 Hello, Columbia, and welcome to CityView, where we give you an inside view of the City of Columbia. I'm your host, Alicia Utsi. In our top story, the City of Columbia recently hosted a career fair. It was a city-wide event with all departments and all positions available. We had an overwhelming response, and we'll share with you the success story. This opportunity to be able to work with the City of Columbia right here at home is invaluable. I mean, it really gives our students a chance to really see exactly if that's something that's going to be for them, or if it's going to get classy, enjoy right now, or if it's really a life opportunity that can set them up for many, many years to come. So I cannot say enough how greatly we appreciate the opportunity and the partnership, the one city partnership with the City of Columbia. It's a great opportunity for us, for all of us through all of our district, and for all of our students. Again, we thank everyone who came out to the career fair, and please know that we're still open for opportunities and for new careers. Please visit our website at columbysc.gov for open positions, or contact our human resources office at 545-3004. And speaking of being open, we're definitely open for business. New businesses have been opening in the city, and we're excited about all the new business owners and entrepreneurs. What a great opportunity, open Columbia. Every day that I get to go to a business that's opening up is a great day in the City of Columbia, and I have to tell you, it makes me so excited for this, because this is one of the things during the campaign and in the talks in the neighborhood we've talked about is filling a void. What I've always told people is, is that if you're a small business and you make an investment in Columbia, the community will support you. And we move now from business to leisure. Pickleball is a sport that is taking off in Columbia and across the nation. And now, there are two city facilities that offer pickleball courts. We've been talking about pickleball forever, and Howard probably has been the loudest of all folks on council about making it happen. But I have to tell you, pickleball is an incredible sport. It is so much fun. I like it better than tennis. It's much more social, in my opinion. And it gets very competitive, especially when you're playing against your spouse. At times, so, but what a great, I'm glad that we're making investments around our community. It has really become a draw and has really gotten people back out and together. Affordable housing is always a big story in the city of Columbia. And recently, we hosted a ribbon-cutting ceremony for new housing for Columbia's citizens. Gloria and her team, thank you so much for all the hard work that you've put in to this Don and your team out of Greenville and all over this wonderful state doing what you do for affordable housing initiatives. Also, I want to thank Fred Delkin, his team at the Columbia Development Corporation for the long, long due diligence time they put in to making this happen. Fred, I think you told me 10 years. Hey, that goes to show we're committed, we're innovative, and we're determined here at the city of Columbia to create quality residential offerings in our districts and in our city. Earth, it was recently celebrated in the city of Columbia, and our Mayor, Daniel Rickerman, along with other volunteers, gathered together to clean up the Book of Washington Heights neighborhood. Beautification is a key. It's part of our clean and safe plan. So the more we have clean streets, clean neighborhoods, more likely we have more investment, more people taking care of their properties and working together to build a more vibrant community. And so there's over 97 volunteers out here today helping clean up, and this is hopefully just the first of many neighborhoods where we're working together and really creating a beautiful, clean city. And now from Earth Day to a very special birthday. Recently, one of our citizens celebrated 100 years of living a great life here in the city of Columbia. So I'm so happy I don't know what to say and do. It's just a pleasure to have all my family and friends and neighbors and all proud and love every one of you. That's my priority in life is to love people from one to the other. I don't care who he is, little, big, any kind of coming in, I love him. And the Lord loves me and I know He blessed me to have such many friends as I have. Thank you, Columbia, for joining us for CityView. 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