Wildfire warning from Forestry Commission across South Carolina
South Carolina Forestry Commission warns of increasing wildfire risk as dry grass leaves and pine straw, combined with brisk winds and low humidity, persist through the weekend. Aiken County Ranger David Widener advises cautious outdoor burning and legal precautions including notifying authorities, creating a firebreak, staffing and supervising the fire until fully safe.
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Two remarkable lives shaped by simple acts and quiet courage
Langley-trond recounts Marie Cromer Seigler and Henry Hays, two starkly different figures who influenced a writer's career. Seigler, a schoolteacher who founded tomato clubs that grew into national 4H programs, battled gender barriers after the Great War. Hays, born in 1881, lived rurally in Barnwell County, worked as a farmer and pulpwood worker, aged 114 at death, cherishing a family portrait and daily routines with a goat and a dog.
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