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wednesday, january 25, 2017
GREER, SOUTH CAROLINA VOL. 104 NO. 4 75 CENTS
Reggie Shaw named

head coach at Byrnes
By Billy Cannada
Editor
Preston Burch | The Greer Citizen
Meet and greet

Greer Police Department K-9 Handler James Compton, left, greeted 3-year-old Mordecia
Prisland at the Jean M. Smith Library Tuesday during Meet Community Helpers: Police
Officers.
Bass Pro
Shop on
hold in
Greer
By Kaelyn Pfenning
Staff Writer
Kaelyn Pfenning | The Greer Citizen
Plans for a Bass Pro

Shops Outdoor World facility, scheduled to open
last year on S.C. Highway
101 near I-85, have been
shelved for now.
Plans have been placed
on hold since we initially
announced this location,
said Katie Mitchell, Communications Manager for
the Bass Pro Shops Group.
Like all retailers, we are
assessing the way our customers want to interact
with us and remain dedicated to serving outdoor
enthusiasts in the region.
The planned 120,000
square foot facility was to
be erected on 75 acres of
land owned by Pacolet Milliken Enterprises Inc.
see Shop | A5
The City of Greer is looking to identify historic resources.
Forum focuses
on Greer history
By Kaelyn Pfenning
Staff Writer
The City of Greer hosted
a forum for residents at
city hall last week in hopes
of identifying historic resources within the town.
We think, as a city, we
have some great, great
resources
out
there,
said Glenn Pace, Planning
& Zoning Coordinator.
Thats the kind of stuff

we want to preserve and
protect as much as possible.
A team of historians
from the cultural resources firm Brockington and
Associates have begun
background research in
Greer, looking at historic
plat maps, USGS topographic maps, historic
see History | A5
Reggie Shaw will be the

next head football coach
at Byrnes High School,
Spartanburg District Five
officials announced on
Monday.
Byrnes has a strong
tradition of excellence
and excellence is ultimately my goal for this
program, Shaw said at a
Tuesday press conference.
Were going to challenge
our guys, were going to
hold them accountable
and were going to expect
them to do the little things
right. If we pursue excellence, winning will take
care of itself.
Shaw takes over for Brian Lane, who left the team
after a three-win season in
2016.
I dont believe this program is broken. I dont,
Shaw said. Theres too
many good people here
and too many good things
going in this community.
It needs to be tweaked a
little bit, but Im excited to
get to work.
Shaw comes from A.C.
Flora, having previously
coached defensive backs
and special teams as an
assistant strength coach
at Byrnes during the 2006-
Billy Cannada | The Greer Citizen
Reggie Shaw was introduced at a press conference Tuesday

afternoon in Duncan.
I dont believe this

program is broken.
I dont.
Reggie Shaw
New Byrnes football coach

2007 season.
In 2006, I really fell in
love with this community,
school and football program, he said. Its a true
family. This is a strong
community. Our administration and teachers are
second to none, and thats
part of the culture here.

Byrnes High Principal
Todd Hardy said there
was plenty of interest in
the job.
We whittled it down
to 50 applications and
granted seven interviews,
Hardy said. Having been
here before, he has a great
knowledge of the community and community expectations. He has a good
knowledge of what Byrnes
football means and he has
a desire to continue the
tradition we have here.
Shaw has been with A.C.
Flora since 2013, leading
see Shaw | A8
GCM picks new director

Greer native Stephen
Smith was named the new
executive director at Greer
Community
Ministries
(GCM) last week.
The Greer High graduate joined the ministry on
Monday, Jan. 23.
I just love Greer. I feel
like Im coming home,
Smith said. Im so excited
about this opportunity.
Smith was chosen to
lead GCM following the
retirement announcement
of Cindy Simpler. Simpler, who led the ministry
from May 2013 until now,
is leaving to spend more
time with her seven grandchildren.
Stephen Smith
Both the ministry and
the community are grateful to Cindy for her service
and wish her well in her
retirement, said Shane
Lynn, GCM board chairman. We are also excited

for the future of the ministry under Stephens leadership.
Smith comes to GCM
from Triune Mercy Center in Greenville, where
he was the operations and
volunteer coordinator.
Following Cindy is going to be tough, Smith
said. Im very blessed to
have this opportunity. The
wheels are already turning.
A lifelong member of
Greer First Presbyterian
Church, Smith is married
to Stacia and has two sons,
see Smith | A5
Rewards offered after Lyman bank robberies

By Kaelyn Pfenning
Staff Writer
Two Lyman banks are
offering rewards in connection with robberies
that took place at the end
of 2016.
First Citizens Bank and
Home Trust Bank are each
offering a $5,000 reward
($10,000 total) for information that leads to the
arrest of a suspect that
robbed both facilities at
INDEX
gunpoint.
Last November, Lyman
Police Department responded to an armed robbery at the First Citizens
Bank, located at 104 Edgewood Street, Lyman.
According to reports,
the suspect was dressed
in black from head to toe,
wore a mask and carried a
semiautomatic pistol.
Officers from Lyman,
Wellford, Duncan and
Spartanburg County set up
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Grady Allison, Jr., 89

William Henry Groce, III
Tony Maxwell Tipton, Jr.
a perimeter and checked

the surrounding area.
According to the Lyman
Police Department incident
report, witnesses advised
that the suspect entered
the bank, and in a loud
voice, he told everyone not
to move, to get down with
no alarms and to give him
all the big money now.
Witnesses said the suspect, who smelled of alcohol, went behind the
counter and had the tell-
ers enter the bank vault.

They gave him the money,
which he put in the backpack. He had a handgun
but did not point the gun
at anyone.
A K-9 unit tracked the
suspect from the First Citizens Bank to the ice machine on the side of Freds
Discount Store parking lot
and then lost the scent. An
FBI agent responded to the
scene.
Three
weeks
later,
around mid-December, the

Home Trust Bank, located
at 140 Airport Rd., Arden,
North Carolina, was also
the victim of an armed
robbery by possibly the
same suspect, based on
his dress and the manner
in which both robberies
were committed.
No description of the
suspects vehicle was obtained in either robbery.
This case is under police
investigation.
Those with tips can contact Lieutenant Brian Teal

with the Lyman Police Department by calling him
at 485-0232 or emailing
him at bteal@lymansc.gov.
Tipsters can also contact
Investigator Tracy Crowe
with the Asheville Police
Department by calling him
at 777-3643 or emailing
him at tcrowe@ashevillenc.gov.
kaelyn@greercitizen.com | 877-2076
Sports
Wilson out
Eastside and
head football coach
part ways
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COMMUNITY
A2 THE GREER CITIZEN
COMMUNITY
NEWS
WINTERSKUNK 2017
COMING TO GREER
Albino Skunk Music Festival is hosting the firstever, indoor WinterSkunk

Music Fest from 2-11:30
p.m. on Saturday, Feb. 11,
at The Spinning Jenny, located at 107 Cannon St,
Greer.
The Spinning Jenny is
a relatively new venue
in downtown Greer. Its
a former skating rink
with hardwood floors,
pressed tin ceilings, and
great sound.
The room can handle
over 300 people, so its
a perfect spot to present great live music with
plenty of free parking.
Its just one block off of
Trade and Main streets.
Tickets
are
available now at http://albinoskunk.com/winterskunk-music-fest/
for
$25 in advance or $30
at the door to hear The
Grass Is Dead, Forlorn
Strangers, THE TRONGONE BAND, Tellico,
Taylor Martin and The
Brooks Dixon Band.
LINE DANCING
FOR SENIORS
The City of Greer is

holding Senior Line Dancing Classes at 10 a.m. on
the second and fourth
Wednesdays
of
each
month, including this
Thursday, Jan. 26, at the
Tryon Recreation Center,
located at 226 Oakland
Ave, Greer.
BONDS CAREER CENTER

HOSTS SOFT SKILLS WEEK
Beginning Jan. 30, the

students at Bonds Career
Center will be participating in a weeklong event focusing on the critical employability skills desired
by todays employers.
Students will rotate
through sessions on topics such as Workplace Ethics, Goal Setting and Time
Management, Interviewing
Skills and Financial Literacy.
The career center is currently seeking individuals
to help conduct mock interviews and networking
skills on Friday, Feb. 3,
from 9-11:15 a.m. and/or
12:50-3:20 p.m.
If interested, please
contact Anna Chappell at
achappel@greenville.k12.
sc.us.
ENROLLMENT
ENDS JAN. 31
Mary Black Health System Spartanburg is offering free assistance during Open Enrollment until
Jan. 31.
Appointments may be
made with the hospitals
certified assisters by calling 573-3194 or can be
booked online at www.
GetCoveredAmerica.org/
connector.
The Affordable Care Act
(ACA) was passed in 2010,
and this years Open Enrollment marks the fourth
annual campaign to extend healthcare coverage
to citizens who would otherwise be uninsured.
More than 13 million
people enrolled in Marketplace plans for 2016.
For more information,
visit MaryBlackHealthSystem.com.
WEDNESDAY, JANUARY 25, 2017
PRESTON BURCH | THE GREER CITIZEN
Food and fun

Tim Halm and his son, Tim, spend some quality time
together during Greers Food Truck Rollout Friday.
SOAR PARTY FOR

VALENTINES DAY
Seniors Out and Around

(SOAR) is holding its second annual Valentines
Day Party at 12 p.m. on
Friday, Feb. 10, in Hall C at
Greer City Hall.
A catered lunch will include baked spaghetti,
tossed salad, rolls, cake
and tea from Laurendas.
There will also be music,
dancing and other Valentines Day fun.
Mary Thompson, Line
Dancing Instructor, will be
joining to teach a Beginner
Line Dance lesson.
Cost is $6. An exact
headcount is needed for
the caterer.
RSVP and pay by Feb. 2
at any activity, by phone
or at the office located at
446 Pennsylvania Avenue,
Greer.
The office is open from
9 a.m. to 12 p.m. Monday
through Friday.
please contact Meredith

Anzur at 968-7001.
TACKLE HUNGER ON
SUNDAY, FEBRUARY 5
Join Greer Community

Ministries by collecting
non-perishable food items
and monetary donations
on Souper Bowl Sunday,
February 5, to donate to
GCM.
Encourage families to
join GCM for a Souper
Bowl of Caring Bowl-AThon, Friday, February 3
at Peach Bowl Lanes from
10 p.m. to midnight. This
night of Glow Bowl is free.
Each player helps us
Tackle Hunger by setting
a goal to collect monetary
pledges of support to
bring to the Bowl-A-Thon.
If everyone collected
$50, GCM could reach the
goal of $3,600.
For more details, contact Hannah Rainwater at
hrainwater@gcminc.org or
877-1937.
Thrive names new

executive director
Thrive Senior Living and
Thrive Assisted Living and
Memory at Greer recently
appointed a new executive
director.
Kegan Kelley joined the
leadership team on Jan.
17.
Kelley is a licensed Community Residential Care
Facility Administrator in
South Carolina and North
Carolina.
He received a bachelor
of science in business administration, with a concentration in health care
management from Winthrop University in Rock
Hill. Additionally, he is
enrolled in a dual masters
degree program at Pfeiffer University where he
Kegan Kelley
is studying business and

healthcare administration.
Kelley has many years
experience in long-term
healthcare administration.
GREATER GREER BRIDAL

SHOWCASE FEB. 18
The City of Greer is

hosting the Greater Greer
Bridal Showcase from 10
a.m. to 12 p.m. on Saturday, Feb. 18, at the City of
Greer Events Complex.
The brunch gathers together Upstate wedding
vendors to highlight their
talents, including dcor,
food, and entertainment
in a mock reception
style.
For details, wedding
vendors may submit information to the online form
at https://form.jotform.
com/62944568665169.
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SHAG DANCE PARTY

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scheduled for 6:30-7
p.m. on Saturday, Feb.
25, with open floor dancing from 7-10 p.m.
This dance party is for
shaggers of all levels.
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NEWS
THE GREER CITIZEN A3
Taylors Farmers
Market expands
The Taylors Farmers
Market, presented by FCI
Agency, will add three
festivals to its lineup in
2017.
Working with the Taylors Mill, Southern Bleachery, 13 Stripes Brewery,
and PRO Pitch Hit Run, the
Farmers Market will now
include the Taylors Mill
Spring Festival from 4-8
p.m. on May 4, the Summer Harvest Festival from
4-8 p.m. on August 31 and
the Taylows Mill Fall Festival from 2-7 p.m. on October 22.
We are extremely excited to continue the great
series of events that have
helped establist the Taylors Mill as one of the
regions top market and
festival spots, said Alex
Reynolds, President of
Taylors TownSquare and
one of the organizers of
the Taylors Farmers Market. With the continuation of the Farmers Market
and Fall Festival and addition of the Spring Festival
and Summer Harvest Festival, we think the Taylors

Mill is a unique and special place and are excited
to bring more people here
to see why.
The weekly outdoor
Farmers Market will run
from 4-8 p.m. May 11
through August 24 and feature food, farm and maker
product vendors, as well
as music and food trucks
just outside of Dock No.
3 at the Taylors Mill. On
festival days, there will be
additional indoor and outdoor vendor spaces available along with a range of
family and seasonal entertainment.
The vendor application
for these events is available now through the
Taylors Farmers Market
at http://taylorsfarmers.
market/vendors.
Additional
questions
may be directed to Michele
White, Team Leader of the
Taylors Farmers Market at
Michele@taylorsfarmers.
market.
Walk with officials

Greer is participating in the Healthy Community 50 project,
an initiative to promote healthy living. Last Saturday,
residents joined local officials on a mile-and-a-half walk.
CHURCH
NEWS
GOOD NEWS BAPTIST
HOSTS GUEST SPEAKER
Good
News
Baptist
Church, located at 1592
South Highway 14, Greer
will host guest speaker
Doug Quick on Sunday,
Jan. 29. The services will
be at 11 a.m. and 6 p.m.
KINGDOM HEIRS
COMING TO TIGERVILLE
FILE PHOTO | THE GREER CITIZEN
In the summer of 2015, construction began on a 100,000-square-foot addition to Byrnes

High School. That project will be complete on Feb. 20, district officials say.
Byrnes targeting Feb. 20

for new building opening
BY BILLY CANNADA
EDITOR
A new, 100,000-squarefoot addition to Byrnes
High School should be
operational on Feb. 20,
according to Spartanburg
School District Five officials.
Assistant
Superintendent Greg Wood told the
District Five school board
Monday that teachers and
students would soon be
moving into the more than
$25 million structure.
The District had hoped
the project would reach
completion by Jan. 17, but
progress was delayed after
inspections.
There were several different concerns, Wood
said. The plans were approved for this building in
the spring of 2015. When
you begin construction on
a facility, you have to meet
the codes from the time
they are approved. Here
we are, two years later,
and some of those codes
have changed on us. Were
trying to do what were
told to dowhat were
mandated to do.
Wood also said the fire
alarm system in the old
building was not up to
current standards.
Were also merging an
existing fire safety system with a new building,

he said. We felt like (the
old building) would not
be held to the current
standards, but when they
started coming for inspection, they really ripped us
in the older part of the
building. We had to go
back and retrofit some
of the old space, but that
takes
timeespecially
when youre in school with
students around.
The project addresses
safety concerns at Byrnes,
which currently requires
to exit the main building
to enter other parts of the
high school.
Safety is extremely important for us. I wake up
everyday with the responsibility and safety of 2,000
people, Byrnes Principal
Todd Hardy said. Every
measure we can take to
help avoid a tragedy or
an incidentIm in favor
of it. We now have the capability on our campus to
never have to be outside.
Thats going to secure our
campus.
Adding so much space
brings logistical problems,
however.
For a long time now,
theyve been going around
that gym to get anywhere,
Wood said. So, its going
to be a logistical challenge
for them to get everybody
acquainted.
Hardy said he is continuing to work with his faculty to address traffic flow
and supervision.
Weve been making
some adjustments and
well continue to work on
things like supervision,
Hardy said. Well work on
finding the best ways to
integrate the new portion
of the building with the
old portion.
After beginning construction in the summer
of 2015, Wood said the
district is excited to see
the end of this phase.
All of us are getting really anxious, Wood said.
You can feel the tension
as we get closer and closer.
Its amazing, from the
time I arrived in July to
where we are now, to see
the progress thats been
made on the building,
Hardy added. We did
a comprehensive walkthrough and the classrooms look beautiful. Tile
has been laid, floors are
being waxed and furniture
is being moved in.
billy@greercitizen.com | 877-2076
The Kingdom Heirs,

the Carolina Quartet and
other special guests will
be performing at North
Greenville
Universitys
Turner Chapel on Saturday, Feb. 25 at 6:30 p.m.
The concert, presented by
Locust Hill Baptist, is $10
for advanced tickets and
$15 at the door. For more
information or tickets, call
895-1771.
GOLDEN HEARTS PLAN

JANUARY EVENTS
A Souper Bowl supper

is on the calendar for the
seniors in the CLC at 6 p.m.
on Jan. 26. Soup/Stews
and cornbread are on the
menu for this meal.
TAYLORS TO HOST
COTTRELL IN CONCERT
Taylors First Baptist

will host A Night of Worship for Worship Leaders
with Travis Cottrell and
Friends on Monday, Feb. 6,
at 7 p.m.
This will be a free time
of worship and praise for
Worship Leaders including music directors, choir
members, and musicians,
and any others who would
like to attend.
The church hopes to
form a huge mass choir
for the occasion.
contact Diann Greer at
dianng@taylorsfbc.org or
678-8816 or Kevin Batson
at
kevinb@taylorsfbc.
org.
MOUNTAIN CREEK
TO HOLD FUNDRAISER
Mountain Creek Baptist

will host award-winning
comedian, musician and
evangelist Barry McGee
in a fundraising event on
Saturday, Feb. 18, at 6:30
p.m.
Tickets are $10 until Feb.
1 or $15 after. All money
raised goes to support the
church Nicaragua mission
team.
Building a better health care system
ight years ago, thenSpeaker of the House

Nancy Pelosi stated
that we would have to
pass the Affordable Care
Act, or Obamacare, in
order to figure out what
was in it. Thanks to that
irresponsible logic, the
American people were
forced into a healthcare
system that is unable to
keep the promises on
which it was sold.
We all remember
President Obamas mantra
that if you liked your
doctor you would keep
them, that premiums and
deductibles would go
down, that we would have
more insurance choices
and that Medicare would
be protected at all costs.
Fast forward to the end
of President Obamas two
terms and we find that
people have lost their
healthcare plans and
their doctors. Deductibles
and premiums have gone
up, while our insurance
choices have gone down.
Hundreds of millions of
dollars were taken from
Medicare in order to fund
Obamacare.
All these broken promises can only bring us to
OP-ED
SENATOR
TIM SCOTT
one conclusion: Obamacare has been a complete
and total disaster, and it
is time to repeal and replace the bill. If we do not
act on the opportunity
that we have been given,
it is predicted that Obamacare will cost American
tax payers more than $1
trillion over the course
of the next several years.
Thats a lot of money to
be throwing at a failing
healthcare system.
I have heard from folks
across South Carolina
about how the negative
effects of Obamacare
are harming their family. For example, Julie
from Irmo was diagnosed
with Multiple Sclerosis in
1986. She had maintained
health coverage for nearly
three decades before
her healthcare plan was
terminated in December
2013. Her previous plan
had been discontinued
because of the constraints

imposed by Obamacare.
When she found coverage,
she was denied expensive
medications until she
went through additional
tests. By December of
2014, Julias premiums
had increased by 25%.
This is a personal issue to me because it has
negatively impacted South
Carolinians like Julie and
families across the country. In the Palmetto State,
insurance companies
have fled the marketplace
exchange, and many of
our constituents are left
with only one option for
healthcare. At the same
time, insurance premiums
are predicted to rise an
average of 28% from 2016
to 2017 after double
digit average increases
the previous two years as
well.
It is important we make
sure there are safety nets
in place for those who are
unable to obtain coverage
or those who lose coverage, and basically everyone agrees that those with
pre-existing conditions
should not be denied
coverage. But instead of
the government-driven
system put in place by

Obamacare, we need to
make sure to do it in a
way that makes sense and
helps to build a patientcentric healthcare system.
Doctors and patients, not
bureaucrats in Washington, must be in charge.
The only way to start
this process is to repeal
and replace Obamacare.

President Trump has
promised to repeal
Obamacare, and the U.S.
House and Senate have
already taken the first
step towards repeal. Over
the coming months we
will continue working to
fully repeal and replace
Obamacare. This is our
best option to bring

about a cost-effective
and competitive health
care system that is better
equipped to cover individuals and their families.
I will continue working
every day to make sure
every American has access to affordable, quality
health care.
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OPINION
The Greer Citizen
If you cant laugh at yourself, your kids will
enerally, Im very happy to have

grown up in the generation into
which I was born. While the suburbs
were encroaching, there were still large
swaths of open, rural area in the North
Georgia community where I grew up. I
would also have to say that either we
neighborhood kids all had relatively
negligent parents, or they were truly academics who embraced Darwinian theory,
because we were pretty much left to
fend for ourselves as we played outside.
That play included jumping off
garage roofs, pulling wheelies on mini
bikes without helmets, riding double,
bareback on horses, no helmets (on
us, not the horse), and as we got older,
pretty much going wherever we wanted,
for as long as we wanted, covered by
the one-size-fits-all tale known as Im
spending the night at Cindys house.
Do you have any homework?
No. (yes)
Does her mother say its alright?
Yes. (no, because I wont be at
Cindys)
IM JUST
SAYING
PAM STONE
Alright, make sure youre home before noon, tomorrow.
You betcha.
No cell phones, no texting, no emails,
no google maps.no problem. It was
pretty much impossible to track down
your kid in those days, unless you lived
on a cul de sac and kept them tethered
to a rope, connected to a post in the
middle. We were free range kids and did
as we pleased and Ive often felt smugly
superior comparing my adolescence to
teens nowadays.
Then a friend showed me her daughters senior portraits.
Holy cow, it was like a modeling portfolio. This beautiful young girl (I have to
describe her that way, her mom reads
my column) was pictured in all sorts of

wondrous locations: standing in a meadow, leaning against an old, stone bridge,
sitting on hay bales.The lighting was
exquisite, her hair was gilded by the sun,
skin perfect, everything soft-focused.
And over five hundred bucks for the
package.
I think what makes me particularly
jealous is just how good looking all
these kids are in their portraits. Because anyone of my generation knows
we never had that opportunity to sit in
meadows or lean against a tree in the
forest, with a reflector training golden
light upon us.
Oh, no, child, Aunty Pam and the
dames from her generation all wore, at
least in my north Georgia high school,
this one-size-fits-nobody mouldering,
green velvet drape thing that obliged
each girl to pull down her bra straps as
it was designed to give the impression of
a strapless gown.
I remember it being ripe with b.o. and
was later deodorized with the same
stuff they spray into bowling shoes after

using.
Regardless, I remember itching for several days afterwards and trying in vain
to choose between six photos of myself
which were equally appalling as they all
looked exactly like me.
There was no soft box used to even
out skin tone or electric fans blowing to
lift our hair like a model, and we were all
seated in front of the same mottled, blue
background.
The whole package was about thirty
bucks, and even then, that seemed quite
a lot of money just to record your angstridden insecurity for immortality from
the late 70s.
At least there is solace in that it wasnt
the late 80s. Mouldering green velvet
drapes and feathery Farrah Fawcett hair
was one thing.
Giant, lacquered bangs and over
permed hair that resembled a graduating class of Cocker Spaniels was quite
another. Oh, well, if you cant laugh at
yourself, your kids certainly will.
FROM THE MAILBAG
KAELYNS
KORNER
Not us
KAELYN PFENNING
Staff reporter
hat better way to kick

off our new mailbag
than with the most
frequently asked question in
Greer Citizen history
Q: Why do yall keep throwing that paper in my yard?

A: We are convinced that
a small green bag has never
caused so much of a stir as
the one you frequently find in
your driveway.
Some of you like it.
Some of you are indifferent
to it.
And some of you HATE it.
Weve found these newspapers sitting by the front door
of our office.
Weve had people come in
and slam them down on our
counter.
Weve even had someone
pull up to the office, honk
the horn of their car until we
came out, and hand us the
little green bag.
All of these people had the
same message:
QUIT THROWING THIS
THING IN MY YARD!
But its not us, yall.
We promise, its not us.
Most of you reading this
will already know this fact,
but theres still so many in
Greer that dont.
Hopefully, you kind citizens
can spread the word: Were
not responsible for that little
green bag!
If it doesnt say The Greer
Citizen on it and it didnt
come in your mailbox, we
didnt send it to you.
That being said, if you want
us to throw a paper (or anything else) in your yard, wed
be happy to consider it.
Give us a call at 877-2076
and maybe we can work
something out.
For the right price, we
might could throw a paper in
anybodys yard you want.
Clemson, Coastal titles

show states potential
If you have a question

for the mailbag, email us at
billy@greercitizen.com.
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SEE LETTER | A5
For many South Carolinians including a lot

of die-hard Gamecock fans like me the early
morning hours of Jan. 10 wont soon be forgotten. Shortly after midnight and with just one
second left on the clock, Clemson quarterback
Deshaun Watson hit wide receiver Hunter Renfrow for a two-yard touchdown pass to give
the Tigers a lead in college footballs national
championship game.
Kicker Greg Huegels extra point attempt was
successful, and the Tigers upset reigning champion Alabama 35-31.
Clemsons resilience was on full display in the
white-knuckled, back-and-forth contest. At one
point in the second quarter, Alabama had a 14-0
lead. But each time they were backed into a corner, the Tigers clawed their way back. The end
result was the schools first football championship in 35 years.
South Carolina now boasts national titles in
two major college sports this season; last summer the Coastal Carolina Chanticleers defeated
the Arizona Wildcats to win the College World
Series championship, capping a nation-leading
55-victory season. Not only was it the schools
first national title in any sport, but Coastal
Carolina became the first team since 1956 to
win the championship in its first-ever College
World Series appearance. By contrast, Arizona
was one of college baseballs revered programs,
with four national championships and 16 previous series appearances.
Just as Clemson showed mettle even when
trailing Alabama, the Chanticleers were forced
to win six postseason elimination games in order to remain in contention. Its also noteworthy that both Clemson and Coastal Carolina
were lifted by gritty performances by players
who joined their teams as walk-ons Clemsons
Refrow and Coastal Carolina left-fielder Anthony Marks.
This is a proud moment for our state as our
student-athletes shine on the national stage.
Its uncommon for one state to hold national
titles in two major college sports, especially a
small state like ours. (The last time the reigning baseball and football champions came from
the same state was 2005, when the University of
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Clemsons resilience was on full

display in the white-knuckled,
back-and-forth contest. At one
point in the second quarter, Alabama had a 14-0 lead. But each
time they were backed into a
corner, the Tigers clawed their
way back. The end result was the
schools first football championship
in 35 years.
Texas dominated both sports.)
But what Clemson and Coastal Carolina accomplished is bigger than a championship.
Sports have a way of bringing together people who might otherwise feel they have little
in common. Thats especially so when a homestate team brings home the big trophy. For a
moment, folks from all walks of life young
and old, black and white, white-collar and working class have something common to cheer
about.
Such achievements have the power to inspire,
to captivate, to motivate. They remind us that
triumphing over long odds is possible through
hard work and determination.
South Carolina faces enormous challenges.
And in too many areas, we often fall short of
our potential. Perhaps we should take stock of
the example set by these student-athletes. They
offer a hopeful reminder of all were capable of,
and that great things are within our reach when
our will is strong.
This guest editorial was written and submitted by South Carolina Comptroller
Richard Eckstrom.
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n preparing for my marriage

in March, I am learning more
about men and women.
While both male and female are created in the image
of God, He has given us our
own unique roles in families,
churches and societies.
Men are designed to be leaders, but leadership does not
come naturally to them. They
must fight to become good
leaders. Men are also designed
to be protectors and providers.
Sin has distorted the original
design as some men steal instead of provide, abuse instead
of protect or capitulate instead
of lead.
Women are designed to be
helpers, but helping does not
come naturally. We must work
to put others before ourselves.
Women are also designed to be
nurturers and supporters.
Sin has also perverted our
roles with some women hurting instead of helping, bringing
down instead of building up or
demanding control instead of
submitting.
Within gender frameworks
are different personalities,
which help to determine how
the practical application looks
outwardly.
Yet, in the context of male
and female, God has assigned
specific tasks. These tasks are
given in light of the specific
strengths and weaknesses
designed into the framework of
men and women.
1 Timothy 5:10 outlines a
widow worthy of a churchs
support based on her character. That character is developed
over time by remaining the
faithful wife of one husband,
bringing up children, showing
hospitality, washing the feet
of the saints, caring for the afflicted and devoting herself to
every good work.
Each story is different, but
God has given clear direction
to both men and women.
Ephesians 5:22 says, Wives,
submit to your own husbands,
as to the Lord; Ephesians
5:25 says, Husbands, love
your wives, as Christ loved the
church and gave himself up for
her
1 Peter 3:1 says, Likewise,
wives, be subject to your own
husbands, so that even if some
do not obey the word, they
may be won without a word by
the conduct of their wives,;
1 Peter 3:7 says, Likewise, husbands, live with your wives in
an understanding way, showing honor to the woman as the
weaker vessel, since they are
heirs with you of the grace of
life, so that your prayers may
not be hindered.
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OBITUARIES
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COMMUNITY
Grady Allison
Veteran
Henry Grady Allison, Jr.,

89, of Rosewood Senior
Living in Fort Oglethorpe,
Ga., passed away Wednesday, January 18, 2017. He
was a member of Victor
Baptist Church in Greer.
Grady was a
WWII veteran
of the U.S.
Army Air Corps. He was
a graduate of Clemson
University with a BS in
Engineering and had been
employed with J.P. Stevens
Company. He was an avid
golfer, enjoyed crossword
puzzles, Clemson football
and volunteered preparing
taxes for seniors. He was
preceded in death by his
parents, Henry Grady Allison, Sr., and Minnie Belle
Frady Allison. Survivors
include his sister, Ann
(Ted) Hope of Rising Fawn,
Georgia; three nieces,
Laura (Kurt) Hertle, Susan
(Fred) Hixson and Leslie
Guthrie; one nephew, Ted
(Judy) Hope, Jr.; several
great-nieces and nephews.
The family would like to
thank the staff and caregivers at Rosewood Senior
Living as well as the staff
of Tapestry Hospice for
their loving care and concern. Graveside services
were held at 1:30 p.m.
Tuesday at Chattanooga
National Cemetery with
Joe Novenson officiating.
There was no visitation.
Arrangements are by the
East Chapel of Chattanooga Funeral Home 404
South Moore Road, East
Ridge, Tennessee. Please
share your thoughts and
memories at www.ChattanoogaEastChapel.com.
William Henry Groce, III

Veteran
William Henry Groce, III,

age 76, passed away Tuesday, January 17, 2017, at
the Pruitt Health Center in
Augusta, Georgia.
A native of
Greer, son of
the late William
Jr. and Alvis Groce, he was
a 1959 graduate of Greer
High School and went on

to serve in the U.S. Marine Corps. Mr. Groce later
graduated from Newberry
College and pursued a
career as a Professional
Chemical Engineer owning Groce Laboratories in
Greer. Later, he worked at
the Savannah River Sight
in Aiken. Mr. Groce was a
well-known environmentalist and was very active
in the Sierra and Nature
Conservancy
Organizations.
He is survived by his
only son, William H. Groce
IV, two grandchildren,
Emma and Evan Groce,
two brothers, Barry of
Greenville, and Bryan of
Fountain Inn, as well as
one sister, Barbara Prichard of Tennessee.
Memorial services will
be held at 1 p.m. on Saturday, February 4, 2017,
at the Church of The Good
Shepherd, 200 Cannon St.
in Greer, SC.
Tony M. Tipton, Jr.

Veteran
Tony Maxwell Tipton, Jr.

went to be with the Lord
on January 17, 2017.
A lifelong resident of Greer,
he was the son
of Tony M. Tipton, Sr., and Judy Galloway
Tipton of Greer. Tony was
a U.S. Navy Veteran and a
lifelong member of Greer
First Baptist Church. He
was an avid Greer High
School supporter where he
served as President of the
Greer Booster Club for the
last several years. Tony
leaves behind a legacy of
strength, dignity, and car-
ing for young people that

will live on through his
family and community.
Many students lives were
touched by his tireless efforts to encourage them
academically and athletically. He was a mentor and
friend to each one.
Also surviving are a son,
Jackson Tipton; a daughter, Maddie Tipton; a niece
and nephew, Ella and Max
Foltz; and a dear friend,
Patti Wilson.
Tony was predeceased
by his sister, Tara Tipton
Foltz, paternal grandparents, Jack and Grace Tipton, and maternal grandparents, Rev. Vernon and
Mary Lou Galloway.
A celebration of his life
was held Friday, Jan. 20,
2017, at 2 p.m. at Greer
First Baptist Church with
Dr. Wilson Nelson and Dr.
Charles Collins officiating.
Burial followed in Mountain View Cemetery.
Honorary escort was the
Greer High School coaching staff.
The family received
friends from 7-9 p.m.
Thursday, Jan. 19, 2017,
at The Wood Mortuary.
The family is at the home
of his parents, Tony and
Judy Tipton, 211 Johnson
Road, Greer, SC 29651.
In lieu of flowers, memorials may be made to Greer
High School Booster Club,
c/o Greer High School,
3000 E. Gap Creek Rd.,
Greer, SC 29651.
Online condolences may
be made at www.thewoodmortuary.com.
Obituaries can be emailed

to billy@greercitizen.com or
dropped off at 317 Trade St.
Deadline: noon Tuesday. Cost:
$60; with photo $75.
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up- in his honor. But the

thing that will be missed
the most is Tonys 100%
non-wavering support of
all things Yellow Jacket. If
we had a great season he
was proud. If a season fell
short he was hopeful. He
was never negative about
a player, coach, or a performance. He was Mr. Yellow Jacket.
He built relationships
with all of us. He wasnt
just a good worker...Tony
was a good friend. And
he would nurture those
friendships with phone
calls, handshakes, and
hugs. John 3:30 says He
must become greater, I
must become less. This
verse could be a life verse
for Tony Tipton, because
he always made you feel
like what was important
to you was more important than anything he had
going on. Even when his
health was in a declining
status he would ask what
can we do for you?
I remember in 2002
when the Greer Girls
Cross Country Team win
the AAA State Championship they were going to be
given a nice shirt and pizza party to celebrate. Oh
no, Rob Tony said. That
wont do. They deserve
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HISTORY: City of Greer awarded grant

FROM PAGE ONE
Goodbye Mr. Yellow Jacket

The Greer community
lost a good one early Tuesday morning when Tony
Tipton, Jr died at the tender age of 54. Tony was
a Christian man that had
professed his faith & trust
in Jesus Christ, so we know
where he is. One can only
imagine Tonys mansion
in heaven will certainly sit
on a black and gold street.
Many people know that
he was currently sitting
as the Greer High Booster
Club President, but most
will never know all he did
behind the scenes to help
make Greer High and its
student athletes the best
it could be.
From the Jacket Nest,
to painting the field, to
honoring different folks
on Friday nights, the giant
team posters, his keeping
up the Booster Club membership & social media,
running the concession
stand at basketball games,
helping ALL Greer coaches
(this golf coach included)
get their necessary funds
& equipment to competethe list just goes on & on.
All of that will be sorely
missed. And the things he
did will likely not all be
done by one person. Its going to take a chunk of the
Greer High family to step
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Jackson and Tony Tipton
THE GREER CITIZEN A5
better. Within minutes, a

reservation was made at
The Open Hearth and nice
sweatshirts were ordered
for a fitting celebration.
In looking at so many
photos of Tony at games,
and Tony with various
people including a terrific
one with Gee, I chose the
one with Jackson to post
with this message. Because
even with all the wonderful
support and friendships
hes blessed us with, he
loved nothing more than
his son Jackson & daughter Maddie. As much as
he loved Greer, a sparkle
- a twinkle - showed in his
eye and a distinct pitch
change in his voice came
when talking about Jackson & Maddie. He was a
great dad and always - always put them first.
Its hard to believe hes
gone, but lets all remember hes gone to a better
place. And if its possible
for him to help a ball sitting
on the rim to fall through
the net or a field goal fade
back just through the upright, Im sure Tony will
be lobbying to make that
happen. After all, hes Mr.
Yellow Jacket.
Rob Gravley
Greer
aerial photographs, previously recorded resources,

GIS mapping and local history books.
We hope to be able
to educate the citizens
about the history of their
city and about the types
of resources they have
throughout the city, said
Sheldon Owens, preservation specialist/historian
with Brockington and Associates.
Several
architectural
surveys have been done in
Greer in the past, and one
of them led to the designation of the downtown district, Owens said. Were
updating that survey.
Well be working in
concert with the city of
Greer and with the South
Carolina Department of
Archives and History to
make sure that everything
is covered that needs to be
covered and that we produce a good product that
will help in the future, he
said.
Information produced
by the survey will be used
by the city and SCDAH for
preservation
planning,
promotion of economic incentives for rehabilitation,
heritage tourism development, education and compliance with local, state
and federal preservation
laws.
Let me reassure you,
Pace said. Today is not
creating anything. This is
not creating special districts that you may have to
live under, whether they
be local or federal or state;

were not doing that.
If this is something the
citizens of Greer desire to
do, well provide you with
a wealth of information
of what you could do and
the benefits through tax
incentives that can be federal, state and local, Pace
continued.
Greer has been awarded
a Federal Historic Preservation Grant to expand its
historic properties survey.
This project is funded, in
part, by a grant from the
U.S. Department of the Interior, National Park Service, and administered by
the South Carolina Department of Archives and History (SCDAH).
We have good communications, with council,
with staff; we work together to benefit the citizens of Greer, Pace said.
Were not trying to do
something you dont want
to do. Were offering you
avenues to do things.
Three phases of the project include background
and archival research,
field survey and report
production and recommendations. In the field
survey phase, the historians are going to be taking
pictures, filling out survey
forms and creating a resource survey map.
We carry along with
us a dont shoot letter,
Owens said. We explain
what were doing, and my
experience is, more times
than not, people are really
interested in having their
houses recorded and be-
ing a part of the survey.

As a result of the survey, Brockington and Associates will make historic
property and district recommendations regarding
district signage and historic markers.
Its a way for the community to have an identity, Owens said.
Im here to support it
and also to learn, said
Linda Wood, chair of the
board of architectural review, who helped to start
this process.
Billy Payne, a local genealogist, married into
the local Bailey family
through his wife Jan, who
was raised in Greer. Her
great grandfather was William Clark Bailey, the first
mayor of Greer and the
first depot agent for the
railroad.
My wifes family goes
back hundreds of years
in Greer, Payne said,
Theres a cemetery here
on the corner of Brushy
Creek
and
Buncombe
Road.
Payne hopes something
can be done to preserve
the cemetery, which is
located off Buncombe, a
part of the old state road,
made in 1820, which combined existing roads into
a pathway used by drovers to herd animals to the
market.
Anyone with questions
about the historic resources survey project may contact Pace at 848-5396 or
gpace@cityofgreer.org.
SMITH: Returns home

SHOP:
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The new facility would

have been the third in
South Carolina, with other
facilities located on the
coast in Myrtle Beach and
North Charleston.
The Bass Pro brand, established in Missouri in the
70s, has since grown into
a large-scale retailer with
gear for several outdoor
for activities, including
hunting, fishing, hiking,
shooting, boating, backpacking and camping.
The company reached
a deal to acquire Cabelas
for more than $5 billion in
October.
Tripp and Colin. He is a

graduate of Anderson University where he earned a
B.S. in business management.
His road to nonprofit
work began when he was
laid off from Industrial
Distribution Group in
2013. That gave him time
to reflect on what he really
wanted to do with his life.
I wanted to help people,
but I didnt know how,
Smith said.
He heard about a parttime opportunity at Triune Mercy Center and
called his pastor, Brandi
Casto-Waters to talk about
it. A member of the Triune
board, she encouraged
him to interview for the
job. He started part-time,
but the job eventually became a full time role.
If it werent for Triune and the path that I
feel God has had me on, I
wouldnt have had this opportunity, Smith said.

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The Greer Citizen
CRIME
REPORT
(Note: All information
contained in the following
was taken directly from
the official incident reports
filed by the Greer Police
Department or the Spartanburg County Sheriffs
Office. All suspects are to
be considered innocent
until proven guilty in the
court of law.)
ROBBERY
Violent crime investigators with the Spartanburg

County Sheriffs Office
have arrested three suspects they say are responsible for two robberies,
which occurred Monday.
The three suspects are
Christopher Ocampo, of
Spartanburg, Jovan GarciaSanchez, of Spartanburg,
and Cesar Daniel MendezMartinez.
The first incident occurred Monday morning
at approx. 5:15 a.m. at the
Shell Food Mart, located
at 127B S. Blackstock Rd.,
Spartanburg.
According
to police, two white male
suspects entered the store,
one armed with a long gun,
and the other armed with
a pistol, and robbed the
clerk. Both suspects were
wearing masks and gloves.
The second incident occurred eight hours later
at approx. 1:15 p.m. at the
Family Dollar, 2515 Stone
Station Rd., Roebuck.
Both suspects entered
the store wearing masks,
and when an employee
spotted them, she told
them to take off the masks.
One did, but the other one
didnt, and then the employee spotted one of the
suspects carrying a long
gun, and she ran out of
the store, which foiled the
robbery attempt. That employee gave a description
of the suspects vehicle, a
grey or silver Ford Mustang, which was verified by
a witness who briefly followed the suspect vehicle
as it traveled away from
the incident location.
That information was
relayed to the responding
deputies, who spotted a
vehicle matching the description at the intersection of Hwy. 29 and E.
Blackstock Rd. Upon stopping the vehicle, one of
the guns used in the robberies and an amount of
cash were in plain view in
the vehicle.
The driver immediately
asked for an attorney and
was transported to the
detention facility, but the
two passengers agreed to
go to the office and speak
with investigators. Once
there, one of the suspects
confessed to all of their
involvement in both robberies.
All three suspects are
charged with armed robbery, attempted armed
robbery, and two counts
of possession of a weapon
during the commission of
Jovan Garcia-Sanchez
Cesar Mendez-Martinez
Christopher Ocampo
a violent crime.
The lead investigator
requested a formal bond
hearing on all three suspects, which will be held
at 1 p.m. this afternoon at
the magistrates office at
the detention facility.
by his side.
The knife was taken
into evidence along with
the contents from Smiths
pockets due to items possibly being linked to the
vehicles at Cooks Transmission.
I then returned to Cooks
Transmission where I was
able to view the video footage of the incident. On the
video, the witness can be
seen walking towards the
back of the lot. The victim stops near a Cadillac
on the lot which had the
window broken out. The
vitcim then begins to walk
back towards the front of
the lot, now knowing that
someone has broken into
some of the vehicles.
Before the victim gets
back to the front of the
lot, the video shows Smith
in the green jumpsuit
crawling on his hands and
knees between two vehicles trying to hide. When
the victim spots Smith,
Smith then stands up, still
between the two cars with
his back to the fence. At
this point, the victim and
Smith are standing in between two parked cars,
with the victim standing
in between Smith and the
gate. Smith then points
a very large knife at the
center chest area of the
victim and begins to move
towards him. The victim
then begins to walk backwards as Smith continues
to close the short distance
between he and the victim.
Smith was placed under
arrest for the car breakings and transported to
the detention center.
a set of cards multiple

times despite saying she
did not have her license
with her.
When EMS was called to
the scene, Pleckaitis advised that she had taken
Tramadol. During the examination, a customer exited the Spinx with a debit
card left in the store by
the subject that was found
to belong to her mother.
After being cleared by
EMS, Pleckaitis was placed
under arrest for public intoxication and transported
to the City of Greer jail.
A search of her purse revealed a white toiletry bag
containing a scale, a burnt
spoon and four orangecapped syringes. Six pills
were found free floating in
the bottom of the purse,
two identified as prescription-only drugs. Inside a
metal canister were 10
and a half schedule II pills.
Eleven other prescriptiononly pills, another single
schedule II pill and four
other unmarked pills were
found in a makeup bag.
In addition, two schedule III pills and two schedule IV pills were found on
her person.
All of the drugs will be
sent for testing to confirm
and identify.
Multiple warrants are
pending for Possession of
a Schedule II, Possession
of a Schedule III, Possession of a Schedule IV, and
Possession of a Prescription without a Prescription. Additional charges
may be issued after results
are returned from the unidentified pills.
PUBLIC DRUNK
POSSESSION
MULTIPLE CHARGES
On Monday, Spartanburg
County Deputies were dispatched to a break in-in
progress at Cooks Transmission located at 255 Alice Street in Spartanburg
County. The complainant
said he caught someone
breaking into cars and
that the suspect pulled a
knife on him.
Prior to police arrival,
dispatch advised that the
suspect was a black male,
wearing a green jumpsuit
and had fled the scene on
foot towards Heron Circle.
Dispatch advised that the
suspect was armed with a
large knife.
As units arrived and
set up a perimeter, the
officer continued down
Alice Street to Asheville
Highway and turned left
towards Heron Circle. A
deputy informed dispatch
and responding units that
he located the suspect
walking in front of the
Waffle House located at
1795 Asheville Highway.
The deputy informed units
that the suspect still had
a large knife in his back
pocket.
The suspect, Johnny
Smith, was then detained,
hand cuffed, and patted down for weapons,
at which point a large
knife was found in his
back pocket. Numerous
other small items including another pocketknife
were also found in Smiths
pockets.
Once Smith was read his
rights, Smith stated that
he would speak with Davis
and answer some questions. Smith stated that
he found the nearby green
jumpsuit that he was behind another business,
which appeared to have
been thrown away. Smith
was asked how he got into
the fenced in lot behind
Cooks Transmission service to which Smith stated
that he jumped the fence.
Smith denied breaking
in to any cars and stated
that he was in fact on the
property but only looking
through dumpsters for
scrap metal.
When asked if he presented the knife in any
way, Smith stated that he
only had the knife down
Allison Pleckaitis, of 205

Sugar Creek Lane, Greer,
has been charged with
public drunkenness and
possession of drug paraphernalia.
On Jan. 15, City of Greer
police officers were called
to Spinx, 100 W. Wade
Hampton Blvd., Greer, in
reference to an intoxicated female. According to
a clerk, the subject, later
identified as Pleckaitis,
had been acting strangely
inside the store. She had
also passed out.
The officer arrived on
scene to find Pleckaitis
being helped through the
parking lot by a male companion to a van. When the
officer made contact, the
subject could barely hold
her head up and could not
carry on a conversation.
When asked for identification, she searched through
Two people were arrested for drug offenses

following a traffic stop in
the City of Greer.
Kimberly Dawn Ledford, of 102 Butler Road,
Lyman, has been charged
with drug possession and
unlawful carrying of a
pistol. Aubrey Owens, of
127 Franklin Ave., Spartanburg, has been charged
with Possession with Intent to Distribute.
officers conducted a traffic stop of a Ford Taurus
driving at night with no
headlights on E. Wade
Hampton Blvd.
When the officer asked
the driver for his license,
insurance and registration, he admitted to driving without a license and
state that a rear seat passenger, later identified as
Ledford, was the owner of
SHAW: Returns to Rebels after stint at AC Flora

FROM PAGE ONE
the Columbia team to the

playoffs each year. Shaw
won Region IV-AAA Coach
of the Year in 2014.
Were going to
push our players
harder than theyve
ever been pushed,
and were going
to outwork our
opponents.
Reggie Shaw
New Byrnes football coach

Prior to A.C. Flora, Shaw
led the football program
at Ben Lippen School for
five seasons, earning the
special
distinction
of
the winningest coach in
school history.
He began his high school
coaching career at Fairfield
Central High School in
Winnsboro in 1996 as defensive line coach, moving
to defensive coordinator
and assistant head coach
from 2003-2006.
While at Fairfield Central, Shaw was part of

coaching two state championship teams.
Im a players coach,
Shaw said. Ive been in
this business 20 years
because of great relationships with players. Thats
what keeps me going and
motivates me everyday.
Were going to push
our players harder than
theyve ever been pushed,
and were going to outwork
our
opponents.
Theres no secret recipe to
success. Its a daily grind
and a daily routine.
Shaw said he wants his
team at Byrnes to be aggressive on both sides of
the ball.
Well play an aggressive, physical brand of
football,
Shaw
said.
Were going to attack on
all phases and were going
to have fun doing it.
The head coach will
soon be hiring a staff after
evaluations are complete.
I want guys who will
sharpen each other, so
were going to have a variety of guys and were
going to put together an
excellent staff, he said.
Theres a lot of great
coaches here already. I
dont believe in making

any quick judgments. I
believe in taking my time
the vehicle.
The officer spoke with
Ledford, who admitted to
owning the vehicle, but
stated she did not have
the registration with her.
After stating that she did
not have any weapons or
drugs in the vehicle, she
was asked to exit.
When the officer asked
the subject to set her purse
aside while he spoke with
her, she initially refused.
She was advised that the
purse would have to be
checked for weapons if
she did not want to set it
aside. Ledford then admitted, There is a twenty two
in there.
At that time, the front
seat passenger, Aubrey
Owens, was asked to exit
the vehicle as well.
A search of the purse
produced a fully loaded
Taurus .22 caliber handgun with a round in the
chamber. When Ledford
stated that she did not
have a concealed weapons
permit, she was placed under arrest.
A search of the subject
prior to being placed in
the patrol car uncovered
a glass pipe with residue.
Additional search of the
purse yielded a red, unlabeled prescription bottle
containing two clear baggies with pills that were
later identified as Acetaminophen and Codeine,
Oxycodone, Clonazepam
and Cyclobenzaprine.
An inventory of the car
found a clear baggie with
a clear rock substance that
field tested positive for
methamphetamine and a
pipe in the shape of a skull
in the seat pocket in front
of where Ledford had been
sitting.
On the front passenger
floorboard where Owens
was seated, officers found
a magnetic key holder that
held a clear plastic bag
with a clear rock substance
that field tested positive
for methamphetamine.
Owens admitted that it
was his and stated that
he had a glass pipe in his
shirt pocket. The methamphetamine had a weight of
2.3 grams.
Owens was placed under
arrest for Possession with
Intent to Distribute and
Possession of Drug Paraphernalia.
Both Ledford and Owens
were transported to Greer
City Jail. Six warrants were
issued for Ledford including Possession of a Schedule IV Substance, Possession of Methamphetamine,
Unlawful Carrying of a
Pistol and Unlawful Pos-
session of a Prescription
Drug. A warrant for Possession with Intent to
Distribute was issued for
Owens.
The driver was released
on the scene with a citation for Driving Under
Suspension, 2nd offense
and Driving without Headlights.
RESISTING
Caleb Matthew Roushar,

of 414 Audubon Cr, North
Augusta, has been charged
with disorderly conduct,
interfering with a police
officer and resisting arrest.
officers were called to
401 Elizabeth Sarah Blvd.,
Greer, in reference to a
verbal altercation.
Upon arrival, the officer
observed the male subject
yelling at the apartment
office manager through a
closed door. When asked
about the incident, the
victim/complainant stated
that Roushar was not on a
lease there, but had been
living with her girlfriend
in apartment rented by her
father. A recent check of
the apartment in response
to complaints found the
space filthy and an electrical issue with the microwave. Roushar had been
informed that he would
have to repair the microwave and remove the garbage.
The manager said that
Roushar ignored multiple
requests to leave the property. While continuing to
yell despite being asked by
the officer to stop, he was
then ordered to leave the
property by the police.
When he repeatedly refused to comply, he was
instructed that his refusal
would result in his arrest,
he stated he would not
leave. While the officer
was attempting to place
Roushar in handcuffs,
he jerked away. He then
proceeded to fight with
the two officers on scene
while yelling, You cant
arrest me!
After all ended up on
the floor, the officers were
able to get control of the
Roushar and place him in
handcuffs. He continued
to fight the city officers
and an assisting Greenville County deputy while
he was being escorted to
the patrol car.
Roushar was transported
to Greer City Jail where he
was held pending arraignment on charges of Disorderly Conduct, Interfering
with Police and Resisting
Arrest.
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Wilson out as
Eastside coach
BY BILLY CANNADA
SPORTS EDITOR
After two five-win seasons and a recent trip to
the state playoffs, Eastside
and head football coach
Steve Wilson are parting
ways.
Wilson retired suddenly
last week after a recent
meeting with school officials, and Andre Woolcock
has assumed interim head
coaching duties.
Wilson, who is currently
out on medical leave, offered no comment on the
circumstances of his departure.
I really cant offer a
comment on it, he said. I
havent been at the school,
so Im not enlightened on
what is going on or what
isnt going on.
Wilson said he is proud
of the work he and his
staff have accomplished
over the past two seasons,
noting Eastsides lack
of success over the last
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I really cant offer a

comment on it.
Steve Wilson
decade.
Its been a great two
years, Wilson said. The
program had not won very
many games, but its one
of the most respectable
programs in South Carolina now, and Im very proud
of that fact. Its taken a lot
of hard work and time to
get to that point.
The community support
has just quadrupled over
there, he said. People are
coming back to the games
and theyre excited about
Eastside football. Its just
fun to see the community
really get behind the boys.
It was fun to see how far
those boys have come.
The Eastside athletic
department could not be
reached for comment.
The Yellow Jackets are currently second in the region (behind Eastside) after wins over
Travelers Rest and Union County.
Greer picks up two

more region victories
BY BILLY CANNADA
SPORTS EDITOR
Steve Wilson
FILE PHOTO | THE GREER CITIZEN
Ambrose named
Runner of Year
Riversides Cate Ambrose has been named the
2016-17 Gatorade South
Carolina Girls Cross Country Runner of the Year.
Ambrose is the first recipient of the award to be
chosen from Riverside.
Now a finalist for the
prestigious Gatorade National Girls Cross Country
Runner of the Year award
to be announced in January/February,
Ambrose
joins an elite alumni association of past state
award-winners
in
12
sports, including Lukas
Verzbicas (2010-11, 200910 Carl Sandburg, Orland
Park, Ill.), Megan Goethals
(2009-10, Rochester, Rochester Hills, Mich.), Jordan
Hasay (2008-09, Mission
College Prep., San Luis
Obispo, Calif.) and Chris
Derrick (2007-08, Neuqua
Valley, Naperville, Ill.).
The senior raced to the
Class AAAAA individual
Cate Ambrose
state championship this
past season with a time
of 18:35, leading the Warriors to a fourth-straight
state title as a team. Ambrose also won the Upper
State Qualifier and the
Greenville County championships, while placing
21st at the Nike Cross Nationals Southeast Regional
championships.
SEE AMBROSE | B2
Greer picked up region

wins over Travelers Rest
and Union County last
week, taking sole possession of second place in the
conference.
The Yellow Jackets are
currently 2-1 in region
play, having only lost to
Eastside.
Greer opened the week
with a non-region matchup at Greenville, a team
that has spent time in the
Class AAAA top ten rankings this season.
We definitely spotted
them a good many points
in the first quarter and
had to play catch-up from
there, boys basketball
coach Greg Miller said.
We clawed our way back
and put ourselves in a position to be able to win the
game, but we couldnt really execute and get that
final little push.
Despite a late run, the
Jackets fell 64-57. Cam
Woodruff led the team
with 18 points.
We had to put that one
aside and grow from it
quickly because we had
back-to-back
important
region games, Miller said.
Greer worked its way
into another hole against
Travelers Rest, but managed to put together a late
run, outscoring the Devildogs 32-18 in the fourth
quarter for a 72-60 win.
It was a great fourth
quarter, Miller said. We

were sharing the ball, finding the open man and getting the stops we needed
to get out in transition.
It was just a really great
sign.
The
Yellow
Jackets
When you get to

this time of the
year, youre starting
to see some of the
benefits of all the
work youve put in.
Greg Miller
Greer High boys basketball coach

capped the week with a
62-48 road win at Union.
I dont think a lot of
people realize how tough
that can be on a team,
Miller said. Youre looking at four games in eight
days, ending with traveling
over an hour to a game.
The guys did a great job of
taking care of the lead and
never relinquishing it.
Miller said the back-toback region wins will go a
long way for his team that
has faced a brutal nonconference schedule.
Any region win is very
important, but when youre
able to get two back-toback, it helps with momentum, he said. We realize
that everything weve been
through this year has put

us in a position to make
this final stretch. When it
gets to this time of year, all
that matters is the game in
front of you.
The head coach noted
the development of his
players in the teams success.
Magic (Moody) and Sam
(Gravley) have been steady
all year, but know youre
seeing Cam Woodruff find
his shot. Delmar Moore
has really been growing
into being a big-time minute guy for us. Chris Davis
has been doing a great job
on the glass, and the same
thing can be said for Ryan
Pearson. Kyle Moore and
Don Eubanks had a great
stretch during those backto-back games, Miller
said. When you get to this
time of the year, youre
starting to see some of the
benefits of all the work
youve put in. Now we just
have to take advantage of
it.
Greer took on Blue Ridge
Tuesday (results not available at press time), and
Miller said the Tigers have
improved.
Theyre very good at
figuring out how to get a
loose ball or rebound and
thats scary, Miller said.
When you have a team
that can put the ball in
the hole like they can, and
also get second, third and
fourth opportunities, it
keeps them in a lot of ball
games.
Blue Ridge remains winless in conference

Tigers will
take on
Chapman
BY BILLY CANNADA
SPORTS EDITOR
The Blue Ridge boys
basketball team dropped
to 0-3 in the region last
week after losses to Union
County and Eastside.
The Tigers are now 6-11
overall with six games remaining on the schedule.
Blue Ridge opened the
week with a 66-61 loss to
Union.
The Tigers trailed by five
headlining into the second
quarter, but outscored the
Yellow Jackets 17-15 just
before the half to head
into intermission down
31-28.
Blue Ridge took the lead
in the third after an 18-12
run, but could not hold on
Having dropped games to Eastside, TR and Union, Blue Ridge will be playing catch-up
throughout the rest of region action.
for the win in the fourth.
Brothers Jason and Stephen Sammons led the eff-
fort with 16 points apiece

on the night. Shawn Stokes
also got into the double-
digit scoring column with

12 of his own.
In the second game of
the week, the Tigers rallied from a slow start, but

could not complete the
comeback against Eastside, falling 1-51.
Blue Ridge gave up 25
first quarter points, and
trailed by 13 at the break.
After outscoring Eastside
by six in the third, the Tigers dropped their third
region game of the season
on the road.
Sonny Stevens and Jason
Sammons were the teams
top performers, scoring
17 points respectively.
The Tigers will take
on non-region opponent
Chapman at the end of the
week before jumping back
into conference action
against Travelers Rest and
Union.
Blue Ridge traveled to
Greer Tuesday night but
results were not available
at press time.
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Bad idea
t took until mile 12 on

the day of the race, but
I finally realized that
running a half marathon
was a bad idea.
My buddy Drew and I
had been on a pretty consistent running schedule
(at least it started that
way) to prepare for the
long race. We were running about 15-20 miles
each week until the holidays hit. Thats when our
training plan took a dive.
The last five or six
weeks were not pretty. We
ran two or three times,
and none of those runs
went particularly well.
I dont know why, but
I set some pretty lofty
goals for my first half
marathon. I wanted to run
nine minute miles and
get done somewhere in
the neighborhood of two
hours.
But my body had other
plans.
Even as the gun went
off and the race began, I
felt confident.
Just keep your legs
moving, I told myself.
Dont stop for anything.
Try not to think about
how much this sucks.
Concentrate on something
else.
All the advise I was
whispering quickly went
out the window when I realized the first three miles
of this half marathon
were going to be straight
up and down steep hills.
It was rather cold that
morning, but my face was
red and I was working up
quite the sweat just a few
minutes in. I told myself
I wasnt going to look at
my watch until I hit each
milemarker, but after taking on the first grueling
hill, I had to glance.
Ok, mile one should
be close to being over, I
thought, taking a peak at
my watch.
Three minutes had
elapsed. Three minutes.
Only then did I begin to
feel the weight of what I
had done to myself.
Still, I was moving at a
great pace. Because of my
adrenaline, Id knocked
out the first three miles
in like 25 minutes. As I
reached the top of the hill
on mile three, I looked to
my right where a man in
his 70s wasnt even breaking a sweat.
This is terrible, I said,
gasping for breath.
Yeah. Its tough, he
muttered back in a clear,
calm voice.
I didnt believe him. He
was just trying to make
me feel better.
The race eventually
evened out and I found
my stride. I was able to
zone out and the mile
markers kept moving
by. Mile 5...Mile 6Mile
7.Mile 8
I felt really good. I felt
like I might even beat
the time goal Id set for
myself.
Then it all came crashing down. On mile nine
I hit a complete wall. I
didnt stop running, but
my pace slowed tremendously. I was feeling
lightheaded, My legs were
done and I wanted my
mommy.
If that isnt bad enough,
the Dixie Chicks started
playing on my music
shuffle. I dont know
if youve ever been on
mile 10 of a 13-mile race
listening to Wide Open
Spaces, but its not a
good place to be.
Thats when I decided
to let everyone know how
bad I felt.
I began telling every
single person I saw This
was a bad idea, whether
they wanted to hear it or
not.
They didnt seem to
care, nor fully realize my
pain.
I did finish, but just
barley.
I didnt reach my time
goal and Im not sure Ill
ever run again. But I finished. So theres that.
SPORTS
B2 THE GREER CITIZEN
A SPORTING VIEW
Silencio!
Brown
BY MARK VASTO
FOR THE GREER CITIZEN
ruly, I dont believe

that so-called bulletin
board material matters much anymore.
To wit, lets take the
recent nonsense between
the Pittsburgh Steelers
and the New England
Patriots.
Pittsburgh head coach
Mike Tomlin was recorded by his best player,
Antonio Brown, calling
the Patriots a name that
refers to a human orifice.
And we all know what
orifice that is because we
never refer to any orifice
as an orifice except for
this particular orifice.
Now, the question is,
does anybody outside of
the Steelers organization
care?
Is this going to make a
difference in their upcoming game?
Will we see Erin Andrews or Suzy Kolber
shoving a microphone in
Tom Bradys face after a
blowout win, asking how
those comments factored
into the days results?
Can you imagine?
Well, Erin/Suzy, Brady
might start, we were
planning on coming out
flat ... no pun, of course.
Brady, who over the
years has developed into
a very well-spoken league
player, would be able to
handle this with aplomb.
We can imagine the further discourse.
Weve only won our
division for pretty much
the entire century so far
... have won a fair amount
in the postseason, quite
a few Super Bowls, too ...
have a genius for a coach.
Im married to one of
the hottest women in the
world, have a beautiful
kid and live in a house
that has its own ZIP code
... but youre absolutely
right. It wasnt until Antonio Brown posted a video
on Facebook when we all
decided as a team that,
hey, no ... we gotta take
this game seriously!
In the you cant make
this up department, Bill
Belichicks real-life remarks about the incident
were even better than
anything myself or fictional Suzy Kolber could
ever conjure.
As you know, Im
not on snapface and all
that, so I dont really get
those, Belichick said.
Not worried too much
about what they put on
Instachat.
Perhaps the best take
in all of this was Mike
Tomlins reaction.
Tomlin is a true American treasure. Hes a biology major from William
& Mary who never played
a down of professional
football but holds the
record for youngest coach
to ever win a Super Bowl.
Hes an incredible judge
of talent and will be a part
of this league for a very
long time.
The man deserved
better than being outed
by Antonio Brown. Sure,
Browns a superstar, but
he clearly isnt in any danger of becoming a rocket
scientist anytime soon.
As Tomlin was quick
to point out, players who
act that way, who feel
bigger than the team,
have a habit of becoming
journeymen, a history of
being quick has-beens.
He keeps it up and we
may only be a season or
two away from seeing
him lifting weights in his
driveway, begging for a
contract, wishing he was
in a locker room ... never
mind being posted on the
bulletin board.
In the final analysis, its
even easier to understand.
Nothing Brown said made
the Patriots better -- it
made him and the Steelers worse.
Never rat out your
friends (or teammates or
coaches) and always keep
your mouth shut.
Nobody needs a bulletin
board to be reminded of
something like that.
Crusaders fall to Southern Wesleyan

North Greenville mens
basketball was on the
wrong side of a heartbreaker on Saturday as
the Southern Wesleyan
Warriors knocked down
a buzzer beating threepointer to escape with a
63-60 win over the Crusaders.
Miguel Cartagena led
North Greenville scorers with 23-points and
was the only Crusader in
double-figures. Roderick
Howell finished the night
with eight points and a
team high eight rebounds
while Jai Jenks added
nine-points.
The Crusaders struggled
from the floor in the first
half shooting just 28.6
percent compared to 25.9
percent performance from
the Warriors. NGU made
up the different at the
three-point line, hitting
four of nine triples in the
frame while the Warriors
scored just twice from
deep. North Greenville
jumped out to an 8-0 lead
in the opening minutes but
had to rally at the end of
the opening 20-minutes to
take a 30-24 lead into halftime. The six-point edge
was the biggest lead of the
day for the Crusaders.
The second half was
even more competitive as
the teams traded the lead
11-times. The offenses
for both teams improved
slightly as North Greenville
improved 10-percentage
points. The second half
saw 11-lead changes and
several more ties as neither team would give any
ground while also struggling to gain any ground.
North Greenville trailed
by five points with less
than three minutes left
but once again used a late
rally to pull even with the
Warriors. Miguel Carta-
SPORTS
ROUNDUP
EHSS WATSON NAMED
COACH OF THE YEAR
Eastside Highs Head

Swimming Coach, Tiffany
Watson, has been selected
as the 2016 South Sectional Coach of the Year for
Girls Swimming & Diving
and the 2016 SC Coach of
the Year for Girls Swimming by the NFHS Coaches
Assocation.
Abagail Smith
Antoine Kahaleh
SMITH, KAHALEH
ARE HEISMAN WINNERS
Abagail Smith and Antoine Kahaleh were named

Riverside High Schools
Wendys Heisman Award
winners. To be eligible for
this award, students must
be proven leaders and role
models within the school
and community.
They
also must maintain a GPA
of 3.0 or better and participate in a sport recognized
by the National Federation
of State High School Associations. Smith advanced
to become a State Finalist.
LIMESTONES RICHARDSON
NAMED POW
Limestone College senior

guard Jasmine Richardson
(Talladega, Ala.) has been
named the Conference
Carolinas Womens Basketball Player of the Week.
Richardson posted her
two best scoring perfor-
CRUSADER
CORNER
gena would get things going with a three ball that
cut the SWU lead to 58-56.
Cartagena would then give
NGU the lead on the teams
next possession with his
second three pointer in
the final two minutes to
make the score 59-58.
The Warriors retook the
lead with a layup on their
next possession, putting
North Greenville in a one
point, 60-59 hole with 25seconds left. Cartagena
would knock down the
back end of a free throw
trip to even the score a
few seconds later. North
Greenville seemed to carry
the momentum in the final seconds, but the Warriors, who had hit just five
three-pointers during the
game, used its sixth to
down North Greenville as
the buzzer sounded.
The loss to SWU dropped
North Greenville to 6-11
overall and 1-9 in league
play.
MENS VOLLEYBALL
FALLS TO BARTON
North
Greenville
dropped its Conference
Carolinas opener to Barton
College on Friday evening,
falling 3-1 (25-22, 21-25,
16-25, 16-25) in a home
opener riddled by errors
from both teams.
Friday nights game was
less than ideal for each
team as the two squads
combined for more than
30 service errors. NGU
North Greenville finished
with12 on the night while
Barton accounted for the
other 18. The Crusaders
mances of the year to

guide the Saints to a trio
of lopsided wins over
Lees-McRae, Barton and
Converse this past week.
She was an impressive 20of-28 (71 percent) from
the field, including a 7-for12 (58%) clip from behind
the arc, and a perfect 10for-10 from the line.
She averaged 19 points
and four rebounds over
the three-game span last
week, and registered a
pair of 20-point efforts
to lead the Blue and Gold
to its two best offensive
performances of the season. The junior guard also
combined for record 12
total rebounds, six assists
and three steals.
Richardson scored nine
points in Tuesdays road
win at Lees-McRae, but
followed up with a season-high 22 points on 8of-9 shooting in a 92-63
road decision at Barton on
Thursday. She would then
establish another seasonbest with 26 points in
Limestones 95-64 win
over Converse this past
Saturday.
The Alabama native
raised her scoring average by 2.5 points over the
last two games and now
averages 9.7 points per
game for the season. She
has a total of three 20point games to her credit
in 2016-17, and her 26
points against Converse is
the second highest singlegame scoring tally for the
Saints this season.
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The mens volleyball team dropped a recent match to

Barton College.
used 12 errors in the first
set, six each from the service line as well as at the
net to take an early 1-0
lead. Kyle Brandt put the
finishing touches on the
opening set win with a kill,
taking advantage of a Bulldog error on the previous
point.
Barton would take the
second and third sets despite its continuing struggles from the service line.
The Bulldogs added three
miscues in the second and
five more in the third. BC
cruised to a 2-1 lead in the
set count despite the serving troubles, using 35-kills
and a .301 hitting percentage. North Greenville
evened the score at 18 in
the second but a late surge
from the Bulldogs put
NGU away after cutting
the score to 23-21. Barton
used 10 more kills in the
third to down the Crusaders in their spottiest
performance of the night,
committing nine errors in
the frame.
Barton
proved
too
strong for the Crusaders
in the end as the Bulldogs

overcame three fourth
set errors to take the final frame. The Crusaders
knocked down seven kills
in the frame but eight attack errors proved to be
troublesome. NGU kept it
close for the first half but
the Bulldogs, who entered
the weekend ranked #5
in the Off The Block polls
finished off North Greenville to improve to 2-0 in
league play while North
Greenville fell 0-5 overall
and 0-1 in league play.
Matthew
McManaway
turned in a solid performance in his first league
action of the year with 12kills with a game high .429
hitting percentage among
players with at least 10-attempts. Alexander Schinzing had 37-assists while
Dustin King led north
Greenville with 10-digs.
TRACK AND FIELD
North Greenville track

and field athletes turned
in a solid performance for
the second week in a row,
finishing the Liberty Kick-
off indoor track event, setting several personal and

school records.
JJ Sherman and Kyle Joiner accounted for a pair of
personal and school bests
on Saturday. Sherman set
a personal record in the
200-meter with a time of
22.81. He followed up the
200-meter
performance
with a personal and school
record in the 60-meter
dash, crossing the finish
line in 6.77-seconds, earning him a second place finish. Joiner also tacked on a
school record in the mens
pole vault as he cleared
4.25-meters.
Austin Nobles continued his solid career as a
Crusader as he turned in
a personal record in the
mens 3k. Nobles wrapped
up the personal bests for
the mens team with a
time of 9:57.
For the women, Sarah
Scism, Leah Austin, and
Tori Davies turned in a
trio of solid performances. Scism set a new personal best on Saturday in
the womens 200-meter
as she crossed the finish
line in 29.72. Leah Austin
finished her race in 1:02
for a new personal record
while Tori Davies wrapped
up the weekend of PRs
for the Crusaders with an
11:58 in the womens 3k.
NOTABLE PERFORMANCES:
-James Page won both of

his heats in the mens mile
run and 3k with times of
4:45.31 and 9:35.39.
-Jordan Ferguson had a
breakout performance on
Saturday as he finished
with times of 4:31.02 in
the mile run and 9:20.92
in the 3k.
-Amanda Ward won
her heat in the womens
mile run with a time of
5:46.54.
AMBROSE: Named runner of the year

scholarship at the College
of Charleston this fall.
The Gatorade Player of
the Year program annually
recognizes one winner in
the District of Columbia
and each of the 50 states
that sanction high school
football,
girls
volleyball, boys and girls cross
country, boys and girls
basketball, boys and girls
soccer, baseball, softball,
and boys and girls track &
field, and awards one National Player of the Year in
each sport. The selection
process is administered by
the Gatorade Player of the
Year Selection Committee, which work with top
sport-specific experts and
a media advisory board
of accomplished, veteran
prep sports journalists to
FROM B1
The president of her

graduating class, Ambrose
has volunteered locally on
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Center.
Cate is the kind of
athlete that every coach
wants to coach, said Riverside coach Eric Cummings. She wants to win
every time on the course,
and she pushes her body
and mind to achieve that
goal. Shes a fierce competitor, but a very caring
teammate.
Ambrose has maintained a 3.55 GPA in the
classroom and has signed
a National Letter of Intent
to compete in cross country and track and field on
determine the state winners in each sport.

As a Gatorade Player of
the Year, Ambrose will be
able to select a national or
local youth sports organization to receive a grant as
part of the Gatorade Play
It Forward program. Every Gatorade Player of the
Year state winner receives
a $1,000 grant to donate
and will have the opportunity to enter for an additional $10,000 spotlight
grant by writing a brief
essay explaining why their
selected organization deserves additional support.
Twelve spotlight grants
one for each sport will
be announced throughout
the year.
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Pastors Name:
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Favorite Bible Verse:

Jeremiah 31:33
This is the covenant I will make with the
Church Name:
people of Israel after that time, declares
Lee Road United Methodist
the Lord. I will put my law in their minds
Attended College:
and write it on their hearts. I will be their
Emory University
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about you or your church:
About the Pastor:
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PART 2
Martial artist earns rare 10th-Degree Black Belt

BY WILLIAM BUCHHEIT
STAFF WRITER
We went to
In 1946, Robert Trias opened

Americas first dojo in Phoenix,
AZ. Nearly two decades later,
the martial arts pioneer hosted
the first national karate tournament in the continental US
at the University of Chicago. It
was at that tournament in the
early 1980s that up-and-coming
martial artist Mike Sanders met
the man that would become his
second mentor.
Sanders, of course, was no
stranger to Trias influence and
impact. Hed seen Trias students wax the competition at
the annual Battle of Atlanta karate tournament, dazzling spectators and other fighters with
their speedy combinations.
Sanders had earned multiple
black belts and mastered kicking
under the tutelage of late mentor Billy Hong, but longed to add
the hand skills of Trias students
to his resume. Thus, when the
godfather of American martial
arts took him under his wing in
1983, Sanders embraced the opportunity with a death grip.
I got right in the middle of
where all that knowledge was
and just soaked it up like a
sponge, he says. I was lucky
to be alive during that time and
I endeavored to spend my whole
life soaking it up.
Trias was a notorious stickler
who demanded obsessive study
and practice from his students.
In his school, a students black
belt test was a grueling affair
that would last the better part of
a week.
You had to perform those katas (forms) forwards, backwards
and every which way in between.
It was the most intense thing Ive
ever seen, Sanders recalls.
But the rewards were magnificent. Within a couple years,
Sanders was the most accomplished martial artist in South
Carolina and one of the most
admired in the US. His articles,
techniques and accolades frequently appeared in nationally
published karate magazines and
books. Around this time the
Union native was even pictured
alongside Chuck Norris under
the title Fighting Stars of the
Future.
In the Upstate, Sanders karate
school was also flourishing. By
the late 1980s hed opened dojos in Greenville, Spartanburg,
Laurens and Clinton and was
teaching some 250 students. But
the money wasnt the only thing
rolling in. Sanders students
routinely won at both regional
and national competitions. At
one tournament in Birmingham,
Sanders students won so many
trophies that they had to take all
them apart just to get them in
the car to bring back to SC.
We went to tournaments in
Chicago, New York, Miami and
LA, he says. I rented a Greyhound bus and drove a bunch
of my students to Chicago. Another time we rented about five
tournaments in Chicago,
NY, Miami and LA. I
rented a Greyhound bus
and drove a bunch of
my students to Chicago.
Another time we
rented about five vans
and drove them from
Spartanburg to Miami. I
loved it.
Mike Sanders
On all the tournaments

his school competed in the 1980s
WILLIAM BUCHHEIT | THE GREER CITIZEN
Local martial artist Mike Sanders has achieved a rare feat, earning a 10th degree black belt.
vans and drove them from Spartanburg to Miami. I loved it.
Sanders travels and successes
kept him in Americas public
eye and in frequent contact with
some of the biggest names in
martial arts history Ed Parker,
Al Tracy and Chuck Norris just
to name a few. Joe Lewis, the
father of American kickboxing
and the man Bruce Lee called
the greatest fighter of his time,
even came to Boiling Springs to
help Sanders with a seminar one
weekend.
Remarkably, it was at the
height of his martial arts success
that the Upstate native decided
to tackle a brand new challenge
earning his college degree and
embarking on a second career.
Self-defense is just one of
the things the martial arts teach
you, he explains. After I got
that first black belt from Billy
Hong, I felt like I could do anything. Nobody in my family had
ever gotten a college degree, but
I think karate really showed me
that I could and I enrolled at the
University of South Carolina.
Sanders would go on to earn a
Masters Degree at USC. Aware
of his history of helping people
through karate, his professors
encouraged him to go into social work. In August, 1991, he
became a licensed clinical social
worker with the Greenville Mental Health (GMH) Center.
Now in his mid-forties, balancing two careers was anything but
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Sanders, a Union native, was pictured alongside Chuck Norris, right,

as an up-and-coming martial artist.
easy. Each weekday, Sanders
would get to the mental health
office at 7 am and work until
4:30, then head to one of his Upstate karate schools and teach
until 9-10 pm. Both careers,
however, fulfilled what Sanders believed to be his God-given
calling helping people live happier, more productive lives.
Social work, especially, enabled him to practice the old
motto hed learned as a Green
Beret two decades earlier: Free

the Oppressed.
I loved it, he says of his time
as a social worker. I loved the
clients. They didnt know what
to do and people would run over
them and I enjoyed trying to get
them out of jams that they didnt
know they were getting into.
Inevitably, the two careers intersected and the staff at GMH
approached Sanders about starting a martial arts program at
the center. The Upstate native

jumped at the opportunity, and
the results were striking.
It helped them (the patients)
with their coordination and
confidence, he recalls. They
seemed more relaxed because of
the meditation involved. They
seemed happier.
Even after Sanders retired
from his position of GMH Chief
Family Preservation Coordinator
in 2009, he continued to teach
former patients martial arts at
his Greenville dojo. In 2014, he
finally closed that dojo on Wade
Hampton Ave. and now teaches
a small group of students at his
Wellford home.
At 69, Mike Sanders wears the
scars of a lifetime fighter -- Damaged nerves, protruding knuckles, angled toes and a nose broken by the legendary Joe Lewis
at the Battle of Atlanta 35 years
ago. Somehow, he remains an
imposing physical presence with
thick arms and massive hands
that could still choke you out
in seconds. His mind remains
sharp, his memory harboring a
life story that could fill several
books and blow a million minds.
And while his Masters Degree,
stint in the Green Berets, 10th
Degree Black Belt and years of
teaching demonstrate an inconceivable mental toughness, expansive empathy and rare selfdiscipline, Sanders says none of
that would have happened without a steadfast Christian faith.
Billy Hong taught me how to
be a better human being and a
real man, but I couldnt have
done any of this if it wasnt for
my faith in Jesus Christ, says
Sanders, who has gone to church
regularly his entire life.
Hes
pulled me through the military,
hard tests and a lot of personal problems that Ive had to go
through in my life. I couldnt
have built my legacy without
Jesus being the most important
part of my life.
wbuchheit@greercitizen.com | 877-2076
Boy Scouts honor Keith Smith for contributions

BY KAELYN PFENNING
STAFF WRITER
Family and friends gathered at the Boy Scouts Distinguished Citizens Breakfast Tuesday morning to
honor longtime Greer resident Keith Smith.
The Greer
Commission of Public
Works
sponsored
the breakfast at the
Cannon CenSmith
tre, surprising Smith with an award
for his contributions to
life in the community.
I didnt hear about it
until I got here this morning, said Keith Smith,
who came down with an
ear infection but kept his
word to attend. It was a
surprise.
Smith, President of Keith
Smith Builders, LLC, has
been a part of the Greer
community for more than
40 years.
The obligation of an
Eagle Scout requires us to
live with honor, to be loyal
to others, to be courageous when needed, to live
the life of a servant and to
have the vision to blaze
your own trail, said Mike
Senn, Smiths son-in-law.
Keith has led our family by example with these

very same ideals.
Last summer, Smith
worked with his grandson
Nelson on his Eagle Scout
service project, which involved two to three days
of construction.
It was fun, Smith said.
We did a fence behind
Greer Relief.
The fence encapsulated
a walk-in freezer and a city
dumpster, and we put up
gates, so they could access
those.
Nelson is grateful for
his help, Senn said.
Throughout his career,
Smith has donated to the
Boy Scouts in addition to
serving in various community leadership positions.
Its such a great honor
to receive this award, especially from the scouts,
Smith said. It was my
pleasure to help Nelson
on his project, and we had
some good fun.
When I was a little kid,
I was in the Boy Scouts
for a while, but the troop
broke up, Smith continued. When Nelson, my
grandson, came to me and
asked if I would help with
his project, once he told
me what it was, I agreed to
help him.
Smith is also involved
KAELYN PFENNING | THE GREER CITIZEN
Keith Smith and his family gathered at the Boy Scouts Distinguished Citizens Breakfast
Tuesday morning at the Cannon Centre, where Smith received an award.
with Habit for Humanity.
He is a board member of
Greer Relief, past treasurer for Greer Chamber
Political Action Committee and a member of the
Greenville Technical College board, serving as the
Area Commissioner.
In addition, Smith received the Order of the
Palmetto award in 2006,
became the President of
the SC Homebuilders Association in 2007 and
was inducted into the
SC Homebuilders Hall of
Fame in 2009.
We appreciate everything that you do, said
Derek McClair, professional scouter for the Greer,
Taylors and Travelers Rest
area. Scoutings primary
focus is helping you develop strong character and
make positive choices.
In 2016, more than
700 families were served
through a scouting program in the area, including
families from every school
in Greenville County, McClair said.

Thousands of service
hours were plugged in by
scouts to the benefit of our
community, McClair said.
This area saw an increase
in youth membership over
the previous year for the
first time in four years.
Many of the youth we
serve come from single
parent households, McClair continued. All parents are encouraged to
spend time with their
youth in scouting. This

increased interaction between parents and youth
result in healthier self-esteem, higher grades and
greater success in life.
What these young men and
women learned in scouting
benefits them in all other
areas of their lives. Scouting truly is making a difference in the lives of our
youth and volunteers.
Only four of every 100
kids that joins scouting
ever rise to the rank of
Eagle Scout, Senn said.
Eagle Scout is the highest
achievement or rank attainable in the Boy Scouting program of the Boy
Scouts of America (BSA).
Scouting is the foremost youth program in
the country, serving over
two million youth with
nearly one million adult
volunteers, Senn said.
Its goal is unique in that
it prepares young people
to make ethical and moral
choices in the context of
an outdoor program based
on the scout law.
The Boy Scouts raised
more than $14,000 at the
breakfast.
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SONY PICTURES CLASSICS
Aisholpan Nurgaiv in The

Eagle Huntress
COUCH THEATER
BY SAM STRUCKHOFF
NEW RELEASES
FOR THE WEEK OF FEB. 6
PICKS OF THE WEEK
Trolls (PG) -- The puggishly adorable Troll dolls

that were a mainstay of
toy boxes for decades now
have their own hyper-colored animated adventure.
Princess Poppy (voiced
by Anna Kendrick) is the
life of the party with the
dance-and-hug obsessed
Troll community until the
significantly less happygo-lucky Bergens break up
the party. Bergens are big
grey-ish folks whose only
source of joy is consuming the extra-happy Trolls.
Poppy joins up with Branch
(Justin Timberlake), the
only glum and paranoid
Troll, on a rescue mission
full of music and positivity.
So, sure, an all-CG hyperactive toy-based movie looks like nothing by
a cynical cash-grab. But
theres nothing that cynical in the runtime itself.
The movie is super-sweet
with bursts of glitter and
pop music, and the kind of
humor where a little guy
literally poops cupcakes.
Loving (PG-13) In the
1950s, Richard and Mildred Loving (Joel Edgerton
and Ruth Negga) are exiled
from their hometown of
Central Point, Virginia, because their marriage is a
crime. Richard is white and
Mildred black and Native
American. After spending
time in Washington, D.C.,
the couple is persuaded
to challenge Virginias
ban on interracial marriage and move back into
their home. Lawyers from
the ACLU (headed by Nick
Kroll) take up the cause,
while the Lovings shun
the spotlight and focus
on their day-to-day lives,
waiting for justice.
Its a based-on-a-true
story that steers clear of
lecturing, or swelling orchestras synched with
righteous speeches. The
lead performances leave
no doubt that these two
are uncomplicated people
who should be together,
and the rest of the world
should catch up.
Almost
Christmas
(PG-13) -- Its the first
Christmas for the Meyers
family since they lost their
mom, and the old man of
the family (Danny Glover)
just wants his adult children to get along for a
few days -- and maybe
have a decent meal. One
son (Romany Malco) cant
disconnect from his rising
political career, another
son (J.B. Smoove) is too
slick to be trusted. Two
sisters (Gabrielle Union
and Kimberly Elise) seem
incapable of being nice to
each other, and the youngest (Jessie Usher) is secretly dealing with addiction.
MoNique has her comedy
engine hitting all cylinders
as the aunt. She and the
rest of the cast show how
talented performers can
mine entertainment from
an otherwise drab and
predictable structure.
The Eagle Huntress
(G) -- A 13-year-old nomadic
Mongolian
girl
on the Eurasian steppes
makes a surprisingly inspiring figure -- not to
mention a really coollooking hunter. Aisholpan
comes from a long line of
eagle hunters, a tradition
valued by her Kazakh culture, but she rattles the
sturdy tradition by being
a girl when almost every
other eagle hunter has
been a man. That doesnt
matter so much to her and
her dad, who believes in
her wholeheartedly. This
documentary, narrated by
Daisy Ridley (Star Wars:
The Force Awakens), has
an uplifting message for
young women and an allaround great story for
anyone.
NEW LISTINGS
will conduct the ensemble and combos. The jazz

combos are coached by
both Olson and Furman
faculty member and jazz
guitarist, Steve Watson.
The performance features the music of George
and Ira Gershwin, Duke Ellington, Thelonious Monk,
Charles Mingus, Tito Puente, and more.
contact the Furman University Music Department
at 294-2086 or FurmanMusic@furman.edu.
WAREHOUSE THEATRE WILL

STAGE IMPORTANT HATS
Warehouse Theatre will

present Important Hats
of the Twentieth Century
Jan. 27-Feb. 18.
Written by Nick Jones
and directed by Jay Briggs,
the play is a theatrical scifi farce. Sam Greevy is the
hottest fashion designer in
1930s New York. At least
he is until upstart rival
Paul Roms begins releasing fantastically strange
but popular pieces like
sweatshirts, tracksuits
and skater pants. Soon
Greevy discovers the secret behind Roms design
inspirations and learns
where and more importantly from when these
wild styles are coming. The
hilarious rivalry turns into
a battle for the very future
of humankind, and more
importantly, fashion.
Important Hats features Anne Tromsness,
Matt Reece, Christopher
Joel Onken, Andy Croston,
Josh Jeffers, Dave LePage
and Brock Koonce.
Warehouse Theatre is located at 37 Augusta Street
in Greenville.
visit
warehousetheatre.
com or call 235-6948.
FREE JAZZ AND CLASSICAL

BENEFIT CONCERT FRIDAY
The Music Foundation

of Western North Carolina will present a free and
unique concert of blended
American jazz and French
classical music Friday, Jan.
27, at the Hendersonville
Community Theatre. Performing Claude Bollings
Suite No. 2 for Flute and
Jazz Trio will be New
Orleans Baroque, an ensemble of local musicians:
Rita Hayes on flute, Karen
Sams on piano, Keith Freeburg on double bass, and
Morgen Cobb on drums.
This is the final performance in the 2nd Annual
Benefit Concert Series
benefiting Hendersonville
Community Theatre.
This is second year the
Foundation has sponsored
a concert series to benefit the Theatre, Joann
Freeburg, president and
founder of the Foundation said. As a nonprofit
arts agency in this region,
The Music Foundation of
Western North Carolina
is establishing itself as a
leader in cultural affairs
and what better way to
contribute to our community than to help a fellow
agency, such as the Hendersonville
Community
Theatre with its educational programming and
capital improvements?
On behalf of Hendersonville Community Theatre, we are very grateful
to the Music Foundation
of Western North Carolina for sponsoring this
series, Jim Walker, HCT
artistic director and comanaging director, said.
Even though the concerts
are free to the general
public, we are looking for
business sponsors to help
underwrite the program. If
interested in supporting a
great collaborative artistic
effort, please contact us.
The Theatre can be
reached at 1-828-6921082. For more information, call 1-828-707-2604
or visit HendersonvilleTheatre.org.
EMILE PANDOLFI TO
HOLD VALENTINE CONCERT
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Pianist Emile Pandolfi will perform his annual Valentines Day Concert at Greenville Little
Theatre on Feb. 14.
Boiling Springs Park
Community Center is located at 182 Rainbow Lake
Road in Boiling Springs.
For tickets or more information, call 237-3214
or visit rlgpromotions.
com.
SCCT AUDITIONING
FOR SEUSSICAL
The South Carolina Childrens Theatre will hold

auditions for Seussical
Monday and Tuesday, Jan.
30 and 31, at 6:30 p.m.
Roles require strong vocals, good comedic timing
and distinctive character
personalities. Anticipated
cast size is 30 including
13 adults/teens and one
child (age 9-13) for principal roles, and eight adults/
teens and 10 children (age
9-12) for the ensemble.
Callbacks
will
be
Wednesday, Feb. 1.
Performance dates for
the musical are April 29May 7 at the Peace Center
Gunter Theatre. School
performances are also included.
Auditions will be held
at the SCCT headquarters, 153 Augusta Street in
Greenville.
visit scchildrenstheatre.
org or call Vanessa at 2352885, ext. 100.
FOOTHILLS PHILHARMONIC
TO PERFORM FEB. 4
Foothills Philharmonic,
City of Greer, and Greer
Cultural Arts Council will
present A Few Chamber
Selections on Saturday,
Feb. 4, at 7:30 p.m. at the
Cannon Centre.
Foothills Philharmonic continues its 16th concert season with its annual chamber concert. In
this first concert of the
new year, Foothills Philharmonics various chamber groups will present famous chamber works by
various composers.
The
2016-17
season continues to feature a repertoire showcasing
international
masterpieces. Season 16
will explore everything
from classical and popular
favorites to more intimate
chamber music.
Each concert is followed
by a complimentary reception that allows patrons to
meet our musicians and
artistic director.
The Cannon Centre is located at 204 Cannon Street
in Greer.
AKROPOLIS REED QUINTET

TO PERFORM AT FURMAN
The Furman Department

of Music will host a concert featuring the Akropolis Reed Quintet Tuesday,
Feb. 7 at 8 p.m. in Daniel
Recital Hall on the Furman
campus.
The concert is free and
open to the public and is
presented by the Furman
University Partners in the
Arts initiative funded generously by the Duke Endowment.
In residence at Furman
University Feb. 5-8, Akropolis Reed Quintet takes
listeners on extraordinary
musical adventures, performing innovative repertoire with acclaimed
precision. Founded in
2009 at the University of
Michigan, Akropolis was
the first ever reed quintet
to win the Fischoff Gold
Medal in 2014 as part of
the nations largest chamber music competition.
With their latest project,
The Space Between Us, Akropolis has released three
studio albums and commissioned more than 25
reed quintet works to date.
Their dynamic concerts
feature accessible contemporary works framed by
invigorating arrangements
of classical music spanning four centuries.
contact the Furman Music
Office at 294-2086.
ABBEVILLE OPERA HOUSE

TO HOLD AUDITIONS
CHUCK WAGON GANG

CONCERT SET FOR JAN. 28
The Chuck Wagon Gang

will perform in concert
on Saturday, Jan. 28, at
Boiling Springs Park Community Center. The Pine
Ridge Boys and Chordsmen Quartet will also perform.
The concert begins at 6
p.m. Doors open at 5 p.m.
the Musical Sunday, Feb.

5, at 7 p.m.
Roles are available for six
to eight African-American
women, eight to 10 white
women, four to six African-American men, seven
to nine white men, and a
young African-American
girl (age 12 to 15). Adult
ages range from 16 to 65.
Those who audition
should be prepared to sing
a verse of a song (bring
your sheet music). There
will be a short dance routine, as well (bring shoes
you can move in).
Auditions will be held
in Magill Rehearsal Hall at
the rear of the building.
Hairspray will be directed by GLT Producing
Director
Suzanne
McCalla. Tim St. Clair II
will serve as Musical Director and Kimberlee Ferreira
will choreograph.
Rehearsals will begin
March 27. Performances
run June 2 - 25.
The Greenville Little Theatre is located at 444 College Street in Greenville.
visit www.greenvillelittletheatre.org or call 2336238.
GLT TO HOLD HAIRSPRAY

AUDITIONS
The Greenville Little Theatre (GLT) is holding open

auditions for Hairspray
Director Michael Genevie will be holding auditions for the final two
productions of the Winter
Theatre season on stage
at the historic Abbeville
Opera House, The Diary
of Anne Frank and The
Butler Did It.
Auditions for both shows
will be held on Tuesday,
Feb. 7, at 6:30 p.m. Those
auditioning will be asked
to read a scene from the

script. The Diary of
Anne Frank will have
performances Friday and
Saturday, Feb. 24 and 25,
and Friday-Sunday, March
17-19. Performances for
The Butler Did It will be
Friday-Sunday, April 2123, and Friday and Saturday, April 28 and 29.
The Diary of Anne
Frank is a Pulitzer Prizewinning play that tells the
harrowing story of a young
Jewish girl who, with her
family and their friends,
is forced into hiding in
an attic in Nazi-occupied
Amsterdam. All roles are
available for casting.
According to Michael
Genevie, Executive Director of the Abbeville Opera House, The Diary of
Anne Frank will be staged
as a multi-media production, combining film, still
photography, video and
slides with live action on
stage.
The Butler Did It is
a highly successful OffBroadway comedy thriller
that centers around struggling producer/director/
playwright, Anthony J.
Lefcourt, who hopes that
his latest whodunit, The
Butler Did It, will revive
his sagging Broadway career.
The Butler Did It is a
play within a play. Those
cast will be portraying the
real characters they are
performing as well as the
stage characters in the play
that is being performed in
the script.
visit www.theabbevilleoperahouse.com or call 3662157.
FURMAN JAZZ CONCERT

IS FEB. 10
The Furman Jazz Ensemble and Jazz Combos

will present a concert Friday, Feb. 10, at 8 p.m. in
Daniel Recital Hall on the
Furman campus.
A Sound Quality Concert Series event, the performance is open to the
public. Tickets are $12 for
adults, $10 for seniors,
and $5 for students.
Dr. Matt Olson, Associate Professor of Saxophone and Director of
Jazz Studies at Furman,
The Greenville Little

Theatre (GLT) will once
again present nationally
renowned
pianist Emile
Pandolfi for his annual
Valentines Day Concert
featuring soprano Dana
Russell and comedian
James Sibley on Tuesday,
Feb. 14, at 8 p.m.
Recording since 1991,
Emiles arrangements of
familiar music have sold
well over three million
copies nationally.
Greenville Little Theatre
Box Office is located at 444
College Street on Heritage
Green and is open Monday
through Friday from 10
am - 5 pm.
call 233-6238 or visit
www.greenvillelittletheatre.org.
EVENT REMINDERS
Jukebox Heroes
Through Feb. 11
Centre Stage
233-6733
www.centrestage.org
1BlueStringHubCity
Singer/Songwriter
Competition
Through Feb. 12
1BlueStringHubCity.com
Wiesenthal
Jan. 26-27, 8 p.m.
BJU Rodeheaver Auditorium
770-1372
bju.edu
True West
Studio 444
Jan. 26-29
Greenville Little Theatre
233-6238
greenvillelittletheatre.org
SCCTs Charlottes Web
Jan. 27-Feb. 5
Gunter Theatre
467-3000
scchildrenstheatre.org
Memories of the Game
Jan. 31 and Feb. 1,7,8
7 p.m.
233-6733
www.centrestage.org
Circus XTREME
Feb. 2-7
Bon Secours Wellness Arena
1-800-745-1000
ONGOING EXHIBITS
Carolina Vistas
Sherrill King
Through Jan. 28
Artists Guild of Spartanburg
Through Our Eyes
Through Jan. 31
Artists Guild Gallery
of Greenville
FUN AND GAMES
THE GREER CITIZEN
B7
Reducing the risk

of breast cancer
DEAR DR. ROACH: You
have written about screening for breast cancer, but
are there any ways to prevent breast cancer in the
first place? -- T.C.
ANSWER: There are
three behaviors that are
well-accepted to reduce
the risk of breast cancer.
Breastfeeding is one, and
its so good for the baby
that we might forget that
it has long-term advantages for moms, but add reducing the mothers breast
cancer risk to the list. The
second is dietary phytoestrogens, compounds such
as soy isoflavones and
lignans, which are found
in soybeans and other legumes. This data is most
clear among Asian women.
Finally, regular physical
exercise reduces breast
cancer risk, especially for
women after menopause.
Other dietary factors,
such as a diet high in fruits
and vegetables and low in
meat and saturated fat,
may reduce risk of breast
cancer, but this isnt proven. Studies are ongoing to
examine whether vitamin
D or omega 3 fatty acids
may reduce risk, as suggested in previous studies.
For high-risk women,
consider
chemoprophylaxis with a SERM or aromatase inhibitor, and also
a more-intensive screening
program.
***
DEAR DR. ROACH: I
went to my ENT doctor
TO YOUR
GOOD HEALTH
KEITH
ROACH, M.D.
in January complaining
of muffled hearing and a
loud, high-pitched noise
in my left ear. He gave
me a hearing test, and it
showed 50 percent loss. I
had an MRI and was told
that I have an acoustic
neuroma on my left side.
This has caused me to go
50 percent deaf in my ear.
The ENT doctor wants me
to wait six months and see
if it grows more, which I
dont want to do because I
feel it should be taken out
while it is small.
The choices I have are
to watch and wait; to have
traditional surgery; or to
have surgery with gamma knife or cyber knife.
I would really like to just
get this done and have it
taken out before it causes
more problems, like affecting my facial nerve,
balance nerve or if it gets
too close to my brain
stem. I also am worried
that I may go completely
deaf. I am getting a second
opinion next month from
a neurosurgeon. What are
your thoughts on all of
this? -- B.D.
ANSWER: An acoustic
neuroma, also called a
vestibular schwannoma,
is a type of non-cancerous tumor on the eighth
cranial nerve, which is responsible for hearing and

balance.
These
tumors
usually are treated, although
some authorities recommend a watch-and-wait
approach if they arent
bothering the patient, if
the patient is a poor candidate for surgery or if the
patient is otherwise reluctant. None of these seems
to apply to you, so I would
recommend
proceeding
with the second opinion,
the neurosurgeon, whom
I think is likely to recommend treatment. Progressive hearing loss is a clear
indication that treatment
likely would be beneficial
sooner rather than later.
All the treatments you
mentioned are reasonable.
Cyber knife and gamma
knife are ways of delivering radiation to the tumor. Since any of these
can achieve the goal of
preventing the tumors
growth and any worsening
of symptoms, the choice
should be left to the expert.
***
Dr. Roach regrets that
he is unable to answer individual letters, but will
incorporate them in the
column whenever possible. Readers may email
questions to ToYourGoodHealth@med.cornell.edu.
To view and order health
pamphlets, visit www.rbmamall.com, or write to
Good Health, 628 Virginia
Drive, Orlando, FL 32803.
SOAP UPDATES
BY DANA BLOCK
THE BOLD AND

THE BEAUTIFUL
With his broken heart in

his hand, Wyatt went to
Quinn and Eric to tell them
about the current state of
his and Steffys marriage.
The group at Forrester
Creations was stunned
when Ridge voluntarily
admitted that Quinn had
become a valuable asset to
the company. Thomas was
offended that he wasnt
considered for the CEO
position. Kate was suspicious of Quinn and Ridges
sudden friendship. The
Spencer brothers set aside
their years of competition
when Wyatt revealed the
real reason he gave Steffy
what she wanted. Pam gave
Katie the scoop on what
was going on behind the
scenes of Quinn and Erics
marriage. Wait to See: A
father and sons damaged
relationship is healed by a
momentous gesture.
DAYS OF OUR LIVES
Nicole received some

shocking news. Gabi and
Chad shared an awkward
moment in the square.
Claire, Theo, Ciara, Jade
and Joey began a new adventure together. Belle
returned to visit Claire.
Brady and Deimos rallied
around Nicole. Gabi and
Abigail enacted a plan to
put an end to a three-way
family war. Chloe convinced Belle to represent
her. Sonny tried to make a
ABC | MATT PETIT
Nancy Lee Grahn stars

as Alexis on General
Hospital
deal with Chad. In Prague,
Steve and Kayla went out
for a night on the town,
where they reaffirmed
their love for each other.
A feverish Hope fought
for her life as Eric did his
best to save her. Chad and
Abigail shared a special
night together. Wait to
See: An emotional Nicole
urges Chloe to give back
her baby.
GENERAL HOSPITAL
Kiki and Dillon grew closer. Franco faced the consequences of his actions. Julian resorted to blackmail.
Jason fell ill. Jordan began
having second thoughts.
Alexis made strides in her
sobriety. Kevin opened up
to Laura. Carly had a warning for Michael. Sonny imparted his wisdom onto
Nelle. Sam stumbled upon
an important clue. Liz put

herself in harms way.
Dante and Nathan zeroed
in on a suspect. Brad and
Finn discussed some unfinished business. Alexis
was caught off guard. Liz
was horrified by something she discovered. Sam
pleaded her case. Nina
wanted what was best for
Charlotte. Alexiss memories became more clear.
Wait to See: Jason and
Sonny have a falling out.
THE YOUNG AND

THE RESTLESS
Phyllis confronted Jack

about seeing him at Top
of the Tower with Gloria.
Lauren was stunned when
a potential investor in
Fenmores had a change of
heart and chose to go into
business with Jack instead.
Victoria was frustrated
that Reed wasnt spending enough time on his
studies and was spending
too much time with Zoey.
Lily signed Jills modeling
contract but worried that
Cane would be unhappy
with the situation. At the
GCAC, Billy crossed paths
with Phyllis and was reminded of the chemistry
between them. Christine
assured Sharon that it
was normal for an agent
to disappear after a bust,
but Sharon believed the
universe was punishing
her. Victoria caught Reed
and Zoey together on the
couch. Wait to See: Colin
returns to Genoa City.
THE SPATS by Jeff Pickering
RFD by Mike Marland
AMBER WAVES by Dave T. Phipps
OUT ON A LIMB by Gary Kopervas
OUR SCHOOLS
The Greer Citizen
SCHOOL
NEWS
STUDENTS INVITED TO
ENTER TALENT CONTEST
South Carolina Future

Minds (SCFM) is hosting
This Schools Got Talent,
a video contest to showcase the talents of student
singers, bands and other
performers.
Finalists will be chosen
with help from the Grammy Award-winning band
Hootie and the Blowfish.
Students are invited to
submit a 3-5 minute video
that highlights their talents through Jan. 29 to
SC Future Minds website
(www.scfutureminds.org)
or SC Future Minds FB
page (https://www.faceb ook.com/sou th carolinafutureminds/). Only
one video submission per
entrant allowed.
Public voting begins Feb.
6 with winners announced
via Facebook (and email)
on Feb. 20.
South Carolina Future
Minds (SCFM) is a 501(c)3
organization promoting
excellence in South Carolinas K-12 public schools.
The contest is open to
students in first through
12th grades in all South
Carolina public school districts. The winners will be
chosen to perform at the
South Carolina Teacher of
the Year Celebration.
Talent will be judged by
SCFM based on its entertainment value and suitability for the South Carolina Teacher of the Year
Celebration.
visit www.scfutureminds.
org.
GREENVILLE COUNTY
RMS PARTICIPATING
IN FOOD DRIVE
Riverside Middle will be

collecting food and funds
for Greenville County students-in-need through Upstate Backpack Blessings
(UBB), a volunteer-based,
donation-driven
organization that sends bags
of food home with nearly
200 boys and girls every
weekend.
The student council
food drive collection will
run through Feb. 3.
A list of food pantry
needs is available on the
school website.
Collection stations will
be located in various locations in the school.
visit
www.upstatebackpackblessings.org.
PRE-REGISTER AT-RISK 4K
JAN. 25-MARCH 10
At-Risk 4K Pre-registration will be held from

Wednesday,
Jan.
25,
through Friday, March 10.
Pre-registration will not be
accepted after March 10.
To be considered, children must turn four years
old on or before Sept. 1,
2017. Parents may preregister at any district elementary school or child
development center. Children do not have to live in
the school attendance area
to pre-register at that location.
Pre-registration
does
not guarantee enrollment
in a GCS 4K program. Children selected for 4K programs must demonstrate
academic/developmental
needs and/or risk factors
such as low family income
and low parent education
level. Screened children
will be ranked districtwide and those most atrisk for school success
will receive initial assignments. Notification of 4K
acceptance will be mailed
to parents late March
2017. 4K Screening will
be held for pre-registered
children March 22-24.
GHS TO CROWN
MISS GREER HIGH
The 18th annual Miss

Greer High School Pageant
will take place Thursday,
Jan. 26, and Saturday, Jan.
28.
Two groups will compete over the two days. After the casual wear, talent
and gown competitions on
Saturday, a complete top
10 will be named. Those
will then compete in an
on-stage question. The girl
with the highest points
will be named Miss Greer
High School 2017.
The winner will receive a
$500 college scholarship.
The pageant will be held
at 7 p.m. on Thursday and
6 p.m. on Saturday. Tickets are $7 each night.

Funds will benefit the
Greer High Band Booster
Club.
BONDS CAREER CENTER

ACCEPTING APPLICATIONS
Bonds Career Center will

be accepting applications
for the 2017-18 school
year through the Backpack
portal (gcsbackpack.com)
Jan. 27-March 31.
Offers of notification
of admittance into the
program will be sent out
through the students
Backpack beginning April
8. Students will accept or
decline their admission offer by April 21.
CHANDLER CREEK HOLDING

FAMILY READING NIGHT
Chandler Creek Elementary will hold Family Reading Night and PTA meeting
on Monday, Feb. 6, from
5:30-7 p.m.
The event will feature
special guest, award-winning New York Times author Melinda Long. She is
the author of How I Became a Pirate and Pirates
Dont Change Diapers. A
Furman University graduate and former teacher,
Long will speak to students about reading and
writing.
The night will feature a
free dinner, Title 1 update
and free books for each
student.
DISTRICT FIVE
D5 STUDENTS NAMED
TO ALL STATE ORCHESTRA
Three District Five orchestra students have

been selected for All State
Orchestra, which assembles the best orchestra
students from across the
state.
Selected for the honor
were:
PHOTO | SUBMITTED
Several Blue Ridge Middle students received awards in the Blue Ridge Lions Club Peace
Poster Contest. Winners included, l to r: Maria Gilstrap, first runner-up; Kate Reedy, second
runner-up; and Kenna Bunnell, winner and honorable mention District 32A.
Students win Blue Ridge

Lions Club poster contest
An international emphasis on world peace was the
theme for Lions Club International, a world-wide service organization, whose
focus is eye care, health issues and other community
related helps.
The recently chartered
club at Blue Ridge sponsored middle school student participation in a
poster painting/drawing
contest that could provide
funding for future scholarship needs if chosen at the
state and national level.
Blue
Ridge
Middle
Schools entrants offered
PHOTO | SUBMITTED
Woodland Elementary held a parade for its Beta Club last

week. The Club took home a number of first place prizes at
the National Beta Club competition recently.
thoughts about peace with

their drawing, and the
club submitted the local
winners work to the 32-A
District for local judging.
One of the entrants,
sixth grader Kenna Bunnell, was chosen as the
club winner and received
honorable mention in
District 32A, just outside
of the top three places for
ribbons and the chance to
have her poster judged at
the state level.
Seventh grader Maria
Gilstrap received first runner-up by the local club,
and sixth grader Kate
Reedy was second runnerup. All three participants

and their families joined
the regular meeting of the
local club to receive recognition of their efforts.
The club looks forward
to making the poster contest an annual event.
The club meets on the
second Thursday of each
month
and
currently
meets at Locust Hill Baptist Church fellowship
building.
For more information
about the club, contact
President Jim Barbare at
420-4003.
Miss NGU 2017
Valerie Bostick, of Greenville, center, was crowned Miss NGU 2017 during the 62nd annual
pageant on Friday. Bostick, also given the physical fitness and congeniality awards, won
a $1,000 scholarship and will compete this summer in the Miss South Carolina Pageant.
Other winners included: first runner-up Sommer Cagle; second runner-up Celina
Schwartz; third runner-up and talent winner Rachel Huber; and fourth runner-up and
congeniality winner Ashley Campbell. Other accolades: Kaitlyn Shumate, photogenic,
and Tysonna Hutchinson, community spirit award.
Payton Lee- Junior AllState (Florence Chapel
Middle School)
Preston Lee - Clinic AllState (Byrnes Freshman
Academy)
Emily Carroll - Senior AllState (Byrnes High School)
ROBOTICS TEAM
WINS CHAMPIONSHIP
The Byrnes High robotics team took home their

second championship trophy of the season recently
when they traveled to Anderson to compete against
teams from across the
state in the Electric City
VEX Tournament.
The schools three teams,
the Circuiteers, Rebelvolts,
and Robot Wreckers, all
competed. In the end, the
Circuiteers walked away
with
the
Tournament
Championship. Team
members Antonio Lue,
Zane Thomas, Riley Kennedy, Kyler Ray, and Roy

Black, with the help of
their alliance, were able to
make it to the finals and
win the tournament.
Earlier in the year, Robot
Wreckers won the Golden
Corner Tournament. With
these wins, both the Robot
Wreckers and Circuiteers
qualify for the State VEX
Championship in Columbia in March.
REIDVILLE STUDENT WINS

UNITY POSTER AWARD
As the nation paused to

remember the life of Dr.
Martin Luther King Jr. last
week, a Reidville Elementary student was honored
for her tribute to his legacy.
Third grader Mackenzie
Daniels won first place in
the Unity Week Celebration poster contest for the
kindergarten- 3rd grade

age division.
BYRNES FITNESS ROOM

GETS FACELIFT
Byrnes High fitness

room has a brand new look
for the new year thanks to
some generous help from
the community.
The RD Anderson automotive paint department
instructors
volunteered
their time to paint and
refurbish the old weight
equipment. The
District
Five maintenance department transported the
equipment from Byrnes
to RD so that it could be
cleaned up.
9 Rounds gym in Greer,
along with owner John
Ownby, donated gloves
for the gyms new punching bag.

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