AROUND CAYCE, SPRINGDALE & WEST COLUMBIA

The Cayce-West Columbia Lions Club performed eye screenings and hearing tests for hurdreds of students at Saluda River Academy for the Arts last week.

The Lions make their way through Lexington 2 Schools perfoming the tests. In all, the Lions will screen 4,000 students throughout the year, said Bill Mooneyhan of the Lions Club.

The children also got a visit from a dog, which calmed them before the exams.

Participating were: SRAA School Nurse Stephanie Sturkie, Richard Brinkley, Bill Mooneyhan, John Anderson and Ray Guess.

Tokyo Joe performed its Tom Petty Tribute live at the South Carolina State Fair Friday.  

Tokyo Joe is led by Greg Bickley, a Cayce native and the son of Dannette Bickley of the Lexington School District 2 office in West Columbia. She said the show at the fair is the first time her son’s band has performed the Tom Petty Tribute. The tribute also show also featured members of popular local band, The Root Doctors.

The SC Highway Patrol and the Lexington County Sheriff’s Department were on the scene of a train versus pickup truck crash early October 8  in the 1800 block of Old Dunbar Road. It happened around 4 am and involved a possible entrapment. An injury was reported.