Clemson Downs recently made a $1,000 donation to Tri-County Technical College’s Foundation to establish a scholarship for an associate degree nursing student in Anderson, Oconee and Pickens counties. Dr. John LeHeup, executive director of Clemson Downs, fourth from left, presented Tri-County Technical College President Ronnie L. Booth, third from left, with the check. Also pictured are, from left, Debbie Nelms, fiscal analyst for Tri-County’s Foundation; Barbara Huss, administrator at Clemson Downs; Grayson Kelly, executive director of Tri-County’s Foundation; Dr. Lynn Lewis, dean of Tri-County’s Health Education Division; and Courtney White, director of development at the college.

• Cannon to offer Wellness Wednesdays

Cannon Memorial Hospital will be offering a February Wednesday Wellness Special at the Cannon Annex each week in February from 7 a.m.-10 a.m. No appointment or doctor’s order needed. Participants can receive a discounted lipid panel for $15 (regularly $24) with results back within a week. Free blood pressure screenings are also available. For more information, contact Wellness at (864) 898-1331.

• Camp Creek moves Sunday services

Camp Creek Baptist Church will move its Sunday service to the Rosewood Center in Liberty for the next few weeks. The move is temporary due to the remodeling of the church’s sanctuary. AWANA clubs will still be held at the church in Central as usual, in the fellowship hall on Wednesday nights.

• Pickens Lions plan meetings each month

The Pickens Lions Club is in need of new members. The club meets the first and third Thursday of every month at Pizza Inn in Pickens. Dinner begins at 6:40 p.m., and the meeting starts at 7 p.m. Meetings are open to anyone interested in joining the club or simply finding out more about the club and how it serves Pickens.

• Classes offered at Hagood Center

New Fiber Room Center activities at the Hagood Center in Pickens have been scheduled for February.

Below is a list of the center’s regular activities:

Monday: 10-11:30 a.m. — cathedral window quilts with Jacquie.

Tuesday: 9 a.m. – 3:30 p.m. — weaving with Pat; 9-11:30 a.m. — doll clothes with Jacquie; 10-11:30 a.m. — yo-yos with Irene and prayer shawls and cancer caps with Sharon (in the library). Wednesday: 9 a.m.-3:30 p.m. — weaving with Pat (in the heritage room); 10-11:30 a.m. — knitting with Tally.

Thursday: 10-11:30 a.m. quilting with Sara; 1:30-3:30 p.m. — rug hooking with Cheryl.

• Concert planned at Lawrence Chapel

A piano concert will be held at Lawrence Chapel UMC on Sunday, Feb. 14. The concert will begin at 10:30 a.m. and feature professional pianists Susan Buckley Cumbie and Rich Blough.

• PHS class of 1956 set to hold reunion

The Pickens High School Class of 1956 is planning a reunion for April 9. It will be a dutch lunch at The Gatehouse Restaurant at the corner of Ann and Griffin Streets in Pickens.  It will begin at noon. Make your reservations by calling Allison Dalton at (864) 859-4396, Marie Welborn at (864) 878-9124 or Tunkie Stokes at (864) 878-6101.

• East Side Baptist plans fishing clinic

East Side Baptist Church is hosting a free bass fishing clinic on Saturday, March 12, at 1 p.m. The speaker will be Bassmaster Terry Chupp. East Side is located at 920 Anderson Drive in Liberty. For more information, call the church office at (864) 843-6481.

CENTRAL — The Clemson Cooperative Extension and more than a dozen partners have scheduled the first of several stakeholder meetings for the Twelve Mile, Eighteen Mile and Golden Creek Watershed Plan, which is being devised to clean up bacteria pollution in three major Pickens County watercourses.

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The public is invited to the meeting, which will be held from 6-7 p.m. on Thursday at the Bryant Lodge on the campus of Southern Wesleyan University.

Through a combination of onsite visits, spatial data analysis and laboratory research, the plan’s developers have been studying ways to improve the water quality of the well-known creeks, all of which have been found to be impaired by monitoring agents with S.C. Department of Health and Environmental Control.

“We all want better quality water resources,” said Cal Sawyer, associate director of the Center for Watershed Excellence at Clemson University. “By attending and actively participating in the upcoming public meeting, local citizens can help improve the accuracy of the information we’re compiling and engage in the process of solving the persistent pollution problems in the affected watersheds.”

The agenda will include an introduction by Rocky Nation, professor of biology and chair of the Science Division at Southern Wesleyan. This will be followed by overviews of the watershed planning process by Sawyer and cohort Jeremy Pike, associate scientist in Clemson’s College of Agriculture, Forestry and Life Sciences. There will also be a question-and-answer session, and refreshments will be provided.

The Twelve Mile, Eighteen Mile and Golden Creek watersheds, which eventually drain into Hartwell Lake, comprise more than 69,000 acres in the Piedmont area of South Carolina. Development of the plan began in September and will continue through August. It will take subsequent years to implement it.

For more information, visit sites.google.com/site/clemsonwatershed.

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SENECA — South State Bank has announced Rhonda Bigham has been named junior mortgage loan officer as an assistant to Allen White in the bank’s Seneca office.

With 17 years of experience in the mortgage industry, Bigham has worked with public and privately held companies, including real estate law and lending.

South State Corporation is the largest bank holding company headquartered in South Carolina. Founded in 1933, the company’s primary subsidiary, South State Bank, has been serving the financial needs of its local communities in 24 South Carolina counties, 13 Georgia counties and four North Carolina counties for more than 80 years.

The bank also operates Minis & Co. Inc. and First Southeast 401K Fiduciaries Inc., both registered investment advisors; and First Southeast Investor Services Inc., a limited purpose broker-dealer. South State Corporation has assets of approximately $8.6 billion, and its stock is traded under the symbol SSB on the NASDAQ Global Select Market. More information can be found at SouthStateBank.com.

PICKENS — Baseball and softball registrations are being taken now through Feb. 19 at the Pickens Recreation Center on Sangamo Road in Pickens.

The following age divisions are offered: instructional (coed) — 4 year olds; tee ball/coaches pitch (coed) — 5-6 year olds; pitching machine (coed) — 7-8 year olds; boys baseball minors — 9-10 year olds; boys baseball O-zone — 11-12 year olds; boys baseball boys — 13-14 year olds; boys baseball majors — 15-19 year olds; girls softball darlings — 7-8 year olds; girls softball angels — 9-10 year olds; girls softball ponytails — 11-12 year olds; girls softball belles — 13-15 year olds.

Following registration, a skills/evaluation day will be held for each age division.

The registration fee provides a jersey and cap for each player. The fee is $45 for in-city residents and $55 for out-of-city residents.

For tee ball, pitching machine and baseball, league age is that age attained by the participant prior to May 1, 2016. Birthdate for girls’ softball is their age as of Dec. 31, 2015. Birth certificates are required at registration.

If you are interested in coaching or need additional information, call the Recreation Department at 878-2296.

The Carolina One 12 Regional Black Pickens Team captured its second tournament of the season on Jan. 30 at the Carolina One Volleyball Challenge held at the Upward Volleyball Center in Spartanburg. Of the 20 12-and-under teams competing, “Fire” finished first in gold again without losing a single set. In pool play action, with teams starting at six points, “Fire” defeated C1 12 State Pickens 25-10, 25-10; Excel U12 Club 25-17, 25-16; Lake Murray 12 Black 25-12, 25-11; and Rock Hill Volleyball Club 12 Brooke 25-12, 25-17. The squad won over C1 12 Royal Pickens in the one-game semifinals of Gold 25-9 before ousting C1 12 Greenville 25-13, 25-15 in the finals. Serving leaders for “Fire” were Maggie Sizemore and Lauren Dow, with 100 percent serving out of 22 and 21 serves respectively. Ali Pace had 25 aces, Sky Moorrees had 18, including seven in the finals, and Bailee Earnhardt added 14, including eight in the finals. Calie Covey and Megan Carpenter led the attack with 13 kills each, with six of Covey’s coming in the final match. Assist leaders were Dow with 16, Earnhardt with nine and Regan Powell with six. Hannah Campbell, Amber Chapman and Alison Yates also played very well.

The family of Kathleen A. Bagwell would like to express their heartfelt gratitude for all the love and support they received during their time of bereavement. May God bless each of you that lent a hand to us following the loss of our beloved mother.

The Family

In memory of

Patricia Carol Cassell

Feb. 3, 1943 – Jan 29, 2010

Family Chain

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We little knew that morning,

God was going to call your name,

In life we loved you dearly,

In death we do the same.

It broke our hearts to lose you,

You did not go alone.

For part of us went with you

The day God called you home.

You left us beautiful memories,

Your love is still our guide,

And though we cannot see you,

You are always at our side.

Our family chain is broken,

and nothing seems the same,

But as God calls us one by one,

The chain will link again.

We love and miss you.

Happy Birthday!

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