Monthly Archives: March 2016
Courier Community Calendar 3-23-16
• Lawrence Chapel plans jewelry sale
Lawrence Chapel will host a vintage collectible jewelry and accessories sale and a bake sale too on Saturday, April 9, starting at 9 a.m. The sale will last until noon.
Lawrence Chapel is located at 2101 Six Mile Highway, Central, SC 29630. For more information, call (864) 653-4461.
• Classes offered at Hagood Center
New Fiber Room Center activities at the Hagood Center in Pickens have been scheduled for March and April.
On Friday, April 8, 9 a.m. – 3:30 p.m. there will be a one-day Water Color Butterflies workshop with Preston Rausch. Supplies will be provided. Charge is $25. Sample is available in Granger Fiber Arts. To insure an adequate number of supplies is available, please pre-register.
The fiber room committee plans in late March or early April a Sheer Delight Jacket (chenille) classs. Supply list and a sample will be available at a later date.
Below is a list of the center’s regular activities:
Monday: 10-11:30 a.m. — cathedral window quilts with Jacquie. Tuesday: 9 a.m. – 3:30 p.m. — weaving with Pat; 9-11:30 a.m. — doll clothes with Jacquie; 10-11:30 a.m. — yo-yos with Irene and prayer shawls and cancer caps with Sharon (in the library). Wednesday: 9 a.m.-3:30 p.m. — weaving with Pat (in the heritage room); 10-11:30 a.m. — knitting with Tally. Thursday: 10-11:30 a.m. quilting with Sara; 1:30-3:30 p.m. — rug hooking with Cheryl.
Contact Lucy Harward, (864) 419-1794 or daleandlucy@gmail.com if you have any questions or comments.
• PHS class of 1956 set to hold reunion
The Pickens High School Class of 1956 is planning a reunion for April 9. It will be a dutch lunch at The Gatehouse Restaurant at the corner of Ann and Griffin streets in Pickens.
It will begin at noon. Make your reservations by calling Allison Dalton at (864) 859-4396, Marie Welborn at (864) 878-9124 or Tunkie Stokes at (864) 878-6101.
• Six Mile Farmers Market seeks vendors
The town of Six Mile is looking for vendors at the Six Mile Farmers Depot for the 2016 season. The market starts the third Thursday in April and runs through the last Thursday in September. Vendors may sell plants, flowers, vegetables, fruit and arts and crafts. Cakes, pies, jams and jellies produced in a DHEC-approved kitchen may also be sold. The Six Mile Farmers Market is located on Main Street in Six Mile in the old fire department building next to Town Hall. The market features 18 vendor stations inside and has room outside for several more. If interested, contact market manager Jim Hayes at (864) 650-5078 or james_hayes@sixmilesc.org.
Café Connections and BHS set to host presentation of ‘The Captive’
Movie focus Ashley Smith set to appear at Pickens First Baptist Church April 7
PICKENS — The Café Connections of Pickens and Behavioral Health Services of Pickens County will host a special persentation of the motion picture “The Captive” at Pickens First Baptist Church on April 5.
The film is a stirring movie from Paramount Pictures starring Kate Mara of “House of Cards” and “Fantastic Four” and David Oyelowo of “Selma.”
Because of the incredible interest, the movie will be shown in the Fellowship Hall of Pickens First Baptist Church, with showings at 10 a.m. and 6 p.m.
The movie portrays the inspirational, news-making life story of Ashley Smith, a young female hostage who in 2005 single-handedly talked infamous Atlanta courthouse killer Brian Nichols into surrendering peacefully by gaining his confidence through her prayers and personal faith and by reading passages to him from the Christian bestseller “The Purpose-Driven Life.”
It is a thrilling drama about the spiritual collision of two broken lives. Nichols, on the run as the subject of a citywide manhunt and desperate to make contact with his newborn son, takes recovering meth addict Ashley Smith hostage in her own apartment. While reading aloud, Smith and her would-be killer each faced crossroads where despair and death intersected hope.
Contrasting the minute-by-minute tale of her experience with the tragedies and triumphs of her own life, “The Captive” is a riveting story that will leave no one untouched.
In March 2005, Smith made headlines around the globe when she miraculously talked her way out of the hands of the killer after he took her hostage for seven hours in her suburban Atlanta apartment. Smith continues to share the details of her traumatic ordeal and expands on how her faith and excerpts from “The Purpose-Driven Life” helped her survive and bring the killer’s murderous rampage to a peaceful end.
Like her captor, Smith too had faced darkness and despair. Seeking a new life, she moved to Atlanta, got a job, enrolled in a medical assistant training program, and was beginning to find her way to becoming the kind of mom she wanted her little girl to have. Then Nichols took her hostage. Just hours earlier, he’d allegedly shot to death a judge, a court reporter, a deputy and a federal agent and escaped in a stolen vehicle. Now she found herself face-to-face with Nichols, a desperate, heavily armed man with nothing left to lose.
Smith’s life changed dramatically on that fateful day of March 11, 2005, when Nichols forced his way into her apartment. After offering Nichols her remaining stash of methamphetamines, she brought out her copy of Rick Warren’s “The Purpose-Driven Life.” During her seven hours as Nichols’ hostage, her life story and Warren’s direction from the book persuaded Nichols to consider how God could use him if he surrendered. He did so the following morning.
Nichols himself called Smith “an angel sent from God,” but ironically, it was her own less-than-angelic past that convinced him to face justice. Smith believes God led her through the highly publicized experience to help “unlikely angels” everywhere find hope.
Afterwards she wrote her best-selling book, “Unlikely Angel – The Untold Story of Atlanta’s Hostage Hero,” donating proceeds to a memorial fund honoring the victims of the Atlanta courthouse tragedy. She returned to the familiar embrace of her family and her daughter, Paige. Smith’s familiar face reaches seekers from all walks of life, and her authentic, quietly courageous testimony exemplifies a genuine, guiding faith.
Smith will also appear in person on Thursday, April 7, at 6 p.m. at Pickens First Baptist Fellowship Hall to share her story and testimony. The event is suitable for ages 13 and older, with parental supervision.
For more information, contact Ann Corbin at the Café Connections by email at cacorbin57@gmail.com or by phone at (864) 201-1772.
Radishes are not just for salads
By Olivia Fowler
For the Courier
ofowler@thepccourier.com
Radishes are an early spring root vegetable that most of us associate with salads. They are peppery and usually bright red on the outside with a crisp white interior.
Radishes get pithy in texture if allowed to get too big.
The recipes offered this week are not especially familiar, because if you’re like most of us you just slice radishes up and mix them into a tossed salad.
You may be surprised to discover how good they taste cooked. Enjoy.
Radish Dip
- 1 package (8 oz.) cream cheese, softened
- 1/4 c. butter, softened
- 1 c. finely chopped radishes
- 1/2 c. finely chopped onion
- 2 tsp. dried parsley flakes
- 1/2 tsp. seasoned salt
- 1 small head red cabbage, optional
- Assorted fresh vegetables or crackers
In a small bowl, beat cream cheese and butter until smooth; stir in the radishes, onion, parsley and seasoned salt. Chill for at least one hour.
To make a cabbage serving bowl, hollow out the head of cabbage, keeping the core at the bottom intact and removing enough interior leaves so that a one-inch shell remains. Add dip; serve with vegetables or crackers. Yield: 1-1/2 cups.
Radishes and Avocado Dressing
- 1/2 c. diced avocado
- 1/4 c. cilantro leaves
- 1 tbsp. lime juice
- 1 tbsp. olive oil
- 1/4 tsp. salt
- 1/4 tsp. hot sauce
- 1 c. thinly sliced radishes
- 1/2 c. halved grape tomatoes
- 1 (5 oz.) package mixed baby greens
- 1/4 c. pumpkin seeds
Place avocado, cilantro leaves, lime juice, olive oil, salt, and hot sauce in a blender; blend until smooth. Combine radishes, tomatoes, and mixed greens; drizzle with dressing. Top with pumpkin seeds.
Oven Roasted Radishes and Carrots
- 1 bunch small to medium radishes, about 12
- 12 baby carrots
- 1 tbsp. olive oil
- 1 tsp. dried thyme
- Lemon half
- Kosher salt and freshly ground black pepper
Preheat the oven to 450 degrees F.
Place the radishes and carrots on a baking sheet and toss with the olive oil, thyme, salt, and pepper. Roast until tender yet firm in the center, about 20 minutes. Squeeze with a little lemon juice and serve.
Courier Legals 3-23-16
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Courier Trespass Notices 3-23-16
In the state of South Carolina, trespass after notice is a misdemeanor criminal offense prohibited by section 16-11-620 for the South Carolina Code.
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Easley teen dies in wreck
POWDERSVILLE — An Easley teen died after a single-vehicle accident Tuesday morning in Anderson County.
Jerry Orr, 15, of Easley, was pronounced dead at the scene of the accident, Anderson County deputy coroner Josh Shore said.
The accident occurred at 2:45 a.m. Tuesday morning on Three Bridges Road, according to Lance Cpl. David Jones with the South Carolina Highway Patrol.
A 2006 Dodge Durango SUV was traveling west when it went off the side of the road, striking a ditch and several trees before overturning several times, Jones said.
The vehicle was traveling at a very high rate of speed, according to Shore.
The driver of the SUV, Michael Locke, 27, of Easley, and another 15-year-old passenger were transported to Greenville Memorial Hospital, Jones said.
Shore said they sustained minor injuries.
None of the three were wearing seatbelts, according toJones.
Orr was enrolled at the Anderson County Alternative School, Shore said.
The Highway Patrol is still investigating the accident.
Sunset men charged in Clemson robbery
CLEMSON — Clemson University police arrested two Pickens County men and charged them with second-degree burglary and strong-arm robbery last week.
Clayton Scott Allen Vanden Berg, 22, and Jared Michael Burdette, 23, both of Sunset, were arrested last Tuesday. Police said they entered an apartment Saturday afternoon at Lightsey Bridge Apartments on campus and forcibly took a wallet and other items from the occupant.
They were each released on $25,000 personal recognizance bonds.
Mother Nature’s fury
A severe thunderstorm that blew through the area on Monday evening downed trees and damaged buildings throughout the area, including this building that formerly housed Stevens Brothers Plumbing and Ramey’s Garage on Main Street in Pickens.
