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  • Grant will help recruit program volunteers

    The Lancaster County Volunteer Guardian ad Litem (GAL) program was recently awarded a $10,000 grant by Jewelers for Children.

    The grant will be used to increase recruitment of volunteers in Lancaster County. The Lancaster GAL program serves 51 abused and neglected children.

    The goal of GAL is to provide a volunteer advocate for all children involved in the family court system due to abuse or neglect.

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  • Kershaw 2007 Christmas Parade Photo Gallery

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  • Christmas caroling series continues tonight at Main and Gay streets

    The effort to make downtown Lancaster a yuletide delight for county residents comes again tonight.

    Here We Come A' Caroling is an event sponsored by the city of Lancaster and See Lancaster. It will feature classic caroling at Main and Gay streets.

    Dressed-up performers from the Andrew Jackson High School Show Choir and the Lancaster County Community Playhouse will mix drama with their singing and try to include the audience.

    The event will take place between 6 and 8 p.m., and refreshments will be served.

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  • Lancaster, other counties working to make Catawba a scenic waterway

    Lancaster County residents who fish, canoe, birdwatch or otherwise enjoy the Catawba River probably already find the waterway scenic.

    County Council recently voted to begin the process of making that scenic designation official. The resolution council approved allows the Catawba Regional Council of Governments to apply to the S.C. Department of Natural Resources to become a S.C. Scenic River. The application will be made on behalf of Chester, York and Lancaster counties.

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  • Wintertime heat wave about to end

    It's unusual, but then again, it's not.

    Temperatures have been awfully warm the past few days – warmer than average – but fluctuating temperatures seem to be the norm for South Carolina winters.

    Highs reached the 80s earlier this week, and the mid-70s on Thursday, shattering records set in previous years that only reached the lower 70s.

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  • Christmas Basket tally now more than $4,000

    More than $4,000 has been donated so far to the Ward Faulkenberry Memorial Christmas Basket Fund, which provides food vouchers to families who need support.

    The drive, which began Nov. 19, is sponsored by the local American Red Cross.

    Recipients receive $25 vouchers to use at local grocery stores.

    Christian Services, the Department of Social Services and the Lancaster County Council on Aging are identifying the families in need.

    Through Thursday, the grand total was $4,615.

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  • Friends honor Joe Stephenson during a hero's memorial service

    Friends of Joe Lee Stephenson honored him earlier this month with a memorial service in front of his Laurel Court home.

    Joe Lee Stephenson, 60, died Nov. 11 after a bout with lung caner.

    The Lancaster resident served in the U.S. Army as an Airborne Ranger. A Vietnam veteran, Stephenson was awarded a Purple Heart after he was wounded during combat.

    His cancer had developed as a result of his exposure to Agent Orange while in service.

    Stephenson's funeral was Nov. 16 in Orange, N.J., and local friends held the memorial service for him Dec. 4.

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  • Stage 4 water-use restrictions delayed

    It appears more stringent water-use restrictions can be delayed here with at least normal rainfall over the next few weeks.

    But with any less rain in that period, the county can expect to enter Stage 4 restrictions between mid-January and early February, officials say.

    Stage 4 restrictions would require residential and commercial users to reduce consumption by 30 percent.

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  • HS center to retain senior programs

    HEATH SPRINGS – Seniors who visit the Heath Springs Senior Center for hot meals, special programming and recreation were distraught to learn that the Lancaster County Council on Aging would be pulling funds from the center starting in 2008.

    The likely result would be the center being vacated and seniors going to the Kershaw Satellite Senior Center.

    But the seniors who packed the fellowship hall at the center Wednesday morning didn't appear distraught.

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  • Air filter firm to locate in Kershaw

    KERSHAW – A firm that makes specialized air filters is moving to Kershaw.

    Lancaster County Council approved paying $100,000 for building upgrades for ECN Inc., said Lancaster County Economic Development Corp. President Keith Tunnell.

    That's until the state Department of Commerce comes through with a grant to reimburse the county, Tunnell said.

    The money will never be paid to the owner of the company, but to MCON Construction as it completes the work at the building on Little Dude Avenue. The Department of Commerce will award the grant in March.

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