Archive for February, 2015

Photo by Marsha Guerard.  All rights reserved.

New county park is open for business

The new 745-acre Laurel Hill County Park that opened last month offers more places in East Cooper for county residents to run, walk and bike. Laurel Hill County Park is located between U.S. Highway 17 and S.C. Highway 41 in Mount Pleasant, but is accessible to the public from its trail head, located at the Mount Pleasant Recreation Department’s Park West Recreation Complex.

by · 02/02/2015 · Comments are Disabled · Focus, Good news
McQuage: When someone with dementia is hospitalized

McQuage: When someone with dementia is hospitalized

“When people with dementia has to go to the emergency room, their reactions to the event are often very similar to my daughter’s reactions. Even if people with dementia have been to a particular hospital or emergency room numerous times, each time they may experience it as if it were the first.”

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South Carolina, the Squeaky Wheel State

Brack: S.C. is Squeaky Wheel State

If you haven’t yet learned, South Carolina’s culture places more emphasis in reacting to problems instead of planning to deal with issues before they become problems. That’s just the way we’ve rolled. We should be called the Squeaky Wheel State.

by · 02/02/2015 · 1 comment · Andy Brack, Views
Poem: Great Blue Heron

Poem: Great Blue Heron

“I see you are back again, my teacher.
Your stillness in silence, today’s lesson,
speaks of finding focus within life’s blur.”

by · 02/02/2015 · 1 comment · Features, Palmetto Poem
Photo by Andy Brack.  All rights reserved.

Photo: Sky on fire

Thursday night’s sunset was simply spectacular with rich, deep pinks and oranges. It looked as if the sky were on fire.

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Mystery: Where’s Gumby?

Mystery: Where’s Gumby?

You probably recognize this 1950s-era “green clay humanoid character” that is painted on the side of a building somewhere in downtown Charleston. But where?

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