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Little 2-year-old Jayda was diagnosed with the flu. She and her mom, Shanquella Major, had just left the doctor’s office and were in their car at the drive-thru at the CVS Pharmacy® on Pamplico Highway in Florence, South Carolina. Shanquella was picking up a prescription to help alleviate some of Jayda’s stuffiness.

“The thought crossed my mind that maybe I should do some other errands first, but the line moved quickly and I pulled up to the window,” says Shanquella. But within seconds, the young mother realized her little girl wasn’t breathing. “I grabbed Jayda, her eyes were rolled back, and her body was limp across the steering wheel. I started screaming.”

Inside the pharmacy, the staff could hear her panicked cries. Without hesitation they moved with lightning speed to help.

Pharmacy technician Timyra McAllister, who was manning the drive-thru window, quickly told Shanquella to pass Jayda through the window. Stacy Wright, lead pharmacy technician, took the toddler from Timyra and rushed her life-less body to Kathy Smith, a 30-year pharmacist with CVS Health.

“There was no breath, her lips were blue,” Kathy explains. “I put her on the ground and did a couple of chest compressions. There was no response. I blew into her mouth, still no response. So, I repeated chest compressions and blew into her mouth again.”

The second round of rescue breathing cleared the air passageway and Jayda’s chest lifted. “It felt like a Lazarus moment,” says Kathy. “She opened her eyes and looked at me, clearly scared. She didn’t know where she was, but we were all relieved.”

Joining forces for their patient

While Kathy was working to revive little Jayda, the pharmacy and store teams moved swiftly. Shift supervisor Amy Ervin called 911. Lead pharmacy technician Lashayla Gamble went outside to find Shanquella and reassure her that action was being taken. Pharmacy technician Rhonda Grice moved Shanquella’s car from the drive-thru to a safe parking space. Pharmacy technician Roshan Ahmed calmed worried patients and customers. And, when Jayda was finally breathing and could be moved, Lashayla carried her to Shanquella and waited with mother and toddler until the ambulance arrived.

“Every CVS colleague at that location played a critical part in this life-saving event,” says District Leader Laceye Parker. “I’m so proud of what they do day-in and day-out to meet the demands of the business.”

That night when Kathy had a moment to reflect, she admitted to her family that she was shaking the entire time she tried to revive the little girl. She considered how easily things could have been different. She thought about her own 25-year-old daughter, and she counted her blessings.

Across town in the hospital that night, as monitors beeped in the background, Shanquella sat watching her sleeping daughter, exhausted after a long day of medical tests. “I was so thankful to God for placing me at the right place at the right time. What if I had gone to do errands and not stayed at CVS?” Shanquella wondered. “That entire team are my heroes. I’ll never forget this day and someday I’ll tell Jayda how they saved her.”

Editor’s note: After multiple days of testing in the hospital, Jayda is home and recovering. Physicians believe a build-up of mucus from the flu may have blocked Jayda’s breathing.

PAMPLICO, S.C. – Hannah-Pamplico can put up numbers. So much so, last year’s Raiders set the program’s single-season passing record (2,030 yards) in eight games. The quarterback who did all that, Zander Poston, graduated as valedictorian.

But Raiders coach Jamie Johnson thinks this year’s offense can also pack quite a punch.

“We’re going to be a lot better than everyone thinks,” said Johnson, whose team was 4-4 last year.

A huge key won’t even be that potent offensive attack. Instead, it will be a much-improved defense.

“We’ve grown up on defense a lot, already,” Johnson said. “Since I’ve been at Hannah-Pamplico, scoring points has not really been an issue. So, we really need to tighten up on defense. And I think we’ve made great strides to do that.”

Another Poston (no relation to Zander) will stand behind center. Meet Wade.

“I think we’ve got a good one in Wade Poston to take over,” Johnson said. “He’s studious, and his fundamentals and mechanics are unbelievable. He trains at QB1, out of Columbia. So, I think he’s poised for a great year. He’s got all the tools to be successful, that’s for sure.

“If I can keep all the Postons coming through here and they’re as successful as Zander was, I’ll keep taking them.”

The latest Poston quarterback already has a go-to receiver in Tae Sellers, who accounted for 899 yards and nine touchdowns in 2021.

“The biggest thing is he needs to lead us,” Johnson said. “He’s our dude. This morning, on the power clean, he got like 285 (pounds) on that. We’re excited for him as a player. He’s definitely making strides and he knows he’s the guy and he has to be that leader. His talent is second to none.”

Sophomore Jamarcus Williams, a star defensive back from 2021, is in the mix at running back.

“He’s a special athlete,” Johnson said of Williams, son of boys’ basketball coach Jimmy Williams. “He is literally a four-sport athlete and is very special. His dad played football at South Carolina State. So, there is definitely some good lineage there. I think Jamarcus is going to definitely burst through the seam this year and get more press.”

On the offensive line, Avery Stone will anchor it at left tackle.

“He’s our leader back there,” Johnson said. “He’ll also be our defensive leader back there for us. We’re excited he’s taking the vocal role for the next two years.”

DEFENSE

Speaking of Stone, he’s expected to again make an impact at defensive end.

“I think he’s a run-fit for sure,” Johnson said. “He’s tough, and he plays hard. So, he definitely gives a bunch of people fits because of his effort. That’s what our program is based on. We’re not always the most talented football team. We just have guys who play with tremendous effort.”

Johnny Book returns at linebacker.

“He’ll also be a great leader for us,” Johnson said. “He has put on 20 pounds, and he is looking good out there. I sure don’t want to get hit by him.”

In the secondary, Williams is back after intercepting four passes last year. Josh McNeil, James Davis and Sellers are what Johnson calls his most talented group since he took over as coach in 2016.

“Williams is so competitive, he wants to dominate at checkers,” Johnson said.

SPECIAL TEAMS

Ty Daves returns as punter and will also handle kicking duties.

The Green Sea Floyds Trojans must win their game against Latta next week if they want to see the playoffs after losing 42-21 to the visiting Hannah-Pamplico Raiders Friday night.

The loss means the Trojans have only won one game this season.

“We played about as good as we could play, besides the fact that we didn’t score when I thought we could have," Trojans head coach Joey Price said.

The Raiders got the ball first, but mere seconds into the game, quarterback Wade Poston was picked off by the Trojans’ Shamar Jordan. The Trojans couldn’t take advantage of the turnover and the Raiders eventually put the first points on the board with a Poston touchdown pass to wide receiver Josh McNeil.

The Raiders missed their extra point, so when the Trojans’ Deandre Simmons rushed it in for a touchdown and kicker Mario Castillo kept it between the goalposts, the Trojans took the lead.

But the Raiders took it back on their fifth possession when Poston completed a 25-yard pass to JT Thompkins and then snuck it in for the touchdown. Poston snuck in again for the two-point conversion to put them up 14-7, and the score didn’t change until after halftime. The Trojans never took the lead back.

“We’re working on speed, but we don’t have a lot of speed and that’s OK,” Price said. “Our guys work hard every day, they try hard every day. We’re small in numbers really. We have a freshman out there trying to play a North/South All-Star wide receiver. So those are the kinds of things we have to fight against. We’ve got a young team, and you can’t ask them to do more than they do every day. They go to work every day, they practice hard every day. They’re good kids that do the right thing every day.”

After halftime, the Raiders’ Jamarcus Williams rushed 75 yards for the team’s first touchdown of the third quarter. Later in the game, he rushed for a 64-yard touchdown.

“He’s a dude,” said Raiders head coach Jamie Johnson. “There’s a reason why Ian [Guerin] and them down there have him ranked 12th in the state for his class. And you can see what he can do; he can change the game in a heartbeat. I get yelled at about play-calling but the kid’s averaging like 15 yards a carry. I think I’d keep handing it to him.”

The Raiders’ other touchdowns in the second half came from a goal line rush from Logan Bass and a 29-yard touchdown pass from Poston to James Davis.

The Trojans’ two other touchdowns of the game came from a goal line rush from Deandre Simmons and a 20-yard touchdown pass from quarterback Banks Lovett to Mason Huff.

Now all the Trojans can do is prepare for Latta.

“It’s called a finish game,” Price said. “It’s game 10. So we’re gonna try to finish.”

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PAMPLICO, S.C. (AP) — The land agent who arrived at Reatha Jefferson's door in May, unannounced and unmasked in the middle of the pandemic, told her he was giving her one more chance.

The agent was there on behalf of Virginia-based utility giant Dominion Energy. He wanted to see if Jefferson would let Dominion run a new natural gas pipeline through the land her great-grandfather, a rural Black farmer, had bought more than a century ago in Pamplico, South Carolina.

Jefferson sent the agent away and in July, the utility served her with court papers in an attempt to use eminent domain to build the pipeline.

The proposed 14.5-mile-long (23-kilometer-long) gas line is small in contrast to projects like the recently canceled Atlantic Coast Pipeline, or even a 55-mile-long (88.5-kilometer-long) pipeline Dominion built recently in the state. But for Jefferson, it threatens to stain the land where her relatives once grew tobacco, corn and wheat, and the river where her father used to catch catfish for dinner.

"This property's been in my family for 100 years. How do they think they can tell me what they're going to run through my property?" she said.

The company cites new energy demand spurred by economic growth in eastern South Carolina as the impetus for the project. Dominion declined to make anyone available for an interview but said in a statement that the project could help attract and grow businesses, adding jobs and possibly lowering energy costs for residents.

The gas main, designed to supply customers directly with natural gas, would run 14.5 miles from a valve station to a regulating station along the Great Pee Dee River, according to permitting paperwork Dominion submitted to the Army Corps of Engineers. It would traverse 65 pieces of private property along the way.

Some environmental groups think the pipeline's true purpose is to jump-start a natural gas-fired power plant that state-owned utility Santee Cooper has previously discussed building at the same spot where the proposed pipeline would end. The company had said it would use natural gas from a utility partner such as Dominion.

Shelley Robbins, energy and state policy director of Upstate Forever, an environmental watchdog group focused on preserving land in South Carolina, said she wonders if the proposed pipeline is being designed with a relatively large diameter so that it could connect to a natural-gas power plant in addition to supplying customers with electricity. Such a plant would have a far bigger footprint in the community than the proposed line, she added.

Dominion spokesperson Paul Fischer said in an email that the gas line would be solely operated and owned by Dominion, and is unrelated to any current or future projects by other utilities. Santee Cooper spokesperson Mollie Gore said the company was unfamiliar with the pipeline and had made no decisions about future sites for natural-gas power plants.

Kathy Andrews, a landowner in the area who, like Jefferson, is opposed to the project, says she's concerned about environmental damage such as leaks once the pipeline is in operation. She points to the explosion of a Dominion gas line in Ohio and allegations over pollution involving coal ash in Virginia.

In addition to worrying about the pipeline's possible effects on the environment, Jefferson is concerned that she will lose more of the property her father entrusted to her on his death bed. The 40 acres (16 hectares) Jefferson's great-grandfather, Andrew Hyman, once owned has been whittled down to about 30 acres (12 hectares) over time. Jefferson is determined not to lose any more.

In recent years, the land has grown dense with trees and brush, obscuring the driveway that once led to the house Jefferson was born in. That house burned down a few decades ago, but lately, some of the other heirs to the land tell Jefferson they contemplate returning and rebuilding. Jefferson dutifully pays the property taxes every year, as her father asked her to.

But Jefferson and Andrews may be out of luck. In cases where a company or the government is arguing that a utility upgrade is for the public good, it's nearly impossible for property owners to fight, said Renee Gregory, a lawyer at the Center for Heirs' Property Preservation in Charleston, South Carolina.

"In these situations, it's not a matter of will the property be taken, just how much you will be compensated for," she said.

Andrews, who owns the parcel bordering Jefferson's, said Dominion offered her $500, then $1,000 when she refused. She said she worries that the economic woes some people are experiencing amid the coronavirus pandemic will lead other property owners to take Dominion up on its cash offers.

Dominion held a community workshop in January at the town's elementary school so residents could learn more about the proposed pipeline. But Andrews said the workshop was in the afternoon when most people were working; the explanations they got from Dominion weren't that thorough, and there was no mention of a public hearing.

"It's like we had no say in the matter," Andrews said.

Other landowners reached by The Associated Press had varied reactions to the project, though most expressed unease at the thought of agreeing to an easement on their lands.

Andrews and Jefferson have tried to rally their neighbors against the project. The pandemic makes organizing hard. Instead of meeting in person, concerned residents hop onto weekly conference calls. And some community members are apathetic to their cause, the women say, assuming Dominion will win out in the end regardless.

Jefferson, who is still handing out photocopied, handwritten appeals to her neighbors and looking for an attorney to represent her in court, remains even-tempered despite the stress of the past few months.

"It's not about money. It's about principle," Jefferson said.

PAMPLICO, SC (WMBF) - An unpaid speeding ticket after more than 20 years is now surfacing.

The Pamplico Magistrate's Office is sending collection notices to one man who never knew about the ticket. The offices summoned John Norton to appear in court on Thursday morning.

WMBF News went to the court appearance to listen in on what happened. Judge Kimberly Cox began by stating the court appearance is between John Norton versus the South Carolina Setoff Debt Collection.

Cox handed Norton the speeding ticket and made a copy of it for proof. It was issued by the South Carolina Highway Patrol. The date of violation listed on the ticket dates back to Jan. 17, 1993 in the town of Pamplico, with a trial date of May 26, 1993.

The ticket states Norton did not appear in court, he was tried guilty and owes a $70 fine, which Norton still has not paid.

Cox said because Norton never showed up and contesting has passed, Norton does not have a right to request a jury, which he asked for during court.

When asked why Norton is just now finding out about the ticket, Cox said she has hired a new clerk who has gone through the South Carolina Setoff Debt Collection System. It pulls any citations that may or may not have been paid.

"I don't care what they lose or what they throw away," Norton said. "If they tell me it's a valid ticket, it has been dealt with and either paid in the past or dealt with as it should have legally been done. That is my way of doing business for 80-plus years."

Norton said he tried to trace back his driving records to as far as 10 years ago, which is as far back as the database allows, and could not find any outstanding ticket.

"I was never notified of any happenings that were so called tried in absentia," he said. "This morning is the first time I have heard of that."

Norton has taken his grievance to highest SCHP office in Columbia, as well as the one in Florence and the chief magistrate's office in Lake City.

According to Norton, he lived in Florence during the time of ticket and drove through Pamplico for years to get lumber.

"I have paid my dues around here," he said. "Why, at this late date, are they singling me out along with others? I talked with one other person that had almost identical happenings."

The judge and the clerk at the magistrate's office said they are just doing their job.

Norton said at the end of court the $70 is not coming out of his pocket willingly. The judge said the money will be taken out from his income tax return next year.

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