Daily Archives: 03/06/2018
Auction to benefit Dacusville Community Center
DACUSVILLE — The Dacusville Community Center will present “The third annual Best-Ever Chinese Auction” on Saturday, March 17.
The Dacusville Community Center is located at 2671 Earls Bridge Road in Easley. Doors will open at 11 am for viewing.
Ticket drawing will begin at 1 pm. There will be a hot dog sale and a bake sale. All proceeds will go to support the Dacusville Community Center.
Grace United plans Holy Week schedule
PICKENS — Grace United Methodist Church of Pickens is inviting local residents to join in a journey to the resurrection during Holy Week, March 25-April 1.
The week will begin with a Palm Sunday Cantata, ‘Hope in the Shadows,’ at 10:30 a.m. March 25. A Maundy Thursday Communion Service is planned at 6 p.m. March 29, followed by a Good Friday ‘Stations of the Cross’ Service at 7 p.m. March
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Liberty Rec 17U team to play for state title Friday
LIBERTY – The Liberty Recreation all-star 17 and under basketball team won the Western district championship on 
Saturday night.
The team, coached by Jacob Sexton, will play in the state tournament on Friday in Westminster against the winners of the other districts around the state.
The squad is the first Liberty 17-and-under team to win the all-
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Heritage Society members named
EASLEY — United Way of Pickens County recently held a reception at the home of Dr. Jonathan Strange to recognize the charter members of the organization’s new Heritage Society.
“We are very excited to recognize and announce the individuals who recently informed us that United Way of Pickens County is
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Days of crabs and ice cream
We were visiting my Aunt Liv (Olivia) in Washington, N.C., on the Pamlico River. It was summer, and we’d all been swimming.
Sammy and Shep had been out on the river in the boat to check the crab pots and had hauled in a bumper crop. They were all good sized Atlantic blue crabs and they were destined for the picnic table after some folks got busy setting everything up.
You need more than one large pot of boiling water for that
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Calling for action after another mass shooting
Can we resolve to do something?
Can we take action so that when the next mass shooting occurs, 
we aren’t sitting here wondering if there was something we could have done?
This is not a call for gun control or background checks or arming teachers or more school security. It is just a call for action.
Action might look like one of those things mentioned above. Or,
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Letters to the Editor
Let’s better
manage our budgets
Dear Editor,
I read the article in the Feb. 7 edition about the city of Pickens proposing increasing city business license fees by 10 percent.
I recently looked at the city of Pickens’ financial audits of the past few years. One of the main challenges the city government has is its costs are rising, but natural revenue growth is non-existent or very low. Pickens isn’t Greenville or even Easley with a growing property or business base. In the face of persistent
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Courier obituaries 3-7-18
Jane Ellen Atkinson Craig
PICKENS — Jane Ellen Atkinson Craig of Pickens died 
peacefully surrounded by her family on Feb. 27, 2018.
Jane was born on Jan. 8, 1933, in Orangeburg. She was predeceased by her parents, Aubrey Law and Edna Hough Atkinson. Jane graduated in 1951 from Greenwood High School and Winthrop College in 1955. Jane married her husband of more than 60 years, Olin Lemuel Craig, on May 18, 1957. Prior to moving to Pickens, Jane served as executive assistant to the president of Palmetto Baking Company and also as a secretary for
Beloved children’s classic coming to Liberty High stage this weekend
By Jason Evans
Staff Reporter
jevans@thepccourier.com
LIBERTY —
he story of a pig in danger and the smart, resourceful spider trying to save him may be geared toward children, but Liberty 
High School theater teacher Jean Scales Toole says it has a message for everyone.
“I love this story,” Toole said. “I love what it has to say. It is not just a children’s book. If you really listen, there are some true life lessons in this play.”
One of her favorite scenes is one where Wilbur the pig asks Charlotte the spider “Why did you do this for me? I haven’t done anything for you,” Toole said.
“And she says ‘By helping you, perhaps I lifted my own life a
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Annual ‘March For Meals’ kicks off
Pickens County Meals on Wheels joins nation in 16th annual celebration
LIBERTY — Pickens County Meals on Wheels will be participating in the 16th annual March for Meals — a month-long, community-by-community celebration of Meal on Wheels and the vulnerable seniors who rely on the vital service to remain independent at home.
Pickens County Meals on Wheels’ celebration will include various activities throughout the month of March, including a Pancake Breakfast Fundraiser on March 17 from 8-11 a.m. at
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