Here and There – 9-26-13

Here and There – 9-26-13

Johnston Farmer’s & Artist’s Market every Thursday, from 4 – 6 p.m. in front of the Library/Warehouse on Calhoun Street. Edgefield Farmers Arts and Crafts Market:  On the Town Square every Sat. 9:00 a.m.-1:00.For more info call Carolyn Piekielniak @ 637-6861 or 803-507-0278. Children’s Books Campaign: County Council Chairman Dean Campbell has designated the Friends of […]

Steele and Brooks Named Regions Top Agricultural Educators

Strom Thurmond Career and Technology Center faculty members Darla Steele and Jeremy Brooks have been named South Carolina Mid-State Region Outstanding Agricultural Education Teachers of the Year for 2013 by the South Carolina Association of Agricultural Educators.  Darla who is in her fifth year as agricultural education instructor at the career and technology center was […]

America’s Abortion Epidemic

OPINION:  – By G. Miller Thompson – The Penal Code of the State of California (Section 597) states that “every person who overdrives, overloads, drives when overloaded, overworks, tortures, torments, deprives of necessary sustenance, drink, or shelter, cruelly beats, mutilates, or cruelly kills any animal…and whoever…subjects any animal to the needless suffering, or inflicts unnecessary […]

NWTF to Build Hunting Heritage Center

NWTF to Build Hunting Heritage Center

The National Wild Turkey Federation has long served as a leader in upland wildlife conservation and an advocate for our country’s hunters. Now, it has plans to expand its Edgefield, S.C., campus, on which it will build a facility to help better fulfill its mission. The NWTF Hunting Heritage Center will be a destination for […]

DeMarco Langford

AIKEN, S.C. – Funeral services for Mr. DeMarco Langford will be held on Wednesday, Sept. 25, 12 noon, at the Mt. Pleasant Baptist Church with the Rev. Ernest Gordon, Pastor. Interment will be in the church cemetery. Visitation will be 6-8pm Tuesday at the Funeral Home. He is survived by mother, Dorothy Walker; step-father, Robert […]

Joyce Hood Timmerman

EASLEY, S.C. – Ms. Joyce H. Timmerman, 83, of Carmen Lane, died Monday September 23, 2013. Graveside Services will be held Wednesday September 25, 2013 at 11 A.M. in Eastview Cemetery. Ms. Timmerman was a native of Edgefield County. She was retired from Kleinert’s as an Artist and attended Freedom Fellowship Ministries. Survivors include one son, […]

Annie Mae Dukes

JOHNSTON, S.C. – Funeral services for Mrs. Annie Mae Dukes was  held Saturday, September 21, 2013, at 1:00pm at the Pine Hill Baptist Church with the Rev. Jerome Coleman pastor . Interment was in the church cemetery. She is survived by; her children, Phillis Dukes, Edgefield; SC, Joe Ben Dukes lll, Smithfield NC, Beatrice Drayton […]

Willie Cheatham

AIKEN, S.C. – Mr. Willie Cheatham, 55, of 3001 Mississippi Ave., entered into rest September 17, 2013 at his residence. Funeral services were held 2 p.m., Sept. 21 at Republican Grove Baptist Church with Rev. Willie Patten, Jr. officiating. Interment was at the church cemetery. Survivors include his parents, Johnnie and Catherine Cheatham, Aiken; sisters, […]