Architect completes Strangers on the Shore
By John Murray
      Stewart Blume has been doing architecture for decades, but he has always wanted to do just a little bit more. As a Clemson graduate, he majored in architecture but took a keen interest in literature and story telling. "I wanted to write a story that painted pictures with words but that was...
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What you need to know about macular degeneration
Contributed by William F. Crosswell, M.D., Columbia Eye Clinic
      Macular degeneration is the leading cause of decreased reading vision in individuals over the age of 65 in the United States. There are two forms of this condition. The most common type is the "dry" type of macular degeneration where there is aging and thinning of the tissues in the a...
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Correction
      In the story Trombonist plays with Glenn Miller Orchestra , Dec. 1 issue of The Columbia Star paragraph three should have read: "He remembers the era when Glenn Miller was famous as a band leader and when Miller went into the service he directed the Army Air Force Band. In 19...
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Evolution is only a theory...
By Warner M. Montgomery Warner@TheColumbiaStar.com
      The debate has been raging since the Scopes Monkey Trial in 1925 when Clarence Darrow and William Jennings Bryan debated the issue in a courtroom in Tennessee : If you believe in evolution, does that mean your grandfather was a monkey? If you believe in God, does that mean you c...
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Richland Sertoma Club Sponsors 2007 National Heritage Essay Contest: "What Freedom Means To Me"
Contributed by The Richland Sertoma Club
      The Richland Sertoma Club will celebrate and sponsor the 2007 National Heritage Essay Contest - "What Freedom Means To Me" during February 2007. Eligible writers must be in grades 6, 7, or 8 during the 2006 - 2007 School Year.
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SCORE honors volunteers
By Rachel Haynie
      Veteran SCORE volunteers James B. Carraway, Sarah B. Wise, Anthony P. Bracalente, and Irwin Praeger were honored Dec. 5, 2006, at the annual awards luncheon. Additionally, a posthumous tribute was made to Connie Lowry who had been a SCORE volunteer for more than a decade.
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Columbia College Ariail Chapter meets
      Contributed the Ariail Chapter of the Columbia College Alumnae Club The Ariail Chapter of the Columbia College Alumnae Club met Nov. 10, 2006. Approximately, 40 members and guests gathered at 10 am in Alumnae Hall. As the group arrived, refreshments and a brief social tim...
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Folks about town
      Dr. Jasper Salmond was re-elected to serve a fifth term on the board of the Richland One Board of School Commissioners. Jeanette McBride , at-large board member and the board's secretary-treasurer, was re-elected to a second term on the board.
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Lower Richland Ruritan elects officers for 2007
      The Lower Richland Ruritan Club installed new officers December 5, 2006. They are (l-r) Martha Amick, president; Lisa Dixon, vice president; Tami Phillips, treasurer; James Amick, treasurer; and John Cotton, third year director.
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Correction
      My Adventure Travel story about caves November 24 was corrected by Jim Chester. He was reporting on Virgil the Turtle's Greathouse Cave at the Saltspring conference. He did not actually enter it and was not in the photo.
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