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HORRY COUNTY

Fire damages home on Village Drive

Crews from Horry County Fire Rescue responded to a fire at a home off S.C. 707 Sunday evening.

No one was injured, said spokeswoman Leslie Yancey, though one person was home at the time the fire started.

The blaze appears to have begun in a fireplace in an addition on the home on Village Drive, but Yancey said she did not know the extent of the damage Sunday night.

Horry County crews had help from the Myrtle Beach Fire Department and Murrells Inlet Garden City Fire Department. The fire was reported just after 6 p.m.

HORRY COUNTY

Motorcyclist dies a month after crash

A Hamer man who was injured in an Oct. 2 motorcycle crash in Horry County died Saturday night at MUSC Medical Center in Charleston, said Horry County Coroner Robert Edge.

The S.C. Highway Patrol did not have details about the wreck Sunday but said the information would be available this morning.

Edge said no autopsy will be performed on Percy Locklear, 64, and he does not expect any further information coming from his office.

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GRAND STRAND

Opera workshop to show 'Macbeth'

The Grand Strand Opera Workshop is showing Giuseppe Verdi's operatic version of "Macbeth" beginning at 6 p.m. today at the HTC auditorium, 3990 River Oaks Drive, at the intersection of Carolina Forest Boulevard and River Oaks Drive in Myrtle Beach.

The Metropolitan Opera production stars Zeliko Lucic as Macbeth, John Relyea as Banquo and Maria Guleghina as Lady Macbeth, with the Metropolitan Orchestra, Chorus and Troupe di Ballet.

Refreshments will be served at intermission.

Admission is $5 for people who are not members of the workshop, but everyone is welcome to attend.

For more information, call John at 385-3963.

GRAND STRAND

Banquet to benefit youth theater

Myrtle Beach Youth Theatre's benefit banquet takes place from 5:30 to 8:30 p.m. Nov. 16 at Liberty Grill, 76th Avenue North and North Kings Highway in Myrtle Beach.

Reservations are required, and tickets are $35 per person.

The menu includes hors d'oeuvres during social hour and your choice of dinner entrees, including spinach-mozzarella chicken; grilled loin of beef; lemon-basil salmon; or eggplant Parmesan blanco.

Dinners are served with nonalcoholic beverages, salad, roasted potatoes and green beans, and bananas Foster cheesecake.

Diners will see a showcase of young actors and a sampling from the holiday production of "It Wasn't On My List" being performed at The Palace Theatre.

Tickets may be purchased at iTickets, www.itickets.com/search.html?selectName=6&sw=240082.

For more information, e-mail productions@myrtlebeachyouththeatre.com or call 946-6400, extension 516.

GRAND STRAND

Be a Santa for a Senior seeks donors

Home Instead Home Health Care is gearing up for its sixth annual Be a Santa for a Senior event and is looking for people who want to give gifts, businesses that can host giving trees and seniors who need gifts this year.

Each year the event has grown. Last year, more than 2,000 gifts were donated so that 500 senior citizens who would have otherwise been without Christmas presents were able to open four gifts each.

Often the gifts are practical, such as warm clothing or blankets, socks, shoes, toiletries or even food items - things they cannot afford to buy themselves, and will not receive if not for the kindness of donors.

Home Instead will host a gift-wrapping party Dec. 14, with Christmas music and snacks for volunteers who come to help package up the gifts that will be distributed to elderly people living independently or in care facilities up and down the Grand Strand.

To get involved or to sign up to receive Christmas gifts, call Home Instead at 215-9777.