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LORIS, S.C. (WMBF) - You can start calling Loris the Hollywood of the Grand Strand because a film company is building a movie studio in the heart of the city.

The company, Dalton Pictures, is currently building 20,000 sq. ft. of studio sound stages right in downtown Loris.

Four different stages will transform into any filmmaker’s playground turning them into different movie sets like a restaurant, bank, or clothing store.

The city hopes both locals and tourists will get in on the action through behind-the-scenes tours or even starring as an extra.

The project is expected to bring dozens of jobs and will offer internships for those interested in the film business.

Jerry Dalton, the owner of Dalton Pictures, said Loris is a great place to get the cameras rolling.

“It’s the perfect fit. They want economic development here. They want new things here. They want it to happen, and the infrastructure is here. The city’s willing to work with us. We’re working with the city. And the back lot. We’ve got a beach 25 miles away. We’ve got mountains three hours away, so it’s a perfect shooting place,” said Dalton.

Loris already got a taste of fame when it was featured in the movie ‘A Carolina Christmas’ in 2020.

Dalton said he’s excited to shoot movies on the new stages and see other filmmakers come to Loris and bring their creations to life.

Dalton is also the creator of the Myrtle Beach International Film Festival and says it’s a great way to get into the movie business and make connections.

Mayor Todd Harrelson said he’s excited about the project and many other businesses making their way to Loris too.

“We got a Wing Zone coming in. We just got an urgent care. We just got a tractor supply store. A new bakery, and then boom, here we go on this project. It’s really got people excited around here,” said Harrelson.

The film studio in downtown Loris has been in the works for more than two years and is expected to be completed by the end of 2023.

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Already walloped by an unusually snowy storm last week, California is now facing even more wintry precipitation.

Several feet of snow fell in parts of Southern California starting Thursday and continued through the weekend, particularly in more mountainous regions.

The Mountain High Ski Resort, located in the San Gabriel mountains about an 80-mile drive northeast of Los Angeles, recorded 93 inches of snow. Other high-elevation areas saw more than 5 feet of heavy snow and are still digging out.

Satellite images from NASA's Earth Observatory showed the vast blankets of snow that fell in parts of Southern California, LAist reported.

But the atypical snowfall isn't over yet.

Another storm that began on Monday was predicted to drop even more snow on California, the worst of it coming Tuesday night into Wednesday. But it wasn't expected to be as strong as the weekend's weather, the National Weather Service in San Diego said.

Snowfall and strong winds were forecast for San Bernardino, Riverside and San Diego counties. The NWS San Diego office even predicted a brief atmospheric river with heavy precipitation.

Though such storms can help ease California's drought, that doesn't mean the drought is over.

Jeanine Jones, the interstate resources manager at California's Department of Water Resources, said in a statement to NPR that although the department typically waits until later in the season to assess the water supply, the recent weather appears to have been beneficial.

"The precipitation California has received in recent days combined with the nine atmospheric rivers in early January has helped ease drought impacts in parts of California," she said.

But Jones added that depleted groundwater resources are slower to recover, and rural areas that rely on groundwater are still struggling.

"It will take more than a single wet year for groundwater levels to substantially improve at a statewide scale."

According to the website PowerOutage.us, more than 69,000 electricity customers in California had no power as of late Tuesday morning PT.

Meanwhile, a widespread snowstorm arrived in the Northeast. Winter weather alerts were in effect in at least seven states along the East Coast, from Maine to New Jersey.

The NWS office in Gray, Maine, was predicting as much as a foot of snow in parts of New Hampshire and as much as 8 inches in parts of Maine.

By Tuesday morning, parts of Connecticut, Massachusetts and Rhode Island had already seen more than six inches of snow, while the Boston area received roughly a third of that or less.

The New York City metro area also fell in the storm's path but saw lower snowfall totals. Central Park got 1.8 inches of snow. Meteorologists said late Tuesday morning that precipitation in the metro area was starting to transition from frozen to liquid.

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HOLLYWOOD, S.C. (WCBD) – A couple from Hollywood, South Carolina will celebrate 75 years of marriage this year. The special couple, both aged 96, still love, laugh, and sing their way through a lifelong marriage.

The price of gas was .23 a gallon 75 years ago. Jackie Robinson took to the field for the Brooklyn Dodgers, becoming the first African American to play in Major League Baseball – but Robinson was not the only one making moves.

Leroy Morrison was working on a home run of his own and focused on a different diamond.

“We went to a wedding one day. A friend had a wedding across the street. I see a girl, and she was dressed so pretty. I said I’m going to carry one of those girls home tonight, two sisters. I said one of y’all gotta go home with me,” he recalled.

“I said this is the girl, I’m gonna marry,” said Mr. Morrison. A feat that took nine months, and the ball was clearly in Ms. Wilhelmina’s court.

“I tell her she’s the one. She looked at me and she said, I don’t love you,” he remembered.

“I used to didn’t like him because he wore suspenders hanging behind him, untidy on him. I just didn’t like him, he wasn’t sharp enough for me. I was sharp. I had a wide-rim hat. I was sharp. I knew I was sharp,” said Mrs. Morrison.

Love triumphed over fashion woes, and on June 12, 1947, Leroy Morrison and Wilhelmina Roach became husband and wife.

“Marriage license was $5.00,” said Mr. Morrison. “My wedding dress cost me $16. I got off of King Street,” added Mrs. Morrison.

Both are now 96 years old with ten children and a long lineage that follows.

The Morrisons say the secret to a happy marriage for them: is faith, forgiveness, compromise, patience, and protecting peace.

“The secret is it’s just like a rubber band. You take the rubber band, the more you stretch it, the more it gives. Don’t stretch it too much, and it stays together,” said Mr. Morrison.

“I always tell people take it, whatever stress comes on, you have to take it to make it, and that’s the only way you can make it,” said Mrs. Morrison. “I didn’t have all good days, but I took the bad days and the good days the same, give and take. He is forgiving, and I was forgiving with him also, that’s what kept us together.”

They also say good meals helped as well. “She’s a good cook. She cooked the meals and baked the pies,” said Mr. Morrison.

Mr. Morrison, a retired shoe repairman and barber, and Mrs. Morrison a stay-at-home mom remain inseparable. “Never spent one night away. If he goes outside, and I don’t see him for five or ten minutes, I’m looking for him,” Mrs. Morrison said.

The Morrisons are considered community champions because they dedicated their lives to helping others, and often hosted neighborhood events to feed their Hollywood community.

Both now have health challenges and have 24-hour care from family members, but they continue to give back in whatever way they can.

Their message to young couples starting out: “I would tell them; every day is not going to be Sunday. Every day is not going to be good. Some days will be bad, but I think most of my days are good days, and go to church treat everybody right, all those people who treat you wrong, love them anyhow,” said Mr. Morrison.

After 75 years of marriage, Mrs. Morrison still sings her song of love for her groom mixed with a kiss, but with notes that render a cautionary tale.

“I love you, Roy. You better not let me catch you walking down lover’s lane with anyone else but me, because I love you. I love you. I love you, Roy,” she sang.

The family held a big celebration to mark the three-quarters of a century milestone in August.

Together, they have ten children, twenty-four grandchildren, sixty-five great-grands, twelve great great grands, and five bonus adopted children.

Happy 75th Anniversary Mr. and Mrs. Morrison!

Tom Jones has announced a 2023 Ages & Stages tour that will open with two shows at the Hollywood Bowl on April 29 and 30. After a set of shows in North America, the itinerary will cross to Europe for dates including a show at Cardiff Castle on July 21.

Tickets for the shows go on general sale this Friday (10) and presales begin today for various dates. Full details are on Jones’ official website. The vocal master, now 82, will be giving his first headline performance in Cardiff for 21 years, although he guested with his friends and fellow Welshmen Stereophonics over two nights at their sellout shows at the city’s Principality Stadium last year.

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Other upcoming British dates include Ormeau Park in Belfast (June 16) and Stanmer Park, Brighton (July 5). Jones will also play the North Sea Jazz Festival in Rotterdam, Netherlands, on July 8.

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The full Ages & Stages tour dates are:

04/29 — Los Angeles, CA @ Hollywood Bowl 04/30 — Los Angeles, CA @ Hollywood Bowl 05/03 — Austin, TX @ ACL Live at the Moody Theatre 05/05 — Sugar Land, TX @ Smart Financial Centre at Sugar Land 05/07 — New Orleans, LA @ New Orleans Jazz & Heritage Festival 05/09 — Jacksonville, FL @ Florida Theatre 05/10 — Orlando, FL @ Hard Rock Live Orlando 05/12 — Hollywood, FL @ Seminole Hard Rock Hotel & Casino 05/13 — Sarasota, FL @ Van Wezel Performing Arts Hall 05/15 — Nashville, TN @ Ryman Auditorium 05/17 — North Charleston, SC @ North Charleston Performing Arts Center 05/19 — Oxon Hill, MD @ The Theater at MGM National Harbor 05/20 — Atlantic City, NJ @ Borgata Hotel Casino & Spa 05/22 — New Brusnwick, NJ @ State Theatre 05/23 — Huntington, NY @ The Paramount 05/25 — New York, NY @ Beacon Theatre 05/26 — Verona, NY @ Turning Stone Resort Casino 06/16 — Belfast, IE @ Ormeau Park 06/21 — Ulm, DE @ Klosterhof 06/23 — Munich, DE @ Tollwood Festival 06/27 — Frankfurt Am Main, DE @ Alte Oper 06/29 — Baden-baden, DE @ Festspielhaus Baden-Baden 07/03 — Dübendorf, CH @ The Hall 07/05 — Brighton, UK @ Stanmer Park 07/08 — Rotterdam, NL @ North Sea Jazz Festival 07/15 — Leicester, UK @ Leicester County Cricket Club 07/17 — Carcassonne, FR @ Festival de Carcassonne 07/22 — Newbury, UK @ Newbury Racecourse 07/26 — Esher, UK @ Sandown Park Racecourse 07/28 — Margate, UK @ Dreamland 07/30 — Jerez de la Frontera, ES @ Tio Pepe Festival 08/01 — Alicante, ES @ Plaza de Toros 08/03 — Valencia, ES @ Festival de Terramar 08/06 — Saffron Walden, Essex, UK @ Audley End House and Gardens

Wolves will join Wrexham in the ‘The Soccer Tournament’ in the United States this summer.

Wolves are the first Premier League entrant to the tournament, which will see 32 seven-a-side teams compete for the $1million (£825,000) prize, facing off against a wide range of sides from three-time Mexican champions Club Nexaca to a one from National League side Wrexham, who are owned by Hollywood stars Ryan Reynolds and Rob McElhenny.

It is expected the Wolves side will feature a selection of ‘club legends’ in the unique tournament, which will follow a ‘World Cup structure’ of an initial group stage followed by knockouts.

“Taking part in innovative tournaments in the USA is deep rooted in our history. Back in 1967, we were founders and champions of one of the first soccer tournaments on American soil – competing in the United Soccer Association, under the name of the Los Angeles Wolves,” said Russell Jones, Wolves’ general manager for marketing and commercial growth.

“It’s been a pleasure working with the TST team so far and I speak for everyone at Wolves when I say we are all looking forward to competing and seeing our many US based fans at the tournament in June,”

Each game will consist of two 20-minute halves followed by ‘target score time’, which will be ‘next goal wins’ if teams are drawing, or if a team is winning the target will be one more than the leading team’s score (i.e. if the score is 4-2, the target score is five).

In target score time, every five minute period that there is no goal a player will be removed from both teams until the target score is hit.

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Despite only 12 teams being announced, 31 of the slots are filled with the final slot to be auctioned off in March.

The tournament will take place in Cary, North Carolina between May 31 and June 4.

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