Today's News

My best buddy’s mama, Mrs. Ellie Pipkins, was a den mother and leader of  our neighborhood Cub Scout Pack.

Cub Scouts get to do some stuff, but nothing like the older Boy Scouts of America.

Most us were already experienced campers, but Cubs couldn’t go camping overnight. We could have back yard cook-outs and sharpen our knot-tying skills, but that was about it.

I guess you could say, that made us Boy Scouts in training.

First Baptist Church sponsored Boy Scout Troop 70 and a bunch of my Sunday School friends were already members.

The Lancaster County Administration Building, 101 N. Main St., will be temporarily closed until at least 1 p.m. today, Wed. July 1.

County Administrator Steve Willis said the building’s heating and cooling system was not working, forcing a shut down of the county’s computers to prevent them from overheating.

Willis expects the building to reopen sometime Wednesday afternoon.

INDIAN LAND – Clair Thain held up a formidable-looking taloned foot that once belonged to a hawk and told her audience of children how a hawk uses those sharp claws to catch a rodent meal.

Thain, a Wild Wings educator for the Carolina Raptor Center in Huntersville, N.C., spoke to a group of children and their parents at the Del Webb Library at Indian Land on June 17. It was the first Wednesday event for the library’s summer reading program.

Thain passed the foot around to the children, who could hardly contain their excitement.

Grilling corn on the cob isn’t complicated after all. I can say that now after years of scorching and drying out my share of corn ears to something that deer won’t even eat.

Like many, I had made it much harder than it had to be.

Think about it; burning a perfectly good ear of corn to the point that it’s inedible isn’t very hard to do.

Little did I know that all it took was a little water.

Yes, water. That’s it; nothing more.