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MISS HILTON HEAD URGES CYCLE SAFETY

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PROAXIS FINDS NICHE IN PHYSICAL

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SCHOOL CREDIT UPHELD FOR BIBLE CLASS

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“For a change, I could actually concentrate on something other than the pain that I was in.”

Ryan Ferre, an Iraq veteran, on the joy of fly-fishing with Project Healing Waters.

“It’s something that I will always carry with me, and he has six kids who no longer have a father.”

Miss South Carolina contestant Maegan Garner, on the fatal motorcycle crash she witnessed that inspired her campaign for helmet laws in South Carolina.

“Physical therapy is very much like a health club in that any more than 10 minutes out becomes

a barrier for people to want to come.” Bob Leonard of Proaxis Therapy, on the company’s decision to locate

multiple clinics conveniently scattered across several cities and counties.

“It feels great to be officially back in the development business, bringing this new product to market after prudent dormancy during the real estate recession.”

Chuck Pigg, community manager of the Reserve at Lake Keowee, on the 14 new lakefront homes the reserve has opened.

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Taking FlightLocal artists Jane Frost and Susan Hopps will exhibit their work July 2-27 in the Artists’ Guild of Spartanburg’s gallery at the Chapman Cultural Center. Open daily 10 a.m.-5 p.m., but closed on Sundays.

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

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

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

Call for ArtistsThe Artists’ Guild of Spartanburg is now accepting submissions for its 2012 39th annual juried show, which will Sept. 20-Nov. 3. More than $4,000 will be awarded in various categories. Submission deadline: Aug. 1.

An Original Musical by TeenagersThat Awkward Stage, a Greenville-based theatre troupe of teenagers, will present Composed in Memories in the David Reid Theatre at the Chapman Cultural Center on Friday, July 6 at 7 p.m. and Saturday, July 7 at 2 and 7 p.m.

First Saturday at Historic Price HouseVisit the Price House Saturday, July 7, 11 a.m.-5 p.m. to learn something new and historic about Upstate South Carolina. Fun for the whole family. Presented by the Spartanburg County Historical Association.

The Mary Black Foundation has an-nounced that as of Aug. 15, Director of Pro-grams Molly Talbot-Metz will serve as in-terim foundation president while the board seeks a replacement for President Philip Belcher, who will step down in August.

Talbot-Metz has worked with the foun-dation since 2001, assuming the director of programs post in 2007.

“I look forward to leading the foun-dation during this time of transition,” Talbot-Metz said. “We have many ex-

citing projects in progress, including a Quality Rating and Improvement System for child-care centers and our work on Spar-tanburg’s North-side. I anticipate continuing Philip’s thoughtful leader-ship to accomplish our mission of health and wellness for the people of Spartanburg County until we have a new president in place.”

Belcher has served as foundation president for 12 years and announced his departure in early May. During his tenure, Belcher helped the foundation focus on active learning and early childhood development and expand

its impact, according to the foundation. Belcher will take a position as vice president of programs at The Community Foundation of Western North Carolina.

The board of trustees’ search commit-tee is in the process of hiring a search firm to handle the recruitment process. The firm should be selected within the next month, said foundation communications officer Cate Brandt Ryba. The search firm will set a timetable for the selection of a new president, Ryba said.

Founded in 1996, the Mary Black Foun-dation is an independent private founda-tion focusing on the health and wellness of Spartanburg County residents. To date, the foundation has awarded more than $36 million in grants.

Contact April A. Morris at [email protected].

Mary Black Foundation names interim president

Search for Philip Belcher’s replacement

underwayBy april a. morris | staff

Molly Talbot-Metz, interim president, Mary Black Foundation

The Carolina Carp Cup is the South Car-olina equivalent of a fishing marathon.

Two-man teams will fish for carp from the shores of Lake Blalock in Spartanburg County next month for 44 straight hours.

“Carp fishing is a different type of fish-ing,” said Jason Bernhardt, a co-director of the tournament and co-owner of Wild Carp Companies, an Upstate New York-based company that advocates carp fishing. “It’s al-most like camping. You fish by the river, you sleep by the river, you eat by the river.”

Fishermen in the Carolina Carp Cup, which could attract fishermen from across the country but is expected to fea-ture a lot of local fishermen as well, will fish from the same spot on shore for the entire tournament.

Carp are bottom-feeders and fisher-men create bait piles to attract the fish. Then they wait for the fish to bite.

When they do, an alarm sounds so the fisherman can reel them in.

“You can manage to get some sleep,” said Bernhardt, who said he has fished in tour-naments that were even longer in duration, including a 100-hour world championship.

Bernhardt said Lake Blalock was cho-sen for the group’s first tournament in South Carolina because it has an ample supply of big fish and enough bank space to host a large tournament. The lake has common and mirror carp that can get in excess of 30 pounds.

A water body record will be set during the July 19 through 22 tournament because none has been officially recorded before.

All fish caught in the tournament will be weighed and released unharmed, Bernhardt said.

Unlike bass tournaments participants, fishermen in the Carolina Carp Cup will be able to weigh more than five fish. The team that has the highest combined weight for their four largest carp will win $10,000. The tournament will pay for the 25 largest carp caught during the nearly two days.

“Conceivably, one team could win all the prizes, but that’s extremely unlikely,” Bernhardt said.

Although carp are used for food in some countries, it is the world’s No. 1 freshwater sport fish, Bernhardt said.

“Bass was considered a trash fish when Ray Scott formed Bassmasters and look

how it’s regarded today,” he said. “Carp has already proven its value overseas; now it is time to start capitalizing on this abundant resource.”

Bernhardt said carp fishing is a huge sport in the South although many don’t realize it.

He said there are more than 200 carp pay lakes in the Carolinas and many run daily or regular carp tournaments. He said thousands of fishermen in the Caro-linas compete in pay lake tournaments.

One reason carp fishing is popular is that it doesn’t require expensive equip-ment, he said. While some carp fishermen can spend up to $5,000 on gear, others can go to Wal-Mart and spend less than $200.

David Smith, owner and editor of US-CarpPro Magazine, called carp fishing the last frontier of competitive fishing in the United States.

Twenty-eight teams have registered for the Carolina Carp Cup so far. Registration is $550 for a two-person team. Registra-tion deadline is July 6. More information is available at www.wildcarpcompanies.com.

Lake Blalock is 1,105 acres and has about 45 miles of shoreline. Spartanburg Water owns it.

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It’s time for ethics reformIn the lessons-learned category, there is much to take away from the his-

toric hearing that ended with the dismissal of ethics charges last week against Gov. Nikki Haley by the House Ethics Committee.

Not least of these is the value of transparency: � e Ethics Committee’s de-cision to hear testimony in open session gave state residents the chance to judge the issues for themselves un� ltered by politicians or the media.

Most notably, the public proceedings a� orded a clarifying view of the loop-hole-ridden ethics laws that allow our elected leaders to hide far more of their personal economic interests than they reveal.

Legislators from both parties are promising to introduce “far-ranging ethics reform” next year in the wake of the hearing’s revelations. How they will de� ne “far-ranging” remains an open question – but at the very least, state residents are owed enough sunshine to judge for themselves the potential for unseemly interactions between private business relationships and public voting records.

Because right now, that clarity is wholly absent. For all the legal bans on gi� s, money and self-bene� cial lobbying, state law deliberately skirts the kind of detail that would reveal potential con� icts of interest with anything ap-proaching transparency. Ethics laws do not even require lawmakers to name their employers – which is why Haley, as a legislator, could work as a con-sultant for a Columbia engineering � rm that receives state contracts without disclosing that information.

� e law is also muddy enough to allow Haley to take a paycheck as fund-raiser for a Lexington hospital foundation while promoting, as a legislator, the hospital’s bid to open a heart-surgery center.

As the governor said, quite rightly, she broke no disclosure laws and did nothing illegal. But Rep. Laurie Funderburk, the sole Ethics Committee member to vote against Haley on one of the seven charges, also rightly says that the public would be better served if Haley had “erred on the positive side” and disclosed her consulting fees – as would be� t a governor who cam-paigned on transparency as fervently as Haley did.

Haley is among those promising to take a hard look at ethics reforms this summer. Full disclosure on employment history is a good place to start.

Nothing in state law prevents lawmakers from working for companies that lobby the Legislature. Granted, a legislator is barred from lobbying on behalf of his employer – but nothing in the law prevents him from promoting a bill that bene� ts that employer’s industry. Consequently, state Rep. Jim Merrill could pocket $160,000 in consulting fees from a PAC run by the S.C. As-sociation of Realtors last year while he sponsored and delivered the Point of Sale Reform, which substantially reduced property taxes on commercial real estate. What’s more, he didn’t have to disclose a bit of it.

Just because something is legal doesn’t make it right, as the saying goes, and the fact that Merrill sees “nothing unethical about this whatsoever” is revealing. Even if it remains legal, any reforms that force Merrill and others like him to automatically disclose such relationships would help the public accurately weigh the voting records that follow.

Legislators will always be attractive potential employees for reasons the Re-altors’ CEO Nick Kremydas put so well in � e State newspaper: “If you don’t have a seat at the table, then you’re on the menu.”

But if the result is a legislator who works for two masters, both masters deserve to know. It’s time for ethics reform.

My teenage daughter died in an alcohol-related automobile crash. A� er her death 13 years ago, I joined a coalition in Green-ville that is trying to reduce underage drinking in our community.

Nationally, alcohol is the No. 1 killer of teens. � e combination of alcohol and driving is especially risky for teens. Most of the fatalities in alcohol-related crash-es involving teen drivers are the drivers themselves and their passengers.

From 2006 to 2010, more than 750 South Carolinians died as a result of a vehicle crash involving an underage driver who had drunk alcohol, according to the National Highway Tra� c Safety Administration (NHTSA).

In 2010 alone, 122 South Carolinians died as a result of a vehicle crash involv-ing an underage driver who had drunk al-cohol (NHTSA). � ese fatalities occurred despite the fact that it is illegal for persons under 21 to possess, purchase or consume alcohol, and it is illegal for persons to sell or give alcohol to persons under 21.

For almost a decade, the Greenville County Enforcing Underage Drinking Laws Coalition has been working to reduce youth access to al-cohol and underage drinking in our commu-nity. � e coalition is composed of represen-tatives from the Greenville County Sheri� ’s O� ce, law enforcement from all municipali-ties in the county, the Greenville school dis-trict, Greenville health and human services agencies, � e Phoenix Center (the legislated authority on substance abuse for Greenville County) and community volunteers. I am a volunteer member of this coalition.

To save lives, the Greenville EUDL Coali-tion has started a new campaign called Un-derage Drinking/Adult Consequences. Dur-ing this campaign, law enforcement o� cers will be targeting underage drinkers, under-age drinking and driving, and the parents and other adults who provide the alcohol.

Our coalition is one of only four re-cipients in the United States to receive the funds from the National Highway Tra� c Safety Administration for the Underage Drinking/Adult Consequences campaign.

� is campaign started in late April and resulted in 149 arrests or citations in a two-week time period. A second wave of con-centrated law enforcement began on June

18. Enforcement waves of two-week dura-tions will occur approximately every other month through January of next year.

As part of this campaign, Greenville o� -cers recently participated in training on fake IDs and in methods to safely disperse parties with underage drinkers. When the law en-forcement o� cers � nd an underage drinker, they will search for the source of the alcohol and also bring charges against the person or merchant who illegally provided the alcohol.

O� cers are also increasing compliance checks, during which a young person un-der the age of 21, in cooperation with law enforcement, purchases alcohol from bars, restaurants, convenience stores or other al-cohol establishments. � e merchants who sell illegally are charged with crimes.

� e Greenville EUDL Coalition has conducted 2,000 compliance checks in the past year. � ese checks have been e� ective in reducing the sale of alcohol to underage persons. Near the time of the Greenville EUDL Coalition’s creation, the underage buy-rate from merchants in Greenville County was 45 percent. By 2011, the youth buy rate from merchants had been reduced to approximately 12 percent.

In addition to compliance checks, law enforcement o� cers are conducting pub-lic safety checkpoints and party patrols. O� cers are watching for parents who pro-vide alcohol or host drinking parties for underage teens. O� cers are using contacts with youth to � nd adults who sell or trans-fer alcohol to persons under 21.

Underage drinking is illegal and can have deadly consequences.

For further information, go to www.fa-cebook.com/underagedrinking.adultcon-sequencesGreenvilleCounty.

Linda Leslie is a Simp-sonville attorney who vol-

unteers with the Greenville County Enforcing Underage

Drinking Laws Coalition. She can be reached at [email protected].

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Greenville Technical College student Maegan Garner did not expect to encoun-ter tragedy on Nov. 19, 2010, as she flipped the left blinker of her car to make a turn. But when a motorcyclist collided with the rear of her vehicle, she witnessed death firsthand. The cyclist was not wearing a helmet and died on the spot.

Encountering death on the road, es-pecially preventable death, filled Garner with grief and shock. At the time, she held the Miss Easley title and participated in a few preliminary events for the Miss South Carolina pageant. However, she discovered she “was not physically or mentally ready” to compete after the accident and chose to step back and reassess.

Now, re-entering pageant competition as the 2011 Miss Hilton Head Island, Garner is determined to use her painful experience to promote helmet safety.

“Everything happens for a reason,” she told the Journal. “I feel like I have a pur-pose now to share that story, hopefully to

educate others on how important it is to wear a helmet, whether riding a motor-cycle or a bicycle.”

Each of the 48 Miss South Carolina con-testants will compete on a personal plat-form. As Miss Hilton Head Island, Garner has spoken about her Smart Rider platform at bike rallies and schools. She said children often choose not to wear helmets because they don’t want to look uncool, while motor-cyclists may prefer riding helmetless for the stress relief the “free” sensation provides.

However, Garner is convinced that the positives of helmet use outweigh the nega-tives, and pleads for riders to understand they are not the only ones affected in an accident. The death of the motorcyclist in her accident is “something that I will al-ways carry with me,” she said, “and he has six kids who no longer have a father.”

Although state law mandates seatbelt use for persons riding in a moving car, South Carolina does not regulate helmet usage for children riding bikes or for mo-torcyclists over 20 years old.

Nineteen states and Washington, D.C., have universal helmet laws for motorcyclists, with good reason, Gar-ner said. “The Facts Hurt: A State-by-State Injury Prevention Policy Report” by the Trust for America’s Health found motorcycle helmets saved an estimated

8,000 lives from 2005 to 2009. Garner said motorcycle-related deaths

are growing in the state; the Highway Pa-trol reports 102 motorcycle fatalities in 2011, compared with 82 in 2010.

A helmet law was introduced but did not pass this year. Even if helmet legisla-tion never passes, Garner said she hopes lawmakers will eventually require motor-cyclists to pass a safety course similar to drivers’ education classes.

Currently, motorcyclists are encour-aged, but not obligated, to take the High-way Safety Department’s Ride Smart pro-gram offered at local technical colleges.

Ride Smart provides instruction on how to ride properly and handle a bike in dan-gerous situations. The program strongly suggests that bikers wear helmets.

Garner, who is currently enrolled in the nursing program at Greenville Tech, will compete in the Miss South Carolina pageant July 10 through 14. She said win-ning the title would give her a greater op-portunity to advocate statewide for hel-met use.

She said regardless of where pageantry takes her, she will continue to advocate helmet safety in her nursing career.

Contact Givens Parr at [email protected].

Sudden death lessonTraffic accident leads Miss South Carolina contestant to advocate

helmet safety

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Miss Hilton Head Island Maegan Garner fits a Croswell Elementary School student with a new helmet. Safe Kids Upstate and Baptist Easley Hospital Foundation recently partnered to provide 500 free bicycle helmets to children in six elementary schools across Pickens County.

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The music of a rushing stream, the ex-pectation of the strike and the stillness of fly-fishing can offer any fisherman a day of tranquility. For wounded and disabled veterans, the banks of a river are a long way from the hospital or rehab clinic vis-its that can fill their days.

To transport veterans away from their daily concerns for a little while, the non-profit Project Healing Waters partners with local conservation organizations and fly-fishing guides to teach those in-terested in a recuperative getaway every-thing from fly-tying and -casting basics to advanced skills. After a bit of basic training, they set out on regular fishing outings.

Founded in 2005 by Captain Ed Nich-olson at Walter Reed Military Medical Center in Washington, D.C., Project Healing Waters has grown to more than 100 chapters nationwide.

“Nicholson realized that fly-casting provided rehabilitation for veterans,” said Cherokee chapter program leader Ryan Harman. The Cherokee group, which is based in Asheville, has up to 20 partici-pants during their regular meetings and serves “everyone from wheelchair-bound veterans to those with PTSD and ampu-tees,” Harman said. Their excursions draw up to 50 veterans from Upstate South Carolina, Western North Carolina, Ten-nessee, Georgia and Virginia, he said.

The group outfits them “with all the gear they need to tie flies as well as go

out fishing” at no cost, he said. Since the program’s beginnings in Asheville, the Cherokee chapter has served nearly 1,000 veterans of all ages, he said. “We’ve had some participants who are World War II veterans. We’ve had ages 19 to 93.”

Harman said what’s most interesting about this particular service for veterans is that “Project Healing Waters is not re-ally about fishing.” The groups go out to fish, but it’s the camaraderie and inter-action among the participants that help them to mend, he says. “Fishing gives us a chance to break down some barriers so they can heal—not only physically, but also mentally.”

The intrinsic motions of fly-tying and -casting also offer therapy, Harman said. “We’ve had tremendous success with vet-erans who have hand and wrist issues. It really builds up their dexterity. If you look at the therapy exercises in the hospital, they are really emulated in fly-casting.”

Quadriplegic John Therrell of Fletcher, N.C., can attest to the therapeutic value of fly-fishing. Therrell has limited dexter-ity since an auto accident when he was serving as a school administrator at Ft. Campbell, Ky.

He has been fishing with Project Heal-ing Waters for about two years and has learned everything from how to use equipment to technique, he said. The program offers him the inclusion that he sometimes misses. “It’s helped me enjoy what I was doing before my accident and I became a quadriplegic. When you fish, you have this experience that you don’t feel left out anymore.”

Therrell recently returned from fishing trips at the Firehole River in Wyoming and the Black River in Arizona. Locally, he favors the Davidson River and Lake Lure. He uses a grasping cuff to gain a tighter grip on the rod. “It’s helped me to

stay more flexible. When you fly-fish, you use your entire body,” he said.

Accessing mountain streams or riv-ers could pose a problem for some dis-abled veterans, but the organization has discovered suitable spots, often private waters offered by their owners, Harman said. “We have one participant who is on crutches; in the water and on the bank, he gets around better than I do. He’s like a billy goat.”

Ryan Ferre, an Iraq veteran and Army staff sergeant, encountered Project Heal-ing Waters in 2009 during his recupera-tion at Walter Reed Medical Center. “I saw these guys practicing fly-casting out on the lawn,” he said. “I wanted to learn that, too.”

Ferre joined the Walter Reed Project Healing Waters group and began going out with the Cherokee chapter after mov-ing to Greenville.

“For a change, I could actually concen-trate on something other than the pain that I was in,” he said about fly-fishing.

“I was just so happy after each trip; it was really a morale booster for me.”

Upstate veterans who were traveling to the nearest chapters in Asheville or Co-lumbia to participate in meetings, work-shops and regular fishing trips will soon have the option of attending a new chap-ter in Clemson.

Project Healing Waters is partnering with the Chattooga River chapter of Trout Unlimited to form a new chapter within the next few months, said Chattooga River Trout Unlimited chapter president Cap-tain Brian Petersen, a fishing guide and fly-fisherman for more than 43 years.

Petersen said the more than 250 mem-bers of his chapter are already offering to volunteer during the up to eight outings planned each year for veterans. “We’re very excited to be starting a Project Heal-ing Waters chapter. The beauty is that it’s going to have the strength of our existing organization.”

The Chattooga River chapter has al-ready contacted Veterans Affairs offices and hospitals to spread the word, he said. Any veterans in the area are invited to participate.

Ferre says he, too, is ready to volunteer. “If I can help anyone else get to know the sport, I will. That’s how therapeutic I think it is.”

Therrell sums up his philosophy re-garding fly-fishing as, “You tie the flies on the bad days and you fish on the good days.”

For more information about Project Healing Waters, visit www.projectheal-ingwaters.org. For information about the new Clemson chapter, contact Brian Petersen at 864-346-4310 or visit www.chattoogatu.org.

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Fly-fishing offers renewal, camaraderie for injured vetsProject Healing

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Tune in To HealTH MaTTers on WSPA’s 6 and 11 p.m. newscasts to learn more about the latest advances in medical care at Spartanburg Regional.

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new rapid weight loss program is fast and safeSpartanburg Regional Weight Loss Services’ newest program is designed to help patients lose weight quickly and safely.

Based on a low glycemic index diet, weekly visits keep patients accountable and allow our nurse practitioner to support thepatient’s weight loss efforts. Patients receive a B12/lipotropic injection, weight loss medications (if appropriate) and urine checks for ketones. Included in the program are structured group classes (Healthy Lifestyle Program).

By following the program’s guidelines, patients are able to maintain their By following the program’s guidelines, patients are able to maintain their new weight using the tools they’ve acquired. Incorporating healthy eating with new weight using the tools they’ve acquired. Incorporating healthy eating with regular exercise also helps patients reach and maintain their desired weight. regular exercise also helps patients reach and maintain their desired weight.

The Rapid Weight Loss program is intended for short-term use. By following our program’s guidelines, participants will be able to achieve their goal weight by making lifestyle changes. Positive side effects include reducing medical conditions associated with obesity, such as cardiovascular disease, type II diabetes, pre-diabetes, hypertension or elevated cholesterol.

For more information, visit spartanburgweightloss.com or call 864-560-7070.

gibbs offers cancer survivorship clinicNearly 30 million people around the world are alive today after being diagnosed with cancer.

That’s a testament to advances in medicine. However, a cancer diagnosis is a life-changing event for many, and Gibbs Cancer Center understands.

The center offers a Survivorship Clinic for cancer survivors completing treatment. This clinic is intended to be a one-time visit for cancer survivors to meet with a nurse practitioner and a nurse navigator with extensive training in survivorship issues. The visit should last 60 to 90 minutes, and it is covered by most insurance companies.

Cancer survivors often experience fatigue, pain, poor appetite, depression and a fear that cancer might return. Gibbs Cancer Center’s Survivorship Clinic is designed to address these and other concerns facing survivors.

Each survivor visiting the clinic receives a personalized survivorship care plan that includes the stage of cancer, summary of treatment received and a “roadmap” for follow-up care. Survivors also receive a copy of their pathology reports. This information is also available electronically through security-en-crypted flash drives. A copy of this plan will be sent to the survivor’s primary care physician and oncolo-gist. Call 864-560-7050 to for more information.

employees receive honorsSpartanburg Regional congratulates the following employees for their commitment to excellence:

Employee of the Year: Annetta Lipscomb, rehabilitation technologist, Pediatric Rehab

Leader of the Year: Heather Bendyk, director, Quality and Data Management

Physician Leader of the Year: Brian Fowler, M.D., Spartanburg Inpatient Specialists

landmark partnership will expand expertise, clinical research in the upstateSpartanburg Regional’s Gibbs Cancer Center, a part-ner with the National Cancer Institute (NCI) and an affiliate of MD Anderson Physicians Network, has joined forces with Bon Secours St. Francis Health System to expand world-class oncology services and clinical research in the Upstate.

Gibbs is home to a growing clinical research division. The alignment of the two systems will advance clini-cal integration, bolster quality and extend new oppor-tunities for both patients and providers for advanced treatment and research unparalleled in the area.

The partnership is rooted in shared goals for the fur-ther development of research and cancer services, with an eye toward increased efficiency and reduced costs and seamless transitions of care.

“This is a collaboration to fight cancer,” Bruce Hol-stien, president and CEO of Spartanburg Regional, said. “Opening new doors in the fight against this dreadful disease means many things: improved access, personalized cancer care and the best new treatments. Joining forces with St. Francis is about the best of the best working hard to get even better at combating cancer.”

The relationship between Gibbs and St. Francis is or-ganized around shared goals of new clinical services and programs, supportive care services, operational support, quality support, research, education and community outreach. A combination of administra-tors and physicians will help in the continuing inves-tigation of potential treatments that can be offered through the partnership.

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Spartanburg School District 7 may award academic credit for off-campus religious education, the U.S. Fourth Cir-cuit Court of Appeals has ruled.

Parents Robert Moss and Ellen Tillett and the Wisconsin-based Freedom From Religion Foundation sued District 7 in 2009, saying that offering credit for a course taught by Spartanburg County Bible Education in School Time at a church next door to Spartanburg High was unconstitutional. Moss’ daughter, Melissa Moss, became a plaintiff after she graduated from high school.

A district court had ruled in favor of the district’s policy.

In 2006, South Carolina became the second state in the nation to allow pub-lic schools to grant elective credit to stu-dents who leave campus for Bible edu-cation when the Released Time Credit Act became law.

Released Time dates back to 1914, when the Gary, Ind., school superintendent estab-lished a program in Christian education.

It peaked in 1947 with 2 million students enrolled nationwide, according to the Re-leased Time Bible Education website.

In 1948, the Supreme Court ruled against Released Time classes being held in school buildings.

Four years later, the program was ruled not to violate separation of church and state as long as the classes were held off campus, no public funding was used for the program and participation was voluntary.

The Bible course taught by SCBEST focused on the Bible, its history and its application to modern Christian life.

SCBEST has an arrangement with Oakbrook Preparatory School where Oakbrook agreed to review and monitor Spartanburg Bible School’s curriculum, teacher qualifications and educational objectives, and to award course credit and grades given by the Bible School.

The arrangement is consistent with Dis-trict 7’s practice of receiving grades award-ed by a private school, including grades for religious courses, when a private school transfers to public school, the court said.

The ruling said Spartanburg High

never actively or directly promoted the course. The course was not listed in the school course catalog and the Bible School wasn’t permitted to advertise to Spartanburg High classrooms. Coun-selors were not allowed to discuss the course or pass out flyers to parents and students unless they had expressed an interest in learning about it.

The Bible School did have an infor-mational table at the high school’s an-nual registration open house, along with military and college recruiters.

“We see no evidence that the program has had the effect of establishing reli-gion or that it has entangled the School District in religion,” the Appeals Court wrote in its ruling. “As was the General Assembly and school district’s purpose, the program properly accommodates religion without establishing it, in ac-cordance with the First Amendment.”

Released time programs are offered in Greenville and Anderson county schools as well.

Contact Cindy Landrum at [email protected]

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If you are sponsoring a community event, we want to share your news. Submit entries to: Spartanburg Journal, Community Briefs, 148 River St., Suite 120, Greenville, SC 29601 or e-mail: [email protected]

Carolina Alliance Bank will host a book signing for Pam Stone as she signs her first book, “I Love Me a Turkey Butt Samwich: Finding a Farm Life After Hollywood,” from 3-5:30 p.m., on July 12, in the bank’s lobby. This event is free and is open to the public. Stone, a comedian, actress and radio host, best known for her role on the ABC sitcom “Coach,” followed a self-imposed vow not to turn 40 in Hollywood and moved to Spartanburg County nearly 12 years ago. Now writing a syndicated column, “I’m Just Saying,” Stone has selected her readers’ favorites and compiled them into her first book. Books will be sold at the book signing. Carolina Alliance is located in downtown Spartanburg at 200 South Church Street. For additional information, call 864-208-BANK (2265) or visit www.carolinaalliancebank.com .

The Avon Foundation for Women recently awarded Aman-da Welch, of Cowpens, S.C., with an Avon Representative Scholarship for the 2012 academic year. The scholarship is de-signed to assist Avon sales representatives who are enrolled (or who plan to enroll) in an undergraduate or graduate course of study leading to a degree in a field that allows them to advance their careers. Scholarship recipients are selected on the basis of a variety of criteria including academic record, demonstrated leadership and participation in school and community service,

work experience, and outside appraisal. The Avon Foundation annually awards up to 100 scholarship awards of either $1,500 or $2,500 to Avon sales representatives. “We are so pleased to be able to award Amanda Welch with this scholarship to further her education,” said Carol Kurzig, president of the Avon Foun-dation for Women. The Avon Foundation for Women, founded in 1955, is the world’s largest corporate-affiliated philanthropy focused on issues that matter most to women.

The Glendale Outdoor Leadership School will lead a Lake Jocassee paddle trip on July 21. This trip offers a chance to beat the summer heat with this lake paddle that also visits waterfalls. For more information, call 864-529-0259 or visit www.palmettoconservation.org.

Bring your lunch to the West Wing conference room at the Chapman Cultural Center for an informative hour with Dr. Sheila Breitweiser, the executive director of the Spartanburg Regional Foundation, who will discuss the duties of the Re-gional One helicopter personnel. This Lunch and Learn event will be on Friday, July 27, 12:30-1:30 p.m. It is presented by the Spartanburg County Historical Association and admis-sion is $5. For more information, call 864-542-ARTS.

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lapband® information sessionWednesday, July 11 • 6:30-9 p.m.Family Medicine Conference Room, Regional Outpatient CenterThis free class covers detailed infor-mation about gastric banding surgery. For more information or to register, visit spartanburgweightloss.com or call 560-7070.

gastric bypass and sleeve gastrectomy information sessionWednesday, July 18 • 6:30-9 p.m.Family Medicine Conference Room, Regional Outpatient CenterThis free class covers detailed information about Roux-en-Y gastric bypass and sleeve gastrectomy weight loss surgeries. For more information or to register, visit spartanburgweight-loss.com or call 560-7070.

grief support groupTuesdays, July 24-August 28 6-7:30 p.m.Spartanburg Regional Hospice HomeGrief support groups provide a safe and supportive environment to talk about thoughts, feelings, and to find support. The groups meet for six weeks. Please call 560-5641 to register.

meet the robotSaturday, July 28 • 10 a.m.-2 p.m.Sunday, July 29 • 1-4 p.m.Regional Outpatient Center853 North Church StreetBring the whole family to meet the robot as we celebrate 3,000 robotic surgeries. Kids can dress up like surgeons and be photographed. All attendees can test-drive the robot. Light refreshments will be served.

safe kids car seat inspectionMonday, July 30 • 2-5 p.m.Bearden-Josey Center for Breast Health parking lotPlease call 560-6845 to make an appointment.

service of remembranceMonday, July 30 • 6 p.m.Spartanburg Regional Hospice HomeThe service remembers those who have passed on, while encouraging and supporting grieving families and loved ones. Please call 560-5641 for more information.

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Proaxis Therapy has trav-eled from the dawn of sports medicine at the 1984 Win-ter Olympics to youth soc-cer fields and steady work as a primary physician-referral provider for physical therapy in the Upstate.

Proaxis is a rapidly grow-ing company that expanded to Spartanburg from Vail, Colo., in 2004 and moved a year later to Greenville to link up with the Greenville Hospital System.

Moving to Greenville gave the company access to the ath-letic training network devel-oped by GHS and the Stead-man-Hawkins Clinic of the Carolinas, with which it has a long historical link. It is the nation’s second-largest sports training network.

The GHS connection and Proaxis’ outreach to the vast sports universe of people – primarily kids and their par-ents – have created a “unique niche in the sports medicine orthopedic world,” said Bob

Leonard, vice president for marketing and public rela-tions.

From one clinic with two em-ployees in Spartanburg, Proaxis today has 15 clinics, 150 em-ployees in the Upstate and am-bitious plans for more growth, including a clinic opening this month in Charleston.

In 2005, the company had 20,000 patient visits at three clinics. By 2011, the number had grown to 130,000 patient visits at 14 clinics.

“To date,” said Leonard, “we have over 1,800 different phy-sicians who have referred to us in the Upstate.”

Proaxis recently opened its 15th clinic at Travelers Rest, and on June 15 held a grand opening at a four-clinic physi-cal therapy company it ac-quired in Raleigh, N.C., its first venture in that state.

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“Physical therapy is very much like a health club in that any more than 10 minutes out becomes a barrier for people to want to come, and people want to see our folks from two to three times a week.”

It also fits Proaxis’ “goal to treat physical therapy almost like a dental practice” and get people to think of muscles in the same way that they return for regular dental checkups.

“I’d rather see a patient in six months to make sure he is not going backward and catch something on the front end,” said Leonard, who is a licensed physical therapist.

In February, Proaxis moved its corporate office to prime space in downtown Greenville. It bought the building on the north side of the soon-to-be-spiffed-up Bergamo Plaza.

“The move for us was based on a need for more business space,” Leonard said. “Coupled with that, we wanted to be more a part of the community. I can’t think of more ‘heart of the com-munity’ than right here.”

The new quarters offer “room to grow,” from the 40-50 em-

ployees now in the business of-fice, he said. “We have more and more things happening in the next six to 12 months that will require more space.”

Proaxis added 20 employees in the past five months and made 12 offers in mid-June, primar-ily to physical therapists, Leonard said. He expects to need another 10 to 12 in the next two to three years.

The growth of Proaxis and other physical rehabilitation providers is fueled in large part by recognition that phys-ical therapy speeds recovery from muscular maladies and saves money by shortening hospital stays and providing preventive care.

“The profession has continued to impress on the side of getting quality outcomes,” said Leonard. “From our perspective, it is get-ting folks better faster. That’s im-portant to insurance companies. They don’t want to see things lingering forever.”

If someone gets injured at work, at home or on the play-ing field, “he could walk into one of our locations. We are going to quickly address that injury and also figure out if there is any more to it” and

refer to a physician if more di-agnosis is needed.

“Insurance companies dig that,” he added. “That is a money-sav-er. Most people are insured who come through our doors, and mostly they are coming through physicians.”

According to the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics, employment of physical therapists is increas-ing “much faster than the aver-age for all occupations” – an in-crease of 39 percent by 2020.

The demand is coming in large part from baby boomers, who are staying active longer than previous generations, and by the aging that puts them more at risk for “heart attacks, strokes and mobility-

related injuries that require physical therapy for rehabili-tation,” the bureau says.

A therapist at Proaxis earns a salary in the low- to- mid $50,000 range, while someone in a leader-ship role “can double that,” Leon-ard said. The statistics bureau said the median pay nationally in 2010 was $76,310 a year.

Leonard said while Proaxis does occupational therapy, its stays fo-cused on its niche in the sports medicine orthopedic world.

That specialty and integration of physical therapy in tradition-al medical care is a legacy of its founders, who are credited with creating “much of what sports medicine is today,” as Proaxis’ sister website in Vail puts it.

The bloodline is traced to Topper Hagerman, John At-kins and Dr. Richard Stead-man, who were principals on the medical team for the U.S. ski team that surprised the world with three gold and two silver medals at the Sarajevo Olympics in 1984.

Steadman, an orthopedic surgeon, was team physician; Atkins was trainer and condi-tioning coach and Hagerman directed sports physiology.

In 1990, Steadman teamed up with Dr. Richard Hawkins to es-tablish the Steadman-Hawkins Clinic at the Vail Valley Medical Center, and Atkins and Hager-man provided therapy for its patients.

When Hawkins, who is con-sidered one of the top ortho-pedic surgeons in the world, relocated to the Upstate in 2004 to establish the Sted-man-Hawkins Clinic of the Carolinas, Atkins and Sean McEnroe, who is chief execu-tive officer of Proaxis, fol-lowed along with Proaxis.

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Woodruff Wins HUD GrantThe City of Woodruff has received a federal Com-

munity Development Block Grant of $451,350 for upgrading the Davins Road pump station, the S.C. Department of Commerce announced.

The grant for Woodruff was one of 28 awarded in statewide competition for $11 million in the current round. The grants are funded by the federal Depart-ment of Housing and Urban Development. The state administers the program.

Communities are required to provide 10 percent matching funds for accepted projects.

Commerce said approximately 87 percent of the funds will be invested within counties that are not considered “developed” and 70 percent will assist lower-income residents.

Greer Chamber in FinalsThe Greater Greer Chamber of Commerce is one

of five finalists for the Outstanding Chamber of the Year designation by the Carolinas Association of

Chamber of Commerce Executives.The Greer chamber also is a finalist for the associa-

tion’s Communication Award.Allen Smith, president and chief executive officer,

said while the recognition by peers is an honor, “hav-ing our members and community succeed is the high-est honor.”

AFL Recognized for Worker SafetyAFL, the Duncan-head-

quartered maker of fiber optic cables and accesso-ries, has received a BB&T Lighthouse Beam Safety Award for keeping worker injuries at a minimum.

The award is presented to companies with a workers’ compensation loss ratio lower than 10 percent, a work-ers’ comp experience modification rate below 0.84 and an incident rate 15 percent below industry average.

“We are not at zero injuries yet, but the injuries that have occurred, fortunately, have been minor,”

said Doug Hoffman of AFL.“Only four other companies in the State of South Car-

olina won the award in 2011,” said BB&T-CIC Insurance Services, AFL’s broker for workers’ compensation.

Spartanburg Hotel HonoredThe Holiday Inn Express

& Suites, Spartanburg North, has received a na-tional award for excellence by the InterContinental Hotels Group.

The Torchbearer Award was presented during an IHG Americas conference in Las Vegas. Kirk Kinsell, president of IHG Americas, said the award recognizes the Spartanburg hotel as “one of the finest hotels in our industry.”

The Holiday Inn Express & Suites is owned by Pin-nacle Hospitality of Spartanburg.

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“Physical therapy is very much like a health club in that any more than 10 minutes out becomes a barrier for people to want to come, and people want to see our folks from two to three times a week.”Bob Leonard, vice president for marketing and public relations at Proaxis, on why the company offers multiple convenient locations in many cities.


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Urgent Care Clinic OpensDoctors Care has opened a seven-day urgent care

clinic at 1762 East Main St. in Spartanburg.Dr. Steve Parks, regional medical director, said Doc-

tors Care is “eager to have the opportunity to expand our services in the Spartanburg community and sur-rounding area.”

The facility will be open Monday through Friday from 8 a.m. to 8 p.m. and on Saturday and Sunday from 9 a.m. to 5 p.m. Visits can be made with or without ap-pointment.

Doctors Care recently opened clinics in Greenwood and Rock Hill. It has more than 20 clinics in South Carolina.

A First on Denny’s MenuDenny’s has opened its first

restaurant in the Dominican Republic as part of the com-pany’s effort to build a pres-ence in Central America.

The restaurant is located in the food court of the Las Americas International Airport in Santo Domingo. It is Denny’s first airport location anywhere.

The restaurant will be operated under a franchise agreement with Grupo Nahas.

Steve Dunn, senior vice president of global develop-ment, said Denny’s is “fortunate to work with such an experienced franchise group that also owns and oper-ates some of the most prominent hotels on the island.”

Bank Sets Sights on CoastCertusBank plans to open its first branch in coast-

al South Carolina with an office in Charleston next spring.

“The move aligns perfectly with our plan to increase our presence in the Lowcountry and establish brand roots more prominently with this market,” said Angela Webb, CertusBank president.

Certus is leasing space in a four-story office building to be built on Meeting Street. Certus will have a branch at ground level and offices on the second floor.

Ground was broken for the new building June 28 with completion scheduled for the first quarter of 2013.

Lake Homes Edge Closer to WaterThe Reserve at Lake Keowee has opened a new de-

velopment of lakefront homes at a starting price in the mid-$600,000s.

The new neighborhood will comprise 14 homes “a stone’s throw from the community’s amenity-centric waterfront village,” the developer said.

“Never before have we been able to sell property so close to the water at this price point,” said Chuck Pigg, community manager of the Reserve at Lake Keowee and vice president of Greenwood Communities and Re-sorts.

He said “it feels great to be officially back in the devel-opment business, bringing this new product to market after prudent dormancy during the real estate reces-sion.”

Island Resort Takes Out LoanProfessional Mortgage Co. of Greenville has arranged

a $12.4-million loan for Fripp Island Resort on the bar-rier island off the South Carolina coast.

The loan is structured “with significant flexibility to accommodate future growth of the island’s ame-nities and property offerings,” Professional Mort-gage said.

The loan, which was provided by an unnamed insur-ance company, is secured by two golf courses, a marina and beach club. Professional Mortgage will service the loan on behalf of the lender.

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National Heart Gallery uses professional portraits to help foster children find their permanent homes

Finding their forever families

Octavia wants to become a lawyer. Deshon plans to own a cleaning busi-ness. Javan aspires to be a doctor. And, when she grows up, Keyonna wants to be a butterfly or mermaid.

While their future aspirations differ, the four siblings all want the same thing for

the present – a permanent home.Their portrait will be one of 50 over-

sized photographs displayed at the Chapman Cultural Center in Spartan-burg from July 9 through Aug. 24 as part of a National Heart Gallery Exhibit that features professionally photographed foster children from across the country who need a permanent home.

The Heart Gallery is a traveling exhibit

created to find families for children in fos-ter care. On display are portraits – some lively, some somber, all moving – of chil-dren who are waiting to be adopted but are considered harder to place because of their ages, special medical needs or desire to be placed as a sibling group.

The pictures, taken by professional photographers who donate their time,



“Shifting Plates” started as a way for 15 printmakers in the Upstate to exchange their work among themselves – and morphed into a traveling exhibition.

Steven Chapp, a printmaker who lives in Easley, was looking for a proj-ect after he retired from teaching in the Greenville County Schools.

“I knew a lot of printmakers in the area,” he said. “They are artists I respect-ed who were producing exciting works.”

So he started an exchange with 15 art-ists. Each artist was to produce 15 original numbered hand-pulled prints – one for each participant. They printed one more for the exhibition, an idea spawned after Chapp talked to Kim Sholly, project di-rector at the Metropolitan Arts Council.

Each artist also made an additional eight prints to include packaged in portfolios to be sold for $1,500 each – an opportunity Chapp called “a steal.”

The exhibition will run through Aug. 25 at the Spartanburg Art Museum. It includes a second piece by each artist that hangs side-by-side with the portfolio piece.

In addition to Chapp, artists participat-ing in the project are Wells Alewine, Kent Ambler, Andrew Blanchard, Jim Camp-bell, Marty Epp-Carter, Kevin Clinton,

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show children with big grins, brothers and sisters laughing together and a boy holding his pet white rat.

One child or group of siblings from each state is represented in the National Heart Gallery Exhibit. Octavia, Deshon, Javan and Keyonna — who are identi-� ed only by � rst name as are the rest of the children chosen for the display — are South Carolina’s representatives. Green-ville wedding and newborn photographer Catherine Tolbert photographed them.

A professional photographer in Santa Fe, N.M., came up with the idea for the � rst Heart Gallery in 2001 when she was considering adopting a child and was � ipping through a book of small snap-shots of that state’s available children.

She worked with Diane Granito, an adoptions recruiter for the New Mexico Department of Children, Youth and Fam-ilies, to get professional photographers to

take portraits of children who were avail-able for adoption and needed permanent homes.

� e portraits were displayed in a chic art gallery. � ree kids were adopted be-cause of the opening night.

� ere are now more than 120 Heart Galleries across the country, including one in South Carolina.

� ere are nearly 500,000 children in foster care in the United States. More than half of them will never return home. More than 123,000 children need adoptive homes right now.

According to the National Heart Gal-lery, more than 29,000 foster children who turned 18 in 2008 aged out of the system without ever � nding a permanent home.

According to the Children’s Defense Fund, there were 4,938 children in foster care in South Carolina in 2010. Nearly 1,700 of them were waiting to be adopted and 513 found a “forever home.”

In South Carolina, children stay in foster care an average of nearly three years. A� er the age of 9, the likelihood of being adopted drops signi� cantly for a child.

Patricia Byrd, a board member for the South Carolina Heart Gallery Founda-tion and sales manager for the Spar-tanburg Convention & Visitors Bureau, helped bring the national exhibit to the Upstate.

“Generating awareness about chil-dren in foster care is one of my passions, and so is tourism, and I thought I could bring them together with this project,”

she said. “Housing these photos in the elegance of the Chapman Cultural Cen-ter will only enhance the already mind-blowing exhibit experience.”

Steve Wong, marketing director for the Chapman Cultural Center, called the exhibit both beautiful and heart-breaking.

“� is is one of those cases where art will touch you deeply,” he said. “We sin-cerely hope because of this exhibit, wait-ing children and parents are brought to-gether to form permanent homes. � is is a most impressive show.”

� e exhibition is free and open Tues-day through Saturday from 10 a.m. un-til 5 p.m. beginning July 9. A reception will be held on July 19 during the Spar-tanburg Art Walk.


Katya Cohen, Jim Creal, Syd Cross, Dan-iel Cvammen, Phil Garrett, Luis Jaramillo, Catherine Labbé and Mark Mul� nger.

� e exhibit shows a wide range of styles and techniques employed in printmaking. Some of the styles are highly detailed and colorful. Others are basic and bold. Some used traditional printmaking techniques such as wood etching; others used more modern methods such as monotypes, where only one print is normally made.

All pieces are done on 7.5-inch by 10-inch paper. Any print medium could be used and pieces could have any subject matter.

“Interesting enough, none of us knew what the others were working on over the several months, but many of the works have similar subject matter – � gures, skeletons, birds,” Chapp said. “We as art-ists all kind of respond to the same events in the world.”

Chapp said the exhibit is designed to ed-ucate people on the process of printmak-ing and the variety of those processes.

“� is show provides a real wide range from screen printing to woodcuts and

wood engraving to linocuts to solar plate intaglio prints.”

� e exhibit, which is open Tuesdays through Saturdays from 10 a.m. to 5 p.m., has already been shown at the Metropolitan Arts Council and the Fine Arts Center in Greenville and at Coastal Carolina University.

Chapp said he did not know how long the exhibit would continue to travel.


SO YOU KNOW:WHAT: “Shifting Plates: South Carolina Upstate Printmakers”

WHO: 15 Upstate artists

WHERE: Spartanburg Art Museum, 200 E. Saint John St., Spartanburg

WHEN: through Aug. 25

INFORMATION: 542-ARTS

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SO YOU KNOWWHAT: National Heart Gallery exhibition

WHO: an exhibit of portraits of foster children from across the country who are in

need of permanent homes

WHERE: Chapman Cultural Center, 200 E. Saint John St., Spartanburg

WHEN: July 9 through Aug. 24, Monday through Saturday, 10 a.m. to 5 p.m.

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A� er Mark David Kaplan landed the role of Zazu in the national tour of Dis-ney’s blockbuster musical “� e Lion King,” he spent hours and hours in front of a mirror.

He was partly looking at himself.But he was mostly practicing to learn

how to maneuver the expressions and ac-tions of the bird puppet he would have on his hand.

Like a dancer practicing his steps, Kaplan was trying to master the strings and levers that make the hornbill blink and move his mouth, head, neck and wings – all while staying in character, since “� e Lion King” makes no e� ort to hide the puppeteers.

“You have to get to the point where you’re not thinking about the mechan-ics of the puppetry so you can free your brain to perform,” he said. “It’s a lot of work, but it’s so worth it.”

More than 230 puppets and masks are used to bring to the stage Disney’s hit an-imated movie telling the story of a young lion’s coming of age and taking his place in the world.

� ey range from the miniscule to the massive, including four towering 18-foot gira� es played by actors trained in stilt-walking to a 13-foot-long, 9-foot-wide elephant guided by four people.

� e show also includes 52 wildebeests, 39 hyenas, 15 gazelles and an assortment of other animals.

Once actors begin mastering their puppet or mask, they next learn the cho-reography. It takes about two months to master the puppetry because Disney casts actors who are taught puppetry rather than casting puppeteers who are taught to act.

“We have to be a quadruple threat,” Ka-plan said. “We have to sing, dance and act and do a puppet.”

Kaplan’s character, which he describes as the majordomo, royal sidekick to lion ruler Mufasa, has calm moments of the stu� ness and sophistication of a � nicky British butler and moments of sheer pan-ic and wing-� apping.

Kaplan rejoined “� e Lion King” tour last year. He toured in the original com-pany in the second national tour from 2003 to mid-2006. He was a principal standby then, covering the comic relief characters – Zazu, Timon the meerkat and Pumbaa the warthog.

“� e Lion King” doesn’t try to hide the mechanics of the puppets or the humans who control them or wear the animal masks.

“It’s what Julie Taymor, the direc-tor of ‘The Lion King,’ calls the ‘dual event,’” said Michael Reilly, puppet supervisor for the tour. “You have the visual of a lion but you still have an ac-tor who can portray emotion, sing and act and all that stuff.”

Kaplan said having people say they stopped looking at him is the ultimate compliment.

“I love it when people say, ‘You were great. A� er a while, I didn’t notice you were there. I looked at the puppet the whole time,’” he said. “You realize that that means you’re do-ing your job, that you did it right.”

With the success of “� e Lion King” and other shows such as “Avenue Q,” Broadway performers are more accepting of roles that include puppets.

“� ere are some who still shy away from those roles,” Kaplan said, “but to me, it just adds another tool in my toolbox.”

“� e Lion King” ends its four-week run at the Peace Center on July 8.


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Roan Mountain’s highest point slips up on you, barely discernible among a clut-ter of towering peaks when seen from be-low at tiny Roan Mountain, Tenn.

Tennessee State Route 143 creeps 3,000 feet up the mountain from the pocket community, through Roan Mountain State Park and up a winding path to Carver’s Gap at 5,500 feet. Along the way, a revelation occurs for the visitor passing through humdrum hardwood forest to the zone where mountain ash thrives: a pinnacle reward of the largest bald area in the Appalachians and the largest natu-ral rhododendron garden in the world.

It’s a “Sound of Music” moment set to the whisper of a gentle wind.

� e garden covers 600 acres in three patches of “Cloudland,” as the area is known. O� en the rhododendrons are above the cloud layer, or hidden by it.

Roan is a remote place – Greenville is about 150 miles away – and the parking area re� ects the sparse visitation, with the excep-tion of the Roan Mountain Rhododendron Festival, which can draw thousands.

� e roadside parking area can com-fortably hold about 50 cars at the inter-section of State Route 143 and the Appa-lachian Trail. A doe dashes out onto the highway and turns in a couple of frantic circles before skittering back into the dense balsam and rhododendron forest that cloaks Roan High Knob, the highest point on Roan Mountain at 6,285 feet.

Roan is a massif (a block of the earth’s crust bounded by faults and shi� ed to form peaks of a mountain range) and much of the rock that underpins it is on the order of one billion years old – rocks � rst formed on a seabed that predates the Appalachians themselves.

Roan is made up of cranberry gneiss, a metamorphic rock that is one of the old-

est in the United States. Roan gneiss, an-other type of metamorphic rock found on Roan, is about 800 million years old and Beech granite, a type of igneous rock, is about 700 million years old.

� e mountains themselves were formed between 200 million and 400 mil-lion years ago when the North American plate and African plate collided, thrust-ing the former seabed upward.

Taking the Appalachian Trail north to-ward Round Bald, the visitor winds through a zone of knee-high grasses and shrubs be-fore entering a dense stand of balsam.

Past the trees the trail runs through a fenced zone used to protect the frag-ile mountaintop from tramping boots. Roan’s ridgeline hovers just below, at slightly higher than 6,000 feet. � is el-evation is known as the Canadian Zone, where plants common to Arctic boreal forest can be found.

Gray’s Lily, named for Harvard bota-nist Asa Gray, pops up from time to time as the trail climbs to the 5,826-foot tall Round Bald.

Gray’s Lily is uncommon to the area except around high mountain peaks. � e two-foot-tall � ower with its scarlet blossom is common along the border with Canada.

Round Bald has panoramic views of North Carolina and Tennessee. Mt. Mitchell, the highest point in North Carolina, is visible about 40 miles away from the bald.

Contact Charles Sowell at [email protected].

A ‘Sound of Music’ moment on Roan MountainBy CHARLES SOWELL | staff

Gray’s Lily, named for Harvard botanist Asa Gray, pops up from time to time as the trail climbs to the 5,826-foot tall Round Bald.

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University of South Carolina Upstate associate professor of music and director of jazz studies Gregg Akkerman will hold a reading and book signing for “The Last Balladeer: The Johnny Hartman Story.” Akkerman’s first book is also the first book to trace the complete story of the singer’s life, and includes in-terviews with musicians Tony Bennett, Jon Hendricks and Bill Taylor. The event will be held on July 10 from 5:30-7:30 p.m. at the Hub City Bookshop in Spartanburg.

Visitors to the Historic Price House on July 13 can learn about firefighting past and present, become a part of a bucket brigade and see a Poplar Springs Fire Department truck – if it isn’t out on a call. The gates open at 7:30 p.m. for tours and s’mores. Sto-ries and talk begin at 8:30 p.m. Admission for ages 18 and over is $5. Ages 5 through 17 is $3. Call 576-6546 or email [email protected] for more information.

Doyle Boggs, author of “Historic Spartanburg County: 225 Years of History,” will discuss and sign his book at the Hub City Bookshop July 18 from 5-6 p.m. The book follows the history of Spartanburg County from before the Revolution-ary War to the present, and includes dozens of photographs. Boggs is the associate vice president for communications and marketing for Wofford College.

The West Main Artists Co-op will host Pottery Palooza, a ce-

ramics show and sale featuring co-op artists Bryan Davis, Tra-cie Easler, Jason Galloway, Al Hofmann, Agnes Martin, Terry Murdock, Teresa Prater, Katherine Rausch, Rebecca Savage, Garry Turpin, Holly Williamson, Nancy Williamson and Kathy Wofford. The exhibit, on display July 19 through Aug. 11, will feature functional stoneware and earthenware pottery, decora-tive wall art and sculptural work. An opening reception will be on Thursday, July 19, from 5-9 p.m., during Spartanburg’s Art Walk. The public is invited and refreshments will be served. West Main Artists Co-op is located at 578 West Main St, Spar-tanburg. Call 864-804-6501 for additional information.

The Artists’ Guild of Spartanburg is now accepting sub-missions for its 2012 39th annual juried show, which will be in the Spartanburg Art Museum at the Chapman Cultural Cen-ter, Sept. 20-Nov. 3. An opening reception and awards cer-emony is scheduled for Saturday, Sept. 29, 6-8 p.m. The show is open to all artists in South and North Carolina and Georgia. More than $4,000 will be awarded in various categories. The deadline to submit work for consideration is Aug. 1. Media categories are 2-D Painting, 2-D Drawing and Mixed Media, 2-D Photography, and 3-D Sculpture, which includes ceramics and jewelry. For more details, please visit www.artistsguildof-spartanburg.com, contact director Robin Els at 864-764-9568 or email [email protected].

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Remember running barefoot, eating popsicles, and playing kick the can until you were called home for dinner. Today, summer has lost much of its allure when days are spent

inside looking at a computer instead of outside next to a pool. Last week, I took off early one day and played with my 5 year old while eating a snow cone. I felt like a kid again.

Summer is more than a season; it is a feeling and a memory. Truthfully, we all need a little bit of “summer” each year to keep us sane and to keep our priorities in check. How can we run businesses and manage employees in a summer mentality, yet stay professional? After my snow cone last week, I have been trying to come up with ideas to help our whole staff feel like its summer at Propel HR.

• Summer hours – can your business meet demands and allow employees flexible summer hours? Many companies offer employees shorter work hours on Fridays, but keep the office covered through a rotation. A few extra hours a week to go to the pool or lake adds wonders to employee morale.

• Sweet treats – who says kids are the only ones who need an ice cream break? Make your own Sundaes or call the ice cream truck to come to your office. It is a huge hit and brings laughter to your staff.

• Summer vacations – many employees will be taking time off this summer, so make sure your shifts are filled and that your clients’ needs are being met. Prepare for this by cross training and communicating schedules to the staff.

• Summer social –whether a cook-out or a potluck, celebrate the season with a social for your team. Get creative and have fun!

Unfortunately, work has taken the place of our summers off, but there is no reason we can’t still have a little summer fun at the office. It will make you feel like a kid again!

Ah, Summer!

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Teacher Natasha Ferguson cuts out pieces for her art project during The Muse Machine Summer Institute 2012 weeklong class at the Chapman Cultural Center’s David Reid Theatre lobby. Twenty-fi ve teachers from throughout South Carolina took part in the class, which is designed to help teachers discover new ways to teach their students.

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Teachers participating in the class work on art projects to be used in a lesson on printmaking. The Muse Machine Summer Institute 2012 is designed for K-12 teachers, and focuses on ways to reach students of many learning styles through the arts.

Teachers rehearse for their fi nal examination of The Muse Machine Summer Institute 2012. From left to right, front, Jeff Jorfan and Charles Atkins; back, Nikki Lott, Beth Radford and Natascha Ferguson. The class is a three-hour graduate credit course approved by the S.C. Department of Education.

Seventh grade math teacher Jennifer Guest is happy with her results during a printmaking lesson.

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A c r o s s1 “The Godfather”

actor5 Furry ‘80s fad items13 Protest of a kind17 Gymnast Korbut18 One dealing with

spirits19 “Kinsey” star

Neeson20 “That dress is per-

fect!”21 It may be unchart-

ed22 Korea divider,

briefly23 Anti-apartheid org.24 Outing that

includes birding29 Tony Award won

four times by Tommy Tune

31 Spillane’s “__ Jury”32 Postwar British

leader33 Peach or plum36 National Soccer

Hall of Famer since 1993

38 Cold War enemy, informally

43 Prereqs for some Harvard applicants

45 One looking for stars

47 Flies across the Atlantic?

49 Caspian country50 Hawaiian coffee

region51 Volcano output53 Made a touch-

down54 Timecard abbr.55 Vel attachment?56 __ Bora: Afghan

region60 Marge Simpson’s

mother-in-law61 Foofaraw62 Harley-Davidson’s

NYSE symbol63 All-in-one Apple64 City SSW of Mos-

cow65 __ Tin Tin66 Old comm. giant67 The Sunni, e.g.68 Pointed71 Mideast pooh bah72 Small combo73 Equitably divided76 Survey an enemy

position79 Rhett’s last words80 Fine-tune84 Tenn. neighbor85 Gym safety item86 What a criminal

might be on?88 Aptly named shav-

ing lotion90 1983 World Series

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93 Miner’s dream97 College sr.’s chal-

lenge98 Classic Jaguar100 “Hi, sailor!”101 Up and running106 Lawn liming target107 Spanish saint who

wrote the encyclope-dic “Etymologiae”

108 Leader after Mao109 Mete (out)110 More spirited111 Sommer of Berlin

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briefly5 Lock up6 Ones trying to get

picked up7 Stanford-Binet nos.8 It borders It.9 Cutesy-__10 Mock tail?11 1992 presidential

also-ran12 Scottish royal fam-

ily13 Texter’s hedge14 Looped handle15 Move, as merchan-

dise16 “Star __”

23 When many retire25 Jacques of “Jour

de Fête”26 Cramming, say27 Scoreboard initials28 Lace place30 Burglar’s undoing33 Experiences

34 Jeep or Land Rover, briefly

35 Mountain road feature

36 Room with a sofa37 “Seinfeld” role39 13th/14th-century

German mystic

40 Desperate41 Talks and talks42 Tony winner Hagen44 Word with analysis

or significance45 Italian lover’s coo46 Removed by hand,

in a way48 Put up points

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I’ve always set extreme limitations when it comes to styling my hair. As a kid, I had the prerequisite Beatle bangs that every American boy had in the Nixon era, which got parted down the middle during the ‘80s in keeping with legal requirements.

As puberty inspired the need to start a rock band, longer hair became an im-perative. But because the hair on top would simply explode in a mushroom cloud of curls (I had what was known as “ELO hair”), the conservative ap-proach was to only let the hair in the back grow, which is how millions of young boys with similar follicle con-ditions independently engineered the mullet. No one knew it was a mullet back then and ignorance was bliss. � e evidence, unfortunately, is preserved in hundreds of high school yearbooks.

At no point did I subject myself to dyes or other complicated treatments, nor did I become inspired to design my hair in some ridiculous MTV fashion. I did, however, fall victim to Morrissey hair.

Speci� cally, I fell victim to Paolo Lic-ciardi, sometime drummer in my some-time rock band. He’d just given himself the Morrissey treatment – buzzed back and sides, piled high on top – and was ea-ger to do the same number on my head.

When his � rst attack with the clippers resulted in “uh oh,” I headed to the closest barber shop to have the damage repaired. � ere, I received the best haircut of my life.

It was a manly establishment, with cheap wood paneling on the walls and back issues of Penthouse in the waiting area. � e only other feminine element was a nail technician stationed in the corner; a woman with the mannerisms of a Wild West madam. She smiled to show o� her eyebrow pencil beauty mark as I sat down.

� e barber was a study in manliness by virtue of his Navy tattoos and lit cigar. I no-ticed that the only décor on the walls was a framed portrait of Franklin Roosevelt. Barber Manly inspected the gash in my head with a wince and went to work.

In a burst of violence, his � ngers locked onto my skull while the other hand scraped layers of skin with the clippers. A cloud of hair and cigar ash enveloped my head as he wrestled my disobedient hair into submission. Just as

I was about to protest, he was done. � e fog of hair li� ed and I saw in the mirror that, amazingly, the haircut was perfect.

“Now you look like a respectable col-lege kid,” he said, having never asked if I was attending college. � e nail mad-am smiled her approval.

I have spent the last 25 years trying to recreate that haircut, like a junkie trying to revisit that � rst high. I seek out the manliest barber shops, hoping to � nd someone with the brutal artistry of that tattooed genius, but it never works out.

So I go crawling back to the sissy beauty parlors, where excitable young girls try to coax me into exotic waves and gel sculpting. � ey do their best to work the clippers with their delicate technique, but they’ll never deliver the satisfaction of that brilliant beast who touched me in my youth. Sometime I wish I would just go bald. At least then I’d know the dream is � nally over.

But for now, with my mass of unruly hair still needing regular attention, I’ll continue to seek the perfect haircut. � ese days, I try to jinx the barbershop visits in my favor with a supernatural talisman: Before any stylist begins to work on my amber waves of mane, I insist they hang a picture of FDR.

Ashley Holt is a writer and illustrator living in Spartanburg.

His neurotic quirks and extreme sensitiv-

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