One parking lot wedding
Among all the statistics of the work done this year was one especially bright spot.
The June wedding of Leslie Osborne, a planning and operations manager for DHEC, to her groom Nick Savage.
Now Leslie Savage, she has been with the state agency for three years and now serves as plans chief for the state s pandemic response.
The couple had to cancel their planned wedding and cancel again because of the pandemic, and her work, according to a statement from DHEC.
Eventually, they didn t want to wait or put it off anymore and one day, on June 30, they decided to make it official.
A look at DHEC s year in SC: 1.5 million hours, 350,000 calls and one parking lot wedding Mike Ellis, Greenville News
During a year of handling the pandemic, the South Carolina Department of Health and Environmental Control has done a lot. More than a million vaccines, more than a million-and-a-half hours worked. And at least one parking lot wedding.
In a crazy pandemic year, state health employees often worked seven days a week.
There were few respites all year, many employees haven t had a single day without doing some pandemic work, members of the state health department s board were told during a Thursday meeting with the governor.