Celebrity–hosted Christmas specials were a popular holiday tradition on television for decades, so make plans now to gather your family around the TV set— er, the Workshop Theatre stage—December 9–12 as Workshop presents ’Tis the Season, a fun–filled tip of Santa’s hat to those classic musical events. Hosted by audience favorites Lanny Spires and Giulia Dalbec–Matthews (think of them as […]
Seth Rose, attorney and member of Richland County Council
Due to be inducted this January, Democrat Seth Rose will join Richland County Council and take Kit Smith’s seat. Soon after popular neighborhood activist Rose announced his candidacy, Smith opted out. He won the primary with 67 percent of the votes, defeating Scott Winburn (Smith’s chosen successor), restaurateur Moe Baddourah, and Kayin Jones. No Republican ran against Rose in the […]
Briefs
Medical education The University of South Carolina is about to double the size of its medical school with little state help. Currently, the medical school operates with less than 10 percent of its budget covered by the state. Working with the Greenville Hospital System University Medical Center, USC’s medical school plans to put together a second campus with 400 medical […]
Folks about town
William O. “Bill” Sweeney, III, a founding shareholder of the law firm Sweeny, Wingate & Barrow, P.A., has opened a mediation practice. Judy Bruner and Larr y Sanders, Columbia–Richland 911 telecommunicators, have received the 2010 Palmetto Award from the South Carolina Association of Public Safety Communications Officials. Dana Bruce, executive director of Juvenile Diabetes Research Foundation, has been elected as […]
A miracle on Columbia’s North Main Street
It began with a little boy’s question, and now it’s a reality. This year, there are Christmas lights on North Main Street. Sabrina Odom has been involved with a program called Breakfast with Santa for the past 15 years. Her family owned the North Main Deli, and every year they hosted a program that invited underprivileged children from the local […]
It’s not a criticism; It’s an observation
Some folks actually like SpamEarly last week, a two minute stretch on competing morning TV programs offered an unintentional view of what is wrong with America. The two exclusive stories, one on NBC, the other on ABC, gave an overview of the attitudes and feelings that are slowly reducing this country to a historic afterthought like the Anasazi. NBC featured breathless interviews with surviving […]
Forty– something
My underdeveloped prefrontal cortex made me do itMy oldest daughter recently entered the wonderful world of adolescence, and, thanks to a recent article in Parade Magazine and a bunch of psychological studies that went into the making of the article, she now has every excuse to turn into a brainless, three–toed sloth with a bad attitude. This is not the daughter I’ve grown accustomed to. She always […]
Over the fence for a dollar
A retired trooper told me one of his favorite “war stories” during a breakfast meeting recently. Back in the old days the S.C. Highway Patrol worked security during the annual football clash between the University of South Carolina and Clemson University. The event was called “Big Thursday” and occurred every November during Fair Week. The game was played at Carolina […]