Daily Archives: 03/19/2014
Escaped inmate captured
KYLE WILLIAM HOWES
EASLEY — An escaped inmate was captured less than two hours after fleeing a work detail near Easley on Monday morning.
According to a release from the Pickens County Sheriff’s Office, Kyle William Howes, 35, was assigned to a litter crew when he fled on foot at around 9:30 a.m. near Old Stagecoach Road.
Howes had been held at the Pickens County Stockade since March 7 while serving a 90-day sentence on charges of possession of drug paraphernalia, providing false information to police
local cadets celebrate their own final four
Special to The Courier
Members of the Easley High School NJROTC orienteering team celebrate after taking fourth place in the National NJROTC Orienteering Championship competition in Elberton, Ga., earlier this month.
Easley High NJROTC orienteering team takes
fourth in national championship
ELBERTON, Ga. — As college basketball’s March Madness gets under way this week with the beginning of the NCAA Tournament, Easley High School’s Naval Junior Reserve Officer Training Corps (NJROTC) orienteering team is celebrating a Final Four appearance of its own.
The Easley cadets took fourth place in the National NJROTC Orienteering Championship competition, held at Richard B. Russell State Park in Elberton, Ga., on March 8-9.
Orienteering is an outdoor activity that requires navigational skills using tools such as a map and compass to navigate from point to point in diverse and usually unfamiliar terrain.
Each of the 13 NJROTC areas throughout the United States — consisting of more than 600 NJROTC units with approximately 70,000 cadets — held qualifying orienteering competitions to
Board discusses need for laptops
By Ben Robinson, Courier Staff
COUNTY — Monday night as members of the Pickens County School Board’s policy committee discussed upcoming policies for forming the budget, they hit a snag while discussing computers.
“We’re going to struggle with our student laptops,” superintendent Dr. Kelly Pew said.
Pew said some help would come if Gov. Nikki Haley’s budget is approved in the statehouse.
“But that won’t be enough,” Pew said. “And we will need something before then. We will need them right this minute.”
Pew admitted it will be difficult for the board to fund the district’s computer needs.
Forum set to feature Liberty School Board hopefuls
Special election set for April 1
COUNTY — The Pickens County Republican Party has scheduled a forum to provide voters with an opportunity to familiarize themselves with the candidates vying to replace former board chairman Ben Trotter as the Liberty-area representative on the Pickens County School Board.
The forum is planned for 7 p.m. this Thursday, March 20, at the Rosewood Center in Liberty.
Trotter withdrew from the board effective last month, and the nonpartisan special election to fill his unexpired term is scheduled for April 1.
Candidates who have entered their names into the hat include local businessman Roy Costner,
University police charge temp employee in thefts
CLEMSON — A temporary employee deposited $3,195 in checks intended for the S.C. Botanical Garden into her personal checking account, according to Clemson University police.
Meganne Alyisha Evans, 28, of Pendleton was charged Monday with grand larceny, value more than $2,000, but less than $10,000, a felony. She was employed at the Fran Hanson Discovery Center, where the thefts occurred between September 2013 and February 2014, according to the warrant.
She was released on a $5,000 personal recognizance bond.
March for Meals
Ben Robinson/Courier
Pickens County Meals on Wheels is participating in the national March for Meals campaign, but it was business as usual Monday for Pickens Save-a-Lot owner and PCMOW board member Dwayne Goodwin, Save-a-Lot representative Jayne Kloth, and PCMOW Board Member Sam Wyche, who met at the store Monday to coordinate the day’s deliveries. Meals on Wheels depends on countless volunteers and is working toward establishing its own meals facility. A bonus will be awarded to the organization that signs up the most volunteers during the month. Pickens County is second in the state currently for this reward.
Leadership Pickens County Class of 2014 helps PCBDSN
COUNTY — March is Disability Advocacy Month. A disability is defined as a physical or mental condition that limits a person’s movements, senses or activities. Those with disabilities long to be known for who they are.
Recently, Julie Petty, Self Advocate and keynote speaker at the 20th annual Family Connection Hopes and Dreams Conference stated that “I’m really passionate about language. I’m not a cerebral palsy woman. I’m a woman with cerebral palsy. I’m a friend. I’m a sister. I’m a wife. I’m a mother. I am not cerebral palsy.”
Pickens County is fortunate to have a Board of Disability and Special Needs (PCBDSN) that
Clemson Girl Scout Junior Troop earns Bronze award for kindness
The fifth grade grade Junior Girl Scouts of Troop #2851 include Anna Brooks-Knepfle, Shelby Robinson, Sallie Dekle, Caroline Ward, Haylie Ficklin, Sydney Weeks, Kayla Fireovid, Emily Williams and Robin Weeks, Leader.
CLEMSON — Girl Scout Junior Troop #2851,a girl scout troop of fifth graders from Clemson and Central Elementary Schools have been working together for two years to earn the Bronze Award.
The Bronze Award is the highest honor a Junior Girl Scout can achieve. The Bronze Award can only be earned as a group award; the girls must demonstrate leadership skills and a commitment to helping others and improving their communities. Each girl must complete a minimum of 20 hours on the project to earn the Bronze Award.
The troop has been guided by the Girl Scout Promise and the Girl Scout Law and the overarching theme – “It’s Your World – Change It”.
Some of the steps the troop have taken together include: completing a Junior Journey, building our Girl Scout Junior Team, exploring our community, choosing our Bronze Award project, making a plan, putting our plan in motion, and spreading the word.
The troop decided to make a positive change in thier community by spreading kindness through words, action and education. The troop talked about the many ways people can be kind. The girls created posters, on display at the Clemson-Central library through March, to highlight and communicate these various ways to show kindness: Be kind to ourselves – It all starts with us. We can’t treat others kindly if we can’t be kind to ourselves. Be kind to others. Be kind to the environment. Be kind to animals. Be the community kind – Get involved.
The troop is taking action in numerous ways to create a positive change. They are showing kindness to animals and our community by packing pet kits for new owners of rescue dogs, including instructions on how to be a good pet owner.
The Troop will donate and deliver these kits to the Foothills Humane Society. They are demonstrating kindness to others, by adopting and supporting a special second grade class at Clemson Elementary School. In addition, they are communicating and educating others to do similar acts of kindness. The kindness “bug” is contagious.
Manage your health care online at Baptist Easley
EASLEY — Baptist Easley has a new service for patients: a convenient way to view their personal health information, including lab and test results, online. The new service is a patient portal, powered by Cerner, called MyHealth. Personal health information can be viewed by the patient anytime and from anywhere, using any device with Internet capability. MyHealth is encrypted
Baptist Easley implements Quiet Time to help healing
EASLEY — Baptist Easley will implement a hospital-wide Quiet Time, a period of time designed to promote optimal healing for all patients, in early March. Because adequate rest is an essential component of the recovering process, Quiet Time will occur daily for all medical/surgical and critical care patients from 2 – 3:30 pm.
An overhead message announces the beginning of Quiet Time, and patients are invited to tune into the hospital’s 24-hour free relaxation channel. During the Quiet Time period, nurses and other medical personnel avoid unnecessary interruptions to patients. Nurses check each patient prior to the onset of Quiet Time to answer any needs. Lights are dimmed and patients’ doors are closed (if safe and acceptable to the patient). Cell phones and pagers are set on vibrate and there is no overhead paging. Transport of patients occurs using the front elevator only and the
