Staubach speaks to the Moore School
By John Temple Ligon Temple@TheColumbiaStar.com
      Roger Staubach speaks of teamworks Roger Staubach, executive chairman of The Staubach Company and Pro Football Hall of Fame quarterback, spoke to graduate students Monday, October 29. Staubach was the third speaker in the 2007 Wachovia Executive Lecture Series, sponsored by Wachovia and the Moor...
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Briefs
by John Temple Ligon
      Home sales down - prices up Down almost 19 percent for September, Columbia- area home sales recorded their largest monthly drop for the year. The median sales price rose six percent over September 2006 to $148,000. Myrtle Beach home sales fell almost 27 percent for the third quarter compared with...
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Star Profile
Andy Walker of Bolin Ligon Walker
By John Temple Ligon Temple@TheColumbiaStar.com
      South Carolina has almost 50,000 residential real estate licensees, but 23,000 of that group actually stand as Realtors, and Andy Walker is their president. Walker was born and educated in Clinton. His father is a family physician, and his mother is an accomplished watercolorist, active in both t...
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Queen honored at Dianne's
     Photo by Mimi M. Maddock Debbie Parker was honored October 29, 2007, for her work in Five Points by the City of Columbia and her fellow Kudzu Queens at Dianne's on Devine. Councilwoman Anne Sinclair, also a Kudzu Queen, presented Parker with a painting of the Five Points Fountain by Blue Sky. Parker...
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Folks about town
      Kenneth Nesbit Jr. was awarded a SolvayCARES cystic fibrosis scholarship for 2007- 2008. Rose E. Jackson, founder of the S.C. Women in Business, received the Diplomat of the Year Award from the Greater Columbia Chamber of Commerce.
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