AROUND CAYCE, WEST COLUMBIA & SPRINGDALE

In honor of National Scavenger Hunt Day last Thursday, Mayor Elise Partin and the City of Cayce hosted a Cayce Riverwalk Scavenger Hunt. Residents were invited to find carved animal sculptures throughout the Riverwalk between the Blossom Street bridge and the train trestles over the Congaree River.

This walking scavenger hunt took place throughout the day Thursday. Participants took pictures with each animal sculpture they found, and posted the photo on Instagram, Twitter or Facebook with the hashtag, #CayceRiverwalk. Each participant was in a drawing to win the City of Cayce Prize Pack.

The sculptures are art pieces carved with a chainsaw by Wade Geddings and commissioned by the Cayce Beautification Foundation after the 2015 flood. Wade used trees that had fallen in the flood so that something good would come out of a terrible event. Some of the works of art are right off the path, while others are nestled in the woods in clear view of the path. Examples of the animals include a family of turtles, a salamander, two owls, a fox, a raccoon and a massive bear.

It was chaotic on the Lexington County interstates last Friday morning. I-26 East in West Columbia was blocked at the 110 mile marker due to a crash with injuries, according to the S.C. Highway Patrol. The crash resulted in traffic delays while crews cleared the road.

The crash took place just before 9 a.m. near U.S. 378 and involved five cars. Injuries were reported and one person was entrapped in a vehicle.

Units from Irmo and the Lexington County Fire Services also responded to a tractor-trailer fire on I-20 westbound at mile marker 63.