‘She didn’t even know she was in danger’

Man offers $1,000 reward for information regarding pet’s death

June 23, 2005

By JACKIE R. BROACH
Index-Journal staff writer

It’s always painful to lose a friend.
Joe Mann, of Greenwood, knows that.
Mann lost a friend dear to his heart June 8, when his dog, Enmark, was hit and killed by a car. He said he is still grieving the loss, as are family, friends and his co-workers at Mann’s Welding. Enmark had become a fixture there and frequently followed at Mann’s heels as he went about his job.
Enmark’s death is made even more painful for Mann because he said he is certain she was killed intentionally. Mann is so sure of that, he is offering a $1,000 reward for information leading to the arrest and conviction of Enmark’s killer. The reward was originally for $500, but the amount was increased after a small, white wooden cross placed along the roadside in Enmark’s honor was torn apart Sunday. Mann said he thinks the cross was destroyed by the same car that took Enmark’s life.
On the morning Enmark died, Mann said she was sitting in the driveway at Mann Welding on North Emerald Road, watching the traffic, as she often did. He went inside for a few minutes and when he returned, Enmark was dead.
“She was laying right where I left her,” Mann said. “You could see tire tracks where somebody had come off the road, went right over her and then went back on the highway. She didn’t even know she was in danger.
“I don’t understand,” he said. “I just don’t understand how a person could do something like that. No decent human being would do that. I guess it takes a certain breed, one that likes to hurt things.”
Though Enmark wasn’t human, Mann said she was still one of God’s creatures and “had every right to live out her life.”
“She was happy,” he said. “She wanted to live.”
Mann, a long-time lover of animals, had rescued Enmark eight months ago. He had first seen her at an Enmark convenience store, where he was buying gasoline.
“She was just a poor black dog, nothing but bones and mange,” he said.
Mann said he started taking food to the store for Enmark, but couldn’t catch her to bring her home. She was finally captured by the Humane Society and Mann adopted her and made her part of his family.
“Everybody loved her,” said Lois Johnson, a secretary at Mann’s Welding. “She was so sweet. She would come to the door every morning and I would fill her full of treats.”
Johnson still has Enmark’s treat jar sitting on top of her file cabinet.
Enmark was buried beneath a tree at Mann’s Welding and a second cross was put out to mark the site of her death. In addition to it, a banner was put up, reading “You kill our dog, & destroy her cross. Murdering coward.” Mann said it is a message to Enmark’s killer.
Anyone with information about Enmark’s death is asked to call Joe Mann at 223-1019 or the Greenwood Sheriff’s Department, 942-1019.

Mistakes cost Post 20

Errors in sixth inning help Easley defeat Greenwood, 14-9

June 23, 2005

By CHRIS TRAINOR
Index-Journal sports writer

The Greenwood American Legion Post 20 baseball team fell to Easley, 14-9, Wednesday night at Legion Field in a makeup of Monday night’s rainout.
Nick Milford took the loss for Post 20, going 5 2/3 innings and giving up seven earned runs on 12 hits while striking out one.
Post 20 will play Irmo at 7 tonight at Legion Field.
Easley scored in the top of the first inning as Kyle Root smashed a double to deep left field and came in to score one batter later when Post 20’s Kyle Behrendt throw to first base on Chris Pitts’ grounder sailed wide of first.
Greenwood took the lead in the bottom of the first. Will Gary’s single scored Milton Brown to tie it at 1, and later in the inning Lamar Dukes smoked a triple down the third-base line, scoring two and putting Post 20 up 3-1.
The team doubled its run total in second, with a two-run double by Clint Burden highlighting the frame. Burden’s deep smash put Post 20 on top 6-1.
Easley rallied for three runs in the top of the third. The majority of the damage came on Pitts’ two-run home run. Easley took the lead in the fifth, scoring three runs to go up 7-6. Two runs came home on a towering 370-foot double by Jesse Dunn.
Post 20 was able to regain the lead, 8-7, in the bottom of the inning. Greenwood pushed across the go-ahead run when Kyle Behrendt spanked a single to center, scoring Milton Brown.
Things turned sour for Post 20 in the sixth. Easley opened a 9-8 lead with two RBI singles. A pair of Post 20 errors on the same play gave Easley three more runs and a 12-8 lead.
With runners on second and third, Easley’s Erick Guest hit a slow roller to third baseman Clint Richey.
Richey threw wide of first baseman Justin Jenkins, who then retrieved the ball and heaved it into the Post 20 dugout. Both runners and Guest scored.

Mistakes cost Post 20

Errors in sixth inning help Easley defeat Greenwood, 14-9

June 23, 2005

By CHRIS TRAINOR
Index-Journal sports writer

Opinion

Real hatred or strategy, ‘trashing’ can backfire

June 23, 2005

Does Howard Dean, Democrat chairman, really hate Republicans? It’s hard to say, but if his recent rhetoric is indicative of his true feelings, he does.
Dean, remember, is the man who said the Republican Party is nothing but white Christians who never earned an honest living. He has said flat out that he hates them and that they are evil.
Add the rhetoric of other Democrats and it appears there’s an organized campaign to scandalize all Republicans while attempting to discredit them ….. especially President Bush.

SENATE MINORITY LEADER Harry Reid, D-Nev., has called Mr. Bush a liar. Sen. Dick Durbin, D-Ill., has likened the Republican administration to Hitler, Stalin and other mass murderers of even their own people.
Other Democrats, including Sen. Hillary Clinton, D-N. Y. and House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi, D-Calif., have taken a similar approach in vilifying Republicans.
Of course, all the disparagement could be simply political maneuverings and not an effort to spew hatred. Whatever the motivation, it’s the kind of politicking that always has a way of coming back to haunt you. There already are signs that voters in South Carolina and elsewhere are tired of the negative gutter that politics has fallen into.

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Obituaries

Kenneth ‘Ken’ Davis

BRUNSWICK, N.C. — Kenneth “Ken” Rogers Davis, died Sunday, June 19, 2005 at Brunswick Community Hospital. He was a son of the late Henry Frank and Ella Land Davis of Ninety Six, S.C.
Survivors include his wife, Sue Davis of Holden Beach; five children, Renee Davis Brown of Vale, Theresa Davis McNeil of Conover, Michael Sifford and Cathy Zeggert, both of Gastonia and Tina Spearin of Boston; four brothers, Bobby Davis of Greenwood, S.C., Ed Davis of Mooresville, Wayne Davis and Phillip Davis of Ware Shoals, S.C.; four sisters, Alma McFadden of Greenwood, S.C., Myrtle Davis of Augusta, Ga., Wyona “Tony” Ruff of Pomaria, S.C., and Joleen Armstrong of Belton, S.C.; and 14 grandchildren.
Services are 3 p.m. Saturday at Carothers Funeral Home, Gastonia.
The family is at the home of Sue Davis.
Memorials may be made to The Victory Junction Gang Camp, 4500 Adam’s Way, Randleman, NC, 27317.
Carothers Funeral Home, Gastonia, is in charge.

Charles W. Kinard

Services for Charles Walter Kinard are 2 p.m. Friday at Mount Zion Baptist Church, Coronaca, conducted by the Rev. Bernard White. Assisting are Apostle Jessie and Pastor Kevin Simmons and Pastors Yvonne Cheatham and Johnny L. Henderson. The body will be placed in the church at 1.
Pallbearers are Robert Payne, Melvin Brooks, Glenn Bowie, Francis Bowie, Perry Washington and John Johnson. Flower bearers are Jessie Foster, Louise Foster, Janie Nelson and Mabel Hooker.
Visitation is at 116 Old Sample Road.
Viewing is private.
Memorials may be made to the American Cancer Society.
Parks Funeral Home is in charge.