GAL Child Advocacy Training
Children who enter the foster care system are in need of caring adults to safeguard them. They deserve a strong child advocate to be their voice. If you are over 21 and can give 4-5 hours a month to visit a child, you can change a child’s life. You do not need a college degree, or a legal or social work background. The very best child advocates are people who care about children. Darlington County residents who are concerned about...
Home Safe Home
Some say the electric feeling of buying and moving into your own home never wears off. When you own the floors you’re standing on, the walls surrounding you and the roof over your head, you also own great satisfaction from the hard work that resulted in your home becoming yours. Yet, just as it was hard work to achieve the American Dream of homeownership, being responsible for maintaining and, inevitably, repairing your own home can...
Keeping the Faith – The Elvis in Me – and You
We were sitting at a stop sign at the corner of College and Line Streets, directly across from the First Methodist Church. My mother was driving. My sister sat in the backseat. Riding shotgun in the front seat with the windows down on an August afternoon, I was six years old. It was fortunate that we were not moving, for that is the moment the crackling AM radio an-nounced that Elvis Presley was dead. Had we been traveling at speed,...
U. S. Senator Tim Scott accepting applications for fall internships
U.S. Senator Tim Scott (R-SC) announced he is accepting applications for congressional internships in his Washington, DC, North Charleston, Columbia and Greenville offices for the fall of 2015.
Donate blood through the Red Cross in final weeks of summer
The American Red Cross urges blood donors to give in the final weeks of summer to help prevent a blood shortage. Blood donations often decline in August as final summer vacations are planned and back-to-school activities ramp up. On average, during the summer months, about two fewer donors give blood at each Red Cross blood drive than what is needed. Donations are needed now to help ensure blood is available for patients in need....