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SPORTS: Churches Challenge tourney set for Aug. 24-25 B1 PANORAMA Got (a2) milk? Regular milk, moooove over: If you get indigestion from C1 SERVING SOUTH CAROLINA SINCE OCTOBER 15, 1894 drinking dairy, try this WEDNESDAY, JUNE 20, 2018 $1.00 Lee business will add 20 jobs in Bishopville, will also be products. Those products are Bishopville plant to make $1M making a $1 million capital in- then used in industrial and vestment in a new building at commercial buildings, such as its site. Gibart said the compa- a manufacturing plant or a investment, hires by next year ny plans to break ground on hotel, according to Brian BY BRUCE MILLS Carolina Metal Finishing, a the new building next month Rauschenbach, economic de- [email protected] leader in powder and custom and move in by the end of this velopment project manager metal finishing for industrial year. with TheLINK, which serves A metal-finish coatings sprinkler heads and other fire The company’s metal-finish Sumter and Lee counties. business in Lee County is protection service fixtures, Manager John Gibart said coatings are used for addition- An affiliate of Paramount growing and expanding its op- will be adding 20 jobs by the Tuesday. al protection and durability erations. beginning of next year, Plant The plant, at 547 S. Main St. for the fire protection service SEE JOBS, PAGE A5 District Summer shaping: Sumter County names new Gallery of Art holds youth pottery class CFO, 2 new principals Lakewood head, finance lead have ties to Sumter BY BRUCE MILLS [email protected] Sumter School District has two new school principals and a new chief fi- nancial officer, and a couple of them have Sumter connections. Children ages 8 and up have al- District spokeswoman Shelly Gallo- ready been taking advantage of way released the administrative per- the Sumter County Gallery of sonnel information late Art’s summer art camp, where Monday after it took two scenes from its daily pottery rounds of votes last week class are shown here from Tues- for the district’s board of trustees to agree on the day. The art camp includes a three new positions. range of classes in the morning Sumter native Cedric and afternoon for ages 4-7 and MILLER McKnight will be return- ages 8 and up. For more infor- ing to his alma mater as mation on rates, classes and Lakewood High School’s new princi- how to register, visit www.sum- pal. McKnight was a 2001 graduate of tergallery.com or call (803) 775- Lakewood. 0543. He said he began his career in public education in 2009 as a social studies teacher at Conway Middle School in Horry County. He moved into adminis- tration at Blythewood High School in Richland School District 2 in 2013, serving under Sumter’s current inter- im superintendent, Debbie Hamm. Hamm was previously Richland Dis- trict 2’s superintendent. For the last two years, McKnight has PHOTOS BY MICAH GREEN / THE SUMTER ITEM been an assistant principal at Bly- Above, Morgan Edwards helps Demi Crawford with cutting clay during the summer thewood. youth pottery class Tuesday at Sumter County Gallery of Art. Children ages 8 and He said he’s overjoyed with the op- up have already been taking advantage of the Sumter County Gallery of Art’s sum- portunity to come back home. mer art camp, and scenes from its daily pottery class are shown here from Tuesday. “I’m excited,” McKnight said, “and I The art camp includes a range of classes in the morning and afternoon for ages 4-7 can’t even put it into words how excit- and ages 8 and up. For more information on rates, classes and how to register, visit ed I am to get there and get to working www.sumtergallery.com or call (803) 775-0543. and do some great things at Lake- wood.” Left, Ellie Flynn works to mold excess clay between projects on Tuesday. McKnight will also begin his post in SEE NEW FACES, PAGE A5 Palmetto Heart opens clinic in Sumter have a new avenue for skilled cardi- “It’s challenging sometimes for Advanced heart failure ac care. Palmetto Heart opened its patients to travel back and forth for patients will be able to Advanced Heart Health Center on long distances for their heart fail- Monday. ure care,” said Patrick J. McCann, get comprehensive care Located at 115 N. Sumter St., M.D., a Palmetto Heart cardiologist Suite 410, in Medical Office Build- who will lead the center with Shan- BY BERTRAM RANTIN ing One on the Palmetto Health Tu- non W. Cribb, APRN, a cardiac fam- For Palmetto Heart omey campus, the clinic will serve ily nurse practitioner. “The (Sum- PHOTO PROVIDED Special to The Sumter Item patients with advanced heart fail- ter) community now has sub-spe- Patrick J. McCann, M.D., a Palmetto Heart cardiolo- ure and will be staffed by a special- cialty care for heart failure.” gist, will lead the newly opened Advanced Heart Sumter residents and those in ty medical team trained in ad- Health Center with Shannon W. Cribb, APRN, a car- surrounding communities now vanced heart failure care. 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A 35-year-old Sumter man was sentenced to nearly 20 years in prison after he was convicted of CHRIS MOORE / selling firearms and drugs in SPECIAL TO THE SUMTER ITEM Sumter County in April and May of 2017. Leandre Budden was sentenced to 235 months’ incarceration by Sen. United States District Judge Joseph F. Anderson after Budden was convicted of being a felon in possession of firearms, and pos- session of cocaine and crack co- caine with the intent to distribute. Under federal law, Budden was prohibited from possessing fire- arms at the time the crimes were committed because of prior con- victions in another state for armed robbery, possession with intent to distribute marijuana, grand larceny and burglary, states a release from the United States Attorney District of South Carolina office. Budden was prosecuted as part of the joint federal, state and local Project CeaseFire initiative which aggressively prosecutes firearm cases. This case was investigated by the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives, and Sumter County Sheriff’s Office. Racing across the skies Absentee voting Lakewood High School alumna participating in cross-country air race BY ADRIENNE SARVIS opens today; last [email protected] day is Monday Thousands of students wrapped up another school year after spending BY ADRIENNE SARVIS hundreds of hours in the classroom [email protected] across the country. This summer, one Sumter native In-house, electronic absentee will finish her secondary education voting for the primary runoffs after racking up hundreds of air miles will open at 9 a.m. and end at 5 while competing in a cross-country p.m. today in Sumter County airplane race that showcases the aero- Voter Registration and Election nautical skills of female pilots. office, Room 114, first floor of the Jo Brandel, 22, is one of 121 female historic Sumter County Court- pilots from 35 states and five countries house, 141 N. Main St. flying more than 2,600 miles across the Absentee voting — which is United States in the 42nd Air Race only available in the voter regis- Classic this week. tration and election office — will The race began on Tuesday in open at 8:30 a.m. and close at 5 Sweetwater, Texas, and ends in Frye- p.m. on Thursday, Friday and burg, Maine, on Friday. Monday. Brandel, a Lakewood High School Monday is the final day for ab- graduate, is flying as the co-pilot of sentee voting. one of Embry-Riddle Aeronautical The deadline to apply for absen- University’s three teams, the Riddle tee by mail ballot is 5 p.m. on Fri- Racer Gold Team, representing the day, June 22. All absentee by mail college's Daytona Beach campus in ballots must be returned to the Florida. voter registration and election of- “Growing up next to Shaw Air Force PHOTO PROVIDED fice by 7 p.m. on Tuesday, June 26. Base in South Carolina, the roar of Jo Brandel, 22, of Sumter is one of 121 female pilots from 35 states and five countries fly- All polling stations for the run- F-16s inspired me to make the sky my ing in the 42nd Air Race Classic this week. Brandel, co-pilot, and pilot Mia Hallgring are off election will open at 7 a.m. on home from a young age,” Brandel said representing Embry-Riddle Aeronautical University. Tuesday and close at 7 p.m. in a release from the college. “I have Those who voted in the Repub- been following this dream ever since, lican primary and those who did becoming the first in my family to May 2018 commencement ceremony.