Simpsonville Makes Family Circle Top Ten Places to Raise a Family
Hell’s Angels be damned! From The Tribune-Times:
Family Circle Magazine has named Simpsonville to its annual list of “10 Best Towns for Families: 2010.”
The magazine picked Simpsonville as one of its “perfect places to raise kids” and ranked the city among the top in the country for its affordable home prices, parks and recreation, schools and giving spirit.
The article in the issue that launched July 7 lauds Simpsonville’s family friendly atmosphere, its Freedom Weekend Aloft festival and local parks and recreation facilities, such as the Golden Strip YMCA and the Discovery Island Water Park.
“We have focused for many years now in building a family friendly community and trying to provide places and opportunities for families to spend quality time together,” Mayor Dennis Waldrop said. “This in my mind confirms what we have tried to accomplish.”
Residents feel safe with a low crime rate and can enjoy a small-town atmosphere downtown or numerous parks and recreational facilities, Waldrop said.
“I think if you look at the entire community and look at the atmosphere around here, how could they not choose us?” he asked.
Living in Mauldin I often find myself in Simpsonville and thinking I should have just moved there. It’s got some great restaurants, nice parks and a 24-hour Bi-Lo. If you’re looking to move down here you could do worse than Simpsonville.
Exposing the Pedophile Playbook
People often don’t believe me when I tell them there is an online pedophile community that works together to push their agenda and help each other find victims. Blogs like Absolute Zero United expose individual members of this community on a regular basis. The Philadelphia NBC affiliate has stumbled onto one of the fruits of this online pro-child abuse movement; the so called “pedophile playbook” which is literally an instruction guide written by child rapists to instruct other rapists on how to gain access to victims. Watch and learn:
h/t Dodiafae of Pagans Against Child Abuse
The Night the Lights Went Out in West Greenville
Thousands of residents of West Greenville are without power tonight after a lightning strike destroyed a power line. Reports are that the downed line set grass ablaze near White Horse Road and trapped several people in their cars while emergency services secured the scene.
Duke Energy has an outage map online. According to their estimates nearly 8,000 people in the West Greenville area are currently without power.
Good News! 5,000-10,000 Bikers May Show Up to Simpsonville Bike Rally in June
Organizer Beth Brown (also known as Throttle Fox) decided to hold the first annual Southern Throttle Motorcycle Rally in Heritage Park because of Myrtle Beach’s new ordinances targeting bikers. From the Tribune-Times:
When Beth Brown rides her Harley Davidson motorcycle through Simpsonville or Greenville or the nearby mountains, she envisions the Upstate as a destination for motorcycle riders from across the Southeast.
Now she wants to bring those riders here.
She expects more than 3,000 bikers to cruise into Simpsonville June 4-5 for a new two-day rally at Heritage Park. Others have told her to expect 5,000-10,000 bikers, she said.
The Southern Throttle Motorcycle Rally is being organized by Greenville event-management company Epic Events. Brown, the event’s organizer, hopes the rally will become an annual draw.
Which may be good news for the city of Simpsonville and Greenville County, specially since the the Simpsonville City Council recently expanded the alcohol ordinance to allow sales at public events. Like biker rallies.
The bad news? Over the years several 1%er clubs have been active in South Carolina including The Hell’s Angels, The Pagans, and The Warlocks but as far as I know there is no one gang whose territory is Greenville. So out of the few thousand that show up to this rally we can expect some gangs who are rivals. Despite assurances to the contrary, the outlaw biker culture is still very active, very dangerous and very attracted to rallies like this.
Strippers and other “adult workers” should be especially careful during this rally as many gangs make money through the extortion and abuse of these women. The Breed were caught doing this in 2000 and that case is typical of how 1%er gangs operate.
Keith Waters Stabs Wife in North Carolina, May Be Hiding Out in Greenville
Greenville County residents should be on the lookout for Keith Waters (pictured above) who North Carolina authorities allege stabbed his wife in the chest early this morning. When deputies arrived on the scene a little after 4:30am the suspect’s wife was lying on the floor with a stab wound in her chest and Waters had already fled. It is believed he may be heading to Greenville, South Carolina and he is of course considered armed and extremely dangerous.
From WBTV:
Waters left the scene in a White Cadillac Escalade with NC license tag XXV-4056.
Once he is located, deputies plan to charge him with assault with a deadly weapon inflicting serious injury with intent to kill. They think he may be heading to Greenville, SC.
If you know anything about this stabbing or where Waters may be, call the Burke County Sheriff’s Office at 828-438-5500.
Be alert and be careful. This criminal is dangerous and doesn’t belong on our streets.