Faces and Places

The area in front of the Buford Middle School gym is sporting a new look because Donna Moree just happened to be in the in right place at the right time.

Red clay and barren ground has been replaced by sod, stone pavers, planting beds, benches, mulch and a pergola with vine runners. 

These days, when Dale Walker goes shopping, you can count on there being a notebook full of manufacturer’s coupons open on the baby seat in the top of her shopping cart.

“It’s all about saving money,” Walker said. “You’ll do anything you can to save money these days.”

A rough economy has reversed a 14-year decline in coupon redemption in the United States.

Within the next couple of months, Robert Truesdale’s “office” will be empty.

That office is the seed counter in Ace Hardware and Garden Center of Lancaster, where Truesdale has weighed out seed of every kind and shape in the last 54 years. Truesdale, now a part time “feed and seed store” employee, will soon weigh out his last bag for one of the farmers who stop by to trade hearty stories and conversation.

That’s because Lancaster is losing one of its oldest businesses. 

Youth-driven Salkehatchie Summer Service ministry reaches out one nail at a time
Tyler Owens has developed quite a reputation on Plyler Road in the Southside community.        
When homeowner Bernard Patterson learned that his small frame house was going to be invaded and repaired this week by Salkehatchie Summer Service teenagers and volunteers bearing hammers, saws and paintbrushes, he only had one request.
Patterson wanted Tyler to be one of them.