Daily Archives: 01/21/2020
Keeping the dream alive
Community members joined together for the 14th annual joint Martin Luther King Jr. Day celebration put on by Pickens Presbyterian Church and Griffin Ebenezer Baptist Church on Monday. Due to bad weather at past celebrations, organizers chose to have this year’s event in the fellowship building at Griffin Ebenezer instead of on the steps of the Pickens County Courthouse. The event kicked off with a community breakfast and featured words from local religious leaders, a moment of silence in memory of Mrs. Mae D. Anderson, the recitation of Dr. King’s famous “I Have a Dream” speech by Rev. Wayne Robinson of Piedmont Manor Baptist Church in Greenville and musical selections by a combined community choir. Rocky Nimmons/Courier
Gettys teacher helps Kershaw school deal with tornado damage
By Riley Morningstar
Courtesy The Journal
rmorningstar@upstatetoday.com
EASLEY — On a fall morning in 2018, Nicole Yemothy’s livelihood was left smoldering after a 
fire ripped through her Seneca home.
Multiple family pets died of smoke inhalation. It took 11 months for the home on Shady Lane to be rebuilt.
Now, the 2019-20 School District of Pickens County Teacher of the Year is looking to use her
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Easley officials asked to support Boys & Girls Club
By Jason Evans
Staff Reporter
jevans@thepccourier.com
EASLEY — Two local organizations hope to bring a Boys & Girls Club to the area.
Caring and Nurturing CEO and founder Candius Welborn spoke to Easley City Council during its Jan.13 meeting.
Caring and Nurturing seeks “to uplift our youth by promoting education,” she said.
She was joined by representatives from the Faith Hope & Love Foundation.
The groups want to establish a Boys & Girls Club in Pickens County.
The mission of Boys & Girls Clubs of America is “to enable all
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Meeting planned on grant to pave Sassafras Mountain tower trail
SUNSET — The S.C. Department of Natural Resources is proposing to pave the mobility-impaired trail to the Sassafras Mountain Tower in conjunction with the Recreational Trails Program (RTP), which is administered by the S.C. Department of Parks, Recreation and Tourism.
A public meeting on a proposed RTP grant to fund the paving of the trail will be held at 10 a.m. Wednesday, Jan. 29, at the Clemson SCDNR office at 311 Natural Resources Drive.
If successful, the proposed grant would pave the Sassafras Mountain Peak Trail, about a third of a mile, from the parking area near the top of Sassafras Mountain to the tower and observation platform that opened April 22, 2019. The current surface of the trail is crusher run, and paving the trail would make it easier for mobility-impaired visitors to travel to the
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Deadline approaching to buy bricks for Kimberly Hampton Memorial Park
By Jason Evans
Staff Reporter
jevans@thepccourier.com
EASLEY — The deadline to order bricks that will form a walk at the Captain Kimberly Hampton Memorial Park in Easley is approaching.
Friday, Jan. 31, is the last day to order bricks.
The park, the result of an effort known as Operation Dragonfly, is located adjacent to the Captain Kimberly Hampton Memorial Library.
Its centerpiece, an OH-58D Kiowa Warrior helicopter, was installed on Dec. 12.
The helicopter is a replica of the one flown by Hampton when she was shot down
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Acker Lambert Hinton PA welcomes new attorney
PICKENS — A lifelong resident of Pickens County, attorney Baker Cleveland is joining the 
Acker Lambert Hinton P.A. law firm.
After graduating from Easley High School in 2000, he attended Clemson University and graduated cum laude in 2005 with a B.S. in mechanical engineering and a minor in business administration. Cleveland earned his Juris Doctor degree from the University of South Carolina School of Law in 2009. While in law school, Cleveland was named senior articles editor of the ABA Real Property, Trust and Estate Law Journal, served as a peer mentor and worked as a summer associate for Nexsen Pruet in
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LPC class to help Dream Center
By Jason Evans
Staff Reporter
jevans@thepccourier.com
EASLEY — Members of this year’s Leadership Pickens County class are raising funds to create a community space at The Dream Center of Pickens County.
Greater Pickens Chamber of Commerce membership director Lisa Turnick is a member of this year’s class. Leadership Pickens County is sponsored by the Pickens Chamber, the Greater
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Focusing on roadside safety
It has been some time since a column has been submitted, and frankly, all I can say about that is, “I do not want to be in the newspaper business; too many constant deadlines that are 
always pressing.”
Despite my inability of coming up with articles in a timely manner, many ideas float through my mind that would be excellent columns; however, getting myself to let them take root into typed words is a challenge. Today, though, I find myself with an issue that is too important not to make the effort — roadway emergency scene safety.
In the first two weeks of 2020, seven roadway responders have been struck by vehicles and killed while assisting the public. This is a disturbing way
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Still making music together
My twin brother Paul and I were reminiscing the other day about our respective musical 
careers and how we had gone our separate ways in the mid-1970s, and it occurred to me that 1980 was 40 years ago!
Now, 1980 might sound like ancient times, if you, like most people, are younger than I am. But to me … well, I hadn’t thought about it being 40 years ago.
So this month rings out as a milestone to me, because it was in January 1980 that I met Kathy, the love of my life, the woman who would become my wife.
Let me back up just a little and tell you how it
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Uncle Walter and the highway patrol
Mama used to claim that Uncle Walter would argue with a signpost. This was a pretty accurate 
summing up of one of his well-known tendencies. I don’t know if he actually believed he was always right, but he certainly put up a very convincing defense of his position on any issue.
He was canny in business. Some thought him an operator. Regardless of that, it’s true he knew how to make a trade to his advantage. I don’t believe anyone ever bested him on a business deal, and he could talk his way through almost any negotiation and come out on the winning side. He was a man who took advantage of every opportunity that came his way.
Now one of his boon companions was an old friend, Smith Purcell. Smith would drive out on
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