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TO THE IDEAL LIFESTYLEOutstanding recreation, shopping and cultural experiences await you when youmove to The Village at Southlake. Here you’ll find personal touches and activitiesunique to this vibrant community and a comfortable lifestyle that is right for you.Just two miles from downtown Lexington, The Village at Southlake combines thebeauty and recreation of Lexington with the amenities and services you’ve cometo expect from an exceptional retirement community.

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Bernie HellerVice President of Advertising

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Vice President of Digital

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Mark Lett

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Reporter/Editor

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Electricity and natural gas ...............................9History ................................................................ 10Water and sewer ...............................................11Television, Internet and landline phone

services ...........................................................11Trash and recycling .......................................... 12Libraries .............................................................. 12Post offices ........................................................ 14Fire stations ....................................................... 14Law enforcement .............................................20Palmetto Poison Center ..................................20Animal services .................................................20Military ...............................................................20Trains ................................................................... 21

Transportation .................................................. 21Parks....................................................................24Main Street ........................................................28EdVenture Children’s Museum ......................28The Vista and Five Points ...............................29Gamecock Park .................................................30Cockabooses ......................................................30Baseball parks ....................................................31Horseshoe ..........................................................32S.C. State House ................................................32Barbecue ............................................................34Lake Murray.......................................................36Outdoor getaways ...........................................38Riverbanks Zoo ................................................40

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Mid-Carolina Electric Coop-

erative serves parts of Rich-

land and Lexington countiesnear Lake Murray. Customer

service: 803-749-6400 or 888-

813-8000. Office locations at

245 Longs Pond Road, Lex-

ington and 7524 Broad River

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South Carolina Electric &

Gas serves most of Richland

and Lexington counties. To

start service, fill out a formonline at www.sceg.com/for-

my-home/start-my-service,

or call 1-800-251-7234. Office

locations in Richland Coun-

ty: 135-B Blythewood Road,

Blythewood; 5110 Fairfield

Road, Columbia; 1213 Flora St.,

Columbia; 7748 Garners Ferry

Road, Columbia; 3403 Forest

Drive, Columbia; 10136 Two

Notch Road, Columbia; 3000

Harden St., Columbia; 500

Beltline Blvd., Columbia. Office

locations in Lexington County:

302 Columbia Ave., Chapin;

7467 St. Andrews Road, Irmo;

425 Industrial Drive, Lexing-

ton; 1505 Charleston Highway,

West Columbia.

Tri-County Electric Cooper-

ative serves parts of Richland

and Lexington counties, in-

cluding Gaston. Customer ser-

vice: 803-874-1215 or 877-874-

1215. Office located at 11335

Garners Ferry Road, Eastover.

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When the Civil War raged

through Columbia 150 years

ago this year, it left the capital

of the Palmetto State a smol-

dering ruin, courtesy of Union

troops under Gen. William .

Sherman.

A few traces are left of those

violent days: Confederate

earthworks still line Congaree

Creek in Cayce; five bronze

stars dot the State House,

marking where Union cannonballs struck; and the first se-

cession convention was held

at the First Baptist Church on

Hampton Street.

Also several Civil War gen-

erals and other notables from

the time are buried at rinity

Episcopal Cathedral Cemetery

on Sumter Street across from

the State House. And the State

House grounds host a statue of

Confederate general and Co-lumbia native Wade Hampton.

Te most controversial rel-

ic of the Civil War, however,

is the Confederate battle flag,

which flew over the State

A city spiced with history

The Confederate Relic Room has a special exhibit on Gen. William Sherman’s march through South Carolina and theburning of Columbia in 1865.

House grounds from 1962 to

2000. It was taken down from

the capitol dome and placed

on a 30-foot flag pole behind

the Monument to the Confed-

erate Dead in 2000, but it has

remained a subject of recent

debate.

But perhaps the best way

to learn about Columbia’s and

South Carolina’s Civil War

past is at the S.C. State Muse-

um and the Confederate RelicRoom and Military Museum,

both located in the same for-

mer textile mill on Gervais

Street at the Congaree River.

Both have a stunning number

of artifacts, including numer-

ous actual battle flags, and

the Relic Room has a special

exhibit on the burning of Co-

lumbia.

Jeff Wilkinson

A monument to Civil WarGen. Wade Hampton III

stands at the South CarolinaState House.

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Carolina Water Service Inc. servessome subdivisions in Richland and Lex-

ington counties. 800-272-1919; customer [email protected].

Chapin Sewer System and ChapinWater System 157 NW Columbia Ave.,Chapin; 803-575-8042; [email protected].

City of Cayce 1800 12th St. Extension,Cayce; 803-796-9020; [email protected].

City of Columbia provides water andsewer services for customers in and

around Columbia. In Lexington County,Columbia’s water department servesChapin and Irmo. 1136 Washington St.;803-545-3300; [email protected].

City of West Columbia 200 N. 12th St.,West Columbia; 803-791-1880.

East Richland County Public ServiceDistrict offers residential sewer servicesin eastern Richland County. 704 Ross

Road; 803-788-1570; www.ercpsd.net/contact-us.

Gaston Water District Company 1133Mack St., Gaston; 803-794-2819.

Joint Municipal Water & Sewer Com-mission serves unincorporated areas inLexington County south of Lake Murray.2546 Two Notch Drive, Lexington; 803-359-8373; [email protected].

Palmetto of Richland County, LLC pro-vides wastewater services for part ofRichland County. 1713 Woodcreek FarmsRoad, Elgin; 803-699-2422.

Palmetto Utilities Inc. provides waste-water services for part of Richland Coun-ty. 1710 Woodcreek Farms Road, Elgin;803-699-2403.

Town of Batesburg-Leesville 244 W.Columbia Ave., Batesburg; 803-532-8301.

Town of Lexington 111 Maiden Lane,Lexington; 803-359-4164.

If your property is served by a septictank and/or well, contact the Environ-

mental Quality Control office at the De-partment of Health and EnvironmentalControl at 803-896-0620.

AT&T: 888-757-6500, 800-225-5288 orwww.att.com.

Comporium: Serves Batesburg-Lees-ville, Pelion, Gaston, Summit and Swan-sea. 800-258-7978 or www.comporium.com.

DirecTV: 888-777-2454 or www.directv.com.

DISH Network: 800-823-4929 or www.dish.com.

HughesNet: 877-286-2406 or www.hughesnetinternet.net.

Time Warner: 803-252-2253 or www.timewarnercable.com.

Windstream: Broadband Internet andvoice services. 866-445-5880 or www.windstream.com.

Columbia Animal ServicesHave a pet? • Lost a pet? • Looking to adopt a new pet?

Need to license your pet? • Need to spay/neuter your pet? • Just have a pet question?

If we can’t help you, we can find the right agency who can

Adoption Services - we always have awesome pets available. All are spay/neutered, microchipped and vaccinated

Dog/puppy $73 Cat/kitten $68 View our animals at petfinder.com just type in our zip code

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Or just give us a call.

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WATER AND SEWER

TELEVISION, INTERNET ANDLANDLINE PHONE SERVICES

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TRASH ANDRECYCLING

City of Cayce 803-796-9020,ext. 3027.

City of Columbia 803-545-3800.

City of Forest Acres 803-929-6000.

City of West Columbia 803-796-8006.

Lexington County residentswho live in unincorporatedareas have access to week-ly garbage pickup throughAdvanced Disposal (803-256-7276; www.advanceddisposal.com) or Waste Indus-tries (803-935-0249; www.wasteindustries.com). See

www.lex-co.sc.gov to deter-mine which company servesyour area.

Richland County providesweekly pickup for household

garbage and yard waste andbiweekly pickup for recycla-bles. The annual solid wastefee for curbside collectionis included in each propertyowner’s tax bill. 803-929-6000.

LIBRARIES

| www.lex.lib.sc.us

Main branch: 5440 AugustaRoad, Lexington; 803-785-2600.

Batesburg-Leesville branch: 203 Armory St., Batesburg;803-532-9223.

Cayce-West Columbia branch:1500 Augusta Road, West Co-lumbia; 803-794-6791.

Chapin branch: 129 NW Co-lumbia Ave., Chapin; 803-345-5479.

Gaston branch: 214 S. MainSt., Gaston; 803-791-3208.

Gilbert-Summit branch: 405Broad St., Gilbert; 803-785-5387.

Irmo branch: 6251 St. An-drews Road, Columbia; 803-798-7880.

Pelion branch: 206 Pine St.,Pelion; 803-785-3272.

South Congaree-Pine Ridge

branch: 200 Sunset Drive,West Columbia; 803-785-3050.

Swansea branch: 199 N. Law-rence Ave., Swansea; 803-785-3519.

Bookmobile: 803-785-2649;www.lex . l ib .sc .us/f i les/bookmobileroutes.pdf.

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Main branch: 1431 AssemblySt., Columbia; 803-799-9084.

Ballentine branch: 1321Dutch Fork Road, Irmo; 803-781-5026.

Blythewood branch: 218McNulty Road, Blythewood;803-691-9806.

Cooper branch: 5317 N. Tr-enholm Road, Columbia; 803-787-3462.

Eastover branch: 608 MainSt., Eastover; 803-353-8584.North Main branch: 5306 N.

Main St., Columbia; 803-754-7734.

Northeast branch: 7490Parklane Road, Columbia;803-736-6575.

Sandhills branch: 1 SummitParkway, Columbia; 803-699-9230.

Southeast branch: 7421 Gar-ners Ferry Road, Columbia;803-776-0855.

St. Andrews branch: 2916Broad River Road, Columbia;803-772-6675.

Wheatley branch: 931 Wood-row St., Columbia; 803-799-5873.

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POST OFFICES

1720 Dutch Fork Road, Suite A, Ballen-

tine.

401 McNulty St., Blythewood.

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1535 Platt Springs Road, West Columbia.

1249 Chapin Road, Chapin.

Capitol: 1233 Marion St., Columbia.Columbia: 1601 Assembly St., Columbia.

Dutch Fork: 1120 Briargate Circle, Co-lumbia.Eau Claire: 4026 Lamar St., Columbia.Edgewood: 2638 Two Notch Road, Suite112, Columbia.Five Points: 2108 Greene St., ColumbiaForest Acres: 4840 Forest Drive, Co-lumbia.Fort Jackson: 4400 Early St., Columbia.Leesburg: 7406 Garners Ferry Road,Columbia.Northeast: 8505 Two Notch Road,

Columbia.Sandhills: 1805 Clemson Road, Columbia.

301 Main St., Eastover.

7731 Bluff Road, Gadsden.

220 S. Main St., Gaston.

401 Broad St., Gilbert.

6200 Lower Richland Blvd., Hopkins.

7821 St. Andrews Road, Irmo.

Downtown Lexington: 710 W. Main St.,Lexington.Lexington: 1830 S. Lake Drive, Lexing-ton.

739 Pine St., Pelion

20 Hinton St., State Park.

295 Church St., Swansea.

1947 Dutch Fork Road, White Rock.

FIRE STATIONS

Station No. 1 (Headquarters): 1800 Lau-rel St., Columbia; 803-545-3700.

Station No. 2 (Olympia): 1015 FergusonSt., Columbia.Station No. 3 (Industrial Park): 2740 TheBoulevard, Columbia; 803-776-8258.Station No. 4 (Northeast Columbia):446 Spears Creek Church Road, Elgin;

803-788-6276.Station No. 6 (St. Andrews): 1225 Briar-gate Circle, Columbia; 803-772-0736.Station No. 7 (North Columbia): 2622Main St., Columbia; 803-733-8361.Station No. 8 (Atlas Road): 153 AtlasRoad, Columbia; 803-695-0786.Station No. 9 (Shandon): 2847 DevineSt., Columbia; 803-733-8363.Station No. 11 (Belvedere): 30 BlumeCourt, Columbia; 803-786-0484.Station No. 12 (Greenview): 6810 N.Main St., Columbia; 803-714-1875.

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Station No. 13 (Eau Claire):4112 N. Main St., Columbia;803-733-8357.Station No. 14 (Dentsville):7214 Fire Lane Drive, Colum-bia; 803-788-3077.Station No. 15 (Cedar Creek):8300 Winnsboro Road, Co-lumbia.Station No. 16 (Harbison): 131Lake Murray Blvd., Columbia;803-749-5820.Station No. 17 (Upper Rich-land): 300 Campground Road,Columbia; 803-786-7360.Station No. 18 (Crane Creek):7401 Fairfield Road, Columbia;803-735-9978.Station No. 19 (Gadsden):122 Community Center Drive,Gadsden; 803-353-9917.Station No. 20 (Ballentine):10717 Broad River Road, Irmo;803-732-7864.Station No. 21 (Spring Hill):11809 Broad River Road, Co-lumbia.Station No. 22 (Lower Rich-

land): 2612 Lower RichlandBlvd., Hopkins; 803-695-0948.Station No. 23 (Hopkins):1631 Clarkson St., Hopkins;803-776-1044.

Station No. 24 (Sandhill): 130Sparkleberry Lane, Columbia;803-865-9543.Station No. 25 (Bear Creek):1613 Heins Road, Blythewood;803-735-8240.Station No. 26 (Blythe-wood): 435 Main St., Blythe-wood; 803-691-1226.Station No. 27 (Killian): 9651Farrow Road, Columbia; 803-754-0978.Station No. 28 (Eastover):504 Henry St., Eastover; 803-353-2121.Station No. 29 (CongareeRun): 115 Old Congaree RunRoad, Hopkins; 803-783-4742.Station No. 30 (CapitalView): 8100 Burdell Drive,Columbia; 803-783-1763.Station No. 31 (LeesburgRoad): 1911 McCords FerryRoad, Eastover; 803-353-3820.Station No. 32 (JacksonCreek): 9213 Two Notch Road,Columbia; 803-788-4210.

Station No. 33 (Gills Creek):5645 Old Forest Drive, Colum-bia; 803-782-1505.Station No. 34 (Elders Pond):321 Elders Pond Drive, Colum-bia; 803-733-8284.

Station No. 1 (Headquarters):436 Ball Park Road, Lexing-ton; 803-785-8287.Station No. 2: 117 BeulahChurch Road, Gilbert.Station No. 3: 2703 TwoNotch Road, Lexington.Station No. 4: 2639 CalksFerry Road, Lexington.Station No. 5: 300 Oak St.,West Columbia.Station No. 6: 940 Pine St.,Pelion.Station No. 7: 2142 U.S. 178,Swansea.Station No. 8: 103 Main St.,Gilbert.Station No. 9: 417 Oak Drive,Lexington.Station No. 10: 112 ParkRoad, Lexington.Station No. 11: 440 E.Boundary St., Chapin.Station No. 12: 1701 BusbeeRoad, Gaston.Station No. 13: 5715 Edmund

Highway, Lexington.Station No. 14: 2907 Fair-view Road, Leesville.Station No. 15: 902 U.S. 378,Lexington.Station No. 16: 350 W. Third

St., Swansea.Irmo Station: 6017 St. An-drews Road, Columbia.Irmo North Lake Station: 117 Lincreek Drive, Columbia.Station No. 18: 752 CalvaryChurch Road, Swansea.Station No. 19: 665 OldBarnwell Road, West Colum-bia.Station No. 22: 960 AmicksFerry Road, Chapin.Station No. 23: 2700Wessinger Road, Chapin.Station No. 24: 1385 S. LakeDrive, Lexington.Leesville Station: 431 E.Church St., Leesville; 803-532-6639.Batesburg Station: 537 W.Church St., Batesburg; 803-532-4408.Station No. 27: 5321 FairviewRoad, Batesburg.Station No. 28: 3124 S.C. 6,Lexington.Station No. 29: 134 CedarGrove Road, Leesville.

Station No. 30: 121 River-chase Way, Lexington.Cayce Station: Two LavernJumper Road, Cayce.West Columbia Station: 610N. 12th St., West Columbia.

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Building robots, observing surgical procedures, repairing diesel engines and flying simulated space missionsare just a few of the unique educational experiences that our students can take advantage of in RichlandOne. We recognize that students learn in different ways and have different interests. We also understandthat parents want choices when it comes to the education of their children. Among our diverse offeringsare Montessori programs, International Baccalaureate and other advanced academic programs, foreignlanguage and international programs, visual and performing arts, career and technology educationprograms, as well as our Digital Learning Environment initiative. Richland One is also home to South Carolina’sonly Challenger Learning Center for space science education.

Our students represent the next generation of educators, scientists, artists, entrepreneurs and leaders. Yearafter year, our graduates go on to attend some of the nation’s most prestigious colleges and universities. TheRichland One Class of 2015 earned more than $66.9 million in scholarships and other financial aid, settinga new district record. Our sports teams and individual student-athletes won 12 state championships in the2014-2015 school year alone.

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LAW ENFORCEMENT

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521 Gibson Road, Lexington; 803-785-8230; www.lex-co.com/sheriff.North District Headquarters: 111 Lin-creek Drive, Columbia; 803-781-4173.West District Headquarters: 4079-DAugusta Highway, Gilbert; 803-785-7508.South District Headquarters: 102 Air-port Road, Pelion; 803-785-7688.

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5623 Two Notch Road, Columbia; 803-576-

3000; www.rcsd.net; [email protected] 1 (Bluff Road/Garners Ferry)substation: 2615 Lower Richland Blvd.,Columbia; 803-576-1470.Region 2 (Two Notch Road/ClemsonRoad) substation: 7201 Two NotchRoad, Columbia; 803-567-3444.Region 3 (Monticello Road/WilsonBoulevard) substation: 6429 BishopAve., Columbia; 803-576-2215.Region 4 (Broad River Road/St. An-drews) substation: 1019 Beatty Road,Columbia; 803-576-3490.

Region 6 (Blythewood) substation: 118 McNulty St., Suite B, Blythewood;803-576-3004.Region 7 substation: 1405 ScreamingEagle Road, Elgin; 803-576-1420.

1800 12th St., Cayce; 803-794-0456.

One Justice Square, Columbia; 803-545-3500; www.columbiapd.net.

5205 N. Trenholm Road, Forest Acres;803-782-9444.

1230 Columbia Ave., Columbia; 803-781-8088.

660 W. Columbia Ave.; 803-532-4408.

157 NW Columbia Ave., Chapin; 803-345-6443.

186 N. Carlisle St., Gaston; 803-796-8503.

111 Maiden Lane, Lexington; 803-359-6260; [email protected].

320 W. Third St., Swansea; 803-568-3366;www.swanseapd.net.

West Columbia Police: 200 N. 12th St.,West Columbia; 803-794-0721.

PALMETTO POISON CENTER 800-222-1222; [email protected].

ANIMAL SERVICES

An animal control officer is on callaround the clock, but officers can only

respond to emergency calls after normalbusiness hours and on the weekends.Emergency calls include injured animals,animal attacks and other public safetyorganizations requesting assistance. 321Ball Park Road, Lexington. [email protected].

Richland County Animal Care offers24-hour emergency service. 400 PowellRoad, Columbia. 803-929-6000. animal

[email protected].

GETTING SETTLED

Military landmarks aboundColumbia and Midlands residents

often bill the area as the most mili-

tary-friendly community in the country.

And it may well be.

South Carolinians are historically

supportive of the military. The area has

a large veteran and retiree population.

The region is home to three major mil-

itary installations. And Columbia hosts

the headquarters of the S.C. Army and

Air National Guard.

Fort Jackson in Columbia is the na-

tion’s largest basic combat training base,

turning out about 42,000 new soldiers

last year, and another 26,000 who have

completed advanced training. It also is

home of many other commands, such

as the U.S. Army Chaplain Center and

School and the U.S. Army Drill sergeant

school. It is an open base with four mu-

seums and even a public water park.

McEntire Joint National Guard Base

in nearby Eastover is home to the F-16

jets of the S.C. Air Guard’s 169th Fight-

er Squadron, called the Swamp Foxes.

It is also home to eets of S.C. Army

National Guard Apache and Blackhawk

helicopters. The base is not open to the

public, but the S.C. Military Museum

is located behind S.C. National Guard

Headquarters on Bluff Road in Colum-

bia, near USC’s Williams-Brice Stadium.

Shaw Air Force Base in Sumter is

home of the 20th Fighter Wing - the

largest ghter wing in the country – com-

prised of three squadrons of F-16 Fight-

ing Falcons. It is also home to U.S. Air

Force Central and U.S. Army Central,

which plan, supply and execute com-

bat and training in the Middle East and

Southwest Asia. It is closed to the public.

Jeff Wilkinson

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Downtown Columbia area

commuters would do well to

keep an eye out for trains.

While various train cross-

ings are sprinkled across the

region, one of the greatest

concentration of tracks can be

found in the area between the

University of South Carolina

campus and Williams Brice

Stadium and surrounding ar-eas including Olympia Mills.

Tat concentration, com-

bined with various season-

al events like USC football

games and the South Caroli-

na State Fair, can require a bit

of patience due the inevitable

backup due to a train stop.

Columbia is a hub for

both Norfolk Southern and

CSX ransportation, two of

the four major railroad com-

panies in the United States.

Tat makes for regular trainstops, particularly in the

above-mentioned areas.

Some of the most trouble-

some back-ups are gener-

ally closer to the switching

yards – where trains are more

prone to slow down, stop and

back up while they switch out

freight cars. Norfolk South-

ern’s local switching yard is

off Shop Road near Owens

Field in Columbia. CSX’s yard

is off State Street in Cayce.

Tere are no restrictionson how many trains run

through an area each day,

and companies are not re-

quired to publish a schedule.

Te state and many cities,

including Columbia and Cayce,

limit the time – locally, to five

minutes – that trains legally can

block an intersection once they

come to a complete stop. But

the penalties are quite low.

But commuters who ex-

pect an excessive stop can

call the number posted atthe rail crossing to alert offi-

cials of a delay.

Bertram Rantin

TRANSPORTATION

The Columbia MetropolitanAirport (CAE) serves morethan 1.2 passengers annually.3250 Airport Blvd., West Co-lumbia; 803-822-5025; [email protected] Hamilton-L.B. OwensAirport: 1400 Jim HamiltonBlvd., Columbia; 803-822-5555.

The COMET serves Columbia

and some surrounding com-munities. Standard one-wayfares are $1.75; all-day passesare $3. Passes are available forup to 31 days. catchthecomet.org.

Megabus offers routes fromColumbia to Atlanta, Durham,N.C., Fayetteville, N.C., New

York City, Richmond, Va., andWashington , D.C. Buses leavefrom the Sumter Street Tran-sit Station, 1780 Sumter St.,Columbia. us.megabus.com.

Greyhound buses leave fromColumbia Bus Station, 710-ABuckner Road, Columbia. 803-256-6465; www.greyhound.com.

Amtrak trains leave from 850

Pulaski St., Columbia. www.amtrak.com.

New residents of SouthCarolina have up to 90 days

to renew their driver’s licens-es and up to 45 days to renewtheir vehicle registrations.

Military personnel and theirdependents and studentstemporarily in South Carolinaare not required to obtain aSouth Carolina driver’s license.

Before you can registeryour vehicle in South Caroli-na, you must pay the vehicleproperty taxes required inyour county.

To pay property taxes onyour vehicle, take your reg-istration and your driver’s li-cense (with your new address)to the county auditor’s office.Lexington County Auditor’sOffice: 212 South Lake Drive,

Suite 103, Lexington. 803-785-8181.Richland County Auditor’s

Office: 2020 Hampton St.,Suite 2067, Columbia. 803-576-2605; [email protected].

Batesburg: 509 Liberty St.,Batesburg. 803-532-5285.Blythewood: 10311 WilsonBlvd., Blythewood. 803-896-9983.Columbia: 1630 Shop Road,Columbia. 803-737-8350.

Columbia: 228-A O’Neil Court,Columbia. 803-419-9403.Irmo/Ballentine: 1016 BroadStone Road, Irmo. 803-749-9041.Lexington: 122 Park Road,Lexington. 803-356-8537.

GETTING SETTLED

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POINTS OF INTEREST: PARKS1 Congaree National Park: 100 National Park Road, Hopkins.2 Dreher Island State Park: 3677 State Park Road, Prosperity.3 Sesquicentennial State Park: 9564 Two Notch Road, Columbia.4 Harbison State Forest: 5600 Broad River Road, Columbia.5 Cayce Riverwalk: Axtell Drive and Naples Avenue, Cayce.

6 SCE&G South Recreation Area: N. Lake Drive, Lexington.7 Saluda Shoals Park: 5605 Bush River Road, Columbia.8 Crooked Creek Park: 1098 Old Lexington Highway,

Chapin.9 Finlay Park: 930 Laurel St., Columbia.

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10 Granby Park: 100 Catawba Circle, Columbia.11 Memorial Park: 700 Hampton St., Columbia.

12 Riverfront Park: 312 Laurel St., Columbia.13 South East Park: 951 Hazelwood Road, Columbia.

FIND MORE PARKSIn Lexington County: www.lcrac.com

In Richland County: richlandcountyrecreation.com/find-a-parkIn Columbia: www.columbiasc.net/parks-recreation

In Irmo and Chapin: www.icrc.netIn Lexington: www.lex-sc.com/parks_index.htm

For more on Congaree National Park,Sesquicentennial State Park and

Harbison State Forest, see page 38.

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God is Love- I John 4:16

First Church of Christ, Scientist 1114 Pickens Street

Columbia, SC 29201

(803) 799-8274

Sunday Service are held at 10:30 a.m.

Sunday School for young people up to

the age of 20 convenes at the same hour.

Wednesday evening testimony

meetings are held at 7:00 p.m.

Our Reading Room is also located at

1114 Pickens Street and is

open Tuesdays and Thursdays from

10:00 a.m. until 1:00 p.m.

Website: christiansciencecolumbia.org

Christian Science is founded upon thehealing principles of Christ Jesus, the

Apostles and the Prophets. Learn how you, too, can turn to God, divine Love,

to meet all your needs.

Everyone is welcome to visit our Reading

Room, to ask questions, to researchprayer and healing, or to purchase

Bibles, Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures by Mary Baker Eddy,

the discoverer and founder of ChristianScience, literature, and music.

To hear Sentinel Radio, podcasts,

testimonies of healing and more,

visit jsh-online.com or

jsh.christianscience.com/explore.

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From the popular New

Year’s Eve party to First

Tursday get-togethers, Co-

lumbians increasingly are

making the city’s Main Street

more vibrant.

DINING: Good Life Cafe

has brought vegan dining

while the Oak able offers

linen napkins and fine uten-

sils. Bourbon, a whiskey bar

and cajun restaurant rou-

tinely is full.ENTERTAINMENT: Cantina

76, a restaurant and bar is so

popular it has expanded its

outdoor area. Te Nickelodeon

offers the theater experience.

Te Whig, an underground

bar in the shadow of the State

House, holds to its tradition

that dates back decades.

First Tursday events

now stretch six blocks to in-clude City Hall. Musicians,

belly dancers and sidewalk

meals and beer-and-wine

bars serve crowds of young

professionals and college

students that reach to 2,000

to 3,000.

Soda City, a Saturday food

and crafts event that began

in 2012, draws about 1,000

visitors to the 1400 or 1500

blocks. Crowds grow to 2,300

for special events that often

include beer and wine sip-

ping along those blocks.

LIVING: enants keep the

vacancy rate in apartments

in the high 90s. Te Hub

brought more than 800 stu-

dents to the long vacant for-

mer Palmetto Center.

Clif LeBlanc

POINTS OF INTEREST

Main Street is jumpin’ these days

Soda City Market

If you’re visiting EdVenture Children’s Museum, 211

Gervais St., Columbia, you can’t miss the chance to see

Eddie. Standing 40-feet-tall and weighing in at 17.5

tons, Eddie is boasted to be “the world’s largest child.”

Te model of a 10-year-old boy is big enough for

adults and children to explore, and visitors can climb

Eddie’s vertebrae to his brain and explore his heart,

stomach and intestines.

Eddie is the first thing you see when you enter the

museum. It’s an ideal way for children to explore and

burn off a little energy along the way. His giant shoe

and the big chair positioned just to his right make for

perfect spots for family pictures.

EdVenture Children’s Museum | (803) 779-3100.

Anne-Kathryn Flanagan

Eddie: the world’s

largest child

Eddie, the40-foot-tall

model ofa 10-year-

old, is thecenterpiece

atEdVentureChildren’sMuseum.

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Some say it’s a different crowd that

frequents Columbia’s Vista district

from those who prefer to hang out in

the city’s long-established Five Points

entertainment area.

For 100 years, Five Points has

been a diverse Columbia shopping

and commercial district, catering to

historic surrounding neighborhoods

such as Shandon, Old Shandon and theUniversity of South Carolina.

Te area was named Five Points for

five-pronged intersection of Harden

Street, Devine Street and Santee

Avenue that comes to a point in the

district. Te area fosters shopping,

dining and recreational venues by day

and becomes an entertainment and

nightlife venue, highlighting a large

college population, by night.

Te Vista is steeped in the city’s

historical moorings of once-vibrant

residential areas such as Ward One

and its light industrial, mercantile and

transportive past. Te 800-acre district

afforded a view of the Congaree River

from the downtown and university

areas and was an area where businesses

that dealt in transportation (includingrail), storage (including warehouses)

and light manufacturing gravitated.

With much of the area’s architecture

preserved, the Vista began transforming

in the 1990s to an eclectic enclave o

shops, restaurants, businesses and

nightlife that attracts patrons from

around the state and region.

Roddie Burris

The Vista or Five Points?

No, the Vista AND Five Points

POINTS OF INTEREST

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POINTS OF INTEREST

Te landscape surrounding

Williams-Brice Stadium has

come a long way in the last five years.

he home of South Carolina’s

football team sits between the

South Carolina National Guard

headquarters and the city’s in-

dustrial-themed Shop Road. he

once all-business appearance has

given way to a more recreational

Saturday afternoon experience.

Te first major improve-

ment was Gamecock Park,

a landscaped tailgating areathat replaced the old Farmer’s

Market site adjacent to Wil-

liams-Brice. Gamecock Parkopened in 2012 and started

a dramatic makeover that is

continuing with the upcom-ing completion of the Springs-

Brooks Plaza around the stadi-

um and an area to showcase a

statue of Heisman rophy win-ner George Rogers.

All of this has come at a price:

$30 million for Gamecock Park

and $14.5 million for the Springs-

Brooks Plaza, which is expected

to be completed in time for this

season’s home opener Sept. 12

against Kentucky. In return,

South Carolina gets an on-cam-

pus feel that makes a trip to a

Gamecocks game a much more

pleasant experience. Josh Kendall

Gamecock Park

Tey’ve been featured on

ESPN, described as one thing

any college football fan must

enjoy before they die, and dis- played in magazines ranging

from Southern Accents to Play-

boy. All of it came from an idea

late Columbia businessman Ed

Robinson had in 1990 – why

not put a row of retired train ca-

booses on a stretch of track be-

side Williams-Brice Stadium?

Te Cockaboose railroadstretches 22 cars from Key

Road to Bluff Road, offering

private spaces to tailgate for a

college football game or to host

any other kind of event. Start-

ed at a cost of around $40,000

each and now costing more

than $200,000, each caboose is

owned and decorated by who-ever wants to pony up the cost.

And they aren’t just used on

game days. An owner can use

his caboose for any event they

please, since the USC athletics

department does not own the

land or the structures (outside

of the one it bought). argeted

at the who’s who of Colum-bia when Robinson installed

them, there might be one or

two on sale per year – just look

for a sign in the windows.

David Cloninger

Cockabooses

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Columbia is a baseball

city with multiple teams and

venues hosting quality play-

ers and teams.

Columbia is an area rich

with baseball viewing oppor-

tunities.

Area residents can watch

baseball for nearly eight

months of the year if they

choose. But what about all of

those stadiums?

Capital City Stadium, the

city’s oldest baseball stadium,

at 301 S. Assembly St., opened

in 1945 and has hosted several

teams including the Colum-

bia Reds, Mets, Bombers and

most recently the Blowfish,

all of which had considerablesuccess in the city.

Currently, “Te Cap” sits

empty after the Blowfish (an

amateur team of collegiate

players) moved to Lexington

to continue their play in the

Coastal Plain League under

the same moniker. While the

Lexington Blowfish recently

moved into the brand newLexington County Baseball

Stadium near Lexington

High School at 474 Ball Park

Road, Capital City Stadium is

expected to be transformed

into a commercial and retail

center in the near future.

On the banks of the Con-

garee River lies one of the

most popular collegiatebaseball stadiums in the

country, Carolina Stadium.

Home to the University of

South Carolina Gamecocks

at 431 Williams St. since

2009, the 8,242-seat stadi-

um is the place to watch the

Southeastern Conference

member that has won 90

percent of its games there.

A third stadium, Spirit

Communications Park, is in

progress and will bring the

New York Mets’ organization

back to the Capital City. Te

$37 million stadium will be

finished in time for the start

of the 2016 season and will

be located along Bull Street.Did you know? Columbia

fielded its first professional

baseball team in 1892 and

teams in Columbia have had

several nicknames – among

them the Skyscrapers,Gamecocks, Comics, Com-

ers, Senators, Reds, Gems,

Sandlappers, Mets, Bombers

and Blowfish. Aaron Randsell

Let’s go to the ballpark

POINTS OF INTEREST

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Te tree-covered, brick

sidewalk-lined Horseshoe

is the birthplace – and thecenter – of the 214-year-old

University of South Carolina.

Students gather in the Horse-

shoe for studying, meetings and

sunbathing. Tey string ham-

mocks between the oak trees

near the university museum

and visitor center. Te school’s

president lives there.

en of the 11 buildings that

bound the Horseshoe are listed

in the National Register of His-

toric Places, including the na-

tion’s first free-standing college

library. Robert Mills, designer

of the Washington Monument,

influenced the design of some

of its buildings as well as the

Maxcy Monument, named af-

ter USC’s first president, in the

center of the Horseshoe.

Vistors to the Horseshoe

have included Presidents

William aft and Ronald

Reagan, then-Sen. John Ken-

nedy (three years before he

was elected president) and

Pope John Paul II.

Te band Hootie and the

Blowfish, whose members

met while they were students

at USC, performed a televised

concert in the Horseshoe in

1996. More recently, ESPN

has used the Horseshoe to

stage broadcasts of its Col-

lege GameDay show, creating

a festival-like atmosphere

that draws hundreds of rabid,

sign-wielding Gamecock fans.

On an urban campus with

buildings sprawled across

city blocks, the Horseshoe

is the university’s heart and

lures students, staff and vis-

itors with its hold on history. Andrew Shain

The Horseshoe at USC

Columbia was created as a

capital city.Te state Legislature created

a new state capital in 1786 and

named it “Columbia.” Te city

was designed in two-square

miles, broken into 400 blocks.

Half-acre lots were sold to po-

tential residents and specula-

tors.

It was home to the state’s sec-

ond State House.

South Carolina’s first State

House was in Charleston. TeColumbia State House was

made of wood with a brick

basement at the corner of Sen-

ate and Richardson (now Main)

streets. Te General Assembly

first met in its Columbia State

House in 1790.

When General William .

Sherman and the Union army

captured Columbia on Feb. 17,

1865, the old State House was

destroyed by fire. A monument

stands on the State House

grounds where the old building

stood. Construction on the newState House was postponed be-

cause it also was set on fire.

Te State House features re-

minders of Sherman’s damage.

Sherman’s army blasted can-

nons at the State House, but the

shells did only slight damage.

Brass markers identify where

those shells struck the State

House facade. Construction on

the existing State House ended

in 1903. From 1995-98, the StateHouse underwent renovations.

SOURCES: Te S.C. State

House and City of Columbia

websites Jamie Self

What you need to know

about the S.C. State House

POINTS OF INTEREST

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USC President Harris Pastides and his wife, Patricia, walk across the Horseshoe soonafter their arrival on campus in 2008. The Maxcy Monument is in the background.

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scene offers a wide range offlavors and choices. South

Carolina is home to four dis-

tinct types of sauces – tomato,

ketchup, vinegar-pepper and

mustard – and you can find

restaurants in Columbia and

Lexington that will offer them

all. Here are some of the area’s

most frequented pit-stops.

Hite’s Bar-B-Que has been

around since 1957. his fami-

ly-run business does whole-hog

and hams, chicken and hash and

features a mustard-based sauce.

ake-out only, open Friday and

Saturday. 240 Dreher Rd., West

Columbia, (803) 794-4120.

Little Pigs has been around

since 1963. In addition to bar-

becue and ribs, you’ll find

pork chops, chicken and fish

and three sauces to choose

from (mustard, tomatoand vinegar-pepper). Open

Wednesday through Sunday,

4927 Alpine Rd., (803) 788-

8238, www.littlepigs.biz.

Southern Belly BBQ special-

izes in pulled pork sandwich-

es. Choose a selection from

the menu or make a custom

sandwich from a list of seven

sauces and add-ons such as

roasted red peppers, pickles,

cheese and bacon. Open 11

a.m.-10 p.m. Monday through

Saturday and 11 a.m.-4 p.m.on Sunday, Southern Belly’s

porch is the perfect place for a

late lunch or early dinner. 1332

Rosewood Dr., (803) 667-9533,

www.southernbellybbq.com.

Palmetto Pig is an in-town

all-you-can-eat barbecue buf-

fet (which can be dangerous).

Open uesday through Satur-

day, 530 Devine St., (803) 733-

2556 www.palmettopig.com.Big T’s, the original location

is a trailer with a pit alongside in

Gadsden. here are dine-in loca-tions, with fried chicken, fish and

sides and such, at 7535 Garners

Ferry Road, (803) 776-7132 and

1061 Sparkleberry Lane Ext.,

(803) 788-4295, bigtbbq.com.

Belly’s Southern Pride in

Lexington is my go-to place for

smoked chicken. Mustard is the

dominant sauce here. Open Fri-

day and Saturday, 2508 Augusta

Road, (803) 356-8284.

LowCo BBQ is a catering

company operated by Lou

Hutto specializing in whole

hog, pulled pork and beef bris-

ket. You can get his barbecue

at BarNone in Five Points (620

Harden St.) or hire him for

your special occasion. www.

lowcobarbecue.com.

Yellow Dog Barbecue operates

out of Pinch and he Attic, two

bars in Five Points. Will Lacey

dares to be different serving up

smoke chicken nachos, brisket

burnt-end sandwiches and BBQ

chicken pizza. Pinch/he Attic

are located at 640 Harden St.

For more information about

barbecue locations in the Mid-lands or throughout South

Carolina, a good resource is

the SC BBQ rail Map at bbq.

discoversouthcarolina.com.Susan Ardis

Barbecue in the Midlands

POINTS OF INTEREST

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Lake Murray has two personalities when

it comes to recreation and living along its

650-mile shoreline.

Te unofficial dividing line is Dreher Is-

land State Park.

East of the park is known as the “big

water” where there’s more room for boat-

ing, fishing, waterskiing and other fun sur-

rounded by many homes on the lakefront

in neighborhoods that are among the prici-

est in the Midlands.

Te 47,500-acre lake narrows and twists

west of the park, reflecting the Saluda River

valley it was before being dammed.

Homes in that area tend to be modest

weekend getaways and country retreats

scattered along the lakefront.

Tim Flach

Lake Murray: Suburban, rural resortPOINTS OF INTEREST

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The Crossings at Columbia offers a lively, interactive environment situated on a

beautifully landscaped campus. Conveniently located, residents receive the highest

quality care from a seasoned and compassionate staff.

To learn more, call us at (803) 223-9560.

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Just because a couplehours’ drive can get you to the

mountains or beaches doesn’t

mean you have to leave the

Columbia area for a good ol’

outdoor adventure.

At Congaree National

Swamp, the nation’s largest

intact tract of old-growth

bottomland hardwood forest,

you’ll find some of the tallest

trees in eastern North Ameri-

ca. Take in the 26,000-acre na-tional park by trekking parts

of over 25 miles of hiking trails

and 2.4 miles of boardwalk.

Bring your own canoes and

explore Cedar Creek on a

marked canoe trail. Camp,

fish or take part in a number

of guided programs offered

throughout the year.

Just a 15-minute drive

from downtown, Harbison

State Forest offers more than

2,000 acres of forestland with

more than 31 miles of roads

and trails weaving through

the pine and hardwood for-

est. Walkers, joggers, hikers,cyclists, kayakers and cano-

ers frequent the park, which

makes for an easy day-trip

for urbanites and suburban

dwellers alike in the Colum-

bia area.

Sesquicentennial State

Park near Sandhills lets you

hike, bike, fish, canoe, kayak,

paddleboard, camp and even

hold overnight group gath-

erings at its retreat center. You’ll find 12 miles of trails, a

30-acre lake, five picnic shel-

ters and a two-acre fenced

dog park encompassed by the

1,400-acre park.

Fun fact: Congaree is one of

only a handful of known loca-

tions in the country to witness

the annual light show put on

by synchronous fireflies. For

a couple weeks around early

June each year, hundreds of

fireflies mysteriously sync

their flashing in a display that

draws numerous spectators.

Sarah Ellis

Columbia’soutdoorgetaways

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From top, Sesquicentennial State Park, Congaree National Park and Harbison State Forest.

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Be on the lookout for griz-

zly bears and river otters

when visiting Riverbanks

Zoo and Garden, 500 Wild-

life Parkway in Columbia.

Te opening of the Zoo’s

Grizzly Ridge and Otter Run

exhibits mark the first in a

series of projects slated for

completion over the next sev-

eral months as part of Desti-

nation Riverbanks – the Zoo’s

$36-million expansion.

Embark on an epicurean

expedition, encounter animals

up-close and support wildlife

conservation at Riverbanks

Zoo and Garden’s premier

fundraiser, Riverbanks ZOO-

fari. Te all-inclusive evening

will take place at 7 p.m. Sept. 25.

Te evening will feature

a variety of African-inspired

cuisine seasoned with a taste

of the South for sampling, plus

creative concoctions to com-

plement the featured fare.

Guests also will have an

opportunity to step inside

Riverbanks’ African elephant

yard and experience a pachy-

derm’s perspective while the

all-female herd spends some

time off exhibit. Drums echo-

ing in the night will entertain

the crowd and give guests a

chance to try their hand at

African steel drumming.

In addition, scheduled ani-

mal feedings, presentations and

up-close animal encounters will take place at various exhib-

its throughout the evening.

Advance tickets are $55 for

Riverbanks’ members and

$65 for the general public.

For additional information,

visit www.riverbanks.org. All

proceeds will benefit wildlife

conservation and education

efforts at Riverbanks.

Each year, Riverbanks wel-

comes more than 1 million

guests. Tat’s an average o

2,754 people each day – the

size of the city of Folly Beach.

Every year, Zoo visitors eat

more than 3 tons of hot dogs,

consume 191,000 gallons o

soft drinks, use 941 miles

of toilet paper and fill more

than 60,000 trash bags.

Bertram Rantin

Riverbanks Zoo: Ottersand drums and bears, oh my

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