Folks about town

US Attorney Reginald Lloyd presents Columbia Police Chief Dean Crisp with the Strom Thurmond Award for Outstanding City Law Enforcement Officer in South Carolina.

The SC State Fair received two awards of excellence for its agricultural and competitive exhibits programs from the 2006 International Association of Fairs and Expositions. The winning categories were Exhibitor Handbook on the Web and Program Designed to Correct an Issue or Problem Related to a Competitive or Non- Competitive Agriculture Program.

The Intellectual Property Group of McNair Law Firm, P.A. is pleased to announce the addition of John R. Perkins, Jr.

Richard P. Foster Jr., M.D. has been named senior vice president of quality and patient safety for the South Carolina Hospital Association.

Distinguished past members of the SC Bar will be memorialized at the annual Memory Hold the Door ceremony on Thurs., Jan. 25 at Charleston Place Hotel in historic downtown Charleston. The honorees are The Honorable J. Bratton Davis and Prof. George D. Haimbaugh Jr.

Vince Ford

The male Treeing Walker Coonhound, PR Outlaw Josie Wails, owned by Sherman Frost and John Gullett earned second place overall and Treeing Walker Coonhound, PR Drain's Little Sneak, owned by Timothy Hutto, earned fourth place overall during the weekend's Nite Hunt competitions at the 42nd annual Grand American coonhound event.

The SC Wildlife Federation will honor conservationists at the 42nd Annual Conservation Awards Banquet. Honorees include The SC Department of Natural Resources, The Nature Conservancy and The Conservation Fund; Dan Turpin, Outdoor Ethis Award; Jane Hiller, Communications Award; Sumter High School Environmental Center, Education Award; Dorothy Mosior, Bootsie Manning Wildlife Habitat Conservation Award; Furman University, Organization Award; Frank Holleman, Water Conservation Award; Congressman Bob Inglis, Legislative Award; Dan Rankin & Jeanne Riley, Wildlife Conservation Award; US Engine Valve, Wildlife And Industry Together Award.

Nancy Powell

Four Richland One Schools will receive the 2006 Palmetto Gold or Palmetto Silver Awards. They are Heyward Career and Technology Center, a Palmetto Gold winner; Hopkins Elementary, Webber Elementary, and Watkins- Nance Elementary, Palmetto Silver winners.

Vince Ford, a member of the Richland One Board of School Commissioners, has been honored by the SC School Boards Association for 15 years of service.

Chief Dean Crisp has been presented the Strom Thurmond Award for Excellence in Law Enforcement as the Outstanding City Law Enforcement Officer for 2006.

Golden Coast Tan & Mist has been chosen as a Spotlighted Small Business in the newly launched SBA SC District Office.

The Center for International Legal Studies appointed C. Joseph Roof, a transactional attorney with Sherrill Roof Millender, to teach a course in American business law at Szkola Wyzsza Warszawska, a law school in Warsaw, Poland.

Nancy Powell has been promoted to administrator for Kentwood Nursing Facility.

Verizon Wireless promoted 11 employees to supervisory positions; Mohameds Abdesalam, Tonya Smalls, Buffet Dunbar, Bernard Riddle, Toni Gadsden, Harry Crosby , Carrie Ryan, Angela Markley, Harolyn Scott, Malika Bell and Torrie Scott.