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oldsalempost-blog · 1 year

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The Old Salem Post

Our Local Tamassee-Salem SC Area News each Monday except holidays Contact: [email protected] Distributed to local businesses, town hall, library. Volume 7 Issue 6 Week of January 9,2023 https://www.tumblr.com/settings/blog/oldsalempost-blog Lynne Martin Publishing

EDITOR: This is our first issue of The Old Salem Post in the 2023 New Year, and there is news to share. The two week holiday break was a nice chance to work on my to do list. There is always work waiting. I have a saying, “ When I die, I will still have a long list of things.” I suppose that is where generations who follow us need to be prepared to pick up the slack when all of us with a good work ethic have passed on. Start now teaching your younger ones the value and satisfaction that comes from the ability to use their minds and learn new skills. We don’t have time to waste. LRMartin

NEW FOOD TRUCK DOWN TOWN SALEM! Salem has a food truck, Palmetto Spoon, located this week across from the Fire Department. Stop by and check out their breakfast and lunch menu!

TOWN OF SALEM: *Downtown Market every Sat. 8am-12pm. Council Meets Jan 17, 5pm. BLOOD DRIVE: Monday January 9, 2023 from 1pm-6pm. Downtown Salem across from the Fire Department. $20 in e-gift cards plus and an additional Bonus $50 in e-gift cards

. ASHTON RECALLS By Ashton Hester COMMUNITY WELL SERVED RURAL SALEM RESIDENTS - - (The following is the second half of a story that began in the last issue of The Post. It was in the January 12, 1977 issue of the Keowee Courier and was written by Doris Rogers, who wrote feature stories for the Courier during that era. Incidentally, she is a native of Salem and was raised at the Tamassee DAR School. The Bennets who are featured in this story were kin to her). . .The oldest and youngest Bennett men have died and the middle one moved away. Now, there are four families drawing water by hand and a fifth one--you guessed it--who gets theirs by way of an electric pump. . .I remember playing games and eating picnic lunches under the trees near the well. The central gathering place for the community, birthday and communion dinners were given there. Boys played ball and we girls played jacks--and told the well our secrets. . .The well was a landmark, and small children weren't allowed near it without an adult. . .Once in 1970, a station wagon filled with children came to a stop beside the clean, neat well box. The old windlass brought back memories for the North Carolina man, and held a fascinating curiosity for the children. The group came from the car and asked questions. . .Mr. Vondiver Bennett drew up a bucket of the always cold liquid and everyone had a cup. The man said he had never tasted cleaner, sweeter water since he was a boy. He took a jug home for his wife, and Mr. Bennett walked home smiling. . .(Footnote written in 2023: A photo of the well accompanied this story in the January 12, 1977 Keowee Courier).

JOCASSEE VALLEY BREWING COMPANY,(JVBC)& COFFEE SHOP 13412 N Hwy 11 Open Wed-Sat 8am-9pm. Sunday 2pm-7pm. Events this week: THURS: Old Time Jam 6:00pm. Fri– FOOD: Pat’s Hot Dogs. Music: JR Williams at 6:30pm. Sat– Music: Tim McWilliams 6:30pm Food: ALAZAN Food Truck. Call 864-873-0048 Book Club Meeting at JVBC: Wednesday, Jan 25 at 10:00am. We will be discussing Desert Flower by Warris Dirie. Landscape Art Class, Thurs, Jan 26, 6pm-8pm $25 Preregister.

Tamassee DAR: Tamassee is now taking reservations for the next Bride-to-Be Tea Party on Feb. 18th at 10 a.m. in historical South Carolina Cottage Whether you are planning a romantic garden wedding for a small group of close friends, or a chapel ceremony with all the traditions, Tamassee DAR School can make your wedding dreams come true. From engagement tea, rehearsal, ceremony, to reception – Tamassee DAR School is a one-stop-venue experience for all your wedding needs . Tour our beautiful indoor and outdoor venue options, visit with preferred vendors, enjoy refreshments, and learn more about our affordable wedding packages. Cost for the Tea Party is $10 for the bride and one guest. To register for this event, call us at 864.944.1390 or email us at [email protected].

Tamassee DAR Thrift Store open Tues-Sat, 10am-6pm. Located 9695, Hwy 11. Treasures, furniture, and more! Also, the kitchen area features delicious sandwiches by Bake It To the Limit, on Fri and Sat.

Happy New Year to You! Prepare for the JCS It's Coming! The January Cold Snap. According to my 20 years' research, The "JCS" most likely occurs around January 15th. If the storm travels up from Atlanta, we might be snowed in for a week or more. To that end, I have prepared a shopping list for you JUST IN CASE: ___Shop for the January Snows_______ Bread, Milk, Hot Cocoa Mix, Marshmallows, Canned Soups, Pop Corn, Orange Juice,Cold Medicine Baking Supplies:Choc Chips, Oats, Flour, Pie Crusts, Canned Goods: tomatoes, beans, tuna, salmon, peaches --------Cut this out and put it on the Refrigerator---------- I love you, Oconee County! I picture you safe and warm by the fireplace ogling A SEED CATOLOG!!!MIZ JEANNIE

EAGLES NEST ART CENTER , 501c3, 4 Eagle Lane, Salem ENAC REGULAR meeting Monday, February 6, 2023 at 5pm. ENAC TREASURE STORE: Open every first Saturday of each month 9am-12pm. We need more volunteers. UPCOMING PERFORMANCES IN 2023: MOUNTAIN FAITH BAND: Family Bluegrass/Gospel band from Sylvia, N.C. JAN.14 at 7 PM TICKETS $20 presale. Available at the Town of Salem, Ticketleap, or call 864-280-1258. Doors open at 6pm. OCONEE MOUNTAIN OPRY: Local Roots Music and comedy. JAN. 21 TICKETS $10. Doors open 6pm. Show at 7pm.

Folk Mountain Gospel: Don and Donna Mohl play mountain and hammered dulcimer, bowed psaltry, zither and more. Save the Feb 11 evening for this unique event. More Details to come. Website: folkmountaingospel.com WOMEN ECOURAGING WOMEN: FEB. 18 1PM-4PM A Love Offering will be taken. * This is a wonderful event for our local churches to help sponsor. *

ARE YOU IN NEED OF A COAT OR SOCKS? Call Missy at 864-944-8732 Community Food Bank through local churches. No one should be hungry for food or love: Contact Teresa and James Barker at 944-0258 ��

GOLDEN CORNER FOOD PANTRY: Tamassee-Salem mobile food pantry. Pick up at Salem First Baptist Church second Saturday each month. 10am-12pm . Anyone on EBT ( food stamps) will automatically qualify. For more information, call the Golden Corner Food Pantry 864-882-3610. Share with others, and tell them to share with others who might know of someone who has a need.

Thought for the week: Great Relationships are made when you are building one another up– Not tearing one another down— Prayer: Heavenly Father, Open and eyes, ears, and heart to do good for all mankind. Help us lend a hand where one is needed. Help us to share your message of hope and love everywhere we go, through Jesus Christ, Your Son. Amen

*No Paper next week. *Martin Luther King Jr. Holiday. LRMartin

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autumncox1227-blog · 3 years

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"four habits" that McWilliams believes are "character building” in Saving The Self In The Age Of The Selfie

Spending time alone can be lonely but can be beneficial. When your alone it gives you the ability to think and discover who you are. I had plenty of alone time, to reflect a couple years ago, and after reflecting I had clarity and happiness.

I found having a meaningful conversation helped shape my character and brought me happiness. My husband is a tattoo artist, and we had a customer that was traveling from Florida that stopped in for a small tattoo. She was an older woman, my five-year-old son walked by her and she asked him what his name was and tried to engage with him, but he ignored her. Before I could explain, she said her son was high functioning autism and he is 17, He was nonverbal the first 6 years of his life. She was able to give me more real-life knowledge and tips to destress my son from stimming than any doctor has been able to tell me.

I fail horrible, in forming friendships to build character. Since life happens and everyone tends to go their own way, I do not have any friends besides my husband.

The fourth habit that McWilliams believes is character building is pursuing an activity within a community. Every opportunity I have, I try to feed the homeless or assist in some type of way. Once when driving I seen a homeless man feeding food to his dog. His dog was his companion, and he was giving the little bit that he had to the dog, so I went and bought a bag of dogfood. Do something for someone brings me happiness. With everything that is going on, my husband and I went out and protested in our community several times. That can build character because the community is coming together to get heard. This helps people to get exposed to different cultures and change their way of viewing.

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auskultu · 7 years

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The Who Ready To Hit You With New Ideas

Keith Altham, New Musical Express, 28 October 1967

AFTER six weeks with “the last Schmaltz” it is good to find the Who back in the charts with a new single, ‘I Can See For Miles’, in their old “knockabout” style. It is also good to have Pete Townshend back for interviews, employing his brain like a well-oiled lawn mower that clacks around and around, spitting out ideas and attitudes as it churns up the Scene.

Is there a new approach from the group, perhaps, following their successful American tour and the beginning of what almost unbelievably is their first British tour tomorrow (Saturday) with Traffic?

“Yer, what we’re gonna do is hit ‘em wiv it,” monotoned Pete, in his voice for swinging morons. “Punch ‘em in the stomach, kick ‘em on the floor and sock it to ‘em!”

But our story really begins (for those who like to sit comfortably) in the Who’s London offices, where I met manager Kit Lambert, who shook hands in a detached manner and wandered away to take a phone call from agent Danny Betesh.

Mistake Twenty-five minutes later he returned to ask his secretary whether Keith Altham was meeting him here or at a restaurant. Noticing me asleep in one corner, he immediately realised the mistake and banged a fist against his forehead. I was greatly mollified to learn that he recently failed to recognise his own mother as they passed in the street.

We ate an excellent lunch, at which I was under the impression that Pete might appear. “No, rather my fault,” admitted Kit. “I forgot to tell him. However, we’ll go down to the recording studio in Kingsway and provoke them there.” It was 2.45 when we arrived at the studio, but no one else had arrived as yet.

“When should they be here?” I asked “Forty-five minutes ago,” said Kit, resignedly.

Roger Daltrey was first to arrive, wearing yellow sweater, with a large silver cross round his neck on a chain—and trousers as well, of course, as it was a cold day.

Roger said: “The kids in America are very much more together than in Britain. They have something to rebel against. No one wants to be killed at nineteen fighting in Vietnam.

“We’re more a stage group than a recording group…when we play intricate things on stage we explain them…don’t write what I said about Graham Nash…our fans are broad-minded—they have to be!”

John Entwistle arrived with Keith Moon and John said: “Shall we tell him about those school kids who mobbed us in the Blue Boar cafe on the M1 and began stuffing baked beans and tomatoes from our plates into their pockets as souvenirs? All those meletrons aren’t good for your health.” He also did an impression of David McWilliams by holding his nose and singing ‘Days of Pearly Spencer’!

Hurricane Keith said to me: “Where’s yer sixpence for yer cup of tea?” Then hurricane Townshend arrived, rumbling about how he thought it was 3.30 p.m. they were due to start and picked up a packet of sandwiches. “Pig food,” he yelled and threw them back into a carton. Pete likes throwing sandwiches. “See this?” He indicated a suitcase full of tapes. “That’s the Who’s dustbin!” Eventually the storm subsided and he sat in a swivel chair, swinging from left to right as he talked about the new single.

“We were making records for record reviewers before,” said Pete. “They were too flimsy, to poignant, too prissy. They were factory-made. We’ve gone backwards in order to go forward.

“The further forward you move, the more you confuse the fans. We wanted to do something that would be unexpected. Something that would demand something of the public. ‘I Can See For Miles’ was the answer.”

Then, being Pete Townshend, he neatly injected into his lengthy explanation: “And besides which, we had nothing else suitable to release at the time!” As an established group, the Who have a hard core of supporters and they might find the tour with the groups like the Tremeloes and the Herd confusing. “We’ve tried this semi-intellectual approach,” smiled Pete. “We did it at the first house of the Saville concert last Sunday and died a death, because we were following an overwhelming act like the Vanilla Fudge. We were like a cream tea!

“Kit was so worried he tried to way-lay all the journalists in a pub over the road so they would only see the end of the show, but we put things right in the second house. We did a Brian Poole routine—Roger split his trousers, Keith wore a Jester’s hat and knocked his drums about and I kept falling over. They loved it.

“I’ll tell you who is going to be big next year. Groups not afraid to make concessions and mock the whole process. The Bonzo Dogs, for instance, and Dave Dee, because he is not frightened of being commercial!

“In the old days an ‘Emily Scruggs’ used to come into a recording studio, bleat into a megaphone and there it was for ‘posterior.’ Now we get all hang up on six track systems, multi-recording devices and electronic side effects. Electronic music is infinite in variety and eventually you’ll lose yourself and everyone else experimenting with it.

“On our next LP, The Who Sell Out, we’ve got a number called ‘Rael’ which should have been the next single. It’s all about ‘overspill’ when the world population becomes so great in years ahead that everyone is assigned to their one square foot of earth.

“We played it on stage in Manchester and Scotland and everyone just looked at us with their mouths open—the complication was too much. “I don’t want to lose personal contact with people. We want to do longer personal appearance spots, for example.

Identity “I’d rather do longer to give the audience time to identify with the group and get involved with the music. We’re deliberately overrunning our appearances at present.

“It’s like reading a Kingsley Amis novel and wanting to meet the author after you’ve read the book. You meet him, say ‘Hello dear’ and that’s the end of the involvement.”

And so the mowing machine clacked on with blades awhirling: “Stevie Winwood has a legion of fans; it’s inhuman for him to lock himself away like that in the country and detach himself…I’ve heard all I want to of the Beatles’ last LP; now it’s a memory…people aren’t jiving in the listening boxes in record shops any more like we did to a Cliff Richard ‘newie’…’Paper Sun’ wasn’t a hit record, it was a best seller…’Lily’ and ‘Happy Jack’ had simple tunes people could remember.”

“Something you could hum over a lathe,” chipped in Mr. Moon.

When last seen Mr. Townshend was leaping up and down the corridor of the Kingsway studios shouting, “I’m beautiful, I’m beautiful,” and Mr. Lambert was almost visibly counting up studio fees.

#the who #pete townshend #keith moon #The Who sell out #nme #music journalism #interview #roger daltrey #1967 #1960s #sixties #60s

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meanwhileinoz · 7 years

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Townsville Family Returns Home To Find Miniature Dachshund BEATEN And DROWNED

A couple returned home from a business trip to find their miniature dachshund beaten and drowned in their backyard pond.

Scott McWilliams and Vernon McIlroy have decided to leave Townsville in far-north Queensland for good after flying home from Sydney to find their eight-year-old pooch Paris killed during a suspected break-in.

The owners believe Paris would have barked at the intruders when they entered the property last Sunday – but it wasn’t until their house-sitter went into the backyard that they knew the attempted robbery had been fatal.

‘We found claw marks in the pond so she’s obviously been held under,’ Mr McWilliams told the Townsville Bulletin.

‘She was found bloody and floating in the pond.’

Their other dog Astrid, who is the same breed as Paris, was found shaking after the ordeal but was physically unhurt.

Mundingburra police officer-in-charge Senior Sergeant Graeme Patterson said that detectives were working with the theory an intruder jumped over the back fence and tried to break into the house.

The dogs likely made a bit of a racket, frightening the almost-thief into drastic and horrifying action.

‘Anybody with a pet who knows the attachment that a pet brings your family would find this disturbing, so if we have anybody out there who knows who is responsible for this, please call us,’ Sen-Sgt Patterson said.

Mr McWilliams and Mr McIlroy have decided to sell the six properties they own in Townsville and move to a region that doesn’t remind them of what was lost.

‘We moved to Townsville to settle and find a place that we could really call home, but it doesn’t feel like home when you’re not safe in your house,’ they said.

Anyone who witnessed the incident or anything suspicious on Queens Rd between 6am and 6pm on Sunday should phone Crime Stoppers on 1800 333 000.

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