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17th Annual food drive
Jerry Durgan, Contributing Writer
“The food drive was very
successful this year,” said Enid
Bishop, the Director of
Bamberg’s Cheez & Cracker
Box. “With the economy and the
county’s unemployment rate
what it is this year, this food is
very, very welcome,” she said.
Jointly, the U.S. Postal
Service and the National
Association of Letter Carriers
(NALC) and Campbell Soup
Company supported the NALC
Stamp Out Hunger National
Food Drive, designed for people
to help those in need right in
their own city or town.
Ehrhardt-National Prayer Day
Pansy Clayton, Contributing Writer
We're living in challenging
times. But God is moving
through the prayers of His people.
Prayer is what sustains us,
unites the church body and
acknowledges our dependence
on our loving God.
Their prayers were for our
nation, our educational community,
our families, for world
peace and unity, our churches
and their leaders, law enforcement,
armed forces, business
and medical professionals and
the media.
May Day
Jerry Durgan, Contributing Writer
More than 100 enjoyed a beautiful
spring day at Middle Place
Community Saturday, May 2, in
celebration of May Day, an annual
festival not only to celebrate the
historic importance of Middle
Place, but to help raise funds to
complete the replication of the old
Middle Place schoolhouse.
The central focus today at the
Middle Place Community is the
Middle Place School, built around
1892 built by the community for
the children of the community. The
school was used as a one-room
school house, with one teacher who
taught grades primer through 8th
grade, built as a result of the efforts
and desires of the blacks to acquire
a place of learning for the adults as
well as the children.
2009 Deputy of the Year
Joyce M. Searson, Publisher
At a small ceremony on Friday
at the Bamberg Sheriff’s
Department, George W. Folk, Sr.
was named the recipient of the 2009
Charles H. Grimes, Jr. Chief Deputy
Memorial Award, Outstanding
Deputy of the Year.
Sheriff Ed Darnell said, “
George has been a tremendous asset
to the department and the year 2007
was a bad year for me. He was a lot
of help to me that year, by taking a
lot of responsibility off me so that I
could continue on. He has a lot of
knowledge and experience with
SLED and the FBI.”
Exposed to Rabies
Two Branchville-area residents
who were exposed to rabies
from separate bobcat attacks are
under the care of a physician after
one bobcat tested positive for
rabies, the S.C. Department of
Health and Environmental Control
said today.
“The attacks came within a
few hours of each other on May 5
and 6,” said Sue Ferguson of
DHEC's Bureau of Environmental
Health. “The bobcat involved in the
second attack was captured and
killed.”
Water Project plans
Pansy Clayton, Ehrhardt Correspondent
At the regular monthly meeting,
Ehrhardt Town Administrator Scott
Neeley gave an update on the status
of water system project, stating
that the plans and specs should go
to DHEC soon. Neeley and
Councilman Freddie Copeland
both have reviewed the old and
new plans for the project and
everything looks good to them.
Mayor Stanley stated that he
spoke with Boyles and asked him
to wrap the project up so the bidding
process can get started.
Another item on the agenda
was the approval of the right-of-way
map for the water system
project. In reference to this,
Neeley said that the drawing of the
town that he obtained from the
Court House shows that the town
limit signs were wrong. Scott presented
Council and Mayor Stanley
with a copy of the right-of-way
certificate form. Neeley informed
Council and the Mayor that the
town needs to accept the right-of-way
maps and certificate.
Spending stimulus money
Governor Mark Sanford
today noted a number of wasteful
and inefficient proposals contained
in the state budget, saying
they were evidence that spending
every dollar from the so-called
“stimulus” package will result in
a missed opportunity to make
much-needed changes and
reforms.
In particular, the governor
pointed out a Senate measure that
would move the state Division of
Aeronautics from the state
Department of Commerce to the
state Budget and Control Board –
an agency unique to South
Carolina and one of the least
accountable in all of state government.
The proposal came about
after Commerce suggested a
number of cost-savings measures
related to the state aircraft that
would involve selling state property
and cutting the workforce
related to plane maintenance. In
total, the proposals would have
generated over $363,000 in savings
– something guaranteed not
to happen if the Division is swallowed
in the Budget and Control
Board bureaucracy.
The budget also creates a so-called
“Capital Police Force,”
aimed at shifting existing law
enforcement officers out from
under the governor’s Cabinet and
into legislative control, and likely
forcing them to man the costly
and ineffective “security” system
the legislature had installed on its
garage several years ago. During
the time when the system was
previously operational, a total of
seven officers were shifted away
from their duties guarding the
rest of the Statehouse complex,
and instead were tasked with
guarding a parking garage.
“These and other examples
well demonstrate that not only
are budget writers refusing to
look at much-needed structural
reforms, they’re actually moving
our state backwards in some
cases,” Gov. Sanford said. “As
we saw in the case of GM and
Chrysler, the dangerous thing
about federal money is the fact
that it provides an excuse for the
people whose decisions got us
where we are to continue making
those poor decisions. We’d urge
South Carolinians who care
about responsible budgeting and
using a portion of the stimulus
money to pay down debt to make
their voices heard during the
budget debate this week.”
Other examples cited by
Gov. Sanford were:
- Despite a 47 percent
decrease in gasoline prices, travel
reimbursements are still being
paid at their record high level.
- The budget contains
$750,000 for hydrogen research,
despite complementary federal
funding being zeroed out recently
after the determination was made
that the technology isn’t immediately
viable.
- The budget contains
$75,000 for the “Clemson Spring
Day Dairy Exhibit.”
- Longstanding waste
remains, such as $500,000 spent
to operate state-run golf course
parks, and nearly $1 million in
costs to taxpayers to provide
game day traffic control.
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