Family attends Eagle Scout's award ceremony
      Jeremy Clark Amick, a Cardinal Newman Junior, was honored with his Eagle Scout Award Sunday, Feb. 11, 2007, at Asbury Memorial United Methodist Church. Amick completed his Eagle Project in August 2006, by organizing and implementing landscaping around two church signs at his church. Amick als...
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Bowling to bridge education and business
      Lower Richland Ruritan members show off their Mardi Gras costumes and their enthusiasm at the Junior Achivement Bowl- A- Thon fundraiser held Feb. 9 and 10, 2007, at AMF Park Lanes Bowling Alley in Cayce. (L- r) Pam Clark, Katie Dixon, team captain Lisa Dixon, Penny Allen, and Melanie Gr...
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New license plate unveiled to benefit the arts
Contributed by The South Carolina Arts Commission
      The South Carolina Arts Commission has unveiled the new "Driven by the Arts" license plate. It can now be ordered at www.SouthCarolinaArts.com, and will be available at the SCDMV by late spring. The new license plate, featuring the familiar palmetto and crescent outlined in shades of ...
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Rosewood to hold auction March 3
      Contributed by The Rosewood Educational Foundation The Rosewood Educational Foundation is a nonprofit organization whose purpose is to raise funds in support of educational programs at Rosewood Elementary School. On March 3, 2007, the Foundation will be hosting the annual Rosew...
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Senate honors St. Peter's Catholic School's principal
Contributed by Benjamin Davis
      The students of St. Peter's Catholic School along with the school board, faculty and staff gathered in the first floor hallway just outside the classrooms on Thursday, February 1, 2007 as Senator Joel Lourie presented Madeline C. McMillion, principal, with a Senate Resolution in h...
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Students memorialize the 1.5 children killed in the Holocaust with butterflies
By Jessica Cross crossja84@gmail
      Approximately 80 seventh graders are helping to change the world by collecting one paper butterfly at a time. The collection is part of the Remembrance Project, a service- learning project at Kelly Mill Middle School in Blythewood that is intended to memorialize the 1.5 million...
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Nate Morgan receives Eagle Scout award
Contributed by The Indian Waters Council
      The Indian Waters Council, Boy Scouts of America honored Nate Morgan with his Eagle pin at the Council's annual Friends of Scouting banquet. Nate completed the final activity of his Eagle project by installing brand new playground equipment at the Epworth Early Intervention Center, a ...
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Richland One seeks input for name change
Contributed by Richland School District One
      The Richland One Board of School Commissioners has appointed a committee to study a request to name the Hopkins Middle School auditorium the U.R. Barber Auditorium. Ulysses R. Barber, who died in 2004, was a lifelong resident of the Hopkins community and served as teaching prin...
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