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THE TIMES AND DEMOCRAT WWW.THETANDD.COM Su NDA A 17, 2015 A7 STATE LOCAL John W. Jones (June) Jr Funeral Services for Mr. John W. Jones (June) 85, of 38 Mockingbird Lane, Orangeburg, will be held at 11 a.m Monday May 18, 2015, at Simmons Funeral Home of Orangeburg Chapel with Bishop Bobby Jones officiating. Burial will follow in Belle ville Memorial Gardens.

Mr. Jones died Wednesday, May 13,2015. Friends may call at the residence of his daughter, Mrs. Dor othy J. Boneparte, 125 Dorothy Lane, Cameron SC 29030 or Simmons Funeral Home of Orangeburg.

Visitation will be held Sunday, May 17 2015, from 2 p. m. to 8 p. m. at Simmons Funeral Home of Orangeburg.

Condolences may be sent to www. simmonsfuneralhome.com. OBITUARIES Christy Darlene Warren Bull Christy Darlene Warren Bull, wife of Capers B. Bull of Cameron entered into heavenly rest after a courageous battle with cancer on Frida May 16, 2015. Born in West Columbia, she was the daughter of the late oseph Darley Warren and the late Tracy Hensley Warren.

She was a member of Faith Lutheran Church in West olumbia where she was active in the church choir. She was formerly a member of Trinity Lutheran Church of Elloree and First Baptist Church of Orangeburg where her husband ser ved as organist. Christy was a wonderful wife and especially good cook and will be emembered for her lavish church meals and creative decorations for church social functions. She enjoyed her Facebook time communicating with friends and family. She was a former telephone operator with Southern Bell, former proprietor of a health store, Abundant Living in Orangeburg, and secr etary with The Regional Medical Center.

Survi vors include her husband of the home; brother Randy (B eth) Warren of West Columbia; brother-in- law David (Faye) Bull of Orangeburg; and sister-in-law Donna (Barr y) Wiles of West Columbia as well as several nieces and nephews. A Memorial Service will be held at Faith Lutheran Church, 1717 Platt Springs Road, West Columbia on Wednesday, May 20, 2015 at 11 a.m. The amily will greet friends in the church fellowship hall an hour before the ser vice at 10 a.m. Duk es- Harley Funeral Home Crematory of Orangeburg will be assisting the amily. Memorials may made to Faith Lutheran Church, 1717 Platt Springs Road, West Columbia, 29169.

Online condolenc es may be expressed at www.dukeshar leyfuneralhome.com. Willie Lee Milhouse Deacon Willie Lee Milhouse, 52, of 164 Bowser Driv Neeses, passed away Saturday, May 16, 2015, in Columbia. Funeral plans will be announced by W.B. Crumel Funeral Home of North. Friends ma call at the residence and the funeral home.

Jacob Pauling Mr. Jacob Pauling, 71, of Orangeburg, passed away Friday, May 15, 2015, at the Regional Medical Center in Orang eburg. Funeral Plans will be announced by W.B. Crumel Funeral Home of North. Friends ma call at the residence and the funeral home.

Jessie Willie Dickerson Jessie Willie Dickerson, 61, of 44 Catalina Denmark, died Saturday, May 16, 2015 at his residence. Funeral services will be announced at a later date by the Carroll ortuary of Bamberg. Friends may call at the home of the daughter Tamika Dickerson, 130 Flake Road, Orangeburg. Darrell Elliott Sr Deacon Darrell Elliott 55, of 2484 Landsdown Road, Bowman, passed away Friday afternoon, May 15, 2015, while at MU SC in Charleston following an extended illness. Funeral plans will be announced later by Funeral Home.

Online condolenc es may be made to Friends may call at the residence of his mother, Mrs. Yv onne Elliott, 2470 Landsdown Road, Bowman, between the hours of 6 and 8 p.m. daily, and at Funeral Home in Orangeburg. Special to the The second annual Midlands Gives Day, presented by the entral Carolina Community Foundation on May 5, raised $64,685 for Orangeburg and Calhoun counties. Midlands Gi ves is a 24- hour local online giving challenge that brings the region together as one community to raise money and a wareness for local nonprofits.

This year, the 17 organizations from Orangeburg and Calhoun Counties that participated were as follows: Calhoun County First Step Catch the Vision International; Child Evangelism Fellowship of S.C. Orang eburg; Community of Character of Orangeburg County; DAZZ-Lowcountry Pregnancy Center; Downtown Orangeburg Revitalization Association; Edisto Habitat or Humanity Elloree Heritage Museum Cultural Center; Junior Service League of Orangeburg; He aling Species; Maude Schiffley Chapter of SPCA; Orangeburg County Fine Arts Center; Orangeburg County First Steps; Orangeburg Preparatory School; Or angeburg-Calhoun Free Medical Clinic; Orangeburg- Calhoun Technical College; and Samaritan House of Orangeburg Inc. In addition to donor gift nonprofit organizations were awarded prizes and bonus pools of funds based on random drawings, interactive contests and support fr om the public throughout the day. The Community Foundation of Orangeburg and Calhoun Counties provided a $7, 500 bonus pool. Eligible organizations received a proportional share based on the amount rais ed by the nonprofit.

Calhoun County First Step was awarded the Calhoun County prize with 20 donations tot aling $1,000. Local nonprofits benefit from Midlands Gives BRUCE SMITH Associated Press CHARLESTON It will be a poignant scene on Friday when the new season of the internationally renowned Spoleto Festi val USA opens with a brass fanfare and speeches on the steps of Charleston City Hall. It will be the last time that Mayor Joseph P. Riley who helped bring Spoleto to Charleston almost fo ur decades ago, proclaims the opening of the performing arts festival that runs through une 7. Riley, who has served as mayor longer than anyone in 345-year history, retires at the end of the ye ar.

Riley helped convince Gian Carlo Menotti to establish the festival in Charleston in 1977 as a companion to the enowned Festival of Two Worlds in Spoleto, Italy. the Spoleto Festival USA would not have happened without Mayor said igel Redden, general director. without question the festi al would have collapsed at various times in it history without Mayor Riley, now 72, was elected mayor only 18 months before the first Spoleto was staged. He knew that Menotti, who died in 2007, was looking for an American city to stage a companion to his Italian festival. Char leston it was love at fight sight and he found Charleston appealing and understood it would be the perfect Riley recalled, saying his job was to marshal local support.

was concern about this being too ambitious for Charleston and getting involved in a large activity in a for eign country and whether it would be an economic the mayor added. job was to work through all that and persist and to not let it Riley says he never doubted it would work that mean there anxious moments and wondering whether anyone would show up for the first The mayor said Charleston, with its historic buildings and quiet gardens and alle ys, proved the perfect locale. was a plac where the festival could become part of the community and the community could become part of the festival and it be he said. this festival would work any place in America, then it would work in So is Spoleto the greatest legacy of a man who has ov erseen a renaissance in Charleston during four decades as mayor? hard to Riley said. am proud of so many achie vements.

for the citizens or those who write the history of the city to This 39th Spoleto season includes the world premiere of the contempo rary opera directed and designed by Jennifer Wen Ma, who orked on the opening and closing ceremonies for the 2008 Beijing Olympics. Spoleto is also staging for the first time in America and the first time in more than 350 years composer Francesco baroque opera the Amazon of First performed in 1652, the story of the Spanish sieg of a Moorish fortress on the Rock of Gibraltar. Among other performances, the London-based acting comp any, Globe, performs a new pr oduction of and while the Sc ottish Ballet presents its adaptation of Tennessee Streetcar Named Emmylou Harris performs with country artist Rodne Crowell while the jazz program is headlined by Grammy-winner Dianne Reeves. Riley to raise curtain on his final Spoleto AP In this Sept. 4, 2014, photo, Mayor Joseph P.

Riley Jr. poses outside his office in City Hall in Charleston. On May 22, Riley, who is retiring at the end of the year, will open his final Spoleto Festival USA as mayor on the porch in front of the building. Riley was instrumental in convincing the late composer Gian Carlo Menotti to establish the arts festival in Charleston nearly 40 years ago. Coast Guard brings ruise passenger to S.C.

for treatment CHARLESTON (AP) A man is receiving medical treatment in Charleston after being brought by a Coast Guard helicopter from a cruise ship 45 miles off the South Carolina coast. A Coast Guard news release says that the man suffered a hip and leg injury aboard the cruise ship Disney Magic and that the Coast Gu ard was notified about 5 a. m. Saturday. A helicopter from the Coast Guard Air Facility in Charleston was dispatched to the sh ip and the passenger was hoisted aboard.

The 29-year-old man, who was not identified, is in sta ble condition at the Medical Un iversity of South Carolina in Charleston. More arrests in dr ive-by slaying in N. Charleston NORTH CHARLESTON, S.C. (AP) North Charleston police have made additional arrests in the drive-by shooting death of a mother of th ree on Day. Police tell local media outlets that 20-year-old Richard Si mmons of North Charleston was arrested Friday ni ght.

charged with murder, four counts of attempted murder and possession of a firearm during the commission of a violent crime. It wa not known if he had an attorney. Authorities allege Simmons was one of several people in a vehicle from which shots were fired that killed 36-year- old Kedena Brown. Police think the shooters mistook her car for another that had earlier been involved in a shootout with them. A 15-year-old juvenile was earlier charged with murder and other counts while a 24-year-old woman is charged with providing misleading statements to police.

Ga. man shot in dies AIKEN (AP) A Georgia man who was shot earlier this month in Aiken has died and police are investigating the death as a homicide. Aiken police tell local media outlets that 21-year- old Darius Scruggs of Augusta died Friday morning at Ge orgia Regents Hospital. He had suffered a gunshot wound to the head in a May 9 incident. Police responded to a burglary at a home in Aiken that day and found Scruggs with a gunshot wound.

No arrests have yet been made in the shooting. Of cials track leads man who shot deputy MONCKS CORNER (AP) While an intensive ground search has ended, authorities continue to track leads in the search for a man who shot and wounded a deputy at a Moncks Corner gas station. Dozens of law enforcement agents searched an ar ea south of Moncks Corner through the day Friday for the man who wounded Berkeley County Lt. Will Rogers late Thursday night. Au thorities tell local media outlets they have several leads and are pursuing tips that have come in since the shooting.

More than 50 officers and two helicopters participated in the Friday search. Ro gers was in critical condition following surgery Friday at the Medical University of South Carolina. Authorities say the shooter, wearing a mask, shot the deputy before hijacking a car that was found abandoned about two hours later. CHARLESTON (AP) The head of the South Carolina Ports Authority says low- sulfur fuel and scrubber in cruise ship smokestacks negate the need for electric pow er provided from shore while the ships are in port. The Post and Courier reported a new Charleston city tourism plan ays the ports will continue the dialogue on bringing shore power to the city.

Opponents of the expanded cruise industry want shi ps to use shore power in stead of burning fuel while in dock. But Jim Ne wsome, the president and CEO of the Ports Authority, says the low- sulfur fuel and scrubbers have made the air quality improvements promised by shore pow er obsolete. He says it will cost an additional $20 million for shore pow er at a planned cruise terminal that itself is expected to co st $35 million. power has really been rendered as a last-gen eration solution at most major ports Newsome told the city council last Tuesday before the tourism plan was adopted. Newsome said that ultra- low sulfur fuel is mandatory for ships in and visiting the United States and scrubbers in cruise smokestacks help reduce emissions and trap soot.

The Carnival Fantasy, which is based in Charleston, is expected to have the scrubbers installed this fall. The Carniv al Ecstasy, which re places it next year, already has the scrubber s. But environmentalists say using shore power will make the air cleaner. power is a proven way to reduce air pollution from ships, and would deliver more reductions for Charleston than scrubber propo Katie Zimmerman of the South Carolina Coastal Conservation League told the newspaper. best combination would be shore power and scrubber Ports head: Scrubbers, new fuel negate shore power need SOUTH CAROLINA Read obituaries online at TheTandD.

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