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Sumter school board requests financial plan Trustees meet 4 hours in executive session in special called meeting after audit findings BY BRUCE MILLS bruce@theitem.com Sumter School Board of Trustees is requesting an emergency financial plan in early January from Superintendent Frank Baker and others outlining how the school district plans to recover from a shortfall last year, the district announced after a closed meeting with Baker Tuesday. The request follows the dis-

trict’s official audit report released Dec. 12 that showed the district went more than $6.2 million over budget for MCGHANEY the 2016 fiscal year, which ended June 30. The school board released a public statement concerning its request to the superintendent after meeting in executive ses-

sion for four hours Tuesday night at a special called meeting at the district office, 1345 Wilson Hall Road. BAKER In its statement Tuesday night, the board asked the superintendent to consult with the board’s outside auditor Certified Public Accountant Robin Poston and school finance con-

sultants to develop and present to it a financial plan “on an emergency basis” that explains the reasons for the district’s current financial condition, and how to reduce expenses and increase revenue to the general fund this fiscal year, ending June 2017. The statement didn’t clarify whether the board meant hiring more outside school financial consultants or using school district staff.

Additionally, the board wants the financial plan to include estimates of the district’s cash flow position through the end of this fiscal year. When Poston released the district’s audit report, she also said in the audit that the district’s general fund balance of $106,449 at the end of the fiscal year was at “a critical low level.” Baker said last week he would like to build that fund balance to close to $5 million

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Life-saving implants better patients’ lives BY JIM HILLEY jim@theitem.com “I don’t want them to just live longer; I want them to live better,” said Dr. Roosevelt “Rosey” Gilliam about treating patients with chronic heart failure. Only a few years ago, Gilliam’s goal would have been a pipe dream. About half of first-time heart failure patients who do not get treatment die within five years, according to the American Heart Association. The most common cause of death is sudden heart failure. “That’s people who can be walking around looking fine, feeling fine,” Gilliam said. But treatment for chronic heart failure has been greatly improved in the past two decades, he said, particularly with the advent of implantable heart therapy devices. One such device is the biventricular defibrillator implant, such as the one Gilliam implanted in a patient at Palmetto Health Tuomey two weeks ago.

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F. Roosevelt Gilliam III, M.D., talks about performing the first biventricular heart procedure at Palmetto Health Tuomey recently. Dr. Gilliam is a part of the new Palmetto Heart practice at the Palmetto Health Tuomey Medical Park. It was the first time such a procedure had ever been done in Sumter. Gilliam said the BVD implant does the work of three machines: a pacemaker, a defibrillator and a heart monitor. A pacemaker, he explained, is sort of like having heat in a house. “You can set the heart rate so it is

never below a certain level,” he said. “But heat won’t do a thing when what you need is an air conditioner; that is where a defibrillator comes in.” Defibrillators are active when the heart rate is above a certain level, he said. The BVD can also monitor the

heart, he said. Gilliam said implanting a BVD is much more difficult than implanting a pacemaker because the wire leads must go into both sides of the heart.

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Team evaluates Shaw as home for drone program FROM STAFF REPORTS Teams from Air Combat Command and Whiteman Air Force Base, Missouri, conducted a site survey at Shaw Air Force Base on Dec. 13 to assess the base as a candidate for an MQ-9 Reaper mission, according to an article posted on Shaw’s website. Shaw AFB is one of four installations being evaluated for a wing-level mission and one of five in the running for a squadron-level mission, the article stated. The base chosen for the

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cers, enlisted men and civilians at the base, Olsen said. If selected to house a winglevel mission, the proposed 24 MQ-9s would arrive in three to four years, along with launch and recovery capabilities and a maintenance group. A wing-level mission would employ approximately 1,600 more individuals at Shaw, he said. Considering the number of officers, enlisted and civilian members, a wing-level mission would bring approximately

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MQ-9 Reaper sits on the flight line on Nov. 22 at Creech Air Force Base, Nevada. The Reaper is an evolution of the MQ-1 Predator and can carry four AGM-114 Hellfire missiles and two 500-pound bombs SEE SHAW, PAGE A3 and also fly 18- to 24-hour missions.

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USC Sumter to offer classes at Covenant Place Covenant Place and University of South Carolina Sumter have become partners in a program that will provide classes to those 60 years of age and older, with no application fees. The first class starts Jan. 9 and will focus on Memoirs, which is also the title of the course. The course meets through Feb. 28 from 2:30 to 5 p.m. on Tuesdays and Thursdays in the Covenant Place Life Enrichment Center, said Melissa Linville, director of sales and marketing for Covenant Place. Interested persons can learn more about the Memoirs class from its instructor at an informational session at 3:30 p.m. Monday in the center. Linville said students will discuss the various approaches to writing memoirs and have the opportunity to create their own. Applications will be accepted at Covenant Place, 2825 Carter Road. For more information and to register, call Tracie Jones at (803) 469-7007.

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Members of the Rotary Club of Sumter Palmetto served food Monday at the Emanuel Soup Kitchen in Sumter. Club member Earl Wilson, left, donated the food through his local franchise of Kentucky Fried Chicken. Servers included, from the left, Wilson, Dan Davis, Thoyd Warren, Shelly Galloway, Kathyn Parker (a Sumter High School student volunteer) and Barry Reynolds. All are Rotary members except Parker. The service organization serves at the soup kitchen three times a year.

Local students to benefit from Duke Energy grants FROM STAFF REPORTS The Duke Energy Foundation is investing more than $350,000 in 13 South Carolina environmental nonprofit organizations, several of which will have a local impact. The grants will fund environmental projects, wildlife conservation efforts and environmental educational programs across the Duke Energy service territory in the state. “We are dedicated to protecting the natural beauty of South Carolina and being good stewards of the environment,” said Clark Gillespy, Duke Energy’s South Carolina president. “By supporting the organizations that do this hard work each and every day, we can help protect and restore wildlife and natural resources, and support quality environmental education programs in our state.” One of the grants, totaling $25,000, will help the South Carolina Aquarium bring its traveling environmental education program, Rovers, to students in Lee and Marion counties helping them learn about human and natural impacts that can pollute a water-

way, conduct water quality testing and analyze real evidence. The students will understand how water resources are connected, and how pollution in one area can negatively impact water quality and wildlife in another. “Thanks to the generosity of the Duke Energy Foundation, we can go farther than ever to serve South Carolina students with our education outreach,” said Kevin Mills, South Carolina Aquarium president and CEO. The South Carolina Waterfowl Association will receive $27,000 to support Camp Leopold, a school year natural resource conservation and environmental education camp in Pinewood, that reconnects students to the land community through the use of handson environmental education programs. Annually, the Duke Energy Foundation funds nearly $2 million in charitable grants in South Carolina. These grants are distributed across each of its priority areas, including environment, community impact, K-12 education and workforce development.

Ebenezer AME Church youth feed about 50 homeless BY KONSTANTIN VENGEROWSKY konstantin@theitem.com Each night Allen, also known by the alias “Big Dog,” goes to sleep wrapped in multiple blankets and a tarp to fight off the cold. Allen, who wouldn’t give his full name for fear of being identified, is a U.S. Army Vietnam War veteran and one of several homeless people who sleeps in the woods behind a 14-by-20-foot open air shelter on West Calhoun Street. “Everyone just wants a little dignity and kindness,” he said. “We’re just trying to survive, day-byday.” Allen was one of more than 50 men and women who benefited from a distribution of food, coats and personal items on Thursday at the open air shelter. The effort was organized by the youth ministry of Ebenezer AME Church of Mayesville.

“We just wanted to do something to give back to the community,” said the Rev. Cynthia Myers, the church’s associate minister in charge of the youth department. “We also wanted for our youth to see that the holidays are not about them, that there is ‘a reason for the season.’” About 25 youth and adults from the church provided hot dogs, chips and cookies. They also gave out coats, T-shirts, undergarments, socks and perfumes. The youth also sang Christmas carols and performed a praise dance. Chelsee Davis, 20, a Clemson University sophomore and church member, said she enjoyed participating in the effort and that it was for a good cause. “After this experience today, I definitely want to do more giving and helping people in the community,” Davis said. “Just seeing the smiles on people’s faces made my day.”

Guinevere Kelley, 20, a Claflin University sophomore and church member, said she just wanted to help. “Giving is part of the Christmas spirit,” she said. Allen said he was thankful for the church youth’s donation. “Homelessness is a major problem around here,” he said. “I’m thankful for places like Sumter United Ministries Emergency Shelter, but we need an even bigger outreach. They are doing the best they can do, but the organization doesn’t have the capacity to deal with the size of the situation.” Allen said he personally knows at least 30 people in downtown Sumter who are homeless. Some sleep in the woods, others wherever they can rest their head. “People give us blankets and sleeping bags and we’re thankful for that,” he said. “Some of the local churches provide us meals at times. We’re thankful for all of that.”

North Carolina lawmakers fail to repeal controversial ‘bathroom bill’ RALEIGH, N.C. (AP) — A deal to undo the North Carolina law known as the “bathroom bill” fell apart Wednesday night when legislators couldn’t agree on a plan to repeal the measure, a sign of the bitter political divide within the state. The North Carolina General Assem-

bly was called into a special session about nine months after they passed the law, which tarnished the state’s national image as major corporations decided to pull up stakes, entertainers canceled concerts and NCAA and ACC moved sporting events away. The wide-ranging law’s best-known

provision required transgender people to use restrooms in many public buildings corresponding to the sex on their birth certificates. Opponents of the law called it discriminatory. The special session was set in motion this week when Democratic Gov.elect Roy Cooper successfully lobbied

Charlotte City Council to gut a local nondiscrimination ordinance that Republicans had blamed for necessitating the statewide law. For months, Republicans had said if Charlotte repealed its ordinance, the legislature would consider repealing HB2.

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HEART FROM PAGE A1 “A lot of people don’t do it because of the special training involved,” he said. Gilliam said many heart failure patients lose the synchronization between the left and right chambers of the heart, reducing the heart’s efficiency. Having leads to both sides of the heart allows physicians to do cardio resynchronization therapy, which re-establishes the rhythm between the chambers. “Patients with severe heart failure can see their symptoms improve,” he said. Gilliam said the BVD implant is only done when medications have failed to improve a patient’s condition. He said watching a patient improve after the implantation is like watching a child grow. “If you see them every day, you don’t notice, but when grandma comes over she says, ‘Oh they are shooting up like weeds,’” he said. “When you compare a patient’s charts over six months, the difference is very noticeable,” he said. While results vary, it is not uncommon to see a patient’s

hospitalization events fall from eight a year to once every two years. “Chronic heart failure is the No. 1 expense for Medicare,” Gilliam said, and reducing the number of hospitalization is great news economically. “It is even greater news for the patient,” he added. Unfortunately, only about one in five patients who could benefit from an implant gets the procedure done. “Part of that is due to the myths of pacemakers and defibrillators,” he said. “Like you can’t go near a microwave machine or use a cellphone,” Gilliam said. Many think it is open-heart surgery, but it is not, he said. The procedure can be done on an outpatient basis, he said, and patients do not need to be unconscious. Gilliam said the cardiology program at Palmetto Health Tuomey is still in its early stages, but he hopes it will gradually become larger. “You have to start somewhere,” he said. “You start by doing everything you do on an excellent level.”

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SHAW FROM PAGE A1 1,600 more airmen to the base, while a squadron would employ approximately 400 airmen and civilians, Olsen said. According to an analysis of the economic impact of Shaw AFB prepared by University of South Carolina Darla Moore School of Business in 2015, the base has a total economic impact on the Sumter Metropolitan Statistical area of more than $1.5 billion. If selected to house either the wing or squadron option, the economic impact could push the impact even higher, Olsen said. The MQ-9 Reaper is an armed, multi-mission, medi-

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BOARD FROM PAGE A1 over time. He said that amount represents the total the two former Sumter school districts — Sumter School District 17 and Sumter School District 2 — generally had on hand combined before the districts consolidated in 2011. Board Chairman the Rev. Daryl McGhaney responded only by email to questions asked Wednesday by The Sumter Item. When asked when he discovered the budget deficit, McGhaney emailed that he — along with the rest of the board — discovered the deficit on Dec. 12 during the auditor’s report to the board. Baker said last week during the board meeting that he became aware of the $6 million deficit in October when the audit process began with Poston.

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AMANDA W. GRINNELL

MARTHA DAVIS

Amanda W. Grinnell was the daughter of the late Amanda Ellison and the wife of the late Arthur Grinnell Jr. She was born June 5, 1943. She departed this life on Dec. 17, 2016. She retired from the board of education in the Bronx, New York City, and served 15 years as a foster parent with the Department of Social Services in Sumter. She leaves to cherish her GRINNELL memories: her daughters, Frances R. Ellison of Sumter and Aja A. Wright of Virginia Beach, Virginia; six sisters-in-law, Ida (Willie) Williams of Winston Salem, North Carolina, Mary Blair, Carolyn (Albertus) White, Hattie Lewis (Kenneth Holland), Deloris (Bobby) Blair and Alma (Mark) Jones, all of Sumter; four brothers-in-law, James (Bertha) Grinnell Jr. and George (Inez) Grinnell, both of Sumter, John (Deneace) Grinnell of Columbia and Harry (Pam) Montgomery of Sumter; a former sister-in-law and lifetime friend, Grethea Crawford; and a host of nieces, nephews and other relatives and friends. Public viewing will be held from 2 to 6 p.m. today at Job’s Mortuary. Ms. Grinnell will be placed in the church at 2 p.m. on Friday for viewing until the hour of service. Funeral service will be held at 3 p.m. on Friday at Salem Chapel & Heritage Center, 101 S. Salem Ave., with the Rev. Randolph Black officiating. Interment will follow in Hillside Memorial Park. Family will be receiving friends at the home, 4615 Starks Ferry Road, Sumter. Job’s Mortuary, Inc., 312 S. Main St., is in charge of arrangements. Online memorials may be sent to the family at jobsmortuary@sc.rr.com or visit us on the web at www. jobsmortuary.net.

Martha Davis, 66, widow of Joseph J. Davis, died on Sunday, Dec. 18, 2016, at Palmetto Health Tuomey. Born in Sumter County on Dec. 12, 1949, she was the daughter of Nimrod and Martha Singleton Dargon. Martha, affectionately known as “Micki,” received her education in the New York City School System. Later she attended night school, earning DAVIS her associate’s degree in accounting. For 25 years, she worked at AIG Co. as an accounting supervisor. On May 10, 2015, she was baptized as one of Jehovah’s Witnesses. She was a member of the North Congregation of Jehovah Witnesses, where she was faithful and joyful in her service to Jehovah. She leaves to cherish her memories: her mother, Martha Singleton Dargon of Rembert; two daughters, Lynda Sabrina Hall of Manhattan, New York, and Dana Pauline Davis of Staten Island, New York; one brother, Richard Dargon of Houston, Texas; two sisters, Linda Carter of Manhattan, New York, and Gardenia Dargon of Durham, North Carolina; four uncles; five aunts; two grandchildren; and a host of nieces, nephews, cousins and friends. Memorial services will be held at 1 p.m. on Friday at Kingdom Hall of Jehovah’s Witnesses, North Congregation, 2280 Thomas Sumter Highway, Sumter. The family is receiving relatives and friends at her home, 555 Camden Highway, Sumter. The procession will leave from the home at 12:20 p.m. Services directed by the management and staff of Williams Funeral Home Inc., 821 N. Main St., Sumter. Online memorial messages may be sent to the family at williamsfuneralhome@sc.rr.com. Visit us on the web at www.WilliamsFuneralHomeInc.com.

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MANNING — Harold Owen Foraker, 73, husband of Beverly Lamm Foraker, died Tuesday, Dec. 20, 2016, at Palmetto Health Tuomey. Born April 23, 1943, in Canton, Ohio, he was a son of Betty Stack Smith and the late Thomas Foraker. He was a land developer and salesman FORAKER for J.J. Detweiler Enterprises, and a member of Manning First Baptist Church. He is survived by his mother of Navarre, Ohio; his wife of Manning; two daughters, Carrie Trahan (Brandon) of Dalzell and Cassie Rodine (Jason) of Manning; two sons, Jeff Foraker (Suzanne) of North Canton, Ohio, and Tim Foraker of Canton; a sister, Sharon Dailey (Dave) of Navarre; two grandchildren, Hailey Foraker and Connor Trahan; his mother-in-law, Lucille Lamm of Manning; and a number of nieces and nephews. He was preceded in death by his father; a brother, John Foraker; and a sister, Karen Lauffer. A funeral service will be held at 11 a.m. on Friday in the chapel of Stephens Funeral Home with the Rev. John Gambrell officiating. Burial will follow in Clarendon Memorial Gardens. Pallbearers will be Jeff Foraker, Tim Foraker, Brandon Trahan, Jason Rodine, Dale Davis and Sid Albert. Visitation will be held from 5 to 7 p.m. today at Stephens Funeral Home and at other times at the residence, 1392 Country Club Circle, Manning. Memorials may be made to Manning First Baptist Church, 49 W. Boyce St., Manning, SC 29102. Stephens Funeral Home & Crematory, 304 N. Church St., Manning, is in charge of arrangements, (803) 4352179. www.stephensfuneralhome.org

Funeral services for Daniel E. Alston, 82, will be held at noon on Friday at Willow Grove AME Church, Horatio, with the Rev. Wallace Preston, eulogist, and the Rev. Donald Amis officiating. Interment will follow in High Hills Baptist Church ALSTON cemetery. The public may view from 2 to 6 p.m. today at Palmer Memorial Chapel, 304 S. Main St., Sumter. Mr. Alston will be placed in the church at 11 a.m. for viewing until the hour of service. Daniel E. Alston transitioned on Thursday, Dec. 16, 2016, at Palmetto Health Richland in Columbia. Born in Horatio, he was a son of the late Mary Brown Alston and Daniel Ervin Alston Sr. He was employed by Congaree Construction Co., until retirement. He was a faithful member of Willow Grove AME Church. Mr. Alston was preceded in death by his wife, the late Ruth Dawson Alston. Survivors are his two sons, Joseph Alston of Sumter and Michael (Ursula) Alston of Dalzell; two daughters, Birnie Jean Brooks and A. Marenna (Walter) Jordan, both of Dalzell; and a host of other relatives and dear friends. Condolences may be made on their tribute page found at www.PalmerMemorialChapel.com. Palmer Memorial Chapel Inc. is in charge of funeral arrangements.

CHARLES ELLIS WALKER SR. Charles Ellis Walker Sr., 86, died Tuesday, Dec. 20, 2016, at Palmetto Health Tuomey. Born in Manning, he was a son of the late Adolph Rollins Walker and Ruth Schroeder Walker. Mr. Walker was a member of Alice Drive Baptist

OBITUARIES Church and retired from Santee Print Works with 42 years of service. He was a U.S. Navy and U.S. Air Force veteran. He was twice married, first to the late Mary L. Walker. He is survived by his wife, Mary E. McDonald Walker of Sumter; a daughter, Barbara Wilson (Dewight) of Olanta; a sister, Lois Craven (Ron) of Sumter; six stepchildren, Edward Cuffley of Surfside Beach, Lisa Cuffley (Sandy) of Myrtle Beach, Albert Kirby (Sarah) of Sumter, Carroll Kirby (Cathy) of Sumter, Brian Kirby (Stephanie) of Manning and Sonia Vasil (Wesley) of Fayetteville, North Carolina; numerous grandchildren and step-grandchildren; and numerous greatgrandchildren and stepgreat-grandchildren. He was preceded in death by his son Charles Ellis Walker Jr. Funeral services will be held at 11 a.m. Saturday in the Chapel of the Elmore Hill McCreight Funeral Home with the Rev. Dr. Clay Smith officiating. Burial will be in the Evergreen Memorial Park Cemetery. The family will receive friends from 10 to 11 a.m. Saturday at the Elmore Hill McCreight Funeral Home. Memorials may be made to Alice Drive Baptist Church, 1305 Loring Mill Road, Sumter, SC 29150. Online condolences may be sent to www.sumterfunerals.com. Elmore Hill McCreight Funeral Home & Crematory, 221 Broad St., Sumter, is in charge of the arrangements, (803) 775-9386.

THE SUMTER ITEM daughters, Mary “Micki” E. Bilello and Linda A. Lowrey (Paul), both of Sumter; a sister, Betty Willette (Roger) of Sumter; two brothers, Herbert McGee (Betty) and Cody McGee (Nell), both of Sumter; four grandchildren, Les Gardner of Columbia, Lisa Kimbrell (William) of Sumter, Kimberly Povey of Long Island, New York, and Robert Bilello of Long Island; and six great-grandchildren, Christian and Layla Gardner of Columbia, Breanna and William Kimbrell of Sumter, and Jack and Carter Povey of Long Island. She was preceded in death by her first husband, Vernon Gatton; a brother, Lewis McGee; and two sisters, Margarete Coward and Helen Polito. Funeral services will be held at 2 p.m. Friday in the Elmore-Cannon-Stephens Funeral Home chapel with the Rev. Jimmy Holley officiating. Burial will be in the Evergreen Memorial Park Cemetery. Pallbearers will be Ronnie Grooms, Melvin Holloman, Earle Woodward, Jerry Brunson, Dewey Pritchard and Mike Mixon. The family will receive friends from 1 to 2 p.m. Friday at Elmore-Cannon-Stephens Funeral Home and other times at the home, 2741 Powhatan Drive. Memorials may be made to Northside Memorial Baptist Church, 1004 N. Main St., Sumter, SC 29153 or to a charity of one’s choice. The family would like to express their appreciation to Dr. Hugh Stoddard, Dr. David Lovice, Dr. Gregory King, Dr. Catherine Zybak, and her caregiver, Janie Sims, for all of their loving care and compassion. Elmore-Cannon-Stephens Funeral Home and Crematorium of Sumter is in charge of the arrangements.

DOROTHY M. HOLLAND JOHNATHAN BRADLEY CRUSE Johnathan Bradley Cruse was born on March 17, 1988 to the late John and Roselind Cruse. He departed his earthly life on Dec. 17, 2016. Johnathan was a marketing agent for Novant Health and a freelance writer for Vibe Magazine and BET. He leaves to cherish his memories: two sisters, Latrice Cruse and Anissa (Dale) Choice; one brother, Brandon (Michelle) Cruse; four nieces, Shakerra Wiley, Zariah Wiley, Nariah Cruse and Nyana Cruse; two nephews, Jovonnie Cunningham and Duanya Harriett; two great-nieces, Alissa Bess and Skai Stampley; one great-nephew, Nahshon Bess; a host of other relatives and friends. Public viewing will be held from 3 to 7 p.m. today at Job’s Mortuary. Mr. Cruse will be placed in the Crestwood High School Auditorium at noon on Friday for viewing until the hour of service. Funeral service will be held at 1 p.m. on Friday at Crestwood High School Auditorium with Pastor Clifton Witherspoon officiating and Pastor Marion Robinson, Eulogist. Interment will follow in Evergreen Memorial Park. Family will be receiving friends at the home of his sister, 485 N. St. Paul Church Road, Sumter. Job’s Mortuary, Inc., 312 S. Main St., is in charge of arrangements. Online memorials may be sent to the family at jobsmortuary@sc.rr.com or visit us on the web at www.jobsmortuary.net.

DORINE MCGEE SIEVERS Dorine Elizabeth McGee Sievers, 86, wife of the late Henry T. Sievers, went on to be with her Lord Tuesday, Dec. 20, 2016, at her home after a long battle with cancer. Born March 13, 1930, in Chester, she was a daughter of the late Horace D. McGee and Eva L. McGee. She was a member of Northside Memorial Baptist Church and the American Legion ladies Auxiliary. She was retired from Sumter School District Two. Survivors include two

Dorothy M. Holland departed this earthly life on Friday, Dec. 16, 2016, at her residence in Sumter. She was born July 22, 1940, in Sumter County, to the late Genie and Marie Martin James (White). Dorothy was educated in the public schools of Sumter County and graduated with the Lincoln High School Class of 1959. She was a devoted member of St. James United Methodist Church, where she sang with the senior choir, served on the usher board, and was a member of the United Methodist Women Organization. Dorothy was the former wife of Sylvester G. Holland Sr., and to their union four children were born. She was employed at Campbell Soup Co. for 26 years, until her retirement. Upon her retirement, she worked as a private caregiver for many years, and was a member of the Sumter Chapter of the National Federation of the Blind of South Carolina. Dorothy was known for her straightforward, honest and outspoken way of telling it like it is, as well as her class, style, conscientiousness, cooking and homemaking skills. She also loved old school music, watching Westerns on television and talking on the telephone. Those who remain to cherish her memory are two daughters, Valerie D. Holland (Jimmie L. Coplin) of Sumter and Kimberly (Antoine) Holland-Washington of Greensboro, North Carolina; and two sons, Sylvester G. Holland Jr. (Army Veteran) of Albuquerque, New Mexico, and Terry M. (Krisander) Holland (Marine Veteran) of Sumter. Also left to treasure memories of Dorothy are her sister, Geraldine (Harry “Jerry”) Gerideau; and three brothers, William “Bubba” (Carol) James and Granderson “Bro” James, both of Sumter, and Frank (Betty) James of Lynchburg; nine grandchildren, Travis Isaac, Sylvester G. Holland III, Brandon Holland, Sgt. Steven M. (Dasha) Graves, Terika Holland, Amber Washington, Kaysia Holland, Amaya Washington and Branay Washington; 15 great-grandchildren; two sisters-in-law, Stella Wilson of Jamaica, New York, and San-

dra “Joyce” Holland of Baltimore, Maryland; and a host of nieces, nephews, cousins, other relatives and special friends. In addition to her parents, she was preceded in death by one brother, Genie James Jr.; and two affectionate and loving aunts, Minnie Deas and Ruth James Martin. Public viewing will be held from 2 to 6 p.m. today at Job’s Mortuary. Mrs. Holland will be placed in the church at 10 a.m. on Friday for viewing until the hour of service. Funeral service will be held at 11 a.m. on Friday at St. James United Methodist Church, Sumter, with Pastor Cheryl Johnson officiating. Interment will follow in Hillside Memorial Park. Family will be receiving friends at the home, 39 Reese St., Sumter. Job’s Mortuary Inc., 312 S. Main St., is in charge of arrangements. Online memorials may be sent to the family at jobsmortuary@sc.rr.com or visit us on the web at www.jobsmortuary.net.

IDA MCBRIDE TRAMMELL Dr. Ida Mae McBride Trammell, 72, wife of Jimmie L. Trammell, died Wednesday, Dec. 21, 2016, at McLeod Health Clarendon, Manning. She was born Jan. 7, 1944, in Summerton, a daughter of the late Clarence and Minnie Ragin McBride. The family is receiving friends at the residence, 406 Drayton St., Manning. These services have been entrusted to Samuels Funeral Home LLC of Manning.

BERTHA KIMBLE Bertha Kimble, 87, wife of James Kimble, died Monday, Dec. 19, 2016, in Rochester, New York. Born July 7, 1929, in Sumter County, she was a daughter of Henry and Estelle Heriott. The family is receiving friends at the home, 5265 Black River Road, Rembert. Funeral arrangements are incomplete and will be announced by Williams Funeral Home Inc.

EDNA DOWDY Edna Dowdy, 87, died Tuesday, Dec. 20, 2016, at Palmetto Health Tuomey. Born April 14, 1929, in Sumter County, she was the daughter of Fred Dow and Gertrude Dowdy. Funeral arrangements are incomplete and will be announced by Williams Funeral Home Inc.

HENRIETTA H. SMITH Henrietta Hudson Smith, 89, widow of Elvin B. Smith, died on Wednesday, Dec. 21, 2016, in Elizabethton, Tennessee. Born in Sumter County, she was a daughter of the late John David Hudson Sr. and Susie Atkins Hudson. Mrs. Smith was a member of New Calvary Baptist Church. Surviving are a son, Allen E. Smith and wife, Teresa, of Elizabethton; two daughters, Shirley Ann McCollister of Sumter and Patricia Ridgeway and husband, Boyd, of Surfside Beach; three brothers, Jessie Hudson of Sumter, Tommy Hudson and Mike Bochette of Orangeburg; one sister, Catherine Craft of Sumter; six grandchildren; and five greatgrandchildren. Funeral services will be held at 11 a.m. on Friday in the Chapel of Elmore Hill McCreight Funeral Home with the Rev. Dr. David Richardson officiating. Burial will be in Wells Cemetery. The family will receive friends from 10 to 11 a.m. Friday at Elmore Hill McCreight Funeral Home. Online condolences may be sent to www.sumterfunerals. com. Elmore Hill McCreight Funeral Home & Crematory, 221 Broad St., Sumter, is in charge of the arrangements, (803) 775-9386.

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Turkey links Russian envoy’s killer to U.S.-based cleric ANKARA, Turkey (AP) — Turkey’s president on Wednesday implicated a U.S.-based Muslim cleric in the killing of Russia’s envoy to Turkey, saying the policeman who carried out the attack was a member of his “terror organization.” Ambassador Andrei Karlov was killed Monday evening by a gunman in front of stunned onlookers at a photo exhibition in Ankara. The assassin, Mevlut Mert Altintas of Ankara’s riot police squad, was killed in a police operation. “He (Altintas) was a member of the FETO terrorist organization. There is no point in hiding this,” President Recep Tayyip Erdogan said during a joint news conference with his visiting Albanian counterpart. “From the places he was raised to his connections — that’s what they point at.” Turkey has accused Fethullah Gulen — a former ally who has turned into Erdogan’s top foe — of trying to destabilize Turkey and says his movement is behind a failed military coup in July, aimed at toppling the Turkish leader. Gulen has denied any involvement in the coup. His movement also condemned “in the strongest terms” the ambassador’s assassination. The government however, has labeled the movement “the FETO terror organization” and has cracked down on Gulen’s followers, arresting tens of thousands of people for their alleged link to the coup and purging more than 100,000 suspected supporters from government jobs. Turkey is also pressing the United States to extradite

Gulen so he may be prosecuted for the coup attempt and other alleged crimes. Erdogan told reporters that Turkey’s intelligence agency was also looking into Altintas’ possible foreign connections, saying there were “certain clues” indicating overseas links. He did not elaborate. Turkey has been rife with speculation about Altintas’ motive and possible links to Gulen, but Erdogan’s statement was the first time a senior official openly blamed the killing on the movement. On Tuesday evening, Turkish Foreign Minister Mevlut Cavusoglu spoke with U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry by phone and provided information on the assailant, according to an official in his ministry. The official, speaking on condition of anonymity in line with government rules, said Cavusoglu also told Kerry that both Turkey and Russia “know” that Gulen’s movement was behind the attack. During the phone call, Kerry raised concerns about “some of the rhetoric coming out of Turkey with respect to American involvement or support, tacit or otherwise, for this unspeakable assassination yesterday because of the presence of Mr. Gulen here in the United States,” Kerry’s spokesman John Kirby said. “It’s a ludicrous claim, absolutely false,” Kirby said. “We need to let the investigators do their job, and we need to let the facts and the evidence take them where it is before we jump to conclusions.” Russia flew a team of 18 investigators and foreign minis-

try officials to Turkey to participate in the investigation. In Moscow, President Vladimir Putin’s spokesman indicated that Russia doesn’t believe the 22-year-old gunman acted on his own, but refused to explain the reasons for the suspicion. “We shouldn’t rush with any theories before the investigators establish who were behind the assassination of our ambassador,” spokesman Dmitry Peskov said Wednesday. Turkey’s state-run Anadolu Agency raised the number of people detained in connection to the attack to 11, including Altintas’ parents, sister, three other relatives and his roommate. Citing the Ankara prosecutor’s office, Anadolu said the

gunman, who had three spare cartridges on him as well as more than 20 bullets in his pocket, ignored calls for him to surrender after he had shot the ambassador, and opened fire on police, taking shelter behind a wall. It said special forces police who stormed the art gallery shot Altintas in the feet, legs and knees but that he continued to fire on police from the ground, shouting that he “would not be captured alive.” The report said investigators believe the security forces killed Altintas, fearing he may have had a bomb on him. Deputy Prime Minister Numan Kurtulmus, speaking to Turkish state television TRT, also said the gunman is not believed to have acted alone.

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SUMMONS (Deficiency Judgment Waived) (Mortgage Foreclosure) (Mobile Home Repossession) Non-Jury IN THE COURT OF COMMON PLEAS CASE NO. 2016-CP-14-00009 STATE OF SOUTH CAROLINA COUNTY OF CLARENDON Vanderbilt Mortgage and Finance, Inc. Plaintiff, -vsAzalee W. Kinard aka Azalee Williams Ridgeway nka Azalee Williams-Kinard; Essie Oliver aka Essie M. Coard (deceased); Anita Fielder, Michael Fielder, and Greshawn O., a minor, Heirs-at-Law or Devisees of Essie Oliver aka Essie M. Coard (deceased), their Heirs, Personal Representatives, Administrators, Successors, and Assigns, and any and all persons claiming any right, title, estate or interest in real estate described in the Complaint any unknown adults; also any persons who may be in the military servied of the United States of America being as a class designated as John Doe, and any unknown infants or persons under disability being as a class designated as Richard Roe, Defendant(s) TO THE DEFENDANT(S), Anita Fielder, Michael Fielder, and Greshawn O., a minor YOU ARE HEREBY SUMMONED and required to answer the Complaint in this action, and to serve a copy of your Answer on the subscribers at their offices, 1640 St. Julian Place, Columbia, South Carolina 29202, within thirty (30) days after service hereof, exclusive of the day of such service; except that the United States of America, if named, shall have sixty (60) days to answer after the service hereof, exclusive of the day of such service; and if you fail to answer the Complaint within the time aforesaid, the Plaintiff in this action will apply to the Court for a judgment by default granting the relief demanded in the Complaint. TO MINOR(S) OVER FOURTEEN YEARS OF AGE, AND/OR TO MINOR(S) UNDER FOURTEEN YEARS OF AGE AND THE PERSON WITH WHOM THE MINOR(S) RESIDE(S), AND/OR TO PERSON UNDER SOME LEGAL DISABILITY, INCOMPETENTS AND PERSONS CONFINED: YOUR ARE FURTHER SUMMONED AND NOTIFIED to apply for the appointment of a Guardian ad Litem within thirty (30) days after service of this Summons and Notice upon you. If you fail to do so, application for such appointment will be made by the Plaintiff.

NOTICE OF FILING COMPLAINT YOU WILL PLEASE TAKE NOTICE that the Summons and Complaint in the above-captioned action were filed on January 8, 2016, in the Office of the Clerk of Court for Clarendon County, South Carolina. Crawford & von Keller, LLC. PO Box 4216 1640 St. Julian Place (29204) Columbia, SC 29204 Phone: 803-790-2626 Attorneys for Plaintiff

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U.S. Bank, N.A. as trustee for Manufactured Housing Contract Senior/Subordinate Pass-Through Certificate Trust 1997-6 Plaintiff, -vsThe Personal Representatives, if any, whose names are unknown, of the Estates of Ethel Sinkler aka Ethel Plowden Sinkler and James Sinkler, Sr.; James Sinkler, Jr. and Kim Sinkler a/k/a Kim L. Sinkler, and any other Heirs-at-Law or Devisees of Ethel Sinkler aka Ethel Plowden Sinkler and James Sinkler, Sr., Deceased, their heirs, Personal Representatives, Administrators, Successors and Assigns and all Unknown persons with any right, title or interest in the real estate described herein; also any Unknown persons who may be in the military service of the United States of America, being a class designated as John Doe; and any Unknown minors, persons under a Disability or persons incarcerated, being a class designated as Richard Roe; South Carolina Federal Credit Union and South Carolina Department of Motor Vehicles, Defendant(s) BY VIRTUE of a judgment heretofore granted in the case of U.S. Bank, N.A. as trustee for Manufactured Housing Contract Senior/Subordinate Pass-Through Certificate Trust 1997-6 vs. The Personal Representatives, if any, whose names are unknown, of the Estates of Ethel Sinkler aka Ethel Plowden Sinkler and James Sinkler, Sr.; James Sinkler, Jr. and Kim Sinkler a/k/a Kim L. Sinkler, and any other Heirs-at-Law or Devisees of Ethel Sinkler aka Ethel Plowden Sinkler and James Sinkler, Sr., Deceased, their heirs, Personal Representatives, Administrators, Successors and Assigns and all Unknown persons with any right, title or interest in the real estate described herein; also any Unknown persons who may be in the military service of the United States of America, being a class designated as John Doe; and any Unknown minors, persons under a Disability or persons incarcerated, being a class designated as Richard Roe; South Carolina Federal Credit Union and South Carolina Department of Motor Vehicles, I, Frances Ricci Land Welch, as Special Referee for Clarendon County, will sell on January 3, 2017, at 11:00 am, at the Clarendon County Courthouse, 3 West Keitt St, Manning, SC 29102, to the highest bidder: INCORRECT All that certain piece, parcel or lot of land lying, being and situate in School District 2 of Clarendon County, South Carolina, designated as Lot 39 on a plat made by R.G. Mathis, RLS, September 9, 1997, entitled "Plat of Lot 39 of the Wells Estate Subdivision Recorded in Plat Book 45, Page 136, Surveyed for James Sinkler and Ethel Sinkler" and attached hereto and incorporated herein by reference pursuant to Section 30-5-250 of the Code of Laws of South Carolina, 1976 (as amended) for a more particular description of the metes, bounds, courses and distances of said lot. CORRECT All that certain piece, parcel or lot of land lying, being and situate in School District 2 of Clarendon County, South Carolina, designated as Lot 39 on a plat made by R.G. Mathis, RLS, September 9, 1997, entitled "Plat of Lot 39 of the Wells Estate Subdivision Recorded in Plat Book 45, Page 136, Surveyed for James Sinkler and Ethel Sinkler" and recorded on September 29, 1997 in Deed Book A-327 at Page 115, and incorporated herein by reference pursuant to Section 30-5-250 of the

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TMS #: 189-00-02-053-00 Mobile Home: 1997 FLEET VIN# GAFLT34A&B25195OK12 SUBJECT TO COUNTY TAXES

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TERMS OF SALE: The successful bidder, other than the Plaintiff, will deposit with the Special Referee at conclusion of the bidding, five (5%) of his bid, in cash or equivalent, as evidence of good faith, the same to be applied to purchase price in case of compliance, but to be forfeited and applied first to costs and then to Plaintiff's debt in the case of noncompliance. Should the last and highest bidder fail or refuse to make the required deposit at the time of the bid or comply with the other terms or the bid within twenty (20) days, then the Special Referee may resell the property on the same terms and conditions on some subsequent Sales Day (at the risk of the former highest bidder). No personal or deficiency judgment being demanded, the bidding will not remain open after the date of sale, but compliance with the bid may be made immediately. The successful bidder will be required to pay interest on the amount of the bid from the date of sale to date of compliance with the bid at the rate of 10.25% per annum. Frances Ricci Land Welch Special Referee for Clarendon County Theodore von Keller, Esquire B. Lindsay Crawford, III, Esquire Sara Hutchins Columbia, South Carolina Attorney for Plaintiff

AMENDED NOTICE OF SALE IN THE COURT OF COMMON PLEAS CASE NO. 2015-CP-14-614 STATE OF SOUTH CAROLINA COUNTY OF CLARENDON Vanderbilt Mortgage and Finance, Inc. Plaintiff, -vsThe Estate of James Johnson, by and through its Personal Representative, Melissa Abakah Johnson; Melissa Yolanda McNair Abaka Johnson aka Mellssa Y. Johnson, Jaquan J., a minor, Heirs-at-Law of James Johnson, deceased, their Heirs, Administrators, Successors and Assigns; , and all Unknown persons with any right, title or interest in the real estate described herein; also any Unknown persons who may be in the military service of the United States of America, being a class designated as John Doe; and any Unknown minors, persons under a Disability or persons incarcerated, being a class designated as Richard Roe, Defendant(s) BY VIRTUE of a judgment heretofore granted in the case of Vanderbilt Mortgage and Finance, Inc. vs. The Estate of James Johnson, by and through its Personal Representative, Melissa Abakah Johnson; Melissa Yolanda McNair Abaka Johnson aka Mellssa Y. Johnson, Jaquan J., a minor, Heirs-at-Law of James Johnson, deceased, their Heirs, Administrators, Successors and Assigns; , I, EFILE Frances Ricci Land Welch, as Special Referee for Clarendon County, will sell on J

anuary 3, 2017, at 11:00 am, at the Clarendon County Courthouse, 3 West Keitt St, Manning, SC 29102, to the highest bidder: ALL THAT CERTAIN PIECE, PARCEL, OR LOT OF LAND, LYING, BEING AND SITUATE IN SCHOOL DISTRICT NO. 2, IN THE COUNTY OF CLARENDON, STATE OF SOUTH CAROLINA, BEING COMPRISED OF LOT 5, CONTAINING 1.25 ACRES AS SHOWN ON A PLAT BY H.F. OLIVER, SURVEYOR DATED AUGUST 21, 1990 AND RECORDED IN THE OFFICE OF THE CLERK OF COURT FOR CLARENDON COUNTY IN PLAT BOOK 21 AT PAGE 124. REFERENCE IS HEREBY MADE TO THE SAID PLAT FOR A MORE COMPLETE AND ACCURATE DESCRIPTION. THIS BEING THE SAME PROPERTY HERETOFORE CONVEYED TO JAMES JOHNSON BY DEED OF JAMES L. HINSON ON BEHALF OF LAKE MARION MOTORS, INC. DATED JUNE 7, 1999 AND RECORDED JUNE 7, 1999 IN THE OFFICE OF THE REGISTER OF DEEDS FOR CLARENDON COUNTY IN DEED/RECORD BOOK A377 AT PAGE 52. DEED RE-RECORDED ON DECEMBER 2, 2004 IN DEED/RECORD BOOK A554 AT PAGE 51. THE SECURITY INSTRUMENT SECURES AN OBLIGATION FOR A MANUFACTURED HOME WHICH IS ALREADY OR TO BE PERMANENTLY AFFIXED TO THE SUBJECT REAL ESTATE: MAKE: BELLCREST MODEL: TEAKWO YEAR:1989 SERIAL NUMBER: GBHMC11562AB TMS #: 168-00-04-007-00 SUBJECT TO COUNTY TAXES

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TERMS OF SALE: The successful bidder, other than the Plaintiff, will deposit with the Special Referee at conclusion of the bidding, five (5%) of his bid, in cash or equivalent, as evidence of good faith, the same to be applied to purchase price in case of compliance, but to be forfeited and applied first to costs and then to Plaintiff's debt in the case of noncompliance. Should the last and highest bidder fail or refuse to make the required deposit at the time of the bid or comply with the other terms or the bid within twenty (20) days, then the Special Referee may resell the property on the same terms and conditions on some subsequent Sales Day (at the risk of the former highest bidder). No personal or deficiency judgment being demanded, the bidding will not remain open after the date of sale, but compliance with the bid may be made immediately. The successful bidder will be required to pay interest on the amount of the bid from the date of sale to date of compliance with the bid at the rate of 10.47% per annum. Frances Ricci Land Welch Special Referee for Clarendon County

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right to a personal or deficiency judgment, at any time prior to the foreclosure sale. The successful bidder will be required to pay interest on the balance of the bid after the deposit is applied from date of sale to date of compliance with the bid at the rate of 6.375% per annum. For complete terms of sale, see Judgment of Foreclosure and Sale filed with the Clarendon County Clerk of Court at C/A #2016CP1400283.

BY VIRTUE of a decree heretofore granted in the case of: JPMorgan Chase Bank, National Association vs. Julius W. Richburg; Palmetto Health;, C/A No. 2016CP1400283, The following property will be sold on January 3, 2017, at 11:00 AM at the Clarendon County Courthouse, 102 South Mill Street, Manning, SC 29102 to the highest bidder: All of that certain piece, parcel or lot of land, together with the improvements thereon, lying, being and situate near the Village of Alcolu, Clarendon County, South Carolina, containing 0.86 acre, more or less. being a COMBINATION of the Eastern Portion of Lot 1 on a plat prepared by W.B. Sykes, Surveyor, dated August 2, 1961. filed for record in the Office of the Register of Deeds of Clarendon County in Plat Book 17, Page 57 AND Lot 1 on a plat prepared by W.B. Sykes, Surveyor, dated March 5, 1958, filed for record in the Office of the Register of Deeds of Clarendon County in Plat Book 15, Page 80A; said plats being incorporated herein by reference pursuant to Section 30-5-250 of the Code of Laws of South Carolina, 1976 {as amended). The Eastern Portion of Lot 1 on the plat recorded in plat book 17 at page 57 is more particularly described as all that piece, parcel or lot of land lying, being and situate near the Village of Alcolu, School District No. 2, County of Clarendon, State of South Carolina and bounded as follows: On the Northwest by portion of Lot No. 1 owned now or formerly by B.M. Morris; on the Northeast by U.S. Highway 521 and measuring thereon 37 feet; on the Southwest by lands now or formerly of Fred L. Coward and measuring thereon 88.2 feet; on the Southeast by lands now or formerly of Arthur Richburg, formerly Morris and Parcel "A" on plat book 17 at page 57 of the records of Clarendon County. LESS, HOWEVER. 0.076 acre conveyed therefrom to the South Carolina Department of Transportation by deeds filed for record in said Register's Office in Deed Book A474 at Page 28. Derivation: Book A614 at Page 49

6229 Sumter Hwy, Alcolu, SC 29001 173-00-02-017 SUBJECT TO ASSESSMENTS, CLARENDON AD VALOREM TAXES, EASEMENTS AND/OR, RESTRICTIONS OF RECORD, AND OTHER SENIOR ENCUMBRANCES.

NOTICE: The foreclosure deed is not a warranty deed. Interested bidders should satisfy themselves as to the quality of title to be conveyed by obtaining an independent title search prior to the foreclosure sale date. William C. Coffey, Jr. Master in Equity for Clarendon County John J. Hearn, Esq. Attorney for Plaintiff P.O. Box 100200 Columbia, SC 29202-3200 (803) 744-4444 012507-02404 FM Website: www.rtt-law.com (see link to Resources/Foreclosure Sales)

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NOTICE TO CREDITORS OF ESTATES All persons having claims against the following estates MUST file their claims on FORM #371ES with the Probate Court of Clarendon County, the address of which is 411 Sunset Dr. Manning, SC 29102, within eight (8) months after the date of the first publication of this Notice to Creditors or within one (1) year from date of death, whichever is earlier (SCPC 62-3-801, et seq.), or such persons shall be forever barred as to their claims. All claims are required to be presented in written statements on the prescribed form (FORM #371ES) indicating the name and address of the claimant, the basis of the claim, the amount claimed, the date when the claim will become due, the nature of any uncertainty as to the claim, and a description of any security as to the claim.

Estate: James Cobb #2016ES1400265 Personal Representative: Willie L Cobb 2070 7th Avenue New York, NY 10027 12/22/16 - 1/05/17 Estate:

TERMS OF SALE: A 5% deposit in certified funds is required. The deposit will be applied towards the purchase price unless the bidder defaults, in which case the deposit will be forfeited. If the successful bidder fails, or refuses, to make the required deposit on the day of sale or fails or refuses to comply with the bid within 20 days, then the property will be resold at the bidder's risk. Personal or deficiency judgment having been demanded or reserved, the sale will remain open for thirty (30) days pursuant to S.C. Code Ann. Â§15-39-720 (1976). The Plaintiff may waive any of its rights, including its

Freddie Lee Gray aka Fred Lee Gray #2016ES1400252 Personal Representative: Lottie H. Gray P.O. Box 854 Manning, SC 29102 12/08/16 - 12/22/16 Estate: Mamie Lorie Jackson Geddings #2016ES1400256 Personal Representative: Beverly G. Padgett 2685 Hodge Circle Manning, SC 29102 12/08/16 - 12/22/16

Theodore von Keller, Esquire B. Lindsay Crawford, III, Esquire Sara Hutchins Columbia, South Carolina Attorney for Plaintiff

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Holy Land craftsmen take on Chinese knockoffs BETHLEHEM, West Bank (AP) — Christmas is approaching and pilgrims and tourists have begun to arrive, crowding the souvenir shops that line the narrow streets and alleys of Bethlehem, the biblical town revered as Jesus’ birthplace. But when visitors choose to take a piece of the Holy Land back home with them, they better check the labels. Many souvenirs — including the West Bank town’s trademark rosary beads — are imported from abroad, mainly China. A small number of souvenir shops are now trying to fight the trend, stocking their shelves almost exclusively with locally made products. Shopkeepers say that while their wares may be more expensive, the quality is much better, and they give an important boost to the struggling economy. “I’ve got nothing that is made overseas except for one thing, that’s the magnets. It’s something that sells for cheap and people want them,” said Bassem Giacaman, owner of the Blessings Gift Shop and The Olive Wood Factory. “Everything else is made locally so I

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A shopkeeper holds souvenirs in the West Bank city of Bethlehem. Christmas is approaching and pilgrims and tourists have begun to arrive, crowding the souvenir shops that line the narrow streets and allies of the city where Jesus is said to have been born. Many souvenirs, including the West Bank town’s trademark rosemary beads, are imported from abroad, mainly China. Read the full story at theitem.com. can keep the local economy working.” Some 120,000 people are expected to visit the Holy Land this holiday sea-

Keep the lights burning

ne reason I love this time of the year is the lights.

As I drive around Sumter, it is awesome to see the lights downtown, on houses and Christmas trees everywhere I go. It has always amazed me how Christmas lights can put a smile on a child’s or adult’s face. Wouldn’t it be great if there was a way to bring that same type of light to people every day? Today, I have some good news for us; we can be light for all those around us. In the Bible, Matthew wrote the following; “You are the light of the world. A town built on a hill cannot be hidden. Neither do people light a lamp and put it under a bowl. Instead they put it on its stand, and it gives light to everyone in the house. In the same way, let your light shine before others, that they may see your good deeds and glorify your Father in heaven.” (Matthew 5:14-16) We can be a light for our spouses and children by loving them unconditionally and encouraging them to follow their dreams. We can be a light for our parents by loving and respecting them. We can be a light for our neighbors by getting to know them and helping them. We can

even be a light for those who have hurt us, by forgiving them and trying to reconcile that relaFamily tionship. In a few Encouragement days all the RICHARD Christmas HOLMES lights in town — in windows and on trees — will come down; however, we can continue to let our lights shine brightly each day we live and serve others. May we all let our lights shine brightly in order to make a positive impact in at least one person’s life each day. During the next five weeks, I will be sharing how we can be a light for others and make a positive impact in our world. I will do this by using the letters in the word LIGHT. Next week we will focus on the importance of love. Family Encouragement Corner is a weekly inspirational thought from Richard Holmes. Holmes serves as a chaplain at Shaw Air Force Base. The opinions expressed in this article do not express the views of Shaw Air Force Base or United States Air Force. For more information regarding Family Encouragement Corner or to offer your suggestions or comments please feel free to email familyencouragement2016@gmail.com.

son, half of them Christian, according to Israel’s Tourism Ministry. Many will visit Bethlehem, where

globalization has left its imprint like everywhere else. Foreign-made crafts, especially Chinese ones, have come to represent a big part of the market here, including Christmas souvenirs. While there are no official statistics, local officials and businessmen estimate that nearly half of the products, perhaps more, are imported. Giacaman keeps just a few imported products in his store, most of them hidden in a small box beneath a counter. He takes them out to show customers and compare them to Palestinian-made ones. “This is a plastic Jesus baby made in China and this is a ceramic one made in Bethlehem, and these are the olive wood rosaries that I make and the Chinese ones,” he said, proudly showing what he said was the superior craftsmanship of the locally made goods. Bethlehem is in the West Bank, occupied territory the Palestinians hope will be part of their future state. Tourism remains strong, but the rest of the economy has long languished, in part because of Israeli restrictions.

Embrace simplicity, significance during the chaos of Christmas

he offerings of love and grace for the young, unwed mother far outweighed the cries of condemnation from my own church family, a fact which I was proud of when I went to visit the new mom in the hospital last week. Armed with a list of well-wishes, I stepped inside the hospital room where this young mother lay resting in bed. I recognized the look of exhaustion that follows the events of labor. “How are you doing?” I asked. Good, she told me, but she was ready to see her child again. After the baby was born, the doctors whisked her away to the Neonatal Intensive Care Unit because she was having trouble breathing. The young mother had only held her for a minute or two before they took her away. Now, she was ready to hold her child again. I knew the feeling — my firstborn had a similar issue. We talked and she told me she was also a little nervous about returning to church where, she felt, she would be lookeddown upon given her present circumstance. I assured her that wasn’t the consensus; that people were waiting to love and support her during this

transition in life. Shortly after, a nurse said she could hold her baby so I Faith Matters again, followed JAMIE H. her to the WILSON viewing window of the nursery. The young girl went inside and patiently waited, seated in a nearby rocking chair as the staff unhooked the infant from the monitoring equipment. Then they delivered the small soft bundle of blankets into her arms. Something remarkable happened. The two looked at each other while the world around faded away. She couldn’t hear the beeping of the medical machinery, and the conversations of the nursery staff turned to white noise. Even the guilt the young girl felt or the prospect of another’s condemnation melted away. All that existed was the profound connection between mother and child. It was a real, raw moment where I couldn’t help but remember the tumultuous entrance of Jesus Christ. It was an unusual way to bring our Savior into the world, but God isn’t bound

by the laws and conventions of humankind. Christ was born to an unmarried mother in a time where the infraction might mean death, in a place unbefitting of a King. It’s all wrong, Mary had to think at some point. This isn’t how it’s supposed to be. But then, Mary held her child. I’m sure, like most mothers, she examined every inch of him, then spent endless hours simply looking at him. We know that the events of Christ’s birth left an indelible impression on her heart. “… Mary treasured all these things, pondering them in her heart.” (Luke 2:19, NLT) In the chaos of daily life, much less the holiday season, it’s hard to imagine both the simplicity and yet tremendous significance of such a moment, but those two notions are often the ones we forfeit in lieu of a hectic and ultimately shallow Christmas celebration. I hope that you choose simplicity and significance. Merry Christmas, dear reader. May God bless you and yours in the coming year. Email Jamie H. Wilson at faithmatterssumter@gmail. com.

CHURCH NEWS Cedar Grove Missionary Baptist Church, 1275 Oswego Highway, announces: * Saturday, Dec. 31 — Watch night service at 10:30 p.m. Pastor Daniel Bennett and the Rev. Willie Jones will speak. Concord Baptist Church, 1885 Myrtle Beach Highway, announces: * Saturday — Christmas Eve candlelight service at 6 p.m. * Sunday — Christmas worship service at 10 a.m. Cross Road Christian Fellowship / St. Peter Baptist Church, 845 Webb St., announces: * Saturday, Dec. 31 — Watch night service at 10 p.m. Bishop Sylvester Francis will speak. Emmanuel United Methodist Church, 421 S. Main St., announces: * Sunday — Christmas celebration "Singing, praise dance and worship." Sunday school begins at 9 a.m. followed by 10 a.m. worship. High Hills AME Church, 6780 Meeting House Road, Dalzell, announces: * Saturday — Christmas service will be held at 5 p.m. * Saturday, Dec. 31 — Watch night service at 10 p.m. High Hills Missionary Baptist Church, 6750 Meeting House Road, Dalzell, announces: * Saturday, Dec. 31 — Watch Night service at 10:30 p.m. Knitting Hearts Ministry, meets at Bethesda Church of God, 2730 Broad St., announces:

* Saturday, Jan. 14, 2017 — Knitting Hearts will meet from 10 a.m. to noon. Debbie Dyches, of Fort Mill, will speak. Light breakfast included. A love offering will be received. Mount Sinai AME Church, 5895 Mt. Sinai Church Road, Lynchburg, announces: * Sunday — Christmas morning worship at 9 a.m. featuring a Christmas concert. * Sunday, Jan. 1, 2017 — New Year's worship at 9 a.m. * Sunday, Jan. 8, 2017 — Gospel fest at 3 p.m. featuring the Singing Cousins and others. Mount Zion Missionary Baptist Church, 325 Fulton St., announces: * Sunday — Christmas Day "Come as you are" worship celebration at 8 a.m. There will not be a 10:45 a.m. service. * Saturday, Dec. 31 — Joint Watch Night service with Salem Missionary Baptist Church at 10 p.m. at Mount Zion MBC. Dr. Cartrell Woods, pastor of Salem Missionary Baptist Church, will speak. * Sunday, Jan. 1, 2017 — Evangelist Savitrus McFadden will speak at 6 p.m. * Sunday, Jan. 15, 2017 — The 33rd pastoral anniversary worship celebration honoring the Rev. and Mrs. James Blassingame and family at 10:45 a.m. Dr. Ivory T. Thigpen, pastor of Rehoboth Baptist Church, Columbia, and member of the S.C. House of Representatives, will speak.

New Bethel Missionary Baptist Church, 3249 U.S. 15 S., announces: * Sunday — Christmas worship at 10 a.m. There will be no 8:45 a.m. church school. * Saturday, Dec. 31 — Watch night service at 10 p.m. * Sunday, Jan. 1, 2017 — New Year's Day worship at 10 a.m. No 8:45 a.m. church school. New Fellowship Covenant Ministries, 316 W. Liberty St., announces: * Saturday, Jan. 14, 2017 — Clothes giveaway from 9 a.m. to noon. Free snacks will also be given out. New Testament Lighthouse Church, 1114 Boulevard Road, announces: * Saturday, Dec. 31 — Gospel singing and watch night service. Food will be served at 8 p.m. with singing from 9 p.m. until midnight. On the program: Cindy Ward; Sims Family; Julie McHoney; and more. Pinewood Baptist Church, S.C. 261, Pinewood, announces: * Sunday — Christmas service will be held at 10:30 a.m. "Come as you are" as we worship in song and observe the Lord's Supper. Refreshing Springs Kingdom Outreach, meets at Colony Square, 741 Bultman Drive, Suite 21, announces: * Sunday — Christmas Day service at 10 a.m. Brother Frederick McCray will speak. * Saturday, Dec. 31 — Watch night service at 10 p.m. Elder Mike Williams will speak. Reid Chapel AME Church, 1008 Dibert

St., announces: * Saturday, Dec. 31 — Watch night evening service at 6 p.m. Minister Roneika China-Jennette, of Four Bridges Baptist Church, will speak. Seacoast Church, meets at F.E. Dubose Campus, Central Carolina Technical College, 3351 U.S. 521, Manning, announces: * Saturday — Christmas Eve candlelight service at 5 p.m. St. Paul AME Church, 835 Plowden Mill Road, announces: * Sunday — Christmas Day service at 9 a.m. Sunday school will not be held. * Saturday, Dec. 31 — Watch night service at 10 p.m. There will not be any church services on Sunday, Jan. 1, 2017, New Year's Day. Taw Caw Missionary Baptist Church, 1130 Granby Lane, Summerton, announces: * Sunday — Christmas Day worship at 10 a.m. This will be the only service on Christmas Day. * Saturday, Dec. 31 — Watch night service at 10 p.m. * Sunday, Jan. 1, 2017 — New Year's worship at 10 a.m. This will be the only service on New Year's Day. Triumph Ministries, 3632 Broad St. Ext., announces: * Saturday, Dec. 31 — Watch night service "Stand Up, Speak Up and Move Up" at 10:30 p.m. Elder Tonya Mack, Elder Ray Mathis and Prophetess Stephanie Mathis will speak.

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NYC Christmas displays draw some bah-humbugs NEW YORK (AP) — It’s a neighborhood Christmas display with New York City attitude: big, brash, loud and over-the-top. Blazing lights, giant toy soldiers, angels, snowmen, wise men, Santas and piped-in Sinatra caroling form an allout barrage on the senses from nearly every house in the heart of Brooklyn’s Dyker Heights neighborhood, an annual extravaganza that draws thousands of tourists every evening by the car and busload. But it has some residents just wishing for a silent night. “As pretty as it can be, it’s difficult,” says Linda Rebmann, 72, who has lived in Dyker Heights all her life and has only an unlit cranberry wreath on her home. “It’s a little out of hand. It’s gotten to be a bit much.” Nobody is talking about pulling the plug on the displays, which are still a source of neighborhood pride. But there has been extra grumbling this season, especially after some parking spots usually used by residents were blocked off for rows of tour buses. “This close to Christmas you can’t walk. It’s like Manhattan,” says Joyce Arpino, 55, a resident for three decades. She says she stopped decorating inside her windows because gawkers would peer inside and rap on the glass. Tourists used to park in front of her house or even in her driveway until she set out some orange traffic cones. “I don’t want to sound like a

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Visitors to the Dyker Heights neighborhood in Brooklyn, New York, gather on Dec. 14 in front of Lucy Spata’s house as they tour the area known for it’s elaborate and over-thetop Christmas displays. Scrooge,” she says, “but it’s horrible.” To that, residents like 30-year-old Vinny Privitelli respond: lighten up. This year, he spent all of November and thousands of dollars to install strings of red and white lights on his roof and around every window and adorn his lawn with reindeer, a trio of dancing elves and a nativity scene. Privitelli admits part of the fun is trying to

outdo his neighbors, some of whom hire professionals to do their displays. And he has no problem with the throngs of visitors who come to check it out. “It’s nice to see them enjoying it, that’s what we get out of it,” he says. “Everything in the news is negative, so at least we get one positive thing.” Around the corner, a crowd of 35 people stopped at another house, where

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of Christ Baptist - Southern Church Plaza Church of Christ Grace Baptist Church 219 W Calhoun St * 778-6417 Dr. Stephen Williams S.S. 9:45 am; Worship 11:00 am Evening Worship/Bible Study 6:30 pm Wed. Prayer Meeting 6:30 pm Wed. Bible Study: 6:30 pm

African Methodist Baptist - Missionary Episcopal Jehovah Missionary Baptist Church 803 S Harvin St. * 775-4032 Wayman Chapel AME Church Marion H Newton, Pastor 160 N Kings Hwy • 803-494-3686 Sunday Worship: 7:45 & 10:45 am www.waymanchapelame.com Sunday Youth Service: 10:45 am Reverend Dr. Dennis W. Broughton, Jr. Wednesday Bible Study: 7:00 pm Church School 9:00 am Worship 10:15 am Baptist Church Wed. Bible Study 12:00 pm & 6:30 pm Salem Missionary 320 West Fulton Street

Hickory Road Baptist Church 1245 Cherryvale Dr 803-494-8281 Dr. Ron Taylor Pastor Sunday School 9:45 am Worship 10:55 am Evening Worship 6:00 pm

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Shaw Heights Baptist Church 2030 Peach Orchard Rd. • 499-4997 Rev. Robert White, Pastor Sunday School: 9:45 am Sunday Worship:11 am & 6 pm Bible School June 20th - 25th 6:00 - 8:30 PM 4 year old & up

e never know when we might be God’s angel to a stranger…or they to us, for all angels do not appear with wings. In Hebrews 13:2, we read, “Let brotherly love continue. Do not neglect to show hospitality to strangers, for thereby some have entertained angels unaware.” Let the blessings of the season fill your heart as you worship and serve our Heavenly Father. Share those blessings with a stranger today! Photo Credit LLK

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Catholic - Roman The Catholic Community of Sumter, St. Anne Site 216 E Liberty St • 803-773-3524 Parochial Pastor Rev. Frank Palmieri, CRM Vicar Rev. Noly Berjuega, CRM Weekend Masses: Sat. 4:30 pm Sun. 8:00 and 12:00 Noon Confession: Sat. 3:00 pm - 4:00 pm The Catholic Community of Sumter, St. Jude Site 611 W. Oakland Ave • 773-9244 www.stjudesumtersc.org Pastor Rev. Frank Palmieri, CRM Parochial Vicar Rev. Noly Berjuega, CRM

1402 Camden Hwy. • 905-3163 Stewart Schnur cell 361-8449 Sunday School: 10 am Sunday Worship: 11 am & 6 pm Wed. Bible Class: 7 pm

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Methodist - United Aldersgate United Methodist 211 Alice Dr • 775-1602 David W. Day, Pastor Traditional Service 9:00 am Sunday School 10:15 am Contemporary Service 11:15 am Bethel United Methodist Church 5575 Lodebar Rd • 469-2452 Rev. Jeremy Howell Sunday Worship: 8:30 & 11 am Sunday School: 10 am www.yourbethel.org BMethodist@ftc-i.net

City of Refuge Church 16 Carolina Ave 938-9066 Barbara & Johnny Davis Sun School 10:00 am Worship 11:15 am Bible Study (Wed.) 7:00 pm www.cityofrefugeministry.com

St John United Methodist Church 136 Poinsett Dr * 803-773-8185 www.stjohnumcsumter.com Rev. Larry Brown Sunday School 9:45 am Worship 11:00 am Wed. Bible Study 11:00 am

Spiritual Life Christian Center 4672 Broad St. Ext • 968-5771 Pastors Randolph & Minerva Paige Sunday Worship: 11:00 am Wednesday Bible Study: 7:00 pm

Trinity United Methodist Church 226 W Liberty St • 773-9393 Rev. Steve Holler Sunday School 9:30 am Worship Service 10:30 am trinityumcsumter.org

Victory Full Gospel Interdenominational Church 601 Pitts Rd • 481-7003 Joann P. Murrill, Pastor Sunday Worship: 11:00 am Youth Bible Study 7:00 pm

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Lutheran - ELCA St James Lutheran Church 1137 Alice Dr, Sumter 773-2260 / www.stjamessumter.org Pastor Keith Getz Sunday School: 9:00 am Sunday Worship: 10:00 am Wed. Bible Study 10:30 am Holy Communion: 12:00 pm

Christ Community Church(CCC) 320 Loring Mill Rd., Sumter www.cccsumter.com 803-905-7850 Sunday Worship 10:00 am First Church of God 1835 Camden Rd • 905-5234 www.sumterfcg.org Ron Bower, Pastor Sunday School: 9:30 am Sunday Worship: 10:30 am

every inch of the stoop and patio was packed with glowing nutcrackers, snowmen, reindeer and plastic angels. On another lawn, a 13-foot-tall animatronic Santa Claus sat between a pair of giant toy soldiers and two carousels ablaze with lights. It was all so bright that the selfie-snapping crowds didn’t need to use a flash. “Let’s go folks. You can’t hold up traffic,” an officer inside a police van shouted at drivers stopped in the street. “I like it when they take pictures,” says Angela Peralta, whose display includes a candy cane arch over the driveway, a “Merry Christmas” banner and a waving, inflatable snowman. “People are very respectful. They say it’s beautiful.” By most accounts, the light displays became a neighborhood activity in the 1980s, and buses began bringing in tourists from Manhattan about a decade ago. Some bus tours play up the area’s Italian-American heritage, including stops at a nearby bakery for cannoli and hot chocolate. Among the bus visitors this year was Jeanne Andrews, 66, who traveled from Vincennes, Indiana, to experience Christmas in the Big Apple. She went to see the tree in Rockefeller Center and the windows at Macy’s, but this was different. “I like this because it’s so personal. Every family has something different,” she says. “I love it. I just think it’s spectacular.”

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Greater St. Paul Church 200 Watkins Street • 803-778-1355 Founder Bishop W.T. English Sunday School - 10:30 am Worship - 11:30 am Evangelistic Service 6:30 pm Wed. Mid Week Service - 7:30 pm

First Presbyterian Church of Sumter 9 W Calhoun St (at Main St.) (803) 773-3814 • info@fpcsumter.org Rev. Nick Cheek Sunday School (classes for all ages) 9:30 a.m. Hospitality & Fellowship (Fellowship Hall) 10:10 a.m. Worship (Sanctuary) 10:30 a.m.

Sumter Bible Church 420 South Pike West, Sumter 803-773-8339 • Pastor Ron Davis Sunday School 10:00 am Worship 11:00 am & 6:30 pm Wed. Bible Study & Prayer 7:00 pm

Pentecostal First United Penecostal Church 14 Plowden Mill Rd • 775-9493 Pastor Theron Smith Sunday Service: 10:00 am & 6:30 pm Wednesday Bible Study: 7:30 pm Sumter First Pentecostal Holiness Church 2609 McCrays Mill Rd • 481-8887 S. Paul Howell, Pastor Sunday School: 10:00 am Sunday Worship: 10:45 am & 6:00 pm Wed. Bible Study/Youth Group: 7:00 pm

Presbyterian - ARP Lemira Presbyterian Church 514 Boulevard Rd • 473-5024 Pastor Dan Rowton Sunday School 10:00 am Worship 11:00 am

Presbyterian PCA Westminster Presbyterian Church 230 Alice Dr., Sumter • 803-773-7235 Pastor Stuart Mizelle Sunday School 9:15 am Worship Service 10:30 am

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Viewers have plenty of specials to pick from BY KEVIN MCDONOUGH

With scant days left until Christmas, the chance to catch your favorite specials and movies is fast disappearing. For some that's a blessing, a sign that the incessant din of holiday music will soon depart. For others, it's a sign that the season, like youth and life itself, is a fleeting thing, a dreamlike moment between anticipation and nostalgia that comes and goes before you know it. This being television, there is simply too much to choose from. And sometimes the very onslaught makes the gems stand out. Hallmark has been showing movies like "My Christmas Love" (8 p.m.) and "I'm Not Ready for Christmas" (10 p.m.) since October. These are best for people treating the holiday itself as a kind of background noise. They are as ubiquitous, and presumably as pleasant and inoffensive as greeting cards and wrapping paper. It's Hallmark, after all. In films like "Deck the Halls" (8 p.m., AMC) and "Jingle All the Way" (8:55 p.m., Freeform), the frantic nature of the holidays offers material to satirize, but these movies can seem more like Hollywood product than seasonal favorites. Arguably the most recent holiday offering to emerge as a classic, the 2003 "Elf" (6:45 p.m., Freeform) makes the most of Will Ferrell's manic innocence. But even his sugar-soaked spirit must travel on a road through disillusionment to arrive at enchantment. The reasons "A Charlie Brown Christmas" (8 p.m., ABC, TV-G) has endured for more than a half-century are many. It's extraordinarily smart (kids discussing psychiatry), surprisingly sophisticated (jazz and Beethoven) and decidedly anticommercial (kids knocking Christmas as a racket run by an "eastern syndicate"). But it only works because so much of it is extremely sad. Viewers must live through Charlie Brown's abject loneliness, continual failure and ultimate humiliation before he's finally enlightened, and, at least for the moment, re-accepted by his rather savagely self-involved peer group.

From left, Gregory Harrison, Meredith Hagner and Megan Park star in “My Christmas Love,” airing at 8 p.m. today on Hallmark Channel. Whether you see Christmas as a religious, family or merely commercial holiday, we're all celebrating a festival of light amidst December's gathering darkness. And no holiday tradition quite brings out the gloom like the 1951 adaptation of "A Christmas Carol" (11:30 p.m., TCM), starring Alastair Sim as Ebenezer Scrooge. Every rendition of this oftadapted story, even "Disney's A Christmas Carol" (7 p.m., Disney XD), and presumably the "Doctor Who: A Christmas Carol" (9 p.m., BBC America) takes us to the grave and back. But this dark, low-budget, postwar British production offers us Dickens' London with minimal sentimentality. It's a decidedly dark ride, but one most of us relish every year. • A winner emerges during New York Fashion Week on the season finale of "Project

Runway" (8 p.m., Lifetime, TVPG). Lifetime wastes no time introducing the second season of "Project Runway: Junior" (10 p.m., TV-PG). A dozen precocious designers aged 13 to 17 gather in New York and get right down to work. Disney Channel personality Olivia Holt ("Kickin' It") will help select the winner. "Junior" moves to 9 p.m. beginning Dec. 29.

TONIGHT'S OTHER HIGHLIGHTS • The Eagles and Giants meet in NFL action (8:20 p.m., NBC, NFL). • A favorite Southern dish revisited on "Hell's Kitchen" (8 p.m., Fox, r, TV-14). • One family needs to step up their game on "Terry Crews Saves Christmas" (8 p.m., CW, TV-PG). • Chocolate, custard and me-

ringue set the agenda on "The Great American Baking Show" (9 p.m., ABC). • Tess takes on a crowd to protect the Boy on the season finale of "Falling Water" (10 p.m., USA, TV-14). While not exactly a nightmare, this dream-centric mystery did not exactly keep me awake.

SERIES NOTES Leonard and Sheldon clash on "The Big Bang Theory" (8 p.m., CBS, r, TV-PG) * An adventurer takes a desk job on "The Great Indoors" (8:30 p.m., CBS, r, TV-PG) * Regina needs support on "Mom" (9 p.m., CBS, r, TV-14) * Mama Winchester returns on "Supernatural" (9 p.m., CW, r, TV-14) * On three episodes of "Life in Pieces" (CBS, r, TV-14): tradition (9:30 p.m.); Greg asserts himself (10 p.m.); an unpopular side dish (10:30 p.m.).

LATE NIGHT "Conan" (11 p.m., TBS, r) repeats its visit to Berlin * Will Smith and Anna Kendrick are booked on "The Late Show With Stephen Colbert" (11:35 p.m., CBS) * Jimmy Fallon welcomes Jim Parsons, kid toy experts Evan & Jillian and Dec 99th on "The Tonight Show" (12:05 a.m., NBC) * Will Smith and Adam Perry Lang appear on "Jimmy Kimmel Live" (11:35 p.m., ABC, r) * Matthew McConaughey, Mel B, Cameron Dallas and Craig Finn visit "Late Night With Seth Meyers" (1:05 a.m., NBC) * Queen Latifah, Morris Chestnut, Tracey Ullman, Machine Gun Kelly and Camila Cabello appear on "The Late Late Show With James Corden" (12:35 a.m., CBS, r). Copyright 2016, United Feature Syndicate

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CHRISTMAS CLOSING SCHEDULE BANKS — SAFE Federal Credit Union and All South Credit Christmas Union will schedule: be closed on Saturday, Dec. 22, 2016 Dec. 24, and Monday, Dec. 26. The following will be closed on Monday, Dec. 26: Bank of Clarendon; BB&T; First Citizens; The Citizens Bank; Wells Fargo; NBSC; and Bank of America. GOVERNMENT — The following will be closed FridayTuesday, Dec. 23-27: state government offices; City of Sumter offices; Sumter County offices; Clarendon County offices; City of Manning offices; Lee County offices; and City of Bishopville offices. Federal government offices and the U.S. Postal Service will be closed Monday, Dec. 26. SCHOOLS — The following will be closed through Friday, Dec. 30, with students returning on Monday, Jan. 2, 2017: Sumter School District; Clarendon School District 3; Lee County Public Schools; Robert E. Lee Academy; and St. Anne & St. Jude Catholic School. The following will be closed through Monday, Jan. 2, 2017, with students returning on Tuesday, Jan. 3, 2017: Clarendon School Districts 1 and 2; Thomas Sumter Academy; Wilson Hall; St. Francis Xavier High School; Laurence Manning Academy; Clarendon Hall; and Sumter Christian School. UTILITIES — Black River Electric Coop. will be closed Friday, Dec. 23, and Monday, Dec. 26. Farmers Telephone Coop. will be closed Monday, Dec. 26. OTHER — The Greater Sumter Chamber of Commerce will be closed the week of Dec. 26-30. Clemson Extension Service will be closed the week of Dec. 26-30. The Harvin Clarendon County Library will be closed Friday-Tuesday, Dec. 23-27. The Sumter County Library will be closed Friday, Dec. 23, and Monday, Dec. 26. All offices of The Sumter Item will be closed Friday, Dec. 23, and Monday, Dec. 26.

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Today: Partly sunny. High 61 to 67. Friday: Sunny to partly cloudy; cooler. High 56 to 62.

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Tigers in triumph Clemson rallies late to hand No. 22 Gamecocks 62-60 loss

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Ohio State working to smooth out passing game BY MITCH STACY The Associated Press

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South Carolina guard Duane Notice (10) drives to the basket against Clemson guard Avry Holmes (12) during their game on Wednesday in Columbia.

FROM STAFF REPORTS COLUMBIA – Jaron Blossomgame had 15 points and Clemson got 29 points from its bench as the Tigers rallied late to hand 22nd-ranked South Carolina a 62-60 loss on Wednesday at Colonial Life Arena. Clemson improved to 9-2 while USC fell to 9-2. Marcquise Reed finished with 14 points and Elijah Thomas added 12 for the Tigers, whose bench outscored Carolina’s 29-3. PJ Dozier had 26 points – his fifth straight game with 20 or more -- to

lead USC. Dozier was one of three Carolina players in double figures along with Chris Silva (14) and Maik Kotsar (10). The Gamecocks were without Sindarius Thronwell again as the senior guard missed his fourth straight game while serving an indefinite suspension for violating team rules. USC certainly could have used his offense in the first half as only Dozier found any consistency. He finished with 13 points in the first half and the next leading scorer for USC (Kotsar) had just four. The Tigers meanwhile found plenty

of scoring options, including one big one off the bench as Thomas finished with eight points in the opening half. Donte Grantham also had eight and Blossomgame chimed in with six. Thomas’ two free throws and Blossomgame’s jumper in the final minute-plus gave the Tigers a 29-25 advantage at the break in a first half that saw eight lead changes and six ties. Dozier’s 3-pointer with 18:07 left gave the Gamecocks an early 5-2 lead, but that was as big a lead as either team got until five minutes remaining when Thomas’ jump shot pushed the lead to four, 21-17.

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District 9 Officials Tournament tips off 20th edition Tuesday

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If he said it once, he said it 15 times at least, District 9 Officials Christmas Basketball Tournament director Eric Avery said of the late Manning High School girls head coach John Thames. “He always used to thank us for putting on the tournament and said, ‘We leave a little bit better than when we came,’” Avery said. “That’s the goal for everyone that plays.” That same goal has pushed Avery into his seventh year as the head of the District 9 tournament -- and has pushed the tourney itself into its 20th year of existence when it begins Tuesday. The 16-team, 3-day event will take place at both the Crestwood High School and Chestnut Oaks Middle School gymnasiums beginning at 10 a.m. with the last games slated for 6:30 p.m. on both Tuesday and Wednesday. The championship games are scheduled for Thursday at Crestwood with the girls starting at 6 p.m. followed by the boys at 7:30. “This is the only tournament in the state that the officials sponsor, and I think it’s (one of the) longest one as well,” Avery said. “A couple have started and stopped for different reasons, but we’ve been able to pull it off (continuously). “We’ve got a lot of people who’ve given a lot of time to it, so we’re proud of that. It’s little bit like work, but it’s great for the kids and the people in the area to have a chance to come out and watch some good ball.” Lee Central’s girls and boys have been with the tournament since its inception, Avery said, along with Manning’s girls. Many more teams have been perennial participants as well and have grown the event into what it is now. “Sumter and Spring Valley played for our (girls) championship last year and wound up playing each other for the state championship,” Avery said. “So we’ve had a lot of good teams over the years -- ones that went on to have a lot of success in the

COLUMBUS, Ohio — Whether Ohio State can beat Clemson in the College Football Playoff next week could depend on which version of the wildly inconsistent Buckeyes offense shows up to play in the desert. Will it be the score-at-will unit that averaged more than 53 points through the first five games and blew away Nebraska and Maryland 62-3 on backto-back Saturdays in November? Or the bunch that bumbled to an upset loss at Penn State, and looked nearly as off-kilter in narMEYER row wins over Northwestern and Michigan State, with spotty pass protection, receivers who can’t get open and J.T. Barrett running for his life? Much of that will be determined by Barrett and whether he can help shore up the Buckeyes’ uneven aerial attack and complete passes down the field against a Clemson defense with four All-ACC first-teamers. He and his receivers say that’s been a large part of the focus in practices leading up to the Dec. 31 Fiesta Bowl.

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Eagles stand in way of Giants’ clinching playoff berth BY ROB MAADDI The Associated Press

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Tyanna Saunders (10), Lili Lewis (40) and the rest of the Crestwood High School girls basketball team will look for another tournament title next week when the 20th Annual District 9 Officials Christmas Basketball Tournament tips off on Tuesday at both The Castle and Chestnut Oaks Middle School. postseason, so it’s been a very good tournament over the years and we hope that continues.” The list of previous winners on the girls’ side includes host Crestwood. The Lady Knights have won the tournament “about four or five times,” head coach Tony Wilson said,

including three years in a row at one point. However, the homecourt advantage won’t count for too much against one of the best fields Wilson has seen, he said.

SEE DISTRICT 9, PAGE B4

PHILADELPHIA — All the New York Giants have to do to secure a playoff berth is beat a struggling division rival headed nowhere. That’s no simple task in front of a hostile crowd and a national audience. There’s plenty at stake when the Giants (10-4) visit Philadelphia (5-9) on Thursday night. A victory would secure New York’s first playoff berth since 2011 and also keep pressure on NFC East-leading Dallas (122). But prime-time games in Philly have been tough on the Giants lately. They lost 27-0 on a Sunday night in 2014, and 27-7 on a Monday night in 2015. “I’ve been called every name in the book in Philly, but you have to embrace it,” wide receiver Odell Beckham, Jr. said. “They don’t want to see you win. It is a pretty ruthless place down there.” The Eagles have lost five straight games and they’re 2-9 since a 3-0 start, but six of those losses were onescore games. Among them was a 28-23 loss to the Giants on Nov. 6. Eli Manning nearly gave that game away. The Eagles had four chances to score the winning touchdown from the Giants 17 in the final minutes after Jordan Hicks made an acrobatic interception of Manning’s pass. However, Carson Wentz threw four straight incomplete passes.

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Wilson helps No. 6 USC rout Savannah State SAVANNAH, Ga. — A’ja Wilson scored 18 points and No. 6 South Carolina cruised to a 70-30 victory over Savannah State on Wednesday night. Allisha Gray added 12 points and Tyasha Harris had 10 for the Gamecocks (10-1), who led 39-12 at halftime and never looked back. South Carolina scored 17 of the first 20 points as Wilson and Gray combined for 11 of them.

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Kentucky’s Isaiah Briscoe (13) looks to shoot over the defense of Louisville’s Anas Mahmoud (14) in the Cardinals’ 73-70 victory on Wednesday in Louisville, Ky.

No. 10 Louisville outlasts No. 6 Kentucky 73-70 LOUISVILLE, Ky. — Quentin Snider scored a career-high 22 points, including a key drive with 1:44 remaining, and Jaylen Johnson and Donovan Mitchell combined for four points in the final 16 seconds to help No. 10 Louisville beat No. 6 Kentucky 73-70 on Wednesday night in the 50th battle for Bluegrass bragging rights. After managing just two rebounds in 28 minutes last year in Lexington, Snider rebounded with 10-of-19 shooting to help the Cardinals earn a signature win against their instate rival. But he needed help down the stretch with Johnson’s layup with 16 seconds left and Mitchell’s two free throws with 8 seconds left for a threepoint edge that helped end a four-game losing streak in the series.

(1) VILLANOVA 90 AMERICAN 48 VILLANOVA, Pa. (AP) — Josh Hart scored 20 points to lead No. 1 Villanova to its 18th straight win, 90-48 over American on Wednesday night. The Wildcats (12-0) shook off a sluggish first half and crushed the Patriot League’s Eagles over the final 20 minutes. The Wildcats, seeded third, rallied from a 14-point deficit to beat American in the opening round of the 2009 NCAA Tournament in Philadelphia. Playing on campus, this one was never that close.

(4) BAYLOR 89 TEXAS SOUTHERN 63 WACO, Texas — Johnathan Motley had 17 points and 11 rebounds to lead five double-digit scorers, and No. 4 Baylor finished its perfect run through nonconference play with a 89-63 victory over Texas Southern on Wednesday night.

(5) DUKE 72 ELON 61 GREENSBORO — Luke

Kennard scored 21 points while Duke star Grayson Allen received a technical foul for his third tripping incident in a year during the fifth-ranked Blue Devils’ 72-61 victory over Elon on Wednesday night. Duke (12-1) trailed 35-34 at halftime before rallying for its 10th straight win in its final game before starting Atlantic Coast Conference play.

(13) BUTLER 81 VERMONT 69 INDIANAPOLIS — Andrew Chrabascz scored a seasonhigh 28 points and No. 13 Butler shot 69.6 percent from the field in the second half Wednesday night to pull away from Vermont 81-69. The Bulldogs (11-1) have won three straight and extended their home winning streak against nonconference foes to 36. Drew Urquhart and Trae Bell-Haynes each scored 14 points to lead the Catamounts, who took advantage of Butler’s sluggish start to keep the score close most of the first half.

(15) PURDUE 91 NORFOLK ST. 45 WEST LAFAYETTE, Ind. — Caleb Swanigan had a career-best 32 points and 20 rebounds — his fourth consecutive double-double — and No. 15 Purdue defeated Norfolk State 91-45 on Wednesday night, the Boilermakers’ sixth straight victory. Swanigan, who is averaging 23 points and 15.3 rebounds during the past four games, had 20 points and 14 rebounds in 17 first-half minutes, when the Boilermakers (11-2) built a commanding 53-25 lead over the Spartans (3-10). Wire reports

MIAMI — Dwyane Wade still remembers when he initially heard the rumor that Shaquille O’Neal was coming to the Miami Heat, and how his first reaction was disbelief. And then came the 18-wheeler that carried O’Neal to his arrival in Miami, as he happily fired a squirt gun at throngs of screaming fans. “We had a vision to be a championship team,” Wade told The Associated Press on Wednesday, “but it

wasn’t for real for real until Big Fella came and pulled up on that truck.” A grand celebration was had on that day in July 2004, the franchise’s first of three NBA championships followed two years later, and the Heat will give O’Neal their version of an ultimate thank-you on Thursday night when they raise his No. 32 banner to the rafters. He will be the third Heat player to get such an honor, joining only Alonzo Mourning and Tim Hardaway.

NCAA: BAYLOR PENALIZED FOR RECRUITING VIOLATIONS WACO, Texas — Baylor has been fined $5,000 for NCAA football recruiting violations, the latest blow for a program trying to pick up the pieces from a sexual assault scandal and struggles on the field. The NCAA announced the punishment Wednesday after an investigation found

BASEBALL P-15’S BRICKS The Sumter P-15’s American Legion baseball program will be placing bricks for former players at the front of Riley Park in January. The cost is $50 per brick. For more information, contact Post 15 athletic director Billy Lyons at (803) 968-5115.

UMPIRES NEEDED The Sumter County Recreation Department is in search of umpires for its spring youth league baseball season. For more information, contact Glenn Button at (803) 983-9934.

U.S BASEBALL ACADEMY SPRING TRAINING U.S. Baseball Academy’s Spring Training 2017 will be held at the University of

South Carolina Sumter’s Nettles Gymnasium beginning in January. The camps, which are open to children in grades 1-12, will be held on Jan. 7, Jan. 14, Jan. 21 and Jan. 28. USC Sumter head coach Tim Medlin will be the program director. With the player-to-coach ratio at 7 to 1, space is limited. Students can register at www.USBaseballAcademy. com or by calling (866) 6224487. For more information, contact Medlin at (803) 9383904 or (803) 944-0612.

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SHS tops Silver Bluff 67-46 NORTH AUGUSTA – The Sumter High School varsity boys basketball team defeated Silver Bluff 67-46 on Wednesday to finish 2-1 in the Savannah River Shootout at the North Augusta High gymnasium. The Gamecocks, who improved to 7-3 on the season, were led in coring by Isaih Moore with 17 points. Calvin Felder added nine while Raymond Johnson had eight. On Tuesday, Sumter defeated Thomson High of Thomson, Ga., 79-50.

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“We’re in all these close games,” Wentz said. “To come up short time and time again, that (stinks). It’s tough and there are things we keep saying we have to learn from. At the end of the day, we have to find a way to win these ballgames.” They also want to prevent the Giants from celebrating in their house. Last year, the Cardinals and Redskins clinched playoff berths in consecutive games at the Linc. “There is motivation to definitely make sure that that playoff spot isn’t clinched here in Philly if we can control it,” safety

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“What I see from J.T. is he’s got his head down and he’s going to work,” wide receiver Noah Brown said. “He knows what he needs to work on, and he knows what we need to work on.” Make no mistake, Ohio State (11-1, No. 3 CFP) is in the national playoff because of Barrett, the unflappable Texan who’s never the fastest guy on the field and doesn’t have the best arm but time after time put the team on his back and found a way to win. The fourthyear junior has lost only three times as Ohio State’s starting quarterback. Barrett’s supporting cast included a 1,000-yard rusher in freshman Mike Weber, AllAmerican hybrid back Curtis Samuel and one of the best defenses in college football. But the glaring weakness is the passing game: Receivers struggled to get open, Barrett could be tentative pulling the trigger and pass protection was

leaky, often caving in on right tackle Isaiah Prince. Barrett was sacked a half dozen times in the Penn State loss. In the double-overtime win against Michigan, he was flattened eight times and didn’t complete a pass over 16 yards. A reliable deep threat never did emerge this season from a promising pool of wide receivers. Ohio State contends it can be fixed by bowl time. “We’re putting a lot more emphasis on the passing game to continue to develop that, both in protection and routes and quarterback play,” said cooffensive coordinator and quarterbacks coach Tim Beck. “I like what I see.” As is typical of Barrett, there hasn’t been a lot of handwringing. Even when the passing game looked its worst, he insisted there was nothing terribly wrong that couldn’t be fixed with a couple tweaks. He doesn’t think he’s too conservative about letting go of the football, noting his 24 touchdowns against just five interceptions. “That’s my thing, I think I’m really good at making good decisions, making sure that we’re

not hurting the team (with) field position and things like that, and that’s me protecting the football and not turning it over,” Barrett said. “That’s 2 seconds you’ve got to make your mind up (whether to throw), and also just protect the football, so I feel like I have done a good job with that,” he said. One of Barrett’s greatest attributes is his ability to take personal responsibility for winning games. Never was it more on display than in the Michigan game, when he ran for 125 yards and a TD against a Wolverines defense that took nearly everything else away from Ohio State’s offense. And no play was bigger than fourth-and-1 from the 15 in the second overtime, when Barrett faked a handoff to Samuel, stepped left and chugged forward, head down, crashing toward the first down by inches. Samuel ran it in a touchdown on the next play to win the game. “I know one thing about J.T.,” coach Urban Meyer said, “and that’s if there’s a chance, he’ll get it.”

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DISTRICT 9

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“I think this is going to be one of the best tournaments they’ve had and one of the best Christmas tournaments in the state,” Wilson said. “We’re looking to go out and compete and really get ourselves ready for region play. We’re going to play hard and do the things we normally do.” CHS will get an early test as it faces 2-time defending tournament champion and last year’s 4A state champion Spring Valley in the opening game at The Castle at 11 a.m. on Tuesday. The Lady Knights are also scheduled to play Newberry at 5 p.m. on Tuesday and Kingstree at 5 p.m. on Wednesday, both at The Castle. “Anybody can get beat on

any given night, whether it’s in our gym or not,” Wilson. “We’re looking to go out and compete and make ourselves better against really good competition.” The tournament also features two more teams Crestwood will see come region play as Lakewood and Hartsville are on the docket as well. The Lady Gators play Spring Valley at 3:30 p.m. on Tuesday at The Castle before facing Kingstree (12:30 p.m.) and Blythewood (5 p.m.) at Chestnut Oaks on Wednesday. Both of Manning’s squads are competing along with both teams from Lee Central. The Lady Monarchs face Blythewood on Tuesday at 12:30 p.m. at The Castle before heading over to Chestnut Oaks to take on CA Johnson at 5 p.m. They’ll face Newberry at 12:30 p.m. on Wednesday back at Crestwood High. The Manning boys will face

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20TH ANNUAL DISTRICT 9 OFFICIALS CHRISTMAS BASKETBALL TOURNAMENT DEC. 27-29 TUESDAY At Crestwood High School Crestwood vs. Spring Valley (Girls), 11 a.m. Blythewood vs. Manning (Girls), 12:30 p.m. Lamar vs. Trinity-Byrnes Collegiate (Boys), 2 p.m. Lakewood vs. Spring Valley (Girls), 3:30 p.m. Crestwood vs. Newberry (Girls), 5 p.m. Lee Central vs. Manning (Boys), 6:30 p.m. At Chestnut Oaks Middle School Trinity-Byrnes Collegiate vs. Lee Central (Boys), 10 a.m. Newberry vs. Lee Central (Girls), 12:30 p.m. Hammond vs. C.E. Murray (Boys),

off against Lee Central (6:30 p.m.) on Tuesday and Hammond (2 p.m.) on Wednesday at The Castle before finishing up with Lamar (6:30 p.m.) on Wednesday at Chestnut Oaks. Lee Central’s boys have an early Tuesday matchup against Trinity-Byrnes Collegiate at 10 a.m. at COMS and

2 p.m. Hartsville vs. Kingstree (Girls), 3:30 p.m. Manning vs. CA Johnson (Girls), 5 p.m. WEDNESDAY At Crestwood High School Hartsville vs. CA Johnson (Girls), 11 a.m. Manning vs. Newberry (Girls), 12:30 p.m. Manning vs. Hammond (Boys), 2 p.m. CA Johnson vs. Lee Central (Girls), 3:30 p.m. Crestwood vs. Kingstree (Girls), 5 p.m. Hammond vs. Lee Central (Boys), 6:30 p.m.

Trinity-Byrnes Collegiate vs. C.E. Murray (Boys), 8 p.m. At Chestnut Oaks Middle School Lee Central vs. Blythewood (Girls), 11 a.m. Kingstree vs. Lakewood (Girls), 12:30 p.m. C.E. Murray vs. Lamar (Boys), 2 p.m. Spring Valley vs. Hartsville (Girls), 3:30 p.m. Lakewood vs. Blythewood (Girls), 5 p.m. Lamar vs. Manning (Boys), C6:30 p.m. THURSDAY At Crestwood High School Girls Championship, 6 p.m. Boys Championship, 7:30 p.m.

will also play Hammond at 6:30 p.m. on Wednesday at Crestwood. The Lady Stallions will take on Newberry (12:30 p.m.) on Tuesday at Chestnut Oaks before facing Blythewood there on Wednesday at 11 a.m. LCHS finishes with a game against CA Johnson (3:30

p.m.) at The Castle. The championship will feature the top two teams with the most wins. If there are ties, the finalists will be determined by (1) head to head, (2) fewest point differential total (maximum 15) and then, if necessary, fewest point allowed by the teams.

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NATIONAL CONFERENCE EAST W L T Pct PF PA x-Dallas 12 2 0 .857 366 258 N.Y. Giants 10 4 0 .714 272 250 Washington 7 6 1 .536 345 343 Philadelphia 5 9 0 .357 316 299 SOUTH W L T Pct PF PA Atlanta 9 5 0 .643 469 358 Tampa Bay 8 6 0 .571 313 322 New Orleans 6 8 0 .429 406 392 Carolina 6 8 0 .429 337 352 NORTH W L T Pct PF PA Detroit 9 5 0 .643 301 285 Green Bay 8 6 0 .571 363 339 Minnesota 7 7 0 .500 264 259 Chicago 3 11 0 .214 248 320 WEST W L T Pct PF PA y-Seattle 9 4 1 .679 298 235 Arizona 5 8 1 .393 340 325 Los Angeles 4 10 0 .286 197 328 San Francisco 1 13 0 .071 264 434 x-clinched playoff spot y-clinched division

THURSDAY’S GAMES

Seattle 24, Los Angeles 3 Saturday’s Games Miami 34, N.Y. Jets 13

SUNDAY’S GAMES

Indianapolis 34, Minnesota 6 N.Y. Giants 17, Detroit 6 Buffalo 33, Cleveland 13 Tennessee 19, Kansas City 17 Baltimore 27, Philadelphia 26 Green Bay 30, Chicago 27 Pittsburgh 24, Cincinnati 20 Houston 21, Jacksonville 20 Atlanta 41, San Francisco 13 New England 16, Denver 3 New Orleans 48, Arizona 41 Oakland 19, San Diego 16 Dallas 26, Tampa Bay 20

MONDAY’S GAMES

Carolina 26, Washington 15

THURSDAY, DEC. 22

N.Y. Giants at Philadelphia, 8:25 p.m.

SATURDAY, DEC. 24

Atlanta at Carolina, 1 p.m. Washington at Chicago, 1 p.m. N.Y. Jets at New England, 1 p.m. San Diego at Cleveland, 1 p.m. Miami at Buffalo, 1 p.m. Tennessee at Jacksonville, 1 p.m. Minnesota at Green Bay, 1 p.m. Indianapolis at Oakland, 4:05 p.m. Arizona at Seattle, 4:25 p.m. Tampa Bay at New Orleans, 4:25 p.m. San Francisco at Los Angeles, 4:25 p.m. Cincinnati at Houston, 8:25 p.m.

SUNDAY, DEC. 25

Baltimore at Pittsburgh, 4:30 p.m. Denver at Kansas City, 8:30 p.m.

NFL STANDINGS

EASTERN CONFERENCE

AMERICAN CONFERENCE

ATLANTIC DIVISION W L Toronto 20 8 Boston 16 12 New York 15 13 Brooklyn 7 20 Philadelphia 7 21 SOUTHEAST DIVISION W L Charlotte 16 13 Atlanta 14 14 Washington 12 15 Orlando 13 17 Miami 9 20 CENTRAL DIVISION W L Cleveland 20 6 Chicago 14 13 Milwaukee 13 13 Indiana 15 15 Detroit 14 16

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DEC. 29 BIRMINGHAM (ALA.) BOWL South Florida (10-2) vs. South Carolina (6-6), 2 p.m. (ESPN) BELK BOWL Virginia Tech (9-4) vs. Arkansas (7-5), 5:30 p.m. (ESPN) ALAMO BOWL Oklahoma State (9-3) vs. Colorado (10-3), 9 p.m. (ESPN)

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MONDAY’S GAMES

Indiana 107, Washington 105 Atlanta 110, Oklahoma City 108 Chicago 113, Detroit 82 Minnesota 115, Phoenix 108 Denver 117, Dallas 107

TUESDAY’S GAMES

Charlotte 117, L.A. Lakers 113 New Orleans 108, Philadelphia 93 New York 118, Indiana 111 Orlando 136, Miami 130, 2OT Toronto 116, Brooklyn 104 Boston 112, Memphis 109, OT Cleveland 114, Milwaukee 108, OT San Antonio 102, Houston 100 Golden State 104, Utah 74 L.A. Clippers 119, Denver 102 Sacramento 126, Portland 121

WEDNESDAY’S GAMES

Milwaukee at Cleveland, 7 p.m. Memphis at Detroit, 7:30 p.m. Minnesota at Atlanta, 7:30 p.m. Oklahoma City at New Orleans, 8 p.m. Washington at Chicago, 8 p.m. Houston at Phoenix, 9 p.m. Sacramento at Utah, 9 p.m. Dallas at Portland, 10 p.m.

THURSDAY’S GAMES

Boston at Indiana, 7 p.m. Golden State at Brooklyn, 7:30 p.m. Orlando at New York, 7:30 p.m. L.A. Lakers at Miami, 8 p.m. San Antonio at L.A. Clippers, 10:30 p.m.

FRIDAY’S GAMES

Chicago at Charlotte, 7 p.m. L.A. Lakers at Orlando, 7 p.m. Brooklyn at Cleveland, 7:30 p.m. Golden State at Detroit, 7:30 p.m. Oklahoma City at Boston, 7:30 p.m. Houston at Memphis, 8 p.m. Miami at New Orleans, 8 p.m. Sacramento at Minnesota, 8 p.m. Washington at Milwaukee, 8 p.m. Atlanta at Denver, 9 p.m. Philadelphia at Phoenix, 9 p.m. Toronto at Utah, 9 p.m. San Antonio at Portland, 10 p.m. Dallas at L.A. Clippers, 10:30 p.m.

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DEC. 19 MIAMI BEACH BOWL Tulsa 55, Central Michigan 10

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MONDAY, DEC. 26

Detroit at Dallas, 8:30 p.m.

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WESTERN CONFERENCE SOUTHWEST DIVISION W L San Antonio 23 5 Houston 21 8 Memphis 18 12 New Orleans 10 20 Dallas 7 21 NORTHWEST DIVISION W L Utah 18 11 Oklahoma City 16 12 Portland 13 17 Denver 12 17 Minnesota 8 19 PACIFIC DIVISION W L Golden State 25 4 L.A. Clippers 21 8 Sacramento 11 17 L.A. Lakers 11 20 Phoenix 8 20

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CELEBRATION BOWL Grambling State 10, NC Central 9 NEW MEXICO BOWL New Mexico 23, UTSA 20 LAS VEGAS BOWL San Diego State 34, Houston 10 CAMELLIA BOWL Appalachian State 31, Toledo 28 CURE BOWL Arkansas State 31, UCF 13 NEW ORLEANS BOWL Southern Miss. 28, Louisiana-Lafayette 21

DEC. 20 BOCA RATON BOWL Western Kentucky 51, Memphis 31

DEC. 21 POINSETTIA BOWL BYU (8-4) vs. Wyoming (8-5)

DEC. 30

TODAY FAMOUS IDAHO POTATO BOWL Idaho (8-4) vs. Colo. State (7-5), 7 p.m.

THURSDAY BAHAMAS BOWL Eastern Michigan (7-5) vs. Old Dominion (9-3), 1 p.m. (ESPN) ARMED FORCES BOWL Navy (9-4) vs. Louisiana Tech (8-5), 4:30 p.m. (ESPN) DOLLAR GENERAL BOWL Ohio (8-5) vs. Troy (9-3), 8 p.m. (ESPN)

SATURDAY

LIBERTY BOWL Ga. (7-5) vs. TCU (6-6), Noon (ESPN) SUN BOWL North Carolina (8-4) vs. Stanford (93), 2 p.m. (CBS) MUSIC CITY BOWL Tennessee (8-4) vs. Nebraska (9-3), 3:30 p.m. (ESPN) ARIZONA BOWL Air Force (9-3) vs. South Alabama (66), 5:30 p.m. (ASN) ORANGE BOWL Florida State (9-3) vs. Michigan (102), 8 p.m. (ESPN)

DEC. 31

HAWAII BOWL Middle Tennessee (8-4) vs. Hawaii (6-7), 8 p.m. (ESPN)

DEC. 26 ST. PETERSBURG (FLA.) BOWL Mississippi State (5-7) vs. Miami (Ohio) (6-6), 11 a.m. (ESPN) QUICK LANE BOWL Boston College (6-6) vs. Maryland (66), 2:30 p.m. (ESPN2) INDEPENDENCE BOWL NC State (6-6) vs. Vanderbilt (6-6), 5 p.m. (ESPN2)

DEC. 27 HEART OF DALLAS BOWL Army (7-5) vs. North Texas (5-7), Noon (ESPN) MILITARY BOWL Wake Forest (6-6) vs. Temple (10-3), 3:30 p.m. (ESPN) HOLIDAY BOWL Minnesota (8-4) vs. Washington State (8-4), 7 p.m. (ESPN) CACTUS BOWL Boise State (10-2) vs. Baylor (6-6), 10:15 p.m. (ESPN)

DEC. 28 PINSTRIPE BOWL Northwestern (6-6) vs. Pittsburgh (84), 2 p.m. (ESPN) RUSSELL ATHLETIC BOWL Miami (8-4) vs. West Virginia (10-2), 5:30 p.m. (ESPN) FOSTER FARMS BOWL Indiana (6-6) vs. Utah (8-4), 8:30 p.m. (FOX) TEXAS BOWL Kansas State (8-4) vs. Texas A&M (84), 9 p.m. (ESPN)

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JAN. 2 OUTBACK BOWL Florida (8-4) vs. Iowa (8-4), 1 p.m. (ABC) COTTON BOWL Western Michigan (13-0) vs. Wisconsin (10-3), 1 p.m. (ESPN) ROSE BOWL Penn State (11-2) vs. Southern Cal (9-3), 5 p.m. (ESPN) SUGAR BOWL Oklahoma (10-2) vs. Auburn (8-4), 8:30 p.m. (ESPN) Monday, Jan. 9 COLLEGE FOOTBALL CHAMPIONSHIP Semifinal winners, 8:30 p.m. (ESPN) Saturday, Jan. 21 EAST-WEST SHRINE CLASSIC West vs. East, 3 p.m. (NFL) NFLPA COLLEGIATE BOWL National vs. American, 4 p.m.

SATURDAY, JAN. 28 SENIOR BOWL At Mobile, Ala. South vs. North, 2:30 p.m. (NFL)

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Will Trump be the transformative president Obama wanted to be?

t’s one of the greatest examples of “careful what you wish for” in political history: President Obama is going to be replaced by the kind of Republican he’s always said he wanted. For the entirety of his presidency, Obama has insisted that he is a pragmatist, not an ideologue. Indeed, he seems to think that ideology is a dirty word. “What is required,” Obama declared the day before his first inauguration, “is a new declaration of independence, not just in our nation, but in our own lives — from ideology and small thinking, prejudice, and bigotry — an appeal not to our easy instincts but to our better angels.” As a confessed ideologue, I’ve always taken offense at the suggestion that ideology — i.e., a fixed set of principles — deserves to be listed alongside prejudice, bigotry, and small thinking. Moreover, as a conservative, I’ve always found laughable the idea that Obama is not an ideologue. But when Donald Trump says he’s a pragmatist, it’s no laughing matter. Not since Richard Nixon have we had a president (or president-elect) less committed, or beholden, to a fixed ideological program. Going into the GOP primaries, the conventional wisdom held that the winner of the contest would be the candidate who displayed the most ideological purity. Instead the brass ring went to the contender with the least. “No, it’s not going to be the Trump doctrine,” Trump said in April. “Because in life, you have to be flexible. You have to have flexibility. You have to change. You know, you may say one thing and then the following year you want to change it, because circumstances are different.” A few days later, he told his supporters in California, “Folks, I’m a conservative, but at this point, who cares? We got to straighten out the country.” His surrogates echoed the sentiment. Investor Carl Icahn assured voters that “Donald is a pragmatist. He’s going to do what’s needed for this economy.” Hedge fund mogul Anthony Scaramucci wrote in the Wall Street Journal: “What elitists misinterpret as uneven principles, entrepreneurs understand as adaptability … Mr.

Trump would be the greatest pragmatist and deal maker Washington has ever seen.” The closest Trump Jonah comes to a Goldberg rigid set of political principles is on the issue of trade. He has been making the same protectionist arguments about trade for more than 30 years. And despite the fact that the GOP has, at least rhetorically, been a party of free trade since Ronald Reagan, Trump seems to have won that argument in a rout. No doubt there are Republicans who disagree with Trump on trade, but for the most part they’re keeping their opposition to themselves. Obama came into office wanting to be a transformative president. He almost certainly failed — many of his prize accomplishments likely won’t survive the next GOP Congress. And even as he argued against partisanship, and advanced the idea that a president can, nay must, decide every issue on a case-bycase basis, he always pushed a liberal agenda. Trump, though, really might try the case-by-case approach, which we’ll soon find is more disorienting than refreshing. His “flexibility” on numerous issues — infrastructure, entitlements, industrial policy, daycare, and who knows what else in the years to come — means we won’t know what to expect. For good or ill, then, Trump could be the “transformative” president Obama always wanted to be — the president who gets us past partisan ideology by doing away with principle. One can already hear the ideological supports of both parties groaning under the weight of Trump’s pragmatism. If one party collapses as a result, both will likely topple over. What replaces them is anyone’s guess, but no one will deny that a transformation took place. Jonah Goldberg is a fellow at the American Enterprise Institute and a senior editor of National Review. © 2016 Tribune Content Agency, LLC

LETTERS TO THE EDITOR We know Baker told you SCHOOL BOARD MUST ADDRESS ROOT OF PROBLEM there had to be no bid contracts The following letter was written and hand delivered to the members of the Sumter School Board by Loyd Young on Dec. 20, 2016: The Sumter Item reported the finances of your district are a mess. Mr. Baker has a plan to fix the problems. Now you are having a secret meeting to discuss the matter. Little in the paper has focused on the real problem, Mr. Baker. Many of you have ties to him. He has promoted you or your family members. For once, think about your children and grandchildren and Sumter’s children.

for millions of dollars over the last few years. When I questioned that, he said it was done because of an emergency. He never could really explain the emergency but said there would be no more no bid contracts. When contracts were bid, the company that got the no bid contracts didn’t even bid! Baker tried to get you to approve millions and millions to do construction projects. But he didn’t want you to select the projects! He just wanted you to approve the money. Then he got upset because some of you questioned the process. You wanted to see how other districts did it. You were told no.

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Christmas lives on BY GARRISON KEILLOR

t is hard to believe that the Creator of our universe with its billions of galaxies could have sent Himself to this little blue blip not so long ago in the form of an infant born to a virgin, to be first worshipped by illiterate shepherds where He lay in a feed trough, livestock peering down at Him, Eastern potentates following a star to the site. But here we are again, singing those songs, so we shall see. My mother loved Christmas with her whole heart. With six children and no credit cards and my father ever watchful for unnecessary expense, Christmas was a mountain for Grace to climb, requiring endurance, planning, stealth and skill, but she brought it off to perfection every year, until she was in her 90s and then she coasted on her memories. Her mother died when my mother was seven and Mother had no memory of her, which troubled her deeply. She looked at photos of her mother, tall, haggard, from the early 1920s, and tried to dredge up some recollection, anything at all, the sound of her voice, what she cooked, what her hand felt like. Grace was third from the end of 11 children, the 12th having died with the mother, of scarlet fever, and Grace was raised by her older sisters, Marian and Ruby and Margaret. Complaint was not encouraged in that family, and mental health was not a topic for discussion, but clearly Christmas was a shining moment of gaiety in a family of modest means and strict decorum. When I was 19, my older

Now the district is critically low on money. Baker knew about this months ago and did not tell you. He should have known about it all along but he does not have qualified people fully focused on keeping track of the money, over $2 million a week! That is just not right. It’s costing Sumter millions. Worse, it is not helping our teachers and schools. Our children need and deserve better. I’m not questioning Baker’s honesty. It’s just that the outcomes for Sumter are too bad to continue. He has no vision and his administration is just not working. Baker’s solutions for current problems, pay and work cuts for others in the district. No! You should cut his pay or simply fire him.

brother asked me to look after his house over Christmas so he and his young family Garrison could drive Keillor out to New York for a week. His house was in the woods and I, intoxicated by Thoreau at the time, was more dramatic than necessary and announced that I would spend Christmas alone out there “to figure things out.” A poem of mine got in the college literary magazine, with the lines: The ice is thin and deep is the dark Below, green lights in the trees and red, Winding my way into the winter mist. Coat open and the silver blades are sharp And that long long bend ahead Will take me out and away from you and all of this. Which was about skating but a girl I knew thought it was suicidal and she came out to the woods to visit me and bring me dinner from her mother — turkey, candied yams, cranberry, in tinfoil. We lit candles and sat and meditated on the mystery of life, and it was pleasant to have someone be so concerned about my wellbeing. At the time, I thought of suicide as poetic, an artistic choice stemming from great emotional depths. Two months later, her boyfriend Leeds was killed when a drunk driver pulled out of a parking lot and into his mother’s car coming back home from a play at the

Put your personal connections to him aside and take action for Sumter. That is your job as board members because you are personally responsible for the future of our children. LOYD YOUNG Sumter

Guthrie Theater. Twentysome years later, sunk in depression, my friend filled her pockets with rocks and paddled a canoe out to the middle of a lake and capsized it and drowned. Life is good. On a winter night, looking into a fire, our dead are around us, testifying to that. The books on the shelves, the young people around the table, the carols on the radio in the kitchen, the shining snow on the hill that looks out at the Mississippi River. As you get old, you gain a stripped-down life, minus the clutter and hullabaloo, the excess food and alcohol, the meaningless gifts, and it is quite satisfying to sit with your true love in candlelight, a plate of cookies on the table, and let memories come and go. My mother is there. It’s 6 a.m., still dark out, and I’ve come down the stairs in my pajamas to the darkened tree, a note from Santa, the crumbs of the gingersnap I left for him, and I hear the padding of bare feet on the stair, and suddenly the tree bursts into light, and my mother is standing there in a raggedy robe. She missed her dead mother and found her every year in making Christmas for us. Even after she moved to Florida, she flew back for a proper Minnesota Christmas with frost on the windows and wind in the chimney. What you do for children is never wasted: this Christmas will live on and nourish them long after you have faded away. Garrison Keillor was the host of National Public Radio’s A Prairie Home Companion from 1974 to 2016. (c) 2016 Garrison Keillor

A typical Democratic tactic. Spend more, tax more. People are sick and tired of more taxes. I’d be willing to bet, since you still are on Sumter County Council, that you were fully aware that there was a deficit. Along with the other DemoTIME TO CLEAN UP COUNTY crats on council, I’m pretty positive that you sat back COUNCIL AFTER FIASCO thinking ‘well, this is a surefire way of showing those ReWell, it sure didn’t take Eupublicans that the Democrats gene Baten long to jump on a do a better job.’ I know people Democratic bandwagon, and on county council, but maybe toot his own horn in regards it’s time to clean house. Term to what happened under ‘his chairmanship’ concerning the limits have been discussed on a national level, maybe we budget deficit for the Sumter should start on the local level. School District. What would be your solution Fresh people invite fresh ideas. Maybe I should run for now, Mr. Baten? Would you bring back Mr. Bynum and his county council. DENNIS VICKERS posse of high paid cronies? All Wedgefield the man did was ‘raise taxes.’

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Young teen acting out needs to find new role DEAR ABBY: I am writing regarding my almost 13-year-old daughter. She’s a sweet girl but lately has been inDear Abby volved in a ABIGAIL lot of drama. VAN BUREN Recently my husband and I saw what we believe to be two hickeys on her neck, one on each side. She has denied, denied, denied it, but we know what we know. I’m worried because a few months ago she was called into her counselor’s office for “roasting.” She was asked to roast two specific girls, and the information got back to

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them and back to the counselor. Our daughter is not allowed to date, and although she has friends who started dating at 10 or 11, I don’t allow her to go to their homes. I do allow them to come to our home instead. I just need to know how to handle this situation before it gets out of control. I have tried talking calmly and patiently with her, but it doesn’t work. She believes she knows it all and I know nothing. Unsure in New Jersey DEAR UNSURE: Girls who mock others and say cruel things are less “nice” than you would like to believe. It’s a form of bullying. You need to nip this in the bud. A way to handle your daughter’s misbehavior would be to institute

consequences for getting called to the counselor’s office and / or lying to you and your husband. By consequences, I mean the removal of privileges — cellphone, television, internet, or having friends over for a period of time. Also, if your daughter is coming home with hickeys, she may have too much unsupervised time on her hands. So if you haven’t already, involve her in SUPERVISED activities such as church youth groups, sports and special-interest clubs if her school offers them. If she’s going to a friend’s house, be sure an adult will be there. Parenting is a full-time job. In time your daughter will mature and this, too, will pass. But for now she needs watching.

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represented as Tax Map Parcel Number 227-06-01-003 (formerly N-7-M-18) according to which Tax Map the said property herein conveyed is bounded and measures, now or formerly, as follows: on the NORTH by Carver Street (formerly Green Street) and measuring thereon 60.0 feet; on the EAST by land represented as Tax Map Parcel No. 227-06-01-004 and measuring thereon 155.1 feet; on the SOUTH by the right-of-way of the Seaboard Coastline Railroad and measuring thereon 65 feet; and on the WEST by property represented as Tax Map Parcel No. 227-06-01-002 (land of Geddis) and measuring thereon 142.0 feet; be all of said measurements a little more or less, and according to said tax map.

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Summons & Notice SUMMONS IN THE COURT OF COMMON PLEAS CASE NO. 2016-CP-43-01443 STATE OF SOUTH CAROLINA COUNTY OF SUMTER Vanderbilt Mortgage and Finance, Inc. Plaintiff, -vsThe Estate of Katie M. Wright; by and thought the Personal Representative whose name is known, the Heirs-at-Law or Devisees of Katie M. Wright, their Heirs, Personal Representatives, Administrators, Successors, and Assigns, and all other persons entitled to claim through them; The Estate of Rufus Wright aka Rufus Wright II, by and thought the Personal Representative whose name is known, the Heirs-at-Law or Devisees of Rufus Wright aka Rufus Wright II, their Heirs, Personal Representatives, Administrators, Successors, and Assigns, and all other persons entitled to claim through them; Cynthia A. Wright; The Estate of James White, by and thought the Personal Representative whose name is known, the Heirs-at-Law or Devisees of James White, their Heirs, Personal Representatives, Administrators, Successors, and Assigns, and all other persons entitled to claim through them; The Estate of Maggie C. White, by and thought the Personal Representative whose name is known, the Heirs-at-Law or Devisees of Maggie C. White, their Heirs, Personal Representatives, Administrators, Successors, and Assigns, and all other persons entitled to claim through them; , and all Unknown persons with any right, title or interest in the real estate described herein; also any Unknown persons who may be in the military service of the United States of America, being a class designated as John Doe; and any Unknown minors, persons under a Disability or persons incarcerated, being a class designated as Richard Roe, Defendant(s) TO ALL DEFENDANTS NAMED HEREINABOVE: YOU ARE HEREBY SUMMONED and required to answer the Complaint in this action, and to serve a copy of your Answer on the subscribers at their offices, 1640 St. Julian Place, Columbia, South Carolina 29202, within thirty (30) days after service hereof, exclusive of the day of such service; except that the United States of America, if named, shall have sixty (60) days to answer after the service hereof, exclusive of the day of such service; and if you fail to answer the

TO MINOR(S) OVER FOURTEEN YEARS OF AGE, AND/OR TO MINOR(S) UNDER FOURTEEN YEARS OF AGE AND THE PERSON WITH WHOM THE MINOR(S) RESIDE(S), AND/OR TO PERSON UNDER SOME LEGAL DISABILITY, INCOMPETENTS AND PERSONS CONFINED: YOU ARE FURTHER SUMMONED AND NOTIFIED to apply for the appointment of a Guardian ad Litem within thirty (30) days after service of this Summons and Notice upon you. If you fail to do so, application for such appointment will be made by the Plaintiff.

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This property is represented as TAX MAP PARCEL NO. 227--06-01-003 upon the records of the Sumter County Auditor and is known as 134 Carver Street, Sumter, SC. This being the identical property heretofore conveyed unto CYNTHIA A. WRIGHT and RUFUS WRIGHT, II, the Mortgagors herein, by deed from James White, recorded August 11, 1998 in the Register of Deeds for Sumter County in Deed Book 714 at page 411. Crawford & von Keller, LLC. PO Box 4216 1640 St. Julian Place (29204) Columbia, SC 29240 Phone: 803-790-2626 Attorneys for Plaintiff

SUMMONS AND NOTICE OF FILING OF COMPLAINT IN THE COURT OF COMMON PLEAS CASE NO. 2016-CP-43-02018 STATE OF SOUTH CAROLINA COUNTY OF SUMTER Federal National Mortgage Association ("Fannie Mae"), PLAINTIFF, VS. John L. Welch a/k/a John Welch; Sherrie M. Welch a/k/a Sherrie Welch; and Wells Fargo Commercial Distribution Finance, LLC as successor in interest to Deutsche Financial Service Corp., DEFENDANT(S). (161083.00123) TO THE DEFENDANT(S) SHERRIE M. WELCH A/K/A SHERRIE WELCH ABOVE NAMED: YOU ARE HEREBY SUMMONED and required to answer the Complaint in the above entitled action, copy of which is herewith served upon you, and to serve copy of your answer upon the undersigned at their offices, 2712 Middleburg Drive, Suite 200, P.O. Box 2065, Columbia, South Carolina 29202, within thirty (30) days after service hereof upon you, exclusive of the day of such service, and if you fail to answer the Complaint within the time aforesaid, the Plaintiff in this action will apply to the Court for the relief demanded in the Complaint, and judgment by default will be rendered against you for the relief demanded in the Complaint. YOU WILL ALSO TAKE NOTICE that should you fail to Answer the foregoing Summons, the Plaintiff will move for a general Order of Reference of this cause to the Master in Equity for Sumter County, which Order shall, pursuant to Rule 53(e) of the South Carolina Rules of Civil Procedure, specifically provide that the said Master in Equity is authorized and empowered to enter

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SUMMONS AND NOTICE OF FILING OF COMPLAINT IN THE COURT OF COMMON PLEAS CASE NO. 2016-CP-43-02004 STATE OF SOUTH CAROLINA COUNTY OF SUMTER Nationstar Mortgage LLC, PLAINTIFF, VS. Louis McDowell, DEFENDANT(S). (161070.00388) TO THE DEFENDANT(S) LOUIS MCDOWELL ABOVE NAMED: YOU ARE HEREBY SUMMONED and required to answer the Complaint in the above entitled action, copy of which is herewith served upon you, and to serve copy of your answer upon the undersigned at their offices, 2712 Middleburg Drive, Suite 200, P.O. Box 2065, Columbia, South Carolina 29202, within thirty (30) days after service hereof upon you, exclusive of the day of such service, and if you fail to answer the Complaint within the time aforesaid, the Plaintiff in this action will apply to the Court for

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