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Spartanburg, S.C. • Friday, August 3 2012 • Vol.8, No.31

FIELDS of DREAMSSports tourism is showing the Upstate the money. PAGE 9

Smithsonian exhibit explores America’s musical melting pot.PAGE 16

THE FUTURE OF HUB-BUB: Arts nonprofit considering several measures to ensure sustainability. PAGE 16

MEDICAL EQUIPMENT COMPANIES BRACING FOR NEW TAX. PAGE 11

American Titanium still has big plans in Laurens and ICAR. PAGE 15

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“In Los Angeles, there’s sirens all night long. And out here, it was nothing. I’ve never slept

so deeply in my life.” Pam Stone, who played Judy Watkins on the TV show “Coach,”

on the first night spent on her 28-acre farm in Gowensville.

“When you send home formula in gift bags, you’re sending double messages.”

Debbie Costello, lactation consultant at Spartanburg Regional Healthcare, on the hospital’s decision to curtail the number of formula samples

it distributes to news mothers.

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In July, hospitals across the state of Massachusetts joined those in Rhode Island in banning infant formula in gi� bags for new mothers. Some hospitals in the Upstate have had similar policies for years, while others are working toward elimination of the practice.

Health care providers are celebrating World Breastfeeding Week through Aug. 8, and breast-feeding advocates say in-cluding formula in the gi� bags implies endorsement of the product and may hinder a mother’s e� orts to breast-feed.

Earlier this year, the American Acad-emy of Pediatrics recommended that ba-bies be exclusively breast-fed for the � rst six months before adding solid foods. � e academy also advocates nursing for at least 12 months.

Spartanburg Regional Healthcare is working to curtail the number of formula samples it distributes, said Debbie Cos-tello, a lactation consultant.

“When you send home formula in gi� bags, you’re sending double messages,” she said.

Colleen Gilmore, women’s services program coordinator at Spartanburg Regional, said the bags also include edu-cational material about the bene� ts of breast-feeding.

“We want to provide education and in-formation for our moms to make the best decision for their babies,” she said. “If a mom chooses to breast-feed, we will help her throughout her stay.”

Beyond encouraging new mothers to breast-feed, the families must be in the know, too. Costello said. “Families want

to help out with the new baby and they think that includes feeding the baby.”

� ere are other ways that a family can help a new mom and spend time with the baby, she said. A weekly support group helps mothers postpartum and helps to educate the family, she said.

It’s been nearly four years since the Greenville Hospital System o� ered gi� bags that included formula and coupons, says manager of women’s education Katie Howle. � e hospital now gives out canvas bags with gi� items like a nail � le for baby, a newspaper from the day the baby was born and educational information, she said.

GHS lactation consultant Lauren

It didn’t take long for Pam Stone to de-cide on a title for her book.

“I could have called it something � ow-ery like ‘Nestled in the Blue Ridge’ or ‘Peachtree Town’ or any of that crap, but no,” she said. “I wanted it funny and I wanted it memorable.”

So she went with “I Love Me a Turkey Butt Samwich.”

� e title comes from one of her news-paper columns, recalling her visit to the feed store down the road from her horse farm near Landrum, and a conversation about the virtues of a fried turkey-butt-and-bream sandwich.

Elsewhere in the book, Stone shares what it’s like to spend the night in a small-town ER, select a jury pool from a group of citizens who all know each other, and try to sell a blow-up doll at a yard sale.

It’s a long way from Los Angeles, as the book’s subtitle, “Finding a Farm Life Af-ter Hollywood,” suggests – but it’s not too far from home for Stone, who grew up in Marietta, Ga., before a career that took her from touring the country as a stand-up comic to seven seasons on the sitcom “Coach” to a decade as a radio host.

Now, when she’s not writing her column, “I’m Just Saying,” which appears in several papers throughout the Carolinas (includ-ing the Spartanburg Herald Journal, Greer Citizen and Myrtle Beach Sun), she’s pur-suing what has always been her main pas-sion: training horses and competing in the equestrian sport of dressage.

“It’s the only consistency in my whole life,”

said Stone. “I’ve never been without a horse.”In fact, Stone originally viewed her

stand-up career as a way to earn extra money for riding les-sons. She was working at � e Punch Line in Atlanta when her fel-low waitresses encour-aged her to go onstage during an open-mike night. Her stand-up ca-reer took her to Califor-nia in the mid-‘80s and TV appearances with Jay Leno, Joan Rivers and Oprah Winfrey. In 1993, Stone won the American Comedy Award for best female stand-up.

One night, her audience at a club in Pas-adena included the producers of “Coach,” who asked her to read for the part of wom-en’s basketball coach Judy Watkins. She stayed with the show from 1989 to 1995.

“I suddenly had real cash for the � rst time in my life, to be able to train at the level I had dreamed of,” she said. “� e oth-er women who were riding with me were driving up in their Mercedes and their Audis, and I’m still in a 10-year-old car, and I’m still shopping at Ross, because I’m spending all my money on horses.”

A� er she le� “Coach,” she knew that, as a character actress approaching 40, her pros-pects for future television work were slim. “I just thought, it’s time to get out,” she said. “I’ll go do what I always wanted to do, which is to train and compete in dressage. I’ll be able to do it on my own terms, in my own place.”

Her sitcom earnings helped her buy

her farm, Stone’s � row Farm Dressage, on 28 acres in Gowensville in the north-east corner of Greenville County.

Her � rst night there was “the � rst night I’d slept through the night in probably 10 years,” she remembered. “Because in Los Angeles, there’s sirens all night long. And out here, it was nothing. I’ve never slept so deeply in my life.”

Which is not to say there weren’t problems at � rst. “� e house was just horrible,” Stone said. “I don’t care what you do to an A-frame, no matter how you try to make it beautiful and charming, you’re still living in an IHOP.”

When radio station WLNK (107.9 � e Link) in Charlotte asked her to host a late-morning show, she agreed, but only if she could work from home. � anks to an ISDN line, “� e Pam Stone Show” originated from a self-described “Unabomber shack” on her farm for eight years, � rst on week-day mornings, then on weekends, earning its host two Gracie Awards for “Best Come-dy Entertainment Program” along the way. Stone then co-hosted the faith-based “� e

Satis� ed Life” show each Sunday morning until it ended in May of this year.

Meanwhile, she had started her news-paper career when the publisher of the Tryon (N.C.) Daily Bulletin asked her to write a twice-monthly column. “I’m Just Saying” made an immediate impact among Stone’s neighbors.

“People started stopping me in town,” she remembered. “Forget ‘Coach,’ forget radio, forget anything I’ve ever done; all they ever wanted to talk about was that damn column.”

� is year, she decided to self-publish her collection, which is available for down-load on Amazon.com, or as a paperback in local bookstores. Her promotion tour brings her to Fiction Addiction’s Book Your Lunch series on Monday, August 6.

Her new fame as a columnist is “just ri-diculous,” she said. “And I’m very grateful.”

And that turkey butt sandwich?“I’ve never eaten one,” she said. “I’m a

vegetarian.”

Contact Jerry Salley at [email protected].

Local hospitals ponder how to support nursing mothersSome health systems ban formula samples in take-home gift bags

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samples could affect long-term breast-feeding.

“There are many studies that show if they go home with that formula sample, if they run into a tough spot, it’s easier for them to switch to formula feeding,” she said.

Removing the formula samples brings the hospital one step closer to a Baby Friendly Hospital designation, part of a World Health Organization and UNICEF initiative to support breast-feeding, Van Pelt said.

Howle says this step is part of the pro-gression of supporting new mothers.

Van Pelt has worked with the hospi-tal system for more than 20 years and has witnessed the trends. “Having lac-tation services at the hospital where you deliver is huge,” she said.

Bon Secours St. Francis Health Sys-tem also offers breast-feeding support for new mothers, and only moms who plan to formula-feed their newborns are offered formula samples, said Kelly Lambert, program manager for women’s services. The gift bags for moms were changed at the beginning of the year af-ter about a year in the works, she said.

“We support all of our moms in what-ever they choose, and we are lucky; many of our moms want to breast-feed,” she said.

According to a statement, the Interna-tional Formula Council agrees with the American Academy of Pediatrics’ recom-mendations, but in regards to hospital gift bags with formula, “mothers should be trusted to make the best choices for their babies according to their life circumstanc-es and the needs of their families.”

On what can be a hot-button issue for many women, former Greenville Hospital patient Beth McKelvey takes an accepting stance. McKelvey had nursed her two older children for one year and had told her doctor and fam-ily about her desire to breast-feed her third child. However, when she had a stroke 10 days after giving birth, she lay unconscious in the neurology ward. McKelvey’s husband consented to hav-ing the staff and family work to pump milk to feed the baby until she was well enough to nurse him on her own.

McKelvey said she did not mind re-ceiving formula samples several years ago. Though breast-feeding was so im-portant to her, she said when she opted to supplement with formula, the sam-ples were useful in determining what type her child could tolerate without purchasing an entire supply.

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Who does DUI law protect? As the Highway Patrol prepares to renew its annual “Sober or Slammer”

countdown to Labor Day, a Greenville DUI case o� ers the Upstate a graphic demonstration of just how challenging stopping a drunk driver can be.

� e case involves a Greenville County man who racked up six DUI charges in the space of a year – � ve within two months – as well as a charge of leaving an accident scene. Yet he walked out of court two weeks ago with a suspended sentence and no further jail time.

� e temptation is to hammer the prosecutor’s o� ce for negotiating a plea with a man with that kind of driving history. But it’s the rest of the story that shows the tightrope 13th Circuit Solicitor Walt Wilkins and his fellow solicitors walk in prosecuting not just the unusual cases, but all DUIs.

As related during the July 20 plea hearing, Warren E. Brooks’ six DUI charg-es occurred as six separate o� enses – � ve of them between May 19 and July 2 of last year – and all before any had been tried in court. So all counted as � rst o� enses. As Wilkins noted then, a second-o� ense charge requires a � rst-o� ense conviction.

A� er his sixth � rst-o� ense (Brooks rear-ended a car and le� the scene), a magistrate ordered him to wear an alcohol-monitoring bracelet that tests blood alcohol content via body sweat. So, as Wilkins also noted then, the danger to the community was removed while Brooks awaited trial.

And waited. � ough his back-to-back arrests were unusual, far less so were the delays and technicalities that put 13 months between Brooks’ � rst arrest and trial and worked the � nal resolution two weeks ago with that two-year sentence suspended to 79 days served.

Continuances delayed the original trial for his � rst August 2010 arrest from February to June of last year, at which point the other charges prompted Wilkins to pull the case to assess the situation – with good cause.

Scheduling con� icts and delay tactics are the routine of court life. But DUIs � t a unique category in South Carolina, where every sentence of state law that could objectively con� rm legal drunkenness has been fudged, weakened or turned into a debatable issue for a jury.

� e opportunities for challenge are legion, and Wilkins’ sta� ran straight into the most egregious of them all with that � rst charge: Brooks walked outside the view of the arresting o� cer’s dashboard camera during the � eld sobriety test.

� e state’s complex DUI law requires o� cers to videotape a DUI arrest from the moment the blue lights come on through the breathalyzer test at the po-lice station, showing the defendant’s entire body at all times and including the Miranda warning. � anks to Brooks’ wandering gait, a judge dismissed the Au-gust 2010 charge.

State law also allows Brooks to refuse Breathalyzer tests, which he did. With the � rst charge dismissed, a hung jury on the second and no objective tests, a plea agreement was Wilkins’ obvious choice.

� e agreement ensures Brooks will blow into an ignition interlock system every time he starts a car and seek treatment for alcoholism, so that’s some comfort.

But it’s no surprise that one in three DUI defendants who request a jury trial in Wilkins’ circuit end up with a reduced sentence, thanks to evidence prob-lems tied to the minutiae of this egregious DUI law. According to the state court administration, Greenville County currently has 1,263 pending DUI cases and Spartanburg has 677. Do the math and ask yourself: Who does South Carolina’s DUI law really protect?

If you followed the debate over the state budget and the governor’s budget vetoes, you might have had the impression that there was genuine disagreement about the size and scope of government. � ere was no such disagreement. True, the governor issued $57.1 million in line-item vetoes, but that amounted to less than one percent of the budget. And while 33 of the governor’s 81 budget vetoes were sustained, these were almost all small-dollar items. Altogether, the General Assembly sustained about $4 million worth of budget vetoes – a minis-cule .019 percent of the budget.

� at’s too bad – this would have been a great year for a knock-down, drag-out debate over the growth of South Carolina state government. � e Legislature’s origi-nal $23.6 billion spending plan – well over $1 billion larger than last year’s budget – brimmed with favors for special interests, gratuitous government expansions and massive funding hikes for clearly non-core programs and agencies. � e governor’s ve-toes touched some items in these catego-ries, but le� most of them alone.

So, at the beginning of the veto debate, we had a $23.641 billion budget. At the end of the debate, we had a $23.637 billion budget. Let’s look at what we accomplished.

Local pork projects: In her veto mes-sages, the governor explained that projects or events she vetoed would bene� t very speci� c communities or organizations and don’t merit funding from the state. Accord-ingly, she vetoed several projects worth, in total, about $1.2 million.

Yet the budget allocated a much larger amount – $5 million – to seven regional economic development organizations, some of which just happen to have leg-islators on their boards, and all of which have only regional signi� cance. All went unchallenged by the veto pen.

Programs that “don’t work”: In her veto mes-sages, the governor insisted that state govern-ment had an obligation to eliminate programs that “don’t work.” So she vetoed the Writing Improvement Network, South Carolina Geo-graphic Alliance-USC, and the Certi� cate of Need program, totaling just over $3 million. She also vetoed the Arts Commission’s entire budget; a $200,000 proviso for the SC Manu-facturer’s Extension Partnership; and the Sea

Grant Consortium. � ese vetoes were worth just over $2.5 million.

One wonders, then, why a $10 million tax break for Hollywood producers went untouched, since “� lm incentives,” as these tax breaks are called, generate a net loss in revenue equal to $0.81 on every dollar. � e Legislature and governor also le� in their $8 million subsidy program for des-tination-speci� c tourism marketing, and $50,000 for the notoriously over-budget and underperforming Farmers Market.

Higher ed earmarks: Tuition keeps ris-ing at the state’s public universities even as the universities spend public resources on projects that have little to do with the edu-cation of young people. It was encourag-ing, therefore, to see Haley veto earmarked funding worth about $6.4 million, includ-ing a Clemson University Plant Technol-ogy Lab, a College of Charleston Digital Technology Pilot Project, and four others.

Other higher education earmarks, how-ever, went untouched: $3.5 million for a training facility at Central Carolina Tech-nical College, $1 million for a “research vessel” at Coastal Carolina University and $2 million for a science center at the Col-lege of Charleston.

Excessive growth: Several agencies and programs saw vast increases over last year. Haley certainly vetoed a few of these gra-tuitous budget hikes. Yet massive increases drew no criticism from the governor.

� e Department of Commerce saw an increase of nearly $20 million from last year. Additionally, the governor included in her ex-ecutive budget $3.2 million for marketing and promotion in the Department of Agriculture, a 189 percent increase from last year.

In short: Don’t be fooled. � is year’s bud-get debate wasn’t about whether govern-ment should grow by billion-dollar leaps and bounds. � at question was already decided, and it wasn’t in decided in tax-payers’ favor.

Dillon Jones is a policy analyst at the

SC Policy Council.

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gibbs cancer center expanding to pelham Spartanburg Regional Healthcare System will celebrate the opening of a cancer center on the Village Hospital campus in the Spring of 2013.

Gibbs Cancer Center – Pelham will be a 10,000-square-foot facility offering radiation and medical oncology in one conve-nient location.

The center will include the quality care that has made Gibbs Cancer Center nationally recognized, as well as the healing features the center is known for, including a garden and natural light.

For more information, visit gibbscancercenter.com.

a drumroll please…these patients are having funThe sounds of a weekly drum circle and colorful artwork have recently become a welcomed time of the week around Behavioral Health.

“Using instruments purchased by a grant from the Spartanburg Regional Foundation and supplies purchased by the Foundation Community Healing Arts Program, patients who would otherwise be sitting in their rooms become engaged and explore self-expression,” says Kimberly Ward, coordinator for the program.

The activities are intended to reduce anxiety, build self-confidence and encourage dialogue between patients and staff, and just as important, between patients and their families. “Having a creative outlet offers a much-needed diversion for our patients, while allowing them to experience a sense of empowerment and voice during times of crisis or illness,” adds Ward.

For more information about the Community Healing Arts Program, contact Kimberly Ward at [email protected] or by calling 864-384-0165.

gibbs cancer center offers more to patients with addition of gynecologic oncology services Gynecologic oncologists David Griffin, M.D., Ph.D., and James Hunter, M.D., have joined the nationally recognized Gibbs Cancer Center.

“We are excited that Dr. Griffin and Dr. Hunter are bringing their expertise to our team,” said David Church, Vice President of Oncology and Support Services at Gibbs Cancer Center. “Gynecologic oncologists offer patients another dimension of personalized care.”

Dr. Griffin earned his medical degree and Ph.D. at Vanderbilt University School of Medicine. He is board certified in obstetrics, gynecology and gynecologic oncology. He has offices in Greenville, Anderson and Seneca.

Dr. Hunter earned his medical degree from the Medical University of South Carolina. He is board certified in obstetrics, gynecology and gynecologic oncology. Dr. Hunter has offices in Spartanburg, Greer and Greenville.

Both physicians are experienced in performing robotic surgery using the da Vinci Si system. Spartanburg Regional is the first hospital in South Carolina to perform robotic gynecologic surgery. Gynecologic oncologists specialize in the treatment of cancers of the reproductive organs. Each year in the United States about 71,500 women are diagnosed with a gynecologic cancer.

Patients seeking to schedule an appointment with Drs. Griffin and Hunter should call Regional GYN Oncology at 864-560-1915.

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Thousands of athletes have pursued their dreams on Upstate athletic fields this summer – from fast-pitch softball play-ers trying to win a World Series and soc-cer players trying to make it to a national championship to football players trying to make it in the National Football League.

In the process, they’re proving sports are no longer just child’s play: Sports tourism is big business.

Spartanburg and Greenville alike are placing a growing emphasis on getting their share of the billions of dollars spent nationwide each year. Both have pumped millions of dollars into new and improved sports venues to make their counties more competitive in luring youth and adult sports tournaments and the visitor spending that comes with them.

“Sports tourism is a huge market, and more places are realizing that,” said Jeff Poole, the Greenville Recreation District’s sports tourism manager. “As quickly as the market is growing, it’s growing ever more competitive.”

Just last week, the National Softball Asso-ciation brought 168 girls fast-pitch teams to Spartanburg and Greenville to compete in its World Series in two competitive classes.

The players and their families filled hotel rooms from Gaffney to Anderson.

“Sports tourism is a great way for Greenville and Spartanburg to partner together,” said Marcia Murff, public re-lations and development director for Spartanburg Parks. “I think we’ve got to attack sports tourism regionally.”

Murff said the softball tournament would not have been possible without Tyger River Park, the county’s new $17.6 million 13-field park that area leaders said would allow the county to pursue large regional and national youth sports tournaments. Last year, the tournament was held in Chatta-nooga and had an estimated $2.5 mil-lion economic impact, Murff said. The facility has booked 65 tournaments in a 40-week period beginning with the facility’s opening in mid-March.

And in June, the U.S. Youth Soccer Region III championship was held at the MeSA soccer complex near Pelham Road in Greenville, a tournament that would not have been possible with-out the facility’s expansion to 16 fields through the county’s TRAC (Tourism

Recreation Athletic Coalition) plan.The TRAC plan poured $40 million

into new or expanded sports facilities in Greenville County, paid for through a 2 percent hospitality tax levied on pre-pared food.

That plan also built Conestee Park, a baseball complex connected to Lake Conestee Nature Park. Conestee Park will compete to host regional tourna-ments with Heritage Park in Simpson-ville and J.B. “Red” Owens Sports Com-plex in Easley, which hosted the Big League World Series earlier this week for the 12th consecutive year.

The Greenville Convention and Visi-tors Bureau and Greenville Rec are targeting 14 sports – soccer, lacrosse, softball, baseball, tennis, martial arts, rugby, wrestling, table tennis, cycling, BMX, ultimate Frisbee, adventure rac-ing and road races, said Gary Cherrett, the CVB’s senior manager of convention sales and sports tourism.

“We’re trying to identify sports that fit Greenville,” said Todd Bertka, the CVB’s vice president of sales. “Greenville is obvi-ously not a winter sports location. We’ve got no location with more than one sheet of ice. So it doesn’t make sense to go after those events. A lot of business out there matches the assets our destination offers.”

In addition to parks, Greenville has other tournament venues: Furman Uni-versity, the Kroc Center Tennis Com-plex, Fluor Field, the Bi-Lo Center, TD Convention Center and even Sirrine Sta-dium, which hosted the Men’s Collegiate Lacrosse Association national champion-ship this year and will again next year.

What it lacks is a large indoor field-house-type facility that would have multiple basketball or volleyball courts in one location. Having such a facility would allow Greenville to compete for events in about a dozen more sports.

“We can’t control what we don’t have,” Poole said. “We concentrate on what we do and market that as best we can.”

Bertka said Greenville has several advantages over the locales it typically competes against, such as Raleigh and Charlotte, N.C., Birmingham, Ala., Or-lando, Fla., and Atlanta.

It sits between Charlotte and Atlanta with interstate access. It has improved airline service since Southwest Airlines came into the Greenville-Spartanburg market more than a year ago. It has less

expensive hotels and dining choices than some of the bigger cities, multiple areas of activity and Southern hospital-ity. Plus the Upstate offers a lot of other things to do, Bertka said – an important advantage to participants of weeklong tournaments.

“We’re a mid-size market with big city amenities,” he said.

Several events are upcoming.The ABA BMX East Coast Nationals

will be held in September and the South-ern Conference baseball tournament will be held at Fluor Field in May, 2013.

CVB and county officials are working to secure a March 2013 stop by the FLW pro-fessional fishing tour, and the USA Karate Federation National Championship in July 2013. CVB and Greenville County of-ficials will also attend three sports tourism conventions this fall, including the USOC Sports Link event next month.

“Olympic sports present a lot of op-portunity,” Bertka said.

While it doesn’t involve youth sports, one of the Upstate’s longest-running sports tourism events – the Carolina Panthers training camp – is being held now through Aug. 15.

Wofford College has hosted the training camp since the team’s inception in 1995.

Last year, an estimated 34,000 people attended the Panthers training camp and attendees spent an average of $168 per day, pouring an estimated $5.7 mil-lion into the Upstate economy.

This year’s camp is generating even more interest, thanks to quarterback Cam Newton. Last year, Newton broke Peyton Manning’s rookie passing record with 4,051 yards and became the first quar-terback in NFL history to pass for 4,000 yards and run for 500 in the same season. He set a record for rushing touchdowns by a quarterback with 14. He was selected as an alternate for the Pro Bowl.

Contact Cindy Landrum at [email protected].

Fields of dreamsSports tourism – from youth tournaments to Carolina Panthers training camp – pumps millions into Upstate economyBy Cindy Landrum | staff

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test your surgeon skillsSaturday, August 4 • 12-6 p.m.Haywood Mall700 Haywood Road • Greenville, SCSunday, August 5 • 12-6 p.m.Columbiana Centre Mall100 Columbiana Circle • Columbia, SCMeet Spartanburg Regional’s da Vinci surgical robot and the surgeons who operate it, during this hands-on demonstration of the latest in surgical technology.

lapband® information sessionWednesday, August 8 • 6:30-9 p.m.Family Medicine Conference Room, Regional Outpatient CenterThis free class covers detailed informa-tion about LapBand® weight loss sur-gery. For more information or to register, visit spartanburgweightloss.com or call 864-560-7070.

mobile mammography Aug. 10: Wal-Mart, 513 N. Duncan Bypass, Union (call 216-5912 for appointment)Aug. 24: Food Lion, 1130 W. Cherokee St., Blacksburg (call 216-5912 for appointment)Aug. 27: Wal-Mart, 165 Walton Dr., Gaffney (call 216-5912 for appointment)Aug. 29: Inman Family Practice, 12230 Asheville Hwy, Inman (call 560-7999 for appointment)Spartanburg Regional’s mobile mam-mography unit will be at the above sites on the dates listed. Bring your insurance card and identification.

surgical weight loss information sessionWednesday, August 15 • 6:30-9 p.m.Family Medicine Conference Room, Regional Outpatient CenterThis free class covers detailed information about Roux-en-Y gastric bypass and sleeve gastrectomy weight loss surgeries. For more information or to register, visit spartanburgweight-loss.com or call 560-7070.

surviving stroke: a support groupMonday, August 20 • 6-7 p.m.Regional Outpatient Center, Family Medicine Conference Room-Fifth FloorThis group is for stroke survivors, their families or other support persons. Learn more about stroke and share experiences about stroke. Call 560-2132 for more information.

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Four Hankie Triumph ExhibitLocal artist Ashley Holt exhibits his work Aug. 1-28 in the Artists’ Guild of Spartanburg’s gallery at the Chapman Cultural Center. Free and public reception: Sat., Aug. 4, 6 p.m. Exhibit open daily 10 a.m.-5 p.m., but closed on Sundays. Free!

Free MuseumsBoth the Spartanburg Art Museum and the Spartanburg Regional History Museum are free Thursday-Saturday, Aug. 2-4, 10 a.m.-5 p.m.… thanks to generous donors.

Bodybuilding ShowWant to see some great-looking bodies? Dutch Strength Promotions presents the 2012 Upstate Classic, Saturday, Aug. 4, starting at 10 a.m. $15/morning; $25/evening show.

Music Sandwiched InTom Fisch will play guitar and sing folk and country songs at this free lunchtime concert at the Library downtown Spartanburg, Wednesday, Aug. 8, 12:15 p.m. Bring your lunch or buy one there. Presented by the Music Foundation of Spartanburg.

Dance Open HouseBallet Spartanburg will host open house Wednesday, Aug. 8, 10 a.m.-6 p.m. at the Chapman Cultural Center. Tour the facility, meet the faculty, sign up for fall dance classes.

Auto Racing ExhibitSpartanburg was once at the hub of auto racing. The Spartanburg Regional History Museum presents an exhibit featuring artifacts, trophies, and the development of the auto racing industry, June 19-Sept. 1, Tues.-Sat., 10 a.m.-5 p.m.

Fine Furniture ExhibitMaster woodcraftsman Michael McDunn presents Function & Awe, a large sampling of his handmade fine furniture in the Spartanburg Art Museum. It is both heirloom and contemporary. Tues.-Sat., May 22-Aug. 4, 10 a.m.-5 p.m.

Printmakers Exhibit15 printmakers from the Upstate have come together to create a unique and vastly diverse exhibit of handmade prints in Shifting Plates. The exhibit is in support of a project that collected works for the true “art collector.” Presented by the Spartanburg Art Museum, Tues.-Sat., 10 a.m.-5 p.m. Ends: Aug. 25.

Foster Child Photo ExhibitThe Chapman Cultural Center is the only museum in South Carolina to host the acclaimed National Heart Gallery Exhibit: a large collection of 6x4-foot photos of children in foster care and in need of permanent homes. Mon.-Sat., 10 a.m.-5 p.m., free. July 9-Aug. 24.

This week, McDonald’s restaurants in the Greenville, Spar-tanburg, Asheville and Anderson areas introduced Favorites Under 400 Calories, a new national menu platform featuring existing food and beverage choices at counters and drive-thrus nationwide. McDonald’s reports that approximately 80 per-cent of their menu choices are under 400 calories without ad-ditional sauces, salad dressings, condiments or custom orders. As part of the effort, local dietitians Katherine Birkett and Paul Moore were hired to provide guidance to area restaurants and will appear at Mother’s Panels planned for the fall.

The ETV Endowment of South Carolina and Ruby Tues-day are putting a new twist on the “TV Dinner,” allowing South Carolinians to enjoy a great meal and support the educational programs broadcast on SCETV and ETV Radio at the same time. From Friday, Aug. 10, through Sunday, Aug. 12, every S.C. Ruby Tuesdays will donate 20 percent of every meal pur-chase to the ETV Endowment. To participate, patrons must print the GiveBack flyer (available at www.scetv.org/rubytues-day) and present it to their server at the time their order is placed. A list of participating Ruby Tuesday restaurants across the state is available at www.scetv.org/rubytuesday.

The Carolina Miracle League recently played a game with cyclists of Push America at Miracle Park. Push Amer-ica is a philanthropy of Pi Kappa Phi fraternity and all the cyclists must go through an interview process and commit to a minimum fundraising amount. The cross-country ride across America – The Journey of Hope – began June 11 in

Long Beach, Calif. In all, the cyclists will ride over 4,000 miles ending in Washington, D.C., on August 5. For more information on the Journey of Hope, visit www.pushamer-ica.org. The Carolina Miracle League (CML), founded in 2001, provides children with disabilities in Spartanburg, Union and Cherokee Counties in South Carolina and Ru-therford and Polk Counties in North Carolina the oppor-tunity to participate in an organized baseball league. The CML holds all games at Miracle Park located inside the Spartanburg County Parks Department’s North Spartan-burg Park at 1160 Old Furnace Road, Boiling Springs. For more details, about the Carolina Miracle League, call 864-579-1805 or visit www.carolinamiracleleague.org.

HALTER (Handicapped Athletes Learning to Enjoy Riding), an organization dedicated to providing therapeutic horseback riding programs to adults and children with dis-abilities, is holding its annual fundraiser, Rock and Boil for HALTER, on August 25, at 6 p.m. at the Carolina Country Club Family Recreation Center. The public is invited and all proceeds help HALTER continue to provide therapeutic rid-ing programs and contribute toward a new covered arena. HALTER has been providing a therapeutic horseback rid-ing program in Spartanburg since 1987 and currently serves more than 200 children and adults with various disabili-ties. Tickets are $35 per person and include a Lowcountry boil dinner, drinks (beer and wine) and entertainment by Wheresville Project and Sound Machine. Tickets can be pur-chased at www.wepay.com/events/2012-rock-and-boil.

The major effect of the nation’s most widespread drought in 60 years may well not be on drinking water or agriculture and food prices. The impact could soon be felt at the pump and in electric bills, say experts in the field.

Without sufficient water to cool the turbines, coal-fired power plants could be forced to shut down and oil and gas production could be threatened, said Mi-chael E. Webber, an assistant professor of mechanical engineering and the associate director of the Center for International Energy and Environmental Policy at the University of Texas in Austin.

Webber said in a commentary for the New York Times that about half the na-tion’s daily water withdrawals go for cool-ing power plants. The oil and gas indus-tries use tens of millions of gallons a day, in older oil fields to improve production, and to free natural gas in shale forma-

tions through hydraulic fracturing.Although the numbers are not large

from a national perspective, they can be significant locally, Webber said.

Webber’s warning may be timely for South Carolina, said John McDermott, a professor and chairman of the economics department at the University of South Car-olina’s Darla Moore School of Business.

Just a few years ago, an exceptional drought left South Carolina and its neigh-bor states fighting over water. Today, parts of Georgia are back in the “severe to exceptional” drought status, according to Drought Monitor. The Department of Natural Resources drought status lists western South Carolina as far south as Barnwell County in moderate to severe drought, according to the latest data.

“It would not take a lot to put us back into that kind of situation,” said McDermott. “With the drought that is pummeling the Midwest, ethanol prices are likely to go up. I don’t think the impact on food prices will

be all that severe. They’re calling for about five percent increases in food prices.”

The U.S. is part of a global market-place, he said, so any impact on food will be limited.

According to Webber, power plants were within days or weeks of shutting down be-cause of limited water supplies during the 2008 drought in the Southeast.

Nuclear plants must maintain certain water levels in their cooling system or fed-eral regulations force them to shut down.

Some cities in Texas are currently for-bidding the use of municipal water for hydraulic fracturing, Webber said.

Federal officials recently issued an alert that the drought was likely to exac-erbate challenges to California’s electric power market this summer, with higher risks of reliability problems and scarci-ty-driven price increases.

Contact Charles Sowell at [email protected].

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When the federal Affordable Care Act becomes law in January, companies will see a 2.3 percent tax on medical device sales. While Upstate companies are bracing for the new tax, it is the people who use the devices who will ultimately bear the cost.

The tax will affect about 100 companies in Greenville and Spartanburg counties, but the com-panies will fare differently depending on their size, age and the exact nature of their operations.

Some companies will be bound by long-term con-tracts that require them to absorb the costs for the time being. Sean Regan, vice president of SC MedTech, the medical device business promotion group under SC BIO, said the tax will not only increase the cost of do-ing business, but will also stifle growth.

“The issue that we have is that it’s a revenue-based tax instead of a profit-based tax,” said Regan. Established companies will manage, but “what it’s going to hurt is companies that are working on very thin profit margins, and this is going to eat into [them]. Then there are those that aren’t even profitable yet, the startups. Some of them won’t be profitable for two, three or 20 years.”

Companies with more diversified businesses will see less effect on their bottom line, said Bill Cobb, CEO of J.M. Smith Corp. in Spartanburg. J.M. Smith’s pharmaceutical distribution systems and other products will not be taxed, but devices that are used to monitor women in labor will. Cobb said there will also be “a fair amount of ex-

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Consumers in South Carolina collectively are to receive $19.6 million in rebates from their health insurance companies un-der a provision of the federal Af-fordable Health Care Act.

The South Carolina rebate av-erages $131 per household, and 251,632 consumers should receive a refund or, if part of a group plan, receive it or some other form of benefit, according to the Depart-ment of Health and Human Ser-vices (HHS). That average includes rebates for individual policyhold-ers and enrollees in group plans.

The rebate is required under the Affordable Health Care Act that requires health insurers to spend 80 percent of premiums for health insurance on medical care and quality. Only 20 percent can be spent on salaries and marketing.

BlueCross BlueShield of South Carolina, the state’s largest health insurer, last week began refunding a portion of 2011 premiums to in-

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pense” on the administrative end just from integrating the tax into their processes.

Medical device companies al-ready pay tens of thousands of dollars in user fees to the FDA under MEDUFA, or Medical Device User Fee Amendment. � ese payments essentially fund the FDA oversight and approval process for the prod-ucts companies develop.

Wayne Roper, president of SC BIO, the life science in-dustry group under which SC MedTech operates, said it is unfair and unwise to tax an in-dustry that is not only generat-ing economic growth, but also helps improve the quality of people’s lives.

“Why would you pick medi-cal devices … unless you think you can raise the revenue from

there and distribute it else-where?” Roper said.

� e tax is particularly signi� -cant in the Upstate. � is area has been identi� ed nationally as one of six emerging medium-sized regions for the medical device industry, according to a 2010 re-port by the Battelle Institute, a nonpro� t research and develop-ment organization that focuses on health and life sciences and technologies (Charleston was also on the list). A 2012 report by the same group shows that biotech is one of the few sectors that saw growth in the years from 2007-2010, the toughest of the re-cession. � e medical device sub-sector contributed signi� cantly.

In South Carolina, medical device establishments grew 13.4 percent, and employment grew more than 15 percent. � at is compared to just 7.7 per-cent growth and an overall loss

of jobs in the sub-sector nation-wide. Medical devices were also the only sub-sector to see wage increases. Research, testing and medical labs grew almost 50

percent. Wages in the industry grew 7.3 percent annually in South Carolina during that pe-riod, compared to just 1 percent nationally. � e 2009 opening of the St. Jude Medical Inc. plant in Liberty contributed signi� cantly to these numbers, and Roper said the industry is expected to grow 72 percent or

more in the next decade. It obviously will be di� cult

to know the full e� ects of the law until it is implemented. However, most industry ex-

perts agree that consumers will ultimately pay the costs.

“You’re looking to � nd the one person who can’t get out of it, and that’s generally the con-sumer. Or at least that’s the way the market tends to play it out,” said Cobb. “It’s sort of ironic to me that in an industry where we’re trying to cut costs at ev-

ery possible moment, we’re adding a tax where the cost is ultimately passed down to the consumer.” He said that some companies will opt to bury the costs in the price, but he thinks it is important that consum-ers are able to see the tax in an invoice and know exactly how the costs break down.

SC BIO has lobbied against the tax since its introduction, and Roper said those e� orts are paying o� : Congress voted to repeal the tax in a largely symbolic gesture earlier this month. “We believe this tax is going to be repealed regard-less,” said Roper, adding that if not, it will only open the door to increased taxation as health care costs continue to increase.

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Bank Takes Hit to Make GainPalmetto Bank reported a net loss

of $7.2 million in the second quarter, up substantially but not unexpectedly from its � rst-quarter loss of $587,000.

� e large increase was anticipated as Palmetto delib-erately cleansed its books of $40.3 million in bad loans by selling them o� at a discount.

“� e sale of a substantial portion of our remaining problem assets will have an immediate positive bene� t starting in the third quarter through the avoidance of potential future write downs from ongoing receipts of appraisals and reductions in the related carrying costs,” said Samuel Erwin, chief executive o� cer.

� e banks said it took a hit of $18 million in credit-related costs – up from $4.4 million in the � rst quarter – to get rid of the troubled loans, mostly commercial real estate deals that went bad in the recession and were dragging down earnings.

Palmetto said its total of nonperforming loans de-creased to 43 percent in the second quarter and are down 73 percent since a peak on March 31, 2010.

Palmetto, which has not been pro� table since the � rst quarter of 2009, said it expects to be in the black before the year is out.

Bank Sees Acquisition BenefitsSCBT Financial Corp., the holding compa-

ny of SCBT that now includes what was Peo-ples Bancorp. of Easley, reported net earnings of $8 million in the second quarter, up $1 mil-lion from the � rst quarter and $3 million from 2011.

“Driving this increase was an increase in net interest income, improved noninterest income (and) good con-trol over noninterest expense,” SCBT said.

Robert R. Hill, president and chief executive o� cer, said the Columbia-based bank began to see bene� ts in the � rst quarter from acquisitions, “but this quarter’s performance really demonstrates the overall impact of that strategy.”

SCBT, which remained pro� table throughout the credit collapse and recession, was able “to be opportu-nistic during the economic downturn, with regard to organic growth, FDIC-assisted transactions and whole bank acquisitions,” Hill said.

“We still have a great opportunity to improve further, but are o� to a strong 2012,” he said.

SCBT bought Peoples, which had eight Upstate branch-es, in a stock transaction valued at $28.4 million. In addi-tion, it bought back Peoples’ $13.4 million in TARP pre-ferred shares. � e transaction closed April 24.

SCBT booked $2 million in merger and conversion costs in the second quarter.

SCBT has total assets of $4.3 billion and is the sixth largest South Carolinas-based bank.

Park Sterling Reports ProfitPark Sterling Holding

Corp., which now owns what was CapitalBank of Greenwood, had net income of $678,000 in the second quarter, down from $1.7 million in the prior quarter.

� e Charlotte, N.C., company had a loss of $3 million in the second quarter of 2011. For the � rst six months

of 2012, Park Sterling had net income of $2.4 million compared to a net loss of $6 million a year ago.

“Park Sterling’s second quarter was marked by a re-turn to net loan growth in our metro markets, contin-ued improvement in asset quality and continued pro� t-ability,” said James C. Cherry, chief executive o� cer.

Park Sterling posted net loan growth in Greenville and Charleston and in its metro areas in North Carolina of Raleigh, Charlotte and Wilmington.

Record Earnings for Finance CompanyWorld Acceptance

Corp. said its net income rose 12.1 percent to $22.6 million and revenue increased 7.9 percent to $133 mil-lion in the � rst quarter of its � scal year compared to the same period a year ago.

“World Acceptance’s record � rst quarter results ben-e� ted from continued strong loan demand, our focus on expense control, the contribution from new o� ces in domestic markets and Mexico and our close manage-ment of credit risks,” said Sandy McLean, chief execu-tive o� cer.

To reward shareholders, World Acceptance has been aggressive in buying back shares. It spent $61.7 million in the quarter to repurchase nearly 908,000 shares and in the 2012 � scal year bought back 2.2 million shares.

World Acceptance makes small installment loans to customers who do not qualify for conventional bank loans or who prefer not to deal with banks. It has 1,145 stores in 12 states and in Mexico. It is based in Greenville.

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dividual policyholders and this week was to mail rebates to small employers of two to 50 employees.

“Small-group employers have the option of returning a portion of the rebates to their employees or reinvest-ing in the company to offset future health care costs,” the company said.

In 2011, BlueCross spent only 74.8 percent of a total of $159.5 in premium dollars from individuals “on health and activities to improve health care qual-ity,” said Jim Deyling, president, in a letter accompanying rebate checks.

The average Blue Cross rebate for individuals is $169, according to the HHS. The average rebate for small-group plans is just $6 because for that category, Blue Cross came within just a 10th of a percentage point of the 80/20 standard. It met the 85 percent standard for large-group plans.

Deyling’s letter said, “The 80/20 rule in the Affordable Care Act is intended to ensure that consumers get value for their health care dollars.”

He took a less sympathetic position in a statement issued by the company.

“We are complying with the law, but our concern remains that a rebate such as this not only creates a false impression of overpricing, but also reveals that fundamental flaw of the legislation, which is that it does noth-ing to reduce health care expense for members,” he said in the statement.

Among other top insurers in South Carolina, BlueChoice Health Plan is rebating $81 on average to individual policyholders and $160 to small-group plans. Unit-edHealthcare is returning $116 to small-group employers. It does not work in the individual market.

According to HHS, in South Caro-lina, $15.3 million is being rebated to 105,043 individual policyholders with an average rebate being $227. For small groups, the total is $4.3 million for 145,401 enrollees, for an average of $53. For large groups, the total is $54,594 for 1,188 enrollees for an av-erage of $85.

The highest average rebates are in Mississippi ($661) and Alabama ($582).

Contact Dick Hughes at [email protected].

Crusty Loaves – and Jobs – for GaffneyACE Bakery, which makes artisan breads for retail and restaurant

markets, plans to open its first U.S. bakery in Gaffney this fall, gen-erating 51 new jobs.

The company, a subsidiary of George Weston of Brownsburg, Ind., said it would invest $18.4 million in the new facility.

Ed Holik, executive vice president for operations, said Cherokee County “offered us the right mix of business-friendly environment and strong workforce that will help us be successful.”

ACE, which was founded in Toronto in 1993, says on its website that “the time is right to start baking closer to our U.S. clients.”

The Coordinating Council for Economic Development approved job develop-ment credits, “which will be available when hiring targets are met.” The credits can reduce a company’s state corporate income tax by as much as 50 percent.

The company, Gov. Nikki Haley, Commerce Secretary Bobby Hitt, a county coun-cilman, a state senator and an assemblyman made the announcement.

Michelin Spots Own Tire FlawMichelin is voluntarily recalling 841,000 BFGoodrich

and Uniroyal tires made for light trucks and heavy vans.Quality-control workers noticed an increase in reports of tread separation, and

the company “decided the voluntary recall was needed to protect the safety of driv-ers,” said Mike Wischhusen, technical director.

The separation was reported in fewer than 150 tires. No deaths or injuries have been reported, the company said.

“We caught it very early, based on a very small number of returns,” Wischhus-en said. Internal tests show the problems have apparently been corrected for tires manufactured more recently, he said.

The tires, which were manufactured from April 2010 to early this year, will be re-placed at no charge. The tires being recalled are BFGoodrich commercial LT 235/85 and LT245/75 and Uniroyal Laredo LT 235/85 and LT245/75 models.

Disaster Rehab Opens ShopA franchise of SERVPRO, a cleanup and restoration

company that specializes in water and fire damage, has opened in Greenville. James Pittman and Carl Holden are owners of the new fran-chise, SERVPRO of Northeast Greenville County.

There are two existing SERVPRO operations in Spartanburg and one in Greer.

Consulting Service ArrivesThe Alternative Board (TAB), a franchise organiza-

tion that assists business owners, has expanded to the Upstate under ownership of David Krysh, chief executive officer of Growth Factor Group.

The consulting, advisory and coaching services for business owners and C-level officers will cover Greenville, Spartanburg and Anderson counties.

TAB, which is based in Denver, has 130 locations in the United States, Canada, New Zealand and the United Kingdom.

‘No Small’ Honor for HubbellAn industry standards evaluator has recognized Hubbell Lighting’s

data transfer system for its distribution network as the best in its class.The Independent Distributors of Electronics Association (IDEA)

said Hubbell had achieved 100 percent compliance with its ability to allow distribu-tors to “instantly access product marketing content” for use on their own websites.

Hubbell received platinum level status in the IDEA’s data warehouse bands of excellent measure – “no small accomplishment,” said IDEA.

Hubbell, a major lighting fixture manufacturer, has headquarters in Greenville. The IDEA is the official standards body for the electrical industry.

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With $860,000 in seed money from state and local investors, American Titanium Works is “moving ahead” on a state-of-the-art titanium plant in Lau-rens and a research and devel-opment center in Greenville, Thomas Sax, president and chief executive officer, said Tuesday.

While the local and state investment provides “critical funding at a critical time,” he said ATW still has not complet-ed commitments for the large sum of capital needed to build the nearly $500 million plant and development center.

“To be perfectly candid, fi-nancing something this big, this state-of-the-art and indus-try-changing in this economic

climate is a challenge,” he told investors and news media at the Clemson University Inter-national Center for Automotive Research, where ATW’s R&D center would be located.

Sax said he needs commit-ments of financing on the entire amount before breaking ground. “It is a challenge we are prepared to meet, and we will.”

The Upstate Carolina An-gel Network (UCAN) and SC Launch, an affiliate of the South Carolina Research Authority, contributed equal amounts of $430,000 to “keep us alive so we can move forward,” as Sax put it.

Matt Dunbar, managing di-rector of UCAN, said investors were willing to put their money into the project because they believe ATW’s business plan is solid and that the company will secure necessary funding to complete the project.

The project was first an-nounced in November 2008, the first year of the recession,

which dried up financing and put ATW’s plans in limbo.

“Our primary message today is that we are active and we are pur-suing this project,” Sax said at the CU-ICAR presentation Tuesday. “Our project is moving ahead, and our plans have not changed at all.”

Once completed, “this will be the most competitive, most effi-cient titanium mill anywhere on the planet,” he said.

Sax said the time waiting for credit markets to improve was not wasted. “We spent an entire year reconfiguring how we are going to build this plant and developing a turnkey process for building it.”

Archer Western Contracting of Atlanta has agreed to take on the work, he said. “One contrac-tor will take the financial risk, purchase all the equipment, build the plant, condition it for operation and deliver it to us.”

Archer Western will employ 250 of its workers on the Laurens construction site and expects the job will generate another 250 jobs

“for local construction,” Sax said.Three hundred workers in

skilled jobs will be required once the mill is in operation, he said.

Nabil Elkouh, chief technol-ogy officer, said the R&D center at CU-ICAR will be responsible for developing and advancing the technology and for demon-strating new applications to ex-pand the market for titanium.

In addition to basing the re-search staff at CU-ICAR, the

company will locate a market-ing and sales team at the center as a major component of ATW’s effort to demonstrate to other industries how titanium can be used in their products.

Elkouh, who will move to Green-ville from New Hampshire to direct the tech center, said 15 researchers would be employed initially with intent to “ramp up to 50.”

In its first phase, the center would consist of 15,000 to 20,000 square feet and is planned in a modular design to accommo-date future growth.

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Spartanburg’s HUB-BUB is down to one full-time employee, is reassessing the visiting artist program and con-sidering moving from its current digs in a proactive drive to ensure the sus-tainability of the organization, board members told the Journal last week.

“We’ve got about a year’s reserve in cash for HUB-BUB in the bank right now, so we’re not hurting for money,” said Kam Neely, board treasurer for HUB-BUB and the Hub City Writer’s Project. “� e writer’s project is in even better shape.”

“Most nonpro� ts have a two- to three- month reserve,” said Rebecca Ramos, board chairwoman. “So you can see that we’re not hurting for money right now.”

But it isn’t “right now” that worries board members, the pair said. � ey want to see both the writing program and the arts program on a sustainable path. � ey also say organizations like HUB-BUB must continuously assess the e� ectiveness of their programming.

“� at’s part of the reason we decided to reassess the artist-in-residence pro-gram,” Neely said.

� e program is worth about $20,000 yearly, one of the most expensive proj-ects the group sponsors. “We feel that by reassessing artist-in-residence we might get better use of our money,” Neely said. “By bringing in artists for speci� c proj-ects, we could serve the needs of our community more e� ectively.”

A recently completed mural down-

town is a prime example, Ramos said.Visiting artist Molly Rose Freeman,

of Memphis, Tenn., came to town to paint an outside wall of the RJ Rockers Brewery downtown last month.

“� at’s the kind of project we think serves the community quite well,” Ra-mos said.

Visiting artists who come to town for a speci� c single project are far less expensive than paying and housing an artist for 11 months, she said.

Federal tax returns � led by HubCul-ture Inc., the parent organization for the Writer’s Project and HUB-BUB, show the organization on sound � nan-cial footing as recently as 2011.

Neely said the reassessment of the

HUB-BUB down to 1 full-time employeeBoard ‘reassessing’ artist-in-residence to keep nonprofit on sustainable path

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‘New Harmonies’ takes music

back to its roots

Traveling Smithsonian exhibition explores

American musical heritage

By CINDY LANDRUM | staff

America is a melting pot, and so is its music.

Opening at the Lan-drum Library this Saturday is “New Harmonies: Cel-ebrating American Roots Music,” a Smithsonian traveling exhibit featuring music that, as its name im-

plies, is native to the Unit-ed States or develops here by transforming its foreign origins into something distinctively new.

� e constant melding of di� erent cultures has made America the birth-place of more music – in-

cluding rock, rhythm and blues and jazz – than any other place on earth.

American roots music includes bluegrass, country, gospel, Appalachian folk, the blues, Cajun and Native American music.

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musicians have their roots in American roots music,” said Lee Morgan, head librarian at the Landrum Library, a branch of the Spartanburg County Public Libraries system.

� e six-week Smithsonian exhibition also features musical performances, lectures and other activities – a multi-sensory look at the American story of multicultural exchange, she said.

� e Smithsonian’s Museum on Main Street program is designed to give resi-dents of rural areas cultural experiences they may not otherwise get.

One-sixth of all Americans live in rural areas, according to U.S. Census data, and about 43 percent of American museums are located in small, rural towns. But those museums – and historical associations and libraries that are o� en the cultural centers for rural America – o� en have smaller budgets and sta� s and fewer opportunities to bring in traveling exhibitions than mu-seums in bigger towns and more urban ar-eas. � e Museum on Main Street program targets small towns with populations of be-tween 500 and 20,000 people.

Since 1991, Museum on Main has traveled to more than 900 communities in 46 states and Guam.

“New Harmonies” tells the story of fa-miliar songs, histories of instruments, the roles of religion and technology, and the continuity of musical roots from “Yankee Doodle Dandy” to the latest hip-hop CD.

� e exhibition, which includes lis-tening stations, is open during library hours through Sept. 16.

� e opening reception is scheduled for Sunday at 3:30 p.m. at the library. John Fowler, a storyteller and musician from Boiling Springs, will present a pro-gram on Appalachian stories and music. Fowler co-hosts a weekly old-time radio show on WNCW-FM.

On Aug. 11, four-time Grammy Award winner David Holt will present “Music and Stories from the Southern Moun-tains.” � e outdoor concert starts at 7 p.m. and will be held at the library. Hold is host

of public television’s “Folkways” and Pub-lic Radio International’s “Riverwalk: Clas-sic Jazz from the Landing.”

Dr. Tracey Laird, associate professor of music at Agnes Scott College, will pres-ent “Cultural Preservation: A Southern Louisiana Case Study,” a program focus-ing on Cajun and zydeco music on Aug. 12 at 3:30 p.m. at the Landrum Library.

Brush� re Stankgrass Trio will hold an outdoor concert at the Landrum Library on � ursday, Aug. 16, at 7 p.m. � eir music has been called the “quintessential modern mountain music” and is in� u-enced by hip-hop, jazz and reggae.

On Aug. 18, Miller and Rowe Con-sort will hold a concert at 7 p.m. at Jack-son Grove United Methodist Church. Miller is a classical guitarist and Rowe plays the hammer dulcimer.

On Aug. 23, � e Trophy Husbands from Tryon, N.C., will hold a concert at 7 p.m. outdoors at the Landrum Library. � e group is noted for its harmonies and

unique arrangements.A New Harmonies Street Dance will be

held Aug. 25 at 7 p.m. in downtown Lan-drum. Bruce Greene, a nationally recog-nized old-time � ddler, will be the featured artist. Musicians Doug Rostick, Danny Henderson and Robert Burns will join him.

Dr. Warren Carson, a professor of Eng-lish and assistant vice chancellor of aca-demic a� airs at the University of South Carolina Upstate, will present a short his-tory of gospel music with a small choir demonstration on Aug. 26 at 3:30 p.m. at Landrum United Methodist Church.

Songwriters and storytellers Gaye and Phil Johnson will hold an outdoor concert at the Landrum Library on Aug. 30 at 7 p.m. � e concert will be “Music in the Traditions of Southern Appalachia: Guitar, Mandolin and Dobro with Harmony Vocals.”

� e East Tennessee State University Stu-dent Pride Band will hold two concerts – one at the Landrum Library on Sept. 6 at 7 p.m. and another at the Landrum High auditorium at 8:30 a.m. on Sept. 7.

� e Southern Appalachian Chamber Singers will present “� e Music of Early America: A Focus on Folk Hymns in the Shape Note Tradition” on Sept. 8 at 4 p.m. at the Landrum United Methodist Church. Most of the singers are Mars Hill College choir alumni and music faculty.

Gingerthistle, the husband-and-wife team of Ben Seymour and Becky Cleve-land, will trace traditional folk music from the Blue Ridge Mountains back to Celtic roots in a concert on Sept. 9 at 3:30 p.m. at the library.

Jay Lichty, a North Carolinian who builds custom handmade acoustic guitars and ukuleles, will lecture and perform on Sept. 11 at 7 p.m. at the library.

� e Fire Cracker Jazz Band will wrap up the New Harmonies special events with a concert on Sept. 13 at 7 p.m. in the Landrum High auditorium.

Contact Cindy Landrum at [email protected].

artist-in-residence program came a� er several sources of funding dried up or were discontinued.

Ramos and Neely said the board has stringent ethics rules for board members, who take an active interest in the writers and artists programs.

“We take our responsibilities seriously,” she said. “I don’t think you’ll � nd the same kinds of situations developing here that you’ve seen at other Spartanburg nonpro� ts.

“For example, there’s nothing to prevent a board member from submitting a book idea at the Writer’s Project,” she said. “But before the board member could do that, they’d have to resign from the board.”

With paid sta� at historically low lev-els, HUB-BUB and Hub City are depend-ing on volunteers to � ll the gaps, Ramos and Neely said.

“We’re fortunate to have a corps of dedi-cated volunteers to � ll in,” said Ramos. “We hope to hire some new professional sta� soon to help take up some of the slack.”

If the board decides to move HUB-BUB from the historic old Nash auto dealer-ship it currently occupies, the intent will be to realize a signi� cant savings on rent.

Contact Charles Sowell at [email protected].

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“New Harmonies: Celebrating American Roots Music, ”a Smithsonian traveling exhibition, will take place Aug. 4 through Sept. 16 at Landrum Library, 111 East Asbury Drive in Landrum. The exhibition is open during regular library hours and a special events schedule can be found at www.infodepot.org/zReaders/NH.asp. The exhibition is free. For more information, call 864-457-2218

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BalletSpartanburg will host an open house on Wednesday, Aug. 8, 10 a.m.-6 p.m. at the Chapman Cultural Center, giv-ing the public the opportunity to tour the facility, meet the fac-ulty, and sign up for fall classes. In addition, there will be four free classes that day, introduc-ing would-be dancers to various styles. The free classes include two-year old Toddler Demo Class, Ballet Class for 6-9 year-olds, Hip-Hop Class for 9-12 year-olds, and a Lyrical Class for 7-11 year-olds. For more information or to register for the free classes (registration is limited), please contact Lona Gomez at [email protected] or 864-591-5594.

As part of its regular Music Sandwiched In series, the Music Foundation of Spartanburg presents Tom Fisch, who will play the acoustic guitar and sing folk and country music at this free lunchtime concert at the Spartanburg County Library Headquar-ters on Wednesday, Aug. 8. The program will begin at 12:15 p.m. and guests can bring their lunch or buy one there. For more in-formation, call 864-542-ARTS or visit www.spartanburgphilhar-monic.org.

On Friday, Aug. 10, the Spartanburg County Historical Association will present

a family-friendly campfire at Walnut Grove Plantation. Eric Williams, re-enactor and former chief ranger at Ninety Six National Historic Site, will portray a doctor from the late 1700s with a special emphasis on battlefield medicine and surgery. His presentation will include the chance to see authentic medical instruments of the time period. Gates open at 7:30 p.m. for tours and leisure time; campfire starts at 8:30. Visitors should bring lawn chairs, blankets, and bug spray – and be ready to enjoy s’mores. For more information, call 864-542-ARTS or visit www.spartan-burghistory.org.

On the third Thursday of each month, the art galleries in Spartanburg stay open late so patrons can see what’s new. On Thursday, Aug. 16, 5-9 p.m. visitors can also stop by the Chapman Cultural Center to visit the Spartanburg Art Museum, the Artists Guild of Spartanburg Gallery, and the Student Galleries: all free. In addition, there will be a free, public reception for Guild member Ashley Holt that evening. For more information, call 864-542-ARTS or visit www.chapmancultur-alcenter.org.

Emrys Journal, a literary magazine published in Greenville since 1984, began ac-cepting submissions for its 30th edition on Aug. 1. Writers are invited to submit fic-tion, poetry, and creative nonfiction online through Nov. 1. New this year: the journal is now accepting online submissions of black-and-white art or photography from art-ists who are residents of Greenville or Spartanburg counties. There is also a special category for emerging writers, whose work has been published in two or fewer print publications. For more information, visit www.emrys.org or the submission website, http://emrysjournal.submittable.com.Fisch

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Students participating in Shared Worlds, a science fi ction/fantasy team-writing

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Shared Worlds. During the fi rst week of Shared Worlds, the students build science-fi ction or fantasy worlds in groups. In the second week, the students fi ne-tune their worlds and write stories set within those

worlds, receiving professional feedback from award-winning authors.

Rising eighth- through 12th-graders participating in Shared Worlds, a science fi ction/fantasy team-writing summer camp at Wofford College, look over books during a visit to the Hub City Bookstore. Shared Worlds uses an innovative approach to writing fi ction and realizing full creative potential, all in a safe and structured environment.

Students participating in Shared Worlds, a science fi ction/fantasy team-writing summer camp at Wofford College, pose for a group photo at the college. Shared Worlds began in 2008 and has grown to have students enrolled from Japan, Canada, Germany, France and Indonesia.

Shared World campers applaud an author at the

end of a reading.

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60 & Beyondwith peggy henderson

There are two ways to digest a bucket list. There’s the movie version that throws reality out the cockpit of one of Jack Nicholson’s chartered jets as he and Morgan Freeman fly all over the world full of cancer and an-ticipation of checking off their wish list before they “kick the bucket.” Two wasted elderly gentleman from disparate backgrounds defy hospital orders; one leaves a loyal spouse, the other owns a history of a wealthy but loveless life. Together they join hands and hearts and pursue their list of dreams.

The feel-good finale ends like a rainbow after a thunderstorm. They died doing what they set out to ac-complish.

The other version is the amazing influence the message left with mov-iegoers of all ages. The news media, books, talk shows and bloggers jos-tled for position to sell their redun-dant bucket list mantra with such titles as “1,000 Things to Do Before You Die.”

I ask: How special can that many “things” be to spend valuable time marking them off a list? To me, a real bucket list holds special, awesome, scary, educational, spiritual, life-changing experiences that are not classified with the ordinary.

Another list that would be a dis-appointment to discover is anything that has to do with the words “must-do.” An exemplary list should em-brace extraordinary happenings, like learning to ride a trail horse, or wa-ter-ski. Chess, anyone? I hate to think how many hours a day we spend just to keep afloat, just to stay ahead of the game.

I’m a keen fan of making plans for the future and I’m a huge believer in planning one year at a time. And ob-viously, the older we get, the shorter the life span we have to negotiate our treasure list. I think we can agree that there’s a huge difference between mak-ing a wistful, maybe-someday bucket list and being informed you have one year or less to live.

Advice? Go home and make your

arrangements. Or, this is the time to make a desperation wish list. That proposed bucket list might read up-beat, perky or fanciful, but I person-ally couldn’t pull it off. I don’t perform bittersweet performances well.

I’m thinking that the ideal passage of time for adults to make a wish list is as soon as those lovely darlings (one’s children) decamp the fort. Twenty years of planned physical challenges, new avocations, spiritual awakenings and longed-for travel are yours for the taking. Let your aspirations be known to your offspring. Tell them you will be very busy working on your bucket list. They should adjust to the idea of their parents spreading their wings, too.

As for those of us that are 60 & Be-yond, the facts of living longer, if we do the right things and are lucky to have inherited some jazzy genes, are that we have much to look forward to and do. The one and only thing that can hamper our daily and fu-ture plans is our health. If we have mind and body, we are unquestion-ably blessed. If bad things happen, a different path is taken that requires grace under fire, courage and faith.

I don’t have a list, nor will I make one. My gut feeling is I don’t want or need a list to look back at me and hound me that I have yet to com-plete an item. Plus, the fact is I have no burning desire to jump out of an airplane or visit the plains of Africa. All the little pleasantries of life please me. The icing on the cake is that I have this time, each day, to love it back with gratitude.

Peggy Henderson is a 60 & Be-yond former freelance writer turned

newspaper columnist. Besides appearing in the Spartanburg and Greenville Journals,

her column is syn-dicated with Senior

Wire News Services. In addition, she’s a staff writer for the website www.Go60.us. Contact her at

[email protected]

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