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Vol. 84 / No. 116
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Friday, July 15, 2011
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‘Taken In’ film premiere in Tryon Monday, Tuesday Innovative funding source helps Greenville filmmaker by Samantha Hurst
Though South of the Border in Dillon, S.C., radiates with kitschy neon signs and sombrero-topped towers, filmmaker Chris White of Greenville found it the ideal location to shoot his lonesome, black and white feature film, “Taken In.” It seemed a fitting location, White said, given lead character Simon is aiming to reconnect with his estranged daughter, Brooklyn. “Her childhood is long lost, and that innocence of youth is long gone, and I could see this man maybe taking his child there to try and capture what had been lost,” White said. “Taken In” will have its pre(Continued on page 3)
Crewmember Daniel McCord shoots the first scene of “Taken In,” featuring Brooklyn, played by Madelaine Hoptry. (photo submitted)
Courtney Reese of Tryon has graduated with a master of science in speech-language pathology from MGH Institute of Health Professions in Boston. Reese was one of 399 students in the graduate school’s class of 2011. More than 1,000 students are enrolled at MGH in nursing, physical therapy, speech-language pathology and radiologic technology programs.
Saluda toddler killed after falling from truck Wednesday A 16-month-old girl died in Saluda on Wednesday, July 13 after she fell from a truck traveling on Greenville Street, according to Saluda officials. Saluda City Administrator Erny Williams said the girl’s father, Brian Cody Huff, of Pace Mountain Road, Saluda, was driving a truck owned by his employer, Don Mintz, around 1:30
p.m. at Greenville St. and Thunder Ridge Road when somehow the truck door opened and his daughter, Farrah Rose Huff, fell out. The toddler was struck by the truck and killed, according to reports. She was not restrained in a car seat,
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