2 Teens Arrested in Store Owner's Killing

2 teens arrested in store owner’s killing

some solace on the day community word of Police chief credits they bury their father, mouth for a Crime husband and staple of Stoppers tip that led FRIDAY, DECEMBER 1, 2017 75 CENTS media, community the Manning Avenue to the arrest of Sin- SERVING SOUTH CAROLINA SINCE OCTOBER 15, 1894 community. cere Dinkins, 17, of effort leading to tip Sumter Police De- Walsh Grove and partment announced Larenzo Hagood, 19, 4 SECTIONS, 36 PAGES | VOL. 123, NO. 31 DINKINS HAGOOD BY KAYLA ROBINS two arrests in the case. of Curtis Drive in the [email protected] Sumter Police killing of Vijaykumar SPECIAL SECTION Chief Russell F. Roark III on Patel at Save-Mart Grocery on IN TODAY’S PAPER The family of the man who was Thursday at a news conference Nov. 24. gunned down inside his own busi- credited the media, his officers’ ness’ walls last week may now find efforts in distributing fliers and SEE ARRESTS, PAGE A13 A day in the life ...

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D1 MICAH GREEN / THE SUMTER ITEM Lefford Fate takes questions from Stephanie Joye’s kindergarten class on Thursday. Fate served as principal for a day at CLARENDON SUN Alice Drive Elementary School. Sheriff’s office will Professionals from different occupations take host active-shooter part in district’s Principal for the Day program training for churches A10 BY BRUCE MILLS stepped into a classroom in a long [email protected] time, and most said they walked away excited by what they saw. ommunity leaders from Lefford Fate, support services director with the City of Sumter, vis- Have an old bike in your various fields had the ited Alice Drive Elementary School shed? Donate it A2 opportunity to walk a and Principal Suzanna Foley. He C got to see Promethean boards and mile in the shoes of a principal Chromebooks on display and in Thursday through Sumter use and said he was pleased with DEATHS, B5 his visit with the students, teach- School District’s annual Prin- ers and staff. Carter Jean Frierson cipal for the Day program. “I met a lot of kids who are very Shirley M. Allen bright, articulate and polite,” Fate Jo Ellen C. Brooks Twenty-six professionals from said. “You hear a lot of negative Charles E. Bennett local businesses and industries, stuff about kids today, but these Janet Ann B. Meyer the military, law enforcement, the were great kids, and it was a lot of state Legislature and other fields fun. The teachers were happy and participated in the seventh-annual working hard, and it wasn’t fake.” WEATHER, A14 event, which offers a unique A former command chief in the BRUCE MILLS / THE SUMTER ITEM hands-on opportunity to see both 20th Fighter Wing at Shaw Air POSSIBLY RAINY Tracy Harrington of Continental Tire the strengths and challenges of the Force Base, Fate said he was Times of clouds and sun; mostly cloudy the Americas looks on Thursday as district and helps to forge commu- amazed when he heard of many with a shower tonight possible eighth-grader Nikole Weeden solves nity partnerships, according to dis- kids’ favorite subjects in school. HIGH 69, LOW 47 problems in a math class at Hillcrest trict staff. Middle School in Dalzell. Many leaders said they hadn’t SEE PRINCIPALS, PAGE A13 INSIDE CONTACT US Classifieds B6 Info: 774-1200 Comics C6 Advertising: 774-1237 Opinion A5 Classifieds: 774-1200 Army probes criticism of Green Beret training Sports B1 Delivery: 774-1258 WASHINGTON (AP) — The Ar- swath of the Army’s Special Forces cated at Fort Bragg, North Caroli- Television C4 News and Sports: my’s Special Warfare Center and community. The nearly 6,300-word na, on Thursday defended the pro- 774-1226 School has launched an investiga- message declared that the school’s cess for selecting Green Berets and tion into an anonymous email that senior officers and enlisted leaders rejected a number of the claims in accused its leaders of “moral cow- are primarily interested in advanc- the email. He said he stands firmly VISIT US ONLINE AT the .com ardice” for ditching training stan- ing their careers by meeting de- behind the “quality of every sol- dards and allowing undeserving mands for greater numbers of dier we are sending to the opera- soldiers to become members of Green Berets and enforcing “politi- tional force,” in a statement deliv- elite Green Beret teams. cal agendas.” ered to “men and women” of the The sharply critical message was Maj. Gen. Kurt Sonntag, com- sent earlier this week to a wide manding general of the school lo- SEE TRAINING, PAGE A13

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LOCAL BRIEFS FROM STAFF REPORTS Congressional Gold Medal to be awarded

The Lincoln High School Preservation Society will host a ceremony at 11 a.m. Satur- day at the school, 26 Council St., to present a Congressional Gold Medal to the family of the late John Paul Wright, who was a U.S. Marine from June 30, 1943, through WRIGHT Feb. 20, 1946. The public is invited to attend. Wright, a Sumter native, was a member of the Montford Point Marines, a segregated unit to train marines of Afri- can-American descent. In 2012, the U.S. Congress awarded the Congressional Gold Medal to those Montford Point Marines or their family PHOTOS BY ADRIENNE SARVIS members. Wright was not in- May Baird, standing, thanks Senior Investigator Jennifer Thomas of Sumter County Sheriff’s Office for returning her son’s golf cart after cluded in the list at that time. it was stolen on Thanksgiving. Baird’s son saved his money for seven years to purchase the golf cart. Accepting the medal for Wright will be his sister, Mar- garet Davis, a former board member of Sumter School Dis- Christmas comes early for Sumter family trict No. 17. For more information, call James Felder at (803) 261-0167 or Gloria Neal Showers at (803) when son’s stolen golf cart is returned 905-3289. BY ADRIENNE SARVIS Senior Investigator Jennifer Thomas, Sumter man dies in [email protected] with Sumter County Sheriff's Office, wreck on U.S. 521 said it was not difficult to identify the On Tuesday, a local family rolled into stolen golf cart because of its custom A 36-year-old Sumter man the holiday spirit when Sumter County upholstery and paint job — Carolina died during a single-vehicle Sheriff's Office investigators returned Panthers colors. She recognized the wreck on U.S. 521 on Thurs- their golf cart after it was stolen on golf cart as one stolen from Sumter day afternoon. Thanksgiving. County while working with an investi- The deceased has been May Baird said her son Tait Heffer- gator in Lexington County. identified as Joshua Neville, nan, 23, is non-verbal and was diag- Thomas remembered reading a local according to Sumter County nosed with autism at a young age. incident report about a stolen golf cart Coroner's Office. Riding in the golf cart gives Tait lei- matching one that was photographed Neville was pronounced sure entertainment, she said. by Lexington investigators. dead at Palmetto Health Tu- The family rode in the golf cart mul- After identifying the golf cart, Thom- omey. tiple times a day, every day, until as and Investigator Nelson Rosario — South Carolina Highway Thanksgiving. also with Sumter County Sheriff's Of- Patrol is investigating the The family went outside that Thurs- Baird hugs Investigator Thomas. fice — retrieved the golf cart from Lex- wreck, and an autopsy is day morning expecting to go on a ride ington. scheduled for today in New- and saw that the golf cart was gone. suspects "cased" the neighborhood, Thomas and Rosario then took the berry. Tait saved his money for seven years spotted the golf cart and returned to vehicle to East Coast Scooter on to purchase the golf cart, and it was take it the night before or the morning Broad Street in Sumter where the taken not more than two months later, of Thanksgiving. store owner changed the ignition she said. When the golf cart was reported sto- switch and provided new keys, free of He loves to ride in the car and listen len, Baird and her family received help charge. CORRECTION to music, and the golf cart allows him from the owner of Ricochet Custom Tait had undergone a medical pro- If you see a statement in error, to do that in a more cost efficient way, Golf Carts — the Columbia store where cedure on Tuesday morning and contact the City Desk at 774-1226 or she said. the golf cart was purchased — who missed the initial surprise, but Baird [email protected]. Baird said the incident is concerning called around about the theft. He was assured the investigators that he for her family because it means the very helpful, she said. would be excited when he saw it later.

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more than 3,500 “like new” bi- bike repair days are sched- Bike repair days cycles being provided to chil- uled: from 9 a.m. to 1 p.m. Sat- dren since 1997. He said orga- urdays, Dec. 2 and 9, at 926 set for Dec. 2, 9 nizers plan to give away at Club Lane. least 200 bicycles this year. Children who will receive BY JIM HILLEY Donations of bicycles and the bikes have completed an [email protected] tricycles, both new and used, application process and will can be made at any Sumter- be invited to a giveaway event During the Christmas sea- area fire station, Lawrence at a date and time to be an- son, members of the Evening said. Financial contributions nounced, he said. Optimist Club of Sumter and are also accepted and will be The Evening Optimist Club other volunteers refurbish used to purchase parts and of Sumter meets at 6:30 p.m. used bicycles to give to under- supplies to repair the bikes. the second and fourth Tues- privileged children for Christ- Contributions can be made to day of each month at Angel’s mas. the Evening Optimist Club of Mexican Food, 246 S. Pike According to Tom Law- Sumter, c/o Cycles for Christ- West. rence, an Optimist Club mem- mas, PO Box 2883, Sumter SC For more information, call SUMTER ITEM FILE PHOTO ber, the “Cycles for Christ- 29150. Tom Lawrence at (803) 983- The Evening Optimist Club of Sumter hopes to give away at least 200 mas” project has resulted in Lawrence said two more 2875. bicycles to Sumter children this year for Christmas.

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In this Jan. 1, 2014 photo, Madison Houdek Rise of ‘hobby farms’ watches as her father, Jamie, demonstrates tools he uses to means more growers eat and use a computer tablet since losing his right hand to a are maimed, killed corn picker in 2013 on the 60- INDIANAPOLIS (AP) — Phil Jacobs widespread commercial farming opera- acre hobby farm was just a teenager when his parents tions, Field said. where he raises bought a scenic Kentucky farm with Over the years, Field has served as an beef cattle near hayfields, forests, creeks, trails and a expert witness in more than 100 law- Little Falls, Min- view of the Ohio River. Decades later, he suits that included the deaths of a sur- nesota. still spent time there, maintaining the geon, an FBI agent, a lawyer and sever- property as a second job and using its al other professionals who traded white- DAVE SCHWARZ / ST. campsite for family getaways. collar careers for farming. Many were CLOUD TIMES VIA AP The Lawrenceburg, Indiana, anesthe- rookie farmers killed in accidents that siologist was removing dying ash trees people raised on farms and mindful of in June 2015 when his tractor over- farming dangers would likely have cializes in pasture-raised hogs and perini said, and some turned as he was pulling a tree up a hill. avoided. chickens, as well as eggs, honey and beginning farmers who buy older trac- He died instantly, at age 62. The tractor, That includes the death of a man who vegetables. tors have little or no safety training. which dated to the early 1960s, had no entered retirement with dreams of They knew full well that agriculture They often toil alone at odd hours — rollover protections. starting a Christmas tree farm in the can be dangerous, so Holman repeated- sometimes while weary from working at "The farm was a very important part Northeast. He bought a brand-new trac- ly screened farm-safety videos. But he off-farm jobs. of my husband's life," said Jacobs' tor and began clearing land, seemingly still nearly had a serious accident the Even seasoned farmers sometimes widow, Joyce. "If he had any time off, oblivious to the dangers posed by farm first time he tilled a field. make mistakes in a moment of haste. we went to the farm." equipment. Two months into retire- As his tractor was rolling along, the That was the case for Jamie Houdek, The risk of serious injury or death ment, the man was killed in a grisly ac- tiller trailing behind it snagged on a who lost his right hand to a corn picker has always been a part of farming. But cident when he was pulled into the trac- boulder hidden in the soil. The tractor's on the 60-acre hobby farm where he the nation's growing embrace of small- tor's power takeoff shaft — a rapidly front end immediately began rising off works part-time raising beef cattle in scale production of local and organic spinning device at the rear end of the the ground and came a split-second Little Falls, Minnesota. crops is drawing more amateurs into tractor that sends power to attach- away from flipping over onto the cab The father of three was harvesting the field, and inexperienced growers are ments. where he was seated. corn for cattle feed in November 2013 increasingly getting maimed and even "He retired on Sept. 30 from a govern- "Maybe it was just dumb luck, but when he stopped his tractor and killed, often by old, unsafe machinery. ment job and was dead by Thanksgiv- right in the heat of the moment, I hit climbed down from the puttering ma- Experts say some novices have little ap- ing. I don't think he had a clue what he the clutch and had just enough time to chine to make sure the corn picker it preciation of the occupation's dangers. was doing with that equipment," said bring the front end back down," recalled was pulling was functioning properly. Up to a quarter of Indiana's 115 farm Field, who investigated the death as Holman, 40. Houdek then reached to grab a dried fatalities over the past four years have part of a lawsuit filed by the man's His tractor had some protections — a ear of corn from the still-operating ma- been on small operations that include widow. He declined to disclose the man's rollover bar and a reinforced cab. But chine to check its moisture content. His so-called hobby or lifestyle farms, which name. hobby farms are among the only places gloved right hand was swiftly pulled in- are often run by people who entered Chris Holman moved to Wisconsin in the U.S. where cheaper, older tractors side, crushed to the wrist by metal roll- farming from other lines of work, ac- from Oregon nearly a decade ago to without such safety features are still in ers and eventually shorn off. His left cording to research by Purdue Universi- pursue a PhD in world languages. He use, said Frank Gasperini, executive hand suffered nerve damage when it ty farm-safety expert Bill Field, who has ended up ditching academia for the vice president of the National Council also became entangled in the picker. tracked farm fatalities for nearly four farming life even though neither he nor of Agricultural Employers. "I was born and raised on farms, so I decades. his then-girlfriend, Maria, had any agri- Jacobs' tractor was one example. He knew better," said Houdek, 36. But he Those deaths — nearly 30 between cultural experience. had researched buying a new, safer ma- was hurrying and trying to take advan- 2013 and 2016 — represent a dispropor- The couple, now married with a chine, his widow said. tage of good weather. "I just thought I tionately high percentage of Indiana's young daughter, bought 41 acres and Tractor rollovers are the leading would jump off real quick, check on total farming deaths, given the state's founded Nami Moon Farms, which spe- cause of death on smaller farms, Gas- stuff and jump back on and keep going." HONESTY SHE WANTS... Thomas Sumter Academy is a blend of honored tradition, modern technology and Christian faith. We promote diversity and attract children from families of various walks of life as we work toward building the whole individual. Add to your faith, virtue; and to virtue, Hardwood • Carpet knowledge. -2 Peter 1:5 Custom Rugs Tile • Laminate Call the Dixie Blondes and More! 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od never meant for underwear more down the box and exclaimed, mother began to instruct me I lifted my head, looked at children to receive un- than toys. I al- “I hate getting underwear for on the finer points of eti- her steely eyes, and said, Gderwear for Christmas. ready knew Christmas!” quette. She told me Aunt Iris “Thank you Aunt Iris for the The Wise Men did not bring enough Bible to The crowded room of aunts, didn’t have to give me a pres- underwear.” Then, she Jesus underwear as one of know Adam and uncles and cousins went ent, underwear was some- smiled, and said, “You are their gifts. Christmas is for Eve didn’t wear quiet. In a low lethal voice, thing I needed, and it was welcome.” I thought I saw her toys and joys. Underwear falls underwear. I told my mother approached. Hiss- kind of Aunt Iris to spend her throw a conspiratorial wink into neither category. SMITH Mama I didn’t ing through clenched teeth, hard-earned money on me. at my mother, but I’m not cer- Yet, every year of child- need any either, she told me to go outside with Then to drive the lesson tain. hood, one of my aunts seemed but she told me they sinned her. home, she applied her hand to Mama and Aunt Iris taught designated to give me under- and God made them wear un- My previous experience my bottom and sent me back me one of my most important wear. One year it might be derwear. Then she informed taught me going outside into the living room to tell life lessons about Christmas: Aunt Mildred, another year me I had sinned also, so I would be detrimental to my Aunt Iris “Thank you.” Give thanks to the giver, not Aunt Lola. At least those needed to wear underwear, backside, since last year’s My face was flushed red as thanks for the gift. years were better than Aunt too (“Let him who is without Christmas gift was not padded the entire family watched me Remember to look God in Bill’s year; she would give sin among you not wear un- in that particular area. I approach Aunt Iris, head low- the eye and say, “Thank you.” hand-me-downs from her son derwear?”). shook my head “no” whereup- ered, ready to mumble my Still your soul long enough, Bob (and yes, I have an Aunt One Christmas, my under- on my mother seized my ear, “thank you.” Before I could and you might hear, “You are Bill. Her name is Billie Jean. wear frustration reached its twisted it and led me through stammer out any words, Aunt welcome.” It’s a Southern thing). I never peak. I think it was Aunt Iris’ the living room and the kitch- Iris said in her no-nonsense Maybe you’ll catch God knew if this was orchestrated turn to buy me underwear. I en and onto the back porch. voice, “Look me in the eye, winking. by my mother or not. opened the package and saw Parents were more direct son, when you talk to me.” There was less money those six pairs of white Fruit of the then. Apparently, she was in on me Clay Smith is the lead pastor days. Mama knew I needed Looms. In disgust, I threw Once the door closed, my learning this lesson, as well. of Alice Drive Baptist Church.

Pope Francis gestures as he visits the National Martyrs’ Memorial Let’s anticipate the celebration of Bangladesh in Savar, outskirts of Dhaka, Bangladesh on Thurs- day. Pope Francis arrived in Ban- ounting down to thought they needed, much less gladesh for the second leg of his Christmas is much dif- the man that baby grew into. six-day trip to Asia. Cferent as an adult than He offered them peace when it was as a child. Every year, they wanted vengeance and THE ASSOCIATED PRESS my grandmother would buy eternal security rather than us a chocolate advent calen- earthly comfort. dar — the kind that had a They were frustrated. Christ- little paper door you would mas was a bit of a letdown. pry open and get a little Faith Matters My own children will open chocolate, molded in the their own little doors today shape of a Christmas deco- JAMIE H. with great anticipation. Their ration. WILSON excitement will manifest itself Indeed, life then was in dozens of drawings and sweet, as many parents will crafts centering on the Christ- attest, as compared with the rapid mas story. They’ll rearrange our na- pace of Christmas now. Somewhere tivity scene a hundred times and role in adulthood, the pace of Christmas play the stories they’ve heard from quickens, and the anticipatory spirit their teachers. Every day they will Pope demands ‘decisive measures’ of the holiday is exchanged for the re- ask me, “Is it Christmas yet?” lief of having completed the endless I can’t help but conclude that they list of holiday obligations. The Christ- are on to something. Rather than wal- to resolve Rohingya mass exodus mas lunches, dinner and parties fill low in my frustrations, why not live the calendar. The gift exchanges with in anticipation of the celebration? DHAKA, Bangladesh (AP) — the whole world.” He didn’t identi- their many spoken and unspoken ex- Why not rejoice in the birth of the Pope Francis demanded Thursday fy the Rohingya by name, ethnicity pectations. The family gatherings that Savior? Jesus came to give us life that the international community or faith, referring only to “refu- make you grateful Christmas comes more abundant (John 10:10), to give take “decisive measures” to re- gees from Rakhine state.” but once a year. Sometimes, Dec. 26 us peace (John 16:33) and to liberate solve the causes of the mass exo- But his words were sharp. can’t come soon enough. me from the consequences of my dus of Rohingya Muslims from “None of us can fail to be aware Great, you’re probably thinking, an- many mistakes (Luke 19:10). Myanmar, breaking his recent si- of the gravity of the situation, the other column about how we need to Nowhere in Scripture does it tell me lence over what the United Nations immense toll of human suffering slow down during the holidays and that he came so I could rush around, has declared to be a textbook case involved and the precarious living realize what’s important. Yes, you do feeling frustrated in the days leading of “ethnic cleansing.” conditions of so many of our need to do that, but I want to focus on up to the celebration of his birth, Arriving in Bangladesh from brothers and sisters, a majority of something else. then shortchanged once the holiday Myanmar, Francis said it also was whom are women and children, For hundreds of years, the Israel- was over. “imperative” for world govern- crowded in the refugee camps,” he ites had been waiting for a Savior, a There will likely be dozens of op- ments to immediately provide as- said. champion, someone to liberate them portunities to view the countdown to sistance to help the Bangladeshi “It is imperative that the inter- from oppression. They were frustrat- Christmas as a dash to the finish line, government cope with Asia’s worst national community take decisive ed, to put it mildly, and ached for re- but there are more and better oppor- refugee crisis in decades. measures to address this grave cri- lief. Their expectations, however, tunities to rejoice in the reason for In a speech before Bangladesh sis, not only by working to resolve were that of a leader that would come the season. You and I have just 24 President President Abdul Hamid, the political issues that have led to and quell their earthly disappoint- days to do so. government officials and ambassa- the mass displacement of people, ments. This leader would vindicate Let the countdown begin. dors from around the world, Fran- but also by offering immediate ma- them and restore them, they thought. cis praised Bangladesh’s sacrifice terial assistance to Bangladesh in What they got — a child born to Email Jamie H. Wilson at faithmat- and generosity in welcoming in so its effort to respond effectively to peasants — was hardly what they [email protected]. many refugees “before the eyes of urgent human needs.”

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Road, announces: Road, announces: Wednesday, Pastor Renel and new members fellowship * Sunday, Dec. 10 — Gospel * Saturday — Outreach minis- Trevol of Goodwill Baptist will be celebrated at 10:45 St. Mark Missionary Baptist singing at 4 p.m. featuring try “Day of Warmth” soup Church of Manning; Thurs- a.m. Church, 7650 Summerton Palmetto Gospel Singers, and sandwich from 11 a.m. to day, Apostle Cravon Smith of * Sunday, Dec. 17 — Annual Highway, Silver community, Ricky and the Soulful Mes- 2 p.m. Open to the communi- New Dimension of Faith of Christmas program, spon- Pinewood, announces: sengers, Sumter Violinaires, Fayetteville, North Carolina; ty. Mary Ruth Cook will sored by the church school, * Sunday — St. Mark Brother- Heavenly Angels and more. speak. and Friday, Elder Sampson at 4 p.m. Pearson of the Triumph hood fashion show during 10 Church and Kingdom of God * Sunday, Dec. 31 — Youth a.m. worship. Victory Healing Temple an- Church of Christ, 313 Mooney- in Christ. worship celebration at 10:45 * Sunday, Dec. 17 — Christ- nounces: a.m. ham Road, announces: * Sunday, Dec. 17 — Pastoral mas cantata at 3 p.m. * Saturday — Evening of * Saturday, Dec. 9 — Family Elder Leroy Dingle’s fourth * Sunday, Dec. 31 — Watch praise and worship at 6 p.m. and friends night at 6 p.m., anniversary celebration will New Testament Lighthouse Night service at 10 p.m. at the North HOPE Center, hosted by the China and Har- continue at 4 p.m. at the Church, 1114 Boulevard Road, 904 N. Main St., featuring the vin families. The Rev. Leroy Breedin Room, 312 Pine St., announces: gospel group Kingdom Voic- Blanding, of New Bethel Mis- Manning (behind Weldon Au- Triumph Ministries, 3632 Broad es, spoken word artist / au- * Saturday-Wednesday, Dec. St. Ext., announces: sionary Baptist Church, will ditorium). Elder Eric Virgil 6 — Revival and special sing- thor Tameka Walker Ewing, speak. Briggs, of the Triumph and ing as follows: 3:30 p.m. Sat- * Today — Birthday celebra- poet Felicia Ragin and musi- Kingdom of God in Christ of urday; 10 a.m. and 5 p.m. tion service for Prophetess cians Troy Bolden and Lee Columbia, will speak. Stephanie Mathis at 7 p.m. McFadden. Ebenezer Missionary Baptist Sunday; and 7:30 nightly Church, 105 Dinkins St., Man- Monday through Wednesday. ning, announces: Knitting Hearts Ministry, meets The Rev. Scott Eadie will speak. * Sunday, Dec. 10 — The 148th at Bethesda Church of God, church anniversary will be 2730 Broad St., announces: celebrated at 4 p.m. The Rev. * Saturday, Dec. 9 — Knitting Pinewood Baptist Church, 10 E. Dr. George Payton, pastor of Hearts will meet from 10 a.m. Fulton St., Pinewood, an- Allen Chapel AME Church St. Zion Elizabeth Baptist to noon. Derrick and Sabrina nounces: Church of Aynor, will speak. Fort, of Great Commission * Sunday, Dec. 10 — The adult Ministries of Lake City, will choir will present “The Story share “A Message for the You are invited to join us for High Hills Missionary Baptist of Christmas” at 6 p.m. Re- Season.” All ladies, all ages, freshments will follow. Church, 6750 Meeting House are invited. A love offering Road, Dalzell, announces: will be received. Visit knit- * Sunday, Dec. 17 —The adult Family & Friends Day * Sunday — Holy communion tingheartsministry.word- choir will present “The Story will follow the 10:15 a.m. wor- press.com. of Christmas” at 11 a.m. Sunday, Dec. 3 at 10 am ship service. There will be community- wide Christmas caroling at 5 * Saturday, Dec. 16 — Christ- Mount Pisgah AME Church, 217 p.m. Sponsored by: Sallie Evans mas program / fellowship W. Bartlette St., announces: dinner at noon. * Wednesday, Dec. 20 — The * Sunday, Dec. 17 — Christ- children’s Christmas pro- Women’s Missionary Society * Sunday, Dec. 31 — Watch mas program at 4 p.m. gram “Sing a Song of Christ- night service at 10:30 p.m. mas” will be held at 7 p.m. followed by the Christmas Mount Zion Missionary Baptist Rev. Dr. George E. Hicks, Pastor House of Judah Worship Center, tree gift exchange and a visit Church, 325 Fulton St., an- from Santa. 3890 White Oak Drive, Man- nounces: 471 Lynam Road • Sumter, SC ning, announces: * Sunday, Dec. 24 — Christ- * Saturday — Indoor garage 803-775-2133 * Wednesday-Friday, Dec. mas Eve services will be held sale from 7 a.m. to 1 p.m. at at 11 a.m. and we invite all 13-15 — Pastoral Elder Leroy the Mount Zion Enrichment Dingle’s fourth anniversary families to “come as you are” Center, 315 W. Fulton St. Ta- to worship together and ob- celebration will be held at bles available for $20 each. THE SUMTER ITEM WORLD FRIDAY, DECEMBER 1, 2017 | A7 Polish firm makes glass ornaments

JOZEFOW, Poland (AP) — gown, he must have it!" says From the White House and Magdalena Jaroszynska- the Eiffel Tower to butterflies Slodyczka, Silverado's co- and wedding cakes, a Polish owner and its artistic direc- company can make any kind tor. of blown-glass Christmas tree It's the flexibility and the decorations that clients fancy. dedication of the crew that The fragile ornaments, make their products special called "bombki," are a fixture and worth the high price that of Christmas in Poland, the clients are ready to pay, where they are made in many she told The Associated forms and designs. Press. Silverado, based in Jozefow, The hand production is la- near Warsaw, employs some borious. The glass shapes are 50 people and works with an- blown by experienced special- other 150. It sells about 1 mil- ists from glass tubes. lion decorations a year, pri- "Glass tolerates no mistakes; marily in the United States everything must be done very and Europe, in an astonishing precisely and evenly," said variety of forms and designs. Ryszard Baran, between blow- They can be found at the ing bulbous shapes from glass White House, the directors heated to more than 1,112 de- say. grees Fahrenheit. Its showroom is filled with The transparent bulbs are hundreds of different, unusu- then passed to Barbara THE ASSOCIATED PRESS al Christmas tree decora- Jablonska who gives them a Blown-glass Christmas tree decorations for the U.S. market are on display at the Silverado manufacturer in tions, ranging from glittering silver coating. She puts a Jozefow, near Warsaw, Poland. The manufacturer sells about 1 million decorations a year, primarily to the traditional bulbs to famous chemical solution containing U.S. and Europe. They can be found at the White House. buildings like the White silver into them and briefly House, Britain's old red immerses the bulbs in hot phone booths, vintage cars water, a process that produc- of enamel and glue, a few The all-time best-selling de- szynska-Slodyczka. and flowers and vegetables. es the silver shine. women are adding glitter, sign is a fairytale frog, wear- "Everyone has this fantasy "If the client wants to have In another small house, glass gems and other rich or- ing a princely crown and sit- about a transforming kiss," a snowflakeChurch on an angel's filled with the stingingDirectory smell naments. ting on a pillow, says Jaro- she says.

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This image provided by the Bigger, more advanced North Korean government on weapon might not be Thursday shows North Korean leader Kim Jong Un, third from light enough to travel left, and what the North Korean to the U.S. West Coast government calls the Hwa- song-15 intercontinental ballistic BY ERIC TALMADGE missile in North Korea. Indepen- The Associated Press dent journalists were not given access to cover the event depict- TOKYO — North Korea ed in this image distributed by released dozens of photos the North Korean government. Thursday of the Hwa- The content of this image is as song-15, a new interconti- provided and cannot be inde- nental ballistic missile it pendently verified. claims can reach any target in the continental United KOREAN CENTRAL NEWS AGENCY / KOREA NEWS States. SERVICE VIA AP The photo dump, published in the paper and online editions of the ruling party’s official daily, is a load of about 330 pounds, gold mine for rocket experts which is probably much trying to parse reality from lighter than any real nucle- bluster. ar payload the North can Their general conclusion produce. To get to the West is that it’s bigger, more ad- Coast, the North needs to vanced and comes with a keep that weight down to domestically made mobile 1,100 pounds. Whether it launcher that will make it can do that remains ques- harder than ever to pre- tionable. “Kim Jong Un’s emptively destroy. But 7 inches tall. THE LAUNCHER That makes finding and de- nuclear bomb must weigh there’s a potentially major In a tweet just after the North Korea boasted re- stroying the Hwasong-15 be- less than 800 pounds if he catch: It might not have the photos were published, Mi- peatedly in its announcement fore a launch more difficult. expects to strike the west- power to go much farther chael Duitsman, a research- of the launch Wednesday that ern edges of the U.S. main- than the West Coast if it is er at the Center for Nonpro- the Hwasong-15 was fired THE PAYLOAD land,” Elleman estimated. loaded down with a real nu- liferation Studies in Mon- from a domestically made North Korea claims the “A 1,300-pound payload clear warhead, not a terey, California, said: erector-launcher vehicle. Its Hwasong-15 can carry a barely reaches Seattle.” dummy like the one it car- “This is very big missile ... photos back that up. “super-heavy” nuclear pay- ried in its test launch on And I don’t mean ‘Big for Being able to make its own load to any target in the Wednesday. North Korea.’ Only a few mobile launch vehicles, mainland United States. PROFESSIONAL Here’s a closer look: countries can produce mis- called TELs, frees the North The re-entry vehicle, that siles of this size, and North from the need to get them nose cone in the photo, does THE MISSILE HEATING COOLING Korea just joined the club.” from other countries, such as indeed look quite large. But AND APPLIANCE SERVICES The North’s new missile Size is important because China, which is crucial con- the heavier the load, the appears to be significantly a missile targeting the Unit- sidering the tightening of in- shorter the range. bigger than the Hwasong-14 ed States would have to ternational sanctions that Michael Elleman, a lead- ICBM it tested twice in carry a lot of fuel. Duits- North Korea faces. ing missile expert, has sug- July. man also suggested the new TELs make it easier to gested in the respected 38 Note how it dwarfs North ICBM appears to have a dif- move missiles around and North blog that Hwa- Korean leader Kim Jong ferent engine arrangement launch them from remote, song-15’s estimated 8,100- Un, who stands about 5 feet and improved steering. hard-to-predict locations. mile range assumes a pay-

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BY DAVID LAUDERDALE ‘I swung back around he was paroled, the bomb for me," he said. University of Richmond and The Island Packet of Hilton Head went off. "I had two daughters. on the first day saw young Jill to put my elbows on Luck, as Graybeal sees it, "Jill was still with me. Lobach, his future bride. It HILTON HEAD ISLAND — that specialists could pick "The best thing I could do was lucky that he got into the Pat Graybeal of Hilton Head from his eyes most of the was to get on with what I Navy after officer candidate Island starts his new memoir the fender of the car metal shards of that can, and needed to do." school because he almost with this: he regained his sight. I got to know the Graybeals flunked the physical exam. He "I think of myself as one of and started leaning Luck that, with the help of through a story. It was when a tells the story in the book: the luckiest men alive." hearing aids, he can hear. small package arrived in the "We can't take this man," That seems odd from an my hands together Lucky that the towns of mail at their Sea Pines home the doctor told an officer. 84-year-old man whose Christiansburg and Blacks- in early December 2004. They "He's had too much dental "hands" are two metallic trying to touch them, burg, hugging the beautiful recognized the address. It was work." clamp hooks, daily reminders mountains of southwest Vir- where they used to live in The officer snapped back: for 44 years that he was and I couldn’t feel a ginia, pulled together to sup- Christiansburg, and where "Take him. We want him to wronged by an ex-con who port the Graybeals like their they'd stopped in a couple shoot the enemy, not bite 'em." tried to kill him with a home- thing.’ beloved Virginia Tech Hokies. years earlier to take pictures He was lucky to be reared in made bomb. Neighbors took the girls to of the rhododendrons in a family of faith, with a heavy Graybeal's life was defined PAT GRAYBEAL their home, and a friend took bloom. emphasis on education. His that night, near midnight, in the new puppy, Freddie, as In the package was Pat's father was a physics professor the quiet town of Christians- Former prosecutor of Jill went off to the hospital. wedding ring. at Emory & Henry College, burg, Virginia. Jill, a school teacher, was The man who lived there, a where his four older brothers He was the Montgomery Montgomery County in joined there by the superin- pastor, was out raking leaves went to school. Of the six chil- County prosecutor and he'd Virginia tendent, who waited up all by the carport when he saw a dren in that family, one got a pushed 20 cases through court night with her. flash of gold under a holly doctorate in divinity from that day — Dec. 4, 1973. He In this life full of luck, shrub. The inscription sur- Yale University, one became a stayed late at the office pre- Graybeal was back at work vived the bombing: "JEL to doctor, two became lawyers paring seven more cases for and deaf. four months later, driving JPG, 7-18-53." and two were educators. the next day. Then he stopped They had to put more blood himself with strings rigged to Pat couldn't wear the ring, "Our parents had high ex- by a victory party for a new in him that night than a body the steering wheel. He even of course, so Jill suggested he pectations of us," Graybeal state senator. holds. had his sense of humor. Fred- put it on a chain around his said. When he pulled into his Jill said: "The rescue squad die the puppy ended up stay- neck. He laughed. She got He remembers well an odd driveway, he noticed that man told me he was within 1 ing a while in a veterinarian's Adrianne Lively to frame it at saying from his mother. someone had left a can of po- minute of not making it." home. Graybeal called him Camellia Art, and it was a Whenever one of them needed tato chips on the roof of his Yet his memoir is called "Freddie the freeloader." true Christmas surprise that to buck it up, she'd say, "Re- wife's car. He leaned over the "Justice and Luck." Graybeal worked as an year. member, you're a McGrill." side of the car to pick it up Luck, you might say, that elected prosecutor for 25 years After 31 years, the ring Nobody knew any McGrills. and take it inside. the man in the rescue squad and then was appointed a dis- "came full circle," Jill said. But they knew what she It was a bomb. The explo- lived down the street and was trict judge. He became chief Graybeal describes a lot of meant. sion shattered windows in the there in a minute. judge, then a visiting judge luck in his memoir, edited and The Graybeals were forced house, where his wife, Jill, Luck that Graybeal was after retiring to Hilton Head pulled together by Alex to buck it up when their and their two little girls, ages leaning against the car, so it 20 years ago. Cruden in a 92-page paper- daughter, Sally, died of breast 11 and 9, were sleeping. screened the explosion from He never felt sorry for him- back that isn't for sale. The cancer in 2007 at age 46. It blew away both his hands. his shoulders down. self. People in the book say he Graybeals have ordered two And, of course, after the "My hands felt like they Luck that a prisoner in the and Jill showed a whole vil- batches of 50 books to give to bombing. were frozen, extremely cold," county jail could instantly tell lage, especially the little friends and acquaintances. Why no bitterness? he writes. "I swung back police who did it. It was a man friends of their girls, how one It was lucky when he was The way Graybeal figures it, around to put my elbows on who'd talked in jail about kill- responds to setbacks in life. offered a college scholarship the assailant wanted to kill the fender of the car and ing Graybeal, who prosecuted And that's the crux of his to play tuba at Morehead him, and he had taken from started leaning my hands to- the case five years earlier book, and his life. State University, across the him all he was going to get. He gether trying to touch them, when he was convicted of "I couldn't see what being mountain from home in Rad- was not going to get his heart, and I couldn't feel a thing." beating and strangling to mad, or bitter, or upset, or ford, Virginia. It was lucky or joy, or peace of mind. It left him temporarily blind death his wife. A week after vengeful would accomplish when he transferred to the Or, I guess, his luck. 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Session offered of minutes, everyone in that a.m. to noon, the Clarendon the most prepared location in Some churches in the county small, close-knit community County Sheriff’s Office is offer- the area, and it didn’t stop the have plans in place to counter for the county’s was scarred for life. ing an active-shooter training shooter.” different acts of violence, Ros- Clarendon County is very program for all the county’s Rosdail said that local first dail said. similar to Sutherland Springs church leaders, pastors, ushers responders, city and county “It’s good to reinforce their church leaders with communities and towns and support personnel at Wel- fire departments as well as law training,” he said. “That’s why BY SHARRON HALEY spread throughout its borders. don Auditorium. The program enforcement officers from the we, law enforcement officers, Special to The Sumter Item Paxville in western Clarendon is free to local individuals in various agencies in the county retrain every year.” County is at the intersection of hopes that what happened in have been invited to participate Rosdail said the focus of the MANNING — The morning U.S. 15 and S.C. 261. That small Texas could be thwarted in in the program. training exercise is not to scare of Nov. 5, 2017, forever changed crossroads is home to 185 resi- Clarendon County. “While we hope that nothing communities. the lives of the 600 residents of dents. A little south of there at “We don’t have a crystal like that occurs here,” he said, “We want to help them be- the sleepy rural Texas commu- the intersection of U.S. 15 and ball,” said Lt. Eric Rosdail with “we’re certainly not immune to come better prepared to ad- nity of Sutherland Springs. U.S. 301 lies Summerton with the Clarendon County Sheriff’s it.” dress different situations,” he Located at the intersection of 966 residents. Toward the Office. “We don’t know. We Rosdail said domestic vio- said. U.S. 87 and Farm Road 539, just northern end of Clarendon want to train everyone ahead lence has been known to esca- Rosdail said he’s taught 21 miles east of San Antonio, County is Turbeville and its 803 of time in order to mitigate the late into incidents where there many courses throughout the Sutherland Springs is little residents. The county seat of number of victims if someone are multiple victims. county on security awareness. more than a crossroads. On Manning which is at the inter- does attempt to do that here.” “Acts of violence are unfor- “People need to be aware of that fall Sunday morning, sections of U.S. 301, S.C. 261 Rosdail is a senior active tunate,” he said. “It’s becoming their surroundings,” he urged. many folks had gathered for and S.C. 521 has 4,042 residents. shooter instructor with the more and more commonplace “Look around. Observe what’s Sunday morning worship ser- On any given Sunday morning, South Carolina state program. than it used to be. That’s why around you. Being observant vices at The First Baptist visitors could find hundreds of He and CCSO’s Chief Deputy we need to prepare now.” could alert you to potential Church when the unthinkable county residents attending doz- Gene Morris returned recently Rosdail said individuals can’t problems before they can esca- occurred. ens of places of worship spread from the biggest active-shooter be “too prepared, too vigil or late into violence. A lone gunman entered the throughout the county. training program in the nation, too aware.” If you want to represent your church spraying bullets Could what happened in which is 30 to 40 miles from Whether you’re sitting in church at the program, contact throughout the congregation of Texas happen in Clarendon Sutherland Springs. church, shopping in a mall or Rosdail at Clarendon County families including many small County? “The biggest training pro- walking through the parking Sheriff’s Office by calling (803) children. When it was over, 27 Not if the Clarendon County gram is right in (Sutherland lot of a superstore, individuals 435-4414 or emailing erosdail@ lives were lost and 20 more Sheriff’s Office can help it. Springs’) backyard,” Rosdail need to be “aware of their sur- clarendoncountygov.org. Enjoy plenty of Christmas celebrations in Clarendon BY SHARRON HALEY “Of course, we start with the parade,” Special to The Sumter Item said Turbeville Mayor Dwayne Howell. “After the parade, we’ll have music and MANNING — You don’t have to leave games for the children and, of course, Clarendon County to celebrate the holidays. Santa will drop by. We’ll also light the On Saturday, head over to Barrineau for tree.” the annual Barrineau Christmas Parade Howell said food vendors would be on which kicks off at 11 a.m. The folks at Bar- hand selling lots of delicious goodies. rineau Pentecostal Holiness Church have At 6 p.m. Dec. 9 at Weldon Auditorium, been hosting the annual parade for years, the Clarendon County Community Devel- and they really know how to bring in the opment Corp. will present The Christmas big crowds. The proceeds are donated to the Festival of the Arts. According to Paulette church’s missions program. Mr. and Mrs. King with the CDC, the event will feature Claus visit from the North Pole. Dozens of local artwork displayed in the lobby, danc- floats, trucks, cars and the occasional golf ing, singing and more. Tickets are $5. The cart are festooned in garland and lights, event is a fundraiser for the CDC. and don’t forget the bands and warmly During the Dec. 10 morning worship ser- dressed beauty pageant winners. The folks vice at Manning United Methodist Church, from the church haven’t forgotten the food the church’s choir will present its annual either. The crowd can enjoy everything Christmas Cantata. from homemade cookies to sandwiches and Also on Dec. 10 during the morning wor- lots more. ship service at Bethlehem Methodist At 7 p.m. Saturday and at 5 p.m. Sunday, Church, the church’s choir will present its East Clarendon Community Choir led by annual Christmas Cantata. Pastor Brian Sargent of Horse Branch Bap- At 6 p.m. Dec. 11 at Weldon Auditorium, tist Church in Turbeville will take Weldon students from Manning Primary School Auditorium’s stage. More than 80 choir will take the stage in a performance of members representing as many as 10 area “Frosty the Snowman.” The play is free. churches along with eight to nine musi- At 6:30 p.m. Dec. 14 at Weldon Auditori- cians will present Christmas Makes Every- um, dancers from Clarendon Dance Acade- thing New! The event is free. my will present a Clarendon Christmas “We’ve been practicing for months now,” Spectacular. Tickets are $10 in advance and Sargent said recently. “We’ve put a lot of $15 at the door. work and time into the presentation.” During the Dec. 24 morning worship ser- PHOTOS BY SHARRON HALEY / SPECIAL TO THE SUMTER ITEM At 6:30 p.m. Dec. 8 at Weldon Auditorium, vice at Turbeville Southern Methodist Harvin Clarendon County Library, 215 N. Brooks St., is ready for St. Nick. On the Back Porch Singers will present A Church, the church’s choir will present its Tuesday, members of Manning Garden Club used lots of red ribbon, bows, Christmas Concert. Tickets are $10 each. annual Christmas Cantata. wreaths and twinkling lights to transform the library into a festive scene for At 3 p.m. Dec. 9, Turbeville Business As- At 6 p.m. on Dec. 24, Presbyterian Church the holidays. Vicki Ouzts, Kay Kirkpatrick, Barbara Morris and Margaret Rob- sociation will host the annual Turbeville in Manning will hold its annual Christmas inson are seen with just one of the many wreaths the garden club used in Christmas Parade. Eve Candlelight Service. its decorations.

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Should the last and merger to First Citizens Bank and OTHER ENCUMBRANCES OF NOTICE TO CREDITORS NOTICES highest bidder fail or refuse to make Trust Company, Inc. v. Margaret D. Special Referee may resell the RECORD. Benjamin D. Moore, OF ESTATES Moody a/k/a Margaret Dingle Moody, property on the same terms and the required deposit at time of bid or Special Referee Clarendon County All persons having claims against the comply with the other terms of the case number 2017-CP-14-00147, I, the conditions at the risk of the said Florence, South Carolina bid within twenty (20) days, then the undersigned Benjamin D. Moore, highest bidder. Purchaser to pay for ATTORNEYS FOR PLAINTIFF: following estates MUST file their claims Notice of Sale Special Referee for Clarendon Special referee for Clarendon documentary stamps on the Samuel D. Fleder Jeriel A. Thomas on FORM #371ES with the Probate County may resell the property on County, will hold a sale on December conveying deed. The successful Smith Debnam Narron Drake Court of Clarendon County, the address bidder will be required to pay NOTICE OF SALE the same terms and conditions on 4, 2017 at 12:00 PM at the Clarendon Saintsing & Myers, LLP P.O. Box of which is 411 Sunset Dr. Manning, SC some subsequent Sales Day (at the County Courthouse, 3 Keitt Street, interest on the amount of the bid 26268 Raleigh, NC 27611 Attorneys 29102, within eight (8) months after the CIVIL ACTION risk of the said highest bidder). For Clarendon, SC 29102, and sell .46 from the date of sale to the date of for Plaintiff JAT 15799155 NO. 2017-CP-14-00238 complete terms of sale, attention is acres, Lot A of the following compliance with the bid at the rate date of the first publication of this Notice drawn to the Judgment of described property to the highest of 4.000% per annum. Should to Creditors or within one (1) year from BY VIRTUE of a decree heretofore Foreclosure and Order for Sale on bidder, due to a subsequent Plaintiff or one of its representatives date of death, whichever is earlier (SCPC granted in the case of: United States file with the Clerk of Court for conveyance of .58 acres, Lot B: All fail to be present at the time of sale, of America, acting through the the property shall be automatically E&E Feeds 62-3-801, et seq.), or such persons shall Clarendon County. A personal that certain piece, parcel or lot of be forever barred as to their claims. All Farmers Home Administration, deficiency judgment being waived, land with improvements thereon, withdrawn from said sale. As a 2236 Hwy. 301 • Manning, SC United States Department of bidding will not remain open. The containing 1.03 acres, more or less, deficiency judgment is being claims are required to be presented in Agriculture v. Billy R. Elms, Jr., and successful bidder will be required to lying, being and situate on the west demanded, the bidding will remain (803) 435-2797 written statements on the prescribed form open thirty (30) days after the date of Barbara C. Jordan, as Personal pay interest on the amount of the bid side of Church Street in the Town of (FORM #371ES) indicating the name and Representative of the Estate of Summerton, County of Clarendon, sale. THIS SALE IS ALSO MADE from date of sale to date of Got a pesty Hog address of the claimant, the basis of the George W. Jordan, Jr., I, the compliance with the bid at the rate State of South Carolina, having such SUBJECT TO ALL CLARENDON undersigned Special Referee for of 6.500% per annum. Should the shapes, metes, courses and COUNTY TAXES AND EXISTING running loose? claim, the amount claimed, the date when Clarendon County, will sell on Plaintiff, Plaintiff's attorney or agent distances, as will more fully appear EASEMENTS, RESTRICTIONS, the claim will become due, the nature of December 4, 2017 at 11:00 a.m. at the fail to appear on sales day, the by reference unto a plat thereof by J. AND SENIOR LIENS AND/OR We carry Hog any uncertainty as to the claim, and a Clarendon County Admin Building, property shall not be sold, but shall B. Floyd, Surveyor, dated August 31, description of any security as to the claim. 411 Sunset Dr., Manning, South be readvertised and sold at some 1939 and recorded in Plat Book 10 at Commander Carolina to the highest bidder: convenient sales day thereafter Page 28 of the records of Clarendon Trapper, when the Plaintiff, Plaintiff's County. Pursuant to § 30-5-250 of the All that piece, parcel or lot of land attorney or agent is present. Plaintiff Code of Laws of South Carolina The Ultimate lying, being and situate in the Town does not warrant its title search to (1976, as amended), reference to said Trapping System Estate: Jeanne Baker Mathis of Manning, School District No. 2, purchasers at foreclosure sale or plat is hereby craved for the metes, AKA Alice Jeanne Mathis County of Clarendon, State of South other third parties, who should have bounds, courses and/or distances of For the Deer #2017ES1400297 Carolina containing 0.36 acres and their own title search performed on the property delineated thereon. Personal Representative: being designated as Lot No. 7 the subject property. Purchaser is Said property being the same Hunter we Justin T. Mathis according to a plat hereinafter responsible for the preparation and conveyed to Dorothy Davis Dingle, ne STOP 1631 Homeward Way described and measuring and filing of their deed. Claude T. Dingle, III, and Margaret have deer Summerton, SC 29148 bounding as follows: On the North Dingle Moody by deed of Estate of SHOPPING attractant and William H. Johnson measuring thereon 81.30 feet; on the William T. Geddings, Jr. Claude Treadwell Dingle, Jr. dated PO Box 137 East by Lot No. 8 and measuring Special Referee June 14, 2004 and recorded August You can fi nd everything you need deer corn Manning, SC 29102 thereon 188.72 feet; on the South by for Clarendon County 12, 2005 in Deed Book A-542 at Page for the new house or the new 11/17/17 - 12/01/17 Gib Gibbons Drive and measuring 173 of the records of Clarendon spouse in one convenient place- • Ask us about Volume Discounts thereon 80 feet; and on the West by HARRELL, MARTIN & PEACE, P.A. County. Thereafter, Dorothy Davis OUR CLASSIFIEDS! for Dog and Horse feed. Lot No. 6 and measuring thereon Donald W. Tyler #5664 Dingle conveyed all of her interest in 199.53 feet. For a more particular Sporting Goods • Electronics • High Protein and Fat Dog Food to Taylor A. Peace #100206 the same property to Margaret Appliances • Furniture • Cameras description, reference may be had to Dingle Moody by deed dated help you keep your dogs going! 135 Columbia Avenue Jewelry • Dishes • Books a plat by R.G. Mathis Land Surveying Post Office Box 1000 February 22, 2007 and recorded • Protein tub for cattle YOUR AD dated May 9, 1989 and recorded in Chapin, South Carolina 29036 February 27, 2007 in Deed Book PLUS A Plat Book 140, at page 176, records of (803) 345-3353 A-650 at Page 174 of the records of WHOLE • Rye and Oat grass seeds Clarendon County. ATTORNEY FOR PLAINTIFF Clarendon County. Thereafter, LOT MORE! • Accessories for your pet and livestock Derivation: A163-181. Claude T. Dingle, III conveyed all of HERE ORDER AND NOTICE OF SALE his interest in the same property to We Buy Pecans TMS No.: 168-15-01-026-00 DEFICIENCY JUDGMENT Margaret Dingle Moody by deed Property Address: REQUESTED AS TO DEFENDANT dated February 22, 2007 and 602 Gib Drive, MARGARET D. MOODY A/K/A recorded February 27, 2007 in Deed Manning, South Carolina 29102 MARGARET DINGLE MOODY NOT Book A-650 at Page 178 of the ELIGIBLE FOR LOAN records of Clarendon County. 20 SUBJECT TO ASSESSMENTS, MODIFICATION UNDER THE South Church St., Summerton, SC CLARENDON COUNTY AD HOME AFFORDABLE 29148 TMS#: 078-11-01-007-00 (Lot A) VALOREM TAXES, EXISTING MODIFICATION PROGRAM STATE TERMS OF SALE: The successful EASEMENTS, EASEMENTS AND OF SOUTH CAROLINA bidder, other than Plaintiff, will RESTRICTIONS OF RECORD, AND CLARENDON COUNTY IN THE deposit with the Clarendon County OTHER SENIOR ENCUMBRANCES. COURT OF COMMON PLEAS Special Referee at the conclusion of THIRD JUDICIAL CIRCUIT the bidding five percent (5%) of its TERMS OF SALE: The successful 2017-CP-14-00147 FIRST-CITIZENS bid, in cash or equivalent, as bidder, other than the Plaintiff, will BANK & TRUST COMPANY, AS evidence of good faith, same to be deposit with the Special Referee for SUCCESSOR IN INTEREST BY applied to the purchase price in case Clarendon County at conclusion of MERGER TO FIRST CITIZENS of compliance, but to be forfeited the bidding, five percent (5%) of his BANK AND TRUST COMPANY, and applied first to costs and then to bid, in cash or equivalent as INC., Plaintiff, vs. MARGARET D. Plaintiff's debt in the case of evidence of good faith, same to be MOODY A/K/A MARGARET DINGLE noncompliance. Should the last and applied to purchase price in case of MOODY, Defendant(s). 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aim for a “speedy” conclusion. ARRESTS FROM PAGE A1 “Getting the news out into the community so that everyone knew “He was a father. He was a hus- that we were looking to close the band. He was a critical part of our case quickly,” he said, was a key community. He was a beloved busi- part to the initial investigation, ness owner in the community that is “and I think we’ve done a fine job.” still a neighborhood en- Roark said this type of random vironment, a neighbor- shooting was unprovoked, isolated hood store,” Roark said. and rare in the community where “Many individuals came many people must walk to receive to us and told us and de- essential items and that Patel’s scribed to us how, often- store is the only access to those times, Mr. Patel would items within a normal walking dis- PATEL allow them credit or tance. would take a check in “This is the individual we need to advance of the deposit going in so remember,” Roark said. “This is the they could receive the things they person we need to continue to sup- needed in order to survive.” port — and the family — as we con- Both suspects are charged with tinue to go on in the coming days.” murder, attempted armed robbery, He said the city police department possession of a weapon during a vi- has had “a lot of good luck” in using olent crime, criminal conspiracy MICAH GREEN / THE SUMTER ITEM Crime Stoppers. and two counts of kidnapping, Sumter Police Chief Russell F. Roark III addresses media Thursday at a news conference “Most of the people — the high Roark said. announcing the arrests of two teens charged in the shooting death of Vijaykumar Patel. majority of the people — that live “Because of our reaching out to within the city of Sumter are law- the community, but I think more the ground before at least one of records that involved violent abiding citizens,” Roark said. “What importantly because of the publicity them began firing. crimes, Roark said. we strive to do as a community and we received of this — for lack of a Law enforcement and EMS found He said it is not being released as a law enforcement agency, we better term — of this terrible event, Patel unresponsive with several ap- whether it is thought one or both strive to improve the quality of life this very violent act and crime … parent gunshot wounds to the chest, fired shots that struck Patel. There for all citizens. To have a safe envi- Crime Stoppers received [an] over- according to an incident report. He are no other suspects expected to be ronment. What we cannot predict whelming amount of support and was pronounced dead at the busi- detained “at this time.” with any degree of certainty is the information from the community,” ness he had run for at least seven They are being held in Sumter- human factor, especially when it’s a Roark said. years. Lee Regional Detention Center, person-on-person crime.” Dinkins and Hagood are accused The customers — two females who pending bond. The family, he said, is relieved an of entering the store just before 7 told officers, according to the re- Third Judicial Circuit Solicitor arrest has been made. p.m. that Friday, donning masks and port, they had stopped by the store Ernest A. “Chip” Finney III said all “That begins the closure,” he said, armed with handguns, and report- to buy “a drink and something to the information and evidence has “but they have a long way to go be- edly ordering two customers — war- eat” — were not injured. been passed over to his office, where cause their father was taken so ranting the kidnapping charge — to Both suspects have prior juvenile it will be analyzed and studied to quickly and so senselessly.”

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AROUND TOWN Forecasts and graphics provided by WEATHER AccuWeather, Inc. ©2017 The Campbell Soup friends 10 a.m. at Mayesville School, lunch group will meet at 55 Pringle St., Mayesville. Annual Sumter Christmas Parade to 11:30 a.m. on Saturday, Dec. Call Jeannie Jefferson at ® 2, at Goldenbe held Corral. Sunday (803) 495-8181 or Nancy Wil- AccuWeather ﬁ ve-day forecast for Sumter The Evening Optimist Club’s liams at (803) 453-5037. TODAY TONIGHT SATURDAY SUNDAY MONDAY TUESDAY annual Sumter Christmas Pa- The Lee County Christmas on rade will be held at 2 p.m. on Main will be held on Satur- Sunday, Dec. 3. The parade day, Dec. 9. Chicken bog will begin at the corner of plates will be available be- North Main and Dubose ginning at noon. At 2 p.m., streets and proceed south- there will be a car show as Times of clouds and Mostly cloudy with Cooler with a Pleasant and Delightful with Mostly cloudy; rain ward on Main Street to well as arts and crafts ven- sun a shower shower in spots warmer periods of sun at night Bartlette Street. The theme dors. The lighted parade 69° 47° 57° / 43° 67° / 41° 68° / 47° 75° / 54° for this year’s parade is “It’s will begin at 6 p.m., featur- a Wonderful Life.” Specta- ing Mr. and Mrs. Claus as Chance of rain: 10% Chance of rain: 40% Chance of rain: 45% Chance of rain: 15% Chance of rain: 10% Chance of rain: 20% tors should arrive early as well as cookies and hot NW 4-8 mph NE 4-8 mph NNE 6-12 mph N 3-6 mph ESE 4-8 mph SSW 6-12 mph all streets that intersect chocolate. with Main between Dubose The Sumter Civil Air Patrol’s Gaﬀ ney and Bartlette will begin annual Wreaths Across Ameri- 66/45 closing at 1:30 p.m. ca ceremony will be held at Spartanburg The Horatio community’s 16th noon on Saturday, Dec. 16, TODAY’S Greenville 66/48 Christmas Lighting and Cele- at Sumter Cemetery, 700 W. SOUTH 68/48 bration will be held at 5 p.m. Oakland Ave., to remember, on Sunday, Dec. 3, across honor and teach about our CAROLINA Florence Bishopville from the Lenoir store at fallen heroes, those current- 70/46 3240 Horatio-Hagood Road ly serving and our U.S. mili- WEATHER 69/47 in Horatio. tary veterans. Retired Brig. Temperatures shown on map are Columbia Sumter The Neighbors Reunion Com- Gen. Hugh Cameron will today’s highs and tonight’s lows. 71/50 69/47 speak. If you would like to Myrtle mittee will meet at 6 p.m. on Manning Beach Monday, Dec. 4, at 217 Pear sponsor a wreath for this IN THE MOUNTAINS occasion, go to www. 69/50 69/49 St. If you are a past or pres- Today: Partly sunny and comfortable. wreathsacrossamerica.org. Aiken ent resident of Frazier Winds east-northeast 4-8 mph. Street, Hatfield Street, Harry Contact Denise Owen at 67/50 Saturday: Mostly cloudy and cooler. Winds Street, South Milton Road or [email protected]. Rainey Lane, text Diana Sumter High School Class of east 4-8 mph. Wells-Singleton at (803) 319- 1978 will hold a 40th class ON THE COAST Charleston 6280 for information. reunion planning meeting at 74/52 The Sumter County Library will 3 p.m. on Sunday, Dec. 17, at Today: A stray shower; areas of fog in hold a 100th anniversary gala the Sumter County Library, southern parts. High 69 to 74. from 6 to 8 p.m. on Monday, 111 N. Harvin St. Contact Saturday: A shower in the area; cooler in Dec. 4, in the main meeting Sumter High Class of 1978 central parts. High 61 to 67. DOWNLOAD room of the main branch of on Facebook or email sum- THE APP TODAY the library, 111 N. Harvin St. [email protected]. Refreshments will be The Veterans of Foreign Wars LOCAL ALMANAC LAKE LEVELS SUN AND MOON served, and a speaker will Post 11078 of Summerton hold a brief talk on the his- will meet at 6 p.m. on Tues- SUMTER THROUGH 2 P.M. 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PREP BASKETBALL PREP FOOTBALL Local players Offensive selected for stalemate SCISA all- star games

BY DENNIS BRUNSON [email protected]

Seventeen football players from the five local South Caro- lina Independent School Asso- ciation schools have been selected to play in the two SCISA all-star football games scheduled for Saturday. Fifteen players from Lau- rence Manning Academy, Wil- son Hall, Thomas Sumter Academy and Robert E. Lee Academy will play in the 11- man game while two players from Clarendon Hall will play in the 8-man game. LMA’s Braydon Osteen, Dal- MICAH GREEN / THE SUMTER ITEM ton Holcomb, Brent Jordan, Sumter’s Zykiem Jackson (1) drives to the basketball during the Gamecocks’ 50-46 overtime victory over Lakewood on Thursday at the David Wilder and Taylor Lee SHS gymnasium. will play for the North squad in the 11-man game. Those five helped lead the Swampcats to Sumter, Lakewood struggle for points in Gamecocks’ 50-46 OT win the SCISA 3A state championship game. BY DENNIS BRUNSON The all-stars from Wilson [email protected] Hall, REL and TSA will play for the South squad. The Bar- Points were hard to come by in the ons playing are Noah Harvin, varsity boys basketball game between Jackson Lemay and Jake Sumter and Lakewood high schools on Myers. Making the team from Thursday at the SHS gymnasium. Thomas Sumter are Dante The game went to overtime and the Linder, Richard Huntley, teams still weren’t able to combine for Mason Studer and Eli Kessing- 100 points. The Gamecocks rallied from er. a 6-point deficit early in the fourth The Robert E. Lee players quarter to force overtime and out- are Bryce Barrett, Nick Laney scored the Gators 8-4 in the extra peri- and Billy Jackson. The head od to win 50-46. coach of the South squad is So was it bad offense or good defense REL’s David Rankin, and he or a little bit of both. Both coaches in- will be assisted by one of his sist it was outstanding defense. Cavalier assistants, Matt Nix. “I really thought both teams played Laurence Manning defen- great defensive games,” said Sumter sive coordinator Elmer Bench head coach Shawn Jones, whose team will serve on the North coach- improved to 2-0 on the season. “I mean ing staff. what was it at halftime, 17-14? That’s Clarendon Hall’s Ben Cor- just two teams working really hard on bett and Dylan Way will play defense.” MICAH GREEN / THE SUMTER ITEM for the South squad in the Sumter’s Layken Cox, right, drives to the basket against Serena Choice of Lakewood in the “I thought we played a pretty good 8-man game. defensive game,” said LHS head coach Lady Gamecocks’ 40-27 victory on Thursday at the SHS gymnasium. Both games will start at 11 Bryan Brown, whose team fell to 1-1. “I a.m. The 11-man game will be think the difference in the game nailed a 3-point basket to start the scor- for the first six minutes of the second played at Northwood Academy though was Sumter hit its shots when ing on the evening, but then the points stanza. Fortunately for SHS, Lakewood in Summerville. The 8-man it got open looks and we didn’t.” dried up quickly. SHS managed a 12-7 game will be played at Cathe- The Gamecocks” Omar Croskey lead after one quarter, but didn’t score SEE SHS, PAGE B3 dral Academy in Charleston.

PREP BASKETBALL PREP BASKETBALL Barons looking to Barons ready to see where they stand BY TREVOR BAUKNIGHT [email protected]

At 3-0, the Wilson Hall varsity girls replace leadership basketball team is in an enviable position. The Lady Barons are building on a successful season with many of BY TREVOR BAUKNIGHT the same players returning from last [email protected] year. As a bonus, they still have plenty of time to develop as players with The Wilson Hall varsity boys bas- the advantage of years of experience. ketball team is working on building They already own wins over Wil- an identity of its own after gradua- liamsburg Academy, The King’s tion took team leaders and top scor- Academy and Heathwood Hall, and ers from last year’s team, which it- they’ll resume their mission today self lagged at times in productivity on the road in Summerville, where enroute to a 12-12 mark. they’ll take on Pinewood Prep. The Barons, at 1-2 with consecutive “They’re a very solid girls pro- losses to The King’s Academy and gram,” Wilson Hall head coach Glen Heathwood Hall after opening with a Rector said. “It’ll be the first really victory over Williamsburg Academy, strong test for our girls, and it’s will tip off in Summerville today going to be interesting to see how against 5-1 Pinewood Prep. they respond. (Pinewood Prep has) a The Panthers are coming off an very athletic team, and tall team, and 85-41 dismantling of Laurence Man- I expect them to be one of the ones ning on Tuesday and own victories that does well in the Charleston re- over a pair of Charleston-area public gion. It’s a good early matchup for school teams, Goose Creek and Ha- us. nahan, with their lone loss coming “We want to see where we’re at,” SUMTER ITEM FILE PHOTO against Stall, 86-73, in the champion- Rector said. “So we’ve tried to sched- Courtney Clark (12) is back to lead Wil- ship game of the State Farm Classic ule some tougher games in the next son Hall after leading the Lady Barons in Thanksgiving tournament. few weeks to see what we need to do scoring and being selected as the SCISA “We lost a good bit of leadership, to be successful in the region and the Region II-3A Player of the Year. along with a lot of point production playoffs in February.” and rebounding and everything from Last year’s team went 16-7 and that are starting are all girls that had last year,” said Wilson Hall head SUMTER ITEM FILE PHOTO shared the regular-season SCISA Re- a lot of varsity experience last year. coach Eddie Talley, in his 11th sea- Grey Holler (3) is one of several return- gion II-3A title with Florence Chris- “We have a lot of girls that re- son at the helm. “But we’ve got some ees Wilson Hall is counting on fill the tian. The Lady Barons made it to the turned from the team last year, so we returning players and they’ve got void of players it lost from last season. region championship game before were able to start putting in our of- some experience now, and they’ve losing to FCS, and to the SCISA 3A fenses and defenses,” he said. “Hav- just got to step up into leadership Talley will be trying to replace the quarterfinals where their season ing so many returning players, roles this year instead of being sup- leadership of Drew Talley and ended with a loss to Cardinal New- they’re pretty used to the system. We port players. It’s something that I Easton Ward, counting on seniors man. try to run similar things with our think is going to be a process and Daulton Dabbs and Grayson Sonntag “We only had two seniors on the (junior varsity) team, so the girls something I think we’re going to im- to step up into their roles. Dabbs team last year, and we’re replacing that came up are very familiar with prove as the season goes on, but it’s three starters,” said Wilson Hall just going to take a little bit of time.” SEE BARONS, PAGE B3 head coach Glen Rector. “The girls SEE STAND, PAGE B3 B2 | FRIDAY, DECEMBER 1, 2017 SPORTS THE SUMTER ITEM

THURSDAY’S GAMES SCOREBOARD Cleveland at Atlanta, 7:30 p.m. PRO GOLF Philadelphia at Boston, 7:30 p.m. Chicago at Denver, 9 p.m. TV, RADIO PREP FOOTBALL PLAYOFFS Milwaukee at Portland, 10 p.m. TODAY CHAMPIONSHIPS Utah at L.A. Clippers, 10:30 p.m. 5:30 a.m. — Professional Golf: European TODAY’S GAMES PGA Tour Mauritius Open Second Round SATURDAY Detroit at Washington, 7 p.m. from Bel-Ombre, Mauritius (GOLF). At Williams-Brice Stadium Golden State at Orlando, 7 p.m. 10 a.m. — International Soccer: 2018 FIFA In Columbia Indiana at Toronto, 7:30 p.m. World Cup Draw from Moscow (FOX Charlotte at Miami, 8 p.m. SPORTS 1). 5A Minnesota at Oklahoma City, 8 p.m. 11:30 a.m. — College Basketball: Basketball Dutch Fork vs. Dorman, noon Sacramento at Chicago, 8 p.m. Hall of Fame Belfast Classic Game from San Antonio at Memphis, 8 p.m. Belfast, Northern Ireland — Holy Cross vs. 4A New Orleans at Utah, 9 p.m. Manhattan (CBS SPORTS NETWORK). Hartsville vs. South Pointe, 6:30 p.m. 12:30 p.m. — PGA Golf: Hero World SATURDAY’S GAMES Challenge Second Round from New 3A Phoenix at Boston, 1 p.m. Providence, Bahamas (GOLF). Dillon vs. Chapman, 3 p.m. L.A. Clippers at Dallas, 2 p.m. 1 p.m. — Women’s College Basketball: Atlanta at Brooklyn, 3 p.m. Alabama at Texas Christian (FOX SPORTS FRIDAY Detroit at Philadelphia, 7:30 p.m. SOUTHEAST). At Charlie W. Johnson Stadium In Memphis at Cleveland, 7:30 p.m. 2 p.m. — College Basketball: Basketball Hall Columbia Sacramento at Milwaukee, 8:30 p.m. of Fame Belfast Classic Game from Belfast, L.A. Lakers at Denver, 9 p.m. Northern Ireland — Towson vs. La Salle 2A New Orleans at Portland, 10 p.m. (CBS SPORTS NETWORK). Bamberg-Ehrhardt vs. Abbeville, 5 2:20 p.m. — International Soccer: p.m. SUNDAY’S GAMES Bundesliga League Match — Hamburg vs. Orlando at New York, 3:30 p.m. Freiburg (FOX SPORTS 2). 1A Golden State at Miami, 7 p.m. 5 p.m. — Women’s College Soccer: NCAA Baptist Hill vs. Lamar, 8 p.m. L.A. Clippers at Minnesota, 7 p.m. College Cup Semifinal Match from San Antonio at Oklahoma City, 7 Orlando, Fla. — South Carolina vs. Stanford p.m. (ESPNU). NFL STANDINGS Houston at L.A. Lakers, 9:30 p.m. 5:50 p.m. — Girls and Boys High School By The Associated Press Basketball: Lugoff-Elgin at Camden All Times EST (WPUB-FM 102.7). 6:05 p.m. — Talk Show: Sports Talk (WDXY- AMERICAN CONFERENCE NHL STANDINGS FM 105.9, WDXY-AM 1290). By The Associated Press 7:30 p.m. — Women’s College Soccer: NCAA East All Times EST College Cup Semifinal Match from W L T Pct PF PA EASTERN CONFERENCE Orlando, Fla. — UCLA vs. Duke (ESPNU). New England 9 2 0 .818 325 220 8 p.m. — College Football: Pacific-12 Buffalo 6 5 0 .545 224 260 Atlantic Division Conference Championship Game from N.Y. Jets 4 7 0 .364 228 257 GP W L OT Pts GF GA Santa Clara, Calif. — Stanford vs. Southern Miami 4 7 0 .364 174 289 California (ESPN). Tampa Bay 25 17 6 2 36 90 65 8 p.m. — College Basketball: Charlotte South Toronto 26 16 9 1 33 92 78 THE ASSOCIATED PRESS Showcase from Charlotte — North Carolina W L T Pct PF PA Boston 23 11 8 4 26 63 68 vs. Davidson (ESPN2). Detroit 25 10 10 5 25 70 74 Tiger Woods tees off from the 16th hole during the first round Tennessee 7 4 0 .636 242 269 Montreal 26 11 12 3 25 62 82 8 p.m. — NBA Basketball: Minnesota at Jacksonville 7 4 0 .636 269 168 Oklahoma City (NBA TV). Ottawa 23 8 9 6 22 68 76 of the Hero World Challenge on Thursday in Nassau, Bahamas. Houston 4 7 0 .364 283 285 Florida 24 10 12 2 22 72 83 9 p.m. — Professional Basketball: Toka Indianapolis 3 8 0 .273 195 300 Kahn Clary vs. John Moralde in a Buffalo 25 6 15 4 16 55 85 Featherweight Bout from Providence, R.I. North Metropolitan Division (CBS SPORTS NETWORK). 9:30 p.m. — Professional Golf: PGA Tour of W L T Pct PF PA GP W L OT Pts GF GA Pittsburgh 9 2 0 .818 258 193 Australasia Australian PGA Championship Columbus 25 16 8 1 33 72 60 Woods returns with Third Round from Gold Coast, Australia Baltimore 6 5 0 .545 236 187 N.Y. Islanders 24 15 7 2 32 89 76 (GOLF). Cincinnati 5 6 0 .455 199 215 New Jersey 24 14 6 4 32 78 74 10 p.m. — College Basketball: Creighton at Cleveland 0 11 0 .000 166 289 Washington 25 14 10 1 29 74 75 Gonzaga (ESPN2). West Pittsburgh 26 13 10 3 29 74 90 3:30 a.m. — Professional Golf: European W L T Pct PF PA N.Y. Rangers 25 13 10 2 28 82 77 solid round, good PGA Tour Mauritius Open Third Round Carolina 23 10 8 5 25 68 70 from Bel-Ombre, Mauritius (GOLF). Kansas City 6 5 0 .545 272 236 Philadelphia 25 8 10 7 23 70 78 L.A. Chargers 5 6 0 .455 249 202 SATURDAY Oakland 5 6 0 .455 225 261 WESTERN CONFERENCE Denver 3 8 0 .273 197 280 7:25 a.m. — International Soccer: English Central Division Premier League Match — Newcastle start in Bahamas United vs. Chelsea (NBC SPORTS NATIONAL CONFERENCE GP W L OT Pts GF GA NETWORK). East St. Louis 25 17 7 1 35 86 66 9:30 a.m. — College Basketball: Basketball Winnipeg 25 15 6 4 34 82 67 W L T Pct PF PA Nashville 24 15 6 3 33 76 68 Hall of Fame Belfast Classic Consolation Philadelphia 10 1 0 .909 351 191 BY DOUG FERGUSON people curious about the Game from Belfast, Northern Ireland (CBS Dallas 24 13 10 1 27 70 69 Dallas 5 6 0 .455 248 270 Chicago 24 12 9 3 27 76 63 The Associated Press latest return. That includ- SPORTS NETWORK). Washington 5 6 0 .455 258 276 9:30 a.m. — International Soccer: Colorado 23 12 9 2 26 76 73 ed Steph Curry, the Golden N.Y. Giants 2 9 0 .182 172 267 Minnesota 24 11 10 3 25 72 74 Bundesliga League Match — Hannover 96 NASSAU, Bahamas — State Warriors’ two-time vs. Bayern Munich (FOX SPORTS 1, South Pacific Division UNIVISION). W L T Pct PF PA Tiger Woods looked a lot MVP who played a Web. 9:30 a.m. — International Soccer: GP W L OT Pts GF GA New Orleans 8 3 0 .727 322 222 Vegas 23 15 7 1 31 81 69 better in his return to golf com Tour event in August. Bundesliga League Match — Borussia Carolina 8 3 0 .727 248 207 Dortmund vs. Bayer Leverkusen (FOX Los Angeles 25 14 8 3 31 73 57 than he did when he left. Atlanta 7 4 0 .636 265 230 San Jose 23 13 8 2 28 61 51 “The wait is over. The wait SPORTS 2). Tampa Bay 4 7 0 .364 223 262 9:55 a.m. — International Soccer: English Calgary 24 13 10 1 27 70 76 Playing for the first time is over,” he tweeted . Premier League Match — Liverpool vs. North Vancouver 25 11 10 4 26 68 73 Anaheim 25 11 10 4 26 68 75 since his fourth back sur- Michael Phelps said he Brighton (NBC SPORTS NETWORK). W L T Pct PF PA Edmonton 25 10 13 2 22 67 81 gery, Woods returned from was “pumped to be watch- 10 a.m. — International Soccer: English Minnesota 9 2 0 .818 271 195 Arizona 27 6 17 4 16 66 98 Premier League Match — Tottenham vs. Detroit 6 5 0 .545 294 264 NOTE: Two points for a win, one point a 10-month layoff with a ing” Woods on TV again. Watford (NBC SPORTS NETWORK). Green Bay 5 6 0 .455 232 261 for overtime loss. Top three teams in 3-under 69 on a breezy This event doesn’t draw Noon — College Football: American Athletic Chicago 3 8 0 .273 177 252 each division and two wild cards per Conference Championship Game from Thursday in the Bahamas West conference advance to playoffs. big crowds, but most of Orlando, Fla. — Memphis vs. Central that left him three shots be- them were with Woods to Florida (WOLO 25). W L T Pct PF PA WEDNESDAY’S GAMES Noon — College Basketball: Basketball Hall L.A. Rams 8 3 0 .727 329 206 Montreal 2, Ottawa 1 hind Tommy Fleetwood see how he would fare in of Fame Belfast Classic Championship Seattle 7 4 0 .636 266 212 Boston 3, Tampa Bay 2 after the opening round of this latest comeback, this Game from Belfast, Northern Ireland (CBS Arizona 5 6 0 .455 203 278 Anaheim 3, St. Louis 2 SPORTS NETWORK). San Francisco 1 10 0 .091 187 284 Colorado 3, Winnipeg 2, OT the Hero World Challenge. one from fusion surgery on Noon — College Football: Mid-American “For me, I thought I did his lower back on April 20. Conference Championship Game from THURSDAY’S GAMES THURSDAY’S GAMES Detroit — Akron vs. Toledo (ESPN). Washington at Dallas, 8:25 p.m. Los Angeles at Washington, 7 p.m. great,” Woods said with a Given it was his fourth sur- Noon — College Football: Conference USA Montreal at Detroit, 7:30 p.m. smile. gery in three years, cou- Championship Game from Boca Raton, Fla. SUNDAY’S GAMES Vancouver at Nashville, 8 p.m. — North Texas vs. Florida Atlantic (ESPN2). Tampa Bay at Green Bay, 1 p.m. Vegas at Minnesota, 8 p.m. And in a sign that he was pled with a DUI arrest in Noon — College Basketball: Cincinnati at Minnesota at Atlanta, 1 p.m. Dallas at Chicago, 8:30 p.m. ready to get back into the the summer that exposed Xavier (FOX SPORTS 1). San Francisco at Chicago, 1 p.m. Toronto at Edmonton, 9 p.m. Noon — College Basketball: South Carolina Detroit at Baltimore, 1 p.m. Arizona at Calgary, 9 p.m. mix, he was far from satis- the struggles Woods was State at North Carolina State (FOX Denver at Miami, 1 p.m. fied. having with pain medicine, SPORTSOUTH). Indianapolis at Jacksonville, 1 p.m. TODAY’S GAMES Noon — PGA Golf: Hero World Challenge Houston at Tennessee, 1 p.m. Carolina at N.Y. Rangers, 7 p.m. Unlike a year ago, when a day like this seemed a Third Round from New Providence, Kansas City at N.Y. Jets, 1 p.m. Anaheim at Columbus, 7 p.m. Woods ended a 15-month long way off. Bahamas (GOLF). New England at Buffalo, 1 p.m. Pittsburgh at Buffalo, 7 p.m. 12:20 p.m. — International Soccer: Cleveland at L.A. Chargers, 4:05 p.m. Ottawa at N.Y. Islanders, 7 p.m. hiatus from his ailing back, Woods said he appreciat- Bundesliga League Match — Cologne vs. Carolina at New Orleans, 4:25 p.m. San Jose at Florida, 7:30 p.m. L.A. Rams at Arizona, 4:25 p.m. he didn’t show any fatigue ed the moment Thursday Schalke 04 (FOX SPORTS 2, UNIVISION). Vegas at Winnipeg, 8 p.m. N.Y. Giants at Oakland, 4:25 p.m. Los Angeles at St. Louis, 8 p.m. at the end of his round or morning. 12:30 p.m. — International Soccer: English Philadelphia at Seattle, 8:30 p.m. Premier League Match — Manchester New Jersey at Colorado, 9 p.m. make any big numbers. His “I was in my head thank- United vs. Arsenal (WIS 10). MONDAY’S GAMES 12:30 p.m. — College Basketball: Indiana at SATURDAY’S GAMES only regret was playing the ing all the people who have Pittsburgh at Cincinnati, 8:30 p.m. Boston at Philadelphia, 1 p.m. Michigan (WLTX 19). par 5s at Albany Golf Club helped me in giving me a College Football: Big 12 St. Louis at Minnesota, 6 p.m. 12:30 p.m. — THURSDAY, DEC. 7 Buffalo at Pittsburgh, 7 p.m. in 1-over par with two bo- chance to come back and Conference Championship Game from New Orleans at Atlanta, 8:25 p.m. Detroit at Montreal, 7 p.m. Arlington, Texas — Texas Christian vs. Columbus at Washington, 7 p.m. geys that stalled his mo- play this round again,” he Oklahoma (WACH 57). SUNDAY, DEC. 10 Toronto at Vancouver, 7 p.m. mentum. said. “There were a lot of 2 p.m. — College Basketball: Georgia at Oakland at Kansas City, 1 p.m. San Jose at Tampa Bay, 7 p.m. Marquette (CBS SPORTS NETWORK). San Francisco at Houston, 1 p.m. Florida at Carolina, 7 p.m. Coming off a 25-foot birdie people who were instrumen- 2 p.m. — College Basketball: Wichita State Minnesota at Carolina, 1 p.m. Anaheim at Nashville, 8 p.m. putt on the par-3 eighth, tal in my life — friends, out- at Baylor (ESPNU). Chicago at Cincinnati, 1 p.m. New Jersey at Arizona, 8 p.m. 2 p.m. — College Basketball: St. Louis at Green Bay at Cleveland, 1 p.m. Chicago at Dallas, 9 p.m. Woods hit a 3-wood that side people I’ve never met Butler (FOX SPORTS 1). Detroit at Tampa Bay, 1 p.m. Edmonton at Calgary, 10 p.m. 2 p.m. — College Basketball: Youngstown Indianapolis at Buffalo, 1 p.m. rolled up on the green and before, obviously my sur- State at DePaul (FOX SPORTSOUTH). Dallas at N.Y. Giants, 1 p.m. SUNDAY’S GAMES then down a slope about 30 geon. I was very thankful.” 2 p.m. — College Basketball: Washington at L.A. Chargers, 4:05 Los Angeles at Chicago, 7 p.m. feet from the pin. It took him Massachusetts at South Carolina (WDXY- p.m. Ottawa at Winnipeg, 7 p.m. And he was as competi- FM 105.9, WNKT-FM 107.5, WDXY-AM 1240). Tennessee at Arizona, 4:05 p.m. Arizona at Vegas, 8 p.m. four shots from there, start- tive as always. 2:30 p.m. — PGA Golf: Hero World Challenge N.Y. Jets at Denver, 4:05 p.m. Dallas at Colorado, 8 p.m. Third Round from New Providence, Seattle at Jacksonville, 4:25 p.m. ing with a chip that didn’t Woods delivered his first Bahamas (WIS 10). Philadelphia at L.A. Rams, 4:25 p.m. reach the green and his first fist pump on par-4 fourth 3 p.m. — Horse Racing: Aqueduct Cigar Baltimore at Pittsburgh, 8:30 p.m. Mile (FOX SPORTS 2). PGA TOUR expletive loud enough for hole when he scooped a 3:30 p.m. — College Basketball: Harvard at MONDAY, DEC. 11 television to pick up. chip that didn’t reach the New England at Miami, 8:30 p.m. HERO WORLD CHALLENGE SCORES Kentucky (ESPN). By The Associated Press 3:30 p.m. — College Basketball: South After his best shot of the green, and then holed an Dakota at Duke (ESPN2). THURSDAY day — a pitching wedge he 18-foot par putt. 4 p.m. — College Football: Southeastern NBA STANDINGS At Albany Golf Club hit low from 95 yards that While the field is short, Conference Championship Game from By The Associated Press Nassau, Bahamas Atlanta — Auburn vs. Georgia (WLTX 19). All Times EST Purse: $3.5 million settled a foot behind the the competition is strong 4 p.m. — College Basketball: Richmond at Yardage: 7,309; Par: 72 (36-36) hole for birdie on No. 14 — with eight of the top in the Wake Forest (FOX SPORTSOUTH). EASTERN CONFERENCE First Round 4 p.m. — Women’s College Basketball: Iowa Atlantic Division Tommy Fleetwood 32-34—66 he sent a drive well to the world at Albany. Woods re- State at Vanderbilt (SEC NETWORK). Rickie Fowler 32-35—67 right into the native dunes. alizes they have spent the 4 p.m. — Women’s College Basketball: W L Pct GB Matt Kuchar 33-34—67 Brigham Young at Colorado State Boston 18 4 .818 — Kevin Chappell 34-34—68 Woods had to take a penalty last couple of years playing (SPECTRUM 1250). Toronto 13 7 .650 4 Justin Rose 33-35—68 drop to get back in play and at a high level that allows 4:30 p.m. — College Football: Southwestern Philadelphia 12 8 .600 5 Dustin Johnson 32-36—68 Athletic Conference Championship Game New York 11 10 .524 6½ Jordan Spieth 32-36—68 wound up making bogey. them to overcome a few from Houston — Alcorn State vs. Brooklyn 8 13 .381 9½ Francesco Molinari 36-33—69 But it was solid enough mistakes. Grambling State (ESPNU). Southeast Division Charley Hoffman 36-33—69 4:30 p.m. — College Basketball: Sacred Justin Thomas 36-33—69 that Woods was far more “I don’t want to lose Heart at St. John’s (FOX SPORTS 1). W L Pct GB Tiger Woods 35-34—69 interested in the leader- shots,” Woods said. “I 5 p.m. — College Basketball: Ohio State at Washington 11 10 .524 — Henrik Stenson 37-33—70 Wisconsin (WACH 57). Miami 10 11 .476 1 Kevin Kisner 37-33—70 board than the fact he felt haven’t played in a very 5 p.m. — College Basketball: Providence at Orlando 9 13 .409 2½ Hideki Matsuyama 38-33—71 strong physically. long time and I can’t afford Rhode Island (CBS SPORTS NETWORK). Charlotte 8 12 .400 2½ Brooks Koepka 35-36—71 5:30 p.m. — College Basketball: Hoophall Atlanta 4 16 .200 6½ Patrick Reed 35-37—72 “It was not only nice to to go out there and make a Miami Invitational from Miami — Kansas Central Division Alex Noren 35-38—73 get the first round out of bunch of bogeys and know vs. Syracuse (ESPN). Daniel Berger 34-41—75 5:30 p.m. — College Basketball: Villanova at W L Pct GB the way, but also I’m only that I can make nine, 10 St. Joseph’s (ESPN2). Detroit 14 6 .700 — Cleveland 14 7 .667 ½ three shots out of the lead,” birdies and offset them.” 7 p.m. — College Hockey: Boston College at TRANSACTIONS Indiana 12 10 .545 3 he said. “So to be able to put Along with his five birdies Boston University (SPECTRUM 1250). Milwaukee 10 9 .526 3½ 7:30 p.m. — College Basketball: Arkansas at THURSDAY myself there after not play- — only two of them were Chicago 3 16 .158 10½ By The Associated Press Houston (CBS SPORTS NETWORK). ing for 10 months or so, it tap-ins — Woods had an as- 7:30 p.m. — College Football: Sun Belt WESTERN CONFERENCE Conference Championship Game from BASEBALL was nice to feel the adrena- sortment of tough par saves, Jonesboro, Ark. -- Troy vs. Arkansas State Southwest Division line out there.” including a 10-footer that (ESPN2). W L Pct GB AMERICAN LEAGUE 7:45 p.m. — College Football: Mountain Houston 17 4 .810 — CLEVELAND INDIANS — Agreed to He was tied for eighth in kept him dropping another West Conference Championship Game San Antonio 14 7 .667 3 terms with OF Brandon Barnes and the 18-man field of this holi- shot on a par 5 at No. 11. He from Boise, Idaho — Fresno State vs. Boise New Orleans 11 10 .524 6 RHPs Evan Marshall and Neil State (ESPN). Memphis 7 13 .350 9½ Ramirez on minor league contracts. day exhibition that awards finished his round with a 8 p.m. — College Football: Atlantic Coast Dallas 5 17 .227 12½ LOS ANGELES ANGELS — Traded LHP world ranking points but belly wedge from short of Conference Championship Game from Justin Kelly to Atlanta for RHP Jim Charlotte — Clemson vs. Miami (WOLO 25, Northwest Division does not count as official on the 17th green because of WWBD-FM 94.7, WPUB-FM 102.7). Johnson and international pool W L Pct GB space. any tour. Rickie Fowler and 8 p.m. — College Football: Big Ten Portland 13 8 .619 — mud on his ball, and holing Conference Championship Game from Minnesota 13 9 .591 ½ SEATTLE MARINERS — Claimed LHP Matt Kuchar were at 67, a 6-foot par putt on the 18th. Indianapolis — Wisconsin vs. Ohio State Denver 11 9 .550 1½ Sam Moll off waivers from Pitts- (WACH 57). Utah 10 11 .476 3 burgh. while Dustin Johnson, Jor- A year ago, Woods made 8 p.m. — College Basketball: Hoophall Oklahoma City 8 12 .400 4½ dan Spieth, Justin Rose and a pair of double bogeys over Miami Invitational from Miami — NATIONAL LEAGUE Princeton vs. Miami (ESPNU). Pacific Division ARIZONA DIAMONDBACKS — Traded Kevin Chappell were at 68. the last three holes for a 73 9:30 p.m. — Professional Golf: PGA Tour of W L Pct GB RHP Curtis Taylor to Tampa Bay for The buzz was back. John- to finish nine shots behind. Australasia Australian PGA Championship Golden State 16 6 .727 — RHP Brad Boxberger. Final Round from Gold Coast, Australia L.A. Clippers 8 11 .421 6½ son noticed it when he was This time, he closed with (GOLF). L.A. Lakers 8 13 .381 7½ COLLEGE on the practice range and pars and was three back. 10 p.m. — College Basketball: Arizona at Phoenix 8 15 .348 8½ FLORIDA — Named Todd Grantham Sacramento 6 15 .286 9½ noticed a crowd around the PGA champion Justin Nevada-Las Vegas (CBS SPORTS defensive coordinator. NETWORK). putting green. MINNESOTA — Announced sopho- Thomas, who also opened 10 p.m. — College Basketball: Southern WEDNESDAY’S GAMES “Tiger must be there,” California at Southern Methodist (ESPNU). Detroit 131, Phoenix 107 more LB Jaylen Waters left the foot- with a 69 in the same pair- 10 p.m. — Professional Boing: Miguel Cotto Orlando 121, Oklahoma City 108 ball team and will transfer. Johnson said. “Because ing with Woods, is among vs. Sadam Ali for the WBO World Junior Philadelphia 118, Washington 113 N.C. STATE — Agreed to terms with there’s 40 people instead of those who have played with Middleweight Title and Rey Vargas vs. New York 115, Miami 86 football coach Dave Doeren on a Oscar Negrete for the WBC Junior Toronto 126, Charlotte 113 five-year contract. four.” him in recent weeks in Featherweight Title from New York (HBO). Houston 118, Indiana 97 Minnesota 120, New Orleans 102 OREGON STATE — Named Jonathan Golf Channel added an Florida. Woods said he 3:30 a.m. — Professional Golf: European Smith football coach. PGA Tour Mauritius Open Final Round from Brooklyn 109, Dallas 104 hour of coverage, and TEXAS — Junior S DeShon Elliott an- once played nine straight Bel-Ombre, Mauritius (GOLF). San Antonio 104, Memphis 95 Golden State 127, L.A. Lakers 123, OT nounced he will enter the NFL draft. Twitter came alive with days. THE SUMTER ITEM SPORTS FRIDAY, DECEMBER 1, 2017 | B3

USC WOMEN’S BASKETBALL HALL FROM PAGE B1 what we try to do defensively. Experience has been on our side so far in the first three games. “”We only have two seniors on the team, but my point guard has been on the varsity team since the ninth grade. We have several girls that have been on the varsity team for several years, so while we’re not senior- heavy, we have a lot of girls with good varsity experience. In addition to the returning players, Rec- tor said Natalie Jackson, a transfer student from Hawaii whose father is in the Air Force, will have an immediate impact. “She is a very experienced player,” Rec- tor said. “She was able to play with some of our girls before we started practicing, and she’s pretty familiar with them. She will come in and be a big asset. She’s had a sprained ankle and hasn’t started yet, but she probably will be before too long, and we’ll probably have a 6-person rotation in the starting lineup.” Rector is counting on seasoned junior point guard Liza Segars, who joined the varsity team as a freshman and started as a sophomore, to be his floor general. “She brings a lot of experience at the point guard position.” THE ASSOCIATED PRESS Junior Susanna Hutson and sophomore South Carolina forward Alexis Jennings (35) drives to the basket against Western Carolina forward Emily Hatfield (52) dur- Madison Elmore will start at gaurd. Rector ing the first half of the Gamecocks’ 101-43 victory on Thursday in Columbia. said Elmore brings solid ball-handling to the court and Hutson is one of his top outside shooters. Both have been on the varsity squad since they were freshmen. No. 5 USC powers past WCU 101-43 Cameron Duffy is a junior forward also starting her third year as a varsity player, BY PETE IACOBELLI year has scored 33, 17, 34 and 29 for long, outside shots that they and junior forward Courtney Clark, the The Associated Press points her past four games. Staley won’t once Southern Conference Barons’ leading scorer from last year and said she’s gained confidence from season rolls around. the region player of the year, will be the COLUMBIA — A’ja Wilson’s per- last year’s performance and even South Carolina: The Gamecocks sixth starter. formance at the Final Four has without her high scoring team- pushed their size advantage and “With those six girls, we’re going to have carried over into her senior season mates in Alaina Coates, Kaela athleticism on defense to make a pretty solid rotation of starters,” Rector at No. 5 South Carolina. Davis and Allisha Gray — all draft- short work of Western Carolina. said. “We can go pretty tall with that The 6-foot-5 forward scored 29 ed into the WNBA after the cham- South Carolina outrebounded the group, or we can go quick with that group. points with seven rebounds and pionship run — Wilson has the Catamounts 28-10 the first 20 min- We’re trying to play a little bit more up- three steals to help the Gamecocks space to show a broader, more pol- utes and forced 15 turnovers. South tempo with more full-court pressure, but bounce back from their first loss of ished and complete game. Carolina needed a feel-good game we will make adjustments based on what the season with a 101-43 pummel- “She knows she plays a big role after its loss to Notre Dame with the other team has.” ing of Western Carolina on Thurs- in our success,” Staley said. No. 14 Duke ahead on Sunday. Rector said he expects tough competition day night. The Gamecocks fell behind 2-0, both in the early season and in region play. Alexis Jennings had 19 points then broke off a 17-0 run powered INJURY BUG “All of (the region) teams have a lot of and Tyasha Harris 10 points and 10 by the 6-foot-5 Wilson and 6-2 Jen- South Carolina played without good players returning, so it’s going to be a assists to get South Carolina (7-1) nings that put the game out of Penn State graduate transfer guard very competitive region,” Rector said. back on the winning track after reach for the Catamounts (1-5) of Lindsey Spann, who was out with a losing 92-85 to No. 3 Notre Dame on the Southern Conference. knee sprain. Spann had averaged Sunday night. Lauren Laplant, Sherae Bonner nearly 14 points a game and start- “This was good,” junior Doniyah and Nikki Johnson had eight ed every game. With senior Bianca Cliney said. “We had to show one points each to lead Western Caroli- Cuevas-Moore unable to play so far BARONS FROM PAGE B1 loss wasn’t going to affect our na, which has lost to SEC teams this season with a knee injury, the game and we had to move on.” Georgia and South Carolina by a Gamecocks are short on backcourt missed much of last season with an injury, Wilson lifted the Gamecocks to a combined score of 177-93. depth with just four games left be- but returns as point guard, while Sonntag, national title last April, going for Catamounts coach Stephanie fore the start of Southeastern Con- along with junior Grey Holler, will provide 36 points and 29 rebounds in wins McCormick believes her team will ference play. a presence inside for the Barons. over Stanford and Mississippi State take positive moments from both Staley said Spann will likely “We’ve got some guys that can do it. But to win the NCAA Tournament. those games that will help them miss Sunday’s game with Duke. it’s just kind of early in the season, and “That gave her wings,” South compete in the SoCon. “I like to There’s a chance, though, Cuevas- they’ve got to get their feet wet in their Carolina coach Dawn Staley said. give our team experiences and I Moore could see her first action new roles,” Coach Talley said. “The early The Gamecocks will now move hope they can really embrace” the this year. part of our schedule is pretty tough, so on to their third ranked opponent bursts of solid play McCormick we’re thrown into the fire and we’re going this season when No. 14 Duke, saw against the Gamecocks. MILESTONE WIN to have to find a way out. It’s going to be a which defeated No. 8 Ohio State It was South Carolina’s first time Staley won her 400th game in 18 work in progress.” 69-60 on Thursday night, comes to hitting the century mark since last seasons coaching Temple and Talley said the problems his team has town Sunday. year’s NCAA Tournament run as it South Carolina. What was she experienced in the early going this season Cliney believes the team will use defeated Quinnipiac 100-58 in the thinking about after the milestone are fixable. its lopsided victory as a boost of round of 16. It was the Gamecocks’ win? “401,” she said with a grin. “We’ve got to cut down on the turn- confidence heading into another biggest margin of victory since overs,” Talley said. “Our half-court de- ranked-vs.-ranked matchup. topping Savannah State 111-49 in UP NEXT fense has been decent, but (we’ve had) too “We’re working on us, no matter December 2014. Western Carolina returns home many turnovers on offense leading to easy what the score was,” she said. for the first time in more than two baskets for the other team. We’ve got to cut With Wilson in the lineup, the THE BIG PICTURE weeks when it plays Florida A&M those out. We’ve just got to find our way. Gamecocks always have a chance. Western Carolina: The Cata- on Saturday. “A lot of these guys are still coming off The two-time defending South- mounts were terribly outmatched South Carolina takes on No. 14 football, so they’re a little rusty right now,” eastern Conference player of the against the Gamecocks and settled Duke on Sunday. Talley said. Besides Dabbs, Sonntag and Holler, Tall- ey said he’s looking for good things from the players that served as Dabbs’ replacements during his injury last year, Grant SHS FROM PAGE B1 DeVarona and Chandler Scott. “Both alternated at point guard for us last managed only seven second- year when Dalton went down, so they’ve got quarter points as it had the experience and this year they’ve got to play 3-point halftime lead. in different positions,” Talley said. “So The Gators, ranked fourth we’ve got some returning players and some among 4A schools in the South new players we think are going to step in Carolina Basketball Coaches As- and be major contributors for us. sociation preseason poll, started “Patience is not one of my strengths,” getting its offense going in the Talley said. “But I’m trying to be patient third quarter, getting into the with this group and I feel like we have a lane and forcing fouls. They chance to get better.” scored 16 points, going 6-for-7 Talley said with the strength of the com- from the free throw line, to go up petition improving, things need to come 30-29 entering the final stanza. along pretty quickly for his team to be suc- Grant Singleton hit a layup to MICAH GREEN / THE SUMTER ITEM cessful in terms of its record. start the fourth quarter and Sumter’s Isiah Moore (11) tries to make a move on Lakewood’s Ahkeem Lawson “In the conference, I think we can be when Terrell Houston drilled a 3 in the Gamecocks’ 50-46 overtime victory on Thursday at the SHS gymnasium. competitive,” Talley said. “I guess Lau- LHS had a 35-29 lead. Brown rence Manning is still the favorite until called a quick timeout after the five free throws in the final min- Singleton had 13 and Houston and somebody knocks them off. Florence basket. ute to force the overtime. Ahkeem Lawson both had eight. Christian and Orangeburg Prep should “I just wanted to give my play- Smalls canned a trey to start In the girls game, Sumter out- be better this year. So the competition is ers a breather,” he said. “They the overtime as Sumter pushed scored Lakewood 16-7 in the going to be good, and our non-conference had been on the floor a long time the lead out to 49-42. The Gators third quarter to open a 10-point schedule is very tough, so if we don’t get and I wanted to let them catch didn’t score until less than a advantage and went on to 40-27 better our record isn’t going to be very their breath. I had four time- minute remained. triumph. good.” outs.” “I’m proud of the way my guys Nina Edlow led the 1-1 Lady After Pinewood Prep, the Barons return Whether the timeout had any- responded,” said Jones, whose Gamecocks, who led 19-18 at half- home to face Hammond, and Thomas Sum- thing to do with it, Sumter rolled team is ranked fifth among 5A time, with 14 points. Layken Co ter next week. off nine straight points to go up schools. “We didn’t panic at all.” and Tamerah Brown both had “Our schedule in the early part of the 38-35. The first five came from Smalls led Sumter with 14 eight. season is tough, but I think that’s going to Tyree Smalls. points, while Moore had 13 and Ki’Ari Cain and Lashala Har- make us better in the long run,” Talley Lakewood rallied to go up 42- Calvin Felder nine. vin both had eight for the Lady said. 38, but Isiah Moore hit four of Juwan Perdue led LHS with 14, Gators.

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PRO FOOTBALL PRO FOOTBALL Panthers have injury concerns Former Tiger Hopkins shines for Texans entering huge game vs. Saints HOUSTON (AP) — The right side of his No. 10 jersey was torn almost completely apart and white paint that had rubbed off CHARLOTTE (AP) — The Pan- the field peppered his long dreadlocks. thers are heading into the biggest DeAndre Hopkins had a long day dealing game of their season with some with near-constant double teams and multi- major injury concerns. ple defenders pulling and grabbing at him Carolina (8-3) is tied with New Or- in Houston’s loss to Baltimore on Monday leans for first place in the NFC night. South entering Sunday’s pivotal But everything he went through against showdown at the Superdome. But the Ravens wasn’t anything new to Hous- just how many Panthers will be ton’s star receiver. He’s accustomed to it available to play remains a mystery. and actually revels in the attention he gar- Three starters — running back ners from defenses every week. Christian McCaffrey (shoulder), In fact, the self-described best receiver in wide receiver Devin Funchess (toe) the league likes that teams put such an ef- and tight end Greg Olsen (foot) — fort to attempt to slow him down. did not practice on Wednesday as And as the Texans (4-7) try to salvage a the team returned to work after a disappointing and injury-filled season with road win against the New York Jets a strong finish, Hopkins is intent on doing on Sunday. everything he can to help. Also absent from practice was “I’m the highest-paid player that’s out starting cornerback Daryl Worley THE ASSOCIATED PRESS there on the field for this organization, so of (foot), while quarterback Cam New- Carolina running back Christian McCaffrey (22) stays in front of the Saints’ Ken course I feel like it’s on me if I’m double- ton (thumb), center Ryan Kalil Crawley (20) during the second half of their game in September in Charlotte. The teamed or triple-teamed to still come down (neck), safety Mike Adams (knee) Saints won 34-13. The teams play again on Sunday. with the play,” he said. and linebacker Shaq Thompson “And I hold myself to that mindset every (foot) were limited. frey, Funchess and Olsen — being that game 0-2, but used it as a time I’m on the field. I feel like it’s on me. I “It’s always a concern,” Panthers ready for this week, although he springboard for an eight-game win want the game to be on me ... I want that coach Ron Rivera said Wednesday suggested some players believed the streak. pressure.” of the injuries. “You just don’t know. turf at MetLife Stadium might have But Rivera said the Panthers are a Some receivers shy away from contact I’m like you guys — I won’t know contributed to their injuries. better team than they were in Sep- and complain when dealing with tight cov- until tomorrow.” The Panthers have momentum on tember with Newton healthier fol- erages and the kind of yanking and pulling Newton is expected to play, al- their side heading into Sunday’s lowing offseason shoulder surgery that would cause the destruction of a jersey. though he’s still wearing a glove game having won four straight and the offense beginning to click. Hopkins is not among them. It’s a mindset during practice to protect his games. “We struggled a lot, but I also felt that came from years of playing defensive banged up right thumb. The sev- The Saints had won eight straight like we were getting used to each back as a youngster in South Carolina. enth-year quarterback struggled prior to last week’s loss to the Los other,” Rivera said. “I think we’re at “Just kind of getting down there in the this past Sunday against the Jets Angeles Rams, which dropped them a point now where our quarterback trenches,” he said. “And that’s kind of how with his accuracy after injuring the back into a tie with Carolina. is healthier than he was at the start I play at wide receiver a little bit with that thumb the week before. However, the Saints appear to of the season and we have a better physicality of: ‘I’m not going to let anyone Rivera offered little else about the match up well against the Panthers. feel and understanding of the play- out-tough me on that island.’” prospect of Newton’s top three tar- They dominated Carolina in Week ers we have — the playmakers. And He thinks that sets him apart from other gets in the passing game — McCaf- 3, winning 34-13. They came into our offense has settled in.” receivers.

COLLEGE FOOTBALL Auburn QB’s wait nearly over after prediction

AUBURN, Ala. (AP) — Jar- The Tigers wouldn’t be in shall left in 2014. While Mar- rett Stidham put his goal out this position — one win from shall was a dangerous runner there for the world to see after a playoff berth — without who set up the passing game watching last year’s South- him. off zone read plays, Stidham eastern Conference champi- Stidham delivered an im- is a passer who runs occasion- onship game on TV. pressive performances in ally. “Can’t wait to be playing on wins over Georgia and Ala- He has passed for 2,682 this day next year,” Stidham bama , the biggest games of yards and 16 touchdowns posted on Twitter afterward. the year before this next one against just four intercep- That message proved pro- against the Bulldogs. In fact, tions. Stidham has completed phetic and his wait is almost he has been steady and effi- an SEC-best 68.5 percent of over. cient ever since struggling in his passes. The former Baylor quarter- a loss to LSU, and it’s no coin- It didn’t start off smoothly back who signed with Au- cidence that Auburn hasn’t for a quarterback who spent burn (10-2, No. 2 CFP) has lost again. last fall at a Texas junior col- helped the fourth-ranked Ti- Stidham has passed for be- lege with no football program. gers earn a spot in Saturday’s tween 214 and 268 yards over He was sacked 11 times game against No. 6 Georgia the past five games. The most against Clemson in Game 2 (11-1, No. 6 CFP) in Atlanta. incompletions he has had: THE ASSOCIATED PRESS and struggled in the LSU loss, He has emerged as one of the nine. Auburn quarterback Jarrett Stidham (8) gets past Alabama linebacker too. SEC’s top quarterbacks after Not known as a runner, Dylan Moses (18) to carry the ball in for a touchdown during the sec- “Believe it or not, I actually a shaky start for both him Stidham was smashing into ond half of the Iron Bowl last weekend in Auburn, Alabama. Auburn felt pretty comfortable in the and his new team. Alabama defenders trying to won 26-14 to claim a spot in this Saturday’s SEC championship game, Clemson game, regardless of “I just felt like it was going get extra yards and ran 16 a rematch with Georgia. what happened that night,” to be a big opportunity for us yards for a decisive touch- Stidham said. “Just kind of in the future coming here and down. game, there are some third sneaky athlete, and he plays being back out there, being everything,” Stidham said. “I That’s part of the reason down runs and his touchdown his heart out. I think that’s comfortable and that kind of knew what kind of team that teammate Kerryon Johnson run that are just huge plays what makes him so good.” thing, I actually felt like I was we had. I just felt confident in thinks Stidham should be that might go unnoticed, but In other words, Stidham is on the way to having success.” it and was just really looking considered one of the league’s you’ve got to consider them,” the quarterback Auburn And so were the Tigers, the forward to having that oppor- best quarterbacks. said Johnson, the SEC’s lead- coach Gus Malzahn has been big hiccup at LSU notwith- tunity.” “If you watch the Alabama ing rusher. “I mean, he’s a looking for since Nick Mar- standing.

COLLEGE FOOTBALL Transfer QBs Mayfield, Hill face off in Big 12 title game

BY STEPHEN HAWKINS three seasons if they beat TCU “It all sunk in when I was sas bar. Oklahoma ordered fore that game. The Associated Press (9-2, 7-2, No. 11 CFP) for the out there on the field with my him to complete 35 hours of As for Hill, the spring before second time in four weeks. family,” Hill said after his four community service and an al- becoming A&M’s starter as a ARLINGTON, Texas — Mayfield has played his col- touchdowns in TCU’s senior cohol education program. sophomore he was arrested in Baker Mayfield was the first lege career entirely in the Big day victory over Baylor last He didn’t start on Oklaho- College Station and charged true freshman walk-on quar- 12 from his unprecedented week. “After everything that ma’s senior day last week fol- with public intoxication and terback to start a season open- debut and only season at had happened, and to be at lowing his lewd crotch-grab- giving police a fake name. He er for an FBS team when he Texas Tech to his standout this point, I told Coach P, just bing gesture and constant was reinstated before training took his first snap in 2013. That tenure at Oklahoma. But had thank you for just bringing me words toward the Kansas camp and allowed to compete same season, Kenny Hill began league officials not made a here and letting me have this sideline the previous week. for the starting job. his college career behind a rule change in 2016, restoring opportunity. It’s awesome.” Mayfield also nailed TCU Both are now in a huge Heisman Trophy winner. a year of lost eligibility after Both quarterbacks had em- safety Niko Small with a pass game with championship Four years later, both quar- his in-league transfer with no barrassing off-field incidents, during pregame before the ramifications. terbacks have a title shot at written scholarship offer from though Hill’s came before he teams played three weeks ago “In big games, you’ve got to different Power Five schools. the Red Raiders, he would got to TCU. in Norman. And Mayfield also relax and do your job,” May- Mayfield is a Heisman front- have been done after last year. Mayfield was arrested in planted an Oklahoma flag at field said about the Big 12 title runner for No. 2 Oklahoma, After four games as a fresh- February for public intoxica- midfield after winning at Ohio game. “In big games, you’ve which faces Hill and No. 10 man, Hill threw for 511 yards in tion, disorderly conduct, flee- State in September, and there got to keep your poise. In TCU in the Big 12 champion- Texas A&M’s 2014 opener that ing and resisting arrest after was the smack talk directed at chippy, physical battles, ship game. was his first start succeeding an incident outside an Arkan- Baylor players on the field be- you’ve got to do the same.” “This final stretch of my Heisman winner Johnny Man- college career is coming down ziel. The Aggies started 5-0, but to the wire. I try to enjoy then lost three in a row while Variety of every moment,” Mayfield Hill struggled on the field in said. “But winning makes it a what would be his last games Financing Options lot more fun and that has to for them. He was suspended for be the focus.” violating team rules, his second Available The Sooners (11-1, 8-1 Big 12, suspension from the team in No. 3 CFP) go into Saturday’s less than a year. Locally owned and operated! Monday - Friday 10am - 6pm game, a week before the Heis- Hill went to TCU, after being Absolutely!! Saturday by Appointment man winner is named, in posi- encouraged by Horned Frogs tion to make the four-team coach Gary Patterson to first Come check us out! hairsonbroadautosales.net College Football Playoff for spend some time at a junior the second time in Mayfield’s college out of the spotlight. 3735 Broad St. • Sumter, SC 29154 • 803-494-4247 THE SUMTER ITEM SPORTS FRIDAY, DECEMBER 1, 2017 | B5

AUTO RACING Truex, Pollex win top award for contributions

LAS VEGAS (AP) — The ca- recalled initial reluctance to car racing. Smith’s contribu- reer year for Martin Truex Jr. move to Denver to work for a tions to NASCAR, through rolls on. single-car NASCAR operation, the race tracks he owns and Truex and partner Sherry and the early struggles the the risks he took in promot- Pollex on Wednesday won the team faced. He credited team ing the series, were cited. But prestigious Myers Brothers owner Barney Visser, who has so was his commitment to Award — the top honor in been unable to enjoy any of Speedway Children’s Chari- NASCAR’s season-ending the championship celebrations ties, an organization that pro- awards celebration — for their as he recuperates in Colorado vides funding for nonprofits. charitable work. The award is from a heart attack and sur- “I think raising $500 million presented by the National Mo- gery two weeks before the sea- for children’s charities is a big torsports Press Association son ended. one,” Smith said when asked and given as the final honor “They came up with the ri- about his accomplishments. during a formal event that diculous idea of starting a leads to Thursday night’s NASCAR team in Colorado, XFINITY SERIES: MOST champion celebration. Truex and I went out there on a POPULAR will be feted there for his first complete whim eight years Elliott Sadler was named career Cup title, a presentation ago, and I can’t believe we are most popular in NASCAR’s he is prepared for. champions,” Pearn said. “At second-tier Xfinity Series for But winning the Myers one point it seemed like a top the second straight year. Sadler Brothers Award was a shock 10 was not even a pipedream.” was also the top vote-getter in to both Truex and Pollex, and 2011 and 2016 and becomes only both struggled to hold back CUP ROOKIE the third driver to win the tears as they received the Erik Jones was named award three times. The others honor. THE ASSOCIATED PRESS rookie of the year in the Cup were Brad Keselowski and “I didn’t see this coming,” Driver Martin Truex Jr., right, and girlfriend Sherry Pollex won the Series, and he became the Kenny Wallace. Sadler contin- Truex said. prestigious Myers Brothers Award on Wednesday, the top honor in first driver in NASCAR histo- ues a six-year run for JR Mo- “I didn’t either, and I’m NASCAR’s season-ending awards celebration, for their charitable ry to earn top rookie honors torsports drivers winning the going to try not to cry,” re- work. in all three national series. award. He follows Chase Elliott, plied Pollex. “It was an incredible learn- Regan Smith, Danica Patrick The award is named for than $500,000. hood cancers. ing year,” said Jones, who and Keselowski. NASCAR pioneers Billy and Truex didn’t discuss his se- “I’m so proud of her and spent the season as a new sec- Bobby Myers and recognizes ries-best eight victories this her fight and her battle and ond car with Furniture Row TRUCK SERIES: MOST individuals and/or groups season, or the championship what she’s been able to pull Racing. Jones was a develop- POPULAR who have provided outstand- that came in his 12th season through and get through, and ment driver for Joe Gibbs Chase Briscoe was named ing contributions to the sport at NASCAR’s top level. In- at the same time, still willing Racing, and that team is pull- most popular driver in NAS- of stock car racing. It has stead, he touched on how to help others and give her ing him inside its camp next CAR’s Camping World Truck been presented annually since pleased he and Pollex have time,” said Truex. “We’re year as a replacement for Series. Briscoe won his first 1958. been to assist those in need. humbled, we’re very lucky to Matt Kenseth. Jones’ No. 77 national series race in the The Martin Truex Jr. “I think Sherry and I have be here and we are very proud Toyota is going away, and season finale at Homestead- Foundation has raised funds been very fortunate in our of this.” NASCAR champion Martin Miami Speedway. He finished for awareness on childhood lives to have all the things Truex was named on 82 per- Truex Jr. will be a one-car sixth in the series standings and teenage cancer, even be- we’ve needed,” Truex said. cent of the ballots cast for this team again next season. Jones and was also the series’ top fore Pollex was first diag- “Great families, great parents year’s award. Others receiv- had 14 top-10 finishes and was rookie. Briscoe was featured nosed with ovarian cancer a that raised us right and ing votes were team owner 19th in the final standings. alongside Brad Keselowski little over three years ago. taught us right from wrong. Jack Roush and seven-time Racing teammate Austin Cin- Pollex suffered a recurrence They probably deserve a lot of Cup Series champion Jimmie BUDDY SHUMAN AWARD dric in an irreverent social this year as Truex was put- the credit for us being who we Johnson. The award for contribu- media campaign to drum up ting together his champion- are and being able to give tions to NASCAR went to balloting support. He be- ship season. The couple back to people.” CREW CHIEF OF THE YEAR Bruton Smith, owner of comes the third BKR driver hosted their eighth annual Pollex’s “Drive for Teal & Truex’s crew chief, Cole Speedway Motorsports Inc. to win the award in the last Catwalk for a Cause, a chari- Gold” campaign in September Pearn, won the award after The award honors those who four years, following Tyler table fashion show/benefit, also raised funds and aware- guiding Furniture Row Racing have played vital roles in the Reddick (2016) and Ryan this season and raised more ness for ovarian and child- to its first title. The Canadian growth of professional stock Blaney (2014).

COLLEGE BASKETBALL No. 1 Duke uses late run to pull away from Indiana 91-81

BY MICHAEL MAROT Devils couldn’t get any real separation. essentially played to a draw. Neither The Associated Press Once they did, early in the second team could take more than a two-pos- half, they couldn’t maintain the mo- session lead until Gary Trent Jr. BLOOMINGTON, Ind. — Duke mentum and got into foul trouble. capped the big spurt with a three- coach Mike Krzyzewski saw how tired That’s how college basketball’s win- point play that made it 86-77 with 2:24 his team was Wednesday night. ningest coach drew it up, but he also left. He heard it, too. understood. “I think it gave us kind of a baseline Fortunately for the Blue Devils, “We’re exhausted,” Krzyzewski said. standard of where we’ve got to play Marvin Bagley III and Grayson Allen “They’re dead right now, but they cer- every night,” Johnson said of the Hoo- still had enough energy to persevere. tainly played those 5 minutes at the siers’ effort. Bagley scored 23 points and grabbed end with an incredible will to win.” 10 rebounds, Allen had 21 points and Indiana was led by Robert Johnson BIG PICTURE No. 1 Duke used a late scoring run to with 17 points and De’Ron Davis with Duke: Few teams could get through fend off pesky Indiana 91-81 in the Big 16 as its three-game winning streak an opening stretch like this. The fact Ten/ACC Challenge. came to an end. the Blue Devils may mean they’re “When you’re tired, especially guys Duke appeared to seize control with even better than advertised. But first when they’re tired, they don’t talk,” THE ASSOCAITED PRESS a 10-4 spurt to close the first half and they’ll take advantage of a short, well- Krzyzewski said. “They talk to them- Duke’s Wendell Carter Jr. dunks on Indiana’s another 10-4 run to start the second earned break. selves and that’s how we played most Collin Hartman during the first half of the for a 52-42 lead. Indiana: The Hoosiers fought val- of the game. We wanted to win but we Blue Devils’ 91-81 victory over the Hoosiers Instead of pulling away, though, the iantly. They played defense, took care were in ‘This is what I have to do in- on Wednesday in Bloomington, Indiana. Hoosiers scored seven straight, tied of the ball and hung around most of stead of what we have to do.’” the score at 57 on Collin Hartman’s the game. It was an impressive perfor- Eventually, Duke (9-0) figured it out and playing nine times in 20 days, fa- long 3-pointer and took a 61-59 lead mance, a better effort and the first sig- and went on a decisive 17-4 run that tigue clearly was a factor. when Hartman made two free throws nificant indication new coach Archie sealed Indiana’s fate. In the first half, the teams traded the with 12:17 left. Miller has things on track in Bloom- But after logging nearly 8,500 miles lead 10 times, had 11 ties and the Blue For the next 10 minutes, the teams ington.

her friends and family. Her host of nieces, nephews, Palmetto Health Tuomey. OBITUARIES latest crochet pieces were on grandnieces, cousins, close Services will be announced CARTER JEAN FRIERSON display at the Sumter County friends and family. by Elmore-Cannon-Stephens fice as a supervisor in the typ- Fair. This was her first time There will be a celebration Funeral Home and Crematori- Carter Jean Cleaton Frier- ing pool. entering her creations at the of her life at 1 p.m. on Satur- um of Sumter. son was born on Jan. 19, 1944, Before moving to New York, Sumter County Fair and she day in the fellowship hall of and passed away peacefully Carter Jean met the love of was awarded three blue rib- Salem Chapel & Heritage Cen- CHARLES E. BENNETT on Nov. 26, 2017, her life, William Roosevelt bons, two red ribbons and ter, 101 S. Salem Ave. Charles Earl Bennett, 53, at Palmetto Frierson. They were married two white ribbons for the in- The family will receive departed this life on Wednes- Health Tuomey. on July 3, 1964, and to this tricate artistry of her cro- friends and family at their res- day, Nov. 29, 2017, at his resi- She was born in union her sons, Craig and Kel- cheted designs. idence, 746 Maney St., Sumter. dence. St. Stephens to vin, were born. Carter Jean Carter Jean was preceded Job’s Mortuary Inc. of Sum- He was born on June 28, the late David Lee and William moved their fam- in death by her siblings, the ter is in charge of arrange- 1964, in Sumter County, a son and Martha Clea- ily to Sumter in 1975, where late Angelene (Buddy) Din- ments. of Mary Alice Williams Wilson FRIERSON ton. She was the she began a long and lucrative gle and Odell (Naomi) Clea- and the late Alonzo Wilson. first born of her career at Morris College, ton. SHIRLEY M. ALLEN The family will be receiving two siblings, the Angelene where she worked faithfully She leaves behind to cher- Shirley Temple Manning friends from 2 to 7 p.m. daily Cleaton Dingle and Odell Cle- until her retirement after 35 ish her memories and cele- Allen, 81, died on Tuesday, at the home of his mother, 245 aton. years of loyal service. brate her life: her loving and Nov. 28, 2017. Woodlawn Ave., Sumter, SC Carter Jean, as she was af- Carter Jean was very active devoted husband of 53 years, Funeral services will be 29150. fectionately called, was edu- and well-known in the Sum- William Roosevelt Frierson; held at 3 p.m. on Saturday at Job’s Mortuary Inc., 312 S. cated in Berkeley County at ter community. She was an her two sons, Craig (Arischa) Taw Caw Missionary Baptist Main St., Sumter, is in charge St. Stephens Elementary officer for the Russellville Frierson and Kelvin Church in Summerton, where of arrangements. School and Russellville High High School Class of 1961 and (Tammy) Frierson; brother- Dr. W.T. Johnson serves as School in St. Stephens. Carter vice president of the Sumter in-law, Joe (Toni) Frierson pastor. JANET ANN B. MEYER Jean was active in high school High School Band Booster III; sisters-in-law, Francis Viewing will be held from 1 BISHOPVILLE — Janet as a majorette in the march- Club. Currently, she served Harris, Carrie Kirkman and to 6 p.m. today. Ann Boone Meyer, age 60, being band and a standout on as secretary for the Sumter Agnes (wife of the late Jo- Funeral arrangements are loved wife of Stanley John the girls’ basketball team. chapter of the Sumterites Or- seph W. Frierson) Frierson; entrusted to Summerton Fu- Meyer, died on Wednesday, Upon graduation, she moved ganization, secretary for the nieces, Tonia (Timothy) neral Home LLC, 23 S. Duke Nov. 29, 2017, at her residence. to New York and continued Neighborhood Beautification Jones, Siomara Dingle and St., Summerton, (803) 485- Plans will be announced by her educational pursuits at Organization and the board Beryl Cleaton; nephews, Sha- 3755. Bullock Funeral Home. City College, where she re- of Zoning Appeals for the hid Cleaton and Bernard Jay ceived training in secretarial Sumter City-County Planning Dingle; grandchildren, Cor- JO ELLEN C. BROOKS studies. After receiving exten- Department. Carter Jean also rine Frierson, Andrew Frier- Jo Ellen Maxson Combs sive training in secretarial enjoyed crafting and other son and Dyneise Conner- Brooks, 82, widow of Richard T. studies, she began working artistic pursuits. She enjoyed Johnson; a special friend, Combs and Linsay Brooks, died for the JC Penney business of- creating crocheted pieces for Georthia M. Moses; and a on Wednesday, Nov. 29, 2017, at B6 THE ITEM CLASSIFIEDS FRIDAY, DECEMBER 1, 2017 CLASSIFIED DEADLINES 11:30 a.m. the day before for Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday & Friday edition. 11:30 a.m. Friday for Sunday’s edition.

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December 16, 2017 Scenic Lake Master In Equity may re-sell the Bates Middle School Indoor Should the last and highest bidder 10:00 A.M. 2 & 3BR 2BA No pets, Section 8 property on the same terms and fail or refuse to make the required Yard-Sale Dec. 2nd 7am-2pm accepted. 499-1500 or 469-6978 conditions on some subsequent Sales deposit at time of bid or comply with UNITS FOR AUCTION Day (at the risk of the said highest the other terms of the bid within Sat 8-12 at 25 Lesesne Dr. btwn 9am-5pm A-56 - Mary Miller bidder). No personal or deficiency thirty (30) days, the deposit shall be Furniture, baby supplies, toys, judgment being demanded, the B-5 - Mary Miller Country Living DW 3BR 2BA on a forfeited and the Master in Equity books, CD'S, clothes (babies, kids, & Pond $750 Mo + Deposit. bidding shall not remain open after for Sumter County may re-sell the C-6 - James Byrd the date of sale and shall be final on adult), curtains and much more References required. property on the same terms and C-8 - James Byrd that date, and compliance with the conditions on some subsequent Sales Call 803 469-9353 D-8 - Thaddeus Morris 5 Family Sale 1890 Camden Hwy bid may be made immediately. Day (at the risk of the said highest D-9 - Thaddeus Morris Purchaser to pay for documentary 1 1/4 mi past Kmart on left. Sat Clean 3BR 2BA MH. C/H/A close bidder). As a deficiency judgment is D-10 - Thaddeus Morris stamps on the Deed. The successful being Waived, the bidding will not 9am-? Furn, vintage & collectibles, quarters, mature couple only F-8 - James Byrd bidder will be required to pay remain open thirty days after the baby & children clothes & more $475/mo + $450 Dep, 803-775-0492 interest on the amount of the G-12 - Sonja H. Ray date of sale. Purchaser shall pay for Lv Msg balance of the bid from date of sale preparation of deed, documentary Multi-family Sale! Sat. Dec. 2nd 7-? to date of compliance with the bid at stamps on the deed, and recording of Farm Products at 2950 Tuckaway Dr. Great items the rate of 6.75% per annum. The Office Rentals the deed. The successful bidder will just in time for the holidays! sale shall be subject to taxes and be required to pay interest on the assessments, existing easements and amount of the bid from date of sale We buy pecans! $1 per pound. 50 Wesmark Ct. 1,177 sq ft. restrictions, easements and to date of compliance with the bid at Warren E. Coker Farms, 341 W. For Sale $1000/mo. + $100 CAM. Reception restrictions of record and any other the rate of 4.00% per annum. The Main St. Olanta. 843-319-1884. or Trade senior encumbrances. area, 3 office space, breakroom, 1/2 sale shall be subject to assessments, Sumter County taxes, easements, ba, file/storage room. 773-1477 In the event an agent of Plaintiff Firewood Need a truckload of firewood? easements and restrictions of record, does not appear at the time of sale, and other senior encumbrances. $60 delivered to Sumter or Manning. 690 Bultman Dr 1612 Sq. Ft. the within property shall be Reception area w/ hdwd floors, 4 7 and a half Ft. multi-color lights Call State Tree Service at withdrawn from sale and sold at the GRIMSLEY LAW FIRM, LLC Christmas tree, originally cost $225, 803-773-1320. Private offices, Conference rm, next available sales date upon the Benjamin E. Grimsley 12//2//1979 terms and conditions as set forth in used one year. Asking $150 Secretarial work area, Copier/Equip. S.C. Bar No. 70335 Happy 38th Birthday $55 for truck the Judgment of Foreclosure and 803-499-3843 Split Oak Firewood Rm, Shower rm, 2 1/2 baths, file Attorney for the Plaintiff Kevin B. Chestnut. load, 2 truck loads for $100. storage rm, $2050 mo+$57.76 CAM Sale or such terms as may be set P.O. Box 11682 God has blessed you. forth in a supplemental order. Delivered stacked. 843-536-6050 Call 803 773-1477 Columbia, S.C. 29211 We all love you. Mom, Sis, brother Garage, Yard & (803) 233-1177 and family. Estate Sales The Honorable Richard L. Booth [email protected] 4 Cemetery Plots in Evergreen Master In Equity Cemetery $6000 for all 4 Call TRANSPORTATION Yard Sale! 886 Twin Lakes DR. for Sumter County NOTICE OF MASTER In Memory 803-775-4045 IN EQUITY SALE Sat 7-12. Children items (will make Brock & Scott, PLLC nice christmas gifts), household and 3800 Fernandina Road, Suite 110 CIVIL ACTION NO. exercise equipment. Columbia, SC 29210 2017CP4301023 Attorneys for Plaintiff Concord Community Center In- Autos For Sale Phone 803-454-3540 BY VIRTUE OF A DECREE of the door multi-family yard sale EMPLOYMENT Fax 803-454-3541 Court of Common Pleas for Sumter Sat. Dec 2 8am-11am. County, South Carolina, heretofore Plowden Mill Rd next door to 6x12 V Nose inclosed trailer, in MASTER IN EQUITY'S issued in the case of Wells Fargo SALE Bank, N.A., against Margaret W. Concord Fire Dept Help Wanted excellent condition. Asking $1650, 803-459-3057 CASE NO. Davis, et al., the Master in Equity for Big Estate Sale 1185 Meadow- Full-Time Sumter County, or his/her agent, will 2017-CP-43-00112 sell on December 4, 2017, at 12:00 croft Dr. Fri 8-6 Sat. 7-1 Bedroom P.M., at Sumter Judicial Center, 215 BY VIRTUE of a decree heretofore Furn, TV, Dining Rm , Table/Chairs, LOCAL CORPORATION seeking North Harvin Street, Sumter, SC LEGAL granted in the case of Trustmark Small Kitchen Appliances, women upbeat, highly motivated, and de- 29150, to the highest bidder: shoes, jewelry, perfume & cosmet- National Bank against Braden tailed oriented individual for Full Bunch a/k/a Braden A. Bunch, A. NOTICES All that certain piece, parcel or lots ics, Christmas & outdoor deco, Time Position to handle Administra- Wren Bunch a/k/a Anna Wren Bunch of land with the improvements Bedding, linens, clothing & more. tive and Customer Service duties. and South Carolina Department of thereon, if any, situate, lying and Many new items. Prices to sell! Must have proficient computer skills, Revenue, I, the Master in Equity for being in the City of Sumter, County Notice of Sale Sumter County, will sell on Monday, have merchandising & management of Sumter, State of South Carolina, 313 W Hampton Ave Sat 8-2 Large December 4, 2017, at 11:00 o'clock skills, be able to work well in a being designated as Lot Nos. 1 and 2 Variety of household goods, clothes, a.m., at the Sumter County team-oriented environment, be NOTICE OF SALE in Block "O" on a plat of H.D. Moise, Courthouse, Sumter, South Carolina, baby items & more C.E., dated December 7, 1927 and adaptable to a flexible work sched- CIVIL ACTION NO. to the highest bidder: ule, possess excellent communica- 2014-CP-43-02763 recorded in the Office of the RMC Yard Sale! Fri. & Sat. 8-? at 316 for Sumter County in Plat Book 4-A tion skills and have the ability to All that certain piece, parcel or lot of Palmetto St. Tools, yard equipment at Page 2; said two lots together multi-task. be proficient in BY VIRTUE of the decree land, containing 0.45 acre, more or and more. MUST measuring 100 feet on their northern heretofore granted in the case of: less, together with any and all Microsoft Word, Excel, Power Point. and southern boundaries and 150 Wilmington Savings Fund Society, improvements thereon, lying, being Multi 3220 Tamarah Way Sat 7-? College degree preferred but not feet; on their eastern and western FSB, d/b/a Christiana Trust, not in and situate in the City and County of (MeadowCroft) Oak glider, Rugs, mandatory. Please send your re- boundaries and being bounded on its individual capacity but solely in Sumter, State of South Carolina, Pictures, Lots of Christmas Decor, the North by Lot No. 7 in said Block Joseph Chestnut Sr. sume to: its capacity as Owner Trustee of being shown and delineated on a "O" on said plat; on the East by clothes, shoes, children toys in great [email protected] MATAWIN VENTURES TRUST plat by Allen-Makela Land 06/15/22-12/2/96 Legare Street as shown on said plat; shape! Like new Treadmill, Great or 2850 Broad St., Sumter, SC SERIES 2016-2 vs. John P. Godwin; Surveyors, Inc., dated August 31, It has been 21 years since you left on the South by Carroll Avenue as Quality! Rain or Shine 29150. South Carolina Department of 1989, and recorded in Plat Book 89 at us, we still miss and love you! shown on said plat; and on the West Revenue, the undersigned Master In Page 817, and being more Your loving Children & Family by Lot No. 3 in said Block "O" on said Yard Sale! Fri. 4-6 & Sat. 8-1 at 110 Equity for Sumter County, South particularly shown and delineated plat. Pinnacle Crt. Freezer, washer, living Carolina, will sell on December 4, on that certain plat prepared for room set, computer moniter, men & 2017 at 12:00PM, at the Sumter Mark J. Ehrlich and Suzanne M. County Courthouse, City of Sumter, TMS Number: women clothes and shoes. Ehrlich by Edwards Land Surveyors, BUSINESS RENTALS State of South Carolina, to the Inc. dated June 6, 2000, recorded in 229-12-01-022 3095 Sun Valley Dr. Friday 8-12 highest bidder: the Office of the Register of Deeds PROPERTY ADDRESS: SERVICES Furniture, fridge, housewares, for Sumter County in Plat Book 2000 301 Stark St., THAT LOT OF LAND WITH THE at Page 402. Sumter, SC 29150 clothes, toys, books, & more! IMPROVEMENTS THEREON Rooms for Rent SITUATE IN SUMTER COUNTY, Pursuant to Section 30-5-250 of the This being the same property Child Care Back yard Sale 103 Conyers St Sat SOUTH CAROLINA, Code of Laws of South Carolina conveyed to Margaret W. Davis and 7:30-12 chairs, oriental rugs, anti- REPRESENTED AS LOT 3803, Very Clean, (1976), reference to said plat(s) is Thomasina M. Portis by deed of ques, estate items plus! 309 Manning Ave CONTAINING 0.76 ACRES ON PLAT hereby craved for particulars of the Margaret W. Davis, dated August 20, Make A Difference become a recently renovated room for rent, OF CROFT ENGINEERING boundaries, metes, courses, and/or 2014, and recorded in the Office of foster parent. Learn more call Huge garage sale! Fri. & Sat. at room, board & cable tv. Call COMPANY DATED MARCH 15, 1999, distances of the property delineated the Register of Deeds for Sumter 803-451-3984 317 Burns Dr. Tools, antiques, and 803-236-3897. RECORDED IN THE OFFICE OF thereon. County on September 2, 2014, in THE SUMTER COUNTY REGISTER household items. Deed Book 1204 at Page 2944. Unfurnished OF DEEDS IN PLAT BOOK PB99 AT This property is represented as Tax Legal Service clothing, PAGE 468. THIS PROPERTY 979 Houck St. Sat 7-? Homes Map Parcel No. 249-08-03-052 upon TERMS OF SALE: FOR CASH. The KNOWN AS 305 CORN ROAD, handbags, hshld, jewelry, Everything the records of the Sumter County Master in Equity will require a SUMTER, SOUTH CAROLINA AND Attorney Timothy L. Griffith must go! Auditor, and is known as 12 Loring deposit of 5% of the bid amount in IS REPRESENTED ON THE 803-607-9087, 360 W. Wesmark. Houses for rent 2 & 3BR Drive, Sumter SC 29150. cash or certified funds, which is to SUMTER COUNTY TAX MAP AS 255 Muscovy Tr. (Idlewild) Sat. 7-1 Call 773-7789 be applied on the purchase price Criminal, Family, Accident, Injury PARCEL 219-05-01-008. hshld, Christmas, ladies & Jr. This being the same property upon compliance with the bid. clothing, bun and thigh exerciser, conveyed to Braden A. Bunch and Interest on the balance of the bid at Nice 3BR/2BA house w/ large ALSO INCLUDED HEREWITH IS Roofing Anna Wren Bunch by deed of Mark J. 5.60% shall be paid to the day of misc. back yard for rent. $800mo, $800 THAT CERTAIN 2002 FLEETWOOD Ehrlich and Suzanne M. Ehrlich compliance. In case of deposit, and $400 first months rent. MANUFACTURED HOME Sat. 7-2 at 895 Kingsbury dated April 12, 2004 and recorded noncompliance within 20 days, after Yard Sale: 3255 Kim St. Dalzell SC. Contact BEARING SERIAL NUMBER All Types of Roofing & Repairs All April 13, 2004 in the Office of the the sale, the deposit of 5% is to be Dr. Children clothes, adults clothes, NCFL241AB54769-TL23 (SEE work guaranteed. 30 yrs exp. SC lic. Nancy 301-848-0083 Register of Deeds for Sumter forfeited and applied to Plaintiff's plants and much more. RETIREMENT AFFIDAVIT IN Virgil Bickley 803-316-4734. County, South Carolina in Book 933 judgment debt and the property when you can buy. BOOK 1081 AT PAGE 541). 3 Family Yard Sale! 60 Aubrey Cir. Stop renting at Page 456. Thereafter, Braden A. re-advertised for sale upon the same Home Buyer Seminar. Learn what it Bunch and Anna Wren Bunch, terms at the risk of the former Sat. 8-12. Shelled pecans $8lb, lots THIS BEING THE SAME Tree Service takes to get in your dream home. conveyed their undivided interest in highest bidder. Purchaser to pay for of new jewelry, suitcases, decora- PROPERTY CONVEYED TO JOHN the subject property to Braden deed recording fees and deed tions, hand knitted blankets, and Come by North Hope Center 904 N P. GODWIN BY DEED OF CHARLES Newman's Tree Service Tree Main Dec 5th 5:30pm-6:30pm. Four Bunch by Quit Claim Deed dated stamps. household items. SMITH, DATED FEBRUARY 4, 2008 July 14, 2015 and recorded July 14, removal, trimming, topping, view Seasons Realty 803-236-3230 AND RECORDED FEBRUARY 6, 2015 in the Office of the Register of Deficiency judgment not being enhancement pruning, bobcat 2008 IN BOOK 1100 AT PAGE 103 IN New Birth Holiness Church 42 Deeds for Sumter County, South demanded, the bidding will not work stump grinding, Lic & THE OFFICE OF THE ROD FOR Larkin St. Sat. 7-12. Multi. family 3 & 4 Br homes & MH, in Sumter Carolina in Book 1213 at Page 634. remain open after the date of sale, SUMTER COUNTY, SOUTH insured. Call 803-316-0128 household, appliances, Everything County & Manning area. No Sect. 8. TMS#: 249-08-03-052 but compliance with the bid may be CAROLINA. $1 on tables. Thank you for stopping Rent + dep. req. Call 803-460-6216 made immediately. Ricky's Tree Service Tree removal, by, many new items! Property Address: stump grinding, Lic & ins, free quote, House on Burgess, 3 Br, 1 Ba, CURRENT ADDRESS 12 Loring Drive Should Plaintiff, Plaintiff's attorney, 803-435-2223 or cell 803-460-8747. Indoor Garage Sale at Mt. Zion CHA, $545 mo. Sec. Dep. OF PROPERTY: Sumter, S.C. 29150 or Plaintiff's agent fail to appear on Enrichment Center, 315 West Fulton 803-983-5691 or 803-305-1581. 305 Corn Road, the day of sale, the property shall not A Notch Above Tree Care Full St. Sat. Dec. 2nd 7-1. Furniture, Sumter, SC 29150 TERMS OF SALE: The successful be sold, but shall be re-advertised quality service low rates, lic./ins., free and sold at some convenient sales household items, clothing, too much Near Shaw AFB 2BR 1BA Duplex TMS: 2190501008 bidder, other than the plaintiff, will est BBB accredited 983-9721 day thereafter when Plaintiff, to name, something for everyone. $475 Mo.+1 Mo. Dep Call deposit with the Master in Equity for TERMS OF SALE: The successful Sumter County at conclusion of the Plaintiff's attorney, or Plaintiff's 803-458-8333 agent, is present. Yard Sale! Sat. 7-12 at 941 Clay St. bidder, other than the Plaintiff, will bidding, five percent (5%) of the bid, deposit with the Master In Equity, at in cash or equivalent, as evidence of conclusion of the bidding, five good faith, same to be applied to the The sale shall be subject to taxes Westside Christian and assessments, existing easements Academy percent (5%) of his bid, in cash or purchase price in case of MERCHANDISE equivalent, as evidence of good faith, compliance, but to be forfeited and and easements and restrictions of Christmas Bazaar same to be applied to the purchase applied first to costs and then to record. 554 Pinewood Rd. Sat. Dec. 2nd, price in case of compliance, but to plaintiff's debt in the case of 9am-3pm. Free Admission. Vendor Want to Buy booths & concessions. Moving Sale! Fri. & Sat. Will buy furniture by piece or bulk, 7:30am-5pm at 204 West Avenue tools, trailers, lawn mowers, 4 North, Pinewood. wheelers, or almost anything of value. Also old signs & lawn furniture Fri 9-4 & Sat. 7-1 4920 John Call 803-983-5364 Franklin Rd. off Eagle Rd. Full br set, mattress, pictures, rocker, hshld, carpet, etc. 3 Family Sale, Sat. 8-2 at 3945 Noras Ln. Pinewood, Next door to Customer Service Representative Hairs Auto. Lots of stuff! FTC is seeking a Customer Service Representative to join our team at the Wesmark Store in Sumter. The successful candidate must meet the following requirements: high

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Plaintiff does not warrant its title property concerned herein. This forth in a supplemental order. in lieu of metes and bounds, as terms and conditions as set forth in INCORPORATED HEREIN IN search to purchasers at foreclosure description is made in lieu of metes permitted under Section 30-5-250 of the Judgment of Foreclosure and ACCORDANCE WITH THE sale or other third parties, who and bounds as permitted by law The Honorable Richard L. Booth the 1976 Code of Laws of South Sale or such terms as may be set PROVISIONS OF SECTION 30-5-250 should have their own title search under Section 30-5-250 of The Code Master In Equity Carolina, as amended. forth in a supplemental order. OF THE CODE OF LAWS OF performed on the subject property. of Laws of South Carolina (1976), as for Sumter County SOUTH CAROLINA, 1976. THIS amended. This is the property known DERIVATION: This is the identical The Honorable Richard L. Booth BEING THE SAME PROPERTY Richard L. Booth as 609 Miller Road, Sumter, SC. Brock & Scott, PLLC property conveyed unto Teresa Master In Equity KNOWN AS 3645 QUEEN CHAPEL Master in Equity 3800 Fernandina Road, Suite 110 Pierson by deed of The City of for Sumter County ROAD, DALZELL, SC. for Sumter County This being the identical property Columbia, SC 29210 Sumter Housing and Economic REPRESENTED BY AUDITOR'S Sumter, South Carolina conveyed to Greater Mount Pisgah Attorneys for Plaintiff Develpment corporation, dated July Brock & Scott, PLLC MAP OF SUMTER COUNTY AS TAX Missionary Baptist Church by that Phone 803-454-3540 6, 2005, and recorded in the Office of 3800 Fernandina Road, Suite 110 PARCEL NO. 199-00-02-085. FINKEL LAW FIRM LLC deed of Bill Poulos, Marion Fax 803-454-3541 the ROD for Sumter County in Columbia, SC 29210 Post Office Box 71727 Jennings, and Bobby Beatson, Sr., as Volume 987, page 1474 on July 7, Attorneys for Plaintiff THIS BEING THE SAME North Charleston, S.C. 29415 Trustees for Bondovlove Baptist MASTER IN EQUITY 2005. Phone 803-454-3540 PROPERTY CONVEYED TO MARK (843) 577-5460 Church dated April 8, 1998 and Fax 803-454-3541 NOTICE OF SALE ANTHONY CAIN BY DEED OF Attorneys for Plaintiff recorded April 10, 1998 in Deed 2017-CP-43-01006 CURRENT ADDRESS ESTATE OF ELLA HATTIE Book 702 at page 1015 in the Records MASTER IN EQUITY OF PROPERTY IS: LANKOW DATED JULY 14, 2011 MASTER IN EQUITY of the Register of Deeds Office for NOTICE OF SALE BY VIRTUE of a decree heretofore One Yeadon St. AND RECORDED JULY 18, 2011 IN NOTICE OF SALE Sumter County, and confirmed by 2017-CP-43-00204 granted in the case of: Wilmington BOOK 1157 AT PAGE 1363 IN THE 2017-CP-43-00909 that corrective deed of Bill Poulos Sumter, SC 29150 Savings Fund Society, FSB, d/b/a RECORDS FOR SUMTER COUNTY, and Bobby Beatson, Sr., as TMS# 249-01-03-012 BY VIRTUE of a decree heretofore Christiana Trust, not individually SOUTH CAROLINA. BY VIRTUE of a decree heretofore remaining Trustees of Bondovlove but as trustee for Hilldale Trust vs. granted in the case of: Branch SUBJECT TO ASSESSMENTS, granted in the case of: JPMorgan Baptist Church, and Roby Kelly, as Elsie Winebarger; Teresa A. Steele; Banking and Trust Company vs. SUMTER AD VALOREM TAXES, CURRENT ADDRESS Chase Bank, National Association vs. Chairman of the Deacons, and D.J. et.al., I, the undersigned Richard L. Jarius Ashley Ballard a/k/a Jarius A. EASEMENTS AND/OR, Tammy C. Lindsey; et al., I, the Benbow, John Woodham, and Bobby Booth, Master in Equity for Sumter Ballard, I, the undersigned Richard OF PROPERTY: RESTRICTIONS OF RECORD, AND undersigned Richard L. Booth, Beatson, Jr., as Trustees of County, will sell on Monday, L. Booth, Master in Equity for 3645 Queen Chapel Rd, OTHER SENIOR ENCUMBRANCES. Master in Equity for Sumter County, Crosspoint Baptist Church, to Marvin December 4, 2017 at 12:00 PM, at the Sumter County, will sell on Monday, Dalzell, SC 29040 will sell on Monday, December 4, Hodge, Sr., Paster; Booker T. Carter, County Judicial Center, 215 Harvin December 4, 2017 at 12:00 PM, at the TERMS OF SALE: For cash. Interest 2017 at 12:00 PM, at the County Chairman of the Financial Street, Sumter, SC 29150, to the County Judicial Center, 215 Harvin at the rate of 4.0% to be paid on TMS: 199-00-02-085 Judicial Center, 215 Harvin Street, Committee; Willie Pringle, Trustee; highest bidder: Street, Sumter, SC 29150, to the Sumter, SC 29150, to the highest and Crystal M. Rufus-Robinson, balance of bid from date of sale to highest bidder: date of compliance. The purchaser TERMS OF SALE: The successful bidder: Financial Secretary, of Greater All that certain piece, parcel or lot of to pay for preparation of deed and bidder, other than the Plaintiff, will Mount Pisgah Missionary Baptist land, with the dwelling and All that certain piece, parcel or lot of stamps, and that the successful deposit with the Master In Equity, at All that certain piece, parcel or lot of Church, dated January 25, 2007 and improvements thereon, situate, lying land, together with improvements bidder or bidders, other than the conclusion of the bidding, five land with the improvements thereon, recorded February 1, 2007 in Deed and being in the Concord Township, thereon, situate, lying and being in Plaintiff therein, do, upon the percent (5%) of his bid, in cash or situate, lying and being in the City Book 1063 at page 1011 aforesaid County of Sumter, State of South the County of Sumter, State of South acceptance of his or her bid, deposit equivalent, as evidence of good faith, and County of Sumter, State of South records. Carolina, designated as Lot No. 12 of Carolina, being shown and with the Master in Equity for Sumter same to be applied to the purchase Carolina, being more particularly McMurry Mill Subdivision, as shown designated as Lot Sixty-Four (64) on County a certified check or cash in price in case of compliance, but to shown and delineated as Lot 34-A, TMS No. 229-10-02-019 on a plat by Ferrell J. Prosser, dated a Plat of Ashbrook Subdivision the amount equal to five per cent be forfeited and applied first to costs "Tudor Place" Subdivision, Phase IV, September 10, 1970, recorded in Plat Phase 1, Section 1 by Louis White (5%) of the amount of bid on said and then to the Plaintiff's debt in the as shown on that certain plat of Book Z-29 at page 44, records of Tisdale of Black River Land CURRENT ADDRESS permises at the sale as evidence of case of non-compliance. Should the Joseph R. Edwards, RLS, dated Sumter County. Said Lot No. 12 Surveying Company dated March 27, OF PROPERTY IS: good faith in bidding, and subject to last and highest bidder fail to comply October 23, 1995, and recorded in the being bounded and measuring as 2007, last revised June 12, 2007, and 609 Miller Road any resale of said premises under with the other terms of the bid RMC Office for Sumter County in follows: on the North by Lot No. 11, recorded in the Office of the Sumter, SC 29150 Order of this Court; and in the event within thirty (30) days, then the Plat Book PB95, Page 1133. The said said plat; On the East by S.C. Register of Deeds for Sumter County the said purchaser or purchasers fail Master In Equity may re-sell the lot has such boundaries, metes, Highway S-43-58, said plat, and in Plat Book 2007 at Page 281. Said SUBJECT TO ASSESSMENTS, to comply with the terms of sale property on the same terms and courses, and distances as are shown fronting thereon 130 feet; on the lot is more specifically shown and SUMTER COUNTY TAXES, within thirty (30) days, the Master in conditions on some subsequent Sales on said plat which are incorporated South by Lands of J.H. Scaffe, said delineated on a plat prepared for EXISTING EASEMENTS, Equity shall forthwith re-sell the Day (at the risk of the said highest herein in accordance with the plat; and on the West by lands of E. Jarius A. Ballard and Tiffany EASEMENTS AND RESTRICTIONS said property, after the due notice bidder). No personal or deficiency provision of Section 30-5-250 of the W. Odom, said plat, and measuring Bethune by C.T.H. Surveyors, Inc. OF RECORD, AND OTHER SENIOR and advertisement, and shall judgment being demanded, the Code of Laws of South Carolina. This thereon 85 feet. Be all dimensions a dated February 12, 2010. ENCUMBRANCES, IF ANY. continue to sell the same each bidding shall not remain open after property is more generally known as little more or a little less and subsequent Sales Day until a the date of sale and shall be final on 855 Grimble Court. according to said plat. This being the Please note that the above TERMS OF SALE: The successful purchaser, who shall comply with that date, and compliance with the property known as Route 5 Box 270. description has been modified to bid may be made immediately. This being the same property bidder, other than the Plaintiff, will the terms of sale, shall be obtained, correct a minor, immaterial clerical deposit with the Master in Equity, at such sales to be made at the risk of Purchaser to pay for documentary conveyed to Tammy C. Lindsey by This being the same property error in the legal regarding the plat the conclusion of the bidding, Five the former purchaser. Personal or stamps on the Deed. The successful deed of Ashlyn Margaret Smith n/k/a conveyed to Elsie Winebarger and reference. per cent (5%) of the bid in cash or deficiency judgment having been bidder will be required to pay Ashlyn S. Sanders, dated December Teresa A. Steele, as tenants in equivalent, as evidence of good faith, waived, teh bidding will not remain interest on the amount of the 9, 2005 and recorded January 26, common with an indestructible right This being the same property same to be applied to the purchase open for a period of thirty (30) days balance of the bid from date of sale 2006 in Book 1013 at Page 1832 in the of survivorship, by deed of Michael conveyed to Jarius A. Ballard by price in case of compliance, but to pursuant to S.C. Code Ann. Section to date of compliance with the bid at Office of the Register of Deeds for D. Mixon, dated October 11, 1983 and deed of Shumaker Homes, Inc., be forfeited and applied first to costs 15-39-720., but compliance with the the rate of 4.375% per annum. The Sumter County. recorded October 12, 1983 in Book dated February 25, 2010 and and then to Plaintiff's debt in the bid may be made immediately. sale shall be subject to taxes and 348 at Page 786; thereafter, Teresa A. recorded February 25, 2010 in Book case of non-compliance. Should the assessments, existing easements and TMS No. 2040501093 Steele conveyed her interest in the 1136 at Page 192 in the Office of the last and highest bidder fail or refuse If the Plaintiff or the Plaintiff's restrictions, easements and subject property to Elsie Winebarger Register of Deeds for Sumter to make the required deposit at time representative does not appear at restrictions of record and any other by deed dated November 22, 1999 County. Property address: of bid or comply with the other terms the above-described sale, then the senior encumbrances. and recorded December 2, 1999 in 855 Grimble Court, of the bid within thirty (30) days, sale of the property will be null, Book 759 at Page 407 in the Office of TMS No. 1820602004 Sumter, SC 29150 then the Master in Equity may resell void, and of no force and effect. In In the event an agent of Plaintiff the Register of Deeds for Sumter the property on the same terms and such event, the sale will be does not appear at the time of sale, County. TERMS OF SALE: The successful conditions on some subsequent Sales re-schduled for the next available Property address: the within property shall be bidder, other than the Plaintiff, will Day (at the risk of the said highest sales day. Plaintiff may waive any of 3250 Matthews Drive, withdrawn from sale and sold at the deposit with the Master in Equity, at bidder.) TMS No. 2870002078 its rights, including its right to a Sumter, SC 29154 next available sales date upon the conclusion of the bidding, five deficiency judgment, prior to sale. terms and conditions as set forth in percent (5%) of said bid is due and No personal or deficiency judgment Property address: Sold subject to taxes and TERMS OF SALE: The successful the Judgment of Foreclosure and payable immediately upon closing of being demanded, the bidding will 1180 Plowden Mill Road, assessments, existing easements and bidder, other than the Plaintiff, will Sale or such terms as may be set the bidding, in cash or equivalent, as not remain open after the date of Sumter, SC 29153 restrictions of record. deposit with the Master in Equity, at forth in a supplemental order. evidence of good faith, same to be sale, but compliance with the bid conclusion of the bidding, five applied to purchase price in case of may be made immediately.] TERMS OF SALE: The successful NOTICE: The foreclosure deed is percent (5%) of said bid is due and The Honorable Richard L. Booth compliance, but to be forfeited and bidder, other than the Plaintiff, will not a warranty deed. Interested payable immediately upon closing of Master In Equity applied first to costs and then to Purchaser to pay for preparation of deposit with the Master in Equity, at bidders should satisfy themselves as the bidding, in cash or equivalent, as for Sumter County Plaintiff's debt in the case of the Master in Equity's deed, conclusion of the bidding, five to the quality of title to be conveyed evidence of good faith, same to be non-compliance. In the event of a documentary stamps on the deed, percent (5%) of said bid is due and by obtaining an independent title applied to purchase price in case of Brock & Scott, PLLC third party bidder and that any third recording of the deed, and interest payable immediately upon closing of search prior to the sales date. compliance, but to be forfeited and 3800 Fernandina Road, Suite 110 party bidder fails to deliver the on the amount of the bid from date of the bidding, in cash or equivalent, as applied first to costs and then to Columbia, SC 29210 required deposit in certified sale to date of compliance with the evidence of good faith, same to be RICHARD L. BOOTH Plaintiff's debt in the case of Attorneys for Plaintiff (immediately collectible) funds with bid at the rate of Initial rate of 6.97% applied to purchase price in case of Master in Equity for non-compliance. In the event of a Phone 803-454-3540 the Office of the Master in Equity, per annum. compliance, but to be forfeited and Sumter County third party bidder and that any third Fax 803-454-3541 said deposit being due and payable applied first to costs and then to party bidder fails to deliver the immediately upon closing of the Richard L. Booth Plaintiff's debt in the case of Keneth Hamilton required deposit in certified NOTICE OF SALE 2017-CP-43-00748 bidding on the day of sale, the As Master in Equity non-compliance. In the event of a Attorney for Plaintiff (immediately collectible) funds with BY VIRTUE of a decree heretofore Master in Equity will re-sell the for Sumter County third party bidder and that any third 1203 Peach Orchard Road the Office of the Master in Equity, granted in the case of: Carrington subject property at the most party bidder fails to deliver the Post Office box 1774 said deposit being due and payable Mortgage Services, LLC against convenient time thereafter Plaintiff's Attorney: required deposit in certified Sumter, S.C. 29151-1774 immediately upon closing of the Charlene Valentine, I, the (including the day of sale) upon J. Kershaw Spong (immediately collectible) funds with Telephone: (803) 494-3353 bidding on the day of sale, the undersigned Master in Equity for notification to counsel for Plaintiff. [SC Bar # 5289] the Office of the Master in Equity, Telecopier: (8030 494-3388 Master in Equity will re-sell the Sumter County, will sell on Should the last and highest bidder SOWELL GRAY ROBINSON STEPP said deposit being due and payable subject property at the most December 4, 2017, at 12:00 p.m. at fail or refuse to comply with the & LAFFITTE, LLC immediately upon closing of the NOTICE OF SALE convenient time thereafter the Sumter County Courthouse in balance due of the bid within 20 P.O. Box 11449 bidding on the day of sale, the CIVIL ACTION NO. (including the day of sale) upon Sumter, South Carolina, to the days, then the Master in Equity may Columbia, SC 29211 Master in Equity will re-sell the 2015-CP-43-00705 notification to counsel for Plaintiff. highest bidder, the following re-sell the property on the same (803) 929-1400 subject property at the most Should the last and highest bidder described property, to-wit: All that fail or refuse to comply with the terms and conditions on some Email: [email protected] convenient time thereafter BY VIRTUE of the decree lot of land with improvements balance due of the bid within 20 subsequent Sales Day (at the risk of (including the day of sale) upon heretofore granted in the case of: thereon situate in the County of days, then the Master in Equity may the said highest bidder). NOTICE OF SALE notification to counsel for Plaintiff. Caliber Home Loans, Inc. vs. Africa Sumter, State of South Carolina, re-sell the property on the same CIVIL ACTION NO. Should the last and highest bidder Josey, the undersigned Master In represented as Lot No. 52A, terms and conditions on some Personal or deficiency judgment 2017-CP-43-00615 fail or refuse to comply with the Equity for Sumter County, South containing 1.48 acres on a plat of subsequent Sales Day (at the risk of being demanded, the bidding will balance due of the bid within 20 Carolina, will sell on December 4, Edmunds Land Surveying, Inc. dated the said highest bidder). remain open for a period of thirty BY VIRTUE of the decree days, then the Master in Equity may 2017 at 12:00PM, at the Sumter March 10, 1998, and recorded in the (30) days after the sale date. The heretofore granted in the case of: re-sell the property on the same County Courthouse, City of Sumter, Office of the Register of Deeds for No personal or deficiency judgment Plaintiff may waive its right to a U.S. BANK NATIONAL terms and conditions on some State of South Carolina, to the Sumter County in Plat Book PB98, at being demanded, the bidding will deficiency judgment prior to sale, in ASSOCIATION vs. Jane E. subsequent Sales Day (at the risk of highest bidder: Page 996. This said lot has such not remain open after the date of which case the bidding will not Hutchison, the undersigned Master the said highest bidder). metes, boundaries, courses and sale, but compliance with the bid remain open after the date of sale, In Equity for Sumter County, South ALL THAT CERTAIN PIECE, distances as are shown on said plat, may be made immediately. but compliance with the bid may be Carolina, will sell on December 4, No personal or deficiency judgment PARCEL, OR LOT OF LAND, which are incorporated herein in made immediately. 2017 at 12:00PM, at the Sumter being demanded, the bidding will TOGETHER WITH THE DWELLING accordance with the provisions of Purchaser to pay for documentary County Courthouse, City of Sumter, not remain open after the date of AND IMPROVEMENTS THEREON, Section 30-5-250 of the Code of Laws stamps on Master in Equity's Deed. Purchaser to pay for documentary State of South Carolina, to the sale, but compliance with the bid LYING AND BEING SITUATE IN of South Carolina, 1976. Also: 1999 The successful bidder will be stamps on Master in Equity's Deed. highest bidder: may be made immediately. THE CITY AND COUNTY OF Champion Mobile Home Serial No. required to pay interest on the The successful bidder will be SUMTER, STATE OF SOUTH N02010837TNAB. This is the same balance of the bid from the date of required to pay interest on the ALL THAT CERTAIN PIECE, Purchaser to pay for documentary CAROLINA, BEING SHOWN AND property known as 1415 Hidden Oaks sale to date of compliance with the balance of the bid from the date of PARCEL OR LOT OF LAND WITH stamps on Master in Equity's Deed. DELINEATED AS LOT NO. 19, Drive, Wedgefield, SC 29168. Tax bid at the rate of 3.375% per annum. sale to date of compliance with the THE IMPROVEMENTS THEREON, The successful bidder will be BLOCK "D" OF WILSON PARK Map No. 100/00/02/024 (land) and bid at the rate of 3.500% per annum. IF ANY, SITUATE, LYING AND required to pay interest on the SUBDIVISION ON THAT PLAT 4000026336 (mobile home). Being the The Plaintiff may waive any of its BEING IN THE COUNTY OF balance of the bid from the date of PREPARED BY JOSEPH R. same property conveyed to Charlene rights, including its right to a The Plaintiff may waive any of its SUMTER, STATE OF SOUTH sale to date of compliance with the EDWARDS, RLS, DATED AUGUST Valentine and Edna Atkinson by deficiency judgment, prior to sale. rights, including its right to a CAROLINA, BEING SHOWN AND bid at the rate of 10.490% per annum. 20, 1995 AND RECORDED IN PLAT deed of Ruth Anne N. Sanford, dated deficiency judgment, prior to sale. DELINEATED AS LOT NO. 4 OF BOOK 95 AT PAGE 858 IN THE December 15, 2005 and recorded The sale shall be subject to taxes AMHERST SUBDIVISION, AS The Plaintiff may waive any of its RECORDS OF THE REGISTER OF December 20, 2005 in Deed Book and assessments, existing easements The sale shall be subject to taxes SHOWN ON THAT CERTAIN PLAT rights, including its right to a DEEDS OFFICE FOR SUMTER 1010 at Page 302 and by corrective and restrictions of record. and assessments, existing easements OF JAMES D. WILLSON, R. L. S., deficiency judgment, prior to sale. COUNTY. AFORESAID PLAT IS deed of Ruth Anne N. Sanford to and restrictions of record. DATED MARCH 11, 1996 AND SPECIFICALLY INCORPORATED Charlene Valentine and Jean ONeal This sale is subject to all title RECORDED IN THE OFFICE OF The sale shall be subject to taxes HEREIN AND REFERENCE IS Atkinson a/k/a Edna Atkinson, as matters of record and any interested This sale is subject to all title THE REGISTER OF DEEDS FOR and assessments, existing easements CRAVED THERETO FOR A MORE joint tenants with the right of party should consider performing an matters of record and any interested SUMTER COUNTY IN PLAT BOOK and restrictions of record. COMPLETE AND ACCURATE survivorship, by deed dated independent title examination of the party should consider performing an 96 AT PAGE 280, AND HAVING DESCRIPTION OF THE METES, September 25, 2008 and recorded subject property as no warranty is independent title examination of the SUCH BOUNDARIES, METES, This sale is subject to all title BOUNDS, COURSES AND September 25, 2008 in Deed Book given. subject property as no warranty is COURSES AND DISTANCES AS matters of record and any interested DISTANCES OF THE PROPERTY 1112 at Page 3244; thereafter, Jean given. ARE SHOWN ON SAID PLAT, party should consider performing an CONCERNED HEREIN. THIS Oneal Atkinson a/k/a Edna Atkinson The sale will not be held unless REFERENCE TO WHICH IS independent title examination of the DESCRIPTION IS MADE IN LIEU died on July 2, 2014, leaving either Plaintiff's attorney or The sale will not be held unless HEREBY MADE PURSUANT TO subject property as no warranty is OF METES AND BOUNDS AS Charlene Valentine as owner of the Plaintiff's bidding agent is present at either Plaintiff's attorney or AUTHORITY CONTAINED IN given. PERMITTED BY LAW UNDER subject property by right of the sale and either Plaintiff's Plaintiff's bidding agent is present at 30-50-250 OF THE CODE OF LAWS SECTION 30-5-250, CODE OF LAWS survivorship. TMS No. 100-00-02-024 attorney or Plaintiff's bidding agent the sale and either Plaintiff's OF SOUTH CAROLINA, 1976, AS The sale will not be held unless OF SOUTH CAROLINA, 1976, AS (Land) 4000026336 (Mobile Home) enters the authorized bid of Plaintiff attorney or Plaintiff's bidding agent AMENDED. THIS PROPERTY IS either Plaintiff's attorney or AMENDED. THIS PROPERTY IS Property Address: 1415 Hidden Oaks for this captioned matter. In the enters the authorized bid of Plaintiff KNOWN AS 2637 LORENTZ DRIVE, Plaintiff's bidding agent is present at KNOWN AS 41 WILSON STREET, Drive, Wedgefield, SC 29168 TERMS alternative, Plaintiff's counsel, if for this captioned matter. In the SUMTER, SC. the sale and either Plaintiff's SUMTER, SOUTH CAROLINA 29150, OF SALE: The successful bidder, permitted by the Court, may advise alternative, Plaintiff's counsel, if attorney or Plaintiff's bidding agent AND IS ALSO REPRESENTED AS other than the plaintiff, will deposit this Court directly of its authorized permitted by the Court, may advise THIS BEING THE SAME enters the authorized bid of Plaintiff TAX PARCEL NO. 248-09-04-066. with the Master in Equity at bidding instructions. In the event a this Court directly of its authorized PROPERTY CONVEYED TO JANE for this captioned matter. In the conclusion of the bidding, five per sale is inadvertently held without bidding instructions. In the event a E. HUTCHISON BY DEED OF alternative, Plaintiff's counsel, if THIS BEING THE SAME cent (5%) of said bid, in cash or Plaintiff's Counsel or Counsel's sale is inadvertently held without WILLIAM C. HOPPER DATED permitted by the Court, may advise PROPERTY CONVEYED TO equivalent, as evidence of good faith, bidding agent entering the Plaintiff's Counsel or Counsel's AUGUST 3, 2006 AND RECORDED this Court directly of its authorized AFRICA JOSEY BY DEED FROM same to be applied to purchase price authorized bid of Plaintiff for this bidding agent entering the AUGUST 4, 2006 IN VOLUME 1039 bidding instructions. In the event a WILLIAM J. LANGFORD AND in case of compliance, but to be specifically captioned matter, the authorized bid of Plaintiff for this AT PAGE 943 IN THE RECORDS sale is inadvertently held without MARLA K. LANGFORD DATED forfeited and applied first to costs sale shall be null and void and the specifically captioned matter, the FOR SUMTER COUNTY, SOUTH Plaintiff's Counsel or Counsel's SEPTEMBER 5, 2007 AND and then to plaintiff's debt in the property shall be re-advertised for sale shall be null and void and the CAROLINA. bidding agent entering the RECORDED SEPTEMBER 5, 2007, case of noncompliance. Should the sale on the next available sale date. property shall be re-advertised for authorized bid of Plaintiff for this IN BOOK 1091 AT PAGE 1433, IN successful bidder fail or refuse to sale on the next available sale date. specifically captioned matter, the THE RECORDS FOR SUMTER make the required deposit at time of CURRENT ADDRESS Neither the Plaintiff nor its counsel sale shall be null and void and the COUNTY, SOUTH CAROLINA. bid or comply with the other terms of Neither the Plaintiff nor its counsel OF PROPERTY: property shall be re-advertised for make representations as to the the bid within twenty (20) days, then 2637 Lorentz Drive, make representations as to the sale on the next available sale date. CURRENT ADDRESS integrity of the title or the fair the Master in Equity may resell the integrity of the title or the fair Sumter, SC 29154 market value of the property offered property on the same terms and market value of the property offered Neither the Plaintiff nor its counsel OF PROPERTY: for sale. Prior to bidding you may conditions (at the risk of the said for sale. Prior to bidding you may TMS: 207-09-04-029 make representations as to the 41 Wilson Street, wish to review the current state law defaulting bidder). Should the wish to review the current state law integrity of the title or the fair Sumter, SC 29150 or seek the advice of any attorney Plaintiff, or one of its or seek the advice of any attorney TERMS OF SALE: The successful market value of the property offered licensed in South Carolina. representatives, fail to be present at licensed in South Carolina. bidder, other than the Plaintiff, will for sale. Prior to bidding you may TMS: 248-09-04-066 the time of sale, the property is deposit with the Master In Equity, at wish to review the current state law Richard L. Booth automatically withdrawn from said Richard L. Booth conclusion of the bidding, five or seek the advice of any attorney TERMS OF SALE: The successful Master in Equity sale and sold at the next available Master in Equity percent (5%) of his bid, in cash or licensed in South Carolina. bidder, other than the Plaintiff, will for Sumter County sales day upon the terms and for Sumter County equivalent, as evidence of good faith, deposit with the Master In Equity, at conditions as set forth in the same to be applied to the purchase Richard L. Booth conclusion of the bidding, five Scott and Corley, P.A. Judgment of Foreclosure and Sale or Scott and Corley, P.A. price in case of compliance, but to Master in Equity percent (5%) of his bid, in cash or Attorney for Plaintiff any Supplemental Order. The Attorney for Plaintiff be forfeited and applied first to costs for Sumter County equivalent, as evidence of good faith, successful bidder will be required to and then to the Plaintiff's debt in the same to be applied to the purchase NOTICE OF SALE pay for documentary stamps on the NOTICE OF SALE case of non-compliance. Should the Scott and Corley, P.A. price in case of compliance, but to CIVIL ACTION NO. Deed and interest on the balance of Docket No. last and highest bidder fail to comply Attorney for Plaintiff be forfeited and applied first to costs 2017-CP-43-01424 the bid from the date of sale to the 2017-CP-43-01254 with the other terms of the bid and then to the Plaintiff's debt in the date of compliance with the bid at within thirty (30) days, then the NOTICE OF SALE case of non-compliance. Should the BY VIRTUE of the decree the rate of 4.6250%. THIS SALE IS By virtue of a decree heretofore Master In Equity may re-sell the 2017-CP-43-1299 last and highest bidder fail to comply heretofore granted in the case of: SUBJECT TO ASSESSMENTS, granted in the case of NWE13, LLC property on the same terms and with the other terms of the bid LakeView Loan Servicing, LLC vs. COUNTY TAXES, EXISTING against Greater Mount Pisgah conditions on some subsequent Sales By virtue of a Decree of the Court of within thirty (30) days, then the Mark Anthony Cain a/k/a Mark A. EASEMENTS, EASEMENTS AND Missionary Baptist Church by and Day (at the risk of the said highest Common Please for Sumter County, Master In Equity may re-sell the Cain, the undersigned Master In RESTRICTIONS OF RECORD, AND through its Trustees and Martin bidder). No personal or deficiency heretofore granted in the case of The property on the same terms and Equity for Sumter County, South OTHER SENIOR ENCUMBRANCES. Hodge, Sr., Pastor and Trustee, I, the judgment being demanded, the City of Sumter Housing & Economic conditions on some subsequent Sales Carolina, will sell on December 4, No personal or deficiency judgment undersigned Master in Equity for bidding shall not remain open after Development Corporation - vs - Day (at the risk of the said highest 2017 at 12:00PM, at the Sumter being demanded, the bidding will Sumter County, will sell on Monday, the date of sale and shall be final on Tiffany D. Pierson, et al.. bidder). No personal or deficiency County Courthouse, City of Sumter, not remain open after the date of December 4, 2017, at 12:00 P.M., at that date, and compliance with the 2017-CP-43-1299. judgment being demanded, the State of South Carolina, to the sale, but compliance with the bid the Sumter County Judicial Center, bid may be made immediately. bidding shall not remain open after highest bidder: may be made immediately. NOTICE: 215 N. Harvin Street, Sumter, South Purchaser to pay for documentary I, the undersigned Master in Equity the date of sale and shall be final on The foreclosure deed is not a Carolina, to the highest bidder: stamps on the Deed. The successful for Sumter County, will sell on that date, and compliance with the ALL THAT CERTAIN PIECE, warranty deed. Interested bidders bidder will be required to pay December 4, 2017, at 12:00 Noon bid may be made immediately. PARCEL OR LOT OF LAND WITH should satisfy themselves as to the All that certain piece, parcel, or lot interest on the amount of the before the Sumter County Judicial Purchaser to pay for documentary THE IMPROVEMENTS THEREON, quality of title to be conveyed by of land, together with the buildings balance of the bid from date of sale Center, 215 North Harvin St., stamps on the Deed. The successful IF ANY, SITUATE LYING AND obtaining an independent title and improvements thereon, lying to date of compliance with the bid at Sumter, South Carolina, to the bidder will be required to pay BEING IN THE CITY AND COUNTY search well before the foreclosure and being situate in the City and the rate of 6.875% per annum. The highest bidder, the interest on the amount of the OF SUMTER, STATE OF SOUTH sale date. The Honorable Richard L. County of Sumter, State of South sale shall be subject to taxes and following-described property, to wit: balance of the bid from date of sale CAROLINA, BEING MORE Booth Master in Equity Sumter Carolina, containing 1.87 acres, more assessments, existing easements and to date of compliance with the bid at PARTICULARLY SHOWN AND County Riley Pope & Laney, LLC or less, and being shown and restrictions, easements and All that certain piece, parcel, or lot the rate of 7.25% per annum. The DELINEATED AS 2.04 ACRES Post Office Box 11412 Columbia, SC delineated on that plat prepared by restrictions of record and any other of land, together with the sale shall be subject to taxes and MORE OR LESS, AS SHOWN ON 29211 (803) 799-9993 Attorneys for Joseph R. Edwards, PLS, dated senior encumbrances. improvements thereon, if any, assessments, existing easements and THAT CERTAIN PLAT OF ROBERT Plaintiff March 25, 1998 and recorded in Plat situate, lying and being in the City restrictions, easements and G. MATHIS, RLS DATED OCTOBER Book 98 at page 389 in the records of In the event an agent of Plaintiff and County of Sumter, State of South restrictions of record and any other 2, 2002 AND RECORDED IN THE the Register of Deeds Office for does not appear at the time of sale, Carolina, being shown and senior encumbrances. OFFICE OF THE REGISTER OF Sumter County. Aforesaid plat is the within property shall be designated as Lot #3, Block C, as DEEDS FOR SUMTER COUNTY IN specifically incorporated herein and withdrawn from sale and sold at the shown on that certain plat by In the event an agent of Plaintiff PLAT BOOK PB2002, AT PAGE 617. reference is craved thereto for a next available sales date upon the Edwards Land Surveyors, Inc., dated does not appear at the time of sale, THIS SAID LOT HAS SUCH METES, more complete and accurate terms and conditions as set forth in June 3, 2005 at page 323, and having the within property shall be BOUNDARIES, COURSES AND description of the metes, bounds, the Judgment of Foreclosure and such metes and bounds as are shown withdrawn from sale and sold at the DISTANCES AS ARE SHOWN ON courses and distances of the Sale or such terms as may be set on said plat, this description being next available sales date upon the SAID PLAT, WHICH ARE B8 THE ITEM CLASSIFIEDS FRIDAY, DECEMBER 1, 2017 Here's My Card

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430 Doyle Rice sea level will have great consequences USA TODAY on the coastal archaeological record,” feet said study lead author David Anderson Jamestown? Swamped. Cape Ca- of the University of Tennessee. Height a University naveral? Underwater. Charleston, Eventually, the memorials of Wash- of Minnesota S.C.? Gone. ington, D.C., could be at risk. Alka-Rocket achieved while Iconic locations from American his- “The loss of archaeological sites will being propelled tory could be underwater by the end of equate to a drowning of libraries full of by 100 effervescent the century because of sea-level rise information about over 15,000 years of tablets and from global warming, according to a human lives, including patterns of so- 30 ounces study published Wednesday. cial and cultural change, artwork, de- of water. The study predicts that archaeolog- mography, health, religion and (a bitter ical and historic sites, cemeteries and irony) lessons about past human expe- NOTE About 125 feet higher than the Statue of landscapes on the Atlantic and Gulf riences with climate change,” said study Liberty; recognized by Guinness World Records as highest launch of an effervescent tablet rocket Coasts of the southeastern USA will be co-author Joshua Wells of Indiana Uni- The fort at the Jamestown Settlement, SOURCE Bayer-Big Ten Alka-Rocket Challenge lost to the sea by 2100 if projected sea- versity at South Bend. the living history museum in Virginia, at Space Center Houston level rise trends continue. The study was published in PLOS remains above water for now. MIKE SMITH, PAUL TRAP/USA TODAY “It is clear that small increases in One, a peer-reviewed journal. MANNIE GARCIA/AFP/GETTY IMAGES C2 | FRIDAY, DECEMBER 1, 2017 · THE SUMTER ITEM

where he is now CEO. on her desk every day in the late 1980s. Harassment Senior executives at firms including The harassers never faced any conse- Contagious Starwood Hotels, American Apparel quences for their behavior, she said. CONTINUEDContinued FROMfrom Page C1 1B and Baker & McKenzie have all weath- Harassment and gender bias claims ContinuedCONTINUED fromFROM Page C1 1B ered sexual harassment allegations and were common in high finance. NBA star Isiah Thomas was found by a moved on to other high-powered posi- For example, Smith Barney paid out dreau, chief medical officer of Beverly jury to have aided and abetted a hostile tions. $150 million to resolve disputes with and Addison Gilbert Hospitals in Mas- work environment after being accused In January, Fox News re-upped host women who were allegedly mistreated sachusetts and one of the first to study of sexual harassment. Thomas is presi- Bill O’Reilly to a $25 million-a-year con- in the 1990s, several years before the spread of infectious disease on air- dent of the New York Liberty WNBA tract, according to The New York Times, Krawcheck joined the company. crafts. team, which also is owned by Madison though 21st Century Fox said later that it One Smith Barney employee was When airlines serving the USA car- Square Garden, and a commentator for was aware of harassment allegations accused of constructing a party room ried a record 932 million passengers, NBA TV. against him. O’Reilly had settled multi- in the basement of a New Jersey and the global total reached almost 3.7 In 2010, hard-charging Hewlett- ple cases, including one for $32 million. branch office that he dubbed the billion, the GAO’s report found numer- Packard CEO Mark Hurd was forced to Twenty-First Century Fox said O’Reilly, “Boom Boom Room,” where male em- ous examples of poor coordination on resign after HP’s board investigated his who was forced out in April, had as- ployees would joke about harassing communicable diseases. interactions with a female contractor sured the company he had “settled the women who complained about mis- Centers for Disease Control and and found inconsistencies in his ex- matter personally.” treatment. Prevention officials complained that pense reports. The investigation arose O’Reilly denied allegations of sexual The fact that many women have the information on sick passengers after that contractor claimed she was misconduct and said he settled to pro- had their reputations smeared while they receive from airlines and the con- sexually harassed. One month after his tect his children. Hurd denied harass- men accused of harassment continued trol tower is often incomplete or inac- resignation, Hurd landed a job at Oracle, ment charges and noted HP never found in their careers “just shows where curate. any evidence of it. Thomas repeatedly women are in the power hierarchy,” Cleaning crews said cabin staff denied the harassment allegations said Anne Vladeck, an attorney who sometimes fail to inform them when a made against him. represented Anucha Browne Sanders, plane has been contaminated by the New York Knicks executive who blood, vomit, feces, saliva and other Corrections & Clarifications What’s different accused Thomas of sexual harass- potentially infectious bodily fluids. USA TODAY is committed to ment. “And that’s why you see repeat Airline workers complained about accuracy. To reach us, contact Standards Editor “For decades, women found that this offenders.” the cleaners; one said, “Cabin cleaners Brent Jones at (harassing) behavior often was the price sometimes use the same towels to 800-872-7073 or e-mail [email protected]. of coming to work. 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Lawyers: Trump’s Muslim retweets test Ex-Trump aide ‘special relationship’ with U.K. Paul Manafort strikes bail deal Gregory Korte President USA TODAY Trump Brad Heath and USA TODAY WASHINGTON – British Prime Min- British ister Theresa May admonished her U.S. Prime Lawyers for President Trump’s for- counterpart Thursday for promoting Minister mer campaign chairman Paul Mana- anti-Muslim videos on Twitter from a Theresa fort said Thursday that they reached far-right political group she called “a May an agreement with prosecutors to free hateful organization.” speak at him from house arrest until his trial on Speaking from Jordan during a trip to the NATO federal money laundering and con- the Middle East, May said the United summit spiracy charges. Kingdom has worked with the United in In exchange, Manafort would States to combat terrorists “from what- Brussels promise to give up $11.65 million worth ever source they come.” on May of real estate – including homes in the “The fact that we work together does 25. POOL Hamptons and Palm Beach, Gardens not mean that we’re afraid to say when PHOTO BY Fla. – if he violates the conditions of we think the United States have got it MATT his release, his lawyers wrong, and to be very clear with them,” DUNHAM wrote in a court filing on May said. “And I’m very clear that re- Thursday afternoon. tweeting from Britain First was the The agreement, which wrong thing to do.” still needs a judge’s ap- May’s comments were her most ex- proval, would also allow tensive since President Trump retweet- Manafort to shed a GPS ed a series of unverified videos depict- what the issues were,” she said. tracking device. Paul ing what appeared to be violence car- “I think what he’s done is elevate “This amount is a Manafort ried out by Muslims. “The fact that we work to- the conversation to talk about a real is- substantial portion of Trump tweeted at May directly sue and a real threat, which is extreme the Defendant’s assets accumulated Wednesday night: “Don’t focus on me, gether does not mean that violence and terrorism,” Sanders said. over a lifetime of work,” wrote lawyers focus on the destructive Radical Islamic we’re afraid to say when we After the videos spread, the Nether- Kevin Downing and Thomas Zehnle. Terrorism that is taking place within the lands Embassy in Washington protest- Manafort and one of his associates, United Kingdom. We are doing just think the United States have ed that one of the videos is misleading: Rick Gates, have been largely confined fine!” got it wrong.” “Facts do matter. The perpetrator of to their homes since Oct. 30, when The episode is the latest incident to the violent act in this video was born special counsel Robert Mueller un- test the close working relationship be- Theresa May and raised in the Netherlands. He re- sealed indictments charging them tween the United States and the United British Prime Minister ceived and completed his sentence with money laundering and conspira- Kingdom that has bound presidents and America and Americans see this as a be- under Dutch law.” cy. The case was the second prosecu- prime ministers of different political trayal of the special relationship be- Muslim groups condemned the tion to come from Mueller’s investiga- parties for decades. tween our two countries. ... It’s increas- videos as hate speech and said they tion of Russian interference in the 2016 The Cold War-era concept of a “spe- ingly clear that any official visit from could lead to more violence against presidential election. cial relationship” — a term coined by President Trump to Britain would not be Muslim Americans who are targeted U.S. District Judge Amy Jackson Prime Minister Winston Churchill in welcomed,” he said on Twitter. for hate crimes. still must approve the request. Jack- 1946 — was built around nuclear weap- The videos originated with Jayda The conservative British prime son has said she was concerned that ons, special operations forces and in- Fransen, the deputy leader of Britain minister again denounced Britain First both men posed a flight risk because telligence, said Tim Oliver, who studies First, who posted them with the cap- on Thursday. their extensive overseas connections. trans-Atlantic relations at the London tions “VIDEO: Islamist mob pushes “It seeks to spread division and In the days after they were charged, School of Economics. teenage boy off roof and beats him to mistrust among our communities. It lawyers for both Manafort and Gates “That core has long been protected death!”; “VIDEO: Muslim Destroys a stands in fundamental opposition to expressed confidence that they would from fallings-out between presidents Statue of Virgin Mary!”; “VIDEO: Mus- the values we share as a nation: values quickly be freed on bail. But they end- and prime ministers,” he said. “Trump, lim migrant beats up Dutch boy on of respect, tolerance and — dare I say ed up sparring with prosecutors for however, is pushing it to its limits.” crutches!” — just common British decency,” May nearly a month over precisely how London Mayor Sadiq Khan, a Muslim White House spokeswoman Sarah said. “British Muslims are peaceful. much money they would have to put who has clashed with Trump, called on Sanders said she didn’t think the presi- They’re law-abiding people who them- up to secure their release pending trial, May to cancel her invitation for Trump dent knew who Fransen was when he selves have been victims of acts of ter- as well as where the money would to visit the U.K. “Many Brits who love promoted her videos. “But he knew ror by the far right.” come from. THE SUMTER ITEM · FRIDAY, DECEMBER 1, 2017 | C3

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Icon is back with old friends in 50th anniversary special

Bill Keveney USA TODAY

A good comedy bit is timeless, as The Carol Burnett Show has proven for a half-century. The legendary performer offers a sampling of the iconic musical-comedy variety hour’s greatest hits Sunday with The Carol Burnett 50th Anniversary Special (CBS, 8 ET/PT), a two-hour show taped in early October. “When we were showing the clips, which are some 45, 50 years old, the studio audience was in hysterics,” Burnett, 84, tells USA TODAY. “It holds up. Funny is funny.” That audience was dotted with celebrities, as was the stage, where Burnett was joined by co-stars Vicki Lawrence and Lyle Waggoner and performers who grew up as fans, including Amy Poehler, Kristin Chenoweth, Maya Rudolph and Bill Hader. (The comforting reminis- cence bumped into today’s news as Kev- in Spacey, who performed in a musical segment, was edited out after accusations of sexual misconduct arose weeks later.) Carol Burnett, center, is joined in the special by, from left, Bill Hader, Maya Rudolph, Amy Poehler and Tracee Ellis Ross. Longtime fans of the Emmy-winning Burnett, which ran from 1967 to 1978, will enjoy rewatching the classics — in- man and to costume designer Bob “They said it was a man’s game — Sid cluding movie send-ups of Gone With Mackie, who appears in the special. He Caesar, Dean Martin, Milton Berle — be- the Wind and The Postman Always came up with 65 outfits each week for cause it hadn’t been done. But that Rings Twice; “The Family,” with Law- everyone from Burnett to the show’s doesn’t mean it couldn’t be done,” the rence as Mama; and the farcical pairing dancers. “We did the math,” she mar- trailblazing performer says. of Mrs. Wiggins (Burnett) and Mr. Tud- vels. “He designed a little over 17,000 Burnett, who travels for fan Q&As ball (Tim Conway, who couldn’t make costumes in 11 years.” and has an upcoming Netflix unscripted the taping) — but Burnett was pleased The shows elaborate costuming, comedy series, A Little Help With Carol with how well those clips played with dancers and extensive musical perfor- Burnett, got a kick out of singing her sig- first-time viewers. mances are one reason why Burnett nature theme with Harry Connick Jr., “When we were rehearsing and thinks it has been so hard for more re- who was born the day of the show’s pre- showing clips, there were these young cent prime-time variety shows to repli- miere: Sept. 11, 1967. cameramen who were screaming with cate her success. “I said, ‘Will you join me?’ And he laughter, because they hadn’t seen “You couldn’t do what we did today, said, ‘I’ve been waiting 50 years to do some of this stuff. I got the biggest kick because of the costs,” she says. this,’ ” she says. “How often does that out of that,” says Burnett, whose show The idea of a woman fronting a mu- happen?” still draws viewers on DVDs, MeTV and “The Carol Burnett Show” cast fea- sical-comedy variety show was unusual Probably about as often as we get a YouTube. tured Burnett, front center, and, left at the time, and Burnett only got the Carol Burnett Show, a program fans still The anniversary celebration also in- to right, Tim Conway, Vicki Lawrence chance because of an unusual clause in enjoy spending time with nearly 40 cludes tributes to the late Harvey Kor- and Harvey Korman. PHOTOS BY CBS her contract. years after it officially said “so long.”

JIM NABORS, 1930-2017 MUSIC REVIEW

Miguel is Singer, ‘Gomer Pyle’ back with fourth album star dies in Hawaii at 87 “War & Leisure,” out Friday. Bill Keveney “Shazam!”— became familiar to mil- FRED USA TODAY lions. DUFOUR/ The University of Alabama gradu- AFP/GETTY Goodbye, Gomer. ate moved to Los Angeles as a young IMAGES Jim Nabors, who created one of TV’s man, taking a job as a film cutter at beloved comedic characters, Gomer NBC. In his spare time, he acted and Pyle, died Thursday in Hawaii at the age sang at a Santa Monica cabaret thea- of 87, his personal assistant, Charisse ter, The Horn. Andy Griffith saw him Gines, confirmed for USA TODAY. there and later offered him the chance The entertainer, who underwent a to audition for the role of Pyle, the in- liver transplant in 1994 after contracting nocent gas station attendant on The hepatitis B, died peacefully at his home Andy Griffith Show. The character’s Miguel mixes politics, after his health had declined for the past popularity led to the later spinoff. year, his husband, Stan Cadwallader, After Pyle ended, Nabors hosted his told The Associated Press. own variety show, The Jim Nabors pleasure on ‘War & Leisure’ “Everybody knows he was a wonder- Hour, which ran for two seasons. He ful man. And that’s all we can say about also was a guest on other variety Patrick Ryan he lets loose on the knowingly goofy Sky him. He’s going to be dearly missed,” hours, including The Carol Burnett USA TODAY Walker, throwing out references to Star said Cadwallader, who married Nabors Show and The Sonny and Cher Show. Wars and Top Gun, and coyly reminding in early 2013 in Washington state. On the big screen, Nabors had roles On his fourth and latest album, Mi- potential bedmates that he smiles “like a The Alabama native had a long career in three films starring his friend, Burt guel comes into his own. saint with a sinner’s mind.” that featured TV and movie roles, more Reynolds: The Best Little Whorehouse Ever since his commercial breakout While these encapsulate the “leisure” than two dozen albums and numerous in Texas, Stroker Ace and Cannonball with second effort Ka- part of the album’s title, “war” also concert appearances, including long- Run II. He received a star on The Holly- leidoscope Dream, the bleeds into the music, with political running shows in Las Vegas and Hawaii, wood Walk of Fame in 1991. silky-voiced 32-year- commentary sprinkled throughout its 12 which became his home in the 1970s. He On the music side, Nabors launched old crooner has drawn tracks. The disarmingly breezy Banana bought a 500-acre macadamia ranch a successful career with his distinctive comparisons to Mar- Clip offsets its amorous lyrics with ref- there. baritone. The public got a taste of it vin Gaye, Babyface erences to “missiles in the sky” and “ter- Nabors was best known for his role as when he sang on Andy Griffith. Over and Prince — artists ror on my mind,” giving the song a tinge the sweet, gentle Marine in the title role the years, he released 28 albums and he repeatedly has ex- of gloom in light of recent news. Stop- of Gomer Pyle, U.S.M.C., a CBS comedy had five gold and one platinum record. pressed admiration for while also try- ping in for Come Through and Chill, that was a top-five hit during its five- He also lent his voice to the Indian- ing to carve out his own sound, dis- guest rapper J. Cole applauds Colin Kae- season run in the 1960s. Gomer’s dust- apolis 500, making his rendition of tinct from his R&B forefathers. pernick’s national anthem protest while ups with his hard-nosed superior, Sgt. Back Home Again in Indiana a staple “Being a reminder of Prince is a denouncing police brutality and politi- Carter (Frank Sutton), were the heart of of the annual race since 1972. He sang huge compliment,” he recently told the cal ignorance. (“Trump saying slick (ex- the show, and the character’s trademark the song for the last time at the Indy U.K.’s The Sun. “It’s a bit of both being pletive) / manipulating poor white folks exclamations — “Well, Golllll-ly!” and 500 in 2014. flattered, but like, ‘Hey, there’s more.’ ’cuz they ignunt.”) Hopefully that’s enough to get you to Miguel closes out War & Leisure with Jim listen more and go, ‘OK, I see where the most overtly political track, woozy Nabors he’s different.’ ” guitar ballad Now. He explained to Bill- released War & Leisure (eeeE), out Friday, board that it’s his imagined conversa- 28 goes a long way in staking Miguel’s tion with President Trump about hurri- albums claim as a singular artist, delivering cane victims, Dreamers and immigrants and was a more of the soulful, sultry jams that — groups he’s passionate about, having staple at made Adorn and How Many Drinks? protested with immigrants rights advo- the Indi- early hits, while also wading further cates just last month. “CEO of the free anapolis into the Jimi Hendrix-inspired psyche- world now / build your walls up high 500. MIKE delia that pervaded 2015’s Wildheart. and wide,” he sings, imploring the presi- FENDER/ Album opener Criminal is an intoxi- dent to not teach children hatred but to USA TODAY cating wash of slippery funk guitars and instead sort through their differences. NETWORK punchy drums, while stoner anthems It’s equal parts stirring and uplifting, Told You So and Harem coat thick bass showing an artist who is unafraid to use lines with fuzzy electronics. Lyrically, his voice as he continues to evolve. C4 | FRIDAY, DECEMBER 1, 2017 TELEVISION THE SUMTER ITEM

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(N) Ancient Aliens Law & Order “Sects” Detectives uncover a Law & Order “Tombstone” Detectives Law & Order “Publish and Perish” A porn Law & Order “Sport of Kings” A jockey Law & Order “In God We Trust” A fire Law & Order “Loco- ION 13 18 perverted cult. investigate a bludgeoning. actress is killed. is shot. yields evidence in an old case. motion” Bring It! “Battle Royale: Up in Flames!” Bring It! “Fan Chat: Crossing the Line” Bring It! “Rumble in the Jungle” A Doll- (:02) The Rap Game “Gettin’ Fresh” The (:17) The Rap Bring It! (N) (12:01) Bring It! LIFE 50 145 Dianna concocts an ambitious dance. Chrystianna stirs up trouble. (N) house heavy-hitter gets injured. (N) children rap with Doug E. Fresh. Game (N) MSNBC 36 92 Hardball With Chris Matthews (N) All In With Chris Hayes (N) The Rachel Maddow Show (N) The Last Word The 11th Hour With Brian Williams (N) Rachel Maddow NICK 16 210 The Loud House SpongeBob “Hey Arnold! The Jungle Movie” (2017) Voices of Mason Vale Cotton. Fresh Prince Fresh Prince Friends Friends Friends SPIKE 64 153 Cops Cops Cops Cops Bellator MMA Live (N) (Live) (:15) Cops Cops Cops (6:30) ››› “Dawn of the Dead” (2004, Horror) Sarah Polley, Ving Rhames, Jake Z Nation “Frenemies” Doc reunites with Superstition “Dr. Dredge M.D.” The Z Nation “Frenemies” Doc reunites with ›› “Evolution” SYFY 58 152 Weber. Milwaukee residents fight zombies in a mall. Sketchy and Skeezy. (N) Dredge inhabits the body of Dr. Kim. (N) Sketchy and Skeezy. (2001) Seinfeld “The Visa” Seinfeld “The The Big Bang The Big Bang The Big Bang The Big Bang ELEAGUE The ELEAGUE Cup: Kick Off. ›› “Project X” (2012, Comedy) Thomas Mann. Three teens TBS 24 156 Movie” Theory Theory Theory Theory (N) (Part 1 of 3) throw a party that spins wildly out of control. (5:45) ›› “Dream MGM Parade Lake ›› “Period of Adjustment” (1962, Comedy-Drama) Tony Franciosa, Jane Fonda. As ›› “All Mine to Give” (1957, Drama) Glynis Johns, Cameron Mitchell. An 1850s ››› “Bush Christ- TCM 49 186 Wife” Metro; film clips. two newlyweds face failure, another couple face in-laws. (DVS) immigrant seeks homes for his orphaned siblings. (DVS) mas” (1947) TLC 43 157 Say Yes, Dress Say Yes, Dress Unexpected “A Family Affair” Unexpected “Mother’s Nightmare” Unexpected Lexus finally gives birth. Unexpected “A Family Affair” Unexpected Bones “The Blackout in the Blizzard” ››› “Ant-Man” (2015, Action) Paul Rudd, Michael Douglas, Evangeline Lilly. Ant-Man uses his shrinking (:31) ›› “Percy Jackson & the Olympians: The Lightning Thief” (2010, Children’s) TNT 23 158 Solving a murder during a blackout. skills to battle Yellowjacket. (DVS) Logan Lerman. A youth learns that his father is the Greek god Poseidon. TRUTV 38 129 Impractical Jokers Impractical Jokers Impractical Jokers Impractical Jokers Impractical Jokers Impractical Jokers (:13) Impractical Jokers Impractical Jokers Impractical Jokers Impractical Jokers TV LAND 55 161 M*A*S*H M*A*S*H Love-Raymond Love-Raymond Love-Raymond Love-Raymond Mom Mom King of Queens King of Queens King of Queens Modern Family Modern Family “The Modern Family Phil Modern Family “The Modern Family Modern Family Modern Family Modern Family Modern Family Modern Family Modern Family USA 25 132 (DVS) Closet Case” cares for his eggs. Verdict” Luke is arrested. (DVS) (DVS) “Playdates” (DVS) “Promposal” “Crazy Train” WE 68 166 Marriage Boot Camp: Reality Stars Marriage Boot Camp: Reality Stars (N) Marriage Boot Camp: Reality Stars (N) Marriage Boot Camp: Reality Stars Marriage Boot Camp: Reality Stars Marriage- Stars WGNA 8 172 M*A*S*H M*A*S*H M*A*S*H M*A*S*H “Pilot” M*A*S*H M*A*S*H M*A*S*H M*A*S*H M*A*S*H M*A*S*H Rules/Engagement ‘Marvel’s Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D.” begins 5th season

BY KEVIN MCDONOUGH opener of “Body Bizarre” (9 Coulson and his team find p.m., Discovery Life). themselves lost in space on a • Baez suffers an accidental mysterious ship as “Marvel’s overdose on “Blue Bloods” (10 Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D.” (8 p.m., p.m., CBS, TV-14). ABC, TV-14) enters its fifth • A sordid tale of a Wyo- season with a two-part story. ming mother’s disappearance “S.H.I.E.L.D.” arrives after opens the second season of the departure of “Marvel’s In- “Married With Secrets” (10 humans,” one of the worst-re- p.m., ID, TV-14). viewed and least-watched se- • HBO premieres the six- ries of the season. It’s no ex- episode stand-up showcase aggeration to state that fans “All Def Comedy” (10 p.m., of Marvel series have a HBO, TV-MA), produced by wealth of choices. Even a glut. Russell Simmons. Tony Rock Since the debut of hosts. “S.H.I.E.L.D.” back in 2013, ABC has seen the arrival and departure of “Marvel’s Agent LATE NIGHT Carter” and the crash landing Carol Burnett and Lewis of “Inhumans.” Netflix has Black are on “The Late Show six (count ‘em!) series with With Stephen Colbert” (11:35 the term “Marvel’s” in the p.m., CBS) * Jimmy Fallon title: “Daredevil,” “Jessica welcomes Queen Latifah, Jones,” “Luke Cage,” “Iron Freddie Highmore and Sam Fist,” “The Defenders” and JENNIFER CLASEN / ABC Smith on “The Tonight Show” “The Punisher.” Hulu just Chloe Bennet, left, stars as Daisy Johnson and Clark Gregg as Phil Coulson in the “Orientation (Part One)” (11:35 p.m., NBC) * Mark launched “Marvel’s Run- fifth season premiere episode of “Marvel’s Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D.” airing at 8 p.m. today on ABC. Hamill, Andy Serkis, John aways,” and Freeform, ABC’s Boyega, Oscar Isaac, Laura cable cousin, is working on Presents a Disney Channel Holi- the subsequent unraveling of Forrest Tucker, Christopher Dern, Adam Driver, Daisy “Marvel’s Cloak & Dagger,” day Celebration” (8:30 p.m.), four families. George and Ben Johnson star Ridley, Gwen Christie, Kelly slated for 2018. Fox’s fresh- featuring performances by • Netflix also begins stream- in the 1970 Western “Chisum” Marie Tran, Domhnall Glee- man series “The Gifted” Dove Cameron, Sofia Carson, ing the 2017 documentary (8 p.m., Outdoor). son and Rian Johnson appear doesn’t have the M-word in its Asher Angel, Milo Manheim “Voyeur” (TV-MA), based on a on “Jimmy Kimmel Live” (11:35 title, but it’s based on Mar- and Meg Donnelly and a tour disturbing 2016 New Yorker p.m., ABC) * Amy Sedaris, vel’s “X-Men” franchise. of Toy Story Land at Disney’s article by Gay Talese. The ar- TONIGHT’S OTHER Greta Gerwig and Jessie • Freeform begins its 25-day Hollywood Studios. Would ticle and the film follow Ta- HIGHLIGHTS Reyez visit “Late Night With countdown to Christmas with you believe it’s on the Disney lese’s account of a motel • Jane fights a demon from Seth Meyers” (12:35 a.m., NBC, “National Lampoon’s Christmas Channel? owner who used peepholes her past on “Blindspot” (8 r) * Kristen Bell, Dianna Vacation” (7:05 p.m.) and “Elf” • On the Hallmark Channel, and other contrivances to spy p.m., NBC, TV-14). Agron and Gary Clark Jr. on (9:15 p.m.), holiday favorites where Christmas lasts three on his guests for decades. • The battle moves west on “The Late Late Show With James from 1989 and 2003. months a year, there are re- “The Exorcist” (9 p.m., Fox, Corden” (12:35 a.m., CBS, r). • The CW puts “Jane the heated offerings of the 2017 TV-14). Virgin” and “Crazy Ex-Girl- romance “The Mistletoe Inn” (8 CULT CHOICE • Shedding skin sparks con- Copyright 2017 friend” on the shelf to offer p.m.) and “The Most Wonderful John Wayne, Geoffrey Deuel, cerns on the fifth season United Feature Syndicate the 2000 special “Grandma Got Time of the Year” (10 p.m.) from Run Over by a Reindeer” (8 p.m., 2008. TV-G) and “Masters of Illusion: • Netflix begins streaming Christmas Magic” (9 p.m., TV- the German-language super- PG). GOT PAIN?natural mystery “Dark” (TV- • Raven-Symone and Issac MA), a tale about the disap- Ryan Brown host “Disney Parks pearance of two children and 2017-18 Southern Lakes Th erapy DEDICATED TO THE MEMORY OF TOMMY MIMS 297 W. Boyce St., Manning, SC (803) 433-9001 SOUTHERN LAKES THERAPY PROVIDES QUALITY PATIENT CARE BE INFORMED THE CHOICE IS YOURS! New Patients seen within 24-48 hours (excluding weekends) Most Insurance companies accepted Physical Th erapy services include, but not limited to: • Joint replacements • Sports injuries • Pediatrics • Orthopaedic surgeries • Back, neck and joint pain Please Mail To: The Sumter Item/Fireside Fund Or Drop Off At The Item • Neurological disorders PO Box 1677 • Sumter, SC 29150 36 W. Liberty Street THE SUMTER ITEM TELEVISION FRIDAY, DECEMBER 1, 2017 | C5

SP FT 7 PM 7:30 8 PM 8:30 9 PM 9:30 10 PM 10:30 11 PM 11:30 12 AM LOCAL CHANNELS Paid Program Paid Paid Program Paid Will & Grace Karen Superstore “Health Dateline NBC Saturday Night Live (N) WIS News 10 at (:29) Saturday Night Live “Saoirse WIS * 3 10 programming. programming. must deal with a Fund” Employees try 11 (N) Ronan; U2” Host Saoirse Ronan; U2 personal tragedy. to help Mateo. performs. (N) (Live) College Football: News 19 at 7:30pm Kevin Can Wait Man With a Plan NCIS: New Orleans “Course Correction” 48 Hours News 19 at 11pm Blue Bloods “Whistleblowers” Frank deals WLTX 3 9 9 SEC Championship (N) Kendra tricks Kevin A blizzard hits on NCIS and FBI investigate a plane crash. (N) with a whistleblower. (DVS) into taking a job. Christmas. (DVS) Wheel of Fortune Jeopardy! (:07) College Football ACC Championship -- Miami vs Clemson. The 10-1 Hurricanes play in their ﬁrst-ever ACC Championship game against the 11-1 Gamecock Satur- (12:05) American WOLO 9 5 12 “Paciﬁc Northwest” Tigers. Miami holds a 6-4 all-time edge over Clemson, including a 1952 Gator Bowl win. However, the last meeting between the schools was a 58-0 day Night Ninja Warrior (Part Clemson win in 2015. (N) (Live) 2 of 2) Rock, Rhythm and Doo Wop: Little Father Brown “The Paradise of Thieves” The Doctor Blake Mysteries “For Whom Miss Fisher Uncovered: A behind-the- Live From the Artists Den “John Legend” Grammy Award WRJA ; 11 14 Richard and others perform. A dead man is found inside a bank vault. the Bell Tolls” Murder investigation. scenes look at the series. winner John Legend.

FOX College Football Pregame (N) College Football Big Ten Championship -- Ohio State vs Wisconsin. The Buckeyes and Badgers play for the Big Ten Championship. Ohio State has WACH FOX News Panthers Huddle WACH Y 6 6 (Live) won five straight games against Wisconsin. The Buckeyes look for their 38th conference title, and first since 2014. The Badgers aim for their 15th title, at 10 (N) With Ron Rivera and first since 2012. (N) (Live) Last Man Standing Last Man Standing Rookie Blue “Poison Pill” Marlo reveals a Saving Hope “Bea, Again” A discovery Leverage “The Experimental Job” The Impractical Jokers Impractical Jokers Impractical Jokers WKTC Ø 4 22 “Good Cop, Bad “Home Security” shocking secret. about Charlie’s coma. team infiltrates secret societies. The guys endure a The friends face off The guys teach a Cop” shakedown. as optometrists. dance class. CABLE CHANNELS (5:00) Live PD “Live PD -- 11.24.17” (:06) Live PD: Rewind “Live PD: Rewind Live PD “Live PD -- 12.02.17” Riding along with law enforcement. (N) (Live) Live PD “Live PD A&E 46 130 Riding along with law enforcement. No. 65” (N) -- 12.02.17” (5:30) ›› “The Karate Kid Part II” (1986, ›› “Hocus Pocus” (1993, Comedy) Bette Midler, Sarah Jessica Parker. Premiere. ›› “Hocus Pocus” (1993, Comedy) Bette Midler, Sarah Jessica Parker, Kathy ›› “The Karate Kid AMC 48 180 Children’s) Ralph Macchio. Youths conjure up three child-hungry witches on Halloween. Najimy. Youths conjure up three child-hungry witches on Halloween. Part II” ANPL 41 100 Dr. Jeff: Rocky Mountain Vet Dr. Jeff: Extra Dose (N) Dr. Jeff: Rocky Mountain Vet (N) (:01) Cat vs. Dog “Vampire Cats!” (N) (:02) Dr. Jeff: Rocky Mountain Vet (12:03) Cat vs. Dog (5:30) › “Big Momma’s House 2” (2006) › “A Madea Christmas” (2013, Comedy) Tyler Perry, Kathy Najimy, Chad Michael Murray. Madea dishes ›› “Madea’s Witness Protection” (2012, Comedy) Tyler Perry, Eugene Levy, Doris BET 61 162 Martin Lawrence, Nia Long. out her own brand of Christmas spirit. Roberts. Madea uses tough love on a Wall Street banker and his family. Don’t Be Tardy ... Married to Medicine Simon plans a The Real Housewives of Atlanta Shereé The Real Housewives of Atlanta NeNe ››› “The Town” (2010, Crime Drama) Ben Affleck, Rebecca Hall, Jon Hamm. A BRAVO 47 181 getaway to New Orleans. plans to create a disco palace. plans a soiree. woman doesn’t realize that her new beau is a bank robber. CNBC 35 84 Undercover Boss “United Van Lines” Undercover Boss Undercover Boss Undercover Boss “Utah Jazz” Undercover Boss “Twin Peaks” Undercover Boss CNN 3 80 CNN Newsroom With Ana Cabrera (N) CNN Newsroom With Ana Cabrera (N) United Shades of America United Shades of America United Shades of America United Shades (6:10) ››› “Meet the Parents” (2000, Comedy) Robert De Niro, Ben Stiller, Blythe (8:55) ›› “Meet the Fockers” (2004, Comedy) Robert De Niro, Ben Stiller, Dustin Hoffman. Future in-laws ››› “Dodgeball: A True Underdog COM 57 136 Danner. A man spends a disastrous weekend with his lover’s family. clash in Florida. Story” (2004) Vince Vaughn. Stuck in the Middle Bizaardvark “Good Luck Charlie, It’s Christmas!” (2011) Bridgit Mendler. Andi Mack Andi Mack Andi (:35) K.C. Under- Walk the Prank “A MECH-X4 “Versus K.C. Undercover DISN 18 200 Members of a family get separated during the holidays. takes a stand. cover Star Is Not Born” the Mountain” DSC 42 103 Homestead Rescue Homestead Rescue “Attack of the Cows, Bears and Bees” A beekeeper with hives attracting bears. (N) Homestead Rescue Homestead Res ESPN 26 35 College Basketball (:45) College Football Mountain West Championship -- Fresno State at Boise State. (N) (Live) (:45) SportsCenter With Scott Van Pelt (N) (Live) SportsCenter (N) ESPN2 27 39 College Basketball College Football Troy at Arkansas State. (N) (Live) Kickboxing Glory 48. (Taped) FOOD 40 109 The Pioneer Woman (N) Cajun Aces Cajun Aces (N) Holiday Baking Championship Holiday Baking Championship Holiday Baking Championship Holiday Baking FOXN 37 90 Fox Report (N) Watters’ World (N) Justice With Judge Jeanine (N) The Greg Gutfeld Show (N) Watters’ World Justice Judge ››› “Elf” (2003, Children’s) Will Ferrell, James Caan, Bob Newhart. A man leaves (:10) ›› “Dr. Seuss’ How the Grinch Stole Christmas” (2000, Children’s) Jim Carrey, Jeffrey Tambor, Christine Baranski. A (11:50) “The Polar FREE 20 131 Santa’s workshop to search for his family. curmudgeon hates the Christmas-loving Whos of Whoville. Express” (2004) FSS 21 47 Women’s College Basketball NBA Basketball Atlanta Hawks at Brooklyn Nets. Hawks Postgame 3 Wide Life Raceline SportsMoney Boxing (6:00) “Switched for Christmas” (2017, “Christmas in Evergreen” (2017, Romance) Ashley Williams, Teddy Sears. Premiere. “The Sweetest Christmas” (2017, Romance) Lacey Chabert, Lea Coco, Jonathan “A Royal Christ- HALL 52 183 Drama) Candace Cameron Bure. A veterinarian wishes upon a snow globe for romance. Adams. A chef makes it to finals of a national baking contest. mas” (2014) HGTV 39 112 Property Brothers Property Brothers at Home: Drew’s Property Brothers at Home: Drew’s House Hunters Renovation (N) House Hunters Hunters Int’l Property Brothers HIST 45 110 Ancient Aliens “The Alien Architects” Ancient Aliens “The Prototypes” Ancient Aliens (:03) Ancient Aliens (:03) Ancient Aliens Ancient Aliens Law & Order: Special Victims Unit Law & Order: Special Victims Unit Law & Order: Special Victims Unit Law & Order: Special Victims Unit “Cha- Law & Order: Special Victims Unit A Law & Order: Spe- ION 13 18 “Ghost” South American drug dealers. “Rage” Murder of a teenage girl. “Pure” Missing teenager. risma” The detectives probe a cult. mother reports statutory rape. cial Victims Unit (6:00) “A Very Merry Toy Store” (2017) “Four Christmases and a Wedding” (2017, Romance) Arielle Kebbel, Markie Post. (:15) “The Flight Before Christmas” (2015) Mayim Bialik, Ryan McPartlin. Two “Four Christmases LIFE 50 145 Melissa Joan Hart, Mario Lopez. Premiere. Something magical may finally bring a couple together. strangers share a room at a bed-and-breakfast on Christmas Eve. and a Wedding” MSNBC 36 92 The Rachel Maddow Show The Last Word The 11th Hour With Brian Williams Lockup: Charleston- Extended Stay Lockup: Charleston- Extended Stay Lockup: Cincinnati NICK 16 210 Henry Danger Henry Danger “Tiny Christmas” (2017) Jonathan A. Rosenbaum. Full House Full House Full House Friends Friends Friends SPIKE 64 153 (6:00) ›› “Jurassic Park III” ››› “Jurassic Park” (1993) Sam Neill. Cloned dinosaurs run amok at an island-jungle theme park. ›› “The Lost World: Jurassic Park” (1997) (6:00) ›› “Faster” (2010) Dwayne John- ›› “Shooter” (2007, Suspense) Mark Wahlberg, Michael Peña, Danny Glover. A wounded sniper plots revenge against those ›› “Blade” (1998) Wesley Snipes, Stephen Dorff. A vampire SYFY 58 152 son, Billy Bob Thornton. who betrayed him. (DVS) hunter does battle with a vicious bloodsucker. Seinfeld “The Seinfeld “The The Big Bang The Big Bang The Big Bang The Big Bang The Big Bang The Big Bang Full Frontal With Search Party Search Party TBS 24 156 Mango” Glasses” Theory Theory Theory Theory Theory Theory Samantha Bee “Paralysis” “Suspicion” (6:00) ››› “The Children’s Hour” ›››› “Bride of Frankenstein” (1935) Boris Karloff. Baron ›› “One More River” (1934, Drama) Diana Wynyard. Detec- (:15) ››› “Mad Love” (1935) Peter Lorre. An executed killer’s TCM 49 186 (1961, Drama) Audrey Hepburn. Frankenstein creates a mate for the monster. tives follow an estranged wife and her new beau. hands are transplanted onto a pianist. TLC 43 157 Cake Boss Cake Boss (N) (:02) Cake Boss (:32) Cake Boss (:02) Cake Boss (:32) Cake Boss (:02) Cake Boss (12:02) Cake Boss (5:15) ››› “Avengers: Age of Ultron” ››› “Ant-Man” (2015, Action) Paul Rudd, Michael Douglas, Evangeline Lilly. Ant-Man uses his shrinking ›› “Percy Jackson: Sea of Monsters” (2013, Children’s) Logan Lerman, Brandon T. TNT 23 158 (2015, Action) Robert Downey Jr. skills to battle Yellowjacket. (DVS) Jackson. Percy and friends go in search of the Golden Fleece. (DVS) TRUTV 38 129 Impractical Jokers Impractical Jokers Hack My Life Hack My Life Hack My Life Carbonaro Eff. Carbonaro Eff. Carbonaro Eff. Carbonaro Eff. Carbonaro Eff. TV LAND 55 161 The Golden Girls The Golden Girls Love-Raymond Love-Raymond Love-Raymond Love-Raymond Mom “Pilot” Mom King of Queens King of Queens King of Queens (6:00) ›› “Sweet Home Alabama” (2002, Romance-Comedy) ›› “Couples Retreat” (2009, Comedy) Vince Vaughn, Jason Bateman, Jon Favreau. Four couples must › “Big Daddy” (1999, Comedy) Adam Sandler. A goofy ne’er- USA 25 132 Reese Witherspoon, Josh Lucas. (DVS) participate in therapy sessions at a tropical resort. do-well adopts an impressionable youngster. WE 68 166 Law & Order “Sanctuary” Law & Order “Nurture” Law & Order “Doubles” Law & Order “Old Friends” Law & Order “Second Opinion” Law & Order WGNA 8 172 Blue Bloods “Personal Business” Blue Bloods “Genetics” (DVS) Blue Bloods “The One That Got Away” Blue Bloods “In & Out” (DVS) Person of Interest “Mors Praematura” Person of Interest ‘Nice Lady’ brings on nervous laughter from audience

BY KEVIN MCDONOUGH pears to have thrown in the Bunch” in one room while • Nainoa Thompson dis- Can a stand-up special be towel and now wants to out- the folks took in NBC’s “Mc- cusses the Polynesian tradi- both timeless and timely? Hallmark Hallmark. Millan & Wife” or CBS’s tion of ocean navigating Taped in August, “Michelle • CBS spends Sunday night “Cannon” in the living room. using the stars as a map on Wolf: Nice Lady” (9 p.m. Satur- in the wayback machine, cel- “The Carol Burnett Show” “StarTalk With Neil deGrasse day, HBO, TV-MA) does not ebrating two shows that de- was also one of the last com- Tyson” (11:30 p.m., National reflect the ongoing crises in buted in 1968 and 1967, re- edy series written by and for Geographic, TV-PG). pop culture and comedy in spectively. people old enough to remem- the wake of sordid revela- “Fifty Years of 60 Minutes” (7 ber a world before television. SATURDAY SERIES tions about figures from Har- p.m.) glances back at five de- The show’s most celebrated vey Weinstein to Louis C.K. cades of stories, from Mike gag involves “Gone With the A familiar face on “Kevin At the same time, Wolf’s Wallace’s patented gotcha in- Wind,” a movie from 1939. Can Wait” (8 p.m., CBS, r, TV- sneaky feminist asides al- terviews and corporate scan- Not long after, comedy series PG) * Karen grieves on “Will most seem ready-made for dals to more heartwarming like “Saturday Night Live” & Grace” (8 p.m., NBC, r, TV- our particular moment. The celebrations of culture high and “SCTV” offered jokes for 14) * Snowbound on “Man comedy writer and on-air and low, child geniuses and an audience raised on televi- With a Plan” (8:30 p.m., CBS, r, veteran of “The Daily Show musical prodigies. sion. TV-PG) * Mateo needs help With Trevor Noah” and • “The Carol Burnett 50th An- Like millions of people, my on “Superstore” (8:30 p.m., “Late Night With Seth Mey- niversary Special” (8 p.m.) of- wife remembers “The Carol NBC, r, TV-14) * Lost in a ers” prefaces most of her fers two hours of clips and Burnett Show” as something CRAIG BLANKENHORN / HBO bog on “NCIS: New Orleans” (9 jokes with declarations that reminiscences from Burnett, she watched every week with Taped in August, comedian and p.m., CBS, r, TV-14) * “Date- there is much in the news to original cast members Vicki her mother. The ability to writer Michelle Wolf’s debut line” (9 p.m., NBC) * “48 discuss. But for a brief bit Lawrence and Lyle Waggon- get family members of dif- stand-up special “Michelle Wolf: Hours” (10 p.m., CBS) * A vin- about Hillary Clinton that er, costume designer Bob ferent generations to laugh Nice Lady,” airs at 9 p.m. Satur- tage helping of “Saturday gives this special its title, her Mackie, along with celebri- at the same joke is harder day on HBO. Night Live” (10 p.m., NBC, jokes and observations large- ties who grew up watching than it sounds. No wonder so TV-14). ly concern timeless differ- the show. many people look back at it CULT CHOICE ences between men and Jim Carrey, Kristin Che- with warm feelings. women. She believes Clinton noweth, Stephen Colbert, Dorothy Dandridge and SUNDAY SERIES lost because she was not a Harry Connick Jr., Bill Harry Belafonte star in the A teenaged Lisa glances “nice lady,” and that she Hader, Jay Leno, Jane SATURDAY’S HIGHLIGHTS 1954 adaptation of the back on “The Simpsons” (8 would not be fun to talk to at Lynch, Bernadette Peters, • College football action in- Broadway musical “Carmen p.m., Fox, TV-PG) * Mis- a party. And she’s fine with Maya Rudolph, Martin Short cludes the ACC Championship Jones” (10 p.m. Sunday, placed lollipops on “America’s that because nice ladies and others will be on hand to game between Miami and TCM), based on Bizet’s Funniest Home Videos” (8 p.m., don’t get things done. Only salute the sketch series. Clemson (8 p.m., ABC) and opera. ABC, TV-PG) * Undercover she doesn’t use the word Curiously, this group of the Big 10 Championship at a haunted hayride on “things.” fans once included disgraced Game between Ohio State and “Ghosted” (8:30 p.m., Fox, TV- SUNDAY’S HIGHLIGHTS Her other asides include a actor Kevin Spacey, who has Wisconsin (8 p.m., Fox). PG) * Meg drinks too much long digression on the differ- since been excised from the • A dancer vanishes before • The Seattle Seahawks on “Family Guy” (9 p.m., Fox, ences between men’s and special, just as he has been a big performance on “Your host the Philadelphia Eagles TV-14) * On two episodes of women’s bathrooms and the digitally edited out of the up- Worst Nightmare” (10 p.m., ID, in “Sunday Night Football” “Shark Tank” (ABC, TV-PG), curious fact that men seem coming Ridley Scott movie TV-14). (8:20 p.m., NBC). holiday-inspired inventions to want to “protect” women “All the Money in the • Mel Gibson, Will Ferrell, • Arrival in Jamaica on (9 p.m.), an airport naviga- using the ladies’ room, yet World.” Mark Wahlberg, John Lith- “Outlander” (8 p.m., Starz, tion app (10 p.m., r) * Jasper have no general idea of what Much of the advance CBS gow, Shirley Ballas and TV-MA). acts out on “The Last Man on women do while they’re in- promotion for the Burnett Kesha appear on “The Graham • Negan needs help on “The Earth” (9:30 p.m., Fox, TV-14) disposed. special touts it as a ground- Norton Show” (10 p.m., BBC Walking Dead” (9 p.m., AMC, * Sam takes on an old alias Wolf has a rather screechy breaking series. I beg to dif- America, TV-14). TV-MA). on “NCIS: Los Angeles” (10 voice, and she makes the fer. “Rowan & Martin’s • Saoirse Ronan hosts “Sat- • Larry plays host to two p.m., CBS, r, TV-14). most of that aspect of her Laugh-In” is soon to turn 50 urday Night Live” (11:30 p.m., ingrates on the season finale personality. Her approach to and was a groundbreaking NBC, TV-14), featuring musi- of “Curb Your Enthusiasm” (10 Copyright 2017 deadpan is also a tad un- show. But I’m not sure peo- cal guest U2. p.m., HBO, TV-MA). United Feature Syndicate steady. She sports a brilliant ple remember it with great smile and frequently seems affection. People love and re- on the verge of laughing at member “The Carol Burnett her own material. Show” not because it was the Free Speaking Programs Rare for a comedy special first of its kind, but perhaps of this sort, the studio audi- because it was one of the last Glenn Givens is an Attorney and Experienced Speaker who is off ering free speaking programs to local social, ence for “Nice Lady” rarely of its breed. historical, civic, military, religious, school and business organizations with 15 or more meeting attendees. Is your convulses in belly laughs, It was one of the last vari- organization looking for an upcoming speaker? hoots or applause. The reac- ety series that families tion seems as tentative as watched together. Five de- Glenn is off ering speaking programs for Sumter, Clarendon and Lee Counties on the following topics: Wolf’s delivery. cades ago, television sets 1. Wills and Dying without a Will; • Romance ensues after were major appliances and 2. Trusts and Distribution Planning and Avoiding Probate; and professional obligations keep most houses had only one. 3. 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can remember growing thing special this holiday sea- up as a child and the anxi- son? The Bible speaks of two ety that continued to build who were longing to receive a throughout the holiday particular blessing from the season.I The closer it got to Lord. One was a man Christmas, the more excited I named Simeon; the other became, until by Christmas was a woman named Eve, I could hardly stand it. Anna. Both of them were ea- Part of me want- gerly waiting and looking for ed to go to bed something special. that night, while Luke 2:25 says that Simeon the rest of me “… was waiting for the consola- ing for grace and forgiveness. wanted to pull an tion of Israel.” Things had not Therefore, when Anna saw all-nighter. been going very well for Israel. Jesus, she gave thanks to God. David Finally, when They had lost their political in- At last, the One who would save you’re looking for in the Lord. Yes, Christ came to comfort Day Christmas morn- dependence and were living in His people from their sins had and console you, regardless of ing arrived, I fear of the Roman government, arrived. How many of you can jumped out of bed and rushed wondering if the Messiah how you’re feeling or whatever identify with Anna? to the den to see if all my wait- would ever come. But Simeon your situation in life may be. Perhaps you are troubled ing and anticipating had paid had hope and for good reason. So, beloved, if you need God’s right now. Or maybe you’re off. Some years it did, and at He had been assured that he grace and forgiveness, then feeling lonely, empty or afraid. other times I was sorely disap- would not die until he had seen look no further, because Jesus It’s possible you are plagued pointed. (Oh to be a child again the Lord’s Anointed One. No can give you such a gift and and be able to relive those days, doubt this had to be comfort- with guilt because of some- make yours the best Christmas at least the ones when “Santa” ing! Can any of you identify thing you’ve done or the way ever. showed up with the right toys.) with Simeon? you’ve been living or feeling Wishing you and yours a Without a doubt, Christmas is Luke 2:36-38 says that Anna like you’re trapped in a pat- Merry Christmas. a time for waiting and antici- “… was looking forward to the tern of sin that you can’t pating. So, what are you waiting redemption of Jerusalem.” Like break out of. If so, then take David W. Day is the pastor at for and anticipating this Christ- Simeon, Anna was also waiting heart and wait no longer be- Aldersgate United Methodist mas? Are you expecting some- and anticipating. She was look- cause you can find what Church in Sumter. Jesus fits absolutely perfectly in today’s world

ike most of us, there’s by celebrities and politicians cause it’s exactly the kind of school history taught us the dance by One who under- a part of me that has have made prime-time news setting into which He chose Roman Empire was filled stands oppression and pain lost a little faith in hu- almost unsuitable to watch to enter. Paul’s letter to the with rampant immorality. and heartache. He fit perfect- manity over the past with your family. It’s no lon- Galatians has this powerful And the Jews who opposed ly in first-century Israel be- coupleL years. I know that’s ger even statement: “But when the Rome weren’t exactly Puri- cause He brought light and not the best way to start a shocking. fullness of time came, God tans! Terrorism? We’ve seen truth and compassion, and “faith” piece, especially over Terrorism sent forth His Son, born of a a lot, but not even close to the the Way of Jesus literally the Christmas season. But has tragical- woman…” Fullness of time? spectacle of Rome crucifying changed our world. He fits hold on — we’ll get to that. ly become a That means at just the right hundreds of criminals very perfectly here and now as In the real world, we as normal oc- time. It was perfect. publicly along the streets to well, and quite honestly I people have taken some sig- currence. We Here’s just a tick of histori- attempt to shut down any need to change, too. I can’t nificant steps backward in no longer cal setting for you. First-cen- threat of insurrection. And point a finger at a world I live our simple capacity to just do gasp when tury Israel looked a whole lot the trust in government — in without recognizing my life properly. I won’t belabor Mike we hear. like we look now. The Zealots the Jews hated the govern- heart without God in it this, but here are a few exam- Yoder Trust in gov- were a group of Jews who so ment they were under and doesn’t look all that different. ples. We’ve somehow lost ernment, violently opposed Roman anyone who sided with Rome. There is no darkness in the much of our ability to dis- and those who run it, is at the thought and rule that they Trust wasn’t even on the world or in my heart that the agree with people without lowest it has been in my life- tossed “civil discourse” out radar. light of Christ cannot bright- calling them names or trying time. the window. They wouldn’t And that is the context en. He’s perfect! For us! Right to humiliate them and their Depressed yet? Feeling that even come to the table to talk. Jesus chose to enter! It was now! point of view. “Civil dis- Christmas spirit? Well here’s Sexual harassment? It was so just like here — only worse course” has become painfully some profound news — Jesus commonplace and accepted (for now). But it was perfect! Mike Yoder is the lead pastor uncivil. The recent instances would fit absolutely perfectly that it wouldn’t even be Because hope, joy, peace and of Christ Community Church of sexual harassment cases here. How do I know? Be- called “harassment.” Middle- love were offered in abun- in Sumter.

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uck it up, but- years ago. I’ve got two young before I knew it, I was crawling in front of such a large group, I Christian. I will fail, and there tercup,” is children, a husband, a house- out of the tub to the applause overcame that fear because it will be bad days, but with the hold to maintain, a full-time job of church members. was something I was being love of Jesus in my life, I can’t what I told my- and an internal battle with de- And I was grinning from ear called to do. And in the process, be defeated. self as I ap- pression that I can’t seem to get to ear. Without thinking, I I’ve learned that prayer is pow- a grip on. What do I do? I bow hugged my pastor, even though erful. Jessica Stephens works as an “Sproached my pastor, Drew my head and talk to God. And there was not a dry spot on me. So now, at the age of 35, I’m a editor and designer for The Choate, on a recent Sunday that was the best decision I Somehow, I don’t think he baptized woman who can hope- Sumter Item. She is a wife, could have made. minded too much. fully show the world around mother of two boys and proud afternoon at an event at I got back in church. I got my As nervous as I was to stand me what it’s like to live as a USC Gamecock. Harmony Church. kids in church. Sometimes, I get my husband in church. And I wanted to be baptized, and this time around, I really listen. the time was now. It had Now I pray for the Lord to crossed my guide me in the way He wants, mind a few not the way I want. Now I 3 Christmas Programs times in the thank the Lord for all I have in- past, but I stead of just coming to him guess this with my problems. And now, I time, the Lord don’t worry as much because I was trying to put that energy into a conver- tell me some- sation with God. It’s a con- thing. After a scious decision, but it’s in my Jessica brief conver- conscience to make that deci- Stephens sation with sion because I have a relation- Pastor Drew ship with the Lord, and I’m so congratulat- much better for it. ing me on my decision to pub- But now I wanted to make it licly declare my faith, I felt a official, so to say. wave of relief and joy sweep So I sat in the tub of water in over me. front of the congregation and I’ve been a believer since I talked about how I wanted to can remember. As a child, I set an example for my family spent Sunday mornings in and prove to them that my rela- church, usually with my head tionship with Christ is the most on my Granny’s shoulder, drift- important thing in my life. Be- ing in and out of sleep. During cause of that, I can be a loving my teenage years, I didn’t go to and supportive wife, a fair church as much, but my faith mother and a good daughter. I never left me. When it was time wanted my church family to to walk down the aisle, I want- know that I will be in Heaven ed Pastor Drew to officiate, so when my time comes because I he counseled me and my soon- know Jesus died for me on the to-be husband, and then we cross and the blood he shed has took the big jump. washed my sin away. Fast forward to about two Then I was under water, and Sumter Bible Church 420 South Pike West Sumter, SC 29150 Ron Davis, Pastor (803) 773-8339

SUNDAY SERVICES: 10:00 Sunday School for all ages 11:00 A.M. Worship hour 6:30 P.M. Worship hour

PHOTO PROVIDED Pastor Drew Choate holds my hand right before baptizing me Nov. 5 as Pastor Lee Brown holds the microphone.

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December 3rd 3:00 pm Festival of Choirs presented by the Woman’s Afternoon Music club December 6:00 - 8:00 pm The Living Christmas Story 8th, 9th & 10th (A Drive-Thru Bethlehem Experience) December 17th 8:45 am Bluegrass Christmas Worship 11:00 am Children’s Music Ministry: Christmas Program (During 11:00 am Worship) 5:00 pm Trinity Choirs present: Classic Christmas followed by Lessons and Carols December 24th 11:00 am One Worship Service | Sunday School at 9:45 am Christmas Eve 5:00 pm Christmas Eve Candlelight and Communion Worship December 31st 11:00 am One Worship Service | Sunday School at 9:45 am

THE JOURN IN EY JO The Living Christmas Story December 8th, 9th & 10th 6:00 - 8:00 pm

Morning Worship: Sunday at 8:45 am & 11:00 am | Sunday School at 9:45 am D4 | FRIDAY, DECEMBER 1, 2017 FAITH TODAY 2017 THE SUMTER ITEM Spread word of good news about Christ of Christmas little boy in a Christmas him and he cried God, who gave his only begotten Lord and Savior, Jesus Christ, the out, “Hey, I got news Son. It is a story of love, a story of program at his church Son of God. for you!” giving, a story of sharing. People of In all of our busyness to prepare had but one sentence to In Luke 2:11, we faith find inspiration in the Shep- for the celebration of Christmas, we A read, “Unto you is herd’s response. sometimes forget the real reason for say: “Behold, I bring you good born this day in the It gives us guidance and sugges- the season. We can become guilty of tidings.” After the rehearsal, he City of David a Sav- tions on how we should act and crowding out the Christ in Christ- asked his mother what tidings ior, which is Christ react to divine inspiration. mas. May we spread the word like James the Lord.” As believ- As people of faith, we believe that the shepherds did concerning the meant. She told him it meant Blassingame ers, we cherish the fulfillment of the promises of Good News about the Christ of “news.” Luke’s account of God is good news worthy of sharing. Christmas. the birth of Christ As the shepherds did on the cool, When the program was put on, he and retell it at Christmastime every crisp night, we should likewise with The Rev. James Blassingame is pastor became stage-struck and forgot his year. It not only gives us purpose, energy and excitement be willing to of Mount Zion Missionary Baptist lines. Finally, the idea came back to but it also reminds us of the love of engage others in the story of our Church of Sumter.

Make worship integral part of the season

FROM METRO The hustle and bustle of the often hectic holiday season can make it easy to overlook religion during this special time of year. Come the holidays, adher- ents of Judaism celebrate Chanukah while many Chris- tians celebrate Christmas. Though different, the two holidays share some similari- ties. In celebration of Chanu- kah, families gather for an eight-day commemoration to honor the rededication of the Second Temple of Jerusalem and a miracle in which a small amount of oil illumi- nated a menorah for eight days. Perhaps because it falls during the holiday season, Chanukah has become one of the most well-known Jewish celebrations, even for those who do not adhere to the Jewish faith. For devout Christians, Christmas isn’t about eggnog and Santa Claus. Christmas (Christ’s Mass) is a celebration of the birth of Jesus Christ, who Christians believe is the son of God. Christmas is a day of great joy in the to Zeus and sacrificed pigs severed, marking the joy of tus,” meaning “coming.” Ad- special holiday-related events. Christian faith because it within its sacred walls. At this Chanukah for years to come. vent is a time to both reflect The faithful are encouraged to marks the beginning of Jesus’ point, Jews had to practice The period leading up to on the past and look forward participate in these events in time on earth. their faith in secret, reading Christmas known as Advent to the future. Much like Lent, celebration of their faith. Both Chanukah and Christ- the Torah underground and is a time for repentance and Advent is intended to be a sea- Prayer can help remove mas, while joyous celebra- using dreidels to simulate preparation for the grace and son of fasting, prayer and distractions during the holi- tions, are laced with solemni- games and confuse Greek sol- miracle of Jesus’ birth. Ac- reaching out to God. day season, helping individu- ty. The Second Jewish Temple diers. However, the Jews, led cording to Christianity.com, During the holiday season, als reconnect with the true was desecrated by Greek-Syri- by a small group of rebels the word “advent” is derived houses of worship customari- meaning of the holiday sea- ans, who had erected an altar known as the Maccabees, per- from the Latin word “adven- ly host prayer sessions and son. Add obedience, faithfulness, grace, humility, praise to your checklist hristmas list: check. Travel plans made: check. Menu for Christmas dinner: check. Husband delegated to get tree: check. Kids’ pictures with Santa: Ccheck. Party invitations mailed: check. Strategy for dealing with strange relatives: in process. This time of year, Santa is not the only one instructions from God not to do what every making a list and checking it twice. Even kids newlywed husband wants to do. Faithfulness: have a list: “What can we buy for Mom and check. Dad at the Dollar Tree?” Right now, I have Place to stay: check, sort of. They tried to three lists on my desk: one for tomorrow, one find a decent place for the Messiah to be born. for shopping, one for work. Everything was jammed. The place they ex- Imagine Mary and Joseph’s list for Christ- pected to stay couldn’t even offer them a cor- mas. ner of the floor. Instead, they went out back Unexpected messages from angels: check. to the barn. Jesus started as an outcast before Popular dreidels thought Imagine being 14 and 16, the probable ages of he even made his entrance into the world. I Mary and Joseph. You’re betrothed. An angel wonder if Mary and Joseph felt like they were appears to Mary. It’s the last thing she expect- letting God down by not arranging things bet- to be used to fool Greeks ed. “You’re going to have a baby who will save ter? Humility: check. the world,” the angel says. In a moment of su- Strangers dropping by to visit: check. The FROM METRO just playing a game. In- preme trust, she says, “I’m God’s ser- night Jesus was born, the shepherds stead, rolls of the dreidel vant. Let His will be done.” Obedience: stopped by. With wonder in their Dreidels are especially corresponded to numerical check. eyes, they described an angel speak- popular during the eight- equivalents that could rep- Then she goes away for a few ing to them and then a heavenly day Jewish festival of Cha- resent elements of the Jew- months. Joseph misses her until she choir of tens of thousands singing. nukah. Even though they ish faith, according to My comes back. She’s got a baby bump he The noise must have been thunder- may seem like novelty Jewish Learning. didn’t put there. He’s beyond hurt. He ous. With a song ringing in their items for children, dreidels Others say the dreidel decides to quietly divorce her (the only ears, they went to find Jesus. They have a rich and interesting was a distraction. Children way to break an engagement in those praised God that the lowly and out- history. of Israel would learn the days). Then an angel appears to him. Clay Smith casts had been included. Grace: In ancient times, Greek Torah in outlying areas “Joseph,” the angel said, “Don’t di- check. Syrians infiltrated areas and forests. When Greek vorce Mary. God’s up to something in The wise men showed up, too. No where many practicing patrols were nearby, the this baby. Call him Jesus.” Jesus means “God one is sure how much time had passed. It Jews resided. Over time, children would hide their saves.” Joseph believes. Obedience, husband could have been anywhere from two weeks to the Greek Syrians be- texts and take out dreidels version: check. two years. These were the brightest of the came more oppressive instead, according to Trip with pregnant woman: check. Just bright, the most scholarly of scholars. The and tried to convert the Chabad.org. when things couldn’t get any crazier, a far-off shepherds brought their wonder. The wise Jewish people to their Today the dreidel is a Roman emperor puts a whole empire in mo- men brought gifts of honor. Gold, frankin- pagan beliefs. However, token of the Chanukah tion. Mary and Joseph knew, as did all Israel, cense and myrrh were gifts for a king. Praise: their efforts were not miracle. In Israel, the let- that the Messiah was to be born in Bethle- check. very successful. ters upon the dreidel are hem, the city of David. Imagine them trying What if God wanted you to have a Christ- As a result, the Greek Nun, Gimel, Hay and Pay, to figure out a reason for a trip to Bethlehem. mas list like the people of the first Christmas? Syrians established laws which stand for the He- Imagine them laughing when they heard the What if on your list there were obedience, that outlawed ritual com- brew equivalent of “a great news an empire had been turned upside down faithfulness, humility, grace and praise? mandments and the study miracle happened here.” just for them. Then imagine Mary walking to Maybe Christmas wouldn’t be just a holiday of the Torah. Outside of Israel, the last Bethlehem (no mention of a donkey in the to complicate your life; maybe it would be- It is widely believed that letter is Shin, which trans- real Bible story). Imagine any pregnant come an event to change your soul. Jewish people used forms the phrase into “a woman willing to walk 90 miles so the Son of dreidels to fool the Greeks great miracle happened God could be born in the right place. Imagine Clay Smith is lead pastor of Alice Drive Bap- into thinking they were there.” Joseph being a newlywed husband but under tist Church of Sumter. 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Open yourself to the peace of God

very year around this time, I overhear folks of year often brings with it anxiety and worry about sharing these all-too-familiar words: “I’m so many things. Getting everything accomplished while Ebusy!” Although Christmas is supposed to be trying to please everyone in our lives is an impossible the most wonderful time of the year, we do our best mission. making it the most frantic and exhausting time of Maybe it doesn’t have to be this way. In the middle year. As we prepare for the hope of Emmanuel to of a hectic and consumer-driven season, the Prince of visit us, I find it fasci- Peace invites us to embrace the exact nating that we do so by ‘And he shall be called opposite. Jesus summons us to slow rushing, overloading down, pause and embrace the peace our calendars, spend- Wonderful Councilor, that comes through moments of still- ing a ridiculous ness — cuddling with your children

Nick amount of money and the Prince of Peace.” during a holiday movie, enjoying a Cheek spreading ourselves so date night with your spouse or part- very thin. It’s curious. ner, listening to grandma or grandpa When did Jesus ever say he wanted us to celebrate read the Christmas story to your kids or even holding his birthday by adding a gazillion things to our calen- tightly onto the hand of a loved one who is feeling dar or by putting a significant dent into our checking sick or alone. Reconnecting with loved ones while eat- accounts? ing, drinking and being merry can also be a source of In the Gospel of John, Jesus reminds us of one of peace and joy during this season. There are countless the most important reasons he came to earth in moments of peace to experience this Christmas, but the first place. Toward the end of his earthly the truth is, we may need to make a little room here ministry, he turns to his disciples — to and there for the Prince of Peace to find his way into people just like you and me — and our lives. says, “Peace I leave with you; my As we walk closer and closer to the manger this peace I give to you. I do not give Christmas, may you open yourself moment by mo- to you as the world gives. Do ment to the peace of Emmanuel, God with us. not let your hearts be troubled, and do not let them Nick Cheek is the pastor at First Presbyterian Church be afraid.” This time of Sumter.

Christians are the world’s largest religious group FROM METRO According to the Pew Research Center, Christians were the largest religious group in the world in 2015. In the 2017 report, “The Changing Global Religious Landscape,” the Pew Research Center states that there are roughly 2.3 billion Christians in the world. That figure translates to slightly more than 31 percent of the world’s population. Muslims (1.8 billion) make up the world’s second-largest religious group in 2015, accounting for nearly one-quarter of the world’s overall population of 7.3 billion. Pew researchers project that Muslims will be the fastest-growing major religious group between 2015 and 2060, followed by Christians, Hindus and Jews, respectively. That might be because so many subscribers to the Muslim faith are young. In fact, Muslims have the youngest median age (24) of any of the world’s major religions, meaning many Muslims have their child-bearing years ahead of them. The median age for Christians is 30, which could be why the Christian population is not expected to grow as significantly in the coming decades as the Muslim population.

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Beautiful stained-glass windows are visible from the exterior of Tem- ple Sinai. Rich Jewish history evident in Sumter BY ELIZABETH MOSES celebrates the Maccabean vic- Special to The Sumter Item tory over the armies of Syria in 165 B.C.E. Sumter has a rich Jewish his- Understandably, Hanukkah tory. Like many others, Jews receives a lot of attention be- arrived in South Carolina seek- cause it often falls near Christ- ing the freedom to practice mas. However, even though it is their faith without persecution. a much-beloved festivity, Ha- The 1669 Fundamental Consti- nukkah is actually considered a tutions of Carolina allowed minor Jewish holiday. This “Jews, heathens and other dis- year, Hanukkah is celebrated senters” the from Dec. 12 right to do this. through 20. Tra- The first Jewish LEARN MORE ditional foods settlers moved For further information contact eaten during Ha- to Sumter from Elizabeth Moses at emoses@ nukkah include Charleston sumtercountymuseum.org or latkes (potato about 1815 and (803) 775-0908, www. pancakes) and by the mid-1800s sumtercountymuseum.org and jelly doughnuts. were involved in visit us on Facebook. Family and a range of busi- friends also nesses as well as gather to play being active in civic and mili- the game of Dreidel, which in- tary service. volves spinning a top (the Before there was a synagogue dreidel) and players take a building, the Jewish settlers chance of winning the “kitty” had formed two organizations. — chocolate coins (called gelt), PHOTOS PROVIDED The Hebrew Cemetery Society nuts, fruit and other small ob- This interior view shows some of the temple windows made of drapery glass, a special technique which was formed and land pur- jects. It’s all for fun. shows 3-D effects. Temple Sinai is on Church Street and was built in 1913. chased for a cemetery in 1874. The Sumter Hebrew Benevo- lent Society was organized by 1881. Shortly thereafter, the two groups merged, and in 1885, the group formally became known as The Sumter Society of Isra- elites, the official name of pres- These sponsors of Faith Today, ent-day Congregation Sinai. Congregation Sinai, or Temple Sinai, built in 1913, is on do so with the hope that more people Church Street. The temple’s construction is unusual, with its Moorish design and large, uniquely crafted stained-glass will attend the church or synagogue windows. There are three major branches of mainstream Juda- of their choice on a weekly basis. ism: Orthodox, Conservative and Reform. They share many beliefs but differ in some practices. They have services in English as well as Hebrew and include music in their services. Every synagogue and congregation worships differently. Shortly after its establishment, Congregation Sinai formally af- filiated with the Reform Move- ment. Jews believe in one God but not in a Holy Trinity. All three branches of Judaism share a common belief in mitzvahs (good deeds) and moral and ethical behavior. Judaism is founded on a belief in monothe- ism and that the Torah forms the basis of their way of life. The Torah contains the five books of Moses: Genesis, Exo- dus, Leviticus, Numbers and Deuteronomy. The Jewish Sab- bath (Shabbat) begins on Fri- day at sundown and continues until Saturday after sundown. It is an important Jewish holiday. In the past several decades, dwindling numbers in Temple Sinai’s congregation have led its members to consider long- term planning for the building itself, if the day comes when the congregation is no longer viable. In a new partnership with the Sumter County Muse- um, an ideal solution has been reached. Temple Sinai still has a small but active congregation. In the new partnership, the congregation members continue to use the temple sanctuary to conduct Friday night and holiday services. However, the museum will use the adjoining social hall to create a perma- nent exhibit about Jewish history in South Carolina and Sumter. This exhibit will also include a large section devoted to the Holocaust and Sumter’s Caroling can be a great way to spread holiday cheer. ties to the Holocaust. The new facility is named the Temple Although carols are often a blend of religious and secular Sinai Jewish History Center, Sumter County Museum, and tunes, many people find their faith is revitalized by is slated to open to the public in the spring of 2018. joining their friends and neighbors to carol during Holidays abound at this time of year, including Hanukkah the holiday season. (also spelled Chanukah), the eight-day Jewish festival which THE SUMTER ITEM FAITH TODAY 2017 FRIDAY, DECEMBER 1, 2017 | D7 How to pray the rosary

FROM METRO gory. These mysteries are usually Religious milestones can be fun and prayed on particular days of the memorable and are commonly cele- week. brated with family and friends. Chil- When getting started, you may not dren typically receive gifts upon ful- be familiar with the rosary. But with filling the sacraments, such as First practice, you soon will have the repe- Holy Communion or the sacrament of tition of prayers set to memory. confirmation. • To begin, hold the rosary in your Rosaries are popular religious gifts, hand at the crucifix. Make the Sign of and some churches or religious edu- the Cross and start with the "Apostles' cation departments give rosaries as Creed." part of their own commemorations of • At the first bead, say the "Our Fa- these significant events. ther." Devout Christians may amass quite • The next three beads are where a collection of rosaries — from simple you recite the "Hail Mary." plastic rosaries to more ornate gem- • At this point on the chain, pray the enhanced alternatives — and never "Glory Be." really put them to use. But reciting • On the next bead announce the the rosary is an important way for mystery; then say the "Our Father." Christians to express their faith, and • Pray the "Hail Mary" for the next families can make such expressions 10 consecutive beads, while also medi- by reciting the rosary together. tating on the recited mystery. The United States Conference of • At this point in the chain, pray the Catholic Bishops says the rosary is a "Glory Be" again. Scripture-based prayer that begins • After that prayer is complete, then with the "Apostles' Creed," continues recite "Hail, Holy Queen." with the "Our Father" and then the The 10 "Hail Marys" that follow the "Hail Mary." "Glory Be" is prayed at announcing of each mystery are the end. The first prayer summarizes called a decade. There are five de- the great mysteries of the Catholic cades that make up a Chaplet of the faith. Praying the "Our Father" intro- Rosary. You can choose to pray the duces each mystery from the Biblical five decades (including announcing Gospels. Finally, the "Hail Mary" an- all of the mysteries) in one sitting or nounces the birth of Christ. do so on different days. In addition to the prayers, saying Reciting the rosary is intended to the rosary includes announcing the lead the faithful into calm, restorative Divine Mysteries of Contemplation. and contemplative prayer. It can be an These include the Joyful, Sorrowful, ideal way to remove stress and fully Glorious and Luminous mysteries. immerse oneself in faith while grow- There are five mysteries for each cate- ing a stronger connection with God. Faith plays role in Americans’ desire to give, serve BY DAVID KING Indiana University-Purdue University Indianapolis, The Conversation

After Thanksgiving, Ameri- cans turn their attention to shopping with Black Friday, Small Business Saturday and Cyber Monday as well as holidays such as Hanukkah and Christmas. However, this is also the time for giving. In recent years, nonprofits have sought to capitalize on this attention both on shopping and giving with Giving Tues- day. Last year, this global day of giving raised more than $177 million online. The bulk of all giving — about 31 percent — comes at the end of the year, and individuals are likely to receive scores of requests on Giving Tuesday and through the end of the year. HOW DO DONORS MAKE DECISIONS ABOUT THEIR GIVING? For the majority of Ameri- cans, it turns out that faith plays a leading role in their desire to give and serve. This is where I focus my research. Philanthropy and religion — Let’s first look at available data to understand how much giving is tied to one’s faith. According to Giving USA, the leading annual report of philanthropy in America, religious contributions, narrowly In Judaism, the Hebrew young ruler to sell all his pos- ceiving the gift. Givers them- manitarian industry was con- defined as giving to houses of Scriptures refer to “tzedakah,” sessions. Pursuing those val- selves benefit. As sociologist vinced of the truth of this view worship, denominations, mis- literally meaning justice. Tze- ues, a long monastic tradition Christian Smith makes clear, when it found that a majority sionary societies and religious dakah is considered a com- has seen men and women tak- there is a paradox to generosi- of the health care workers left media, made up 32 percent of mandment and a moral obliga- ing vows of poverty to give ty — in giving we receive and on the ground in the midst of all giving in America in 2016. tion that all Jews should fol- themselves to the work of their in grasping we lose. the Ebola crises were mission- Another study found that 73 low. The commitment to jus- faith. Today, while the tithe At the same time, the goal of aries. Faith is the chief motiva- percent of all American giving tice places a priority on their might not be practiced by a religious giving is not just tor for those both funding and went to a house of worship or giving to help the poor. Beyond majority of Christians, most about what it brings to individ- serving at home and in some a religiously identified organi- giving just time and money, understand the practice of giv- uals. Rather, it is more a focus of the most difficult parts of zation. rabbis even spoke of “gemilut ing as a central part of their on human interaction and a vi- the world. Many of these organizations chasadim,” literally meaning faith. sion of community. make up the world’s largest loving-kindness, or focusing on For Muslims, giving is one of Perhaps most famously, the CONNECTING WITH VALUES NGOs. For example, three of right relationship with one an- the five pillars of Islam. 12th-century Rabbi Mai- In working through the man- the top 10 biggest charities by other as the prerogative of reli- “Zakat” (meaning to grow in monides outlined eight levels date of various religious tradi- total revenue last year, the gious giving. purity) is an annual payment of giving — the lowest being tions toward the healing of the Catholic Charities, Salvation Even more broadly, an an- of 2.5 percent of one’s assets, giving grudgingly and the world and individual motiva- Army and National Christian cient Jewish phrase, “tikkun considered by many as the highest to sustain, but also to tions to give, people might un- Foundation, are explicitly reli- olam,” meaning to repair or minimum obligation of their empower a person to no longer derstand that they have more gious. Religious agencies make heal the world, has been adopt- religious giving. A majority of need charity. in common than perhaps they up 13 of the top 50 charities in ed by many religious and secu- Muslims worldwide make their Maimonides made clear it is realize. the U.S. lar causes. Former President annual zakat payments as a not so much the amount of giv- This could also help them re- It is true that factors such as Obama often referred to the central faith practice. ing but how one gives that is flect more intentionally on wealth, income, education and phrase. So did past President Above and beyond the re- important in establishing a re- their contributions at the end marital status are all predic- Bill Clinton and 2016 presiden- quired zakat, many Muslims lationship between the giver of this year. Instead of simply tors of giving. But religious be- tial candidate Hillary Clinton. make additional gifts (referred and the recipient. Giving giving as part of their routine lief and practice are one of the Former President George W. to broadly as “sadaqa”). Inter- should avoid humiliation, su- this December, perhaps people best predictors. Bush hinted at a vision of tik- estingly, the word shares the periority and dependence. should take account how their Overall, religious Americans kun olam in his second inau- same root as the Jewish “tze- When it comes to much of faith and values motivate their volunteer more, give more and gural address. dakah,” meaning justice. Mus- humanitarian work and social giving and the work of the give more often, not only to re- Similarly, the Christian tra- lim giving also focuses primar- services, religion is often the nonprofits that they support. ligious but secular causes as dition has considered giving a ily on the poor. greatest asset. Whether fight- In doing so, many might find well. Among Americans who key religious practice. Many Of course, charitable giving ing AIDS, malaria or poverty, their giving and connection to give to any cause, 55 percent Christians still look to the He- is not just for the rich. For the development and nonprofit their faith, the faith of others claim religious values as an brew Bible and the tithe, which those with no money to give, community has realized that and the work to which they important motivator for giving. involves giving one-tenth of an the Prophet Muhammad con- the success of local programs have given acquire more mean- individual’s income, as God’s sidered even the simple act of so often turns on the support ing for them — at this time of WHAT RELIGIONS TELL US commandment. smiling to be charity, a gift to of the local faith community. the year and in the years to These values of giving are In the New Testament, Jesus another. The engagement of the local come. deeply rooted in the texts, tra- not only spoke of giving a religious leader and a willing- ditions and practices of many tithe, but also challenged fol- BUILDING A COMMUNITY ness to interact with his or her The Conversation is an inde- faiths. Take, for example, the lowers to give far beyond it. Religious traditions are clear religious vernacular is essen- pendent and nonprofit source of messages within the three For instance, in the Gospel of that the value of giving does tial. news, analysis and commentary Abrahamic faiths. Matthew Jesus told the rich not simply rest with those re- Just a few years ago, the hu- from academic experts. A8 | FRIDAY, DECEMBER 1, 2017 FAITH TODAY 2017 THE SUMTER ITEM

LessonsA Service of CarolsAND The Extraordinary Story of the Birth of Jesus Christ Told Through Scripture and Song Sunday, December 17th 10:30 a.m. and 4:00 p.m.

Featuring Music by The Chancel Choir The Taylor String Quartet Hamilton Stoddard, Organ Evan Thompson and Jon Hopkins, Trumpet Duo Michelle Blassengale, Soprano Soloist

Light refreshments following the 4:00 service Child Care available

Service of Comfort, Hope and Remembrance December 19th, 6pm, Chapel Kipper Ackerman, Harp

Christmas Eve Services 10:30am Children’s Christmas Pageant 5:00pm Christmas Eve Candlelight Service

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