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WEDNESDAY, APRIL 27, 2016 GREER, SOUTH CAROLINA VOL. 103 NO. 17 75 CENTS

BY BILLY CANNADA

EDITOR

Citing the success ofGreer’s Inland Port, theSouth Carolina Ports Au-thority (SCPA) announcedplans for a second site, tobe located in Dillon, lastweek.

Port officials say de-mand is growing and anadditional Inland Port isneeded to service the Portof Charleston.

“Inland Port Greer isone of SCPA’s most suc-cessful investments, asthe growth of intermodalcontainer volume move-ment in our state and re-gion requires appropriatefacilities in the interior toground loaded and emptycontainers and to leveragethe efficiency and sustain-ability of rail transporta-tion,” SCPA President andCEO Jim Newsome said.“If it is feasible, an ad-

ditional inland port will be a great diversificationof our logistics footprint.We believe that building

intermodal infrastructurein our state goes hand-in-hand with the significantinvestments we are mak-

ing to our port facilitiesin Charleston. This is anexciting opportunity forSCPA.”

The Dillon site couldoffer access to an exist-ing CSX mainline, whichwould open a differ-

ent intermodal market-place from Inland PortGreer and provide access

SEE PORT | A6

BY KENNETH COLLINS MAPLE

STAFF WRITER

Nearly 18 months havegone into the planningprocess, but on Thursday,May 5 the Taylors Farm-ers Market will officiallylaunch at Taylors Millfrom 4 p.m. to 8 p.m.

The opening wlll occurwith a “Cinco De Mill”celebration featuring LaReata Authentic MexicanRestaurant and live musicfrom My Girl My Whiskeyand Me.

“We don’t want it to be another farmers mar-ket,” team member SteveRhodes said during a Mon-day meeting with all teammembers. “We want it to be a very unique farm-ers market, not just someplace where somebody cango and get their vegetablesor their fruits or whatever, but a destination and aplace to hang out andmeet people.”

Whether visitors are look-ing for that fresh produceor for fellowship, they’relikely to find it. Thoughthis is the first year for themarket, 32 vendors are onthe list to sell for the sum-mer with even more on awaiting list for the future.Vendors include individu-als and businesses sell-ing baked goods, honey,crafts, candles, soaps, jew-elry, other novelty items

and of course produce.“The farms are our main

priority and we’re happyto have them,” team mem- ber Michele White said.

Farmers markets have become increasingly pop-ular in recent years inthe Upstate, but Taylors

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TaylorsteenchargedStolen gunused in officer

shootingBY KENNETH COLLINS MAPLE

STAFF WRITER

A Taylors teenager has been charged after steal-ing a gun that was used by Deontea Mackey in thefatal shooting of Green-ville police officer AllenJacobs.

Information from theGreenville County Sheriff’sOffice says 17-year-oldTrystan David Merritt has been charged with unlaw-ful carrying of a pistol andpetit larceny.He is beingheld at theG r e e n v i l l eCounty De-tention Cen-ter without bond.

He was ar-rested on March 23 bySLED.

Authorities say Deon-tea Mackey, 17, used thepistol stolen by Merrittto shoot and kill Jacobs.After Mackey allegedlyshot Jacobs, Mackey shothimself. Police said Mer-ritt stole the gun from hisgrandfather

This information wasshared during a Mondayafternoon press confer-ence with Police Chief KenMiller and Solicitor WaltWilkins. Both individualsreviewed the findings ofa SLED investigation andarrived at the conclusionthat the killing of Jacobswas a murder-suicide.

Officer Jacobs had beeninvestigating Mackey be-cause he was a known gangmember with a known vio-lent history and, accordingto the department, was ac-tively looking for a firearmto replace one recentlystolen from him, thoughhe had no lawful rightto possess one. Jacobswas outside the home ofMackey in the Nicholtownneighborhood on March 18when he observed Mackeyexit the home. Mackey

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Duncan

womanremainsfoundBY KENNETH COLLINS MAPLE

STAFF WRITER

Human remains foundin Spartanburg Countywoods have been identi-fied as a missing Duncanwoman.

Accordingto Spartan-burg CountyC o r o n e rRusty Clev-enger, theremains wered iscoveredTuesday andare that of 42-year-old Ev-elyn Audrey Shelton, whowent missing on May 20,

SEE SHELTON | A6

Greer

woman

found

deadBY KENNETH COLLINS MAPLE

STAFF WRITER

Authorities are investi-gating the death of a wom-an found in her Greer homewith several wounds.

The Greenville CountyCoroner’s Office saidfamily members found42-year-old Lori WilliamsMonday evening dead inher apartment on SouthBuncombe Road.

The cause and mannrof her death have not yetbeen determined; authori-ties are waiting for theresults from a Tuesdayautopsy.

The case is being treatedas a suspicious death andunder investigation by theGreer City Police Depart-ment and the coroner’soffice.

[email protected] | 877-2076 Taylors Farmers Marketopens season on May 5

Plans for second Inland Port announced

166%Increase in intermodal volume since 2011

MANDY FERGUSON | THE GREER CITIZEN

South Carolina Ports Authority offi cials say the success of the Greer Inland Port has sparked plans for a new por t in Dillon. The new facility, if constructed,would continue rail traffi c to the Port of Charleston.

Merritt

KENNETH COLLINS MAPLE | THE GREER CITIZEN

A new farmers market in Taylors has been in the planning stages for nearly 18 months now, but on May 5, it will open tothe public at Taylors Mill.

KENNETH COLLINS MAPLE | THE GREER CITIZEN

Steve Rhodes takes a look at the Taylors Farmers Marketlogo at a recent meeting.

Shelton

‘We want it tobe a very unique

farmers market...

a destination and a

place to hang out

and meet people.’ 

Steve Rhodes

Taylors Farmers Market

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JAIL IN AND BAIL OUTFOR SOUP KITCHEN

Jail in and bail out lo-cal pastors for the LDWSJ“Breaking Bread for Jesus”Soup Kitchen at 108 AstorSt. in Wellford. The eventwill be on Saturday from10 a.m. to 5 p.m. and willfeature free food and livemusic and a bouncy housefor children.

HARMONY FELLOWSHIPCHURCH REVIVAL

Harmony FellowshipChurch invites the pub-lic to worship with MikeManuel from West Virginiaduring a revival from May1-4. The services on Sun-day will begin at 11 a.m.and 6 p.m. and will beginat 7 p.m. through Wednes-day evenings.

The church is located offWade Hampton Boulevardon S. Suber Road at thecorner of Hood Road inGreer. For more informa-tion call 877-8272.

TAYLORS FARMERS MARKETOPENING MAY 5

Cinco De Mill, the launchof the Taylors FarmersMarket, is on May 5 from4 to 8 p.m. at the TaylorsMill.

The market will havefood from La Reata Au-thentic Mexican Restau-rant on hand. The marketis still looking over vendorapplications.

If interested in being avendor, email [email protected]. Moreinformation can be foundat www.taylorsfarmers.market. The market willrun through August.

GREER CHAMBER SEEKINGFAMILY FEST VOLUNTEERS

The Greater GreerChamber of Commerce isseeking volunteers for itsannual Pelham Medical

Center Greer Family Fest,set for May 6-7.

To sign up, visit greer-chamber.com. Times will be from 6-10 p.m. on Fri-day and 10 a.m.-10 p.m.on Saturday.

PURSES WITH A PURPOSECOLLECTING DONATIONS

Community Chest ThriftStore will have its Purseswith a Purpose sale on May4-6 from 10 a.m. to 6 p.m.

and on May 7 from 10 a.m.to 2 p.m. at the thrift storein Lyman. Every purse is$1 on May 7.

All proceeds from thesale will benefit DistrictFive Family Ministries.

NEWCOMERS CLUBOPEN TO PUBLIC

The Newcomers Club ofSpartanburg will meet onMay 10 starting at 9:30a.m. at St. Francis Angli-

can Church. This month’sspeaker will be Dr. KirkNeely and there will befree refreshments.

COMMUNITY CHESTCHANGES HOURS

Community Chest ThriftStore has changed itshours of operation to 1-6p.m. Monday through Fri-day.

The store is in need ofnew or “gently loved” la-

dies’ and men’s apparel,shoes, accessories, andsmall home decor.

Donations may bedropped off at MiddleTyger Community Center(not at the thrift store)Monday through Thurs-day, 8:30 a.m.-5 p.m.

GCM CLOSET NEEDSSUMMER CLOTHING

Greer Community Min-istries needs spring andsummer clothing for Sha-ron’s Closet.

Donate gently usedclothing in all sizes formen, women, and children between 8 a.m. and 4 p.m.Monday-Friday at 738 S.Line St. Ext., Greer.

HOMETRUST BANKVOTE FOR RECIPIENTS

Asheville-based Home-Trust Bank is celebrating90 years of community banking in 2016 by donat-

ing $90,000 during themonth of April to commu-nity organizations acrossits four state region.

Customers and localcommunity boosters willdetermine how much eachorganization receives byvoting at www.facebook.com/hometrustbanking.

The bank’s 90th Anni-versary Community Sup-port Contest will fund 45community groups rang-ing from Big Brothers BigSisters and Habitat forHumanity, to local operaand ballet companies, tooutdoor adventure centersand veterans organiza-tions.

Facebook voting runsthrough midnight on April30. Simply visit HomeTruston Facebook and click onthe “Vote” tab. Then picka county, and choose to“like” any of the optionslisted.

A2 THE GREER CITIZEN COMMUNITY  WEDNESDAY, APRIL 27, 2016

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 Yardsof the Month

The Azalea Garden Clubrecently recognized twoYards of the Month forApril. Above: Bill andMargie Townsend’s homeon Sheffi eld Road in Greerwas selected as ResidentialYard of the Month. Left:General Manager JeffTuttle stands outside theBusiness Yard of the Monthat Greer CPW. Yard of theMonth is a program of theGreer Council of GardenClubs.

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BY KENNETH COLLINS MAPLE

STAFF WRITER

Helping Hands Ministryvolunteer Beryl Bailey saidafter nine years of puttingon the annual Care Fair,they have their four-hourevent down to a science.During those four hoursvolunteers expect to seeabout 1,500 people.

The ninth annual CareFair at Trinity FellowshipChurch is this Saturdayfrom 10 a.m. to 2 p.m.Helping Hands will giveout 600 free food boxesalong with free haircuts,free baby and infant prod-ucts and a free lunch.Thirteen non-profit agen-cies will also be on site toshare information abouttheir organizations. TheGreenville County Sheriff’sOffice will also bring theircommando unit in and fire

departments will be pres-ent as well.

Helping Hands directorLee Athey said they arehoping for another greatturnout. To accommodateeveryone the ministry willutilize nearly 100 volun-teers including 14 or 15 beauticians for the hair-cuts, Athey said. Those vol-unteers will see to it thateveryone goes through thefair to get what they need.

Bailey said they send 200people through at a time.While those individualscollect what they need,Athey shares a devotionalmessage with those whoare waiting and then therewill be music to be en- joyed.

Bailey said she hashelped at each Care Fairand that she “enjoys help-ing people less fortunatethan I am.”

Athey said they host thefair because they are mo-tivated to assist those inneed.

“Our motivation is wewant to share the love ofChrist with those in need,

and if we can make a dif-ference in one day we’regoing to do that.”

For more information,visit helping-hands-of-greer.com/annual-care-fairs.

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Notice of Annual Meeting of Members

The annual meeting of members of CitizensBuilding and Loan SSB, Greer, South Carolinawill be held on May 19, 2016 at 9:00 am at themain ofce of the Bank at 229 Trade Street, Greer,South Carolina. The business to be conductedat the annual meeting is the annual election ofdirectors and a report of its nancial condition.Members of the Bank as of March 31, 2016 areeligible to vote at the annual meeting. 

CITIZENS BUILDING AND LOAN

The City of Greer Planning Commission will hold a Public Hearingat 6:30 p.m. on May 16, 2016 at Greer City Hall located at 301 E.Poinsett Street on the following:

DOCKET NUMBER: AN 2016-12OWNER: Grace Christian ChurchADDRESS: Brushy Creek RoadPARCEL ID NUMBER: 2941 Brushy Creek Road:

T035000101200; 2911 Brushy Creek RoadT035000101309 and T035000101308;Brushy Creek RoadT035000101307 and T035000101304

EXISTING ZONING: Greenville County R-15,Residential Single Family

REQUEST: RM2, Residential Multi Family

DOCKET NUMBER: AN 2016-13OWNER: Irene Ponder

ADDRESS: Brushy Creek RoadPARCEL ID NUMBER: T035000101306EXISTING ZONING: Greenville County R-12,

Residential Single FamilyREQUEST: RM2, Residential Multi Family

DOCKET NUMBER: FDP 2016-15OWNER: Martin A. GreeneADDRESS: Hammett Bridge Road & E. Suber RoadPARCEL ID NUMBER: 0535030102711EXISTING ZONING: PDR, Planned Development ResidentialREQUEST: FDP, Final Development Plan Approval

DOCKET NUMBER: DRD 2016-16OWNER: BCB and PRB 2, LLCADDRESS: 321 Hammett Bridge RoadPARCEL ID NUMBER: 0535010200405, 0535010200406,

0535010202203, 0535010202207,0535010200600 and 0535010200700

EXISTING ZONING: PDR, Planned Development Residential

REQUEST: DRD, Design Review District

DOCKET NUMBER: RZ 2016-17OWNER: Molor PropertiesADDRESS: 414 Jones AvenuePARCEL ID NUMBER: G006000100801 and G006000100800EXISTING ZONING: I-1, Industrial District and PD-1,

Planned Development IndustrialREQUEST: RM2, Residential Multi Family

Documents related to the requests are available for public inspectionin the Planning and Zoning Ofce located at 301 E. Poinsett Street.

Condos 

are fine,but do your

researchQ: I know when it

comes to investing youlike mutual funds andpaid-for real estate. Whatdo you think about usingcondominiums as invest-ment properties insteadof single-family homes?

DR: I don’t really havea problem with condosas paid-for investments.I own a couple of themmyself. When it comesto making this kind ofinvestment for the firsttime, however, I wouldadvise that you keep afew things in mind.

You have to thinkabout what you’re gettinginto and also take intoconsideration a numberof variables. What are theHOA dues or condo feesgoing to be? Is the condoassociation being man-aged well? That and theneighborhood are the twobiggest concerns I havewhen buying a condo. Alot of condo associationsare very poorly managed.And if they don’t provideproper maintenance orkeep a certain percentageof the complex owner-oc-cupied versus rental, thecondo association or com-plex can lose the abilityto get normal permanentfinancing. If they can’t getFHA, VA or conventionalfinancing, the values aregoing to drop like a rock— because you’ve only gotcash buyers and invest-ment buyers at that point.

Research on these kindsof things doesn’t take anawful lot of work. Just callthe management compa-ny, and the realtor who’sinvolved if it’s listed, andask for the documenta-tion.

Most of the time thissort of stuff is public in-formation, so it’s not hardto access. Some otherquestions you might askare: What are the reservesfor the roof? What arethe reserves for paint andthe parking lot? Are theycollecting enough to paytheir bills, and are theyactually paying their bills?

Then you start lookingat things from a buyer’sperspective. Would I wantto live in here and havemy wife and childrenhere?

Would a normal, reason-able person want to livehere? If the answers areyes, then you’ve probablygot a good, solid condocomplex.

At BuncombeSt. recyclingcenter

City of Greer residentswill have the opportunityto dispose of nuisanceitems such as paint andpesticides at the city’s an-nual Spring Cleaning Day,set for Saturday, April 30.

Spring Cleaning Day will be held from 8 a.m.-1 p.m.at the City Recycling Centerlocated at 315 BuncombeSt. City of Greer residentsonly may bring trash itemsthat are not permitted inweekly curbside collectionto the center for disposal.Items from commercial businesses will not be ac-cepted. Workers will be onsite to remove the itemsfor visitors.

Items to be collectedinclude appliances, lawn-mowers, electronics (e-

waste), tires, paint andpaint thinner, motor oil,herbicides, insecticides,mattresses and many ad-ditional items. Please con-tact the Public ServicesDepartment at 864-2180with any questions aboutqualifying items.

“We’ve experienced asharp rise in attendanceover the past few years ascity residents take advan-tage of this service,” saidSkipper Burns, directorof public services. “It’s agood time to clean out ga-rages and storage shedsto remove items like paintand pesticides that aren’tlikely to be used again.”

Residents may bring upto a boxful of personalpapers to take advantageof an industrial shred-der and members of theGreer Police Departmentand its Citizens AcademyAlumni Association will beon hand to accept expiredand unneeded prescrip-tion drugs.

Spring Cleaning Day isheld in conjunction withACE Environmental Inc.and is free for City ofGreer residents.

GACappoints

CareyHarold A. Carey, Jr. has

 been appointed to theGreenville Airport Com-mission (GAC) as themember-at-large memberto serve a three-year term.The GAC is the owner andoperator of the GreenvilleDowntown Airport (GMU).

GMU is the busiest gen-eral aviation airport inSouth Carolina and is aself-sufficient entity thatdoesn’t rely on local tax-payer funding.

Helping Hands to host Care Fair‘Our motivation is we want to share the

love of Christ with those in need, and if we

can make a difference in one day we’re

going to do that.’ 

Lee AtheyDirector, Helping Hands

City of Greerhosts Spring

Cleaning Day

‘It’s a good time toclean out garages

and storage sheds

to remove items like

paint and pesticides

that aren’t likely to

be used again.’ 

Skipper BurnsDirector of Public Services

Carey

WANT IT!

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Ithink,” I announced to Paul afterwatching an episode of ‘Travels withRick Steves,’ “We must consider retir-

ing to Ireland.”“I thought you were all about retiring

to some medieval Italian hill town,” Paulreplied, not looking up from the high-light reel from Kobe Bryant’s last game.

“Yes,” I mused, “but when we win thelottery we can have both. And actually, Iscratched off the hill town and have nowdecided on Lake Como.”

“To be neighbors with the Clooneys?”“Well, not her, but him.”“Ah.” said Paul. I could tell by this

brief reply he had exercised his courtesyto the extent that he could as he reallywanted to watch Kobe. And if I contin-ued in attempts to divert his attentiontowards a subject that was all fantasy,anyway, he would be less than receptive.Actually, he’d be pretty cheesed off. Dur-ing a commercial, I found my chance.

“So, Rick Steves said that the townof Dingle,” I began, pouring a glass ofsomething white and on sale, “has only1,900 inhabitants.”

“Probably because nobody wants to

live in a town call Dingle.” Paul mut-tered.

“Possibly. Especially as it’s shapedlike a peninsula,” I offered. “In fact, it isa peninsula and you and I rode horsesalong the beach there on that vacationwe did forever ago.”

“Yeah,” Paul grunted, “and it pouredthe whole time. And you sold me on thattrip by saying “It hardly rains in August.”So why would you want to go retire in atown with 100 people less than the townwe live in, now?”

Kobe was back on the screen scoring basket, after basket, after basket.

“I wonder, since it was his last game, ifthe other guys just let him win?” I asked,only to receive a snort in reply.

“Anyway,” I began, to no one in partic-ular as Paul was now fully immersed in

his program and had turned the volumeup to drown out any more blarney, “Notonly is Dingle charming and small andcrime-free, but It also has 52 pubs.”

Paul immediately muted the television.He might love basketball, but it is a fardistant second place to the love of hislife (not me), ale. And stout. And Pilsner.

“What?” He asked, like a shot.Now the keeper of privileged infor-

mation, I could draw out my reply andluxuriate in that power. “52 pubs,” Irepeated.

“Landrum only has one pub and it’s atown of 2000,” he retorted. “You must’veheard wrong. A town of 1,900 can’t pos-sibly support 52 pubs.”

I triumphantly placed my I-pad on hislap. “Google it and weep,” I said. “Rightthere: Dingle has one pub for every tendrinkers. We could have fish and chips-real fish and chips with cod, not floun-der, every day, with a different beer,every night, forever and ever.”

Kobe made a spectacular slam dunk,completely unseen by my man.

“Have you checked into real estateprices?” Paul asked.

“But it rains all the time,” I used hisown prejudice against him.

“Wouldn’t really notice when you’re ina pub every day.” he countered.

“I actually saw a big, old, stone farm-house for $170,000,” I said. “But believeit or not, I found much cheaper placeson Lake Como, with sweeping views.”

“Of George Clooney?” Paul asked.“Nah, this is on the poor side of the

lake. All you get for a buck fifty is a two bedroom renovated house, steps to thelake, glorious sun, red wine, and sur-rounded by mountains.”

“But not 52 pubs.” Paul said.I nodded.Turning back to Kobe, he declared,

“We must consider retiring to Ireland.”

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OPINIONA4  THE GREER CITIZEN  WEDNESDAY, APRIL 27, 2016

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REFLECTIONS | 

Baseball in 2016 

Five ballplayers handled the baseball before ChicagoWhite Sox third basemen

Todd Frazier tagged out slowof foot Texas Rangers desig-nated hitter Prince Fielder ina rundown. With the out, theWhite Sox celebrated the firstever 9-3-2-6-2-5 triple play inMLB history, and, depending onyour club allegiances, it could be argued that wasn’t eventhe most exciting play in theleague on Friday.

If you haven’t tuned in to baseball this year, you’re miss-ing what has been a thrillingfirst month.

There was Friday’s scintil-lating straight steal of home by Yankees’ speedster JacobyEllsbury. With a 3-2 counton outfielder Brett Gardner,Tampa Bay Rays’ lefty MattMoore delivered towards homeplate, but Ellsbury was alreadytwo thirds of the way down the basepath. He slid home safelyunder the lunge of catcher CurtCasali for his second careerstraight steal of home. Justto let you know how rare thestraight steal is, the last Yan-kee to do so was Derek Jeter in2001. Ellsbury’s prior theft ofhome was ironically against theYanks when he was a memberof the Boston Red Sox in 2009.

Ellsbury is just one of many ballplayers showing off impres-sive skill sets. A theme early onin the season is the strength ofoutfield arms, and Los AngelesDodgers’ Yasiel Puig added aplay to the 2016 highlight reelwhen he threw from just insidethe right field warning track tonail runner Colorado’s TrevorStory (who has excited his ownfan base in Denver with a tor-rid start to his rookie season)as he slid into third base. Puig’sthrow traveled about 310 feetin the air to beat Story’s slideinto the bag. Interestinglyenough, Puig’s fling came onthe heels of another throw thatcaught the attention of baser-unners everywhere. That throwcame from the arm of Yankeesoutfielder Aaron Hicks, whosechuck was clocked at 105.5mph from leftfield to homeplate to cut down A’s runnerDanny Velencia.

If the above isn’t enoughto get you watching baseball,there’s the fact that the Chi-cago Cubs (who no-hit the Redslast week behind pitcher JakeArrieta) look like the best teamin baseball. When’s the lasttime you could say that?

LoveBY RICK EZELLFOR THE GREER CITIZEN

Be devoted to one anotherin brotherly love” (Rom.12:10 NIV).

Michael Fryer’s image in theChicago Tribune of a rescue at-tempt was a dramatic fire pho-to. It captured a fireman and aparamedic carrying a fire vic-tim away from the scene. Theblaze Fryer covered occurred inDecember 1984 at Irving Parkand Kenmore Avenues in Chica-go. It seemed routine until fire-fighters discovered a motherand five children huddled inone apartment’s kitchen. Fryersaid firefighters surmised: “Shecould have escaped with twoor three but couldn’t decidewho to pick and choose to waitfor firefighters to arrive. Allof them died of smoke inhala-tion.”

The apostle Paul wrote, “Bedevoted to one another inbrotherly love” (Rom. 12:10NIV). Devoted means “full oftenderness” or “affectionate.”Actually, it is a compoundGreek word that literallymeans, “love of the family.”The word translated brotherlylove is a familiar Greek word,philadelphia. It means literally“love of the brethren.” I findit quite intriguing that Paulemploys two words—love offamily and love of brothers—tocommunicate the need for com-mitment in loving. Jesus hasgiven authority to the entireworld to judge whether or notwe are believers on the basisof our love for fellow believ-ers. Love is the badge thatidentifies us as believers ofJesus Christ. Anytime we donot show love toward fellowbelievers we forfeit our right toproudly represent Jesus Christin the world. People around uswho are bored by doctrine andcan’t fathom theology don’tunderstand love. People look atChristians before they look atour creed.

As believers in Jesus Christwe need to make a clear, un-equivocal commitment to lov-ing each other as a family, forour sake and for our witness toa watching world.

Anyone who has traveled by air most likelyhas an airport horror story. Whether it’s a seriesof cancelled flights, or waiting two hours in asecurity line, or any number of other events, wehave all found ourselves at wits end at somepoint. While the tragic events of 9/11 have for-ever changed security measures, and rightfullyso, there are steps we can take to both maketraveling easier and keep us safer.

That’s why I (Sen. Tim Scott) recently votedfor the Federal Aviation Administration (FAA)Reauthorization Act (S. 2658), which passed theSenate by a vote of 95-3. It is not lost on me thatfolks who purchase plane tickets are purchasinga service, and therefore deserve to be treated assuch. Whether you’re traveling for business, afamily vacation or any other reason, this impor-tant legislation forces airlines to be more trans-parent about everything from fees to delays. Ifyou’ve ever had your bags misplaced, you knowhow frustrating it can be, and one section of thiscommon sense bill will require airlines to offerrefunds for lost or delayed bags. On the passen-ger friendly front, this legislation also protectsair services in rural areas and improves accessfor Americans with disabilities.

As for security, we live in an age where strongsecurity is needed at our airports, and as vari-ous terrorist organizations around the worldevolve, so must the measures we implementto keep us safe. Terrorist organizations desireto disrupt our security and our lives, and it isup to us to make sure they are not able to doeither.

The security provisions in the bill start withstrengthening the employee vetting process atairports. As they have access to secure areas, itgoes without saying that the first step to pro-tecting our nation’s air travel is to make surethat airport employees do not have questionable backgrounds. The legislation also enhances se-curity for international flights. As internationaltravel continues to grow, it is essential thatuniversal standards are put into place to pro-

tect passengers. Currently, flights coming intothe U.S. are held to a different standard thanflights that are leaving the U.S. For instance,some countries do not require two authorizedpeople to be on the flight deck of large pas-senger aircrafts at all times, which could resultin tragedies such as Germanwings Flight 9525,which the co-pilot intentionally crashed into theFrench Alps last year.

All of these provisions are important forpassengers and airports in communities likeGreenville-Spartanburg, Columbia, Charleston,Myrtle Beach and elsewhere around the state,which serve millions of passengers each year.It is important to note that all of these neces-sary measures will be accomplished withoutraising taxes or fees for those who travel. Thisis a positive step for American families, and, asyour Senator, I will continue working to keepour nation safe.

This guest editorial was submitted by S en. Tim Scott.

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KENNETH COLLINS MAPLEStaff reporter

FAA Act puts Americans

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FOR THE GREER CITIZEN

On May 5, SpringwellChurch will join otherchurches and religiousorganizations around thenation to participate in theNational Day of Prayer.

The church will alsohold a short service fromnoon to 1 p.m.

“We want to give peoplea chance to pray for thecommunity, the country,and the church (as a wholein our community),” saidDavid Pearson, the familyand operations pastor. “Ifyou’re a believer in Jesus,then come pray.”

People will be able toparticipate in acousticworship and will be pro-vided prayer guides tohelp them know howto pray. There will be ashort message of prayer,and then people will havethe opportunity to pray bythemselves.

“Prayer is the tool forconnecting with God,”said Pearson. “There’s nopoint in complaining with-out praying.”

This is the first time thechurch is participating inthe National Day of Prayer,but the church wanted togive people a place togather. Snacks will also beavailable, and people areencouraged to bring theirlunches as they pray ontheir lunch break.

“We wanted to givethose who want to gatheran opportunity to do justthat,” said Pearson. “It’s

an opportunity to encour-age others as the week iswinding down.”

The doors will open at11:30 a.m. and will stay

open as long as is neces-sary.

Springwell is located at4369 Wade Hampton Blvd.in Taylors.

PRAISE CATHEDRALHOSTS PRAYER EVENT

Thursday, May 5 is theNational Day of Prayer.The community is invitedto join with fellow believ-ers in the Worship Centerfor a time of Prayer & Wor-ship. Services will be heldat 12 p.m. and 6:30 p.m.

YARD SALEAT WOODS CHAPEL

Woods Chapel UnitedMethodist Church is host-ing a yard sale on Satur-day, April 30 beginningat 8 a.m. The church islocated at 2488 BrownWood Rd. in Greer. Cost toparticipate is $5 per table.Proceeds go to churchmissions.

LEE ROAD UMCHOMECOMING

Lee Road United Method-ist Church is inviting thepast, present and futuremembers to its annualhomecoming worship ser-vice, set for at 10:30 a.m.on May 15. The church islocated at 1377 East LeeRoad in Taylors. There willbe a fellowship meal fol-lowing service in the How-ard Hall Gymnasium.

SUMMER DRAMA CAMPAT ABNER CREEK

Summer Drama Campis back at Abner CreekBaptist Church. Duringday camp, children willexperience fun and excit-ing opportunities to learnabout music, drama, andthe gospel. The cost is$30 per child/$75 family

(maximum). Camp will beheld June 6-10 from 8:30a.m. – 2:30 p.m. daily.Parents and grandpar-ents are invited to attendthe performance on Sun-day evening, June 12 at 7p.m. Dress rehearsal forchildren participating will be on Sunday, June 12 at3:30pm. The church is lo-cated at 2461 Abner CreekRd, Greer. Register onlineat www.abnercreekbaptist.com before May 26.

WOMEN’S ZUMBA ATABNER CREEK BAPTIST

Abner Creek BaptistChurch is offering Wom-en’s ZUMBA on Mondaysat 7:30 p.m. in the FamilyLife Center. The cost is $2per person per class andwill be collected at eachclass. A Women’s WalkingGroup is also in the Fam-ily Life Center at 7 p.m. before ZUMBA and is freeto the public. All ladies inour community are wel-come to join us for oneor both of these classes.The church is located at2461 Abner Creek Road inGreer. www.abnercreek- baptist.com.

CHILD EVANGELISMFELLOWSHIP

The Good News Spec-tacular is a free one daycommunity event filledwith games, inflatables,popcorn, live interactiveshows, crafts and morefun for the whole family.

Saturday, May 21. It willtake place at the TD Con-vention Center from 10a.m. - 3 p.m.

ABNER CREEK TRACTORSHOW IS MAY 21

Abner Creek BaptistChurch will hold its 26thannual Power From The

Past antique tractor, en-gine and swap meet onSaturday, May 21, from 8a.m.-4 p.m.

The event will featureantique tractors, hit andmiss engines, garden trac-tors, crafts, a kids areawith bounce houses, food,music and a swap meet.

The show is presented by the church and Foot-hills Antique Power Asso-ciation. Admission is free.

The church is located at2461 Abner Creek Road inGreer.

NEW LIBERTY BAPTISTCHURCH HOSTS REVIVAL

New Liberty BaptistChurch will hold a springrevival with Rev. Stan ColeApril 24-27.

Sunday’s service beginsat 6 p.m. Monday throughWednesday services beginat 7 p.m.

Special music will beprovided by The GilreathFamily and Three DaysLater.

The church is located at1798 North Highway 25 inTravelers Rest.

THE PERRYS IN CONCERTAT NORTH FORK

North Fork BaptistChurch will host The Per-rys in concert on Thurs-day, May 19, at 7:15 p.m.

The church is locatedat 162 Callahan MountainRoad in Travelers Rest.

SENIOR ADULT DAY APALACHE BAPTIST

May 1 is Senior AdultDay at Apalache BaptistChurch. During the morn-ing worship service senioradults are recognized, theoldest man and woman inthe service are honored,and the “Senior Adult for2016” (who is selected by

his or her peers) will beannounced. Seniors areasked to fill the choir forthe service. Afterwards, acatered luncheon for thesenior adults will be heldin the CLC.

 “GOLDEN HEARTS”CALENDAR

On April 28, the senioradults of Apalache BaptistChurch will go out to eatfor the evening meal atSilver Bay Seafood Restau-rant on White Horse Roadin Greenville. The buseswill leave the church at 6p.m.

SQUIRE PARSONS CONCERTAT APALACHE BAPTIST

Squire Parsons will per-form in a love offeringconcert on Sunday May 22,6 p.m. at Apalache BaptistChurch. The church is lo-cated is located at 1915Gap Creek Road in Greer.Nursery will be provided.For more information, call877-6012.

CAMP O’NEALFAMILY FARM SHOW

O’Neal CHurch of GodMinistries is sponsoring afamily farm show Satur-

day, May 14 from 8 a.m.-4p.m. at Camp O’Neal, locat-ed at 3723 North Highway101. The event will featureexhibits by the AmericanTruck Historical Society,arts and crafts, food, sing-ing and a children’s playarea. Admission is $5 forages 13 and up. Admis-sion is free for 12 and un-der and for Release Timestudents from Blue RidgeHigh and Middle Schoolswith a valid ID. A por-tion of the proceeds fromthis year’s event will goto support this program.For more information, callGreg and Earline Pittmanat 303-4368 or 895-2142.A free benefit singing will be held Friday, May 13 at7 p.m. and a love offeringwill be collected to help afamily in need. Music will be provided by Decree andOff Duty Bluegrass. Foodwill be sold at the event.

TAYLORS FIRST BAPTISTUPCOMING EVENTS

Taylors First BaptistChurch will offer a Nation-al Day of Prayer serviceMay 5 at noon in the cha-pel. The service will be led by Dr. Jimmie Harley.

Registration is open forCamp in the City, a fiveday summer camp thatexposes the young camperto Jesus through worship,Bible study, and high en-ergy games. The event will be held July 25-29 from9 a.m.-4 p.m. and is opento children K5-fifth grade.cost is $254 to attend.Scholarships are available.For more information, visitwww.pinecove.com/sum-mer-camps/camp-city.

Registration begins May1 for Summer Spectacularweek, offered June 13-17from 9 a.m.-12 p.m. costis $10 per child. Scholar-ships available.

For more information orto volunteer, visit taylors-fbc.org/life-stages/chil-dren/summer.

SEND US YOURCHURCH NEWS

Churches wishing tolist upcoming events andprograms in Church Newsshould send informationto [email protected] call 877-2076. Dead-lines for submission areMonday at noon.

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TownSquare presidentAlex Reynolds believesthe Taylors market willdo more than simply givesresidents something to doonce a week. He says themarket will fill a need forthe center of a communitythat really lacks a grocerystore or market sellingfresh goods.

“Obviously I’ve got acar,” Reynolds said. “I cango hop in that, but not ev-erybody has that luxury.”

Taylors is offering SNAPbenefits, SupplementalNutrition Assistance Pro-gram, in its market. SNAPoffers nutritional assis-tance to individuals andfamilies in low-incomesituations and provideseconomic benefits to com-munities. It’s a programthat Taylors didn’t have tooffer, but SNAP coordina-tor for the Taylors marketKristien King wanted to besure it was included in themarket.

“I think taking that add-ed step of doing the SNAPbenefits and opening thatup to people who mightnot otherwise have accessto fresh food is just againone of those valued addedthings that we are doingthis for the people of Tay-lors,” Reynolds said “Andwe want to make sure weare doing this for all thepeople of Taylors.”

Talking with team mem-bers, it seems one ideathat is shared between allinvolved is that this is amarket for Taylors.

“Our goal is to buildTaylors and some of theprograms will benefit Tay-

lors people,” Heidi Henrysaid.

Even the musical actsscheduled to performcome from Taylors or atleast nearby.

“With everything else wewant the produce to be lo-cal; we want the vendors to be local,” Rich Hefty said.“I don’t want to be jettingoff to Atlanta to pull inan act for a local farmersmarket.”

By making everythinglocal, the Taylors marketwill surely forge some re-lationships.

“Greer is a city. Green-ville’s a city. Fountain Inn’sa city. But we’re not, It’san unincorporated area,”

White said. “We want thepeople of the Taylors areato become involved withthe people who are buyingfrom the Taylors area anddevelop this relationship.”

With about a week to go,the individual who haveplanned and worked for ayear and a half on the mar-ket are excited for the rela-tionships and the produceand the start to somethingspecial.

“I’m past excitement, just ecstatic for it,” saidRhodes’ wife Andrea. “Wegave out flyers the othernight and so many peopleare so excited for this thatit got me even more ex-cited.”

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2011. She reportedly waslast seen leaving a Spartan- burg home on Dean Streetthat evening and her vehi-cle was found abandonedat William’s Bar and Grillin Spartanburg a few dayslater. Shelton was a nurs-ing student at SpartanburgCommunity College.

The Spartanburg CountySheriff’s Office reportedTuesday that they had been dispatched on Mon-day evening to the intersec-tion of Bennett Dairy Roadand Old Converse Road tomeet with a woman whosaid she knew where a hu-man skull could be found.The area was secured anda search was conductedearly on Tuesday. Thesearch led deputies anddog teams into a woodedarea off of Enola StationRoad where they foundthe skull. Other remainswere also found.

Clevenger said the skullwas sent to a forensic den-tal specialist in Charlestonto make the identification.The office is now investi-gating the cause and man-ner of death. Clevengersaid that process could

take a long time.In a press release, Clev-

enger asked for prayersfor the family.

“The family was calledto my office last night andtold of the news and emo-tions were understandablymixed,” he said. “They arerelieved to have any an-

swer. This is not the resultthey hoped for. I ask thatyou keep this prayerfuland loving family in yourprayers in the days andweeks ahead.”

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After a week of temperatures in the 80swe will see mostly cloudy skies and coolertemperatures this weekend with a chance forrain on Sunday. We will see hot temperatureson Friday with cooler, cloudy weather for theSaturday. Rain and a few storms on Sundaywill keep temperatures in the upper 70s. Highson Saturday will climb to the lower 80s withmostly cloudy skies. Our overnight lows willfall to the low 60s.

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Ann W. McClimon

Ann Wyndham McCli-mon, 78, died April 24,2016 at National HealthCare.

She was a native ofGreenville County, daugh-ter of the late Marvin Leeand Blanche WyndhamMcClimon. She was a for-mer member at Greer FirstPresbyterian Church andMemorial United Method-ist Church and a retired

 bookkeeper with Price Wa-terhouse Coopers.

Surviving include a num- ber of cousins.

Memorial services will beheld 4 p.m. Wednesday atWood Mortuary conducted by Rev. Wayne Cole.

Memorials may be madeto the Greenville HumaneSociety, 305 Airport Road,Greenville, SC 29607.

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to Southeastern marketsas well as the Midwest.

“While our discussionsare preliminary, the suc-cess of Inland Port Greerdemonstrates the marketdemand for additionalintermodal hubs to sup-port growing volumes ofcargo moving to and fromCharleston by rail,” New-some said. “We are work-ing with CSX to determinethe viability of Dillon,South Carolina as the lo-cation for our next inlandport and hope to finalizeour plans by the end of theyear.”

Approximately 23 per-cent of containers import-ed or exported throughCharleston last year moved by rail, with nearly 260,000international intermodalrail lifts handled in 2015.Intermodal volume hasseen staggering growth of166 percent since 2011,driving increased demandfor additional inland portfacilities.

“A second inland portin South Carolina wouldexpand transportation op-tions in the state, lowering

shipping costs for SouthCarolina businesses andimproving competitive-ness,” said Dean Piacente,CSX Vice President. “Thisproject would also gen-erate substantial public benefits by creating jobs,spurring economic devel-opment and reducing traf-fic congestion on I-26 andI-95.”

The facility design, costs,and construction timelineare being studied by Ham- burg Port Consultants(HPC). The SCPA is pursu-ing federal infrastructurefunding assistance throughthe Transportation Invest-ment Generating EconomicRecovery (TIGER) programto supplement the capitalinvestment required forthe project.

“According to a recenteconomic impact study,port-related jobs pay 40percent higher than thestatewide average,” saidT.F. Finklea, Dillon CountyCouncil Chairman. “We areexcited about the possibil-ity for Dillon to be the siteof the next Inland Port.”

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Taylors teen

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reportedly saw the officersand turned the other way.Jacobs and another officerpursued him because theybelieved they had reason-able suspicion to detainMackey and conduct afrisk for weapons.

When Jacobs pursued onfoot and rounded the rearof the residence at 8 Re-becca St., Mackey allegedlydrew a .40 caliber Glockand fired seven roundsat Jacobs, who sustainedwounds to his left arm,right thigh, upper rightchest and head. Jacob’sfirearm was never drawn.

Mackey reportedly fled,but after some time andseeing other officers in thearea he raised the Glock tohis head and shot himself.

The investigation is on-going and charges againstMerritt may be modifiedas evidence dictates.

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PORT: Costs, designs still

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(Note: All informationcontained in the followingwas taken directly fromthe official incident reportsfiled by the Greer PoliceDepartment or the Spar- tanburg County Sheriff’sOffice. All suspects are tobe considered innocentuntil proven guilty in thecourt of law.) 

BOSSTEDPatrick Kenshay Kirksey

was arrested on April 20for possession of marijua-na and possession of drugparaphernalia.

According to a GreerPolice incident report, anofficer was conductingstationary speed enforce-ment when a gray HondaAccord was pulled over fortraveling 55 mph in a 40mph zone. As the officerapproached the occupantsof the vehicle appearedto show signs of nervous-ness. The officer noticed ablack bag stuffed betweenthe seats. The officer ques-tioned the driver, whowould not give consentto search the vehicle, soa K-9 unit was requested.A few moments later, K-9Boss gave a positive alertto illegal substances in thevehicle. A search yielded14 grams of marijuana lo-cated in a jar, along withone green metal grinderand one blue digital scale,both containing marijuanaresidue. The vehicle’s pas-senger, Kirksey, said it washis bag of marijuana andhe was arrested and trans-ported to Greer City Jail.

CDVAngela Brown was ar-

rested on April 20 forcriminal domestic violence(third).

According to a GreerPolice incident report, anofficer responded to BigFox Lane in reference toa domestic disturbance.Upon arrival, the officermade contact with thecomplainant, who statedthat he and his wife (the

suspect) had gotten intoan argument. The argu-ment escalated and Brown began throwing items inthe bedroom. The victimstated Brown struck himin the head with her hand,scratching him on bothforearms as well. Brownwas transported to GreerCity Jail.

PUBLIC DRUNKBrian Andrew Sudduth

was arrested on April 23for public drunkenness.

According to a Greer Po-lice incident report, an of-ficer responded to the areaof S. Line St. and Moore St.in reference to an intoxi-cated subject. Upon arrival,the officer found Sudduth,who was sitting on a curbnear the roadway. The of-ficer questioned Sudduth,who stated he drank anentire bottle of liquor. Theofficer detected a strongodor of alcohol comingfrom the subject and no-ticed Sudduth slurring hisspeech and staggering ashe walked. He was trans-

ported to Greer City Jail.

POSSESSIONChelsea Elaine Linkous

was arrested on April 24for possession of marijua-na (first).

According to a GreerPolice incident report, anofficer responded to theintersection of North MainStreet and West ChurchStreet in reference to acollision. Upon arrival, theofficer was told by twowitnesses that Linkoushad been traveling south- bound in the northboundlane. The witnesses saidLinkous swerved, collid-ing with a large pole. Theofficer made contact withLinkous and noticed astrong scent of alcohol.A series of field sobri-ety tests were performedon Linkous, which werefailed. During the courseof the tests, another offi-cer arrived on scene andlocated a small amount ofmarijuana. Linkous was ar-rested for simple posses-sion and was transported

to Greer City Jail, wherea Breathalyzer test wasgiven. Linkous had a BACof .07 and was not chargedwith driving under the in-fluence.

HIDING IN THE WOODSRussell Raymond Jones

was arrested on April 23and charged with shoplift-ing, trespassing after no-tice, public drunkennessand interfering with a po-lice officer.

According to a GreerPolice incident report,an officer responded toWalmart in Greer in refer-ence to shoplifting. Theofficer met with a manag-er, who stated the subject,Jones, had taken itemsand, upon noticing policepresence, ran to a wood-ed area near Lorla Street.Jones was located in thewooded area lying underthick brush. The officernoticed a strong scent ofalcohol coming from him.According to police, theitems Jones stole werevalued at $130. Jones was

transported to Greer CityJail.

SMOKING IN THE MAN CAVEAntonio Shanche Snod-

dy was arrested on April21 for possession of mari- juana (first).

According to a GreerPolice incident report, anofficer responded to 212Oakland Avenue in refer-ence to an active warrant.Upon arrival, officers no-ticed a strong odor of mar-ijuana from outside theapartment. Snoddy statedthe smell was coming fromwhere he and his girlfriendhad smoked the night be-fore. The officer enteredthe apartment and noticedthe first door was shut,which Snoddy describedas the “man cave.” The of-ficer entered the room andfound a bag of marijuanaon the coffee table, alongwith four partially smoked blunts. Snoddy stated themarijuana was his. He wastransported to Greer CityJail.

IN THE GLOVE BOX Thomas Mark Connelly

was arrested on April 21for possession of mari- juana (first). Accordingto a Greer Police incidentreport, an officer was con-ducting a checkpoint atthe intersection of SnowStreet and Trade Street.The officer stopped awhite Chevrolet Nova andit’s driver, Connelly. Whenasked to present the of-ficer with his informa-tion, Connelly opened theglove compartment, whichcontained what appearedto be a bag of marijuana.When questioned aboutthe bag, Connelly submit-ted the marijuana to theofficer. He was arrestedand transported to GreerCity Jail.

POSSESSIONMichael Curtis Winkle,

58, was charged with re-ceiving or possessing sto-len goods.

According to the Spar-tanburg County Sheriff’sOffice, an officer was onpatrol on Abner CreekRoad in Greer in referenceto a wanted subject in thearea. The officer witnesseda gold Cadillac pull out of a driveway at 184 AbnerCreek Road and pull backin when the officer ap-proached the residence.Because the act appearedsuspicious, the officerpulled behind the vehicleand got out to make con-tact with the driver, iden-tified as Michael Winkle.The officer obtained theWinkle’s information andran the vehicle tag throughSpillman and NCIC. Thelicense came back stolenfrom a 2000 Ford Ranger.The officer contacted An-derson County Sheriff’sOffice and they advised thetag had been on the truckat the time of theft. Afterreceiving confirmationof the stolen tag, Winklewas placed in custody forpossessing stolen goods.A warrant was grantedfor possession of stolengoods enhanced. Winklehad eight prior convic-tions for stolen propertyin the past ten years.

PRESTON BURCH | THE GREER CITIZEN

Wreckless driving caused this car to flip Sunday night just off Wade Hampton Boulevard in Greer. The incident occurredat around 8:15 p.m. There were four passengers in the car and one person was taken to the hospital.

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BLAME

CANNADA

BILLY

CANNADA

Bannerchasers

Those ready to watchthe University ofNorth Carolina burn

to the ground from NCAAsanctions got some un-welcome news on Mon-day.

The university receivedan amended Notice of Al-legations from the NCAA,replacing the former doc-ument, which specificallyindicted certain programs(football, men’s basketballand women’s basketball)with receiving impermis-sible benefits in the formof phony classes.

The amended documentpulls back from that alle-gation. In fact, it does notmention men’s basketballor football at all.

For those that haven’tfollowed this case closely,allow me to offer a briefsynopsis of what you’vemissed. In 2014, theNCAA opened an aca-demic fraud investigationon the University afterit was learned that someclasses in the AfricanAmerican Studies major(AFAM) were nothingmore than sham. Students(both athletes and non-athletes) would take thesecourses and would only be required to submit asingle paper in order toreceive credit for the class(hence the term ‘paperclasses’). These classeswere said to have spannedmore than a decade andit was believed by manythat they were the reasonmany basketball andfootball players remainedeligible.

Here’s where I begin toquestion to motives of themedia covering this case.

I understand NorthCarolina is a high-pro-file school and many ofthese charges are alarm-ing on an academic level.Nobody is arguing that(although, you might wantto perform this sameinvestigation on a lot ofother schools…you may be surprised by how manysimilar classes exist).

What I am concernedwith, however, is the factthat most beat writersand television personali-ties are only concernedwith ramifications forthese violations IF theyimpact the men’s basket- ball and football pro-grams.

Take, for example, a fewreactionary tweets fromMonday afternoon.

“Seriously, as bad asthe UL prostitute scan-dal is, the UNC one issignificantly worse…justshowcases how arbitraryNCAA ‘justice’ is,” wroteMatt Jones of KentuckySports Radio

Or…“Most significant piece

of NCAA’s new NOA: ap-pears unlikely to touch2005 UNC MBB champion-ship team heavily enrolledin fake classes,” said DanKane of the News andObserver.

What’s wrong with thesetweets? Well, a lot if youask me.

North Carolina isn’t get-ting away with anything.There are five allegationsagainst the Universityright now, most of whichare probably Level 1 viola-tions in the NCAA’s book.To say that the NCAAisn’t dealing out “justice”is absurd consideringno sanctions have beenhanded down and manyserious accusations stillexist. So why are peopleacting like UNC just gotaway with murder?

I would propose it’s be-cause people only want towatch the men’s basket- ball program fall. You canshout from the rooftopsthat this is about thestudents and a corruptuniversity, but it seemsto me that most peoplewere just interested intaking down some of thechampionship banners inthe Smith Center.

BY BILLY CANNADA

SPORTS EDITOR

The Byrnes softball teamwas perfect in region playthis season, finishing 14-0in the conference and 23-2overall.

“It’s exciting to go unde-feated and win the region,”head coach Brandi Aikensaid. “There were somegood teams that we hadto beat twice, but our kidsstepped up. Now it’s play-off time and every team isgoing to be good, but we’reexcited to get started.” Both of the Rebels’ lossesthis season came to UnionCounty by scores of 3-2and 5-3.

“Those were two of our better played games,” Ai-ken said. “I don’t knowthat we could have doneanything different, but welearned a lot from thosegames with Union. Some-times you can draw morefrom a loss than you canfrom a big win.”

Byrnes has been domi-nating teams this season,scoring a total of 307 runsand holding opponents to20 runs. Continuing thatlevel of production is go-ing to require a lot of hardwork in practice this week,Aiken said.

“Very rarely do we havethree days of practice toget out there and workon some things,” she said.“We have to take advan-tage of the time and get back to some basics. We’ve been hitting the ball wellall season, but we prob-

ably need to work on ourtechnique as we start see-ing better pitching.”

The Rebels are led bypitcher Tatum Arboleda,along with Kasey Widmy-er, Peyten Bennett and Al-lison Neely.

“We’re young, so goinginto the season, I reallydidn’t know what to ex-pect,” she said. “A lot oftimes, young players don’tperform every day the wayyou would like them too, but our team has been sosolid all season. Everyoneis stepping up and ouryoung players are becom-ing more consistent.”

With a No. 1 seed andhome field advantagethroughout, Aiken saidthis is a team that can gothe distance.

“We really do have all thecomponents that it takes,”she said. “At this point,it’s about staying looseand playing your game.We have to stay confidentand hopefully we’ll catch acouple of breaks.”

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In regionplayBY BILLY CANNADA

SPORTS EDITOR

The Greer boys soccerteam locked up a playoffspot heading into the finalweek of the regular sea-son.

The Yellow Jacketsknocked off Southside (6-0), Blue Ridge (4-2) andEmerald (3-1) last week,securing a third place re-gion finish. With the wins,Greer improves to 12-8 on

the season.“In our conference, the

 boys have played at a highlevel all season,” headcoach Jorge Santos said.“We’ve been in some closematches and we haven’t al-ways gotten the result wewanted, but I’ve definitelyseen them step up.”

Greer last dropped aregion match to Eastside,which came after twoovertimes. Although histeam has been in someclose games, Santos saidhis guys haven’t alwaysfinished the job.

“They know that they’reright there in a lot of thesegames,” he said. “We’ve

had eight losses, and sixof those have been by onegoal. If we can start de-fending well and finishingour chances, any of thosegames could have gonethe other way.”

Although brackets hadnot been released at presstime, the Yellow Jacketswill likely hit the road inround one of the playoffs.

“If we’re going to lose,we’re going to go downfighting,” Santos said.“These guys are ready. Weknow we have to play at ahigh level and hopefullythat’s what we’ll do.”

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BY BILLY CANNADA

SPORTS EDITOR

Troy Pride Jr. broke sev-eral records as the GreerHigh boys and girls trackteams secured top threefinishes at the GreenvilleCounty meet last week-end.

The boys took homesecond, while the girls fin-ished third on the day.

Pride broke the countyrecord in the 100-meterdash, finishing with a timeof 10.72 seconds. Pridealso set records in the 200(21.90) and 400 (48.96)-meter events.

Dorian Lindsey took sec-ond place in the 400-me-

ter hurdles, while QuavianWhite finished first in the110-meter hurdles.

Adrian McGee finished

third in the long jump andfourth in the triple jump.

Leading the girls wasEbony Balsley, who cap-tured first place in thelong jump, third place inthe 400-meter hurdles andsixth in triple jump. KaiyaBradford had a secondplace finish in high jump,a second place finish inthe 100-meter hurdles anda third place finish in the100 meters.

The boys 4x100 team,comprised of Pride, Mc-Gee, Lindsey and White,finished second.

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Lady Rebelstake region

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The Byrnes softball team is a No. 1 seed heading intopostseason play this week.

Pride breaks records

at county track meet

Troy Pride, Jr.

‘At this point, it’s

about staying loose

and playing your

game.’ 

Brandi Aiken

Byrnes softball coach

Greer boys finish third

PRESTON BURCH | THE GREER CITIZEN

The Greer boys soccer team locked up third place in the region last week with winsoverSouthside and Blue Ridge.

BY BILLY CANNADA

SPORTS EDITOR

The Blue Ridge baseballteam locked up the PeachBlossom championshiplast week with a 4-0 winover rival Greer, cappingan 18-4 regular season.

The Tigers won 16straight games to closethe regular season, earn-ing home field advantagein the playoffs.

“It’s been a fun run forus,” head coach TravisHenson said. “Our guyshave really shown someresiliency over the lastcouple of weeks and wereable to accomplish a bigtime goal. Winning theregion is an incredible ac-complishment in this re-gion because it’s so com-petitive.”

Blue Ridge toppedChapman on Tuesday 9-3. Ethan Few got the winon the mound, tossing acomplete game with ninestrikeouts.

“They’re a very scrappyteam, but we had some bigat-bats in that ball game,”Henson said.

Brandon Southern re-corded two hits, includ-ing a double, in the game,while Jacob Wilbanks andFew added run scoringdoubles from the plate.

The Tigers then kept themomentum alive on Fri-

day night, as John Cokerthrew a complete gameshutout against the team’sarchrival. Coker had sevenstrikeouts and allowed justfive hits in the contest.

“He’s was huge for us,”Henson said. “This staffhas really stepped up inthe past few weeks. Ev-erybody we’ve put on themound has been Tigertough. They’ve adoptedthat mentality and it has been huge for this team.”

Southern led the wayfrom the plate againstGreer, going 2-3 on thenight.

“It’s a new season now,”Henson said. “All of thosewins are in the past. Allthat matters is the nextone.”

The Tigers will faceRichland Northeast Fridaynight at home. Regardlessof the outcome, Blue Ridgewill play at home again onMonday.

SOFTBALLThe Blue Ridge softball

team finished the seasonwith a region record of 13-1 after a loss to rival GreerMonday night.

The Tigers managed animpressive team batting

average of .446 with 23 to-tal home runs this season.

The team is led by fourseniors: Summer Under-wood, Kelsey Jones, Ans-ley Gilreath and SametraDuck. Standout pitcherGabi Howard has also had

a strong season from theplate, recording a battingaverage of .676. SamanthaBlackwell leads the teamfrom the plate with an av-erage of .692.

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Blue Ridge teams capture region title

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The Blue Ridge baseball team won the Peach Blossom championship last week, defeating

rival Greer, 4-0.

‘All of those wins

are in the past. All

that matters is the

next one.’ 

Travis Henson

Tigers baseball coach

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B2 THE GREER CITIZEN  SPORTS  WEDNESDAY, APRIL 27, 2016

BY REID SPENCER

NASCAR WIRE

The honeymoon at JoeGibbs Racing may be over.

Yes, on Sunday at Rich-mond International Race-way, Carl Edwards won hissecond straight NASCARSprint Cup Series race inthe Toyota Owners 400and the fourth in a row forJGR, but he did so with alast-lap bump-and-run onteammate Kyle Busch, whowas seeking his third vic-tory in four events.

“We did everything right– be smart,” Busch wastold on his radio, afterEdwards moved the No.18 Toyota up the track inTurns 3 and 4 and beat

Busch to the finish line by.675 seconds.

Busch took the advice.No doubt seething insideat the loss of a race heseemed poised to win, hemaintained radio silence.

With a superb pit stopunder the eighth and finalcaution of the race, Buschgrabbed the lead for a re-start on Lap 365 of 400. Hestayed out front until Ed-wards made up enormousground by burying his No.19 Camry into Turn 1 onthe final lap.

Edwards applied thecoup de grace in the nextcorner, nudging Busch outof the way to complete thefirst last-lap pass for thewin in the history of the

.75-mile track.Edwards indicated he

was willing to take moreliberties with his team-mate because they had both scored victories thisseason and are locks toqualify for the Chase forthe NASCAR Sprint Cup.

“Kyle’s an amazingteammate, and it’s like hegot really slow there atthe end,” Edwards said inVictory Lane. “Somethinghappened that last lap. Itwas like his rear tires wentoff or something. He wentdown into (Turn) 1 and Idove it in and I got to himand I thought, ‘Man, I’vegot something.’

“And he went to getdown to the bottom and

park it in (Turns) 3 and4, and I had already de-cided to go down there, soI thought, ‘Man, I’m goingto give him a little nudge.’And we both have gotwins, and we’re racing forfun getting these trophiesand (it was) just an awe-some day.”

“Awesome” is probablynot the word the typicallyoutspoken Busch wouldhave chosen, but he wassilent on his radio aftertaking the checkered flag.In his post-race interviewin the media center, Buschwas as non-committal asretired Seattle SeahawkMarshawn Lynch in thelocker room.

Asked whether he ex-

pected Edwards to use the bump-and-run for the win,Busch repeated a rote an-swer he had given to theprevious question.

“Our Banfield Camrywas real awesome today,”Busch said. “We had agreat race car. My guysmade some awesome ad- justments to it. It was re-ally good for us to havean opportunity to run andrace for the win like that.”

And was Edwards’ nudgemore excusable because both drivers already hadwins?

“My guys give me greatrace cars each and everyweek,” Busch deadpanned.“We continue to have fastCamrys. We’ll be continu-

ing to run up front andrace for wins.”

Edwards’ pursuit ofBusch over the last 36 lapswas riveting, but so wasthe action throughout thefield. The race featured 23lead changes (most since2007) among eight driv-ers, as cars came to lifeand faded as the trackchanged throughout theafternoon.

Jimmie Johnson’s No.48 Chevrolet was strongearly and late and camehome third, followed byHendrick Motorsportsteammate Kasey Kahne,who scored his first topfive since the Chase raceat Kansas last October.

Edwards bumps Busch to win at Richmond

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Four Byrnes High Schooltrack athletes can add“county champion” totheir list of accomplish-ments.

Mikenzie Young-Mullins,Ray Miller, Jamarris Adair,and Malik Epps all won 1stplace in their individualevents at this week’s Spar-tanburg County track andfield meet. Epps won thecounty title in the 800 me-ters, Adair won for triplejump, Miller won for dis-cus, and Young-Mullinsreceived the title in triplejump, long jump and the400 meter hurdles. Thejunior also was named thegirls county field eventMVP for the meet.

LEGION SIGNUPSBEGIN THIS WEEK

American Legion Base-ball signups will be heldApril 23-24 and April30-May 1 from 2-4 p.m.Registration is locatedat Post 115 at 421 SnowStreet (same lot as StevensField).

Age groups are 13-17 for

 junior teams and 15-19 forthe senior team. There will be two junior teams andone senior Team. Tryoutswill be announced afterthe signup on the GreerParks and Recreation website. Tryouts will be at Ste-vens Park and Greer HighSchool.

REBEL TOUCHDOWN CLUBGOLF TOURNAMENT

The Rebel Touchdownclub is hosting a golf tour-nament Saturday, May 14,at River Falls Plantation.The event is scheduledfrom 7 a.m.-7 p.m.

This is a 4-person team,Captain’s Choice styletournament which featuresa Million Dollar Hole-in-One shoot-out on the 18thhole. It is a fundraiser forthe James F. Byrnes HighSchool football team.

For more information,contact Trish Ballenger,tournament director, at991-1268.

 YOUTH BASKETBALL CAMPBEGINS JUNE 13

The 2016 Riverside HighSchool Youth BasketballCamp will take place June13-16 in the gym. Registra-tion begins at 8 a.m. Mon-day, June 13. The camp isopen to girls and boys ages5-14. Times are Monday-Thursday 9 a.m.-1 p.m.

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The Riverside baseballteam will likely just missthe playoffs, finishing agame under .500 at 12-13.

The Warriors secured afifth place finish and havepetitioned to be the SouthCarolina High SchoolLeague to be the at-largebid for the region, but apostseason appearance isunlikely.

“I think Hillcrest wouldget in ahead of us just be-cause they’ve performedbetter in their region andthey have a better overallrecord,” head coach Travis

Pitman said. “It’s tough tofinish one game under fivehundred.”

The Warriors, who wonfive region games thisseason, have been hot attimes, but consistency has been lacking throughoutthe spring.

“We had streaks wherewe played really well, butwe also had a couple ofslumps throughout theseason,” Pitman said. “We just couldn’t find the con-sistency. But we feel goodabout the group we havecoming back.”

Riverside will graduatefive seniors, but severalkey underclassmen will re-

turn in 2017“They should come back

with a lot of confidence,”Pitman said. “They’ve got avarsity season under their belt and they know what ittakes. We’re expecting bigthings next year.”

Before a game againstSpartanburg, the base- ball program honored thefamilies of three formerplayers, Michael Douty,Jeff Gully and Tim Bright,who passed away. Memori-als were placed at the sta-dium for each player andfamilies were recognized by the crowd.

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Warrior baseball lefton outside looking in

Includesseveralfirst-timeattendees

Celebrities will maketheir way to the Thorn- blade Club May 19-22 forthe 2016 BMW CharityPro-Am presented by SYN-NEX Corporation.

For the second consecu-tive year, the celebrity-studded affair will alsoinclude a free celebrityconcert on Main, as well asan exclusive VIP concert.

“This is a unique eventfor South Carolina, andwe are very excited for thefun that awaits spectatorsof both the tournamentand the two great con-certs this annual occasion brings to the community,”said Bob Nitto, presidentof the BMW Charity Pro-Am. “We are also proudto announce that, for thefirst time, each celebritywill be paired with a ben-efiting local charity for theCharity Cup.”

Stars including Alfonso

Ribiero (America’s Funni-est Home Videos, FreshPrince of Bel-Air), BrianJordan (Atlanta Braves,Atlanta Falcons), Dan Jan-sen (Gold medal-winningOlympian), and Drew Co-peland (Sister Hazel) willmake their first appear-ance in the premier eventon the Web.com tour.Meanwhile, Rascal Flatts’Joe Don Rooney and JayDeMarcus, Oliver Hudson(Nashville), and quarter- back Jim McMahon areamong the returning ce-lebrity players set to teeoff.

The celebrity rosteralso includes: Andy Buck-ley (The Office), AnthonyAnderson (Black•ish),Bill Engva