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Billy Graves Benton is a yarn spinner from way back, farther back, maybe, than he might admit. Known to radio listeners as simply Bill Benton, since he spun his way into town in 1963, Billy Graves has become a Columbia icon. More ... The Columbia Rotary Club welcomed guests from Wales and Australia this week. These two Group Study Exchange Teams are part of Rotary International's educational program to bring non- Rotarians to America to study for five weeks with Rotarians in Beaufort, Hilton Head, Orangeburg, Charleston, Mt. Pleasant, Lake City, Florence, North Myrtle Beach, Sumter, and Columbia. More ... Art teachers and 23 advanced art students at Hammond School participated in the Memory Project. A powerful service learning project promoting international education, kindness, and friendship, the Memory Project involves the creation of portraits of children around the world who have been abandoned or orphaned. More ... Columbia's most recent release could easily have been set in Olympia. Mickey Burriss, in his first published chapbook, called his fictitious mill village Tugaloo, but the dirt streets down, which the protagonist runs barefooted, could have been Whaley or Kentucky Street, or the beginning of Bluff Road. More ... Retired US Army Colonel Claude Lott of Camden (l) watches as Raymond Myers (in cockpit), grandson of Camilla and Mike Ferry of Columbia (c & r), explores a Bell Cobra helicopter. More ... The Mental Illness Recovery Center (MIRCI), with the S.C. Department of Mental Health, the University of S.C. School of Medicine and other supporters, is celebrating the 185- year history of mental health in S.C. The Lighting the Way: Mental Health in S.C. celebration will be held Saturday, May 5, in honor of seven generations of people who were cared for in the S.C. More ... Olympians have discovered their roots run way beyond their close- knit community. Planners of the first festival, April 21, figured the inaugural event would attract primarily current neighbors, plus some who once lived near the mills. More ... John Wrisley jwrisley@bellsouth.net Several days ago a brief period of acute physical distress set me to thinking about several small projects I had cleverly been postponing for years, such as updating a 35- year- old will, dashing off some brief notes to accompany certain files that are not self- explanatory, More ... |
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