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Housing authority board meets

The Housing Authority of Lancaster Board of Commissioners will meet at 5:30 p.m. June 19 in the Dr. James A. Boykin Boardroom, 3502 Caroline Courts, Lancaster. For details, call (803) 285-7214. 

Indian Land Fire District meeting

The Indian Land Fire Protection District Commission will meet at 7 p.m. June 19 at Indian Land Fire Station, 285 Six Mile Creek Road, Indian Land.

Community relations commission meets

Coming Events

Week Ahead

Robert and Pollie Richardson reunion June 22

The Robert and Pollie Richardson reunion is from 10 a.m.- 6 p.m. June 22, at Cane Creek Park, 52313 Harkey Road, Waxhaw, N.C. For details, call (704) 779-4245. 

Area blood drives

American Red Cross

- June 26, 2:30 p.m.-7 p.m., Pleasant Hill United Methodist Church, 238 Fort Mill Highway, Indian Land. 

Church News

Week Ahead

Spring Festival set for June 22

Kingdom of God Church International, 1276 Old Landsford Road, Lancaster, will hold its spring festival 10 a.m.-4 p.m. June 22. For details, call (803) 289-9384.

Hot dog plate sale at Jones Crossroads Baptist 

Entertainment List

Lancaster Children’s Home Dice Run

The second-annual Lancaster Children’s Home Dice Run is June 15. Signup starts at 10 a.m. at Cooters in Lancaster, with kickstands up at 12:15 p.m. and last bike in at 5 p.m. 

Registration is $20 per bike and $30 for couples, and includes a barbecue plate. 

The event will include a live auction, silent auction and live music, with T-shirts available for purchase. All proceeds benefit Lancaster Children’s Home. For details, call (803) 328-9792. 

New Creighton’s ice cream shop...

Family-run business Creighton’s Creamery opened an ice cream shop in downtown Kershaw on Sunday and was swarmed by customers seeking sweet treats and delectable delights.
The business, owned and run by locals Adam and Cady Eubanks, started out as an ice cream truck that catered weddings, festivals and corporate events. But demand for the couple’s homemade ice cream led them to find a more permanent location in their hometown.
“We saw a building and jumped at the chance,” Cady Eubanks said Tuesday.

ILHS student dies from injuries...

An Indian Land High School student who was involved in a head-on collision on U.S. 521 earlier this month has died.
Ethan Wayne Swanner, 17, was pronounced dead at Carolinas Medical Center on June 13 as a result of traumatic injuries sustained during the collision eight days earlier, Lancaster County Coroner Karla Deese said Friday.
A lineman on the Warriors football team, Swanner was headed east on Possum Hollow Road in a 1965 Ford Mustang shortly before 8 a.m. June 5, according to Lance Cpl. Gary Miller of the S.C. Highway Patrol.

Trio faces multiple drug...

Three Lancaster residents were arrested last week on drug trafficking charges – two of them a mother and son.
Scott Charles Catledge Jr., 25, and Mary Ann Catledge, 65, both of 501 Plantation Road, Lancaster, were arrested Wednesday and charged with multiple drug offenses, according to a Lancaster County Sheriff’s Office release.

Man sought in Pageland woman’s...

PAGELAND – Authorities are searching for a suspect in the fatal shooting of a Pageland woman that occurred late Wednesday night.
The victim, 18-year-old Amber Horton, went to the Pageland Police Department after she was shot in a moving car travelling down S.C. 151 south of Pageland, according to a Chesterfield County Sheriff’s Office release.

41-month prison term on weapon...

A Lancaster man will spend more than three years in prison after being sentenced Friday on a federal weapon charge.
Quavis Jamar Rudisell, 30, pleaded guilty to one count of being a felon in possession of a firearm and ammunition and was sentenced to 37 months’ imprisonment, according to a press release from the U.S. attorney’s office in Columbia. He received another four-month term, to be served consecutively, for violating an earlier term of federal supervised release.

Dad happy to be here for Father’...

Three years ago, Demarius Ross sat at a crossroads – stay on the path he was taking and end up in jail or worse, or work hard to make a better life for him and his growing family.
Ross, 33, works an 8-to-5 job, then comes home to his wife and three kids during the week, but that wasn’t always the case.
Raised by a single mother, Ross said he searched for a father’s influence in all of the wrong places.