Monthly Archives: May 2017
Honoring heritage
Local residents joined with members of the Pickens County Historical Society Saturday to commemorate the placing of more than 500 Confederate Iron Crosses on the graves of Pickens County Confederate veterans and the 100th anniversary of the James L. Orr Chapter of the United Daughters of the Confederacy at the annual Confederate Memorial Day celebration at the Hagood-Mauldin House in Pickens. See more photo on our FaceBook page.
Doug Tate/photos
American Legion plans Memorial Day events
PICKENS — In honor of Memorial Day, Pickens American Legion Pots 11 has planned three events around the area on Monday, according to public relations officer Joe Acampora.
The first event will be a memorial service scheduled for 9 a.m. at the Sunrise
Issaqueena rides again
People packed Six Mile’s Main Street for the annual Issaqueena Festival on Saturday. Beautiful weather made for a large crowd to enjoy all the food, live music, arts and crafts, classic cars and more the festival had to offer.
Rocky Nimmons/Courier
PPCCDC annual golf tournament
PICKENS — Pickens Presbyterian Church Child Development Center’s sixth annual golf tournament will be held on Friday, June 23, at the Pickens Country Club. Registration is set for 9 a.m., with a shotgun start getting underway at 9:30 a.m. The
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Womanless beauty pageant scheduled June 10 in Pickens
PICKENS — A womanless beauty pageant is planned at the Pickens Senior Community Center on Saturday, June 10, at 7 p.m.
The price of admission is $5 for the event, written by Carol Baker, directed by Helen Dodgens and narrated by Mark Krieger. The contestants — all male of course — will be introduced by Sarah Allison and Baker.
Patsy Nix and Wayne O’Shields also have parts in the pageant. The pageant band will
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Scholarship winners
The Charles F. Rogers Scholarship committee recently announced this year’s selections for the Charles F. Rogers Scholarship Award. Tori Morris and Sam Lawson, pictured above, are the 2017 recipients of the Charles F. Rogers Scholarship Award. Morris and Lawson will receive a $1,000 scholarship to put toward their college education. Both student-athletes will be attending North Greenville University.
Pickens Rec Report
By Cheri Anthony
Pickens Recreation Director
canthony@pickenscity.com
Our Diamond Day celebration was a great success! The weather started a little shaky
The Pickens Recreation Department sponsored a local Pitch, Hit and Run Competition on Wednesday, May 3, at 6 p.m. on Senior Field at Jaycee Park. Participant age groups included 7-8, 9-10, 11-12 and 13-14 girls and boys. First-place winners in each of the categories, plus all-around winners, will advance to the sectional competition in Anderson on June 3. Participants pictured, from left, are — Sitting: Zion Anderson (Spartanburg), John Ridings (Spartanburg), Shaelyn Thrasher (Pickens), Griffin Duncan (Pickens), Jackson Weis (Pickens), TJ Borow (Pickens), Will Trotter (Pickens), Ben Hudson (Pickens) and Brett Batson (Pickens). Standing: Cameron Robinson (Pickens), Kent Crowe (Pickens), Genesis Anderson (Spartanburg), Jensen Keller (Pickens), Hayden Wyatt (Taylors), Kloven Holcomb (Greenville) and Conner Thrasher (Pickens).
for us in the morning, but the entire day’s festivities played out as planned. We want to thank all of our friends, relatives and visiting teams from Pendleton and Walhalla
who came to enjoy the day with us and supported this event.
During the noon festivities, our seventh annual PYAC Town Creek Speedy Ball Race was run. 336 colorful plastic balls raced down Town Creek in just under 10 minutes. We are immeasurably grateful to all the folks who sold and helped us with this fundraiser. The Recreation Department was proud to award three sellers who went above and beyond. These participants were first place, Owen Walls; second
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No games played here
I went to my very first hockey game in Nashville last Thursday night and watched the Predators play the Anaheim Ducks for a spot in the Stanley Cup finals. It was an 
amazing experience. No. It was more than that. It may have been a life-altering experience.
The only thing to compare it to was the battle scene from Braveheart, the movie, when the Scots are lined up with their blue-painted faces and roar out their battle cries as the English bear down on them on horseback.
There were people at the game who had painted their
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Why me?
Questions:
There have been several questions about people who realize they have the beginning stages of dementia and loved ones who realize they, too, may someday have the 
disease. We have grouped them together, because the answer is similar to anyone experiencing dementia or any life-threatening disease.
Answer:
It is easy to have a pity party and bemoan our fate. It takes a stronger person who, amid a disaster, can focus on the positive. Each day
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Courier Letters to the Editor 5-24-17
Keep your hands off our funds
Dear Editor,
This letter is to all the politicians who keep calling Social Security and Medicare “entitlement” programs. I’ve got some hot news for you uninformed politicians.
These programs are business deals we workers made with our government. The deal
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