With the encouragement of Jeff Murrie, award-winning agriculture teacher at Briggs Elementary, a group of teachers led by Mallory Conner and Brandi McKay at McLaurin decided it was time for their school to have a garden of their own.
Woods Road and R.N. Beck Child Development Centers will soon have a lending library thanks to grants from Sonoco and Pee Dee Ready Mix. A team of Speech Language Pathologists (SLPs) in Florence 1 Schools put together the proposal that allowed them to secure the grants to create the library.