The role screening should play before starting an exercise regimen
Exercise plays a significant role in disease prevention. According to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention’s National Center for Chronic Disease Prevention and Health Promotion, physical activity helps to reduce individuals’ risk of chronic conditions, including type 2 diabetes, heart disease, various types of cancer, and dementia. As vital as exercise is to a healthy lifestyle, many people simply are not getting enough of...
1969 Class of Mayo High School holds 50th reunion
The 1969 Class of Mayo High School held their 50th reunion Aug. 22-25. Sixty-four former classmates participated: Elbert Backus, Edith Bacote, Chris Black, Catherine Boatwright Billups, Wallace Brockington, Robert Campbell, William Coe, Frank Coefield, Blondell Cooper Austin, Ervin (Joel Warsaw) Dargan, Gloria Davis, Roosevelt Davis, Samuel Davis, Lorestine Dubose Hunter, Lonnie Eldridge, Seeroy Evans, Mitchell Goodson, Charles Ham,...
Church News – January 8, 2020
Please send your church news and photos to: editor@newsandpress.net Woman’s Pee Dee District Department of the Pee Dee Missionary Baptist Association Winter Summit The Woman’s Pee Dee District Department of the Pee Dee Missionary Baptist Association will have their Winter Summit Jan. 11 at Zion Canaan Baptist Church on 612 South Hill St., Timmonsville. Registration begins at 9 a.m.; session at 10. Mechanicsville Baptist Church 2364...
Fort Jackson Family Day
At Fort Jackson in Columbia recently, the 2nd Battalion, 60th Infantry Regiment “Scouts Out” BCT Family Day finally arrived as families raced to embrace for the first time since the start of their loved ones’ Army basic training. Photos by Fort Jackson Public Affairs
Mean has gotten meaner
Another bomb explodes and the count for the dead and injured begins.