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HORRY COUNTY

Have some 'Tea and Symphony'

The Long Bay Symphony Guild is holding its annual Tea & Symphony event from 1 to 4 p.m. today at the Franklin G. Burroughs and Simeon B. Chapin Art Museum in Myrtle Beach.

Music will be provided by the Long Bay Symphony Youth Orchestra Concerto winners, and various teas and sweet and savory treats will be served.

There are only 52 seats available, and tickets are $30, $20 of which is tax-deductible. Proceeds benefit the Long Bay Symphony, its Youth Orchestra and its educational programs in the Horry and Georgetown counties.

For tickets, call the Long Bay Symphony office at 448-8379.

MYRTLE BEACH

Academy holds informational open house

Prospective students can find out more about the Academy for the Arts, Science and Technology at an open house on Tuesday from 5 to 7 p.m. The academy is at 895 International Drive in Myrtle Beach.

The event gives students and their parents a chance to learn about the academy's nine career majors: advanced art, dance, digital communications, education, entertainment technology, environmental science, pre-engineering, pre-medicine and theater. Juniors and seniors from any high school in Horry County may choose to attend AAST for a major or to take academic courses required for graduation, post-secondary education or the workplace.

For more information, call 903-8460 or go to aast.horrycountyschools.net.

CONWAY

Coastal hosts film workshop

Coastal Carolina University will host a two-day workshop Friday and Saturday on the film industry featuring Tracy Kilpatrick, an Emmy-award-winning casting director from Wilmington, N.C. The workshop is free and open to the public, and will be held in the Thomas W. and Robin W. Edwards College of Humanities and Fine Arts.

The Friday workshop will be held from 1:30-4:30 p.m. in the Black Box Theatre with a reception following in the Edwards Courtyard; on Saturday, 10 a.m. to 2 p.m., Room 123. Topics will include auditioning on camera, the nature of a casting director and upcoming film projects in the Southeast.

A member of the Casting Society of America, Kilpatrick won an Emmy award for casting in 2009 for the TV project "John Adams." She has been regional casting director for films such as "Forrest Gump," "Leatherheads," "No Country for Old Men," "The Forgiven," "The Strangers" (filmed in Florence) and the upcoming "Secretariat," as well as for the Denzel Washington films "Déjà vu" and "The Great Debaters."

For more information, call Steve Earnest, associate professor of theater, at 349-6469.

CONWAY

CCU hosts bike-trail building workshop

Coastal Carolina University, along with the International Mountain Bicycling Association's Trail Care Crew, will host a free mountain biking trail-building workshop on Saturday from 9 a.m. to 4 p.m. The event is open to the public, but participants must register in advance at go.imba.com/conway.

Genevieve Marchand, an outdoor recreation educator at CCU, is heading up the event as a service learning project for students and to offer more local outdoor activity opportunities. A trail will be built in the Cox Ferry Recreation Area, which is within walking distance from University Place, a student apartment complex near campus.

"There are no other established mountain-biking trails within 100 miles," Marchand said.

The IMBA crew will be in the area from Thursday-Sunday discussing sustainable trails, teaching proper trail building techniques and creating a venue for mountain bikers to meet and exchange ideas.

For more information, contact Marchand at 349-6673 or marchand@coastal.edu.

Surfside Beach

Forum set for council candidates

The public will get a chance to hear from the candidates running for the three seats on the Surfside Beach Town Council at a forum March 28.

The forum will be at 1:30 p.m. in council chambers at Surfside Beach Town Hall, 115 U.S. 17 N. in Surfside Beach. The forum is hosted by former Councilwoman Judy Tuttle, who will also moderate the event.

All 11 candidates running in the non-partisan elections have been invited. The elections are April 6.

The candidates are: Scott Anderson; Anna "Ann" F. Dodge; Rebecca Jean Hiatt; E. Shannon Kirk; Chad A. Perrino; Bill Rempfer; Marty Rhoades; Doug Samples; Jason R. Scully; Rod Smith; and Randle Stevens.

Murrells Inlet

Officer to speak at spring Chowder Talk

Georgetown County Sheriff's Office Lt. Amy Glover from the Community Services Division will be the featured speaker at the Spring Chowder Talk hosted by Murrells Inlet 2020 at 6:30 p.m. March 30.

Glover joined the Sheriff's Dept. in 1997 after serving as a reserve deputy since 1992. The Community Services Division maintains the Environmental Services, Animal Control, Beach Patrol, Marine Patrol and other services to benefit and assist the community with programs such as the Neighborhood Watch Program.

Murrells Inlet 2020 will also be updating the community about it's "Inlet Alert" e-mail program, as well as awarding the 2009 Volunteer of the Year. The event is free and open to the public. No RSVP needed. The chowder talk is at Inlet Affairs, 4024 U.S. 17 Business, Murrells Inlet.