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News _ Upstate residents lose power to snow Staff Reports Associated Press ^ A winter storm that blanketed the Up state with ice and snow also wiped out power for nearly 70,000 utility customers. Some 36,000 Anderson County customers of Duke Power Co. still had no power Sunday afternoon, the North Carolina-based company said. About 23,500 customers were affected in Greenville County, and more than 10,000 customers had no power in Greenwood and Spartanburg counties. The storm also knocked out power for about 15,000 Duke customers in North Carolina. Blue Ridge Electric Cooperative re ported 3,000 customers without power f in Anderson, Oconee and Pickens coun ties Sunday morning. A spokeswoman couldn’t be reached later Sunday for up dated figures. The cold snap, unusual for South Car olina, left highways nearly unpassable through early Sunday and drove people to grocery stores to buy such staples as milk and bread. Rain and snow froze overnight, state Highway Patrol Lance Cpl. Dan Marsceau said. The rain Sunday morning started to thaw the ice, but coats of ice continued into Sunday, he said. As of 3 p.m. Sunday, Highway Patrol officers had responded to 58 traffic crash es in Anderson, Greenville, Oconee, Pick ens and Spartanbuig counties, Marsceau said. Officers responded to 406 crashes Saturday, but knew of no. fatalities or se rious injuries. Grant from page A1 physical activity and cardiovascular health of women; link community and statewide tobacco control efforts around the state; train public health professionals to conduct physical activity research and intervention programs; and devel op a program to help reduce risk for di abetes complications among rural South Carolinians. “This grant enables USC and South Carolina to engage in what is the next major challenge: the prevention of chron ic diseases and risk factors for diseases,” ■ said Dennis Shepard, deputy director of I the Prevention Research Center. “The majority of the research and I services provided through this grant will I have direct application in our state and “ will involve the collaboration of USC - researchers, health departments and community groups,” Shepard said. The CDC grant will also help fund a national Blue Ribbon Panel that will evaluate community health programs in an effort to reduce racial and ethnic health disparities. The panel will include representa tives from historically black colleges and universities, Hispanic service insti tutions, American Indian tribal colleges and other ethnic and racial groups, ac cording to Shepard. “The panel will develop the proto col to evaluate community health pro grams around the country, and it is the model that will be used by the CDC and other health groups,” Shepard said. m^mgS^EKj^^^oir^Iow. TAN EASY / 2 Weeks $19 Only 3 miles from campus JOHN McCAIN The character to do what is right, the Courage to fight for it. McCAINI -=2000 USC Organizational Meeting for McCain 2000 TONIGHT, 7pm McCain Headquarters 1620 Gervais St. Columbia, SC RSVP 1-888-688-2221 Russell Brewton, Campus Coordinator bigchill45@hotmail.com rARTOF LEADERSHIP i 'Paiwtirtp 7^aj6ett& Student Leadership Training Conference 2000 ^MWj£ Student Organizations: H Send 4 Members, Send 5th FREE Registration will not be accepted after January 28, 2000 $25 for USC-Columbia participants $35 for non-USC-Columbia participants Make checks payable to Leadership Programs. For more information, please call 777-6688. Presented by: Office of Leadership Programs»Department of Student Life*Division of Student and Alumni Services -. ' Chickaick.com Check out our networks at www.snowball.com The snowball.com networks, where its at for the Internet Generation. © 199V snowball.com. lire. All rights reserved