Like so many of us that gravitate to the unusual or unknown, Charleston is no different. So when a rare icy freeze looms over the Lowcountry, we take notice and even celebrate in the marvel of this rare treat.
it may not be a white Christmas, but it’s certainly a little icy.
Here are shots from a fountain on James Island. Enjoy the beauty of the sun reflecting off the icicles.
Photo Credit: Mark A Leon – Charleston Daily
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This is a very rare film of Mrs. Septima Clark of Charleston SC, who mentored Rosa Parks, educated adults about their voting rights, and is considered by many as the “Mother of the Movement.”
Filmed in Columbia SC in 1979. She is interviewed by Dr. Grace McFadden of the University of South Carolina.
South Carolina was the third fastest-growing state in the United States, according to new data released by the U.S. Census.
The new total population in the state is estimated to be 5,282,634 after a 1.7% year-over-year increase. South Carolina ranked sixth in its raw number increase with 89,368 more residents, behind third-ranked North Carolina and just ahead of Tennessee.
Florida and Idaho saw the largest percentage population increases while Texas and Florida saw the largest raw number increases.
Overall, the U.S. population increased by 0.4% or 1,256,003.
“There was a sizeable uptick in population growth last year compared to the prior year’s historically low increase,” said Kristie Wilder, a demographer in the Population Division at the Census Bureau. “A rebound in net international migration, coupled with the largest year-over-year increase in total births since 2007, is behind this increase.”
The South was credited as being the fastest-growing region in the country with a 1.1% increase.
WASHINGTON – U.S. Senator Lindsey Graham (R-South Carolina) today announced the South Carolina projects that were included in the year-end spending bill set to be debated and voted on in both the U.S. House of Representatives and U.S. Senate this week.
Graham made these funding requests to the Senate Appropriations Committee, a committee on which he serves.
Among the South Carolina funding included in the legislation:
Other notable funding items related to South Carolina organizations and institutions included in the legislation:
Please join NCPD in congratulating Ptl. Caroline Yeargin, the recipient of our agency’s “Lifesaving Award” and “Employee of the Month” for August 2022. On August 3, Ptl. Yeargin responded to a call from a woman in distress. Officer Yeargin prevented the woman from harming herself.
Great job!
(Pictured with Ptl. Yeargin is Major Aiken.)
Today NCPD neighborhood resource officers and police recruits assisted WCBD TV News 2 in a Toys for Tots drop-off blitz. The effort will make a lot of Lowcountry children happy on Christmas morning.
The Goose Creek Domino’s is one of the newest recipients of the newly rolled out Electric Vehicle fleet of cars being rolled out by Domino’s nationwide.
Domino’s recently unveiled 800 Chevy Bolt EVs across the nation and Goose Creek was one of the locations chosen.
Thank you, Kerri Hayman, Franchise Owner for Charleston, SC, and Augusta, GA for this share.
The vehicle looks great!
A pioneer in grassroots citizenship education, Septima Clark was called the “Mother of the Movement” and the epitome of a “community teacher, intuitive fighter for human rights and leader of her unlettered and disillusioned people” (McFadden, “Septima Clark,” 85; King, July 1962).
The daughter of a laundrywoman and a former slave, Clark was born 3 May 1898 in Charleston, South Carolina. In 1916 she graduated from secondary school and, after passing her teacher’s exam, taught at a black school on Johns Island, just outside of Charleston. For more than 30 years, she taught throughout South Carolina, including 18 years in Columbia and 9 in Charleston.
Clark pursued her education during summer breaks. In 1937 Clark studied under W. E. B. Du Bois at Atlanta University before eventually earning her BA (1942) from Benedict College in Columbia, and her MA (1946) from Virginia’s Hampton Institute. Clark also worked with the YWCA and participated in a class action lawsuit filed by the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP) that led to pay equity for black and white teachers in South Carolina. In 1956 South Carolina passed a statute that prohibited city and state employees from belonging to civil rights organizations. After 40 years of teaching, Clark’s employment contract was not renewed when she refused to resign from the NAACP.
By the time of her firing in 1956, Clark had already begun to conduct workshops during her summer vacations at the Highlander Folk School in Monteagle, Tennessee, a grassroots education center dedicated to social justice. Rosa Parks participated in one of Clark’s workshops just months before she helped launch the Montgomery bus boycott. After losing her teaching position, Myles Horton hired Clark full-time as Highlander’s director of workshops. Believing that literacy and political empowerment are inextricably linked, Clark taught people basic literacy skills, their rights and duties as U.S. citizens, and how to fill out voter registration forms.
When the state of Tennessee forced Highlander to close in 1961, the Southern Christian Leadership Conference(SCLC) established the Citizenship Education Program (CEP), modeled on Clark’s citizenship workshops. Clark became SCLC’s director of education and teaching, conducting teacher training and developing curricula. King appreciated Clark’s “expert direction” of the CEP, which he called “the bulwark of SCLC’s program department” (King, 11 August 1965). Although Clark found that most men at SCLC “didn’t respect women too much,” she thought that King “really felt that black women had a place in the movement” (Clark, 25 July 1976; McFadden, “Septima Clark,” 93).
After retiring from SCLC in 1970, Clark conducted workshops for the American Field Service. In 1975 she was elected to the Charleston, South Carolina, School Board. The following year, the governor of South Carolina reinstated her teacher’s pension after declaring that she had been unjustly terminated in 1956. She was given a Living Legacy Award by President Jimmy Carter in 1979 and published her second memoir, Ready from Within, in 1986.
United Airlines has ordered 100 new Boeing 787 Dreamliners in a contract with an option to add 100 more — the largest widebody aircraft order by a U.S. carrier in commercial aviation history, according to the company.
This order will bring United Airlines total aircraft to roughly 700 new narrow and widebody passenger aircraft by 2032 to support its global fleet.
“Boeing is our largest exporter (with) high-tech manufacturing jobs — the very kinds of jobs we are working hard to repatriate to the United States,” said Scott Kirby, chief executive officer at United Airlines.
Approximately 100 planes in the widebody order are expected to replace older Boeing 767 and Boeing 777 aircraft, with all 767 aircraft removed from the United fleet by 2030. United also exercised options to purchase 44 Boeing 737 MAX aircraft for delivery between 2024 and 2026. It ordered 56 more MAX aircraft for delivery between 2027 and 2028.
United expects to take delivery of the new widebody planes between 2024 and 2032 and can choose among the 787-8, -9 or -10 models, providing flexibility to support a wide range of routes.
Boeing’s Dreamliner program is based in North Charleston, which is one of two final assembly locations for the 787-8, -9 and -10.
Executives said the order will support United Airlines’ move in expanding its global fleet and adding more international flights, in line with the company’s United Next plan.
In the last two years, United added 13 new international destinations, 40 new international routes and extra trips to 10 existing international routes.
The Boeing 787 Dreamliner promises a premium flight experience. More than 90% of the United Airlines international widebody planes already feature the United Polaris business class seat and big seats that turn into beds along with luxury blankets and pillows.
The new planes will be more fuel efficient with an expected 25% decrease in carbon emissions per seat for the new planes compared to the older planes they are expected to replace. Kirby noted that supply chain issues have improved in the last six months, giving executives confidence that the Dreamliners will be delivered on or close to schedule.
“While the supply chain is challenged at both Boeing and Airbus — and we’re already a little bit behind on aircraft deliveries this year — we’re going to take delivery of an awful lot of airplanes in the next few years, even if some of them get pushed to the right a little bit,” said Kirby. “We’ve already taken into account some expected delays.”
The order is expected to lead to increased hiring at United Airlines. The Chicago-based company hired 15,000 people in 2022 and is on track to add another 15,000 next year.
The airline hired about 2,400 pilots and plans to add more than 2,500 pilots in 2023, with a goal to add 10,000 pilots in the next decade. United will hire more than 18,000 new flight attendants in the coming years with more than 4,000 expected to join the team in 2023.
More details about the United Airlines-Boeing announcement will be available later today following a media tour of Boeing South Carolina.
Contact Jenny Peterson at 843-849-3145.
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