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Duke Energy joined Harvest Hope Food Bank in Florence on Nov. 3 to “Pack the Pantry” and kick off a month-long campaign to support organizations in South Carolina that address food inse curities and inequities across the state.

In addition to purchasing the food that volunteers packed, the event also included a $100,000 grant to Harvest Hope to help expand mobile food pantries to those in the most rural areas of the Pee Dee. Duke Energy’s month-long initiative will provide over $325,000 to more than 40 feeding programs leading up to the Thanksgiving holiday and

Poet Laureate of the U.S. finds freedom in poetry

When a student asked Ada Limón what attracted her to poetry, she was quick to answer.

“From my experience, there’s a tremendous sense of freedom and indi vidual expression found in writing poetry,” said Limón , who was appointed as our nation’s 24th Poet Laureate by the Library of Congress in June. “You can let the creative juices flow and release your innermost thoughts.”

Limón was one of four authors invited to be a part of Francis Marion Univer sity’s 15th annual Pee Dee Fiction and

Poetry Festival. She and Marvel Comics’ writer and author Benjamin Percy shared the stage for a question and answer session in the Lowrimore Auditorium on Thursday.

The other two writers taking part in the two-day festival dedicated to the promotion of literature and reading and featuring panel discussions, lec tures, and book signings were South Carolina writer Laura Leigh Morris and New York Times bestselling author

F1S gets funds to improve safety

Money will be used to upgrade surveillance systems on many of the district’s campuses

The Office of the U.S. Attorney General recently notified Florence One Schools that it is the recipient of a national grant award of $500,000 from the School Violence Prevention Program. The funds will be used to upgrade surveillance systems on many of the F1S school campuses.

In a letter from the Justice Depart ment, Acting Director of the Office of Community Oriented Policing Serv ices (COPS) Robert E. Chapman indi cated to F1S Superintendent Dr. Richard O’Malley that it had approved the school district’s proposal to make safety improvements. Chapman said that the COPS Office recognized and appreciated O’Malley’s commitment to the initiative.

“Our mission is advancing com munity policing nationwide,” said Chapman. “We prioritize this by sup porting state, local, tribal, and territo rial law enforcement agencies as they carry out their vital public safety mis sions.”

Chapman also stated that the proj ect submitted by F1S will contribute to the mission of the COPS Office and the greater goal of reducing crime and building trust between law enforcement and communities served.

According to Florence 1 Schools Chief Technology Officer Kyle Jones, the majority of the funds obtained

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Author Benjamin Percy, right, reads a selection from his most recent book while Poet Laureate Ada Limon, center, listens during the Pee Dee Fiction & Poetry Festival at FMU.

Duke Energy employees and volunteers pack food boxes at the Harvest Hope of the Pee Dee Food Bank dur ing the company’s Pack the Pantry event on Nov. 3.

Duke Energy’s Mindy Taylor, left, presents a check for $100,000 to Har vest Hope Chief Executive Officer Erinn Rowe.

culminating in final surprise grant announcements on Giv ing Tuesday.

The inaugural “Pack the Pantry” event brought together dozens of volun teers from the downtown Flo rence business community to help pack a thousand boxes of shelf-stable food at the Francis Marion University Performing Arts Center that will be distributed at food banks during the Thanksgiv ing holiday. The event also

included a public drivethrough for food donations.

Harvest Hope is South Carolina’s largest food bank, providing more than 20 mil lion meals on average to neighbors in need across the Midlands, Pee Dee and Upstate.

“It truly takes the entire community to end hunger, and we’re so glad to have the continued support of Duke Energy,” said Harvest Hope CEO Erinn Rowe. “So many

holiday memories involve food, and together we’re able to ensure our working fami lies across South Carolina have memories of their favorite dish this season and not of an empty plate.”

Throughout November, Duke Energy will highlight the critical community partners like Harvest Hope that do this incredible work, including Mill Village Farms, FoodShare

South Carolina, United Way Association of South Car olina and AIM, among many others. Duke Energy employ ees and retirees will be volun teering their time and efforts with these and other organi zations throughout the month to assist in packing and dis tributing food boxes, as well as providing sweat equity to other feeding programs in their neighborhoods.

DEATH NOTICES

Ralph E. Bailey Jr., 74, passed away Nov. 2. Stoudenmire-Dowling Funeral Home.

Wilson Brown Jr. , 84, passed away Oct. 31. Ideal Funeral Home.

Shannon Sanders Cameron, 44, passed away Nov. 1. Belk Funeral Home.

Donna Wilson Coskrey, 70, passed away Oct. 31. Waters-Powell Funeral Home

Diana W. Dollard, 72, passed away Nov. 4. Ideal Funeral Home.

Harvey Eugene Drawdy, 90, passed away Nov. 5. Belk Funeral Home.

Charles Benjamin Filyaw Sr., 81, passed away Oct. 28. Stoudenmire-Dowling Funeral Home.

Mellonie Gulledge Hatchell, 59, passed away Oct. 30. Waters-Powell Funeral Home.

Cynthia Ann Horne, 62, passed away Nov. 1. Kistler-Hardee Funeral Home.

Tally Richard Howell, 77, passed away Nov. 2. Lay ton-Anderson Funeral Home.

Annette Johnson, 63, passed away Oct. 25. Draper G. Myers Mortuary.

Michael David Kunst, 37, passed away Oct. 29. Cain-Calcutt Funeral Home.

Donna Matthews Land, 62, passed away Nov. 1. Stoudenmire-Dowling Funeral Home.

Debra Morris, 58, passed away Oct. 31. Stouden mire-Dowling Funeral Home.

Peggy Ann O'Neal, 85, passed away Nov. 4. Belk Funeral Home.

Terry LeGran Powell, 67, passed away Nov. 4. Stoudenmire-Dowling Funeral Home.

Ruby Mae Robinson, 74, passed away Nov. 2. Ideal Funeral Home.

Judy Good Rumensky, 79, passed away Oct. 30. Cain-Calcutt Funeral Home.

Jennie Alicia Sawyer, 39, passed away Oct. 30. Stoudenmire-Dowling Funeral Home.

Clayton Henry Stokes, 53, passed away Nov. 4. Kistler-Hardee Funeral Home.

through this School Violence Prevention Program grant will go toward supplies necessary to install up-to-date video sur veillance cameras throughout the district.

“Florence 1 Schools prior itizes the safety and security of its students and staff,” said Jones.

Jones also noted that fund

ing provided by the School Violence Prevention Program will focus on upgrades to include the installation of upto-date surveillance compo nents district wide including several different types of IP cameras with analytic capabili ties, sensors, illuminator rings, and all necessary power sup plies and cabling.

CITY OF FLORENCE VETERAN’S DAY

SANITATION SCHEDULE

NOVEMBER 11, 2022

The Sanitation division will operate on a regular Friday schedule for garbage and recycling on Veteran’s Day. There will be no yard waste collection on Friday, November 11th. City offices will be closed on Friday, November 11th.

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Following her appointment in June, Limón joined a long line of distinguished poets who have served as poet lau reate of the United States, including Joy Harjo who served three terms in the posi tion (2019-2022), Juan Felipe Herrera, Charles Wright, Natasha Trethewey, Philip Levine, W.S. Merwin, Kay Ryan, Charles Simic, Donald Hall, Ted Kooser, Louise Glück, Billy Collins, Stanley Kunitz, Robert Pinsky, Robert Hass and Rita Dove.

Part of her duties at poet laurate is to travel the country and promote the poetic arts.

“It’s part inspiration and

part process,” said Limon, born in Sonoma, Calif. and of Mexican ancestry, about the art form.”

During the course of her career, Limón, 46, has authored six books of poetry, including “The Carrying,” which won the National Book Critics Circle Award for Poetry. Her book “Bright Dead Things” was nominated for the National Book Award, the National Book Critics Cir cle Award, and the Kingsley Tufts Poetry Award following the book’s release in 2015. Her most recent poetry collec tion is “The Hurting Kind,” published by Milkweed Edi tions.

During her presentation on Thursday, Limón read “The Quiet Machine,” a poem from her “Bright Dead Things Col lection.”

“I'm learning so many dif ferent ways to be quiet.

There's how I stand in the lawn, that’s one way. There’s also how I stand in the field across from the street, that’s another way because I’m far ther from people and there fore more likely to be alone.

There’s how I don’t answer the phone, and how I some times like to lie down on the floor in the kitchen and pre tend I’m not home when peo ple knock.

There’s daytime silent

where I stare, and a nighttime silent when I do things.

There’s shower silent and bath silent and California silent and Kentucky silent and car silent and then there’s the silence that comes back, a mil lion times bigger than me, sneaks into my bones and wails and wails and wails until I can’t be quiet anymore.

That’s how this machine works.”

Limón, who earned her master’s degree in fine arts from New York University, cur rently serves on the faculty of Queens University of Char lotte. She lives in Lexington, Ky.

VETERANS OF ALL WARS pose for a photo in front of the Post Office in downtown Florence in 1975. From left, the first veteran is not identified, next is LaFoye Norris of the Korean Conflict; Eugene Fallon of WWII; Frank Elmore of WWI; Charlie Grace Sr. of the Spanish American War. Do you have an old photo you would like to submit for The News Journal’s Do You Remember? You may do so by emailing a digital copy of the photo, including information about the photo, to editor@florencenewsjournal.com. You may also submit photos and infor mation in person at our office, located at 312 Railroad Ave.

S.C. Dance Theatre to host Sugar Plum Fairy Tea Party

The South Carolina Dance Theatre will present the “Sugar Plum Fairy Tea Party” on Saturday at All Saints’ Episcopal Day School from 10 a.m. to noon.

Hosted by the “Sugar Plum Fairy” and other mem bers of the cast of the com pany’s upcoming production of The Nutcracker, the tea party will feature refresh ments and special events such as making ornaments and coloring Nutcracker pic tures. Photograph opportu

nities will be available with cast members in costumes. Children are welcome to attend the tea party in “dress up” costumes. Attendees will be able to register to win the Sugar Plum Gift Basket and the Snow Queen Gift Basket, both of which will also have two free tickets to the bal let.

The Sugar Plum Fairy and other characters from the ballet will add authentic ity and excitement to the event. As children enter the

tea party, they will delight in the staging of the event with Nutcracker decorations and memorabilia. The SCDT Company Store will also offer items pertaining to the Nutcracker and the holiday season.

Tickets for the Sugar Plum Fairy Tea Party are $10 per family and may be purchased at the door or by calling the S.C.Dance The atre at (843) 669-3991.

The S.C. Dance The atre’s performance of “The Nutcracker,” will be pre

Someday Christ will come again

Q: I’ve heard my whole life that Jesus was going to return and make things right on Earth, but this has been said for thousands of years. Doesn’t it cause doubt when people see that it hasn’t happened? – D.R.

A: Jesus has not yet returned because God is not finished with this world! Someday Christ will come again to conquer evil and establish His perfect rule over all creation — but until then, “This gospel of the kingdom will be preached in all the world as a witness to all the nations, and then the end will come” (Matt. 24:14).

God wants to give every one an opportunity to know Christ through repentance and faith in Him. The Bible says, “The Lord is not slow in keeping his promise, as some understand slowness.

Instead he is patient with you, not wanting anyone to perish, but everyone to come to repentance” (2 Peter 3:9, NIV). At the same time, we are urged to antici pate Christ’s return, because it is not the end of life for those who believe in Him. The last page of the last book of the Bible says, “Come, Lord Jesus!” (Rev elation 22:20).

While only God knows when this will take place, we are told to be ready. Ready for what? For eternity. “Our salvation is nearer now than when we first believed. … Let us cast off the works of darkness, and let us put on

the armor of light” (Romans 13:11–12). Now is the time to make sure that your hope and trust are in Him and that you are seeking to live for Him. We brush shoulders with darkened souls every day — so let us shine the light of God’s love into the lives of those who may open their hearts to the one true God who is preparing eter nity in Heaven for those who love Him.

(This column is based on the words and writings of the late Rev. Billy Graham.)

©2022 Billy Graham Lit erary Trust. Distributed by Tribune Content Agency, LLC.

sented at the Frances Mar ion University Performing Arts Center on Friday, Dec.

2 at 7:30 p.m. and on Satur day, Dec. 3 at 2 p.m. Reservations are avail

able by calling the PAC Box Office at (843) 661-4444 or online at www.fmupac.org.

From the writings of the Rev. Billy Graham

GOD’S WORD

First Amendment to The Constitution

Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof; or abridging the freedom of speech, or of the press; or the right of the people peaceably to assemble, and to petition the govern ment for a redress of grievances.

EDITORIAL

Pay into Social Security now for later

You won’t get rich collecting Social Security, not even close. However, you don’t want to mess it up either. The system was never intended to be your total retirement income but to many it’s their only source of retirement income. You don’t want to make it your only source of income for your senior years but you definitely want it in your income portfolio.

An 8.7% raise for Social Security recipients won’t feel like enough, but it may buy you a sack of groceries or a tank of gasoline. This is a big “maybe” on the gaso line, as California reports prices of over $8 per gallon.

Some of our government leadership is crying because Saudi Arabia is cutting oil production by 2 million barrels a day. This means less oil for everyone in the grand oil supply pool. I don’t understand why anyone in our gov ernment would want to do business with the Saudis.

Buying oil from Saudi Arabia, Venezuela or any foreign entity is crazy. Why don’t we use our own oil? I’m all for green energy, but we aren’t quite there yet. Make electric cars and drive them. Utilize solar energy and anything else that we can to help preserve this planet and its resources.

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Regardless, our country still needs oil. As long as we need oil, it would be wiser and much more cost effective to use our own oil. Put Americans back to work drilling our oil and selling it to foreign countries.

Our government has been draining our own oil reserve to try to keep the price of gasoline down. This doesn’t seem to be working very well. Plus, it puts our country at risk. When China and Russia decide to attack us, we need to be able to put fuel in our jets and ships. That would not be a good time to have to go back to Saudi Arabia and beg for oil.

We should utilize a full arsenal of energy from electric cars and a grid to supply the power. Utilize our oil, wind, natural gas and coal. Once our country can do every thing without oil or coal, then we can move on from those resources. Being dependent on getting them from foreign nations doesn’t make sense, especially when we have the resources.

A loaf of bread will eventually cost Americans their 8.7% Social Security increase. Ukraine has been one of the world’s leading providers of wheat. Having Russia in control of Ukraine, a major source of the bread supply, along with their major supply of natural gas is bad news for the world.

The Crimea bridge that was recently bombed between Russia and Ukraine should have been bombed on day one by Ukrainians. Ukraine must do whatever it takes to thwart Russia’s ongoing destruction of their country. The news has been filled with fear that Russia will go nuclear in their efforts. When the nations start hurling nuclear bombs you won’t need to worry about gas, groceries and cost of living adjustments because this planet can only take so much.

Keep in mind there is still something you can do to make a difference – vote. Clear your calendar for voting. If you don’t vote then don’t complain about our govern ment, inflation, rising interest rates, gasoline prices and more. I know it doesn’t feel like your one vote matters, but it truly counts.

The only way you can bring about change is to clear your schedule, take the time, and vote.

Dr. Glenn Mollette is an author and his column is published weekly in over 600 publications in all 50 states. Contact him at gmollette@aol.com.

Seedlings planted in Corps history

“Come on, you sons of &*#!*es, do you want to live forever?"

That was the question posed by Lt. Dan Daly to the U.S. Marines under his command as they prepared to assault German forces at the Battle of Belleau Wood. The words (unedited) are engraved into one of the granite walls of the lobby at the National Museum of the Marine Corps in Quantico, Va. They are also chiseled into the minds of every per son who understands what it means to be called a “Devil Dog.”

The Battle of Belleau Wood, which took place in the spring of 1918, turned the tide of World War I and may very well have changed the face of history. It’s pos sible you could be speaking German right now if not for the brave leathernecks that risked their lives and the many who gave their lives to prevent the spread of tyranny.

On Thursday at 4 p.m., there will be a brief cere mony in which seedlings from the oaks at the Belleau Wood battlefield in France will be planted in Florence Veterans Park near the World War I monument. The park will be one of only a few select locations to claim such an honor. The other locations include the White House, the National Museum of the Marine Corps, Reynolds Coliseum in Raleigh, N.C., and the

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ROTC building on the cam pus of the University of South Carolina. The cere mony coincides with the 247th birthday of the Corps.

To understand the true significance of the seedlings, let me share with you a brief history of the Battle of Belleau Wood from the perspective of someone who once proudly wore a French fouragère representing that battle while serving as a member of the Second Battalion, Sixth Marine Regiment.

German forces were closing in on Paris in the spring of 1918. The war had been going on for four years. Allied forces attempted to keep the Ger mans from assaulting and overtaking the French capi tal, but to no avail. If the Germans were to capture the city, they would be in a position where they could very possibly take control of the entire continent of Europe. The Allies knew they needed help, so they called on America.

The U.S. had supported the allies with funds and weaponry up to this point, but had not been willing to send in American troops. All that changed with Belleau

Wood. The U.S. understood the importance of turning back the Germans and agreed to send in reinforce ments. The sent the best. They sent the Marines.

The Fifth and Sixth Marine Regiments arrived at Belleau Wood, some 52 miles northwest from Paris near the Marne River on June 2. Upon their arrival, a French Colonel informed their officers that the battle was a lost cause and that the best course of action was to retreat.

Marine Capt. Lloyd Williams responded to the suggestion in this manner: “Retreat? Hell, we just got here!”

The regiments, outnum bered by German troops and weaponry, mounted one assault after another against heavy machine gun and artillery fire. With each push the Germans were forced to retreat just a little bit further.

The Marines, suffering tremendous casualties, courageously mounted a fifth assault and turned the German forces back. The Germans gave up on the idea of advancing toward Paris and the Allies took control of the war.

As the 27-day battle ended, the U.S. had suf fered 9,777 casualties, included 1,811 killed. The Germans suffered even more so. On the first day of the battle alone there were more U. S. Marines killed — 31 officers and 1,056

men — than in all previous wars.

The Germans were so intimidated by the Marines and their willingness to put their lives at risk, they referred to them as “teufel hunden,” or “Dogs from Hell.” The Americans trans lated it in a different manner and to this day Marines take great pride in being called a “Devil Dog.”

The seedlings are grown at a greenhouse in Raleigh under supervision of the Cooperative Tree Improve ment Program at N.C. State University. Retired Marine Col. John R. Giltz, project director, Atlantic Marine Corps Communities, Camp Lejeune, N.C., will attend Thursday’s ceremony and make brief remarks.

In some way, those seedlings carry some of the blood sacrificed by those brave and gallant Marines who fought and died at Bel leau Wood. They are return ing home at last. As they years pass, those trees will grow tall and proud, stand ing at attention like uni formed sentries providing safety, shade, and shelter to those who visit the monu ment to World War I at Flo rence Veterans Park.

Forever The Few. Forever The Proud. Semper Fi and happy birthday, Marines.

Contact Editor Bob Sloan at editor@florence newsjournal.com.

The beauty of a dusty dirt road

The creeks dribble. Shorelines drop. Leaves crunch. Colors fade. Birds queue up around my foun tains. The lack of rain robbed us of a lot of fall color. I drove through the countryside this week. Brown leaves everywhere. It’s so dry folks are spitting cotton as one old saying goes. Dry as a bone goes another.

Dry weather makes me think of dirt roads. As I made my way along High way 34 this week, I passed a dirt road that had been paved. I felt a pang, a twinge of regret. It’s an exaggeration to say dirt roads are an endangered species, but I believe they represent another aspect of the South that’s fading away. Seems we intend to pave them all.

There’s just something poetic about a dirt road, something beautiful about a dry dirt road. I don’t recall reading a description of a paved road in literature, though I’m sure they exist. I came across a book review of Cormac McCarthy’s The Road. He didn’t title it The Dirt Road, and for that I’m grateful. The review, titled “The Road Through Hell, Paved With Desperation,” suits this tale of a boy and his father who cross a corpse-strewn, ashen land scape of a post-apocalyptic

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world. I just can’t see a dirt road in a world so cursed by technology that it destroys itself. Surely they would all be paved.

The dirt road leading to an old spring house; both belong to the past.

Future world or past, paved roads just aren’t interesting compared to dusty lanes with their wash board ridges. Hemingway painted a beautiful portrait of a dirt road in a Farewell To Arms. It’s a passage I love. “In the late summer of that year we lived in a house in a village that looked across the river and the plain to the mountains. In the bed of the river there were pebbles and boulders, dry and white in the sun, and the water was clear and swiftly moving and blue in the channels. Troops went by the house and down the road and the dust they raised powdered the leaves of the trees. The trunks of the trees too were dusty and the leaves fell early that year and we saw the troops marching along the road and the dust rising and leaves, stirred by the

breeze, falling and the sol diers marching and after ward the road bare and white except for the leaves.”

I go out of my way to drive dirt roads. Most are outliers. That is I find them far from places criss crossed and run over by asphalt. Drive a dirt road right now and a fine powder rises. The rearview mirror seems dusted over. It’s like seeing through fog. The steering wheel gets a case of jitters as tires skitter, rat tling over those washboard ridges. Ahead the road curves, a beautiful scene edged as it is by powdered grass and leaves.

Come a summer storm when a blazing white anvil crowns an ink-black column, a thunderhead showers the land. When the blessed rains fall, a fertile fragrance rises as raindrops pelt dust. It’s a fragrant reminder of Earth’s fertility. A paved road? When the clouds break, steam boils up from asphalt. It smells like tar.

Dirt roads take me to old springhouses, forgotten cemeteries, abandoned churches, and collapsing barns. They take me some where else too. Childhood where road graders scour potholes and ridges away and pick-ups and cars trail a fine mist of earth that pow ders leaves as Hemingway

so eloquently described. I pray that progress leaves us a few dirt roads, reminders of how things once were in a land plas tered over with solar farms, cell towers, and asphalt.

Visit Tom Poland at www.tompoland.net. Con tact him at tompol@earth link.net

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“He made known to us the mystery of his will according to his good pleasure, which he purposed in Christ, to be put into effect when the times will have reached their fulfill ment — to bring all things in heaven and on earth together under one head, even Christ.”

S.C. Independent School Association

All Saints’ Stokes named Assistant Headmaster of the Year

Ashley Stokes of All Saints’ Episcopal Day School has been named the South Carolina Independent School Association Assistant Head master of the Year during the recent Fall Conference held in Orangeburg.

Stokes was presented the “Coadjutor Award.” The award is given to the Assis tant Head of School making the largest impact on his/her school. All Saints’ is one of 139 private schools in SCISA. She was nominated by All Saints’ Head of School Evan Powell.

“Mrs. Stokes leads col laboratively,” said Powell. “Over the past three years, she has created a strong pro fessional learning community among the faculty and works alongside teachers to make enhancements to all areas of the curriculum. Ashley knows every student’s name. You

can find her in the teaching and learning garden with stu dents or leading a 6th grade girls’ book club to help pro mote social and emotional learning. She writes many of the school’s communica tions, works with donors on projects to benefit the school and has created a 2K pro gram and both an academic support and an enrichment program to meet the diverse needs of students.”

Stokes began as the associate head of school at All Saints’ in 2020. When the pandemic hit, she worked tirelessly to create a solid Modified Distance Learning plan to ensure that student learning was maximized.

“I think All Saints’ perse vered during the pandemic because of Mrs. Stokes’s leadership,” said faculty member Missy Brown. “She helped move the school

through the technology tran sition of 1:1 devices for stu dents and worked alongside all of us to teach, coach and assist in Google Level One certification. I think the school is stronger for having gone through this period and I credit much of that to her guidance during that time.”

Francis Marion University President Dr. Fred Carter, who led the All Saints’ search committee for new leadership in 2019, com mended Stokes.

“She is an extraordinary educator and administrator who possesses the innate skill to cultivate the very best from those with whom she works. She has a deep love for children and an intense interest in their intellectual, cognitive, and social devel opment,” said Carter. “This passion and commitment is evident in every single

aspect of her work. She’s the real thing – as a teacher, as a colleague, and as a friend.”

Stokes is in her 17th year of education. She holds a bachelor’s degree from Lan der University and two mas ter’s degrees from the University of South Carolina. She is nearing completion of the School Management and Leadership Certificate through the Harvard School of Education where she col laborates with school lead ers around the world.

Stokes is a current mem ber of the South Carolina Independent School Associ ation, the Palmetto Associa tion of Independent Schools, and serves on the Board for the Florence Symphony Orchestra. She is married to her husband, Chris, of ten years and they have two chil dren who attend All Saints.

Senior Citizens Association of Florence County receives grant from Spectrum

Spectrum recently announced the Senior Citizens Association of Florence County has received a $9,000 Spectrum Digital Education grant for the Senior Technology Program. The grant is part of the broadband connectivity provider’s six-year, $8 million commitment to

promote digital education and broadband technology in communi ties across the country.

SCA will use the funding for the Senior Technology Program that educates seniors on basic com puter training and how to navigate the internet efficiently and safely.

“The Senior Citizens Associa tion of Florence County is extremely pleased to have Spec trum as a partner for our Senior Technology Program (STP),” said Senior Citizens Association Execu tive Director Linda Mitchell John son. “We are delighted that we will

be able to help seniors throughout Florence County. Our seniors will learn how to implement technology, overcome their technology fears, enhance their skills and learn how to navigate the internet safely.”

SCA is one of 47 nonprofit organizations that Spectrum is sup

porting through its 2022 Spectrum Digital Education grant program. In all, the company will invest $1.1 million this year to support digital lit eracy in underserved rural and urban communities within Spec trum’s 41-state service area, includ ing South Carolina.

All Saints’ Episcopal Day School Associate Head of School Ash ley Stokes, left, with Head of School Evan Powell.

HopeHealth hosted a groundbreaking ceremony to celebrate the expansion of HopeHealth in Manning on Fri day.

The groundbreaking signi

fied the start of a 12,566square-foot addition that con nects the facility’s two existing on-site buildings. The addition provides a new main entrance facing South Mill Street, hous

ing a large lobby with security, restrooms, a new lab, and a large reception and informa tion center.

"This project in Manning will be our most significant building project ever outside of Florence,” said HopeHealth CEO Carl Humphries. “I’m excited for what it will mean for our patients and the com munity. Our team has worked hard for years to get to this point, and I’m really glad to see everything coming together.”

“It has truly been a long time coming,” stated Falecia Miller, associate vice presi dent of clinical operations for the south region.

The expansion provides additional parking, exam rooms, waiting rooms, and offices for several services provided at HopeHealth in Manning, including behavioral health, rheumatology, women’s health, physical ther apy, and dental services.

The event included remarks from a variety of speakers, including Manning mayor Julia Nelson.

“We are ecstatic that HopeHealth is growing again and especially in Manning,” said Nelson. “The quality of health care that HopeHealth provides to our citizens is sec ond to none. It’s wonderful to know that regardless of insur ance status or ability to pay, all HopeHealth patients receive the best care.”

Nelson also has a personal connection to HopeHealth and its beginnings.

“Upon graduating from South Carolina State Univer sity, I began employment with the Manning Health Clinic, which was under the manage ment of the Black River Con sortium,” said Nelson. “At that time, we had three staff members, and we struggled with many long days trying to provide medical care. Years later, Black River Healthcare absorbed the Manning Health Clinic, and HopeHealth even tually acquired Black River. It warms my heart to see the major progress HopeHealth has made from the Manning Health Clinic’s humble begin nings.”

County museum to host community film screening

The Center for Creative Partnerships of Orangeburg is bringing the South Car olina-focused documentary film Meltdown In Dixie to Flo rence for a community screening on Thursday at 5:30 p.m.

The film examines the complexities of race and Southern culture through the story of a battle over the dis play of a Confederate flag in Orangeburg outside an ice cream shop called the Edisto River Creamery. Directed by Orangeburg native Emily Harrold, the film follows the owner of the creamery as he tries to bring the flag down. Countering this, the film also profiles the local chapter of the Sons of Confederate Veterans, who want to keep the flag flying.

“The role of Confederate symbols in our society today is a very charged and divid ing issue,” said Harrold. “While it was hard to turn the camera on my home

town on such a controversial subject, I believe the film offers insights on all sides of the issue. I hope the film encourages audiences to more openly consider their feelings on the topic and acknowledge the legacy of hurt that Confederate sym bols continue to uphold.”

The screening at the Flo rence County Museum Waters Gallery is free and open to the public. After the screening, FMU Professor Louis Venters will moderate a conversation featuring S.C. Rep. Terry Alexander and S.C. historian Ron Roth.

FCM Waters Gallery is located at 135 S. Dargan St.

This event is a part of a 15-county screening series traveling across South Car olina. It is presented with funding from S.C. Humani ties and the Joanna Founda tion.

A trailer for the film is viewable at www.meltdown indixie.com.

Internet Basics Workshop at Florence Library

The next in the lineup for fall computer workshops at the Doctors Bruce and Lee Foundation Library will be Internet Basics. The work shop will be held Monday, November 14, from 12 p.m. to 1:30 p.m. in the second floor computer classroom.

Participants will learn how

to navigate the internet.

Space is limited and reg istration is required for this free adult program.

This workshop is offered as part of the Digital Literacy Incentive Program, sup ported by AT&T and the Pub lic Library Association.

Humane Society ‘Butts for Mutts’ now taking orders

Proceeds from this event will be used to provide much needed medical care for the injured and sick animals.

Help a mutt! Buy a butt! You can help make Thanksgiving the most lifesaving meal of the year for homeless animals in the Flo rence area.

What better way to give thanks than to give an animal in need a chance for a healthy life and a loving home? Pur chase a mouth-watering Boston butt for $30 during the fourth annual Florence Area Humane Society “Butts for Mutts” fundraiser and make this Thanksgiving the most life-saving meal of the year.

“Proceeds from this event will be used to provide much needed medical care for the injured and sick animals that

come into our shelter,” said Jayne Boswell of the Florence Area Humane Society. “Our goal is to help these animals recover and place them in furever homes.”

Orders for a Boston butt (approximately 8 lbs.) can be placed online at www.flo rencehumanesociety.org, or at Woofers, 2115 W. Jody Road in Florence. Pickup is Saturday, Nov. 19, from 11-2 p.m. at First Presbyterian Church, 700 Park Avenue.

The Florence Area Humane Society is a non-profit animal welfare organization commit ted to the well-being of ani mals and to the creation of a responsible and humane com munity. We “speak for those who cannot,” as we care for, provide medical treatment, relieve suffering, and find qual ity homes for homeless and neglected animals in the Flo rence area

The Jayne H. Boswell animal shel ter is a partnership with the Florence Area Humane Soci ety and the City of Florence. The shel ter is located at 1434 McCurdy Road and is open Tuesday through Saturday, from noon to 5 p.m. Contact them by phone at (843) 629-5456.

Adoption fees are $65 for cats and $85 for dogs. The fee includes first vaccines and spay/neuter. The shelter is always in need of volunteers, foster families, and donations.

Pets of the Week

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NOTICE TO CREDITORS OF ESTATES

All persons having claims against the following estates MUST file their claims on FORM #371PC with the Probate Court of FLORENCE County, JESSE S. CARTRETTE, JR., the address of which is 181 N IRBY ST, STE 1300 FLORENCE SC 29501, within eight (8) months after the date of the first publica tion of this Notice to Credi tors or within one (1) year from date of death, whichever is earlier (SCPC 62-3-801, et seq.), or such persons shall be forever barred as to their claims. All claims are required to be presented in written state ments on the prescribed form (FORM #371PC) indi cating the name and address of the claimant, the basis of the claim, the amount claimed, the date when the claim will become due, the nature of any uncertainty as to the claim, and a description of any security as to the claim.

Estate: BUCK PERRY JONES

Date of Death: 9/22/2022

Case Number: 2022ES2101003

Personal Representative: DEBRA CARTER

Address: 165 WEST WILLOW POND ROAD JOHNSONVILLE, SC 29555

Attorney, if applicable: JOHN M. PROSSER, JR.

Address: P. O. DRAWER 779 JOHNSONVILLE, SC 29555 (11/9, 11/16, 11/23/2022)

NOTICE TO CREDITORS OF ESTATES

All persons having claims against the following estates MUST file their claims on FORM #371PC with the Probate Court of FLORENCE County, JESSE S. CARTRETTE, JR., the address of which is 181 N IRBY ST, STE 1300 FLORENCE SC 29501, within eight (8) months after the date of the first publica tion of this Notice to Credi tors or within one (1) year from date of death, whichever is earlier (SCPC

62-3-801, et seq.), or such persons shall be forever barred as to their claims. All claims are required to be presented in written state ments on the prescribed form (FORM #371PC) indi cating the name and address of the claimant, the basis of the claim, the amount claimed, the date when the claim will become due, the nature of any uncertainty as to the claim, and a description of any security as to the claim.

Estate: RUBY HANNA DOUGLAS

Date of Death: 10/10/2022

Case Number: 2022ES2101004

Personal Representative: RONALD D DOUGLAS

Address: PO BOX 974 JOHNSONVILLE, SC 29555 (11/9, 11/16, 11/23/2022)

NOTICE TO CREDITORS OF ESTATES

All persons having claims against the following estates MUST file their claims on FORM #371PC with the Probate Court of FLORENCE County, JESSE S. CARTRETTE, JR., the address of which is 181 N IRBY ST, STE 1300 FLORENCE SC 29501, within eight (8) months after the date of the first publica tion of this Notice to Credi tors or within one (1) year from date of death, whichever is earlier (SCPC 62-3-801, et seq.), or such persons shall be forever barred as to their claims. All claims are required to be presented in written state ments on the prescribed form (FORM #371PC) indi cating the name and address of the claimant, the basis of the claim, the amount claimed, the date when the claim will become due, the nature of any uncertainty as to the claim, and a description of any security as to the claim.

Estate: CHRISTOPHER ALBERT

SMITH Date of Death: 10/19/2022

Case Number: 2022ES2101000

Personal Representative: SUSAN A SMITH Address: 3108 S CANAL DR. FLORENCE, SC 29505 (11/9, 11/16, 11/23/2022)

SUMMONS AND NOTICE (Non-Jury) FORECLOSURE (Deficiency Waived) IN THE COURT OF COMMON PLEAS C/A NO.: 2022-CP-21-00343

STATE OF SOUTH CAROLINA COUNTY OF FLORENCE United States of America acting through the Rural Housing Service or succes sor agency, United States Department of Agriculture, Plaintiff, vs. Personal Rep resentative, if any, whose name is unknown, of the Estate of Elvin D. Kennedy; any heirs-at-law or devisees of Elvin D. Kennedy, deceased, their heirs, personal representa tives, administrators, suc cessors and assigns, and all other person or entities entitled to claim through them; all unknown persons or entities with any right, title, estate, interest in or lien upon the real estate described in the complaint herein; also any persons who may be in the military service of the United States of America, being a class designated as John Doe; and any unknown minors, incompetent or imprisoned person or per sons under a disability being a class designated as Richard Roe, Defendants, TO THE DEFENDANT(S): Personal Representative, if any, whose name is unknown, of the Estate of Elvin D. Kennedy; any heirs-at-law or devisees of Elvin D. Kennedy, deceased, their heirs, per sonal representatives, administrators, successors and assigns, and all other person or entities entitled to claim through them; all unknown persons or enti ties with any right, title, estate, interest in or lien upon the real estate described in the complaint herein; also any persons who may be in the military service of the United States of America, being a class designated as John Doe; and any unknown minors, incompetent or imprisoned person or per sons under a disability being a class designated as Richard Roe YOU ARE HEREBY SUM

MONED and required to appear and defend by answering the Amended Complaint in this action, of which a copy is herewith served upon you, and to serve a copy of your Answer on the subscribers at their offices, 135 Colum bia Avenue, Post Office Box 1000, Chapin, South Car olina 29036, within thirty (30) days after the service hereof, exclusive of the day of such service; except that the United States of Amer ica, if named, shall have sixty (60) days to answer after the service hereof, exclusive of the day of such service; and if you fail to do so, judgment by default will be rendered against you for the relief demanded in the amended complaint.

TO MINOR(S) OVER FOURTEEN YEARS OF AGE, AND/OR TO MINOR(S) UNDER FOUR TEEN YEARS OF AGE AND THE PERSON WITH WHOM THE MINOR(S) RESIDES, AND/OR TO PERSONS UNDER SOME LEGAL DISABILITY: YOU ARE FURTHER SUMMONED AND NOTI FIED to apply for the appointment of a guardian ad litem within thirty (30) days after the service of this Summons and Notice upon you. If you fail to do so, application for such appointment will be made by the Plaintiff.

YOU WILL ALSO TAKE NOTICE that under the pro visions of South Carolina Code 29-3-100, effective June 16, 1993, any collat eral assignment of rents contained in the attached mortgage is perfected and Plaintiff hereby gives notice that all rents shall be payable directly to it by delivery to its undersigned attorneys from the date of default. In the alternative, Plaintiff will move before a judge of this Circuit on the 10th day after service hereof, or as soon there after as counsel may be heard, for an Order enforc ing the assignment of rents, if any, and compelling pay ment of all rents covered by such assignment directly to the Plaintiff, which motion is to be based upon the origi nal note and mortgage and the Amended Complaint which was filed in the Office of the Clerk of Court for Flo rence County on February 16, 2022.

NOTICE YOU WILL PLEASE TAKE NOTICE that the Amended Notice of Right to Foreclo sure Intervention, Amended Lis Pendens, Amended Certificate of Exemption/Withdrawal from Arbitration and Mediation, Amended Summons and Amended Complaint, of which the foregoing is a copy of the Summons, were filed with the Clerk of Court for Florence County, South Carolina on February 16, 2022.

NOTICE OF PENDENCY OF ACTION

NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that an action will be commenced within twenty (20) days of the fil ing of this Notice upon Amended Complaint of the above-named Plaintiff against the above-named Defendant for the foreclo sure of a Mortgage dated March 15, 2001 given by Elvin D. Kennedy (“Mort gage”), said Mortgage hav ing been recorded in the Office of the Clerk of Court or Register of Deeds for Florence County on March 16, 2001 in Book A623 at Page 2120. The said mort gaged premises affected by the foreclosure are situate

in Florence County, in the State of South Carolina, and described in said Mort gage as follows: All that certain piece, par cel, or lot of land lying and being situate in the County of Florence, State of South Carolina, being known and designated as Lot 2 con taining 0.56 acres as shown on a plat for F.E. Hatchell by Ferrell J. Prosser R.L.S., dated Jan uary 16, 1975, and recorded in Plat Book 15 at Page 352 in the Office of the Clerk of Court for Flo rence County, and refer ence is further made to a plat prepared for Elvin Kennedy by Nesbitt Sur veying Co., Inc., dated Jan uary 29, 2001, and recorded in Plat Book 76 at Page 134 in the Office of the Clerk of Court for Flo rence County. Said lot is shown to be bounded according to said plat as follows: On the North by Lot 3 for a distance of 184.92 feet; on the East by undes ignated property for a dis tance of 136.61 feet; on the South by Lot 1 for a dis tance of 186.67 feet; and on the West by SC High way 51 for a distance of 126.10 feet. For a more complete description, refer ence is made to said plats. This being the same prop erty conveyed to Elvin D. Kennedy by deed of Hop kins Construction Co., Inc. dated March 15, 2001 and recorded March 16, 2001 in Book A623 at Page 2023 in the Office of the Register of Deeds for Florence County, South Carolina.

TMS No.: 2501-01-034

Address: 6433 Pamplico Highway, Effingham, South Carolina 29541

HARRELL, MARTIN & PEACE, P.A. s/Taylor A. Peace Taylor A. Peace #100206 135 Columbia Avenue Post Office Box 1000 Chapin, South Carolina 29036 (803) 345-3353

ATTORNEY FOR PLAINTIFF Chapin, South Carolina October 28, 2022 (11/2, 11/9, 11/16/2022)

NOTICE TO CREDITORS OF ESTATES

All persons having claims against the following estates MUST file their claims on FORM #371PC with the Probate Court of FLORENCE County, JESSE S. CARTRETTE, JR., the address of which is 181 N IRBY ST, STE 1300 FLORENCE SC 29501, within eight (8) months after the date of the first publica tion of this Notice to Credi tors or within one (1) year from date of death, whichever is earlier (SCPC 62-3-801, et seq.), or such persons shall be forever barred as to their claims. All claims are required to be presented in written state ments on the prescribed form (FORM #371PC) indi cating the name and address of the claimant, the basis of the claim, the amount claimed, the date when the claim will become due, the nature of any uncertainty as to the claim, and a description of any security as to the claim.

Estate: MARGARET SCOTT Date of Death: 10/17/2022 Case Number: 2022ES2100995

Personal Representative: DAMIEN ALEXANDER Address: 322 W. DECATUR ST EATON, OH 45320 (11/2, 11/9, 11/16/2022)

NOTICE TO CREDITORS OF ESTATES

All persons having claims against the following estates MUST file their claims on FORM #371PC with the Probate Court of FLORENCE County, JESSE S. CARTRETTE, JR., the address of which is 181 N IRBY ST, STE 1300 FLORENCE SC 29501, within eight (8) months after the date of the first publica tion of this Notice to Credi tors or within one (1) year from date of death, whichever is earlier (SCPC 62-3-801, et seq.), or such persons shall be forever barred as to their claims. All claims are required to be presented in written state ments on the prescribed form (FORM #371PC) indi cating the name and address of the claimant, the basis of the claim, the amount claimed, the date when the claim will become due, the nature of any uncertainty as to the claim, and a description of any security as to the claim.

Estate: SUSAN ELIZABETH BRAUSS Date of Death: 9/30/2022 Case Number: 2022ES2100993

Personal Representative: KIMBERLY ANN BRAUSS Address: 860 INDIAN DRIVE FLORENCE, SC 29501 Co-Personal Representative: KEITH DANIEL BRAUSS Address: 608 TRILLIUM COURT FLORENCE, SC 29501 (11/2, 11/9, 11/16/2022)

SUMMONS AND NOTICES

(Non-Jury) FORECLOSURE OF REAL ESTATE MORTGAGE IN THE COURT OF COMMON PLEAS C/A NO.: 2022-CP-21-01898

STATE OF SOUTH CAROLINA COUNTY OF FLORENCE Metropolitan Life, Plaintiff, v. Mary Kelly a/k/a Mary C. Kelly a/k/a Mary E. Kelly; Eddie Lee Kelly; Patricia Ann Kelly; Any heirs-at-law or devisees of John Clifton Kelly, deceased, their heirs, Personal Representatives, Administrators, Successors and Assigns, and all other persons or entities entitled to claim through them; all unknown persons or enti ties with any right, title, estate, interest in or lien upon the real estate described in the complaint herein; also any persons who may be in the military service of the United States of America, being a class designated as Richard Roe; and any unknown minors, incompetent or imprisoned person, or persons under a disability being a class des ignated as John Doe; Lin ear Mortgage, LLC, Defendant(s).

TO THE DEFENDANT(S) ABOVE NAMED: YOU ARE HEREBY SUM MONED and required to appear and defend by answering the Complaint in this action, a copy of which is hereby served upon you, and to serve a copy of your Answer on the subscribers at their offices at 3800 Fer nandina Road, Suite 110, Columbia, SC 29210, within thirty (30) days after the service hereof, exclusive of the day of such service; except that the United States of America, if named, shall have sixty (60) days to answer after the service hereof, exclu sive of the day of such serv ice; and if you fail to do so, judgment by default will be rendered against you for

the relief demanded in the Complaint.

TO MINOR(S) OVER FOURTEEN YEARS OF AGE, AND/OR TO MINOR(S) UNDER FOUR TEEN YEARS OF AGE AND THE PERSON WITH WHOM THE MINOR(S) RESIDES, AND/OR TO PERSONS UNDER SOME LEGAL DISABILITY: YOU ARE FURTHER SUMMONED AND NOTI FIED to apply for the appointment of a guardian ad litem within thirty (30) days after the service of this Summons and Notice upon you. If you fail to do so, application for such appointment will be made by Attorney for Plaintiff.

YOU WILL ALSO TAKE NOTICE that Plaintiff will move for an Order of Refer ence or the Court may issue a general Order of Reference of this action to a Master-in-Equity/Special Referee, pursuant to Rule 53 of the South Carolina Rules of Civil Procedure.

YOU WILL ALSO TAKE NOTICE that under the pro visions of S.C. Code Ann. § 29-3-100, effective June 16, 1993, any collateral assignment of rents con tained in the referenced Mortgage is perfected and Attorney for Plaintiff hereby gives notice that all rents shall be payable directly to it by delivery to its under signed attorneys from the date of default. In the alter native, Plaintiff will move before a judge of this Cir cuit on the 10th day after service hereof, or as soon thereafter as counsel may be heard, for an Order enforcing the assignment of rents, if any, and compelling payment of all rents cov ered by such assignment directly to the Plaintiff, which motion is to be based upon the original Note and Mortgage herein and the Complaint attached hereto.

LIS PENDENS

NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN THAT an action has been or will be commenced in this Court upon complaint of the above-named Plain tiff against the abovenamed Defendant(s) for the foreclosure of a certain mortgage of real estate given by Mary C. Kelly, Eddie Lee Kelly, John Clifton Kelly, and Patricia Ann Kelly to CitiFinancial, Inc. dated July 27, 2007 and recorded on July 30, 2007 in Book B 120 at Page 0241, in the Florence County Registry (here inafter, “Mortgage”). There after, the Mortgage was transferred to the Plaintiff herein by assignment and/or corporate merger. The premises covered and affected by the said Mort gage and by the foreclo sure thereof were, at the time of the making thereof and at the time of the filing of this notice, more particu larly described in the said Mortgage and are more commonly described as: All that certain piece, parcel or lot of land situate in the County of Florence, State of South Carolina and being designated as Lot No. 24, Block D, on a plat of Woodmont made by D. C. Barbot and Associates Inc, dated October 17, 1969 and recorded October 12, 1970, in plat book 5 page 35 in the office of the clerk of court for Florence county. Said lot fronts on the North Side of East Royal Street for a distance of 89 feet and is bounded as follows: North by Lots 5 and 6, Block D, East by Lot 23, Block D; South by East Royal Street and West by Lot 25.

Subsequently, Robert Kelly died on April 21, 1978, leav ing Mary E. Kelly a/k/a Mary C. Kelly, Eddie Lee Kelly, John Clifton Kelly and Patricia Ann Kelly as his heirs. Subsequently, John Clifton Kelly died on Janu ary 7, 2010, leaving Mary Kelly, Eddie Lee Kelly and Patricia Kelly as his known heirs. TMS No. 01761-04-024

Property Address: 1015 East Royal Street, Florence, SC 29506 NOTICE OF FILING COM PLAINT TO THE DEFENDANTS ABOVE NAMED: YOU WILL PLEASE TAKE NOTICE that the original Complaint, Cover Sheet for Civil Actions and Certificate of Exemption from ADR in the above entitled action was filed in the Office of the Clerk of Court for Florence County on September 13, 2022. A Notice of Foreclo sure Intervention was also filed in the Clerk of Court's Office.

ORDER APPOINTING GUARDIAN AD LITEM AND APPOINTMENT OF ATTORNEY

It appearing to the satisfac tion of the Court, upon reading the filed Petition for Appointment of Kelley Woody, Esquire as Guardian ad Litem for unknown minors, and per sons who may be under a disability, and it appearing that Kelley Woody, Esquire has consented to said appointment.

FURTHER upon reading the filed Petition for Appointment of Kelley Woody, Esquire as Attorney for any unknown Defen dants who may be in the Military Service of the United States of America, and may be, as such, enti tled to the benefits of the Servicemember’s Civil Relief Act, and any amend ments thereto, and it appearing that Kelley Woody, Esquire has con sented to act for and repre sent said Defendants, it is ORDERED that Kelley Woody, P.O. Box 6432, Columbia, SC 29260 phone (803) 787-9678, be and hereby is appointed Guardian ad Litem on behalf of all unknown minors and all unknown persons who may be under a disability, all of whom may have or claim to have some interest or claim to the real property commonly known as 1015 East Royal Street, Florence, SC 29506; that he is empowered and directed to appear on behalf of and represent said Defendants, unless said Defendants, or some one on their behalf, shall within thirty (30) days after service of a copy hereof as directed, procure the appointment of Guardian or Guardians ad Litem for said Defendants.

AND IT IS FURTHER ORDERED that Kelley Woody, P.O. Box 6432, Columbia, SC 29260 phone (803) 787-9678, be and hereby is appointed Attor ney for any unknown Defendants who are, or may be, in the Military Serv ice of the United States of America and as such are entitled to the benefits of the Servicemember’s Civil Relief Act aka Soldiers' and Sailors' Civil Relief Act of 1940, and any amend ments thereto, to represent and protect the interest of

That a copy of this Order shall be forth with served upon said Defendants by publication in The News Journal, a newspaper of general circulation pub lished in the County of Flo rence, State of South Carolina, once a week for three (3) consecutive weeks, together with the Summons and Notice of Fil ing of Complaint in the above entitled action. Brock & Scott, PLLC 3800 Fernandina Road, Suite 110 Columbia, SC 29210 Phone (803) 454-3540 Fax (803) 454-3541 Attorneys for Plaintiff (11/2, 11/9, 11/16/2022)

NOTICE TO CREDITORS OF ESTATES

All persons having claims against the following estates MUST file their claims on FORM #371PC with the Probate Court of FLORENCE County, JESSE S. CARTRETTE, JR., the address of which is 181 N IRBY ST, STE 1300 FLORENCE SC 29501, within eight (8) months after the date of the first publica tion of this Notice to Credi tors or within one (1) year from date of death, whichever is earlier (SCPC 62-3-801, et seq.), or such persons shall be forever barred as to their claims. All claims are required to be presented in written state ments on the prescribed form (FORM #371PC) indi cating the name and address of the claimant, the basis of the claim, the amount claimed, the date when the claim will become due, the nature of any uncertainty as to the claim, and a description of any security as to the claim. Estate: WARDIE DAVIS LYERLY Date of Death: 10/3/2022 Case Number: 2022ES2100992

Personal Representative: DOTTIE POSTON LYERLY Address: 4362 POSTON CORNER RD JOHNSONVILLE, SC 29555 (11/2, 11/9, 11/16/2022)

NOTICE TO CREDITORS OF ESTATES

All persons having claims against the following estates MUST file their claims on FORM #371PC with the Probate Court of FLORENCE County, JESSE S. CARTRETTE, JR., the address of which is 181 N IRBY ST, STE 1300 FLORENCE SC 29501, within eight (8) months after the date of the first publica tion of this Notice to Credi tors or within one (1) year from date of death, whichever is earlier (SCPC 62-3-801, et seq.), or such persons shall be forever barred as to their claims. All claims are required to be presented in written state ments on the prescribed form (FORM #371PC) indi cating the name and address of the claimant, the basis of the claim, the amount claimed, the date when the claim will become due, the nature of any uncertainty as to the claim, and a description of any security as to the claim.

Estate: MARJORIE ANN. MITCHELL SANSBURY Date of Death: 10/12/2022 Case Number: 2022ES2100988

Personal Representative: SUSAN L HOLMES Address: 826 S. MURRAY HILL DR FLORENCE, SC 29501 (11/2, 11/9, 11/16/2022)

This being the same prop erty conveyed to Robert Kelly and Mary C. Kelly by deed of New Homes, Inc. dated March 2, 1972 and recorded March 2, 1972 in Book A119 at Page 88.

said Defendants, AND IT IS FURTHER ORDERED

Huckleberry, left, is a six-month-old male kitten that needs a home to call his own. Hobo, above, is a oneyear-old male hound mix who is waiting for his fur-ever home.