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Community remembers former businessmen
Alfred Robinson, Don Bobo died last week
By Jason Evans
Staff Reporter
jevans@thepccourier.com
PICKENS — Two Pickens County communities were left heartbroken last week with the deaths of a pair of former local businessmen and community leaders.
In Easley, longtime businessman Alfred Robinson died Monday, Sept. 10, at age 89. Pickens, meanwhile, lost Don Bobo, the former owner of Bivens Hardware and a “pillar of the community” for decades, who died Friday, also at age 89.
“Easley meant so much to him,” Chris Robinson said of his father, who took over the family businesses, Robinson’s Department Store and Robinson Funeral Home, in 1953.
“He served literally generations of folks in the Upstate area,” Robinson said. “He knew so much about a lot of the families that we served.”
Alfred’s knowledge of local history “was vast,” Robinson said.
“Knowledge of the history of Easley was very important to him,” he said.
Rep. Davey Hiott agreed.
“He’s one of those people that when you talk about the city of Easley, his name comes up very quickly,” Hiott said. “It didn’t take long to go to Easley and know who Mr. Alf Robinson was. He was always a gentleman who was 
neatly dressed, very proper, always very polite. Whenever you went into the store or the funeral home, he was always the same. He’ll be missed in that community.”
In 1992, Alfred founded Robinson Memorial Gardens.
“He always wanted to achieve excellence, to continue to improve how we serve families at Robinson’s and the funeral homes,” Robinson said. “He loved to serve the public, and he treated them like family.”
Alfred was involved in a number of organizations throughout his life, including United Way of Pickens County, Easley Rotary Club, the State Chamber of Commerce, the Easley Chamber of Commerce, the Friends of the Library and the S.C. Funeral Service Board.
“He was a strong believer in community and in being active, in trying to
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Outdoor market set to benefit PCBDSN
PICKENS — Located at 101 Laurenwood Drive in Pickens, Looper’s Red Barn will host an outdoor market event on Sept. 22, with all proceeds going to benefit the Pickens County Board of Disabilities and Special Needs.
The funds will be used to help individuals with disabilities and their families.
The event is free and open to the public and will run from 9 a.m.-3 p.m. It
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Hagood Mill fiddling convention rescheduled
By Jason Evans
Staff Reporter
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PICKENS — Hurricane Florence spoiled plans for Hagood Mill Historic Site’s first-ever three-day Ole Time Fiddling Convention last weekend.
But the storm won’t ruin all the fun.
Originally scheduled for last Friday through Sunday, the conventional has been rescheduled for this Friday through Saturday.
There will be a $5 general admission fee to the site per person per day. There will be no charge for children 10 and under and no charge for parking.
This marks the 22nd year that the mill has hosted the convention, which
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Liberty bluegrass festival planned
LIBERTY — The Liberty Festivals and Events Committee and city of Liberty recently announced the Fall for Liberty Bluegrass Festival, scheduled for Saturday, Oct. 27, from 10 a.m.-3 p.m. in downtown Liberty.
The festival will provide a lineup of local Bluegrass bands.
Festival activities will include Upstate food trucks, craft and artisan vendors, a chili cook-off, children’s activities including inflatables, face
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More mosquito spraying unlikely in Easley
EASLEY — A second round of spraying for mosquitoes will likely not be necessary after a case of West Nile virus was reported in Easley this month.
Spraying occurred a little more than a week ago for the entire Easley area, and some of the surrounding area, after the South Carolina Department of Health and Environmental Control (DHEC) notified Easley and county officials of the West Nile case.
Officials held a press conference on Sept. 7 to alert people about the spraying.
Easley Fire Chief Butch Womack said Thursday that following the
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Liberty improv troupe to perform Friday
By Jason Evans
Staff Reporter
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LIBERTY — Liberty High School’s improv comedy troupe is set to perform its first show of the season on Friday night.
Walking Shadows director David Holland said the troupe is taking advantage of the fact Friday is an off day for football for most of the schools in the county.
“The show is called Off Day,” Holland said. “It’s a little bit of a play on that idea.”
The show will start at 7 p.m. Friday at Liberty High School.
“We’re going to have hip-hop artist Y back with us,” Holland said. “This is
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Porter reunion planned at Porter’s Chapel UMC
PICKENS — Descendants of Philip and Mary Smith Porter will meet for their annual reunion on Sunday, Oct. 7, at Porter’s Chapel United Methodist Church.
The church is located seven miles north of Pickens on E. Preston McDaniel Road off U.S. Highway 178. The gathering will start at noon, with lunch at
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Lady Flame are 10-0, 3-0 in Region play.
PICKENS — On Monday, September 10, the Pickens varsity
Lady Flame
volleyball team had an away match at Wren, where they defeated the Hurricanes 3-0 by scores of 7, 16, 12.
The Lady Flame, as a team served 96 percent, led by Kaylee Gillespie, Sydney Bolding and Ali Pace, 19, 17, and 12 respectively. Bolding led in the team in kills with 13, followed by Lexi Wierzbicki with 9 and Abigail Durham with seven.
Gillespie recorded 23 assists in the match. Wierzbicki recorded 14 digs, while Bailee Earnhardt had eight, Savannah Noblitt had 6 and Durham had 5. The PHS JV’s also defeated Wren
Battening down the hatches
As we waited last week for Hurricane Florence to make landfall, bringing threats of major devastation as a Category 4 storm, I thought back to the last hurricane of that strength to hit North Carolina — Hurricane Hazel in 1954.
I’m old enough to remember Hazel. We lived inland from the coast, and I was a first grader, but still, it isn’t something you ever forget.
We were all at school when Uncle Jack came to our classroom to get us. He picked up Gwynne, John, Matt and me and loaded us all into the pickup. We sat on top of each other in the front with him instead of riding in the back of the truck as we often did as a group.
The rain was coming down in sheets, and trees were going down before our
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Veteran services get major boost
More than $536 million in grants has been authorized for services to veterans and their families.
One award, which will help low-income veteran families getting benefits 
from the Supportive Services for Veteran Families (SSVF) program, will give out $326 million. That money will go to 252 non-profit organizations around the country that help veterans and their families find stable housing situations. Services will include outreach and case management for health care, legal support, child care, a fiduciary, transportation and more.
Last year this same fund provided housing services to more than 129,000
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