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This WEEK in FOOTBALL FRENZY

This WEEK in FOOTBALL FRENZY

Green Wave lose homecoming heartbreaker to Mauldin; Daniel shuts out Travelers Rest; Devils to open region play; Pickens to return More »

Soup kitchen celebrates two decades of service

Soup kitchen celebrates two decades of service

By Jason Evans Staff Reporter jevans@thepccourier.com EASLEY — For more than two decades, an organization in Easley has provided hot More »

Lions win county golf tournament

Lions win county golf tournament

By Bru Nimmons Sports Editor bnimmons@thepccourier.com PICKENS — For the first time in more than 10 years, The Rock Golf More »

Local residents, businesses provide aid to neighbors, WNC after Helene

Local residents, businesses provide aid to neighbors, WNC after Helene

By Jason Evans Staff Reporter jevans@thepccourier.com COUNTY — Following the destruction wrought by Hurricane Helene, many people in the Pickens More »

This WEEK in FOOTBALL FRENZY

This WEEK in FOOTBALL FRENZY

Swinney becomes ACC’s winningest coach in road victory over FSU; Wave announce 2024 Hall of Fame class and Red Devils More »

 

Iconic game warden Gravely to be remembered

By Greg Lucas
Special to the Courier
news@thepccourier.com

PICKENS — A remembrance for legendary game warden Franklin Gravely will be held Wednesday, Oct. 23, in northern Pickens County. The public is invited to attend the program.

The remembrance, an oral history, will begin at 9 a.m. in the parking lot of Holly Springs Country Store at 6491 S.C. Highway 11 is Pickens. Holly Springs Country Store is at the intersection of S.C. 11 and U.S. Highway 178. The remembrance will start in the upper parking

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lot closest to the volunteer fire department. After some introductory remarks, the remembrance will move uphill to the Holly Springs Baptist Church cemetery, where Gravely is buried. If road conditions are favorable, the remembrance will then travel to the Franklin Gravely Monument on Camp Adger Road in the Horsepasture, known officially as Jocassee Gorges.

The Franklin Gravely Remembrance has been held for the past decade as part of a Clemson University Osher Lifelong Learning Institute (OLLI) Jocassee Gorges class, but this year is being opened to the public. Mack “Houn’ Dawg” Erwin, another law enforcement legend who retired from the South Carolina Department of Natural Resources (SCDNR) in 2010 with more than 30 years of experience, will host the event. He is being joined by Dennis Chastain, a writer, naturalist and hunter who is a well-known Pickens County personality.

The remembrance will honor the life and legacy of Gravely, for whom the Franklin L. Gravely Wildlife Management Area was named in 1980. The monument honoring Gravely’s contribution to the conservation lands in northern Pickens County was unveiled July 9, 2012, at the Camp Adger helipad. The ceremony was held with a gathering that included Gravely’s family and his many admirers from Gravely’s years of service as a conservation officer between 1953 and 1988. Gravely died in 2000.

“He was as near to the perfect game warden as any that we have ever had,” then-SCDNR director Alvin Taylor said at the monument unveiling. “He was smart, fair and relentless. He was the ultimate woodsman. He found numerous lost individuals in the mountains. When someone was lost in the Table Rock Watershed or Horsepasture area, Franklin found them. He could track people and animals as well as anyone I have ever met.

“He was a fine person who lived his faith. I have rarely heard of anyone who did not like Franklin, even the violators that he caught,” Taylor said. “We are blessed to have had him as an officer, and I hope our current staff can follow his example of how to serve the people and wildlife of South Carolina.”

Gravely was instrumental in stocking deer and wild turkeys in the mountain region, as well as preserving black bear habitat, and he helped to protect conservation areas in the Upstate for future generations to enjoy. A South Carolina Wildlife magazine article called Gravely “a mountain man’s mountain man, a living legend throughout the rugged wilderness of northwestern South Carolina.”

For more information on the Franklin Gravely Remembrance, call Greg Lucas with SCDNR at (864) 380-5201 or send an e-mail to LucasG@dnr.sc.gov.

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Soup kitchen celebrates two decades of service

By Jason Evans
Staff Reporter
jevans@thepccourier.com

EASLEY — For more than two decades, an organization in Easley has provided hot meals and encouragement to those struggling in the community.

The SHINE (Stopping Hunger in Nearby Easley) soup kitchen celebrated its 20th anniversary

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Tigerama to be held on Friday

CLEMSON — At 7 p.m. this Friday, Oct. 18, Clemson University will host the 68th annual Tigerama celebration, welcoming the greater community into Memorial Stadium for a high-energy block party, pep rally, fireworks show and in-stadium concert featuring X Ambassadors.

The event, which normally coincides with the university’s

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Lions win county golf tournament

By Bru Nimmons
Sports Editor
bnimmons@thepccourier.com

PICKENS — For the first time in more than 10 years, The Rock Golf Club and Resort hosted the Pickens County girls’ golf championship on Oct. 10, with athletes from all four Pickens County high schools participating.

Daniel High School took home the county championship with a team score of 354. The

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County to begin debris removal

By Jason Evans
Staff Reporter
jevans@thepccourier.com

COUNTY — Pickens County residents may have already begun seeing crews working to remove debris left behind by Hurricane Helene.

Work was set to begin this week, according to a release from county public information officer Jamie Burns.

The county coordinated with the South Carolina Department of Transportation to contract storm debris removal services following the hurricane, the release

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Lions come back to defeat Pickens

By Bru Nimmons
Sports Editor
bnimmons@thepccourier.com

CENTRAL — Dropping two of the first three sets to county rival Pickens, the Daniel High School volleyball team seemed to be in trouble even before the Blue Flame jumped out to a 12-8 lead in the fourth set.

With her team in danger of losing sole possession of

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Ed Leese making run for Pickens City Council seat

PICKENS — Ed Leese, a resident of Pickens since 2014, is running for a 12-month seat on Pickens City Council. Leese is a loving husband, father of four sons and proud grandfather.

He volunteers his time with a local unit of the U.S. Navy’s official youth program, earning the “Officer of the Year” award for the Southeast region (Washington, D.C., to Key West.)

Leese is a board member of the Upper South Carolina Council

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Blessed are the peacemakers

In Matthew 5:9, we read, “Blessed are the peacemakers; God shall call them His sons.”

This statement is so familiar to us, and like all things familiar, we tend to take them at face value without considering their import. But, if we do take a moment to reflect, the statement reveals that God values and loves peace. And he promises a reward

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Liar, liar, pants on fire

The chant heard on playgrounds around the world contains an additional tribute to that most infamous liar of all, Pinocchio. “Liar, liar, pants on fire, nose as long as a telephone wire.”

Winston Churchill once said “a lie gets halfway around the world before the truth has a chance to get its pants on.”

In 1691, it was a crime to tell a lie or spread false news in

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