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DWTS 1B 2A OPINION 4A OBITUARIES 7A SPORTS 2B PUZZLES 3B BOOKINGS 5B CLASSIFIEDS QUOTE ‘All that is necessary for the triumph of evil is that good men do nothing.’ EDMUND BURKE Vol. 144, No. 5 NTWO SECTIONS e• 16 PAGwES s&PreESTAs BLISHsED 1874 75¢ JANUARY 31, 2018 Darlington, S.C. WWW.NEWSANDPRESS.NET County to hear presentation on Courthouse listening sessions present the findings of these two viable options for financing He explained that securing 2018 general election, and vot - ing the 53 year-old courthouse By Samantha Lyles Staff Writer sessions in his report to a new building (potential price bonds to pay for the project ers would decide the matter at as-is (citing issues like security, [email protected] Council. During these meet - tag of up to $40 million) or would require either the levy of the polls. Should Council cramped offices, aged HVAC At their February 5 meeting, ings, residents got the chance to making repairs to the current an additional penny sales tax decide to repair the current systems, water leaks, and Darlington County Council will voice their opinions on whether courthouse (potential costs county-wide, bringing our total building, Stewart said the coun - mold). Several also voiced hear a presentation on the the County Courthouse should upwards of $8 million). sales tax to 9-cents on the dol - ty might opt to borrow against opposition to the idea of mak - results of several listening ses - be rehabilitated, replaced with “The two most obvious lar, or raising property tax mill - its debt limit (which is 8 percent ing property owners bear the sions related to the County a new facility, or left as-is. means are property taxes, or a age, which would place the bur - of the county's assessed value), burden of construction costs Courthouse, which were held Facilitators also polled one-cent local option sales tax den solely on property owners. and that would give them a alone. across the county in December. guests on the pros and cons of in addition to what's already in Stewart added that if maximum of $12 or $13 million Darlington County Council is Facilitators Charles each option, and what their place,” said Stewart, adding Council wishes to raise property to work with. scheduled to meet at 6 p.m., Weathers and Betty Parker from feelings were about the county's that he was open to suggestions tax millage or pursue an addi - On observation, citizens in February 5, at the Courthouse the Weathers Group of potential financing methods. for other revenue means that tional penny sales tax, these attendance seemed in favor of Annex located at 1625 Harry Columbia conducted the ses - County Administrator Charles could finance a capital project options would require approval building a new facility, and Byrd Hwy in Darlington. This sions, and Weathers is set to Stewart said that the county has of this scale. by public referendum in the largely resisted the idea of leav - meeting is open to the public. Coker College preps for eSports program that eSports first took root By Samantha Lyles Staff Writer through strategy games like [email protected] the Starcraft series. It's a very rare occurrence Spectators follow along as for a new game or athletic individual players or teams endeavor to rise from incep - build their armada of space tion to phenomenon within a vessels while trying to thwart few short years, but that's their opponent's progress. He exactly what's happened with says that while the idea of eSports – playing video watching other people play games for prize money video games might sound and/or school and club cham - dull, it's can be very engaging pionships – and Coker College to see their strategies unfold is getting into the action by and witness real-time con - establishing a new eSports frontations. program this fall. “It's pretty insane when “We're treating it just like you're there with a crowd and Marlene Roth speaks about the Nuremberg Racial Laws that identified who was and was not considered a Jew in Nazis Germany. any other sport,” says Joseph you're getting excited with PHOTO BY MELISSA ROLLINS Rudy, eSports director and them,” says Rudy, adding that coach. “We're going to have occasionally, the audience is everything that every other united in “mass confusion” Speaker encourages audience student athlete would have, while trying to think ahead of meaning scholarships, jer - a player and comprehend seys, travel for tournaments. their gameplay, but it only to be ‘upstanders’ for fellow man It's going to be a legit thing, adds to the drama and satis - just in the video game world.” faction when that unconven - just happen overnight,” Roth “Generations of Jewish fam - Chinese did to the Tibetans. Wildly popular in South tional thinking plays out and By Melissa Rollins Editor said. “It started in 1933 when ilies have been erased by the They took the kids in Tibet back Korea, where eSports tourna - begins to make sense. [email protected] Hitler came into power. The actions taken during the to China, raised them there, ment audiences have filled When someone is being mis - Nuremberg Laws, these were Holocaust,” Roth said. gave them propaganda and soccer stadiums, Rudy says COKER ON 3A treated, everyone around them the laws where Jews lost their She said that although the then returned them to Tibet has the choice to be a bystander jobs, they lost their homes, lost Holocaust is the most well- where they were now more or someone who stands up and their possessions; kids couldn’t known genocide in history, oth - Chinese than Tibetan, thereby puts a stop to it. That was the have bicycles and women had ers have occurred. She also destroying the Tibetan cul - message that speaker Marlene to give up their furs and jewel - gave the audience a definition ture.” Roth shared during the annual ry. Jewish people could only go of genocide so that they might Roth challenged the audi - FDTC mobile app Holocaust Remembrance to Jewish doctors. They had to better understand the term. ence to make a difference any Program at Francis Marion give up their maids and for peo - “Genocide is acts commit - way that they can. University Jan. 24. ple who weren’t that wealthy, it ted with intent to destroy, in “Why do we study this,” rolled out to improve Roth, a member of the was a problem. But the philoso - whole or in part, a national, Roth asked. “Because it didn’t South Carolina Council on the phy is that it would pass. That’s ethnical, racial or religious stop seventy years ago, it goes Holocaust Teacher Advisory just like today when people say, group,” Roth said. “How can on today; just look at the news. student experience Committee and the Columbia ‘He’s only got three more years we do this? You can kill mem - The refugee crisis. People being Holocaust Education and then we’ll get rid of him bers of the group, that’s obvi - stereotyped when they come By Melissa Rollins Commission, said that hate is and get a new president.’ ous. You can cause serious from certain country. It still Editor allowed to spread when people Sometimes it works and some - bodily or mental harm to mem - goes on today. My question to [email protected] in a situation to stop it don’t. times it doesn’t.” bers of the group; you don’t you is, are you going to be a Students at Florence Speaking of the Holocaust, Roth told the audience that have to kill them to commit bystander or an upstander? Are Darlington Technical College Roth told the audience that the Holocaust essentially genocide. You can deliberately you going to just let it happen now have an easier way to sometimes ideas creep up slow - erased millions of people from inflict on the group conditions or are you going to do some - keep up with their classes, ly until they are accepted as history, in turn erasing millions calculated to bring about its thing, even if that means writ - tuition payments and college normal. more who would never be physical destruction in whole ing a letter or an email or going announcements, according to “It started slowly, it didn’t born. or in part. That is what the to a march?” Ty Jones, Associate Vice President of Information Technology at FDTC. Jones reported during the Florence Darlington County “Bubble Guy” brings good clean fun Commission for Technical Education meeting Jan. 23 This fellow, known online that the college’s mobile By Samantha Lyles Staff Writer as “the Bubble Guy,” has an application is now live in the [email protected] alter ego: David Matthews, IT Apple and Google app stores. If you swing by the court - Director at the Governor's Jones said that the school School, and he takes his avo - was using a ‘student first yard lawn at the SC and Jones said work is being Governor's School for Science cation quite seriously. approach’ when rolling out Matthews says “the whole the app, hoping to streamline done to make the buying and Math on a windless after - experience even easier for noon, you're liable to find a bubble thing” started about the processes students use to four years ago when he was keep themselves abreast of students. grown man happily focused “We are working on a proj - on making bubbles. Watch for asked to come up with some - things going on at the school.

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