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  • Talents of First-time Artist “Show” at PTC

    Created: Thursday, 15 December 2005 09:50
    Last December, 67-year-old Annette Burton went on vacation and decided she wanted to try something she had never done before: painting. She enrolled in an art class at a local church, picked up a paint brush and began dabbling into the world of oil painti...

  • “Forty & Eight” Veterans Group Funds Nursing Scholarship at Piedmont Tech

    Created: Thursday, 15 December 2005 09:49
    Dr. Lex Walters, left, president of Piedmont Technical College, receives a scholarship gift from Emmett F. Brooks, right, Chef De Gare (Commander) of the local chapter of the “Forty & Eight.” The organization was founded in Philadelphia, Pa. in 19...

  • PTC Honors Most Recent Practical Nursing Graduates at Pinning Ceremony

    Created: Thursday, 15 December 2005 09:48
    Piedmont Technical College honored its newest graduates of the practical nursing program at a pinning ceremony earlier this month. Seated, from left, are: Melissa Ford of Laurens; Kristi Bledsoe of Saluda; Katherine Taylor-Vaughn of Honea Path; Ruth Pitts...

  • Forklift Safety Training Offered at Piedmont Tech

    Created: Thursday, 15 December 2005 09:47
    Roger Laughlin, industrial instructor at Piedmont Technical College, demonstrates safe forklift operating practices. The college will offer a “Forklift Safety Training and Driving School” workshop on Friday, January 20. The one-day workshop will meet ...

  • Computer Course for Seniors to be Offered at Piedmont Tech

    Created: Thursday, 15 December 2005 09:45
    David Stephenson, computer training coordinator for continuing education and economic development at Piedmont Technical College, demonstrates keyboard shortcuts during a recent course. The college will offer a “Computing for Seniors” workshop on Jan. ...

  • Sidetracking Career Results in Adventure

    Created: Tuesday, 06 December 2005 09:51
    Sidetracking: a perplexing phenomenon where a project is started, something diverts your attention, then, hours, weeks, months or years pass before your neglected, dust- collecting goal ever warrants your attention again. Kymberly Briggs of McCormick is a...

  • Artist Pledges to Share His Legacy

    Created: Tuesday, 06 December 2005 09:50
    Nick Esposito of Greenwood is a gifted, award-winning artist whose surrealistic dream world drawing, Dali, earned “Best in Show” at a recent Piedmont Technical College art sale and competition. If it hadn’t been for the intervention of a caring teac...

  • Local Benefactor Honored by State Tech System

    Created: Friday, 02 December 2005 09:53
    Local real estate executive Calhoun A. Mays, Jr. received special recognition from the South Carolina Technical College System earlier this month. Mays was one of 15 individuals and/or corporations honored at a semiannual “Benefactors Make a Difference...

  • Wedding Vows Come Full Circle for Lifetime Child Care Specialists

    Created: Friday, 02 December 2005 09:52
    When LeVerne and John Fuller vowed to stay together through “richer and poorer and in sickness and in health,” they could not have fathomed how deeply their words would be tested. The couple moved to Greenwood several years ago after retiring from th...