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(1896, 4, '2011-07-07 02:27:43', '2011-07-07 02:27:43', 'A Lobeco-based specialty food company that’s been spotlighted by no less than Oprah Winfrey and “The New York Times” will open a storefront in downtown Beaufort’s former City Hall, the Beaufort Redevelopment Commission and Mayor Billy Keyserling announced.<!--more-->\n\nThe 1917 structure, beside the county library in the heart of Beaufort’s historic downtown, served as Beaufort City Hall until last summer when staff moved to the new facility at the intersection of Ribaut Road and Boundary Street.\n\nThe Beaufort Redevelopment Commission tackled the task of finding a suitable tenant to fill the imposing and important structure at Carteret and Port Republic streets.\n\nDuring mid-March workshops as part of the Redevelopment Commission’s Civic Master Plan process, several people expressed interest in rehabbing and re-using the former City Hall, said Jon Verity, chairman of the Redevelopment Commission.\n\n“Lowcountry Produce is an ideal company to move into the old City Hall. This kind of reinvestment in the heart of downtown, especially with such a historic and important building, is key to keeping Beaufort a vibrant and thriving place to do business,” Verity said.\n\nOriginally built as a post office, the structure has undergone multiple renovations in the past 90 years. Under the lease agreement, Lowcountry Produce will make additional changes to convert the corner building into a retail food market.\n\nLowcountry Produce, led by Noel Garrett, his brother Dwight Garrett and Seabury Thorp, is a purveyor of specialty food products distributed to over 1,500 stores across the country. The Garrett’s parents, Martha and Dwight Garrett, founded the company.\n\nAll products are handmade and hand-packed using only all-natural ingredients. The products are made locally at the farmstand in Lobeco. For more information, visit www.lowcountryproduce.com.\n\n&nbsp;\n\n&nbsp;', 'Lowcountry Produce market to open in old Beaufort City Hall', '', 'publish', 'open', 'open', '', 'lowcountry-produce-market-to-open-in-old-beaufort-city-hall', '', '', '2011-07-07 02:27:43', '2011-07-07 02:27:43', '', 0, 'http://www.beaufortislandnews.com/?p=1896', 0, 'post', '', 0),
(1898, 4, '2011-07-07 02:28:39', '2011-07-07 02:28:39', '&nbsp;\n\n&nbsp;\n\nBy Terry Sweeney\n\nShhh ... I’m trying to hear what a particularly bossy bottle of Bonny Doon Big House White is whispering to me from my kitchen corner wine rack.  What was that, Bonny? “Open me. Open me.  Open me….”<!--more-->\n\n“Sorry, but I’ve already had a bottle of white wine,”  I firmly reply,  “and besides it’s Sunday.” I add, “And I’ve got a big week ahead of me and ...” “Blah, blah, blah ... talk to the cork!” She rudely interrupts, then adds wistfully, “I remember when you used to be fun.”\n\nAfter that remark, it’s on! And, sure enough, come Monday, I’ve overslept, look like hell, and I’m full of regret and aspirin. And Bonny? She disappeared in the middle of the night. No goodbye. Not even a note.\n\nThis is typical of the bad influence that some bottles of wine have over all of us.  Like the ones that say: “Hey, it’s midnight, you know what would taste good right about now? A giant bowl of pasta and sauce.”  “Yeah,” I chime in. “Why didn’t I think of that?” (Maybe it’s because I’m on a diet.) The next day, I awake fatter and with the kitchen so covered in tomato sauce it looks like a mafia hit.\n\nMy friend Debbie confessed to me that two bottles of Beaujolais ganged up on her once and urged her to call a co-worker at two in the morning to tell him how much she secretly fantasized about him and how “hot” she thought he was. She did and blurted it all out in a wine-fueled frenzy ending by seductively asking in her sexiest voice: What did he think about her? “I don’t know,” the man’s WIFE replied. “I’ll ask him when he wakes up tomorrow.” Needless to say, my red-faced gal pal transferred to a different branch of the bank.\n\nPolling our friends, they all vehemently agreed that Wine’s favorite devil-on-your-shoulder wily whisper is: “You know what you need? A cigarette.”  Don’t smoke anymore?  Well then who’s that nicotine junkie outside in the cloud of blue smoke getting eaten alive by mosquitoes with a glass of Merlot in one hand and a Marlboro light in the other?  Thanks, Wine!\n\nIt’s a well known fact that Marie Antoinette loved her bubbles. After all, the early French champagne glasses were actually designed in the shape of her naked breasts, which she apparently did not mind everybody seeing! She was probably history’s first “Girl Gone Wild.” For no doubt she was reeling from too much fancy French bubbly when some poor foot soldier rushed in and told her “the people are starving,” and asked her what should he tell them. It was the champagne talking when she replied “Let ‘em eat cake!”  “Hilarious!” Champagne assured her. “They’ll be rolling in the aisles!” And they were. Their heads, that is.\n\nOf course, even bad wine advice occasionally does some good. By accident of course. Columbus, you remember, was looking for India when he set sail with giant wooden barrels full of his favorite red Italian wine stashed below, no doubt made from Italy’s famous old Nebbiolo grapes. Nebbiolo by the way, comes from the word “Nebbia,” the thick fog that envelopes the hills of the Piedmont in late fall when the grapes are being picked.  Thick fog indeed.  At some point, while drunk as a skunk, a goblet of wine must have shouted in his ear, “Hang a left!”  India?  More like Indiana.  It’s the loud-mouthed Nebbiolo grape that perhaps really deserves the credit for discovering America.\n\nStill, let’s face it. That good deed is the exception, not the rule. The more bottles of wine you drink, the chattier wine gets, and before you know it, your cabernet has turned into a gabernet and is talking your ear off with all sorts of “helpful” suggestions that it would be wiser not to take.\n\nFINAL WARNING: No matter how many times Wine tells you to do it,  NEVER call an old boyfriend or girlfriend after 20 years to “see how they’re doing” OR email anyone after even two glasses of wine OR watch the Shopping Channel ...\n\n&nbsp;\n\n&nbsp;', 'The bad things wine tells you to do', '', 'publish', 'open', 'open', '', 'the-bad-things-wine-tells-you-to-do', '', '', '2011-07-07 02:28:39', '2011-07-07 02:28:39', '', 0, 'http://www.beaufortislandnews.com/?p=1898', 0, 'post', '', 0),
(1900, 4, '2011-07-07 02:29:30', '2011-07-07 02:29:30', '&nbsp;\n\nBy State Farm® Agent\n\nSummer is here and that means it’s time for vacations, cookouts and summer road trips.  Before you jump into the family vehicle, have you done everything you could to ensure safe travels?  If not, you may want to think twice about driving “Old Faithful” across the country or across town to a barbecue.<!--more-->\n\nWe all know with summer comes extreme heat, which can wreak havoc on a car.  However, there are a few things you can do to ensure you keep your car in its best operating condition.\n\n<strong>Get your oil changed</strong>. Every 3,000 miles, or every three to six months, is usually the amount of time between oil changes. (It’s also not a bad idea to rotate your tires every other oil change to ensure equal wear.)  Oil is critical to the function of an engine.  Not changing the oil can lead to increased wear and tear on the engine, which could decrease performance.  An underperforming engine can lead to many other problems.\n\n<strong>Check all engine fluid levels </strong>(along with coolant, transmission and brake fluids)<strong>.</strong>\n\n<strong>Have your vehicle inspected.</strong> Before going on long road trips, it is highly suggested you have your vehicle inspected by a certified mechanic. They will be able to diagnose and assess any issues your vehicle may have.\n\n<strong>Check your tire pressure (including the spare)</strong>.  For the most part, vehicles can lose about one pound of pressure per month.  Driving on underinflated tires can lead to increased gas consumption, and more wear and tear on the tires among other things. Above all, it just isn’t safe.\n\nNot only do you want to make sure your vehicle is mechanically sound, but you also want to make sure you keep the proper necessities available in your car.  If you were to become stranded somewhere, do you have items that would make your wait a little less painful?  Here are just a few items you’ll want to make sure you keep in your car, not only in the summer months, but year round:\n\n• Flashlight, flares and a first-aid kit\n\n• Jumper cables\n\n• A mat or blanket\n\n• Extra clothes and gloves (you never know when you may have to go under the hood or the car)\n\n• Paper towels\n\n• Extra washer fluid\n\n• Nonperishable food\n\n• Water\n\n• Basic tools\n\nNow that you’ve had your car inspected and you’ve stocked your trunk with the proper necessities, you should be ready to go.  Remember to get plenty of rest before you drive long distances. Safe, happy travels to you!\n\n&nbsp;', 'It’s summer — is your car safe to drive?', '', 'publish', 'open', 'open', '', 'it%e2%80%99s-summer-%e2%80%94-is-your-car-safe-to-drive', '', '', '2011-07-07 02:29:30', '2011-07-07 02:29:30', '', 0, 'http://www.beaufortislandnews.com/?p=1900', 0, 'post', '', 0),
(1902, 4, '2011-07-07 02:30:53', '2011-07-07 02:30:53', '<a href=\"http://www.beaufortislandnews.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/07/Business-KelliFranklin.jpg\"><img class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-1903\" title=\"Business-KelliFranklin\" src=\"http://www.beaufortislandnews.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/07/Business-KelliFranklin-300x263.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"263\" /></a>Kelli Franklin of Beaufort has joined Outdoor Architecture, a residential and commercial landscape design firm based in Beaufort. Franklin, who has a master’s degree in landscape architecture, has extensive experience in residential and commercial landscaping, open space planning, parks and recreation, community planning, permitting, construction documents and construction administration. She was formerly with Wood+Partners Inc., a landscape architect firm on Hilton Head Island.<!--more-->\n\nOutdoor Architecture emphasizes organic and natural landscaping methods, conservation, the use of native plants, and thought-provoking, elegant designs. Call 843-247-3550 to reach Outdoor Architecture.\n\n&nbsp;', 'Kelli Franklin joins Outdoor Architecture', '', 'publish', 'open', 'open', '', 'kelli-franklin-joins-outdoor-architecture', '', '', '2011-07-07 02:30:53', '2011-07-07 02:30:53', '', 0, 'http://www.beaufortislandnews.com/?p=1902', 0, 'post', '', 0),
(1905, 4, '2011-07-07 02:31:38', '2011-07-07 02:31:38', '<strong>\n</strong>\n\nMelodic Latte Cafe is the perfect place to have an artistic seat and be creative. As its name suggests, it’s rhythmically located inside ARTworks. The menu offers gourmet organic coffee with no shortage on great taste, cold coffee at its best, as well as hot chocolate (also served cold) and green tea along with the world’s best coffee “Jamaica Blue Mountain.” <!--more-->The wall of musical history travels from B.B. King, Dizzie Gillespie to Aretha Franklin &amp; L.L. Cool J. Patrons will enjoy sipping a great fresh cup of coffee and remember music, past and present. Let’s celebrate the best by giving in to life’s grand passion: Coffee drinking. Hours of operation are Tuesday to Friday, 11 a.m. to 6 p.m. and Saturday, noon to 4 p.m. Closed on Sunday and Mondays.\n\n&nbsp;', 'Melodic Latte Cafe to open August 1', '', 'publish', 'open', 'open', '', 'melodic-latte-cafe-to-open-august-1', '', '', '2011-07-07 02:31:38', '2011-07-07 02:31:38', '', 0, 'http://www.beaufortislandnews.com/?p=1905', 0, 'post', '', 0),
(1907, 4, '2011-07-07 02:33:06', '2011-07-07 02:33:06', '<a href=\"http://www.beaufortislandnews.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/07/Arts-Gullah-Carolina-Book-Cover.jpg\"><img class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-1908\" title=\"Arts-Gullah Carolina Book Cover\" src=\"http://www.beaufortislandnews.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/07/Arts-Gullah-Carolina-Book-Cover-237x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"237\" height=\"300\" /></a>Halftide Publishing in Okatie announces the publication of a new book, “The Gullahs of South Carolina” by Pearce W. Hammond. The book tells an urgent and important story about the Gullah people and their vanishing way of life and culture. Many Americans are unaware that along the South Carolina coast lies a culture more strongly rooted in African ways than any other in America.<!--more-->\n\nIt was a time when most sea islanders were black and understood the importance of tucking Spanish moss into a shoe, painting window trim blue, and running like mad from a coachwhip snake. The rivers and ocean were theirs for fishing; the salt marshes theirs for shrimping, crabbing and oystering; and the woods theirs for hunting. They sang spirituals and spoke their native tongue without shame. They wove baskets without worrying that the sweet grass might vanish from the swamps someday. They delivered their own babies, made medicine of herbs, and knitted their own fishing nets. They danced and clapped when they worshiped, told stories, and adorned graves with life’s necessities and pleasures so the departed could pass easily and amiably between material and spiritual worlds. In quiet self-sufficiency, the Gullahs lived off the water and the land and their unique culture thrived in isolation for centuries on the remote sea islands until the outside world discovered the islands and started paying millions to own them and new ways were forcing out the old.\n\n“The Gullahs of South Carolina” gives a pictorial journey through the sea islands and Lowcountry of South Carolina with artwork by the author; it also conveys the great love of the Gullah people for the land and the water in peaceful times gone by. The images and text in each section provides historical information and interesting facts about the Gullah people, their way of life, and their culture.\n\nThe book also creates public awareness of the Gullah language, lifestyle and culture so that Gullah children and future generations will know and recognize the significant contributions the Gullah people have made to South Carolina and to America’s heritage.\n\n“The Gullahs of South Carolina” is available from the author’s website: http://www.pearcehammond.com and from Amazon.com and from The Filling Station Art Gallery in Bluffton.\n\n&nbsp;\n\n&nbsp;', 'New book explores Gullah culture', '', 'publish', 'open', 'open', '', 'new-book-explores-gullah-culture', '', '', '2011-07-07 02:33:06', '2011-07-07 02:33:06', '', 0, 'http://www.beaufortislandnews.com/?p=1907', 0, 'post', '', 0),
(1910, 4, '2011-07-07 02:36:17', '2011-07-07 02:36:17', '&nbsp;\n\n<a href=\"http://www.beaufortislandnews.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/07/Arts-1-kinshipcasting.jpg\"><img class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-1911\" title=\"Arts-1 kinshipcasting\" src=\"http://www.beaufortislandnews.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/07/Arts-1-kinshipcasting-225x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"225\" height=\"300\" /></a>University of South Carolina Beaufort Studio Art Program and the USCB Art Gallery will be exhibiting the work of artist and sculptor, Matt Toole.<!--more-->\n\nHe will showcase prototypes, models, and images of the original performance featured at the Sixth International Conference on Contemporary Cast Iron Art, held in Kidwelly, Wales, during July of 2010.\n\nToole will give an hourlong talk, followed by a reception, on August 25, at 6 p.m.  His work will be on exhibit in the USCB Center for the Arts from July 18 until September 2. The general public is encouraged to attend the talk, reception, and exhibition, which are all free of charge.\n\n“Kinship: A Tribute of Iron” explores the concept associated with an evolution of human creative endeavors, building upon what has been previously learned and is passed down through generations, resulting in accumulated knowledge. This tribute celebrates the exchange of knowledge represented by the usage of cast iron. It is funded through a Presidential Fellowship for Faculty Development from the Savannah College of Art and Design.\n\n&nbsp;', 'Artist and sculptor to hold talk at USCB', '', 'publish', 'open', 'open', '', 'artist-and-sculptor-to-hold-talk-at-uscb', '', '', '2011-07-07 02:36:17', '2011-07-07 02:36:17', '', 0, 'http://www.beaufortislandnews.com/?p=1910', 0, 'post', '', 0),
(1913, 4, '2011-07-07 02:37:23', '2011-07-07 02:37:23', 'Annually, since 1982, the S.C. Department of Natural Resources conducts a Summer Turkey Survey to estimate reproduction and recruitment of wild turkeys in South Carolina. The survey involves agency wildlife biologists, technicians, and conservation officers, as well as many volunteers from other natural resource agencies and the general public. The survey is conducted in July and August each year.<!--more-->\n\nThe Summer Turkey Survey is designed to monitor annual nesting success of hens and survival of their young, which has the greatest influence on wild turkey population dynamics. The information allows biologists to calculate many factors essential for sound turkey management including: average brood size, percentage of hens with and without young, gobbler to hen ratio, and overall numbers of turkeys seen. Combined with harvest data, this allows the S.C. Department of Natural Resources (DNR) to make scientific recommendations to the South Carolina General Assembly in order to manage the wild turkey population now and in the future.\n\nIf you are interested in participating in the annual Summer Turkey Survey additional information including instructions and recording forms can be found on the DNR website at the following address:  http://www.dnr.sc.gov/wildlife/turkey/volunbroodsurvey.html. Additional information on wild turkeys in South Carolina can be found on the DNR website at the following address: http://www.dnr.sc.gov/wildlife/turkey/index.html.\n\n&nbsp;', 'Volunteers needed for Summer Turkey Survey', '', 'publish', 'open', 'open', '', 'volunteers-needed-for-summer-turkey-survey', '', '', '2011-07-07 02:37:23', '2011-07-07 02:37:23', '', 0, 'http://www.beaufortislandnews.com/?p=1913', 0, 'post', '', 0),
(1915, 4, '2011-07-07 02:38:44', '2011-07-07 02:38:44', 'The S.C. Department of Natural Resources reminds all paddle sport enthusiasts the importance of safety and of all applicable safety regulations when participating in such recreational activities on our waterways. Paddle sports include: paddleboards, paddle boats, canoes and kayaks.<!--more-->\n\nMost recently the “paddleboard” has become extremely popular and an alternative to traditional paddle sports. The operator of a paddleboard, typically standing, manually propels the craft through the use of a paddle similar to that of a canoe while navigating through a particular body of water. As such, the US Coast Guard has defined the paddleboard as a “vessel” in accordance with Title 1 United States Code, Section 3, and thus is subject to the minimum safety requirements. This includes the possession of a wearable US Coast Guard approved Type I, II, III or V Personal Flotation Device (PFD) that fits the intended user and an efficient sound producing device such as a whistle or a horn. Paddleboards used in a traditional surfing, swimming and bathing areas are exempted from these requirements.\n\nThese safety requirements are applicable to paddle boats, canoes and kayaks on all public waterways in the state of South Carolina. In addition, a flashlight or lantern must be available for use if participating in these activities between official sunset to official sunrise. The S.C. Department of Natural Resources encourages all waterway users to wear their PFD and take a free boater education course. To find more information on these classes and other boating questions, please go to www.dnr.sc.gov/boating/safety.html or call 1-800-277-4301.\n\n&nbsp;', 'Don’t forget personal flotation devices for paddle sports', '', 'publish', 'open', 'open', '', 'don%e2%80%99t-forget-personal-flotation-devices-for-paddle-sports', '', '', '2011-07-07 02:38:44', '2011-07-07 02:38:44', '', 0, 'http://www.beaufortislandnews.com/?p=1915', 0, 'post', '', 0),
(1917, 4, '2011-07-07 02:44:57', '2011-07-07 02:44:57', '<strong>\n</strong>\n\n<a href=\"http://www.beaufortislandnews.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/07/Voices-Jack-Sparacino.jpg\"><img class=\"alignleft size-thumbnail wp-image-1918\" title=\"OLYMPUS DIGITAL CAMERA\" src=\"http://www.beaufortislandnews.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/07/Voices-Jack-Sparacino-150x150.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" /></a>By Jack Sparacino\n\nIt turns out that the term “whiting” is pretty popular.  There are towns named Whiting in Maine, Vermont, Kansas, Indiana, New Jersey and Wisconsin, for example.  It’s interesting that none of these places is on the ocean and therefore nowhere near the whiting fish we enjoy here.  Most of these towns were in fact cleverly named after people named Whiting.  We also have the Whiting Door Manufacturing Corporation, located in Akron, N.Y.; they are the original maker of roll-up doors for the transportation industry.  I should also point out that Whiting, Kansas, is the proud home of Schlaegel’s Homegrown Popcorn, no doubt a fine company making a fish-free consumer staple.<!--more-->\n\n<a href=\"http://www.beaufortislandnews.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/07/Outdoors-baiting-a-rig-for-whiting-at-Hunting-Island-pier1.jpg\"><img class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-1920\" title=\"OLYMPUS DIGITAL CAMERA\" src=\"http://www.beaufortislandnews.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/07/Outdoors-baiting-a-rig-for-whiting-at-Hunting-Island-pier1-e1310006600241-300x161.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"161\" /></a>Best of all for many of us, Lowcountry waters are full of whiting.  We’re talking about menticirrhus littoralis, a common food fish that looks somewhat like a very small cod.  If you’ve ever enjoyed a fried fish basket locally, chances are pretty good you’ve dined on the mighty whiting, sometimes called kingfish.\n\n<a href=\"http://www.beaufortislandnews.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/07/Outdoors-whiting-and-fillet-knife.jpg\"><img class=\"alignright size-medium wp-image-1921\" title=\"OLYMPUS DIGITAL CAMERA\" src=\"http://www.beaufortislandnews.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/07/Outdoors-whiting-and-fillet-knife-300x225.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"225\" /></a>Now for the first of several confessions.  I’ve been fishing for over 50 years with fairly good success and have caught some nice cod in New England, including a decent bunch on our honeymoon (the innkeeper cooked and served them to us perfectly that night).  But only after catching a couple dozen or so whiting down here did I even know what they were.  Scrappy little fighters, yes, and pretty good live bait, but delicious, too?  You bet.  But I’m getting ahead of myself.   How about I just get to the basics.\n\n<strong> Basic #1: Think simple and secure</strong>\n\nWhiting like cool to moderate temperature waters that are at least 5 feet deep over sandy or mud bottoms (didn’t Sandy Bottoms star in beach blanket movies in the 1960’s?).  They like bits of shrimp or squid presented on small hooks (#1 or 2), fished with small sinkers (1-2 ounces).  They also like the tail end of the outgoing tide.  You should pay close attention to your rod, though.  Don’t leave it unattended for very long.  I’ve learned the hard way not to leave a baited rod resting against a boat rail or on a dock.  A much larger game fish is liable to relieve you of your catch and your rod and reel, all in about five seconds.\n\n<strong>Basic #2: Think small</strong>\n\nWhiting average only about 7-10” and if you get one over a foot long you deserve a pat on the back (two pats for a double header that size).  Make sure your knife is extra sharp so that when you fillet them, nothing is wasted.  Try not to get so excited, as I have on occasion, that you leave your knife at the sink and don’t remember it until after it’s dark and you’re barefoot.\n\n<strong>Basic #3: Think Cycling (OK, Recycling)</strong>\n\nWhiting skins make good minnow bait and minnows are in turn excellent bait for local seatrout and redfish.  Whiting heads and backbones can be stuffed into your crab trap to very good effect.  This is a lot safer to do than trying to stuff a live toadfish into your bait holder, and I have a nice scar on my left pinkie to prove it.\n\n<strong> Basic #4: Think savory</strong>\n\nFried whiting fillets are wonderful.  Dredge them in flour or mix up a flour, beer and OldBay batter (to pancake thickness) and dip the fillets before frying in vegetable oil. Serve with whatever sides you like best — cole slaw, hush puppies, a green or tomato salad, for example — and a cold drink and you have a wonderful seafood treat.  May I also recommend you turn the burner off when you’re done so you don’t torch your pan and create evacuation conditions in your house with a dense choking fog of burned oil and teflon (not an experience I want to repeat, despite the successful test of every smoke detector we had in the house).\n\nSo don’t hesitate to dial down your fishing preference a bit some day soon and try your luck with the mighty whiting.  Take some kids along and impress your friends with your humility and your familiarity with one of the best little fish on the block.  And send me some pictures!\n\n&nbsp;', 'The Mighty Whiting', '', 'publish', 'open', 'open', '', 'in-search-of-the-mighty-whiting', '', '', '2011-07-07 02:44:57', '2011-07-07 02:44:57', '', 0, 'http://www.beaufortislandnews.com/?p=1917', 0, 'post', '', 0),
(1924, 4, '2011-07-07 02:49:25', '2011-07-07 02:49:25', '&nbsp;\n\n[caption id=\"attachment_1925\" align=\"alignleft\" width=\"300\" caption=\"Photo courtesy of Eric Horan\"]<a href=\"http://www.beaufortislandnews.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/07/Lifestyle-Wimbledon1.jpg\"><img class=\"size-medium wp-image-1925\" title=\"Lifestyle-Wimbledon1\" src=\"http://www.beaufortislandnews.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/07/Lifestyle-Wimbledon1-e1310006893827-300x144.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"144\" /></a>[/caption]\n\nCallawassie Island celebrated the grand tradition of Wimbledon on June 24 with a unique take on the oldest tennis tournament in the world.<!--more-->\n\n<a href=\"http://www.beaufortislandnews.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/07/Lifestyle-Wimbledon2.jpg\"><img class=\"alignright size-medium wp-image-1926\" title=\"Lifestyle-Wimbledon2\" src=\"http://www.beaufortislandnews.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/07/Lifestyle-Wimbledon2-300x201.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"201\" /></a>At “Callawassie Wimbledon” a grass court was created on the 9th fairway of the Dogwood Course. Tennis enthusiasts sipped on champagne while enjoying the classic Wimbledon dish of strawberries and cream.\n\n“The atmosphere was just awesome,” said Callawassie Island tennis pro Bill  Hoppe. “Wimbledon in England has nothing on us!”\n\nCallawassie Island is a private, gated island community in Okatie that offers its members world-class golf, top-notch tennis, and a thriving community amid the picturesque natural surroundings of tidal marshes and lush coastal flora.\n\nThe community boasts six Har-Tru tennis courts, a pro shop, patio and pavilion. The Callawassie Tennis Association has more than 200 members.\n\nCall 843-987-2737 or visit www.callawassieisland.com for more information.\n\n&nbsp;', 'Callawassie Wimbledon', '', 'publish', 'open', 'open', '', 'callawassie-wimbledon', '', '', '2011-07-07 02:49:25', '2011-07-07 02:49:25', '', 0, 'http://www.beaufortislandnews.com/?p=1924', 0, 'post', '', 0),
(1928, 4, '2011-07-07 02:51:19', '2011-07-07 02:51:19', 'By Jill Weaver\n\nThe art of organizing and time management is a continual study in life.  In this pursuit, there exist three words that work against us and are known as the ‘bad words of organizing’.  They are commonly used words that most people would not think twice about using.  These words represent lost documents, uncompleted tasks and hanging onto clutter.  If you are striving for an organized life, look for these words in your work and life and try to eliminate them for good.<!--more-->\n\n<strong>Miscellaneous</strong> is often a lonely file that creeps into many filing systems.  When was the last time you looked for miscellaneous?  This title ends up being a dumping ground for indecision.  Instead, while sorting your items and papers I suggest creating a category for “I don’t know yet”.  At the end of your organizing project you revisit these papers and decide if those items can join other already created files or if it deserves its own new file (with a specific title!).  By deciding now you can avoid the black hole of the miscellaneous category and be able to find your papers when you need them.\n\n<strong>Later</strong> is found when we talk about trying to get things done.  “I’ll attend to that later”, “I’ll put that away later”, and “I’ll make that decision later”.  Later is another word for delayed decision making.  It also is the root cause for piles, missed deadlines and disorganization.  Take a few minutes to decide to decide and get that one decision complete.  By making these decisions today, you can live a simpler, more organized life.\n\n<strong>Just in Case </strong>is often whispered in our closets and garages. “I’ll hold onto this just in case”.  Remember that holding onto items ‘just in case’ costs you time, money and storage real estate.  One year is a good mark to determine if a ‘just in case’ item is worth keeping.\n\nFor those who are striving for an organized life, try to work these words out of your vocabulary.  You will be able to find things easier, get things done more efficiently and have less clutter.\n\n&nbsp;\n\n&nbsp;', 'The Three Bad Words of Organizing', '', 'publish', 'open', 'open', '', 'the-three-bad-words-of-organizing', '', '', '2011-07-07 02:51:19', '2011-07-07 02:51:19', '', 0, 'http://www.beaufortislandnews.com/?p=1928', 0, 'post', '', 0),
(1930, 4, '2011-07-07 02:53:02', '2011-07-07 02:53:02', '[caption id=\"attachment_1931\" align=\"alignleft\" width=\"300\" caption=\"Firefighter Heidi Charest of the Lady’s Island St. Helena Fire District competes in the team event at the Firefighter Combat Challenge.\"]<a href=\"http://www.beaufortislandnews.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/07/Lifestyle-Heidi-Charest.jpg\"><img class=\"size-medium wp-image-1931\" title=\"Lifestyle-Heidi Charest\" src=\"http://www.beaufortislandnews.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/07/Lifestyle-Heidi-Charest-300x257.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"257\" /></a>[/caption]\n\nIn recent weeks, firefighters from the Lady’s Island St. Helena Fire District have accumulated state, national, and even international awards for their exceptional performances.<!--more-->\n\nFirefighter Heidi Charest earned top honors within our state for her efforts in the Firefighter Combat Challenge held in Myrtle Beach. Charest was challenged to scale 5 flights of stairs, hoist a 30 pound hose up 5 stories, return to ground level, move a 150 pound block 5 feet using a sledge hammer, pull a water filled fire hose 100’ and then finish it all with a 150 pound dummy drag 75’ to the finish line. She managed to accomplish these tasks in full firefighter clothing in less than two and half minutes her respective teams. In doing so, Heidi brought home first place in our state in the female tandem with local firefighter Heather Callender and team divisions with her teammates Heather Callender, Marie Antoinette McCulley and Holly Nourigat.\n\nAdditionally, the Lady’s Island St. Helena Fire District Auto Extrication Team, (see photo) who specializes in removing people from mangled cars, placed first in our state, second in the U.S, and sixth in North America, and seventh in the world for their combined efforts. Having competed against teams from Sweden, Great Britain, Canada and others in the U.S., the team earned numerous honors for their exceptional work with the Jaws of Life and similar lifesaving tools.\n\nConsisting of six firefighters — Team Captain Eric Taylor, Medic Scott Sampson, Specialists Billy McKay, Jamie Earle, David Sewell, and John Bekemeyer — the team was given three different simulated auto accidents and were graded on each. Grading criteria ranged from patient care to overall safety as they were given 10 or 20 minutes respectively to take a trapped individual out of a pile of wrecked metal and glass.\n\nWhen all is said and done, these firefighters spent much of their own time and monies to train, prepare, and then compete in these competitions. In the end they each gained advanced training that allows them to provide even better service to those whom the Lady’s Island St. Helena Fire District protect. Additionally, all that was learned through such competitions will soon be shared with all of the firefighters in the department in an ongoing training regimen that has for many years improved the overall service that the Fire District offers all who are in need.\n\n&nbsp;\n\n&nbsp;', 'Local Firefighters Bring Home Many Accolades', '', 'publish', 'open', 'open', '', 'local-firefighters-bring-home-many-accolades', '', '', '2011-07-07 02:53:02', '2011-07-07 02:53:02', '', 0, 'http://www.beaufortislandnews.com/?p=1930', 0, 'post', '', 0),
(1933, 4, '2011-07-07 02:54:27', '2011-07-07 02:54:27', '<strong>\n</strong>\n\n<strong><em> </em></strong>\n\n<strong> </strong>\n\n<a href=\"http://www.beaufortislandnews.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/07/Lifestyle-Habersham.jpg\"><img class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-1934\" title=\"Lifestyle-Habersham\" src=\"http://www.beaufortislandnews.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/07/Lifestyle-Habersham-300x168.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"168\" /></a>The Habersham Marketplace in Beaufort hosted its July “First Fridays” event as part of a free and ongoing summer series for the Beaufort community. The Burton Fire Department assisted attendees in their attempts to stay cool with incremental water “showers” that kept the young and young at heart coming back for more. “First Fridays” events boast an expanded Farmer’s Market with local and regional growers, along with arts, crafts, specialty food vendors and live music. The event was accompanied by local bluegrass band Ban Jovi.<!--more-->\n\nThe August First Fridays event will feature music, lessons and dancing with The Beaufort Shag Club.\n\nThe Habersham Marketplace is located at 13 Market St. in the Habersham Community, located off of Joe Frazier Road in Beaufort. For more information, event schedule and band listings, visit www.habershammarketplace.com.\n\n&nbsp;', 'Habersham Marketplace Hosts Wet and Wild First Fridays Event', '', 'publish', 'open', 'open', '', 'habersham-marketplace-hosts-wet-and-wild-first-fridays-event', '', '', '2011-07-07 02:54:27', '2011-07-07 02:54:27', '', 0, 'http://www.beaufortislandnews.com/?p=1933', 0, 'post', '', 0),
(1936, 4, '2011-07-07 02:58:09', '2011-07-07 02:58:09', '[caption id=\"attachment_1937\" align=\"alignleft\" width=\"300\" caption=\"Jay Taylor from Kinghorn, Liz Malinowski from Beaufort Academy, James McClain from Selective Insurance, and Garrett Wreden from Kinghorn. \"]<a href=\"http://www.beaufortislandnews.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/07/BA.jpg\"><img class=\"size-medium wp-image-1937\" title=\"BA\" src=\"http://www.beaufortislandnews.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/07/BA-e1310007459984-300x168.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"168\" /></a>[/caption]\n\nKinghorn Insurance of Beaufort and The Selective Group Foundation, the foundation of Selective Insurance Group, Inc., joined forces to support the positive efforts of Beaufort Academy through a $1,000 grant.<!--more-->\n\nThe grant represents a $500 donation from Kinghorn Insurance of Beaufort matched by a $500 grant from The Selective Group Foundation.\n\n“The Matching Grant program allows us to partner with our agents to support the needs of the communities we serve,” said Tony Albanese, the Senior Vice President, Bonds and Agency Development for Selective.\n\nSelective Insurance Group, Inc. is a holding company for seven property and casualty insurance companies rated “A+” (Superior) by A.M. Best. Through independent agents, the insurance companies offer primary and alternative market insurance for commercial and personal risks, and flood insurance underwritten by the National Flood Insurance Program. Selective maintains a website at www.selective.com.\n\n&nbsp;', 'Kinghorn supports BA', '', 'publish', 'open', 'open', '', 'kinghorn-supports-beaufort-academy', '', '', '2018-07-12 11:04:57', '2018-07-12 15:04:57', '', 0, 'http://www.beaufortislandnews.com/?p=1936', 0, 'post', '', 0),
(1940, 4, '2011-07-07 02:59:43', '2011-07-07 02:59:43', '<a href=\"http://www.beaufortislandnews.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/07/Schools-Chris-Hoogenboom.jpg\"><img class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-1941\" title=\"Schools-Chris Hoogenboom\" src=\"http://www.beaufortislandnews.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/07/Schools-Chris-Hoogenboom-300x225.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"225\" /></a>Christopher Hoogenboom, a rising sixth grader at Riverview Charter School, battled three students in chess simultaneously on Thursday, June 23 at the Bluffton Library.<!--more-->\n\nThese chess exhibitions, known as “Simuls” are common for chess masters, but very rare for young students.  His opponents were Kayla Smith and Caroline Richey of Cross Schools and Lucas Tomita of Hilton Head Preparatory Academy.  All put up a great fight, with Lucas lasting the longest. Christopher is the South Carolina State Chess Champion and recently enjoyed a 19-game winning streak in U.S. Chess tournament games before a loss at the nationals.\n\n&nbsp;', 'chess champion challenge', '', 'publish', 'open', 'open', '', 'chess-champion-challenge', '', '', '2018-07-12 11:04:56', '2018-07-12 15:04:56', '', 0, 'http://www.beaufortislandnews.com/?p=1940', 0, 'post', '', 0),
(1943, 4, '2011-07-07 03:02:52', '2011-07-07 03:02:52', '<a href=\"http://www.beaufortislandnews.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/07/Sports-2011-National-School-Age-0251.jpg\"><img class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-2004\" title=\"Sports-2011 National School Age 025\" src=\"http://www.beaufortislandnews.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/07/Sports-2011-National-School-Age-0251-e1310010480818-300x167.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"167\" /></a>Local weightlifters from Team Beaufort won the 13 and under Boy’s National Title and also the Overall Boy’s Title for the fourth year in a row, competing in Flowery Branch, Georgia June 24th through June 26 at the USA Weightlifting National School Age Championships.<!--more-->\n\nIndividually, CJ Cummings set the School Age American record in 13 and under 44 Kilo class, and Alex Silon won best lifter in the 16-17 age group, the best overall lifter for the entire competition.\n\nThe lifters for the competition were: Molly Smith, Abby Silon, Nate Gurley, CJ Cummings, Tucker Deloach, Casey Simmons, Omar Cummings, Dylan Williams, Nyles Pinckney, Malcolm Simmons, Andrew Jezewski, Alex Silon and Howard Graham.  The next meet for Team Beaufort is the AAU National Championships in less than four weeks in New Orleans.\n\n&nbsp;', 'Weightlifting team shines', '', 'publish', 'open', 'open', '', 'youth-weightlifting-team-shines', '', '', '2011-07-07 03:02:52', '2011-07-07 03:02:52', '', 0, 'http://www.beaufortislandnews.com/?p=1943', 0, 'post', '', 0),
(1946, 4, '2011-07-07 03:04:20', '2011-07-07 03:04:20', '<strong>King Mackerel Fishing Tournament</strong>\n\n<em> </em>\n\n<a href=\"http://www.beaufortislandnews.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/07/Sports-king_mackerel.jpg\"><img class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-1947\" title=\"Sports-king_mackerel\" src=\"http://www.beaufortislandnews.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/07/Sports-king_mackerel-300x160.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"160\" /></a>Captain Nick Russell is sponsoring an American Wounded Veterans King Mackerel Fishing Tournament. Proceeds from this event will be donated to the Independence Fund for the Lieutenant Dan Weekend. Tournament fees are $350 per boat, and registration takes place on July 8 from 3 to 6 p.m. at Beaufort’s Waterfront Park. <!--more-->The fishing tournament begins on July 9 at 6 a.m. and ends at 5 p.m. Weigh-In takes place at Beaufort’s Downtown Marina. If 200 boats participate, $30,000 will be paid out in awards ranging from $500 to $12,500. Payout and awards will be pro-rated for fewer boats. If weather dictates, Sunday, July 10th will be an alternative fishing day. For more information about this fundraising tournament, contact Nick Russell at (843) 812-9697 or captnick@hargray.com or visit www.ldw2.com and click on the red FISH tab.\n\n&nbsp;', '', '', 'publish', 'open', 'open', '', '1946', '', '', '2011-07-07 03:04:20', '2011-07-07 03:04:20', '', 0, 'http://www.beaufortislandnews.com/?p=1946', 0, 'post', '', 0),
(1949, 4, '2011-07-07 03:07:32', '2011-07-07 03:07:32', 'By Coach Danny Williams\n\n<a href=\"http://www.beaufortislandnews.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/07/Sports-Hawg-Tuff-Challenge.jpg\"><img class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-1950\" title=\"Sports-Hawg Tuff Challenge\" src=\"http://www.beaufortislandnews.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/07/Sports-Hawg-Tuff-Challenge-225x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"225\" height=\"300\" /></a>Normally when you hear of football in Beaufort you don’t think of the offensive or defensive lines.  You think of quarterbacks, running backs and kickers. Danny Williams, along with Scott Dennis and Stanley “Scoop” Davis, asked and trained a group of young men to participate in an offense and defensive line challenge called the “Hawg Tuff Challenge.”  These young men trained every Saturday morning for two months, not knowing what to expect.<!--more-->\n\nBeaufort High seniors Michael Bedwell, Rob Dennis, DeAndre Jefferson Fields; juniors Tiawo Adejole, James Ginn, Tyler Hatfield; sophomores Howard Graham, Kintrell Seabrooke; and freshmen Cody Graham and Alex Tokar trained at Byrnes High School to compete in the Hawg Tuff Challenge.\n\nThe events were diverse. The players were asked to bench 185 pounds and shoulder press a restrictive band as many times as they could in one try.  Another event was the tire flip.  Each player had to flip a tractor tire for thirty yards while racing a stopwatch. The Root hawg was the next event.  Each team member was timed pushing a sled with forty pounds attached to it for 20 yards.\n\nThe last event, Hawg On A Mission, was a 220 yard event; each player started by running 20 yards and then stepping through an agility ladder. Next, they ran 20 more yards and jumped over five different pads, ran 20 more yards and ran around cones, 20 more yards before bear crawling for 10 yards. Once this string of obstacles was finished, they sprinted back 110 yards to the finish line.  All players were racing against a stopwatch for the best time.\n\nAnd to top off the challenge, participants faced off in a tug of war, the kind where a piece of meat touches the ground indicating a winner and loser.\n\nBeaufort High football has made the playoffs for the last seven years. All of this would not happen if not for these underappreciated and sometimes forgotten young players from the offensive and defensive lines. These young men went and faced off against high school powerhouses like Byrnes High School, which outfitted two teams. With three first place finishes, these young men brought home an over all second place finish. The most prized first place finish was in the Tug of War. Many of the athletes finished first, second or third in the events listed individually.\n\nThanks to these young men for their hard work and practice they contributed in the off season. Good luck in the up and coming season.\n\n&nbsp;\n\n&nbsp;', 'Hawg Tuff Challenge', '', 'publish', 'open', 'open', '', 'hawg-tuff-challenge', '', '', '2011-07-07 03:07:32', '2011-07-07 03:07:32', '', 0, 'http://www.beaufortislandnews.com/?p=1949', 0, 'post', '', 0),
(1952, 4, '2011-07-07 03:08:36', '2011-07-07 03:08:36', '<strong>\n</strong>\n\n<strong> </strong>\n\nFriday, July 15\n\nOPENING CEREMONY\n\nSponsored by South Carolina Education Lottery\n\nGates open 6 p.m., Ceremony begins 7 p.m. Featuring the Parris Island Marine Band and a spectacular Fireworks Show at dusk. Free admission.\n\nShuttle service available from Beaufort County Government Center.<!--more-->\n\n&nbsp;\n\nSaturday, July 16\n\nCONCERT IN THE PARK\n\nSponsored by NEW COUNTRY BOB 106.9 FM\n\n8 - 11:30 p.m., Waterfront Park\n\nGates open 7 p.m., Show starts 8 p.m.\n\nEntertainment by country music artist Lee Brice opening with Josh Thompson.\n\nNO STROLLERS ALLOWED\n\nAdmission $20\n\nShuttle service available from Beaufort County Government Center.\n\n&nbsp;\n\nSunday, July 17\n\nTEEN DANCE\n\nSponsored by Technical College of the Lowcountry\n\n6 - 9 p.m., Waterfront Park\n\nGates open from 6 to 8 p.m. ( No entry after 8 p.m.)\n\nNO RE-ENTRY ALLOWED.\n\nEntertainment by D.J. Ross Brown\n\nAges 13-17 only — VALID ID REQUIRED\n\nCLUTCH PURSES ONLY (6x9) size\n\nAdmission $10.\n\nNo Shuttle Service Available.\n\n&nbsp;\n\nMonday, July 18\n\nMOTOWN MONDAY\n\nSponsored by Actus Community Fund/AMCC at Tri-Command\n\n8 - 11 p.m., Waterfront Park\n\nGates open 7 p.m., Show starts 8 p.m.\n\nEntertainment by Deas Guyz,\n\nAdmission $7. FREE to ACTIVE DUTY MILITARY with valid ID.\n\nShuttle service available from Beaufort County Government Center.\n\n&nbsp;\n\nTuesday, July 19\n\nTROPICAL TUESDAY\n\nSponsorship available\n\n8 - 11 p.m., Waterfront Park\n\nGates open 7 p.m., Show starts 8 p.m.\n\nEntertainment by Conch Republic\n\nAdmission $12.\n\nShuttle service available from Beaufort County Government Center.\n\n&nbsp;\n\nWednesday, July 20\n\nTALENT SHOW\n\nHosted by the Preceptor Omega Chapter of Beta Sigma Phi Sorority.\n\nSponsored by McDonald’s.\n\n7 - 11 p.m., Waterfront Park\n\nGates open 6 p.m., Show starts 7 p.m.\n\nAdmission $10. Free with Official 2011 Beaufort Water Festival T-shirt\n\nShuttle service available from Beaufort County Government Center.\n\n&nbsp;\n\nThursday, July 21\n\nLOWCOUNTRY SUPPER\n\nSponsored by Waste Pro\n\n6 - 11 p.m., Waterfront Park\n\nGates open 6 p.m., Supper served\n6 - 7:30 p.m.\n\nOpening with the Groovetones. Entertainment by the World Famous Whistlers Followed by 7 Bridges, an Eagles tribute band\n\nAdmission $15.\n\nShuttle service available from Beaufort County Government Center.\n\n&nbsp;\n\nFriday, July 22\n\nRIVER DANCE\n\nSponsorship available\n\n8 p.m. - Midnight, Waterfront Park\n\nGates open 7 p.m., Show starts 8 p.m.\n\nEntertainment by Superglide opening with the Broke Locals\n\nMUST BE 18 OR OLDER WITH VALID ID TO ATTEND\n\nNO STROLLERS ALLOWED\n\nAdmission $12.\n\nShuttle service available from Beaufort County Government Center.\n\n&nbsp;\n\nSaturday, July 23\n\nCOMMODORE’S BALL\n\nSponsored by Mazzanna’s Lawn Care\n\n8 p.m. - Midnight, Waterfront Park\n\nEntertainment by Legends of the Beach\n\nGates open 7 p.m., Show starts 8 p.m.\n\nAdmission $10.\n\nShuttle service available from Beaufort County Government Center.\n\n&nbsp;\n\n&nbsp;', 'water festival entertainment schedule', '', 'publish', 'open', 'open', '', 'water-festival-entertainment-schedule', '', '', '2011-07-07 03:08:36', '2011-07-07 03:08:36', '', 0, 'http://www.beaufortislandnews.com/?p=1952', 0, 'post', '', 0),
(1954, 4, '2011-07-07 03:10:08', '2011-07-07 03:10:08', '<strong>\n</strong>\n\nCongratulations to Diana Steele, who was the first to answer all the questions correctly in The Island News’ Patriotic Quiz. Below are the answers.<!--more-->\n\n&nbsp;\n\n1. The 13 red and white stripes on the U.S. flag represent what?\n\nThirteen Original Colonies\n\n2. On the first U.S. flag, why were the 13 stars sewn in a circle?\n\nSo no one colony would be viewed above another\n\n3. Who was the only president to be born on Independence Day, July 4, 1872?\n\nPresident Calvin Coolidge\n\n4. There were two signers of the Declaration of Independence who later became presidents who died on the same day, July 4, 1826, which was the 50th Anniversary of the declaration. Who were the presidents?\n\nPresidents John Adams and Thomas Jefferson\n\n5. Which president ordered the “Star Spangled Banner” to be played publicly?\n\nPresident Woodrow Wilson\n\n6. The first National Park was established in 1872.  Which one was it?\n\nYellowstone National Park\n\n7. Which of the United States’ armed services is the oldest?\n\nU.S. Army\n\n8. In 1991, the Gulf War was renamed “Operation Dessert Storm.” What was the operation named prior to 1991?\n\nOperation Desert Shield\n\n9. On August 18, 1920, who received the right to vote in the U.S.?\n\nWomen\n\n10. Who wrote the Pledge of Allegiance?\n\nA Baptist minister, Francis Bellamy\n\n&nbsp;\n\n&nbsp;', 'ANSWERS TO OUR PATRIOTIC Q&A', '', 'publish', 'open', 'open', '', 'answers-to-our-patriotic-qa', '', '', '2011-07-07 03:10:08', '2011-07-07 03:10:08', '', 0, 'http://www.beaufortislandnews.com/?p=1954', 0, 'post', '', 0);
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(1956, 4, '2011-07-07 03:31:41', '2011-07-07 03:31:41', '<a href=\"http://www.beaufortislandnews.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/07/263794_251370778211913_100000169778497_1230661_5254317_n1.jpg\"><img class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-1958\" title=\"263794_251370778211913_100000169778497_1230661_5254317_n\" src=\"http://www.beaufortislandnews.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/07/263794_251370778211913_100000169778497_1230661_5254317_n1-e1310008448586-300x158.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"158\" /></a>Beachgoers on all South Carolina beaches (except Hilton Head) participated in the The Second Annual Salute from the Shore on July Fourth. Air Force F-16 “Vipers” flown by 77th Fighter Squadron “The Gamblers” of the 20th Fighter Wing from Shaw Air Force Base in Sumter executed a low altitude flyover of the South Carolina coast. The flyover started at the North Carolina border at 1 p.m. and ended at approximately 1:20 p.m.<!--more--> Beaufort residents enjoyed a blistering hot Fourth of July, but cooled off at area pools, beaches and waterways. Here are some photos:\n\n<a href=\"http://www.beaufortislandnews.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/07/1.jpg\"><img class=\"alignleft size-thumbnail wp-image-1959\" title=\"1\" src=\"http://www.beaufortislandnews.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/07/1-150x150.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" /></a><a href=\"http://www.beaufortislandnews.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/07/259986_2180088910892_1507009745_3834165_2678258_n.jpg\"><img class=\"alignleft size-thumbnail wp-image-1960\" title=\"259986_2180088910892_1507009745_3834165_2678258_n\" src=\"http://www.beaufortislandnews.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/07/259986_2180088910892_1507009745_3834165_2678258_n-150x150.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" /></a><a href=\"http://www.beaufortislandnews.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/07/260396_10150253166057398_581507397_7336050_7931905_n.jpg\"><img class=\"alignleft size-thumbnail wp-image-1961\" title=\"260396_10150253166057398_581507397_7336050_7931905_n\" src=\"http://www.beaufortislandnews.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/07/260396_10150253166057398_581507397_7336050_7931905_n-150x150.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" /></a><a href=\"http://www.beaufortislandnews.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/07/260538_2031987611852_1608991648_1919043_8288759_n.jpg\"><img class=\"alignleft size-thumbnail wp-image-1962\" title=\"260538_2031987611852_1608991648_1919043_8288759_n\" src=\"http://www.beaufortislandnews.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/07/260538_2031987611852_1608991648_1919043_8288759_n-150x150.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" /></a><a href=\"http://www.beaufortislandnews.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/07/264374_237002259657764_100000439756406_854692_125514_n.jpg\"><img class=\"alignleft size-thumbnail wp-image-1963\" title=\"264374_237002259657764_100000439756406_854692_125514_n\" src=\"http://www.beaufortislandnews.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/07/264374_237002259657764_100000439756406_854692_125514_n-150x150.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" /></a><a href=\"http://www.beaufortislandnews.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/07/264396_10150253164892398_581507397_7336036_5962488_n.jpg\"><img class=\"alignleft size-thumbnail wp-image-1964\" title=\"264396_10150253164892398_581507397_7336036_5962488_n\" src=\"http://www.beaufortislandnews.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/07/264396_10150253164892398_581507397_7336036_5962488_n-150x150.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" /></a><a href=\"http://www.beaufortislandnews.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/07/266214_244978912194724_100000478508562_989087_526915_o.jpg\"><img class=\"alignleft size-thumbnail wp-image-1965\" title=\"266214_244978912194724_100000478508562_989087_526915_o\" src=\"http://www.beaufortislandnews.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/07/266214_244978912194724_100000478508562_989087_526915_o-150x150.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" /></a><a href=\"http://www.beaufortislandnews.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/07/268796_2180082950743_1507009745_3834159_4228734_n.jpg\"><img class=\"alignleft size-thumbnail wp-image-1966\" title=\"268796_2180082950743_1507009745_3834159_4228734_n\" src=\"http://www.beaufortislandnews.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/07/268796_2180082950743_1507009745_3834159_4228734_n-150x150.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" /></a><a href=\"http://www.beaufortislandnews.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/07/268836_10150253169737398_581507397_7336103_7805308_n.jpg\"><img class=\"alignleft size-thumbnail wp-image-1967\" title=\"268836_10150253169737398_581507397_7336103_7805308_n\" src=\"http://www.beaufortislandnews.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/07/268836_10150253169737398_581507397_7336103_7805308_n-150x150.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" /></a><a href=\"http://www.beaufortislandnews.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/07/269599_10150251855107490_576107489_7249409_65019_n.jpg\"><img class=\"alignleft size-thumbnail wp-image-1968\" title=\"269599_10150251855107490_576107489_7249409_65019_n\" src=\"http://www.beaufortislandnews.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/07/269599_10150251855107490_576107489_7249409_65019_n-150x150.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" /></a><a href=\"http://www.beaufortislandnews.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/07/269991_10150253166337398_581507397_7336052_3729831_n.jpg\"><img class=\"alignleft size-thumbnail wp-image-1969\" title=\"269991_10150253166337398_581507397_7336052_3729831_n\" src=\"http://www.beaufortislandnews.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/07/269991_10150253166337398_581507397_7336052_3729831_n-150x150.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" /></a><a href=\"http://www.beaufortislandnews.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/07/280967_2151925967073_1514103569_3315118_5016247_o.jpg\"><img class=\"alignleft size-thumbnail wp-image-1970\" title=\"280967_2151925967073_1514103569_3315118_5016247_o\" src=\"http://www.beaufortislandnews.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/07/280967_2151925967073_1514103569_3315118_5016247_o-150x150.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" /></a><a href=\"http://www.beaufortislandnews.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/07/DSCN0697.jpg\"><img class=\"alignleft size-thumbnail wp-image-1971\" title=\"DSCN0697\" src=\"http://www.beaufortislandnews.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/07/DSCN0697-150x150.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" /></a><a href=\"http://www.beaufortislandnews.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/07/DSCN0699.jpg\"><img class=\"alignleft size-thumbnail wp-image-1972\" title=\"DSCN0699\" src=\"http://www.beaufortislandnews.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/07/DSCN0699-150x150.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" /></a><a href=\"http://www.beaufortislandnews.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/07/ry%3D4801.jpg\"><img class=\"alignleft size-thumbnail wp-image-1973\" title=\"ry%3D480[1]\" src=\"http://www.beaufortislandnews.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/07/ry%3D4801-150x150.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" /></a><a href=\"http://www.beaufortislandnews.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/07/photo.jpg\"><img class=\"alignleft size-thumbnail wp-image-1974\" title=\"photo\" src=\"http://www.beaufortislandnews.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/07/photo-150x150.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" /></a><a href=\"http://www.beaufortislandnews.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/07/P1012888.jpg\"><img class=\"alignleft size-thumbnail wp-image-1975\" title=\"OLYMPUS DIGITAL CAMERA\" src=\"http://www.beaufortislandnews.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/07/P1012888-150x150.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" /></a><a href=\"http://www.beaufortislandnews.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/07/11.jpg\"><img class=\"alignleft size-thumbnail wp-image-1976\" title=\"11\" src=\"http://www.beaufortislandnews.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/07/11-150x150.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" /></a><a href=\"http://www.beaufortislandnews.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/07/020.jpg\"><img class=\"alignleft size-thumbnail wp-image-1977\" title=\"020\" src=\"http://www.beaufortislandnews.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/07/020-150x150.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" /></a><a href=\"http://www.beaufortislandnews.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/07/DSCN0698.jpg\"><img class=\"alignleft size-thumbnail wp-image-1978\" title=\"DSCN0698\" src=\"http://www.beaufortislandnews.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/07/DSCN0698-150x150.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" /></a><a href=\"http://www.beaufortislandnews.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/07/DSCN06931.jpg\"><img class=\"alignright size-thumbnail wp-image-1980\" title=\"DSCN0693\" src=\"http://www.beaufortislandnews.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/07/DSCN06931-e1310009472391-150x150.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" /></a>', 'Independence Day in Beaufort', '', 'publish', 'open', 'open', '', 'independence-day-in-beaufort', '', '', '2011-07-07 03:31:41', '2011-07-07 03:31:41', '', 0, 'http://www.beaufortislandnews.com/?p=1956', 0, 'post', '', 0),
(1984, 4, '2011-07-07 03:40:36', '2011-07-07 03:40:36', '<em>Spotted by the Lunch Bunch: Sarah Brock, Frank Check, Dick Stewart, Courtney Worrell and J.W. Rone</em>\n\n&nbsp;\n\n<strong>\n</strong>\n\n&nbsp;\n\n<a href=\"http://www.beaufortislandnews.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/07/Nachos.jpg\"><img class=\"alignleft size-thumbnail wp-image-1992\" title=\"Nachos\" src=\"http://www.beaufortislandnews.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/07/Nachos-150x150.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" /></a>The Lunch Bunch gathered at Hecklers, located at 2121 Boundary Street, Suite 100 in the Beaufort Town Center, next to Higher Ground. Hecklers’ owners, Dave Parker and Brian Ferry, also own Piace Pizza in Habersham Marketplace.<!--more-->\n\nHecklers is the place to go if you’re in the mood for tasty and filling pub food. They’ve got a huge menu of yummy appetizers, sandwiches and salads. And, they brought over a few recipes of their famous wood fired pizza from Piace.\n\nDave brought out samples of many dishes, and we all agreed, “This place rocks!”\n\n<a href=\"http://www.beaufortislandnews.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/07/Ting-and-Emily-ORegan1.jpg\"><img class=\"alignleft size-thumbnail wp-image-1994\" title=\"Ting and Emily O\'Regan\" src=\"http://www.beaufortislandnews.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/07/Ting-and-Emily-ORegan1-150x150.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" /></a>This week, Ting and Emily O’Regan joined the Lunch Bunch as our special guests. They won the opportunity to dine with the Lunch Bunch at a silent auction held at the annual Beaufort Academy Fish In.  Their mother, Martha O’Regan, was the winning bidder, and we couldn’t have been more pleased to have the two charming young ladies sit with us and enjoy so much great food!\n\n<a href=\"http://www.beaufortislandnews.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/07/Beer-Cheese-Dip.jpg\"><img class=\"alignright size-thumbnail wp-image-1986\" title=\"Beer Cheese Dip\" src=\"http://www.beaufortislandnews.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/07/Beer-Cheese-Dip-150x150.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" /></a>We started with the beer cheese dip, served with house made flatilla chips. The chips were amazing. A delicious combination of tortilla chips and pita bread, the dipping pieces were oh so good with the unique beer cheese dip, the first of our must-haves at Hecklers. There’s no way you can watch a football game without getting this dip.\n\n<a href=\"http://www.beaufortislandnews.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/07/Crab-and-Artichoke-Dip.jpg\"><img class=\"alignleft size-thumbnail wp-image-1987\" title=\"Crab and Artichoke Dip\" src=\"http://www.beaufortislandnews.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/07/Crab-and-Artichoke-Dip-150x150.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" /></a><a href=\"http://www.beaufortislandnews.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/07/Calamari.jpg\"><img class=\"alignright size-thumbnail wp-image-1988\" title=\"Calamari\" src=\"http://www.beaufortislandnews.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/07/Calamari-150x150.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" /></a>We also tried the crab and artichoke dip, calamari and nachos from the tapas menu.  Everything was incredibly fresh. The calamari was not frozen, and the chef hand cuts it in the kitchen. The table took down all of these starters pretty quickly.\n\n<a href=\"http://www.beaufortislandnews.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/07/Shrimp-Po-Boy.jpg\"><img class=\"alignleft size-thumbnail wp-image-1989\" title=\"Shrimp Po\' Boy\" src=\"http://www.beaufortislandnews.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/07/Shrimp-Po-Boy-150x150.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" /></a><a href=\"http://www.beaufortislandnews.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/07/Philly-Cheese-Steak.jpg\"><img class=\"alignright size-thumbnail wp-image-1990\" title=\"Philly Cheese Steak\" src=\"http://www.beaufortislandnews.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/07/Philly-Cheese-Steak-150x150.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" /></a>We then tasted the Shrimp Po’ Boy and the Philly Cheese Steak sandwich, which became the second favorite of the table.  The meat and American cheese melted in our mouths as we all unanimously voted it as a Lunch Bunch must-have.\n\n<a href=\"http://www.beaufortislandnews.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/07/Margarhita-Pizza1.jpg\"><img class=\"alignleft size-thumbnail wp-image-1993\" title=\"Margarhita Pizza\" src=\"http://www.beaufortislandnews.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/07/Margarhita-Pizza1-150x150.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" /></a>Lastly, the Lunch Bunch sampled the Margarhita Pizza, which was prepared with oil and garlic, fresh buffalo mozzarella and basil as a 9-inch pie. It was our third must-have.  I knew it would be. It’s my favorite at Piace Pizza, so I knew it would be great at Hecklers as well.  The cheese on all of their pies is remarkably scrumptious. And this one went down in a hurry.\n\nThe location, formerly The Office, is terrific for the quick lunch or the happy hour after work. It’s going to be the spot to watch college football in the fall too. Loaded with TVs, Hecklers can boast multiple games at a time.\n\nThere’s a great vibe at Hecklers, and already it’s becoming a hot spot for the savvy foodie. Thank you Brian and Dave for inviting us. We stuffed ourselves, and loved every minute of it!\n\n&nbsp;', 'Lunch is no joke at Hecklers', '', 'publish', 'open', 'open', '', 'lunch-is-no-joke-at-hecklers', '', '', '2011-07-07 03:40:36', '2011-07-07 03:40:36', '', 0, 'http://www.beaufortislandnews.com/?p=1984', 0, 'post', '', 0),
(1997, 4, '2011-07-07 03:43:18', '2011-07-07 03:43:18', '<strong>\n</strong>\n\n<strong> </strong>\n\n<a href=\"http://www.beaufortislandnews.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/07/Cover-tomdavis.png\"><img class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-1998\" title=\"Cover-tomdavis\" src=\"http://www.beaufortislandnews.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/07/Cover-tomdavis.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"208\" height=\"243\" /></a>The Lady’s Island Business and Professional Association’s July meeting will include S.C. Senator Tom Davis as the guest speaker. Sen. Davis was elected to the South Carolina Senate, representing District 46, in 2008.  He is a graduate of Furman University and received his law degree from the University of Maryland School of Law.  He has practiced law in Beaufort since 1985 at Harvey &amp; Batty, P. A.<!--more-->\n\nBefore assuming his present office, he managed Governor Mark Sanford’s 2002 and 2006 gubernatorial campaigns; served in Governor Sanford’s administration as senior policy advisor, co-chief of staff, deputy chief of staff, chief of staff; and chaired the bi-state Jasper Port Negotiating Committee.   Senator Davis presently serves on the Senate Committees on Rules, Agriculture and Natural Resources, Banking and Insurance, Education and Judiciary.  He is married and has three daughters.\n\nSubjects he has been requested to include in his discussion with our members include:\n\n• How would you score the 2011 legislative session?\n\n• What are the major items that remain to be addressed in future sessions?\n\n• Status of correcting the Education Finance Act to better support Beaufort County public schools.\n\n• Your evaluation of the economic health of the state.\n\nThe meeting, which is open to the public, will be held on Tuesday, July 12 at 8 AM at the Beaufort Realtor’s Association Headquarters (located in Palmetto Business Park to the rear of BB&amp;T on Lady’s Island Drive).<strong> </strong>\n\n&nbsp;', 'Senator Tom Davis to speak to LIBPA', '', 'publish', 'open', 'open', '', 'senator-tom-davis-to-speak-to-libpa', '', '', '2011-07-07 03:43:18', '2011-07-07 03:43:18', '', 0, 'http://www.beaufortislandnews.com/?p=1997', 0, 'post', '', 0),
(2000, 4, '2011-07-07 03:46:11', '2011-07-07 03:46:11', '<strong><em>\n</em></strong>\n\n<strong>Exhibit on display at Penn Center</strong>\n\n&nbsp;\n\n<a href=\"http://www.beaufortislandnews.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/07/Arts-Basket-Weave1.jpg\"><img class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-2002\" title=\"OLYMPUS DIGITAL CAMERA\" src=\"http://www.beaufortislandnews.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/07/Arts-Basket-Weave1-300x224.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"224\" /></a>The York W. Bailey Museum at the historic Penn Center proudly presents the debut exhibition of “The Beaufort Basket” by sweetgrass basket maker Jery Bennett-Taylor on Saturday, July 16.  This will be the first in a series of exhibits celebrating Gullah traditional art in South Carolina.  The gallery will also preview the film, “Grass Roots: African Origins of an American Art”, a companion to the national traveling exhibit by the Museum of Art, at noon.  The exhibit opens at 1 p.m. followed by a lecture and demonstration by Ms. Taylor from 2 to 4 p.m.<!--more-->\n\nThis exhibition of ten original pieces is the first revival in Beaufort of the 300-year old native island coiled “work” basketry once practiced by generations of slaves who transported the craft from Africa.  This museum-quality collection was inspired by the 150-year old “Penn School baskets” that were formerly made by the men using the fibrous bulrush plant found in the marshes.  This exclusive collection of original bulrush baskets in various sizes, also includes a rare and unique “Marsh Tackey” sweetgrass basket that has never before been shown publicly.\n\nMs. Taylor has used a certain weaving technique reminiscent of the native island style, which has separated her from other basket weavers.   She says that she has tried to capture the “soul” in the ancient baskets of her ancestors to re-create an authentic representation. This exhibit will also compare original heirloom baskets from the Penn School Collection with Ms. Taylor’s reproductions.\n\nThe Penn School’s history of Sea Island basketry goes back to the early 1900’s when its founders added the craft to the school’s curriculum and later instituted a mail-order catalog business to raise revenue for the school.   A recently published account of the 300-year documented history of the origin of African basket making in America is beautifully illustrated with photographs from the Penn School Collection in the book “Grass Roots: African Origins of an American Art,” published by the Museum for African Art.\n\nJery Bennett-Taylor is widely collected and is regarded as a master weaver in the circle of native Mt. Pleasant basketmakers. Born in the Christ Parish Church community of Mt. Pleasant, she has been making baskets since she was five years old and is the third generation of basket weavers in her family.  A resident of Walterboro, she is currently the only practicing basketmaker in the St. Helena Island community.  A highly recognized artist, Jery Taylor has presented workshops in many museums and has exhibited baskets in the Smithsonian in Washington, D.C. Over the past three years, she has also become a self-taught folk artist and her paintings, which will also be exhibited, capture the essence of Gullah life growing up on Boone Hall Plantation.\n\nOwn a piece of history today; these baskets will undoubtedly appreciate in value.  All baskets will be sold to the public. The exhibit closes on August 26. For more information, contact the York W. Bailey Museum at (843) 838-2474 or visit the Penn Center, 16 Penn Center Circle West, St. Helena Island, SC 29920.  Museum admission is $5-adults; $3-children under 17 years old.  Penn Center is a nonprofit organization.\n\n&nbsp;', 'THE BEAUFORT BASKET', '', 'publish', 'open', 'open', '', 'the-beaufort-basket', '', '', '2011-07-07 03:46:11', '2011-07-07 03:46:11', '', 0, 'http://www.beaufortislandnews.com/?p=2000', 0, 'post', '', 0),
(2007, 4, '2011-07-07 12:30:07', '2011-07-07 12:30:07', 'GROCERY STORE ROBBED  by Matt Clancy\nAt 8:50 p.m. on July 6, 2011 Beaufort Police officers responded to a report of an armed robberythat had just occurred at the Publix located at 163 Sea Island Parkway.<!--more--> According to witnesses, a suspect entered the business and approached the customer service counter and demanded money from the employee behind the counter. The employee complied and the suspect placed the money in a plastic bag and fled the scene. The suspect was last seen running from the business. Officers and deputies set up a perimeter and k-9 units attempted to track the subject.The suspect was not located. He is described as an African-American man in his twenties of medium height and thin build. He was dressed in black clothing with a black cloth over his face and armed with a small silver handgun. Anyone with information on this case is requested to call Investigator Dowling at 322-7950 or the dispatch office at 524-2777.', 'Lady\'s Island Publix Robbed at Gunpoint ', '', 'publish', 'open', 'open', '', 'ladys-island-publix-robbed-at-gunpoint', '', '', '2011-07-07 12:30:07', '2011-07-07 12:30:07', '', 0, 'http://www.beaufortislandnews.com/?p=2007', 0, 'post', '', 0),
(2018, 4, '2011-07-11 21:00:17', '2011-07-11 21:00:17', '<pre>Sheriff’s Office Investigating Armed Robbery on LADY’S ISLAND, SC (July 11) – The Beaufort County Sheriff’s Office is investigating the\narmed robbery of a Lady’s Island restaurant that occurred late Saturday night.</pre>\n<!--more-->\n<pre>\n\nJust before 11 pm, Sheriff’s deputies responded to Dairy Queen (115 Sea Island Pkwy) in reference to a robbery\noccurring moments earlier. Deputies were notified upon being flagged down by a motorist who reported being\nat the drive-thru window of the store and seeing what appeared to be a robbery in progress.\n\nUpon arrival, deputies made contact with employees who advised that the store had just been robbed by an\nunknown black male armed with a handgun. Employees advised that the suspect had entered the store through a\nrear door, brandished a weapon, and taken money out of the cash register.\n\nThe suspect fled the scene on foot, leaving employees unharmed. He was described as a black male between 20-\n30 years of age, approximately 6’02”, 210 lbs, wearing a green jumpsuit, gloves, and a white t-shirt wrapped\naround his head.\n\nThe Sheriff’s Office asks that anyone with information please contact the Beaufort County Dispatch Center at\n843-524-2777.</pre>', 'Sheriff’s Office Investigating Another Armed Robbery on Lady\'s Island', '', 'publish', 'open', 'open', '', 'sheriff%e2%80%99s-office-investigating-another-armed-robbery-on-ladys-island', '', '', '2011-07-11 21:00:17', '2011-07-11 21:00:17', '', 0, 'http://www.beaufortislandnews.com/?p=2018', 0, 'post', '', 0),
(2021, 4, '2011-07-12 18:17:08', '2011-07-12 18:17:08', 'Beaufort County’s FY 2012 budget, which took effect July 1, has been posted at the Finance Department page at the County website, <a href=\"http://www.bcgov.net/\" target=\"_blank\">www.bcgov.net</a>.\n\nCitizens can view the document<!--more--> by selecting the option for “Departments” on the home page, then “Administration,” and “Finance.”   The 2012 budget includes a trim $96.3 M which reflects a 7.6% percent reduction from last year’s original budget. It does not include a County real property tax increase.\n\nCounty Council Chairman Weston Newton said council is unwavering in its commitment to avoid spending increases. “In these difficult economic times it would be a bad decision to expect people to pay more for services. We are continually reviewing all other options for keeping operational costs down.”', 'Beaufort County Budget Posted Online', '', 'publish', 'open', 'open', '', 'beaufort-county-budget-posted-online', '', '', '2011-07-12 18:17:08', '2011-07-12 18:17:08', '', 0, 'http://www.beaufortislandnews.com/?p=2021', 0, 'post', '', 0),
(2026, 4, '2011-07-14 00:06:50', '2011-07-14 00:06:50', '<strong>\n</strong>\n\n<strong>Chamber announces business after hours</strong>\n\nCenturyLink will host the Beaufort Regional Chamber of Commerce’s monthly Business After Hours on Thursday, July 14 from 5:30 p.m. – 7:00 p.m. at their location in Beaufort Town Center at 2127 Boundary Street in Beaufort. Business After Hours events provide networking opportunities for chamber members and guests. The event is open to chamber members for $10 and all others for $20. Please RSVP to Amy Kaylor at (843) 525-8524 or via email at amy@beaufortsc.org.<!--more-->\n\n&nbsp;\n\n<strong>Sportfishing and diving club to meet</strong>\n\nThe Beaufort Sportfishing and Diving Club July meeting will be held Thursday July 14 at 6:30 p.m. at the Beaufort Yacht and Sailing Club off Meridian Road on Lady’s Island.  The social begins at 6:30 and the meeting begins at 7 p.m.  This month welcomes Captain Chris Butler, of Butler Marine. For additional information, call Captain Frank Gibson at 522-2020.\n\n&nbsp;\n\n<strong>Group to present talk on George Patton</strong>\n\nOn July 14, OLLI will present “General George Patton: A Genius at War” at the historic USCB Beaufort campus. The lecture and film will take a hard look at the commander of Second Corps and Third Army in World War II. The lecture will start at 1 p.m. and is open to the public. Cost is $10. To make reservations, call the OLLI office at 843-208-8247.\n\n&nbsp;\n\n<strong>Summer Scribes Camp for young writers</strong>\n\nDo you know a student between sixth and eighth grades who likes to write? Beaufort freelance writer, workshop leader and writing coach Katherine Tandy Brown is offering a weeklong summer writing camp based on Natalie Goldberg’s classic “Writing Down the Bones” writing practice. During three morning classes, young writers will have fun improving writing skills while creating stories. Classes are Monday, July 18, Wednesday, July 20 and Friday, July 22 from 9:30 to 11:30 a.m. at the Charles Street Gallery, on the corner of Charles and Greene Streets. Class size is limited; cost is $65 for the week. For more information, call (843) 379-5886 or (859) 312-6706.\n\n<strong> </strong>\n\n<strong>Calling all children to Veggie Fun World</strong>\n\nThe Parish Church of St. Helena’s Veggie Fun World-Session II will be July 18-29 on Monday, Wednesday, and Friday from 9 a.m. to 12 p.m. The fee for this session is $145 and can be reserved and paid online at www.sthelenas1712.org. The theme for this session is Praise, and we will emphasize music, drama, and storytelling. Like Session I, it, too, will have fun games, crafts, and outside activities — plus, a great make-your-own handprint T-shirt. Veggie Fun World seeks to encourage growth in body, mind, and spirit as we build fellowship in the body of Christ. We will provide professional nursery staff, crafts, games, music, and storytelling as we promote Biblical family values while having a whole lot of fun. We hope to hear from your family this summer. Please consider joining us for one or more sessions. Contact Roz Dixon, Director of Nursery Ministry, at nursery@islc.net, call (843) 812-8772 (cell) or (843) 522-1712, ext. 220 (work) with any questions.<strong></strong>\n\n<strong> </strong>\n\n<strong> </strong>\n\n<strong> </strong>\n\n<strong>Community Bible Study to hold event</strong>\n\nThe Beaufort class of Community Bible Study will hold an informational event, “Iced Tea, Lemonade &amp; Sweets” on Tuesday, July 19 at 10 a.m. at St. Helena’s Episcopal Parish, 507 Newcastle St., Beaufort.  Reservations for the event are requested; childcare will be provided.  This event is open to all area women interested in Community Bible Study, a non-denominational  study which presents an in-depth study in a caring format. The Beaufort class meets at St. Helena Parish from September to May on Thursday mornings and includes classes for children, infants to age 12; however, space for children’s classes is limited. Please call Sandi Fischer 838-0212 or e-mail fishnet@islc.net to make a reservation for the event or to get more information.\n\n&nbsp;\n\n<strong>Beaufort Women’s Connection to meet</strong>\n\nThe Beaufort Women’s Connection will meet on Thursday, July 21, at the St. Helena Parish Church at 507 New Castle Street.  Doors open at 11:45 a.m., and lunch is served at 12:15 p.m..  Cost for luncheon and program is $12. The speaker for the day is Corrine Ike, and her talk is entitled “Coming to the end of myself meant a whole new adventure.” Corrine will also do our feature, “Day tripping in Savannah.” Reservations can be made to Karen Whitehead at 838-7627 or e-mailing her at mommakaren@islc.net.  Reservations need to be in by Monday, July 18.\n\n&nbsp;\n\n<strong>Sea Island Quilters to hold meeting</strong>\n\nThe Sea Island Quilters will meet on Thursday, July 21, 6 p.m., in the Camellia Room at Quality Inn on Boundary Street. The speaker will be Courtney Garbade a hand therapist with Coastal Hand Therapy. She will discuss “Taking Care of Our Hands.” Her presentation will show quilters how to avoid carpal tunnel syndrome, sitting positions at the sewing machine and general quilting ergonomics.\n\nFor additional information contact Helen Goldman at 525-6155.\n\n<strong> </strong>\n\n<strong>McIntosh Books holds book signings on Bay</strong>\n\nThe following book signings will be held at McIntosh Book Shoppe, 917 Bay St. For more information, please call Connie McGraw at 525-1066.\n\n• Friday, July 22, 1 - 4 p.m. Allan Winneker signing copies of his book, “Two Islands, Terror in the Low Country.”\n\n<strong> </strong>\n\n<strong>Beaufort Writers meet</strong>\n\nThe Beaufort Writers meets every second and fourth Tuesday from 4:30 to 6 p.m.\n\nat the Lady’s Island Airport Conference Room. The next meeting is scheduled for July 26.\n\n&nbsp;\n\n<strong>St. Peter Church to have clothing sale</strong>\n\nSt. Peter Catholic Church in Beaufort will be holding its first Newly New Clothing Sale on July 27-30. Hours will be Wednesday, July 27 from noon to 8 p.m., Thursday and Friday, July 28 and 29, from 10 a.m. to 6 p.m. and Saturday, July 30, from 9 a.m. to noon.  Call Judy Daigle (843)846-6025 for more information.\n\n<strong> </strong>\n\n<strong> </strong>\n\n<strong>Ongoing events at ARTworks</strong>\n\n<strong>• </strong><strong>Kazoos on Vacation: </strong>Rick Hubbard’s hit family show of music, comedy, and fun at ARTworks where your kids are the stars and kazoos are free! Tuesdays at 7:30 p.m. through August 2. Doors open at 7 p.m., adults $10, kids $5. Info and reservations 843-379-2787, www.ArtWorksInBeaufort.org.\n\n<strong>• Beaufort’s Best Hidden Talent Competition concerts open to the public: </strong>These musicians need to hear the roar of the crowd as they compete for the Grand Prize — $1,000 paid gig in the Street Music on Paris Avenue concert in Spring 2012. Preliminary competitions are July 9 and 16, 7:30 p.m. at ARTworks, $5 at the door. Semifinal competition will be July 30, 7:30 p.m. at ARTworks, $5 at the door. Grand Finale is free on August 6, 6 p.m. on Paris Avenue in Port Royal. All ages and music styles are eligible to register by July 1. Performance slots are first come, first serve. www.ArtWorksInBeaufort.org, 843-379-2787, and at ARTworks in Beaufort Town Center, 2127 Boundary Street 29902, Tuesdays through Saturdays.\n\n<strong>• Ongoing registration for ARTblast &amp; TheaterArt weekly camps:</strong> now through July 30th. Every week this summer ARTworks offers the joy and challenges of art — on the canvas and on stage. Each weekly class is $110, and scholarships are available, supported by a private family foundation (no extra paperwork, just ask.) 379-2787, www.ArtWorksInBeaufort.org; 2127 Boundary Street in Beaufort Town Center, Tuesdays through Saturdays.', 'WHAT TO DO', '', 'publish', 'open', 'open', '', 'what-to-do-2', '', '', '2011-07-14 00:06:50', '2011-07-14 00:06:50', '', 0, 'http://www.beaufortislandnews.com/?p=2026', 0, 'post', '', 0),
(2028, 4, '2011-07-14 00:07:58', '2011-07-14 00:07:58', 'By<strong> </strong><em>Reed Armstrong, LIBPA member and Project Manager with the Coastal Conservation League in its Beaufort Office</em>\n<p align=\"center\"><strong> </strong></p>\nTen years ago, the Coastal Conservation League seemed to spend all of its energy and resources opposing development proposals in Beaufort County.  Now, a decade later we have the privilege of supporting many policies and directions in the county. Regional land use planning based on form-based code, a number of initiatives to address stormwater management and water quality, and the county’s Rural and Critical Lands preservation program are just a few of the actions we support. <!--more-->The Town of Ridgeland was an outstanding partner as we assisted and supported their adoption of a form-based code. Also, Jasper County is working towards adoption of stronger stormwater management controls, similar to Beaufort’s, as we cheerlead this effort.\n\n<strong>What changed?</strong>\n\nEspecially in the 1990s and first decade of this century, growth was exploding across Beaufort County with the county’s population almost doubling from 1990 to 2010. Developers were in the driver’s seat, deciding how and where development would occur and playing county against city or town and municipality against municipality in what is known as zoning shopping. The city of Beaufort and the Town of Port Royal were competing to annex onto Lady’s Island and Port Royal Island, and the Town of Bluffton was annexing large tracts in southern Beaufort County.\n\nDuring this period most of the existing Planned Unit Developments (PUDs) were approved across the county. These PUDs were typically designed by developers of large-scale projects to accommodate their wishes for more intense development than would have been otherwise permitted. These actions were taken with expectations of economic boon to the community. The Coastal Conservation League was one of the few voices pleading that such projects were negatively impacting our quality of life — that this pattern of building would place unsustainable demands on services and infrastructure, and was already chewing up extensive areas of rural lands as we sprawled across the landscape.\n\nDuring this period, the league led and helped organize community opposition to a number of the development projects and annexations. Notable among the annexations opposed by the league were the 2006 annexations. There was the Mobley Tract on Lemon Island annexed by the Town of Port Royal. The City of Beaufort had plans to add almost 9,000 homes and one-and-a-half million square feet of commercial development under annexation proposals for Clarendon and McLeod Farms. Finally, there was the annexation of Binden Plantation by the Town of Yemassee. These were projects which the Coastal Conservation League felt were harmful to the environment and not in the best interest of our community. The league even took the controversial position in 2003 through 2005 of opposing the location for a new north area high school north of the Whale Branch River, as well as the need for the school. We saw the proposed location for the school as contrary to good land-use planning and the county’s Comprehensive Plan.\n\nIn large part because of the outcry from citizens in the community over these annexations and development plans, the unproductive confrontations between our local governments, and the notoriety associated with highly publicized lawsuits by the Coastal Conservation League (Mobley and Binden annexations), officials of the county and municipalities began to see the benefit of cooperative, regional planning.\n\nOutcomes from this awakening resulted in the Northern Beaufort County Regional Plan of 2007 which lays out a common vision for how our community should grow and develop. This regional plan was driven by community interests, not necessarily by the goals of developers. Recent 10-year updates of the Comprehensive Plans of the county, city of Beaufort and Town of Port Royal all reflect this shared vision. This regional approach, especially in the northern part of the county, continues to address and promote cooperative efforts, including establishment of the Metropolitan Planning Commission, progress toward implementation of a multi-jurisdictional form-based code to promote more sustainable growth, and shared standards for protection of water quality and other treasured assets.\n\n<strong>So, what changed? </strong>\n\nOne thing of course, is the economy. But it is bigger than that. There is a recognition that the way we had been developing was on the wrong track. This recognition has been driven by a concerned, informed and involved citizenry, by responsive and forward looking officials and staff and the actions and positions taken by the Coastal Conservation League.  It is no longer business as usual. Faced with the consequences of our past decisions, our communities are taking extraordinary measures and making the hard, long-range decisions that will protect our quality of life for generations to come.\n\nWe of the Coastal Conservation League are pleased to support these positive directions, but we will continue to examine, speak against, and if need be, litigate those proposals which we feel are harmful to the community and environment.\n\n&nbsp;\n\n&nbsp;', 'CHANGING FACE OF THE COSTAL CONSERVATION LEAGUE IN BEAUFORT', '', 'publish', 'open', 'open', '', 'changing-face-of-the-costal-conservation-league-in-beaufort', '', '', '2011-07-14 00:07:58', '2011-07-14 00:07:58', '', 0, 'http://www.beaufortislandnews.com/?p=2028', 0, 'post', '', 0),
(2030, 4, '2011-07-14 00:08:58', '2011-07-14 00:08:58', '<strong>Friends don\'t let friends have litters.</strong>\n\n<strong>By Tracie Korol</strong>\n\n<strong> </strong>\n\n<strong>Health.</strong> According to the Humane Society of the United States (HSUS), 6 to 8 million dogs (and cats) enter shelters each year, and at least half of them are euthanized. The group calculates that a fertile dog can produce two litters of 6-10 pups in a year.  If you are up to the math, that means that the female and her offspring can theoretically produce 67,000 unwanted dogs over a span of six years.  If you take a casual drive around Beaufort County, you might assume that most of them live here.<!--more-->\n\nWhile I would like to see every pet neutered or spayed and would like to create a case that it is THE only right thing to do, I would be remiss if I did not share the entire picture of spay/neuter effects on a dog’s health.  It is a controversial topic with veterinarians and dog professionals.\n\nOn the Let’s Get Neutered! front, any ailment associated with an active reproductive tract will be eliminated.  That means that pyometra (infection of the uterus) and testicular cancer does not occur, as the parts affected are just not there. Protastatic cancer is greatly reduced, as is mammary cancer. In fact, intact female dogs have seven times the risk of developing mammary tumors than do females spayed early in life.\n\nHowever, on the other side, in both males and females, very early spay/neuter procedures may increase the risk of osteosarcoma (bone cancer).  Very early means three months and under. This is a cancer found in medium/large and large breeds. A 2002 study at the University of Purdue of 683 Rottweilers — a breed known to be at high risk for osteosarcoma — concluded that the risk for bone cancer was significantly influenced by the dogs’ ages at sterilization.  For an at-risk breed, postponing spay/neuter until the second year was suggested.\n\nIn females there is a 4-20% increase in what is colloquially termed “spay incontinence” or more colloquially, the dog that dribbles. Studies show that this occurs in dogs spayed early, from 6-14 weeks, in what is termed pediatric neutering. Fortunately, this is a condition easily controlled by homeopathic remedy.\n\nSo, is this an argument NOT to spay or neuter your pet? For those of us who have spent time in animal shelters and who have witnessed the misery of abandoned dogs, let alone the euthanization procedure, there is absolutely no reason not to neuter your pet.  However, if you are concerned about the risks of potential medical complications, you may wish to wait until your dog is at least 6 months old.\n\nAs for the surgery itself, the medical benefits of having your dog spayed or neutered far outweigh the slight risk involved with undergoing anesthesia. Modern veterinary procedures employ equipment that monitors heart and respiratory rates during surgery, ensuring the patient is doing just fine. If you are concerned, you can always consult your vet, but remember for docs, this is a routine operation.\n\nNormally, your vet will tell you to withhold food and water from your dog for 12 hours before the operation. Most dogs go home the same day, but sometimes your vet may prefer to keep a pet in slightly longer if they are still very sleepy.\n\nAfter the operation, dogs should be confined to the house for a few days, kept quiet and prevented from jumping, or biting at their sutures. Your vet will discuss post-operative care, including when the sutures will be removed. Recovery time depends on the animal. At one time, I had a pair of male cockers. Immediately post-surgery, P.Bear was ready to wrangle and run. Nothing was going to slow him down. His brother, Temujin, assumed a mournful position on the couch and moaned for a day. I fixed him some soup and held his head. What a con artist!\n\nNext week:  Spay/neuter and common sense\n\n&nbsp;\n\n&nbsp;\n\n<strong>BowWOW! Is a production of Tracie Korol and wholeDog.</strong>\n\n<strong>She is a holistic behavior coach, a canine massage therapist (CCMT), herbalist, and canine homeopath.  Want more information? Have a question? Send a note to Tracie at <a href=\"mailto:letstalk@wholedog.biz\">letstalk@wholedog.biz</a> or visit <a href=\"http://www.wholedog.biz\">www.wholedog.biz</a>.</strong>\n\n<strong> </strong>\n\n<strong> </strong>', 'BowWOW!  Facts, observations and musings about Our Best Friends', '', 'publish', 'open', 'open', '', 'bowwow-facts-observations-and-musings-about-our-best-friends-10', '', '', '2011-07-14 00:08:58', '2011-07-14 00:08:58', '', 0, 'http://www.beaufortislandnews.com/?p=2030', 0, 'post', '', 0),
(2033, 4, '2011-07-14 00:11:10', '2011-07-14 00:11:10', '<strong>\n</strong>\n\n<strong>Mark Siegel, MD, FAAO</strong>\n\n&nbsp;\n\nPeople who are nearsighted (myopic) may be nearly twice as likely to also develop glaucoma, a leading cause of blindness, according to a recent study.<!--more-->\n\nMore than two million people over 40 in the US alone have been diagnosed with the eye disease, which is becoming increasingly expensive to treat.\n\nThe findings in the study, a review of previous studies that was published in the journal Ophthalmology, suggest to some experts that nearsighted people — a third of all US residents — may want to undergo regular eye screening.\n\nGlaucoma is a group of eye conditions that damage the optic nerve, causing gradual loss of vision. There are several treatments available, including drugs and surgery, but none of them can restore sight once it has been lost.\n\nFor the latest study, Nomdo Jansonius at the University Medical Centre Groningen in the Netherlands and colleagues combined data from 11 previous studies that included tens of thousands of people, tracking who was nearsighted and had glaucoma.\n\nOverall, nearsighted people were about 90% more likely to also develop open-angle glaucoma, with those who had higher levels of myopia appearing to be at higher risk of glaucoma as well.\n\nThe American Academy of Ophthalmology already recommends regular eye exams for all adults beginning around age 40. The group urges African Americans to start even earlier, with exams every three to five years, because their risk of glaucoma is higher.\n\n&nbsp;\n\n&nbsp;', 'Nearsightedness linked to glaucoma', '', 'publish', 'open', 'open', '', 'nearsightedness-linked-to-glaucoma', '', '', '2011-07-14 00:11:10', '2011-07-14 00:11:10', '', 0, 'http://www.beaufortislandnews.com/?p=2033', 0, 'post', '', 0),
(2035, 4, '2011-07-14 00:12:51', '2011-07-14 00:12:51', '<p style=\"text-align: left;\" align=\"center\">By Martha O’Regan</p>\nLife is so hard ... until it’s not. You decide. Simply choosing a shift in perception creates a new reality. By recognizing that every experience is part of our personal growth and development, even those perceived as “bad” or “wrong.” This awareness allows us to choose the appropriate response that creates a greater emotional freedom. <!--more-->Energetically speaking, every experience is neutral until we choose an emotional charge for it. Whatever emotion we attach to the situation, we will attract more experiences to create more of the same emotion. Remember that we are each our own “radio station” emitting frequencies then attracting “like” frequencies 24/7/365. Consider what your radio station is attracting these days.\n\nEver noticed when you are frustrated with a situation, every little thing beyond that situation creates more frustration until eventually you just blow up into full blown anger?  Then, once you blow up, you may feel better physically but not so much emotionally, especially if you have made a fool of yourself or hurt someone you care about. Now, you’re stuck in remorse and the cycle continues.  However, by starting the cycle seeing the good or learning the lesson of the situation, being grateful for that lesson, or asking forgiveness if necessary, the emotional charge is lighter and more at ease, creating less stress and upset.\n\nDoes learning how to shift your perception mean that disease will suddenly disappear? Or, the back surgery you have scheduled can be cancelled?  Or the abusive partner you are living with just packs up and disappears?  The Law of Attraction is a crazy thing so, never say never, but more likely, what it does mean is that once you learn to shift, you become more self-aware, allowing you to take back control of your life, thus opening your mind to new ideas and approaches to your situation.  We can get so stuck in our patterns and behaviors, that until we choose to shift, we can’t see anything else.\n\nIt’s been said “the only constant is change.” Yet, some folks completely resist change, insisting on living in “ustaville,” unhappy with the present or always comparing things to way it “used to” be. Once we can accept that change is inevitable, and practice shifting our perspective, life can become a lot less challenging. No question that many illnesses are lifestyle induced and could be corrected or at least improved with better nutrition and exercise, but because change can be uncomfortable or unfamiliar, many will resort back to their old ways. They may stay sick, but at least it’s familiar.\n\nWe have to change our mind if we want to change our life. So,  rather than struggling with the latest diet, obsessing over every morsel and feeling guilty when you slip, consider eating for pleasure and nourishment, making healthy choices. Your body will digest and metabolize more efficiently when vibrating in enjoyment rather than guilt. Additionally, instead of hating your job and griping about it all day, begin appreciating that you even have a job or finding some aspect that you do enjoy.  Your stress levels at the end of each day will be more balanced, allowing more enjoyment during your time away from work.\n\nConsider how you choose to perceive life and whether there is room for “shift.”  Remember, it’s only hard until it’s not.\n\n&nbsp;\n\n&nbsp;\n\n&nbsp;\n\n&nbsp;\n\n&nbsp;\n\n&nbsp;\n\n&nbsp;\n\n&nbsp;\n\n&nbsp;\n\n&nbsp;\n\n&nbsp;\n\n&nbsp;\n\n&nbsp;\n\n&nbsp;\n\n&nbsp;\n\n&nbsp;\n\n&nbsp;', 'Life is Just So Hard … until it’s not', '', 'publish', 'open', 'open', '', 'life-is-just-so-hard-%e2%80%a6-until-it%e2%80%99s-not', '', '', '2011-07-14 00:12:51', '2011-07-14 00:12:51', '', 0, 'http://www.beaufortislandnews.com/?p=2035', 0, 'post', '', 0);
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(2037, 4, '2011-07-14 00:15:10', '2011-07-14 00:15:10', '<p style=\"text-align: left;\" align=\"center\"><a href=\"http://www.beaufortislandnews.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/07/health-Simmons-James-MD.jpg\"><img class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-2038\" title=\"health-Simmons, James, MD\" src=\"http://www.beaufortislandnews.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/07/health-Simmons-James-MD-202x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"202\" height=\"300\" /></a>James Simmons, MD, Beaufort Memorial Hospital pediatrician and board member, was recently chosen from over 300 nominees to be one of 23 leaders to participate in the Liberty Fellowship.  In announcing the selection, Hayne Hipp, Liberty Fellowship Founder, noted that this year’s fellows represent a broad spectrum of careers, expertise and personal passions.<!--more--></p>\nThe fellowship, founded by Hipp through partnership with Wofford College and The Aspen Institute, is a statewide leadership initiative. Fostering a values-based approach, the Liberty Fellowship exposes rising leaders, ages 30 to 45, to diverse perspectives, critical thinking and intellectual and personal development.\n\n“Our eighth class is enormously impressive,” he said, “reminding us of the quality of leadership we have percolating in South Carolina.  While they span a wide range of thought and diversity of perspectives, these fellows share a desire to take action to make South Carolina better.”\n\nDr. Simmons, a pediatrician in private practice at All Children’s Pediatrics, has been a member of the medical staff at Beaufort Memorial since 1999.  He has been on the Board of Trustees of Beaufort Memorial Hospital since 2007, and has chaired the Board’s Quality Improvement Committee.', 'Beaufort Memorial leader receives statewide fellowship', '', 'publish', 'open', 'open', '', 'beaufort-memorial-leader-receives-statewide-fellowship', '', '', '2011-07-14 00:15:10', '2011-07-14 00:15:10', '', 0, 'http://www.beaufortislandnews.com/?p=2037', 0, 'post', '', 0),
(2040, 4, '2011-07-14 00:17:03', '2011-07-14 00:17:03', '<a href=\"http://www.beaufortislandnews.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/07/Business-Salon-Photo.jpg\"><img class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-2041\" title=\"Business-Salon Photo\" src=\"http://www.beaufortislandnews.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/07/Business-Salon-Photo-300x224.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"224\" /></a>Debra Blyzes Faulkner, owner of Halo Salon and stylist for 28 years, was born and raised in Beaufort. She is excited to open her own salon at 184 Sea Island Parkway on Lady’s Island in the white building where the former SCB&amp;T was located. She opened doors to customers on April 26 and will be hosting an open house on July 30th starting at 11 a.m.<!--more-->\n\nFaulkner specializes in dimensional coloring. Jen Long, another stylist with 10 years experience, will be specializing in color, foiling and razor cutting.  And Danyel Bolding, a stylist with 13 year’s experience, will specialize in hair cutting and color.\n\nServices included at the salon are: Cutting for men, women, and children; all types of color applications including permanent, demi- permanent, foiling, fashion color, etc.; Keratin hair smoothing; body waves; make-up application; waxing; massage therapy; and, in the future, facials and body treatments.\n\nFor more information, please call 843-524-4256.', 'Halo Salon to host open house', '', 'publish', 'open', 'open', '', 'halo-salon-to-host-open-house', '', '', '2011-07-14 00:17:03', '2011-07-14 00:17:03', '', 0, 'http://www.beaufortislandnews.com/?p=2040', 0, 'post', '', 0),
(2043, 4, '2011-07-14 00:19:09', '2011-07-14 00:19:09', '<strong>\n</strong>\n\n<em>Where Locally Sourced Food is Bought, Stored and Distributed</em>\n\n<strong> </strong>\n\n<a href=\"http://www.beaufortislandnews.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/07/Business-NEW-SILO-4.jpg\"><img class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-2044\" title=\"Business-NEW SILO 4\" src=\"http://www.beaufortislandnews.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/07/Business-NEW-SILO-4-300x198.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"198\" /></a>The Habersham Marketplace has recently welcomed the Sea Islands Local Outlet (SILO) to its village of restaurants, retailers and services.  Owned and operated by farmer David Hislop, SILO’s mission is to provide locally sourced food to residents of Beaufort County while educating them about where and how the food they eat is produced.<!--more-->\n\nAn offspring of the Habersham Farmers Market, SILO was created by a group of local food enthusiasts as an opportunity for local growers and food purveyors to sell their products directly to its members. SILO is an illustration of Habersham’s goal to maintain its reputation as a model for sustainable development, providing a direct link between urbanism and agrarianism.\n\nProducts are sold directly through the SILO shop front in the Habersham Marketplace or  online at http://www.silo-beaufort.com, with the bulk being purchased online.  Like traditional farmers markets, the growers and producers pay a sellers’ fee for the ability to sell their products directly to customers through SILO.  Customers pay a minimal annual membership fee which helps cover the operating expenses of SILO and enables them to participate in events like tastings, cooking demonstrations, lectures, etc.\n\nAdditionally, the concept offers sellers the ability to set wholesale prices for any products they choose. Only wholesale buyers, like restaurants and schools, will be able to view and receive these prices online. The goal is to make the locating and buying of locally grown items even easier for those who prepare for numerous numbers of people.\n\n“The relationship between the sellers and farmers remains an integral part of the buying process,” said Hislop. “People know what is available to them each week, can choose exactly what they want and pick up everything in one central location. It’s local, it’s fresh and people feel empowered by their ability to choose ahead of time what foods they eat and where they come from.”\n\nSILO is located at 7A Market St. in the Habersham Marketplace. Customers may make their purchases Monday morning through Wednesday evening weekly and pick up and pay for their order each Friday after\n4 p.m.  Orders are packaged in reusable, insulated SILO bags that are returned at the next pick-up.', 'Habersham Introduces SILO', '', 'publish', 'open', 'open', '', 'habersham-marketplace-introduces-sea-islands-local-outlet', '', '', '2011-07-14 00:19:09', '2011-07-14 00:19:09', '', 0, 'http://www.beaufortislandnews.com/?p=2043', 0, 'post', '', 0),
(2047, 4, '2011-07-14 00:22:39', '2011-07-14 00:22:39', '<a href=\"http://www.beaufortislandnews.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/07/Bob-Sofaly-Taking-a-Nap.jpg\"><img class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-2048\" title=\"TAKING A NAP\" src=\"http://www.beaufortislandnews.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/07/Bob-Sofaly-Taking-a-Nap-193x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"193\" height=\"300\" /></a>Two-year-old Peter Hoffman of Herndon, Va., couldn’t keep up with his siblings and cousins while playing Thursday at the playground at Henry C. Chambers Waterfront Park. Here, mom, Suzette Hoffman, watches all the kids as they play during their family vacation in Beaufort. Photo by Bob Sofaly.', 'TAKING A BREAK', '', 'publish', 'open', 'open', '', 'taking-a-break', '', '', '2011-07-14 00:22:39', '2011-07-14 00:22:39', '', 0, 'http://www.beaufortislandnews.com/?p=2047', 0, 'post', '', 0),
(2050, 4, '2011-07-14 00:23:44', '2011-07-14 00:23:44', 'Festival of Trees is pleased to announce a new event, Christmas in July on Saturday, July 30 from 12-4 p.m. at Coosaw Point River Club located at 20 The Horseshoe, Beaufort.<!--more-->\n\nChristmas in July  is a family nun day featuring snow — Yes! Snow in July from 1-3 p.m.; entertainment by The Groovetones and Drysdale Entertainment; swimming; water slides; jump house and kids games; unlimited barbecue buffet by Palmetto Smokehouse; Beer, Pepsi soda products and water; peanut butter and jelly sandwiches and snacks provided by Hobbit Hills Preschools; snow cones  and much more.\n\nFamily tickets are available for $75 each. Adult tickets are $25, and kids are $12.50. Kids under two are free. Tickets are available at the FRIENDS of Caroline Hospice office, Red Door Thrift Shop and Camputaro Law Office.\n\nThe following will also be available:\n\n• Photos with Santa from 12:30-2 p.m. for $5;\n\n• Gift &amp; Gourmet Shop will have goodies available for purchase;\n\n• Absolute (Yes, the Vodka) Snow Cones will be available for $5\n\nDon’t miss this new event sure to be a Beaufort favorite: Snow in July!\n\nCall 525-6257 or visit www.festivaloftreesbeaufort.com for more information.', 'Christmas in July', '', 'publish', 'open', 'open', '', 'christmas-in-july', '', '', '2011-07-14 00:23:44', '2011-07-14 00:23:44', '', 0, 'http://www.beaufortislandnews.com/?p=2050', 0, 'post', '', 0),
(2052, 4, '2011-07-14 00:25:28', '2011-07-14 00:25:28', '<a href=\"http://www.beaufortislandnews.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/07/Lifestyle-June-Cruise-In-Winners.jpg\"><img class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-2053\" title=\"Lifestyle-June Cruise In Winners\" src=\"http://www.beaufortislandnews.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/07/Lifestyle-June-Cruise-In-Winners-300x200.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"200\" /></a>The June Classic Car &amp; Truck Cruise-In was held at Grayco parking lot on Lady’s Island. The car club holds this cruise-in every first Friday of the month from 5 to 8 p.m. The show is free and open to the public, and those attending are encourage to vote for their favorite classic or custom ride.<!--more-->\n\nWinners of the June 2011 Cruise-In are, from left: Best of Cruise-In — Andy Brown, 1932 Ford Hot Rod Roadster; Second runner up — Thad McCrackin, 1979 Camaro Z28; Third runner up — Gary Suback, 1955 Porsche Speedster; first runner up — Perry Alspach, 1941 Packard Deluxe Coupe.', 'June Cruise-In Winners', '', 'publish', 'open', 'open', '', 'june-cruise-in-winners', '', '', '2011-07-14 00:25:28', '2011-07-14 00:25:28', '', 0, 'http://www.beaufortislandnews.com/?p=2052', 0, 'post', '', 0),
(2057, 4, '2011-07-14 02:04:18', '2011-07-14 02:04:18', 'The Junior Service League of Beaufort (JSLB) is honored to be the recipient of the 2011 Outstanding Non-Profit Civitas Award. This award, given annually by the Beaufort Regional Chamber of Commerce, recognizes a private, non-profit organization that demonstrates enhancement of the quality of life and betterment of the community; contributes a balance of time, expertise and funding; meets an identified community need; and serves locally, regionally or nationally with a local or regional presence.<!--more-->\n\nThe awards dinner, held at Dataw Island on June 17, recognized many outstanding businesses and individuals who have made a positive impact on the Beaufort community. JSLB was humbled to be in a group of hard-working nonprofits who work tirelessly each day of the year to improve our region.\n\nThe Junior Service League of Beaufort began in the spring of 2005 by a small group of former Junior League members along with other young women concerned, active and involved in the Beaufort community. Since its inception, over 180 women ages 22-50 have been members of the league. Over the past six years, the women of JSLB have assisted numerous local non-profits in a variety of ways from direct service to major fundraising.\n\nJSLB is currently accepting applications for membership in the 2011-2012 league year to begin in September. Service projects for the coming year include working closely with the Child Abuse Prevention Association (CAPA), Citizens Opposed to Domestic Abuse (CODA), and The Blood Alliance.\n\nFor a membership application or to learn more about the league, email jslbft@yahoo.com or visit www.jslbeaufort.org.', 'Junior Service League named outstanding nonprofit of the year', '', 'publish', 'open', 'open', '', 'junior-service-league-named-outstanding-nonprofit-of-the-year', '', '', '2011-07-14 02:04:18', '2011-07-14 02:04:18', '', 0, 'http://www.beaufortislandnews.com/?p=2057', 0, 'post', '', 0),
(2059, 4, '2011-07-14 02:05:50', '2011-07-14 02:05:50', '<p style=\"text-align: left;\" align=\"center\"><a href=\"http://www.beaufortislandnews.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/07/Lifestyle-Our-Ladys-Pantry.jpg\"><img class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-2060\" title=\"Lifestyle-Our Lady\'s Pantry\" src=\"http://www.beaufortislandnews.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/07/Lifestyle-Our-Ladys-Pantry-300x270.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"270\" /></a>The largest food pantry in the Lowcountry area, formerly known as St. Vincent dePaul Outreach, a ministry of St. Peter Catholic Church in Beaufort, is now under the direction of Catholic Charities, Diocese of South Carolina.  It has been renamed Our Lady’s Pantry, in honor of Mary, the Mother of Jesus.<!--more--></p>\nOur Lady’s Pantry continues to be the largest food pantry serving the four counties of Beaufort, Jasper, Hampton and Colleton.  Each month, more than 900 qualified families receive staples, meat, bread and fresh produce from volunteers at the facility, which is located at 30 Carolyn Drive in Beaufort.\n\nFunding for the pantry is secured through donations, grants, bequests and fundraising activities. Food distributed by the pantry is obtained through purchases from the USDA Second Harvest program, as well as donations from Second Helpings and generous local groups and individuals.\n\nTerry Buquet serves as general manager of Our Lady’s Pantry, which is usually open Monday through Friday from 11 a.m. until 3 p.m.  Deborah Riley serves as Catholic Charities Regional Coordinator.  The telephone number of Our Lady’s Pantry is 843-524-2179.', 'Catholic Charities now operating local food pantry', '', 'publish', 'open', 'open', '', 'catholic-charities-now-operating-local-food-pantry', '', '', '2011-07-14 02:05:50', '2011-07-14 02:05:50', '', 0, 'http://www.beaufortislandnews.com/?p=2059', 0, 'post', '', 0),
(2062, 4, '2011-07-14 02:07:24', '2011-07-14 02:07:24', 'The summer excitement has begun at the Wardle Family YMCA. The Y currently has over 250 children enrolled in summer camp and 200 children participating in swim lessons.<!--more-->\n\nThe YMCA wants to extend a huge thank-you to the Beaufort community for their generous support in this year’s Annual Scholarship Campaign.  Through these contributions, the YMCA was able to award $66,766 in financial assistance to over 150 children attending summer camp and another $9,680 teaching children to swim.\n\n“Our summer camp program continues to grow year over year,” says Kaylin Caron, Childcare Director at Wardle Family YMCA. “With a developing program comes higher expenses and I want to personally express my gratitude to all donors.\n\nThe YMCA is a charitable organization open to people of all abilities, ages, beliefs, cultures, faiths and incomes. If you would like to sponsor a child this summer, please either donate online at www.ymcabeaufortcounty.com or mail your check to 1801 Richmond Ave, Port Royal, SC 29935.\n\nNew Y members are always welcome and financial assistance is available based on need. For more information, stop in for a free tour or call 843-522-9622.', 'YMCA says thank you to Beaufort community', '', 'publish', 'open', 'open', '', 'ymca-says-thank-you-to-beaufort-community', '', '', '2011-07-14 02:07:24', '2011-07-14 02:07:24', '', 0, 'http://www.beaufortislandnews.com/?p=2062', 0, 'post', '', 0),
(2064, 4, '2011-07-14 02:10:04', '2011-07-14 02:10:04', '<a href=\"http://www.beaufortislandnews.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/07/Lifestyle-Launch-Party.jpg\"><img class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-2065\" title=\"Lifestyle-Launch Party\" src=\"http://www.beaufortislandnews.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/07/Lifestyle-Launch-Party-300x225.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"225\" /></a>Authors T.D. “Tim” Johnston and Guy J. Tirondola at the Launch Party of Short Story America, an anthology of 56 great contemporary short stories at Lowcountry Winery on Bay Street.', 'SHORT STORY SIGNING', '', 'publish', 'open', 'open', '', 'short-story-signing', '', '', '2011-07-14 02:10:04', '2011-07-14 02:10:04', '', 0, 'http://www.beaufortislandnews.com/?p=2064', 0, 'post', '', 0),
(2067, 4, '2011-07-14 02:23:27', '2011-07-14 02:23:27', '<strong>Spotted: Melina and Bob Cunningham and family, Margaret, Amelia and Jeff Evans, Louis and Kit Bruce, Marjorie Gray, Robin Kopperneas, Rosemary Cuppia, Angel Gray and twins, Beek Webb, Vic Varner, Dr. Gene Grace, Laura Lee Rose, Urbie West, Maryanne Payne, Cilla and Marvin Dukes, Maura Rhodin, Bonnie Hargrove, Louise Coleman, Joe Bonturi, Wanda Scheper, Campbell and Marvin Dukes III, Edward Dukes, Rob Marek and new friends, Grey Brendle and his wife.</strong>\n\n<strong> </strong>\n\n<strong>\n</strong>\n\n<strong>By Wendy Nilsen Pollitzer</strong>\n\n<strong> </strong>\n\n<a href=\"http://www.beaufortislandnews.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/07/Local-Produce-from-Rest-Park-Farm.jpg\"><img class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-2068\" title=\"Local Produce from Rest Park Farm\" src=\"http://www.beaufortislandnews.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/07/Local-Produce-from-Rest-Park-Farm-e1310609711660-300x160.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"160\" /></a>The Lunch Bunch, sans the bunch, went to the Port Royal Farmers Market on Saturday morning. That’s right, I went without my posse, but fortunately brought a friend to experience the local phenomenon. I’ve driven by the Farmer’s Market, located at Heritage Park next to the Naval Hospital, many Saturdays and noticed the crowd. It’s always packed, and for good reason: It is simply awesome. Just notice the “Spotted List,” everyone was there (and if I missed you, sorry, I was busy filling my hungry belly with all the amazing food).<!--more-->\n\n<a href=\"http://www.beaufortislandnews.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/07/Beek-Webb-and-Vic-Varner-provding-entertainment-for-market-patrons.jpg\"><img class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-2069\" title=\"Beek Webb and Vic Varner provding entertainment for market patrons\" src=\"http://www.beaufortislandnews.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/07/Beek-Webb-and-Vic-Varner-provding-entertainment-for-market-patrons-300x225.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"225\" /></a>When I say it’s crowded, I mean the parking lot is full, but there’s plenty of room to walk around, enjoy the atmosphere and inspect all the quality locally grown produce, specialty items and prepared dishes. Beek Webb and Vic Varner play bluegrass while kids run around and play. It’s just such a fun way to spend a morning and a great way to stock up on the necessities for the week.\n\n<a href=\"http://www.beaufortislandnews.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/07/Lindsay-Dickson-serving-her-Homemade-Pasta.jpg\"><img class=\"alignright size-medium wp-image-2070\" title=\"Lindsay Dickson serving her Homemade Pasta\" src=\"http://www.beaufortislandnews.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/07/Lindsay-Dickson-serving-her-Homemade-Pasta-210x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"210\" height=\"300\" /></a>A typical Saturday in the summer will feature items like local honey, handmade soaps, potted plants, biscotti, boiled peanuts,  locally grown tea, free range eggs, and the list goes on. The market also hosts vendors who sell dog treats, Beignets, Chinese dumplings, ravioli, sweet rolls, tomato pies, Baklava, authentic homemade breads and handmade Italian pasta.\n\nAnd talk about produce! Regional farmers come to Port Royal with all the summer fixin’s you’ll need: Yellow wax beans, fresh garlic, green onions, chives and herbs — sweet basil, Thai basil, lemon basil, mint, oregano and tarragon.  Also at the market are tomatoes, eggplant, green peppers, squash, okra, cucumbers, onions, yellow pear tomatoes, hot peppers, corn and fresh local shrimp.\n\nWhile I was there, I sampled a few prepared dishes from local vendors.  Janie from Janie’s Breads gave me an amazing cup of shrimp and grits. And the owners of House and Soul (which will soon open on Ribaut Road next to Family Dollar) served me a delicious piece of fried fish.\n\nMy friend brought Chinese dumplings and barbecue from Palm Key Catering, topped with a mix of the spicy and honey gold sauces. Both were dynamite.\n\n<a href=\"http://www.beaufortislandnews.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/07/Claudine-of-Claudines-Creperie-serves-one-of-her-popular-creations-to-a-young-customer.jpg\"><img class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-2071\" title=\"Claudine of Claudine\'s Creperie serves one of her popular creations to a young customer\" src=\"http://www.beaufortislandnews.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/07/Claudine-of-Claudines-Creperie-serves-one-of-her-popular-creations-to-a-young-customer-300x225.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"225\" /></a>After all that, I managed to save room for a crepe, made by Claudine’s Crepes out of Bluffton. The popular vendor is always packed with eager fans of savory and sweet crepes. I ordered the Monkey Bee, filled with Nutella, bananas and honey. It was worth the short wait, I can attest! And Claudine, who is known to give away one crepe per Saturday, gave it to me, free of charge. Thanks, Claudine!\n\n<a href=\"http://www.beaufortislandnews.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/07/Palm-Key-Catering-and-Events.jpg\"><img class=\"alignright size-medium wp-image-2072\" title=\"Palm Key Catering and Events\" src=\"http://www.beaufortislandnews.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/07/Palm-Key-Catering-and-Events-300x225.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"225\" /></a>But there was so much more at the market I wanted to try. So I bought some homemade ravioli made by Lindsay Dickson; a bag of salted boiled peanuts; some tomatoes from Urbie West of Rest Park Farms; and two bone-in ribeyes from Mi Bek Farms. I wanted to try a tomato pie made by Mr. Garrett of Lowcountry Produce, but he was sold out!\n\n<a href=\"http://www.beaufortislandnews.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/07/Owners-of-House-of-Soul-Opening-soon-on-Ribaut-Road-next-to-Family-Dollar.jpg\"><img class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-2073\" title=\"Owners of House of Soul, Opening soon on Ribaut Road next to Family Dollar\" src=\"http://www.beaufortislandnews.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/07/Owners-of-House-of-Soul-Opening-soon-on-Ribaut-Road-next-to-Family-Dollar-300x225.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"225\" /></a>Throughout the week, I tried all the purchased items. I sampled the truffle lobster, ricotta and lemon and four-cheese raviolis, which were so yummy! I had a tasty tomato sandwich on white bread with Duke’s mayonnaise (always a summer hit).  I  savored the ribeye with a simple rub of garlic salt and pepper, and I devoured the boiled peanuts in a single sitting. Needless to say, my week has been deliciously filling!\n\nKit Bruce and her husband, Louis, started the Farmers Market in Port Royal seven years ago. It is definitely a hit among the locals, and tourists tend to flock there as well. The market is open from 8:30 a.m.-12:30 p.m. on Saturdays. To get more information on becoming a vendor or to get on a weekly e-blast about upcoming events and seasonal items for sale, email kitbruce@charter.net.\n\n&nbsp;', 'Finding fresh, local goods at the Port Royal Farmers Market', '', 'publish', 'open', 'open', '', 'finding-fresh-local-goods-at-the-port-royal-farmers-market', '', '', '2011-07-14 02:23:27', '2011-07-14 02:23:27', '', 0, 'http://www.beaufortislandnews.com/?p=2067', 0, 'post', '', 0),
(2075, 4, '2011-07-14 02:25:42', '2011-07-14 02:25:42', '<a href=\"http://www.beaufortislandnews.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/07/Pets-Pets-of-the-Week.jpg\"><img class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-2076\" title=\"Pets-Pets of the Week\" src=\"http://www.beaufortislandnews.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/07/Pets-Pets-of-the-Week-300x225.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"225\" /></a>Kittens, kittens and more kittens! All different personalities and colors to choose from. Just come and pick your favorite one at the Beaufort County Animal Shelter &amp; Control, 23 Shelter Church Road in Beaufort. For more information, please call (843) 255-5010 or visit http://www.bcgov.net/Animal-Control.', 'Pets of the Week', '', 'publish', 'open', 'open', '', 'pets-of-the-week-3', '', '', '2011-07-14 02:25:42', '2011-07-14 02:25:42', '', 0, 'http://www.beaufortislandnews.com/?p=2075', 0, 'post', '', 0),
(2078, 4, '2011-07-14 02:26:41', '2011-07-14 02:26:41', '<p style=\"text-align: left;\" align=\"center\">University of South Carolina’s renowned University Test Prep program and University of South Carolina Beaufort are teaming up to offer an intensive and exciting SAT/ACT test prep program at the Hilton Head Gateway Campus in Bluffton. The course will be offered August 1-4.<!--more--></p>\nThe program is intended to help rising ninth-12th graders prepare for the SAT and ACT tests, which play a vital role in college admissions. As such, University Test Prep is here to help students meet their potential through the SAT/ACT Summer Institute in the Beaufort area.\n\nParticipants in University Test Prep will receive thorough preparation for high stakes undergraduate admissions exams. The Institute provides 20 hours of on-campus classroom learning and is led by a professional test prep instructor from the University of South Carolina. Classes are held Monday through Thursday from 9 a.m. to 3 p.m.\n\nThe Institute includes lunch each day, course materials, including the Official SAT and ACT textbooks, workbooks, and interactive online comprehensive review sessions in September.\n\nTo register and for more information, please contact USC Continuing Education and Conferences at 803-777-9444, email: testprep@mailbox.sc.edu, or see http://discover.sc.edu.', 'USCB offers sat program', '', 'publish', 'open', 'open', '', 'uscb-offers-sat-program', '', '', '2018-07-12 11:04:56', '2018-07-12 15:04:56', '', 0, 'http://www.beaufortislandnews.com/?p=2078', 0, 'post', '', 0),
(2080, 4, '2011-07-14 02:27:35', '2011-07-14 02:27:35', 'The Beaufort County School Board has approved Ms. Anita Lynn Nelson as Principal of Whale Branch Elementary School.<!--more-->\n\nNo stranger to the Beaufort County School District, Ms. Nelson has served as Assistant Principal at Shell Point Elementary School in Beaufort since 2007. Before joining the administrative team at Shell Point, she was the Assistant Principal  at St. Helena Elementary School and a classroom instructor for 13 years teaching first, second and third grades.\n\n“The Beaufort County Schools are fortunate to have such strong leadership program which helps prepare assistant principals for principalships,” Superintendent Valerie Truesdale said.  “Ms. Nelson brings to Whale Branch Elementary exemplary experience attuned to the accelerated growth focus in our district. The interview team of parents, teachers and school district leaders is pleased to welcome her as principal of Whale Branch Elementary School.”\n\nMs. Nelson received a Bachelor of Arts Degree in Elementary Education from the University of South Carolina, a Masters Degree in Elementary Education from Cambridge University in Cambridge, Mass., and her Masters Degree in Educational Administration and Supervision from the University of South Carolina.', 'Whale Branch Elementary names new principal', '', 'publish', 'open', 'open', '', 'whale-branch-elementary-names-new-principal', '', '', '2018-07-12 11:04:56', '2018-07-12 15:04:56', '', 0, 'http://www.beaufortislandnews.com/?p=2080', 0, 'post', '', 0),
(2082, 4, '2011-07-14 02:30:34', '2011-07-14 02:30:34', '<a href=\"http://www.beaufortislandnews.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/07/Schools-Mona-Lise-Dickson.jpg\"><img class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-2083\" title=\"Schools-Mona Lise Dickson\" src=\"http://www.beaufortislandnews.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/07/Schools-Mona-Lise-Dickson-223x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"223\" height=\"300\" /></a>Mona Lise Dickson begins her new assignment this week as principal of Lady’s Island Middle School, following approval by the Board of Education last Tuesday.<!--more-->\n\nMs. Dickson has been a leading educator with the Beaufort County Schools for many years. She served as assistant principal of Beaufort High School and for the past three years as principal of Whale Branch Middle School, the first middle school in Beaufort County to serve fifth through eighth grades.  Ms. Dickson led implementation of a STEM (science, technology, engineering and math) curriculum.  Under her leadership, Whale Branch Middle School has been repeatedly recognized for its achievements and improved report card ratings.\n\nWith her proven record of producing academic improvement, Ms. Dickson brings experience as a former math teacher, women’s basketball coach and involved citizen in Beaufort County. As a parent whose four children attended Lady’s Island Middle School, Ms. Dickson is well aware of the Lady’s Island community.\n\n“Mona Lise Dickson is a strong leader and highly qualified educator,” Superintendent Valerie Truesdale said.  “The interview team of parents, teachers and school district leaders are proud that she applied for the position of Principal for Lady’s Island Middle School.  We look forward to the expansion of the STEM initiative at Lady’s Island and continued engagement of the community.”\n\nMs. Dickson received a Bachelor of Arts Degree in Mathematics from Rollins College and a Master’s in Education Administration from Cambridge University in Cambridge, Mass.', 'Mona Lise Dickson Named Principal of Lady’s Island Middle School', '', 'publish', 'open', 'open', '', 'mona-lise-dickson-named-principal-of-ladys-island-middle-school', '', '', '2018-07-12 11:04:56', '2018-07-12 15:04:56', '', 0, 'http://www.beaufortislandnews.com/?p=2082', 0, 'post', '', 0),
(2085, 4, '2011-07-14 03:33:48', '2011-07-14 03:33:48', '<strong>\n</strong>\n\n<strong><em>For more information regarding applications or ticket sales, please visit www.bftwaterfestival.com</em></strong>\n\n<strong> </strong>\n\n<strong> </strong>\n\nFRIDAY, JULY 15\n\n• Festival Art and Craft Market\n\nNoon - 5 p.m., Promenade, Waterfront Park\n\nOver 50 booths with handmade Arts and Crafts\n\n• Opening Ceremony\n\nSponsored by South Carolina Education Lottery\n\nGates open 6 p.m., Ceremony begins 7 p.m.\n\nFeaturing the Parris Island Marine Band and a spectacular Fireworks Show at dusk.\n\nFree admission\n\nShuttle service available from Beaufort County Government Center<!--more-->\n\n&nbsp;\n\nSATURDAY, JULY 16\n\n• Raft Race\n\nSponsored by Boundary Street Collision Center\n\n9 a.m., Waterfront Park\n\n• Bocce Tournament\n\nSponsored by JoCo Construction\n\n9 a.m., Waterfront Park\n\nEntry fee: $40 per 2-person team\n\n• Festival Art and Craft Market\n\n9 a.m. - 5 p.m., Promenade, Waterfront Park\n\nOver 50 booths handmade Arts and Crafts\n\n• Sponsors’ Expo\n\n10 a.m. - 2 p.m., Waterfront Pavilion\n\nFree\n\n• Children’s Toad Fishing Tournament\n\nSponsored by Sea Island Atlas Van Lines\n\n10 a.m. - 12:30 p.m., Waterfront Park\n\nFree ages 12 and under only\n\nBring your own Rod, Reel and Tackle\n\nBait will be provided\n\n• Coast Guard Cutter Tours\n\n10 a.m. - 4 p.m., Waterfront Park\n\nFree\n\n• Shrimp Boat Tours\n\nNoon - 4 p.m., Waterfront Park\n\nFree\n\n• Badminton Tournament\n\nSponsored by A.C. Harvey’s Screen Printing\n\n11 a.m., Waterfront Park\n\nEntry Fee $30 per team\n\n• Gatorland Ski Show\n\n1:30 p.m. - 3:30 p.m., Beaufort River, Waterfront Park\n\nFree\n\n• Sailing Regatta\n\nSponsored by Ameris Bank\n\n2:45 p.m.- 4:45 p.m., Beaufort River in front of seawall\n\n• CONCERT IN THE PARK\n\nSponsored by NEW COUNTRY BOB106.9 FM\n\n8 p.m. - 11:30 p.m., Waterfront Park\n\nGates open 7 p.m., Show starts 8 p.m.\n\nEntertainment by country music artist Lee Brice\n\nopening with Josh Thompson.\n\nNO STROLLERS ALLOWED\n\nAdmission $20.\n\nShuttle service available from Beaufort County Government Center\n\n&nbsp;\n\nSUNDAY, JULY 17\n\n• Festival Art and Craft Market\n\n9 a.m. - 5 p.m., Promenade, Waterfront Park\n\n• Boat Bingo\n\nSponsored by Yacht Club Enterprises\n\n10 a.m. - 2 p.m., Local Waters\n\n• Coast Guard Cutter Tours\n\n10 a.m. - 4 p.m., Waterfront Park\n\nFree\n\n• Shrimp Boat Tours\n\nNoon - 4 p.m., Waterfront Park\n\nFree\n\n• CHILDREN’S DAY\n\nSponsored by Coca-Cola\n\nFeaturing Magic Marc and other shows with rides, games, and prizes\n\n11:00 a.m. - 3 p.m., Waterfront Park\n\nFree\n\n• Gatorland Ski Show\n\n2 p.m. - 4 p.m., Beaufort River,Waterfront Park\n\nFree\n\n• Sailing Regatta (continued)\n\nSponsored by Ameris Bank\n\n2 p.m. - 5 p.m., Beaufort River in front of Beaufort Yacht and Sailing Club\n\n• TEEN DANCE\n\nSponsored by Technical College of the Lowcountry\n\n6 p.m. - 9 p.m., Waterfront Park\n\nGates open 6 p.m. to 8 p.m. ( No entry after 8 p.m.) NO RE-ENTRY ALLOWED.\n\nEntertainment by D.J. Ross Brown\n\nAges 13-17 only--VALID ID REQUIRED\n\nCLUTCH PURSES ONLY (6x9)size\n\nAdmission $10.\n\nNo shuttle service available\n\n&nbsp;\n\nMONDAY, JULY 18\n\n• Croquet Tournament\n\nSponsored by Modern Jewelers\n\n9 a.m., Waterfront Park\n\nEntry fee: $40 per tournament team, $30 per co-ed team\n\n• Festival Art and Craft Market\n\n12 p.m. - 5 p.m., Promenade, Waterfront Park\n\n• MOTOWN MONDAY\n\nSponsored by Actus Community Fund/AMCC at Tri-Command\n\n8 p.m. - 11 p.m., Waterfront Park\n\nGates open 7 p.m., Show starts 8 p.m.\n\nEntertainment by Deas Guyz,\n\nAdmission $7. FREE to ACTIVE DUTY MILITARY with valid Military ID.\n\nShuttle service available from Beaufort County Government Center\n\n&nbsp;\n\nTUESDAY, JULY 19\n\n• Croquet Tournament (continued)\n\nSponsored by Modern Jewelers\n\n9 a.m., Waterfront Park\n\n• Festival Art and Craft Market\n\n12 - 5 p.m., Promenade, Waterfront Park\n\n• TROPICAL TUESDAY\n\n8 - 11 p.m., Waterfront Park\n\nGates open 7 p.m., Show starts 8 p.m.\n\nEntertainment by Conch Republic\n\nAdmission $12.\n\nShuttle service available from Beaufort County Government Center\n\n&nbsp;\n\nWEDNESDAY, JULY 20\n\n• Croquet Tournament (continued)\n\nSponsored by Modern Jewelers\n\n9 a.m., Waterfront Park\n\n• Festival Art and Craft Market\n\n12 p.m. - 5 p.m., Promenade, Waterfront Park\n\n• TALENT SHOW\n\nHosted by the Preceptor Omega Chapter of\n\nBeta Sigma Phi Sorority.\n\nSponsored by McDonald’s.\n\n7 p.m. - 11 p.m., Waterfront Park\n\nGates open 6 p.m., Show starts 7 p.m.\n\nAdmission $10, Free with Official 2011 Beaufort Water Festival T-Shirt.\n\nShuttle service available from Beaufort County Government Center\n\n&nbsp;\n\nTHURSDAY, JULY 21\n\n• Croquet Tournament Finals\n\nSponsored by Modern Jewelers\n\n9 a.m., Waterfront Park\n\n• Festival Art and Craft Market\n\n12 p.m.- 5 p.m., Promenade, Waterfront Park\n\n• LOWCOUNTRY SUPPER\n\nSponsored by Waste Pro\n\n6 p.m. - 11 p.m., Waterfront Park\n\nGates open 6 p.m., Supper served 6 p.m. - 7:30 p.m.\n\nOpening with the Groovetones\n\nEntertainment by the World Famous Whistlers followed by 7 Bridges, an Eagles tribute band\n\nAdmission $15.\n\nShuttle service available from Beaufort County Government Center\n\n&nbsp;\n\nFRIDAY, JULY 22\n\n• Festival Art and Craft Market\n\n9 a.m. - 5 p.m., Promenade, Waterfront Park\n\n• Bed Race\n\nSponsored by Advanced Mold Technologies\n\n5 p.m., Bay Street, starting at Harrington Street and ends at Newcastle Street.\n\nEntry fee: $25 per bed\n\n• RIVER DANCE\n\nSponsorship available\n\n8 p.m. - Midnight, Waterfront Park\n\nGates open 7 p.m., Show starts 8 p.m.\n\nEntertainment by Superglide\n\nopening with the Broke Locals\n\nMUST BE 18 OR OLDER WITH VALID ID TO ATTEND\n\nNO STROLLERS ALLOWED\n\nAdmission $12\n\nShuttle service available from Beaufort County Government Center\n\n&nbsp;\n\nSATURDAY, JULY 23\n\n• Festival Art and Craft Market\n\n9 a.m. - 5 p.m. Promenade, Waterfront Park\n\n• Water Festival Grand Parade\n\nSponsored by the greenery, inc.\n\nOrganized by the Beaufort Lions Club\n\n10 a.m. - Noon, Downtown Beaufort\n\nEntry fee: $25\n\n• Coast Guard Cutter Tours\n\nNoon - 4 p.m., Waterfront Park\n\nFree\n\n• Shrimp Boat Tours\n\nNoon - 4 p.m., Waterfront Park\n\nFree\n\n• Corn Hole Tournament Finals\n\nSponsored by Boondocks Restaurant and Sports Bar\n\n11:30 a.m., Waterfront Park- Double Elimination Frame Tournament to determine the last 3 spots in the field\n\n1:00 p.m., Single Elimination Tournament Finals\n\nEntry fee, $30 per 2-person team\n\n• Air Show\n\n1 p.m. - 4 p.m., Waterfront Park\n\nFree\n\nBeaufort River Closed\n\n• COMMODORE’S BALL\n\nSponsored by Mazzanna’s Lawn Care\n\n8 p.m. - Midnight, Waterfront Park\n\nEntertainment by Legends of the Beach\n\nGates open 7 p.m., Show starts 8 p.m.\n\nAdmission $10.\n\nShuttle service available from Beaufort County Government Center\n\n&nbsp;\n\nSUNDAY, JULY 24\n\n• Festival Art and Craft Market\n\n9 a.m. -2 p.m., Promenade, Waterfront Park\n\n• Blessing of the Fleet and Parade of Boats\n\nSponsored by the Water Festival Commodores\n\nNoon - 2 p.m., Beaufort River in front of Waterfront Park\n\nFree - boats must register to be eligible for prizes\n\nAll applications must be at the judges stand prior to noon.\n\nPrizes will be awarded for:\n\nBest decorated boat Commercial $100\n\nBest decorated personal watercraft $100\n\nJudges award $100\n\n• 2 p.m. Festival Ends\n\n&nbsp;\n\n&nbsp;\n\n&nbsp;\n\n&nbsp;', 'Complete Schedule of Events', '', 'publish', 'open', 'open', '', 'complete-schedule-of-events', '', '', '2011-07-14 03:33:48', '2011-07-14 03:33:48', '', 0, 'http://www.beaufortislandnews.com/?p=2085', 0, 'post', '', 0),
(2087, 4, '2011-07-14 03:37:20', '2011-07-14 03:37:20', '<strong>\n</strong>\n\nBy Pamela Brownstein\n\nThe Water Festival is a feast for the senses: The sight of colorfully dressed, happy people gathered together in our beautiful Waterfront park. The smell of marsh grass and salt breezes. The taste of mouth-watering dishes from local restaurants. And, most importantly, the sound of the music that attracts audiences every night to center stage.<!--more-->\n\nThis year, the festival welcomes a variety of talented artists. The opening ceremony kicks off Friday with the traditional <strong>Parris Island Marine Corps Band</strong>.\n\n[caption id=\"attachment_2088\" align=\"alignleft\" width=\"200\" caption=\"Lee Brice\"]<a href=\"http://www.beaufortislandnews.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/07/WF-Lee-Brice2.jpg\"><img class=\"size-medium wp-image-2088\" title=\"WF-Lee Brice2\" src=\"http://www.beaufortislandnews.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/07/WF-Lee-Brice2-200x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"200\" height=\"300\" /></a>[/caption]\n\nOn Saturday night, the Concert in the Park will be rockin’ with the country sounds of opener <strong>Josh Thompson</strong> and headliner <strong>Lee Brice</strong>.\n\nBorn and raised in Sumter, S.C., Brice, 32, is an up-and-coming country singer who writes his own music and recently returned from the 2011 Country Throwdown tour with Willie Nelson.\n\n“Being on tour with Willie was memorable for me. To be up there with a legend was very inspiring,” Brice said.\n\nThe Clemson football player turned musician has been inspiring fans of his own with his album “Love Like Crazy.” The title song was nominated for Song of the Year and Single of Year by the Academy of Country Music. The video for “Love Like Crazy” was also nominated for the 2011 CMT Awards’ USA Weekend Breakthrough Video of the Year.\n\nHe will play his other popular songs — “Beautiful Every Time,”  “She Ain’t Right” and “Happy Ending” — and also plans to add some new material, like his new single, “Beer.”\n\nBrice said he has never been to Water Festival before and is excited about getting to perform in Beaufort.\n\n“We will definitely be having a good time!”\n<p align=\"center\">MOTOWN MONDAY</p>\nThe Beaufort County-based band <strong>Deas Guyz</strong> will be charming audiences with their vast repertoire of Motown, including songs from The Temptations, the Drifters, Smokey Robinson and Marvin Gaye. The popular group returns to Waterfront Park after performing last year for the Beaufort Shrimp Festival.\n<p align=\"center\">TROPICAL TUESDAY</p>\n<p align=\"left\">Taking its name from the Florida Keys, the nine-person band <strong>Conch Republic</strong> will make its Beaufort debut. The group uses unique instruments — like the ukulele, steel drums and bongos — to achieve a fun “Trop Rock” sound and to mix things up.</p>\n<p align=\"left\">Band leader Michael Thomas, of Lexington, Ky, said, “We try to keep a very active, energetic show; we like to call ourselves a smiles band.”</p>\n<p align=\"left\">Their set list is aimed at getting the crowd on its feet with songs by Jimmy Buffet, Bob Marley, the Beach Boys, even Barry Manilow’s “Copa Cabana.”</p>\n<p align=\"left\">Thomas said their original call-and-response song “Flip flops and bottle tops” always has people up and going. “We’re all about fun,” he said.</p>\n<p align=\"center\">LOWCOUNTRY SUPPER</p>\n<p align=\"left\">After filling your belly with the best Lowcountry Boil around, sit back in your lawn chair, listen to local band <strong>Groovetones</strong>, then be entertained by the onstage antics of the <strong>World Famous Whistlers</strong>.</p>\n<p align=\"left\">But be sure to stick around for the main event, <strong>7 Bridges</strong>, an Eagles tribute band. The members of the band are known for their incredible musicianship, vocal precision and commanding stage presence, which means you can close your eyes and imagine you really are seeing the Eagles live in concert.</p>\n<p align=\"center\">RIVER DANCE</p>\n<p align=\"left\"><a href=\"http://www.beaufortislandnews.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/07/WF-Superglide-bw.jpg\"><img class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-2089\" title=\"WF-Superglide bw\" src=\"http://www.beaufortislandnews.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/07/WF-Superglide-bw-300x176.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"176\" /></a>Do you think a whole busy week of Water Festival events means people are more tame by the time River Dance rolls around? No way! This is one of the most wild night, where the park is packed and everyone gathers around the stage to dance. The band tasked to give audiences a fun, entertaining show is <strong>Superglide</strong>.</p>\n<p align=\"left\">The five-member band, led by Joey Bishop, takes inspiration from groups like Journey, Foreigner, Bon Jovi, and other hits from the 70s and 80s.</p>\n<p align=\"left\">Bishop said, “We love what we do and you’ll be able to see it in our performance. This isn’t an oldies show, this isn’t a modern rock, beach or rap show.  We play great classic rock and dance music from the late 70’s early 80’s that moms and dads will love, as well as their children.”</p>\n<p align=\"center\">COMMODORE’S BALL</p>\n<p align=\"left\"><strong>Legends of the Beach</strong> is a group composed of eight musicians, including five former members of the Beach Music group, the Embers. The group plays the beach music they were known for in 80s and 90s. For years, people have been wanting to see these guys back on stage performing together, and now it will happen for the final night of Water Festival.</p>\n&nbsp;', 'What would Water Festival be without great entertainment?', '', 'publish', 'open', 'open', '', 'what-would-water-festival-be-without-great-entertainment', '', '', '2011-07-14 03:37:20', '2011-07-14 03:37:20', '', 0, 'http://www.beaufortislandnews.com/?p=2087', 0, 'post', '', 0),
(2091, 4, '2011-07-14 03:38:34', '2011-07-14 03:38:34', 'The Beaufort Water Festival organizers know that parking downtown can be difficult during Water festival. That’s why they offer a free shuttle service from the Beaufort County Multi-Government Center on the corner of Ribaut Road and Boundary Street to the Downtown Marina parking lot in the Henry C. Chambers Waterfront Park. Festival goers should take advantage of this free service! The shuttle service runs on 15-minute intervals between the government center and marina parking lot. The first shuttle begins one hour before the gates open and the last shuttle ends 30 minutes after the event ends. The shuttle begins at 6 p.m. on Lowcountry Supper night. There is no shuttle service available on Teen Dance night.<!--more-->\n\n&nbsp;\n\n• Friday, July 15 — Shuttle begins 5 p.m. and ends at 11:30 p.m.\n\n• Saturday, July 16 — Shuttle begins at 6 p.m. and ends at 12:30 a.m. Sunday, July 17 -- No shuttle service.\n\n• Monday, July 18 — Shuttle begins at 6 p.m. and ends at 11:30 p.m.\n\n• Tuesday, July 19 — Shuttle begins at 6 p.m. and ends at 11:30 p.m.\n\n• Wednesday, July 20 — Shuttle begins at 5 p.m. and ends at 11:30 p.m.\n\n• Thursday, July 21 — Shuttle begins at 6 p.m. and ends at 11:30 p.m.\n\n• Friday, July 22 — Shuttle begins at 6 p.m. and ends at 12:30 a.m.\n\n• Saturday, July 23 — Shuttle begins at 6 p.m. and ends at 12:30 a.m.', 'Shuttle Schedule', '', 'publish', 'open', 'open', '', 'shuttle-schedule', '', '', '2011-07-14 03:38:34', '2011-07-14 03:38:34', '', 0, 'http://www.beaufortislandnews.com/?p=2091', 0, 'post', '', 0);
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(2095, 4, '2011-07-14 03:45:17', '2011-07-14 03:45:17', '<strong>\n</strong>\n\n<strong>By Wendy Nilsen Pollitzer</strong>\n\n&nbsp;\n\n[caption id=\"attachment_2097\" align=\"alignleft\" width=\"300\" caption=\"Colleen and Bob Bible\"]<a href=\"http://www.beaufortislandnews.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/07/Profile-Bob-and-Colleen-Bible1.jpg\"><img class=\"size-medium wp-image-2097\" title=\"Profile-Bob and Colleen Bible\" src=\"http://www.beaufortislandnews.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/07/Profile-Bob-and-Colleen-Bible1-e1310615080812-300x159.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"159\" /></a>[/caption]\n\nBob Bible, commodore for the 56th Annual Beaufort Water Festival, is all smiles. He’s worked diligently with his crew for the last year planning Beaufort’s coveted festival and is now in go-mode. He’s on the tarmac, waiting for the last ride on a long journey.<!--more-->\n\nBible, director of property management for Atlantic Marine Corps Communities at Tri-Command, lives in Beaufort and is married to Colleen Bible. Originally from Winter Park, Fla., Bible has spent the last 20 years in Beaufort, propelling himself into numerous volunteer opportunities. In addition to being commodore, Bible is also past president and current Youth Exchange Officer for Rotary Club of the Lowcountry and on the Rotary District 7770 Youth Exchange District Committee. He’s also the ghost of Mr. John Mark Verdier for the annual CAPA Ghost Tours in October.\n\nWhile Bible isn’t volunteering for Rotary of the Lowcountry, CAPA or the Beaufort Water Festival, he enjoys fishing, golfing, gardening and NASCAR. He has three children: Aaron (36); Chris (32); and Allison (25) and two grandchildren, Alex (7) and Skylar (10).\n\nBible graciously invited me and Pamela Brownstein, The Island News’ graphic designer, to a recent Water Festival meeting. The mood was relaxed, and the vibe was contagious. The crew is ready, and frankly, so is Beaufort.\n\n&nbsp;\n\nI asked Bible a few questions about his role as commodore:\n\n&nbsp;\n\nWP: What does Water Festival mean to you?\n\n<strong>BB: A sincere commitment to service above self. It gives me great pleasure to see the smiles on the childrens’ faces during our toad fishing tournament, ski show, air show and especially children’s day. Also the excitement that the community displays as the Water Festival approaches those magical 10 days in July.</strong>\n\n&nbsp;\n\nWP: What does the Water Festival do for the city of Beaufort?\n\n<strong>BB: The Water Festival provides a venue to highlight our beautiful city. Many people plan their vacations around our 10-day event.</strong>\n\n&nbsp;\n\nWP: What is you favorite event during Water Festival?\n\n<strong>BB: I have to say the Children’s Toad Fishing Tournament. My granddaughter Alex is the little girl in the T-shirt design for this year, and it came from a picture I keep on my desk of her fishing in her first Toad Fishing Tournament.  The young fishermen/fisher ladies get such personal enjoyment during that one event. </strong>\n\n&nbsp;\n\nWP: What was the hardest part of planning Water Festival this year?\n\n<strong>BB: Waiting for it to begin! We start planning in September the year before and we go over and over all scenarios, all the little pieces and parts that make it a great event.</strong>\n\n&nbsp;\n\nWP: What has been your favorite moment so far?\n\n<strong>BB: That actually happened on Saturday, July 9. I was meeting in Cannon Park with one of my coordinators and a chairman for our pre-parade coffee and a young couple came to the park. I noticed the young man gave the young lady a great big hug and then came over to us and asked if one of us could take a picture. I volunteered and asked them about the special occasion. He had just proposed. It was such a touching moment. I went to my truck and gave them both a Commodore’s Guest pass and asked them to be my guests at this year’s Water Festival. It truly made my day.</strong>\n\n&nbsp;\n\nWP: What has been the most frustrating moment so far?\n\n<strong>BB: The Women’s Golf Tournament. I wanted to make this year bigger and better. The number of participants has dropped over the years, and this was one of my goals to get it going again. Unfortunately, I agreed to move it South of the Broad, based on some professionals’ input, and several things happened. The golf course that we were going to use was not ready for the event (grounds-wise), and then I agreed to reschedule the event to give it another try. Again, not much participation. I hope next year’s commodore can make this a better event. If any of your women golfers have any ideas to help, please send them to www.infowaterfestival.com.</strong>\n\n&nbsp;\n\nWP: What positive energy have you brought to this year’s festival?\n\n<strong>BB: That is a tough question.  I want to say a sense of team work and the ability to let my coordinators do their job without micromanaging.  </strong>\n\n&nbsp;\n\nWP: How is your crew?\n\n<strong>BB: Every year our coordinators take on a new role for the festival, and this year, they have been awesome in the roles I assigned them in September. </strong>\n\n&nbsp;\n\nWP: How often does the committee meet?\n\n<strong>BB: We start out with one meeting a month in September, and when January roles around, it is twice to three times a month. Plus we have several events that take place outside of the 10 days we are in the park. We have a fishing tournament,  golf tournament and softball event. We have Sports Saturday, which includes horseshoes, volleyball and a men’s softball tournament. This year we also had a green event, where we provided kayaks and the opportunity to do something good for the environment and our beautiful Beaufort River by cleaning debris and trash from the shoreline.</strong>\n\n&nbsp;\n\nWP: Do you guys like to have a good time?\n\n<strong>BB: Of course!  My motto is: Don’t let them see you sweat. Our goal is to ensure a quality event that people enjoy and, at the end of the day, everyone goes home safe: our festival participants and my crew.</strong>\n\n&nbsp;\n\nWP: Will you be at the park every day?\n\n<strong>BB: Yes, I will be in the park every day, but not always in those familiar red short/pants. I will be just another one of the 400 plus volunteers who make the Beaufort Water Festival a great event.</strong>\n\n&nbsp;\n\nWP: If you were a kid again, what would be the most entertaining thing to see at Water Festival?\n\n<strong>BB: Magic Mark on Children’s Day. He has been invited back for several years, because I believe he truly cares about the children. He makes sure they have a great time.</strong>\n\n&nbsp;\n\nWP: What are your plans after Water Festival?\n\n<strong>BB: A NAP! Just kiddin’, I would like to get more involved again with CAPA.</strong>\n\n&nbsp;\n\nWP: How many T-shirts does the commodore get?\n\n<strong>BB: I get one the night we pick the colors. That is a unique event, because they all look so good, but we can only choose about 10 each year. The rest I buy, and since this year it is my design, I bought a lot. The T-shirt design this year came to life through my idea and two talented people, Mrs. Tempel who painted a picture I purchased in 2003 and Mr. Brad Drawdy from Big D’s Tees who took it to the next level. </strong><strong> </strong>\n\n&nbsp;\n\nWP: Do you get in free for all Water Festival’s to come?\n\n<strong>BB: Yes. Also, I will still be working on the Water Festival Board for the next four years. </strong>\n\nWP: Deserved!\n\n&nbsp;\n\nWP: Would you want to do this again?\n\n<strong>BB: I think once is enough for now, but if called upon to help in future festivals absolutely. It is a great way to give back to our community.</strong>\n\n&nbsp;\n\nWP: What is one feature of the Water Festival not many people know about that you’d like to promote?\n\n<strong>BB: We provide an opportunity for many nonprofit organizations to participate and earn funds for their community projects. We also provide a scholarship to a student in Beaufort County and this year we signed on with Mayor Keyserling’s idea to provide a $1,000 a year for the next four years with the USCB arts program.  </strong>\n\n&nbsp;\n\nWP: In three words, can you sum up Water Festival?\n\n<strong>BB: No! There is just too much that each year’s Water Festival brings to our community.  </strong>\n\n<strong>\n</strong>', 'Meet the Commodore of the 56th Annual Beaufort Water Festival, Bob Bible', '', 'publish', 'open', 'open', '', 'meet-the-commodore-of-the-56th-annual-beaufort-water-festival-bob-bible', '', '', '2011-07-14 03:45:17', '2011-07-14 03:45:17', '', 0, 'http://www.beaufortislandnews.com/?p=2095', 0, 'post', '', 0),
(2102, 4, '2011-07-14 12:56:48', '2011-07-14 12:56:48', '&nbsp;\n\n<a href=\"http://www.beaufortislandnews.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/07/Coordinators-with-Bob-Bible.jpg\"><img class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-2103\" title=\"Coordinators with Bob Bible\" src=\"http://www.beaufortislandnews.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/07/Coordinators-with-Bob-Bible-300x200.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"200\" /></a>\n\n&nbsp;\n\n&nbsp;\n\n&nbsp;\n\n&nbsp;\n\n&nbsp;\n\n&nbsp;\n\nPROGRAM COORDINATOR: JOHN GENTRY\n\n<a href=\"http://www.beaufortislandnews.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/07/John-Gentry.jpg\"><img class=\"alignleft size-thumbnail wp-image-2104\" title=\"John Gentry\" src=\"http://www.beaufortislandnews.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/07/John-Gentry-150x150.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"90\" height=\"90\" /></a>John is a physical education teacher at Beaufort Middle School. He and his wife Jan have three children, Megan, Erin and Kyle. Both his daughters were Pirettes and his son was a Water Festival Director. John has been a Water Festival volunteer since 1984. His director is Clark Robinson.<!--more-->\n\n&nbsp;\n\nSPORTS COORDINATOR: JACK LITTLE\n\n<a href=\"http://www.beaufortislandnews.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/07/Jack-Little.jpg\"><img class=\"alignright size-thumbnail wp-image-2105\" title=\"Jack Little\" src=\"http://www.beaufortislandnews.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/07/Jack-Little-150x150.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"90\" height=\"90\" /></a>Jack is a home mortgage consultant with Wells Fargo Home Mortgage. He and his wife Cammye have three children, Michael, Cameron and Becca. This is Jack’s 17th year with the festival. His director is Jason Berry.\n\n&nbsp;\n\nPARKS COORDINATOR: BERNIE AMAYA\n\n<a href=\"http://www.beaufortislandnews.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/07/Bernie-Amaya.jpg\"><img class=\"alignleft size-thumbnail wp-image-2106\" title=\"Bernie Amaya\" src=\"http://www.beaufortislandnews.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/07/Bernie-Amaya-150x150.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"90\" height=\"90\" /></a>Bernie is a sales coordinator at Grayco Building Center. He and his wife Tracy have three children, Amber, Amanda and Alex. This is Bernie’s 12th year with the Water Festival. His directors are Brian Patrick, Todd Stowe, Frank Mueller, Pam O’Bryan, James Nutt, and Kirk Prinsen\n\n&nbsp;\n\nWATER &amp; AIR COORDINATOR: DAN THOMPSON\n\n<a href=\"http://www.beaufortislandnews.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/07/Dan-Thompson.jpg\"><img class=\"size-thumbnail wp-image-2107 alignright\" title=\"Dan Thompson\" src=\"http://www.beaufortislandnews.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/07/Dan-Thompson-150x150.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"90\" height=\"90\" /></a>Dan is a network technician with Hargray Telephone Company. His wife Bonnie is the Arts &amp; Craft Market  Director. They have a daughter, Amanda. This is Dan’s 11th year with the Water Festival. His director is Erin (Tank) Morris.\n\n&nbsp;\n\nSALES &amp; ADMISSIONS COORDINATOR: BRANDY GRAY\n\n<a href=\"http://www.beaufortislandnews.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/07/Brandy-Gray.jpg\"><img class=\"alignleft size-thumbnail wp-image-2108\" title=\"Brandy Gray\" src=\"http://www.beaufortislandnews.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/07/Brandy-Gray-150x150.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"90\" height=\"90\" /></a>Brandy is a Sales Manager for the Holiday Inn Express &amp; Suites in Bluffton. She and her husband Mickey have a daughter, Emma La’Claire. Brandy is a former Pirette and is in her 14th year with the Water Festival. Her directors are Bonnie Thompson, Chad Langford, Anna Edwards and Alan Langford.\n\n&nbsp;\n\nPRODUCTIONS COORDINATOR: DONNA PATRICK\n\n<a href=\"http://www.beaufortislandnews.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/07/Donna-Patrick.jpg\"><img class=\"alignright size-thumbnail wp-image-2109\" title=\"Donna Patrick\" src=\"http://www.beaufortislandnews.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/07/Donna-Patrick-150x150.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"90\" height=\"90\" /></a>Donna is an active duty U.S. Navy Corpsman stationed at MCRD Parris Island. She and her husband, Brian (also a Water Festival volunteer) have three children, Krieg, Kortni and Alyssa. Donna is in her 7th year with Water Festival. Her Director is Rand Thacker.\n\n&nbsp;\n\nSPONSORS COORDINATOR: CHRIS CANADAY\n\n<a href=\"http://www.beaufortislandnews.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/07/Chris-Canaday.jpg\"><img class=\"size-thumbnail wp-image-2110 alignleft\" title=\"Chris Canaday\" src=\"http://www.beaufortislandnews.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/07/Chris-Canaday-150x150.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"90\" height=\"90\" /></a>Chris is employed by the Town of Port Royal in the accounting/finance department. He and his wife Stacey — also a Water Festival volunteer and former Pirette — have two children, Hayden and Rowan. This is Chris’ 7th year with the Water Festival. His director is Henri Madlinger.\n\n&nbsp;\n\nMARKETING/PR COORDINATOR: BILL DAMUDE\n\n<a href=\"http://www.beaufortislandnews.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/07/Bill-Damude.jpg\"><img class=\"size-thumbnail wp-image-2111 alignright\" title=\"Bill Damude\" src=\"http://www.beaufortislandnews.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/07/Bill-Damude-150x150.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"90\" height=\"90\" /></a>Bill is a Social Studies teacher and wrestling coach at Beaufort High School. He and his wife, Marci,a have two children, Taylor and Jylian (a former Pirette). Bill is in his 7th year with the Water Festival. His director is Stacey Canaday.\n\n&nbsp;\n\nADMINISTRATION COORDINATOR: ADAM AIMAR\n\n<a href=\"http://www.beaufortislandnews.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/07/Adam-Aimar.jpg\"><img class=\"alignleft size-thumbnail wp-image-2112\" title=\"Adam Aimar\" src=\"http://www.beaufortislandnews.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/07/Adam-Aimar-150x150.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"90\" height=\"90\" /></a>Adam is employed with Ocean Light an electrical contracting company. He has two children, Mason and Chloe. Adam has been a festival volunteer since 2002, and this will mark his first year as a coordinator. Adam’s directors are Rose Cole, Charlotte Gonzalez, and Mikel Swinton.\n\n&nbsp;\n\nTREASURER: NICKY FOWLKES\n\n<a href=\"http://www.beaufortislandnews.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/07/Nicky-Fowlkes.jpg\"><img class=\"alignright size-thumbnail wp-image-2113\" title=\"Nicky Fowlkes\" src=\"http://www.beaufortislandnews.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/07/Nicky-Fowlkes-150x150.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"90\" height=\"90\" /></a>Nicky is a branch manager for Lowcountry National Bank. She and her husband, Mike, have two children, Woody and Nick. Nicky has been a festival volunteer for seven years and her assistant treasurer is Indra Morton.', 'THE 2011 CREW', '', 'publish', 'open', 'open', '', 'the-2011-crew', '', '', '2011-07-14 12:56:48', '2011-07-14 12:56:48', '', 0, 'http://www.beaufortislandnews.com/?p=2102', 0, 'post', '', 0),
(2115, 4, '2011-07-14 12:58:45', '2011-07-14 12:58:45', '<strong><em>\n</em></strong>\n\n<em>Be a part of the “Yachtie” phenomenon</em>\n\nBy Wendy Nilsen Pollitzer\n\n&nbsp;\n\n<a href=\"http://www.beaufortislandnews.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/07/WF-Yacht-Club-logo.jpg\"><img class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-2116\" title=\"WF-Yacht Club logo\" src=\"http://www.beaufortislandnews.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/07/WF-Yacht-Club-logo-300x56.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"56\" /></a>Lights ... camera ... action in Beaufort!  Have you ever wanted to be the star in a movie? Ever had the dream of acting, but just didn’t know how you’d ever make it to Hollywood for your one big shot?  Well, no need to save money for the flight to Cali or acting lessons. Your dream is coming to you.\n\nThis Water Festival, visitors will have the opportunity to shoot a casting video for an upcoming comedy that will be filmed here in the Lowcountry, “Yacht Club,” written by Bluffton local Stephen Cross. But, “Yacht Club” is so much more than a movie!\n\nImagine the world’s largest virtual Yacht Club, where memberships are inexpensive yet exclusive and all those affiliated with the private club and had only one requirement: You must know how to have fun.\n\nAnd Cross wants members of this virtual Yacht Club to be familiar with boating, whether they have boats, live near boats, cater to boaters or just like boats and the laid-back demeanor of a coastal town — like Beaufort.\n\nSo Cross is launching his search for local talent here at the 56th Annual Beaufort Water Festival. He will travel to all major boat shows and events around the country in cities like Miami, Fla., Newport, R.I., and San Diego, Ca., for the next year looking for 26 special people to star in “Yacht Club,” to be released in Spring of 2013. There will be 28 speaking roles total, but two cameos are reserved for famous actors who have big box office appeal and have followings that insure lucrative “after theatrical release” profitability. The casting promotion searching for the other 26 roles will be intended for people like you and me, normal folk who live near the water, have a little old salt in their blood and enjoy the occasional fish or sailing story with a Dark and Stormy.\n\nWe all know how much fun people have on or near the water, and, at the “Yacht Club,” there is no exception. The storyline begins with a rich young man from a distinguished yachting family who has enjoyed the good life. He embraces and supports his three new college roommates who are unlikely candidates for success. They come from non-boating locations and backgrounds, but because of his encouragement and friendship, they are introduced to the yacht club lifestyle. The commonalities of boating and genuine friendships create the basis for a lifetime of fun at the yacht club (not to mention the trouble they get into along the way).\n\nThere are many roles to cast for and hundreds of extras, including the handsome rich young man who goes off to college and is introduced to his three roommates who are from opposite social and economic backgrounds. There will be a young Afro-American from the inner city (hopefully we can find the next Chris Rock or Eddie Murphy), a young Latino man to play the part of a college student from the land-locked country of Bolivia (he’s never seen a yacht, let alone been on one) and an Iowa farm boy, who has only ridden on tractors his whole life (he’s quiet, but a real hell raiser when he is introduced to the good life).\n\nThe supporting cast will consist of different types of people who belong to the Yacht Club and work there. Producers will look for beautiful young women who enjoy boating — the “Hottie Yachties” — for the party scenes. There is the beautiful mother of the main character, along with his rich, sophisticated father and The Commodore of the Yacht Club. There are many supporting roles for extras. A real yacht club usually has lots of characters. Promoters are looking for those “characters “to star in the movie.\n\nThe entire process will be filmed for a possible reality television show, “The Casting Call,” due to the popularity of this type of media and the desire for amateur performers to have their “moment of fame.”\n\nSo, membership certainly has its privileges. All members will enjoy the planned activities of the “World’s Largest Virtual Yacht Club.” These will include the opportunity to participate in the casting and production of the feature comedy motion picture, “Yacht Club,” plus helping create the largest Yacht Club in the world. As the club grows, unique events will be planned to encourage members to enjoy boating of any type, whether someone is just getting started or they are experienced offshore yachtsmen.\n\nAs the “club” grows, corporate marketing partners will sponsor special events and provide members with promotions and activities that will enhance their boating experience. With rank there comes exclusive benefits and privileges, so please select carefully. Whatever you decide, the “Yacht Club” is happy to have you as a member.\n\nStephen Cross not only wrote the screenplay, but is also the Chairman and Commodore of Yacht Club.  He has an energy that is contagious. He is more excited about the journey than the final product. He wants to surround himself with people similar to his way of life, not necessarily social or economic class, just people with the like-minded spirit of boaters, which by the way, there are 66 million of in the U.S. alone.\n\nOutside influence would like to film the comedy in other locations around the country, but Cross is steadfast about shooting the movie here, in the Lowcountry, a place where he says, “embraces boating.”\n\nCross wants to make a movie, yes; but he wants to build a company and share a way of life too. Don’t worry if you can’t sing or act. Just come out and learn what “Yacht Club” is all about. Be a part of the “Yachtie” phenomenon.\n\n&nbsp;\n\n<em><strong>IF YOU WANT TO AUDITION FOR ‘YACHT CLUB’</strong></em>\n\n<strong>Crew Member Dues $50</strong>\n\nHere is an opportunity for someone who wishes to chase a dream and to have the opportunity to audition for the feature comedy motion picture, “Yacht Club”. For the casting process to begin, please download a picture of yourself along with a video (limited to 3 minutes). Include any comedy boating experiences you feel would make a great scene in the movie. For more membership ranks, please visit www.yachtclubmovie.com.\n\nOnce you are a member, “Yacht Club” will email you a more detailed personal data form, which provides more information needed for the casting process. You will receive the signature “Yacht Club” hat with an embroidered “The-Casting-Call.com” back panel, which will be evidence that you are not only a member of the “World’s Largest Virtual Yacht Club”, but that you casted for one of the roles. The only way to take ownership of this special souvenir hat is to try out for one of the many speaking parts and the hundreds of extras that will be needed. Other hats can be purchased in our Chandlery (Store), but no additional “Casting” souvenir hats will be sold retail.  This makes it a very exclusive collector’s item. Wearing your hat is evidence that you are in fact a potential star. With this membership, you will also receive a ‘Yachtie” bracelet and an “I’m a Yachtie” bumper sticker and a “World’s Largest Virtual Yacht Club” membership card.\n\n&nbsp;\n\n<strong>Help a Charity</strong>\n\nThe color of your hat will ensure proceeds will go to the charity of your choice\n\nHat color:\n\nWhite: ALS (Lou Gerigs Disease Research)\n\nRed: American Red Cross\n\nNavy Blue: Parkinson’s Disease Research\n\nRoyal Blue: Marine Related Charities (handicapped boating programs)\n\nKhaki: Hospice Care\n\nPink: Breast Cancer Research\n\nYellow: St. Jude’s Children Hospital\n\n&nbsp;\n\n<strong>AT THE CASTING TENT</strong>\n\nThe casting tent for Yacht Club will be located across from the Best Western on Bay Street in Freedom Park during the first and second weekends of Water Festival, July 15-17 and July 22-24. They will be taking all photos and videos in the tent once you’ve purchased membership to Yacht Club. Those interested in being cast are encouraged to bring boating stories, a funny boating joke, an original song with a boating theme, a favorite recipe that you serve on your boat, your favorite cocktail on a boat — anything boating related to convey on video.\n\n&nbsp;', 'Yacht Club at the Beaufort    Water Festival', '', 'publish', 'open', 'open', '', 'yacht-club-at-the-beaufort-water-festival', '', '', '2011-07-14 12:58:45', '2011-07-14 12:58:45', '', 0, 'http://www.beaufortislandnews.com/?p=2115', 0, 'post', '', 0),
(2121, 4, '2011-07-14 13:04:25', '2011-07-14 13:04:25', '<a href=\"http://www.beaufortislandnews.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/07/WF-Sandbar.jpg\"><img class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-2123\" title=\"WF-Sandbar\" src=\"http://www.beaufortislandnews.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/07/WF-Sandbar-300x225.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"225\" /></a>An unofficial Water Festival venue is located within view of the Henry C. Chambers Waterfront Park every year. Those fortunate to have boats or friends with a boat, anchor at the Beaufort River sandbar and take pleasure in, well, all sorts of fun!<!--more-->\n\nFlotillas of center consoles, pontoons, bateaus and even kayaks tie up to one another, and Beaufortonians of all ages hop from boat to boat until the sandbar comes out of hiding from the ebbing tide. And the first weekend looks to be a good one for those eager to walk in the pluff mud and sand surrounding the infamous bar, home to many Water Festival memories.\n\nLow tide on Saturday, July 16 is at 4:39 pm in the Beaufort River, which will allow boaters good sandbar time between the hours of 2:30 and 6:30 p.m. Low tide on Sunday, July 17 is at 5:22 p.m.\n\n<a href=\"http://www.beaufortislandnews.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/07/WF-Sandbar2.jpg\"><img class=\"alignleft size-thumbnail wp-image-2124\" title=\"WF-Sandbar2\" src=\"http://www.beaufortislandnews.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/07/WF-Sandbar2-150x150.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" /></a>Be sure to wear ample sunscreen and make sure your boat is equipped with all safety equipment required by the State of South Carolina. Most of all, be safe on the river and have fun!\n\n&nbsp;\n\n&nbsp;\n<h3>South Carolina required equipment checklist</h3>\nAll boats are required by state law to have the following equipment on board:\n\n• Boater safety certificaiton card\n\n• Certificate of number on board\n\n• Validation decals displayed\n\n• Personal floatation devices, one per person. Those under 12 years must always wear one.\n\n• Type B-1 fire extinguisher\n\n• Horn, whistle or bell\n\n• Daytime visual distress signals\n\n• Nighttime visual distress signals\n\n• If boating on coastal waters between sunset and sunrise, navigation lights are required.', 'Beaufort River sandbar, a Water Festival tradition', '', 'publish', 'open', 'open', '', 'beaufort-river-sandbar-a-water-festival-tradition', '', '', '2011-07-14 13:04:25', '2011-07-14 13:04:25', '', 0, 'http://www.beaufortislandnews.com/?p=2121', 0, 'post', '', 0),
(2126, 4, '2011-07-14 13:05:44', '2011-07-14 13:05:44', '<a href=\"http://www.beaufortislandnews.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/07/WF-Art-and-Craft-Market.jpg\"><img class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-2127\" title=\"WF-Art and Craft Market\" src=\"http://www.beaufortislandnews.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/07/WF-Art-and-Craft-Market-300x202.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"202\" /></a>The Arts &amp; Craft Market at the 56th Annual Beaufort Water Festival is a handcrafted market, organized by Bonnie Thompson and in its third year of a redesigned juried art and craft application.<!--more-->\n\nTo apply, Thompson and her team request the applicant send in pictures of his or her raw product, product 50% complete and a picture of them working on the product, as well as a completed product and booth set-up requirements. This ensures all products are indeed handmade. Not all applicants are accepted.  Decisions are made on originality, quality and space availability.\n\nThe Arts &amp; Craft Market at this year’s festival will accommodate weekly and weekend artisans, providing a different variety of arts and crafts each day.\n\nThis year, the market has a total of 57 artisans, 34 of whom are from South Carolina. The other artists are from Georgia, Florida, North Carolina and Kentucky.\n\nHawthorne Leather, shown in the photo, has been attending the festival for the past 25 years.\n\nThe market will be Friday, July 15, 12-5 p.m.; Saturday and Sunday, July 16 and 17, 9 a.m.-5 p.m.; Monday-Thursday, July18-21, 12-5 p.m.; Friday and Saturday, July 22 and 23; 9 a.m. -5 p.m.; Sunday, July 24, 9 a.m. -2 p.m.', 'Artisans to provide variety at the Annual Art and Craft Market', '', 'publish', 'open', 'open', '', 'artisans-to-provide-variety-at-the-annual-art-and-craft-market', '', '', '2011-07-14 13:05:44', '2011-07-14 13:05:44', '', 0, 'http://www.beaufortislandnews.com/?p=2126', 0, 'post', '', 0),
(2129, 4, '2011-07-14 13:08:23', '2011-07-14 13:08:23', '&nbsp;\n\n<em>Just in time for Water Festival</em>\n\nBy Laura Trask\n\n[caption id=\"attachment_2130\" align=\"alignleft\" width=\"200\" caption=\"Louis Reard&#39;s 1st bikini revealed at public pool in Paris 1946\"]<a href=\"http://www.beaufortislandnews.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/07/Fashion-Louis-Reards-1st-bikini-revealed-at-public-pool-in-Paris-1946.jpg\"><img class=\"size-medium wp-image-2130\" title=\"Fashion-Louis Reard\'s 1st bikini revealed at public pool in Paris 1946\" src=\"http://www.beaufortislandnews.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/07/Fashion-Louis-Reards-1st-bikini-revealed-at-public-pool-in-Paris-1946-200x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"200\" height=\"300\" /></a>[/caption]\n\nNothing says summer in Beaufort like boats, beer and bikinis, and with the 56th Annual Beaufort Water Festival upon us (and since this is a fashion column), we had better focus on the wardrobe staple of the three B’s — the Bikini!  <!--more-->The bikini first shocked those on Swedish beaches in 1947 and apparently still has the same ability over half a century later.  A friend of mine visiting from the Upstate, where they do their sunbathing at country club pools and on lakes, could not get over the fact that so many of the women in the Lowcountry were strutting around in bikinis.  Her exact words were, “you would never wear a bikini to my country club.”  A tankini is as bare as they dare. Well, we say poo to that!\n\nAlthough bikini-like garments have been around for a millennia, the man credited with the modern day bikini was a French engineer named Louis Reard. He revealed his design at a public pool in Paris in 1946, and it was an instant hit. He named it after Bikini Island in the Pacific, which was the site of some nuclear testing. He believed that the excitement it would cause would be as explosive as a nuclear blast! Another fellow bikini inventor called his the “atome,” referring to its size.  Well, Reard claimed to have “split the atome,” making the bikini even smaller and exposing the navel, which had not been done before. Reard declared that a two-piece was not a genuine bikini “unless it could be pulled through a wedding ring.”\n\nSo, since we are bold enough to bob boat to boat in little to nothing I guess we need to do some background checks in the dressing room. We have all been there and know it is a lesson in patience and can be quite discouraging, much like finding the right pair of blue jeans, one must be willing to try on many to find one that feels right!\n\n[caption id=\"attachment_2131\" align=\"alignright\" width=\"300\" caption=\"Gisele Bundchen\"]<a href=\"http://www.beaufortislandnews.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/07/Fashion-gisele_bundchen_2.jpg\"><img class=\"size-medium wp-image-2131\" title=\"Fashion-gisele_bundchen_2\" src=\"http://www.beaufortislandnews.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/07/Fashion-gisele_bundchen_2-300x225.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"225\" /></a>[/caption]\n\nThe trick is finding the style and fit that best works with one’s body. As we all know, there are very few perfect bodies out there. We all have something we are trying to deal with. Here are some helpful hints I have found. Halter-top bikinis offer support while enhancing the cleavage and really look good on just about anyone, whereas a bandeau top is much less flattering.  If you want to have longer looking legs, choose a suit that is cut high on the thigh, which will not only elongate your legs, but will make your waist look smaller. A win-win! A solid bottom paired with a printed top will draw the eye upward and also give you a longer look. Stay away from boy shorts and skirted bottoms as they tend to make one look shorter!\n\nAs you can imagine, there are many dos and don’ts when it comes to getting your bikini look right.  Here are a few: do rock your bikini with big earrings and a fabulous pair of sunglasses, the combination is oh so chic. Don’t wear boots with your bikini no matter what misguided fashion victims you may see in them. Flip flops are a better fit, but a wedge can also add a sexy twist. Best to keep it simple and clean.\n\nAnd remember ladies, there is a fine line between party like a rock star and party like a reality star!\n\nXo,\n\nLaura\n\n&nbsp;\n\n&nbsp;\n\n&nbsp;', 'Bikini Dos and Don’ts', '', 'publish', 'open', 'open', '', 'bikini-dos-and-don%e2%80%99ts', '', '', '2011-07-14 13:08:23', '2011-07-14 13:08:23', '', 0, 'http://www.beaufortislandnews.com/?p=2129', 0, 'post', '', 0),
(2133, 4, '2011-07-14 13:10:03', '2011-07-14 13:10:03', 'By Terry Sweeney\n\nGreetings fellow Happy Winos! As a way of saying thank you for your loyalty and devotion to my column, I thought I would give ya’ll a complimentary ‘Happy Wino Water Festival Survival Kit.’ To that end I am providing you with my hangover cures and my easy to remember ‘Wine Bottle Warning Guide’ that could save your life, or at least enable you to remember all the fun you had at this year’s Water Festival. So when people say to you, “I can’t believe you did that in front of everybody at the sand bar!”, you don’t have to look at them blankly and ask, terrified , “I-I was at the sand bar?!”<!--more-->\n\nHangovers have been the bane of Man’s and Woman’s existence since the beginning of Time … or at least since the beginning of Water Festival. Every year I swear that never again will I be on that Sandbar three sails to the wind! But then the party gets started and I think …oh just one more can’t hurt. And boy am I wrong!!! Before I know it the wrath of grapes is upon me!!!!!\n\nI am personally ready to put on sneakers, shorts and a tank top, plaster a number on my chest and start a nationwide ‘Run for the Cure’… well that is as soon as I can take this ice pack off my head and my hands stop shaking. Maybe instead I should start up a ‘Tiptoe Quietly For the Cure Wearing Very Dark Sunglasses.’ A friend of mine who is also a Happy Wino sometimes calls me the morning after we have been out Water Festival partying and all she will say is “Cheeseburger, fries, LT’s, one hour.” Click. That’s all she has to say and I am there, because no greasy burger nor oil-dripping freshly French fried potato has ever tasted better than the one you eat when you’ve got the big H. “Why is that?” you ask. I don’t know. Apparently, Science thinks the study of how greasy junk food affects the booze-soaked brain is beneath them. Another pricey Mars Probe, that’s what we really need. The last one so improved our quality of life. Thanks, Science. (Of course if they find out Martians don’t get hangovers no matter how many Martiantinis they drink, well then it’s money well spent and I will personally apologize to Science). But in the meantime-HELP!!!\n\nBy the way, before I forget, it is imperative that you wash down that grease fest with a carbonated Cola in the biggest cup you can get your hands on, filled to the brim with ice. You can suck on the leftover cubes or stick ‘em in a small watertight baggy and wear them under your hat. It works!! But let’s face it. This trip to Dr. Greaseburger may be my (and several friends’) way of surviving the hellacious wrath of the grape, but everyone has their own. Of course, the worst one I ever heard came from a dour cousin of mine whom, when asked about her favorite hangover preventative, responded “Don’t drink!” It was then I remembered my mother always referred to her as “your crazy cousin.” Obviously, back here on Earth where the rest of us Happy Winos live, that is not an option. However, on the other end of the scale, I have a Happy Wino buddy who swears the only way he can get over his hangover is to have a beer for breakfast as soon as he wakes up. Sounds all right, except then he continues to snack on beers all morning and ends up having beer for lunch. ‘Hair of the dog’ he’ll drunkenly inform me if I run into him. “Of course” I say, then quietly mumble under my breath “I think that dog had puppies.”\n\nNevertheless, he is right about one thing. Beer with hops (a natural sedative) as its main ingredient is the favorite daytime, ‘day after’ drink of many vintners. When I was in Napa, the sight of a beer mug in the hand of any well-known winemaker was a sure sign he’d stomped down too many grapes the night before. So maybe a cold beer with lunch might just be what the doctor ordered.\n\nSpeaking of doctors, one of my Happy Wino friend’s wife is one. What does his medical mate recommend for a hangover? “Oh she usually hooks us up to water-drip I.V,’s the next morning ‘till we’re re-hydrated. “Oh that’s a good one,” I chuckle, “Why didn’t I think of that?!” Tee Hee. One look at his somber puzzled expression tells me “Oh my Lord, he’s serious.” I make a mental note not to ask my undertaker friend what he and his wife do the day after, lest the answer be: “ We sleep in the empty coffins in the walk in freezer!”\n\nStill I do understand where these hung and hurtin’ folks are coming from. Who among us has not prayed for relief from the ‘Morning After Monster’ and plea-bargained with the grape gods to spare us further agony. “Never again!” we cry. “One glass with dinner from now on,” we swear. Yeah right.\n\nSooner or later, of course, forgetting all of our heartfelt promises and melodramatic repentance, we’re back whooping it up with the best of ‘em. I’ve even gone so far as to make false claims that the reason I got so sick last time was due to a ‘tainted cork’ or my other old standby, “that last bottle must have turned. I oughta sue!” But most times I simply revert back to the classic old Southern defense: “I was over-served.” (Although it doesn’t work too well if you never left your house and you were obviously the server!)\n\nStill, of all the cures I’ve heard, my favorite was that of a friend who meticulously described opening a can of Diet Pepsi at 6 p.m. on the night he’s going out, dropping two aspirin in it and letting it sit on his bedside table so he can chug it down before he goes to sleep, thus feeling no pain the next morning.\n\n“Does that really work?” I asked, impressed.\n\n“I don’t know” he shrugged. “I always pass out and forget to drink it.”\n\n&nbsp;\n\nHere is my Wine Bottle Warning Guide!\n\nCut it out and tape it to your fridge:\n\n<strong>Happy Winos Wine Bottle Warning Guide</strong>\n\nOne is fun.\n\nTwo, I can do.\n\nThree, look out for me!\n\nFour, I\'m on the floor.\n\nFive, thank God I\'m alive!\n\nSix, I\'m pickin\' up tricks.\n\nSeven, I\'m probably in Heaven.', 'Wino Water Fest Survival Kit', '', 'publish', 'open', 'open', '', 'wino-water-fest-survival-kit', '', '', '2011-07-14 13:10:03', '2011-07-14 13:10:03', '', 0, 'http://www.beaufortislandnews.com/?p=2133', 0, 'post', '', 0),
(2135, 4, '2011-07-14 13:10:49', '2011-07-14 13:10:49', '<strong>\n</strong>\n\nThe first festival was held in July 1956 with John Bigbee serving as the first president and Gladys Thompson in charge of the visiting queens. The Lions Club took the job of putting on the first parade and has been doing so every year since.<!--more-->\n\nIn the early days of the festival, it cost 50 cents to attend the Beauty Pageant, $1 per couple to attend the Water Festival Ball (which was later changed to the Commodore’s Ball) and $2 to attend the Regatta Ball. The first weekend featured two days of sailboat races and the Regatta Ball. The following weekend began with the Beauty Pageant on Friday where the Queen of the Carolina Sea Islands was crowned. The parade and ski show, put on by the Beaufort Water Ski Club, and an air show highlighted the second weekend, in addition to the Water Festival Ball. All events were held on or adjacent to the municipal parking lot, and in case of inclement weather (we never use the word “rain” when speaking of the festival), the pageant would move indoors to the Beaufort Elementary School and the balls would be held in the Community Club.\n\nAs the years went by, the festival began to draw more and more people to Beaufort from other parts of the state and on a national level. Events such as fishing and golf tournaments as well as a craft market and sponsors’ and community non-profit expos were added to the lineup so that the festival had something to offer for every age and interest. The festival continues to add new events and drop some events to keep current with the interests of festival goers.\n\nMore than 400 volunteers work long hours to bring the events to the festival. Water Festival is able to offer first-class entertainment at reasonable prices because of the generosity of loyal sponsors.', 'History of the festival', '', 'publish', 'open', 'open', '', 'history-of-the-festival', '', '', '2011-07-14 13:10:49', '2011-07-14 13:10:49', '', 0, 'http://www.beaufortislandnews.com/?p=2135', 0, 'post', '', 0),
(2137, 4, '2011-07-14 13:12:05', '2011-07-14 13:12:05', '&nbsp;\n\n<a href=\"http://www.beaufortislandnews.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/07/WF-License-Plate.jpg\"><img class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-2138\" title=\"WF-License Plate\" src=\"http://www.beaufortislandnews.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/07/WF-License-Plate-300x150.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"150\" /></a>The Beaufort Water Festival is happy to announce that the public can now purchase a specialized Beaufort Water Festival license plate. The fee is $30 every two years, in addition to the regular motor vehicle registration fee.<!--more-->\n\nThe plate is available to the general public, and there are no special requirements for acquiring the plate.\n\nTo get your license plate, just go to your local DMV in South Carolina and tell them you would like to purchase the Beaufort Water Festival Specialty License plate.\n\nA portion of the fees is returned to the Beaufort Water Festival to help with marketing and promoting the summertime event. Please visit www.scdmvonline.com for more information.', 'Get your license plate', '', 'publish', 'open', 'open', '', 'get-your-license-plate', '', '', '2011-07-14 13:12:05', '2011-07-14 13:12:05', '', 0, 'http://www.beaufortislandnews.com/?p=2137', 0, 'post', '', 0),
(2141, 4, '2011-07-14 13:15:03', '2011-07-14 13:15:03', '&nbsp;\n\n<a href=\"http://www.beaufortislandnews.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/07/Profile-Past-Commodores.jpg\"><img class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-2142\" title=\"Profile-Past Commodores\" src=\"http://www.beaufortislandnews.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/07/Profile-Past-Commodores-300x153.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"153\" /></a>\n\n&nbsp;\n\n&nbsp;\n\n&nbsp;\n\n&nbsp;\n\n<strong><!--more-->Past Commodores</strong>\n\n2010   55th    Sheri Little\n\n2009   54th    Wilmot Schott\n\n2008   53rd    Les Brediger\n\n2007   52nd   Erin Dean\n\n2006   51st     Keith Cummins\n\n2005   50th    Richard Norris\n\n2004   49th    Marvin Morrison\n\n2003   48th   Geordie Madlinger\n\n2002   47th    Scott Seelhoff\n\n2001   46th    Ed Saxon\n\n2000   45th    Craig McTeer\n\n1999   44th    David Tempel\n\n1998   43rd    Michael Yoakum\n\n1997   42nd   Charles H. Steinmeyer\n\n1996   41st     Kevin D. Cuppia\n\n1995   40th    Frank O. Plair\n\n1994   39th    Mark A. Buskirk\n\n1993   38th    Lowell Keene\n\n1992   37th    Danny Charpentier\n\n1991   36th    Edward Wise\n\n1990   35th    W.K. “Pete” Pillow\n\n1989   34th    Ronald Tanner\n\n1988   33rd    D.R “Rusty” Simpson\n\n1987   32nd   Hutson “Buster” Davis, Jr\n\n1986   31st      J Lee Bollman\n\n1985   30th    George B Brown\n\n1984    29th   Duncan Fordham\n\n1983    28th    Skeet Von Harton\n\n1982    27th    William C Robinson\n\n1981    26th    James Williamson\n\n1980    25th    Claude E Surface, Jr\n\n1979    24th    Owen Hand\n\n1978    23rd    Ed Duryea\n\n1977    22nd   Fred Kuhn\n\n1976    21st     George Goldsmith\n\n1975    20th    Curt Copeland*\n\n1974    19th    John M.”Finn”*\n\n1973    18th    James G Thomas*\n\n1972    17th    Thomas R Garrett\n\n1971    16th    Don Perry\n\n1970    15th    Robert Welden*\n\n1969    14th    Elrid Moody\n\n1968    13th    Arthur Horne*\n\n1967    12th    W. Henry Jackson\n\n1966    11th    Colden R Battey, Jr.\n\n1965    10th    C.R. Powell*\n\n1964    9th      R. Ray Kearns\n\n1963    8th      Henry V Boyce, Jr*\n\n1962    7th      Marvin H. Dukes\n\n1961    6th      Robert G McDowell*\n\n1960    5th      Roy Smith\n\n1959    4th      Mrs. Mazie Terhune*\n\n1958    3rd      Sammy Gray\n\n1957    2nd     Ed Pike*\n\n1956    1st       John M. Bigbee*\n\n&nbsp;\n\n*deceased', '', '', 'publish', 'open', 'open', '', '2141', '', '', '2011-07-14 13:15:03', '2011-07-14 13:15:03', '', 0, 'http://www.beaufortislandnews.com/?p=2141', 0, 'post', '', 0),
(2144, 4, '2011-07-14 13:16:23', '2011-07-14 13:16:23', '&nbsp;\n\nBy Cherimie Crane\n\nScribbled on notepads, tucked in tablets, drafted in unsent emails are stories some of great significance, some of little importance, and many incomplete thoughts. Descriptive paragraphs about the way the moonlight dances across the Beaufort River like thousands of tiny ballerinas create chapter after chapter written by the solitude of streetlight. Sentimental sentences explain how the wrinkles in my Pappaw’s face weave and fade as he speaks of the good ole’ days. Timeless truths intertwined in experience tell about the scent of vanilla that remains long after momma wipes away a tear.<!--more-->\n\nI have memorialized moments, celebrated situations that most may overlook. I’ve laughed my way through life lessons, long days and many a lapse in logic. With wine glass in hand and computer in lap, my thoughts ramble on with little direction and with even less restraint. Bravery comes easy as honesty, conviction and vulnerability tap dance in sync along my keyboard. Often I forget my words will be unprotected once printed for public ponder. It is easy to unveil in the absence of judgement.\n\nFew occasions show human nature, soul simplicity, and the basic being that allow a peak through the window of the unbridled original. One of those rare wrinkles in time belongs to none other than the Beaufort Water Festival. If you doubt the potential of pure personality, or the power of true colors, pack up your pessimism, sit back and absorb the enigma that is Water Festival.\n\nWatch stress-drained men trade in the business suits for the lighter weight of board shorts, well-meaning moms trade in fabric stitched in obligation and patterned in responsibility for skin-baring bikinis that replace years with youth and vitality. Even if just for a few hours, maybe even a few days, the shrimper, the crabber, the lawyer and the preacher become simply Beaufortonians. The shackles of roles and responsibility merge into rivers of freedom and folly. Greetings change from rote “How are you?” to an enthusiastic  “Happy Water Festival!”\n\nTime clocks and time sheets become a bit more forgiving. Differences disperse as the winds of well-wishes blow forth. Blue collar, white collar inevitably becomes no collar as Water Festival is the great equalizer.\n\nA couple in their sixties will shag under the stars toe to toe with a pair at sixteen. Long love, new love, renewed love finds itself along the water’s edge. Visitors question their own way of life as they observe with envy the sweet, slow summer nights that lead to warm mornings full of events and celebration that showcase that which can’t be simulated, only experienced.\n\nLand-locked laments fade as toes and woes submerge in saltwater and sand. Focus on troubles take second to focus on tides. Desk chairs empty and deck chairs fill. Quiet souls who hide behind societal norms unite on the sandbar to shine like polished pennies. Monday morning will come soon enough. There will be plenty of time to excuse away momentary mishaps and questionable quandaries. For now, let your hair down, lift your spirits, ditch the shoes, lose the shirt, tap dance through the day, shag through the night, and douse the day-to-day dread with real life, real moments, real smiles. Unveil your own true colors, capture your own moments, celebrate the life only you can live.  Be simple. Be happy. Be real. Be Beaufort! Happy Water Festival.', 'Be simple. Be happy. Be real. Be Beaufort!', '', 'publish', 'open', 'open', '', 'be-simple-be-happy-be-real-be-beaufort', '', '', '2011-07-14 13:16:23', '2011-07-14 13:16:23', '', 0, 'http://www.beaufortislandnews.com/?p=2144', 0, 'post', '', 0);

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(2229, 4, '2011-07-21 15:01:08', '2011-07-21 15:01:08', 'The Pirettes are involved in activities throughout the year.  They passed out candy at the downtown Trick or Treat on Halloween and at Night on the Town at Christmas.<!--more-->  They were in the Christmas parade, the Rice Festival parade in Walterboro and the Watermelon Festival parade in Hampton.<a href=\"http://www.beaufortislandnews.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/07/Pirettes_Group.jpg\"><img class=\"alignleft size-thumbnail wp-image-2246\" title=\"Pirettes_Group\" src=\"http://www.beaufortislandnews.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/07/Pirettes_Group-150x150.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" /></a> They decorated a tree for the Festival of Trees and spoke at Rotary groups in town. They are very busy during the week of Water Festival. They help with the games at Children’s Day, help people carry food at the Lowcountry Supper, answer questions throughout the week and even help answer the phones at Water Festival headquarters.\n\n&nbsp;\n\n&nbsp;\n\n&nbsp;\n\n<a href=\"http://www.beaufortislandnews.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/07/ALAINA-BAPTIES.jpg\"><img class=\"alignleft size-thumbnail wp-image-2230\" title=\"ALAINA BAPTIES\" src=\"http://www.beaufortislandnews.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/07/ALAINA-BAPTIES-150x150.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" /></a>ALAINA BAPTIES\n\nAlaina is a sophomore at Beaufort High School where she is a member of the cross country and soccer teams. She is active in her church and Young Life youth group. She enjoys dancing, and hanging out with friends.\n\n&nbsp;\n\n“I became a Pirette because I knew previous Pirettes that enjoyed it. And I thought it would be fun to experience to see Water Fest in the making.”\n\n&nbsp;\n\n<a href=\"http://www.beaufortislandnews.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/07/JESSICA-BENNETT.jpg\"><img class=\"alignleft size-thumbnail wp-image-2231\" title=\"JESSICA BENNETT\" src=\"http://www.beaufortislandnews.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/07/JESSICA-BENNETT-150x150.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" /></a>JESSICA BENNETT\n\nJessica is a freshman at Beaufort High School where she is a member of the softball team. She is an avid softball player and is involved with her youth group at church. Her hobbies include singing, volleyball, and babysitting.\n\n&nbsp;\n\n“Water festival is an opportunity to catch up with all my friends from school. I wanted to be a Pirette because my mom was a Pirette and it looks fun.”\n\n&nbsp;\n\n<a href=\"http://www.beaufortislandnews.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/07/JEAN-CLAIR-BRIDGERS.jpg\"><img class=\"alignleft size-thumbnail wp-image-2232\" title=\"JEAN CLAIR BRIDGERS\" src=\"http://www.beaufortislandnews.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/07/JEAN-CLAIR-BRIDGERS-150x150.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" /></a>JEAN CLAIR BRIDGERS\n\nJean Clair (JC) is a returning Pirette and a sophomore at Beaufort High School where she is a cheerleader and a member of the Interact Club. Her hobbies include running, swimming, singing and boating.\n\n&nbsp;\n\n&nbsp;\n\n“I thought that being a Pirette would be a good experience and I’d get to see the Water Festival from a different point of view.”\n\n&nbsp;\n\n<a href=\"http://www.beaufortislandnews.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/07/MEGAN-BRIDGERS.jpg\"><img class=\"alignleft size-thumbnail wp-image-2233\" title=\"MEGAN BRIDGERS\" src=\"http://www.beaufortislandnews.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/07/MEGAN-BRIDGERS-150x150.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" /></a>MEGAN BRIDGERS\n\nMegan is a freshman at Beaufort High School where she is a cheerleader and a member of the Interact Club. She enjoys boating, hanging out with her friends, and spending time with her family.\n\n&nbsp;\n\n“Water festival is an opportunity to meet new people and have a good time with your friends and family. I wanted to be a Pirette so I could have the opportunity to help out the community and meet new people.”\n\n&nbsp;\n\n<a href=\"http://www.beaufortislandnews.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/07/KELSEY-BUTLER.jpg\"><img class=\"alignleft size-thumbnail wp-image-2234\" title=\"KELSEY BUTLER\" src=\"http://www.beaufortislandnews.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/07/KELSEY-BUTLER-150x150.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" /></a>KELSEY BUTLER\n\nKelsey is a returning Pirette and a sophomore at Beaufort High School where she is a member of the National Junior Honor Society, National Junior Latin Society, and the Interact Club. Kelsey also plays on the varsity tennis team and the soccer team.\n\n&nbsp;\n\n“Beaufort Water Fest is a community event with a bunch of activities for the community and something to look forward to every year.”\n\n<a href=\"http://www.beaufortislandnews.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/07/CHARLOTTE-CANNON.jpg\"><img class=\"alignleft size-thumbnail wp-image-2235\" title=\"CHARLOTTE CANNON\" src=\"http://www.beaufortislandnews.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/07/CHARLOTTE-CANNON-150x150.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" /></a>CHARLOTTE CANNON\n\nCharlotte is a freshman at Beaufort High School where she is a cheerleader. Her hobbies include tennis, cooking, boating, and meeting new people. Charlotte hopes to become a Pediatrician some day.\n\n&nbsp;\n\n“To me, Water Festival means living in Beaufort and being proud of it! I wanted to be a Pirette because I love Water Festival. Being a Pirette is a great way to be involved.”\n\n&nbsp;\n\n<a href=\"http://www.beaufortislandnews.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/07/COURTNEY-COXWELL.jpg\"><img class=\"alignleft size-thumbnail wp-image-2236\" title=\"COURTNEY COXWELL\" src=\"http://www.beaufortislandnews.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/07/COURTNEY-COXWELL-150x150.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" /></a>COURTNEY COXWELL\n\nCourtney is a freshman at Beaufort High School where she is in the STEMS academic program. She is a member of the National Junior Honor Society and Junior Leadership Beaufort.\n\n&nbsp;\n\n“Water Festival brings out many people, and it’s a fun way to enjoy this beautiful place we call home. Being a Pirette allows me to be a role model for other girls who inspire to be a Pirette, just like I did when I was their age.”\n\n&nbsp;\n\n<a href=\"http://www.beaufortislandnews.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/07/MEGAN-DEBARDELABEN.jpg\"><img class=\"alignleft size-thumbnail wp-image-2238\" title=\"MEGAN DEBARDELABEN\" src=\"http://www.beaufortislandnews.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/07/MEGAN-DEBARDELABEN-150x150.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" /></a>MEGAN DEBARDELABEN\n\nMegan is a returning Pirette and a sophomore at Beaufort Academy where she plays varsity volleyball and basketball, and is a member of the Interact Club and dance committee. She enjoys traveling, shopping, and babysitting.\n\n&nbsp;\n\n“Water Fest is just a great time to experience the Lowcountry at its best. I wanted to be a Pirette because it was a great chance to meet new people and actually be a part of Water Festival.”\n\n&nbsp;\n\n<a href=\"http://www.beaufortislandnews.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/07/SHELBY-DUNCAN.jpg\"><img class=\"alignleft size-thumbnail wp-image-2239\" title=\"SHELBY DUNCAN\" src=\"http://www.beaufortislandnews.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/07/SHELBY-DUNCAN-150x150.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" /></a>SHELBY DUNCAN\n\nShelby is a freshman at Beaufort High School where she is in the Interact Club and National Junior Honor Society. Her hobbies include attending Clemson football games, boating and having fun with her friends.\n\n&nbsp;\n\n“Water Fest is when all the people of the Lowcountry come together for great memories, food, and entertainment and celebrate their heritage. I wanted to be a Pirette because I love Water Fest.”\n\n&nbsp;\n\n&nbsp;\n\n<a href=\"http://www.beaufortislandnews.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/07/HALEY-FURMAN.jpg\"><img class=\"alignleft size-thumbnail wp-image-2240\" title=\"HALEY FURMAN\" src=\"http://www.beaufortislandnews.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/07/HALEY-FURMAN-150x150.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" /></a>HALEY FURMAN\n\nHaley is a returning Pirette and a sophomore in high school. She enjoys playing softball, boating, shopping, and hanging out with friends. Her future goal is to become an Anesthesiologist.\n\n&nbsp;\n\n“Water Fest is a time that the people of Beaufort get to gather together  and celebrate the town and area we live in. I wanted to be a Pirette because I wanted to meet other girls of Beaufort. I have always looked up to the older Pirette girls.”\n\n&nbsp;\n\n<a href=\"http://www.beaufortislandnews.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/07/ELISE-MARSHALL.jpg\"><img class=\"alignleft size-thumbnail wp-image-2241\" title=\"ELISE MARSHALL\" src=\"http://www.beaufortislandnews.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/07/ELISE-MARSHALL-150x150.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" /></a>ELISE MARSHALL\n\nElise is a freshman at Beaufort High School where she started a sailing club and is a member of the Interact Club. She enjoys sailing, and competing in equestrian events. Elise has also participated in the festival regatta.\n\n&nbsp;\n\n“Water Festival is what everyone in Beaufort looks forward to all year long, and it’s a  good time to meet up with friends. I wanted to be a Pirette because I love the Water Festival.”\n\n&nbsp;\n\n&nbsp;\n\n<a href=\"http://www.beaufortislandnews.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/07/ELLIE-MUCKENFUSS.jpg\"><img class=\"alignleft size-thumbnail wp-image-2242\" title=\"ELLIE MUCKENFUSS\" src=\"http://www.beaufortislandnews.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/07/ELLIE-MUCKENFUSS-150x150.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" /></a>ELLIE MUCKENFUSS\n\nEllie is a freshman at Beaufort High School where she is a member of the Interact Club. Ellie has been in the festival talent show 3 years in a row. She enjoys singing and hanging out with friends.\n\n&nbsp;\n\n“Water Festival is a time to hang out with friends and meet new people. I love Water Fest, its tradition. I wanted to be a Pirette because when I was younger my babysitter was a Pirette.  I always wanted to follow in her footsteps.”\n\n&nbsp;\n\n&nbsp;\n\n<a href=\"http://www.beaufortislandnews.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/07/JENNY-MULLINS.jpg\"><img class=\"alignleft size-thumbnail wp-image-2243\" title=\"JENNY MULLINS\" src=\"http://www.beaufortislandnews.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/07/JENNY-MULLINS-150x150.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" /></a>JENNY MULLINS\n\nJenny is a freshman at Beaufort High School where she is on the varsity softball and golf teams. She is also a member of the Interact Club, National Junior Honor Society, and Junior Leadership of Beaufort. Her hobbies include traveling, playing softball, and hanging out with her friends.\n\n&nbsp;\n\n“Water Festival is a time to catch up with friends you haven’t seen since school has gotten out. Also, you get to meet new people and enjoy a week of fun events. I wanted to be a Pirette because I always enjoyed going to the Water Festival. I knew Pirettes when I was younger, and I always had the dream of becoming one.”\n\n&nbsp;\n\n<a href=\"http://www.beaufortislandnews.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/07/MEGAN-POTTER.jpg\"><img class=\"alignleft size-thumbnail wp-image-2244\" title=\"MEGAN POTTER\" src=\"http://www.beaufortislandnews.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/07/MEGAN-POTTER-150x150.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" /></a>MEGAN POTTER\n\nMegan is a freshman at Beaufort High School where she is a cheerleader and a member of the Interact Club. She enjoys boating, sailing, and hanging out with friends.\n\n&nbsp;\n\n“Water Festival is the event that everyone looks forward to all year. It’s a great time to meet new people and have a great time. I wanted to be a Pirette because I have always looked up to Pirettes. I hope I can be a role model to other kids.”\n\n&nbsp;\n\nHALEY SUTCLIFFE\n\nHaley is a freshman at Beaufort High School where she is a member of the Interact Club. She enjoys fishing, crabbing, and gigging.\n\n&nbsp;\n\n“Water Fest to me is a time for everyone to enjoy the Lowcountry. It is an amazing time to get the town together and just have fun. I wanted to be a Pirette because I always wanted to be a part of Water Fest.”\n\n&nbsp;\n\n&nbsp;\n\n<a href=\"http://www.beaufortislandnews.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/07/KALEY-TURNER.jpg\"><img class=\"alignleft size-thumbnail wp-image-2245\" title=\"KALEY TURNER\" src=\"http://www.beaufortislandnews.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/07/KALEY-TURNER-150x150.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" /></a>KALEY TURNER\n\nKaley is a freshman at Beaufort High School where she is an honors student. Kaley has been a soccer player and dancer for 9 years. Her hobbies include playing the piano and traveling with her family.\n\n&nbsp;\n\n“Water Festival is a good way to meet with friends and experience the Beaufort area at its finest. I wanted to be a Pirette because I thought it was a good way to meet new people in Beaufort and be a part of Water Festival.”', 'It’s a privilege to be a Pirette', '', 'publish', 'open', 'open', '', 'it%e2%80%99s-a-privilege-to-be-a-pirette', '', '', '2011-07-21 15:01:08', '2011-07-21 15:01:08', '', 0, 'http://www.beaufortislandnews.com/?p=2229', 0, 'post', '', 0),
(2250, 4, '2011-07-21 15:43:37', '2011-07-21 15:43:37', '<strong>By Pamela Brownstein</strong>\n\n&nbsp;\n\nAs the rain poured last Thursday afternoon, The Island News staff was cozy inside our little office downtown. We were also content stuffing our faces with a smorgasbord of fried foods and finger foods from Carolina Wings. The best part was we all stayed dry and no one had to leave because we wisely chose to have our food brought to us through Cabbie Cuisine.<!--more-->\n\n<a href=\"http://www.beaufortislandnews.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/07/Lunch-Bunch.jpg\"><img class=\"alignleft size-thumbnail wp-image-2251\" title=\"Lunch Bunch\" src=\"http://www.beaufortislandnews.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/07/Lunch-Bunch-150x150.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" /></a>Owner Cadell Crawford and her mobile waiters are fast and friendly and deliver to all of Beaufort, including Lady’s Island and military areas, seven days a week.\n\nOrdering online is so easy to use: Go to www.cabbiecuisine.com and click on the restaurant you desire to view the menu. Once you know what you want, type in your zip code, choose what time you want your food delivered, then you are ready to order.\n\nTo satisfy the appetites of our hungry group — five adults and four kids — we ordered a ton of food from Carolina Wings.\n\nCadell braved the storm and served us plates of fried shrimp, fried oysters, a small rack of ribs, boneless wings, medium chicken wings, mini cheeseburgers and the sampler platter, which includes a hefty portion of fried mushrooms, chicken tenders, cheese sticks and fried zucchini on a bed of Carolina Wings’ special chips.\n\nThere was something for everyone. Our strategy was simple: divide and conquer. We put all the food on one table so everyone could make their own plates, or walk around and sample and graze.\n\nElizabeth fancied the boneless wings, while Kim really liked the fried oysters. I thought the mini cheeseburgers were great, and our new sales woman Nancy Gregory was a fan of the fried zucchini.\n\nSome of the other restaurants offered by Cabbie Cuisine are Upper Crust Pizza, Maryland Fried Chicken, Shoofly Kitchen, Fryed Green Tomatoes, Sandbar &amp; Grill, Big Joe’s Bar-B-Que, Mizu Hibachi Japanese Fusion and more.\n\nIf your Internet is down or you’re not computer savvy, you can call 843-473-4499 to place your order.\n\nThis awesome delivery service will get meals from great local restaurants to your home or office hot and fresh — even if it’s raining. It’s reliable and convenient, especially with a large group of people. Don’t forget to tip as you would in a restaurant!', 'Lunch Bunch gets delivery through Cabbie Cuisine', '', 'publish', 'open', 'open', '', 'lunch-bunch-gets-delivery-through-cabbie-cuisine', '', '', '2011-07-21 15:43:37', '2011-07-21 15:43:37', '', 0, 'http://www.beaufortislandnews.com/?p=2250', 0, 'post', '', 0),
(2254, 4, '2011-07-21 16:52:50', '2011-07-21 16:52:50', '<strong>By Terry Sweeney</strong>\n\n<em>Have my recycling bins become buckets of shame?</em>\n\nThe other morning I was stunned by the sound of a tremendous crash outside my door. Since I live on a busy corner, I immediately imagined that four cars had collided at the intersection — all of their windshields shattering simultaneously. Like the rest of my neighbors, I threw open my door, ready to perhaps save some poor soul. But instead...<!--more--> of twisted steel and broken glass, to my shock and dismay, I beheld my very own blue recycling bin suspended upside down over a city recycling truck with a huge mountain of my empty broken wine bottles beneath it! Accusing eyes darted quickly in my direction. I smiled sheepishly and quickly made up a not very convincing “That damn Water Festival ... Yankee out-of-towners dropping’ their empties in your recycling bin!!! How rude!!” “Yeah, right” their eyes said back to me as unconvinced doors slammed and windows shut.\n\nDamn these under-three-dollars-a-bottle “value wines!” They’ve got me drinking wine like it’s water! No, I take that back, I’m drinking wine instead of water (it’s cheaper!). Soon I’ll be brushing my teeth with it, washing the car with it — and the dog! (I’ll bet that’ll put an end to her trying to jump outta the sink!)\n\nA month ago when this happened, I didn’t have the Water Festival to even try to pin it on. My big, strapping, macho garbage lady, who I bet wrestles alligators on her day off, had to ask a passing man to grab the other end of my jam-packed bin to help her lift it onto her truck. I don’t think she’s ever in her life asked a man for anything, not even Santa.\n\nDesperate measures are called for. I started coming up with alternate plans to mask my out-of-control value wine usage. What if I put my garbage in my recycling bins and all my empty wine bottles in my giant blue garbage can? Maybe I could also pack the wine bottles with white Styrofoam peanuts, so they could cascade out elegantly and quietly into the back of the sanitation truck. I could pretend they were part of an artsy display for the Beaufort Tricentennial, you know, perhaps “Celebrating 300 years of Binge Drinking in Beaufort?” Nah, the Tricentennial Commission would never go for it, no matter how historically accurate it was. Back to the drawing board.\n\nI decide that a deliciously diabolical plan might be to drive my recycling bins to someone else’s house, then once empty, pick them up the next day. But whose house?\n\nWho did I know who was on vacation? Or better yet, off at rehab? As I drove past a local church that strictly forbids the drinking of alcoholic beverages, I was sorely tempted to place my bin curbside. But no ... I couldn’t pin this guilt-laden mound of grape juice bottles on innocent people. Or could I? No!!\n\nWait a minute. Is that an empty house I spy with a “For Rent” sign in front of it? I screech to a halt. Lugging my clanky bin out of my car with all my might, then lowering it to the ground, I am forced to chase a runaway bottle as it rolls down the street. I grab it and read the label — “Oh, Tisdale Chardonnay! I remember you ... Three bottles for $10 at Bi-Lo! Buy six and get 10% off which makes one bottle free!” You’re one of the darn reasons I got into this mess!!\n\nMoving right along, I quickly do the old “baby in the hospital” switcheroo and load their innocent empty blue bin into my car. I drive off chuckling to myself while looking back in the rear view mirror at their now booze-stuffed bin: “Wow, what a bunch of drunks live in this neighborhood! If I were you, I’d lower the rent!”\n\nOnce home, I place a lone, empty plastic Ocean Spray Cranberry Juice bottle in my humble and virtuous booze-free bin and place it prominently next to the curb — four days ahead of time. ‘This is the real me, people!’ But how long can it last? Did I just hear that Publix has a liter and a half of Foxhorn Chardonnay on sale for $6.47?\n\nOh well … I tried, Lord! Looks like the best place for my bin is gonna be in the back of my car for now. Wait a minute, I think I remember seeing a “House for Sale” sign go up on Old Point and the owners drive off in a U-Haul. Hmmm….', 'Bin there, drank that', '', 'publish', 'open', 'open', '', 'bin-there-drank-that', '', '', '2011-07-21 16:52:50', '2011-07-21 16:52:50', '', 0, 'http://www.beaufortislandnews.com/?p=2254', 0, 'post', '', 0),
(2257, 4, '2011-07-21 16:55:23', '2011-07-21 16:55:23', '<strong>By Marie McAden</strong>\n\nTo help participants gear up for the big three-day, 30-mile LoCo Motion walking and running event this fall in the Lowcountry, health and fitness experts from Beaufort Memorial Hospital and Palmetto Running Company are presenting a clinic on hydration, nutrition and footwear.<!--more-->\n\nThe free one-hour prep session will be offered at 5:30 p.m. Thursday, July 28 at the Keyserling Cancer Center and again at 6 p.m. Thursday, Aug. 18 at Palmetto Running Company in Bluffton.\n\n“Ten miles is a long haul,” said Roxanne Davis-Cote, clinical nutrition manager for Beaufort Memorial’s Hospital, and one of the presenters at the clinic. “It’s important to go into this event well-nourished.”\n\nClinic attendees will have a chance to taste a variety of performance energy products, including Clif Shot Bloks and Gels and Gu. Davis-Cote also will discuss what walkers and runners should be eating the week leading up to the event.\n\nTim Waz, owner of Palmetto Running Company, will address footwear issues and advise participants on how to properly hydrate during the race. Typically, runners should drink four to eight ounces of water per mile.\n\n“If you’re thirsty, you’re already dehydrated,” he said.\n\nLoCo Motion is the newest fundraiser for Carolina Cups, a Lowcountry non-profit organization supporting breast cancer education, screening, treatment and clinical research. More than 2,000 people are expected to participate in the Sept. 30-Oct. 2 event, trekking 10 miles a day through Old Town Bluffton and the beaches of Hilton Head Island.\n\nBeaufort Memorial, LoCo Motion’s lead sponsor, is also offering weekly training sessions at 5:30 p.m. Tuesdays and 7:30 a.m. Saturdays in the LifeFit Wellness Center. You don’t have to be registered for the event to participate in the free sessions.\n\nPalmetto Running Company is leading similar sessions in Bluffton at 6 p.m. Tuesdays and 7 a.m. Saturdays. Sessions also are being held at 5:30 p.m. Tuesdays at Hilton Head Hospital and 7:30 a.m. Saturdays at Coligny Beach in Hilton Head Island.\n\nProceeds from LoCo Motion will benefit several regional cancer organizations, including Beaufort Memorial’s Keyserling Cancer Center, Beaufort Jasper Hampton Comprehensive Care, the Mayo Clinic in Jacksonville, the Breast Cancer Program at Atlanta’s Northside Hospital and the Hollings Cancer Center at the Medical University of South Carolina in Charleston.\n\nFor more information on Carolina Cups and the LoCo Motion event, visit www.carolinacups.org or call 843-868-1888.', 'Carolina Cups: Training for a Cure - Attend free LoCo Motion information seminar', '', 'publish', 'open', 'open', '', 'carolina-cups-training-for-a-cure-attend-free-loco-motion-information-seminar', '', '', '2011-07-21 16:55:23', '2011-07-21 16:55:23', '', 0, 'http://www.beaufortislandnews.com/?p=2257', 0, 'post', '', 0),
(2260, 4, '2011-07-21 16:59:49', '2011-07-21 16:59:49', '<a href=\"http://www.beaufortislandnews.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/07/Lifestyle-Gunner-Sandifer-Dancer-of-the-Year.jpg\"><img class=\"alignleft size-thumbnail wp-image-2261\" title=\"Lifestyle-Gunner Sandifer, Dancer of the Year\" src=\"http://www.beaufortislandnews.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/07/Lifestyle-Gunner-Sandifer-Dancer-of-the-Year-150x150.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" /></a>At the age of nine, a little boy from Ridgeland, named Gunner Sandifer, and his mother walked into Beaufort Academy of Dance looking for dance lessons.  They drove every week, two to three times a week . Gunner started with jazz, tap and ballet.  Director Aleisia Ashlaw noticed that his passion and love for dance grew over the years.<!--more-->\n\n“He lives and breathes dance,” Ashlaw said.  “He is talented and loves to perform and choreograph”  Now, at the age of 18, he has been named Senior Male Dancer of the Year by the Tremaine Dance Conventions and Competitions President, Joe Tremaine.\n\nDancers from all over the country qualify at regional competitions and come together for one week in July in Orlando, Fla., for the National Dance Competition.  During this week, dancers audition for scholarships and the title of Dancer of the Year.\n\nDancers go through a rigorous audition in ballet and jazz. After several cuts, finalists are announced and given a red ribbon.  This ribbon is a symbol to young dancers that they have almost made it to the top.  For teachers, it is a symbol of hard work and pride.  For the staff at Tremaine Dance, it is a reminder that the staff needs to watch your every move, every step, your behavior in and out of class.  It is a test to see how well you work with others and whether or not you will be an excellent representative to their company.\n\nThe finalists then have an interview with the entire Tremaine staff.  They also learn a dance in one hour and perform it at the Annual Gala Banquet where Carrie Ann Inaba, a judge from “Dancing with the Stars,” Chita Rivera, and the talented actress/dancer Ann Margaret were honored for their dedication to the dance industry.\n\nSandifer will be traveling, training and performing with the Tremaine Staff this year.  He will be headed to Houston in October and Atlanta in November. He will also be traveling to Orlando, Fla., Washington, D.C., New York, Los Angeles and Boston.\n\nAnyone wishing to donate to this talented young man, please make checks payable to: Beaufort Academy of Dance, 14 Savannah Hwy Unit 8, Beaufort, SC 29906. Please write Gunner in the memo line. For more information, call (843) 522-1848 or visit www.beaufortdancestudio.net.', 'Local teen named Dancer of the Year', '', 'publish', 'open', 'open', '', 'local-teen-named-dancer-of-the-year', '', '', '2011-07-21 16:59:49', '2011-07-21 16:59:49', '', 0, 'http://www.beaufortislandnews.com/?p=2260', 0, 'post', '', 0),
(2264, 4, '2011-07-21 17:01:54', '2011-07-21 17:01:54', '<a href=\"http://www.beaufortislandnews.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/07/Lifestyle-Flying.jpg\"><img class=\"alignleft size-thumbnail wp-image-2265\" title=\"Lifestyle-Flying\" src=\"http://www.beaufortislandnews.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/07/Lifestyle-Flying-150x150.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" /></a>Danyelle Thompson is proud of her husband David Thompson who is in the process of getting his pilot’s license and recently completed his first solo flight. The family also wanted to give a big a thank you to his teacher Dru Anderson with Anderson Aviation.', 'Learning to Fly', '', 'publish', 'open', 'open', '', 'learning-to-fly', '', '', '2011-07-21 17:01:54', '2011-07-21 17:01:54', '', 0, 'http://www.beaufortislandnews.com/?p=2264', 0, 'post', '', 0),
(2268, 4, '2011-07-21 17:04:32', '2011-07-21 17:04:32', '<strong>Boundary Street Redevelopment Area:</strong>  Phase I of the Boundary Street Improvement Project is currently under final design and awaiting approval from SCDOT.  Phase I includes the intersection of Robert Smalls Parkway and Boundary Street and a new street that will run parallel to Boundary Street.<!--more-->\n\n<strong>Bladen Street Streetscape Project:</strong>  Phase II of the Bladen Street Streetscape Project (improvements include the section of Bladen Street from Duke Street to Bay Street  is scheduled to be bid in the coming months with construction expected to begin Fall 2011.\n\n<strong>Duke Street Streetscape Project:</strong>  The Duke Street Streetscape Project (improvements include the section of Duke Street from Bladen Street to Harrington Street) will be submitted to SCDOT &amp; DHEC for approval at the end of July 2011.  Bidding for the project will begin in August 2011 with construction planned to begin in mid-late September 2011.\n\n<strong>Carteret Street Crosswalks: </strong>Making downtown Beaufort a better and safer place for people to walk took a positive step forward this week with installation of improved crosswalks at the key intersection of Carteret Street and Port Republic Street downtown.  The crossing is used daily by hundreds of people moving between shops and restaurants, and also is a primary crossing for residents of The Point neighborhood as they head to jobs, to shops and restaurants, and to the Henry C. Chambers Waterfront Park.\n\n&nbsp;\n\n<strong>Other news from the Office of Civic Investment</strong>\n\nThe Sector One Design Charrette presentation was held on Monday, March 28, at City Hall Council Chambers. Twenty-five team members worked from March 22-28 to compile a series of designs for the area of the city east of Ribaut Road, including Whitehall Plantation. The completion of the charrette marks only the first half of the design phase for this sector.\n\nOne of the first deliverables of the Sector One Charrette is the Redevelopment Commission Project Book. In support of this mission, the Office of Civic Investment has prepared a Projects Book detailing the list of initiatives documented in the Civic Master Plan for The City of Beaufort: Sector One. The Projects Book serves as the “implementation” document of the Civic Master Plan and is to be used by the Redevelopment Commission to prioritize projects and coordinate efforts across the public and private sectors.\n\n&nbsp;\n\nSAVE THE DATE\n\nThe next charrette in the Civic Master Plan will combine both Sector 2 &amp; 3 and will encompass the area of the City from City Hall south along Ribaut Road to Port Royal.  The next charrette will be held from Tuesday, September 27, until Tuesday, October 4.', 'City infrastructure project updates', '', 'publish', 'open', 'open', '', 'city-infrastructure-project-updates', '', '', '2011-07-21 17:04:32', '2011-07-21 17:04:32', '', 0, 'http://www.beaufortislandnews.com/?p=2268', 0, 'post', '', 0),
(2273, 4, '2011-07-21 17:07:38', '2011-07-21 17:07:38', '<strong>Beaufort County 2012 budget posted online</strong>\n\nBeaufort County’s Fiscal Year 2012 budget, which took effect July 1, has been posted at the Finance Department page at the county website, www.bcgov.net. Citizens can view the document by selecting the option for “Departments” on the home page, then “Administration,” and “Finance.”  <!--more--> The 2012 budget includes a trim $96.3M which reflects a 7.6% percent reduction from last year’s original budget. It does not include a county real property tax increase. County Council Chairman Weston Newton said the council is unwavering in its commitment to avoid spending increases. “In these difficult economic times it would be a bad decision to expect people to pay more for services. We are continually reviewing all other options for keeping operational costs down.”\n\n&nbsp;\n\n<strong>Solicitat</strong><strong>ion for </strong><strong>bid proposals</strong>\n\nThe City of Beaufort is soliciting bids for street sweeping services. This proposal is requested as a limited area sweeping service. This is a part of the City of Beaufort’s service delivery efforts.\n\nBid must be received at: City of Beaufort, Public Works Department, 16 Burton Hill Road, Beaufort, SC  29906, by 4 p.m. July 28, 2011. There will be a mandatory Pre-RFP meeting on Thursday, July 21 at 10 a.m. at the City of Beaufort Public Works Complex, 16 Burton Hill Road.', 'NEWS BRIEFS', '', 'publish', 'open', 'open', '', 'news-briefs-2', '', '', '2011-07-21 17:07:38', '2011-07-21 17:07:38', '', 0, 'http://www.beaufortislandnews.com/?p=2273', 0, 'post', '', 0),
(2276, 4, '2011-07-21 17:11:14', '2011-07-21 17:11:14', '<strong><a href=\"http://www.beaufortislandnews.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/07/Outdoors-crabs-in-bucket.jpg\"><img class=\"alignleft size-thumbnail wp-image-2277\" title=\"Outdoors-crabs in bucket\" src=\"http://www.beaufortislandnews.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/07/Outdoors-crabs-in-bucket-150x150.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" /></a>By Jack Sparacino:  </strong><em>Jack Sparacino has a Ph.D. in psychology from The University of Chicago. He is retired and now lives with his wife, Jane and their three dogs on St. Helena Island. His hobbies include fishing, clamming, crabbing, shrimping and writing.  </em>\n\nIf I may start with a mouthful, “Callinectes sapidus” is the wonderful Latin term for our local blue crabs. <!--more--> It translates as savory beautiful swimmer.  In fact, if you want to seem downright scholarly in your knowledge of the life and times of the Atlantic blue crab, you may want to read “Beautiful Swimmers: Watermen, Crabs and the Chesapeake Bay” by William W. Warner. The book won the Pulitzer Prize for nonfiction in 1977, it’s that good.\n\nBlue crabs deserve to win prizes too. They’re that good. And plentiful.  And fun to catch, not to mention amazingly aggressive little creatures. Plus, best of all, they are absolutely delicious. We can take these in order.\n\n<strong>1. Plentiful. </strong>I pulled up 20 yesterday morning.  They love our local saltwater creeks and rivers and thrive in the marsh.  You can spot them clinging to pilings or crab walking (this comes naturally) in the shallows.  Or swimming close to the surface and, by the way, they’re pretty fast.  Almost any style trap, single or multi-level, is effective in catching them, and almost any type of bait (protein based is best) will work.  Fish heads, chicken necks or backs, spoiled meat-- you name it, blue crabs will go for it.  You can also go low tech and just tie a chicken neck to a string and keep a small net handy.  They are the ultimate omnivore, COMPLETELY unfinky, as they also eat aquatic plants.  Just be sure to check DNR rules regarding minimum size requirements, number of traps you can work, etc.\n\n<strong>2. Aggressive. </strong>These are pretty pugnacious little critters.  It’s like they all grew up during the Depression on the wrong side of the tracks, got beat up on the playground, and are itching for a fight with an opponent of any size.  Or, think of the movie tough guy roles played by James Cagney and Edward G. Robinson.  Plan to handle your crabs with long handled tongs, because they can give you a painful nip with their claws if given half a chance.  A friend of ours, Laura, still bears a small scar on her pinky from when a large male crab got hold of her and wouldn’t let go.  (She got even that afternoon as we shared a wonderful batch of fresh crab cakes.) And be ESPECIALLY careful with stone crabs if they are part of your catch, as they can take off a finger if mishandled.\n\n&nbsp;\n\nDELICIOUS CRABS\n\nCrabs are great eating almost any way you “fix” them.  And since they’re not broken to begin with, it’s hard to go wrong!  We love crab salad, cocktail crab claws and crab cakes best. Here’s a super crab cake recipe from our kitchen:\n\n• 2 cups of carefully picked crab including claw meat\n\n• 1 beaten egg\n\n• 1 tbs Old Bay spice\n\n• 1 tbs Worcestershire sauce\n\n• 1 tbs dry or Dijon mustard\n\n• 1/4 cup of seasoned bread crumbs\n\n• 1/4 cup of good mayonaise\n\n• 3-5 shakes of hot sauce\n\n• 1/2 cup of minced onion, celery and red pepper\n\nCombine all ingredients in a large bowl, then form into firm patties.  Adjust crumbs and/or mayo to achieve desired texture-- not too loose.  Fry in hot canola or vegetable oil, a few minutes on each side or until golden brown.  Remove from pan and drain on paper towels.', 'Crazy for blue crabs', '', 'publish', 'open', 'open', '', 'crazy-for-blue-crabs', '', '', '2011-07-21 17:11:14', '2011-07-21 17:11:14', '', 0, 'http://www.beaufortislandnews.com/?p=2276', 0, 'post', '', 0),
(2280, 4, '2011-07-21 17:18:24', '2011-07-21 17:18:24', 'By Cherimie Crane\n\nI celebrated through opening ceremony. I surrendered to the call of Saturday Sandbar. Sunday fun-day morphed with stealth speed into Motown Monday and somehow I am staring at the inevitable end to the first week of Water Festival. Sunscreen was no match for salt water, so my fair, freckled face resembles something in the crawfish family...<!--more--> The conventional wisdom of hydration was misused horrendously as cocktail hour extended beyond reasonable measure. All in all, I see it as a successful venture as I managed to survive with all limbs intact, all friends in tow, and all photos erased as to avoid any morbidly painful Facebook follies.\n\nTo my fellow unfortunate souls who must maintain gainful employment during this magical time, I salute you. It is quite acceptable to wear your sunglasses throughout the day, do so with dignity. Reach for your Goody’s powder and Gatorade with conviction. With the right accessories, no one will notice the Koozie still stuck to your derriere. If you find yourself unable to remove those miraculously strong armbands given to us all at the gates, wave them with pride.\n\nTo those Water Fest warriors who find themselves apologizing for questionable quotations, candid commentary, or the ever-dreaded wardrobe malfunction: do so with sincerity and speed. Possibly the gods of indulgence will shine down and surround you with like-minded, similarly shamed cohorts. Otherwise, reach for the phone and commence the eating of crow. There is no substitution for the old faithful of penance: blame it on Water Festival, blame it on alcohol, or blame it on your best friend. All three will be by your side for the second week.\n\nWe are steam rolling into week two and the grand finale of fun. Push forward my friends. Our gym memberships and bouts of starvation paid off, as we held our breath only in photos. The hundreds of dollars spent to drive a short distance to anchor in a suntan-oiled, boiled peanut-filled, fried chicken-covered oasis of enjoyment pales in comparison to the therapy it will take to fully recover from this coming weekend. Make it count. Embrace the last days of our beloved festival, for you shall have an entire year to curse its very existence, build back your self-respect, burn off those calories of carelessness, and prepare to do it all over again!', 'No one will notice the Koozie still stuck to your derriere', '', 'publish', 'open', 'open', '', 'no-one-will-notice-the-koozie-still-stuck-to-your-derriere-2', '', '', '2011-07-21 17:18:24', '2011-07-21 17:18:24', '', 0, 'http://www.beaufortislandnews.com/?p=2280', 0, 'post', '', 0),
(2282, 4, '2011-07-21 17:21:15', '2011-07-21 17:21:15', 'First Lady Colleen Bible gives a Water Festival onesie to Scott and Krista Kathmann and brand new son Jackson and the Hammers and daughter Gianna at Beaufort Memorial Hospital.', 'First babies of Water Fest', '', 'publish', 'open', 'open', '', 'first-babies-of-water-fest', '', '', '2011-07-21 17:21:15', '2011-07-21 17:21:15', '', 0, 'http://www.beaufortislandnews.com/?p=2282', 0, 'post', '', 0),
(2284, 4, '2011-07-21 17:22:52', '2011-07-21 17:22:52', '<strong>WILL CALL</strong>\n\nIf you purchased advance tickets to the 56th Annual Beaufort Water Festival, they will be available for pickup at the will call tent from 5-7 p.m. each evening.  The will call tent is located near the main entrance (entrance closest to the marina).\n\n<strong>SHUTTLE SCHEDULE...<!--more--></strong>\n\nThe Beaufort Water Festival offers a free shuttle service from the Beaufort County Multi-Government Center on the corner of Ribaut Road and Boundary Street to the Downtown Marina parking lot in the Henry C. Chambers Waterfront Park.\n\nThe shuttle service runs on a 15 to 30-minute continuous rotation between the government center and marina parking lot. The first shuttle begins one hour before the gates open and the last shuttle ends 30 minutes after the event ends.\n\n• Thursday, July 21 — Shuttle begins at 6 p.m. and ends at 11:30 p.m.\n\n• Friday, July 22 — Shuttle begins at 6 p.m. and ends at 12:30 a.m.\n\n• Saturday, July 23 — Shuttle begins at 6 p.m. and ends at 12:30 a.m.\n\n<strong>STREET CLOSINGS</strong>\n\n• Friday, July 22: Bay Street from Harrington to Charles Street will close at 4:30 p.m. and reopen at the end of the Bed Races, which should be no later than 6 p.m.\n\n• Saturday, July 23: The grand parade will take the traditional route along Boundary, Bladen, Carteret and Bay streets. These streets will close from 9 a.m. until approximately noon. Parade entrants will begin line up at 8 a.m.\n\n<strong>RIVER CLOSING</strong>\n\nA special notice to crews of moored and anchored vessels in the bay: during the Air Show period on the second weekend of Water Festival on Saturday, July 23, from 1 to 4 p.m., no people are allowed on vessels anchored or moored south of a line extending westward from the marina fuel dock. If you are south of this line, you need to dinghy your people to the day dock. If you don’t have a dinghy, then you will need to move your boat from this area or make other arrangements to remove all people from your vessel.  Other boat traffic may take the western corridor except during the air show period.  This requirement is for your safety.\n\n&nbsp;\n\n&nbsp;\n\n&nbsp;', 'Important festival information', '', 'publish', 'open', 'open', '', 'important-festival-information', '', '', '2011-07-21 17:22:52', '2011-07-21 17:22:52', '', 0, 'http://www.beaufortislandnews.com/?p=2284', 0, 'post', '', 0),
(2286, 4, '2011-07-21 17:25:18', '2011-07-21 17:25:18', 'Lady’s Island Country Club is working hard to muscle back into the fine dining scene on Thursday nights. But that’s just the beginning. Chef Will McLenagan wants to take over the dinner world on Lady’s Island.<!--more-->\n\n“We’re starting with Thursday night dinners, and we’ll go from there,” McLenagan said. “We now offer a menu that rivals anything downtown, but for a better price. Plus, we’re right in the neighborhood.”\n\nThe club is open to the public for golf seven days a week; lunch and happy hour Tuesday through Saturday; dinner is served each Thursday.\n\nMcLenagan isn’t starting small. His Thursday dinner menu spans three pages, with a soup of the day, an array of salads, appetizers far beyond typical and a slate of fresh, creative entrees. “Lady’s Island Country Club used to be THE place in the 1970s,” the chef said. “Other places opened and the food, and hours grew a little inconsistent over the years. We’re changing all that.”\n\nAnd McLenagan doesn’t back down from a challenge. Building restaurants is his specialty. He did the same for the Henry Clay Inn in Virginia before arriving in South Carolina. “This isn’t going to be typical meat and potatoes country club fare,” McLenagan said. “We’re talking seared yellow fin tuna, calamari with a lemon aioli sauce and homemade desserts. I only use fresh ingredients. This isn’t open-a-can, ‘golf course’ food.”\n\nThe improvements don’t stop there. Restaurant manager Lori Westerfield is expanding the wine list and service, which will be fast and efficient.\n\n“We’re going to do whatever it takes to attract people to our Thursday night dinners,” Westerfield said. “Once they try us one time, they’ll be back. The food, service and location can’t be beat. People won’t be disappointed.”\n\nAs Chef Will says, “With me, food quality comes before business. The food is everything. The rest comes from that.”\n\nTo entice more members, the menu lists both a member and non-member price for entrees. Both social and full memberships are available. Thursday nights aren’t going to be the same on Lady’s Island. Dinner starts at 5:30 p.m. Don’t be late.', 'Lady’s Island Country Club, the place to be on Thursdays', '', 'publish', 'open', 'open', '', 'lady%e2%80%99s-island-country-club-the-place-to-be-on-thursdays', '', '', '2011-07-21 17:25:18', '2011-07-21 17:25:18', '', 0, 'http://www.beaufortislandnews.com/?p=2286', 0, 'post', '', 0),
(2288, 4, '2011-07-21 17:29:32', '2011-07-21 17:29:32', 'The 56th Annual Beaufort Water Festival continues through Sunday, July 24. Tickets for each night will be available at the gate and there are several free events each day.  Please visit the website at www.bftwaterfestival.com for a complete list events and ticket prices. <a href=\"http://www.beaufortislandnews.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/07/DSCF0168.jpg\"><img class=\"alignleft size-thumbnail wp-image-2289\" title=\"DSCF0168\" src=\"http://www.beaufortislandnews.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/07/DSCF0168-150x150.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" /></a>', 'The 56th Annual Beaufort Water Festival rages on', '', 'publish', 'open', 'open', '', 'the-56th-annual-beaufort-water-festival-rages-on', '', '', '2011-07-21 17:29:32', '2011-07-21 17:29:32', '', 0, 'http://www.beaufortislandnews.com/?p=2288', 0, 'post', '', 0),
(2293, 4, '2011-07-22 16:57:22', '2011-07-22 16:57:22', '<pre><a href=\"http://www.beaufortislandnews.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/07/Joshua-Oliver1.png\"><img class=\"alignleft size-thumbnail wp-image-2294\" title=\"Joshua Oliver\" src=\"http://www.beaufortislandnews.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/07/Joshua-Oliver1-143x150.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"143\" height=\"150\" /></a>Joshua Isaac Oliver who was wanted in connection with a July 19th shooting incident turned\nhimself in to police early this morning. Oliver has been charged with Attempted Murder and\nPossession of a Firearm During the Commission of a Violent Crime.</pre>', 'SHOOTING SUSPECT IN CUSTODY', '', 'publish', 'open', 'open', '', 'shooting-suspect-in-custody', '', '', '2011-07-22 16:57:22', '2011-07-22 16:57:22', '', 0, 'http://www.beaufortislandnews.com/?p=2293', 0, 'post', '', 0),
(2297, 4, '2011-07-22 17:27:01', '2011-07-22 17:27:01', '<strong>The Beaufort County School District is aware of a recent case where a person was going to area homes and posing as a BCSD Employee.  That person...<!--more--> has been arrested and is not in any way associated with the BCSD.</strong>\n\n<strong> </strong><strong>The public should be aware that ALL BCSD employees carry PHOTO identification and the public should not hesitate to ask to see that ID any time they have a question.  If you are still not sure that it is a BCSD Employee, then a phone call can be placed to the District to verify the person’s identity.  The main number of the BCSD District Office is 322-2300.</strong>\n\n<strong> </strong><strong>Do not allow any one into your home or around your children unless you are sure of their identity.</strong>\n\n<em>For further information, please contact Carol McMillan, Community Services Coordinator, at 322-2306.</em>', 'Person Posing as BCSD Employee Arrested ', '', 'publish', 'open', 'open', '', 'person-posing-as-bcsd-employee-arressted', '', '', '2011-07-22 17:27:01', '2011-07-22 17:27:01', '', 0, 'http://www.beaufortislandnews.com/?p=2297', 0, 'post', '', 0);
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(2303, 4, '2011-07-26 23:38:22', '2011-07-26 23:38:22', '<p align=\"LEFT\"><span style=\"color: #545454;\"><span style=\"font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;\"><span style=\"font-size: x-small;\">LADY’S ISLAND, SC (July 26, 2011/11:30 AM) – The Beaufort County Sheriff’s Office is investigating last night’s armed robbery of a Lady’s Island convenience store.<!--more--></span></span></span></p>\n<p align=\"LEFT\"><span style=\"color: #545454;\"><span style=\"font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;\"><span style=\"font-size: x-small;\">Just after midnight, Sheriff’s deputies responded to the Circle K (114 Sea Island Pkwy) in reference to an armed robbery occurring moments earlier. Upon arrival, deputies made contact with a store employee who advised that the store had just been robbed by black male armed with rifle.</span></span></span></p>\n<p align=\"LEFT\"><span style=\"color: #545454;\"><span style=\"font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;\"><span style=\"font-size: x-small;\">According to the clerk, she had been in the back of the store emptying the trash and when she returned to front a black male wearing a white t-shirt, black pants and a black scarf over his face was standing near register. The suspect, with a rifle in one hand and a plastic bag in the other, demanded the money from register. The clerk complied, handing over an undisclosed amount of cash. The suspect then fled, leaving clerk unharmed.</span></span></span></p>\n<p align=\"LEFT\"><span style=\"color: #545454;\"><span style=\"font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;\"><span style=\"font-size: x-small;\">A witness who had been walking to the store at the time of the robbery advised that he had seen a second suspicious black male also armed with a rifle waiting near a red Chrysler Sebring convertible. Following the robbery, the witness observed both suspects run to the convertible and flee the area turning onto Sam’s Point Rd.</span></span></span></p>\n<p align=\"LEFT\"><span style=\"color: #545454;\"><span style=\"font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;\"><span style=\"font-size: x-small;\">A deputy responding to the call observed the Chrysler traveling on Sam’s Point Rd towards Brickyard Point Rd and attempted to conduct a traffic stop. The driver refused to stop, leading deputies on a brief chase that ended when the vehicle ran off the road, wrecking in grassy area. Both suspects fled on foot, jumping a fence and disappearing into a wooded area, where they evaded capture.</span></span></span></p>\n<p align=\"LEFT\"><span style=\"color: #545454;\"><span style=\"font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;\"><span style=\"font-size: x-small;\">Two rifles were recovered from the abandoned vehicle, and investigators are working to identify the two suspects. Anyone with information is asked to contact either Investigator Sgt. J. Gobel at 843-255-3421 or the Beaufort County Dispatch Center at 843-524-2777.</span></span></span></p>', 'Sheriff’s Office Investigating Armed Robbery', '', 'publish', 'open', 'open', '', 'sheriff%e2%80%99s-office-investigating-armed-robbery', '', '', '2011-07-26 23:38:22', '2011-07-26 23:38:22', '', 0, 'http://www.beaufortislandnews.com/?p=2303', 0, 'post', '', 0),
(2307, 4, '2011-07-27 03:15:00', '2011-07-27 03:15:00', '<pre>Beaufort police are in the initial stages of an investigation into a fatal shooting that took\nplace at approximately 7:00 p.m. this evening. At this time witnesses are being interviewed...</pre>\n<!--more-->\n<pre>and a SLED crime scene unit is on their way to assist. The shooting took place at the Subway\nrestaurant located in the Cross Creek shopping center on Robert Smalls Parkway. The known\nfacts at this time are that the victim is an adult male who was a customer at the restaurant. He\nwas shot by another man who entered the restaurant after him. No one else was injured. The\nonly description of the suspect at this time is an African-American man with dreadlocks wearing\na black hat and white t-shirt. Additional details will be forthcoming when they are available.\nAnyone with information on this crime is requested to contact the dispatch office at 524-2777.</pre>', 'Fatal Shooting at Subway in Cross Creek Shopping Center', '', 'publish', 'open', 'open', '', 'fatal-shooting-at-subway-in-cross-creek-shopping-center', '', '', '2011-07-27 03:15:00', '2011-07-27 03:15:00', '', 0, 'http://www.beaufortislandnews.com/?p=2307', 0, 'post', '', 0),
(2313, 4, '2011-07-27 19:48:17', '2011-07-27 19:48:17', 'Beaufort Police investigators worked through the night collecting evidence, interviewing\n\nwitnesses and following up on leads after 28 year old Travis Holmes was fatally shot on the\n\nevening of July 26 at the Subway restaurant at 330 Robert Smalls Parkway. The gunman had\n\nbeen in the restaurant with a woman when Holmes came in. The suspect and the woman left\n\nand then the suspect returned and immediately targeted Holmes. Witnesses reported that the\n\nsuspect fled in a dark colored four door vehicle possibly a Ford. The officers were assisted at\n\nthe scene by members of SLED’s crime scene unit and Beaufort County Sheriff’s Deputies who\n\nhelped secure the area and identify potential witnesses. Although there are theories as to what\n\nmotivated the crime none has been verified at this time. Since the investigation is active many\n\ndetails can’t be released as they might jeopardize it.<!--more-->\n\n&nbsp;\n\nThis was the third in an unusual string of violent incidents that have taken place this month\n\nin Beaufort. A 17 year old male and juvenile female were charged in connection with a July\n\n19 incident where they fired shots at several victims playing basketball on Greene Street. On\n\nJuly 25 a 22 year old man was wounded when a suspect fired a gun during a fight at Spanish\n\nTrace Apartments. One suspect, Christopher Holmes (no known relation to Travis Holmes) is\n\nin custody in that case and warrants were obtained charging 28 year old Jerrod Taylor with\n\nattempted murder. Taylor has not been located yet. These incidents were the result of petty\n\ndisputes that somehow escalated to violence. There is no known connection between the\n\ncrimes at this time.\n\n&nbsp;\n\nInformation from the public was instrumental in the arrests that have been made so far\n\nand the tips continue to come in. The Beaufort Police Department is committed to arresting\n\nthese criminals and keeping our city safe. This lawless conduct will not be tolerated and\n\nanyone who is discovered to have assisted or hidden these criminals will be charged along with\n\nthem. There is no pattern or method to these crimes that the public can be alerted to but as\n\nalways they are encouraged to contact the police (524-2777 or 911 for emergencies) if they\n\nsee something suspicious. The Beaufort Police Department cooperates with other area and\n\nstate law enforcement agencies on cases that may be related and values the close working\n\nrelationship we enjoy with them. Together the department and the community will prevail over\n\nthose who attempt to disrupt the quality of life we enjoy in Beaufort.', 'Murder Investigation Continues', '', 'publish', 'open', 'open', '', 'murder-investigation-continues', '', '', '2011-07-27 19:48:17', '2011-07-27 19:48:17', '', 0, 'http://www.beaufortislandnews.com/?p=2313', 0, 'post', '', 0),
(2318, 4, '2011-07-28 12:40:29', '2011-07-28 12:40:29', '<strong>Christmas in July:</strong> Festival of Trees  is pleased to announce a new event Christmas in July on Saturday, July 30 from 12-4 p.m. at Coosaw Point River Club located at 20 The Horseshoe, Beaufort. <!--more-->\n\nChristmas in July is a family fun day featuring snow in July from 1-3 p.m.; entertainment by The Groovetones and Drysdale Entertainment; swimming; water slides, jumpy house and kids games; unlimited barbecue buffet by Palmetto Smokehouse; beer, soda and water; peanut butter and jelly sandwiches and snacks provided by Hobbit Hills Preschools; snow cones, and much more. Family tickets are available for $75 each or adults are $25, kids over 2 are $12.50 and kids under 2 are free. Also available: Photos with Santa from 12:30-2 p.m. for $5; Goodies from Gift &amp; Gourmet Shop; Absolute (yes, the vodka) snow cones will be available for $5.\n<strong>Fourth Annual Sand Sculpture Contest:</strong> Come and join the fun on Saturday, July 30, from 1-4 p.m. in front of the lighthouse at Hunting Island State Park. Gather your family, friends or co-workers and form a team, or enter as an individual or in pairs. Tools permitted are buckets, strainers, rakes, sand scoops, kitchen utensils, shovels, etc. Use only natural materials found on or near the beach such as shells, reeds and small rocks. Categories are: Sand Fleas (up to 8 years, must have adult leader); Sand Hoppers (ages 9-15); Sand Tribes (families); Sand Shapers (adult or small adult team); Sand Fantasies (families with children ages 7 and under. Artificial decorations or materials are permitted in this category). Awards will be presented at 3:30 p.m. based on originality, composition and technique. Sponsored by Friends of Hunting Island.', 'Beat the heat with cool events', '', 'publish', 'open', 'open', '', 'beat-the-heat-with-cool-events', '', '', '2011-07-28 12:40:29', '2011-07-28 12:40:29', '', 0, 'http://www.beaufortislandnews.com/?p=2318', 0, 'post', '', 0),
(2321, 4, '2011-07-28 12:43:56', '2011-07-28 12:43:56', 'By Jack Sparacino\nI keep scratching my head from time to time about the borderline weighty matters of the day, the ones that if they caught fire, so to speak, might even make it onto a cable news show.  Here are a few more issues that seem halfway straightforward:<!--more-->\n\n1. After years of consideration and endless research, the true taste of summer is perfectly captured by peaches right off the tree and tomatoes right off the vine.  It’s a tie.\n2. With all the floods lately, how can it be that so many people can’t swim?  How about everyone at least learn how to tread water or maybe even the dog paddle.  I’ll bet lots of dogs would help out.\n2a. It looks like the weather has become the news lately.  Floods, droughts, tornados, horrible dust storms.  I’m waiting for locusts.  Or maybe just a real-life version of Alfred Hitchcock’s “The Birds.”\n3. Isn’t here some way we could have another Teddy Roosevelt or Winston Churchill or Walt Disney?  Is someone working on this?\n4. Somewhere out there stands (or sits) the world’s actually, positively smartest person.  We also have countless thousands of people who think they are contenders for this title.  How about we put them in a stadium somewhere, give them some serious problems to solve, then hand out fancy certificates to those who actually succeed in making the world a better place.  The losers have to just promise to be a little more humble.\n5. Meeting a celebrity who’s pleasant to talk with and likes to meet strangers is fun.  It stays with you.  But it’s sometimes hard to know whether to say hello to them or just respect their privacy.\n6. It wouldn’t hurt if more people dressed up just a little when they went out to eat.  We don’t need black tie, gowns, or top hats, but a few more sleeves would be nice sometimes.  And clean hands.\n7. Sometimes it’s appropriate that someone is told they’re full of baloney.  Except that doing this seems unnecessarily critical of baloney since it still makes a pretty good sandwich.\n8. Hummingbirds are fantastic, pretty little birds, though kind of hard to see.  If they were as big as herons I’ll bet they would really cause a stir and maybe scare a few people.\n9. I have an easier time remembering the names of the kids I went to school with (Dana Scott, Danita Fringer, Dean Stump...) than people I met yesterday.  I’ve got a strong feeling I’m not alone in this.  What do you think, Dean?\n10. How on earth did we ever get along without pocket calculators?  Or toaster ovens?  Skateboards I understand.\n11.  If you’re hesitant to come right out and ask a person how old they are, you can always ask them how cheap they ever remember stamps being.  In my case, it was four cents.  I think that would still cover a couple of screws and washers today, just my two cents worth.\n12. “Monkey business.”  Sounds frivolous but I think it’s probably a reality in some cases.  Monkeys that attract zoo visitors, perform on stage, or teach researchers how they actually learn and use language, for instance.  “Monkey shines,” now that’s different.\n13. Doing things “by the book” is absolutely essential much of the time, such as when assembling aircraft or bridges.  Other times, it can be a recipe for boring, “me too” ideas or products and leave customers absolutely cold or even in danger.\n14. My grandfather used to say “holy mackerel” when something really caught his attention or surprised him.  He caught a lot of mackerel in his time and so have I.  The expression still has me wondering where it came from.  I’m open to suggestions.\n15. Art Linkletter used to say that “kids say the darndest things.”  So do many grownups and some dogs I know.\n16.  In the Wouldn’t-It-Be-Great Department: getting a telegram, a handwritten letter or a box of chocolates with no calories.\n17.  Someone, somewhere, could probably make a pretty good movie based on the old Dick, Jane and Sally readers some of us grew up with.  I’d be happy to be the casting director.\n17a. If a person had a time machine and could be a fly on the wall for a week, wouldn’t it be a treat to go back to 1939 and watch them make “The Wizard of Oz”? How about watching them dress up the flying monkeys (see #12) or watching the Munchkins rehearse their lines?\n18. If someone could capture the sensation you get riding on a nice train and put it in a sleeping pill, they could make a fortune.\n19. Lots of people have birdbaths in their yards. Do birds actually prefer showers?\n20. Shark attacks that result in serious injury (or death) remain extremely rare, and we’re often more likely to get hit by lightning, but it seems like sharks get more than their fair share of the bad publicity.  There’s an interesting book called “Close To Shore” that does a nice job of explaining the psychology of mass hysteria over shark attacks.   Let’s go swimming (see #2).', 'Even more random thoughts from a retiree', '', 'publish', 'open', 'open', '', 'even-more-random-thoughts-from-a-retiree', '', '', '2011-07-28 12:43:56', '2011-07-28 12:43:56', '', 0, 'http://www.beaufortislandnews.com/?p=2321', 0, 'post', '', 0),
(2324, 4, '2011-07-28 12:46:47', '2011-07-28 12:46:47', 'By Tracie Korol\n\nIt’s another day of heat advisory. The mercury nudges 100 degrees and the AC runs constantly. We’re all getting a bit crabby; even a walk to the mailbox requires fortitude before, and icy beverages afterward. Your dog bursts out of the house expecting his usual run but stops dead in his tracks, turns to glare at you with the dog equivalent of WTF?.\nWe already know the important summertime safety tips: don’t leave your dog in the car alone, even with the air-conditioner running. Save the big runs for early morning or late evening. Keep our flat-faced and heavy-coated friends indoors as they have little hope of self-cooling.  Here are a few ideas for hot-weather, boredom-relieving dog fun when it’s Too. Darn. Hot.\nBobbing for Hot Dogs: Scoring food always ranks high among favorite canine activities. With a cheap kiddie pool and a few hot dogs you can engage your dog’s brain in the lowest-key way possible.  Fill the pool in a shady spot in the yard or the garage, pull up a chair and toss hot dog pennies into the pool for Best Friend to fish out.  You could turn this game into a teaching moment with cues or command review, but it’s just too hot to think about that.  Just have fun.  Remember to cut dinner rations by an equal amount of wet hot dog. And, please, hose the slimy hot dog goo out of the pool when the game is over.\nNose Games: We have a mere five million olfactory receptors in our noses, while our dogs have upwards of 125 million. That’s why our dogs sometimes seem distracted when we think there’s nothing of interest around; they’re reading the air.   Having a big smeller is also great for indoor low-energy doggy brain games. An easy one to teach is find it!  (Your dog needs to know how to stay for this game.)\nAsk your BF to stay. Show her a small, high value treat — a fingernail-size piece of cheese or freeze-dried liver is perfect. Tell her, find it! and drop the treat on the ground near her. Hopefully, she’ll find it in a split second. (praise, praise, praise!) Always starting from a Stay, do several reps, tossing the treats farther away, and have her return to you and the Stay. The challenge: put the treat down just out of sight — around the corner of the couch, for instance, or behind a table leg. Remember to show her the treat in advance, so she knows what scent she’s hunting for and cue to find it!\nWhen BF’s attention begins to wander, up the ante. Park her in a Stay and hide the treat in the next room. Or put the treat in the same room but hide it under a throw pillow or a shoebox. Up the ante again: put out three empty shoe boxes with a treat under just one of them. Take the game outside when it cools off.  Hide the treat above ground level — on a chair, or windowsill. BF will keep going as long as you have snacks and as long as you praise.\nThe Sniffy Walk: All dogs need regular, off-leash aerobic exercise to burn off pent-up energy. But when it’s too hot to move, it’s time for the pokey, sniffy walk. Sniffy walks, an important counterpart to aerobic exercise, meet doggy behavioral needs at any age. Half an hour of nosing around, with pauses for inspection at every bush and fire hydrant, can leave your dog refreshed and satisfied. I think it’s comparable to how we feel after we’ve had our coffee, read the paper, and checked our email. When it’s too hot to play fetch or wrestle with other dogs, slow, sniffy walks become even more important as boredom killer.\nThis week I have three giant dogs with me. Normally, we’d spend hours every day on long rambling off-road walks to burn off big dog energy. But this week we’re all flattened by the heat.  Today, I placed a big sheet over the carpet and everyone worked on large, frozen bones, indoors, in the AC and in front of a fan. Then, nap.  We’ll go for a short run later. Maybe.\n\n<em>BowWOW! Is a production of Tracie Korol and wholeDog. Tracie is a holistic behavior coach, a canine massage therapist (CCMT), herbalist, and canine homeopath.  Want more information? Have a question? Send a note to Tracie at letstalk@wholedog.biz or visit www.wholedog.biz.</em>', 'Canine cabin fever', '', 'publish', 'open', 'open', '', 'canine-cabin-fever', '', '', '2011-07-28 12:46:47', '2011-07-28 12:46:47', '', 0, 'http://www.beaufortislandnews.com/?p=2324', 0, 'post', '', 0),
(2326, 4, '2011-07-28 12:53:34', '2011-07-28 12:53:34', 'Snip (AKA Scooter) is an adult male American Shorthair cat that enjoys chasing the other cats with his brother Trip. Trip (AKA Garfield) <a href=\"http://www.beaufortislandnews.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/07/Snip1.jpg\"><img class=\"alignleft size-thumbnail wp-image-2329\" title=\"Snip\" src=\"http://www.beaufortislandnews.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/07/Snip1-121x150.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"121\" height=\"150\" /></a><a href=\"http://www.beaufortislandnews.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/07/Trip1.jpg\"><img class=\"alignleft size-thumbnail wp-image-2330\" title=\"Trip\" src=\"http://www.beaufortislandnews.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/07/Trip1-112x150.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"112\" height=\"150\" /></a> is an adult male American Shorthair that was found stray with his brother and was never reclaimed. The Beaufort County Animal Shelter and Control will close its doors to the public at 4 p.m. instead of 5 p.m. Monday through Saturday effective Monday, August 1. Citizens who visit the shelter to turn in an animal or look for a lost pet may do so anytime between 9 a.m. and 4 p.m. Those who wish to adopt an animal must do so between 10 a.m. and 4 p.m. The shelter is closed on Sunday. The facility is located at 23 Shelterchurch Road off US 21 north of the Marine Corps Air Station. For more information, call (843) 255-5010. All of our adoptable animals can be found on www.Petango.Com  or the Beaufort County website www.Bcgov.Net/animal-control.\n\n&nbsp;', 'Pets of the Week', '', 'publish', 'open', 'open', '', 'pets-of-the-week-4', '', '', '2011-07-28 12:53:34', '2011-07-28 12:53:34', '', 0, 'http://www.beaufortislandnews.com/?p=2326', 0, 'post', '', 0),
(2332, 4, '2011-07-28 12:56:12', '2011-07-28 12:56:12', '<strong>St. Peter Church to have clothing sale</strong>\nSt. Peter Catholic Church in Beaufort will be holding its first Newly New Clothing Sale on July 28-30. Hours will be Thursday and Friday, July 28 and 29, from 10 a.m. to 6 p.m. and Saturday, July 30, from 9 a.m. to noon.  Call Judy Daigle (843)846-6025 for more information.<!--more-->\n\n<strong>Chamber celebrates credit union opening</strong>\nThe Beaufort Regional Chamber of Commerce is assisting Marine Federal Credit Union with a grand opening celebration on Thursday, July 28 at 9 a.m. at their new location at 819 Parris Island\nGateway in Beaufort. Refreshments from Palm &amp; Moon Bagel Co. will be provided.\nThe chamber is proud to welcome Marine Federal Credit Union to the Beaufort area, and celebrates their commitment to the region as one of the Chamber’s Patron Partners. For more information, contact Amy Kaylor at 843-525-8524 or amy@beaufortsc.org.\n\n<strong>Attend training clinic for LoCo Motion event</strong>\nA free training clinic will be held at 5:30 p.m. on Thursday, July 28, to help prepare participants for the LoCo Motion walking and running event, a breast cancer fundraiser taking place this fall in the Lowcountry. Health and fitness experts will be presenting the free one-hour clinic on hydration, nutrition and footwear at the Keyserling Cancer Center in Beaufort. More than 2,000 people are expected to participate in the Sept. 30-Oct. 2 LoCo Motion event, trekking 10 miles a day through Old Town Bluffton and the beaches of Hilton Head Island. Training sessions are being offered twice a week to help participants prepare for the challenge.\n• Beaufort Memorial Hospital’s LifeFit Wellness Center is leading training walks and runs at 5:30 p.m. Tuesdays and 7:30 a.m. Saturdays.\nRegistration for LoCo Motion is not necessary to participate in any of the free sessions. Proceeds from LoCo Motion will benefit several regional cancer organizations. For more information, visit www.dothelocomotion.org or call 843-868-1888.\n\n<strong>Live band to play at The Foolish Frog</strong>\nThe Foolish Frog has booked the Mobros for Saturday, July 30. Based in Columbia, SC, this is becoming quite a phenomenon with their country blues and roots sound. The Foolish Frog is on St. Helena Island.\n\n<strong>Church invites public to family &amp; friends day</strong>\nThe Beaufort Church of Christ welcomes you to “Where All the Doors Swing Loose on Welcome Hinges to You and to Yours!”\nfor Family and Friends Day: Focusing on Our Faith * Our Family * Our Friends * Our Fellowship * Our Future. And we will have fun! Come hear a positive message of “Education, Inspiration and Motivation!”\npresented by Jonas Gadson, Minister, on\nSunday July 31. Morning Worship Service at 10:30 a.m. and Afternoon Worship Service at 2:30 p.m. will be held at the Beaufort Church of Christ, 170 Robert Smalls Parkway, Beaufort, down the street from the Golden Corral Restaurant. For more information, call (843) 524-4281 or jg@jonasbonus.com.\n\n<strong>Sons of Confederate Veterans to meet</strong>\nBeaufort County’s Gen. Richard H. Anderson Camp #47 Sons of Confederate Veterans (SCV) will hold their monthly meeting on Monday, August 1.  Meetings are held in the Harmony Masonic Lodge located at 2710 Depot Road in Beaufort, starting promptly at 7 p.m.  Guest speaker will be Ben Bunting, Cmdr. of the H. L. Hunley SCV Camp in Summerville, SC, his subject will be “The True Citizen Soldier.” Those interested in learning more about the SCV are encouraged to attend or review the camp’s web site scvcamp47beaufortsc.com.  Please contact Commander Paul Griffin with any questions you may have 843-524-8792.\n\n<strong>Apply by Monday for farm bill programs</strong>\nState Conservationist Ann English announced that Monday, August 1, is the deadline to apply for priority assistance from the Natural Resources Conservation Service (NRCS) for two of its Farm Bill programs. The service provides financial and technical assistance to help South Carolina landowners address natural resource concerns, promote environmental quality, and protect wildlife habitat on property they own or control. The cost-share funds are available to eligible applicants through the Environmental Quality Incentives Program and the Wildlife Habitat Incentives Program. Visit www.sc.nrcs.usda.gov for more information, including eligibility requirements, or call or visit your NRCS office at 7554 W. Main St Room 218 in Ridgeland or call 843-726-8148, ext 3.\n\n<strong>Kazoos on Vacation with Rick Hubbard</strong>\nKazoos on Vacation: Rick Hubbard’s hit family show of music, comedy, and fun at ARTworks where your kids are the stars and kazoos are free! Tuesday, August 2, at 7:30 p.m. Doors open at 7 p.m., adults $10, kids $5. Info and reservations 843-379-2787, www.ArtWorksInBeaufort.org.\n\n<strong>Group supports victims of domestic violence</strong>\nAre you being abused? Do you feel like you’re walking on eggshells, have no control over your life, are constantly being monitored, criticized or isolated by your partner?  If you answer, “yes,” you may be a victim of intimate partner violence. Citizens Opposed to Domestic Abuse (CODA) announces a six-week support group for victims and survivors of domestic violence. The group will meet in Bluffton. Depending on response, the first meeting will be in the early evening of either August 3 or 4. The group process aims to educate and empower women in a safe environment as they learn from each other and CODA facilitators. Discussions will emanate from Fisher/McGrane’s course, Journey Beyond Abuse, which encourages women to lead violence-free lives. CODA offers a 24-hour crisis line, emergency shelter, counseling for adults and children, court accompaniment and case management for victims of domestic violence residing in Beaufort, Hampton, Colleton and Jasper counties. All CODA services are free and confidential. To enroll, call 770-1070 and ask to sign up for the “Bluffton Group.”  To learn more about domestic violence, visit www.codalowcountry.org.\n\n<strong>Freedom from Smoking session to be held</strong>\nThe next session of Freedom From Smoking classes will begin Tuesday Aug. 2 at 5:30 to 7 p.m. in the third floor classroom of the Medical Office Building next door to Beaufort Memorial Hospital. This is the American Lung Association program developed to help people who want to quit smoking be successful. The classes run over seven weeks and the cost for the program is $60. Registration is recommended as seating is limited, please call 522-5635.\n\n<strong>Main Street Beaufort holds planning retreat</strong>\nThe staff and board of directors of Main Street Beaufort, USA would like to invite all downtown merchants, property owners, government officials, and interested residents to their annual board retreat Thursday, August 4  in the Dolphin Room at the Best Western Sea Island Inn on Bay Street from 4:30- 7 p.m. The board  would like to hear input on what stakeholders would like to see from the organization in the 2011-2012 fiscal year. There will be an overview of the National Main Street 4 Point Approach — Organization, Design, Promotion, and Economic Restructuring — and a more in-depth discussion of how Main Street Beaufort should work with each point will follow. If you would like to attend, please RSVP by Monday, August 1 by emailing director@downtownbeaufort.com or calling 525-6644.\n\n\n<strong>Melodic Latte Cafe to open at ARTworks</strong>\nMelodic Latte Cafe is the perfect place to have an artistic seat and be creative. As its name suggests, it’s rhythmically located inside ARTworks, The Arts Council of Beaufort County. The menu offers gourmet organic coffee with no shortage on great taste, cold coffee at its best, as well as hot chocolate and green tea along with the world’s best coffee “Jamaica Blue Mountain.” The wall of musical history travels from B.B. King, Dizzie Gillespie to Aretha Franklin &amp; L.L. Cool J.  Open Tues.-Fri., 11 a.m. to 6 p.m. and Sat., 12 to 4 p.m. Closed Sunday and Mondays.', 'What To Do', '', 'publish', 'open', 'open', '', 'what-to-do-3', '', '', '2011-07-28 12:56:12', '2011-07-28 12:56:12', '', 0, 'http://www.beaufortislandnews.com/?p=2332', 0, 'post', '', 0),
(2334, 4, '2011-07-28 12:59:00', '2011-07-28 12:59:00', 'Many investors equate investing to buying stocks. But over the last 10 years, the access to other asset classes\n\n[caption id=\"attachment_2335\" align=\"alignleft\" width=\"150\" caption=\"Arthur Levin\"]<a href=\"http://www.beaufortislandnews.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/07/Financial-Wells-Fargo.jpg\"><img class=\"size-thumbnail wp-image-2335\" title=\"Financial-Wells Fargo\" src=\"http://www.beaufortislandnews.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/07/Financial-Wells-Fargo-150x150.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" /></a>[/caption]\n\ntraditionally only available to large institutional investors has become available to a much wider segment of the population. Broadening the places for investment from just U.S. stocks to other asset classes like international stocks, commodities, currencies, fixed income and even cash alternatives gives you greater flexibility in your investments when U.S. Equities are not in favor.  <!--more-->\nOver the last 10 years, no one asset class has held the top spot for performance each and every year. Sometimes U.S. equities were at the top, sometime they were at the bottom. Sometime commodities found their way to the top in terms of performance while in other years it was fixed income or cash alternatives. Just as a chef will seasonally adjust his menu offerings based upon the freshest produce available, investors should be willing to shift their portfolio focus based upon what asset class is in season.\nTactical decisions are made utilizing the point and figure research and evaluation techniques of an institutional research group that has extensive expertise in a technique known as Point &amp; Figure charting. This type of analysis attempts to evaluate the supply and demand forces of particular asset classes and ranks the asset classes from strongest to weakest based upon relative strength (RS).\nWe feel asset classes can be ranked similar to the way one might rank sports teams. If you think about your favorite sport, they rank teams based upon how well they perform against their opponents. The more games, matches or races won, the higher in ranking the team will go. We believe the same thing can be done in the investment markets. In the financial markets, a “game” is played each day and it consists of comparing the daily performance of one asset class to another. Each day we compare asset classes to one another to determine which asset classes are the strongest or weakest. A relative strength calculation is compiled for each member of the roster versus every other member of the evaluation set, for example, International Equities. In essence, a very large arm wrestling tournament is held. After all individual calculations are computed and charted on a Point &amp; Figure basis, each member now has its number of RS “wins.”\nThe finished product is a portfolio made up of the strongest RS investments in each asset class. Without the weak RS components, this allows the portfolio to perform well and not be dragged down by underperforming investments. This approach gives us the ability to “play defense” by raising cash in markets where cash and bonds gain RS over equities. While no investment strategy works 100% of the time, RS does provide for long-term growth and the ability to control risk in difficult market periods.\n\nThis article was provided by Arthur Levin, Senior Vice President-Investments, Tumlin, Levin and Sumner Investment Group of Wells Fargo Advisors.\nThe views expressed by Arthur Levin are his own and do not necessarily reflect the opinion of Wells Fargo Advisors or its affiliates.\nWells Fargo Advisors, LLC, Member SIPC, is a registered broker – dealer and a separate non-bank affiliate of Wells Fargo &amp; Company.\nInvestment and insurance products are not insured by FDIC or a Federal Government Agency, may lose value and are not a deposit of or guaranteed by a bank or any bank affiliate.', 'Build a strong investment portfolio', '', 'publish', 'open', 'open', '', 'build-a-strong-investment-portfolio', '', '', '2011-07-28 12:59:00', '2011-07-28 12:59:00', '', 0, 'http://www.beaufortislandnews.com/?p=2334', 0, 'post', '', 0),
(2337, 4, '2011-07-28 13:00:36', '2011-07-28 13:00:36', 'The Junior Service League of Beaufort (JSLB) is currently accepting applications for membership in the 2011-2012 league year and will host an information session on Thursday, July 28 from 5:30 to 7:30 p.m. at Saltus River Grill in downtown Beaufort. All women interested in learning more about the league are invited to attend.<!--more-->\nThe Junior Service League of Beaufort began in the spring of 2005 by a small group of former Junior League members along with other young women concerned, active and involved in the Beaufort community. Since its inception, more than 180 women ages 22-50 have been members of the league. Over the past six years, the women of JSLB have assisted numerous local nonprofits in a variety of ways from direct service to major fundraising. Earlier this month, JSLB was recipient of the Outstanding Non-Profit Civitas Award from the Beaufort Regional Chamber of Commerce.\nJSLB is currently accepting applications for membership in the 2011-2012 league year to begin in September. Service projects for the coming year include working closely with the Child Abuse Prevention Association (CAPA), Citizens Opposed to Domestic Abuse (CODA) and The Blood Alliance.\nFor a membership application or to learn more about the league, email jslbft@yahoo.com or visit www.jslbeaufort.org.', 'JSLB seeks new members', '', 'publish', 'open', 'open', '', 'jslb-seeks-new-members', '', '', '2011-07-28 13:00:36', '2011-07-28 13:00:36', '', 0, 'http://www.beaufortislandnews.com/?p=2337', 0, 'post', '', 0),
(2339, 4, '2011-07-28 13:01:40', '2011-07-28 13:01:40', 'The next Carteret Street United Methodist Church-sponsored American Red Cross Blood Drive will be held on Thursday, August 4, in the Fellowship Hall from noon until 6 p.m. ARC blood is distributed throughout the world and is the primary source for blood used by the U.S. military services. To be eligible to donate you must be 17 years old and weigh at least 110 pounds; each donor will have a thorough medical screening to ensure safety of the donor and the blood supply. To make an appointment please call 1-866-611-7137 or log onto www.givelife.org. For the 1-866 number, after you get an answer press 2 (Option 2) for a Savannah-based operator to make your appointment. For the web site, you must register the first time and then for subsequent appointments, you just log on with your user name and PIN and make an appointment. The site is very easy to follow.', 'Red Cross Blood Drive', '', 'publish', 'open', 'open', '', 'red-cross-blood-drive', '', '', '2011-07-28 13:01:40', '2011-07-28 13:01:40', '', 0, 'http://www.beaufortislandnews.com/?p=2339', 0, 'post', '', 0),
(2341, 4, '2011-07-28 13:04:23', '2011-07-28 13:04:23', 'The Boys &amp; Girls Clubs of the Lowcountry and The Golf Club at Hilton Head Lakes have partnered together to introduce golf to children in Beaufort and Jasper counties.<!--more-->\n\n[caption id=\"attachment_2343\" align=\"alignleft\" width=\"150\" caption=\"Whitney Uva, 11, practices her swing.\"]<a href=\"http://www.beaufortislandnews.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/07/Lifestyle-BoysGirls-Club-WhitneyUva.11.jpg\"><img class=\"size-thumbnail wp-image-2343\" title=\"Lifestyle-Boys&amp;Girls Club-WhitneyUva.11\" src=\"http://www.beaufortislandnews.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/07/Lifestyle-BoysGirls-Club-WhitneyUva.11-150x150.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" /></a>[/caption]\n\n“Golf is for everyone,” David Wilding, director of golf, at the Golf Club of Hilton Head Lakes, said. “It doesn’t matter who you are, where you are from — I want to make the game available for as many people as I can.”\nThe Golf Club of Hilton Head Lakes invited the club members of the Boys &amp; Girls Clubs of Beaufort, Bluffton, Hilton Head Island and Jasper County to practice their golf at the driving range for five consecutive weeks.  On Monday, August 1, which will be the fifth week, the pros at Hilton Head Lakes will present an exhibition and clinic. The club members will then be able to play the par 3, six-hole course.\n“This is a great way for the young members of our clubs to learn and get excited about a sport which is so much a part of our community and culture,” Jan Gourley, vice president of resource development and marketing, said.  “You never know the talent and excitement which may spark by the opportunity for the kids to practice and play at Hilton Head Lakes.”\nMany of the club members are encouraged about discovering the sport.\n“It’s a surprise to me, “Eduardo Moreno, 10, of Jasper County, said. “I am proud of how much I am making contact with the ball.”  Eduardo said he makes contact with the ball so much that “his arm hurts.”\nDavid Wilding said golf also involves a lot “teachable moments,” in patience, personal appearance and respect for the game and other players.\nWhitney Uva, 11 years old, of Jasper County, said her lesson in golf was learning not to be afraid and trying to improve.\nLast year, she was hit by a golf club at another golf outing and it produced a big welt on her face.\n“Of course, I came back to golfing,” Whitney said. “I keep trying over and over again.”', 'Boys & Girls Clubs teach kids to golf', '', 'publish', 'open', 'open', '', 'boys-girls-clubs-teach-kids-to-golf', '', '', '2011-07-28 13:04:23', '2011-07-28 13:04:23', '', 0, 'http://www.beaufortislandnews.com/?p=2341', 0, 'post', '', 0),
(2345, 4, '2011-07-28 13:07:43', '2011-07-28 13:07:43', 'By Captain David Cargile\n\nAs we motored away from the dock, I reflected that my 22-foot bay boat Horsefish should have been named Porcupine, as all of the 18 rod holders were bristling with rods sporting popping corks and swimming tails of every color and description. My brother Ken, down from Douglasville, Georgia, for a trout fishing expedition, was grinning in anticipation as he checked on the freshly netted shrimp that filled the two live wells.  His grin faded a bit when I announced that I wanted to try a different location that morning. We had fished the northern reaches of the St. Helena Sound the day before and had a very productive day with a large and cooperative school of trout that had remained in place for several weeks. After reminding me several times of our late dad’s absolute rule that you never leave fish to look for fish, he reluctantly agreed when I assured him we would return to the hot spot before the day was over. <!--more-->\nWe moved out of Factory Creek into the Beaufort River and pushing Horsefish up on plane we headed for the St. Helena Sound, but this time we turned left into the Whale Branch rather than continuing into the sound. As we approached the bay next to the railroad trestle, I eased back on the motor, and we slipped into the bay to look for shorelines with shell beds that matched the pattern that had been holding trout.\nI had picked exactly the wrong tide to go exploring, so there was very little shoreline to observe. What we did see was a crab trap float — a very unusual crab trap float that was moving through the water at a high rate of speed. Now making a wake is not normal behavior for a crab trap float, so we eased closer to see what was causing this phenomenon. The mystery was soon solved when a dolphin breached about five feet in front of the float and expelled a loud burst of air. The dolphin continued to submerge and then breach every few seconds, always with the float trailing ominously behind. The dolphin had become ensnared in the rope between the float and the trap. The weight of the trap was pulling the dolphin down while the float was preventing it from going to the bottom to try to free itself, and it was obvious that this had been going on for a while because the dolphin appeared exhausted.  We also became aware that two other dolphins were circling the area, breaching and blowing loudly, unwilling to leave their friend.\nKen and I looked at each other, and I said, ‘”that’s not going to happen.” He just nodded yes, and we immediately began tracking the float with the boat. The dolphin was now trying to escape from not only the trap but also the boat that surely must have appeared to be a stalking predator. Within minutes the magenta “bread trail” on my GPS looked like a plate of spaghetti. We were aware of the distress this was causing the dolphin, but the alternative was just not acceptable.\nSuddenly the dolphin stopped, and the float remained stationary. I am not sure if this was due to a realization that we were trying to help or just exhaustion and an acceptance of what it must have believed to be inevitable. We eased alongside, and Ken was able to grab the float.\nAs we slowly pulled upwards on the rope, the dolphin floated closer to the surface, and we could see that it was very large, which meant it was likely a female. We pulled the dolphin as close to the surface as we dared, afraid that it might spook and we would have to begin the chase again. As the dolphin hung unmoving about 18 to 20 inches below the surface, we reached down as close to its back as possible and cut the rope.  The dolphin sank out of sight, and we immediately pulled in the float and about six feet of rope.\nWe floated for a few minutes discussing our theory that the weight of the trap would cause the remaining rope to unwrap from the dolphin’s tail, and agonizing a bit because we would never really know. Suddenly, the water next to the boat erupted, and a large dolphin stood on its head and waved its tail in the air. Just as suddenly it was gone. The message of “I’m Free” was loud and clear. We both stood with our mouths hanging open, stunned by what had just occurred. As we stood speechless, we heard the sound of dolphin blowing, and when we looked to our left, the two dolphins that had been circling were departing the bay, heading for the sound — but now there were three.\nStill stunned, we sat down in the boat. Finally Ken said, “If we don’t catch a single fish, this will be a great day on the water.” I had to agree, and as I look back on memories of many great days on many of the world’s waters, this just may be the best memory of all ... at least so far.\nI think of that day frequently, and always with the same sense of awe.  Now, when I see a large dolphin, I always wonder if it is “my dolphin”. Kind of makes you wonder who rescued whom.', 'Taking time to save a dolphin', '', 'publish', 'open', 'open', '', 'taking-time-to-save-a-dolphin', '', '', '2011-07-28 13:07:43', '2011-07-28 13:07:43', '', 0, 'http://www.beaufortislandnews.com/?p=2345', 0, 'post', '', 0),
(2349, 4, '2011-07-28 13:10:45', '2011-07-28 13:10:45', 'Beaufort County School District students posted broad-based improvements on the 2011 administration of the Palmetto Assessment of State Standards (PASS), according to results released by the South Carolina Department of Education.<!--more-->\nBeaufort’s percentages of students meeting the state standard – a score of Basic on the three PASS scoring levels – improved in 22 of 26 combinations of grade levels and subjects tested.\n“These improved scores are definitely encouraging,” said Superintendent Valerie Truesdale.  “The increases are a tribute to the hard work of students and parents, to the teachers who stretch learners, and to the creative energy of school and district leaders who have worked hard to ease the impact of budget cuts on the classroom.”\nHighlights in the 2011 PASS report include:\n• Percentages of students scoring Exemplary – the highest of three scoring levels — increased at all grade levels in English language arts, mathematics and social studies.  Results at the Exemplary level were mixed in writing and science.\n• Percentages of students scoring Not Met – the lowest of three scoring levels — decreased at all grade levels in English language arts, mathematics and social studies, and in all but one grade in science.  Writing test results at the Not Met level were split among the two grades tested.\n• Performance of African-American and Hispanic students improved in a majority of categories, particularly in elementary grades.\n• Performance of students from low-income families also improved in most categories, particularly in the elementary grades.\nTruesdale said it was gratifying to see fewer students falling short of state standards this year while academically strong students’ scores in ELA, math and social studies were above state averages in all grades.\n“We’re making a concerted effort to help struggling students catch up by requiring extended learning time,” Truesdale said.  All students who have not yet met state standards are invited to extended learning time on August 1.  At three schools, St. Helena Elementary, Whale Branch Elementary and Whale Branch Middle, the entire school begins extended learning time on August 1.\nSouth Carolina and federal laws require end-of-year accountability tests based on state academic standards. PASS tests students in grades 3-8 in five subjects: English language arts, mathematics, science, and social studies.  Writing assessments were reduced in 2011 to only two grades (fifth and eighth) as a cost-saving measure by the state.\nIn 2009, Beaufort County Schools met or exceeded state average in 23% of grades and subjects. In 2010, the district was above state average in 37% of areas tested. In 2011, Beaufort students scored above state average in 42.3% of areas tested, reflecting steady positive progress.\nThe percentage of students meeting state standards improved in 22 of 26 possible areas from 2010 to 2011.\nComparing 2011 scores with the PASS administration in 2010, the percentage of students scoring “Met” or “Exemplary” equaled or exceeded the South Carolina state average in 11 of 26 possible areas in 2011.  It is noteworthy that six areas are within one point of exceeding state averages.\nStudents performed better in English language arts and math in all grades. They performed better in science in all grades except seventh, and in social studies in four grades.', 'Beaufort County PASS scores improve', '', 'publish', 'open', 'open', '', 'beaufort-county-pass-scores-improve', '', '', '2018-07-12 11:04:56', '2018-07-12 15:04:56', '', 0, 'http://www.beaufortislandnews.com/?p=2349', 0, 'post', '', 0),
(2351, 4, '2011-07-28 13:11:36', '2011-07-28 13:11:36', 'The Beaufort County School Board has approved Mr. Matthew D. Hunt as Principal of Whale Branch Middle School.\nMr. Hunt has a strong eight year tenure with the Beaufort County Schools.  He began as a music teacher at Okatie Elementary School and for the last three years has served as the assistant principal at Whale Branch Middle School.\n“Once again, Beaufort County Schools’ strong leadership program has prepared an exemplary assistant principal for principalship,” Superintendent Valerie Truesdale said. “Matthew Hunt has been an outstanding assistant principal at Whale Branch Middle and his promotion to principal was a natural, seamless progression.”\nMr. Hunt received his Bachelor of Music Education at the University of Michigan-Flint and completed graduate studies at Wayne State University in Detroit.  He received his Masters of Education at Armstrong Atlantic University and his Masters of Education, K-8 School Administration from the University of South Carolina.', 'Whale Branch Middle hires new principal', '', 'publish', 'open', 'open', '', 'whale-branch-middle-hires-new-principal', '', '', '2018-07-12 11:04:56', '2018-07-12 15:04:56', '', 0, 'http://www.beaufortislandnews.com/?p=2351', 0, 'post', '', 0);
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(2353, 4, '2011-07-28 13:15:10', '2011-07-28 13:15:10', 'By Jennifer Wallace\n\nDental X-rays are necessary to help diagnose problems not visible to the naked eye. They help to locate and expose dental problems such as tooth decay, a tooth abscess, cyst or even a tumor. They also help the dentist to examine the condition of fillings, crowns, dental bridges and root canals. They can also show impacted or extra teeth, and diagnose gum disease and tarter buildup.<!--more-->\nThanks to science, modern techniques allow patients to receive dental treatment without the pain and time associated with old-fashioned dentistry. Dental technology has been developed to make dental X-rays safer and more convenient by using digital X-rays. The actual act of taking a digital radiograph is actually similar to traditional dental X-rays that use film. With digital radiography, your dentist inserts a sensor into your mouth to capture images of your teeth — but that’s where the similarities end. Although it looks similar to the film used for bitewings and other X-rays, the digital sensor is electronic. It is connected to a computer much like your digital camera is connected to your PC when downloading personal photos.\nThere are several benefits to using digital radiography over traditional film X-rays:\n• 90% less radiation: Images can be magnified, contrast adjusted, and measurements can be made by utilizing the computer program.\n• Patient Education: Easier for patients to appreciate their dental problems when it can be shown to them on a computer monitor.\n• Transferring Images: Images can easily be e-mailed to referring specialists and dental insurance companies for claims. As more offices are turning to electronic patient charts, computers may eliminate the need to mail dental records altogether\n• Environmentally Friendly: Digital dental X-rays are better for the environment! Unlike traditional x-ray machines seen in a doctor’s office, these eliminate the need for thousands of gallons of developing fluid, thousands more gallons of water, and the need to store thousands of x-ray film sheets. Because doctors view digital images, there’s a ripple effect of efficiency, both in terms of operation and energy. For example, eliminating 50,000 analog films saves 1,900 gallons of fixer and developer chemicals per year. There’s also no wasted office space for a darkroom and no need to store films which can quickly pile up.\n• Higher Quality Images: The standard size of traditional X-rays can make viewing difficult, but digital radiography has done away with the “one size fits all” mentality. Once on the screen, digital X-rays can be enlarged or magnified for a better visual of the tooth’s structure. Brightness, contrast and color can also be adjusted, allowing your dentist to see small cavities easier. If you need a hard copy of your X-ray, digital images can also be printed out.\nDigital radiography is slowly gaining steam in the professional dental community. While digital radiography is helping many dentists diagnose your dental problems, additional software programs are making their lives even easier! One such program is called subtraction radiography, wherein dentists compare current images to previous images of the same tooth, helping them find even the smallest changes in your tooth’s structure.\nWith all the advanced technology in today’s dental visit, nothing can replace the traditional visit to your family dentist, complete with oral examination of the head, neck, TMJ and oral cavity. The visit is definitely enriched with the use of digital dental x-rays to give a more complete picture and help you get on the road to a healthier and more beautiful smile.\n\n<em>Dr. Wallace practices at Palmetto Smiles of Beaufort and can be contacted at 843-524-7645 or at www.palmettosmilesofbeaufort.com.</em>', 'Get the complete picture from your dentist', '', 'publish', 'open', 'open', '', 'get-the-complete-picture-from-your-dentist', '', '', '2011-07-28 13:15:10', '2011-07-28 13:15:10', '', 0, 'http://www.beaufortislandnews.com/?p=2353', 0, 'post', '', 0),
(2355, 4, '2011-07-28 13:16:51', '2011-07-28 13:16:51', 'By Mark Siegel\n\nThe use of the Femtosecond Laser in assisting with phacoemulsification for cataract surgery represents what may be a new technological approach yielding even more predictable and refined results in what is already a remarkably safe and effective cataract operation. The Femtosecond Laser has been successfully used for a number of years in laser eye surgery for the laser vision correction of common vision disorders such as nearsightedness, farsightedness and astigmatism. This laser technology has been used as an alternative to manual and mechanical methods of creating a reproducible and precise thin layer of tissue under which another laser places the optical correction.<!--more-->\nCataract removal entails removing the cloudy natural crystalline lens of the eye using a technique that is called phacoemulsification. Phacoemulsification uses ultrasonic energy to liquefy the lens material so that it may be aspirated. Phacoemulsification requires many manual steps and considerable skills of the cataract surgeon. The potential advantage of Femtosecond Laser Assisted Cataract Surgery (FLAC) is that it allows the consolidation and conversion of the many skill intensive steps of cataract removal into a more predictable procedure that benefits from enhanced laser created surgeon controlled precision.\nFrom a surgical perspective, some cataract surgeons believe that incorporating the Femtosecond Laser into cataract surgery will be useful for:\n• Creating “perfect” incisions in terms of size and architecture, which is important in order to have the incision seal properly without the use of stitches and to prevent infection. (not yet shown by any studies)\n• Creating a perfectly centered and sized “capsulotomy”, which is the “opening” prepared in the front of the crystalline lens through which the cloudy lens material is removed (the only aspect  in studies to be superior but did not translate into better post-operative vision)\n• Liquefying, softening or “chopping” the crystalline lens, in order to allow the cloudy material to be phacoemulsified (still requires manual phaco after)\n• Creating the possibility of precise corneal incisions, such as might be performed with limbal relaxing incisions (LRI) to correct pre-existing  astigmatism (better corrected with Toric intraocular lenses in studies)\nThere are currently three companies that have received FDA approval to use their Femtosecond lasers for creating the corneal incisions, corneal relaxing incisions, capsulotomies and lens fragmentation. It is very important to understand that so far the only statistically significant benefit is that the laser makes more precise capsulotomies than manual capsulotomies. There is no evidence that this translates into better post-operative vision. Consequently, Medicare or private insurance will not pay for the use of this laser. Patients may still choose to have laser assisted   cataract surgery performed, but they will have to pay completely out of pocket and cannot bill their insurance company\nAm I excited about this technology — YES! However, it is important to resist the hype and wait until studies actually show better post-operative results than manual cataract surgery.\n\n<em>Board certified, American Board of Ophthalmology, www.seaislandophthalmology.com</em>', 'Laser technology assists with cataract surgery', '', 'publish', 'open', 'open', '', 'laser-technology-assists-with-cataract-surgery', '', '', '2011-07-28 13:16:51', '2011-07-28 13:16:51', '', 0, 'http://www.beaufortislandnews.com/?p=2355', 0, 'post', '', 0),
(2358, 4, '2011-07-28 13:19:37', '2011-07-28 13:19:37', 'On November 3, 2010, the Beaufort County Black Chamber of Commerce entered into a partnership agreement with the South Carolina Housing and Development Authority to help homeowners facing foreclosure due to circumstances beyond their control — unemployment, under employment, temporary or permanent reduction in income.\nTo help clients in our pre-foreclosure prevention program, the chamber sent three of its five housing counselors for training with the Association of Housing Counselors. Eugene Bedell, Larry Holman and Shirley Wilkins have been designated as certified HUD housing counselors as of May 20.\nThe Black Chamber of Commerce was chosen as an agency to work with the federal grant funds given to South Carolina State housing Finance and Development Authority. Our success rate since being designated a Housing Counseling Agency is 25%. This percentage could have been higher if applicants had submitted all required documentation.\nFor more information or to apply on line, go to www.scmortgagehelp.com or call (843) 986-1102.', 'Black Chamber of Commerce certifies housing counselors', '', 'publish', 'open', 'open', '', 'black-chamber-of-commerce-certifies-housing-counselors', '', '', '2011-07-28 13:19:37', '2011-07-28 13:19:37', '', 0, 'http://www.beaufortislandnews.com/?p=2358', 0, 'post', '', 0),
(2360, 4, '2011-07-28 13:20:29', '2011-07-28 13:20:29', 'The Beaufort Regional Chamber of Commerce has been the city of Beaufort and Northern Beaufort County’s Designated Marketing Organization (DMO) since approximately 1984 and is well prepared and positioned to continue its DMO services.  As the DMO, the chamber has dedicated itself to being a good steward of the city’s and county’s accommodation and hospitality taxes designated for tourism and marketing activities.<!--more-->\nIn recent weeks, the chamber has met with city and county representatives concerning DMO activities, and the chamber is excited about some of the ideas presented at these informal gatherings. Ideas discussed included the potential formation of a joint committee between the city and the county to oversee DMO activities. Such a committee would be beneficial regardless of what entity or organization may be designated the DMO in the future.  A joint DMO committee would enhance the partnership between the DMO and the city and county and ultimately would lead to better communication, reporting, and hopefully a more cohesive understanding of how the tax dollars are being leveraged for the betterment of all concerned.\n“The chamber is dedicated to the business community in northern Beaufort County, and certainly tourism marketing is a key component of the local economy,” said Jon Rembold, chairman of the Beaufort Regional Chamber Board of Directors. “We are prepared to continue as the DMO as the City and County evaluates its DMO options and in the interim, it is our preference to work with the Visitor &amp; Convention Bureau to market this area to visitors.\nAs this process moves forward, the chamber will continue to be the DMO for the City of Beaufort and Northern Beaufort County until such a time as these organizations decide to move in a different direction.  The chamber has indeed endorsed its former department and newly minted South Carolina nonprofit, the Beaufort, Port Royal, and Sea Island Visitor &amp; Convention Bureau (VCB) to be considered for DMO designation.\nWhether the governmental entities decide to designate the Visitor Bureau as the DMO is wholly within the purview of the City of Beaufort and the county of Beaufort. If the city and county decide not to designate the Visitor Bureau as their DMO, the chamber wants to make clear that it is the current DMO and is not “stepping down” as the DMO.\nPlease direct any additional questions on the subject to Jon Rembold, 2011-2012 Chairman of the Chamber Board of Directors, at 843.384.5056.', 'Chamber discusses Designated Marketing Organization', '', 'publish', 'open', 'open', '', 'chamber-discusses-designated-marketing-organization', '', '', '2011-07-28 13:20:29', '2011-07-28 13:20:29', '', 0, 'http://www.beaufortislandnews.com/?p=2360', 0, 'post', '', 0),
(2365, 4, '2011-07-28 13:24:03', '2011-07-28 13:24:03', 'By Bill Rogers\n\nI got a call from a school board member recently asking what to do when her board goes into executive session and then talks about things that cannot legally be discussed there.\n“Can I speak out about this without being sanctioned?,” she asked.\nMy response to her was two-fold.  Of course she can speak out — and, in fact, I think she has an obligation to do so.  Public officials do not give up their First Amendment right to free speech when they take office.  And a board or council cannot legally sanction a member who does speak out — only the voters can do that.\nSecondly, I suggested that when this happens, she should object to the illegal discussion, and if it continues, pull out a hand-held tape recorder, turn it on and put it down in front of her. My bet is that the illegal meeting would end immediately.<!--more-->\nI think that if a few right-thinking public officials followed this course of action, illegal executive sessions would come to an end in our state.\nBut the effort to stifle legitimate discussion of what happens in executive session continues to be formalized all across our state.\nIn Georgetown, the town council is considering an amendment to deal with confidentiality of executive sessions.\nThe wording being considered for addition to an ordinance states, “except as required by law ... it shall be unlawful for a member of council or person in attendance at an executive session of the council to disclose to another person or make public the substance of a matter discussed” in the meeting.  Other public bodies have similar policies.\nSorry guys and gals, but a local ordinance doesn’t trump the First Amendment.\nLet me also say this secret discussion of business that the law says must be done in public is not an isolated problem.\nIt happens at school boards and government councils across South Carolina every week — especially school boards.\nHere’s my challenge to public officials.  Stand up for open government.  The next time your board or council takes what you perceive to be an action illegal under the FOIA in executive session, speak up.   If it continues, pull out a tape recorder and put in on the desk in front of you.  I almost guarantee the illegal meeting will stop.\nDon’t get me wrong. There are certainly many things discussed in executive session that should be kept there. That’s not what I am talking about.\nThis summer the S.C. Press Association — through its member newspapers — is distributing nearly 6,000 copies of the “Public Officials’ Guide to the Freedom of Information Act” to public officials across our state. So there should be no excuse about not understanding the law about executive session. The book is also available online at www.scpress.org/foia.html.\nAnd don’t be bamboozled by some lawyers who have made a fortune giving bad FOI advice and then billing the public body to defend the lawsuits that follow.\nPublic officials have the right to object and speak out about abuse of the FOIA in executive session.  I implore them to do so.  All that is required to have honest, open government is courage and a $20 tape recorder.\n\n<em>Bill Rogers is executive director of the S.C. Press Association, which is an advocate for open government.</em>', 'Advocating for a more open government', '', 'publish', 'open', 'open', '', 'advocating-for-a-more-open-government', '', '', '2011-07-28 13:24:03', '2011-07-28 13:24:03', '', 0, 'http://www.beaufortislandnews.com/?p=2365', 0, 'post', '', 0),
(2367, 4, '2011-07-28 13:25:28', '2011-07-28 13:25:28', 'By Bill Evans\n\nEven though its summer, there is a lot going on with our schools that will continue to be of significance going forward. First, on the personnel side, Mrs. Mona Lise Dickson has been appointed to fill the vacant position of principal at Lady’s Island Middle School.  I have worked with Mrs. Dickson; she has a strong educational background and is very committed to continuous instructional improvement and a school environment that stresses good discipline. Her work for three years as principal at Whale Branch Middle School resulted in a significant turn around in academic performance and a reduction in disciplinary problems. I expect that she will establish daily monitoring of classes, stress the use of data to help determine instructional approaches and will be a great resource for teachers in identifying new methods for being more effective in their teaching.<!--more-->\nThe most recent two-day board work session that took place July 21-22 was quite productive. Two areas of special note were the receipt of the task force recommendations on school consolidations and changes in attendance zones and, the approval of a policy to strengthen academic expectations for students who want to represent the schools through participation in extra-curricular activities. On the first issue, I want to thank the volunteer committee of 15 made up of representatives from across all five clusters within the district. This group spent the better part of eight weeks meeting three hours every Wednesday and exchanging numerous emails between meetings. I sat in on two of the five meetings; their deliberations were well-informed and their dedication and concern about the schools was genuine. The board will meet in a special session on Friday, August 5 to discuss the task force recommendations and hopefully take a vote that day. This meeting is open to the public and will probably begin about 9 a.m. and be held at the DESC on Mink Point Blvd. Remember, any decisions will not go into effect until the 2012-13 school year.\nThe policy on academic performance and extra-curricular participation will be developed by a committee co-chaired by Mrs. Laura Bush from Bluffton and myself. We will be seeking participation from staff members, parents and students, to construct a set of practices that will emphasize higher expectations, and provide a process for identifying and assisting students who want to participate but need additional support to be successful academically. The goal is to ensure that those who participate not only represent the schools as strong students academically but additionally,  that those who have talents that can take them on to other opportunities are not denied because of poor academic performance. These practices will be put into effect for students in grades 6-12.\nSome other areas of note from the work session were several votes to delay or eliminate spending on projects that simply are not needed at this time and an overview of many of the new technologies we are using to assist teachers and provide students with more relevant and timely information. The board also solidified a policy on public use of facilities and got a report on the TAP program, a pay for performance program, being initiated in a number of our schools.\nWe are blessed across the district with numerous volunteers; District 7 certainly has it share as exemplified by the group working on the stadium at Beaufort High School. These volunteers from the Booster Club have made many needed improvements.\nWith the opening of school right around the corner, I encourage all of you to get involved with our schools. For parents, we know that the school will be more successful but, more importantly, your child will be more successful when you are involved and knowledgeable about school activities and practices. For those of you without children in the schools, please consider volunteering to be mentors or tutors to get some of the work done.\n\n<em>Bill Evans was recently elected to the Beaufort County Board of Education to represent Lady’s Island, District 7</em>', 'School board happenings', '', 'publish', 'open', 'open', '', 'school-board-happenings', '', '', '2011-07-28 13:25:28', '2011-07-28 13:25:28', '', 0, 'http://www.beaufortislandnews.com/?p=2367', 0, 'post', '', 0),
(2370, 4, '2011-07-28 13:28:14', '2011-07-28 13:28:14', 'The I. Pinckney Simons Art Gallery in Beaufort South Carolina is pleased to announce the addition of artist Alicia Leeke to the gallery.\nLeeke will be showing a variety of colorful abstract realism landscapes which capture movement through color, shape and texture. Much of her inspiration is derived from her trips to the Low Country including St. Helena’s Island, Beaufort, Hilton Head and Charleston, South Carolina and can been seen in the gallery through her manipulation of paint.\nI Pinckney Simons Art Gallery features original art collected by clients around the world. Founded in 1979, it has evolved into an eclectic collection nationally and internationally recognized artists and exhibits paintings, sculpture, jewelry, and fine hand-sculpted furnishings.\nThe I. Pinckney Simons Gallery excels in custom framing offering exemplary service in frame consultation and design. The South Carolina State House, Governor’s Mansion, and the Supreme Court Building lead the client list as well as private collectors. Restoration services are offered for both antique works as well as contemporary.\nI. Pinckney Simons Gallery is located at 711 Bay Street in Beaufort, SC. For more information on Alicia’s Leeke’s work, please call 843-379-4774.', 'I. Pinckney Simons Art Gallery adds Leeke as new artist', '', 'publish', 'open', 'open', '', 'i-pinckney-simons-art-gallery-adds-leeke-as-new-artist', '', '', '2011-07-28 13:28:14', '2011-07-28 13:28:14', '', 0, 'http://www.beaufortislandnews.com/?p=2370', 0, 'post', '', 0),
(2372, 4, '2011-07-28 13:30:23', '2011-07-28 13:30:23', 'On August 6 the Red Piano Too Art Gallery is hosting its 19th “Annual Summer Art Show at 10 a.m.- 5 p.m. This art show is a convergence of over 50 artists and authors from the Lowcountry and around country.  The “Featured Artist” this year is artist, musician and fine arts educator Amiri Geuka Farris. Amiri is a renowned African-American artist whose works are represented in major collections and museums around the nation including the Smithsonian Museum of American Art in Washington, D.C. <!--more--><a href=\"http://www.beaufortislandnews.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/07/Amiri-Farris-3.jpg\"><img class=\"alignleft size-thumbnail wp-image-2373\" title=\"Amiri Farris 3\" src=\"http://www.beaufortislandnews.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/07/Amiri-Farris-3-150x150.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" /></a><a href=\"http://www.beaufortislandnews.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/07/Amiri-Farris-4.jpg\"><img class=\"alignleft size-thumbnail wp-image-2374\" title=\"Amiri Farris 4\" src=\"http://www.beaufortislandnews.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/07/Amiri-Farris-4-150x150.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" /></a>\nAmiri’s powerful paintings combine an alluring mix of vivid colors and layered textures that evoke images of the Sea Islands Gullah culture.  His creative vision introduces us to uplifting moments and insight into his contemporary view of Gullah culture.  He has captured the spirit of a people who have preserved their African customs and traditions of net making, basket weaving, quilting and bateaux building.  Deep, engaging layers attract you to look deeper in to the painting, where empowering images and colors dance across the canvas in an energetic show of expression.  Amiri states, “I combine original imagery to create art that celebrates Gullah life and its historic elements; but also forcing on contemporary experiences.”\nThe Red Piano Too Art Gallery is thrilled to showcase this newly created collection of Amiri Farris. Gallery owner, Mary I. Mack said “every year we agonize over a theme for the Summer Show.  This year we asked the artists to just go where the spirit takes them.”  “Featured Artist” Amiri Farris chose for his theme “Summertime,” and created a body of work reflecting this theme. He even wrote a new song called “Summertime” that he will perform at the show.\nJoining the featured artist and various gallery artists are numerous Lowcountry authors. Pierre McGowan, Heyward Inabinett and Vertamae Smart-Grosvenor will accompany Pat Browning author of the new coffee table, art-laden cookbook “Shrimp, Collards and Grits.” Pat previously hosted daily broadcasts on food and entertainment, teaming up with notable chefs from around the country while developing an enthusiasm for anything Southern — especially cooking! She has compiled this assemblage of keepsake recipes from generations of Southern cooks, timeless recipes still being served nowadays at oyster roasts, barbecues, ladies luncheons, teas and lavish dinner parties throughout the Lowcountry, where Pat now makes her home. Today, Pat Browning works as a freelance writer, cookbook author and food editor.\nCome out and join the artists and authors at the Red Piano Too Art Gallery, 870 Sea Island Parkway on St. Helena Island on Saturday, August 6 from 10 a.m.-5 p.m. For more information, please call 838-2241.', 'Red Piano Too Art Gallery holds Summer Show', '', 'publish', 'open', 'open', '', 'red-piano-too-art-gallery-holds-summer-show', '', '', '2011-07-28 13:30:23', '2011-07-28 13:30:23', '', 0, 'http://www.beaufortislandnews.com/?p=2372', 0, 'post', '', 0),
(2376, 4, '2011-07-28 13:33:17', '2011-07-28 13:33:17', '<img class=\"alignnone size-thumbnail wp-image-2838\" title=\"Profile-Ian-Fishing\" src=\"http://www.yourislandnews.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/07/Profile-Ian-Fishing-150x150.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" />TRAINING FACILITY OWNER OPENS A SECOND LOCATION\r\n\r\nBy Carrie Carper\r\n\r\nJust more than two years ago, Ian Hart came to The Lowcountry by way of New York City. Maybe it was the lull of the Lowcountry’s coastal charm, its cultural and historical richness, or even its promise to just be a brand new experience. No matter — because with Hart’s arrival came the launch of EarthFIT, a training facility that has not only helped change the lives of countless Beaufortonians, but also the business climate of our community.\r\n\r\n<!--more-->\r\nA lifelong student of fitness, Hart lives and breathes personal training and coaching. His decision to move to the Lowcountry and open his own training facility was, for him, a means of realizing a pivotal goal.\r\n“I wanted to open a training facility in a place where we (the EarthFIT team) could live, work and be a real part of the community,” Hart said. “When the opportunity to move into the Habersham Marketplace came about, I packed my bags and never looked back.”\r\nBeginning the EarthFIT venture with only 600 square feet of working space, an instant demand was created, necessitating an almost overnight expansion. The rapid growth and increased interest and participation of members outside the Habersham community prompted Hart to take a step back, assess his clientele and meet the demand of the Lady’s Island populace.\r\nThis new location opened just weeks ago and is poised to be a very good neighbor. Its grand opening on Saturday, August 6 will help raise money to buy new physical fitness equipment for firefighters from the Lady’s Island-St. Helena Fire District.\r\nHow does such business success happen in a down economy? What makes Hart’s recipe for success so, well, successful?\r\nHart says “For us, the keys to success have been in providing more value than you get in return, truly caring about making a difference in peoples’ lives and guaranteeing results — and backing that guarantee up.”\r\nIn 2010 and 2011 Hart and EarthFIT were awarded multiple “Reader’s Choice” and “Beaufort Favorite’s” awards by The Beaufort Gazette and The Island News, respectively, and just a few months ago Hart was nominated for The Beaufort Regional Chamber of Commerce’s CIVITAS Awards as an “Outstanding Lowcountry Young Professional.”  On an international level, EarthFIT has been recognized for its state of the art “Back Pain Relief4Life” program — recently featured in Self Magazine.\r\n“I’m extremely grateful to be doing what I love and what I believe I was meant to do.” Hart said. “If we can transfer just a portion of our passion for health and training to our clients and create a change in their lives, then we know we are successful. And that’s what it’s all about.”', 'Ian Hart: EarthFIT', '', 'publish', 'open', 'open', '', 'ian-hart-earthfit', '', '', '2011-08-31 13:55:24', '2011-08-31 13:55:24', '', 0, 'http://www.beaufortislandnews.com/?p=2376', 0, 'post', '', 1),
(2382, 4, '2011-07-28 13:37:51', '2011-07-28 13:37:51', 'Beaufort Memorial Hospital is celebrating the opening of its new state-of-the-art Women’s Imaging Center with an open house and reception from 5:30 to 7:30 p.m. next Thursday, Aug. 4.\nThe public is invited to tour the $1.3 million facility devoted exclusively to women’s imaging needs. Located adjacent to the hospital in Suite 110 of Beaufort Memorial Plaza, 989 Ribaut Rd., the 4,100-square-foot center offers digital diagnostic and screening mammograms, ultrasounds, bone density scans and stereotactic breast biopsy — all in a relaxing, stress-free environment.<!--more--><a href=\"http://www.beaufortislandnews.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/07/nurnberg_110630_06970_5881.jpg\"><img class=\"alignleft size-thumbnail wp-image-2383\" title=\"nurnberg_110630_06970_5881\" src=\"http://www.beaufortislandnews.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/07/nurnberg_110630_06970_5881-150x150.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" /></a>\n“We had been providing these breast services in different locations throughout the hospital,” said Daniel Mock, Senior Director of Imaging Services. “When the opportunity arose for us to have an area dedicated just to breast health services, we realized we also had an opportunity to coordinate those services to be more responsive to each patient’s needs.”\nAll of the center’s digital imaging capability was funded through community donations to the BMH Foundation. An on-site radiologist will review every mammogram just moments after the screening, providing patients with their findings before they leave the center.\n“You don’t have to go home not knowing the outcome of your X-ray,” said Pat Foulger, RN, BMH Vice President of Quality Services. “More importantly, if we find an abnormality, we’ll be able to act on it right away.”\nDesigned with the healing arts in mind, the center features relaxing interior colors, soft lighting and soothing background music to help relieve anxiety and promote renewal.  Changing rooms open into their own individual examination rooms to provide patients with more privacy and personal space. New, “softer” mammograms with mammopads will make the annual breast screening a more comfortable experience.\nDuring the open house, participants will have the opportunity to meet the staff, ask questions and book their annual mammograms. Refreshments will be served during the event.\nBMH created the Women’s Imaging Center in response to a focus group study conducted several years ago in Beaufort and Bluffton. An overwhelming number of women who participated in the study said they wanted quality care delivered with sensitivity and compassion in a convenient and pleasant environment.\n“They weren’t just asking for a larger building or more technology;” Foulger said. “They wanted a lot more.”\nWorking closely with the physicians who will be referring patients to the center, hospital administrators developed protocols to cover the entire process of care from the initial examination to follow-up testing should a mammogram reveal an abnormality to treatment at the Keyserling Cancer Center.\nHere’s how it will work: After taking the mammogram, the technologist will process the images. If the doctor also ordered a bone scan, the technologist can perform it following the mammogram. After that, the patient will be free to get dressed and return to the waiting room for a cup of tea or coffee.\nIf the mammogram is clear, the technologist will come out to the waiting room and let the patient know the results. Her doctor will be notified as well.\nIn the event the radiologist finds an abnormality, he will contact the doctor immediately to discuss further diagnostic testing. The radiologist will meet with the patient, giving her the option to return at a later date for the test or have it done on the spot. Breast Care Coordinator Ronda O’Connell, RN, will join them to answer any questions the patient may have.\nMammograms can be scheduled by calling (843) 522-5015. To save time, women may also complete and submit the on-line pre-registration form.  For more information on the Women’s Imaging Center, visit www.bmhsc.org.', 'Hospital opens Women\'s Imaging Center', '', 'publish', 'open', 'open', '', 'hospital-opens-womens-imaging-center', '', '', '2011-07-28 13:37:51', '2011-07-28 13:37:51', '', 0, 'http://www.beaufortislandnews.com/?p=2382', 0, 'post', '', 0),
(2385, 4, '2011-07-28 13:41:42', '2011-07-28 13:41:42', 'By Pamela Brownstein\n\nFrom July 30 to August 3, Beaufort will be all about baseball when the 2011 Dixie Boys World Series comes to town. The county’s Parks and Leisure Services (PALS) is hosting the tournament and invites all the players and their families to enjoy the beauty of the Lowcountry.<!--more--><a href=\"http://www.beaufortislandnews.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/07/Sports-Dixie-Boys-team.jpg\"><img class=\"alignleft size-thumbnail wp-image-2386\" title=\"Sports-Dixie Boys team\" src=\"http://www.beaufortislandnews.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/07/Sports-Dixie-Boys-team-150x150.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" /></a>\nSandy Jones, the commissioner/CEO of Dixie Boys World Series commented: “We are very pleased to have the chance to once again visit Beaufort County, South Carolina. Our Dixie program was treated to an excellent 2008 Junior Dixie Boys World Series in Bluffton and we anticipate that the 2011 Dixie Boys World Series to be held in Beaufort will meet and exceed the success of the previous event. Beaufort County has many offerings available for visitors. I am sure that everyone will enjoy their visit to the area. We thank PALS for extending an invitation to our program.”\nTournament play will be conducted at a state of the art facility. Burton Wells Park has three fields available for Dixie World Series play, concession stand and restrooms. The park has batting cages and warm-up areas on site. The facility is equipped with a centralized press box with phones connecting directly to the dugouts. Two additional fields are located .5 miles from the main facility with restrooms. Beaufort County PALS along with parent volunteers are very eager to offer their services to make this tournament one to remember.\nCoach Jim Pike, head coach of the Beaufort Allstars team, said, “It’s an honor to have the tournament here. We hope we can represent Beaufort well.”\nBeaufort welcomes 11 teams from Alabama, Louisiana, Mississippi, Arkansas, Florida, Tennessee, Georgia, Virginia, Texas, North Carolina and South Carolina.\nFor more information, visit http://baseball.dixie.org or www.co.beaufort.sc.us.\n\nVOLUNTEER AT THE GAMES\n\nBaseball fans, moms, dads, teens and those who love the excitement of a crowd are invited free of charge to the 2011 Dixie Boys Baseball World Series in exchange for volunteering during the event. The games are being hosted by Beaufort County PALS at the Burton Wells Regional Park. Volunteers will be given a ticket to the games and a free t-shirt. They are needed to help with announcing, scorekeeping, serving meals and cleaning up and must be at least 16 years of age. Volunteers may select a day and shift of their choice and call PALS to sign up at 255-6684 or 255-6715.', 'Beaufort hosts Dixie Boys World Series', '', 'publish', 'open', 'open', '', 'beaufort-hosts-dixie-boys-world-series', '', '', '2011-07-28 13:41:42', '2011-07-28 13:41:42', '', 0, 'http://www.beaufortislandnews.com/?p=2385', 0, 'post', '', 0),
(2393, 4, '2011-07-28 14:05:47', '2011-07-28 14:05:47', 'By Pamela Brownstein\n\n<a href=\"http://www.beaufortislandnews.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/07/WFmomsonLCS.jpg\"><img class=\"alignleft size-thumbnail wp-image-2399\" title=\"WFmomsonLCS\" src=\"http://www.beaufortislandnews.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/07/WFmomsonLCS-150x150.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" /></a>\n\nDespite the sweltering hot temperatures, thousands of hungry people gathered in Henry C. Chambers Waterfront Park on Thursday, July 21, for Water Festival’s annual Lowcountry Supper.\n<a href=\"http://www.beaufortislandnews.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/07/WFlunchbunchLCS.jpg\"><img class=\"alignleft size-thumbnail wp-image-2394\" title=\"WFlunchbunchLCS\" src=\"http://www.beaufortislandnews.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/07/WFlunchbunchLCS-150x150.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" /></a>The Lunch Bunch arrived right when the gates by the marina opened at 6 p.m. I was amazed to find the line already wrapped around Bay Street, but shouldn’t have been too surprised — everyone knows to show up early because they usually run out of food before 7:30. With more than 3,000 mouths to feed, it’s no wonder.<!--more-->\nWe joined the crowd and lined up to fill our plates with piles of locally caught shrimp, juicy sausage, warm corn on the cob with butter, coleslaw and rolls. We each grabbed a piece of watermelon (which I finished before we even reached our seats — the sweet red fruit was impossible to resist.)\n<a href=\"http://www.beaufortislandnews.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/07/Lunch-Bunch3.jpg\"><img class=\"alignleft size-thumbnail wp-image-2395\" title=\"Lunch Bunch\" src=\"http://www.beaufortislandnews.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/07/Lunch-Bunch3-150x150.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" /></a><a href=\"http://www.beaufortislandnews.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/07/Lunch-Bunch11.jpg\"><img class=\"alignleft size-thumbnail wp-image-2396\" title=\"Lunch Bunch1\" src=\"http://www.beaufortislandnews.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/07/Lunch-Bunch11-e1311861654610-150x150.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" /></a>Most in our group passed up the sweet tea and lemonade for cold adult beverages, which seemed a refreshing choice on such a steamy evening. There were volunteers serving at the beer and wine tents, and Beaufort and Whale Branch high schools also were set up selling sodas, waters, snacks and other refreshments.\nMany people come prepared with chairs and find a place in the shade where they can eat and get a good view of the stage. The entertainment started with the local band Groovetones, followed by the silly antics of the World Famous Whistlers, played by past commodores. Then the Eagles tribute band 7 Bridges closed out the night.\nWith fresh and delicious food, good music and smiling faces all around, Lowcountry Supper continues to be a favored Water Festival tradition.\n<a href=\"http://www.beaufortislandnews.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/07/Lunch-Bunch22.jpg\"><img class=\"alignleft size-thumbnail wp-image-2397\" title=\"Lunch Bunch2\" src=\"http://www.beaufortislandnews.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/07/Lunch-Bunch22-e1311861731128-150x150.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" /></a><a href=\"http://www.beaufortislandnews.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/07/WFbikergroupLCS.jpg\"><img class=\"alignleft size-thumbnail wp-image-2398\" title=\"WFbikergroupLCS\" src=\"http://www.beaufortislandnews.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/07/WFbikergroupLCS-150x150.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" /></a><a href=\"http://www.beaufortislandnews.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/07/WFwatermelonLCS.jpg\"><img class=\"alignleft size-thumbnail wp-image-2400\" title=\"WFwatermelonLCS\" src=\"http://www.beaufortislandnews.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/07/WFwatermelonLCS-150x150.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" /></a>', 'Lunch Bunch loves Lowcountry Supper', '', 'publish', 'open', 'open', '', 'lunch-bunch-loves-lowcountry-supper', '', '', '2011-07-28 14:05:47', '2011-07-28 14:05:47', '', 0, 'http://www.beaufortislandnews.com/?p=2393', 0, 'post', '', 0),
(2402, 4, '2011-07-28 14:19:49', '2011-07-28 14:19:49', '[caption id=\"attachment_2403\" align=\"alignleft\" width=\"150\" caption=\"Commodore&#39;s Ball by Sue Jarrett\"]<a href=\"http://www.beaufortislandnews.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/07/CommsBall1-SJ.jpg\"><img class=\"size-thumbnail wp-image-2403\" title=\"CommsBall1-SJ\" src=\"http://www.beaufortislandnews.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/07/CommsBall1-SJ-150x150.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" /></a>[/caption]\n\n&nbsp;\n\n[caption id=\"attachment_2410\" align=\"aligncenter\" width=\"150\" caption=\"Sunday&#39;s Blessing of the Fleet\"]<a href=\"http://www.beaufortislandnews.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/07/WF-Blessing11.jpg\"><img class=\"size-thumbnail wp-image-2410\" title=\"WF Blessing1\" src=\"http://www.beaufortislandnews.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/07/WF-Blessing11-150x150.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" /></a>[/caption]\n\n[caption id=\"attachment_2407\" align=\"alignright\" width=\"150\" caption=\"Saturday&#39;s air show, by Captured Moments Photography\"]<a href=\"http://www.beaufortislandnews.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/07/WF-air-showCM.jpg\"><img class=\"size-thumbnail wp-image-2407\" title=\"WF-air showCM\" src=\"http://www.beaufortislandnews.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/07/WF-air-showCM-150x150.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" /></a>[/caption] ', 'Water Festival Wrap-up', '', 'publish', 'open', 'open', '', 'water-festival-wrap-up', '', '', '2011-07-28 14:19:49', '2011-07-28 14:19:49', '', 0, 'http://www.beaufortislandnews.com/?p=2402', 0, 'post', '', 0),
(2412, 4, '2011-07-28 14:20:52', '2011-07-28 14:20:52', '<p align=\"LEFT\"><span style=\"color: #535353;\"><span style=\"font-family: Courier, monospace;\"><span style=\"font-size: small;\">The suspect in the July 26, 2011 murder of Travis Holmes has been identified as 23 year old Rajerick Lovell Knight. A search warrant was served last night by the Beaufort County SWAT team at his residence on Tammy Lane.<!--more--> <span style=\"color: #000000;\"><span style=\"font-family: Monaco, monospace;\">Knight was not located at that time and investigators removed several items of potential evidence from the residence. Knight drives a black 1999 Ford Crown Victoria with a SC registration of GVB921. He is 6 feet tall and has numerous tattoos to include one on the left side of his neck that says “Peanut”. Knight is also known by the nickname of “Slick”. Anyone with information on his location is requested to call Investigator Dowling at 322-7950 or the 24 hour dispatch office at 524-2777. Knight is considered armed</span></span></span></span></span></p>\n<span style=\"color: #000000;\"><span style=\"font-family: Monaco, monospace;\"><span style=\"font-size: small;\">and dangerous.</span></span></span>', 'Murder Suspect Identified', '', 'publish', 'open', 'open', '', 'murder-suspect-identified', '', '', '2011-07-28 14:20:52', '2011-07-28 14:20:52', '', 0, 'http://www.beaufortislandnews.com/?p=2412', 0, 'post', '', 0);
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(2423, 4, '2011-08-02 00:05:53', '2011-08-02 00:05:53', 'By:  Mayor Billy K\n<table width=\"600.0\" cellspacing=\"0\" cellpadding=\"0\">\n<tbody>\n<tr>\n<td valign=\"top\"><a href=\"http://www.beaufortislandnews.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/08/BillyK1.jpg\"><img class=\"alignleft size-thumbnail wp-image-2425\" title=\"BillyK\" src=\"http://www.beaufortislandnews.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/08/BillyK1-150x150.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" /></a>Very often when faced with unsettling experiences we sit back and look to the \"experts\" to move in and do the work. What I am writing about has nothing to do with experts, it is... <!--more-->about members of a community facing up to a problem and investing our time, our energy and our resources, as we best can, to prevent or mitigate a very serious the problem.To get on with my message:<strong>I am angry that young men are shooting at each other, threatening the lives of innocent by standers and staining our community with their blood.</strong>I am also angry that young women have, in some cases, \"stood by their Man\'s side\" and enabled them to think that carrying a gun, fighting and talking tough is cool.For the past two weeks I stayed tight lipped because I feared my writing about this troublesome subject as Mayor would further elevate the situation to crisis level and raise a level of panic in the community. But I cannot stand by without saying something and encouraging a constructive conversation about how we can work together to keep our community safe.\n\n<strong>But first I must thank our City Police Matt Clancy and his able officers and Sheriff J.P Tanner and his able deputies who have arrived at almost every crime scene in less than a minute and expedited investigations resulting in the timely apprehension of perpetrators.</strong>\n\nFurthermore I would like to thank them for the continued movie club for youngsters and for being even more visible at places where there was trouble in the past and might be in the future, has been or might, based on records and intelligence. And I would like to thank them for attending each neighborhood or crime watch monthly meeting, when invited, and for taking an active role in the newly established Neighborhood Improvement Team.\n\n<strong>The challenge of youth violence is a challenge that cannot be solved by law enforcement alone</strong>. And it is unreasonable for us to sit back with that expectation.\n\nNo matter how many officers are on the streets, they cannot be in every home, in every business, in every park and in every school detecting there is something wrong with those who are thinking about committing such crimes, and then catching them and intervening before the violent act takes place.\n\nLaw enforcement cannot cover Burton and the islands where young people have nothing better to do than walk around in large groups falling prey to the few who might lead them down the road to making poor choices. They cannot supervise young men and women who have been turned away because the Charles Lind Brown Center shut down except for day camp for youngsters. They cannot supervise young people who have been turned away because the Boys and Girls Club closed the Teen Center for lack of funding. They cannot supervise young people who cannot find summer jobs because the economy slowed down. They cannot supervise young people whose parent or parents are off at work and not able to provide ample support for their children. How can we in good conscience sit on the sidelines and ask the hard working men and woman in our law enforcement agencies to take all the heat when things go wrong.\n\nI am not talking about the perpetrators who need to be caught and taken off the streets. Rather <strong>I am talking about the innocent victims who are led astray because there is not enough positive leadership in our homes, in our businesses, in our governments, in our places of worship and on our streets.</strong>\n\nOver the past week, I have interviewed law enforcement officers and learned that, notwithstanding the budget crunches faced by local government, there is stronger and broader police coverage in The City of Beaufort and throughout Beaufort County than ever before. <strong>There are far more police-generated calls by police officers than calls from the public.</strong> This means historically quicker response times, apprehensions and arrest.\n\nThere are, I am sure, lots of theories about how and why young people fall astray, how families are not doing what they used to do, how schools are letting us down by not better educating and disciplining students. There are lots of theories about drugs, gangs and other criminal activity.\n\nThat said, <strong>I am hearing way too few theories or action plans outlining how we all come together to protect the community we love so dearly.</strong>\n\nTwo or more years ago, County Councilman Herbert Glaze called a community meeting at the Burton Wells Recreation Center. The room was filled as he introduced an organization called CAVE which stands for Citizens Against Violence Everywhere. Those of us in the emotion packed setting heard from our sheriff, our solicitor, our City Police Chief and scores of clergymen all of whom were sounding a call to the community to engage in stopping violence. To me the most insightful speaker was a young man who recently returned home to Beaufort from doing time in a state penitentiary. He told his story, about having made bad choices in the people he hung out with, getting involved in selling and taking drugs and the price he paid by serving time. And it was insightful. <strong>His advice to all of us was that if we really wanted to find the answers to reducing violent crime among our younger people, we each needed to go home and look in the mirror. We are the answer!</strong>\n\nWhat we are facing is not a police challenge. It is a community challenge we must not dodge, but embrace.\n\nPlease take time to look around and let the police know if you see someone on the verge of making poor decisions.\n\nPlease take time to call law enforcement if you see something suspicious or something that does not seem right.\n\nPlease take the time to look outside your window every now and then to see what is going on that could become troublesome if not addressed.\n\nPlease take to time to ask your spiritual and religious leaders to have a conversation about young people shooting at each other emphasizing that <strong>if directed in the right way most young people can make good choices rather than bad choices.</strong> Explain to them that cool is not cool. And the work with me to get safe places like the Charles Linn Center and Boys and Girls clubs back open. If nothing else they provide a safe haven for young people who otherwise could make poor decisions.\n\n<strong>Please take time to look to your inner self for answers</strong>.\n\nI\'m pleading with you to start the discussion,<strong> </strong><strong>to take personal actions to protect your neighborhoods and our city and county.</strong> Work with us; share your experiences and expertise. And even open your eyes, rather than close them, to what is happening and then lend a helping hand to fix it.\n\nBy working together, we are going to turn this around. And if we are vigilant in our commitment to chase violence out of our community, we will be all the better for it.</td>\n</tr>\n</tbody>\n</table>', 'The Silence . . . is Painful! Perhaps We Should Be Looking into the Mirror and Not Just to the Police For Answers!', '', 'publish', 'open', 'open', '', 'the-silence-is-painful-perhaps-we-should-be-looking-into-the-mirror-and-not-just-to-the-police-for-answers', '', '', '2011-08-02 00:05:53', '2011-08-02 00:05:53', '', 0, 'http://www.beaufortislandnews.com/?p=2423', 0, 'post', '', 0),
(2430, 4, '2011-08-02 17:03:31', '2011-08-02 17:03:31', '<p align=\"LEFT\"><a href=\"http://www.beaufortislandnews.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/08/Ricardo-Turner.jpg\"><img class=\"alignleft size-thumbnail wp-image-2435\" title=\"Ricardo Turner\" src=\"http://www.beaufortislandnews.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/08/Ricardo-Turner-150x150.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" /></a><a href=\"http://www.beaufortislandnews.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/08/Harrison-Coaxum.jpg\"><img class=\"alignleft size-thumbnail wp-image-2436\" title=\"Harrison Coaxum\" src=\"http://www.beaufortislandnews.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/08/Harrison-Coaxum-150x150.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" /></a>LADY’S ISLAND, SC (August 2, 2011/10:00 AM) – Two Lady’s Island men are in custody in connection with the July 25th armed robbery of the Sea Island Pkwy Circle K convenience store.</p>\n<p align=\"LEFT\"> Nineteen-year old Harrison Coaxum was arrested Friday afternoon at Laurel Village Mobile Home Park on charges of Armed Robbery and Fleeing to Evade Arrest. His co-defendant, 23-year old Ricardo Turner was arrested early this morning at Taylor’s Mobile Home Park on charges of Armed Robbery, Fleeing to Evade, and Violation of Probation.<!--more--></p>\n<p align=\"LEFT\"> Just after midnight on July 25th, Sheriff’s deputies responded to the Circle K (114 Sea Island Pkwy) in reference to an armed robbery. Upon arrival, deputies made contact with a store employee who advised that the store had just been robbed by a black male armed with rifle.</p>\n<p align=\"LEFT\"> According to the clerk, she had been in the back of the store emptying the trash and when she returned to the front, a black male wearing a white t-shirt, black pants and a black scarf over his face was standing near the register. The suspect, later identified as Harrison Coaxum, was armed with a rifle and demanded the money from the register. The clerk complied, handing over an undisclosed amount of cash. Coaxum then fled, leaving the clerk unharmed.</p>\n<p align=\"LEFT\"> A witness who had been walking to the store at the time of the robbery advised that he had seen a second suspicious black male, later identified as Ricardo Turner, also armed with a rifle waiting near a red Chrysler Sebring convertible. Following the robbery, the witness observed both suspects run to the convertible and flee the area turning onto Sam’s Point Rd.</p>\n<p align=\"LEFT\"> A deputy responding to the call observed the Chrysler traveling on Sam’s Point Rd towards Brickyard Point Rd and attempted to conduct a traffic stop. The driver (Turner) refused to stop, leading deputies on a brief chase that ended when the vehicle ran off the road, wrecking in grassy area. Both suspects fled on foot, jumping a fence and disappearing into a wooded area, where they evaded capture.</p>\n<p align=\"LEFT\"> Both men currently remain in custody at the Beaufort County Detention Center. Investigators are continuing to work to determine if either suspect may be connected to other recent area armed robberies. Anyone with information is encouraged to contact the Beaufort County Dispatch Center at 843-524-2777.</p>', 'Lady\'s Island Gas Station Armed Robbery Suspects Arrested', '', 'publish', 'open', 'open', '', 'armed-robbery-suspects-arrested', '', '', '2011-08-02 17:03:31', '2011-08-02 17:03:31', '', 0, 'http://www.beaufortislandnews.com/?p=2430', 0, 'post', '', 0),
(2442, 4, '2011-08-04 02:46:46', '2011-08-04 02:46:46', 'This is Hooch and he is a Retriever Mix and loves to play with the other dog. If his food bowl is empty he will carry it around and until someone feeds him! Citizens who visit the Beaufort County Animal Shelter and Control to turn in an animal or look for a lost pet may do so anytime between 9 a.m. and 4 p.m. Those who wish to adopt an animal must do so between 10 a.m. and 4 p.m. The shelter is closed on Sunday. The facility is located at 23 Shelter Church Road off US 21, north of the Marine Corps Air Station. For more information, call (843) 255-5010. See adoptable animals at www.Petango.Com  or the Beaufort County website, www.Bcgov.Net/animal-control.<a href=\"http://www.beaufortislandnews.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/08/Pet-of-Week-Hooch.jpg\"><img class=\"alignleft size-thumbnail wp-image-2443\" title=\"Pet of Week-Hooch\" src=\"http://www.beaufortislandnews.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/08/Pet-of-Week-Hooch-120x150.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"120\" height=\"150\" /></a>', 'Pet of the Week', '', 'publish', 'open', 'open', '', 'pet-of-the-week-5', '', '', '2011-08-04 02:46:46', '2011-08-04 02:46:46', '', 0, 'http://www.beaufortislandnews.com/?p=2442', 0, 'post', '', 0),
(2445, 4, '2011-08-04 02:49:26', '2011-08-04 02:49:26', 'By Tracie Korol\n\nWhile the hygienist scraped at my teeth she shared that she and her husband had recently adopted a baby Boykin, a future champion duck hunter. I love all puppy stories, plus I was a captive audience. Seems training is going pretty well but Jake insists on investigating the marsh. From a puppy perspective that makes complete sense to me — if you’re new to the planet, the marsh is a terrific, smelly, exciting place to explore — so I politely replied, “gnnnggg”. She continued, “My husband bought a shock collar.” That’s when I raised my hand in the universal dental sign of  “please stop.”<!--more-->\nAs a behavioral professional, I adhere to a positive training philosophy. I find the use of shock collars (or e-collars, as they are euphemistically re-named) abhorrent under any circumstance.  While some trainers support and promote a shock collar as an effective and “dog friendly” training tool, the APDT (Association of Pet Dog Trainers) thinks otherwise. One of the APDT’s stated missions is to advocate for dog-friendly training defined as “training that utilizes primarily positive reinforcement; secondarily negative punishment, and only occasionally, rarely, and/or as a last resort includes positive punishment and/or negative reinforcement.”\nShock collars were initially used to administer positive punishment — thedog’s behavior makes a bad thing happen. If your search and rescue dog takes off after a rabbit when he’s supposed to be searching and rescuing, you’d hit a button on a hand-held remote, he’d get a painful jolt in the neck and in his mind he’d connect his desire to go crittering with a bad thing happening.  Or, if your dog didn’t come promptly when called, you’d hold the button, delivering a constant unpleasant stimulus until the dog returned and sat by your feet at which time you’d stop pressing the button. This is negative reinforcement; the dog’s returning to you made the bad thing go away and the behavior of coming when called increases. Today many dog owners think that a shock collar is a short cut to good dog behavior.\nGranted, the collars of today differ greatly from those used 15 years ago.  The first shock collars had three to five levels of shock or “stimulus” and would occasionally fire when hit by random radio signals, or continually fire when wet.  According to their manufacturers, today’s collars are much more sophisticated and can be adjusted to very low levels and very momentary action, the intent being a non-aversive stimulus or a “tap”.   One collar features a dial with ranges from 1-100.  Of course, these improvements are reflected in higher quality, higher cost products, certainly not what one would find in the big box stores.  Unfortunately, low-cost and low-quality products are readily available in any pet supermarket. Unfortunately, it is the novice dog owner that usually purchases them.\nSome trainers argue convincingly that they use shock collars only at a low setting as a gentle way of communicating with dogs and that results are generally good. If pressed, however, most will readily admit that they will turn up the dial if/when the dog stops responding to the “tap”.  Most insist that it is appropriate to use higher settings when they feel it’s necessary to apply positive punishment, too.  But, by that time, you may have crossed the line: your dog may be completely shut down — those are the dogs with no light in their eyes — or, your dog may begin to offer stress and appeasement behaviors as his new “normal” behavior, or he may begin to demonstrate “learned helplessness”.\nMy fear is that if you’re tempted to train with a shock collar, you won’t know until it’s too late if your dog is one of the successes or one of the failures. By the time you find out, it may be too late to undo the damage to your dog, correct the relationship with your dog and re-establish his relationship to the rest of the world.\nBut back to the baby Boykin — he’s 12 weeks old, by the way. By the time my teeth were sparkling, I had given the hygienist a dog’s eye view of what a shock collar really means especially when everything is new.  Primarily, if Jake is intended to be a duck dog, he needs to have a positive relationship with the marsh. It cannot be a good marsh on Monday and a marsh that delivers a searing pain in the neck on Tuesday. That’s way too confusing for little Jake to sort out and it’s awfully close to turning an innocent puppy into a fearful, neurotic non-hunter.\n\n<em>BowWOW! Is a production of Tracie Korol and wholeDog. Tracie is a holistic behavior coach, a canine massage therapist (CCMT), herbalist, and canine homeopath.  Want more information? Have a question? Send a note to Tracie at letstalk@wholedog.biz or visit www.wholedog.biz.</em>', 'Bow Wow: Shock and Awful', '', 'publish', 'open', 'open', '', 'bow-wow-shock-and-awful', '', '', '2011-08-04 02:49:26', '2011-08-04 02:49:26', '', 0, 'http://www.beaufortislandnews.com/?p=2445', 0, 'post', '', 0),
(2447, 4, '2011-08-04 02:51:38', '2011-08-04 02:51:38', '<strong>Main Street Beaufort holds planning retreat</strong>\nThe staff and board of directors of Main Street Beaufort, USA would like to invite all downtown merchants, property owners, government officials, and interested residents to their annual board retreat Thursday, August 4  in the Dolphin Room at the Best Western Sea Island Inn on Bay Street from 4:30- 7 p.m. The board  would like to hear input on what stakeholders would like to see from the organization in the 2011-2012 fiscal year. There will be an overview of the National Main Street 4 Point Approach — Organization, Design, Promotion, and Economic Restructuring — and a more in-depth discussion of how Main Street Beaufort should work with each point will follow. If you would like to attend, please RSVP by Monday, August 1 by emailing director@downtownbeaufort.com or calling 525-6644.<!--more-->\n\n<strong>Black chamber holds First Friday Networking</strong>\nThe Beaufort County Black Chamber of Commerce will have its First Friday Networking Event on Friday, August 5 at the chamber office located at 801 Bladen Street in Beaufort from 6 to 8 p.m.  There will be prizes, drawings, and light refreshments. The public is invited to attend. For details, call 843-986-1102.\n\n<strong>Beaufort Pro Writers to meet Tuesday</strong>\nBeaufort ProWriters meet next Tuesday, August 9, from 7 -8:30 p.m. at Common Grounds on Bay Street in Beaufort. The meeting is open to all professional writers and writers who strive to become pros on any level in any genre, whether that be magazine articles, fiction or nonfiction books, technical writing, et al. There is no membership charge. The only requirements are an open, engaged mind and an enthusiasm for your craft. For further information, contact Katherine Brown (859) 312-6706 or ktandybrown@gmail.com.\n\n<strong>Beaufort Ski Club holds meeting</strong>\nBeaufort Ski Club will meet on Tues., Aug. 9, 7 p.m., at Brick’s on Boundary outdoor patio. We will be discussing upcoming trips, activities, and elect officers.  Anyone with interest — with or without ability to ski/snowboard — is welcome. For additional information, contact Julie: tugboatjulie@yahoo.com.\n\n<strong>SC Bar offers free legal clinic in Burton</strong>\nThe S.C. Bar Pro Bono Program will sponsor a free legal clinic in Burton on Aug. 10. The topic is elder abuse and fraud recovery, featuring attorney Diane P. DeWitt. The clinic will be held from 11 a.m. to noon at the Burton Wells Senior Center located at 1 Middleton Recreation Dr. The seminar is free for anyone who would like to attend. A schedule of other upcoming seminars throughout the state is available online at www.scbar.org/clinics. For more information, contact the S.C. Bar Pro Bono Program at (803) 799-6653, ext. 158. The South Carolina Bar, which has a membership of more than 13,500 lawyers, is dedicated to advancing justice, professionalism and understanding of the law.\n\n<strong>Beer dinner benefits Independence Fund</strong>\nPlum Restaurant and Terrapin Beer Company invite you to a beer dinner to benefit The Independence Fund on\nTuesday, August 16, at 7 p.m. The cost is $50 plus tax &amp; gratuity, Every $10 per paid customer will benefit The Independence Fund. Make reservations at (843) 986-5092 or plums@hargray.com. The menu will be available soon at  www.plumsrestaurant.com. Proceeds will help cover expenses for severely injured veterans and their caregivers during the Lieutenant Dan Weekend 2,\nwhich will occur September 14-18 in downtown Beaufort.\n\n<strong>Church holds nearly new clothing sale</strong>\nThe Women of the Parish Church of St. Helena will host their annual Nearly New Clothing Sale on Thursday, Aug. 18, from 10 a.m.-5 p.m.; Friday, Aug. 19, from 10 a.m.-6 p.m.; and Saturday, Aug. 20, from 8 a.m.-2 p.m. it the church’s Parish Hall located at 507 Newcastle Street in downtown Beaufort. The sale features gently used clothing and accessories (and jewelry, too!) for men, women, and children. For information, please call the church office at 522-1712 or visit us online at www.sthelenas1712.org.\n\n<strong>Lunch and learn series: Planting a fall garden</strong>\nThe Lowcountry Master Gardeners Association’s  Saturday “Lunch and Learn” classes will resume on August 20.  Our Clemson Extension Agent, Laura Lee Rose, will be teaching “Planting a Fall Garden”.  Here in the Lowcountry, we can get two, and sometimes three, crops of vegetables each year, and Laura Lee will tell you what to plant and how.  These free open air classes are held at the Port Royal Farmer’s Market on Saturdays at 11:30 a.m.  Bring a lawn chair and questions to the big oak tree behind the Master Gardener Information Table at the Market.  And be sure to visit the vendors for locally grown produce, fresh flowers and wonderful food.\n\n<strong>Get tickets today for fall Auldbrass tour</strong>\nTickets are on sale now for the 2011 Auldbrass Plantation Tour in Yemassee held on November 5 and 6.. Tickets are $85 per person and there will also be a picnic lunch available at Tomotley Plantation for $15 per person. Although Frank Lloyd Wright designed more than 1,000 projects during his long and prolific career, Auldbrass in Yemassee is the only plantation among them. It is also one of the largest and most complex projects he ever undertook. Wright had an unusually intense commitment to Auldbrass, and worked on it, off and on, for over twenty years, from 1938 until his death in 1959. On Saturday, November 5, the Land Trust is excited to host Eric Lloyd Wright (the grandson of the famed Frank Lloyd Wright) during a Special Lecture Event at the USCB Performing Arts Center in Beaufort.  Tickets for the Lecture Event are $50 per person. All tickets can be purchase via our website at www.openlandtrust.org (80% of the ticket purchases are tax deductible.) Any questions, please call the Open Land Trust office at 843-521-2175.\n\n<strong>Beaufort Women’s Center support group</strong>\nIf you are a post-abortion woman struggling through the pain of issues relating to an abortion experience, there is healing and hope! The Beaufort Women’s Center is offering abortion recovery assistance through “Healing Hearts”,  a 10-week support group that will meet at the Center on Thursday evenings from 6:30 – 9 p.m. beginning September 8.   All inquiries are confidential. Seating is limited. Call 843-525-0300 today and let the healing begin. Ask for Susanne or Donna for more details.\n\n<strong>Save the date for upcoming Pet Fair</strong>\nOn September 17, at United Hospice of Beaufort, 1605 North Street, there will be an adoption fair, dog show, pet boutique, photos with your pet and more. Proceeds to benefit The United Hospice Foundation. For more information, call 843-522-0476.\n\n<strong>Attend training clinic for LoCo Motion event</strong>\nIt’s crunch time, but there’s still time to train for LoCo Motion, a breast cancer walk/run fundraiser that is being held on the beaches of Hilton Head and in old town Bluffton from Sept. 30-Oct. 2.\nLoCo Motion participants will walk or run a different 10-mile course each day for a total of 30 miles. While completing all three legs isn’t necessary, training is encouraged for all participants. To help make that training easier, organizers are offering a condensed training calendar, which can be found at www.dothelocomotion.org. For those who want a bit more motivation and/or accountability, group training sessions are also being offered twice a week.  Beaufort Memorial Hospital’s LifeFit Wellness Center is leading training walks and runs at 5:30 p.m. Tuesdays and 7:30 a.m. Saturdays. Registration for LoCo Motion is not necessary to participate in any of the free sessions. Proceeds will benefit several regional cancer organizations. For more information, visit www.dothelocomotion.org or call 843-868-1888.', 'What To Do', '', 'publish', 'open', 'open', '', 'what-to-do-4', '', '', '2011-08-04 02:51:38', '2011-08-04 02:51:38', '', 0, 'http://www.beaufortislandnews.com/?p=2447', 0, 'post', '', 0),
(2449, 4, '2011-08-04 02:53:55', '2011-08-04 02:53:55', 'Beaufort Memorial Hospital has been named to the nation’s Top 100 Most Wired Hospitals in the U.S., according to the results of the 2011 Most Wired Survey and Benchmarking Study released today in the July issue of Hospitals &amp; Health Networks magazine.<!--more-->\nWhile this is Beaufort Memorial’s ninth consecutive year to make the Top 100 Most Wired list for Small &amp; Rural Hospitals, this is the second time that the hospital has been named in the Top 100 in the Nation, which includes large hospitals and academic medical centers.\n\n“Being named one of the 100 Most Wired Hospitals in the nation is truly an honor,” says Ed Ricks, BMH VP for Information Technology. “It speaks to the level of commitment from our Board and Senior Administration to continually look at technology solutions for improving quality of care, patient safety, and business processes.\n\nAlthough these are tough economic times, our leadership sees that it is important to invest wisely in technology solutions that help to create efficiencies and keep our focus on delivering quality patient care.”\n\nRicks points out that the selection criteria has been changed to reflect what hospitals are doing to comply with “Meaningful Use” requirements.  The fact that Beaufort memorial is among the nation’s top 100 hospitals says a lot about how we use technology to solve our clinical and business challenges.\n\nThe economic crisis is forcing many hospitals to make tough decisions with scarce resources, including delaying and scaling down information technology (IT) projects, according to a newly released survey of America’s “Most Wired” hospitals and health systems. While progress has been made and incentives to implement IT will be available through the stimulus legislation, many hospitals still have a long way to go.\n\nThe 100 Most Wired hospitals are torn between building on their IT successes and keeping a sharp eye on budgets.  Marking its 13th year, the Most Wired Survey and Benchmarking Study continues to lead the field in analyses and benchmarking of health care IT.\n\nThe Most Wired Survey is conducted annually by Hospitals &amp; Health Networks magazine, the journal of the AHA, which uses the results to name the 100 Most Wired hospitals and health systems.', 'Beaufort Memorial ranked among Top 100 Most Wired Hospitals', '', 'publish', 'open', 'open', '', 'beaufort-memorial-ranked-among-top-100-most-wired-hospitals', '', '', '2011-08-04 02:53:55', '2011-08-04 02:53:55', '', 0, 'http://www.beaufortislandnews.com/?p=2449', 0, 'post', '', 0),
(2451, 4, '2011-08-04 02:57:21', '2011-08-04 02:57:21', 'Beaufort Memorial is pleased to welcome general surgeon Deanna Mansker, MD, who recently joined the practice of Beaufort Memorial Surgical Specialists. She is available to see patients in the Beaufort office at 1055 Ribaut Rd., Ste. 30, and at Bluffton Medical Services in Westbury Park.  For information or an appointment, please call (843) 524-8171.<a href=\"http://www.beaufortislandnews.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/08/Health-Mansker-Deanna-M.D..jpg\"><img class=\"alignleft size-thumbnail wp-image-2452\" title=\"Health-Mansker, Deanna M.D.\" src=\"http://www.beaufortislandnews.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/08/Health-Mansker-Deanna-M.D.-150x150.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" /></a>\n“We are very excited to welcome Dr. Mansker and her family to Beaufort,” says Sam Derrick, Executive Director for Beaufort Memorial Physician Partners.  “Dr. Mansker is a native of the Lowcountry, and we are very happy to have a surgeon of her caliber joining our practice.”', 'Deanna Mansker joins Beaufort Memorial Surgical Specialists', '', 'publish', 'open', 'open', '', 'deanna-mansker-joins-beaufort-memorial-surgical-specialists', '', '', '2011-08-04 02:57:21', '2011-08-04 02:57:21', '', 0, 'http://www.beaufortislandnews.com/?p=2451', 0, 'post', '', 0),
(2454, 4, '2011-08-04 02:58:36', '2011-08-04 02:58:36', 'Christine Jennings Johnson, the owner and director of Beaufort Pageants, presents a check to Dixie Slichter, the facilitator of the Beaufort Memorial Hospital Paula Williams Memorial Breast Cancer Support Group.  This support group provides cancer-related education and support for women the fourth Tuesday of each month at noon in the Beaufort Medical Plaza third floor classroom located on the campus of Beaufort Memorial Hospital.  For more information, please call 843-522-5570.  Beaufort Pageants offer four pageants a year where they raise funds to benefit local cancer programs such as the BMH cancer support group.<a href=\"http://www.beaufortislandnews.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/08/Health-Cancer-support.jpg\"><img class=\"alignleft size-thumbnail wp-image-2455\" title=\"Health-Cancer support\" src=\"http://www.beaufortislandnews.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/08/Health-Cancer-support-150x150.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" /></a>', 'Cancer support group', '', 'publish', 'open', 'open', '', 'cancer-support-group', '', '', '2011-08-04 02:58:36', '2011-08-04 02:58:36', '', 0, 'http://www.beaufortislandnews.com/?p=2454', 0, 'post', '', 0),
(2457, 4, '2011-08-04 03:00:03', '2011-08-04 03:00:03', 'The Habersham Marketplace will host “Shaggin’ in the Marketplace” with The Beaufort Shag Club during its next “First Fridays” event August 5. Club members will offer brief instruction on basic shag movements and will demonstrate various shag dances before opening up the dance floor to attendees. The “First Fridays” event begins at 4 p.m. with a regionally expanded farmer’s market, along with arts, crafts, specialty food vendors and live music. The event is part of a free and ongoing series open to the Beaufort community and surrounding areas.\nThe schedule for the August 5 “First Fridays” is:\n• Expanded Farmer’s Market — 4-7 p.m.\n• The Beaufort Shag Club — 6 - 9 p.m.\n• Kids activities, including a water feature, games and crafts — 5-7 p.m.\n• Food Vendors — Berto’s Tex-Mex Grill, Maggie’s Pub and Piace Pizza, among other area vendors.\nThe Habersham Marketplace is located at 13 Market St. in the Habersham Community, located off of Joe Frazier Road in Beaufort. For more information, event schedule and band listings, visit www.habershammarketplace.com.\nThe Habersham Marketplace is the heart and soul of the “Best Neighborhood Design in America” award winning town of Habersham located just minutes from Downtown Beaufort.', 'Habersham to host \'Shaggin\' in the Marketplace\'', '', 'publish', 'open', 'open', '', 'habersham-to-host-shaggin-in-the-marketplace', '', '', '2011-08-04 03:00:03', '2011-08-04 03:00:03', '', 0, 'http://www.beaufortislandnews.com/?p=2457', 0, 'post', '', 0),
(2459, 4, '2011-08-04 03:02:24', '2011-08-04 03:02:24', '<a href=\"http://www.beaufortislandnews.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/08/Hula1.jpg\"><img class=\"alignleft size-thumbnail wp-image-2460\" title=\"Hula1\" src=\"http://www.beaufortislandnews.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/08/Hula1-150x150.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" /></a>Sage McGill, center, had a sixth birthday hula party at the Mitchellville pool.', 'Hula Party', '', 'publish', 'open', 'open', '', 'hula-party', '', '', '2011-08-04 03:02:24', '2011-08-04 03:02:24', '', 0, 'http://www.beaufortislandnews.com/?p=2459', 0, 'post', '', 0),
(2462, 4, '2011-08-04 03:03:00', '2011-08-04 03:03:00', 'Dataw Island has announced that it will host a benefit dinner for CODA with the help of the talents of some of Beaufort’s preeminent restaurants and chefs. The evening of spectacular food, wine and cheer will be held on August 13, 2011 from 6:30 to 9:30 p.m. at the Dataw Island Clubhouse. This special event will feature Beaufort’s finest chefs together for a delicious evening and all for a great cause — CODA, a charity dedicated to helping victims of domestic abuse. The participating restaurants include Breakwater Bar and Grill, Maggie’s Pub &amp; Eatery, Saltus River Grill, Southern Graces, The Tooting Egret and the Dataw Island Club. The restaurants will prepare some of their signature dishes to create a unique opportunity to sample a tasting of the best of Beaufort dining all in one place, on one night. Wines will be selected to go with the dishes. The chefs and wine representatives will be available to discuss the wine and the food.\nTickets are $40.00 a person and the proceeds will go to CODA.\nFor tickets or more information call Anne Brown at 838-8428.', 'Taste & Toast to benefit CODA', '', 'publish', 'open', 'open', '', 'taste-toast-to-benefit-coda', '', '', '2011-08-04 03:03:00', '2011-08-04 03:03:00', '', 0, 'http://www.beaufortislandnews.com/?p=2462', 0, 'post', '', 0),
(2464, 4, '2011-08-04 03:03:40', '2011-08-04 03:03:40', 'Wardle Family YMCA will be hosting a Women’s Safety and Self-Defense class on Thursday, August 11 at 6:30 p.m. This class is designed for young ladies heading to college or for the everyday woman making a trip to the grocery store.\nThe class facilitator, Denice Davis, pairs personal experience with her fitness knowledge to teach safety, awareness and self defense for all in attendance.\nParticipants do not need to be a YMCA member to attend and the class is free with a suggested minimum $5 donation towards the YMCA Annual Scholarship Campaign.\nThe class will be held at Wardle Family YMCA located on 1801 Richmond Ave. in Port Royal on August 11. For more information, visit our website at www.ymcabeaufortcounty.com or call 843-522-YMCA.', 'YMCA hosts safety, self-defense class', '', 'publish', 'open', 'open', '', 'ymca-hosts-safety-self-defense-class', '', '', '2011-08-04 03:03:40', '2011-08-04 03:03:40', '', 0, 'http://www.beaufortislandnews.com/?p=2464', 0, 'post', '', 0),
(2466, 4, '2011-08-04 03:04:25', '2011-08-04 03:04:25', 'The Northern Beaufort County Democratic Club will hold a reorganizational meeting at the Golden Corral on Thursday, August 18.\nThe meeting, which is open to all northern Beaufort County residents who are  interested in supporting Democratic Party ideals and candidates, officially begins at 6:30 p.m. But those who choose to can purchase dinner beginning at 6 p.m. The free event is being hosted by Hattie Brown, Marie Lewis, and Theresa White.\nMembership in the club won’t conflict with participation in the Democratic Women of Beaufort Club says White, a member of the Beaufort County Democratic Party Executive Committee. <!--more-->\n“Both organizations share the same goals. But the Northern Beaufort County Democratic Club has a platform for family memberships and participation, as well as the recruitment of Young Democrats,” says White. “It’s up to us to begin training the next generation of Democratic Party leaders and elected officials.”\nThe club was founded in 2003 during the administration of former Beaufort County Democratic Party Chairman Atty. H. Fred Kuhn, Jr. Theresa White chaired the founding steering committee, which counted among its members such well known Democrats as Beverly Smith Dore, Anne Christiansen Pollitzer, Edgar Williams, William S. Young, Jr.,  and the late former State Rep. Harriet Keyserling.\nThe club is reorganized due to the resignation of several officers, and the sale of its longtime meeting place, the former Sea Island Conference/Training Center on Lady’s Island.\nThe club is a great place for people new to either Beaufort County and/or politics to learn about  the election process from the grassroots level; network with key community leaders, opinion leaders, and elected officials; and to prepare to become a delegate to county, state, and national Democratic Party conventions, including the 2012 Democratic National Convention in Charlotte, N.C.\nTeenagers, college students, and other potential Young Democrats are welcome to both attend and participate in club meetings and activities.\nFormer Northern Beaufort County Democratic Club presidents include Alden Weeks, Marie D. Lewis, Robert E. “Bob” Ross, Charlotte Pazant Brown, Allison Davidow, Rob Miller, and Acie Johnson. Former corporate accountant Ted Humphrey has been the club’s treasurer since its inception.\nFor more information, call 597-2482.', 'Northern Beaufort County Democratic Club to reorganize', '', 'publish', 'open', 'open', '', 'northern-beaufort-county-democratic-club-to-reorganize', '', '', '2011-08-04 03:04:25', '2011-08-04 03:04:25', '', 0, 'http://www.beaufortislandnews.com/?p=2466', 0, 'post', '', 0),
(2468, 4, '2011-08-04 03:04:56', '2011-08-04 03:04:56', 'The Savannah 2011 Porsche Parade, an annual gathering of the cars — with more than 700 Porsches — has been going on since July 31 and will last until Saturday, August 6. Look for many of the cars rolling into Beaufort and the Sea Islands.\n\nThursday, Aug 4: All day long, approximately 170 cars will be following a Gimmick Rally route from Savannah through Beaufort to Penn center and St. Helena Island and back through the Old Point and the town of Beaufort.\n\nFriday, Aug. 5: A bus group from Savannah will arrive in Beaufort at the visitor center around 10 a.m. for a guided Beaufort Tree Walk volunteered by Lady’s Island Garden Club members. The visitors will end the walk at the town clock for shopping and lunches and meet the bus in the early afternoon at the waterfront. For more information, visit http://parade2011.pca.org.', 'Porsche Parade in town', '', 'publish', 'open', 'open', '', 'porsche-parade-in-town', '', '', '2011-08-04 03:04:56', '2011-08-04 03:04:56', '', 0, 'http://www.beaufortislandnews.com/?p=2468', 0, 'post', '', 0),
(2470, 4, '2011-08-04 03:07:23', '2011-08-04 03:07:23', 'On July 2, Beaufort’s Gov. Paul Hamilton Chapter sponsored a pilgrimage to the tomb of Lowcountry signer of the Declaration of Independence Thomas Heyward, Jr.  The tomb location is noted by a South Carolina Historical Marker on S.C. 462 near Ridgeland.<!--more-->\n<a href=\"http://www.beaufortislandnews.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/08/Lifestyle-SARS.jpg\"><img class=\"alignleft size-thumbnail wp-image-2471\" title=\"Lifestyle-SARS\" src=\"http://www.beaufortislandnews.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/08/Lifestyle-SARS-150x150.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" /></a>Chapter President Wayne Cousar commenced the event by having the Hilton Head Island High School NJROTC Color guard post the colors, followed by chapter member Dr. Alton Fanning playing the “Star Spangled Banner” on his trumpet while the 40 plus attendees sang the anthem. The invocation was then given by Charles Aimar, chapter member and current President of the Heritage Society of Beaufort.\nSixth generation descendant Anne Heyward, currently historian for the Thomas Heyward, Jr. DAR Chapter, was the guest speaker addressing the many accomplishments of her fourth great grandfather Thomas Heyward. Jr., one of the areas earliest English settlers. Heyward was one of four men from South Carolina to sign the Declaration of Independence on July 4th 1776.\nAs a patriot soldier, he and fellow South Carolinian Edward Rutledge were among the few signers to participate in action during the Revolutionary War, Heyward being wounded during the Battle of Port Royal on Feb 3, 1779 near Grays Hill on the outskirts of Beaufort.\nThree wreaths were placed near the tomb of Heyward in honor of his contributions to the new nation. The Gov. Paul Hamilton Chapter wreath was placed by Hannah Schmucker of the Hilton Head Island Society of the Children of the American Revolution. Terry Block placed the second wreath as President of the Dr. George Mosse Chapter Hilton Head Island. A final wreath was placed by Douglas Doster, Vice President of the Midlands for the South Carolina Society, as a representative of his Battle of Eutaw Springs Chapter SAR.', 'SAR honors Heyward', '', 'publish', 'open', 'open', '', 'sar-honors-heyward', '', '', '2011-08-04 03:07:23', '2011-08-04 03:07:23', '', 0, 'http://www.beaufortislandnews.com/?p=2470', 0, 'post', '', 0),
(2473, 4, '2011-08-04 03:08:21', '2011-08-04 03:08:21', 'To support afterschool programs across the country, JCPenney launched a nationwide philanthropic campaign that invites customers to turn small change into “pennies from heaven” by rounding up their purchases and donating the difference to local organizations, including YMCA of Beaufort County. Donations made through “pennies from heaven” will provide children in need with access to life-enriching afterschool programs at the Y. <!--more-->\n“With budget cuts in education, there’s never been a more important time to support afterschool programs as a valuable community resource that helps to bridge the education gap,” said Michael Bostwick, CEO. “As local families prepare for the back-to-school season, we hope they will keep our mission in mind so that the social and academic learning opportunities we provide after school will continue to be available to Beaufort County students.”\nNational research shows that one out of four students in the U.S. is on their own between the hours of 3 p.m. and 6 p.m. each day. The YMCA of Beaufort County serves more than 130 students each year by providing children and teens with a safe and nurturing environment around caring adult role models. Combining play with academics, the Y’s afterschool program promotes creativity, a love for learning, social and emotional development, and character building. The nation’s Ys are a leading resource for parents looking for educational, meaningful and fun activities outside the classroom.\nThe YMCA of Beaufort County is one of 1,100 afterschool organizations matched with a local JCPenney store that will benefit from the proceeds raised during the pennies from heaven campaign. As the leading corporate advocate for the afterschool issue, JCPenney is leveraging a cause-marketing campaign to bolster national support through broadcast, print and online advertising as well as an engaging digital experience on jcp.com/pennies. The first “pennies from heaven” event will take place through Aug. 27.\n“For more than a decade, JCPenney has been deeply committed to helping kids spread their wings by making it possible for more students to participate in life-enriching afterschool programs,” said John Murrie, Beaufort store manager for JCPenney. “When we leverage the power of a penny to create opportunities for learning, we can make a positive difference in the lives of our future leaders.”\nFor more information related to the pennies from heaven initiative, visit http://jcpenneyafterschool.org.', 'JCPenney campaign supports Beaufort County youth', '', 'publish', 'open', 'open', '', 'jcpenney-campaign-supports-beaufort-county-youth', '', '', '2011-08-04 03:08:21', '2011-08-04 03:08:21', '', 0, 'http://www.beaufortislandnews.com/?p=2473', 0, 'post', '', 0),
(2475, 4, '2011-08-04 03:09:04', '2011-08-04 03:09:04', 'If you like challenging golf, great food, daily happy hour prices and less than a four-hour round, come to Lady’s Island Country Club.\nCall 843-522-9700 for a tee time, and the pro shop can steer you toward the best times for the fastest rounds or the best time to beat the heat or the best times to end your round at 4 p.m., when happy hour starts. We have an app for that.<!--more-->\nIf you like fierce but fair competition, we have an app for that too, either the nine-hole Thursday night shoot out and the 18-hole Friday blitz. Gather your best buddies or come by yourself and prepare to do battle. It’s worth it.\nThe Thursday blitz is a three-person, captain’s choice tournament that is flighted to give more people a chance to win. There’s an optional skins game that can be quite enticing as the ante grows. It’s $30 and includes dinner prepared by Chef Will McLenagan. The food is fantastic.\nThe 18-hole Friday blitz is a two-man blind draw so you don’t know how you did until it’s over.  It begins at 1 p.m. and is based on handicap, so the playing field is level. Either come with a foursome or we can set you up. It’s only $25 for the golf, plus a $10 entry fee.\nDespite relentless heat and little rain this summer, the greens are flawless, thanks to superintendent Dan Rowley.\nDon’t forget that we serve lunch Tuesday through Sunday and offer a sophisticated menu for dinner every Thursday. We also feature a Friday night prime rib and seafood dinner once a month. Join us Aug. 19.\nLooking toward fall, the pro shop, under the direction of head golf professional Denton Moore, is planning a monthly tournament beginning in September. Stay tuned.\nLady’s Island Country Club has been the place to play golf in northern Beaufort County since 1970. Come see how it’s done. We offer a challenging course for a competitive price: Only $30 during the week and $35 on the weekends. It’s a great value.\nPlay some golf, eat, drink and be merry. Visit once and we’ll promise you’ll want to make us a habit.', 'Lady’s Island Country Club: No place for mamby-pamby golf', '', 'publish', 'open', 'open', '', 'lady%e2%80%99s-island-country-club-no-place-for-mamby-pamby-golf', '', '', '2011-08-04 03:09:04', '2011-08-04 03:09:04', '', 0, 'http://www.beaufortislandnews.com/?p=2475', 0, 'post', '', 0),
(2477, 4, '2011-08-04 03:11:50', '2011-08-04 03:11:50', 'Effective August 1, Peoples Insurance Agency has joined Lowcountry Insurance Services located at 80 Lady’s Island Drive. These two great local insurance agencies have merged to better serve customers of Beaufort and the Lowcountry. All personal lines and business customers of Peoples will continue to be serviced locally.  Nick Hunt and Luann Sauls will be joining Lowcountry immediately and can be reached at (843) 522-2020.\n\n[caption id=\"attachment_2478\" align=\"alignleft\" width=\"150\" caption=\"From left to right: Luann Sauls,Frank Gibson, Nick Hunt and Jeff Althoff.\"]<a href=\"http://www.beaufortislandnews.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/08/Biz-LC-Insurance.jpg\"><img class=\"size-thumbnail wp-image-2478\" title=\"Biz-LC Insurance\" src=\"http://www.beaufortislandnews.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/08/Biz-LC-Insurance-150x150.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" /></a>[/caption]\n\n“We are so excited to have Nick, who is bringing 30 years of professional insurance knowledge and experience with him.  We are also pleased to have his associate LuAnne who brings an additional 13 years experience,” said Lowcountry Insurance President Frank Gibson.\nLowcountry Insurance Services is an Independent Insurance Agency established in 1977.  The firm represents many of the finest insurance companies and understands the complexities of writing insurance in coastal South Carolina.\n“I am excited to be able to bring my customers back under one roof here on Lady’s Island.  I like to keep it local,” said Nick Hunt.', 'Two local insurance companies merge', '', 'publish', 'open', 'open', '', 'two-local-insurance-companies-merge', '', '', '2011-08-04 03:11:50', '2011-08-04 03:11:50', '', 0, 'http://www.beaufortislandnews.com/?p=2477', 0, 'post', '', 0);
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(2480, 4, '2011-08-04 03:12:22', '2011-08-04 03:12:22', 'Low Country Outlet in Bluffton opened its doors in early December 2010. Now, on Monday, eight months later, a second store has opened on Lady’s Island at 53 Sams Point Road, seconds from Publix on S.C. 802. The new store mirrors the Bluffton store carrying the same wholesale club merchandise, furniture, TVs, electronics, bedding, pet food, toys, groceries and more at very discounted prices. Anything from sunscreen to flat-screen TVs are sold daily, and new merchandise arrives weekly.\nLocal business owners John &amp; Eileen Hughes saw a need in this economy for a place to purchase quality discounted wholesale products and are looking forward to serving new customers in northern Beaufort County.\nOne customer recently commented in a Bluffton publication that, “LCO was a marvelous store for the bargain hunter with a wide variety of merchandise.”\nHours are Monday through Friday, 10 a.m.-6 p.m., Saturday 10 a.m.-5 p.m. No club membership is required. Come visit and see for yourself or call 470-9000.', 'Low Country Outlet opens on Lady’s Island', '', 'publish', 'open', 'open', '', 'low-country-outlet-opens-on-lady%e2%80%99s-island', '', '', '2011-08-04 03:12:22', '2011-08-04 03:12:22', '', 0, 'http://www.beaufortislandnews.com/?p=2480', 0, 'post', '', 0),
(2482, 4, '2011-08-04 03:13:52', '2011-08-04 03:13:52', 'By Jack Sparacino\nMy wife and I moved to the beautiful Lowcountry six years ago. It was a welcome change after spending decades in Connecticut and many other states, which now seem almost like another planet.  In thinking about how potential newcomers might make a faster adjustment to a great new life in the Beaufort area, the following suggestions came to mind:\n1. Slow down a little.  This isn’t New York City.  Or Boston, or Philadelphia, or Scranton or Milwaukee.  Plan on things perhaps taking a wee bit longer to accomplish than what you’re used to.  Enjoy the friendly “warm-up” conversations that often precede the business at hand — you’ll learn something.<!--more-->\n2. Take a deep breath and enjoy the view.  Actually, the views since it’s hard to look around outdoors and see anything that isn’t pretty, inspiring, or calming.  The marsh and beaches are spectacular resources, beyond valuation, and you won’t find them any better anywhere else.\n3. Remember our wonderful military is looking out for us and many military personnel and their families live right here.  Say hi to them, make some new friends.  They are a shining star in your new environment.\n4. Get your fill of a wide palate of easily available ethnic food before you move down here: Indian, French, Cantonese, Polynesian, etc.\n5. Get ready for shrimp.  I hope you like shrimp, because we’re swimming in them.  Literally.  They’re featured on menus everywhere and the locals know how to cook them to perfection in styles as varied and fun as the costumes at Mardi Gras.\n6. Guess what? For the best combination of a nice breakfast or lunch at a fair price with an unbeatable view, try the cafeteria at the Beaufort Memorial Hospital.  You can even eat outside. My wife loves scones and thinks their’s are the best she’s ever had.\n7. Get out your fishing gear but prepare to re-learn how to fish.  Pulling fish out of the marsh is easy but only once you know what you’re doing.  Talk to the locals and watch what they do, for example at Hunting Island pier.\n8. Just avoid the alligators and no, they don’t taste like chicken.\n9. Prepare for heat and bugs. It’s really steamy here in the summer, almost like living in a terrarium, and we have insects you may not have had the pleasure of meeting before.  Get to know and like bug sprays with DEET.\n10. Think conservative politics.  Branch out to more right-leaning news outlets if you haven’t before.  Add conservative inputs to your diet, but of course don’t necessarily give up opposing inputs or beliefs.\n11. Get ready (deep breath again) for politeness.  This will be a refreshing change from almost anything you’ve experienced up North.  Imagine grocery store employees, for example, who go out of their way to help you find something you need, and don’t just mutter “aisle 5” or “we don’t have that” if you ask a question, as if you were an inconvenience.\nWelcome to the Lowcountry!', 'Beginner’s guide to the Lowcountry', '', 'publish', 'open', 'open', '', 'beginner%e2%80%99s-guide-to-the-lowcountry', '', '', '2011-08-04 03:13:52', '2011-08-04 03:13:52', '', 0, 'http://www.beaufortislandnews.com/?p=2482', 0, 'post', '', 0),
(2484, 4, '2011-08-04 03:14:49', '2011-08-04 03:14:49', 'A blank page beckons a writer to fill it with thoughts and creative insights. TCL Life Enrichment instructor Katherine Tandy Brown will lead a session at the Technical College of the Lowcountry (TCL)’s Beaufort campus on the art of filling the blank page to engage the creative journey of any writer, whether beginner, experienced or lapsed.\nWith Natalie Goldberg’s “Writing Down the Bones: Freeing the Writer Within” as a road map, Brown will guide attendees through a series of timed writing practices. A seasoned writing instructor and longtime Zen practitioner, Goldberg revolutionized the writing world with her method, which encourages writers to trust their own voices, preaching a gentle and forgiving attitude toward craft.\n“Writing practice works to ‘free the writer within’ for a writer of any genre and any age by eliminating the self-critic, that scathing voice which tells a writer the work-in-progress is not good enough. Writing practice boots that critic right out the door, allowing a writer to simply write in his or her own voice,” says Brown.\nKatherine Tandy Brown has been a successful freelance writer for 20 years and has led a wide variety of writing workshops on freelance, travel, memoir and peaceful life writing (based on meditation and recollection). She is also a Coaches Training International writing coach.\nThe class will take place Saturday, August 6, from 9 a.m. to noon at TCL Beaufort campus. Cost $69. To register, call 843-525-8205.', 'Writing practice: Filling the blank page', '', 'publish', 'open', 'open', '', 'writing-practice-filling-the-blank-page', '', '', '2011-08-04 03:14:49', '2011-08-04 03:14:49', '', 0, 'http://www.beaufortislandnews.com/?p=2484', 0, 'post', '', 0),
(2486, 4, '2011-08-04 03:15:52', '2011-08-04 03:15:52', 'Mark your calendars now for the ninth season to begin in August. This series will celebrate American Roots Music. Roots music is a broad category of music including bluegrass, country music, gospel, old time music, jug bands, Appalachian folk, blues, Cajun and Native American music. The music is considered American either because it is native to the United States or because it developed there, out of foreign origins, to such a degree that it struck musicologists as something distinctly new. It is considered “roots music” because it served as the basis of music later developed in the United States, including rock and roll, rhythm and blues, and jazz.\nAll August and September concerts begin at 6 p.m.<!--more-->\n\nSaturday, August 13: Sugar Blue, A True Harp Hero\nConsidered to be one of “the foremost harmonica players of our time” by Rolling Stone, this Grammy Award-winning harmonica virtuoso is not your typical bluesman. Sugar Blue bends, shakes, spills flurries of notes with simultaneous precision and abandon, combining dazzling technique with smoldering expressiveness and gives off enough energy to light up several city square blocks and he sings too.\n\nSaturday, August 27: Lost In Holland\n“An awesome fusion of sound ... Josh’s brilliant folk twinged guitar runs being complemented by Michael’s wonderful, soaring cello.” — Scott Sandie, Broken Arrow Magazine. Iraq war veteran Josh Hisle pairs with Michael Ronstadt to create the sounds and lyrics of undeniable depth (as commented by Neil Young at Sundance.) Michael’s extreme cello style and extensive knowledge of songwriting and performance bring a blazing fire of skill, emotion and delivery that will leave you amazed, among other things. This duo, this revolution, is nothing short of brilliance.\n\nSaturday, September 10: Elise Witt\nGeorgia-based Elise Witt sings her Global, Local &amp; Handmade Songs in a dozen languages, including sign. Elise has been a cultural ambassador to South Africa, China, Italy, Nicaragua, and Switzerland, and she has crisscrossed the United States from New York’s Carnegie Hall to Minneapolis’ Gingko Coffeehouse to Nashville’s Bluebird Cafe to the Kennedy Center’s 25th Anniversary Celebration. During her performance in Port Royal, she will be joined by students from Lady’s Island Elementary School, after spending classtime together crafting a new anthem for their arts-infused school.\n\nSaturday, September 24: Boulder Acoustic Society\nBoulder Acoustic Society’s music is haunted by the past and focused on the future. It’s indie-folk that draws from Appalachian roots, gritty gospel and the contemporary urban soundscape. BAS’s mission to merge tradition with innovation produces a unique sound and an unforgettable live entertainment experience. “Punchline,” the band’s current release on Austin’s Nine Mile Records has been hailed at home and abroad for forging “a new wave of American roots music.”', 'Street Music on Paris Ave in Port Royal', '', 'publish', 'open', 'open', '', 'street-music-on-paris-ave-in-port-royal', '', '', '2011-08-04 03:15:52', '2011-08-04 03:15:52', '', 0, 'http://www.beaufortislandnews.com/?p=2486', 0, 'post', '', 0),
(2488, 4, '2011-08-04 03:17:16', '2011-08-04 03:17:16', '<strong>Electronics recycling and document shredding</strong>\nThe Beaufort County Division of Solid Waste and Recycling has scheduled a special Electronics Goods Collection and Document Shredding Event Saturday, August 6 from 9 a.m. to 3 p.m. The event was planned as a convenience to citizens after the state made it illegal to dump electronics in the landfill. Residents are encouraged to bring their broken computers, televisions, and other electronic appliances for disposal. Secure shredding of personal and tax documents will also be provided at this event. Two county public works sites will accept the items: the Public Works North site at 140 Shanklin Road near the Marine Corps Air Station, Beaufort and the Public Works South site at 102 Benton Field Road off Burnt Church Road, Bluffton. Acceptable electronics include such items as computers, printers, scanners, power supplies, monitors, UPS, hard drives, servers, lap tops, cables &amp; wires, surge protectors, switch boxes, sound equipment, tape drives, power supplies, calculators, copy machines, VCRs, DVD players, electric motors, cash registers, overhead projectors, transformers, test equipment, telephones, cell phones and other goods.\nFor more information or for instructions regarding the recycling of large quantities, please call the Beaufort County Division of Solid Waste and Recycling at 255-2734.\n\n<strong>Beaufort Soil &amp; Water district board meeting</strong>\nBeaufort Soil &amp; Water Conservation District Board meeting will be held August 11, 2011 at 4:00 pm at 817 Paris Avenue, Port Royal, SC.  For more information call 522-8100.  Agenda includes routine staff and partnership reports for the month of July 2011.', 'News Briefs', '', 'publish', 'open', 'open', '', 'news-briefs-3', '', '', '2011-08-04 03:17:16', '2011-08-04 03:17:16', '', 0, 'http://www.beaufortislandnews.com/?p=2488', 0, 'post', '', 0),
(2490, 4, '2011-08-04 03:18:53', '2011-08-04 03:18:53', 'Offering expanded safety features, including residential sprinklers, in new downtown Beaufort housing will create a safer community, said Beaufort Fire Chief Sammy Negron, MidTown Square developer Steven Tully and builder Allan Patterson.\nThe design would feature recessed sprinkler heads throughout the living area of the homes now being constructed at Bladen and Adventure streets.<!--more-->\n“When we can create interior residential sprinkler systems, tied in with active alarms and a highly-trained, well equipped fire department, we create a safer place for people to live and a safer city because of reduced risk of fire,” Negron said.\nThe expected cost of the residential sprinkler system in the MidTown Square homes is approximately $2 per square foot, Tully said.\nWhile the engineering and designs are well under way, challenges remain, Tully and Negron said.\nHigh ceilings require a larger, one-inch water meter per house, upgraded from the 3/4–inch version that Beaufort-Jasper Water and Sewer Authority typically approves. Adding the larger-flow water meter brings an added cost from BJWSA.\n“It is our hope that we can demonstrate to Beaufort-Jasper Water that this upgrade is for the safety of the residents and the safety of the neighborhood, and that they will waive the increased fee for the larger water meter,” Negron said.\nState law prohibits water utility companies from charging more than actual costs for taps and equipment related to residential sprinkler systems.', 'MidTown Square residential sprinkler system to boost safety', '', 'publish', 'open', 'open', '', 'midtown-square-residential-sprinkler-system-to-boost-safety', '', '', '2011-08-04 03:18:53', '2011-08-04 03:18:53', '', 0, 'http://www.beaufortislandnews.com/?p=2490', 0, 'post', '', 0),
(2492, 4, '2011-08-04 03:19:24', '2011-08-04 03:19:24', 'The Beaufort Fund of Coastal Community Foundation now has 2011-2012 grant applications available.  The Beaufort Fund is a permanent funding resource managed by Coastal Community Foundation which benefits charitable programming in Beaufort, Colleton, Hampton, and Jasper counties.  Grant requests of up to $15,000 each will be accepted from any nonprofit organization, as long as its work benefits citizens in the four-county area served by the fund.  The application deadline is Friday, August 19.\nBegun in 1998 with a multi-million dollar gift by an anonymous Beaufort-area family, The Beaufort Fund has awarded more than $4.5 million in grants to nonprofit organizations working in the fields of education, basic human needs, conservation, health, community development, and the arts.  In those thirteen years of Beaufort Fund grantmaking, 577 awards have been made, impacting 157 grantee organizations.  This year, the Fund expects to award $500,000 to area nonprofits.\nDecisions about grants from the Beaufort Fund will be made by the Foundation with recommendations from an Advisory Committee of four-county area residents.\nThe deadline for applying is August 19. Computer-friendly applications are available: http://www.coastalcommunityfoundation.org/pdf/beaufort_application.doc.\nCharitable organizations may also request a copy of the complete application guidelines by calling the Community Foundation at (843) 379-3400, or by e-mail at Edna@CoastalCommunityFoundation.org', 'Beaufort Fund grant applications available', '', 'publish', 'open', 'open', '', 'beaufort-fund-grant-applications-available', '', '', '2011-08-04 03:19:24', '2011-08-04 03:19:24', '', 0, 'http://www.beaufortislandnews.com/?p=2492', 0, 'post', '', 0),
(2494, 4, '2011-08-04 03:20:13', '2011-08-04 03:20:13', 'Sea turtle nesting in 2011 has started out extremely strong with most of the coast reporting higher than normal nest counts. About 2,545 loggerhead nests have been reported on project beaches along the South Carolina coast.\nAs the peak of hatching season approaches, the support of South Carolina coastal residents and visitors is needed to raise awareness and educate visitors to Keep Lights Out for Loggerheads. When hatchlings emerge from the nest, they are attracted to the blue and green wavelengths of light naturally reflected off the ocean through celestial light. They use this natural light cue to navigate from the nest towards the ocean. If an artificial light source on the beach is brighter than the natural light, hatchlings will head towards this artificial source. This is known as disorientation and occurs when artificial beach lighting is brighter than the natural ocean horizon. In these instances, hatchings will crawl away from the ocean toward bright, artificial lights, causing them to be more susceptible to predators and exhaustion. Learn more about Keep Lights Out for Loggerheads at: www.dnr.sc.gov/seaturtle/lights.htm.<!--more-->\nYou can help by turning out all lights in your house that are visible from the beach, dusk to dawn, from May through Oct. Closing blinds and drapes on windows that face the ocean also reduces the light pollution on the beach. If a sea turtle hatchling is disoriented by artificial light, federal fines for harming a threatened or endangered species can reach $25,000. County and local lighting ordinances exist to protect sea turtles. Violating local or county lighting ordinances carry fines up to $500.\nThe average nest incubation duration for a loggerhead sea turtle is 55-60 days. Nests begin to hatch around mid- to late-July and hatchlings continue to emerge through October. After a turtle nest has hatched, S.C. Department of Natural Resources (DNR) staff and volunteers evaluate the remaining contents of the hatched nest to determine the success of each nest. To keep up in real time with the number of nests laid and hatchlings that have emerged, visit the South Carolina Online Nest Monitoring System sponsored by Seaturtle.org.\nThe DNR Marine Turtle Conservation Program (www.dnr.sc.gov/seaturtle) is responsible for managing and protecting sea turtles in the state of South Carolina. This program has several all-encompassing components: management, monitoring, research, and education. More specifically, this program implements management techniques to mitigate activities that may impact sea turtles and provides training and support to more than 1,100 volunteers across the coast who protect nests and document sea turtles that wash ashore (strandings). DNR staff members also perform necropsies on fresh dead strandings and respond to live strandings in need of care.\nThe loggerhead, South Carolina’s state reptile, has a rich reddish-brown carapace (shell) and yellow plastron (underside). The loggerhead’s large skull provides for the attachment of strong jaw muscles for crushing whelks and crabs. Loggerheads leave the cold coastal waters of South Carolina in the winter and are often seen along the western edge of the Gulf Stream. Adult loggerheads can weigh as much 300 pounds and reach up to four feet in shell length.', 'SC sea turtle nest updates', '', 'publish', 'open', 'open', '', 'sc-sea-turtle-nest-updates', '', '', '2011-08-04 03:20:13', '2011-08-04 03:20:13', '', 0, 'http://www.beaufortislandnews.com/?p=2494', 0, 'post', '', 0),
(2496, 4, '2011-08-04 03:21:04', '2011-08-04 03:21:04', 'Coca-Cola is conducting a contest in which the three most popular parks nationwide will receive $175,000 each. The top three are determined by a popular vote. We need your help to vault our favorite park — Hunting Island, of course — into contention. Right now, we are in the top 60 — that’s out of all the parks in the country. You can vote as often as you like, follow these steps:\n1. Go here: http://www.livepositively.com/#/americasparks/vote You should see a map with a bunch of blue markers. Enter “Hunting Island State Park” into the “Search for a Park” blank above the map.\n2. After about Hunting…you will see a menu drop down where you can click on the full, proper name for Hunting Island, then hit the red “Go” button to the right.\n3. A pink pin appears at the approximate location for Hunting Island, click on it.\n4. A box appears, offering a tab, “Vote for this Park”, click the vote tab.\n5. You now have to fill out a string of letters and/or numbers. If you’ve filled it out correctly (it’s small, be careful), a new box will appear that says, “Thank you for voting.”\n6. Hit Close, go back to the map and click on the pink pin again and again — you can vote as often as you have time.', 'Vote Hunting Island as most popular park', '', 'publish', 'open', 'open', '', 'vote-hunting-island-as-most-popular-park', '', '', '2011-08-04 03:21:04', '2011-08-04 03:21:04', '', 0, 'http://www.beaufortislandnews.com/?p=2496', 0, 'post', '', 0),
(2498, 4, '2011-08-04 03:22:38', '2011-08-04 03:22:38', '[caption id=\"attachment_2499\" align=\"alignleft\" width=\"150\" caption=\"BOB SOFALY Ray Bazemore, far right, of Border Rebar LLC in Gastonia, N.C., makes sure the work is done right as Marcus Graham, left, pulls on re-bar for the retaining barrier as William Terry, and Darren Stephens tie it off with wire on Friday on the Port Royal side of the sister bridge of the J.E. McTeer Bridge.\"]<a href=\"http://www.beaufortislandnews.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/08/07291011-Brige-Work-1.jpg\"><img class=\"size-thumbnail wp-image-2499\" title=\"Bridge Work, 1\" src=\"http://www.beaufortislandnews.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/08/07291011-Brige-Work-1-150x150.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" /></a>[/caption] ', 'Building a Bridge', '', 'publish', 'open', 'open', '', 'building-a-bridge', '', '', '2011-08-04 03:22:38', '2011-08-04 03:22:38', '', 0, 'http://www.beaufortislandnews.com/?p=2498', 0, 'post', '', 0),
(2501, 4, '2011-08-04 03:24:32', '2011-08-04 03:24:32', 'Working together with improved firefighter training and equipment, the Beaufort-Port Royal Fire Department is seeking a joint Insurance Services Office (ISO) fire rating that could greatly benefit commercial property owners in both Beaufort and Port Royal, Beaufort Fire Chief Sammy Negron said.\nFor 15 years, Beaufort has enjoyed one of the state’s highest fire insurance ratings — an ISO 2. That can translate to annual savings on fire insurance premiums, particularly for commercial properties. Insurance companies can use the ISO rating as an indicator of a community’s ability to provide fire protection.<!--more-->\n“With our combined firefighting capability with Port Royal, with our strong water supply system and hydrants, and with our new equipment, we are confident we can earn a joint ISO 2 rating for both the City of Beaufort and the Town of Port Royal,” Negron said. The rating team will be in the Lowcountry through Aug. 5.\nA joint ISO 2 rating would keep Beaufort’s fire rating stable and boost Port Royal’s — which could mean more fire insurance savings as developers consider renovating the Port of Port Royal property and others in the town, Port Royal Town Manager Van Willis said.\n“We have the right equipment, we have a well-trained group of firefighters and we have fire stations in the right locations,” Willis said. “As a community, we are excited about the ISO review coming up.”\nAdditional benefits of a joint ISO rating include allowing joint purchases of new equipment, saving both Port Royal and Beaufort taxpayers money. The shared equipment would serve the shared ISO, Negron said.\nThe ISO rating system measures the major elements of a community’s fire-suppression system and develops a numerical grade from one, the highest, to 10. Beaufort is a Class 2 ISO community and Port Royal carries a 3/9 ISO 3 — but missed the Class 2 rating by just three points in 2003.\nThe goal: Bring all of Port Royal up to a Class 2 ISO and maintain the City’s Class 2, Negron said.\n“Since 2003 when the Town of Port Royal received their last rating and 1991 since the City of Beaufort received ours, our fire department has been working toward strengthening both ISO ratings,” he said.\nHere’s how the review process works, according to the Insurance Services Office:\nFire alarms: 10 percent of the overall grading is based on how well the fire department receives fire alarms and dispatches its fire-fighting resources. Field representatives evaluate the communications center, the number of operators at the center and the listing of emergency numbers in the telephone book. Field representatives also look at the dispatch circuits and how the center notifies firefighters about the location of the emergency.\nEngine companies: 50 percent of the overall grading is based on the number of engine companies and the amount of water a community needs to fight a fire. ISO reviews the distribution of fire companies throughout the area and checks that the fire department tests its pumps regularly and inventories each engine company’s nozzles, hoses, breathing apparatus and other equipment.\nISO also reviews the fire-company records to determine:\n• type and extent of training provided to fire-company personnel\n• number of people who participate in training\n• firefighter response to emergencies\n• maintenance and testing of the fire department’s equipment.', 'Beaufort, Port Royal seek combined ISO upgraded fire rating', '', 'publish', 'open', 'open', '', 'beaufort-port-royal-seek-combined-iso-upgraded-fire-rating', '', '', '2011-08-04 03:24:32', '2011-08-04 03:24:32', '', 0, 'http://www.beaufortislandnews.com/?p=2501', 0, 'post', '', 0),
(2503, 4, '2011-08-04 03:26:05', '2011-08-04 03:26:05', 'With half of the year 2011 in the history books, the Burton Fire District is analyzing its numbers as part of its strategic planning to ensure it is delivering, and prepared to deliver in the future, cost effective and efficient services.\n\n[caption id=\"attachment_2504\" align=\"alignleft\" width=\"150\" caption=\"The Burton Fire District has responded to more emergency calls from January to June 2011 than the same time period in 2010. Emergency medical and brush fires represent the sharpest increase.\"]<a href=\"http://www.beaufortislandnews.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/08/News-Burton-Fire.jpg\"><img class=\"size-thumbnail wp-image-2504\" title=\"News-Burton Fire\" src=\"http://www.beaufortislandnews.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/08/News-Burton-Fire-150x150.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" /></a>[/caption]\n\nSo far in 2011 the Burton Fire District has responded to 1,426 emergency calls, already surpassing amount of calls from the January to June time frame last year. While the majority of responses are for emergency medical help with 873 responses, also an increase from 2010, the number of outdoor fires was the sharpest increase with 73 fires so far in 2011.\nThe Burton Fire District also responded to 109 motor vehicle accidents, 55 of which resulted in injury; Burton firefighters have also responded to just under 50 building fires since January which include providing assistance to fires within Port Royal, Beaufort and Sheldon.\nBurton fire officials state that brush fires this year, some of which have caused damage to property and injury to residents, have been a particular concern.', 'Brush fires biggest concern for Burton firefighters', '', 'publish', 'open', 'open', '', 'brush-fires-biggest-concern-for-burton-firefighters', '', '', '2011-08-04 03:26:05', '2011-08-04 03:26:05', '', 0, 'http://www.beaufortislandnews.com/?p=2503', 0, 'post', '', 0),
(2506, 4, '2011-08-04 03:29:54', '2011-08-04 03:29:54', '<a href=\"http://www.beaufortislandnews.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/08/Sports-BFT-Riptide.jpg\"><img class=\"alignleft size-thumbnail wp-image-2507\" title=\"Sports-BFT Riptide\" src=\"http://www.beaufortislandnews.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/08/Sports-BFT-Riptide-150x150.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" /></a>This is a picture of the Beaufort Riptide baseball team taken at the Lexington Oaks Grove Baseball Complex.  This was the first of many tournaments for these young guys. The team lost the championship game to take second place overall for the tournament. Front row, from left to right: Hayden Jennings, Joshua Denton, Wes Graves, Rhogue Wallace, Jeramiah Simmons, Julius Reynolds, CJ Robinson, Ian Fontenot, Cohen Bruner, PJ Daley, Mason Westerfield. Coaches in back row, left to right: Richard Jennings, Jim Denton, Bobby Graves, Al Wallace, Brett Westerfield.', 'Beaufort Riptide Baseball', '', 'publish', 'open', 'open', '', 'beaufort-riptide-baseball', '', '', '2011-08-04 03:29:54', '2011-08-04 03:29:54', '', 0, 'http://www.beaufortislandnews.com/?p=2506', 0, 'post', '', 0),
(2509, 4, '2011-08-04 03:31:50', '2011-08-04 03:31:50', '<a href=\"http://www.beaufortislandnews.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/08/Sports-Bombers.jpg\"><img class=\"alignleft size-thumbnail wp-image-2510\" title=\"Sports-Bombers\" src=\"http://www.beaufortislandnews.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/08/Sports-Bombers-150x150.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" /></a>The Beaufort Bombers 14U girls fastpitch softball team won first place in the WFC Beat the Heat With the Bats softball tournament in Summerville, SC on Saturday, July 31. They were undefeated throughout the tournament. Pictured are left to right, first row is PJ Daley ( bat boy), Natalie Moore, Olivia Beine, Alison Brendlen, Madisen Norris, Johnnie Brendlen (bat boy). Back row: Lauren Waters (Assistant Coach), Mari Cook, Kaytee Dangerfield, Gabby Maynard, Molly Clark, Kristen Mckenzie, Jim Cook (Head Coach).', 'Bombers take first place', '', 'publish', 'open', 'open', '', 'bombers-take-first-place', '', '', '2011-08-04 03:31:50', '2011-08-04 03:31:50', '', 0, 'http://www.beaufortislandnews.com/?p=2509', 0, 'post', '', 0),
(2512, 4, '2011-08-04 03:34:46', '2011-08-04 03:34:46', '<a href=\"http://www.beaufortislandnews.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/08/Sports-Y2.jpg\"><img class=\"alignleft size-thumbnail wp-image-2513\" title=\"Sports-Y2\" src=\"http://www.beaufortislandnews.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/08/Sports-Y2-150x150.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" /></a>The Beaufort YMCA Aquatic Club, the Tigersharks, placed eighth in the state of South Carolina YMCA summer league championship on July 16-17, held in Newberry, S.C. The team — Hunter Johnson, Mary Barras, Joseph Barras, JP Barras, Tim Barras, Laura Barras, Maya Bostwick, Carsyn Bostwick, Sam McFee, Lexi Franzen, and Graham Ruff — had great individual performances overall. In particular, Laura Barras placed second in the 13-14 year old women’s age group,  while Joseph Barras placed first in the 9-10 year old boys age group. We are very proud of all the team’s accomplishments for the summer season, and look forward to the winter season, which will start September 12. For more information about joining, please visit www.ymcabeaufortcounty.com or email aquaticsymca@hotmail.com.', 'YMCA swim team ranked 8th in SC', '', 'publish', 'open', 'open', '', 'ymca-swim-team-ranked-8th-in-sc', '', '', '2011-08-04 03:34:46', '2011-08-04 03:34:46', '', 0, 'http://www.beaufortislandnews.com/?p=2512', 0, 'post', '', 0),
(2515, 4, '2011-08-04 03:37:40', '2011-08-04 03:37:40', '<a href=\"http://www.beaufortislandnews.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/08/Sports-Dixie-Boys1.jpg\"><img class=\"alignleft size-thumbnail wp-image-2516\" title=\"OLYMPUS DIGITAL CAMERA\" src=\"http://www.beaufortislandnews.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/08/Sports-Dixie-Boys1-150x150.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" /></a>The Beaufort Allstars team did a great job defending their home turf during the Dixie Boys Baseball World Series, which took place at the Burton Wells Recreation Center from July 30 until August 3. Beaufort won its first game against Virginia, 21-1, on Saturday. Then the team beat the South Carolina State Champions from Surfside Beach on Monday, 2-1. Unfortunately, two losses against North Carolina and Louisiana knocked Beaufort out of the tourney on Tuesday, but we are proud of their excellent sportsmanship and determination.', 'Dixie World Series', '', 'publish', 'open', 'open', '', 'dixie-world-series', '', '', '2011-08-04 03:37:40', '2011-08-04 03:37:40', '', 0, 'http://www.beaufortislandnews.com/?p=2515', 0, 'post', '', 0),
(2518, 4, '2011-08-04 03:38:50', '2011-08-04 03:38:50', 'By Terry Sweeney\nLong before the walls of Wall Street came tumbling down, my bank went bankrupt, and General Motors asked if it could borrow a couple o’ billion (sorry guys, I’m a little short myself this week), Lanier and I enjoyed perusing the aisles of our favorite wine boutiques.\n“Oh look!” Lanier would cry out. “This Russian River Valley Syrah from Dutton Estate got 95 points from Robert Parker. And it’s only 34 dollars.” Melodramatically, I would rush over and read aloud, from the card below it, Parker’s poetic description as though I were on stage at the Kennedy Center.<!--more-->\n“....Delivering dense concentrated blackberry, wild berry, anise, fresh earth, cedar, and pleasing mineral notes. The finish sails on and on.” It was at that point that Lanier and I would exchange a look that said ‘when that ship sails, we’re gonna be on it’. “Ahoy there, matey, we’re comin’ aboard,” I’d gleefully scream.\nToday I’d just scream, period. Thirty four dollars?! Not a chance in hell!! Our naive Doris Day days of singing ‘Que Syrah, Syrah’ are over! We Winos have changed our tune. Our empty wallets have helped us see the error of our ways. That which we once scorned and ridiculed, we now humbly bow down before and ask its forgiveness. We’re talking of course about the 1.5 liter ‘double’ bottle. That’s right, we’ve gone from 95 points to nine dollars and fifty cents. The only points we’re looking at now during this Grape Recession are decimal points!\nIt seems like only yesterday when I would shake my head and smile indulgently at the little old lady in Publix pushing her\nsupermarket cart filled with small neat stacks of Lean Cuisines and a jumbo 1.5 bottle of chardonnay. ‘Bless her heart’ I’d say to myself. Nowadays, instead of a smug inner monologue, I’m stoppin’ the old grey fox and asking her right out loud: “Hey lady, that wine any good?” She pauses politely to reply. “It’s got some very subtle notes of lemon grass, honey, and vanilla.” Then, elbowing me in the ribs, she brags out of the side of her mouth, “you won’t find a better buzz for your buck in this joint, buddy!” Well... no, she didn’t exactly say that. It was more like: “It’s my favorite dear, but everybody’s different.”\nBeing new to the 1.5 cult ourselves, we needed more guidance than that. So Lanier and I decided to ask some of the more experienced devotees among our friends what their favorite ‘El Cheapos’ were. Lanier’s good friend Kathy in D.C. said “Okay....don’t laugh. My favorite supermarket wine is Pinot Grigio from Cavit ($9.99). For some reason it goes down well...all 1.5 liters of it!!”\nOur friend Gary who’s a Beverly Hills bartender talked up the 1.5 La Terre Chardonnay ($9.99); “a lot of the restaurants here secretly use it as their house wine.”\nHere are a few more that got high praise, including some of our favorites. (Yes, we actually went out and drank a whole bunch of 1.5’s for you. Don’t thank us, it’s our job.)\nFaves were:\n• Brownstone Chardonnay ($11.19)\n• Folonari Montepulciano d’ Abruzzo ($12.19)\n• Peter Mertes Reisling ($11.19)\n• Frontera Pinot Grigio($7.99)\n• Frontera Cabernet Merlot blend ($7.99)…. this also turns out to be the best selling wine in South Carolina)\nAnd if you’ve had a good night at the poker table or the bingo hall, you can always splurge on these two 1.5’s:\n• Red Cliffe New Zealand Sauvignon Blanc ($16.19)\n• Ardeche Louis Latour Chardonnay ($20.29)\nHint: Look for all the above on the bottom shelf of wine stores and supermarkets, as they stock more pricey stuff at eye level in hopes you will be tempted.\nA mischievous vintner friend of ours in Napa recently poured his favorite 1.5 Cab into an empty Chateau Margaux bottle he had saved, slipped a paper sleeve over it, and snuck it into a blind taste test some local wine snobs were holding. Turns out 4 outta 5 of them picked it as their favorite. Needless to say they weren’t too happy when he showed them the 1.5 liter bottle of ten buck bargain juice from Walmart their pretentious palates had plotzed over.\nOh, by the way, in terms of wine etiquette, it is now acceptable to openly display your 1.5’s. Yes, at long last, 1.5’s (everybody’s dirty little secret) have finally come out of the (liquor) closet. At a very fancy dinner party we recently attended, held at a beautiful 3,000-acre plantation, our charming and sophisticated hostess rang a tiny antique sterling silver bell and servants rushed in to fill our crystal wine goblets with (are you sitting down?) 1.5 bottles of YELLOWTAIL!!!! After which they proudly placed the bottles out in the open on her 18th century $100,000 dollar sideboard. One word of warning though...when someone invites you to dinner and says ‘you could bring a bottle of wine’ …they don’t mean a 1.5. Keep ‘em for yourself.\nWe should also say, once you go ‘1.5’ that doesn’t mean you aren’t tempted to go back to one of those skinny 750 ml high priced floozies. The other day a shiny new bottle of Pascal Jolivet Sancerre ($42) seemed to be knocking on our door asking us to come out and play. But we suddenly remembered a different leader, President Obama, and his Inaugural warning in 2008 that “it was time to put away childish things.” (Gee, you think he was talking about all those fancy bottles of high class swill we all downed the decade before?)\nGuess we’ll put that $42 Sancerre on hold for now. In the meantime, we have faith America will be Number 1 again. Or even better...1.5!', 'Take me to your Liter (and a half!)', '', 'publish', 'open', 'open', '', 'take-me-to-your-liter-and-a-half', '', '', '2011-08-04 03:38:50', '2011-08-04 03:38:50', '', 0, 'http://www.beaufortislandnews.com/?p=2518', 0, 'post', '', 0),
(2521, 4, '2011-08-04 03:43:04', '2011-08-04 03:43:04', 'By Pamela Brownstein\r\n\r\nA fundraiser for the Beaufort High School Big Green Booster Club brought a packed house to the new Port Royal Pasta Company on Thursday, July 28. More than 70 members of the community came out to support the efforts of Mike Ingram and others to improve the athletic facilities at the high school.\r\nIn a passionate speech, Ingram described a vision that started with a desire to have what other school venues have. Three years later, that vision has become a reality. Already they have painted the press box and the goal posts, pruned trees, and painted the streetscape and sidewalk on the way to the football stadium green. They also improved the football field, making it a “field of dreams” and are closer to their goal of making it the best field in the state.\r\n\r\n[caption id=\"attachment_2522\" align=\"alignleft\" width=\"150\" caption=\"Principal Dick Durbin with General Manager Keith Potts.\"]<a href=\"http://www.yourislandnews.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/08/BHS.jpg\"><img class=\"alignnone size-thumbnail wp-image-2828\" title=\"BHS\" src=\"http://www.yourislandnews.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/08/BHS-150x150.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" /></a>[/caption]\r\n\r\n“This is happening, this is real. Don’t mess with the future of our young kids,” Ingram said.\r\nThe event was held at the new Port Royal Pasta Company, 1430 Ribaut Road, before the restaurant was even open. The food was a sampling of what to expect under the direction of General Manager Keith Potts, of Keith’s Place. They served light hors d’oeuvres such as roasted asparagus; cherry tomatoes filled with mozzarella cheese, basil and balsamic vinaigrette; homemade meatballs and tasty sandwiches.\r\nThe actual lunch menu is filled with many Italian dishes. Pasta rustica, chicken pesto paninis and cannolli samplers are a few that come to mind, so you can bet the Lunch Bunch will be back to get the full effect of the culinary delights at Port Royal Pasta Company.\r\nThe Booster Club is grateful for the support of those individuals and businesses that have already become Friends of the Program: Port Royal Pasta Company, Pro-Slab, Big Green Booster Club, AMI  kids Beaufort, D&amp;S Heating and Cooling, Easy Rentals, Serve-Pro, Mazzana’s Landscaping, SCE&amp;G, Sea Island Tree Care, Martin &amp; Lindsey Landscaping, Valley Crest, Gasque and Associates, Allison &amp; Ramsey Architects, Palmetto Site Prep, The  Dataw Football Club.\r\nYou can also show your support by volunteering at the games, joining The Touchdown Club — where you pledge $1 per touchdown scored — or by visiting www.bhsbgbc.com.\r\nIn the words of Mike Ingram: “This is truly an opportunity to give back and serve our students and athletes at Beaufort High School.”', 'The Lunch Bunch supports the BHS Booster Club', '', 'publish', 'open', 'open', '', 'the-lunch-bunch-supports-the-bhs-booster-club', '', '', '2011-08-31 13:43:13', '2011-08-31 13:43:13', '', 0, 'http://www.beaufortislandnews.com/?p=2521', 0, 'post', '', 0),
(2525, 4, '2011-08-04 03:45:59', '2011-08-04 03:45:59', 'By Mayor Billy Keyserling\n\nVery often when faced with unsettling experiences we sit back and look to the “experts” to move in and do the work. What I am writing about has nothing to do with experts, it is about members of a community facing up to a problem and investing our time, our energy and our resources, as we best can, to prevent or mitigate a very serious the problem.\nTo get on with my message:\nI am angry that young men are shooting at each other, threatening the lives of innocent bystanders and staining our community with their blood. <!--more-->\nI am also angry that young women have, in some cases, “stood by their man’s side” and enabled them to think that carrying a gun, fighting and talking tough is cool.\nFor the past two weeks I stayed tight lipped because I feared my writing about this troublesome subject as mayor would further elevate the situation to crisis level and raise a level of panic in the community. But I cannot stand by without saying something and encouraging a constructive conversation about how we can work together to keep our community safe.\nBut first I must thank our City Police Matt Clancy and his able officers and Sheriff J.P Tanner and his able deputies who have arrived at almost every crime scene in less than a minute and expedited investigations resulting in the timely apprehension of perpetrators.\nFurthermore I would like to thank them for the continued movie club for youngsters and for being even more visible at places where there was trouble in the past and might be in the future, has been or might, based on records and intelligence. And I would like to thank them for attending each neighborhood or crime watch monthly meeting, when invited, and for taking an active role in the newly established Neighborhood Improvement Team.\nThe challenge of youth violence is a challenge that cannot be solved by law enforcement alone. And it is unreasonable for us to sit back with that expectation.\nNo matter how many officers are on the streets, they cannot be in every home, in every business, in every park and in every school detecting there is something wrong with those who are thinking about committing such crimes, and then catching them and intervening before the violent act takes place.\nLaw enforcement cannot cover Burton and the islands where young people have nothing better to do than walk around in large groups falling prey to the few who might lead them down the road to making poor choices. They cannot supervise young men and women who have been turned away because the Charles Lind Brown Center shut down except for day camp for youngsters. They cannot supervise young people who have been turned away because the Boys &amp; Girls Club closed the Teen Center for lack of funding. They cannot supervise young people who cannot find summer jobs because the economy slowed down. They cannot supervise young people whose parent or parents are off at work and not able to provide ample support for their children. How can we in good conscience sit on the sidelines and ask the hard working men and woman in our law enforcement agencies to take all the heat when things go wrong.\nI am not talking about the perpetrators who need to be caught and taken off the streets. Rather I am talking about the innocent victims who are led astray because there is not enough positive leadership in our homes, in our businesses, in our governments, in our places of worship and on our streets.\nOver the past week, I have interviewed law enforcement officers and learned that, notwithstanding the budget crunches faced by local government, there is stronger and broader police coverage in The city of Beaufort and throughout Beaufort County than ever before. There are far more police-generated calls by police officers than calls from the public. This means historically quicker response times, apprehensions and arrest.\nThere are, I am sure, lots of theories about how and why young people fall astray, how families are not doing what they used to do, how schools are letting us down by not better educating and disciplining students. There are lots of theories about drugs, gangs and other criminal activity.\nThat said, I am hearing way too few theories or action plans outlining how we all come together to protect the community we love so dearly.\nTwo or more years ago, County Councilman Herbert Glaze called a community meeting at the Burton Wells Recreation Center. The room was filled as he introduced an organization called CAVE which stands for Citizens Against Violence Everywhere. Those of us in the emotion packed setting heard from our sheriff, our solicitor, our city police chief and scores of clergymen all of whom were sounding a call to the community to engage in stopping violence. To me the most insightful speaker was a young man who recently returned home to Beaufort from doing time in a state penitentiary. He told his story, about having made bad choices in the people he hung out with, getting involved in selling and taking drugs and the price he paid by serving time. And it was insightful. His advice to all of us was that if we really wanted to find the answers to reducing violent crime among our younger people, we each needed to go home and look in the mirror. We are the answer!\nWhat we are facing is not a police challenge. It is a community challenge we must not dodge, but embrace.\nPlease take time to look around and let the police know if you see someone on the verge of making poor decisions.\nPlease take time to call law enforcement if you see something suspicious or something that does not seem right.\nPlease take the time to look outside your window every now and then to see what is going on that could become troublesome if not addressed.\nPlease take to time to ask your spiritual and religious leaders to have a conversation about young people shooting at each other emphasizing that if directed in the right way most young people can make good choices rather than bad choices. Explain to them that cool is not cool. And the work with me to get safe places like the Charles Lind Brown Center and Boys &amp; Girls Clubs back open. If nothing else they provide a safe haven for young people who otherwise could make poor decisions.\nPlease take time to look to your inner self for answers.\nI’m pleading with you to start the discussion, to take personal actions to protect your neighborhoods and our city and county. Work with us; share your experiences and expertise. And even open your eyes, rather than close them, to what is happening and then lend a helping hand to fix it.\nBy working together, we are going to turn this around. And if we are vigilant in our commitment to chase violence out of our community, we will be all the better for it.', 'The time has come to speak out', '', 'publish', 'open', 'open', '', 'the-time-has-come-to-speak-out', '', '', '2011-08-04 03:45:59', '2011-08-04 03:45:59', '', 0, 'http://www.beaufortislandnews.com/?p=2525', 0, 'post', '', 0);
