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Laurens County Safe Home

Nonprofit warehouse closure causes budget hits

The closure announced last week of a large Gifts-In-Kind warehouse store in Spartanburg is causing at least a couple of Laurens County non-profits to seek how they’ll fill the budgetary void left from the store’s closure. The warehouse-style store was run by the United Way of the Piedmont and supplied by Walmart, which donated overruns…

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Living United: Agency gives nod to partners, campaign contributors

Clinton, S.C. – The United Way of Laurens County held its first Annual Campaign Kick-off and Awards Dinner since the pandemic forced its cancellation the last two years, and several workplaces left with awards for their efforts to keep services going to their various partner agencies. In addition, Board member and long time volunteer Sharon…

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Barbara Thompson Wasson

Laurens, South Carolina Barbara Thompson Wasson died peacefully at home on June 17, 2022. She was the fourth of five children, born to Dorothy M. Thompson and John Allen Thompson, Jr. on February 21, 1950. Barbara lived most of her life in Laurens. She graduated from Laurens High School and attended Limestone College in Gaffney,…

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Safe Home welcomes gifts for late holiday clients

The Laurens County Safe Home has met its needed goal of collecting Christmas presents for current clients and their children, but the agency welcomes gifts to have on hand for new clients as the holiday nears. “All of our current clients have been adopted out (for gifts) but we don’t stop accepting new people, so…

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