Daily Archives: 09/19/2017
Park discount still a great deal
If you’d planned to pick up a couple of senior passes to the national parks as 
part of your autumn leaf-peeping travels, you’ll need to increase your budget. The lifetime access pass has gone from $10 to a whopping $80.
The senior pass (full name: America the Beautiful — The National Parks and Federal Recreational Lands Pass) is a bargain, providing
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Claims decisions in just 30 days
The Department of Veterans Affairs new Decision Ready Claims program promises to get your claim sorted out and decided in 30 days. The pilot 
program started in Minnesota in May. Since then, the VA has been training people to push claims through quickly. Now, everyone is set to go. All they need is the claims to start rolling in.
Here are your easy steps: Hook up with an accredited Veterans Service Organization, likely the American
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Courier Obits 9-20-17
Ralph Zeigler Boroughs
PICKENS — Ralph “Zig” Zeigler Boroughs, of Pickens, passed away Friday 
Sept. 15, 2017, at Cannon Memorial Hospital, with his wife Mary Jennings Boroughs (nee Dougherty) at his side.
He was born June 22, 1923, the son of Ralph Waldo Boroughs of Pickens and Zoe Boroughs (nee Zeigler) of Orangeburg County.
Zig was raised in Pickens. He attended Columbia Bible College and the Citadel. In WWII, he served with the U.S. Army’s 508th Paratrooper Regiment, 82nd Airborne, in Operation Market Garden and the Battle of the Bulge.
After the war, he served as a public school teacher and administrator in upstate South Carolina, a Baptist minister in upstate New York and a professor at Lander University.
He earned an A.B. from Furman University, a B.D. from New Orleans Theological Seminary, a M.Ed. from Clemson University and a doctorate from the University of Georgia.
Zig was a “people person” who loved to visit and tell stories, but would also
Honoring Pickens’ birth
To honor the memory of Revolutionary Partisan Gen. Andrew Pickens, the Pickens County Historical Society placed a magnolia wreath at his statue in the military garden at the Pickens County Courthouse recently. Sept. 13 was the 278th anniversary of his birth. The ceremonial colors presented, known as the Grand Old Union or the Continental Colors, was the first flag of the fledging nation from 1775 until mid-1777 and included the British flag in its canton. Society members pictured at the event, from left, are president Ken Nabors, president emeritus Una Welborn, senior vice president Wayne Kelley, State Rep. Davey Hiott, Easley vice president Nancy Pace, Liberty vice president Hayne
Cassini legacy lives on through Clemson University research
CLEMSON — When Mate Adamkovics’ astronomy and physics students go on to brilliant careers, they can attribute at least part of their professional knowledge to a beautiful workhorse of a 20th Century spaceship called Cassini. After a 20-year mission spent studying Saturn and its moons,
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Community Calendar
• Meal on Wheels Glow Run is Oct. 21
The Pickens County Meals on Wheels 5K Glow Run fundraising event with a glow attire contest will be held on Oct. 21 starting at 7 p.m. Awards will be given to first- and second-place runners. More information and registration is available at go-greenevents.com and on the Pickens County Meals on Wheels Facebook Page.
• Literacy group needs old books
The Pickens County Literacy Association is collecting books for the Semi
You never forget your first deer
By Dennis Chastain
Special to The Courier
If memory serve
s me well, it was back in 1980 or thereabouts.
I had seen my first deer in the woods just the year before. When I was growing up in the 1950s and ‘60s, it was a rare thing to see a deer in Pickens County, or anywhere else in the upcountry of South Carolina, for that matter. If someone actually killed a big deer, the story usually made the local newspaper. Without the benefit of having any hunters in my immediate family or my circle of friends, the little bit that I knew about deer hunting I had gleaned from reading hunting magazines.
I had been scouting the vast woodland tract of wildlife management land between where Devils Fork State Park is now and S.C. Highway 130, the road from Salem to
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Hunter education class set Saturday
SENECA — A hunter education class taught by the South Carolina Department of Natural Resources (SCDNR) will be held this Saturday, Sept. 23, at Foothills Community Church in Seneca.
The address for the class at Foothills Community Church is 505 Bountyland
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How everyday citizens can protect local parks
Local and national parks provide great, often awe-inspiring respites from more developed areas. According to the National Park Service, the United States is home to 59 protected areas designated as national parks, and the NPS encompasses hundreds of
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South Carolinians coexist with coyotes
Coyotes aren’t natives. They’re not from around here. But that’s not their fault. The finger of blame can be pointed directly to people who way back in 
1978 deliberately brought them into the Upstate as a substitute for foxes so their fox hounds could give chase.
And although we’re sure that, at least initially, everybody involved had a good time
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