Community news for York, Chester and Lancaster counties, July 28, 2016

The 13th annual Countdown to Kindergarten, a free educational festival for rising kindergarteners, will be 5-7 p.m. Aug. 4 in downtown Rock Hill. Main Street Children’s Museum will offer free limited admission during the event. Children’s musician Roger Day will perform.

More than 30 community exhibitors will be on Main Street to provide activities that encourage young learners to get off to a good start.

Colgate Bright Smiles Bright Futures will provide free pediatric dental screenings, River Hills Lake Wylie Lions Club will provide free vision screenings, and Beginnings SC will offer free hearing screenings.

Information about after-school programs will be available and kids can explore a school bus. Community exhibitors will offer activities and school supply giveaways. Sign-up for a library card, visit the York County Book Mobile and Friends of the York County Library bookstore on Main Street.

Special events

▪ The Spencer Estates Neighborhood Association annual “National Night Out” Ice Cream Social will be 6 p.m. Tuesday at Spencer Park on Eastwood Drive. Bring homemade ice cream, cake or other dessert and lawn chairs. Beverages and paper and plastic products will be provided. Bring a guest.

▪ Celebration Place Church will have a classic car show, 9 a.m.-2 p.m. Saturday at 2869 Chester Highway, York. There will be trophies, awards and T-shirts. Hot dog plates available.

Fundraisers

▪ Hospice & Community Care fourth annual Labor of Love (LOL) event Sept. 1 will feature Anita Renfroe, a break-out YouTube sensation, who rose to fame when she sang of everything a mother says to her children in a single day to the tune of “The William Tell Overture.” The show will be 7 p.m. at Baxter Hood Center in Rock Hill. An opening reception begins at 6 p.m. She is the wife of a pastor and featured regularly on Good Morning America. She also is a speaker on the Woman of Faith Farewell Tour. Tickets are $25 and available at HospiceCommunityCare.org

▪ The Friends of the York County Library is continuing its Buy One, Get One Free Paperback Sale 10 a.m.-4 p.m. Thursday-Saturday at Friends Books on Main, 206 East Main St., Rock Hill. Saturday, a bag of paperbacks is $10. Bags are provided. The sale applies to all mass market fiction and nonfiction paperbacks, regularly priced at 50 cents. Proceeds to library programs.

Meetings

The Bethel Rural Fire District Board will meet 7 p.m. Aug. 3 at Station 1.

▪ Indian Land American Legion Post 250 will meet 6:30-8:30 p.m. Monday at Hickory Tavern Oak Room, 8364 Charlotte Highway. Dinner at 6:30; meeting, 7:15. For information, call William Chick at 803-422-9486 or email littlechick@msn.com or Jerry Marcus at 540-693-5386 or email pjmarcus47@hotmail.com.

▪ The Chester District Genealogical Society annual meeting will 1 p.m. Aug. 13 at the Wagon Wheel Restaurant, 5724 Lancaster Highway, Fort Lawn. Cost is $20. James Gill Knox III, a past President of the Chester District Genealogical Society, will speak on the history of Richburg. A native of Chester County, he is as principal of Lewisville High School. Mail checks check for reservations to Chester District Genealogical Society, PO Box 336, Richburg, SC 29729. Deadline is Aug. 8.

▪ The York County Board of Disabilities and Special Needs will meet 7 p.m. Thursday at the administration building, 7900 Park Place Road in the East York Industrial Park, off S.C. 5 in York. The board will consider a change in the By-Laws which defines our fiscal year as July 1-June 30.

▪ TheYork Soil and Water Conservation District commissioners will met 5 p.m. Thursday at the USDA Service Center, 1460 E. Alexander Love Highway, York. Open to the public. For information,call Barbara O’Connell at 803-684- 3137 ext. 101.

Entertainment

▪ Summer Concert in the Park Series finale features The Hinson Girls 6:30 p.m. Aug. 9 at Fewell Park, 1204 Alexander Road, Rock Hill. Bring a picnic and blanket or lawn chair. Free and open to the public. For information, call 803-329-5645.

▪ Shakespeare Carolina Presents “Miss Julie” by August Strindberg, Thursday-July 31 and Aug.4-7, in the Black Box in Johnson Hall at Winthrop University. This ‘upstairs, downstairs’ story explores the dark romance between a young countess, Miss Julie, and her father’s footman, Jean. Kristin, Jean’s fiancé, adds further intriguing dynamics to Miss Julie’s venture upon the edge of an emotional precipice. Performances will 8 p.m. Thursday-Saturday and Aug. 4, 5, 6 and 3 p.m. Sunday and Aug. 7. Seating is Limited. Tickets available at the box office one hour prior to curtain or online at www.shakescar.org.

Clubs

▪ The Newcomers Club of York County, a women’s social and civic minded organization, will meet 11:30 a.m. Aug. 10 at Rock Hill Operations Center, South Anderson Road, Rock Hill. Battalion Chief, Trey Hovis of the Rock Hill Fire Department will speak. His crew and the ladder truck will join us. Cost is $12 all inclusive. For reservations, contact Claire Powers at ycnewcomers@yahoo.com or 508-397-2273 by 10 p.m. Aug. 4.

Classes

▪ Carolina Community Actions WIOA program for youth ages 17-24 is seeking candidates to work for eight weeks to improve their financial situations and possibly gain permanent employment. For details on qualifying for the program, call Marilyn Burris at 803-366-5302 in York County.

Volunteers

▪ Life Builders English as a Second Language Ministry will offer ESL volunteer basic training Aug. 19-20 in Rock Hill. For information email lifebuildersesl@gmail.com or call 803-579-1511 by Aug. 12.

▪ Agape Hospice needs administrative/clerical volunteers to assist the volunteer manager. For information, contact Kay G. Lee at 803-517-2021 or kaylee@agapesenior.com.

Reunions

▪ The Emmett Scott High School class of 1967 August birthday fellowship dinner will be 5:30 p.m. Monday at OutBack Steakhouse, 1319 River Run Court, Rock Hill.

The McDaniel reunion will be 1 p.m. Aug. 7 at Adnah United Methodist Church, Adnah Church Road, Rock Hill. Brind a well-filled basket. For information, call John L. Feaster, at 803-581-3106 or email jlfeaster@truvista.net.

▪ The Rock Hill High class of 1954 will meet 1 p.m. Thursday at Golden Corral, Anderson Road. Members and friends invited.

▪ Former students from Hillcrest Elementary School will meet 11 a.m. Saturday at Foundation AME Zion Church, Neely Store Road, Rock Hill.

Support groups

▪ Alateen meets 8-9 p.m. Thursdays at Zoar Road Club, 14701 Thomas Road, Charlotte. Meetings are for two age groups: 6-12 and 13 and older. For information, call 803-547-2124 or 704-904-7834.

▪ Al-Anon meets 8 p.m. Mondays at Serenity Club, 209 Grayson Road, Rock Hill; noon Tuesdays upstairs at Oakland Avenue Presbyterian Church, 421 Oakland Ave., Rock Hill; 8 p.m. Mondays at Grace Presbyterian Church, 2955 S.C. 160, Fort Mill; and 8 p.m. Tuesdays in the house beside First Baptist Church, 121 Monroe White St., Fort Mill.

This story was originally published July 27, 2016 at 8:21 AM with the headline "Community news for York, Chester and Lancaster counties, July 28, 2016."