Daily Archives: 03/10/2020
Arnolds gives back
Part of Arnolds Restaurants’ philosophy is giving back to the community. This month, Arnolds of Liberty donated a check for $1,000 to Liberty Elementary School to help all kids be able to afford field trips. Next month, the restaurant will be donating to Liberty Recreation Department. Above, Liberty Elementary principal Lowell Haynes, left, accepts the donation from James Sims, managing partner at Arnolds of Liberty.
You get a $100 SC tax refund, and you get a $100 refund, and you … don’t
Imagine the power company decided it had too much money, so it was giving $100 credits to its customers. But there’s a catch: Only people with a power bill of at least $100 would get the credit.
We don’t mean people who owed less than $100 wouldn’t get the full credit. We mean they wouldn’t get any credit at all. So someone with a $99 bill would still owe $99 that month, while someone with a $100 bill would pay nothing. And someone with a $199 bill would pay $99 — the same as someone who used half as much electricity.
Pretty crazy, right?
Well, that’s what House budget writers want to do with our tax money: Give $100 tax credits to everybody who has an income tax bill of $100 or more — and nothing to those whose tax bill is $99
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Death of a rooster
The rooster was a Rhode Island Red, and he was a thing of beauty. When the sun shone on his feathers in the morning, he looked incandescent.
Although a handsome fowl, he was without a doubt one of the meanest roosters we’ve ever had, and gathering eggs or scattering feed was a risky business.
He didn’t have a name. Our first nameless rooster, but he knew who he was. He was a sneaky devil, a demon and a rooster with a mission.
Every living thing that moved was his sworn enemy, apart from his lovely ladies, the flock of hens.
He was old for a rooster. Most chickens don’t live beyond eight years. We’d had him a while, a gift from a friend who thought he was a pullet. But as he matured, it became clear he was another gender altogether.
He enjoyed greeting the dawn and would crow from atop an upturned bucket.
Two days ago, he didn’t crow. It has become such a part of morning routine we didn’t make note of
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Let go of hate and choose to forgive
How much grace does it take to love someone who has hurt us or offended us? Well, that’s a good question. Tragedies are occurring all around us, and it’s true we are concerned, but what happens 
when it involves us personally and our family is harmed?
I admit that I do not always have the character of Christ when I’m being threatened or provoked to anger. Many times, my first reaction is to retaliate, because that’s a strong part of our human nature. I also agree that people need to be punished for their evil deeds and acts of violence, but we must resist the temptation to embrace resentment.
Life is filled with challenges and situations that attempt to lure us into bad attitudes, but for the
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Courier Obituaries 3-11-20
FURMAN DOUGLAS VICKERY
CENTRAL — Furman Douglas (Doug) Vickery, 77, husband of Norma H. Vickery, died on Sunday, March 1, 2020.
He was a son of the late Furman Dodd and Pauline Harris Vickery.
Doug served eight years in the U.S. Army Reserve. He received an AA degree from Anderson College and a BS degree from Clemson University. His textile industry career included work with M. Lowenstein Co., first at the Rockingham, N.C., Aleo plant, then at Anderson Wamsutta I and II plants, and at J.P. Stevens’ Clemson plant, where he was distribution manager.
In later years, Doug worked with his brother Jerry D. Vickery at the Easley Progress newspaper. During retirement years, he enjoyed designing and fabricating farm equipment. He also enjoyed participating in teamwork projects to assist missionaries in Utah and Canada.
He was a member of University Baptist Church and also attended Welcome Baptist Church.
Surviving are his wife of 59 years, Norma Holliday Vickery;
‘Her rightful place’
By Dr. Thomas Cloer, Jr.
Special to The Courier
For the last three weeks, we have been reviewing the book “Hush Now, Baby,” by Angela Williams from a wealthy, white South Carolina family in Berkeley County. We have reviewed this book because it focuses on an African-American nanny, Eva, in the Williams household during segregation, passage of laws giving civil rights to all and the integration of races in South Carolina
and the United States.
Social Justice and Civil Rights
Social justice and civil rights are very recent phenomena, relatively speaking. The first of Eva’s African people were brought and sold at auction about 400 years ago in the United States. That’s when the very first black slaves were kidnapped in Africa. When we move forward to the American Civil War over slavery, and its conclusion on April 9, 1865, we see how recent the fight over social justice has been. Complete segregation, and all the recent federal laws requiring integration, have occurred in Angela Williams and my lifetimes, and also in the lifetimes of most people reading this.
If the Bible Belt has been slow to embrace social justice, civil rights and intermarriage, some of the reasons must be related to how recent these changes are. Attitudes, especially those that are
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Reopening at SAO
Southern Appalachian Outdoors, located at 506 W. Main St. in Pickens, held a grand reopening and ribbon cutting on Saturday, Feb. 29. Southern Appalachian Outdoors is open for all local residents’ fishing, hiking and kayaking needs Tuesdays-Fridays 10 a.m.-6 p.m. and 9 a.m.-3 p.m. on Saturdays. Pictured are Donna Owen, Holly Ann Crowe, Sara Pittman, Lisa Bryant, Southern Appalachian Outdoors owner Sean Crowe, Emily Pelusio, Lisa Turnick, Pickens Police Chief Travis Riggs and Glen Crowe.
Hagood Mill to host Kidsfest and Spring Fling March 21
PICKENS — Kidsfest is a cherished collaboration between the Hagood Mill Historic Site and the 
Young Appalachian Musicians, two beloved Pickens County nonprofits.
The event is a fun-filled day featuring performances from all participating YAMs programs in Pickens County, in addition to some guest performers from neighboring Transylvania County in North Carolina.
In addition to the children sharing their musical prowess, there will be an old-fashioned talent show and traditional games and activities throughout the day. Activities include a kazoo workshop, a jug band jam, creek critters, archaeological adventures, old-timey clothes washing, rock painting and
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Courier Community Calendar 3-11-20
• Pickens Lions to hold info meeting
The Pickens Lions Club will be hosting an informal information meeting at 7 p.m.
Thursday, March 12, at Pizza Inn in Pickens. This will be a chance for fence sitters to learn about what the club does in the community and worldwide.
No obligation to join — just come, listen and ask questions.
Visit the club on Facebook or call Gennie Siwicki at (864) 507-3146 to get more information.
• Baha’is plan book talk about Abraham
The Pickens County Baha’is and Friends plan a book talk about “Abraham and His Legacy” at the
Courier Legal Notices 3-11-20
NOTICE OF FILING
FOREIGN JUDGMENT
STATE OF SOUTH CAROLINA
COUNTY OF PICKENS
IN THE COURT OF COMMON PLEAS
THIRTEENTH JUDICIAL CIRCUIT
CIVIL ACTION NO. 2019-CP-39-1041
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Cowin Equipment Company, Inc., PLAINTIFF, vs. Jorge Solis d/b/a Acosta Underground, DEFENDANT.
COMES NOW Cowin Equipment Company, Inc. (“Judgment Creditor”), by and through its undersigned attorney and pursuant to S.C. Code Ann. § 15-35-900 et seq., and notifies the above-named Defendant, Jorge Solis d/b/a Acosta Underground (“Judgment Debtor”), of the following:
1.
On February 19, 2019, a judgment was obtained by the Judgment Creditor against the Judgment Debtor in the action captioned Cowin Equipment Company, Inc. v. Jorge Solis d/b/a Acosta
