Monthly Archives: December 2017
Decision Ready Claims eligibility expanded for vets
The Department of Veterans Affairs is expanding its list of categories eligible for submission under Decision Ready Claims. 
The new group will include surviving spouses, certain veterans and some service members.
Presumptive service connections, direct service connections and secondary service connections will be
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new year’s tidings
Creative ways to ring in the new year
Counting down the hours until the new year can be exciting, as 
the world anxiously anticipates the adventures in store for the months ahead.
Celebrating the new year dates back thousands of years to the ancient Babylonians, who celebrated a new year come the first
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Go green for the New Year
By Olivia Fowler
For the Courier
ofowler@thepccourier.com
Eating greens on New Year’s Day is a time-honored tradition we 
enjoy, because not only are greens delicious and good for us, they’re supposed to bring greenbacks our way all year.
Cooking and eating greens on
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Now open in Liberty
Liberty’s newest business, Sweet Tokens Bakery, held its formal ribbon cutting on Wednesday, Dec. 20. The bakery is located at 16 S. Commerce St. According to the owners, Robin Edens and Deb Hall (pictured center), it has been their lifelong dream to open a bakery. Having past baking and business ownership experience, the ladies are pleased to join the community offering made-from-scratch cookies, cakes, pies, breads, cupcakes, assorted pastries and special orders. The owners are excited to grow the business and meet as many new people as they possibly can. They plan to offer delivery beginning in 2018. Their normal business hours are Wednesdays 10 a.m.–6 p.m., Thursdays and Fridays noon until 9 p.m. and Saturdays 10 a.m.–2 p.m. Find them online at Facebook.com/sweettokens121/ or call (864) 507-7221 for more information.
Ringing in the season
The Bells of Grace Handbell Choir presented a Christmas 
concert on Dec. 11. More than 90 people from the Pickens community attended the concert and enjoyed refreshments afterward. Grace United Methodist has a five-octave set of Schulmerich handbells, a five-octave set of Malmark tone chimes and a set of tubular bells. Marilyn Gromlovits is the director of music at Grace.
Farm Bureau helps family
EASLEY — Pickens County Farm Bureau and local Farm Bureau Insurance agents offered a holiday donation to a local family facing medical challenges after the birth of quadruplets.
The local office donated $1,000 to the Pickens County family,
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Registration open for 2018 AEM lessons
UPSTATE — Join in the fun and learn how to play the banjo, fiddle, guitar or mandolin. Enrollment is now underway for the Appalachian Evening Music Program.
The next six-week Winter session will begin the week of Jan. 8, 2018, on various evenings at various locations (listed
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Community Calendar 12-27-17
• Faith ‘Get Healthy’ meetings to resume
Getting Healthy Together meetings will resume for the new year on Wednesday, Jan. 3, from noon-1 p.m., at Faith Lutheran Chapel, located at 729 W. Main St. in Pickens. The meettings are open to the community. The group is ready to learn more about weight control and improving our health.
• NA meetings set around county
Narcotics Anonymous has several meetings scheduled around Pickens County.
The “Pioneers of Change” group has open meetings in Clemson
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Researchers use Clemson football memories to help tackle dementia
CLEMSON — Researchers from Clemson University are using football to battle the persistent damage brought on by dementia. Faculty and graduate student researchers are studying the effectiveness of a reminiscence therapy program that uses memories associated with Clemson football to address
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Trespass Notices 12-27-17
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.
Those who enter upon the lands of others without the
