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‘Attitude is contagious’3-day professional development conference focuses on teachers

bout 500 attendees have descended upon Lakewood High School and down-

town Sumter this week for Sumter School District’s first-ever professional de-velopment conference.

That total consists of about 420 district teachers and ad-ministrators for whom the con-ference was designed, numer-ous outside presenters who came to share their wisdom and some selected guests from neighboring school districts.

On Wednesday morning and afternoon, professional devel-opment sessions for teachers and staff were held at Lake-wood before a downtown block party was hosted for them Wednesday night at La Piazza and on Main Street.

Wednesday’s sessions cov-ered myriad topics — from teacher leadership to personal attitude and classroom tech-nology and about everything else in between — according to attendees.

A total of 86 presenters — some internal to the district and many from the outside — are leading the various devel-opment sessions at the three-day event, which concludes today.

The kickoff for Wednesday’s activities for all attendees was a presentation in the high school’s fine arts center from keynote speaker Sam Glenn, an author, motivational speaker

BY BRUCE MILLSbruce@theitem.com

PHOTOS BY MICAH GREEN / THE SUMTER ITEM

Keynote speaker Sam Glenn is seen during one of his sessions on Wednesday. Glenn is an author, motivational speaker and artist and spoke to Sumter teachers about their atti-tudes and working together.

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Teachers encourage each other during Elma Strong’s session on using green screens in the classroom. See more photos from the event on page A3.

Teachers in Sumter are spending three days at var-ious workshops during their professional develop-ment conference at Lake-wood High School.

Sumter sees low primary turnoutOfficials say no problems with machines, lines

Most of the primary races that were on ballots in Sum-ter, Clarendon and Lee coun-ties on Tuesday were decided until November, though two statewide nominations will be re-voted on in two weeks.

Sumter election results will be certified at a public meet-ing on the second floor of the old courthouse at 10 a.m., ac-cording to Pat Jefferson, di-rector of Sumter County Voter Registration and Elec-tions. All local boards must certify their results by 10 a.m.

to send to the state to certify all results.

“We have five provisional ballots that will be presented at the hearing,” Jefferson said.

She said the 17.1 percent

turnout was “a little lower” than normal for a primary election in Sumter but that she understands why people

MICAH GREEN / THE SUMTER ITEMOressie McFadden and Gretchen Munroe check out one of the voting machines at the Burns Down voting precinct on Tuesday.

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McMaster, Warren to have runoff debate

COLUMBIA — South Car-olina’s gubernatorial field is nearly set, with one debate remaining before voters de-cide if Gov. Henry McMas-ter or Greenville business-man John Warren will be the Republican nominee in November.

The Post and Courier of Charleston is again partner-ing with South Carolina Ed-ucational Television and the state Republican Party for a debate, set for June 20 at Newberry Opera House.

McMaster was the top vote getter in the Tuesday GOP primary but failed to get the majority needed to avoid a runoff. He secured 42 percent of votes cast, while Warren won about 28 percent.

Entering the race in Feb-ruary as a virtual political unknown, Warren’s popu-larity surged in recent weeks, as he knocked Cath-erine Templeton out of the No. 2 Republican slot. In the race for more than a year, the former public health

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Motown tribute, face-off comes to Sumter

The Kings & Queen of Mo-town will bring their tribute show to Patriot Hall on Satur-day night with 90 non-stop min-utes featuring the best of Mo-town. The 7:30 p.m. perfor-

mance of more than 50 years of rhythm and blues will pay tribute to such groups and individuals as The Temptations, The Whispers, The Ojays, The Stylis-

tics, The Delfonics, Aretha Franklin, Patti Labelle, Chaka Khan, Smokey Robinson, Sam Cooke, Marvin Gaye and many other legends of the Motown era.

The show presented by the Big DM radio station and Victo-ry Promotions will also feature The Sandhill Soul Crooners and Making a Difference in a com-petition, said Chris Fairley of Victory One.

“The two groups will alternate songs,” each trying to out per-form the other “as The Whis-pers versus The Temptations,”

Fairley said. He added that their tributes will also be choreo-graphed as the two R&B groups were, with their signature moves.

The Temptations scored nu-merous hits, including “My Girl,” “Just My Imagination,” “I’m Losing You,” “Since I Lost My Baby” and more.

Fairley said The Whispers are not as well known to many people, “but they had a lot of hits and were very popular.” Among their hits are “Rock Steady,” “It’s a Love Thing” and “Just Gets Better with Time.”

The Sandhill Soul Crooners are a group of five U.S. Army veterans, many of whom played in service bands. Fair-ley said the Crooners are well known for their Temptations tribute, while Making a Differ-ence will challenge them with their interpretations of Whis-pers tunes.

“Queen of Motown” Mia Thompson will pay tribute to the popular female R&B vocal-ists.

“All of the groups will be backed by a full band,” Fairley said, adding that “this will be a very theatrical performance

with special lighting.”He said actor and blues gui-

tarist Jamell Richardson will close the show. Richardson played Jimmy Nolan in the James Brown biopic “Get on Up.”

“The show is suitable for all ages,” Fairley said. “It’s going to be a lot of fun.”

While there is no intermis-sion, the show will pause brief-ly for an award presentation to Sumter native O’Neal Compton, whose extensive film and TV credits include “Primary Col-ors,” “Deep Impact,” “Nixon” and “Diabolique.” He is also an award-winning writer, art pho-tographer, producer and direc-tor.

Fairley said there will be an after-party open to the public at the S&B Lounge, 1090B Broad St. in Sumter.

Tickets to the 7:30 p.m. show Kings & Queen of Motown are $15 general admission and can be purchased at the S&B Lounge, Patriot Hall at 135 Haynsworth St., Al’s Music Hut at 624 Manning Ave. or online at victoryonepromotions.com. Call (803) 436-2260 (Patriot Hall) to charge by phone.

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PHOTOS PROVIDEDSandhill Soul Crooners will pay tribute to several R&B groups in Saturday’s Kings & Queen of Motown Tribute Tour at Patriot Hall on Saturday.

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Council OKs county budget without mill increase

Sumter County Council ap-proved third and final reading of its balanced budget, with both operating expenditures and revenues totaling $52,752,483, on Tuesday, three weeks before the budget goes into effect on July 1.

This is the first time in quite a while that county staff presented council with a bal-anced budget before first reading of the budget ordi-nance, County Council Chair-man Jim McCain said, and this is the second year in a row that council has given three readings of the budget without a millage increase, he said.

“We’re very proud of that,” he said.

McCain also gave credit to

the county department heads who he said reduced their re-spective budgets and nar-rowed down the necessary items for their operations.

The 2018-19 budget includes a 3 percent cost of living in-crease for employees, a sched-uled increase for employer share of retirement as well as an increase in group health insurance, County Adminis-trator Gary Mixon said.

The budget ordinance states the county currently has 682 employees.

Mixon said the ordinance also includes an amendment to the Sumter County Person-nel Handbook, which states employees are not to bring their children to work at any given time or day, and depart-ment managers are not autho-rized to allow employees to bring children to work.

A request to appropriate $1.5 million of the county’s re-serve funds for one-time capi-tal spending is also included in the ordinance, he said.

Approximately $700,000 of those funds will be used to convert the former Sumter Fire Department headquar-ters on Hampton Avenue into the new EMS building; $300,000 will be used to demol-ish the old jail behind the Sumter County Sheriff’s Of-fice building on North Main Street; and $500,000 will be used to construct a parking lot in place of the old jail.

BOND APPROVED TO PURCHASE NEW COUNTY VEHICLES

Council also approved final reading of an ordinance au-thorizing a $2.5 million gener-al obligation bond to fund

multiple purchases and proj-ects to include: renovations to the air-conditioning system at Patriot Hall; renovations to the Sumter-Lee Regional De-tention Center roof; vehicles for Sumter County Sheriff’s Office, Sumter Fire Depart-ment, Sumter County Public Works and Sumter County Recreation Department; and video storage for the sheriff’s office, according to Mixon.

BD TO EXPAND FACILITYAlong with approving a fee

in lieu of tax and incentive agreement with Becton, Dick-inson and Co. in exchange for the company investing $150 million in its Sumter facility, county council also voted to amend the Sumter-Lee Indus-trial Park master agreement to include 15 acres of property owned and operated by BD.

“I want to thank BD for con-tinuing to grow here in Sum-ter, bringing additional oppor-tunity and jobs to the commu-nity,” McCain said. “You’ve been a long-standing force here in Sumter as far as creat-ing jobs.”

In other news, county coun-cil approved proclamations naming June 15 Elder Abuse Awareness Day and June 16 Double Dutch Day in Sumter County and approved first reading, in title only, of the revised Sumter-Lee Regional Detention Center contract.

Councilwoman Vivian Fleming-McGhaney did not vote on the detention center contract issue because her husband is an employee at the jail. Details about the revised detention center contract will be provided during council’s next meeting.

BY ADRIENNE SARVISadrienne@theitem.com

Sheriff ’s advisory board tours jailBY ADRIENNE SARVISadrienne@theitem.com

The Sumter County Sheriff’s Office Community Re-lations Citizens’ Advisory Board took a tour of Sum-ter-Lee Regional Detention Center on Monday to un-derstand how the facility operates during its make-up meeting.

Capt. Ron Gaillard led the board members on a tour of the jail so they could see the courtroom where first appearance hearings are held, the housing pods where the inmates are detained, inmate recreation areas and the classroom where GED and WorkKeys instructions are held.

Since Sheriff Anthony Dennis assumed control of the jail in September, with the approval of Sumter County Council, the detention center has undergone multiple renovations and upgrades and now offers more opportunities for inmates to gain a trade.

The renovations have increased morale among the correctional officers, Dennis said.

As for the educational and trade classes, Dennis said many inmates have taken advantage of the learn-ing opportunities such as the carpentry class, which could financially benefit inmates who are behind on child support payments.

The class allows inmates to make payments on child support when the items they make, most recent-ly picnic benches, are sold on a secure government website.

The first set of benches were sold to the county rec-reation department, Dennis said.

Gaillard said the inmates are further encouraged to be productive and cooperative by offering rewards for having the cleanest housing pods during inspections on Fridays.

Inmates in the cleanest and most organized pod get to stay up a few hours later and could receive an extra meal for that Friday night, he said.

The inmates have to work together to get that prize, and that teamwork makes a difference, he said.

Dennis also talked about two community outreach ideas: one that will hopefully bring in new officers and another to strengthen the agency’s relationship with the public.

The sheriff is putting together a recruitment video for the sheriff’s office and detention center and plans to have the video played during commercial breaks on TV.

“Any place we can show our face and show the uni-form,” Dennis said.

He said some people do not realize the sheriff’s of-fice has an aviation unit, dive team and a K-9 unit.

The other outreach plan involves sheriff’s office staff giving out ice cream to children in different areas of the county.

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In S.C., ardent Trump backer defeats Rep. Sanford

COLUMBIA — President Donald Trump is crediting his Election Day tweet in part for the defeat of a South Carolina Republican congressman who has been critical of his adminis-tration.

Trump tweeted Wednesday that his advisers didn’t want him to get in-volved in the Republican primary, thinking Rep. Mark Sanford “would easily win.”

But Trump says Rep. Katie Ar-rington “was such a good candidate, and Sanford was so bad, I had to give it a shot.”

Arrington narrowly defeated San-ford after Trump tweeted that Sanford had been unhelpful, adding, “He is better off in Argentina.”

That was a reference to Sanford’s surprise disappearance from the state as governor, which he later revealed was to further his affair with an Ar-gentine woman.

Sanford’s loss was perhaps the most dramatic result in primaries across five states Tuesday.

He becomes the second incumbent House Republican to lose a primary this year — the latest victim of intense divisions among the GOP in the

Trump era.Sanford’s voting record is generally

conservative, but his criticism of

Trump as unworthy and culturally in-tolerant made him a target of dedicat-ed Trump supporters who often ele-

vate loyalty over policy.Arrington blasted Sanford as a

“Never Trumper,” and Trump tweeted a startlingly personal attack hours be-fore polls closed, calling Sanford “MIA and nothing but trouble ... he’s better off in Argentina.”

Even for a political figure with no shortage of confidence in challenging party decision-making, the attack was a bold case of going after a sitting member of Congress. It’s almost cer-tain to make other Republicans even more reluctant to take him on, even as Trump stirs divisions on trade, foreign policy and the Russia investigation.

Sanford said Tuesday night that “I stand by every one of those decisions to disagree with the president.”

Sanford had never lost a political race in South Carolina, and his defeat Tuesday came amid a roller-coaster political career. Despite the scandal about the affair, he completed his sec-ond term as governor, and voters sent him to Congress two years later.

In her victory speech, Arrington asked Republicans to come together, saying “We are the party of President Donald J. Trump.”

Four other states voted Tuesday, in-cluding several races that will be key to determining which party controls the House of Representatives next year.

BY THOMAS BEAUMONT and CHRISTINA L. MYERSThe Associated Press

THE ASSOCIATED PRESSU.S. Rep. Mark Sanford hugs his sons after addressing his supporters at Liberty Tap Room in Mount Pleasant on Tuesday. Sanford lost his first election ever Tuesday, beaten for the Republican nomination for another term in the coastal 1st District around Charleston by state Rep. Katie Arrington.

and abstract artist. Glenn does about 100 speaking engage-ments across the U.S. a year on attitude, he said.

Later in the day, Glenn also held one-hour breakout ses-sions titled “A Kick in the Atti-tude.”

Glenn emphasized a person or school district must work to get better every single day, that “attitude is contagious,” and to look at changes and challenges as opportunities to grow.

Using a piece of his own ab-stract artwork, Glenn shared that so many people “are fo-cused on the mess” and chal-lenges they face daily that they don’t find their heart (a small heart-shaped figure drawn into the tapestry) through some form of gratitude and can’t see the beautiful abstract that can be created in the full picture.

“I call it finding the heart in your mess,” Glenn said. “The heart is what you are grateful for. The heart is that thing that you hold onto that gives you hope, inspiration, courage and resilience to keep going. You must keep growing and choose an attitude that works for you and others you associate with.”

Several attendees found Glenn’s session and the others to be helpful.

Pocalla Springs Elementary School Assistant Principal Candy Richburg said she was pleased with the conference and various presenters.

“There is so much positive energy here this week,” Rich-burg said. “The variety of workshops is great, and there’s something for everyone to re-charge your battery.”

Besides Glenn’s attitude ses-sion, Richburg said she attend-ed a new educational program session called AVID 101, a vo-cabulary workshop and a hands-on technology work-shop.

Interim Superintendent Deb-bie Hamm, part of the steering committee for the conference, said she previously helped put on professional development conferences while serving in Richland District 2 in Colum-bia but that nothing was on the level of this event.

She said she thinks this week’s conference ranks as good as a national-level event given the variety of subjects tackled, quality of keynote speakers and the community support that was provided to help put it on.

She noted that Wednesday night’s block party for Sumter educators was fully funded by private-sector businesses and industries in Sumter.

“The business community has shown they are invested in our teachers, and that shows it means a lot to be a teacher here,” Hamm said. “That makes Sumter an attractive place for teachers.”

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PHOTOS BY MICAH GREEN / THE SUMTER ITEMMarlissa Morton goes over information with Beverly Bearor during Wednesday’s sessions.

Teachers were able to participate in workshops on many topics dur-ing the conference, which ends today.

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CENTRAL CAROLINA TECHNICAL COLLEGE

Central Carolina Technical College President Dr. Michael Mikota has announced the spring 2018 student honors lists. This term, 406 students have been honored. The Presi-dent’s List recognizes students who were enrolled in at least 12 semester credit hours and achieved a 4.0 grade-point av-erage for the term. The Part-Time President’s List recogniz-es students who were enrolled in six to 11 credit hours and achieved a 4.0 grade-point av-erage for the term.

Central Carolina Technical College’s Dean’s List recogniz-es students who were enrolled in at least 12 semester credit hours and achieved at least a 3.5 grade-point average for the term. This term, 373 students have been honored. The Part-Time Dean’s List recognizes students who were enrolled in six to 11 credit hours and achieved at least a 3.5 grade-point average for the term.

Full-Time President’s List• Clarendon County — Grace-

lyn D. Coker, Kinsley R. Driggers, Rebeca Fleitas, Kacey L. Floyd, Maysey R. Floyd, Gavin C. Gib-bons, Damien L. Gist, Grace M. Joyner, Corey J. McElveen, Har-moni J. Parker, Sarah A. Tobias, Heather L. Varn, Thomas A. Wal-lace, Derek D. White and Danielle A. Young;

• Lee County — David A. Botzer, Destiny N. Johnson, Noah M. Kudra, Ashley D. Martin, Kelli N. McElveen, Laci M. McElveen, Edward G. Rat;

• Sumter County — Daniel O. Barwick, Cheyenne A. Bradley, Jeannine S. Brooks, Brandon J. Burgess, William E. Cardinal Jr., Tonyea L. Daley, Isabelle M. Dil-lard, Kari L. Estimable, Shanine T. Fullard, Daniel T. Gibson, Kristen N. Godwin, Sarah C. Green, Kalya T. Hamilton, Abby R. Hinson, Dar-rell K. Hodges, Marion H. Hood, Austin T. Hopkins, Austin L. Jack-son, Janasia M. Jackson, Hassan Jeng, Rachel A. Knauer, Donette L. Kuperus, Jose E. Martinez-Cas-tillo, Shelly L. Matlock, Aiyande D. McGill, Owen A. Minello, Darla J. Moore, Brittney K. Morant, Jamie L. Nahooikaika, Kristen E. Nygaard, Richard D. Phillips, Clay-ton W. Possert, Nathanael Ray, Robert K. Robinson, Alexandria M. Ross, Joseph D. Safford, Nyaaisjah T. Samuel, Marion Schneider, Gregory J. Sewell, Ben-jamin T. Shrewsbury, Cameron P. Sims, Ja’Niya T. Singleton, David R. Smith, Joseph M. Sullivan, David W. Summers, Ashley M. Till, Kyra C. Van Anda, Yadira Viera, Rachael M. Wallace, Hannah E. White, Lizbeth L. Wills, LeChone Wilson and Brandon A. Yeager

Part-Time President’s List• Clarendon County — Sum-

mer G. Barrett, Collyn C. Bates, Mary E. Beard, Domenique Blan-ding, Kimberly Bonner, Jeffrey

Bowman, Devin D. Brown, Jor-dan D. Brown, Sherrie B. Bryant, Paul J. Christensen, Kiren L. Din-gle, Thomas L. Epley, Anajah L. Gamble, James D. Gobeyn, John G. Hetcel, Elizabeth K. Hicks, Marion S. Johnson, Brice A. Laney, Robin M. Lang, Elizabeth D. McInnis, Morgan E. Morris, Connor Mouzon, Carmen C. Mul-lins, Jacob S. Owens, Melissa Pendergrass, Cheyenne M. Rose, Sarah R. Russell, Madison G. Sex-ton, Rachael L. South and Peggy S. Tobolic-Colburn;

• Lee County — Jenna L. Cot-tingham, Mary E. Gaskins, Payton E. Houser, Clara A. Kelley, Caroline L. McCutchen, Mary K. Mozingo, Ty’Keila M. Scarborough, Joel L. Seymour and Alexandra D. White;

• Sumter County — Leslie M. Abraham, Nesreen T. Almosadder, Briana L. Ard, Maya K. Arias, Brittney L. Atkinson, Kelsea E. Baker, Amber M. Barkley, Frances-ca Batchelor, Matthew J. Beben, Rolanda M. Bennett, Alexis L. Be-rens, Robert O. Blakley, Felecia B. Boone, Niyyah Z. Brooks, Dalton H. Browder, Jacob A. Brown, Noah T. Brown, Cassidy C. Brunson, Jeanna Anne Burrows, Hailey M. Carroll, Tyron O. Champagne, Ali-yah N. Charlot, Allen V. Childers, Kaylee E. Clark, Steven Coleman, Jessica R. Cook, Zeniya Cooley, Emily A. Courson, Allison N. Crain, Isabella M. Crowe, Erin K. Currier, Alexis M. Davin, Contessa D. Davis, Tatianna A. Davis, Riley K. DeLavan, Brooke E. Delbocca, Candace M. Dial, Rebecca M. Din-kins, Anna M. DuBose, Amber D. Durham, Broadus R. Eddings Jr., Corey N. Elam, Jana M. Faircloth, Loucinda C. Favor, Tierra K. Fergu-son, Brandi L. Flowers, Kiera TaTy-ana R. Frink, Zachary Fugate, Kristain P. Gainey, Heather G. Gamble, Lakeia M. Garner, Jessica D. Gary, Linda Gayle, Gary L. Ged-dings, Kaleigh A. Geddings, ShaC-arolyn B. Goines, Sydney J. Gonza-les, Hailey J. Gosnell, Aliyah S. Grady, Talia T. Grant, Deliasha S. Green, Brittany M. Griswold, Katie D. Hamilton, Makaila D. Harrell, Tawania M. Harvin, Sophia M. Haughton, Susan C. Hillsman, James W. Holladay, Destiny R. Hol-land, Emily S. Irvin, Emily F. Jack-son, James F. Jackson, Olivia D. Jans, Jeremy A. Johnson, Kather-ine A. Johnson, Laura H. Johnson, Makayla D. Johnson, Micah A. Johnson, Patrick B. Johnson, Sara E. Johnson, Avery Jones, Alexis A. Kilpatrick, Julee A. Leger, Brandy A. Lemmon, Marissa L. Lentz, Blaire E. Lewis, Daniquia M. Lewis, Allie M. Lindler, Hannah G. Lind-sey, Kenzie A. MacQueen, Ryan J. Magee, Robin S. Majority, J’maiya D. Malone, Michelle R. Mason, Janiece U. Matthews, Terry D. Mayfield, Tonjasia A. Mayrant-Prayleau, Jeffrey L. McClendon, Marley R. McCormick, Jade H. McCoy, Emily G. McDonald, Han-nah L. McElroy, Keonna L. McElveen, Emily L. McWilliams, Charles Medlin, Witnea S. Merrell,

McKenzie R. Michelson, Madison L. Moore, Krystal L. Morris, Joseph C. Mota, Tyler Moye, Ashley N. Nelson, Nakia M. New-Graham, Joshua M. O’Connor, Brittany E. Olson-Walker, Mylie W. Pannell, Michael D. Parker, Christopher T. Parrish, Chelsea M. Pastore, Megan B. Power, Chantell S. Ray, Savannah Ray, Martha J. Reed, Pa-trece J. Rhodes, Danielle B. Rice, Rebecca K. Richardson, Sarah E. Richardson, Sylvia A. Richardson, Angela D. Robinson, Jordan G. Rock, Lizandra A. Rodriguez, Eric L. Romines, Victoria P. Rumbold, Jack R. Saxon, Nathan R. Schrader, Arielle R. Scott, Carmen M. Silves-ter, Emily G. Simmons, Kelly Sims, Starla L. Singleton-Hannibal, Kayla A. Small, Andrew Smith, Khadary T. Stephens, Jonathan M. Stewart, John A. Sturgeon, Gareth J. Suggs, Chessie M. Teal, Carson Teves, Trevor T. Tidwell, Kaitlyn G. Truesdale, Warren T. Turner, Re-becca L. Vipperman, Ruth J. Wack-ford, Nazhaui A. Wactor, Patricia J. Warren, Ellie G. White, LeAnna M. Williams, James E. Wilson, Jenni-fer K. Wolfe, Delois S. Woodward, Laneyshia A. Wooten and Regis S. Wynn.

Full-Time Dean’s List• Clarendon County — Anna

K. Bench, Brittani N. Bensous-san, Courtney A. Burgess, Ange-la M. Coker, Zachary L. Davis, Robert A. Duke, Jasmine N. Gai-ter, Mason Ham, Jessica W. Helms, Bryant T. Lawson, Paizley A. Lesaine, April C. Lukomski, Collin R. McKenzie, Keenan D. Miller, Richard A. Nelson, Jason L. Prince, Marissa L. Puckett, Rammie M. Saldivar, Heidi M. Salinas and Sara N. Thompson;

• Lee County — Shakira T. Brailsford, Patrick J. Bugger, Ke’osha Evins, Brianna Giddings, Zachary Gooding, Shakira K. Lewis, Ja’Curas J. McCloud, Shakaila J. Pollard, Keishan M. Scott, Janayla T. Smith and Emani K. Young Fortune;

• Sumter County — Michael T. Babirad, Kaylee J. Baker, Han-nah M. Baker, Joshua C. Barnett, Amber E. Beaty, Brittany A. Bick-ford, Larry D. Bledsoe, Sarah L. Browder, Hannah Carino, Mark H. Carnes, Nykiria L. Chatman, Wil-liam C. Clemmons, Keonte Cly-burn, Tashae S. Cobia, Tisha M. Daniels, Jessica A. Davis, Tyjujuan I. Dismukes, Nicholas Dolen, Lin-coln X. Dougan, David I. Drum-mond, Samuel G. Dubose, Kelsey M. Durant, Shaquita M. Epps, Ty’Quaja L. Green, Andrea J. Hop-wood, Daniel P. Johnson, Haile E. Josey, Whitney A. Keyes, Jordan E. Kipp, Kendra L. Lau, Ali A. Leviner, Niya Loveless, O’Neil J. Mack, Austin R. Martinez, Mella-ny C. McMichael, Christine Y. Mor-ris, Taylor L. Odom, Anastasia A. Parker, Kristen S. Pierson, Jayden L. Price, Jayson M. Price, Derrick B. Raybon, Kenneth W. Reynolds, Joseph R. Roveri, Jordan C. Scrug-gs, Cynthia T. Sims, Krysten A.

Skinner, Elijah A. Smith, Megan D. Smith, Kenneth W. Stewart, Cha-nel Stokes, Darian Stokes, Chris-tian A. Strange, Jason T. Watkins, Jay G. Wessendorf and Stephanie C. White.

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E. Andersen, Shera D. Bozier, Graham D. Cooley, Renee I. Eli-dieu, Ashley L. Estus, Bianca A. Flores, Christopher P. Gibbons, Hannah F. Gleason, Janet V. Goff, Shannon T.L. Hall, Skyler G. Hodge, Leigh A. Huggins, Kayla V. Jones, Joshua C. Jordan, Jose-fina Leon, Macy A. Lucas, Madi-son A. Morehouse, Jakob D. Nab-holz, Sara K. Nalley, Aubrey E. Pack, Angela M. Pringle, Jacob A. Richburg, Sara L. Rogan, Julia J. Taylor and Hunter D. White;

• Lee County — Abbigail M. Arledge, Santana F. Christmas, Rebecca L. Feeney, Kaitlyn A. Hancock, Virginia McGuirt, Carti-er Z. Scarborough, Madison E. Sims, Megan D. Stephens, Breon T. Stephens, Alexcis L. Wesley and Felicia N. Williams; and

• Sumter County — Rebekah R. Aller, LaDonna D. Alston, Sha-ron Anderson, Tia C. Anderson, Anitra M. Anderson, Hunter R. Ar-rants, Samuel C. Atkinson, Cami L. Atkinson, Joshua M. Avins, Ashley G. Baker, Brittany Basham, Ke’Aundra A. Benjamin, Maggie E. Bennett, Elizabeth B. Bowman, Tonya R. Bozeman, Karin M. Bran-non, Matthew S. Brayboy, Porsha D. Brigman, Annita K. Brown, Han-nah M. Brown, Jasmine J. Brunson, Sarah K. Burke, Dazjuan S. Butler, Barbara L. Carpenter, Aashad H. Carter, Clarissa T. Chestnut, Kayla N. Christmas, Ashley Clark, Garrett P. Coleman, Tyrell D. Commander, Shannon A. Consentino, Anita A. Cookey-Gam, Jordan A. Cortes, Tonika C. Covington, David L. Crotts, Sydney R. Daniel, Tyra Davis, Aaron M. Davis, Stephanie R. Deverna, Margaret A. Dicker-son, Wayne A. Dicks, Tiffany N. Driggers, Christopher A. Enge-man, Jaden K. English, Taona N. Ervin, Tiara R. Farmer, Chasmin C. Fernandez, Wyatt H. Fleming, Hannah K. Floyd, Walter L. Foster, Chelsea L. Gamble, Kayla R. Garib-ay, Jackson D. Gaulke, Lacey A. Gibbons, Angela T. Gipson, Mat-thew T. Gizzi, Allie E. Goff, Sherry A. Graves, Faith D. Green, Tyron D. Greene, DeMondre R. Greene, Brandon D. Griffin, Amanda L. Hackler, Rachell E. Harglerode, Trinity R. Harrington, Krysten N. Hassler, Zaralyn L. Hernandez, Kendal L. High, Melanie J. Hill, Ja’Rea K. Holmes, Sara L. Hudson, Steven K. Hurley, McKayla L. Huth, Pamela Z. Ishman, Susan Jackson, Indyia M. Jackson, JA’Breyah C. James, Dominique A. Johnson, Elizabeth C. Johnson, Nyckolas L. Johnson, Sheila N. Johnson, Ethel Y. Johnson, Garrett P. Jordan, Jas-mine P. Josey, Dylan M. Kolb, Katie M. Lilley, Faith S. Litchfield,

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The South Carolina State Fair has named its Ride of Your Life Scholarship recipi-ents for 2018. The fair annual-ly awards 50 scholarships to South Carolina high school students planning to pursue their studies at any public or private college, university or technical college in the state. The $6,000 scholarships are awarded at an annual rate of $1,500 and are based on aca-demic and extracurricular achievement, communication skills, need and completeness of the application.

“Educating the state’s youth remains a priority of the fair, and we are passionate about this mission,” State Fair man-ager Nancy Smith said.

Scholarship recipients must maintain a 3.0 GPA on a 4.0 scale and enroll in at least 30 credit hours each academic year to receive funding for that year. The following local stu-dents were named scholarship recipients: Everett Dinkins of Sumter High School; Tristan Furrow of Thomas Sumter Academy; and Horton Gibson of Manning High School.

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‘No longer a nuclear threat’ from North Korea, Trump says

WASHINGTON — President Donald Trump declared on Wednesday there was “no longer a Nuclear Threat from North Korea,” a dubious claim follow-ing his summit with leader Kim Jong Un that produced no guarantees on how or when Pyongyang would disarm.

Tempering Trump’s very upbeat as-sessment, his top diplomat, Mike Pom-peo, cautioned that the U.S. would re-sume “war games” with close ally South Korea if the North stops negoti-ating in good faith. The president had announced a halt in the drills after his meeting with Kim on Tuesday.

The summit in Singapore, which marked a major reduction in tensions,

yielded a joint statement that con-tained a promise to work toward a de-nuclearized Korean Peninsula, but it lacked details. That didn’t stop the president from talking up the outcome of what was the first meeting between a U.S. and North Korean leader in six decades of hostility. The Korean War ended in 1953 without a peace treaty, leaving the two sides in a technical state of war.

“Just landed — a long trip, but ev-erybody can now feel much safer than the day I took office,” Trump tweeted early Wednesday. “There is no longer a Nuclear Threat from North Korea. Meeting with Kim Jong Un was an in-teresting and very positive experience. North Korea has great potential for the future!”

Pompeo, who flew to Seoul to brief

South Korean leaders on the summit, said the U.S. wants North Korea to take “major” nuclear disarmament steps within the next two years — be-fore the end of Trump’s first term in 2021. He said the North Korean leader understands that “there will be in-depth verification” of nuclear commit-ments in any deal with the U.S.

While Trump was facing questions at home and among allies about whether he gave away too much in re-turn for far too little at the summit, North Korean state media heralded claims of a victorious meeting with the U.S. president; photos of Kim standing side by side with Trump on the world stage were splashed across newspapers.

Trump’s own chest-thumping tweet seemed reminiscent of the “Mission

Accomplished” banner flown behind President George W. Bush in 2003 when he spoke aboard a Navy ship fol-lowing the U.S. invasion of Iraq. The words came back to haunt the admin-istration, as the war dragged on throughout Bush’s presidency.

Trump’s claim that North Korea no longer poses a nuclear threat is ques-tionable considering Pyongyang’s sig-nificant weapons arsenal.

Independent experts say the North could have enough fissile material for anywhere between about a dozen and 60 nuclear bombs. Last year it tested long-range missiles that could reach the U.S. mainland, although it remains unclear if it has mastered the technol-ogy to deliver a nuclear warhead that could re-enter the atmosphere and hit its target.

BY ANNE FLAHERTY and JOSH LEDERMANThe Associated Press

SINGAPORE — When South Korea’s president shuttled be-tween North Korea and the United States to broker their first-ever summit, he faced both praise and criticism about whether he was a peace-mak-ing mediator or was helping North Korea find ways to weak-en U.S.-led economic sanctions.

A day after President Don-ald Trump and North Korean leader Kim Jong Un held their summit in Singapore, is it clearer whether Moon Jae-in played a positive or negative role? A quick answer: Proba-bly not.

Assessments of Moon’s di-plomacy have become more divisive and complex, with Trump criticized in both South Korea and the U.S. for the concessions he made to North Korea, while others think the summit will suc-

cessfully prolong the current mood of detente.

Meeting for about five hours, Trump and Kim exchanged a historic handshake, took a short stroll together, patted each other’s backs and signed a summit agreement. Trump promised to provide security guarantees to the North and suspend joint military drills with the South as long as nego-tiations with the North contin-ue in “good faith.” Kim, in re-turn, agreed to work toward a vague “complete denucleariza-tion of the Korean Peninsula.”

Those moves were unthink-able even several months ago, when the two unpredictable leaders threatened to nuke each other and traded a series of harsh personal insults.

Moon issued a statement after the summit calling it a “huge step forward” toward peace that “helped break down the last remaining Cold War legacy on Earth.”

He acknowledged that many

difficulties are likely to lie ahead but vowed to work to-gether with the U.S., North Korea and others to bring lasting peace to the Korean Peninsula.

“We will never go back to the past again and never give up on this bold journey. Histo-ry is a record of people who take action and rise to a chal-lenge,” he said.

But conservatives in South Korea slammed the summit, saying it failed to curb North Korea’s nuclear ambitions. They said both Trump and Moon should be blamed for not specifying steps and deadlines

for North Korea’s nuclear dis-armament, allowing it time to perfect its weapons program.

“High expectations were met by low results,” said Nam Sung-wook, a North Korea ex-pert at Seoul’s Korea Universi-ty. “Moon, and then Trump, were quick to bite on North Ko-rea’s invitation for talks. When Trump realized there wasn’t going to be anything substan-tial in return, it was impossible for him to back out because he had already gone too far.”

U.S. officials had worked hard to get North Korea to agree to “complete, verifiable and irreversible” disarma-

ment and said they would not offer any major concessions until it took meaningful steps. Despite those efforts, Trump announced after the summit that he had agreed to suspend U.S. military drills with South Korea, something North Korea has long demanded.

On Wednesday, North Kore-an state media said Trump had also agreed to the North’s desire for a step-by-step disar-mament process with corre-sponding U.S. concessions at each step, rather than imme-diate disarmament as the U.S. had initially sought.

Trump’s agreement to sus-pend the military drills appar-ently came without prior con-sultation with South Korea, baffling many who think the U.S.-South Korea alliance, forged in blood during the 1950-53 Korean War, should remain strong throughout the push for a negotiated end to the nuclear tensions.

“Why did South Korea and the U.S. form an alliance and stage military drills before the nuclear crisis flared? It’s be-cause North Korea has been belligerent,” said Kim Tae-woo, former president of the Korea Institute for National Unification in Seoul. He said cancellation of the drills “is really a bad idea ... and (Trump) betrayed our people.”

BY HYUNG-JIN KIM and KIM TONG-HYUNGThe Associated Press

THE ASSOCIATED PRESSDestination signs to North Korea’s capital Pyongyang, top, and the United States, center, are seen at the Imjingak Pavilion in Paju near the border village of Panmunjom, South Korea, on Wednesday.

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and not for the party, and with both primaries being held on the same day, people have to make a choice,” she said. “A lot of people will say, ‘If my candidate is chosen, I’ll vote for them in November.’”

Most of the 58 precincts saw a steady crowd throughout the day, and there were no reports of broken or malfunctioning machines, Jefferson said.

Of the 65,952 registered voters, 11,275 cast a ballot. According to South Carolina Election Commission data, that is the sixth worst turnout in the state.

Ten precincts saw a turnout of 10 percent or lower in Sumter, with the lowest being the Shaw precinct. The 13 people who went to the poll of the 503 registered is a 2.58 percent turnout. The precinct with the highest turnout was Salem, which had 22.33 percent, or 90 people vote of 403 who were regis-tered.

Those who did not vote in the pri-mary and those who chose the Repub-lican ballot on Tuesday can vote on June 26 in two runoff races applicable

to Sumter, Lee and Clarendon coun-ties, Jefferson said. Voters must have already been registered.

Those runoffs will be between Gov. Henry McMaster and Greenville busi-nessman John Warren, who are set to debate once more before Republicans will know who their nomination will be, according to The Associated Press.

McMaster was the top vote-getter but only secured 42 percent of the vote, allowing Warren’s 28 percent to slide him into a runoff.

The winner will face Democratic Rep. James Smith of Columbia and American Party candidate Martin Barry in November.

Two more Republicans are set to square off in two weeks for the attor-ney general nomination.

Attorney General Alan Wilson was forced into a runoff with state Rep. Todd Atwater after falling just more than 1 percent short of winning out-right, according to the unofficial re-sults.

Either Wilson or Atwater will be on the ballot against Democrat Constance Anastopoulo in November.

A third scheduled runoff may not be on the Sumter ballot, but it does have a connection to the county.

In the 2nd Congressional District race, retired Army veteran Sean Car-

rigan of Chapin will face off against Annabelle Robertson of West Colum-bia in a Democratic runoff. Robertson used to work at The Sumter Item.

The winner of that race will face incumbent Re-publican Joe Wilson and American Party candi-date Sonny Narang in No-vember.

In Lee County, 2,775 bal-lots were cast in 22 pre-cincts, 24.23 percent of the

11,452 registered voters, according to the election commission. Eight pre-cincts saw between 20 to 30 percent turnout, two had between 30 to 40 per-cent, and Elliott recorded 41.04 per-cent turnout.

Stan Barnhill, director of the Lee County Voter Registration and Elec-tions, said the day went without is-sues.

Other than the state races, Lee vot-ers chose who they wanted on their Democratic ticket for School Board Districts 5 and 6. Regitt James and in-cumbent Nathaniel Brunson will run unopposed in November.

“People were pleased with the re-sults,” Barnhill said.

Clarendon County saw a 23.89 per-cent turnout through its 25 precincts, with seven precincts getting to be-

tween 20 to 30 percent and Barrows Mill reaching 35.17 percent, according to the election commission.

Two council county races saw the incumbent retain the seat. Billy Rich-ardson in District 1 and Benton Blake-ly in District 3 will run unopposed in November.

Coroner Bucky Mock lost to chal-lenger LaNette Samuels-Cooper amid

claims she was not quali-fied for the job. She re-ceived 57 percent of the votes.

Shirley Black-Oliver, di-rector of the Clarendon County Voter Registration and Elections, was out of the office Wednesday.

Statewide, both Demo-cratic and Republican pri-mary voters overwhelm-ingly approved questions their parties put on the ballot.

Democrats said they support medical marijua-na and taking federal

money to expand Medicaid in South Carolina. Republicans said they sup-port bringing the South Carolina tax code into “conformity with the new Trump tax cuts” and requiring voters to register for a party.

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chief had nearly matched Mc-Master in fundraising, but Warren — largely self-funded, with millions of his own money — surged in the clos-ing days, with Templeton fin-ishing Tuesday’s runoff with just more than 21 percent.

In her concession speech, Templeton fell short of en-dorsing Warren but reiterated support both for the “outsid-er” mantle both of them donned during the primary campaign and the overall suc-cess of Republican candidates.

“We want to make sure the next conservative new genera-tion of South Carolina wins in November,” Templeton told supporters gathered in Co-lumbia. “We’ve got to all come together and fight because we have to make sure that ‘blue wave’ doesn’t get us.”

McMaster led his individual GOP competitors throughout the primary but lagged behind them collectively, falling well below the 50 percent needed to avoid a runoff. Collectively, Templeton and Warren’s sup-porters marked more than 49 percent in Tuesday’s voting.

The short primary runoff window will mean a vigorous

campaign during the next two weeks, and Warren on Tues-day warned his supporters they’d likely see McMaster’s campaign go negative on him.

“I have been shot at before,” Warren said, challenging Mc-Master to three debates. “The people of South Carolina de-serve to see that Henry Mc-Master has no idea about our future.”

The runoff winner will face Democratic Rep. James Smith of Columbia and American Party candidate Martin Barry in November. Smith easily coasted to victory over Charleston consultant Phil Noble and Florence Margue-rite Willis on Tuesday with 62 percent of votes cast. Like McMaster’s Republican chal-lengers, Smith has called for a change in leadership in the state’s top office, a stance he reminded supporters of Tues-day in downtown Columbia.

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who can unify this state and a governor who will care more about doing a job than keeping the job. And my friends, I am ready to be that governor.”

Smith has picked fellow state Rep. Mandy Powers Nor-rell as his running mate for lieutenant governor. McMas-ter has selected businesswom-

an Pamela Evette, while War-ren is running with retired Charleston developer and State Ports Authority Chair-man Pat McKinney.

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Behind Trump’s exasperation at the G-7 summitAt the G-7 summit

in Canada, Presi-dent Donald Trump described

America as “the piggy bank that everybody is robbing.”

After he left Quebec, his director of Trade and In-dustrial Policy, Peter Navar-ro, added a few parting words for Prime Minister Justin Trudeau:

“There’s a special place in hell for any foreign leader that engages in bad faith di-plomacy with President Donald J. Trump and then tries to stab him in the back on the way out the door. ... And that’s ... what weak, dishonest Justin Trudeau did. And that comes right from Air Force One.”

In Singapore, Trump tweeted more about that piggy bank.

“Why should I, as President of the United States, allow countries to continue to make Massive Trade Surpluses, as they have for decades ... (while) the U.S. pays close to the entire cost of NATO-protecting many of these same countries that rip us off on Trade?”

To understand what drives Trump, and explains his exasperation and anger, these remarks are a good place to begin.

Our elites see America as an “indispensable nation,” the premier world power whose ordained duty it is to defend democracy, stand up to dictators and aggressors and uphold a liberal world order.

They see U.S. wealth and power as splendid tools that fate has given them to shape the future of the planet.

Trump sees America as a nation being milked by al-lies who free ride on our de-fense effort, as they engage in trade practices that pros-per their own peoples at America’s expense.

Where our elites live to play masters of the uni-verse, Trump sees a world laughing behind America’s back, while allies exploit our magnanimity and ideal-ism for their own national ends.

The numbers are impossi-ble to refute and hard to ex-plain.

Last year, the EU had a $151 billion trade surplus with the U.S. China ran a $376 billion trade surplus with the U.S., the largest in history. The world sold us $796 billion more in goods than we sold to the world.

A nation that spends more than it takes in from taxes, and consumes more of the world’s goods than it pro-duces itself for export, year in and year out, is a nation on the way down.

We are emulating our British cousins of the 19th century.

Trump understands that this situation is not sustain-able. His strength is that the people are still with him on putting America first.

Yet he faces some serious obstacles.

What is his strategy for turning a $796 billion trade deficit into a surplus? Is he prepared to impose the tar-iffs and import restrictions that would be required to turn America from the

greatest trade-deficit nation in history to a trade-surplus nation, as we were up until the mid-1970s?

Americans are indeed car-rying the lion’s share of the load of the defense of the West, and of fighting the terrorists and radical Is-lamists of the Middle East, and of protecting South Korea and Japan.

But if our NATO and Asian allies refuse to make the increases in defense he demands, is Trump really willing to cancel our treaty commitments, walk away from our war guarantees and let these nations face Russia and China on their

own? Could he cut that umbilical cord?

Ike’s Secretary of State John Foster Dulles spoke of con-ducting an “agoniz-ing reappraisal” of U.S. commitments to defend NATO allies, if they did not con-tribute more money and troops.

Dulles died in 1959, and that reap-

praisal, threatened 60 years ago, never happened. In-deed, when the Cold War ended, our NATO allies cut defense spending again. Yet we are still subsidizing NATO in Europe and have taken on new allies since the Soviet Empire fell.

If Europe refuses to invest the money in defense Trump demands, or accept the tariffs America needs to reduce and erase its trade deficits, what does he do? Is he prepared to shut U.S. bases and pull U.S. troops out of the Baltic republics, Poland and Germany, and let the Europeans face Vlad-imir Putin and Russia them-selves?

This is not an academic question. For the crunch that was inevitable when Trump was elected seems at hand.

He promised to negotiate with Putin and improve re-lations with Russia. He promised to force our NATO allies to undertake more of their own defense. He pledged to get out and stay out of Mideast wars and begin to slash the trade def-icits that we have run with the world.

And that’s what America voted for.

Now, after 500 days, he faces formidable opposition to these defining goals of his campaign, even within his own party.

Putin remains a pariah on Capitol Hill. Our allies are rejecting the tariffs Trump has imposed and threaten-ing retaliation.

Free trade Republicans reject tariffs that might raise the cost of the items U.S. companies make abroad and then ship back to the United States.

The decisive battles be-tween Trumpian national-ism and globalism remain ahead of us. Trump’s criti-cal tests have yet to come.

And our exasperated pres-ident senses this.

Patrick J. Buchanan is the author of a new book “Nix-on’s White House Wars: The Battles That Made and Broke a President and Di-vided America Forever.”

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Pat Buchanan

On Charles Krauthammer, my friend, mentor and lodestar

WASHINGTON — A few years ago, I was talk-ing with

Charles Krauthammer in the Fox News green room when the news that some-one famous had passed away flashed on the televi-sion screen. Charles told

me the way he hoped to go when his time came. His dream, he said, was to be assas-sinated during the seventh-in-ning

stretch at a game at Na-tionals Park. He wanted to die in what he once called “my own private paradise,” where “the twilight’s gleaming, the popcorn’s popping, the kids’re romp-ing and everyone’s happy.”

Alas, fate has different plans. Charles’ announce-ment that he has only a few weeks to live is heart-breaking. But in writing it, he gave all who love and admire him a wonderful gift — the opportunity to tell him what he means to us and how he changed our lives.

Charles was the first per-son I turned to for advice when I was offered the op-portunity to write a weekly column for The Post.

I did not know him at the time. Like so many others, I had long admired his work from afar. The first time I saw him speak in person was in 2004, when I was a young Pentagon speechwriter and Charles gave the American Enter-prise Institute’s Irving Kristol Award lecture. He was introduced by Vice President Dick Cheney, who noted that Charles had been a speechwriter for one of his predecessors. “I now wish I had paid more attention at the time to the speeches of Walter

Mondale,” Cheney said. Charles delivered an en-

thralling lecture, which, to this day, is the best expres-sion I have ever heard of America’s role in the world. He dismissed the idea of American empire, declaring, “It is absurd to apply the word to a people whose first instinct upon arriving on anyone’s soil is to demand an exit strate-gy.” Unlike Rome or Brit-ain or other classical em-pires, he said, Americans do not hunger for territory. “We like it here. We like our McDonald’s. We like our football. We like our rock-and-roll. We’ve got the Grand Canyon and Graceland. ... We’ve got ev-erything. And if that’s not enough, we’ve got Vegas — which is a facsimile of ev-erything. ... If we want Chinese or Indian or Ital-ian, we go to the food court.”

We are not an imperial power, Charles said, but a commercial republic that, “by pure accident of histo-ry, has been designated custodian of the interna-tional system.” How to meet those responsibili-ties? Charles systematical-ly took apart the compet-ing schools of foreign poli-cy: isolationism (which he called an “ideology of fear”); liberal internation-alism (which supports force only in cases “devoid of national interest” and seeks to constrain Ameri-can power through “fic-tional legalisms”); and re-alism (which believes in American power but “fails because it offers no vi-sion”).

In their place, Charles of-fered what he called demo-cratic realism, which “sees as the engine of history not the will to power, but the will to freedom.” America, he said, “will support democracy every-where, but we will commit blood and treasure only in places where there is a

strategic necessity.” Put another way, he said, we will intervene “where it counts.” Germany and Japan counted. So did the Soviet Union. So does the battle against Islamic to-talitarianism.

I realized that night: That’s not only what I think; that’s how I want to think. That’s how I want to write. I want to be like Charles Krauthammer.

A few years later, when I asked his advice for my new Post column, Charles invited me to his office. What a thrill to finally meet him in person! He was exactly as I expected: gracious, funny and kind. He shared with me his writing process, how he came up with ideas and wrote — and rewrote — his columns, until every word was perfect. And then he gave me one last piece of advice. “One day, they are going to ask you to write two columns a week,” he said. “Don’t do it. No one can write two good col-umns a week.” I followed his advice ... until this year. (Sorry, Charles).

In the years that fol-lowed, I was blessed to spend countless hours with Charles waiting to go on the air at Fox News, talk-ing about everything from conservative philosophy to the rise of President Trump. He is so brilliant, so immersed in the debate, that he has never needed to prepare very much. One day, I asked him what his topic was. “I have no idea,” he said with a twinkle in his eye. I had to spend hours preparing to be half as good as Charles. I’m still working on it. Even before I knew him, he was my lodestar — and he always will be.

Follow Marc A. Thiessen on Twitter, @marcthiessen.

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ARIES (March 21-April 19): Learn all you can about your heritage

from older family members, friends and relatives. It will enlighten you about the likes and dislikes you have and help you overcome some of the things that have been holding you back.

TAURUS (April 20-May 20): Your mind will be racing a mile a minute, but that doesn’t mean you have to make a hasty decision. Use your enthusiasm and thirst for knowledge to ferret out any information that will verify that you are making the right choice.

GEMINI (May 21-June 20): Strive to stand out when dealing with peers or work-related matters. Your contribution should be based on something that is unique as well as realistic. Don’t underestimate someone who is just as competitive and driven as you.

CANCER (June 21-July 22): Don’t shy away from the unfamiliar or unusual. Observing what and how others are doing things will spark your imagination and encourage you to try doing things differently. Don’t be reluctant to let someone know how you feel.

LEO (July 23-Aug. 22): Offer compliments and enjoy collaborating with people you find interesting. A partnership may need to be adjusted to better suit the changes that are taking place in your life. Discuss your plans and listen to suggestions. Love is featured.

VIRGO (Aug. 23-Sept. 22): Share your thoughts with upbeat people you can count on to give you the lowdown. A change to make a difference should be a priority. Much can be accomplished if you

are diligent in your pursuits.

LIBRA (Sept. 23-Oct. 22): Keep your emotions in check and focus on taking care of your responsibilities early so no one can complain if you move on to pleasurable pastimes. Don’t let what others say deter you from doing your own thing.

SCORPIO (Oct. 23-Nov. 21): A day trip will lead to an interesting encounter as well as knowledge that will be useful when dealing with a friend or relative. A unique situation will result in having greater disposable income to put toward something you enjoy doing.

SAGITTARIUS (Nov. 22-Dec. 21): Take stock of how well you’ve been taking care of your health, personal finances and any pending legal matters you face. Don’t feel pressured to make a decision before you have sufficient information to do so. A physical change is encouraged.

CAPRICORN (Dec. 22-Jan. 19): Aim to stabilize your situation by building strong relationships with people who can help or deter you from reaching your goals. Changes can be made if you have the support of those willing to contribute as well.

AQUARIUS (Jan. 20-Feb. 18): Don’t feel you have to make a physical change because someone is derogatory about the way you look. Be a trendsetter, not a follower, and please your inner voice, not someone who is too afraid to be different.

PISCES (Feb. 19-March 20): Trusting your judgment, not what someone insinuates, is the right way to do something. Use your voice to ensure that any changes made are in your best interest. Push for equality.

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The last word in astrologyEUGENIA LAST

AROUND TOWNThe Sumter Combat Veterans Group monthly meeting will be held at 10 a.m. on Fri-day, June 15, at 529 N. Wise Drive. Dinner is $5 per plate and will be served after the meeting. Dinner will consist of sausage dog with chili, coleslaw, chips and a drink or water.A Juneteenth celebration will be held beginning at 10 a.m. on Saturday, June 16, at the Mary McLeod Bet-hune Park, 1175 Dr. Mary McLeod Bethune Road, Mayesville. Bring your lawn chairs and umbrellas. There will be food, drink, music and more. The Military Order of the Pur-ple Heart, General George L. Mabry Jr. Chapter 817, will host a cookout from 11 a.m. to 1 p.m. on Tuesday, June 19, at the VA Outpatient Clinic, 407 N. Salem Ave. Members of the chapter will be serving all veterans visiting the clinic on that date. The Carolina Coin Club will meet at 7 p.m. on Tuesday, June 19, at the Parks and Recreation Department building,155 Haynsworth St. The club meets on the third Tuesday of each month and visitor are al-ways welcome. Call (803) 775-8840 for more informa-tion.Because of God We Can Out-reach Ministry will hold a giveaway at 11 a.m. on Sat-urday, June 23, at the home of Viola Shaw, 186 Green Lane, Bishopville. Food will be served at noon. Tickets will be drawn for cash prizes. Donated items to be given away include clothes, toys, shoes, coffee tables, televisions and more. Call Viola Shaw at (803) 428-3488.In observance of “Homeown-ership Month,” a housing and job fair will be held 11 a.m.-2 p.m. on Saturday, June 23, at the South Sumter Re-source Center, 337 Man-ning Ave. Find out if you qualify for a home. A draw-

ing contest for ages 6-18 with theme of “My Dream House” and an essay con-test (100-plus words) for ages 6-18 with the theme of “What Home Ownership Means to Me” will be held. Deadline for entry into contests is 5 p.m. on Mon-day, June 18. Refresh-ments, door prizes and fun for kids.The Heart of Sumter Neigh-borhood Association (HSNA) and the Sumter County Cul-tural Center will present a brass quintet from the Charleston Symphony Or-chestra 6-8 p.m. on Satur-day, June 23, in front of Pa-triot Hall. Finger desserts and lemonade will be pro-vided. Bring a chair and umbrella. HSNA will be ac-cepting new members. Membership fee is $10 an-nually per family. Visit HSNAsumtersc.com.The Sumter Branch NAACP will meet at 5 p.m. on Sun-day, June 24, at Mount Pis-gah Missionary Baptist Church, 7355 Camden Highway, Rembert. A Red, White and Blue Ball, presented by American Le-gion Post 202 Women’s Auxiliary, will be held from 9 p.m. to 1 a.m. on Satur-day, July 21, at 310 Palmet-to St. Event will feature DJ Smoove as well as free food. Tickets are $20 each. Semi formal attire. Call Ja-netta at (803) 406-8038.The Sumter Chapter of the National Federation of the Blind of South Carolina will meet at 7 p.m. on Tuesday, July 12, at Shiloh-Randolph Manor, 125 W. Bartlette St. Contact Debra Canty, chapter president, at (803) 775-5792 or debra.canty@frontier.com. The 12th Annual Art in the Park will be held 9 a.m.-4 p.m. on Saturday, Sept. 22, at Memorial Park. Art and craft, community corner and children’s craft center vendor applications can be downloaded at HSNAsum-tersc.com.

FYICamp Happy Days is in need of donations of caps, T-shirts, sunscreen and funds. Held annually the first week in July, Camp Happy Days is a weeklong event helping hundreds of young cancer patients and their siblings spend time in an atmo-sphere of fun, laughter and fellowship. If you or your

business can help in any way, contact Bill Ellis at (803) 460-7666.The Bishopville / Manning / Shaw Air Force Base Alumni Chapter of Kappa Alpha Psi Fraternity Inc. meets at 8 p.m. on the first Tuesday of each month at Corinth Mis-sionary Baptist Church, 25 Community St.

Linwood Bradford shares his photo of a field of grain ripening on DuBose Siding Road. Bradford com-ments, “Amber waves of grain.”

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BSECTION

THURSDAY,JUNE 14, 2018

PRO TENNIS

Top-seeded Townsend tested in opening match in Palmetto Pro Open

Point by point

MICAH GREEN / THE SUMTER ITEMTop-seeded Taylor Townsend eyes a volley during her first-round match with Astra Sharma in the Palmetto Pro Open on Wednesday at Palmetto Tennis Center. Townsend survived a tough match, winning 7-5, 7-6(7) to advance.

Before playing in her first-round match in the main sin-gles draw of the Palmetto Pro Open on Wednesday at Pal-metto Tennis Center, No. 1 seed Taylor Townsend's most recent match was in a far grander venue: Roland Garros in Paris where the French

Open is played."A tournament is a tourna-

ment," Townsend said when asked about the mental prepa-ration needed for playing on two such different stages. "I don't care where it is; I'm looking to play matches and that's it."

Well, Townsend certainly had a match with Astra Shar-ma of Australia on Wednesday.

Townsend rallied from a 5-2 deficit to win the first set 7-5 and then trailed 5-3 in a 6-point tiebreaker that would have forced a third set to win the second set 7-6(7).

"She's a very good player," Townsend said of Sharma. "I just wasn't playing well early on, and I don't think she had any unforced errors until the fourth game (of the first set). I

just started trying to focus more, taking it point by point."

The Townsend/Sharma match was one of 16 first-round matches in the 32-play-er main draw.

Townsend came into the PPO, a $25,000 USTA Pro Cir-cuit event, ranked No. 71 in the world. She went on a tear before going to the French

Open. She won two tourna-ments and was in the semifi-nals of her four most recent tournaments. She then won the French Open Wild Card Challenge and then won her first-round match before fall-ing to world No. 1 and French Open champion Simona Halep.

BY DENNIS BRUNSONdennis@theitem.com

SEE PPO, PAGE B3

PREP SPORTS

Scott’s Branch multi-sport standout signs with S.C. State

SUMMERTON — Because he is very good at several dif-ferent things, Joshua Pringle of Scott's Branch High School is going to be able to compete in athletics at the collegiate level.

Pringle recently signed with South Carolina State Universi-ty in Orangeburg, where he

will compete in both track and field and football for the Bulldogs.

"This is really something I've wanted to do all my life," said Pringle, who will throw the shot

put and the discus in track and be a long snapper in foot-ball. "I got put into the right positions in sports that I love. I'm just happy to have this op-portunity."

Pringle was a standout thrower for the Eagles, who have won the 1A boys state title each of the past two sea-sons. They defeated Military Magnet 96-93 last month to de-fend their crown. Pringle had over one-fifth of their points, scoring 20 for winning both the shot and the discus.

Pringle won the discus with a toss of 130 feet, 11 inches. He claimed the shot with a throw of 47-04.

PRINGLE

BY DENNIS BRUNSONdennis@theitem.com

SEE PRINGLE, PAGE B2

PRO BASEBALL

Freeman’s bat powers Braves past Mets 2-0ATLANTA (AP) — No-hitter or not,

Mike Soroka knew the Braves would be cautious and not let him overexert his right shoulder.

"The first time I even thought about what was going on was going out for the sixth," he said. "It was happening so quickly. You get into a rhythm that way, and that wasn't bad as well."

Soroka did not allow a hit until the seventh inning, Freddie Freeman hom-ered and drove in both runs, and the Atlanta Braves beat the struggling New York Mets 2-0 on Wednesday.

Soroka, the youngest pitcher in the major leagues and one of baseball's top prospects, returned from a shoulder strain that sidelined him since May 17 to outpitch NL ERA leader Jacob de-Grom in a game that lasted only 2 hours, 12 minutes.

Atlanta’s Freddie Freeman hits a solo home run in the eighth inning of the Braves 2-0 victory over the New York Mets in Atlanta on Wednesday.

THE ASSOCIATED PRESS

SEE BRAVES, PAGE B2

U.S. OPEN

U.S. Open hopes ultimate test doesn’t feature trick questions

SOUTHAMPTON, N.Y. — The U.S. Open wants to be the ultimate test in golf, and sometimes that leads to a se-ries of trick questions.

One of them was 14 years ago at Shinnecock Hills.

A year after Jim Furyk tied the U.S. Open scoring record at Olympia Fields, the week-end of the 2004 U.S. Open was so bone dry and lightning fast that only three players broke par on the weekend, none on Sunday. Fans having to move to the side because of a golf ball rolling toward them is not unusual, except when the player hit the shot with his

putter from the green. Tee shots that landed on the sev-enth green rolled off the put-

ting surface and into a bun-ker.

One year after Rory McIl-

roy broke the U.S. Open scor-ing at Congressional, no one broke par at Olympic Club in 2012 when Webb Simpson won.

Moments like this lead to criticism that the USGA over-reacts. Justin Rose sees it an-other way.

"When everything is in bal-ance, it's kind of boring," he said. "And I think in life, the closer you get to the edges, that's where the excitement is. So I would say the USGA is not reactionary. It's counter-balancing. So if you go too far one way, you've got to come back the other way. You don't want to fall off the edge."

BY DOUG FERGUSONThe Associated Press

THE ASSOCIATED PRESSJustin Thomas hits off the eighth fairway during a practice roundfor the U.S. Open on Wednesday in Southampton, N.Y. The tourna-ment starts today.

SEE U.S. OPEN, PAGE B2

TV, RADIOTODAY5 a.m. — Professional Tennis: Mercedes Open Round-of-16 Matches from Stuttgart, Germany (TENNIS).9 a.m. — Professional Tennis: Mercedes Open Round-of-16 Matches from Stuttgart, Germany (TENNIS). 9:30 a.m. — PGA Golf: U.S. Open First Round from Southampton, N.Y. (FOX SPORTS 1).11 a.m. — International Soccer: FIFA World Cup Group A Match from Moscow — Russia vs. Saudi Arabia (WACH 57).11:30 a.m. — WNBA Basketball: Indiana at Atlanta (FOX SPORTSOUTH, NBA TV).1:30 p.m. — LPGA Golf: Meijer LPGA Classic First Round from Grand Rapids, Mich. (GOLF).3:30 p.m. — Major League Baseball: Houston at Oakland or Cleveland at Chicago White Sox (MLB NETWORK).4:30 p.m. — PGA Golf: U.S. Open First Round from Southampton, N.Y. (WACH 57).6 p.m. — NASCAR Racing: K&N Pro Series West NAPA Auto Pars 175 from Dacono, Colo. (NBC SPORTS NETWORK).6:05 p.m. — Talk Show: Sports Talk (WDXY-FM 105.9, WDXY-AM 1240).6:30 p.m. — American Legion Baseball: Sumter at Camden (WWHM-FM 92.3, WWHM-FM 93.3, WWHM-AM 1290).7 p.m. — Major League Baseball: Tampa Bay at New York Yankees (FOX SPORTS 1).7:30 p.m. — Women's International Volleyball: FIVB Nations League Pool-Play Match from Sante Fe, Argentina (CBS SPORTS NETWORK). 7:30 p.m. — Major League Baseball: San Diego at Atlanta (FOX SPORTS SOUTHEAST, WWFN-FM 100.1, WPUB-FM 102.7).8:30 p.m. — Professional Boxing: Robert Manzanarez vs. Mercito Gesta in a Lightweight Bout from Indio, Calif. (ESPN).8:30 p.m. — CFL Football: Edmonton at Winnipeg (ESPN2).10 p.m. — Major League Baseball: Boston at Seattle or New York Mets at Arizona (MLB NETWORK).5 a.m. — Professional Tennis: Mercedes Open Quarterfinal Matches from Stuttgart, Germany (TENNIS).

AMERICAN LEGION BASEBALLTUESDAYSumter at Hampton, cancelled, wet fieldManning-Santee 2, Orangeburg 1Hartsville 13, Dalzell-Shaw 1

WEDNESDAYCamden at Sumter (late)Dalzell-Shaw at West Columbia (late)

TODAYSumter at Camden, 7 p.m.Manning-Santee at Orangebug, 7 p.m.

FRIDAYDalzell-Shaw at Manning-Santee, 7 p.m.

SATURDAYNorth/South Tournament in Salisbury, N.C.Sumter vs. Garner, N.C., 4 p.m.Sumter vs. Rowan County, N.C., 7:30 p.m.

SUNDAYNorth/South Tournament in Salisbury, N.C.Sumter vs. Randolph County, N.C., noon

MLB STANDINGSAMERICAN LEAGUEEast Division W L Pct GBNew York 43 19 .694 ½Boston 47 22 .681 —Tampa Bay 32 35 .478 14Toronto 30 38 .441 16½Baltimore 19 48 .284 27

Central Division W L Pct GBCleveland 35 30 .538 —

Minnesota 29 34 .460 5Detroit 31 37 .456 5½Chicago 23 42 .354 12Kansas City 22 45 .328 14

West Division W L Pct GBSeattle 43 24 .642 —Houston 43 25 .632 ½Los Angeles 37 31 .544 6½Oakland 34 33 .507 9Texas 27 42 .391 17

TUESDAYBoston 6, Baltimore 4N.Y. Yankees 3, Washington 0Minnesota 6, Detroit 4Tampa Bay 4, Toronto 1Chicago White Sox 5, Cleveland 1Cincinnati 5, Kansas City 1, 10 inningsHouston 6, Oakland 3Seattle 6, L.A. Angels 3L.A. Dodgers 12, Texas 5

WEDNESDAYTampa Bay 1, Toronto 0Boston 5, Baltimore 1L.A. Angels at Seattle, 4:10 p.m.Washington at N.Y. Yankees, 7:05 p.m.Minnesota at Detroit, 7:10 p.m.Cleveland at Chicago White Sox, 8:10 p.m.Cincinnati at Kansas City, 8:15 p.m.Houston at Oakland, 10:05 p.m.Texas at L.A. Dodgers, 10:10 p.m.

TODAYMinnesota (Lynn 4-4) at Detroit (Fulmer 2-5), 1:10 p.m.Cleveland (Clevinger 4-2) at Chicago White Sox (Rodon 0-1), 2:10 p.m.Houston (Verlander 8-2) at Oakland (Montas 3-0), 3:35 p.m.Tampa Bay (Snell 8-3) at N.Y. Yankees (German 0-4), 7:05 p.m.Boston (Price 7-4) at Seattle (Hernandez 6-5), 10:10 p.m.

FRIDAYMiami at Baltimore, 7:05 p.m.Tampa Bay at N.Y. Yankees, 7:05 p.m.Washington at Toronto, 7:07 p.m.Minnesota at Cleveland, 7:10 p.m.Colorado at Texas, 8:05 p.m.Detroit at Chicago White Sox, 8:10 p.m.Houston at Kansas City, 8:15 p.m.L.A. Angels at Oakland, 9:35 p.m.Boston at Seattle, 10:10 p.m.

NATIONAL LEAGUEEast Division W L Pct GBAtlanta 39 28 .582 —Washington 36 28 .563 1½Philadelphia 34 30 .531 3½New York 28 36 .438 9½Miami 25 42 .373 14

Central Division W L Pct GBMilwaukee 41 27 .603 —Chicago 38 27 .585 1½St. Louis 36 29 .554 3½Pittsburgh 33 35 .485 8Cincinnati 24 43 .358 16½

West Division W L Pct GBArizona 37 30 .552 —Los Angeles 34 32 .515 2½San Francisco 33 34 .493 4Colorado 32 34 .485 4½San Diego 32 37 .464 6

TUESDAYN.Y. Yankees 3, Washington 0Philadelphia 5, Colorado 4Miami 3, San Francisco 1Atlanta 8, N.Y. Mets 2Milwaukee 4, Chicago Cubs 0Cincinnati 5, Kansas City 1, 10 inningsSan Diego 4, St. Louis 2Arizona 13, Pittsburgh 8L.A. Dodgers 12, Texas 5

WEDNESDAYAtlanta 2, N.Y. Mets 0

Milwaukee 1, Chicago Cubs 0Pittsburgh 5, Arizona 4Colorado at Philadelphia, 7:05 p.m.Washington at N.Y. Yankees, 7:05 p.m.San Francisco at Miami, 7:10 p.m.Cincinnati at Kansas City, 8:15 p.m.San Diego at St. Louis, 8:15 p.m.Texas at L.A. Dodgers, 10:10 p.m.

TODAYSan Francisco (Rodriguez 1-1) at Miami (Straily 2-2), 12:10 p.m.Colorado (Marquez 4-6) at Philadelphia (Velasquez 4-7), 1:05 p.m.San Diego (Ross 5-3) at Atlanta (Sanchez 2-0), 7:35 p.m.N.Y. Mets (Matz 2-4) at Arizona (Koch 4-3), 9:40 p.m.

FRIDAYCincinnati at Pittsburgh, 7:05 p.m.Miami at Baltimore, 7:05 p.m.Washington at Toronto, 7:07 p.m.San Diego at Atlanta, 7:35 p.m.Colorado at Texas, 8:05 p.m.Philadelphia at Milwaukee, 8:10 p.m.Chicago Cubs at St. Louis, 8:15 p.m.N.Y. Mets at Arizona, 9:40 p.m.San Francisco at L.A. Dodgers, 10:10 p.m.

U.S. OPEN TEE TIMESAt Shinnecock HillsSouthamption, N.Y.All Times EDT(a-amateur)

THURSDAY-FRIDAYFIRST HOLE-10TH HOLE6:45 a.m.-12:30 p.m. — Harold Varner, United States; Scott Piercy, United States; Matthieu Pavon, France.6:56 a.m.-12:41 p.m. — Michael Putnam, United States; Scott Gregory, England; Will Zalatoris, United States.7:07 a.m.-12:52 p.m. — Brendan Steele, United States; Chesson Hadley, United States; a-Harry Ellis, England.7:18 a.m.-1:03 p.m. — Jhonattan Vegas, Venezu-ela; Dylan Frittelli, South Africa; a-Doug Ghim, United States.7:29 a.m.-1:14 p.m. — Louis Oosthuizen, South Africa; Jimmy Walker, United States; Justin Rose, England.7:40 a.m.-1:25 p.m. — Bubba Watson, United States; Jason Day, Australia; Brooks Koepka, United States.7:51 a.m.-1:36 p.m. — Tyrrell Hatton, England; Danny Willett, England; Ian Poulter, England.8:02 a.m.-1:47 p.m. — Kevin Chappell, United States; Andrew Johnston, England; Daniel Berger, United States.8:13 a.m.-1:58 p.m. — Bryson DeChambeau, United States; Matt Fitzpatrick, England; Matt Kuchar, United States.8:24 a.m.-2:09 p.m. — Thorbjorn Olesen, Den-mark; Shubhankar Sharma, India; Patrick Rod-gers, United States.8:31 a.m.-2:20 p.m. — Lanto Griffin, United States; Tom Lewis, England; a-Jacob Bergeron, United States.8:46 a.m.-2:31 p.m. — a-Kristoffer Reitan, Nor-way; a-Luis Gagne, Costa Rica; Cole Miller, United States.8:57 a.m.-2:42 p.m. — Mickey DeMorat, United States; a-Tyler Strafaci, United States; Calum Hill, Scotland.

THURSDAY-FRIDAY10TH HOLE-FIRST HOLE6:45 a.m.-12:30 p.m. — Scott Stallings, United States; Sebastian Munoz, Colombia; Matthew Southgate, England.6:56 a.m.-12:41 p.m. — Trey Mullinax, United States; a-Matt Parziale, United States; Jason Scrivener, Australia.7:07 a.m.-12:52 p.m. — David Bransdon, Austra-lia; Eric Axley, United States; Tyler Duncan, United States.7:18 a.m.-1:03 p.m. — a-Garrett Rank, Canada; Mackenzie Hughes, Canada; Aaron Baddeley, Australia.7:29 a.m.-1:14 p.m. — Alexander Levy, France; Brian Harman, United States; Patrick Cantlay, United States.7:40 a.m.-1:25 p.m. — Paul Casey, England; Sa-toshi Kodaira, Japan; Branden Grace, South Af-rica.7:51 a.m.-1:36 p.m. — Zach Johnson, United States; Charl Schwartzel, South Africa; Patrick Reed, United States.

8:02 a.m.-1:47 p.m. — Rory McIlroy, Northern Ireland; Jordan Spieth, United States; Phil Mickelson, United States.8:13 a.m.-1:58 p.m. — Hideki Matsuyama, Japan; Marc Leishman, Australia; Rickie Fowler, Unit-ed States.8:24 a.m.-2:09 p.m. — Charles Howell III, United States; Bill Haas, United States; Charley Hoff-man, United States.8:35 a.m.-2:20 p.m. — Sungjae Im, South Korea; Russell Knox, Scotland; Matthew Wallace, Eng-land.8:46 a.m.-2:31 p.m. — a-Shintaro Ban, United States; Sung Joon Park, South Korea; Tim Wilkinson, New Zealand.8:57 a.m.-2:42 p.m. — Dylan Meyer, United States; Sulman Raza, United States; Chris Nae-gel, United States.

THURSDAY-FRIDAYFIRST HOLE-10TH HOLE12:30 p.m.-6:45 a.m. — Sam Burns, United States; Brian Gay, United States; Dean Bur-mester, South Africa.12:41 p.m.-6:56 a.m. — Ryan Evans, England; a-Chun An Yu, Taiwan; Liang Wenchong, China.12:52 p.m.-7:07 a.m. — Russell Henley, United States; Aaron Wise, United States; Peter Ui-hlein, United States.1:03 p.m.-7:18 a.m.— Tony Finau, United States; Luke List, United States; Gary Woodland, Unit-ed States.1:14 p.m.-7:29 a.m. — Sergio Garcia, Spain; Jon Rahm, Spain; Rafa Cabrera Bello, Spain.1:25 p.m.-7:40 a.m. — Tommy Fleetwood, Eng-land; Francesco Molinari, Italy; Alex Noren, Sweden.1:36 p.m.-7:51 a.m. — Cameron Smith, Austra-lia; Kyle Stanley, United States; Pat Perez, United States.1:47 p.m.-8:02 a.m. — Justin Thomas, United States; Dustin Johnson, United States; Tiger Woods, United States.1:58 p.m.-8:13 a.m. — Li Haotong, China; Si Woo Kim, South Korea; Kiradech Aphibarnrat, Thai-land.2:09 p.m.-8:24 a.m. — Jason Dufner, United States; a-Braden Thornberry, United States; Brandt Snedeker, United States.2:20 p.m.-8:35 a.m. — Rikuya Hoshino, Japan; a-Ryan Lumsden, Scotland; James Morrison, England.2:31 p.m.-8:46 a.m. — Cameron Wilson, United States; a-Will Grimmer, United States; a-Philip Barbaree, United States.2:42 p.m.-8:57 a.m. — a-Rhett Rasmussen, Unit-ed States; Michael Hebert, United States; Mi-chael Block, United States.

THURSDAY-FRIDAY10TH HOLE-FIRST HOLE12:30 p.m.-6:45 a.m. — Matt Jones, Australia; Ryan Fox, New Zealand; Shota Akiyoshi, Japan.12:41 p.m.-6:56 a.m. — Paul Waring, England; a-Theo Humphrey, United States, Ted Potter Jr., United States.12:52 p.m.-7:07 a.m. — Richy Werenski, United States; Robert Castro, United States; Ollie Schniederjans, United States.1:03 p.m.-7:18 a.m.— a-Noah Goodwin, United States; Richie Ramsay, Scotland; Kenny Perry, United States.1:14 p.m.-7:29 a.m. — Keegan Bradley, United States; Emiliano Grillo, Argentina; Xander Schauffele, United States.1:25 p.m.-7:40 a.m. — Lucas Glover, United States; Webb Simpson, United States; Graeme McDowell, Northern Ireland.1:36 p.m.-7:51 a.m. — Ernie Els, South Africa; Steve Stricker, United States; Jim Furyk, United States.1:47 p.m.-8:02 a.m. — Henrik Stenson, Sweden; Adam Scott, Australia; Martin Kaymer, Germa-ny.1:58 p.m.-8:13 a.m. — Kevin Kisner, United States; Ross Fisher, England; Adam Hadwin, Canada.2:09 p.m.-8:24 a.m. — Shane Lowry, Ireland; Byeong Hun An, South Korea; Chez Reavie, United States.2:20 p.m.-8:35 a.m. — Lucas Herbert, Australia; Brian Stuard, United States; a-Stewart Hages-tad, United States.2:31 p.m.-8:46 a.m. — a-Franklin Huang, United States; Sebastian Vazquez, Mexico; Michael Miller, United States.2:42 p.m.-8:57 a.m. — Christopher Babcock, United States; a-Timothy Wiseman, United States; David Gazzolo, United States.

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As a junior, Pringle finished fourth in the shot and second in the discus.

"This is something I just really enjoy doing," Pringle said.

Pringle was also a standout on the Scott's Branch football team, playing nose guard on defense and guard on offense. However, at an even 6 feet

and 216 pounds, Pringle isn't cut out to be a lineman for S.C. State, a Foot-ball Championship Subdivision school in the Mid-Eastern Athletic Conference.

One other thing he did for the Ea-gles though was serve as the long snapper, and he did it quite well.

"They saw me snap and they said I was a very good snapper," Pringle said. "That's when they said they

wanted to do something with me."Scott's Branch track and field head

coach Kevin Miller has nothing but praise for Pringle.

"He's one of the most consistent, outstanding athletes I've ever coached," said Miller, who served as the defensive coordinator for the foot-ball team as well. "He's a 2-time state champion in track and he did whatev-er you needed in football. Plus, he's an

outstanding student, and he's getting an ROTC scholarship as well.

"I'm really happy for him. I'm glad he's getting this opportunity."

While S.C. State isn't at the highest level in football, the rest of the school's sports compete at the Division I level.

"That's something that really excites me, to get the chance to compete at that level," Pringle said.

PRINGLE FROM PAGE B1

That's the question going into the 118th U.S. Open that starts Thursday.

Might the USGA lean to-ward going easy on players because of what happened the last time at Shinnecock Hills? Or will it make it tougher on them because of the record scoring last year at Erin Hills? Brooks Koepka tied the record

to par at 16 under, and six other players finished at 10 under or lower.

"We're confident this should be a marvelous test," said Mike Davis, the chief executive of the USGA who has been in charge of setting up the courses for the U.S. Open since 2006 at Winged Foot, when the winning

score was 5 over.Davis believes Shinnecock

Hills is right where the USGA wants it, even with a light, steady rain on the final day of practice.

Wednesday is never the measure of how a golf course presents itself.

McIlroy is among those who likes what he sees. But it's not a U.S. Open if players are not complaining, and it's been a quiet three days ahead of

competition. The biggest question is whether the fair-ways are narrow enough.

They are tighter than last year at Erin Hills, for sure, and an average of 15 yards wider than in 2004.

"Honestly, I think they've got it right," McIlroy said. "It presents guys with op-tions off the tee. You have to make a decision basically on every tee box what you're going to do. I'm obviously

not that old, but when I watched U.S. Opens on TV and saw these long, narrow corridors of fairways and thick rough, that's what I was used to at a U.S. Open. ... If you look at the venues that are coming up, they're very traditional venues like Oakmont, Winged Foot, Peb-ble Beach.

"Maybe you'll see more of what we perceive as a tradi-tional U.S. Open setup."

U.S. OPEN FROM PAGE B1

Making his fourth career start, Soroka (2-1) gave up one hit, one walk and struck out four in 6⅓ innings . He had a simple game plan.

"Pitch my game and let them adjust to my game as opposed

to the other way around," So-roka said. "I think we did a re-ally good job of that."

Freeman, the NL batting leader, has hit safely in 23 of his past 24 games. He drove in the first run with a single

in the fourth off deGrom (4-2). He homered off Jeremy Blevins in the eighth .

Freeman has five homers in his past seven games and 14 overall.

Atlanta manager Brian Snitker said that Soroka would be on a pitch count, so it was no surprise when he re-

placed him with A.J. Minter after Michael Conforto sin-gled to begin the seventh after 74 pitches.

The Mets have lost 10 of their past 11 and 17 of their past 21. They went 3-6 at Sun-Trust Park this season against the NL East-leading Braves.

DeGrom (4-2) allowed seven hits and one run and struck out seven in seven innings and threw 86 pitches. He began the game leading with majors with a 0.81 ERA since April 21, but trailed 1-0 in the fourth when Dansby Swanson doubled with one out and scored on Freeman's single.

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AREA ROUNDUP

SCOREBOARD

USC Sumter soccer coach Fox to host World Cup seminar todayUniversity of South Caroli-

na Sumter men's soccer head coach Skottowe Fox will host a seminar to discuss the sport as well as the World Cup today beginning at 1 p.m.

The meeting will take place in Room 127 of the Schwartz Building and will last 30 to 45 minutes.

It is free and open to the public.MANNING 2ORANGEBURG 1

MANNING -- The Manning-Santee Post 68 American Le-gion baseball team evened its record at 5-5 on the season

with a 2-1 victory over Or-angeburg Post 4 on Tuesday at Monarch Field.

Braydon Osteen went the distance on the mound, strik-ing out five and walking three.

M-S scored a run in the fifth when Dusty Hancock led off with a bunt single. He moved to second base on a passed ball and scored on Dalton Page's 2-out single.

Manning got the winning run in the sixth. Morgan Morris got a hit, stole second and scored on Caleb Quick's 2-out hit.

Luke Stokes had two hits for Post 68.

Manning-Santee plays at

Orangeburg today.HARTSVILLE 4SUMTER 3

The Sumter Junior P-15's suffered their first loss of the season on Tuesday, falling to Hartsville 4-3 in eight innings at Riley Park.

Hartsville tied the game at 3-3 with two runs in the top of the sixth before pushing across the winning run in the eighth.

Victor Brown had two hits and two walks for Sumter, which fell to 9-1. Kieran Hager-ty worked five innings on the mound for the Junior P-15's.

POP WARNER REGISTRATION SATURDAY

Registration for the YAS Pop Warner Sumter Spar-tans Football & Cheer tack-le program will be held on Saturday at Brand Universi-ty located at 4676 Broad Street.

The registration event will also consist of a car wash and fish fry fundraiser.

For more information, con-tact Ivan Sanders at (803) 468-7429.DIAMOND PRO CAMP SECOND SESSION STARTS MONDAY

The Diamond Pro Instruc-

tional Baseball Camp will hold its second session be-ginning on Monday.

The session will run through Thursday, June 21. The camp, which is open to children ages 7-10, will run from 8:30 a.m. to 11:30 a.m. each day.

The fee is $60.For more information,

contact camp directors Frankie Ward at (803) 720-4081, Barry Hatfield at (803) 236-4768 or Robbie Mooneyham at (803) 938-3141.

From staff reports

WEDNESDAYMain Draw SinglesFirst RoundTaylor Townsend (1) defeated Astra Sharma 7-5, 7-6(7).Maria Mateas (6) defeated Shelby Talcott 6-3, 6-4.Jada Robinson defeated Ronit Yurovsky 6-2, 6-2.Anastasia Nefedova defeated Julia Elbaba 4-6, 7-6(2), 6-2.Usue Maitane Arconada (4) defeated Alexa Graham 6-3, 6-0.Marcela Zacarias (7) defeated Mccartney Kessler, 6-3, 6-2.Olga Govortsova defeated Genevieve Lorbergs 6-0, 6-1.Ashley Lahey defeated Tori Kinard 6-1, 6-3.Hailey Baptiste defeated Rhiann Neworn 6-3, 6-3.Shilin Xu (3) defeated Angelina Gabueva 6-0, 6-2.Chieh-Yu Hsu (8) defeated Nicole Mossmer 6-3, 6-0.Gail Brodsky defeated Ashley Weinhold 7-5, 6-4.Robin Anderson (5) defeated Emma Navarro 6-2, 6-2.Alize Lim (2) defeated Maria Jose Portillo Ramirez 6-1, 6-1.Abigail Forbes defeated Elysia Bolton 6-4, 6-2.Gabriela Talaba defeated Luisa Stefani defeated Gabri-ela Talaba 6-2, 6-2.

TODAYSingles Second RoundDoubles Quarterfinals9 a.m.Court 1 – Shilin Xu (3) vs. Hailey BaptisteCourt 2 -- Gail Brodsky vs. Chieh-Yu Hsu (8)Court 4 -- Marcela Zacarias (7) vs. Olga GovortsovaFollowed byCourt 1 -- Ashley Lahey vs. Usue Maitane Arconada (4)Court 2 -- Robin Anderson (5) vs. Abigail ForbesCourt 4 -- Luisa Stefani vs. Alize LimFollowed byCourt 1 -- Taylor Townsend (1) vs. Anastasia NefedovaCourt 2 -- Jada Robinson vs. Maria Mateas (6)Court 4 -- Anna Sinclair Rogers/Alana Smith vs. Julia Elbaba/Shilin Xu (4)Followed byCourt 1 -- Chieh-Yu Hsu/Marcela Zacarias (1) vs. Made-leine Kobelt/Genevieve LorbergsCourt 2 -- Alycia Parks/Amy Zhu vs. Usue Maitane Arcon-ada/Ashley Weinhold (2)Featured Match, 7 p.m.Court 1 -- Astra Sharma/Luisa Stefani (3) vs. Hayley Carter/Ronit Yurovsky

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SADIE P. CISSOMSadie P. Cissom, 83, widow

of James Andrew "Jim" Cis-som, died on Tuesday, June 5, 2018, at McElveen Manor.

Born on Jan. 12, 1935, in Laurens, she was a daughter of the late Eugene and Esther Snow Parker. She grew up as a member of Second Baptist Church in Laurens, where she met her husband. After mov-ing to Sumter, she became an active member of First Bap-tist Church. She taught first grade Sunday school for sev-eral years and the Golden Cir-cle Sunday School class for more than 40 years. She was a member of the Order of the Eastern Star. She retired as a school teacher after 30 years of service.

Survivors include a son, Stephen P. Cissom of Sumter; a sister, Miriam Pennington; a niece, Donna Wilson (Ricky); and a nephew, Alan Wilson.

She was preceded in death by an infant son.

A graveside service will be held at 11 a.m. on Saturday at Sumter Cemetery with the Rev. Marion Ziegler and the Rev. Dr. Bob Calvert officiat-ing.

Elmore-Cannon-Stephens Funeral Home and Crematori-um of Sumter is in charge of the arrangements.

PHILIS GIBSON-GERALDOn Friday, June 8, 2018, Phi-

lis Gibson-Gerald, widow of Franklin D. Gerald, heard her Master's call at Palmetto Health Tuomey.

Born on April 21, 1940, in Manning, she was a daughter of the late James Henry and Mable Williams Gibson.

Service of remembrance will take place at 2 p.m. on Friday at Zion Hill Missionary Baptist Church, 2225 George

Conyers Road, Paxville com-munity of Manning, where the Rev. Robert Gibson, pastor of True Word Baptist Church, Paxville, will preside. Words of consolation will come from the Rev. Clifford Gaymon, pas-tor of Zion Hill Missionary Baptist Church. The service of committal will follow in the family plot located in the Cal-vary and Zion Hill Church Cemetery.

The family is receiving rel-atives and friends from 4 to 8 p.m. at the residence,129 Breedin St., Manning.

Fleming & DeLaine Funer-al Home and Chapel of Man-ning is charge of these servic-es. Online condolences for the family may be sent to www.flemingdelaine.com or flemingdelaine@aol.com.

ROVENA B. WATSONOn Wednesday, June 13,

2018, Rovena Brunson Wat-son, widow of Otis Watson, exchanged her rugged cross for her precious crown at Pal-metto Health Tuomey. Born on May 26, 1925, in Manning, she was a daughter of the late Willis and Mary Madgalene Johnson Brunson and step-daughter of the late Sallie James Brunson.

The family is receiving rel-atives and friends from 4 to 8 p.m. at the residence of her daughter, Ruth Ann Watson, 1764 Bonanza Crossing, Jor-dan community of Manning.

Funeral services are in-complete and will be an-nounced by Fleming & De-Laine Funeral Home and Cha-pel.

JOHN H. CALHOUNJohn Herbert Calhoun, 75,

husband of Eva J. Calhoun, died suddenly but peacefully in his sleep on Tuesday, June

12, 2018, at his residence.Born on Feb. 25, 1943, in

Winnsboro, he was a son of the late David Harris Calhoun and Pauline Bays Calhoun. Mr. Calhoun was educated in the public schools of Sumter and attended Columbia Bible College (CIU) and John Brown University. He worked in Christian education, radio and television. He retired after many years as reference librarian at the Sumter Coun-ty Library.

At Calvary Bible Church, John loved playing the organ. His favorite song was "I Have Decided to Follow Jesus." He also loved to paint and was painting a picture of a cow for Eva. Each fall he and Eva went to the North Carolina mountains and thought, "We lift up our eyes unto the hills, from whence comes our help. Our help comes from the Lord, who made heaven and earth." (Psalm 121). John’s de-light was also found in being "Papa" to Gracie and Michael.

Surviving are his wife of Sumter; a daughter, Joanna Calhoun Bieger (Andy) of Sumter; two grandchildren, Gracie and Michael Bieger, both of Sumter; a brother, Dr. David Bays Calhoun (Anne) of Botavia, Illinois; a niece, Is-abel Farrar (Jon) of Botavia; a great-niece, Zoe Farrar of Botavia; a great-nephew, Ian Farrar of Botavia; and a nephew, Allen Calhoun (Mary Ann) of Danville, Virginia.

He was preceded in death by a brother, Paul Harris Cal-houn.

Graveside services will be held at 3 p.m. on Friday at Sumter Cemetery with the Rev. Dr. Richard Harris offici-ating.

The family will receive friends at the home.

Memorials may be made to Calvary Bible Church, 770 N. Wise Drive, Sumter, SC 29150

or to the Bible Broadcasting Network (BBN), P.O. Box 7300, Charlotte, NC 28241.

Online condolences may be sent to www.sumterfunerals.com

Elmore Hill McCreight Fu-neral Home & Crematory, 221 Broad St., Sumter, is in charge of the arrangements, (803) 775-9386.

ESSIE MAE W. ROLLERSON

WOODBRIDGE, Va. — Essie Mae Ceasar Wheeler Roller-son, 80, died on Monday, June 11, 2018, at Inova Alexandria Hospital, Alexandria, Virgin-ia.

She was born on May 22, 1938, in Gable, a daughter of the late Marshall and Louise Scott Ceasar.

These services have been entrusted to Samuels Funeral Home LLC of Manning.

JAMES GREENJames "Due" Green, 75, was

called from his earthly home by his heavenly father on Tuesday, June 12, 2018, at Pal-metto Health Tuomey.

Born on May 10, 1943, in Lee County, he was a son of Levan Johnson and Louise Green Jennings. He attended West Lee Elementary School and Dennis High School, until he stopped school to work on the farm driving tractors. He was united with Rebecca Spain and to this union five children were born. He relocated to Brook-lyn, New York, where he was employed at Purify Dawn Pil-low Co. He later met and married Geraldine Green in 1995. James became a mem-

ber of New Jerusalem Holy Church of Brooklyn, where he served active as a deacon, usher and any other services needed of him.

He is survived by his wife, Geraldine Green of Brooklyn; mother, Louise Green Jen-nings; children, James (Holly), Michael, Darrin and Denise of Brooklyn and Joyce of Camden; sisters, Bernice King (Harry) of Shallotte, North Carolina, and Dorothy Jennings; brother, Ralph Jen-nings (Cheryl) of Richmond, Virginia; bonus children, Jason Green, Charlene Brown, Darlene Brown and Kevin Brown (Donna) of Brooklyn; 24 grandchildren; 25 great-grandchildren; a de-voted nephew, Kevin Jen-nings; and a host of nieces, nephews, other relatives and friends.

The family is receiving rela-tives and friends at the home, 2700 Rembert Church Road, Dalzell.

Funeral services will be held at 11 a.m. on Friday at Mount Olive AME Church, 2738 Woodrow Road, Wood-row, with the Rev. Dr. Friend-ly J. Gadson, pastor, and Bish-op / Senior Pastor Lester Smith, of New Jerusalem Holy Church of Brooklyn, eu-logist.

The remains will be placed in the church at 10 a.m.

The funeral procession will leave at 10:30 a.m. from the home.

Burial will be at Mount Olive Memorial Garden, Pear Street, Sumter.

These services have been entrusted to the management and staff of Williams Funeral Home Inc., 821 N. Main St., Sumter. Online memorial messages may be sent to the family at williamsfuneral-home@sc.rr.com. Visit us on the web at www.williamsfu-neralhomeinc.com.

OBITUARIES

Sharma, who is ranked No. 396, had Townsend on her heels in the early going.

"I didn't know what to ex-pect," Townsend said. "I went in pretty confident, but she played really well."

Sharma held serve to go up 5-2 and appeared to have con-trol of the match. Townsend held serve in the next game and then broke Sharma to pull within 5-4. That swung the momentum and Townsend won the next three games as well to win the first set.

Sharma held serve to win the first game in the second set, and Townsend did the same. However, Townsend broke Sharma to go up 2-1 and it appeared as though that would be the difference as they held serve up to Townsend holding a 5-4 lead.

Townsend held a 30-15 be-

fore Sharma battled back, forcing two deuces before breaking Townsend to tie it at 5-5. Sharma then won with four straight points to go up 6-5 before Townsend rallied to make it 6-6 and force the 6-point tiebreaker.

Sharma won the first point on serve and then won a point on a Townsend serve to go up 2-0. It was tied at 2 and 3 be-fore Sharma went up 5-3. Townsend won a point on Sharma's serve and then ran down a shot that appeared to have a third set secured and sent it down the left baseline for a winner that garnered ac-knowledgment from Sharma for a good shot.

Sharma actually went back up 7-6, but Townsend scored the final three points to win the match.

This is Townsend's third time playing in a tournament at PTC as the No. 1 seed. The first two had completely dif-ferent results. In the 2015 PPO,

Townsend lost in the first round. In the inaugural Sum-ter Pink Open in October of 2017, Townsend won the tour-nament.

"I really enjoy playing here," she said. "The people are nice, it's a good facility."

Townsend will face Anasta-sia Nefedova in today’s second round. Nefedova defeated Julia Elbaba 4-6, 7-6, 6-2.

In a rarity for the PPO, each of the eight seeds won their first-round matches. Also de-fending champion Ashley Lahey won her opener, defeat-ing Tori Kinard 6-1, 6-3.

The eight second-round matches will be played today along with the four doubles quarterfinal matches. Each of the four doubles seeds are still alive as well.

The featured match at 7 p.m. will be a doubles match between the No. 3 team Shar-ma and Luisa Stefani and Hayley Carter and Ronit Yurovsky.

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North American trio beats Morocco to host 2026 World Cup

MOSCOW — North America will host the 2026 World Cup after FIFA vot-ers overwhelmingly opted for the financial and logis-tical certainty of a United States-led bid over a risky Moroccan proposal for the first 48-team tournament.

The soccer showpiece will return to the U.S. for the first time since 1994 after gaining 134 votes, while Morocco got 65 at the FIFA Congress in Moscow on Wednesday.

The vote by football fed-erations was public, in con-trast to secrecy surround-ing the ballot by FIFA's elected board members for the 2018 and 2022 hosts, Russia and Qatar, in 2010.

The U.S. proposed stag-ing 60 out of the 80 games in 2026, when 16 teams will be added to the finals, leav-ing Canada and Mexico with ten fixtures each.RAYS 1BLUE JAYS 0

ST. PETERSBURG, Fla. — Matt Duffy's RBI single with two outs in the ninth drove in the game's only run in the Tampa Bay Rays' 1-0 win over the Toronto Blue Jays on Wednesday.

Duffy drove in Mallex

Smith, who doubled with one out and moved to third base on a ground ball.

Diego Castillo (1-0) got his first major league win after pitching two innings of relief.

Ryan Tepera (3-2) pitched the final 1 2/3 innings for the Jays, who were swept in the three-game series and have lost five of six to the Rays this season. It was the 12th time the Blue Jays have scored one run or none this season.BREWERS 1CUBS 0

MILWAUKEE — Lorenzo Cain homered and Jhoulys Chacin combined with three relievers on a six-hit-ter to give the Milwaukee Brewers their second straight shutout of the Chi-cago Cubs, 1-0 on Wednes-day.

Chacin (6-1) allowed four hits in six innings, striking out seven and walking four to win his sixth consecu-tive decision. Jeremy Jef-fress pitched the seventh, Josh Hader struck out the side in the eighth and Cory Knebel finished with a per-fect ninth for his sixth save.

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PREVIOUS SOLUTION

6/14/18

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DEAR ABBY — My husband, who is re-tired, now prefers to talk exclusively to people under 21. He says he is “mentor-ing” them, though I haven’t seen any indica-tion of this. He says he

has no interest in talking to people our age, so when we get together with our friends, he says practically nothing. When I asked why, he said he prefers to impart his knowledge to younger people. I’ve suggested that he volunteer with younger people, but he wasn’t interested — he just wants to hang out with them.

I’m not sure what to do. He seems depressed if they don’t respond to him in the way he would like. Mostly they show little interest in being with him. What, if anything, should I do about this? It’s been going on for more than two years now.

Concerned in the Midwest

DEAR CONCERNED — I feel sorry for your husband. He may avoid companions his own age because they remind him that he is getting older. It’s no won-der young people don’t respond to him. I can imagine few pas-times less appetizing than so-cializing with someone who “imparts knowledge” by talk-ing down to them. They might find him more appealing if he asked them questions and lis-tened to what they had to say.

Consider talking to him

about your concern that he is socially isolating himself from contemporaries, because the longer he continues, the less welcome he will find himself. However, until he comes to that realization and decides to fix it, do not expect anything to change.

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Problem-filled ‘Marlon’ returns for 2nd seasonBY KEVIN McDONOUGH

Now entering its second season, NBC’s “Marlon” (9 p.m. and 9:30 p.m., TV-PG) is said to be loosely based on Marlon Wayans’ own life. That’s often a bad sign, but it’s not the only problem with this strained sitcom.

Wayans plays a loose im-personation of himself named Marlon Wayne. Es-sence Atkins is Ashley Wayne, his former wife, but you’d never know it. Marlon barges in the house unan-nounced as if they were still married. They stay friendly for the sake of their chil-dren.

Marlon makes a living off some kind of internet fame gained from speaking frank-ly, if childishly, about ev-erything and anything.

It doesn’t take a great deal of sophistication to distin-guish internet performanc-es from everyday activity. Even “iCarly” did that. Here, Marlon’s online shtick is shown in the same video resolution as everything else, adding a flatness to the sitcom’s fakeness.

With nothing to distin-guish performance from the everyday, comedy bits tend to bleed into “real” life. In this season’s first episode, Marlon disrupts a counsel-ing session with an extend-ed skit about an airline hi-jacking, much to the cha-grin of Ashley and the counselor.

Wayans is a natural per-former and brings a certain ebullience to his role, but the whole enterprise is rather slapdash and thoughtless. Just as online shenanigans and “real” life look the same, marriage, di-vorce, fatherhood and friendship seem to have no meaning or consequences to a cartoon character who is always “on.”

• Premium subscription service CBS All Access be-gins streaming “Strange Angel.” Based on the book of the same name by George Pendle, it follows the stranger-than-fiction life of Jack Parsons (Jack Reynor), a pioneer of rocketry and jet engines and a co-founder of the Jet Propulsion Labo-ratory who also dabbled in the occult. During the World War II era, Parson joined a religious order founded by Aleister Crowley. Later, Parsons’ romantic life re-sulted in a personal tangle with L. Ron Hubbard, the science fiction writer and founder of Scientology.

Episodes of “Strange Angel” were not distributed for review.

CULT CHOICEBing Crosby and Fred

Astaire star in the 1942 mu-sical “Holiday Inn” (10:15 p.m., TCM), stuffed with 12 original songs by Irving Berlin, including “White Christmas.”

TONIGHT’S OTHER HIGHLIGHTS

• New challengers arrive on “The Four: Battle for Star-dom” (8 p.m., Fox, TV-14).

• Tandy becomes a fugi-tive on “Marvel’s Cloak and Dagger” (9 p.m., Freeform, TV-14).

• Brad’s singing competi-tion begins on “Nashville” (9 p.m., CMT, TV-PG).

• “Girlfriends’ Guide to Di-vorce” (10 p.m., Bravo, TV-14) enters its fifth and final season not long after the cancellation of Bravo’s other scripted series, “Im-posters.”

• Bonnie must balance her checkbook for the first time on “American Woman” (10 p.m., Paramount, TV-14).

• “Survivor” without com-panionship, “Alone” (10:03 p.m., History, TV-PG) enters its fifth season.

• “American Woman” stars Alicia Silverstone and Mena Suvari appear on “Lip Sync Battle” (10:40 p.m., Par-amount, TV-PG).

SERIES NOTESEarth science on “The Big

Bang Theory” (8 p.m., CBS, r, TV-PG) * Singing and danc-ing on “Little Big Shots” (8 p.m., NBC, TV-G) * The Kar-dashians play “Celebrity Family Feud” (8 p.m. ABC, r, TV-PG) * A grief counsel-or’s patients have a habit of dying on “Supernatural” (8 p.m., CW, r, TV-14) * New friends on “Young Sheldon” (8:30 p.m., CBS, r, TV-PG) * Jill feels renewed on “Mom” (9 p.m., CBS, r, TV-14) * Ce-

lebs play “The $100,000 Pyra-mid” (9 p.m., ABC, r, TV-14) * A deadly new drug hits the streets on “Black Light-ning” (9 p.m., CW, r, TV-14) * Sharing the Thanksgiving chores on “Life in Pieces” (9:30 p.m., CBS, r, TV-PG) * A terrorist’s death inspires the search for his confeder-ates on “S.W.A.T.” (10 p.m., CBS, r, TV-14) * The discov-ery of a confused woman re-opens a kidnapping case on “Law & Order: SVU” (10 p.m., NBC, r, TV-14) * Celebs are obliged “To Tell the Truth” (10 p.m., ABC, r, TV-14).

LATE NIGHTMike Colter is booked on

“The Daily Show With Trevor Noah” (11 p.m., Comedy Cen-tral) * Lisa Kudrow, Tom Papa and Jukebox the Ghost appear on “Conan” (11 p.m.,

TBS) * Natalie Portman, Marc Maron and Alt-J fea-turing Pusha T are sched-uled on “The Late Show With Stephen Colbert” (11:35 p.m., CBS) * Jimmy Fallon wel-comes Chris Pratt and Christina Aguilera on “The Tonight Show” (11:35 p.m., NBC) * Jon Hamm, Lil Rel Howery and G-Eazy featur-ing Yo Gotti and YBN Nah-mir appear on “Jimmy Kim-mel Live” (11:35 p.m., ABC) * Ed Helms, Vanessa Kirby, Hannah Gadsby and Brian Frasier-Moore visit “Late Night With Seth Meyers” (12:35 a.m., NBC) * Isla Fish-er, Jeremy Renner and Ro-mesh Ranganathan appear on “The Late Late Show With James Corden” (12:35 a.m., CBS).

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CHRIS HASTON / NBCMarlon Wayans, left, stars as Marlon Wayne and Amir O’Neil as Zack Wayne in the “Model Parent” episode of “Marlon,” airing at 9 p.m. today on NBC.

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(Non-Jury)FORECLOSURE

OF REAL ESTATEMORTGAGE

IN THE COURTOF COMMON PLEAS

C/A NO.:2018-CP-43-00779

STATE OF SOUTH CAROLINACOUNTY OF SUMTER

U.S. Bank National Association, asindenture trustee, for the CIM Trust2016-2, Mortgage-Backed Notes,Series 2016-2,

Plaintiff,v.

Gene Allen Weaver; Any heirs-at-lawor devisees of Dorothy M. Weaver,deceased, their heirs, PersonalRepresentatives, Administrators,Successors and Assigns, and allother persons or entities entitled toclaim through them; all unknownpersons or entities with any right,title, estate, interest in or lien uponthe real estate described in thecomplaint herein; also any personswho may be in the military service ofthe United States of America, being aclass designated as Richard Roe; andany unknown minors, incompetentor imprisoned person, or personsunder a disability being a classdesignated as John Doe; HSBC BankNevada, N.A.,

Defendant(s).

TO THE DEFENDANT(S) ABOVENAMED:YOU ARE HEREBY SUMMONEDand required to appear and defendby answering the Complaint in thisaction, a copy of which is herebyserved upon you, and to serve a copyof your Answer on the subscribers attheir offices at 3800 FernandinaRoad, Suite 110, Columbia, SC 29210,within thirty (30) days after theservice hereof, exclusive of the dayof such service; except that theUnited States of America, if named,shall have sixty (60) days to answerafter the service hereof, exclusive ofthe day of such service; and if youfail to do so, judgment by default willbe rendered against you for therelief demanded in the Complaint.

TO MINOR(S) OVER FOURTEENYEARS OF AGE, AND/OR TOMINOR(S) UNDER FOURTEENYEARS OF AGE AND THE PERSONWITH WHOM THE MINOR(S)RESIDES, AND/OR TO PERSONSU N D E R S O M E L E G A LDISABILITY:

YOU ARE FURTHER SUMMONEDAND NOTIFIED to apply for theappointment of a guardian ad litemwithin thirty (30) days after theservice of this Summons and Noticeupon you. If you fail to do so,application for such appointmentwill be made by Attorney forPlaintiff.

YOU WILL ALSO TAKE NOTICEthat Plaintiff will move for an Orderof Reference or the Court may issuea general Order of Reference of thisaction to a Master-in-Equity/SpecialReferee, pursuant to Rule 53 of theSouth Carolina Rules of CivilProcedure.

YOU WILL ALSO TAKE NOTICEthat under the provisions of S.C.Code Ann. § 29-3-100, effective June16, 1993, any collateral assignment ofrents contained in the referencedMortgage is perfected and Attorneyfor Plaintiff hereby gives notice thatall rents shall be payable directly toit by delivery to its undersignedattorneys from the date of default. Inthe alternative, Plaintiff will movebefore a judge of this Circuit on the10th day after service hereof, or assoon thereafter as counsel may beheard, for an Order enforcing theassignment of rents, if any, andcompelling payment of all rentscovered by such assignment directlyto the Plaintiff, which motion is to bebased upon the original Note andMortgage herein and the Complaintattached hereto.

LIS PENDENS

NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN THAT

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AND APPOINTMENTOF ATTORNEY

It appearing to the satisfaction of theCourt, upon reading the filedPetition for Appointment of KelleyWoody, Esquire as Guardian adLitem for unknown minors, andpersons who may be under adisability, and it appearing thatKelley Woody, Esquire hasconsented to said appointment.

FURTHER upon reading the filedPetition for Appointment of KelleyWoody, Esquire as Attorney for anyunknown Defendants who may be inthe Military Service of the UnitedStates of America, and may be, assuch, entitled to the benefits of theServicemember's Civil Relief Act,and any amendments thereto, and itappearing that Kelley Woody,Esquire has consented to act for andrepresent said Defendants, it is

ORDERED that Kelley Woody, P.O.Box 6432, Columbia, SC 29260 phone(803) 787-9678, be and hereby isappointed Guardian ad Litem onbehalf of all unknown minors and allunknown persons who may be undera disability, all of whom may have orclaim to have some interest or claimto the real property commonlyknown as 1800 Race Track Road,Sumter, SC 29153; that he isempowered and directed to appearon behalf of and represent saidDefendants, unless said Defendants,or someone on their behalf, shallwithin thirty (30) days after serviceof a copy hereof as directed, procurethe appointment of Guardian orGuardians ad Litem for saidDefendants.

AND IT IS FURTHER ORDEREDthat Kelley Woody, P.O. Box 6432,Columbia, SC 29260 phone (803)787-9678, be and hereby is appointedAttorney for any unknownDefendants who are, or may be, inthe Military Service of the UnitedStates of America and as such areentitled to the benefits of theServicemember's Civil Relief Act akaSoldiers' and Sailors' Civil Relief Actof 1940, and any amendmentsthereto, to represent and protect theinterest of said Defendants,

AND IT IS FURTHER ORDEREDThat a copy of this Order shall beforth with served upon saidDefendants by publication in TheItem, a newspaper of generalcirculation published in the Countyof Sumter, State of South Carolina,once a week for three (3) consecutiveweeks, together with the Summonsand Notice of Filing of Complaint inthe above entitled action.

Brock & Scott, PLLC3800 Fernandina Road, Suite 110Columbia, SC 29210Phone 844-856-6646Fax 803-454-3451Attorneys for Plaintiff

an action has been or will becommenced in this Court uponcomplaint of the above-namedPlaintiff against the above-namedDefendant(s) for the foreclosure of acertain mortgage of real estate givenby Dorothy M. Weaver to BeneficialSouth Carolina, Inc. dated March 29,2007 and recorded on April 5, 2007 inBook 1072 at Page 001338, in theSumter County Registry (hereinafter,"Mortgage"). Thereafter, theMortgage was transferred to thePlaintiff herein by assignmentand/or corporate merger.

The premises covered and affectedby the said Mortgage and by theforeclosure thereof were, at the timeof the making thereof and at the timeof the filing of this notice, moreparticularly described in the saidMortgage and are more commonlydescribed as:

ALL THAT PIECE, PARCEL, ORLOT OF LAND IN CONCORDTOWNSHIP, SUMTER COUNTY,SOUTH CAROLINA ABOUT 800FEET WEST OF THE RADICALROAD, AND FRONTING ON THELAWRENCE PUBLIC ROAD;CONTAINING ONE ACRE ANDBEING MORE FULLY SHOWN ONA PLAT OF H. S. WILLSON, RLSDATED JANUARY 24, 1962.RECORDED IN THE OFFICE OFTHE REGISTER OF DEEDS FORSUMTER COUNTY IN PLAT BOOKZ-18 AT PAGE 95, MEASURING ANDBEING BOUNDED AS FOLLOWS:ON THE NORTH BY LANDS OF D.F. MIXON AND MEASURINGTHEREON 262.1 FEET, ON THEEAST BY OTHER LANDS OF D. F,M I X O N A N D M E A S U R E DTHEREON 168.2 FEET; ON THESOUTH BY OTHER LANDS OF D. F,MIX ON A ND MEA S U RINGTHEREON 262.1 FEET, AND ONTHE WEST BY THE SAIDLAWRENCE PUBLIC ROAD ANDMEASURING THEREON 168.2F E E T , B E O F S A I DMEASUREMENTS A LITTLE MOREOR LESS. THIS PROPERTY ISKNOWN AS 1800 RACE TRACKR O A D , S U M T E R , S O U T HCAROLINA.

This being the same propertyconveyed to Dorothy M. Weaver bydeed of the Estate of Franklin D.Weaver dated June 29, 2006 andrecorded June 30, 2006 in Book 1034at Page 1330 in the records forSumter County, South Carolina.

TMS No. 265-00-04-004

Property Address:1800 Race Track Road,

Sumter, SC 29153

NOTICE OFFILING COMPLAINT

TO THE DEFENDANTS ABOVENAMED:YOU WILL PLEASE TAKE NOTICEthat the original Complaint, CoverSheet for Civil Actions andCertificate of Exemption from ADRin the above entitled action was filedin the Office of the Clerk of Court forSumter County on April 30, 2018. ANotice of Foreclosure Interventionwas also filed in the Clerk of Court'sOffice.

ORDER APPOINTINGGUARDIAN AD LITEM

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