Kershaw The countywide Kershaw School District has adopted a $102 million facilities improvement plan that will add two new schools and expand or renovate seven others. The district is in the third year of a four-year plan to provide wireless laptop computers to the district’s 2,900 high school students and their 275 teachers. ABOUT THE DISTRICT 1301 DuBose Courtcq, Camden, 29202cq; (803) 432-8416cq; www.kershaw.k12.sc.uscq Superintendent: … Continue reading SCHOOL, COMPUTER UPGRADES ON THE HORIZON

Grant will fund training, technology The BlueCross BlueShield of South Carolina Foundation awarded $102,900 to the Kershaw County School District last week for a student nutrition and physical activity program in elementary schools. Ten other S.C. school districts also received grants. The funds will pay for training and technology. Physical-education teachers will get laptops and software that will allow them to track students’ fitness progress. … Continue reading CLOSE TO HOME

Pine Forest C&C Builders of Columbia, Inc. Community From the $110’s Sidewalk community Low Taxes Diane Nevitt at 414-3945 or 4220-331Visit www.DianeNevitt.com DIR: Next to Blaney School on Smyrna Road.(From Elgin Post Office, take right on Smyrna) Continue reading Pine Forest

Camden Equestrian Center Fall Fling: If you haven’t been to a horse show this year, now’s your chance. This event features a $10,000 level six mini prix that attracts people from the entire region. The show also will feature the 2006 Governor’s Cup Medal Finals for the South Carolina Hunter Jumper Association. * The details: Sept. 8-10, Camden Equestrian Center; gates open at 4 p.m., … Continue reading FALL FOR FUN

Pine Forest C&C Builders of Columbia, Inc. Community From the $110’s Sidewalk community Low Taxes Diane Nevitt at 414-3945 or 4220-331Visit www.DianeNevitt.com DIR: Next to Blaney School on Smyrna Road.(From Elgin Post Office, take right on Smyrna) Continue reading Pine Forest

District sets monthly Child Find clinics The Kershaw County School District will hold Child Find screening clinics – free vision, hearing, speech, language and developmental screenings for children ages 3-5 – each month through April. The purpose is to help parents and the district identify early any special needs children may have and match available services to assist children with those needs. The clinics will … Continue reading CLOSE TO HOME

Nutrition educator Flora Washington guides her 10- and 11-year-old Kershaw County students as they open tab-top cans of pineapple and mandarin oranges, peel kiwifruit, cut up bananas and strawberries, and measure lime and pineapple juice and a bit of honey. Then they toss the items together in a bowl. The Blaney Elementary School students showed off their skills, making a sweet, tangy, multicolor concoction one day in … Continue reading A NEW ANTI-OBESITY TOOL: FUN

SPECIAL TO THE STATE Solar Steve of Mad Science helps Blaney Elementary students Milaysia Cooper and Brianna Cook taste a simulated soda burp while teaching assistant Anne Harrison and students Jack Griswold, Paul Smith, Blake Williams and Garrison Hood watch. Solar Steve visited the school on Aug. 11 in keeping with the school’s theme of ‘Mad about Science and Math.’ Continue reading BLANEY ELEMENTARY