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Friends of the North Myrtle Beach Library will host author and columnist Celia Rivenbark at 10 a.m. on Oct. 3. The Coffee With Friends will be held at the meeting room in the library and is open to the public. Rivenbark will speak about her newest book, Rude Bitches Make Me Tired.  Her first job after college was writing for the Wallace Enterprise, but she moved on to the Wilmington Morning Sun and a humor column for the Sun News.  Several of her books have been nominated for the James Thurber Prize for humor.  One book spent time on the …

Alexis LaCoy receives the leadership award from Principal Teresa Todd. Principal Teresa Todd, left, presents Alexis LaCoy, right, as the recipient of the North Myrtle Beach Chiefs Leadership Award sponsored by Dew’s. Alexis is a senior at North Myrtle Beach High School. She is a determined young lady who also has a passion for helping others. Her hard work and dedication is not only recognized by her teachers in their classrooms, but also through honor societies. She has been inducted into the National Honors Society and the National Social Studies Honor Society. Additionally, she is a member of the Beta …

The Green Sea Floyds Trojans and the Loris Lions faced off on Friday, Sept. 13, at the first Loris Bog-Off Bowl.  It was a tight game with a final score of 28-27 with GSF winning the Bog-Off Bowl trophy. Each team member received a T-shirt from the Loris Chamber of Commerce. Loris Mayor Todd Harrelson posed for pictures with the Trojans presenting their trophy.  The Loris Lions will play Carolina Forest at Heniford Field on Friday, Sept. 20, with a kick off time of 7:30 p.m.  The Loris Recreation Little Lions will cheer with the Loris High School cheerleaders at …

A cheer camp was held on Saturday, Sept. 14, at the Loris High School gymnasium to learn cheering techniques with the Loris High School cheer squad. They showed standing on two other cheerleaders with a spotter behind, how to kick when ending a cheer and much more.  Paiton Todd, coach, made arrangements with LHS for the camp. On Thursday, Sept. 12, cheerleaders for the Loris Recreation Center began practice with Kenya Wright, coach, and assistant coaches Cloey Wright and Desirae Reynolds.  The warm-ups began at 6 p.m. with stretches before lining up to learn the cheers. New uniform tops and …

The Loris Recreation Center Committee met on Monday, Sept. 16, at the Loris Chamber of Commerce conference room.  Present at the meeting were recreation director Tom Cocke, Jan Vescovi, Terrence Hardee and Todd Harrelson. Hardee provided the invocation and led the Pledge of Allegiance.  The meeting began with updates on the baseball and softball fields, uniforms, field conditions, All Stars and reports on the recreation website (www.Loris.Rec.com).  New uniforms are provided to the cheering squads this year.  The uniforms consist of a top and skorts which are similar to what the Loris High School cheering squads wear.  This is exciting …

Christmas is just around the corner and thoughts of sugar plums are dancing in the heads of Brandon Harrelson and Tom Cocke.  Both are excited to present council with the possibilities of more twinkling lights and decorations to bring in visitors to Loris with hopes that visitors will come to see, eat and shop locally. Their proposal to council was to utilize the hospitality funds in the amount of $72,000 to upgrade, purchase new decorations, strands of lights and to have a visual of an animated Santa and sleigh. The list includes 9,000 industrial LED cool white lights, 14’x 4’ …

The North Myrtle Beach High School varsity volleyball team returned to action last week after Hurricane Dorian visited the area. The Lady Chiefs began the week with a win over Carolina Forest at their home gym.  North Myrtle Beach won 3-0 (25-17, 25-15, 25-21). Coach Alex Sing was glad to get the win. “Carolina Forest is young, but they have some talented kids. We were glad to get the win at their place,” Sing said. The Lady Chiefs then finished the week on Thursday with a big conference rivalry match at Myrtle Beach. They won that one 3-0 also (25-18, …

The North Myrtle Beach High School National Honor Society would like to announce the annual Powder Puff Game. This game is, for the first time, being played as part of the Homecoming Week festivities. The game will be played on Thursday, Sept. 19, at 6 p.m. The game will be played between the junior and senior girls and will feature male cheerleaders from both the Class of 2020 and 2021. The cost of the game is $5 or five cans of food may be brought in to be donated to the local food bank. All proceeds will go to Special …

The 2019-20 season for recreational harvest of shellfish (clams and oysters) in coastal waters of South Carolina will open one-half hour before official sunrise on Saturday, Sept. 28, 2019. The recreational shellfish season will remain open through May 15, 2020, unless conditions warrant extending or shortening the season. In the event of another hurricane, major rain event or pollution spill, shellfish beds may be temporarily closed by the South Carolina Department of Health & Environmental Control (DHEC). It is important for harvesters to check with DHEC to verify whether any closures are in effect. This information is available at 1-800-285-1618 …

The North Myrtle Beach girls varsity golf team got back into action following Hurricane Dorian with losses to Myrtle Beach and Loris. The Lady Chiefs traveled to the Dunes Club for their match with Myrtle Beach last Tuesday and were defeated  195 -209. Cara Hilburn was low scorer for the Lady Chiefs with a round of 46. Freshman Faith Goff shot a 53, Savannah Jordan had a 54 and seventh grader Kalynn Basehoar shot 57. Two days later North Myrtle Beach traveled to Diamondback Golf Course in Loris for their match with the Lady Lions, who came away with the …