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Education

  • School Tools drive winds down

    Despite a slow economy, Communities is Schools’ annual School Tools supply drive was able to collect hundreds of school supplies that will benefit area school children in need.

    The campaign, which collects pencils, notebooks and other items, began Aug. 1 and will end Tuesday.

    This year, locals have been able to donate supplies at one of the BB&T locations in the county – on Main Street in Lancaster and off Charlotte Highway in Indian Land.

    BB&T served as the lone drop-off location for the Communities in Schools (CIS) drive this year.

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  • Students to get supplies from Stuff the Bus drive

    Dozens of students who didn’t get the supplies they needed when school began will soon get a helping hand.

    United Way of Lancaster County recently held its second annual Stuff the Bus school drive in which residents donated papers, pencils, crayons and other school supplies to collection spots throughout the county.

    Those supplies benefit children served through the Lancaster County Outreach Project, which provides resources for neglected and abused children.

    Remaining supplies will go to other Lancaster County School District children in need.

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  • Countdown to K wraps up

    A group of rising kindergarteners interacted with their teacher and mingled amongst themselves as if they had been around each other for months.

    If there were jitters about starting school, they weren’t easy to detect. This group of youngsters appeared eager to be in the classroom.

    The scene in Heather McManus’ kindergarten class at Indian Land Elementary School was one that was seen across the school district last week, as teachers wrapped up this year’s Countdown to Kindergarten program.

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  • Fire chiefs group awards scholarships

    The Lancaster County Fire Chiefs Association recently announced the latest winners of its annual scholarship.

    Sara Gardner and Meredith Hagins are the winners for the 2010 cycle, each receiving $500. They were presented their award July 22 at the association’s regular meeting.

    Each year, the association awards a $1,000 scholarship to one student or $500 to two.

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  • A field trip for Fields

    Crystal Fields’ recent trip to Washington, D.C., was more eventful than she thought it would be.

    Fields, the lead ESOL (English as a Second or Other Language) teacher for Lancaster County School District, visited the nation’s capital for two reasons June 22 through June 27.

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  • Teaching through the arts

    Discussion of drawings, paintings and poetry isn’t being restricted to just art classes.

    Melanie Rick Layne wants educators to know that the arts can be used in all disciplines to help students learn and achieve at a higher level.

    Layne, who works with the John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts, facilitated a seminar last week for teachers in the Lancaster County School District and Rock Hill schools.  

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  • A heartbeat, a pulse

    KERSHAW – Blood pressure and heart rates are just some of the vital signs students at York Technical College’s Kershaw/Heath Springs Center will be able to read in class.

    Nursing students and others taking classes under York Tech’s medical programs will soon have access to two patient simulators.

    The full-body manikins have a temperature, pulse and heart beat – signs students can monitor on a screen display as they would real-life patients.

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  • A Google of a doodle

    Hayden Lee shared his love for music through a recent drawing contest sponsored by Google, the popular Internet search engine.

    Lee, a rising seventh-grader at Andrew Jackson Middle School, was a state finalist in this year’s Doodle 4 Google contest, which was open to kindergarten through 12th grade students across the United States.

    The contest allows a student to put his or her own personal and artistic touch on the Google word logo. Student entries had to be submitted by late March and judging took place in May.

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  • Johnesha Graham isn’t going to let a tuition increase get in the way of her degree.

    Graham, 28, is just one of many students who will be paying higher tuition payments at the University of South Carolina at Lancaster this fall. The university recently announced a 6.5 percent increase in its tuition costs for the upcoming school year. Fees, including technology, science lab, matriculation and parking fees, have also increased.

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  • Heath Springs children attend summer camp

    HEATH SPRINGS – There was a different activity going on in each corner of the Heath Springs Community Center on Thursday.

    In one area, a group of children worked on math equations. And nearby, another group played the board game Scrabble.

    Everywhere you looked, youngsters were either working on projects, playing games or receiving help with academics – and all appeared to be having fun in the process.  

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