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The South Carolina State Library is pleased to partner with the 2012 Class of Leadership Columbia and The Free Medical Clinic, Inc.

During February and the beginning of March, the South Carolina State Library is a donation site for many needed items for the Clinic.  The Clinic’s mission is to provide quality healthcare, at no cost, to residents of the community who cannot pay for such services and who have no health insurance.

Written by Elaine Sandberg, Information Services
New documents crossing my way today were many routine items:  newsletters, annual handbooks, the December issue of The State Register.  All valuable items to a permanent record of our state’s history.  However, none out of the ordinary.  Until I noticed “Afghanistan” in an article on the back of the South Carolina Market Bulletin for January 5, 2012.  That country name—so far away from our South Carolina farms—didn’t seem to fit with a weekly newspaper that regularly offers tractors for sale!  The article turned out to be one from Commissioner Hugh E. Weathers and reports on a project to send a team of soldiers from the South Carolina Army National Guard to Afghanistan for a full year to promote sustainable farming practices there.

Literary Festival features N.C. poet

By ANNA BROWN, Union County News

During USC-Union's second annual Upcountry Literary Festival, former North Carolina poet laureate Fred Chappell will receive an award that pays tribute to a famous composer with local roots.

The festival will be held March 23 and 24. Randy Ivey, an English professor at USC-Union who is helping to organize the festival, said a full roster of poets, novelists and musicians will travel from several states to make presentations at the festival.

Chappell will be the keynote presenter that Saturday morning and will be honored with the first William “Singing Billy” Walker Award for Achievement in Southern Letters.