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2 Sections/ 16 Pages/50 centsWednesday, October 28, 2009thelancasternews.com
Christopher [email protected]
As the stage lights slowly bright-ened at the University of South Car-olina at Lancaster’s Bundy Audito-rium on Saturday night, the crowd got their first glimpse of country-rock crooners Little Big Town.
Standing behind four micro-phone stands were band members Jimi Westbrook, Kimberly Schlap-man, Karen Fairchild and Phillip Sweet, the harmonizing quartet be-hind some of country radio’s top hits, including “Boondocks” and “Bring It On Home.” The Grammy Award-nominated band was the third act to be featured in this year’s Performing Arts Series.
Fairchild and Schlapman belted out the beginning of their top 10 country single “Good as Gone,” flanked by Westbrook and Sweet on guitars, to kick off the show. Fog machines and red and white lights made for a dramatic scene, as audi-ence members clapped and stomped their feet to the tune.
On “A Little More You,” the band paired off into duos, while “Novo-caine” spotlighted solos from the band’s back-up guitarist and bass-
ist. At times, Fairchild would break out a tambourine, while Schlap-man took the opportunity to briefly join the drummer on “Gone.”
Another crowd favorite, the slow-burning “Bring It On Home,” started with guitar solos and ended with several fans singing along.
At one point, Fairchild thanked the crowd for being there and asked an important question: “How do you guys say Lancaster?,” she asked, as the crowd laughed. “We were just in Lancaster, Pennsylvania. Do you say it like they do?”
One of the most dramatic perfor-mances of the night came in the second half of the show. With each band member lit from above by a
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Little Big Town performs at the University of South Carolina at Lancaster’s Bundy Auditorium on Saturday night. From left are band member Jimi Westbrook, an identified member of the quartet’s touring band on guitar, and band members Karen Fairchild and Phillip Sweet.
District looks to control political activityJesef Williams
The Lancaster County School District is taking measures to prevent certain political activity from occurring on school grounds.
The school board voted unani-mously Oct. 20 on first reading of a policy that will prohibit cam-paigning and the distributing of
campaign material on district property.
The policy has to pass one more readings before it is ad-opted.
“The last election raised some questions about what people could do on school grounds,” district superintendent Dr. Gene Moore said, referencing the 2008 election season. “It would be good to get something in place
to address those issues.” The school
board first viewed a draft of a polity earlier this year but tabled it for later discussion. The modified ver-sion prohibits campaigning by individual candi-dates or parties for school board,
local, state and federal elections. The exceptions, though, are
that:u Schools may organize all-
candidate forums for education-al purposes. u School space can be rented
after school hours by a candi-date or party on a commercial basis. Campaign material would be allowed to be posted during the event, but would have to re-
moved at the end of the event.u Teachers can use campaign
materials as a classroom teach-ing aid just as long as support for a candidate or political party is not solicited. u Politicians may buy ad space
in authorized school publica-tions or venues that are an ongo-ing, established part of the school’s fund-raising activities.
From the ‘Boondocks’ to the Big Time
Little Big Town croons before crowd at USCL
Jimi Westbrook of Little Big Town sings and strums his guitar during one of the songs Saturday night.
Council decides on waste tire plan
Christopher [email protected]
After considering several plans to overhaul the coun-ty’s waste tire disposal rules, Lancaster County Council decided on a mod-est plan Monday.
Council agreed to con-tinue to allow residents to dispose of waste tires at all convenience sites in the county, except for the Lyn-wood Drive location.
C o u n t y Administra-tor Steve Willis said that location is heavily used, and since it’s only a few miles from the Public Works Center on Pageland Highway, it may be easier if tires were dropped off there instead.
Some council members had expressed concerns previously that eliminating waste tire disposal at all convenience centers would make it harder for residents to dispose of tires and could lead to illegal dumping.
“We’ve tried to address council’s concerns,” Willis said. “Lynwood Drive is very close to Public Works. It’s our busiest convenience site and we’re concerned about taking tires there.”
Throughout the past two months, council has dis-cussed several options for a new tire disposal plan since the S.C. Department of Health and Environmental Control enacted new re-strictions to help track the disposal of tires throughout the state.
Council considered elim-inating tire collections at all convenience sites and only accepting them at the county’s Public Works Cen-ter. Council also considered accepting tires on Satur-days at a rotating list of convenience sites.
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County makes minor changes to tire policy
Willis
Jenny [email protected]
KERSHAW – Lancaster County Council was chas-tised for spending $400,000 on improvements to the Kershaw Industrial Park a few years ago, said its chair-man, Rudy Carter.
Carter spoke at a ground-breaking for the park on Gold Mine Highway on Tuesday morning.
“In our economic times, things are very diffi-cult,” Carter said. “The key to all this is simply planning. I think we’re going to see a lot going on here. I think investing now will pay off huge in the future.”
The $400,000 was spent to buy the land and install water and sewer at the park next to Kershaw Correc-tional Institute.
Members of County Council, Kershaw Town Council and Heath Springs Town Council turned out for the brief ceremony, which ended with county and elected officials dig-ging into the red clay.
The 115-acre site is a stand of pine trees right now, but Kershaw Mayor Wayne Rhodes said he has high hopes for the park, with its accessibility to major utilities and U.S. 601. He said the people of Kershaw are thankful to the county officials who made the site development hap-pen.
County Councilman Jack Estridge said he also appre-ciated that teamwork.
“I think there are a lot of good things that are going to happen in Lancaster County,” said Estridge, who
Offi cials break ground in KershawCouncil members optimistic about future of new industrial park
Moore
Carter
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“If you weren’t a fan before the show, you definitely were by the end.”
– Dwight McPherson audience member
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beam of light, the group slowly began their song “Stay,” which ended with one of their patented four-part harmonies.
Singing along in the front row was Dwight McPher-son, who listened to sever-al of the group’s songs be-fore arriving at the concert. Near the end, McPherson was on his feet clapping to the beat of the band’s hit “Boondocks.”
“I enjoyed it,” he said. “That concert was really good.”
As the band started winding down, band mem-ber Sweet started tossing guitar picks into the audi-ence. McPherson snagged one as it fired his way.
“If you weren’t a fan be-fore the show, you definite-ly were by the end,” McPherson said.
The band saved two of their most well-known songs until the end, deliv-ering a one-two punch with back-to-back perfor-mances of their singles “Boondocks” and “Life in a Northern Town.” Both songs had the crowd up on their feet and singing along.
Great Falls High School students Jordan Temple and Hannah Morgan watched the concert to-gether. Both are big fans of the band and were excited to hear their favorite song, “Boondocks.” Morgan said she starts her day everyday listening to Little Big Town.
“I watch their videos on CMT (Country Music Tele-vision) every morning be-fore school,” Morgan said.
Kevin Underwood also enjoyed the performance, though he hasn’t had much experience with country music. The London native was in town to visit his
cousin, Peggy Little, who is director of the recently re-organized See Lancaster SC and the Performing Arts series. Underwood had a chance to speak with the band before the perfor-mance.
“They were educating me on country music,” Un-derwood said. “This con-cert was great. We don’t get a lot of this music in Eng-land.”
Little was pleased with the attendance, with most of the seats filled for the
performance. “It couldn’t have been
better,” Little said. “The crowd really got into the performers and the whole place was rockin’.”
Little is now gearing up for the next artist in the series, bluegrass musician Ricky Scaggs, who comes to USCL on Nov. 14. For details about the event or buying tickets, contact Lit-tle at (803) 286-1145.
u Contact reporter Chris Sardelli at (803) 416-8416
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represents the Kershaw area. “We’re going to show the world this park is going to work.”
Compass Development Group of Charlotte is the
project developer. Company official Gary
Reader said the next step at the park is widening the highway to include a left-turn lane into the park.
A small part of the road will be built into the park.
Plans also include bringing utilities into the site and clearing a 7-acre tract for future development, Read-er said.
u Contact senior reporter Jenny Arnold at (803) 283-1151
Moore said he is com-fortable about what’s in-cluded in the policy.
“This is one of those ac-tivities we just need some control over so it doesn’t get out of hand,” he said.
During discussion at the meeting, board member Don McCorkle asked if a “catch-all” clause could be included in the policy that would give Moore the final
ruling in the event of a controversy over the poli-cy’s interpretation.
The board voted to make that inclusion.
Board members will vote
on final reading of the pol-icy at its November meet-ing.
u Contact reporter Jesef Williams at (803) 283-1152
AArOn mOrrISOn/StAFF PhOtOGRAPhER
Kimberly Schlapman of Little Big Town takes center stage during the country quartet’s performance at USCL.
Jenny ArnOld/SENiOR REPORtER
From left, Lancaster County Councilman Rudy Carter, Kershaw Mayor Wayne Rhodes, County Councilman Jack Estridge, Kershaw Town council members Wade Hunter, Genny Hendrix and Michael Cook take part in the ceremonial groundbreaking for the new Kershaw Industrial Park on Tuesday.
“This is one of those activities we just need some control over so it doesn’t get out of hand.”
– Dr. Gene Moore Lancaster County School District superintendent
