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December 25, 2009  RSS feed
Every child should have the opportunity to visit Santa.
Eleven years ago, Sabrina Odom of North Main Deli became motivated by the conviction that every child should have the opportunity to visit with Santa, not just the ones who had money to pay for a picture. “I noticed that kids would go to the mall, but then they couldn’t see Santa because it cost money,” Odom said. “Every kid needs to be with Santa.” More...

The cake was about two seconds away from the freezer. A.C. Flora, in anticipation of girls basketball coach Patti Moore’s 300th career victory, had a sheet cake waiting in the wings for a postgame presentation and celebration. More...

Around one o’clock on Thursday afternoon, December 17, S.C. Lt. Gov. Andre Bauer was host in his State House office for a small entourage of Chinese diplomats, to include Embassy Minister Guan-gyuan Liu, the second most powerful man in the Chinese embassy in Washington, D.C. More...

A jam session two and a half years ago was the beginning of a band that has raised over $500,000 for charities in the Midlands. Most of the members played with big time bands in the late 50s and have never gotten the love of music out of their systems. More...
The Assembly, established in 1889, held its 121st annual Ball Friday, December 18, 2009, at seven thirty o’clock in the evening in the Columbia Ballroom of the Columbia Metropolitan Convention Center. Guests were received by Mrs. Douglas McKay III, president, and Mr. McKay; Mrs. Robert Yates Knowlton, president– elect and Mr. More...
Letter to the editor
As 2009 comes to a close, Family Shelter is wrapping up its 30th year providing emergency food and shelter, transitional housing, and counseling to Columbia’s homeless families with children. More...
Miles Aldridge has accepted the position of head football coach and PE teacher at Spring Valley High School. The search lasted for more than five weeks and over 65 applied for the position. More...
A Grand Opening was held at Emily Douglas Park on Wheat Street to celebrate the opening of the Emily Douglas Amphitheater, Thursday, December 17. More...
Part 5: Orangerie & Orsay Museums
My wife Linda loves museums, especially those with art of the masters. That meant that while in Paris we had to see the Musée de l’Orangerie and the Musée d’Orsay, which I will refer to as the Orangerie Museum and the Orsay Museum. We bought a Paris Museum Pass, two days for 30 euros ($45) each. More...
Part 9: The Slave Houses
There were originally three rows of slave houses at Goodwill Plantation consisting of ten houses each. One row near the main had a well site in front of the house. Descendents of the slaves freed in 1865 lived in these houses until 1941 when soldiers from Fort Jackson came to the plantation for training in World War II. More...
Assemblages by Kirkland Smith
From a distance one of Kirkland Smith’s assemblages looks like a large oil painting of a famous blonde bombshell. But as you move closer, a strange melding of smaller objects begins to emerge – a collage of various colored plastic pieces that were carefully placed to create a larger picture of Marilyn Monroe. More...
PUBLIC NOTICE Shonda M. Asaad, M.D. shall transfer and sale all patient records related to her medical practice with Lexington Oncology Associates, LLC (“LOA”) to Steven A. Madden, N.D. on or about January 1, 2010. More...
Stopping to smell the flowers
Gardeners celebrate the beauty and bounty of plants year–round with wreaths for the wall, table, or door. In winter, plants provide decorative evergreen leaves, berries, pods, seed heads, nuts, bark, and cones for making wreaths. More...













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