Story and photos by Natasha DerrickNatasha@TheColumbiaStar.com Behind the eight-foot tall electric fence and multiple alarm systems, 16 security cameras monitor the grounds of Mid-Carolina Steel & Recycling, and there are plans to add four more cameras. The tight security is in place to keep the thieves out as much as it is to catch them. Fred Seidenberg, owner of Mid-Carolina […]
Columbia’s first rock music school debuts
History will be made Sunday, August 27 as students from the Columbia Rock Academy make their official debut performance at Jillian’s in the Vista. The Columbia Rock Academy is Columbia’s first music school dedicated to the study of rock music. The academy, located at 207 S. Prospect St. off of Rosewood, is next door to the Jam Room Recording Studio. […]
16-year-old heads to college
Sam Ferguson is filled with anticipation as well as a few mixed emotions. While his former classmates are entering their junior year at Blythewood High School, he will begin his freshman year at Simon’s Rock College of Bard in Great Barrington, Mass. August 21 is the kickoff for incoming freshmen at Simon’s Rock, a college of the liberal arts and […]
Verizon helps needy students get school supplies
By Natasha DerrickNatasha@TheColumbiaStar.com There are only a few short weeks left until school begins, and The Cooperative Ministry is working hard to see that needy children have what they need to start the year off. On the hot, humid morning of the July 28, Art Collier, executive director of The Cooperative Ministry, helped workers load an 18-wheeler truck full of […]
Do the math, girls….and the science
Until they got involved in Fast Forward’s science camp, many of the fifth through seventh grade girls who registered for the week’s activities had not realized there were women scientists. By the end of the week, they had gotten to know a few female pioneers in science well enough to portray them in a skit. Heightening campers’ awareness that females […]
Curing Kids’ Cancer donates $11,000 to Palmetto Health
On July 31, 2006, Curing Kids’ Cancer Inc. donated $11,000 to Palmetto Health Children’s Center for Cancer and Blood Disorders to fund cutting-edge cancer research. The money was raised from two special events – Heathwood Hall Episcopal School’s “Kickin’ Kids’ Cancer to the ENDzone” mom’s flag football game on May 12 and the 2nd Annual Killian Owen Memorial Golf Tournament […]
Killian Owen inspired Coaches Curing Kids’ Cancer
Killian Owen was only five years old when he was diagnosed with leukemia. Despite the punishing effects of chemotherapy, Killian kept his love of sports. Throughout his treatment, he continued to swim and play baseball and basketball. It was Killian’s positive attitude that inspired a local coach to donate his end-of-season gift to Children’s Healthcare of Atlanta in Killian’s honor. […]
Parents start campaign to cure childhood cancer
Grainne Owen is a co-founder of Curing Kids’ Cancer. She and husband Clay lost their nine-year-old son Killian to leukemia in 2003. Determined to help find new cures for cancer, she developed the concept of Coaches Curing Kids’ Cancer. Grainne and Clay have three other boys: Pierce, Garrett, and Finnian. Grainne is also an accomplished business leader, having served as […]
Heathwood Hall students give time and energy to service project
The fifth and sixth graders at Heathwood Hall are involved in Curing Kids’ Cancer as their Community Service project. The students visited the cancer center, met the doctors and nurses, made blankets for the patients, made decorations and decorated a tree on the fifth floor of the cancer center each month, made care boxes for the children cancer patients and […]
Hallelujah Singers record at First Baptist Church
Clapping became an additional percussion instrument backing up the Hallelujah Singers recently when the emissaries of Gullah culture recorded their new CD, Legacy, live at First Baptist Church. The audience that packed the pews for the free concert in the historic church was treated as an integral component in the recording session. Led by Marlena Smalls, actress and gospel singer, […]