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Deal reached
Prisma Health Midlands to pay $1 million to resolve claims of violations. Page 4
Congaree Point New affordable senior housing development coming to Columbia. Page 8
Cyber champs
ECPI Columbia campus’ cyber security team wins national competition. Page 9
Giving back
Midlands Gives online charitable event returns for ninth year next month. Page 10
BUILDING ON HOPE Leadership Columbia-led improvements to Transitions Homeless Center include the pouring of a concrete pad to be used for a basketball court. (Photo/Provided)
Improvements brighten surroundings at Transitions Homeless Center By Melinda Waldrop
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he small concrete slab that will serve as a basketball court may not seem like much, but Craig Currey has been coveting it for a decade. The recently poured concrete is part of the improvements made to Transitions Homeless Center by the 2022 class of Leadership Columbia, an annual community outreach program through the Columbia Chamber of Commerce.
“I’ve been trying to get that basketball pad for 10 years,” said Currey, CEO of Transitions. The downtown homeless shelter at 2025 Main St. serves clients referred from partnering agencies in Richland, Lexington, Fairfield, Chester, Lancaster, Newberry, York, Calhoun, Orangeburg, Bamberg, Allendale, Barnwell and Aiken counties. It has applied for several years to be chosen as the leadership development program’s collaborative class project — seven to be exact, said Currey — but hadn’t made the cut until this year. “We were very happy. It is work to apply for
this,” Currey said. “You have to explain what you want. You have to come up with a valid project that they want to do. I had a staff member in the past who would each year beg me not to do this, because she was doing the work and she felt we were not going to get picked. She’s gone now, but I knew eventually we’d get picked, and this really has been very helpful.” The Leadership Columbia class has also pressure-washed buildings on the Transitions campus, spruced up flower beds in its courtSee TRANSITIONS, Page 14
COLUMBIA UNDER CONSTRUCTION Who is building what in the Columbia area? Projects, companies, prices, projected timelines, photos and stories. Page 17