IN SPORTS: Manning-Santee, Dalzell-Shaw meet in Game 2 of opening series B1 INSIDE Haley diplomacy Former S.C. governor does hands-on peacemaking with food for Syrian refugees A2 THURSDAY, JUNE 1, 2017 | Serving South Carolina since October 15, 1894 75 cents Changes ahead for AFCENT, Shaw Relocation of 432nd Expeditionary Wing from Nevada could begin in November BY JIM HILLEY [email protected] about them and pray for them, lies are so excited, because they because we never know when know how awesome the local Shaw AFB Commander Col. and where they are going to go. community is,” Lasica said. Daniel Lasica said the base re- They are officially on the hook.” “They know how centrally locat- cently welcomed back the more In other news, Lasica said lead- ed the Midlands is, close to Co- than 300 airmen of the 29th Fight- ership of the 432nd Expeditionary lumbia, close to Charlotte, Myrtle er Squadron “Tigers” from Ba- Wing at Creech Air Force Base, Beach, Kiowa, Charleston ... all gram Air Field in Afghanistan. Nevada, including Col. Case Cun- those places.” Speaking at the Greater Sumter ningham, visited Shaw on Tues- Maj. Gen. Scott Zobrist, com- of Commerce Commander’s day. Plans call for the wing to re- mander of the 9th Air Force, was Breakfast Wednesday morning, locate to Shaw. also at the breakfast and said he he said their seven-month deploy- “Cunningham was not on the had a chance to talk to the com- ment was typical. deck for very long but literally his mander of one of the units. JIM HILLEY / THE SUMTER ITEM He said the 77th Fighter Squad- eyes were as big as saucers,” Lasi- “They were excited, thrilled to Sumter Military Affairs Committee Chairman Steve ron “Gamblers” will be deployed ca said. “Those airmen are so ex- see what Sumter and Shaw has to Creech, left, talks to 9th Air Force Commander Maj. Gen. in the fall. cited to come here.” offer,” he said. “They are sta- Scott Zobrist during the Greater Chamber of Commerce “Our ‘Shooters,’ our 55th While the transfer of the 432nd tioned at Creech AFB in Nevada Commander’s Breakfast on Wednesday morning at Sunset (Squadron), are on the global re- is not yet official pending comple- and apparently the desert looks a Country Club. The event, presented by ERA Wilder Realty sponse force; what that means is tion of an environmental assess- lot different from South Carolina and Great Southern Homes, is hosted by the chamber that they are ready to go on a ment, Lasica said he is hopeful the this time of year.” each year to promote relations between the Sumter Com- moment’s notice anywhere in transfer can begin in November. munity and Shaw Air Force Base. the world,” Lasica said. “Think “They’re so excited, their fami- SEE SHAW, PAGE A5 Prized treasures Magnificent 7 Group 1st from Manning High to graduate with associate degree BY BRUCE MILLS [email protected] MANNING — For a group of seven Manning High School seniors, Saturday will mark a momentous day. Not only will they earn their high school diplomas as part of the school’s Class of 2017, but the group has the unique distinction of al- ready having earned a two-year as- sociate degree. The seven represent the first area graduates from Central Carolina Technical College’s Early College Program, where high school stu- dents earn college credit by taking college courses during their junior and senior years. Some students, if highly motivated, have the opportu- nity to finish off an entire associate degree — and these seven met that mark. They include Valedictorian Jabril Wilson, Salutatorian Jesse Surette, Quadri Bell, Bailee Gar- neau, Ryan Hinson, James Thomp- son and Jared Thompson. The program, which kicked off two years ago in Clarendon and Lee counties, allows high-achieving high school students to enroll in the col- BRUCE MILLS / THE SUMTER ITEM lege at the beginning of their junior Clayton Geddings of Summerton shows off his collection of arrowheads recently at his home in Clarendon County. year, if they meet certain prerequi- sites. Those prerequisites include three units of high school English Arrowhead enthusiasts love the history behind their finds and math, a 3.5 grade point average, and being in the top 6 percent of BY BRUCE MILLS fields, and after every plowing it was “I went for a walk and spent several their class. The program will begin [email protected] like a brand new field to find the hours out there, and I found one tiny treasures. broken base of a point, but it didn’t SEE SEVEN, PAGE A5 It’s a connection with history, the On a really good day back then, he matter because I had such a good time outdoors and somewhat of a “mys- could collect 15 arrowhead points. just being out in the middle of no- CCTC EARLY COLLEGE GRADUATES tery” — if you will — that drives When he reached where,” Jarvis said. “It was just me many of the region’s residents to ar- his early 20s, Jarvis and the birds and the crickets, and I Seven Manning High School graduates have rowhead hunting. said it was time to just loved it so much. It was so also recently completed their two-year Dalzell resident Kevin Jarvis grew begin his career relaxing and sort of cathar- associate degree at Central Carolina. The full up on a farm in the area. His grand- and he stopped tic that I just decided to list with their four-year college destination is father farmed the land and would hunting. Also, start getting back into provided: discover arrowheads from time to about that time, it.” Quadri Bell — University of South Carolina time, and he passed them down to farmers stopped Today, Jarvis has a Kevin and his older brother. The two plowing their fields 10-case collection of Bailee Garneau — University of South brothers took an interest and started on a regular basis, arrowheads at his Carolina-Beaufort hunting for them when Kevin was making hunting for home and enough Ryan Hinson — Charleston Southern probably 7 or 8, he said. the historic points for probably two University His brother was the first to find more difficult. more cases. Tech- Jesse Surette — University of South one. It took Kevin several years to About 2010, Jarvis got nically, “arrow- Carolina find his first arrowhead, but he fi- back into it again. He says heads” are relatively James Thompson — University of South nally did when he was 12 in 1982. he “just missed it.” small — about the size of Carolina “When I found my first one, I was He called up an old family friend a bullet — and date back only hooked,” Jarvis said. who formerly let him look on his 1,500 to 2,000 years at the most, Jared Thompson — University of South For the next 10 years, Jarvis was private land for points when he was since that was when the bow Carolina an avid hunter. Back then, he says younger, and they said he could go Jabril Wilson — Duke University farmers still plowed and disked their again. Jarvis did. SEE FINDS, PAGE A4 VISIT US ONLINE AT CONTACT US DEATHS, B4 WEATHER, A10 INSIDE Information: 774-1200 Geneva J. Lee Eloise Timmons MOSTLY SUNNY 2 SECTIONS, 16 PAGES the .com Advertising: 774-1246 Herbert L. Epps Jr. Antoinette Guadagno Partly cloudy today and VOL. 122, NO. 164 Classifieds: 774-1200 Margaret F. 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Haley’s prosperity and Secretary of up a box of lentils and wheat mission represented another State Rex Tillerson has distin- for besieged Syrians, her side of Trump’s “America guished between America’s hands-on diplomacy a world First,” assuring nations on interests and its values, Haley apart from the gleaming new the border of the world’s is the national security voice NATO headquarters where worst crisis that the U.S. insisting the U.S. still seeks to President Trump was debut- wasn’t forgetting them. promote human rights, de- ing his “America First” doc- “I think ‘America First’ is mocracy and the well-being of trine overseas. human rights and ‘America others. Yet Haley brushes off THE ASSOCIATED PRESS Haley, Trump’s U.N. ambas- First’ is humanitarian is- any suggestion of divergent U.S. Ambassador to the U.N. Nikki Haley holds a food parcel provided sador, had started the day in sues,” Haley said. “It’s what interests, arguing instead that by the World Food Programme, part of the humanitarian aid ship- Turkey’s capital, opened a ref- we’ve always been known the members of Trump’s Cab- ments into Syria, during a visit last week near Hatay, southern Turkey. ugee school in the south of for.” inet simply “see the world the country, then traveled Haley’s trip last week to through a different scope.” political solution, have to fight Trump doesn’t care about hours in an armored vehicle Jordan and Turkey show- “We take basically what we for human rights and I have human rights.