Monthly Archives: September 2017
Crosswell Fire Station named to honor Duncan
By Jason Evans
Staff Reporter
jevans@thepccourier.com
EASLEY — The fire station in the Crosswell community will soon bear a new name, in honor of a man who dedicated his life to service.
Pickens County Council unanimously approved renaming the station after the late Alvin Lee Duncan.
The station will now be known as the “Alvin Lee Duncan Firehouse.”
Director of Emergency Services Scott Smith spoke about Duncan during last
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Venture Outdoors Day set for Sept. 30
PICKENS — The city of Pickens will host an all-day family-friendly outdoor festival from 8 a.m.-10 p.m. Saturday, Sept. 30.
The event, called Venture Outdoors Day, will highlight all that the Pickens area has to offer residents and visitors alike when it comes to outdoor
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Holy Cross plans RCIA sessions
PICKENS — Holy Cross Catholic Church has begun RCIA sessions for instructions and growth in Christ.
Those who have ever wondered what the Catholic Church teaches and why are invited to join for questions and discussion.
Classes are held in the church basement at 558 Hampton Ave. in Pickens from 9:30-11:15 a.m. on Sundays.
Call (864) 878-0574 with any questions.
The music runs through it
HYome musicians play with their fingers. Some play with their hearts. The 
difference is real. I’ve heard wonderful technicians who lack heart and wonderful emotional players who make you feel but lack technical proficiency.
Every now and then, you run across one of the rare ones who is able to do both. But if I had to choose, I’d pick a heart player over a technician every time.
We went to the S.C. State Fiddling Championship at Hagood Mill on Saturday. We sat in the shade in our lawn chairs, drinking lemonade, and
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Being thoughtful – on purpose
Over a 12-year span at UCLA, American college basketball coach John Wooden won 10 national championships and the school’s total of 11 remains a record today.
Wooden is regarded as one of the most successful coaches in sports history, and more importantly an even greater
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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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