Content about Human Interest

Every 11 minutes someone is added to the medical organ transplant waiting list.  More than 102,000 people, enough to populate a small city, are waiting for an organ donation in the United States.  Eight hundred South Carolinians are awaiting an organ transplant with approximately 90 percent needing a kidney. 

Unfortunately, thousands of people never get a second chance at life by receiving a suitable donor organ.  Being an organ donor is one of the most generous decisions that anyone could ever make and it is a life saver.

In the last two weeks Alvin Michael Greene has become a national media sensation.

With much focus being devoted to his filing fee and his felony obscenity charges, we still don’t know his whole story or what he represents.

The Clarendon Citizensat down with Greene to attempt to get a better understanding of the first African-American nominated in South Carolina for the U.S. Senate, since the Reconstruction Era.

AIKEN – Frances Horton Elliott, estimable wife, mother and daughter, formerly of Summerton, died after a long illness at Mattie C. Hall in Aiken on Tuesday, June 15, 2010. Born on December 7, 1942, in Sumter, she was the daughter of the late William Everett and Edna Chewning Horton of Davis Station.

Booker T. Fleming Jr., 63, widower of Geneva Davis Fleming, died Tuesday, June 1, 2010, at Clarendon Memorial Hospital, Manning.

Born June 6, 1946, in Manning, he was a son of Everlena Bennett Fleming and the late Booker T. Fleming Sr. He was a graduate of Manning Training School. At an early age, he accepted Christ as his Savior and joined Biggers AME Church. He was a founder of Fleming Fencing Co.

Following the enormous popularity of the ABC hit, “Dancing with the Stars,” members of the Turbeville Community Association (formerly the Turbeville Business Association) have taken the lead in creating a similar event for Clarendon County’s own stars. And all for two good causes!

From County Council Chair Dwight Stewart to former Chief Magistrate Annelle Powell; from Sheriff Randy Garrett to Rep. Cathy Harvin, 16 “couples” kicked off their rehearsal schedule at the Turbeville home of Keith and Cheryl Wingard last Friday.

The mission of this nation’s Junior ROTC is “to motivate young people to be better citizens.”

If Scott’s Branch’s Eagle Battalion’s latest inspection is any indication of the success of this mission at the Summerton high school, then the world had better watch out.

These kids are going places.

Clarendon County Controller Lynden Anthony crossed the finish line wearing a collared shirt, tie and dress pants.

No he didn’t just get off work without time to change. And no he wasn’t going for the Coolest Outfit award either (although he did receive it with honors).

He simply just wanted to make this race fun. Anthony had a half-Ironman distance triathlon the following weekend, and being a competitive athlete, he needed a constant reminder to take it easy on the festival race date.

It takes hundreds of dogs and dozens of volunteers but the Annual Low Country Fox Hunt to benefit the Turbeville Free Will Baptist Children’s Home was a major success.

According to lead organizers Wayne Oxendine and Susie Ellisor the annual event, held March 5-6, was blessed with large crowds, perfect weather and a little over $27,000 in funds raised.

The event began Friday night with what Ellisor deemed their “biggest Friday night ever.”

With stabilized weather conditions, the fish at lakes Marion and Moultrie are doing what they’re supposed to be doing ... they are biting like crazy ... and that’s no April Fools’ joke.

The largemouth bass, catfish, and crappie have been the headliners for sure. But add to that some excellent shellcracker fishing and some decent fishing for bream and there’s a true smorgasbord of fishing opportunities right now.

With the more stable weather, there’s additional good news for those who enjoy fishing the rivers.

After more than 30 years in the media business, Clarendon County resident Cleve Dowell, has taken a new leap into the publishing industry by starting a newspaper, the Clarendon Citizen.

“It has been my honor to be at the helm of The Manning Times for the last 11 years,” Dowell said last week. The Manning Times and Times Publishing is wholly-owned by a businessman in Alabama and I believed it was time for Clarendon County to be served by a Clarendon County publishing entity.”

PAMPLICO – Joseph Ray Hutchinson, 53, of Pamplico, died Sunday, March 14, 2010, at his residence. Born in Brunswick, Ga., a son of David Elwood and Mildred Maye Byrd Hutchinson, he was a member of the Cornerstone Fellowship in Manning, an avid hunter, and he loved fishing. He was preceded in death by his brother Jonathan Paul Hutchinson, who died in 2004.