YOUR WEEKLY GUIDE TO AREA EVENTS

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ANNOUNCEMENTS

BURNING DEBRIS: Burn permit required for burning debris in unincorporated areas of Lexington County. Call the SC Forestry Commission at 1-800- 705-8613.

COVID VACCINES: SC residents 12 or older can schedule an appointment for the Covid-19 vaccine by calling the DHEC Care Line at 1-855-472-3432. You may also get them now at Walgreens, CVS, Kroger, Riley’s Drugs and Medicine Mart, but you need an appointment.

LEXINGTON CO. collection/recycling STATION HOURS: Monday, Wednesday, Friday and Saturday 7 am until 7 pm; Sundays 3 pm until 7 pm; Tuesday and Thursday closed. Closed New Year’s Day, Independence Day, Thanksgiving and Christmas Day. Inclement weather or other emergency situations may result in temporary closings of some or all collection and recycling centers on a per incident basis. Every effort will be made to notify the public if such closings are required.

EVENTS

COFFEE WITH A COP: Have complimentary coffee with Lexington police at the Market at Icehouse Amphitheater, 107 W. Main St., Lexington, Aug. 21, and Sept. 25. Child passenger seat checks will also be performed. Coffee courtesy The Haven Coffee House.

LEXINGTON DIXIE YOUTH FOOTBALL & CHEER: Online registration now open at www.mylyfc.com . Follow link to 8U for 7-8 year-old Play Flag, 10U for 9-10 year-old Play Tackle, 12U for 11-12 yearold Play Tackle, and CHEER for 5 to 13-years. Cut-off date is September 21.

Meeting Street Artisan Market: Now open every Saturday 9 am-1 pm, 425 Meeting St., West Columbia. Artisans under the pavilion selling original art, crafts, foods and produce. Social distancing guidelines in effect. Handwashing station and hand sanitizer available.

SC STATE FAIR: Accepting entries for competetive exhibits until Sept. 1, 2021 for fair to be held Oct. 13-21, 2021. View exhibit guide and enter online at scstatefair.org/competitions . More than $300,000 in premiums will be offered for winning entries in competitive exhibits, including agriculture, art, crafts, flowers and livestock.

SWANSEA YOUTH MOVIE NIGHT: July 29, 7:30 pm, Swansea Police Department parking lot, 320 W. 3rd St., Swansea. Free food, games and a movie starting about 8:30 pm, sponsored by the Swansea PD.

MEETINGS

259: Saint Dionysius elected as Pope, succeeding Sixtus II

1099: First Crusade: Godfrey of Bouillon is elected the first Defender of the Holy Sepulchre of The Kingdom of Jerusalem

1298: English defeat Scots at Battle of Falkirk ADHD Support Group of Lexington: Meets 2nd & 4th Mondays, 6:30 pm by Zoom. Open to anyone with ADHD or who want to support and assist ADHD individuals. For log-in information email attention deficithelp@gmail.com

Communications & Leadership:The Lexington County Toastmasters communications and leadership club meets online at 7:15 am each Thursday. For details, email Mary Thompson at maryemyers95@ gmail.com

FAMILY/CAREGIVER SUPPORT GROUP: for those who have loved ones diagnosed with Alzheimers/Dementia. First Thursday of each month 6–7 pm. Sponsored by Oakleaf Village of Lexington. Currently using a “Virtual” format. Call 803-808-3477 for connection information.

MUSEUMS & ZOO

12,000 Year History Park: 1120 Fort Congaree Trail, Cayce. Accessible 24/7. Police monitored from Sunrise-8 pm. Virtual history tours available. Get schedule at www.cayce12000years.com or call John Jameson at 850-322-5636.

LEXINGTON COUNTY MuSEUM: Now open with precautions. Tours by appointment only with face masks and social distancing. Call 803-359- 8369 for tours 10 am to 4 pm Tuesday through Saturday and 1 pm to 4 pm on Sundays at 231 Fox Street, Lexington.

RIVERBANKS ZOO & GARDENS: Open 9 am-5 pm daily. Masks encouraged but not required. Visit www.Riverbanks. org for information and tickets.

SC State Museum: 301 Gervais St, Columbia. Free Kids Admission and Cosmically Cool Space Fun July 17 - 25 Featuring exhibition tours, planetarium experiences and more. Adult $8.95, Senior (Ages 62 +) $7.95, Children (ages 3-12) $6.95. Buy advance tickets online at www.scmuseum.org

MUSIC & DANCE

GOSPEL SINGING: Aug. 7, 6 pm, Midland Gospel Singing Center, 705 Martin Smith Rd., Gilbert. Guests will be the Regal’s Quartet and the Chordsmen Quartet. Admission is free. Social distancing guidelines will be followed. A love offering will be accepted and light refreshments will be served.

THIS DAY IN HISTORY

1306: King Phillip the Fair, orders expulsion of Jews from France

1484 :Battle of Lochmaben Fair - a 500-man raiding party led by Alexander Stewart, Duke of Albany and James Douglas, 9th Earl of Douglas are defeated by Scots forces loyal to Albany’s brother James III of Scotland; Douglas is captured

1489: Treaty of Frankfurt signed between Maximilian of Austria and King Charles VIII of France

1535: Christians captured in Tunis in uprising against Admiral Barbarossa

1582: Willem of Orange moves from Antwerp to Delft

1587: 2nd English colony forms on Roanoke Island off North Carolina

1648: 10,000 Jews of Polannoe murdered in Chmielnick massacre during Khmelnytsky Uprising

1691: Battle at Aghrim: English/ Dutch army beats France

1739: Ottoman Empire defeats Austria at Crocyka (Krotzka) in Serbia and then successfully lays siege to Belgrade

1793: Alexander Mackenzie reaches the Pacific Ocean, becoming the first Euro-American to complete a transcontinental crossing of Canada

1796: Cleveland, Ohio, founded by General Moses Cleaveland. Originally called ‘Cleaveland’, the public adopted the current name after a newspaper editor noticed the name was too long to fit on the page.

1812: Duke of Wellington defeats French at Battle of Salamanca, Spain

1864: Battle of Atlanta: General Sherman’s Union side defeats Confederate troops under General Hood, with 8,449 Confederate and 3,641 US casualties

1893: Katharine Lee Bates writes “America the Beautiful” in Colorado

1898: Crew of Belgium RV Belgica see 1st sunrise in 1600 hrs - 1st expedition to endure Antarctic winter

1901: British House of Lords, in its role as court, rules trade unions can be sued for actions of its members - in Taff Vale Case

1912: In the face of ever-increasing German naval power, the British Admiralty decides to recall British warships from the Mediterranean and base them in the North Sea

1925: NY Yankees buy future Baseball Hall of Fame shortstop Leo Durocher from Hartford Senators (Eastern League)

1933: Wiley Post completes the 1st solo flight round the world, takes 7 days and 19 hours

1934: Outside Chicago’s Biograph Theatre, “Public Enemy No. 1” John Dillinger is mortally wounded by FBI agents

1937: US Senate rejects FDR’s proposal to enlarge Supreme Court

1940: Dutch Prime minister Dirk Jan De Geer meets Adolf Hitler seeking peace talks

1942: Gasoline rationing using coupons begins

1950: King Leopold returns to Belgium after 6 years in exile

1955: Richard Nixon becomes the first US Vice President to preside over a cabinet meeting

1960: Cuba nationalizes all USowned sugar factories

1963: In their second clash Sonny Liston once again KOs Floyd Patterson in round 1 at the Convention Center, Las Vegas to retain the world heavyweight boxing title

1969: USSR launches Sputnik 50 & Molniya 1-12 communications satellite

1975: US House of Representatives votes to restore citizenship to General Robert E. Lee

1990: 90th US Golf Amateur Championship won by Phil Mickelson

1991: Jeffrey Dahmer confesses to killing 17 men in 1978

1992: Colombian drug lord Pablo Escobar escapes prison

1994: Former NFL running back, broadcaster and actor O.J. Simpson pleads “Absolutely 100% Not Guilty” of murder

1995: Susan Smith found guilty of drowning her two children in South Carolina

1999: Woodstock 99 music festival begins Griffiss Park, Rome New York (till 25th); attended by 200,000, ended due to violence

2002: Israel assassinates Salah Shahade, the Commander-in-Chief of Hamas’s military arm, the Izz ad-Din al-Qassam Brigades, along with 14 civilians

2003: Members of 101st Airborne of the United States, aided by Special Forces, attack a compound in Iraq, killing Saddam Hussein’s sons Uday and Qusay, along with Mustapha Hussein, Qusay’s 14-year old son, and a bodyguard

2011: Norway is the victim of twin terror attacks, the first a bomb blast targeting government buildings in central Oslo, second a massacre at a youth camp on island of Utøya

2016: Hillary Clinton announces Virginia Senator Tim Kaine as her Vice Presidential running mate

2016: Japan’s Funai Electric announce they will manufacture world’s last videocassette this month

2016: A man shoots and kills 9 people at the Olympia shopping mall in Munich, Germany and then kills himself

2017: 10 die in over-heated tractor-trailer in San Antonio, Texas in human-trafficking incident

2017: South African golfer Branden Grace records lowest round for a men’s major championship - 62 in 3rd round at British Open, Royal Birkdale, England

2019: Air strikes have killed at least 31 people in Maarat al-Numan, north-western Syria, with Russian planes supporting Syrian government being blamed

2019: US President Donald Trump says US could win war in Afghanistan in a week “I just don’t want to kill 10 million people. If I wanted to win that war, Afghanistan would be wiped off the face of the earth”

2020: California passes New York total for COVID-19 cases