for three touchdowns and returned an interception for another score as Wilson Hall defeated Heathwood Hall 42-8 on Thursday at the HH field.

Keaton Price scored two TDs and ran for a pair of 2-point conversions.

Denson Crisler scored a touchdown and Miller Jones ran for a 2-point conversion.

Crisler and Jones both had interceptions for the Barons, who finished the year with a 5-2 record.

PORTER-GAUD 48 LAURENCE MANNING 6

CHARLESTON — Laurence Manning Academy finished its season with a 48-6 loss to Porter-Gaud on Thursday at the P-G field.

Bennett Stephens rushed for 86 yards and scored the Swampcats’ only touchdown of the game on a 3-yard run.

LMA finished with a 6-2 record.

MIDDLE SCHOOL FOOTBALL LEE CENTRAL 30 KINGSTREE 14 KINGSTREE — Lee Central Middle School remained undefeated on the season with a 30-14 victory Kingstree on Wednesday at the Kingstree field.

Edward Benjamin rushed for 100 yards and scored three touchdowns to lead the Stallions, who improved to 5-0. Nykelius Johnson caught a 30yard touchdown pass from Jaqueze Myers.

GIRLS VARSITY CROSS COUNTRY SUMTER FINISHES FIFTH FLORENCE — Sumter High School finished fifth in the Region VI-4A meet on Wednesday at Freedom Florence.

West Florence won with 45 points while Sumter had 116.

The Lady Gamecocks’ Lorien Clark finished second overall in a time of 21 minutes, 15 seconds, to earn all-region honors. Emily Jordan was 18th (24:29), Jessica Tetterton was 25th (25:43), Karsyn Waldron was 33rd (28:13) and Anya Bethea was 38th (29:35).

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SCOREBOARD

Charlotte 99, Detroit 94 Memphis 82, Atlanta 81 Miami 110, Washington 105 Phoenix 99, Dallas 87

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THURSDAY’S GAMES

TODAY

6 a.m. – Professional Golf: European PGA Tour Hong Kong Open Second Round from Hong Kong (GOLF).

11 a.m. – Formula One Racing: U.S. Grand Prix Practice from Austin, Texas (NBC SPORTS NETWORK).

1 p.m. – NASCAR Racing: Camping World Truck Series Fred’s 250 Practice from Talladega, Ala. (FOX SPORTS 1).

2 p.m. – NASCAR Racing: Sprint Cup Series CampingWorld.com 500 Practice from Talladega, Ala. (NBC SPORTS NETWORK).

2:20 p.m. – International Soccer: Bundesliga League Match – Hamburg vs. Hoffenheim (FOX SPORTS 2).

3 p.m. – NASCAR Racing: Camping World Truck Series Fred’s 250 Practice from Talladega, Ala. (FOX SPORTS 1).

3 p.m. – Formula One Racing: U.S. Grand Prix Practice from Austin, Texas (NBC SPORTS NETWORK).

3:55 p.m. – International Soccer: FIFA U-17 World Cup Match – England vs. South Korea (FOX SPORTS 2).

4:30 p.m. – NASCAR Racing: Sprint Cup Series CampingWorld.com 500 Practice from Talladega, Ala. (NBC SPORTS NETWORK).

5 p.m. – PGA Golf: Shriners Hospitals for Children Open Second Round from Las Vegas (GOLF).

6:05 p.m. – Talk Show: Sports Talk (WDXY-FM 105.9, WDXY-AM 1240).

7 p.m. – High School Football: Paramus Catholic (N.J.) vs. IMG Academy (Fla.) from Bradenton, Fla. (ESPN2).

7 p.m. – College Soccer: Notre Dame at Wake Forest (FOX SPORTSOUTH).

7 p.m. – College Football: Yale at Pennsylvania (NBC SPORTS NETWORK).

7 p.m. – Women’s College Basketball: Arkansas at Florida (SEC NETWORK).

7:30 p.m. – High School Football: Carolina Forest at Sumter (WIBZ-FM 95.5).

7:30 p.m. – High School Football: Lake City at Wilson (WWFN-FM 100.1).

7:30 p.m. – High School Football: Lugoff-Elgin at Ridge View (WPUB-FM 102.7).

7:30 p.m. – High School Football: Heathwood Hall at Wilson Hall (WDXY-FM 105.9, WDXY-AM 1240).

7:30 p.m. – High School Football: Spring Valley at Dutch Fork (WNKT-FM 107.5).

8 p.m. – College Football: Memphis at Tulsa (ESPN).

8 p.m. – Major League Baseball: American League Championship Series Game Six – Toronto at Kansas City (FOX SPORTS 1).

8 p.m. – International Soccer: Mexican League Match – Toluca vs. Veracruz (UNIVISION).

8:30 p.m. – NBA Preseason Basketball: Houston at San Antonio (NBA TV).

9 p.m. – International Soccer: FIFA U-17 World Cup Match – Brazil vs. Guinea (FOX SPORTS 2).

10 p.m. – High School Football: Kaimak (Wash.) vs. Lake Stevens (Wash.) from Lake Stevens, Wash. (ESPNU).

10 p.m. – High School Football: Friday Night Prep Zone Scoreboard Show (WIBZ-FM 95.5).

10:30 p.m. – College Football: Utah State at San Diego State (ESPN2).

10:30 p.m. – NHL Hockey: Carolina at Los Angeles (FOX SPORTSOUTH).

10:30 p.m. – Professional Boxing: Rob Brant vs.

Louis Rose in a Middleweight Bout and Jarrell Miller vs. Akhror Muralimov in a Heavyweight Bout from Phoenix (SHOWTIME).

11 p.m. – International Soccer: FIFA U-17 World Cup Match – Nigeria vs. Croatia (FOX SPORTS 2).

Midnight – LPGA Golf: Fubon LPGA Taiwan Championship Third Round from Taipei, Taiwan (GOLF).

MLB POSTSEASON LEAGUE CHAMPIONSHIP SERIES

(Best-of-7; x-if necessary) American League All games televised by FS1 Kansas City 3, Toronto 2 Oct. 16: Kansas City 5, Toronto 0 Oct. 17: Kansas City 6, Toronto 3 Monday: Toronto 11, Kansas City 8 Tuesday: Kansas City 14, Toronto 2 Wednesday: Toronto 7, Kansas City 1 Today: Toronto (Price 18-5) at Kansas City (Ventura 13-8), 8:07 p.m. x-Saturday: Toronto at Kansas City, 8:07 p.m.

National League New York 4, Chicago 0 Oct. 17: New York 4, Chicago 2 Oct. 18: New York 4, Chicago 1 Tuesday: New York 5, Chicago 2 Wednesday: New York 8, Chicago 3

WORLD SERIES

METS FROM PAGE B1 runs in nine playoff games, setting a major league record by going deep in each of his last six. His first-inning home run in Game 2 against the Cubs was on a pitch a Lilliputian 1.064 feet above the ground, according to MLB’s Pitch f/x system. Only one home run in the entire major leagues this year came on a ball hit lower.

“This is special. This is special. I can’t stop saying it,’’ captain David Wright exclaimed. “The ‘69 Mets, the ‘86 Mets, the 2000 Mets — we are amongst the best Mets teams to ever play, and I couldn’t be more proud.’’

Long the second team in town, the Mets won their fifth pennant to the Yankees’ 40. They were nicknamed the Amazin’ Mets by Casey Stengel, their first manager, and became the upstarts, first at the Polo Grounds for their first two seasons, then at windy Shea Stadium from 1964-2008. Jane Jarvis played the organ, Ralph Kiner, Bob Murphy and Lindsey Nelson entertained fans in the broadcast booth, the Rheingold jingle played at the ballpark and Karl Ehrhardt lauded players with homemade signs from 1964-81.

“THERE ARE NO WORDS’’ was his message after Jones caught the final out against the Orioles.

The Tom Seaver-Jerry KoosmanGary Gentry Miracle Mets of 1969 morphed into Tug McGraw’s Ya Gotta Believe Mets of 1973, who lost a seven-game World Series against Oakland. After a lean decade, the Doc, Straw, Keith and The Kid team won a seven-game classic against the Red Sox in 1986, and a Mike Piazzaled team lost a five-game Subway Series to the Yankees in 2000.

Then, after another trough that included multimillions in losses incurred by owners in the Bernard Madoff Ponzi scheme, they are back in the Series led by a brash young pitching staff that includes the Dark Knight (Matt Harvey), Thor (Noah Syndergaard), the deGrominator (Jacob deGrom) and Steven Matz, a group whose 147 regular-season career starts easily would be the fewest for a Series foursome, according to STATS. If the Mets win the Series, a shampoo endorsement deal for deGrom and Syndergaard seems inevitable. New York already promotes deGrom

‘The ‘69 Mets, the ‘86 Mets, the 2000 Mets — we are amongst the best Mets teams to ever play, and I couldn’t be more proud.’

METS 3B DAVID WRIGHT Describing emotions of clinching trip to World Series with a HairWeGo hashtag.

Add in Wilmer Flores’ crying on the field in July when he thought he’d been traded to Milwaukee, Bartolo Colon’s entertaining at-bats and behind-the-backflip toss and Yoenis Cespedes’ stimulating speed and sock, and the Mets transformed from routine to riveting.

“It was a long time coming,’’ said Wright, who signed with the Mets as an 18-year-old in 2001, made his big league debut three years later and was appointed captain in 2013.

“We’ve been through some bad times. We’ve been through Septembers where you’re just playing out the schedule, and that’s no fun. To be able to completely reverse that 180 and now celebrate and get the chance to go the World Series, I wish I could bottle it up.’’

Terry Collins had not led a major league team since 1999 when was hired before the 2011 season. Now 66, the oldest manager in the major leagues, he had skippered 1,688 regular-season games before advancing to the Series for the first time.

A baseball lifer, he talked about his mother writing a sick note to school for him in the fifth grade so he could watch the 1960 World Series between Pittsburgh and the Yankees. And Wednesday night’s pennant win came on what would have been his parents’ 73rd wedding anniversary.

Kismet.

“I’m sitting there tonight thinking, holy crap, now you’re in it after all these years,’’ Collins said. “It was worth the wait. It was worth all the work.’’

(Best-of-7) All games televised by Fox Tuesday, Oct. 27: N.Y. Mets at AL Wednesday, Oct. 28: N.Y. Mets at AL Friday, Oct. 30: AL at N.Y. Mets Saturday, Oct. 31: AL at N.Y. Mets x-Sunday, Nov. 1: AL at N.Y. Mets x-Tuesday, Nov. 3: N.Y. Mets at AL x-Wednesday, Nov. 4: N.Y. Mets at AL

NASCAR

By The Associated Press Through Oct. 18 Points 1, Joey Logano, 3,095. 2, Denny Hamlin, 3,082.

3, Kurt Busch, 3,077. 4, Carl Edwards, 3,076. 5, Kevin Harvick, 3,071. 6, Jeff Gordon, 3,071. 7, Brad Keselowski, 3,071. 8, Martin Truex Jr., 3,070. 9, Kyle Busch, 3,064. 10, Ryan Newman, 3,062. 11, Dale Earnhardt Jr., 3,039. 12, Matt Kenseth, 3,035. 13, Jamie McMurray, 2,154. 14, Jimmie Johnson, 2,134. 15, Paul Menard, 2,109.

16, Clint Bowyer, 2,086. 17, Aric Almirola, 821.

18, Kasey Kahne, 811. 19, Kyle Larson, 757. 20, Greg Biffle, 753.

Money 1, Kevin Harvick, $7,915,571. 2, Joey Logano, $7,477,468. 3, Jimmie Johnson, $6,201,747. 4, Denny Hamlin, $5,981,522. 5, Matt Kenseth, $5,599,426. 6, Brad Keselowski, $5,430,511. 7, Dale Earnhardt Jr., $5,318,515. 8, Jeff Gordon, $5,159,356. 9, Martin Truex Jr., $4,761,321. 10, Clint Bowyer, $4,661,168. 11, Ryan Newman, $4,650,263. 12, Greg Biffle, $4,568,212. 13, Aric Almirola, $4,512,361. 14, Jamie McMurray, $4,487,451. 15, Austin Dillon, $4,324,949. 16, Trevor Bayne, $4,319,235. 17, AJ Allmendinger, $4,086,867. 18, Kurt Busch, $4,082,386. 19, Kyle Larson, $4,064,545. 20, Carl Edwards, $4,021,168.

NBA PRESEASON

By The Associated Press EASTERN CONFERENCE ATLANTIC DIVISION

Charlotte Atlanta Orlando Washington Miami CENTRAL DIVISION Indiana Chicago Milwaukee Detroit Cleveland

Sacramento Phoenix L.A. Clippers Golden State L.A. Lakers

NFL STANDINGS

By The Associated Press AMERICAN CONFERENCE EAST New England N.Y. Jets Buffalo Miami SOUTH Indianapolis Houston Tennessee Jacksonville NORTH Cincinnati Pittsburgh Cleveland Baltimore WEST Denver Oakland San Diego Kansas City

W 5 4 3 2

L 0 1 3 3

T 0 0 0 0

Pct 1.000 .800 .500 .400

PF 183 129 145 103

PA 103 75 139 111

W 3 2 1 1

L 3 4 4 5

T 0 0 0 0

Pct .500 .333 .200 .167

PF 126 128 112 113

PA 147 155 129 176

W 6 4 2 1

L 0 2 4 5

T 0 0 0 0

Pct 1.000 .667 .333 .167

PF 182 145 141 143

PA 122 108 158 162

W 6 2 2 1

L 0 3 4 5

T 0 0 0 0

Pct 1.000 .400 .333 .167

PF 139 107 136 127

PA 102 124 161 159

NATIONAL CONFERENCE EAST Philadelphia N.Y. Giants Dallas Washington SOUTH Carolina Atlanta Tampa Bay New Orleans NORTH Green Bay Minnesota Chicago Detroit WEST Arizona St. Louis Seattle San Francisco

W 3 3 2 2

L 3 3 3 4

T 0 0 0 0

Pct .500 .500 .400 .333

PF 144 139 101 117

PA 110 136 131 138

W 5 5 2 2

L 0 1 3 4

T 0 0 0 0

Pct 1.000 .833 .400 .333

PF 135 183 110 134

PA 94 143 148 164

W 6 3 2 1

L 0 2 4 5

T 0 0 0 0

Pct 1.000 .600 .333 .167

PF 164 96 120 120

PA 101 83 179 172

W 4 2 2 2

L 2 3 4 4

T 0 0 0 0

Pct .667 .400 .333 .333

PF 203 84 134 100

PA 115 113 125 160

THURSDAY’S GAME

Seattle at San Francisco (late)

SUNDAY’S GAMES

Buffalo vs. Jacksonville at London, 9:30 a.m.

Atlanta at Tennessee, 1 p.m.

Pittsburgh at Kansas City, 1 p.m.

Cleveland at St. Louis, 1 p.m.

Tampa Bay at Washington, 1 p.m.

Minnesota at Detroit, 1 p.m.

Houston at Miami, 1 p.m.

New Orleans at Indianapolis, 1 p.m.

N.Y. Jets at New England, 1 p.m.

Oakland at San Diego, 4:05 p.m.

Dallas at N.Y. Giants, 4:25 p.m.

Philadelphia at Carolina, 8:30 p.m.

Open: Chicago, Cincinnati, Denver, Green Bay

MONDAY’S GAME

Baltimore at Arizona, 8:30 p.m.

THURSDAY, OCT. 29

Miami at New England, 8:25 p.m.

SUNDAY, NOV. 1

Detroit vs. Kansas City at London, 9:30 a.m.

San Francisco at St. Louis, 1 p.m.

N.Y. Giants at New Orleans, 1 p.m.

Minnesota at Chicago, 1 p.m.

Tennessee at Houston, 1 p.m.

Tampa Bay at Atlanta, 1 p.m.

Arizona at Cleveland, 1 p.m.

San Diego at Baltimore, 1 p.m.

Cincinnati at Pittsburgh, 1 p.m.

N.Y. Jets at Oakland, 4:05 p.m.

Seattle at Dallas, 4:25 p.m.

Green Bay at Denver, 8:30 p.m.

Open: Buffalo, Jacksonville, Philadelphia, Washington

EASTERN CONFERENCE ATLANTIC DIVISION GP W Montreal 7 7 Tampa Bay 7 4 Florida 6 3 Ottawa 6 3 Detroit 6 3 Boston 6 2 Buffalo 6 2 Toronto 6 1 METROPOLITAN DIVISION GP W N.Y. Islanders 6 4 N.Y. Rangers 7 4 Washington 5 4 Philadelphia 6 3 Pittsburgh 6 3 New Jersey 6 2 Carolina 6 2 Columbus 7 0

Dallas Nashville St. Louis Winnipeg Minnesota Chicago Colorado PACIFIC DIVISION

GP 6 6 7 6 5 6 6

W 5 5 5 4 3 3 2

GB – – 1/2 1 1/2 2

W 7 4 4 3 4

L 0 2 2 2 3

Pct 1.000 .667 .667 .600 .571

GB – 2 1/2 2 1/2 3 3

W 4 3 2 2 1

L 2 4 3 5 6

Pct .667 .429 .400 .286 .143

GB – 1 1/2 1 1/2 2 1/2 3 1/2

THURSDAY’S GAMES

TODAY’S GAMES

L 0 4 4 4 6

Pct 1.000 .429 .333 .200 .000

GB – 3 3 1/2 4 5 1/2

W 4 4 3 2 1

L 1 2 3 4 5

Pct .800 .667 .500 .333 .167

GB – 1/2 1 1/2 2 1/2 3 1/2

W 5 4 2 2 2

L 1 2 3 4 4

Pct .833 .667 .400 .333 .333

GB – 1 2 1/2 3 3

WEDNESDAY’S GAMES

Orlando 110, New Orleans 107, OT

OT 0 1 1 1 0 1 0 2

Pts 14 9 7 7 6 5 4 4

GF 23 23 18 19 16 22 11 13

GA 7 20 12 17 16 26 15 19

L 1 2 1 2 3 3 4 7

OT 1 1 0 1 0 1 0 0

Pts 9 9 8 7 6 5 4 0

GF 21 18 19 13 10 11 12 13

GA 15 15 12 16 11 16 17 34

OT 0 0 0 0 1 0 1

Pts 10 10 10 8 7 6 5

GF 21 19 21 20 14 14 16

GA 14 13 17 13 15 14 17

GF 17 16 18 15 6 5 12 point

GA 12 11 14 17 14 12 25 for

WESTERN CONFERENCE

Pct .750 .667 .667 .400 .333

W 5 3 2 1 0

L 0 2 2 2 3 3 4 3

CENTRAL DIVISION

L 1 2 1 3 4

WESTERN CONFERENCE

Oklahoma City Denver Portland Utah Minnesota PACIFIC DIVISION

Memphis at Orlando, 7 p.m.

Philadelphia vs. Boston at Manchester, 7:30 p.m.

Washington vs. Toronto at Montreal, 7:30 p.m.

Atlanta at Detroit, 7:30 p.m.

Dallas vs. Chicago at Lincoln, NE, 8 p.m.

Miami at New Orleans, 8 p.m.

Milwaukee at Minnesota, 8 p.m.

Houston at San Antonio, 8:30 p.m.

W 3 4 2 2 2

SOUTHWEST DIVISION Memphis Houston New Orleans San Antonio Dallas NORTHWEST DIVISION

TODAY’S GAMES

NHL STANDINGS

By The Associated Press

SPRINT CUP LEADERS

New York Toronto Boston Brooklyn Philadelphia SOUTHEAST DIVISION

Charlotte vs. Indiana at Fort Wayne, IN, 7 p.m.

New York at Boston, 7:30 p.m.

Denver at Utah, 9 p.m.

Golden State vs. L.A. Lakers at Anaheim, 10 p.m.

Portland at L.A. Clippers, 10:30 p.m.

GP San Jose 6 Vancouver 6 Arizona 6 Edmonton 7 Los Angeles 5 Anaheim 5 Calgary 6 NOTE: Two points overtime loss.

W 4 3 3 3 2 1 1 for

L 1 1 2 2 1 3 3

L OT Pts 2 0 8 1 2 8 2 1 7 4 0 6 3 0 4 3 1 3 5 0 2 a win, one

WEDNESDAY’S GAMES

Buffalo 2, Toronto 1, SO Philadelphia 5, Boston 4, OT Edmonton 3, Detroit 1 Carolina 1, Colorado 0, OT Arizona at N.Y. Rangers, 7 p.m.

Dallas at Pittsburgh, 7 p.m.

New Jersey at Ottawa, 7:30 p.m.

Anaheim at Nashville, 8 p.m.

Columbus at Minnesota, 8 p.m.

Florida at Chicago, 8:30 p.m.

Washington at Vancouver, 10 p.m.

Los Angeles at San Jose, 10:30 p.m.

Montreal at Buffalo, 7 p.m.

Boston at N.Y. Islanders, 7:30 p.m.

Tampa Bay at Winnipeg, 8 p.m.

Detroit at Calgary, 9 p.m.

Washington at Edmonton, 9 p.m.

Carolina at Los Angeles, 10:30 p.m.

SATURDAY’S GAMES

Anaheim at Minnesota, 6 p.m.

New Jersey at Buffalo, 7 p.m.

Toronto at Montreal, 7 p.m.

Arizona at Ottawa, 7 p.m.

N.Y. Rangers at Philadelphia, 7 p.m.

N.Y. Islanders at St. Louis, 8 p.m.

Pittsburgh at Nashville, 8 p.m.

Florida at Dallas, 8 p.m.

Tampa Bay at Chicago, 8:30 p.m.

Columbus at Colorado, 9 p.m.

Detroit at Vancouver, 10 p.m.

Carolina at San Jose, 10:30 p.m.

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Dodgers, Mattingly part ways LOS ANGELES — Don Mattingly won’t return as manager of the Los Angeles Dodgers next year after he and the front office mutually agreed it was time for a fresh start.

Mattingly said Thursday in a MATTINGLY statement distributed by the team that it’s “the right time and right move for both parties.’’

Los Angeles was 446-363 under Mattingly, but the Dodgers have not reached the World Series since winning it in 1988.

LOUISVILLE’S PITINO ON WEBSITE: ‘I WILL NOT RESIGN’ LOUISVILLE, Ky. — Louisville coach Rick Pitino vows to Cardinals fans that he “will

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not resign and let you down’’ as investigations continue into an escort’s book allegations that one of his former staffers hired her and other dancers to strip and have sex with recruits and players.

Pitino, 63, has denied knowledge of the activities described in Powell’s book and said Thursday, “someday I will walk away in celebration of many memorable years but that time is not now.’’

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for loss. “We know what to expect and we’re giving it our all on each and every play.”

While this will be Barnes’ first time facing Carolina Forest, the Panthers’ head coach is a familiar face to him. Marc Morris was a defensive line coach for Barnes when he was the head coach at Scotland County High in North Carolina.

This is Morris’ second year at CF. After leading it to three wins in his first year, Carolina Forest is 4-4 so far and 1-1 in region play.

“They are a well coached football team,” Barnes said.

“They’re decent on the defensive side of the football, and they run and pass the football well.”

The Panthers blistered Socastee 55-6 in their region opener before falling to South Florence 35-28 last week. Earlier in the season they dropped a 36-28 decision to still unbeaten Fort Dorchester.

Zykeem Jackson will start at quarterback for the third straight week with Malik Nelson seeing playing time. Jackson is 10-for-11 for 92 yards and a touchdown passing, while rushing for 62 yards on 19 carries.

“We sat down as a staff and looked at what we did well on

Varsity Tennis Thomas Sumter vs. Ashley Hall in SCISA 3A state semis at PTC, 2 p.m.

Varsity Football Carolina Forest at Sumter, 7:30 p.m.

Crestwood at Manning, 7:30 p.m.

Hartsville at Lakewood, 7:30 p.m.

Johnsonville at Lee Central, 7:30 p.m.

Scott’s Branch at East Clarendon, 7:30 p.m.

Heathwood Hall at Wilson Hall, 7:30 p.m.

Porter-Gaud at Laurence Manning, 7:30 p.m.

Thomas Sumter at The King’s Academy, 7:30 p.m.

Williamsburg at Robert E. Lee, 7:30 p.m.

Jefferson Davis at Clarendon Hall, 7:30 p.m.

offense and figured out what he could to help us,” Barnes said.

The season has been an evolution for the Gamecocks.

After opening the year with a 35-9 loss to York, SHS has won six of seven with the lone loss being to Dutch Fork 47-21.

“We really weren’t all together at the start of the season,” said wide receiver Colin Washington, who has 30 catches for 496 yards and five TDs. “We couldn’t execute the plays we needed.

“I started seeing things turn the second half of the second game (a 49-20 win over Crestwood). We had had four different coaches in four years, and I really don’t think we were trusting him (Barnes) at that point. We do now and I’m glad we do.”

SCISA 3A STATE VOLLEYBALL TOURNAMENT UPPER BRACKET

Today at Star Center Game 1 – (4) First Baptist vs. (5) Orangeburg Prep, 10 a.m.

Game 2 – (3) Thomas Sumter vs. (6) Heathwood Hall, 10 a.m.

Game 3 – Game 1 Loser vs. Game 5 Loser, 2:30 p.m.

Game 4 – Game 1 Winner vs. (1) Ashley Hall, 11:30 a.m.

Game 5 – Game 2 Winner vs. (2) Cardinal Newman, 11:30 a.m.

Game 6 – Game 2 Loser vs. Game 4 Loser, 2:30 p.m.

Saturday at Upward Volleyball Center Game 7 – Game 4 Winner vs. Game 5 Winner, 8 a.m.

Game 8 – Game 3 Winner vs. Game 6 Winner, 8 a.m.

Game 9 – Game 8 Winner vs. Lower Game 7 Loser, 9:30 a.m.

Game 10 – Game 7 Winner vs. Game 9 Winner, 12:30 p.m.

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Germone Hopper, left, and the rest of the Clemson Tigers are 6-0 this season despite coming up on the short end of the turnover battle. That streak will be tested on Saturday against Miami as the Hurricanes are plus-12 in the turnover department this year.

Today at Star Center Game 1 – (4) Pinewood Prep vs. (5) Ben Lippen, 10 a.m.

Game 2 – (3) Hammond vs. (6) Laurence Manning, 10 a.m.

Game 3 – Game 1 Loser vs. Game 5 Loser, 2:30 p.m.

Game 4 – Game 1 Winner vs. (1) Porter-Gaud, 11:30 a.m.

Game 5 – Game 2 Winner vs. (2) Wilson Hall, 11:30 a.m.

Game 6 – Game 2 Loser vs. Game 4 Loser, 2:30 p.m.

Saturday at Upward Volleyball Center Game 7 – Game 4 Winner vs. Game 5 Winner, 8 a.m.

Game 8 – Game 3 Winner vs. Game 6 Winner, 8 a.m.

Game 9 – Game 8 Winner vs. Upper Game 7 Loser, 9:30 a.m.

Game 10 – Game 7 Winner vs. Game 9 Winner, 12:30 p.m.

Game 11 – If Necessary, TBA Bracket winners will face each other for the state title on Tuesday at a site to be determined.

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BY SCOTT KEEPFER Greenville News CLEMSON — There are numerous indicators of success when it comes to college football, but perhaps none more so than turnover margin.

Offensive coaches preach it like gospel, instilling the importance of ball security at every turn.

Defensive coaches do likewise, stressing the benefits of creating fumbles and interceptions.

Win those battles, they say, and you win the games.

Lose those battles, and well, suffice to say the odds are stacked against you — unless, of course, you’re Clemson in 2015, with an explosive offense and stingy defense.

“There’s not a better stat that is more telling when it comes to winning and losing, but we’ve shown you can overcome that,” Clemson defensive coordinator Brent Venables said.

The Tigers have, in fact, lost the turnover margin in four of their six games, but that hasn’t prevented them from winning in each instance en route to a 6-0 record and No. 6 national ranking.

That good fortune will be put to the test on Saturday when Clemson plays at Miami — the team that leads the nation in turnover margin. The Hurricanes (4-2, 1-1) have gained 15 turnovers while losing only two this season, one via fumble, one via interception.

Clemson, in contrast, has gained 11 turnovers, but lost 12 — four by fumble, eight by interception — which results in a minus-1 turnover differential, or minus-0.17 turnovers per game.

That may not sound significant, but Clemson ranks 81st nationally in turnover margin, which makes the Tigers to lowest-ranked team in that regard among the 14 remaining undefeated teams in the Football Bowl Subdivision. And that only serves to heighten head coach Dabo Swinney’s concern as his team heads into its second road game of the season at Miami.

“Miami is taking care of the football,” Swinney said.

“I think they’ve gotten 11 interceptions and (quarterback Brad) Kaaya’s only thrown one, so they’re doing a great job. That will be a big factor in this game.”

Turnovers have plagued

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the Tigers, particularly of late. Clemson has committed five turnovers while gaining just one in the last two games against Georgia Tech and Boston College, which combined to score 20 points off those turnovers.

Yet the Tigers won both games going away, defeating the Yellow Jackets by 19 points and the Eagles by 17 points thanks to an explosive offense and a stingy defense that ranks 10th nationally.

But Swinney is growing weary of rolling the dice when it comes to that all-important statistic.

“There are a lot of things we need to correct, and turnovers is one of them,” Swinney said. “Miami is capable of playing with anybody and certainly capable of beating us. That’s why it’s so important that we’re dialed in each and every week.”

Venables concurs.

“Winning the turnover battle is something we’ve got to get better at,” Venables said.

“We’ve had some opportunities, but we’ve got to be better at hawking the ball. And there are sometimes when you’ve got to get lucky and sometimes you get into a rhythm with turnovers.

That’s what I’d like to see.”

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SEC’s profile increases with new head coaches

BY PETE IACOBELLI The Associated Press CHARLOTTE — New Tennessee coach Rick Barnes shook hands with Southeastern Conference Commissioner Greg Sankey on his way out of the hotel in downtown Charlotte.

“Long media day, really long,’’ Barnes said with smile.

The SEC got a huge infusion of personality in first-year conference coaches Barnes, Alabama’s Avery Johnson and Mississippi State’s Ben Howland. The trio add spice to a league with high-profile coaches capable of making an impact on the court — and on YouTube.

There was Barnes earlier this month, slapping a cream pie into the face of Vols sophomore guard Detrick Mostella on his birthday while teammates cackled and cheered.

When Howland was asked about the change in lifestyle going from Pittsburgh and UCLA to Starkville, Mississippi, the self-professed smalltown guy cracked, “I didn’t make many operas in LA.’’ Johnson was the San Antonio Spurs’ all-time assists leader who spent six years as an NBA coach with Dallas and Brooklyn. To his players, Johnson’s the target of comedian Kevin Hart who does a short, dead-on impersonation of the high-pitched coach.

“That’s the first thing I looked up after I heard he was going to be our coach,’’ Alabama forward Shannon Hale quipped.

And while they have the personalities to go toe-to-toe with the gregarious John Calipari, their goal is to challenge his Kentucky Wildcats for conference supremacy.

The SEC is counting on the three, plus new Florida coach Mike White, to increase the league profile and presence in the NCAA Tournament.

Barnes reached the tournament 22 times in 27 combined seasons at Providence, Clemson and Texas, which he led to the Final Four in 2003. Howland has had 10 NCAA Tournament trips, including three straight Final Fours at UCLA. Along with his NBA playing and coaching career, Johnson was an ESPN analyst on TV almost every night.

Vanderbilt coach Kevin Stallings, now has the most longevity as an SEC head coach with BARNES 16 years with the Commodores, said the league has put an emphasis on improving its basketball and schools have taken that to heart.

JOHNSON “We’ve added some great coaches, some guys with track records of tremendous success, and I think that will continHOWLAND ue to enhance the quality of the league,’’ he said. “But I don’t want to act like we have quality coaches coming into the league for the first time because we always have quality coaches.’’

Top-notch showman Bruce Pearl returned to the SEC as Auburn’s coach last year after serving an NCAA show cause order for infractions while at Tennessee, including excessive text messages to recruits.

Barnes, now in Pearl’s old office, saw Pearl on the phone walking through the hotel and couldn’t resist, “Get off the phone. Definitely get off the phone.’’

When Pearl said he was texting his son, Barnes said, “That’s acceptable.’’

Pearl, who famously painted himself in orange for a Lady Vols game, has done his part at Auburn to fire up the campus. He took over a marketing class last fall to promote the Tigers’ first practice, dubbed “Pearl Jam.’’ Yes, there is no question the SEC has upped its personality quotient in the past decade.

And if the new coaches can compete with Calipari on the court, they’ll up the league’s profile on the court.

Calipari led Kentucky to four Final Fours and the 2012 championship in his seven seasons with the Wildcats. His team was selected as SEC preseason favorites again this year in the league media poll released Wednesday, despite losing six NBA draft picks off of last year’s team that reached the national semifinals.

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GAMECOCKS FROM PAGE B1 Mississippi State was third, Texas A&M fourth and Kentucky fifth — all believe they’re solidly in the title mix.

“When you look at South Carolina and Tennessee, obviously, they have more talent than us,’’ Texas A&M coach Gary Blair said. “But talent doesn’t win championships.’’

It’s a good starting point, though, and there’s an abundance of it in the SEC. South Carolina’s three top scorers in two-time defending SEC player of the year Tiffany Mitchell, A’ja Wilson and Alaina Coates all return. Then there is Mississippi State forward Victoria Vivians, who averaged 14.9 points a game her freshman year last winter; Kentucky guard Makayla Epps, the leading scorer in SEC play at 15.1 points a game; and Tennessee guard Diamond DeShields, a North Carolina transfer who was the national freshman of the year two seasons ago before sitting out last year.

Tennessee, who shared the SEC regular-season title with the Gamecocks, is probably the leading candidate to knock off South Carolina.

Along with DeShields, the Lady Vols feature Bashaara Graves, a 1,000-point scorer who averaged 10.6 points and seven rebounds a game last year.

“South Carolina, they’re a great team right now,’’

Graves said. “But we’re also a great team and our goal is to win the SEC and get to the Final Four every year.

That never changes.’’

Schaefer and his Bulldogs feel the same way. They have 10 returners coming back and add Parade AllAmerican Teaira McCowan.

The Mississippi State coach said his team is no longer a surprise to opponents after going 27-7 and improving by five games over a year earlier in SEC play with an 11-5 mark. Despite their increased expectations, Schaefer said the Bulldogs must still “embrace the hunter mentality.’’

Texas A&M is led by a group of seniors who came to Blair’s program the year after the Aggies won the national championship in 2011, including standouts Jordan Jones, Courtney Williams and Courtney Walker. The trio combined for 40.1 points a game last season as Texas A&M. “They don’t want to go out quietly,’’ Blair said.

Kentucky was the only SEC team to defeat South Carolina last year — the 34-3 Gamecocks other losses came to national champion Connecticut and Final Four runner up Notre Dame.

Wildcats coach Matthew Mitchell, however, doesn’t see much value in using the past to motivate this season’s team.

“I wish we could bring

stuff from one year into the next,’’ he said, laughing.

Kentucky starts with Epps, who is looking to build on a stellar sophomore season. They also return Janee Thompson, a point guard and leader who was lost to a horrifying left ankle injury while playing at South Carolina last January.

Gamecocks coach Dawn Staley thinks her team is capable of handling the SEC’s best shots.

South Carolina’s “corps of them understand what it is to be the hunted,’’ she said. “They are challenging themselves each day in practice to carry that load.

Not a load of pressure, it’s a load of expectations and goals.’’

There are several other teams trying to fight their way into the upper echelon.

Georgia’s Joni CrenshawTaylor, the league’s lone first-year coach, said the Lady Bulldogs won’t simply fold on the season because the odds are against them.

Crenshaw-Taylor has four seniors who reached the NCAA Tournament’s Elite Eight in 2013, all who understand the work it takes to win.

“There aren’t any excuses,’’ said Crenshaw-Taylor, who took over longtime leader Andy Landers. “I tell them all the time let’s see what happens at the end of the year. ... I see no reason why we shouldn’t be in the mix with all those other teams.’’

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OBITUARIES MARY A. GAYMON Mary A. Gaymon, 65, entered eternal rest on Monday, Oct. 19, 2015, at Royal Park Nursing Home in Matthews, North Carolina.

The daughter of the late Peter Gaymon Sr. and Mary Elizabeth Jones Prince, she was born May 29, 1950, in Sumter GAYMON County.

She received her education in Sumter County public schools. She was a member of Mulberry Missionary Baptist Church and was employed with Sumter Electrical and Rewinding Co. Survivors are her children, Jerome Gaymon and Lethia Gaymon; two brothers, Ulysses Gaymon and James Willie Winn; three sisters, Sadie Mae Sharper, Delphina (Ervin) Gordon and Alice (Abraham) Champagne; a stepgrandchild, Samuel Grant; an aunt, Alice M. Beckham; and a host of other relatives and friends.

Viewing will be from 1 p.m. to 7 p.m. on Friday. Funeral services will be held at 1:30 p.m. on Saturday at Mulberry Missionary Baptist Church with Pastor Nate Brock. Burial will follow in the church cemetery.

The family is receiving relatives and friends at the home of her sister, Delphina (Ervin) Gordon, 1440 Woods Road, Sumter.

Online memorials can be sent to comfhltj@sc.rr.com.

Community Funeral Home of Sumter is in charge of these arrangements.

LINDA B. MORGAN Linda Brunson Morgan, daughter of the late Freddie J. and Thomasina H. Brunson, departed this life on Oct. 21, 2015, at Piedmont Medical Center, Rock Hill. She was born on Dec. 26, 1951, in Sumter County.

She was educated in the public MORGAN schools of Washington, D.C. At an early age, she accepted Christ as her personal savior and united with Bible Way Worldwide Church.

She was a member of New Life Ministries, Sumter.

Before her retirement, she served as an administrative assistant at Sumter Resource Center.

Survivors include her sons, Anthony (Temerly) Brunson and Philip Morgan, of York; two grandsons, Dajon McCray of Atlanta and Ty Quan McCray of the home; a granddaughter, Ivana Miller of the home; a sister, Juliana Brunson of Sumter, and a host of nieces, nephews and other relatives.

Public viewing will be held from 2 p.m. to 6 p.m. today at Job’s Mortuary Inc. The body will be placed in St. Paul Holiness Church, 129½ West Moore St., at 11 a.m. on Saturday for viewing until the hour of service.

Funeral service will be held on Saturday at noon at St. Paul Holiness Church with Elder Barrington Pierson, officiating; Elder Frank Garrett, eulogist.

Family is receiving friends at the home of her niece and nephew, Jeremiah and Kimberly Oliver, 570 Alpine Drive.

Job’s Mortuary Inc., 312 S. Main St., is in charge of arrangements.

Online memorials may be sent to the family at jobsmortuary@sc.rr.com or on the web at www.jobsmortuary.net.

SHAKIMA N. RUTHERFORD Shakima Nicole “Nikki” Rutherford, 34, departed this life on Sunday, Oct. 18, 2015, at Tuomey Regional Medical Center.

Born on Dec. 10, 1980, in Sumter, she was the daughter of Naomi Rutherford Gordon of Sumter and Garth Wayne RUTHERGordon Sr. of FORD

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Reed said Thomas Sumter easily played its best match of the season against Heathwood. The Lady Generals split the six singles matches with

the Lady Highlanders before taking two of the three doubles matches. They won both doubles matches by 8-6 scores.

“In any sport you talk about playing your best at the end

of the season, and collectively as a team that was easily our best match of the season,” Reed said. “They played hard, they played smart, they hit with great strokes.

“I’m just so proud of the way they handled the strategy side of things, the toughness that they showed and the way they were encouraging each other to find a way to win.”

Queens, New York.

Rutherford was a graduate of Sumter High School, Class of 1999. She later studied science and health care at Central Carolina Technical College and was formerly employed with National Healthcare Center.

Survivors include her parents; grandmother, Ina Sinclair; a son, Quavon Nylik Rutherford; a daughter, Laila Simone Chandler; a sister, Therese Simone Gordon of Conyers, Georgia; five brothers, Garth Wayne Gordon Jr., Terrane Raymond Gordon, Shaun Terrell Rutherford, Eddie Marquise Howard of Sumter and Shah Brown of Richmond, Virginia; a niece; five nephews; three aunts; five uncles; a godson, Sequan Russ; a dear friend, Christine Hill Parker; and a host of other relatives and friends.

There will be no public viewing.

Funeral services will be held at 2 p.m. on Saturday at Salem Chapel & Heritage Center (Westend Community Church), 101 S. Salem Ave., with Pastor Napoleon Bradford, officiating. Interment will follow in Walker Cemetery.

Family is receiving friends at the home, 11 Neal St. Job’s Mortuary Inc., 312 S. Main St., is in charge of arrangements.

Online memorials may be sent to the family at jobsmortuary@sc.rr.com, or visit us on the web at www.jobsmortuary. net.

tached to the Casualty Office with the American Red Cross.

She attended more than 132 funerals between her tours from October 2002 to 2003. In 2005, she was stationed at the Republic of Korea Arm Support Group as executive administration assistant with Headquarters and Headquarters Company, 2nd Infantry Division, Eighth U.S. Army. While serving in Korea, Brig. Gen. Joseph E. Martz recommended LaDeaner to be appointed to serve as secretary to Lt. Gen. James L. Campbell, director of the Army Staff at the Pentagon in 2005, where she served until she became ill. After a year of hospitalization, she went to work at the Naval Sea Systems Command Wounded Warrior Program as the national capital region coordinator. She traveled across the U.S., matching Wounded Warriors with Navy civilian job opportunities. She was also an Army veteran and a Wounded Warrior herself and was accompanied by her service dog, Romeo. She was a member of Sumter VFW Post 10813 Ladies Auxiliary and later became a life member of Amvets, where she served as 2nd vice commander for the State of Maryland Post 115 and the National Ladies Committee of AMVET. She received numerous commendations. In 2009, she retired after serving our nation.

Deaner was a strong-willed, compassionate person who loved children. She will always be remembered for her beauti-

ful smile and her kind, gentle spirit that touched everyone she met. Her willingness to help others and the special way she made people feel like a part of her family will always be cherished. She loved golf and won many tournaments.

She leaves to cherish her memory: her loving parents, Ruby Mae McQuillar Williams and John Larry Williams Sr.; her devoted brother, John L. Jr. (Clarissa); two nieces, Jaylyn Cierra and Cassidy Jordyn of Winston-Salem, North Carolina; grandparents, Janerette and Annie Mae McQuiller of Sumter; four aunts, Rosanna Sanders, Teresa Lennon (Robert) of Brooklyn, New York, Sallie Jacobs (Oualdo “Butch”) of Long Island, New York, and Paulette Rahmaan of Birmingham, Alabama; eight uncles, Janerette S. Mcquiller Jr. (Viriginia), Emmanuel McQuiller (Pamela) of Brooklyn, New York, Arnold McQuiller (Anna) of Queen, New York, Girard McQuiller (Syvannia), Gordon Mcquiller (Sharon), Raleigh McQuiller of Sumter, Paul Williams (Laura) and Charles Williams of Birmingham, Alabama; godmother, Frances Clark Moss of Sumter; four special cousins, Rosalind Moss of Atlanta, Georgia, Taykell R. McCray, September and Tylee Craft of Sumter; and a host of cousins and friends.

She was preceded in death by her grandmother, Lillie Williams Walker; godfather, Theo W. Moss Sr.; nephew John

Larry Williams III; and special cousin Theo W. Moss Jr.; and Rashawn McQuiller.

Funeral services will be held at 10 a.m. today at Emmanuel United Methodist Church, 421 S. Main St., with the Rev. Lillian H. Washington, officiating, the Rev. Doris R. Bright, eulogist.

The family is receiving friends at the home of Frances Moss, 728 Estate Drive.

A wake was held on Thursday at John Wesley Williams Sr. Memorial Chapel, Williams Funeral Home, Inc., 821 N. Main St. The remains will be placed in the church today at 9 a.m.

The procession will leave from the home at 9:20 a.m.

Floral bearers will be classmates of 1989 Sumter High School and Post 10813 Ladies Auxiliary. Pallbearers will be classmates of 1989 Sumter High School and VFW Post 10813.

Burial will be in Fort Jackson National Cemetery, Percival Road, Columbia.

In lieu of flowers, donations can be made to the Wounded Warriors Project in memory of LaDeaner C. Williams.

Services directed by the management and staff of Williams Funeral Home, Inc., 821 N. Main St. Online memorial messages may be sent to the family at williamsfuneralhome@sc.rr. com or on the web at www.williamsfuneralhomeinc.com.

LADEANER C. WILLIAMS LaDeaner Chuemeils Williams, retired staff sergeant, was called home by her heavenly father on the evening of Oct. 14, 2015, at Washington Veteran Affairs Medical Center, Washington, D.C. Deaner, as she was affectionately called, was born WILLIAMS at sunrise on Dec. 14, 1970, in Sumter, to Ruby Mae McQuillar Williams and John Larry Williams Sr. Her early education began in Sumter and Charleston counties finishing in Alconbury, England. Deaner graduated from Sumter High School in the Class of 1989 and received her bachelor’s degree in sociology from St. Augustine, Raleigh, North Carolina, in 1993; master’s in business administration from Hope International University in 2008; master’s in public administration from Strayer University in Washington, D.C., in 2013; and was working on her doctoral degree at University of Phoenix, Arizona.

Deaner received her early Christian experience at Mt. Moriah U.M.C., St. Charles, where she was baptized at an early age. Growing up in a military family, she began traveling at the age of six and was part of many congregations.

She sang in the children’s choir in Alconbury, England.

Upon her graduation from college, she did one year of missionary work in the U.S. She was a part of God’s house in the various areas where she was stationed. Upon settling in the Washington, D.C., area, she joined McKendree-SimmsBrookland U.M.C. in January 2013. There she sang in the chancel choir, worked with the youth ministry, served on the Sick and Recovering Ministry, served as the assistant director of vacation Bible school and assisted the secretary in the church office.

She enlisted in the U.S. Army in February 1999, completing basic training at Fort Jackson, Columbia, and continued her training in Indianapolis, Indiana. Her first duty station was the 18th Personnel Service Battalion at Fort Bragg, Fayetteville, North Carolina. She was attached to the HQ 377th Theater Support Command in New Orleans, Louisiana. She completed overlapped tours while being stationed in New Orleans. She was deployed to serve in Support of Operation Iraqi Freedom in both Arisjan, Kuwait, and Iraq, where she was at-

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FRIDAY, OCTOBER 23, 2015

RICKY L. JONES Ricky L. Jones entered eternal rest on Oct. 21, 2015, at Carolina Pines Regional Medical Center, Hartsville.

The family is receiving friends at the home of his mother, Ms. Dorothy Ann Wright, 85 Sambo Road, Lot 19, Bishopville. Funeral arrangements will be announced by Wilson Funeral Home, 403 S. Main St., Bishopville.

EUNICE CORA TOOKE Mrs. Eunice Cora Tooke, widow of Alfred Tooke, and a daughter of the late Oliver and Flora Shaw, died Oct. 17, 2015. She was a cosmetologist and later worked and retired from St. Josephs Medical Center in Paterson, New Jersey.

She was a Christian and loved her neighbors as she loved herself. Her heart and door were open to all. She was a member of Judea Apostolic Church in Florence.

Survivors include her children, Lugenia Jones (Furman) and Oliver Tooke; a granddaughter, Wagenia Jones-Trawick (Telly); three great-grandchildren; two adopted children, Angela Nance and Charles Brown; one sister, Melvina Hyman; and other dear relatives and loving friends.

Funeral services for Tooke will be conducted at 11 a.m. Saturday at Judea Apostolic Church with Apostle Donald Hyman, officiating.

Burial will follow in Sunset Memory Gardens, directed by Jefferson Funeral Home Service Inc. of Lynchburg.

MAZIE L. YORK Mrs. Mazie Lee Thompson York made her transition from her earthly home at Providence Hospital in Columbia on Friday, Oct. 16, 2015.

She was born on Jan. 20, 1932, in the Bloomville Community of Manning to the late Joe Thompson Sr. and Rebecca Wells Thompson.

At an early age, she joined Mount Sinai Holiness Church (Bloomville Community), Manning. Mrs. Mazie later joined Holly Hill Missionary Baptist Church (Bloomville Community), Manning, where she faithfully served for many years as the Sunday school superintendent, adult Sunday school teacher, Missionary Society president and senior choir secretary. Mrs. Mazie was employed with Clarendon School District 2, retiring after nearly 28

years of service.

She was united in matrimony to the late William York, and this union was blessed with 15 children.

She was preceded in death by two sons, Eddie York and Willie York; and one greatgrandson, Warren Kindell.

Those left to cherish her legacy of love include one son, Raymond (Diane) York of Manning; 12 daughters, Lottie Mae Mack of Thomasville of North Carolina, Laura York Plowden, Carrie York, Cynthia (Johnnie) York Pearson, Rachel (Michael) York Abraham and Betty York, all of Manning, Mae (Gary) York Sejour of Bowie, Maryland, Helen York, Evelyn (Mack) York Edwards, Priscilla York Pee, Katherine York and Christine (Michael) York Gibson, all of Columbia; a daughterin-law, Rebecca York of Manning; three brothers, James (Dorothy) Thompson and Henry Lee (Annie Mae) Thompson, both of Manning, and Joe Thompson Jr. of Sumter; one sister, Loretta Graves of Pittsville, Virginia; four step-sisters, Willie Mae Pringle of Manning, Alice (Eugene) Watson, Annie Dell Jackson, both of Sumter, and Lillian Wilson of Brooklyn, New York; 26 grandchildren, 59 greatgrandchildren; and a host of nieces, nephews and other relatives and friends.

Memorial services in commemoration of Mrs. Mazie Lee Thompson York will be held at 2:30 p.m. Saturday at Manning High School, 2155 Paxville Highway, Manning, with the Rev. O’Donald Dingle bringing the words of consolation. Interment will follow in Scarborough Cemetery.

Viewing will be held Friday from 6 to 8 p.m. at the chapel of Fleming and DeLaine Funeral Home.

The family is receiving relatives and friends at the residence, 2102 Mallette Road, in the Sugar Hill Community of Manning.

Fleming and DeLaine Funeral Home and Chapel of Manning is in charge of services. Online condolences may be made at www. flemingdelaine.com or sent to Flemingdelaine@aol.com.

RUBY V. BILLIE Mrs. Ruby Vermell James Billie, 90, widow of Jasper Billie Sr., entered eternal rest on Saturday, Oct. 17, 2015, at her home.

Born Nov. 9, 1924, in Sumter County, she was the daughter of the late Hannibal James and Octiva Mc-

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She received her education in Sumter County public schools and was a member of Congruity Presbyterian Church, USA. Survivors are: five sons, Jasper V. (Sonya) Billie Jr., Randolph Billie, Roland B. Billie, Samuel L. Billie and James E. (Cassandra) Billie; five daughters, Barbara J. Smith, Brenda J. (Lee E.) Franklin, Charlene (Anthony) Brand, Francenia (Larry) Hunter and Patricia (Herbert) Taylor; seven grandchildren reared in the home, Anthony, Tonya, Kenneth, Joyce, Joshua, Sandra and Valerie Billie; 48 grandchildren; 79 great-grandchildren; 16 great-greatgrandchildren; one greatgreat-great grandchild; and a host of other relatives and friends.

Viewing will be held from 3 p.m. to 7 p.m. on Friday.

Funeral services will be held on Saturday at 1 p.m. at Congruity Presbyterian Church in Gable with Pastor Gloria Williams officiating. Burial will follow in Billie-Simon Cemetery.

The family is receiving visitors at the home, 4191 Congruity Road, Gable.

Online memorials can be sent to comfhltj@sc.rr.com.

Community Funeral Home of Sumter is in charge of these arrangements.

THOMASENIA B. RICHARDSON Mrs. Thomasenia Brown Richardson, 61, entered eternal rest on Friday, Oct. 16, 2015, at her home.

Born in Philadelphia on Jan. 30, 1954, she was the daughter of the late Millie Brown. She received her education in Sumter County public schools.

Suvivors are her husband, Leroy Richardson; three sons, James B. (Yulanda) Brown, Ernest Brown and Anthony Maurice Richardson; a brother, Fredrick Brown; four grandchildren; an aunt, Henrietta Brown; and a host of other relatives and friends.

Viewing will be today from 1 to 7 p.m.; funeral services will be on Saturday at 11 a.m. at Mt. Pleasant Union Methodist Episcopal Church, Pinewood, with Pastor Mary L. Brailsford officiating. Burial will be on Monday at 10 a.m. at Fort Jackson National Cemetery in Columbia.

The family is receiving relatives and friends at the home, 1069 S. St. Pauls Church Road.

Online memories will be

sent to comfhltj@sc.rr.com.

Community Funeral Home of Sumter is in charge of these arrangements.

BERTHA L. CORBETT Ms. Bertha L. Corbett of 2257 West 11th St., Brooklyn, New York, passed into eternal rest after a period of illness.

Graveside service will be held on Saturday at noon at New Hope Baptist Church Cemetery, Bishopville.

The Rev. Earnest White, officiating. The family is receiving friends at 4060 Lucknow Road, Bishopville.

Wilson Funeral Home, 403 S. Main St., Bishopville, is in charge of arrangements.

ALTON L. SHELLEY Alton Lemuel Shelley, 84, husband of the late Sylvia Dix Shelley, died Wednesday, Oct. 21, 2015, at Tuomey Regional Medical Center.

Born in Horry County, he was the son of the late George Walker Shelley and Sallie Todd Shelley. He was a member of Walkers Chapel Freewill Baptist Church.

Mr. Shelley was a professional truck driver for more than 54 years. He received an award for driving more than 5 million miles without any accidents, as well as many other safe driving awards.

Survivors include three children, Brenda Shelley Woodward (Bruce) of Easley, Alton “Danny” Hice (Mary) and Lynn Shelley McCoy (Tony), all of Sumter; 11 grandchildren; 14 great-grandchildren; special friends, Dennis and Joan Junak; and his faithful canine companion, Gizmo.

He was preceded in death by a son, Heyward Shelley; and a granddaughter, Stacey.

Funeral services will be held at 2 p.m. Saturday in Elmore-Cannon-Stephens Funeral Home chapel with the Rev. Nathaniel Brown officiating.

Burial will be in Evergreen Memorial Park Cemetery.

The family will receive friends from 1 to 2 p.m. Saturday at Elmore-CannonStephens Funeral Home and other times at the home.

Memorials may be made to a charity of one’s choice.

Elmore-Cannon-Stephens Funeral Home and Crematorium of Sumter is in charge of the arrangements.

LOUISE L. CARRAWAY Louise Lomax Carraway, 85, died Thursday, Oct. 22,

2015, at her home in Sumter.

Born in Greenville, she was the daughter of the late Roma Britten Lomax and Florence Adline Yearwood Lomax.

Mrs. Carraway was retired from the S.C. Department of Corrections.

Surviving are one son, Wayne Carraway of Sumter; one daughter, Connie Lynn Johnson (Junior) of Effingham; six grandchildren; and 10 great-grandchildren.

She was preceded in death by two sons, Joseph Marshall Carraway and Louie Carraway; a brother, George Lomax; and two sisters, Merle Hamlette and Lucille Alexander.

Graveside services will be held at 3 p.m. Sunday in Greenville Memorial Gardens.

Online condolences may be sent to www.sumterfunerals.com.

Elmore Hill McCreight Funeral Home and Crematory is in charge of the arrangements.

HAZEL NIXON Hazel Nixon died Monday at Palmetto Richland Hospital in Columbia.

Born in Sumter County on Jan. 1, 1949, he was the son of the late Sam and Mary Myers Nixon.

Funeral services will be held Saturday at Reid Chapel AME Church at 108 Dibert St., with the Rev. Michael Sinclair and the Rev. Racheal Sinclair, officiating.

The Rev. Archie Temoney is the pastor.

Public viewing for Mr. Nixon will be held from 4 to 6 p.m. in Robert Scriven Jr. Memorial Chapel.

The family is receiving friends at the home of his daughter, Felicia Nixon, of 172 Plowden Mill Road.

Services are entrusted to the Ephriam D. Stephens Funeral Home of Sumter.

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BUSINESS SERVICES Business Services Burch's Landscaping Demolition, Tree, Concrete, Excavating, Leveling, Sodding, Water Problems solved, (gutters & french drains) Topsoil & Crusher Rocks.

Fully stocked Nursery w/shrubbery & Tree Sale OCT-DEC 803-720-4129

Home Improvements Flood damage, complete tear down, rebuild, int./ext. residential.

Call Dave @ 910-476-9456 Carpenter & dry wall. 30 yrs exp.

Free estimates. Call David Brown at 803-236-9296 JAC Home Improvements 24 Hr Service. We beat everyone's prices, Free Estimates Licensed & Bonded 850-316-7980 SBC Construction , LLC Concrete walks & patios, Replacement windows & doors, Flooring/Fencing/Decking Licensed & Insured Serious inquiries Only 803-720-4129 Professional Remodelers Home maintenance, ceramic tile, roofing, siding & windows doors, etc. Lic. & Ins. (Cell) 803-459-4773

Lawn Service JT's Lawn Care Tree & Debris Removal, Pressure Washing, Gutters, Call 840-0322

Legal Service Attorney Timothy L. Griffith 803-607-9087, 360 W. Wesmark.

Criminal, Family, Accident, Injury

Roofing

Silent Auction SPCA Woofstock Music Festival held on Saturday, Oct. 24th. Silent Auction 12:00 - 4:30pm. Many great items. Furn., Collectibles, Christmas deco., Ping Pong Table, Trips, gift cert., jewerly, Elvis items, & gift baskets from local businesses.

Admission to Woofstock (12:00 4:30) $5, Many great musical talents performing at Elaine D. Korn Memorial Center 1100 S. Guignard Dr. for more info 803-773-9292.

Auction Oct. 24th 10AM. 1107 N. Main St. Antiques, furn., collectibles, glassware, old tools & cast iron . Go to auctionzip.com for photos. Sale by Bill's Furniture & Ant. SCFL 4061.

Tommy Atkinson SCAL 3879

Farm Products Flowers Farm Produce U Pick or we pick Tomatoes. Bring 5 Gal Bucket 2037 Summerton Hwy 1 mi. N of Summerton, Hwy 15 M-F 9-5 Sat 9-3.

Firewood For Sale Tons of fire wood premium seasoned oak. u haul $50 per pick up load, delivered 1/2 cord $65. Call Collins Tree Service 803-499-2136

Garage, Yard & Estate Sales 244 Wildwood Ave. Fri. & Sat.7-? hshld items, christmas china & fine glasses, clothes, flowers etc..

910 W Glouchester (Deerfield Courtyard) Sat 8-12. Furn, decor, vacuum, light fix., pictures, curtains/decorative rods, excer. equip., floral designs.

275 Keels Rd. Sat. 7-1 Speakers, kitchen items, women's clothing, handbags, shoes & yard items.

Robert's Metal Roofing 35 Years Experience. 45 year warranty. Financing available. Expert installation. Long list of satisfied customers. Call 803-837-1549.

Septic Tank Cleaning

4 Family Mega Sale, 3420 Green View Pkwy. Sat. 7-1 (Lakewood Links near Club House) Antiques, furn., bedding, household items, hand bags & shoes, books, DVD's, clothes for BIG & TALL men, ladies & children, Something for everyone!!!

3645 Rhododendron St. Sat 8-4. household goods, furniture, riding lawn mower. No early sales please 1173 Rowe Dr., Summerton, off Bill Davis Rd. Sat. 8-12. Rain or Shine. 1 Man garage sale, Craftsman tools, table saw, Hess truck collection, & too much else to list.

Septic Tank Cleaning Call the pros for all of your septic pumping needs. 803-316-0429 Proline Utilities, LLC

Tree Service Ricky's Tree Service Tree removal, stump grinding, Lic & ins, free quote, 803-435-2223 or cell 803-460-8747.

A Notch Above Tree Care Full quality service low rates, lic./ins., free est BBB accredited 983-9721

STATE TREE SERVICE Worker's Comp & General liability insurance. Top quality service, lowest prices. 803-494-5175 or 803-491-5154 www.statetree.net

PETS & ANIMALS Dogs German Shepherd puppies, born Sept. 1st. $150 ea. Call Harry 803-460-7112 lv msg.

1600 Crowndale Dr. Sat. 8-2 Furn., washer/dryer, power tools, utility trailer & a lot misc. hardware.

LARGE GARAGE SALE Every Weekend Tables $2 & $3 FLEA MARKET BY SHAW AFB

Open every weekend. Call 494-5500 1150 Vintage Dr. Sat. 8-12 Moving sale. Furniture, garden tractor & trailer, household items & more.

640 Portsmouth Dr. Sat. 8-11.

Multi Family Sale. Lamps, clothing, furniture, household items 1074 Briarbend St. Saturday, 8 am - 12 noon. Lots of misc. items.

Solomon Upholstery Lee St Lynchburg Inside sale! Furniture, glassware, Misc. 464-7555 2210 Clematis Trail.

Sat. 7am-2pm Household items, linens & misc items .

2560 Circleview Dr Sat 7-? (No flood Items) Flat Screen TV Dishes , Pots, paintings & More 2525 Manning Rd. (Hwy 521 South) Sat. 8-12 Moving sale! Everything must go. Children's toys, Collectables, Glassware, vintage, beds, tools, much, much more.

866 Whatley St. Sat 7:30-until. clothing, VHS tapes, furniture, and too much more to list.

29 Frederick Ct. Back yard in shed.

Sat 7:30-11:30. Tools, computer items, cedar chest, and much more.

AKC Maltese puppies all dewormed, shots current, comes with written guarantee and baby starter kit. 8 wks old F $500 OBO Adorable! Call 803-236-7670

Garage, Yard & Estate Sales Huge Yard Sale! 151 Poinsett Dr Sat 7-4 Furniture, clothing,shoes, refrigerator, dishes & lots more!

65 Lynam Rd. Church Yard sale Saturday Oct 24 7am-3pm Indoor /outdoor plants & furniture & more

For Sale or Trade STORE FIXTURES: (will text pictures) Lingerie Boutique, Sumter location. Going out of business.

Contact Joan Bell 803-972-0051.

Expert Tech, New & used heat pumps & A/C. Will install/repair, warranty; Compressor & labor $600.

Call 803-968-9549 or 843-992-2364 Martin's Used Appliance Washers, Dryers, Refrig., Stoves.

Guarantee 464-5439 or 469-7311.

Also will pick up storm damaged appliances for free.

Coin Show Sat. Oct. 24th 9-4.

Bethesda Church of God 2730 Broad St., next to Honda dealership.

Buy, Sell, or trade coins. Free appraisals up to 10 coins. More info call 803-775-8840 Golden Kernel Pecan Co. 1214 S. Guignard Dr. 968-9432 We buy pecans, sell Pecan halves, Choc., Sugarfree Choc., Fruit cake mix, Butter Roasted, Sugar & Spice, Prailine, Honey Glazed, Eng. Toffee Gift Pkgs avail. M-F 9-5 Sat 9-1 2 Cemetery Plots @ Evergreen Cemetery in Sumter (located in front of Iris Garden) $5390 for both OBO. Call 803-783-6963

SUPER YARD SALE Sumter United Ministries.

Oct 22,23 & 24 7:30 - 2:00 Farmers Market "Fill bag sale"

All Types of Roofing & Repairs All work guaranteed. 30 yrs exp. SC lic.

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1095 Peppercorn Lane, (Morris Way) Sat 7-3. Wedding dress, clothing, exercise equipment, life jackets & more 2068 Charleston Ave., Sumter 8am-noon. house hold items, books, wood craft, gun / fish pole racks, ect.

EMPLOYMENT Help Wanted Full-Time Metal and shingles installers needed. Paid base on experience.

Drivers license a must! Call 803-459-4773 "Come join a Growing Company" Markette is hiring for management positions for our Sumter Location.

Email Resume to Camp Segars at: camp@westoilco.com

Bucket operator/groundsman needed for local tree service. Must have Valid Drivers License.

803-983-9721.

Full Time Cook needed in a skilled nursing facility for 11am to 7pm shift Experience Required. Part Time Servers needed in a skilled nursing facility for 6am to 2pm shift and 11am to 7pm shift. Healthcare experience preferred but not nessassary.

Apply in person to: Covenant Place 2825 Carter Road Sumter, SC 29150 EOE

Help Wanted Part-Time Part Time Nail Technician needed in a skilled nursing facility. Must possess current licenses & certificates as required by the state & one year experience as a nail technician preferred but not required. Provides manicures, pedicures & all hand and foot treatments, along with maintaining the products, supplies & stations in that area.

Apply in person to: Covenant Place 2825 Carter Road Sumter, SC 29150 EOE Part Time Receptionist needed in a skilled nursing facility. Organized & dependable person with good communications skills to answer the phones & perform general office assistant functions. Experience preferred but not required. Apply in person to: Covenant Place 2825 Carter Rd Sumter, SC 29150 EOE Sumter Pet Sitters seeking long term part-time help. Must have good references & be able to text. Willing to work weekends and holidays.

Ideally living near Sumter High. Email or call sumterpetsitters@sc.rr.com or 803-468-1414

Local / Regional Drivers Immediate openings for experienced Van, Tanker & Rolloff drivers. Class A CDL with Hazmat & Tank endorsements required with 2 years verifiable experience. Mileage starts as high as .41 per mile & top rate .45 per mile along with stop pay, hourly pay & bonus and assigned equipment.

Medical, Dental, Prescription & Life Insurance plans along with 401K & profit sharing. Paid Holidays, Earned PTO time & .03 per mile yearly Safety/Performance Bonus plan. Applicants can apply in person at FCI 132 Myrtle Beach Hwy Sumter, SC 29153 or call 1-888-249-2651 ext-24

Medical Help Wanted F/T exp. orthodontic assistant needed for Camden/Columbia office.

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Land & Lots for Sale Acre, septic, cleared, water, electric. $8,000 dn payment 12 payments of $500. 713-870-0216.

Commercial Industrial For Sale- Lake Side Restaurant, Bar, Convenience Store, gas pumps & docks. Property is leased. Lake Marion. All equipment & furniture are included. Call 904-554-7663

Housekeeping Low rates, Houses, Offices & Churches. Good Ref. Avail.

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Caretaker looking to take care of your love one. Have experience and ref. Call 803-236-3603

RENTALS Unfurnished Apartments Senior Living Apartments for those 62+ (Rent based on income) Shiloh-Randolph Manor 125 W. Bartlette.

775-0575 Studio/1 Bedroom apartments available EHO

Unfurnished Homes 810 Mathis Dr. Sumter. 3BR 1BA. $550mo + $550/sec. dep.

Call 803-787-2319 304 Haynsworth 3BR 2BA , Hrdwd flrs, fenced yard. $895/mo + $1,000 Dep. Good credit needed. Agent owned 803-468-1612 6 Hawthorne 3BR 1BA, hd flrs, $550mo + $1000//dep.

803-468-1612 3 & 4 Br homes & MH, in Sumter County & Manning area. No Sect. 8.

Rent + dep. req. Call 803-460-6216.

Country Living SW 2 Bd/2Bth, fenced yard. $350 mo. $350 dep.

Summerton District, 803-225-2414

Mobile Home Rentals Houses & Mobile Homes for rent. 2, 3 & 4 bedrooms. Section 8 OK. Call 773-8022.

STATEBURG COURTYARD 2 & 3 BRs 803-494-4015 Oaklawn MHP: 2 BR M.H.'s, water /sewer/garbage pk-up incl'd. RV parking avail. Call 803-494-8350 Scenic Lake MHP 4Bedroom 2Bath No pets. Call between 9 am - 5 pm 499-1500 or 469-6978

Summons & Notice ORDER APPOINTING GUARDIAN AD LITEM STATE OF SOUTH CAROLINA COUNTY OF SUMTER IN THE COURT OF COMMON PLEAS C/A NO: 2015-CP-43-01411 U.S. Bank Trust, N.A., as Trustee for LSF9 Master Participation Trust, Plaintiff, vs.

The Personal Representative, if any, whose name is unknown, of the Estate of Jimmie Leroy Ceasar aka Jimmie Leroy Ceasar, Sr.; Jimmie Ceasar, Jr., Lashawn Ceasar, Tiawanda Ceasar, Matilda Yvette Richardson, as Personal Representative of the Estate of Annette T. Ceasar aka Annette Tomlin Ceasar; Jerlean Tomlin, Matiel Johnson, and any other Heirs-at-Law or Devisees of Jimmie Leroy Ceasar aka Jimmie Leroy Ceasar, Sr. and Annette T. Ceasar aka Annette Tomlin Ceasar, Deceased, their heirs, Personal Representatives, Administrators, Successors and Assigns, and all other persons entitled to claim through them; all unknown persons with any right, title or interest in the real estate described herein; also any persons who may be in the military service of the United States of America, being a class designated as John Doe; and any unknown minors or persons under a disability being a class designated as Richard Roe, and Charles C. Ceasar, Defendants. It appearing to the satisfaction of the Court, upon reading the Motion for the Appointment of Kelley Y. Woody, Esq. as Guardian ad Litem for all unknown persons and persons who may be in the military service of the United States of America (which are constituted as a class designated as "John Doe") and any unknown minors and persons who may be under a disability (which are constituted as a class designated as "Richard Roe"), it is ORDERED that, pursuant to Rule 17, SCRCP, Kelley Y. Woody, Esq. is appointed Guardian ad Litem on behalf of all unknown persons and persons who may be in the military service of the United States of America (constituted as a class and designated as "John Doe"), all unknown minors or persons under a disability (constituted as a class and designated as "Richard Roe"), all of which have or may claim to have some interest in the property that is the subject of this action, commonly known as 6325 Skinner Road, Gable, SC 29051, that Kelley Y. Woody, Esq. is empowered and directed to appear on behalf of and represent all unknown persons and persons who may be in the military service of the United States of America, constituted as a class and designated as "John Doe", all unknown minors and persons under a disability,

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constituted as a class and designated as "Richard Roe", unless the Defendants, or someone acting on their behalf, shall, within thirty (30) days after service of a copy of this Order as directed below, procure the appointment of a Guardian or Guardians ad Litem for the Defendants constituted as a class designated as "John Doe" or "Richard Roe". IT IS FURTHER ORDERED that a copy of this Order shall be served upon the unknown Defendants by publication in the Item, a newspaper of general circulation in the County of SUMTER, State of South Carolina, once a week for three (3) consecutive weeks, together with the Summons in the above entitled action.

SUMMONS AND NOTICE TO THE DEFENDANT(S) ALL UNKNOWN PERSONS WITH ANY RIGHT, TITLE OR INTEREST IN THE REAL ESTATE DESCRIBED HEREIN; ALSO ANY PERSONS WHO MAY BE IN THE MILITARY SERVICE OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA, BEING A CLASS DESIGNATED AS JOHN DOE; AND ANY UNKNOWN MINORS OR PERSONS UNDER A DISABILITY BEING A CLASS DESIGNATED AS RICHARD ROE; MATIEL JOHNSON; JIMMIE CEASAR, JR.; 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 Devine 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 11, 2015. 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 Jimmie Leroy Ceasar to U.S. Bank Trust, N.A., as Trustee for LSF9 Master Participation Trust bearing date of March 23, 2004 and recorded March 26, 2004 in Mortgage Book 931 at Page 283. Thereafter, on March 12, 2007, Beneficial Mortgage Co. of South Carolina merged into Beneficial South Carolina, Inc.; thereafter, on or around December 31, 2009, Beneficial South Carolina, Inc. merged into Beneficial Financial I Inc in the Register of Mesne Conveyances/Register of Deeds/Clerk of Court for Sumter County, in the original principal sum of Seventy One Thousand Three Hundred Ninety Seven and 17/100 Dollars ($71,397.17). Thereafter, by assignment recorded on January 5, 2015 in Book 1207 at page 4977 the mortgage was assigned to U.S. Bank Trust, N.A., as Trustee for LSF9 Master Participation Trust., 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 containing One (1) acre, more or less, together with improvements thereon, situate, lying and being in the Mayesville Township, Sumter County, School District #2, State of South Carolina, which is shown as Lot #2 on that certain plat of six lots made by H.S. Wilson, R.L.S., dated November 18, 1968, of record in the Office of the RMC for Sumter County in Plat Book Z-26 at Page 60. Said lot is bounded on the North by lands of Guy McBride Dabbs, Sr., and measuring thereon 150 feet; on the East by Lot #1 as shown on said plat the same being the property of Guy McBride Dabbs, Sr., and measuring thereon 290.4 feet; on the South by S.C. Road 43-49 known as Storey Road whereon it fronts 150 feet and on the West by Lot #3 on said plat,

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TMS No. 333-00-02-029 Property Address: 6325 Skinner Road, Gable, SC 29051 RILEY POPE & LANEY, LLC, Post Office Box 11412, Columbia, South Carolina 29211 (803) 799-9993 Attorneys for Plaintiff, 1149260 10/23, 10/30, 11/06/2015

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Neither the Plaintiff nor its counsel make representations as to the integrity of the title or the fair market value of the property offered for sale. Prior to bidding you may wish to review the current state law or seek the advice of any attorney licensed in South Carolina.

Book 97 at page 1460, and according to this plat, having the following boundaries and measurements: North by property N/F Rosa Lee C. Brunson and McKenzie Choice, whereon it measures (200.00') feet; East by property N/F Rosa Lee C. Brunson and McKenzie Choice, whereon it measures (172.69') feet; South by property N/F Rosa Lee C. Brunson and McKenzie Choice, whereon it measures (200.00') feet; and West by Alston Road, whereon it measures (172.69') feet; all measurements being a little more or less. This being the same property conveyed to McKenzie Choice, Sr. by deed of Rosa Lee C. Brunson dated December 6, 1997 and recorded January 9, 1998 in the Office of the Register of Deeds for Sumter County in Book 694 at page 760. McKenzie Choice, Sr. died intestate (2012ES4300484) and the subject property passed to his heirs McKenzie Choice, Jr., Sam Lee Choice, Jennie L. Choice and Sarah Choice.

2885 September Drive Sumter, SC 29154 TMS# 183-03-02-003

Richard L. Booth Master in Equity for Sumter County Scott and Corley, P.A. Attorney for Plaintiff

MASTER IN EQUITY NOTICE OF SALE 2015-CP-43-01445

BY VIRTUE of a decree heretofore granted in the case of: Branch Banking and Trust Company vs. The Estate of James M. Gordon, Deceased, and any other Heirs-at-Law or Devisees of the Estate of James M. Gordon, Deceased, their heirs or devisees, successors and assigns, and all other persons entitled to claim through them; all unknown persons with any right, title or interest in the real estate described herein; also any persons who may be in the military service of the United States of America, being a class designated as John Doe; and any unknown minors or persons under a disability being a class designated as Richard Roe, I, the undersigned Richard L. Booth, Master in Equity for Sumter County, will sell on Monday, November 2, 2015 at 12:00 PM, at the County Judicial Center, 215 Harvin Street, Sumter, SC 29150, to the highest bidder: All that certain piece, parcel or lot of land with the improvements thereon, if any, situate, lying and being in the Township of Sumter, State of South Carolina, being shown and designated as Lot No. 4 of County Club Estates Subdivision, Section No. 4, on that plat prepared by Carl J. Croft, RLS, dated January 16, 1993 and recorded in the Office of the Register of Deeds for Sumter County in Plat Book PB 93 at Page 69. This said lot has such metes, boundaries, courses and distances as are shown on said plat, which are incorporated herein in accordance with the provisions of Section 30-5-250 of the Code of Laws of South Carolina, 1976.

This being the identical property conveyed unto James M. Gordon by Deed of the Estate Shirley G. Scott

by Everette N. Scott, Personal Representative dated November 2, 2009 and recorded November 3, 2009 in Book 1131 at Page 2299 in the Office of the Register of Deeds for Sumter County. Thereafter, James M. Gordon died on March 24, 2015.

TMS No. 207-05-02-032 Property address: 40 Par Court, Sumter, SC 29154 TERMS OF SALE: The successful bidder, other than the Plaintiff, will deposit with the Master in Equity, at conclusion of the bidding, five percent (5%) of said bid is due and payable immediately upon closing of the bidding, in cash or equivalent, as evidence of good faith, same to be applied to purchase price in case of compliance, but to be forfeited and applied first to costs and then to Plaintiff's debt in the case of non-compliance. In the event of a third party bidder and that any third party bidder fails to deliver the required deposit in certified (immediately collectible) funds with the Office of the Master in Equity, said deposit being due and payable immediately upon closing of the bidding on the day of sale, the Master in Equity will re-sell the subject property at the most convenient time thereafter (including the day of sale) upon notification to counsel for Plaintiff.

Should the last and highest bidder fail or refuse to comply with the balance due of the bid within 30 days, then the Master in Equity may re-sell the property on the same terms and conditions on some subsequent Sales Day (at the risk of the said highest bidder).

No personal or deficiency judgment being demanded, the bidding will not remain open after the date of sale, but compliance with the bid may be made immediately.

Purchaser to pay for documentary stamps on Master in Equity's Deed.

The successful bidder will be required to pay interest on the balance of the bid from the date of sale to date of compliance with the bid at the rate of 4.000% per annum.

The Plaintiff may waive any of its rights, including its right to a deficiency judgment, prior to sale.

The sale shall be subject to taxes and assessments, existing easements and restrictions of record.

This sale is subject to all title matters of record and any interested party should consider performing an independent title examination of the subject property as no warranty is given.

The sale will not be held unless either Plaintiff's attorney or Plaintiff's bidding agent is present at the sale and either Plaintiff's attorney or Plaintiff's bidding agent enters the authorized bid of Plaintiff for this captioned matter. In the alternative, Plaintiff's counsel, if permitted by the Court, may advise this Court directly of its authorized bidding instructions. In the event a sale is inadvertently held without Plaintiff's Counsel or Counsel's bidding agent entering the authorized bid of Plaintiff for this specifically captioned matter, the sale shall be null and void and the property shall be re-advertised for sale on the next available sale date.

NOTICE OF SALE 2014-CP-43-1494

BY VIRTUE of a decree heretofore granted in the case of: Deutsche Bank National Trust Company, as Indenture Trustee, for New Century Home Equity Loan Trust 2005-1 against Demetria V. Brooks aka Demetra V. Brooks, Johnny O. Brooks, and the Personal Representative, if any, whose name is unknown, of the Estate of B.G. Berry a/k/a Bernard Gene Berry; Lisa Rachels, and any other Heirs-at-Law or Devisees of B.G. Berry a/k/a Bernard Gene Berry, Deceased, their heirs, Personal Representatives, Administrators, Successors and Assigns, and all other persons entitled to claim through them; all unknown persons with any right, title or interest in the real estate described herein; also any persons who may be in the military service of the United States of America, being a class designated as John Doe; and any unknown minors or persons under a disability being a class designated as Richard Roe, I, the undersigned Master in Equity for Sumter County, will sell on November 2, 2015, at 12:00PM, at County Courthouse in Sumter, South Carolina to the highest bidder, the following described property, to-wit: All that certain piece, parcel or lot of land, with any and all improvements thereon, situate, lying and being in the Privateer Township, County of Sumter, State of South Carolina, being shown and designated as Lot No. 30 on a plat of Pocalla Subdivision-First Addition made by J.P. Edwards, R.L.S., dated June 18, 1971 and recorded in the Office of the RMC for Sumter County in Plat Book Z-30 at Page 59; pursuant to section 30-5-250 of the Code of Laws of South Carolina (1976), reference to said plat is hereby craved for the particulars of the boundaries, metes, courses, and/or distances of the property delineated thereon. This property is known as 366 Seminole Road, Sumter, South Carolina. Being the same property conveyed unto Johnny O. Brooks and Demetra V. Brooks by deed from B.G. Berry dated September 2, 1997 and recorded September 3, 1997 in Deed Book 684 at Page 446 in the ROD Office for Sumter County, South Carolina. TMS No. 224-12-01-024 Property Address: 366 Seminole Road, Sumter, SC 29150 TERMS OF SALE: The successful bidder, other than the plaintiff, will deposit with the Master in Equity, at conclusion of the bidding, five per cent (5%) of said bid, in cash or equivalent, as evidence of good faith, same to be applied to purchase price in case of compliance, but to be forfeited and applied first to costs and then to plaintiff's debt in the case of noncompliance.

Should the successful bidder fail or refuse to make the required deposit at time of bid or comply with the other terms of the bid within twenty (20) days, then the Master in Equity may resell the property on the same terms and conditions (at the risk of the said defaulting bidder). Should the Plaintiff, or one of its representatives, fail to be present at the time of sale, the property is automatically withdrawn from said sale and sold at the next available sales day upon the terms and conditions as set forth in the Judgment of Foreclosure and Sale or any Supplemental Order.

The successful bidder will be required to pay for documentary stamps on the Deed and interest on the balance of the bid from the date of sale to the date of compliance with the bid at the rate of 6.0000%. THIS SALE IS SUBJECT TO ASSESSMENTS, COUNTY TAXES, EXISTING EASEMENTS, EASEMENTS AND RESTRICTIONS OF RECORD, AND OTHER SENIOR ENCUMBRANCES. No personal or deficiency judgment being demanded, the bidding will not remain open after the date of sale, but compliance with the bid may be made immediately. NOTICE: The foreclosure deed is not a warranty deed. Interested bidders should satisfy themselves as to the quality of title to be conveyed by obtaining an independent title search well before the foreclosure sale date. The Honorable Richard L. Booth, Master in Equity Sumter County, Riley, Pope & Laney, LLC, Post Office Box 11412, Columbia, SC 29211 (803) 799-9993 Attorneys for Plaintiff 1149302 10/16, 10/23, 10/30/2015

AMENDED NOTICE OF SALE Docket No. 2015-CP-43-943 By virtue of a decree heretofore granted in the case of U.S. Bank, N.A., as trustee for Mid-State Trust VII against Estate of McKenzie Choice, Sr., et al., I, the undersigned Master in Equity for Sumter County, will sell on Monday, November 2, 2015, at 12:00 P.M., at the Sumter County Judicial Center, 215 N. Harvin Street, Courtroom 1-A, Sumter, South Carolina, to the highest bidder: All that certain piece, parcel or lot of land with the improvements thereon, situate, located, lying and being in the County of Sumter, State of South Carolina, the same being shown and designated as a Lot containing (0.79) acres, more or less, on a plat prepared for McKenzie Choice, Sr.

by Donald G. Platt, RLS, dated December 4, 1997 and recorded in the Office of the Register of Deeds Office for Sumter County in Plat

TMS No. 074-00-07-037.

Current address of property is 2220 Alston Road, Rembert, SC 29128.

SUBJECT TO ASSESSMENTS, SUMTER COUNTY TAXES, EXISTING EASEMENTS, EASEMENTS AND RESTRICTIONS OF RECORD, AND OTHER SENIOR ENCUMBRANCES, IF ANY. TERMS OF SALE: The successful bidder, other than the Plaintiff, will deposit with the Master in Equity, at the conclusion of the bidding, Five per cent (5%) of the bid in cash or equivalent, as evidence of good faith, same to be applied to the purchase price in case of compliance, but to be forfeited and applied first to costs and then to Plaintiff's debt in the case of non-compliance. Should the last and highest bidder fail or refuse to make the required deposit at time of bid or comply with the other terms of the bid within thirty (30) days, then the Master in Equity may resell the property on the same terms and conditions on some subsequent Sales Day (at the risk of the said highest bidder.) No personal or deficiency judgment being demanded, the bidding will not remain open after the date of sale, but compliance with the bid may be made immediately.

Purchaser to pay for preparation of the Master in Equity's deed, documentary stamps on the deed, recording of the deed, and interest on the amount of the bid from date of sale to date of compliance with the bid at the rate of 8.50% per annum.

Richard L. Booth As Master in Equity for Sumter County Plaintiff's Attorney: J. Kershaw Spong Post Office Box 944 Columbia, South Carolina 29202 803/779-8900

Notice of Sale C/A No: 2014-CP-43-00512

BY VIRTUE OF A DECREE of the Court of Common Pleas for Sumter County, South Carolina, heretofore issued in the case of Bayview Loan Servicing, LLC vs. Corina D Fountain; Comprehensive Legal Solutions, Inc., I the undersigned as Master in Equity for Sumter County, will sell on 11/2/2015 at 12:00PM, at the Sumter County Judicial Center, Sumter County, South Carolina, to the highest bidder: Legal Description Address:

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ALL THAT CERTAIN piece, parcel, or lot of land, together with the dwelling and improvements thereon, lying and being situate in the Township and County of Sumter, State of South Carolina, being shown and delineated as Lot No. 61 of Summer View Estates, Section No. 4, on that plat prepared by D. D. Edmunds, RLS, dated July 24, 1985 and recorded in Plat Book 85 at page 749 in the records of the Register of Deeds Office 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 made in lieu of metes and bounds as permitted by law under§ 30-5-250 of The Code of Laws of South Carolina (1976), as amended. This is the property known as 2885 September Drive, Sumter, SC. THIS BEING the same property conveyed to James E. Fountain and Corina D. Fountain, as joint tenants with right of survivorship, by virtue of a Deed from Peggy G. Gallup and Stephen A. Gallup dated September 9, 1990 and recorded September 10, 1990 in Volume 513 at Page 284 in the Office of the Register of Deeds for Sumter County, South Carolina.

Thereafter, James E. Fountain died on May 23, 2002 making Corina D. Fountain the sole owner of subject property.

TERMS OF SALE: For cash. Interest at the rate of Two and 00/100 (2%) to be paid on balance of bid from date of sale to date of compliance. The purchaser to pay for papers and stamps, and that the successful bidder or bidders, other than the Plaintiff therein, do, upon the acceptance of his or her bid, deposit with the Master in Equity for Sumter County a certified check or cash in the amount equal to five percent (5%) of the amount of bid on said premises at the sale as evidence of good faith in bidding, and subject to any resale of said premises under Order of this Court; and in the event the said purchaser or purchasers fail to comply with the terms of sale within Twenty (20) days, the Master in Equity shall forthwith resell the said property, after the due notice and advertisement, and shall continue to sell the same each subsequent sales day until a purchaser, who shall comply with the terms of sale, shall be obtained, such sales to be made at the risk of the former purchaser. As a personal or deficiency judgment is demanded, the bidding will remain open for a period of thirty (30) days pursuant to the S.C. Code Ann. Section 15-39-720 (1976). If the Plaintiff or the Plaintiff's representative does not appear at the above-described sale, then the sale of the property will be null, void, and of no force and effect.

In such event, the sale will be rescheduled for the next available sales day. Plaintiff may waive any of its rights, including its right to a deficiency judgment, prior to sale.

Sold subject to taxes and assessments, existing easements and restrictions of record.

Richard L. Booth Master in Equity For Sumter County Sumter, South Carolina Hutchens Law Firm P.O. Box 8237 Columbia, SC 29202 803-726-2700

MASTER IN EQUITY NOTICE OF SALE 2015-CP-43-00952

FRIDAY, OCTOBER 23, 2015 Notice of Sale This being the same property conveyed to Kenneth Wayne Porter and Pamela L. Shorter Porter by Deed of Joyce L. Shorter dated May 31, 1983 and recorded August 10, 1983 in Book 342 at Page 816 in the ROD Office for Sumter County.

Thereafter, Joyce L. Shorter conveyed the subject property by Corrective Deed to Kenneth Wayne Porter and Pamela L. Shorter Porter dated May 2, 1986 and recorded May 16, 1986 in Book 425 at Page 1923 in the ROD Office for Sumter County.

Thereafter, Pamela L. Shorter Porter a/k/a Pamela S. Porter died on July 22, 2012, leaving the subject property to her heirs or devisees, namely, Kenneth Wayne Porter a/k/a Kenneth W. Porter, Kenneth Wayne Porter, Jr., David A. Porter, and Kayla L. Porter.

TMS No. 227-08-01-033 Property address: 2 Hilltop Street, Sumter, SC 29150 TERMS OF SALE: The successful bidder, other than the Plaintiff, will deposit with the Master in Equity, at conclusion of the bidding, five percent (5%) of said bid is due and payable immediately upon closing of the bidding, in cash or equivalent, as evidence of good faith, same to be applied to purchase price in case of compliance, but to be forfeited and applied first to costs and then to Plaintiff's debt in the case of non-compliance. In the event of a third party bidder and that any third party bidder fails to deliver the required deposit in certified (immediately collectible) funds with the Office of the Master in Equity, said deposit being due and payable immediately upon closing of the bidding on the day of sale, the Master in Equity will re-sell the subject property at the most convenient time thereafter (including the day of sale) upon notification to counsel for Plaintiff.

Should the last and highest bidder fail or refuse to comply with the balance due of the bid within 30 days, then the Master in Equity may re-sell the property on the same terms and conditions on some subsequent Sales Day (at the risk of the said highest bidder).

BY VIRTUE of a decree heretofore granted in the case of: U.S. Bank Trust, N.A., as Trustee for LSF8 Master Participation Trust vs.

Kenneth Wayne Porter a/k/a Kenneth W. Porter, Kenneth Wayne Porter, Jr., David A. Porter, and Kayla L. Porter, individually, and as Legal Heirs or Devisees of the Estate of Pamela L. Shorter Porter a/k/a Pamela S. Porter, Deceased, and any other Heirs-at-Law or Devisees of the Estate of Pamela L. Shorter Porter a/k/a Pamela S. Porter, Deceased, their heirs or devisees, successors and assigns, and all other persons entitled to claim through them; all unknown persons with any right, title or interest in the real estate described herein; also any persons who may be in the military service of the United States of America, being a class designated as John Doe; and any unknown minors or persons under a disability being a class designated as Richard Roe; et al., I, the undersigned Richard L. Booth, Master in Equity for Sumter County, will sell on Monday, November 2, 2015 at 12:00 PM, at the County Judicial Center, 215 Harvin Street, Sumter, SC 29150, to the highest bidder:

Personal or deficiency judgment being demanded, the bidding will remain open for a period of thirty (30) days after the sale date. The Plaintiff may waive its right to a deficiency judgment prior to sale, in which case the bidding will not remain open after the date of sale, but compliance with the bid may be made immediately.

All that piece, parcel or lot of land, situate, lying and being in the County of Sumter, State of South Carolina, and being specifically shown as Lot No. 275 on a plat of Millwood Gardens Subdivision made by H. S. Willson, R.L.S., and recorded in the Office of the RMC for Sumter County in Plat Book Z-15 at Page 118; Said lot being bounded and measuring thereon as follows according to said plat; On the Northeast and along Hill Top Street for a distance of 93.76 feet; on the North by Hilltop and Briarwood Intersection and measuring thereon along a curved line a distance of 31.42 feet; on the east by Briarwood Drive and measuring thereon 117.63 feet; on the South by Lot Number 276, said plat, and measuring thereon 143.5 feet; and on the West by Lot Number 273, said plat and measuring thereon 100 feet; be all measurements a little more or a little less according to said plat.

The sale will not be held unless either Plaintiff's attorney or Plaintiff's bidding agent is present at the sale and either Plaintiff's attorney or Plaintiff's bidding agent enters the authorized bid of Plaintiff for this captioned matter. In the alternative, Plaintiff's counsel, if permitted by the Court, may advise this Court directly of its authorized bidding instructions. In the event a sale is inadvertently held without Plaintiff's Counsel or Counsel's bidding agent entering the authorized bid of Plaintiff for this specifically captioned matter, the

Purchaser to pay for documentary stamps on Master in Equity's Deed.

The successful bidder will be required to pay interest on the balance of the bid from the date of sale to date of compliance with the bid at the rate of 8.490% per annum.

The Plaintiff may waive any of its rights, including its right to a deficiency judgment, prior to sale.

The sale shall be subject to taxes and assessments, existing easements and restrictions of record.

This sale is subject to all title matters of record and any interested party should consider performing an independent title examination of the subject property as no warranty is given.

Notice of Sale sale shall be null and void and the property shall be re-advertised for sale on the next available sale date.

Neither the Plaintiff nor its counsel make representations as to the integrity of the title or the fair market value of the property offered for sale. Prior to bidding you may wish to review the current state law or seek the advice of any attorney licensed in South Carolina.

Richard L. Booth Master in Equity for Sumter County Scott and Corley, P.A. Attorney for Plaintiff

NOTICE OF MASTER IN EQUITY SALE CIVIL ACTION NO. 14-CP-43-1256

BY VIRTUE OF A DECREE of the Court of Common Pleas for Sumter County, South Carolina, heretofore issued in the case of CitiMortgage, Inc., against Raven Talbert, et al., the Master in Equity for Sumter County, or his/her agent, will sell on November 2, 2015, at 12:00 P.M., at Sumter Judicial Center, 215 North Harvin Street, Sumter, SC 29150, to the highest bidder: All that certain piece, parcel or lot of land, with improvements thereon, if any, situate, lying and being in Sumter Township, County of Sumter, State of South Carolina, being more particularly shown and delineated as Lot #22, Block "I", "Sherwood Forest" Subdivision, as shown on that certain plat of Edmunds Land Surveyors, RLS, dated October 31, 1996, and recorded in the Office of the RMC for Sumter County in Plat Book PB96 at page 1454. The said lot has such metes, boundaries, courses and distances as are shown on said plat which are incorporated herein in accordance with the provisions of Section 30-5-250, Code of Laws of South Carolina, 1976, as amended.

This property is also known as 1036 E. Sherwood Drive.

TMS Number: 2680906008 PROPERTY ADDRESS: 1036 E Sherwood Dr, Sumter, SC This being the same property conveyed to Robert Lowery and Catherine Ferguson by deed of Earl J. James, dated November 6, 1996, and recorded in the Office of the Register of Deeds for Sumter County on November 6, 1996, in Deed Book 660 at Page 1165.

TERMS OF SALE: FOR CASH. The Master in Equity will require a deposit of 5% of the bid amount in cash or certified funds, which is to be applied on the purchase price upon compliance with the bid.

Interest on the balance of the bid at 8.375% shall be paid to the day of compliance.

In case of noncompliance within 20 days, after the sale, the deposit of 5% is to be forfeited and applied to Plaintiff's judgment debt and the property re-advertised for sale upon the same terms at the risk of the former highest bidder. Purchaser to pay for deed recording fees and deed stamps.

Deficiency judgment not being demanded, the bidding will not remain open after the date of sale, but compliance with the bid may be made immediately.

Should Plaintiff, Plaintiff's attorney, or Plaintiff's agent fail to appear on the day of sale, the property shall not be sold, but shall be re-advertised and sold at some convenient sales day thereafter when Plaintiff, Plaintiff's attorney, or Plaintiff's agent, is present.

The sale shall be subject to taxes and assessments, existing easements and easements and restrictions of record.

Plaintiff does not warrant its title search to purchasers at foreclosure

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sale or other third parties, who should have their own title search performed on the subject property.

Aavik by deed of Ruby O. Cain dated May 24, 2003 and recorded May 30, 2003 in the Office of the Register of Deeds for Sumter County, South Carolina in Book 891 at page 889; thereafter, re-recorded September 10, 2003 in Book 907 at Page 1316 to correct the spelling of the grantee's name.

thence with the line of Reserve Area "C", S 44째42' E for a distance of 120 feet to an iron pin; thence with the line of Lot 8, S 45째18' W for a distance of 250 feet to the point of beginning.

All distances being a little more or less. This conveyance is made subject to all restrictions, rights of way and easements, including this Restrictive Covenants of record in the Office of the Register of Deeds, formerly known as Clerk of Court, in Deed Book S-9 at page 397. Also includes a mobile/manufactured home, a 2009 Oakwood VIN# RIC243069NCAB.This is the same property conveyed to Michael Keith Whitfield by Vanderbilt Mortgage and Finance, Inc. dated March 1, 2012 and being recorded March 26, 2012 in Book 1168 at Page 3554 in the Sumter County Register of Deeds Office. TMS No. 089-00-01-027 (land) and 400-00-35-724 (mobile home) Property Address: 4685 Pineside Drive, Rembert, SC 29128 TERMS OF SALE: The successful bidder, other than the plaintiff, will deposit with the Master in Equity, at conclusion of the bidding, five per cent (5%) of said bid, in cash or equivalent, as evidence of good faith, same to be applied to purchase price in case of compliance, but to be forfeited and applied first to costs and then to plaintiff's debt in the case of noncompliance. Should the successful bidder fail or refuse to make the required deposit at time of bid or comply with the other terms of the bid within twenty (20) days, then the Master in Equity may resell the property on the same terms and conditions (at the risk of the said defaulting bidder). Should the Plaintiff, or one of its representatives, fail to be present at the time of sale, the property is automatically withdrawn from said sale and sold at the next available sales day upon the terms and conditions as set forth in the Judgment of Foreclosure and Sale or any Supplemental Order.

The successful bidder will be required to pay for documentary stamps on the Deed and interest on the balance of the bid from the date of sale to the date of compliance with the bid at the rate of 10.3000%. THIS SALE IS SUBJECT TO ASSESSMENTS, COUNTY TAXES, EXISTING EASEMENTS, EASEMENTS AND RESTRICTIONS OF RECORD, AND OTHER SENIOR ENCUMBRANCES. No personal or deficiency judgment being demanded, the bidding will not remain open after the date of sale, but compliance with the bid may be made immediately. NOTICE: The foreclosure deed is not a warranty deed. Interested bidders should satisfy themselves as to the quality of title to be conveyed by obtaining an independent title search well before the foreclosure sale date. The Honorable Richard L. Booth, Master in Equity Sumter County, Riley, Pope & Laney, LLC, Post Office Box 11412, Columbia, SC 29211 (803) 799-9993 Attorneys for Plaintiff 1149086 10/16, 10/23, 10/30/2015

State of South Carolina, shown and designated as part of Lot 71 containing 0.25 acres, of Phase 1-Section No. 2, of Landmark Pointe Subdivision, on plat of Joseph R. Edwards, P.L.S., dated June 7, 2002, and recorded with the Register of Deeds for Sumter County in Plat Book 2002 at Page 331. Pursuant to Section 30-2-250 of the Code of Laws of South Carolina.

(1976, as amended), reference to said plat is hereby made for the metes, bounds, courses and/or distance of the property delineated thereon. This property address is known as 3513 Horizon Drive, Sumter, South Carolina, 29154, and is shown on the Sumter County Tax Map records as part of tax map parcel #185-07-05-007.

does not appear at the time of sale, the within property shall be withdrawn from sale and sold at the next available sales date upon the terms and conditions as set forth in the Judgment of Foreclosure and Sale or such terms as may be set forth in a supplemental order.

S. Bryan Doby Special Referee for Sumter County Bishopville, South Carolina FINKEL LAW FIRM LLC Post Office Box 71727 North Charleston, S.C. 29415 (843) 577-5460 Attorneys for Plaintiff

TMS #: 400-00-30-769 Physical Address: 4650 Christine Dr., Sumter, SC 29150

NOTICE OF SALE CIVIL ACTION NO. 2015-CP-43-01281

Mobile Home: 1999 Liberty VIN # 16L08354XTU

BY VIRTUE of the decree heretofore granted in the case of: Branch Banking and Trust Company vs.

Timothy J. Jones, the undersigned Master In Equity for Sumter County, South Carolina, will sell on November 2, 2015 at 12:00PM, at the Sumter County Courthouse, City of Sumter, State of South Carolina, to the highest bidder: ALL THAT CERTAIN PIECE, PARCEL AND LOT OF LAND WITH IMPROVEMENTS THEREON SITUATE, LYING AND BEING IN THE COUNTY OF SUMTER, STATE OF SOUTH CAROLINA IDENTIFIED AS LOT NO. 96 OF MORRIS WAY SUBDIVISION, SECTION II AND BEING MORE FULLY SHOWN ON A PLAT PREPARED BY JOSEPH R EDWARDS, P.L.S. DATED OCTOBER 16, 1996 AND RECORDED IN PLAT BOOK 96 AT PAGE 1376 IN THE RECORDS FOR SUMTER COUNTY, SOUTH CAROLINA; WHICH 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. BE ALL MEASUREMENTS A LITTLE MORE OR A LITTLE LESS AND ACCORDING TO SAID PLAT. THIS BEING THE SAME PROPERTY CONVEYED TO TIMOTHY J. JONES BY DEED OF AMERICAN INTERNATIONAL RELOCATION SOLUTIONS, LLC DATED MAY 14, 2007 AND RECORDED MAY 21, 2007 IN BOOK 1078, PAGE 1096 IN THE RECORDS FOR SUMTER COUNTY, SOUTH CAROLINA.

CURRENT ADDRESS OF PROPERTY: 1370 Morris Way Drive, Sumter, SC 29154 TMS: 207-15-02-019 TERMS OF SALE: The successful bidder, other than the Plaintiff, will deposit with the Master In Equity, at conclusion of the bidding, five percent (5%) of his bid, in cash or equivalent, as evidence of good faith, same to be applied to the purchase price in case of compliance, but to be forfeited and applied first to costs and then to the Plaintiff's debt in the case of non-compliance. Should the last and highest bidder fail to comply with the other terms of the bid within thirty (30) days, then the Master In Equity may re-sell the property on the same terms and conditions on some subsequent Sales Day (at the risk of the said highest bidder). Deficiency judgment being demanded, the bidding will not be closed on the day of sale but will remain open for a period of thirty (30) days as provided by law.

Plaintiff is demanding a deficiency, the Plaintiff may waive any of its rights, including its right to a deficiency judgment, prior to sale.

Purchaser to pay for documentary stamps on the Deed. The successful bidder will be required to pay interest on the amount of the balance of the bid from date of sale to date of compliance with the bid at the rate of 5% per annum. The sale shall be subject to taxes and assessments, existing easements and restrictions, easements and restrictions of record and any other senior encumbrances.

In the event an agent of Plaintiff does not appear at the time of sale, the within property shall be withdrawn from sale and sold at the next available sales date upon the terms and conditions as set forth in the Judgment of Foreclosure and Sale or such terms as may be set forth in a supplemental order.

The Honorable Richard L. Booth Master In Equity for Sumter County Brock & Scott, PLLC 3800 Fernandina Road, Suite 110 Columbia, SC 29210 Attorneys for Plaintiff 15-10499

NOTICE OF SALE IN THE COURT OF COMMON PLEAS CASE NO. 2014-CP-43-0871 STATE OF SOUTH CAROLINA COUNTY OF SUMTER Green Tree Servicing LLC Plaintiff, -vsAnn Aavik, The Estate of Thomas Aavik, acting by and through its Personal Representative, whose name is unknown, South Carolina Department of Motor Vehicles, Ford Motor Credit Company LLC, and any and all persons claiming any right, title, estate or interest in real estate described in the Complaint any unknown adults being as a class designated as John Doe, and any unknown infants or persons under disability being as a class designated as Richard Roe, Defendant(s) BY VIRTUE of a judgment heretofore granted in the case of Green Tree Servicing LLC vs. Ann Aavik, The Estate of Thomas Aavik, acting by and through its Personal Representative, whose name is unknown, South Carolina Department of Motor Vehicles, Ford Motor Credit Company LLC, I, Richard L. Booth, as Master In Equity for Sumter County, will sell on November 2, 2015, at 12:00 Noon, at the Sumter County Courthouse, 215 N. Harvin Street, Sumter, SC 29150, to the highest bidder: All that certain piece, parcel, or lot of land, together with the improvements thereon, if any, situate, lying, and being in the Township of Privateer, County of Sumter, State of South Carolina, being shown and designated as Lot #63, Havenwood Subdivision, Section # 9, as shown on that certain plat prepared by Croft Engineers, RLS, and recorded in the Office of the Register of Deeds for Sumter County in Plat Book 87 at page 349, and having such metes and bounds as are shown on said plat, this description being in lieu of metes and bounds, as permitted under Section 30-5-250 of the 1976 Code of Laws of South Carolina. This is the property known as 4650 Christine Drive.

ALSO INCLUDED: Liberty MH (42 x 56)

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This is the identical property conveyed to Thomas Aavik and Ann

SUBJECT TO SUMTER COUNTY TAXES TERMS OF SALE: The successful bidder, other than the Plaintiff, will deposit with the Master In Equity at conclusion of the bidding, five (5%) of his bid, in cash or equivalent, as evidence of good faith, the same to be applied to purchase price in case of compliance, but to be forfeited and applied first to costs and then to Plaintiff's debt in the case of noncompliance. Should the last and highest bidder fail or refuse to make the required deposit at the time of the bid or comply with the other terms or the bid within twenty (20) days, then the Master In Equity may resell the property on the same terms and conditions on some subsequent Sales Day (at the risk of the former highest bidder). No personal or deficiency judgment being demanded, the bidding will not remain open after the date of sale, but compliance with the bid may be made immediately.

The successful bidder will be required to pay interest on the amount of the bid from the date of sale to date of compliance with the bid at the rate of 6.0% per annum.

Richard L. Booth Master In Equity for Sumter County Theodore von Keller, Esquire B. Lindsay Crawford, III, Esquire Sara Hutchins Columbia, South Carolina Attorney for Plaintiff

NOTICE OF SALE CIVIL ACTION NO. 2015-CP-43-01013 BY VIRTUE of the decree heretofore granted in the case of: PNC Bank, National Association vs.

Paul M. McCombs; Eydie A. McCombs; Bank of America, N.A.; CACH, LLC, the undersigned Master In Equity for Sumter County, South Carolina, will sell on November 2, 2015 at 12:00PM, at the Sumter County Courthouse, City of Sumter, State of South Carolina, to the highest bidder: ALL THAT PIECE, PARCEL OF LOT OF LAND LYING, BEING AND SITUATE NW OF SALEM ST, IN THE TOWNSHIP OF MAYESVILLE, COUNTY OF SUMTER, STATE OF SOUTH CAROLINA, SHOWN ON A PLAT PREPARED BY LOUIS W. TISDALE, DATED JANUARY 29, 1997 AND RECORDED IN PLAT BOOK 97, PAGE 138 IN THE RECORDS OF SUMTER COUNTY, SOUTH CAROLINA. THIS BEING THE SAME PROPERTY CONVEYED TO PAUL M. MCCOMBS AND EYDIE A. MCCOMBS BY DEED OF THOMAS W. COOPER, JR. AND STEPHEN G. COOPER DATED FEBRUARY 3, 1997 AND RECORDED FEBRUARY 5, 1997 IN BOOK 666, PAGE 1535 IN THE RECORDS FOR SUMTER COUNTY, SOUTH CAROLINA.

CURRENT ADDRESS OF PROPERTY: 107 Salem Street, Mayesville, SC 29104 TMS: 305-13-02-003 and 305-13-02-011 TERMS OF SALE: The successful bidder, other than the Plaintiff, will deposit with the Master In Equity, at conclusion of the bidding, five percent (5%) of his bid, in cash or equivalent, as evidence of good faith, same to be applied to the purchase price in case of compliance, but to be forfeited and applied first to costs and then to the Plaintiff's debt in the case of non-compliance. Should the last and highest bidder fail to comply with the other terms of the bid within thirty (30) days, then the Master In Equity may re-sell the property on the same terms and conditions on some subsequent Sales Day (at the risk of the said highest bidder). Deficiency judgment being demanded, the bidding will not be closed on the day of sale but will remain open for a period of thirty (30) days as provided by law.

Plaintiff is demanding a deficiency, the Plaintiff may waive any of its rights, including its right to a deficiency judgment, prior to sale.

Purchaser to pay for documentary stamps on the Deed. The successful bidder will be required to pay interest on the amount of the balance of the bid from date of sale to date of compliance with the bid at the rate of 6% per annum. The sale shall be subject to taxes and assessments, existing easements and restrictions, easements and restrictions of record and any other senior encumbrances.

In the event an agent of Plaintiff does not appear at the time of sale, the within property shall be withdrawn from sale and sold at the next available sales date upon the terms and conditions as set forth in the Judgment of Foreclosure and Sale or such terms as may be set forth in a supplemental order.

The Honorable Richard L. Booth Master In Equity for Sumter County Brock & Scott, PLLC 3800 Fernandina Road, Suite 110 Columbia, SC 29210 Attorneys for Plaintiff 15-07505 AMENDED NOTICE OF SALE 2015-CP-43-01273 BY VIRTUE of a decree heretofore granted in the case of: Vanderbilt Mortgage and Finance Inc against Michael Keith Whitfield, Jr. a/k/a Michael Keith Whitfield, I, the undersigned Master in Equity for Sumter County, will sell on November 2, 2015, at 12:00PM, at County Courthouse in Sumter, South Carolina to the highest bidder, the following described property, to-wit: All that certain piece, parcel, lot or tract of land with improvements thereon, if any, situate, lying and being in Raft Creek Township, Sumter County, South Carolina, and being more particularly shown and delineated as Lot #9 on that certain plat of "Happy Homes Subdivision" prepared by Julian D. Allen, RLS, dated November 6, 1970 and recorded in the Office of the Register of Deeds for Sumter County in Plat Book Z-29 at page 69 and according to said plat having the following metes and bounds; to-wit: Beginning at the iron pin located on the northeast right-of-way of Pineside Drive approximately 950 feet north of Ranch Road and proceeding along said right-of-way N 44째42' W for a distance of 120 feet to an iron pin; thence turning with the line of Lot 10, N 45째18' E for a distance of 250 feet to an iron pin;

NOTICE OF SALE 2014-CP-43-01261

BY VIRTUE of a decree heretofore granted in the case of: CitiMortgage, Inc. against Gary W. Harvell, II and Brenda Gail Harvell, I, the undersigned Master in Equity for Sumter County, will sell on November 2, 2015, at 12:00PM, at County Courthouse in Sumter, South Carolina to the highest bidder, the following described property, to-wit: All that certain piece, parcel or lot of land with the improvements thereon, situate, lying and being in the City and County of Sumter, state of South Carolina, being more particularly shown and delineated as Lot 34 D Bar Subdivision as shown on that certain plat of D.D. Edmunds RLS dated January 24, 2003, and recorded in the Office of the Register of Deeds for Sumter County Plat Book PB 2003 at Page 430. The said lot has such metes, courses, and distances as are shown on said plat which are incorporated herein in accordance with the provision of Section 30-5-250 of the Code of Laws of South Carolina, 1976. This property is known as 2840 DBar Circle Sumter, SC. This being the same property conveyed to Gary W. Harvell, II by deed of George R. Morris III and Shasta C. Morris dated February 28, 2007 and recorded February 28, 2007, in Book 1067 at Page 00589, in the Register of Deeds Office for Sumter County, State of South Carolina. Thereafter, said property was conveyed to Gary W. Harvell, II and Brenda Gail Harvell, as joint tenants with rights of survivorship by deed of Gary W. Harvell, II, dated March 13, 2007 and recorded March 13, 2007, in Book 1069 at Page 00172, in the Register of Deeds Office for Sumter County, State of South Carolina. TMS No. 209-08-04-007 Property Address: 2840 Dbar Circle, Sumter, SC 29154 TERMS OF SALE: The successful bidder, other than the plaintiff, will deposit with the Master in Equity, at conclusion of the bidding, five per cent (5%) of said bid, in cash or equivalent, as evidence of good faith, same to be applied to purchase price in case of compliance, but to be forfeited and applied first to costs and then to plaintiff's debt in the case of noncompliance.

Should the successful bidder fail or refuse to make the required deposit at time of bid or comply with the other terms of the bid within twenty (20) days, then the Master in Equity may resell the property on the same terms and conditions (at the risk of the said defaulting bidder). Should the Plaintiff, or one of its representatives, fail to be present at the time of sale, the property is automatically withdrawn from said sale and sold at the next available sales day upon the terms and conditions as set forth in the Judgment of Foreclosure and Sale or any Supplemental Order.

The successful bidder will be required to pay for documentary stamps on the Deed and interest on the balance of the bid from the date of sale to the date of compliance with the bid at the rate of 6.3750%. THIS SALE IS SUBJECT TO ASSESSMENTS, COUNTY TAXES, EXISTING EASEMENTS, EASEMENTS AND RESTRICTIONS OF RECORD, AND OTHER SENIOR ENCUMBRANCES. No personal or deficiency judgment being demanded, the bidding will not remain open after the date of sale, but compliance with the bid may be made immediately. NOTICE: The foreclosure deed is not a warranty deed. Interested bidders should satisfy themselves as to the quality of title to be conveyed by obtaining an independent title search well before the foreclosure sale date. The Honorable Richard L. Booth, Master in Equity Sumter County, Riley, Pope & Laney, LLC, Post Office Box 11412, Columbia, SC 29211 (803) 799-9993 Attorneys for Plaintiff 1149269 10/16, 10/23, 10/30/2015

AMENDED MASTER IN EQUITY'S SALE CASE NO. 2013-CP-43-02298

BY VIRTUE of a decree heretofore granted in the case of Trustmark National Bank against Alain Cottrell Flonnory, et al., I, the Master in Equity for Sumter County, will sell on Monday, November 2, 2015, at 12:00 o'clock p.m., at the Sumter County Courthouse, Sumter, South Carolina, to the highest bidder: All that certain piece, parcel or tract of land, being and situate in the Sumter Township, County of Sumter,

This being the same property conveyed to Alain Cottrell Flonnory and Nicole Shantel Flonnory, as joint tenants with rights of survivorship by deed of McKnight Construction Company of Sumter, Inc., dated March 1, 2004 and recorded March 1, 2004, in Book 927 at Page 001678, in the Register of Deeds Office for Sumter County, State of South Carolina.

TMS #: 185-07-05-013 Property Address: 3513 Horizon Drive Sumter, S.C. 29154 TERMS OF SALE: The successful bidder, other than the plaintiff, will deposit with the Master in Equity for Sumter County at conclusion of the bidding, five percent (5%) of the bid, in cash or equivalent, as evidence of good faith, same to be applied to the purchase price in case of compliance, but to be forfeited and applied first to costs and then to plaintiff's debt in the case of non-compliance. If the Plaintiff's representative is not in attendance at the scheduled time of the sale, the sale shall be canceled and the property sold on some subsequent sales day after due advertisement.

Should the last and highest bidder fail or refuse to make the required deposit at time of bid or comply with the other terms of the bid within thirty (30) days, the deposit shall be forfeited and the Master in Equity for Sumter County may re-sell the property on the same terms and conditions on some subsequent Sales Day (at the risk of the said highest bidder). As a deficiency judgment is being Waived, the bidding will not remain open thirty days after the date of sale. Purchaser shall pay for preparation of deed, documentary stamps on the deed, and recording of the deed. The successful bidder will be required to pay interest on the amount of the bid from date of sale to date of compliance with the bid at the rate of 6.00% per annum. The sale shall be subject to assessments, Sumter County taxes, easements, easements and restrictions of record, and other senior encumbrances.

Richard L. Booth Master in Equity for Sumter County GRIMSLEY LAW FIRM, LLC Edward L. Grimsley Benjamin E. Grimsley 1703 Laurel Street P. O Box 11682 Columbia, SC 29211 (803) 233-1177 Attorneys for the Plaintiff

NOTICE OF SALE CIVIL ACTION NO. 2015-CP-43-01026 BY VIRTUE of the decree heretofore granted in the case of: MidFirst Bank vs. Daphne A. Paschall a/k/a Daphne Ann Paschall; South Carolina Department of Motor Vehicles; Bibco, Inc., the undersigned Master In Equity for Sumter County, South Carolina, will sell on November 2, 2015 at 12:00PM, at the Sumter County Courthouse, City of Sumter, State of South Carolina, to the highest bidder: ALL THAT CERTAIN PIECE, PARCEL OR LOT OF LAND, WITH THE IMPROVEMENTS THEREON, SITUATE, LYING AND BEING LOCATED IN MIDDLETON TOWNSHIP, SCHOOL DISTRICT TWO, COUNTY OF SUMTER, STATE OF SOUTH CAROLINA, REPRESENTED AS LOT 49A (CONTAINING 1.75 ACRES, MORE OR LESS), IN THE HIDDEN OAKS SUBDIVISION AS SHOWN ON PLAT OF D.D. EDMUNDS, RLS, DATED OCTOBER 1, 1998 AND RECORDED IN THE SUMTER COUNTY REGISTER OF DEEDS OFFICE IN PLAT BOOK 98 AT PAGE 1179 AND HAVING SUCH BOUNDARIES, METES, COURSES AND DISTANCES AS ARE SHOWN ON SAID PLAT, REFERENCE TO WHICH IS HEREBY MADE PURSUANT TO AUTHORITY CONTAINED IN SECTION 30-50-250 OF THE CODE OF LAWS OF SOUTH CAROLINA, 1976, AS AMENDED. THIS PROPERTY IS KNOWN AS 1525 HIDDEN OAKS DRIVE. ALSO INCLUDED HEREWITH IS THAT CERTAIN 2000 BELLCREST MANUFACTURED HOME BEARING SERIAL NUMBER GBHMN33512A/B. THIS IS THE SAME PROPERTY CONVEYED TO TIMOTHY A. PASCHALL BY DEED OF ROBERT D. BELK, DATED JUNE 15, 2000 AND RECORDED JUNE 16, 2000 IN THE OFFICE OF THE REGISTER OF DEEDS FOR SUMTER COUNTY, SOUTH CAROLINA IN BOOK 774, PAGE 1965. THEREAFTER, BEING THE SAME PROPERTY CONVEYED TO DEED OF DISTRIBUTION FROM THE ESTATE OF TIMOTHY ALLEN PASCHALL DATED AND RECORDED ON MARCH 9, 2012 IN BOOK 1168 AT PAGE 884.

CURRENT ADDRESS OF PROPERTY: 1525 Hidden Oaks Drive, Wedgefield, SC 29168 TMS: 100-00-020-20 TERMS OF SALE: The successful bidder, other than the Plaintiff, will deposit with the Master In Equity, at conclusion of the bidding, five percent (5%) of his bid, in cash or equivalent, as evidence of good faith, same to be applied to the purchase price in case of compliance, but to be forfeited and applied first to costs and then to the Plaintiff's debt in the case of non-compliance. Should the last and highest bidder fail to comply with the other terms of the bid within thirty (30) days, then the Master In Equity may re-sell the property on the same terms and conditions on some subsequent Sales Day (at the risk of the said highest bidder). No personal or deficiency judgment being demanded, the bidding shall not remain open after the date of sale and shall be final on that date, and compliance with the bid may be made immediately.

Purchaser to pay for documentary stamps on the Deed. The successful bidder will be required to pay interest on the amount of the balance of the bid from date of sale to date of compliance with the bid at the rate of 6% per annum. The sale shall be subject to taxes and assessments, existing easements and restrictions, easements and restrictions of record and any other senior encumbrances.

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The Honorable Richard L. Booth Master In Equity for Sumter County Brock & Scott, PLLC 3800 Fernandina Road, Suite 110 Columbia, SC 29210 Attorneys for Plaintiff 14-24711

NOTICE OF SALE CIVIL ACTION NO. 2012-CP-43-01507 BY VIRTUE of the decree heretofore granted in the case of: Nationstar Mortgage, LLC vs. Minnie Holland; Darlene Dellinger, the undersigned Master In Equity for Sumter County, South Carolina, will sell on November 2, 2015 at 12:00 PM, at the Sumter County Courthouse, City of Sumter, State of South Carolina, to the highest bidder: ALL THAT CERTAIN PIECE, PARCEL OR LOT OF LAND, WITH THE HOUSE AND OTHER IMPROVEMENTS THERE ON, SITUATE IN SUMTER TOWNSHIP, COUNTY OF SUMTER OF SOUTH CAROLINA, BEING DESIGNATED AND SHOWN AS LOT NO.88 OF SECTION 3 "PINEDALE" SUBDIVISION ON PLAT OF H.S. WILSON, RLS, SURVEYED DECEMBER 14, 1970 AND RESURVEYED JUNE 10, 1971 AND RECORDED IN THE OFFICE OF THE CLERK OF COURT FOR SUMTER COUNTY IN PLAT BOOK Z-30 AT PAGE 55; SAID LOT NO. 88 BEING BOUNDED AND MEASURED AS FOLLOWS, ACCORDING TO THE AFORESAID PLAT, NORTH BY LOT NO. 87 AND MEASURING THEREON 132.9 FEET; EAST BY LOT NO. 84 AND MEASURING THEREON 85.0 FEET; SOUTH BY LOT NO. 89 AND MEASURING THEREON 137.5 FEET, AND WEST BY ALBERT SPEARS DRIVE ON WHICH IT FRONTS ON CURVE 85.2 FEET, ALL MEASUREMENTS BEING A LITTLE MORE OR LESS. THIS BEING THE SAME PROPERTY CONVEYED TO BROWNIE HOLLAND AND MINNIE L. HOLLAND DATED JUNE 14, 1971 AND RECORDED JUNE 15, 1971 IN THE OFFICE OF THE REGISTER OF DEEDS FOR SUMTER COUNTY IN BOOK S-9 AT PAGE 1347. THEREAFTER BEING THE SAME PROPERTY CONVEYED TO MINNIE L. HOLLAND BY DEED OF BROWNIE ST. CLAIR HOLLAND A/K/A BROWNIE S. HOLLAND DATED OCTOBER 20, 2011 AND RECORDED OCTOBER 21, 2011 IN BOOK 1161 AT PAGE 2374.

CURRENT ADDRESS OF PROPERTY: 129 Albert Spears Drive, Sumter, SC 29150 TMS: 226-03-03-026 TERMS OF SALE: The successful bidder, other than the Plaintiff, will deposit with the Master In Equity, at conclusion of the bidding, five percent (5%) of his bid, in cash or equivalent, as evidence of good faith, same to be applied to the purchase price in case of compliance, but to be forfeited and applied first to costs and then to the Plaintiff's debt in the case of non-compliance. Should the last and highest bidder fail to comply with the other terms of the bid within thirty (30) days, then the Master In Equity may re-sell the property on the same terms and conditions on some subsequent Sales Day (at the risk of the said highest bidder). No personal or deficiency judgment being demanded, the bidding shall not remain open after the date of sale and shall be final on that date, and compliance with the bid may be made immediately.

Purchaser to pay for documentary stamps on the Deed. The successful bidder will be required to pay interest on the amount of the balance of the bid from date of sale to date of compliance with the bid at the rate of 5% per annum. The sale shall be subject to taxes and assessments, existing easements and restrictions, easements and restrictions of record and any other senior encumbrances.

In the event an agent of Plaintiff does not appear at the time of sale, the within property shall be withdrawn from sale and sold at the next available sales date upon the terms and conditions as set forth in the Judgment of Foreclosure and Sale or such terms as may be set forth in a supplemental order.

The Honorable Richard L. Booth Master In Equity for Sumter County Brock & Scott, PLLC 3800 Fernandina Road, Suite 110 Columbia, SC 29210 Attorneys for Plaintiff 12-18035

NOTICE OF SALE CIVIL ACTION NO. 2015-CP-43-01031 BY VIRTUE of the decree heretofore granted in the case of: Branch Banking and Trust Company vs. Allean M. Britton; Bruce L. Britton; South Carolina Department of Revenue, the undersigned Master In Equity for Sumter County, South Carolina, will sell on November 2, 2015 at 12:00PM, at the Sumter County Courthouse, City of Sumter, State of South Carolina, to the highest bidder: ALL THAT CERTAIN PIECE, PARCEL OR LOT OF LAND WITH THE IMPROVEMENTS THEREON, IF ANY, SITUATE, LYING AND BEING IN THE COUNTY OF SUMTER, STATE OF SOUTH CAROLINA, BEING SHOWN AND DELINEATED AS LOT NO. 7, OF WENDEMERE SUBDIVISION PHASE 1, AS SHOWN ON THAT CERTAIN PLAT OF LOUIS W. TISDALE, R. L. S. DATED JANUARY 2, 2002 AND RECORDED IN THE OFFICE OF THE REGISTER OF DEEDS FOR SUMTER COUNTY IN PLAT BOOK 2002 AT PAGE 31, AND HAVING SUCH BOUNDARIES, METES, COURSES AND DISTANCES AS ARE SHOWN ON SAID PLAT, REFERENCE TO WHICH IS HEREBY MADE PURSUANT TO AUTHORITY CONTAINED IN SECTION 30-50-250 OF THE CODE OF LAWS OF SOUTH CAROLINA, 1976, AS AMENDED. THIS PROPERTY IS KNOWN AS 240 WENDEMERE DRIVE, SUMTER SC. THIS BEING THE SAME PROPERTY CONVEYED TO BRUCE L. BRITTON AND ALLEAN M. BRITTON BY DEED OF MORRIS AND MORRIS CONSTRUCTION, INC. DATED JULY 30, 2003 AND RECORDED AUGUST 4, 2003 IN BOOK 901, PAGE 297 IN THE RECORDS FOR SUMTER COUNTY, SOUTH CAROLINA.

CURRENT ADDRESS OF PROPERTY: 240 Wendemere Drive, Sumter, SC 29153

Notice of Sale TMS: 252-15-01-007 TERMS OF SALE: The successful bidder, other than the Plaintiff, will deposit with the Master In Equity, at conclusion of the bidding, five percent (5%) of his bid, in cash or equivalent, as evidence of good faith, same to be applied to the purchase price in case of compliance, but to be forfeited and applied first to costs and then to the Plaintiff's debt in the case of non-compliance. Should the last and highest bidder fail to comply with the other terms of the bid within thirty (30) days, then the Master In Equity may re-sell the property on the same terms and conditions on some subsequent Sales Day (at the risk of the said highest bidder). No personal or deficiency judgment being demanded, the bidding shall not remain open after the date of sale and shall be final on that date, and compliance with the bid may be made immediately.

Purchaser to pay for documentary stamps on the Deed. The successful bidder will be required to pay interest on the amount of the balance of the bid from date of sale to date of compliance with the bid at the rate of 5% per annum. The sale shall be subject to taxes and assessments, existing easements and restrictions, easements and restrictions of record and any other senior encumbrances.

In the event an agent of Plaintiff does not appear at the time of sale, the within property shall be withdrawn from sale and sold at the next available sales date upon the terms and conditions as set forth in the Judgment of Foreclosure and Sale or such terms as may be set forth in a supplemental order.

The Honorable Richard L. Booth Master In Equity for Sumter County Brock & Scott, PLLC 3800 Fernandina Road, Suite 110 Columbia, SC 29210 Attorneys for Plaintiff 15-07862

Notice of Sale C/A No: 2012-CP-43-01545

BY VIRTUE OF A DECREE of the Court of Common Pleas for Sumter County, South Carolina, heretofore issued in the case of U.S. Bank Trust, N.A., as Trustee for LSF9 Master Participation Trust vs.

Elizabeth A Boyd, and Timothy V Boyd;, I the undersigned as Master in Equity for Sumter County, will sell on 11/2/2015 at 12:00 PM, at the Sumter County Judicial Center, Sumter County, South Carolina, to the highest bidder: Legal Description Address:

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Property

All that certain piece, parcel or lot of land, together with improvements thereon, lying being and situate in the County of Sumter, State of South Carolina, being shown and designated as Lot No. 7 on that certain plat of Shadyside Subdivision prepared by Palmer & Malone, CE's dated May 7, 1956 and recorded August 2, 1956 in the Office of the Register of Deeds for Sumter County in Plat Book Z-13 at page 151.

Pursuant to Section 30-5-250 of the Code of Laws of South Carolina, (1976, as amended) reference to said plat is hereby made for the metes, bounds, courses and/or distances of the property delineated thereon.

This property is known as 2234 Garrison Street, Sumter, South Carolina and is shown on the Auditor's map of Sumter County as tax parcel 207-11-05-010.

This being the same property conveyed to Timothy V. Boyd and Elizabeth A. Boyd, as Joint Tenants with Right of Survivorship, by Deed of Timothy P. Maxwell and Patricia A. Maxwell, dated July 31, 2007 and recorded August 2, 2007 in Book 1089 at Page 201 in the Office of the Register of Deeds for Sumter County, South Carolina.

2234 Garrison Street Sumter, SC 29154 TMS# 207-11-05-010 TERMS OF SALE: For cash. Interest at the rate of Six and 75/100 (6.75%) to be paid on balance of bid from date of sale to date of compliance.

The purchaser to pay for papers and stamps, and that the successful bidder or bidders, other than the Plaintiff therein, do, upon the acceptance of his or her bid, deposit with the Master in Equity for Sumter County a certified check or cash in the amount equal to five percent (5%) of the amount of bid on said premises at the sale as evidence of good faith in bidding, and subject to any resale of said premises under Order of this Court; and in the event the said purchaser or purchasers fail to comply with the terms of sale within Twenty (20) days, the Master in Equity shall forthwith resell the said property, after the due notice and advertisement, and shall continue to sell the same each subsequent sales day until a purchaser, who shall comply with the terms of sale, shall be obtained, such sales to be made at the risk of the former purchaser. Since a personal or deficiency judgment is waived, the bidding will not remain open but compliance with the bid may be made immediately. If the Plaintiff or the Plaintiff's representative does not appear at the above-described sale, then the sale of the property will be null, void, and of no force and effect. In such event, the sale will be rescheduled for the next available sales day. Plaintiff may waive any of its rights, including its right to a deficiency judgment, prior to sale.

Sold subject to taxes and assessments, existing easements and restrictions of record.

Richard L. Booth Master in Equity For Sumter County Sumter, South Carolina Hutchens Law Firm P.O. Box 8237 Columbia, SC 29202 803-726-2700

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