THE WEEK AHEAD
WHAT YOU NEED TO KNOW
Pelicans wrap up season
The Myrtle Beach Pelicans wrap up the regular season at home against Lynchburg at 6:05 p.m. Monday. The Texas Rangers affiliate begins playoff action Wednesday in Winston-Salem, N.C., which won both halves of the Carolina League’s regular season. If the Pelicans beat Winston-Salem in a best-of-three contest, they would host the first two game of the Mills Cup championship series.
Loaded agenda
Horry County Council will talk about the proposed green laser ordinance at its 6 p.m. Tuesday meeting at 1301 Second Ave. in Conway. Funding for Project Blue, a call center project that could create more than 1,000 jobs in Carolina Forest.
NFL kickoff
The defending champion New York Giants kick off the 2012 NFL season when they face the Dallas Cowboys at 8:30 p.m. Wednesday at MetLife Stadium in New Jersey. The game is televised on NBC.
Junkers delight
Get your Elvis velvet prints while they last. The Myrtle Beach Convention center will host the 24th year of South Carolina’s Largest Garage Sale from 7 a.m. to 2 p.m. Saturday. Admission is free, but parking at the convention center is $3 per day. Spaces for the event have been sold out.
Jobs announcement
Officials will have a ceremony Tuesday for BauschLinnemann, a producer of surfaces and edge bandings for furniture makers, which is bringing 55 manufacturing jobs to a new facility the company will build in the Myrtle Beach area. The event will take place from 9:30 a.m. to 10:30 a.m. Tuesday at Horry-Georgetown Technical College’s Grand Strand Campus Conference Center, 950 Crabtree Lane, Myrtle Beach. Officials had initially scheduled a groundbreaking for the new building off Harrelson Boulevard near Myrtle Beach International Airport, but moved it inside because all the recent rain has made the site too wet.
