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Christmas on Carolina:Extended Shopping Hours &

Carriage RidesJoin us in downtown Hartsville for

Christmas on Carolina on Thursdayevenings from November 29th- December20th. You will find the holiday spirit inour storefronts as they welcome you totreasures waiting to be gifted to lovedones. It can also be heard in the clip-clop,clip-clop of horse-drawn carriage ridesthat showcase our downtown.

Shop Small Downtown Open House

Thursday, November 295-8 p.m.

The DDRA, area businesses andDarlington Recreation present a ShopSmall Downtown Open House with Santa,DJ, music, giveaways, specials, andSNOW on the Public Square.

2nd Annual Festival of Trees

Friday, November 30 - OpeningNight Preview Party

7-10 p.m.Be the first to view the magic enjoying

heavy hors d’oeuvres, drinks and liveentertainment. Support Black Creek Arts

Council's Art in Education program bypurchasing trees and wreaths at the “Buyit Now” price only offered this one night,Friday, November 30. Trees and wreathswill be sold through silent auction. Cost is$35 per person.

Saturday, December 1st10-4 p.m.Story time, cookies and craft for chil-

dren at 11am and 2pm. Cost is $5 perchild

Sunday, December 2nd12-4 p.m.Saturday and Sunday include activities

and fun for the whole family, includingthe viewing of decorated themed treesand wreaths donated by area businesses,organizations and individuals.

Christmas with CokerSunday, December 2

3-4 p.m.The choirs of Coker College will pres-

ent Christmas with Coker on Sunday,December 2nd at 3:00 p.m in the sanctu-ary of St. Bartholomew's EpiscopalChurch. Featuring the Coker Singers,Men's Ensemble, and newly-formed CivicWomen's Chorale, the choirs will lead aconcert of exquisite holiday anthemsalternating with familiar carol sing-alongswith the audience. Conducted by Dr.

Jerron Jorgensen with organist Dr. DonGrice and pianist Mr. Blade Boulware, thisroughly one-hour concert will be just thething to put you and yours in the holidayspirit! This is a Trans4mations approvedevent and admission is FREE.

Christmas ParadeSunday, December 2

4 p.m.The Darlington Fire & Rescue Squad

presents the annual Christmas paradeCarol Lighting Service5:30 p.m.Darlington Kiwanis Club brings a pro-

gram of meaning for the season withmusic, prayer, and the lighting of the CityChristmas tree.

Lights of LoveThe Carolina Pines Regional Medical

Center Auxiliary is bringing back a ByerlyHospital tradition the Lights of Love!

Join us Sunday, December 2nd at 4:30p.m. for a special tree lighting ceremonywith special music followed by refresh-ments in our main lobby.

If you would like to purchase a light inhonor or in memory of a special lovedone, forms are available in the gift shopon the first floor of the hospital.

Simply Christmas ExhibitThe Hartsville Museum will be festive-

ly decorated again this year for theirSimply Christmas event open December3rd - January 12th. The main exhibit willbe Santa’s Workshop, an exhibit that willgive guests a peek inside of jolly St. Nick’sworkshop. Admission is free. TheHartsville Museum is located at 222 NorthFifth Street and is open Monday throughFriday from 10 a.m. - 5 p.m. and Saturdayfrom 10 a.m. - 2 p.m.

2018 Mingle & Jingle benefitting Cypress

AdventuresFriday, December 7

6:30 p.m.Join us for an evening of holiday cheer

to support Cypress Adventures. Thisevening is aimed at raising awareness ofthe needs Cypress Adventures, while alsocelebrating all of the successes that thegroup has had impacting youth in ourarea. This year our goal is to raise$10,000!

Christmas Cookie & Ornament Paint at Artbug Studio

Saturday, December 82-3:30 p.m.

Choose between a Christmas moose orunicorn. Each guest gets to paint a cookieto eat and a matching ornament for thetree for $18.

Christmas ParadeSaturday, December 8

10:30 a.m.The 2018 Hartsville Christmas Parade

sponsored by SPC Credit Union, NeptuneIsland Waterpark and City of Hartsville,SC, Government will take place onSaturday, December 8th at 10:30 am, rainor shine.

Pictures with SantaSaturday, December 8

1:30-3:30 p.m.Bring your little ones to the Hartsville

Museum for pictures with Santa followingthe Hartsville Christmas Parade. Feel freeto bring your own camera for this wonder-ful photo opportunity.

The NutcrackerFriday, December 14

7:30 p.m.The Columbia City Ballet will bring

their Nationally acclaimed production ofThe Nutcracker to Hartsville for 1 per-formance only at the Center Theater.Many area dancers have been chosen toshare the stage with them in this specialBallet. BCSD is proud to partner withthem to make this possible.

Christmas MarketSaturday, December 15

10 a.m. to 2 p.m.Christmas Market with vendors, food,

music, and more in the fellowship hall ofTrinity United Methodist Church, present-ed by the DDRA

Elf - the Movie6 p.m. Public Square

Bring lawn chairs and blankets forsome Christmas magic and a free showingof the film presented by Darlington AreaRecreation.

Gingerbread HouseWorkshop

Darlington Branch LibraryThe Friends of the Darlington Library

are offering a Gingerbread HouseWorkshop on Sunday, December 16 from2-5 p.m. featuring homemade ginger-bread and icing. Desi Conrad, a localexpert in gingerbread construction &design, will be our guide throughout thewhole process. Space is limited, so makesure to reserve your spot early. The cost is$20 per house and the proceeds will gotowards additional programming andprogram supplies for the DarlingtonLibrary.

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The Darlington DowntownRevitalization Association

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bustled with holiday spirit as visitorsand residents enjoyed a variety ofHartsville for the Holidays happeningsfrom 6-9 p.m.

At 6 p.m., the Centennial TreeLighting ceremony in Centennial Parkkicked off the night's festivities as MayorMel Pennington and Santa Claus lit the

Centennial Park Tree. Before the tree lighting, guests

enjoyed holiday music by the HartsvilleHigh School Chorus.

After the tree lighting, there wassnow tubing on the snow slides in theparking lot between Centennial Park andFirst Citizens Bank.

Nov. 15 marked the first day of

Santa's Mailbox located in CentennialPark.

This is the perfect opportunity for lit-tle ones to put their must-have items forthe holidays on a wish list and mail it offto Santa.

Santa will reply to addressed lettersuntil Dec. 20.

The mailbox will return to the North

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The benefits to buying local this holiday season Holiday shopping dominates many

people’s free time between the day afterThanksgiving and the final days beforeChristmas. While many people may shop‘til they drop on Black Friday and CyberMonday, those days still account for a rel-atively small amount of the hundreds ofbillions of dollars that are spent each hol-iday season.

Shoppers now have a bevy of optionsat their disposal as they embark on holi-day shopping season. Traditional in-storeretailers are still around, and onlineshopping continues to grow in popularitywith each holiday season. But many holi-day shoppers are looking to buy local thisholiday season, and such a decision canpay a host of dividends for both shoppersand the communities they call home.

• Buying local benefits your localeconomy. Studies from Civic Economics,an economics and strategics planningfirm, found that independent, locally-owned retailers return a far greater per-centage of their revenue into their localeconomies than national chain stores.One such study examined the disparitybetween revenue recirculation amongindependent, locally-owned businesses inRaleigh, North Carolina, versus fourmajor national chains in the city. The for-

mer recirculated 51.1 percent of revenueinto the local economy, while the latterrecirculated less than 14 percent. Similarresults were discovered in many cities,indicating that buying local not only ben-efits local business owners, but also thecommunities those owners and their cus-tomers call home.

• Buying local creates jobs in yourcommunity. One of the biggest ways localbusiness owners in Raleigh recirculatedtheir revenue in the local economy was

job creation. While national chains alsocreate jobs, such jobs only benefit yourcommunity if the chains are located with-in your community. If your local mall is aconsiderable drive away, chances are thechains within that mall are not employ-ing many of your fellow communitymembers. Local businesses in your com-munity are more likely to employ resi-dents of your town.

• Shopping local may provide accessto more unique gifts. In addition to the

economic benefits of buying local, shop-pers may find merchandise made by localcraftsmen is more unique than mass-pro-duced items found on the shelves ofnational retailers. Recipients may cherishmore unique items that they cannot findon their own, and that appreciation mayeven spur them to visit more local retail-ers after the holiday season has come andgone, benefiting their own communitiesin so doing.

• Local business may provide a morepersonal touch. Buying from nationalchains has its advantages, but customerservice is not always one of them. Shouldyour loved ones encounter problems withtheir gift that requires assistance, theymight be forced to wait on the phone forextended periods of time as they andthousands of others wait for customerservice representatives to answer theircalls. Local businesses do not deal withnearly the volume of customers asnational retailers and, therefore, arecapable of addressing concerns morequickly and personally than large chains.

Buying local not only benefits smallbusiness owners, but it also pays divi-dends for their customers and the com-munities they call home.

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What is Giving Tuesday? While Black Friday and Cyber Monday

are some of the more widely known retailholidays, Giving Tuesday is becoming pret-ty popular in its own right.

Celebrated on the Tuesday followingAmerican Thanksgiving, Giving Tuesdayhelps raise awareness that charity is animportant component of the holiday sea-son.

The nonprofit services company Neonsays nearly one-third of all annual givingoccurs in December, with 12 percent hap-pening over the final three days of theyear. Giving Tuesday is positioned right inthe midst of the most popular time forcharitable giving.

What makes Giving Tuesday unique isthat it is largely fueled by the power ofsocial media and collaboration.

The day was actually created by the92nd Street Y, a cultural center in NewYork City that has been instrumental inbringing diverse groups of people togetherwith the goals of giving back through serv-ice.

The 92nd Street Y and the UnitedNations Foundation came together in 2012to help form a day that was focused on thegenerosity of giving during the holidayseason. Thus, Giving Tuesday was born.

Technology and social media play a

large role in uniting people for GivingTuesday. Founding partners includedMashable, a technology website, Skypeand Cisco. But the success of GivingTuesday is thanks in large part to thegeneral public, who have both spreadthe word and made their own contribu-tions to charity.

In 2017, Giving Tuesday soared to newheights when technology mogul BillGates and his wife, Melinda, announcedtheir foundation would match up to $2million in donations to Giving Tuesdayfundraisers started on Facebook.Facebook similarly waived its 5 percentfee for U.S.-based nonprofits all daylong.

The global Giving Tuesday movementhelped raise more than $300 milliononline across more than 150 countries in2017 alone. This year, the GivingTuesday organization is poised to toptheir numbers and continue to improveupon the more than 46,000 participatingorganizations involved in their charita-ble efforts.

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M o r epaintedp i n ec o n e sand al i g h ts t r a n ds t r u n gwith jin-gle bellsand redt i c k i n gthat Im a d eseveral years ago. One of my secrets indecorating inexpensively is to just movethings around, paint them, or use them ina different way each year.

Speaking of painting things, this wood-en bench has been on our back deck for ayear or so, but we moved it to the frontporch and I painted it to match the wheel-barrow.

The reproduction feather tree that usu-ally resides in our kitchen got spruced upwith some painted vintage bulbs.

I love to make old things new again,and you can see how I turned the bulbsinto ornaments a little better in this photo.

More vintage Santa mugs along with apine cone tree rest on an old scale.

I put out my vintage plaid thermos setjust in case it gets cold enough for somehot chocolate sippin’ on our Christmasporch.

A retro looking wall hanging with a redticking background found on Amazon fitsin one corner.

And an aqua and red woodensnowflake ornament tops a real evergreentree.

The dancing frogs that are on ourporch year round put on their Santa hatsfor Christmas!

Instead of a wreath, Leoand I made this vintage truckdoor decoration to completeour retro Christmas porch.

I hope you’ve enjoyed yourtour of our festive front porch,and I hope you’ve gotten a fewideas to use in your own deco-rating. Looking for even moreporch decorating ideas?

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Welcome to our Christmas Porch! It’sbeen decorated all red and aqua with aretro vibe! If you’re new here, I’m Jane,and I’m so excited that you are here to visitwith us on our front porch.

We live in a small country cottage thathas a large screened-in front porch that Ilove to decorate for the seasons. Becausewe live in South Carolina, we are fortunatethat we can use our porch for at least nineto ten months out of the year. It is the firstplace that we head out to early in themorning and it is frequently where we endour day, too.

Our dog Lucy joins me in giving you agreat big welcome. Our pets enjoy theporch as much as we do. This is the sittingarea where we have some real comfychairs.

And on the other end of the porch wehave an eating area. Most of the time herein South Carolina the weather is niceenough for us to eat outside on ChristmasEve when our whole family gathers here.When I decorate the front porch, I treat itlike another room in the house becausethat’s how we use it.

This year I’ve decorated the porch in redand aqua and gave it a vintage vibe by put-ting the tree in an old wheelbarrow.

The whole color scheme was driven bythese adorable vintage blue truckChristmas ornaments that I found back inAugust or September, I can’t rememberwhich! It is a dream of ours to one day havea real vintage truck similar to this!

On the tree I used some red woodenbead garland that I bought at a friend’sgarage sale a few years ago, but do you seethe bubble lights??? Those are new butvery retro looking, and I’m obsessed withthem. They bring back a lot of memories of

when we had bubble lights on our treewhen I was young.

I just love the nostalgic glow that theygive off at night! And since we have anabundance of pine cones in our yard, Ipainted some red and aqua and used themas ornaments on the tree. The tree itselfgot a little paint job, too. I really like thosesnowy looking flocked trees, but I don’tlike the mess that a real flocked tree cre-

ates so Ij u s td a b b e ds o m ew h i t epaint ont h ebranch-e s !Voila!

Morered bead garland and painted pine conesgrace the area around the front door andadorn the lanterns.In one corner is an oldladder that was taken from the yard, givena new coat of aqua paint, and got decorat-ed for Christmas. The peppermints that arein the watering can, on the table, and ontop of the tree were painted and glitteredby moi using some round wooden disksfound at Hobby Lobby.

Some vintage Santa mugs are on thetable along with some peppermint napkinsand chair covers that I made. Now that Ihave a sewing machine, I enjoy whippingout some decorative items myself. Here isthe (affiliate link) to the sewing machinethat I have in case you want to put one onyour wish list!

On each end of the porch I made somered and aqua Christmas bunting to hang.

It is so easy to make these, and I prom-ise I’ll give you a tutorial on how to make

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Jane Windham’s recipe for Lemon SilkThis is a luscious, lemony trifle that can

be made a day ahead. Everyone loves it!Course: Dessert Cuisine: American Prep Time: 15 minutes Total Time: 15 minutes Servings: 20 servings Calories: 227 kcal Author: Jane Windham

Ingredients• 1 pound cake already purchased or

prepared • 8 egg yolks • 2 cans sweetened condensed milk • 1 1/2 cups lemon juice bottled • 1 16 ounce frozen whipped topping

thawed • 1 lemon for garnish

Instructions1. Beat egg yolks on medium speed until

they turn a creamy, yellow color.2. With the mixer still running, slowly

pour in the sweetened condensed milk.3. Add the lemon juice and beat until

fully incorporated.4. By hand, gently fold in the whipped

topping into the egg yolk mixture.5. Tear the pound cake into small pieces

and layer in the bottom of a trifle bowl or

serving dish.6. Put a layer of the Lemon Silk mix-

ture on top of the cake layer.7. Continue to layer the cake and the

Lemon Silk mixture until you run out ofroom.

8. To garnish, zest the lemon and addthe lemon zest on top along with a twist-ed lemon slice.

Recipe NotesYou can use a previously baked pound

cake or a purchased one to make thisrecipe, and you will probably have somecake left over.

This recipe can be made a day ahead.Leftovers keep very well in the refriger-

ator for several days.You can halve the recipe and serve it in

individual dessert dishes.

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The holiday season is a joyful time ofyear. But the weeks betweenThanksgiving and New Year’s Day alsotend to be very wasteful. The U.S.Environmental Protection Agency esti-mates that household waste increases bymore than 25 percent during the holidayseason.

Reducing waste come the holiday sea-son does not mean celebrants have toforgo big family meals or beautifullywrapped gifts. In fact, there are severalways to reduce waste without spoiling thespirit of the season.

• Give eco-conscious gifts. The envi-ronment may not be the first thing thatcomes to mind when holiday shoppers arelooking for gifts for their loved ones. Butgiving reusable gifts can have a positive,long-term impact on the planet. Reusablecoffee mugs or water bottles can dramati-cally reduce waste over time, and suchitems make great stocking stuffers.Shoppers also can look for items madefrom recycled materials, which run thegamut from home furnishings to calen-dars to clothing, as eco-friendly alterna-tives to gifts produced without the envi-ronment in mind.

• Reuse holiday-specific items. Manypeople only use gift wrap, gift boxes and

gift bags during the holiday season. Suchitems are oftentimes discarded afterChristmas morning. But these items canbe reused to cut back on holiday waste.Reusing wrapping paper from year to yearcan be especially beneficial to the envi-ronment. That’s because wrapping papertends to be dyed or laminated, and manywrapping papers contain non-paper addi-tives that cannot be recycled. Reusingwrapping paper, purchasing only recycla-ble paper or wrapping gifts in old newspa-pers or magazines can help holiday cele-brants reduce their carbon footprints.

• Prepare less food and donate anyleftovers. The Worldwatch Institute notesthat, during the holiday season, cele-brants generate three times as much foodwaste as they do during other times of theyear. Large family meals are a tradition ofthe holiday season, but hosts who routine-ly find themselves discarding leftoverscan plan on preparing less food this year.Consider how much guests are likely toeat and plan meals accordingly instead ofbuying enough food to feed a small army.Donate leftovers to nearby shelters sonothing goes to waste.

• Recycle live Christmas trees.According to the National Christmas TreeAssociation, 25.9 million real trees were

sold in the United States in 2015. Treesput out on the curb for collection after theholiday season has ended typically end upin landfills, but some communities recycleChristmas trees each year. Real treeenthusiasts can contact community offi-cials to determine if they can recycle

rather than discard their trees.The holiday season is a wasteful time

of year, but there are ways for celebrantsto dramatically reduce their carbon foot-prints between Thanksgiving and NewYear’s Day.

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