Today's Features

Your pet is a member of the family and when you buy food for them, it’s important to make sure that they are getting the best nutrition possible.

That means reading the label on the back of the bag, said Max Talbert, of Animal Supply House on S.C. 9 Bypass.

Talbert knows what he talking about. He is a pet food specialist who’s taken courses on what works best for pets.

Maroon and white are the predominant colors at most Carolina Christian Academy basketball games as fans fill the school gym to root for the Cougars.

But on Friday’s home tilt against Hawthorne Christian Academy Hawks of Chester, school colors took a back seat to purple.

Why?

Led by Carolina Christian 12th grader Jessica Hartley, all the proceeds from ticket sales at the door and from a basketball game bake sale were for Relay For Life.

The New Year’s resolution of “out with the old and in with the new” applies to that out-of-view medicine cabinet behind the bathroom mirror that you stare at every morning while brushing your teeth or combing your hair.

Like a refrigerator, medicine cabinet supplies pile up, often past their expiration dates, said pharmacist Hugh Mobley of Mobley Drugs.

And just like the refrigerator, a medicine cabinet needs to be cleaned out regularly.

Ron Steele believes that New Year’s resolutions to get into shape are a waste of time.

For the 45-year-old Steele, who has lost more than 100 pounds since 2004 in a life-long struggle against diabetes, the word diet means very little. 

“I did not go on a diet,” he said. “I made a lifestyle change. To me, you fail because you go an a diet. I made up my mind to make a lifetime commitment. That’s the only way you’re going to succeed.”