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Editor’s note: Author Cole Waddell is a Lancaster resident who was living in New York City during the 9/11 terrorist attacks in 2001. He moved back here in 2005. This is the second part of a three-part series about Southerners who shared Christmas dinner there each year.

Part 2

We are well aware that things have changed. With airline security now ramped up, this year’s Christmas dinner will be different.  

There will be no jars of Duke’s Mayonnaise or pickled okra.  

Name: Brandon Kelly

Age: 30

Address: Heath Springs

Pets: Atlas 

Job: Staff of Gregory Health and Wellness Center, University of South Carolina Lancaster

Church: I don’t have a home church, but go where the spirit leads me on Sundays.

Hobbies: Working on cars, Clemson football and architecture 

Employees at a local liquor store continue to repair damage days after a man drove his car through their storefront.
As of Friday afternoon, a large hole could still be seen in the front of Katie's Liquor Store, near the Crenco Exxon station at 1449 S.C. 9 Bypass, almost a week after a Lancaster man crashed into the store.
Lancaster police officers responded at about 3:30 p.m. Dec. 10, where they noticed a black Mercury sitting partially inside the front part of the liquor store, according to a police department incident report.

Christopher Sardelli
csardelli@thelancasternews.com
VAn Wyck – A teenage girl was injured when her pickup truck ran off a road and flipped onto its side Tuesday afternoon.
Local rescue workers spent several minutes pulling the trapped teen from the truck after it came to rest in a wooded area in Van Wyck after 3 p.m.
S.C. Highway Patrol Lance Cpl. Billy Elder said Chelsie Auton, 18, of Lancaster was driving a 1983 Toyota pickup truck north on Old Hickory Road when the accident happened.