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October 11

2019: Beaufort High School defeats Bluffton, 35-24, at home to give Eagles Head Football Coach Bruce Lybrand his first win as a head coach.

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1935: John M. Trask, Jr. is born in Wilmington, N.C., to John M. Trask Sr. and Flora Graham Trask. He worked in the family farming business on St. Helena Island, chartered First Carolina Bank and served as Associate Administrator for Finance and Investment in the Small Business Administration during the Carter Administration from 1977 to 1979. In 1971, he partnered with Marguerite Broz and Betty Waskiewicz to form the Beaufort County Open Land Trust.

— Compiled by Mike McCombs

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