Category Archives: Community
• Fairview schedules building fundraiser
Fairview Baptist Church will be holding a building fundraiser on Saturday, Nov. 12, from 8 a.m.-2 p.m., rain or shine. There will be a hot dog, bake and yard sale at the church, located at 1106 Robinson Bridge Road in Liberty. Donations are welcome, with all proceeds donated to the church repair fund.
• St. Andrew Parish set to hold bazaar
The St. Andrew Parish annual bazaar will take place Saturday, Nov. 5, from 10 a.m.-2 p.m. at St. Andrew Catholic Church, located at 209 Sloan St. in Clemson. It will feature a wide variety of handcrafted items, including hostess and teacher gifts, home décor for all seasons, wearables, Clemson-themed items, yarn crafts, stocking stuffers, art, plants, jewelry, greeting and note cards, wooden signs and up-cycled
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Local nonprofit collecting warm items, toiletries for seniors, plans open house
By Jason Evans
Staff Reporter
jevans@thepccourier.com
COUNTY — A local nonprofit is seeking items area senior citizens can use to keep warm this fall and winter.
Members of Warmth and Comfort for the Elderly in Upstate SC use their crochet skills to provide warm items for nursing home patients, hospice groups, home health patients and elderly people who live at home and can’t afford them. They also hold regular donation drives.
In September, the group asked for donations of “new or handmade throws, blankets, hats, scarves, gloves, socks, lap quilts and just about any other items of warmth the elderly in our facilities could use,” said Tammy Ferguson, the group’s CEO. “State regulations will not allow us to donate used items at this time.”
The group is also holding a toiletry drive through Dec. 1, she said.
Items needed are Christmas stockings, toothpaste, toothbrushes, body wash (no bar soaps), body lotion, hand lotion, shampoo, conditioner, chapstick, deodorant, pens, pencils, small notepads, new handkerchiefs for men, mirrors, combs, hair brushes and individual-size Kleenex.
“We want small sizes to be able to place more items in stockings,” Ferguson said.
Drop-off sites are the YMCA in Pickens, in Easley at Under the Carolina Moon and Integrated Yoga Therapy, in Powdersville at Front Porch Fixins and in Dacusville/Easley at Earthworks Unlimited.
Warmth and Comfort will hold a drop-in open house from 2-5 p.m. Sunday, Oct. 30, at 149 Ivey Hayes Road in Pickens.
Light refreshments will be served on the grounds. RSVP by emailing warmthandcomfortfortheelderly@gmail.com or calling (864) 238-4652.
For more information about the group, email warmthandcomfort@gmx.com or call (864) 668-1021. Learn more about the group at its Facebook page.
Great Clips donates
Great Clips recently made a generous donation to the Liberty Community Scholarship, now in its eighth year of service to the community. Pictured above at the Easley Great Clips, Tabitha Irby, the general manager of 17 area Great Clips, stands with Liberty Community Scholarship board members Lisa Carpenter, Bonita Holland and Tracy Morgan.
Rensing Center no longer a nonprofit
PICKENS — The Rensing Center, located in Pickens, has officially closed as a 501(c)(3) non profit organization.
The center still exists as it has for decades as a private creative community on the 27-acre rural property on Mile Creek Road.
The mission remains the same — nourishing imagination and fostering individual renewal, community connection and interdisciplinary interaction among people in creative,
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Courier Community Calendar 10-19-22
• St. Andrew Parish set to hold bazaar
The St. Andrew Parish annual bazaar will take place Saturday, Nov. 5, from 10 a.m.-2 p.m. at St. Andrew Catholic Church, located at 209 Sloan St. in Clemson. It will feature a wide variety of handcrafted items, including hostess and teacher gifts, home décor for all seasons,
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United Way spotlights supporters
By Jason Evans
Staff Reporter
jevans@thepccourier.com
COUNTY — The theme of United Way of Pickens County’s recent 2022 annual meeting and celebration was “United We Grow.”
The support of the organization’s donors, staff and volunteers has allowed the organization to grow through tumultuous times.
United Way of Pickens County oresident Julie Capaldi asked attendees to “picture
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Central High School Class of ‘55 holds 67th reunion
NORRIS — The Central High School Class of 1955 celebrated its 67th year reunion at the fellowship hall of First Baptist Church Norris with a brunch, with two members of the class — Jean Gillespie and Kathlyn Albertson — preparing the food.
There were 44 students in the graduating class. There are 27 who are deceased. A table was set up with individual pictures of the deceased, along with a candle lit at the beginning of the reunion by Gwen Gilstrap in memory of the lost classmates.
Throughout the class’ school years, four scrapbooks were made beginning with pictures when the classmates were babies or small children.
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Courier Community Calendar 10-12-22
• Veterans invited to American Legion
Veterans in the Liberty area are invited to the next meeting of American Legion Post 67 in Liberty. The Legion meets on the third Monday of the month at 7 p.m. at the Scout Hut, circle off North Palmetto Street. All veterans are invited.
• Senior info sharing set at Hagood Center
The Hagood Community Center at 129 Schoolhouse Street in Pickens will host the second installment of the monthly senior information
Resiliency in facing life’s challenges
I was having a conversation with a good friend the other day, and he was telling me how life is becoming more difficult now that he is in his 80s.
When he was young he loved to jog and walk a couple of miles a day, and now he can hardly make it to the kitchen. I’m about 20 years younger, but I can 
definitely relate to my body and mind going through some changes.
I’ve always heard the lack of activity does not do us any favors, as it seems the less we do, the less we can do. My mother is 84, and she stays active by going to church, shopping, eating out and walking around Walmart. It’s
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Storing food when there’s no space
During the past two years when I stocked up on grocery staples, I ended up with canned foods and dry goods stored in three different places around the house.
I’d have to check all three places to be sure I grabbed the green beans with the nearest expiration date. Pasta was the same. Worse was when I discovered that I 
wasn’t having spaghetti for dinner after all because I’d used the last of the pasta and only thought I had one
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