Monthly Archives: August 2012
Legacy Square to host Sep. 11 remembrance
PICKENS — American Legion Pickens Post 11 and the US MTM club invite members of all branches of the U.S. Military, fire departments, EMS, police departments and Search and Rescue to participate in a 9/11 Remembrance Tuesday, Sep. 11, at Legacy Square in Pickens.
Activities begin at 3 p.m. with a static display of U.S. Military, police, fire, EMS and search and rescue vehicles.
Hot dog plate dinners will be for sale to raise funds for EMS, police, fire and the Wounded Warrior Project.
At 6 p.m. a color guard from the U.S. Marine Corp will present the colors.
Activities will conclude around 7 p.m.
Gospel Lighthouse holds sixth annual Victims Advocate Day
By Rocky Nimmons
Publisher
PICKENS — The Gospel Lighthouse Prison Evangelism ministry held its sixth annual Victims Advocate Day program on Saturday.
The ministry helps children and women who have been involved in abusive homes, children who have been taken from meth lab homes and children who have been sexually abused. The ministry also provided more than 100 teddy bears for the Pickens Police Department this year.
This year’s service was dedicated to the memory of Jessica Parnell Tronetti, who was a victim of violent crime and lost her life earlier this year. Her family was in attendance as the ministry’s founder Dr. J.W. Stansell announced that the annual drive to provide teddy bears to the Pickens Police Department has been renamed “Jessica’s Sunshine Fund.”
The teddy bears are used by the PPD to give to children during times of trauma and traffic stops.
Easley Business and Professional Women’s Organization awards annual scholarships
EASLEY — The Easley Business and Professional Women’s Organization recently awarded three $500 scholarships to deserving young students who either live or attend school in Pickens County. Scholarship applications address academic and extra-curricular achievement as well as written essays addressing the student’s biography, education, career goals and vision of future achievements.
Award recipients were Aubrey Blalock, Anna Qualkinbush and Danielle York.
Barn Quilts author to hold book signing at Pickens Co. Museum
PICKENS — The public is invited to enjoy an informative and entertaining presentation and book signing by author Suzi Parron. The event will be held Saturday, August 25, starting at 1 p.m. in the LaVonne Nalley Piper Auditorium of the Pickens County Museum, located at 307 Johnson Street in Pickens.
Flame host jamboree
By Eugene Jolley
Courier Sports
PICKENS — In their final tune-up before this Friday night’s week zero opener against rival Easley in the annual Sam Wyche Meals on Wheels Food Fight Bowl, the Pickens Blue Flame hosted their annual jamboree last week, falling 20-0 to county rival Daniel.
End of summer is an exciting time
By Nicole Daughhetee
Staff Reporter
Confession: I often find that when I do the math, I am older than I think I am!
Ruminating about what I was going to write and compile for this week’s B-Front, it seemed liked only years ago that I graduated from high school. I was thinking about the palatial digs all these kids are going to high school in as they enter any one of the four majestic buildings in Central, Liberty, Easley or Pickens.
I recently had the opportunity to tour the new EHS, and walking the halls was more reminiscent of being in a museum than my old high school.
Obituaries for the week of August 15
L. Truman Fisher
Pickens — Lawrence “Truman” Fisher, 67, of Greenville, died Friday, July 27, 2012 at Omega Living and Rehab in Greenville.
Born Jan. 4, 1945 in Pickens County, he was a son of the late John and Della Reid Fisher. He was a TV repair man and was a member of Antioch Baptist Church.
Surviving are a son, J. Travis Fisher of Six Mile; four daughters, Lisa (Bryan) Harrell of Easley, Karen (Danny) Ellenburg of Pickens, Donna (Shawn) Fisher and Jennifer (Dale Sutherland) Howard all of Six Mile; a son and daughter from a previous marriage, Terry Fisher and Teresa F. Thompson both of Rosman, N.C.; a sister, Joyce (Jack) Roper of Pickens; 17 grandchildren, Brittany Dill, Ashley McCrary, Amber McCrary, Zachary Dill, Brandon Dill, Andrew Johnson, Izabella Fisher, Jacob Bearden, Matthew Harrell, Tiffany Harrell, Casside Howard, Shawna Cowart, Logan Howard, Riley Sutherland, Jacob Fisher and Autumn Thompson.
In addition to his parents, he was predeceased by five brothers, Harold, David, Charlie, Hansel and Ansel Fisher; four sisters, Leona Woods, Carol Cassell, Lib Morgan and Blanche Fisher; and a grandson, Nicholas Fisher.
Funeral services were 12 p.m., Monday in the chapel of Robinson Funeral Home-Downtown. Burial followed in Mt. Carmel Baptist Church in Oconee County.
In lieu of flowers memorials may be made to Duckett-Robinson Funeral Home, 108 Cross Creek Road, Central, SC 29630 for funeral expenses of Mr. L. Truman Fisher.
Condolences may be expressed online at www.robinsonfuneralhomes.com or at the funeral home.
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Officers: Man kills self after shooting daughter
PICKENS — The Pickens Police Department and Pickens County Sheriff’s Office are still investigating after they say a man shot his teenage daughter then killed himself Sunday night.
County students’ testing scores improve again
By Nicole Daughhetee
Staff Reporter
COUNTY — High achievement and improvements, as documented in recent PASS testing and Exit Exam scores, indicate that Pickens County students are well on their way to meeting the district’s 80 percent graduation rate in the next five years.
According to data released by the South Carolina Department of Education, students in Pickens County outperformed state averages in Palmetto Assessment of State Standards testing in the 2011-2012 school year.
