The Index-Journal from Greenwood, South Carolina • Page 2

in 2 A January 20,2002 Greenwood. Lakelands SC Elected officials cloudy on right to play lottery "We made the lottery legal so why would something be criminal if it's legal." Carnell saki 1 don't see how you can convict opinion. If it's going for education, than why shouldn't public officials be allowed to contribute?" Holmes said he thinks having a referendum would be an unnecessary expense and believes lawmakers should settle the matter in By STEVEN REYNOLDS Index-Journal staff writer The state Constitution might have to be altered one more tin to allow elected and appointed officials a chance to take part in the South Carolina Education Lottery. Attorney General Charlie Condon said state officials are prohibited from ploying the lottery. "I guess the twortunity will ANNE PARKS be given to those who want to play the lottery." said Rep, Anne Parks.

D-Greenwood. "I haw no I3h 1 don't want it to be a question." Scott saki "I just want to clean up the language so one part of the Constitution is not in violation of another part of the Constitution." Condon said. "Public officials from governor to magistrate could kxse trieir positions by playing the lottery" He said a section of the Constitution forbids anyone holding an "office of honor, trust or profit" from gambling or betting on games of chance. Condon said that prohibition is not limited to elected officials, but also includes appointed members of commissions, law enforcement and court officials, and others. There are literally thousands of elected and appointed officeholders in South Carolina and each and every one is prohibited by the Constitution from playing the state lottery." Condon said "I thought the opinion was not correct.

Scott saki. Greenwood Mayor Floyd Nicholson said he's not interested in playing the lottery, but doesn't understand why it should be illegal for public officials. "If a government official wanted to support education by playing the lottery, mat should be his or her choke," Nicholson saki School District SO Board Chairman W.T. Holmes said he exercised his choice by playing the lottery, and won SI "I think that's ridiculous," he said of the attorney general's Federal grant will fund equipment for Greenwood fire department the legislature, "They need to clarify it." he said. Rep.

Marion Carnell. D-Ware Shoals, said he won't play the tottery, but thinks that public officials should be allowed the MARION CARNELL chance. iH COLUMBIA A Greenwood County fire department was awarded a cash grant for fire protection equipment. The grant is from federal fire protection funds administered by the S.C. Forestry Commission.

Epworth-Phoenix Fire Department was selected to receive money under the national Volunteer Fire Assistance Program. The grant provides partial reimbursement for certain equipped expenditures already made during the year. Epworth-Phoenix was awarded a $7(X) grunt. The locul lire department was selected in competition with fire departments ucross the state. Applications are evaluated by 9 desire to play the lottery." The opportunity to allow elected or appointed state officials to play the lottery might have to be decided by a statewide referendum, according to Rep.

John Scott D-Columhia. Scott introduced a resolution in the House last week that would allow a referendum on the issue. A referendum was needed two years ago to allow voters to decide whether the Constitution should allow for the state-sponsored lottery. Scott said his resolution is designed to simply "clear up mixed messages that were brought about when voters amended the state Constitution to allow for the South Carolina Education Lottery. a point system that compares the existing level of protection to the community's actual fire protection needs.

Criteria include population density, local funding levels, wildland fire training and responsibility, and the protection rating assigned by the national Insurance Services Organization, Forestry Commission grant coordinator Larry Barr said. Statewide, the program provides more than $70,000 to help fire departments purchase communications equipment, breathing apparatus, fire hose and nozzles, water tanks, pumps and protective clothing. About 100 fire departments were funded this year. intelligence gathers and analyzes information in the wake of last year's terrorist attacks. "In my judgment, one of the errors of military intelligence is believing that there's one solution or answer to the questions," Chu said.

"1 think the big failure was we didn't see the pattern leading up to Sept. II." Also on the panel was former Navy Secretary John Dalton and retired Army Brig. Gen. Evelyn Foote. Foote agrees the military's intelligence gathering needs to be improved.

"It seemed we relied too much on signal (electronic) intelligence and not enough on human intelligence," she said. "It seemed like every time we went on an exercise, the intelligence was pretty shabby." Chu expects the war on terror to be a lengthy affair, with reservists serving on active duty possibly for a year or more because the number of service members on active duty has declined from 2.2 million in 1989 to about 1.4 million now, out a gun and struck him with it. The man told the deputy that one of the people, a woman, came to get some personal items from the apartment Reports said the man was forced to stay in a bedroom until the two left the apartment. Secretary of Navy, defense official both visit military sites in state Stall photo by St Clalrt Bum Manor of Greenwood, takes time out to dance with resident Andy Smith. Got those dancin feet Jean Harbin, activities director at Magnolia student takes poetry show on road someone of it "The Constitution says that public officials cannot gamble and.

if so. they will lose their office." said Rep. Jim Klauber. R-Greenwood. "I feel certain a JIM KLAUBER court of compe- tent jurisdiction will end up detent lining this matter." Maya Holluishtad contributed tothisstort Teen killed in two-car collision From staff reports GREENWOOD An 18-year-old is dead after a two-car collision near Ninety Six on S.C.

34 Saturday. The Greenwood County Coroner's office identified the victim as Miguel Angil Pioquantoc, of Newberry. Highway Patrol spokesman Lance Cpl. Jeff Daniels said the car Pioquantoc was driving was headed toward Ninety Six just before 3 p.m. when Pioquantoc reportedly lost control and swerved into the adjacent lane.

The car collided with a van driven by a Susan Yandell, 51, of Hodges, Daniels said. Pioquantoc died at the scene, Daniels said. Yandell was wearing a seat-belt, Daniels said, but it's unknown whether Pioquantoc was wearing a seatbelt mask, you're saying we disguise the person we are?" a female student asks. "Yes." "When you were talking about Ashley and saying you stared at a wall and started to weep, was the weeping on a personal level, or more on a principle level?" a mole student asks. Personal, he says.

He cried because he hurt. "Have you ever been in love?" "Do you really dance in the street?" "What is your dream?" Bundick wants to be a youth minister. youth," he said. "We're the most opinionated, awkward ducks floating around. We're just a bunch of odd ducks." He knows, he says.

He is one. Within an hour this 17-year-old "duck" has turned a high school classroom into a place where openness and honesty seem possible even desirable. How must that feel? "I don't think I'm able to do that," he says, gazing nowhere in particular. "I think people want the opportunity to talk. Just being honest gives them the chance." replaced.

ml 66 Us youth. We're the most opinionated, awkward ducks floating around. We're just a bunch of odd ducks. John Bundick, high school senior, poetry reciter 99 BEAUFORT (AP) The best way for a community to keep its military bases open is support the installations, Secretary of the Navy Gordon Eng-lund says. England and Under Secretary of Defense for Personnel and Readiness David Chu made separute visits to the state Friday.

England was touring Marine Corps Recruit Depot Parris Island, while Chu was at a panel discussion at The Citadel led by former U.S. Ambassador Phil Lader. "The people of the community are vitully important wherever we have our buses," England said. England said there would be no additional base closings until 2005. "That's a few years off, and who knows what the world will be like in 2005? Our bases are very important to us, and we don't have much excess in the U.S.

Navy and Marine Corps." At the panel discussion in Charleston, Chu said the U.S. must reconsider how its military Man says he was struck with gun High school HILTON HEAD ISLAND (AP) The guest speaker kneels at the level of the classroom desks. He pulls his clinched fist toward his beard, wanting you to hear really hear the powerful words. "I know," he says, holding your gaze. "I KNOW why the caged bird SINGS." He's like the professor you always wanted.

He hears the muffled song deep inside you the one that gets drowned out by all of the competing noises of high school. He knows the caged bird yours and his. He's 17. John Bundick recites African-American poetry to a classroom of students at Hilton Head High School on Friday. He started Thursday, and has spoken in a dozen classes so far.

He's a senior at Columbus North High School in Indiana. This is his senior project Bundick's project mentor in Columbus is the mother of Jessica Sturgii, a teacher at Hilton Head High. The mentor suggested he take his show on the road, and here he is. for a year starting in March 1997. The drugs were made in dirty laboratories and improperly mixed by people who lacked proper training, prosecutors said.

To avoid detection by the U.S. Food and Drug Administration, Perry bought similar generic products made by other manufactures, put them in his bottles, then shipped them off to be tested. said Police thought they had the suspect, identified as 28-year-old Lewis CuUunan, cornered Saturday night in a bouse under construction near where the officer was shot The person inside the home was threatening to kill himself, instigating a standoff authorities said. Dozens of officers swarmed the area of the shooting, near the Pavilion amusement park. They found the car, which turned out to be stolen.

From staff reports GREENWOOD A man reported to a sheriff's deputy that two people came to his apartment Friday and one of them became argumentative with him and allegedly pulled SATURDAY'S NUMBERS kind-hearted teen-ager in his 94-percent white school told him that she couldn't go to a dance with him because he's black. He sat for an hour, stared at a wall and wept, Ashley's parents were questioning his character because of melanin. He felt ashamed. "You can ask any question of me," he tells the students. "You can ask questions of my personal life, what I feel, my dating life you can ask me anything and I promise you won't embarrass me." The students lit big-eyed, vulnerable, as he reads "We Wear the Mask" by Dunbar.

Then the questions begin. Carefully, at first "When you say we wear the I. I flf i i 4 Drug company president sentenced to 2 12 years for mixing bad drugs Bundick weaves poems by Paul Laurence Dunbar and Langston Hughes with candid stories about his own embarrassments, heartbreaks and joys. He tries to facilitate honesty. "I love poetry," he tells a classroom of peers.

"It's naked butt naked standing on the edge of a cliff with everything hanging out. You can't hide anything from poetry." Bundick isn't shy about speaking publicly. As associate lay leader of his church at age 14, he preached the sermons when his pastor called in sick. Bundick also has his share of speaking rols as student body president at his high school. Bundick tells his peer audiences about the time a beautiful.

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