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June 23, 2006

Healing hands

Camden orthopaedic surgeon Joe Jackson took a trip in March to Australia and the south Pacific island nation of Fiji. This was no ordinary vacation. Yes, he and his wife, Peggy, got to hook up with son, Joseph, who is helping write intellectual property policy in Canberra, Australia, for a non-profi More...

Forest Acres visions of the future

By John Dixon

One June 13, 2006, Bill Steiner presented Forest Acres City Council with a ten year vision for the City of Forest Acres, and it was impressive. The Commission has spent several months gathering information from the community regarding weak and strong points of the city. More...

Jazz company dances through every major city in China

By Amy Zhang

Dancing: the new form of international diplomacy? The gate to a new era of camaraderie in Sino-American relations? More...

News

•	Libertarian candidate for S.C. Superintendent of Education speaks on discipline

Editor's note: Each candidate for S.C. State Superintendent was sent a questionnaire about how he/she would deal with the problem of discipline in the schools by email June 16 and asked to respond by June 20. The questions were geared toward specific situations and answers. Timothy Moultrie responde More...

•	Democratic candidate for S.C. Superintendent of Education speaks on discipline

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Business

•	Andrew Card salutes Leadership Columbia

Recent White House chief of staff makes plans

Andrew H. Card Jr., chief of staff for President George W. Bush over the past six years, addressed the alumni of Leadership Columbia in the main ballroom of the Capital City Club last Friday, June 16. The lunchtime crowd filled the room to hear Card recall his White House memories and to share in hi More...

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Briefs

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Society

•	Artists capture spirit of Five Points

Michael Story's Columns is among the paintings auctioned June 22 at a reception at Carolina First Bank in Five Points at 6:30 pm. More...

•	Columbia resident stars in national commercial

•	Miss Wilson and Mr. Chocklett exhange vows June 16, 2006

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Opinion

•	Thirty-something speaks

What makes a man a man?

What makes a man a man? Is it commitment to family? Is it an extraordinary work ethic or success in business? Or is it a variety of strange smells and lots of inappropriate scratching? Is it the ability to belch the entire alphabet or produce low-rumbling, room clearing noises at the pull of a fing More...

•	It's not a criticism, it's an observation.

•	Letter to the editor

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Sports

•	Turbulent Waters

Columbia Swimming League is organized chaos and loads of fun.

Pay attention or you might miss something. It doesn't matter if you are a swimmer, a coach, or a fan, everything moves fast in the Columbia Swimming League. More...

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Results

•	NECSA's Ambush advance to US Youth Soccer Region III Championships

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Education

•	Shepherd's Center of Columbia gets new leader

Carol Spivey has retired as executive director of the Shepherd's Center of Columbia. She served for eight years in this position. During this time Spivey increased enrollment at the Shepherd's Center to nearly 400 registered students. Spivey welcomed senior students over 50 years of age and encourag More...

•	Church librarians grow membership

•	RNE teacher wins national award

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Travel

•	Slave Trade Expedition to Africa

Part 9: The Queen's Soothsayer

The year 1833 was a tragic year for the Lightbourns of Farenya. Capt. Stiles Lightbourn (husband of Queen Niara Bely) was lost at sea on his way to his brother Samuel's funeral in Savannah. Two other slave traders on the Rio Pongo died, also: British John Ormond and American Paul Faber, close friend More...

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Events

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Calendar

ART Children of Hope 2006 Art Exhibit will run through August 27 at The Columbia Museum of Art, 1515 Main Street. The exhibit displays art work created by children with cancer and blood disorders. Sponsored by Palmetto Richland's Center for Children with Cancer and Blood Disorders, Children More...

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Government

•	Columbia City Council Meeting + June 21, 2006 + 9 am

Roll call City council convened for its work session Wednesday morning, June 21, at 9 am. Council members Sam Davis and Daniel Rickenmann were absent. Present were Tameika Isaac Devine, E. W. Cromartie, Mayor Bob Coble, and Anne Sinclair. More...

•	Richland County Council Meeting + June 20, 2006 + 6 pm

•	Columbia City Council Meeting + June 21, 2006 + 9 am

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Public Notices

•	Public Notices

MASTER'S SALE 05-CP-40-5983 By virtue of a decree heretofore granted in the case of ATLANTIC COAST PROPERTIES, INC. against LATOYIA S. JONES AND WAYNE A. BROWN, I, the undersigned Master in Equity for Richland County will sell on Monday, July 3, 2006, at 12 o'clock noon, at the Richland More...

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•	Notice of Application

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Beauty in the Backyard

•	What's growing in Columbia

The Japanese Crape Myrtle, lagerstroemia faurei, was brought to the United States in the 1950s. This species is able to withstand the cold and powdery mildew. More...

•	Firefly show lights up night sky at Congaree Swamp

•	Will your trees survive this hurricane season?

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