JOE PERRY / TIMESRichard Stokes, chief executive officer of Clarendon Health System, spoke at length Thursday night at the hospital about future plans, a pending loan application, the system's image in the community, and how his team will move forward.
The Azalea Ball presented two debutantes on Jan. 4 at the Cypress Center in Manning. Elizabeth Nell Black, sitting left, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Jeffrey Todd Black, was presented by her father, not pictured, and escorted by Cadet William Michael Phemister Jr. and her brother, John Landon Black. Sydney Taylor Cumbee, sitting right, was presented by her uncle. Carl Matthews Evans Jr., and was escorted by Carl Matthew Evans III and Thomas Alexander Beasley Jr.