Biker Roundup coming to Darlington Dragway After the fire, a family

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Onsite
ammo stores
complicate
firefighting
By Samantha Lyles
Staff Writer
[email protected]
A Feb. 21 fire on Lawson
Road in Darlington severely
damaged
the
home
of
Hartsville Police Chief Jerry
Thompson, and the challenge
of combating the fire was complicated by the presence of
multiple firearms and quantities of ammunition present in
the house.
Darlington Fire Department
Chief Pat Cavanaugh says that
in cases where live ammo is
“cooking off” it is regular procedure for firefighters to keep a
safe distance and wet down the
structure.
“We stay back about ten to
fifteen feet and put water on
the fire and wait until you hear
the last round go off. Then you
wait for a while and go in,” says
Cavanaugh.
Determining when that last
round has cooked off can be
tricky, like listening to a bag of
microwave popcorn and calculating intervals between kernel
pops. That difficulty is compounded when ammo or
loaded weapons are stored in
multiple areas. In the Lawson
Road fire, rounds were still
popping some 30 minutes after
fire crews arrived on scene.
Cavanaugh says centrally
storing guns and rounds in a
fireproof safe is the best option
for storage, as many quality
gun safes will protect their contents for 60 minutes to 2.5
hours in the event of a fire.
The Sporting Arms and
Ammunition Manufacturers’
Institute (SAAMI) has conducted studies on the “4th of July”
effect of ammunition in a fire,
and they write (in an informational pamphlet) that the
“havoc” of these scenarios is a
bit exaggerated.
Albert Butler (center), chair of the Columbia SC Roundup
PHOTO BY SAMANTHA LYLES
Committee.
Daven, Elizabeth, Destiny, and Devin and lucky dog Coco who was rescued from the fire.
After the fire, a family survives
By Jana E. Pye
Editor
[email protected]
What happens after a fire is a tale that is
not often told.
Former neighbors notified the News and
Press about the hardships the family of six is
enduring weeks after the home they were
renting suffered a fire on Friday, February 13.
“They don’t ask for any help,” said one
neighbor, Johnny August. “They are the most
hardworking family you would ever want to
meet, and although they don’t want to ask for
any help, darn it, we should all step up and
help them.” he said. “They are living in two
rooms at a hotel just struggling to keep up,
and really need some help. The children are
precious, precious children and so well
behaved. It’s such a shame.”
The story of Cocoa the puppy revived by
local firefighters after being rescued from a
fire at a home on North Main Street in
Darlington on February 13th was a heartwarming story, and one that was shared with
many as a success.
Using infrared cameras, local firemen
were able to locate the puppy and gave Cocoa
oxygen to revive the little beloved pet.
“Our kids- and the puppy- are doing okay,”
said Elizabeth Driver. “It’s the adults that are
stressed out.” she pauses, and chuckles softly.
“You know how kids are, they think it’s an
adventure to be in a hotel. We are just trying
to stay positive. It could have been a lot
worse- we are all okay, we have each other,
and we are doing the best we can.” The house
fire was deemed an accidental fire, started in
the back bathroom due to a combination of
faulty wiring and a fragrance plug in.
FAMILY ON 3A
Biker Roundup
coming to
Darlington Dragway
By Samantha Lyles
Staff Writer
[email protected]
A major motorcycle event is
coming to Darlington County
this summer, and dozens of
county officials, law enforcement, and emergency preparedness personnel joined
business owners at the Greater
Hartsville
Chamber
of
Commerce on Feb. 27 to discuss plans with event organizers.
From Aug. 5 though Aug. 9,
The Darlington Dragway will
host the South Carolina gathering for the 38th Annual
National Bikers Roundup, a
camping and cookout-style
event that could bring between
15,000 and 20,000 visitors to
our area.
Albert Butler, chairman of
the Columbia South Carolina
Roundup Committee, said the
gates at the dragstrip will open
up Wednesday at 6:00 am and
the roundup would end
Sunday evening. Admission for
those wearing official motorcycle club gear (like a club’s
leather vest) will be $20, and
$30 for non-members. The
admission wristband is valid all
week.
Events are scheduled all
through the week, including
grudge match races Thursday,
Friday and Saturday, with a
cutoff each evening of 11 pm.
On-site events include fashion
shows, kid’s games, demo rides
from Harley Davidson, and
charity rides.
BIKER ON 3A
Downtown
Dry Cleaner
coming down
Last week, demolition crews
began the teardown process on a
county-owned property just off
the Public Square on North Main
Street in Darlington. The building, formerly home to a dry
cleaning business, had long been
empty and suffered a caved-in
roof due to water damage. Once
the site is clear, the county wants
to incorporate the property into a
planned judicial annex building,
housing all court operations for
Darlington County in safer, more
modern environs than the current courthouse can provide.
AMMO ON 3A
Weather
decisions
by DCSD
[Editor’s note: Regarding
events on Mon. evening, Feb. 23
and Tuesday, Feb. 2]
Concerned parents that
were unhappy with the
decisions of the Darlington
County School District during
weather
delays/
early
dismissals,
voiced
their
concerns on the school
district’s Facebook page on
February 23 and 24, and left
telephone messages to the district office.
Many of the comments
were removed because of profanity,
and
threatening
nature.
In an effort to clear up any
questions, Audrey Childers,
Public Information Officer for
DCSD released the following
statement:
“Several people have asked
for interviews regarding how
we make weather decisions in
the Darlington County School
District. We will not be able to
grant any interviews at this
time; however, I've attached
our statement regarding this
particular inclement weather
situation. For more information about inclement weather
decisions,
please
visit:
www.darlington.k12.sc.us.”
with a direct link to the
inclement weather page.
DCSD ON 3A
League of Women Voters meeting details recent voter protection report
By Jana E. Pye
Editor
[email protected]
The Darlington County
League of Women Voters held
their
“Voter
Optional
Responsibilities
Training”
meeting on Thursday, Feb.
26, after several weather
delays.
President Sheila Haney
shared that the event was
funded by a grant, “Public
Advocacy
for
Voter
Protection” (PAVP), from the
League of Women Voters of
the U.S. to the S.C. League.
The grant focuses on election reform issues, voting
rules, proper polling place
management, and recruitment of Election Day workforce.
Two speakers joined the
meeting, Hoyt Campbell,
Director of the Darlington
County Election Commission
and Cliff McBride with S.C.
Legal Services.
Local legislator Jay Lucas,
Speaker of the House of
Representatives, had intended to provide a legislative
update but needed to remain
Sheila Haney, President of
Darlington County League of
Women Voters.
in Columbia and sent his
regrets.
McBride shared a recent
report from the Protection
and Advocacy for People with
Disabilities that was released
in January, entitled The Right
to Vote in South Carolina:
People with disabilities still
have unequal access to the electoral process.
“This does not really apply
here in Darlington County,”
McBride shared. “Hoyt and
Cliff McBride, S.C. Legal
Services.
his crew are doing a fine job
locally with providing access
to all voters. This deals with
barriers state wide.”
The report was based on a
survey of 303 polling places
in 38 of the 46 counties in
South Carolina.
Findings found that many
voting places were inaccessible to people in wheelchairs,
walkers, and other mobility
related disabilities. “Some
did not comply with ADA at
all,” said McBride.
Other issues that were of
concern statewide were polls
that did not offer curbside
voting, lack of consistent signage.
“The signage can affect all
voters, not just those with
disabilities,” said McBride.
“For example, I voted at a
location where I have been
voting for years, yet on that
date the location had
changed…and I had a time
trying to find where to go.”
Parking is also an issue at
polling locations, particularly
those in rural areas.
“A parking space on grass
or gravel may be fine for most
voters, but not all,” said
McBride. “As an advocate for
people with disabilities I see
this all the time. It’s good to
see the state is tackling this
issue for voters.”
Barriers also include steps,
proper ramps- or lack of ramps,
and no resting spots in waiting
areas.
Voting machines need to be
at a proper height for wheelchairs, and signs should be
placed where voters can easily
see them from their seated
position.
Hoyt Campbell echoed the
findings, and said that his
group works diligently each
year to improve the voting
experience for voters with disabilities.
“You don’t really get the
issue until it affects you,” said
Campbell. “When I had a broken leg, I did some traveling
and had to get a handicapped
accessible room. You would
think that those would be located near the elevator, but it was
clear down the hallway,” he
said. “It puts things into perspective quickly.”
Doors that have proper handles to be easily opened when in
a walker or wheelchair, and barriers to walkways were noted on
the surveys across the state.
“One of the issues we’ve had
here in Darlington County
through the years is access to
polling locations, and getting
enough poll workers for the
long day.”
He hopes to see more curbside voting offered at polling
locations.
VOTERS ON 3A
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A Picture and
History Lesson
By Bill Shepard
I have seen memorials to lost soldiers in other places, in memory of those that were often buried in unmarked graves far from
their home, but none are as meaningful to me as the one that
stands on the courthouse lawn in my hometown. The picture and
story of Darlington’s Confederate Veterans Memorial in the Feb.
4th issue of this paper stirred a bunch of memories in this old
writer’s mind. The picture and history lesson brought back a lot
of memories, and I am indeed grateful to Samantha Lyles for
both. In our daily conversations by phone, my sister and I shared
memories of that time long ago when the children of St. John’s
Elementary would place flowers on the 20 foot tall monument
on the lawn of the courthouse in Darlington.
I will never see a Scotland “Bluebell” or “Harebell” as they are
sometimes called, that I will not visit that “marker” located on
the Darlington Square! The deep blue flowers grow freely in
most parts of the south, and are sometimes referred to as the
“Cornflower.” They grow profusely in my yard at Piedmont, and
each spring when I walk among them, I am reminded of time
long ago.
Memorial Day!
Ah, what
memories! J.C.
Daniels, the kind
old school master
at St. John’s,
would have been
reminding the
children for days
of the coming
event; the day
that we would
march to town
and place our
bouquet of flowers on the
Monument. We
could hardly wait
for the day to
arrive.
My sister
remembered how
she picked flowers that grew
along a fence at
the old mill.
I recalled how I would scramble over the old village cemetery
near where we lived. The bluebells were plentiful along the roadside as well as inside the old graveyard. It was a beautiful sight,
the morning when the children would arrive at school with their
flowers and dressed in their best clothing. The deep blue color of
my bouquet would match well with my Sunday pair of overalls
and matching blue shirt. Ah, how proud I would be! Assembled
in the large school auditorium, we would listen intently as Mr.
Daniels would give his final instructions for the day. Back in the
classroom, we would listen intently as Mr. Daniels would give his
final instructions for the day. Back in the classroom, we would
hear more instructions as to the way we were to behave. We were
to walk in line, keeping our hands by our side, and our mouths
shut. Not even a whisper! And believe it or not, we followed
those instructions!
Outside the building, standing in straight lines, clutching our
bouquets in our hands, we were like little soldiers on parade, and
indeed, we were. What a beautiful sight…long lines of children,
marching two by two, with hardly a sound except for shuffling
little feet on the paved sidewalk. Not many, if any, schools in
today’s world would dare such an undertaking! That kind of
exercise calls for strict discipline, a jewel that is missing from
many of our schools today.
By the end of the lines, after the last child had placed their
bouquets of flowers, the tomb would be one solid mass of color
from top to bottom. The flowers would remain for several days,
and then be carried away. The flowers died early, the children
are now old men and women, and many are gone. But the memories still linger; at least, in the minds of a few.
Do you remember? Let us hear!
Mr. Shepard is a native of Darlington, S.C., and a current resident
of Piedmont, S.C. Signed copies of Mr. Shepard’s books “Mill Town
Boy” and “Bruised” are available for purchase at the News and Press
office. He has been sharing his tales of growing up in Darlington for
decades, and we are delighted to share them each week.
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Gov. Haley’s $29,000 football tickets and higher ed reform
By phil Noble
I love this state, I really do –
and that’s why I get so frustrated when we can’t do the obvious right thing for stupid reasons. (Like, say, $29,000 worth
of free football tickets — but
more on that in a moment.)
It seems to happen a lot and
the current prime example of
this is how higher education in
this state is run, or probably
more accurately, not run.
S.C. State has been in the
news lately but they are only
the latest and best example of
the need for a statewide governing body that effectively –
and the key word is effectively
– oversees higher education in
the state.
What we have now is the
S.C. Commission on Higher
Education and it’s just not
working. There are some very
competent and diligent folks on
the Commission but the problem is they really don’t have
much power to actually do anything.
Dr. Layton McCurdy was
Dean of MUSC for 11 years and
Chairman of the Higher
Education Commission from
2005-08, and his comments in
a recent column pretty much
sum up the problem: “Still we
do not have a coordinated system that emphasizes the value
to the state rather the benefit
to the individual institution…
Rather we operate under the
philosophy that states, ‘If
you’ve got one, I want one.’”
Someone described what
happens now as “policy by football tickets.” What this means
is that the big schools like USC
and Clemson have a huge
alumni base that can be mobi-
lized and they have high-paid
lobbyists walking around the
Statehouse lobby handing out
football tickets to state decision
makers. Unfortunately, this is a
pretty good summary of what
happens.
And in case you’re tempted
to dismiss all this football stuff
as “small potatoes,” just take a
quick look at Gov. Nikki
Haley’s latest ethics filings,
where you’ll find that she
declared more than $29,000
worth of Clemson football
suites and tickets as gifts in
2014 alone.
Another big part of the
problem is how the boards of
the public colleges and universities are chosen. It’s done by
the legislature, so if you want
to be on a board you have to
repeatedly go up to Columbia
and convince enough legislators to vote for you. What you
get is a bunch of folks hanging
around the lobby looking for
legislators like a pack of
teenage boys with overactive
hormones at the high school
dance, looking to pounce on
the next pretty girl that walks
by.
Lots of people who would
make great college trustees
don’t want to go through the
personal humiliation of the
process and just won’t get
involved. So, who you have getting chosen are people who
have a high threshold for personal rejection, or who are the
brother, sister, friend or barber
or someone who knows someone who can call in a favor
from some key legislators.
And once they get on the
boards, most of them stay a
long time – some for more than
40 years. So much for new
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So what’s the answer?
There is an obvious, proven
solution – a board of regents –
but it doesn’t have much
chance of happening in South
Carolina any time soon.
A board of regents has the
responsibility to look at higher
education based on the needs
of the whole state and then has
the teeth to enforce their policies. Today, 39 of the 50 states
have some sort of board of
regents. Though they go by lots
of different names – curators,
governors, overseers, regents,
trustees, or something – they
all have the same function of
overseeing their state’s higher
education system. Among
those states where the board of
regents seem to be doing an
effective job are, you guessed
it, Georgia and North Carolina.
The problem with such a
straightforward, obvious solution is that no one in a position
to make this needed change
wants it to happen.
The legislators like the current system because they have
the power to appoint the college and university boards,
and they like having people
(i.e. board candidates) hanging round kissing their ring
(or some other body part),
telling them how great they
are. Plus, they get all the good
tickets for the football games
– or in the case of Gov. Haley,
the football suites.
The big colleges and universities like the system
because they have lots of their
alumni in the legislature to
look after them. Also, if they
get in a jam, they can mobilize their alumni, as some
alum is bound to be the cru-
cial legislator’s fishing buddy,
girlfriend or law partner.
A couple of years ago the
presidents of USC, Clemson
and MUSC were all lined up at
a table in front of a state
Senate committee and they
were asked by Sen. Gerald
Malloy if they were going to at
least talk about a board of
regents…and they all three sat
silently and did not say a word.
One observer called it “the
silence of the lambs.”
And this isn’t a partisan
issue, as both fair-minded
Democrats and Republicans
have pushed for a change.
Mark Sanford at least talked a
good game about reform but
he never got anywhere, as the
legislators didn’t much like him
to start with and then Sanford
got lost on the Appalachian
Trail and that pretty much
killed any chance of real
reform.
So, there you have it: a big
problem with an obvious solution that won’t ever happen
because of petty politics and
narrow interests – and football
tickets.
By some measures, our
state’s colleges and universities
are sliding backwards, but who
cares, right? The football teams
are doing great… and Gov.
Haley and the legislators are
sitting right there on the 50
yard line cheering them on.
Phil Noble is a businessman
in Charleston and is President
of the SC New Democrats, an
independent reform group
founded by former Gov.
Richard Riley to bring big
change and real reform.
[email protected]
www.SCNewDemocrats.org
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Rural America: It's complicated,
really complicated
By Brian Depew
Center for Rural Affairs
There are two closely held,
widely believed, narratives
about rural America. The
national media narrative, with
roots in the 1980’s farm crisis, is
fatalistic. Rural places are
dying. It lives on at the
Brookings Institute and the New
York Times, fueled by demographics that show decades of
population decline across much
of rural America.
The other narrative is woven
by small town boosters. They
point to new demographic data
showing 30-49 year olds returning to small towns. They talk
with passion about new businesses and housing shortages.
The challenge is, neither narrative is wholly accurate. The
truth is far more complex. The
fatalists, caught in a crisis mind
frame, are wrong. Rural
America will not return to a vast
buffalo commons anytime soon.
Meanwhile, the boosters lead
with great local successes while
brushing over underlying
trends.
To build a vibrant small town
future in America, we must
understand clearly what challenges we face and where
emerging opportunities exist.
Many small towns are losing
population, yet young families
moving in often cannot find
housing. Much small town
infrastructure is in decline, but
contractors, plumbers and electricians have more work than
they can handle, often with new
construction. Small town grocery stores are under pressure
but community-led efforts to
retain grocery stores have seen
dramatic success.
America’s small town reality
is complex. Some places thrive,
others struggle. And in every
small town there is a mix of success and challenge.
Understanding these dynamics
is the only path to a vibrant
future.
Established in 1973, the
Center for Rural Affairs is a private, non-profit organization
working to strengthen small
businesses, family farms and
ranches, and rural communities
through action oriented programs addressing social, economic, and environmental
issues.
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WEDNESDAY MARCH 4, 2015 | PAGE 3A
Family
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Concerned business leaders at a meeting held at the Greater Hartsville Chamber of Commerce to ask questions of the Columbia SC Roundup
Committee about a rally planned for August 5 - 9 in Darlington County.
Bikers
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The roundup does a food
drive each year, gathering an
average of 13,000 pounds of
donated non-perishables for
local food banks. Although a
representative from Harvest
Hope of the Pee Dee was present at this meeting, organizers
said they normally divide the
donations among any food
banks that request help.
Many vendors will be on
hand, selling everything from
motorcycle parts and clothing
to food and beverages, though
no alcohol will be sold on the
dragstrip premises. Butler
advised local retailers and
restaurants to plan for an
influx of diners around breakfast, and stock up on camping
staples like ice, bottled water,
charcoal and propane tanks,
and bug repellant.
Butler also asked that any
restaurant or hotel wishing to
designate motorcycle parking
please locate those spaces in a
well-lit, visible area, since
bikes and gear are often stolen
from remote parking lots.
Some meeting attendeed
voiced concerns about unruly
behavior like the violence that
marred a recent Myrtle Beach
bike fest. Roundup organizers
assured them there was little
cause for worry, stating that
theirs is a more like a “family
reunion” event attended
mainly by motorcycle club
members.
“This is not the Myrtle
Beach crowd,” said Ronnie
Siders,
co-owner
of
Darlington Dragway.
The
National
Bikers
Roundup began in 1977,
founded by African American
motorcycle clubs. The national gathering takes place in a
different city every year. The
2014
event
in
Tulsa,
Oklahoma yielded about $5
million in economic impact
for that area, and a similar
impact of between $3 million
and $5 million is expected for
Darlington and Florence
Counties.
Charles Stewart, director of
Emergency
Services
for
Voters
Ammo
“I also advocate for absentee voting,” said Campbell. “That way,
people with hearing and vision loss
and mobility issues can have the
opportunity to vote in the comfort
of their home, and not have to
depend on a ride to the polls. If they
cannot get there, they don’t get to
vote, period.”
According to Haney, the PAVP
grant purposes were to focus on
election reform issues, voting rules,
proper polling place management,
and recruitment of a diverse
Election Day workforce.
To join the League, contact
Haney at 843-332-6468. The group
is non- partisan, and does not support nor oppose political parties or
candidates. To learn more, visit the
South Carolina LWV website at:
LWVSC.org.
“Members of fire fighting
units are understandably
uneasy when confronted
by fires where ammunition
is involved,” the pamphlet
reads. “Stocks of small
arms ammunition will NOT
mass explode. That is to
say, if one cartridge or shotshell in a carton or case is
caused to fire, it will not
cause other adjacent cartridges or
shotshells or their packages to explode sympathetically or in a simultaneous
manner.
“Tests also show that the
whizzing sound heard in the
vicinity of ammunition fires
are caused by primers
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DCSD
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The statement follows:
Inclement weather situations are always tricky to manage in a school district. We are
charged with ensuring our students receive 180 days of education but it is critical that we
ensure their safety in doing so.
We try to make the decisions the night before so parents have time to adjust their
plans
accordingly.
Unfortunately, that is not
always possible. Last night
[Ed. Note: Monday, Feb. 23]
there were conflicting weather
predictions, some of which
were predicting inclement
weather for us, others indicating the bad weather would
pass us by. As a result, we waited to make the decision until
morning so we could have the
most timely and accurate information.
In making these decisions,
we have teams of individuals
who travel the roads of the
county. We also consult with
the
Darlington
County
Emergency
Operations
Center, law enforcement officials, and other counties. We
review weather information
from multiple sources and we
try to make the best decision
expelled from the burning
cartridges. The “pops” and
“bangs”
are
exploding
primers; the propellant
powders burn inefficiently
and make little noise.
Metallic cartridges in a fire
are difficult to sustain in
a burning condition once
the
packing
materials
have been consumed due
to the cooling effects of the
metal parts and the relatively high ratio of metal
weight to smokeless powder.
Only a vigorous fire around
metallic ammunition stocks
will cause all cartridges to
burn.”
SAAMI advises storing
ammo in dry, cool conditions and avoiding risky
environs like kitchens,
damp basements, and hot
vehicles (trunks or passenger compartments) on
for the students.
This morning, at 4:30 am,
[Ed. note: Tuesday, Feb. 24]
the skies were clear and there
were no problems. Yet again,
some weather reports predicted inclement weather all day,
others said we would get a
short spell and then it would
clear. At 4:30 this morning, we
made the decision to delay
school two hours in the hopes
the bad weather would pass.
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staff on the road.
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out the inclement weather at
school where students would
be warm and eat lunch.
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committee members about
specifics, such as traffic management, campground layout,
aid station location, and
access for first responders in
case of emergencies. He suggested another meeting at
county EMS headquarters
where organizers would have
access to maps of the dragway
and surrounding properties
(some of which will be used
for campsites), allowing a
detailed response plan to be
formed.
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332-6401, or visit the
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can begin to degrade after
prolonged exposure to temperatures as low as 150Farenheit. Ammo salvaged
from a house fire – where
temps can average 1100
degrees – should be disposed of immediately.
If you have unserviceable
ammunition, never return it
to sales centers or attempt to
sell it for salvage, as any
structural compromise to
the cartridges could pose a
threat to any future shooters. Neither should the
ammo be buried or dumped
in a waterway. SAAMI advises returning it to the manufacturer or, if that is not possible, contacting them
through www.SAAMI.org or
writing to them at 11 Mile
Hill Road, Newtown, CT
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Although the fire was put
out fairly quickly, water and
smoke damage ruined most
of the family’s belongings.
To add further to their
loss, looting occurred at the
home before the family
could retrieve items.
The family includes
Elizabeth, Willie Pooler,
their three children, sons
Devin, age 10, and Daven,
age 6, and their daughter
Destiny, age 9. Elizabeth’s
mother, Peggy Odom, also
lives with the family, and is
suffering from many health
issues.
Elizabeth works at the
IHOP in Florence second
shift, and Willie works for a
landscaper and tree business that is dependent upon
the weather; the couple
works separate shifts to
insure a parent is with the
children at all times, and her
ailing mother.
Less than a week before
the fire, Elizabeth’s mother,
Peggy, had been hospitalized for a heart condition.
She suffers from diabetes
and is scheduled to have
heart surgery in May.
“We’re trying our best to
keep the stress off my
Mama,” said Elizabeth. “We
are both working all the
hours we can get. Paying for
these two rooms is taking
every bit of money we have.”
The family unfortunately
did not have renters insurance, something that many
people don’t think of when
they rent.
“We are thankful for the
help that The Lord Cares
and the Red Cross gave
us,” said Elizabeth. “We just
never thought something
like this would ever happen
to us.”
Some selections of clothing were provided to the
children through the Kids
Closet in Darlington.
The family is staying in
two hotel rooms for now,
which is sapping their available income rapidly. They
had already gotten their tax
returns back. “We got them
back and caught up on
bills,” said Elizabeth. “If I
had only known, if we’d
saved it, we would have had
enough for a security
deposit on a new place to
live.”
Clothing was retrieved
from the home, but sadly is
damaged by smoke, and will
be costly to properly clean
to remove the smoke odor.
Clearly humble and not
wanting to ask for help,
Elizabeth was reluctant to
ask for anything, but at my
insistance she shared the
following:
Clothing sizes: Devin,
age 10, boy’s clothing size
10, size 3 shoe. Destiny, age
9, girl’s size 7, clothing and
size 1 shoe. Daven, age 6,
boys size 6-7 clothing, and
size 13Y shoe. Adults:
Elizabeth: ladies size 16, XL
and 8 1/2 shoe; Willie, size
XL shirt, size 36 x 34 pants,
size 12 shoe; Peggy Odom:
size 2X stretch pants, and
XXL tops, shoe size 9.
Clean, gently used clothing, footwear and gift cards
may be brought to the News
& Press office to be distributed. By press time, a
Facebook page dedicated to
helping local people in the
area was actively trying to
create an account with
Wells Fargo. Please contact
Wells Fargo directly to
donate funds to assist with a
security deposit for a new
home to rent, and to replace
damaged and stolen items.:
Wells Fargo, 58 Public
Square, Darlington, S.C.
29532 Phone: 843-3934076. The News & Press will
keep readers updated on
our Facebook page.
Unfortunately the weather did
not get better and the decision
was made to send the students
home after lunch. We fed the
students and sent them home
shortly after they ate.
We understand parents are
frustrated. We apologize. We
try to make the best decisions
possible with the information
we have.
There is more inclement
weather on the horizon.
We will again travel the roads,
consult with the experts,
and try to reach a decision
that ensures the students’
safety while also protecting
educational time as much as
possible.
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Curley McIver, Jr.
Funeral services for Mr.
Curley Frank McIver, Jr. of
Darlington will be conducted
2:00
p.m.
S a t u r d ay,
February 28,
2015
at
Ta b e r n a c l e
Wo r s h i p
Center
in
Darlington.
Interment
will follow in Gandy Cemetery
directed by Jordan Funeral
Home, Inc.
Mr. McIver was born in
Darlington County, the son of
Pastor Helen Crawford and the
late Mr. Curley Frank McIver,
Sr. He was reared by his mother and step-father Bishop
William Crawford, Sr.
He received his education in
the
public
schools
of
Darlington County.
He was joined in Holy
Matrimony
to
Bertie
Williamson of Winston- Salem,
N.C.
Curley worked in construction, and was also an automobile mechanic.
Survivors, in addition to his
mother and step-father, are: his
wife,
Bertie
WilliamsonMcIver; his daughter, Betty
Dudley; his son, Gregory
Williamson; five grandchildren; seven siblings; a god-sister; and a host of aunts, uncles,
nieces, nephews, other relatives, and friends.
The family is receiving
friends at 1513 Elissa Drive,
Darlington.
Myrtle Johnson
Broach
Myrtle Johnson Broach, 81,
of Darlington, wife of the late
Arthur Eugene Broach, went
home to be with her Lord on
Monday, February 23, 2015 at
the McLeod Hospice House in
Florence.
Graveside services will be
held on Friday, February 27,
2015 at 2:00 p.m. in Grove Hill
Cemetery, directed by KistlerHardee Funeral Home. The
family will receive friends from
6:00 until 8:00 p.m. on
Thursday, February 26, 2015 at
Kistler-Hardee Funeral Home,
and other times at the home,
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Hog Bog and Bake Sale
Join St. Luke United
Methodist Church for their
first ever Hog Bog and Bake
Sale to benefit missions, Feb.
26! Tickets are $8, and the
event runs from 11 a.m. to 2
p.m. and 4 p.m. to 7 p.m. For
more information, call 843383-5169.
Senior
Choir
Anniversary & Joy Night
Service
The Senior Choir of Center
Baptist Church will celebrate
their anniversary on Sunday,
March 1 at 4:00 p.m. with an
“Old Fashion’ Choir Parade”,
all are invited to attend.
410
Redwood
Street,
Darlington.
Mrs. Broach was born in
Richmond County, N.C. She
was the daughter of the late
Gus A. and Mamie Campbell
Johnson. Mrs. Broach retired
from Dixie Cup in Darlington.
She was a member of the First
Pentecostal Holiness Church.
Mrs. Broach enjoyed spending
time with her family and shopping.
Surviving are sons, Larry
Broach of Darlington, and
Gerald Broach (Sherrill) of
Myrtle Beach; daughters,
Deborah Larymore (Avery) of
Chesterfield,
and
Diana
Breedlove of Darlington; two
grandchildren, Dana (Bill)
Hunt and Ashley Breedlove;
and four great grandchildren,
Kameron
and
Jazzlyn
Breedlove, Kylie Hunt, and
Ryatt Neel; sister-in-law,
Bertha Mae Johnson of
Darlington; and close friends,
Maria O’Neal and Luann Lee.
Mrs. Broach was preceded
in death by grandson,
Christopher Glenn Larymore;
and brothers, Leroy, Bill and
Junior Johnson.
Memorials may be made to
McLeod Hospice of Florence,
1203 E. Cheves Street,
Florence, S.C. 29506.
Family and friends are invited to sign the online guest book
at www.kistlerhardeefuneralhome.com.
Bob E. Weaver
Bob E. Weaver, age 67,
passed away Wednesday,
February 25, 2015. A visitation
will be held from 6:00 – 8:00
p.m. Friday, February 27, at
Belk Funeral Home Lamar
Chapel. Funeral Services will
be held 2:00 p.m. Saturday,
February 28, at Newman
Swamp United Methodist
Church, officiated by Rev. Ed
Herlong.
Bob was born February 8,
1948, to the late Elbert and
Anzy Lee Weaver. He worked as
a wastewater treatment operator with Fiber Industries. He
served in the United States
Army. He enjoyed hunting and
was a member of Cypress
Hunting Club. He was a member of Newman Swamp United
Return to Center Baptist on
Wednesday, March 5th at worship with us again at our Joy
Night Service beginning at
7:00 p.m. For more information, the church office is: 843393-0421.
BBQ Fundraiser for
Logan Gause
Please show your support
for Logan Gause, a young lady
of Darlington battling cancer
since age 8. All proceeds will
help her family with medical
expenses. Please purchase
BBQ on Thursday, March 5th
from 11 a.m. – 2 p.m., $8 a
plate, eat-in or carry out,
delivery for 10 or more plates.
Southside Free Will Baptist
Church, 134 W. McIver Rd.,
Darlington. For more info or
to volunteer, call Samantha
or Terry Gainey at: 843-4963415.
Temple Free Will Baptist Church
Chicken Bog Lunch
Friday, March 13 • 11am - 2 pm
Plates $7 • Baked Goods Sale
Eat In or Take Out
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1660 N. Governor Williams Hwy
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Methodist Church.
Surviving are his wife Ellen
Weaver, his daughter Carol
Weaver Bell, and his brother
Robin (Gail) Weaver, all of
Lamar, and two grandchildren
Austin Bell, and Avery Bell.
Preceded in death, in addition to his parents, are his
brother Tony Weaver; and his
sister, Linda Stewart.
Memorials may be made out
to Newman Swamp United
Methodist Church 1120 Lee
State Park Road, Lamar S.C.
29069.
A guestbook is available
online at www.belkfuneralhome.com.
Essie Lewis Smith
Essie Lewis Smith, 82, of
Darlington, SC died Friday,
February 27, 2015 after an
extended illness.
Funeral services will be held
2:00 p.m. Sunday, March 1,
2015 at Kistler Hardee Funeral
Home. Burial will follow at
Grove Hill Cemetery. Visitation
will be 6:00 - 8:00 p.m.
Saturday, February 28, 2015 at
the funeral home. Memorials
may be made to the Shriner’s
Hospital - 950 W Faris Rd,
Greenville, S.C. 29605.
Essie was born May 10,
1932 in Horry County, S.C. to
the late Charlie and Ovie
Williamson Lewis. She and her
husband Jack owned and operated The Country Barn restaurant in Darlington and Myrtle
Beach for years. After retiring
they traveled and became very
involved in the Shrine where
her husband was Potentiate.
She was a member of Daughter
of the Nile and loved her
Shrine family.
She is preceded in death by
two brothers, Charlie Ernest
Lewis and Roy Lewis; a sister,
Velma Hepburn; and her parents.
Survivors include her husband, Jack W. Smith of
Darlington;
a
daughter,
Gwendolyn Ann Wilson of
Darlington; two step-daughters, Pamela Kerr of Hatfield,
PA and Honey Newberry of
Fontana, CA; a brother,
Clarence Edward Lewis of
Darlington;
four
sisters,
Genese Snider of Darlington,
Chicken Bog at Elim
UMC
Enjoy the delicious chicken
bog prepared by Murray
Norwood
on
Saturday,
March 7th from 11:00 a.m. –
2:00 p.m. at Elim United
Methodist Church, on 3900
Oates Hwy (Hwy 403) in
Lamar. $7.00 a plate, plus a
bake sale. For more information, contact Janice Byrd at
332-6959.
Mystery
Theater/
Dinner Benefit
The Pee Dee Catholic
Marilyn Privette of Latta,
Carolyn
McCormick
of
Darlington and Rosie Viola
Tadlock; a favorite nephew,
Dorla Lewis of Mechanicsville;
and three grandchildren,
Heather Suen of Fontana, CA,
Kristen Daneker of Royersford,
PA and Cortney Seltzer of
Newton, PA.
She was predeceased by her
brothers, Charlie Ernest Lewis
and Ray Lewis, and her sister
Velma Helburn.
The family would like to
express the gratitude for all the
loving care provided to Essie
by Hospice Care of South
Carolina.
An online condolence page
is available at www.kistlerhardeefuneralhome.com.
Dennis M. Blackmon
Dennis M. Blackmon, age
70, died Friday, February 27,
2015, in a local hospital. A
memorial service will be held
at 5:00 p.m. on Sunday, March
1st, in the chapel of Belk
Funeral Home. The family will
receive friends following the
service and other times at the
home, 229 Rhodes Community
Road.
Born in Darlington on July
25, 1944, he was the son of the
late Furman Blackmon and the
late Cloey Andrews Blackmon
Truett. Dennis was a retired
truck driver, and had driven for
Standard Trucking and Wilson
Trucking. He also owned and
operated B & B small engine
repair. Mr. Blackmon had
attended Temple Free Will
Baptist Church.
Surviving are his wife,
Carolyn Moody Blackmon, a
daughter, Penny (Charlie)
Gainey, and a son, Dennis M.
Blackmon, Jr.; grandchildren,
Dwayne
Locklair
(Joey
Conway), Laci Gainey (Bobby
Parker), Corbin Blackmon, and
Landon Blackmon; and a sister,
Cheryl Suggs. Dennis was soon
to be a great-granddad for the
first time, anticipating the
arrival of Ava Brooke Parker.
In addition to his parents, he
was preceded in death by his
step-father,JP “Pete” Truett.
A guestbook is available
online at www.belkfuneralhome.com.
Productions and Knights of
Columbia
Council
5194
presents Mystery Theater/
Dinner
Benefit
at
St.
Anthony’s Catholic Church,
2536 W. Hoffmeyer Rd.,
Florence
on
Saturday,
March 14th. An evening of
“Who did it?” while dining
on a delicious 3-course Italian
meal!
Doors
open
at
6:30 p.m., first course served
at 7 p.m. Tickets: $40. For
tickets, contact Larry Hancock
at 843-230-9478.
Notice of Application
A meeting of the City of Darlington Historic Landmarks
Commission will be held in the conference room of the City
Administrative Building, located at 410 Pearl Street, Monday,
March 9, 2015, at 5:30 p.m. for the purpose of those interested
in the Application for a Certificate of Appropriateness, as
listed below.
Item # 1 (Case 02/19/15) Property of Stuart Swiggett located at
302 Cashua Street, Tax Map No. 164-15-03-078; bordered on
the North by Cashua Street; bordered on the West by Woods
Street; bordered on the South by property of Adam E. Houle,
Tax Map No. 164-15-03-077; and bordered on the East by
property of David E. Rolfe, Tax Map No. 164-15-03-079.
PROPOSAL: REQUEST TO CONSTRUCT A WOOD
PRIVACY FENCE FOR THE BACKYARD AND TO
REPLACE EXISTING WIRE FENCE.
Individuals may submit comments in writing by Thursday,
March 5, 2015, to City Planning Department, P.O. Box 57,
Darlington, SC 29540, or they may provide comments in person
at the Commission meeting. Info: 843-398-4000 x 103 or
[email protected].
Keeping the Faith
Money - what it’s good for
There is a single word that
has overtaken contemporary
US society, one concept that
defines life in 21st century
America: Security. Before you
complete your online purchase, please establish a
“secure” connection. Buy this
alarm system or firearm to
keep your loved ones “secure.”
Our borders are porous and
must be “secured.”
Terrorists are planning horrendous acts, thus, everyone
has to go through “security.”
Buy this software; it will keep
your passwords, personal identity, and banking information
safe and “secure.” This election
vote for the President, Senator,
Congressman, or Dogcatcher
that will keep the nation
“secure.”
So much for the days when
there was “nothing to fear but
fear itself.” Now there is everything to fear. Thus cars, computers, houses, politicians,
pharmaceuticals, and wars are
all marketed with fear as the
motivating factor. Nowhere is
this more evident than when it
comes to economics.
But to tell you the truth, if
you trust your money to keep
you “secure,” you probably
should be afraid; it will never
give you peace of mind. Don’t
get me wrong. We all need a
few dollars to keep food on the
table, a roof over our heads,
and pay the bills. Even a handful of investments, mutual
funds, and IRAs are good for as
far as they go. They just can’t
go far enough.
Why? Because once you
have a little pile of dough you
have to go on guard duty. You
go into perpetual protection
mode, always on the wall,
always peering out at the economic boogeymen, always
defending, hedging, and
hoarding. This produces mindracing, palm-sweating, turfdefending worry, something
about as far from contentment
as one can get.
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level of peace will depend
upon what we depend upon,
no more and no less. If the
source of our security and well
being is this world’s economic
promises, we should hire better money managers, take
more medication, and stuff
more gold coins under our
mattresses. But if our subsistence is Christ, then no, life
will not be easy, but the source
of his strength is endless and
the peace he offers surpasses
all understanding.
Now, this doesn’t mean we
build a bunker, stack canned
goods, and buy an arsenal.
That’s nothing but fear and
anxiety run amok. No, we joyfully live in this world, but recognize it for how fragile it is.
We see that ultimately it cannot meet our deepest needs.
That responsibility belongs
to God, because it’s not a matter of “if” our stockpiles will fail
us, it’s a matter of “when.”
That’s not fear mongering, it’s
simply stating that trusting
Christ to give us what we need
and sustain us is not near as
dangerous as trusting a system
that is bound to collapse.
Ronnie McBrayer is a syndicated columnist, blogger, pastor, and author of multiple
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Celebrating the Memory and Life of
March 5, 1921 – January 16, 2015
Sis, you are now with the lord,
and we all are still here,
We hold you in our hearts,
ever so dear.
Heaven’s choir now has a new Angel,
a greeter at Heaven’s door,
You are never forgotten, we will
love and miss you, forevermore!
Love Always,
Your brother, Edwin and Sister-in-law Mary,
Your family, neices, nephews and friends
“We will meet in Heaven once again.”
A memorial service for Sis was
held on Feb. 14, 2015 by brother,
sister-in-law and neices.
Spaulding Elementary receives $100,000 grant for AfterSchool Learning
Spaulding
Elementary
School in Lamar was awarded
a $100,000 21st Century
Community Learning Centers
(CCLC) grant to establish an
afterschool learning program
designed to provide the students
of
Spaulding
Elementary with additional
academic support as well as
well as learning experiences
in the areas of science, technology, engineering, arts, and
math (STEAM). The program,
called Pursuing Academic
Achievement With STEAM
(PAAWS),
launched
in
January and currently serves
approximately 100 students.
PAAWS participants receive
support through academic
interventions and participate
in a variety of enrichment
activities such as dance,
graphic design, Google CS
First (coding), robotics, etc.
Through
the
grant,
Spaulding Elementary has
partnered with educational
institutions,
community
churches, and community
agencies/organizations,
including Coker College,
Francis Marion University
School of Education and
Florence Darlington Technical
College, Lamar First Baptist,
Lamar Ebenezer Charge of the
United Methodist Church,
Clemson
University
Cooperative
Extension
Services, and SC Pathways of
Pee Dee Regional Educational
Center. The program also
involves local high school students in the area as mentors
and leaders.
• Coker College and
Francis Marion University students who are in the education program will assist with
facilitating STEAM-related
and enrichment learning sessions and activities with students.
•
Florence-Darlington
Technical College will provide
learning experiences through
field
trips
along
with
parent/student workshops on
higher-education opportunities.
• High school students will
serve as tutors as well as assist
with engaging, interactive
activities with students under
the supervision of certified
instructors. Participating in
the program will benefit both
high school students as well as
our elementary students.
Research shows that this type
of cross-age approach is highly
effective in building leadership
and life skills in both the
teenager and younger youth
who receive the program, and
younger youth respond well to
Darlington County Habitat for Humanity hosts
student volunteers in Hartsville for spring break
Worcester Academy students will travel to Hartsville,
SC during their spring break to
volunteer with Darlington
County Habitat for Humanity.
The students will help build
homes and improve the communities the week of March 913 as part of Worcester Habitat
for Humanity’s Collegiate
Challenge program.
“This is our second year
hosting Worcester Academy,”
said
Mark
Haenchen,
Executive Director. “They bring
a lot of talent and are a hard
working group of volunteers.
This year they will be working
on homes in both Darlington
and Hartsville.”
Aaron Kline, Co-President of
the
Worcester
Academy
Habitat for Humanity Club
said, "Having the privilege to
travel to a new place, be welcomed with open arms, and
enjoy the company of new people is a special opportunity.
Our annual trip has made me
realize the importance of
togetherness, and how a group
of people with little experience
but a common goal in mind can
make a significant impact in
their community. The trip creates a genuine excitement
among our club and school
community, and it allows us to
take what we learn through our
work on the job site and advo-
cate for Habitat for Humanity
in our own neighborhood.
Most importantly, the friendships we make and the amazing
people we work with forge
memories to last a lifetime."
Worcester Academy’s Habitat for Humanity campus program invites students to spend
one week working with Habitat
affiliates to build homes and
improve communities. Since
2009, over 100 students have
volunteered during their spring
break to help build or rehabilitate homes.
About
Darlington
Habitat
for
County
Humanity
Darlington Co. Habitat for
Humanity was chartered in
1996 and is an affiliate of
Habitat for Humanity International. It has completed 35
homes in Hartsville and Darlington and currently has three
homes under construction.
They will be starting two more
homes in the Hartsville area
this summer. Tithes have also
helped 54 families internationally to enjoy a decent affordable home. Darlington County
Habitat sends its tithes to Haiti.
About
Worcester
Academy
Worcester Academy is a coed day and boarding school
The Miss South Carolina Scholarship Pageant Organization held
its Work Weekend at the Embassy Suites in Columbia from
February 27 - March 1 where 65 teen contestants and 55 miss contestants along with their directors and support groups gathered.
From left are Miss Falcon Murphy Lee, Miss South Carolina Sweet
Potato Festival Teen Payton Lang, Miss South Carolina Sweet
Potato Festival Caitlan Walzer and Palmetto Princess Chandler
Jordan. This year's Miss South Carolina Pageant will be televised
live on the Sinclair Broadcasting Network (WWMB Channel 6 on
Time Warner Cable) on June 27.
PHOTO CONTRIBUTED
McLeod Sports Medicine 5K Run/Walk, 10K Run and 1-Mile Fun Run
The annual McLeod Sports
Medicine Challenge Run/Walk
will be held Saturday, March
21, 2015. The race day begins
at 9:00 a.m. with the 5K and
10K Run/Walk, the one-mile
Fun Run begins at 9:05 a.m.
All races take place at Briggs
Elementary School, located at
1012
Congaree
Drive,
Florence. Race day registration will be available from
7:30 a.m. until
8:30 a.m.
Included in the McLeod
Sports Medicine Challenge are
the following divisions: 5K
Walk, 5K Run, 10K Run, and 1
Mile Fun Run.
The
McLeod
Sports
Medicine
Challenge
Run/Walk Course is USA
Track and Field Certified. The
course is designed for competitive and recreational athletics. The race technical direction is managed by Greg
Elmore and Carolina Running
Company.
Overall prizes valued at
$75, $50, and $25 will be
awarded to the top three overall male and female winners. A
$100 cash bonus will be
awarded to the male or female
who sets a new course record.
Medals will be awarded for
each age division.
The cost to participate is
$20 if pre-registering (March
13 deadline), $17 for McLeod
Employees,
Military
Personnel,
Track,
Cross
Country and Florence Track
Club Members. Registration
cost on the day of the event is
$25. Cost includes a Run/Walk
T-shirt. The Fun Run cost is $5
for an individual and $10 for a
family.
Stefano’s Italian Restaurant
will provide a post race pasta
meal at the completion of the
race.
The race proceeds benefit
the Geoffrey Kier Memorial
Athletic Excellence Award
Scholarship
Fund.
The
Geoffrey
Kier
Memorial
Scholarship is awarded annually to four college-bound high
school senior athletes who
exhibit excellence in academ-
Let’s keep our public spaces beautiful places
By Terasa M. Lott
Water Resources Agent
Clemson Extension
I hate to be a Debbie
Downer, but some areas of the
Pee Dee have a serious litter
problem. Not a day goes by that
I don’t see at least one piece of
trash where it doesn’t belong.
In fact, seeing only one piece
would be quite remarkable.
From aluminum cans in storm
drains to garbage in ditches to
plastic bags in fields, there is
litter all over the place - and it
sends the message that we
don’t care.
As I sat down to write this
column, I found some interesting research that supports the
importance of beauty in a community. The study found that
perceived beauty or aesthetic
character influences community satisfaction. Aren’t we fortunate the Pee Dee is chock-full of
beautiful places such as
Williamson Park in Darlington,
Kalmia Gardens of Coker
College in Hartsville, and
Lynches River County Park in
Coward? Beauty is not limited
to just parks, gardens, and
nature preserves. It can be
found in a small landscaped
median, a tree lined road, or
even a pretty planting in a parking lot.
It only takes one piece of litter to turn a beautiful place into
an ugly place. But the ugly
appearance is only the tip of
the iceberg. Unsuspecting animals may be sickened from
ingesting trash, mistaking it for
a food item. Discarded fishing
line may entangle a bird, making it unable to move and
obtain food. Drainage infrastructure may become clogged
leading to flooding and hazardous driving conditions.
Litter can even impact our
water quality by serving as a
breeding ground for bacteria.
Then there is the high cost of
cleaning it up.
It doesn’t matter whether
you are young or old, a native
or a transplant, working or
retired. You can make a difference in the community by participating in the 16th annual
Great American Cleanup. Keep
America Beautiful’s Great
American Cleanup is the country’s
largest
community
improvement program that
kicks of each spring and
engages more than 4 million
volunteers in excess of 20,000
communities nationwide. Local
activities will be coordinated by
Keep
Darlington
County
Beautiful and Keep Florence
Beautiful. For information
about Darlington cleanup
events, contact Paula Newton
at 843-398-4810. Information
about Florence cleanup activities can be found on the group’s
website at www.keepflorencebeautiful.org/cleanup.
Even if you’re not up for
spending a little of your free
time picking up someone else’s
mess, you can still help thanks
to a new smartphone app. It’s
called the PalmettoPride Trash
Tracker and it enables you to
report litterbugs, illegal dumpsites, and areas that need attention in all 46 counties of the
state. Don’t have a smartphone? Report what you see to
the Litter Busters Hotline 24
hours a day at 877-7LITTER. By
taking action against litter, we
can keep our public spaces
beautiful places.
Clemson
University
Cooperative Extension Service
offers its programs to people of
all ages, regardless of race, color,
gender, religion, national origin,
disability, political beliefs, sexual orientation, marital or family
status and is an equal opportunity employer.
“I am excited about the
many opportunities that this
grant-funded program provides for our students and for
our community,” said Dr.
Lilkenya Jenkins, principal at
Spaulding Elementary School.
“The program components are
designed not only to support
academic support and attainment of skills that are vital for
success in the 21st century, but
also to strengthen partnerships
among home, school, and community.”
USDA hosts
Rural Energy
for America
Grant workshop
for grades 6 to 12 and postgraduates
located
in
Worcester, Massachusetts.
Their urban setting, diverse
community, and innovative
curriculum provide each student with unique opportunities for self-discovery, academic achievement, and personal empowerment.
About Habitat for
Humanity International
Habitat for Humanity
International’s vision is a
world where everyone has a
decent place to live. Anchored
by the conviction that housing
provides a path out of poverty,
since 1976 Habitat has helped
more than 5 million people
through home construction,
rehabilitation and repairs and
by increasing access to
improved shelter through
products and services. Habitat
also advocates to improve
access to decent and affordable shelter and offers a variety of housing support services
that enable families with limited means to make needed
improvements on their homes
as their time and resources
allow. As a nonprofit Christian
housing organization, Habitat
works in more than 70 countries and welcomes people of
all races, religions and nationalities to partner in its mission.
teen tutors/volunteers who
often provide a positive role
model for them.
ics, athletics, and also possess
strong leadership skills. Male
and female athletes are selected from participating area public and private high schools.
For more information or to
receive registration informa-
tion, call McLeod Sports
Medicine at (843) 777-8167,
or
email
SportsMedicine@McLeodH
ealth.org. On line registration is available at www.carolinarunningco mpany.com.
USDA, Rural Development
offers agricultural producers
and rural small businesses in
South Carolina the opportunity
to reduce their energy consumption with the assistance of
the Rural Energy for America
Program (REAP). REAP grants
can pay for up to 25% of the
cost of doing energy efficiency
improvements to a facility,
building, or a process within
the agricultural operation. The
maximum grant amount for an
energy efficiency project is
$250,000 and the minimum
grant is $1,500. Renewable
energy grants are available for
the purchase, installation and
construction of renewable
energy systems such as biomass, solar, wind, geothermal,
hydropower, hydrogen and
ocean generation. The maximum grant amount for a
renewable energy project is
$500,000 and a minimum
grant is $2,500. Applications
can be filed at any time, but the
awardees are not usually
selected until September.
RD will be holding workshops at the site listed below to
discuss the REAP and to provide application assistance.
Date: March 10, 2015
Time: 9:00 a.m. until 12 p.m.
Location:
York
Tech
Chester Center, Room 209
525 College Place Chester,
SC 29706
Contact: To confirm your
attendance, contact Laura Siple
by telephone: (843) 669-9686
or
by
email:
[email protected]. For
more information, visit our
website: www.rd.usda.gov/sc
PUBLIC SERVICE COMMISSION OF SOUTH CAROLINA
CLERK’S OFFICE
NOTICE OF FILING AND HEARING AND PREFILE TESTIMONY DEADLINES
DOCKET NO. 2015-53-E
Application of Duke Energy Progress, Inc. to Establish a Distributed Energy Resource Program
Duke Energy Progress, Inc. (DEP or the Company) has filed an Application with the Public Service Commission of South
Carolina (Commission) to implement a Distributed Energy Resource Program (DER Program) to accomplish and further the
purposes and goals of the South Carolina Distributed Energy Resource Program (Act 236 or the Act). Act 236 which, in
part, promotes the establishment of a reliable, efficient, and diversified portfolio of distributed energy resources for the
State, permits an electrical utility to apply to the Commission for approval to participate in a DER Program. The Application was filed pursuant to S.C. Code Ann. Section 58-39-130.
The Company’s portfolio of initiatives is designed to increase the capacity of renewable generation located in its service
area from 100 kilowatts (kW), as of January 1, 2015, to approximately 27,000 kW by January 1, 2021. In its Application,
DEP proposed three, new customer initiatives designed to meet the specific requirements set forth in S.C. Code Ann. Section 58-39-130(C)(2): the NEM DER Incentive; the Solar Rebate Program; and the Shared Solar Program. Pages 9, 10, and
11 of the Application contain summaries of these initiatives.
DEP’s Projected Incremental DER Costs, as outlined in Table 3 of its Application, is as follows:
Total
Incremental
Costs
2015
2016
2017
2018
2019
2020
$1,123,438
$1,437,940
$2,125,812
$2,883,557
$3,705,071
$4,152,400
S.C. Code Ann. Section 58-39-150 provides, in part, that the Commission must not approve a DER plan in which the total
incremental costs to be incurred by an electrical utility and recovered from the electrical utility’s South Carolina retail customer classes exceeds the following annual amounts per number of accounts for costs that are incurred on or after January 1,
2014: residential: $12; commercial: $120; and industrial: $1200.
In sum, DEP requests the following relief, in part, from the Commission: Approval of its DER Program as outlined in its
Application; approval to recover costs of the DER Program pursuant to S.C. Code Ann. Sections 58-27-865, 58-39-140 and
58-39-150 through a fixed monthly incremental per-account charge within the fuel cost component of its base rates; approval of the Company’s request to follow deferred accounting with respect to any unrecovered DER incremental costs in
excess of per-account annual cost caps, and to recover such costs, with associated carrying costs, in subsequent periods; and
approval for the authority to modify and supplement its DER Program to accomplish and further the goals of Act 236.
A copy of the company’s application can be found on the Commission’s website at www.psc.sc.gov under Docket No. 201553-E. Additionally, a copy of the application is available from Charles A. Castle, Esquire, Duke Energy Corporation, 550
South Tryon St./DEC45A, Charlotte, North Carolina 28201-1006 and Frank R. Ellerbe III, Robinson McFadden & Moore,
P.C., 1901 Main Street, Suite 1200, Columbia, South Carolina 29202.
PLEASE TAKE NOTICE that a hearing on the above matter has been scheduled to begin on Tuesday, May 19, 2015, at
10:30 a.m., and continuing to May 20th and 21st and further continued after these dates, if necessary, before the Commission in the Commission’s Hearing Room at 101 Executive Center Drive, Saluda Building, Columbia, South Carolina
29210 for the purpose of receiving testimony and evidence from all interested parties.
Any person who wishes to participate in this matter as a party of record should file a Petition to Intervene in accordance
with the Commission’s Rules of Practice and Procedure on or before April 17, 2015. For the receipt of future Commission
correspondence, please include an email address in the Petition to Intervene. Please refer to Docket No. 2015-53-E and
mail a copy to all other parties in this docket. Any person who wishes to testify and present evidence at the hearing
should notify, in writing, the Commission; the Office of Regulatory Staff at 1401 Main Street, Suite 900, Columbia, South
Carolina 29201; and the company at the above address, on or before April 17, 2015. Please refer to Docket No. 2015-53-E.
INSTRUCTIONS TO ALL PARTIES OF RECORD (Applicant, Petitioners, and Intervenors only):
All Parties of Record must prefile testimony with the Commission and with all parties of record. Prefiled Testimony Deadlines: Applicant’s Direct Testimony Due: 3/17/2015; Other Parties of Record Direct Testimony Due: 4/28/2015; Applicant’s Rebuttal Testimony Due: 5/5/2015; and Other Parties of Record Surrebuttal Testimony Due: 5/12/2015. All
Prefiled Testimony Deadlines are subject to the information as posted on www.psc.sc.gov under Docket No. 2015-53-E.
For the most recent information regarding this docket, including changes in scheduled dates included in this Notice, please
refer to www.psc.sc.gov and Docket No. 2015-53-E.
PLEASE TAKE NOTICE that any person who wishes to have his or her comments considered as part of the official
record of this proceeding MUST present such comments in person to the Commission during the hearing.
Persons seeking information about the Commission’s procedures should contact the Commission at (803) 896-5100 or visit
its website at www.psc.sc.gov.
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BOOKINGS REPORT
PAGE 6A | WEDNESDAY MARCH 4, 2015
DARLINGTON COUNTY DETENTION CENTER FEBRUARY 23 THROUGH MARCH 2, 2015
INMATE NAME/AGE/BOOKING OFFENSE
Editor’s note: The booking
report represents a list of persons
arrested given to the media from
the Darlington County Detention
Center under the S.C. Freedom of
Information Act. All people are
presumed innocent until proven
guilty. Please be advised there
are many people with similar
names. If listed here erroneously,
please contact the detention center, which will send us any corrections. If a person is found not
guilty in a court of law, that person may have that printed here
as well by providing court documents to us to that effect.
l Melvin Justin Atkinson, 23,
of 1030 Ashland Rd., Hartsville,
PDC
l Robert Carroway, Jr., 60, of
105 Henry St., Darlington,
Pedest. Under Influence of
Alcohol or Drugs
l Lois Cooper Clark, 59, of
168 Parks St., Patrick, Mal. Inj.
to Pers. Prop <$2000;
Harrassment 2nd Deg.
l Anita Sherlonda Cosom, 37,
of
1527
Converse
Ct.,
Darlington, Breach of Peace
l Darryl Laverne Gregg, 52,
of 1005 S. Sixth St., Hartsville,
Res. Arrest; Viol. of City Ord.
(Drunkeness)
l Valarie Jean Gregory, 31, of
1556 Whippor Rd., Hartsville,
Telephone/Unlawful Use of
Tele.; Mal. Injury to Pers. Prop.
<$2000; Sent. By Court (DUS);
Sent. By Court (Unins. Mot.
Veh.)
l Jonathan Allen Hoover, 26,
of 4334 Stillwater Rd.,
Orangeburg, Forgery less than
$10,000; Petty Larceny <$2000
l
Angelica
Geovoni
McMillian,
26,
of
441
Commanche St. Hartsville, Op.
Mot. Veh. w/o License; Transp.
Alcohol in Mot. Veh. w/Seal
Broken
l Fuquan Marquze Stevens,
19, of 231 Bunche Dr.,
Goldsboro, N.C., Breach of Trust
>$2000 <$10,000
l Sade Oksana Stevens, 17, of
231 Bunche Dr. Goldsboro, N.C.
,
Breach
of
Trust
>$2000<$10,000
l Michelle Cristin Degnan,
29, of 141 Edna St., Darlington,
DUI .08 1st; Open Cont.
Beer/Wine
l Melquan Raheem Depugh,
18, of 2604 Welling Farm Rd.,
Darlington, DUI .08 1st
l Alphonso Akeem Hickman,
25, of 369 Piedmont Rd., Lot 1,
Bishopville, Poss. 28g or Less
Marij. 1st; DUS
l Alphonso Hickmon, 55, of
906 Mondora St., Hartsville,
CHARGES
ABHAN: Assault
and battery, high and
aggravated nature
DUAC: Driving under
unlawful alcohol
concentration
DUI: Driving
under the influence
DUS: Driving
under suspension
CDV: Criminal domestic
violence
CDVHAN: Criminal
domestic violence, high
and aggravated nature
PDC: Public disorderly
conduct
PWID: Possession with
intent to distribute
SPOM: Simple
possession of marijuana
DUS; Poss. 28 g. or Less Marij.
l Steven L. Hicks, 48, of 2265
Robinson View Dr., Hartsville,
Petty Larceny <$2000
l Crystal Renee Lawrence,
34, of 2020 Farmingdale Dr.,
Hartsville,
Petty
Larceny
<$2000
l Angie Lynn Little, 29, of 417
Mustang Rd., Darlington,
Breach of Trust w/Fraud Int.
<$2000; Petty Larceny <$2000
l Regina Marie Lyons, 34, of
2416 W. Old Camden Rd.,
Hartsville, Criminal Sexual
Conduct 2nd Deg.; Contributing
to Delinquency of Minor;
Kidnapping; Bench Warrant
(Larceny)
l Daundre Allen Nero, 17, of
208 B Ave., Darlington,
Violation of City Ordinance
(Disorder. Conduct)
l Rodney Lee Roache, 37, of
1088 Sugar Creek Cir., Florence,
Petty Larceny <$2000
l Dennis Wayne Ashby, 40, of
1849 E. Bobo Newsom Hwy.,
Hartsville,
Petty
Larceny
<$2000, 2 Counts
l Jiovana Antoinette Belfield,
24, of 2202 Hedgepath Ct.,
Lumberton, N.C., Traffic Ice
Crank Crack Cocaine >100 g but
<200 g; Poss. 28g or less Marij.
1st
l Julia ONeal Clark, 31, of
259 Colin King Rd., Patrick, Mal.
Inj. to Pers. Prop. <$2000;
Telephone/Unlawful Use of
Telephone
l Anita Sherlonda Cosom, 37,
of
1527
Converse
St.,
Darlington, Receiving Stolen
Goods <$2000
l Matthew Sinclair Floyd, 24,
of 1912 Lambeth St., Lumber,
N.C., Trafficking Cocaine >10g
<28g 1st; Poss. 28g or less
Marij.
l Justin Kyle Gainey, 31, of
2723 Flushing Covey Dr.,
Hartsville, Assault and Battery
3rd Deg.; Criminal Domestic
Violence 1st Offense
l Caleb Taekwon Hood, 23,
of 513 S. Coit St., Florence,
Shoplifting <$2000
l Patience Elizabeth Martin,
34, of 30428 Hwy 151, McBee,
Resist. Arrest; Shoplifting
<$2000
l Daquan Zavion McCurry,
19, of 101 Elbow Rd., Society
Hill, Assault and Battery 3rd
Deg.
l Kellie Marie Morse, 43, of
1053 N. Gov. Williams Hwy.,
Darlington, Safekeeping
l Mary Louise Napier, 47, of
504 Alexander St., Darlington,
Criminal Domestic Violence 1st
Offense
l Alex Montauro Robinson,
28, of 2235 BeeGee Rd.,
Lumberton, N.C., Trafficking
Cocaine >10g<28g 1st; Poss.
28g or less Marij. 1st
l Woodrow Junior Robinson,
50, of 420 Guess St., Darlington,
PDC
l William Thomas Rogers,
28, of 1910 Lambeth St.,
Lumberton, N.C., Trafficking
Cocaine >10g<28g 1st; DUS;
Poss. 28g or less Marij., 1st
l Damien Nathaniel Wells,
Jr., 25, of 1420 Society Hill Rd.,
Darlington, Poss. Control. Sub in
Sched. I – V 2nd or more; DUS
l Dedrick Lamond Wilson,
35, of 321 Security Dr.,
Hartsville, DUI .08 1st
l Brad Olin Britt, 29, of 409
Racetrack Rd., Darlington,
Pedest. Under Infl. Of Alcohol
orDrugs; Bench Warrant (DUI),
Bench Warrant (DUS)
l Leon Davis, Jr., 43, of 1147
Sandwood Dr., Hartsville, Bench
Warrant
l Earl Dixon, Jr., 57, of 401 E.
Broad St., Darlington, Use of 911
Number Unlawfully
l Shadow Antonio Graham.,
24, of 306 Milling St.,
Darlington,m Poss. Sell Disp.
Stolen
Vehicle
>$2000<$10,000; Drugs/Man.
Dist. Etc. of Cocaine Base 1st;
Fail. to Stop Blue Light
l Taraz Rulion Ham., 34, of
2316 Auntie Dr., Lamar,
Trespassing
l Kinyetta Lashey Lindsey,
24, of 3301 New Hopewell Rd.,
Hartsville, Unlawful Neglect of
Child/Helpless Person
l Mario Sanchez McDaniel,
32, of 601 W. Washington St.,
Hartsville, Bench Warrant
Family Court
l John Willie Peterkin, Jr., 44,
of 3116 Judor Ct., Darlington,
DUS; Unins. Mot. Veh. Fee Viol.
l Renaldo Mandwell Poston,
29, of 605 Patrick Hwy.,
Hartsville, Poss. 28g or Less
Marij 1st; DUS
l Romeo Hilario Rivas, 43, of
620 Spring St., Darlington,
Offense
l Erica Shania Smith, 18, of
116 N. Kim Rd., Florence,
Violation of No Court Order
l Amber Amerson Weaver,
37, of 233 Christmas Tree Rd.,
Lamar, Shoplifting <$2000
l Christina Dorel Williams,
44, of 1227 Hilltop Ave., Aiken,
DUS
l Julius NMN Williamson,
46, of 150 Sally Rd., Darlington,
Bench Warrant Family Court
l James Robert Brigman, 43,
of 1200 Nicholson, Hartsville,
Burglary 1st Dr.; Petty Larceny
<$2000; Mal. Inj. to Real Prop.
<$2000
l Matthew Guest, Jr., 25, of
200 Palmetto Cir., Darlington,
Habitual Traffic Offender; DUS;
Disregard Stop Sign
l
Christopher
Wayne
Hopkins, Jr., 33, of 1816 Bronco
Rd., Darlington, Bench Warrant
(DUS)
l Joyce Marie McCall, 51, of
1033 Hebrew Dunbar Lot 4A,
Bennettsville, DUI .08 1st; Viol.
of City Ord. Traffic Ord.
l Curtis McKnight, 29, of
2804 Redwood Dr., Florence,
Assault/Intent Commit Criminal
Sex. Con. 3rd Deg.
l Cody Vincent Payne, 19, of
709 Sandpiper Dr., Assault and
Battery 3rd Deg.
l Lakeisha Shantee Perkins,
35, of 828 E. Home Ave.,
Hartsville,
Petty
Larceny
<$2000
l Brandon Demario Robinson, 29, of 113 W. Robinson Ct.,
Timmonsville, Manuf. Poss.
Other Sub. Sch. I, II, III WITD
1st; DUS (Lic. Not susp. DUI)
2nd
l Ashley Marie Williams, 23,
of 503 Swift Creek Rd.,
Hartsville, PDC
l Leroy Burgess Jr., 60, of 854
Cashua Ferry Rd., Darlington,
DUI .08 1st
l Edward Linzy Burton, 55,
of 1419 Reed Ct., Florence, DUI
.08 1st, Transp. Alcohol in Mot.
Veh. w/Seal Broken; Open Cont.
Beer/Wine
l John Wesley Cox, 28, of 502
Trinity
Church
Rd.,
Mooreseboro, N.C., DUI .08 1st;
Driv. w/o Lic.
l Stephanie Brene Green, 25,
of 3402 E. Effingham Hwy.,
Effingham, Criminal Domestic
Violence 1st
l Javard Cleondus Hodges,
43, of 523 Chestnut St.,
Darlington, Ent. Premises after
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Mineral Springs Road in
Darlington.
Lewis was wanted for
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and 14. He was pulled over for
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Bad first quarter foils Darlington’s attempt at second straight lower-state championship
By Drake Horton
Contributing Writer
The Darlington Falcons
quest at a second straight state
title appearance came to end
this past Saturday in the
Florence Civic Center, losing to
the Midland Valley Mustangs by
a score of 67-61 in the 3A lowerstate championship.
In a game that Darlington
never led in, it was an abysmal
first quarter that the Falcons
were just never quite able to
overcome.
Behind 20-8 at the end of the
first quarter the Falcons
outscored the Mustangs the rest
of the way 53-47, including 2318 in the fourth quarter, but
that first quarter deficit was just
too much.
“We definitely lost it in the
first quarter,” Darlington boys
head coach Ken Howle said
after the game. “I think we were
trying to win it in the first quarter and we lost it in the first
quarter. We were tight and just
didn’t seem relaxed. That is a
very good club (Midland
Valley), very quick, good size.”
Apart from the bad first
quarter, Darlington was just not
quite on its “A” game against
Midland Valley, missing usually
routine lay-ups, losing the
rebound battle and struggling
mightily from behind the arc.
Coming off the second half
against St. James in the previous game where the Falcons
only made one three-pointer,
Darlington’s cold shooting from
downtown continued against
the Mustangs.
In
a
season
where
Darlington has made more and
shot more three’s than any
other team in the program’s history, the proverbial “law of
averages” saying seemed to
come into effect as the Falcons
appeared unable to do what
made them so successful this
season; hit the three.
Darlington went on a dreadful 3-21 from three-point land
for a lowly 14%. In their last six
quarters of play the Falcons,
who some may have considered
one of the best three-point
shooting teams in the state hit
only a grand total of four threepointers.
The Falcons first threepointer against Midland Valley
did not come till the 2:57 when
Donavan Johnson, a forward
who occasionally shoots the
deep
ball,
connected.
Darlington’s four main threepoint threats in Frankie
Johnson, Tyriq Smith, Marquis
Green and J.J. Jackson were a
combined 2-19.
Still, despite all of that,
Darlington almost found a way
to win.
With nothing going right
and getting behind the “eight
ball” so quickly with that awful
first quarter Darlington showed
everybody why this was its
third straight trip to the lowerstate championship. It did not
fold.
“I have to commend my
guys; they fought back,” Howle
said, reacting on how his team
scratched and clawed its way
back into the game.
Instead of quitting, like some
other teams may have done,
Darlington embraced the chal-
lenge and battled for three
more quarters, even cutting the
Mustangs lead to just two multiple times in the fourth quarter.
The Falcons played its best
basketball from the 1:38 mark
in the third quarter to the 5:04
mark in the fourth quarter.
During that time span
Darlington went on a 15-0 run
and cut the Mustangs lead from
49-32 to 49-47.
In the end though, it was just
not enough. While Darlington
could not make the long distance shot, get that “50/50”
ball, or make that contested,
but makeable lay-up, Midland
Valley did and in the end that
was the difference.
“We had some good looks,”
Howle said, speaking on his
team’s uncharacteristic poor
shooting night. “We just didn’t
knock them down.”
Not making those plays is
not a reflection of this team’s
season, but instead it just brings
into light how difficult it is to
get to this point once, let alone
three straight times like
Darlington did.
“We had a great year,”
Howle said, referring to all that
Darlington accomplished this
season. “This loss will not
define our season and I am real
proud of how they hung in
there and fought to the end and
made a game out of it.”
Darlington, as it has in so
many other games this season,
ended the night with four players in double digits scoring.
Frankie Johnson and Smith led
the way with points, Louis
Richardson had 12 points and
Green finished with 10 points.
Darlington holds off St. James comeback, advances to lower-state
By Drake Horton
Contributing Writer
Robert Bacote, left, and Anthony Fullard right, qualified to compete
in the S.C. State Wrestling Tournament in Anderson Feb. 28.
Two DHS Falcons wrestlers competed
at State Wrestling Tournament
Six Darlington High School
wrestlers competed in the
Lower State qualifier tournament, and two the six Falcons
won the opportunity to compete at the State Wrestling
Tournament at the Anderson
Convention
Center,
in
Anderson on Sat., Feb. 28.
Anthony Fullard, Senior, at
182 lbs., with a record of 28 - 7.
was also a Region Champion in
region Vl 3A. This is his fourth
year wrestling, in addition to
playing football for the Falcons.
Robert Bacote, Junior, at
220 lbs., with a record of 25 –
5, is also a region Champion.
This is Bacote’s second year on
the Falcons Wrestling team; he
also played football.
“The Falcons have not had
a wrestler at the state tournament in the past two years,”
said Head Coach Dean
Fullard.
Both wrestlers finished 5th
in their weight class at States.
“I'm very proud of the hard
work these young men gave
this season to make wrestling
at Darlington special.”
In what turned out to be a
wild shootout, the Darlington
Falcons came out on top and
advanced to its third straight
lower-state championship this
past Wednesday at the
Falcons Nest, defeating the
St. James Sharks 81-77.
The game turned out to be
a tale of two halves for the
Falcons with the first half
showcasing
Darlington’s
shooting prowess and the second demonstrating what it
really means to “live and die
by the three”.
Darlington started the
game out with a bang as
Marquis Green, who led the
team in scoring with 21
points, hit the opening a shot,
a three-pointer from the left
wing and it was as if that set a
fire under the Falcons.
In the first half, Darlington
never let up its shooting, hitting 10 three-pointers and
building a 19-point lead at the
half and looking well on its
way to an easy victory.
“We played a clean first
half,” Darlington boys head
coach Ken Howle said after
the win. “It was about as perfect, as beautiful.”
Then came the second
half.
“The third quarter has
been kind of our bug-a-boo,”
Howle said, describing the
massive change Darlington
had in the second half. “As
clean as we played in the first
half, they (St. James) played
a clean second half.”
Coming out of the half
with all of the momentum on
its side, Darlington scored the
first three-points of the quarter, increasing its lead to 22
points; the largest of the
game and was positioning
itself to close the game out
right there.
That’s when it happened.
That’s when the light switch
came on for St. James, who
was coming off a surprise
upset
of
OrangeburgWilkerson the game before.
With the Falcons leading
57-35 in the early stages of
the third quarter the Sharks
went on a quick 9-0, turning
Darlington’s 22-point lead
into just a 13-point lead.
While still clinging to a 14point lead at the start of the
fourth quarter, it was clear
that St. James was beginning
to find its stroke and with
each shot its confidence grew.
Following Tyriq Smith’s
two-pointer that ran the
Falcons lead back to 19
points, the Sharks Zack
Werba caught fire from the
outside, hitting five threepointers, including four
straight and by the 2:42 St.
James had went on a 22-5 run
and cut the lead to 72-71.
“I’ve never seen a kid get
on a role like that, shooting
the three and it came from
the same spot.” Howle said on
Werba’s hot shooting in the
fourth quarter. “We just didn’t
seem to make good adjustments and that’s on the
coaches maybe we should
have changed up defensively.”
It was at the moment
though Darlington found a
way to answer. After being on
the bench, battling cramps,
Green came back on the
court, draining a three, the
Falcons only three-pointer of
the second half, with 2:15 left
on the clock.
“We put in work every single day to get where we are
now,”
Green
said
on
Darlington’s win over St.
James. “When I went to the
bench I was cramping up.
Coach told me when I got
back in that was my game; so
I had to show them what I was
made of.”
Up 79-77 Darlington’s
Frankie Johnson closed the
door on St. James, making a
lay-up with less than seven
seconds to go following a
combined steal from both
Johnson and Green.
“It was just going through
my head that if I don’t get this
steal they (St. James) could
end up hitting a three and
beating us by one, get a foul,
hit two free throws, tie the
game and go into overtime,”
Johnson said on what was
possibly the biggest play in
the game. “Luckily I came up
with the steal and it helped
seal the deal.”
The Falcons had four players in double digits scoring to
go along with Green’s 21
points. Smith finished with 16
points, Johnson had 14 points
to go along with nine assists
and J.J. Jackson with 11.
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THE NEWS AND PRESS, DARLINGTON, S.C.
A look back: Sherman’s March through the Upper Pee Dee
By Samantha Lyles
Staff Writer
[email protected]
As the Union army of Gen.
William Tecumseh Sherman
blazed a trail of destruction
through the Confederate
south in February and March
of 1865, many homes were
burned, many possessions
stolen, and many lives lost.
Some communities in the
Upper Pee Dee region suffered great indignities at the
hands of greedy Federal foragers, and the echoes of their
terror still reverberate
through family lore in
Cheraw, Society Hill, and
Hartsville.
Sherman’s army built up
bloody momentum after the
burning of Atlanta in
November of 1864, and the
Federals rolled uncontested
to Savannah after a five-week
“March to the Sea.” But razing Georgia did not slake
their thirst for vengeance;
Sherman wrote that his soldiers were eager to punish
South Carolina, as it was the
first state to secede.
“The truth is that the
whole army is burning with
an insatiable desire to wreak
vengeance on South Carolina.
I almost tremble at her fate
but feel that she deserves all
that seems in store for her,”
Sherman wrote in a letter
dated December 24, 1864.
60,000 Union soldiers
moved into South Carolina in
early January of 1865. The
Federals divided into two
columns: the Right Wing
(with the 17th and 15th
Corps) and the Left Wing
(with the 20th and 14th
Corps). During their advance,
the northern army lived off
the land, foraging for food to
feed soldiers and some
30,000 horses and mules.
This often led to confrontations with landowners who
resisted the forcible seizure of
their crops and the butchery
of their livestock.
Residents anticipating the
arrival of Union armies tried
their best to conceal food and
valuables, often burying jewelry and money in barrels
safely away from the main
house. Sometimes those
anticipating siege would
gorge themselves on precious
turkeys, hams, and alcohol to
keep the nutrition and libations from enemy hands.
“Every day we had a real
Christmas dinner,” wrote
Elizabeth Alston Pringle of
Cheraw, who was 19 at the
time of Sherman’s march.
The Federals had to con-
tend with muddy roads,
flooding, and skirting attacks
from Confederate mounted
patrols, but they slogged
toward Cheraw and foragers
(who traveled ahead of the
army) crossed Lynch’s River
on Feb. 26, 1865. After a
mighty struggle through
flooded lowlands, the core of
the northern troops followed
and numerous violent clashes
with Confederates under the
command of Gen. Hardee and
Maj. Gen. Matthew Butler
ensued. Multiple fatalities –
from heavy shelling, mini ball
and cannon fire, and sabre
slashes – occurred before the
Yanks finally claimed Cheraw.
Though under orders to
behave honorably – with
Union Gen. Howard even
banning cursing among his
men – many among the occupying force seized the opportunity for theft. Large quantities of heirloom furniture and
personal treasures had been
shipped to Cheraw from the
lowcountry for safekeeping,
and the Union soldiers plundered these items with gusto.
The Federals withdrew
from Cheraw on March 7,
leaving raided homes, empty
larders, dead horses, and
shallow graves in their wake.
The behavior of many
Union soldiers in this invading force can be traced up the
chain of command to
Sherman himself, who had a
reputation for dealing harshly
with Confederate soldiers and
civilians alike. In one such
instance, a Union forager was
beaten to death near Lynch’s
River, and a southern prisoner named James M. Miller
was executed by firing squad
in retaliation – this was done
in accordance with standing
orders from Gen. Sherman.
Union soldiers camped for
a few days in early March
near the Kelley Farm just outside Hartsville, and though
family members suffered loss
of their horses and mules,
meat, corn, baled cotton, and
personal possessions, the
Federals were evidently kept
in line by their commanding
officer. John Eugene Smith
was a Swiss born soldier
brevetted as a Major General
when he led the 15th Corps
to the Kelley Farm.
When foragers first arrived
on the property, they menaced the family and shot their
dog, but one soldier suggested that the matriarch accompany him to headquarters and
ask for a guard, who then
stood watch and protected
Photo of the Jacob Kelley House courtesy of Bill Segars.
the home from those with a
mind for destruction.
“Mother came back with a
guard, who told her that all
we could put in the house
would be safe. We put some
meat and corn right down on
the floor,” wrote Martha
Kelley, who passed away in
1931.
Maj. Gen Smith did write
of one odd, daring skirmish
during his time in our area.
Near Big Black Creek, a party
of 30 rebel cavalry charged
between the 15th Infantry
Advance and mounted corps,
capturing one Union officer
and killing one soldier. In a
letter dated March 3, 1865,
Smith wrote of the attack:
“It was supposed, until too
late, that they were of our
own men, being dressed in
completed suits of Federal
uniform. I sent what few
mounted men I had with me
in pursuit but did not succeed
in overtaking them.”
Though Sherman’s march
left many towns in ruin and
many homes burned to the
studs, Maj. Gen. Smith left
the 1820-built Kelley home
much as he found it, and the
Jacob Kelley House stands
today as one of the oldest and
most historic homes in
Darlington County.
Union army Maj. Gen John E. Smith
Three receive prestigious McNair Scholarships to FMU
Darlington County Humane Society says,
“Thank you, Chase!”
Chase Fluharty, son of Leighan and Tom Fluharty, recently celebrated
his birthday in a unique way that helped many pets in the area.
He asked for donations for the Darlington County Humane Society
instead of birthday presents this year. He collected an impressive
amount,170 pounds of dog and cat food.
Chase is shown here with one of the animal shelter’s ambassador dogs,
Buddy.
According to the volunteers of the DCHS- and all the pets, “Chase
you are one amazing kid, and we can't thank you enough!”
PHOTO CONTRIBUTED BY DCHS
Elizabeth Goodman of
Mayo High, Aiden Humphrey
of Mullins High, and Corbin
Witt of South Florence High,
receive FMU’s top academic
scholarship award for 201516.
Francis Marion University
has named three new students as McNair Scholars for
the 2015-2016 school year.
Elizabeth Goodman of
Darlington’s Mayo High
School for Math, Science and
Technology;
Aiden
Humphrey of Mullins High
School; and Corbin Witt of
South Florence High School
are the new scholars.
The McNair Scholarship is
FMU’s highest academic
scholarship award. FMU covers the tuition, fees, and
room and board for the scholars. A book allowance is also
provided. The scholarship is
renewable, pending outstanding academic performance and progress, for four
years.
McNair
Scholars
are
selected by a specially designated committee that judges
applicants on their academic
prowess and community
involvement. An essay and
interviews before the committee are part of the selection process.
Elizabeth Goodman, Mayo High
School for Math, Science and
Technology is one of three prestigious McNair Scholarships to
Francis Marion University.
All of the new scholars
are exemplary students.
Humphrey plans to major in
English education, while
Goodman and Witt will both
major in chemistry.
All three of the new scholars distinguished themselves
as leaders of their respective
high schools. Goodman
serves as an ambassador for
Mayo High School, ensuring
freshmen are well adjusted
when they enter the school.
Humphrey is an academic
challenge team standout, and
Aiden Humphrey
Corbin Witt
was awarded a trophy for
“most valuable player” at a
regional competition held at
FMU. Witt made his most significant contribution in student government, serving as
the current student body
president at South Florence
High School.
The McNair Scholarship
was established in the 20092010 school year. The privately endowed scholarship
is named for former South
Carolina Governor Robert E.
McNair, who was instrumental in bringing Francis Marion
into being.
In addition to their regular
studies, McNair Scholars pur-
sue a unique program of
study, which includes extensive study abroad and service
learning
opportunities.
Throughout their academic
careers, McNair Scholars will
be encouraged to participate
in community-centered activities, especially those that
benefit the Pee Dee region.
Francis Marion University,
founded in 1970, is one
of South Carolina's 13
state-supported universities.
As one of the state's six
comprehensive institutions,
FMU prides itself on providing a strong liberal arts
education for its nearly 4,100
students.
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Who are these folks in Darlington County?
Last week’s “Where is it in Darlington County” photo was of the Dixie Cup warehouse off 2nd Street in Darlington, a brick building that confounded many readers!
Readers that guessed correctly were: Billy Foxe, Frances Coxe, Fonta Mumford, Bill Segars, Frank Coefield, and James Powers
Apologies to missing the correct guesses from Ann Easterling, who knew the Williams portrait location, and to Tobye C. Bristow who knew the
location of the upcoming Darlington County Habitat ReStore. We have some sharp eyed readers out there!
This week we have a “who” instead of a “where”- we are fairly certain this is the Darlington Country Club. Can readers guess who the people
are? It was taken from the collection shared on Flickr by John Wells, Sr., and was in the Newsa and Press in 1953.
Please send your guesses to: [email protected] or call 393-3811. Good luck!
Aboe: Local performers warm up the audience at the Feb. 7th concert. Below, l - r: Carolina Crossroads and Flatland Express.
Bluegrass returns to Darlington County
Live bluegrass fans in the Pee Dee get a double treat in March
with two great events.
First, the South Carolina Southeastern Bluegrass Association
brings bluegrass to the Music Hall in Darlington on March 7th as
part of their new monthly concerts, always held the first
Saturday of the month at their new location at the Music Hall in
Darlington.
Performing this Saturday night will be Flatland Express, a five
member band from South Carolina, the 2013 Winner of The
Little Roy and Lizzy Band Competition. Members include Marty
Carrigg, Hugh Fanning,
Lewis Rogers, & Katie
Miller. Also performing
will be Florence County’s
own Carolina Crossroads.
Doors open at 4:00
p.m. and performances
begin at 5:00 p.m.
In the past, concerts
were held the 1st
Saturday of every month
at Lynches River County
Park. If you play an
instrument, bring it along
and join the fun.
Pee Dee Catholic Productions
and Knights of Columbus Council 5194
presents
Mystery Theatre/Dinner Benefit
An evening or “Who did it?”
while dining on a 3-course Italian meal.
Kevin O’Brien, guest performer
St. Anthony’s Catholic Church,
2536 W. Hoffmeyer Rd., Florence, SC
Saturday, March 14, 2015
Doors open at 6:30 p.m.;
First course served at 7 p.m.
Tickets: $40
For tickets contact Larry Hancock at (843)230-9478
or visit online at www.peedeecatholicproductions.com
CROSSWORD
Across
1. "A Nightmare on
___ Street"
4. Not honored
10. "A jealous mistress": Emerson
13. Certain surgeon's "patient"
14. Sartre novel
15. ___ constrictor
16. Face-to-face
exam
17. Flowering
plant's reproductive organ
18. Certain digital
watch face, for
short
19. Fir tree seed
producers
21. Australian runner
23. "Come in!"
24. Weightlifting
maneuver
27. "I" problem
28. Bull markets
31. Of more dubious character
32. Note prolongation
34. Bamboozles
35. Unwanted item
(2 wds)
38. Lentil curry
39. Sudden outburst (hyphenated)
40. Logarithmic
unit of sound
intensity
42. "To ___ is
human ..."
43. Crumb
46. One who twists
threads
47. "M*A*S*H" role
49. Baby carrier?
50. Telephone circuit connecting
multiple subscribers (2 wds)
54. Elephant's
weight, maybe
56. Masked man
with a stick
58. Keats, for one
59. "That's ___ ..."
60. Chronicles
61. Colors
62. Oolong, for one
63. Wish undone
64. Balaam's
mount
Down
1. Astray
2. Shack (hyphenated)
3. Donnybrook
4. So unusual as to
be surprising
5. Indian bread
6. "No problem!"
7. Federal agency
for mail delivery
(abbrev.)
8. Formerly known
as
9. Lead sulfide
10. Ritual hand
washing
11. ___ v. Wade
12. Bit
13. Pith hat
20. Salad oil holder
22. Like the Marx
Brothers
24. Woodworking
tool
25. Copper
26. "48___"
29. Favor
30. Common
sense?
31. About 1.3 cubic
yards
32. Entering a legl
document into
public record
33. C.S.A. state
(abbrev.)
35. "That was
close!"
36. Main house on
a ranch (Spanish)
37. "Faster!"
38. "Silent Spring"
subject (abbrev.)
41. Pauper
43. Loathsome
44. Wife of a rajah
(pl.)
45. Allowances for
waste after deduction for tare
48. Beginning
50. Qualm
51. Apple spray
52. Anger, with
"up"
53. Makeup, e.g.
54. "Sesame Street"
watcher
55. "___ to Billie
Joe"
57. "___ moment"
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Center Theater March 27, 28 and 29 - an entire weekend of
events featuring guitar and banjo contests and concerts throughout the weekend. See more at www.renofest.com
Bluegrass music fans, you’ll love March in Darlington County!
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community
PETS Of THE WEEk
interested in preserving the
Pee Dee’s rich African –
American heritage. Topics will
include family history, church
history, organizational and
institutional history, and the
preservation of historical
cemeteries and buildings.
Volunteers will be available at
the Hartsville Genealogical
Research Library (the Old
Hartsville Train Depot, 114
South Fourth Street) after the
workshop from 1:00 – 4:00
p.m. to assist attendees with
research topics and problems.
For additional info., call 843779-5440 .
Kentucky: GO-GO Girl! I'm fun and fabulous and
ready to get this party rock-ing!! Playful and super
snuggly, when I’m done mixing and mingling with my
doggy and people friends, sun bathing is at the top of
my list; having my ears scratched and neck massaged a
close runner up. I'm ready to make you feel loved, and
as a bonus, I will also help keep you in motion and in
shape! 3-4 yr old; female; no cats, please.
France: A happy and waggy-tailed girl, folks declare I
make for a fun play date so be prepared for action! I
never meet a stranger, and after playtime I will make
myself comfortable snuggling right by your side as we
enjoy some quiet down-time. Sporting a lovely, milk
chocolate colored jacket, I have a lot of "lab" in me. A
home loaded with more sturdy kids and plenty "to do"
would perfectly suit my style! 2 years old, female; lab
mix.
The
Darlington County Humane Society is located 0.5 miles
from Darlington Raceway off Highway 151 in Darlington.
15th Annual Cavalier
Pride Auction
All are invited to attend the
15th Annual Cavalier Pride
Auction at Robert E Lee
Academy in Bishopville on
March 7th; food served 5-7
p.m., bidding begins at 5:30
p.m. Silent & Live Auction.
Tickets are $15 in advance or
$20 at the door. Event sponsored by PTO for school
improvements.
Have you lost or found a pet?
If you have lost or found a pet, go online to www.darlingtonhumane.org and click on the
link Lost/ Found Pets. You will be directed to the www.thelostpets.com Web site where
you can register your missing pet.
You will be able to provide a detailed description of your missing pet, as well as attach a photo.
Upon registering your lost pet, an e-mail alert will be sent to the Darlington Shelter’s e-mail
address. This will allow the Shelter staff to recognize your lost pet should it arrive at the facility.
Area Happenings
March 4 - 10
Weekly events:
Story Time at the
Library
Darlington Library:
Preschool/Toddler Story Time
Thursdays at 10 a.m. Info:
(843) 398-4940 ext. 305.
Hartsville Memorial
Library: Tuesdays at 10 a.m.
Info: (843) 332-5115 ext. 7.
Society Hill Library:
Thursdays at 11:00 a.m. Info:
(843) 378-0026
Lamar Library:
Thursdays at 11:30 a.m. Info:
326-5524
Library Youth
Programs:
843-496-3415.
Mommy & Me
Baby Art
House of Refuge
Benefit at Taki’s
Restaurant
Daylight Savings
Time Begins March
8th
Join Jenny Altman of
Artbug Studio for Mommy &
Me Baby Art, an art and sensory exploration for babies and
toddlers, from 10:45 to 11:30
a.m. on Wednesday mornings
in March at the Harmon
Baldwin Recreation Center,
300 Sanders St., Darlington.
Cost: $15 per class.
Appropriate for ages 3 months
to 5 years old. Dads, grands,
etc. welcome too! Call 843250-4592 to register.
March 4: Rainbow Play;
March 11: Lucky Clover;
March 18: Gold & Glitter;
March 25: Where the Wind
Blows.
Enjoy a delicious lunch at
Taki’s Restaurant in Darlington
on Wednesday, March 4th
from 11:00 a.m. – 2:00 p.m. to
help support the House of
Refuge, Refuge Outreach
Ministry of Darlington. Tickets
are available at Annie’s on
Pearl Street, and other locations in Darlington for $7; dinner to include: chicken bog,
candy yams, string beans,
drink and roll. The House of
Refuge works to help victims
of domestic violence in
Darlington. For more information, call director Tonya
Flowers at: 843-624-3214.
Turn your clocks one-hour
forward “spring ahead” and
please test/replace the batteries on all the smoke alarms in
your home.
Breakfast at the Y
Women in Business
Networking Event
Darlington Tuesdays at 4:00
p.m. 1st: Game Day 2nd: Meet
Someone New Day 3rd: Kid's
Cook Day 4th: Craft Day Any
month with a 5th: Old School
Movie Day
Lamar Family Movie Day:
Tuesdays 4:00 p.m. Youth
Program: Thursday at 4:00
p.m. 1st: Meet Someone New
Day 2nd: Game Day 3rd: Kid's
Cook 4th: Craft Day Any
month with a 5th: Old School
Movie Day
Thursday, March 5th, the
Hartsville Family YMCA will
host a breakfast fundraiser
from 7-9 a.m., to benefit the
American Cancer Society Relay
For Life of Darlington County.
Menu includes choice of Grits
or Pancakes, sausage and eggs
all for a donation of $5. Free
delivery avail within Hartsville
for orders of 6 or more. Call
843-383-4547. Event takes
place at the YMCA, 111 E.
Carolina Ave, Hartsville.
The first in the 2015 series
of Women in Business by the
Greater Hartsville Chamber of
Commerce Networking event
will be March 5, 5:30 p.m. to
7:00 p.m. hosted by Duke
Energy in the Coker Drawing
Room. This “business after
hours” - type networking event
will focus on stress and time
management. Join the Women
In Business Facebook group, or
call the Chamber for more
information: 843- 332-6401
Crochet & Knit Club
at the Library
East Sandhills
District Meeting
Kappa Delta Sorority
Shamrock N' Run
The Kalmia Garden Study
Club will play host to the East
Sandhills District meeting on
Thursday, March 5, at
Darlington Country Club from
9 a.m. to 2 p.m. Garden club
members from across the Pee
Dee region. Cost is $20 for
non-members and $15 for
GCSC Federated Clubs and
Members. For information, call
Myra Bumgarner at 843-3937302.
Get ready for the Shamrock
N' Run on March 7, 2015 starting at the Fitness World Gym
coed location at 902 2nd Loop
Rd. in Florence benefit 5k &
fun run for Durant Children's
Center is stroller friendly and
open to all ages. Don't forget to
Shamrock your outfit out!
Bring out the green and go
wild! 8:00 a.m. check- in;
9:00 a.m. race begins. Awards
for all ages.
BBQ Fundraiser for
Logan Gause
Seeking….Searching
….Found
Please show your support
for Logan Gause, a young lady
of Darlington battling cancer
since age 8. All proceeds will
help her family with medical
expenses. BBQ Thursday,
March 5th 11 a.m. – 2 p.m., $8
a plate, eat-in or carry out,
delivery for 10 or more plates.
Southside Free Will Baptist
Church, 134 W. McIver Rd.,
Darlington. For more info, call
A free African – American
Genealogical Workshop will be
held on Saturday, March 7
from 10:00 a.m. – 12:30 p.m.
at the Hartsville Memorial
Library, 147 West College
Avenue. Dr. Daniel Moses, a
native of Hartsville, will be the
featured speaker. Other speakers will include Renee BrownBryant and Johnny Andrews.
This workshop is for those
Bring along some yarn,
knitting needles, and crochet
hooks and create and make
new friends!
Lamar: each Monday at
4:30 p.m. (843) 326-5524
Society Hill: each Friday
from 2-4 pm (843) 378-0026
Darlington: 2nd Friday of
the month 10 a.m. - noon
(843) 398-4940
Hartsville: “The Stitchers”
group meets the 1st & 3rd
Mondays and 2nd & 4th
Thursdays at 5 pm.
Pee Dee SCORE
Pee Dee SCORE (Service
Corps of Retired Executives)
offers Free confidential counseling to America's small business, serving Darlington,
Florence and surrounding
areas. Existing and start-up
businesses can schedule an
appointment by calling the
Hartsville Chamber of
Commerce at 843-332-6401.
Alcoholics
Anonymous
Alcoholics Anonymous will
hold an open meeting of big
book and traditions studies
weekly from 7 - 8 p.m.
Thursdays at Trinity United
Methodist Church on Pearl
Street. Use Orange Street
entrance. Info: (843) 3956897.
Attend the 19th Annual
Johannes Kolb Archaeology
and Education Project from
March 9-14, 16-20 at the Great
Pee Dee River Heritage
Preserve, and help S.C. DNR
celebrate nearly two decades
of archaeological investigation
in the Pee Dee by volunteering
or visiting the site. Saturday,
March 14, 9 a.m. to 4 p.m., the
public is invited to tour the
excavations at the Johannes
Kolb Site. Excavations will take
place at the site on March 914, 16-20 from 9 a.m. until 4
p.m. Contact Meg Gaillard,
S.C. Department of Natural
Resources (DNR) Heritage
Trust archaeologist, at (803)
528-1455 or e-mail
[email protected].
Lamar Town Council
Lamar Town Council will
meet March 9th at 5 p.m. the
second Monday of the month
at town hall.
School Board
School District Board of
Education will meet March 9th
at 6 p.m. the second Monday
of the month in the
board/community conference
room at the Darlington County
School District Administrative
Annex I in Darlington.
Parkinson's Disease
Support Group
A meeting of the Pee Dee
area Parkinson's Disease
Support Group will be held
Tuesday, March 10, between
5:30 pm and 6:30 pm. The
meeting at 121 E Cedar Street,
Florence is open to people
with Parkinson's, caregivers,
family, and friends. The group
meets the second Tuesday of
each month. For more information call 843-673-0854 or
email: [email protected]
Cancer Support Group will
meet Tuesday, March 10 at
7:00 p.m., at Cornerstone
Baptist Church, 213 N.
Marquis Hwy/Hwy15 By-Pass,
next door to Pee Dee Fleet
Service. We will celebrate St.
Patrick’s Day with some silly
games of Bingo. To donate
prizes, please bring to the
meeting. Spouses, caregivers
and anyone interested in cancer support are welcome to
attend. Causal dress will be
our attire, don’t forget to wear
green! Light refreshments will
be served.
Hartsville City
Council Meeting
City Council holds their regular council meeting on March
10th on the second Tuesday of
each month at 6 p.m. in
Council Chambers, found on
the first floor of City Hall, 100
E. Carolina Ave. Notification of
special meetings is provided at
least 24 hours in advance, and
agendas are posted in the
alcove outside of Council
Chambers. Work sessions are
held prior to the meeting, at 6
p.m. in Council Chambers. No
action is taken at work sessions.
Society Hill Town
Council Meeting
The Society Hill Town
Council will hold their monthly meeting on March 10th and
the second Tuesday of each
month. All monthly meetings
will be held at 6:30 p.m. at
Town Hall of Society Hill 280
South Main Street.
March 11 - 17
course Italian meal! Doors
open at 6:30 p.m., first course
served at 7 p.m. Tickets: $40.
For tickets, contact Larry
Hancock at 843-230-9478.
HSCCA: Mithril –
Irish Folk Music
HCCA presents Mithril –
Irish Folk Music at the Watson
Theater, Elizabeth Boatwright
Coker Performing Arts Center,
Coker College on Monday
March 16 – 7:30 p.m. An exotic
musical journey to Ireland,
Scotland, and beyond. Hailing
from Mobile, Alabama, Mithril
delivers Celtic Music that
reaches into American folk,
classical, rock and World
Music territory with a fun and
free spirit. The four musicians
perform on a wide array of
instruments, including Irish
flute, fife, Celtic harp, fiddle,
guitar and percussion. A great
warm-up for your St. Patrick’s
Admission is $25 for adults
and free for students under 18
or with a Coker ID.
March 18 - 24
Darlington
Professional Women
Darlington Professional
Women (DPW) will meet on
March 18, and the 3rd
Wednesday of each month at
noon at the Darlington
Country Club. DPW is an association for businesswomen in
the Pee Dee Area, with a focus
in Darlington County, allowing
members to share lunch
together, enjoy a presentation,
and network with other professional women. Meetings are
generally one hour in length.
To learn more, visit their
Facebook page, Darlington
Professional Women.
Alcohol & Drug
Citizens Advisory
American Legion
Post 13
American Legion Post 13 of
Darlington meets March 12,
the second Thursday of each
month at the Post on Harry
Byrd Highway next to the
South Carolina National Guard
Armory. A meal is served at
6:00 p.m. with a monthly
meeting that follows. The
nation's largest Veterans
organization invites its members, eligible Veterans, and
active National Guard/Reserve
personnel to attend.
DHS Falcon Golf
Tournament
The Darlington Falcon Golf
Tournament will be held
March 13th at the Darlington
Country Club; lunch at 12
noon, shotgun start at 1:00
p.m. 4 -man captain’s choice ,
$200 per team. Entry fees
must be in by March 6th. Sign
at the pro shop at Darlington
Country Club. For more info.:
Stanley Goodwin, Head Golf
Coach, or Phil Jones, Athletic
Director, at 843-398-2791.
Mystery Theater/
Dinner Benefit
The Pee Dee Catholic
Productions and Knights of
Columbia Council 5194 presents Mystery Theater/Dinner
Benefit at St. Anthony’s
Catholic Church, 2536 W.
Hoffmeyer Rd., Florence on
Saturday, March 14th.
An evening of “Who did it?”
while dining on a delicious 3-
Alcohol & Drug Citizens
Advisory Committee will meet
March 19 at 4:00 p.m. at the
Rubicon facility at 510 E.
Carolina Ave., Hartsville. All
meetings open to the public for
more info: 332-4156.
9th Annual Heart
Celebration at CRC
The 9th Annual Heart
Celebration presenting the
2015 Vision Baby of the Year
Contest, the 41st Annual King
and Queen of Hearts Pageant,
and My Heart – My Child
Event on Saturday, March 21,
at 5:00 p.m., CRC Vision
Center, 302 Pearl Street,
Darlington. The theme is “A
Caring World for Children”.
Application deadline is March
7, 2015. For more info., contact: Mrs. Wilhelmina P.
Johnson, (843) 393-9762 or
(843) 395-0431.
Kalmia Gardens
Oyster Roast
Come enjoy some wonderful S.C. Low Country Oysters
at the annual Kalmia Gardens
Oyster Roast Fundraiser on
Saturday March 21, 2015 from
4-7 p.m. Along with SC
Oysters there will be lots of
appetizers, soups, desserts,
wine, beer, music by Todd
Norris and more!
Tickets are available for a
$35 donation by calling
843.383.8145. Advance ticket
purchase only please.
DARLINGTON
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PACKING COMPANY
Al-Anon Meetings
Al-Anon will meet Thursday
evenings at 6 p.m. at St. Luke
Church United Methodist
Church Parlor, 302 Dunlap Dr.,
Hartsville. The purpose is to
help families and friends of
alcoholics recover from the
effects of living with the problem drinking of a relative or
friend. Info: www.al-anon-alateen.org. 843-992-2981.
19th Annual
Johannes Kolb
Archaeology and
Education Project
Darlington County
Cancer Support
Group Meeting
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NOTICE TO CREDITORS
OF ESTATES
All persons having claims
against the following estates
MUST file their claims on
#371ES with
the
Form
Probate Court of Darlington
County, the address of which is
Room 208 Courthouse, One
Public Square, Darlington, SC
29532,
within
eight(8)
months after the date of the
first publication of this Notice
to Creditors or within one (1)
year from date of death,
whichever is earlier (SCPC 623-801, et seq.), or such persons
shall be forever barred as to
their claims. All claims are
required to be presented in
written statements on the prescribed form (FORM #371ES)
indicating the name and the
address of the claimant, the
basis of the claim, the amount
claimed, the date when the
claim will become due, the
nature of any uncertainty as to
the claim and a description of
any security as to the claim.
Estate: Lillie Bell Gee
Date of Death: 1/15/2015
Case
Number:
2015ES1600062
Representative:
Personal
Henry Leander Gee, Jr
Address: 1257 1/2 Whitehall
Shores Rd., Florence, SC
29501
(31p3 leave in thru 3-4-15)
NOTICE TO CREDITORS
OF ESTATES
#371ES with
the
Form
29532,
within
eight(8)
Estate: Betty Snyder AKA Betty
Lou Moore Snyder
Number:
Case
2015ES1600066
Representative:
Personal
Karen S Lane
Address: 2610 Avent Street,
Florence, SC 29505
NOTICE TO CREDITORS
OF ESTATES
#371ES with
the
Form
within
eight(8)
29532,
Estate: Alice R Shaw
Case
Number:
2015ES1600067
Representative:
Personal
Susan S Reynolds
Address: 1128 Harmony Hall
Dr., Darlington, SC 29540
NOTICE TO CREDITORS
OF ESTATES
#371ES with
the
Form
within
eight(8)
29532,
Estate: Judy K Haenni
Case
Number:
2015ES1600063
Personal
Representative:
Edwin Haenni
Address: 1103 Pine Lake Dr.,
NOTICE TO CREDITORS
OF ESTATES
Form
#371ES with
the
29532,
within
eight(8)
Estate: Lucia Ann Ross
Wingate
Case
Number:
2015ES1600071
Representative:
Personal
Kimberly Michelle Wingate
Address: 825 N Springville
Road, Darlington, SC 29540
NOTICE TO CREDITORS
OF ESTATES
#371ES with
the
Form
within
eight(8)
29532,
Estate: Faye Smothers AKA
Faye Lafferty Smothers
Number:
Case
2015ES1600075
Personal
Representative:
Thomas F Smothers
Address: 105 Camellia Drive,
Beech Island, SC 29842
NOTICE TO CREDITORS
OF ESTATES
#371ES with
the
Form
29532,
within
eight(8)
Estate: Betty King Bryant
Number:
Case
2015ES1600079
Representative:
Personal
Vivian Dawn King
Address: 1501 Lucas Circle,
NOTICE TO CREDITORS
OF ESTATES
#371ES with
the
Form
29532,
within
eight(8)
Estate: Harolette Bess Allen
Number:
Case
2015ES1600077
Personal
Representative:
Dawnwin Howard Allen
Address: 2325 E. Home
Avenue, Hartsville, SC 29550
NOTICE TO CREDITORS
OF ESTATES
Form
#371ES with
the
29532,
within
eight(8)
Estate: Gladys S Melton
Case
Number:
2015ES1600081
Personal Representative: Ernie
Laddie Dutton
Address: 627 Ascot Drive,
Florence, SC 29501
NOTICE
OF APPLICATION
Notice is hereby given that
Palmetto Grocery and Grill
LLC intends to apply to the
LEGAL NOTICES
South Carolina Department of
Revenue for a license/permit
that will allow the sale and on
premises consumption of beer
and wine at 2192 Ebenezer Rd,
Florence, SC 29501. To object
to the issuance of this
permit/license, written protest
must be postmarked no later
than March 6, 2015. For a
protest to be valid, it must be in
writing, and should include
the following information:
(1) the name, address and
telephone number of the person filing the protest;
(2) the specific reasons
why the application should be
denied;
(3) that the person protesting is willing to attend a hearing (if one is requested by the
applicant);
(4) that the person protesting resides in the same county
where the proposed place of
business is located or within
five miles of the business; and,
(5) the name of the applicant and the address of the
premises to be licensed.
Protests must be mailed to:
S.C. Department of Revenue,
PO Box
125,
Attn: ABL,
Columbia, SC 29214; or faxed
to: (803) 896-0110.
AMENDED LIS PENDENS
(NON-JURY MORTGAGE
FORECLOSURE)
STATE OF SOUTH CAROLINA
COUNTY OF DARLINGTON
IN THE COURT OF COMMON
PLEAS
Case No. 2013-CP-16-0986
U.S. BANK NATIONAL ASSOCIATION, AS TRUSTEE OF
THE SECURITY NATIONAL
MORTGAGE LOAN TRUST
2006-2,
Plaintiff,
v.
THE ESTATE OF ROSA M.
HICKSON, HER HEIRS, PERSONAL REPRESENTATIVES,
SUCCESSORS,
ASSIGNS,
SPOUSES AND CREDITORS,
AND ALL OTHERS CLAIMING
ANY RIGHT, TITLE OR INTEREST IN THE REAL
ESTATE KNOWN AS 617
DELAWARE ROAD, FLORENCE, SOUTH CAROLINA,
ANY UNKNOWN ADULTS OR
PERSONS IN THE MILITARY
SERVICE OF THE
UNITED STATES OF AMERICA, BEING A CLASS DESIGNATED AS JOHN DOE, ANY
UNKNOWN MINORS OR PERSONS UNDER A LEGAL DISABILITY, BEING A
CLASS DESIGNATED AS
RICHARD ROE, JIMMY HICKSON, MARTHA ANN HICKSON, ROSA M. BIRCH, JIMMIE HICKSON, WILLIE HICKSON, LISA HICKSON, LEROY
HICKSON, CHASE MORTGAGE BROKERS, INC. AND
CITIFINANCIAL, INC.,
Defendants.
NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN
THAT an action has been or
will be commenced in this
Court upon the Complaint of
the above-named Plaintiff
against the above-named
Defendants for the foreclosure
of a certain mortgage of real
estate given by Rosa M.
Hickson and Jimmy to Chase
Mortgage Brokers, Inc., dated
November 23, 1998 and
recorded on December 4, 1998
in the Office of the Register of
Deeds for Darlington County,
in Book M367 at Page 230
(hereafter referred to as the
"Mortgage").
Subsequently, Chase Mortgage
Brokers, Inc., assigned the
Note and Mortgage to
Associates Home Equity
Services, Inc., by Assignment
dated on or about June 28,
1999 and recorded July 12,
1999 in the Office of the
of
Deeds
for
Register
Darlington County in Book
M410 at Page 289.
Subsequently, Citifinancial
Mortgage Company, Inc., a
New York Corporation f/k/a
Associates Home Equity
Services, Inc. assigned the
Note and Mortgage to
Mortgage
Electronic
Registration Systems, Inc., by
Assignment dated on or about
February 1, 2002 and recorded March 18, 2002 in the
Office of the Register of Deeds
for Darlington County in Book
M635 at Page 136.
Subsequently,
Mortgage
Electronic
Registration
Systems, Inc. assigned the
Note and Mortgage to U.S.
Bank National Association, as
Trustee of the Security
National Mortgage Loan Trust
2006-2.
The description of the premises covered and affected by the
Mortgage and by the foreclosure action is described as follows:
All that certain piece, parcel or
lot of land together with all
improvements thereon, situate, lying and being in the
County of Darlington, State of
South Carolina, shown and
designated as Lot 20 on a map
of Crestview Subdivision made
by W.R. Banks, R.S. dated
August 4, 1960, recorded in
Darlington County Plat Book
31, at page 203 and
being
more particularly shown as
bounded on the North by portions of Lots 29 and 30 whereon it measures 100 feet; on the
East by Lot 21, whereon it
measures 200 feet; on the
South by Delaware Drive,
whereon it fronts and measurers 100 feet, and on the West
by Lot 19 whereon it measures
200 feet.
This being the same property
conveyed to Rosa M. Hicks by
deed of Olin Creel dated
December 28, 1987 and
recorded in the Office of the
Clerk of Court for Darlington
County in Deed Book 922 at
page 655.
Respectfully submitted,
____________
Larry D. Cohen
Larry D. Cohen, LLC
Attorney at Law
P.O. Box 30547
Charleston, South Carolina
29417
Tel. (843) 225-4445
Fax (843) 225-2009
ATTORNEY FOR PLAINTIFF
March 5, 2014
AMENDED SUMMONS
PLEAS
Case No. 2013-CP-16-0986
MORTGAGE LOAN TRUST
2006-2,
Plaintiff,
v.
HICKSON, HER HEIRS, PERSONAL REPRESENTATIVES,
ASSIGNS,
SUCCESSORS,
SPOUSES AND CREDITORS,
AND ALL OTHERS CLAIMING
ANY RIGHT, TITLE OR INTEREST IN THE REAL
ESTATE KNOWN AS 617
ANY UNKNOWN ADULTS OR
PERSONS IN THE MILITARY
SERVICE OF THE
UNITED STATES OF AMERICA, BEING A CLASS DESIGNATED AS JOHN DOE, ANY
UNKNOWN MINORS OR PERSONS UNDER A LEGAL DISABILITY, BEING A
CLASS DESIGNATED AS
RICHARD ROE, JIMMY HICKSON, MARTHA ANN HICKSON, ROSA M. BIRCH, JIMMIE HICKSON, WILLIE HICKSON, LISA HICKSON, LEROY
HICKSON, CHASE MORTGAGE BROKERS, INC. AND
CITIFINANCIAL, INC.,
Defendants.
TO
THE
DEFENDANTS
ABOVE NAMED:
YOU ARE HEREBY SUMMONED and required to
appear and defend by answering the Amended Complaint in
this action, of which a copy is
herewith served upon you,
and to serve a copy of your
Answer to the Amended
Complaint upon the subscriber
at his address, Larry D. Cohen,
LLC, Attorney at Law, P.O. Box
30547, Charleston, South
Carolina 29417, within thirty
(30) days after the 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 Amended
Complaint within the time
specified above, or otherwise
appear and defend, the
Plaintiff in this action will
apply to the Court for the relief
demanded in the Amended
Complaint, and judgment by
default will be rendered
against you for the relief
demanded in the Amended
Complaint.
Respectfully submitted,
____________
Larry D. Cohen
Larry D. Cohen, LLC
Attorneys at Law
P.O. Box 30547
29417
Tel. (843) 225-4445
Fax (843) 225-2009
March 5, 2014
NOTICE OF FILING
PLEAS
Case No. 2013-CP-16-0986
MORTGAGE LOAN TRUST
2006-2,
Plaintiff,
v.
HICKSON, DECEASED, HER
HEIRS PERSONAL REPRESENTATIVES, SUCCESSORS,
ASSIGNS, SPOUSES AND
CREDITORS, AND ALL OTHERS CLAIMING ANY RIGHT,
TITLE OR INTEREST IN THE
REAL ESTATE KNOWN AS 617
ANY UNKNOWN ADULTS IN
THE MILITARY SERVICE OF
THE UNITED STATES OF
AMERICA, BEING A CLASS
DESIGNATED AS JOHN DOE,
ANY UNKNOWN MINORS OR
PERSONS UNDER A LEGAL
DISABILITY, BEING A CLASS
DESIGNATED AS RICHARD
ROE, JIMMY HICKSON A/K/A
JIMMIE HICKSON, MARTHA
ANN HICKSON, ROSA M.
HICKSON, WILLIE HICKSON,
LISA HICKSON, LEROY HICKSON, DYLAN MORTGAGE
INCORPORATED
F/K/A
CHASE MORTGAGE BROKERS, INC. AND CFNA
RECEIVABLES (SC), INC.
F/K/A CITIFINANCIAL, INC.
F/K/A ASSOCIATES HOME
EQUITY SERVICES, INC.,
Defendants.
NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN
that the Amended Lis
Pendens, Amended Civil Cover
Sheet, Amended Summons
and Amended Complaint in
this action were filed in the
Office of the Clerk of Court for
Common Pleas for Darlington
County, South Carolina on
April 8, 2014.
_____________
Larry D. Cohen
Larry D. Cohen, LLC
Attorneys at Law
P.O. Box 30547
29417
Tel. (843) 225-4445
Fax (843) 225-2009
December 23, 2014
NOTICE OF APPOINTMENT
OF GUARDIAN AD LITEM
NISI
PLEAS
Case No. 2013-CP-16-0986
MORTGAGE LOAN TRUST
2006-2,
Plaintiff,
v.
HICKSON, DECEASED, HER
HEIRS PERSONAL REPRESENTATIVES, SUCCESSORS,
ASSIGNS, SPOUSES AND
CREDITORS, AND ALL OTHERS CLAIMING ANY RIGHT,
TITLE OR INTEREST IN THE
REAL ESTATE KNOWN AS 617
ANY UNKNOWN ADULTS IN
THE MILITARY SERVICE OF
THE UNITED STATES OF
AMERICA, BEING A CLASS
DESIGNATED AS JOHN DOE,
ANY UNKNOWN MINORS OR
PERSONS UNDER A LEGAL
DISABILITY, BEING A CLASS
DESIGNATED AS RICHARD
ROE, JIMMY HICKSON A/K/A
JIMMIE HICKSON, MARTHA
ANN HICKSON, ROSA M.
HICKSON, WILLIE HICKSON,
LISA HICKSON, LEROY HICKSON, DYLAN MORTGAGE
INCORPORATED
F/K/A
CHASE MORTGAGE BROKERS, INC. AND CFNA
RECEIVABLES (SC), INC.
F/K/A CITIFINANCIAL, INC.
F/K/A ASSOCIATES HOME
EQUITY SERVICES, INC.,
Defendants.
TO: THE DEFENDANTS
NAMES
AND
HEREIN,
ADDRESSES
UNKNOWN,
INCLUDING ANY THEREOF
WHO MAY BE MINORS,
IMPRISONED
PERSONS,
INCOMPETENT PERSONS,
UNDER OTHER LEGAL DISABILITY OR IN THE MILITARY SERVICE, IF ANY,
WHETHER RESIDENTS OR
NON-RESIDENTS OF SOUTH
CAROLINA AND TO THE
NATURAL, GENERAL, TESTAMENTARY GUARDIAN OR
COMMITTEE, OR OTHERWISE, AND TO THE PERSON
WITH WHOM THEY MAY
RESIDE, IF ANY THERE BE:
PLEASE TAKE NOTICE that a
Motion for an order appointing Kimberly R. Thompson,
Esquire, as Guardian ad Litem
Nisi, for all persons whomsoever herein collectively designated as Richard Roe or John
Doe, defendants herein,
and
addresses
names
unknown, including any thereof who may be minors, imprisoned persons, incompetent
persons, in the military service
or under other legal disability,
whether residents or non-residents of South Carolina, was
filed in the Office of the Clerk
of Court for Darlington
County.
YOU WILL FURTHER TAKE
NOTICE that unless the said
minors or persons under other
legal disability, if any, or someone in their behalf or in behalf
of any of them, shall within
thirty (30) days after service of
notice of this order upon them
by publication, exclusive of the
day of such service, procure to
be appointed for them, or
either of them, a Guardian ad
Litem to represent them for
the purposes of this action, the
appointment of said Guardian
ad Litem Nisi shall be made
absolute.
____________
Larry D. Cohen
Larry D. Cohen, LLC
P.O. Box 30547
Charleston, SC 29417
Tel. (843) 225-4445
Fax (843) 225-2009
April 30, 2014
(31c3 leave in thru 3-4-15)
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OF ESTATES
Form
#371ES with
the
29532,
within
eight(8)
Estate:
Ronald
Eugene
Webster AKA Ronald E
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Number:
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Personal
Representative:
Jeanette Moore Webster
Address: 512 Greenview
Drive, Darlington, SC 29532
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Form
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the
within
eight(8)
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Williams
Brigman
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the
within
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Coe AKA Sonia Mae J Coe
Number:
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#371ES with
the
Form
within
eight(8)
29532,
Estate:
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Griffin
Stewart
Number:
Case
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Representative:
Personal
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Address: 31 Holliday Court,
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Attorney: David W Siddons
Address: 246 Stoneridge
Drive, Suite 100, Columbia, SC
29210
PUBLIC NOTICE
To all persons claiming an
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Ronald
Matthews will apply to SCDNR
for title on watercraft/outboard motor. If you have any
claim to the watercraft/outboard motor, contact SCDNR
at (803) 734-3858. Upon thirty days after the date of the last
advertisement if no claim of
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been reported stolen, SCDNR
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20141118951024.
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OF ESTATES
Form
#371ES with
the
29532,
within
eight(8)
Estate: Elizabeth Anne Reeves
Lanier
Number:
Case
2015ES1600090
Personal Representative: Don
W Lanier, Jr
Address: 458 Gilchrist Road,
Attorney: Parker E Howle
Address: PO Box 186,
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Form
#371ES with
the
29532,
within
eight(8)
Estate: Francis C Humphries
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Number:
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Representative:
Personal
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the
Form
within
eight(8)
29532,
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Number:
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Personal
Representative:
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within
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South Carolina Department of
Revenue for a license/permit
that will allow the sale and on
premises consumption of
liquor at 425 Society Hill Rd.,
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object to the issuance of this
permit/license, written protest
must be postmarked no later
than March 20, 2015. For a
protest to be valid, it must be in
writing, and should include
the following information:
(1) the name, address and
telephone number of the person filing the protest;
(2) the specific reasons
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(3) that the person protesting is willing to attend a hearing (if one is requested by the
applicant);
(4) that the person protesting resides in the same county
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five miles of the business; and,
(5) the name of the applicant and the address of the
premises to be licensed.
Protests must be mailed to:
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Attn: ABL,
PO Box
125,
Columbia, SC 29214; or faxed
to: (803) 896-0110.
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Do you sometimes find it difficult part with a book you own?
You read it and placed it on the
shelf, thinking that one day you
will read it again because its
words spoke to you in a special
way or its wealth of information
would be impossible to find in
one place again? Now, years
later, you see that book sitting on
your shelf. The reason you
notice it is because the cover is a
bit faded, the edges are worn,
and there is a thin layer of dust
on it. Looking at it, you can’t
quite remember the last time
you took it from the shelf. Now
you wonder, can I bring myself
to let it go? “Not yet.” you say to
yourself. Then you are like so
many who find it difficult, near
impossible, to let go of a once
treasured book. To you, it just
plain wrong to toss a book into
the trash. So what will do you
do? Let the Darlington County
Library System help you with
your problem. Donate your
unwanted books to the Library.
Library System receives thousands of donated books every
year. Sometimes it is a couple of
books left in the book drop. On
the rare occasion, a person will
back up a truck to the front door
with a couple dozen boxes of
books. Usually, it is one or two
bags or boxes filled with books.
Those who drop off their
unwanted books hope they find
a new home and a new life at the
Library. A few who donate ask
the staff, “What do you do with
all these donations?”
Just like you, the Library’s
staff finds it hard to toss a book
into the trash too! Realistically,
we all know the Library can’t
keep everything. For this reason,
we developed and refined a set
of guidelines to decide what to
do with all the books we receive.
The guidelines can be summed
up in one word, MUSTIE.
Each letter of MUSTIE refers
to a guideline we use to help us
decide which books to keep. “M”
stands for “Misleading” and/or
factually inaccurate. We can all
think a book like that! “U” is for
a book that is worn, dirty,
and/or unattractive…that is,
just plain “Ugly.” “S” is for a
book that is “Superseded” by a
new edition or better book. “T”
describes a book that even
though its information is accurate, it is “Trivial” because it has
no lasting literary, historical, or
scientific value. When you think
about it, you got rid of those
books long ago yourself. “I” is for
a book that is “Irrelevant” to our
community’s needs and interests. And lastly, “E” is for a book
that may be found “Elsewhere.”
If someone ever needs it we will
borrow it from another library.
Guidelines can only tell you
so much. The best way is to let a
book tell you its experience as a
donation to the Library.
“I was a bestseller. The person who wrote the story contained within my pages had a
way with words that could bring
a tear on one page and a smile
on another. I was the featured
book near the entrance of the
local bookstore. One evening, I
was scooped up by a gentleman
and spirited away to his home.
He presented me to his wife with
an anniversary inscription inside
my cover. She read me. I saw her
shed tears and heard her laugh.
She gave me to her husband,
who after a bit of protest, read
me. I saw his eyes mist over and
heard his laughter. For a time,
they shared me with several of
their friends and their reactions
were the same. After a while,
with my cover worn, a few of my
pages dog eared, and a rather
embarrassing coffee stain on
page 279, I was placed on a
shelf.”
“From my perch on the shelf,
I watched the couple grow older
and children appear. Once a
young girl took me from the
shelf and read me. I was so
happy. She cried and laughed in
all the familiar places. Then one
day, the gentleman took me
from the shelf with all my
friends and placed me in a box.
When I emerged from the box, I
discovered I was at the Library. A
staff member looked me over,
wondering what to do with me.”
“The Library already owned a
copy of me. Because of my worn
condition and that pesky coffee
stain, I was not saved as a future
replacement for the copy owned
by the Library. Some of my shelf
mates were selected for the
Library’s collection. Some
replaced worn out copies of the
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books the Library owned. A few
the Library did not own were
placed on the shelves. Two of
them made their way into what
is called the reference collection
and one special book was placed
in the local history collection.
Each made the Library’s customers happy and saved it
money. As for myself, I was
passed on to the Friends of the
Library for their book sale.”
“The Friends take the donations the Library cannot use to
sell to help raise funds for special
programs and projects. The
Friends have an ongoing book
sale
in
each
location,
DarIington, Hartsville, Lamar,
and Society Hill and occasional
special weekend sales. I was
once again placed on a shelf. It
wasn’t too long until the next
book sale. I was thrilled when a
lady bought me, this time I was
sold for just a $1. She read the
story. I was so happy to see
someone else cry and smile. She
placed me on a shelf. It wasn’t
long before I found myself in a
book drop and once again on the
Friends’ book sale shelf.
“Here I have sat with my shelf
mates for several months waiting for another reader to take me
from the shelf. It may be I’ll not
be read again. In time, because I
am made of paper, I will be recycled or even into a work of art. I
am fine with that. The story in
my pages will not be lost. It will
go on. In my case, I’ll be happy to
become another book. Maybe
this time rather than becoming a
best seller I will become a children’s book with colorful pages
that will bring laughter and a
sense of wonder into a child’s
life.”
Library System is happy to
receive your donations. Some
of them will make it into our
collection. Some of the books
you donate will find new homes
through the Friends book sale.
Just know, when you donate
your books to the Library, those
books you once cherished will
make others happy in one form
or another.
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229 W. Smith Ave -- 3 bedrooms, 1
bath, 1,210 sq ft, price includes 2 custom
built desk, cabinets and 2 queen size
Murphy beds -- $106,900
945 San Fran Cr - 3 bedrooms, 1 1/2
bath, 1,143 sq ft - $89,900
109 Evans St -- 3 bedrooms, 2 baths,
1,652 sq ft -- $82,900
229 Odom Street - 3 bedrooms, 2
NT RA CT
CO
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UN1,315
baths,
sq. ft.
- $79,900
3621 N. Governor Williams Hwy--3
Bedrooms 2 baths, 2,240 Sq ft $79,500
507 Cashua Ferry Rd-2 bedrooms, 1
bath, 940 sq ft - $77,000
2048 N. Governor Williams Hwy-3
bedrooms, 2 baths, 1,632 sq ft $54,900
518 Weaver St-2 bedrooms, 2 baths,
1,500 sq ft – $42,900
300 Medford Dr - 3 bedrooms, 1 bath,
1,226 sq ft $39,900
131 Coker St-Great investment property 3 bedrooms, 1 bath--$14,900.00
LAND AND LOTS
Owner financing available on some lots
Lot J Remount Heights II- cleared with Lot F Jeffords Mill Rd---cleared, .70 acres-----$12,000
septic tank - $15,000
Lot A Jeffords Mill Rd---cleared, .72 acres-- Lot G Jeffords Mill Rd---cleared, .70 acres----$12,000
---$12,000
Lot D Jeffords Mill Rd---cleared, .72 acres-- Southside Drive - Hartsville, wooded lot,
.80 acres - $5,000
---$12,000
COMMERCIAL LISTING
2244 Harry Byrd Hwy - Commercial bld. 11,684 sq ft metal building. Sits on 4+ acres of
land. 6 ft fence around perimeter of property. Currently used as an office, warehouse, &
Restaurant/lounge. Plenty of office area. 5 restrooms. 5 car detached garage at rear of
property. Lots of potential uses. Conveniently located 4 miles from Darlington Raceway. Close
to Hartsville and I-20. Call today to see this property. Priced at $895,000
PAM T. SHERRILL
To view these properties visit www.pamsherrill.net
BIC/Owner/Auctioneer SCAL#3103 - Cell: 339-7505
CASEY RHEUARK
Office Manager
843-307-4035
CHARLES WATSON
Appraiser CR-2868
Cell: 245-3103
Carolina Pines Volunteer Auxiliary
to award scholarships to area students
The Volunteer Auxiliary of
Carolina Pines Regional
Medical Center offers scholarships annually to area students who are interested in
pursuing a career in healthcare. Since 1999, the volunteer group has awarded more
than $150,000 in scholarships to students from our
community.
Among the many fields of
study in which students may
qualify for scholarship eligibility include nursing, medicine
(physician), radiology, laboratory, physical therapy, surgical technology and more.
Scholarship applications
may be obtained from the Gift
Shop staff at Carolina Pines
Regional Medical Center from
9 a.m. until 5 p.m. Monday
through Friday or download a
copy by visiting the hospital’s
website: www.cprmc.com/
scholarship- application.
The deadline to return
completed applications is
Wednesday, April 15 by 4:30
p.m. Scholarship award recipients will be selected by a
committee of volunteer auxiliary members and notified by
phone and/or mail by May
18th. Any scholarship awarded is paid directly to the
school in the student’s name.
Free rides to Genesis Health Care
The Pee Dee Regional
Transportation Authority
(PDRTA) is partnering with
Genesis Health Care, Inc to
announce a project that provides FREE rides to individuals for all medical related
appointments at Genesis
Health Care, Inc. The DART
bus operates throughout the
City of Darlington from 7am10am, 11am-2pm and 4pm7pm Monday-Friday. PDRTA
has over 40 stops throughout
the City of Darlington where
passengers can board the bus
and travel to their medical
related appointments and
visits to the Professional
Pharmacy
for
free.
Passengers should speak
with members of Genesis
Health Care (Pee Dee Health
Care) staff to receive your
bus pass that you will then
show to the bus operator as
you board.
Tony Megna, CEO of
Genesis Health Care, Inc
shared that “Our organization is thrilled to be able to
partner with PDRTA to offer
free transportation to our
patients to help them get to
their doctor’s appointments,
to pick up their prescriptions, and to get the necessi-
ties of everyday life. Genesis
Health Care, Inc is truly
“deeply rooted in our community”. PDRTA Executive
Director Chuck MacNeil
shared that “We are very
excited about the partnership with Genesis Health
Care to provide accessible
transportation to their facility
from
all
around
Darlington. We encourage
residents to take advantage
of this great service and connection to vital medical services”.
For more information on
the Free Ride Program, call
PDRTA at 843-665-2227 or
visit their website at
www.pdrta.org. You may
also contact Genesis Health
Care at 843-393-7452 or the
Professional Pharmacy at
843-393-6591.
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Good In Darlington and Hartsville Stores.
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Pate Elementary School’s Terrific Kids for February
Marissa Goodwill and D’aisha Overton from Darlington High School Key Club with the children selected as Terrific Kids for the month of
February at Pate Elementary School.
The Darlington Kiwanis Club sponsors this program for the local Darlington elementary schools, and club member Mr. Dubose spoke to the
children during their award ceremony. The Key Club at Darlington High School is the youth program sponsored by the Kiwanis Club.
PHOTO CONTRIBUTED.
Using flower sightseeing as
an excuse to go exploring
across the region should lift the
spirits of anyone who has
trudged through this unusually
damp, cold winter. How about
planning a Friday night stay
somewhere delightful and
spending the morning at one of
these colorful Spring celebrations?
To name just a few:
Head to the beach on March
21st, for Brookgreen Gardens’
“Diggin It” Spring Garden
Festival in Murrells Inlet.
Brookgreen is a gardener’s
delight, and their staff and
guest speakers are sure to be
excellent.
Closer to Darlington, there’s
a farmers’ market every week
in Lake City, with two big
opportunities for flower sightseeing coming up in late
March:
“Florence County Master
Gardeners'
Spring
Extravaganza,” also on March
21st, is a one-day gardening
program featuring keynote
speaker Helen Yoest, along
with tours of both Moore Farms
Botanical
Garden and
McKenzie
F a r m s .
T i c k e t s
i n c l u d e
breakfast,
lunch, two
garden tours,
door prizes,
goody bags,
garden vendors, and a
panel
of
experts for
Q&A.
The same
weekend in
Lake City is Bulbapalooza
Garden Open at Moore Farms
Botanical Garden, followed the
next weekend (afternoon of
March 28) by their 4th Annual
Daffodil Festival. This beautiful garden is only accessible
during special events, so don’t
miss your chance to see it in the
glory of Spring.
For more old-fashioned and
hands-on experiences, there
are two events of note. You
might like "Spring Planting
Day" at the
L. W. Paul
L i v i n g
History
Farm
in
Conway on
April 11th.
This event
includes
planting
and plowing
on a onehorse family
farm, cooking on a
wood fired
stove, making lye soap,
blacksmithing, working grist
mill, live music, setting tobacco, plowing with a mule and
more. On April 18th, near
Hemingway, you can visit a
vineyard and a traditional
African American farm on the
Spring Planting Event and
Earth Day Activities at Williams
Family Vineyard and Farm.
If you have a notion to get
out and fix up your own gardens, mark your calendar and
get your wheelbarrows ready
for the things you’ll find at
these events: In Florence on the
weekend of April 9-12, the Pee
Dee State Farmers’ Market
hosts the Pee Dee Spring Plant
and Flower Festival. This free
festival is full of vendors carrying a large variety of colorful
spring flowers and plants for
home gardens. The Florence
County Master Gardeners will
be on hand to answer questions
and provide free gardening
advice.
In
Hartsville,
Kalmia
Gardens has its annual plant
sale on April 25th. Fortunately,
it will be nearing time for the
Mountain Laurel, one of
nature’s loveliest flowers, to
bloom all along the banks of
Black Creek. Kalmia Gardens
has an abundance of it to
admire.
Enjoy Spring in eastern
South Carolina, and start planning your own garden!
Read more about events at
www.easternSCheritage.com
Women in Philanthropy annual membership lunch
Women in Philanthropy will
hold its annual membership
meeting at noon on Thursday,
February 26 at the Drs. Bruce &
Lee Foundation Library, Stukes
Meeting Room.
Susie Shannon, general
counsel for the Lake City
Partnership Council and director of research for the Palmetto
Institute, will be speaking on
the valuable role women play
in philanthropy. The event is
open to the public. A light
lunch will be served.
Membership in Women in
Philanthropy (WIP) is open to
anyone who cares about the
quality of life in the Pee Dee.
The giving circle was founded
by
Eastern
Carolina
Community Foundation in
2009 to bring about change
through the power of small
grants made annually to programs and organizations
throughout the Pee Dee region.
Members of WIP believe that by
combining both enthusiasm
and financial resources, they
can best address the Pee Dee’s
high-priority issues collectively
and strategically, and bring
change through the power of
small grants.
Their annual grant program
has awarded $250,000 over the
last six years, funding more
than 25 nonprofit organizations throughout the Pee Dee.
This past year, $53,000 in
grants was given to Bethlehem
Therapeutic Riding Stables,
Lighthouse Ministries, Pee Dee
Big Brothers Association, Camp
Rae, Mercy Medical Clinic,
Marion County Habitat for
Humanity,
Pee Dee Speech and
Hearing, Caring and Sharing
from Hemingway, Help 4 Kids
Florence, McLeod Tennis Open,
and House of Hope of the Pee
Dee.
“By uniting diverse women
in our community – professional women, stay-at-home moms
and women from a broad range
of ethnic and socioeconomic
backgrounds – we can make a
greater impact,” said WIP chair,
Linda Gremillion Beckham.
“This dynamic group of women
is really making a difference in
the Pee Dee, and all the members agree it is the best money
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