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There are more than 15,000 homeless children in South Carolina. Children's Garden in Columbia has served over 3,000 since 1990. Children's Garden is a childcare center for six weeks to five- year- old children of homeless and needy families. More ... Rotary District 7770 recently awarded its 2009 Service Above Self Award to Richard Hucks, a member of the Spring Valley Rotary Club. District 7770 comprises the 25 eastern counties in South Carolina and includes 78 Rotary clubs with a membership of approximately 5,000 Rotarians. Hucks accepted the prestigious award at a recent Spring Valley Rotary meeting. More ... Shandon Presbyterian Church will present the opening event of "The Arts at Shandon Series" with "The Mozart Project" Friday, September 18, 2009, at 7:30 pm. The concert is hosted by Lynn Compass and John Williams and includes singers Tina Stallard and Mark Rattray and instrumentalists Lynn Compass, piano; Neil Casey, violin; Connie Gee, viola; and David Gee, cello. More ... The American Foundation for Suicide Prevention started in 1987 by research scientists and family members who lost a loved one to suicide. The SC chapter is less than a year old. John Brown, a local Episcopal priest and the director of Crisis and Forensic Services at the Columbia Area Mental Health Center, is the chapter president. More ... On an icy morning, February 29, 1920, the last of nine children was born to the late John Stack Lomas and Mable Hollis Lomas. His name was Lee Blake Lomas, and he lived a full life of 891/2 years in the Fair Lawn Community. From birth he was a member of Pisgah Methodist Church. In 1965, he became a charter member of Fair Lawn UMC. More ... Beloved husband, father, grandfather, and great- grandfather Bruce Richard Hunt passed away following a brief illness on Sunday, August 30, 2009, at Johnson Memorial Hospital in Franklin, Indiana. Born April 28, 1918, a native of Fort Wayne, Indiana., he was 91 years old at his passing. More ... Alice Gallman has fought for what she believes her whole life. This 87- year- old Columbia woman's great uncle, a former slave and Confederate soldier, John Alex Sarter, had that same fighting spirit. Gallman contacted Lt. Commander for S.C.'s Sons of Confederate Veterans and also the founder of radiofreedixie. More ... It is the soldier, not the President, who gives us a democratic republic. It is the soldier, not Congress, who protects us. It is the soldier, not the journalist, who gives us freedom of the press. It is the soldier, not the poet, who gives us freedom of speech. It is the soldier, not the campus organizer, who gives us the freedom to demonstrate. More ... |
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