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CHARLESTON

City Market undergoes change

With bright new paint and lighting and with customers approaching from inside and outside counters, City Market vendors returned to work this week to a pleasant surprise.

The first phase of the City Market Preservation Trust's $5 million restoration of the historic building included roof repair and replacement and lighting improvements on the two sheds between Church and State streets.

Customers can use new side exits and buy from historically accurate counters facing the streets. Parking spots that previously walled in the sheds are gone, soon to be replaced by a sidewalk. The crew with Hightower Construction moved on to the third and largest shed at East Bay Street on Monday and should finish that second phase in May.

SWANSEA

RV park now part of national chain

River Bottom Farms RV park in Swansea has a swimming pool, fishing ponds and open fields for kite flying and bike riding.

In April, it will have Yogi Bear.

The decade-old campground will become the first in South Carolina to join the Jellystone Park Camp Resort chain.

"We wanted to appeal to more families, let them know that we're here," said Susan Moubray, who owns the park with her husband, Jim, and daughter, Dana Gabriel. "We're a family-oriented park, and it was just a natural segue for us."

The Moubrays bought the 43-acre, 70-site camp four years ago and have worked to make it a destination for vacationing families, with a game room, campfire stories and scavenger hunts for the kids.

Becoming part of the Jellystone franchise gives them a national reservation program. The camp, now called Yogi Bear's Jellystone Park Camp Resort at River Bottom Farms, is 28 miles southwest of Columbia.

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