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Community Resilience is a term used to describe a community's ability to respond quickly and effectively to and bounce back quickly from a natural or man-made disaster. Williamsburg County recently launched its Community Resilience Initiative to review its current state of disaster readiness and gather information from county residents about areas in which they feel secure and those in which they feel vulnerable - to fires, tornadoes, floods, hurricanes, hazardous waste spills, terrorist attacks, etc.

On the current edition of Insight, Bhakti Larry Hough interviews Williamsburg County Emergency Management and E-911 director Tiffany Cooks about the initiative.

http://www.williamsburgcounty.sc.gov/

Insight airs Mondays and Wednesdays at 10 a.m., 7 p.m. and midnight.

 

 

 

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Every year thousands of students graduate high school totally clueless and in the dark about what to do next. From considering college, to seeking meaningful jobs, to mapping out their career paths, many students find themselves ill-equipped to make these important life decisions.

Al Foderaro of Pawleys Island, the Village Group, and other Georgetown community organizations and institutions want to help. Foderaro has offered counsel and advice to hundreds of community college students and teenagers for more than 30 years. Having previously authored It's Your Decision: A Commonsense Guide to Making Better Choices, he is recognized as an outspoken advocate for people taking control of their lives by making better academic, career and personal choices.

On three dates in April, Foderaro will present a two-hour workshop entitled Achieving Success for Teens at the Beck Administration Building at 2018 Church Street in Georgetown. The workshops are being sponsored by the Village Group, Life Decisions Group, the Georgetown County School District, and other community organizations.  For more information about the workshops, call 843-436-7071, or visit:  http://www.thevillagegroup.org/

On the current edition of Insight, Foderaro discusses making good choices and decisions in general and talks specifically about the upcoming workshops.

Insight airs on Mondays and Wednesdays at 10 a.m., 7 p.m., and midnight.

 

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The South Carolina Department of Health and Environmental Control (DHEC) is holding public forums around the state to gather input from residents about the agency asking the U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) to allow SC to restrict the kinds of foods that can be bought with Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP) benefits, also known as food stamps. In an effort to curb obesity in the state, DHEC wants restrict food bought with public benefits to what it determines to be healthy choices.

 Dr. Edward A. Frongillo, Jr., is a professor and chairman of  the Department of Health Promotion, Education, and Behavior at the Arnold School of Public Health at the University of South Carolina in Columbia and an authority on the issue. On the current edition of Insight, Bhakti Larry Hough interviews him about the public health implications of using such a method to improve and protect public health.

A public forum on the issue will be held in Florence on March 28, 5:30 – 7:30 PM in the Bevis Conference Center at the Pee Dee Mental Health Center, 125 East Cheves Street. Citizens may also comment online using the link below.

http://www.scdhec.gov/SNAP/SNAP_public_comment.htm

Insight airs Mondays and Wednesdays at 10 a.m., 7 p.m., and midnight.

 

 

 

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In the early 70s, Medical University of South Carolina (MUSC) student Thaddeus John Bell was "angry, hurt, upset" upon learning of the wide health disparities between African Americans and the poor and the general white population and vowed to do something about it.

Today, Thaddeus John Bell, MD, is a family practice physician in Charleston and arguably the state's leading crusader in the fight to erase those disparities. He is the founder and CEO of Closing the Health Gap, Inc., a lowcountry nonprofit, tax-exempt organization dedicated to addressing health disparities.

On the current edition of Insight, Bhakti Larry Hough interviews Dr. Bell about his life and work.

http://www.closingthegapinhealthcare.com/

The program airs Mondays and Wednesdays at 10 a.m., 7 p.m. and midnight.

 

 

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Ernest A. Finney, Jr. being sworn in as Chief Justice of the South Carolina Supreme Court in 1994.

Ernest A. Finney, Jr., of Columbia embodies living history. He was the first African American chief justice of the South Carolina Supreme Court, when he was elected to the position in 1994. Also, he was the first African American to be a circuit judge in SC, and he represented the Friendship Nine of Rock Hill during the sit-in movement in SC in the 1960s.  On the current edition of Insight, Bhakti Larry Hough conducts part one of a two-part interview with Finney.

Part one will air on Wednesday, February 27th and Monday, March 4th. Part two will air Wednesday, March 6th and Monday, March 11th.

More information on Ernest Finney is available from: Wikipedia and a blog by Bobby Rettew.

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