Author Bios
Cathy Gilbert
The Cypress Center was packed to capacity Saturday night as citizens from across the county came to see their hometown version of “Dancing with the Stars.”
Across the nation, hospital emergency rooms are shifting from acute, traumatic care to health clinics for those without insurance or funds to pay doctors. Rising unemployment has caused a loss of insurance for many working people sending them to ERs for minor illnesses. A recent MSNBC report said the national average wait time in an emergency waiting room is 222 minutes – three hours and 42 minutes.
According to the S.C. Dept. of Health and Environmental Control, “South Carolina ranks seventh in diabetes prevalence, and Santee Cooper Urgent Care is doing something about it. Dr. Rudolf “Rudy” Jokl is a certified internal medicine physician and is also certified in endocrinology and will begin seeing patients as an internist and an endocrinologist on Sept. 13.
To do anything for 50 years is a momentous occasion.
Marriages that last 50 years are heralded with often lavish celebrations.
Rarely do people have the same job for 50 years.
But for one Manning resident, being a part of the world’s largest civic organization has not been a job, but a passion.
Dancing with the Stars has become a national phenomenon for the ABC Network.
And now, Clarendon County is about to host its own version.
