Andrew Dys
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Dick Brawley claims he knows little about plants. But Brawley, at 87, has become a living legend at the assisted living center where he lives in Rock Hill, complete with a new nickname -- Jack. Like "Jack and the Beanstalk."
He walks down the corridor at Westminster Towers and the ladies call out, "There goes Jack and the Beanstalk."Because Dick Brawley -- now Jack -- grew the biggest beans anybody ever saw.
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Allen Brandon should be dead. A motorcycle crash Aug. 15 was so bad, Brandon's body so mangled, his family was told he had maybe a 1 in 100 chance to live. Instead, the guy who became a newsmaker for getting "cuffed" in June for honoring his dying wife's wish to cheer their oldest daughter at high school graduation is planning his younger daughter's Sweet 16 party.
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There are people out there who have said if you don't know enough about the issues at stake in Tuesday's elections, don't vote. Thumb your nose at all of them.
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Somewhere, a deer with two broken antlers is wondering why he was unlucky enough to smash into a computer room Wednesday and end up a few minutes later with a 300-plus pound carpenter named Tommy sprawled on top of him.
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Look in the dictionary under the word "neighbor" and it states as one of the definitions, "to have friendly relations; associate on friendly terms." The word neighborhood has a definition of, "people living near one another; community." The phrase, "The whole neighborhood pitched in and helped during the flood," is used by Webster's as an example.
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A reader named Gary Simpkins wanted a story on a retiring Rock Hill hairdresser named Arlene Albert. I said unless something makes her special, everybody retires. The customer for 35 years huddled with other loyal customers, then Simpkins shot me an immediate list of 10 items titled "Arlene: More than just a local hair stylist."
