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The Christian Prayer Riders and Smokehouse Restaurant in Turbeville will be hosting a benefit ride for B.J. Wilkes this Saturday, July 17. Wilkes was born with only one pumping chamber in his heart. Doctors told his parents that they would have to operate once he got older.

As of May, Wilkes has had surgery twice to correct his condition. He is only four-years-old.

It’s so hot outside, it feels like the sky is about to explode. You’re on Brooks Street, and have just passed the courthouse. Nothing seems to be amiss except for the fact that a Southern Belle in a big hoop dress is sitting next to you, glistening with perspiration, and what you’re holding in your hand is not a steering wheel, but two leather reigns. You unconsciously yell “giddyup!” and the two horses convert into Hwy. 260, and you are back in your car with the air conditioner blowing and the radio blaring.

Both the Manning and Summerton Rotary Clubs have awarded scholarships to deserving, college-bound high school seniors.

The Summerton Rotary Club awarded $1,000 grants to Briana Bennett of Scott’s Branch High School and Kathryn Masincupp of Clarendon Hall.
Bennett is the daughter of Davie and Sebrena Wells of Summerton. Bennett intends to attend South Carolina State University and study biology education.

Although he will never admit it, Corporal Carlos Rangel is a hero. He can’t fly and he doesn’t have any super powers, but he does have a gift that he uses to help others.

Rangel is the only law enforcement officer in Clarendon County who is fluent in Spanish. And he doesn’t take his gift for granted.

Besides being a regular man-in-blue for the Manning City Police Department, he serves as translator and essentially mediator between law enforcement officers and non-English speaking Hispanics.

The Clarendon County Development Board is the extension of the Clarendon County Council, which has been designated to devote its full time efforts to economic development. John Truluck, our Economic Development Director and his staff have a volunteer advisory board that is appointed by the Clarendon County Council, both to assist him and to make recommendations to the County Council. Each council district is represented on the advisory board.

There is perhaps no more precious natural resource in Clarendon County than Lake Marion.

It brings visitors (and their money) to our county for fishing, swimming, boating and other water recreation.

It has created some of the most prized real estate in the entire state for those relocating who want to be near its shores.

It is home for dozens of species that make up the lush flora and fauna that beautifies our area.

And if we are not careful, it could all go away.

MONCKS CORNER, S.C. – Santee Cooper’s Vector Management department will spray at locations around Lake Moultrie and Lake Marion at various times during the prime mosquito season.

In Clarendon County, the following Santee Cooper subdivisions will be serviced: Cantey Bay, Prince sections I-III, Francis Marion, Taw Caw, W.B. Davis, Gin Pond, West Wyboo, Rowland, White Oak sections I-III, Frierson, Clark, Davis, Church Branch and Wyboo.

Rumors have been swirling around the counties served by the Santee Electric Cooperative regarding salaries paid to board members.

According to an IRS 990 filing in 2008, some board members were paid as much as $187,071, bringing many questions as to compensation for SEC board members.

According to SEC CEO Floyd Keels, the reported compensation was due to the termination of a non-qualified, self-funded retirement program that was offered to employees and board members in 1989.

Ernest “Chip” Finney III has announced his candidacy for Solicitor for the Third Judicial Circuit primary to be held June 8.

The Third Circuit covers Sumter, Clarendon, Lee and Williamsburg counties.

Finney, 53, is running for the position currently held by Kelly Jackson, who has announced that he will not be running for re-election this year.

Finney is a 1973 graduate of Sumter High School. He earned his B.A. from Wofford in 1977, and his law degree from the University of South Carolina in 1980.

Budget week is a very difficult time for legislators. It is a time when it becomes agonizingly clear that we are a body of drastically different viewpoints on where we should be focusing our time and energy.

It is a time when I am grateful that the structure of our government provides for two legislative bodies that each go through the budget process providing a check and balance. I am optimistic that the Senate, who will take up the budget the last week of March, may add an element of levity to the work done by the House.