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Looking for something to do to celebrate Veterans Day Near Greenville, SC? Our country has set aside a special day in honor of the military personnel that have served on Veterans Day. If you’ve served our country, Kidding Around wants to offer a heartfelt thank you for your service.

This year, Veterans Day is on Tuesday, November 11th, 2025.

Greenville, Spartanburg, and the surrounding areas of the Upstate have several ways you and your family can get out to honor our military. Please note the date and times where provided, as not all events are on Veterans Day.

Sunday, November 9th, 2025 | Gates open at 2 PM Featuring aerial flyovers, concessions, a concert from Ryan Spencer & Darryl Worley. This year they are requesting a $5 donation per ticket. To get your ticket go to Upstate Salute Website. Follow Upstate Salute on Facebook for the full agenda as it is announced.

Tuesday, November 11, 2025 | 11 am Happening on North Main Street in Inman.

Tuesday, November 11, 2025 | 11 am This year the city of Simpsonville will be honoring veterans with a ceremony at the Simpsonville Arts Center.

Tuesday, November 11, 2025 | 4 pmThe annual Veterans Day Parade will take place on Tuesday, November 11th, 2025 from 4:00 – 5:30 pm. The parade route will begin at Mt. Moriah Baptist Church, proceed down Church Street, and end at the Spartanburg Memorial Auditorium.

Sunday, November 9, 2025 | 3:00 pm Pickens County Veteran Parade will be taking place this year through the center of downtown Easley following the same route as the Easley Christmas Parade.

Monday, November 10th, 2025 | 11-2 pm This program will be held at the Fountain Inn Activities Center and feature guest speakers, live music from The Upstate Senior Band, and a heartfelt Quilts of Valor presentation recognizing our local Veterans. Lunch will be provided following the ceremony.

Memorials to Visit In Honor of Veterans Day

There are often wreath-laying ceremonies at local war memorials in honor of Veterans Day.

Active and retired military must show valid ID for these Discounts. Please see individual websites for discount details.

Active and retired military must show valid ID for these Discounts. Please check with local restaurants for discount details. Offers are only valid on Veterans Day unless otherwise noted.

Active and retired military must show valid ID for these Discounts. Please check with locations for discount details. Offers are only valid on Veterans Day unless otherwise noted.

An update has surfaced regarding tonight’s new episode of WWE Friday Night SmackDown.

Ahead of the November 7 episode of WWE SmackDown from the Bon Secours Wellness Arena in Greenville, South Carolina, the official WWE website has updated their preview for the weekly blue brand prime time program.

Now confirmed for tonight’s show, which kicks off at 8/7c on the USA Network in the United States and on Netflix for international fans, is the first appearance for Jade Cargill since she captured the WWE Women’s Championship from former title-holder Tiffany Stratton at this past weekend’s WWE Saturday Night’s Main Event show at the Delta Center in Salt Lake City, Utah.

From WWE.com:

Jade Cargill returns to SmackDown as new WWE Women’s Champion

After dethroning Tiffany Stratton at Saturday Night’s Main Event, Jade Cargill is the new WWE Women’s Champion, and SmackDown has never been stormier.

How will Cargill mark her return?

Don’t miss SmackDown tonight at 8e/7c on USA.

Along with the new Jade Cargill segment referenced above, WWE is also advertising that fans will find out what is coming for “The American Nightmare,” as Undisputed WWE Champion Cody Rhodes will reveal what is next for him after his second successful title defense against “The Scottish Psychopath” Drew McIntyre in their WrestlePalooza rematch at WWE Saturday Night’s Main Event.

Additionally, in-ring action scheduled for the show this evening includes a pair of title tilts, with Giulia defending her WWE Women’s United States Championship against former title-holder Chelsea Green, and WWE United States Champion “The Mad Dragon” Ilja Dragunov putting his gold on-the-line against a mystery opponent in the latest weekly U.S. Championship Open Challenge series.

In non-title action, the 11/7 edition of WWE SmackDown will feature Rey Fenix going one-on-one against Talla Tonga of The MFT’s, while one-half of the WWE Women’s Tag-Team Champions Charlotte Flair will square off against Nia Jax.

Make sure to join us here tonight at WrestlingHeadlines.com at 8/7c for live coverage from Greenville, S.C.

.@Jade_Cargill ushers in a new era as WWE Women's Champion TONIGHT on #SmackDown!

— WWE (@WWE) November 7, 2025

Greenville are you ready?!@RealNickAldis previews a huge night ahead on #SmackDown!

???? 8e/7c on @USANetwork pic.twitter.com/VBvbWd6ntd

— WWE (@WWE) November 7, 2025

Jeremy Cannon is a fourth-generation row-crop farmer in Clarendon County, where he and his family grow soybeans that get processed for meal in South Carolina and sold overseas.

Cannon loves what he does, but lately he’s felt existential pressure as the trade war has escalated between the U.S. and China, which in the past two years has bought more than half of American soybeans. Its refusal this year to buy any soybeans from the U.S. is costing farmers like him anywhere from $40,000 to $60,000 compared to last year.

For Cannon, that $1 per acre is the difference between being able to keep the lights on or not.

“It is difficult,” he said. “If you didn’t love farming … there's no way you'd wake up tomorrow and choose to do it.”

On Oct. 30, negotiations in South Korea with President Xi Jinping offered South Carolina farmers a glimmer of hope. Trump said Xi had authorized China to begin purchasing “massive amounts” of soybeans, sorghum and other farm products in addition to reductions in tariffs and a delay in Chinese restrictions on rare earth mineral exports.

“Our Farmers will be very happy!” Trump later wrote in a Truth Social post.

But whether China follows through remains to be seen. In 2020, the president signed a trade deal that committed China to purchase $200 billion of additional U.S. exports before Dec. 31, 2021, after a costly tariff war. China ultimately bought only 58 percent of the exports it had agreed to — and none of the additional requirements, according to the Peterson Institute for International Economics.

A new deal couldn’t come soon enough for Palmetto State farmers.

Soybeans are the state’s largest crop by acreage, primarily grown in the Pee Dee region. Top-producing counties include Horry, Florence, Williamsburg, Clarendon and Dillon. South Carolina harvested about 380,000 acres last year, producing over 12 million bushels that are shipped through Charleston's port and used locally for livestock feed.

But uncertainty remains about the sustainability of the industry as it’s become harder to earn a living growing soybeans.

In addition to lower market prices and rising costs for fertilizer and supplies, the state’s one processing plant in Kershaw closed in April because of cost-cutting measures, increasing shipping costs to Fayetteville, N.C., and lack of competition among buyers, Cannon said.

By his math, farmers could lose 20 to 30 cents on the product’s value. And while the president promised to reimburse farmers for trade losses — even floating the idea of reimbursing them from tariff revenue — that money had yet to materialize when Cannon spoke with The Post and Courier this week.

The Trump administration’s Department of Agriculture previously authorized up to $12 billion in financial assistance for farmers in 2018 affected by the trade war, where the U.S. suffered billions in losses.

U.S. Rep. Russell Fry, who represents the soybean-rich Pee Dee region, said he spoke personally with the president and Agriculture Secretary Brooke Rollins this week about the challenges farmers are facing.

“The last administration failed to hold China accountable for deals that they previously made with the United States,” Fry said in an Oct. 30 statement to The Post and Courier. “President Trump’s new deal is a game changer for South Carolina farmers, particularly those who grow soybeans. This deal opens critical export opportunities, strengthens demands for American-grown farm products, and reinforces our commitment to fair trade that benefits South Carolina producers and rural areas.”

American soybean farmers have been following negotiations closely this time around for signs of renewed market access and stability, the American Soybean Association said in a statement. ASA advocates for U.S. soy farmers on policy and trade.

Caleb Ragland, ASA president and a soybean farmer from Magnolia, Ky., told the U.S. Senate Judiciary Committee during a hearing Oct. 28 that farmers across the country are facing a worsening financial outlook driven by high production costs and shrinking operating margins.

“Commodity prices have fallen by an average of 50 percent since 2022, at the same time farm production costs continue to skyrocket,” Ragland said. “Soybean farmers are expected to net a $109 per acre market loss on their crop this year.”

He warned that input inflation — particularly for seed, fertilizer, pesticides, fuel and equipment — has become one of the greatest threats to farm viability.

That’s a problem, Cannon said, because the alternative is buying food overseas that is less regulated at higher prices.

Cannon voted for Trump in 2024. When asked if he believed Trump is delivering on campaign promises he made to farmers, he gathered his thoughts.

“I think we have to see the end to find out,” he said.

GREENVILLE COUNTY, S.C. —

Ennis Fant, a Greenville County councilman, was in front of the board of elections for a "hearing of elector's qualification," but the meeting ended in just a matter of minutes.

A frustrated Ennis Fant left the Greenville County Council chambers Thursday after an 'electors qualifications' hearing ended within minutes of starting.

"[Derrick Quarles] has to come down here and worry about the same residency I've had for 13 years. This is nothing new. I've had the same domicile residence for 13 years. He keeps talking about SLED. Sled found nothing," he said.

Derrick Quarles, who lost to Ennis Fant in his last election, called the meeting. But when the board of elections chairman asked if he wished to proceed, Quarles answered "no."

"I withdrew it because I'm going to resubmit it. Unfortunately, when I submitted this, I did not know all the rules and procedures, and I asked them several times about the rules and procedures," he said after the hearing.

Quarles cited a 2024 sled investigation that he says proves Ennis Fant doesn't live in District 25.

"[Investigators] got a subpoena for his phone records from Verizon Wireless. It's on record, showing he lives up at 4 Smoke Rise Court in Simpsonville, in Greenville. And that's where his phone is used more than anything. We also got a subpoena from Greenville Water, and I will get that to you also. And, it says that on it. It said in November of 2014, Enis Fant and Sarah Fant, relinquished their right to their water utilities from that residence in [district] 25," Quarles said. "I couldn't introduce it tonight because SLED is not here to talk about the report. It's hearsay."

Fant disagreed with Quarles' use of the investigation.

"I'm in real estate. I have more than one house. There are 11 requirements. You have to meet domicile requirements. You have to have a minimum of four. I have nine of the 11," he said. "I will be filing a lawsuit next week against him because nobody stops him. He's going to continue to aggravate me, aggravate me for the next three years. And I've had it. I've had it beat and run against me and win, not lose and harass me every week."

Quarles said he wants to be back in front of the Board of Elections about this.

"I'm going to resubmit, and once I can get SLED to agree, and hopefully it'll be sometime next week," he said.

WYFF reached out to SLED about the existence of that investigation and has not heard back yet.

The Greenville Symphony brings back its tailor-made version of Sergei Prokofiev’s classic “Peter and the Wolf,” with a tale transported from the forests of Russia to the woods of Upstate South Carolina.

Last year, the orchestra commissioned Broadway director Mark Waldrop to write a new version of the 1936 story-with-music about a boy who, with the help of his animal friends, sets out to capture a wolf — despite the warnings of his grandfather.

Local actress Mimi Wyche will return to narrate the tale, now set in Upstate South Carolina.

The orchestra will offer two performances at the Peace Center’s Gunter Theatre, Nov. 1-2. The concerts, both of which take place at 3 p.m., are appropriate for ages 7 and up.

“‘Peter and the Wolf’ is one of the great introductions to orchestral music — each instrument becomes a character, and every melody tells part of the story,” said music director Lee Mills. “I think most people can still remember listening to it as a kid. It makes such an impactful impression.”

The orchestra will also feature Waldrop’s original story set to the music of Edvard Grieg’s popular “Peer Gynt” Suite. The new tale, “The Adventures of RaeLynn and Luke,” centers on two young siblings who journey into the South Carolina woods and have an encounter with ogre-like creatures called gobblewalkers.

Back by popular demand

The orchestra premiered the two pieces with Waldrop’s new narratives last year. The two scheduled performances sold out, and a third concert was added.

The program is being brought back now by popular demand.

“This concert captures everything that makes our Gunter Theatre Series so special,” said the orchestra’s executive director, Jessica Satava. “Audiences are drawn in by the intimacy of the space, the artistry of our musicians and the magic of live narration. It’s a performance that connects generations through music and story.”

Waldrop, a writer and director for live theater, provided special material for Bea Arthur on Broadway and for Bette Midler’s Divine Millennium tour. He has made a specialty of co-writing and directing cabaret and concert appearances for performers including Sutton Foster, Brooke Shields and his longtime friend and collaborator Mimi Wyche. He is the writer and lyricist for the Radio City Music Hall Christmas Spectacular.

Want to go?

What: Greenville Symphony Orchestra: “Peter and the Wolf”

When: Nov. 1-2, 3 p.m.

Where: Peace Center Gunter Theatre

Tickets: $44-$64.90

Info: 864-467-3000 or peacecenter.org