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Talk about chutzpah! Would you go up to Michelangelo and offer to paint his portrait? Or suggest to Mozart that you might compose a little sonata for him? One of us met with Constantine "Gus" Manos last week and took his picture. More ... Forest Lake Presbyterian Church, joined by Westminster Presbyterian Church and North Trenholm Baptist Church in Columbia are all building Habitat for Humanity houses in their parking lots, right across the street from each other on Trenholm Road. More ... Vivian Clark- Armstead is a shining light into the darkness of shame and stigma surrounding those, especially in the African- American community, infected with the HIV/AIDS virus. In September 1996, Ms. Clark- Armstead lost her sister, Angela, to the HIV/AIDS virus. More ... A Friday night in mid- September is usually spent at local high schools watching football games. However, on September 19, the folks at the Babcock Center decided to use the last Friday of the summer to hold their annual summer dance. It was sponsored by the Babcock Center Foundation. More ... The 2008 Annual Literacy Leaders award winners are (l- r) Charles Bierbauer, dean of College of Mass Communications and Information Studies; Carolyn Jenkins and Barbara Carlson, members of the REACH 2010 Project; Amanda Levine, Bobbi Kennedy, and Elizabeth Lowder from SCETV; Jane Connor, retired S.C. state librarian; and Dr. More ... He served as a Private with Army Company B 394 99th Division at the Battle of the Bulge in 1944 and 1945, and he helped re- start the Smyrna United Methodist Church in Elgin. Otho Pool is truly and American hero. Pool is now the chaplain for the S.C. Chapter Battle of the Bulge and the Gideons in the South. More ... At a heartwarming ceremony dedicating a historic marker at the site of old Saxon School September 20, Ms. Agnes Perez said it all, "We're still not done with Old Ward One. We are still here and need to be counted." Ward One was one of the original five wards of Columbia drawn up for fire protection and voting. More ... Since I came to Columbia in the fall of 2006, I have only seen a handful of stories about Uganda in the US print media. More ... |
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