People & Events June 27

Street closing
According to Liz Taylor on HartsvilleToday.com, Carolina Avenue between Fifth and Sixth Streets will be closed on Sunday, June 29, from morning to evening. This is necessary due to the upgrade of the city’s storm water system currently underway in the downtown areas of Hartsville.
Additionally, work will begin next week in the alleyway behind City Hall for the same purpose.
Please plan to take alternate street routes during this time.

Black Creek Wild Turkey Foundation 23rd Annual Banquet
The Black Creek Wild Turkey Federation will hold its 23rd Annual Banquet on Friday, July 25, at the Hartsville National Guard Armory.
The event will begin at 6:30 p.m.
Sponsor tickets are available for purchase for $265. Couples tickets are $65 and a single ticket is $50.
For more information or to purchase tickets, call Mike Gainey at 858-0963.

Hartsville’s Harris named to Order of the Purple Seal
COLUMBIA – Sixty-five students from Columbia College were named recently for membership in the Order of the Purple Seal, a national honor society organized in 1855 to foster the ideals of solid scholarship. Among those named was Hartsville native Amanda Jean Harris, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Rogers Harris of Hartsville. Amanda is a junior majoring in biology.
Membership in the organization is limited to juniors and seniors who have a cumulative 3.5 grade point average for four full-time semesters. Columbia College uses a 4.0 scale.
Columbia College is a private liberal arts women’s college related to the United Methodist Church with a legacy of developing women leaders possessing the courage, commitment, confidence and competence to build a better world. In addition to the Women’s College, coeducational evening and graduate programs are offered. Enrollment is 1,500 students from 23 states and 20 countries.
Columbia College is also home to the Leadership Institute and the Alliance for Women, a network of colleges, universities, government agencies, non-profit organizations and individuals dedicated to working together to bring about positive changes that will improve the lives of all South Carolinians.

Science camp at the GSSM
More than 300 rising eighth-, ninth- and 10th-grade students from the Pee Dee and across the state are spending part of their summer challenging themselves in courses from examining a crime scene to building a robot during the S.C. Governor’s School for Science and Mathematics 19th Annual Summer Science Program.
During the summer camp, which began June 15 and ends July 12, students live on campus and can take a weeklong course in such areas as crime scene investigations, robotics, and infection and immunity. At least 20 courses are offered in the program.
Students are taught by professors from at least eight colleges and universities, including Florence-Darlington Technical College and the University of South Carolina, as well as faculty from the school.
Through hands-on lab experiments and field trips, the program is designed to give students the chance to develop knowledge of science, math and technology.
Dr. Sid Parrish, assistant professor of chemistry at Newberry College, said his course was an introduction to the field of forensic science that specifically dealt with the terminology, techniques and procedures used in collecting and analyzing evidence for real cases.
Through the course, students were exposed to real-life science skills and techniques used in a real forensics lab, Parrish said.
Niru Mahes, a student at Duke University, is an assistant teacher for the program’s robotics course. His students built and programmed robots using the LEGO Mindstorms NXT kit in the FIRST LEGO League Robotics course.
Mahes, along with Jon Shannon, chief information officer at the Governor’s School and the course’s instructor, taught rising eighth-grade students how to solve real-world problems by applying math, science and technology skills through robotics applications.
Students in the infection and immunity course, taught by Dr. Karen Aguirre, assistant professor of biology at Coastal Carolina University, learned about viruses bacteria and parasites, and how the immune system fights infection.