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Dr. M. Kenneth Rosefield Jr. was laid to rest at Sumter Cemetery on Wednesday. He died Saturday at his home in Sumter.

Rosefield was known as a gifted athlete in his youth and a respected physician during his career.

Among the funeral speakers was World Series MVP Bobby Richardson, who grew up with Rosefield in Sumter.

Richardson said he played basketball and baseball with and against Rosefield throughout their youth with the YMCA Mites, Midgets and Juniors and in the Knee Patch League, sponsored by the YMCA and civic clubs.

“He was always such a good athlete, he could play up two years,” Richardson said. “I am two years older, so (there was) a lot of competition between us.”

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was the 1952 American Legion team, which won the state championship, Richardson said.

After graduating from Edmunds High School, Rosefield was an outstanding baseball player at University of South Carolina, where he was named All Atlantic Coast Conference Second Team in 1958 and All-ACC First Team in 1959 as first baseman.

USC Athletic Director Ray Tanner was a good friend of Rosefield and went to the funeral to pay his respects, Richardson said.

Richardson said Rosefield earned a lot of respect in the community during his years practicing medicine.

“I felt like he understood that being who he was was a tremendous influence, and you could see that by so many people and friends and the number of doctors at his funeral,” Richardson said.

Another lifelong friend, John Duffie, said Rosefield’s character was beyond reproach.

“He loved people, and he did everything he could for people,” Duffie said.

“He was a sincere person and dependable friend for 70 years.”

Rosefield attended Medical University of South Carolina in Charleston and completed his residency at Emory University before spending two years in the Navy as a lieutenant.

He began his practice in Columbia before moving it to Sumter in 1972, Duffie said.

While practicing in Sumter, he was a partner with Sumter Radiological.

Terri Jett, manager of mammography at Palmetto Health Tuomey, worked closely with Rosefield.

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Cheering on their team Members of the Furman Middle School cheerleading squad urge their team to an 8-0 victory over Chestnut Oaks Middle School during the Middle School Jamboree held at Hillcrest Middle School on Wednesday.

The event featured local middle schools playing in two eight-minute quarters.

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Feds: Judge shouldn’t let church shooting defendant ask for mercy CHARLESTON (AP) — Federal prosecutors say Dylann Roof should not be allowed to ask the jury for mercy during his upcoming trial in the Charleston church shootings.

In documents filed Tuesday, prosecutors say that while a defendant can ask a judge for ROOF mercy, appeals courts have held a defendant doesn't have a right to ask a jury for mercy before sentencing. Prosecutors say U.S. District Judge Richard Gergel should not permit Roof to do so.

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penalty trials in both state and federal courts stemming from the June 2015 slayings at Emanuel AME Church in which nine people were killed during a Bible study. Three parishioners survived.

Roof's federal trial on hate crime and other charges begins in November. Later this month the first of about 3,000 potential jurors will report to the courthouse for preliminary screening. Potential jurors will be asked to fill out questionnaires about what they know of the case.

Both Roof's state and federal attorneys have said their client is willing to plead guilty and serve a life prison

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Trump: Boost military spending PHILADELPHIA (AP) — Republican Donald Trump vowed Wednesday to boost defense spending and deploy more active troops, fighter planes, Navy ships and submarines as he works to convince skeptics in both parties that he's ready to lead the world's most powerful military.

The New York businessman, who has struggled at times to demonstrate a command of foreign policy, also seemed to acknowledge he does not currently have a plan to address cyber security or the Islamic State group.

If elected, Trump said he would give military leaders 30 days to formulate a plan to defeat the group, commonly known as ISIS. He also said he would ask the joint chiefs of staff to conduct a review of the nation's cyber defenses to determine all vulnerabilities.

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Trump's address came hours before his national security acumen is tested at a "commander in chief" forum on NBC. "We want to deter, avoid and prevent conflict through our unquestioned military strength," Trump declared of his Democratic opponent in his Wednesday speech, delivered inside the exclusive Union League of Philadelphia, which first allowed women in 1986.

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Sumter couple indicted on federal charges U.S. Attorney Beth Drake announced Wednesday that Frederick Deon Galloway, 40, and his wife, Tawania Moneik Galloway, 41, both of Sumter, were indicted by a federal grand jury in a four-count indictment.

Frederick Galloway was indicted for one count of tampering with and removing a vehicle identification number and one count of operating a chop shop.

Tawania GalloF. GALLOWAY way and Frederick Galloway were also indicted for one count of federal witness tampering and one count of making a false D. GALLOWAY entry in a sworn affidavit with the intent to impede, obstruct and influence a federal investigation.

If convicted on all counts, Frederick Galloway is facing as many as five years in prison for removing a VIN and as many as 15 years for the chop shop violation. The couple is also facing as many as 20 years for the witness tampering charge and as many as 20 years for providing a false sworn statement.

The investigation was conducted by the U.S. Postal Inspection Service, Sumter Police Department and Sumter County Sheriff’s Office.

One Sumter to address youth behavioral issues The One Sumter Community group is inviting the Sumter community, including pastors, Christian education directors, churches and neighborhood groups to its next group meeting, which will feature dialogue with Sumter School District school resource officers; Kathy Morrison, coordinator of intervention services; and Melanie Dees of United Way Diamonds, according to a news release from the group.

Morrison will make a presentation on the negative effects of social media in the lives of young people, and Dees will discuss violence and behavior patterns that get children in trouble at school, the release states.

The meeting will be held at Mt. Zion Missionary Baptist Church, 325 West Fulton St., at 6:30 p.m. Sunday. For more information, contact the Rev. Joshua Dupree Jr. at (803) 795-3600.

Maintenance to plant may discolor water City of Sumter will be performing maintenance to Water Plant No. 1 on Church Street today. The work should be completed within one day and should not result in service interruptions. However, customers are encouraged to be on the lookout for discolored water associated with the work.

Direct any questions or concerns to City of Sumter Public Services Department at (803) 436-2558.

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4-Way Stop, seenat the 2015 Sumter Green Fall Feast, will play music tailored for the 2016 theme, Totally Awesome ‘80s. A plethora of foods from dozens of cooks, restaurants and caterers, as well as beverages, are included in the ticket price. Proceeds benefit Sumter Green, a volunteer, nonprofit organization whose mission is to keep Sumter clean and beautiful.

2 outdoor festivals this week and 1 next week welcome cooler weather

BY IVY MOORE ivy@theitem.com Fall has brought cooler temperatures and with them more outdoor festivals and events. Two are coming up this week and at least one on Sept. 15. Sumter Senior Services' 12th Annual Backyard Jamboree, Sumter County Museum's observance of the centennial of the Williams-Brice House and Sumter Green's Fall Feast are among the community's first celebrations of the new season.

While admission to the museum's exhibition titled "Sumter, 1916: The Year the Williams-Brice House was Built" this Saturday is free to the public and includes free entry to its grounds and other indoor spaces, the fees for tickets to Backyard Jamboree and Fall Feast benefit the sponsoring organizations' missions.

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12th Annual Backyard Jamboree will be held from 5:30 to 9:30 p.m. on Friday, Sept. 9, at Swan Lake's Heath Pavilion off Garden Street. Tickets are $25 for adults; $20 for seniors 65 and older; $15 for children 6 to 12; and free for children under 6.

Whole-hog barbecue, hamburgers, hot dogs, chili, dessert and soft beverages are included in the prices, and beer and wine will be available for purchase. The Front Porch Junkies will play music in a variety of styles, including beach music, folk/country and classic rock. All proceeds will be used to support services, especially home-delivered meals, for Sumter's needy and frail elderly. A few tickets are still available and can be purchased online at www.backyardjamboree.org, by calling (803) 773-5508 or at Sumter Senior Services Ad-

ministrative Office, 119 S. Sumter St. "Sumter, 1916: The Year the Williams-Brice House was Built" is presented by NBSC in memory of local philanthropist Phil Edwards, who served for years on the Sumter County Museum Foundation Board. The WilliamsBrice House was owned by his family until he and his brother Tom donated it for use as a museum.

The museum and sponsors NBSC and The Sumter Item invite the public to a community open house and exhibit between 10 a.m. and 5 p.m. on Saturday, Sept. 10, with free admission. The Martha Brice Gardens and Carolina Backcountry will also be open for viewing.

For more information, call the museum at (803) 7750908, visit www.sumtercountymuseum.org or email information@sumtercountymuseum.org.

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day, Sept. 15, USC Sumter's Nettles Building and its grounds will be the site of Sumter Green's biggest fundraiser of the year. A few tickets are still available and can be purchased at the Swan Lake Visitors Center (436-2640) on West Liberty Street, where VISA and Mastercard are accepted, and at Danny's Trophy Shop, 713 Bultman Drive, which accepts cash only.

Advance tickets are $35 each; at the door, if any are left, the cost will be $45.

The event consistently sells out.

All proceeds benefit Sumter Green, which supports environmental landscaping and beautification for the community, and maintains welcoming entrances into the city. Fall Feast is an adults-only event.

If you'd like to participate as a food provider or sponsor or just want more information, call (803) 774-1659.

Mother says S.C. child support system hurts families COLUMBIA (AP) — South Carolina's computerized child support tracking system is nearly 20 years overdue, has cost the state more than $120 million in fines and had four different companies try to complete it.

But it took a single mother from Spartanburg County to put a human face on all the problems at a state Senate oversight hearing Wednesday.

Gina Arnold said South Carolina's ancient network means her ex-husband can miss deadlines without worrying about immediate punishment, and other deadbeat parents can move from one county to another and disappear from the child support system entirely.

It also requires her to call her De-

partment of Social Services caseworker when he doesn't pay instead of automatically notifying him and an official — as happens with thousands of modern systems from overdue library books to credit card payments.

She swiveled her chair to face DSS officials and read off the names of 10 women who have given up the constant battle and allowed their child support to fall behind by thousands of dollars that might take years to collect by the time the old system catches up.

"If we had a system in place, these ladies would not have given up," Arnold said.

After years and years of delays, the new system is still on track to be working by October 2019, DSS project

manager Jimmy Earley said. South Carolina has spent about $150 million on the project and is likely looking at $200 million more to get it up and running, not including an additional $120 million in fines, DSS officials have said.

It would allow counties to communicate with each other, make it much easier to collect child support directly out of paychecks and notify court officials and DSS when payments are missed.

The deadline is the same timetable Earley gave senators in November, which is progress. The system was supposed to be created a few years after a 1988 federal law mandated it and was pushed back for months as recently as 2015.

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Confession in boy’s death solves case that haunted Minnesota

BY AMY FORLITI AND STEVE KARNOWSKI The Associated Press MINNEAPOLIS — For nearly 27 years, one man knew where Jacob Wetterling was.

Late last month, Danny Heinrich agreed to confess to killing the 11-year-old boy — setting in motion a flurry of difficult negotiations between defense attorneys, investigators and prosecutors that would put him behind bars for decades and finally unlock the secrets to a mystery that has long haunted the state of Minnesota.

"This was not an opportunity we could pass up," U.S. Attorney Andy Luger said.

"After almost 27 years, Danny Heinrich was willing to talk, and we had to grab the moment."

Heinrich, 53, admitted Tuesday that he abducted, sexually assaulted and shot Jacob to death in 1989, then buried the boy's body in a field in rural central Minnesota. The confession came as part of a plea agreement in which Heinrich will likely get 20 years in prison on a federal child pornography charge when he's sentenced in November but will not be prosecuted on state murder charges. Following his prison sentence, a civil commitment is possible, meaning he could spend the rest of his life in custody.

As part of the deal, which the family approved, Heinrich led authorities to Jacob's remains last week.

Some questioned whether the deal was enough punishment for the crime, which shattered childhood innocence for many rural Minnesotans, changing the way parents let their kids roam. Jacob's smiling face was burned into Minnesota's psyche, appearing on countless posters and billboards over the years.

Last year, authorities found images of child pornography at the Annandale home of Heinrich, who had long been under investigators' scrutiny in Jacob's disappearance.

They recognized the best way to get to the truth was to pursue federal charges, which carry stiff penalties that could be used as leverage, Luger said.

Stearns County Attorney Janelle Kendall said too much time had passed to charge Heinrich with kidnapping or assault. A murder charge could still apply — but not without a body.

"To prove murder, we had to be able to prove that Jacob Wetterling died. Up until last Friday, proof that Jacob Wetterling was no longer alive did not exist," Kendall said. "We did not have proof of murder, so we literally had to find Jacob in order to move forward at all.

"What was most important to the Wetterlings was to bring Jacob home and know what happened to him," Kendall said. "Jacob would not have been found and the details wouldn't have been told without the events of today."

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Patty Wetterling is consoled by her son, Trevor, during a news conference after a hearing for Danny Heinrich on Tuesday in Minneapolis. Heinrich confessed Tuesday to abducting and killing 11-year-old Jacob Wetterling nearly 27 years ago, recounting a crime that long haunted the state with details that included Jacob asking right after he was taken: “What did I do wrong?” ting away with anything."

In chilling detail, Heinrich stood before a federal judge Tuesday and calmly described how he abducted, molested and killed Jacob, as some members of the Wetterling family cried. Heinrich's voice wavered at one point, but he showed little emotion in court —and Luger said he has expressed no remorse to authorities.

Heinrich said that on the night of Oct. 22, 1989, he saw Jacob, Jacob's brother and a friend bicycling down a rural road near Jacob's home in St. Joseph. Heinrich laid in wait for the three to return, and when they did, he put on a mask and confronted them with a revolver.

Heinrich said he told the two other boys to run and not look back or he'd shoot. He said he then handcuffed Jacob and put him in his car, and Jacob asked: "What did I do wrong?"

Heinrich said he drove Jacob to a gravel pit near Paynesville and assaulted him. Afterward, Jacob asked whether he was taking him home.

"I said, 'I can't take you all the way home,'" Heinrich said.

"He started to cry. I said, 'Don't cry.'"

Heinrich said at some point a patrol car with sirens and lights passing nearby caused him to panic. He said he pulled out his revolver, which had not been loaded, and put two rounds in the gun. He told Jacob to turn around, held the gun to the boy's head and pulled the trigger, he said.

The gun didn't fire. Heinrich then fired two shots. After the second, Jacob fell to the ground.

Heinrich said he went home for a couple of hours, then went back to the gravel pit and buried Jacob about 100 yards away. He said he returned to the site about a year later and saw that Jacob's jacket and some bones had become exposed, so he gathered what he could and reburied the remains across the high-

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Approximately $500 worth of assorted clothes, $1,700 worth of assorted shoes and an iPhone valued at $800 were reportedly stolen from a white Chevrolet Tahoe while the vehicle was parked on Cuttino Road between 8 p.m. on Saturday and about 8 a.m. on Sunday.

An estimated $1,000 in damage was caused to a business in the 200 block of West Liberty Street when a window was broken with an unknown object between Friday and Saturday.

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A light blue 1994 Honda Civic valued at $3,000 was reportedly stolen while it was parked at a residence on Larkin Street between 7:30 p.m. on Friday and 6:30 a.m. on Saturday.

A silver 2012 Ford Fusion valued at $6,000 was reportedly stolen from a parking lot in the 1200 block of Broad Street between 2:30 and 4 a.m. on Thursday.

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The buried remains were identified as Jacob's on Saturday.

"It's incredibly painful to know his last days, last hours, last minutes," his mother, Patty Wetterling, said after the guilty plea. "To us, Jacob was alive until we found him."

Heinrich's attorneys declined to comment after the hearing.

Authorities named Heinrich

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He had first been questioned shortly after Jacob's abduction, but he maintained his innocence, and authorities never had enough evidence to charge him. They turned a renewed spotlight on him as part of a fresh look into Jacob's abduction around its 25th anniversary.

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Report details missed opportunities to stop cyber breach The U.S. Office of Personnel Management is seen Tuesday in Washington.

BY ERIC TUCKER The Associated Press WASHINGTON — It was time to purge the hacker from the U.S. government’s computers. After secretly monitoring the hacker’s online movements for months, officials worried he was getting too close to critical information and devised a plan, dubbed “the Big Bang,” to expel him.

Trouble was, with all their attention focused in that case, they missed the other hacker entirely.

A new congressional report provides previously undisclosed details and a behind-thescenes chronology of one of the worst-ever cyberattacks on the United States, laying out missed opportunities before the break-in at the Office of Personnel Management exposed security clearances, background checks and fingerprint records. That attack — widely blamed on China’s government — compromised personal information of more than 21 million current, former and prospective federal employees, led to the resignation of the OPM director and drew outrage about changing explanations about the hack’s seriousness.

The report by the House Committee on Oversight and Government Reform faulted the personnel agency for failing to secure sensitive data despite warnings for years that it was vulnerable to hackers. It concluded that the hacking revealed last year could have been prevented if OPM had put in place basic, required security controls and recognized from an earlier break-in that it was actually dealing with a so-

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phisticated, persistent enemy.

“We have literally tens of millions of Americans whose data was stolen by a nefarious overseas actor, but it was entirely preventable,” Rep. Jason Chaffetz, a Utah Republican and committee chairman, said in an interview.

“With some basic hygiene, some good tools, an awareness and some talent, they really could have prevented this,” he added.

OPM Acting Director Beth Cobert said in a statement the agency disagrees with much of the report and it “does not fully reflect where this agency stands today.” She said the OPM hack “provided a catalyst for accelerated change within our organization,” including hiring new cybersecurity experts and strengthening its security.

The government discovered the first OPM hacking in March 2014 when a specialized Homeland Security Department team noticed suspicious streams of data leaving its network between 10 p.m. and 10

3 men return from space

BY SETH BORENSTEIN AP Science Writer After watching more than 2,750 sunrises from above the Earth, three crew members of the International Space Station returned to the planet for a sparkling sunrise back on Earth on Wednesday.

A record-setting American astronaut and his two Russian colleagues felt the sun beat down on them on a cloudless morning after a six-month trek in orbit.

NASA’s Jeff Williams returned as the U.S. record holder for time in orbit, logging 534 days in space over four missions. Williams, Alexey Ovchinin and Oleg Skripochka logged 72.8 million miles in space, circling the globe 2,752 times before landing on target in the south central steppes of Kazakhstan just 23 minutes after sunrise Wednesday, 7:13 a.m. local time.

Stretched out in chairs placed in the brown wild grass, the three flyers were all smiles, giving thumbs up, chatting on cellphones. They were promptly pulled out of the Russian Soyuz

capsule, which landed on its side, which is not unusual. Williams wore a black baseball cap while seated outside and talked on the phone. Ovchinin clutched a stuffed doll his daughter gave him as a mascot that went into space with him.

They were then carried to a medical tent for routine tests to see how they adjust to gravity, including checking to see how they could stand.

The trio undocked from the space station nearly three-anda-half hours before touchdown in hazy sunshine with a comfortable welcome home temperature about 66 degrees about 90 miles southeast of Zhezkazgan in Kazakhstan.

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500 attend Summerton Back-to-School bash

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Children wait to get their faces painted by Marsha Piatkowski, a church member of Holy Temple of Jesus Christ, at the Back-to-School Block Party on Thursday.

Event organizers distributed school supplies, snacks

BY KONSTANTIN VENGEROWSKY konstantin@theitem.com Summerton’s Back-to-School Block Party attracted more than 500 people, vendors, motivational speakers and entertainers on Saturday at Wausau Park.

The event was organized by Creating Miracles, Life Changing Corp., a new nonprofit organization in Summerton.

Vendors included representatives from several local colleges, Clarendon County Fire Department, U.S. Army recruiters and others.

The organization distributed 100 backpacks filled with school supplies, as well as carnival food, such as funnel cakes, cotton candy, candy apples, hamburgers and hot dogs.

"The goal was to bring the community together, to assist those who needed school supplies and to let the community know of our mission and

future work in Summerton," said David Blanding, who co-founded the organization with his wife, Tanika Blanding.

The event featured several guest speakers including Lorenzo Rivers, Morris College admissions counselor.

Rivers said he spoke with children and their parents about the importance of education and the programs that Morris College offers.

"We have many students from Clarendon County, and it was great to see so many people in the Summerton area come together," he said.

Army Sergeant First Class Elite Pierre was also a guest speaker at the event. Pierre has spent 19 years in the military, and is an inspirational speaker and owner of an online marketing company called Favored International, with his wife, Tamara Pierre.

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David Blanding, co-founder of Creating Miracles, Life Changing Corp., a new nonprofit organization in Summerton, is seen with his daughter Dailah Blanding at the Back-toSchool Block Party on Saturday in Summerton.

Alcolu native honored in history calendar

BY KONSTANTIN VENGEROWSKY konstantin@theitem.com From meeting several U.S. presidents and being appointed to represent the National Council on Aging in China to serving as South Carolina's consumer advocate for the Affordable Care Act, Alcolu native Carrie Sinkler-Parker has had many accomplishments in her life.

SINKLERSinkler-Parker PARKER is featured as the September honoree for the 2016 AT&T South Carolina African American History Calendar. The calendar includes her biography and photograph.

"I am most proud of the fact that I'm from Clarendon County," Sinkler-Parker said. "I never forgot where I came from and have always tried to give back to the community."

Sinkler-Parker grew up in Alcolu and attended the public schools in Clarendon County. After graduating from the former Boylan-Haven-Mather Academy in Camden, she received a bachelor's degree in biology from Barber-Scotia College. She also holds a master's degree in public health administration from the University of South Carolina and a master's grad-

uate certificate in gerontology from USC. Sinkler-Parker began her career in education, briefly teaching in North Carolina and Virginia. She then returned to Clarendon County to work with child and adult protective services for the S.C. Department of Public Welfare, today the S.C. Department of Social Services.

She then took a position with AARP, formerly known as the American Association of Retired Persons, where she served as the associate state director.

At AARP, she organized the Grandparent/Kinship Caregiver Network, an organization that provides support to relatives and others acting in the place of a parent.

Sinkler-Parker said one of her mentors early in her life was Mary McLeod Bethune, a Mayesville native, educator, stateswoman, philanthropist, humanitarian and civil rights activist.

Sinkler-Parker is one of the founders and life members of the Mary McLeod Bethune Chapter of the National Council of Negro Women.

She was honored with the African American Women's Conference's Mary McLeod Bethune Perseverance, Achievement and Charity Award in 1996, was named one of Sumter County's Women of Excellence in 2014 and Barber-

Scotia College's 1983 National Alumna of the Year.

She has served on various boards, including the National Council on Aging, U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs Longterm Care Advisory Committee, both the S.C. and National Adult Day Services associations and more.

Sinkler-Parker served as a delegate to the White House Conference on Aging in 1995.

She is now the consumer health care advocate for South Carolina, appointed by President Obama, and has conducted numerous workshops on the Affordable Care Act. She also organized the first Sumter-area social workers’ conference and served on the international board of representatives for HelpAge Ghana.

The AT&T S.C. African American History Calendar was created in 1989 to help educate students about the contributions in various fields of notable black South Carolinians.

Past honorees have included civil rights advocate Septima Clark, Wimbledon champion Althea Gibson, jazz legend Dizzy Gillespie, retired S.C. Supreme Court Chief Justice Ernest A. Finney Jr., former Sumter Police Chief Patty Garrett Patterson, blacksmith Philip Simmons, astronaut Ronald McNair, author Dori Sanders and others.

Summerton group collects supplies for Louisiana relief

BY KONSTANTIN VENGEROWSKY konstantin@theitem.com Two Summerton organizations are collecting items for Louisiana flood victims.

The collection drive, called Project H.O.P.E. for Louisiana, includes items collected from Sept. 1 through Sept. 30 at the Community One Resource Center, 1154 4th St. in Summerton.

The two organizations, Start Now Community Development Corp. and Distinction Inspiration Group, are collecting the items from 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. Monday through Friday.

The mission of the corporation is "to rebuild communities, one family at a time by improving the social, educational and economic conditions in targeted areas throughout the communities of South Carolina," according to a news release.

"We want to help those who've lost everything in Louisiana with 'Bags of Hope,' which contain different essential items," said Terrance Tindal, executive director of the organization. "We were in a similar situation in Summerton less than a year ago, and we just want to give back."

The items include cleaning supplies, toiletries and personal supplies, pet supplies, nonperishable food items, bottled water, baby food and formula, school supplies and children's toys.

The items will be delivered to United Way for South Louisiana, Tindal said.

The drive also includes Project H.O.P.E. Team, a group of volunteers who are local business owners, community leaders and parents. The organization is seeking more volunteers for this project and future projects.

For more information, email startnowcdc@gmail. com or call (888) 812-6238, extension 700.

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A house on Lake Marion in Clarendon County was a total loss Sunday afternoon after firefighters battled a blaze for several hours. Clarendon County Fire Department responded to the house fire at 4:20 p.m. in the 1200 block of Lesesne Drive, said Clarendon County Fire Chief Frances Richbourg. Richbourg said the roof of the structure was fully involved when the fire department received the call. No one was at the residence when the fire started, she said. Estimated damage was more than $100,000, Richbourg said.

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reen tea is a likely choice these days for people looking for health benefits from their beverages. But research indicates that all tea is good for you, as long as it comes from the leaf of Camellia sinenis —as do all green, black and red teas.

Herbal teas are another matter entirely: It’s unlikely that any of Nancy Harrison them have the great combiRETIRED nation of CLEMSON health-proEXTENSION moting chemAGENT icals contained in the plain old tea that people have been consuming for thousands of years.

Here’s some background on tea. Once strictly an Asian crop, tea is grown in areas of South America, Africa, Turkey and even here in South Carolina, as well. But it’s all the same plant.

Whether it turns out to be black, oolong or green depends on the processing. To make green tea, the leaves are steamed, rolled and dried. This keeps them from oxidizing because it inactivates certain chemicals in the leaves. Red, or oolong, and black teas are partially dried, crushed, kept in a temperature and humiditycontrolled environment to produce fermentation and then fully dried. To “ferment” in this context means “oxidize,” or blacken. This

takes place as chemicals in the leaves react to heat. The difference between black and red teas is that black teas are fermented longer. Green is the favorite tea in Asia; black is preferred in Europe.

The chemicals that make tea a potential protector of health are called polyphenols; these may have anti-cancer effects as well as heart benefits.

Though green tea was once thought to have the most polyphenols, it turns out that black tea has a similar amount. The polyphenols in both green and black tea have antioxidant activity; that is, they help deactivate cell-damaging free radicals. In one study, it found that tea leaves have more antioxidant power than kale or strawberries, on a dry-weight basis. But don’t conclude from this that you should give up fruits and vegetables in favor of tea. In fact, exactly what these tea antioxidants do in the human body is still to be determined. There is also preliminary evidence that tea may help prevent arthritis. But, obviously, many tea drinkers do get arthritis.

Remember this: After water, tea is the most commonly consumed beverage in the world. While tea may have health benefits, it clearly is no panacea. But the evidence keeps mounting that tea has health benefits. Think of it as a back-up to a healthy diet and an adjunct to regular exercise and other good health habits — not as a miraculous potion that will keep you well by itself. If you smoke, for example, tea won’t protect you from the dangers.

Here are ten tea facts: • According to a test conducted at a lab for Consumer Reports, the teas with the most antioxidant power are brewed from loose leaves or tea bags. Next come instant teas, and then bottled. Bottled teas are usually highly diluted: lots of water and sugar, not much tea.

• Steeping tea for three to five minutes releases the highest level of antioxidants.

• It’s fine to use milk in tea, if you like it. You may have heard that milk “binds” some of the beneficial polyphenols in tea, but this has not proven to be the case.

• Tea is good for your teeth.

Black tea contains enough fluoride to help prevent tooth decay, and green tea contains twice as much.

• Apart from fluoride, tea contains only a little potassium, traces of other minerals, and a little folic acid. Unless you add sugar or honey, tea has just two calories per cup.

• Green, black and red teas contain caffeine, about 40 milligrams per cup, on average, which is less than half the amount in a cup of brewed coffee. Caffeine content varies, depending on how much tea you use and how long you steep it.

• It’s unknown whether decaffeinated teas have the same polyphenols and thus the same potential health benefits as regular teas. The caffeine is a natural component of the leaf. Hardly any research has been done with decaf tea.

• Herbal teas do not have the benefits of regular tea.

BASH FROM PAGE A5 Pierre's message focused on encouraging children to achieve their dreams, he said.

"It's about saying that you can do anything that you put your mind to do," he said. "I use my own life as an example.

Even though I came from humble beginnings, I was able to aspire and reach my goals in life."

Pierre participated in many outreach programs in the past.

"Saturday's event was phenomenal," he said. "You could tell that the organizers pulled in many resources and hard work to make it happen. The people were very welcoming and friendly."

Creating Miracles, Life Changing Corp. was started by the Blandings in March.

David Blanding is a native of New York City who grew up in Summerton and has since moved back to the town, and Tanika Blanding is a Summerton native.

"Our mission is to uplift and restore our community as a whole," David Blanding said.

He said he was inspired to start the organization by his father, the late Rev. James Edward Blanding Sr. His father was co-founder, along with his mother, Catherine Blanding, of Holy Temple of Jesus Christ in Summerton.

"It was a vision that my dad and I always shared," he said.

Blanding said he's always had a passion for supporting the community and aims to create resources that will ben-

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She loves to play with her toys and is very energetic and happy.

She weighs approximately 22 pounds, and she isn’t going to get much bigger. She is current on her shots and has been spayed. Stop by to see her and her brothers Tuesday through Saturday from 9 a.m. to 3 p.m. at A Second Chance Animal Shelter, 5079 Alex Harvin Highway (U.S. 301), which has numerous pets available for adoption. To drop off an animal, call (803) 473-7075 for an appointment. If you've lost a pet, check www.ccanimalcontrol.webs.com and www.ASecondChanceAnimalShelter.com.

CLARENDON BRIEFS FROM STAFF REPORTS

Republican Party will meet at 7 p.m. today Clarendon County Republican Party will meet at 7 p.m. today at Cornerstone Fellowship Free Will Baptist Church, 2116 Greeleyville Highway (U.S. 261).

Doors open at 6 p.m. with supper to follow.

Speakers will include: Laura Sterling, Republican candidate for U.S. 6th Congressional District; Joe Witt, Republican candidate for Clarendon County Council District 2; and Leon Winn, Republican candidate for state Senate

District 36.

For more information, contact Pastor John Matthews, (803) 460-2761, or Cindy Risher, (843) 270-7423.

9/11 ceremony to be held on Friday City of Manning will hold a Patriot Day ceremony to commemorate the 15th anniversary of 9/11, at 9 a.m. Friday at Church Street Park, at the intersection of North Church and East Rigby streets. Clarendon County Council Chairman Dwight Stewart will bring remarks.

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David Blanding, left, co-founder of Creating Miracles, Life Changing Corp., and his wife, Tanika Blanding, third from left, present a certificate of appreciation to Army Sergeant First Class Elite Pierre, right, one of the guest speakers on Saturday, and Pierre’s wife, Tamara Pierre, second from left. efit the local residents, he said.

Their organization will focus on addressing issues such as anti-bullying, teen pregnancy, after-school tutoring programs, homeless shelters, shelters for battered victims, drug addiction, anti-gang and antiviolence groups, job etiquette training and more.

"There are many people in this community who don't have the means to address these issues," David Blanding said. "We want to bring volunteers and various agencies together to address some of the challenges facing our community today."

David Blanding is a licensed counselor and minister and worked in the health and human services field.

The Blandings are actively searching for a building in Sumter to set up their organization's headquarters as well

as other organizations to partner with, David Blanding said.

For more information on the organization, contact David or Tanika Blanding at (917) 200-7165 or (803) 566-4296.

Donations can be made to "Creating Miracles, Life Changing Corporation," and sent to Creating Miracles, P.O. Box 90040, Columbia, SC 29290.

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Summons & Notice SUMMONS IN THE COURT OF COMMON PLEAS CASE NO. 2015-CP-14-00596 STATE OF SOUTH CAROLINA COUNTY OF CLARENDON U.S. Bank, N.A. as trustee for Home Improvement and Home Equity Loan Trust 1998-B Plaintiff, -vsEstate of Sidney Miles, by and through its Personal Representative, if any, whose name is unknown; Ethel Mae Miles, Individually and as Heir-at-Law of Sidney Miles;

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Wachovia Bank of South Carolina, N.A. n/k/a Wells Fargo Bank, NA; and GE Capital Mortgage Services, Inc.and all Unknown persons with any right, title or interest in the real estate described herein; also any Unknown 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, persons under a Disability or persons incarcerated, being a class designated as Richard Roe Defendant(s) YOU ARE HEREBY SUMMONED and required to answer the Complaint in this action, and to serve a copy of your Answer on the subscribers at their offices, 1640 St. Julian Place, Columbia, South Carolina 29202, within thirty (30) days after service hereof, exclusive of the day of such service; except that the United States of America, if named, shall have sixty (60) days to answer after the service hereof, exclusive of the day of such service; and if you fail to answer the Complaint within the time aforesaid, the Plaintiff in this action will apply to the Court for a judgment by default granting the relief demanded in the Complaint.

TO MINOR(S) OVER FOURTEEN YEARS OF AGE, AND/OR TO MINOR(S) UNDER FOURTEEN YEARS OF AGE AND THE PERSON WITH WHOM THE MINOR(S) RESIDE(S), AND/OR TO PERSON UNDER SOME LEGAL DISABILITY, INCOMPETENTS AND PERSONS CONFINED: YOU ARE FURTHER SUMMONED AND NOTIFIED to apply for the appointment of a Guardian ad Litem within thirty (30) days after service of this Summons and Notice upon you. If you fail to do so, application for such appointment will be made by the Plaintiff.

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NOTICE OF ORDER APPOINTING GUARDIAN AD LITEM NISI AND NOTICE A GUARDIAN AD LITEM APPOINTED PLEASE TAKE NOTICE THAT an action involving real property known as 2262 Little Star Rd., Alcolu, SC 29001, in which you may have an interest, has been commenced in the Court of Common Pleas for Clarendon County, South Carolina and that, by Order of the Clerk of Court filed therein on August 29, 2016, Kimberly Allen Raber has been appointed as the attorney to represent any unknown Defendants that may be in the military service represented by the class designated as John Doe and Guardian ad Litem Nisi for all minors and persons under legal disability as a class designated as Richard Roe, Defendants herein.

PLEASE TAKE NOTICE THAT, unless you or someone on your behalf apply to the Court for appointment of a suitable person to act as Attorney or Guardian ad Litem herein, within thirty (30) days after service by publication of this Notice, the appointment of Kimberly Allen Raber as Guardian ad Litem shall be made absolute.

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NOTICE OF PUBLIC HEARING Pursuant to §6-1-80 of the SC Code of Laws, public notice is hereby given that Clarendon County Council will hold a Public Hearing at 6:00 PM on Monday, October 10, 2016, at The Clarendon School District 1 Board Room, 125 South Church St., Summerton SC in consideration of Ordinance 2016-05.

Ordinance #2016-05 –An Ordinance Authoring (1) The Execution and Delivery of a Fee In Lieu Of Tax and Incentive Agreement By and Between Clarendon County, South Carolina (“County”) and One or More Investors Collectively Identified for the Time Being as Project Gordon I, Each acting for itself, One or More Current Or Future Affiliates, and Other Project Sponsors (Collectively, “Company”), Pursuant to which the County Shall Covenant to Accept Certain Negotiated Fees in Lieu of Ad Valorem Taxes with Respect to the Establishment of Certain Facilities in the County (Project”); (2) Certain Special Source Revenue Credits with Respect to the Project; (3) The Enlargement of the Boundaries of an Existing Multi-County Industrial or Business Park to Include Therein Certain Additional Property in Connection with the Project; and (4) Other Matters Relating Thereto.

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NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that an action has been commenced and is now pending in this Court upon the Complaint of the above-named Plaintiff for the foreclosure of a certain mortgage of real estate given

by Sidney Miles and Ethel Mae Miles to Great Eastern Financial Services, Inc. dated December 27, 1995, and recorded in the Office of the Register of Deeds for Clarendon County on January 4, 1996 at 1:20 pm in Book 269 at Page 273 The premises covered and affected by the said mortgage and the foreclosure thereof, were, at the time of making thereof and at the time of the filing of the Lis Pendens, as described on the attached Exhibit "A".

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THE SUMTER ITEM

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FROM PAGE A1 the case that his disposition would be a major liability on the world stage.

“They know they can count on me to be the kind of commander in chief who will protect our country and our troops, and they know they cannot count on Donald Trump,” Clinton said Tuesday. “They view him as a danger and a risk.”

Trump’s team has worked aggressively in recent days to turn deflect such criticism back at Clinton.

“She’s trigger-happy and very unstable,” Trump said of his Democratic opponent, calling her use of a private email server while secretary of state “reckless.”

While Clinton and Trump will be featured at the Wednesday night forum, they will appear at separate times and will not face each other on stage. The forum could serve as a warm-up to their highly anticipated first presidential debate, scheduled for Sept. 26 in New York.

Trump’s Union League address also included his plans to eliminate deep spending cuts, known as the “sequester,” enacted when Congress failed to reach a budget compromise in 2011.

term if prosecutors take the death penalty off the table.

In another motion filed Tuesday, federal prosecutors want Gergel to rule out giving a so-called mercy instruction before jurors decide on Roof’s sentence. A mercy instruction is when jurors are told before they deliberate that, regardless of their findings, they are never required to sentence a defendant to death.

Prosecutors say that during the sentencing phase of the trial federal law allows a defendant a “broad opportunity” to present evidence to miti-

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Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump speaks about national security on Wednesday at the Union League in Philadelphia.

Republicans and Democrats voted for the automatic, across-the board cuts that affected both military and domestic programs.

Military leaders have said that they can live with an active duty Army of 490,000 — bolstered by nearly 500,000 soldiers in the National Guard and Reserves — as long as Congress provides enough funding to support that troop level. Gen. Mark Milley, the Army chief of staff, said last month that he is comfortable with a 1 million-soldier Army, and would welcome a larger force, only if Congress provides the money to maintain

troop readiness.

Increasing the size without increase other support, he said, will decrease readiness and hollow out the force.

As for how he would pay for it, Trump insisted on Wednesday that he would fully offset the costs of his new spending through savings and new revenue. He said he would make the government “leaner,” in part by using attrition to shrink the workforce, and said he’d bring in new money by asking countries like Germany, Japan and Saudi Arabia to pay more for the security the U.S. provides them.

ROSEFIELD FROM PAGE A1 “He was a wonderful physician,” she said. “He was a hard worker and always had the patient’s best interests in mind.”

She said he will be greatly missed.

“He was very efficient and very kind,” Jett said.

Rosefield was the son of the late Martin Kenneth Rosefield Sr. and Louise

Church Directory Sumter Seventh-Day Adventist 103 N Pike West 775-4455 Pastor Harry Robinson Sat. Sch: 9:15 am, Worship: 11:00 am Tues Bible Study 7 pm www.sumter22.adventistchurchconnect.org

African Methodist Episcopal Wayman Chapel AME Church 160 N Kings Hwy • 803-494-3686 www.waymanchapelame.com Reverend Dr. Dennis W. Broughton, Jr. Church School 9:00 am Worship 10:15 am Wed. Bible Study 12:00 pm & 6:30 pm

Anglican Church of the Holy Cross 335 North Kings Hwy (Hwy 261 N) 803-494-8101 Father Michael E. Ridgill, C.F.S.B. Sunday School 9:00 am Mass 10:00 am Mon. - Thurs. Chapel 9 am Morning Prayer Wed. Chapel 11:00 qm - Bible Study 12 pm Mass

Wednesday Bible Study: 7:00 pm Salem Missionary Baptist Church 320 West Fulton Street 803-775-8054 Sun. School 9:00 am Praise Worship 9:55 am Worship 10:00 am

Saturday: 6:00 pm Sun. 9:15 - 12:00 Noon, 5:00 pm (in Spanish) Confession: Sat. 4:30 pm - 5:30 pm

Church of Christ Plaza Church of Christ 1402 Camden Hwy. • 905-3163 Stewart Schnur cell 361-8449 Sunday School: 10 am Sunday Worship: 11 am & 6 pm Wed. Bible Class: 7 pm

Baptist - Southern Grace Baptist Church 219 W Calhoun St * 778-6417 Dr. Stephen Williams S.S. 9:45 am; Worship 11:00 am Evening Worship/Bible Study 6:30 pm Wed. Prayer Meeting 6:30 pm Wed. Bible Study: 6:30 pm Hickory Road Baptist Church 1245 Cherryvale Dr 803-494-8281 Dr. Ron Taylor Pastor Sunday School 9:45 am Worship 10:55 am Evening Worship 6:00 pm Shaw Heights Baptist Church 2030 Peach Orchard Rd. • 499-4997 Rev. Robert White, Pastor Sunday School: 9:45 am Sunday Worship:11 am & 6 pm Bible School June 20th - 25th 6:00 - 8:30 PM 4 year old & up

Interdenominational City of Refuge Church 16 Carolina Ave 938-9066 Barbara & Johnny Davis Sun School 10:00 am Worship 11:15 am Bible Study (Wed.) 7:00 pm www.cityofrefugeministry.com Spiritual Life Christian Center 4672 Broad St. Ext • 968-5771 Pastors Randolph & Minerva Paige Sunday Worship: 11:00 am Wednesday Bible Study: 7:00 pm Victory Full Gospel Interdenominational Church 601 Pitts Rd • 481-7003 Joann P. Murrill, Pastor Sunday Worship: 11:00 am Youth Bible Study 7:00 pm

Assembly of God Catholic - Roman First Assembly of God 1151 Alice Drive * 773-3817 www.sumterfirstag.org Jason Banar, Pastor Sunday School 9:30 am Sunday Worship: 10:30 am

Baptist - Missionary

The Catholic Community of Sumter, St. Anne Site 216 E Liberty St • 803-773-3524 Parochial Pastor Rev. Frank Palmieri, CRM Vicar Rev. Noly Berjuega, CRM Weekend Masses: Sat. 4:30 pm Sun. 8:00 and 12:00 Noon Confession: Sat. 3:00 pm - 4:00 pm

The Catholic Community of Jehovah Missionary Baptist Church Sumter, St. Jude Site 803 S Harvin St. * 775-4032 611 W. Oakland Ave • 773-9244 Marion H Newton, Pastor www.stjudesumtersc.org Sunday Worship: 7:45 & 10:45 am Pastor Rev. Frank Palmieri, CRM Sunday Youth Service: 10:45 am Parochial Vicar Rev. Noly Berjuega, CRM

Lutheran - ELCA St James Lutheran Church 1137 Alice Dr, Sumter 773-2260 / www.stjamessumter.org Pastor Keith Getz Sunday School: 9:00 am Sunday Worship: 10:00 am Wed. Bible Study 10:30 am Holy Communion: 12:00 pm

Lutheran - NALC Immanuel Lutheran Church 140 Poinsett Drive 803-883-1049 • 803-774-2380 Pastor Gary Blobaum Worship Service 9:00 am Sunday School 10:30 am Wed Bible Class: 7:00 pm

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Christ Community Church(CCC) 320 Loring Mill Rd., Sumter www.cccsumter.com 803-905-7850 Sun. Worship 10:00 am (Patriot Hall) 135 Haynsworth Street First Church of God 1835 Camden Rd • 905-5234 www.sumterfcg.org Ron Bower, Pastor Sunday School: 9:30 am Sunday Worship: 10:30 am

Aldersgate United Methodist 211 Alice Dr • 775-1602 David W. Day, Pastor Traditional Service 9:00 am Sunday School 10:15 am Contemporary Service 11:15 am

Greater St. Paul Church 200 Watkins Street • 803-778-1355 Founder Bishop W.T. English Sunday School - 10:30 am Worship - 11:30 am Evangelistic Service 6:30 pm Wed. Mid Week Service - 7:30 pm

Bethel United Methodist Church 5575 Lodebar Rd • 469-2452 Rev. Jeremy Howell Sunday Worship: 8:30 & 11 am Sunday School: 10 am www.yourbethel.org BMethodist@ftc-i.net

Sumter Bible Church 420 South Pike West, Sumter 803-773-8339 • Pastor Ron Davis Sunday School 10:00 am Worship 11:00 am & 6:30 pm Wed. Bible Study & Prayer 7:00 pm

St John United Methodist Church 136 Poinsett Dr * 803-773-8185 www.stjohnumcsumter.com Rev. Larry Brown Sunday School 9:45 am Worship 11:00 am Wed. Bible Study 11:00 am Trinity United Methodist Church 226 W Liberty St • 773-9393 Rev. Steve Holler Sunday School 9:30 am Worship Service 10:30 am trinityumcsumter.org

Non-Denominational Abundant Life Kingdom Ministries 301 Crosswell Drive, Sumter Pastor Dion E. Price 803-468-1567 Sunday Morning 10:00 am 1st & 3rd Wed. Bible Study 7:00 pm Sat. 9:00 am Intercessory Prayer

Hirsch Rosefield.

Born into a Jewish family, he converted to Christianity shortly after marrying Elizabeth (San) Irick Rosefield, Duffie said.

The couple had two sons, Martin Kenneth (Ken) Rosefield III (Angie) of Sumter and Brian Irick Rosefield of Columbia.

— Jim Hilley

Presbyterian - ARP Presbyterian USA Lemira Presbyterian Church 514 Boulevard Rd • 473-5024 Pastor Dan Rowton Sunday School 10:00 am Worship 11:00 am

Presbyterian PCA Westminster Presbyterian Church 230 Alice Dr., Sumter 803-773-7235 Pastor Stuart Mizelle Sunday School 9:15 am Worship Service 10:30 am

Pentecostal

First Presbyterian Church of Sumter 9 W Calhoun St (at Main St.) (803) 773-3814 • info@fpcsumter.org Rev. Nick Cheek Sunday School (classes for all ages) 9:30 a.m.

Hospitality & Fellowship (Fellowship Hall) 10:10 a.m.

Worship (Sanctuary) 10:30 a.m.

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ave you ever worried about losing your job, or facing a serious illness, or making a terrible mistake?

If you have faced and survived any these fears then you are likely thankful for each and every day you have your job, your health, and your talents. Remember to thank God for these things as well.

Also, remember to pray for those who are less fortunate.

Praise God at His House this and every week for all your blessings.

First United Penecostal Church 14 Plowden Mill Rd • 775-9493 Pastor Theron Smith Sunday Service: 10:00 am & 6:30 pm Wednesday Bible Study: 7:30 pm Sumter First Pentecostal Holiness Church 2609 McCrays Mill Rd • 481-8887 S. Paul Howell, Pastor Sunday School: 10:00 am Sunday Worship: 10:45 am & 6:00 pm Wed. Bible Study/Youth Group: 7:00 pm

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Gergel has released eight pages of instructions covering logistics for the trial.

It says the names of jurors or prospective jurors will not be revealed to the public or media during the trial and that they will be referred to only by numbers.

Roof’s state trial on nine murder charges is now set for next year.

Circuit Judge J.C. Nicholson has ordered the first of 600 prospective jurors to report to the courthouse on Jan. 17. His Tuesday order says the state trial will begin on or after Jan. 30.

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God’s plan may send you in an alternate direction

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maintain a series of binders that essentially organize every aspect of my life from my weekly meal-planning calendar to my kids’ school calendar. What’s a bit nutty is how much I enjoy it. Few things thrill me as much as the office supply aisle, the colored binders with their clear, protective covers, the pop-up Post-it tabs, the multi-colored highlighters, the Avery 5160 mailing labels to which I print the titles of my meticulously curated files.

Hi, my name is Jamie, and I am a planner, which is a fantastic attribute most of the time — most of the time. It’s only a problem when my plans for my life stand in contrast with God’s plan for my life.

Then there are those times when no amount of planning can prepare me for what God requires. There are those times when I’m called to step out into the great unknown, the uncertain, the season of life for which I do not have a carefully planned framework. It’s then when God calls, and I am required to leap.

Hi, my name is Jamie, and I hate leaps of faith.

It’s entirely appropriate that I make my confessions here. For someone who espouses leaps of faith so regularly in this column, I’m remarkably hesitant to leap myself. I rely heavily on the notion that, with enough chutzpah and hard work, one can take hold of his or her highest aspiration. I can only claim grace in the area; my Heavenly Father knows my weaknesses and loves me despite them.

But when I was recently rejected by two organizations within days of each other, I began to question my planning practices. Both jobs I was qualified for; both organizations I had excellent interviews with. In both cases, evidently, someone else was a better fit, and I got the call: “We are going in a different direction.

Thank you for your interest.”

I sat last Wednesday, head in hands, cradling my broken plans. In my binders, I had carefully planned out my kids’ childcare calendar and our work schedules —– all those plans were for naught, because the plan was that I have a job by that point.

Faith Matters would No job, no plan, no hope.

JAMIE H. Then, amid the hopelessness WILSON and the anxiety, I felt God’s hand on my life, gently guiding me onto a different path, one that was right in front of me as I pursued other ends. He has a hope-filled plan, He reminded me (Jeremiah 29:11). It was the same hand that had shut the doors to the other career paths. Even as I blamed God for my broken plans, He reminded me that better paths were born of broken plans.

In the end, the answer given me by those organizations were right: They were going in a different direction. I’m going in a different direction myself, one purposefully set out by my providential God. I like the way my New Living Translation puts it: “My thoughts are nothing like your thoughts,” says the LORD. “And my ways are far beyond anything you could imagine.” (Isaiah 55:8) The truth is my God is also a planner, and His plans are far better than mine, so I don’t have to despair when my carefully laid plans crumble. I just have to move forward, knowing that God has something greater and ultimately better suited for me. I hope you take hold of this same principle as you plan your week.

Email Jamie H. Wilson at faithmatterssumter@ gmail.com.

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IN BRIEF Sumter resident named youth minister Grace Baptist Church has added Caleb Dubose as youth and child development minister.

Dubose, a lifelong resident of Sumter and the son of Rob and Holly Dubose, graduated from Wilson Hall and The Citadel. While at The Citadel he was named to the dean’s list, president’s list and commandant’s list. He is pursu-

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Dubose recently returned from a mission trip to Ecuador. He is active in the choir and enjoys all sports activities. He will serve as the youth minister and work with the children at Grace Baptist School/Daycare.

Grace Baptist youth meet at 6 p.m. on Wednesday and Sunday and AWANA at 5:15 p.m. on Sunday.

Dubose can be reached at Grace Baptist Church, 219 W. Calhoun St., (803) 778-6417.

Buddhists in Myanmar protest Annan’s group SITTWE, Myanmar (AP) — More than 1,000 Buddhists in a Myanmar state wracked by religious and ethnic strife protested Tuesday’s arrival of former U.N. Secretary-General Kofi Annan, saying the Ghanaian is meddling in the country’s affairs by leading a government-appointed commission to find solutions to the conflict.

The Southeast Asian country set up the commission last month to help find solutions to “protracted issues” in western Rakhine state, where human rights groups have documented widespread abuses by majority Rakhine Buddhists against minority Rohingya Muslims.

The state’s dominant Arakan National Party and the Rakhine Women Network led the protest about 300 yards from the airport in Sittwe, the Rakhine capital, where Annan and other members of the Rakhine Advisory Commission arrived Tuesday morning.

Many Buddhists in Rakhine and across Myanmar consider Rohingya to be Bangladeshis living in the country illegally.

Hundreds of Rohingya were killed and tens of thousands forced to flee their homes in 2012 unrest in Rakhine state, and many continue to be confined to squalid camps there.

French uproar creates fortune for Israeli burkini makers HOD HASHARON, Israel (AP) — France’s burkini controversy is boosting the bottom line for Israeli makers of modest swimwear.

The country, home to large populations of conservative Jewish and Muslim women, has cultivated a local industry of modest swimsuits, and the full-body outfits that have caused uproar in France have been a common sight on Israeli beaches for several years.

Marci Rapp was among the first to enter the industry after she moved to

Jerusalem from Toronto in 2008. The warm Mediterranean climate presented a fashion challenge because she keeps her arms and legs covered, in keeping with Jewish rules of modesty.

“I had nothing to wear,” she said. “I couldn’t find something that was suitable for me to feel comfortable when I was more covered.”

Rapp started the MarSea Modest swimwear company, which sells dresses, shorts, shirts and head coverings made of lightweight, chlorine-resistant Italian fabric, sewn in Tel Aviv. Busi-

CHURCH NEWS Agape Outreach Ministries, 328 W. Liberty St., announces: * Sunday — “Deacons dedicated to the work of the Master” program at 4 p.m. * Sunday, Sept. 18 — Missionary / mothers presents parade of hats at 4 p.m.

Antioch Missionary Baptist Church, 2571 Joseph LemonDingle Road, Jordan community, Manning, announces: * Sunday, Sept. 25 — Ninth pastoral anniversary celebration for Pastor Sam Livingston. Dr. Sam W. Whack will speak at 10 a.m. and Pastor Carnell Witherspoon will speak at 4 p.m.

Antioch United Methodist Church, 4040 Dubose Siding Road, announces: * Sunday, Sept. 18 — Inspirational Choir’s anniversary program at 4 p.m.

Bethel Baptist Church, 2401 Bethel Church Road, announces: * Friday-Sunday, Sept. 30-Oct. 2 — Revival “Spiritual Warfare” at 7 p.m. Friday, 6 p.m.

Saturday and 11 a.m. and 6 p.m. Sunday. Evangelist Dr. Sammy Gilbreath will speak.

The Floyd Family Trio will provide music.

Cedar Grove Missionary Baptist Church, 1275 Oswego Highway, announces: * Monday-Wednesday, Sept.

19-21 — Revival at 7 nightly.

The Rev. George Windley Jr. will speak.

Church Women United of the Greater Sumter area announces: * Saturday — Annual salad luncheon at Trinity United Methodist Church, 226 W. Liberty St. Cost is $5 per ticket.

Time is 11:30 a.m. for dine in or noon for carry out. Proceeds benefit local charities.

Community Bible Church, 5711 Red Hill Road, Camden, announces: * Sunday-Wednesday, Sept.

14 — Revival at 7 nightly. Dr. Richard Hughes will speak.

Concord Baptist Church, 1885 Myrtle Beach Highway, announces: * Sunday — The 40th anniversary of the church and homecoming will be celebrated at 10 a.m. The Anchormen will provide music and Dr. Richard Harris will speak. Fellowship dinner to follow. * Monday-Wednesday, Sept.

12-14 — Revival at 7 nightly.

Dr. Richard Harris will speak.

Nursery provided. Special music nightly.

Faith Missionary Baptist Church No. 1, 115 Laurel St., announces: * Sunday — The eighth pastoral anniversary of Dr. Otis Butler Jr. will be celebrated at 4 p.m. at Westend Community Church, 101 S. Salem St. Pastor Gregory Jackson will speak.

First Baptist Missionary Church, 219 S. Washington St., announces: * Friday-Saturday — The Ninth Annual Central South Carolina Gospel Music Workshop & Worship will be held as follows: 6 p.m. Friday, registration followed by the first session at 7 p.m. featuring vocal techniques and musicians share and shed with open mic musical at 9:45 p.m.; 9:45 a.m. Saturday, registration followed by the second session at 10 a.m. featuring praise dancers class, mass choir rehearsal and various topics; and 7 p.m.

Saturday, concert. Call (704) 492-4761 for more information.

Friendship Missionary Baptist Church, 182 S. Pike East, announces: * Sunday, Sept. 25 — The anniversary of the church will be celebrated at 3:30 p.m.

Pastor James Goodman will speak.

Greater St. Phillip RMUE, 4574 Old River Road, Pinewood, announces:

ness has grown at least 10 percent a year since she started, she said.

Only a few of her clients are Muslim, Rapp says, because they require more conservative swimwear than she offers. The burkini, coined by an Australian-Lebanese designer about a decade ago, covers the head, torso and limbs with lightweight swim fabric. Rapp’s swimsuits do not include hoods, which most observant Muslim women prefer, and many of her styles do not reach to the wrists and ankles.

Rapp said she was baffled by the de-

* Tuesday-Thursday, Sept.

13-15 — Revival at 7:30 nightly. The Rev. Jonathan Mouzon, pastor of Macedonia Baptist Church in Manning, will speak.

High Hills Missionary Baptist Church, 6750 Meeting House Road, Dalzell, announces: * Sunday — Trustee and trustee’s spouse anniversary program during the 10:15 a.m. worship service.

Jehovah Missionary Baptist Church, 803 S. Harvin St., announces: * Sunday — First responders and military appreciation worship service at 7:30 a.m. and 10:30 a.m. Col. Charles Dalcourt will speak during the 7:30 a.m. service and Chief Master Sgt. Christopher McKinney, 20th Fighter Wing Command Chief, will speak during the 10:30 a.m. service.

Knitting Hearts Ministry, meets at Bethesda Church of God, 2730 Broad St., announces: * Saturday — Knitting Hearts will meet from 10 a.m. until noon. Bonita Britt will speak.

Light breakfast included. A love offering will be received.

Visit knittingheartsministry. wordpress.com Liberty Hill AME Church, 2310 Liberty Hill Road, Summerton, announces: * Sunday — Pack the pew service at 3 p.m. sponsored by the hospitality ministry.

The Rev. Dr. Bennie Colclough, of Providence Christian Church of Manning, will speak.

Lord of Lords of Hope Ministries, 305 S. Mill St., Manning, announces: * Thursday-Saturday, Sept.

15-17 — Revival at 7:30 nightly. Angelia Plowden Stockton and Andre and Gerthene Baxter will speak and provide music.

Mount Zion Missionary Baptist Church, 325 Fulton St., announces: * Sunday, Sept. 25 — The 123rd church anniversary and homecoming worship cele-

cision of several French towns to ban full-body swimwear. The ban was later overturned by France’s top court, the Council of State.

Itay Yaacov, a journalist at the fashion site Xnet, estimated that during the last decade, about a dozen Israeli companies have begun making modest swimwear. The outfits have become a global trend, he added, saying even secular women have begun pairing long-sleeved shirts with bikini bottoms. Most Israeli companies are small and cater to the local market, he said.

bration will be held at 10:45 a.m. Pastor Ennis Fant, of Pleasant View Missionary Baptist Church, Powdersville, will speak.

New Covenant Presbyterian Church, 907 Legare St., announces: * Saturday-Sunday, Sept.

17-18 — Homecoming celebration as follows: 11 a.m.-5 p.m. Saturday, family fun day celebration; and 3 p.m. Sunday, worship service, the Rev. Dr. McKinley Washington Jr. will speak.

One Step Christian Ministries, 125 S. Nettles St., Bishopville, announces: * Friday — The fifth pastoral anniversary program for Pastor Sheila B. Neal at 7 p.m. at Mt. Calvary Missionary Baptist Church, Bishopville. The Rev. Travis Laws will speak. * Sunday — Church anniversary service will be held at 11:15 a.m. The Rev. Aurelia Hill will speak.

Orangehill Independent Methodist Church, 3005 S. Kings Highway, Wedgefield, announces: * Friday, Sept. 16 — One night revival at 7 p.m. The Rev. Richard James Sr. will speak.

Providence Baptist Church, 2445 Old Manning Road, announces: * Sunday — Homecoming.

Heaven Sent will provide music at 9:30 a.m. and the Rev. LeRoy Burke will speak at 10:30 a.m. Dinner will begin at noon.

St. Mark 4-B Missionary Baptist Church, 2280 Four Bridges Road, announces: * Sunday-Tuesday, Sept. 13 — Pastors and Ministers Leadership Summit at 7 nightly.

Bishop G. Emerson Scott and Bishop Theotis White will speak.

St. Mark Missionary Baptist Church, 7650 Summerton Highway, Silver community, Pinewood, announces: * Saturday — Leadership seminar 9 a.m.-2 p.m. conducted by the Rev. Dr. George Gaymon.

* Sunday — Usher’s anniversary program during 10 a.m. service. * Saturday, Sept. 17 — Brotherhood program at 3 p.m. * Sunday, Sept. 25 — Youth anniversary program at 3 p.m.

St. Paul AME Church, 835 Plowden Mill Road, announces: * Sunday — Homecoming and brotherhood service at 1 p.m.

The Rev. Hazel Charles will speak.

Sumter First Pentecostal Holiness Church, 2609 McCrays Mill Road, announces: * Sunday — Heroes Day special service at 11 a.m. to honor law enforcement, fire department, EMT’s and first responders at 11 a.m. with an appreciation meal from noon to 4 p.m.

Taw Caw Missionary Baptist Church, 1130 Granby Lane, Summerton, announces: * Sunday — The 34th pastoral anniversary of Pastor William T. Johnson will be celebrated.

Sunday school will begin at 9 a.m., devotional service at 9:45 a.m. and worship at 10 a.m. Pastor Napoleon Bradford, of Jehovah Missionary Baptist Church, will speak.

Tiverton Missionary Baptist Church, 2420 Old Charleston Road, Wedgefield, announces: * Sunday — Homecoming at 3 p.m. The Rev. Frederick Martin, pastor of Union Baptist Church of Wedgefield, will speak.

Triumph Ministries, 3632 Broad St. Ext., announces: * Friday — One night of glory.

Dr. Carl Parrott will speak. * Friday, Sept. 30 — Pastor Leta Dennis, of New Millennium Ministry, will speak at 7 p.m.

Truly Committed Missionary Baptist Church, 705 Oswego Road, announces: * Wednesday-Friday, Sept.

14-16 — Revival at 7 nightly.

Dr. Berna Green will speak.

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Spy novelist shares stories from his life

FX’s ‘Better Things’ shows off Adlon’s great comic timing

BY CARLA K. JOHNSON The Associated Press

BY KEVIN MCDONOUGH

Of stories to dine out on, David Cornwell has an abundance. Or should we say John le Carre has? Cornwell’s pen name overshadows the title on the cover of this, his first memoir, “The Pigeon Tunnel.” The name “John le Carre” attracts the audience, but it’s David Cornwell confiding in us here, as if over dinner, then chatting long into the evening over snifters of brandy, or, as he unspools memories of Russia, glasses of vodka.

He is nearing his 85th birthday, so he reflects on his brief stint as a British spy during the Cold War and long career as a revered espionage novelist who does his own fieldwork. Fans of le Carre’s fiction will use this as a code book where they will match up characters from “Tinker, Tailor, Soldier, Spy,” ‘’The Little Drummer Girl” and other titles to the real people who inspired them.

To research the Palestine-Israel conflict for “Drummer Girl,” for example, Cornwell works his way into the world of Palestinian liberation fighters and eventually wins an audience with Yasser Arafat. He interviews a Russian mafia boss to gather material for “Our Kind of Traitor.” For “The Mission Song,” he seeks out warlords in east Congo.

Film offers came early, so there are actors and directors to befriend. When hard-drinking Richard Burton, cast as the hard-drinking lead in “The Spy Who Came in from the Cold,” the 1965 film adaptation of le Carre’s early best-seller, needs a pal to keep him steady, it is Cornwell whom director Martin Ritt summons to the set.

Sober-minded Alec Guinness, who plays George Smiley in two BBC miniseries versions of le Carre novels, encounters an actor showing up drunk and “the poor man might as well have gone to sleep on sentry duty,” Cornwell recalls. But Guinness’ anger gives way “to an almost desperate kindliness.”

When Sydney Pollack, Francis Ford Coppola and Stanley Kubrick call, Cornwell jets off to discuss impossible projects. “One day, I trust, it will be recognized that the best films of my work were the ones that were never made,” he laments.

The title “The Pigeon Tunnel” comes from a much earlier memory. His conman father (the inspiration for le Carre’s autobiographical novel, “A Perfect Spy”) has taken him on a gambling spree in Monte Carlo, Monaco.

At a sporting club, the teenager David sees “welllunched sporting gentlemen” shooting pigeons. He learns the surviving birds fly back to their home on the casino roof where they are doomed to be trapped in the tunnels that lead them again into shotgun fire.

It’s a troubling image. Does it haunt him into his 80s because he’s trapped by his own inherited nature? His father, Ronnie, looms, at last fully formed, in “Son of the Author’s Father,” a chapter saved for late in the book.

Roguish Ronnie cheats, lies, runs cons, sends others to prison for his crimes, beds women, goes to prison himself and still manages to send his sons to the best schools. Later in life, Ronnie takes advantage of his son’s fame whenever he can.

In these pages, Cornwell becomes one of his most fascinating characters — the son who learns to dissemble at his father’s knee, joins the British intelligence service and rounds out his life creating false worlds as a novelist.

“Sometimes I walk round him, sometimes he’s the mountain I still have to climb,” he writes of Ronnie. We listen and nod, sipping with pleasure, intoxicated by his words.

A non-sitcom comedy about the burdens of single parenthood, “Better Things” (10 p.m., FX, TV-MA) could have been called “TMI.” Pamela Adlon (“Louie”) stars as Sam Fox, a working actress and voiceover talent raising three daughters while keeping track of her mother and striving to eke out some satisfaction for herself.

Daughter Max (Mikey Madison) is the impossible teen, dreamy, needy and “honest” to a fault. When she asks her mother to buy her pot or insists on talking about sex, Sam retreats and says that she’d rather that Max “hide that stuff” from her like a normal teen.

Middle daughter Frankie (Hannah Alligood) is impossibly socially conscious and even more insufferable in her own way. Duke (Olivia Edward) retains a whiff of childhood innocence and allows Sam her few moments of intimacy and affection.

Like “Louie,” this series (also produced by Louis C.K.) never shields us from its central character’s every thought, from Sam’s fantasizing about an earlier tryst to her near-clinical interest in internet pornography.

The show bounces rather naturally from domestic explosions to the demands of Sam’s working life. At its best, this shows off Adlon’s great comic timing. But it also invests the show with a lot of insiderdom.

Should we feel less sympathy for an actress who rubs shoulders with Hollywood stars? We should. But will we?

Sam’s seen auditioning for a part and kidding around with a rival actress (Constance Zimmer, “Unreal”) until both women see that Julie Bowen (“Modern Family”) has clearly locked up the role. In another scene, she’s acting on a set with Bradley Whitford (“The West Wing”) in a rather steamy scene and trying to talk the writers into toning it down for her kids’ sake.

Later, we see her venting about her problems while trying to synch her voice to a kids’ cartoon. This may re-

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Mikey Madison, left, stars as Max and Pamela Adlon as Pam in “Better Things,” debuting at 10 p.m. today on FX. mind some of one of Adlon’s great roles. She was the voice of Bobby Hill on the primetime cartoon “King of the Hill.” Part of me wishes that Sam and “Better Things” shared a little of Hank Hill’s repression and learned to “hide that stuff” from time to time.

• Members of the original “classic” cast (William Shatner, Leonard Nimoy, DeForest Kelley and James Doohan) star in the 1986 sequel “Star Trek IV: The Voyage Home” (8:30 p.m., Syfy), part of a daylong marathon of “Star Trek” movies. BBC America continues its ongoing marathon of episodes of “Star Trek.” The series debuted on NBC on Sept.

8, 1966, 50 years ago today.

CULT CHOICE The 1956 adventure “Davy Crockett and the River Pirates” (10:15 p.m., TCM) featured two actors who would go on to hit television series, Fess Parker, of “Daniel Boone” fame, and Buddy Ebsen, star of “The Beverly Hillbillies.”

TONIGHT’S OTHER HIGHLIGHTS • Sherri Shepherd gueststars on “Rosewood” (8 p.m., Fox, r, TV-14).

• The Denver Broncos host the Carolina Panthers in NFL football (8:30 p.m., NBC, TV-PG), the first game of the regular season.

• Booth butts heads with the

Secret Service on “Bones” (9 p.m., Fox, r, TV-14).

• A patient’s sordid reputation is hard to ignore on “Code Black” (10 p.m., CBS, r, TV-14).

• Camila targets Epifanio’s empire on “Queen of the South” (10 p.m., USA, TV-14).

SERIES NOTES Legal details on “The Big Bang Theory” (8 p.m., CBS, r, TV-14) * Michael Strahan hosts two episodes of “The $100,000 Pyramid” (8 p.m., ABC, r, TV-PG) * One last battle on “DC’s Legends of Tomorrow” (8 p.m., CW, r, TV-14) * Joan and John trade in secrets on “Life in Pieces” (8:30 p.m., CBS, r, TV-14) * Julie Chen hosts “Big Brother” (9 p.m., CBS, TV-14) * Vincent finds it hard to contain his emotions on “Beauty and the Beast” (9 p.m., CW, TV-14) * Alec Baldwin hosts “Match Game” (10 p.m., ABC, r, TV-14).

LATE NIGHT Jessica Alba, Bradley Whitford and Travis Scott are booked on “The Late Show With Stephen Colbert” (11:35 p.m., CBS) * Molly Shannon, Chris Kelly, Cenk Uygur and Nate Morton visit “Late Night With Seth Meyers” (12:35 a.m., NBC) * Michael Sheen and Gavin DeGraw appear on “The Late Late Show With James Corden” (12:35 a.m., CBS).

Copyright 2016 United Feature Syndicate

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COMMENTARY

Clinton is the candidate who wasn’t there

BY RICH LOWRY

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illiam McKinley would be proud.

Hillary Clinton has been running the closest thing possible in the modern context to a frontporch campaign.

She is happy to have the race all about her opponent, rather than herself. She avoids press conferences, although she has taken to visiting reporters at the back of her campaign plane for some questions. She hasn’t said anything truly memorable that isn’t a gaffe. Her best moment of the campaign, the Democratic convention, featured vivid performances by nearly everyone in her party except her.

Hillary is relying on the strength of her organization to hoist her over the finish line and wants to win the presidency by default.

It’s as if Michael Dukakis became the Democratic nominee and happened to luck into

running against a radioactive candidate conducting a realtime experiment in whether it’s possible to win the presidency without building a presidential campaign. And yet for all of Donald Trump’s weaknesses, Hillary is barely leading him. According to the new CNN poll, her voters are less enthusiastic than his are. Her unfavorable rating is just a tick below his when he has spent a year gleefully trampling every political piety, and she is determinedly cautious and colorless.

It is telling that at the height of her lead in August, she was almost entirely absent. She let Trump dictate the pace of the campaign, often to his own detriment. As he has become more disciplined, this approach may have reached its natural limit.

But Hillary herself lacks almost all the qualities that make for a compelling presidential candidate. She isn’t fresh. She has been prominent

in our politics, and controversial, for 25 years.

She isn’t entertaining or inspiring. Her speeches never achieve rhetorical liftoff, and she has the most insincere laugh in American politics.

She isn’t associated with a cause. In the Democratic primaries, she bent to the energy of the Bernie Sanders phenomenon, and in the general election, she has found her voice only when attacking Donald Trump.

She isn’t ethical. The debris field from her private e-mail server and the shady dealings of the Clinton Foundation will stretch into November and perhaps beyond.

Already wealthy by any reasonable standard and unbelievably famous, the Clintons only had to conduct themselves with some modicum of respectability the past several years to avoid creating further obstacles on Hillary Clinton’s path to the White House. Instead, Hillary bent the rules

and arguably violated laws to try to keep her State Department e-mails from prying eyes, and the couple mingled Clinton Foundation and State Department business in, at the very least, a wildly inappropriate manner. They vacuumed up every loose dollar they could find, from Hillary’s Goldman Sachs speeches to Bill’s $17.6 million gig as “honorary chancellor” of a forprofit college.

Hillary wants to define political change as embodied by Donald Trump as unacceptable, but she has gone almost as far in rendering the status quo — as represented by her high-handed politics of cronyism and corner-cutting — intolerable. The Clintons famously believe that the rules don’t apply to them, and why not? First, the FBI conducted a check-the-box investigation into her e-mails, and then, acting like an arm of the campaign, released documents related to the investigation on

the Friday afternoon before Labor Day to limit their impact. Who else can hope for such deference from the nation’s foremost law-enforcement agency?

In only one sense does Hillary Clinton perhaps match the political moment. She may be boring, unlikable and untrustworthy, but she is stolid.

Her argument against Trump is based on character and temperament more than anything else, and she is making a bet that if she can define Trump as dangerous, then plodding and predictable will look alluring by comparison.

It is a bold gambit to win a personality contest by having none.

As a candidate, Hillary is the emptiness at the center of her otherwise formidable campaign.

Rich Lowry is the editor of National Review. He can be reached via e-mail: comments. lowry@nationalreview.com.

LETTERS TO THE EDITOR VETERANS CAN JOIN AMERICAN LEGION TO FELLOWSHIP WITH OTHERS Have you served in the military for any of the following dates: Dec. 7, 1941 to Dec. 31, 1946; June 25, 1950 to Dec. 31, 1955; Feb. 28, 1961 to May 7, 1975; Aug. 24, 1982 to July 31, 1984; Dec. 20, 1989 to Jan. 31, 1990; or Aug. 2, 1990 to present?

Do you still want to uphold and defend the Constitution of the United States of America? Do you believe we should maintain law and order? Then you qualify to join American Legion Post No. 15. The post meets at 34 South Artillery Drive, better known as the fairgrounds.

Sumter American Legion Post No. 15 is very active in the Sumter community.

Here are just a few of the events that are sponsored by our local post.

The Sumter County Fair, dates this year are Sept. 27 to Oct. 2. The P-15’s are our local baseball team, and they have won many state and regional titles. We have sponsored the Southeastern Regional Tournament right here in Sumter at Riley Park.

We sponsor Boy and Cub Scout Troop No. 339 at the American Legion. We sponsor approximately 20 boys to attend Palmetto Boys State. The American Legion Auxiliary sponsors 13 girls for Palmetto Girls State.

We sponsor Legion Riders, our own motorcycle riders. They have a Legion Riders Legacy Scholarship run which comes through Sumter.

Then there is bingo on Monday and Tuesday nights from 6:30 until the last game. We invite everyone to come and play bingo on South Artillery Drive.

We also select a firefighter, law enforcement officer, EMT, sheriff’s deputy and correctional officer of the year to represent Sumter in the state competition. We have had state winners that go on to national.

Come and join us on the first Monday night of the month, except for September, which will be on the send Monday, Sept. 12. The meeting starts at 7 p.m.

NOTABLE & QUOTABLE Douglas Schoen, a political adviser to President Bill Clinton from 1994-2000, writes in The Wall Street Journal that “President Trump Isn’t Farfetched: Pundits treat Clinton like a shoo-in, but polls tell a different story. Victory is well within Trump’s reach.”

To listen to conventional wisdom, Hillary Clinton practically cannot lose the presidential election. The various forecasting services, from FiveThirtyEight to CNN to Predictwise, give the Democrat about a 70 percent chance of winning the White House in November. Few commentators are betting on Donald Trump. Yet the available evidence shows that the race is steadily trending toward Mr. Trump, whose victory remains quite possible.

Consider the polling trends.

In a four-way race including

with a delicious meal. Come at least 30 minutes earlier so you can see your neighbors and friends. It’s a time of fellowship with fellow veterans of all ages.

Don’t forget the American Legion Auxiliary Unit 15. They are the mothers, daughters, sisters, granddaughters, etc. of members of the American Legion. They met at 6:30, same place.

JACQUELINE K. HUGHES Sumter

HOMAGE PAID TO OLD OAK TREE THAT FELL DURING STORM On Sept. 22, 1989, my family and I spent the night huddled in the hallway of our home listening to the violent and frightening power of Hurricane Hugo.

We had made all the necessary preparations; we taped and boarded windows, laid in supplies, and hoped for the best.

Since I had never experienced a hurricane, I had no idea of what was coming, which in retrospect was a good thing. Sometimes ignorance can be

Libertarian Gary Johnson and Green Party candidate Jill Stein, Mrs. Clinton’s lead is now only 2.4 points in the Real Clear Politics average. That’s down significantly from a month ago.

In early August, following the Democratic Convention, Mrs. Clinton was up by six points in the YouGov/Economist survey, and eight points in the ABC/ Washington Post poll.

So can Donald Trump win?

Although he is at a clear disadvantage in the electoral college, evidence suggests that he can.

Polls in the past week in Michigan, Wisconsin and Ohio show the race tightening. Florida is within the margin of error.

North Carolina and even potentially Arizona, states that once seemed out of reach, remain in play.

Neither candidate has so far decisively answered the question of who can best lead America into a challenging future, while helping millions of hard-

bliss. Fortunately, we were luckier than many others and came through unscathed. However, I have never forgotten that night. Needless to say, when we learned that Hurricane Hermine was coming our way, I experienced a fair amount of anxiety. I took down my hanging plants, secured lawn furniture and tools, gassed up the cars and stocked up on supplies. I closely followed Hermine’s progress on the Weather Channel. When I lost power mid-afternoon, I busied myself with various things while constantly looking at the sky, and tried to read a book.

When it became too dark to read, I said a prayer, called my children to make sure they were OK and settled down on the couch waiting for the onslaught. I made sure I had a straight path to the front door in case I needed to run, although I can’t imagine where I would have gone in the middle of a hurricane.

Miraculously, I woke up the next morning to sunshine and a blue sky. I

working people improve their lives. If Mr. Trump makes the better sales pitch over the next 60 days, he may very well find himself sitting in the big chair in the Oval Office.

••• In The New York Times, Ross Douthat discusses “The Gift of Clinton.”

If the Trump campaign weren’t such an all-consuming piece of performance art, the big story of this election would be the sheer shambolic strangeness of Hillary Clinton’s presidential campaign.

The Democratic candidate is the most disliked nominee of modern times — except, of course, for her opponent. She is widely regarded as untrustworthy and corrupt, and the rare news cycles in which her name dominates the headlines (usually with the letters “F,” “B”

still did not have electricity, but aside from scattered branches all over the yard, everything seemed to be in order. I thanked the good Lord and made a cup of instant coffee. My gas stove, another blessing!

I decided to have my coffee on the front porch so I could enjoy looking at the park. A cursory look across the street told me all was well. However, once settled on the front step, I noticed a large green mass that looked out of place. When I walked over to investigate, I saw to my dismay that the green mass was a tree.

GERLIES MCCREA Master Gardener Sumter Editor’s note: Because this letter exceeded the 350-word length as stated in our Editorial Page Policies which appears regularly on this page, it can be read in its entirety under Opinion on The Sumter Item’s website, www.theitem.com.

and “I” nearby) have only confirmed this impression.

That this is the candidate who stands between Donald Trump and the presidency should be dispiriting to Democratic partisans, disquieting to the fiercest #NeverTrumpers on the right, and depressing to anyone who would prefer not to have to choose between a reckless demagogue and a scandal-ridden dynast.

But there are ways in which Clinton’s deeply unappealing candidacy might actually be a good thing for the republic.

The Trump phenomenon, after all, did not come out of nowhere. His caudillo-esque posturing, his contempt for Republican norms, his “I alone can fix it!” promises are all populist variations on our political culture’s enthusiasm for untrammeled executive power, the bipartisan cult of the presidency, the Caesarism that the administrations of George W.

Bush and Barack Obama have done a great deal to advance.

No one should doubt that a President Hillary Clinton would also play Caesar whenever the opportunity presented itself. But she would lack many of the qualities that make imperial presidents particularly dangerous — powerful charisma, a passionate and devoted base, a close relationship with a compliant press, a claim on some sort of sweeping policy mandate.

Thus Hillary Clinton’s weakness and unpopularity might be a gift, of sorts, to the American future. Because she can’t put Trump away, it’s harder to dismiss Trumpism as either a pure joke or a pure evil. Because she can’t put him away, we have to take him seriously — and only by taking him seriously can we learn enough to make sure the next Trump isn’t far stronger, and far worse.

Unless, of course, she loses.

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AROUND TOWN gles, $60 for couples. Kent The Sumter Stroke Support Mims and Coty Cuttino are Group (Overcomers) will Overcomers Stroke Support Group to organizing a golf outing for meet at 2:30 p.m. today in meet today the afternoon of Friday, the activities room of NHC Sept. 23. For more informaof Sumter. Call Wayne or tion, call Myra Moore Wilt Joyce Hunter at (803) 464at (803) 491-4624.

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The Sumter Chapter of the Na- The Heart of Sumter Neighborhood Association’s (HSNA) tional Federation of the Blind 10th Annual Art in the Park of South Carolina will meet will be held from 10 a.m. to at 7 p.m. on Tuesday, Sept.

5 p.m. on Saturday, Sept.

13, at Shiloh-Randolph 24, in Historic Memorial Manor, 125 W. Bartlette St. Park.

Minister Malinda Ham, Clarendon County Chapter The South Carolina Departof the National Federation ment of Social Services will of the Blind of South Carolihold an informational drop-in na, will speak. Transportafor foster care recruitment tion provided within the from 4 to 7 p.m. on Tuescoverage area. Contact day, Sept. 27, at Weldon AuDebra Canty, chapter presiditorium, 7 Maple St., Mandent, at (803) 775-5792 or ning. For more information, debra.canty@frontier.com. visit www.scfamilies.org.

Donations are welcome To apply to be a foster parand should be mailed to ent, call Heartfelt Caring at NFB Sumter Chapter, P.O. (888) 828-3555.

Box 641, Sumter, SC 29151.

The Disabled American VeterGoogle Debra Canty’s story ans will meet at 7 p.m. on on YouTube.

Tuesday, Sept. 27, at 18 The Sumter Combat Veterans Hardpack Road (off of S.C. Group will hold a golf tourna441). ment on Saturday, Sept. 17, The Disabled American Veterat Crystal Lakes Golf ans will hold a pancake dinner Course, 1305 Clara Louise from 5 to 7:30 p.m. on Kellogg Drive. There will be Thursday, Sept. 29, at 18 a 9 a.m. shotgun start. RegHardpack Road. istration fee is $50 per golfFall Family Farm Day at Old er limited to the first 20 McCaskill’s Farm will be held teams. Fee includes contifrom 10 a.m. to 6 p.m. on nental breakfast, lunch, Saturday, Oct. 8. Old Mcsouvenirs, cart, green fees, Caskill Farm is located at refreshments during play 377 Cantey Lane, Rembert. and door prizes. Team forTake the whole family and mat will be Captain’s enjoy live music, farm fresh Choice Four-Person Team. concessions and good old Call Earnest Roland at (803) farm fun. There will be hay 840-0935 or Johnny Goodley rides, games, a pumpkin at (803) 236-0488. patch, horse rides and Edmunds High School Class of more. Admission is $5 per 1966 will hold its 50th reunion on Saturday, Sept. 24, person; children 2 and under free. Visit www.oldat the Sumter County Mumccaskillfarm.com. seum. Cost is $30 for sin-

FYI the automobile icon to comThe National Kidney Foundation plete an online application. of South Carolina is in need of unwanted vehicles — even ones The Purple Heart Chapter of Donate your vehicles that don’t run. The carunwanted will be Sumter is sponsoring a project towed at no charge to you to have all Purple Heart and you will be provided medal recipients inducted with a possible tax deducinto the National Purple tion. The donated vehicle Heart Hall of Honor located will be sold at auction or rein New York. An enrollment cycled for salvageable parts. application must be comCall (800) 488-2277. pleted by the medal recipient or next of kin if the vetThe Muscular Dystrophy Family eran is deceased. Proof of Foundation Inc. (MDFF), a nonthe award of the medal is reprofit organization, accepts vequired and, if possible, a hicle contributions. To comphotograph of the recipient. plete a vehicle donation, Call Willie Washington at make arrangements by call(720) 203-2112 for details and ing (800) 544-1213 or visit assistance. www.mdff.org and click on

PUBLIC AGENDA SUMTER COUNTY VOTER REGISTRATION / ELECTION COMMISSION Today, 5:30 p.m., registration / election office, 141 N. Main St.

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Gaffney 94/67 Spartanburg 94/68

Greenville 94/69

Columbia 95/71

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Sumter 94/70

IN THE MOUNTAINS Aiken 92/67

ON THE COAST

Charleston 94/70

Today: Mostly sunny. High 88 to 92.

Friday: Mostly sunny. High 87 to 92.

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93° 69° 86° 65° 98° in 1954 53° in 1984 0.00" 6.30" 0.92" 38.42" 28.21" 34.44"

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Manning 93/69

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Friday: Mostly sunny and very warm. Winds southwest 3-6 mph.

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Florence 94/70

Bishopville 94/68

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TAURUS (April 20-May 20): When it comes to your health, finances or contractual matters, you will not be thinking clearly. Take a moment to evaluate your situation before you SAGITTARIUS (Nov. 22-Dec. 21): make a decision that may affect Stick to what you know and do as you emotionally or physically. Don’t much as you can from home. The take unnecessary risks. less interaction you have with GEMINI (May 21-June 20): Do your others, the easier it will be to get best not to get into an argument. things done. Dealing with authority You’ll end up in a stalemate if you figures or institutions will not be in aren’t diplomatic. It’s best to keep your best interests. the peace and offer support rather than criticism. Put your energy into CAPRICORN (Dec. 22-Jan. 19): Let making a positive personal change. your past experiences lead you in the right direction. Someone will CANCER (June 21-July 22): A use emotional manipulation to problem will surface with one of confuse you. Don’t defer to anyone your peers or someone who is in who is putting demands on you or charge of teaching you new skills, trying to get something for making it difficult for you to do nothing. You’ve got the upper your part effectively. Working on hand. your own will bring the best results.

LEO (July 23-Aug. 22): You don’t have to take control or be in the spotlight today. Sit back and watch what others are doing and learn from their experiences. Honing your skills will pay off more than trying to display them prematurely will.

VIRGO (Aug. 23-Sept. 22): Don’t give in to someone who is trying to bully you into something you don’t want to do. Temptation can lead you astray and cost you emotionally, financially and physically if you aren’t careful.

Saying “no” is an option.

AQUARIUS (Jan. 20-Feb. 18): Opportunity is heading your way.

The changes you make will result in a higher income or personal changes that will make you look and feel your best. Take care of your needs, not someone else’s responsibilities.

PISCES (Feb. 19-March 20): Don’t feel like you can’t make changes or do things differently. Refuse to be bullied into something that is not in your best interest. Follow the path that will lead to your good fortune, not someone else’s. Speak up and help those who are deserving.

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Kickoff features rematch

Super Bowl sequel opens 2016 season

By ARNIE STAPLETON AP Pro Football Writer

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Crestwood’s Julius Pearson (26) and the rest of the Knights look to pick up their third win of the season on Friday at 7:30 p.m. when they meet Manning in Dalzell in a matchup of multi-faceted offenses.

Balancing act

Multi-faceted offenses set to collide as Crestwood, Manning meet in Dalzell

BY JUSTIN DRIGGERS justin@theitem.com It was big plays in the run game that hurt the Crestwood High School football team in its lone loss this season against Sumter.

Now the Knights will try to stop the same from happening against Manning -- only through the air.

Crestwood welcomes the Monarchs to Donald L. Crolley Memorial Stadium on Friday for a 7:30 p.m. matchup between a pair of 2-1 teams and a pair of former KEITH GEDAMKE / THE SUMTER ITEM region foes.

Manning wide receiver Greg Canty (4) and the rest of the Monarchs The Knights rebounded look to use their big-play passing game to pick up their third from their first loss with a convincing 39-6 rout of Franklin Christian last right now. They’re a very “Our deep game is getting week. Manning meanwhile good team with some good better,” Monarchs head posted its second straight players on both sides of the coach Keith West said. win with a 34-12 victory over ball.”

“Hopefully if we can get our Lakewood.

That certainly includes short (passing) game going a But as they did with their MHS quarterback Jalen little better, we’ll give teams opening-week win, CrestWhite. White was 8 of 16 a few more things to worry wood and head coach Roospassing last week for 120 about. evelt Nelson have already yards and three touchdowns “It’s just a matter of workturned the page. as the Monarchs’ big-play at- ing on it more in practice “We got the win -- satisfied tack continued to shine. He and getting the timing with that but we’ve moved had huge connections to down.” on,” Nelson said. “Our focus David Fulton and Greg Canty Regardless, the MHS ofis completely on Manning and also ran for 65 yards. fense has been solid. Man-

ning is averaging 25 points a game and over 30 points in its last two contests.

“They do a variety of things offensively,” Nelson said. “They might come out with five wide and throw it deep. They also run some split-back and some spread like we do, so they definitely give you a full menu to prepare for.”

The Monarchs’ defense has been equally stout, allowing just 13 points per game.

Tyshawn Brown had six tackles, two quarrterback sacks and one caused fumble last week against the Gators.

“They like to bring pressure,” Nelson said. “We’ve got to make sure we have those front seven guys accounted for on every single play. Getting a hat on a hat is big. We’ve got to establish a run game and they’ve been very good against the run as of late. So it’s going to be a battle in the trenches.”

The Knights present an equally tall task for MHS. Crestwood is averaging 32 points per game overall and

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usc football

Muschamp believes win in opener helps sell his plan to Gamecocks

By Willie T. Smith III wtsmith@greenvillenews.com COLUMBIA — With a new coaching staff in tow, University of South Carolina placekicker Elliott Fry believes picking up a Southeastern Conference road win in the season opener was “huge.

“We’ve worked so hard over the offseason, the hardest we’ve ever worked,” said Fry, whose 55-yard field goal with 35 seconds remaining gave USC the victory over Vanderbilt. “I think, to see that pay off in a first SEC road win, is huge.

“Talk about the buy-in factor, it helps it even more.”

Since the spring, head coach Will Muschamp has been convinced his The Associated Press players have bought into the system his South Carolina head coach Will Muschamp calls a play in the first half last Thursday in a staff has installed. He believes and be13-10 season-opening victory over Vanderbilt in Nashville, Tenn. lieved that is part of the reason the Gamecocks were able to survive what could have been a disastrous first half it makes it much easier to believe, have have some positive feedback, regardless against the Commodores. some belief in what you’re trying to See USC, Page B3 “Any time you have positive results, do,” said Muschamp. “You’ve got to

DENVER — The 2016 NFL season starts the same way the last one ended, with Von Miller staring down Cam Newton.

Denver’s star linebacker got the best of Newton in Super Bowl 50, stripping both the football (twice) and the Lombardi Trophy from the Carolina quarterback’s grasp in the Broncos’ 24-10 win over the Panthers.

The sequel won’t feature Peyton Manning, who retired a month later. When longtime backup Brock Osweiler signed with Houston two days after Manning’s tearful goodbye, GM John Elway embarked on a months-long search for a successor.

He didn’t find him in the draft, free agency or via trade, but right there on his roster in Trevor Siemian, a seventhround draft pick in 2015 from Northwestern who’ll be making his first NFL start Thursday night.

Siemian has never thrown a pass as a pro. At least he won’t have to face star cornerback Josh Norman, who signed with the Redskins after the

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college football

Wild Week 1 reflected in AP Top 25

By RALPH D. RUSSO AP College Football Writer The first weekend of the college football season mostly lived up to the hype, no thanks to Southern California.

Seven teams ranked in the AP Top 25 preseason poll, including two in the top five, lost. The first poll of the regular season had four new teams in it, with No. 10 Wisconsin and No. 11 Texas Watson making huge jumps into the rankings.

The first month or so of the season is always the most volatile and difficult for the 61 media members who vote in the poll. How do you balance wanting to rank on results with the fact that there are so few games of value?

In recent years, voters have become more comfortable making dramatic shifts in early season polls — which is how you get LSU dropping 16 spots after one loss and Wisconsin going from unranked to 10th.

How did the voters do this week? Time for a heat check.

No. 1 Alabama (1-0) The only nit to pick is there are still seven voters giving their No. 1 vote to other teams.

Maybe they’re upset Nick Saban lied about his quarterbacks?

Next: Western Kentucky Heat check: Just right.

No. 2 Clemson (1-0) It wasn’t Deshaun Watson’s best game against Auburn, but he made a handful of spectacular plays that few others can.

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Denver linebacker Von Miller (58) will be trying to get to Carolina quarterback Cam Newton today in the NFL season opener in Denver.

Goodell weighs in on anthem flap

By BARRY WILNER AP Pro Football Writer NEW YORK — NFL Commissioner Roger Goodell disagrees with Colin Kaepernick’s choice to kneel during the national anthem, but recognizes the quarterback’s right to protest.

Asked by The Associated Press about Kaepernick’s decision not to stand before games when the national anthem is played, Goodell said in an email Wednesday: “I don’t necThe Associated Press essarily agree with what he is doing.”

NFL Commissioner Roger Goodell said he disagrees with San Francis“I support our players when co’s Colin Kaepernick not standing for the national anthem. they want to see change in society, and we don’t live in a freedoms and our ideals.”

Also in reaction to Kaeperperfect society,” Goodell The San Francisco 49ers nick’s actions: added. “On the other hand, we quarterback wouldn’t stand for — U.S. hockey coach John believe very strongly in patrio- the anthem at the team’s preTortorella said he’d bench any tism in the NFL. I personally season games, with teammate player who stays seated during believe very strongly in that.” Eric Reid and Seattle’s Jeremy the national anthem. Tortorella, Goodell added that NFL play- Lane doing the same. Kaeperwho will coach the United States ers having a visible platform nick has cited racial injustice at the upcoming World Cup of for their viewpoints. With that and police brutality among the Hockey, told ESPN : “If any of comes responsibility to use many reasons for his actions my players sit on the bench for those platforms properly. and said he plans to continue the national anthem, they will “We have to choose respectto not stand for the anthem sit there the rest of the game.” ful ways of doing that so that during the regular season.

— New York Jets receiver we can achieve the outcomes Kaepernick said Wednesday Brandon Marshall spoke out we ultimately want and do it on his Instagram account that on WFAN Radio, saying he diswith the values and ideals that he will donate all the money he agreed with host Boomer Esiamake our country great,” said receives from his jersey sales to son, who had criticized KaepeGoodell, whose late father, charity to thank fans for their rnick.

Charles, was a U.S. senator. support. He said he’s pleased “The only thing I would love “I think it’s important to have his 49ers jersey has become the for everyone to really think respect for our country, for our top seller in the NFL since his about is: What does the Ameriflag, for the people who make protest became public. can flag mean to them? When our country better; for law enThe 49ers open their season I look at the American flag, I forcement; and for our military at home against the Los Ange- see a bunch of fights — how who are out fighting for our les Rams on Monday night. much we have overcome,”

Scoreboard TV, Radio

TODAY

5:30 a.m. – Professional Golf: European PGA Tour KLM Open First Round from Spijk, Netherlands (GOLF).

9:30 a.m. – Professional Golf: European PGA Tour KLM Open First Round from Spijk, Netherlands (GOLF).

12:30 p.m. – Professional Golf: Web. com Tour DAP Championship First Round from Beachwood, Ohio (GOLF).

3 p.m. – PGA Golf: BMW Championship First Round from Carmel, Ind. (GOLF).

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

7 p.m. – Professional Tennis: U.S. Open Women’s Semifinal Matches from Flushing, N.Y. (ESPN).

7 p.m. – Major League Baseball: Philadelphia at Washington or Tampa Bay at New York Yankees (MLB NETWORK).

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

8 p.m. – International Hockey: World Cup of Hockey Exhibition Match from Quebec City – Team North America vs.

Team Europe (ESPN2).

8 p.m. – Women’s College Volleyball: Texas (San Antonio) at Oklahoma (FOX SPORTS SOUTHEAST).

8:30 p.m. – NFL Football: Carolina at Denver (WIS 10).

9 p.m. – Women’s College Soccer: Southern Methodist at Brigham Young (BYUTV).

11 p.m. – Major League Baseball: Texas at Seattle or Colorado at San Diego (Joined In Progress) (MLB NETWORK).

MLB standings

By The Associated Press

AMERICAN League East Division

Toronto Boston Baltimore New York Tampa Bay Central Division

Cleveland Detroit Kansas City Chicago Minnesota West Division

Texas Houston Seattle Los Angeles Oakland

W L Pct GB 77 61 .558 — 77 61 .558 — 76 63 .547 1½ 72 65 .526 4½ 59 79 .428 18 W L Pct GB 79 58 .577 — 75 64 .540 5 72 66 .522 7½ 67 72 .482 13 51 88 .367 29 W L Pct GB 83 56 .597 — 74 64 .536 8½ 70 68 .507 12½ 62 77 .446 21 60 79 .432 23

Tuesday’s Games

N.Y. Yankees 7, Toronto 6 Houston 4, Cleveland 3 Baltimore 11, Tampa Bay 2 Chicago White Sox 2, Detroit 0 Kansas City 10, Minnesota 3 Oakland 3, L.A. Angels 2 Boston 5, San Diego 1 Texas 10, Seattle 7

Wednesday’s Games

Tampa Bay 7, Baltimore 6 Chi. White Sox 7, Detroit 4 Oakland 4, L.A. Angels 1 Toronto at N.Y. Yankees, 7:05 p.m.

Houston at Cleveland, 7:10 p.m.

Kansas City at Minnesota, 8:10 p.m.

Boston at San Diego, 9:10 p.m.

Texas at Seattle, 10:10 p.m.

Thursday’s Games

Houston (Paulino 0-0) at Cleveland (Bauer 10-6), 12:10 p.m.

Tampa Bay (Cobb 0-0) at N.Y. Yankees (Sabathia 8-12), 7:05 p.m.

Texas (Holland 7-6) at Seattle (Walker 4-10), 10:10 p.m.

Friday’s Games

Tampa Bay at N.Y. Yankees, 7:05 p.m.

Boston at Toronto, 7:07 p.m.

Baltimore at Detroit, 7:10 p.m.

Chicago Cubs at Houston, 8:10 p.m.

Cleveland at Minnesota, 8:10 p.m.

Kansas City at Chicago White Sox, 8:10 p.m.

Seattle at Oakland, 10:05 p.m.

Texas at L.A. Angels, 10:05 p.m.

national League East Division

Washington New York Miami Philadelphia Atlanta

W L Pct GB 81 57 .587 — 74 66 .529 8 68 71 .489 13½ 62 76 .449 19 54 85 .388 27½

Central Division

Chicago St. Louis Pittsburgh Milwaukee Cincinnati West Division

Los Angeles San Francisco Colorado Arizona San Diego

W L Pct GB 89 49 .645 — 73 64 .533 15½ 67 69 .493 21 61 77 .442 28 57 81 .413 32 W L Pct GB 78 60 .565 — 74 64 .536 4 66 72 .478 12 58 80 .420 20 57 81 .413 21

Tuesday’s Games

St. Louis 9, Pittsburgh 7 Washington 9, Atlanta 7 N.Y. Mets 5, Cincinnati 3 Philadelphia 4, Miami 3 Milwaukee 12, Chicago Cubs 5 San Francisco 3, Colorado 2 Boston 5, San Diego 1 L.A. Dodgers 5, Arizona 2

Wednesday’s Games

N.Y. Mets 6, Cincinnati 3 Atlanta at Washington, 7:05 p.m.

St. Louis at Pittsburgh, 7:05 p.m.

Philadelphia at Miami, 7:10 p.m.

Chicago Cubs at Milwaukee, 8:10 p.m.

San Francisco at Colorado, 8:40 p.m.

Boston at San Diego, 9:10 p.m.

Arizona at L.A. Dodgers, 10:10 p.m.

Thursday’s Games

Cincinnati (Straily 11-7) at Pittsburgh (Nova 11-6), 7:05 p.m.

Philadelphia (Asher 0-0) at Washington (Cole 1-1), 7:05 p.m.

Milwaukee (Guerra 7-3) at St. Louis (Garcia 10-11), 7:15 p.m.

Colorado (Hoffman 0-2) at San Diego (Richard 1-3), 10:10 p.m.

Friday’s Games

Cincinnati at Pittsburgh, 7:05 p.m.

Philadelphia at Washington, 7:05 p.m.

L.A. Dodgers at Miami, 7:10 p.m.

N.Y. Mets at Atlanta, 7:35 p.m.

Chicago Cubs at Houston, 8:10 p.m.

Milwaukee at St. Louis, 8:15 p.m.

San Francisco at Arizona, 9:40 p.m.

Colorado at San Diego, 10:40 p.m.

NFL SCHEDULE Thursday’s Game

Carolina at Denver, 8:30 p.m.

Sunday’s Games

Tampa Bay at Atlanta, 1 p.m.

Buffalo at Baltimore, 1 p.m.

Chicago at Houston, 1 p.m.

Green Bay at Jacksonville, 1 p.m.

San Diego at Kansas City, 1 p.m.

Oakland at New Orleans, 1 p.m.

Cincinnati at N.Y. Jets, 1 p.m.

Cleveland at Philadelphia, 1 p.m.

Minnesota at Tennessee, 1 p.m.

Miami at Seattle, 4:05 p.m.

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

Detroit at Indianapolis, 4:25 p.m.

New England at Arizona, 8:30 p.m.

Monday’s Games

Pittsburgh at Washington, 7:10 p.m.

Los Angeles at San Francisco, 10:20 p.m.

WNBA

By The Associated Press

EASTERN CONFERENCE

W L Pct GB New York 20 9 .690 — Chicago 15 13 .536 4½ Atlanta 15 14 .517 5 Indiana 14 15 .483 6 Washington 11 17 .393 8½ Connecticut 11 18 .379 9 WESTERN CONFERENCE

W L Pct GB Minnesota 25 5 .833 — Los Angeles 24 6 .800 1 Phoenix 13 17 .433 12 Seattle 12 17 .414 12½ Dallas 9 21 .300 16 San Antonio 6 23 .207 18½

Tuesday’s Games

Atlanta 91, Phoenix 87 Indiana 71, San Antonio 69 Minnesota 77, Los Angeles 74

Wednesday’s Games

Seattle at New York, 7 p.m.

Chicago at Washington, 7 p.m.

Thursday’s Games

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

Friday’s Games

Chicago at Indiana, 7 p.m.

Seattle at Washington, 7 p.m.

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

Dallas at San Antonio, 8 p.m.

College Football Top 25 Schedule

By The Associated Press

Friday

No. 13 Louisville at Syracuse, 8 p.m.

Saturday

No. 1 Alabama vs. Western Kentucky, 3:30 p.m.

No. 2 Clemson vs. Troy, 12:30 p.m.

No. 3 Florida State vs. Charleston Southern, 12:30 p.m.

No. 4 Ohio State vs. Tulsa, 3:30 p.m.

No. 5 Michigan vs. UCF, Noon No. 6 Houston vs. Lamar, Noon No. 8 Washington vs. Idaho, 5 p.m.

No. 9 Georgia vs. Nicholls, Noon No. 10 Wisconson vs. Akron, 3:30 p.m.

No. 11 Texas vs. UTEP, 7 p.m.

No. 14 Oklahoma vs. Louisiana-Monroe, 7 p.m.

No. 15 TCU vs. Arkansas, 7 p.m.

No. 16 Iowa vs. Iowa State, 7:30 p.m.

No. 17 Tennessee vs. Virginia Tech at Bristol, Tenn., 8 p.m.

No. 18 Notre Dame vs. Nevada, 3:30 p.m.

No. 19 Mississippi vs. Wofford, 4 p.m.

No. 20 Texas A&M vs. Prairie View, Noon No. 21 LSU vs. Jacksonville State, 7:30 p.m.

No. 22 Oklahoma State vs. Central Michigan, Noon No. 23 Baylor vs. SMU, 3:30 p.m.

No. 24 Oregon vs. Virginia, 10:30 p.m.

No. 25 Miami vs. FAU, 6 p.m.

Transactions

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BASEBALL

MLB — Announced the resignation of Wendy Lewis, senior vice president, diversity & strategic alliances.

American League OAKLAND ATHLETICS — Recalled RHP Jharel Cotton from Nashville (PCL).

National League SAN DIEGO PADRES — Recalled RHP Jake Smith from San Antonio (Texas).

SAN FRANCISCO GIANTS — Reinstated RHP Jake Peavy from the 15-day DL. WASHINGTON NATIONALS — Reinstated RHP Stephen Strasburg and INF Stephen Drew from the 15-day DL. American Association KANSAS CITY T-BONES — Released C Tanner Neale, RHP Johnny Shuttlesworth, INF Vladimir Frias and INF Starlin Rodriguez.

Atlantic League LONG ISLAND DUCKS — Acquire RHP Matt Larkins from Lincoln (AA) for a player to be named. Traded RHP Mike Jackson Jr. to Sonoma (Pacific Association) to complete an earlier trade.

Reinstated RHP Bobby Blevins to the active list. Placed RHP Nick Struck on the inactive list.

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Panthers rescinded their franchise tag in the offseason.

Instead, Siemian will square off against two rookie cornerbacks in James Bradberry and Daryl Worley, the biggest changes on the NFC champions’ roster that returns 18 starters.

“I’m not going to look at them like they’re rookies,” Broncos receiver Emmanuel Sanders said. “I’m going to treat them like they’re Darrelle Revis and Richard Sherman.”

While the Panthers were restocking, the Broncos were busy rebuilding. They return just five offensive starters from the Super Bowl.

The massive makeover didn’t take away from their championship celebration.

When they visited the White House, receiver Demaryius Thomas got to personally thank President Barack Obama for commuting his mother’s drug sentence, and successfully pleaded for the release of his grandmother this summer, as well.

Nobody basked in the limelight quite like Miller, who skipped the offseason program before signing a record-breaking contract.

He embarked on a sixmonth jet-setting junket of television and dance studios.

Miller’s torment of Newton in the Super Bowl was just the start. He made him the butt of his jokes on “SNL” and trolled him on Instagram, photo-shopping himself knocking another ball out of Newton’s hands when the QB posted a picture of himself playing with the U.S. water polo team.

Miller said this week it was all in good fun and called Newton “the best player in the league.”

Newton insisted he took no offense and called Miller “one of the great players in this NFL.” There are plenty of other story lines drawing attention as the teams meet 215 days after Super Bowl 50:

RESTOCKED PANTHERS Two factors that could help slow down the Broncos’ pass rush are the return to health of WR Kel-

vin Benjamin, who missed last season with a torn ACL, and RB Jonathan Stewart, who was held to 29 yards rushing after hurting a foot early in the Super Bowl. Coach Ron Rivera said he wants to limit his 6-foot-5, 245-pound receiver’s snaps to 30-35 per game, down from about twice that as a rookie in 2014.

REBUILT BRONCOS Siemian isn’t the only new face. The Broncos now feature a fullback along with three new linemen and two new tight ends.

Elway also replaced two specialists, including punter/holder Britton Colquitt, in favor of rookies. But the Broncos return nine starters on their dazzling defense, 10 if you count CB Bradley Roby; they’re in the nickel package most of the time.

REMMERS NIGHTMARE Sure, RT Mike Remmers got beaten twice on the edge by Miller last February, resulting in a pair of strip-sacks against Newton that led to 15 points. But Rivera has staunchly defended Remmers, saying the criticism is absurd and declaring, “I have absolute confidence in Mike Remmers.” GM Dave Gettleman is quick to point out the Panthers are 22-4 since Remmers took over as their starting right tackle.

DEMARYIUS DO-OVER Thomas had 105 catches for 1,304 yards last year.

But he only had six TDs to go with 18 drops and a forgettable Super Bowl performance. His dogged determination to have a bounceback year was on full display this summer. “D.T.’s had one of the best camps I’ve been around,” coach Gary Kubiak said. It earned the soft-spoken Thomas offensive captain honors.

DOUBLING DOWN Denver’s dazzling defense was one of the best ever, and it doesn’t look like the Broncos will retreat minus Malik Jackson and Danny Trevathan. “We know what we can do,” safety T.J. Ward said. “We’ve got the same defense as last year.

We plan on picking up right where we left off. We’re not trying to prove nothing to nobody. We did that already. And we’re trying to do it better this year.”

Powell’s ON MAIN

BASKETBALL National Basketball Association PHILADELPHIA 76ERS — Agreed to terms with F Elton Brand.

UTAH JAZZ — Signed F Quincy Ford.

NBA Development League DELAWARE 87ERS — Named Dan Tacheny and Phil Martelli, Jr., assistant coaches, Curtis Sumpter player development coach, Mfon Udofia player development/video associate and Matthew Lilly basketball operations assistant.

FOOTBALL National Football League BUFFALO BILLS — Signed TE Gerald Christian and DT Deandre Coleman to the practice squad. Released S Damian Parms from the practice squad.

CHICAGO BEARS — Signed OL Kyle Long to a four-year contract extension through the 2021 season.

GREEN BAY PACKERS — Signed TE Devon Cajuste to the practice squad.

Released LB Beniquez Brown from the practice squad.

INDIANAPOLIS COLTS — Signed CB Rashaan Melvin. Waived QB Stephen Morris.

NEW ENGLAND PATRIOTS — Acquired CB Eric Rowe from Philadelphia for a conditional draft pick. Released G Josh Kline.

NEW ORLEANS SAINTS — Agreed to terms with QB Drew Brees on a contract extension.

TAMPA BAY BUCCANEERS — Waived/ injured RB Mike James.

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And that was the difference between winning and losing.

Next: Troy Heat check: A touch too hot.

No. 3 Florida State (1-0) Who else coaches quarterbacks as well as Jimbo Fisher?

It’d be a short list.

Next: Charleston Southern.

Heat check: Too cold. Flipflop with Clemson.

No. 4 Ohio State (1-0) Look out for H-back Curtis Samuel playing the versatile role that the Buckeyes never quite found the sweet spot last season with Braxton Miller.

Samuel had 84 yards rushing and 177 receiving in the Bowling Green blowout.

Next: Tulsa.

Heat check: Too hot.

No. 5 Michigan (1-0) The Wolverines don’t leave home for a game until Oct. 8.

Next: UCF. Heat check: Too hot.

Next: at Syracuse, Friday.

Heat check: Just right.

No. 14 Oklahoma (0-1) Under almost no circumstances is it acceptable for Samaje Perine and Joe Mixon to get a combined 12 rushing attempts in a game for the Sooners again this season.

Next: Louisiana-Monroe.

Heat check: Just right.

No. 15 TCU (1-0) Should we be worried about the spotty performance, especially on defense, against South Dakota State? We’ll find out Saturday.

Next: Arkansas.

Heat check: Too hot.

No. 16 Iowa (1-0) What better way to celebrate a victory against Miami, Ohio, than by giving a six-year contract extension to coach Kirk Ferentz.

Next: Iowa State.

Heat check: Ferentz possibly coaching 27 seasons at Iowa sounds just right.

No. 17 Tennessee (1-0)

The Volunteers’ offensive line was brutal against AppaThe Cougars made a big jump lachian State. Better improve to their best ranking since 1990, against Bud Foster’s defense but are likely to settle in right or the next slide will be right around here for a while. How out of the Top 25. much credit will they get from Next: Virginia Tech at Brisvoters for road victories against tol Motor Speedway.

American Athletic Conference Heat check: Too hot. Other rivals Cincinnati and Navy in team’s losses were better than the next month? the Vols’ win.

Next: Lamar.

No. 18 Notre Dame (0-1) Heat check: Too cold after At this point we can assume one of the weekend’s best vicBrian Kelly is continuing the tories. quarterback competition to No. 7 Stanford (1-0) keep Malik Zaire focused. BeQB Ryan Burns was great cause DeShone Kizer has against Kansas State. If he nothing left to prove. keeps burning opponents who Next: Nevada. stack the box to stop McCaffrey, Heat check: Too cold. the Cardinal will be just fine.

No. 19 Mississippi (0-1) Next: vs. USC, Sept. 17.

The way it happened made Heat check: Just right. the loss to Florida State feel No. 8 Washington (1-0) worse than it was.

One red flag from an easy Next: Wofford. victory against Rutgers: No Heat check: Too cold. running back averaged more No. 20 Texas A&M (1-0) than 4 yards per carry.

Department of everything is Next: Idaho Heat check: Huskies hype is relative: Longhorns blow a lead and win in OT. Is Texas too hot. back? Aggies blow a lead and No. 9 Georgia (1-0) win in OT? Is Sumlin off the Great start for Kirby Smart, hot seat? but a top-10 ranking for beatNext: Prairie View. ing North Carolina seems like Heat check: Too cold. a bit much.

No. 21 LSU (0-1) Next: Nicholls.

Maybe we shouldn’t be surHeat check: Too hot. prised about LSU: When nothNo. 10 Wisconsin (1-0) ing changes, why expect differBadgers can bask in the big ent results? Though it does win for a couple weeks. Then, seem as if the voters were starting Sept. 24: at Michigan being a punitive in their treatState, at Michigan, Ohio State, ment of the Tigers. at Iowa, Nebraska. This top-10 Next: Jacksonville State. thing might not last long.

Heat check: Too cold.

Next: Akron.

No. 22 Okla. State (1-0) Heat check: Just right.

Cowboys power booster T. No. 11 Texas (1-0) Boone Pickens prefers SMU and It is way too early to proclaim Houston for Big 12 expansion.

Texas truly back, but what the Next: Central Michigan.

Longhorns have most lacked Heat check: Just right. under Charlie Strong was a No. 23 Baylor (1-0) quarterback and an offensive Didn’t think the Bears identity. For the first time it looks as if they now have those. should have been ranked in the first place.

Next: UTEP. Next: SMU. Heat check: Too cold. TopHeat check: Too hot.

10? Sure.

No. 6 Houston (1-0)

No. 12 Michigan State (1-0)

No. 24 Oregon

We’ll find out soon enough if the Spartans were saving themselves against Furman for Notre Dame.

Next: at No. 18 Notre Dame, Sept. 17.

Heat check: Just right.

As bad as the Ducks’ D was last season, allowing 4.9 yards per play, even to UC Davis, is somewhat encouraging.

Next: Virginia.

Heat check: Too cold, but not because of anything the Ducks did in the opener.

No. 13 Louisville (1-0)

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PREP SCHEDULE TODAY Junior Varsity Football

Sumter at Spring Valley, 7:30 p.m.

Crestwood at Manning, 6 p.m.

Lakewood at Colleton County, 6 p.m.

Columbia at Lee Central, TBA Wilson Hall at Orangeburg Prep, 7 p.m.

B Team Football

Sumter at Spring Valley, 6 p.m.

Wilson Hall at Orangeburg Prep, 5 p.m.

Middle School Football

Carolina Academy at Thomas Sumter, 6 p.m.

Trinity-Byrnes at Robert E. Lee, 6 p.m.

Clarendon Hall at Andrew Jackson Academy, 6:30 p.m.

Varsity Girls Golf

Wilson Hall at Hammond, 4 p.m.

Varsity Girls Tennis

Manning at Sumter, 4:30 p.m.

Mullins at East Clarendon, 5 p.m.

Wilson Hall at Ben Lippen, 4 p.m.

Varsity Volleyball

Crestwood at Sumter, 5:30 p.m.

Lee Central at Cheraw, 6 p.m.

East Clarendon at Hemingway, 5:30 p.m.

Varsity and JV Volleyball

Laurence Manning at TrinityByrnes, 4 p.m.

Middle School Volleyball

Hillcrest at Alice Drive, 5 p.m.

Chestnut Oaks at Ebenezer, 5 p.m.

Mayewood at Furman, 5 p.m.

FRIDAY Varsity Football

Spring Valley at Sumter, 7:30 p.m.

Manning at Crestwood, 7:30 p.m.

Colleton County at Lakewood, 7:30 p.m.

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

Bamberg-Ehrhardt at Scott’s Branch, 7:30 p.m.

East Clarendon at Latta, 7:30 p.m.

Orangeburg Prep at Wilson Hall, 7:30 p.m.

Laurence Manning at Cardinal Newman, 7:30 p.m., Thomas Sumter at Spartanburg Christian, 7:30 p.m.

Trinity-Byrnes at Robert E. Lee, 7:30 p.m.

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

Varsity Boys Soccer

Sumter Christian at Calvary Christian, 4 p.m.

Varsity and JV Volleyball Sumter Christian at Calvary Christian, 4 p.m.

SATURDAY Varsity Cross Country

Thomas Sumter in Bob Jenkins Invitational (at Sandhills in Columbia), 9 a.m.

Varsity Swimming

Sumter at Georgetown, TBA Wilson Hall in Hammond Invitational (at Maxcy Gregg Pool), TBA Thomas Sumter at Hilton Head Christian, 9 a.m.

St. Francis Xavier in Battle of the Midlands, TBA

Varsity Volleyball

Sumter, Wilson Hall in Lady Gamecock Spike Off, TBA

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South Carolina quarterback Perry Orth is congratulated after the Gamecocks defeated Vanderbilt 13-10 last Thursday in Nashville, Tenn.

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“You’ve got to have something positive happen for you. In our profession, the results of winning is what we look for. You’ve got to be able to see the fruits of your labor. A lot of guys, mature guys, understand it anyway.”

One of the biggest beneficiaries of the come-frombehind win as USC prepares to head to Starkville, Miss., to play Mississippi State is senior quarterback Perry Orth. After completing only one pass in the first half, Orth came on strong in the second half in leading the USC offense. It is expected he will get the start against on Waturday, although freshman Brandon McIlwain probably will receive playing time again.

“It felt good making plays, but

it didn’t boost my confidence,” Orth said. “I know I can play. It was just good to see everybody click and come together.”

USC understands it is in for a more substantive challenge encounter at Mississippi State, despite its season-opening loss to South Alabama of the Sun Belt Conference in Starkville. In addition to facing a team that has been steadily improving under the guidance of head coach Dan Mullen, Davis Wade Stadium also is known for having one of the rowdiest crowds in the SEC. The Gamecocks will have to continue to stick together to have a chance to win.

“We hit a rhythm in the second half,” Orth said of the offense.

“I think we showed people what we’re capable of. Now we’ve just got to get back to it.”

As far as Muschamp is concerned, the win helps validate what the coaching staff has been preaching.

“They see themselves getting stronger,” said Muschamp.

“They see themselves improving as a player. The young guys, especially, they need that as much as anything.”

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Next: FAU. get serious in Week 3 when Heat check: Just right.

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44 per contest in its two victories. Quarterback Anthony Bradley was 11 for 19 for 168 yards and had a rushing touchdown against Franklin last week.

“They present some big challenges for our defense,” West said. “They throw the ball well and they spread you out.

They’ve got speed and playmakers at receiver, running back and quarterback. So we’ve got some big challenges facing us.”

That goes for the CHS de-

fense as well. The Knights are allowing an average of 24 points a game overall and just nine in their two victories.

Crestwood was led by The Sumter Item Defensive Player of the Week in Josh Goodman, who accounted for three sacks, two tackles and two quarterback hurries.

“They’re very athletic and they get after it,” West said.

“They’ve got size and speed and don’t mind hitting. We’re going to have to work on establishing both the short and deep passing games and see which one we will have better success with as the game unfolds.”

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Sumter girls swim team second; boys third in seven-team meet Sumter High School’s girls swim team placed second in a 5-team meet on Tuesday at City of Sumter Aquatics Center while the boys placed third out of seven teams.

West Florence placed first in each. The Lady Knights had 77 points compared to Sumter’s 56 while the WFHS boys finished with 57 points to beat Wilson (33) and Sumter (27). Thomas Sumter Academy placed fifth while St. Francis Xavier finished seventh.

On the girls side, SHS won the 200 medley relay with the team of Hayden Kirkhart, Tabitha Simonson, Abby Hoshour and Haley Stewart. Kirkhart placed first in the 200 individual medley and Hoshour finished in the top spot for the 100 free event.

For the boys, Sumter’s Erik Daunheimer won the 100 fly event while TSA’s Ed Lee finished first in the 200 freestyle. Lee was also second in the 100 freestyle while teammate Tyler Singletary finished runner-up in the 500 freestyle.

SUMTER GIRLS FIRST PLACE: Abby Hoshour (100 free); Hayden Kirhart (200 IM); Kirkhart, Tabitha Simonson, Hoshour, Haley Stewart (200 medley relay).

SECOND PLACE: Tabitha Simonson (200 IM); Abby Hoshour (50 free); Ana Hartman (500 free); Hayden Kirkhart, Simonson, Hoshour, Hayley Stewart (400 free relay).

THIRD PLACE: Ana Hartman (200 Free); Haley Stewart (50 free, 100 free); Hayden Kirkhart (100 fly).

SUMTER BOYS FIRST PLACE: Erik Daunheimer (100 fly).

SECOND PLACE: Joshua Dewitt, Elijah Blanding; Phillip Dodds, Erik Daunheimer (200 medley relay);

Blanding, Dodds, Dewitt, Trenton Bouchard (400 free relay).

THIRD PLACE : Elijah Blanding (200 free).

VARSITY VOLLEYBALL Lakewood 3 Fairfield Central 2 WINNSBORO — Lakewood rallied to win the final game against Fairfield Central on Tuesday to claim a 3-2 victory at the FCHS gymnasium.

Game scores were 25-17, 25-13, 9-25, 25-11 in the Lady Gators’ favor.

Ariana Jackson had one kill and three blocks for LHS. Madison Harris had two aces and two kills while Halie Griffin finished with six aces, two kills and one block.

Faith Alejo had six aces and one kill. Emily McDonald had four aces and Hope Alejo had four kills and one ace.

The Lady Gators improved to 3-3 overall on the season.

Socastee 3 Sumter 1 Sumter dropped its opening contest in Region VI-5A to Conway 3-1 at the SHS gymnasium on Wednesday.

Game scores were 23-25, 25-15, 25-15, 25-13 in the Lady Braves’ favor.

Margaret McMahon had 14 kills and four blocks to lead the Lady Gamecocks.

Erica Watts added five kills while Taylor Myles had 10 digs. McKenzie Michelson finished with 24 assists, two aces and one dig.

Graycie Michelson added

three aces and Hannah Bettencourt finished with three digs.

SHS fell to 3-5 overall and 0-1 in the region and will host Crestwood today at 5:30 p.m.

JV VOLLEYBALL Sumter 2 The Associated Press

Socastee 1 Sumter opened Region VI-5A play with a 2-1 victory over Socastee on Wednesday at the SHS gymnasium.

Game scores were 12-25, 25-20, 25-17 in the Lady Gamecocks’ favor.

SHS improved to 2-6 overall and 1-0 in the region.

JV TENNIS Laurence Manning 5 Thomas Sumter 4 Laurence Manning Academy took three of the singles matches and two of the doubles matches to earn a 5-4 victory over Thomas Sumter Academy on Tuesday at Palmetto Tennis Center.

SINGLES 1 — Townsend (TSA) defeated Richardson 8-0.

2 — DeLavan (TSA) defeated South 9-8 (11-9).

3 — Ham (LMA) defeated Arrants 8-5.

4 — Matthews (LMA) defeated Hoge 8-4.

5 — Shirley (LMA) defeated Hunter 8-0.

6 — Rudd (TSA) defeated Lee 8-2.

DOUBLES 1 — Townsend/DeLavan (TSA) defeated Richardson/South 8-6.

2 — Ham/Matthews (LMA) defeated Arrants/Hunter 8-3.

3 — Shirley/Lee (LMA) defeated Hoge/Britton 8-1.

Staff reports

Serena Williams celebrates after winning a game against Simona Halep during the U.S. Open quarterfinals on Wednesday in New York.

Pushed to brink, Serena returns to U.S. Open semis

By HOWARD FENDRICH AP Tennis Writer

and was on her way.

She finished with 18 aces, a 50-20 edge in total winners, NEW YORK — Serena Wiland won the point on 26 of her liams’ serve was broken for 32 trips to the net. the first time at this year’s U.S. Williams is bidding for her Open. Twice, in fact. She seventh title at Flushing dropped a set for the first time Meadows and 23rd overall at a in the tournament, too, pushed major tournament — both to the brink by Simona Halep would be records for the Open in the quarterfinals. era, which dates to 1968.

In a match filled with fanA year ago in the semifinals, tastic shotmaking and enWilliams’ attempt to finish off thralling exchanges, neither a calendar-year Grand Slam player budged until Williams ended with a stunning loss to righted herself in the third unseeded Roberta Vinci of set to emerge with a 6-2, 4-6, Italy.

6-3 victory over Halep on Her opponent Thursday will Wednesday night to get back be 10th-seeded Karolina Plisto the semifinals at Flushing kova of the Czech Republic, Meadows. who beat the 34-year-old Halep, the 2014 French Open American’s older sister, Venus, runner-up who was seeded No. in the fourth round.

5 in New York, staved off all 12 Williams, seeded No. 1, had break points held by Williams held serve in 37 consecutive in the second set and forced a games over the past two weeks third. But Williams converted until Halep broke to get within the only break chance she 3-2 in the opening set. Still, would get — or need — in the Williams breezed through the deciding set to go ahead 3-1, rest of that set.

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ACC official to speak at Sumter Touchdown Club; Woods announces October return Atlantic Coast Conference official Penn Wagers will be the first guest speaker of the season at the weekly breakfast meeting of the Sumter Touchdown Club on Friday.

The meeting will be held at the Swan Lake Visitors Center located inside the gates of Swan lake-Iris Gardens on Liberty Street beginning at 7:15 a.m.

The Sumter Item Players of the Week will be honored at the meeting. They are Crestwood High School’s Josh Goodman, Sumter’s Khalil Moore, Manning’s Corey McElveen and Williamsburg Academy’s Hunter Morris.

Membership to the club is open to the public. The fee is

$100 per year and includes a full buffet breakfast each week along with the ability to participate in all that the TD club offers.

For those interested in becoming a member, go to www. sumtertdclub.com and click on the membership form.

For more information, go to the website or call Lee Glaze at (803) 968-0773 or Talmadge Tobias at (803) 491-4573.

Woods plans to return to tour Oct. 13 Tiger Woods said he hopes to play next month in the PGA’s Safeway Open in Napa, California, his first competitive golf since August 2015.

The winner of 14 major

OBITUARIES JOSHUA NEAL JR. Funeral services for Joshua Neal Jr. will be held at noon on Friday at New Bethel Missionary Baptist Church, 3249 U.S. 15 South, Sumter, with the Rev. Willie Wright Jr. as pastor.

The public may view from 2 to 8 p.m. today at NEAL Palmer Memorial Chapel Inc., 304 S. Main St., Sumter.

The family will also receive friends from 6 to 8 p.m. today.

Interment will follow in the Neal Family Cemetery, U.S. 15 South, Sumter.

Mr. Neal transitioned on Sunday, Sept. 4, 2016, at Palmetto Health Tuomey.

Born in the Privateer Township of Sumter, he was a son of the late Joshua Neal Sr. and Jimmie Lee Warley Neal.

Josh, as he was so affectionately called, attended the public schools of Sumter County and enlisted in the United States Army. After military service, Mr. Neal began working as a construction carpenter and was first employed by Dan Trotter Construction of Sumter. In 1960, he partnered with his brother, the late Birnie Neal, and began Neal

tournaments, Woods has been recovering from back surgery and missed all four majors for the first time in his pro career.

Woods made the announcement on his website . The Safeway Open is Oct. 13-16.

Rapinoe stymied in bid for anthem protest BOYDS, Md. — Megan Rapinoe was stymied in a bid for a second national anthem protest when Washington’s National Women’s Soccer League team moved up the pregame ceremonies.

“We decided to play the anthem in our stadium ahead of schedule rather than subject our fans and friends to the disrespect we feel such an act

be announced by Williams Funeral Home Inc. of Sumter.

Brothers Builders Inc. The company built numerous residential and commercial projects throughout the state of South Carolina. He was a lifelong member of New Bethel Missionary Baptist Church, where he served on the trustee board and participated in church school.

Survivors are his beloved wife of 61 years, Eula Mae Holliday Neal of the home; two sons, Wilfred (Karen) Neal of Charlotte, North Carolina, and Edwin (Marie) Neal of Rock Hill; four grandchildren; two great-grandchildren; and a host of other relatives and friends.

Condolences may be made on their tribute page found at www.PalmerMemorialChapel. com.

Palmer Memorial Chapel Inc. is in charge of the services.

LAURA JEAN JENKINS Laura Jean Jenkins, 41, died on Sunday, Sept. 4, 2016, at Palmetto Health Tuomey.

Born on Nov. 28, 1974, in Sumter County, she was a daughter of Nancy Moore and the late Joseph Alston.

The family is receiving friends and relatives at the home, 322 Council St. Funeral arrangements will

JAMES ROBINSON BISHOPVILLE — James Robinson, husband of Catherine Robinson, entered eternal rest on Sept. 7, 2016, at his residence, 520 S. Lee St., Clover Leaf Apartments, apartment B-10.

The family is receiving friends at the residence.

Funeral arrangements will be announced by Wilson Funeral Home, 403 S. Main St., Bishopville.

LUCILLE E. MCTILLMAN LANHAM, Maryland — Lucille "Dottie" Evans McTillman, 70, wife of James Edward McTillman, entered eternal rest on Monday, Aug. 29, 2016.

Born on June 27, 1946, in New York, she was a daughter of the late William Archie and Coleen Maple Evans. She was a member of Trinity Missionary Baptist Church and a retired educator.

Survivors are her husband; three sisters, Ethel Dellahoussaye, Diane Evans and Carolyn Edwards; a host of nieces, nephews, other relatives and friends.

Public viewing will be from 3 to 7 p.m. today.

Funeral services will be held at 11 a.m. on Friday at Trinity Missionary Baptist

would represent,” the Washington Spirit said in a statement.

Brees, Saints agree to contract extension METAIRIE, La. — Saints quarterback Drew Brees agreed to a contract extension with the Saints and a person familiar with the deal said it will keep Brees in New Orleans through at least 2017 and guarantee him $44.3 million.

The contract runs for five years, starting this season, and includes a $30 million bonus that, for now, can be prorated over that period to substantially reduce the $30 million Brees’ old contract would have counted against the Saints’ salary cap this season.

Church with Pastor Larry Weston. Burial will follow in Hillside Memorial Park.

The family is receiving visitors at the home of her sister, Diane Evans, 9 Woodland Court, Sumter.

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

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

GLADYS HARRIS Gladys Harris, 62, died on Wednesday, Sept. 7, 2016, at Palmetto Health Tuomey.

Born on June 1, 1954, in Sumter County, she was a daughter of Frank and Fannie Mae Stavis Harris.

The family is receiving friends and relatives at the home, 6300 Dinkins Mill Road, Rembert.

Funeral arrangements will be announced by Williams Funeral Home Inc.

JOSEPH B. CUTTER JR. Joseph Bryan Cutter Jr., 19, died on Monday, Sept. 5, 2016, at his home.

Born in Sumter, he was a son of Tammy Renee Geddings and Joseph Bryan Cutter Sr. He attended Lakeside Outreach Ministries Church.

Survivors include his mother of Sumter; father of Alabama; maternal grandmother, Mae Geddings of Sumter; paternal grandfather, Jerry Cut-

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ter (Lou) of Manning; one sister, Tiffany Ardis (Kevin) of Sumter; and five nieces.

Funeral services will be held at 2 p.m. on Friday at Green Acres Assembly of God with the Rev. Kenny Griffin officiating.

The family will receive friends from 1 to 2 p.m. on Friday at Green Acres Assembly of God and other times at the home of Kevin and Tiffany Ardis, 4175 Livingwood Drive.

Memorials may be made to the family c/o Elmore-Cannon-Stephens Funeral Home, 515 Miller Road, Sumter, SC 29150.

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

LATOYA MURRAY LaToya Murray, 39, wife of Walter Lee Murray, died on Aug. 24, 2016, at the Medical University of South Carolina in Charleston.

Born on March 15, 1977, in Sumter County, she was a daughter of the late Reginald Tyrone Epps and Willie Mae James.

The family will receive friends at the home of her cousins, Quentin and Afrika Taylor, 4325 Farmers Road.

Funeral services will be announced by Ephriam D. Stephens Funeral Home of Sumter.

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DEAR ABBY — My wife has always been well groomed, with an obsessive interest in her fingernails and toenails.

Every three or four days, she spends an hour

trimming them.

Recently, I discovered that she has been keeping the nail trimmings. She actually has three large plastic containers full. When I confronted her, she claimed it soothes her to see her "collection."

Now she has begun openly displaying them inside a glass table lamp.

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fessional help. What do you think I should do?

Nailing it DEAR NAILING — Your wife appears to suffer from a form of OCD — a hoarding disorder. (Are nail clippings the only items she can't let go of ?) Overcoming her compulsion may take professional help and possibly medication. Start by discussing this with your doctor. In the meantime, because her display bothers you, ask her to keep the lamp in a less conspicuous place.

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bad. It has happened only once or twice in the last few months, but what should I do if it continues? I don't want my employee reviews to suffer because of it. Please tell me how to handle it.

At a loss in Florida DEAR AT A LOSS — I wish you had revealed more about your relationship with your boss and mentioned how many people work there.

Could she be stressed? Or having problems with her memory? Or could you? If there are more employees than just you, did anyone witness your boss ask you to do what she claimed? If not, and this happens again, you may need to talk to her about it because of your concerns about your work performance.

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48 Not us 51 Brand in a B-52 cocktail 53 Jerks 57 Promise 58 One rooting for the Niners, briefly 61 Open, in a way 62 “Iliad” warrior 64 Chaucer narrative told

by Huberd, with “The” 66 Trim 67 “__ Doone” 68 Museum contents 69 Produced with effort, with “out” 70 English assignment 71 Transitory passion DOWN 1 Destined 2 Striped stone 3 Rapper __ Shakur 4 Coop occupant 5 Sea predator 6 “Will do!”

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Construction company needing experienced secretary. Send resume to P O Box 1583 Sumter, SC 29151

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Its been a year now, a memory is a way of holding onto the things you love, the things you are, the things you never want to lose. We miss you, Jessie Lee Benenhaley.

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Home Improvements H.L. Boone, Contractor: Remodel paint roofs gutters drywall blown ceilings ect. 773-9904

Lawn Service JT's Lawn Care, debris & tree removal, pressure washing.

840-0322

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Criminal, Family, Accident, Injury

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

Virgil Bickley 803-316-4734.

Robert's Metal Roofing 35 Yrs exp. 45 yr warranty. Financing avail. Expert installation. Long list of satisfied customers. 803-837-1549.

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

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SW off 15 S Ramsey Rd 3Br 2Ba 1 acre, fresh paint, new carpet $425 Mo + $425 Dep. Call 803-795-9970

PUBLIC AUCTION SUMTER EAST SELF STORAGE 800 MYRTLE BEACH HWY. AUCTION September 17, 2016 10:00 A.M.

STATEBURG COURTYARD 2 & 3 BRs 803-494-4015

2001 Buick Century 105K mi. 20 cty 29 Hwy mpg, AT, keyless entry and trunk, AM FM cass., cruise, Driver side power seat, air bags. Call 803-236-0488 Asking $2800

UNITS FOR AUCTION A-4 - Christine Oriko A-44 - Betty J. Lawhon B-16 - Shalonda Jones B-37 - Chrishonda Samuel C-14 - Cammie Jackson C-33 - Della L. Guin D-18 - World End Time Harvest Church E-27 - Chris Muldrow F-19 - Towanda Miller F-34 - Levarron James

2007 Lincoln Town car, white, 1 owner, good condition. $5900 Call 803-983-3613

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Business Rentals Church property for lease, inside has been recently renovated. Interested parties contact 803-464-9582

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2002 4 Door Honda Accord, V-6 engine, fully loaded, in excellent condition. Asking $3500 OBO Call 803-486-9254

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Docket No.: 2016-DR-43-337 STATE OF SOUTH CAROLINA COUNTY OF SUMTER

Plaintiff

Huntington Place Apartments Rents from $625 per month 1/2 Month free* *13 Month lease required Powers Properties 595 Ashton Mill Drive 803-773-3600 Office Hours: Mon-Fri 9-5 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 3BR/2BA, C/H/A, carport, very large house. $750m+$750 dep.

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Refurbished batteries as low as $45. New batteries as low as $59.95. Auto Electric Co., 102 Blvd Rd. 803-773-4381

Office Building, a Perfect Place with an excellent price for your business venture. Excellent location for assisted living facility, residential care facility, adult or child day care, and medical supply company. The building is situated in a prime location. It's a corner lot, 448 North Main Street, Sumter, S.C. this facility has 3,600 square feet, and affords room for expansion. Updated multi-line telephone system, computers, and office furniture are included with the sale.

Please contact Real Estate Agent, Deborah B. Wilson, cell phone: (803) 236-4983 for further information on, and a tour of the building.

Daniel D. Kienker The Law Office of Daniel D. Kienker, LLC 1527 Blanding Street Columbia, South Carolina 29201 Phone: (803) 223-6932 Fax: (803) 929-0927 Email: kienkerdan22@gmail.com Attorney for Plaintiff

SECOND AMENDED SUMMONS IN THE COURT OF COMMON PLEAS Case No. 2015-CP-43-02333 STATE OF SOUTH CAROLINA COUNTY OF SUMTER Regional Acceptance Corporation, Plaintiff, vs.

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TO: THE ABOVE NAMED DEFENDANTs RHONDA P. ATKINS AND KEVIN WELLS: YOU ARE HEREBY SUMMONED and required to answer the Complaint in this action, a copy of which is herewith served upon you, and to serve a copy of your Answer to the said Complaint on the attorney for the aforesaid Plaintiff, on the Law Firm of Daniel D. Kienker, LLC, 1527 Blanding Street, Columbia, South Carolina, 29201, within thirty (30) days after the service hereof, 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.

YOU ARE HEREBY SUMMONED and required to answer the verified complaint filed in the above-captioned action and to serve a copy of your answer to the verified complaint upon the subscriber, at 1727 Hampton Street, Columbia, SC 29201, within thirty (30) days after service hereof, exclusive of the day of such service, and if you fail to answer the verified complaint within the time aforesaid, judgment by default will be rendered against you for the relief demanded in the verified complaint.

NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that the verified complaint in the above-captioned action was filed in the office of the Clerk of Court for Sumter County on October 20, 2015.

The office of the Clerk of Court for Sumter County is located at 215 North Harvin Street, Sumter, SC 29150-4974.

DATED: August 22, 2016 Christopher M. Towery (S.C. Bar No. 100250) WOMBLE CARLYLE SANDRIDGE & RICE, LLP 1727 Hampton Street Columbia, South Carolina 29201 Phone: 803-454-7740 Fax: 803-381-9121 CTowery@wcsr.com Counsel for Plaintiff Regional Acceptance Corporation

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