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Pier
Review
AUGUST 2012
Catching fish is
only half the fun
SC SC E N E
The Soda Pop Co-op
SC STO R I E S
Life’s a peach
HUMOR ME
When zombies attack
THE MAGAZINE FOR
COOPERATIVE MEMBERS
Vol. 66 • No. 8
(ISSN 0047-486X, USPS 316-240)
Read in more than 450,000 homes
and businesses and published
monthly except in December by
The Electric Cooperatives
of South Carolina, Inc.
808 Knox Abbott Drive
Cayce, SC 29033
Tel: (803) 926-3 1 75
Fax: (803) 796-6064
Email: [email protected]
EDITOR
Keith Phillips
ASSISTANT EDITOR
Diane Veto Parham
FIELD EDITOR
Walter Allread
August 2012 • Volume 66, Number 8
FEATURE
16Catch of the day
For anglers across the Palmetto State, nothing beats pier fishing along
the Grand Strand—where actually catching a fish is only part of the fun.
PUBLICATION COORDINATOR
ART DIRECTOR
Sharri Harris Wolfgang
DESIGNER
Susan Collins
4CO-OP CONNECTION
Cooperative news
6ON THE AGENDA
PRODUCTION
Andrew Chapman
WEB EDITOR
Van O’Cain
COPY EDITOR
Susan Scott Soyars
Contributors
Becky Billingsley, Margaret Buranen,
Mike Couick, Jim Dulley, Hastings
Hensel, Carrie B. Hirsch, Jan A. Igoe,
Charles Joyner, Megan McKoy-Noe,
Mark Quinn, S. Cory Tanner
Join 45,000 of your closest
friends for a weekend of fun
at York Summerfest. Plus:
A veteran lineman retires
after 52 years on the job.
POWER USER
DIALOGUE
10Memories of summer
Publisher
Lou Green
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ENERGY Q&A
12Create kitchen comfort
Can’t stand the heat?
Then remodel the kitchen.
SMART CHOICE
14All in for outdoor fun
Turn your backyard into
the ultimate playground
with these outdoor toys.
Home run
15The speed of light(ing)
LEDs are at the forefront of
efficient lighting technology.
SCENE
22 The Soda Pop Co-op
South Carolina high school students
form their own cooperative
during a memorable week on
the Washington Youth Tour.
GARDENER
26 Grow your own sponges
Luffa gourds make a wonderful
addition to your home garden.
TR AVELS
28 In the land of cotton
The South Carolina Cotton Museum
in downtown Bishopville offers
plenty of hands-on history.
RECIPE
30 Taste sensations
Four-layer peach delight
Zucchini Parmesan
T-bone with
sauteed mushrooms
Scallops mornay
28
CHEF’S CHOICE
32 Pour Richards:
An open kitchen and
plenty of fresh Lowcountry
ingredients add up to a
unique dining experience.
HUMOR ME
Pier
review
AUGUST 2012
Catching fish is
only half the fun
38 Yeah, bring on the zombies
SC SC E N E
The Soda Pop Co-op
SC STO R I E S
Life’s a peach
22
Crossbow at the ready, Jan
Igoe has no fear of the coming
zombie apocalypse.
HUMOR ME
When zombies attack
34MARKETPLACE
36SC EVENTS
30
Donn a Mou lton
Brunson Cook shows
off his catch of the day
at Springmaid Pier in
Myrtle Beach.
Photo by Milton Morris.
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7 million homes and businesses
Life’s a peach for Clemson University
professor Desmond Layne.
Dinner and a show
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STORIES
21The peach doctor
Ma rk Qu inn
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Maybe it’s time for our kids
to put down the iPads and
pick up a cane fishing pole.
SC LIFE
Milton Morris
Pam Martin
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update you about what is going on in
Washington, D.C. It is important for
you to know that you can do
something to affect your power
rates by working with us on
our grassroots efforts, which
may include you contacting our
state and federal officials.
Some of you may be
asking the question, “What
are grassroots efforts?”
Communication is a key component
of advocacy. Sending your member of
Congress an email on an important
issue affecting your cooperative is
a great way to keep your legislators
informed. A website is set up where
you can do that quickly—we call it
the Take Action Network. We call that
activity “grassroots” activism because
you are advocating for change at the
local and state level, at the “root”
of the organization. We want our elected
officials to keep affordable and reliable
electric supply at the top of their agenda.
Today, many environmental laws
that were adopted by Congress decades
ago are being used by federal agencies
and the courts to address issues for
which they were never intended.
For example, the federal Clean Air
Act is now 40 years old and was last
amended in 1990—more than two
decades ago. Much has changed through
the years, including technology, our
understanding of the environment,
and the electric utility industry.
Today, officials with the U.S.
Environmental Protection Agency
(EPA), often under court order, are
trying to modify the Clean Air Act
to fit new circumstances. These
new regulations will mean one
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General Information
(843) 479-3855
(800) 922-9174
www.marlboroelectric.coop
Office Hours
8:00 a.m.–5:00 p.m.
Monday–Friday
President/CEO
William L. Fleming
Chairman of the Board
Sam P. “Bo” McInnis, Jr.
Board of Trustees
Eddie Gordon, District 1
Raymond Woodle, District 2
Charles R. ‘Ricky’ Smith, District 3
Melvin Carabo, District 4
John M. Alford, District 5
Sam P. “Bo” McInnis, Jr. District 6
Chairman
Jeff Quick, District 7
Secretary/Treasurer
W. Ronald Quick, District 8
Janelle Sauls, District 9
Vice-Chairman
Attorney
Doug Jennings
Co-op News Editor
Christy J. Overstreet
email: cjoverstreet@
marlboroelectric.coop
Mission Statement
The focus of Marlboro Electric
Cooperative, Inc. is to make
electric energy available to its
members at the lowest cost
consistent with sound economic
principle and management.
thing—higher electric bills.
Electric co-ops have been actively
urging the EPA through comments,
testimony, and litigation to consider the
negative consequences of new regulations. We are constantly reminding
our representatives in Washington that
the climate change debate is one with
real consequences for real people and
that your interests must be heard.
Our delegation in Washington
has been very supportive of your
cooperative on this issue. On your
behalf, we will continue to urge our
leaders to work to meet both federal
public policy goals and our need for
affordable, reliable electricity.
This issue is very important, and
I encourage you to stay informed.
We will continue to update you
through South Carolina Living.
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email. If we have an email address for
you, when we have a pressing issue we
feel you need to know about, we will
send you a message providing information. If you have an email address,
please provide it to us. It may even
become necessary for us to ask you to
contact your elected officials regarding
an issue. You are the grassroots of this
cooperative and our elected officials
are responsive to your requests.
If you’d like to help, email us at
[email protected]. We’ll use
your address only to contact you about
important issues that may affect your
co-op. We won’t share your email address
with outside companies or third parties.
Thank you.
John M. Alford
Trustee
Marlboro Electric Cooperative will be closed to observe Labor Day
on Monday, September 3. Emergency crews will be on standby.
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Marlboro News
Two students represent Marlboro Electric in Washington, D.C.
VAN O’CAIN, ECSC
Liza Dwyer, left, of Dillon High School and
Ross Childers of Marlboro County High School
represented Marlboro Electric Cooperative on the
Washington Youth Tour.
were
among 48 South Carolina rising
high school seniors on Youth Tour
2012, a six-day trip to Washington,
D.C., sponsored by Marlboro Electric
Cooperative. They joined more than
1500 students from across the nation
in Washington, D.C.
Ross Childers, son of Richard and
Alicia Childers, attends Marlboro
County High School. Dwyer, daughter
of Kevin and Laurie Dwyer, is a
Ross Childers and Liza Dwyer
student at Dillon High School.
“It was a life-changing experience,”
said Childers. “I met new friends from
other co-ops whom I will never forget
and made some great memories.”
He stated that he also enjoyed the
Kennedy Center and the Bureau of
Engraving and Printing.
The students visited landmarks,
toured historic sites and museums,
the Capitol, took a boat ride on the
Potomac River, and much more. They
also learned about government and
electric cooperatives, and met with
their state’s congressional delegation.
Each year in June, an action-filled
week provides high school students
opportunities to learn first hand what
it’s like to be involved in politics,
community service and the energy
industry. Students meet their elected
representatives in the U.S. House
and Senate, see historic sites, and
meet other students from across the
country who participate in their state’s
Youth Tour program.
“Seeing the Holocaust was
interesting,” Dwyer said. “It helped
me learn what people went through
and I enjoyed seeing the Potomac
River.”
Marlboro Electric will be offering
this opportunity of a lifetime again
to two area high school juniors in
Marlboro or Dillon County. Students
selected will receive an all-expense-paid
educational experience to Washington,
D.C. In addition, one lucky student on
the tour will have the opportunity to
win a $2,500 college scholarship on a
statewide cooperative level.
Applications will be available to
apply December 1, 2012–January 31,
2013, at MarlboroElectric.coop or
contact Christy Overstreet, marketing
and communications representative, at
(843) 479-3855. A panel of judges will
select who will represent Marlboro
Electric Cooperative for the next
Washington Youth Tour in June 2013.
The Electric Cooperative Youth
Tour is a joint effort of local electric
co-ops, their statewide co-op
associations, and the National Rural
Electric Cooperative Association
(NRECA), based in Arlington, Va.
Since 1964, the nation’s cooperative
electric utilities have sponsored
more than 40,000 high school
juniors and seniors for visits to
their U.S. congressional delegations,
energy and grassroots government
education sessions, and sightseeing in
Washington. NRECA is the national
service organization representing the
nation’s more than 900 consumerowned, not-for-profit electric cooperatives, which provide electric service to
42 million people in 47 states.
For more on Youth Tour, see page 22.
Kids’ site gets brighter, fun-er
Touchstone Energy recently unveiled a reimagined, redesigned Kids Energy Zone website.
The new site, found at KidsEnergyZone.com, features a bright, welcoming interface designed
specifically for elementary-school-aged kids. CFL Charlie welcomes kids with a number of
activities, including videos, coloring pages, and online games that scroll across the screen.
Christy Overstreet, marketing and communications representative for Marlboro Electric,
commented on the new site: “It’s visually more pleasing and engaging—we’re also excited
about the ease of use of the site. Touchstone Energy will add new content and develop fun
activities on a regular basis, so kids will want to come back for more.”
The site also has links to resources for co-ops, educators and parents—including lesson
plans, activities and energy-efficiency programs for school administrators. Access it through
the link at MarlboroElectric.coop.
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On the Agenda
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Highlights
AUGUST 25
Summerfest
South Carolina’s largest one-day festival, Summerfest,
brings 45,000 visitors to historic downtown York for
plenty of family-friendly fun. Highlights include a car show featuring “hot
rods, old Studebakers, Model Ts, the Corvair Club, … virtually brand new
cars that have been overhauled and souped up,” says Paul Boger of the
Greater York Chamber of Commerce. Up-and-coming singing stars will
battle at the Texaco Country Showdown, vying for an ultimate $100,000
national prize, and the festival wraps up with a Saturday-night concert
by the Lakeside Drive Band, co-sponsored by York Electric Cooperative.
For details, visit greateryorkchamber.com or call (800) 866-5200.
TOP PICK FOR KIDS
SEPTEMBER 7–8
Jazz Under the Stars
A balmy evening, a manicured
lawn, excellent jazz—it all adds
up to sweet music at Jazz
Under the Stars in Columbia.
Tenor saxophonist Skipp “Pops”
Pearson, South Carolina’s jazz
ambassador, headlines his annual
event designed to introduce new
fans to jazz. Joining him on the
north lawn of the State House
will be professional musicians
and young artists mentored by the nonprofit SKP Jazz
Foundation. Concerts are free, but donations benefit the
foundation. Both evenings start at 6 p.m. A special VIP
After-Party Masters Jam Session ($20 in advance, $40 at
the door) is planned at Le Cafe Jazz at 903 Laurel St.
For details, visit skpfoundation.org or call (803) 400-1879.
SEPTEMBER 13–15
Bluegrass in
the Woods
Bluegrass devotee
Rudy Lowe has
passed away, but
the festival he
launched in 1997 on
a 60-acre Belton
farm is still thick with
good people, great food and first-rate bluegrass. Three
days of entertainers—including Goldwing Express, Mike
Eades and the Battle Creek Boys, The Little Roy and Lizzy
Show—will perform under a 5,000-square-foot, opensided shed. “People come and camp all week, have picking
sessions in the campground and bring their children and
dogs,” says Rudy’s son, Stephen, who now organizes Rudy’s
Bluegrass in the Woods Autumn Festival. Daytrip bluegrass
lovers can bring lawn chairs and enjoy their music with
barbecue, boiled peanuts, fried pickles and funnel cakes.
For details, visit rudysbluegrass.com or call (864) 356-3444.
SEPTEMBER 14–16
AUGUST 30–SEPTEMBER 9
Upper S.C. State Fair
Bring your best hootin’ and hollerin’ to the Upper South
Carolina State Fair’s exciting rodeos, clunker-car Enduro
race and demolition derby. Kids will ooh and aah at
the acrobatics of Fantazia Circus and Wambold’s exotic
animals. Midway thrills include the all-new G-Force ride.
Find it all—plus foods, games, animals and exhibits—at
the fairgrounds off US 123, between Greenville and Easley.
For details, visit upperscstatefair.com or call (864) 269-0852.
Yemassee Shrimp Festival
Considering Yemassee’s colorful role in the evolution
of shrimp baiting, it’s only natural that its hometown
festival celebrates shrimp. Count on sampling tasty
local shrimp that’s been boiled, fried, paired with rice
or patted into burgers, but save room for the famous
gumbo prepared by the ladies of nearby St. Helena Island.
Local cooks face off in a Shrimp Battle Cook-off, tackling
“everything from shrimp gravy to shrimp spaghetti.”
The shrimp-themed parade is complemented by the
festival’s pet fashion show and a 2,000-strong mud run.
For details, visit yemassee.net/festival or call (843) 589-2120.
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Bidding farewell
MCEC lineworker says
goodbye after 52 years
Road to the
Minor league
players with big
league dreams
SC SC e n e
Honor Flight’s ongoing mission
SC Sto r i e S
One tough competitor
Humor me
Throwing a tantrum
SC SC e n e
Keep your cool
SC Sto r i e S
July 2012
The pipes are calling
Humor me
The world is your doily
Update
On the road
Shortly after the July issue of South
Carolina Living went to press, Cody
Buckel—the Myrtle Beach Pelicans
ace featured in our cover story
“Road to the Show”— was called
up to the Double-A Frisco Rough
Riders. The former Pelican earned
his first Texas League win July 4
on the road against the Arkansas
Travelers by throwing six shutout
innings and four strikeouts.
Virgil Leaphart, who retired at 73 as a Line Tech A
for MCEC, gets a pat on the back from Mark Kyzer,
an Apparatus Tech A for the co-op.
knowledge, reliability and ever-positive
attitude.
“We’re real proud of Virgil and the
many years of service he’s given the
co-op,” says MCEC CEO Jack F. Wolfe
Jr. “He truly embodies the best of the
electric cooperatives.” —WALTER ALLREAD
energy efficiency tip
S.C.RAMBLE!
By Charles Joyner,
See Answer ON Page 35
Domi-No.s
Solve this multiplication problem
and write your answer in the box
tops, one digit to each box. Then
match boxes to find a hidden word
in your answer.
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WALTER ALLREAD
On the first day of his retirement,
Virgil Leaphart got up at 5:30 a.m.
and walked three miles in the building heat of a summer morning.
It was what he had done for the
past 20 years and why, when he
retired from Mid-Carolina Electric
Cooperative after 52 years of service,
he was almost as hale and hardy as
many of MCEC’s far younger lineworkers. Leaphart climbed poles from
when he was hired in 1960 as an
apprentice lineman to his last month
of work at age 73 as a Line Tech A.
His advice to the younger set?
“For one thing, they’re going to
have to stay healthy,” he says, “and
they need to work safe, too.”
During his career, Leaphart saw
MCEC grow from 4,770 members
to about 52,000. Along the way he
earned the respect of his peers and
the many members he helped for his
Look to your windows for energy savings. Use weather stripping on
old windows, and, if you can, add storm windows. In hot climates,
add solar film screening to west-facing windows to catch heat. For
new homes, consider installing double-glazed panes. Find more
ways to save at togetherwesave.com.
Source: Touchstone Energy Cooperatives
Correction
Our July SC Travels article on the
Oconee Veterans Museum in
Walhalla contained incorrect
information. John Busch, a Vietnamera veteran, is vice president of
the museum’s board. A.J. Smith is
the president. Admission to the
museum is free, but donations are
encouraged. For more information
on the museum, call (864) 638-5455
or visit oconeeveteransmuseum.org.
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SCLiving.coop
Washington Youth Tour: What happens when
48 of South Carolina’s top high school students invade
Washington, D.C.? Find out in our exclusive video.
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On the Agenda
Letters
A swing and a miss
I enjoyed the cover story in your July
issue (“Road to the Show”) but must note
what I consider an omission. Since you’ve
opened the door to out-of-state teams
with the Charlotte Knights, please furnish
your readers with info on the Augusta
Green Jackets.
Those of us on the South Carolina side
of Lake Thurmond and the Savannah River
Write SCL
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you think about this issue, send us story suggestions or just let us know what’s on your
mind by writing to Letters, South Carolina
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don’t have far to go to Lake Olmstead
Stadium to see this team play in a very
nice venue spiffed up when Cal Ripken
bought the franchise. An evening watching
the Jackets is not only pleasant, but a
bargain, too.
Bob Stockton, McCormick
Augusta Green Jackets
League: South Atlantic (Class A)
Affiliation: San Francisco Giants
Ballpark: Lake Olmstead Stadium
(seats 4,822)
Contact: (706) 922-9467
Remembering our veterans
I cried when I read about the South
Carolina veterans who traveled to
Washington, D.C., on the cooperativesponsored Honor Flight (“We honor
their service,” and “Walking with heroes,”
May 2012). I was sad because I know my
husband, Jason McSwain, would have loved
going on such a trip.
Jason passed away in July 2007. He
served his country well in the U.S. Army
for four years and in the National Guard
here in Clover for 16 years. My husband
was at Richard Campbell Nursing Home
when he passed away. When he entered
their care, I told them if they wanted his
attention to call him Sgt. McSwain and
he’d answer every time. I still wear his
20‑year pin with pride.
I really enjoyed reading about the
World War II veterans and their trip to
Washington in South Carolina Living.
Jean B. McSwain, Clover
GONE FISHIN’
The Vektor Fish & Game Forecast provides
feeding and migration times. Major
periods can bracket the peak by an hour.
Minor peaks, ½ hour before and after.
Minor
Minor
PM
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20 8:37 2:37 2:37 8:37
21 9:37 3:22 3:07 9:07
22 10:52 4:07 3:37 9:37
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26 1:07 9:22 10:07 5:07
27 2:52 10:22 10:52 5:37
28 3:52 1 1 :07 1 1 :37 6:07
29 4:52 1 1 :52 12:07 6:37
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Dialogue
Memories of summer
When my children look back on the summer of 2012,
I wonder what they will remember most.
Kids today have a lot of things to help fill their leisure
days—iPads, Nintendo DSis, cable television—but I worry
they are missing out on the experiences that I enjoyed as a
child. Growing up in the late 1960s and early 1970s, I was
fortunate to spend parts of my summers with grandparents,
and I still cherish the memories.
Unity community, upper Lancaster County, with my
paternal grandparents:
l Falling asleep to a chorus of frogs on the branch below
the house. They seem to harmonize with the crickets and
cicadas. No hermetic seal to the house. Nothing but the
window screen between me and the big outdoors.
l Waking up to my grandmamma humming Bible Songs.
Her favorite, number 144, was “My Heart Was Glad to Hear
the Welcome Sound.” The thump of a rolling pin, the sizzle
of country ham, the clump, clump, clump of grits boiling
and the mellow rhythm of a stove-top coffeepot.
l The scorch of the sun on my back as I did “gofer”
duty for my granddaddy when he helped a neighbor fix his
house, barn or shed. Tools pulled from a wooden toolbox
well-worn to a sheen. Watching him measure twice and
cut once. Around 10:30 a.m., I could already taste what
grandmamma had tucked in my lunch bucket—ham biscuits, leftover pork chops, sweet potato pie. Old-fashioned
6.5-ounce contoured bottles of Coke, Pepsi, Mountain Dew,
Cheerwine and RC Cola, waiting in the ice chest.
l Bream fishing with a cane pole and a cricket. Fish
cleaned, cooked and eaten within an hour of being caught.
l Picking blackberries—beware of chiggers, gnats and
snakes. I pick three berries and eat one. Why does my pail
get full so slow?
l The cool of the smokehouse. Salted hams hanging
from the rafters. A rainbow of canned goods on the shelves.
Crock jars of kraut curing. Gravelled new potatoes.
l Cows. Hereford. Baleful eyes that seem to look right
through me. Withers quivering as the horseflies bite.
Tails swishing, they follow me in the falling evening light
toward the barn.
l A mule named Pearl.
Bethel community, upper York County, with my
maternal grandparents:
l Sorting tomatoes on the back porch. Carefully laying
them onto old editions of the Rock Hill Enquirer and Clover
Herald. Watching my granddaddy read his favorite literary
works: The Market Bulletin, Living in South Carolina and The
Bible. Khaki shirt, khaki pants, both stained by the sweat
of a morning’s work. He was a level-headed man—tobacco
juice ran down the corners of both sides of his mouth.
l Pulling a watermelon from under the house. Splitting
it with a butcher knife on a picnic table under a shade oak.
A shake of salt. Face smeared with juice and seeds, washing
off under the hose.
l Visitors stopping by in the early evening to sit in
the yard swing and catch the latest news of trouble in
Washington, “relatives feeling poorly” and who got a rain
shower last night.
l Lightning bugs come out. I grab a washed Duke’s
mayonnaise jar and go on the attack.
l Grandmother’s kitchen. Sticky buns. Fresh buttermilk.
Baked sweet potatoes. Cold fried chicken. Country-fried
potatoes.
l Saturday nights, as with all nights, hearing my granddaddy go to his knees and pray out loud. My name seemed
to be mentioned, but I couldn’t hear what he asked for.
l Sunday mornings. The croaker sacks come off the Ford
sedan when it is pulled into the yard and no longer needs
protection from roosting chickens or curious cats.
l Cows. Hereford. Baleful eyes that seem to look right
through me. Withers quivering as horseflies bite. Tails
swishing, they follow me in the falling light toward the barn.
l A mule named Maude.
The summer of 2012 is slipping away, and I’m grateful
that my kids have already been up to the farm and had
the chance to forge a few memories of their own with
their grandparents. With luck, maybe next time they’ll put
down the iPads long enough to pick up an old mayonnaise
jar and chase a few fireflies.
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BY jim Dulley
Create kitchen comfort
Can’t stand the heat?
Then remodel the kitchen
Q
My kitchen gets uncomfortably
warm during summer, even
with air conditioning. How can
I remodel the kitchen to keep it
comfortable and efficient?
A
A kitchen remodeling project
is an excellent opportunity to
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possible to prepare your meals. You
can do this by following two smart
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kitchen layout and installing highefficiency appliances.
The kitchen triangle
When designing the floor plan for
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and convenience. The three areas
used most often are the sink, range
and refrigerator. Try to locate these
in an equilateral triangle. If your
kitchen is relatively small, you may
need only a step or two to get from
one to another.
Cool cooking tips
n Whenever possible, use a toaster oven or slow
cooker instead of the large oven. Heat buildup in
the kitchen will be much less.
n Match the size of the pot to the size of the burner
or heating element to reduce heat loss.
n If your refrigerator is seldom full, put several jugs
of water in the back. This holds the temperature
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n Set the refrigerator temperature at 40 degrees and
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It might sound obvious, but don’t
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By Becky BILLINGSLEY
All in for outdoor fun
When warm days and soft South Carolina
summer evenings lure families out of the house
and into the yard for playtime, these toys will
provide plenty of entertainment and adventure.
ON THE FLY
PERSONAL DRONE
Part stunt copter, part HD videocamera, the Parrot AR.Drone 2.0
Quadricopter is a heaping helping
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OUTSIDE VOICES
Backyards in summer call for noisy fun. The
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the rocket in the air and wait for the BANG! Multicolored
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SOLAR FLAIR
Here’s an outdoor sound system with the staying
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SNIPE HUNT
Many a parent has distracted restless kids with an impromptu hunt
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Undiscovered snipes reveal their whereabouts with chirps and eyes
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Can’t play outside? Transform your living room into
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Since they’re lightweight, wall crashes
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LOGGERHEAD JAM
Young swimmers ages 5 and up can race and chase the
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to your pool tunes, powered by two AAA batteries. $18.
(800) 889-7946; swimways.com.
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By MEGAN McKOY-NOE
HomeRun
The speed of light(ing)
lighting tech
nology evolved at a pretty steady
pace. Now, spurred by tighter
standards for energy efficiency, the
technology is leaping forward, with
light-emitting diodes (LEDs) leading
the charge.
Emerging options like LEDs
promise to help consumers adapt
to changing federal standards for
lightbulbs. A bit of price shock still
accompanies some of these innovations, but savings show up in longer
product life span and reduced energy
consumption.
“If you remember when the first
CFLs [compact fluorescent lights]
came out, they started off bumpy, but
we got over that,” says Michael Smith,
manager of energy programs for
Central Electric Power Cooperative.
CFLs moved beyond early problems
with low light output, erratic life span
and high prices and are now more
affordable and efficient.
“LEDs are coming out of that
bumpy phase,” Smith says, but “as far
as light replacement, they’re on par
with improvements in CFLs.”
Over the last century,
Shifting standards
Congress enacted improved energyefficiency standards for incandescent bulbs under the Energy
Independence and Security Act of
2007. New rules, which began to take
effect this year, mandate that lightbulbs using between 40 and 100 watts
must consume at least 28 percent
less energy than traditional incandescents, saving Americans $6 billion to
$10 billion in lighting costs annually.
Lightbulbs must become 70 percent
more efficient by 2020.
Time-tested 100-watt incandescent
bulbs will disappear from stores this
year. As the next wave of standards
LEDs blaze
trails for
efficient lighting
technology
kicks in, 75-watt incandescents will
be gone as of January 1, 2013, and
40-watt and 60-watt versions will
vanish as of January 1, 2014.
How do LEDs deliver more energyefficient light? Traditional incandescent bulbs create light using a thin
wire (filament) inside a glass bulb—a
delicate connection that can easily be
broken, as frustrated homeowners can
attest. Most convert only 10 percent
of the energy they consume into light;
the remaining 90 percent produces
heat.
In contrast, LEDs are at the forefront of solid-state lighting. Two conductive materials are placed together
on a chip (a diode). Electricity passes
through the diode, releasing energy in
the form of cooler light.
By 2030, the U.S. Department of
Energy (DOE) estimates, solid-state
lighting technologies could cut the
electricity used for lighting by half,
saving up to $30 billion a year in
energy costs.
For homeowners who want to try
LEDs, Smith recommends starting
with directional lighting—one of the
strengths of LEDs. Recessed downlights in ceilings or task lights over
work spaces such as countertops are
ideal spots to experiment.
“They’ll use 15 to 20 percent of the
energy used by an incandescent bulb,
they’ll generate less heat and, quite
frankly, I think it’s a better light,” he
says.
Smith also recommends buying
LEDs from a major manufacturer to
ensure the best possible experience.
Consumers who bought the cheap,
early CFLs were often disappointed
in the results and blamed the technology, when a poorly designed bulb
may have been the real problem. Start
with a high-quality LED, he advises,
even if it costs a little more, and
judge whether the light is worth the
expense.
“You may drop $30 on a bulb, but
it will last a long time,” Smith says. Making the move to LEDs
To motivate manufacturers to design
bulbs that would ease the transition
as incandescents are phased out, the
DOE established the Bright Tomorrow
Lighting Prize. The Philips LED lamp
that won the prize last year meets all
DOE standards and more. But since
coming on the market in April, it has
not attracted consumers with its $50
price tag. Other LEDs are already
available at less than half that cost.
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atc
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day
of the
The neighborly sport of pier fishing along the Grand Strand
BY HASTINGS HENSEL | Photography by Milton Morris
If Chester Doyle ever subscribed to anything like an angler’s creed, it might
be what he told me when I met him one winter morning at his regular spot
on the 2nd Avenue Pier in Myrtle Beach.
“The only two things I love more than fishing? Jesus and my wife,” he said.
There are the casual pier anglers—the families on vacation who fish for a
week every summer—and then there are the die-hards—those who come out
more than five times per week, every month, for years.
Chester Doyle of Conway is a regular at the
2nd Avenue Pier. “The one thing my wife
never bugs me about is my fishing.”
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Family friend Olivia Chamberlain peers at
the croaker 5-year-old Will Kaiser, in his
lucky fishing shirt, and dad Bill caught off
the 2nd Avenue Pier in Myrtle Beach.
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They brought
the fish up
and onto the
pier, where
it spun from
the hook and
caught the eyes
of the hungry
seabirds and
the strolling,
curious tourists.
Chester Doyle, a member of Horry Electric
Cooperative, is perhaps the quintessential diehard. Tall and broad-shouldered, with the imposing stance and clipped speech of an ex-Marine,
he’s been fishing the 2nd Avenue Pier for more
than 20 years, and he only aims for two species:
speckled trout in the winter and sheepshead in
the spring and summer.
“He sure can catch ’em,” his regular fishing
buddy and fellow Horry Electric Cooperative
member, Ronnie Hunter, said.
Indeed, Doyle possesses a kind of insider’s
knowledge about all things related to pier fishing,
including an abundance of stories—“I won the
rodeo back in ’89 for speckled trout”—and a
comic disdain for newbies and tourists. He has
the phrase, “$1 to look” inked in black marker on
the top of his cooler.
Doyle’s success did not come easily. He is
adamant about the fact that he honed his technique by learning from three 2nd Avenue Pier
icons—Roy Brigham, Buck Scott and Derrick
Rogers—and now he fishes at least five days per
week, going through nearly three gallons of barnacles in that time.
Yes, Doyle fishes with barnacles for bait. He
drives 30 minutes down from Conway, scrapes
them off the jetty rocks, collects them in a
Grand Strand Fishing Rodeo
The Grand Strand Fishing Rodeo is a seven-month tournament
open to anyone fishing on the piers from April to October, and
there are two divisions—the pier fishing division and the offshore
division. Neither division requires you to sign up; all you need to do
is catch the “Fish of the Month” and weigh it in at one of the seven
participating piers (2nd Avenue Pier is the only pier that does not
participate). You may also weigh-in any offshore fish at Captain Dick’s
Marina in Murrells Inlet. Prizes are awarded each month.
The rodeo’s pride and joy, however, is its popular “Take A Kid Fishing
Tournament” which is held every year on the last weekend in October.
For more information, visit grandstrandevents.com/fishingrodeo or
facebook.com/grandstrandfishingrodeo.
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bucket, pierces the hook through one, drops it
down and waits. And waits some more.
“I’ve got patience for this stuff,” he said. “The
one thing my wife never bugs me about is my
fishing.”
And if the fish aren’t biting, then Doyle
doesn’t sweat it. He and Hunter have been
known to enjoy the leisurely pace of not catching any fish by engaging in boyish pranks—
super-gluing someone’s rod tip to the pier, for
example—or simply relaxing and sitting there
quietly, taking their minds off everything.
But Doyle never takes his eyes off his rod,
even if he’s talking to Hunter or to an inquisitive
tourist, because there always might be that hard
yank and that new personal record—a ninepound sheepshead—on the other end of the line.
A remarkable thing about fishing piers is the
fact that die-hards like Chester Doyle can
coexist as neighbors with vacationing families
like the Kaisers and Chamberlains from North
Carolina.
In fact, a few benches down from Doyle,
5‑year‑old Will Kaiser was nearly as confident as
the master himself. He was going to catch not
one, he said, but four fish on the 2nd Avenue
Pier. It was only the Kaisers’ second-ever fishing
outing as a family, but Will was wearing his lucky
fishing shirt—a fluorescent tie-dye tee—and he
was focused on the task at hand, bent over the
pier railing and watching the line as it ran into
the ocean.
His mother, Regina, however, was not so sure.
She was content to see it more as a family outing
than a fishing adventure.
“Fishing and waterslides. You come to Myrtle
Beach, and those are things you want to do. Here
it’s nice because it’s so high and you can look
down, and there’s so much more you can look
at,” she said, nodding toward a string of hotels
and beachgoers and the new Sky Wheel spinning
and towering in the distance. “And they rent the
equipment.”
But sure enough, not an hour after breakfast, the rented rod tip twitched, the line started
spooling off the reel and the Kaiser family had
one on. Will’s father, Bill, set the hook and
started reeling it in.
But then 15 seconds passed, and they weren’t
making much progress. Nothing was coming up,
and the line didn’t seem to be getting any closer.
Seeing what was happening, regular pier fishAt the Springmaid Pier, my n eighbors were
erman Kelly Maddox hurried over and tightened another father-son team, Bruce and Brunson
the drag for them, and they brought the fish up
Cook of Union, members of Broad River Electric
and onto the pier, where it spun from the hook
Cooperative.
and caught the eyes of the hungry seabirds and
“We came down here this morning to get
the strolling, curious tourists.
some fishing in before his brother and sister
And even though it wasn’t a state or world
woke up,” Bruce told me as his son Brunson sat
record—no 11-pound Spanish mackerel (a state
beside him and held the rod between his knees.
record caught in 1983 on Springmaid Pier) nor a They were accustomed to freshwater ponds in
the Upstate, but every year they make a trip to
1,780-pound tiger shark (a world record caught
the beach and try their hand at saltwater fishing.
in 1964 on the Cherry Grove Pier)—it was a
It was a cool spring morning—the tide low
family record, and Will stood there proudly with
his catch.
and falling, the sun ripening on the horizon—but
“A croaker,” Maddox said, identifying the
all anyone seemed to be catching were stories
species. “Croaks like a pig. Hear it?”
about the past or promises about the future.
The two families gathered around the fish and
“Tuesday we caught some spadefish and some
held their ears to it, startling back when the fish
perch,” Bruce Cook said.
croaked.
“I almost caught a crab this morning!”
“We’ll have to let it go!” Olivia Chamberlain
Brunson Cook chimed in.
cried. “But I want to touch it!”
Still, the experience was far from dull. There
Before either of these things could happen,
is rarely a dull moment on a Grand Strand
however, Maddox had another idea.
fishing pier, as the waiting is almost always inter“That’s good eating right there,” he said. “We’ll rupted by something in the water—a brood
take it.”
of jellyfish or a shark that glides by as quickly
The Chamberlain and Kaiser families looked
as one of the airplanes overhead. And there is
at each other, as if debating what to do. The fish
almost always the opportunity to sit back and
wasn’t eligible to be entered into
compose a litany of excuses for
the “Fish of the Month” diviwhy you are not catching any
sion of the Grand Strand Fishing
fish—the sharks are scaring them
Rodeo—May is the month for
off, the water is too warm, the
wind is too strong, the fish aren’t
bluefish—and they had originally
moving like they used to, the bait
planned just to throw it back
is wrong, the rig is wrong.
anyway, so they agreed to give the
Beside us, Mike Huggins, who
fish to Maddox as a token of their
was vacationing with his family
appreciation.
from Dallas, N.C., looked like he
Fishing piers, after all, are
was using the right rig. It was
places of exchange. They are coma much longer pole—12 feet
munity gathering sites where, on
most days, you can see everyone
long—and he was constantly
Kelly Maddox displays a
swapping ideas, advice, stories and
jigging
it up and down, almost
speckled trout, aka dinner.
occasionally even a fish or two.
like he was keeping time to an
Earl Huggins, visiting from Dallas,
N.C., with his son’s family, shows
off a ribbonfish caught at the
Springmaid Pier.
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unheard melody. It was a strategy I’d seen others
successfully using at the end of the pier, where
they were bringing up silver, eel-like ribbonfish.
“Most of the time when you catch anything
with these, you foul hook it,” he said to me. “But
I’ve had real good results with them.”
His rig consisted of nine gold hooks, set eight
inches apart, with a sinker weight on the bottom,
and he was aiming for Spanish mackerel, who
are fooled into thinking that the gold hooks are
shiny minnows in the water. There is something
nearly primitive about catching a fish on an
empty hook without bait, and there have been
times when Huggins has caught multiple fish at
once. But this particular morning he was only
pulling up a few ribbonfish and a few greenbacks
that he tossed back into the water.
As insurance, he also kept a standard pier rig
beside him, the kind you rent in the tackle shops
and the kind that I was using—two shrimp-baited
hooks with a pyramid sinker—and he advised
me, like the Cooks had, to drop my bait as close
as possible to the barnacle-covered pilings.
It was a strategy that began to work for the
Cooks, who pulled up a pinfish and playfully
bantered with one another.
“I got you beat today!” Bruce Cook boasted.
“No, you just hooked it, and I caught it!”
Brunson corrected him.
And then, unbelievably, it was a strategy that
worked for me. I felt a “tap-tap” of the rod, and
I gently set the hook, cried “Fish on!” and reeled
it in.
Doyle’s lessons about patience had paid off.
It was my first fish of the year, and even though
it wasn’t a fish to frame on the tackle shop
walls, nor even a rodeo fish, it was my fish—
a pinfish—small and slippery in my hands.
I thought about something that Chester Doyle
had told me.
“I’m sure there are better people at it,” he
said about fishing. “But no one loves it more.”
So I held the pinfish for a moment.
I smoothed back its dorsal fin, unhooked it
and threw it back into the ocean. It was time to
open the plastic container of shrimp, bait two
more hooks, cast the line back out—and start
dreaming of the next catch. Talk Co-op

BY CHRISTY OVERSTREET
Co-ops are celebrating the International Year of Cooperatives
2012 with the theme, “Cooperative Enterprises Build a Better
World.” Below are a few local co-op members expressing their
thoughts about the impact of energy issues on their lives, the community and the co-op.
When it comes to energy issues, what would you like to communicate
and share with your legislators and government agencies?
“Lowering the cost of utilities is always important. However, get away
from some of the Green Energy projects by not investing as much. I’m
not against looking at different avenues, but in
many cases, like windmills, it cost taxpayers
more money than what it’s helping. I also don’t
agree with EPA’s involvement in many issues
especially when they stopped drilling and
production due to an endangered lizard. I believe
in being conservative and investing wisely.”
—Reuben Vollrath
Bennettsville
“They need to help keep
power bills low, and start
some kind of program to help
people keep energy costs
down, especially for
those on a fixed income.”
—Tonya Goodman
Bennettsville
Fun facts about Co-ops
Cooperatives, electric cooperatives, investor-owned
utilities, public utilities and municipal systems
differ, but they are also similar. The differences
and similarities are distinguished by customers/
membership, governance, ownership, services and
financial aspects of profit/non-profit and returns.
Read the definitions below to see if you understand
the differences and similarities.
Cooperative (co-op)
A business owned and governed by members who use
its services. Democratically controlled and operated
on a not-for-profit basis, a cooperative returns any
margins to members on the basis of patronage.
Electric cooperative
A not-for-profit utility owned by those (members)
who use its services. Electric cooperatives generate
and purchase wholesale power, own or arrange for
the transmission of that power, distribute power, and
aggregate power purchases for consumers.
Distribution cooperative
An electric cooperative that operates a distribution
system, purchases wholesale power, and delivers it
to consumers.
Generation and transmission cooperative (G&T)
“Lower the cost of making electricity to keep
light bills low, like with gas and coal.”
—Fonzell McQueen
Bennettsville
“Certain times of the year, power bills are higher
due to the weather. I’ve been very fortunate
that I’ve been able to manage my bill. However,
many people have problems with their air
conditioner or heat causing their bills to be
almost unaffordable. The legislators need to
consider programs to help and try to get power
bills affordable, especially for the elderly.”
—Verla York
Bennettsville
News Extra
A wholesale power supply cooperative owned by
a group of electric distribution cooperatives and
sometimes other entities (like municipal electric
systems). G&Ts produce power and/or purchase it
from a variety of sources.
Municipal electric system
An electric distribution utility owned by a city,
borough, or other incorporated community.
Investor-owned utility (IOU)
A stockholder/shareholder-owned power company
that generates, transmits, and distributes electric
energy for a profit.
Public utilities
Private, for-profit, and state-regulated businesses
that provide an essential commodity or service,
such as water, electricity, natural gas, or cable TV.
Also, entities selling wholesale power or providing
interstate transmission service subject to regulation
by the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission.
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Pole patrol
CHRISTY OVERSTREET
Attaching objects to poles puts lives on the line
yard sale signs, basketball
hoops, deer stands, satellite dishes,
flags, balloons and birdhouses have in
common? They’re often found illegally
attached to utility poles. But this
isn’t only a crime of inconvenience.
Safety issues caused by unapproved
pole attachments place the lives of
lineworkers and the public in jeopardy.
It may seem innocent, but a small
nail partially driven into a pole can
pierce a lineworker’s glove, stripping
away critical protection from highvoltage electricity.
“Marlboro Electric line crews climb
utility poles at all hours of the day
and night, in the worst of conditions,”
explains John Powers, director of
safety and loss control for Marlboro
Keep our lineworkers and community safe
from hazards caused by pole attachments. Our
employees take it seriously, left to right, Larry
Hyatt, Roddy Bowers, Steve Ellerbe, Randy Alford
and Terry Terry.
WHAT DO
CHRISTY OVERSTREET
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Kevin Reeves
Satellite dishes and other unauthorized
attachments, as shown here found
on Marlboro Electric’s
system, must
be removed to
protect
lineworkers.
Electric. “Anything attached to utility
poles can create serious hazards for
our line personnel. Sharp objects like
nails, tacks, staples or barbed wire
can puncture rubber gloves and other
safety equipment, making linemen
vulnerable to electrocution.”
Marlboro Electric lineworkers have
reported more poles used as community
bulletin boards, satellite mounts and
even support legs for deer stands,
lights and carports. Not only do these
attachments put line crews at risk, but
anyone illegally placing these items
on poles comes dangerously close to
energized power lines with thousands
of volts of energy pulsing overhead. It’s
always wise to keep any structure at
least 10 feet away from utility poles.
Unauthorized pole attachments
violate the National Electric Safety
Code. With this danger in mind, many
states make it a crime to attach any
unapproved item to a utility pole.
The South Carolina Code of Laws,
Section 57-25-10, states it is unlawful
for a person to display, place, or affix
posters within right of way.
Remove any unauthorized items
attached to utility poles. Fixtures
not belonging to the cooperative
will be removed and the co-op is not
responsible for any losses if an item is
damaged or destroyed during removal.
Please help us keep our linemen—
and our community—safe.
Electrical safety tip
A pointed reminder
Signs, birdhouses—and, yes, even
antlers—tacked onto cooperative
power poles endanger lineworkers
who may have to climb those
poles to make repairs. Staples,
nails and tacks used to hang signs
on the poles, as well as the signs
themselves, can cause serious
damage or falls. They can also
compromise the integrity of
protective gear, such as rubberized
gloves and cover-up sleeves, which
protect lineworkers from shock and
electrocution. For our crews’ safety,
we reserve the right to remove any
attachment found on our poles.
Care in burning saves money
BY TROY COYNER, VICE PRESIDENT
OF ENGINEERING & OPERATIONS
Marlboro Electric assists
storm-ravaged Virginia
Sudden and intense storms rumbled
through Virginia on June 29, rolling
out damages throughout. Crews from
eight electric cooperatives in South
Carolina, including Marlboro Electric
Cooperative, traveled to Virginia to
help restore electricity, one day after
a violent storm caused the broadest
non-hurricane power outage in the
state’s history.
“It’s an unfortunate situation,
however, we are honored to
assist people during their time of
devastation,” MEC’s Superintendent
of Operations Robbie Kirk said. “Our
men were treated well in Virginia,
everything was organized, and
everyone worked safely.”
MEC’s crew traveled to Virginia
with other employees from Aiken
Electric Cooperative in Aiken, Coastal
Electric Cooperative in Walterboro,
Edisto Electric Cooperative in
Bamberg, Palmetto Electric
Cooperative in Ridgeland, Pee Dee
Electric Cooperative in Darlington,
and Santee Electric Cooperative in
Kingstree. Ten lineworkers from
Horry Electric Cooperative left
Conway on Sunday morning to join
the other South Carolina electric
co-ops.
“We’re always ready to help our
cooperative neighbors when there’s
a need,” says Todd Carter, vicepresident of loss, control and training
at The Electric Cooperatives of South
Carolina. “This was a major outage.
It was important we help get power
restored there as quickly and as safely
as we can.”
The storm caused the third-worst
power outage in Virginia history
affecting more than 730,000 electric
customers. Even though the storm
brought down the temperature cooling
things off, it also brought down lines
and poles.
The South Carolina contingent
assisted the power restoration efforts
of Southside Electric Cooperative
(SEC), located in Crewe, Va. More than
18,000 homes served by SEC were
without power Saturday afternoon,
creating a potentially dangerous
situation as the state endured a
second straight day of triple-digit heat.
Virginia Governor Bob McDonnell
declared a state of emergency, stating
the effort to restore electricity to more
than one-million Virginians will be “a
multi-day challenge.”
Kirk noted that the crew from
Marlboro Electric was able to return
home on July 3, and MEC is grateful
that everyone returned home safely.
Remember: Keep fires far away from power poles
and please report all damaged or burning poles.
Those responsible may be liable.
CHRISTY OVERSTREET
John Powers
Marlboro Electric lineworkers, left to right, Randy
Alford, RC Thompson, Charlie Hatcher and Terry
Terry traveled to Virginia to help restore power.
During this time of year as fields are being
burned off, we need to pay particular attention
to power poles. Although poles are treated
wood with chemical
preservatives, they can and
will burn down.
The newer green
poles are treated with
chromated copper
arsenate (CCA), a wood
preservative used since the
mid 1930s. CCA extends
the life of power poles
Troy Coyner
by improving weather
resistance, much like sunscreen protects from
harmful UV rays, and preserving the pole from
decay fungus and insects, including termites.
Life expectancy of these poles is 25 to 50 years.
The CCA-treated “green poles” can and
do catch fire from burning off fields and
weed-covered areas. These poles typically do
not burn with a flame, but due to the CCA
treatment, they smolder and are extremely
difficult to extinguish, producing little smoke
and generally always result in having to be replaced.
The poles along the roadways range in price
from $135 to $650, and pole replacements
can cost $1,200 to $5,000 depending on the
equipment, labor and materials it takes to
replace the pole and service.
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Don’t ‘bee’ a
victim of scams
lot like bees—they swarm
around, and if you’re not careful, you
may get stung.
Marlboro Electric warns members
that there are many scams targeting
cooperative members.
A South Carolina electric
cooperative has reported its members
have received phone calls from an
individual claiming to represent the
cooperative. The member is told their
bill is past due and asked to provide
their credit card number for payment.
“Marlboro Electric warns members
that there are many scams targeting
cooperative members telling us they
have received such a phone call,” said
Michelle Odom, MEC’s customer service
supervisor. “However, we want our
members to be aware that this is
happening in other parts of the state, so
they don’t become a victim of the scam.”
The member is asked to call
the cooperative themselves to
arrange payment. Marlboro
Electric employees do
not call members asking
for their credit card
information.
Scams are a
Tips to avoid falling
for this scam
ff Never
In addition to the phone scam,
there’s a new scam buzzing the nation
by claiming that President Obama will
pay your utility bills through a new
federal program. Customers of electric
companies have reported the scam
and warnings have been issued.
How the scam works: Consumers
have been contacted in person and
through fliers, social media and text
messages with claims that President
Obama is providing credits or applying
payments to utility bills.
To receive the money, scammers
claim they need the consumers’ Social
Security and bank routing numbers. In
return, customers are given a phony
bank routing number or a voucher
that will supposedly pay their utility
bills. In reality, there is no money and
no such utility payment assistance
program leaving customers to believe
they have paid their bills when in fact
they have not.
Please contact Marlboro Electric at
(843) 479-3855 if you receive a call, flier, social
media, or text and you’re asked to provide
your Social Security number or credit card
information for a past-due bill.
provide your Social
Security number, credit card
number or banking information
to anyone requesting it over the
phone or at your home unless
you initiated the contact and feel
confident with whom you are
speaking.
ff If
you receive a call claiming to
be your utility company and feel
pressured for immediate payment
or personal information, hang up
the phone and call the customer
service number on your utility
bill.
ff Never
allow anyone into your
home to check electrical wiring,
natural gas pipes or appliances
unless you have scheduled an
appointment or have reported
a utility problem. Also, ask
utility employees for proper
identification.
ff Always
think safety first. Do not
give in to high-pressure tactics
over the phone for information
or in person to get into your
home.
For more information about scams in
your area, check out the Better Business
Bureau website.
Co-op communications receive two national awards
20D
in writing, photography, publications,
audiovisuals, video and other
communication forms. Professional
judges offer instructional critiques and
the top-rated entries earn recognition
at the annual CCA Institute. In addition,
CCA recognizes members and other
leaders for outstanding work and
careers in cooperative communications.
This year’s contest drew 557
competitive entries, including 211 in
writing, 126 in programs and projects, 116
in publications and 104 in photography.
Marlboro Electric Cooperative had the
only winner this year from any type of
co-op in South Carolina.
Founded more than 55 years ago,
CCA is a national organization for
the development of professional
CCA
The 2012 Cooperative Communicators
Association (CCA) Contest winners were
revealed at a luncheon on Monday,
June 4, during the CCA’s Annual National
Institute in Tucson, Arizona.
Marlboro Electric Cooperative’s
Marketing & Communications
Representative Christy Overstreet
received first place in the Featurette
category with ‘Everyone stayed scared,’
a feature story about WWII veteran,
Sam McInnis. Overstreet also won third
place in the News Release category with
‘Sheriffs announce special attack on
copper theft.’ This is the second year that
Overstreet has won third place in the News
Release category.
CCA’s annual communications
competition entries include several areas
Marlboro Electric’s Local News Editor for South
Carolina Living Christy Overstreet received two
national awards.
communicators who have a vested
interest in cooperative values and
principles. Today CCA has a membership
of 350 cooperative communicators from
the United States, England and Canada.
SC Life
SCStories
The peach doctor
Milton Morris
Tiger fans often claim they “bleed orange,”
but Clemson University professor Desmond
Layne says of himself, “I bleed peach.”
His father was a breeder of peaches for
Canada’s national agricultural agency, and Layne’s
first job—at 14—was picking peaches for $2.15
per hour. Since then he’s earned a Ph.D. in
horticulture, produced the definitive textbook
on peaches, lectured around the world and
been featured in national newspaper, radio and
television interviews.
Layne earned the moniker “Dr. Peach” for his
work testing different cultivars South Carolina
growers use to extend their commercial season
from May to mid-September. While 80 percent
of the state’s crop is shipped elsewhere, Layne’s
other professional mission is to remind South
Carolinians we have the privilege of enjoying
tree-ripened peaches throughout the summer.
“Our peaches don’t have to travel thousands
of miles to get to the market, thus they can
be picked at a later stage of maturity making
them sweeter and a better eating experience,”
he says. “The July-August harvest window is
when the fruit has the best eating quality.”
But like lazy summer days, juicy, perfectly ripe
peaches are only around for a short time.
“Peaches are a summertime treat and they
should be enjoyed in the summertime,” Layne
says. “The best way to do that is at the local
farmer’s market or roadside stands getting
tree-ripened fruit. That way you’re guaranteed a
satisfying eating experience. Let it drip off your
face, off your elbow, onto your shirt. It’s part of
the joy of summer.” — margaret buranen
Get More Visit Desmond Layne’s “Everything
about Peaches” website at clemson.edu/peach to
discover which varieties of South Carolina peaches
are at peak perfection this week. Or follow the
professor on Twitter (twitter.com/peachdoctor)
and Facebook (facebook.com/peachdoctor).
Desmond Layne
AGE:
49
Seneca
Clemson University
professor, peach evangelist
HOBBIES: Deer hunting, hiking and
photography
FAVORITE PEACH VARIETY: Winblo. “It
has a perfect creamy, melting texture and
a fabulous blend of sugar and acidity.”
HOMETOWN:
OCCUPATION:
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By Mark Quinn
S.C. students form their own cooperative during
a memorable week in Washington, D.C.
Washington Youth Tour is an annual, week-long event during which
1,500 rising high school seniors from electric cooperatives across
the United States convene in Washington, D.C., to learn more about
government, electric cooperatives and leadership. Coordinated by the
National Rural Electric Cooperative Association (NRECA) and The Electric
Cooperatives of South Carolina (ECSC), local electric cooperatives select
outstanding high school students to represent their service area as well
as the entire state of South Carolina.
South Carolina cooperatives sent 48 students to Washington this
summer, where they met with members of the state’s congressional
delegation and toured the capital’s museums and monuments. This year’s
trip also provided an opportunity for students to learn more about the
cooperative business model by forming the Soda Pop Co‑op.
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Between visits to
historic sites including
Mount Vernon and
the Washington
Monument, South
Carolina Youth
Tour students met
with U.S. Senators
Lindsey Graham and
Jim DeMint. The 48
rising high school
seniors were selected
by their co-ops
based on academic
and extracurricular
performance. “I can
honestly say this
group of kids is really
the best of the best,”
said chaperone Erin
Reichert, a history
teacher at Bluffton
High School.
Outstanding students, future leaders
Two of the students selected for the 2012 Washington Youth Tour
have also been recognized individually for their academic success
and leadership potential.
To ur ph ot
os by Ma rk
Qu in n
Tourist attractions take a toll on the wallet,
especially when you’re a high school student on
a shoestring budget. A quick glance at the price
list of a street vendor’s cart can be enough to
instill a deep sense of sticker shock.
“Five bucks for bottled water! Is that for real?”
asked an incredulous Grace Westbury, a rising
senior at Holly Hill High School and one of 48
students who represented South Carolina at this
year’s Washington Youth Tour. “I can’t believe
people pay that,” she said, shaking her head as
she stood in front of the Smithsonian Museum
of American History.
When it came to refreshments on the five-day
trip, Grace and the rest of the South Carolina
contingent didn’t pay “tourist” prices. Instead,
the group formed the South Carolina Soda Pop
Co-op to control costs and provide a service they
all wanted.
“We weren’t sure how it was going to go
because we had never done this before,” said Van
O’Cain, director of South Carolina’s Youth Tour.
“But we thought this was the perfect opportunity
to give the group some real-life experience with
how a cooperative actually works.”
Toward the end of their first afternoon in
D.C., O’Cain laid out the parameters of the
program and what it would entail: election of a
five-member board of directors, the hiring of a
manager and assistant manager to handle business operations and the collection of a $1 membership fee from anyone who wished to join the
Soda Pop Co-op.
“One of the seven cooperative principles is
open membership,” O’Cain said. “We didn’t force
anyone to join, but all of them did; even our
chaperones.”
Because demand to join the board of directors
was so great, five random names were drawn
from a hat. ll
Kira Fuller believes it’s her calling in life to
“help people.” The honors student at Ridgeland
High School will receive some help of her own
after she was named this year’s recipient of the
R.D. Bennett Scholarship. Each year, The
Electric Cooperatives of South Carolina offers
the $2,500 scholarship—named in honor of
the first chief executive of the statewide
association—to one of the Youth Tour
participants. Fuller, who currently ranks number
one in her graduating class of 110 students, plans to attend the
University of South Carolina and begin studying to become a
doctor. “What I’d really like to do is become an OB-GYN so I can
help women make healthy choices in their life,” said Fuller, whose
Youth Tour trip was sponsored by Palmetto Electric Cooperative.
Fuller was chosen on the basis of a written essay, her school
achievements and the way she interacted with her peers on the
Youth Tour trip. “There is something special about Kira,” said Youth
Tour Director Van O’Cain. “When you’re around her, you know this
is someone who knows what she wants and will work hard to get
it.” Fuller has a busy routine outside of school and her impressive
number of extracurricular activities. In addition to being active in her
church, she also volunteers at the Jasper County Boys and Girls Club.
For Devin Oliver, involvement in Youth Tour
will continue into his senior year of high
school. The battalion commander for Bluffton
High School’s Junior ROTC program was chosen
by his peers to represent South Carolina on
the Youth Leadership Council (YLC) of the
National Rural Electric Cooperative Association
(NRECA). He returned to Washington, D.C., on
July 21 to attend the week-long YLC
Conference with 41 other Youth Tour
representatives from around the country. “It’s an amazing
opportunity at this point in my life,” Oliver said. “I’ve worked real
hard to be a leader at my school, and I think being a part of this
program is only going to help me grow as I get ready to graduate.”
The week-long conference agenda includes leadership and teambuilding exercises, meeting with congressional staffers who are
alumni of Youth Tour, and a competition to select the NRECA’s
National Youth Spokesperson. Oliver, who hopes to attend the U.S.
Military Academy at West Point or The Citadel in Charleston, is
looking forward to the opportunity to spend another week in the
nation’s capital. “I can’t wait to spend a week with people that have
similar goals to mine,” he said. “I think it’s a group where everyone
really hopes they can make a difference.” In February 2013, Oliver
and the other members of the YLC will reconvene in New Orleans
to participate in NRECA’s Annual Meeting, taking part in more
leadership and educational activities. “It’s hard to believe I’ll be doing
all these things because of my co-op [Palmetto Electric
Cooperative],” Oliver said. “To think they invest so much in young
people like me kind of blows my mind. But I sure am grateful.”
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Youth Tour alumna crowned
Miss South Carolina
Scott Martin, a special education teacher at
Seneca High School and a chaperone on the trip,
volunteered to help oversee the new enterprise.
His first task: convene a hotel-room meeting of
the Soda Pop Co-op board to interview candidates who wanted to manage the cooperative.
“Impressive,” Martin said of that meeting.
“We gave them two minutes to tell the board
why they should manage the business, and you
could really feel the enthusiasm. I’m
telling you, they were into it.”
Chase Toler, a student at Dutch Fork
High School, was elected manager.
Blake Ward of Sumter High School
was brought on as the assistant. For
their efforts, Toler agreed to be paid
GetMore
See pictures from the 2012 Youth Tour
by clicking on the South Carolina tab at
http://photos.youthtour.org/2012YouthTour.
Soda Pop Co-op
Manager Chase Toler
(left) and chaperone
Scott Martin prepare
to stock the co-op
coolers with sodas
and bottled water.
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For information on applying for the 2013 Youth
Tour, contact your local electric cooperative.
Teachers interested in serving as chaperones
on the 2013 Washington Youth Tour should
contact South Carolina Youth Tour Director
Van O’Cain at (803) 739-3048, [email protected].
Gwinn Davis photos
The newly crowned Miss South Carolina 2012,
Ali Rogers, can trace at least part of her fan base
to the 42 fellow S.C. high school students who
joined her on the 2009 Washington Youth Tour.
Rogers was the reigning Miss Laurens County
Teen that year, the same summer
Ali Rogers,
she served as the Laurens Electric
Miss Laurens
Cooperative delegate to Washington,
County, left,
was crowned
D.C. Just weeks after returning from
Miss South Carolina
Washington, she went on to win the
2012 on July 14 by
title of Miss South Carolina Teen 2009. 2011 Queen, Bree Boyce.
“All my friends on the Washington
trip were pulling for me,” Rogers said. “We had just been on this amazing trip
together, and then I was in the pageant, and they were all supporting me.”
With a love of history and an interest in politics, Rogers was overwhelmed
by the opportunity provided by the Youth Tour to explore America’s past, visit
monuments and meet with congressmen during her week in Washington. As Miss
South Carolina, she will spend the next year promoting her platform—making a
difference for children with disabilities—and proudly representing her home state
and county.
“That’s what it’s all about—giving back to your community and the people
who supported you,” Rogers said. ––DIANE VETO PARHAM
$10 a day. Ward’s salary was set at $5.
On the evening of the trip’s first day,
the tour bus pulled up to a local supermarket and the managers began using
membership fees to buy soda and water
at prices much lower than the students
would find in the hotel or area tourist
attractions. The board had given the managers latitude to select the prices cooperative
members would pay. They settled on 50 cents
for bottled water, $1 for each soda.
The allocation of resources was “a little
trickier than I expected,” said Toler, who was
responsible for purchasing the right mix of water,
regular soda and diet soda.
Ward discovered that product distribution—serving up cold refreshments for a thirsty
mob of members at each stop of the tour—was
“kind of chaotic,” but after a day and a half,
with the initial kinks worked out, the managers
were ready to reinvest the proceeds and go on
“The membership advised us they’d
like to have snacks, so we added
chips to the mix at 50 cents a bag.”
a second shopping spree. This time, they went
armed with more money and more information
from their members.
“The membership advised us they’d like to
have snacks, so we added chips to the mix at 50
cents a bag,” Toler said.
“Each night we’d regroup at the hotel and the
guys would tabulate the day’s sales,” Martin said.
“By the last day of the trip when we sold out of
drinks, we knew we’d done well.”
On the final night of Youth Tour, the South
Carolina group gathered for a farewell pizza
party. Dissolving the Soda Pop Co-op and disbursing the profit (capital credits) was the first
order of business. After paying salaries to managers and a small bonus to the board, the cooperative netted more than $220. Toler stood up
and proudly told the group, “The co-op has been
profitable and all of you are basically getting $4
back.”
“I’d say it was a big success,” O’Cain said. “The
students saved a bunch of money on something
they all needed, and it was an easy, instructive
way to show them how cooperatives work in the
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SCGardener
BY S. CORY TANNER
Grow your own sponges
Natural sponges come from the sea,
right? That’s true for most absorbent
sponges, but one popular scrub sponge
can be grown in your own backyard.
Luffa (sometimes spelled loofah)
sponge gourds are easy to grow in
South Carolina. Closely related to
cucumber and winter squash, they
thrive in the same conditions.
To perform best, luffa gourds will
need a site with full sun, rich, welldraining soil, ample moisture and a
sturdy trellis to climb. Luffa plants
require a long season to produce
usable gourds. They are best grown
from seeds planted indoors four to
six weeks before the average last-frost
date in your area.
Luffa seeds are slow to germinate,
but soaking them in warm water for
24 hours will hasten germination.
Plant two seeds a half-inch deep in
peat pots, and, if both seeds germinate, remove one to give the other
room to grow. As your young plants
grow, prepare your garden soil based
on soil-test results. After the danger of
frost is past and the soil is warm, plant
the transplants outside with three to
four feet between plants in a row.
Vigorous luffa vines will require
plenty of water and fertilizer, so water
deeply once or twice per week if rainfall is inadequate. As the plants begin
to run, train the vines up a trellis or
other sturdy structure. Keeping the
fruits off the ground will reduce fruit
rot and lead to straighter, more attractive sponges. When the first blooms
appear, side-dress each plant with
three tablespoons of calcium nitrate.
One or two more side-dressings may
be needed, depending on your soil
type or if heavy rains occur.
Luffa sponge gourds are generally pest-free. Cucumber beetles and
spider mites may occasionally become
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From garden plant to soapy scrubber: With a little
effort, a homegrown luffa gourd can become a
handy bath accessory that “lasts for years.”
The “sponge” part of
the gourd is the fibrous
interior of the fruit.
a problem. An insecticide containing
carbaryl that is labeled for vegetables
can be used to manage cucumber
beetles. Insecticidal soap is an effective
treatment for spider mites.
If all goes well, you can harvest
usable sponges in early fall, about 130
days after transplanting. A healthy
plant will produce 10 to 20 gourds
that may be up to 18 inches long and
weigh as much as three pounds each
when green. As the gourds mature,
their interior fibers begin to harden,
and the green skin will start to yellow
and then turn brown. Harvest the fruit
once they are brown, lighter in weight
and mostly dry. At this point you can
process the gourds into their finished
product, or you can allow them to
dry completely and store indefinitely
in a dry, ventilated location.
The “sponge” part of the gourd
is the fibrous interior of the fruit.
To make it usable, you will need to
remove the skin, seeds and adhering pulp. Start by removing the
bloom end of the fruit—it will pop
off easily—and shake the seeds out.
If there was no cross-pollination from
other crops like squash, pumpkin
or other gourds, you can save the
seeds to plant next year or share with
friends. Next, soak the gourd in warm
water for five to 20 minutes to loosen
the skin, and then strip it from the
fibers. It should come off easily.
You could leave the sponge its
natural color and it would be fine for
scrubbing, but most people prefer to
improve its appearance by soaking in
a 10 percent chlorine bleach solution
for 15 minutes or until it reaches the
desired color. Finally, rinse the bleach
from the sponge with clean water
and air dry. Once the sponges are dry,
they can be cut into desired shapes
and sizes and put to use as scrubbers
in the bathroom, the kitchen or the
garden shed.
These natural sponges are
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years. I use one in the shower every
day. If they become dirty, simply
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SCTravels
BY DIANE VETO PARHAM
In the land of cotton
Bishopville’s S.C. Cotton Museum
offers hands-on history
We wear cotton, sleep on it, towel
off with it. Cotton rescued the
U.S. economy after the American
Revolution; it did the same for the
South after the Civil War.
More than just fluffy white balls,
cotton actually comes in seven different colors and can be found in products as diverse as ice cream, eyeglasses,
lipstick, X-ray film and dynamite.
Janson Cox has a passion for cotton, and is proud of
his museum’s exhibits, including cotton bales from
1935 and a three-foot-high model of the crop’s
scourge, the boll weevil.
GetThere
The South Carolina Cotton Museum
is located at 121 West Cedar Lane,
Bishopville. Take exit 116 off Inter
state 20 in Lee County. Follow
Highway 15 North two miles into
downtown Bishopville, and turn left at
the third traffic light onto West Cedar
Lane. The museum is on the left.
Monday through Friday, 10 a.m.
to 4:30 p.m.; Saturday 10 a.m. to 4 p.m.
HOURS:
Adults, $6; Senior Citizens,
$4; Students, $3. Contact the museum
for educational group programs and
admission fees.
ADMISSION:
DETAILS:
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(803) 484-4497; sccotton.org
If he were so inclined, Janson
Cox—a professional historian, gifted
storyteller and executive director of
the South Carolina Cotton Museum—
could meet you at the front door of
his Bishopville museum and bend
your ear for hours about what you
don’t know about cotton.
Instead, Cox gives his visitors ample
room to meander. Answers and anecdotes are always nearby if desired,
but this is an adventure of discovery
for those who like to explore at their
own pace. Tour guides are absent—the
exhibits themselves tell the intriguing
story of cotton in this state.
Visitors may prowl the 16,000square-foot museum at their leisure—
sink hands into bins of cotton lint,
peer into historic and modern cottonprocessing machinery, watch a miniature mule-powered cotton gin at work
and imagine themselves in times and
places past.
“When people go into a museum,
they don’t want ‘virtual reality’—you
can do that at home on your computer,” Cox says. “People want to see
real objects, touch real things.”
The eye-catching entry exhibit is
a four-foot-tall cotton bale,
wrapped in burlap and still
tagged with its metal IRS marker
from 1935. Here is a first chance
to lay hands on cotton and learn why
it has flourished in South Carolina
and been a cornerstone of the state’s
economy and history since the 1700s.
Travel a chronological path to see
scales that weighed picked cotton
before it was sold and to compare
evolving models of cotton gins. Under
signs that read “Please touch!” visitors
can dig fingers into raw cotton fibers
and feel seeds still buried tightly inside,
imagining the chore of separating seeds
by hand before gins were invented.
Just two miles from I-20, the Cotton
Museum is a highlight of downtown
Bishopville and the must-see first stop
on the S.C. Cotton Trail through the
Pee Dee. More than 9,000 visitors—
from nearly every state and some
other countries—enjoyed the museum
in 2011.
What they enjoy is time to explore
artifacts that are rapidly disappearing—spinning wheels, looms, a cropdusting plane with spinning propeller,
a tenant farmer’s shack and more.
One favorite is a three-foot-high
model of the destructive boll weevil. If
you want to see the six-millimeter real
thing, Cox owns the last boll weevil
captured in South Carolina. Ask, and
he’ll show it to you, preserved in a
small tube.
Why should modern-day South
Carolinians care about something as
plain-Jane as cotton? Cox, the museum’s
chief advocate for 13 years, explains.
“Cotton is as important today to
your daily life as it has ever been,”
he says. “To understand the current
life of cotton, you have to know the
history, geography, politics and science
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Recipe
Edited by Carrie Hirsch
Taste sensations
Debbi Smirnoff
2 cups self-rising flour
1 cup nuts of choice,
chopped
2 sticks butter, melted
Second layer
8 ounces cream cheese,
softened
2½cups powdered sugar
8 ounces whipped topping
Third Layer
4 cups fresh peaches, peeled
and cut into small pieces
Fourth Layer
1 cup granulated sugar
4 tablespoons peach Jell-O
powder
2 tablespoons cornstarch
1 cup water
Scallops Mornay
T-Bone with
sauteed mushrooms
SERVES 2
Zucchini Parmesan
SERVES 10
6 large zucchini, sliced
2 tablespoons extra virgin
olive oil
1 cup grated Parmesan
cheese, divided
½ cup Italian bread crumbs
Salt and pepper to taste
2 cups marinara sauce
1 cup mozzarella cheese,
grated
Cooking spray
In a medium bowl,
mix together flour, nuts and butter.
Spread into a 9-by-13-by-2-inch pan
sprayed with cooking spray. Bake
15–20 minutes at 375 degrees. Cool
before adding next layer. This layer
will not brown. Do not overbake.
Second layer: In a medium bowl,
mix cream cheese and powdered
sugar together. Then stir in whipped
topping. Spread over first layer and
refrigerate for 1 hour minimum.
Third Layer: Spread peach pieces
evenly over third layer.
Fourth Layer: In a medium pan,
mix sugar, peach Jell-O powder
and cornstarch, then stir in water.
Simmer, covered, over medium heat
until thick and clear. Allow to cool
completely. Spread over peaches,
cover and refrigerate overnight for
optimum flavor.
Preheat oven to 450 degrees. Coat
a large, lipped baking sheet with
cooking spray. Place zucchini slices
in a large bowl, drizzle with olive oil
and toss to coat.
Combine half of the Parmesan
cheese, bread crumbs, salt and
pepper in a bowl. Dip each zucchini
slice into bread crumb mixture,
coating well. Place zucchini slices
in one even layer on baking sheet.
Bake for 25 minutes or until crisp
and browned. Reduce oven temperature to 400 degrees.
Coat a 9-by-13-by-2-inch baking
dish with a half cup of marinara
sauce. Layer one-third of the zucchini slices over sauce. Repeat
layers, ending with final topping of
grated mozzarella and the remaining Parmesan cheese. Bake for
10–15 minutes or until the cheese is
melted and the sauce is bubbling.
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First layer:
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SERVES 12
First layer
Donna Moulton
Four-layer peach delight
Steak
2 T-bone steaks
Salt and pepper to taste
Mushrooms
1 tablespoon olive oil
1 8-ounce package fresh
mushrooms, sliced
1 tablespoon butter
1 tablespoon dry sherry
¾ teaspoon fresh thyme
leaves, finely chopped
SERVES 2
1 ½ tablespoons butter
1 ½ tablespoons flour
¾ cup milk
¼ cup Gorgonzola cheese,
crumbled
¼ cup Swiss cheese, chopped
¼ cup sherry wine
8 ounces angel hair pasta,
uncooked
6 large scallops (if frozen,
defrost before cooking)
Parsley, chopped, for
garnish
Preheat grill. Grill steaks over direct
heat 6–8 minutes. Turn and season
with salt and pepper. Grill 6–8
additional minutes or to desired
doneness. Remove from grill, cover
with foil and let stand 2–3 minutes
before serving. While steaks cook,
heat olive oil in large skillet over
medium heat on stove top. Add
mushrooms and saute 5 minutes.
Stir in butter, sherry and thyme.
Saute 5 minutes, stirring often, until
glazed and lightly browned. Serve
steaks topped with mushrooms.
In a medium saucepan, melt butter,
then add flour and stir over low
heat until smooth. Stir in milk,
Gorgonzola cheese, Swiss cheese
and sherry wine. Bring to a boil,
stirring constantly. Reduce heat
and continue cooking on low boil
for 2–3 minutes or until mixture
is smooth. Cook angel hair pasta
according to package directions.
In a medium pan, add water and
boil large scallops, covered, for 4
minutes. Arrange pasta on serving
plates, add scallops, top with sauce
and sprinkle with parsley. nikki cartee, york
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BY CARRIE HIRSCH
Pour Richard’s: Dinner and a show
Two chefs cook in tandem at Pour
Richard’s, performing something like
ballet in the kitchen—no words, just
perfect choreography. After years
of working side by side in narrowly
configured kitchens, they have memorized each other’s movements.
“Steve Collier, my longtime chef,
and I are like poetry in motion,” says
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He credits his culinary team for the
restaurant’s blend of entertainment,
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Twelve customers take front-row
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Favored items on the dinner menu
braise, fry and plate. Their open
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POTATO RISOTTO
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SERVES 4–6
Canestrari and Collier
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3 Idaho potatoes
take second place in the
strongly recommended.
1 sprig thyme
Iron Chef Challenge at the
½ cup heavy cream
Historic Bluffton Arts and
2 ounces Parmigiano Reggiano, grated
Seafood Festival last fall.
3 tablespoons butter
Featuring “Lowcountry ingredients
Salt
with global flavors,” the entrees and
Freshly ground black pepper
small plates offerings change several
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Peel and julienne potatoes using a mandolin or a
sharp knife; keep potatoes submerged in water.
seasonal ingredients.
Cut the julienned strands of potato into ¼-inch
“We’ll use as much fresh as pospieces (should be the size of a grain of rice). Just
sible, whatever may be available in a
before cooking, drain the potatoes in a fine-mesh
week in Beaufort or Jasper or somestrainer and allow them to sit for five minutes to
where else in the area,” Canestrari
remove any excess water. In a medium saucepot,
says. “If you want the best quality, it’s
cook the potatoes in the cream and thyme over
not all going to be in one place.”
medium heat until al dente (about six to seven
Canestrari studied at Johnson and
minutes), stirring constantly with a wooden spoon.
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Head Chef Richard
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Chef Ally Rogers serve
up friendly smiles and
unique specialties—
including prime beef
topped with “natural
hollandaise.”
for five years—before becoming a
full-time chef. But he knew he would
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a child, he watched his parents and
grandmother cook; when he was 6, he
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and fruits.
Sweet treats at Pour Richard’s are
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almond chess pie and cinnamon roll
bread.
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Art, Greenville. (864) 271-7570.
30–31 • Upper S.C. State
Fair, fairgrounds, Easley/
Greenville. (864) 269-0852.
31 • Midnight Flight run,
Anderson Area YMCA,
Anderson. (864) 716-6809.
31 • Comin’ Home to Cross
Hill Festival, Cross Hill Town
Park, Cross Hill. (864) 998-4453.
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1 • Harvest Day, Living History
Farm, Kings Mountain State Park,
Blacksburg. (803) 222-3209.
1 • Comin’ Home to Cross Hill
Festival, Cross Hill Town Park,
Cross Hill. (864) 998-4453.
1–2 • Dacusville Farm
Days, Robinson Field,
Easley. (864) 836-6893.
1–9 • Upper S.C. State
Fair, fairgrounds, Easley/
Greenville. (864) 269-0852.
7–8 • South Carolina Apple
Festival, various venues,
Westminster. (864) 647-7223.
13–15 • Rudy’s Bluegrass in
the Woods, 110 Smith Motors
Rd., Belton. (864) 356-3444.
15 • McCormick Gold
Rush Festival, downtown,
McCormick. (864) 852-2835.
15 • South Greenville
Fair Antique Engine and
Tractor Show, City Park,
Simpsonville. (864) 430-1412.
ONGOING
Daily • Art Gallery at the
Fran Hanson Discovery Center,
South Carolina Botanical Garden,
Clemson. (864) 656-3405.
Daily • Trail Riding,
Croft State Natural Area,
Spartanburg. (864) 585-1283.
Daily through Aug. 16 • The
Landscape in Painting, Pickens
County Museum of Art &
History, Pickens. (864) 898-5963.
Daily through Aug. 16 •
Steven Bleicher: Route 66,
Pickens County Museum
of Art & History, Pickens.
(864) 898-5963.
Daily through Aug. 16 •
Selvage: New Works by
Jim Arendt, Pickens County
Museum of Art & History,
Pickens. (864) 898-5963.
Tuesdays–Saturdays
through Sept. 1 • Racing
Legends of Spartanburg,
Spartanburg Regional History
Museum, Spartanburg.
(864) 596-3501.
Thursdays and Saturdays
through Sept. 1 • Farmers
Market, Old Town, Rock
Hill. (803) 326-3838.
Saturdays through Sept. 1 •
Bluegrass on the Mountain,
Hillbilly Grounds, Mountain
Rest. (864) 638-9070.
Saturdays through
Nov. 3 • Mac-Dufus Dinner
Theater Variety Show,
Pumpkintown Mountain Opry,
Pickens. (864) 836-8141.
Second Saturdays • Music
on the Mountain Bluegrass
Jams, Table Rock State Park,
Pickens. (864) 878-9813.
Saturdays and Sundays •
Museums open 1–5 p.m.,
Andrew Jackson State Park,
Lancaster. (803) 285-3344.
MIDLANDS
AUGUST
17–18 • Prosperity’s
Hoppin’, downtown,
Prosperity. (803) 364-2622.
18 • Jubilee: Festival of
Heritage, Mann-Simons Site,
Columbia. (803) 252-1770, ext. 26.
19–25 • Schuetzenfest,
downtown, Ehrhardt.
(803) 267-5335.
20 • Ken Gabriel, Hopelands
Garden, Aiken. (803) 642-7631.
22 • Savannah River
Site Public Tour, Center
for Hydrogen Research,
Aiken. (803) 952-8994
23 • Lunch and Learn
Series: Civil War, Sumter
County Museum, Sumter.
(803) 775-0908.
24–25 • Sandy Oaks
Pro Rodeo, Lazy J Arena,
Edgefield. (803) 637-5369.
25 • Aiken Arts Alive,
Aiken Center for the Arts,
Aiken. (803) 641-9094.
25 • Last Saturday at the
Park, Living History Park
of North Augusta, North
Augusta. (803) 279-7560.
27 • Aiken Concert
Band, Hopelands Garden,
Aiken. (803) 642-7631.
30 • Savannah River
Site Public Tour, Center
for Hydrogen Research,
Aiken. (803) 952-8994
31 • Fifth Friday, The Alley,
Aiken. (803) 641-1111.
SEPTEMBER
2 • Main Street Latin
Festival, Main Street,
Columbia. (803) 348-0749.
7–8 • Jazz Under the
Stars, State House lawn,
Columbia. (803) 400-1879.
7–8 • Aiken’s Makin’ Festival,
The Parkways of Park Avenue,
Aiken. (803) 649-1200.
8 • Trash to Treasures yard
and sidewalk sales, throughout
town, Elloree. (803) 897-2821.
13–16 • Columbia’s Greek
Festival, corner of Sumter
and Calhoun streets,
Columbia. (803) 461-0248.
14–15 • Lee County
Cotton Festival, ball park,
Bishopville. (803) 484-5145.
15 • Palmetto Aeroplane
Classic, Woodward Field,
Camden. (803) 420-8214.
15 • Bike with a Park
Ranger, Lee State Park,
Bishopville. (803) 428-4988.
15 • Animal Enrichment Day,
Riverbanks Zoo & Garden,
Columbia. (803) 978-1113.
ONGOING
Kings Mountain State Park,
Blacksburg. (803) 222-3209.
Daily • Trail Riding, Lee State
Park, Bishopville. (803) 428-5307.
Poinsett State Park,
Wedgefield. (803) 494-8177.
Daily, except Thanksgiving
& Christmas • SOS Planet
Showing, Riverbanks Zoo &
Garden’s 3-D Adventure Theater,
Columbia. (803) 779-8717.
Daily, except Mondays •
Living History Days, Historic
Brattonsville, McConnells.
(803) 684-2327.
Daily, except Mondays •
Columbia Museum of Art,
Columbia. (803) 799-2810.
Daily, except Mondays and
major holidays • Historic
Camden Revolutionary War
Site, Camden. (803) 432-9841.
Daily, through Oct. 6 •
Blooming Butterflies,
Edventure Children’s Museum,
Columbia. (803) 779-3100.
Second Tuesdays •
Family Night $1 Admission,
Edventure Children’s Museum,
Columbia. (803) 779-3100.
Fourth Thursdays •
Tales for Tots, Edventure
Children’s Museum,
Columbia. (803) 779-3100.
Saturdays • Behind-theScenes Adventure Tours,
Riverbanks Zoo & Garden,
Columbia. (803) 978-1113.
Second Saturdays •
Children’s Art Program,
Sumter County Gallery of
Art, Sumter. (803) 775-0543.
Last Saturdays through
August • 18th-Century
Life Interpretations, Living
History Park of North
Augusta. (803) 279-7650.
Saturdays and Sundays •
Gallery Tour, Columbia Museum
of Art, Columbia. (803) 799-2810.
Sundays • Sunday Brunch
& Jazz Series, Senate’s End,
Columbia. (803) 748-4144.
Daily, by appointment •
Overnights and Night
Howls, Riverbanks Zoo &
Garden, Columbia. (803)
779-8717, ext. 1113.
LOWCOUNTRY
AUGUST
18 • Charleston Pub
Crawl, downtown,
Charleston. (843) 991-1418.
18 • Reggae Nights,
James Island County Park,
Charleston. (843) 795-7275.
18 • Pier Tournament,
Folly Beach Fishing Pier, Folly
Beach. (843) 762-9946.
19 • Bulls Island Beach Drop,
Bulls Island Ferry & Ecotour,
Awendaw. (843) 884-7684.
23 • Yappy Hour, James
Island County Park,
Charleston. (843) 795-7275.
24 • Movies at the Mount
Pleasant Pier, Mount
Pleasant. (843) 795-4386.
24–25 • Charleston Beach
Music & Shag Festival,
Embassy Suites, North
Charleston. (843) 814-0101.
25 • Race for the Ark,
St. Luke’s Lutheran Church,
Summerville. (843) 832-2357.
31 • Hilton Head Island
Celebrity Golf Tournament,
various golf courses, Hilton
Head Island. (843) 842-7711.
31 • Edisto Beach Fish &
Shag Fest, Bay Creek Park,
Edisto Beach. (843) 869-3867.
31 • Labor Day Weekend
Trail Ride, Mullet Hall
Equestrian Center, Johns
Island. (843) 768-5867.
SEPTEMBER
1 • Edisto Beach Fish & Shag
Fest, Bay Creek Park, Edisto
Beach. (843) 869-3867.
1 • Cooper River Challenge
Pier Tournament, Mount
Pleasant. (843) 795-4386.
1–2 • Hilton Head Island
Celebrity Golf Tournament,
various golf courses, Hilton
Head Island. (843) 842-7711.
1–3 • Labor Day Weekend
Trail Ride, Mullet Hall
Island. (843) 768-5867.
8 • South Carolina’s Largest
Garage Sale, Myrtle Beach
Area Convention Center,
Myrtle Beach. (843) 918-1235.
8 • Shaggin’ on the Cooper,
Mount Pleasant Pier, Mount
Pleasant. (843) 795-4386.
13–16 • Mozart in the
South, various venues,
Charleston. (843) 763-4941.
14–16 • Yemassee Shrimp
Festival, downtown,
Yemassee. (843) 589-2120.
15 • Aynor Harvest
Hoe-Down, downtown,
Aynor. (843) 358-1074.
15 • Charleston Scottish
Games & Highland Gathering,
Boone Hall Plantation,
Mt. Pleasant. (843) 884-4371.
15 • Coastal Island
Horse Show, Mullet Hall
Island. (843) 768-5867.
ONGOING
Cheraw State Park,
Cheraw. (843) 537-9656.
Daily, except Christmas •
Brookgreen Gardens, Murrells
Inlet. (843) 235-6000.
Daily, except major
holidays • Parris Island
Museum, Beaufort.
(843) 228-2166.
Daily • Nature Center,
Hunting Island State Park,
Hunting Island. (843) 838-7437.
Daily, except Christmas •
Self-guided Colonial
tours, Charles Towne
Landing State Historic Site,
Charleston. (843) 852-4205.
Daily, through Oct. 28 •
National Sculpture Society
Annual Awards Exhibition,
Brookgreen Gardens, Murrells
Inlet. (800) 849-1931.
Tuesdays, through
Aug. 28 • 10 p.m. fireworks,
Broadway at the Beach, Myrtle
Beach. (843) 444-3200.
Tuesdays, through Oct. 16 •
Mount Pleasant Farmers
Market, Coleman Boulevard,
Mount Pleasant. (843) 884-8517.
Tuesdays–Saturdays •
Education Center displays
and programs, Myrtle
Beach State Park, Myrtle
Beach. (843) 238-5325.
Fridays through Dec. 8 •
Hilton Head Farmers Market,
Historic Honey Horn, Hilton
Head Island. (843) 785-2767.
Saturdays–Tuesdays •
Mansion Tours, Hampton
Plantation State Historic Site,
McClellanville. (843) 546-9361.
Saturdays through
October • Lawn Mower
Racing, MCK/Cyclone Speedway,
Bennettsville. (910) 334-6638.
SCHumorMe
By Jan A. Igoe
Yeah, bring on the zombies
I overheard a conversation (OK,
I was eavesdropping) between my
daughter and her boyfriend, who
is reading everything he can get
his eyeballs on about the Zombie
Apocalypse. He knows it’s coming—
faces are already being slurped in
Florida—and he wants to be ready.
My daughter, on the
other hand, thinks
he’s nuts. (She has a
six-figure I.Q. and he is,
well, awfully cute.)
“OK, but when
they’re eating your
face off, you’ll be glad
I’ve got my crossbow
ready,” Boyfriend says
with sincere, slobbering
affection.
My daughter remains
totally expressionless, advising him to
stop getting his news
from stupididiot.com,
but it’s too late. The
latest zombie e-blast
has imprinted intense
phobic fear on
Boyfriend’s acquiescent
brain, which also readily
absorbs tweets about
vampire attacks.
Here’s what’s he’s been tracking in
Florida:
l A dozen high school students
broke out in a mysterious, perhaps
zombie-induced rash. Now in my day,
cold sores and potentially fatal infectious diseases were the school nurse’s
purview. Her entire medical cabinet
consisted of six tongue depressors and
a box of Band-Aids. But it didn’t really
matter. Whether we were diagnosed
with head lice or broken legs, she’d
blame the cafeteria meatloaf, which
was usually a safe bet. Today, schools
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call HazMat, three fire departments,
six mayors and the Centers for Disease
Control, who still couldn’t figure out
what caused the rash. But nobody’s
ruled out meatloaf.
l A mysterious chemical caused
breathing problems for five passengers, closing an international airport
terminal and screwing up another
9,732 unaffected travelers. Best guess
is a spray can exploded, affecting all
five noses within sniffing distance.
But Boyfriend recognizes the work of
zombies with aerosol weapons when
he reads it.
l An anesthesiologist was pulled
over by the highway patrol only to fail
a sobriety test. Even if it were graded
on a curve, this guy flunked big time.
Getting comfy for his free ride to jail,
the sleep doc decided to bang his
head until he slurped enough gushing
blood to spit at the arresting officers.
Now everybody knows that zombies
always end up in hospitals infecting
all the astute medical professionals
who didn’t graduate at the top of
their class. Boyfriend says they’re the
first to go. To a zombie, this guy was
Dr. Appetizer.
There have also
been random reports
of bath salts causing
cannibalism, if you’re
stupid enough to eat
them. I tried to reassure Boyfriend that
my mom spent years
marinating in a tub of
Calgon, since it was the
only brat-proof—if not
zombie-proof—fortress
in the house. And to the
best of my knowledge,
she never ate anyone.
Boyfriend still wants to
play it safe and has my
daughter promise to
shower, not soak.
Personally, I’m just
glad this stuff is happening in Florida and not
South Carolina. Zombies
are never good for business. It’s tourist season
and we don’t need any uninvited carnivores making canapes out of cashpaying guests from Iowa. We have
sharks for that.
Meanwhile, I’m staying close to
Boyfriend and his weapons, just in
case. If you haven’t got a crossbow
handy, you might want to avoid meatloaf.
is a writer and illustrator from Horry County. Share your
best zombie survival tips with her at
[email protected].
Jan A. Igoe
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