Save A Lot gives back to Pickens
PICKENS — With the help and generosity of its valued customers, the Save A Lot store in Pickens has donated More »
County elections official recognized for excellence
By Jason Evans Staff Reporter jevans@thepccourier.com COUNTY — Pickens County’s election analyst was recently recognized by a stateorganization for going More »
Devils cruise to region win over Blacksburg
By Bru Nimmons Sports Editor bnimmons@thepccourier.com LIBERTY — Coming off a heartbreaking loss to Landrum, the third-ranked Liberty High School More »
Easley event set to raise
EASLEY — Next Tuesday, Oct. 2, Bleu Voodoo and Wingard’s Jewelry will host the seventh annual Masquerade for Mary’s House.
From humble beginnings in 2012, when the event raised just $750, the Masquerade for Mary’s House has grown substantially, raising $13,000 in 2016 and 2017. Organizers hope to raise $20,000 this year, as well as bring a growing awareness to the problem of domestic violence.
Mary’s House was opened in October 2008 and has provided emergency shelter to more than 850 women, children and men, forever impacting their lives. More than 100 families have also received assistance from
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Pickens Rec Report
By Cheri Anthony
Pickens Recreation Director
canthony@pickenscity.com
I want to begin by thanking our youth football and cheerleading participants who came to Recreation Night at the Pickens High School football game against Travelers Rest. Also, special thanks to the parents for bringing your children and supporting our events.
I would also like to give a huge thank you to all the volunteers who made Super Saturday so successful. The weather was perfect, and it led to a fun day of festivities for all. Finally, I want to thank all the parents who were so supportive of the children and to our neighbors from Fountain Inn who came to play football.
I would like to commend the Spirit Queen participants for their efforts this year. The Spirit Queen contestants and their escorts were as follows: Ansley DeRossett was escorted by her brothers, Hunter and Caleb
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Land purchase will allow for Easley fire station expansion
By Jason Evans
Staff Reporter
jevans@thepccourier.com
EASLEY — A land purchase will allow for the expansion of one of Easley’s fire stations.
During a special called meeting Friday morning, city council members approved a resolution to acquire the property and home located at 1093 S. Pendleton St. for $260,000.
“This is the property located directly adjacent south to Station 1,” city administrator Stephen Steese said.
The renovation, addition and expansion of Station 1 is one of the projects that will be funded by a general obligation bond earlier approved by council.
The budget already contains $250,000 for the acquisition of property, Steese said.
“It’s going to be a little higher,” Steese said. “It’ll probably be about $15,000-$20,000 higher by the time we pay the dumping fees and close on the property.”
Steese is confident the overage can be recouped, possibly through changes in the expansion’s design.
Mayor Larry Bagwell and Easley fire chief Butch Womack have been in discussions with the homeowner for the past several months.
“If we don’t purchase the property, then we don’t do the expansion on
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Pickens police receive donation to help K-9
Pamela Dodson/Courier
The Hyco Fund, based in Anderson, recently donated a Hot-n-Pop system to the Pickens Police Department to install in the department’s K-9 car, which will help ensure the department’s K-9 officer, Zenia, doesn’t get too hot. Hyco started donating after Anderson County Sheriff’s Office deputy Brandon Surratt’s K-9 partner, Hyco, was killed in 2016. Surratt and his wife, Brittany, do a lot of work to help all K-9 programs in South Carolina. Pickens Police K-9 officer Jason Dutton and his K-9 counterpart Zenia met with the Surratt family on Monday to receive the system they had purchased. The organization’s goal is to help make every K-9 unit as safe as possible and the best they can be by offering the financial assistance to purchase items and training that may not be covered by their budgets. Pictured, from left, are Pickens Police chief Travis Riggs, Zenia, Dutton, the Surratts and their children, Adylen, Bryant and Ava.
PRA announces 2018-2019 Main Street Challenge
PICKENS — The Pickens Revitalization Association recently announced a new Main Street Challenge for 2018-2019.
The Main Street Challenge is an entrepreneurial start-up competition for 
the purpose of generating additional retail occupancy in Pickens. At the same time, it provides a means by which local, area and regional entrepreneurs can advance their desire to expand or open a new business.
For up to two winning entries, the Main Street Challenge program will offer two cash incentives in the amount of $5,000 or one cash incentive in the amount of $10,000 for start-up businesses, which must then open a new location in Pickens by
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What is the Thin Gold Line?
Many of you reading are probably familiar with “The Thin Blue Line” representing law enforcement and maybe even “The Thin Red Line” 
representing the fire department. Fewer are probably aware of “The Thin White Line” that represents emergency medical services, but I imagine even a smaller percentage are aware of “The Thin Gold Line” that holds all the others together.
The following has been provided by a former Pickens County 911 dispatcher, and just as they served behind the scenes and unseen, that is how they requested to remain.
“The Thin Gold Line represents an emergency telecommunicator, also known as a 911 dispatcher or a 911 call taker. Agencies may have different titles for these types of positions due to a person’s role in a communications center. For example, in some agencies a person can be both a 911 dispatcher and a 911 call taker. This is where an individual has the capability and training to answer a 911 emergency call and then notify (dispatch) first responders to the caller’s location. In larger agencies, there is usually a designated 911 call taker and a 911 dispatcher, which means the
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Courier Letters to the Editior 9-26-18
Proud of the efforts of our community
Dear Editor,
This past weekend I experienced, once again, the generosity and “goodness” of this community we live in. Hagood Mill has for many years had a wonderful fiddlers convention in September, but this year the newly formed nonprofit Hagood Mill Foundation decided to make it a weekend event with the competition, local artisan demonstrators, concerts, demonstrators, vendors and camping on site.
It turned out to be an extremely successful event, much because of the sponsors and volunteers at the event. Individual and business/corporate sponsors generously gave their money/in-kind items to help feed the more than 125 volunteers, loaned equipment/tents/furniture, helped decorate
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Helping seniors stay at home
Across the U.S. there are 296 communities in the AARP Network of Age-Friendly Communities. These represent 75 million people who live in areas 
that work to provide all that’s necessary to create livable communities for everyone, especially seniors.
AARP gives grants to these communities for specific efforts, such as to improve the walkability of downtowns, train volunteers in dementia programs, build raised planters in community gardens, create age-friendly trails and bike paths, and install key-code boxes outside the homes of elderly so EMTs can
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Getting your medals
Maybe all you wanted at the time was to get out, to leave the service and 
not look back. But now, with the passage of years, perhaps you want the medals you earned and never received.
If that’s you, there are steps you can take to get what you earned. The more time that’s passed, the more difficult it might be, but it can still be done, especially if you have your original paperwork.
Go online to vetrecs.archives.gov and click on Replacement Medals. You’ll
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‘Reads, Beats & Eats’
An evening of food, music and fun for literacy
EASLEY — United Way of Pickens County’s Women United is a community of women who are fiercely committed to improving the lives of children in Pickens County.
Whether advocating or fundraising for programs like Camp iRock and the newly created “Preschool Pages,” Women United is a powerful force for education.
On Thursday, Oct. 4, Women United will host “Reads, Beats & Eats,” an evening of food and music to support early childhood literacy in Pickens County. The event will be held at Sleepy Hollow Barn and Plantation at 220 Issaqueena Trail in Clemson from 6-9 p.m., with entertainment by Left Lane.
“This is not a women-only event,” said Jennifer Shurley, vice president of resource development at United Way of Pickens County. “Everyone is
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