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Home on the Range: A day of training with the Fairfield County Sheriff’s Office.
The flash grenade went off with a burst of brilliant yellow light and the building was filled with a thin smoke and the smell of magnesium. The corridor erupted with short blasts of gunfire, followed by shouts of “Clear!” as the boots made their way down the hall, sweeping one room at a time with more gunfire. It sounded like chaos. But it looked like surgery. The Fairfield County Sheriff’s Office was sweating out a hot April afternoon la...
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New memories made at Mill Village reunion
On April 21, many memories were made! So many former U.S. Rubber employees, their family members or residents of the Mill Village gathered to celebrate their heritage of being raised on the “Village.” Folks came from Tennessee, Florida, Georgia and as far away as Texas! The estimated attendance was 600 to 700 people. They began coming in the Old Armory around 2 p.m. and continued all afternoon and evening until the reunion closed at midnight....
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Remembering National Nurses Week
This week, May 6 – 12, has been set aside as National Nursing Week, with May 12 being a special day to remember our nurses. Of course, when we think ‘nursing’ the first person to come to mind is Florence Nightingale, the founder of modern nursing. She was an English nurse, writer and statistician. Born on May 12, 1820 into a rich, upper-class family on the outskirts of Florence, she was named after the city of her birth. At an early age she...
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Lion Rann Foster of the Winnsboro Lions Club was presented the 2011-2012 South Carolina Lion of the Year Award by Lion District Governor (32-D) Donnie Humphries in a meeting May 1, 2012 at the Fairfield Memorial Hospital, Winnsboro, SC.
Foster named S.C. Lion of the Year
Long-time Winnsboro Lions Club member Randall R. (Rann) Foster was named the South Carolina “Lion of the Year” for 2011-2012 in ceremonies held May 1 at the Fairfield Memorial Hospital. The award is given annually to the South Carolina Lion who best exemplifies “outstanding service, loyalty and devotion to Lionism.” There are almost 4,300 Lions club members in the state who were eligible for the prestigious award. Making the award presentat...
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Winnsboro native entertains and inspires in ‘Dancing on Mars’
by Vicki Dodds “Dancing on Mars was a hard book to pitch,” said Lucinda Shirley, “much harder than writing it.” Like its author, this book is resistant to labels. Shirley has combined a lively memoir with insights from other women on the subject of living married and single lifestyles. To top it off, original poems in relevant places amplify and enrich the prose. Dancing on Mars is a genre-bender, for sure, with one reader calling it “a f...
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Seniors get connected at FMH
Fairfield Memorial Hospital hosted its first Senior Connection Day on Wednesday, April 25, with a purpose of exposing the seniors to what services and products were available to them. “We had a tremendous turnout and enjoyed sharing a great deal of information with our seniors plus we all had a great time! We are excited about our first senior event and look forward to having more of them,” said Mike Williams, hospital CEO. There were bet...
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Tornadoes are no trip to Oz
As those of us who live in the South know all too well, we are now well into the tornado season. The United States’ season actually begins in late winter and lasts until mid-summer, but in the Southern states it is March until the end of May. This year’s storms got an early start with tornadoes as early as January. The storms that hit Joplin, Mo. early this year tore through a highly populated area and again in Birmingham, Ala., resulting in ...
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Teens learn valuable lessons at Health Assessment Summit
Fairfield Community Health Partners held its second Community Health Assessment Summit focusing on Teen Pregnancy Prevention Feb.28 at Fairfield Central High School. Special thanks to attendees, including parents, students, County Councilwoman Mary Lynn Kinley, Brenda Jackson, former director of Fairfield You First Teen Pregnancy Prevention program (no longer in existence), members of Safer Choices who facilitated the youth discussion, member...
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Castlewood youth hold hotdog/bake sale Saturday
Castlewood Apartments in Winnsboro provides a Youth Recognition Program (YRP), which is sponsored by CAHEC (Community Affordable Housing Equity Corporation). Last year, CAHEC sent 10 qualified youth from Castlewood to the YMCA Blue Ridge Assembly in beautiful Asheville, N.C. and another trip is scheduled in June for Camp Rockfish in Parkton, N.C. Castlewood is hoping to send 12-15 youth this summer. The purpose of this youth program is to e...
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Smithsonian exhibit opens this weekend
It’s finally here! The Fairfield County Museum in Winnsboro opens the popular New Harmonies: Celebrating American Roots Music Exhibit, the 2011-2012 Smithsonian’s Museum on Main Street traveling show. A free sneak preview will be held at the museum on April 28 from 6 to 8 p.m. followed by the presentation of A Country Karaoke Talent Night at the Pine Tree Theatre (230 S. Congress St.). The museum’s grand opening event on Sunday afternoon, A...
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Explore Fairfield County’s treasures
The public is invited join the members of The Inquirendo Book Club for the 2012 Open Meeting on April 30 at 4 p.m. for an interesting discussion of a few of Fairfield County’s treasures. The meeting will be held at First United Methodist Church, 109 West College St. in Winnsboro. The speaker will be James Maynard. Maynard has a BA in Architecture from the University of N.C. and has won awards for his historic preservation work from the Char...
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April is Child Abuse Prevention Month
In 2011, South Carolina Department of Social Services (DSS) officials report that the agency investigated 17,514 cases of abuse and/or neglect throughout the state. Of that number, 6,810 cases indicated some form of abuse occurred. Unfortunately, that number only reflects the incidents reported and indicated by the department. Many other incidents of abuse and neglect occur that are never reported and never investigated. Child Abuse Prevent...
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JEANNA DUERSCHERL | The Roanoke Times
Fairfield native honored for heroism
DALEVILLE, Va. — Normally they call him the mayor of The Glebe, the guy who loves to extol the virtues of the retirement community to all potential residents. But Monday the salute was on a much grander scale. Retired Air Force Col. And Fairfield County native Joseph Johnson was awarded France’s highest decoration — the Legion of Honor, class of Chevalier — in a ceremony that was part pomp, part standup comedy and part wedding anniversary c...
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FMH Foundation elects new members
Fairfield Memorial Hospital Foundation board president Michael W. Quinn this week announced the election two new board members. Eddie Nelson and Russ Brown join the Foundation board this month. Nelson, the owner and director of Nelson’s Funeral Home in Ridgeway, is a retired school district administrator and Brown is the owner and broker of Brown Homes and Land in the Midlands and also is a member of the Ridgeway Town Council. They join c...
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Those daring young (and old) men in their flying machines
On a recent trip to Florida to visit friends, we attended the Valiant Air Command Warbird Air Show at the Space Coast Regional Airport in Titusville. The show was in honor of and dedicated to the 70th anniversary of the Doolittle raid by Lt. Col. James Doolittle and his crew. Almost every era of aviation was represented – World War I, World War II, Vietnam and Desert Storm. We toured the flightline, where we saw “Panchito,” a North American...
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