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Monthly Archives: March 2016

Courier Community Calendar 3-16-16

• Classes offered at Hagood Center

New Fiber Room Center activities at the Hagood Center in Pickens have been scheduled for March and April.

On Tuesday, March 15, 9 a.m. – 3:30 p.m. a one-day Fabric covered Mats with Beverly McCulty. Samples are available in Granger Fiber Arts. Supplies needed include one pkg. cotton covered clothesline (ACE has 7/32 inches x 50 feet), one or one and half inch wide strips of fabric, glue stick and a ig-zag sewing machine.

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.

• 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.

• 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.

 

Courier Legals 3-16-16

SUMMONS

STATE OF SOUTH CAROLINA

COUNTY OF ANDERSON

IN THE FAMILY COURT FOR THE

TENTH JUDICIAL CIRCUIT

Case No.: 2015-04-39-1527

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Annual Banquet Held

Rocky Nimmons

rnimmons@thepccourier.com

The Greater Pickens Chamber of Commerce and the Pickens Revitalization Association joined forces on Friday night to celebrate the chamber’s 2016 annual banquet at the Lighthouse Restaurant on Lake Keowee. The banquet featured a meal, dancing and live music from the Jake Bartley Band and the recognition of community award winners. The banquet was also the last for chamber director Mike Parrott who is headed for retirement to spend more time with family. Above, Chamber and PRA board members salute Parrott, center, for his service and time leading the chamber, presenting him with a plaque and a monetary gift.

Here are some pictures from the event.

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From left, Pickens Revitalization Association president Patrick Lark and executive director Allison Fowler present the PRA’s Outstanding New Business of the Year award to Lauren Willis and Kimberly Smagala of the Appalachian Ale House at Friday’s chamber banquet.

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From left, Pickens Revitalization Association president Patrick Lark and executive director Allison Fowler present the PRA’s Community Business of the Year award to Robin and Dr. Paul Giddings of Great Oaks Dental.

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From left, Pickens Revitalization Association president Patrick Lark and executive director Allison Fowler present the PRA’s Community Volunteer of the Year award to Wilson Perkins at Friday’s chamber banquet.

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From left, Pickens Revitalization Association president Patrick Lark and executive director Allison Fowler present the PRA’s Best Interior/Exterior Rehabilitation award to Quint Brown of Q & Co. Salon.

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From left, Kerry Owen, Donna Owen and Marty Sentell enjoy Friday night’s chamber banquet at the Lighthouse Restaurant.

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From left, Pickens City Council member Carlton Holley, mayor David Owens and S.C. Rep. Davey Hiott were among those in attendance at Friday’s banquet.

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David Fleming, right, accepts The Reserve at Lake Keowee’s Chamber Member of the Year award from chamber director Mike Parrott at Friday’s banquet.

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From left, Don Marler, Elizabeth Armstrong and David Armstrong take a break from socializing to pose for a photo at Friday’s chamber banquet.

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Guests ate, danced and mingled throughout the night at Friday’s annual chamber banquet.

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Future of ‘mountain schools’ still up in air

Date of final vote unclear

By Rocky Nimmons
Publisher

rnimmons@thepccourier.com

PICKENS — The date and time for a vote to decide the fate of three Pickens-area elementary schools is up in the air.

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Pickens County School Board members were told during a meeting Monday night that a vote will be taken at a meeting next Monday, March 14. However, School District of Pickens County spokesman John Eby said Tuesday the vote will not take place until a later, undetermined date.

Facilities committee chairman Phillip Bowers on Monday gave fellow board members an update on progress made in meetings with stakeholders from Ambler, A.R. Lewis and Holly Springs elementary schools in light of the proposed closure of the three schools.

Bowers said “the working group met on Feb. 23 and started with an overview of the stakeholders study that was done in 2014 that kind of started the whole ball rolling about the efficiencies.”

He added that the group reviewed the suggestions from the input sessions that were held on Feb. 10 and said there had been about seven or eight of them.

He said that in the community input meeting, the issue of tax options came up, and the working group took that to study and returned their information last week.

According to Bowers, stakeholders suggested that the district put off the decision until after this year’s elections.

“We did not put a subcommittee on that, because that is something that boards don’t have to evaluate,” he said.

Bowers told the board there was a suggestion to evaluate budget cuts in other areas. That was taken into study and was reported back. There was discussion about various approaches to the merger, including closing three schools and possibly merging two, and another group worked on that.

Bowers said the last meeting was scheduled to be held on Tuesday night, and he would get more information once the meeting takes place.

“There was some discussion about charter school options,” he said.

Bowers said a representative from the Charter School Alliance was planning to attend the Tuesday night meeting.

Bowers added that a couple of options were taken off the list — one being a phased-in approach to the merger, and the other being redrawing attendance lines because he said, “that was of no interest to the committee.”

According to Bowers and school board chair Judy Edwards, the working timetable would include a meeting of the facilities committee later this week so it could bring a recommendation to the board on March 14.

Board member Alex Saitta questioned Edwards if a vote would be taken at the March 14 meeting, and she said yes.

“When (Bowers) was setting up these meetings, that was the timeline that was set up,” Edwards said.

“So a week from today, we will make a decision on whether these schools would be closed?” Saitta asked once more.

Edwards replied, “Yes, a week from today.”

Bowers then chimed in.

“Somehow that March 14 date got in the newspaper, so I don’t think we should change that,” he said. “It would suit me to move it to the following week, but it has already been published.”

Edwards then confirmed once again that on March 14 a recommendation and the vote would come from the facilities committee.

On Tuesday morning, however, Eby responded to a question about the facilities committee’s planned meeting later this week by contradicting Edwards’ statement from Monday’s meeting.

“The March 14 meeting is supposed to be the recommendation meeting,” he said via email. “The actual vote would be sometime later — the date for it has not been set.”

 

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Motorcyclist killed in wreck with backhoe on Sunday

EASLEY — One person is dead after an accident involving a backhoe and a motorcycle Sunday near Easley.

According to Cpl. Bill Rhyne of the S.C. Highway Patrol, a 41-year-old Easley man was driving a 1992 Ford backhoe west on Old Easley Bridge Road when he turned in front of a 2007 Suzuki motorcycle.

The driver of the motorcycle, who was not wearing a helmet, was ejected from the motorcycle when it struck the backhoe and was pronounced dead at the scene, Rhyne said.

The accident occurred at 5:50 p.m. about a mile east of Easley.

Pickens County coroner Kandy Kelley had not released the name of the person killed at press time Tuesday.

 

Governor’s signature quashes coal ash saga

After weeks of outrage from local residents, all it took was one signature to bring the controversy surrounding a proposed coal ash dump in Pickens County to an end once and for all. Gov. Nikki Haley signed H. 4857, a bill requiring electric utility-generated coal ash to be disposed of in a Class III landfill, last Wednesday, putting an end to North Carolina-based MRR Pickens LLC’s attempts to establish a coal ash dump near Liberty. The bill, introduced in the State Senate by Sen. Larry Martin and the State House by Rep. Davey Hiott, received overwhelming support from state legislators. “Sen. Martin, Rep. Hiott and the other members of the Pickens Delegation are to be commended for getting this done,” Haley said. “It is absolutely essential that we protect our environment from out-of-state waste, and I’m proud to help bring these much-needed protections into law.” Martin said not only will the bill benefit Pickens County, but each of the state’s 46 counties. “It provides some important environmental protections for all of our citizens,” he said. Hiott called the bill “a team effort.” “This legislation is vitally important to Pickens County, South Carolina and for protecting our environment,” he said. Pictured, from left, are delegation members Rep. Neal Collins, Rep. Gary Clary, Hiott, Haley, Sen. Thomas Alexander and Martin.

 

Man arrested in burglary at Dacusville business

3-9 Page 1A.inddDACUSVILLE — A 24-year-old Pickens man has been arrested and charged in connection with breaking into a Dacusville business in January and stealing a vehicle left overnight for repairs.

[cointent_lockedcontent]Edward Gary Akridge, of Chesapeake Trail, was being held Friday in the Pickens County Detention Center on charges of second-degree burglary, grand larceny, unlawful possession of a pistol, possession of a stolen pistol, failure to stop for a blue light, removing/affixing license plate, first-degree assault and battery, a probation violation and four general sessions bench warrants.

A combined $31,000 in surety bonds has been set for unlawful possession of a pistol, possession of a stolen pistol, failure to stop for a blue light, removing/affixing license plate, first-degree assault and battery and probation violation, while the burglary and grand larceny bond is pending, and no bond has been set for the four general sessions bench warrant violations.

Pickens County Sheriff’s Office Chief Deputy Creed Hashe said Friday that Dacusville Tire was forcibly entered after glass was broken out of the door. The business, located on Farrs Bridge Road, was among many locations without power on the day of the break-in due to widespread outages blamed on the ice and snow.

Hashe said the burglary was detected by a passing motorist later that morning after observing the busted glass and a bay door that was raised and left open.

Sheriff’s deputies soon learned that assorted tools and a 1978 jeep belonging to a Dacusville resident had been stolen during the incident. Deputies recovered the jeep the same day after it was found abandoned on Holly Bush Road.

The chief deputy said evidence found at the scene led detectives to identify Akridge after deputies from the community action team attempted to stop him Feb. 9.

Akridge fled on foot during the traffic stop to avoid capture, but the vehicle he was observed to be driving contained several of the stolen items from the tire company. Deputies found several pieces of evidence that confirmed Akridge was responsible for the break-in.

On Feb. 26, Akridge was arrested at a home in Pickens County on charges stemming from the previous traffic stop.

Arrest warrants charging him with the burglary and grand larceny of the jeep at Dacusville Tire were issued by a Pickens County magistrate Thursday morning and served that afternoon.

Arrest warrants claim Akridge entered the business by forcing open the front door and stealing numerous items and keys belonging to the business in addition to the customer’s 1978 CJ-7 jeep. The handgun allegedly used by Akridge was reported stolen from Spartanburg County, and he allegedly displayed a license plate for a 2004 Toyota Sienna when in fact he was driving a 1995 Honda Accord.

The assault charge against Akridge and co-defendant Jessie Crooks involved an incident where they pulled a man from a vehicle, threw him to the ground and threw a cement block at his head. The victim sustained lacerations to his eye and head from the assault that required medical treatment.

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