I do not know what to make of the recent political campaign quote/gaff, “If you’ve got a business, you didn’t build that.” Was the speaker saying that businesses are only successful because of what government provides and that individual initiative is secondary or was he simply and quite frankly speaking extemporaneously without the...
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By Bill Lee
An Individual Initiative
One Big Happy Family?
There are definitely two things you should not write about less you invite controversy: religion and politics. I will reduce my chances by commenting on just one of the pair: religion.
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Everything You Always Wanted To Know…
…about the Little Pee Dee River in Dillon County. Well, maybe not quite EVERYthing.
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Home Grown
There are some county farmers who have goods for sale, but there is a logistical problem: how to connect the producer with the consumer.
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What Might Have Been
This is how my column came to mind. I listened to a sermon recently about the Parable of the Talents as recorded in Matthew 25:14-30 and Luke 19:12-28.
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H-Two-O
Every other Monday morning, I go to a local nursing home and play the piano for a group of singers from Mount Calvary Baptist Church.
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Father’s Day 2012
A date to celebrate arrives the third Sunday in June, this year June 17th. It’s Father’s Day. For most it ranks in importance well below the other day set aside to honor the other unit in the family, Mother.
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Anxious?
The rite of passage most anticipated by any teen is getting a driver’s license. Much effort will have been invested in a successful outcome usually by taking a driver education course in high school plus hours of unofficial studying and practicing ‘under the wheel’ to insure that the right to drive is...
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Memorial Day
Memorial Day is celebrated annually the last Monday of May which is the 28th this year.
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An Early Spring Break
It was 1973 in the spring and things were beginning level off in the 11th grade; the day was perfect outdoors and the four girls were not interested in a dull day in classes.
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Advice To New Graduates
My claim to speak authoritatively to graduating high school seniors is that I was born in 1928.
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