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Ghents Branch Relay for Life auction a success
Jerry E. Halmon, Staff Reporter
A cool and misty rain
Saturday morning, February 5,
did not dampen the enthusiasm
of the large crowd of people
inside the Family Life Center at
the Ghents Branch Baptist
Church. The Ghents Branch
Baptist Church Relay for Life
team held an auction and sold
chicken dinners, along
with a host of other goodies with
the proceeds going to the
American Cancer Society.
“Terrific,” was the term
used by Ghents Branch Baptist
Church Relay for Life team
captain Jimmie Lee Hartzog to
describe Saturday’s event. “It
was very successful, we had
very little left,” Hartzog said of
the hundreds of items that filled
up the church’s family life
center, and raised $6,467 for the
Bamberg County Chapter of the
American Cancer Society.
Hartzog said she was “very
proud” of her “big, terrific and
hardworking” Relay for Life
Team and all those people that
fought through the dreary
weather Saturday morning to
attend the event.
Having held a successful
auction on Saturday, the Ghents
Branch Baptist Church Relay for
Life team doesn’t plan to rest on
their laurels. The team is
currently working on a Ghents
Branch Baptist Church
Cookbook that will be out
shortly. The cost of the
cookbook will be $15.00 with
the proceeds going to the
American Cancer Society.
Orders for the book can be
called into Jimmie Lee Hartzog
at 245-2282.
Denmark City Election
Jerry E. Halmon, Staff Reporter
The official results of the
Tuesday, February 8,
nonpartisan election in the City
of Denmark for three open seats
on City Council show that two
incumbents and one political
newcomer have been elected to
serve four-year terms on City
Council. Incumbent Denmark
City Councilmember Hope
Long-Weldon was reelected to
another four year term of office
with 134 votes. Incumbent
Councilmember Bervay Lee
Carter was second with 117
votes and political newcomer the
Reverend Rufus Jamison Jr.
received 87 write-in votes for
seat on Denmark City Council.
Other candidates receiving votes
were Johnnie Rosa with 47 votes
and Marc Waltz with 38 votes.
Willie Jeffries
Jerry E. Halmon, Staff Reporter
“Black History Month is
very important, we still need
Black History Month,”
legendary South Carolina
State University football
coach Willie Jeffries told the
large audience assembled in
Massachusetts Hall
Auditorium on the campus
of Voorhees College,
Thursday morning, February
3., for the first in a series of
programs kicking off
Voorhees College’s Black
History Month Celebration.
Jeffries, in noting the
“very important” need to
illustrate racial diversity in
America, named “a few
contributors” to Black
History and America, people
such as: Benjamin
Banneker, who wrote the
first Farmer’s Almanac and
laid out the boundaries of the
city of Washington D.C.;
Garrett Morgan, who
invented the traffic light; Dr.
Charles Drew, who
established the first blood
bank and who later died
because as a Black person he
was denied a blood
transfusion; Dr. Daniel Hale
Williams, who developed
open heart surgery; George
Washington Carver, who
discovered more than a
1,000 uses for the peanut and
Madame J.C. Walker, who
discovered many uses for
hair products.
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