Monthly Archives: February 2018
Coroner confirms flu deaths
By Greg Oliver
Courtesy The Journal
goliver@upstatetoday.com
PICKENS — Pickens County coroner Kandy Kelley confirmed two more cases of deaths attributed to influenza last week.
“We now have four confirmed flu death cases — three Type A and one Type B,” Kelley said.
But Kelley added that all four victims had other medical issues that also contributed to their deaths.
According to WebMD, Type A flu virus is constantly changing and is
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County working to name hangar after teen killed in plane crash
By Jason Evans
Staff Reporter
jevans@thepccourier.com
LIBERTY — An effort is underway to name a hangar at the Pickens County Airport after a Pickens High School student who died in 2014.
Dakota Jacks was killed in a small plane crash in June 2014. He was 15.
At the time of his death, Jacks was a rising 10th-grade student at Pickens High School. He was an honors student, a JRTOC cadet and
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Pickens legend Anthony to join another hall of fame
Former PHS, USC two-sport star led Flame to 9 state titles
PICKENS — The newest inductee into the S.C. Coaches Association of Women’s Sports Hall of Fame is a very familiar figure in the Pickens sports scene.
Former Pickens High School volleyball coach Peggy Anthony will be the 14th person to be inducted into the hall of fame, according to SCCAWS executive secretary Amy Boozer.
“Peggy’s successful coaching career, involvement with CAWS and her dedication to female sports in South Carolina made her very deserving of this prestigious honor,” Boozer said in a news release.
Anthony will be be inducted into the hall this Sunday, Feb. 18.
The home-grown Anthony’s sporting bona fides are lengthy, beginning
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Child care center, chapel among future Clemson campus facilities
By Jason Evans
Staff Reporter
jevans@thepccourier.com
CLEMSON — Clemson University trustees signed off on concept approvals for a chapel and a child care center on campus at their 
quarterly meeting Friday afternoon at the Madren Center.
Trustee David Dukes chairs the board’s Finance and Facilities Committee. The planned facilities received the committee’s approval Thursday.
Dukes asked executive vice president for finance and operations Brett Dalton to brief the full
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Leadership Pickens County project to help animal shelter
World Spay Day event set to raise funds Feb. 27
PICKENS — The Leadership Pickens County Class of 2018 is working to help the Pickens County Animal Shelter and save animals’ lives.
For its nonprofit community project, the group is creating Leadership Legacy Park, an outdoor park area at the shelter that will give people and pets a place to connect with the goal of increasing adoptions and decreasing the number of pets that linger in the shelter or worse — are euthanized.
To help with the project, the group has planned a “Barks and Brews” fundraiser at the Appalachian Ale House in Pickens to celebrate World
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Job fair planned for high school seniors Thursday
LIBERTY — A job fair is planned this week for high school seniors planning to directly to work after graduation.
Hosted by the School District of Pickens County’s graduation coaches, the third annual SDPC Graduates to Work Job Fair is scheduled from 9-11:15 a.m. Thursday, Feb. 15, at Liberty High School.
Among the companies currently registered to participate are the U.S.
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Easley High to host SC student council event
Organizers say donations, host families still needed
By Jason Evans
Staff Reporter
jevans@thepccourier.com
EASLEY — Easley High School will host a gathering of young leaders from around the state next month.
Tracy Todd is the advisor of the EHS Student Council. Easley High student Brooklyn Kelley is the president of the South Carolina Association of Student Councils. The two spoke before county council last week.
“Next month, we will host a three-day leadership conference at Easley
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PMA’s Lenten luncheon series set around the area
PICKENS — The Pickens Ministerial Association will sponsor the Community Lenten Luncheon series. Traditionally, Lent is a time for penance by all Christians lasting 40 days (not including Sundays) and beginning with Ash Wednesday.
It is a time for Christians to confront their own mortality and confess their sins before God within the community of faith.
The Ministerial Association invites all members of the Pickens
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Deep Winter Blues set for Saturday at Hagood Mill
PICKENS — Did you know that Upstate South Carolina was a historical Mecca for the blues?
Throughout the 1920s and ’30s, the streets of Laurens, Greenville, Spartanburg and Anderson counties reverberated with the music of bluesmen, street preachers and buskers — all strolling enthusiastically with their tin cups extended. Many of these musicians became famous on the streets of New York City during the folk revival of the 1950s and ‘60s.
That tradition will be celebrated on Saturday at Hagood Mill.
With an all-star lineup that features two Folk Heritage Award-winning
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Courier Obituaries 2-14-17
H. Dale Rumph
CLEMSON — Heyward Dale Rumph, 68, of 213 Knollwood Drive, died Thursday, Feb. 8, 2018, at AnMed Health Center in Anderson.
Born in Walterboro, he was the husband of Terry Hughes Rumph of the home and the son of the late Heyward C. Rumph and Rose Murray. He was a 1975 graduate of the University of South Carolina, where he earned a BS in accounting. He worked for CGS Administrators and loved all Carolina sports, playing tennis and reading a good book. Mr.
