Pilot Club New Officer
The Darlington Pilot Club recently installed its new leadership for the 2015-2016 year. Using the A, B, C ‘s of Pilot International, Belinda Copeland served as installing officer. Pilots were reminded of their emphases on (A)nchors, (B)rain-related disorders, and (C)are and kindness for caregivers. Incoming officers include: Mary Scott, President, Nancy Lee, President Elect, Ginger Ridgill, Recording Secretary, Oleene Gettys,...
Student Notes – July 1, 2015
Clemson University announces spring 2015 President’s List and Deans List Clemson University has announced the President’s List for the spring 2015 semester. To be named to the President’s List, a student must achieve a 4.0 (all As) grade-point average. Local students on the list include: Chelsea M. Atkinson of Hartsville, whose major is Health Science Emily Ruth Cameron of Hartsville, whose major is Psychology Joel...
Keeping the Faith – Living Unafraid
In August of 1871 a man sent a letter to his wife claiming that he had been swindled by the Wells Fargo Company. He vowed his revenge. So, he began burglarizing the Fargo stage coaches in northern California. Over the next decade he succeeded in almost thirty robberies. He would wait for the coach at a narrow pass, and at just the right moment would emerge dressed in black with a hood over his head and carrying a long, double-barreled...
Church News – July 1, 2015
Please send your church news to: editor@newsandpress.net First Baptist Church Basketball Camp First Baptist Church Basketball Camp July 6 – 9 from 10 a.m. – noon Camp 1 for ages 7 – 10: at Harmon Baldwin Recreation Center Camp II for ages 11 – 14: at Darlington High School Gym (new location!) Registration Forms available at the Harmon Baldwin Recreation Department and First Baptist Church Office. Forms are due by July 2 at each...
Church of the Week: Emanuel AME Church
Local builder and historian Bill Segars shares his love of the churches in South Carolina by allowing readers to learn more about Emanuel AME Church in Charleston, and in doing so honor the memory of the nine Christians that lost their lives so unnecessarily in June, 2015.
Recollections of Society Hill from William Faulkner
William J. Faulkner (1891 – 1987) was born in Society Hill and noted author of the book of folk tales entitled “The Days When the Animals Talked”, tales he remembered being told as a child by Simon Brown, a former slave from Virginia that was hired by Faulkner’s widowed mother to help care for the family farm.