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Expect minor delays and flagging oper-ations associated with milling, full depth patching, and resurfacing activities along Axtell Drive from Knox Abbott Drive to Lorick Street. Anticipated completion date is November 30.

Expect delays and night time lane clo-sures associated with milling, full depth patching, and resurfacing activities along St. Andrews Road from Piney Grove Road to Harbison Boulevard. Anticipated completion date is November 30.

Expect minor delays and flagging oper-ations associated with milling, full depth patching, and resurfacing activities along “L” Avenue from Axtell Drive to SC 2. An-ticipated completion date is November 30.

Expect delays and night time lane clo-sures associated with milling, full depth patching, and resurfacing activities along Lake Murray Boulevard from St. An-drews Road to the Richland County line.

Anticipated completion date is Novem-ber 30.

Expect minor delays and flagging oper-ations associated with milling, full depth patching, and resurfacing activities Ax-tell Drive from Knox Abbott Dr. to Lorick St. Anticipated completion date is No-vember 30.

RadaR RepoRt Lexington County Sheriff’s deputies

will be out on the following roads look-ing for speeders, reckless drivers and drivers under the influence of drugs and/or alcohol.

Nov. 12 a.m. - YMCA Road, p.m. - Track Road; Nov. 13: a.m. - Robbie Road, p.m. - Counts Ferry Road; Nov. 14: a.m. - Charter Oak Drive; Nov. 16: a.m. - Gar-mony Road, p.m. - Hunters Blind Drive; Nov. 17: a.m. - Nursery Hill Road, Nov. 18: a.m. - Sausage Lane, p.m. - St. Pe-ter’s Church Road.

JAMES r. METTS Ed.d

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Atten-tion shop-pers! If you are looking for a bargain those great guys and gals down at Wally World have such a deal for you. The other day two of my neighbors, Eric Blake and Kerri Goldstein, brought to my attention that Wal-Mart has available at very reasonable prices, caskets and funeral urns. Unfortu-nately, these items are not on display, but must be or-dered through the internet.

The price for the coffins goes from around $900 to $2,900 and there is quite a selection. You can also pick up the urns from between $60 to $215. (For you die-hard Clemson fans there are urns available with the cat paw designs. Though intended for pets I am sure you could easily adapt them.)However, there are a few possible problems. First is the shipping time that is required. If you go on the cheap, it could take up to ten days. Even the express shipping option requires a three to five day wait. So, the end user is going to be kept on ice for a little while. Just how big is your freezer?

Another problem is if you decide to plan ahead what are you going to do with the item until it is re-quired? The urn is easy enough. Most of them are rather attractive and can easily double as a plant-er or a flower vase. You could also use it as a piggy bank to save loose change to pay for the funeral. At worst, you can always shove it in a closet or the attic.

The cof-fin, how-ever, repre-sents a bit of problem if you do not have a basement or storage shed. I sup-

pose you could use it as a coffee table with a handy storage capacity for board games and such. However, sitting back on the couch and putting your feet up on it to watch TV might be a tad disrespectful. Then having such an item in the living room might just kill the conversation when guests drop by.

I suppose you could al-ways line it with plastic and use it as a cooler for barbecues or neighbor-hood parties. I wonder how many cases of beer you could put in it for tail-gating purposes? When filled, however, you are definitely going to need six of your best friends to car-ry it by the handles.Who knows what the brass at Wal-Mart will come up with next? Maybe a Viking ship for those of Scandi-navian descent that want to do it the old-fashioned way. Speaking of old fash-ion, for the Egyptian con-sumer what about a pyra-mid kit? (A whole bunch of assembly required.) Though the Indian custom of sky burial might con-flict with some local health regulations and upset the neighbors.

We have all heard the statements that huge chain stores are driving the ‘mom and pops’ out of business. However, taking on the local funeral home may be stretching it. I just wonder if you could buy any of the items on the lay-away plan?

Community news

In fiscal year 2009-2010, the Lexington County Sher-iff’s Department received a total of more than $1.5 mil-lion in money from the fed-eral government after suc-cessfully applying for federal grants.

As a result of obtaining federal grants, the Sheriff’s Department employed three school resource officers who are assigned to Batesburg-Leesville Middle School, Carolina Springs Middle School and Sandhills Middle School. Our agency also em-ployed one detective who primarily investigates crimi-nal domestic violence cases, two detectives who inves-tigate criminal gangs and gang activity and two crime scene investigators.

Federal grants also en-abled the Sheriff’s Depart-ment to employ three traffic enforcement deputies who primarily apprehend motor-ists who are driving under the influence of alcohol or drugs. In addition, federal grants enabled our agency to enhance the surveillance camera system and alarm system at the Marc H. West-brook Lexington County Ju-dicial Center on Main Street in Lexington.

The federal government also paid $64,935 to the Sheriff’s Department in or-der to reimburse our agency for housing criminals at the Lexington County Detention Center who had immigrated into the United States ille-gally from foreign countries.

Federal Grants

Wal-Mart digs in

Expect minor delays along Knox Abbott drive

Jason Phillip Reeves, DOB 1-24-78, is wanted on a charge of violating a court order to have no contact with a victim in a criminal case. Last known address was 142 Industrial Drive, Lot 7, Lexington. Reeves is 5-foot-8 and weighs 140 pounds with brown hair and brown eyes.

Eric Lavell Taylor, DOB 11-29-72, is wanted after Taylor failed to appear in court on a charge of criminal domes-tic violence. His last known address was 643 Wall Street, West Columbia. Taylor is 5-foot-10 and weighs 215 pounds. Taylor has black hair and brown eyes.

Arromus Jamario Abney, DOB 7-19-90, is wanted on arrest warrants on charges of criminal domestic violence and resisting arrest. His last known address was 121 Pelion Park Road, Pelion. Ab-ney is 5-foot-11 and weighs 160 pounds. Abney has black hair and brown eyes.

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