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Abner
Creek
sites
move
forward
BY KAELYN CASHMAN
STAFF WRITER
The Greer Planning
Commission has approved
two new housing devel-
opments on Abner Creek
Road, bringing 160 new
residences to the area.
Colt’s Neck, a subdivi-
sion sitting on more than
31 acres, is slated to in-
stall 130 units, while The
Courtyards at Greer con-
structs 30 lots on 13.78
acres. This will be phase
one of a two-phase proj-
ect for The Courtyards at
Greer.
Colt’s Neck is located at
the intersection of Abner
Creek Road and Brockman
McClimon Road and has a
zoning of Design Review
District (DRD).
Last Monday, the Greer
Planning Commission
unanimously approved
the Final Development
Plan for Colt’s Neck, with
a six-foot screening for the
future development of 50
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CPW
passes
PRAISE
budget
With no rate
increase
BY KAELYN CASHMAN
STAFF WRITER
Greer CPW customers
will not face a rate in-
crease in 2019 following
unanimous approval of
the budget this week.
According to the ap-
proved budget, 2019 reve-
nues are anticipated to be
$89,054,761, which is an
increase from last year’s
projected total revenue
of $84,919,987. Expendi-
tures are projected to be
$82,718,343.
The amended budget in-
cluded a list of 2019 cap-
ital improvements for the
sewer collection system
and the water distribution
system.
“We’re not really asking
for any change in capac-
ity fee rates,” said Mike
Richard, General Manager
of Greer CPW. “We’re just
identifying new projects
that will be eligible for
that money.”
New projects include
an Abner Creek sewer ex-
tension, the extension of
the BMW Force Main and
more.
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BY BILLY CANNADA
ORCHESTRA
p r e s e n t s ment
The Greer Police Depart-
will host its 30th
Cops for Tots event on
Saturday, Dec. 15, and of-
ficers are still seeking do-
nations.
“The Cops for Tots pro-
gram is an important re-
lationship building event
that supports children partment has given pres-
in our community,” Lt. ents to underprivileged
Patrick Fortenberry said. children. In 2017, the
“Thanks to the generosity Greer Police Department
of the many community was able to provide pres-
members and businesses ents for more than 200
who make it successful, children in the Greater
we are able to brighten Greer area.
the lives of many children Fortenberry said dona-
during the Christmas sea- tions are tax deductible
son.” and checks should be
The Cops for Tots pro- made out to the “Greer
gram started in 1988 when Cops for Tots” program.
officers with the Greer Po- Applications for par-
lice Department bought ticipants will be available
and delivered presents to through Nov. 30 at the
one family in the Sunny- front desk in the Greer Po-
PRESTON BURCH | THE GREER CITIZEN side Community. lice Department’s lobby.
Every year since, the de-
For the second year in a row, Greer will host the Upper State title game at Dooley Field, as
the Jackets get set to take on Daniel Friday night.
THE ROAD TO COLUMBIA Streetscape bids
due 9next month
Yellow Sunday, December
Jackets host
BY KAELYN CASHMAN November. That amount,
Upper State this Friday
10:30 & 3pm
STAFF WRITER
Contractor bids for the
City of Greer’s downtown
however, “exceeded pre-
bid projections,” City Ad-
ministrator Ed Driggers
said.
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due in December, officials
announced this week.
“We are going back now
and identifying sewer lat-
erals and the number of
p r Columbia.
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s when cently, Young coached the
presents A mandatory pre-bid water services that we
For the second year in
a row, the Upper State
championship will be held
Yellow Jackets to regular
you get this far in the
playoffs, you have a good
season wins over the Lions
in 2016 and 2017 as well
meeting will be held on
Tuesday, Dec. 4, at 10 a.m.
at Greer City Hall. The bid
think will be connected to
give the contractor a bet-
ter feel for that, trying to
at Dooley Field.
Daniel is bringing the Li-
team,” head coach Will
Young said. “You must
as a first round playoff
victory last year.
opening is scheduled for
Wednesday, Dec. 12, at 11
mitigate that risk,” said
Mark Harvey, Engineering
Special Guest Artist:
ons Den to Greer for a ti- be doing something right. “A lot has changed about a.m. at Greer City Hall. and Planning Manager.
tle game clash this Friday
night at 7:30. The winner
And Daniel is a very good
team.”
both teams from last year,
like we have four new of-
The city initially re-
ceived just one bid of
“The numbers they had in
the previous bid were kind
Jared Emerson
will advance to play either Young is very familiar fensive linemen and a $11,757,838 from Sos- of high for dealing with
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10:30 & 3pm
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now is the time to get
a fresh set of eyes in to
STAFF WRITER look at what we’re doing,
to look at the community
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Community
News
GCM PARTNERS WITH
PHIL HYMAN PORTRAITS
Greer Community Min-
istries is partnering with
Phil Hyman Portraits.
With a donation of $125,
the giver will receive a
custom in-studio portrait
session with Phil Hyman
Portraits and 1-11x14 Fine
Art Portrait (valued at
$500).
Visit http://www.philhy-
man.com/greer-commu-
nity-ministries to make
the donation and find out
more about Phil Hyman
Portraits.
The deadline to make
a donation is Dec. 7, and
100 percent of the dona-
tion goes to GCM.
The certificate for the
studio is good until May
31, 2019.
The certificate includes:
the studio contacting to
start planning a session,
a personal planning ap-
pointment either in per-
son or over the phone,
can be used with a cus-
tom family/children ses-
sion, can be used towards
in-studio or outdoor loca-
tion and a personal proof-
ing appointment to select
the portrait art.
HOLIDAY LIGHTS SAFARI
TO BEGIN AT HOLLYWILD
Hollywild Animal Park
will keep its Holiday
Lights Safari open through
Jan. 5 with gates opening
at 6 p.m. and closing at 9
p.m. each night.
Purchase tickets for San-
ta photos at the online
ticket booth at www.Holly-
wild.org.
GREER RELIEF PREPARES
FOR CHRISTMAS SHOPPE
Greer Relief needs help
getting ready for this
year’s Christmas Morning
Shoppe.
There are many ways to
help as a business, church,
school, club, family, or in-
dividual.
Here are a few opportu-
nities available:
•Purchase toys or host
a toy drive. Fill out our
Sponsor Form and Greer
Relief can provide wish
lists based on age. You can
find a general list on Ama-
A line formed outside of Belk in Greer on Thanksgiving afternoon with shoppers waiting for the store to open with Black
Friday sales.
zon. Go the extra mile and
help by choosing Greer Re-
lief as your charity on Am-
azonSmile.
•Make a monetary do-
nation to the Christmas
Morning Shoppe, so Greer
Relief can purchase need-
ed items. Click here to do-
nate online.
•Donate gift wrapping
supplies. The Shoppe will
have a gift wrapping sta-
tion.
•Volunteer! Be an elf in
the Christmas Morning
Shoppe! We need a vol-
unteer for each parent/
guardian shopper. Click
here to sign up online.
For additional informa-
tion, email Christmas@
greerrelief.org or call 848-
5356.
CHAMBER TO HOLD
INAUGURAL EVENT
The Greater Greer Cham-
ber of Commerce is part-
nering with businesses on
Trade Street to implement
a new event this year.
Rockin’ Around Trade
Street is set for Thursday,
Nov. 29, from 5-8 p.m. on
Trade Street with food
tastings, a sip and shop
event, entertainment, chil-
Shop until you drop
dren’s crafts and Santa.
“We’re excited to an-
nounce a partnership
event as we prepare for
our streetscape program,”
said Nikki Crabtree, Di-
rector of Membership En-
gagement with the cham-
ber. “We’re excited about
this new event and new
way to showcase our beau-
tiful downtown.”
For more information on
the chamber, visit greer-
chamber.com.
LYMAN TO HOLD
BREAKFAST WITH SANTA
The Town of Lyman is
holding its first Breakfast
with Santa on Saturday,
Dec. 1, from 8-10 a.m. at
the Lyman Event Center at
Pacific Place.
Tickets will not be sold
at the door.
TAYLORS VENUE TO HOLD
OPEN HOUSE DEC. 1
Aurora Farms is Green-
ville’s newest barn venue
in the area.
Located at 1045 Milford
Church Road, Taylors, the
venue is 11 miles north-
east of downtown Green-
ville.
On Saturday, Dec. 1,
from 11 a.m. to 3 p.m.,
Aurora Farms will have an
“Open House” celebration
with the Greenville Cham-
ber of Commerce on hand
to cut the ribbon.
Joining them will be over
15 local vendors who will
be sharing their expertise:
Holly Goshorn, HG Pho-
tography; Ashleigh How-
ard, Baking by Ashleigh;
Impressions Salon; Blue
Bird Notes; Charming the
Carolinas Event Planning;
FamZing Video; Vahz Flo-
ral Design; Empire LTD
Formal Wear; Laurenda’s
Catering; Avventura Wed-
dings; Lusther Events
Drapery; Heather Mat-
thews, Make Up; and Do-
reyl Ammons Cain, Visual
Artist. Music will be pro-
vided by 7th Heaven Harp
(11am—Noon), BellaNova
Electric Strings (Noon—
2pm), Blue Line Entertain-
ment DJ (2—3pm).
LYMAN TO HOLD
TREE LIGHTING
The Town of Lyman will
have a Tree Lighting on
Saturday, Dec. 1, from 6-8
p.m. at the Veterans Park
at The Lyman Event Cen-
ter.
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Enjoy music, refresh-
ments and more.
LYMAN TO HAVE
CHRISTMAS FAMILY EVENT
The Town of Lyman is
hosting a free Christmas
Ornament Painting fami-
ly event on Tuesday, Dec.
4, from 5:30-7 p.m. at the
Lyman Event Center at Pa-
cific Place.
Christmas ornaments
will be provided.
ELEPHANTS TO BE
AUCTIONED DEC. 6-7
Six local artists have all
painted elephants hand-
made by rescued slaves
in India. The elephants
will auctioned off on In-
stagram Dec. 6-7. All the
money raised will fund a
well-drilling project in In-
dia through Greer-based
Water of Life. This well will
be the third one drilled
from elephant sales.
CHRISTMAS TREE LIGHTING
RETURNING DEC. 7
The City of Greer is hold-
ing its annual Christmas
Tree Lighting on Friday,
Dec. 7, from 5-8 p.m., at
Greer City Park, located at
301 E. Poinsett St., Greer.
WEDNESDAY, NOVEMBER 28, 2018
Church
News
FAIRVIEW BAPTIST
HOSTING CHRISTMAS TOUR
Fairview Baptist Church,
located at 4305 Locust Hill
Road, Taylor, is hosting
“The Best of Travis Cot-
trell Christmas Live Tour”
on Friday, Dec. 1, at 7 p.m.
For more information,
visit fairviewgreer.org or
call 877-1881.
BLUE RIDGE BAPTIST
TO CELEBRATE 33 YEARS
Blue Ridge Baptist
Church will celebrate their
33rd anniversary on Sun-
day, Dec. 2. All former
members and friends are
invited to attend this spe-
cial day of worship and
praising God as they re-
member special events of
the past. Lunch will follow
the service. Bring a favor-
ite dish and join them as
they fellowship together.
Sunday School begins at
10 a.m and Worship at 11
a.m. Rev. Chad Hastings is
the Pastor.
APALACHE SENIORS TO
TAKE CHRISTMAS TRIP
The annual Golden
Hearts Christmas trip to
Pigeon Forge, TN, is Dec.
3-6, three nights and four
days staying at The Clari-
on Inn. The group plan to
attend two shows: Coun-
try Tonite and Smokey
Mountain Opry. Thirty-six
seniors are signed up to
go on this trip. The group
will enjoy shopping, good
food, shows, sightseeing
and lots Christian fellow-
ship.
On Dec. 11, a catered
(Laurenda’s) Christmas
supper will be held for
the Golden Hearts in the
church CLC at 6 p.m. After
the meal, a musical pro-
gram will be presented by
Rusty Brooks, Jay Layton
and Lori Cooper. Seniors
are asked to bring $5 each
to donate for needy in the
community.
To end the Golden
Hearts 2018 activities, a
New Year’s Eve Party is
scheduled on Dec. 27 in
the CLC at 6 p.m. Seniors
are asked to bring finger
foods, sandwiches, chips
and dip, etc. Drinks and
chicken will be provided.
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Aurora Farms to open

In Taylors “It is a family affair that
has been dreamed about
events, and more.
The 4,500-square-foot
for years,” said Yvonne venue offers an indoor
BY KAELYN CASHMAN Fortner, co-owner and seating capacity of 250
STAFF WRITER event planner. “To see it people and an outdoor
become a reality is so ex- event option on a back
Greenville’s newest barn citing. We want everyone patio with a large willow
venue, Aurora Farms, will to come share the day with tree.
hold an open house cele- us and see what we have Inside features include
bration on Saturday, Dec. to offer.” a full commercial bak-
1, at 1045 Milford Church Aurora Farms Event ing and prep kitchen, air
Road, Taylors. Venue is designed for any conditioning and heating
The Greenville Chamber celebratory event, includ- throughout, separate pri-
of Commerce is set to cut ing weddings, receptions, vate dressing rooms for
the ribbon on the new lo- anniversaries, birthday bridal parties, and a floor
cation, with more than 15 parties, holiday parties, re- to ceiling fireplace.
local vendors on-hand to unions, corporate events,
share expertise. church events, charity kaelyn@greercitizen.com | 877-2076

KAELYN CASHMAN | THE GREER CITIZEN

Senior living community Greer CPW employees raised $15,472.24 for United Way of Greenville County. From left:
Greer CPW General Manager Mike Richard, Commissioner Perry Williams, and Public
Information Coordinator Alison Rauch presented the check on Monday, Nov. 26, during

will have 135 units

the regular commissioner’s meeting to Alex Burnside, United Way of Greenville County
Relationship Manager.

Opening pany, CR Properties, LLC

and SRI Management LLC,
imately 14 months from
groundbreaking to open- CPW employees donate
in 2020 will construct a 150,000 ing and will be managed

$15,000 to United Way

square foot facility in the by SRI Management, a
first quarter of 2019. company noted in the in-
The new center will of- dustry for nearly 20 years
BY KAELYN CASHMAN fer independent living, for its level of dedicated
STAFF WRITER assisted living and mem- service, value and resident
ory care options in a re- care. For more informa- BY KAELYN CASHMAN
A new senior living cen- sort-style environment tion about CR Properties, STAFF WRITER ‘Much of the money raised will stay in
ter, slated to be construct- for community members. LLC, visit www.crprop-
ed at the corner of Bun- CR Properties selected D2 ertiesllc.com. For more Employees from the the Greer area supporting organizations
combe and Brushy Creek Architecture to design the information about SRI Greer Commission of Pub-
Roads, recently received multi-building community Management, visit www. lic Works (CPW) raised like Greer Relief to help neighbors with
approval from the City of and RW Allen Construc- srimgt.com. more than $15,000 for
Greer. tion to build the 135-unit United Way. basic needs, make sure children are better
Hattiesburg-based real facility. The project is an- kaelyn@greercitizen.com | 877-2076 A check totaling
estate development com- ticipated to take approx- $15,472.24 was presented prepared for school and to set students up
to the nonprofit this week.
“We were extreme- for post-high school success.’
ly pleased,” said Alison

Getting ready for the Baby Steps Rauch, Public Informa-

tion Coordinator and CPW
Campaign Chair. “I think
Alex Burnside
United Way Relationship Manager
we had a lot of participa-
Q: I like your plan, and
I’m ready to get control of
DAVE other debts.
When you’ve paid off
tion.”
During this year’s cam- has donated more than supporting organiza-
my finances. SAYS the first one, add what paign, CPW employees $159,200 back into the tions like Greer Relief to
Should I catch up on you were paying on it to gave through hamburger community through Unit- help neighbors with basic
past due bills before sav- the payment on your next lunches, a golf tourna- ed Way. needs, make sure children
ing $1,000 for the begin- DAVE debt and start attacking it. ment, a silent auction and “We are thankful for are better prepared for
ner emergency fund you In Baby Step 3, you’ll pledges. the lifelong partnership school and to set students
recommend in Baby Step RAMSEY save up and increase your “This year’s campaign with Greer CPW and the up for post-high school
1? emergency fund from proved that together we impact they are having success.”
$1,000 to a full three to six can do more,” Rauch said. in the community,” said For more information
DR: This is a great ques- When you’ve paid months of expenses. “It was a quick month- Alex Burnside, Relation- on United Way, visit www.
tion, because it gives me Trust me, you’ll be sur- long fundraiser but made ship Manager with United unitedwaygc.org.
a chance to walk you all off the first one, prised how quickly you a huge impact with the do- Way of Greenville County.
the way through the Baby can save money when nations we raised.” “Much of the money raised kaelyn@greercitizen.com | 877-2076
Steps plan. add what you were you’ve got all that debt out Since 2011, Greer CPW will stay in the Greer area
Make sure your necessi- of the way!
ties are taken care of first. paying on it to the Once you reach this
I’m talking about food, point, it’s time to really

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Then, get current on next debt and start vesting 15 percent of your
anything you owe or make income for retirement.
attacking it.

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T
here’s quite a popular new trend go-
ing around that is said to help quell
anxiety in both children and adults,
as well as tackle insomnia: weighted
blankets. Essentially, a ‘thunder shirt’ for
humans, as the same approach has been
quite effective for dogs who become ter-
rified by thunder or seasonal fireworks,
which, around here, can last anywhere
from two weeks to two months before
and after the actual holiday.
Weighing anywhere from 4 to 30
pounds (I guess depending upon how
stressed you are), the blanket presses
down on you, creating an effect called
‘grounding.’ The 30 pounders, in par-
ticular, are claimed by users to be the
most successful in drastically reducing
anxiety. I would, however, imagine that
30lbs of anything on ones chest or back
would also result is slow suffocation,
so perhaps those who sing the praises
of the blanket in regards to insomnia
haven’t been sleeping as much as actu-
ally passing out. But being an insomniac
myself, I’m happy to take that risk.
THROUGH THE YEARS  | KAELYN’S
New Bank
of Greer
branch
Editor’s Note: Walk down mem-
ory lane with us! In upcoming
editions of The Greer Citizen, we
will be taking a look at old news-
papers and bringing you stories
from the past to commemorate
our 100-year anniversary. We
hope this section gives you a bet-
ter look at the people, events and
businesses that made the Greer
area a great place to live for the
past Century.
Wednesday, September 15,
1965
This 1965 edition of The Greer
Citizen provided details about
a North Main branch of Bank of
Greer opening in October.
The cost of the project
was $115,000. The
Bank of Greer originally
opened in June of 1933.
“The new drive-in branch will
be of modern architecture and
will be a brick structure with
two drive-in windows,” the story
read. The cost of the project
was $115,000. The Bank of
Greer originally opened in June
of 1933.
In other news, Greer High was
getting set to take on Hillcrest
in football, while Clemson was
getting ready to face North Car-
olina State.
Local residents were mourn-
ing the death of Mary Olive
McClure DeWalt, who died after
a serious illness. She was the
widow of Samuel H. DeWalt and
was a faithful member of First
Presbyterian Church in Greer.
In two front page pictures, the
Greer Chamber could be seen
awarding golden telephones
to W.M. Richardson and W.M.
Mason, who sold the most
memberships during a recent
membership drive.
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Weighty issues
I’M JUST
SAYING
PAM STONE
Because I had mentioned the weighted
blanket to a stranger in the next booth
at my local haunt, spy satellites made
sure several ads for them popped up
on my Facebook page as well as any
article I tried to read. Succumbing to the
pressure I ordered the 30 pounder and
looked forward to both sleeping like a
baby and living a new, stress-free life.
“What are you doing?” Paul asked
warily, arriving home from a meeting
and seeing me seeking refuge beneath
the tent I’d pitched on the sofa, my left
thumb measuring the pulse of my right
wrist.
“Watching a White House press brief-
ing,” I said, flatly. “To see if this thing
GUEST EDITORIAL
SC drivers to benefit
from new moped law
Mopeds are popular on South Carolina roads.
As with all other vehicles, they must conform to
laws designed to make travel safer.
At last that will be the case in South Carolina
with new rules and regulations to take effect
Nov. 19.
After a battle of more than five years, Gov.
Henry McMaster in 2017 signed a moped safe-
ty bill similar to the one his predecessor, Nikki
Haley, vetoed.
Moped owners or operators must have their
moped registered with the S.C. Department of
Motor Vehicles to drive it legally and mopeds
cannot be driven on roads with a speed limit of
55 mph or higher.
According to SCDMV, law enforcement offi-
cers and drivers will recognize a properly reg-
istered moped by the five-digit license plate
on the back of the vehicle and the registration
decal in the lower right-hand corner, similar to
how they identify passenger vehicles as prop-
erly registered. Moped operators will also be
required to carry a registration card with them
when operating the moped.
In addition to the moped having a license
plate and registration, the minimum age for re-
ceiving a moped, or Class G, operator’s license
will be 15. Previously, 14-year-olds, with a qual-
ifying adult’s permission, could apply for a mo-
ped license.
“Mopeds still do not require insurance nor
the payment of property taxes to the county
in which the citizen lives,” SCDMV Director of
Vehicle Services Larry Murray said. “Customers
may also title their moped with the SCDMV if
they have proper documentation such as a bill
of sale or invoice. If no document exists, the
SCDMV will work with the customer to find a
serial number on the moped itself and begin a
paper trail for that vehicle.”
Titling a moped costs $15. Registering a mo-
ped costs $10 every two years. Mopeds pur-
chased Nov. 19, 2018, and after also are subject
to the infrastructure maintenance fee of 5 per-
cent of the sales price or a maximum of $500.
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actually works.” claw at the air, “I forgot that I’m freaking
It didn’t. claustrophobic! I can’t breathe! Get my
But that’s okay. I usually have a bottle
of an amenable Pinot Noir to assist with
inhaler!”
“You don’t have an inhaler,” Paul re-
that and I was willing to give my weight- marked calmly, dragging each dog away
ed blankie the benefit of the doubt so I could sit up and fling back the blan-
as long as it helped me sleep. Around ket. “You’re having an anxiety attack.”
10:00pm I lugged it upstairs, arranged “Of course I’m having an anxiety
it on top of the comforter, brushed my attack,” I snapped, “Not breathing makes
teeth then climbed into bed, fighting for me anxious. Geez, how can people say
position as both dogs leapt upon the bed this thing is calming?” I coughed, leaning
at the same time. over to put my head between my knees.
Downstairs, Paul was watching the end “I thought I was being crushed by a
of a movie when he heard my muffled python!”
screams. My investment was soon allocated, as
“What is it? What is it!” He yelled, with several other items in the house, to
bounding upstairs two at a time. the dogs. Folded in half and placed on
Flailing like a turtle on its back, I had the floor beside the couch, they actually
begun to doze before becoming aware of prefer it to lying next to us. Admittedly,
the crushing weight of the blanket being they crash deeply for hours once they
held down by a 25 pound adolescent snuggle within it. But then they also
dog on either side of my body, like giant chase squirrels all day.
hairy parentheses, rendering me immo- But if that’s what it takes for me to
bile as if zipped into a bodybag. get a good night’s sleep, I’m not above
“I’m claustrophobic!” I spluttered, giving even that a try. Just let me finish
fighting desperately to free my arms to gnawing on this marrowbone, first...
KORNER
KAELYN CASHMAN
Staff reporter
December
D
ecember is one of my favor-
ite months.
It’s true that my birthday
is in this month, but there are
many reasons to treasure this
bright and delightful month.
Lights decorate trees, homes,
businesses and more.
Decorations invite the com-
munity to come out, spend time
with family and friends and buy
gifts for loved ones as well as
give to the less fortunate.
Music rings of truth with
uplifting lyrics and tunes played
everywhere you go--in the car, at
the office, and inside businesses
around the area.
As we think of others and dis-
play kindness, the world around
us becomes a little brighter,
 | and life becomes a little more
pleasant.
But my favorite part is cele-
brating the coming of my Lord
and Savior Jesus Christ, who
makes all of these blessings
possible.
An atmosphere of love, joy,
peace and hope infiltrate the
land--demonstrated first by
Jesus of Nazareth, who lived
on earth as fully God and fully
man.
Jesus says in John 8:12, “I am
In addition to the moped having the light of the world. Whoev-
er follows me will not walk in
a license plate and registration, darkness, but will have the light
of life.”
the minimum age for receiving With Jesus, we walk in the
light of His grace, love and
a moped, or Class G, operator’s truth—no longer in the darkness
of guilt, fear and deceit.
license will be 15. Previously, 1 John 4:7 says, “Beloved,
let us love one another, for
14-year-olds, with a qualifying love is from God, and whoever
loves has been born of God and
adult’s permission, could apply for a knows God.”
Loving God and others are the
moped license. two greatest principles for life.
Hebrews 12:1-2 says, “There-
fore, since we are surrounded
Moped owners must visit an SCDMV branch by so great a cloud of witness-
and pay the proper fees to register their moped es, let us also lay aside every
by the Nov. 19 deadline. weight, and sin which clings
Of note, the new law requires all moped users so closely, and let us run with
under age 21 to wear a helmet and allows offi- endurance the race that is set
cers to charge intoxicated moped drivers with before us, looking to Jesus, the
drunken driving. Until now, state law has ex- founder and perfecter of our
cluded mopeds – what some call “liquor cycles” faith, who for the joy that was
because people who lose their license because set before him endured the
of a DUI conviction often use a moped to get cross, despising the shame, and
around – from the definition of a motor vehicle. is seated at the right hand of
The law does not mandate the long-debated the throne of God.”
wearing of reflective vests by moped users.
Hopefully that will come in the future.
Jesus calls us to follow His ex-
ample by rejoicing in the midst
South Carolina has the deadliest roads in the of trials, which lead to persever-
nation. The largely unregulated presence of mo-
peds has increased the dangers. Making drivers
ance, character and hope.
John 16:33 says, “I have said
of the vehicles subject to the laws of the road these things to you, that in me
comparable to other users is necessary. you may have peace. In the
As SCDMV Executive Director Kevin Shwedo world you will have tribulation.
stated: “Requiring mopeds to be registered is a But take heart; I have overcome
good step in making sure everyone who uses the world.”
the roads of this state, regardless of the type of As we celebrate the birth of
vehicle they are using, does so responsibly and the Savior, may we remember
fully accountable to the driving community.” what He has done and live for
Him all year long.
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DINE
Southern Palate puts the focus on service
BY BILLY CANNADA
EDITOR
Denise Norman is living
her dream.
“I’ve always loved to
cook,” she said. “And
people have always asked
me to cook for them.”
Twenty years ago, she
began to pursue her pas-
sion, opening a cafe in her
hometown in Louisiana.
“We were open a very
short time and I found
out I had cancer. We had
to close and it was very
heartbreaking. That was
my dream,” Denise said. “I
always had it in the back
of my mind that I wanted
to do it again.”
Two decades later,
James and Denise Norman
did just that, opening
Southern Palate Cuisine
and Catering.
Owner Denise Norman, left, is pictured here with her
Executive Sous-Chef Thomas Bronson.
A graduate of Greenville
Tech’s culinary school,
Denise began the catering
business, along with her
husband, in August of last
year.
“I didn’t really know
what I wanted to do, but
I just started cooking for
people and the business
grew,” she said.
In March, Southern Pal-
ate opened a restaurant at
1209 W. Poinsett Street in
Greer.
“It’s been good getting
our name out there,” she
said. “It’s hard because
this place has been so
many things. People are
so used to just driving by
and not even paying it any
attention. But, being next
to a successful restaurant,
people are starting to see
us and ask questions.”
The restaurant is open
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‘Southern Palate
has such a
hometown feel,
and that’s what it’s
about.’
Denise Norman
Owner, Southern Palate
11 a.m.-2 p.m. Mon-
day-Friday and 11 a.m.-3
p.m. Sunday.
“Catering is still our
mainstay,” Denise said.
“We’ve done corporate
gatherings; we’ve done
stuff with the Greer
Chamber. My favorite
thing to do is private
events, such as weddings.
It’s just one-on-one and
so personal. I love it.”
The couple also owns
a wedding venue in
Landrum called Willow
Creek Plantation.
“We’re all about family,”
Denise said. “Southern
Palate has such a home-
town feel, and that’s what
it’s about. We remember
people and build relation-
ships. This is home for
us.”
Denise said dining at
Southern Palate has its
advantages.
“The food is fresh. We
cut all our vegetables
from scratch. Nothing is
frozen,” Denise siad. “We
don’t cut corners when
it comes to taste. You
can open a can of corn
at home, but when you
come out to eat with us,
we want it to be fresh and
good.”
Along with quality food
comes good service.
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Southern Palate’s Greer location has been open since March of 2018 on Poinsett St.
“You can get good food
anywhere, but people
come back for the ser-
vice,” Denise said. “If you
get really good food, but
really bad service, you’re
not going back. But if you
get good food and great
service, you’ll be there
every time the doors are
open.”
Denise said the Nor-
mans have been so
successful because of the
relationships they’ve built
in the community.
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A6 THE GREER CITIZEN 
Susan Hawkins
Veteran
Frances Eleanor “Su-
san” Gallup Hawkins, 95,
passed away November
21, 2018.
A native of
Nashua, New
Hampshire,
daughter of the
late Harry Oscar and Lau-
ra Minerva Peters Gallup,
she was a retired employ-
ee of Allen Bennett Hos-
pital, a U.S. Navy Veteran,
a member of Greer First
Baptist Church and served
as Camp Nurse at Camp
Marietta.
Surviving are two sons,
Michael E. Hawkins of
Greenville and H. Gene
Hawkins of Murfreesboro,
Tennessee; one daughter,
Nancy H. Smith of Greer;
six grandchildren and nine
great-grandchildren.
Mrs. Hawkins was prede-
ceased by one son, James
T. Hawkins; five sisters,
Fredricka Hayward, Phyllis
Foley, Grace Cummings,
Viola Roberts, Ruth Kan-
targis; one brother, Harry
Gallup; and two grand-
sons.
Graveside services were
held 11 a.m. Saturday, No-
vember 24, 2018 at Wood
Memorial Park conducted
by Dr. Doug Mize.
The family is at the
home.
The family respectfully
request that flowers be
omitted, and memorials
made to Connie Maxwell
Home, 810 Maxwell Ave.,
Greenwood, SC 29646;
Greer First Baptist Church,
202 W. Poinsett Street,
Greer, SC 29650; Greer
Community Ministries, PO
Box 1373, Greer, SC 29652;
Greer Relief, 202 Victoria
Street, Greer, SC 29651;
and Daily Bread Ministries,
521 East Poinsett Street,
Greer, SC 29651.
Online condolences may
be made at www.thewood-
mortuary.com.
Kim D. Stetson
Kimberly “Kim” Dawn
Stetson, 47, of Lyman, SC,
formerly of Greenfield,
Massachusetts, passed
away at Greenville Memo-
rial Hospital on November
24, 2018, following a cou-
rageous battle with cancer.
STREETS: GDC: Revenues cover personnel, admin and programs
‘I’m not sure that capital investment and
Rebid
new job creation, although we’ll always
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those utilities, and I think
it was because of the un-
known aspect.”
Driggers said the proj-
ect remains on schedule
for completion by June 30,
2020.
The streetscape project
includes work on all roads
in the central business
district. The centerpiece is
transforming Trade Street
through a shared street
design — milling it down
to one inch below the curb
line, installing pavers, re-
pairing all broken curbing
and gutters, ensuring ADA
accessibility, and install-
ing all new landscaping
and lighting.
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Kim was the loving
daughter of Joan Gignac
Stetson of Greenfield,
Massachusetts, who pre-
deceased her. Kim is
survived by her brother,
Steven Allan Stetson of
Greenfield, Massachu-
setts, and her beloved fi-
ancé, Gerald Brown of Ly-
man, SC as well as many
relatives and friends near
and far.
Kim was born on March
13, 1971. She grew up in
Greenfield Gardens and
attended Four Corners and
David Street Elementary
Schools, Greenfield Mid-
dle School and Greenfield
High School. Kim worked
in Greenfield at Foster’s
Supermarket and Ames
Department Store, as well
as for Hulmes Transporta-
tion and The Association
for Community Living.
Kim is fondly remembered
by many in the community
for her kindness, generos-
ity and cheerfulness, her
quick wit and her beauti-
ful smile. Many knew Kim
as creative and talented
crafts-person and accom-
plished sewer; her artistic
gifts continue to grace the
households of many who
loved her.
Kim relocated to Lyman,
SC in 2008. Kim was a de-
vout member of Fairview
Baptist Church in Greer,
SC and will be dearly
missed by her fellow con-
gregants. Kim worked for
several years in the deli de-
partment at Bi-Lo Grocery
#5297, where she made
friends with many of her
colleagues and member
of the community. Kim
was an avid online gamer,
and had many friends and
acquaintances worldwide
who will miss her wit and
humor as well.
In accordance with her
wishes, Kim will be cre-
mated in South Carolina to
await burial with Gerald.
A memorial service will be
conducted 2 p.m. Sunday,
December 2, 2018 at The
Wood Mortuary Chapel in
Greer, SC.
In lieu of flowers, dona-
tions may be made to the
American Cancer Society,
P.O. Box 22478, Oklahoma
City, OK 73123.
Online condolences may
be made at www.thewood-
mortuary.com.
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those metrics should be
for our organization,” said
Reno Deaton, Executive
Director of Greer Develop-
ment Corporation.
“I’m not sure that capital
investment and new job
creation, although we’ll
always monitor them, are
going to be—moving for-
ward—the best measures
of the performance of this
organization and for this
community,” he said.
The Opportunity Fund
will also be available to
participate in unplanned
recruiting activities and to
incentivize smaller proj-
ects in Greer when possi-
ble.
GDC revenues come
from local business license
fee receipts from the City
of Greer, totaling a pro-
posed $294,038 for 2019;
a request of $137,500
Obituaries
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JACKETS: To face Lions at home Friday PROJECT:
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new quarterback,” Young
notes. “Daniel has Tyler
Venables at quarterback,
and he has made a tre-
mendous difference.”
Even though Young de-
scribes Venables as “a
coach on the field,” the
5-11, 185 pound junior
is not a one-man team.
“They have a lot of good
players,” he reports. “Ki-
andrea Sims, a senior, is a
scat back running the ball,
averaging seven and a half
yards a carry. They have
several good receivers in-
cluding Hack Hamilton
who has caught 50 passes
and Hampton Earle who
has 42 catches this year.”
The Lions, now 11-1
overall having lost only
to Belton-Honea Path,
have been scoring 40 or
more points in nearly ev-
ery game with Venables
at the helm. The son of
renowned Clemson De-
fensive Coordinator Brent
Venables, he is Daniel’s
leading rusher with 861
yards, and has thrown
the ball for another 2,603
yards. In all, Venables has
accounted for 51 touch-
downs. “He is the same to
Daniel that Dre Williams is
to us,” Young said.
There are several com-
parisons as Daniel and
Greer have both defeated
Westside, Eastside and
Pickens. Greer has put up
CPW: Identifies 2019 improvements
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“I think you’ll see a
greater emphasis on the
things that we’ve been
working towards, which is
moving from the construc-
tion focus to O&M,” Rich-
ard said. “You’ll also see in
there—and hopefully for
the years to come too—is
that we’re going to start
on the next phase, which
is the efficient use of tech-
nology.
“We have a lot of good
systems here. They don’t
all communicate the way
they should.”
from the Greer Commis-
sion of Public Works; a
request of $20,000 from
the Greenville-Spartan-
burg International Airport;
$32,500 in Partnership for
Tomorrow Phase IV fund-
ing; $6,000 paid by the
Partnership for Tomorrow
for rent and administra-
tive support; and $3,000
from contributors to the
Greer Station Association.
The Budget is split into
three categories: Person-
nel, Administrative and
Programming.
Personnel expenses total
$294,669.52, representing
59 percent of the budget.
“I tried to use 60 percent
as a benchmark,” Deaton
said.
Administrative expenses
total $45,703.48 for costs
including the annual audit,
office rent, office cleaning,
telecommunications ex-
penses and supplies.
To add 160
16 more points in those
three games, and Young
said, “I would like to have
new homes
those 16 points to start
with this Friday night.
Since that is not possible,
I don’t think you can put
much stock into these
comparisons.”
Daniel advanced to the
upstate finals by defeat-
ing Wren for the second
time this season. The Li-
ons started the playoffs
by crushing Eastside 49-
20, then edged defend-
ing state champion South
Pointe, 50-49, in two over-
times.
While the Yellow Jack-
ets are 12-1, having won
12 straight games, Young
is concerned about his
offense the managed to
score only six points last
week. “We just didn’t per-
form very well offensive-
ly,” he said. The previous
week, Greer’s defense gave
up a season high 40 points
while defeating York.
“Luckily, we came out on
top both weeks. We need
to put everything together
in a complete game, both
offensively and defensive-
ly. We’ve got to play much
better this week.”
Daniel will challenge
Greer’s offense with a 4-2-
5 defensive scheme.
“That is similar to one
of our packages, with four
down linemen and two
linebackers inside the box
and one outside,” Young
CAPITAL IMPROVEMENTS
SEWER COLLECTION
SYSTEM
Gibb Shoals collector system
Abner Creek sewer extension
Bent Creek Sewer - Phase III
Enoree River S/D Pump Station
Extension of BMW Force Main
Sudduth Farms Pump Station
BMW Pump Station Upgrade
Velocity Park (West)
Cannon St. & Jason St.
(Replace 6” with 8”)
In addition, commis-
sioners waived an accident
where an employee was
monitor them, are going to be—moving
forward—the best measures of the
performance of this organization and for
this community.’
Executive Director, Greer Development Corporation
GDC will incur a slight
increase in rent in 2019,
and utility costs have in-
creased significantly since
building ownership has
changed.
“I think it’s just a matter
of a little closer inspection
by our landlord,” Deaton
said.
Program expenses total
$152,170, including the
$36,000 toward GDC’s Op-
said. “Daniel has two big
defensive tackles who oc-
cupy a lot of space, and
two good linebackers in
Jacob Hendricks and Da-
vid Cote who is their lead-
ing tackler. Both of their
cornerbacks are tall and
good players, and their
safety, Bubba McAtee, is a
very good looking player.”
The Yellow Jackets plan
a regular week of practice
with a couple of treats
including a Wednesday
night dinner at Logan’s
Road House and a Thurs-
day afternoon visit to The
Clock Restaurant followed
by a walk-through at Dool-
ey Field.
Greer did not suffer any
new injuries last Friday
night, “which is good con-
sidering the conditions we
were playing in last week.
So we are okay there, ex-
cept for the kids lost for
the season, of course.”
Young said.
Miserable weather has
kept droves of spectators
at home the last two Friday
nights, and Young is hop-
ing for better weather this
week. “We need people to
turn out and support us,
because the only way we
fund our football program
is by selling tickets at the
gates,” Young explains.
“We need money for next
year, and if it rains again,
we’re in big trouble.”
 | Commercial District, to R-7.5,
WATER DISTRIBUTION
SYSTEM
J. Verne Smith Parkway
transmission line
Preston Drive
Endless Drive
Bailey Road
Victor Mill Water Line
Replacements
rear-ended so the incident
will not count against the
safety incentive.
Reno Deaton
portunity Fund.
Other program high-
lights include $19,000 for
the sponsorship of a Sky-
box at the BMW Pro Am,
which is moving from May
to June, in partnership
with Greenville-Spartan-
burg International Airport
and $10,000 for a GDC
mission trip to Detroit as
a follow up to the 2017 re-
cruiting trip.
WEDNESDAY, NOVEMBER 28, 2018
FROM PAGE ONE
town home units and 80
single family residences.
The Courtyards at Greer
will be located at 531 Ab-
ner Creek Road and 551
Abner Creek Road.
The commission unani-
mously approved the pre-
liminary plat for phase
one with R-12, Residential
District zoning, includ-
ing a note that a 25-foot
buffer will be shown on
the northern line until
the Phase Two plat is ap-
proved.
GPC ACTION  |
Gap Creek: GPC unanimously
approved to amend the an-
nexation request zoning from
R-10 to R-12 for 2308 E. Gap
Creek Road, which is in both
Greenville and Spartanburg
counties.
Victor Hill: GPC unanimously
approved the annexation
request from Plastic Omnium
Exterior, LLC, to annex and
zone 871 and 875 Victor
Hill Road from Spartanburg
County to I-1, Industrial, in
Greer.
McDaniel Avenue: GPC
unanimously approved
the rezoning request from
Michael Grasso and Mr. &
Mrs. Johnson to rezone 102
McDaniel Avenue from C-2,
Residential District.
Snow Street: GPC unani-
mously approved the rezon-
ing request from Jennifer &
Douglas Fowler to rezone
209 Snow Street from R-12,
Residential District, to R-7.5,
Residential District.
Suber Road: GPC unanimous-
ly approved the preliminary
plat request from Great
Southern Homes with a
zoning of R-M1, Residential
Multifamily, for the future de-
velopment of 58 town homes
on 9.69 acres.
“My concern is that
we’re not approving it on
the north side when it is
required of cluster devel-
opments, and if they don’t
sell enough lots and they
sell the northern property
for some other develop-
ment, that buffer is not
there on that side,” said
Commissioner Brian Mar-
tin. “That’s the problem
I’m having.”
McCormick asked the
applicant for the timeline
of the second phase.
“We’re ready to sub-
mit for that second
phase now,” said Brock
Fankhauser of New Style
Communities, Inc.
Because of his response,
a note has been added to
include the buffer until
the second phase plat is
approved.
The commission also
commission unanimously
approved the rezoning re-
quest for the second phase
of The Courtyards at Greer
from R-S, Residential Sub-
urban, to R-12, Residential
District.
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 A8 THE GREER CITIZEN PAGE LABEL
Open House New Trinity Baptist Church
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HEARING 417 S. Suite
Buncombe Rd.
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Riverside Baptist Church
IONS Greer, SC 29650
879-2913
, Nov. 9,PRACTICAL
2011 ASSEMBLIES OF GOD
12 noon, and 2HEARING
p.m. Glad Tidings Tabernacle
100 O’Neal Road, Greer • 561-7174
SOLUTIONS New Covenant Fellowship
2425 Racing Rd., Greer • 848-4521
d Get Straight Unbiased
The Plaza Answers Trinity Fellowship Church
3610 Brushy Creek Rd., Greer • 877-0419
417 S. Buncombe Road
Jim Swiger H.I.S. 1700 N. Pleasantburg Dr, Greenville • 244-6011
HEARING Greer, SC 29650 BAPTIST
AID Jim SCSwiger DHEC #412
Abner Creek Baptist Church
Blue Cross Blue 2461 Abner Creek Rd., Greer • 877-6604
REPAIR Licensed Hearing Aid Specialist
Shield
SC DHEC #412 Airport Baptist Church
& Humana 776 S. Batesville Rd., Greer • 848-7850
ALL MAKES
Blue Cross Blue Shield & Humana
Apalache Baptist
1915 Gap Creek Rd., Greer • 877-6012
238-4754 Free
se call for appointment. Hearing
Bible Baptist Church
6645 Mountain View Rd., Taylors • 895-7003
269-1007 Tests
r 281-1092 Blue Ridge Baptist Church
3950 Pennington Rd., Greer • 895-5787
BridgePointe
600 Bridge Rd., Taylors • 244-2774
Burnsview Baptist Church
9690 Reidville Rd., Greer • 879-4006
Calvary Baptist
101 Calvary St., Greer • 877-9759
Calvary Baptist
108 Forest St., Greer • 968-0092
Calvary Hill Baptist
100 Edward Rd., Lyman
Calvary Road Baptist Church
108 Bright Rd., Greer • 593-2643
Camp Creek Baptist Church
1100 Camp Creek Rd., Taylors
CL
Cedar Grove Baptist Church
109 Elmer St., Greer • 877-6216
Community Baptist Church
arolina 4389 Wade
Hampton Blvd.
642 S. Suber Rd., Greer • 848-3500
Double Springs Baptist Church
3800 Locust Hill Rd., Taylors • 895-1314
T
Ebenezer-Welcome Baptist Church
awn Taylors 4005 Highway 414, Landrum • 895-1461
El Bethel Baptist Church
864-292-1842
& ractor
313 Jones Ave., Greer • 877-4021
• 879-2913
Emmanuel Baptist Church
423 S. Buncombe Rd., Greer • 877-2121
Enoree Fork Baptist Church
For information 100 Enoree Circle, Greer • 268-4385
about advertising Fairview Baptist Church
on this page, 1300 Locust Hill Rd., Greer • 877-1881
call 864-877-2076. First Baptist Church
202 W. Poinsett St., Greer • 877-4253
Freedom Fellowship
4373 Wade Hampton Blvd., Taylors • 631-1336
Friendship Baptist Church
1600 Holly Springs Rd., Lyman • 877-4746
Good News Baptist Church
301 McCall St. • Greer 1592 S. Highway 14, Greer • 879-2289
Grace Baptist Church
848-5500
760 W. Gap Creek Rd., Greer • 879-3519
Grace Place
407 Ridgewood Dr., Greer
Greer Freewill Baptist Church
110 Pine Ridge Dr., Greer • 968-0310
Groveland Baptist Church
2 Groveland Rd., Taylors • 879-2913
Heritage Chapel Baptist Church
218 Alexander Rd., Greer • 989-0170
Highland Baptist Church
3270 Hwy. 414, Taylors • 895-5270
Hillcrest Baptist Church
111 Biblebrook Dr., Greer • 877-4206
Hispanic Baptist Iglesia Bautista Hispana
DILL CREEK COMMONS 199 Hubert St., Greer • 877-3899
1379 W. Wade Hampton, Greer Holly Springs Baptist Church
864-848-5222
250 Hannon Rd., Inman • 877-6765
Locust Hill Baptist Church
5534 Locust Hill Rd., Travelers Rest • 895-1771
Maple Creek Baptist Church
Greer 609 S. Main St., Greer • 877-1791
QF
Memorial Drive Baptist Church
UALITY
570 Memorial Drive Ext., Greer • 877-7061
Milford Baptist Church
1282 Milford Church Rd., Greer • 895-5533
OODS Mount Lebanon Baptist Church
572 Mt. Lebanon Church Rd., Greer • 895-2334
New Hope Baptist Church
561 Gilliam Rd., Greer • 879-7080
New Jerusalem Baptist Church
508 North Main St. • 877-4043 413 E. Poinsett St., Greer • 968-9203
7 am - 10 pm Mon.-Sat. New Life Baptist Church
90 Becco Rd., Greer • 895-3224
1249 South Suber Road • Greer
Northwood Baptist Church
888 Ansel School Rd., Greer • 877-5417
O’Neal Baptist Church
3420 N. Highway 101, Greer • 895-0930
Pelham First Baptist Church
2720 S. Old Highway 14, Greer • 879-4032
People’s Baptist Church
310 Victor Avenue Ext., Greer • 848-0449
Piney Grove Missionary Baptist Church
201 Jordan Rd., Lyman • 879-2646
Pleasant Grove Baptist Church
1002 S. Buncombe Rd., Greer • 877-6436
Pleasant Hill Baptist Church
4899 Jordan Rd., Greer • 895-3546
Providence Baptist Church
2020 Gibbs Shoals Rd., Greer • 877-3483
Rebirth Missionary Baptist Church
2375 Racing Road, Greer • 877-0449
Riverside Baptist Church
1249 S. Suber Rd., Greer • 879-4400
3315 Brushy Creek Rd., Greer • 877-8090
Southside Baptist Church
410 S. Main St., Greer • 421-5686
St. John’s Baptist Church
2 Groveland Rd., Taylors • 879-2904
Suber Road Baptist Church
445 S. Suber Rd., Greer • 801-0181
Taylors First Baptist Church
200 W. Main St., Taylors • 244-3535
United Family Ministries
13465 E. Wade Hampton Blvd., Greer • 877-3235
Victor Baptist
121 New Woodruff Rd., Greer • 877-9686
Washington Baptist Church
3500 N. Highway 14, Greer • 895-1510
Welcome Home Baptist Church
1779 Pleasant Hill Rd., Greer • 901-7674
CATHOLIC
Blessed Trinity Catholic Church
901 River Rd., Greer • 879-4225
CHURCH OF CHRIST
Riverside Church of Christ
2103 Old Spartanburg Rd., Greer • 322-6847
CHURCH OF GOD
Church of God - Greer
500 Trade St., Greer • 877-0374
Church of God of Prophecy
2416 N. Highway 14, Greer • 877-8329
Eastside Worship Center
601 Taylors Rd., Taylors • 268-0523
O’Neal Church of God
3794 Berry Mill Rd., Greer • 895-4273
Pelham Church of God of Prophecy
139 Abner Creek Rd., Greer • 801-0528
Praise Cathedral Church of God
3390 Brushy Creek Rd., Greer • 879-4878
EPISCOPAL
Good Shepherd Episcopal
200 Cannon St., Greer • 877-2330
LUTHERAN
Abiding Peace Ev. Lutheran Church
401 Batesville Rd., Simpsonville •288-4867
Apostolic Lutheran Church
453 N. Rutherford Rd., Greer • 848-4568
Immanuel Lutheran Church & School LCMS
2820 Woodruff Rd., Simpsonville • 297-5815
Redeemer Lutheran Church, ELCA
300 Oneal Rd., Greer • 877-5876
Saints Peter and Paul Ev. Lutheran
400 Parker Ivey Dr., Greenville • 551-0246
METHODIST
Bethel United Methodist Church
105 E. Arlington Ave., Greer • 879-2066
Covenant United Methodist Church
1310 Old Spartanburg Rd., Greer • 244-3162
Ebenezer United Methodist Church
174 Ebenezer Road, Greer • 987-9644
Faith United Methodist Church
1301 S. Main St. (S. Hwy. 14), Greer • 877-0308
Fews Chapel United Methodist Church
4000 N. Highway 101, Greer • 895-2522
Grace United Methodist Church
627 Taylor Rd., Greer • 877-7015
Lee Road United Methodist Church
1377 East Lee Rd., Taylors • 244-6427
WEDNESDAY, NOVEMBER 28, 2018
Liberty Hill United Methodist Church
301 Liberty Hill Rd., Greer • 968-8150
Liberty United Methodist Church
4276 Highway 414, Landrum • 292-0142
Memorial United Methodist Church
201 N. Main St., Greer • 877-0956
Mountain View UMC
6525 Mountain View Rd., Taylors • 895-8532
Sharon United Methodist Church
1421 Reidville Sharon Rd., Greer • 879-7926
St. Mark United Methodist Church
911 St. Mark Rd., Taylors • 848-7141
St. Paul United Methodist Church
3856 N. Highway 101, Greer • 895-5570
Victor United Methodist Church
1 Wilson Ave., Greer • 877-5520
Woods Chapel United Methodist Church
2388 Brown Wood Rd., Greer • 921-3557
Zoar United Methodist Church
1005 Highway 357, Greer • 877-0758
PRESBYTERIAN
Blue Ridge Presbyterian Church
2094 Highway 101 North, Greer • 483-2140
Devenger Road Presbyterian Church
1200 Devenger Rd., Greer • 268-7652
Fellowship Presbyterian Church
1105 Old Spartanburg Rd., Greer • 877-3267
First Presbyterian Church
100 School St., Greer • 877-3612
Fulton Presbyterian Church
821 Abner Creek Rd., Greer • 879-3190
OTHER DENOMINATIONS
Agape House 900 Gap Creek Rd., Greer • 329-7491
Anglican Church of St. George the Martyr
427 Batesville Rd., Simpsonville • 281-0015
Barton’s Memorial Pentacostal Holiness
Highway 101 North, Greer
Bethesda Temple 125 Broadus St., Greer • 877-8523
Beulah Christian Fellowship Church
1017 Mauldin Rd., Greenville • 283-0639
Calvary Bible Fellowship
Holiday Inn, Duncan • 266-4269
Calvary Chapel of Greer
3315 Brushy Creek Rd. • Greer • 877-8090
Christ Fellowship
343 Hampton Rd., Greer • 879-8446
Christian Heritage Church
900 N. Main St., Greer • 877-2288
Christian Life Center 2 Country Plaza • 322-1325
Christian Outreach 106 West Rd. • 848-0308
El-Bethel Holiness 103 E. Church St. • 968-9474
Faith Family Church
3339 Wade Hampton Blvd., Taylors • 244-0207
Faith Temple 5080 Sandy Flat Rd., Taylors • 895-2524
Harmony Fellowship Church
468 S. Suber Rd., Greer • 877-8287
Harvest Christian Church
2150 Highway 417, Woodruff • 486-8877
International Cathedral of Prayer
100 Davis Avenue • Greer • 655-0009
Journey Fellowship
1846 Old Hwy. 14S • 877-2442
Lifesong Church
12481 Greenville Highway, Lyman • 439-2602
Living Way Community Church
3239 N. Highway 101, Greer • 895-0544
New Beginnings Outreach
104 New Woodruff Rd., Greer • 968-2424
New Hope Freedom
109 W. Wade Hampton Blvd. • Greer • 205-8816
New Life in Christ 210 Arlington Rd. • 346-9053
Point of Life Church
Wade Hampton Blvd. • Duncan • 426-4933
Shekhinah Kind Glory Church
600 N. Main St., Greer • 655-4545
Springwell Church
4369 Wade Hampton Blvd., Taylors • 268-2299
St. Andrews Anglican Church
www.standrewupstate.com
United Anglican Fellowship
1001 W. Poinsett St., Greer • 629-3350
United Christian Church
105 Daniel Ave., Greer • 895-3966
United House of Prayer
213 Oak St., Greer • 848-0727
Upstate Friends’ Meeting (Quaker)
P.O. Box 83, Lyman • 439-8788
Upstate Tree of Life
203 East Bearden St., Greer • 848-1295
Victorian Hills Community Church
209 Victor Ave. Ext., Greer • 877-3981
Vine Worship Center
4373 Wade Hampton Blvd., Taylors • 244-8175
WEDNESDAY, NOVEMBER 28, 2018 NEWS
Bull Street nurse found destiny
on high school field trip
BY WILLIAM BUCHHEIT
STAFF WRITER
Editor’s Note: The follow-
ing article is part of a se-
ries on the men and wom-
en that worked at the SC
State Hospital in Columbia.
Look for further stories on
Bull Street to appear in fu-
ture editions of The Greer
Citizen.
In 1959, the Beatles, the
draft and the civil rights
movement still seemed a
long way off. For many of
the patients at the South
Carolina State Hospital,
hope seemed even more
distant.
Sue Cochran witnessed
their misery firsthand
when her Beaufort High
School Psychology class
took a field trip to Colum-
bia that year. Their first
stop was a women’s’ pris-
on. The second was Bull
Street.
“I was mortified because
the prisoners had televi-
sions, decent food and
clothes, and everything
was nice. Then we went
to the state hospital and
it was the total other end
of the spectrum,” Cochran
recalls. “It was hideous,
just barbaric. This was
in 1959 and I just never
got that out of my mind.
It just struck me as the
worst thing I’ve ever seen.”
Newspaper archives
from that year suggest
that overcrowding and un-
derfunding were to blame
for the deplorable condi-
tions Cochran observed.
In 1959, the state hospital
had 6,537 patients and
spent a daily average of
$2.37 on each, far below
the national average of
$3.61 per-patient.
While hospital super-
intendent William S. Hall
urged state legislators to
increase funding to his
institution, Cochran tried
to do her part to improve
mental healthcare in the
state. In the year that fol-
lowed that life-changing
field trip, she enrolled in
nursing school in Charles-
ton and began training
to become a psychiatric
nurse. As soon as she grad-
uated, she went straight to
Bull St. and applied for a
nursing position.
“I told them I wanted
their most regressed wom-
en and I got more than I
bargained for,” she says.
Cochran was assigned to
the Talley Building, which
was built in 1904 and
housed the hospital’s most
hopeless female cases.
Many of the patients were
catatonic. Their charts re-
vealed they’d undergone
lobotomies and multiple
rounds of electroshock
therapy. But what Cochran
found equally unsettling
was how the women end-
ed up there in the first
place.
“The charts were inter-
esting,” she remembers.
“A lot of [patients] had
been put there by their
families because they may
have become pregnant
or were dating somebody
that their family didn’t
approve of; or they had
seizures or something
like that. It wasn’t because
they were mentally ill.
They’d become mentally
ill by being with all these
other sick people [at state
hospital].”
While the reasons they
were sent to the hospital
remained dubious, the
mental deterioration that
had befallen them during
their stay was glaring. The
retired nurse remembers
her first impression of the
patients when she arrived
in 1962.
“They had to eat in their
own cafeteria because
they couldn’t leave the
building,” she says. “If a
patient had on one of the
state-issued dresses, they
took it off before the day
had gotten very far. Very
few of them used the bath-
rooms. They had totally
become like animals and
nobody cared.”
Sadly, Cochran says
“bath time” for the women
consisted of aides herding
them into showers and
spraying them down with
a hose.
Though only 21-years-
Sue Cochran in a nursing school photo from the early
1960s.
old and brand new to the
state hospital, Cochran
refused to stand for such
neglect. She instituted a
toilet training system in
which she assigned each
nurses’ aide about a doz-
en patients. They were re-
sponsible for getting the
patients to the bathroom
and making sure they re-
ceived a proper bath twice
a week. Within six months,
Talley’s bathroom and
bath policies had seen a
total overhaul.
“It sounds like a silly
thing but it was a big deal
because we had to give
them back their dignity
somehow,” says the re-
tired nurse. “It still means
a lot to me that I was able
to do that.”
‘It was just criminal
to me, but when
I demanded an
autopsy everybody
laughed. My
supervisors were
very sympathetic,
but I remember
one of them saying,
‘You can’t beat
your head against
the wall about all
these incidents or
you won’t be able
to work here. You
just won’t be able to
stand it.’’
Sue Cochran
On the death of one of her state
hospital patients in the 1960s
MEANINGFUL WORK
In 1964, Cochran’s hus-
band graduated from
The Citadel and she left
the hospital for a couple
years. When he flew out to
Vietnam in 1966, however,
she rushed back to Bull St.
and requested a return to
the Talley building. She
missed the patients there.
Not only had she managed
to memorize all 115 of
their names, she actually
took time each day to pray
for every single one.
As the tumultuous ‘60s
brought change to Ameri-
ca, the hospital continued
to face the same over-
crowding and understaff-
ing problems that had
plagued it since WWII. Co-
chran was the lone nurse
in the Talley building, and,
with minimal assistance
from doctors, she says
it was up to her and the
nurses’ aides to take care
of all the women there.
And while some nurses
on Bull St. struggled to
get along with their aides,
Cochran insists she al-
ways performed the same
unpleasant, physically de-
manding work that they
THE GREER CITIZEN A9
PHOTO | SUBMITTED
did. Gradually, she earned
their respect and main-
tained substantial influ-
ence over them, helping
quiet their concerns when
desegregation significant-
ly altered the patient pop-
ulation in the mid-1960s.
Make no mistake. Being
a nurse at the state hos-
pital was an exhausting,
gut-wrenching profession
and Cochran encountered WILLIAM BUCHHEIT | THE GREER CITIZEN
her share of institution-
al heartbreak. One of her A bathroom door inside the abandoned SC State Hospital in Columbia. One of Cochran’s
patients, for instance, was
transferred to a different
most significant achievements was helping toilet train her patients.
hospital and threw herself
down a laundry chute. Co- she says. “If you’re trying the entire state. As a result, thing for that experience.
chran says another died of to get somebody commit- specially-trained psychiat- It was very meaningful,”
a collapsed uterus when ted, you’re in trouble. We ric nurses have become a she says. “But I always
the staff at Byrnes Medical have very good psychia- rare breed in South Caro- cared much more than I
Center refused to treat her trists. But, as far as inpa- lina. And while Cochran needed to. It kind of cost
on account of bad behav- tient treatment goes, it’s claims she never wanted me in a way. It takes a toll
ior. just not available.” to do anything else, she’ll on you when you give that
“I sat in the stairwell and Incredibly, the SC De- be the first to admit that much for that long. Psych
just cried and cried and partment of Mental Health her career came with an nursing is very taxing. It’s
cried,” she recalls of the now provides less than emotional price. difficult.”
incident. “It just broke my 500 psychiatric beds for “I wouldn’t trade any-
heart because it was a sim-
ple thing and it could have
been taken care of so eas-
ily but they just wouldn’t
try. It was just criminal to
me, but when I demand-
ed an autopsy everybody
laughed. My supervisors
were very sympathetic,
but I remember one of
them saying, ‘You can’t
beat your head against
the wall about all these
incidents or you won’t be
able to work here. You just
won’t be able to stand it.’”
Like many nurses em-
ployed on Bull Street, Co-
chran also suffered an
attack at the hands of a
patient. It happened on a
Saturday afternoon while
the only working nurse’s
aide was on a different
floor. She says she was
delivering a food tray to
a large, middle-aged pa-
tient in a seclusion room
when the woman became
aggressive.
“She attacked me,
throwing me around that
room by my hair,” the re-
tired nurse recalls. “I was
just helpless. I thought to
myself, ‘I’m going to die.’
Thankfully another pa-
tient ran upstairs and got
the nursing assistant. She
came down and saved me
and some of the patients
joined in too. They always
took care of me. The pa-
tients would always come
to your aid. They were
wonderful.”
In 1967, Cochran took a
trip to Hawaii, where her
husband was stationed.
She came back pregnant
but continued to work on
Bull Street the next seven
months. Finally, she took
a break from psychiatric
nursing in order to raise
her two children. In the
early 1980s, however,
she worked as a nurse at
the nearby Bryan Psychi-
atric Hospital in Colum-
bia, where she stayed for
about a decade. Then she
returned home to Charles-
ton, where she spent the
last twelve years of her
career working the psych
ward of the Veterans hos-
pital.
Today, Cochran laments
the state of our mental
healthcare system.
“We don’t have any
psych beds anywhere,”
 Police and Fire
The Greer Citizen

A10 THE GREER CITIZEN  WEDNESDAY, NOVEMBER 28, 2018

Greer police detail November autobreakings

BY KAELYN CASHMAN
STAFF WRITER
At least eight auto-
breakings occurred in less
than 24 hours earlier this
month near the intersec-
tion of Suber Road and
Hammett Bridge Road, ac-
cording to Greer Police.
The earliest incident re-
port noted an auto break-
ing on Waterfield Court,
Greer, around 4:30 p.m. on
Sunday, Nov. 11.
When an officer arrived
the next afternoon, he
met with the victim, who
advised that some time
during the night someone
entered his vehicle and
removed a pair of ray ban
sunglasses and the case.
The sunglasses have a
value of around $100.
The vehicle was left
in the driveway around
4:30 p.m. the day before,
and the victim’s wife no-
ticed the vehicle had been
looked through when she
was going to work around
8 a.m. on Monday, Nov. 12.
The officer was unable
to dust for latent prints
due to the rain.
Two other incident
reports indicated auto
breaking around 6 p.m. on
Sunday, Nov. 11, on Sun-
nybrook Lane and Middle-
by Way.
On Sunnybrook Lane,
the victim advised that
some time during the
night someone went
through his vehicle and
removed two Lilly pulitzer
wallets that his wife had
left in the Jeep.
One wallet contained a
few dollars worth of spare
change, and the other con-
tained various gift cards
that were a few hundred
in total.
On Middleby Way, the
victim stated that some
time between 6 p.m. on
Nov. 11 and 9 a.m. on Nov.
12 an unknown subject en-
tered her unlocked vehicle
and stole a pair of Rayban
and Oakley sunglasses val-
ued at ($250 each).
The victim stated that
she did leave her vehicle
unlocked that night, and
she also stated that she
has a camera outside of
the residence, but it was
not pointed in the direc-
tion of the vehicle.
This case remained ac-
tive and forwarded to CID
for further investigation.
Another incident was re-
corded to have happened
around 8:30 p.m. Nov. 11.
The first victim stated
that she observed her vehi-
cle and that the glove box
and center console were
both open. She stated that
she remembered her ve-
hicle doors being locked,
and that she did not ob-
serve anything missing.
The second victim stat-
ed that she observed her
glove box and center con-
sole were both open and
that she did not observe
anything missing. She
stated that she remem-
bered her vehicle doors
being locked as well.
The officer advised
both individuals that they
needed to ensure that ve-
hicle doors be locked and
advised that if any more
information needed to
be added to the report to
contact the police depart-
ment.
On Enoree View Drive,
an incident occurred
around 11 p.m. according
to a police report.
The victim stated that
her husband noticed the
front passenger door was
slightly open on their ve-
hicle, and that she did not
observe anything missing.
She stated that the
glovebox and center con-
sole were open and that
other compartments in-
side the vehicle were open
as well. She stated that
she did leave the vehicle
unlocked.
The officer observed
that the vehicle was ran-
sacked and that it had
been raining all night and
was still raining at the
time of the investigation.
The officer was advised
that forensics would not
be able to process until
the rain stopped.
The officer advised the
victim on how to obtain
a copy of the report, and
he also advised her to lock
her vehicle doors from
now on.
On Riverside Towne Cir-
cle, an incident occurred
around 9 p.m. according
to a police report.
One victim stated that
she went to her vehicle in
the morning and noticed
that her car had been ran-
sacked. She stated that she
was missing a headband
headlight and two flash-
lights. She stated that she
noticed her mother’s car
driver door was not closed
all the way and that the
center console was open.
She stated that she was
staying at her mother’s
residence for the evening
and that she did not lock
the vehicle the previous
night.
Her mother stated that
her daughter informed her
that her vehicle as well as
her own vehicle had been
broken into, and the moth-
er stated that she went
outside and observed that
her GPS and car cell phone
charger were missing.
The mother stated that
her grandson had used her
vehicle the night before
and may have not locked
the vehicle after use.
The officer informed
both victims that there
had been other autobreak-
ings in the immediate area
and that the police depart-
ment was investigating all.
The officer informed the
victims on how to obtain a
copy of the report and to
contact the police depart-
ment if they noticed any
other items missing.
The officer advised both
victims to remember to
lock their vehicles.
On Corday Lane, an inci-
dent occurred around 11
p.m. according to a police
report.
The victim stated that
some time between 11
p.m. Nov. 11 and 7 a.m.
Nov. 12 an unknown sub-
ject entered his vehicle
and stole a Mac book lap-
top valued at ($2800), a
black Smith and Wesson
M&P Shield 9mm hand-
gun valued at ($500), and
$1,000 cash. The victim
stated that he remembers
locking the vehicle the
night before.
The officer observed no
signs of forced entry on
the vehicle.
An adjacent neighbor
was able to show the of-
ficer video footage out-
side of her driveway of a
subject wearing a hoodie
and a mask outside of her
property on Nov. 12 at 3
a.m.
The neighbor stated that
the subject also attempt-
ed to gain entry inside of
her vehicle but was unable
due to it being locked. She
was unable to provide a
copy of the video at the
time but stated she would
attempt to at a later date.
The camera is only point-
ing at her property and is
less than a minute long.
Another officer was also
on the scene at Irvington
Drive in the same neigh-
borhood working a sep-
arate auto breaking inci-
dent that could possibly
be related, and he also
was able to observe video
footage of his incident in
which he observed a sub-
ject wearing a hoodie.
This case remains active
and forwarded to CID for
further investigation.
The laptop as well as
the handgun were entered
into NCIC as stolen.
On Irvington Drive, the
incident occurred around
2:50 a.m. Nov. 12 accord-
ing to a police report, and
the officer arrived around
8:25 a.m. later that morn-
ing.
The victim stated that
he observed that his ve-
hicle had been ransacked
during the night, and he
stated that he had vid-
eo surveillance cameras
and reviewed the footage
from the previous night;
he showed the officer the
video.
The officer observed
a male subject, wearing
a hoodie sweatshirt and
gloves, approach the vehi-
cle, open the driver door,
and ransack the vehicle
while using a flashlight.
He observed the subject
then walk away from the
vehicle and could see the
subject’s shadow as well
as another subject’s shad-
ow.
The victim informed the
officer that nothing had
been taken that he could
see, and he emailed the
officer the videos of the
incident.
The officer received
the videos and forwarded
them to the CID detective.
This case remains active.
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Crime apologetic of the offense.

The officer asked him his
name, and he identified
Report himself as Jesse Roach.
to just try and relax. At
the same time, the K-9 of-
ficer advised the officer of Taylors residents die
a positive alert by her K-9.

after head-on collision

(Note: All information
contained in the following
was taken directly from
the official incident reports
filed by the City of Greer
Police Department. All
suspects are to be consid-
The officer asked him if
he had any weapons on
him and if he could search
his person. Roach said yes
to the search. The officer
asked him where he was
coming from, and he said
Easley. The officer asked
him if this was his car,
and he told the officer, yes
The officer asked Roach
where it was, and he told
him in a wallet between
the driver and center con-
sole. The officer advised
him they were going to be
searching his vehicle and On Sandy northbound on Sandy Flat
Road while Epps was trav-
The SCHP and Greenville
County Coroner’s Office
had another officer stand eling southbound. are investigating the inci-
with him at the bumper of
his police car. In the front Flat Road While negotiating
sharp right curve at the
a dent.

ered innocent until proven
guilty in the court of law.)
METH POSSESSION
Jesse Keene Roach, 24,
of Greer has been charged
with Possession of Meth-
amphetamine with Intent
to Distribute, second.
According to an incident
report, on Nov. 13, an offi-
cer had his patrol vehicle
parked in a vacant lot at
the intersection of Chick
Springs Road and South
Buncombe Road. While do-
but that the tag was not
correct, and he hasn’t had
time to transfer it over yet.
Roach’s body language
seemed as if there was
something he was con-
cerned about, and his
response to the officer’s
questions were delayed as
if he was having to think
of an answer. The more
they talked, the worse it
seemed to get. When a
back up officer arrived on
the scene, Roach saw him
pull in. The officer asked
seat next to the console,
the officer located a wal-
let as Roach had said. In a
middle pocket, the officer
found a napkin wadded
up wrapped in blue paint-
ers tape. The officer could
feel some type of hard
substance inside. The of-
ficer opened the item and
inside located a clear bag-
gie with a clear rock like
substance. From his law
enforcement experience,
this looked to be metham-
phetamine. It later field
intersection of Jackson
Tuesday Grove Road, Buice drifted
into the southbound lane, WANT IT!
FIND IT!
colliding head-on with
BY KAELYN CASHMAN Epps’ vehicle traveling
STAFF WRITER the opposite direction, ac-
cording to the Greenville
BUY IT!
Local residents Aus- County Coroner’s report. SELL IT!
tin Taylor Buice, 21, and North Greenville Fire
Dawn Taylor Epps, 56,
both of Taylors, died last
Department along with
Greenville County Emer-
The Greer Citizen
Tuesday following a colli- gency Medical Services CLASSIFIEDS
sion on Sandy Flat Road in (GCEMS) responded with
Taylors. Buice being pronounced 877-2076
Buice was traveling dead on the scene.

ing so, he observed a black
four door SUV approach
the stop sign on Chick
Springs Road. The officer
had a full side view of this
vehicle and was able to
see the passenger front
and rear turn lamps. He
noticed that the rear light
was blinking extremely
fast; this is usually cased
by another turn lamp on
the same side being blown
or dysfunctional. The offi-
cer could clearly see that
the front turn lamp was
not working as the subject
made a right turn onto
South Buncombe Road.
Since this is a violation of
Section Code 56-05-5310,
the officer pulled out to
catch up to the suspect
vehicle. As the officer ap-
proached the vehicle, the
suspect hit the brakes
which displayed that he
also had a driver side
brake lamp inoperable.
As the officer went to call
out his traffic stop on the
vehicle, the driver aggres-
sively increased speed and
merged to the right lane
for no apparent reason.
The officer activated his
emergency lights and got
back behind the suspect
Roach a question, and he
was to fixated on seeing
another police car that
he opened his mouth to
answer the question but
nothing audible came out,
and he just fixated on that
car. The officer had to tell
Roach not to worry about
him that he’s just here for
the officer and his safety.
Roach had a valid driv-
er’s license, and he also
had insurance on the vehi-
cle. With that in mind and
his body language, these
were key indicators to the
officer that the problem
was most likely inside
the car. The officer asked
Roach if this was his car,
and he said yes. The offi-
cer also asked him if ev-
erything inside the car be-
longed to him, and he said
yes. At this time, the offi-
cer had already called for
a K-9 unit, and the officer
was arriving on the scene.
When the officer advised
Roach the K-9 was here,
the officer could see the
skin color of his face turn
pale. This was a huge in-
dicator to the officer that
Roach was so stressed
about whatever was in
the car that seeing that
Trusted.
tested positive for meth-
amphetamine. Once the
search was completed, the
officer advised Roach that
he was under arrest for
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vehicle. The suspect pulled
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officer made his approach
on the passenger side of
the vehicle, immediately
noticing some type of bat/
club in the passenger seat.
The officer told the sub-
ject who he was and asked
him for his license. The of-
ficer asked him to step out
of the car and speak with
him at the rear. His re-
sponse to the officer was,
“Am I going to jail?” The
officer told him he didn’t
say that, and he stepped
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WEDNESDAY, NOVEMBER 28, 2018 
UP TO THE CHALLENGE
Byrnes, Greer in Upper State Matches
Rebels
oust
Gaffney
with late
rally
BY BILLY CANNADA
SPORTS EDITOR
You might knock them
down, but they’re never
out.
That’s been the story for
Byrnes this postseason, as
the Rebels mounted an-
other comeback win last
Friday at Nixon Field to
top Gaffney 27-22.
Trailing 16-7 ate in the
game, Reggie Shaw’s team
didn’t panic and found
its way to another Upper
State title game.
“When you’ve been in
that situation, there’s that
confidence in the back of
your mind that you can
come back and find a
way,” Shaw said. “We’ve
had to do that a couple
of times this year, so we
know it ain’t over until it’s
over.”
Byrnes got going early as
Lawrence Scott hooked up
with Braylin Johnson on a
43-yard touchdown grab
after the ball bounced off
a defender.
The Rebels gave up
a field goal and then a
touchdown a few mo-
ments later when Scott
was intercepted by Quez
Smith and it was returned
more than 60 yards for a
score.
“They did some things
differently, and you have
to give them credit,” Shaw
said. “We felt like if we
would stop beating our-
selves, we were going to
be fine.”
The woes were not over
for Shaw’s team, which
had a punt blocked inside
their own red zone, lead-
ing to another Gaffney
touchdown.
SEE REBELS | B3
Garrett Dill and the Greer defense were up to the task last Friday, holding Ridge View to one field goal and forcing a
second-half turnover that led the Jackets to victory.
Jacket defense holds ground
BY LELAND BURCH
FOR THE GREER CITIZEN
Greer is on the way to
the Upper State Class
AAAA finals after eking
out a Black Friday win by
a baseball-like score of 6-3
over Ridge View at Dooley
Field.
Like a crowd of bargain
shoppers lined at the mall
waiting for the doors to
open, Greer’s defense was
anxious to atone for giv-
ing up 40 points a week
earlier to York. The highly
motivated Yellow Jackets
kept the Blazers out of the
Sports
The Greer Citizen
Byrnes used a second-half comeback to knock off Gaffney last Friday at Nixon Field.
DAVID VS. GOLIATH
Rebels face undefeated TL Hanna
BY BILLY CANNADA
SPORTS EDITOR
The Rebels are one win
away from a return trip to
Columbia, but a 13-0 Goli-
ath is standing in the way.
“It does kind of fee like
David going against Goli-
ath,” Head Coach Reggie
Shaw said of his team’s
matchup with TL Hanna
this Friday. “They’re big
and physical and they do a
lot of things well. They’re
difficult to simulate, but
you have to be fundamen-
tally sound and play disci-
plined if you want to have
a chance.”
Hanna has knocked off
Spartanburg, Northwest-
ern and Dorman so far in
the Class AAAAA state
playoffs.
The Yellow Jackets also
ousted Byrnes from the
2017 playoffs.
end zone by stopping sev-
eral scoring threats and
sacking quarterback Javon
Anderson seven times.
“Our coaches challenged
them in practice, and they
played their tails off,”
Head Coach Will Young
declared afterwards. “To
come back from giving
up that many points just
seven days ago says a lot
about the character of
these kids and Greer High
School.”
Young added, “Our
coaches did a great job
of putting a game plan
together. A lot of credit
“Their offense is even
better because they’ve got
another year of experience
running it,” Shaw said.
“Their defense has stayed
aggressive as well. It’s
going to be a very tough
matchup.”
The head coach said TL
Hanna’s size and speed
will present problems for
the Rebels on the road Fri-
day night.
“They are very good in
the box and do a good job
of stoping the run,” Shaw
said. “They’ll also play a
lot of man coverage be-
cause they’re big enough
to match up.”
Hanna has beaten a
number of solid oppo-
nents this season, includ-
ing: BHP, Greenwood and
Laurens.
The Rebels’ only two
losses of the season came
to Don Bosco and Dorman
goes to the defensive line
– their quarterback got
ratty-tatted a lot tonight.”
The front three, Quack Co-
hen, McZavion Holley, and
Jakyre Kerns, did most of
the damage with a com-
bined five sacks, while
Najawuan Smith added a
pair of sacks on lineback-
er blitzes.
The defense also set
up Greer’s winning score
when Holley, Cohen and
Kerns pressured Ander-
son into a hurried fourth-
down throw. Ridge View
had taken the second half
kickoff and advanced to
PRESTON BURCH | THE GREER CITIZEN
earlier this fall.
“The team last year was
a little fragile,” Shaw said.
“They hadn’t figured out
how to finish. This team
has figured that out.
They’ve been through ad-
versity. Every week there’s
something new, and they
continue to find a way.
They just believe in them-
selves.”
After missing the play-
offs in 2016, Shaw’s team
has transformed back into
a contender, but the job
isn’t done yet.
“We feel closer to where
we want to be. We want
to be playing this time of
year,” Shaw said. “We still
feel like the underdog,
which is not a bad thing.
We like that role. It moti-
vates us.”
Game time is set for 7:30
p.m. at TL Hanna.
PRESTON BURCH | THE GREER CITIZEN
Greer’s 28-yard line by
competing three straight
third-down passes of 14
yards each. But a holding
penalty set the visitors
back. On fourth down,
Kerns tipped Anderson’s
pass into the air, then
caught the ball and head-
ed toward the opposite
end zone. Kerns made it
as far as the 14 yard line
before being pulled down
from behind.
Running back Dre Wil-
liams advanced the ball to
the Ridge View two on the
next play and later scored
SEE GREER | B3
B
BLAME
CANNADA
BILLY
CANNADA
Bentley
Y
’all ok over there in
Tiger Town?
I assure you, it’s
safe now. Jake Bentley
is back in Columbia and
can’t throw any more
touchdowns in Death
Valley this year.
Seriously, congrats
Clemson. Five wins in a
row over your rival and
a perfect regular season
are reasons to celebrate.
It will be fun to see
what you guys do in the
playoffs.
But what about the
kid most Clemson fans
have been clowning all
year? He’s heard it all
by now…the boos, the
calls for his backup, the
constant criticism.
For a guy who made
his name as an emotion-
al player, Jake Bentley
hasn’t responded emo-
tionally to all the hate.
He’s just put up in-
credible numbers.
During the last five
games, Bentley has
thrown for 1,603 yards,
14 touchdowns and has
108 completions.
A good number of
those stats came against
Clemson, where he
threw five touchdowns
and more than 500
yards.
To give you some
perspective as to how
rare those numbers are,
only a few QBs in college
football have done
something similar. Okla-
homa’s Kyler Murray
recently threw for 434
yards and had a total
of seven touchdowns.
Heisman candidate Will
Grier had his best game
with 550 yards passing
and four touchdowns.
Jake’s outing wasn’t
just good for a South
Carolina kid. It was good
for any college football
program.
And it would have
been interesting to see
how that game would’ve
gone if South Caroli-
na had more than one
defensive starter. A
21-point win isn’t ex-
actly close, but judging
from Dabo’s reaction to
the Tigers’ last touch-
down, the game was a
lot less comfortable than
most Clemson fans care
to admit.
Here’s the thing about
winning streaks against
your rival—they’re not
safe forever.
I know Clemson was
planning on destroying
South Carolina this year
and that remains the
plan for years to come,
but you’re setting your-
self up for heartbreak
if you think the Game-
cocks aren’t going to get
one here soon.
Carolina didn’t just
take a swing at that de-
fense Saturday night, the
Gamecocks threw hay-
makers for four quarters
and landed enough of
them to put the Tigers
on edge. There’s no such
thing as a moral victory
in sports, but if you’re
Carolina, you did ev-
erything you could and
executed a game plan
perfectly.
Clemson is just better
right now.
Would they be better
if South Carolina had a
starting defense? That
question will go into the
‘what if’ hall of fame.
I wouldn’t be terribly
worried though, Tigers.
You still have the best
defensive line in the
country, some very tal-
ented skill players and
a quarterback that can
throw with the best of
them.
You just ran into a ri-
val that was tired of the
disrespect.
South Carolina still has
a lot of soul searching to
do, but I think the quar-
terback questions can be
put to rest.
B2 THE GREER CITIZEN SPORTS
Crusader men fall to Anderson
The North Greenville
men’s basketball team fell
to the Anderson Trojans
100-73 on the road recent-
ly.
Anderson shot 71.9 per-
cent from the field in the
second half to score 61
points, while the Crusad-
ers shot 43.6 percent.
Crusader
Corner
Caleb Arrington had
a strong game with 19
points for NGU. Kovi Tate
had an impressive per-
formance, posting a dou-
ble-double.
North Greenville fell be-
hind early thanks to a 14-3
run by the Trojans to be-
gin the game. The Crusad-
ers trailed in the half by
as much as 16, but would
dominate the remainder
of the first half to cut the
deficit to just three points
at the half with a score
of 39-36 in favor of An-
derson. Caleb Arrington
led the Crusaders with 14
points.
The two teams traded
points for several minutes.
However, Anderson’s of-
fense would really get go-
ing with a 26-6 run to lead
76-49. Eventually, North
Greenville’s offense would
pick back up, but the game
was already in hand for
the Trojans. AU hit triple
digits with 35 seconds re-
maining. NGU scored the
final three points, but the
game would come to an
end with a final score of
100-73. North Greenville
put together a 43.5 field
goal percentage in the
half. Joe Conley led NGU
in points for the half with
12.
LADY CRUSADERS
FALL TO ROYALS
The North Greenville
women’s basketball team
dropped its recent match-
up with Queens, 65-59.
The Crusaders led 22-13
after the first quarter, but
were outscored in the re-
maining quarters through-
out the game. Savannah
Hughes was the leading
Reddick wins Xfinity title
in Ford EcoBoost 300
BY REID SPENCER
NASCAR WIRE
Tyler Reddick was the
only driver of the Champi-
onship 4 who really liked
it on top, and his willing-
ness to run the wall paid
off with a race win and a
NASCAR Xfinity Series ti-
tle.
Charging forward in the
top lane, even though it
meant an occasional brush
with the outside wall, Red-
dick pulled away from
pole winner Cole Custer
during a long green-flag
run to the finish to the
Ford EcoBoost 300 by
6.902 seconds earlier this
month.
“I picked a really good
time to get my life togeth-
er and decide to win a
race,” and elated Reddick
said in Victory Lane.
In fact, Saturday’s win
was the third in Reddick’s
career and his second of
the season. Reddick won
the 2018 opener at Dayto-
na International Speedway
by .0004 seconds over JR
Motorsports teammate El-
liott Sadler, who finished
14th on Saturday in his
final start as a full-time
driver.
At Daytona, Reddick’s
margin of victory trans-
lated to roughly three
inches. At Homestead, it
was a no-doubter. Once he
passed fellow Champion-
ship 4 competitor Chris-
topher Bell for the lead on
Lap 164 of 200 and stayed
within inches with the wall
lap after lap, he quickly
pulled away for the win,
the championship and the
Sunoco Rookie of the Year
honors.  “I think if we could
“I just knew we had to
execute,” Reddick said. “I
thought we had a chance if
we just made it to Home-
stead. I like this track—it
rewards my aggression.
The North Greenville women’s cross country team finished 14th at the NCAA Southeast
Regional, capping a successful season.
scorer for NGU with 18
points.
North Greenville start-
ed the game in dominat-
ing fashion, leading 17-2
just five minutes into the
game. Although Queens
scored the final seven
points of the quarter,
the Crusaders still took a
strong lead into the end of
the quarter with a score of
22-13.
The Royals came storm-
ing back early in the quar-
ter with a 13-2 run to
lead 26-24. Closing out
the quarter, both teams
would go over two min-
utes without a point, but
a jumper by Queens and
a three-pointer by Karen
Donahew for NGU made
the score tied 28-28 at
the half. NGU shot 33.3%
from the field with Done-
hew and Savannah Hughes
both scoring eight points
to lead the Crusaders in
scoring for the half.
Both teams would shoot
well throughout the quar-
ter. NGU’s final lead of
the game would come
with 6:57 remaining in
the quarter when Bree
Stoddard connected for a
three-pointer to put the
Tonight, we hit the wall a
lot, but the car kept in one
piece, enough for me to
get to the end.”
Pit strategy also played
out in Reddick’s favor.
Bell came to pit road un-
der green on Lap 141, and
Reddick followed a lap
later. Custer didn’t bring
‘He went out and
attacked, attacked,
attacked all night,
and it paid off for
him.’
Christopher Bell
Speaking of Reddick’s effort
his No. 00 Ford to pit road
from the lead until Lap
147, after losing roughly
two seconds per lap, and
exited 8.006 seconds be-
hind Reddick.
Bell passed Reddick for
the lead on Lap 154 but
within 10 laps the sev-
en-time winner had used
up his short-run speed
and surrendered the top
spot back to Reddick.
“He went out and at-
tacked, attacked, attacked
all night, and it paid off
for him,” Bell said of Red-
dick’s effort. “I was good
on the bottom, and I had
glimpses of hope, but we
just weren’t fast enough.”
Custer took second from
Bell on Lap 165 and closed
to within 2.7 seconds with
30 laps left, but Custer
couldn’t find speed at the
top of the track and quick-
ly lost ground.
have run the top better,
we could have won,” said
Custer, who led the first 93
laps before losing two po-
sitions on pit road during
stops under caution after
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Crusaders up 36-34. With
the game tied 47-47 late in
the quarter, Queens would
connect on a
Queens score the first
three point of the quar-
ter, but two three-pointers
by Journey Muhammed
close the Royal lead to two
points. However, Queens
would respond with a six-
point run of their own to
lead by eight. The Crusad-
ers kept the score close,
but were unable to com-
plete the comeback. NGU
shot 35.7 percent from the
field for the half. Savan-
nah Hughes led the half in
point with 10.
Savannah Hughes had
a strong game with 18
points and 7 rebounds.
Karen Donehew hit dou-
ble digits in points once
again with 13. She con-
tributed in multiple ways,
also posting 4 rebounds, 4
steals, and 3 assists.
Journey Muhammed
scored 6 poins and record-
ed 3 rebounds, 2 assists,
and a steal.
CROSS COUNTRY
PLACES 14TH
The North Greenville
women’s cross country
the second stage. “We got
so far behind (after the ex-
change of pit stops), and
once I caught him, our
tires got equaled out, and
then he started running
the top, and I just couldn’t
keep up with him.
“Congrats to Tyler. I’m
happy for him, but it’s
frustrating.”
Trying to run the top
lane, Bell smacked the
wall on Lap 181 and had
to pit with a flat right-
rear tire on Lap 190. He
finished 11th, one lap
down. Championship 4
driver Daniel Hemric ran
a distant fourth behind
Reddick, Custer and John
Hunter Nemechek. Hemric
was 17.836 seconds be-
hind Reddick at the finish.
Austin Cindric finished
fifth, followed by Ryan
Preece and Justin Allgaier,
the last driver on the lead
lap.
Reddick is the third JR
Motorsports driver in five
years to win the Xfinity
championship as a rook-
ie, following Chase Elliott
(2014) and William Byron
(2017), both of whom now
drive for Hendrick Motor-
sports in the Monster En-
ergy NASCAR Cup Series.
All three rookie champi-
ons have driven the No. 9
Chevrolet for JRM.
“(Crew chief) Dave
(Elenz) had a great strat-
egy tonight that cycled
Tyler into the lead,” said
team co-owner Dale Earn-
hardt Jr. “And Tyler had
the speed and the nerve to
run the laps he needed to
keep the lead.
“I’m telling you, to run
on that fence like he did at
the end of that race, that
takes some precision. He
did such an amazing job
doing that, and he earned
the victory tonight and the
championship.”
team placed 14th out of 23
teams in the NCAA South-
east Regional in Oakwood,
Georgia recently.
Hope Whisman was the
top finisher for NGU with
40th place. The 2018 sea-
son comes to a close as
one of the most successful
seasons in program his-
tory, including a number
of program records being
broken as well as well as
a second place finish in
the Conference Carolinas
Championship.
Kaleigh Roach conclud-
ed her college career with
a 57th place finish and a
time of 24:49.63.
Mary Abbott placed
78th overall with a time of
25:19.67.
Madisun Shore ended
her freshman campaign
83rd overall with a time of
25:34.59.
Jadyn Slaughter fin-
ished 110th with a time of
26:25.95.
Anna Bulsa placed 113th
overall with a time of
26:31.68.
Grace Valentine was the
final Crusader to finish,
placing 119th with a time
of 26:45.83.
RIVERSIDE SIGNINGS
GRANT BERLANGER
Baseball - North Greenville University
Baseball - Presbyterian College
Sports
Roundup
BYRNES FISHING TEAM
WINS TOURNAMENT
The Byrnes High Fishing
Team received an overall
school win at the PBC High
School Tournament Trail
event on Lake Murray re-
cently.
The team was recog-
nized at the District 5
board meeting.
Team members include:
Marshall Robinson, Mason
Fulmer, Wesley Vaughn,
Allen West, Josh Willis and
Jared Hawkins.
PLAYOFF TICKET
RATES APPLY
South Carolina High
School League tickets to
the football playoffs are
$8 across the state.
Only SCHSL passes will
be accepted.
FERGUSON, POWELL WIN
FALL TOURNAMENT
JP Ferguson and Mike
Powell won the Greer
Country Club Fall Two
Man Golf Tournament re-
cently.
The pair shot a two-day
total of 134 to win by two
strokes. After a first day
71, they shot a 63 on Sun-
day.
Brad Sill and Josh Mc-
Millan, and Ryan Lynn and
Bradley Jones tied for sec-
ond and third with 136.
Other flight winners
were Dan Constantino and
Doug Dietz, and Tommy
and Trevor Boyter.
GREER YELLOW JACKETS
10U WIN CHAMPIONSHIP
The City of Greer Yellow
Jackets 10U tackle football
team won the champion-
ship recently.
BYRNES ANNOUNCES
NEW ALUMNI PROGRAM
Byrnes High will host
a banquet to honor the
"Charter Class of Legends"
on Jan. 12, 2019, in the
school cafeteria. The pro-
gram will begin at 6 p.m.
Wises BBQ from Jalapa
will be catering the event.
Prices for all members and
their immediate family
members will be $12.50
per person. Public tickets
are $20. Tickets must be
Baseball - Limestone College
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purchased by Jan. 5, 2019.
There will not be any tick-
ets sold at the door.
Tickets will go on sale
Dec. 17.
Five will be inducted
into the Wall of Legends.
• Shirley McAdams
• Carnell Collins
• Ernie Fowler
• Harold McManus
• Bo Corne
The above inductees
were not selected based
on their athletic achieve-
ments. The premise of the
club is Rebels that “give
back” in a significant way.
Giving back is the mission
statement.
The club plans to give
one male and one female
student/athlete each a
scholarship beginning in
the spring of 2020.
All Byrnes alumni ath-
letes and cheerleaders
who earned a letter are
eligible, including anyone
that went to a District Five
school preceding Byrnes.
Widows and widowers of
the above are also invited
to join.
To join, email Venmo@
ByrnesBlockBAlumni Club
to pay your $25.
RIVERSIDE ACCEPTING
HALL OF FAME NODS
Riverside High Athletic
Hall of Fame nominations
will be accepted until Jan.
31, 2019.
Those wishing to nom-
inate a former athlete
should fill out a nomina-
tion form on the school’s
website. Forms should be
returned to Coach Oates
at Riverside.
Criteria for Hall of Fame
includes:
Achievements while
playing at Riverside
At least two years of
varsity lettering participa-
tion, one of those being
their senior year
GraduateGood charac-
ter – good conduct and no
controversy
State championships
won
All-region/All-state se-
lections
State player of the year
Leader on the team in
some statistic
Continued at the next
level. DI before DII before
DIII, etc.
Athletes do not have to
have accomplished all of
the criteria
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Weekly GREER: Holds off fiesty Ridge View to advance REBELS:

Wrap FROM B1

PLAYOFFS ROUND 4  |
CLASS AAAA
Daniel at Greer
CLASS AAAAA
Byrnes at TL Hanna
LAST WEEK’S SCORES |
CLASS AAAA
Greer 6 Ridge View 3
CLASS AAAAA
Byrnes 27 Gaffney 22
SCHEDULES/RECORD  |
BYRNES
Aug. 17..................... 39 Greer 26
Aug. 24......... 41 Northwestern21
Aug. 31.............. 17 Don Bosco 22
Sept. 14...................... 26 Spart 7
Sept. 21.................34 Gaffney 14
Sept. 28...............45 Riverside 20
Oct. 5.................... 31 Mauldin 20
Oct. 12...................31 Dorman 45
Oct. 19.................. 42 Hillcrest 35
Oct. 26...........................55 BS 21
Nov. 9.................. 57 Westside 14
Nov. 16....................33 Sumter 23
Nov. 23..................6 Ridge View 3
GREER
Aug. 17................... 26 Byrnes 39
Aug. 24...........37 Spartanburg 17
Aug. 31................ 48 Westside 14
Sept. 7.................... 40 Mauldin 3
Sept. 14.......... 42 Union County 7
Sept. 28............. 28 Greenville 20
Oct. 5...............................58 TR 6
Oct. 12........................51 Berea 0
Oct. 19.............. 59 at Eastside 28
Oct. 26................ 63 Blue Ridge 6
Nov. 9...................... 35 Pickens 6
Nov. 16........................ 63 York 40
Nov. 23...................27 Gaffney 22
on an off-tackle slant. A
poor center snap foiled
the extra point kick, but
Greer had taken a 6-3 lead
with 6:15 left in the third
quarter.
Greer has rarely played
football in worse weath-
er at a temperature of 38
degrees with intermittent
rainfall. That may have
kept the Yellow Jackets of-
fense on the bus, despite
Coach Will Young’s con-
tention, “the weather ain’t
nothing. Both teams had
to play in in it. Besides,
the weather should nev-
er affect what we do, and
that’s run the ball.”
Yet Greer’s offense pro-
vided few opportunities
for shivering Jacket Back-
ers to fold their umbrellas,
throw off their blankets
and jump to their feet.
Six points were the fewest
the Yellow Jackets have
scored since being shut
out by Union in 2001. It
was just the second 6-3
win in 97 years of Greer
High football.
The offense got off on
the wrong foot by fum-
bling the opening kick-
off out-of- bounds. Three
plays later, quarterback
Matt Huff lost the handle
on the ball, and Senika
Mckie recovered for Ridge
View at the Yellow Jackets’
32-yard line.
“Huff fumbled when he
ran into the back of one
of our own linemen, which
was a bad way to start,”
Young said. “But we just
did not play well offen-
sively, our backs, our line,
and our receivers. None of
them.”
The Blazers reeled off
gains of 17 yards in two
rushes to the 15-yard
stripe. But the Greer de-
fense held, and with the
help of a penalty forced
a field goal attempt from
the 12-yard line. Nick Law-
yer’s 23-yard kick bounced
over the crossbar for three
points at the 7:39 mark of
the opening period.
Greer’s offense got only
three first downs in the
first half. “Our kids were
losing their footing out
there, and they really got
frustrated. “Some of them
lost their composure for
the first time this season,
and they have to learn
how to handle a game like
this,” Coach Young said.
“Ridge View’s defensive
front played extremely
well, and maybe we under-
estimated them. We knew
going in they had some re-
ally good kids on the line,
and they proved it tonight.
But you will always be fac-
ing good defenses when
you get this far in the play-
offs.”
PRACTICE PATIENCE
At intermission, Young
implored the offense to
be patient. “Sometimes
you have a bad game, like
our defense had the week
before. I hope we can put
it all together again next
week.”
The Yellow Jackets de-
fense made the 6-3 lead
stand up the final 18 min-
utes of the game that in-
cluded some anxious mo-
ments.
Ridge View took the
third quarter kickoff and
marched 70 yards down-
field, arriving at the Greer
eight yard line with a first
down. Three plays later,
the Blazers were only at
the six. On fourth down,
Anderson delivered a pass
to Jordan Smith who was
nailed two yards short of
the end zone by Najawuan
Smith to prevent a touch-
down.
Greer’s offense managed
to push the ball out to the
‘The weather ain’t nothing. Both teams
had to play in in it. Besides, the weather
should never affect what we do, and that’s
run the ball.’
30 yard line for a pair of
critical first downs before
having to punt.
On their next posses-
sion, the Yellow Jackets
moved inside the Blazers’
40 yard line only to be
stymied by a pair of pen-
alties.
Ridge View’s field po-
sition grew worse with
each possession as the
Yellow Jackets continued
to sack Anderson. With
2:49 left in the game, the
Blazers attempted to con-
vert fourth-and-12 at their
own 29 yard line, and An-
derson was sacked for an
eight yard loss by Cohen
and Holley.
Greer could not take ad-
vantage of the opportuni-
ty to put the game away,
however. Williams reeled
off 11 yard on first down
at the ten, but the Blaz-
ers held Greer to a pair
of yards on three rushing
attempts. Huff’s fourth
down pass fell incomplete
in the end zone with 1:04
to go.
Again the Yellow Jack-
ets’ defense rose to the oc-
casion, holding Ridge View
to five yards in four plays
to preserve the win.
Greer came out on the
short end of the stats for
the first time since the
season-opening loss to By-
rnes. The Yellow Jackets
had 11 first downs on 157
total yards that includ-
ed only 5 yards passing.
Will Young
Greer head coach
Ridge View chalked up 19
first downs, rushing for
99 yards and throwing for
191 more for a total of
290 yards.
Both teams had one
turnover. Greer was penal-
ized only four times for
25 yards, the fewest of the
season. Ridge View collect-
ed 10 flags for 77 yards in
penalties.
THE SCORE BY QUARTERS
Ridge View
3 0 0 0 -- 0
Greer 0 0 6 0 -- 6
First quarter: Lawyer
(RV) 33-yard field goal.
Third quarter: Williams
(G) one-yard run; extra
point kick failed.
Individual stats:
Greer rushing: Williams
29/136 yards; Huff 8/15
yards; Martin 1/0 yards.
Ridge View rushing:
Dhani Dixon 11/93 yards;
Cori Davis 11/26 yards;
Anderson 15/ minus 20
yards.
Greer passing: Huff
1/8/0 – 5 yards.
Ridge View passing: An-
derson 14-1-1 191 yards.
Greer receiving: Braxton
Collins – 1/5 yards
Ridge View receiving:
Waylan Napper 8/96
yards; Senika Mckie 2/35
yards; Cincere Scott 2/41
yards; Jordan Smith 2/19
yards.
Complete
comeback at
Nixon Field
FROM B1
“The blocked punt was
a miscommunication that
shouldn’t have happened
at this point in the sea-
son,” he said.
Shaw said although con-
ditions were poor, he felt
like his team had a shot to
make a run.
“Conditions played a fac-
tor. The ball was slick and
trying to throw in those
conditions isn’t easy, but
we were proud of our
players for not hanging
their heads or giving up,”
Shaw said. “They came
back ready to play in the
second half. We made a
few adjustments, opened
things up in the screen
game, and made the plays
we needed to make.”
Nijae Crouch narrowed
the Gaffney lead to 16-
14 after halftime, return-
ing an interception for
a touchdown. Scott then
found Johnson two more
times to put the Rebels on
top two scores.
“Any time you can get
back to Nixon this time of
year, good things are hap-
pening,” he said. “Wish
the weather would’ve been
better because it would
have been a better experi-
ence, but we’ll take a win
if it’s 0 degrees or 100 de-
grees.”
The Rebels will face TL
Hanna in the Upper State
Championship this Friday
in Anderson.
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Christmas 2018
WEDNESDAY, NOVEMBER 28, 2018 THE GREER CITIZEN B5
Christmas events set in the City of Greer
Beginning
with Rockin’
Around Trade
The Greater Greer Chamber
of Commerce is partnering
with businesses on Trade
Street to implement a new
event this year.
Rockin’ Around Trade Street
is set for Thursday, Nov. 29,
from 5-8 p.m. on Trade Street
with food tastings, a sip and
shop event, entertainment,
children’s crafts and Santa.
“We’re excited to announce
a partnership event as we pre-
pare for our streetscape pro-
gram,” said Nikki Crabtree, Di-
rector of Membership Engage-
ment with the chamber. “We’re
excited about this new event
and new way to showcase our
beautiful downtown.”
For more information on the
chamber, visit greerchamber.
com.
CHRISTMAS TREE LIGHTING
RETURNING DEC. 7
The City of Greer is holding
its annual Christmas Tree
Lighting on Friday, Dec. 7,
from 5-8 p.m., at Greer City
Park, located at 301 E. Poinsett
St., Greer.
Holiday craft stations, inflat-
ables and Greer Relief s’mores
will be available from 5-7 p.m.
Performances will take place
on the amphitheater from
5-7:15 p.m.
Santa will arrive at the park
at 7:15 p.m.
Children under 16 must be
accompanied by a parent or
legal guardian at all times.
Pets are not permitted.
Anyone who requires an
auxiliary aid or service for ef-
fective communication or a
modification of policies or pro-
cedures to participate in a pro-
gram, service, activity or public
meeting of the Events Division
Surrounding communities
to celebrate Christmas
LYMAN TO HOLD
BREAKFAST WITH SANTA
The Town of Lyman is hold-
ing its first Breakfast with San-
ta on Saturday, Dec. 1, from
8-10 a.m. at the Lyman Event
Center at Pacific Place.
LYMAN TO HOLD
TREE LIGHTING
The Town of Lyman will
have a Tree Lighting on Satur-
day, Dec. 1, from 6-8 p.m. at
the Veterans Park at The Ly-
man Event Center. Enjoy mu-
sic, refreshments and more.
LYMAN TO HAVE
CHRISTMAS FAMILY EVENT
The Town of Lyman is host-
ing a free Christmas Ornament
Painting family event on Tues-
day, Dec. 4, from 5:30-7 p.m. at
the Lyman Event Center at Pa-
cific Place.
Christmas ornaments will be
provided.
at 864-968-7008 as soon as
possible, but no later than 48
hours prior to the scheduled
event.
ELF FUN RUN TO BENEFIT
GREER RELIEF
The GrandSouth Bank Elf
Fun Run will be held Sunday,
Dec. 9, from 2-2:30 p.m. pre-
ceding the Greer Christmas
Parade.
The route is 1.1 miles, begin-
ning at Poinsett Street and
Memorial Drive and ending at
N. Main Street and Cunning-
ham Drive.
Proceeds benefit Greer Re-
lief.
PARADE TO FEATURE
‘CLASSIC CHRISTMAS’
The 2018 Greer Christmas
Parade, “Classic Christmas Sto-
ries,” will feature over 90 pa-
rade units including numerous
businesses, clubs, organiza-
tions, churches, schools, digni-
taries, and two marching
bands in the parade lineup.
As always, Santa Claus will
be the featured guest of the
parade.
The annual parade is set for
Sunday, Dec. 9, from 2:30-4:30
p.m. beginning at Poinsett
Street and Memorial Drive and
ending at N. Main Street and
Cunningham Drive for a total
of 1.1 miles.
There will be two awards
this year: Best Float Award and
Best Non-Float Award.
For more information, email
events@greerrelief.org or call
848-5356.
D-L-W CHRISTMAS PARADE
COMING DEC. 8
The Duncan-Lyman-Well-
ford-Startex Christmas Parade
will be held in Duncan this
year on Saturday, Dec. 8, be-
ginning at 10 a.m. at 50
Hughes St, Duncan.
REIDVILLE PLANS
PARADE FOR DEC. 8
The Town of Reidville will
hold its annual Christmas Pa-
rade on Saturday, Dec. 8, at 3
p.m.
TAYLORS TO HOLD
CHRISTMAS HOPS, SHOPS
Taylors Christmas Hops and
Shops will be held on Sunday,
Dec. 10, 2-8 p.m. inside South-
ern Bleachery at the Taylors
Mill, Print Works No. 2 Building,
Dock No. 3.
A collaboration between
The Main Collective and Tay-
lors TownSquare, the Christ-
The Greer Citizen
GREER CPW TO HOST
HOLIDAY LIGHT CONTEST
The Greer Commission of
Public Works will be hosting its
Holiday Light contest again
this year.
All residential electric cus-
tomers of Greer CPW are eligi-
ble to win.
A paper application must be
completed and received by
Greer CPW by Monday, Dec.
10.
Applications may be
dropped off at the Greer CPW
office, faxed to 968-2161 or
emailed to HolidayLights@
GreerCPW.com.
Judging will be performed
the week of Dec. 12-19 be-
tween the hours of 6-8 p.m.
Winning categories will be
the following: Overall Theme,
LED Only, and Facebook Fan
Favorite.
Each category winner will
receive a check for $100.
Each winner will be notified
by Dec. 21.
GREER CPW TO HOST
SANTA IN THE LOBBY
The Greer Commission of
Public Works is hosting Santa
in the Lobby on Friday, Dec.
14, from 12-4:30 p.m., at Greer
CPW, located at 301 McCall St,
Greer.
Customers and their chil-
dren are invited to enjoy free
snacks, photos with Santa and
a goodie bag.
Visitors are encouraged to
bring an unwrapped toy to be
distributed through Greer Po-
lice Department Cops for Tots.
Christmas
AT WASHINGTON BAPTIST CHURCH
mas Market will feature more
than 40 vendors.
For vendor information, Hanging of the Green
email maincollective@gmail.
com. Sunday, Dec. 2, 6 p.m.
SANTA TO VISIT TAYLORS
MODEL TRAINS STATION Christmas Cantata
Santa Claus will make an ap-
pearance at the Model Trains Sunday, Dec. 16, 6 p.m.
Station at Taylors Mill on Satur-
day, Dec. 15.
Christmas Eve Candlelight Service
TYGER RIVER FD TO HAVE
SECOND SANTA RIDE Monday, Dec. 24, 11 p.m.
The Tyger River Fire Depart-
ment is inviting citizens to look
out for Santa Clause during
their second Santa Ride event
set for Saturday, Dec. 22, be-
ginning at 10 a.m. 3500 North
In the event of rain, this Highway 14
event will not be rescheduled. Greer, SC 29651
864-895-1510
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State announces 2018 Angels
South Carolina Secretary of
State Mark Hammond an-
nounced the Angels and
Scrooges of 2018 recently.
Ten Angels as well as one
Honorary Angel were recog-
nized at a press conference
and honored with a reception
in the Secretary of State’s Of-
fice following the announce-
ment.
The Angels honored repre-
sent organizations that exem-
plify charitable giving in South
Carolina. Representatives from
all organizations were in atten-
dance to receive a plaque and
recognition from Secretary
Hammond. The Angels recog-
nized, with the percentage of
their expenditures that went
toward their program services,
are listed below.
ANGELS
Ballet Spartanburg, Inc.,
Spartanburg, SC 87.2%
Carolina’s Kids, Hartsville, SC
84.7%
Central Carolina Community
Foundation, Columbia, SC
93.6%
GIVING
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programs; the charity must
have been in existence for WANT TO GIVE?
three or more years; the chari-
ty must make good use of vol-
unteer services; the charity Blue Ridge Greer Community
must receive minimal funding Christian Learning Center Ministries...................... 80.3%
from grants; and the charity 2434 East Tyger Bridge 738 S. Line St. Ext.,
must be in compliance with Road, Greer, SC 29651 Greer, SC 29651
the South Carolina Solicitation www.blueridgereleased- greercommunityministries.
of Charitable Funds Act. Each time.com com
year the Secretary of State’s
Office attempts to showcase Breaking Bread Greer Relief
Angels with diverse missions for Jesus........................ 27.2% and Resources.............. 95.2%
from several areas around the 108 Astor St., 202 Victoria St.,
state. Wellford, SC 29385 Greer, SC 29651
Traditionally, charities have www.facebook.com/ldwsj- greerrelief.org
been eligible to be named as soupkitchen1.org
an Angel by the Secretary of Middle Tyger
State only once in order to rec- Creative Community Center
ognize as many deserving or- Advancement............... 95.9% 84 Groce Road #A FILE PHOTO | THE GREER CITIZEN
ganizations as possible. Last PO Box 2474, Lyman, SC 29365
year, however, Secretary Ham- Greer, SC 29652 www.middletyger.org This year, Greer Relief will set up the Christmas Morning
mond began the tradition of 864-423-7555 Shoppe Dec. 10-15 at the Greer Mill.
recognizing a past Angel that www.cityofgreer.org Taylors Free
has continued to devote a Medical Clinic............... 98.1%
high percentage of its expen-
ditures to its charitable mis-
sion. Secretary Hammond des-
Daily Bread Ministries/
STEP............................... 99.8%
521 E. Poinsett St.,
400 W. Main St.,
Taylors, SC 29687
www.taylorsfmc.org
Greer Relief
ignated Home Works of Amer- Greer, SC 29651
ica, Inc., as this year’s Honorary
Angel for its service to the
people of South Carolina
www.greersoupkitchen.com

Community Kitchen, Inc. of
Myrtle Beach, Myrtle Beach,
SC 80.9%
Florence Crittenton Programs
of South Carolina, Inc.,
Charleston, SC 89.0%
Good Neighbor Free Medical
Clinic of Beaufort, Beaufort,
SC 96.8%
Helping Hands of
Georgetown, Georgetown,
SC 90.0%
Palmetto Animal Assisted Life
Services P.A.A.L.S, Columbia,
SC 91.2%
United Christian Ministries of
Abbeville County, Abbeville,
SC 87.3%
YouthBase, Inc., Greenville, SC
88.2%
The Angels were selected by
review of financial reports sub-
mitted annually to the Secre-
tary of State’s Office, as well as
by nominations from the pub-
lic. To be selected as an Angel,
the charity must have devoted
80 percent or more of its total
expenditures to charitable
during the floods of 2015 and
2016. Home Works of America,
Inc. was originally recognized
as an Angel in 2004, and its
program service percentage
for FY 2016 was 91.2%.
In addition to recognizing
ten Angels and one Honorary
Angel, Secretary Hammond
released the “2017-2018 Wise
Giving & Professional Solicitor
Report.” The report not only
provides wise giving tips for
donors, but also lists all profes-
sional solicitor contracts cur-
rently on file with the Secre-
tary of State’s Office. The re-
port also lists the percentages
that were remitted to charities
by professional solicitors
based on joint financial re-
ports filed in 2017.
“Although many good chari-
ties use professional fundrais-
ers, we have seen over the
years that most ‘Scrooge’ orga-
nizations have high fundraiser
costs,” said Secretary Ham-
mond. “For example, the pro-
Greer Christian
Learning Center
3055 E. Gap Creek Road,
Greer, SC 29651
www.greerchristianlearn-
ingcenter.org
fessional solicitor Outreach
Calling only remits 10 percent
of gross receipts to the organi-
zations it solicits for—so if you
were to receive a solicitation
from Outreach Calling and
make a $20 donation, only $2
would go to the charitable or-
ganization. All but one of its
current clients were previously
named Scrooges. That is why it
is so important that donors
educate themselves and ask
questions before giving away
their hard-earned money. It is
our hope that the “Wise Giving
& Professional Solicitor Report”
will give charitable donors the
tools they need not only to
give from the heart, but to also
give smart.”
In addition to reviewing the
Percentage of total expenses devoted to
program services during the year reported.
Chart represents local charities that were
reported on the SC Secretary
of State website. Not all
agencies were listed.
Source: www.sos.
sc.gov.
“2017-2018
Wise Giving
& Professional Solicitor Report,”
charitable donors may re-
search charities registered in
South Carolina by visiting the
Secretary of State’s website at
www.sos.sc.gov.
To review a charitable orga-
nization, select the “Charity
Search” button to learn a chari-
ty’s total revenue, program ex-
penses, total expenses, net as-
sets, and fundraiser costs. The
website even calculates the
percentage of total expenses
that the charity has devoted to
its program services.
For more information, call
the Division of Public Charities
at 1-888-CHARITI (242-7484)
for more information.
planning Christmas
Morning Shoppe
Greer Relief needs help get-
ting ready for this year’s Christ-
mas Morning Shoppe.
There are many ways to help
as a business, church, school,
club, family, or individual.
Here are a few opportunities
available:
• Purchase toys or host a toy
drive. Fill out our Sponsor
Form and Greer Relief can pro-
vide wish lists based on age.
You can find a general list on
Amazon. Go the extra mile
and help by choosing Greer
Relief as your charity on Ama-
zonSmile.
• Make a monetary donation
to the Christmas Morning
Shoppe, so Greer Relief can
purchase needed items. Click
here to donate online.
• Donate gift wrapping sup-
plies. The Shoppe will have a
gift wrapping station.
• Volunteer! Be an elf in the
Christmas Morning Shoppe!
We need a volunteer for each
parent/guardian shopper.
Click here to sign up online.
For additional information,
email Christmas@greerrelief.
org or call 848-5356.
GCM OFFERING HOLIDAY
PORTRAIT FUNDRAISER
Greer Community Ministries
is partnering with Phil Hyman
Portraits this season.
With a donation to GCM of
$125, donors will receive a cus-
tom in-studio portrait session
with Phil Hyman Portraits and
one 11x14 Fine Art Portrait
(valued at $500).
For more information, visit
http://www.philhyman.com/
greer-community-ministries.
Donors have until Friday,
Dec. 7, to make your donation.

NATIVITY
Churches schedule
Christmas events
GREER FIRST TO HOLD Orchestra will present “The first century Bethlehem, hear
MUSICALS, SERVICE Reason” with special guest art- the Roman guards, sign your
Greer First Baptist will begin ist Jared Emerson on Sunday, name to Roman Emperor Cae-
its holiday events on Sunday, Dec. 9, at 10:30 a.m. and 3 p.m. sar’s census scroll, stroll
Dec. 2, 6 p.m. with a Children’s Admission is free and open through the local shops, visit
Musical “Wrapping All The to all ages. Nursery will be pro- with the storytellers, meet the
Way.” vided. Wise Men and stand in the
Greer First Worship will pres- Praise Cathedral is located at presence of Mary and Joseph
ent “Newborn” on Sunday, 3390 Brushy Creek Road in and Baby Jesus.
Dec. 9, at 6:30 p.m. Greer. Guests are then invited into
A Christmas Eve Service will For more information, visit the Welcome Center for cook-
PHOTO | SUBMITTED be held Monday, Dec. 24, at 5 www.praisecathedral.org. ies, hot chocolate and carol-
p.m. ing.
The church is located at 202 COVENANT UMC TO HOST Cookies and refreshments

LIGHTS
W. Poinsett St. in Greer. BETHLEHEM REVISITED will be available in the Wel-
Covenant United Methodist come Center. Admission is
FAIRVIEW BAPTIST Church is hosting Bethlehem free.
TO HOST TRAVIS COTTRELL Revisited on Saturday, Sunday,
Fairview B aptist will hold Monday and Tuesday, Dec. 15- WASHINGTON HOLDING

Hollywild to hold The Best of Travis Cottrell

Christmas Live Tour on Friday,
Dec. 7, 7 p.m.
Tickets required. For more
18, from 6-8 p.m. each night.
The church is located at
1310 Old Spartanburg Rd,
Greer.
CANTATA, SERVICE
Washington Baptist will
present its Christmas Cantata
on Sunday, Dec. 16, at 6 p.m.

Holiday Lights Safari

Hollywild will hold its 28th
Annual Holiday Lights Safari
Benefit to support the care
and feeding of the hundreds
The ending offers a drive
through the peaceful nativity
area and more lights displays.
For an additional fee, visitors
information, visit fairview- Every Christmas season, A Christmas Eve Candlelight
greer.org or call 877-1881. Covenant members recreate Service will be held Monday,
the town of Bethlehem as it Dec. 24, at 11 p.m.
PRAISE CATHEDRAL may have been like at the time The church is located at
TO HOST ARTIST EMERSON of Jesus’ birth. All are invited to 3500 North Highway 14 in
Night of Lights in Greenville Praise Cathedral Choir and walk through the streets of Greer.
Downtown Greenville
Nov. 30, 5-8 p.m.

ROTHBECK
of animals that make their can drive through the En- SYNCHRONIZED LIGHTS
home there again this season. chanted Deer Forest where Turner Family Christmas
Visitors can drive through they can hand-feed animals 3932 N Hwy 101, Greer

millions of sparkling Holiday
Lights decorating the nearly
100-acre animal park before
taking some time to stroll in to
see Santa and his many ani-
mals in the barns at Santa’s Vil-
(animal food provided) from
the comfort of their cars. Ani-
mals to see and feed include
Sika and Fallow Deer, zebra,
donkeys, and other gentle
hoofstock.
JEWELERS
The Lindsay’s Christmas
House
107 Rotan Street, Greer
6140 C Wade Hampton Blvd. • Taylors, SC
A Star Came Out to Play
(864) 968-9001

lage.
Activities include: warming
hands or roasting marshmal-
lows by the bonfire; visiting
Mrs. Claus’ attic for a panoram-
ic view of the lights; and snap-
ping selfies with a zebra, cam-
Admissions open 6-9 p.m.
through Dec. 6. Hours extend-
ed until 10 p.m. Dec. 7-8, 14-
15, and 20-22. The benefit runs
through Jan. 5, 2019.
For more information or
weather related closures, visit
STORE
400 Gravely Rd., Greer
The Lights of Grace
627 Taylor Rd, Greer
104 Fox Farm Way, Greer
(Off Jordan Rd, near Hwy 14

CLOSING
el, or one of many animals. www.facebook.com/Holly- and Mt Lebanon Church Road)
The Village also offers the wildAnimalPark/
option of purchasing tickets William’s Family
for concessions, ani- TREE LIGHTINGS Christmas Display
mal food, pony Christmas Lighting 4493 N. Hwy 14, Greer
rides and pho- Ceremony
tos with Bob Jones University Belcher Family Tradition

SALE 10% to 35% Off

Santa. Nov. 30, 17 Burris Rd., Lyman
6:30
p.m. The Passion of the Lights
(Formerly Greenville
Griswold)
Edge Community Church
Nov. 24-Dec. 30 Hours: Tue. to Fri. 10-5
Source: https://kiddingaroundgreenville.com/
holiday-lights-near-greenville
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The Greer Citizen

WEDNESDAY, NOVEMBER 28, 2018  THE GREER CITIZEN B7

Gap Creek Singers to hold Christmas concert

BY KAELYN CASHMAN
STAFF WRITER

The Gap Creek Singers

BRAIN POWER STUDIOS will perform their annual
Christmas Concert next
Bradley Hamilton, Sarah Saturday, Dec. 8, at 7
Troyer in ‘Hometown p.m. at First Presbyterian
Holiday’ Church.
About 25 members will

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COUCH THEATER
BY AMY ANDERSON
NEW RELEASES
FOR THE WEEK OF NOV. 26
PICKS OF THE WEEK
“Searching” (R) -- John
Cho stars as David, a wid-
ower whose 16-year-old
daughter disappears after
a study group. Although
he enlists the help of a
police detective (Debra
Messing), the physical trail
goes cold, and he begins
to follow his daughter’s
digital footprint -- hacking
her computer, contacts,
messages, etc. All is not
as he had believed, and
it’s a switchback trail of
leads, twists, turns and
heart-stopping suspense.
Filmed and shown via
found footage style: You-
Tube videos, Skypes and
chat screens, it marks the
sing around eight sacred
and secular songs in the
fellowship hall with a re-
ception afterwards.
“Admission is free, but
we do accept donations,”
said Luanne Baker, Orig-
inal Member. “The dona-
tions that we receive go
in our scholarship fund,
which we give away in the
spring to high school se-
niors who are going to ma-
jor in music.”
A few of the songs in-
clude “Home for the Hol-
idays,” “The First Noel,”
and “The Christmas Song.”
“You have to end with
The Christmas Song,” Bak-
er said.
“We’re just looking for-
ward to performing,” she
Things
To Do
The Gap Creek Singers will perform their annual Christmas Concert on Saturday, Dec. 8, at First Presbyterian Church.
said. “We’ve had good at-
tendance the last couple
of years.”
A reception afterwards
will be provided by all of
the choir members bring-
ing a dish.
“We always have more
food than we need,” Baker
said.
as other performanc-
es on campus are being
prepared and presented,
work on the Christmas
For the last three years,
Director Billy Jones has
led the Gap Creek Singers,
a Greer community choir
since 1995, with rehears-
als on Tuesday nights at
7 p.m. at Victor Baptist
Church.
“We get new people ev-
ery year,” Baker said. “We
p.m. in Daniel Recital Hall
on campus.
Presented by the Furman
Department of Music, the
are always looking for-
ward to getting new mem-
bers.”
“Every year, we lose a
few, but we gain a few,”
she said. “Most of us are
a little older. It used to be
multi-generational. When
we first started, we had
teenagers up to my age,
Philharmonic will
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but now it’s pretty much
people 40 on up.”
Rehearsals will resume
after the holidays, and
anyone is welcome to join
the Gap Creek Singers.
kaelyn@greercitizen.com | 877-2076

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debut of director Aneesh event continues in the concert is free and open to
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ing this genre. tradition at PC and a sig- bos are Furman Profes-

“The Little Stranger”
(R) -- The imposing manor
house where Dr. Faraday’s
(Domnhall Gleeson) moth-
er worked was a place of
reverence in his childhood
memories, but Hundreds
Hall has turned to a cold
shell of itself when he re-
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NEW LISTINGS
GSO’S ‘HOLIDAY AT PEACE’
TO FEATURE TORMÉ
The Greenville Sympho-
ny Orchestra will kick off
the official start of the
holiday season with the
fan-favorite “Holiday at
nature event for the Music
Department.
To purchase tickets
to this year’s show, visit
presby.edu/christmas.
Call 864-833-8285 or
email sadyer@presby.edu
for more information.
drive on Dec. 15
sor of Music Matt Olson
and Jazz Studies Lecturer
Steve Watson. They will
lead student combos in
music by Joseph Kosma
and Johnny Mercer; Chick
Corea and Neville Potter;
At Riverside includes individuals from
many walks of life includ-

turns 30 years later to care
for the manor’s inhabi-
tants. Mrs. Ayers (Char-
lotte Rampling) is the ma-
triarch. Her son Roderick
(Will Poulter) is disturbed
and convinced the house is
angry with the family; and
daughter Caroline (Ruth
Wilson) carries a tragic
past. As more unexplained
phenomena occur, and as
the relationships between
Dr. Faraday and the family
develop, the link between
past and present blurs.
“At First Light” (NR) --
Stefanie Scott and Theo-
dore Pelerine star as Alex
and Sean in this young
adult, first contact with
aliens love story. Alex has
a run in with a supernat-
ural force that leaves her
with newfound powers,
while Sean is the friend
with the heart of gold who
will stick by her through-
out her ordeal. What the
film lacks is chemistry
between the leads, and
an original storyline. On
the bright side, it’s well-
shot and there’s definitely
enough suspense and ac-
tion to fill in as a fun after-
noon flick during holiday
break. Written and direct-
ed by Jason Stone.
DVD DOUBLE FEATURE
“Christmas With a Come, O Come, Emman-
Prince” and “Hometown
Holiday” (NR) -- On the
DVD equivalent of a slow
news day, and it being
the season for holiday
romances, here are two
brand-new Harlequin ro-
mances: Up first, “Christ-
mas With a Prince,” where
Kaitlyn Leeb plays Dr. Mill-
er, a pediatrician whose
focus is on the kids. On
the local ski slopes, Prince
Alexander (Nick Hound-
slow) takes a fall and is
secreted to the pediatric
wing to convalesce. The
doctor doesn’t agree with
the distraction, but there’s
something about healing
that makes the heart race.
Then in “Hometown Hol-
iday,” record exec Ryan
Rourke (Bradley Hamilton)
is seeking the next big
thing, but when he comes
to Krista’s (Sarah Troyer)
hometown to sign a local
singer, the pair start a dif-
ferent kind of collabora-
tion.
NEW TV RELEASES
“Sharp Objects”
“The 100” Season 5
“Mystery Science The-
ater 3000: Volume Eight”
“Tales of the Abyss” The
Complete Series
(c) 2018 King Features Synd., Inc.
Peace” Nov. 30-Dec. 2 at
The Peace Center.
Headlining the event will
be multi-award-winning
music recording and jazz
vocalist James Tormé, son
of jazz legend Mel Tormé.
Tormé will perform per-
sonal renditions of clas-
sic Christmas standards,
including The Christmas
Waltz, Have Yourself a
Merry Little Christmas,
Sleigh Ride and The
Christmas Song.
The concert will also
feature appearances from
International Ballet, Santa
and Mrs. Claus.
The show is most appro-
priate for ages 5 and up.
Show times are Nov. 30
and Dec. 1 at 7:30 p.m.
and Dec. 2 at 3 p.m.
For tickets or more in-
formation, visit www.
greenvillesymphony.org
or call 467-3000.
YOUTH SYMPHONY
TO PERFORM DEC. 2
The Carolina Youth Sym-
phony and Rotary Club of
Reedy River Greenville
have partnered to provide
a holiday musical gift to
the community on Sunday,
Dec. 2, 3 p.m. in Furman
University’s McAlister Au-
ditorium.
Starting with a 43-piece
cello choir performing O
uel, Lo, How a Rose, and
Jingle Bells, the concert
continues with holiday se-
lections from the Reperto-
ry, Concert and Symphony
Orchestras, even including
a Holiday Sing-A-Long.
The Carolina Youth Sym-
phony, a regional youth
orchestra headquartered
at Furman University, is
entering its 68th year.  
CYS has grown into three
orchestras with 250 young
musicians from two states,
40 cites and 80 schools
and is the recipient of the
Elizabeth O'Neil Verner
award, the highest award
given an arts organization
in the State of South Car-
olina.
PC TO PRESENT
CHRISTMAS PROGRAM
The Department of Mu-
sic at Presbyterian College
will present Christmas at
PC 2018,"and the angels
sang," on Saturday, Dec. 1,
at 7 p.m. and Sunday, Dec.
2, at 3 p.m.
The annual concert will
be held in Belk Auditori-
um on the PC campus.
PC’s music ensembles
prepare for the Christmas
performances all during
the fall term.
Choirs begin preparing
in August and depart-
ment-wide combined re-
hearsals begin in Septem-
ber.
All through September,
October and November,
PUBLIC INVITED
TO STUDIO SATURDAY
Inviting the public to
see how local art is made,
West Main Artists Co-op
will host “Studio Satur-
day” on Saturday, Dec. 1,
as part of its all-members
“Open Doors” art exhibit.
From 10 a.m.-4 p.m.,
the non-profit arts agency
will have about two doz-
ens of its member artists
scattered throughout the
20,000-square-foot build-
ing, giving demonstrations
of how art is produced.
Artists will demonstrate
different types of painting:
oil, acrylic, watercolor and
encaustics. Several artists
will be working in clay,
demonstrating techniques
from miniature making to
wheel throwing. Raku fir-
ing will be in progress on
the back patio. Other art-
ists will demonstrate met-
alsmithing, glass cutting
for fused glass, polymer
clay sculpture, leather-
work, and copper and gold
leaf.  In addition, there will
be tours of the venue, hol-
iday refreshments, and a 2
p.m. performance by Spar-
kle City Improv.
Viewing this extensive
exhibit of more than 1,000
works of arts, studio tour-
ing, demonstrations, and
performances are all free.
However, the Co-op has
the largest collection of
for-sale works of art in
Spartanburg.
West Main Artists Co-
op is located at 578 West
Main St., Spartanburg.
Normal business hours
are Tuesday-Saturday, 10
a.m.-4 p.m., and exhibit
viewing is always free. For
more information, visit
WestMainArtists.org.
SCCT TO PRESENT
CHRISTMAS PLAY
The South Carolina Chil-
dren’s Theatre will pres-
ent The Best Christmas
Pageant Ever Dec. 1-9 at
the Peace Center’s Gunter
Theater.
The Herdman kids are
known as the rowdiest,
most awful kids in the
history of the world…so
what do you think hap-
pens when they are cast
in the annual Christmas
pageant?  The whole town
is horrified, but the spirit
of the season comes alive
in the Herdmans, making
this pageant the best one
yet.
The one-hour play is
best suited for children
ages 4 and up.
For tickets or more in-
formation, visit scchil-
drenstheatre.org or call
467-3000.
FURMAN JAZZ COMBOS
IN CONCERT DEC. 2
The Furman Jazz Com-
bos will present a concert
on Sunday, Dec. 2, at 8
Duke Ellington; Curtis
Mayfield; The Meters; Matt
Dennis and Thomas Adair;
Baptist ing part-time musicians,
teachers, lawyers, busi-
ness professionals, and
Mongo Santamaria; An-
tonio Carlos Jobim; J.Jay
Berthume; Lee Morgan;
Church homemakers.
Kory Vrieze is the Or-
chestra’s Artistic Director
and Wayne Shorter. Riverside Baptist and Conductor.
For more information, Church, located at 1249 Membership in the Foot-
contact the Furman De- S. Suber Road, Greer, is hills Philharmonic is open
partment of Music at 294- hosting a Toys for Tots to amateur and profes-
2086. Drive and annual Foothills sional musicians.
Philharmonic Orchestra Training in youth or-
CENTRE STAGE TO SHOW Christmas Concert on Sat- chestra, college orchestra,
‘LAUGHING ALL THE WAY’ urday, Dec. 15, starting at or professional orchestra,
Centre Stage will show 6:30 p.m. in the Greenville Concert
the variety holiday feature The Foothills Philhar- Band or an equivalent
“Laughing All They Way” monic Orchestra contin- band is suggested as nec-
Dec. 6-22. ues its 2017-18 season essary experience.
The show includes hilar- with the concert, and all of For more information
ious Christmas sketches, Foothills’ concerts are free about joining the orches-
classic Christmas tunes, and general admission to tra, interested parties
and celebrated sacred the public. should contact the person-
songs. Original sketches Refreshments will be nel manager at foothill-
written by Director Reed provided following the spersonnel@foothillsphil.
Halvorson parody Fam- performance at the re- org.
ily Feud, Elf on the Shelf, ception where people can For more information
and public television. Fa- meet and greet the per- about this concert or about
vorite songs include Run formers. the Foothills Philharmon-
Run Rudolph, Jingle Bells, The program includes ic Orchestra, please visit
O Come All Ye Faithful, seasonal favorites that will www.foothillsphilharmon-
Santa Claus Is Coming To be guaranteed to help the ic.org or call the office at
Town, and more. audience get into a festive 326-5780.
Shows run Thurs- mood for the holiday sea-
day-Sunday with addition- son.
al matinees on Dec. 8 and Performing in Greenville
15. All seats are reserved. since 2000, Foothills Phil-
For tickets or more in- harmonic is committed
formation, call 233-6733 to providing high-quality,
or visit www.centrestage. classical music perfor-
org. mances to the Upstate
community free of charge.
EVENT REMINDERS  | The orchestra is an
all-volunteer orchestra
made up of accomplished
Artists Guild non-professional musi-
Christmas Gift Show cians from the Upstate re-
Through Dec. 31 gion of South Carolina.
Meet the Artists: Orchestra membership
Dec. 7, 6-9 p.m.
Artists Guild Gallery
of Greenville
‘A Christmas Carol:
A New Musical’
Nov. 30, 7 p.m.
Logos Theatre
www.theacademyofarts.org
‘The Creation’
Furman Symphony Orches-
tra and Oratorio Chorus
Nov. 30, 8 p.m.
McAlister Auditorium
Furman University
furman.edu/musictickets
294-2086
Breakfast with Santa
Dec. 1, 9-10:30 a.m.
Greenville Zoo
greenvillezoo.com
467-4300
Moravian Christmas
Love Feast
Dec. 2, 5 p.m.
Daniel Memorial Chapel
Furman University
294-2133
‘The Servant of Two Masters’
Dec. 4-9
The Playhouse
Furman University
294-2125
Winter Adventure Day
Dec. 21, 10 a.m.-2 p.m.
Greenville Zoo
greenvillezoo.com
467-4300
B8 THE GREER CITIZEN FUN AND GAMES
Platelet donations
are perfectly safe
DEAR DR. ROACH: I am
writing about platelet do-
nations. As a way of giving
back, I donate platelets. I
was wondering if there is a
time that a person should
stop donating, based on
age or difficulty. I am 61
years old, and the past
three times I’ve donated,
I felt uncomfortable in
some way. Either my arm
or wrist hurt, or I had a
feeling of malaise during
the donating process. One
time, I was told that my
platelet count was on the
low side, but it was not
any danger to my well-be-
ing. I feel well immediate-
ly afterward and do not
have health issues, so my
concern is whether this is
somehow detrimental to
my own health as I age.
-- S.B.
ANSWER: Platelet do-
nation generally is a very
well-tolerated procedure.
The platelets are removed
from the donor’s blood via
a process called apheresis;
a centrifuge separates the
blood into four compo-
nents: plasma (containing
proteins), platelets, white
blood cells and red blood
cells. For platelet donors,
just the platelets are re-
moved, and the rest of the
blood components are re-
turned to the donor.
In order to keep the
blood from clotting in-
side the machine, sodi-
um citrate is added to
the apheresis machine.
This reduces the calci-
um, which is needed for
blood clotting. However,
Soap Updates
BY DANA BLOCK
THE BOLD AND
THE BEAUTIFUL
Liam insisted that he
didn’t want Taylor around
his baby. Meanwhile, Hope
and Taylor were having a
verbal altercation inside
the executive suites at
Forrester. Bill told Steffy
that he didn’t think Tay-
lor’s therapy was working.
Ridge and Taylor shared
a surprise reunion and
bonded over their shared
hatred of Bill. Liam finally
told Hope that her mother
was the one who shot Bill.
Taylor and Brooke reig-
nited their decades-long
feud over their daughters.
Steffy was upset that Liam
told Hope about Taylor
shooting Bill. Zoe was
caught off guard by her
father’s announcement
that he was moving to L.A.
Liam asked Steffy not to
tell her mother that Hope
knew the full story. Wait
to See: Pam puts her plot
into motion.
DAYS OF OUR LIVES
Kayla laid into Stefan
and accused him of letting
Steve take the fall for his
espionage. Ted Laurent re-
turned to Salem and asked
Hope for law enforcement
protection. Ben and Cia-
ra shared their first kiss,
which was witnessed by
Rafe. Kayla grilled Gabi
about drugging Abigail.
Stefan bonded with Char-
lotte. Kate confronted
Kayla about setting her
TO YOUR
GOOD HEALTH
KEITH
ROACH, M.D.
some people can develop
symptoms of low calcium
during the apheresis. This
can be treated by slowing
the rate of donation, or by
taking some oral calcium
before donating. More-se-
vere cases might require
giving intravenous calci-
um to the patient via an-
other IV catheter.
The Food and Drug Ad-
ministration recommends
that people make no more
than 24 donations per
year, but there is good ev-
idence that platelet dona-
tion is safe. I congratulate
you on being a communi-
ty-minded citizen, and I
can reassure you that you
have very little short-term
risk and essentially zero
long-term risk from do-
nating platelets, whatever
your age. Donate as often
as is comfortable, and try
taking a calcium supple-
ment before donating.
***
DEAR DR. ROACH: I
have taken 5 mg zolp-
idem (Ambien) nightly
for about three years. My
doctor seems to think this
is acceptable. I sleep five
to six hours with this aid
and function normally in
the morning. Recently I
was told that this drug
DEPOSITPHOTOS
Hunter Tylo stars as ‘Taylor’
on ‘The Bold and The
Beautiful’
up. Ben turned to some-
one unexpected for a job.
Chad visited Abigail at
Bayview and found that
she was a changed person.
Kate informed Roman that
she had the upper hand on
Stefan. Leo told Will and
Sonny a secret about Kate.
At Bayview, Abigail ripped
into Chad for betraying
her. Wait to See: Sonny
confronts Chad about his
knowledge of Kate’s de-
ception.
GENERAL HOSPITAL
Ned felt uneasy about
Julian being at Thanks-
giving dinner. Kim was
disappointed. Monica took
some precautions. Lau-
ra was crushed to learn
about Ava’s relationship
with “Kevin.” Nina had her
hands full. Laura confided
in Lulu. Maxie and Peter
shared a moment. Alexis
was proud of Oscar. Nina
WEDNESDAY, NOVEMBER 28, 2018
has a cumulative effect on
the body. Would you ver-
ify this? Over-the-counter
sleep aids have no effect,
and this drug seems to be
the only way I can sleep.
-- D.M.
ANSWER: Zolpidem and
its cousins, eszopiclone
(Lunesta) and zaleplon (So-
nata), work for a relatively
short time in the body be-
fore they are metabolized,
so they do not build up in
the body. They are mostly
gone in the morning, and
grogginess is not a prob-
lem for most people. How-
ever, people often develop
a dependence on these
medications; it becomes
difficult to sleep without
them. More importantly,
they do increase the risk
of falls and auto accidents,
especially when used ev-
ery day and in people over
65. I don’t recommend
them for the long term,
and I have referred my
patients who can’t sleep
without them to a sleep
specialist, who sometimes
(but not always) is able to
find a better solution than
daily Ambien.
***
Dr. Roach regrets that
he is unable to answer in-
dividual letters, but will
incorporate them in the
column whenever possi-
ble. Readers may email
questions to ToYourGood-
Health@med.cornell.edu.
To view and order health
pamphlets, visit www.rb-
mamall.com.
took Charlotte to the bal-
let. Josslyn was catching
on to something. Laura
had an uneasy feeling.
Elizabeth continued to
worry about Aiden. Fran-
co tried to understand.
Griffin received some ter-
rible news. Sonny and Car-
ly weighed their options.
Anna paid Britt a visit.
Maxie leaned on Peter.
Curtis became the bearer
of bad news. Wait to See:
Franco begins art therapy.
THE YOUNG AND
THE RESTLESS
Jack felt confident about
his feelings for Kerry after
she handled an Abbott
Thanksgiving dinner with
ease and even charmed THE SPATS by Jeff Pickering  |
Dina. Once everyone left
for the evening, Jack and
Kerry grew closer, but she
made a hasty exit. Abby
spent the holiday with Ar-
turo and his family, but
tensions quickly flared.
Lola taught her family a
lesson in thankfulness by
shuffling them off to vol-
unteer at Sharon’s charity
dinner. Nikki and Victoria
did not approve of Nick
and Phyllis’ rekindled re-
 |
lationship. Later, Nikki
finally heard from Victor, RFD by Mike Marland
who told her that he need-
ed to hire a new head of
real estate in Dubai. Abby
decided to pursue a real
estate project after Nick
shot down her idea. Wait
to See: Lauren and Michael
receive a surprise visitor.
 
(c) 2018 King Features Syndicate, Inc.
AMBER WAVES by Dave T. Phipps  |
OUT ON A LIMB by Gary Kopervas  |

WEDNESDAY, NOVEMBER 28, 2018 
School
News
GREENVILLE COUNTY |
EASTSIDE HIGH
COLLECTING TOYS FOR TOTS
Eastside High student
government is currently
accepting new toy dona-
tions in the front office to
benefit Toys for Tots.
MOUNTAIN VIEW HOSTING
TOY, PAJAMA DRIVE
Mountain View Elemen-
tary is sponsoring a Toy
Drive to benefit Greer Re-
lief through Dec. 13.
Items will go to families
in need within the commu-
nity.
Suggested items include:
Barbies, baby dolls, Lego
sets, sports games, hot
wheels track sets, craft
supplies and gift cards.
Any donations are appre-
ciated.
New pajamas in sizes
newborn to adult can be
donated by Dec. 12. The
pajamas drive is orga-
nized in partnership with
Pajama Program and Scho-
lastic Book Club.
WOODLAND TO HOST
CHILD ID EVENT
Woodland Elementary
will host the Ident-A-Kid
Child ID program on Fri-
day, Nov. 30.
Students will take home
forms for parents who
wish to sign up their child.
Forms and payment must
be returned by Nov. 30.
AUTHOR DITERLIZZI WILL
VISIT BUENA VISTA
Author and illustrator
Tony Diterlizzi will visit
Buena Vista Elementary on
Monday, Dec. 3.
Students can pre-order
an autographed copy of
his new book, The Broken
Ornament, with a check
payable to Fiction Addic-
tion by Friday, Nov. 30.
BVES TO SPONSOR KIDS
HELPING KIDS
Buena Vista Elementa-
ry will be participating
in Kids Helping Kids be-
ginning Monday, Dec. 3,
through Friday, Dec. 7.
Students can donate
coins, dollars or checks
to the program that do-
nates 100 percent of the
contributions to providing
school supplies and cloth-
ing for students who may
lack the needed items and
brighten the holidays for
their families.
Checks may be made
payable to Buena Vista
PTA. Designate Kids Help-
ing Kids.
BUENA VISTA TO HOLD
HOLIDAY CONCERT
Buena Vista Elementary
will hold a Holiday Chorus
Concert following its Win-
ter PTA Meeting on Mon-
day, Dec. 3, at 6:30 pm.
Parents and students
can also donate to the
Kids Helping Kids Holiday
Drive at this time.
Second graders will pres-
ent a student program.
BRUSHY CREEK TO HOLD
NIGHT OF THE ARTS
Brushy Creek Elementa-
ry will hold a Night of the
Arts on Monday, Dec. 3.
The Art Show will be
held from 5-7 p.m. in the
Related Arts Hallway. All
students will have artwork
hanging in the hall for the
Winter Art Show.
The Chorus Program be-
gins at 6 p.m. in the school
cafeteria.
NORTHWOOD TO HOLD
WINTER CONCERTS
Northwood Middle will
hold its Winter Strings
Concert on Tuesday, Dec.
4, at 6 p.m.
The Winter Band Con-
cert will be held on Tues-
day, Dec. 11, at 6:30 p.m.
Both concerts will be
held at the school.
KINDERGARTEN, 1ST
REGISTRATION IS DEC. 4-7
Registration for kinder-
garten and first grade in
Greenville County Schools
will be held Tuesday-Fri-
day, December 4-7, 2018.
Children who will be
5 years old on or before
Sept. 1, 2019, must enroll
in public or private kinder-
garten, unless the parent
or legal guardian signs a
waiver. Any child who will
be 6 years old on or before
Sept. 1, 2019 must enroll
Our Schools
Greenville County Schools is part of a pilot program to operate propane-fueled school
buses. GCS recently received twenty-one 2018 Blue Bird buses. The replacement buses
allowed the district to take all of the 1995 and 1996 Thomas Built buses off the road.
in first grade.
Students who are cur-
rently enrolled in a GCS
4K or 5K program do not
need to register.
Visit your assigned
Greenville County pub-
lic school December 4-7,
2018 to register.
To enroll a new student
in kindergarten or first
grade, a parent must pres-
ent the following at regis-
tration:
• State-issued Birth Cer-
tificate
• Properly Completed
Immunization Certificate
or Religious Exemption
Certificate
• Two Forms of Proof of
Residence (two documents
required such as a current
utility bill or copy of lease
agreement)
• Photo ID from Any
State/Country
For your child’s school
assignment and other in-
formation, visit the www.
greenville.k12.sc.us or call
INFOLine at 355-3100.
CRESTVIEW TO HOLD
WINTER MUSIC PROGRAM
Crestview Elementary
will hold its Winter Mu-
sic Program on Thursday,
Dec. 6, 6 p.m. at the J. Har-
ley Bonds Center.
The program will fea-
ture a performance by the
Crestview Chorus and a
musical entitled “Toys!” to
be performed by the third
grade students.
Admission is free.
MOUNTAIN VIEW MISTLE-
TOE MARKET IS DEC. 7
Mountain View Elemen-
tary will hold its Mistletoe
Market on Friday, Dec. 7,
from 6-9 p.m.
Vendors will include
gifts, clothing, jewelry,
accessories, ornaments,
stained glass, essential
oils, hair accessories and
cosmetics.
TAYLORS TO HOLD TINSEL
TOWN MARKET
Taylors Elementary will
hold its Tinsel Town craft
fair and market on Satur-
day, Dec. 8, from 9 a.m.-2
p.m. at the school.
The event for all ages
features vendors, direct
sales consultants, hand-
made crafters and more.
Admission is one
non-perishable item for
Greer Community Minis-
tries.
For more information,
email tinseltown.tes@
gmail.com.
EASTSIDE HIGH PAGEANT
SET FOR DEC. 8
Eastside High will hold
its Miss Aurea Aquila Pag-
eant on Saturday, Dec. 8.
RHS HONOR STUDENTS
DONATE SHOES
Riverside High National
Art Honor Students re-
cently donated 135 pairs
of shoes and accessories
to the Christmas “Shoes
for Kids” program that
donates a pair of shoes,
socks, toothbrush and
toothpaste to local chil-
dren in need.
RHS SPEECH AND DEBATE
WIN TOURNAMENT
The Riverside High
Speech and Debate team
won first place at the
40th annual Mauldin High
School Speech and Debate
Tournament recently.
In addition to claiming
the top team award, Riv-
erside students also won
New ride
several individual champi-
onships.
DISTRICT FIVE  | LYMAN HOLDING DECK THE
BYRNES TO HOLD MISS
SOUVENIRS PAGEANT
Byrnes High will hold its
2018-2019 Miss Souvenirs
Class Beauty Pageant on
Saturday, Dec. 1, 7:30 p.m.
in the District 5 Fine Arts
Center.
The theme is “A Winter
Wonderland of Beauty.”
BEECH SPRINGS
TO HOLD CONCERT
Beech Springs Interme-
diate will hold an Orches-
tra Concert on Monday,
Dec. 3, at 6 p.m.
RIVER RIDGE HOLDING
BOOK SWAP
River Ridge Elementary
will hold its Winter Book
Swap Dec. 3-7.
Students can bring in up
to five gently used books
to the library by Friday,
Nov. 30, and receive a tick-
et for them. The ticket will
then be used to pick out
“new” books at the swap.
BERRY SHOALS PLANS
WINTER CONCERTS
Berry Shoals Interme-
diate has planned several
holiday concerts.
The Winter Orchestra
Concert will be held on
Tuesday, Dec. 4, 6 p.m. at
the District Five Fine Arts
Center.
The Winter Band Con-
cert is set for Thursday,
Dec. 13, 6 p.m. at the Dis-
trict Five Fine Arts Center.
The Winter Choral and
Music Concert will be held
on Tuesday, Dec. 18, 6
p.m. at the school.
WELLFORD CHRISTMAS
CONCERT IS DEC. 6
Wellford Academy of
Science and Technology
will hold its Christmas
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Chorus Concert on Thurs-
day, Dec. 6, from 6-6:30
p.m.
HALLS, MUSICAL
Lyman Elementary will
hold Deck the Halls with
Santa Claus on Thursday,
Dec. 6, from 6-7:30 p.m.
The Holiday Musical will
conclude festivities on
Thursday, Dec. 13, from
6:30-7:30 p.m.
BYRNES PLANS ‘SNOW
BALL’ DEC. 15
Byrnes High will hold its
first ever Sadie Hawkins
Girl’s Choice Dance, “Snow
Ball,” on Saturday, Dec.
15, 7-10 p.m. Tickets are
on sale now during Pow-
er Hour. (No off-campus
guests allowed into the
dance. Grades 10-12 only.)
D.R. HILL TO HOLD
CHRISTMAS EVENTS
D.R. Hill Middle will hold
a Story Book Christmas
on Tuesday, Dec. 18, at 8
a.m. and Wednesday, Dec.
19, at 9 a.m. The Winter
Orchestra Concert is set
for Tuesday, Dec. 18, 6:30
p.m. in the District Five
Fine Arts Center.
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NGU’s Finn
recognized as
SEBTS Scholar
During the 70th annual
meeting of the Evangelical
Theological Society (ETS)
in Denver, CO, Southeast-
ern Baptist Theological
Seminary (SEBTS) rec-
ognized five evangelical
scholars for their con-
tributions at the annual
Southeastern Theological
Fellowship dinner. NGU’s
Provost and Dean of the
University Faculty Dr. Na-
than A. Finn was one of
the five scholars honored.
The honorees, repre-
senting
colleges,
five different
universities,
and seminaries, received
awards for their excel-
lence in research, writing
and displaying the char-
acteristics of a Great Com-
mission scholar in both
the classroom and Chris-
tian scholarship.
Other scholars recog-
nized were: Matthew Em-
erson, Dickinson chair of
religion and associate pro-
fessor of religion at Okla-
homa Baptist University,
Shawnee, OK; Matthew
Pinson, president of Welch
College, Nashville, TN,
Peter Gentry, Donald L.
Williams professor of Old
Testament interpretation
at The Southern Baptist
Theological Seminary in
Louisville, KY; and Kevin
Vanhoozer, research pro-
fessor of systematic theol-
ogy at Trinity Evangelical
Divinity School, Deerfield,
IL.
“I’m so honored to re-
ceive this award from
my beloved alma ma-
ter, Southeastern Baptist
Theological Seminary.
Back in 2013, while a fac-
ulty member at Southeast-
ern, I helped to launch the
Southeastern Theological
Fellowship and was part
of selecting the first slate
of honorees,” said Finn.
“It is such a blessing to
come back full circle this
year and receive one of
the awards. I’m grateful
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to God for Southeastern
and the way the seminary
shaped me as both a min-
ister and a scholar.”
Before joining NGU,
Finn served at Union Uni-
versity since 2015. Prior
to that time, he taught
church history on the
faculty of Southeastern
Baptist Theological Sem-
inary for eight years. He
has published numerous
books and scholarly es-
says on topics such as
Baptist history, theology,
and spirituality. Recent
books include The Baptist
Story: From English Sect
to Global Movement (B&H
Academic, 2015) and His-
tory: A Student’s Guide
(Crossway, 2016). An
ordained minister, Finn
preaches and regularly
teaches in local churches
and has served in pastoral
or other staff roles in sev-
eral Southern Baptist con-
gregations in Georgia and
North Carolina.
He earned his bache-
lor’s degree in history
and Christianity from
Brewton-Parker College in
Mount Vernon, GA, mas-
ter’s degree in divinity and
his doctorate in theolog-
ical studies from South-
eastern Baptist Theolog-
ical Seminary (SEBTS),
Wake Forest, NC.
“As a friend of Dr.
Finn’s, I am proud of the
recognition his scholar-
ly work has gained him,
but as the president of
NGU, I am grateful that
God has brought us an
academic leader who can
model what it means to be
a teacher-scholar-admin-
istrator,” said NGU Presi-
dent Dr. Gene C. Fant, Jr.
“We look forward to seeing
how his God-given gifts
help to shape the vibrant
academic community at
NGU as we seek to engage
the larger culture with the
fruit of the Christian Intel-
lectual Tradition.”
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