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Jesef Williams
jwilliams@thelancasternews.com
Once upon a time, they hung from vines and carried the type of weight that resembled  a watermelon.
Now, they exist as art pieces that can be passed along as gifts or kept as part of your own home decoration display.
Who knew gourds could hold such aesthetic value?
Dianne Mahaffee, an art teacher at Lancaster High School, has known about the usefulness of gourds for years, and just wrapped up a class that focused primarily on the circular fruit.

Ashley Lowrimore
Del Webb Library at Indian Land
“Sing loud, jump high and Dream Big!”
If popular children’s entertainer Roger Day has anything to say about it, children and adults will do exactly that at an end-of-the-summer family concert Tuesday, July 31, at the Del Webb Library at Indian Land.

They say lightning doesn’t strike twice, but in the case of the Lancaster County Sheriff’s Office, lightning just struck for a third time.
Following in the footsteps of two of his fellow co-workers, sheriff’s Investigator Fred Thompson learned earlier this month he has received statewide recognition for his duties at the sheriff’s office.
A member of the department since 1999, Thompson was recently named South Carolina’s Deputy Sheriff of the Year by the S.C. Sheriff’s Association.

How do you get organizations and key people in rural communities involved in helping prevent youth substance abuse?
That’s the question the Coalition for Healthy Youth and Lancaster County Partners for Youth hope to answer for attendees of their 2012 Prevention of Youth Substance Abuse in Rural Communities conference next week.
This year’s conference will emphasize Reaching Out to Missing Partners.
The fifth annual conference is Wednesday, Aug. 1, through Friday, Aug. 3, at the University of South Carolina Lancaster.