Living Here

Childhood Cancer Awareness Month honors more than 16,000 children diagnosed with cancer in the United States in 2023, according to Children’s Cancer Partners of the Carolinas.

This month, Children’s Cancer Partners (CCP) is taking donations to help fund families who have children with cancer.

Angel Heart of Hope Ministry is accepting donations during this important fundraising month for childhood cancer.

Angel Heart of Hope, a local non-profit organization, is taking donations this month, and all net proceeds raised in the month of September will be donated to the Osteosarcoma Institute and MUSC Children’s Heath.

Fairies, pirates, circus performers, dancers, along with other peasants and fellows gathered in Greer City Park Friday and Saturday for the Upstate Renaissance Faire. It was Greer’s third year hosting the event.

Upstate native Karen Harden released her debut novel last month, called, “Five and Dime’s Million-Dollar Baby.”

The chapter-by-chapter story details her and her brother’s childhood, growing up in the Spartanburg area, and focuses on her parents’ love for each other and their influence in her life.

A Taylors organization is asking the community to help fill Christmas stockings for the Salvation Army this December.

Each Christmas, With These Hands organization provides thousands of donations to the Salvation Army, which gives gifts to Greenville County children in need.

A Taylors organization is asking the community to help fill Christmas stockings for the Salvation Army this December.
Each Christmas, With These Hands organization provides thousands of donations to the Salvation Army, which gives gifts to Greenville County children in need.

Twenty-six years after moving into their Horton-Tingle dorm on North Greenville University’s (NGU) Tigerville campus, Sallie Kinard (’01) and Jennifer Padgett (’00) were back in the same room where they’d spent four years together.

Only this time, they were there to drop off their daughters, Riley Belle and Mattie.