Darlington County student honored at annual SkillsUSA Workforce Development Event
A career and technical student in South Carolina won one of the nation’s highest awards at the 2018 SkillsUSA Championships, held in Louisville, Ky., on June 27-28, 2018. More than 6,300 students competed at the national showcase of career and technical education. The SkillsUSA Championships is the largest skill competition in the world and covers 1.4 million square feet, equivalent to 20 football fields or 25 acres. Students were...
Country music legend Clay Walker to perform Bojangles’ Southern 500 pre-race concert
Highlighting its award-winning Throwback Weekend, celebrating “7 Decades of NASCAR”, Darlington Raceway has announced that multi-platinum country music legend Clay Walker will headline the pre-race concert for its Monster Energy NASCAR Cup Series Bojangles’ Southern 500 race on September 2. “I’m pleased to be performing the pre-race concert at Darlington Raceway,” Walker said. “NASCAR and country music go hand-in-hand and I’m looking...
Tips for blood donors
Unlike other marvels of modern medicine, quality blood is an important health component that cannot be created synthetically. Blood shortages continue to plague medical establishments across the globe. For those who require transfusions, blood from volunteer donors can be the difference between life and death. However, many people are apprehensive about donating blood because of their own unique fears of the unknown or from past poor...
Watermelon Field Day July 12 at Clemson’s Edisto REC
BLACKVILLE – Herbicides, miticides, pollinators and more are on the agenda for this year’s Watermelon Field Day at Clemson University’s Edisto Research and Education Center. Gilbert Miller, a Clemson Extension vegetable specialist, said the field day has something for anyone interested in growing or eating watermelons. It is scheduled July 12 at the Edisto REC, 64 Research Road, Blackville. “This event has both an indoor and an...
Entertaining ways to prevent summer learning loss
Summer vacation presents an opportunity for students to enjoy an extended break from the classroom. While this respite from routine may be a welcome change to youngsters, teachers frequently lament that valuable educational lessons seem to be forgotten each summer. Educators then face tougher hurdles when students return to school in the fall. Such a phenomenon is dubbed “summer learning loss,” but it can occur during any extended...