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Out and About

  • Singing Churchmen at First Baptist Tuesday

    Michele Roberts

    For The Lancaster News

    The S.C. Baptist Singing Churchmen, a men’s chorus composed of music ministers from Baptist churches across South Carolina, will hold a free worship concert at First Baptist Church in Lancaster at 6:45 p.m. Tuesday, April 22.

    The chorus of music ministers is a member-supported group that has been in existence for more than 25 years, first coming together to sing at the 1958 S.C. Baptist Convention.

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  • ‘Swamp People’ star Landry to make guest appearance at GF Rescue Squad Rodeo

    Nancy Parsons

    Landmark News Services

    GREAT FALLS – Alligator hunter and American reality TV star Troy Landry of the History Channel’s hit show “Swamp People” will make a guest appearance at a meet and greet at the Great Falls Rescue Squad Rodeo this summer.

    A native of Louisiana, Landry grew up in the Atchafalaya Basin region of Pierre Parte.

    He is a third-generation member of his family to live in the area and one of a group of local people who hunt American alligators.

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  • "If I can, you can."

    Clay Dyer started fishing at age 5 and became a professional angler at the age of 15. He’s fished in more than 200 bass tournaments and won about 20 of them. He enjoys driving his bass boat at full throttle and has a great love for football, serving as assistant football coach for Hamilton High School in Alabama. 

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  • New youth soccer league fills a need for Lancaster kids

    Michele Roberts
    For The Lancaster News
    University of South Carolina Lancaster soccer coach Martin Cantu saw a combination of things in Lancaster that prompted him to create Carolina United Soccer Academy, a soccer league designed to include kids from all walks of life in the community.

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  • The 2013 Youth Oratorical Expose was a success

    From release
    On Sept. 28, the Lancaster District AME Zion churches conducted the ninth annual Youth Oratorical Expose with 17 participants.
    The purpose of this program is to promote youth development in research and speech. Each contestant is given three topics to choose to research and is judged on his or her research ability, speech content, organization, delivery and overall effectiveness of presentation.

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  • Kershaw native serves Bishopville

    Bishopville recently appointed a Kershaw native as its new police chief.

    Calvin Collins, the son of Kershaw resident Louella Collins Alexander, was sworn into office July 28 at the Coclough Building in Bishopville by city attorney Jacob Jennings. 

    More than 50 family members and friends attended the ceremony.

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  • Digging into a good book

    This summer, 860 children participated in the “Dig Into Reading,” summer reading program at the Lancaster County Main Branch and Kershaw County libraries, said Brenda Parker, children’s librarian for the Lancaster County Library.

    “The summer reading program is fun for kids because taking home prizes and taking home books is fun. You get to be in the middle of all these books, and I love that. I love books, and books are fun,” said Parker, known in Lancaster as “Ms. Brenda.” 

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  • Chemo with Style

    Susan Gainey wants to do what she can to make life a little easier for chemotherapy patients. 

    For the last year, Gainey, who works with Hospice Care of Tri-County, has hosted Chemo with Style, a beauty and fashion event for women going through chemotherapy. The most recent of these events was held Tuesday, July 16 at The Springs House, 201 W. Gay St.

    “It’s just a time for us all to get together and relax,” Gainey said.

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  • Homecoming : 'Third Herd' welcomed back

    Friday, May 31, was a very special day for the family members of the Army National Guard 178th Combat Engineer Battalion, as the group returned home from Afghanistan after a 10-month deployment.

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  • Up, up and away!

    It looks almost like a scene from a science fiction movie. Lines of sleek, white motorless planes speckle a field near the border of Lancaster and Kershaw counties. Anxious pilots wait as an airplane soars overhead, towing one of the machines through the sky.

    This is the 18-Meter National Championship gliding competition, an event that gathers the best glider pilots in the U.S. and Canada to compete in a series of challenges.

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