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.”
The Next Generation: ‘I knew welding was right for me the first time I picked up my helmet’
Editor’s Note: Along with the women we feature who are currently working in male-dominated industries, we are featuring female students at the Darlington County Institute of Technology who are taking classes in some of those same fields. DCIT staff has provided the biographies and photos of these students to us. We extend special thanks to Robbie Smith and Aurelia Burgess at DCIT for partnering with us on this project. A year ago,...
Pilot Club promotes Brain Awareness Week
Mayor Gloria Hines met with some of the officers of the Pilot Club of Darlington to sign a proclamation promoting March 12-18 as Brain Awareness Week. Pictured are Pilot Club Secretary Ginger Ridgill, President Judy Langley, and Directors Martha Griggs and Linda Brunson.