COLOR VIBE 5K B1 2A OPINION 4A OBITUARIES 6A SPORTS 2B PUZZLES 3B BOOKINGS 5B CLASSIFIEDS QUOTE ‘All that is necessary for the triumph of evil is that good men do nothing.’ EDMUND BURKE Vol. 142, No. 10 NTWO SECTIONS e• 14 PAGwES s&PreESTAs BLISHsED 1874 75¢ MARCH 9, 2016 Darlington, S.C. WWW.NEWSANDPRESS.NET Beware of tax season scammers “The thing to remember is that none of those companies or ment leaders say that the best them your credit card or bank agencies do that kind of business over the telephone. They're certainly By Samantha Lyles Staff Writer way to protect yourself is by account information immedi - not going to call you up and say 'send us some money or else!'” [email protected] staying aware of trending ately to avert dire conse - They say there are two scams and deploying a healthy quences. Sheriff Byrd amount of skepticism when things in life that are unavoid - Scam: A caller insists that the victim with immediate arrest ed and has been trying to con - able: death and taxes. Another dealing with strangers. 1. The IRS Scam: A caller victim's electricity bill has not unless they pay some fictitious tact them, and now the bail- certainty is that every year Darlington County Sheriff claims to be an agent of the around tax season, scam Wayne Byrd says the four most Internal Revenue Service and been paid and the bill must be outstanding traffic ticket or set - posting deadline is very near so artists will emerge from the commonly reported scams in tells the victim that they have settled right now or a service tle a penalty for failing to only their bank account or woodwork and try to finagle our area all center around an unpaid tax debt that must be vehicle will shut off electric report to jury duty. credit card can save their some quick cash for them - intimidating someone into settled immediately to avoid service. son/daughter/mother-in-law selves by exploiting our fears, thinking they have an urgent arrest. 4. The Bail/Bond Scam: from a night in jail. our hopes, and even our unpaid bill - or a loved one in 3. The Unpaid Ticket A caller informs the victim that greed. But local law enforce - trouble – and you must give 2. The Power Company Scam: A caller threatens the their loved one has been arrest - BEWARE ON 3A Darlington City Council completes busy March agenda Lisa Chalian-Rock, executive By Jana E. Pye Editor director of DDRA, shared a num - [email protected] ber of events coming in the near Darlington City Council met future, including: for their monthly meeting on • Beautification Board’s Tuesday, March 1 at City Hall, Trees on the Square dedication and kept a brisk pace for an ceremony for sponsors on ambitious agenda that included March 9 on Cashua St. near many agenda items – but began Carolina Bank. (See photo in with some adorable cookie next week’s paper.) entrepreneurs, members of the • DDRA Golf Tournament, Girl Scout Troop #88. which will be held Wednesday, April 8 at the Darlington Girl Scout Week Country Club with lunch buffet Proclamation at 11:30 a.m. and shotgun start Mayor Gloria Hines read the at 1 p.m. proclamation declaring March • Taste of Darlington, held Darlington native Kaitlyn Bailey, who served as Darlington Raceway’s Lady in Black in 2014 and 2015. The track is looking for Bailey’s 6 – 12, 2016 to be Girl Scout Thursday, April 21 from 7 – 9 replacement in 2016. Week in the City of Darlington. p.m. at the Darlington PHOTO COURTESY OF HARRELSON PHOTOGRAPHY FOR DARLINGTON RACEWAY. The Girl Scouts of the U.S.A. Raceway. Tickets are $30 in are celebrating their 104th advance, $35 at the door, for year, founded in 1912 in adults 21 and over. Darlington Raceway is looking for its next “Lady in Black”! Savannah, GA. Mayor Gloria C. • Summer Concert Series, a The track Too Tough To Tame is now inception in 1950. Kaitlyn Bailey, with our first search in Hines posed for a photo with selection of free concerts with accepting applications for its Lady in The candidate will follow a successful late 2013. She did a wonderful job for the the young ladies of local Troop live bands at Liberty Lane Black position. The next Lady in Black two-year reign by Darlington native track and we thank her for her efforts #88. downtown, begins on Friday will serve as a vital representative of Kaitlyn Bailey, who held the position in over the past two years.” “We are so happy to have June 10 from 6 – 9 p.m. Darlington Raceway, making appear - 2014-15. To submit an application, simply visit you hear tonight doing great Beverages and food will be ances at various community and media “The Lady in Black position is an inte - www.DarlingtonRaceway.com/LadyInBlack. things in Darlington. Now available for purchase. events, parties and its annual Bojangles’ gral part of our marketing efforts. She is a The Tradition Continues on Labor Day remember when you go to • Yam Jam returns to Southern 500 Labor Day race weekend key representative of Darlington weekend as the NASCAR Sprint Cup school, get your lessons, and Darlington on Friday October 7, on Sept. 2-4. Raceway and is expected to represent the Series Bojangles’ Southern 500® is set for study hard…doctors, lawyers, the night before the annual The position is an integral part of the track at many of our yearly community Sunday, Sept. 4, 2016. The NASCAR Mayors of Darlington, S.C. Sweet Potato Festival on track’s continued efforts to focus on the initiatives, including race weekend,” XFINITY Series VFW Sport Clips Help A Presidents, nurses, physical the Square. The event will be fans and represent the track in the com - track President Chip Wile said. “We Hero 200 will race on Saturday, Sept. 3, therapists, a little bit of every - hosted by Palmetto Office munities that have supported it since its found a tremendous local candidate, 2016. thing, just do good, alright?” Furniture on S. Main Street, said Mayor Hines. “You’ve got and will feature great music to support them, you have got and fun for residents and visi - to buy Girl Scout cookies. I tors who are in town to attend Darlington man want three boxes!” the popular festival the next Sonoco honored with FPA Gold day. charged with Darlington Downtown Revitalization Association: distribution of Award for Daisy Sour Cream Pouch COUNCIL ON 3A The Flexibles division of crack cocaine Sonoco (NYSE:SON), one of the largest global diversi - The following press release fied packaging companies, March Teacher Feature from Sheriff J. Wayne Byrd states has been recognized with a that a three month long investi - Gold Achievement Award gation has produced a drug from the Flexible Packaging arrest on Orange Street. Association for its high-per - winners chosen “On March 4, 2016, the formance film laminate The Darlington County Vickie Longo, Darlington Darlington County Sheriff’s School District’s Teacher High School Office Drug Enforcement Unit contributions to the Daisy Sour Cream squeezable Forum “Teacher Feature” win - Tracey Mosby, Darlington and Emergency Response Team ners for March have been Middle School executed a pouch, which was devel - oped in collaboration with announced. The program rec - Tyran Veal, Hartsville High search war - ognizes one teacher from each School Daisy Brand, Aptar (dis - rant at a resi - school to honor excellence in Joseph Rhodes, Hartsville pensing closure & fitment) dence on education. Middle School and Continuum (innovation Orange Street Teacher Feature is coordi - Ede Howard, Lamar design). in Darlington, nated by the district’s Teacher Elementary School after a three The innovative Daisy Forum, which is comprised of Luke Bolton, Lamar High month long Squeeze package is an protects the high quality of Winners and entrants are each school’s “Teacher of the School investigation. inverted, wedge-shaped the contents, but also solves featured in the 2016 FPA Year”. The purpose of the Genovia Miles, Mayo High As a result pouch with Aptar’s flip-top multiple functional con - Flexible Packaging Teacher Forum is to foster pro - School of the search, six individual bags dispensing closure featur - sumer challenges,” said Achievement Awards & fessional growth and teacher Tami Usher, North of crack cocaine packaged for ing a SimpliSqueeze® valve Pete Gioldasis, director of Innovation Showcase, avail - leadership. Hartsville Elementary sale and one bag of marijuana and tamper-evident pull marketing, Sonoco. “It dif - able at www.flexpack.org. The Teacher Feature pro - Hannah Hanlin, Pate was seized. Also seized was drug ring. It provides an easy-to- ferentiates the brand on the Sonoco’s flexible pack - gram is sponsored by Segars Elementary paraphernalia used to facilitate use, easy-to-dispense, mess- shelf, while meeting pro - aging division offers opti - Realty. Honorees receive free Stephen Smith, Rosenwald and package narcotics.” free, recloseable package. duction efficiency require - mized performance, func - meals at local restaurants and Elementary and Middle School Robert Earl Richardson, age The proprietary pouch ments.” tional innovation, retail recognition in their schools. Nancy Williamson, 41, male of Darlington, was design was introduced in The Flexible Packaging impact and flexible integra - Honorees for March are: Southside Early Childhood charged with Three Counts of February 2015 and is cur - Association has conducted tion. The Company’s key Center Distribution of Crack Cocaine; rently available nationwide. the annual Flexible flexibles technologies Shelia Wright, Brockington Sara Howle, Spaulding One Count Possession With “By leveraging insights Packaging Achievement include award-winning Elementary Magnet School Elementary Intent to Distribute Crack into how consumers use Awards competition since flexographic and Ebonye Clark, Brunson- Ami Stephens, Spaulding Cocaine; and Simple Possession sour cream as both a top - 1956 to showcase the indus - rotogravure printing, high- Dargan Elementary Middle School of Marijuana.