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Fee increases to be proposed

For 2018-19 Driggers has recommend-
ed that council increase
storm water program in
what I would categorize
projects.”
Driggers highlighted

budget
BY KAELYN CASHMAN
STAFF WRITER
A couple of fee increases
will likely be included in
the City of Greer’s 2018-
19 Fiscal Year budget,
which is set to be taken up
by council in the coming
months.
City Administrator Ed
the storm water fee and
sanitation fee.
“It has been 21.60 since
the day we proposed it,”
Driggers said of the storm
water fee. “We’re the low-
est of all comparisons to
other folks.”
The 21.60 ERUs in Greer
is the lowest in compari-
son to 11 other area mu-
nicipalities with Simpson-
ville at $22.80 and Aiken
at $65.04.
“We have operated our
as a minimum plan,” Drig-
gers said. “We do what we
are required to do and no
more, and I think what we
do, we do very well.
“But there are things
that we need to do,” he
said. “We have some ex-
penditures relative to
storm water because we
are in a mass construction
mode. There is an enor-
mous amount of construc-
tion that is taking place
out there, and it’s large
Plastic Omnium Indus-
tries, Inc. as an entity that
requires storm water re-
views, permits and inspec-
tions.
“Reno’s doing a really
good job bringing real-
ly big projects,” Driggers
said of Reno Deaton, Ex-
ecutive Director of Greer
Development Corporation.
“They’re just huge proj-
ects. It is a very labor in-
tensive process.
SEE FEE | A5

Illness at Chandler
Report: Creek Elementary
Growth infects hundreds
streak BY BILLY CANNADA
EDITOR
kindergarteners and first
graders.
“It was rapid onset

remains
A stomach bug wreaked
havoc on Chandler Creek
Elementary students last
week, causing around 200
among the youngest popu-
lation, very isolated to kin-
dergarten and first grade,”
Brotherton said. “I don’t

strong
BY KAELYN CASHMAN
STAFF WRITER
As the City of Greer adds
more residents, homes
and businesses, officials
are looking for ways to ac-
commodate the continued
growth.
In 2017, the City of
Greer saw $165 million
in new capital investment
and 749 new jobs.
“(It) was the best year
we’ve ever had as an eco-
nomic development or-
ganization in Greer,” said
Reno Deaton, Executive Di-
rector of the Greer Devel-
opment Corporation.
“Through May 2018,
we’ve accomplished proj-
ects or about to accom-
plish projects totaling
SEE GROWTH | A2
absences.
Although the symptoms
were similar to food poi-
soning, district officials
believe the sickness was
not caused by something
consumed on campus.
“That was our first con-
cern,” District Spokesper-
son Beth Brotherton said.
“When we realized that it
wasn’t (food poisoning),
we started being proactive
with parents, asking them
to keep their child home
if they were experiencing
symptoms.
“Typically, these viruses
are spread among young-
er people,” she said. “This
was a highly contagious
PRESTON BURCH | THE GREER CITIZEN strain of a stomach bug—
very similar to what you
Golfing for a cause would see with a norovirus
on a cruise ship.”
Nearly 20 percent of
The 21st Annual Dick Brooks Honda Meals on Wheels Invitational raised more than the student body was im-
$160,000 for Greer Community Ministries. More than 200 golfers participated last Friday pacted, with the sickness
mainly presenting among
at Greer Country Club.
know if we’ll ever know
what caused it, simply
because of how quickly it
made its way through and
because it wasn’t diagnos-
able.”
The Greenville County
School District sent in two
crews over the weekend
to help with the cleanup
effort.
“We did a really thor-
ough cleaning over the
weekend,” Brotherton
said. “We sanitized and
changed air filters in
hopes that the bug would
die off over the weekend,
and it did.”
Absences on Monday
were “back within the nor-
mal range,” Brotherton
said.
“It’s been a while—may-
be 10 plus years—since
we’ve seen anything of
this magnitude outside of
flu season,” she said.

Lyman City to finance Greer

tables
gateway updates woman
rezoning
STAFF WRITER arrested
BY KAELYN CASHMAN SCDOT for gateway sig-
nage.

Developers The City of Greer is

“There will be a ‘Greer,
SC’ sign that’s there,”

withdraw
partnering with BMW to Driggers said.
improve landscaping and The proposed sign, rep- On Felony DUI
signage at the I-85 and SC- licating the clock tour at
after turning
requests 101 interchange.
As part of the “Eyes on
85” initiative, BMW will in-
city hall, would be about
30 feet tall and 10 feet
wide.
herself in
BY KAELYN CASHMAN
STAFF WRITER breakfast & lunch stall an irrigation system
at the interchange and
“Kimley Horn
worked with this design
has
BY BILLY CANNADA

With Lyman residents

voicing concerns about
6am - 2pm Greer will handle main-
tenance for the first two
years, according to City
in concert with what we’re
doing in Greer Station
streetscape,” Driggers
EDITOR

A Greer woman is facing

traffic and safety, the
town is putting the brakes
on development until in-
frastructure can be im-
proved.
After the Planning and
Zoning Commission ta-
bled one request and rec-
ommended denial of two
others in April, two devel-
opers withdrew
SEE LYMAN | A6
Administrator Ed Drig-
gers.
The city is using Tax
Increment Financing (TIF)
funds to cover the cost.
“Those funds were set
aside,” Driggers said.
IMAGE | SUBMITTED “That’s completely paid
for and ready to go.”
This rendering depicts planned gateway signage at Greer’s For the second phase of
city limits. the project, the city will
need to get a permit from
said. “We always knew
that it needed to be a brick
structure. Brick is our sig-
nature building material.”
Once the landscaping
and signage is complete
at I-85 and 101, the city
will work with Greenville–
Spartanburg International
Airport (GSP), Inland Port
Greer and BMW.
SEE GATEWAYS | A6
a felony DUI (driving un-
der the influence) charge
after turning herself into
police last week.
Officers arrested
Shalynn Renee Zarczyns-
ki Thursday afternoon for
felony driving under the
Influence with great bodi-
ly injury. According to Lt.
Patrick Fortenberry,
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MUSIC ON THE HILL
COMING MAY 17
The Town of Lyman is
hosting its first ever Music
on the Hill night, featuring
the Justin McCorkle Band
at the Lyman Amphithe-
ater on Thursday, May 17,
from 6:30-9:30 p.m.
Come and enjoy music,
food, and fun.
In the event of inclement
weather, the Music on the
Hill event will be moved
inside the Lyman Event
Center.
FOOD TRUCK ROLLOUT
RETURNS MAY 18
The City of Greer is
hosting its quarterly Food
Truck Rollout once again
on Friday, May 18, from
5-8 p.m., at Greer City
Park.
Celebrate the start of
the weekend with food,
drinks, trucks, tailgating
games, and music.
Food and beverages will
be available onsite. Valid
ID is required to purchase
alcohol. Outside alcohol
and coolers are prohibit-
ed.
Children under 16 must
be accompanied by an
adult.
Anyone who requires
an auxiliary aid or service
for effective communica-
tion or a modification of
policies or procedures to
participate in a program,
service, activity or pub-
lic meeting of the City of
Greer should contact 864-
968-7008 as soon as pos-
sible, but no later than 48
hours prior to the sched-
uled event.
HOT AIR BALLOON COMING
TO GREER CITY PARK
The Greer Commission
of Public Works, along
with SC811 and the City
of Greer, are hosting a Hot
Air Balloon at Greer City
tion with the Food Truck
Rollout.
The purpose is to edu-
cate the public on calling
8-1-1 to have underground
utility lines marked.
Due to the large crowds
anticipated for this event,
no tethered rides will be
offered, but adults and
children are welcome to
take photos standing next
to the basket and ask the
pilot questions.
Anyone interested in
taking a future hot air bal-
loon ride should contact
Southern Skies Ballooning
at 650-6512 or (470) 312-
332.
WALK WITH ELECTED
OFFICIALS ON MAY 19
The City of Greer and
the Town of Lyman in
partnership with the Mary
Black Foundation are host-
ing the Walk with Elected
Official on Saturday, May
19, from 9:45 a.m. to 11
a.m., starting at Greer City
Hall and Lyman Town Hall.
Enjoy the outdoors, chat
with community members
and get to know local of-
ficials.
All Walks are free and
open to the community
with a rain date set for
Sunday, May 20 at 3 p.m.
Registration begins at
9:45 a.m.
Walk begins at 10 a.m.
For more information,
contact Louise Fagan at
541-4282 or Natalia Swan-
son at 573-9500 or visit
www.maryblackfounda-
tion.org/community-ini-
tiatives/healthycommuni-
ty50/lyman-walk.
A local Physician will be
co-hosting this quarter’s
1.5 mile walk through
downtown Greer.
Following the walk, they
will have light refresh-
ments, and then partici-
pants can enjoy the Farm-
ers Market in City Park.
Any questions, please
contact Justin Miller at
848-2192 or jmiller@city-
ofgreer.org.
The City of Wellford is
holding its inaugural Well-
ford Spring Festival on
Saturday, May 19, from
10 a.m. to 5 p.m. on Main
Street between the Red Ca-
boose and the Post Office.
Part of the entertain-
ment will hopefully be a
“Battle of Church choirs.”
ATM machines will not
be available at this event.
There will be Arts and
Crafts vendors as well as
food vendors.
Military equipment will
be on display with infor-
mation about the National
Guard.
A Fun for Kids area will
be available with bouncy
castles and other inflat-
ables.
RELAY FOR LIFE PAGEANT
COMING MAY 19
Relay for Life of Greer is
hosting the 2018 Miss Up-
state Relay for Life Pageant
on Saturday, May 19, from
1-7 p.m., at the Bonds Ca-
Who let the dogs out?
reer Center, located at 505 Saved by the Heart Companion Animal Services and Greer Station hosted its annual
N. Main Street, Greer. “Bring Your Dog Downtown” event on Tuesday, May 8, at the corner of Victoria Street and
INTERNATIONAL CLINICAL Trade Street in downtown Greer. A Pet Parade and a Pet Idol Competition also took place
TRIALS COMING MAY 21 with food donations collected for a special grand prize drawing. Above: Falon Brasington
Clinical Trials are instru- hugs her dog Aurora. Below: owners and their furry friends go for a stroll up Trade Street.
mental in getting the com-
munity the medications Photos by Preston Burch
they need.
Synexus’ Greer office
will be having an Open
House on May 21 at their
new location at 501 Me-
morial Drive Ext., Greer,
and will have a local Com-
munity Center present for
games and discussions.
The Greer location has
been conducting clinical
trials for over 30 years.
Syenxus is a global net-
work with 75 sites in the
US, sites in Bulgaria, Hun-
gary, Romania, Ukraine,
Germany, Poland, South
Africa and the United
Kingdom.
For more information on
Synexus, visit synexusclin-
ic.com.

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173 million in invest-
ment and 495 new jobs,”
he said. “Things are flow-
ing very, very well. I’m
hoping that the last six
to seven months of this
calendar year will be fruit-
ful, and that we’ll top our
numbers for last year.”
The growth, Deaton
says, is still being driven
by manufacturers
“We are consistently
achieving high numbers of
new manufacturing proj-
ects,” Deaton said.
Capital investment for
manufacturing projects
was $80 in 2017, and is
already at $82 so far this
year.
“We’ll see that number
climb,” Deaton said.
In addition, while distri-
bution projects have de-
clined from 2017 to 2018,
speculation development
has increased.
“I think the biggest en-
lightening factor of our
numbers is the change in
office development from
2017 to 2018,” Deaton
said.
In 2017, there was “very
little office development,”
but in 2018, there has al-
ready been $7 million in
new capital investment in
office projects and 226
new office jobs in the City
of Greer.
“That is sure to both im-
prove the overall health
of our downtown but also
Reno Deaton, Executive Director of the Greer Development
Corporation, presented his annual report to Greer CIty
Council last Tuesday night.
out a way to extend sewer
lines throughout this com-
munity,” Deaton said.
“It is, by and large, even
more so than roads, the
competitive advantage
that allows us to land proj-
ects in Greer. If we’re not
building new lines, some-
one will be building new
lines to these industrial
projects, and those other
folks are not going to want
that property in the City of
Greer.”
2. GREER’S STORY
Since Greer is located in
two counties, Greenville
and Spartanburg, Dea-
ton touted the access to
economic development
resources, but also ex-
pressed the challenge of
getting into their market-
ing strategies.
“The challenge is that
both of those counties
have developed marketing
strategies that really focus
KAELYN CASHMAN | THE GREER CITIZEN
“There are a lot of rea-
sons why a restaurant will
fail,” Deaton said.
“That was one parking
lot,” he said. “The redevel-
opment project is literally
everything else in down-
town. Everything else in
downtown will be under
construction for 18-24
months.”
Because of this fact,
Deaton emphasized the
need for the city to com-
municate well.
“We’re got to make sure
that we are working very
hard to reach out to busi-
nesses as you’re current-
ly doing,” Deaton said.
“We’ve got to market that
Greer is open for busi-
ness.”
“We’ve got to be very
positive about the fact
that this is a temporary
discomfort,” he said. “The
end product is going to
be fantastic….Businesses
are going to do ten times
News
GCM SEEKS VOLUNTEERS
FOR SENIOR DINING BUS
Greer Community Minis-
tries is looking for volun-
teers to drive their Senior
Dining Bus.
The Senior Dining pro-
gram provides senior
adults with the opportuni-
ty to enjoy a warm meal,
social time with friends
and inspirational enter-
tainment on a weekday
basis.
Some of the exciting
events are birthday and
holiday parties and pic-
nics, just to name a few.
For more information or
to volunteer, contact Bill
Broadus, Senior Dining
Coordinator, at 877-1937
or bbroadus@gcminc.org.
Spaces are now available
for new participants.
Desired qualifications
are: 60 years of age or
older, able to visit the re-
stroom without assistance
(a spouse can accompany
member), alert and coop-
erative, and mobile with-
out assistance.
For more information,
visit gcminc.org.
On May 31, the ABC se-
niors are eating out their
evening meal at Charlie’s
Barbeque in Pelham at 6
p.m.
TINSLEYS TO SPEAK
AT EBENEZER-WELCOME
John and Catherine
Tinsley will share their
testimonies on Sunday,
May 20, at 5 p.m. in the
Ebenezer-Welcome Baptist
mission center.
John served 25 years in
prison and will share how
the Lord worked in his life.
The Prison Team will
also share an update
on the ministry that the
church has sponsored for
15 years. The public is in-
vited. Ebenezer-Welcome
Baptist is located at 4005
Highway 414 in Landrum.
For more information,
call 895-4361.
CAR SHOW TO RETURN
SATURDAY, MAY 26
His Vineyard Church is
holding their fifth annual
benefit car show on Satur-
day, May 26, from noon to
3 p.m. Registration begins
at 11 a.m. with awards at
2:30 p.m. His Vineyard
Church is located at 656
Arlington Road, Greer. All
cars, trucks and motorcy-
cles are welcome.
for donations.
All of the proceeds will
go to fund a youth trip to
the 2018 Forward Confer-
ence. For more informa-
tion, email darongray70@
yahoo.com.
GOLF TOURNAMENT TO
RAISE FUNDS FOR CHURCH
Good Shepherd Epis-
copal is holding its third
annual Golf Tournament,
“Go For The Green,” on
Friday, June 29, at Greer
Golf & Country Club.
The 18-hole “Captain’s
Choice” tournament will
begin with a shotgun start
at 12:30 p.m.
A Silent Auction will run
from 11 a.m. to 6 p.m.,
and a Golf Awards Dinner
will take place at 6 p.m.
with prizes to be awarded.
There will also be a Put-
ting Contest and a Chip-
ping Contest with men and
women awards for longest
drive and closest to line.
All proceeds will go to-
wards the Good Shepherd
Episcopal Church Fund to
support additional ADA
renovation needs, includ-
ing a church handicap
ramp, a handicap parking
lot and tree removal.
To register as a sponsor
or player in this event, vis-
it goodshepherdgreer.org.

CAMP ARK 2018

overall raise the wage level
of Greer in terms of those
jobs that are created here
in Greer,” Deaton said.
Industrial parks
throughout the Greer area
are also seeing new proj-
ects and expansions, but
there are four challenges
to moving forward, which
Deaton highlighted in his
report to Greer City Coun-
cil last Tuesday night.
1. ROADS AND SEWER
Road and sewer infra-
structure in the City of
Greer have a lifespan
about five years, Deaton
noted.
“The Greer Commission
of Public Works is chang-
ing their mission a little
bit, moving a little bit
more toward operations
and management kind of
organization as opposed
to a more development
focused organization as
they have in the past, but
we’ve got to still figure
on the county seats,” Dea-
ton said. “I have yet to find
room in either of those
marketing campaigns for
Greer.”
“If we don’t begin to tell
our story, I don’t know
who will. The opportuni-
ty to tell Greer’s story is
now.”
3. DOWNTOWN
DISRUPTION
Deaton complimented
the city on its efforts to
notify downtown busi-
nesses and the public in
general about the upcom-
ing streetscape project but
also expressed concern
about the impact.
“I don’t know of any-
thing more you could do,”
Deaton said.
Nevertheless, Deaton
shared the example of
Bistro 107 going out of
business when the city
built the police and courts
building in a parking lot
across the street.
better.”
4. GREER’S GROWTH
“Is Greer growing fast
enough?,” Deaton asked.
“I think annexation is
no longer taboo. There’s a
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real quality of service that
you can offer in the City of
Greer.”
Deaton said annexation
Ages 5-16 (must be 5 by January 1, 2018)
could be a viable longterm
strategy.
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terms of city services….I GCAC Members
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apologetic for the desire
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WEDNESDAY, MAY 16, 2018 NEWS
Center for the Arts enters phase two renovations
BY KAELYN CASHMAN
STAFF WRITER
The City of Greer will
begin phase two of its ren-
ovation of The Center for
the Arts in May.
The Davis Avenue loca-
tion, which opened in No-
vember of 2016, current-
ly houses artist studios.
Phase two will focus on
the theater and outdoor
parts of the property.
The City of Greer Parks
and Recreation Depart-
ment has been working
with an architectural firm
hired last May.
“We had our second
community meeting in
June right after that,” said
Parks and Recreation Di-
rector Ann Cunningham.
“This is a design build
process. We have been
working with SGA, our
architectural firm out of
Greenville, in designing
this building based on
what the input was from
the community. We feel
pretty good about it.”
The department has se-
lected four firms to inter-
view on May 18.
Kids Planet renovations
set to move forward
Splash pad
considered
for City Park
BY KAELYN CASHMAN
STAFF WRITER
After gathering input
from local residents and
students at six schools,
the City of Greer is mov-
ing forward with putting
together plans to renovate
Kids Planet as well as fig-
uring out how to accom-
modate the public interest
in water features.
“The planning process is
moving along really well,”
Driggers said. “That was
really good feedback for
what folks would like to
see, which is very simi-
lar to how we designed
Kids Planet the first time
around.”
The city has set aside $1
million along with a gift to
that project of $100,000 a
year for three years, total-
ing $1.3 million allocated
for the renovation of Kids
Planet.
“We have no idea what
the renovation to Kids
Planet is going to cost,”
Driggers said, since the
city is gathering communi-
ty input first and then ask-
ing how much those ideas
would cost.
The next step involves
a smaller project team
meeting by conference call
in a week or so to process
the data collected and to
determine a path forward.
“We’ll actually come
back to the project steer-
ing committee, which is
Decorations to return
BY KAELYN CASHMAN
STAFF WRITER
Christmas decorations
will return to Wade Hamp-
ton Boulevard (Highway
29) this December.
Due to the installation
of LED lighting on Wade
Hampton, Christmas dec-
orations were not part of
the traditional holiday de-
cor in 2017.
“Ann is working and
looking at how we will
decorate Highway 29 for
Christmas because a lot
of people were not happy
that we did not decorate
29 for Christmas this year,
so we made the commit-
ment,” said City Adminis-
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The Center for the Arts in Greer will undergo the second phase of renovations as the year
progresses, with a possible completion date set for next spring or summer.
“Hopefully, we’ll make
a selection on the 18th,”
Cunningham said.
Cunningham plans to
bring a firm to council on
May 22 in order to pro-
ceed with the final design.
“Hopefully, we will start
demolition this summer,”
Cunningham said. “That’s
our goal,” with a possi-
ble opening date for next
about 13 people,” Cun-
ningham said. “We’ve got
private citizens on there
as well as city staff.”
“We’ll all come back to
the table, and we’ll pres-
ent this data, and we will
discuss as a team what the
recommendations would
be,” she said. “We’ll take
it back to the department,
see what we can do, what
we can put together. Then,
we’ll bring it to council.”
A tentative timeline for
the project is demolition
in October with a play-
ground ready to open by
spring of 2019.
“We know there’s things
that can push us back a
little bit on that, but that’s
our ideal timeframe be-
cause we don’t want the
park closed during its
highest season,” Driggers
said.
“Kids Planet is a pre-
mier park,” he said. “It is
a large park. I am suspect-
ing while $1.3 million is a
great number; it may not
be the absolute number.”
One of the most popu-
lar requests for the park
involved the use of water.
“We got a lot of response
for water,” coming from
both children and parents,
Cunningham said. “Wa-
ter is the number one re-
quest.”
Then, other ideas includ-
ed climbing and swinging.
“There’s a lot of dif-
ferent components that
they’re telling us they
want,” Cunningham said.
“There’s a lot of different
equipment out there.”
Due to the public input,
Cunningham and Driggers
have talked about how to
incorporate water into the
trator Ed Driggers.
Driggers gave the up-
date during council’s year-
ly planning retreat at city
hall.
“All the poles are
equipped for Christmas
decorations,” he said. “I
don’t think we’ll put them
on all the poles, but we
certainly have the abili-
ty to go out and do some
things.”
A seven-mile stretch of
Wade Hampton Boulevard
in the city limits of Greer
has LED lighting now.
“It is vastly different
than it was before,” Drig-
gers said. “From a public
safety perspective, I’ve got
to believe it’s just better.”
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spring or summer.
“That process is the
identical process we did
for this building (city hall)
and police and courts and
the park,” said City Ad-
ministrator Ed Driggers.
“We already have a lit-
tle sticker shock,” he said.
“The cost estimating was
way outside our budget….
We can’t spend that; we
city parks.
“I would love for our
city to have a water field
for children, a splash pad
type of environment,”
Driggers said. “Personally,
I don’t think Kids Planet’s
the place to put it.”
“I think we need one,”
he said. “I think there’s a
great demand for it. But I
think we ought to do that
here at City Park, and we
dedicate Kids Planet to
what it is because I think
we could manage a splash
pad type thing better
here.”
“I’m in total agreement,”
Cunningham said. “The in-
frastructure there is really
not going to support it.”
“I don’t have a large
enough parking lot,” she
said. “I can barely hold
what I’ve got now.”
The company consulted
for Kids Planet also has
its own water company,
which focuses on water
features, which could cost
up to a half million dol-
lars.
“That’s a lot of money,
but it’s not bad,” Driggers
said.
“The only thing we
might request is that we
just have jets that come
out of ground, so when it
comes to special events
like Freedom Blast and
International Fest and oth-
er things, we can bring it
down,” Cunningham said.
“We’re not talking a wa-
ter park,” Driggers clari-
fied. “We’re talking splash
pad.”
“They love ‘em,” Drig-
gers said of children. “It’s
remarkable how it draws
people.”
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Artist space is planned
to be continued around
the outer edges of the
building.
“We want to have artists
completely on the side,”
Cunningham said for the
arts side.
“We’ll have our re-
strooms in the center,”
she said. “The theater will
pretty much stay a lot like
it is now….We will raise
the floor almost a foot to
the base of the stage now,
so that will bring the stage
up to about 36 inches,
which is just great.”
PHOTO | SUBMITTED In addition, a green
room is in the plans as
well as wrap-around park-
ing, a circle where people
can be dropped off, a pla-
don’t have that.” za area to walk into the
As a result, the project theater and more.
may be split into more “We want to make it,
phases. again, multifunctional,”
“We want to take the Cunningham said.
building and actually di- Seating will need to be
vide it into two sections,” brought into the space for
Cunningham said. “We events held at the Center
want to have visual arts, for the Arts.
and we want to have per- “We are looking in the
forming arts. We want to theater at 260 (seats),”
get as much in this facility Cunningham said.
Abner Creek Baptist Church will host its 28th annual Tractor Show this Saturday.
Annual show is this Saturday
BY KATIE CRUICE SMITH ‘I have always been
FOR THE GREER CITIZEN
around tractors,
Abner Creek Baptist
Church will host the 28th and this is a good
annual Power from the
Past Antique Tractors, En- group of guys and
gines, and Swap Meet this
Saturday from 8 a.m. to 4 gals.’
p.m.,.
This free event is open
to the public and includes David Moss
antique tractors, hit and Club President
miss engines, garden
tractors, classic cars and explore.
trucks, farm equipment, The Foothills Antique
and “Parades of Power.” Power Association started
There will also be crafts, 29 years ago and used to
bounce houses for the meet on the fairgrounds in
kids, and a kids’ pedal Spartanburg on Memorial
pull, involving a sled and Day weekend.
a pedal tractor. Food and “I have always been
drink will be available around tractors, and this
for purchase as well. The is a good group of guys
Spartanburg County Bomb and gals,” said David
Squad also plans to be Moss, who is the president
there to showcase their ro- of the club and a mem-
bot, and fire engines will ber of Abner Creek. “We
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The Cannon Center
seats 320, and Bonds Ca-
reer Center seats about
600, she said.
“The typography will
change a little,” Cun-
ningham said of outside
changes. “Hopefully, we’ll
be able to add in an am-
phitheater.”
“Some of that may have
to wait,” she said.
Driggers talked about
doing the bidding or at
least a cost estimate with
alternatives.
“We’ll have those num-
bers, so we can come back
to you,” Driggers said to
Greer City Council during
their planning retreat last
week.
“We’ll operate it more
like a community center,”
he said.
Driggers mentioned put-
ting signage at 101.
“I think we can have
some really cool produc-
tions in here,” Cunning-
ham said.
“The arts community
is very excited,” Driggers
said.
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year.”
Last year, between 350
and 400 people attended
the event, which will go
on rain or shine. Vendors
and exhibitors only pay a
$10 fee to participate in
the event, and set-up is
available all day on Friday
as there will be security
there around the clock to
watch over the tractors
and equipment.
“We are trying to contin-
ue the interest in agricul-
ture and old farm equip-
ment and the old way
of doing things with the
young people,” said Moss.
“And we want to introduce
[the community] to Abner
Creek Baptist Church.”
For more information
on becoming a vendor or
exhibitor, call David Moss
at 680-4004. Abner Creek
Baptist Church is located
at 2501 Abner Creek Rd.
in Greer.
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A4 THE GREER CITIZEN WEDNESDAY, MAY 16, 2018
I’ve always thought one of the most
enticing physical attributes a woman
has is her dainty, elegant feet, pedicured
with nails painted a subtle, pleasing
shade. They’re so youthful, so sexy,
slipped into kitten heels or simply bare-
foot in the grass.
Which is why I have always despaired
over my own honkin’ trotters. I have
big feet. Appallingly big, ugly feet. Feet
whose shoes could double as kayaks. But
to be clear, my canned Spams are free
of bunions and hammer toes or any of
those crippling defects resulting from
trying to wedge ones feet into pointy-
toed pumps a size too small. What
makes a toddler (as well as its mother)
stare in horror at my flippers should I
dare to wear anything open-toed while
waiting in the check-out line, is the fact
that I’m missing part of the big toe on
my left foot (from a particularly violent
dodge ball game in Junior High. You
think I’m kidding? I’m lucky to be alive.),
along with the toenail. Lee’s ‘press on
nails’ never worked. Neither did their
THROUGH THE YEARS  | KAELYN’S
Healing
the hurt
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.
January, 23 2002
“Healing the Hurt”
A group of Greer firefighters
were depicted comforting one
another on the front page of
this edition, just a few short
months after the terrorist at-
tacks on 9/11.
Members of the NYPD and
others gathered at a community
debriefing, sharing stories of
the tragic events that unfolded
in New York, Washington DC
and Pennsylvania. Bronx Task
Force Chief Dominick Masullo
shared about his experience
with the crowd.
“All the buildings in the
complex were either coming
down or on fire. It looked like
something out of a movie,” he
explained.
Also in the news was a street-
scape project renovating Greer’s
main downtown intersection of
Highway 14 and Poinsett Street.
The project was taking its toll
on local business owners and
the Partnership for Tomorrow
announced plans to help those
businesses advertise during the
construction.
On the sports page, Lane Fowl-
er returned to his Alma Mater,
Byrnes High School, to become
an assistant coach for the bas-
ketball program; the Greer girls
basketball team led the Peach
Blossom standings with three
wins in four days; and coach
Jeff Neely was preparing to host
his annual basketball camp for
kids.
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The agony of da feet
I’M JUST
SAYING
PAM STONE
other, cheaper line that I tried, Lee’s
‘press on bust,’  but that’s another story
for after the kiddies are in bed.  barefoot out onto our front deck and
Add to this partial mutilation that I’ve
had horses since I was eight, and like
every other horse owner on the planet,
been stepped on several times resulting
in each toe being broken at least once,
along with an ankle. Then there was
the time I had X-rays taken for another
injury and after scanning the films, the
doctor drily commented, “It’s amazing
you can walk at all considering how bad-
ly your last fracture was set.”
“Which fracture?’’
‘‘This one,” he said, pointing to a thick,
fuzzy line on the film.
GUEST EDITORIAL
Advice to candidates on
‘protecting taxpayers’
Over the next several weeks, men and women
aspiring to elected office will likely be filling
up your mailbox and knocking on your door.
Many will talk of “protecting the taxpayers,”
or offer some similar claim in pursuit of your
vote.
Of course, “protecting the taxpayers” can
mean any number of things, and candidates
tend to offer scant details. The discerning
voter would be wise to press candidates to
elaborate.
For those who are serious about protecting
people’s wallets, we wish them the best. Here
are a few nuggets of insight – four keys to
serving the taxpayers well:
HAVE THE BACKBONE TO SAY “NO”
All politicians talk about opposing wasteful
spending. Yet if you were to look over any city,
county or state budget, you’d easily spot items
the average person would consider frivolous.
So how do they get there?
The truth is that saying “no” to budget waste
sometimes requires backbone. Just about every
budget item, no matter how frivolous, has a
beneficiary. There’s someone somewhere who
wants the item, and they’ll lobby, pressure,
cajole and argue that a particular expendi-
ture has some vital function. Perhaps it’ll be
a “special interest group” armed with deep
pockets and a knowledge of how to work the
system. Caving can seem politically expedient,
while it can take political courage to say “no.”
SAVE THROUGH STREAMLINING AND
CONSOLIDATION
If you’ve ever run a business, you know it
can be necessary to weed out unnecessary
costs -- i.e., overhead – just to keep the doors
open. But that same incentive doesn’t exist in
government because governments don’t go out
of business.  The result is often an operation-
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“Huh, I didn’t know about that one,” I I saturated a sterile gauze pad with
replied, frowning. Betadine, cleaned the wound, applied
“How could you not know?’’ He was Bag Balm, as one does, then wrapped my
incredulous. “It was displaced.’’ foot and tried to walk it off. For a week.
“Yeah, well,” I answered, scratching my By day six, the throbbing was unceasing
head, “I remember getting stomped on and I was hobbling about doing chores
and it taking about a year before I could on my heel. It was clear an infection had
lace up a shoe on that foot. That was taken hold. My doctor, with the patience
probably it.” of a saint, squeezed me in and I lay back
Just when I thought they couldn’t gnawing my knuckle as she opened,
look any worse, a week ago I stepped drained and packed it. Cellulitis, she
pointed out, was already showing in my
promptly felt a wooden splinter the size toes and that can spread quickly. With
of a celery stalk impale the ball of my a prescription for antibiotics, I limped
right foot, near the pinky toe. This is an out, trailing Paul, who had kept his eyes
excellent time to point out that the best screwed shut in horror during the entire
part of living on a large piece of acreage ordeal.
is that you can cuss at the top of your It’s easy to forgive the assistant who
lungs for as long as you need to without showed me into the procedure room
offending anyone. I plopped down on and helped me onto the table. Slipping
the stoop and immediately pulled the off my flip flops, she glanced down at
thing out which resulted in more thera- my lumpy, sized-ten double wide, and
peutic shrieks of colorful language. gasped, “Goodness, your poor foot!”
As usual, I raided my substantial first “It’s the other one, actually, that’s
aid kit. In the barn. Tossing aside the hurt.”
paste wormers and banamine (for colic), Because them are some big, ugly feet..
KORNER
KAELYN CASHMAN
Staff reporter
Mom
M
y appreciation for the role
of motherhood has grown
as I have.
This past weekend gave each
of us an opportunity to honor
or remember our moms.
Brad and I took advantage
of this past Sunday to do just
that.
Sunday morning, we woke
up earlier than usual to travel
down to my sister’s place in
Anderson.
There, we went to church
with her family of six and my
parents.
We grilled out afterwards,
and I enjoyed some down time
to catch up with my mom and
sister, who both have four kids.
After that, Brad and I re-
 | turned home for an hour or
two.
We then drove to one of our
favorite restaurants where
Brad’s mom had reservations.
We met his parents, his aunt
and uncle and his sister there.
Over dinner, we shared excel-
lent food as I enjoyed catching
up with Brad’s sister, who sat
across from me.
We gave cards to both of our
moms to show our apprecia-
tion.
Moms put up with a lot as
sector – excessive bureaucracy, duplication they care for children from
of functions or general ineffectiveness. In conception to graduation, and
my experience, just about every public entity it is no easy feat.
has room to become more efficient; there are Our church is filled with
savings to be achieved through streamlining mothers. While I do not have
operations – for example, merging overlap- any children of my own yet,
ping functions or using technology to increase I can see how much time and
productivity.  energy these mothers invest in
  rearing theirs.
BROADEN THE REVENUE BASE For believers in Jesus Christ,
If you’ve ever chipped in with others on a there are no easy answers to
purchase – say, a gift for a friend – you know questions like: How do you
that the more people who chip in, the less shelter a child without suf-
everyone individually pays. Applied to gov- focating them into rebellion?
ernment, that means one way to lighten the How much do you expose
load for taxpayers is to have more people and them to the culture? How do
businesses on the tax rolls. you teach your children God’s
The most obvious way to expand the tax Word?
base is to recruit new businesses. But it may Yet, as in every area of our
also be beneficial to take stock of your govern- lives, God’s grace is sufficient.
ment’s overall revenue structure -- specifically, 2 Corinthians 12:9-10 says,
its policies on special tax breaks for various “But he said to me, ‘My grace
businesses and interest groups. is sufficient for you, for my
  power is made perfect in weak-
PRACTICE TRANSPARENCY, OVERSIGHT AND ness.’ Therefore I will boast all
ACCOUNTABILITY the more gladly of my weak-
The greater the transparency and oversight,
the fewer the opportunities for waste and
nesses, so that the power of
Christ may rest upon me. For
abuse – two problems which potentially pinch the sake of Christ, then, I am
wallets. Unfortunately, those good-government
ideals don’t always get the emphasis they
content with weaknesses, in-
sults, hardships, persecutions,
deserve. and calamities. For when I am
Fiscal oversight should be a priority, not an weak, then I am strong.”
afterthought. Make sure there are stringent And Philippians 4:6-7 says,
financial controls in place to discourage mis- “Do not be anxious about
spending and to catch it when it does occur. anything, but in everything by
Establish standardized, clearly spelled-out prayer and supplication with
procedures for purchases and for awarding thanksgiving let your requests
contracts. be made known to God. And
the peace of God, which sur-
This guest editorial was submitted by South Carolina Comptroller Richard passes all understanding, will
Eckstrom. guard your hearts and your
minds in Christ Jesus.”
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City of Greer hopes to begin streetscape in fall
BY KAELYN CASHMAN
STAFF WRITER
With design work now
complete for the down-
town streetscape, City of
Greer officials are hoping
to put the project out to
bid in July.
“They will mobilize this
fall,” said City Administra-
tor Ed Driggers in Greer
City Council’s annual
planning retreat last week.
“We’re hoping that’s going
to be somewhere in prob-
ably the September/Octo-
ber range.”
“We committed to our
businesses that we would
not interfere with retail
businesses during the
Christmas shopping cen-
ter season, so we will start
on some of our work, we
hope, around the outer
edges. We will do that un-
til January. Then, when we
come in in January 2019,
we will start doing demo-
lition of remaining areas
and construction of that,
and that will take a good
piece of 2019.”
Driggers also mentioned
anticipating the hotel
owner to start demolition
on his site this summer
and construction in 2019
with the intent to open the
hotel in 2020.
“We will open the garage
no later than the day that
the hotel opens,” Driggers
said. “The design engineer
has been hired.”
“This entire project will
be finalized about the
same time that we are
opening the hotel and
parking structure,” he
said, which is also about
the same time as the pro-
jected completion of Kids
Planet and Center for the
Arts Phase Two.
One of the purposes of
the streetscape project is
to define the Greer Station
area better with brick pav-
FEES: Could see increase this July for storm water and sanitation
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It’s becoming more and
more difficult to do it.”
Other large projects set
to use storm water funds
include the downtown
streetscape project, the
Kids Planet renovations
and the Center for the
Arts Phase Two.
“We will see that that
amount of dollars that we
have will rapidly decrease
because we’re going to do
some pretty large proj-
ects, and they’re all qual-
ified,” he said. “Then, we
really won’t have the abil-
ity, except for time, to try
to build that back up to do
any other projects.”
Driggers told council
that he would identify
what the expenditures
would be out of the storm
water fund when he pro-
posed the increase.
“I believe that our storm
water program is the best
in Greenville and Spartan-
burg counties,” Driggers
said. “For protecting our
community, we have an
ordinance in place that
is not unbearable for the
development community,
but it requires them to
do some things that they
would prefer not to have
to do, and we do that for
the protection of our com-
munity.”
“I think it’s best for us
that we manage that be-
cause we’ll get projects
off those revenues that I
don’t think we would oth-
erwise get, and we have
control over administer-
ing the program,” he said.
“There’s lots of opportuni-
ty for you to debate that,
and ultimately, it will be
your decision what to do
in the budget.”
SANITATION FEE
In addition, the City of
Greer is renegotiating its
contract with ACE Envi-
ronmental.
“I have been working
with ACE for the past year
on the terms of our con-
tract and have kept Coun-
bayberry 3x5 mother’s ad
cil informed,” Driggers
er ties to the new Trade
Street shared street con-
cept.
“While we have a central
business district that isn’t
just Trade Street, we know
we kind of refer to down-
town as Trade Street,”
Driggers said. “We wanted
to be able to expand that
footprint with improve-
ments.”
“We will see replaced,
not all, but damaged curb
and gutter on these state
highways as well as our
streets on School, Victoria,
Randall,” Driggers said.
“We will replace broken
curb and gutter, broken
sidewalk, sidewalk that
needs to be replaced and
we will repave the road.
We’ll mill the old road
down, replace asphalt. We
will have complete, new,
fresh all around that pe-
rimeter.”
Some of the improve-
ments include replacing
faux brick walks with real
bricks and using similar
lighting throughout the
downtown area.
“We are coming back in,
and we will actually do
brick crosswalks in those
areas,” Driggers said. “We
will make improvements
to all of that area. All the
existing sidewalk and all
the existing landscaping
will be removed. All of
that will be reinstalled.”
“About the only thing
that you see that will re-
main out there will be the
acorn lights, and we’re
even moving some of
those around because all
the new acorn lights will
be LED fixtures, and so
we’ve got to kind of mix
and match those,” he said.
Driggers defined Greer
Station as Main Street
from the bridge to Poin-
sett, Poinsett to City Hall,
all of Randall Street, De-
pot Street, Trade Street,
said. “Final document will
go to Council to approve.”
The proposed final con-
tract includes “a 50 cents
per month per resident
increase retroactive to
July 1, 2017,” Driggers
said. Once council has ap-
proved the final negotiat-
ed contract, “we’ll write a
check for $60,000 when
we true up the contract.”
“We will be at a break
even on the sanitation fee
at that point,” he said.
The current rate is $115
per year for those who use
the service.
“We’re going to have a
$6 a year increase per res-
ident,” Driggers said. “It
is my belief that if we’re
going to truly operate that
program as an enterprise
fund, then we should op-
erate it as an enterprise
program. If the expenses
go up $6 a year, then the
fee goes up $6 a year.”
Under the renegotiated
‘The intent there is to create this festival,
community plaza area, but we did not
want to do away with the ability to park or
drive on Trade Street, and we wanted to
keep two-way traffic on Trade Street.’
School Street and Victoria
Street.
“What we ultimately got
out of that process (of
public input) was a con-
sensus that we would go
to what’s called a shared
street design in Trade
Street area,” Driggers said.
On Trade Street, brick
pavers from face of build-
ing to face of building will
replace asphalt, removing
curb and gutters.
“It will create a plaza
area when that area is for
festivals and events,” Drig-
gers said. “When it’s not,
there will be a differentiat-
ed color of pavement that
will be for sidewalk, park-
ing and the street.”
“We will use street fur-
niture, ballers, lights and
those types of things to
separate traffic, cars and
pedestrians,” he said. “The
intent there is to create
this festival, community
plaza area, but we did not
want to do away with the
ability to park or drive on
Trade Street, and we want-
ed to keep two-way traffic
on Trade Street as well.”
While Trade Street is a
city street, Poinsett Street
is a state highway.
“DOT will not let us a
do a raised surface there,”
Driggers said, indicating
to a map, “what we will be
installing there are pedes-
trian warning lights that
will be in the pavement.”
contract, the city is set to
agree to do a pilot project
by going to the 90 gallon
container.
“We’ve identified Brushy
Meadows as the neighbor-
hood,” Driggers said. “Per-
sonally, I think it will be
very successful.”
A start date has not yet
been set for the pilot proj-
ect.
“Other communities
that have done it, it has
been very successful,” he
said. “They increase their
amount of recycling ma-
terial, which reduces the
amount of material that
goes into the landfill and
goes across the scale for
tipping fees, and they’re
able to reduce their op-
erating cost because with
the 90 gallon container
they pick up recyclables
every two weeks, not every
week.”
Recyclable items include
the usual ones, such as pa-
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“In pavement flashers
will flash so that people
recognize that there’s
somebody in that intersec-
tion,” he said.
Driggers indicated that
Depot Street will once
again be opened to two-
way traffic in addition to
other intersections being
reconfigured.
“Today, there’s island in
the middle. We are moving
this road (Victoria Street),
so it will come straight
into Main Street and not
have an angle,” Driggers
said.
While Greer Station will
experience new landscap-
ing, sidewalks and street
lighting to match Trade
Street, “you’ll see the
most significant change
on Trade Street,” Driggers
aid. “It’s where we come in
and do that plaza environ-
ment.”
“Overhead plaza light-
ing, drop lighting will go
across the streets, that
will stay there permanent-
ly,” Driggers said. “It’s
high enough.”
The shared street will
extend beyond the CSX
railroad track, he said.
“There may be some
modifications,” Driggers
said. “You’ll see those
improvements go down
passed Langford Electric
and in front of the Greer
Citizen.”
The city is now at the
per, plastic and aluminum,
but glass is no longer re-
cycled.
“There’s no market for
it,” Driggers said. “No one
is doing glass.”
MILLAGE
Council also discussed
millage as it pertains to
the 2019 budget.
“We’re not looking at a
millage increase,” Driggers
said. “I think we’re fine
without it.
“However, while I’m tell-
ing you it’s not going to be
there, you’re approaching
ten years with the exact
same millage rate,” he
said.
Driggers said although
the city’s budget is fine
without an increase now,
circumstances could al-
ways change.
“When you need it the
most is when you’re less
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stage where Kimley-Horn: STAFF WRITER
Planning and Design En-
gineering Consultants is Greer City Council has
turning their design work approved (5-1) a concept
over to the project man- plan to develop 42 units
ager. on 9.86 acres on Hender-
“Transco is the company son Gap Road.
that will manage the proj- An original request,
ect on site,” Driggers said. which increased from 40
As far as funding goes, units on 8.1 acres in Jan-
the city has about $1.3 uary to 62 units on 9.86
million in grant money acres in March, raised con-
through a $775,000 grant cerns from area residents.
from the Greenville Leg- “We’re trying to preserve
islative Delegation Trans- as much open space and as
portation Committee much of the existing vege-
(GLDTC), also known as tation and existing buffers
the C-Fund Committee, on this site because our
with an 80-20 match; a residents want that buffer
possible $500,000 grant just as much the exterior
from the Appalachian Re- existing residents do as
gional Commission and well,” said Paul Harrison,
another $65,000 grant. Engineer with blueWATER
“We’re about 1.3 billion Civil Design representing
on grant money on this the applicant. “I think we
project,” Driggers said. put forth a good plan.”
“We feel really, really good “I appreciate you pre-
about that.” senting a different plan,”
Council Member Wryley said Councilmember Judy
Bettis brought up the is- Albert, who opposed the
sue of storm drainage. motion.
“They are designing Albert also thanked the
storm drainage,” Driggers residents who came out to
said. “We will collect storm share their concerns about
water in the pavers.” the development.
The downtown street- “Henderson Gap Road
scape plan is coming to- is a very narrow road that
gether as the project looks has no bailout on it,” Ned
to begin in the fall. Newcomer said earlier in
“We know what the the public forum of the
benches will look like,” he meeting.
said. “We know what the “It’s a real dangerous
trash cans will look like. situation on Henderson
We know what the street Gap,” he said. “I hope you
lights will look like. We’ve take into consideration all
got the landscaping plans. of the things we’ve talked
We know where trees are about in the other meet-
going.” ings we’ve had.”
The city’s Parks and Rec- A couple of others spoke
reation Department will as well, addressing similar
maintain Trade Street as a concerns.
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GATEWAYS: Will identify city limits and downtown’s Greer Station

FROM PAGE ONE
“If we’re able to do that,
then the exits at SC-101,
Brockman McClimon, the
airport and Highway 14
will all be improved inter-
changes,” Driggers said,
“and we will be the only
community in the Upstate
that all of our interchang-
Betty R. Johnson es have those improve-
ments.”
“We’re real excited about
that,” he said. “It will look
very nice as a welcome to
our community from I-85.”
Other gateway signage
sites into the city include
the intersection of Gap
Creek Road and Wade
Hampton Boulevard, the
Taylors side and the Main
Street entrance, where
signage is proposed to be
about 20 feet by eight feet.
“We own the triangle
property at Gap Creek
Road, so we are moving
forward with getting that
surveyed,” Driggers said.
“We don’t have to sub-
mit a permit for that side
because it’s going on our
land.”
“We’re investigating the
best, appropriate place to
put on the approach to
Greer coming from Green-
ville on Wade Hampton
Boulevard,” he said.
Greer is also looking
to place signage for the
downtown area known as
Greer Station.
“Our next location will
be at the corner of Poin-
sett and Wade Hampton
Boulevard, at the Ryan’s
property, that will be a
gateway for Greer Sta-
tion,” Driggers said.
In addition, Greer Sta-
tion signage is planned
for Barnett Bridge and the
other end at the intersec-
tion of Main Street and
Wade Hampton Boulevard.
“We have been talking
about gateway signage for
a long, long time,” Drig-
gers said. “It’s going to
look nice.”
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Betty Robertson John-

LYMAN: Heeds community concerns on traffic and safety issues

son, 82, widow of Bob-
by Jack Johnson, passed
away on May 8, 2018.
A native of Greenville

County, daughter of the
late Fred Lee and Willie
Mae Henderson Robert-
son, she was a retired em-
ployee of Stone Manufac-
turing and a member of
Victor Baptist Church.
Surviving are one son,
Michael D. Johnson (Bren-
da) of Greer; one daughter,
Kathy J. Campbell, (Mike)
of Greer; one brother,
Ray Robertson of Foun-
tain Inn; two sisters, Faye
Bridges and Bobbie Reid
both of Simpsonville; sev-
en grandchildren; seven
great-grandchildren and
four great-great-grandchil-
dren.
Funeral services will be
held 1:00 p.m. Friday, May
11, 2018 at Victor Baptist
Church conducted by Rev.
Ken Vickery. Burial will
follow in Wood Memorial
Park.
Pallbearers will be Seth
Waters, Chase Raper, Will
Johnson, Stoney Pratt and
Fred Webb.
Honorary escort will the
Sonshine Sunday School
Class.
Visitation will be held
11:30 a.m. -12:45 p.m.
Friday, at Victor Baptist
Church.
The families are at their
respective homes.
Memorials may be made
to Compassus Hospice,
1923 East Main Street,
Duncan, SC 29334.
Online condolences may
be made at www.thewood-
mortuary.com.
Cora S. Berry
Cora Searcy Berry,
105, widow of Ben Berry,
passed away on May 14,
2018.
A native of Spartanburg
County, daughter of the
late Robert Burch and Hat-
tie Lee Melton Searcy, she
was a homemaker and of
the Baptist faith.
Surviving are one sister,
Annie Mae Goode of Greer;
one niece, Charlotte Mulli-
nax of Greer; one nephew,
Daryl Goode of Greer and
one great-niece, Jennifer
Goode of Greer.
Mrs. Berry was prede-
ceased by seven sisters
and brothers.
Graveside services will
be held 2:00 p.m. Thurs-
FROM PAGE ONE
their requests and a
third came before town
council on Monday night.
“They’re all very closely
related,” Andrea Mabrey,
Chair of the Planning and
Zoning Board, said of the
developments. “The main
concern of the community
members that were local
to this property was, of
course, traffic.”
GREK Investments
Group, LLC, requested to
rezone property located
at the Eastside of Pyre-
nees Drive and North of
Newman Drive from R-8
(Residential) to RPH (Resi-
dential Patio Homes) with
a proposed plan to add 55
homes to the 140 already
approved.
“He had already been
pre approved for the 140,”
Mabrey said. “He’s only
withdrawn his request to
add more homes to that
and go to the smaller pa-
tio home.”
Other resident concerns
included fire and police
safety issues, water drain-
age and water pressure in
their homes. Scott Miller,
Director of Public Works,
went to SJWD the next day
to let them know about
the water pressure.
The other withdrawn
request had proposed 68
duplex units with Classic
Country Homes request-
ing rezoning of property
at the north of the inter-
section of Newman Drive
and Butler Street from Mo-
bile Home Park and R-15
(Residential) to R-8/10
(Single Family & Duplex
Residential).
“The board just felt like
we needed to stop and
look at infrastructure be-
fore we approved any oth-
er building in that area,”
Mabrey said.
During the meeting,
three residents voiced
their concerns about cur-
rent developments under
construction and the im-
pact to the roads.
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FROM PAGE ONE
“Shiloh Church Road
won’t handle any more
traffic,” said Frederick
Odell, “(It) can’t even han-
dle what we’ve got now.
“It’s not going to be safe
for the children,” he said.
Marlene Huskey, who
has called Lyman home
for more than 40 years
and has lived on Butler
Street for 34 years, also
shared her concerns.
“My children grew up on
this street,” Huskey said.
“They were able to ride
their bikes, take walks,
play in the woods. Butler
Street and Newman were
once quiet streets in Ly-
man.
“It’s always been a small
town, and many people
have moved to Lyman be-
cause it is a small town.
We stay because it is a
small town,” she said. “In
the last 15-20 years, Ly-
man has grown to unbe-
lievable limits, particular-
ly many subdivisions and
neighborhoods have been
approved and construc-
tion commenced without
thought to the integrity of
our roads or the safety of
our current residents and
homeowners.”
Huskey mentioned
Northview Acres, Holly
Farms and other neighbor-
ing developments.
“With 140 homes being
added to Holly Farms at
Shiloh and GREK Investors
and Classic Homes want-
ing to build more homes at
Butler and Newman, this
could mean more than 500
cars through originally es-
tablished neighborhoods,”
Huskey said.
“The problems we face
is that the roads within
these neighborhoods es-
pecially Newman Road,
Butler Street, Vernon
Street, Bobo Road, Medal-
lion Lane are now being
used as cut throughs by
speeding cars with no
concern to the residential
area,” she said. “Further
more, we have Highway
358, 129, 292, 29, along
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back,” said Neal Fogleman,
COUNCIL ACTION representative for devel-
oper, when asked about
choosing RPH instead of
Fence color: Council unanimously approved for the chain link R-8.
fence for the playground to be black in color. While council members
preferred the residential
Lighting options: Council unanimously approved for the town zoning, they shared con-
to provide the lighting at the playground with 15 lamp posts, cerns about the project
upfront costs at $22,500, annual costs at $1,800 KWH Hours, and due to infrastructure.
timers to turn the lights on or off. “We still have an issue
with the overall load on
SJWD easements: Council unanimously approved a resolu- Powell Lake,” said Council
tion for two easements allowing SJWD to install water lines in Member Tony Wyatt.
Wellford. “I’m not wanting to
be contradictory to the
Track Loader: Council unanimously approved a resolution ap- opportunity of develop-
proving the purchase of a John Deere Compact Track Loader in ment,” he said. “I just
the amount of $46,957.45 with a trade in allowance of $12,000 don’t think we have the
for a total purchase amount of $35,457.45 to be distributed infrastructure ready.”
from the Waste Water Fund. Mayor Pro Tem Greg
Wood agreed, expressing
Jetter sale: Council unanimously approved a resolution autho- concern about the density.
rizing the sale of 1997 Hatz Sewer Jetter to Bradley Construction “This should not be
in the amount of $10,000. commercial,” Wood said.
“My concern is the patio
with Vernon Street, Pine infrastructure and devel- home.”
Ridge Road, Powell Lake opment work together,” Wood suggested work-
Road, Shiloh Church Road, she said. “Lyman is known ing to get an R-8 zoning,
Bobo Road, just to name as a small town, but re- which would decrease the
a few, that have not kept cently it has started to density allowed, with vari-
base with the amount of look like a city that has ances on setbacks for the
building and cars which outgrown itself.” developer.
these houses generate. Judy Sieg presented 61 “General Business Dis-
These roads are rapidly more names to be added trict does not make sense,”
deteriorating.” to the petition brought to Wyatt agreed.
Huskey noted the im- the Planning and Zoning Mayor Larry Chappell
pact of equipment needed Commission. brought up Holly Springs
to build and grade the de- “What we’re asking for is Road being a state road,
velopment sites. that you uphold the zon- not a town road.
“Every equipment that is ing and planning commis- “The state is going to
needed to build and grade sion’s decision,” Sieg said. have to do something
has deteriorated them “We ask that you halt any sooner rather than later,”
even further,” Huskey new development until Mayor Chappell said.
said. “Building is great for you can work with ACOG Council Member Hoyt
jobs for a time.” to come up with plans.” Dottry disagreed with the
“Builders come,” she The remaining request direction of the discus-
said. “Builders go. Do they from Niemitalo, Inc, is to sion.
consider the devastation rezone property at 896 “I understand the traffic
they leave to our roads?” Holly Springs Road from problems out there,” Dot-
Huskey mentioned the General Business District try said.
downtown revitalization to RPH (Residential Patio “I don’t think it’s fair to
discussed recently in Ly- Homes). deny someone to develop
man. “His proposed lot sizes when we’re waiting on the
“That would be great,” go from 8,500 up to over state to do their job,” he
Huskey said. “I would love 11,000 square feet, which said.
to be able to walk to down- is really large,” said Tyger Fogleman said he would
town Lyman to visit the River Fire Chief Jim Redd, accept R-8 with variances
revitalized. At this time, who looked at the plat. Pa- if the council voted that
I live on the other side of tio homes are about 5,000 night; they tabled the re-
the tracks.” square feet. quest to gather more in-
“Building must be done “We’re really just look- formation.
with planning so that the ing for the decrease in set-

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The Greer Citizen

A8 THE GREER CITIZEN  WEDNESDAY, MAY 16, 2018

Crime
window. -black and green Mur-
The husband said he ray riding lawnmower
didn’t know she was com- -two red and silver weed

Report
(Note: All information
contained in the following
was taken directly from
the official incident reports
filed by the Spartanburg
County Sheriff’s Office. All
suspects are to be consid-
ered innocent until proven
guilty in the court of law.)
DOMESTIC VIOLENCE
Last Friday, Spartanburg
County deputies were dis-
patched to a domestic call
at 232 Twilightmist Drive
in Duncan. Officers ar-
rived and found the front
door to the house open
and a grey Honda SUV
running in the driveway.
A deputy heard arguing in
the house and went in to
find Amy Underwood and
her husband in the living
room with two of their mi-
nor children. Underwood
had a gaming console in
ing over and that he was
in bed and heard the glass
breaking. He said that he
was going downstairs and
found his wife coming up-
stairs. He said that he told
her he was calling the po-
lice and they made their
way to the bedroom. He
said that Underwood at-
tacked him when he took
his phone out to call for
the police. He said that
they fell on the bed and
that she scratched his
right arm around the el-
bow. The husband had
what appeared to be blood
on the right sleeve of his
white T-shirt, according
to the officer. The depu-
ty called for ID to process
the scene. He then went
to his bedroom and there
was a few stains of what
appeared to be blood on a
pillow on the bed.
The husband told dis-
patchers that his wife was
attacking him and a dis-
turbance could be heard
in the police call.
eaters. The case remains
active. On the same day,
officers responded to 25
Sparkleberry Ct. in refer-
ence to a report of a sto-
len riding lawn mower.
Upon arrival, the deputy
spoke with the victim who
advised that her Cub Ca-
det “the Tank” riding lawn
mower was dropped off
this morning and when
her husband came home, it
was gone. The mower was
dropped off in her drive-
way near the garbage cans.
The victim did not have an
outdoor cameras.
DUI
Last Friday, while on
routine patrol in Spartan- PHOTO | SUBMITTED
burg County, a deputy wit-
nessed a suspect vehicle
pass at what was estimat- Lifesavers
ed to be an accelerated
rate of speed on Highway Members of the Leadership Greer Class 38 donated 45 Emergency Bleed Control Kits
9 (SB) near Business 85. to the Greer Police Department on May 10. These kits will be placed in every patrol car
The officer estimated assigned to the Uniformed Patrol Division.
the vehicle to be going 55
in a 45 and, upon activa-
tion of my front radar, the

her hand, and the officer
tried to talk to her amid
the yelling between the
couple. Underwood told
the officer that she had
moved out of the house
with her kids about three
weeks ago. She said that
she is living with her dad
now nearby and that she
had come over this morn-
ing with her two young
sons to get some of the
kids’ clothing. Under-
wood expected her hus-
band would be at work.
When Underwood got no
answer after knocking on
the door and finding the
door locked, she went to
the back window of the
house and busted it. She
crawled through the bust-
ed window.
Once inside the house,
she let the kids in the
front door. She was con-
fronted by the husband
and the couple wound up
in the master bedroom.
Underwood said that he
threw her down on the
bed and she tried to get
out from underneath him.
Underwood had a cut
on her finger. She didn’t
know how her finger got
cut other than maybe
from her busting out the
Both parties said that
the kids weren’t in the
bedroom when the cou-
ple was physically fight-
ing. The deputy talked
to the children and they
said that they didn’t see
their parents fighting but
that the youngest was in
the room when they were
yelling and he told them
to stop.
Underwood was taken
to jail for domestic vio-
lence (second degree). She
has no prior convictions
of domestic violence.
GREER BURGLARIES
Last Thursday, Spar-
tanburg County Deputies
were dispatched to 940
Harvey Rd. in Greer in ref-
erence to a larceny from
an outbuilding.
Upon arrival, the offi-
cer spoke with the victim,
who stated that he knew
his lawn equipment was
in his building as of 8 p.m.
the night before. He stated
that he noticed today that
the clasp was broken off
of the building.
The victim stated, when
he looked in the outbuild-
ing, he noticed that several
pieces of lawn equipment
were missing, including:
officer got a reading of 62
miles per hour. The officer
turned around and initiat-
ed a lawful traffic stop to
address the infraction.
Upon approach to the
vehicle, the officer made
contact with the driver
and sole occupant, James
Dodd. The deputy in-
formed him to reason of
the stop and inquired was
there any reason he was
going that fast. He just
shrugged his shoulders
and stated ‘not really.’
While speaking with him,
the officer could smell the
odor of an alcoholic bev-
erage emitting from with-
in the vehicle. The officer
then asked him how much
he had consumed, to
which he stated, ‘a little.’
The officer then called for
South Carolina Highway
Patrol to respond for the
possibility of a motorist
driving under the influ-
ence. Trooper Carovillano
responded and after SFST
was administered, he ad-
vised Dodd he was under
arrest for DUI. The offi-
cer provided Dodd with a
warning for the speeding.
South Carolina Highway
Patrol then had the vehi-
cle towed.
Teen sentenced to 15
years for crime spree
A Spartanburg teenag-
er recently received a 15-
year prison sentence after
he accepted responsibility
for a crime spree on the
west side of the city in
2017.
Eric Jordan Harper, 17,
pleaded guilty to armed
robbery, possession of a
weapon during a violent
crime, shoplifting, two
counts of third-degree
burglary, two counts of
petty larceny and resisting
arrest with assault.
Circuit Judge Derham
Cole issued a 30-year pris-
on sentence that was sus-
pended to 15 years of ser-
vice on the armed robbery
charge, the weapon charge
and the property crimes.
Judge Cole issued a con-
secutive 10-year prison
that was suspended to 5
years of probation on the
resisting arrest charge.
The crime spree be-
Eric Jordan Harper
gan July 21, 2017 when a
shoplifting was reported
at All Stars Pawn Gold and
Pawn on John B. White Sr.
Boulevard.
The same business was
burglarized July 23 and
July 26.
City police utilized vid-
eo surveillance to connect
Harper to the crime.
About 10 a.m. on Aug.
6, 2017, Harper used a
BB gun to rob a woman
at the SC Credit Union on
Camelot Drive.
Harper escaped with a
$100 cash along with the
woman’s purse.
A city officer respond-
ing to the robbery noticed
a suspicious looking per-
son in the parking lot of
Jason’s Deli.
The suspect, who was
later identified as Harper,
briefly fought with the of-
ficer before fleeing toward
the Dorman Centre shop-
ping center.
A team of city officers
and sheriff’s deputies ar-
rested Harper in the park-
ing lot of Home Depot.
The BB gun used during
the robbery was recovered
along with $122 in cash.
Harper will serve 85 per-
cent of the 15-year prison
sentence before he is eligi-
ble for release.

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WEDNESDAY, MAY 16, 2018 
Aaron Rodgers will return to the Pro-Am course this week.
Charity Pro-Am
will tee off this
week in Greer
With new
celebrities
The BMW Charity Pro-
Am presented by SYNNEX
Corporation returns this
weekend, with tournament
play slated to take place at
the Thornblade Club, Fur-
man University Golf Club
and The Cliffs Valley.
“We are very happy
about the roster of talent
we have traveling from
Crusaders earn top seed in NCAA tournament
Making
history
Sunday
evening
The North Greenville
baseball team made his-
tory on Sunday evening
as it secured the top seed
in the NCAA Division II
Southeast Region.
The Crusaders earned
the region’s top seed af-
ter a record-breaking sea-
son which saw the team
ranked first in D-II base-
ball for the first time in
program history.
The Crusaders’ resume
was impressive, having
won all but one three-
game set played this sea-
son, headlined by wins
over No. 15 Belmont Ab-
bey, No. 24 Mount Olive,
Student athletes at Byrnes High School are working to change the suicide rate in the
United States by raising awareness. Last Friday, the school hosted the “Out of the
Darkness” Community Walk to generate funds for suicide prevention.
FILE PHOTO | WILLIAM BUCHHEIT
across the United States
to join us this year,” said
Bob Nitto, President, BMW
Charity Pro-Am presented
by SYNNEX Corporation.
“From comedians and ac-
tors to reality stars and
professional athletes – I
think every spectator is
going to find someone on
the list they will be excited
to follow and even possi-
bly meet.”
Willie Robertson will
join fellow first-time
SEE CELEBRITIES | B3
After a historic regular season, the North Greenville baseball team has earned the No. 1
seed in the NCAA Division II tournament.
and No. 4 Florida South-
ern.
North Greenville won
each of its eight Confer-
Walk of Hope
Sports
The Greer Citizen
Champs on the ropes
after game one loss
BY BILLY CANNADA
SPORTS EDITOR
The defending state
champion Byrnes soft-
ball team hopes to fend
off elimination tonight as
they take on White Knoll
in game two of the state
title series.
The Rebels dropped
game one on Monday, 2-1.
“I thought we played
good enough to win but
we did not play our best,”
head coach Brandi Aiken
said. “We struggled early
at the plate and made a
few errors in the field that
gave them their first run.”
The Rebels are facing an elimination game at home on Wednesday, down 1-0 to White
Knoll in the state championship series.
ence Carolinas series this
season which resulted in
the program’s first regular
season title.
PRESTON BURCH | THE GREER CITIZEN
Until last Friday
night, we had only
one loss this season.
Brandi Aiken
Head Coach
Haylee Whitesides was
on the mound for Byrnes
but couldn’t quite pull out
the win.
“As a ninth grader with
limited starts, she held
White Knoll to just one
earned run and for the
most part controlled their
PHOTO | SUBMITTED
The Crusaders also
tacked on the team’s sec-
ond Conference Carolinas
tournament champion-
Eastside falls to
Chapin in final
Marin reflects
BY BILLY CANNADA
SPORTS EDITOR
Last Friday’s state title
game was deja vu for the
Eastside boys soccer team.
For the second straight
season, the Eagles were
shut out in the Class
AAAA state champion-
ship, falling 1-0 to Chapin.
“When you get to be one
of the last teams standing,
it’s a successful season,”
head coach Michael Mar-
tin said after the game.
“We lost to a team that
can only be considered a
dynasty on an incredible
free kick. If that shot hits
the frame and we convert
on one of the chances we
generated, we’re order-
ing our rings. Obviously
our guys are hurt, but we
played a heck of a game.
The guys feel good about
what they did and there’s
big hitters at the plate,”
Aiken said. “Obviously
going into the state cham-
pionship without Kasey
(Widmyer) makes things
more difficult for us, but
by no means does it make
it impossible for us to
win.”
Widmyer suffered a
hand injury in the Upper
State title game.
“Kasey is one of the top
pitchers and hitters in the
state, but one thing our
team takes a lot of pride
in is the fact that we are
capable of still competing
at the highest level
SEE CHAMPS | B2
PRESTON BURCH | THE GREER CITIZEN
ship to cap the season.
Sunday night’s
nouncement made official
an-
the program’s trip to the
NCAA tournament after
earning an automatic bid
in 2015.
It also added another
first and a program-best
as it was the first NGU
program to earn a top
seed in an NCAA Tourna-
ment and the highest seed
in program history as well.
The Crusaders will host
regional tournament at
Ray & Bea Dillard Field
with games scheduled to
start on Thursday after-
noon in Tigerville.
NCAA SOUTHEAST
REGIONAL SEEDING
1. North Greenville
2. Georgia College  charity and is a decent
3. Belmont Abbey  family man.
4. Columbus State  “HE’LL NEVER BE JOR-
5. UNC Pembroke
6. Wingate  Here’s the thing: who
7. Lincoln Memorial  cares?
a lot of pride in what we
accomplished.”
Eastside fell 2-0 in last
year’s championship
game, and the Eagles re-
turned in 2018 with some-
thing to prove.
“Coming into the sea-
son with a lot of returning
players, there wasn’t just a
hope to make it back, but
more of an expectation,”
Martin said.
“The guys bought into
that and we got everyone’s
best shot.”
The Eagles managed to
put together an impres-
sive regular season, how-
ever, going 13-0 at home
and claiming another re-
gion title.
After ousting Pickens
South Aiken, Daniel and
Greenville, Eastside was
confident with a rematch
in Columbia.
“We felt like we had a
plan and we could do more
than compete. We wanted
to win,” Martin said.
SEE EASTSIDE | B3
B
BLAME
CANNADA
BILLY
CANNADA
Respect
A
re we not bored of
this LeBron debate?
Does it still interest
you? It can’t possibly still
interest you!
We’ve been having the
same argument since
2003 when LeBron dared
to take Michael Jordan’s
jersey number.
Now we can’t even
watch two minutes of
Cavaliers basketball
without wondering how
each second will impact
LeBron’s legacy.
Oh, he missed a last
second shot against the
Pacers? He’s no MJ!
Oh, he made a last
second shot against the
Pacers? Straight to the
Hall of Fame, King James!
LeBron James is so po-
larizing that we can’t even
be civil about his overall
impact on the game of
basketball.
I’ve got a buddy who I
love and respect dearly.
He’s far better at bas-
ketball than I’ll ever be
and he knows far more
about the game than I’ll
ever know. But even this
level-headed basketball
thinker can’t be reason-
able about LeBron James.
When discussing LBJ,
my friend will change
the tone of his voice and
rattle off a list of sins
committed by Ohio’s
“Chosen One” before even
talking about his basket-
ball merits.
“Why can’t you come
around on LeBron?” I’ll
ask.
“He’s too arrogant,” my
friend will respond.
“Have you ever met
Kobe? What about Durant
or Steph Curry? You love
Michael Jordan! He was
the most arrogant of them
all!”
…
My friend didn’t miss a
beat in his retort.
“Michael Jordan never
claimed to be the king of
Akron, only to abandon
them for a Hollywood
lifestyle and a superstar
roster.”
It always comes back to
“The Decision.”
When LBJ left Cleveland
after his first seven sea-
sons in the NBA, the way
he did it caused Cavs fans
to burn their jerseys and
NBA fans to roll their eyes
for eternity.
One little line… “Imma
take my talents to South
Beach,” and his legacy is
tarnished. Don’t worry
about the fact that he’s
stand-up entrepreneur,
has donated millions to
DAN!”
So what if he’ll never
be Jordan? If he has to
settle for being LeBron
James: a 14-time All-Star,
three-time champ, four-
time MBP and three-time
finals MVP…I think he’ll
be alright.
Not to mention that
we haven’t seen an NBA
finals in the last seven
years without LeBron in it!
Y’all need to quit. The
LeBron/MJ argument
is getting weaker and
weaker by the second and,
quite frankly, it’s a lame
sports debate.
It’s like asking which
is better, pizza or ham-
burgers. I love pizza and
hamburgers. I’d eat both
all day every day if it
wouldn’t kill me or make
me very large.
And for those of you
that stick by the argument
that LeBron disqualified
himself from the “Great-
est of All Time” debate a
long time ago, turn on the
television.
This guy is doing what
he’s always done, and he’s
doing it as well as he’s
always done it right now.
Let’s all back off a little
bit. Don’t be so caught up
in your own opinion that
you can’t enjoy watching
LBJ play basketball while
you have the chance.
B2 THE GREER CITIZEN SPORTS
Late pass lifts Kevin Harvick to Victory Lane at Kansas
BY REID SPENCER
NASCAR WIRE
Kevin Harvick, nick-
named NASCAR’s “Clos-
er,” earned his moniker on
Saturday night at Kansas
Speedway, passing reign-
ing Monster Energy NA-
SCAR Cup Series champi-
on Martin Truex Jr. on the
next-to-last lap to add the
KC Masterpiece 400 to his
collection of victories this
season.
Charging from sixth
place and chasing race
leader Martin Truex Jr. af-
ter a restart on Lap 259 of
267, Harvick found speed
in the top lane with five
laps left and passed Truex
on the outside through
Turns 3 and 4 on the pen-
ultimate lap.
In winning his second
straight race and his fifth
in 12 starts this season,
Harvick beat Truex to the
finish line by .390 seconds.
The victory was Harvick’s
third at Kansas Speedway,
tying him for most ever at
the 1.5-mile track.
“I think, as you look at
the last couple of laps, it
wasn’t working for me on
the bottom, and I was able
to make up some ground
on the top,” said Harvick,
who will try to win three
straight races in the No. 4
Stewart-Haas Racing Ford
for the second time this
season when NASCAR’s
top tour goes to Charlotte
for the May 27 Coca-Cola
600.
“I thought, if it came
down to it, I could pass
him on the bottom, be-
cause my car went
through (Turns) 1 and 2
on the bottom, or I could
drive through the middle
of 3 and 4, but I just had
Gragson gets redemption
with Truck Series victory
BY REID SPENCER
NASCAR WIRE
There are times when
redemption is swift and
merciful.
A week after throwing
away a chance to win at
Dover with a wreck of
his own making, Noah
Gragson scored his first
NASCAR Camping World
Truck Series victory of
the season, beating his car
owner, Kyle Busch, to the
finish line in the 37 Kind
Days 250 at Kansas Speed-
way.
Starting from the pole
for the second straight
race, Gragson led 128 of
167 laps in his No. 18 Toy-
ota, swept all the stages
of the event and collected
the second NCWTS victory
of his career.
“This is such a relief for
a driver who had a hard
week last week battling
for the win,” said Grag-
son, who was running
side by side with Johnny
Sauter at Dover when he
lost control of his truck
and backed into the out-
side wall. “We came back
strong this weekend. Two
consecutive poles. We led
the most laps today.
“Man, this is a pretty
damn cool moment.”
After passing Busch and
third-place finisher Stew-
art Friesen on Lap 157—
thanks to a four-tire call
by crew chief Rudy Fugle
during a green-flag pit
Noah Gragson, driver of the No. 18 Safelite Toyota, takes the checkered flag to win the
NASCAR Camping World Truck Series 37 Kind Days 250 at Kansas Speedway on May 11
in Kansas City.
Kevin Harvick, driver of the No. 4 Busch Light Ford, celebrates in victory lane after winning the Monster Energy NASCAR
Cup Series KC Masterpiece 400 at Kansas Speedway on May 12 in Kansas City.
to pick which lane.  He
wasn’t going to choose,
and he never chose the
high lane, and we were
able to drive right by.”
Having taken the lead by
staying out on older tires
after a caution for an ac-
cident involving Kyle Lar-
son and Ryan Blaney on
Lap 248, Truex thought he
could keep Harvick behind
him over the closing laps.
That proved not to be the
case.
“I thought we were go-
ing to be all right there,”
said Truex, who was trying
for a third straight win at
‘This is such a relief
for a driver who
had a hard week
last week battling
for the win.’
Noah Gragson
NASCAR driver
stop on lap 134—Grag-
son took the lead for good
when Myatt Snider ran out
of gas with five laps left.
Snider was one of five
drivers trying to stretch
fuel to the end of the race.
One by one they fell by the
wayside, but not before
muddying the waters in
the closing laps.
“After the pit stop, I
thought I was going to
be the leader, but they
told me that (fifth-place
finisher) Johnny (Sauter)
was stretching it on fuel,”
Gragson said. “So I said,
‘OK, maybe I’m running
second.’ Then they said
the 52 (Friesen) and the
4 (Busch) are a half a lap
ahead of you.
“And I thought that was
for the lead when I passed
the 4 and I passed the 52,
and then they said the 13
(Snider) was the leader.
And I said, ‘Dang, how
many leaders are there go-
ing to be?”
As it turned out Snider
Kansas. “Like three or four
laps to go, my car just got
real tight, and I chattered
the right front off of Turn
4, and I was like, ‘Oh boy,
that’s not good.’
“We had been so tight all
night, and I didn’t know
where to go once he was
getting there. If I go to
the top, he’s just going to
catch me on the bottom.
I might as well run where
I feel I can run the fast-
est, and I did, and it just
wasn’t enough.”
The most violent acci-
dent of the night set up
the final restart with nine
was the last one, and Grag-
son had come full circle
from his mistake at Dover.
Johnson Hunter Ne-
mechek came home
fourth, followed by Sauter
and Matt Crafton. Cody
Coughlin, Grant Enfinger,
Brandon Jones and Justin
Haley completed the top
10.
With 23 laps left, Friesen
forced Busch down to the
infield grass in the tri-oval,
costing Busch a chance to
pass the No. 52 Chevrolet
and put distance between
himself and Gragson.
Busch had taken right-
side tires only on his
green-flag stop on Lap
139, and Gragson method-
ically caught his car own-
er, making what proved to
be the winning pass with
10 laps left.
“The truck felt good af-
ter about 15 laps, but it
took too long to come in,”
Busch said. “And there on
that last run, we didn’t
make enough adjust-
ments. We took two tires
and we got way too tight.
“But awesome run by
Noah and those guys.
They deserve it—they’re
fast. They needed a boost
and they got one. They’re
going to race for a champi-
onship, and hopefully this
will help them get going.”
Sauter retained
the series lead by 35
points over Gragson.
SEAN GARDNER | GETTY IMAGES
laps left and the dramat-
ic pass for the victory. In
Turn 4 on Lap 253, Wil-
liam Byron got loose un-
derneath Clint Bowyer’s
Ford and knocked Bowyer
up the track. Byron’s No.
24 Chevrolet slammed
into the outside wall with
a bone-rattling impact that
lifted the rear of the car
off the pavement.
Byron’s car landed on
the hood of Ryan New-
man’s Chevrolet and slid
down the track with fire in
the engine compartment.
All told, seven cars were
involved in the wreck, in-
The North Greenville golf team improved its finish by two spots, but was ousted in the
Southeast Regional of the NCAA Division II tournament.
Crusader golf ousted in
Southeast Regional
The North Greenville
golf team saw its sea-
son come to an end last
Wednesday during the
NCAA Southeast Regional.
The Crusaders finished
15th in the event, a two
spot improvement from
Tuesday.  tal of 225 strokes for three
Austin Duncan finished
the tournament as NGU’s
top qualifier, finishing
the week in 28th. Duncan
wrapped up the tourna-
ment with 72, the second
straight with such score.
Duncan shot a 218 for the
tournament.
Chase Fisher added
NGU’s only other par score
for the week with a 72.
Fisher shot a pair of 74’s in
CHAMPS: Facing elimination game
FROM B1
regardless of who is in-
jured or not playing well,”
Aiken said.
Byrnes will have to re-
bound from a loss for only
the second time this sea-
son.
“Until last Friday night,
we had only one loss this
season (back on March 17)
and I could not have been
more proud of the way we
responded with Fort Mill
in the second game,” Aik-
en said. “I feel like we will
do the same on Wednes-
day when we see White
Knoll again.”
SARAH CRABILL | GETTY IMAGES
cluding the No. 6 Ford of
Matt Kenseth, who fin-
ished 36th in his first race
of the season.
Byron was shaken but
otherwise unhurt after the
multicar wreck.
“Yeah, that one hurt re-
ally bad,” Byron said. “But
I’m fine. We took two tires
there and couldn’t get it
turned on the bottom and
then got sucked around
at the last minute. I just
should have been lower on
the track than that. “Just
couldn’t rotate. Couldn’t
cut. I think, overall, we
were trying to kind of
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the first and second round
and finished two strokes
behind Duncan,  shooting
220 or a three-round total.
Evan Gfeller shot a 78 in
his third round to go along
with Seth Robertson’s 75.
Gfeller finished with a to-
days while Robertson shot
a 231.
Josiah Ledford rounded
out NGU’s tournament fin-
ishes with a round three
81. Ledford shot an 82
and a 77 in rounds one
and two and finished with
a total of 240.
TOP TEAM FINISHES
1. West Florida [282
/ 285 / 273 - 840]
Aiken said the key to
getting a win on Wednes-
day will be at the plate.  “I know the weather
“We need to start hitting
the ball earlier in the game
instead of waiting until
we have been through the
line up,” she said. “We
also need to play better
defense. White Knoll is
a strong offensive team
and it is important that
we make them earn their
runs, rather than making
errors that give them the
runs they need to beat us.”
If the Rebels force a
game three, it would likely
be played in Clinton. For
now, however, Byrnes will
WEDNESDAY, MAY 16, 2018
push some things there
and it just didn’t work
out. That was definitely
the hardest hit I’ve been
in. But I’m thankful to be
walking, so that’s good.”
Joey Logano ran third,
followed by Larson and
Denny Hamlin. Larson
made a remarkable recov-
ery after he and Blaney
made contact in Turn 1 on
Lap 248, when Blaney was
trying to side-draft aggres-
sively. Blaney, who led 54
laps before the accident,
slammed into the Turn 1
wall and exited the race.
But Larson continued,
and he took on fresh rub-
ber under the final caution
and charged through the
pack to fourth place.
“Blaney was side-draft-
ing really hard, and I was
as high as I could get, and
we made contact, whatev-
er, and we had a bunch of
damage,” said Larson, who
won the second stage and
led a race-high 101 laps
to Harvick’s 79. “So I hate
that we didn’t turn today
into a win, but it’s satis-
fying to see how much
speed our car had tonight.
“And, it’s definitely good
to show that Chevy has a
lot of speed, at least in the
No. 42 team. So we’ll just
keep working hard and try
to get as fast as the No. 4.”
Paul Menard, Erik Jones,
Kurt Busch, Aric Almirola
and Kyle Busch complet-
ed the top 10. Kyle Busch
retained the series lead by
12 points over Logano in
second place and 19 over
Harvick in third. Brad Kes-
elowski (14th on Saturday)
is a distant fourth, 107
points back.
2. Florida Southern
[293 / 276 / 275 - 843]
3. Barry [287 / 282 /
284 - 253]
4. Lynn [284 / 289 /
281 - 854]
5. Lincoln Memorial
[296 / 288 / 284 - 868]
TOP INDIVIDUAL FINISHERS
1. John VanDerLean
[70 / 65 / 68 - 203]
2. Sam Broadhurst
[71 / 66 / 69 - 206]
3. Chandler Blan-
chet [68 / 70 / 69 - 207]
4. Christian Bosso
[73 / 70 / 66 - 209]
5. Jacob Penny [74 /
68 / 67 - 209]
be looking to make one
last home stand.
does not look great at this
point but I hope our com-
munity will come out and
support our girls,” Aiken
said. “They work so hard
all year to make it to this
point and deserve a good
home crowd. White Knoll
had a ton of fans who
made a lot of noise on
Monday night, so I hope
that we can do the same
and more at our place for
game two.”
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CELEBRITIES: Return
FROM B1
celebrities Brian
Baumgartner (“Kevin”, The
Office) and Chris Lane at
the event.
Olympic curlers John
Shuster and Matt Ham-
ilton, who became sen-
timental favorites of the
2018 Winter Games after
winning gold with their
teammates, will also make
their debut.
Meanwhile, returning to
thrill crowds with Aaron
Rodgers are Anthony An-
derson (actor, Black-ish),
Larry the Cable Guy, Oliver
Hudson (Nashville, Split-
ting Up Together), John
O’Hurley (Seinfeld), Alfon-
so Riberio (America’s Fun-
niest Home Videos) and
Joe Don Rooney and Jay
DeMarcus of Rascal Flatts.
The celebrity roster for
2018 also includes Ma-
jor League Baseball (MLB)
Hall of Fame inductees
Jim Rice, Ivan “Pudge”
Rodriguez and Ozzie
Smith as well as MLB’s
Jose Alvarez, Josh Beck-
ett and Tim Wakefield.
Andy Buckley (actor, The
Office), Michael Collins
(ESPN Sportscaster), Bill
Engvall (comedian), Brian
Grubb (wakeboarder),C.
Thomas Howell (actor,
The Outsiders), Dan Jan-
sen (Gold Medal Olympi-
an), Karen Jansen-Palaicio
(Golf Channel Announcer),
Ed Marinaro (actor, Hill
Street Blues), Ron Perlman
(actor, Hellboy, Iron Man),
Patrick Peterson (Arizona
Cardinals), Kevin Rahm
(actor, Lethal Weapon),
Rob Riggle (actor, The Dai-
ly Show), Richard Schiff
(actor, West Wing), Ster-
ling Sharpe (NFL), Paula
Trickey (actress, Pacific
Blue) and Cerina Vincent
(actress, Stuck in the Mid-
dle) round out the list of
noteworthy names.
“Once again, the tour-
nament will introduce the
Upstate to new celebrities,
welcome back those who
have supported us in the
past, and bring a world-
wide viewing audience via
Golf Channel,” said Steve
Sellery, Executive Director,
BMW Charity Pro-Am pre-
sented by SYNNEX Corpo-
ration. “Each year, we also
work to engage the entire
community with different
activities on and off the
golf course; this year we
are proud to introduce the
Celebrity All-Star Softball
Game, which we hope will
become an annual tradi- Riverside Eastside
tion.”
The All-Star Celebrity
Softball Game will take
place on Thursday, May
Back on the gridiron
17, at 7:30 p.m. at Flu- Area high school teams returned to the football field this week during spring practice sessions. Riverside, Eastside,
or Field, 945 S. Main St., Blue Ridge and Byrnes each got a first look at the 2018 roster with and without the pads. Riverside and Blue Ridge
Greenville.
Admission to the soft-
are welcoming new coaches this season. The programs are under the direction of Rick Martin and James Thurn,
ball game is included with respectively. Eastside is entering its second season under the direction of Dan Morgan, while Byrnes takes on year two
each ticket purchased for led by Reggie Shaw. Greer will begin sessions this week under coach Will Young. A full report on spring practice for all
the 3:30 p.m. game of The five area teams will be available in next week’s Greer Citizen.
Greenville Drive on the
same day. Photos by Preston Burch
A private ticketed con-
cert ($250) will take place
on Friday, May 18.
The Downtown Concert
is an exclusive evening,
which will include musical
entertainment, menu by
Larkin’s on the River and
beverages.
Tickets may be pur-
chased through South Car-
olina Charities Director
of Sales, Linda Johnson
(864.517.2383; ljohnson@
sccharities.org).
Executive Women’s Day
returns for year two on
Monday, May 14, from
9:30 to 3 p.m. at Furman
University’s Melvin and
Dollie Younts Conference Blue Ridge Byrnes
Center.
The event will include a
panel discussion for wom-
en, by women.
Keynote speaker for the
event will be Lisa Murray,
EASTSIDE: Comes up short in state championship
Octagon Worldwide Exec-
utive Vice President and FROM B1
Global Chief Marketing able.” through,” he said. “The ing its tradition of success.
Officer. But Chapin was up for Now in his fourth year amount of growth and de- “Success breeds suc-
Tickets for that event the challenge. as head coach, Martin said velopment they’ve shown cess,” Martin said. “When
are also available through “You don’t get to where this year’s senior class was just fantastic to you’ve established a tradi-
Linda Johnson. they are as a program means a little more to him. watch. There were times tion, kids want to do their
Funds raised through by having weak spots in That class consists of: when we faced adversity, part to make sure the tra-
tournament volunteerism your lineup,” Martin said. Erwin Cruz, Cole Knebels, but they never gave up. It’s dition keeps going. For
will benefit four featured “They had a lot of ability Joseph Todd, Zach Fahnle, been great to watch these the kids growing up in the
charities: Children’s Hos- and game-experience and Nick Gregory, Keaton Hub- guys mature and I have no area, they know the suc-
pital of Greenville Health it made them a difficult bard, JaVaughn Griffin, doubt they’ll go on to do cess of this program and
System, Cliffs Residents matchup. Erick Gonzales, Trayton great things.” they look forward to being
Outreach, Mobile Meals of “They didn’t get scored Spinner, Gage Acker and With the girls soccer a part of it.”
Spartanburg and Upstate on in their last 11 games Dylan Jeffress. team also making a trip to
SC STEM Collaborative. of the year,” he added. “This is the first group the state final, Martin said billy@greercitizen.com | 877-2076
“That’s pretty remark- that I’ve seen all the way Eastside soccer is continu-

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BYRNES TO HOLD ROYALS
DANCE CAMP
Byrnes High will hold
net or Rick Martin at
crmartin@greenville.k12.
sc.us.
ceive and more.
For more information,
visit the Riverside High
Cost is $50 per child.
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Roundup
BYRNES TAKES FIRST IN
FISHING TOURNAMENT
The Byrnes High Reb-
el bass club caught five
bass that weighed 17
pounds, 12 ounces to win
the Mossy Oak Fishing
Bassmaster High School
Eastern Open presented
by DICK’S Sporting Goods
at Lake Hartwell recently.
The two anglers who
exceeded in competition
were freshmen Marshall
Robinson and Mason Ful-
mer.
After their first game
plan of targeting shal-
low-water, herring-related
bass did not pan out, the
team took to fishing for
spawning bass that they
found in practice.
The Rebels were award-
ed first-place plaques and
waterparks.greenvillerec.
com.
PANTHERS MOMS’
FOOTBALL CLINIC SET
The Carolina Panthers
will host area football
moms for a series of free
Heads Up Football Clinics
at four different locations
across the Carolinas in
May and June.
Clinics will be held at
Greer High (May 31), Uni-
versity of North Carolina
- Chapel Hill (June 18) and
Appalachian State Univer-
sity (June 21). Each clinic
will be held in conjunc-
tion with USA Football, the
national governing body
of the sport and the Pan-
thers’ youth football de-
velopment partner. Each
clinic will help provide
mothers whose children
are interested in playing
tackle football with the
latest information about
Future Rebel Royals Dance
Camp on Saturday, June
2, from 9 a.m.-noon in the
Byrnes Auxiliary Gym.
Forms with the details
are available in the main
office or by email at man-
dy.loudermilk@spart5.net.
GREENVILLE REC OFFERS
ADULT SPORTS
Registration is under-
way now through June 1
for Adult Soccer Leagues,
Adult Flag Football
Leagues and Adult Kick-
ball Leagues at Greenville
County Rec.
Fall Softball registration
will be offered June 4-Au-
gust 3.
For more information,
visit greenvillerec.com or
call 288-6470.
RIVERSIDE TO HOLD FIRST
GOLF TOURNAMENT
Riverside High will hold
its first Riverside High
RIVERSIDE TO HOST
WOMEN’S CLINIC
Riverside High will hold
its first Warrior Women’s
Clinic on Saturday, June 2,
from 9 a.m.-noon.
Guest speaker will be
Lee Ann Hendrix, the wife
of Furman University’s
head football coach and
an Riverside High alumna.
RIVERSIDE PLANS VOLLEY-
BALL CLINIC, CAMPS
Riverside High will
hold three volleyball skill
events this summer.
A First Contact Volley-
ball Specific Clinic will be
held June 7-9 for players
that are wanting to sharp-
en their skill set and pre-
pare for the upcoming
season.
A Youth All-Skills Sum-
mer Volleyball Camp for
all current and rising play-
ers at the middle school
website or email riverside-
hsvolleyball@gmail.com.
RIVERSIDE TO HOLD
FOOTBALL CAMP
Riverside High will hold
its first Future Warriors
Football Camp June 11-14
from 8:30 a.m.-12:30 p.m.
Students in second
through seventh grade are
invited to attend.
RIVERSIDE TO HOLD KIDDIE
CHEER CAMP
Riverside High will hold
a Cheerleading Summer
Kiddie Camp 2018 for
children ages 4-12 June
25-28 from 9 a.m.-noon
each day in the school
gym.
A drink and snack is
provided daily. A t-shirt
will be provided for all
participants.
CERTIFICATES OF DEPOSIT SPECIAL
School, Attn: Cheer, 94
Hammett Bridge Road,
Greer, SC 29650.
For more information,
contact carmstro@green-
ville.k12.sc.us.
PLEASANT GROVE BAPTIST
TO HOLD FOOTBALL CAMP
Blitz Football Camp for
rising fifth through eighth
graders will be held July
16-20, 6-8 p.m., at Pleas-
ant Grove Baptist.
Cost is $25 and includes
a camp t-shirt.
The camp is run by Riv-
erside High D-Team Coach
Mark Freeman.
Register online at www.
pleasantgrovebaptist.org
or call 877-6436.

a $1,500 payout for their
school’s fishing team,
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Robinson, wife of Elite
Series angler and high
school boat captain Marty
Robinson.
Robinson and Fulmer
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front of B.J. Collins and
Garrett Holder of the
Chatuge Anglers who fin-
ished second with 17-1.
Collins and Holder won
second-place plaques and
a $1,000 check for their
fishing club.
The Eastern Regional
featured 157 teams, and
the Top 16 earned a spot
in the Mossy Oak Fishing
Bassmaster High School
National Championship
presented by DICK’S
Sporting Goods scheduled
for Kentucky Lake in Au-
gust. It took 12-2 to make
the cut.
GREENVILLE REC WATER-
PARKS OPEN MAY 26
The Greenville Rec Wa-
terparks will open for the
season on Saturday, May
26.
The department offers
three parks: Discovery Is-
discuss concussion rec-
ognition and a parent’s
role, while also covering
hydration and prevention
of heat-related illness.
USA Football master train-
ers will educate moms on
proper helmet and shoul-
der pad fitting while a
Panthers alumni player
will discuss football basics
including rules and player
positions.
Following classroom in-
struction, the clinic will
move out to the field for
hands-on instruction from
the USA Football master
trainers regarding the lat-
est tackling.
Participants will receive
an official Carolina Pan-
thers Moms’ Clinic event
t-shirt. Snacks and water
will be provided.
Registration space is
limited on a first-come,
first-served basis.
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Prizes awarded for first, for all experienced players
second and third place within out outside of the
teams. Riverside program is set
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WEDNESDAY, MAY 16, 2018 THE GREER CITIZEN B5
RHS student’s legacy lives on through band
BY JULIE HOLCOMBE
STAFF WRITER
Bella Muntean may not
be playing the flute when
the Pride of Riverside
marching band takes the
field this fall, but her spir-
it will still ring through
the notes.
Muntean had studied
flute with Riverside Mid-
dle teacher Kevin Styles
and Riverside High teacher
Kris Bence for four years
before passing away from
osteosarcoma last month.
“She was the most pos-
itive and bubbly student
I’ve ever had…She always
came in with a smile on
her face even though she
was walking in on crutch-
es or walking in from her
last chemo treatment. She
was always looking for-
ward to playing her instru-
ment and playing as a part
of the band,” Bence said.
“With band, it’s not about
the notes on the page, it’s
really about the friends
you gain and the experi-
ences you get. She was al-
ways about being a part of
that band family.”
Bella’s passion for the
flute came naturally. Her
mother, Brenda, played
for six years in school and
even taught while in high
school.
“Since I was rusty from
not playing over the years,
Bella took private lessons
from Wendy Smith, who
Bella became attached to
immediately because of
her patience and kindness.
Mrs. Wendy’s exceptional
skills in playing the flute
and joy for playing over-
flowed to her students giv-
ing them the courage and
Host families needed for exchange
students during 2018-19 year
BY KAELYN CASHMAN
STAFF WRITER
A Greer couple is asking
local families to consider
hosting exchange students
from around the world.
Herb and Judy Albert
have opened their home
since 2011 to exchange
students from China,
South Korea, Spain, Po-
land, Thailand, Germany,
Italy and Brazil.
Herb, who is a local co-
ordinator for the Council
of International Educa-
tional Exchange (CIEE),
has also been placing ex-
change students in homes
for about as long as he has
participated as a host fam-
ily.
Student profiles, which
can be for either a year
or a semester, begin to
arrive in January from
Italy, Spain, Russia, Slo-
vakia, Ukraine, Thailand,
Japan, China, South Korea,
Afghanistan, Mongolia,
Denmark, Norway, Swe-
den, Austria, New Zealand,
Australia, South America,
Ecuador, Brazil, Mexico
and other places.
“I just placed a South
Korea girl to Dorman,”
which is in District Six in
Spartanburg, Albert said.
The number of students
placed in each school de-
pends on the individual
schools and districts.
“It depends what the
school wants,” Albert
said. “Greenville Coun-
ty district, they only take
three students per agency.
There’s other agencies out
there.”
“The principal (at By-
rnes High School) has told
me they can take a couple
students,” he said. “It all
depends on the restric-
tions at the schools them-
selves.”
To be a host, the family
must fill out an applica-
tion answering questions
about hobbies, pets, smok-
ing, religion and more.
“We’ll first select a fami-
ly,” Albert said. “We match
the student with them.”
For example, Albert,
who has placed about 15
students in seven years,
recently placed a student
who expressed her fear of
dogs to a family with no
Living Here
confidence to perform at
various recitals that she
initiated. She enabled Bel-
la to excel and appreciate
the gift of music because
music is a gift available to
all of us, in many different
forms,” Brenda said.
Muntean’s commitment
to the instrument and her
band family surpassed the
challenges of her illness.
“The saying is true,  that
music is healing to the
mind, body and soul....
Many times when Bella was
in pain, she would play her
instrument and that gave
her so much comfort. To
her doctors amazement,
with too many bone tu-
mors to count, shaped
like broken fragments of
teeth, throughout all of
her lungs, Bella qualified
into All-State in 7th grade,
the weekend before her
cancer diagnosis, and con-
tinued to play the flute up
until her passing. Her lung
capacity which sounded
normal, bewildered the
doctors which was con-
tradictory to what they
saw on the scans, but it
didn’t matter to Bella be-
cause she knew this was
a blessing from God and
she continued to play with
such passion that it filled
our hearts with joy. This
is what music is all about
and Bella appreciated it,”
Brenda said.
It was that positive spir-
it that inspired Bence to
start a band commission
in her honor when the
15-year-old entered hos-
pice care. After Muntean’s
passing, Bence put the
project in gear, creating
a gofundme page to raise
the $4,000 needed to com-
Judy Albert, who has hosted many exchange students with
her husband, Herb, welcomed Natalia to South Carolina a
couple of years ago.
pets.
“We did Greer Goes
Global a couple of weeks
ago,” Albert said.
Making contacts and
getting the word out about
the exchange program is
part of his job as coordi-
nator.
“My students that I host
myself usually go to River-
side High School which I’m
zoned for,” Albert said.
But Albert also places
students in other areas,
including Greenville, Spar-
tanburg, Oconee and Pick-
ens counties as well as
some areas of North Car-
olina.
“We have nationwide,
probably 250-300 stu-
dents,” Albert said. “Right
now, I am the only coordi-
nator for my agency in the
Upstate.”
When students first ar-
rive, some of the challeng-
es include the language
barrier as well as making
friends.
“They have to translate
in their language to En-
glish,” Albert said.
The Greer Citizen
Riverside High teacher Kris Bence started a band commission in Bella’s honor when the 15-year-old entered hospice
care. After her passing, Bence created a gofundme page to raise the $4,000 needed to complete the commission.
plete the commission.
He contacted fellow high
school band teacher Josh-
ua Hinkel, of River Bluff
High in Columbia, to com-
pose the piece.
“I thought it was appro-
priate to make it a South
Carolina composer,” Bence
said. “He’s done a lot of
writing and arranging for
marching band shows and
done some concert band
pieces. I think he real-
ly gravitated toward the
idea after I explained the
situation with Bella and
who she was. He said ‘This
is exactly something I
would like to write a piece
about.’”
Bence spent some time
explaining the elements
he would like to include in
the yet untitled piece. He
wanted the work to be ap-
proachable for middle and
high school students so
that both Riverside bands
FILE PHOTO
After two to three
months, Albert said he
asks the students if they
are dreaming in English
yet. Some say yes, and oth-
ers say no.
“One of the challenges
is to meet friends,” Albert
said. “It all depends on
personality.”
On the other hand, some
of the challenges for host
families are cooking meals
and potential disputes
with host siblings.
“I raised two girls my-
self, so that’s why I hosted
more girls than boys,” Al-
bert said.
One question Albert
mentioned to keep in mind
when hosting an exchange
student is: How would I
handle my own children?
“They’re self-starters for
one thing,” Albert said of
the exchange students.
“We usually take a cou-
ple of trips while they’re
here.”
The Alberts have taken
their exchange students to
Disney, Washington D.C.,
the beach, Savannah and
PHOTO | SUBMITTED
can present it at the pre-
miere. He wanted it to fea-
ture the flute in some spe-
cial way. And he wanted it
to represent the passion
that Muntean had for the
band and for life.
“I don’t want it to be a
solemn ballad. I want it
to be something uplifting,
maybe have some good
tempo to it that is kind
of an inspiring and moti-
vating sound because that
was what Bella was-really
motivating and inspiring
to all of us. I didn’t want PHOTO | SUBMITTED
this sappy, slow piece,”
Bence said. Bella’s passion for the flute came naturally. Her mother,
Hinkel will work on Brenda, played for six years while in school.
drafts of the piece
throughout the summer for a charitable fundraiser ty and beyond.
with the final version likely to support a charity of the “I had the privilege to
completed for band camp Muntean family’s choice. teach Bella for a year and
practice. Bence hopes to a half before she got sick,”
debut the work with both MUSICAL LEGACY Styles said. “She was al-
bands at the October Band Muntean’s musical influ- ways one of the first kids
Extravaganza, perhaps in- ence will continue to rip- to the Band Room in the
viting the community out ple through her communi- SEE BELLA | B8
‘Any kind of interest
they have and get
involved with in
their school, just
support them just
like you would your
own child.’ PRESTON BURCH | THE GREER CITIZEN
Herb Albert Garden Tour
Local coordinator
The Spring Garden Tour by Greenville Council of Garden
Clubs included three gardens in Greer this past weekend.
other places.
“These kids have never
done that,” Albert said of
some of the experiences.
“You find out some of
PRIMROSE GARDEN CLUB
their likes and dislikes,
the stuff that was never
put in their profile.”
“We have so many pic-
tures of these kids,” he
said.
Some of their most mem-
orable experiences are the
exchange students coming
back to visit, graduating
from college in their home
countries and going on to
be successful people.
“We require of host fam-
ilies three things,” Albert
said.
The three requirements
are a bedroom, which can
be shared with a host sib- PHOTO | SUBMITTED
ling, three meals a day
and transportation to and The residence of Jimmy and Mary Snow of Mount Vernon
from school, which can be Drive was selected by the Primrose Garden Club for May
a bus or personal vehicle. Yard of the Month.
“If they want to take
school lunch, that’s their
money,” Albert said.
Finally, host families
should support their ex-
change students.
“Support them when
their here,” Albert said,
whether they are ath-
letes, musicians, artists or
something else. “Any kind
of interest they have and
get involved with in their
school, just support them
just like you would your
own child.”
For more information,
contact Herb Albert, CIEE
Local Coordinator, at
a_herb@bellsouth.net or PHOTO | SUBMITTED
905-3504 or visit www.
ciee.org/host. The residents enjoy spending time in the “Secret Garden”
with Sandra Ferguson, Life Enrichment Coorinator, at
kaelyn@greercitizen.com | 877-2076 Manning Place, located at 10 Companion Court and
chosen for the Business Yard of the Month for May.
 Entertainment
The Greer Citizen

B6 THE GREER CITIZEN  WEDNESDAY, MAY 16, 2018

Artists co-op to exhibit retrospective work

A lifetime of work by
one of Spartanburg’s most
celebrated artists -- the
late Mayo “Mac” Boggs
-- will be retrospectively
MARVEL STUDIOS exhibited at West Main
Artists Co-op May 2-31,
Chadwick Boseman in celebrating 43 years of
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and acclaim. This exten-

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COUCH THEATER
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sive collection of sculp-
tures and 2-dimensional
works-of-art -- “Mac Boggs:
A Retrospective” -- can be
seen at no charge Tues-
day-Saturday, 10 a.m.-4
p.m. at 578 West Main
Street, Spartanburg, in the
Co-op’s Venue gallery.
Also, the public is in-
vited to a free reception
on Thursday, May 17, 5-9
p.m., during the city’s
monthly ArtWalk. His wid-
ow, Ansley Boggs, Ph.D.,
will give a free artist’s talk
6:30-7 p.m.
“This will be West Main’s
most important exhibit
for the year,” Venue Com-
mittee Chair Dwight Rose
said. “There is probably no
other Spartanburg artist
who has achieved as much
recognition and respect as
Mac Boggs. His work is lit-
erally around the world.”
Each month, the Co-op
hosts three new art ex-
hibits by its members and
non-members, and Venue
is the largest exhibit space
among four galleries.
Boggs passed away on
March 10, 2014, at the age
of 71, due to heart disease.
At that time, he was re-
tired from teaching art at
Converse College, where
he retained the distinction
of Professor Emeritus of
Art. Dr. Boggs  survives
him and has worked with
Rose to curate this retro-
spective exhibit at the Co-
op.
“Mac always believed in
artists supporting each
other, so he loved that
WMAC established an
influential and support-
ive artist community,”
Dr. Boggs said. “Mac was
legendary for his mento-
ring and support of fel-
low and budding artists.
While supporting well-
known artists, Mac always
Mayo “Mac” Boggs
sought out those artists
of whom no one might be
aware, whether because
they hadn’t exhibited, or
because they didn’t rec-
ognize themselves as art-
ists. Frequently, people in
the community attributed
their artistic success to
his encouragement and
generosity in sharing his
talent and time. He was a
creative inspiration to all!
“Artist Winston Wingo
enjoys telling the story
of a rainy night, when he
was in high school, and
he knocked on Mac Boggs’
front door,” she recalled.
“When Mac answered, Win-
ston said, ‘I hear you’re the
new sculptor in town.’ Mac
responded affirmatively,
and Winston replied, ‘Well,
I’m a sculptor too, and I
want to do what you do!’
They remained friends for
the rest of Mac’s life.”
The exhibit will in-
clude many abstract and
non-representational
metal and bronze sculp-
tures, for which he is most
known. However, the ex-
hibit will also have mar-
ble constructions, paint-
ings, computer graphics,
prints, photographs of
commissioned art, sketch-
es of proposed sculpture,
awards, newspaper arti-
cles, models of proposals,
and letters from students
and colleagues. “I hope
that people appreciate
Mac’s amazing versatility
and creativity, as well as
sense his inspiration, en-
thusiasm and passion for
creating art and teaching,”
she said.
“Over a 40-year peri-
od, I have interacted with
Boggs and observed him
“Talisman,” which won best in show in an exhibit, was purchased by Earl Bettinger and his
wife, Lilian Jackson Braun. They display the work at their house in Tryon.
using his energy, talent,
and expertise to become
a driving force behind the
development of the visu-
al arts program at Con-
verse College,” Wingo has
been quoted. “Since my
high school years, he has
served as a role model to
help guide my career in
arts education. Boggs’ im-
measurable contributions
to his students, Converse
College, as well as his
community, are evidence
of exemplary leadership in
the field.”
Boggs was born and
raised in Ashland, KY.
He earned a bachelor’s
degree in art from the Uni-
versity of Kentucky and
a master’s degree of fine
arts (sculpture) from the
University of North Caro-
lina at Chapel Hill. From
1970-2013, Boggs was the
professor of sculpture at
Converse College in Spar-
tanburg.
He received numerous
awards and honors, and
in 1991, he was named
Honorary Artist of Spar-
tanburg by proclamation
of the Mayor.
In 2000, the Mayor
proclaimed a “Mayo Mac
Boggs Day.” In 2008, he
was selected to serve as
a Technical Collaborator
for the Lynne Streeter Art
and Marble Stone-carving
Summer Workshop of Pi-
etrasanta, Italy. In 2010,
Mr. Boggs was honored by
Converse College, Wofford
College, and USC-Upstate
with a 40-year retrospec-
tive exhibition on each of
the three campuses. And
in 2013, he received the
Elizabeth O’Neill Verner
Governor’s Award for the
Arts, South Carolina high-
est arts award.
All of the work in the
Co-op exhibit will be on
sale, ranging in price from
$125 to $2,500.
All proceeds will be do-
nated to the development
of the Mac and Ansley
Boggs Travel Scholarship
Fund for Converse College
art and education majors
who do not have the finan-
cial means to travel. Mr.
Boggs believed strongly in
the importance of travel to
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a student’s art and life, his
widow said.
In preparation for his
2010 40th-year retrospec-
tive, Mr. Boggs wrote:
“What inspires sculptors
to produce the images
they do? Sculptors have
an innate desire to build
things. They are usually
very hands on, mechani-
cally inclined, and techni-
cally oriented. Many come
from a physically oriented
background-the results
of an unscientific poll
showed that many sculp-
tors were high school ath-
letes. Sculptors are kin to
architects who dream of
objects in three dimen-
sions. As children, we were
the ones who played with
erector sets and building
blocks-the ones always
using hammers and nails.
These were the people
who thought outside the
box, literally.”
For more information
about the Mac Boggs ret-
rospective art exhibit at
West Main Artists Co-op,
please visit online West-
MainArtists.org.

Things
ally submerged under the
weight of the ocean above Tuesdays-Fridays from
her. Both trapped, they 2-6 p.m. or visit www.cen-

To Do
reminisce and ponder trestage.org.
deep thoughts.

“10x10” (R) -- Luke

Evans and Kelly Reilly star
in a tight psychological
thriller, a game of cat and
mouse that begins when
Lewis (Evans) abducts
the seemingly straight-
laced Cathy (Reilly) from
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an Atlanta parking lot.
He brings her home and
imprisons her in a 10
by 10 cell made with
padded concrete walls,
from which discovery or
escape are impossible. He
doesn’t want sex and he
doesn’t want money. His
demand? A story, and one
that only Cathy can tell.
It’s no spoiler that Cathy
is not what she seems,
and neither, too, is Lewis.
The pace of the movie is
well-done by first-time
feature director Suzi
Ewing, but it may have
pushed past the point of
plot twist tolerance by the
end.
“Samson” (PG-13) -- A
warrior chosen by God
to be his “hand of living
vengeance,” Samson
(Taylor James) is su-
per-strong and basically
the be-all and end-all of
bad dudes (but, you know,
a good guy, a leader of his
people). When King Balek
(Billy Zane, oh how the
mighty have fallen) hears
the stories, he’s totally
jealous and sends his
sneaky monster of a son
Rallah (Jackson Rathbone)
out to quell the threat.
Underhanded as ever,
Rallah enlists a smarmy
seductress, Delilah (Cait-
lin Leahy), to cut off (the
hair of) this threat to the
kingdom. You’ve heard
this tale in Sunday school,
and this movie could
appeal to some who have
fond memories of that
time. But it’s not the epic
legend it could be. Pass.
NEW TV RELEASES
“The Bold Type” Season
1 event features bicycle
“Rick and Morty” Season
3 as well as live music, bar-
“Unforgotten” Season 2
native and U.S. Army com-
bat veteran Brad Carraway
will be on display through
June 15 in Thompson Gal-
lery of the Roe Art Build-
ing on the campus of
Furman University. A re-
ception and talk with the
artist is set for Friday, May
18, 6-7:30 p.m. in the Roe
Art Building. The exhibi-
tion and reception are free
and open to the public.
The exhibition, “Surviv-
ing War is Hell: Healing
the Emotional Traumas
of War Through Art,” is
presented by the Furman
Department of Art. It fea-
tures work inspired by the
artist’s struggle with com-
bat-related Post-Traumat-
ic Stress Disorder (PTSD),
and his desire to help oth-
ers who are dealing with
the condition.
Regular Thompson Gal-
lery hours are Monday-Fri-
day, 9 a.m.-5 p.m.
For more information
about the exhibition, con-
tact Furman’s Department
of Art at 294-2995.
CENTRE STAGE SHOWING
NOIR COMEDY
Three love stories, a
murder mystery, and a
nuclear espionage plot
converge in “Red Herring,”
a noir comedy about mar-
riage and other explosive
devices, through May 26 at
Centre Stage in Greenville.
The Seventh Annual Rally in the Valley will be held at Lake Jemiki outside of Walhalla on
Saturday, May 19.
Shows run Thursday
through Saturday, 8 p.m..
and Sunday, 2 p.m., and
all seats are reserved. For
tickets or more informa-
tion, call 233-6733 Tues-
days-Fridays from 2-6 p.m.
or visit www.centrestage.
org.
PARK HOP 2018 KICKS OFF
MAY 19
LiveWell Greenville’s an-
nual Park Hop kicks off
with new scavenger hunt
clues on May 19.
Park Hop is a free, sum-
mer-long scavenger hunt
in parks across Greenville
County.
This scavenger hunt
encourages children and
families to discover fea-
tured parks throughout
the summer while search-
ing for answers to clues
within each park.
Participants earn prizes
like a LiveWell Greenville
swag bag, water park pass-
es, Greenville Drive tick-
ets, and a Park Hop t-shirt
by visiting parks.
For more information on
the event, visit ParkHop.
org.
WALHALLA TO HOLD RALLY
IN THE VALLEY
The Seventh Annual Ral-
ly in the Valley will be held
at Lake Jemiki outside of
Walhalla on Saturday, May
19.
The family-friendly
rides of 30 and 60 miles
becue and craft beer.
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Walk Remembered
Alice Ballard
Through May 26
Riverworks Gallery
Proceeds go toward play suggests that our civ- Greenville Technical College
land conservation and ilized trappings do a poor 271-0679
sustainable development job of hiding our venality www.gvltec.edu/dva
in Oconee County. This and bile.
year’s event will raise For tickets or more in-
funds for a new mountain formation, call 233-6733
biking and hiking trail sys-
tem just outside of Wal-
halla at Stumphouse Tun-
nel Park.
To register or purchase
tickets for the ride, visit
www.active.com/walhal-
lasc/cycling/races/rally-
in-the-valley-2018.
For more information
about the event, visit
oconeeforever.org/rallyva-
lley.
FRINGE SERIES STAGES
‘GOD OF CARNAGE’
The Centre Stage Fringe
Series will present “God
of Carnage” May 22-23 at
7 p.m.
Winner of the 2009 Tony
Award for Best Play, God of
Carnage relates an evening
in the lives of two couples,
residents of a Brooklyn
neighborhood, who meet
to discuss a playground
incident. Alan and An-
nette’s son hit Michael
and Veronica’s son in the
face with a stick, resulting
in two broken teeth. The
four of them agree to dis-
cuss the incident civilly,
but, as the night wears on
and drinks are imbibed,
the polite veneer breaks
down. The couples initial-
ly spar against each other,
but the men gang up on
the women and the spous-
es switch sides as the
fighting continues. Reza’s
WEDNESDAY, MAY 16, 2018 FUN AND GAMES
How low is too-low
blood pressure?
DEAR DR. ROACH: You
have written many articles
about high blood pres-
sure, but I want to know
about low blood pressure.
What is normal? What is
low, and what is danger-
ously low? I have a heart
issue for which I take med-
ication. I want to know if
my blood pressure is too
low. -- Anon.
ANSWER: Among young
adults, only 5 percent of
men will have a blood
pressure below 110/60 or
so, and for young women,
it’s 90/46. Blood pressure
tends to go up with age, so
low blood pressure num-
bers are higher for older
adults.
For people with healthy
hearts, the only time we
worry about low blood
pressure is if there are
symptoms, and the most
common symptoms are
lightheadedness and faint-
ing.
In people with conges-
tive heart failure, low
blood pressure usually is
not concerning in itself,
but because it might in-
dicate that the heart is
getting weaker. However,
many of the medications
used for CHF reduce blood
pressure, which can even
limit the amount of med-
ication that can be used.
In people with blockages
in their arteries, too low a
blood pressure can cause
inadequate blood flow
to parts of the heart and
cause angina symptoms.
The blood pressure is
dangerously low when a
disease process is causing
the low blood pressure. In
Soap Updates
BY DANA BLOCK
THE BOLD AND
THE BEAUTIFUL
Steffy turned to her
mother for comfort after
Brooke lashed out at her.
Bill got defensive when
Justin laid it out straight to
him. Later, Bill was forced
to face the fallout of Wy-
att’s wrath. Brooke was
surprised to find Taylor
on her doorstep, and the
two quickly threw accusa-
tions at each other about
whose daughter was at
fault. Meanwhile, the new-
ly engaged Hope and Liam
were blissfully unaware of
all the fighting going on
around them. Bill made
Wyatt an offer regarding
Spencer Publications and
its future. Ridge told Liam
that he was being played
for a fool by Bill. Katie is-
sued Wyatt a dire warning.
Bill presented his case for
a future with Steffy. Wait
to See: Tension builds be-
tween Ridge and Brooke.
DAYS OF OUR LIVES
Theresa made a deal
with the devil for her free-
dom. JJ and Eve had an un-
expected encounter. Steve
secretly asked Roman for
a favor. Inspired by Brady
and Eve, John made a sug-
gestion to Marlena. Abigail
argued against Justin’s le-
gal advice. Stefan and Kate
faced off. Justin and Rafe
had some good news for
Gabi, who was still trou-
bled by Abigail’s actions.
TO YOUR
GOOD HEALTH
KEITH
ROACH, M.D.
extreme cases, low blood
pressure is one of the
most dangerous signs of
shock. But in general, for
healthy people, low blood
pressures are not worri-
some.
***
DR. ROACH WRITES: I
have received more letters
about hearing loss than I
would have believed pos-
sible. Most of the advice
was consistent, so let me
review what both profes-
sionals and people who
have been through the
process of getting hearing
aids have advised.
First, have realistic ex-
pectations about what a
hearing aid can do. It does
not make your hearing
what it was 50 years ago.
Loud noises can be pain-
fully overamplified.
Second, find someone
who really knows what he
or she is doing. The people
whose technicians spent a
lot of time teaching, dis-
cussing the different op-
tions and adjusting them
after purchase were the
most satisfied. (The ad-
justment period can take
weeks.) A referral from a
satisfied friend could be a
good place to start. Several
professionals recommend-
ed that your audiologist
CHRIS HASTON | NBC
Marci Miller stars as ‘Abigail’
on ‘Days of Our Lives’
Marlena and John made
a decision about their fu-
ture. Gabi inadvertently
dropped a bomb on Abi-
gail. Rafe finally decided
to grant Hope her wish.
Leo lured Sonny deeper
into his trap. Abigail an-
grily confronted Stefan.
Xander brings Theresa
back home to Salem. Wait
to See: Chloe is crushed
when Mateo tells her some
unsettling news.
GENERAL HOSPITAL
Nelle had a bizarre
stroke of luck. Michael
and Dante spent a night
on the town. Jordan en-
couraged Anna not to give
up. Peter looked for reas-
surance. Kim had some
good news to share. Ava
reclaimed a small piece
of control. Anna and Grif-
fin got caught up. Finn
bumped into Alexis. Oliv-
ia found herself in a bind.
THE GREER CITIZEN B7
be certified by the Ameri-
can Speech, Language and
Hearing Association.
Third, be prepared to
spend some money. Good
hearing aids are expensive.
More expensive doesn’t
always mean better, but
most of my readers felt
that the money they spent
on hearing aids was well
worth it. I’m sure there
are some great ones, and
some not as great. Many
veterans wrote me to tell
me about their (mostly)
good experiences at the
Department of Veterans
Affairs.
Fourth, try many mod-
els. Some people prefer
in-the-ear, some over-the-
ear. Because it takes a long
time to get used to them,
you need to wear them
pretty much constantly.
Both your ears and your
brain need time to adjust,
so be patient.
Finally, several people
and one chapter president
wrote to me about the
Hearing Loss Association
of America (www.hearin-
gloss.org) and the benefit
they gained from visiting
their local chapter and
sharing their experiences.
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, or write to
Good Health, 628 Virginia
Drive, Orlando, FL 32803.
Sonny was deeply trou-
bled. Stella tried to look
on the bright side, but was
horrified. Jason asked Spi-
nelli for help. Sam’s plans
were thwarted. Dante got
one over on Chase. Cur-
tis’s nerves got the best
of him. Sam stumbled on
an important clue. Finn
was deeply apologetic.
Ava tried to entice Griffin.
Josslyn connected with
Oscar. Wait to See: Valen-
tin crosses Lulu.
THE YOUNG AND
THE RESTLESS
In a moment of an-
ger and frustration, Jack
lashed out at his mother.
Traci reminded him that
Dina’s time was limit-
 |
ed. Lily made a promise
to raise Baby Sam as her THE SPATS by Jeff Pickering
own. Dina had a moment
of clarity and recognized
her daughter Traci. After
witnessing the touching
moment, Jack apologized
to Dina for his temper. Hil-
ary and Devon flirted and
grew even closer after re-
alizing that they would be
celebrating Mother’s Day
every year with their baby.
Nick leapt into action after
hearing that JT’s phone
 |
had been turned on. Abby
and Arturo almost kissed RFD by Mike Marland
after she confided in him
about her messy history
with men. Nick and Sharon
realized that people were
starting to suspect they
were back together. Wait
to See: Devon and Hilary
reconnect with Shawna.
AMBER WAVES by Dave T. Phipps  |
OUT ON A LIMB by Gary Kopervas  |
 Our Schools
The Greer Citizen

B8 THE GREER CITIZEN  WEDNESDAY, MAY 16, 2018

Area students graduate from North Greenville

Several area students
were among the gradu-
ates of North Greenville
University’s spring com-
mencement on April 28.
A baccalaureate degree
student whose cumulative
grade point average is at
least 3.5 graduates cum
laude, those with at least
a 3.75 graduate magna
cum laude, and those with
at least a 3.9 grade point
average graduate summa
cum laude.
CAMPOBELLO
Emily Rhea Bryant – BS
– Psychology, Summa cum
laude
Kristen Elizabeth Mitch-
ell – BS – Interdisciplinary
Studies
DUNCAN
Landon Andrew Toney –
BS – Health Science
GREER
Kaylee Adams – BS – Bi-
ology, Cum laude
Kieffer Morisse Ang – BS
- Psychology
Emily Ruth Artus – BA –
Print Media, Summa cum
laude
Alyssa Marie Ashe – BA
– Broadcast Media, Cum
laude
Daryl Adrian Atkins – BA
– Christian Studies
Cole Livingston Brannon
– BA – Youth Ministry
Randy Montrel Brown –
BS – Accounting
Robby Jerome Brown –
BS – Health Science
Monica Dane Colwell –
BA- Criminal Justice and
Legal Studies
Victoria Jade Davies –
BA – Elementary Educa-
tion, Magna cum laude
Jennifer Dawn Davis –
Master of Music Education
Austin Lee Donahoo –
BA – Christian Ministries,
Magna cum laude
Rachel Kathryn Elphick
– BS – Accounting, Cum
laude
Connor Gregory Hash –
BA – Broadcast Media
Andrew Lee Hill – BS -
Accounting
Courtney Elizabeth Hipp
– BA – Elementary Educa-
tion, Cum laude
Tyler Landes Horrocks
– BA – History, Cum laude
James McDonald – Mas-
ter of Business Adminis-
tration
William Paul McDonald –
BA – Studio Art
Matthew Gregory Moore
– BS – Business Adminis-
tration
Rolland Gray Nall – BS –
Accounting, Cum laude
Dexter LaSean Reaves –
Master of Arts in Christian
Ministry
Matthew Blake Roches-
ter – Master of Education
Taylor Nicole Schaffer
– BA – Elementary Educa-
tion, Magna cum laude
Jonathan Michael Stanga
– BS – Health Science
Tullious Calhoun
Stoudemayer III – Master
of Business Administra-
tion
Karissa Lynn Sundt – BA
– Interdisciplinary Studies
Savannah Greene
Tonnsen – Master of Edu-
cation
LYMAN
Colby Andrew Boggs –
BS – Health Science
Christy Ann Cox – BA –
Interdisciplinary Studies
Robin Ray Crusco – Mas-
ter of Music Education
Andrew Lee Hill – BS –
Accounting, Cum laude
Alexandria Jordan La-
Placa – BS – Health Science,
Summa cum laude
John David Scott – BA –
Broadcast Media
TAYLORS
Evan Scott Baughman –
Master of Business Admin-
istration
Andres David Becerra –
BS – Business Administra-
tion
Karley Elizabeth Bran-
non – BA – Interdisciplin-
ary Studies
Morgan Grace Bryant
– BA – Interdisciplinary
Studies
Andrew William
Chisholm – BS – Business
Administration, Summa
cum laude
Jenna Leigh Church – BA
– Elementary Education,
Magna cum laude
Grace Elise DeBoer – BS
– Biology
Rashan Gaines – BS –
Business and Leadership
Kristen Elizabeth Hall
– BS – Interdisciplinary
Studies, Cum laude
Joseph Andrew Hyatt
– BA – Christian Studies,
Cum laude
Mary Rebecca Komoros-
ki – BA – Early Childhood
Education, Magna cum
laude
Daniel Austin Marsh-
banks – BS – Accounting,
Summa cum laude
Nathan Tyler Mayer – BS
- Psychology
Timothy Myers – BA – In-
tercultural Studies
Mandie Marie Peevler –
BA – Early Childhood Edu-
cation, Summa cum laude
Victoria Renee Pujdak –
BA – Print Media
Valentina Ruiz – BS - Bi-
ology
Andrew Wateson Ste-
vens – Doctor of Ministry
Linnea Grace Stevens
– BA – Studio Art, Magna
cum laude
Chaffee Landreth Tomp-
son – BA – Early Childhood
Education, cum laude
Douglas Wabaaye Were –
Master of Business Admin-
istration
Kaitlyn Ann Williams –
BA – Secondary Education
in English Language Arts
TIGERVILLE
Morgan Mitchell Reece –
BS – Business Administra-
tion, Summa cum laude
Angela E. Watson – BS -
Business and Leadership,
Cum laude
WOODRUFF
Kady Lynne Floyd – BS –
Business Administration,
Magna cum laude
McKinsey Lynn Forten-
berry – BS – Sport Manage-
ment
Lowri Elyn Gowing – BA
– Interdisciplinary Studies,
Cum laude

School
this year’s National Merit each state judged to have
GHS’S RATGEN RECEIVES $2,500 scholarships. the strongest combina-
ART AWARD They were chosen from tion of accomplishments,

News
Greer High art student more than 15,000 finalists skills, and potential for
Ashliegh Ratgen was in the 2018 program. success in rigorous col-
awarded the local NAACP Riverside High students lege studies. The number
ACT-SO award for paint- receiving scholarships are of winners named in each
ing which qualifies her to Christopher B. Brooks, state is proportional to the
AUSTIN NAMED compete in the national who plans a career in state’s percentage of the
TO DUKE TIP ACT-SO competition at the Chemical Engineering, and nation’s graduating high
Maggie Austin, daughter national NAACP Competi- Michael A. Gallagher, who school seniors.
of Jeff and Layne Austin, tion. Her painting, Small plans a career in Engineer-
of Greer, is among the sev- Town Nostalgia, will com- ing. Clifford J. Gandis, of RMS STUDENTS WIN
enth grade students being pete July 12-15 in San An- Greer, who attends Christ ART AWARDS
honored by the Duke Uni- tonio, Texas. Church Episcopal School Several students in Da-
versity Talent Identifica- in Greenville and plans a vies Reich’s art class at
tion Program (Duke TIP) AREA STUDENTS WIN career in Chemical Engi- Riverside Middle were
for exceptional scores on SCHOLARSHIPS neering, also received the honored recently at the
the ACT or SAT. Three area students are scholarship. National Mer- Greenville County Schools
She will be recognized among 2,500 Merit Schol- it $2500 Scholarship win- Art Reception at the Roper
at the Grand Recognition ar designees to receive ners are the Finalists in Mountain Science Center.
Ceremony to be held on
May 21 at Duke Universi-
ty’s Cameron Indoor Sta-
dium.
Austin is a student at PHOTO | SUBMITTED

the Charles Townes cen-
ter at Sterling School in
Greenville.
Duke TIP’s seventh grade
talent search identifies
students across the United
States who have scored at
or above the 95th percen-
tile on a grade-level stan-
dardized test.
As part of the program,
these academically talent-
ed students take above-lev-
el college-entrance exams
to learn more about their
abilities.
Duke TIP then hosts an-
nual recognition ceremo-
nies to honor the seventh
graders with remarkable
ACT or SAT scores.
Those with the highest
scores are invited to the
Grand Recognition Cere-
mony.
Of 48,569 students who
took the exams through
Duke TIP, only 2,611 were
invited to the Grand Rec-
ognition Ceremony.
INDUSTRIES RECOGNIZE
STEM STUDENTS
The Boeing Company,
BMW Manufacturing Co.
and the South Carolina
Manufacturers Alliance
recognized 92 South Caro-
lina high school seniors at
the 2018 Annual S.C. STEM
Signing Day recently.
Among the seniors were
Emme Bagwell, of River-
All-State honors
Riverside High School students Elyajah Nobel, Grace West
and Hope Russell have been invited to participate in the
SC Music Educators Association’s All-State choir.
side High, and Harrison
MacDonald, of Eastside
High.
Created by The Boeing
Company in 2017, S.C.
STEM Signing Day rec-
ognizes students from
across the state of South
Carolina who have pur-
sued STEM (Science, Tech-
nology, Engineering, and
Mathematics) education
during their high school
tenure and plan to contin-
ue their STEM education
at two and four-year col-
leges.
“Since technology is
constantly changing in the
automotive industry, now
more than ever, we must
invest in highly-skilled
workers. Investing in
STEM education allows us
to develop a pool of tal-
ented young people who
will help sustain BMW’s
future,” said Christine Pe-
trasch, Vice President of
Human Resources with
BMW Manufacturing.
Students were identi-
fied through the SC Future
Makers initiative using the
STEM Premier platform.
 
GREENVILLE COUNTY |
 
EHS, RHS RANKED
NATIONALLY
Eastside and Riverside
high schools are among
four Greenville Coun-
ty schools to be ranked
among the top schools in
South Carolina and the
nation, according to the
2018 U.S. News Best High
Schools ranking.
Eastside ranks fourth in
South Carolina and 1,034
in the nation; Riverside
ranks 14 in the state and
2,046 in the nation.
The schools earned Sil-
ver Medals for the distinc-
tion.
The U.S. News rankings
include data on more than
20,500 public high schools
in 50 states and the Dis-
trict of Columbia.
Schools were award-
ed gold, silver or bronze
medals based on their
performance on state as-
sessments and how well
they prepare students for
college.

BELLA: Remembered through band

FROM B5 Muntean’s story. it published and share to
“(Hinkel) was thinking all band programs all over
mornings and the last let’s get it published. Let’s the country is something
to leave everyday. She was get it out there so that oth- really neat,” Bence said.
very dedicated to learning er band programs can play “It’s definitely a legacy
to play the Flute....Bella it and the program notes that she’s going to have
always had a smile on her can explain who Bella was, forever. Any time any-
face and was concerned why this piece was writ- body opens up that score
for others. Even though ten, and give younger stu- they’re going to see a pic-
I have taught thousands dents an example of what ture of Bella and who she
of students over the past a band student should be,” was in the program notes
37 years, Bella will be one Bence said. so this is kind of a lasting
that I will always remem- So far $1,200 has been legacy for her so we really
ber. She made an impact.” raised toward the total in- want to make it happen.”
“Because Bella was al- cluding $500 donated by “We are so grateful to
ways about giving back,” local business Musical In- both band teachers, Mr.
Brenda said, “I decided to novations. Donations can Kris Bence at RHS and
give Mr. Styles her first be made at http://www. Mr. Kevin Styles at RMS,
flute, which was mine, gofundme.com/bellaband- for commissioning this
passed on to Bella, to be piece or by check to Riv- piece of music in Bella’s
given to a child beginning erside High School Band honor and preserving her
to play in middle school,  Boosters, 794 Hammett legacy in such a special
who had a passion for Bridge Road, Greer, SC way,” Brenda said. “Also,
playing the flute but may 29650. Any funds raised we thank everyone who
not be able to afford one above the commission will decides to be a part in do-
to pursue it. This is what be donated to charity. nating which will inspire
Bella would have wanted “I really feel like this is other students with the
and I know she is smiling.” the best way to represent same passion, for the love
The band commission (Bella) as a person and of music and playing an
will be published and the fact that it’s not just instrument, despite chal-
made available to other fundraising to have us lenges, like Bella...”
bands, further spreading play a piece, but to have