Community Corner
Today in Columbia: Looking for Leap Day Babies
It's a big year, with an extra day, the Summer Olympics and the end of the world as we know it (again).
The Weather:
"A chance of rain after 1 p.m. Cloudy, with a high near 40. North wind at 7 mph becoming south. Chance of precipitation is 30 percent. New rainfall amounts of less than a tenth of an inch possible. Tonight: Cloudy, then gradually becoming partly cloudy, with a low around 29. South wind around 5 mph becoming calm." — The National Weather Service
Kudos:
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Columbia resident Jill Duncan McLeigh recently received her doctoral degree in international family and communication studies from Clemson University, according to a press release from readMedia Newswire.
Columbia resident Scott Alpizer was named to the University of New Haven's Dean's List for the fall semester, according to readMedia.
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The junior earned at least a 3.5 grade-point average (on a scale of 4.0) to earn the honor.
Are You a Leap Day Baby?
If you get to celebrate the real anniversary of your birth only once every four years, I'd like to talk to you for a Patch story.
Send me an email (marge.neal@patch.com) if your birthday is Feb. 29 and you'd like to share what it's like to have a Leap Day birthday.
Deck the House:
Columbia resident Charles Daniels finished in the middle of the pack of 24 finalists in Patch's national decorated house contest, but he didn't let that get in the way of having fun with the attention the contest garnered.
He starts taking his display down today, and is already working on designing next year's light extravaganza.
The Powell family's house in California, which shot out to a lead the first day of the contest Dec. 30 and never looked back, won the grand prize of $100,000 to be awarded to Davis schools.
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