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SPORTS Wilson Hall, LMA start play in state playoffs B1 THURSDAY, MAY 10, 2018 | Serving South Carolina since October 15, 1894 75 cents Manning plant will add 31 jobs Meritor will also make drivetrain and braking sys- don by employee totals. With Meritor to add all the jobs tems for the commercial truck the job additions, Meritor will within the next 12 months. $5.2M investment in market, is investing $5.2 mil- have about 170 employees, Ko- Meritor’s Manning plant, at lion in machinery and equip- sinski said. 2398 Ram Bay Road in Claren- assembly line upgrades ment and adding 31 jobs at its As far as the additional don County Industrial Park BY BRUCE MILLS Manning plant, according to jobs, the company will mostly off Interstate 95, specializes in [email protected] the state Department of Com- be looking for mainline work- the production of braking sys- merce and the Clarendon cording to George Kosinski, ers (production assemblers tem parts for the commercial A top manufacturer in Clar- County Economic Develop- executive director of the and machine operators). Hir- truck market in the U.S. endon County will soon be ex- ment Board. county’s development board, ing is expected to begin in late Along with the jobs, Meritor panding. Meritor’s plant currently ranking it as one of the top June or early July, according Meritor, a global supplier of has about 140 employees, ac- five manufacturers in Claren- to Kosinski, and he expects SEE MERITOR, PAGE A6 Suspect in USC Sumter students celebrate graduation man’s killing curses, spits at hearing Bond was denied because of being a flight risk, judge says BY ADRIENNE SARVIS [email protected] The first appearance hearing for Anthony Dustin Dill, who is accused of helping hide the body of a 31-year- old Sumter man, ended sooner than expected when he left the courtroom shouting obscenities at the judge on Wednesday. “His performance speaks volumes,” Magistrate Judge Larry Blanding said after Dill’s outburst at Sumter- Lee Regional Detention Center. SEE DILL, PAGE A6 A USC Sumter student accepts her diploma during the school’s ceremony on Wednesday at Patriot Hall. See more Deadline to photos from the graduation ceremony on page A6. register to vote in primaries SC Sumter saw a record U114 students walk across is this week the stage Wednesday BY KAYLA ROBINS morning at Patriot Hall during its [email protected] 2018 commencement ceremony. Chris McKinney, executive direc- Primary elections for South Caroli- na voters to choose which party rep- tor of Santee-Lynches Regional resentatives will be on the ballot in Council of Governments, ad- November for state, local and nation- al seats are approaching, and the dressed the graduates, their fami- deadline to register to vote is loom- lies and friends in a nearly ing even sooner. The deadline to register to vote for packed house, urging them not to the June 12 statewide primaries is on accept average and to continue to Friday by 5 p.m. to register in per- son, on Sunday by 11:59 p.m. to regis- develop their internal character. ter online or by fax or email and on Dean Michael Sonntag said the Monday to register by mail, accord- ing to the South Carolina Election high number of graduates is just Commission. a signal that the school is headed South Carolina residents wanting to register must have their driver’s in the right direction. license or DMV ID, must be a U.S. cit- izen and at least 18 years old on or PHOTOS BY MICAH GREEN / THE SUMTER ITEM before the election, cannot be under USC Sumter students Kayla Brown and Ashlee a court order declaring you mentally Holloman help Lauren Coughlin with her cap be- incompetent, must not be confined in fore graduating at Patriot Hall on Wednesday. SEE VOTE, PAGE A6 VISIT US ONLINE AT DEATHS, B3 WEATHER, A8 INSIDE Marie Montieth Dorothy Lee Perkins HOT DAY 2 SECTIONS, 14 PAGES the .com German Felder Jr. Louise M. Vaughn VOL. 123, NO. 144 Inez Bullard Rubin C. Gathers Mostly sunny and very warm; Ruby B. Morris Bobby Lee Garner mainly clear tonight Classifieds B6 Sports B1 HIGH 91, LOW 64 Comics B4 Television B5 Opinion A7 A2 | THURSDAY, MAY 10, 2018 THE SUMTER ITEM Call: (803) 774-1226 | E-mail: [email protected] LOCAL BRIEF FROM STAFF REPORTS Letter carriers hope to Stamp Crown Laundry hiring for various positions A new industrial-type laundry processing facil- Out Hunger with your help ity that opened in No- vember in Bishopville is “That includes city and rural carri- and we divide it among ourselves, still seeking to fill posi- Postal customers asked ers in Sumter and surrounding areas, Christian Charities, Emmanuel Food tions at its warehouse/ such as Summerton, Manning, Rem- Kitchen, Mt. Pisgah (AME Church) plant. to leave food in blue bags bert, Pinewood, Shaw (Air Force and and Salvation Army.” Tamiko Singleton, Army Base) and others,” she said. Prater said food donations should be human resources manag- at mailboxes Saturday Prater said area residents have con- non-perishable. Suggested items in- er at Crown Healthcare BY IVY MOORE tributed between 11,000 and clude canned foods such Laundry in the Interstate Special to The Sumter Item 15,000 pounds of food as soup, beans, tuna, 20 Industrial Park in Lee each year. chicken and turkey, as County, said Crown is By now, most area postal customers “We get good partici- well as pasta and pasta still trying to fill posi- have received the blue plastic grocery pation from our postal sauce, rice, peanut butter, tions for front-line laun- bags designated for contributions to customers,” she said. beans, oatmeal, whole dry employees (averag- the National Association of Letter Car- “We’ve already had sev- grains, juice, cooking oil ing $8.75 per hour), Class riers Stamp Out Hunger drive. Even if eral fill their bags and and more. Pet and baby A CDL drivers ($16-$18 you didn’t get one, you can still con- leave them for us. We’ve foods are also accepted. per hour), maintenance tribute nonperishable foods to the probably got around 100 Non-glass containers mechanics ($16-$23 per hungry in any plastic or paper grocery pounds of food already.” are preferred. hour) and other adminis- bag you may have, knowing that your Prater said Wednesday Unacceptable items trative support roles. contribution will benefit those in your that letter carriers some- include homemade and All positions will work own community. times see families who used items, frozen up to 40 hours per week, On Saturday, letter carriers will pick have “food insecurity,” foods, unlabeled or she said. up the bags of food left near mailboxes meaning they often don’t damaged packages, Those interested can and take them to the main U.S. Post know where their next meal carbonated beverages and pick up applications and Office for delivery to Sumter United is coming from. expired foods. apply at Sumter County Ministries, which will stock its own Sumter United Ministries Executive The filled bags should be left by SC Works, 31 E. Calhoun food bank and share with others, such Director Mark Champagne said Stamp mailboxes well before the usual deliv- St. in Sumter. as Christian Charities. It’s the 26th Out Hunger is “very important to our ery time on Saturday, Prater said. The year letter carriers have participated ministry. The need is very great. (The bags may also be taken to the main in the nation’s largest one-day food Lord’s Cupboard) has been going post office on Main Street in Sumter. drive. through food faster than we ever have. She said postal customers can make All of the area’s active letter carri- A lot of people need food.” a huge difference in the lives of the ar- CORRECTION ers and several retirees are participat- Fortunately, because of the generosi- ea’s food insecure population by par- If you see a statement in error, ing in Stamp Out Hunger, even though ty of area residents, “a lot of food is ticipating in Saturday’s Stamp Out contact the City Desk at 774-1226 not all are members of NALC, said let- donated,” he said. Hodge Trucking, Hunger campaign. or [email protected]. ter carrier Crystal Prater, who is lead- which provides a tractor-trailer truck “They’re overwhelmed,” Prater said, ing the food drive for her third year. for the food collected, “delivers it to us, “very appreciative of the assistance.” Friends of Swan Lake to discuss arboretum accreditation at meeting • Financing a pamphlet by Austin Group helps maintain, Jenkins on the dragonflies and birds in the gardens; • Overseeing and partially financing improve the gardens the restoration of a 1924 firetruck for BY IVY MOORE the children’s playground; Special to The Sumter Item • Continuing to fund the Chocolate, Braille and Butterfly specialty gar- The Friends of Swan Lake invite the dens maintained by Sumter Master public to attend their annual spring Gardeners; meeting at 5 p.m. Tuesday, May 15, at • Refurbishing hydrangea and shade the Swan Lake Visitors Center. gardens; and The nonprofit has been working • Funding “Talking Trees,” an audi- with the Swan Lake-Iris Gardens staff ble trail through the gardens that nar- since 2001 to support the “continued rates information on specific trees at beautification and improvement of the the push of a button. gardens,” considered by many to be Most recently, the Friends of Swan “Sumter’s showplace.” Lake have provided two large display Friends’ president Ruth Ann Bigger cases for the foyer of the Swan Lake said guest speakers Austin Jenkins, an Visitors Center.