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Daily Archives: 09/10/2014

Six Mile remembers an ambassador

Bill and Ruby Holder will be honored at a tribute event in Six Mile on Sept. 27. Bill passed away June 6, two days after his 98th birthday. 

 

 

 

Family plans drop-in

event to honor Holders

SIX MILE — According to family members and friends, Bill Holder was a Six Mile ambassador.

On display at the event will be a pair of World War II practice bombs Bill found near his home, which have been made into a sculpture that will be donated to the Patriots’ Hall Oconee Veterans’ Museum.

On display at the event will be a pair of World War II practice bombs Bill found near his home, which have been made into a sculpture that will be donated to the Patriots’ Hall Oconee Veterans’ Museum.

Wherever he traveled, he proudly spoke of living in Six Mile and always held the town and its residents in the highest of regards, his granddaughter, Rigel LeNart, said in a recent letter to Six Mile Town Council.

To Holder, Six Mile was “the Big Apple,” LeNart wrote.

“Six Mile events were his ‘jet-set,’ and therefore, Six Mile and its residents were his people — his family,” she wrote. “Bill Holder WAS Six Mile and everything that encompassed Six Mile.”

With that in mind, family members have planned a memorial event to celebrate Holder — who died on June 6, just two days after his 98th birthday — and honor his surviving wife, Ruby.

All friends and family members are encouraged to attend the drop-in event, scheduled for 11 a.m.-3 p.m. on Saturday, Sept. 27, at the Roper Building across from Six Mile Baptist Church on Main Street. Guest speakers, including Six Mile

Deputies: Man fired gun at car

LIBERTY — A Central man was arrested last week after police said he drove up to another man’s home and shot at his vehicle.

Nathan Bryan Church

Nathan Bryan Church

According to a release from Pickens County Sheriff’s Office chief deputy Creed Hashe, police received a call about shots fired on Railroad Street in Liberty at around 4:45 p.m. on Sept. 2.

Upon arrival, deputies found six recently fired shell casings in the road and a damaged vehicle belonging to a man who lives at 160 Railroad St.

Deputies interviewed several witnesses, including the 52-year-old resident of the home, who told officers a Ford F-150 truck had stopped in front of the home and the driver had fired several rounds from a rifle into the tires of the man’s vehicle.

The man told police the incident stemmed from an ongoing dispute between several people.

The driver of the truck, identified as Nathan Bryan Church, 33, was found a short time later and was arrested for malicious injury to personal property and pointing and presenting a firearm.

Police seized a .22-caliber rifle as evidence.

Church was released Thursday on a combined $6,000 surety bond.

 

Founders Day set for Saturday

Pickens’ Main Street to be closed all day for festival

PICKENS — Pickens’ third annual Founders Day Music Festival is set for this weekend.

The festival will be held on West Main Street in downtown Pickens on Saturday.

The event, which is free and offers fun for the whole family, will begin at 11 a.m. and end at around 9 p.m. with a fireworks display launched from Bruce Field.

West Main Street will be closed from North Ann Street to Catherine Street from 7 a.m. until midnight Saturday for

Easley raises millage

By Ben Robinson
Staff Reporter

brobinson@thepccourier.com

EASLEY — Easley City Council set the city’s millage rate for the 2014 tax year at 60.

Initial efforts were to set the rates at 58.4, but council members were told that would not balance the budget, so the rate was changed. The change in rate is because this in a reassessment year. Council voted 7-0 to change the rate.

Council also voted to assign former Easley Police officer Gene Cope as a city municipal judge. Council voted 7-0 to

Clemson reaches top 20 national ranking

CLEMSON — Clemson University is now ranked among the top 20 national public universities, according to U.S. News & World Report’s annual guide to “America’s Best Colleges” for 2015.

The university is No. 20 on the list, its highest ranking and seventh consecutive year the school has been in the top 25.

“To be ranked among the nation’s top public universities is a tribute to the hard work and dedication of our faculty, staff, students and trustees and the support of our alumni, donors, friends and volunteers,” Clemson President Jim

Cassie Gravely joins Pickens High varsity volleyball staff

PICKENS — Former all-state volleyball player Cassie Gravely joined the coaching staff at her alma mater recently.

“I can’t begin to tell you how thrilled we are to have Cassie join us,” Pickens coach Jennifer Gravely said. “I had the pleasure of coaching her for four years and am ecstatic to have her back on the bench as an assistant.

“The experience and talent she brings to our program is a reflection of her passion for the game and her success as a player. An amazing setter and hitter, she helped lead our team to two state championships in 2006 and 2008, as well as another finals appearance in 2007. Her senior season she suffered an injury that kept her out of the lineup for the majority of the season, and I hated that for her.”

Cassie Gravely’s career numbers at Pickens were impressive. She was named an all-state player her junior year and

Genealogical society plans meeting Tuesday

 CLEMSON — “From Revolution to Reconstruction: Tangible Reminders that History Happened Here” will be the topic for the Old Pendleton District Genealogical Society meeting on Tuesday, Sept. 16, at 7 p.m. at the Central-Clemson Library on S.C. Highway 93.

Guest speaker Will Hiott, director of historic properties for Clemson University, will highlight several cultural and historic sites on the Clemson campus and within the experimental forest, including Hopewell, Keowee Heights and

Hagood Mill set to host South Carolina Fiddling Championship

Robert Burns, the 2012 South Carolina Fiddling Champion, performs during a past competition at the Hagood Mill near Pickens. The South Carolina Fiddling Championship will return to Hagood Mill on Sept. 20. For more, turn to page

PICKENS — As autumn approaches and the leaves turn their brilliant colors, it signals the time for fiddle music in the mountains.

On Sept. 20, vintage fiddle music will fill the hills and hollers around Hagood Mill as it becomes the host for the annual South Carolina Fiddling Championship.

Some of the best fiddlers in the southeast will gather to compete for the title of South Carolina champion.

This traditional contest goes back to the 1920s, when Clemson University opened the doors of rustic Tillman Hall to the local musicians of the nearby South Carolina mountains for their music competition.

Hagood-Mauldin house joins Upstate Heritage Quilt Trail

Pickens County Historical Society president Kenneth Nabors and Una Welborn stand beside the quilt block on display at the Hagood-Mauldin House in Pickens.

PICKENS — The Carpenter’s Wheel quilt block has been placed on the grounds of the historic Hagood-Mauldin house to become part of the Upstate Heritage Quilt Trail.

The block was selected by Una Welborn since it is an 1850s pattern and the house was originally built in 1850 on the banks of the Keowee River at Pickens Court House.

In 1868, the upper corner of South Carolina was divided into Oconee and Pickens counties with the Keowee River becoming the county line.

At that time, James Earl Hagood, who lived in the house, had the house completely disassembled, loaded onto

The light on the stairwell

A long time ago, when we didn’t know any better, we picked out light fixtures for the house. Although we looked at so many different styles I became overwhelmed, we at last, due to overload, picked a light for the stairwell that hung from the ceiling.

6-25 Page 4A.inddThe chain is just a couple of feet long, and it is very pretty.

We could have selected lights that attached to the wall in the stairwell, but at that time in our lives we weren’t worried about the future.

Or the thought of what we’d have to do when the bulb burned out. We never thought at all.

So now, if, heaven forbid, the bulb in the stairwell burns out, it takes a bit of doing to change it.

Doing heights has never been one of my strengths, and it seems to