Kids and Carrots
Nothing says happy and healthy like an image of children gardening, harvesting, and eating carrots, beets, cabbages, cucumbers, etc. The Summer “Out of School” Program students in Fremont, Nebraska got to do just that when they helped create an After School Garden at Linden Elementary in Fremont.
My boyhood’s August
School had been out for two whole months, beginning on the last day of May. It was now August and a full month and more of vacation time remained. It would be a month of action for many of the village children. We would cram all into it we could. This writer had been busy since that day he had returned from his last day of school, and joyously announced that he had been promoted to the next grade level. He was free now to explore the...
Letters to the Editor – August 26, 2015
Ageless Aviation Ageless Aviation Dreams Foundation is coming to Branhams Airport in Darlington on September 2, 3 and 4. It is a non-profit organization established and dedicated to honor seniors, particularly United States military veterans by providing “Dream Flights” in a vintage 1940 Boeing Stearman open cockpit biplane at no cost. It is the same aircraft used to train military aviators in World War II. There were 10,626 built...
Memories from the Porch
Long before there were shopping malls, televisions, computers, and all the other gadgets to occupy the mind, there were front porches.
After the flag: building a new legacy
By Rick Noble, Guest Columnist One hundred fifty-seven children will be born in South Carolina today. They are among the first in more than a half-century who will be born into a state that doesn’t fly the Confederate flag at its seat of government. A state whose leaders listened to their constituents, their hearts and the teachings of their faith, then took action in the name of grace. Heritage was a word heard in the flag...
A Belated Thank You
A great big “Thank You!” (long overdue) to Mr. Douglas Lee, lifetime resident of Darlington.