Buford Street United Methodist Church is sponsoring a soup lunch fundraiser every Monday in February. The meals are served from 11:30 a.m. – 1:30 p.m. and include a choice of three soups, cornbread, dessert, and drink for $6. For more information and to place a takeout order, call 864-487-9705.
Here’s a video from their October 2011 event.
Cherokee County, South Carolina, is hosting another round of community meetings to get feedback from residents and the public on preliminary trail recommendations for the Cherokee County Greenway Master Plan. The plan will be the county’s blueprint for trails and greenways identified for the Carolina Thread Trail (The Thread).
Three meetings will be held throughout the county; the same information will be provided at meeting. Each community meeting will be held from 6-7:30 p.m. with a formal presentation beginning at 6 p.m. A question-and-answer session will follow the presentations. The community will have the opportunity to learn more about the county’s greenway master planning process and where potential trails may be built or identified for the county and The Thread. The meeting dates and locations follow:
Tuesday, February 28: Spartanburg Community College, Gaffney Campus – Community Room, 523 Chesnee Hwy. (Hwy. 11), Gaffney, SC
Thursday, March 1: Blacksburg Community House, 103 S. Shelby Street, Blacksburg, SC
Tuesday, March 6: Corinth Baptist Church, 190 Corinth Road, Gaffney, SC
Meetings to launch this planning effort were held in the summer of 2011 to educate Cherokee County residents about the master plan and obtain initial feedback and trail suggestions. From those suggestions and other planning information, a more comprehensive greenway master plan was developed.
Trail master plans provide a long-term vision for the development and implementation of trails and greenways within a county and its communities. Cherokee County is one of three counties within The Thread’s 15-county target region yet to adopt such a plan. Currently, 85 miles of The Thread are open to the public in North and South Carolina with 14 active corridors under development. For more information on The Thread, go to http://www.carolinathreadtrail.org.
About The Carolina Thread Trail
The Carolina Thread Trail (The Thread) is a 15-county, two state initiative designed to inspire and facilitate the creation and development of a regional network of trails, blueways and conservation corridors that would link more than 2.3 million citizens. With technical resources and catalytic funding from The Thread, local communities will plan and implement their portions of this greenway-interstate system. Catawba Lands Conservancy is the lead agency for The Thread, which is working in partnership with Foundation For The Carolinas and many local partners. For more information, go to http://www.carolinathreadtrail.org.
Show Will Benefit Fellowship of Christian Athletes, Tickets Now on Sale
Dennis “The Swan” Swanberg, will be the featured comedian at Broad River Electric Charities’ annual Hilarity for Charity benefit comedy show on Friday, February 17, 2012 at Broad River Electric Auditorium. All proceeds from the benefit comedy show will go to the local chapters of the Fellowship of Christian Athletes. The show begins at 7 p.m. Doors will open at 6 p.m.
Tickets to the 2012 show are now on sale. Reserved seating will be $25 for the reserved section and $20 for general admission. There will be a $2 discount per ticket for packages of 10 or more. Tickets can be purchased Broad River Electric office in Gaffney (811 Hamrick Street) and Boiling Springs/Inman (5535 Hwy 9) as well as the Cherokee County Chamber of Commerce Office. Online ticket sales will be available soon.
With his down-home charm Swanberg, known as the Minister of Encouragement, has won the hearts of audiences across the country. Swanberg combines Barney Fife and over twenty other lovable impersonations with his side-splitting stories of growing up, families, and the funny side of church to entertain and inspire over 250,000 people every year.
Swanberg’s list of impersonations include Don Knotts, Pat Butram (Mr. Haney of Green Acres), Walter Brennan, Howard Cosell, Muhammad Ali, Ronald Reagan, Billy Graham, Jimmy Carter, Bill Clinton, Forrest Gump, Slim Pickins, John Wayne, Ross Perot, Jimmy Stewart, Bert and Ernie and a host of other Sesame Street characters and many more.
He has also authored seven books including his most recent release, a devotional and Bible study book for men, Man Code. Swanberg has hosted two television shows, “The Dennis Swanberg Show on Trinity Broadcasting Network and “Swan’s Place” on FamNet and appeared on countless radio shows.
“We’re very excited to have Dennis Swanberg as this year’s comedian,” said Broad River Electric Charities Board Member Daisy Lemmons. “He is well-known and liked across the country. We feel confident he’ll draw a big crowd in support of this great cause.”
Money raised from the 2012 Hilarity for Charity will benefit the Cherokee, Union and Spartanburg Chapters of Fellowship of Christian Athletes. Since 1954, FCA has been challenging athletes and coaches at every level to use the powerful medium of athletics to impact the world for Jesus Christ. It provides a positive peer group as an alternative to the negative pressures so prevalent in schools today.
The first two installments of Hilarity for Charity have been big successes. With iconic comedian James Gregory providing the laughs, the events collectively raised over $32,000 for seven local charities in Cherokee, Spartanburg and Union Counties. Over 2,000 people attended those shows and dozens of businesses provided sponsorships to make them a hit in the community.
Legendary South Carolina historian and broadcaster Walter Edgar will launch Limestone’s College’s Renewing a Dream, Revisiting the South Series when he visits the campus on Monday, Feb. 20. Dr. Edgar‘s presentation, entitled “Limestone and South Carolina in the 1840s,” will begin at 7:00 p.m. in Fullerton Auditorium and will be followed by a reception in Winnie Davis Hall of History. The presentation and reception are free and open to the public.
Made possible by a grant from the Wachovia Foundation (now a part of Wells Fargo), the Renewing a Dream, Revisiting the South Series is designed to provide the local community and Limestone students free access to programs and exhibits from a wide array of historians, art collections, and performing artists with an emphasis on Southern history and culture.
A native of Mobile, Alabama, Dr. Edgar is in much demand as a speaker and annually delivers twenty-five to thirty talks and lectures to a wide variety of audiences. In addition to his scholarly pursuits, he is the host of two programs on South Carolina Public Radio: “Walter Edgar’s Journal,” a look at contemporary events in context and “South Carolina from A to Z.” Additionally, he is Director of the Institute for Southern Studies at the University of South Carolina, is a Carolina Trustee Professor, the Claude Henry Neuffer Professor of Southern Studies, the George Washington Distinguished Professor of History, and a Louise Fry Scudder Professor of Liberal Arts.
Dr. Edgar is author or editor of more than a dozen books on South Carolina and the American South, including his most recent publication The South Carolina Encyclopedia (2006) of which he was editor-in-chief. He is also the author of South Carolina: A History (1998) and Partisans and Redcoats: The Southern Campaign that Turned the Tide of the American Revolution (2001).
Dr. Edgar has also been active in the community as an officer or board member of numerous organizations including the South Carolina Historical Society, the Governor’s Mansion Foundation, the South Caroliniana Society, the South Carolina Archives and History Foundation, the Palmetto Conservation Foundation, the Friends of the Richland County Public Library, the Columbia Museum of Art, and Heathwood Hall Episcopal School.
In 1995 Dr. Edgar retired as a colonel in the Army Reserves after thirty years of commissioned service. Among his awards and honors are honorary degrees from Davidson College, the Citadel, Coker College, Newberry College, and Coastal Carolina University. In 2001 he received the Distinguished Alumnus Award from the University of South Carolina and in 2008 was inducted into the South Carolina Hall of Fame. He has been listed in Who’s Who in America since 1985.
On Monday, February 13, Limestone College will host Alesia Adams for a presentation entitled “Stolen Childhood: Understanding Domestic Minor Sex Trafficking in the US.” The program, which is free and open to the public, will begin at 7:00 pm in the banquet room of Limestone’s Stephenson Dining Hall.
Adams, who is Territorial Services Coordinator against Human and Sexual Trafficking for the Salvation Army’s Southern Territory, has received numerous awards for her achievements in working towards eradicating the prostitution of children in the United States. She has appeared on several radio and television news reports on child sexual exploitation including Oprah Winfrey’s Oxygen channel, PBS NOW and CNN. In 2001, Ms. Adams was instrumental in arrest, prosecution and conviction of twelve of Georgia’s most notorious child pimps.
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