Prayer is the least and the most we can do
By Dr. William Holland Recently, my wife Cheryl was talking about the need to increase her prayer time and I was definitely agreeing that praying is very important in our spiritual life. In the middle of our conversation, she said, “we should turn our cares into prayers” and that instantly caught my attention. I love catchy phrases and told her that I just might borrow that slogan! We all have worries and cares but for some strange...
Trinity-Byrnes participates in Classical League Spring Forum
Trinity-Byrnes Collegiate School’s Latin Chapter, consisting of 38 middle and high school students, traveled to Lexington, SC to participate in the South Carolina Junior Classical League (SCJCL) Spring Forum along with students from nine public schools. The Spring Forum consists of academic and athletic contests, including a Certamen, or battle of the brains, Olympika, chariot races, and 100 and 200 yard team relays. Trinity-Byrnes...
Church News – March 28, 2018
Please send your church news and photos to: editor@newsandpress.net Maundy Thursday Service Darlington Presbyterian Church, 311 Pearl Street, will have a community Maundy Thursday Worship Service, March 29 at 7 p.m. This meaningful service will include musical offerings by members of the Darlington Presbyterian & Trinity United Methodist church choirs, a string quartet, a handbell choir, and the pipe organ. Holy Thursday St. Luke...
DCSD announces 2018 Art in Business grand-prize winners
Twenty-two outstanding student-artists from the Darlington County School District earned recognition Sunday afternoon during the 2018 Art in Business ceremony and gallery at Hartsville Middle School. Artwork created by four of the students also earned recognition as the grand prize winners in each respective grade categories. Those winners are Lila Douglas from Carolina Elementary School (Grades K-2), Autumn Kind from Thornwell School...
Backyard Stargazer April 2018
By Francis Parnell After a few months as the “morning star”, Venus returns to the western sky for the next six months as the brilliant “evening star.” It’s called the twin of Earth, but with 90 times the atmospheric pressure, sulfur dioxide clouds with sulfuric acid droplets, and a surface temperature of 864-degrees, it’s the poster planet for the runaway greenhouse effect. Earth is warming; Venus...
A New Tradition: A ‘no’ helped fuel a passion still going strong after more than 20 years
When Sue St. Armour went for the first interview after getting her welder certification, she felt good about the process. She did a sample weld to show what she was capable of and left feeling like she had done a good job.
“I stopped by a shop and talked with the guy on shift,” St. Armour said. “He told me to come back and do a welding test and we could go from there. We talked about me doing third-shift and I took the pipe-welding test.”
