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Bid deadline set for major downtown makeover
Projects
to cost
$30 million
BY KAELYN CASHMAN
STAFF WRITER
Bids for Greer’s street-
scape project are due in
just a little over a month,
as the City of Greer gets
set to revamp its down-
town once again.
A pre-construction
meeting for contractors is
set for Oct. 15, with bids
coming due on Nov. 8.
“We’ll spend two to
three weeks going through
the bid process,” said City
Administrator Ed Drig-
gers. “Then, we’ll ultimate-
ly award a bid. We hope
we’ll see mobilization be-
Car-
jacking,
armed
robbery
lead to
chase
BY KAELYN CASHMAN
STAFF WRITER
A Sunday afternoon
carjacking in Greer led
local authorities on a
high-speed chase through
Greenville and Pickens
Counties.
Police say 29-year-old
Ruben Russell Ruiz stole a
Chevy Silverado at the QT
in Greer before robbing an
individual at knife point
near Farrs Bridge and
BlackBerry Valley Road in
Greenville.
Deputies with the Green-
ville County Sheriff’s Of-
fice spotted Ruiz shortly
after the robbery and at-
tempted to pull him over.
Ruiz refused to stop and
led police and Highway
Patrol troopers on a chase
into Pickens County.
Once Ruiz drove into
Pickens County, Sheriff’s
deputies lost sight of him.
The case was soon picked
back up by the Highway
Patrol, and it continued
back into Greenville Coun-
ty where Ruiz ultimately
wrecked near 131 W. Mar-
ion Road.
Ruiz is facing multiple
charges, including armed
robbery and grand larceny
of an automobile.
No injuries were report-
ed, and Ruiz was taken
into custody at the scene
of the crash.
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fore the end of the year,
but certainly we hit the
ground right after the hol-
idays.”
Driggers said the holi-
day shopping season will
impact construction in
2018.
“We promised, particu-
larly to our retail business-
es, that we would not have
heavy construction during
the Christmas shopping
season, so there will not
be any hard work,” Drig-
gers said. “Anything that
you would see between
now and the first of the
year would possibly be
putting up signage, get-
ting up some barricades,
some detour signs, getting
up some things, preparing
for after the first of the
year. When I say ‘after the
first of the year,’ I hope,
my desire, is that I would
drive into town on Jan.
‘[Nancy Welch] put her family and
her faith first, but serving this
community was a huge part
of who she was and what
she did.’
Mayor Rick Danner
City of Greer
Greer Mayor Rick Danner presented Nancy Welch with a key to the city in 2016.
Greer loses icon
BY BILLY CANNADA
EDITOR
Greer is mourning the
loss of Nancy Welch, who
passed away last week fol-
lowing a long battle with
cancer.
Welch, who spent more
than two decades as the
RHS students support
children with cancer
BY KAELYN CASHMAN
STAFF WRITER
Riverside students were
thinking about their class-
mate during Friday night’s
football game against By-
rnes.
“I never saw Bella with-
out a smile on her face,”
Junior Kwame Lartey said
of Bella Muntean, who re-
cently passed away after
| OBITUARIES  | SPORTS
Johnny Marshall ‘Pie’
Gregory, 72
Debra ‘Debbie’ Ann
Miller, 52
Kenneth Tinsley, 79
Dr. Nancy Lee Turner
Welch, 77
WITH
OUR
SOUTH CAROLINA’S PREMIER WEEKLY
GREER, SOUTH CAROLINA VOL. 105 NO. 40 75 CENTS
2 and there’s a full crew
out there ready to hit the
ground.”
The city’s pre-construc-
tion proposal calls for the
project to be completed in
about 18 months by June
2020. The new downtown
hotel is expected to take
about 12-13 months with
demolition coming soon.
The accompanying park-
ing garage is expected to
take about eight months
to construct.
“That [streetscape] proj-
ect, in and of itself, will
truly transform our down-
town into one of the most,
if not the most, unique
main streets in the state
of South Carolina,” said
Mayor Rick Danner in a
presentation to the Ap-
palachian Council of Gov- IMAGE | SUBMITTED
ernments (ACOG) on Fri-
day. “We are going to do a The City of Greer is preparing for a year and a half of construction in the downtown area
SEE MAKEOVER | A6 with a completion date for the Streetscape project set for June 2020.
Greer cancels
Oktoberfest
BY KAELYN CASHMAN tor of Membership Engage-
STAFF WRITER ment with the chamber,
said in a statement.
Greer’s annual Oktober- “In preparing our pro-
fest event will not return gram of work for 2018,
this month.
After more than a de-
cade of hosting the fall
festival, the Greater Greer
and keeping in mind the
upcoming Streetscape
project, [the chamber] felt
that Oktoberfest no longer
Chamber of Commerce fit that mission and de-
has canceled Oktoberfest cided to search for other
for 2018. avenues to showcase our
“The mission of the beautiful downtown and
Greater Greer Chamber the merchants that make
of Commerce is to Cham- it great,” Crabtree said.
pion Economic prosperity Details about upcoming
for the members and the events will be available in
Greater Greer Communi- the coming weeks, accord-
ty,” Nikki Crabtree, Direc- ing to Crabtree.
Rewards offered
FILE PHOTO | THE GREER CITIZEN
in W.E. Willis case
BY KAELYN CASHMAN Willis and $2,000 coming
STAFF WRITER from the Greenville Coun-
host of the “Nancy Welch found at Greer Communi- ty Sheriff’s Office.
Show” on WSPA-TV, made ty Ministries’ annual Big Rewards are being of- The store owner, W.E.
a name for herself through Thursday event. fered for information Willis was badly beaten
her popular cooking seg- “While listening to her leading to the arrest of during the incident and
ments and her support of eulogy, I was in awe,” suspects involved in the his wife was shot.
local charitable causes. Greer Mayor Rick Danner W.E. Willis robbery and Investigators are look-
She was the author of said. “It just occurred to shooting last week. ing for help in identifying
several published books me what an icon she real- A total of $27,000 is be- the individuals in video
and the baker of Greer’s ly was to this community. ing offered, $25,000 com- surveillance outside of
famous “angel biscuits” SEE WELCH | A5 ing from the family of W.E. SEE WILLIS | A10
a battle with gram was founded by
Kidz In Lids cancer. “We one of the district’s sixth
Pics | B9 wanted to grade students, Paige
get involved Melick, who pitched the
to help her idea to her principal last
cause and keep her in our year and raised over
memory.” $1,000 in one day.
In her honor, students “It’s a great community
wore hats and gold shirts service project,” Marisa
at the game, showing their Cecil, Director of Develop- BILLY CANNADA | THE GREER CITIZEN
support for children bat- ment with the Children’s
tling cancer. Cancer Partners (CCP) Bella Muntean’s parents served as honorary captains
The “Kidz In Lids” pro- SEE RHS | A5 during Riverside’s football game Friday night.
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BRHS CLASS OF ’60
REUNION SET FOR OCT. 9
is set for Tuesday, Oct.
9, from 6-8 p.m. at the
PIEDMONT CARE INC.
TO HOLD DARE TO CARE
purchase at the door.
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ALBINO SKUNK MUSIC
FESTIVAL COMING OCT 4-6
The Albino Skunk Music
Festival is coming Oct. 4-6,
from 8 a.m. on Thursday
to 11:30 p.m. on Saturday
at 4063 Jordan Rd, Greer.
For more information or
tickets, visit albinoskunk.
com.
MILL HILL REUNION
HAPPENING OCT. 6
Rosie’s Hotdogs is hold-
ing its annual Mill Hill Re-
union on Saturday, Oct.
6, from 10 a.m. to 3 p.m.
Everyone is welcome.
FORMAL DRESS SALE
TAKING PLACE OCT. 6 & 13
Greer Cultural Arts
Council is holding a For-
mal Dress Sale on Satur-
days, Oct. 6 and 13, from
4-6 p.m. at the Tryon Rec-
reation Center, located
at 226 Oakland Avenue,
Greer.
All dresses are $10 in
cash only.
Hundreds of new and
gently used formal dress-
es, varying sizes and
styles, will be sold “as is.”
Changing areas will be
available in limited quan-
tity.
The Blue Ridge High
School Class of ’60 Re-
union is set for Tuesday,
Oct. 9, at 11:15 a.m., at
Lil’ Rebel, located on Hwy.
290 near Greenville Tech-
nical College.
Order from the menu.
For more information,
call J.C. Crenshaw at 877-
2156.
TAYLORS TO HOST
TWO OPEN HOUSES
Greenville County and
Taylors TownSquare are
hosting two open houses
for residents to voice their
input on the proposed
Taylors Main Street Devel-
opment District.
The first Open House
Taylors Ministry Center, Dare to Care, a fund-
located at 200 W. Main raiser to benefit the HIV
Street, Taylors. The sec- prevention programs of
ond Open House is set for Piedmont Care, is set for
Wednesday, Oct. 17, from Tuesday, Oct. 9, from
11:30 a.m. to 1:30 p.m. 5:30-9:30 p.m. at Indigo
at the Taylors Branch of Hall, located at 180 Ezell
Greenville County Library Street, Spartanburg.
System, located at 316 W. Tickets, which are $40,
Main Street, Taylors. include two beer/wine
Both open houses will tickets, heavy hors d’oeu-
present the same format vres, a silent auction, the
and materials. For more secret band and daredev-
information, contact Ben ils completing dares.
Cotton of Greenville Coun- Tickets may also include
ty at bcotton@greenville- shaved heads/beards,
county.org, Alex Reynolds karaoke, wearing oppos-
of Taylors TownSquare at ing team colors, and live
alexr@taylorstownsquare. streaming on social media.
com or visit www.taylor- Order tickets online at
stownsquare.com. www.eventbrite.com and
www.piedmontcare.org or
able with reserved seating
for sponsors.
The event also includes
HIV testing and counsel-
ing, community education
and condom distribution.
Piedmont Care Inc. is
located at 101 North Pine
Street, Suite 200, Spartan-
burg. For more informa-
tion, call 582-7773 or visit
www.piedmontcare.org.
ARTISAN MAKERS MARKET
RETURNS OCT. 13
The Artisan Makers Mar-
ket will host up to 35 mak-
ers at Greer City Park on
Saturday, Oct. 13, from 9
a.m. to 2 p.m.

Church For more information,

call Todd Johnson at 279-
4473, Emily Anderson at

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PLEASANT GROVE TO HOST
CAR SHOW AND BIKE RUN
Pleasant Grove is host-
ing their second Car Show
on Saturday, Oct. 6, from
11 a.m. to 3 p.m. at Pleas-
ant Grove Baptist Church,
located at 1002 S. Bun-
combe Road, Greer. The
Car Show will raise mon-
ey for Wren Hospice to
benefit patients and their
families in providing food,
power, water, building of
ramps, burial and necessi-
ties related to the burdens
patients and their fami-
lies face during terminal
illness. There will be a
bounce house, BBQ, ven-
dors and more.
Ott at (317) 850-0351. Car
Show registration is $20
per car and $20 per ven-
dor. Bike Run is $15 for
one rider and $20 for two
riders with first bike out at
9 a.m. and last bike in by
12 p.m.
PELHAM FIRST TO HOLD
HOMECOMING SERVICE
Pelham First Baptist
Church will hold its Home-
coming celebration on
Sunday, Oct. 7, beginning
at 10 a.m. with Speaker
Chad Hastings. Special
music will be provided by
Grassfire. Lunch will be
held following the service.
The church is located at
2720 Old Hwy 14 South,
Greer. For more informa-
tion, call 879-4032.

Lance-anders
reunion
SUNDAY, OCTOBER 14, 2018
Descendants of the late Williamson Burton
Lance and Sarah Caroline Anders Lance
will hold our annual family reunion
at 1:00 p.m. on the above date at
Lance Knoll, 1755 Wingo Road, Campobello, SC
PLEASE BRING FOOD AND DRINKS TO SHARE.
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P
erhaps we’ll get another dog,’  I had
written, what, three weeks ago? ‘Per-
haps we’ll take a break from dogs for
a bit...’
I have never, ever been the kind of
person who goes out the following day,
week, month, or even year after losing a
beloved pet and getting another one to
help cope with the grief. I feel as though
I should mourn—out of, I guess, respect
for the years of devotion given to me.
That bringing home a new puppy or kit-
ten right away diminishes the memory
of my prior soulmate.
At least, that’s the way it’s always
been.
But then six weeks after losing Rosie
and perusing, as I do daily, all the lost
and found pet Facebook pages corre-
sponding to our Upstate area, my heart
stopped as I saw a photo of a caged pup-
py recently picked up and being housed
at Greenville Animal Care that looked
exactly like Bonnie, the Jack Russell we
lost at age 15, two years ago. And imme-
diately below that, the next photo, which
sent a shiver up my spine, showed her
litter mate, who was the spitting image
of Rosie.
THROUGH THE YEARS  | KAELYN’S
Yellow
ribbons for
Iran hostages
Editor’s Note: Walk down mem-
ory lane with us! In upcoming
editions of The Greer Citizen, we
will be taking a look at old news-
papers and bringing you stories
from the past to commemorate
our 100-year anniversary. We
hope this section gives you a bet-
ter look at the people, events and
businesses that made the Greer
area a great place to live for the
past Century.
Wednesday, February 6, 1980
Local residents donned yellow
ribbons to support the 50 Amer-
ican hostages held captive in
Iran in this edition of The Greer
Citizen. The hostages had been
held for 90 days at the time of
the picture.
Construction was also off to
a good start in Greer, as totals
reached $230,578 in January.
The figure was a near record
amount, according to then City
Codes Administrator Herbert
Wood.
At Eckerd’s Drugs, a pack of
toilet paper could be found for
69 cents and Valentine’s Day
candy was going for about $5.
Edd Burch’s Off the Record
column highlighted the ac-
complishments of several local
students who made the deans
list during the fall semester.
A subscription to the paper
was $5.50 per year.
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Poppy and Posie
I’M JUST
SAYING
PAM STONE
“Paul,” I said, and turned my iPad
around so he could see it, “Look.”
I didn’t have to say anything more.
“Holy Cow,” he said.  happened to be an assistant who just
We looked at each other.
“It’ll mean separate vacations for an-
other fifteen years,” I said.
“And taking them out in all weathers,”
he said.
We waited a beat.  assured her, but, c’mon, look at these
“Let’s go get them!” I said, and we
made plans to drive to GAC the follow-
ing morning.
However, the shelter was closed for
emergency repairs and were absolutely,
positively not going to adopt any dogs,
under any circumstances, until the next
day, Saturday. Which was impossible
for us to do as we had long standing
commitments. We left the dejectedly
and stopped for lunch, mulling over
GUEST EDITORIAL
Tough negotiating pays
off in new trade deal
Canada’s agreement Sunday night to ease its
restrictions on dairy imports from the Unit-
ed States and accept the bulk of the recent
U.S.-Mexico trade deal brings to a successful
end President Trump’s promise to renegotiate
the 25-year-old North American Free Trade
Agreement. Now it will be up to Congress to
accept the proposed new treaty, renamed the
U.S.-Mexico-Canada Agreement.
The deal marks a milestone in Trump ad-
ministration efforts to rewrite numerous ma-
jor trade agreements. Last week Mr. Trump
also concluded a revised trade agreement with
South Korea, opened negotiations with Japan on
a new trade agreement and escalated his tariff
war against China.
The China trade dispute has yet to pay off,
but in other cases, including an impending new
agreement with Europe, it appears that Mr.
Trump’s aggressive use of his legal right to im-
pose tariffs in sectors he can deem important to
national security has succeeded in persuading
our trading partners to make new deals with the
United States.
Mr. Trump’s use of the tariff weapon is, to put
it mildly, controversial. Raising tariffs has been
considered bad economic policy since the infa-
mous Smoot-Hawley tariffs set off a global tar-
iff war that contributed to a collapse of world
trade and the onset of the Great Depression.
And let’s face it: Invoking “national security” in
a trade skirmish with close allies such as Cana-
da substantially broadens common understand-
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But U.S. law gives the president the authority
to be highly flexible and selective in applying
and removing tariffs, an authority Mr. Trump
has so far successfully exploited.
It is clear, for example, that the speedy con-
clusion of U.S.-Canada trade talks on Sunday,
meeting a Sept. 30 deadline imposed by Mr.
Trump, owed much to his threat to impose a
stiff tariff on cars imported from Canada if he
could not get meaningful concessions on reduc-
ing Canada’s barriers against U.S. dairy prod-
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our dilemma and quite sure someone arms...even more startling was that they
else would choose them before we had shared the same personalities: Bonnie
the chance to adopt because they were
indeed adorable.
was always Alpha, Rosie was happily,
devotedly subservient. We took them
“Let’s go back and try one more time,” home, put out puppy pads, rolled up the
Paul suggested. rugs, played, kissed and cuddled to all
“They were very firm,” I replied, “We’re our hearts’ content.
just going to irritate them.” Then the morning of the fourth day
Paul waved my thoughts away with his the phone call came. Their owners had
hand. “Let’s just try.” arrived at the shelter looking for them.
As fate would have it, there just The pups had gotten loose and had tak-
en off. Paul, who took the call, texted me
happened to be the only one of her crew sadly, his heart sinking. Arrangements
that chose not to leave and go to lunch were made to return them...and 20 min-
that day. We told her our story, showed utes later, as I was getting into my truck
her photos of Bonnie and Rosie. We at a local stable, holding back tears, a
weren’t trying to replace our dogs, we second text appeared:
“The owners are surrendering them!!!!!
photos then look at these puppies—and They wanted to find homes for them
we live on a farm and we work mostly anyway!!!”
from home and they’ll have a wonderful Our house is a wreck. They’ve already
life...in the end, our story captivated chewed a table leg and have hidden
even her and the puppies went home behind the drapes to pee. But we sink
with us, with the understanding that we down on the sofa, pull the pillows out
were fostering them for the five days the of their collective mouths and sit with
owners were given to claim them as they armfuls of dogs. And we wouldn’t have
were picked up as strays. it any other way. We will always love
Of course we fell in love as soon as the Bonnie and Rosie. Just as we will Poppy
little doppelgängers were brought to our and Posie.
KORNER
KAELYN CASHMAN
Staff reporter
Encouraged
B
rad and I remembered the
Lord’s Supper with our
church this past Sunday.
Every fifth Sunday, the service
format changes.
Instead of a morning message,
we alternate singing, listening to
Scripture, sharing testimonies
and taking the bread and the
drink.
Reflecting on Jesus’ example
is always encouraging to me.
This time, we read Luke 23-24.
A crowd brings Jesus to Pilate,
and they begin to accuse him,
saying, “We found this man mis-
leading our nation and forbid-
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ding us to give tribute to Caesar,
and saying that he himself is
Christ, a king.”
Pilate asks Jesus, “Are you the
King of the Jews?”
Jesus answers, “You have said
so.”
Then, Pilate tells the chief
priests and the crowds, “I find
no guilt in this man.”
But they were urgent, saying,
“He stirs up the people, teach-
ing throughout all Judea, from
American trade deal does not lift Trump-im- Galilee even to this place.”
posed tariffs on steel and aluminum imports. Pilate then sends Jesus to
Administration officials said they would be sub- Herod, who sends Him back
ject to separate negotiations. The main purpose again.
of these duties is to protect American metals At this point, Pilate says,
manufacturers from overproduction driven by “You brought me this man as
China’s subsidized metals industries. The Com- one who was misleading the
merce Department has authority to waive the people. And after examining
tariffs on a case-by-case basis. him before you, behold, I did
These tariffs appear to be working. Imports not find this man guilty of any
fell by about 20 percent between April and July of your charges against him.
and U.S production has risen slightly, according Neither did Herod, for he sent
to The American Iron and Steel Institute, which him back to us. Look, nothing
said, “We are grateful for the president’s contin- deserving death has been done
ued recognition of the steel industry.” by him. I will therefore punish
Other sectors of the U.S. economy that see and release him.”
benefits to Mr. Trump’s approach include the But the crowd cried out
automobile industry and its unions, for provi- together, “Away with this man,
sions that discourage the use of parts manu- and release to us Barabbas”—a
factured outside North America and encourage man who had been thrown into
higher wages and better working standards for prison for an insurrection start-
Mexican autoworkers. ed in the city and for murder.
That may make it easier to get the new pact Pilate addressed them once
through Congress this year or, more likely, in more, desiring to release Jesus,
early 2019. but they kept shouting, “Cruci-
The legislatures of Canada and Mexico also fy, crucify him!”
have to sign off on the deal. A third time he said to them,
Mr. Trump’s demand to drop the name “Why? What evil has he done?
“NAFTA” was an emotional appeal to voters I have found in him no guilt
who feel the pact damaged their lives and com- deserving death. I will therefore
munities. But it also makes sense. The original punish and release him.”
pact was far from being a true free-trade agree- But they were urgent, de-
ment and, like most recent trade deals, was in manding with loud cries that he
fact a set of rules for how trade is managed. should be crucified, and their
Mr. Trump often praises “free trade” and a
“win-win” tariff-free trading environment, but
voices prevailed.
Pilate delivered Jesus over to
world trade is conducted by many nations as a be crucified, yet, when all hope
zero-sum game. seemed lost, Jesus arose, defeat-
The president’s approach can be described as ing sin and death.
trying to reshape the trading rules to the benefit Isaiah 55:8-9 says, “For my
of important sectors of the U.S. economy. It is thoughts are not your thoughts,
unfinished business, with China as the biggest neither are your ways my ways,
obstacle. But the past week has shown some en- declares the Lord. For as the
couraging progress. heavens are higher than the
earth, so are my ways high-
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WEDNESDAY, OCTOBER 3, 2018 
The Vape Station opened last month at the Depot in downtown Greer.
The Vape Station joins
The Depot downtown
BY KAELYN CASHMAN
STAFF WRITER
When The Vape Station
opened its doors at The
Depot in downtown Greer
last month, a dream was
realized for its owner, Ka-
tie Inscho.
“It’s always been a dream
of mine to own my own
business,” Inscho said. “I
studied entrepreneurship
and management in col-
lege for a little bit. I end-
ed up going my own route
and learning from people
themselves like entrepre-
neurs and seeing how they
run businesses and every-
thing, and from there I
learned how to do all that,
and I pursued my dreams
of running my own busi-
ness.”
Inscho has been in the
business for about three
years.
“Vaping is a very big
hobby for me,” Inscho
said. “I’m an enthusiast
with it all. I really enjoy it.”
“I want to help people
who are trying to stop
smoking and go over to va-
ping and have a healthier
lifestyle for themselves,”
she said.
Inscho has experience
managing shops.
“I’ve learned everything
from a bunch of different
people, and I’m so thank-
ful I’ve learned so much,
and now they’ve helped
me pursue my dreams,”
Inscho said.
“Probably getting to
know the customers and
becoming friends and
family with them all, that’s
my favorite part, getting
to meet all these new peo-
ple and helping them out,”
she said. “I like helping
people.”
Inscho found the Trade
Street location after hear-
ing about the growth in
the Greer area.
“I was looking on Trade
Street, and we’re looking
for a shop,” Inscho said,
“and I’ve seen the Depot
right here, and I was like,
this looks like a really cool
WELCH: Passes away after cancer battle
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She has done so many
amazing things, but be-
yond that, she was an in-
credible lady.”
Welch spent many years
working in education,
serving as vice president
of student services for
Greenville Technical Col-
lege’s Greer campus for
nearly 20 years.
RHS: Program raises support for victims
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of the Carolinas, said of
the program. “It’s a great
way for kids to get in-
volved to help other kids
who are battling cancer.”
“All the money raised
today will go back to our
organization to help chil-
dren in the Carolinas,” she
said.
Lartey had a friend
who participated in the
program in Spartanburg,
where Kidz in Lids first
started.
Cierra Kelly (left), Owner Katie Inscho and her father Mark
Inscho have worked together to open The Vape Station.
spot. There’s a piercing
place right here, a massage
place, a wine, beer place.
Let’s go check it out.”
After talking with the
owner and acquiring the
location, Inscho fixed
up the place along with
co-owner Cierra Kelly.
“We started from noth-
ing in the shop to all of
this in here,” Inscho said.
“We painted the walls…
made it more homelike for
the train station here.”
“I heard Greer was up
and coming,” she said.
“I’ve heard that everyone’s
starting to come down this
way. It’s a good place, very
homelike, family-orient-
ed.”
Her father Mark Inscho
and his girlfriend Kim
Rowe have been helping
for about a month.
“I had the opportunity
to help her and decided I
would,” Mark Inscho said.
“We’re basically a full ser-
vice vape shop.”
“I’m just trying to set
my daughter up,” he said.
“She’s always wanted to
own her own business.”
The Vape Station has a
number of different fla-
vors, including blueberry
and New York cheesecake,
as well as a variety of dif-
ferent nicotine levels.
“There’s vape juices that
don’t have any nicotine,”
Rowe said.
“We’re very strict about
18 or older, ID,” Katie In-
Danner presented Welch
with a key to the city in
2016.
“She put her family and
her faith first, but serv-
ing this community was a
huge part of who she was
and what she did,” Danner
said. “She’ll be missed tre-
mendously.
“She wasn’t one that
normally sought attention,
even though there was a
‘It’s a great way for kids to get involved to
help other kids who are battling cancer.’
Director of Development with the Children’s Cancer Partners
“I’m hoping we can get
a lot of kids wearing hats
and supporting Bella’s
cause,” Lartey said Friday.
The Kids in Lids program
has been trademarked and
is being implemented in
schools throughout both
Business
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THE GREER CITIZEN A5
Spa opens in Riverside
BY KAELYN CASHMAN
STAFF WRITER
A new spa is now open
at the Riverside Crossing
Shopping Center.
Hand & Stone Massage
and Facial Spa, celebrated
its grand opening at 755
Hammett Bridge Road,
Suite 120 in Greer on Mon-
day.
“I love the fact that
you’re bringing health and
wellness to people because
massage is really so vital
in today’s world where
there’s so much stress,”
Owner Sandy Francis said.
“It’s like an oasis.”
Special promotions are
being offered this week KAELYN CASHMAN | THE GREER CITIZEN
for new customers.
KAELYN CASHMAN | THE GREER CITIZEN “Right now, we have Aestheticians Ellen Palmer, Erica Vickery and Christina
about 12 people on staff
Hyatt prepare for opening day.
to provide services,” Fran-
cis said. “I’m hoping there
will be more as we grow. support that you get from
“I’ve hired the best peo-
ple I possibly could, so
that when you do come
in here for a facial or for
‘Massage is really
so vital in today’s
them is incredible.”
Some of Francis’ favor-
ite massages are the Hot
Stone, the Himalayan Salt
a massage, you have that world where there’s Stone Massage and the Hot
one hour that you might Towel Foot Treatment.
spend that week that’s so much stress.’ “I was on my feet a lot,
completely about you. a whole lot when I was
That’s the time that peo- down there,” Francis said.
ple get to focus on their Sandy Francis “When I had the book-
own well-being.” Owner store, I was literally on my
A Greenville native, feet from the time I got in
Francis spent nearly 30 that small town feeling in the mornings until I left
years in the corporate but yet there’s anything at night, so 10 sometimes
world. you want, just a great 12 hours on my feet.”
“I really burnt out on place to be.” “The swedish massage is
corporate America,” Fran- A friend of hers intro- our classic massage here,”
cis said. “I was traveling a duced Francis to Hand & she said.
lot. Stone while she lived in Services include mas-
“I decided to retire from Miami. sage, facials and hair re-
corporate life,” she said. “I was a customer of moval with memberships
“I went in the complete theirs, just fell in love available.
opposite direction, and I with the whole business Hours of operations
PHOTO | SUBMITTED opened a bookstore and a aspect of it,” Francis said. are Monday through Fri-
cafe in Miami, Florida.” “I wasn’t ready to retire day from 9 a.m. to 9 p.m.,
Francis had moved to totally. I wanted another Saturday from 9 a.m. to 8
Florida for her job. small business.” p.m. and Sunday from 10
“It was time,” Francis “It just seemed like a a.m. to 6 p.m.
scho said. “Anybody who said of coming home. “I wonderful venture,” she For more information,
looks under 35, we ID.” found a lovely little house said. “I’ve had to dive in visit handandstone.com.
“That’s the only thing in Greer and fell in love and study and learn. I’ve
that people are worried with the community.” been able to do that be- kaelyn@greercitizen.com | 877-2076
about right now,” Katie “There was a lot going cause Hand & Stone is a
Inscho said. “They don’t on,” she said. “It still had national franchise. The
want their kids addicted
to nicotine at a young age,
which I completely under-
stand. I’d be the same way
if I had a kid.”
“It’s definitely a healthi-
er alternative in my opin-
ion,” she said. “I’ve seen it
change peoples’ lives.”
Katie Inscho stopped
smoking and started va-
ping after she met Cierra
Kelly, and some friends of
the family are on the same
track.
“You can have different
nicotine levels,” Katie In-
scho said. “You can ween
yourself off of it slow-
ly. It’s definitely a better
choice in my opinion.”
The Vape Station will
soon have a banner on the
wall set up for vape com-
petitions as well as com-
munity events with corn
hole outside.
“It’s a big community
that’s like a big family,”
Katie Inscho said. “You
meet so many different
types of people.”
The Vape Station is open
Wednesday and Thursday
from 11:30 a.m. to 8 p.m.,
Friday and Saturday from
11:30 a.m. to 10 p.m. and
Sunday from 1-6 p.m.
kaelyn@greercitizen.com | 877-2076
huge spotlight on a large
part of her life. She was
just that kind of person. I
suspect we’ll never know
Live
the depths of things she
accomplished and did for
Greer.”
your best life.
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A6 THE GREER CITIZEN  WEDNESDAY, OCTOBER 3, 2018

Johnny Marshall
‘Pie’ Gregory
Johnny Marshall “Pie”
Gregory, 72, passed on
September 22, 2018 at his
home in Greer, South Car-
olina.
Johnny was born to the
late John and Grace Greg-
ory on March 10, 1946 in
Spartanburg, South Caro-
lina.
Johnny was survived by
his wife, Mattie Gregory;
five sons and a daughter,
Tony Gregory and wife El-
len, Marshall Gregory and
wife Machelle, Trena Greg-
ory-Anderson, Billy Moore,
Napoleon Gregory and
wife Amanda, Ahmad Mul-
lins; and a host of grand-
children, great-grandchil-
dren, nieces, and nephews.
Johnny was also survived
by five siblings, James
Gregory and wife Martha,
Margaret Turner, Everett
Gregory and wife Thoma-
scene, Alvin Gregory and
wife Mickey, Robert Greg-
ory and wife Valerie.  where we will be taking
Johnny was preceded in
death by his sister Lillie
She is predeceased by
her mother, Ginny Pruitt
Tallent.
Debbie was a free spirit
who will be greatly missed
by all who loved her.
A visitation service will
be held on Thursday, Sep-
tember 27, 2018 starting
at 3:00 pm in the Chapel
at Westville Funeral Home,
6010 White Horse Road,
Greenville, SC 29611.
Kenneth Tinsley
Veteran
Kenneth Tinsley, of Tex-
as, passed away Septem-
ber 5, 2018.
A native of
Greer born July
17, 1939, he was
son of the late
John Henry Tinsley and
Emma Carolyn Hopkins.
He served in the US Navy
from July 23, 1956 to Au-
gust 1, 1960 when he was
honorably discharged.
Surviving are his wife,
Merry Jacqueline Allen
Tinsley, of Texas, and his
siblings, Nellie Rumsey,
Kathleen Morris, and John
Thomas Tinsley, all of
Greer.
Arrangements were han-
dled by Navarre Funeral
Home, Baytown, Texas.
MAKEOVER: To be completed by mid-2020
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re-landscape of our entire
downtown area, including
the treatment of Trade
Street, which is our main
commercial area in a fash-
ion that we’re not aware
any other city in South
Carolina has.”
The City of Greer is plan-
ning to replace sidewalks,
gutters, pavement and
landscapes on Poinsett
Street from Main Street
to Randall Street, on Main
Street from Poinsett Street
down to Randall Street,
all of Randall Street from
Main Street back to Poin-
sett, all of Victoria Street,
all of School Street and all
of Depot Street.
“All of that project area
will be included,” Driggers
said. “In the areas outside
of Trade Street, you’ll pri-
marily see in those areas
new sidewalk, new curb
and gutter, new asphalt,
landscaping in all of those
areas.”
Concrete crosswalks will
be installed with two light-
ed ones to be located on
Poinsett Street to identify
clearly to traffic that peo-
ple are prepared to cross
the street.
“On Trade Street is
where you’ll see the most
significant change in the
scope of work, but it’ll be
out the existing road from
face of building to face of
“Our objective is we
want to improve proper-
ties,” Driggers said. “We
don’t want to do anything
to alter or damage proper-
ties.”
One of the main ways
downtown businesses can
prepare is to make the
back door an access point
for customers.
“We’re highly encourag-
ing that,” Driggers said.
“Businesses that have an
alternative access need to
be preparing to use that
alternative access. I think
that’s going to be critical-
ly important for them and
for their success during
this as well.”
“I think there’s a num-
ber of folks that are really
staying in tune with what’s
happening,” he said.
“They’re actively being en-
gaged in what’s going on;
I think those are the folks
that will work through this
best.”
Those who commute
through downtown Greer
will need to be prepared
for detours, and custom-
ers of downtown busi-
nesses will need to park in
different locations, such
as Greer First Baptist, and
flag down a shuttle.
“The only time in this
project that any individu-
al business will not have
access in front of their
door is when we’re doing
the demolition in front of
their door and we’re doing
nity,” he said.
Mayor Danner shared
some of the city’s history
with ACOG in light of the
new streetscape and hotel
developments.
“We were not necessari-
ly on life support like a lot
of other towns that have
seen the textile industry
move out,” Mayor Danner
said. “Our downtown was
a bit anemic through the
late 60s and 70s and even
in to the early 80s and 90s
as well.”
“The City of Greer made
an investment that we
think helped turn our
downtown around, and
that investment is now ten
years old,” he said.
Ten years ago, the city
built a new city hall in
downtown Greer as well as
a 12-acre park and a new
courthouse.
“That was an investment
in that point in time of
about $23 million, which
was a very intentional
injection into what we
hoped would start a re-
vitalization of our down-
town,” Mayor Danner said.
“We think that’s been very
successful.”
“That has created an
enormous amount of foot
traffic and gives us the op-
portunity to do a lot of dif-
ferent programming both
in the downtown area and
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in the park at city hall, so
a number of our festivals,
different types of events,
all of that takes place
within walking distance
of the downtown area,” he
said.
One of the newest, big-
gest developments is a
Hampton Inn at the cor-
ner of Poinsett Street and
Main Street with over 100
rooms and out parcels
too.
“That area right now
includes several empty
buildings now,” Mayor
Danner said. “The tenants
have vacated.”
The more than two-
acre site was formerly
occupied by the old tire
exchange, a residential
house, a warehouse and
more.
“They have acquired all
of that,” Mayor Danner
said. “The city has made a
commitment to work with
them on an incentives
package.”
“We have committed to
the parking garage,” he
said.
The parking garage
will have more than 300
parking spaces; in addi-
tion, Tribe513 and Grace
Church have purchase
neighboring downtown
buildings.
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Mae Nesbitt. building, coming back in the installation in front of

Johnny Gregory was very
active in his local commu-
nity and an avid fisher-
man, and will be missed
by many.
There was a private cel-
ebration of life on Satur-
and installing the shared
street design which will
be all brick pavers, heavy
landscaping, heavy street
furniture, new street light-
Dr. Nancy Lee ing, a different design to
Turner Welch that area, so it will have a
%
their door,” Driggers said.
“Other than that window
when we’re right in front
of them, there will always
be access to them no mat-
ter what’s going on on the
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at Grace Hall in Greer,
South Carolina. The family Dr. Nancy Lee Turner
would like to express sin- Welch, 77, of Greer, SC,
cere appreciation for all of died Thursday, September
the thought-felt gestures, 27, 2018.
including cards, flowers, Visitation was 3-6 p.m.
and phone calls. Saturday, Sept. 29, 2018,
The Gregory family was at First Presbyterian
cared for by Sullivan Bros. Church of Greer. Funeral
Mortuary Inc.  services were conducted
at 3 p.m. Sunday, Sept. 30,
2018, at First Presbyterian
Church of Greer, by The
Rev. Brandi Casto-Waters.
Interment was in Wood
Memorial Park, 863 Gap
Creek Road, Duncan, SC
29334.
In lieu of flowers, the
family requests memori-
als be made to First Pres-
byterian Church of Greer,
100 School Street, Greer,
SC 29651; Greer Edu-
cation Foundation, 111
Trade Street, Greer, SC
29651; Greenville Tech-
nical College Foundation
for the Benson Campus,
Debra ‘Debbie’ Ann Miller PO Box 5616, Greenville,
to it,” he said.
During this time of
heavy construction, the
City of Greer is requiring
the contractor to hold
weekly meetings with the
city, the design engineers,
and the civil engineers in
order to review the sched-
ule and keep the channels
of communication open.
“Delays would be my
first concern because it’s
a huge construction proj-
ect,” Driggers said. “There
will be rain; there may be
snow.”
“As long as we know
what’s happening, we
think that we can plan
appropriately so that our
business can continue to
operate,” he said. “That is
our number one priority
in this project. Yes, I want
to come in on budget. I
want to come in on time,
but our absolute highest
priority is minimizing the
impact of this project to
%
cess to all of our business-
es in downtown while we
are in construction,” he
said. “That’s the reason
that we went ahead and
did the paving of the alley
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FOR 25 MONTHS
ways, and we did the con-
struction of the parking
lot….We’re working really,
really hard is to minimize
that interruption….The
intent is to get in and get
out of there as quickly as
we can.”
The parking garage is a
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passed away Friday, Sep-
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Debbie was a resident of
the Greer community.
Debbie is survived by
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879-2913 Grace United Methodist Church 627 Taylor Road • Greer

ASSEMBLIES OF GOD Northwood Baptist Church Liberty Hill United Methodist Church
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Glad Tidings Tabernacle 888 Ansel School Rd., Greer • 877-5417 301 Liberty Hill Rd., Greer • 968-8150
100 O’Neal Road, Greer • 561-7174 O’Neal Baptist Church Liberty United Methodist Church
Starting a New Covenant Fellowship 3420 N. Highway 101, Greer • 895-0930
Pelham First Baptist Church
4276 Highway 414, Landrum • 292-0142
Memorial United Methodist Church
2425 Racing Rd., Greer • 848-4521
Business? Trinity Fellowship Church 2720 S. Old Highway 14, Greer • 879-4032
People’s Baptist Church
201 N. Main St., Greer • 877-0956
Mountain View UMC
3610 Brushy Creek Rd., Greer • 877-0419

HEARING Retired CPA

417 S. Buncombe Rd.
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Suite 7C
1700 N. Pleasantburg Dr, Greenville • 244-6011

BAPTIST
310 Victor Avenue Ext., Greer • 848-0449
Piney Grove Missionary Baptist Church
201 Jordan Rd., Lyman • 879-2646
6525 Mountain View Rd., Taylors • 895-8532
Sharon United Methodist Church
1421 Reidville Sharon Rd., Greer • 879-7926

IONS 864-630-6625 Greer, SC 29650 Abner Creek Baptist Church

2461 Abner Creek Rd., Greer • 877-6604
Airport Baptist Church
Pleasant Grove Baptist Church
1002 S. Buncombe Rd., Greer • 877-6436
Pleasant Hill Baptist Church
4899 Jordan Rd., Greer • 895-3546
St. Mark United Methodist Church
911 St. Mark Rd., Taylors • 848-7141
St. Paul United Methodist Church
3856 N. Highway 101, Greer • 895-5570
776 S. Batesville Rd., Greer • 848-7850
Providence Baptist Church Victor United Methodist Church
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2011 Apalache Baptist
1915 Gap Creek Rd., Greer • 877-6012 2020 Gibbs Shoals Rd., Greer • 877-3483
Rebirth Missionary Baptist Church
1 Wilson Ave., Greer • 877-5520
Woods Chapel United Methodist Church
12 noon, and 2HEARING
Bible Baptist Church
p.m. 6645 Mountain View Rd., Taylors • 895-7003 2375 Racing Road, Greer • 877-0449
Riverside Baptist Church
2388 Brown Wood Rd., Greer • 921-3557
Zoar United Methodist Church
SOLUTIONS Blue Ridge Baptist Church
3950 Pennington Rd., Greer • 895-5787 1249 S. Suber Rd., Greer • 879-4400 1005 Highway 357, Greer • 877-0758
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3315 Brushy Creek Rd., Greer • 877-8090
Southside Baptist Church

417 S. Buncombe Road 600 Bridge Rd., Taylors • 244-2774 410 S. Main St., Greer • 421-5686 PRESBYTERIAN
St. John’s Baptist Church Blue Ridge Presbyterian Church
Jim Swiger H.I.S. Burnsview Baptist Church
HEARING Greer, SC 29650 9690 Reidville Rd., Greer • 879-4006 2 Groveland Rd., Taylors • 879-2904
Suber Road Baptist Church
2094 Highway 101 North, Greer • 483-2140
Devenger Road Presbyterian Church
Calvary Baptist
AID Jim SCSwiger DHEC #412 101 Calvary St., Greer • 877-9759 445 S. Suber Rd., Greer • 801-0181 1200 Devenger Rd., Greer • 268-7652
Blue Cross Blue Calvary Baptist Taylors First Baptist Church Fellowship Presbyterian Church
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SC DHEC #412 108 Forest St., Greer • 968-0092 200 W. Main St., Taylors • 244-3535
United Family Ministries
1105 Old Spartanburg Rd., Greer • 877-3267
First Presbyterian Church
Blue Cross Blue&Shield
Humana Calvary Hill Baptist
ALL MAKES & Humana
100 Edward Rd., Lyman 13465 E. Wade Hampton Blvd., Greer • 877-3235
Victor Baptist
100 School St., Greer • 877-3612
Calvary Road Baptist Church Fulton Presbyterian Church
238-4754 Free
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108 Bright Rd., Greer • 593-2643
Camp Creek Baptist Church
121 New Woodruff Rd., Greer • 877-9686
Washington Baptist Church
821 Abner Creek Rd., Greer • 879-3190

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Cedar Grove Baptist Church Welcome Home Baptist Church Agape House 900 Gap Creek Rd., Greer • 329-7491

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109 Elmer St., Greer • 877-6216 1779 Pleasant Hill Rd., Greer • 901-7674 Anglican Church of St. George the Martyr
Community Baptist Church 427 Batesville Rd., Simpsonville • 281-0015
642 S. Suber Rd., Greer • 848-3500 CATHOLIC Barton’s Memorial Pentacostal Holiness

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4389 Wade
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Double Springs Baptist Church
3800 Locust Hill Rd., Taylors • 895-1314
Blessed Trinity Catholic Church
901 River Rd., Greer • 879-4225
Highway 101 North, Greer
Bethesda Temple 125 Broadus St., Greer • 877-8523
Beulah Christian Fellowship Church
Ebenezer-Welcome Baptist Church

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CHURCH OF CHRIST 1017 Mauldin Rd., Greenville • 283-0639
awn Taylors
4005 Highway 414, Landrum • 895-1461
El Bethel Baptist Church
313 Jones Ave., Greer • 877-4021
Riverside Church of Christ
2103 Old Spartanburg Rd., Greer • 322-6847
Calvary Bible Fellowship
Holiday Inn, Duncan • 266-4269
864-292-1842 • 879-2913 Calvary Chapel of Greer

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Emmanuel Baptist Church 3315 Brushy Creek Rd. • Greer • 877-8090
423 S. Buncombe Rd., Greer • 877-2121 CHURCH OF GOD Christ Fellowship
Enoree Fork Baptist Church Church of God - Greer 343 Hampton Rd., Greer • 879-8446
For information 100 Enoree Circle, Greer • 268-4385 500 Trade St., Greer • 877-0374 Christian Heritage Church
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on this page, 1300 Locust Hill Rd., Greer • 877-1881 2416 N. Highway 14, Greer • 877-8329 Christian Life Center 2 Country Plaza • 322-1325
call 864-877-2076. First Baptist Church Eastside Worship Center Christian Outreach 106 West Rd. • 848-0308
202 W. Poinsett St., Greer • 877-4253 601 Taylors Rd., Taylors • 268-0523 El-Bethel Holiness 103 E. Church St. • 968-9474
Freedom Fellowship O’Neal Church of God Faith Family Church
4373 Wade Hampton Blvd., Taylors • 631-1336 3794 Berry Mill Rd., Greer • 895-4273 3339 Wade Hampton Blvd., Taylors • 244-0207
Friendship Baptist Church Pelham Church of God of Prophecy Faith Temple 5080 Sandy Flat Rd., Taylors • 895-2524
1600 Holly Springs Rd., Lyman • 877-4746 139 Abner Creek Rd., Greer • 801-0528 Harmony Fellowship Church
Good News Baptist Church 468 S. Suber Rd., Greer • 877-8287
301 McCall St. • Greer
Praise Cathedral Church of God
1592 S. Highway 14, Greer • 879-2289 3390 Brushy Creek Rd., Greer • 879-4878 Harvest Christian Church
Grace Baptist Church 2150 Highway 417, Woodruff • 486-8877

848-5500 760 W. Gap Creek Rd., Greer • 879-3519

Grace Place
407 Ridgewood Dr., Greer
Greer Freewill Baptist Church
110 Pine Ridge Dr., Greer • 968-0310
Groveland Baptist Church
2 Groveland Rd., Taylors • 879-2913
Heritage Chapel Baptist Church
218 Alexander Rd., Greer • 989-0170
Highland Baptist Church
3270 Hwy. 414, Taylors • 895-5270
Hillcrest Baptist Church
DILL CREEK COMMONS 111 Biblebrook Dr., Greer • 877-4206
1379 W. Wade Hampton, Greer Hispanic Baptist Iglesia Bautista Hispana
199 Hubert St., Greer • 877-3899
864-848-5222 Holly Springs Baptist Church
250 Hannon Rd., Inman • 877-6765
Locust Hill Baptist Church
Greer
EPISCOPAL
Good Shepherd Episcopal
200 Cannon St., Greer • 877-2330
LUTHERAN
Abiding Peace Ev. Lutheran Church
401 Batesville Rd., Simpsonville •288-4867
Apostolic Lutheran Church
453 N. Rutherford Rd., Greer • 848-4568
Immanuel Lutheran Church & School LCMS
2820 Woodruff Rd., Simpsonville • 297-5815
Redeemer Lutheran Church, ELCA
300 Oneal Rd., Greer • 877-5876
Saints Peter and Paul Ev. Lutheran
400 Parker Ivey Dr., Greenville • 551-0246
METHODIST
Bethel United Methodist Church
International Cathedral of Prayer
100 Davis Avenue • Greer • 655-0009
Journey Fellowship
1846 Old Hwy. 14S • 877-2442
Lifesong Church
12481 Greenville Highway, Lyman • 439-2602
Living Way Community Church
3239 N. Highway 101, Greer • 895-0544
New Beginnings Outreach
104 New Woodruff Rd., Greer • 968-2424
New Hope Freedom
109 W. Wade Hampton Blvd. • Greer • 205-8816
New Life in Christ 210 Arlington Rd. • 346-9053
Point of Life Church
Wade Hampton Blvd. • Duncan • 426-4933
Shekhinah Kind Glory Church
600 N. Main St., Greer • 655-4545
Springwell Church
4369 Wade Hampton Blvd., Taylors • 268-2299
St. Andrews Anglican Church

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5534 Locust Hill Rd., Travelers Rest • 895-1771 105 E. Arlington Ave., Greer • 879-2066
Maple Creek Baptist Church www.standrewupstate.com

UALITY
609 S. Main St., Greer • 877-1791
Memorial Drive Baptist Church
OODS
570 Memorial Drive Ext., Greer • 877-7061
Milford Baptist Church
1282 Milford Church Rd., Greer • 895-5533
Mount Lebanon Baptist Church
572 Mt. Lebanon Church Rd., Greer • 895-2334
508 North Main St. • 877-4043 New Hope Baptist Church
7 am - 10 pm Mon.-Sat. 561 Gilliam Rd., Greer • 879-7080
New Jerusalem Baptist Church
413 E. Poinsett St., Greer • 968-9203
New Life Baptist Church
90 Becco Rd., Greer • 895-3224
Covenant United Methodist Church
1310 Old Spartanburg Rd., Greer • 244-3162
Ebenezer United Methodist Church
174 Ebenezer Road, Greer • 987-9644
Faith United Methodist Church
1301 S. Main St. (S. Hwy. 14), Greer • 877-0308
Fews Chapel United Methodist Church
4000 N. Highway 101, Greer • 895-2522
Grace United Methodist Church
627 Taylor Rd., Greer • 877-7015
Lee Road United Methodist Church
1377 East Lee Rd., Taylors • 244-6427
United Anglican Fellowship
1001 W. Poinsett St., Greer • 629-3350
United Christian Church
105 Daniel Ave., Greer • 895-3966
United House of Prayer
213 Oak St., Greer • 848-0727
Upstate Friends’ Meeting (Quaker)
P.O. Box 83, Lyman • 439-8788
Upstate Tree of Life
203 East Bearden St., Greer • 848-1295
Victorian Hills Community Church
209 Victor Ave. Ext., Greer • 877-3981
Vine Worship Center
4373 Wade Hampton Blvd., Taylors • 244-8175
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The Greer Citizen

A8 THE GREER CITIZEN  WEDNESDAY, OCTOBER 3, 2018

Area NFPA: HOME FIRE DEATH RATE HIGHER THAN IN 1980

Depts
BOILING SPRINGS
Fire Chief: Steve Graham
5020 Pelham Road,
Greenville
2015 Hudson Road, Greer
228 S. Batesville Road, Greer
208 Blacks Drive, Greenville
288-5037
boilingspringsfd.org
CAMPOBELLO
Fire Chief: Eddie McNeill
50 Broad St., Campobello
468-4921
campobellofd.com
CITY OF GREER
Fire Chief: Dorian Flowers
103 W. Poinsett St., Greer
1985 Hood Road, Greer
848-2166
www.cityofgreer.org
GLASSY MOUNTAIN
Fire Chief: Robert J. Staples
2015 Highway 11, Landrum
895-4306
gmfd.net
GOWENSVILLE
Fire Chief: David Ross
2201 W. Old Highway 14,
Landrum
895-4452
gowensvillefd.org
HOLLY SPRINGS
Fire Chief: Brent Blackwell
3301 Highway 357, Inman
848-4107
hsvfd.com
NORTH GREENVILLE
Fire Chief: Lee Kelly
923 Tigerville Road,
Travelers Rest
596 Hodgens Drive,
Travelers Rest
834-9332
northgreenvillefd.net
PELHAM-BATESVILLE
Fire Chief: Phil Jolley
2761 S. Highway 14, Greer
431 Batesville Road,
Simpsonville
789 Brockman McClimon
Road, Greer
137 Rogers Circle, Greer
877-1247
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REIDVILLE
Fire Chief: Patrick Evatt
Find the Safety Words and Phrases
7450 Reidville Road,
Reidville
Message seeks to combat latest statistic
During
week of
Oct. 7-13
According to the Nation-
al Fire Protection Associa-
tion (NFPA), if you have a
reported home fire today,
you are more likely to die
than you were in 1980.
This star-
See tling fact is
Applying attributed to
the several fac-
Message tors, including
| A9 the way homes
are built and
the contents in
them.
“Open floor plans and a
prevalence of modern syn-
thetic furnishings make
homes burn faster and
the fires produce deadly
smoke and gases within
moments,” said Lorraine
Carli, NFPA vice president
of Outreach and Advoca-
cy. According to Carli, you
can have as little as two to
three minutes to escape a
home fire today as com-
pared to eight to ten min-
utes years ago.
These concerns prompt-
ed NFPA to create “Look.
Listen. Learn. Be aware.
Fire can happen any-
where” as the theme for
Fire Prevention Week, Oc-
tober 7-13, 2018. It em-
phasizes three basic but
critical messages:
Look for places fire can
start.
Listen for the sound of
the smoke alarm.
Learn two ways out of
each room.
This year’s Fire Preven-
tion Week messages point
to the essentials of home
fire safety,” said Carli.
“Looking for potential
fire hazards in the home,
making sure your smoke
alarms are working prop-
erly, and having a home
escape plan that everyone
‘Open floor plans
and a prevalence of
modern synthetic
furnishings make
homes burn faster
and the fires
produce deadly
smoke and gases
within moments.’
Lorraine Carli
NFPA Vice President
of Outreach and Advocacy
has practiced – these ac-
tions can dramatically re-
duce the loss from home
fires.”
Motivating the public to
take these steps can prove
challenging, notes Car-
li, because people don’t
think they could have a
fire, despite the fact that
home is the place they’re
at greatest risk. Four out
of five U.S. fire deaths oc-
cur in homes.
“Because we have re-
duced the overall number
of fires, there is a general
complacency and a lack of
action around home fire
preparedness and plan-
ning,” said Carli. “Our goal
for Fire Prevention Week is
to make sure people rec-
ognize that fire remains
a very real risk, and that is a global, nonprofit or- the NFPA mission. Information Center, Fire
everyone needs to take ac- ganization devoted to For more information, Prevention Week is the
tion to protect themselves eliminating death, injury, visit www.nfpa.org. All longest running public
and their families.” property and economic NFPA codes and standards health and safety obser-
For more information loss due to fire, electrical can be viewed online for vance on record.
about Fire Prevention and related hazards. The free at www.nfpa.org/free- The President of the
Week, October 7-13, and association delivers in- access. United States has signed
this year’s theme, “Look. formation and knowledge a proclamation declar-
Listen. Learn. Be aware. through more than 300 FIRE PREVENTION WEEK ing a national observance
Fire can happen any- consensus codes and stan- NFPA has been the of- during that week every
where,” visit www.firepre- dards, research, training, ficial sponsor of Fire Pre- year since 1925.
ventionweek.org. education, outreach and vention Week since 1922.
advocacy; and by partner- According to the Nation-
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The NFPA suggests several ways that adults can
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Duncan firefighter to be honored
LOOK
Look, Listen and Learn to prevent fires.

Places to look and things to look for

at National Memorial Service
Kitchen:
• Anything that can catch fire is kept away from the stovetop,
including oven mitts, boxes, paper products, etc.
On Oct. 7
• Pets are kept off cooking surfaces and nearby countertops to
prevent them from knocking things onto burners. in Maryland
• Any food being cooked is being watched closely by someone in
the home. The U.S. Fire Service
Heaters: will honor a firefighter,
• Anything that can burn is kept at least 3 feet away from heating who died in the line of
equipment, including furniture, blankets, newspapers, duty, from South Carolina
magazines during the 37th National
• Heating equipment and chimneys are cleaned and inspected Fallen Firefighters Memo-
every year by a qualified professional. rial Service on Sunday,
• Portable heaters are turned off when leaving the room or going Oct. 7, 2018. Darryl Wayne Frost
to bed. He is among the 80 fire-
• Proper fuel is used in fuel-burning space heaters. fighters who died in the emergency call within a
• The fireplace has a sturdy screen to stop sparks from flying line of duty in 2017 and 24-hour timeframe.
around the room. 23 firefighters who died in His name will be added
• A covered metal container is ready for use to dispose of cooled previous years who will be to the National Fallen Fire-
ashes. remembered at the official fighters Memorial on the
Electricity: national service at the Na- Academy grounds. The na-
• All electrical work is done by a qualified electrician. tional Fire Academy in Em- tional tribute is sponsored
• Only one heat-producing appliance is plugged into a receptacle mitsburg, Maryland. by the National Fallen Fire-
outlet at a time. Extension cords are not used. Firefighter Darryl Wayne fighters Foundation (NFFF)
• Electrical cords are checked to make sure they are not running Frost, age 48, of the Town and the Department of ministration officials and ipate in this national re-
across doorways or under carpets. of Duncan Fire Depart- Homeland Security’s U.S. firefighters are expected membrance.
• Light fixtures use lightbulbs that have the correct number o ment suffered a heart Fire Administration. to attend on Sunday. Fire- For a complete list of
watts. attack and died on Nov. More than 5,000 people, fighter Honor Guards and fallen firefighters being
20, 2014, shortly after including families, friends, Pipe & Drum units from honored, visit www.firehe-
LISTEN responding to his third members of Congress, Ad- across the U.S. will partic- ro.org.
Know the sound of the smoke alarm
• When the smoke alarm sounds, get out and stay out.
• Go to your outside meeting place. Call 9-1-1 or the fire
department.
• Never go back inside for people, pets, or things.
• It is important to test them monthly by pushing the test button.
• Replace all smoke alarms when they are 10 years old or if they
do not respond when tested. Name _______________________________________
• Smoke alarms and alert devices are available for people who are
deaf or hard of hearing, using stroble lights or pillow/bed
shakers

LEARN
Two ways out of every room
At home:
• Make a home escape plan with all household members. Draw a
map of each level of the home, showing all doors and
windows. Make sure you have two ways out of every room.
• Practice day and nighttime home fire drills.
• Share your home escape plans with guests.
• If you live in a high-rise or condo, talk to the building manager
about the evacuation plans.
• If smoke or fire is blocking one of your exits, use your second
exit to escape to safety.
At places of public assembly:
• When you enter a building you should look for all available exits.
Some exits may be in front and some in back of you.
• Be prepared to use your closest exits. You may not be able to
use the main exit.
• Make sure aisles are wide enough and not blocked by chairs or
Be aware. Fire can
furniture.
• Check to make sure your exit door is not blocked or chained. happen anywhere.
• If there are not at least two exits or if exit paths are blocked,
report the violation to management and leave the building if it
is not immediately addressed.

Tips for returning

home after a fire
Home structure fires
pose a significant, poten-
tially deadly threat. Ac-
cording to the National
Fire Protection Associa-
tion, U.S. fire departments
responded to an average
358,300 home structure
fires per year between
2010 and 2014.
A host of factors can
contribute to home fires.
Cooking equipment, heat-
ing equipment and electri-
cal distribution and light-
ing equipment can spark
home structure fires. In
such instances, home-
owners may soon find
themselves picking up the
pieces after their homes,
and many of their pos-
sessions, have burned to
the ground. The U.S. Fire
• Do not enter the home
until the fire department
deems it safe to do so.
Even fires that appear to ®
be out can start again. In
addition, the USFA advises
that roofs and floors, even
those that appear sturdy
to the naked eye, can still
fall down after the blaze
has been extinguished.
Avoid entering a home un-
til you have been given the
go-ahead by the local fire
department.
• Contact the police
and your insurance agent.
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Administration offers the
following tips to men and
women who must recov-
er after their homes have
fallen victim to structure
fires.
• Recognize the need to
be patient. When a home
is on fire, firefighters may
take certain actions to en-
sure the fire is completely
extinguished. For exam-
ple, holes might be drilled
in the walls of homes to
make sure there are no
hidden flames. In addi-
tion, holes may be cut in
the roof to let out heat and
smoke. Such actions can
save lives and even homes,
but the resulting cleanup
can be time-consuming.
When returning home for
the first time after a fire,
men and women must rec-
ognize the need to remain
patient as they formu-
late and execute a plan to
clean up their homes.
• Contact a disaster
relief service. The local
branch of a disaster relief
service like the Salvation
Army can help victims of
them about the fire and
that they will not be living
there. Police departments
and/or home insurance
providers may require
that holes in walls and
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broken windows be board-
ed up to prevent trespass-
ers from gaining entry to
the home. Renters should
contact their landlords im-
mediately as well.
• Be careful with items
that were not burned.
The USFA notes that even
items that were not burned
may still have been ruined
by smoke or been soaked
with water. Carefully clean
any items that you think
can be salvaged before us-
ing them.
• Save all receipts
spent on repairs. Insur-
ance companies may re-
quire receipts to confirm
spending on repairs, and
such receipts may also be
required for people who
want to claim any losses
on their tax returns.
Home fires can turn lives
upside down. But follow- FIRE
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lodging, food, clothing,

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The Greer Citizen

A10 THE GREER CITIZEN  WEDNESDAY, OCTOBER 3, 2018

Greer man dies in motorcycle accident

BY KAELYN CASHMAN stop on the vehicle near S. ty to confirm his warrants. bleeding from a cut on
STAFF WRITER Suber Rd. The driver of the After a short period of her head. She was Identi-
vehicle took an unusually time, both agencies con- fied as Deborah Jefcoat. A
Wesley Eugene Sosebee, long distance to pull over, firmed their warrants. strong odor of alcohol was
39, died last Thursday af- passing several private McCullough was searched, coming from her person,
ter a motorcycle accident driveways where he could and during the search, and her speech was very
in Greer. have stopped. The driver, an officer located a small slurred and delayed when
According to the Green- identified as Wayne Dun- quantity of a green plant answering questions.
ville County Coroner’s lap, eventually stopped material that smelled Based on Jefcoat’s behav-
Office, Sosebee’s motor- near Payne Rd. Dunlap strongly of marijuana in- ior and his experience as
cycle collided with a large provided a SC beginner’s side of McCullough’s right an officer, he determined
SUV at the intersection of permit, which the officer front pocket. McCullough she was intoxicated and
Cherokee Drive and Wade found to be suspended, was turned over to Spar- as a result lost her balance
Hampton Blvd at around and Dunlap had one prior tanburg County deputies, and fell on the ground.
5:10 p.m. Sosebee and DUS conviction in 2016. and the green plant ma- EMS arrived and evaluated
his passenger were both Dunlap was asked to step terial was submitted into Jefcoat. Due to her head
transported to Greenville out of the vehicle and stat- Property and Evidence for injury, EMS recommended
Memorial Hospital where ed that he did not know analysis. McCullough was she go to the hospital, and
Sosebee was pronounced his license was suspended showing several active Jefcoat agreed. Jefcoat
dead. The passenger was but stated that he was us- warrants: DUS 3rd, Fail- was transported by EMS to
hospitalized but their con- ing a beginners permit. It ure to Appear, Failure to the hospital.
dition was not known at was also found that Dun- Stop on Command of Of-
press time. This case is be- lap had an active warrant ficer with Duncan PD and DUI
ing investigated by South with Greenville County for a Failure to Appear for a Eric Shawn Fuller, 32, of
Carolina Highway Patrol violation of probation. wildlife charge with Spar- Taylors has been charged
and the Greenville County The officer noticed that tanburg. with Driving Under the In-
Coroner’s Office. Dunlap was sweating fluence. According to an
heavily, despite it being MARIJUANA POSSESSION incident report from Greer
only 73 degrees out. Dun- Justin Lavarggio An- police, on Sept. 8, at 2:37
lap was placed in hand- derson, 29, of Lyman has a.m., an officer was on pa-
cuffs, and A K9 Officer been charged with Simple trol in the area of W. Wade
conducted a free air sniff Possession of Marijuana Hampton Blvd and N. Main
around Dunlap’s vehicle. first offense. St. when he observed the
The K9 Officer advised According to an incident driver of a Chevrolet Equi-
the officer of a positive report from Greer police, nox leave the Spinx park-
alert to the odor of illegal on Sept. 19 around 11:40 ing lot, without coming to
drugs within the vehicle. p.m., near the intersec- a stop before entering the
A probable cause search tion of Gap Creek Road public roadway. The driver
of the vehicle was con- and East Wade Hampton also failed to give a right
ducted, and a clear glass Boulevard, an officer con- turn signal. The officer
pipe with less than a gram ducted a traffic stop on followed the vehicle for
of white crystal substance a vehicle with a defective a short distance along W.
GCSO SEEKING SEXUAL and burnt residue was headlight. The officer Wade Hampton Blvd. and
ASSAULT SUSPECT found inside it as well as made contact with the noticed the driver weav-
an open container of Ice- driver, who identified him- ing within his lane and,
BY KAELYN CASHMAN house beer. Dunlap stated self as Justin Anderson by twice, the driver touched

WILLIS: Suspects sought

STAFF WRITER that the pipe was not his presenting a valid South the white dotted line with
and that a female he was Carolina license. While his right tires. The officer
Investigators with the with earlier in the day had making contact with the suspected the driver may
Greenville County Sher- left it in the vehicle; how- driver, the officer smelled be impaired, conducted
iff’s Office are seeking the ever, the pipe was located the overwhelming odor of a traffic stop and made FROM PAGE ONE able in the pictures,” said
public’s assistance in iden- within a book bag which what he knew to be mar- contact with the driver, Lieutenant Ryan Flood,
tifying a sketched subject also contained paper doc- ijuana coming from the Eric Fuller. While speaking the W.E. Willis Grocery, Public Information Officer
they believe to be involved uments with Dunlap’s vehicle. The officer asked with Fuller, the officer no- located at 3601 Hwy 414, for the Greenville County
in a sexual assault. name on them. Dunlap Anderson to step out, and ticed the odor of alcoholic during the morning of Sheriff’s Office.
Police initiated an in- was transported to the a search of his person was beverage and asked Full- Sept. 25. Investigators are at-
vestigation on a sexu- Greer City Jail without conducted. A small quan- er if he had been drink- According to police, five tempting to gather infor-
al assault that occurred incident. The glass pipe tity of a green leafy sub- ing, and he stated he had subjects attacked the own- mation related to a red
Tuesday, Sept. 25, on was seized, and the sub- stance rolled in a “blunt” consumed two alcoholic er, kidnapped him and truck suspected to be
Beechwood Drive in Greer. stance inside field tested was located. A search of drinks. The officer re- subsequently burglarized driven by the suspects.
The incident was report- positive for methamphet- his vehicle did not yield quested Fuller perform a and shot his wife inside The vehicle, which had
ed after the victim came amine. The pipe was sent any additional contraband Standardized Field Sobri- a residence on Sweetgum been previously reported
home to find the pictured to Greenville County lab found. The blunt contain- ety Test, then placed him Road. as stolen, was recovered
suspect inside, according for analysis. Vehicle was ing the green plant mate- under arrest and trans- “We understand the in close proximity to the
to Lieutenant Ryan Flood, towed by Barnes towing. rial was placed into the ported him to the Greer subpar image quality of robbery and shooting lo-
Public Information Officer officer’s pocket and due City Jail, where he request- the photographs; how- cations shortly after the
for the Greenville County MARIJUANA POSSESSION to a large hole in his right ed a breath sample. Fuller ever, investigators hope incidents occurred.
Sheriff’s Office. The sub- Melvin J. McCullough, cargo pocket, the contra- provided a breath sample that the community might As of early this week,
ject then proceeded to 26, of Greer has been band fell onto the ground of 0.11. recognize clothing or any Willis’ wife remained in
sexually assault the victim charged with Simple Pos- and could not be located. other particularity avail- critical condition.
before fleeing the scene. session of Marijuana. Ac- Due to this, it will not be
Investigators ask for cording to an incident sent to Greenville County

WE’VE GOT
anyone with information report from Greer police, for lab analysis.
pertaining to a potential on Sept. 19 at 12:37 p.m.,
identity of the suspect an officer responded to PUBLIC DRUNK
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WEDNESDAY, OCTOBER 3, 2018 
Eastside
edges
TR
With stellar
effort from
Mangrum
BY BILLY CANNADA
SPORTS EDITOR
Eastside knocked off an
undefeated Travelers Rest
squad during a Region II-
AAAA shootout last Friday
night.
The eagles claimed a 56-
55 overtime victory after
stellar offensive perfor-
mances on both sides.
Eastside and Travelers
Rest went blow-for-blow
in the first half, with Trav-
elers Rest building a bit
of a lead before half. The
Devildog offense couldn’t
be stopped early, and they
took a 42-28 lead into the
break.
The Eagles weren’t done,
however, tying the game at
49-49 late in the fourth. In
the first overtime period,
Eastside quarterback Daw-
son Conrad found Payton
Mangrum in the end zone
for an eight yard score,
going up 56-49 after the
PAT.
Travelers Rest answered
with a score of its own, but
a failed two-point conver-
sion attempt gave Eastside
its fifth win of the season.
Mangrum was dominant
in the contest, catching 13
passes for 156 yards and
two touchdowns. Man-
grum also recorded a 93-
yard kickoff return for a
touchdown.
On defense, the Eagles
were led by Trent Bow-
man, who had two inter-
ceptions and three tackles
on the night.
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Shayne van Wettering had a big night for the Tigers during the team’s first win over Berea.
Tiger defense claims
shutout during first win
Against
Berea
BY BILLY CANNADA
SPORTS EDITOR
Blue Ridge picked up its
first win of the season last
Friday night, and the Ti-
gers did so in convincing
fashion.
After starting the season
0-5, Blue Ridge’s defense
played lights out during a
26-0 victory over Berea.
“It was a great team
win,” Blue Ridge lineback-
er Shayne VanWettering
said. “It’s good to get that
first one out of the way.
Everybody did their job
and we managed to get
the shutout. I feel like this
is going to be our break-
through.”
The Tigers took com-
mand early, scoring 10
points in the first and six
Jackets top Greenville
In region
showdown
BY LELAND BURCH
FOR THE GREER CITIZEN
Greer hobbled into the
lead in the Region II 4-A
football race with a hard-
earned 28-20 road win
over Greenville on Friday
night.
‘I don’t buy the
excuse for sloppy
play to us having a
two week layoff.’
Will Young
Greer head coach
Both teams were limp-
ing at the final whistle
after having shot them-
selves in the foot so of-
ten. Greer failed to con-
vert on four drives into
scoring territory while
the Red Raiders suffered
four turnovers.
“We made way too
many mistakes in the red
zone,” Greer Coach Will
Young explained, cit-
ing false start penalties
and blown assignments.
“And, we missed a field
goal that we make all the
time in practice,” he con-
tinued. “I don’t buy the
excuse for sloppy play
to us having a two week
layoff.”
Young said “I thought
our offensive line phys-
ical up front, despite
the mistakes, and that
was positive. Our de-
fense wound playing well
again, holding Greenville
113 yards rushing, and
most of those yards were
on one drive.
“We played hard, but
just good enough to win.
in the second to build a
16-0 advantage at the half.
VanWettering led the team
with 13 tackles and one
sack.
James Thurn’s team con-
tinued its strong outing in
the second half.
“It was nice to move the
football,” Thurn said. “We
were not as crisp as I’d like
for us to be in the second
half, but our first half was
probably the most clean
half of football we’ve
played.”
Although a notch goes
in the win column, Thurn
wants his team’s focus to
be elsewhere.
“Of course we’re happy
to get a win, but try not
to focus on the wins and
losses because sometimes
those outcomes aren’t
in your favor,” he said.
“Sometimes you can play
well and the other team is
just better than you are,
so we try to focus more on
the process and what we
Sports
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Dre Williams and the Greer offense pulled off a gritty 28-20 road win over Greenville last
Friday night.
Overall, I am very pleased
to come away with a win
over a quality opponent,”
Young declared. The win
put Greer up 1-0 in the
region and 5-1 overall,
while Greenville dropped
to 3-3 overall and 0-1 in
league play.
Greer was searching
for a new identity with-
out quarterback Trey
Houston for the first
time in two and one-half
years. “We had no plan
to play Houston (who
was injured in the Union
game) but we weren’t
that much different in
our play calling,” Young
explained. Matthew Huff,
subbing for Houston,
“handled himself real-
ly well. I thought he did
a good job,” Young said
after the senior threw for
104 yards and two touch-
PHOTO | COURTESY OF TED CONWELL
can control.”
The new head coach was
pleased with his team’s
resilience and consistency
on offense the Bulldogs.
“We’re not an explosive
offense, but when we’re
moving the ball we can
run the clock and make
some play,” Thurn said.
“It would be easy for
guys to check out, but
our players haven’t done
that. They’re continuing to
trust the process and get
better.”
Although the Tigers are
now 1-0 in the region, they
will have to host Green-
ville on Friday night.
“It’s business as usual
for us,” Thurn said. “I’d
be lying to you if I said
our kids don’t have a little
more pep in their step, but
we’re not talking about
our record. We’re talking
about trying to get better.”
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downs and ran for anoth-
er 96 yards. “Huff throws
the deep ball extremely
well.”
Senior running back
Dre Williams, also injured
against Union, found his
footing in the second
half when he rushed for
174 yards to help the
Yellow Jacket salt away
the win by keeping the
offense on the field and
the ball out of the hands
of Greenville quarterback
Davis Beville. “We have
been working to get him
ready, and he had a ter-
rific second half,” Coach
Young noted. Williams
finished with 223 yards
and two touchdowns.
Junior defensive back/
wide receiver Cameron
Martin rarely came off
the field. Martin helped
contain the Red Raiders
Harris, Rebels
cruise past RHS
at Reservation
BY BILLY CANNADA
SPORTS EDITOR
The Rebels used a re-
lentless run game to ease
past Riverside (45-20) last
Friday night on the road,
handing Riverside its sixth
loss of the year and im-
proving to 5-1.
Byrnes tallied five rush-
ing touchdowns, as Rahjai
Harris, Mike Jenkins and
Haeven Hill each found
the end zone.
Harris led the group with
three of the scores and
111 yards on the night.
Despite getting hit ear-
ly, Riverside managed to
keep the game interesting,
as Andrew Brown found
Brody O’Brien on a 28-yard
route to narrow the early
Byrnes quarterback BJ Peake got the start during the
Rebels’ matchup with Riverside.
PRESTON BURCH | THE GREER CITIZEN
air attack while making
some key catches of his
own. Young said Martin
“is by the best corner
we have, ever since we
plugged him in at Byrnes,
and he does an excellent
job as a wide receiver.”
Greer’s defense, guided
by Coach Steve Wilson
subbing for Coordina-
tor Travis Perry, gave
up only two big plays, a
56-yard touchdown pass
and a 96-yard kickoff re-
turn. “Between Steve and
Tyson Wright, everything
ran smooth,” Young not-
ed. “Nobody got frustrat-
ed, and the kids just kept
plugging away.”
Defensive leaders in-
cluded Quack Cohen
who blocked a Greenville
extra point, McZavion
Holley with two sacks
SEE JACKETS | B4
Byrnes lead to 21-7. The
rest of Riverside’s points
came in the second half
when Byrnes was playing
its second unit.
The Rebels remain un-
beaten in the region,
having earned wins over
Spartanburg, Gaffney and
now Riverside. Byrnes will
put that streak back on
the line this Friday night
against Mauldin at home.
Riverside has a brutal
schedule remaining to
try to find its first win of
the season. The Warriors
will travel to Hillcrest
and Spartanburg, and will
host Gaffney and Dorman
during the month of Octo-
ber.
billy@greercitizen.com | 877-2076
BILLY CANNADA | THE GREER CITIZEN
B
BLAME
CANNADA
BILLY
CANNADA
Disloyal?
I
have some words on
Clemson’s quarterback
situation. Some of them
aren’t nice.
Let me start by saying
that everything that
should’ve happened, has
happened.
Trevor Lawrence is
QB1. There’s no object-
ing to that. He’s the
better player.
Kelly Bryant is also
correct in his decision to
transfer. He is a very tal-
ented quarterback and
deserves a shot to be
the top guy somewhere
else and make his case
for an NFL roster spot.
That was never going to
happen at Clemson this
year. The kid has to do
what is best for him.
None of those truths
change the fact that
Clemson has completely
mishandled this situa-
tion every step of the
way.
After Lawrence was
named the starter last
week…the most com-
mon thing I saw was
people describing this
position battle as “a fair
fight.” On its face, the
“fair fight” description
really isn’t that bad. Two
quarterbacks received
adequate game time and
adequate opportunities
to make their case. No
one can question that.
What you can question
is whether or not the
ceilings were the same
for both players, which
is why Kelly Bryant’s
comments on his way
out the door ring true.
Let’s imagine for a sec-
ond that Kelly Bryant’s
numbers were better
than Trevor Lawrence’s
numbers (They weren’t,
but they also weren’t far
off) through four games.
Do you think Dabo
comes out and names
Kelly Bryant the undis-
puted starter?
The answer any rea-
sonable person would
give is no.
That’s because when
you have a BMW sitting
in the garage, you’re
not going to drive the
Toyota Camry every-
where you go, even if it’s
getting good gas mileage
and not breaking down.
You want to ride in the
beemer! You want to see
all of its cool tricks and
abilities! (Ok, this analo-
gy is breaking down so
I’m going to return to
sports).
If Kelly Bryant has the
kind of year he had last
year, which got Clemson
to the playoffs, there
would still be a steady
number of voices calling
for the BMW in the
garage.
For this reason, the
fight wasn’t fair. Kelly
Bryant was a known
quantity. Trevor Law-
rence was unknown.
When we did get to see
“sunshine” in action, we
were impressed. This
validated every Clemson
fan’s longings for a QB
change.
I’ll say this again in
case you forgot: there’s
nothing wrong with
Clemson choosing the
better player! They just
should have done it
during the offseason.
But they didn’t and they
made the bed they were
about to lie down in.
Now, Dabo told Bryant
about the change in ad-
vance of the team’s fifth
game. He did this so that
Kelly Bryant would have
the option to transfer
should he choose to take
it. It was the morally
right thing for Dabo to
do. Although its not
the smartest coaching
move to allow your stud
quarterback a way out,
Dabo took the risk. And
Kelly Bryant accepted
the offer to transfer.
The reaction to this
was fair in the begin-
ning. Players, coaches
and fans were express-
ing their disappointment
in Bryant’s decision,
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B2 THE GREER CITIZEN SPORTS
Weekly
Wrap
PLAYERS OF WEEK 6  |
DEFENSIVE
Shayne van Wettering BR
LINEMAN
Andrew McGee Greer
OFFENSIVE
Payton Mangrum EHS
WEEK 7 GAMES  |
Blue Ridge vs. Greenville
Byrnes vs. Mauldin
Eastside at Berea
Greer at Travelers Rest
Riverside at Hillcrest
WEEK 6 SCORES  | PRESTON BURCH | THE GREER CITIZEN
Blue Ridge 26 Berea 0
Byrnes 45 Riverside 20
Eastside 56 TR 55
Greer 28 Greenville 20
SCHEDULES/RECORD  |
BLUE RIDGE
Aug. 17..........0 Landrum 42
Aug. 31...........7 Chesnee 42
Sept. 7..........0 Chapman 42
Sept. 14.................13 TR 44
Sept. 21...........6 Vernon 34
Sept. 28............. 26 Berea 0
Oct. 5..................Greenville
Oct. 12...............at Eastside
Oct. 19.......... Travelers Rest
Oct. 26................... at Greer
BYRNES
Aug. 17............. 39 Greer 26
Aug. 24. 41 Northwestern21
Aug. 31...... 17 Don Bosco 22
Sept. 14..............26 Spart 7
Sept. 21.........34 Gaffney 14
Sept. 28.......45 Riverside 20
Oct. 5.....................Mauldin
Oct. 12............... at Dorman
Oct. 19...............at Hillcrest
Oct. 26........ Boiling Springs
EASTSIDE
Aug. 17...... 22 Southside 18
Aug. 24........47 Riverside 21
Aug. 31...27 W. Hampton 21
Sept. 14.........33 Broome 28
Sept. 21...... 23 Chapman 49
Sept. 28............ 56 at TR 55
Oct. 5.................... at Berea
Oct. 12...............Blue Ridge
Oct. 19.......................Greer
Oct. 26................Greenville
GREER
Aug. 17........... 26 Byrnes 39
Aug. 24.. 37 Spartanburg 17
Aug. 31........48 Westside 14
Sept. 7............40 Mauldin 3
Sept. 14.. 42 Union County 7
Sept. 28. 28 at Greenville 20
Oct. 5.........at Travelers Rest
Oct. 12...................... Berea
Oct. 19...............at Eastside
Oct. 26...............Blue Ridge
RIVERSIDE
Aug. 17....... 14 Trav. Rest 35
Aug. 24.........21 Eastside 47
Aug. 31........ 6 Southside 56
Sept. 14.0 Boiling Springs 51
Sept. 21........13 Mauldin 49
Sept. 28...... 20 at Byrnes 45
Oct. 5.................at Hillcrest
Oct. 12................... Gaffney
Oct. 19........ at Spartanburg
Oct. 26................... Dorman
Byrnes’ Mason Davis, Nijae Crouch and Lawrence Scott were named The Greer Citizen/Owens Insurance Players of the Week for Week 5. Pictured left to
right are Chris Crist (Owens), coach Reggie Shaw, Davis, Crouch, Scott and Shane Lynn (Owens).
PLAYERS OF WEEK 6
DEFENSIVE PLAYER
OF THE WEEK
SHAYNE
VAN WETTERING
BLUE RIDGE LB #15
JUNIOR
13 Tackles
1 Sack
North Greenville notched an upset over West Alabama last Saturday in Tigerville.
NGU tops West Alabama
North Greenville used a
late scoring drive last Sat-
urday to knock off West
Alabama at home.
The 20-16 victory over
the 21st ranked Tigers is
North Greenville’s third
on the year and second in
conference play.
West Alabama jumped
out to a quick lead capi-
talizing on a long open-
ing kickoff return. Jacob
Murphree hit Tyriq Martin
from 25 yards out to make
it 7–0. The lead stood until
the second quarter when
North Greenville found
pay-dirt for the first time
when Dashonnell Wright
broke the plain to even it
at seven after a Gravely
PAT. Gravely tacked on a
field goal with two min-
utes left in the first half
to make it 10–7 at inter-
mission. The second half
would continue to be a
defensive struggle. West
Alabama eventually broke
through in the third quar-
ter with a field goal at 4:48
to tie the game at 10–10.
UWA added a touchdown
with 29 seconds left in
the quarter but a missed
PLAYERS OF WEEK 5
OFFENSIVE PLAYER
OF THE WEEK
PAYTON
MANGRUM
EASTSIDE WR #4
JUNIOR
156 Receiving Yards
3 Touchdowns
PHOTO | COURTESY OF NGUATHLETICS.COM
extra point kept the lead
at six points (16–10). Matt
Gravely added a second
field goal, nailing it from
39 yards to cut the UWA
lead to just three points
with 12:56 left. NGU’s de-
fense dug in late in the
game, holding the West
Alabama offense scoreless
for the final 12 minutes.
The biggest stand of the
night came in NGU territo-
ry as a muffed punt gave
the Tigers the ball at mid-
field.
Backup quarterback
Donny Baker then led the
Crusaders on a game-win-
ning drive, marching 92
yards in nine plays includ-
ing a huge third-down con-
version to Lucas Catalfo-
mo that moved the chains.
The drive was capped by
the second rushing touch-
down of the game for NGU
when EJ Humphrey trot-
ted in from six yards out.
A Gravely extra point gave
NGU the four-point lead
with 14-seconds left. The
Tigers eventually ran out
of game clock as a set of
passes fell incomplete.
The Crusaders finished
LINEMAN
OF THE WEEK
ANDREW
MCGEE
GREER DE #7
SENIOR
with 317 yards of total
offense including a sea-
son-high 139– rushing
yards to go along with
178 through the air. EJ
Humphrey led the charge
leading all players with a
career and game-high 94
yards on the ground with
a touchdown. Donnie Bak-
er entered the game in
the second quarter and
passed it for 162 yards
and was 11 of 26 passing.
Lucas Catalfomo led all
receivers with 109 receiv-
ing yards. Defensively the
Crusaders held one of the
league’s best offenses to
just 222 yards of offense
including 106 yards on the
ground and just 116 yards
through the air.
Dominique Hunt led
NGU with eight total tack-
les on the day while Seth
Laughter finished with
five.
The Crusaders had sev-
en tackles for a loss led
by Kwame Livingston and
Brandon Burger who had
1.5 including a sack for
Livingston.
Greer to visit
Travelers Rest
BY LELAND BURCH
FOR THE GREER CITIZEN
Greer High Coach Will
Young hopes history does
not repeat itself when the
Yellow Jackets visit Travel-
ers Rest this Friday night.
Although Greer enjoys a
current 13-game winning
streak in the series, Coach
Young recalls, “we always
seem to piddle around
over there and then bad
things happen.”
Greer’s last visit to Trav-
elers Rest resulted in a 55-
21 win, but the Devildogs
were in the game much too
long to suit Coach Young.
And four years ago, sev-
eral Yellow Jackets were
injured on the Chico Bolin
Stadium playing field.
But Young has even
more cause for concern
this week because Trav-
elers Rest had raced off
to a 5-0 start on the sea-
son before losing a 56-55
overtime heartbreaker to
Eastside last Friday. “This
is the best Travelers Rest
team in several years,”
Young declares. “They are
playing with a lot of confi-
dence.”
The Devildogs opened
with a 35-14 win over Riv-
erside and then routed
Carolina Academy, 63-0.
Travelers Rest went on to
shut out Ware Shoals, 49-
0, edged Pickens, 20-19
and thrashed Blue Ridge
44-13 before losing to
Eastside.
Meanwhile, the Yellow
Jackets have bad news on
the injury front as they
plow into the heart of the
Region II, 4-A schedule.
Young said quarterback
Trey Houston’s status is
“highly doubtful” again
this week. Matthew Huff
will continue to fill in, and
Young pointed out “he
played really well against
Greenville. We will be
working on things in prac-
tice this week that will
make us better.”
Wide receiver Braxton
Collins, who suffered a
broken collarbone in the
Union game, “will be com-
ing back, slowly but sure-
ly, in time for the play-
offs,” Young said. “Other
than those two, we are in
Greer Police to host
Golf Tournament
On Oct. 9
Greer Police Department
will hold its annual Cops
for Tots Golf Tournament
on Tuesday, Oct. 9, from
11:30 a.m.-5:30 p.m. at
Greer Golf and Country
Club.
The Cops for Tots Fund,
established by the Greer
Police Department, is a
community program that
helps purchase gifts for
underprivileged children
so they can have Christ-
mas presents to open on
Christmas day.
WEDNESDAY, OCTOBER 3, 2018
good shape.”
But just to make sure,
Young said the team will
“taper off a little in prac-
tice this week to take care
of ourselves.”
Coach Steve Wilson will
continue to coordinate the
Yellow Jackets’ defensive
efforts in the absence of
Travis Perry. Greer will
have to contain an im-
proved Devildog spread
offense led by quarterback
Wilson Hendricks. The 6-2
junior has thrown for 607
yards and 10 touchdowns,
completing 33 of 70 pass-
es this season.
Derrick Fields, a 6-3 ju-
nior, is a three-year starter
at wide receiver with 13
catches and four touch-
down for Travelers Rest.
“He has given us a fit in
the past,” Young said. Jake
Hall, another junior also
has four receiving touch-
downs, while senior wide
receiver Esias Tucker has
nine catches.
Deonte Byrd leads the
Travelers Rest ground
game, having rushed for
480 yards and 10 touch-
downs before missing the
Eastside contest. “Even
without him, they scored
55 points last week,”
Young noted.
“Their offensive line is
not quite as big as usual.
They have always been
massive up front, and they
still have Dawson Drum-
mound who weighs 320
pounds,” Young noted.
He expects Travelers
Rest to operate out of a
4-2-5 defensive alignment.
“They have some good de-
fensive players including
Evan McAdams a senior
tackle, who was named a
Greenville News player of
the week recently. Gary
Holmes, 6-4, 240, is a good
defensive end while Tyler
Gary and Josh Gibson are
good linebackers,” Young
said.
“This game is important
because it is the next one
on the schedule, and I be-
lieve we have to win them
all to win the region cham-
pionship. We need to have
good mental focus going
over there Friday night,”
Young concluded.
This is the department’s
14th annual golf tour-
nament and its a major
source of funding for the
Cops for Tots. Participants
and sponsors of the tour-
nament provide a signifi-
cant portion of the current
program spending.
In 2018, the Greer Police
Department set a goal to
maintain the number of
families that it has helped
in the previous years
(close to 600).
For tickets or more in-
formation, visit greercops-
fortots.com.
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LABEL
 WEDNESDAY,
THE GREERAPRIL
CITIZEN B3
6, 2016

Blaney takes race in Charlotte DISLOYAL: Venables calls

BY REID SPENCER
NASCAR WIRE
In a race that was as
wild as advertised in the
closing laps, Ryan Blaney
sped past crashing Jimmie
Johnson and Martin Truex
Jr. in the final corner to
win Sunday’s inaugural
Bank of America ROVAL
400 at the Charlotte Motor
Speedway Road Course.
With his first Monster
Energy NASCAR Cup Se-
ries victory of the season
and the second of his ca-
reer, Blaney advanced to
Round of 12 in the Play-
offs.
Johnson wasn’t as lucky.
The seven-time series
champion was pressuring
Truex on the final lap and
powered his No. 48 Hen-
drick Motorsports Chev-
rolet Camaro ZL1 to the
inside of Truex’s No. 78
Furniture Row Racing Toy-
ota Camry off the banking
of Turn 15 coming into the
frontstretch chicane.
Johnson spun and col-
lected Truex as he slid
across the asphalt between
Turns 16 and 17, knocking
Truex’s Toyota toward the
outside wall in the tri-oval.
Blaney drove his No. 12
Team Penske Ford Fusion
between the two wrecked
cars and crossed the finish
line .792 seconds ahead of
runner-up Jamie McMur-
ray.
Because he had blown
the chicane, Johnson
stopped on the front-
stretch as mandated by
NASCAR before continu-
ing across the finish line.
He finished eighth and
ended the event tied for
11th in the Playoff stand-
ings with Aric Almirola
and Kyle Larson, who com-
pleted the final lap in a car
that had been all but de-
Ryan Blaney, driver of the No. 12 Menards/Pennzoil Ford, celebrates after winning the
Monster Energy NASCAR Cup Series Bank of America Roval 400 at Charlotte Motor
Speedway on Sept. 30.
stroyed in a Turn 1 wreck
after a restart on Lap 104
of 109.
Almirola and Larson
got the final two berths
into the Round of 12 on
a tiebreaker based on the
best finish in the current
round. Larson was sec-
ond at Las Vegas, and Al-
mirola took fifth place at
Richmond. Johnson’s best
result was the eighth at
Charlotte, leaving him on
the outside with Austin
Dillon, Denny Hamlin and
Erik Jones, who also were
eliminated from the Mon-
ster Energy Series Playoffs
in Sunday’s cutoff race.
“Tough weekend, just
kind of avoided some
stuff,” Blaney said after
he climbed from his car.
“You hate to see two guys
get into it there and take
out two of the best cars
all day. But that’s racing
sometimes.
“We were just at the
right spot at the right
time. It’s cool to be in Vic-
tory Lane and move on to
the next round.”
Truex, who led into the
final chicane, was under-
standably disappointed
with his 14th-place result.
“Last corner, despera-
tion behind us, that’s what
you get,” said Truex, a
four-time winner this sea-
son. “I gave him (Johnson)
the inside lane, and he
had the run through (NA-
SCAR Turn 4), and I was
real tight down there. I let
him have the inside going
down inside coming out of
4 there to the chicane.
“He just over-drove it
and was never going to
make it and he used me
as brakes and turned us
both around. It sucks. We
could have raced side-by-
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side off the last corner for
a win, and that would have
been cool. The fans would
have been digging it, but
instead we finished 14th
and he’s locked out of
the Playoffs. I guess that’s
what he gets.”
Joining Blaney, Larson
and Almirola in Round
of 12 of the Playoffs are
Brad Keselowski (Las Ve-
gas winner), Kyle Busch
(Richmond winner), Truex
(locked in after Richmond)
and Kevin Harvick (who
qualified for the next
round when he took the
green flag on Sunday).
Advancing on points
were pole winner Kurt
Busch, Joey Logano, Chase
Elliott, Clint Bowyer and
Alex Bowman. Bowyer ran
third on Sunday, followed
by Bowman, Kurt Busch,
Elliott and AJ Allmending-
er.
out Bryant for leaving
FROM B1
but they also acknowl-
edge that it was proba-
bly the right move for
his career. Or, at least,
they could see why he
made the decision he
made.
It was all fine until
Trevor Lawrence made
a rookie move against
Syracuse, refusing to
duck out of bounds on
a scramble and taking
a massive shot to the
head. He was out for
the game, and the Kelly
Bryant takes got much
hotter.
The game’s announc-
er immediately called
Bryant selfish, saying he
should have stuck with
the team for situations
like this.
Sadly, the Clemson
coaching staff seemed to
follow suit.
Brent Venables gave
a few cringe-worthy re-
marks, in particular.
“I’m just a loyal guy,”
he told a reporter. “I
believe in just fighting
and sticking to it. That’s
just me.”
He continued that line
of thinking.
“I just don’t think that
if there are opportuni-
ties down the road you
have to go look some-
where else. I think you
can have those same
opportunities right here.
That’s just me.”  kids! Let them try to be
Hear that Clemson
fans? Brent Venables
is never going any-
where. Because that
would make him a huge
hypocrite. Congrats on
signing him to a life-long
extension.
Hear that Clemson
fans? Brent
Venables is never
going anywhere.
The comments about
Kelly Bryant’s loyalty
are despicable. This is
a kid that has one more
year to impress profes-
sional scouts and he
can’t afford to waste it
on a bench at Clemson.
You might argue about
Bryant’s pro potential,
but you can’t fault the
kid for chasing his
dreams. He wants to be
a quarterback, and that
job wasn’t going to be
open for him at Clemson
anymore. Let him go!
Don’t call him disloyal!
Think of what you would
do in the same situation
for just ONE SECOND.
Fortunately, the injury
didn’t cost Clemson a
win. Chase Brice figured
things out and led the
Tigers to a victory they
couldn’t get last year
over Syracuse.
But everything good
the coaching staff just
did for Kelly Bryant by
giving him a way out
(and another opportu-
nity somewhere else)—
they nullified by ques-
tioning his loyalty.
These are kids! College
what they want to be!
Clemson will be just
fine with Trevor Law-
rence. And Kelly Bryant
will be just fine some-
where else. But man
Clemson really fumbled
their way through this.

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JACKETS: Get strong showing from Huff during win over Greenville on the road
FROM B1 liams 30/223 yards; M. 11-16-1 - 104 yards. Green 1/4 yards.
Huff 19/96 yards; Martin Greenville passing – Greenville receiving –
and Garrett Dill who re- 3/14 yards. Beville 13/26/1 - 201 Johnson 2/65 yards; A.
covered a pair of fum- Greenville rushing – yards; Goodman 0/1/0 - Huff 4/21 yards; Tyrique
bles. Collin Wakefield 15/102 0 yards Simmons 1/7 yards; Ca-
After the game, the yards; Beville 9/6 yards; Greer receiving – Mar- leb Krall2/16 yards; Reg-
team was bussed to Andre Goodman 2/5 tin 5/37 yards; DeAr- gie Norris 1/8 yards.
Greenville Memorial Hos- yards. mond 45/53 yards; Wil-
pital where they stood Greer passing – M. Huff liams 1/7 yards; Austin
outside Perry’s room and
lit it up with their cell
phones to include him in
the victory celebration.
“That was fun,” Young October 3, 2018
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JACKETS JUMP AHEAD
The Yellow Jackets
jumped ahead when
linebacker Andrew Mc- PRESTON BURCH | THE GREER CITIZEN Stephen L. Blackwell, 317 Trade Street, Greer, SC 29651
Gee intercepted a pass
on Greenville’s opening
series and returned the
Matthew Huff led his team to another region win Friday.
Billy Cannada, 317 Trade Street, Greer, SC 29651
pick to the hosts’ 19-yard
line. The breathing room for a first down enabled
Two plays later, Huff helped the Yellow Jack- Greer to run out the None
delivered a nine-yard ets stay out front the clock.
touchdown pass to Mar- rest of the way as Green- Greer had more of an
tin. Edwin Sales kicked ville continuously bat- edge in the stats than the
the first of four extra tled back. score. The Yellow Jackets
points that put Greer Greer took the second amassed 437 total yards Vickie G. Myers & Gene Adams P.O. Box 5211
ahead 7-0 half kickoff and zoomed for 24 first downs. That Trustees U/W William C. Buchheit Spartanburg, S.C. 29304
The lead lasted only 14 to the Greenville 20-yard included 333 yards rush-
seconds, however, when line only to lose the ball ing and 104 through the
Greenville’s Aziz Huff re- on downs when Huff was air.
turned the ensuing kick- stopped a yard short of Greenville had 15 first
off 96 yards to the oppo- a first down on a fourth- downs. The Red Raid-
site end zone. and-four carry. ers threw for 201 yards
Jack Henegan’s extra The Red Raiders struck and added 113 more on
point kick knotted the back quickly, racing 80 the ground for 314 total None
score at 7-7 less than two yards in four plays. Bev- yards.
minutes into the game. ille found Jacob John- Greer had one turn-
Young said the Yellow son on a 56-yard touch- over, a pass intercep-
Jackets “had way too down pass that reduced tion, but was penalized
many people out of their Greer’s lead to 21-14. a few times for 86 yards.
lanes on the kickoff, and The Yellow Jackets Greenville lost three fum-
we have to get better at came back with a scor- bles and had a pass in-
that.” ing threat that died at tercepted while drawing
A pair of promising the Red Raiders 13 yard seven flags for 70 yards.
Yellow Jackets drives fiz- line. Sales’ 30-yard field The Yellow Jackets will
zled later in the quarter goal try was outside the be back in action this Fri- The Greer Citizen October 3, 2018
after reaching the 32 and uprights. day to take on Travelers
23 yard-lines, respective- Coach Young’s club Rest. The Devildogs have Newspaper
ly. eventually regained he only lost one game so far
5250 5250
Greenville defender momentum with a 66- this season.
Damonde Johnson ended yard scoring drive that 249 246
the second threat by in- ate five minutes off the THE SCORE BY QUARTERS
tercepting a Huff pass at clock in the fourth peri- Greer 7 14 0 7 - 28 985 976
the Raiders’ 11-yard line. od. Williams scored from G’ville 7 0 7 6 - 20
Greer eventually took eight yards out on a run First quarter: Martin 3370 3370
advantage of another up the middle to make it (Greer) nine-yard pass
break when Red Raid- 28-14 with 4:15 remain- from M. Huff; Sales kick. 0 0
ers’ wide receiver Jacob ing in the game. A. Huff (Greenville) 96-
Johnson fumbled after Greenville, however, yard kickoff return; Hen- 4604 4592
catching a pass at the was not finished. The egan kick. 0 0
Greenville 25 yard line. Red Raiders took the en- Second quarter: Wil-
Dill recovered the bob- suing kickoff and drove liams (Greer) 10-yard 0 0
ble, setting up a short 76 yards to score in nine run; Sales kick. DeAr-
scoring drive. plays. mond (Greer) 35-yard
0 0
Freshman Jaleel Skin- Beville got the touch- pass from M. Huff; Sales 609 600
ner made a big play when down on a one yard car- kick
he recovered Huff’s fum- ry, but Yellow Jackets Third quarter: Johnson 609 600
ble at the end of an 11- nose guard Quack Cohen (Greenville) 56-yard pass 5213 5192
yard run. was able to swat the ex- from Beville; Henegan
That run also over- tra point kick that made kick. 37 58
came a 10-yard penal- it an eight point game, Fourth quarter: Wil-
ty and set the stage for 28-20, with 1:25 left on liams (Greer) eight-yard 5250 5250
William’s10-yard touch- the clock. run; Sales kick. Beville
down carry up the mid- After Ethan Alexander (Greenville) one-yard 89% 89%
dle with 5:00 remaining recovered the Raiders’ run; kick blocked.
in the half. on-side kickoff at mid- Individual stats:
The Red Raiders drove field, Williams running Greer rushing – Wil-
all the way to Greer’s
33 yard line following
the kickoff, but the Yel- 443 441
low Jackets defense held
when a fourth-and-seven 5047 5033
pass fell incomplete. 5633
5656
Greer promptly
launched a 67-yard scor- The following opening exists at the 90% 90%
ing drive with Williams Greer Commission of Public Works
and Huff running the in the Customer Service Department
ball. Huff capped the for a Customer Service Supervisor.
effort with as 35-yard
pass to sophomore Mill- Individuals interested in applying for this position October 3, 2018
er DeArmond who made are encouraged to submit an application to
a one-handed catch in Ken Holliday, Human Resource Manager,
the end zone to boost by 5:00 p.m. Friday, October 19, 2018.
the Yellow Jackets ahead October 3, 2018
21-7 at intermission. Full job description can be obtained
“That was a great catch, from the HR Manager at Greer CPW
as good as I’ve seen. or can be viewed on the CPW website
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B6 THE GREER CITIZEN WEDNESDAY, OCTOBER 3, 2018
Greer is mourning the loss of Nancy Welch (third from left), who passed away after an eight-year battle with cancer last week. Welch was a television personality and a friend to many.
A tribute to Nancy Welch
BY LELAND BURCH
FOR THE GREER CITIZEN
W
e don’t have enough
ink and paper to
write all that could
be said about Nancy
Welch who passed away
last Thursday. Having
known Nancy and worked
with her on many endeav-
ors since she moved to
Greer 55 years ago, I can
say she made “Energizer
Bunny” seem like a brick
by comparison.
One rainy Christmas
season evening, we joined
Nancy in a caravan to see
the famous “Light People”
of West Pelzer. I thought
some of these folks, in
costumes wired with
strands of holiday lights
from multiple extension
cords, could get electro-
cuted. Instead, I had an
even bigger shock. As
soon as we stepped out
of our cars, the “Light
People” started pointing
and shouting, “Look, look!
It’s Nancy Welch!”
That was years after she
had discontinued “The
Nancy Welch Show,” a
daily television program
that had enjoyed an
unmatched 20-year run
on Channel 7. Nancy was
still famous across the
upstate, and recognized
every time she was out
in public. She considered
this to be comical instead
of allowing it to inflate
her ego. Actually, Nancy
could have been Martha
Stewart, but she refused
offers to leave Greer and
take her show to TV sta-
tions in major markets.
Staying in Greer did not
mean being idle. Nancy
plunged into every new
adventure that came
along, often accepting
challenges that would
cause others to back
away. Nancy moved from
television into the field of
education by joining the
staff of Greenville Tech
and oversaw the opening
of the Greer (Benson)
Campus. Holding the
office of Tech Vice-pres-
ident called for more
education, so Nancy
went back to college. She
earned Masters and Doc-
torate degrees at Clemson
University by driving to
Clemson many mornings.
It is hard to imagine how
difficult that was, espe-
cially for someone over
the age of 50.
She did many other
things on a similar grand
scale, like pitching in at
Big Thursday to help raise
funds for Greer Commu-
nity Ministries. With the
help of a few friends,
Living Here
The Greer Citizen
LETTING HER LIGHT SHINE
Nancy made “Angel Bis-
cuits” that were sold by
the hundreds of dozens
every year.
Nancy also found time
for much smaller scale
ventures that are less
well known. For instance,
she would make apple
pies and deliver them to
friends on special occa-
sions or in time of need.
Nancy was not so busy
that she refused to chat
with people everywhere
she went. She could find
common ground talking
with folks from all walks
of life, from the homeless
to members of Congress.
That gift also enabled
Nancy to be a virtual
fountain of information.
When asked, she could
always share the latest
news about everyone in
the church, and nearly
everyone in Greer.
Nancy collected thou-
sands of recipes for her
TV programs and went
on to share the best
ones in five cookbooks.
If that wasn’t enough,
Nancy began writing and
publishing books based
on experiences that had
impacted her life. Her
first such book was a col-
lection of tales acquired
over the years of operat-
ing The Glen Rock Inn (a
summer boarding house)
in the Presbyterian mecca
of Montreat, North Caro-
lina. Yes, she organized
the staff, planned meals
served to guests who were
vacationing or attending
conferences and oversaw
maintaining the house
and grounds.
Leigh Clement was often
at Nancy’s side to provide
all sorts of assistance
including putting the inn
back together on week-
ends. “Cleaning toilets
would ordinarily be a
terrible chore, but it was
so much fun with Nancy
because we laughed a lot,
and afterwards we would
reward ourselves by going
to Black Mountain for
pizza.
“I never met anyone
else who was so sup-
portive when bad things
happened, like when I
went through losing my
parents,” Clement said.
“Also, she was so happy
for other people when
good things happened to
them. Nancy was a special
person with many special
gifts that she used to do
for others. I value every
second that I spent with
her.”
The daughter of a Pres-
byterian minister, Nancy
remained firmly rooted
in the Christian faith. She
FILE PHOTO | THE GREER CITIZEN
served in many capacities
in the Greer First Pres-
byterian Church. As an
Elder, Nancy headed the
Worship Committee that
oversaw Sunday services
and created detailed plans
for serving Communion
that were virtually written
in stone – like how to fold
the cloth on the com-
munion table, etc. She
personally baked small
loaves of bread that the
church gave to first-time
visitors on Sunday morn-
ings.
On numerous occa-
sions, Nancy held the top
leadership positions in
Foothills Presbytery (the
association of Presbyte-
rian Churches across the
upstate). She chaired the
Council that oversaw all
of the operations and
served as Moderator for
scheduled meetings of the
Presbytery.
My wife, Margaret,
pointed out that many
organizations would feel
a void because “anything
Nancy became involved
in, she did 100 percent,
giving both her time and FILE PHOTO | THE GREER CITIZEN
money to that worthwhile
cause. That includes the Welch was involved in charitable causes, such as GCM’s Big Thursday event.
Greer Education Founda-
tion.” dle wax. And it worked!
While growing up as a Perhaps the most amaz-
cheerleader in high school ing thing Nancy did was
in Ocala, Florida, Nancy battle cancer. She received
acquired a passion for a devastating diagnosis of
football. She had Greer colon cancer seven years
High football season ago. Most cancer victims
tickets for decades. Nancy would have simply given
watched with pride as her up and accepted their
son, Nelson, played on prognosis of months
the Yellow Jackets 1989 to live. Not Nancy. She
state championship team. never gave up, but battled
She followed Nelson to fiercely every day until
Clemson where he broke her big heart gave out,
school records for kicking not letting debilitating
field goals. chemotherapy slow her
How did Nancy do down, and not even when
all of this? I’m glad you the cancer never went
asked. She never wasted into remission.
one minute in idleness or When Nancy lost her
even resting. Nancy was hair on at least two FILE PHOTO | THE GREER CITIZEN
extremely organized and occasions during rounds
constantly planned ahead. of chemo, she wore a wig Welch was a published author with works such as ‘The
She even compiled a huge that she would pull off to Reunion.’
three-ring notebook with show “this is what cancer
hundreds of pages of looks like” to encourage Turner, was equally de- my wife Margaret’s best
memos, family records, others to take preventa- voted and spent countless friends, so her illness
instructions for her boys tive measures. nights in the hospital to and death have been very
and grandchildren, and Her “never give up” assist her over the course difficult.
even detailed arrange- attitude included buying of five surgeries. Nearly a year ago, Mar-
ments for her funeral a new car several months Nine days before she garet and Nancy hosted
service. ago. In spite of incredi- passed away, Nancy our church fellowship
Nancy’s grandchildren ble pain and discomfort, presented the program group at our home. Nancy
called her Fancy. And she Nancy drove herself to for a garden club meeting, was having an especially
was. That’s why I was ter- Presbytery meetings, to detailing her visit to the bad week after having un-
rified after having spilled Montreat, the church and Monet Gardens in France. dergone another infusion
hot candle wax on her many other places. When Nancy began by claiming of chemo. Barely able to
living room carpet during her health continued to not to be a historian, move about, Nancy had
a church fellowship sup- deteriorate, she kept the photographer, or an art- to lie on a sofa the entire
per. The white wax stood same schedule riding in ist, but one member said time, and yet her light
out like a sore thumb a wheel chair pushed by later, “Nancy was all three brightened our entire
on the black carpet, and her faithful husband Bob today when she presented house. Nancy was put
I thought it was ruined. Harrison or lying on the the program.” on earth to let her light
But Nancy told me not to back seat of her car while Ultimately Nancy was shine, and shine it did for
worry because she had a Bob drove. simply a good friend. 77 years. The world is a
secret for removing can- Nancy’s sister, Jean Actually she was one of little darker place today.

WEDNESDAY, OCTOBER 3, 2018 
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dado” (R) -- Mexican drug
cartels are trafficking in
terrorists, helping them
gain entry to the Unit-
ed States, or so suspect
American spies. They for-
mulate a plan to refocus
the cartels by encouraging
a war between them. Agent
Matt Graver (Josh Brolin)
enlists the assistance of
Alejandro Gillick (Beni-
cio del Toro), an assassin
who swoops in to take out
one high-level target and
blame it on the other side.
But when a plan to kid-
nap the daughter (Isabela
Moner) of a kingpin goes
south, it puts Graver and
Gillick on opposing sides.
This sequel to “Sicaro”
deals in many of the same
locales but is more bul-
lets-and-gunsmoke action
than psychological drama.
“Three Identical Strang-
ers” (PG-13) -- The true
story of three boys, iden-
tical triplets separated at
birth, who unbelievably re-
connected at age 19 would
be incredible enough. Fas-
cinatingly, there’s much
more to the story. Director
Tim Wardle takes us on a
journey with these men --
David Kellman, Eddy Gal-
land and Bobby Shafran
-- who were unknowingly
the subjects of a lifelong
study in personality de-
velopment and the debate
over nature versus nur-
ture, each being adopted
at birth into similar family
structures at deliberately
different socio-econom-
ic strata. It’s an informa-
tive, intriguing and very
well-done documentary.
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West Main exhibit examines ‘Sins & Virtues’
During October, West
Main Artists Co-op will ex-
hibit the creations of two
members who based their
3-D and 2-D artwork on
the Seven Deadly Sins and
the corresponding Seven
Virtues.
Annette Giaco and Beth
| Regula will present “Sins
& Virtues,” a collection of
eight sculptures and eight
large canvases, Oct. 2-31.
Giaco will depict the seven
sins on large canvases and
the eighth piece on board.
In response, Regula will
depict the corresponding
virtues in mixed-media
sculptures.
A public reception will
be Saturday, Oct. 6, 6-8
p.m. The artists will host
a discussion about their
work at 7 p.m. Another re-
ception will be held during
the city’s monthly ArtWalk
on Thursday, Oct. 18.
The Seven Deadly Sins–
lust, gluttony, greed,
sloth, wrath, envy and
pride–have long been used
by the Christian church as
the core sins to be avoided
at all costs. Their history–
with some variations–can
be traced to ancient Greece
and the philosopher Aris-
totle (384-322 BC).
Things
To Do
 |
NEW LISTINGS
ZOO TO OBSERVE
WINTER HOURS
Beginning Oct. 1, Green-
ville Zoo returned to its
fall and winter schedule.
Admission to the zoo
is open 10 a.m.-4:15 p.m.
daily. The zoo closes daily
at 5 p.m.
The fall and winter
schedule will be in effect
to Feb. 28, 2019.
GUILD OFFERING
ARTISTS MEET
The Artists Guild Gal-
lery of Greenville will hold
a “Meet Our Artists” event
on Friday, Oct. 5, from 6-9
p.m. at the gallery.
Member artists include
Gerda Bowman, Bill Cash-
man, Elisa Cooley, Pa-
mela DeWitt, Kathy Du-
Bose, Gerri Green, Mel
Hammonds, Edith McBee
Hardaway, Chris Hartwick,
Mandy Medina, John
Pendarvis, Bob Santanel-
lo, Angie Stone, David Wal-
drop and Erin Webb.    young Billy Joe Tate - why
They work in various
mediums including acryl-
ic, mixed media, oil and
watercolor paintings, jew-
elry, glass, woodwork,
photography, pottery and
sculpture. One or more of
the artists is in the gallery
at all times, demonstrat-
ing throughout the day
and always ready to dis-
cuss their art with visitors.
The Artists Guild Gallery
is open daily Tuesday-Sat-
urday 10 a.m.-5 p.m., Sun-
day 1-5 p.m. and the first
Friday of each month 10
a.m.-9 p.m.
The gallery is located
at 200 North Main Street
in Greenville near NOMA
Square.
For more information,
visit artistsguildgalleryof-
greenville.com.
MCPHAUL EXHIBIT
ON DISPLAY IN OCTOBER
Allyson McPhaul’s exhib-
it “Runnin’ Down a Dream”
will be on display in the
Artists’ Guild Gallery at
Chapman Cultural Center
through Oct. 26. A recep-
tion will be held during
the Art Walk on Thursday,
Oct. 18, 5-8 p.m.
Inspired by a love of
fashion and textiles, she
welds metal into one-of-a-
kind pieces.
“The process of welding
and making 3D objects
from steel is much like a
familiar process of things
The Greer Citizen
In contrast and in op-
position to the Seven
Deadly Sins are the Seven
Virtues–chastity, temper-
ance, charity, diligence,
patience, kindness and
humility. These virtues
also have their roots in an-
cient Greek philosophers,
Aristotle and Plato, how-
ever, the original virtues
and subsequent variations
were slightly different
with strong religious as-
pects.
As artists, Giaco and Re-
gula were inspired by the
book Tribe, by Sebastian
Junger. “In his introduc-
tion, Junger talked about
what we could learn from
tribal societies about be-
longing, loyalty, and the
meaning of our existence,”
Giaco said. “He went on to
say, ‘Modern society has
perfected the art of mak-
ing people not feel neces-
sary.’ The human need for
more of everything at the
expense of all that matters
prompted me to use the
deadly sins to illustrate
the unraveling of com-
mon human decency and
intelligence. The constant
bombardment of opinions
on Facebook about poli-
tics, religion, gun control,
past…textile design and
sewing, pieces and pat-
terns. Every single project
is different, sometimes
very organic in concept.
If the project is not engi-
neered, I like to work with
scraps, like a puzzle, put-
ting the pieces together to
form something,” McPhaul
said.
The Artists’ Guild of
Spartanburg is located at
20 East St. John St. in Spar-
tanburg.
HAUNTED FARM OPENS
IN HENDERSONVILLE
The Haunted Farm in
Hendersonville, North
Carolina, will open Oct. 5.
Billy Tate’s Revenge fea-
tures 55 minutes of excite-
ment including The Dark
Woods, The Demon Hay
Shed, The Slaughterhouse,
The Haunted Hayride, The
Depths of Terror, The
Haunted Trail, The Meat-
house and more.
The Revenge story is:
When Billy Joe Tate never
showed to his secret wed-
ding to Missy Mae Lively,
an era of terror and death
came to plague the Lively
farm and the small town
of Hendersonville.
Visitors are invited to
become part of the sto-
ry and learn the fate of
he missed his wedding,
and the bloody rage that
would befall the perpe-
trators of Billy's untimely
demise.
The Haunted Farm is
open every Friday and
Saturday in the month of
October as well as Oct. 30
and 31. The attraction is
located at 624 Townsend
Road in Hendersonville.
For more information,
visit www.NCHaunted-
Farm.com or call 828-702-
7911.
‘FALL FOR THE GSO AND
GERMANY’ SET OCT. 5-7
Greenville Symphony
Orchestra (GSO) Cham-
ber Orchestra Series will
present “Fall for the GSO
and Germany” Oct. 5-7 in
the Gunter Theatre at the
Peace Center.
The first Chamber Or-
chestra concert of the sea-
son honors three German
composers. The GSO will
perform Handel’s spar-
kling Water Music Suite;
Beethoven’s rollicking
Fourth Symphony; and
Mendelssohn’s joyous
Fourth Symphony, in-
spired by his unforgetta-
ble tour of Italy.
Visitors can join Maestro
Tchivzhel and the musi-
cians in the Gunter The-
atre lobby immediately
after the concert for a free
beer tasting, compliments
of Thomas Creek Brewery.
Come "Squeal" with us this weekend!
POO
OCT. 5 & 6 • PUBLIC SQUARE • LAURENS, SC
Annette Giaco explores the seven deadly sins in ‘Never
Enough’ and other works in ‘Sins and Virtue’ exhibit at
West Main Artists Co-op through Oct. 31.
abortion, race, gender,
whatever, also had a lot
to do with the exhibition
Showtimes are Friday
and Saturday, Oct. 5 and 6,
at 8 p.m. and Sunday, Oct.
7, at 3 p.m.
For tickets or more in-
formation, visit tickets.
peacecenter.org or call
467-3000.
BOOKMOBILE COMING
TO GREER OCT. 8
Due to the closure of
the Jean M. Smith Branch
library in Greer, Greenville
County Library System
(GCLS) is providing Book-
mobile dates during the
closure.
The Bookmobile will be
available in the parking
lot of Greer First Baptist
Church, 201 W. Poinsett
St., on Mondays from 1:45-
4:30 p.m. on the following
dates: Oct. 8, 22, Nov. 5,19,
and Dec. 3, 17 and 31.
All materials that have
been borrowed from the
Greer branch may be re-
turned to the Bookmobile
or any other GCLS branch
location.
TICKETS ON SALE
FOR ANNIE OCT. 9
Tickets will go on sale
Tuesday, Oct. 9, for the
Greer Children’s Theatre
production of “Annie.”
Showtimes are Nov. 9-10
and 16-17 at 7 p.m.; Nov.
11 and 18 at 2 p.m.
All performances are
held at the J. Harley Bonds
Career Center, 505 N. Main
Street, Greer.
For tickets or more in-
formation, visit www.
GreerCulturalArts.com.
CRONIN-WEBB TO DISPLAY
PASTEL PAINTINGS
Award-winning pastel
artist and author Erin Cro-
nin-Webb will teach pas-
tel painting at the Artists
Guild Gallery of Greenville
Oct. 9-Nov. 3.
Classes will be held on
Tuesdays from 6-7:30 p.m.
All skill levels are wel-
come. Class size limited to
eight.
For more information,
email erincroninwebb@
gmail.com.
FURMAN TO PRESENT
‘LOBBY HERO’
Furman University The-
atre will present Kenneth
Lonergan’s “Lobby Hero”
Oct. 10-13 and Oct. 18-
20 at 8 p.m., with Sunday
matinee showings Oct. 14
and Oct. 21 at 3 p.m. All
performances take place
in The Playhouse on the
Furman campus.
Directed by Furman
Professor of Theatre Jay
Oney, the play is open to
the public.
“Lobby Hero” was To-
ny-nominated in 2018
for Best Revival of a Play.
Time Out calls it “A mas-
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concept. Everyone has
a right to an opinion on
these important issues,
terpiece. The best drama,
the best comedy, and the
best romance of the year,
all rolled into one.”
Says The New York
Times, “In the age of #Me-
Too and Black Lives Mat-
ter, Americans may be
newly receptive to Lobby
Hero. But don't imagine
that this work is an agen-
da-driven debate.”  2018 Tour of Homes
Cast members include
Furman junior Matt Mid-
dleton (Ashburn, Virginia)
as Jeff; freshman Dennis
Cheeks (Columbia) as Wil-
liam; sophomore Eliza-
beth Collins (Buffalo, New
York) as Dawn; and fresh-
man Erik Bodien (Edgewa-
ter, Florida) as Bill.
For tickets or more in-
formation, call the Theatre
Box Office at 294-2125.
EVENT REMINDERS  |
‘Dreamgirls’
Through Oct. 6
Centre Stage
www.centrestage.org
233-6733
‘The Teddy Bears’ Picnic’
SCCT Wee Play Theatre
Through Nov. 20
SC Children’s Theatre
scchildrenstheatre.org
235-2885
‘Kickin’ Cancer’
Cancer Survivors Park
Alliance
Oct. 4, 8 p.m.
Revel Event Center
cancersurvivorspark.org
255-5010
Albino Skunk Festival
Oct. 4-6
Skunk Farm
4063 Jordan Road, Greer
albinoskunk.com
THE GREER CITIZEN B7
but disagree with anyone,
no matter how founded
in fact, and out come the
pitchforks and torches.
“My representations
of the seven deadly sins
are not meant to preach
religious values,” Giaco
continued. “The church
used these symbols and
the threat of hell to keep
an illiterate and supersti-
tious public under control.
My version of the sins is a
statement about the loss
of intellectualism and the
growth of ignorance fu-
eled by our quest for ex-
cess in all things.”
“My reaction, as an art-
ist when confronted with
something I cannot un-
derstand is to express my
thoughts about what I am
feeling in a visual way,”
Regula said. “The works in
this exhibit are my person-
al attempt of understand-
ing society and my place
in it.”
The exhibit can be
viewed at no charge Tues-
day-Saturday, 10 a.m. to 4
p.m.
For more information
about “Sins & Virtues” and
West Main Artists Co-op,
visit WestMainArtists.org.
Artisans Arts and Crafts
Bazaar
Oct. 5-6
Younts Center
for Performing Arts
Fountain Inn
Oct. 13
Disciples United Methodist
Greenville
‘A Harvest of Homes’
Guild of Greenville
Symphony Benefit
Oct. 5-7
guildgso.org
370-0965
‘Bippity Boppity Boo:
A Princess and Villains Show’
Cabaret Benefit Series
Oct. 6
Centre Stage
www.centrestage.org
233-6733
‘Picnic for the Park’
Cancer Survivors Park
Alliance
Oct. 6, 11 a.m.
Village Green, Greenville
cancersurvivorspark.org
255-5010
ONGOING EXHIBITS  |
‘Unfettered’
Kaydee Hughes
Through Oct. 13
West Main Artists Co-op
WestMainArtists.org
‘Wildness’
Dave Sawyer
Through Oct. 13
West Main Artists Co-op
WestMainArtists.org
Kent Ambler
Through Oct. 28
Exhibition Corridor
Sargent Art Building
Bob Jones University
B8 THE GREER CITIZEN FUN AND GAMES
CT Scan
vs. Stress Test
DEAR DR. ROACH: Have
you heard of the 64-slice
test for your heart? Would
you recommend it instead
of a stress test? -- D.F.
ANSWER: You’re ask-
ing about a CT scan of
the heart. The use of
multiple detectors allows
the CT scan to get a very
high-resolution picture
of the heart very quickly.
Modern 64-slice detectors
can construct an entire
3-D image of the heart in
five seconds under opti-
mal conditions. The scan
is excellent at detecting
calcium in the arteries,
which is imperfectly cor-
related with blockages in
the arteries. However, by
adding intravenous dye,
blockages in the arteries
can be detected with ac-
curacy approaching that
of a cardiac angiogram.
Thus, for the diagnosis of
coronary artery disease, a
heart CT scan can provide
information similar to a
stress test.
However, a stress test
gives information not
only on anatomy, such as
blockages, but on physiol-
ogy as well. By measuring
the amount of time some-
one can exercise, and the
response of the heart rate
to that exercise, the car-
diologist can gain useful
prognostic information,
which is impossible to
glean from an anatomic
test like a CT scan or even
a cardiac catheterization
and angiogram. The two
tests are complementary,
and we often obtain both.
Soap Updates
BY DANA BLOCK
THE BOLD AND
THE BEAUTIFUL
Will asked Katie how
often he would be able to
see his dad. Sally gave Wy-
att his own private lingerie
show. Bill visited with Liam
and Kelly after a stressful
day in court. Meanwhile,
Ridge and Brooke con-
tinued to disagree about
Bill. Zoe warned Xander
that Emma was sabotag-
ing his modeling career
with her jealousy. Having
overheard a conversation
not meant for her ears,
Brooke did some amateur
detective work. Bill paid
an unexpected visit to
Ridge while Brooke con-
fronted Judge McMullen.
Katie watched as her son
reconnected with his fa-
ther. Tiffany gave Emma
some sage advice about
not letting history repeat
itself. Ridge was stunned
by how passionately
Brooke defended Bill. Wait
to See: Steffy witnesses an
intimate moment between
Bill and Brooke.
DAYS OF OUR LIVES
John’s prayers were an-
swered. Will furthered his
commitment to Paul. Sami
uncovered the truth about
her mother. Ben shared
his good news with Ciara.
Kristen tried to convince
Brady to run away with
her. Abigail confessed to
JJ that she feared her al-
ternate personalities were
trying to emerge. Gabi
manipulated Stefan and
TO YOUR
GOOD HEALTH
KEITH
ROACH, M.D.
So, it really depends on
the goals of the stress test
as to which is preferred.
***
DEAR DR. ROACH: I
have breast cancer that
has metastasized to my
bones. I know that there
have been great strides in
curing cancer at the origi-
nal site but there doesn’t
seem to be any work done
to help when it has spread.
Are you aware of any? I am
87 years old. -- L.L.
ANSWER: Once breast
cancer -- and indeed, most
cancers -- has spread be-
yond its original location
(metastasized), it becomes
much more difficult to
cure. However, there have
been significant improve-
ments in the treatment of
metastatic breast cancer.
Cure might not be possi-
ble, but a good quality of
life for months or years
is possible (half of wom-
en with metastatic breast
cancer will live longer
than two years). The exact
treatment depends on the
pathology and receptor
status of the cancer, and
a plan needs to be individ-
ualized by an experienced
oncologist.
ABC | CRAIG SJODIN
Donnell Turner stars as
‘Curtis’ on ‘General Hospital’
Chad. Sami was vindicat-
ed when John shed new
light on Marlena’s shoot-
ing. Chad was shocked
to find incriminating evi-
dence stashed in Abigail’s
bedroom. Meanwhile, Abi-
gail made a confession to
Stefan. Maggie revealed
to Eric she lied about Ni-
cole. Eric left town to track
down Nicole. Wait to See:
Mimi Lockhart returns to
Salem.  was moving in above the
GENERAL HOSPITAL
Nina was shaken. Oscar
kept Drew at arm’s length.
Julian agreed to back off.
Jason reassured Sonny.
Chase and Lulu’s friend-
ship continued to blos-
som. Cameron was stuck
in the middle of an uncom-
fortable situation. Monica
offered her full support.
Maxie sensed that some-
thing was off with Nina.
Curtis got the information
WEDNESDAY, OCTOBER 3, 2018
***
DEAR DR. ROACH: I
normally go to the derma-
tologist once a year to get
a skin check and follow up
on some moles I had re-
moved. Now the office rec-
ommends that I go every
three months. What gives?
-- F.M.
ANSWER: I’m guess-
ing your dermatologist
is keeping a close eye
on something he or she
doesn’t like but isn’t quite
worried enough to do a
biopsy. I don’t want to
second-guess your der-
matologist. When you go
back, ask and find out. If
you really dislike going so
often -- perhaps because
of copayments, inconve-
nience or having to take
time away from work or
family -- tell him or her so
that you both can work to-
ward a plan that is easiest
for you but still allows the
dermatologist to keep you
free from skin cancer or
other problems.
Dr. Roach regrets that
he is unable to answer in-
dividual letters, but will
incorporate them in the
column whenever possi-
ble. Readers may email
questions to ToYourGood-
Health@med.cornell.edu.
To view and order health
pamphlets, visit www.rb-
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Drive, Orlando, FL 32803.
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All Rights Reserved
he needed. Lulu received
a pleasant surprise. Son-
ny put Ava in her place.
Maxie was skeptical. Nina
just wanted to do the right
thing. Griffin got some re-
assurance. Sam was forced
to admit her reservations.
Kim confronted Oscar
while Cameron refused
to lie for him. Griffin had
pure intentions. Jordan
gave Margaux some bad
news. Kiki chastised Ava.
Wait to See: Margaux has
an ace up her sleeve.
THE YOUNG AND
THE RESTLESS
Victor reluctantly
agreed to attend Nick’s
upcoming wedding. Lily
struggled with her new
life in prison, but prom-
 |
ised her kids they’d get
through it together. Phyl- THE SPATS by Jeff Pickering
lis failed to mention that
Billy embezzled from Ja-
bot when she asked Jack
if he would help his broth-
er pay back his gambling
debts. Jack agreed, but
only if Billy went to rehab.
Arturo learned that Rey
coffeehouse, prompting
the two brothers to come
to an uneasy truce. Lola
and Kyle grew closer. Nick
 |
looked forward to his new
life with Sharon, while RFD by Mike Marland
she tried to shake off her
doubts about “the new
Nick.” A disappointed Tra-
ci agreed to run against
Billy for the CEO position,
Wait to See: Life changes
forever for the Abbotts.
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AMBER WAVES by Dave T. Phipps  |
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WEDNESDAY, OCTOBER 3, 2018 
School
News
PTA REFLECTIONS CONTEST
ACCEPTING ENTRIES
The National PTA is
accepting entries for its
2018-2019 Reflections
contest through Thursday,
Nov. 1.
This year’s theme is He-
roes Around Me.
Entries will be taken in
six categories including
dance choreography, film
production, literature,
music composition, pho-
tography and visual arts.
Students in pre-K through
12th grade can create and
submit original works of
art in one or all of the cat-
egories.
For more information on
the contest, visit www.pta.
org/reflections. For specif-
ic entry instructions, visit
your school website.
GREENVILLE COUNTY |
CRESTVIEW SEEKING
CAREER SPEAKERS
Crestview Elementary is
seeking members of the
community who are excit-
ed and passionate about
their jobs to come and
speak to the fifth grade
class during their monthly
Career Café.
For more information,
contact school counselor
Meridith Moore at 355-
2633 or mcmoore@green-
ville.k12.sc.us.
GCS HOLDING FINANCIAL
AID WORKSHOPS
Greenville County
Schools will hold several
Financial Aid Workshops
for parents during the
month of October.
All workshops are open
to the public. Parents can
hear from school counsel-
ors and college financial
aid officers regarding the
most current financial aid
information. Handouts
will be provided.
All types of financial aid,
including scholarships,
grants and loans will be
discussed.
Workshops are sched-
uled at 6 p.m. as follows:
Oct. 9: Greer High
Oct. 16: Riverside High
Oct. 23: Greenville High
For more information,
call 355-3391 or 355-3392.
RIVERSIDE PLANS SPIRIT
WEEK OCT. 5-12
Riverside High will hold
Spirit Week activities Oct.
5-12 to benefit the Emer-
son Rose Heart Founda-
tion.
The Emerson Rose
Heart Foundation seeks
to change the future for
those affected by congen-
ital heart defects by pro-
viding support to families
in need, advancing patient
care and medical research
and increasing awareness
about the most common
birth defect in the world.
A check reveal presen-
tation will take place on
Friday at halftime of the
Riverside versus Gaffney
football game.
A full events calendar
is available on the school
website.
GHS FFA FALL FAIR
SET FOR OCT. 13
Greer High FFA will hold
its Fall Fair on Saturday,
Oct. 13, 10 a.m.-1 p.m. at
the school.
The event will feature
hayrides, games, pump-
kin painting, interactive
inflatables, 4-H club ex-
hibit, food, pallet maze,
kids tractor pull, vendors,
Greer Fire Department,
and more.
For more information,
contact jfarmer@green-
ville.k12.sc.us.
GMC WILL HOST
FALL BLOOD DRIVE
Greer Middle College
Charter High will host its
annual Fall Blood Drive on
Thursday, Oct. 18, 1:30-
6:30 p.m.
Students and parents
will receive two service
hours for donating. Stu-
dents 16 years old may
donate with a signed per-
mission form. Students 17
and older do not have to
have a permission form.
For more information
and sign-up times, visit
donate.thebloodconnec-
tion.org.
Our Schools
GREENVILLE COLLEGE
FAIR RESCHEDULED
The Greenville County
College Fair has been re-
scheduled for Oct. 18-19
after weather prevented
several college representa-
tives from traveling.
Greenville County high
school juniors and seniors
will attend the fair at the
TD Convention Center.
Students will attend with
their classmates during
the school day and have
the opportunity to meet
with representatives from
more than 100 colleges
and universities from
across the nation.
For more information,
visit www.greenville.k12.
sc.us.
BUENA VISTA BOBCAT BASH
PLANNED FOR OCT. 26
Buena Vista Elementary
will hold its Bobcat Bash
fall carnival on Friday, Oct.
26, 3:30-7:30 p.m.
Several activities are
planned for the event.
Students are invited to
enter a contest to create
a banner to advertise the
Bash. Entries should be
dropped off in Mrs. Jack-
son’s art classroom be-
tween Monday, Oct. 1, and
Friday, Oct. 12. The winner
gets to keep the banner
after the carnival and re-
ceives a free t-shirt and 20
free tickets.
Volunteers are needed
to help in various capac-
ities including prep and
set-up day, and donations
of silent auction items and
confetti eggs is ongoing.
Parents and the com-
munity are asked to save
empty egg shells to be
filled with confetti during
the school’s Fall Carnival
on Friday, Oct. 26. For di-
rections on how to prop-
erly open and clean the
shells for reuse, visit the
school’s website.
Buena Vista is also seek-
ing donations for silent
auction items for the car-
nival. Suggested items
include: vacation stays,
airline tickets, art, jew-
elry, handbags, electron-
ics, sports memorabilia,
collectibles, tickets for
plays concerts or sporting
events, and gift certifi-
cates.
Silent items already re-
ceived include a full-sized
football autographed by
Clemson Coach Dabo
Swinney and an 18”x24”
Lyric Portrait Drawing (a
framed, black ink drawing
done in the repeated print
of a song lyric or Bible
verse of your choosing).
Confetti egg donations,
art contest submissions,
and silent auction items
are due by Friday, Oct.
12. Carnival prep day is
Wednesday, Oct. 17, and
set-up day is Thursday,
Oct. 25.
For more information,
visit www.bvpta.net/the-
bobcat-bash or contact
Keri Dille at keridille@
charter.net or Lindsey
Smith at lpsmith731@
gmail.com.
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DISTRICT FIVE
REBEL REGIMENT
TO COMPETE AT GAFFNEY
The Byrnes High Rebel
Regiment will compete
at the Bands of America
Carolina Regional on Sat-
urday, Oct. 13, at 8 a.m. at
Gaffney High School.
309 Northview Drive • Greer
The Greer Citizen
THE GREER CITIZEN B9
Kidz In Lids
Students at Riverside High School wore hats and gold
shirts on Friday to show their support for kids battling
cancer. Left: Marisa Cecil, Director of Development with
the Children’s Cancer Partners of the Carolinas, and River-
side Junior Kwame Lartey brought Kidz in Lids to Riverside
High School this year.
Photos by Kaelyn Cashman
Dentures from $450 set
SIMPLE
EXTRACTIONS
X-RAY $85 per tooth
$65
HIGHER EDUCATION  |
Lauren Pitts - BSN Nurs-
ing
Moore • Repair & relines
GREENVILLE TECH TO HOLD Christian Maroni - BS while you wait
COMMUNITY FEST Economics/Finance • All work done
on premises
Greenville Technical Sandra Norman - MDV
College will host a Com- Pastoral Care and Coun-
munity Fest on Saturday, seling
Oct. 6, 10 a.m.-2 p.m. at its
Barton Campus. Taylors
Families are invited to Alexis O’Daniel - BA
the free day of learning American Sign Language &
through hands-on activ- Spanish
ities and demonstration Katelin Price - MAC Ac-
booths including: 3D counting
printing, EMT ambulance
simulator, learn and prac-
tice CPR, arts and crafts,
culinary, massage thera-
py, dental hygiene puppet
show, sustainable agricul-
ture, square wheel trike,
community health fair and
free screenings, robotics,
make your own slime, and
bows and bandages for
stuffed animals.
Local food truck conces-
sions will be available for
purchase.
For more information,
visit https://GTCFest2018.
eventbrite.com.
AREA STUDENTS GRADUATE
FROM GARDNER-WEBB
Several area students
are among 550 graduates
from Gardner-Webb Uni-
versity honored during
Spring Commencement
exercises.
Graduates included:
Duncan
Clark Earnhardt - BS Ac-
counting
Greer
Erin McGarvey - AS Nurs-
ing
Alejandra Medi-
na-Jimenez - MPAS Physi-
cian Assistant Studies
Inman
Janine Bullman - MSN
Primary Care Family Nurse
Practitioner
Jeremiah Childers - DMN
Pastoral Ministries
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B10 THE GREER CITIZEN LIVING HERE WEDNESDAY, OCTOBER 3, 2018

Volunteer recalls years

of service on Bull Street
Editor’s Note: The follow-
ing article is part of a se-
ries Buchheit is writing on
the men and women that
worked at the SC State
Hospital in Columbia.
BY WILLIAM BUCHHEIT
STAFF WRITER
“I guess I was about 20
when I started. I was really
idealistic and I had no idea
what went on.”
That’s how Robin Stancik
felt when she signed up to
volunteer at the SC State
Hospital in 1983.
In fact, Stancik had just
graduated Columbia Col-
lege (which she’d attended
on a music scholarship)
and was considering a
career in music therapy
when she arrived at the
gates of Bull St. That con-
sideration didn’t last long.
Upon discovering a juve-
nile patient had attacked
and bitten the last music
therapist, Stancik decided
a full-time job at the hos-
pital wasn’t for her. Even
after that concession,
‘Every single one
of them (patients)
had been abused in
some way. It was
PHOTO | SUBMITTED
Robin Stancik was in her
early 20s when she became
a volunteer at the state
hospital.
own jambox to play the
old funk music they fa-
vored. One patient, an Af-
rican American lady in her
50s who went by the name
“Sweet Georgia Brown,”
would put on different
wigs and dance to the mu-
sic.
“They just wanted peo-
ple to spend time with
them,” reflects Stancik. “A
lot of their families had
just taken them there and
left them, and they wanted
to know somebody cared
about them.”
Bull St. as long as she did.
She felt obligated because
she was the only friend
the women had.
“I just couldn’t stop
because I loved them so
much,” she says.
It wasn’t until she got
married and became preg-
nant that Stancik finally
had to say goodbye to the
place for good. By then,
it was 1988 and Ameri-
ca’s deinstitutionalization
movement was in full
swing. The Wilson build-
ing was shuttered soon
thereafter and hundreds
of hospital patients were
shipped to communi-
ty mental health centers
across the state.
Though she never re-
turned to Bull St., Stancik
often wondered about the
fate of her old friends.
Even today, they remain
a fixture in her memory --
teachers that provided the
most important lessons of
her early adulthood.
“They brought me a lot
of happiness and they
made me understand a
lot about life,” she says.
“They taught me not to
jump to conclusions but
to try to think what people
have been through that WILLIAM BUCHHEIT | THE GREER CITIZEN
might have made them the
way they are.” Paint peels off the walls of an abandoned ward at the old SC State Hospital in Columbia.

shocking to me.
I was young and
bright-eyed and just
didn’t know that
was how the world
Indeed, Wilson was a
lonely place to call home.
Because they suffered
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from severe schizophre-
nia, most of the wom- FreuercGhaifset
en stood little chance of w/p
functioning in society.
Because they were con-
sidered chronic long-term
patients, nurses and doc-
tors shunned them to

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Robin Stancik
though, the young Colum-
bia native spent the next
half decade volunteering
to help the female patients
hidden behind the institu-
tion’s walls.
From the outset, hospi-
tal staff had no idea what
to do with her, as volun-
teers were rare breeds on
Bull St. Someone decided
Stancik should start out
working with children in
the William S. Hall Psychi-
atric Institute. And though
she was only there a few
weeks, it was long enough
for her to hear some truly
horrifying backstories.
“Those kids...they didn’t
have a chance,” recalls
Stancik, now 57. “One kid
had been tortured by his
family. They’d done things
like put him in the clothes
dryer. His babysitter had
burned him with cigarettes
and killed the family pet in
front of him. That kid was
like six. Those kids were
young, you know?”
Soon after her arrival,
hospital administration
decided Stancik’s services
would best be utilized
in the Wilson Building,
which housed a ward for
schizophrenic women.
And though these pa-
tients were significantly
different than the children
she’d worked with at Hall,
they’d suffered many of
the same nauseating abus-
es. Stancik saw the dam-
age with her own two eyes
when a hospital social
worker gave her a couple
dozen patient charts to
read.
“Every single one of
them (patients) had been
abused in some way,” she
explains. “It was shock-
ing to me. I was young
and bright-eyed and just
didn’t know that was how
the world operated. Know-
ing the awful things they’d
gone through was just an-
other reason that I didn’t
want to quit and leave
them.”
And so, for the next five
years, Stancik dedicated
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from the activity therapist
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