On Tuesday night, threatening skies did not dampen the fun when dozens of local dog owners and their four-legged “children” attended the 16th annual French Cooking Goes to the Dogs event at Columbia’s first cooking school, Fleur De Lys Home Culinary Institute on Millwood Avenue. The unique evening was hosted by Chef François Fisera, proprietor and instructor. This year’s event […]
Columbia native receives Purple Heart
Columbia native Staff Sgt. Andrew Peterson was presented the Purple Heart this week during a ceremony at Marine Corps Base Hawaii – Kaneohe Bay. Peterson, a CH- 53D Sea Stallion crew chief and maintenance controller for HMH- 362, was awarded the medal for a combat wound he sustained in Afghanistan earlier this year. The 30-year-old was shot in the back […]
Forest Hills, Columbia’s first planned subdivision, continues to thrive
Forest Hills, near the heart of Columbia, dates back to the 1920s. Leisurely strolls are a favorite pastime for those who live there with people not only knowing your name but the names of your children and maybe even the names of your chickens now that a welcome zoning change allows city residents to have them. “We have lived here […]
Quirky Crimes in the Capital City
Forest Acres tTrenholm Road: A man was arrested at 2 a.m. Tuesday after a patrol officer saw him driving 51 mph in a 40 mph zone. The officer hit his lights to conduct a traffic stop, and as he was following the car, the driver tossed out a lit cigarette. Upon approaching the driver, who was the sole occupant in […]
Trinity episcopal Cathedral begins bicentennial celebration
A celebration will begin the year-long commemoration of the Bicentennial of Trinity Episcopal Cathedral Sunday, October 7 in the State House on the ground floor where Trinity’s first services were held before the church was built. There will be a short prayer serviice using the 1789 prayer book at both the 9 a.m. and 11:15 a.m. services. After both services […]
Providence Presbyterian Church prepares for “Hammer the Hills”
Providence Presbyterian Church is preparing for the 9th Annual Habitat for Humanity Run/Walk (aka “Hammer the Hills”), which raises funds to support Central South Carolina Habitat for Humanity’s mission of providing affordable housing for deserving families across the Midlands. Jennifer Covington, the event organizer, said the Habitat for Humanity Run/Walk has seen tremendous growth since it started in 2004. This […]
Midlands Council life members of AT&T Pioneers sponsor food drive
The AT&T Pioneers celebrated 100 years of in November of 2011. The group has a long list of projects they participate in including the Harvest Hope Backpack Program. The Midlands Council Life Members of AT&T Pioneers collected food for the Harvest Hope Food Bank’s Back Pack Program. Every Friday children are sent home with nutritious food that will afford them […]
Snake oil comes in cosmetics too
I’m just saying...Commercials kill me. More and more every day they seem to insult our intelligence and/or try to slip important information past us. Take the cosmetic commercials for example. They promise us lush and thicker lashes if we use their mascara. Then they show a woman who is obviously wearing false eyelashes. Well of course her lashes are lush and thick […]
Jumping the Shark
It’s not a criticism; It’s an observationI think Shark Week has finally jumped the shark. For anyone unfamiliar with television culture, let me explain. Shark Week is a quarter century old TV series on Discovery that designates one week each year to celebrate sharks. The series really celebrates fantastic ratings because sharks rank pretty high on land-locked Americans’ terror level. Jump the Shark is a phrase […]