Principals Outline Achievement Plan
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LOCAL HISTORY Party like it’s 1799 in Sumter Step back in time at Carolina Backcountry this SERVING SOUTH CAROLINA SINCE OCTOBER 15, 1894 Saturday at the museum C1 WEDNESDAY, OCTOBER 11, 2017 $1.00 Principals outline achievement plan collaborate leadership ap- regular monthly meeting at mitted to have continuous dia- place in recent years for all Best practices will proach among all school prin- the district office. logue throughout the school students to be college and ca- be done regularly to cipals that will also increase Under the leadership and year and to work as teams reer ready. Professional devel- assistance offered to class- guidance of Interim Superin- with the ultimate goal of help- opment is also being offered boost student success room teachers. tendent Debbie Hamm, Mor- ing teachers help students to help teachers focus specifi- Shaw Heights Elementary ris said all the district’s prin- achieve more. cally on the standards and en- BY BRUCE MILLS School Principal Melissa Mor- cipals from the elementary, According to Morris, the sure everyone involved with [email protected] ris, representing all the school middle and high school levels best practices include ensur- classroom instruction is on district’s principals, outlined have reached a consensus on ing the alignment of curricu- the same page, Morris said. To address the need to im- the plan — called “Powerful best practices in curriculum, lum, instruction and assess- She described the new col- prove student academic Practices” — on Monday instruction and assessment to ments to new, rigorous stan- laborative efforts as “powerful achievement this year, Sum- night to Sumter School Dis- improve student achievement. dards that the state Depart- ter School District is taking a trict’s Board of Trustees at its The principals have com- ment of Education has put in SEE PLAN, PAGE A6 A taste of farm life ADRIENNE SARVIS / THE SUMTER ITEM Many families enjoyed experiencing farm life despite the dreary overcast weather at Old McCaskill’s Farm’s Fall Family Farm Day on Saturday. Children took turns shelling corn and pressing sugar cane as children may have done in the early 20th century. And after picking pumpkins while taking a stroll through the pumpkin patch, children and their parents decorated their harvest. Families also enjoyed live music, food and plenty of opportunities to make lasting memories at various photo stations. See more photos on page A4. New-found life Air Force retiree will thanks to God be COG’s new leader Morris senior wants to help FROM STAFF REPORTS Force career. He served as the command steer youth on right path, too, On Monday, Santee-Lynches chief master sergeant for the Regional Council of Govern- 20th Fighter Wing at Shaw Air after ‘wandering’ for years ments will welcome a new ex- Force Base and was an execu- ecutive director. tive adviser to the wing com- BY BRUCE MILLS According to a news release mander and Shaw’s senior en- [email protected] from the group, Chris McKin- listed leader. At Shaw, he was BRUCE MILLS / THE SUMTER ITEM ney will oversee 30 people pro- responsible for training, pro- When you follow God’s will, good things Morris College senior Pam Rutledge, left, is seen viding assistance to a four- fessional development and will happen. with her mentor and Morris professor Carlotta county region of morale of more than 8,500 mil- Pam Rutledge is a living example of that. Stackhouse recently on campus. 223,000 people in itary members and the wel- In recent years, she accepted God into her Clarendon, Ker- fare of their families and re- life and Jesus into her heart, and she’s liv- herself and her kids, she says she gave her shaw, Sumter and tirees, according to the re- ing a changed and transformed life now, the life to God — her heavenly Father — and Lee counties. The lease. 35-year-old Morris College senior says. decided to follow Jesus. group is based in McKinney also served from After losing her dad in a car wreck when With her newfound faith, Rutledge said Sumter. April 2013 to June 2015 as she was 8, Rutledge acknowledges she led a she started to change how she thought McKINNEY McKinney, a group superintendent of the wayward life until she was almost 29. about herself, and new friends helped to Texas native, re- 33rd Operations Group at Two failed attempts at college and four provide a new environment, which made all tired in September from being Eglin Air Force Base, Florida, children out of wedlock were partially the the difference in the world to her. active duty in the U.S. Air and was an executive adviser result of “looking for love in all the wrong Those friends were pursuing God and Force after 30 years of service to the operations group com- places” and trying to fill the void of not their dreams, she said, and she decided to at bases in South Carolina and mander. He oversaw training having her father growing up, she said. do the same. Florida. He was also deployed of F-35 pilots, F-35 intelligence In 2011, at 28 years old, Rutledge — a Rutledge said she felt God was telling her on combat tours of duty in professionals and air battle Camden native — says she hit bottom. On Bosnia-Herzegovina, Iraq and welfare and basically unable to provide for SEE RUTLEDGE, PAGE A6 Afghanistan during his Air SEE McKINNEY, PAGE A6 VISIT US ONLINE AT CONTACT US DEATHS, B5 WEATHER, A10 INSIDE Information: 774-1200 Wyatt A. Steele MORE HUMIDITY 3 SECTIONS, 20 PAGES the .com Advertising: 774-1246 Mary Frierson VOL. 122, NO. 257 Classifieds: 774-1200 A storm in the area today; Leroy McBride partly cloudy and humid Classifieds B6 Opinion A9 Delivery: 774-1258 Bessie E. Richardson tonight Comics C2 Panorama C1 News and Sports: 774-1226 Joseph W. Ham HIGH 89, LOW 70 Food C4 Television C3 A2 | WEDNESDAY, OCTOBER 11, 2017 THE SUMTER ITEM Call: (803) 774-1226 | E-mail: [email protected] LOCAL BRIEF FROM STAFF REPORTS Lake Ashwood dam slated for repair Make nominations now BY JIM HILLEY kins said the ordinance sets up a pro- host is Darlington County, which will for Women of Excellence [email protected] cedure for anyone wanting to open a get 99 percent, while Lee County will deer-processing facility to do so get 1 percent. Nominations are being accepted At Tuesday’s Lee County Council through the Board of Zoning Appeals. Watkins said Lee County receives for the 10th Annual Women of Ex- meeting, Councilman Gordon Eckley Under the ordinance, deer-process- about $8,300 annually from such cellence program sponsored by the said the Federal Emergency Manage- ing facilities would have to adhere to agreements. Social Justice Consortium. ment Agency has agreed to pay 75 guidelines such as being at least 1,000 “This means additional revenue Women from Sumter, Lee, Clar- percent of the costs of repairing Lake feet away from any adjacent residen- coming in and lengthens the term of endon and Kershaw counties may Ashwood, a popular fishing and pic- tial property, not incinerating ani- the agreement,” Watkins said. be nominated. The consortium cel- nicking spot along U.S. 15 between mals or having animal refuse on the The state made the provision to ebrates a diverse group of women Bishopville and Sumter. Eckley said site and having no open storage of allow rural counties to get some ben- who have done outstanding work the state will provide the 25 percent materials in public view. efit from development in larger coun- in the community. matching funds, largely through the “A deer-processing facility is just ties, Watkins said. The deadline for nominations is efforts of state Rep. Will Wheeler, D- what it sounds like,” Watkins said. “It Council also voted to approve the Sunday, and the event will take Bishopville. Bids to repair the dam is a seasonal operation; it opens second reading of a proposal to ap- place Nov. 11. will be accepted soon, Eckley said. around Labor Day and runs through prove a new contract with Sumter- To nominate a woman for this Lake Ashwood is owned by Lee December.” Lee Regional Detention Center. honor, you must have her permis- County School District and has been “We are doing this as a special ex- “The previous administrator of the sion, then provide her name, mail- breached since the floods in October ception so that any future operations jail has retired, and as a result, Sum- ing address, email if applicable, 2015. It was leased to the South Caroli- that apply will have to be approved ter County Sheriff Anthony Dennis telephone numbers for day and na Department of Natural Resources, per their own operation,” said Coun- asked to take over the facility,” Wat- evening, as well as the same infor- but that lease has expired. cil Chairman Travis Windham. “The kins said. “The Sumter County Sher- mation for the person making the It is unclear who will administer Board of Zoning Appeals would make iff’s Office will be in charge of day-to- nomination. Mail to: SJC, Attn: the lake once the dam is repaired. sure it follows the guidelines.” day operations.” Wilson, PO Box 548, Sumter, SC Eckley said it is not likely that any Council also approved the first He said Lee and Sumter counties 29151 or email Womenofexcel- deepening of the lake will be allowed reading of an amendment to a multi- have a very close relationship with [email protected]. because of the difficulty in obtaining county industrial park agreement Sumter County, and Lee County Individuals, churches, businesses permission from U.S.