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Resounding ‘Yes’ for healthcare referendum

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BY LACY HARDEE FOR THE LORIS SCENE

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An overwhelming 85 percent of voters passed the Nov. 1 referendum for healthcare services that enables Loris Community Hospital and Seacoast Medical Center to expand its partnership with McLeod Regional Medical Center. This partnership allows both Loris and Seacoast to offer even better healthcare services to these communities. “This partnership with McLeod Regional Medical Center ensures the best healthcare we can provide for our citizens,” said Ed Prince, Citizens for Better Healthcare Services co-chair and North Myrtle Beach resident. “It is clear that the community understands the importance of this partnership and the benefits it will bring to the healthcare in

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Voters made their wishes very clear on the Healthcare Services Referendum on Nov. 1 as an overwhelming 85 percent of the voters were in favor of the partnership between Loris Healthcare System and Mcleod Regional Medical Center. REFERENDUM, A2 Despite no other issue on the ballot voter turnout was above average.

Turkey Shoots are popular fundraisers

HALLOWEEN FUN: Some Loris businesses enjoyed Halloween throughout the day dressing up as various characters and having fun with the customers.

BY LACY HARDEE

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LORIS HIGH SOIL JUDGING: Loris High School FFA Soil Team captured top honors in the 8-AA region soils competition recently.

A5 | HAPPENINGS | Youth Basketball signup2011 for boys and girls 7-12 years old is in progress at Heniford Field. Register Monday-Friday 3-5:30 p.m. until Nov. 30. Fees are $25 in city limits and $35 out of city limits. For more information call Ben Norman or Damon Kempski at 7569804. The Northern Horry Republican Club will meet Nov. 12 at 9:30 a.m. at the old Presbyterian Church located at 4250 Main Street in Loris. A continental breakfast is available. For more information, call Michael Connett at 2835414. Lawndale Baptist Church located on Hwy. 66 in Loris will have Homecoming on Sunday, Nov. 13 with the Rev. Chris Hardee for the guest speaker. Senior Adult Conference with Dr. Ernie Perkins and “Redeemed” will be held Thursday, Nov. 10 beginning at 10 a.m. Mt. Vernon Baptist Church located on Red Bluff Road in Loris. Mitchell Sea Missionary Baptist Church will have Usher’s Anniversary on Sunday, Nov. 13 beginning at 4 p.m. Call 756-7240 for more information.

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Swampfest is a unique learning experience. A group of young boys are captivated by a washing machine that would also make butter and grind sausage.

SwampFest still successful after 25 years BY BRADLEY BLANTON FOR THE LORIS SCENE

Who would have ever thought that an old swamp would have been good for anything but mosquitoes? The same people who knew that it would be just as important today as it was a quarter of a century ago.

SwampFest is an annual festival to give the public access to the natural and cultural history of our area. It is free for anyone wanting to attend and offers many great stories from yesteryear. For anyone that has never been around the “Horry County Black Water

Swamps” there is much to learn. Throughout the day you can see different historical displays, learn about the habitat and enjoy some good music. Events and activities included candle making, bobbing for apples, and a view of an authentic log

cabin and much more. The Clemson Extension service offered a view of many different types of insects and the inside of a working honey-bee hive. If that wasn’t enough, you could take a hayride into the forest and see SWAMPFEST, A2

The spirit of friendly competition. The combined smells of gunpowder and burning oak from the well-placed fire barrels on a cool night. Men and boys, fathers and sons, and even women and girls, mothers and daughters, milling about. All are warmly dressed, waiting to take their shot at the target some 60 feet away. This time of year is turkey shooting time. Not live turkeys, but you can win a frozen one. From now until the New Year, a number of these familyoriented fundraiser events will take place in several places in the Loris area. All the shoots provide a safe environment, shotgun shells for 12, 20 and 410 gauge, and most provide food and drink for all entrants and spectators. One of the first turkey shoots of the season began last Friday night, Nov. 4 at Crossway Church on Hwy. 701 near Allsbrook. Pastor Tommy Shelley and his church are using this year’s holiday shoots to hopefully replenish their food pantry. The Crossway food pantry distributes food to families who come to the church every third TURKEY, A3

Seven local teachers of the year named BY LACY HARDEE FOR THE LORIS SCENE

Seven area teachers, standing out among their peers, have been named teacher of the year at their schools. Named are Lovae Owen, a third grade teacher at Loris Elementary; April Ballard, who leads orchestra and general music classes at Loris Middle School; Jill Hale, a veteran special education teacher at Loris High School; Constance Moody, a first grade teacher at Green Sea Floyds Elementary School; Shannon Page, who teaches math at GSF Middle School; Lee Mayfield, GSF High School’s agricultural teacher; and Jennie Huber,

a second grade teacher at Daisy Elementary School. Each of these teachers will now vie for the title of the Horry County Schools’ Teacher of the Year, a title currently held by Kraig McBroom, choral music teacher at Carolina Forest High School. Each school winner will complete an application which includes teacher biographies, their philosophy of teaching, advocacy and evaluation of teaching techniques. Applications are reviewed by a committee of educators, administrators and community representatives. Ten semifinalists will be notified Feb. 6, 2012. The semifinalists will be inter-

Lovae Owen Loris Elementary viewed by a committee when they will share artifacts of student achievement. The list of semifinalists will be narrowed to five

April Ballard Loris Middle

Jill Hale Loris High

finalists on March 5, 2012. The five finalists will be observed in their classrooms by committee members and the Horry County Teacher of the Year will be

named at a banquet on May 1, 2012. The Horry County winner also enters into the running TEACHERS, A3


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