You must be the change you want in the world. - Mahatma Gandhi
"We will be identified as a community in how we relate to the least of these." - Rev. Amos Disasa
By Anita Baker
      In a study completed in January of 2007 by the United Way, it was found that there were approximately 1100 homeless individuals in the Columbia area. Leaders of the Columbia community began to join together to create the vision that was presented to our city this past Thursday morning at the Salvation Army.
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CASA needs a few good men
By Vennie Deas- Moore
      A child's home should be a place of security and well- being. Unfortunately, there are homes in Richland County where there is no safety. Children are abused and in danger. If parents are the aggressors, who speaks for the children?
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Columbia will miss Lourie's
      After 96 years, Louries has closed its doors forever. Susan Lourie with Mick and Nancy Lourie at the closing of Lourie's on Main Street. A painting of Sol Lourie is in the background
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Otis Rawl becomes new president and CEO of S.C. Chamber of Commerce
Contributed by S.C. Chamber of Commerce
      Otis Rawl has been promoted to president and CEO of the S.C. Chamber of Commerce, effective October 1, 2008. Rawl succeeds S. Hunter Howard Jr., who spent 17 years building the South Carolina Chamber into one of the state's most powerful and successful advocacy groups.
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C.A. Johnson graduate's composition premieres in Austria
Contributed by Anita Brewer
      Exposition, a composition written by Dr. Joyce Solomon Moorman, will receive its European premiere July 4 at the University for Music and Performing Arts in Vienna, Austria. Dr. Moorman, now resides in Brooklyn, New York and is the daughter of Mary Solomon, a retired Columbia public school guidance counselor, and Dr.
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