Monthly Archives: June 2018
Culinary Club renamed
The Friends of the Sarlin Library-sponsored Culinary Club celebrated its three-year anniversary with lunch at the 
Lighthouse restaurant recently and adopted Liberty Library Lunch Bunch as its new name. Activities include luncheons at the library enjoying shared dishes and recipes, programs, picnics and outings to area restaurants, etc. The club meets the second Wednesday of each month at 11:30 a.m. at the Sarlin Library. All are invited to enjoy the food, fun and fellowship. For more information, contact the staff at the Sarlin Library in Liberty at (864) 843-5805. Pictured at the Lighthouse Restaurant in Seneca, from left, are Jean Thomas, Ellen Williams, Pat Martin, Tracy Morgan, Mel Avery, Lisa Carpenter, Ann Neuhs, Cheryl Foley, Faye Grooms and Shirley Bowman.
PCYMCA Piranhas win Pickens home swim meet
PICKENS — The Pickens County YMCA Piranhas Swim Team churned up the waters recently by winning a home swim meet against four other Upstate YMCAs.
“Our Pickens Piranhas Swim Team is one big family,” said Lindsay McKever, swim team assistant coach. “Parents and 
swimmers are all involved in the swim meet and have lots of fun.”
Rachel Rahn, a student at Anderson University who still swims for the Piranhas, also helped coach the team at the home meet.
Pickens put 37 swimmers in the pool at the meet, and almost all swimmers improved times. Some of the biggest improvements were Will Blakely, Katelynn Phelps, Mia Yousey and Rebekah
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Rowdy Mountain Boys to reunite at Hagood center
PICKENS — The Hagood Community Center, located at 129 Schoolhouse St. in Pickens, will host a night of singing and old-time gospel bluegrass Saturday, June 30.
The Rowdy Mountain Boys will be reunited in concert for one night only for the benefit of the event.
Tickets for the event will be $5, with all proceeds going toward the Hagood Community Center.
Doors will open at 7 p.m., and everyone is asked to use the parking lot entrance.
Back To Work 50+ workshop set for June 27 at Tri County
UPSTATE — Job seekers who are 50 years of age and older may be eligible to receive free job training through the AARP Back to Work 50+ grant at Tri-County Technical College.
A 7 Smart Strategies for Job Search Workshop will be held Wednesday, June 27, from 2-4 p.m. at the Tri-County Technical College Pendleton campus.
The Back To Work 50+ program is designed to help unemployed men and women over the age of 50 update their job-search skills, and in some cases, get short-term job training. At Tri-County Technical College, eligible participants may
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Could Pinocchio be lying?
When an alien resides with you in your land, you shall not oppress the alien. The alien who resides with you shall be to you 
as the citizen among you; you shall love the alien as yourself, for you were alien in the land of Egypt: I am the LORD your God” (Leviticus 19:33-34 NRSV).
There’s an old saying used when people present partial or distorted information.
“Just because your mouth opens and shuts like a prayer book, doesn’t mean it is one.”
If Jeff Sessions wants to cherry pick scripture to justify his
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Letters to the Editor 6-18-20
Veterans wanted for Honor Flight
Dear Editor,
This letter is in regard to the Honor Flight program. We are Pete Peters and Richard Reece and are on the staff of Honor Flight and also members of the American Legion, Pickens Post 11.
We are seeking WWII veterans who haven’t gone to Washington to see their memorial yet.
If you are not familiar with the Honor Flight program, we are a volunteer organization dedicated to getting all of our WWII vets to Washington to see their monument. The cost of the trip for
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A look at the Great Commission
I love to write (and talk), and all who know me will agree that I am not a man of few words. As a windy minister, it only seems logical that I would be involved in the world of communication.
For the last few years, I’ve been writing “Living on Purpose,” and it’s truly been a pleasure. I just want to say that I sincerely appreciate all of you who take the time to read the column and the many thoughtful and encouraging emails that I receive each week.
I’ve been writing sermons, articles and music for a long time,
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Reducing suicide risk
The number is almost as bad as it used to be: 20 veterans commit suicide each day, down from a previous 22. That 
number still is much too high. True to his word, however, President Donald Trump has signed an Executive Order directing more supportive mental health care for service members who are now transitioning to veteran status.
Three agencies will work together on this: the Department of
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Courier Obituaries 6-20-18
HELEN VIRGINIA ALEXANDER
SIX MILE — Helen Virginia Alexander, 90, wife of the late Eugene Alexander, passed from this life Friday, June 15, 2018.
Born in Pickens County, she was a daughter of the late Thomas Kay Kelley and the late Matilda Finley Kelley.
Mrs. Alexander was a faithful member of Keowee Baptist Church, where she enjoyed worshipping the God she loved very much. She was known for her love of her family, being an avid gardener, a seamstress, an excellent cook and her puzzle books.
Survivors include a son, Laren (Karen) Alexander of Six Mile; a
Clemson professor writes history of little-known Pickens County community
By Wanda Johnson
Clemson University
CLEMSON — A group of Clemson University students and faculty tiptoed through a weed-filled plot of land in northern 
Pickens County as if they were trying to avoid disturbing the birds flying above them. They removed brush and debris from a cemetery some feared was forgotten.
That was more than seven years ago, when members of Clemson’s anthropology club and faculty carefully cleaned and marked graves at a slave cemetery that belongs to Soapstone Baptist Church in Liberia, a small community in northern Pickens County.
“Hundreds of freed slaves settled in the Upstate of South Carolina after the Civil War,” said Mable Owens Clarke, Soapstone Baptist Church member and historian.
Clarke said the church dates back to about 1865, when her maternal great-grandfather founded the house of worship.
Clemson anthropology professor Mike Coggeshall read bits and
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