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Today's Features

  • Holding on to Hope: Apparent HIV cure encouraging for highly infected South Carolina

    News of a Mississippi newborn supposedly cured of an HIV infection has HIV advocates and researchers in South Carolina hopeful as well as skeptical.

    The potential for the cure to change the standard of care for those infected would be especially welcome here in the South, where the highest death rate due to HIV occurs.

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  • Partnerships grow arts education

    The Partners in Education program of the John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts is designed to assist arts organizations such as as the Lancaster County Council of the Arts.

    Throughout the nation, these programs develop or expand educational partnerships with their local school systems and other community-building organizations; the primary purpose of which is to promote learning by teachers.

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  • Chocolate Mousse Pie With A Touch o’ Irish

    Sweet or savory – the ultimate snacking question.
    Recipe creator Scott Anderson has the answer with his Chocolate Moussecarpone Pie.
    Anderson layers a chocolatey Irish liqueur mousse made of chocolate chips and mascarpone (a mild, creamy cheese) on top of savory crunched up pretzels with divine results. Now, the only question is one slice or two?
    See step-by-step photos of Anderson’s recipe plus thousands more from home cooks nationwide at www.justapinch.com/mousse

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  • Go green this St. Paddy's Day

    It's more important than ever to go green in the kitchen. Why? Because it's St. Patrick's Day, of course. This time of year at justapinch.com we love to embrace new and traditional Irish recipes alike, but darn it if all of those dishes don't taste a wee bit better when they're served up green.

    Kick off your dream green meal with a big bowl of Laura Davis's Jalapeno Dip. While this recipe's roots may lay a little further south than the Emerald Isle, it serves up a freshness of flavor that sets the perfect tone to any party.

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  • USCL honors Native Americans

    From release
    Beginning March 23, the University of South Carolina Lancaster’s Native American Studies department will host its eighth annual Native American Studies Week.

    Since 2005, USCL has hosted a week of events each spring focused on the rich history and cultural traditions of South Carolina’s indigenous peoples.

    This year’s program focuses on issues surrounding Native Americans and law and justice, and includes lectures by regional and nationally-recognized scholars, screenings of films and exhibits highlighting the topic.

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  • Exercise is the key to a good night’s sleep

    Chester Regional Medical Center release

    Exercise can affect your sleep.

    The results of the National Sleep Foundation’s 2013 Sleep in America poll show a compelling association between exercise and better sleep.

    The National Sleep Foundation began surveying American sleep health and behaviors in 1991.
    NSF releases the poll findings as part of its 16th annual National Sleep Awareness Week campaign, held March 3-10, that culminates with the change to Daylight Saving Time on March 10.

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  • GlennMark brings music to Lancaster

    There’s nothing more satisfying than seeing a dream come true, especially when it offers many different benefits to a community and brings joy to all involved.

    That’s exactly what happened with GlennMark Promotions, a dream shared by three friends that came to life in 2005. Since that time, the shared dream of bringing top Southern Gospel artists to Lancaster became a reality, with nearly 20,000 people attending the concerts that have been held to date.

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  • Failes celebrate 60 years

    Dr. Marvin and Virgina Toles Faile celebrated their 60th anniversary on Friday, March 8, 2013.
    A party was given in their honor by their children and their families.
    They were married March 1, 1953 in Rome, Ga.
    The couple has two daughters, Teresa F. Fowlkes and her husband, Dr. Earl Fowlkes, of Toccoa, Ga., and the late Linda Faile Talley; three sons, Steve Faile and his wife, Betty, of Cartersville, Ga., David Faile and his wife, Mary Beth, of Beavercreek, Ohio, and Timothy Faile and his wife, Amber, of Rome; 17 grandchildren and 13 great-grandchildren.

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  • Thompson-Peay Wedding

    Queserie Nantevia Thompson and Reginald Peay were married at 1 p.m. Sept. 1, 2012, at Christian Assembly Worship Center by Bishop Altheresa Goode Howard of The Master’s Ministry.
    The bride is the daughter of Laramie Thompson and Lovette Chambers, both of Charlotte. She is the granddaughter of Bernice Ford of Charlotte and Mr. and Mrs. Larry Thompson of Huntersville, N.C. She is a 2000 graduate of Independence High School and a 2004 graduate of the University of North Carolina at Charlotte with a bachelor’s degree in communications.

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  • Sellers-Hicks Wedding

    Anna Vanessa Sellers and Christopher Thomas Hicks were married Sept. 29, 2012, by the Rev. Maxie A. Threatt, uncle of the bride, at Plantation Farms in Byron, Ga.
    The bride is the daughter of Mark Sellers of Byron and Alona Sellers of Warner Robins, Ga. She is the granddaughter of Howard and Sybil Threatt Sellers of Lancaster. She is a 2007 graduate of Northside High School in Warner Robins and a 2012 graduate of Valdosta State University with a bachelor’s degree in early childhood education. She works as an educator in Lowndes County, Ga.

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