February 2021__ an Owner to Do Anything, It Simply Prevents Demolition According to One Fan, the Name Spartanburgers Fits Or Requires Approval of Any Alterations

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The Spartanburgers, an unusual team name for the At its February 22, 2021 meeting, City Council voted city’s new collegiate baseball team was announced at to approve a policy change that will help developer, RJ Rockers Brewing Company on February 18, 2021. John Montgomery with a Southside Apartment The team, a member of the Coastal Plain League, will Project, located in the former Mary H. Wright play roughly 30 home games at the historic and Community School. This property is now listed on three Historical recently renovated Duncan Park beginning May 27. sites; South Carolina State Office of Historic The Coastal Plain League is a fifteen team circuit that Preservation (SHPO), National Park Service and the hosts elite college players who are sharpening their News local Architectural Design and Historical Review ______playing skills in the summer before returning to their Board (HARB). Local designation does not compel President: Toni Sutton Secretary: Frances Richardson Treasurer: Barbara Rutledge_ college team or entering professional baseball. J. Ruth Littlejohn: Publisher/Editor Horace Littlejohn: Co-Editor February 2021__ an owner to do anything, it simply prevents demolition According to one fan, the name Spartanburgers fits or requires approval of any alterations. considering all of Spartanburg’s popular burger joints Black History Facts COVID Vaccination Assistance

Marie Van Brittan Brown, 1922-1999, invented the To further assist our senior population and citizens South of Main Tidbits first home security system. Although a full-time nurse, without immediate access to computers or email, the As part of Black History Month, the City of Next SCNA Cleanup is, Saturday, February 27, she recognized the security threats to her home and City’s Parks and Recreation staff will provide services Spartanburg hosted a Virtual discussion on the seminal 2021 @ 8:00 am. devised a system that would alert her of strangers at to help navigate the COVID vaccination registration historical account of Spartanburg’s Southside her door. Her original invention consisted of peep- process. Staff can provide help over the phone or in Community, South of Main…following the residents SCNA’s next meeting is Monday, March 1, 2021. holes, a camera, monitors, and a two-way microphone. person to set up email addresses and to navigate both and businesses through its early growth & later Urban The City of Spartanburg will soon have a Neighbor- Her patent laid the groundwork for the modern closed- levels of registration. Citizens can call either location Renewal. This was free and was held on February 23, circuit television system that is widely used for listed between 8:30am – 4:30pm, Monday thru Friday hood Tool Shed. More information coming soon. 2021 at 7:00 p.m. The program was featured by co- surveillance, home security systems, push-button alarm for assistance. author Brenda Lee Pryce, and Hub City Writers Spring Fling is cancelled this year. However, the triggers, crime prevention, and traffic monitoring. C.C. Woodson Community Center: 864-596-3710 Project co-founder, Betsy Teter. Spartanburg Criterium is scheduled for August 20, Dr. TK Gregg Community Center: 864-591-4354 2021. Rent a tent, load up your tailgating gear and join George Washington Carver, an eminent scientist, developed 300 derivative products from peanuts Beatrice Hill, a co-author of South of Main and the fun while watching cyclists race around the half- COVID-19 Brenda L. Pryce are both residents of the South mile course! PAL will be monitoring COVID-19 among them cheese, milk, coffee, flour, ink, dyes, Converse Neighborhood. numbers closely as the date approaches. If the plastics, wood stains, soap, linoleum, medicinal oils Ya'll this virus is real and people are dying! Yet, as we

situation changes, the most up to date information will and cosmetics. drive through some communities, we still notice people in groups with no mask and not social Recycle & Garbage Schedules be available on spartanburgcrit.com Scientist George Carruthers created inventions, such distancing. Some residents are still having social st rd Recycle bins (blue) are collected on the 1 and 3 Norma Pitts, a community champion recently passed as the ultraviolet camera, or spectrograph which was functions and allowing people in their homes without Mondays of the month, even on holidays (except for on. Ms. Pitts stood for what was right and she used by NASA in the 1972 Apollo 16 flight, revealing masks. Several people have reported having no Christmas & New Year’s). The regular garbage pick- volunteered much of her time working with children. the mysteries of space and the Earth’s atmosphere. He symptoms, yet they test positive. It is better to be safe up day (gray bins) for the South Converse Community She will be missed. built his first telescope at the age of 10. He earned his than sorry, we never know if we are asymptomatic and Ph.D. in aeronautical and astronautical engineering at is on Thursdays. If a holiday falls on this day, pickup could be carrying the virus and not know it. the University of Illinois in 1964 and began working at will be the following day – a one day delay. To avoid Let’s Check on Our Neighbors missing your pickup, place bins on the curb the even- the U.S. Naval Research Laboratory. Our children are falling further behind in school. Our ing before pickup and remove as soon as possible. Many of our family members, neighbors and friends, economy needs to recovery and people are wanting to especially our elderly and those with underlying health Elijah McCoy was born in Canada on May 2, 1844, to get back to work. By during your part; wearing a If you have house hold items to be collected, place issues, are not able to get out as much. Reach out to parents who had fled slavery. McCoy trained as an mask, washing your hands, social distancing and them on the curb Wednesday evening prior to the them using phone or email or leave a note on their door engineer in Scotland as a teenager. Unable to find an avoiding groups, we can emerge from COVID engineering position in the United States, he took a job garbage collection. For appliances or large pieces of with your contact information and an offer to help. stronger than ever. furniture, call Public Works at 864-596-3690. You may be able to help by running errands, shopping, working for a railroad and subsequently invented a ******* and delivering or dropping off essential supplies on lubrication device to make railroad operations more “The thing about Black history is that the truth is so “There are no secrets to success: Don’t waste their doorstep. Limit your trips by consolidating. efficient. much more complex than anything you could make time looking for them. Success is the result of up.” Louis Gates Avoid direct contact or entering someone’s home. Al- Harriet Tubman was originally named Araminta Harriet ways wear your mask and wash and sanitize your Ross and nicknamed “Minty” by her parents. She changed perfection, hard work, learning from failure, “Won’t it be wonderful when black history and hands from any shared objects. her name to Harriet around the time of her marriage, loyalty to those for whom you work, and Native American history and Jewish history and all *********** possibly to honor her mother. persistence.” General Colin Powell, “Wherever there is A human in need, there is an of U.S. history is taught from one book. Just U.S. Former Chairman Joint Chiefs of Staff opportunity for KINDNESS and to make a difference.” “Unless you are willing to stand for something, you will history.” Maya Angelou Kevin Heath fall for anything.” Election of SCNA Officers Drive-In Senior Bingo ReGenesis Health Care Energy Assistance Now Available Election of officers is scheduled for our April 2021 On January 15, 2021, Spartanburg’s Parks & Until further notice, ReGenesis Health Care (across The Low-Income Home Energy Assistance Program meeting. Only members who are in good standing Recreation Department started a drive-in bingo for from Vic Bailey’s on Pine Street), is giving vaccines (LIHEAP) is a federally-funded program designed to (have paid all delinquent dues, plus their 2020 dues of seniors (ages 50 and up). Bingo will take place at the to walk-ins on Mondays (ages 65+). Vaccines are assist eligible low-income households meet home $25) may vote for officers. Dr. T.K. Gregg Community Center, located at 650 usually given Tuesday-Friday for scheduled appoint- heating, and cooling needs. Home energy is defined as Howard Street. It starts at 10a.m. until all prizes are ments. To register:https://www.myrhc.ort/regenesis- residential heating and cooling, and to increase energy Positions up for election this year are president, gone, and will be cancelled if it rains or snows. There covid-19-vaccine-registration or, go to myrhc.org, self-sufficiency; thereby reducing the vulnerability secretary, assistant secretary and assistant treasurer. is no cost to play. The next scheduled dates are: Feb then COVID-19, then Registration (in red letters). resulting from energy needs. The LIHEAP program is st th th 19th, Apr 16th, May 21 , June 18 , July 16 , Aug Follow directions after that. also designed to intervene in energy-related crisis 20th, Sept. 17th, Oct 15th, Nov 19th, Dec 17th. situations and to conduct outreach. 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140 WEST HENRY STREET outreach to previously un-served households, reduce women’s transitional house for women veterans in SPARTANBURG, SOUTH CAROLINA 29306 and/or prevent poverty, increase efficiency of energy Spartanburg on January 26, 2021. A ribbon cutting t 864 585 9581 f 864 583 2115 e [email protected] usage, and target energy to eligible households with WWW.ACTIONPRINTINGINC.NET ceremony was held with its president, Travelle the highest needs and lowest incomes. State of Affairs Moseley during the honor of cutting the ribbon to open

the transitional house on St. Andrews Street. Grocery Update Spartanburg and Cherokee counties are making Our Country has gone to a very bad place; Our appointments for energy assistance. Every effort is Federal Politicians have hit a new low, Securing a full service grocer for the Southside remains being made to keep our customers and staff safe. You We knew things were bad in this country, but we a top priority for our City staff and community partners. may apply either online or call the office in the county didn’t know how far it would go. As honorable While there are aspects of the situation that are beyond you live in. citizens we dreadfully look on, we witnessed the our control locally, we are optimistic of a good out- breaking of laws, they screamed and they pushed, they come that will provide an improved offering for To apply and download documentation online, go to stopped at nothing, to bully their unjustified cause. As Southside residents. Southside Retail Partners, the www.glamnshrc.org. Click on the Programs tab and we live thru the crisis, and witness the mess, there is owner of 550 S. Church Street, is actively engaged in select Community Services. You may select the something that we can do, we can stay in prayer and refinancing the building and we are working to fully LITE/LITT link and complete the application on your calm ourselves, stay faithful and honor the truth. capitalize a new grocery operator. A grocery brand computer, or follow the instructions to download the Then, there is Covid-19, it surrounds us, it takes some and a supplier are on board. The City and other mobile app. A staff member will contact you. For citizens away, we pray for a quick relief, and a healthy community partners are open to committing funds to additional information on how to apply contact the and safer day. Our forefathers showed us resiliency, support the grocery operations. We have enlisted the local GLEAMNS LIHEAP office in your area regarding John Lewis showed us such grace. When we come services of the National Development Council, a national heating and cooling assistance. together in Unity, America puts on its best face. As L-R: Travelle Moseley, Toni Sutton (SCNA Pres.), J. Ruth nonprofit that assists with financing local projects. All Customers can now receive services twice a year God is my witness, with him on our side, we’ll get thru LittleJohn (City Council District 3) & Rhonda Porter(Realtor). Also, we are actively engaged with other potential this horrible time, the good will outweigh the ugly, bad Spartanburg Office Cherokee Office lenders and Community Development Financial Institut- and our country will emerge just fine. 550 South Church St. Units 12&13 1516 Old Georgia Hwy ions, who have expressed interest in alleviating food Spartanburg, SC 29306 Gaffney, SC 29341 By: Barbara Rutledge deserts in this region. While we know this process Phone: 864-707-5029 Phone: 864-489-6140 seems very slow from a neighborhood perspective, 1/9/2021 Ryan Langley progress is occurring. We hope to have good news soon.

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Election of SCNA Officers Drive-In Senior Bingo ReGenesis Health Care Energy Assistance Now Available Election of officers is scheduled for our April 2021 On January 15, 2021, Spartanburg’s Parks & Until further notice, ReGenesis Health Care (across The Low-Income Home Energy Assistance Program meeting. Only members who are in good standing Recreation Department started a drive-in bingo for from Vic Bailey’s on Pine Street), is giving vaccines (LIHEAP) is a federally-funded program designed to (have paid all delinquent dues, plus their 2020 dues of seniors (ages 50 and up). Bingo will take place at the to walk-ins on Mondays (ages 65+). Vaccines are assist eligible low-income households meet home $25) may vote for officers. Dr. T.K. Gregg Community Center, located at 650 usually given Tuesday-Friday for scheduled appoint- heating, and cooling needs. Home energy is defined as Howard Street. It starts at 10a.m. until all prizes are ments. To register:https://www.myrhc.ort/regenesis- residential heating and cooling, and to increase energy Positions up for election this year are president, gone, and will be cancelled if it rains or snows. There covid-19-vaccine-registration or, go to myrhc.org, self-sufficiency; thereby reducing the vulnerability secretary, assistant secretary and assistant treasurer. is no cost to play. The next scheduled dates are: Feb then COVID-19, then Registration (in red letters). resulting from energy needs. The LIHEAP program is st th th 19th, Apr 16th, May 21 , June 18 , July 16 , Aug Follow directions after that. also designed to intervene in energy-related crisis 20th, Sept. 17th, Oct 15th, Nov 19th, Dec 17th. situations and to conduct outreach. Services include: For more information, email Margaret Brennan at Air conditioners and paying Utility Bills and Heating Allstate Insurance [email protected]. Fuel. The GLEAMNS Human Resources

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