Daily Archives: 09/10/2014
Courier Community Calendar
• Sertoma Club invites locals to meet
The Clemson Sertoma Club invites all interested local residents to attend its meetings. The club meets at noon the first and third Tuesdays of each month at Occasions at Wedgefield, located at 1551 Eighteen Mile Road in Central.
New visitors are always welcome. Those interested are asked to call Randy Shaw at (864) 423-5469.
• Trotter clan set to hold reunion Sept. 20
A reunion is a planned for the Trotter family and all descendants of George MacDuffie and Sarah O’Neal Trotter. The reunion will be held Saturday, Septemeber 20 at 4 p.m. at the Gatehouse Restaurant
Pickens Chamber Member of the Month
Blue Ridge Electric Cooperative has been selected as the Pickens Chamber Member of the Month for September. Organized in 1940, Blue Ridge Electric Cooperative is a member-owned, not-for-profit utility that provides service to its 64,000 residential, commercial, industrial, and institutional accounts situated in northwestern South Carolina. The cooperative’s 7,000-mile system of power lines stretches across an 1,800-square-mile territory. Blue Ridge supplies electricity to the majority of the land area in Oconee and Pickens counties, northern portions of Anderson and Greenville counties, and a small part of Spartanburg County. The cooperative is also the parent company of Blue Ridge Security Solutions. In its 18 years of existence, the security company has grown rapidly and now ranks among the top 100 of America’s 3,000 security providers. Pictured above are Blue Ridge Coop employees Bryan Roper, Liza Holder, Elaine Banks and David Collins.
Noted authors to attend Birchwood Center’s book fair
PICKENS — Well-known southern authors Patricia Sprinkle, Dot Jackson and George Singleton will be among those featured at the Birchwood Center’s 10th Annual Book and Author’s Fair Saturday, Sept. 20, from 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. at the fellowship hall of Pickens Presbyterian Church, 311 West Main Street in Pickens.
Singleton is a Southern author who has written six collections of short stories, two novels, and an instructional book on writing fiction. He was awarded the Guggenheim Fellowship for Creative Arts, US & Canada.
Jackson’s book, Refuge, won the Appalachian Studies Association’s 2007 Weatherford Award, as well as the
Wilderness survival returns
Bushland skills classes to teach primitive survival training
PICKENS — Hagood Mill will welcome back an EarthSkills wilderness self-reliance workshop this fall.
The hands-on survival class is open to all adults and runs from 9 a.m. to 4:30 p.m. on the fourth Saturday of every month from September through November. Each class is limited to 10 students.
EarthSkills instructor and U.S. Army veteran Alex Garcia will return with an expanded training schedule to augment last year’s introductory classes.
Sept. 27 leads this year’s schedule with survival knife skills, basics of the number one tool in wilderness survival. The cost for the class is $65 per student. On Oct. 25, students will be challenged with trapping fish and
Rollins Family Foundations now open in Liberty
Rollins Family Foundations held its formal grand opening and ribbon cutting on Sept. 5 in Liberty. The Rollins Family Foundations, an addiction-recovery mentor and family life coach center, was founded by Travis and Tosha Rollins and created to assist families and individuals who have struggled long enough. The new business was created to help build a happy place for hearts and families. The foundation helps others learn how to live more effectively and enjoyable. Many services are offered, including recovery coaching, recovery reconstruction program, self-confidence building, vocab rehab program, couple coaching and marital and premarital preparation programs. The Rollins Family Foundations is located in Liberty across from the new CVS and can be reached by appointment only by calling (864) 551-5984. Pictured above are councilwoman Lisa Hunter, Tosha Rollins, Travis Rollins, clerk/treasurer Erin Lewis, police chief Gilstrap, Liberty police sgt. Victor Tetter and mayor Eric Boughman.
St. Michael’s to host yard sale Saturday
EASLEY — Find a Saturday deal and benefit community outreach by shopping at St. Michael’s multi-family yard sale on Saturday from 8 a.m.-1 p.m., at St. Michael’s Episcopal Church.
In addition to bargains on everything from clothes to household goods, there will be fresh breakfast and lunch plates available for purchase.
Community members can participate in the sale and reserve a selling space for $10. Sellers can also rent round clothing racks and tables for $5 each. Rental fee proceeds benefit the church’s outreach programs and sellers keep
‘Fall for the Arts’ looking for area artists
EASLEY — Are you an up-and-coming artist or maybe even an established artist looking for an affordable opportunity to gain community exposure? If so, then Arts Council of Pickens County has the perfect chance for you to do so.
Fall for the Arts, to be held Oct. 4 in conjunction with the Easley Farmer’s Market, is currently accepting applications for visual, performing and literary artists for the event. Booth spaces are only $10 for the day.
In addition to booths to display and vend your pieces of art, opportunities exist to educate the public through living artist spaces. Living artists demonstrate their craft during the day to help inform the community about the processes involved creating works of art.
Interested artists may obtain applications from the Arts Council website artscouncilofpickens.wix.com/acpc, Starving Artist Café, or contacting Suzanne Goodman at sgoodski@aol.com.
‘Easley’s Rising Star’ in search
EASLEY — Easley’s Rising Star is looking for entrants for its third annual contest to be held Oct. 2.
Sponsored by Arts Council of Pickens County, the event is in its third year and accepts entries from Pickens County and Anderson District One (Powdersville). The main goal is to promote local young talent and offer a venue for them to showcase their talents.
The contest includes three categories, with different age divisions for each category. Entries can be solos, duets, trios or small groups. Dancers, vocalists and instrumentalists are encouraged to enter for a chance to be Easley’s Rising Star and win some great prizes too.
Previous winners have gone on to further their talents at the collegiate level — the inaugural winner, Madeline Goodman, is currently a sophomore dance major at the College of Charleston.
Applications can be obtained by visiting the Arts Council of Pickens County’s website (www.artscouncilpickens.wix.com/acpc), The Starving Artist Café or contacting Suzanne Goodman at sgoodski@aol.com. Entry deadline is Sept. 27.
Courier Obituaries 9-10-14
Tessie Clark Masters
Pickens — Tessie Jane Clark Masters, 102, died Sept. 1, 2014.
Born in Pickens County, she was the daughter of the late William Elford Clark and Lelia Day Clark. She was the widow of Neal M. Masters and mother-in-law of the late Bascum G. Lesley. She was the oldest living member of East Pickens Baptist Church. She was retired from Mayfair Mills in Pickens after working 48 years.
Mrs. Masters was the cherished mother of Trula Masters Lesley and treasured Grandmother of Randy Steven Lesley
Legal Notices 9-10-14
LEGAL NOTICE
Pursuant to 18 C.F.R. § 5.17(d)(2), public notice is hereby provided that on August 27, 2014, Duke Energy Carolinas, LLC (Duke Energy) applied to the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission (FERC) for a New License for the Keowee-Toxaway Hydroelectric Project (FERC Project No. 2503). The Final License Application (FLA) was submitted in accordance with FERC regulations and contains information and Exhibits required by applicable regulations. The FLA proposes the continued operation of the Keowee-Toxaway Project (Project) in a balanced manner that will allow Duke Energy to generate economical, flexible, and environmentally sound energy, while
