Today's Features

Chery Elise Workman and Corey David Stevens were married Oct. 8, 2016, at Danyels Farm in Pendleton, S.C., by officiant Tim Danyels.

The bride is the daughter of Tony and Denise Workman of Lancaster. She is the granddaughter of Myrtis McManus and the late EJ McManus, Jr. of Lancaster and the late Azilee and Richard Workman of Lancaster. 

At age 21, Heath Springs native Quay Powers says he was “scared to death” fighting his way up Old Baldy Hill during the Korean War.
Powers was drafted into the Army in Oct. 1951 and served in the 2nd Infantry Division, Company F.
Their first task was to relieve another company from Old Baldy so that company could go back to the reserve.
“Old Baldy was a special hill because of the vision you had out front, and that’s why it was important,” Powers said. “It gave you a good viewpoint if the enemy did attack.”

Johnnie Wright walked to Charlotte from his family’s Lancaster farm in August 1940 to join the Army. He was 19 years old, had one dime in his pocket and two buddies with not a cent in theirs.
The 5-foot-10 Wright weighed 137 pounds and was dressed in his Sunday suit, the only clothes he had that weren’t overalls.
“I spent my dime to buy pencils to fill out the papers,” he said. “So then all three of us were flat broke.”
The three men served during World War II. Two made it home alive.

Aaron Flynn took his last pain-free steps on a secluded path near Worms, Germany, on the afternoon of Feb. 21, 1945.
He was a 19-year-old private first class from Lancaster, a machine gunner with the U.S. Army’s 6th Armored Division, 44th Armored Infantry Battalion.
Flynn had been a late entry into World War II. His enlistment was rejected several times because of bad eyesight. But after his older brother was killed in action on Christmas Eve 1943, Flynn got into the Army.