Apple Festival luncheon announcement in the works

101.7/WGOG NEWS has learned that a first-term state department head will make the featured talk at this year’s Rotary South Carolina Apple Festival luncheon in Westminster.  We are told an announcement is being prepared to name Ellen Weaver, state superintendent of education, as the Friday, September 6 luncheon speaker.  The event is timed as part of and ahead of the two busiest days of the annual celebration of the county’s apple crop.