The Forest Pines Foxes and Laker Ladies Red Hat Chapters invited other Red Hat Chapters from Columbia and the surrounding area for an Afternoon Tea Party October 7, 2:30-4 pm at Forest Pines, 1720 Devonshire Drive, Columbia, South Carolina. Sassy Red Hatters in all their gorgeous (some loud & tacky) purple and red outfits strutted their stuff to surprise entertainment, […]
Columbia Classical Ballet opens ninth season with Carmina Burana and Jekyll & Hyde
Columbia Classical Ballet directed by Radenko Pavlovich begins its ninth season October 20, 2006, at 7:30 pm at the Koger Center with two ballets for the price of one, Carmina Burana and Jekyll & Hyde. Carmina Burana is an unusually haunting dance. Rick McCullough, choreographer, uses the musical score of Carmina Burana , based on the 13th and 14th centuries, […]
Christmas comes early for homecoming
Homecoming is more than just a football game, it’s a weeklong celebration. Last week, Flora students voted on homecoming queens and decorated hallways, floats, and even themselves in preparation for the big game.
Beulah Baptist Church breaks ground
Beulah Baptist Church on Garners Ferry Road broke ground Saturday, October 14, 2006, for its new facilities. The expansion plans include a 190-seat youth building, additional classrooms and restrooms, an amphitheater plaza, covered walkways, and more parking. Plans for the expansion were developed by Building Committee members Ann Wilkes, Mason Brooks, Jay Floyd, Sherry Koon, and Homer Rose. Beulah is […]
85-year-old Incarnation Lutheran Church puts vision into practice
Following a festive anniversary celebration in September, members of Incarnation Lutheran Church gathered again for a luncheon in October to celebrate “The Privilege of Sharing,” the annual stewardship campaign. “Vision 2021,” the master plan for long-term campus development, was unveiled. A Campus Development Team headed this effort, working with The Bordreaux Group, producing a proposal for a four-phase plan to […]
Trinity Cathedral holds Blessing of the Animals
Elizabeth Powers, daughter, with her mother Elizabeth Powers, and Annabelle, Charlie, and Gilly enjoy a spirited Blessing of the Animals at Trinity Cathedral recently.
Watch out! Prehistoric creatures are closer than you think.
By Warner M. MontgomeryWarner@TheColumbiaStar.com Dr. Al Mead, geology professor and curator of mammals at Georgia College and State University (Al.mead@scsu.edu), shocked members of the Greater Piedmont Chapter of The Explorers Club at their monthly meeting last Friday. He said his discoveries in south Georgia might mean that mammals long thought extinct might have lived alongside early humans on the Georgia […]
Local history alive and well
Meeting in the Middle: Material Culture from South Carolina's Fall Line Region, 1700-1900Silver goblets celebrating a physical assault. A quilt that spans a river. Foreboding northern sentiments scrawled onto a Lower Richland County planter’s furniture. Rare glimpses of antebellum Columbia. These artifacts and other fascinating examples of local material culture have been assembled by the Fall Line Consortium, a group of scholars representing nine Midlands museums and archives. The group’s first collaborative […]
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Sandlapper Singers will perform Oct. 20, 21 at Ebenezer Lutheran Chapel. All the things You Are is a program of show tunes and swing from pre-’60s American musical theater including songs by Gershwin, Porter, Herbert, and Hart.
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Dr. Robert Seigler, the Columbia native who spearheaded the recovery of the WWII Mitchell B-25 bomber that crashed into Lake Murray in 1943, presented an overview of the project recently to members of the Lake Murray Association and others interested in the plane’s history. A sequel to Seigler’s presentation was given by Dr. Jim Griffin, executive director of the Southern […]