Lack of money dooms Chesnee fire department
Chesnee loses its all volunteer fire force of 19 after resignation amid aging equipment and a leaky station. Officials say a $1 million upgrade is unaffordable within a $657,000 city budget and a $22,000 fire budget. Community department will assume service. other towns in Spartanburg County have merged departments due to finances and dwindling volunteers.
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Chesnee
Ron Forbes
Heather Schafer
National Volunteer Fire Council
Tim Smith
Hs Department
Forbes
Smith
Tony Phillips
Spartanburg County
Bill Hall
Hall
Becki Hood
Hood
Volunter
Jim Bowie
South Carolina
Schafer
Spanish task force forms as Rock Hill grows Hispanic population
The city of Rock Hill creates a two dozen member Spanish language task force to help non native speakers with driver licenses apartment applications and emergency calls. Officials say deployment of Language Line translators 2000 Spanish brochures and officer training aims to reduce miscommunication and safety risks amid a rising Hispanic community.
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Rock Hill
Homera Silva
Latin Alliance of
The
Carolinas
Silva
Barbara Guidry
Wilfredo Leon
Leon
South Carolina
Cotton Howell
York County Emergency Management
Howell
Dave Fortson
Job Corps offers troubled teens a life changing path
Dear Abby recounts a troubled teen who dropped out, found structure at Job Corps run by the Labor Department, learned welding, earned a high school diploma, and adapted to dorm life with counselors. The program promotes zero tolerance for violence and drugs and offers broad outreach with a toll free number for interested families.
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Abby
US Department of Labor
Colorado
DNA databank delays plague SC sex offender program
South Carolina released 675 sex offenders in five years without DNA samples despite a 1994 law. The State reports the databank has produced no arrests, with delays blamed on funding and politics. Florida’s system has linked hundreds of cases, underscoring SC’s slow start and calls for resources.
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Columbia
South Carolina
Sen
David Thomas
Greenville
FBI
Jim Hodges
Florida
David Coffman
Florida Department of Law Enforcement
Language barrier to warn Hispanic communities in South Carolina
Emergency preparedness officials seek ways to spread hurricane warnings to Spanish speakers across South Carolina. Hispanic Outreach of South Carolina led by Irma Santana plans a local network of Hispanic leaders, using churches and media to distribute Spanish brochures and icon-based checklists.
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Columbia
Irma Santana
Joe Farmer
Santana
Beaufort
American Red Cross
Federal Emergency Management Agency
Ray Borders Gray
Midlands
The
Red Cross
Sarah Smith
St. Paul's United Methodist Church
Orangeburg
Antonio Vasquez
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Job Corps
Fresno
Calif
Rolf Bolstad
Minneapolis
Rolf
Dear Abby
S.C
SLED
Heyward Hutson
Summerville
Hutson
State Senate
Robert Stewart
Laura Hudson
State Victim Assistance Network
Stewart
Ernest “Fritz” Hollings
DSCC
Hodges
Associated Press
Mexico
Aiken Mall
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