The Technical College of the Lowcountry will offer Basic Bookkeeping from 6 to 8 p.m. Mondays April 5 through April 26 at the TCL New River Campus in Bluffton. Cost is $149 and includes book.

Learn the basics of bookkeeping: how to organize records, how to complete income statements and balance sheets, how to prepare cash flow statements and how to reconcile accounts.

Introduction to QuickBooks will be offered from 6 to 8 p.m. Thursdays May 6 through June 24 at the TCL Beaufort Campus. Cost is $259 and includes book.

Students will learn the basics of QuickBooks by learning and practicing the following skills:

• getting started and setting up
• working with lists and bank accounts
• using other accounts in QuickBooks
• entering sales information, receiving payments and making deposits
• entering and paying bills

The Basic Bookkeeping course is a prerequisite for this course, or students can place into the class by passing a pretest.

For more information or to register, please call 843.525.8205 or visit www.tcl.edu/cewd.

Beaufort High School’s theater department will present the musical “Fame” at 7 p.m. March 4-6 and March 11-13 at the new Arts Center at Beaufort High School. Live musical accompaniment will be provided by members of the Marine Corps band.

The play is based on the highly successful 1980 film of the same name. The film centered on the trials and tribulations of a group of student’s at the New York High School of Performing Arts, now known as the Fiorello H. LaGuardia High School of Music & Art and Performing Arts. A stage musical based on the film has been staged under two titles. The first, Fame – The Musical conceived and developed by David De Silva, is a musical with a book by Jose Fernandez, music by Steve Margoshes and lyrics by Jacques Levy. The musical premiered in 1988 in Miami, Florida. as Fame on 42nd Street, it was performed Off-Broadway from 2003 to 2004. It has played continuously at London’s West End Theater since 1995. A TV series, Fame, spun off of the original movie, and ran from 1982 to 1987.

The Beaufort High School production will surely live up to its predecessors and is a “must see” for local theater goers.

Ticket cost $10 for adults and $8 for students. A military discount is offered. Group ticket pricing is available.

Details:

LaRaine Fess,

843-322-2152

or

http://www.facebook.com/event.php?eid=330202528137

The Beaufort County Sheriff’s Office Traffic Enforcement Team will be conducting a traffic safety checkpoint on Thursday, February 25^th, 2010 from 8:00 pm to 10:00 pm.

Checkpoint will be held at the following location:

• Westbound lanes of Highway 170 near Stuckey Brothers Furniture

This Public Safety Checkpoint will be conducted to enforce ALL South Carolina State Laws, with emphasis on violations related to driver’s licenses, vehicle registrations, and insurance.

Drivers passing through the checkpoint will be asked to produce their driver’s license, registration, and proof of insurance for their vehicle.

A 50-year-old Burton man was sentenced to life in prison without the chance of parole on Wednesday after being found guilty of a 2009 home invasion.

A jury convicted Calvin M. Shedrick of armed robbery, first-degree burglary and high-and-aggravated assault. Judge J. Ernest Kinard sentenced Shedrick to life without parole, a mandatory sentence based on his prior record.

On Oct. 28, 2009, Shedrick robbed a Roseida Road home at gunpoint, stealing $30 in cash and about 10 dime bags of marijuana from the home’s occupants.

After one of the victims initially refused to hand over drugs, Shedrick fired one shot, narrowly missing a 5-month-old boy who was being shielded by his father.

At the time of his arrest, Shedrick was on federal parole for the 1998 bank robbery of Wachovia in Beaufort. He has a string of additional prior convictions in South Carolina dating back to 1989, including burglary, grand larceny and robbery.

The case was prosecuted by assistant solicitor Meredith Bannon, one of four attorneys assigned to the Beaufort County Career Criminal Prosecution Team.

“Shedrick’s idea was that he could keep on robbing drug dealers and no one would care,” Bannon said. “The reality is that it doesn’t matter who the victim is. We don’t tolerate committing crimes against anybody.”

“In this incident, there was a very real chance an innocent person – an infant – could have been injured or worse,” she continued. “The bottom line is that Calvin Shedrick is an opportunist, a career criminal who wouldn’t hesitate to victimize or hurt anybody so long as he thought he could get away with it.”

Byron Hurt

The Technical College of the Lowcountry’s PILAU program will host a special lecture from documentary filmmaker and published writer Byron Hurt at 1 p.m., Tuesday, March 2 in the MacLean Hall Auditorium, Beaufort Campus. The event is free and open to the public.

Hurt’s lecture will be based on his acclaimed documentary “Hip Hop: Beyond Beats and Rhymes,” which examines multiple aspects of hip-hop culture and has been shown on PBS as a part of the award-winning “Independent Lens” series. The documentary will be shown at 1 p.m., Monday, March 1 in the MacLean Hall Auditorium. The public is also invited to participate in this viewing.

Chosen for the 2006 Sundance Film Festival, the movie examines representations of manhood, sexism, and homophobia in hip-hop culture.

Conceived as a “loving critique” of disturbing developments in mainstream rap music culture from a self-proclaimed “hip hop head,” Beyond Beats and Rhymes features cultural commentary and revealing interviews with famous rappers such as Fat Joe, Chuck D, Jadakiss, and Busta Rhymes. The film also features street interviews with aspiring rappers, as well as with young women at Spelman College and at hip-hop events. The film premiered on television earlier this year, hosted by Terrence Howard.

Hurt, a former Northeastern University quarterback turned anti-sexism activist, provides cutting-edge male leadership, expert analysis, keynote addresses, and workshop facilitation in the field of sexual and gender violence prevention and education. He received the prestigious Echoing Green public service fellowship in 1999, an award given to ambitious young activists devoted to creating social change in their communities. Over the past decade, Hurt has lectured at more than 100 college campuses and trained thousands of young men and women on issues related to gender, race, sex, violence, music, and visual media.

Hurt’s visit is sponsored by TCL’s PILAU program as part of its “Inspire Lecture Series.” Other presenters have included accomplished author Clifton Taulbert , talented playwright Pearl Cleage, celebrity Judge Glenda Hatchett, and Chauncey Mayfield, the President and Chief Executive Officer of Mayfield Gentry Realty Advisors LLC. Future lectures will include a presentation from the acclaimed author Michael Eric Dyson.