Our next dinner-meeting will be at the (round) Riverview Holiday Inn, Thursday February 4th. Registration begins at 6pm and the buffet will be ready at 6:30. Please RSVP back to me by email or leave a message at 588-2429. We will have the buffet with southern fried chicken and a vegetarian pasta as the main courses. This is the second announcement and I forgot to include in the first that the restaurant has given us a special price of $15.00 per meal, all inclusive. Beer and wine are separate.

Our speaker will Dwight Drake who is a Democratic running for Governor. Dwight Drake is a native of Spartanburg County, where his father worked in the mills and Drake joined him to help pay for his college education. He is a U.S. Army veteran who served in Vietnam, and he earned his law degree from the University of South Carolina. Drake lives in Columbia with his wife Beth, a federal prosecutor, and their two daughters, Marshall, 12, and Eliza, 9. Visit his web site for more information. http://www.dwightdrake.com/about