[caption id="attachment_16184" align="alignleft" width="300"]<a href="http://www.yourislandnews.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/04/DAR-contest-winners.jpeg"><img class="size-medium wp-image-16184" alt="From left: Chapter Regent Charlene Shufelt; Tristan James, 8th grader at Robert Smalls Middle School; Allie Rogers, 7th grader at Whale Branch Middle School; Sarah Grace Lawrence, 6th grader at Holy Trinity Classical Christian School;  and Avalee Taylor, 5th grader at Robert Smalls Middle School. " src="http://www.yourislandnews.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/04/DAR-contest-winners-300x198.jpeg" width="300" height="198" /></a> From left: Chapter Regent Charlene Shufelt; Tristan James, 8th<br />grader at Robert Smalls Middle School; Allie Rogers, 7th grader at Whale Branch Middle School; Sarah Grace Lawrence, 6th grader at Holy Trinity Classical Christian School; and Avalee Taylor, 5th grader at Robert Smalls Middle School.[/caption]

At the March meeting of the Thomas Heyward, Jr., Chapter Daughters of the American Revolution family members and teachers proudly joined their student winners. Every year a subject is presented and area students in grades five through eight compete — all writing on the same topic — this year’s topic being “The Lives of Children During the American Revolution.”
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[caption id="attachment_16185" align="alignleft" width="300"]<a href="http://www.yourislandnews.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/04/DAR-daughters-4-17.jpeg"><img class="size-medium wp-image-16185" alt="At a recent meeting of the Thomas Heyward, Jr. Chapter of the Daughters of the American Revolution, Registrar Weedy Servaes (center) was pleased to present Candy Matera (left) and Patti O’Leary (right) to the membership. The ladies were officially inducted into the National Society.  In order to qualify for membership prospects must prove that they are direct descendants of Patriots of the Revolutionary War.  Patriots either participated in the military or provided support to the cause that freed the American Colonies from the rule of the British. For more information about the DAR, please contact Chapter Regent Harriett Bosiak at 466-0305. " src="http://www.yourislandnews.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/04/DAR-daughters-4-17-300x198.jpeg" width="300" height="198" /></a> At a recent meeting of the Thomas Heyward, Jr. Chapter of the Daughters of the American Revolution, Registrar Weedy Servaes (center) was pleased to present Candy Matera (left) and Patti O’Leary (right) to the membership. The ladies were officially inducted into the National Society. In order to qualify for membership prospects must prove that they are direct descendants of Patriots of the Revolutionary War. Patriots either participated in the military or provided support to the cause that freed the American Colonies from the rule of the British. For more information about the DAR, please contact Chapter Regent Harriett Bosiak at 466-0305.[/caption]

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