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September 8, 2006
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Jumping at a second chance
Don't take your organs to heaven. Heaven knows we need them here.
By Mimi M. Maddock Mimi@TheColumbiaStar.com
Jake Williams gave away the bronze medal he received at the National Transplant Games to his donor family. More...
Marine leaves legacy of hope
Contributed by Deloris Mungo, a friend of Mrs. Fran Fellers, David's Mother

This world is a better place for each of us today thanks to the life of Corporal David Gardner Weimortz of Irmo, S.C. David was a fearless Marine, but he was first a son to Mrs. Fran Fellers and Mr. Terry Weimortz, a brother to Miss Kelly Weimortz and a friend to everyone he ever came into contact w More...

Even soldiers in Iraq read The Columbia Star

Every week Arthur R. Thexton sends four or five packages including More...

 News
• Neighborhood dishes:
noun: local restuarants where friends, family, and neighbors gather to enjoy good food, friendly service, and pleasant company.
Nearly every neighborhood has one: a place where friends, family, and neighbors gather to enjoy good food, friendly service, and pleasant company. In our series, Neighborhood Dishes, we will visit four Columbia area restaurants that possess all these qualities. More...
•Neighborhood Dishes
•Facts regarding LifePoint and organ, eye, tissue donation:
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 Business
•Star Profile Karen Floyd, Republican candidate for S.C. Superintendent of Education
Karen Floyd was born in Hermann Hospital in the world's largest medical complex, the Texas Medical Center in Houston, where her father was a geologist for Esso, now Exxon-Mobil. At age five, her father and Esso moved the family to Libya. Finally in 1971, they moved to South Carolina, and her father More...
•Briefs
•Budding business students visit from Romania
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 Society
•Descendant of Civil War prisoner shares artifacts
Dr. Edmund Taylor has a number of ancestors with Civil War military service, but one is of special interest to a noted scholar. Dr. Dave Bush will be in town to give the keynote address at the Ninth Annual Civil War Symposium to be held September 22, 23. The Ohio professor has requested to meet Tayl More...
•Miss Fowler and Mr. Houck exchange vows in the Magnolia House
•Dreher High to hold All-Class Reunion
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 Opinion
•letters to the editor
DMV demands 15 year old register for Selective Service
I want to let you know about a very serious situation that is taking place in South Carolina. This is most important if you have young children or grandchildren, or know someone with a child who is now or is approaching 15 years of age. It is only now affecting young men but may well spread to girls More...
•There is hope and strength in Israel
•Thirty-something speaks
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 Education
•From Cluj, Romania to Columbia
On Sunday, August 27, 2006, a group of students left their homes in Romania and came to Columbia. By Thursday, they could have passed for native South Carolinians. More...
•Midlands Technical College honors top employees
•Student reports on U.S. Congressman's opinion on the state of public education
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 Travel
•Slave Trade Expedition to Africa
Part 20: Fotoba, village lost in time
Our sailing ship docked at Fotoba. Scores of naked black bodies were lined up, shackled together, heads bowed, skin shining in the tropical sun. Our captain ordered the casks of rum and boxes of guns unloaded. Then purse in hand, he strode over to the slave trader sitting in a mahogany chair in the More...
•I'll take a good ole southern gent anyday over wine and cheese
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 Events
•Calendar
ART The Columbia Museum of Art will present More...
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 Public Notices
•Public Notices
NOTICE OF UNCLAIMED VEHICLES/PUBLIC SALE The following vehicles(s) or other property are subject to towing, repair and/or storage liens, are declared to be abandoned pursuant to Section 56-5-5810, 56-5-5636 and 29-1510 SC Law as Amended, and are in the custody of More...
•NOTICE OF APPLICATIONS
•NOTICE TO CREDITORS OF ESTATES
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 Beauty in the Backyard
•The Original Mystery Plant
Way down yonder in the swamp is where these things came from. These are fruits of a native American, an American tree that is. It's a slender tree, deciduous, at home in shaded woods, especially within bottomland forests. For this reason, it is a common component of forests along rivers. The species More...
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