Community, leaders say ‘it’s time to get it right’ Search consulting firm for district superintendent hosts forums BY BRUCE MILLS tion consolidated Districts 2 and 17 is represented in the fact that it’s SUNDAY, DECEMBER 2, 2018 $1.75 [email protected] into one in Sumter. Some forum at- racially mixed (about a 50-50 ratio tendees said it’s been a tug-of-war of blacks and whites), contains dif- SERVING SOUTH CAROLINA SINCE OCTOBER 15, 1894 “Let’s get this right this time and since then between the former two fering city and rural landscapes realize our full potential.” boards who attendees say have and has a significant military pop- That was a theme mentioned been unable to work together, and ulation component with Shaw Air Thursday night by some local resi- two superintendents have left the Force Base in the county. dents at a community forum at head job unceremoniously and “It’s ‘one Sumter’ now,” Castner Sumter High School on the dis- under turmoil. said. “People have got to get over trict’s superintendent search pro- Kevin Castner with search con- the past. The point is during the 4 SECTIONS, 28 PAGES | VOL. 124, NO. 33 cess, which has just begun. And, sulting firm B.W.P. and Associates process with the board and the according to the lead consultant facilitated the forum at Sumter new leader, you can’t ignore that NATION with the firm assisting Sumter High and said it is now time for ev- you must have a game plan to con- School District in the search for its eryone to be “one Sumter” — a tinue to move forward. next leader, it was also a common theme often used by some groups “We already know what the theme in focus group meetings throughout the community, sup- ‘what is’ that you all have talked throughout last week. porting a spirit of cooperation in about tonight. You’ve got to reach a It has been eight years since the the diverse county. Sumter County Legislative Delega- Castner said Sumter’s diversity SEE SEARCH, PAGE A8

GEORGE H.W. BUSH • 1924 - 2018 Former president dies at age 94

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Renia Mae Brunson Harold Myers LAWRENCE JACKSON / AP Sarah Small Louise Goines Wilson Former President George H. W. Bush arrives on the South Lawn of White House in Washington on Sunday, May 11, 2008. Syliva C. A. Herlong Kay G. Moore Lorena R. Brailsford Eddie Darling 41st commander in Barbara Bush, died in April. "The entire Bush family is deeply Alice Yvonne H. Griffin Raquel B. Cain The son of a senator and father grateful for 41's life and love, for Isabelle S. Wilson Martha M. Duffie chief remembered of a president, Bush was the man the compassion of those who have Cynthia R. L.Stalzer Mary M. Pringle with the golden resume who rose cared and prayed for Dad," the fondly by many through the political ranks: from statement read. congressman to U.N. ambassador, After his 1992 defeat, George WEATHER, A10 BY MIHAEL GRACZYK Republican Party chairman to H.W. Bush complained that media- The Associated Press envoy to China, CIA director to created "myths" gave voters a mis- STORMY SUNDAY two-term vice president under the taken impression that he did not Warm with chance of strong hugely popular Ronald Reagan. identify with the lives of ordinary storms today, ending late. eorge H.W. Bush, a pa- The 1991 Gulf War stoked his popu- Americans. He decided he lost be- HIGH 76, LOW 58 trician New Englander larity. But Bush would acknowl- cause he "just wasn't a good edge that he had trouble articulat- enough communicator." whose presidency ing "the vision thing," and he was Once out of office, Bush was con- G haunted by his decision to break a tent to remain on the sidelines, ex- INSIDE CONTACT US soared with the coalition victo- stern, solemn vow he made to vot- cept for an occasional speech or Classifieds C8 Info: 774-1200 ry over Iraq in Kuwait, but ers: "Read my lips. No new taxes." paid appearance and visits abroad. Comics D1 Advertising: 774-1237 then plummeted in the throes He lost his bid for re-election to He backed Clinton on the North Opinion A9 Classifieds: 774-1200 Bill Clinton in a campaign in American Free Trade Agreement, of a weak economy that led Outdoors C7 Delivery: 774-1258 which businessman H. Ross Perot which had its genesis during his took almost 19 percent of the vote own presidency. He visited the Reflections C4 News and Sports: voters to turn him out of office as an independent candidate. Still, Middle East, where he was revered Television C3 774-1226 after a single term, has died. he lived to see his son, George W., for his defense of Kuwait. And he Yesteryear C5 He was 94. twice elected to the presidency — returned to China, where he was only the second father-and-son welcomed as "an old friend" from The World War II hero, who also chief executives, following John his days as the U.S. ambassador VISIT US ONLINE AT the .com presided during the collapse of the Adams and John Quincy Adams. there. Soviet Union and the final months The 43rd president issued a He later teamed with Clinton to of the Cold War, died late Friday statement Friday following his fa- raise tens of millions of dollars for night at his Houston home, said ther's death, saying the elder Bush family spokesman Jim McGrath. "was a man of the highest charac- His wife of more than 70 years, ter." SEE BUSH, PAGE A7

Shop smart this season with tips from Sumter law enforcement BY ADRIENNE SARVIS Local authorities encourage chases once they are delivered, areas where they are less like- • Hold purses close to your [email protected] residents to plan ahead and said Tonyia McGirt, public in- ly to be bothered; tracking de- body, or place wallets in a put safety first when waiting formation officer for Sumter liveries; and checking for al- front or inside pocket. The holiday shopping season on deliveries and shopping Police Department. ternative delivery options. • Stay alert, and have keys in is in full swing, but shoppers around town. Suggested precautions in- hand when heading to the car. shouldn’t get so absorbed in While shopping online, have clude installing security cam- SHOPPING • Make multiple trips home the holiday cheer that they a plan to ward against “porch eras at home so you can moni- • Park in well-lit areas, and while shopping to remove leave themselves and purchas- pirates,” or individuals who tor package drop-offs; arrang- keep packages out of sight if es vulnerable to Grinches. are looking to snatch your pur- ing for packages to be left in left inside vehicles. SEE SHOPPING, PAGE A8 A2 | SUNDAY, DECEMBER 2, 2018 THE SUMTER ITEM

Call: (803) 774-1226 | E-mail: [email protected] THIS MONTH IN S.C. HISTORY State releases school report cards amid criticism, skepticism Hillcrest Middle earns excellent overall rating to lead district BY BRUCE MILLS school on average grew more or less overall ratings, fueled by the “stu- [email protected] than the state average, based on the dent progress” measurement and state’s grade-level tests. not necessarily overall achievement. Well, they are finally out, at least. Several administrators across the Among the district’s 14 elementa- Amid varying levels of criticism state said some of their districts’ ry schools, six earned average over- and skepticism, which can be com- best-performing schools were hurt all ratings, led by Alice Drive Ele- mon with a new state-wide school on that indicator — which was mentary and Millwood Elementary rating system, the state Department weighted heavily overall — because on the achievement indicator. Four of Education released Thursday their average performance, as mea- elementary schools scored below av- school report cards including scores sured by state tests, improved by a erage overall, and four were unsatis- for individual schools. smaller amount than the state aver- factory. The new report cards represent age. State schools Superintendent an overhaul of the state’s education Nevertheless, Hillcrest also re- Molly Spearman told The State accountability system, and for the ceived an average rating in the “aca- newspaper that the 2018 report FROM THE COLLECTIONS OF THE S.C. HISTORICAL SOCIETY first time in four years schools have demic achievement” indicator. cards are not the “finished product.” Portrait of Carrie Pollitzer, circa 1905. ratings — ranging from unsatisfac- Only 51 of the state’s middle “It’s a good product, but there’s tory to excellent. The ratings are schools earned an excellent overall room for improvement,” Spearman based on a 100-point scale that fac- rating. said. Carrie Pollitzer worked tored in academic success, student Alice Drive Middle was the only “They (schools) need to take an progress, graduation rates and col- other middle school in the district to honest look at it (report cards). I to improve education, lege and career readiness, among earn an average in “academic hope that we won’t become defen- other measurements. achievement.” It received an overall sive but that we’ll use it as a road Overall, Sumter School District’s rating of average, largely because its map for the areas that we really advance women’s rights middle schools scored higher than “student progress” ranking was need to work on and admit that we its elementary schools and high below average. can’t do it by ourselves.” FROM THE S.C. HISTORICAL SOCIETY schools, according to the 2018 report Chestnut Oaks Middle also earned The Department of Education cards, which reflect school perfor- an average overall rating, even had planned to release the report Throughout her life, Carrie Teller Pollitzer mance during the 2017-18 school though it scored unsatisfactory in cards in mid-November. However, worked to improve education and to advance year. “academic achievement.” On “stu- it was forced to delay the release the rights of women in South Carolina. The Hillcrest Middle School achieved dent progress” though, Chestnut after vendor “errors in critical first daughter of Gustave Moritz Pullitzer an excellent overall rating, led by its Oaks received an average rating. data files” left the state agency un- and his wife, Clara, Carrie was born in excellent rating in “student prog- Ebenezer Middle and the former able to complete school rankings Charleston on Dec. 5, 1881. Gustave was a ress.” That indicator measures if a Mayewood Middle received good at that time, it said. prominent cotton broker and both parents were active in the community and at their synagogue, Kahal Kadosh Beth Elohim. Car- rie graduated from Memminger Normal School in 1901 and went on to study at Co- lumbia Teacher’s College in New York City. 4-year-old Sumter girl uses latest As the Progressive Era gained momentum, Carrie joined those who wanted to improve the standard of living and alleviate poverty throughout the nation. Like other progres- technology to manage diabetes sives, she felt that many of society’s prob- lems could be addressed through education. She returned to Charleston in 1908 and BY DANNY KELLY launched the city’s first free kindergarten in [email protected] a carriage house behind the Pullitzer home on Pitt Street. Shortly after that, Carrie was Four-year-old Sumter resident Olivia Klingshirn appointed assistant principal of the South was diagnosed with Type 1 diabetes when she was 21 Carolina Kindergarten Training School. In months old, but she hasn’t let that stop her from run- this position, she worked with others to initi- ning in races and traveling around the world. ate parent-teacher organizations, social work Thanks to the wearable Dexcom G6, Olivia and her programs for children and teacher visits to family can track her blood glucose levels without hav- students’ homes. The two free kindergartens ing to prick her finger. A small sensor placed on Oliv- that Carrie established in Charleston taught ia’s lower abdomen continuously sends her glucose health and nutrition along with fundamen- levels to her parents’ smartphones and smart watch- tals such as letters and numbers. es. In addition to her work on behalf of educa- “We calibrate it twice a day,” Mike Klingshirn, Oliv- tion, Carrie was a strong proponent of wom- ia’s father, said. “We see trends, and it’s 100 percent en’s rights. She distributed fliers supporting wireless.” women’s suffrage, was secretary and chair- Olivia has been on trips with her family to Chicago, woman of the Charleston Equal Suffrage New York, Germany and Iceland, where the family League and a member of the Executive has run marathons to raise money for the Juvenile Board of the Charleston Federation of Wom- Diabetes Research Foundation. Olivia did not partici- en’s Clubs. In 1917, she and other members pate in these marathons, but she did run in the Ki- of the Federation of Women’s Clubs peti- awah 5K last weekend and has completed the Tuomey tioned the College of Charleston to admit five-miler twice. women. She was informed that a women’s However, when the family went to Iceland about a lounge and a matron would be required if year ago, they were very grateful to have the Dexcom women attended the College of Charleston. G6 on the flight. Hearing that, Carrie secured the funds to “Her blood sugar was low, and we couldn’t get her pay for both. The college opened its doors to enough juice, so we used an emergency sugar pen,” PHOTO PROVIDED women the following year. Olivia’s mother, Isabel Klingshirn, said. “Without Four-year-old Olivia Klingshirn uses the Dexcom G6 system Both Carrie and her sister, Mabel, were Dexcom, we wouldn’t have known where her blood to track her blood sugar levels and her mother is able to recognized by the Charleston chapter of the sugar was. We were above the Atlantic Ocean, so it track it on her phone with the Dexcom app. National Organization of Women for their was very invaluable to have at that point; we’re very contributions to the women’s movement. thankful for this technology, and it’s a great resource “When they took the blood out of my muscle, I said, Carrie lived with Mabel in the family home for anyone with Type 1 diabetes to have.” ‘I’m brave’ and I didn’t even feel it,” Olivia said. in Charleston and remained active with the When the family runs in marathons with JDRF, Olivia’s family has gained a lot of inspiration from Free Kindergarten Association throughout they call themselves Team Olivia to represent what Olivia in the past few years. her life. She died in 1974 and is buried in they are running for. “When we first heard she had Type 1 diabetes, we Kahal Kadosh Beth Elohim Cemetery in “I like running with Team Olivia,” Olivia said. “My were crushed,” her father said. “Olivia has an uphill Charleston. favorite thing is running.” battle forever, but you should always turn something For more on Carrie and the Pollitzer fami- Also, Olivia is now no longer afraid when she gets into a positive. JDRF and our doctors said don’t put ly, visit the digital exhibit at: http://ldhi.li- her blood drawn; instead of saying "I’m sorry" when yourself on an island and make a team out of it. The brary.cofc.edu/exhibits/show/pollitzer_fami- she would cry, she now says "I’m brave" to keep her- warrior spirit in Olivia motivates others to run mara- ly_sc/introduction self strong. thons.”

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BY LIZ WESTON be appropriate for: NerdWallet • Housekeepers • Babysitters Holiday tips are a way to • Dog walkers and groom- thank the people who make ers MISS DUFFY MISS ELMORE MISS HAGERTY your life easier. So why is it • Personal trainers so hard to figure out whom • Pool cleaners to tip and how much? • Hairstylists or barbers Guides published by eti- • Massage therapists, fa- quette experts don't always cialists and manicurist agree on what's appropriate. For others, Post says, What people actually do is amounts can vary: another matter altogether. • Yard and garden work- Only about half of Ameri- ers ($20 to $50 each) cans give any holiday tips, • Trash and recycling col- according to a recent Con- lectors ($10 to $30) sumer Reports survey, and • Handyman ($15 to $40) those who do tip often give • Package deliverer ($20, if less than the amounts rec- allowed; check with the ommended by etiquette ex- company) perts. For example, 56 per- • U.S. Postal Service mail cent of those who had carriers (small gift only; no housekeepers gave them a cash, per USPS rules) tip, and the median amount • Day care workers ($25 to was $50. The manners ma- $75 each for those who work MISS MOORE MISS SEGARS MISS WILLIAMS vens at the Emily Post Insti- with your child; check with tute suggests the tip equal facility) the cost of one visit, which • Newspaper deliverer The Carolinian Ball according to HomeAdvisor ($10 to $30) averages at $167. • Building superinten- The Carolinian Ball will present six debu- Mrs. George Wise Segars Sr., will be present- Plenty of people don't dents ($20 to $80) tantes on Thursday, Dec. 20, at Sunset Coun- ed by her father and escorted by George even realize that holiday tip- • Doormen ($15 to $80) try Club. Trask Gore Jr. and Ronald Hunter Hendrix. ping is a thing. Others want • Parking attendants ($10 Katherine Gilland Duffy, daughter of Dr. Cassidy McKay Williams, daughter of Mr. to tip but struggle with bud- to $30) and Mrs. Edward William Duffy Jr., will be and Mrs. Joseph Mark Williams, will be pre- gets already strained by presented by her father and escorted by John sented by her father and escorted by James other holiday spending. 3. NOT EVERY HELPER Evans Boyle and Stephen Calbreth Hucks. Douglas Chandler and Aubrey Kade Williams. "From an etiquette stand- SHOULD BE TIPPED Lauren Elizabeth Elmore, daughter of Mr. She is sponsored by Mr. and Mrs. Robert Bea- point, we try not to say, 'You If you tip someone regu- and Mrs. Gerald Wayne Elmore Jr., will be sley Smith. have to do it exactly like larly throughout the year, a presented by her father and escorted by John Sophomore sons being presented are: Kiel this otherwise it's wrong,'" holiday tip may not be nec- Austin Peters and Andrew James Reynolds Curran Bilton, son of Mr. and Mrs. James says etiquette expert Lizzie essary. Cash tips also aren't Jr. Woodrow Bilton III; Ronald Hunter Hendrix, Post, co-president of the appropriate for certain peo- Gillian Ann Hagerty, daughter of Dr. and son of Mr. and Mrs. Ronald Ivan Hendrix; Emily Post Institute in Burl- ple, such as professionals Mrs. Shawn Patrick Hagerty, will be present- Jacob Charles Mossell, son of Mr. and Mrs. ington, Vermont. "There are (doctors, lawyers, accoun- ed by her father and escorted by Kiel Curran Mark Alan Mossell; and Andrew James Reyn- so many varied relation- tants) and anyone who Bilton and Caleb Robert Turner. olds Jr., son of Dr. and Mrs. Andrew James ships that we have, or our works for an entity that Corbett Elizabeth Moore, daughter of Mr. Reynolds. budgets might not be able to prohibits them. For govern- and Mrs. Kurt Emerson Moore Sr., will be Mr. Charles Anthony Bracalente is presi- accommodate it the way our ment workers, for example, presented by her father and escorted by Pat- dent of the club. Ball chairwoman is Mrs. An- hearts would like." a tip can look like a bribe. rick Scott Bell and Richard Banks Burns. thony Ray Scott, and debutante chairwoman Ideally, your holiday tip- Check with nursing homes, Margaret Snow Segars, daughter of Mr. and is Mrs. Roger McSwain Armfield. ping list would include ev- home health care providers, eryone who makes your life package delivery companies easier by providing you and day care centers, espe- with regular service cially, before tipping indi- throughout the year — but vidual workers. Post sug- CENTENARIAN if you get a lot of help, that gests that instead of tipping can get expensive. Here are your children's teachers, some guidelines that may offer to buy classroom sup- help you decide whom to plies or go in with other Ruth C. tip, and how: parents on a gift or gift card. Franklin 1. CASH IS OFTEN BEST, BUT NOT REQUIRED 4. MAKE IT PRETTY celebrates If you can afford to give Fresh, crisp bills tucked only a few dollars, a small into a card with a handwrit- gift or homemade item may ten note? Classy. Wadded 101st birthday be a better way of express- bills thrust at the service ing appreciation. Post re- provider on your way out Ruth C. Franklin, widow of members her parents bak- the door? Not so much. John "Mr. Sing" Franklin, cel- ing cookies and making Ditto leaving an extra-large ebrated her 101st birthday on candy for their mail carri- tip on a credit card receipt. Sunday, Dec. 2, 2018. ers, garbage collectors and Something's certainly bet- A pillar in the community newspaper delivery folks. ter than nothing, but put- of Woodrow for more than 80 Of course, not everyone is ting some care into your years, Mrs. Franklin owned good in the kitchen — or presentation can demon- her own beauty shop for welcomes homemade good- strate that you really do ap- more than 40 years, which ies. preciate what they do for was almost unheard of for an you. African-American woman in 2. MATCH THE TIP TO the 1950s and '60s. She has THE RELATIONSHIP 5. TIP EARLY been a member of Bennetts- The amount you give can In the past, I've scram- ville Baptist Church for more reflect the quality and fre- bled to deal with holiday than 80 years, holding a posi- quency of your interactions. tips. This year, I started tion or membership in almost You might tip an occasional writing thank-you notes be- every organization in the babysitter the equivalent of fore Thanksgiving and plan church. one evening's pay, for exam- to deliver the tips by early Mrs. Franklin has four chil- ple, while a live-in nanny December. Tipping as early dren, 11 grandchildren, 12 could get a bonus equal to as possible in the holiday great-grandchildren and one one week's pay, or more. A season means the people great-great-grandchild. small gift in addition to a tip you're trying to reward is a nice touch when the re- have extra cash for their lationship is more personal. holiday spending — which A tip roughly equal to the may include giving out cost of a single visit might their own holiday tips. A6 | SUNDAY, DECEMBER 2, 2018 NATION THE SUMTER ITEM Repeat outbreaks pressure industry to step up safety

NEW YORK (AP) — After repeated Romaine lettuce Teressa Lopez of the Arizona Leafy food poisoning outbreaks linked to ro- sits on the shelves Greens Marketing Agreement also said maine lettuce, the produce industry is as a shopper walks federal regulation can ensure greater confronting the failure of its own safety through the pro- compliance, even though the industry measures in preventing contaminations. duce area of an Al- agreement has stricter measures. The E. coli outbreak announced just bertsons market in Despite industry measures imple- before Thanksgiving follows one in the Simi Valley, Califor- mented after a spinach outbreak more spring that sickened more than 200 peo- nia. After repeated than a decade ago, health officials noted ple and killed five, and another last year food poisoning this month there have been 28 E. coli that sickened 25 and killed one. No outbreaks linked outbreaks linked to leafy greens since deaths have been reported in the latest to romaine lettuce, 2009. outbreak, but the dozens of illnesses the produce indus- The produce industry says the failure highlight the challenge of eliminating try is confronting to prevent the Yuma outbreak could risk for vegetables grown in open fields the failure of its also reflect the limitations of testing and eaten raw, the role of nearby cattle own safety mea- water for generic E. coli. operations that produce huge volumes sures. Elizabeth Binh, a food science expert of manure and the delay of stricter fed- at Cornell University, said the tests look eral food safety regulations. THE ASSOCIATED PRESS for the amount of fecal matter in water. A contested aspect of the regulation, The problem is, "some feces has patho- for example, would require testing irri- The spring outbreak was traced to ro- plant leaves with chlorine to kill poten- gens in it, some feces doesn't," said gation water for E. coli. The Food and maine from Yuma, Arizona. Irrigation tial contaminants, Suslow said. But he Binh, who is part of a federal program Drug Administration put the measure water tainted with manure was identi- said such treatment raises concerns helping farmers comply with the new on hold when the produce industry said fied as a likely culprit, and investigators about soil and human health. produce regulations. such tests wouldn't necessarily help pre- noted the presence of a large animal Meanwhile, the proximity of produce Testing for specific E. coli strains that vent outbreaks. Additional regulations feeding operation nearby. fields to cattle operations is likely to are harmful is more difficult, and it on sanitation for workers and equip- Subsequently, an industry agreement continue posing a problem. Travis doesn't rule out the possibility of other ment — other potential sources of con- in Arizona and California was adjusted Forgues of the milk producer Organic harmful bacteria, Binh said. tamination — only recently started to expand buffer zones between vegeta- Valley noted consolidation in the dairy being implemented. ble fields and livestock. The industry industry is leading to bigger livestock CONTAINING FDA Commissioner Scott Gottlieb says the change was in place for lettuce operations that produce massive vol- Whole-genome sequencing is mak- said he thinks the combination of rules, now being grown in Yuma, which hasn't umes of manure. ing it easier to detect outbreaks, once fully in place, will make vegetables been implicated in the latest outbreak. which is pressuring the produce in- safer to eat. But Trevor Suslow of the Produce Mar- TESTING dustry. "I don't think any one element of this keting Association said there isn't con- Already, the industry agreement in The FDA warned against all ro- is going to be the magic bullet," Gottlieb sensus about the exact distances that Arizona and California requires leafy maine last week because it said it was said. might effectively prevent contamina- green growers to test water for generic able to identify it as a likely source Health officials say improved detec- tion. E. coli. early enough. The agency narrowed tion may make outbreaks seem more He noted specific buffer zones aren't But James Rogers, director of food its warning to romaine from Califor- frequent. Still, that is intensifying pres- required by the new federal rules on safety research at Consumer Reports, nia's Central Coast after the produce sure on growers and regulators to pre- produce safety. said it's important to make water testing industry agreed to label romaine with vent, catch and contain contamination. "They look to the industry to deter- a federal requirement. Since romaine is harvest dates and regions, so people mine what is the appropriate distance," often chopped up and bagged, a single know what's OK to eat. PREVENTION Suslow said. contaminated batch from one farm that The labeling is voluntary, and the It's not yet known how romaine got Growers in Yuma also started treat- skips testing could make a lot of people industry said it will evaluate whether contaminated in the latest outbreak. ing irrigation water that would touch sick, he said. to extend it to other leafy greens. Younger school entry could set stage for ADHD diagnosis

BY CARLA K. JOHNSON ture? That extra year makes a to compare more than 71,000 at asthma, diabetes and obesity "They did so many careful AP Medical Writer big difference." students with August and Sep- rates and found they were the (checks) to make sure of their About 6 million U.S. children tember birthdays in 18 states same for the August and Sep- findings. It was really striking The youngest children in and teenagers have been diag- with Sept. 1 cutoffs. A child tember babies. And no other it was so consistent," said Dr. kindergarten are more likely to nosed with ADHD, which who turns 5 before Sept. 1 can month-to-month comparison William Cooper, a pediatrics be diagnosed with attention causes inattention, hyperactivi- start kindergarten. If not, the showed a sharp difference in and health policy professor at deficit hyperactivity disorder in ty and impulsivity. The rate of child waits until the next year. ADHD. Vanderbilt University in Nash- early grades, a study shows, an diagnosis is climbing. An August birthday can mean Finally, using insurance data ville, who wasn't involved in intriguing finding for parents The study, published a child is the youngest in class for more than 400,000 children the research. on the fence about when to Wednesday by the New Eng- while those born in September in all 50 states, the researchers Cooper said younger chil- start their child in school. land Journal of Medicine, are the oldest. looked at states that don't use a dren can have more trouble The study found younger stu- stemmed from a lunchroom Overall, from birth to the Sept. 1 cutoff and the effect dis- paying attention, sitting still dents, especially boys, are also conversation about "kindergar- first few years of school, the appeared. and controlling their impulses. more likely to be started on ten redshirting" for a co-au- number of children diagnosed medications for ADHD and thor's son. The term is bor- with ADHD was low. The re- kept on the drugs longer than rowed from athletics and searchers calculated that the the oldest children. The medi- means waiting a year to give a rate of ADHD diagnosis was a cations are generally safe but child time to mature. third higher in August-born ALL ABOARD the can have harmful side effects. "The parents were thinking kids than in September-born "Doctors and therapists need about whether or not to hold kids, based on 309 cases among Santa Express! to factor that into their deci- their child back an additional about 36,300 with August birth- sion-making," study co-author year," Jena recalled. That led days and 225 cases among Dr. Anupam Jena of Harvard the researchers to ask, "What about 35,300 born in September. Medical School said. They happens to kids who are in the There was no group differ- should ask, "Does he really same class who are perceived ence before age 4; it showed up Take the family on a scenic have ADHD, or is it because he to be different?" after school enrollment. train ride, meet Santa needs six more months to ma- They used insurance claims The researchers also looked and receive a treat! December 1st, 8th & 15th 10 AM, 11 AM, 12 noon, 2 PM & 3 PM ROCKTON RION Buy your tickets TODAY! & WESTERN www.scrm.org or call RAILROAD 803-712-4135 110 Industrial Park Rd., Winnsboro, SC Only 5 miles off I-77 at Exit 34 THE SUMTER ITEM NATION SUNDAY, DECEMBER 2, 2018 | A7

BUSH FROM PAGE A1 lin Wall coming down, the still thought the economy was terms. President Richard Warsaw Pact disintegrating in the tank, that I was out of Nixon appointed him ambas- victims of a 2004 tsunami in make American children the and the Soviet satellites falling touch and I didn’t understand sador to the United Nations, the Indian Ocean and Hurri- best educated in the world, out of orbit. that,” he said in an AP inter- and after the 1972 election, cane Katrina, which swamped were not so decisively won. He seized leadership of the view shortly before the dedica- named him chairman of the New Orleans and the Gulf He rode into office pledging NATO alliance with a bold and tion of his presidential library Republican National Commit- Coast in 2005. During their to make the United States a ultimately successful proposal in 1997. “The economy wasn’t tee. wide-ranging travels, the polit- “kinder, gentler” nation and for deep troop and tank cuts in in the tank, and I wasn’t out of Bush struggled to hold the ical odd couple grew close. calling on Americans to volun- Europe. Huge crowds cheered touch, but I lost. I couldn’t get party together as Watergate “Who would have thought teer their time for good causes him on a triumphal tour through this hue and cry for destroyed the Nixon presiden- that I would be working with — an effort he said would cre- through Poland and Hungary. ‘change, change, change’ and cy, then became ambassador Bill Clinton, of all people?” ate “a thousand points of Bush’s invasion of Panama ‘The economy is horrible, still to China and CIA chief in the Bush quipped in October 2005. light.” in December 1989 was a mili- in recession.’” Ford administration. In his post-presidency, It was Bush’s violation of a tary precursor of the Gulf George Herbert Walker Bush Bush made his first bid for Bush’s popularity rebounded different pledge, the no-new- War: a quick operation with a was born June 12, 1924, in Mil- president in 1980 and won the with the growth of his reputa- taxes promise, that helped sink resoundingly superior Ameri- ton, Massachusetts, into the Iowa caucuses, but Reagan tion as a fundamentally decent his bid for a second term. He can force. But in Panama, the New England elite, a world of went on to win the nomina- and well-meaning leader who, abandoned the idea in his sec- troops seized dictator Manuel prep schools, mansions and tion. although he was not a stirring ond year, cutting a deficit-re- Noriega and brought him back servants seemingly untouched In the 1988 presidential race, orator or a dreamy visionary, duction deal that angered to the United States in chains by the Great Depression. Bush trailed the Democratic was a steadfast humanitarian. many congressional Republi- to stand trial on drug-traffick- His father, Prescott Bush, the nominee, Massachusetts Gov. Elected officials and celebri- cans and contributed to GOP ing charges. son of an Ohio steel magnate, Michael Dukakis, by as many ties of both parties publicly ex- losses in the 1990 midterm elec- Months after the Gulf War, made his fortune as an invest- as 17 points that summer. He pressed their fondness. tions. Washington became engrossed ment banker and later served did little to help himself by After Iraq invaded Kuwait in An avid outdoorsman who in a different sort of confronta- 10 years as a senator from Con- picking Dan Quayle, a lightly August 1990, Bush quickly took Theodore Roosevelt as a tion over one of Bush’s nomi- necticut. regarded junior senator from began building an internation- model, Bush sought to safe- nees to the Supreme Court. George H.W. Bush enlisted in Indiana, as a running mate. al military coalition that in- guard the environment and Clarence Thomas, a little- the Navy on his 18th birthday But Bush soon became an cluded other Arab states. After signed the first improvements known federal appeals court in 1942, right out of prep aggressor, stressing patriotic liberating Kuwait, he rejected to the Clean Air Act in more judge, was accused of sexual school. He returned home to themes and flailing Dukakis as suggestions that the U.S. carry than a decade. It was activism harassment by a former col- marry his 19-year-old sweet- an out-of-touch liberal. He car- the offensive to Baghdad, with a Republican cast, allow- league named Anita Hill. His heart, Barbara Pierce, daugh- ried 40 states, becoming the choosing to end the hostilities a ing polluters to buy others’ confirmation hearings explod- ter of the publisher of McCall’s first sitting vice president to mere 100 hours after the start clean-air credits and giving in- ed into a national spectacle, magazine, in January 1945. be elected president since Mar- of the ground war. dustry flexibility on how to sparking an intense debate They were the longest-married tin Van Buren in 1836. “That wasn’t our objective,” meet tougher goals on smog. over race, gender and the mod- presidential couple in U.S. his- He took office with the hu- he told The Associated Press in He also signed the landmark ern workplace. Thomas was tory. She died on April 17. mility that was his hallmark. 2011 from his office just a few Americans with Disabilities eventually confirmed. Lean and athletic at 6-foot-2, “Some see leadership as blocks from his Houston home. Act to ban workplace discrimi- In the closing days of the Bush became a war hero while high drama, and the sound of “The good thing about it is nation against people with dis- 1992 campaign, Bush fought the still a teenager. One of the trumpets calling, and some- there was so much less loss of abilities and require improved impression that he was distant youngest pilots in the Navy, he times it is that,” he said at his human life than had been pre- access to public places and and disconnected, and he flew 58 missions off the carrier inauguration. “But I see histo- dicted and indeed than we transportation. seemed to struggle against the USS San Jacinto. ry as a book with many pages, might have feared.” Bush failed to rein in the def- younger, more empathetic Clin- He had to ditch one plane in and each day we fill a page But the decisive military de- icit, which had tripled to $3 tril- ton. the Pacific and was shot down with acts of hopefulness and feat did not lead to the regime’s lion under Reagan and gal- During a campaign visit to a on Sept. 2, 1944, while complet- meaning. The new breeze downfall, as many in the ad- loped ahead by as much as $300 grocers’ convention, Bush re- ing a bombing run against a blows, a page turns, the story ministration had hoped. billion a year under Bush, who portedly expressed amazement Japanese radio tower. An unfolds.” “I miscalculated,” acknowl- put his finger on it in his inau- when shown an electronic American submarine rescued He became the patriarch of edged Bush. His legacy was guration speech: “We have checkout scanner. Critics Bush. His two crewmates per- one of the nation’s most dogged for years by doubts more will than wallet.” seized on the moment, saying it ished. He received the Distin- prominent political families. about the decision not to re- Seven years of economic indicated that the president guished Flying Cross for brav- In addition to George W. be- move Saddam Hussein. The growth ended in mid-1990, just had become disconnected from ery. coming president, another Iraqi leader was eventually as the Gulf crisis began to un- voters. After the war, Bush took just son, Jeb, was elected Florida ousted in 2003, in the war led by fold. Bush insisted the reces- Later at a town-hall style de- 2½ years to graduate from governor in 1998 and made an Bush’s son that was followed sion would be “short and shal- bate, he paused to look at his Yale then headed west in 1948 unsuccessful run for the GOP by a long, bloody insurgency. low,” and lawmakers did not wristwatch — a seemingly in- to the oil fields of West Texas. presidential nomination in George H.W. Bush entered even try to pass a jobs bill or nocent glance that became Bush and partners helped 2016. the White House in 1989 with a other relief measures. freighted with deeper meaning found Zapata Petroleum Corp. The other Bush children are reputation as a man of indeci- Bush’s true interests lay else- because it seemed to reinforce in 1953. Six years later, he sons Neil and Marvin and sion and indeterminate views. where, outside the realm of the idea of a bored, impatient moved to Houston and became daughter Dorothy Bush LeB- One newsmagazine suggested nettlesome domestic politics. incumbent. active in the Republican Party. lond. Another daughter, he was a “wimp.” “I love coping with the prob- In the same debate, Bush be- In politics, he showed the Robin, died of leukemia in But his work-hard, play-hard lems in foreign affairs,” he told came confused by a woman’s same commitment he dis- 1953, a few weeks before her approach to the presidency a child who asked what he question about whether the played in business, advancing fourth birthday. won broad public approval. He liked best about being presi- deficit had affected him person- his career through loyalty and held more news conferences in dent. ally. Clinton, with apparent subservience. Graczyk retired from the AP most months than Reagan did He operated at times like a ease, left his seat, walked to the He was first elected to Con- in July 2018, after a 45-year ca- in most years. one-man State Department, on edge of the stage to address the gress in 1966 and served two reer with the news service. The Iraq crisis of 1990-91 the phone at dawn with his woman and offered a sympa- brought out all the skills Bush peers — Mikhail Gorbachev of thetic answer. had honed in a quarter-century the Soviet Union, Francois Bush said the pain of losing * of politics and public service. Mitterrand of France, Germa- in 1992 was eased by the warm Great rates - no worries After winning United Na- ny’s Helmut Kohl. reception he received after tions support and a green light Communism began to crum- leaving office. 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appreciated. She said other teachers SEARCH FROM PAGE A1 feel the same way. Harper said one of Hamm’s point now where you say, ‘So, what? strengths has been to bridge commu- Now, what?’ The issue now is ‘now nity involvement. She referenced the what?’ And that’s what everybody has district’s first-ever professional devel- to learn. Obviously, it’s been hard, but opment conference last summer, we must go forward, and this search among other items. process opportunity gives everybody “That conference was amazing and that chance.” collaborative,” Harper said. “I have At the forum, Castner solicited re- never felt more appreciated by Sumter sponses from the 25 attendees on what School District than at the confer- the district’s strengths and challenges ence.” are and what characteristics people On Thursday, B.W.P. also facilitated are looking for in the next superinten- community forums at Lakewood and dent. Crestwood high schools. A total of 36 Many in attendance said the dis- residents attended the Lakewood trict’s dedicated teachers and staff are forum, and 17 were at the Crestwood one of its biggest strengths. event, Castner said. “We need to be sure we get this right Including the focus group events because it’s critically important for BRUCE MILLS / THE SUMTER ITEM with community leaders, Castner our children and also for the future of Oakland Primary School teacher Stephanie Harper, left, talks during the community said his team had 29 meetings last this community,” said Bryan Funke, a forum at Sumter High School on Thursday night. Kevin Castner with B.W.P. and Associ- week with more than 250 people to doctor whose children attended Sum- ates, standing, facilitated the forum. gather input on the superintendent ter public schools. “We need to prep search. our kids for life, whether that be col- it closed two low-enrollment schools, years as a superintendent, Castner SPECIAL-CALLED MEETING lege or get them ready for the area which is always a delicate decision. said he thinks the district is now MONDAY NIGHT workforce. We need to get them ready Also, Sumter County Council has not building on good points and that Inter- to be responsible citizens and good granted the district a millage increase im Superintendent Debbie Hamm has B.W.P. and Associates will report its employees in order to move this com- for the last two years, showcasing dif- done a nice job in the post. Hamm findings and a draft leadership profile munity forward to where it needs to ferences in leaders’ opinions. Funke began her position on Aug. 1, 2017, and for the next superintendent to the go.” also said the board needs to be more this school year is her second and Board of Trustees on Monday at a spe- Funke said he thinks the school transparent in its actions. final year with the district. cial called meeting at the district of- board hasn’t gotten the superinten- Castner said the board has the obli- Stephanie Harper, a teacher at Oak- fice, 1345 Wilson Hall Road. dent search right in the past. Other gation to get it right this time in the land Primary School, said she has The meeting is at 6 p.m. and, like all challenges, he said, the district faces search process for its new leader. been with the district for eight years, board-related meetings, is open to the now include dealing with its rural With more than 40 years of experi- dating back to the consolidation, and public. Public participation is not on communities, where earlier this year ence in public education, including 11 that now is the first time she has felt the agenda.

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COMMENTARY The enduring miracle of the American Constitution This column is excerpted from Charles ally written it. Constitution. And it’s important to re- body who isn’t exactly religious. But Krauthammer’s forthcoming posthu- The second miracle is the substance member that it is a gift from the past. starting with the Declaration of Inde- mous book, “The Point of It All.” The of it — the way that the founders, It is not something that we can in any pendence and the Constitution: Here book and column were edited by his drawing from Locke and Montesquieu way credit to ourselves. If anything, is a nation founded on the edge of civi- son, Daniel Krauthammer. and the Greeks, created an extraordi- recent generations have allowed that lization — a tiny colony, living on the nary political apparatus that to this kind of reverence to diminish, to bleed outskirts of the civilized world — that n October 1981, when Egyptian day still works and that has worked away over the decades, as we try — as at a time when it needed it miracu- President Anwar Sadat was assas- with incredible success for nearly a it were — to adapt constitutionalism lously produced the greatest genera- sinated, the networks ran over to quarter of a millennium. to modernity. tion of political thinkers in the history ICairo and began covering the But the third miracle, and the one What’s so remarkable is that consti- of the world. Then a century later, events all day and all night. The only that I think we appreciate the least, is tutions are highly reactionary docu- when it needed a Lincoln to save the thing I remember of all that coverage the fact of the reverence that we have ments. The very essence of a constitu- republic, it found a Lincoln. In the was a news anchor bringing in a Mid- for it. This reverence tion is to constrain the enthusiasms of first half of the 20th century, when it dle East expert and saying, “We’ve is so deeply ingrained a future that one cannot even see. In needed an FDR to get through the De- just looked at the Egyptian constitu- that we don’t even see America, constitutionalism demands pression and defeat fascism, it found tion, and our researchers tell us that it; we just think it’s in that even the most distant progeny him. In the second half, when it need- the next in line for the presidency is the air that we swear allegiance to a past embodied in ed a Reagan to revive the country, he the speaker of the parliament.” The breathe. But it is ex- a document written in the late 1780s. was there. Middle East expert burst out laughing. traordinarily rare. It If “tradition ... is the democracy of the This is not to say that we will always “Nobody in Egypt has read the consti- exists in only a hand- dead,” as G.K. Chesterton had it, then be able to find our way. I don’t see or tution in 30 years,” he said. “No one ful of countries. For constitutionalism — which is ancient expect or wait for the next great fig- knows it exists. And no one cares Charles almost all of the wisdom rendered into legal code — is ure. But over the years we have seen what’s in it.” Then he prompted, Krauthammer world, it is completely the tyranny of the dead, the ultimate extraordinary spontaneous popular “Who’s the leader of the military?” alien. reach of the past into the future. reactions against government over- The anchor answered, “Hosni Consider the oath And in America, it succeeded. The reach and in support of constitutional Mubarak,” and the expert said, “He’s of office that we take for granted. propagandist Lincoln Steffens famous- principles, and they are further signs your next president.” Whenever we bestow upon anyone the ly said, upon visiting Bolshevik Russia of hope. Two things struck me about that. authority to wield the power of the shortly after the revolution: “I have There is something about the Amer- First, how naive we are about what state over free citizens, we make them seen the future, and it works.” Ameri- ican spirit — about the bedrock decen- constitutions are and what they mean swear to protect not the people, not can constitutionalism declares: “We cy and common sense of the Ameri- around the world. And the second the nation, not the flag, but the Consti- have seen the past, and it works.” Par- can — that seems to help us find our thing, the reason for the first, is how tution of the United States. A piece of adoxically, for all the forward-looking, way, something about American histo- much reverence we have — in the paper. Of course, it stands for the pil- blue-sky, futuristic spirit of its people, ry that redeems itself in a way that in- United States and very few other lars of the American experiment it- the astonishing stability, majesty and spires all. I would summarize it by countries — for this document. self: the ideas, the structures, the phi- success of the American experiment quoting my favorite pundit, Otto von Many things are miraculous about losophy that define a limited govern- owe much to the inherent restraint Bismarck. He was not known for his the U.S. Constitution. The first is that, ment with enumerated powers, whose and conservatism of its original con- punditry, but he is famously said to somehow, on this edge of the civilized mission is to preserve liberty and indi- stitutional blueprint. have said: “God looks after children, world two and a half centuries ago, vidual rights. I’ve always had a sense that there is drunkards, idiots and the United there could have been a collection of This is a gift — that we intrinsically something providential about Ameri- States of America.” I think He still such political geniuses as to have actu- have this sense of reverence for the can history. And this is from some- does. I hope He still does.

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COMMENTARY Protect yourself, others against flu during National Influenza Vaccination Week ith the spirit of the flu can cause hospitaliza- providers — including doc- ing against several different families and communities by giving resting tion or even death. Each flu tors’ offices, clinics, pharma- strains of the flu that circu- preventing and reducing the upon us during season is unique; the timing cies, college health centers, late each season. spread of infectious diseases. Wthis holiday sea- of the peak activity and how schools and workplaces — • It offers lasting protec- Whether it’s getting young son, there is no better public severe a season will be are now offer flu vaccines. Find tion against the flu for at children vaccinated against gift you can give than provid- hard to predict, making it the facility that works best least six to eight months. diseases such as whooping ing flu vaccinations for your- very important to protect for you. • It is the only protection cough and measles, ensuring self and your family. The an- yourself against flu as early Some people are more like- shown to reduce hospitaliza- teens are protected against nual flu vac- as possible. ly to get serious complica- tion and deaths caused by conditions such as HPV or cine is the Last year’s flu season was tions from the flu, such as the flu. making sure those in your single best one of the worst we’ve seen pneumonia or inflammation In addition to receiving an circle get vaccinated against way to pro- in recent years, with a high of the heart or brain. This annual flu vaccine, take the flu, immunizations help tect yourself number of deaths and hospi- includes infants and young other preventive measures, us stay healthy. and your talizations here in South children, older adults, preg- such as avoiding people who So, don’t forget your flu loved ones. Carolina and across the na- nant women and anyone are sick and staying home shot. The protection it will Although tion. It is important to get with chronic medical condi- from work, school and other provide for you and others we are al- vaccinated now, before any tions like asthma, heart or places if you are sick. Also, around you will be one of Dr. Linda Bell ready two significant spread of the flu lung disease and diabetes. cover your mouth and nose the best gifts you will give months into virus begins in our commu- Making sure that you — and when you cough or sneeze, this holiday season. the flu sea- nity. those in these vulnerable and wash your hands often son, it is not too late to get The Centers for Disease groups — are vaccinated will and thoroughly. Dr. Linda Bell is director of vaccinated. As a matter of Control and Prevention and provide much-needed protec- Other habits that can help the Bureau of Communicable fact, with this being National DHEC recommend that ev- tion. you stay healthy year round Disease Prevention and Con- Influenza Vaccination Week eryone 6 months old and There are significant bene- include getting plenty of ex- trol and state epidemiologist (Dec. 2-8), this is a perfect older get a yearly flu vac- fits to getting the flu vaccine: ercise and sleep, managing at the SC Department of time to get vaccinated. cine. Even if you don’t have • It gives your body the your stress, drinking water Health and Environmental This is about more than a regular health care provid- ability to fight the flu if you and eating nutritious foods. Control. For more informa- avoiding the flu so you won’t er, the vaccine is available in are exposed to someone who But we can’t overlook the tion about the flu and to find be forced to miss the annual many settings. In addition to is ill. critical role immunizations a clinic near you, visit www. Christmas party. Illness with DHEC clinics, many local • It is effective in protect- play in protecting children, scdhec.gov/flu. A10 | SUNDAY, DECEMBER 2, 2018 DAILY PLANNER THE SUMTER ITEM

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PREP BASKETBALL Gators humble Gamecocks Lakewood boys cruise to 69-61 win over Sumter; SHS girls triumph

BY DENNIS BRUNSON [email protected]

It was an electric atmo- sphere at The Swamp on Fri- day as homestanding Lake- wood High School took on Sumter School District rival Sumter High in the boys game. Both teams fed off the energy in the building from the start of the game, but it was the Gators who grabbed the momentum and never let it get away. Lakewood led 20-10 after one quarter, and the Gamecocks never got closer than six points the remainder of the game as the Gators won by a not-nearly-as-close-as-it- sounds final score of 69-61. “I’m really pleased with the way we played tonight,” said Lakewood head coach Bryan Brown, whose team improved to 2-3 on the season. “We played with a lot of intensity from the beginning and we were able to maintain the mo- mentum.” TREVOR BAUKNIGHT / THE SUMTER ITEM SEE GATORS, PAGE B1 Lakewood’s Juwan Purdue (10) drives to the basket as Sumter’s Kwaleek Jones (23) defends during the Gators’ 69-61 victory on Friday at The Swamp.

USC FOOTBALL COLLEGE FOOTBALL No. 1 Alabama rallies behind Hurts, tops No. 4 Georgia 35-28

ATLANTA (AP) — In a dra- hands for the winning score. matic twist on last season’s Spotting an opening up the national championship game, middle, he took off on a 15- Jalen Hurts came off the yard TD run with 1:04 left. bench to pass for one touch- This was a reversal of the down and run for another in storyline from last season’s na- the fourth quarter, rallying tional title game, when Tago- No. 1 Alabama to a 35-28 victo- vailoa replaced an ineffective ry over No. 4 Georgia in the Hurts at the start of the second Southeastern Conference title half with Alabama trailing game Saturday. Georgia 13-0. The replacement Heisman Trophy favorite Tua threw three touchdown passes, Tagovailoa had to be helped off including a 41-yarder in over- the field with just over 11 min- time that gave the Tide a stun- utes remaining after one of his ning 26-23 victory. own linemen stepped on the Tagovailoa won the start- quarterback’s right ankle as he ing job in preseason practice THE ASSOCIATED PRESS attempted to throw. and performed brilliantly South Carolina quarterback Jake Bentley (19) throws a pass during the first half of the Gamecocks’ Enter Hurts, who led Ala- during the regular season, 28-3 victory over Akron on Saturday at Williams-Brice Stadium in Columbia. The game was a late bama to the national title throwing 36 touchdown addition to the USC schedule after its Sept. 15 game against Marshall was cancelled due to Hurri- game as a freshman but lost passes with only two inter- cane Florence. the starting job to Tago- ceptions. vailoa. Hurts calmly guided The SEC title game took a the Crimson Tide (13-0, No. 1 different path. Georgia put CFP) to tying touchdown quite a beating on Tagovailoa, Carolina handles Akron 28-3 with a 10-yard pass to Jerry who threw two interceptions, Jeudy. spent much of his spare time BY EDDIE LITAKER After Georgia (11-2, No. 4 in the medical tent and was Special to The Sumter Item CFP) was stuffed on a fake largely ineffective as the Bull- Weird day for USC punt near midfield, Hurts dogs built a pair of two-touch- COLUMBIA — On a cool and soggy day at took matters into his own down leads. a well under capacity Williams-Brice Stadi- BY DANNY KELLY um, South Carolina wide receiver Deebo [email protected] Samuel made the most of the first half of his final home football game in the Garnet COLUMBIA — It was a strange game to and Black. say the least when the South Carolina The Gamecocks led the Zips 28-3 at the Gamecocks took on the Akron Zips at half, with Samuel responsible for three of Williams-Brice Stadium on Saturday. those scores. Two came in standard Deebo The Gamecocks defeated the Zips 28-3 in fashion, on receptions of 15 and five yards, a makeup game that saw rain, low crowd with the third coming on a first for the tal- attendance and no points in the second half. ented wideout -- a fumble recovery in the The game came about when the Game- end zone on a botched Akron punt attempt. cocks’ home game against Marshall “Great first half. We played extremely scheduled for Sept. 15 was canceled due to well,” said USC head coach Will Muschamp. Hurricane Florence. “He’s (Samuel) been a great football player “First of all, I want to thank our fans here at the University of South Carolina. who were here — pretty miserable day Fought through a lot of adversity last year. weather-wise,” South Carolina head When he’s been on the field he’s been an coach Will Muschamp said. “They cer- electric player in college football.” tainly were loud for us and we appreciate THE ASSOCIATED PRESS The always humble Samuel, who closed Alabama tight end Irv Smith Jr. (82) hits Georgia defensive back Tyson SEE WEIRD, PAGE B6 Campbell (3) in the helmet during the Crimson Tide’s 35-28 victory on SEE USC, PAGE B6 Saturday in Atlanta.

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PRO FOOTBALL Chiefs set for Oakland game while Hunt wonders what’s next

BY DAVE SKRETTA Hunt? those discussions.” The Associated Press The Chiefs and the NFL The matter brought imme- knew what happened in Feb- diate comparisons to the KANSAS CITY, Mo. — Ka- ruary in Cleveland, and the video of Ravens running reem Hunt went from the Kan- organization spoke to Hunt on back Ray Rice punching a sas City Chiefs’ practice field several occasions before han- woman in an elevator, which to looking for a job in about six dling discipline internally. ultimately led to a long legal hours, a spectacular fall for But neither the team nor the saga that ended with him the NFL’s reigning rushing league had seen the video be- never playing in the NFL champion.he Pro Bowl run- fore it became public Friday. again. ning back had been preparing The NFL made multiple at- The big difference between for Sunday’s game at Oakland tempts to obtain it, a person fa- Rice and Hunt, though, is this: when a months-old video sur- miliar with the case told The Rice was on the downward faced online. The footage from Associated Press, speaking on side of his career while Hunt a Cleveland hotel security condition of anonymity be- was on the ascent. camera showed Hunt shoving cause of the ongoing investiga- Being on the exempt list and kicking a woman, with po- tion. The hotel informed the does not prevent another lice ultimately responding. No league that corporate policy al- team from taking a chance on charges were filed. THE ASSOCIATED PRESS lowed the video to be given a player. That was the under- The Chiefs immediately Kansas City running back Kareem Hunt (27) has gone from being one only to law enforcement. lined when the Washington sent Hunt home as the TMZ of the top running backs in the National Football League to out of a The NFL then contacted Redskins signed linebacker video rippled across social job after the Chiefs cut him on Friday after video surfaced of him Cleveland police, the person Reuben Foster, who had been media. An organization that kicking a woman. said. Police declined to pro- cut last week after he was ar- prides itself on providing sec- vide the video. Police and rested on suspicion of domes- ond chances said in a state- helping Kansas City form “There was a question hotel officials have not com- tic violence. ment late Friday it had re- one of the league’s most dy- whether he would be able to mented. The Redskins faced harsh leased the 23-year-old star. namic offenses. come back from that injury. It The video showed Hunt public criticism, and there The team was traveling Satur- His ability to churn out was a pretty tough injury to lunging toward a woman and will no doubt be a similar out- day. yards on the ground helped come back from,” Chiefs several others in a hotel hall- cry if a team signs Hunt. But The NFL had no comment the Chiefs put away several coach Andy Reid said recent- way, and the player being re- balancing such opposition Friday night beyond saying games. His ability to catch ly. “The last couple weeks he strained several times before against the benefits of a Hunt was on the commission- passes out of the backfield has played good football. You knocking two people down. young star in his prime is a er’s exempt list, meaning he had been just as useful. can see where he is more con- Two police reports were filed delicate decision for team ex- can’t play or attend games Yet the falloff to Spencer fident each week here.” in which each person accuses ecutives. while the league investigates. Ware isn’t that significant. The Chiefs are also confi- the other: Hunt is listed as the Hunt issued a brief apology The question now for both The Chiefs’ backup was the dent in backups Damien Wil- suspect in one; a woman, Abi- late Friday, a small first step the Chiefs and Hunt is simple: unquestioned starter heading liams and Darrel Williams. gail Ottinger, is the suspect in toward getting another What’s next? into last season, even after the And with a soft schedule the other. chance. But as the Chiefs get The Chiefs (9-2) are barrel- team made Hunt their third- down the stretch, including In its grainy and graphic ready to play in Oakland, ing toward the No. 1 seed in round pick. It wasn’t until two games against the Raid- footage, the video brought a Hunt will be watching on tele- the playoffs, and the loss of Ware — whose skill set closely ers, there is plenty of time for new dimension to develop- vision. their leading rusher is sub- mirrors that of Hunt — went their offense to adjust to life ments, showing that what There are many more steps stantial. Hunt already had down with a season-ending without Hunt in the backfield. Hunt had told the Chiefs before Hunt takes the field run for more than 800 yards knee injury in the preseason So that is what’s next for was not the case. The team again. and had 14 total touchdowns, that the rookie took over. the Chiefs. What happens to said he was “not truthful in If it ever happens.

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At Williams-Brice Stadium W L Pct GB TV, RADIO In Columbia Charlotte 11 11 .500 — Chester vs. Dillon, 3 p.m. Orlando 11 12 .478 ½ QBs look to elevate TODAY 2A Miami 8 13 .381 2½ 6:55 a.m. — International Soccer: English Premier Friday Washington 8 14 .364 3 League Match — Fulham vs. Chelsea (NBC SPORTS At Charlie W. Johnson Stadium Atlanta 5 18 .217 6½ NETWORK). In Columbia Central Division 9 a.m. — International Soccer: English Premier Panthers, Bucs Abbeville vs. Barnwell, 8 p.m. W L Pct GB League Match — Tottenham vs. Arsenal (NBC 1A Milwaukee 15 7 .682 — SPORTS NETWORK). Friday Detroit 12 7 .632 1½ 9:30 a.m. — International Soccer: Bundesliga League At Charlie W. Johnson Stadium Indiana 13 9 .591 2 Match — Borussia Monchengladbach vs. RB Leipzig In Columbia Chicago 5 18 .217 10½ down the stretch (FOX SPORTS 1, UNIVISION). Lamar vs. Green Sea-Floyds, 5 p.m. Cleveland 4 17 .190 10½ 11 a.m. — PGA Golf: Hero World Challenge Final Round from New Providence, Bahamas (GOLF). WESTERN CONFERENCE BY FRED GOODALL 11:10 a.m. — International Soccer: English Premier Southwest Division League Match — Everton vs. Liverpool (NBC SPORTS NFL STANDINGS W L Pct GB The Associated Press NETWORK). Memphis 13 8 .619 — Noon — College Football: College Football Playoff AMERICAN CONFERENCE East Dallas 10 10 .500 2½ Selection Show (ESPN). New Orleans 11 12 .478 3 TAMPA, Fla. — Cam Newton and Noon — International Soccer: Bundesliga League W L T Pct PF PA New England 8 3 0 .727 307 249 Houston 10 11 .476 3 Match — Vfl Wolfsburg vs. Eintratcht Frankfurt (FOX San Antonio 10 12 .455 3½ Jameis Winston know there’s no SPORTS 1). Miami 5 6 0 .455 223 283 Buffalo 4 7 0 .364 161 272 Northwest Division surefire way for a quarterback to Noon — College Basketball: Texas A&M (Corpus W L Pct GB Christi) at Tennessee (SEC NETWORK). N.Y. Jets 3 8 0 .273 221 281 lead a team out of a funk. South Denver 15 7 .682 — 1 p.m. — PGA Golf: Hero World Challenge Final Oklahoma City 14 7 .667 ½ Round from New Providence, Bahamas (WIS 10). W L T Pct PF PA What works in one situation may Houston 8 3 0 .727 273 222 Portland 13 9 .591 2 1 p.m. — NFL Football: Baltimore at Atlanta (WLTX Minnesota 11 11 .500 4 not necessarily be the answer in an- 19). Indianapolis 6 5 0 .545 325 273 Tennessee 5 6 0 .455 195 223 Utah 11 12 .478 4½ other. 1 p.m. — NFL Football: Carolina at Tampa Bay (WACH Pacific Division 57, WWFN-FM 100.1, WPUB-FM 102.7). Jacksonville 3 8 0 .273 197 243 Newton’s second-place Carolina North W L Pct GB 1 p.m. — College Basketball: Arizona at Connecticut L.A. Clippers 15 6 .714 — (ESPN2). W L T Pct PF PA Panthers (6-5) have lost three Pittsburgh 7 3 1 .682 316 249 Golden State 15 8 .652 1 1 p.m. — Women’s College Soccer: NCAA College L.A. Lakers 13 9 .591 2½ straight games following a 6-2 start, Cup Championship Match from Cary, N.C. (ESPNU). Baltimore 6 5 0 .545 271 198 Cincinnati 5 6 0 .455 276 347 Sacramento 10 11 .476 5 2 p.m. — Women’s College Basketball: Mississippi Phoenix 4 18 .182 11½ moving closer to the bottom of the State at Texas (FOX SPORTS 1). Cleveland 4 6 1 .409 253 283 NFC South than the 2 p.m. — Professional Basketball: NBA G-League West W L T Pct PF PA FRIDAY’S GAMES Game —Grand Rapids at Raptors 905 (NBA TV). Boston 128, Cleveland 95 top. Kansas City 9 2 0 .818 404 294 2 p.m. — Women’s College Basketball: Texas Tech at Detroit 107, Chicago 88 L.A. Chargers 8 3 0 .727 307 219 Winston’s getting an- Florida (SEC NETWORK). Philadelphia 123, Washington 98 Denver 5 6 0 .455 252 252 2:25 p.m. — International Soccer: Italian Serie A Utah 119, Charlotte 111 other chance to lead Oakland 2 9 0 .182 187 327 Match — Inter Milan vs. AS Roma (ESPNEWS). Memphis 131, Brooklyn 125, 2OT the Tampa Bay Bucca- 3 p.m. — College Basketball: Central Florida at Houston 136, San Antonio 105 Missouri (ESPNU). NATIONAL CONFERENCE Miami 106, New Orleans 101 neers (4-7) out of the di- 4 p.m. — NFL Football: Minnesota at New England East W L T Pct PF PA Oklahoma City 124, Atlanta 109 vision cellar after (WACH 57). Orlando 99, Phoenix 85 4 p.m. — Women’s College Basketball: Connecticut Dallas 7 5 0 .583 247 223 spending a month on Washington 6 5 0 .545 220 229 Denver 113, Portland 112 NEWTON at Notre Dame (ESPN). L.A. Lakers 114, Dallas 103 the bench because of 4 p.m. — Women’s College Basketball: Tennessee at Philadelphia 5 6 0 .455 230 253 Oklahoma State (FOX SPORTS 1). N.Y. Giants 3 8 0 .273 237 288 his propensity for mak- South SATURDAY’S GAMES 4 p.m. — Women’s College Basketball: Oklahoma at New York 136, Milwaukee 134, OT W L T Pct PF PA ing costly mistakes. Auburn (SEC NETWORK). Brooklyn at Washington, 7 p.m. New Orleans 10 2 0 .833 419 269 5 p.m. — NBA Basketball: New Orleans at Charlotte Golden State at Detroit, 7 p.m. “In the NFL, part of winning is Carolina 6 5 0 .545 287 282 (FOX SPORTS SOUTHEAST). Boston at Minnesota, 8 p.m. Atlanta 4 7 0 .364 280 307 not losing, not beating yourself,” 7 p.m. — Women’s College Basketball: Baylor at Chicago at Houston, 8 p.m. Tampa Bay 4 7 0 .364 294 338 South Carolina (ESPN2, WNKT-FM 107.5). Toronto at Cleveland, 8 p.m. Bucs coach Dirk Koetter said, re- North 8:20 p.m. — NFL Football: Los Angeles Chargers at Indiana at Sacramento, 10 p.m. Pittsburgh (WIS 10). W L T Pct PF PA flecting on Winston delivering his Chicago 8 3 0 .727 317 211 Minnesota 6 4 1 .591 265 246 SUNDAY’S GAMES best performance of the season to MONDAY Phoenix at L.A. Lakers, 3:30 p.m. Green Bay 4 6 1 .409 264 267 2:20 p.m. — International Soccer: Bundesliga League New Orleans at Charlotte, 5 p.m. help Tampa Bay stop a four-game Detroit 4 7 0 .364 238 286 Match — Bayer Leverkusen vs. FC Nurnberg (FOX Memphis at Philadelphia, 6 p.m. West skid last week. SPORTS 2). Utah at Miami, 6 p.m. W L T Pct PF PA 6:05 p.m. — Talk Show: Sports Talk (WDXY-FM 105.9, L.A. Clippers at Dallas, 7 p.m. “You have to just keep it simple,” L.A. Rams 10 1 0 .909 389 282 WDXY-AM 1240). Portland at San Antonio, 7 p.m. said Winston, who lost his starting 6:30 p.m. — College Basketball: Iowa at Michigan Seattle 6 5 0 .545 276 243 State (FOX SPORTS 1). Arizona 2 9 0 .182 155 293 job after turning the ball over 11 San Francisco 2 9 0 .182 239 293 MONDAY’S GAMES 6:30 p.m. — College Basketball: Liberty at Oklahoma City at Detroit, 7 p.m. times in 14 quarters. Georgetown (FOX SPORTS 2). Cleveland at Brooklyn, 7:30 p.m. 7 p.m. — NBA Basketball: Oklahoma City at Detroit THURSDAY’S GAMES The fourth-year pro said the dif- Dallas 13, New Orleans 10 Denver at Toronto, 7:30 p.m. (NBA TV). Golden State at Atlanta, 7:30 p.m. ference during last week’s 27-9 rout 8 p.m. — College Basketball: Troy at Florida State Washington at New York, 7:30 p.m. (FOX SPORTSOUTH). SUNDAY’S GAMES of San Francisco was his decisive- L.A. Rams at Detroit, 1 p.m. Houston at Minnesota, 8 p.m. 8 p.m. — College Basketball: Northwestern State at L.A. Clippers at New Orleans, 8 p.m. ness with the football. Texas A&M (SEC NETWORK). Carolina at Tampa Bay, 1 p.m. 8:15 p.m. — NFL Football: Washington at Philadelphia Arizona at Green Bay, 1 p.m. “I’m thinking about one play at a Denver at Cincinnati, 1 p.m. TUESDAY’S GAMES (ESPN, WNKT-FM 107.5). Chicago at Indiana, 7 p.m. Baltimore at Atlanta, 1 p.m. time, one completion at a time, one 8:30 p.m. — College Basketball: Florida A&M at Orlando at Miami, 7:30 p.m. Chicago at N.Y. Giants, 1 p.m. DePaul (FOX SPORTS 1). Portland at Dallas, 8:30 p.m. game at a time,” Winston said. “It’s Cleveland at Houston, 1 p.m. Sacramento at Phoenix, 9 p.m. Indianapolis at Jacksonville, 1 p.m. easier to keep it simple when you’re San Antonio at Utah, 9 p.m. Buffalo at Miami, 1 p.m. decisive, making quick decisions PREP FOOTBALL N.Y. Jets at Tennessee, 4:05 p.m. Kansas City at Oakland, 4:05 p.m. and getting the ball out of your SCHSL STATE PLAYOFFS San Francisco at Seattle, 4:25 p.m. COLLEGE FOOTBALL Semifinals Minnesota at New England, 4:25 p.m. hands.” Friday L.A. Chargers at Pittsburgh, 8:20 p.m. FCS PLAYOFFS The Panthers haven’t won since 5A Upper State First Round beating the Bucs 42-28 at home on MONDAY’S GAMES Saturday, Nov. 24 T.L. Hanna 57, Byrnes 28 Washington at Philadelphia, 8:15 p.m. Nov. 4. Kicking woes factored in Lower State Duquesne 31, Towson 10 Dutch Fork 47, Summerville 14 Wofford 19, Elon 7 narrow losses the past two weeks to THURSDAY, DEC. 6 Southeast Missouri State 28, Stony Brook 14 4A Jacksonville at Tennessee, 8:20 p.m. Detroit and Seattle, however, and Upper State Montana State 35, Incarnate Word 14 Greer 35, Daniel 23 James Madison 20, Delaware 6 Newton said he’s focused on the SUNDAY, DEC. 9 Nicholls State 49, San Diego 30 Lower State New Orleans at Tampa Bay, 1 p.m. Northern Iowa 16, Lamar 13 next opportunity to get back on Myrtle Beach 52, Hartsville 31 N.Y. Giants at Washington, 1 p.m. Jacksonville State 34, ETSU 27 3A Atlanta at Green Bay, 1 p.m. track. Upper State Indianapolis at Houston, 1 p.m. Second Round Win or lose, he has learned you Chester 21, Union County 14 N.Y. Jets at Buffalo, 1 p.m. Saturday, Dec. 1 Lower State Carolina at Cleveland, 1 p.m. Maine 55, Jacksonville State 27 give yourself 24 hours to get over Dillon 18, Wade Hampton 13 New England at Miami, 1 p.m. Colgate 23, James Madison 20 the excitement or disappointment. 2A Baltimore at Kansas City, 1 p.m. Kennesaw State 13, Wofford 10 Upper State Cincinnati at L.A. Chargers, 4:05 p.m. North Dakota State 52, Montana State 10 “You can either celebrate or sulk Abbeville 28, Southside Christian 21 Denver at San Francisco, 4:05 p.m. South Dakota State 51, Duquesne 6 and sob,” the Carolina quarterback Lower State Detroit at Arizona, 4:25 p.m. Weber State 48, Southeast Missouri State 23 Barnwell 57, Carvers Bay 26 Philadelphia at Dallas, 4:25 p.m. Eastern Washington 42, Nicholls State 21 said. “After that 24 hours is up, let 1A Pittsburgh at Oakland, 4:25 p.m. Northern Iowa (7-5) at UC Davis (9-2), 7 p.m. it go. That has been so helpful for Upper State L.A. Rams at Chicago, 8:20 p.m. Lamar 18, Dixie 14 Quarterfinals me in my growth as a man.” Lower State MONDAY, DEC. 10 Friday, Dec. 7 or Saturday, Dec. 8 Green Sea-Floyds 47, Hemingway 7 Minnesota at Seattle, 8:15 p.m. North Dakota State (12-0) vs. Colgate (10-1) For Winston, Sunday’s game STATE CHAMPIONSHIPS South Dakota State (9-2) vs. Kennesaw State (11-1) against the Panthers represents 5A Eastern Washington (10-2) vs. Northern Iowa-UC Saturday Davis winner the next test in what amounts to At Williams-Brice Stadium NBA STANDINGS Maine (9-3) vs. Weber State (10-2) an audition to determine if he’s In Columbia Semifinals T.L. Hanna vs. Dutch Fork, 6:30 p.m. EASTERN CONFERENCE Tampa Bay’s quarterback of the Atlantic Division Friday, Dec. 14 or Saturday, Dec. 15 4A TBD future. Saturday W L Pct GB At Williams-Brice Stadium Toronto 19 4 .826 — Championship The 24-year-old didn’t face the In Columbia Philadelphia 16 8 .667 3½ Saturday, Jan. 5 Panthers last time. He was benched Greer vs. Myrtle Beach, noon Boston 12 10 .545 6½ At Toyota Stadium 3A Brooklyn 8 15 .348 11 Frisco, Texas after throwing four interceptions Saturday New York 8 16 .333 11½ Semifinal winners, Noon Southeast Division the previous week at Cincinnati. THE SUMTER ITEM SPORTS SUNDAY, DECEMBER 2, 2018 | B3

RECRUITING CORNER Tigers pick up third offensive lineman for 2020 class

lemson picked up its fifth also cited the proximity to Clemson as an official visit to Ann Arbor. Perry T-Rob (Robinson) and Muschamp a lot commitment for the 2020 foot- important for his grandmother to be had made multiple unofficial visits to the whole weekend. I’m a priority for ball recruiting class on Sun- able to easily see him play. He said he USC and was scheduled for an official them and I can come, get developed Cday in offensive lineman Paul also might take an official visit to visit on Saturday. and play as a true freshman.” Tchio of Alpharetta, Ga. Southern California. Crouch plans to Fortunately for USC, it has a bevy of What’s particularly appealing to Hill Tchio (6-feet-5-inches, 325 pounds) privately commit at some point and quality CB targets still on the board, about the USC situation is Mus- also had offers from Georgia, Alabama, sign in December, but he won’t an- including Shilo Sanders of Cedar Hill, champ’s and Robinson’s histories of Florida, Florida State, Tennessee, Ohio nounce his plans until the U.S. Army Texas. Sanders took his official visit to developing DBs, of all places, UF. State, Oklahoma, Louisville and others. All-American Game on Jan. 5, 2019. USC on Oct. 12, and USC is keeping up “T-Rob and Muschamp, knowing the He narrowed his decision to Clem- DJ Uiagalelei, a ’20 quarterback the pursuit of the son of one the most guys they produced in the past at Flor- son, Alabama and UGA. He was at from Bellflower, Calif., was back at famous CBs in football history, Deion ida, that’s big, knowing what T-Rob Clemson on Saturday for the South Clemson over the weekend for the Pal- Sanders. and Muschamp can do with DBs at my Carolina game, his third visit metto Bowl. Uiagalelei is the “I love them,” Shilo Sanders said. position,” he said. “They are definitely of the season. He said he actu- top ranked player in the ‘20 “As of right now, that’s the only on the rise.” ally made up his mind after class. He also visited last sum- school I’ve visited so I’ve got to take Hill took his official visit to UF in visiting for the Syracuse mer. His dad joined him on some other visits. I’m not going to say October for the Louisiana State game, game. this visit for his first look at that (USC is the favorite); I’m just and he said there are no more visits to “The family atmosphere; it Clemson. Uiagalelei visited going to say I like them a lot. I don’t be taken. He will have home visits was so real and genuine there Auburn two weeks ago and really have a favorite because I haven’t next month with coaches from both that me and my family could those Tigers are at the top of really seen anything. But I like them a staffs. The question for USC now is, definitely notice that, and it the list along with Clemson lot, for sure.” can Muschamp and Robinson say was something we really and Oregon, but Uiagalelei is Tennessee has become a major play- enough to turn him from the Gators wanted to be a part of,” Tchio Phil also hearing from Alabama er as well, and Sanders said he will set before he signs in December? said. “They are definitely Kornblut and Washington. up an official visit with the Volun- “It’s something to think about for dominating the ball. All three Bryan Bresee (6-5, 280), a ’20 teers. He does have an official visit set sure,” Hill said. “I wouldn’t just say of the running backs are pro- defenside end from Damascus, with Colorado State for Dec. 14 and is I’m all the way in. It could happen. I ducing, the O-Line is moving Md., also visited Clemson on looking at Michigan State and FSU for wouldn’t say it couldn’t happen. Really the ball real well, and they are doing a Saturday. He’s rated the top DE na- possible visits as well. just keep doing what they are doing. real good job. It’s something I can’t tionally in his class by Rivals. CB Collin Duncan has taken unoffi- They’ve been doing a great job of re- wait to be a part of.” Brandon Edwards, a ’20 running cial visits to USC and Mississippi cruiting me.” Tchio is the third OL to commit for back from Blythewood High School, State, and he said those two are his top Hill suffered a torn anterior cruciate the Tigers’ ‘20 class. An offensive visited Clemson for the Duke game. “I two at this point with no leader. He ligament in his fourth game of the guard, he’s ranked eighth nationally don’t know how interested they are,” has not scheduled his officials, but season going up to defend a pass and at his position by Rivals and 24th over- Edwards said. “If I do get an offer those two will get those visits. He’s not coming down wrong on his leg. He all in the state of Georgia. from them, that’s great; if I don’t, it’s sure about any other officials at this said he’s ahead of schedule on his re- “They like me so much because I’m fine. I’ll just play as hard as I can this point. Duncan said he talked with his habilitaton and could begin running versatile. I can play offense and defen- next season.” USC recruiter Pat Washington recent- in another week or so. As a junior, he sive line,” he said. “I’ve been playing a Christian Miller, a ’20 cornerback ly. He’s also heard from DC Travaris had five interceptions and broke up 26 lot of defense this year. And the fact from Hilton Head High, also was at Robinson. He said both still feel en- passes. that I can play guard and tackle, and Clemson for the Duke game. “I believe couraged about him. He plans to be an RB Tahj Gary of Atlanta saw his maybe I’ll play center when I get it’s (an offer) coming, hopefully after early signee. season come to an end with a broken there, too. With the way my body fills the season when they get deep in CB Dequanteous Watts of Atlanta leg he suffered while going up for a in, they could put me at a lot of differ- 2020s,” Miller said. “They have offered took an unofficial visit to USC for the pass. Gary is the subject of a recruit- ent places.” a few, but it’s going to start moving Chattanooga game. He stayed over- ing battle between USC and Virginia And he’s looking forward to being after the season. (Defensive coordina- night and met with head coach Will Tech. He is committed to VT but has tutored by Clemson OL coach Robbie tor) Coach (Brent) Venables has seen Muschamp, Robinson and offensive been to USC several times. He was Caldwell. me compete before.” coordinator Brian McClendon before scheduled for an unofficial visit to “He’s a real cool dude,” Tchio said. Miller has an offer from South Flor- heading home. Those coaches must USC for the Chattanooga game, but “He’s like old-style, but he’s always fun ida and is also getting attention from have given him something strong to his surgery kept him home. to be around. He knows when to be se- USC, Northwestern, Wake Forest, think about because Watts decommit- He is scheduled for official visits to rious, and he knows how to get the job UGA, Rice, Coastal Carolina, North ted from Central Florida and now has VT this weekend and to USC on Dec. 7, done. I think that’s the most important Carolina State, Georgia Tech, Duke, a new favorite. and he said he plans to make those thing, getting that job done” Virginia Tech and others. “South Carolina would be the favor- visits. He’s also talking to Mississippi His high school teammate, safety Jo- Clemson recently offered ‘20 LB ite right now,” Watts said. “I haven’t State, UCF and Kentucky about possi- seph Charleston, is a Clemson com- Phillip Webb (6-4, 210) of Buford. Ga. visited any other schools. It possibly ble official visits. mitment for the ‘19 class. Some other offers include Auburn, could change when I go visit other USC offered RB DJ Williams of Se- The Tigers also have OL commit- Cincinnati, Boston College and Appa- schools but as of now they are the fa- bring, Fla. He currently is committed ments for ‘20 from John Williams of lachian State. He said Clemson does vorite.” to App State, but he’s also picked up Canton, Ga., and Walker Parks of Lex- figure into his future recruiting plans. He hopes to return to USC for Satur- recent offers from Mississippi, Texas, ington, Ky. Webb planned to visit Clemson on Sat- day’s Akron game, but he’s scheduled Tennessee, Miami and Auburn. Center Clay Webb of Oxford, Ala., urday. He has also visited Auburn, GT, to take the Scholastic Aptitude Test USC DL target Jaquaze Sorrells set told Rivals he will announce his deci- UGA and Tennessee. that morning. He also plans to take an an official to Penn State for Dec. 7. sion on Dec. 10. He’s down to Clemson, Clemson offered ‘20 DE Tyler Baron official visit with USC but no date has Avery Jernigan, a ’20 OL from Alabama, Auburn and UGA. He is not (6-4, 250) of Nashville, Tenn. Rivals been set. Watts also is hearing from Blackshear, Ga., was at the Chattanoo- taking any official visits. He has visit- ranks him fifth nationally at his posi- North Carolina, USF, West Virginia ga game. He already has a USC offer. ed all schools unofficially and re- tion. He has nationwide offers from a and UCF. He’d like to make his deci- “I really enjoyed getting to talk to turned to Alabama on Saturday. host of Power Five programs. sion in the next few days. the coaches, then watching the game Linebacker Quavaris Crouch of Khalid Williams, a ’20 wide receiver CB Jaydon Hill of Madison, Ala., and getting to go in the locker room Charlotte took his official visit to from Manassas, Va., visited Clemson took his official visit to USC for the after the game,” Jernigan said. “I real- Clemson for the Duke game. In an in- on Saturday. He has not been offered Chattanooga game, and he got the VIP ly like USC; they are definitely a pro- terview with Rivals, Crouch indicated at this point. treatment from Muschamp and Robin- gram that’s on the rise.” FSU and Tennessee are fading because USC son. Hill has been committed to UF both have new coaches and are in a re- since September. building mode, and he’s not looking USC missed out on one of its top CB “I just liked the whole visit,” Hill MORE TO THE STORY for that. He said Clemson and Michi- targets when Jalen Perry of Dacula, said. “We talked a lot. We spent a Read on at www.theitem.com. gan were his best official visits. He Ga., committed to Michigan following bunch of time together. I talked to

COLLEGE FOOTBALL Now is the time to order Tuxedo’s for Playoff hopeful No. 5 Oklahoma Debutantes, and Christmas Parties. beats No. 9 Texas for Big 12 title

ARLINGTON, Texas — only FBS team to finish unde- Kyler Murray threw for 379 feated a year ago, in the con- yards and three touchdowns versation about who’s deserv- Debutante Schedule as No. 5 Oklahoma beat No. 9 ing of consideration for berths Texas 39-27 in the Big 12 in the College Football Playoff. championship game Saturday, UAB 27 Trian Ball 12.15.18 with the Sooners avenging MIDDLE TENNESSEE 25 their only loss and making Assembly Ball 12.17.18 their case for a return to the MURFREESBORO, Tenn. — Camellia Ball 12.18.18 College Football Playoff. Spencer Brown ran for 156 Murray, the Heisman Tro- yards and a touchdown, Nick Cotillion Ball 12.19.18 phy-contending dual-threat Vogel put UAB ahead with a quarterback, threw two of his field goal with 3:23 remaining Carolinian Ball 12.20.18 TDs to Grant Calcaterra. That and the Blazers, who reinstat- included an impressive 18- ed their program last season Epicurean Ball 12.21.18 yard score on a third-and-10 after a two-year hiatus, beat play with two minutes left as Middle Tennessee 27-25 in Sat- Lord Clarendon 12.21.18 the Sooners (12-1, No. 5 CFP) urday’s Conference USA won their seventh consecutive championship game. Sumter Ball 12.22.18 game despite being held to FRIDAY fewer than 40 points for the Les Trente Ball 12.27.18 (10) WASHINGTON 10 first time in nine games. (17) UTAH 3 (7) CENTRAL FLORIDA 56 MEMPHIS 41 SANTA CLARA, Calif. — Byron Murphy returned a de- Have a ORLANDO, Fla. — Darriel flected interception 66 yards Mack shrugged off two early for the game’s only touch- turnovers to rush for three down to lead No. 10 Washing- Merry Christmas! second-half touchdowns and ton to a 10-3 victory over No. rally No. 7 UCF to a 56-41 vic- 17 Utah in an offensively chal- tory over Memphis in the lenged Pac-12 championship American Athletic Conference game Friday night. championship game Saturday. In a matchup of the two With the red-shirt freshman stingiest defenses in the con- filling in for injured quarter- ference, neither offense could back McKenzie Milton, the get much of anything going at Knights (12-0, No. 8 CFP) won all. So it was only fitting that a 36 Years Serving Sumter their second straight league title dropped pass by Utah (9-4, No. and extended the nation’s lon- 17 CFP) led to an interception 8 W. Hampton Ave. gest winning streak to 25 games. for Washington (10-3, No. 11 Mack also threw for 348 CFP) and the only touchdown. 773-2320 yards and two TDs without an www.jamesformalwear.com interceptions to keep UCF, the From staff reports B4 | SUNDAY, DECEMBER 2, 2018 SPORTS THE SUMTER ITEM COLLEGE BASKETBALL SATURDAY PUZZLES No. 1 Gonzaga rallies past THE DAILY CROSSWORD PUZZLE Creighton in 1st true road game

OMAHA, Neb. — Zach Nor- vell Jr. scored 23 of his ca- reer-high 28 points in the sec- ond half, and top-ranked Gonzaga wiped out an early double-digit deficit and beat Creighton 103-92 on Saturday. The Bulldogs (8-0), who took over the No. 1 ranking this week after beating Duke in the Maui Invitational, overcame a boisterous crowd of more than 18,000 at the CHI Health Center to win in their first true road game. Norvell was held in check the first 20 minutes but came out strong after halftime as THE ASSOCIATED PRESS he did in last year’s win over Gonzaga’s Brandon Clarke (15) and Filip Petrusev, rear, and Brandon Frederick J. Healy 12/1/18 Creighton in Spokane, Wash- Clarke (15) guard Creighton’s Samson Froling (31) during top-ranked ACROSS 45 Wild way to 11 Former GM 35 19th-century 1 Early Greek run cars women’s ington. Gonzaga’s 103-92 triumph on Saturday in Omaha, Nebraska. lyric poet 46 Web crawler, 12 Doesn’t act rights The Bulldogs held Creigh- (21) BUFFALO 85 7 Roll by e.g. well advocate ton (6-2) scoreless for nearly its seventh straight. SAN FRANCISCO 81 13 Strong desire 47 Hit the skids 14 Stage Amelia 15 Respectful 49 Pressure makeup 36 “La Dolce four minutes in the middle of The Spartans seemed bow meas. staple Vita” actress the second half while going poised to take control with a BELFAST, Northern Ire- 16 Friendly 50 Designer 17 Programmer’s 39 Flow in on a 12-0 run to go up 84-73. 55-50 edge with 13:08 remain- land (AP) — Nick Perkins greeting Pucci problem small 18 Eastern 52 Traditional 21 McCormick waves Brandon Clarke added 27 ing before Kentucky (7-1) had scored 22 points, Jeremy Har- religion Dixie dessert offering 40 More inclined points and 10 rebounds and consecutive three-point plays ris added 15 with eight re- 19 Novak 54 Comment 24 Gulf of __: to pry Rui Hachimura added 22 and by Travis and Ashton Hagans bounds and Buffalo held off Djokovic’s org. 55 Reptile Baltic Sea arm 41 “M*A*S*H” 11 boards for the Bulldogs. for a 56-55 lead. San Francisco in the title 20 Place to gas named for 26 Modern actor David up for free? the warning poster Ogden __ Ty-Shon Alexander led the MARQUETTE 83 game of the Basketball Hall 22 Beer __ sound it 28 Trees whose 43 Screwballs Bluejays with 27 points. (12) KANSAS STATE 71 of Fame Belfast Classic. 23 Memorable makes fruit yields a 44 Kind of point Damien Jefferson had 15 and Gregory Peck 56 Stars moisturizing 47 Prepared (23) VILLANOVA 85 role 57 Death Star butter (oneself) for Martin Krampelj scored 10. MILWAUKEE — Markus LA SALLE 78 25 How work “super” 30 Catch on action (7) MICHIGAN 76 Howard scored 45 points and may be weapons 32 Bolted 48 “Catch ya (19) PURDUE 57 went 19 of 21 from the foul PHILADELPHIA — Eric done near a 33 Bryan’s later” deadline DOWN “Malcolm in 51 A.L. West line, and Marquette used Paschall scored 27 points, 26 Drain 1 Award- the Middle” team, in crawl ANN ARBOR, Mich. — Jor- tight defense to hand Kansas Phil Booth had 19 and Villa- 27 California’s winning role lines dan Poole scored 21 points as State its first loss. nova held off La Salle’s upset __ Verdes ESPN writer/ 34 Use a certain 53 Some Peninsula reporter two-handed Windows part of a balanced offense (20) TEXAS TECH 78 bid. 29 ’70s radical Jeremy signal systems and Michigan was stingy on MEMPHIS 67 Villanova (6-2) remained gp. 2 Rock & Roll defense as it routed a third the class of the city and won 30 Singer Stefani Hall of Fame’s Previous Puzzle Solved et al. first female ranked team this season. MIAMI — Tariq Owens had its 23rd straight in the Big 5, 31 Reception for inductee The Wolverines (8-0) are off 13 points and 11 rebounds round-robin play among five champions 3 Check to their best start since win- and tied a career high with Philadelphia Division I bas- 34 Scrooge types alternative ning the first 16 games of the eight blocks, Jarrett Culver ketball teams. The Wildcats 35 Fruity treat 4 Many a GI 36 Jazz guitarist 5 Old Ritz 2012-13 season. They were scored 14 of his 20 points in haven’t lost a city series game Herb rival coming off an 84-67 win over the second half and Texas since Dec. 5, 2012 against 37 Terre dans la 6 Afternoon hr. No. 11 North Carolina, and Tech rallied to beat Memphis Temple. mer 7 Lamb product 38 Wetland birds 8 Memorable they beat then-No. 8 Villano- at the HoopHall Miami Invi- They got a pretty good 42 Caffeine-rich lion suit va 73-46 on its home court tational. scare against winless La seed wearer last month. Deshawn Corprew scored Salle (0-8), who got 17 points 43 1960 Random 9 2001 biopic House 10 Burro’s (10) KENTUCKY 78 12 points and Brandone Fran- from Traci Carter and 15 acquisition baskets UNC GREENSBORO 61 cis added 10 for Texas Tech, from Isiah Deas. The Wild- which has won all seven of cats could never really shake LEXINGTON, Ky. — Reid its games this season by dou- the Explorers until the wan- Travis scored 22 points, Kel- ble digits. Owens had seven ing moments and each team JUMBLE don Johnson added six of his of his blocks in the second hit 12 3-pointers. 13 points during a 14-2 second half to help the Red Raiders’ THAT SCRAMBLED WORD GAME half run and Kentucky won comeback. From wire reports By David L Hoyt and Jeff Knurek

USC MEN’S BASKETBALL Gamecocks beat Coastal 85-79 COLUMBIA (AP) — South through Silva and (forward SOUTH CAROLINA 85 Carolina’s A.J. Lawson and Maik) Kotsar,” Coastal coach COASTAL CAROLINA 79 Hassani Gravett each notched Cliff Ellis said. “You got to COASTAL CAROLINA (4-4) a career-high in points as the make other people beat you. Bamba 3-11 1-1 7, Cuthbertson 8-15 5-7 24, Gumbs-Frater 2-7 2-3 Gamecocks held on to beat Well, Gravett did what he’s 6, Brown 1-8 3-4 5, Sanders 2-7 Coastal Carolina 85-79 on Fri- supposed to do.” 2-2 8, Hippolyte 0-0 0-0 0, Burton 3-6 4-4 10, Kralj 3-4 0-0 9, Pierce day night. BIG PICTURE 3-6 1-2 10, Jones 0-0 0-0 0. Totals Lawson was scoreless in 25-64 18-23 79. South Carolina’s last game, South Carolina: The Game- SOUTH CAROLINA (4-3) but with preseason All-SEC cocks were humbled on their Silva 4-9 1-2 9, Kotsar 2-4 2-2 7, Bryant 3-8 1-1 7, Lawson 6-10 selection Chris Silva again in home court last time out by 11-15 25, Moss 1-8 1-2 4, Haase 1-6 4-4 7, Frink 0-2 0-0 0, Campbell early foul trouble Friday, he Wofford, a strong team but 1-1 0-0 3, Gravett 7-10 5-7 23. To- shouldered the scoring load not one that should hang tals 25-58 25-33 85. with 25 points against the with, much less beat, a team Halftime_South Carolina 50-41. Chanticleers. Gravett added that was in the Final Four 3-Point Goals_Coastal Carolina 11-23 (Kralj 3-3, Cuthbertson 3-4, 23. less than two years ago. Pierce 3-5, Sanders 2-3, Burton The Gamecocks (4-3) erased Coach Frank Martin is still 0-1, Gumbs-Frater 0-2, Brown 0-5), South Carolina 10-26 (Gra- an eight-point deficit in the working with a young team vett 4-7, Lawson 2-5, Campbell first half to lead by nine at that has already had numer- 1-1, Kotsar 1-1, Moss 1-5, Haase 1-6, Frink 0-1). Fouled Out_Pierce. the break, but the Chanti- ous injuries and keeps Rebounds_Coastal Carolina 36 cleers, who hit 11 3-pointers, preaching a learning process. (Cuthbertson 12), South Carolina never went away. “We’re a soft basketball 32 (Kotsar 8). Assists_Coastal Carolina 12 (Sanders, Cuthbert- SUDOKU PREVIOUS SOLUTION Coastal erased a 10-point team. We don’t rebound and son 3), South Carolina 13 (Gravett 4). Total Fouls_Coastal Carolina deficit to lead by one seven we don’t make competitive 24, South Carolina 17. A_9,315 minutes into the first half, plays on the ball,” Martin (18,000). HOW TO PLAY: but Silva, playing with three said. “We got to work on Each row, column and fouls, woke up. He swished a that.” HE SAID IT set of 3-by-3 boxes soft hook shot from the right Coastal Carolina: Cuthbert- Why did Martin start three must contain the side, put a miss back with a son is a potential Sun Belt freshmen (Lawson, T.J. Moss numbers 1 through 9 thunderous dunk and tight- player of the year candidate, and Keyshawn Bryant)? without repetition. ened his defense. leading the Chanticleers in “I just want to keep getting His six points when the scoring, rebounding and as- balder,” Martin said. “It’s im- game was tied at 61 made up sists. The Chants lost their portant to me that my bald most of a 9-0 USC run to give top two point guards to inju- spot keeps growing.” the Gamecocks a comfortable ry within the first two games. UP NEXT lead. Silva ended with nine “We’ve got to get some guys points and five rebounds, back,” Ellis said. South Carolina begins a crediting the burst to clear- STAR WATCH four-game stretch that will go ing his mind. a long way toward determin- “I think I just been over- Martin doesn’t allow fresh- ing its postseason chances. thinking, putting too much men to speak to the media The Gamecocks are at Wyo- pressure on myself,” Silva until after the first semester ming on Wednesday, then said. “I kind of forgot how to ends, but he may not want travel to No. 7 Michigan Dec. enjoy the game. Coach told Lawson to speak as well as 8 to complete the road trip. me to go out there and play he’s playing. The rookie from After that is the exam break as hard as you can and enjoy Canada, who re-classified to and back-to-back games the game.” enroll early at South Caroli- against No. 4 Virginia and The Chanticleers’ Zac na, has scored in double fig- archrival Clemson, which re- Cuthbertson and his team- ures in five of seven games cently fell out of the Top 25. mates’ long-range shooting and had nine points in anoth- Coastal Carolina hosts kept Coastal close but South er. Hampton on Wednesday to Carolina, in the bonus with “The whole season, he’s start its last four-game 12 minutes to play, kept hit- had a great time with us and stretch of non-conference ting free throws. The Game- made some big plays,” Gra- games. The Chanticleers will cocks were 25-of-33 from the vett said. “People have down have two home and two away line and stroked 10 3-pointers days sometimes. He definite- games during the stretch, in- of their own. ly came back and responded cluding a Dec. 9 game at Wof- THE ANSWERS TO THESE PUZZLES CAN BE FOUND ON “We know that this team, to the challenges asked of ford, which whipped the right now, the game goes him.” Gamecocks by 20 points. TODAY’S DAILY PLANNER PAGE. THE SUMTER ITEM SPORTS SUNDAY, DECEMBER 2, 2018 | B5

GIRLS AREA ROUNDUP Lady Barons fall 56-43 to Northwood; LMA, Lee Central triumph SUMMERVILLE — Wilson Hall’s King’s Academy on Thursday at the HILLCREST 34 JUNIOR VARSITY BATES 31 varsity girls basketball team fell to TKA gymnasium. BEN LIPPEN 23 Northwood 56-43 on Friday and is now Katherine Burns added 14 for the 2-0 LAURENCE MANNING 22 Teniya Morant scored 23 points to 2-1 on the season. Lady Swampcats. Audrey Bennett had lead Hillcrest to a 34-31 over Bates on Natalie Jackson led the Lady Barons eight and Carrier Rickenbaker had COLUMBIA — Laurence Manning Thursday at the BMS gymnasium. with 18 points. Maddie Elmore added seven. Academy fell to 1-1 with a 23-22 loss to Shamira Andrews led the 1-1 Lady eight points and Sydney Jarecki had LEE CENTRAL 54 Ben Lippen on Friday at the BL gym- Bantams with nine points, while Dal- seven. LAMAR 39 nasium. aisia Brunson and Kharya Reed had WILSON HALL Madison Truett led LMA with six eight points apiece. Jackson 18, Elmore 8, Segars 4, Cromer 2, Hut- LAMAR — Lee Central improved points. LB Brogdon had five. son 3, Duffy 1, Jarecki 7. KINGSTREE 35 to 3-2 with a 54-39 triumph over On Thursday in Florence, Laurence LEE CENTRAL 25 NORTHWOOD Lamar on Thursday at the LHS gym- Manning opened its season with a Jones 13, Simpson 13, Bostick 12, Manigault 9, Halverson 6, Harris 3. nasium. 31-14 triumph over The King’s Acade- BISHOPVILLE — Lee Central lost to A’Yanah Lucas had a double-double my. Kingstree 35-25 on Thursday at the LAURENCE MANNING 63 THE KING’S ACADEMY 40 of 21 points and 16 rebounds to lead Truett led LMA with 11 points. Car- LCMS gymnasium. the Lady Stallions. Tashanna Harris leigh Moore had seven and Brogdon Kamonie Charles led the Lady Stal- FLORENCE — Lexi Bennett scored added nine points and eight rebounds, added six. lions with 18 points. 25 points to lead Laurence Manning while Robionne Myers had eight Academy to a 63-40 victory over The points. MIDDLE SCHOOL From staff reports

BOYS AREA ROUNDUP Gilmore lifts Clarendon Hall to 78-69 win over Scott’s Branch

SUMMERTON — Zyan 15 rebounds and scored seven at the LHS gymnasium. in double figures in an 83-27 CHESTNUT OAKS 48 EBENEZER 16 Gilmore scored 25 points, points. Daveon Thomas led the 1-1 victory over Hillcrest on grabbed eight rebounds and BEN LIPPEN 68 Stallions with 16 points. LeB- Thursday at the BMS gymna- Quamiar Stovall scored 28 had eight steals to lead Clar- LAURENCE MANNING 51 ron Thomas added 13 and sium. points to lead Chestnut Oaks endon Hall to a 78-69 varsity Daurrion Kelly had 10. Caleb Jenkins led the Ban- to a 48-16 victory over Ebene- boys basketball win over COLUMBIA — Laurence tams with 16 points. Corean zer on Thursday at the EMS Scott’s Branch High School on Manning Academy fell to 1-2 JUNIOR VARSITY Nelson had 15, while Zyeir gymnasium. Thursday at the SBHS gym- with a 68-51 loss to Ben Lip- Gamble, Matthew Rogers and Monteque Rhames grabbed LAKEWOOD 38 nasium. pen on Friday at the BL gym- SUMTER 33 AJ Bracey each scored 10. 13 rebounds and scored four Kylic Horton and Tyrese nasium. ALICE DRIVE 44 points for the Falcons, who Mitchum each had 11 for the Justus Boone led LMA with Lakewood High School de- MANNING 36 improved to 1-1. Saints, who were playing their 19 points, while Umar Lawson feated Sumter 38-33 on Thurs- KINGSTREE 59 season opener. Kade Elliott had 11. day at The Swamp. MANNING — Alice Drive LEE CENTRAL 52 added eight points and four On Thursday in Florence, Justice Singletary led the improved to 2-0 with a 44-36 blocked shots. Laurence Manning lost to The 2-0 Gators with 13 points. Ja- victory over Manning Ju- BISHOPVILLE — Lee Cen- Scott’s Branch, which fell to King’s Academy 70-68. mond Lewis added 10. nior High School on Thurs- tral lost to Kingstree 59-52 on 0-3 on the season, was led in Chase Lee led the Swamp- Deven Boston led Sumter day at the MJHS gymnasi- Thursday at the Lee Central scoring Lavontae Fleming cats with 19 points. Lawson with nine points. um. gymnasium. with 13 points. Sean Swaring- added 18 and Boone had 12. Quantez Jenkins led the Tedric Thompson led the er had a double-double with LEE CENTRAL 72 MIDDLE SCHOOL Hawks in scoring with 18 Stallions with 11 points. Rob- 11 points and 11 rebounds, points. Marquis Lane-Owens ert Spann and Dontavius LAMAR 7 BATES 83 while C.J. Hickman had eight HILLCREST 27 had a double-double of 14 Nedd both added eight. points. LAMAR — Lee Central ham- points and 10 rebounds to go Antayvius Stukes grabbed mered Lamar 72-7 on Thursday Bates had five players score with three steals. From staff reports

GATORS FROM PAGE B1 PREP SCHEDULE MONDAY The Swamp was filled on Friday Varsity and JV Basketball Ben Lippen at Lakewood (No Varsity Boys), with two ranked teams facing off. 5:30 p.m. SHS, ranked fourth in the 5A South Carolina at Laurence Manning, 4 p.m. Junior Varsity Basketball Carolina Basketball Coaches Associ- Sumter at Hartsville, 6 p.m. ation preseason poll, was coming off Middle School Basketball Bates at Alice Drive, 5 p.m. an 88-77, season-opening win over Chestnut Oaks at Hillcrest, 5 p.m. Hartsville. Lakewood, ranked fourth Ebenezer at R.E. Davis, 5 p.m. among 4A schools, defeated Lee Cen- Furman at Manning, 5 p.m. Ronald E. McNair at Lee Central, 5:30 p.m. tral 77-69 on Tuesday. “It was a great atmosphere to- TUESDAY Varsity Basketball night,” Brown said. “It was just so Hartsville at Sumter, 6 p.m. loud from the beginning of the game. Crestwood at West Florence, 6 p.m. East Clarendon at Lake City, 6 p.m. I couldn’t hear myself, so I know my Scott’s Branch at Denmark-Olar, 6 p.m. players couldn’t hear me.” Varsity and JV Basketball Wilson Hall at Northside Christian (No Var- It was also a matchup of two sity Girls), 5 p.m. NCAA Division I players in the First Baptist at Laurence Manning, 4 p.m. Gamecocks’ Calvin Felder and the Thomas Sumter at Robert E. Lee, 4 p.m. Andrew Jackson Academy at Clarendon Hall, Gator’s Juwan Perdue. The 6-foot-8- 4 p.m. inch Felder recently signed with Junior Varsity Basketball Orangeburg Christian at Sumter Christian Boston College, while the 6-6 Perdue (No JV Girls), 6 p.m. is set to sign with Jacksonville State B Team Basketball on Thursday. Cardinal Newman at Wilson Hall, 5 p.m. Perdue had two slam dunks in the WEDNESDAY Varsity and JV Basketball first three minutes of the game, as Calhoun County at Manning, 4:30 p.m. Lakewood jumped out to an 8-2 lead. Lamar at Lee Central, 5 p.m. Felder answered with six straight Varsity Wrestling Keenan at Sumter, 6:30 p.m. points – four of them coming off of dunks – to tie the game at 8-8 with THURSDAY Junior Varsity Basketball 3:40 left in the first quarter. Sumter at Crestwood, 6 p.m. LHS answered with nine straight Middle School Basketball Alice Drive at Furman, 5 p.m. points to go up 17-8, and it never re- PHOTOS BY TREVOR BAUKNIGHT / THE SUMTER ITEM Bates at Manning, 5 p.m. ally lost control of the game from Sumter’s Tamerah Brown (10) dribbles against the defense of Lakewood’s Stevye Sinkler R.E. Davis at Chestnut Oaks, 5 p.m. Ebenezer at Hillcrest, 5 p.m. there. A 3-point basket by Quentin during the Lady Gamecocks’ 53-28 victory on Friday at The Swamp. Lee Central at Ronald E. McNair, 5:30 p.m. Hodge put the Gators up 20-10 after Varsity and JV Equestrian one quarter. Wilson Hall in SCISA Event (at Tally Ho Equestrian Center in Timmonsville), TBA The Gamecocks’ Jalen Johnson scored the first four points of the FRIDAY Varsity Basketball second quarter to make it 20-14. The Sumter at Crestwood, 6 p.m. Gators opened the lead back to 10 be- Thomas Sumter at Wilson Hall (in Baron Classic), 7 p.m. fore Cardrelle Cooper drained a trey Laurence Manning vs. Augusta Christian (in to make it 24-17 with 5:14 left in the Baron Classic), 4 p.m. first half. Varsity and JV Basketball Lakewood at Lee Central (No JV Girls), 5 p.m. A 3 by Nyquan Stevens and a con- Manning at C.E. Murray, 4 p.m. ventional 3-point play by Perdue Robert E. Lee at Williamsburg, 4 p.m. Clarendon Hall at St. John’s Christian, 4 p.m. pushed the lead out to 30-17. Lake- Junior Varsity Basketball wood led 37-21 at halftime. Sumter Christian at Step of Faith Christian, 5 “I was really disappointed with p.m. the way we played tonight offen- SATURDAY Varsity Basketball sively,” said Sumter head coach Pinewood Prep at Wilson Hall (in Baron Clas- Shawn Jones. “You have to give sic), 2:30 p.m. Lakewood credit for the way they Carolina vs. Laurence Manning (in Baron Classic), 11:30 a.m. played. We just never could get Heathwood Hall vs. Thomas Sumter (in anything going offensively. They Baron Classic), 11:30 a.m. Varsity and JV Basketball (Lakewood) played the passing Lakewood at Sumter, 3 p.m. lanes really well.” East Clarendon at Manning, 3 p.m. Varsity Wrestling SHS scored the first four points of Sumter in Dutch Fork Invitational, TBA the second half to cut the lead to 12, Lakewood’s Nazir Andino (5) puts up a shot as Sumter’s Calvin Felder defends during but the Gators continued to make it the Gators’ 69-61 victory on Friday at The Swamp. difficult for points to come. Lake- wood led 53-37 after three quarters “Juwan played really well,” Brown In the girls contest, Sumter Tamerah Brown led Sumter with and scored the first seven points of said. “I think he is proving why he is jumped out to a 14-2 lead after one 20 points. CeCe Wells added 11 and the final stanza to go up 60-37. considered one of the best players in quarter and never looked back in a Layken Cox had nine. A late run by Sumter made the the state.” 53-28 triumph. LaShala Harvin had 13 points for final score look respectable. Stevens added 12 points, while The Lady Gamecocks led 24-11 at 1-1 Lakewood. Rahteshia Burgess “I was very happy with the way we Nazir Andino had nine points and halftime and 36-14 at halftime. Still, added eight. played defensively,” Brown said. “I six assists. head coach Jeff Schaffer wasn’t im- Lakewood head coach Demetress wasn’t happy (against Lee Central) Felder had 17 points – and also five pressed with his team’s defensive ef- Adams-Ludd had no issues with her with the way we rotated. We worked dunks – to lead Sumter. Cooper and fort. team’s performance. on it in practice and did a much bet- Johnson both had 10 points, and “I told the girls I thought our de- “We knew Sumter was a very good ter job.” Cody McCoy had nine. fensive grade was C+ at best,” said team,” Adams-Ludd said. “It took us Hodge led Lakewood in scoring “We need to play better defensive- Schaffer, whose team improved to a while to get things going offensive- with 21 points, while Perdue had a ly,” Jones said. “We’re going to keep 4-1. “We’ve got to do a better job ro- ly, but I thought we got the idea at double-double of 20 points – includ- working though, and I think we’ll be tating. The intensity was there, but the end of the game. I think our ing five dunks -- and 11 rebounds. OK.” our fundamentals have to get better.” team is coming along right now.” B6 | SUNDAY, DECEMBER 2, 2018 SPORTS THE SUMTER ITEM

SOUTH CAROLINA 28, AKRON 3 USC FROM PAGE B1 Akron 3 0 0 0 — 3 South Carolina 14 14 0 0 — 28 First Quarter SC_Samuel 15 pass from J.Bentley (P.White with four receptions for 33 yards, kick), 9:29 summed up his record-setting career AKR_FG Gasser 45, 3:59 SC_B.Edwards 70 pass from J.Bentley (P. at USC by saying, “Coach puts me in White kick), 3:01 positions to go out there and make Second Quarter SC_Samuel 0 fumble return (P.White kick), plays (and) I just go out there and do 8:09 what they ask me to do.” SC_Samuel 5 pass from J.Bentley (P.White kick), 1:33 USC’s other first-half score came on A_53,420. a 70-yard pass from quarterback Jake AKR SC First downs 18 16 Bentley to wide receiver Bryan Ed- Rushes-yards 40-82 38-185 wards, who closed the half and game Passing 178 199 Comp-Att-Int 19-39-0 14-27-2 with five receptions for 109 yards. Return Yards 38 49 Edwards expanded on what makes Punts-Avg. 7-36.42 6-33.83 Fumbles-Lost 5-2 2-2 Samuel such a special player. Penalties-Yards 3-24 6-41 “Just being an unselfish guy, going Time of Possession 36:20 23:40 out there and always doing what the INDIVIDUAL STATISTICS RUSHING_Akron, K.White 13-56, Suggs 14-40, coach asks, he always does that,” Ed- Sands 2-12, Nelson 10-(minus 2), (Team) wards said. “He goes out there and at- 1-(minus 24). South Carolina, Denson 17-110, Dowdle 13-86, Fenwick 4-3, J.Bentley 4-(minus tacks the game the way a player is 14). supposed to. Hats off to him.” PASSING_Akron, Nelson 19-39-0-178. South Carolina, J.Bentley 14-27-2-199. Not much positive would happen in RECEIVING_Akron, Kw.Smith 6-69, Morris the second half for either team as a 3-38, Da.Brimage 2-32, Traylor-Bennett 2-21, THE ASSOCIATED PRESS Knight 2-13, Suggs 2-0, McGriff 1-4, Sands scoreless 30 minutes would see the 1-1. South Carolina, B.Edwards 5-109, Samuel game end with the same 28-3 score as South Carolina running back Mon Denson (34) breaks a tackle during the Gamecocks’ 4-33, August 2-37, Vann 2-14, Pollard 1-6. the Gamecocks ran their record to 7-5 28-3 victory over Akron on Saturday in Columbia. MISSED FIELD GOALS_Akron, Gasser 52. and now await the announcement of their bowl destination and opponent offense out. The key to it was I got the throwing it extremely well.” should benefit his team heading into on Sunday offense going.” Akron’s lone score came on a 45- its bowl game. The third quarter saw South Caro- Denson served as a good comple- yard Nick Gasser field goal that fol- “A lot of young guys, especially on lina’s five drives end in a punt, two mentary runner to Rico Dowdle, who lowed Samuel’s 15-yard touchdown re- the defensive side of the ball, played fumbles, an interception and on added 86 yards on 13 carries. ception on the Gamecocks’ second and we needed this game,” Muschamp downs. Akron also fumbled the ball The fourth quarter was not much possession. The Zips’ score culminated said. “I appreciate (Athletics Director) away twice, with Zips quarterback better, at least on the offensive side, as a 12-play, 47-yard drive powered by Coach (Ray) Tanner for making this Kato Nelson adding an interception seven combined drives ended in five two 13-yard Nelson passes to Kwadar- happen. We needed to get as many for a total of six turnovers. The high- punts and two stops on downs. rius Smith and Mykel Bennett. snaps as possible as the young players light for the Gamecocks was a 61-yard The passing games for both teams After Bentley’s bomb to Edwards, continue to develop. run by running back Mon Denson, struggled on a day that saw wet condi- the Zips drove 47 yards in eight plays “Really proud of our team this year. with the quarter ending in somber tions throughout. Bentley connected before stalling at the USC 35. Gasser We faced a lot of adversity. We faced a fashion as star offensive lineman on just 14 of 27 passes for 199 yards was called upon for a 52-yard attempt lot of things out of our control as far Zack Bailey was carted off with what with the three touchdowns and two in- that sailed wide right with 19 seconds as injuries and such. They kept play- Muschamp would later call a fibula terceptions while Nelson ended up 19 to go in the opening quarter. ing, kept hanging in there, kept fight- injury. for 39 for 178 yards for the Zips, who Though the game was played in less ing. That says a lot about, No. 1, the “It was a big run,” said Denson, who finished 4-8. than ideal weather conditions in front individuals in that locker room and closed with 110 yards on 17 carries for “(We) bounced around pretty good of a sparse crowd, Muschamp said the No. 2, the culture that our staff has his second 100-yard rushing effort of (in the first half), just got sloppy in the extra game, which was added after a been able to create within our organi- the season. “I think I should have second half,” Muschamp said. “At scheduled game with Marshall was zation and our community. Really scored. Getting in the box helped the times the conditions catered to not cancelled, and additional practice time proud of these guys.”

get out of their own way. COLLEGE FOOTBALL WEIRD FROM PAGE B1 Unfortunately for the Gamecocks, who are already riddled with injuries, senior offensive that, appreciate their support. (The) most loyal lineman Zack Bailey went down with an injury fanbase in the country and we certainly appre- at the end of the third quarter with a leg inju- Kennesaw edges Wofford ciate what they do for us.” ry. There was an announced attendance of “Zack Bailey broke his fibula, it’s a non- 53,420, but the empty seats due to the inclem- weight bearing bone,” Muschamp said. “So 13-10 in FCS 2nd round ent weather and a game scheduled in the last that’s a good thing at the end of the day. I did couple of months told a different story. tibia and fibula – I told him I was tougher than KENNESAW, Ga. (AP) — Kennesaw State turned a “It was different, but I appreciate the fans him. He’s going to be fine. It’s a setback, but it’s late turnover into a Justin Thompson field goal with that did come,” junior quarterback Jake Bent- not a catastrophic injury in my mind.” less than two minutes to play for a 13-10 victory over ley said. “It is definitely an adverse situation to The players also felt badly for Bailey, who Wofford in the second round of the FCS playoffs on Sat- come to the game with the rain and everything. was playing in his last game at Williams-Brice urday. I’m proud of the ones that came and we could Stadium. With the Terriers facing third-and-long near midfield, definitely hear them.” “It was unfortunate, but I think hearing Anthony Gore sacked Joe Newman and forced a fumble Akron’s three points were the fewest allowed Coach (Muschamp) talk, saying it wasn’t as that was recovered by Andrew Butcher for a loss of 20 by a Muschamp-led defense at South Carolina bad as it could be, helped us in coming togeth- yards. “We just have guys coming in and getting er,” Bentley said. “But he is a pivotal player for As befitting the defensive struggle in the rain, the Owls some quality reps,” junior linebacker T.J. us and has brought a lot of leadership and ex- went nowhere but Thompson kicked a 30-yard field goal Brunson said of the defense. “Our scheme perience to the offensive line. We are definitely with 1:52 to play. doesn’t really change much. Those guys getting going to miss him, for sure.” The fourth-seeded Owls (11-1) are home against fifth- those reps, they’ll know what is expected and “It is sad to see guys go down, especially se- seeded South Dakota State in the quarterfinals next week- what to do in the future games. It’s just another niors in their last game,” junior running back end. game to go out and play.” Mon Denson said. “But, we are pretty glad that Other than two big plays early in the second quarter, The game also saw six turnovers in a third he got up and gave the crowd a wave to make neither of the run-dominated teams was able to muster quarter where it seemed like both teams couldn’t sure that he was okay.” much of an attack.

Church with the Rev. Michael Columbia. EDDIE DARLING OBITUARIES Bowman officiating. Born in Hemingway, he was Mr. Eddie Darling passed The family will receive a son of the late James and away on Friday, Nov. 30, 2018. RENIA MAE BRUNSON will be held at 11 a.m. on friends from noon to 1 p.m. on Virleen Hicks Myers. Professional and courteous Renia “Peggie” Mae Tuesday, Dec. 11, 2018, at New Monday at Green Acres As- The family will receive services has been entrusted to Brunson, 68, died on Thurs- Covenant Presbyterian sembly of God Church. friends at the home, 1034 JP Holley Funeral Home, day, Nov. 29, 2018, at her place Church. Online condolences may be Plowden Mill Road, Sumter, Bishopville chapel, and will of residence. Stephens Funeral Home & sent to www.sumterfunerals. SC 29153. be announced later Born on Aug. 16, 1950, in Crematory, 304 N. Church St., com Funeral arrangements are Clarendon County, she was a Manning, is in charge of ar- Elmore Hill McCreight Fu- incomplete and will be an- RAQUEL B. CAIN daughter of Malene “Mabe- rangements, (803) 435-2179. neral Home & Crematory, 221 nounced by Palmer Memorial Raquel Benson Cain, 32, de- line” Brunson and the late www.stephensfuneralhome.org Broad St., Sumter, is in charge Chapel Inc. parted this life on Wednesday, Charlie Brunson. of the arrangements, (803) Nov. 28, 2018, in Columbia. The family will receive LORENA R. BRAILSFORD 775-9386. She was born Oct. 26, 1986, family and friends at the PINEWOOD — Lorena in Hearne, Texas, to Karen home, 1069 Furse Road, Sum- Richardson Brailsford, 92, Benson and Earl Wallace. merton. wife of Richard Brailsford Sr., Funeral services are incom- Funeral arrangements are died on Friday, Nov. 30, 2018, plete and will be announced incomplete at this time and at her residence. later by Whites Mortuary will be announced by Sum- She was born on Feb. 15, LLC. merton Funeral Home LLC. 1926, in Rimini, a daughter of the late Willie and Irene MARTHA M. DUFFIE SARAH SMALL LOUISE GOINES WILSON Adams Richardson. ISABELLE S. WILSON Mrs. Martha Mae Duffie, 71, Sarah Small, 106, died on The family is receiving Louise Goines Wilson, 68, the wife of the late Marvin Thursday, Nov. 29, 2018. friends at the residence, 8572 Isabelle Stephens Wilson, wife of Robert Lee Wilson Sr., Duffie Jr., departed this life Born on April 17, 1912, in Old River Road, Pinewood. 89, passed away on Friday, departed this life on Friday, on Friday, Nov. 30, 2018, in Shorterville, Alabama, she These services have been Nov. 30, 2018. Nov. 30, 2018, at Palmetto Florence. was a daughter of the late entrusted to Samuels Funeral The family is receiving Health Tuomey. She was born Oct. 25, 1947, Augus and Elouise Williams. Home LLC of Manning. friends at 430 Ceder Lane, She was born on Feb. 13, in Alcolu to the late Eliza Bell The family will receive fam- Bishopville. 1950, in Clarendon County, a Davis and Amos Simon. ily and friends at the home, ALICE YVONNE H. GRIFFIN Professional and courteous daughter of the late Blanding The family is receiving 1023 Cage Circle, Summerton. Alice Yvonne Harrelson services have been entrusted and Loree S. Goines. friends at 1004 Collins St., Funeral arrangements are Griffin, 68, widow of George to JP Holley Funeral Home, The family will receive Sumter, from 1-9 p.m. daily. incomplete at this time and Griffin, died on Thursday, Bishopville Chapel. friends at 330 Dusty Circle, Services are incomplete and will be announced by Sum- Nov. 29, 2018, at Palmetto Sumter, SC 29150. will be announced later by merton Funeral Home LLC. Health Tuomey. CYNTHIA R. LUTHER STALZER Job’s Mortuary Inc., 312 S. Whites Mortuary LLC. Born in Dillon, she was a Cynthia Reneé Luther Stalz- Main St., Sumter, is in charge SYLVIA CHRISTINA A. daughter of the late Rembert er, age 49, beloved wife of of arrangements. MARY M. PRINGLE HERLONG and Louise Jackson Harrel- John “Johnny” C. Stalzer, MANNING — On Friday, MANNING — Sylvia Chris- son. Mrs. Griffin was a mem- died on Friday, Nov. 30, 2018. KAY G. MOORE Nov. 30, 2018, Mary Lee tina Ash Herlong, 83, widow ber of Green Acres Assem- Arrangements will be an- Kay Goy Moore, 95, widow McDuffie Pringle, widow of of Hoyt Herlong, died on Mon- bly of God Church. She was nounced by Bullock Funeral of Chalres T. Moore, passed the late Lester Pringle, ex- day, Nov. 26, 2018, at her formerly employed at Home. away Saturday, Dec. 1, 2018, at changed time for eternity at home. McElveen Manor as a nurs- her home. McLeod Health Clarendon. Born on Oct. 12, 1935, in Au- ing assistant. Services will be announced Born on March 16, 1937, in rora, Missouri, she was a Surviving are two sons, by the Elmore Hill McCreight Pinewood, she was a daughter daughter of the late Sidney A. James A. Mount III and David Funeral Home & Crematory, of the late Epperson and and Bertha M. Powers Ash. J. Griffin, both of Sumter; a 221 Broad Street, Sumter (803) Everlena McDuffie. She is survived by a son, daughter, Dorian L. Strick- 775-9386. The family is receiving rela- Hoyt Henson Herlong (Barba- land (Dann) of Sumter; a sis- tives and friends at the resi- ra Roy) of Atlantic Beach, ter, Sandra Mitchum of Sum- HAROLD MYERS dence,1065 Boyd Road, Pine- Florida; and two grandchil- ter; six grandchildren; and wood. dren, Kyle Herlong of Atlantic three great-grandchildren. Harold Myers, 71, husband Funeral services are incom- Beach and Laura Jayne Memorial services will be of Brenda S. Myers, died on plete and shall be announced Adams (Justin) of Greer. held at 1 p.m. on Monday at Thursday, Nov. 29, 2018, at by the Fleming & DeLaine Fu- A celebration of life service Green Acres Assembly of God Palmetto Health Richland in neral Home and Chapel. THE SUMTER ITEM · SUNDAY, DECEMBER 2, 2018 | C1

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Clark Griswold (Chevy Chase) goes all out for the holiday in “National Lampoon’s Christmas Vacation.” WARNER BROS. We revisit the very best of Christmas past

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The holiday season is officially here, so get ready for Santa Claus coming to town and Bill Murray’s self-centered TV ex- ecutive learning a thing or several about the meaning of Christmas. ❚ Friday marks the 30th anniversary of “Scrooged,” director Richard Donner’s modern (at least circa 1988) take on Charles Dickens’ “A Christmas Carol” by cen- tering on Frank Cross (Murray), a small-screen bigwig who’s mean as a Grinch to everyone and in sore need of a multiple- ghost comeuppance. ❚ With a month to go, you have plenty of time to seek out all sorts of holiday fare – including the new Netflix action-adventure “The Christmas Chronicles” with Kurt Russell as Santa. ❚ In honor of “Scrooged,” let’s rank the 20 best Christmas theatrical releases (so sorry, OG Frank Cross (Bill Murray) encounters a playfully vicious fairy “Grinch”-philes). See CHRISTMAS, Page 2U (Carol Kane) in “Scrooged.” PARAMOUNT

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Plan your week in STREAMING entertainment with these highlights and Watch: The Amazon series “The Mar- pop-culture milestones: velous Mrs. Maisel” returns for a sec- ond season Wednesday. Rachel Bros- DVD/BLU-RAY nahan stars as a 1950s housewife who becomes a stand-up comic. View: “Mission: Impos- TENNESSEAN.COM sible – Fallout,” starring FILM Tom Cruise, is out on MARK BOURDILLION/ABC MUSIC Tuesday. USA TODAY’s Go to: “Mary Queen of Scots,” out Brian Truitt gave the TV Listen: Van Morrison’s Friday, follows the story of Mary Stu- film eeeE, writing this 40th studio album, art (Saoirse Ronan) as she tries to installment “gives the Tune in: Pastry chef Sherry Yard joins “The Prophet Speaks,” overthrow Queen Elizabeth I (Margot franchise more depth Paul Hollywood as a judge as ABC’s is out Friday. The title Robbie). The film is based on Queen of than the usual nonstop “The Great American Baking Show: track was released in Scots: The True Life of Mary Stuart.” action of similar fare.” Holiday Edition” premieres its fourth October. season on Thursday at 9 EST/PST. Compiled by Mary Cadden C2 | SUNDAY, DECEMBER 2, 2018 · THE SUMTER ITEM

BINGEING Fire up favorites for a December to remember

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As 2018 draws to a close, we still have one month left for your favorite streaming services such as Netflix, Hulu, Amazon and HBO Now to offer new titles for your binging pleasure.❚ We picked the very best of the new TV show and movie offerings in streaming this December, from goofy comedies to timeless classics to teen feelings and stun- Robert Redford, left, and Dustin Hoffman play Washington Post reporters Bob ning documentaries. Woodward and Carl Bernstein in “All the President’s Men.” GPN

If you want to celebrate legendary If you want to be equally awed screenwriter William Goldman and terrified‘Blue Planet II’ ‘All the President’s Men’ Part of the series of incredible BBC Goldman, who wrote such classic “Planet Earth” documentaries, this un- films as “The Princess Bride” and derwater epic takes a deep look at the “Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid,” Earth’s oceans and the harm humans died in November at age 87. There’s no are doing to them. If the first “Blue Plan- better way to celebrate the Hollywood et” was filled with wonder at the beauty legend than by watching one of his most of our world, the second is a terrifying acclaimed films, “All the President’s cautionary tale about how much harm Men,” which chronicles Bob Woodward can come to that beauty. (Robert Redford) and Carl Bernstein ❚ Stream it on Netflix starting Dec. (Dustin Hoffman) as they investigate 3. President Nixon and Watergate. ❚ Stream it on Amazon. If you liked ‘Gossip Girl’ and ‘Pretty Little Liars’ ‘You’ If you’re in the mood for presidential humor ‘Dave’ One of the best new shows of fall is making its way to Netflix at the end of If “All the President’s Men” is a little the month, and it’s absolutely worth the too heavy into politics and corruption wait. Starring Penn Badgley of “Gossip for you, try this goofy 1993 comedy Amber Tamblyn and Blake Lively star Joe (Penn Badgley) keeps an eye on Girl” fame, the series follows a man who about an actor who impersonates the in “The Sisterhood of the Traveling Beck (Elizabeth Lail) in Lifetime's "You." becomes obsessed with a random wom- president when he falls into a coma and Pants.” JOE LEDERER/WARNER BROS. LIFETIME an he meets, stalking her online and in ends up being a better leader than the person until he is able to worm his way guy who was elected. Although it’s ab- into her life. It’s the kind of show that surd and ethically questionable, “Dave” If you’re missing your friends over see every person you love. No movie un- will make you question such films as is a sweet, good-hearted rom-com with the holidays ‘The Sisterhood of derstands the ins and outs of long-dis- “Twilight” where obsessive behaviors enough charm from stars Kevin Kline the Traveling Pants’ tance friendship than this teen classic seem romantic and sweet rather than and Sigourney Weaver to make it work. starring Blake Lively, Alexis Bledel, the abuse they really are. ❚ Stream it on HBO Now/Go. Even if you’re traveling across the America Ferrera and Amber Tamblyn. ❚ Stream it on Netflix starting Dec. country or world this season, it’s hard to ❚ Stream it on Hulu. 27.

out the other side a better man. Christmas movies. a man being shown Christmas how bad life would have been had he not 8. ‘The Apartment’ (1960) been born will pull the Christmas spirit Continued from Page 1U kicking and screaming out of you. The romantic dramedy stars Jack 20. ‘Arthur Christmas’ (2011) Lemmon as an office drone known for 1. ‘Scrooged’ (1988) lending out his place for bosses to take The animated British gem centers on their mistresses. He starts to fall hard “Scrooged” is a perfect blend of slap- Santa Claus’ son Arthur (James McA- for an elevator girl (Shirley MacLaine), stick and black humor, love and loss, life voy), who works to get a present to the whom the big boss (Fred MacMurray) and death that has no business being as- one girl forgotten by his family’s milita- secretly takes to the love den on Christ- tounding. It’s superbly cast, from Bill ristic, high-tech delivery system. mas Eve. Murray’s Frank Cross to Carol Kane’s fairy. If you’re not welling up when “Put a 19. ‘Home Alone’ (1990) George Bailey’s (Jimmy Stewart) eyes 7. ‘Die Hard’ (1988)An Little Love in Your Heart” kicks in, you are opened in the 1946 favorite “It’s a might be visited by three ghosts yourself. Macaulay Culkin is unfailingly preco- Wonderful Life.” REPUBLIC PICTURES/NBC Sorry, Santa, no one squeezes cious, and watching an 8-year-old foil a through tight spaces in a building to get pair of dimwitted burglars in inventive the job done – in this case thwarting ter- fashion is fine. What’s often forgotten is life story of the Christmas truce of 1914. rorists and saving his estranged wife – what the film has to say about the im- better than Bruce Willis’ John McClane. portance of family. 13. ‘White Christmas’ (1954) 6. ‘National Lampoon’s Christmas 18. ‘The Ice Harvest’ (2005) Two Bing Crosby musicals used the Vacation’ (1989) song “White Christmas”: Let’s leave off PRESIDENT AND PUBLISHER Set in Wichita, Kansas, on Christmas 1942’s “Holiday Inn” and go with Crosby Anybody who has ever tried entirely Maribel Perez Wadsworth Eve, this twisty, funny film noir casts and Danny Kaye as crooning World War too hard during the holidays can empa- EDITOR IN CHIEF John Cusack as a Mob lawyer who steals II GIs who try to save their old thize with Clark Griswold (Chevy Chase) Nicole Carroll CHIEF REVENUE OFFICER $2 million from his boss (Randy Quaid) commanding officer’s country inn. and his battles to decorate his house, Kevin Gentzel and has issues hightailing it out of town. deal with wacko relatives and have the 7950 Jones Branch Dr., McLean, Va. 22108, 12. ‘Gremlins’ (1984) merriest Christmas imaginable. 703-854-3400 17. ‘The Bishop’s Wife’ (1947) Published by Gannett The holiday tale doubles as a good 5. ‘Miracle on 34th Street’ (1947) USA TODAY LIFE is published weekly. Advertising: All advertising published in USA TODAY is Maybe the strangest love triangle entry into horror for youngsters, with a subject to the current rate card; copies available from the advertising department. USA TODAY may in its sole you’re bound to see – with an angel (Ca- small town beset by freaky gremlins. If you can stand the gratuitous hoki- discretion edit, classify, reject or cancel at any time any ry Grant) falling for the spouse (Loretta Try finding anything as cute as little ness, there’s an intriguing “Law & Order” advertising submitted. National, Regional: 703-854-3400 Young) of the bishop (David Niven) he’s Mogwai Gizmo in a Santa hat. episode to be had when Kris Kringle(Ed- Reprint permission, copies of articles, glossy reprints: supposed to be helping – yet it works. mund Gwenn) does a little too good of a www.GannettReprints.com or call 212-221-9595 USA TODAY is a member of The Associated Press and 11. ‘The Shop Around the Corner’ job replacing a drunk Macy’s Parade subscribes to other news services. USA TODAY, its logo 16. ‘The Nightmare Before (1940) Santa and is put on trial for mental insta- and associated graphics are registered trademarks. All rights reserved. Christmas’ (1993) bility when he insists he’s the real deal. The basis for “You’ve Got Mail” is this Corrections & Clarifications

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REFLECTIONS “In a letter written by Marjorie Craig in April 1935, recollec- tions of the sport were offered by W. R. Symmes, a St. Matthews attorney; ‘This sport was very popular in South Carolina immediately after the Civil War and was held annually at its state fair in Columbia. For some reason or other its popularity end(ed) and until 1900 its meets were few and far be- tween. From 1900 to about 1925, I doubt if there was such an event held in South Carolina … The sport has al- ways been most popular in southern and central South Carolina … These sections were mostly agricultural and had better mounts to engage in this past time. About 1925, a tournament was held at Singleton, near St. Mat- thews, home place of Henry Wienges. SUMTER ITEM FILE PHOTOS The course was held on his racetrack The youngest rider ever known to take part in a tilting tournament, Edith McCants Bookhart, was to ride during the Sumter County where he trained his thoroughbreds Fair in 1932. for the tracks of the west. Since that time a tournament has been again held at the State Fair in Columbia, and many tournaments in this vicini- ty … In the little town of Cameron, South Carolina, some 3,000 people at- tended that tournament. In the city of Aiken, there was a tournament held at its centennial … and the large polo field was a mass of humanity. St. Mat- thews, Cameron, Pinewood, Sumter, Bishopville and towns in the vicinity of these have proven the most popular at this ancient sport since 1925.’” The first mention of the sport of tilt- ing (lancing) in the Sumter area was found in the Watchman and Southron published in 1895. The article noted that a tournament took place in Ha- good and Jordan with proceeds going to the building fund of the new church at Hagood. After the tournament a number of horse races were held in- volving several of the fastest steeds in the county. Mr. T. O. Sanders Jr. was listed as the contact person for entry S. A. Harvin planned to ride his horse Gin- into the tournament and races. ger in a tilting tournament at Sumter “A feature of the opening day of the County Fair in 1931. South Carolina State Fair was a tilting contest. This statewide contest fol- liard, Eutawville; Carsey McCants, lowed the revival of the ancient and Cameron; D. K. Summers, Cameron; thrilling sport held at Cameron, S.C., West Farnum, Orangeburg; R. C. in February of 1925. This contest was Hamer, Eastover; Harry Darby, Easto- soon followed by similar events at St. ver; Judge Schalik, Eastover; Rev. C.D. Matthews and Eastover. Between 20 Brearly, St. Matthews; F. L. Weinges, and 30 riders were expected to partici- St. Matthews; O. H. Weinges, St. Mat- pate in the tourney at the State Fair thews; H. W. Shaw, Bishopville. Grounds.” The riders competed under In 1928, a list of rules were posted the glare of powerful arc lights. The updating the requirements expected grandstand provided seating space for of tilting competitors competing in the large audience who came to wit- Cameron, S.C. Horses were required ness this first statewide contest since to be no more than 14 hands in height, the revival of the sport.” with lances measuring 8 feet in length The towns represented were Colum- and 5 feet from guard to point. The bia, Eastover, Bishopville, Allendale, distance of the course was extended to Orangeburg, Cameron, Eutawville, St. 75 yards and consisted of 3 rings sus- Matthews and the community of Wa- pended 25 yards apart. Each rider was teree. The contestants participating required to cover the distance (75 began practice a week before the fair yards) in 6 seconds. It was also recom- on horses which were shipped to the mended that Knights wear sweaters site. The winner of the tournament and riding trousers with colors. was allowed the honor of selecting and The tilting tournament of 1930 hit a crowning the queen of the tourney. high point at the Sumter County Fair. The tilting rules required the horse- The tournament marked the high spot men to ride at full speed the length of both in attendance and interest in a 100-foot court, attempting to spear Sumter. That year saw one of the larg- four rings hung at regular intervals est crowds in the history of the fair as- along the course. This required expert semble for the event. “Included in the English Josey tilts during an Azalea Festival tournament in Sumter in 1939. riding skills and considerable ability list of riders were the following: Joe in handling a lance. The record, in the Bates, of Wateree, champion tourna- Hall; Sam Young Jr. Knight of Dalzell; eazer, chief announcer. The judges early years, was set by the Rev. C. D. ment rider in the state; Miss Edith R. H. Roper, Knight of Beverley; A. J. were George T. Little of Camden; R. C. Brearley of St. Matthews who speared Bookhart, of Cameron, the youngest Hodge, Knight of Cross Roads; Carsey Hamer of Eastover and George D. 50 rings out of a possible 50 in a tour- rider in the state; O. D. Harvin, Knight McCants, Knight of Orangeburg; G. H. Shore of Sumter. Timekeepers are Dr. nament. of Fulton; D. K. Summers, Knight of McCutchen, J. W. McCutchen, of H. L. Shaw and Dr. Raymond Kitch- The list of contestants entered in Melrose; Dave Barwick, Knight of Mount Zion. Dr. George T. Harmon en.” the competition at the State Fair read Pinewood; Lee Barwick, Knight of will deliver the charge to the Knights Tilting (lancing) continues to take like a who’s who in the sport of tilting. White Cloud; R. W. Ingram, Knight of prior to beginning of the first run. place on special occasions as tourna- Some of the best-known riders from Starlight; A. P. Cotton, Knight of Henry P. Moses will act as marshal; ments are frequently held in many of South Carolina included Peter Gail- Boykin; S. A. Harvin Knight of Cedar Ormsby Blanding as herald; J. M. El- the surrounding communities. THE SUMTER ITEM SUNDAY, DECEMBER 2, 2018 | C5 YESTERYEAR Sumter soldiers filmed for movie; Simpson opens new store 75 YEARS AGO — 1944 are doing,” hospital trustee Al June 24 — June 30 Holland said. “The number of patients has dropped, and our • Mrs. John D. Pace report- revenue didn’t meet our bud- ed to The Item today she had get. Our goal is to just break received a letter from her hus- even this year.” band, written from the battle- • Even as the U.S. military is fields of France. It was the downsizing by about 25 per- first notification The Item has cent, more and more high received of a communication school students are getting a coming through from the in- taste of military life by join- vasion front, although many ing Junior ROTC. The num- Sumter boys are known to be ber of Junior ROTC units is participating in the fighting. expected to nearly triple over Pvt. Pace, known familiarly as the next decade, and right “Sam,” is a member of a quar- now in the three-county area, termaster outfit. Junior ROTC is becoming one • Showing at the Rex The- of the most popular extra-cur- ater today is “The Black Para- ricular activities on campus. chute,” Cast: John Carradine • The parking lots and and Osa Massen. The head- streets of Sumter were backed line story about guerrilla up with cars as shoppers fighting against the Nazi con- turned out in strength for the querors in the Balkans. first big Christmas shopping Wednesday and Thursday: day, traditionally the biggest “Crime School,” Cast: Hum- of the year. Sales were report- phrey Bogart and the Dead- ed to be heavy across South End Kids. Friday and Satur- Carolina and much of the na- day: “Lumber Jack,” Cast: SUMTER ITEM FILE PHOTO tion. While some Sumter William Boyd. A thrilling 1969 — Simpson Hardware opened its store in Palmetto Plaza in February 1969 with more outdoor space shoppers said they would be western with William Boyd in for lawn and garden merchandise. more cautious about their hol- the role as Hop alongside Cas- iday purchases this year than sidy. with vertical blue stripe, also deficit late in the third quar- different and very interest- last, others said they planned • Citizens crowded Munici- white-piped, in center. ter to overturn Timmonsville ing.” Being from Sao Paulo, to spend more on gifts, and re- pal Park to view graduation • City Manager J. A. Raf- 68-64 in the finals of the Brazil, which is large and bus- tailers said they are confident exercises of aviation cadet field asked authorization at a Upper 6AA Conference cham- tling, he found Manning a sales will be higher than in class 44-H, Shaw Field. Cere- council meeting to charge off pionship. Carl Sprouse’s 36 contrast, “friendly, restful and 1992. monies included a full formal taxes amounting to $2,786.95 points triggered the Hillcrest quiet.” An ambitious student, • By now, you probably have review and a parade of 44-H on June 30, due to the fact comeback in the second half. he works all week at his fa- heard that your community cadets. A feature of the pro- that the citizens owing that The win puts the Wildcats in ther’s electronics store in YWCA will have its annual gram was a war bond plea amount are now in service or the 6AA finals. order to be able to attend col- Hanging of the Greens on made by John J. Riley and have moved away. Last year, • A film, “Candidate for lege two days a week. He Dec. 1, and the public is invit- military representatives. The $3,609.36 was charged off. Un- Stroke,” will be shown by meets classes on Friday from ed. Your response may have Shaw Field band, directed by collectable water bills for the Mrs. O. T. Hobbs at the Du- 8 a.m. to 11 p.m. and Saturday been, “What, you mean that chief warrant officer Robert year amount to only $27.70, We-Go Grange Hall. Dr. from 7:30 a.m. to 4 p.m. This is they want me to come and Simpson, played a concert, Raffield said. The water de- Charles White of Sumter and his first year of college where help decorate their adminis- after which Col. Roy T. partment has collected an ap- a native of Oswego will be on he studies law and hopes to trative building?” No, that’s Wright, commanding officer proximate amount of $62,000 hand to comment on the film practice when the five-year not what it’s all about. Hang- of the basic flying school, for the year. and answer questions. Dr. course is completed. ing of the Greens is sponsored opened the ceremonies by pre- • The award of the Distin- White attended Sumter • Tech. Sgt. Allen Weber of by our Cooperative Develop- senting awards to aviation ca- guished Flying Cross to 2nd schools and graduated from the 363rd Transportation ment Committee annually for dets George H. Shedd and Lt. Thomas Neal Beall Jr., of Wofford and the Medical Col- Squadron has been chosen the benefit of the National John R. Bruni. Col. Wright Sumter, husband of Mrs. lege of South Carolina. Shaw’s NCO of the Month for YWCA’s World Mutual Ser- announced that the graduat- Mary B. Beall, Samford, • The Rev. Ralph McCaskill, February. Sgt. Weber is as- vice Fund — now known as ing class has oversubscribed Texas, and grandson of Mrs. pastor of Bishopville Presby- signed to the Traffic Manage- the World YWCA Resource its quota in the Fifth War J. S. Lancaster, Newton, terian Church, was named ment Office as NCOIC of Ter- Sharing Program. The YWCA Loan and commended Sumter North Carolina, has been an- Lee County’s “Outstanding minal Service Unit which provides an envelope for your County for being the first to nounced by Ninth Air Force Young Man of the Year” at the deals mainly with freight, air contribution, and you hang go over the top in the state. headquarters. Lt. Beall, 21, a Jaycees’ annual Ladies Night freight, packing and preserva- that envelope on its Christmas • Cpl. Robert W. Wells has pilot on a B-26 Marauder and DSA banquet. Rev. Mc- tion. The Gladstone, Michi- tree. In short, the “GREENS” written his wife, the former bomber, has previously been Caskill was chosen on the gan, native is a graduate of are your donations, not cedar, Annie Laurie McCormick, awarded the Air Medal with basis of character, service to Gladstone High School. pine or mistletoe. that Sumter boys are featured nine Oak Leaf Clusters. He the community, civic leader- • Mrs. R.A. Bradham Sr. is • Country music star Aaron in the newsreel pictures of was cited for “extraordinary ship and religious outlook. In showing her collection of Ma- Tippin electrified a Sumter the fall of Rome. The picture achievement while serving as accepting the Jaycees’ highest donnas at the YWCA’s Profes- audience in a concert that was is showing at the Sumter The- a pilot on a B-26 airplane on honor, Rev. McCaskill said, “I sional and Businesswomen’s a prelude to an award back- ater. Cpl. Wells stated that a 25 bombardment missions can’t accept this for myself Club. She has been collecting stage for the South Carolina group of Sumter boys (all of over enemy-occupied conti- alone but will accept it for all for 48 years. She received her native. Kindergarteners, se- the 178th Field Artillery) were nental Europe. Lt. Beall’s su- of you who have worked so first Madonna, a framed pic- nior citizens and people of “filmed” by the cameraman perior flying skill and untir- hard to make Bishopville a ture, 48 years ago as a wed- every age in between were a as they stood near St. Peter’s ing energy materially aided in better community.” ding present. Most of her col- colorful combination of blue cathedral. the successful completion of • Gen. Kendall S. Young, com- lection is imported from Italy jeans, cowboy boots and rip- • Dr. James Keith Palmer of these missions. His steadfast mander of the 363rd Tactical and Japan. She has over 100 roarin’ spirit at the Sumter Sumter has received an ap- devotion to duty and his gal- Reconnaissance Wing, donned Madonnas made of ceramic, County Exhibition Center as pointment to a fellowship in lant courage reflect great his silver stars in a promotion glass, china and also those Tippin heated up the stage. urology at the Mayo Clinic, in credit on himself and upon ceremony. Maj. Gen. Timothy framed. Her real loves is an • Hillcrest head basketball Rochester, Minnesota. Dr. the military forces of the F. O’Keefe, commander of the Andrew Del Sarto painting of coach James Smith says his Palmer graduated from the United States.” Ninth Air Force, and Mrs. Ken- the Madonna and Child. Wildcats are under no pres- College of Charleston and • City council adopted an dall S. Young pinned the silver • Local response to the Dis- sure as they prepare to defend from the Medical College of amendment to a section of the stars on Gen. Young. As com- trict 17 Board of Trustees’ de- their 4A state championship South Carolina in 1943. He ordinance granting a fran- mander of the 363rd Tactical cision to reject the zoning this season. “The pressure was a member of AKK Na- chise to the Sumter Coach Co. Reconnaissance Wing, Gen. plan for schools next year has was last year,” said Smith, tional Medical Fraternity and to operate in the city, which Young is responsible for the been very favorable, according whose team finished with a president of the student body. will allow the coach company largest wing in the Tactical Air to John W. Godbey, chairman 27-4 record last season, includ- He was commissioned a lieu- to charge a maximum fare of Command. of the board. Godbey said that ing a 71-63 win over Byrnes in tenant (jg) in Navy Medical seven cents. Heretofore, the • Simpson Hardware Store people he doesn’t even know the state title game. “We had Corps Reserve upon gradua- maximum fare has been five will have a grand opening for have called him to congratu- the best player in the state, tion and was licensed to prac- cents. Conditions of the its new store located in Pal- late the board on its decision and everybody expected us to tice in South Carolina. At amendment are that the high- metto Plaza. The new store, to stick to the freedom of win. There is no pressure this present, Dr. Palmer is intern- er rates will be charged only which was completed in early choice plan opposed by the year. We just have to go out ing at Bethesda Hospital in St. during the emergency period December, has two-thirds as Department of Health, Educa- and play good basketball.” Paul, Minnesota, and will re- and will be lowered to the much floor space as the old tion and Welfare. He said, “I • Andy and Peter Ford were port to the Mayo Clinic on five-cent maximum upon the store. Carl Simpson, manager have received nothing but fa- at Sumter High School visit- Oct. 1. He is the son of Mrs. L. termination of the war with and owner, said the new store vorable comments, and this ing friends and their high D. Jennings of Sumter. Germany. It is understood has more outdoor space for sort of praise is very unusual school football coaches when • Rehearsals are proceeding that the bus company will sell the expansion of the lawn and for a school board member.” they heard the news that their splendidly for “Victory Vani- four tickets for a quarter and gardening department. “We 25 YEARS AGO — 1993 college coach, Ken Hatfield, ties,” the local talent show may possibly use bus tokens. are upgrading the lawn and had quit his post at Clemson. Nov. 26 — Dec. 1 being sponsored by the Lions 50 YEARS AGO — 1969 gardening department, ex- It was a not-so-surprising sur- Club which will be presented panding our sporting goods • There were a couple of prise to the identical twins. “It Feb. 23 — March 1 June 29 and 30 in the Edmunds and our gifts and hardware questions to be answered dur- took me by surprise,” Andy Auditorium for the benefit of • Airman James R. Revelle departments,” Simpson said. ing the Hillcrest Basketball said. “I think he (Hatfield) the Lions sight conservation was named January’s Airman • Business and industry will Jamboree at Hillcrest High had a good enough season for program and the Boy Scouts of the Month by the Sumter have a chance to learn about School. Will the defending another year at least. There of Sumter. The play is under Merchants’ Association in its the new South Carolina Ap- state 4A basketball champions was talk about him leaving all the direction of Miss Freda monthly recognition project for prenticeship program being miss Ray Allen, who’s now season, so in a sense it wasn’t Cloe Foster of Kansas City, Shaw Air Force Base person- offered through the Chamber playing with the University of a surprise. But when you’re who has had much experience nel. Revelle is in teletype opera- of Commerce and Sumter Connecticut? Can Thomas 8-3 and making a bowl game, in this type of work. Miss Fos- tions with the 728th Tactical Area TEC. Speakers at the Sumter Academy hold its own that should be enough. So it ter said today that she is great- Control Squadron. He has been seminar will be Marion C. against the public schools was something of a surprise.” ly pleased with the cast and in the Air Force since May and Caldwell, director, Division of now that it has three ex- • South Carolina’s largest anticipates one of the finest at Shaw since October. South Carolina Apprentice- change students with excel- public boat landing opened on shows that she has ever direct- • “Former President Dwight ship, and Glen Pearson, lent basketball skills? The an- Lake Marion. The John C. ed. D. Eisenhower is resting as owner of the TV Service Cen- swers were clear after Hill- Land III Public Boat Landing • Newest U.S. award to mili- comfortable as can be expect- ter in Sumter. Pearson will crest routed Mayewood 46-16 in Clarendon County, named tary, naval or civilian person- ed,” Walter Reed Army Hospi- talk about the practical appli- and Furman downed the Gen- for Sen. John C. Land III of nel for heroic or meritorious tal officials announced after cations of setting up an ap- erals 39-17 in the two-quarter Manning, is designed to ac- achievement against the late-night emergency abdomi- prenticeship program. format tournament. commodate a host of profes- enemy is the Bronze Star, re- nal surgery. A brief statement • The V.K. Quattlebaums • Lee County Memorial Hos- sional tournaments. Located cently authorized by the pres- issued said the general’s heart and the R.A. Wegers of Man- pital laid off seven employees on the Clarendon County side ident. Decoration consists of condition was stable. The ning have been recent hosts to this week because fewer pa- of Lake Marion, the facility acid-toned bronze star pen- combination of Eisenhower’s two young natives of Brazil, tients are using the facility. has six launching ramps, four dant from a ribbon, with 78 years and history of seven Itamar Carrijo and Claude The hospital laid off five full- boarding docks and a separate small modeled star in center heart attacks had made the Wuillaume. According to time and two part-time work- 120-foot event pier accessible of larger one. Ribbon, worn surgery a decided risk. 21-year-old Itamar, his stay in ers in an effort to cut $150,000 by land for weigh-ins and judg- on service uniform instead of • Hillcrest’s Wildcats clawed a small Southern town in the in spending. “We are only ing about a quarter-mile from medal, is red, piped in white, their way back from a 13-point United States has been “very doing what other hospitals the landing. 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MARRIAGE LICENSES • Woodson Hurt, owner and contractor, roof, residential). ald, contractor, 5460 Cannery Road, Dal- 2245 Garrison St., 240 unheated square owner, Triple R Construc- zell (mobile home, residential). • Adam Lee Jalbert and Anne Kristin Baker • Betty L. Scott, feet, $5,040 (front porch addition, resi- tion LLC, contractor, 4325 Confederate • Roger D. Cox, owner and contractor, • Christopher D. Osborne and Kathleen dential). Road, $23,000 (replace rafters, ceiling 1505 Nancy Court, 1,440 heated square Deanna Gallishaw • William Jay and Melody Braca, owners, joist, sheetrock, rewire, roof, shingles, feet and 830 unheated square feet, • Kyle Lydick and Vanessa Stanfield of Dal- Melody Braca, contractor, 2120 Beck- deck, residential). $75,000 (new dwelling, residential). zell wood Road, 1,440 unheated square feet, • Gary S. Linn, owner, Global Construc- • Alvin Lewis, owner, Maurice Karl Bouie • Thomas Colton Shotwell and Olivia Chris- $17,000 (metal framed out building, res- tion and Development Group LLC, con- dba Mako Builders LLP, contractor, 2275 tine Magee idential). tractor, 410 Robbins Ave., 800 heated Brogdon Circle, 1,500 heated square • Wallace Wilson and Patricia Ann Green • Glenda Lynell McKnight, owner, Baxley’s square feet, $12,500 (family room and feet and 500 unheated square feet, Bestway Transportation, contractor, two bedroom additions, residential). $85,000 (new dwelling, residential). • Lamont Antwan Hair Sr. and Kendra Mo- 4480 Relief Road, Alcolu (mobile home, nique Council, both of Hopkins • Darren M. and Jennifer D. Rawlings, own- • Carrigan and Jean Holloman, owners, residential). ers, Southern Current LLC, contractor, Gene Altman Construction, contractor, • Terry Donnell Hawkins of Panama City, • Stanford Ray and Shawntay King, owners, 1631 Cabelas Place, $34,515 (roof mount 2900 Shiloh Raccoon Road, Lynchburg, Florida and Whitney Nakeita Doiley Rob Morris Construction, contractor, solar panel system, residential). 2,700 heated square feet and 650 un- • Earl Shante Wright and Wynette Leshone 1705 Melette St., 2,700 heated square • Maurice G. and Renee A. Miller, owners, heated square feet, $250,000 (new Rogers feet and 1,100 unheated square feet, Southern Current LLC, contractor, 3885 dwelling, residential). • Daniel Kalani Gage and Lisa Jones Dimi- $308,000 (new dwelling, residential). Lorene Drive, $54,000 (ground mount • Rochelle C. and Taylor Brownlee, owners, triadis • James and Margot Roberts, owners, Todd solar panel system, residential). Jon M. Thorne, contractor, 2545 Foxcroft • Marquis Aarmond Nichols and Bernadette Miles dba Southern Heritage Builder, • Charles C. Coleman Sr. and Tammy B. Circle, $17,895 (roof mount solar panel Janelle Payne Patillo, both of Columbia contractor, 1060 Boardwalk, $15,750 Coleman, owners, Southern Current LLC, system, residential). (finish room over garage, residential). • Jama Michelle Hall and Candy Key Rex, contractor, 2165 Lloyd Drive, $58,200 • Belinda Moore Billie, owner, Ralph both of Dalzell • Capital Investment Properties, owner, (ground mount solar panel system, res- Brown, contractor, 4400 Broad St., Lot Larry Timmons dba T&T Metal Roofing, idential). 14 (mobile home, residential). • Kenneth Robert Smith and Lorri Ann contractor, 2 Riley St., $18,500 (repairs, Delay • Howdy Morris, owner, Culler Enterpris- • Frank V. Delaney, owner, Aycock Con- sheetrock, plumbing, upgrade electri- es dba Culler Roofing, contractor, 3050 struction LLC, contractor, 7505 Ruggs • Hunter Jordan Reese and Megan Eliza- cal, windows, paint, residential); Capi- Joyce St., $4,520 (remove / replace shin- Lake Road, Rembert, 2,247 heated beth Shuler of Greenville tal Investment Properties, owner, Larry gles, residential). square feet and 874 unheated square Timmons dba T&T Metal Roofing, con- • Eddie Lee Williams and Lillie Baxter • Merlin Mattmiller, owner, Culler Enter- feet, $283,000 (new dwelling, residen- Smith tractor, 5441 Meadow Drive, $23,500 (re- tial). pairs, sheetrock, plumbing, upgrade prises dba Culler Roofing, contractor, • Titus Lamort Bryant and Wendy Marie electrical, windows, paint, residential); 334 Biddle Road, $4,531 (remove / re- • Michael L. McLeod, owner, The Red Shirt Mayfield Capital Investment Properties, owner, place shingles, residential). Guys Roofing LLC, contractor, 8 High- • Larry Rogerallen Carroway and Laurie Eu- Larry Timmons dba T&T Metal Roofing, • Albert C. and Angelia M. Brown, owners, land Ave., $6,614.60 (remove and reroof, gina Brown, both of Wedgefield contractor, 66 Albert Spears Drive, Timothy Kelley dba Kelley Construction, residential). • David E. Moore and Susan Yvonne Walker $21,500 (repairs, sheetrock, update contractor, 2201 Clematis Trail, $8,140 • Allison Harvin, owner, Baxley’s Bestway electrical, plumbing, windows, paint, (install shingles, residential). Transportation, contractor, 4405 Farm- • Kyle Steven Horton and Emily Kay residential); Capital Investment Proper- ers Road (mobile home, residential). Fitzgerald, both of Dalzell • Robert F. Dubose Jr., owner, Dee & Gee ties, owner, Larry Timmons dba T&T Builders LLC, contractor, 21 Calhoun • Carmela P. Bryan, owner, Timothy Kel- • Micheal Neil Privette and Danielle Lor- Metal Roofing, contractor, 1044 S. Main Drive, 600 unheated square feet, $5,500 ley dba Kelley Construction, contractor, raine Crim St., $17,200 (bedroom and bathroom ad- (open carport — attached, residential). 340 Wildwood Ave., $4,910 (install shin- dition, residential); Capital Investment • Robert Edward Turner and Earline Shan- • Jamell and Luzmeilyn Camper, owners, gles, residential). non of Newport News, Virginia Properties, owner, Larry Timmons dba T&T Metal Roofing, contractor, 1322 Waterworks LLC, contractor, 3280 Mat- • Thad Michael Bell and Ky Plemons, own- • Tristan Darnell Thomas and Valerie Covent Garden Drive, $16,500 (replace thews Drive, $27,194.09 (swimming pool, ers, Timothy Kelley dba Kelley Con- Vanek Cocklin of Lexington elec receps, light fixtures, repair sheet- residential). struction, contractor, 1204 Devonshire • Roger Anthony Smith and Maeschell Sim- rock, paint, tile, cabinets, residential) . • James Aaron Dyson Construction, owner, Drive, $6,590 (install shingles, residen- tial). mons • Marguerite Lee and Beaver Parker, own- James A. Dyson dba Aaron Dyson Con- • Levert Judonn Andrews and Tami Nakisha ers, Precision Fence and Decks, con- struction, contractor, 2320 Equinox Ave., • Larry D. Jackson, owner, Timothy Kelley Jackson, both of Wedgefield tractor, 3020 Ashlynn Way, $5,000 (six Dalzell, 1,404 heated square feet and dba Kelley Construction, contractor, foot wood fence, residential). 480 unheated square feet, $85,000 (new 2125 Eureka Way, $11,993 (install shin- • Jaleessa Janay Dennis and Jasmine Dawn dwelling, residential). gles, residential). Fitzgerald of Rembert • Coleman Eisenhower, owner, Douglas A. Riddle dba Ace of Trades LLC, contrac- • Capreshia F. McCall, owner and contrac- • Richard Allen and Gina K. Myers, owners, • Jarrett M. Vaughn and Dianne Denise tor, 1088 Kentwood Drive, $16,500 (re- John Brockington dba Brock Construc- Randall tor, 27 Murphy St., $11,030 (repair dry- wall, subfloor, flooring, chimney flash- pairs, sheetrock, flooring, HVAC, electri- tion, contractor, 2540 Merganser Point, • Henry Lee Woods and Lucille Anthony of ing, electric, plumbing, T1-11 ext, resi- cal, plumbing, residential). $10,151.96 (18 windows and one sliding Kingstree dential). • Robert W. Walton Jr. and Jill B. Walton, glass door, residential). • Jonathen Taylor Beck and Emily Kathryn • Christopher R. Davis, owner, Douglas owners, Trey Wellborn, contractor, 495 • Sam Benjamin III and Lilli Davis, owners, Batey of West Columbia Eugene Crolley, contractor, 2655 Maid- Eastern School Road, 2,200 unheated Larry Timmons dba T&T Metal Roofing, • William Brandon Whittleton and Desirae enhair Lane, $9,000 (replace roof, resi- square feet, $30,000 (ag farm equip- contractor, 114 S. Blanding St., $28,000 Juanetta Lowery dential). ment storage building, commercial). (fire damage repairs, sheetrock, paint, electric and plumbing, residential). • Kenneth Lamont Montgomery and Jac- • Citimortgage Inc., owner, David Wind- • Sumter County Community Development, queline Samantha Headley ham Roofing & Remodeling, contractor, owner, Reliable Roofing & Repairs LLC, • Richard Mooney, owner, Global Builders contractor, 611 Brockington St., $8,000 LLC, contractor, 720 Fawn Circle, $10,000 • Michael Shane Partain and Stephanie Mi- 677 Sierra St., $6,000 (reroof, residen- tial). (reroofing, residential). (sidewalk / slab framing the walls for chelle Ojeda Johns, both of Winder, screened porch, residential). Georgia • Heath B. Greene, owner, Palmetto State • Celeste M. Evans, owner, Solcius LLC, contractor, 3305 Langston St., Dalzell, • George A. and Susan L. Campbell, own- • Jacob Eli Snodgrass and Amy Adell Feeler Solar, contractor, 886 Gordonia Drive, $29,000 (roof mount solar panel system, $37,111 (roof mount solar panel system, ers, Danny Marshall, contractor, 1827 • Quintel Darnell Drayton and Felicia residential). residential). Georgianna Drive, $4,800 (12 vinyl re- Shanell Hoskins • Stevie R. and Dina M. McCall, owners, placement windows and overhead trim, • Johnny M. James III, owner, Morton residential). • Chevelle Kedron Norman and Lenora Buildings Inc., contractor, 9000 Camp Donnie Crooks dba Dee Cee Construc- Paige, both of Hampton, Virginia Mac Boykin Road, Pinewood, 6,048 un- tion, contractor, 3440 Sargent Road, • Sumter County, owner, VSC Fire & Secu- • Dylan Jon-Allen Goke and Jessica Ann Eb- heated square feet, $77,754 (new build- Dalzell, 360 heated square feet and 375 rity Inc., contractor, 3231 Frierson Road, erly ing for farm equipment storage, com- unheated square feet, $58,000 (add Dalzell, $11,109 (install fire sprinkler mercial). handicap bathroom, sunroom, decks system, commercial). and ramps to mobile home, residen- • Robert D. and Gaytha H. Palance, owners, BUILDING PERMITS • Bernard and Lynette J. Hampton, owners, tial). Jon M. Thorne, contractor, 2865 Joyce Mark A. Yarborough, contractor, 2335 • Roosevelt and Margaret McDaniel, own- St., $20,065 (roof mount solar panel sys- • Daniel C. Buschor / Teresa L. Buschor, Beachforest Drive, $11,580 (reroof ers, John Brockington dba Brock Con- tem, residential). owners, James Boykin dba Baker- house, residential). struction, contractor, 53 Dollard Drive, Boykin Construction, contractor, 1095 • Richard and Ruth S. Bennett, owners, Jon • Sandra D. Conyers, owner and contrac- $5,464.47 (install 11 windows, residen- Summit Drive, 495 unheated square tor, 30 Corona Court, 1,600 heated tial). M. Thorne, contractor, 6400 Nakia Drive, feet, $18,000 (detached pool house, res- Rembert, $26,030 (roof mount solar square feet and 300 unheated square • Shanique Mickens, owner, Harvey Mc- idential). panel system, residential). feet, $50,000 (new dwelling completion, Donald, contractor, 5409 John Leary • Charles D. and Sarah B. Howard, owners, residential). • Louise B. Gadson, owner, Michael Partin Lane, Rembert (mobile home, residen- Welch’s Quality Builders & Roofers LLC, • Curtis S. Warren, owner, Clarence J. Wil- tial). dba Partin Construction, contractor, 640 contractor, 5370 Cane Savannah Road, Bronco Road, Wedgefield, $13,900 (re- kes, contractor, 1145 Boardwalk (1135), • Dianne W. and Albert Lee Hill, owners, Wedgefield, $5,400 (reroof, residential). pairs, heat pump, electrical, windows, $8,000 (replace shingles, residential). Dee & Gee Builders LLC, contractor, 40 floor covering, residential). • Ruby Hopkins, owner, George Wilson • Charles David Eubanks Jr., owner, Avant Newman St., 96 heated square feet, dba Wilson Roofing and Build, contrac- • Richard I. and Anne S. Delong, owners, Construction LLC, contractor, 2789 Pow- $6,700 (addition to extend living room, tor, 9 N. Hampton St., Pinewood, $5,000 hatan Drive, $8,100 (remove / replace residential). Gainey Construction Co. LLC, contrac- (remove / replace shingles, residential). tor, 660 Bendale Road, 2,498 heated shingles, residential). • Gainey Construction Co. LLC, owner and square feet and 553 unheated square • Marion R. Brown, owner and contractor, • Brandon L. Green, owner, Knepp Roofing contractor, 1755 Queen Chapel Road, feet, $156,497 (new dwelling, residen- 540 Alpine Drive, 720 unheated square Carpenter, contractor, 30 Ro-Ka Drive, 1,452 heated square feet and 569 un- tial). feet, $4,724.60 (detached enclosed car- Dalzell, $4,500 (roof replacement, resi- heated square feet, $96,165 (new port, residential). dential). dwelling, residential); Gainey Con- • Janie D. Powell, owner, Chris Muenzer, contractor, 3500 Kel-Sam Drive, Dalzell, • Kay R. Raffield, owner, Keith Oakley dba • Curtis M. and Adelaide F. Spencer, own- struction Co. LLC, owner and contrac- R&M Holdings LLC, contractor, 1210 tor, 1765 Queen Chapel Road, 1,451 $10,000 (remove / replace two windows ers, Derek Joye dba Joye Roofing LLC, — no change to structure, residential). Boardwalk, $18,000 (enclose porch into contractor, 732 Mattison Ave., $7,500 heated square feet and 483 unheated sunroom, residential). square feet, $94,301 (new dwelling, • Wade S. Kolb Jr., owner, WJA Construc- (reroof, residential). residential); Gainey Construction Co. tion, contractor, 107 N. Main St., $10,924 • Banjo Properties, owner, Jamie R. Josey, • Michele N. Reese, owner, Renato C. Del- LLC, owner and contractor, 2633 Moon- (install roof, commercial). contractor, 2753 Catie Circle, 1,400 heat- beni dba Premier Homes, contractor, 10 lite Drive, 1,635 heated square feet and ed square feet and 300 unheated • Great Southern Homes Inc., owner and Chartwell Court, 365 heated square 508 unheated square feet, $105,498 square feet, $80,000 (new dwelling, resi- feet, $30,000 (study and laundry room contractor, 3648 Moseley Drive, 2,272 dential). (new dwelling, residential); Gainey heated square feet and 352 unheated addition, residential). Construction Co. LLC, owner and con- square feet, $106,989.32 (new dwelling, • Anthony Vickers, owner, Ken-Co Homes • Ikesha T. Sumpter and Michael Sumpter tractor, 2633 Moonlite Drive, $5,000 residential); Great Southern Homes of Sumter LLC, contractor, 420 McLeary Jr., owners, James E. Standley, contrac- (residential demolition of dwelling and Inc., owner and contractor, 3643 Mose- Lane (mobile home, residential). tor, 820 Ikesha Lane, 112 unheated driveway, residential). ley Drive, 3,040 heated square feet and • Joyce Shivers, owner and contractor, square feet, $25,847 (laundry room ad- • Larry and Lacey P. Gholson, owners, 471 unheated square feet, $127,284.26 3351 Black River Road, Dalzell, 500 heat- dition, interior remodel, remove walls / Chris Collett dba C&C Remodeling & (new dwelling, residential); Great ed square feet, $15,785 (turn detached add beams, residential). Repair, contractor, 4280 Granada Drive, Southern Homes Inc., owner and con- garage into mother-in-law suite, resi- • Heirs of Henry Mills and Eloise Mills, own- $7,850 (install metal roof, residential). tractor, 3765 Moseley Drive, 2,286 heat- dential); Joyce Shivers, owner and con- ers, Cherokee Builders LLC, contractor, • Sonia M. Mickens, owner, Golden Con- ed square feet and 387 unheated tractor, 3351 Black River Road, Dalzell, 1915 N. St. Pauls Church Road, 624 un- struction, contractor, 105 S. Magnolia square feet, $106,841.41 (new dwelling, 500 heated square feet, $36,265 (interior heated square feet, $6,826.20 (detached St., $4,800 (remove / replace shingles, residential); Great Southern Homes renovations and close in carport, resi- storage building, residential). residential). Inc., owner and contractor, 3640 Mose- dential). ley Drive, 3,124 heated square feet and • Jillian Clamor, owner, Cherokee Build- • AC Investment Co. Inc., owner, Larry • F. Marion Cain III and Parham Cain, own- 464 unheated square feet, $138,652.70 ers LLC, contractor, 6195 Fish Road, Dal- Timmons dba T&T Metal Roofing, con- ers, Ryan Mark Peters dba Steadfast (new dwelling, residential); Great zell, 462 unheated square feet, $5,685.14 tractor, 631 Miller Road (A), $5,000 (in- Homes LLC, contractor, 715 Camp Southern Homes Inc., owner and con- (enclosed detached garage, residen- stall metal roof, residential). Branch Road, $14,952 (bathroom remod- tial). tractor, 3637 Moseley Drive, 2,557 heat- el, residential). • Richard Mooney, owner, Global Build- ed square feet and 344 unheated • Joseph R. and Debora Z. Edwards, own- ers LLC, contractor, 720 Fawn Circle, square feet, $115,977.86 (new dwelling, • Mark A. and Laura C. Cox, owners, Ryan ers, Nunnery Roofing & Remodeling, $5,000 (alter garage doors, move wall residential); Great Southern Homes Mark Peters dba Steadfast Homes LLC, contractor, 2429 Toxoway Drive, $4,980 in hall and tear up patio, residential). Inc., owner and contractor, 1856 Ring- contractor, 2665 Cliffwood Court, Dal- (replace low slope roof on porch with neck Court, 1,748 heated square feet zell, $7,500 (bathroom remodel, residen- single ply roof membrane, residential). • Deborah Ann Kirkland, owner, Welch’s tial). Quality Builders & Roofers LLC, con- and 341 unheated square feet, • Tonya L. Anderson, owner, Cephus tractor, 2231 Sanford Drive, $5,700 (re- $95,375.86 (new dwelling, residential); • David M. Waldkirch Sr., owner, Danny Gregg dba Designer Thoughts, contrac- roof, residential). Great Southern Homes Inc., owner and Marshall, contractor, 16 Snowden St., tor, 5880 Tillman Nursery Road, Wedge- contractor, 1740 Kodiak Court, 1,694 $6,800 (21 vinyl replacement windows, • Isabel Martinez Quiroz, owner, Jacob field, $5,000 (brick underpinning, resi- heated square feet and 393 unheated residential). Randall, contractor, 224 Hannah St. dential). square feet, $94,761.91 (new dwelling, (mobile home, residential). • Naomi M. Pinto and Cyril J. Pinto Sr., own- • Patricia Robinson, owner, Michael Par- residential); Great Southern Homes ers, Shelwood China dba China Home • Wanda K. Barnhill, owner, Ken-Co Inc., owner and contractor, 1766 Trevino tin dba Partin Construction, contractor, Improvment, contractor, 882 Kolb Road, 316 Foxworth St., $11,800 (repairs, heat Homes of Sumter LLC, contractor, 4837 Drive, 2,362 heated square feet and 387 372 unheated square feet, $11,400 (ex- Borden Road, Rembert (mobile home, unheated square feet, $115,311.27 (new pump with ducts, plumbing, floors, resi- tend deck with top and screen, residen- dential). residential). dwelling, residential); Great Southern tial). • Todd and Rhonda Smith, owners, Wil- Homes Inc., owner and contractor, 155 • Town of Mayesville community, owner, Decoy Court, 3,124 heated square feet • Patty Jaye Garrett Patterson and, owner, CCCS International, contractor, 37 N. liam Lee dba Lee’s Roofing Co., con- Watson Construction Co. Inc., contrac- tractor, 575 Wise Drive, $9,000 (remove and 464 unheated square feet, Main St., $870,000 (commercial demoli- $136,084.50 (new dwelling, residential); tor, 2 Hallmark Lane, 1,080 unheated tion of old stable, commercial). / replace shingles and felt, residen- square feet, $52,000 (detached enclosed tial). Great Southern Homes Inc., owner and • Roger D. Cox, owner, Roofco Inc., con- contractor, 150 Decoy Court, 2,272 heat- boat shed, residential). • Vicki L. McGranaghan and Lee Mc- tractor, 410 Broad St., $10,300 (roof re- ed square feet and 352 unheated • Jeremy Lee Allen, owner, Jeffrey Callen Granaghan Jr., owners, Shelwood China placement, commercial). square feet, $110,254.18 (new dwelling, dba Callen Construction, contractor, dba China Home Improvment, contrac- owner, Terry Rider residential); Great Southern Homes 2650 Camden Highway, $5,488 (replace • Isabell Howard Gist, tor, 5560 Whisperwood Drive, Dalzell, dba Right Way Roofing, contractor, 713 Inc., owner and contractor, 115 Decoy shingle roof, residential). $6,000 (reroof only, residential). Cardinal St., $5,000 (tear off roof and re- Court, 2,145 heated square feet and 415 • Pilgrims Pride Corp., owner, JF Contrac- place, residential). • Sara Ellen M. Stafford (lifetimes estate), unheated square feet, $123,020.43 (new tors, contractor, 2050 U.S. 15 South, owner, Shelwood China dba China dwelling, residential). 2,000 unheated square feet, $84,762 (in- • Stephanie T. Johnson, owner, Ken-Co Home Improvment, contractor, 4105 Homes of Sumter LLC, contractor, 5680 • Charles S. Wells III and Robin H. Wells, stall footers on existing slab, erect Dubose Siding Road, $6,000 (reroof Rooster Circle, Pinewood (mobile home, owners, Advance Roofing Services, con- metal building, commercial). only, residential). residential). tractor, 4450 U.S. 15 South, $5,700 (re- • Ronald Moore, owner, Harvey McDon- THE SUMTER ITEM SUNDAY, DECEMBER 2, 2018 | C7

Call the newsroom at: (803) 774-1226 | E-mail: [email protected] From the Lowcountry to the high country ou must know Ed,” he green bushes hide the swampy River in northern Colleton County. It given me some insight into a time and quipped. ground. Across the bottom, open has offered good hunting for deer, place that I had missed. I will be for- “Yes sir, I do know hardwoods cover the ridge. turkey and ancient artifacts. There is ever thankful for that. “YEd,” was my reply. The stand is an oversized metal lad- river frontage, a big clubhouse and a Recently, Ed made room for me in When I finished signing the hunt der stand, probably homemade, se- nice fish pond. I’ve made many new his hunting club, and I joined late sheet I walked over to his truck and cured against a huge oak tree. A skirt friends there, but it’s a long drive, this year. I will need to learn the lay introduced myself. He didn’t know of old army camouflage netting is and I’ve been looking for something of the land, how to hunt these hills that I was a new club member and draped around the sides. Days earlier closer to home. I’ll probably still go to and get to know the other club mem- probably surmised that I had been in- I had placed a green plastic lawn the Lowcountry — just not as often. bers. My recent afternoon hunt was a vited to the property for a one-time chair in the stand and trimmed a cou- In recent years, I got to know Ed good start. hunt. ple of narrow shooting lanes through through my brother Matt. Ed had This was my first deer hunt on the I was headed to the the bottom. hunted with Matt, my Daddy, Uncle property, and I didn’t have long to Well Drillers Stand. I climbed into the stand around 2:30 Robbie, brother-in-law Freddie John- wait for some action. I was in the Ed had assigned me in the afternoon. There was a soft son and other family members and stand less than an hour when a small that unused stand on breeze from the southwest that blew friends. I knew they had hunted prop- doe walked out of a thicket into a a recent tour of the my scent back down the little woods erty in the High Hills region of north- shooting lane. She wandered down property. It is situat- road toward my truck. The sky was ern Sumter County. It was an era that the lane and bedded down in a fallen ed on the side of a cloaked in gray clouds, with an occa- I had missed, while serving in the tree top just 30 yards from the stand. low hill overlooking a sional open patch of the sparkling military, away from home. A cowhorn buck walked into the end Dan small hardwood bot- blue heavens peeking through. The Ed invited me to a late-season tur- of the shooting lane where I had a Geddings tom. A big swamp is hardwoods were a blaze of brilliant key hunt this past spring on his hunt- small corn pile. just below the low color — yellows, rusty reds and leath- ing club and family land. I took along Six more does wandered through hill, and a series of ery browns. The dark green pines of- Daddy’s old double-barrel hammer the bottom in front of me during the steep ridges rise across from the bot- fered a stark contrast in these un- gun. Our hunt turned into more of a afternoon. It was a good show. The tom toward the summit of a majestic tamed woodlands. reminiscence than any serious hunt. deer never knew I was there, watch- hilltop. This place is unlike anything My journey here was a long and We talked about old guns, family and ing from the stand 20 feet above them. I have ever hunted. twisting road. Finding the ultimate friends. I realized then that this was Later when I texted Ed, he said, The woods here are a natural mix turkey hunting destination took me the very land my family members “Next time shoot a doe.” I think I’m of lofty hardwoods and towering to the Lowcountry nearly two de- had hunted with Ed, so many years going to like hunting this high coun- pines. There is a thin understory of cades ago. The season opened earlier ago. In my heart, it became hallowed try. dogwoods, redbuds and sweet bay. A there, and it made sense to take ad- ground. small brook gurgles and flows vantage of that fact. Eventually I We didn’t see or hear any turkeys Reach Dan Geddings at cdgeddings@ through the bottom. A screen of wound up in a big club on the Edisto that day, but it didn’t matter. Ed had gmail.com. Becker harvests older deer Traditional fence or borderline hedge? Each has advantages BY DEAN FOSDICK wants to grow and spread.” The Associated Press “Unlike standard fences, hedges don’t provide in- Consider a hedge if stant gratification. They you’re in need of a fence. take time to mature — to When managed properly, reach the size and shape hedges cost less, outlast that you want,” he said. wooden fences, are more at- A regular fence begins tractive than most walls fulfilling its function the and produce wildlife- and moment you put your tools pollinator-pleasing berries away. “But it’s stagnant. It and blooms. also needs some mainte- But decide just what it is nance, and eventually it that you want from a barri- will need replacing,” Clat- er before shopping for sup- terbuck said. plies. “A living fence is more Standard fencing — aside functional, more appeal- from the white picket vari- ing,” he said. ety — will last a decade or To keep a hedge wildlife- more, requiring little if any friendly, avoid high-mainte- maintenance. No watering, nance shrubs like formal- weeding, fertilizing or shap- ized boxwoods or topiaries. ing required when using Many flowering hedges are treated wood or metal. traditionally pruned, but But living fences can in- few require it. Birds, ani- clude a great variety of at- mals and beneficial insects tractive ornamentals (lilacs, favor naturally shaped quince, weigela), deciduous hedging with pollen-laden shrubs with vibrant foliage blooms, nourishing berries in autumn (oak leaf hy- and fruit. Thick hedges drangea, viburnum, sedum) with heavy leaf coverage and evergreens (arborvitae, also furnish shelter from boxwood, yews, hollies) that storms and protection from PHOTO PROVIDED provide texture and color predators. Gert Becker harvested this 5-year-old, 7-point deer on a private lease. The deer weighed 185 pounds, and throughout the year. Beware, however, the in- Becker said this is fairly old for white-tailed deer. All give off different looks timidating family of shrubs or serve multiple functions — barberry, quince, pyr- ranging from security and acantha, cactus. Their privacy to establishing barbs can be painful to boundaries and directing prune and even more un- Clemson Extension announces 2nd traffic. Some provide nour- comfortable to remove. ishment to wildlife, offer There are no landscaping sound abatement and visual rules against blending dif- screening, create shade or ferent plant varieties (ever- Corn and Soybean Growers Meeting serve as windbreaks. greens with deciduous “If you’re making a barri- shrubs, for instance) or in- BY DENISE ATTAWAY Speakers for this year’s talk about chemigation, the ap- er, it’s a bit more difficult to tegrating them into com- College of Agriculture, Forestry and Life meeting include Michael Plum- plication of chemicals or pesti- do it with vegetation,” said mercial fencing (Boston ivy Sciences; Public Service and Agriculture blee, Clemson Extension preci- cides through irrigation sys- Wayne Clatterbuck, with climbing posts and gates, sion agriculture specialist at tems. University of Tennessee grape vines clinging to SANTEE — Precision agri- the Edisto Research and Edu- The meeting ends with a pre- Forestry Extension. “The walls.) Vines and shrubs culture, Dicamba, fungicides cation Center, who will talk sentation of the current mar- main problem with a living soften the look of chain link and tariff effects will be the about the importance of down- ket situation in relation to tar- fence is maintenance. It and privacy fencing. topics of discussion at Clemson force, pressure applied to the iffs and their effects on agricul- Cooperative Extension’s sec- row unit in front of the row tural inputs by Jayme Single- ond-annual Corn and Soybean unit, on planter setup to im- ton, a South Carolina export Growers Meeting on Dec. 6. prove stands. Jeremy Ross, buyer for Scoular. Did you kill a big buck? Kill The meeting will be at San- soybean specialist for the Uni- In addition to these presenta- tee Convention Center in San- versity of Arkansas Coopera- tions, other speakers include your first deer?Catch a big tee at 8:30 a.m. Jay Crouch, tive Extension Service and De- South Carolina Commissioner Clemson Extension area agent partment of Crop, Soil and En- of Agriculture Hugh Weathers; fish? Catch your first fish? for agronomic crops, said the vironmental Sciences Depart- Charlie Whiten, chairman of target audience is farmers, but ment, will talk about Dicamba the South Carolina Soybean We want to share your outdoor photos input suppliers would benefit registration issues and the ef- Board, and Tom Dobbins, with our readers. Email your photo as well. fects of Dicamba on soybean Clemson Cooperative Exten- “The agenda for this year’s yields. sion Service director. submissions to pressrelease@theitem. meeting covers a variety of Also, from the University of There is no charge for this topics corn and soybean grow- Arkansas, plant pathologist meeting, which is expected to com. Please include name of person ers will benefit from hearing,” Travis Faske will talk about end about 2:30 p.m. Lunch will in the photo, where the catch Crouch said. “We encourage fungicide timing on corn and be served. For more informa- everyone to come and learn soybeans, as well as which fun- tion, contact Crouch at (803) or kill took place and any other how they can grow more prof- gicides are best to use for cer- 276-1091 or alfredc@clemson. pertinent information. itable crops.” tain diseases. Faske also will edu. 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