Chinese Brush Painting workshop Sept. 16-17, page 16
Tryon Daily Bulletin
The World’s Smallest Daily Newspaper
Vol. 84 / No. 141
Tryon, N.C. 28782
Thursday, August 18, 2011
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Pace receives diploma 68 years late by Samantha Hurst
O.P. Earle Elementary School in Landrum will host a PTO Open House tonight, Thursday, Aug. 18, from 5:30 - 6:30 p.m. It is also spirit night for the school at Bojangles.
In January 1943, Calvin Pace had all but completed his senior year at Saluda High School. But on Jan. 5 of that year his teenage dream of walking across a stage to receive his diploma was interrupted.
“I was one of the first of the 18-year-olds to be drafted from Saluda as far as I know,” Pace said. “I wanted to actually walk across the stage and do it like the rest, but I was in service and they wouldn’t let you go for nothing.” (Continued on page 3)
Here’s a list of upcoming meetings and events for area nonprofit community and governmental organizations:
Today
Polk County Mobile Recycling Unit, Thursdays, 7 a.m. - noon, old Searcy Mill parking lot, Hwy. 108,Columbus. Saluda Center, Thursday activities: knitting group, 9:30 a.m.; gentle Yin Yoga, 5:30 p.m.; 828-749-9245. The Meeting Place Senior Center, Thursday activities include ceramics, 9:30 a.m.; art class, 10 a.m.; bingo or movie, 12:30 p.m. 828-894-0001. Landrum Library, Lap Babies, Thursdays, 10 a.m.; storytime, 10:30 a.m. Polk County Historical Association Museum, open (Continued on page 2)
Ronette Dill, Saluda School principal (left); Polk County Schools Superintendent Bill Miller; Calvin Pace and Polk County Board of Education Chair Geoffrey Tennant. (photo submitted)
Suspect in Medicap robbery captured Charges include robbery, kidnapping, trafficking by Leah Justice
Area law enforcement apprehended the suspect accused of
robbing the Columbus Medicap Pharmacy on Tuesday, Aug. 16 just hours after the incident. Michael Spencer Bolling, 31, of 77 Medford Rd., Tryon, was arrested and charged with robbery with a dangerous weapon, two counts of second degree kid-
Serving Polk County and Upper Spartanburg and Greenville Counties
napping, two counts of trafficking opium, one count of felony possession of a schedule II controlled substance and one count of felony maintaining a vehicle for a controlled substance, ac(Continued on page 6)