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KERSHAW – Harold Williams' hands sometimes tremble.

It's a classic sign of Parkinson's disease, which Williams, 76, was diagnosed with 10 years ago.

His Parkinson's condition is minor, but his symptoms were significant enough to affect his work as a barber. He retired from that business but stills oversees the car wash he owns in Kershaw.

"I do just fine," Williams said. "But sometimes I get a little depressed."

Details are still sketchy about a bizarre incident last week in which a car sped into a mobile home on Cambridge Drive in the Smoke Rise community.

Pam Jeffers came home April 22 to see the front left corner of her trailer severely damaged. Neighbors say a boy was driving a 1999 Ford Crown Victoria that ran off the road, cut through the yard and rammed into the front left corner of the home.

Jeffers' brother had been asleep in his room on that side of the home. He was the only person in the home at the time. He said the impact felt as if a hurricane or earthquake had hit.

INDIAN LAND – An Indian Land actress hopes to be hitting the big time soon.

Catherine Trail delivers her first performance in a principal role in "Death, Taxes and Chocolate!," a dark comedy.

The small-scale independent movie was filmed in Wilmington, N.C., in January.

Now, it has been selected by a jury to be screened at the very large-scale New York and Los Angeles International Independent Film Festivals.

Thursday was a special night for the volunteers of Springs Memorial Hospital – a tribute to their many hours of service at the hospital in a variety of ways.

The 131 volunteers gave more than 22,000 hours of their time in the past year in a variety of capacities, said hospital officials. Many worked at the hospital's busy front desk or gift shop, or provided help in the hospital's many units, such as being liaisons between staff and patients' families in the surgical care unit.