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Traffic Safety Checkpoints The Lane, Greeleyville, and Kingstree Police Departments and the Williamsburg County Sheriff’s Office will be conducting traffic safety checkpoints during the month of September. A.A.
Meetings If you drink, that’s your business. If you want to be sober, that’s our business. A.
A. (843) 697-3321. Special Needs Support If you are a parent or guardian with a child or children with special needs and may be interested in becoming a part of a parent-to-parent support group, please contact Tommy and Michelle Russell at (843) 373-0912 or (843) 356-5714 or pillaroutreach@ yahoo.
com . Seniors Patrol The Kingstree Police Department is offering a seniors patrol wellness check. Any elderly, ill or bedridden residents of the Town of Kingstree who would like for the police department to contact them on a regular basis should call Police Chaplain the Rev.
Harold Jackson. He can be reached at (843) 355-5435. Volunteers Needed Seniors and disabled adults in your community are homebound and need your help getting to doctor’s appointments, grocery stores, social activities, religious services, and more.
Help them live with the quality of life they deserve at a time when they need it most. You can make a difference! For more information please call (843) 436-2110. Volunteers Needed Williamsburg County needs a Red Cross Disaster Action Team (DAT) and Biomedical (BDA) Volunteers.
Call (843) 655-4176 or email [email protected] for more information.
AA Meetings The Town of Lane Alcoholics Anonymous (AA) meetings will be held on Fridays from 6 p.m. to 7 p.
m. at the Lane Community Center. If you think you have a drinking problem there is help without judgment.
Volunteers Needed St. Mark Bloomingvale CDC, Inc. needs you to help operate the local community foodbank every second and fourth Thursday of the month at 10 a.
m. The organization is located at 8292 Thurgood Marshall Hwy. (Bloomingvale Community Center).
To become a volunteer please contact Mrs. Silverteen Mitchum at (843) 601-4727. Addiction Treatment Williamsburg County Behavioral Health provided by Circle Park is open Monday to Friday from 9 a.
m. to 5 p.m.
at the Chavis Complex located at 2811 S. State Highway 41-51 in Hemingway. Services offered include medication assisted treatment, individual and group counseling, ADSAP for loss of driver’s license, family and adolescent counseling and peer support recovery services.
For more information call (843) 551-2343 or visit them on Facebook. Volunteers Needed The Pee Dee Coalition Against Domestic Violence and Sexual Assault needs volunteers. If interested please contact Sarah Goodwin, Volunteer and Community Educator Coordinator at (843) 354-6481 or (843) 758-4577.
Free Program Expanded Food and Nutrition Education Program (EFNEP) is a free health and nutrition program. Each week you will cook and taste healthy foods, save money at the grocers, learn about food safety, and get active. For more please contact Inetta J.
Cooper Fulton, nutrition educator, at (803) 774-2270 or [email protected] . Monthly Meeting Donnelly Community Revitalization Group's monthly meetings are held on the last Monday of each month at 6 p.
m. at the Chavis One-Stop Complex, 2811 South State Highway 41-51, Hemingway. All Donnelly and surrounding communities' residents are encouraged to attend and voice your concerns.
For more information, call (843) 933-4090. AARP Meeting Williamsburg County Chapter #5360 AARP will begin holding their regular monthly meetings on the fourth Wednesday of each month at 12 p.m.
at the Williamsburg County Recreation Department, 2084 Thurgood Marshall Hwy., Kingstree. If you are a member of the National AARP Organization, and are 50 years old and older, you are invited to please come join the local chapter, here in Kingstree.
For more information, please contact Jane B. McBride, president at (843) 354-7693 or (843) 244-5025. 50th Reunion The C.
E. Murray High School Class of 1974 will be celebrating their 50th Reunion from October 4 to October 6. All class members are asked to contact Debra Sabb-Keels, Reunion Secretary, at dsabb1956@yahoo.
com for more information. Classes The SC State University Extension, for Clarendon, Lee, Sumter and Williamsburg counties, is scheduling fall classes for nutrition, health and dancercise. They will come to your site.
Contact Inetta J. Cooper Fulton at (803) 774-2270, to schedule your after-school program, or community center or church group. Services Are you struggling with your mental health or substance abuse? South Carolina Share is offering free services as well as on-line services via Zoom and Google Meets for residents in Williamsburg County.
They also offer Group Therapy as well. If you or someone you know and love needs help..
.just know you don’t have to recover alone. You may call Dominique McFarland, Peer Support Specialist, at (843) 613-1286 or email her at dmcfarland@scshare.
com . AA Meetings Kingstree "It Works If You Work It" (AA/NA) 12 steps meetings will be held on Mondays from 6 p.m.
to 7 p.m. at Kingstree Public Safety Complex, 407 N.
Longstreet St., Kingstree. For more information call Ron Fulton at (509) 998-1168.
Noon Day Prayer Noon Day Prayer, sponsored by the Sickle Cell Anemia Disease Society, will be held September 18, and September 25, in person at Mishoe Park, 202 Varner Ave., Greeleyville or online at (425) 436-6280, access # 141633 12 p.m.
to 1 p.m. The theme is Prepare Your H-ear-t To Hear From God Book Sale Williamsburg County Friends of the Library Monthly Book Sale will be held September 20, from 1 p.
m. to 3:30 pm. in the Williamsburg County Library Meeting Room, 215 North Jackson Street, Kingstree.
Information is available at the Circulation Desk about the programs offered. Pick up a flyer to share with your family and friends. Applications to join the FOL group are available if you would like to join in the endeavors by sharing ideas to accomplish its goals.
Great prices and new selections from patrons’ donations! Don’t miss this opportunity to buy some great books at reduced prices! Concert On Sunday, September 29, at 4 p.m. DeQuan Lesane, organ and piano, and Mary Alice Thomy Bogue, vocal, will present a concert in the Williamsburg Presbyterian Church Sanctuary, 411 N.
Academy Street, Kingstree. DeQuan is the new organist/choir director at Williamsburg Presbyterian and Mary Alice is director of Children’s Music. The concert will include sacred, classical and contemporary pieces.
The community is cordially invited. A Welcome Reception for DeQuan will follow the performance in Grace Hall. Meetings Vital Aging of Williamsburg County, Inc.
will hold its regular monthly Board of Directors meeting on Wednesday, September 18, at 2 p.m. The meeting will be held in-person at the Kingstree Center, 812 Fourth Avenue, Kingstree and virtually via Zoom.
For more information to join this meeting, please call (843) 354-5496. Event There will be a Stop the Violence event on Saturday, November 2, at 10 a.m.
at the Williamsburg County Courthouse, 201 W. Main St., Kingstree.
The speaker will be Minister Richard Niles. He will be speaking on picking up the bible and saying no to drugs and not graduating from the penitentiary like him and his sons. All are invited to come witness deliverance and tell the testimony of the abuse of drugs and the violence that comes with it.
Refreshments will be served. For more information call (843) 598-5955. Concert Pianist Anna Bogolubova, concert pianist, will be in concert on Thursday September 26, at The Bean Market at 7:30 p.
m. There will be a reception at 6:30 p.m.
before the concert featuring charcuterie platters and wine. Anna is one of Ukraine's leading pianists and composers. She has performed solo recitals in Ukraine, United States, Canada and across Europe.
Her program will feature works by Domenico Scarlatti, Frederic Chopin, Modest Mussorgsky and some of her own compositions. She holds both bachelor and masters degrees from The Juilliard School for the Performing Arts and lives in New York City. Flute and Harp Concert Duo Bréve, flute and harp, will be in concert on Thursday, December 5, at The Mules Stables at 7:30 p.
m. Celebrate the holidays with this amazing duo featuring Aimee Toner on the flute and Mia Venezia on the harp. This duo will perform a program with well-known popular Christmas songs like Jingle Bells and Silent Night in addition to classical pieces including "Largo" from Vivaldi's Four Seasons Winter, Piazzolla's "Histoire de Tango" and "Debussy's "Girl with the Flaxen Hair.
" During intermission a variety of delicious Christmas treats will be served. Organ Concert Michael Shake, organist, will be in concert on Thursday, March 13, 2025, at the Lake City Presbyterian Church at 7:30 p.m.
This concert in memory of Betty and Clinton Carter features Florence native Michael Shake. He is currently the director of music and organist at the First Presbyterian Church in New York City. With his return to the Pee Dee, Michael brings a dynamic solo recital played on the amazing organ built by Karl Wilhelm who was faithful to the principles of the 17th and 18th century organ making.
There will be a reception in the Social Hall following the concert. Accordion and Violin Concert Karolina and Iwo, accordion and violin, will be held Thursday, May 15, 2025, at the Moore Farms at 7:30 p.m.
There will be a reception at 6:45 p.m. before the concert with heavy hors d'oeuvres and wine.
The duo of Karolina Mikolajczyk and Iwo Jedynecki are one of the most vibrant and innovative chamber ensembles of the young generation. The Duo's performances are described as perfect and mature, yet filled with youthful vitality. Get ready for Mozart like you've never heard before.
Their videos have received millions of views on Facebook and YouTube. Board Meeting The Williamsburg County Library Board of Trustees will have a board meeting on Tuesday, September 24, at 6 p.m.
in Williamsburg County Library, 215 North Jackson Street, Kingstree..
