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ACTIVITIES, AWARDS AND ACCOMPLISHMENTS Members of the Blue Ridge High School FBLA chapter received recognition in competitive events at the FBLA State Leadership Conference. A number of the 19 members placed in the competition and qualify to compete in the national conference in Chicago this summer.
Southside Christian School recently held its annual Lower School Science Fair. Thirty-three students in grades two through six were selected to present projects to qualified judges on topics ranging from forensic science to the physics of appropriate ball inflation for sports.
Pictured from back left to right: Marc Western, Gabby Leonard, Jonathan Coggins, Wilton Smith, Addison Callahan, Hannah Pendergrass, Shadda Corwin, Taylor Holton, Savannah Reeves, Isabel Greene, Abrianna Hill, Heather Fitch, Charlee Wilkerson, Hannah Cox, Hailey Chapman, Alicia DiPerri, Karlee Gibson, McKylie Bowen, Stephanie Casey-Collins and Emily Steadman.
Anna White, a junior at Hampton Park Christian School, has been selected to represent the Blue Ridge Electric Cooperative at the 2015 Electric Cooperative Washington Youth Tour. White will join approximately 1,500 other students in Washington, D.C. this summer. The Lego Robotics Team from L a n g s t o n White Charter Middle School, Gear Turners Unleashed, recently placed second in the state overall out of 58 teams in the S.C. First Lego League Robotics Tournament in Lexington. They advance to the Arkansas Invitational Tournament at the University of Arkansas. The Potter Quartet of Greenville is the third-prize winner in the 2015 University of South Carolina Chamber Day and Competition. Coached by Hannah Patkoski at the Greenville Fine Arts Center, quartet members are violinists Rachel Yi and Sam Parrini, violist Hannah Patskoski and cellist Samuel Tam. The Southside High School Speech and Debate Team recently won its eighth consecutive overall SC District Championship at the 2015 South Carolina National Speech and Debate Association District (National Qualifying) Tournament at Riverside HS. In addition, 15 students qualified to attend the National Tournament in Dallas this summer.
Students in the St. Anthony SkyKnights, an aviation club at St. Anthony School, recently received a gift of an aircraft, and the SkyKnights will end the year with a synchronized flight across the gym as their own version of the Navy’s precision flight team the “Blue Angels.” Pictured are Father Patrick Tuttle and a sixth-grade SkyKnights student.
Chapin High School varsity lacrosse player Jack Enright recently suffered a broken neck on the field. Christ Church Episcopal School JV and varsity lacrosse teams wore ribbons with Jack’s #28 during their game at Chapin, in show of their support. The Chapin varsity girls commented on how much they liked the ribbons and the CCES players gave them their ribbons after the game.
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COMMUNITY NEWS, EVENTS AND HAPPENINGS
Greenville’s third Annual Healthy Workplace Conference, LiveWell, will be held at the TD Convention Center on April 23. Registration is $30 now or $25 with promotional code UBJ2015. For more information, visit livewellgreenville.org. The Uniform Data System ranked AnMed Health
Rehabilitation Hospital in the top 10 percent of qualifying rehabilitation hospitals for Medical Rehabilitation (UDSMR) for the seventh year. Project Rx, which helps to protect Upstate rivers and residents by properly disposing of unused medication, will not hold a River Remedy day this spring because
the partners have seen a growth in people utilizing the permanent medication drop box at the Greenville Law Enforcement Center, and legislation has been changed to allow distributors of medications to provide a disposal method. There will be a fall disposal event. For more information, visit ariverremedy.org.
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