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Youth Participation Adds Optimism to Future Scottish Games
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- By Suzanna Dye
“I’m not even Scottish, but I just love the Highland Games! All my friends showed up because I talked about it so much,” said Pasha Franklin, this year’s Miss Scottish Highland Games. She and many others enjoyed the sights and smells of this year’s Scottish Highland Games at Furman University this past Saturday. Pasha went on to describe how excited she is to be competing for the Miss South Carolina Pageant under the Highland Games’ title. “I really like representing something I get so excited about” she said.
Every year at the games there’s music, competitions, a park for children, lots of food, a British car show, and men in kilts. This gathering of the clans draws in people of all ages, begging them to participate in the activities, and try the different foods.
Greenville County Salutes Fallen Officers at Memorial Service
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- By Bob Dill, Publisher
Greenville County held a memorial service May 14, 2013 for fallen officers. Forty-two law enforcement officers have been killed in the line of duty in Greenville county since 1797. Three of them were county sheriff’s. They were Sheriffs Robert Maxwell, Hendrix Rector and Sam D. Willis.
Eleven Deputy Sheriffs have died in the line of duty. The first was Deputy Sheriff Eli Pittman in 1906 and the last was Deputy Sheriff Andrew John Mazur in 2003. No Greenville County law enforcement officer has died in the line of duty in a decade. Seven died during the previous decade.
Jim Morgan, CEO, Krispy Kreme Headlined Miracle Hill Banquet
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- By Bob Dill, Publisher
Jane Robelot Discusses Media and Politics
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- By Press Release
Greenville County Republican women at the Poinsett Club last Thursday remembered Jane Robelot from the Tiger Tailgate Show with Russ Cassell and CBS Morning programming from New York. Now Robelot is anchoring the morning news on WGTK FM 94.5 with Mike Gallagher opposite Cassell on WORD 106.3.
Single when she left the Upstate for the big city, Robelot is now happily married with a 14-year-old son. She has lost none of her southern charm and thrilled her audience with stories about interviews with well-known personalities including Bill and Hillary Clinton,
Robelot has strong family ties to Greenville. Her uncle was Major. Rudolf Anderson, the U-2 Pilot killed during the Cuban Missile Crisis.
Annual Minority Health Summit
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- By Gilbert Scales
The 7th Annual Greenville Health System Minority Health Summit was held at the Bi-Lo Center on Saturday.
The focus of this year’s event was obesity and the toll it takes on African-Americans in Greenville County.
“Greenville County alone has a 67% obesity rate – yet weight has a way of faking us out,” said Summit Organizer Melinda Hudson Gillispie, BSN, RN, Coordinator GHS Community Relations. “Most of us may think we could ‘stand to lose a few pounds,’ but very few of us realize where we actually stand in relationship to being obese or overweight.”
Sheriff’s Office Receives Annual DUI
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- By Deputy Jonathan Smith
On April 3rd the South Carolina Department of Public Safety held its 8th annual DUI enforcement recognition and 2012 Law Enforcement DUI Challenge Ceremonies in Columbia. Law Enforcement officers and agencies were recognized for their efforts in 2012 to enforce that state’s DUI laws by locating and arresting impaired drivers from South Carolina’s roadways.
Greenville Begins Bike Share Program
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- By James "Chip" Moore
Scheduled to open in the Spring of 2013 Greenville County will begin in the next-next-generation bike-sharing program. With several stations located around Downtown, participants will be able to rent bicycles from a B-cycle station and return it to any other B-station when they are done.
B-cycle is the only bike-sharing program that measures the actual distance traveled on each ride and keeps track of the calories burned and the carbon emissions prevented. This service is available for members that sign up online by creating their own personal online profile.
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