Artistic director gives gunshot victim a life chance
Letter to the editor
By Mimi Cirio (mother of Lia and Jeffrey Cirio)
      I just wanted to give you an outsider's perspective of LifeChance. By way of background, my son, Jeffrey Cirio, and I met Radenko at the USA International Ballet Competition in Jackson, Miss. in 2006. Jeff was a competitor. Radenko was very encouraging to Jeff, as Jeff was the youngest competitor ...
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An audience's delight
LifeChance "Gala of the Stars"
By Trisha Fickling
      There was a lot cheering and applauding going around Columbia Saturday night, especially from the Barack Obama supporters and the Columbia Inferno fans, but nothing could have outdone the cheers coming from the audience at the Koger Center.
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The Columbia Star hires new security guard
     Deuce Montbee has recently been hired as the new security guard at The Columbia Star. His duties include sniffing new customers and barking at persons of interest.He keeps a check on incoming squirrels and rodents.
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Men total 79 years of income tax
By Jackie Perrone Jacper@juno.com
      The dreaded 1040 tax form is a piece of cake for these guys. Dick Clark, John Stinton, and Jack Wilson have logged, between them, an awesome 79 years of doing other people's tax returns, strictly volunteer, as AARP Tax Aides.
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Thirty-something speaks
It's Independence Day at my house
Mike Maddock
      Independence is a tricky subject when it comes to children. As a parent, I want my children to be as an independent as humanly possible. For starters, it's good for them…the added bonus is I don't have to do as much.
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It's not a criticism, it's an observation.
Whom would Jesus elect?
Mike Cox
      Just before the S.C. Republican primary, I got a phone call from William Murray. Not the Saturday Night Live guy; the conservative Christian son of atheist Madalyn Murray O'Hair. Murray called to alert me about David Silverman.
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Adventures of a late night shopper
      It's 11 o'clock, and Hayes walks down to the corner IGA to pick up a loaf of bread so he'll have toast for breakfast. There's a short line when some guy wearing a ski mask and brandishing a 9mm pistol swings open the door. The masked guy yells out to the lady cashier, "Gimme all the money, or you...
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USC's Daily Gamecock turns 100!!
      USC's Daily Gamecock, the student newspaper, turned 100 January 30. The student journalists will produce a special edTihtieo nD atoil ym Gaarkm tehceo mckilestone. is looking for former reporters, writers, editors, photographers and others who worked with the newspaper during the last century to a...
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Correction
      Correction: In the January 25, 2008 issue of The Columbia Stari the article about the Snowman Run incorrectly stated Recreation Asst. Director Samuel St. Louis handed out awards. It should state the assistant director Ira Thomas and staff member James Tucker handed out the awards. Also Lower Richl...
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Nuf Sed
     Seen riding on a cooler scooter down Queen Street are Photos by Pam Clark Drew Davies, junior at USC, and Brian Hickerson, freshman at USC.
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