Letter to the Editor – June 6, 2018
The League of Women Voters voter information website, VOTE411.org, is now available to all voters in South Carolina. This year, 325,000 have visited this website nationally. As a one-stop shop, it provides information on races to appear on the ballot, ballot questions, and what candidates commit to do about critical issues. The questionnaire responses of candidates in the Congressional District 7 primary now appear on the VOTE411.org...
Down South: Chinaberry’s Rise & Fall
By Tom Poland A lovely shade tree, I played beneath its canopy; rolled its berries in my palm. It stood seven yards beyond an old hand-dug well. I sucked nectar from delicate tubes in yellow-green tangles of fragrant honeysuckle just beyond the tree. Little did I know Mom and Dad considered that perfumed vine a pest. They tried and tried to get rid of it. Nothing worked until Granddad Poland brought in goats. They chewed it right to...
Are You A Lifter Or Leaner?
By Bill Shepard That’s a soul-searching question! You probably already know the answer. You can rest with confidence that your closest friends and acquaintances have you labeled. You probably have a tag on them also. I suppose that when most folk look deep inside of themselves they fmd their own label. When I do that I discover that I wear both labels! Sometimes I find myself in the position of a Lifter, and at other times I am...
The Inherent Risk of Sport Specialization
One of the responsibilities that parents take most seriously is protecting their children from injury, whether it is buckling seat belts in a car or wearing a helmet while riding a bike.