When the frost hits the pumpkin and we throw another quilt on the bed, our minds naturally turn to the approaching winter holidays. Those who are itching to find the most unique, charming, handcrafted items this year should mark their calendar for Saturday, November 2, as the Piedmont Technical College Medford Center will come alive with gift-giving possibilities as more than 80 local artisans take part in the 2019 Foothills Skills & Craft Show.
The public is invited to the Upper Savannah Regional Job Fair in Greenwood on Tuesday, October 29, 2019. More than 80 recruiting companies will be in attendance.
Picture it. Tuscany 2020. Renaissance art. Sunflower fields. Olive groves. …
Affordable travel opportunities abound, and the Piedmont Technical College (PTC) Continuing Education program has scheduled a free presentation about three trips planned for 2020 ― to Tuscany, Southern France and the Painted Canyons of the American West.
The presentations will take place Thursday, Oct. 24, 2019, in Room 219-C in the Self Conference Center at 620 North Emerald Road.
It became astonishingly clear as the question-and-answer session commenced that nearly everyone in the room had been affected by suicide at some point in their life. Some shared their personal stories. A few shed tears.
To learn strategies for dealing with a suicidal person in crisis, Piedmont Technical College Human Services students in Greenwood recently participated in a special training ― titled the QPR Institute ― with Tony Johnson, regional executive director of Mental Health America.
Noel Johnson is careful about numbers and budgeting. The conscientious 20-year-old is on track this fall to complete her associate degree in business administration, with a concentration in accounting. College is not an easy or inexpensive proposition, but Johnson has been smart about tuition and career planning. “I am trying to pay for a lot of my stuff so my parents don’t have to,” Johnson said...
Don’t ask Richie Stone to limit his screen time. That’s something he just cannot do. It’s kind of an occupational hazard. In his role as Network Services Technician and Group Leader at West Carolina Tel (WCTEL) in Abbeville, Stone oversees activities of the company’s Network Operations Center (NOC), which employs a number of interns from Piedmont Technical College (PTC). The NOC is monitored 24/7...
Officials from Lonza in Greenwood visited the Piedmont Technical College (PTC) campus on September 17, 2019, and presented the PTC Foundation with a check for $25,000 to be applied toward the construction of the William H. “Billy” O’Dell Upstate Center for Manufacturing Excellence.
The 18 th -century frontiersman Daniel Boone likely maintained his own muskets and flintlock pistols because, well, there weren’t a lot of gunsmith shops in the open wilderness. Anyone over 50 probably remembers the popular television show “Daniel Boone,” which aired in the mid-1960s. Piedmont Technical College (PTC) Gunsmithing Program Director Jerry Capone does. “I grew up in the time when Fess...
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