Community

Community consists of a number of people with something in common that connects them in some way and that distinguishes them from others. 

Dacusville

Dacusville, not much has changed since I was a child

 growing up in this small town.

Some old faces, some new, some have left us way too soon.

New school buildings standing tall, buildings that I never got to walk the halls.

A Dacusville Gold Wave I'll always be, because Dacusville Gold Waves can't be beat. 

Go Purple, Go Gold. 

Still standing are the churches that taught us to spread the Good News,

and they are still teaching and challenging you.

  

A few things have changed,

 we now have three Dollar General Stores, and a few more traffic lights then before, and 

a new community center is now in the old school building. 

Things may continue to change in this small town, 

but what never will, is the way you'll always feel

about growing up in Dacusville. 

Dacusville is my "Home Town", it's the place I was born and raised and continue to live, it's the place I am proud to call home. 

Dacusville is a special place because of the special people, we unite as a community, we stand together, we might be small but we do BIG things..... And I am asking you to do a big thing in a small way.

Foster Care in Pickens County is rising, and there are not enough foster parents to care for the children.  LIFEchurch in our community is building LIFEhouse, "A Dacusville Community, residential safe haven for children of families in crisis; offering loving support and care to children in need of temporary residential care." The project is estimated to cost 2.6 Million dollars but I say we can build it for five dollars. 

"Just Five" Action Plan

Can five dollars really make a difference?

It can in the life of a child, it can build a home. 

Five dollars in your hands can buy one meal, but five dollars in the hands of LIFEhouse can build a home. Will you give this small offering and do a BIG thing? Will you help build LIFEhouse?

A gofundme account has been set up for you to easily donate, please consider what you can do for a child. 

https://www.gofundme.com/lifehouse-sc

More information about LIFEHouse....

https://www.facebook.com/LIFEhouse-Dacusville-SC-879815525459141/?fref=ts

Remembering You

It's easy to remember you, 

you always had a smile, a kind word, a hug.

It's easy to remember you, 

you always cared, shared, loved.

Remembering you is easy,

saying goodbye is hard. 

Till I see you again my friend. 

On Saturday I got word that a childhood friend from Dacusville lost her life. I remember attending school and riding the school bus together. I remember as we became adults seeing her at the hospital because she was always so sick, and I remember attending her daughter's funeral.We kept up on Face book like many of us now do, she would comment on my page asking me questions about my family and how am I doing in school.  I remember her always asking me how do I keep up with all that I have going on? 

Thank you for always remembering me....now I am remembering you.   

Pam Givens Krupa

Pam you are such a sweet soul, I am so happy for you that you are no longer in pain and that you are in Heaven with your daughter.....I will miss you my friend. 

Its hard when you lose a classmate, in honor of the ones that left us too soon.

Class of '94

*Darren Ervin

*Brad Cato

*Chance Connor

*Pam Givens Krupa

A public group Face book page for Pickens High School 

has been set up to remember our lost classmates. 

PICKENS SR. HIGH SCHOOL'S REMEMBERING OUR LOST....

https://www.facebook.com/groups/141613332581242/

  

  

Southerners in the Snow

There's a joke in the south that when the weather men begin calling for snow, we Southerners don't run for the hills.....we run for the shelves, grocery shelves to get our milk and bread.  

This time when the weather men called for snow we needed our milk and bread, and our sleds, some chili beans or soup, comfort foods, evaporated milk for snow cream, and generators. 

The first snow of 2016 brought down trees, power lines, and eight plus inches of that white stuff we don't see around here too often. It started as ice and sleet but then turned to snow, big flakes of snow that quickly covered our small town.  Our schools, businesses, churches, and day cares were being canceled......Snow Day!

Our little town of Dacusville became a Winter Wonderland.....

 

Snow Day led to snow week, the snow lingered around for a week before it started melting away, but soon enough the beautiful white covering gave way back to the dirt and gravel and everything turned back to normal.....but they say, if snow stays on the ground for longer than three days there will be another.....better stock up on that milk and bread. 

Snow photos courtesy of Samantha Davis