Daily Archives: 07/15/2015
City of Pickens gets grant for water lines
By Ben Robinson
Staff Reporter
brobinson@thepccourier.com
PICKENS — The city of Pickens has been approved for a regional planning grant of $242,285 to improve water lines along Ann Street.
“That’s a real big help,” Councilman Isaiah Scipio said. “We needed that.”
The city is making an effort to replace all the older water lines on its system. The grant gives the city the opportunity to get started on the work. The grant specifies that the money must
Wrestling clubs plan two-day folkstyle camp
CENTRAL — The Berkshire-Pickens and Jet wrestling clubs will host a two-day folkstyle camp featuring University of Tennessee-Chattanooga assistant coach Jeff Bedard later this month.
Homeschooling seminar planned July 21 in Easley
EASLEY — A free seminar for parents interested in homeschooling will take place in Easley at 7 p.m. on Tuesday, July 21.
Parents who are thinking about homeschooling or parents who recently started to homeschool are encouraged to attend.
The seminar will be held at Easley First Wesleyan Church,
SC Works planning to offer multi-employer hiring event
EASLEY — SC Works WorkLink will hold its monthly hiring event at the Capt. Kimberly Hampton Memorial Library on Friday, July 17, from 9 a.m.-noon.
The library is located at 304 Biltmore Road in Easley.
Current employers who are registered for the event include First Quality, Unidine, Hamricks, Verizon Wireless, Kudzu Medical and School District of Pickens County. The hiring event flyer can be found at worklink.scworks.org/news.php#331.
Employers will be on hand to screen applications and résumés, as well as talk with and interview job seekers for open positions. Updated information on confirmed employers for this event will be available on the SC Works WorkLink website, Facebook, and Twitter pages.
All job seekers are encouraged to attend the hiring events professionally dressed with multiple copies of their résumé to present to the employers. There will not be a copier available to make copies of résumés. To make the registration process easier, please fill out the registration form ahead of time and bring to the hiring event with you. The form can be found at: worklink.scworks.org/news/193/Registration-Form.pdf.
Come by one of the SC Works Centers in Anderson, Seneca, Clemson, or Easley prior to the hiring event to learn how to land a job, write a résumé, ace an interview and discover training opportunities that will make you stand out to an employer. For more information about the event or to find an SC Works Center near you, contact the SC Works Clemson office at (864) 643-0071 (TTY:711) or email connect@worklinkweb.com.
If you are an employer and are interested in participating in a future event or need information on the services that SC Works offers, contact Patty Manley at pmanley@worklinkweb.com or (864) 646-1515.
Humane Society to host golf tourney
COUNTY — The Pickens County Humane Society will be having a golf tournament on Saturday, August 1.
The event will feature a shotgun start at 10 a.m. There will be a $50 entry fee per person and a maximum of a four-person team.
The entry fee will include 18 holes of golf, cart and lunch. Mulligans and red tees will also be offered for $5 each, and there will be “closest to the pin” and longest drive contests.
The tournament will be held at the Pickens Country Club, located at 1018 Country Club Road in Pickens.
Sponsorships are available, and donations are needed for prize giveaways and items for raffle and/or silent auction. Donations can be mailed to the Pickens County Humane Society at P.O. Box 83, Liberty, S.C. 29657
All golf teams are asked to register with The Pickens County Humane Society by calling (864) 843-9693.
The Pickens County Humane Society is located at 500 Five Forks road in Liberty.
Courier Obits 7-15-15
LILLIAN DAY
PICKENS — Lillian Masters Day, 95, widow of Elbert Day, went home to be with The Lord on Tuesday, July 7, 2015.
Mrs. Day was born in Pickens County, a daughter of the late William Snow and Olivia Jarrett Masters. She was retired from
Martin discusses flag issue
Heritage, not hate. Those are the words we’ve seen countless times on bumper stickers in defense of the Confederate flag.
As a proud Southerner who counts Confederate veterans on both sides of my family, I have pretty much embraced the same mindset. That was the idea behind moving the Confederate flag to the Soldiers Monument 15 years ago. The flag became part of the monument, or so we thought.
It became evident to me that others in our state continued to see the flag on the Statehouse grounds much differently less than 36 hours after our collective hearts were broken over the senseless murder of nine innocent people at the Emanuel AME Church. The church killer had also left a witness to let the world know why he had
Beware of sharks looking for lunch
Since the string of shark attacks along the coastline, there has been a great deal of 
anxiety about being eaten while on vacation.
Everyone deals with this in a different way. We are at Holden Beach with our extended family, and here’s how we’re addressing the problem.
We have a good pair of binoculars, and whoever has water duty uses them religiously, scanning the water from left to right while the second person is in the water with the
Courier Letters to the Editor 7-15-15
Why the rush?
Dear Editor,
Many question the timing and rushed process used to remove the Confederate flag from Statehouse grounds. Honest answers to a few questions are revealing. The flag was at its location on the Statehouse lawn for 15 years, if it was such a pressing issue, why wasn’t something done about it during the last 15 years?
Why did they only act when national TV cameras showed up? Is it right to bypass the
Giving Back
Blue Ridge announces funds raised
from 18th annual festival
GREENVILLE — Blue Ridge Electric Cooperative and Blue Ridge Security Solutions recently announced the 18th annual Blue Ridge Fest, held on May 8, raised a total of $185,000 to benefit local non-profit organizations in Pickens, Greenville, Anderson and Oconee counties.
BLUE RIDGE FEST
Since the event’s inception almost a decade ago, Blue Ridge Fest has donated more than $2 million to numerous agencies in the Upstate area that provide individuals with basic necessities such as food, shelter, clothing and health care.
In addition, Blue Ridge Electric Cooperative is celebrating its 75th anniversary in August.
This year a number of nonprofits received funds from Blue Ridge Fest. The charities include: Anderson Interfaith Ministries, Developmental Center for Exceptional Children, Dot’s Kitchen of Westminster, Fair Play Camp School, Hidden Treasure
