INSIDE: Sumter Senior Living 2018 special section E1 F45 Training gym opens downtown Company founded in Australia finds a home in Sumter, too A2 SERVING SOUTH CAROLINA SINCE OCTOBER 15, 1894 WEDNESDAY, JULY 18, 2018 $1.00 Hot dogs are consumed in the U.S. from Memorial Day to Labor Day Hot dogs and sausages sold in U.S. baseball parks in 2016 has its Nathans Famous International Hot Dog Eating Contest record for wieners eaten by a man, Joey Chestnut. The contest record for wieners eaten by a woman, Sonya Thomas. Celebrate National Hot Dog Day by enjoying local deals on dogs. THE HISTORY MURRAY’S DONUTS — 627 Bultman OF HOT DOGS Drive Special: Buy one hot dog, get one of equal Is a hot dog filled with value free. mystery meat? No. Most popular hot dogs: Chili Dog and Slaw Dog Hot dogs are cured and Most unique hot dog: Sloppy Dog — slaw, chili cooked sausages containing and other fixings. combinations of pork, beef, You have to eat the Sloppy Dog with a fork, said chicken and turkey. Some Johnny Murray, owner of Murray’s Donuts. brands sell all-beef hot dogs. That’s today! Hot dog meat is from the SONIC — 1091 Broad St. and 2022 muscle of the animal that is McCrays Mill Road It’s National combined with water, curing Special: $1 Chili-cheese Coney — all-beef hot ingredients and spices. dog with chili and cheese — and $1 All- American Dog — all-beef hot dog with relish, Hot Dog Day Why are there usually ketchup, mustard and onions — all day today. 10 hot dogs but only BY KAYLA ROBINS Other toppings can be added. The number of [email protected] eight buns in a pack? hot dogs purchased at a time may be limited Grocery stores started selling per ticket. s official as these them in uniform packaging Most popular hot dog: Chili-cheese Coney things can be, Ameri- of 10 per pack in the 1940s. The Chili-cheese Coney is definitely one of the cans on this hot sum- Sandwich rolls and hot dog most popular and well-known hot dogs, said buns often come with eight Sam McLeod, owner of Sonic on Broad Street. merA day are celebrating — in each pack because buns It’s an American classic, said Grace Bethea, knowingly or not — National used to be baked in clusters assistant manager at Sonic on McCrays Mill. Hot Dog Day. of four in pans designed to — Adrienne Sarvis hold eight. Now, baking Hot dogs are synonymous with pans vary more. summer and are on any sane per- son’s list of the most iconic Ameri- What’s the link between can foods. They can be topped with hot dogs and baseball? just about anything, from the stan- Legend says frankfurters were dard condiments like ketchup, mus- tard and relish to outlandish dollops of called hot dogs by a Hearst chili, onion, cheese, pickles and other newspaper cartoonist in 1906 vegetables and meats. who heard a vendor shout “Get The National Hot Dog and Sausage your red-hot dachshund sausages” Council, created in 1994 by the American at a baseball game in New York City. Meat Institute, designates July as National He supposedly sketched a cartoon of Hot Dog Month and changes the specific day a real dachshund in a bun covered in each year they are celebrated. We’ve compiled mustard but could not spell dachshund, some hot-doggone interesting facts and stats about America’s tubular meal you can read so he wrote “get your hot dogs” instead. while the grill is firing up or the buns are toasting. Source: National Hot Dog and Sausage Council FAVORITE HOT DOG TOPPINGS BY THE REGION Atlanta / The South: Getting a typical celery salt on a poppy seed bun. and even baked beans. Michigan: Chili sauce, mustard and onion dog to watch an Atlanta Braves game or in Kansas City: Served with sauerkraut and Southwest: Grilled and wrapped in Seattle: Dogs are split in half and grilled the South means topped with coleslaw. melted Swiss cheese. bacon with pinto beans, grilled onions and before being topped with cream cheese green peppers, topped with tomatoes, New York City: The standard is served Colorado: The Rockie Dog is a foot-long and grilled onions. relish, tomatillo jalapeno salsa, mayo, with onions and deli-style mustard. with grilled peppers, kraut and onions. Made from caribou and served mustard and shredded cheese. Alaska: Chicago: Topped with mustard, relish, Boston: The Fenway Frank is boiled and with grilled onions, sometimes sauteed in onion, pickles, peppers, tomatoes and grilled and topped with mustard and relish Texas: Chili, cheese and jalapenos Coca-Cola. Man grateful for discovering ministry’s free medical clinic BY JACQUELINE BUTLER Ministries’ Medical Clinic. ered in tattoos who looks as if in May 2017 when he was no Special to The Sumter Item Castner said he moved his he could have held his own in longer able to afford it out of family to Sumter County from his younger days at any biker pocket. Imagine working as a com- Pennsylvania to find a better bar. He recently developed a mercial truck driver with an environment for them. He said he believes God led painful dental abscess and untreated dental abscess, He readily talks about how him to the ministries’ free went to a dentist for treat- chronic lower-back pain and he’s turned his life around medical clinic. ment. The dentist declined to BUTLER untreated hypertension — and how he’s changed as a After moving here, Castner treat him due to his elevated with few options for treat- tian Castner before he became person. When you first see said he was receiving primary ment. This was life for Chris- a patient at Sumter United Castner, you see a man cov- medical care, but that stopped SEE CARING, PAGE A4 VISIT US ONLINE AT DEATHS, B5 WEATHER, A8 INSIDE William Carl Pendergraff Barbara Copeland Green THE USUAL 4 SECTIONS, 30 PAGES the .com VOL. 123, NO. 193 Gregory B. Porter Hezekiah Gibson Jr. A shower or storm around Terrell O’Dell Duke Dorothy Hasty Branham today; storms possible in Classifieds C6 Opinion A7 Nancy Lee Cutsinger JoAnne Elizabeth VanHoute some areas tonight Comics C2 Panorama C1 Cavanaugh Wills Matilda Francis Green Carl Raymond Tobias Jr. HIGH 90, LOW 72 Food C4 Television C3 Allene Griffin Ross A2 | WEDNESDAY, JULY 18, 2018 THE SUMTER ITEM Call: (803) 774-1226 | E-mail: [email protected] No 2 workouts ever same at new gym studio F45 has technology, community focus, general manager says BY BRUCE MILLS [email protected] It's a new workout regimen that's a mix of technology, science and community and is growing world- wide, across the U.S. and now in Sumter. Ashley Schwedler, co-owner and general manager of F45 Training, 20 W. Liberty St., recently dis- cussed the operation of her new workout studio, which opened in the downtown area about three weeks ago. The name, F45, stands for 45 min- utes of "functional" training, which is a mixture of cardio, body weight and weight exercises designed to burn fat and build lean muscle, she PHOTOS BY MICAH GREEN / THE SUMTER ITEM said. F45 Sumter General Manager Ashley Schwedler works out in her new gym in the downtown area on Monday. The movements in functional training are regular, daily move- ment patterns, such as walking, There are 1,000 franchises world- running, twisting and bending. F45 TRAINING STUDIO wide, and 350 have started in the "Functional training just im- U.S. in about the last five years. proves your everyday living," WHERE: 20 W. Liberty St. Sumter is just the second site for Schwedler said. "Those movements F45 so far in South Carolina, she we do on a daily basis — this is im- said. The first F45 studio in the proving your quality of life. It's state opened in 2016 in Mount how we should all train." ‘We’re unique because of Pleasant in Charleston County. An- The use of new technology makes other is about to open soon in the F45 a unique workout experience, the technology behind West Ashley community of she said. Daily workout sessions Charleston. are created from U.S. headquarters every single workout "It's just really hit the U.S. and is in Los Angeles from a database of expected to grow quickly," more than 3,000 different exercises, and the community Schwedler said. "In Australia, which are combined for a routine, they're saturated. That's the home, and no two workouts are ever the atmosphere.’ and it's like Starbucks — there's an same. F45 pretty much on every corner The workout sessions are then ASHLEY SCHWEDLER there." loaded and piped in via Smart- F45 offers different membership phone app technology to F45 TV options, from a weekly rate to an monitors in each of the franchise's annual rate of $1,599. Prices may studios. seem expensive to some, but Sumter's downtown studio has Schwedler said everyone who's in- seven mounted HD TVs that create terested in F45 can have a two-week a visual workout environment for free trial — with no obligations. studio members. It's "team train- can go up to 27 members. could expand based on demand, She said she thinks that can ing" and a "family type atmo- The same class workout session Schwedler said. change people's outlooks. sphere," Schwedler said, where ev- is repeated throughout the day, Each day is a different workout "This is not like any other gym," eryone tries to motivate one anoth- with seven classes on Monday session though, so no two days are Schwedler said.