Turning Pages SC, a non-profit adult literacy council that provides oneon one tutoring free of cost, has won $8,000 from the Dollar General Foundation. The grant will enable it to help even more adults in Richland and Lexington Counties learn to read over the next year. According to the National Assessment of Adult Literacy, 13
Royal wellwishers have scrambled for plastic ponchos outside Buckingham Palace as rain falls ahead of the spectacular pomp and pageantry of King Charl.
Royal wellwishers have scrambled for plastic ponchos outside Buckingham Palace as rain falls ahead of the spectacular pomp and pageantry of King Charles's coronation.
All across the Midlands, volunteer reading tutors meet students at public libraries, parks and other locations to help them improve their reading. The students are not in school, however. They are adults who, through a variety of circumstances, never learned to read well. The volunteer tutors are matched with learners by Turning Pages, a nonprofit organization formerly known as the Greater Columbia Literacy Council, that helps adults who have low levels of reading skills.
Festival goers share their favorite books. Midlands residents showed up in droves to the recent City of Cayce’s Soiree’ on State, an annual street festival featuring local bands, food trucks, businesses, and nonprofits. There was a little something for everyone. One popular interactive nonprofit station even gave folks the chance to list their all-time favorite