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BY RILEY MORNINGSTAR THE JOURNAL WALHALLA — Oconee County Council is set to meet tonight and receive a presen-tation on a comprehen-sive annual financial report, vote on demol-ishing an old church to begin work on a new magistrate’s building and approve a hefty amount of roadwork at the F.A.R.M. Center.
David Irwin of ac-counting firm Mauldin
& Jenkins LLC will address council early in tonight’s meeting, which is scheduled to begin at 6 p.m.
“We are pleased. We had no findings and we have handled taxpayer fiscal responsibility as well as possible,” county administrator Amanda Brock said. “We do receive the General Government Financial Officers Award for 13 or 14 BY NORM CANNADA THE JOURNAL WALHALLA — Wal-halla City Council is scheduled to consider an ordinance tonight that would impose a four-month morato-rium on permits and business licenses for “small box discount stores” while amend-ments to the city’s
zoning ordinance are discussed.
First reading is scheduled during a council meeting begin-ning at 5:30 p.m. at the Walhalla Depot. The meeting is open to the public.
The measure would require two readings approved by council, BY GREG OLIVER
THE JOURNAL CLEMSON — Gov. Henry McMaster’s decision Friday to
terminate COVID-19 safety mea-sures over the sale of alcohol and mass gatherings was greet-ed with a “wait and see” attitude from Clemson businesses.
As of Monday, restaurants and bars are now able to sell alcohol after 11 p.m. again, and event organizers no longer have to secure permits for groups of more than 250 people, according to McMaster’s announcement.
State health officials said peo-ple should still practice social distancing and wear face cov-erings, along with other safety precautions.
“Lifting the 11 p.m. alcohol curfew will have a strong impact on downtown, but, of course, they will still be held to the city’s mask ordinance,” Clemson Area Chamber of Commerce pres-ident Susan Cohen said. “We, the chamber and the hospital-ity industry maintain that the students and the community as a whole are safer with the later bar hours. At least we know there is
an effort on the part of the busi-ness owners, or most anyway, to abide by the guidelines.”
Cohen also said the realiza-tion was made recently that the restrictions in Clemson were simply driving students to travel to nearby schools or other cities or states.
Cohen said safety precautions
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eneca High School boys’ basketball coach Kevin Padgett, front, hugs junior E.J.
Evett following the Bobcats’ 82-75 victory over Keenan in the Class 3A Upper
State championship game Saturday at Dorman High School in Roebuck. The win
clinched the Bobcats’ first-ever appearance in a State championship game, as
they’ll now get set to face Marlboro County for the Class 3A crown on Thursday
after-noon in Aiken. For more on the Bobcats’ historic win, turn to page C1.
CALEB KELLY | FOR THE JOURNALNot done yet
BY RILEY MORNINGSTAR THE JOURNAL WALHALLA — A long-time local police chief has come out of retirement to join the Oconee County Sheriff’s Office in its work to become a state-accredit-ed law enforcement agency.
Jimmy Dixon has joined
the force as a part-time ac-creditation manager, with plans to shift into another department in the future. Dixon retired in January 2020 after serving as the chief of the Clemson Police Department for 17 years. He had spent 24 of his 42 years in law enforcement with the city.
“Jimmy and I had a con-versation after he retired. … I had been wanting to go forward with becoming an accredited law enforce-ment agency,” Sheriff Mike Crenshaw told The Jour-nal this week. “I think the time is right for us to take that next step, even though I feel like we’re utilizing
the best practices in law enforcement. … He is very familiar with the process and what’s needed.”
Dixon began last week and will work three days a week, Crenshaw said.
Retirement didn’t last long for Dixon, and if it
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Deputy Jimmy Dixon, left, joined the Oconee County Sheriff’s Office to work for Sheriff Mike Crenshaw earli-er this month. Dixon served as chief of the Clemson Police Department for nearly 18 years. SPECIAL TO THE JOURNALCrenshaw brings on former local chief
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The Oconee County
Sheriff’s Office an-nounced Saturday morn-ing that Michael Lewis Spearman was located and OK.
Deputies were called
to Padgett Street in the Utica mill hill community the evening of Feb. 15 in response to a missing per-son, according to a news release from the Oconee County Sheriff’s Office.
The homeowner at the address on Spearman Drive told police Spear-man was known to leave
home for two or three days at a time before returning.
Spearman had been entered as missing in the National Crime Informa-tion Center database, and investigators from the sheriff’s office’s Criminal Investigations Division followed leads about his possible location.
No beds open at
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SENECA — There were no beds available in the intensive care unit at Prisma Health Oconee Memorial Hospital late Sunday night, according to numbers updated by the S.C. Department of Health and Environmen-tal Control (DHEC).
DHEC reported all 12 of the hospital’s listed ICU beds were occupied, with half of those beds occu-pied by COVID-19 patients, at 11:59 p.m. Sunday.
There were seven patients on ventilators at the time of the report, with five of the patients COVID-19 positive. There were 11 venti-lators available at the time.
Of the 78 hospital beds occupied, 11 were filled by patients with COVID-19. There were 98 beds available at the time of the update.
Hospital bed informa-tion can be found online at scdhec.gov/covid19/ hospital-bed-capaci-ty-covid-19.
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years consecutively now, and I fully expect us to win it again this year.” Separately, Ordinance 2021-06, the traffic corri-dor design standards, is set to fail a second read-ing tonight after several members of the public attended a meeting last month and spoke out against the proposal. Or-dinance 2021-05, lake cor-ridor signage standards, failed a third reading at the Feb. 16 meeting.
APPROVAL REQUESTED
ON DEMOLITION
County council will vote tonight on an $85,017 action item that requests approval for architectural and engineering design and permit documents and the abatement and demolition of the former Free Gospel Holiness Church in Westminster. The abatement and dem-olition of the building is projected to cost $44,007 and will be overseen by Trehel Corporation.
Officials found a hole 2 feet in diameter in the building’s roof, according to additional agenda docu-ments.
“Facilities Maintenance went to patch the hole and
found the roof is in poor condition and too danger-ous for staff to walk on to repair,” the document said.
In September 2019, Oconee County paid $121,000 for the former church that sits on 1.27 acres on the corner of Bibb and East Main streets in Westminster. The new building is set to be used as a future magis-trate’s courtroom and for office space. Discussions have taken place about the possibility of working with Westminster city officials to have the build-ing used jointly.
The total price of the entire project rebuild is estimated to cost $844,287, which includes the price of demolition.
Last September, county officials told The Journal the building’s multiple uses over the years — in-cluding as a skating rink and church — have made demolition a cheaper option than renovating the facility, with a cost estimate of $971,549 for renovation and $844,287 for rebuilding. Square footage was cut from 5,142 to 3,581.
Staff expects permitting to take two weeks to re-ceive a response for
abate-ment and that demolition and removal will take two weeks after permits are received.
WORK AT FARM CENTER
The most expensive item on tonight’s agenda will require council approval to the tune of approxi-mately $401,884.59. A bid was awarded to Thrift Development Corporation of Seneca after “submit-ting the lowest responsive and responsible bid” after being advertised and emailed out to 34 bidders, according to the agenda. Work will take place to construct new turn lanes and an eastern entrance road to the F.A.R.M. Center, located on U.S. Highway 123.The bid includes work for roadway construction, including clearing and
grubbing, roadway con-struction, paving, erosion control, storm draining and grassing, the agen-da material said. Brock said the project would be paid for through “C-fund money,” which is the state transportation fund that is funded through gas tax distribution. The project could take up to a year to complete, but Brock said 6-8 months is the target goal. Brock said having a second entrance into the grounds has been discussed for years and made a priority in 2018. The F.A.R.M. Center has hosted the annual S.C. Foothills Heritage Fair and other farmers mar-ket-style events.
A 5 percent contingency fund — $19,137.36 — has been included in the bid package for the project. FROM PAGE A1
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but city administrator Brent Taylor said the moratorium would essen-tially be in effect if approved on first reading while zoning changes are being considered.
The proposed moratorium defines “small box discount stores” as “stores that have a floor area of less than 10,000 square feet and sell a variety of home and personal goods, food and beverages, but do not sell gasoline or have a prescription pharmacy.”
The proposed ordinance would place a four-month moratorium that would temporarily suspend “the acceptance and/or issuance of any permits, business licenses, land development applications for new development of discount stores.”
During that time council would review the city’s zoning ordinance
along with the city’s comprehensive plan and downtown development plan(s) with the planning commis-sion and consider any “adjustments to city codes and regulations.” Pub-lic hearings would also be a part of the process to get public input.
The four-month moratorium could be extended as needed, according to the draft ordinance.
The proposed ordinance comes before council two weeks after more than half a dozen residents ex-pressed concerns about a rumored Dollar General potentially being built on Main Street.
Businesswoman Lana Justice urged council “to consider a pause to be placed on this type of develop-ment.”
“A pause will afford council and the community time to work together for discussion and careful
consideration as to how we would actually like to see our downtown grow,” she said.
Mayor Danny Edwards said Mon-day night the proposed ordinance gives the city the opportunity to hear from any interested parties.
“We had a lot of people express their opinion about what was going on downtown,” Edwards said of the concerns expressed at the Feb. 16 meeting. “What we are going to consider is having a moratorium on certain types of businesses, which will allow us to meet with citi-zens and businesses and property owners and get a better feel of what folks want downtown.”
Taylor said if the ordinance is approved, it would be referred to the planning commission.
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‘Any formal attack on ignorance is bound to
fail because the masses are always ready to defend
their most precious possession — their ignorance.’
Hendrik Willem van Loon | American-Dutch historian
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his month, the United States recorded a horrific milestone: 500,000 deaths from COVID-19. Some-day, historians will look back at the pandemic and note all the mistakes and failures that helped make it the most deadly outbreak of disease in more than a century. But if they are wise, they will also note this past year as one in which Americans wereasked to rise to a challenge — and did so in impressive fashion.
It’s tempting to focus our atten-tion on all the ways our leaders and people went wrong. The 45th president repeatedly lied about the severity of the threat, resist-ed basic measures to curb it and held out false hopes that only aided the virus. Some Ameri-cans protested against public health mandates and selfishly disregarded medical guidance, spreading disease in the process.
But the noise and fury in some quarters obscure the broad ac-ceptance of unwanted changes. For the most part, Americans have recognized the danger and have embraced unprecedented obligations.
Most people have gotten used to faithfully covering their faces when they’re out in public and interacting with others. Most have sharply curtailed social contact — even with family. Most have largely given up dining inside restaurants. Most have gamely accepted not being able to at-tend ballgames, concerts and festivals.
None of this was foreordained. In past crises, such as the 9/11 attacks, the wars in Afghanistan and Iraq, and the Great Recession, the citizenry was asked to make few if any sacrifices. On the con-trary: Our leaders urged us to carry on as usual.
The pandemic is the first major national episode since World War II that required us to give up anything significant. At the start of 2020, we could hardly have imagined how radically life would change. Who could have imagined Ameri-cans adopting face masks, social distancing and remote work on such a vast scale? Who would have thought we would accept a brutal economic downturn as a regrettable necessity?
I speak as someone who expressed doubts about our willingness to step up. Even as the disease gathered steam in places like South Korea and It-aly, a lot of Americans preferred to ignore reality.
By late February of last year, alarm bells were ringing. “We expect we will see community spread in this country,” said Dr. Nancy Messonnier, a top official of the Centers for Disease Control and Pre-vention, on Feb. 25. “It’s not so much a question of if this will happen anymore, but rather more a ques-tion of exactly when this will happen and how many people in this country will have severe illness.”
But her boss, Health and Human Services Sec-retary Alex Azar, promptly insisted the virus was “contained” — one of many false administration claims that fostered deadly complacency.
Chicago Mayor Lori Lightfoot didn’t cancel the city’s massive St. Patrick’s Day parades until just a week before they were scheduled. Not until March 12 did Broadway theaters halt productions. Not until March 11 did the National Basketball Association suspend play. We were collectively reluctant to confront what had to be done.
But that changed. By April, a Kaiser Family Foundation poll found, 80 percent of Americans supported stay-at-home orders. By May, more than half of Americans said they were wearing masks every time they left the house, and the great majority didn’t plan to stay in a hotel, go to a live event or fly over the summer.
The inconveniences and disruptions went on much longer than expected at the outset, but most people didn’t falter. By December, 73 percent said they were wearing face coverings on every venture outside the home, and 70 percent said they were prepared to abide by social distancing guidelines for another six months.
Now that vaccines are available, the great ma-jority of us are determined to get their shots. Gal-lup Polls found that in September, only 50 percent were willing to be vaccinated, but by February, the number was 71 percent.
The death toll would be lower if more people had agreed to adapt as needed. But without the sort of mass support and cooperation we have seen, the number of U.S. fatalities could have been far higher — as high as 2.2 million.
Many lives have been lost because of the actions of an irresponsible minority of people and poli-ticians. But a lot more have been saved by those who stoutly refused to become accomplices to COVID-19. Let history record: Most Americans did what needed to be done.
STEVE CHAPMAN blogs at http://www.chicagotribune.com/ news/opinion/chapman. Follow him on Twitter @SteveChap-man13 or at https://www.facebook.com/stevechap@SteveChap-man13. To find out more about Steve Chapman and read features by other Creators Syndicate writers and cartoonists, visit creators.com.
Part of the solution
EDITOR:One of the very few upsides of the past year has been that the wife and I resolved to order more take-out meals from our local restaurants. Good food, no work, no cleanup — I mean, what’s not to like?
Unfortunately, almost none of the meals are handed over in recyclable containers. Styrofoam (EPS) and Polypropylene (#5) clam-shells are the rule. Nation-wide, only about 3 percent of all consumer plastics are recycled, and Oconee county no longer accepts any plastics. Our world is drowning in plastic waste. Even China won’t take it anymore. According to the Ocean Conser-vancy, there will soon be a pound of plastic for every three pounds of marine life in our oceans. Fun fact: There is NOWHERE in the ocean where micro plastics are not found in the tissues of fish.
Fortunately, there are paper alter-natives to these single-use contain-ers, and they would add only pennies to the cost of each meal. Consider mentioning this to the folks who run your favorite restaurants.
We all look forward to the day when we can sit down for a meal in a business we want to support. We should let them know that we want our “doggie bag” to be a part of the solution.
Gordon Crain Seneca
Duncan can burnish his
environmental record
EDITOR:I was surprised to learn that my representative, Congressman Jeff Duncan, has one of the lowest environmental scores of any representative in South Caroli-na. This is according to the most recent scorecard from the League of Conservation Voters, who are dedicated to building a world with clean air, clean water, public lands and a safe climate.
Congressman Duncan favors conservative, market-based solu-tions to environmental problems. He also supports S.C.’s clean, safe nuclear power.
Climate change is a very serious problem for humanity, and the experts tell us we need to take ac-tion now. But there is good news: a conservative legislation, the Energy Innovation and Carbon Dividend Act (HR763), has already been introduced to Congress.
HR763 works by putting a price on carbon pollution and allocat-ing the proceeds directly back to Americans. A carbon fee is assessed on fossil fuels at their source (coal mine, gas well, oil well, etc.). But instead of return-ing this fee to the government, it is returned directly to households in the form of a monthly dividend check. A gradually increasing carbon fee will encourage energy innovation and will actually cre-ate many more jobs by unleashing the free market to find the most economical, effective solutions.
But what about other big pol-luting countries, like China, who don’t have a similar carbon fee? A border adjustment fee would be assessed on all products import-ed from them. This assures that American companies are not disadvantaged.
Here in South Carolina, putting a price on fossil fuels would also make our clean, safe nuclear power competitive with dirty fossil fuels.
Of all the possible solutions out there to address climate change, this is the best one. It reduces car-bon emissions, creates 2.1 million jobs, helps low- and middle-income Americans and keeps the govern-ment out of our lives by letting the free market determine the best solutions.
I encourage Congressman Dun-can to consider burnishing his environmental record by support-ing HR 763.
William Harclerode Simpsonville
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priorities of each individual
member of Oconee County
Council.
Hopefully you kept up
each day. If not, you may
have some catching up to
do.
They began on Tuesday
with chairman John Elliot
and finished up Saturday
with Glenn Hart.
The priorities came from
the planning retreat the
council attended, where
everyone sat in a room and
dreamt of ways to spend
money rather than plan.
Instead of leaving the
meeting with a plan of
where the county was going
over the next 12 months,
what we got was a wish list
of ideas that are completely
unrealistic and mostly
un-budgeted.
We’re going to try to put
this hopscotch session into
a digestible format, but
ad-mittedly it won’t be easy.
The easier issues first:
Julian Davis, John Elliott,
and Matthew Durham want
more law enforcement
officers. Davis was specific
enough to name a number
— 20 over five years — but
Durham stuck with
anec-dotes to explain why he
wanted more cops.
Sheriff Mike Crenshaw has
made this argument, and we
support him. He needs more
officers. Checkmark.
Almost everyone listed
re-vitalizing Utica as a priority,
as Durham and Davis were
joined by Paul Cain.
Cain has championed this
for his seven years in office.
He still hasn’t gotten there
yet, but we digress.
Catchphrases are easy,
action isn’t. What does
revi-talizing Utica look like, Mr.
Cain? Specifically.
Where is the budget to do
it?
Elliott wants to finish the
Bountyland Fire station,
Davis wants to finish the
Westminster magistrate
building. Those are
proba-bly both legitimate needs,
although there are specific
issues with both.
Durham wants to look at
a recycling plant, or
inciner-ation … oddly similar to his
predecessor Wayne McCall’s
last wish list.
Hart mentioned water
lines up S.C. Highway 11 in
Salem, also oddly similar to
former council chair Edda
Cammick’s wish list — her
property is still located in
that area.
Cain mentioned building
a Seneca library and adding
code enforcement officers.
He seems to favor zoning.
Davis prioritized
broad-band and fixing the roads in
the county, both very worthy
causes, to say the least.
Hart wants to use the $3
million loan from Santee
Cooper to build a spec
build-ing in Fair Play — nevermind
that money was returned
months ago.
Maybe we could demolish
the Fair Play Elementary
School, Hart suggested.
Maybe we could, but the
current owners would
prob-ably be upset. It isn’t owned
by the county.
If this sounds like we’re
hopping around, we are. This
is what following these men
through a meeting is like.
No plan. No cohesive
functionality. Just a bunch
of guys with a wish list and
a blank checkbook — your
checkbook.
Hart doesn’t even know
what he can and can’t do —
but he’s not alone.
Last year, the county spent
more than $100,000
de-veloping a comprehensive
plan. It sits on a shelf, while
hardly a page of it was
men-tioned here.
This wasn’t a planning
session, this was a wish list
session for the councilmen
— a wish list for the coming
year where essentially none
of what they brought up
was budgeted for, save the
magistrate’s office and fire
station.
A planning session is not
a place to dream up ways
to spend more money. It’s
a place to decide which
direction the council would
like to see the county head
over the next year or so or
— gasp — maybe even save
some money.
The councilmen should’ve
spent their time discussing
your priorities — not theirs.
Whose priorities
are they again?
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Willie, Thanks for the opportunity to give Nikki Haley a shout out. Haley, with your non-support of the greatest president in American history, be advised that many of us will never vote for you for dogcatcher and will work very hard to see you never hold an elected office again.
Willie says:
In your first sentence you say you’re giving Nikki Haley a “shout out.” I don’t think you understand what that means. A shout out is praising somebody you like for a good thing they did. OK. We got that straight. What you really want Haley to know is that you’re really mad at her and you’re not gonna vote for her if she runs for president in 2024. For me, that’s like throw-ing the baby out with the bath water. Conser-vative principals still abound, even if she couldn’t bring herself to support someone any longer, even if that is President Trump.
Willie,
I read where someone claimed the H1N1 virus was worse than COVID. Surely that’s not true. See if you can find out. I’d like to know, even though I’m a slow think-er. You, on the other
hand, are good with a fast answer, so I ask you if it’s true.
Willie says: If you look up the (H1N1)pdm09 virus (called Swine Flu), there are a gazillion words written about it. I think one number that helps us is that from April 12, 2009, to April 10, 2010, CDC estimated there were 60.8 million cases and 12,469 deaths in the United States. If anyone tells you 12,469 deaths are worse than over 500,000 deaths (with COVID-19), you know that’s false. In the whole world, about 80 percent of those who died from H1N1 were under 65. Older peo-ple had built up more immunities over their lives, they figured.
Catch ya tomorrow! Willie
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weren’t for Crenshaw, it’s unlikely he would’ve stepped back into the law enforcement scene.
“I have known Sher-iff Crenshaw his entire career. I even told my wife that if I ever got back into law enforcement after re-tiring, it would be because of Sheriff Mike Cren-shaw,” Dixon told The Journal. “Anything I can do to help the residents of Oconee County, I’ll do.”
With the sprawling growth of Clemson in re-cent years, stress on the job increased for Dixon. For the first time in 25 years, Dixon believes he’s healthi-er than he’s evhealthi-er been.
“I think there is an enor-mous amount of stress when you’re the CEO of an agency that people don’t see. Especially for me, I prided myself in not car-rying my work home with me,” Dixon said. “There’s
an enormous amount of stress there. Basically, the last couple years that I was CEO, my blood pres-sure got outrageous. I’ve been able to get my health under control.”
ACCREDITATION GOALS
Outside of his lengthy relationship with Dixon, Crenshaw said it was im-portant to bring in some-one who knew the state accreditation process. The Clemson Police Depart-ment was state accredited in Dixon’s time there.Crenshaw said there are some 400 standards his agency will need to meet to become accredited by South Carolina, which means policies will need to be met and documented showing that standards are reached to achieve the best law enforcement practices.
“It’s not an easy pro-cess,” Crenshaw said.
Crenshaw said accred-itation would increase
the professionalism of his agency and make it eligi-ble for more grant funding.
“Hopefully, it will open up more grant opportuni-ties for the sheriff’s office, and then it will also give us the opportunity to gain a greater degree of trust with our citizens,” he said.
An agreement was signed in November to move forward with the process, which permits the agency three years to reach its goal. Crenshaw said it was his hope every-thing would be in place for a review in two years.
DIXON’S FUTURE ROLE
Dixon told The Journal he is also tasked with bringing in someone to help full time in the ac-creditation process. After his work has wrapped up there, Crenshaw expects Dixon to join the unsolved cases division.
“If all goes as planned, I hope to transition him
eventually into having another set of eyes with our unsolved cold cases as a part-time investigator,” Crenshaw said. “I think he can be an asset to us in other ways as well.”
CrimeStoppers of Oconee County has four missing persons listed on its website — Joshua Scott Ivester, Tammy Elizabeth Stubblefield, Laura Ann Anders and Pamela Faith Roach. The three women have been missing since 2019.
Dixon said he would follow through on Cren-shaw’s standard of leaving no stone unturned and seeing every lead to its end point.
“When someone goes missing, you want an-swers,” he said. “Even tragically, if the missing person is found deceased, you still want answers. It’s time consuming.”
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and community testing have, in general, “kept the university and community much safer than most schools across the country.”
As far as lifting the request for permits on gatherings for more than 250 people, Cohen said it will be difficult to see the immediate impact.
“I think if numbers in our area continue to decline, loosening this restriction and more vaccines being administered daily will give everyone a greater comfort level, and we are already discussing the possibilities for late spring and summer events in town and around the area,” she said.
Tiger Town Tavern owner Cam-eron Farish, one of the most outspo-ken critics of Clemson’s restrictions on downtown businesses, said the ability to stay open until 2 a.m. “will be helpful.” But he said the ability to stay open later won’t
com-pletely turn around the financial bloodbath owners have taken for nearly a year.
“We’ll have to work and be frugal — nobody’s going to be taking any European vacations, nobody’s going and buying a new truck down here, because, for years to come, we’ll be trying to get that emergency fund back,” Farish said. “We’ll be paying back the loan we took against our 401K. We’ll be paying back our personal savings we depleted to keep the business current, and one year’s not going to do it. We’ll be down here for years just to get back to where we were pre-pandemic.”
Farish said Clemson’s restrictions on downtown establishments went “above and beyond what the rest of the state was doing.”
“You’d go to Greenville, you’d go to Anderson, you’d go to Seneca and there’s no police force telling people they have to sit down,” he said. “But in Clemson, the interpretation has been that we’re going to use our
resources to reinforce what we feel is the right thing to do.”
Clemson City Council was expected to discuss the ramifications of the governor’s decision at its meeting Monday night. Acting city adminis-trator Andy Blondeau feels allowing bars and restaurants to once again remain open until 2 a.m. “will be a big deal to them.” He agrees with medical experts on the COVID-19 task force who said last week that numbers are trending in the right direction for a city whose number of positive cases (80) is relatively low compared with the 800 current positive cases in Pick-ens County. While the city’s mask ordinance remains in effect since the governor didn’t lift the statewide state of emergency, Blondeau said there will no longer be one once the state of emergency is lifted.
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NEW YORK — Glam was back for the Golden Globes virtual, bicoastal awards night Sunday as nominees Zoomed in from around the world and, for Leslie Odom Jr., from his front porch in Los Angeles not far from the action in Beverly Hills.
And they were ready, style wise, as the Globes split hosts, with Amy Poehler at the Beverly Hilton and Tina Fey at the Rain-bow Room in New York.
There was nary a pair of sweats in sight. Jason Sudeikis was a glam outlier in a rainbow tie-dye hoodie from his sister’s clothing line as he picked up an award remotely, saying : “Wow, do I talk now?”
The sweatshirt, which retails for $110, whipped up buzz on social media, prompting Fey to joke after Sudeikis accepted his award: “If anybody wants to know where they can get Jason Sudeikis’ hoodie, go to nbc.com/ globesfashion.” The page, please note, doesn’t exist.
Backstage after the show, Sudeikis told reporters he owns a multitude of hoodies but chose the one emblazoned with “For-ward” on the front and “Listen + Lead” on the back as fitting for the unusual night.
“When people you care about do cool interesting things you should support them,” he said. Jodie Foster won wearing a black-and-white silk pajama set from Prada, her dog Ziggy in a bandana to match and her wife by her side.
During a Zoom session with reporters after the show, a giddy Foster stuck out a bare foot showing she went shoeless to col-lect her award and said: “This is the best Globes ever! To be able to be home just felt really real. It didn’t feel like it was filled with so much artifice.”
Regina King’s dog snoozed in the background before the show as she showed off her Louis Vuitton gown in silver and black — and Amanda Seyfried pre-viewed a springy, coral Oscar de la Renta with floral adornment, echoing many stars who said they wanted to bring a little joy.
“I’ve got my son, who is 5 months old, laying against a pillow in a tux,” Seyfried said.
Cynthia Erivo went for neon green Valentino to present in per-son, and Kaley Cuoco munched pizza in a de la Renta design. Gil-lian Anderson, alone in Prague, wore a green gown and Julia Garner a two-tone Prada black and white look. She didn’t forget the lipstick, a deep red.
Laverne Cox, in a red, embel-lished cape-sleeve gown, did something even more unusual: She stood up to chat with report-ers on E! and NBC via Zoom before the show.
“I wanted to feel festive and go for it,” she told NBC. “It’s really amazing about this whole Zoom world. People can do whatever they want.”
That meant Chanel for Shira Haas in Los Angeles, and cus-tom Gucci for Elle Fanning in London.
“It’s nice to have something
to celebrate and get dressed up for, and actually put on a dress to walk from my living room to my kitchen,” Fanning told E!. “I thought, why not?”
The jewels flowed along with the gowns, which included a stunning, bright green sparkler for Anya Taylor-Joy by Dior Couture with a matching coat.
Fey and Poehler, both dressed in black to open the show, joked about the unusual set up and the distance between them, with Fey pretending to stroke Poehler’s hair through their screens. The two, with nu-merous fashion changes, were joined by an array of presenters as winners accepted via Zoom, with an early glitch when win-ner Daniel Kaluuya’s audio went silent at first, then perked up so he could speak.
King’s dog wasn’t the only sur-prise star. Sarah Paulson held her little black pooch on screen and Emma Corrin’s fluffy white cat grabbed a moment for itself.
And there were kids, too. Mark Ruffalo’s two wandered behind him as he accepted an award. Aaron Sorkin was joined by a bevy of women on hand for his win. Lee Isaac Chung, director of “Minari,” hugged his small daughter tight as he ac-cepted an award, his dressed-up offspring squeezing back with: “I prayed, I prayed, I prayed.”
Peter Morgan, creator of “The Crown,” was a winner from his “tragic little office,” calling the pre-pandemic Globes “always the most fun awards show.”
Nominees bantered from screen to screen, shouting out their hellos to each other.
On stage and for their small, in-person — and masked — audi-ences, production designer Brian Stonestreet pivoted like never be-fore when the Globes decided to go bicoastal earlier in February, just days before show time.
The awards veteran, who has designed for the Grammys,
the Billboards, the Academy of Country Music and others, told The Associated Press ahead of the Globes’ big night that he gained massive horizontal real estate for the screen-centric show with the shrinking of tables in size and number.
“Funnily enough, it gave me a little more freedom in terms of scenery,” he said of the Beverly Hilton, while incorporating the Rainbow Room’s massive center chandelier adorned with stars and orbs in New York.
He used the extra space (about 36 guests in New York and 42 in Beverly Hills) to expand screen presence and curvier, more dra-matic, staircases. On the floor, he placed trophies on pedestals among his two- and three-person cocktail tables, rather than the usual 6-foot round tables seating 10 to 12 people for a total of more than 1,000.
Instead of star-studded crowds crammed into the Hilton’s ball-room, the Globes hosted front-line and essential workers, along
with food bank workers from the show’s philanthropic partner-ship with Feeding America.
Lydia Marks, a New York set decorator, told The Associated Press the evening’s technical challenges were many. With so many remote locations and two live sets, the few glitches should
be forgiven, she said.
“While it looks easy, the direc-tion needs to remain responsive in a way that is more like a live sporting event than an awards show,” Marks said. “I think it looks pretty seamless and con-trolled for the amount of feeds they are working with.”
Glam back at the Golden Globes,
albeit at a distance
Hosts Tina Fey, left, from New York, and Amy Poehler, from Beverly Hills, Calif., speak at the Golden Globe Awards.
Lee Isaac Chung is hugged by his daughter as he accepts the award for best foreign language motion picture for “Minari” from the United States at the Golden Globe Awards.
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Dear Readers: Those economic stim-ulus payments many of us received last year and into this year? Let’s take a look:
1. The CARES Act (Coronavirus Aid, Relief and Economic Security) is an economic impetus program passed by Congress in March of 2020 that provid-ed many Americans a cash payment
(around $1,200 per indi-vidual).
This was designed as an offset to govern-ment-mandated stay-at-home orders and closures of businesses. The clo-sures were put in place in an attempt to quell the COVID-19 virus. Relief to businesses and organiza-tions was also provided.
2. There was a second payment of around $600 per individual as part of the Consolidated Appro-priations Act, along with more stimulus dollars for businesses.
Do you have to repay these dollars? No. And you don’t claim the payment as income on your tax return either. Also, the second payment was given free of encumbrances (the money cannot be garnished, etc.).
These acts are incredibly detailed and complex. Check with your tax preparer, bank officer or financial adviser for more information.
— Heloise
TECH TALK TUESDAY
Dear Heloise: I keep my car keys on my nightstand. If anything happens during the night, I can use the “pan-ic” button on my key fob to set off the alarm on my car and thereby alert the neighbors. This works in an apartment complex or in a subdivision.
— Brittany T. in Dallas, Texas
A LIE IS FINE
Dear Heloise: I teach my daughter, who is away at college, that there are times when it is OK to lie. When a suspi-cious person asks her the following:
Are you traveling alone? Are you out alone?
Are you headed home alone? It’s for sure OK to lie. — Richard K. in Ohio
BAG LADY
Dear Heloise: To style a baggie sweat-er, sweatshirt or pullovsweat-er, I pop it on and start accessorizing with necklaces and bracelets (I like lots of each for chunk-iness and texture). I roll the sleeves up twice and tie a thin ribbon, string or belt around the garment on my waistline, and pull the top up and over the ribbon or belt to finish the look.
— Janna W. in Illinois
Janna, excellent! By the way, experts agree: If you’re wearing a looser, baggier top, finish with a snug bottom. If your jeans or pants are looser, complete that look with a fitted, shapely top. Balance.
— Heloise
DOCUMENT DEALER
Dear Heloise: I keep my most import-ant documents in an accordion file bind-er that I can grab and go in case of an emergency. Tabs can include Home, Auto Insurance, Will, Emergency Contacts, Bank Account Numbers, etc.
— Betty M. in Pennsylvania
SEND A money-saving or timesaving hint to Heloise, P.O. Box 795001, San Antonio, TX 78279-5001, or you can fax it to 1-210-HELOISE or email it to Heloise@ Heloise.com.
Dear Annie: Our son is an educated, well-read, successful married man. We taught him how to keep a home, how to clean, how to groom himself. This has never been an issue.
Since he married five years ago, all things clean have disappeared. His home is filthy. We help out at his house, doing paint-ing, floorpaint-ing, etc. We are glad to be a part of our son’s life and don’t mind helping — if he just took care of his things and his home.
He also doesn’t seem to care how he presents himself. Recently, his wife had a birthday party for him. He came out looking like he had just gotten out of bed. The bathroom looked like it hadn’t been cleaned in over a month.
He was not raised like this. How do we approach him about this without causing hard feelings?
— Embarrassed Mom
Dear Embarrassed Mom: He might not have been raised like this, but clearly something is going on in his home life. Letting go of your house, and yourself for that matter, could be signs of a deeper issue. He could be dealing with depres-sion, anxiety or ADHD. As a temporary Band-Aid, you could offer to pay for a cleaning service — even monthly could make a huge difference. While that might tackle the surface of what is going on, it’s important to look at what is going on inside of him.
Ask him if he wants to go out to dinner or for a walk, and have an open, nonjudg-mental conversation with him about how his life is going. And how he is feeling. Hopefully, he will open up. Continue to support and be there for him. If matters do not get better, he might need the help of a professional counselor.
Dear Annie: My daughter died at age 41 after 17 years of marriage. Her hus-band will always be my son-in-law.
I was one of the first people he called when he started dating again because he didn’t want me to hear it from someone else. He repeated that when he decided to remarry.
I knew that I would have a difficult time attending the wedding. However, I wanted to go to support him and my three grandchildren. When I overheard my granddaughters talking about the wedding, I asked if there was a date selected, because I hadn’t been told. The response was that it was during a time when I had a long-planned trip sched-uled. So, they knew I wouldn’t be able to attend.
I don’t know if that was on purpose or a coincidence, but it was certainly a relief. The stepmother is a fine person and is loved by my grandchildren.
— I Am a Blessed Papa
Dear Blessed Papa: I am so sorry for the loss of your daughter. As I have writ-ten before, there is life before you lose a child and life after. The after is never the same. You sound like an incredible man, and your son-in-law — the father of your grandchildren — shows great respect toward you. Your focus on your blessings is admirable, and it is precisely what leads one to live a more peaceful life. SEND YOUR questions for Annie Lane to [email protected].
Question: There is so much evil in our society today and government seems to be at the heart of all the problems. Is this a fair diagnosis, and
can anyone turn the world around?
— A.S. Answer: The world’s specialists may employ all the diplomacy and skill at their command, but at best they reach only symptoms, and the cleverest of this world’s leaders have failed to diagnose the cause of our disease. Psychiatrists talk with thousands of people and diagnose their ailments, but a psychiatrist once remarked, “I have a difficult time offering a curative.”
The Bible provides the curative — the Gospel of the Lord Jesus Christ. God’s Word tells us that the human heart is “deceitful above all things, and desperately wicked” (Jeremiah 17:9). Human behavior is warped because of sin.
Many object to the word sin, but it is as real as cancer, leprosy, or leukemia. These realities rob us of hope, bring despair, and remind us of death. But sin is curable. Every trace of it can be removed, for God has provided something that can cleanse the vilest sinner and make him or her as pure as fresh-fallen snow.
Life is a tangled mass of pitfalls and dangers. Everywhere lurk moral entanglements that threaten the soul. One thing is for sure: We need outside help if we are to find our way to peace of heart and purposeful living. The Bible tells us that there is only one way to God, and that is by the cross! We cannot overcome the difficulties of life without humbling ourselves before Almighty God and receiving the salvation offered by His Son Jesus Christ. We must change the direction of our life. This is mankind’s only hope and Christ gives the power to change when we put our trust and faith in Him.
(This column is based on the words and writings of the late Rev. Billy Graham.)
REV. BILLY Graham’s informative approach to his beliefs and his respectful examination of the beliefs of others have kept his nondenomina-tional Q&A column at the forefront of religious discourse for more than 60 years.
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The traditional opening event of every national tournament in the U.S. is the Charity Pairs. At a recent charity game, the field reached three no-trump here and, in a display of charity to their opponents, generally failed to display the correct holdup technique necessary. This week’s theme is “A duck in time saves nine.”
The auction provided West with an easy heart 10 lead; now South must plan his first move carefully. If hearts split 4-3, South can win or duck the first or second round of the suit. But as the cards lie, look at what happens if he takes the first heart and drives out the spade ace. (If he leads the club king instead, West will duck, and normal play thereafter defeats the game.) When East takes the spade ace and returns the heart jack, West overtakes and can clear the suit while retaining the club ace as an entry. Now the contract must fail.
The key play is to duck the first heart, holding up both the ace and king — often right when declarer must knock out two key-cards — and win the second in hand. The point is that East will have no hearts left if he gets on lead later.
The best technique is for declarer to play the club king before attacking spades. This lets him set up a second club trick even if East had another heart after winning the ace.
If declarer had played spades before clubs, he would not have the entries to take more than one club trick when the club king was ducked. Now the foul spade split would defeat him.
ANSWER: Pass. You could try to improve the part-score with a two-heart advance, but your partner may be short there, and you have already found a fit in diamonds. Even if it is a Moysian (4-3) fit, part-ner can ruff spades in dummy, you hope. With one more heart spot, I might feel happier about playing a possible 5-1 fit.
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