Byrd – Johnson Engagement
Mr. and Mrs. Tommy Pierce of Hartsville, South Carolina and Mr. Mel Byrd of Hartsville, South Carolina proudly announces the engagement of their daughter, Kinsey Coyt Byrd, to Jeffrey Heyward Johnson, son of Mr. and Mrs. Dave Johnson of Hartsville, South Carolina.
Taste of Falcons 2015
Darlington High School played host to a delicious event on May 14 as student athletes teamed with their families, coaches, Booster Club members, and the Darlington community to stage the annual “Taste of Falcons” fundraiser in support of DHS athletics. For $10, guests could stroll through the Falcon’s Nest Gym and sample a wide variety of yummy and fun foods, including pizza, corn dogs, and barbecue.
The reports of our death have been greatly exaggerated!
Every now and again a prophet possessing the great wisdom gained from years of learning and experience will ask, “do we need libraries?” Some say libraries are dying. Others see a more promising future, if libraries act now to secure it. Not long ago leadership and management guru Steve Denning asked this same question at the combined Library Leaders Summit and the Computers in Libraries Con-ference in Washington, D.C. (see Fortune. April 28, 2015). Denning observed “libraries everywhere are under threat of extinction,” just like many sectors of the business world, “from massive disruptions of their business.” His answer to the question “do we need libraries” was yes, but libraries have to change to meet the needs of those they serve. To those who say libraries are dying, the Library responds with a version of the popular Mark Twain misquote, “The reports of the death of the Darlington County Library System have been greatly exaggerated!”
Headed to the beach? Watch out for horseshoe crabs!
They bleed blue blood, scavenge the seafloor with 10 eyes, and are most closely related to spiders and scorpions. Horseshoe crabs may look alien, but they’re an indispensible part of both the medical world and coastal food webs across the globe. They’re also spawning in South Carolina until July, affording S.C. Department of Natural Resources (DNR) biologists and the public a chance to learn more about an animal that...
Commercial Vegetable Grower Field Day
Commercial Vegetable Grower Meeting/Field Day, Wednesday, May 27, 2015 from 10:00 a.m. -12:00 noon at Clemson University Pee Dee Research & Education Center (PDREC), 2200 Pocket Rd., Florence. (GPS Address: 2200 Pocket Rd., Darlington, SC) The commercial vegetable growers meeting will be at the new vegetable demonstration/research area along the main entrance road on the north side of the tenant house at the PDREC. The main...
FMU campus set to become a movie set
Francis Marion University has long been known as one South Carolina’s most beautiful college campuses. Now it’s set to become one of the state’s most beautiful movie sets. The South Carolina- and California-based independent film company G That’s Entertainment Inc. will be filming a made-for-TV movie on the FMU campus for two weeks, beginning May 16. The broadcast destination for the project is uncertain. But the movie, entitled...