Daily Archives: 10/13/2020
County’s two-week COVID-19 spread among worst in state
COLUMBIA — With five new deaths confirmed since last week, Pickens County is continuing to see an increase in the number of cases and deaths in the fight against the COVID-19 pandemic.
The South Carolina Department of Health and Environmental Control reported the COVID-19 deaths of five elderly Pickens County residents in the seven-day period ending on Monday, when the latest DHEC numbers available at press time had been released.
Pickens County added 253 confirmed cases of the virus over the same seven-day period.
The county still has the 16th-lowest rate of infection of the state’s 46 counties, with 2,830.1 cases per
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216 SDPC STUDENTS, 44 STAFF MEMBERS ISOLATED LAST WEEK
COUNTY — The School District of Pickens County announced Friday that seven staff members and 14 students had tested positive for COVID-19 last week.
District officials said 216 students — 1.73 percent of the district’s in-person students — had been quarantined during the week. Additionally, more than 2 percent of the district’s staff — 48 people — were quarantined as well.
Six positive cases attended school, according to district officials — one each at Liberty Elementary and Gettys Middle and two apiece at Daniel and Easley high schools.
Daniel was the most affected school in the district, with seven
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Annual Central Railroad Festival is Saturday
CENTRAL — After being postponed in April, the Central Railroad Festival will pull into historic downtown Central on this Saturday, Oct. 17, with music, food and festivities for all ages.
You can find out all the details by getting this week’s Pickens County Courier. The Courier will feature the annual Central Railroad Festival Special edition.
In accordance with S.C. Department of Commerce requirements, the festival will operate under social distancing guidelines and best practices as issued by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) and S.C. Department of Health and Environmental Control (DHEC). Visitors are required to wear a face mask, but may take off their
Election director assures absentee ballots secure
As long as I don’t spill coffee all over my absentee ballot and have to try to get another one, I’m all set to exercise my patriotic privilege as an American.
But the process has been a little bit crazy with all the speculation about voter fraud and last-minute changes in the rules.
I’m glad I held onto my ballot for a few days after I received it in the mail, because later that day, the U.S. Supreme Court ruled that a witness signature will be required in South Carolina after all — although it
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Woman killed by unoccupied car
By Jason Evans
Staff Reporter
jevans@thepccourier.com
SUNSET — A North Carolina woman was killed in an accident in Sunset on Sunday night.
The accident occurred on private property at 311 S. Cove Road, 2.3 miles west of Sunset, at approximately 8:30 p.m. Sunday, according to Trooper Joe Hovis of the South Carolina Highway
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Event planned to introduce low-cost spay-neuter clinic
By Jason Evans
Staff Reporter
jevans@thepccourier.com
CENTRAL — An event Friday and Saturday aims to educate the public about an effort to bring a low-cost spay and neuter clinic to Pickens County.
“The event is basically to introduce the community to Clemson Paw Partners,” Clemson Paw Partners founder Margaret Thompson said.
Earlier this year, county officials agreed to lease the old magistrate’s office in Central to Clemson Paw Partners, an animal welfare organization.
Plans are to use the building to create the low-cost spay and neuter clinic, Thompson said.
“We’re raising money to get it done,” she said. “Once we get this done, it’s going to be the only standalone spay
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More than 500 CU students quarantined
By Jason Evans
Staff Reporter
jevans@thepccourier.com
CLEMSON — Although more than 500 Clemson University students were in quarantine or isolation last week, the school has had no known hospitalizations of students due to the COVID-19 virus, 
president Jim Clements said Friday.
He discussed the university’s testing program in an update issued Friday.
“I am extremely proud of our faculty, staff and students, all of whom have worked hard to mitigate the spread of COVID-19 in the university community,” Clements said.
Along with many other universities, Clemson has seen an
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DHEC urges ‘most important’ flu vaccine
COLUMBIA — South Carolina’s interim public health director is calling for South Carolinians to get what could be the “most important flu shot of your life.”
S.C. Department of Health and Environmental Control (DHEC) interim health director Dr. Brannon Traxler said it’s important to stay as healthy as possible, especially during the COVID-19 pandemic.
“We’re experiencing the worst public health crisis in 100 years, and it’s never
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Get lost in great cakes
By Olivia Fowler
For the Courier
ofowler@thepccourier.com
Some of these recipes go back a long way.
One of my all-time favorites is the old-fashioned pineapple upside-down cake my grandmother used to make in a cast-iron frying pan. This was a specialty of hers for Sunday night suppers. It never lasted long enough to make leftovers.
The upsy daisy cake was popular in the 1930s, and there are versions of this recipe in old cookbooks.
The banana split cake is easy to make and is a really decadent dessert, and the black bottom cupcakes are popular party fare.
None of this stuff is calorie-free, but sometimes you have to let it go out the window and just enjoy.
Our world today vs. nearly 100 years ago
I was born in 1922, in a little shack seven miles west of Pickens. Going back in time, my mind remembers years ago.
I decided it is not the world that has changed since the beginning of time, it is us — the people — who have changed. Folks then did not have a lot, but we were happy, living without fear that someone would break into our home or while out playing, thinking someone would shoot us.
There were no broken homes. We never heard of divorce, or any kind of crime. We never locked our doors — at night or any other time. Now, we have to keep them locked in the daytime. We had Christian parents and grandparents who loved us, and we
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