Monthly Archives: August 2013
Pickens County students post strong ACT scores
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COUNTY — Pickens County high school seniors excelled in their ACT testing in 2013, scoring above both state and national averages.
Our students earned an average score of 21.8, higher than the South Carolina public school average of 20.1, and the national average of 20.9. Although the district continued to compare favorably to state and national averages, performance declined from its 2012 composite score of 23.1.
Daniel High School tied for best among traditional public schools in South Carolina with an average composite score of 23.5, followed by Easley High School with 21.7, Pickens High School with 21.3 and Liberty High School 20.6.
Liberty wreck claims woman’s life
LIBERTY — A Greenwood woman was killed in a wreck on Ruhamah Road in Liberty last week.
At around 11:24 p.m. last Wednesday night, authorities were called to the scene of a single-vehicle accident on Ruhamah Road. According to an incident report, on arrival a police officer found a woman lying in the roadway. The woman told him she had been involved in an accident and a man and woman were still in the vehicle, which the officer identified as a green Chevrolet truck on its side about 50 feet off the road next to a telephone pole. The officer said the man was standing at the vehicle trying to get a woman in the truck to wake up.
After EMS was unable to find vital signs on the woman, Pickens County Coroner Kandy Kelley was called to the scene.
Kelley said Maranda Nicole Bice, 29, was pronounced dead at the scene. Bice
Grace United Methodist Church Mission Team helps build church in the Bahamas
PICKENS — Every year for the past 12 years, the Grace United Methodist Church of Pickens Bahama Mission Team has made the journey to the island of Eleuthera in the Bahamas in July. Home construction and repair are usually on the agenda. This year’s task was to participate in a United Methodist Volunteers in Mission Project to start construction of a Methodist church in Deep Creek. The group is led by Ray Haskett and Ken Lowe.
The mission team has only been back from their trip for two weeks, and the whole team is already wanting to go back and finish the job. The sense of family was so strong between the 14 in the group, 12 of whom had been to Eleuthera before.
A porch full of memories
Olivia Fowler
On The Way
By Olivia Fowler
The new Southern Living just arrived, and a story in it took me straight back to the front porch of Grandmama’s house in summer, where we often sat after supper.
The kitchen would be cleaned up, and Mama and Grandmama would be sitting in porch rockers with glasses of iced tea. They’d talk and rock. We’d be savoring the last moments outside before bedtime. In summer we seldom took baths at night. We’d usually been swimming in the river before supper. The only thing Mama did before we went to bed was make sure we’d brushed our teeth. We’d put on our pajamas, and then she’d wipe the bottom of our feet off with a damp washcloth before tucking us in for the night.
Nothing is impossible
Nicole Guttermuth
A New Day
By Nicole Gittermuth
You know how when you are first falling in love with someone, little else seems to matter?
You go through each day and make certain you attend to your responsibilities, but your head feels a bit like a helium balloon that might set aloft at any moment.
You attempt to focus on something, anything, but your mind becomes so easily distracted by the recollection of a piece of conversation or the remembrance of feeling your fingers interlaced with another’s as you strolled through the park surrounded by a dusky twilight.
Courier Obits 8-28-13
Carl A. Bearden
Easley — Carl Adams Bearden, 91, husband of the late Shirley Marie Barrett Bearden, died Friday, Aug. 16, 2013 at Rainey Hospice House in Anderson.
Mr. Bearden was born in Oconee County, a son of the late Joseph Freeman and Carrie Etta Baygents Bearden. He graduated from Walhalla High School and subsequently joined the U.S. Navy. At age 20, he was serving in the Panama Canal Zone when Pearl Harbor was attacked. He served 20 years in the Navy, also stationed in Pensacola, Fla., Norfolk, Va., and aboard the U.S.S. Cabot (CVL-28) aircraft carrier. In July of 1946, Carl and Shirley were married at the U. S. Naval Air Station Chapel in Pensacola. They were together for 63 happy years. In 1959 Mr. Bearden went to work for the Argonne National Laboratory outside Chicago and in 1967 returned to South Carolina where he worked at Donaldson Center in Greenville and later for Platt Saco Lowell in Easley. Mr. Bearden was an accomplished woodworker, carpenter, and furniture maker. He and his wife were members and
Courier Classified 8-28-13
Yard Sales
ARIAL BAPTIST YOUTH YARD SALE/COOKOUT – 618 Rice Road, Easley. September 14 7 a.m. – 1 p.m. $10 tables (you keep all profits) Call to reserve a table 864-859-7234 or 864-313-7062. 8/21, 28, 9/4, 11
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GARAGE SALE: Saturday, Aug 31 105 Brooklyn Dr., Hwy 8 toward Pumpkintown. First drive next to Griffin grocery’s. 8 – until. If rain following Saturday. 8/28
Announcements
Do you own an antique or modern U.S. or foreign military vehicle? If so, “I WANT YOU” to join our veterans club, USMTM, please email for info: us.mtm66@yahoo.com. TFC
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Dacusville set to host annual Farm Show
By Ben Robinson
For The Courier
DACUSVILLE — For many years Jim Robinson and his family had operated the Dacusville Farm Days celebration on Labor day weekend.
But last year Jim’s oldest son Randy died after an unexpected heart attack, and Jim found that he had lost some of the joy he had experienced.
“We worked hard every year, but we worked together, and Randy was a big part of that,” Robinson said. “The plan was for Randy to take over more and more of the show, eventually taking over the entire show. But the Lord had other plans, and he called Randy home last year.
Finally paying off
2013 Pickens Blue Flame
Experienced senior class set to lead Blue Flame in 2013
By Eugene Jolley, Courier Sports
PICKENS — The Pickens Blue Flame have been waiting on this season for a while.
Since seniors Cameron Holder and Mason Covey lined up as starters in the season opener against Easley three years ago, this year’s senior class has been one of great anticipation.
“We have a fairly big senior class that we’re counting on to lead for us and do some things for us,” Pickens head coach Chad Seaborn said. “Some of them have been in the program four years, and some even through middle school with us.
“For them, we want it to be a good year, because they have put a lot of time and effort in. They know how we practice, they know what we expect and it’s obvious in practice how they are doing. Our numbers are up, overall. We don’t
Practicing patience
2013 Liberty Red Devils
Stewart expects Devils to be ‘a work in progress’ early on
By Jimmy Kirby, Courier Sports
LIBERTY — Looking back on his first two seasons as head coach of the Liberty High Red Devils, Kyle Stewart realizes how blessed he was with athletically skilled players and the ability to run his option-based offense with a grind-it-out style of play.
The results were evident with a 9-3 record in 2011 and a second-round berth in the AA playoffs in his first season, and a 5-6 record last year and a first-round playoff loss at Ninety Six.
The difference between season one and season two boiled down to the defense’s ability to stop the opposition from scoring. In 2011, the Red Devil defense allowed 21.3 points per game, compared to giving up 31.5 points per contest last season.
