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TUESDAY, AUGUST 30, 2011 THE TIMES AND DEMOCRAT WWW.THETANDD.COM. LOCAL STATE Velina K. Jones Memorial services for Mrs. Velina K. Jones, 54, of 905 Water Spring Road, Orangeburg, will be held at 4 p.m.

Wednesday, Aug. 31, 2011, at Union Chapel Baptist Church, 1729 Coulter Road, Orangeburg, with the Rev. James Tucker officiating. Mrs. Velina Myra King Jones, the daughter of Manasas and the late Violet Esau King, was born on Nov.

16, 1957, in Orangeburg County. She departed this life on Saturday, Aug. 27. She was preceded in death by her husband, retired Sgt. 1st Class Thomas Jones, son Thomas M.

Jones and brother David Esau. Myra attended the public schools of Orangeburg, graduating from OrangeburgWilkinson High School and later from Orangeburg -Calhoun Technical College. She worked many years in 1 Orangeburg Consolidated School District Five and was a devoted educator. A firm believer of loving the Lord, she was a member of both Union Chapel Baptist and Emancipation Missionary Baptist Church, where she served God and devoted her time to service. Myra loved her family and was a devoted daughter, wife, mother and sister.

She spent much of her time caring for and supporting her family members. She leaves to cherish her loving daughter, Jessica Jones (Cedric) Fairbanks of Lexington; a brother, Willie Esau of Orangeburg; a sister, O. Patricia (Carl) McCormick of Blythewood; her dear 95-year-old aunt, Jessie Jamison; a loving friend, Queenie Aiken of Orangeburg; several aunts, Annie M. Ross, Joella Gladden and Aldonia Sansom; sistersin-law, Marie Kirkland, Leola Heatley and Calvin (Mary) Jones; and a host of other relatives and friends. Friends may call at Glover's Funeral Home in Orangeburg.

Online condolences may be made at www.gloversfuneralhome.com. Ethel Mae Donaldson Ethel Mae Donaldson, 87, of 601 Dantzler St. Matthews, died Monday, Aug. 29, 2011, at Calhoun Convalescent, Center in St. Matthews.

Funeral arrangements are incomplete and will be announced by Simmons Funeral Home of Orangeburg. Friend may call at the residence of her son, Robert Donaldson, 695 Edisto Orangeburg, or the funeral home. Alfred Spann Alfred Spann, 77, of 228 Abraham Lane, Cross, died Monday, Aug. 29, 2011, at Bon Secours St. Francis Hospital in Charleston.

Friends may call at Eutawville Community Funeral Home. Happy Birthday In Heaven, Dad Clarence Roberts Sunrise: Sunset: Sadly missed by your children The Times and Democrat (USPS 630-240) Published every morning by Lee Publications, a division of Lee Enterprises, 1010 Broughton Orangeburg, S.C. Periodical class postage paid at Orangeburg, S.C. Postmaster: Send address changes to The Times and Democrat, PO. Drawer 1766, Orangeburg, S.C.

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All carriers, dealers and distributors of The Times and Democrat are independent contractors. Advance payments for subscriptions may be made directly to The Times and Democrat as agent. No responsibility for advance payments is assumed by the newspaper until the money is received at the office. The Times and Democrat is a member of the Audit Bureau of Circulations. Mary Katherine Kennerly Berry Mary Katherine Kennerly Berry, 74, of Neeses, died Sunday, Aug.

28, 2011, at her residence. Funeral services will be held at 11 a.m. Wednesday, Aug. 31, at Homeward Bound Ministries, with the Rev. Henry Judy officiating.

Burial will follow in Lebanon United Methodist Church cemetery. The family will receive friends from 6 to 8 p.m. Tuesday, Aug. 30, at Dukes- -Harley Funeral Home in Orangeburg. Berry was born in Orangeburg, a daughter of the late Tommye Kennerly and Hilda Fanning Kennerly.

She was a 1 member of Lebanon United Methodist Church and attended Homeward Bound Ministries. Mrs. Berry was the widow of James Lee "Jimmy" Berry. Survivors include a son, Al Berry and wife Teresa of Neeses; a granddaughter, LeeAnn Berry of Neeses; and special friends Elaine Porter, Shirley Fanning and Margaret Fogle. Memorials may be made to Homeward Bound Ministries, 422 Judyville Road, Norway, SC 29113.

Please sign the family's online guestbook at www.dukesharleyfuneralhome.com. Robert' Bobby' Walker Robert "Bobby" Walker, 48, of 244 Patrick Loop, Orangeburg, died on Friday, Aug. 26, 2011, at his residence. Funeral plans are incomplete and will be announced by Allendale Community Funeral Home. Friends may call at the residence of his daughter, Stefania Odom, 2904 Highway 278, Barnwell, and the funeral home.

Joan Elise Braack Joan Elise Braack, 68, of Bamberg, died Monday morning, Aug. 29, 2011, at the Regional Medical Center in Orangeburg. The family will receive friends from 6 to 8 p.m. Wednesday, Aug. 31, at Dukes- -Harley Funeral Home in Orangeburg.

Henry Issac Henry Issac, 62, of 123 Elvin Drive, Santee, died Sunday, Aug. 28, 2011. Friends may call at Eutawville Community Funeral Home. Wire reports Tourism industry reassures potential visitors CHARLESTON South Carolina's $14 billion tourism industry worked Monday to make sure potential visitors know the state emerged unscathed from its brush with Hurricane Irene and don't cancel Labor Day plans to visit. Although final numbers aren't in yet, visitation was down along the South Carolina coast last weekend as Irene skimmed past the state.

There was some beach erosion, scattered street flooding and power was out for a time in places. The storm crashed ashore in the Outer Banks early Saturday and by late in the day, things were mostly normal again on the South Carolina coast. But officials are concerned that potential visitors may not know it. The Myrtle Beach Area Chamber of Commerce has extended its Alice O'Neal Gooding Mrs. Alice O'Neal Gooding, of 2786 Concord Church Road, Allendale, died Sunday, Aug.

28,2011, at University Hospital in Augusta, Ga. Martin Funeral Home Chapel of Allendale is in charge of arrangements. Elizabeth V. Brown Mrs. Elizabeth V.

Brown, of 436 Ellis Allendale, died Saturday, Aug. 27, 2011, at her residence. Martin Funeral Home in Allendale is in charge of arrangements. Catherine Elmore Watson Ms. Catherine Elmore Watson, 69, of St.

George, died Thursday, Aug. 25, 2011, at Trident Medical Center in Charleston. Funeral service will be held at 2 p.m. Tuesday, Aug. 30, at St.

Phillip Christian Church, 6566 Badham Drive, Reevesville. Burial will be in Brown Chapel Cemetery. Survivors include a brother, James (Ruby) Elmore; a sister, Marie (Allen) Simmons; and an aunt, Frances Jenkins. All arrangements are entrusted to Brown Son Funeral Home in St. George.

James T. Smoak T. Smoak, 92, of 2626 Carver School Road, Cope, died Friday, Aug. 26, 2011, at his residence. The service will be held at 11a.m.

Wednesday, Aug. 31, at Good Shepherd Mausoleum at Crestlawn Memorial Gardens in Orangeburg, with the Rev. James Preveaux and the Rev. Brian Self officiating. He was born Jan.

21, 1919, in Orangeburg County, the son of the late Otis Smoak Sr. and the late Emma Hayden Smoak. He was preceded in death by two sons, Wocky Smoak and Jim Smoak. Survivors include his wife, Mrs. Billie E.

Thompson Smoak of the home; a daughter, Mrs. Don (Kathy) Hennings of Panama City, two stepchildren, Ray Salmons of Cordova and Bob Salmons of Campbell, four grandchildren; five great -grandchildren; two step- grandchildren; and a sister, Lois Dillon of Orangeburg. SOUTH CAROLINA summer ad campaign for another week to reassure visitors, said Brad Dean, the chamber's president and CEO. AG endorses GOP presidential hopeful Huntsman COLUMBIA Republican presidential candidate Jon Huntsman said Monday he believes his mainstream conservative message will resonate with voters in early-voting South Carolina, as he touted an endorsement from the state's attorney general. Attorney General Alan Wilson said he's backing Huntsman because he likes his record over his two terms as governor of Utah and because he was ambassador to China and earlier to Singapore.

It is vitally important that the next president understand China and the trickiness of dealing with that rising world power, he said. Wilson said he's also supporting Huntsman because he believes he's a conservative who can Bridgette C.A. Parker My Garden of Prayer My garden beautifies my yard and adds fragrance to the air. But it is also my cathedral and my quiet place of prayer. So little do we realize i that the glory and the power of He who made the universe lies hidden in the flower.

I see the beautiful green of your eyes in the dew drops on the soft rose petals. The fragrance of your hair fills the early morning air, the love and memories of you fill our hearts FOREVER. Yes, Bridgette, you were OUR FLOWER A BEAUTIFUL ROSE. On this your 23rd Birthday We wish you a HAPPY BIRTHDAY IN HEAVEN August 30, 1988 (DOB) February 2, 2003 (DOD) Your Family Nana, Barbara, Daddy, Delandis, Avian, Ryan, Frank Brian 'a Parker, Aunts, Uncles Cousins POLICE REPORTS Two men robbed at gunpoint after taking food to woman Orangeburg County Sheriff's Office Staff Report An Orangeburg County man said he and a buddy were robbed at gunpoint Friday night after taking a meal to an acquaintance. Theman, 18, said a female friend called around 5p.m.

asking if he would bring her a plate of food in Holly Hill. After delivering the food, he went into the bathroom and, as he did, he heard what sounded like the cocking of a gun, the man said. Heturned to see "a black male with dreadlocks holding a black in color handgun with brown handles," the report said. At that point, another subject entered the room and stated, "Ya'll getting robbed," the report said. The armed pair then took line man's $21, his baseball cap and his Timberline boots and made him take off his shorts.

A man accompanying the first victim was robbed ofhis book bag, birth certificate, cologne and deodorant. The gunmen also took the victims' cell phones and said they would have to pay them $200 a week to get them back. The case was turned over to the OCSO investigative division. In other reports: An Orangeburg man said he was assaulted at a Santee nightclub after being accused of taking video of a dancer early Saturday. The man, 24, said he was at the Gentleman's Club at around 2 a.m.

when a security guard sprayed him with pepper spray. He said the guard approached him in the parking lot and asked him about the video. When he said he didn't have a video, he was sprayed in the face, the report said. The security guard, however, said he saw a patron videotaping a man while he was getting a lap dance from a dancer. The guard said he told him no taping was allowed in the club.

The report noted the dancer told the guard she and the patron were being videotaped. The guard then approached the Orangeburg man in the parking lot, asking to see his phone to see if it contained a video. He said the man, however, tossed his phone inside his car and said he didn't have a phone. When the man then approached the guard, the guard sprayed him, the report said. A Triangle Street woman said her daughter's boyfriend was making threats because she wouldn't allow him to sleep at her residence.

She said the 20-year-old male rode up to her home on a bicycle on Aug. 19, accusing her of calling the police on him about an assault. She said he threatened to burn down her house. The woman said the man was angry because she wouldn't allow him to stay overnight with her daughter. Orangeburg Department of Public Safety A Calhoun County man's stolen car was recovered Friday afternoon after it was reportedly involved in a police chase.

A tow truck driver called police to report a man was trying to pick up a car being stored at his facility. He told an officer the car had been towed from John C. Calhoun Drive last Wednesday after it was abandoned by its driver who had eluded police. The tow truck driver said he wanted officers present when the alleged owner of the vehicle came to get the 1999 Ford Crown Victoria. Officers obtained the name of the Cameron man who actually owned the car from the DMV.

The Ford had been reported stolen on Thursday. The officers asked the man who tried to claim the car for his registration and vehicle information, and he said it should be inside the car. Police asked him where, but he said he wasn't sure. The car was not released. The Calhoun County vehicle owner was contacted, and the Ford was removed from NCIC.

LAC director died suddenly Saturday Thomas J. Bardin director of the South Carolina Legislative Audit Council, died suddenly Saturday, Aug. 27, in Beaufort. The cause of death is pending, according to Beaufort County Coroner Ed Allen. An autopsy was performed at the Medical University South Carolina but results are not available yet, he said.

Bardin, a resident of Columbia, was visiting in Beaufort. His wife found him in the driveway of his mother's home around 10 a.m. Saturday morning, Allen said. She called emergency services, which responded, and Bardin was placed on advanced life support. He was transported to a Beaufort hospital where he was pronounced dead at 11:56 a.m., Allen said.

In a Monday news release, Legislative Audit Council Chairman Philip Laughridge said Bardin had a knowledge of state government that would "remain unmatched for years to Staff Report appeal broadly to voters in the general election against President Barack Obama. Ex-boyfriend charged in death of USC professor COLUMBIA Columbia police say a man has been charged with murder in the stabbing death of his ex-girlfriend, who was an education professor at the University of South Carolina. Investigators said 37-year-old Hank Hawes was arrested Sunday at a hospital after a suicide attempt, several hours after officers found the body of 36-year-old Jennifer Wilson. Officers first went to Wilson's home early Sunday morning after a neighbor reported a loud argument. Wilson's doors were locked and officers didn't notice anything unusual, so they left.

Another concerned neighbor called around 11 a.m. Sunday, and officers then found Wilson's body. Police say Hawes and Wilson once dated but were no longer together. Hawes is being held in the Richland County jail. It wasn't clear if he had an attorney.

In Loving Memory Of Ella McDougle Sunrise: 12-26-1920 Sunset: 8-30-2002 You are missed and loved more and more with each passing day, but god knows best. We love you, You are the best mother anyone could ever have. Your son, Arnold, Earlene, Shelia, Grands and Great-Grand come. His professional passion was protecting the interests of the citizens of South Carolina and ensuring that government agencies were functioning on their behalf," Longridge said. "If ever a job was made for one person, this job was for Tom Bardin," he said.

After earning his master's degree in public administration from the University of South Carolina in 1979, Bardin went to work at the LAC where he served in various capacities. He also spent some years working for the South Carolina Department of Social Services before being appointed director of the LAC in 2009. Bardin, a 54-year-old native of Beaufort, is survived by his wife, Angie Dixon Bardin; his mother, Eloise Webb Bardin; a son, Thomas Joseph (Tripp) Bardin III and a daughter, Jill Bardin Christmus, who is married to Nathan Christmus. The LAC on Monday announced the appointment of George L. Schroeder as interim director of the council.

Schroeder served as director of the council from 1975 to 2009. Haley announces renaming of S.C. workforce centers COLUMBIA (AP) Gov. Nikki Haley on Monday touted a rebranding of more than 50 centers that serve the unemployed in South Carolina, saying the shift is part of her efforts to tackle the state's high jobless rate. The announcement of the change from SC One Stop to SC Works comes after the July unemployment rate increased to 10.9 percent, tying as thirdworst nationwide.

A local consulting firm was hired to come up with the new brand, and a marketing campaign of the new SC Works image began Monday with TV commercials statewide, said John Finan, outgoing director of the state Department of Employment and Workforce. Haley said the centers must focus on matching the unemployed with open positions. The biggest immediate change is that the unemployed will undergo an assessment when they initially file for jobless benefits. Fairwell said that assessment will immediately determine their job skills and potential training opportunities, rather than being asked to come back later for that. DEADLINES IN MEMORIAMS BIRTHDAY ADS Publication Date Deadline MONDAY 10AM TUESDAY NOON WEDNESDAY NOON THURSDAY NOON FRIDAY NOON SATURDAY NOON SUNDAY NOON The Times and Democrat Cox CEO heads job training programs Gov.

Haley also announced a change in the board that oversees the federally funded job training programs offered at the centers. She says half of the board's 31 members are from the business community, rather than 30 percent, and led by Michael Johnson, CEO of Cox Industries in Orangeburg. The first meeting of the new board appointed by Haley is in September. The former board last met in January. The board normally meets at least once quarterly.

If people apply for benefits online, as a new Web site allows, they will be asked to come in for the assessment, she said. Haley also announced South Carolina has begun repaying the $963 million the state borrowed from the federal government to cover jobless benefits amid chronically high unemployment rates and the economic downturn. Haley signed a letter to the Labor Department on Friday paying back $115 million. In November, $68 million will be paid back, Finan said. In Loving Memory Of Alfred Busby Happy Birthday Memories are all we have left to carry from day to day, but in our hearts you will always stay.

Sadly missed by, mother, father, sisters brothers.