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Greater Williamston Business Association
Greater Williamston Business Association
The Williamston Action Community Club (WACC) - Presently, the Caroline Community Center is operated using dues and donations, building use fees, programs sponsored by club members and the Founders’ Day Rally. No funds are received from United Way or any special grants according to club members. Located at 1 School Street, the center operates a Summer Enrichment Program each summer for youth ages 5-14. Plans include expanding to a year-round after-school and summer program according to a spokesperson. The WACC is in the process of upgrading and repairing the center including installing replacement windows. However, more funds are needed to complete the project according to club members. The club is requesting that friends, business owners and corporations consider becoming patrons or sponsors in order to continue the work at the center. A donor may become a Silver Patron by contributing $100-$500. The name of the donor will be placed on a list of patrons in the center. Gold Patrons contribute $500-$1000 and will have their names placed on a patron list in the center. They will also receive a certificate and a reserved table for six at the Founders’ Day Banquet. Full Sponsors contribute $1000 or more. The name of the individual or business will be placed on a sponsor plaque in the center as well as on a personal plaque. Full sponsors receive a reserved table for six at the Founders Day Banquet as well as a listing on the program as a sponsor. The WACC is an incorporated tax-exempt organization and emphasizes that all funds will be used for the center and to finance the Youth Enrichment Program. For further information, contact Walt Smith at 847-7929 or Theodore Mattison at 847-8685. Williamston Lions Club Williamston Area Historic Commission WAHC August 2007 - The Williamston Area Historic Commission (WAHC) is working toward restoration of the Scout Hut located in Mineral Spring Park. Donations from the Spring Water Festival, along with a donation from Anderson County and from several area businesses, provided funds for installation of a new floor. Windows have been donated and plans are to have wooden shutters to protect the windows from vandals. More improvements are planned as funds are available. Donations to the project may be made on Festival Day or checks may be made to Save the Scout Hut Committee and mailed to Dianne Lollis, chairman, PO Box 577, Williamston, SC 29697. WAHC purchased a lighted flagpole for the Williamston Cemetery. After many delays, power is now available at the site and paving has been done to roads in the cemetery. A beautification project is under way at the West Allen Williams gravesite in the Mineral Spring Park. A subcommittee of WAHC, the West Allen Williams Memorial Committee, has held fundraisers and work days to help with the beautification of the gravesite of the founder of the town of Williamston. In 2003, the WAHC spearheaded a project to locate and mark the graves of Confederate veterans buried in the Williamston Cemetery. The historic commission has also sponsored two Southern Balls, and has decorated a Christmas tree for the town’s Festival of Trees in the Municipal Center during the Christmas season. WAHC is a non-profit membership organization, which meets the last Tuesday of each month at the Williamston Municipal Center. The Commission is dedicated to the promotion of preservation, restoration, education, and appreciation of historic Williamston and surrounding areas. WAHC is also working with a computer program to record Williamston City Cemetery records. Volunteers are recording information from grave sites in the cemetery to be verified with written records kept by the town. Tony Cooley, WAHC chairman, invites you to come to support the WAHC in its efforts to preserve history in our town and surrounding areas. The public is also invited to attend meetings of the WAHC which are held the last Tuesday of each month at 7 p.m. at the Williamston Municipal Center. Johnnie Bell is vice chairman of the WAHC, Pamela Owens is secretary and Lia Clardy is treasurer. 2006 - The Williamston Area Historic Commission (WAHC) is looking at ways to preserve the history of the area. Williamston Area Historic Commission members have several project planned including placing a lighted flagpole at the Williamston Cemetery. The pole will be placed at the site when power is available. A future project is to have the former Gossett School Building, and possibly other property in the area, placed on the National Register of Historic places. In October, 2003, a ceremony was held in Williamston Cemetery honoring 59 Confederate veterans buried there. The project to locate and mark the graves was spearheaded by WAHC. WAHC is also working with a computer program to record cemetery records. Volunteers are recording information from grave sites in the cemetery. Members of the WAHC Cemetery Committee are Carolyn Duncan, chairman; Barbara Davis, Lia Clardy-Ragsdale, Julia Mize, Johnnie Bell and Kenneth Bearden. Duncan and Bell, along with Willie Joe Wright and Lib Ford were appointed to the town’s Cemetery Committee which includes Mize, Martha Jo Harvell, Olive Wilson, and councilmen Cecil Cothran and Otis Scott. Mayor Phillip Clardy also meets with the committee. Tony Cooley, WAHC chairman, invites you to come to support the WAHC in its efforts to preserve history in our town and surrounding areas. Anyone interested in preserving history of the area is invited to attend meetings of WAHC which are held the last Tuesday of each month at 7 p.m. at the Williamston Municipal Center. Johnnie Bell is vice chairman of the WAHC and Pamela Owens is secretary. Lia Clardy-Ragsdale is treasurer. WAHC is a non-profit membership organization which meets once a month at the Williamston Municipal Center. The Commission is dedicated to the promotion of preservation, restoration, education, and appreciation of historic Williamston and surrounding areas. WAHC hopes to restore scout hut It has served as a place for generations of local residents to meet Santa face to face, a place for the local boy scouts to meet and is a local landmark. Now it is in need of repair and members of the Williamston Area Historic Commission have taken on restoration of the Boy Scout Hut in the Mineral Spring Park as a project. When preparing to set up in the Historic Scout Hut for the SpringWater Festival, Dianne Lollis and other members of the Williamston Area Historic Commission discovered the hut in a dire state of repair as well as the home for termites and other insects. Lollis immediately went to work trying to see what could be done to save the Hut. She talked with a local contractor, Gary McAlister, who said the floor needs replacing. The building is a safety hazard. He offered to tear up the floor if she could get volunteers to help. She said Lance Gray is checking to see if flooring can be obtained from the old Pelzer mills, and Joe Sullens is checking on logs for the hut. “I feel business people and others in the town will be willing to donate materials, money and time to restore the Hut,” Lollis said. Donnie Bunton has offered to donate the exterminating work, she said. And Larry’s Used Cars has already agreed to make a donation to the project. “I also have David Johnson to volunteer any electrical work needed,” she added. The log cabin was built for the Boy Scouts with funds raised by the Williamston Lions Club. The club was organized in February, 1940 and this was one of the first projects of the local Lions. The cabin was dedicated in 1941 and used as a meeting place for the Boy Scouts. Through the years, the Lions Club sponsored a Boy Scout troop, providing money for dues, transportation, camporees, etc. In more recent years, the Boy Scouts were sponsored by a local church. For a number of years, the cabin has continued to be used for children. Santa Claus sets up headquarters there for visits with children during the evenings when the Christmas Park is open. Any business, club or individual who is willing to help save the Scout cabin may call Lollis at 847-5743 or email pelzerfur@aol.com or Johnnie Bell, WAHC vice-chairman, 847-9157 or Pamela Owens, secretary, 847-8767. These three form the WAHC committee for the Scout Hut project. Other WAHC History The organization was co-founded by Jonathan Fowler and Preston Cooley. The Williamston cemetery project was the first project undertaken by the organization and continues at present. The group sponsored the first annual Lantern Tour with the Butler Guard and partnered with the Town of Williamston for the first annual Candlelight Service in the cemetery last year. They also participated in the Christmas Park, handing out hot chocolate. Upcoming plans call for adding crepe myrtle trees along all three gates at the cemetery and adding a flag pole, lighting and proper drainage at the main gate. The commission asked Town Council to re-designate the road that runs between the cemetery and Gossett School as James P. Gossett Drive. The Commission is working to have the Gossett School placed on the National Registry and are also looking at other properties to include. The group has also considered bringing the Chautaugua, a traveling lecture series which was popular in the early 1900s and which features performers in character, back to Williamston. The WAHC meets on the last Thursday of each month at 7 p.m. at the Williamston Municipal Center. The meetings are open to the public and there is no cost. 2003 Officers for the Williamston Area Historic Commission (WAHC) were Brown “Sam” Mahon, president; Carolyn Duncan, vice president; Lia Clardy treasurer; and Pamela Owens, secrectary.
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