The 21st edition of the West Island Blues Fest is preparing to launch with spectacular performances lined up and a fourth location added to the mix this year.
by Dana McCoy
Jewel Mckenzie, born and raised in Clarendon county, is a teacher at East Clarendon Middle/High. She went to college to pursue her degree in Elementary Education. When she attended college in Nashville, Tennessee, it was called Free Will Baptist Bible College, but it is now known as Welch College. Her college experience was everything she imagined it would be. It was a small school and all-around wonderful. She teaches high school math. Her love for math has always been there. She had the same math teacher from her 7th-grade year of school up until her senior year. Math clicked for her when she started taking algebra. “It has always made sense to me, it’s like a big puzzle.”