Mayo High teachers attend teacher development programs thanks to Georgia-Pacific
Nancy Fletcher and Jay Flowers, teachers at the Mayo High School for Math, Science, and Technology, have been selected by Georgia-Pacific to attend special summer workshops. Fletcher is one of 14 teachers nationwide sponsored to attend Keystone Science School’s 2017 Key Issues Institute: Bringing Environmental Issues to the Classroom in Silverthorne, Colorado. Flowers is one of four educators Georgia-Pacific is sponsoring to attend...
Choosing to manage our time wisely
By Dr. William Holland In this modern world in which we live, the access of information is becoming an addiction. For many people, technology is emotionally stimulating entertainment and as it continues to advance we wonder if the intent is to influence us within this evolution of pleasure enhancement. It’s amazing to consider that only 70 years ago the concept of computers controlling the masses seemed more like science fiction but...
Church News – July 19, 2017
Please send your church news and photos to: editor@newsandpress.net. VBS Central Baptist Church will be having their Vacation Bible School July 23 through July 26, for children grades 3K through 5th grade. Registration will start at 5:45 each night. You may also register online at cbcdarlington.com. For more information, visit www.cbcdarlington.com or call 843-393-8581. This year’s theme is “Galactic Starveyors –...
Historical Commission unearths photo negative cache
The Darlington County Historical Commission needs your help to identify some faces and places that could otherwise be lost to our community’s history. Brian Gandy, Director of the Historical Commission, is working to develop a cache of photographic negatives – including some made of glass that date back to the 1920s – and though a few of these images are accompanied by names or places, many have no attribution at all. Donated in...
Walking with Patrick McMillan In Kalmia Gardens planned for August
On Saturday, August 5, 2017, please join Patrick McMillan for a guided walk through Kalmia Gardens and a light lunch from 11:00-1:30pm. Tickets are $50. Please RSVP to Mary Ridgeway at mridgeway@coker.edu or 843.383.8145. Patrick McMillan is the Hilliard Professor of Environmental Sustainability at Clemson University, Director of the SC Botanical Garden, and producer and host of the Emmy award-winning television program “Expeditions...
Hartsville Chamber President completes third year at Institute for Organization Management
WASHINGTON, D.C.— Institute for Organization Management, the professional development program of the U.S. Chamber of Commerce Foundation, is pleased to announce that Quinetta Buterbaugh, President, of the Greater Hartsville Chamber of Commerce, has recently completed her third year at Institute for Organization Management, a four-year nonprofit leadership training program at Southeast Institute in Athens, GA. “Institute graduates are...