Daily Archives: 09/19/2012
Rainy days and Mondays
All About Ben
By Ben Robinson
For the Courier
The old song by the Carpenters said “rainy days and Mondays always get me down.”
Unfortunately, eventually we understood that for Karen Carpenter it was “rainy days and an eating disorder” that got her down. She died much too young from anorexia, which I cannot understand.
Not wanting to eat seems akin to not wanting to breathe, and I believe in breathing a lot. One look at me and even the least experienced doctor can eliminate anorexia as one of my problems.
Kindness works
Life As I Know It
By Nicole Daughhetee
Staff Reporter
I have been on a journey of self-discovery for as long as I can remember. As I have said before, we are all works in progress. Some of us actively seek to learn more about ourselves to improve our lives and relationships with others. Some of us fall into circumstances that wind up teaching us applicable life lessons. Others ignore the idea of self-improvement altogether and are content to move through life in a state of blissful ignorance.
Over the last several months, I have been afforded a variety of opportunities to learn more about myself and how I interact with other people. There are some fairly simple, fundamental truths I constantly attempt to put into practice daily. Sometimes it is more difficult than at other times, but if we could all practice the most basic principle we learn growing up, imagine what a better world we would help shape.
Is it really up to us?
On The Way
By Olivia Fowler
For the Courier
Are elections sold to the highest bidder? What if both candidates raise exactly the same amount of money? Who wins then?
Most people I’ve spoken to made their minds up about their choices for November’s upcoming presedential election long ago. They neither listen to nor pay attention to political ads. And who can blame them?
Courier Obituaries 9-19-12
Mary “Sue” Tinsley
Pickens — Mary “Sue” Oliver Tinsley, 77, of Redeemer Health and Rehab, 138 Rosemond Street, and wife of the late Tommy R. Tinsley, died Tuesday Sept. 11, 2012.
Mrs. Tinsley was born in Pickens, the daughter of the late Norman and Minnie Whitmire Oliver. She retired as a clerk in Pickens County Family Court and was a member of Grace United Methodist Church.
Surviving are her sons, Steve Tinsley and his wife, Sandi and Whit Tinsley and his wife, Sheila, all of Pickens; grandchildren, Travis Tinsley and his wife, Shelley, Brittani Tinsley, Austin Tinsley and Jacob Tinsley.
Graveside services and burial were 1 p.m. Thursday in Robinson Memorial Gardens.
Flame open region with win against TR
By Eugene Jolley
Courier Sports
TRAVELERS REST — The Travelers Rest Devildogs feature a “ground and pound” offensive attack this year.
Friday night at Dean “Chico” Bolin Stadium, the Pickens Blue Flame gave the Devildogs some of their own medicine in taking a 42-6 Region II-AAA opening win.
Pickens (2-2, 1-0) overcame four first-half turnovers and scored touchdowns on all four second-half possessions in rolling to the win. The Flame didn’t attempt a pass in the second half, rolling up 277 rushing yards in the final two quarters and 339 for the game.
Devils down Patriots in first-ever meeting
By Jimmy Kirby
Courier Sports
LIBERTY — Liberty scored three touchdowns in the second half to break open a close game in its first-ever meeting with the Powdersville Patriots to secure its first region win of the season by a 37-14 score Friday.
There is no history or rivalry for the two teams, as Powdersville is in the midst of its first varsity season, so every game on the varsity level is against a new opponent.
Wave turn focus to region schedule
By Ben Robinson
For the Courier
EASLEY — With Easley a perfect a 4-0, and several state polls ranking both the Green Wave and region foe Greenwood in the Top 10 among state AAAA schools, the temptation is there to look ahead to later in the season when the two teams face off October 19, but Easley coach Chad Smith is not falling for that way of thinking.
“There are no sure wins on the schedule, and if we start looking ahead and do not prepare for any team, we are likely to get beat,” he said. “We have to take it one game at a time.”
Lions break scoring record vs. Warriors
By Gavin Oliver
Courtesy The Journal
CENTRAL — It was Homecoming for the Daniel High School football team as it hosted the West-Oak Warriors at Singleton Field on Friday night. While all the pomp and circumstance of the ceremonies offered plenty of distraction for the Lions, the unit stayed focused on its prize — a victory to begin region play.
Daniel (3-1, 1-0 Western 3A) not only accomplished its goal, but did it in record-breaking fashion.
The Lions scored 11 touchdowns en route to a 76-0 shutout, breaking the prestigious school’s single-game record of 72 points.
The defense was nothing short of spectacular either, holding the Warriors (0-4, 0-1) to a slim 21 yards of total offense.
Mountains suffering from acorn shortage
By Dennis Chastain
Naturalist
Like most hunters, sometime around Labor Day I start wondering if we are going to have acorns or not. After all, whether you are going to be hunting anything from gray squirrels to black bears, it is the acorn crop more than anything else that determines how the season is going to go.
Early indications were that we were looking at a pretty good acorn crop this year. I had checked some older age-class white oak trees in the Easley area, and they were literally drooping with big green fleshy acorns, and we have had white oak acorns falling on the roof of our house near Table Rock for two weeks. But a recent scouting trip revealed that this is going to be a year of boom or bust. Some areas, particularly south of Highway 11, have good to great crops of acorns, but what I found in the mountains north of the Cherokee Foothills Scenic Highway is not nearly so promising.
Keep a sharp lookout for poisonous plants and snakes
By Olivia Fowler
For the Courier
If you’re out in the woods hunting, hiking or just enjoying nature in general, there are several plants you need to steer clear of. Poison ivy, poison oak and poison sumac have earned their names. The leaves, roots and stems of these plants contain a poisonous sap called urushiol.
Contact with urushiol causes an allergic reaction in the form of an intense itching rash. There’s about a 10-minute window of time when the sap can be washed off without dire consequences.
But the best way to avoid an allergic reaction is to avoid contact. And the only way to avoid contact is to be able to identify the culprits.
There’s an old saying, “Leaves of three, let them be.”
