AROUND CAYCE, SPRINGDALE & WEST COLUMBIA

The City of West Columbia is collecting plastic bottles to be used in a surprise new, cool project.

The bottles being collected are 16-ounce and 20-ounce, with lids, labels removed, clean, and clear or green. No square bottles, and no one or two-liter bottles.

Bring the bottles, by Sept. 13, to West Columbia City Hall and place them in a bin at the Customer Service Desk. City Hall is at at 200 N. 12th Street, West Columbia.

Contact Events Manager Kelli Ricard at 803-939-8623, with questions.

There were 18 foreign students, 14- to-17- years old, sponsored by the Cayce West Columbia Lions Club in West Columbia last week. The students came from from Brazil, Germany, Belgium, Poland, England, Italy, Denmark, Mongolia,Tunisia, Israel, Canada, Norway, and Finland.

The group tours South Carolina for two weeks and stays with Lions Club host families. The Lion’s Club feeds the students lunch at Riverbanks Zoo every year on the last day before they depart.

The students tell Lions Club members about their home counties and they share their impressions of the United States.

Lexington School District Two is planning to expand the playground at Saluda River Academy for the Arts,1520 Duke Street in West Columbia. The district has purchased property behind the school and is selling the house at 1517 Delmar St. The house is to be moved from the site.

For information, call: (803) 739-4057 or send an e-mail to: tshealy@lex2.org .