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Lake Murray Legends

CWC Leader Madhu Shrivastava

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Contents Letter from the Editor

Summer time is here! As I write this, I can’t help thinking about all the activities that are available to kids over the summer vacation. There are more camps and other activities offered today than were even thought about while I was growing up. When I was a child, my summer camps consisted of the YMCA in Lexington and church camp. In grade school, my friend Cresta and I attended YMCA camp for several years and had a blast. I went to an awesome church camp one year with my cousin, Erin, and we were both baptized that week. Other than that, I didn’t know of any other camps. Now in addition to traditional YMCA and church camps, kids today can choose from themed camp pro-grams including sports, cooking, technology, science, art, kayaking, leadership and many more. There’s really no way for them to have a “boring” summer. Some camps offer scholarships or discounted rates for multi-ple children, and they all seem like a lot of fun. While it’s always nice to have so many choices, I do think that leaving some “down” time is good, too. Asking children what they like or want to do and receiving the standard “I don’t know” can be frustrat-ing. Encouraging them to be creative and seeing what they come up with to entertain themselves is a great way to get some insight on your child’s thoughts and what they like to do in their spare time. With my own children, I’ve found that their idea of a good time may be completely different than what I thought they would enjoy. We all want our families to enjoy the summer season. Make sure they are safe, and leave the rest to the kids. Enjoy your summer!

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Features 8 Lake Murray Legends12 Nursing A True Calling

Columns 6 Word for the Day Rocky Purvis

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Every SaturdaySoda City Market1500 Block of Main St., Columbia, 9 a.m. – 1 p.m.Come by for the season’s best produce, meat, dairy, flowers, and baked items from farmers, bakers, gardeners, and artisans in Co-lumbia. Free admission. 803-269-3241.

Saturday, May 7Rosewood Crawfish Festival2700 Rosewood Dr., 11 a.m. – 8 p.m.Features a kid’s area, Creole and Cajun cuisine, live music, Craw-daddy Dash 5k run, an artist village, and more. Free parking with shuttle service at the State Fairgrounds. Tickets $10 in advance and $5 at the gate. Rosewoodcrawfishfest.com.

Sunday, May 8Concertos & Cupcakes ConcertHarbison Theatre at MTC, 7300 College St., Irmo, 3:30 p.m.Final season concert featuring Tchaikovsky’s Romeo and Juliet Fantasy Overture and the grand prize winner of this year’s Young Artist Competition. Concert followed by cupcakes and lemonade. Admission is free, donations are accepted. LMSO.org. 803-400-3540.

Thursday, May 12 – Saturday, May 14South Carolina Poultry Festival Batesburg-Leesville, SC, Thursday 5 p.m. – 10 p.m., Friday 5 p.m. – 11:30 p.m., Saturday 9 a.m. – 11:30 p.m.3-day event includes parade, contests, car show, live music, 5k, carnival rides, street dances, best chicken cooking contest, and more! Scpoultryfestival.com

Thursday, May 19 and Saturday, May 2115th Annual Garden TourLexington County Master Gardener Volunteers present their 15th Annual Garden Tour. Visit several private gardens and learn about the plants from Master Gardeners. $25/ticket (free admission with Military ID). Lcmgv.org.

Saturday, May 21South Carolina Cornbread FestivalSpirit Communications Park, 1500 Hampton Street, 11 a.m.The inaugural community event will be held in the home of the Columbia Fireflies! This year’s theme “Cornbread is for Every-one” will feature a Kids Corner, The Official Cornbread Classic Cornhole Tournament, Classic Car Show, Cornbread Cook Off, eating contest, live entertainment, & more! Admission $6 - $11. Sccornbread.com or 803-786-7232.

Saturday, May 21 and Sunday, May 22“Thunder Over the Midlands” Shaw Air ExpoShaw Airforce Base, Sumter, 8 a.m. – 5 p.m.Shaw Airforce Base is hosting the Shaw Air expo open house and air show. This free event is open to the general public. Shaw.af.mil or 803-895-2019.

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Have you ever felt over-whelmed? Do you feel overwhelmed right now? If not, get ready. You probably will someday soon.

We live in a world that has a tendency to get overwhelm-ing. Sometimes it’s our family situation. The kids are out of hand, or our marriage just isn’t what we want it to be. At other times, it’s our finances: we have too much month at the end of our

money. For some it’s our job, or lack thereof. Or it could be some unexpected bad news from the doctor for us or someone we love.

At some point in our life, each of us will be faced with situations and circumstances that seem overwhelming. So what do we do? Do we try to man up or woman up and handle it on our own? Do we turn to alcohol or some other form of narcotic to mask our pain and hurt? Or do we attempt the latest, most popular self-help solution?

I’ve got a better idea. Turn to God and cast your cares on Him because He cares for you. That’s what Peter discovered. In 1 Peter 5:6-7 he says, “Therefore humble yourselves under the mighty hand of God, that He may exalt you in due time, casting all your care upon Him, for He cares for you.”

God cares about every area of your life, the big and the small. But to experience that care, you must humble yourself. Admit you need His help. Turn to Him. Trust Him. Have you? Will you? And here’s what I’ve discovered. When you humbly cast your cares on Him, He gives you a peace that is beyond our ability to under-stand. And that’s the Word for Today. n

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by Jackie PerroneMadhu Shrivastava comes from a family which sets a high premi-um on education and accomplishment. Two close relatives came to the United States from their native India on Fulbright Scholar-ships, and from an early age, Madhu wanted to follow them. He managed it by earning degrees in Mechanical and Manufacturing Engineering, and in 1970 brought his wife and infant son to Mil-waukee, WI where he worked for Square D Corporation. Madhu moved to Columbia, SC with Square D Company in March 1973. He became a US Citizen in 1976.

Through creative energy and hard work, this immigrant to the U.S. moved on an upward trajectory, from Square D to NCR Corporation and then to Westinghouse Company, on Bluff Road in Columbia SC. He continued to acquire education credentials, with a Master’s in Mechanical Engineering at the University of Wisconsin at Milwaukee, followed by an MBA at the University of South Carolina in 1978, while working full time at NCR as Engineering Manager.

In 1981 he founded Carolina Convenience Corporation and bought his first store at Coopers Corner in Red Bank. By 1985, he was a full-time entrepreneur at the head of his company, which has become a chain of convenience stores branded S-Mart and Hardee’s food restaurants in the Lexington area. His stores sell BP, Exxon, Citgo and Sunoco gasoline products, both at the retail and the wholesale level, and Hardee’s franchises top his fast-food

ventures. His newest Hardee’s has opened at 1105 W. Main Street in Lexington, and three more are planned, at I-77 and Killian, Bates-burg-Leesville, and in Camden.

Carolina Conve-nience now owns and operates a chain of convenience stores and Hardee’s restaurants. The company also wholesales gasoline to additional customers around the state.

Madhu serves on professional boards and community organiza-tions. He was a representative on the Amoco Dealers Association for eight years, named to the National Dealer Board twice, and in 2000 was named Businessperson of the Year by the Columbia Chamber of Commerce. Then in 2001, the Darla Moore School of Business at the University of South Carolina named him Dis-tinguished Alumnus of the Year.

He is an active fund-raiser for the Muscular Dystrophy Asso-ciation, The Children’s Miracle Network, Palmetto-Richland Children’s Hospital, the National Breast Cancer Foundation, the Wounded Warriors Project, and Shriners.

Madhu and his wife Sulochana travel to India often, keeping up their ties with family members there. Their son Manish graduat-ed from the University of South Carolina Honors College and received his MBA at Northwestern University in Chicago. He is now employed at PulteGroup in Atlanta GA where he is the Chief Marketing Officer. Their daughter Seema earned her degree from Moore School of Business at the University of South Car-olina, and currently holds the title of Vice President, overseeing the Operations Directors, District Managers, and all other aspects of their family-owned business. She says: “I grew up in the family business and learned everything from my father. For me, business means both work and family.” n

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of Lake Murray Damby Tyler RyanAs you take your evening walk across the dam and look out over the lake at a near perfect sunset, it’s hard to imagine that not too long ago on that very same spot was a river, fields, forests, and an occasional post office. Lake Murray historian Randall Shealy is quick to point out that as recently as 1927 this was reality.

If you’ve lived in the area for any length of time you’ve undoubt-edly heard some basic Lake Murray history, and might know that the manmade dam was built in the 1920s to provide power to the quickly growing community known as the Midlands. Shealy has studied the lake his entire life; his father helped operate the Holly Ferry, which ran the 200 feet from to shore to shore of the Saluda River carrying people, livestock, and even cars until November 1929.

Around 1916, consultant T.C. Williams proposed to state officials a hydro plant to generate needed power for the quickly grow-ing Midlands region as the area roared through the post-Civil War industrial age. Others had posed the idea as well. In 1903, Alexander Guignard started the Lexington Power and Water Company, and by the mid-teens was eyeing local areas for a dam to supply power for his customers. By the mid 1920s, developer

John Dreher also thought that the Saluda was the perfect place to build a dam.

In 1925, Williams made his way to the Big Apple, where he met with a man regarded as an expert in hydropower. That man was William Murray. Williams explained that there were several groups who saw the need for a power plant in the area. Murray would not only ultimately design and oversee construction of the dam, but also became something of a father figure to the lake which bears his name.

According to Shealy, the current location was originally one of several potential places where the world’s largest earthen dam might be built. Murray agreed to accompany Williams back to South Carolina, and they began to scout locations for the dam. Several sites were surveyed, and after a review of the 360-foot mean sea level topographical contour map, it was clear where it needed to be. Shealy says it wasn’t Murray, however, who first made that observation.

“It is documented that during the Civil War, Confederate soldiers commented that ‘in Lexington, South Carolina at Dreher Shoals, Mother Nature has provided the proper slope to build an earthen dam.’”

Legends


On a Personal Noteby Tyler Ryan With the promise of history just 30 feet below the sur-face, this avid scuba diver couldn’t help but want to see it up close. Along with divers from Aqua Find Under Water Recovery, Wateree Dive Center, and the South Carolina Department of Natural Resources, we set out to find the tracks that were instrumental in the creation of the lake. On a cool December day — wearing ap-propriate gear provided by Wateree Dive and in a boat from AquaFun Boat Rentals — the team hit the water. It’s important to note that although most people are familiar with the comfortable water temperature in July, Lake Murray is a brisk 50 degrees or so in December.

We dropped to about 25 feet, where there was rumored to be a flag placed as a marker by another diver. After a few unsuccessful minutes (and with enough cold water in my wetsuit to chill my whole body), we came across a red diver flag. Judging by the amount of algae on the flag, it was clear it had been down there a while. It was also clear we were on the right track, so to speak.

After more searching, we found what we were looking for: an iron rail, and then the wooden ties that made up the track nearly 90 years ago. It’s an interesting feeling to kneel on tracks not seen by many in almost a century. I closed my eyes and thought about the pictures and videos I’ve seen about the creation of the dam, and the fact that I was now touching a piece of that history.

Lake Murray is a special place with a special history in the lives and hearts of many in the Midlands. There are also many myths and legends to be discussed in future articles as we explore Lake Murray, bottom to top.

The land that would become the lake was purchased from landowners for an average of $15 an acre — a far cry from the $1 million or so price tag that an acre of lakefront property now commands. In the process, five thousand people were uprooted.

The location was decided in 1925, but the first shovel of dirt wouldn’t be dug for another two years. In September 1927, the very first bucket of earth was moved, and construction of the dam that remains the largest earthen dam in the United States began.

Shealy reports that the construction method for the 265-foot dam was complex. In fact, it wasn’t one dam they were building; it was two. More than five thousand men started building on the Irmo and Lexington sides simultaneously and worked 24 hours a day, six days a week until the two ends eventually met. Two thousand loads of dirt a day were excavated, placed in railcars that would travel on top of wooden bridge-like structures, and dumped in the planned location. High-pressure water was used to compress the dirt until it became as solid as cement. Once the dirt reached the rails, another layer was built on top of the old, and the process began again — the final level of which is said to be visible today, a few feet under water.

The dam took over three years to complete. The first spark of power was made in December of 1930, and the lake and the legends were born. According to Lake Murray Country Executive Director Miriam Atria, the Jewel of the Midlands is 41 miles long, 14 miles wide, and contain 763 billion gallons of water. n

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by Mary Ann HutchesonNational Nurses Week is celebrated the week of May 6-12 this year. To honor our Midlands nurses, we spoke with three of them about their roles in the health care system. Two are veteran nurses in the profession; the third is preparing to enter the field. Despite stressful demands and ever-changing advances in the profession, basic traits of compassion, empathy, understanding, and integrity are still what make a successful nurse. Each believes nursing is a true calling that ultimately returns the most fulfilling rewards.

David HensleyNursing Student at MidlandsTechnical College

On May 4, 2016, David Hensley will graduate from Midlands Tech-nical College’s Nursing program with his Asso-ciate in Applied Science Degree, Nursing. At a special ceremony, David will don the traditional white scrubs and accept his nursing pin. The pin represents completion of the educational require-ments for taking the state licensure examination,

which is compulsory for becoming a Registered Nurse. For David, it represents the start of a second career.

David appears much younger than his 42 years, and has already completed a 21 and a half-year stint in the United States Navy. He graduated from Dreher High School in 1992, and entered the Navy as an Interior Communications Electrician. Eventually he served as an Electricians Mate and Chief Petty Officer, where he managed the entire electrical division onboard ship.

But it was his position as Command Chief and Casualty Assis-tance Calls Officer that revealed David’s alternate calling. Having assisted family members in multiple cases that involved deaths by motor vehicle accidents or suicides, David realized that providing whatever kindness or comfort he could to someone in distress brought him the most rewarding moments at his job.

David also observed his wife Lena’s fulfilling experiences as a Geriatric Care Nursing Assistant and finally admitted, “Hey, I can do this!”

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A month after retiring from active duty, David enrolled as a full-time student at Midlands Technical College (MTC). Department Chair Trilla Mays says, “David is an excellent example of all our wonderful nursing students.” The average age in the program is 30, but MTC students range anywhere from 18 to 50 and older.

David believes it is never too late to start; it takes dedication and putting in the time. Nursing is a career, not a job. Caring for others is what drives the passion for his new career. He counsels, “Learning the material and not just passing the test is vital, as a nursing student will use it the rest of your career.”

David Hensley’s skills, enthusiasm and dedication promise to be an invaluable addition to South Carolina’s nursing profession.

Craig Smith, MSN, RN, Alumnus CCRN-A Nurse Specialist and Director of Clinical Education at Providence Hospital

Craig Smith grew up in Varnville, South Carolina, the son of a nurse practi-tioner. Having once considered a career as a pastor, this deeply spiritual man says, “Eventually, I felt that I could still do the Lord’s work as a Christian in the nursing field.” His mother’s dedication

to the profession and Craig’s caring nature finalized his decision.

Craig entered Midlands Technical College after high school and received his Associate degree in Nursing, followed by his Bachelor and Masters Degrees of Science in Nursing. Since then he has added an impressive number of professional certifications and honors to his resume, including the recent Palmetto Gold award, which exemplifies excellence in and commitment to the nursing profession. He also holds his National Certification for Nurses, and too many other certifications to list. Suffice to say that Craig takes his calling seriously.

Craig began his nursing career in 1997 and married his wife Amanda, a case manager nurse, the following year. The couple has two sons. In 2013, he left direct patient care and now oversees all education requirements for two hospitals. When asked about the most difficult moments in his career, he didn’t hesitate. “When you’re coding a child or an infant, those are the hardest ones.”

But there are also the unexpected rewards. Craig arrived at work one morning to find a special gift from a former patient. Wait-ing for him was a handmade bird box, decorated with children’s names and pictures of birds. It was inscribed with the words, “Thank you for saving my granddaddy.” The accompanying note

revealed a grateful message: “You probably don’t remember me, but you were the first person in the room. You shocked me, and you saved my life.”

To this day, Craig cherishes this meaningful gift. He explains, “When you do something good for someone at the worst mo-ments in their life, you never forget it.”

Kay AustinRN Nurse Manager at Lexington Medical Center’s Progressive Cardiac Unit

Music was Kay Austin’s first love in high school. Her future plans took a dif-ferent turn, however, after helping her mother care for her ailing grandfather. The experience tapped her natural gift for helping others, which led her to the University of South Carolina’s nursing program in August of 1987.

She began working at Lexington Medical Center

in 1990. Kay worked several positions within the hospital includ-ing bedside care for 10 years, and she loved being with patients. She still runs into people who recognize her from years ago, and describes those experiences as some of the most rewarding of her career.

Eventually, 12-hour shifts made it difficult to spend time with her family — husband Joey and their two daughters. Kay initially switched to a case manager position, where she could develop individualized patient care plans while still engaging with patients. The bonus was being able to spend more time with her family.

Although she enjoyed her position, Kay missed being part of a specific team of other professionals — a place where, as a man-ager, she could inspire people to the right thing. She found her current position with the Progressive Cardiac Unit in 2007, and now oversees a 37-bed unit with 90 employees.

Earlier this year Kay received the prestigious Palmetto Gold Award, which recognizes outstanding nurses in South Carolina.

“You’re only as good as the team that you work with,” she said. “The only reason I’ve been able to reach this achievement is because of the people with whom I work. My staff deserves the credit for this award. They are conscientious and good nurses. I have high expectations for my staff because ultimately, it’s all about the patient. And they are the ones out there with the patients.”

“Nursing has been such a rewarding profession,” she said. “It is important to enter the nursing profession for the right reasons, having compassion for those who need our help. That is the most satisfying part of being a nurse.” n



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