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And since this post office is located in one of the most popular shopping centers on this side of town, it is super convenient for people when they are running errands. Not everybody wants to go to Clemson Blvd to do their shopping!

Post office officials have told the residents they should call their congressional representatives if they want to advocate for keeping their local post office open. So please take the time to call or email every elected official you can and tell them South Anderson is important and has people that vote!

Unless you get involved, then you will not have any right to complain if they do close this Post Office!

And this same article said they are not looking at closing the North Anderson Post Office. Why not?

That is the basis of America right? That anyone can be anything at any time.

The way I understand it any American can be president.  If I am wrong or there are restrictions on color of Americans being President please let me know, I will gladly research it myself and then concede if you are correct.

Think of it this way.. If next we have a President of Asian descent.. RIGHT OFF THE BAT, he or she will have opposition just because of their ancestry.. Honestly would that be CORRECT in me saying that? Yes, of course they would!

But are we ALL not of another race? Other than the Native American Indians?

I am of Cherokee and Austrian descent, if I wanted to be President would I not have opposition because of my heritage? I would for some reason or another based solely on that.

We will never all agree on the same thing at the same time, that's a truth.  And believe me that all races that are in this country contributed to the freedom of us not being forced to agree.

There are bad people in the world no matter what their skin color or social status. And to be honest I admit even I have family members that would not allow me to bring a person of color to say Christmas dinner as an invited guest.  And I hate that, but that is "their" choice to be like that. I cannot change that in them, they are from another time and place where they were taught that is not okay.  And although times have changed drastically, sadly they have not.

Who knows what religion is right, who honestly has all the right answers? No one on this earth can say for SURE they know the true purpose or the right way to be.  All we can do is treat everyone equally. Seriously, everyone needs to be treated equally, what, we can all adopt new technologies as they become available and at the same time we can keep our archaic views of our fellow man??

As far as Barack Obama and this whole Nobel Peace Prize goes, I may not understand WHAT he did yet to achieve it, BUT, I do see where they are coming from in giving it to him.  It is their right to give it to whom they choose and if they feel that by giving him this it will advance or help speed up what he is trying to do then go ahead let him have it. Perhaps it will make his diplomatic talks more successful as it shows that someone felt that he was on the right path to achieve what he set out to do. 


-Joey Stubblefield

The one thing on every recruits mind from the minute they awoke that brisk October morning, was not to fail. Do not be the one that gets sent home! Nothing from this very point backwards, while standing on these yellow footprints mattered at all.  Not if you were a football star or the quietest kid in school. Not if you were tall or short, rich or poor, black or white.  From this point on we were all as low on the proverbial totem pole as one can get. In which, one of those notions were the first to go. There was no Black or White in The Marine Corps. There was only Light Green or Dark Green.

The Marines that were handling us for processing did not appear much older than we were.  But we were in awe of their camoflague uniforms.  They were so starched and perfect that it looked as though they could take off their camoflague blouse and actually button it up and stand the blouse right there on the cement!  The creases going down the middle of their sleeves were perfectly straight and almost appeared as if they would inflict a cut on your finger if you even touched it.  So far the higest up we had seen in processing was a Corporal.  And he commanded the whole room, effortlessly.  To us he was bigger than life although he was probably only around 23 years old and maybe 160 pounds soaking wet.  

It was still dark even after standing on those yellow footprints for atleast 15 minutes, it seemed the sun was waiting to rise that morning.

Then we heard an echo of footsteps on the ground. More than one person less than one hundred for sure, but it was hard to tell how many dozens of people were approaching.  We all pretty much turned our heads to the right at the same time.  Then we saw them.  The first thing we could make out in the low light was the glisten of their gold belt buckles, then a few seconds later we could make out the shape of their headgear.  I think everyone stopped breathing for atleast six seconds right then and there.  It was our Drill Instructors and they were marching in perfect alignment straight towards us.  It was as if heaven opened up and sent the angels of death , destruction and whatever other horrible word you could conjur up right towards us, and plus we were frozen.

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GEORGETOWN, South Carolina (CNN) -- In many places across the South you can walk in the footsteps of slaves, and if you understand the history, it is not a happy journey. The same is true at Friendfield Plantation outside Georgetown, South Carolina.

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This is a former slave house on Friendfield Plantation, where Michelle Obama's family has roots.

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It's not exactly "Gone With the Wind," but what makes this overgrown 3,300 acres of marsh and pine trees stand out is this: The family of first lady Michelle Obama believes her great-great grandfather was held as a slave here and labored in the mosquito-infested rice fields.

It makes Friendfield Plantation a symbol of something more than servitude. It's the symbol of something that's never happened before, one important segment of an American family's journey from the humiliation of slavery to the very top of the nation's ruling class.

CNN recently was the first television network allowed to visit the plantation and shoot video. It's not a museum. It's just private land, still with shadows of its past.

Friendfield's most distinctive historical feature, perhaps, is the dirt road known as Slave Street. Stroll across the plantation with CNN's Joe Johns »

Six white-washed little shacks are all that remain of the slave quarters, even though rows of these houses once stood on the property. About 350 slaves lived here during the 19th century.

The houses are nothing special -- no plumbing, of course. The wooden walls are paper thin in places. It would have been hot and humid in summer, and most certainly cold in winter, although the shacks had fireplaces.

They would have been crowded: probably one or two families living in a space smaller than a modern-day garage.

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The White House is some 472 miles from Georgetown, South Carolina. But long before Michelle Obama was born, her great-great grandfather, Jim Robinson, likely toiled in the fields here six days a week, from sunup to sundown.

The place he probably called home was a little white shack smaller than -- by comparison -- a Secret Service security shed on the grounds of the executive mansion at 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue.

All told, hundreds of people lived like this, on this one plantation alone.

"Anywhere between 200 to 500 at different times," said Ed Carter, the property manager. "The older the plantation got, they kept adding on more cabins. [Some] cabins are 1847.

"There was some on the other street that were about probably 1820s. And when they added on, got a bit more wealthy, they just kept adding on more slaves, more cabins." Watch Obama's recent comments on slavery »

The shacks probably weren't much refuge from the vicious clouds of mosquitoes, chiggers and other pests that still impinge on a person's every move on the plantation. Then, consider the dangers of the alligators and snakes.

There was also the oppressive heat and humidity of South Carolina. And on the day CNN visited, the skies opened up in a violent rainstorm.

Add up all of these factors and you begin to get a picture of what life probably was, and was not, for the slaves on Friendfield Plantation. Workers on the rice plantation -- and Friendfield was one of the largest in these parts -- faced all these elements, plus the threat of disease, including malaria and yellow fever. And unlike the CNN crew, the slaves were not free to leave.

Even in death, the slaves stayed. Three cemeteries are on the Friendfield grounds. The one slave cemetery CNN visited had mostly unmarked graves, but Jim Robinson -- who was born into slavery and died a free man -- is believed to be buried there somewhere.

The cemetery clearly has been segregated from the rest of the property. Slave cemeteries were typically situated on land unsuitable for any other use.

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Surrounded by trees, it might have been a beautiful place. Now, it is hard to tell that you are standing in a cemetery -- except for half a dozen grave markers, some made of wood, bearing no names.

All that's known about Jim Robinson's life comes from the few remaining records that mention him. Slaves weren't documented as individuals in the census, nor in life and death certificates. They were property, not people.

But Michelle Obama's great-great grandfather was a teenager when slavery was abolished, so as a free man, he started to leave a paper trail.

The 1880 census shows he was born about 1850, in South Carolina, and that his parents were born in South Carolina as well. He married a woman named Louiser, and in 1880 they already had three children, two boys and a girl, ages 1, 2, and 3.

The son that would become Michelle Obama's great grandfather was not born yet. The census lists Jim's occupation as a farmer, and Louiser's as "keeping house."

They are both recorded as unable to read or write. It's good fortune to uncover even this much information; the original handwritten census got wet, the ink ran and it is nearly illegible. Proof of life, nearly washed away.

There are a lot of unknowns concerning Michelle Obama's ancestry -- how many generations of slaves there were, or what route they took to this hemisphere.

The Obama election campaign commissioned a study of Michelle's genealogy by the research group Lowcountry Africana, but they couldn't make the link back to Africa. As with so many African-Americans' family histories, the paper trail runs dry.

"I don't think that that sort of information is available for anyone from Friendfield Plantation at this point," historian Tori Carrier, of Lowcountry Africana, said. "Very, very few, if any, of the Friendfield records actually survived except in public records: wills and estate inventories. ...

"There's not a real Friendfield Plantation records set, or plantation journals that have been preserved ... and there's certainly not a shred of documentary evidence right now which would even suggest to us what the African origins would be," Carrier said.

In an interview with The Washington Post last year, Michelle Obama talked about learning her family's past and understanding the history of slavery.

"A lot of times these stories get buried, because sometimes the pain of them makes it hard to want to remember," she said told the Post for an October story. "You've got to be able to acknowledge and understand the past and move on from it. You have to understand it, and I think a lot of us just don't have an opportunity to understand it -- but it's there."

Back in Georgetown, South Carolina, Margretta Knox remembers attending the Bethel AME church with the first lady's grandparents -- Jim Robinson's grandson and his wife -- when she was a girl. The couple spent many of their years in Chicago, but returned back South after they retired.

"My father knew that Fraser Robinson's father sold newspapers," she recalled. "He made his kids read them. Mr. Robinson was very, very smart, he could recite poetry. ... Their grandfather could recite poetry and that kind of thing. ... Her grandfather and her grandmother, they were both very smart people."

But the family ties to the old plantation just got lost. "We let our parents die before we really thought about asking them questions," Knox said.

"We didn't think about it until much later, and then it was too late. They were already gone. So there was no history after that. ...

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"Because we live here, we don't think about it. It's just like, you've been around it all of your life, it doesn't cross your mind. You're just living for today."

In that same way, it probably never crossed Jim Robinson's mind, as a slave in a white-washed cabin, that one day his great-great granddaughter would be living in a white house so very, very different from his own

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Hey, guys....Country Club Apartments in Anderson is looking for an experienced maintenance tech. This person will possibly float between Country Club Apartments and Cobblestone. Below is the link to the ad on Craigslist. If you or anyone you know is interested, let me know and I will put in a word for you.

(*On a personal note, this position is extremely important to the day to day functions of a well run property. The ideal candidtate will be a hard worker who is willing to support the "team effort" mentality of the on-site staff.)

http://greenville.craigslist.org/rej/1392425946.html

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Four months later, here is part two...for the two people who have been waiting with bated breath .

The order is written as it pops into my head....so, my apologies if it is random.

Do not assume that just because your lease is "up", you can just waltz into the office, turn in your keys, and move out on the last day that is stated on the lease. Some places will have you sign leases that automatically renew when the current term is up. So if you plan to move on your lease- end date, plan to give the required notice, or you may end up paying 30 or 60 days PAST your move out date.

In this industry, it is a sad but true fact that we are trained like puppies to get new residents in the door.  Of course, that comes with the (correct) assumption that the new people are replacing the ones who are leaving. There is little emphasis placed on keeping the residents we already have. Therefore, if you have been a loyal resident to XYZ Apartments for 15 years, chances are, the loyalty is very one-sided. Guess who gets all the special rental rates? Not you, who has proven your willingness and ability to pay rent on time every month for the last 721 months, but your neighbor, who just moved in last week, and so far has proven nothing other than his willingness to let Fido howl at the moon every night until he comes home from his latest drunken excursion. Of course, sometimes you can do very little about this. After all, you don't go back to Target and demand the sale price on an item for which you paid retail, just because it went on sale after you bought it, do you?

However, it is worth trying to negotiate your rent when your lease comes up for renewal, so that you can get the same rate that the new residents are receiving (IF they are, infact, receiving a discounted rate).  Not only would I, personally, ask for it, but I would threaten to move out if I didn't receive it. For this reason:  A lot of companies are finally starting to come around to the realization that keeping you is more cost effective than replacing you. The staff that works on-site knows this. The corporate echelons are slowly waking up to it. The apartment industry is a dinosaur. However, even they come around eventually.

And speaking of roommates- which we weren't- be very, very, very careful whom you chose as your roommate.  Doesn't matter that you and Felicia have been BFF's since middle school. This is something that most adults know all too well; You never really know someone until you share living space with them. And once that apartment lease has both (or all) signatures on it, there will be no moving out after that nasty fight you had over some stupid guy, or over who loaded the dishwasher last. You don't just move in and out on a whim. The lease, being the legal document that it is, holds all persons accountable for meeting its terms.

So, just because you move back in with mom and dad, guess what? If the roommates who still live in the apartment are late in rent, you are also late on rent. If they eventually get evicted because they can't pay the rent, you also get evicted. And believe me, this matters. If you think your dad's hovering when a new guy comes over is annoying, wait until a few years later when you decide to move into another apartment. That eviction lurks worse than any shotgun toting vigilant papa ever could. The only way (and, yes, there is a way), once all of you have signed the lease, to be taken off, is to have your roomates agree to sign a roommate release form, which, when signed by all parties, legally relinquishes you from all responsibility.

This is the third (or fourth, or whatever)  and final point I'm going to make. Making sure you get your deposit back. There is no magic wand to wave for this, and this is one of many cases where you hope that your landlord is honest. But since you never know....the first and most important thing to do is, as mentioned in Part 1, to complete the move in inspection form thoroughly and return to the office within 48 hours. And keep a copy for yourself. And, of course, keep the apartment in good shape while you live there. Obviously, if you trash the apartment, you are going to have a problem getting the money back.

 {If you have pets, and paid a pet fee, chances are that the money you paid for that will not be applied towards pet damages. A lot of properties charge that fee simply for the privelege of having the pet. If, while you lived there, Fido ruined the carpet by peeing all over it, be prepared to pay to have the carpet cleaned, and possibly replaced.}

Make sure to give your notice in writing. Make sure that you know what kind of notice you have to give (30 days, 60 days, etc.). Make sure to give them your forwarding address. Make sure that the day you said you would be out, you are out, and that the keys have been returned to the office. If you fail to surrender the keys, some communities will charge you for the extra days that you have the keys. Once you have moved out, they will do a move out walk through to check for damages. Most residents do not bother to be present when this happens. Make sure that you are. Otherwise, you may receive a bill in the mail with charges of multiple damages that you never saw coming. You need to be there to see what they document as damages, and to question anything that you do not believe to be legitimate. The SC Landlord/Tenant Act requires all deposits be returned to you within 30 days of your official last day.

Whew.....okay.....that's it for now. Here is a link to what seems to be a great website for understanding your rights as a renter, http://www.rentlaw.com/landlord.htm-- because as I said before, I'm no lawyer, just someone who has seen this from both sides, and think that honesty and integrity, from either side, is what matters most.  Most landlords are honest, but, as with anything else, you have to protect yourself....and since I know a little bit about the business from the inside, I am more than happy to provide a little insight.