The South Carolina Philharmonic’s (SCP) Painted Pianos have spread across the Midlands, putting the playable, public art in businesses and places of interest to raise money and awareness for the orchestra. “Painted Pianos” is a result of a partnership among Rice Music House, the Village Artists at the Village at Sandhill, and the SCP. Not unlike the SCP’s Painted Violins […]
Big Love at Theatre South Carolina
Theatre South Carolina at the University of South Carolina will present Big Love, playwright Charles Mee’s outrageous take on a 2500–year–old Greek tragedy, November 12–20 at Longstreet Theatre. Show times are 8 p.m. Wednesday–Friday, 7 p.m. Saturdays, and 3 p.m. on the first Sunday. There will be a half–price performance at 11 p.m. on the final Saturday (November 20). Tickets […]
South Carolina’s future in clean energy
On Friday afternoon, October 22, a panel of nuclear reactor construction players convened in Amoco Hall in the Swearingen Engineering Center on the USC campus. The panel’s moderator was Charles Bierbauer, dean, College of Mass Communications and Information Studies. Welcoming the panel and the audience was Dr. Harris Pastides, president, USC, who also participated on the panel. With Dr. Pastides […]
Briefs
Early Christmas Florence & Hutcheson, consulting engineers on Huger Street, will be on the pro bono job at Carolina Children’s Home next Wednesday, November 3. The firm will contribute 20 of its people on the company payroll to decorate therapeutic waiting rooms. They’ll be stenciling and painting the walls to create unique atmospheres with an under –the–sea theme. Also, enhanced […]
Get to know your Richland County Delegation
Sen. John E. Courson (R–District 20, Lexington and Richland Counties) is senior vice president of Keenan & Suggs. Sen. Courson was born November 21, 1944, graduated from USC in 1968. He is married to Elizabeth Poinsett Exum,. They have three children: James Poinsett, Elizabeth Boykin, and Harris Russell. Courson served in the USMCR. He has served in the Senate from […]
Folks about town
Stephanie Gerrald of Palmetto Health Hospice has been awarded the Judith Lund Person Hospice Volunteer award. John J. Singerling III has been appointed to the position of president of Palmetto Health. The DuBose family of companies has been awarded an honorable mention in the March of Dimes and Columbia Business Monthly’s Best Companies in the Midlands for Working Moms competition. […]
Golf Classic raises funds for people with lifelong disabilities
On October 19, 23 teams gathered at Woodcreek Farms for a day of golf to benefit the Babcock Center Foundation. The tournament was a huge success and raised over $19,000 for people with developmental disabilities supported by the Babcock Center. No one could have asked for a better day to be outdoors on the golf course. All of the golfers […]
Rosewood merchants donate $10,000
The Rosewood Merchants Association (RMA) presented a $10,000 check to the Mental Illness Recovery Center, Inc. (MIRCI) on Thursday, October 21, 2010. The funds will be used to help replace the deteriorating roof on MIRCI’s building located on Rosewood Drive. RMA president Rachel Smith presented the check to MIRCI executive director Julie Ann Avin at MIRCI’s 26th Annual Shrimp Boil. […]
Partnership saves S.C. energy and money
A partnership launched October 25 between South Carolina’s electric cooperatives and the Environmental and Energy Study Institute (EESI), a non–profit public policy education and outreach organization based in Washington, D.C., is a key step in developing a pilot project to help rural South Carolinians save energy and money in their homes. The collaboration between the co–ops and EESI to design […]
Express Oil Change coming to Harbison
Colliers International agent Tripp Bradley brokered the sale of 0.6 acres for use as an Express Oil Change & Service Center at 267 Harbison Boulevard in Irmo. Colliers represented Providential Real Estate, LLC in the purchase of the property. The buyer will redevelop the site by adding an additional building in the rear and has plans to renovate the existing […]