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(41734, 4, '2019-09-25 11:58:42', '2019-09-25 15:58:42', 'The photographic exhibition “Silent Witness” is coming to USC Beaufort’s Center for the Arts beginning Oct. 3 and will run through Nov. 12.\r\n\r\n“Silent Witness” is a profound and inspiring photographic-art collection that documents the power of healing between horses and humans – more especially through the alignment of retired military veterans with off-the-track veteran racehorses.\r\n\r\nThrough this remarkable body of work by photographer Shelly Marshall Schmidt, this message is captured and presented with breathtaking beauty, insight and impact.\r\n\r\nSchmidt’s work represents years of photographing the connections between military veterans who are experiencing the unseen, silent wounds of post-traumatic stress, and off-the-track Thoroughbreds who can struggle with much the same internalized trauma – connections that have been enabled through a program known as Saratoga WarHorse.\r\n\r\nWoven throughout the exhibition are the haunting words of writer, Marti Healy, who has also spent extensive commitment involved with this subject.\r\n\r\nThe Silent Witness exhibition premiered in Aiken in November 2018, where both the photographer and the writer are based, and where the Saratoga WarHorse program has a site on the grounds of Aiken Equine Rescue.\r\n\r\nThe Exhibition received such a tremendous response, that requests for it to be hosted at other locations, carrying its message and powerful influence to a wider audience, were immediate.\r\n\r\nAs a result, the creators of the exhibition are working with various opportunities on an individual basis; USCB Center for the Arts in Beaufort has been chosen as a compatible location.\r\n\r\nIn connection with the exhibition, this site has been selected to host a live, customized presentation relative to the work and the healing power of horses, provided by Marti Healy and Shelly Marshall Schmidt personally. This is a free, one-night-only event, which will launch the six-week public exhibition. Seating will be on a first-come basis.\r\n\r\nAnyone associated with the military, equestrian, and arts communities, as well as the community of the greater Beaufort-area in general, should find this to be a highly significant, unique, and memorable experience.\r\n\r\nAll portraits in the Silent Witness exhibition will be available for purchase, with a portion of the sales supporting the USCB Center for the Arts.\r\n\r\n<strong>Want to go?</strong>\r\n\r\nWhat: Silent Witness: Through the lens of photographer Shelly Marshall Schmidt, with writer/presenter Marti Healy\r\n\r\nWhen: Oct. 3-Nov. 12\r\n\r\nWhere: USCB Center for the Arts\r\n\r\nOpening Event: 5:30-7:30 p.m. Thursday, Oct. 3, wine and light refreshments followed by featured presentation by photographer Shelly Marshall Schmidt and with writer Marti Healy at 6:30 p.m. The event is free, and seating is limited.', 'Silent Witness photo exhibition coming to USC Beaufort', '', 'publish', 'closed', 'closed', '', 'silent-witness-photo-exhibition-coming-to-usc-beaufort', '', '', '2019-09-25 11:58:42', '2019-09-25 15:58:42', '', 0, 'https://staging.yourislandnews.com/?p=41734', 0, 'post', '', 0),
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(41737, 4, '2019-09-25 12:00:45', '2019-09-25 16:00:45', 'Ron Callari points out that fans of “Forrest Gump” might be familiar with Lucy Creek, where Forrest’s shrimp boat, Jenny, is featured. Located on the Coosaw River, the creek is home to Sam’s Point Boat Landing and the Lucy Creek Dockhouse, a favorite venue for weddings.', 'Lowcountry Life', '', 'publish', 'closed', 'closed', '', '41737-2', '', '', '2019-09-26 11:06:13', '2019-09-26 15:06:13', '', 0, 'https://staging.yourislandnews.com/?p=41737', 0, 'post', '', 0),
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(41741, 4, '2019-09-25 12:02:34', '2019-09-25 16:02:34', 'The 2019-2020 season for recreational harvest of shellfish (clams and oysters) in coastal waters of South Carolina will open one-half hour before official sunrise on Saturday, Sept. 28.<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">&nbsp;</span>\r\n\r\nThe recreational shellfish season will remain open through May 15, 2020, unless conditions warrant extending or shortening the season.<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">&nbsp;</span>\r\n\r\nIn the event of another hurricane, major rain event, or pollution spill, shellfish beds may be temporarily closed by the S.C. Department of Health and Environmental Control (DHEC). It is important for harvesters to check with DHEC to verify whether any closures are in effect. This information is available at 1-800-285-1618 and can be viewed on t<a href=\"http://links.govdelivery.com/track?type=click&amp;enid=ZWFzPTEmbXNpZD0mYXVpZD0mbWFpbGluZ2lkPTIwMTkwOTE3LjEwMjg5MjYxJm1lc3NhZ2VpZD1NREItUFJELUJVTC0yMDE5MDkxNy4xMDI4OTI2MSZkYXRhYmFzZWlkPTEwMDEmc2VyaWFsPTE2Nzg5NDU5JmVtYWlsaWQ9dGhlaXNsYW5kbmV3c0BnbWFpbC5jb20mdXNlcmlkPXRoZWlzbGFuZG5ld3NAZ21haWwuY29tJnRhcmdldGlkPSZmbD0mbXZpZD0mZXh0cmE9JiYm&amp;&amp;&amp;100&amp;&amp;&amp;http://www.scdhec.gov/FoodSafety/ShellfishMonitoring/Map/?utm_content=&amp;utm_medium=email&amp;utm_name=&amp;utm_source=govdelivery&amp;utm_term=\">he DHEC website</a>. DHEC will use these resources and your local newspaper throughout the year to announce temporary closures due to unusual rain events or spills.\r\n\r\nThe S.C. Department of Natural Resources maintains State Shellfish Grounds for commercial and recreational harvesting of clams and oysters. Twenty Public Shellfish Grounds and 13 State Shellfish Grounds are managed exclusively for recreational gathering. An additional 52 State Shellfish Grounds are managed for recreational and commercial harvest. All state-managed grounds are posted with boundary signs.\r\n\r\nRecreational harvesters should obtain updated Public or State Shellfish Ground maps at the beginning of each season, as areas open to harvest change from year to year. Maps of designated harvest areas may be <a href=\"http://links.govdelivery.com/track?type=click&amp;enid=ZWFzPTEmbXNpZD0mYXVpZD0mbWFpbGluZ2lkPTIwMTkwOTE3LjEwMjg5MjYxJm1lc3NhZ2VpZD1NREItUFJELUJVTC0yMDE5MDkxNy4xMDI4OTI2MSZkYXRhYmFzZWlkPTEwMDEmc2VyaWFsPTE2Nzg5NDU5JmVtYWlsaWQ9dGhlaXNsYW5kbmV3c0BnbWFpbC5jb20mdXNlcmlkPXRoZWlzbGFuZG5ld3NAZ21haWwuY29tJnRhcmdldGlkPSZmbD0mbXZpZD0mZXh0cmE9JiYm&amp;&amp;&amp;101&amp;&amp;&amp;http://www.dnr.sc.gov/marine/shellfish/shellfishmaps.html?utm_content=&amp;utm_medium=email&amp;utm_name=&amp;utm_source=govdelivery&amp;utm_term=\">downloaded from the SCDNR website</a> or accessed online through the&nbsp;<a href=\"http://links.govdelivery.com/track?type=click&amp;enid=ZWFzPTEmbXNpZD0mYXVpZD0mbWFpbGluZ2lkPTIwMTkwOTE3LjEwMjg5MjYxJm1lc3NhZ2VpZD1NREItUFJELUJVTC0yMDE5MDkxNy4xMDI4OTI2MSZkYXRhYmFzZWlkPTEwMDEmc2VyaWFsPTE2Nzg5NDU5JmVtYWlsaWQ9dGhlaXNsYW5kbmV3c0BnbWFpbC5jb20mdXNlcmlkPXRoZWlzbGFuZG5ld3NAZ21haWwuY29tJnRhcmdldGlkPSZmbD0mbXZpZD0mZXh0cmE9JiYm&amp;&amp;&amp;102&amp;&amp;&amp;https://scdnr.maps.arcgis.com/apps/webappviewer/index.html?id=cbef2c2a0f9449fa87dd25c7117ad865&amp;utm_content=&amp;utm_medium=email&amp;utm_name=&amp;utm_source=govdelivery&amp;utm_term=\">Recreational Map Web Application</a>.<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">&nbsp;</span>\r\n\r\nPrinted maps may also be obtained by calling 843-953-9854 or writing the Shellfish Management Section, Attn: Ben Dyar, SCDNR, PO Box 12559, Charleston, S.C. 29422-2559. When requesting maps, please specify the general area where you wish to harvest.<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">&nbsp;</span>\r\n\r\nRecreational harvesters must have a Saltwater Recreational Fishing License, <a href=\"http://links.govdelivery.com/track?type=click&amp;enid=ZWFzPTEmbXNpZD0mYXVpZD0mbWFpbGluZ2lkPTIwMTkwOTE3LjEwMjg5MjYxJm1lc3NhZ2VpZD1NREItUFJELUJVTC0yMDE5MDkxNy4xMDI4OTI2MSZkYXRhYmFzZWlkPTEwMDEmc2VyaWFsPTE2Nzg5NDU5JmVtYWlsaWQ9dGhlaXNsYW5kbmV3c0BnbWFpbC5jb20mdXNlcmlkPXRoZWlzbGFuZG5ld3NAZ21haWwuY29tJnRhcmdldGlkPSZmbD0mbXZpZD0mZXh0cmE9JiYm&amp;&amp;&amp;103&amp;&amp;&amp;http://www.dnr.sc.gov/purchase.html?utm_content=&amp;utm_medium=email&amp;utm_name=&amp;utm_source=govdelivery&amp;utm_term=\">available from SCDNR, at many fishing supply stores, and online</a>. The recreational limit is two U.S. bushels of oysters and one-half bushel of clams in any one day, limited to two calendar days per seven-day period.\r\n\r\nOne U.S. bushel is equal to 8 gallons. There is a maximum possession of three personal limits per boat or vehicle. Clams must be at least 1 inch in thickness.\r\n\r\nAdditional rules and restrictions may be found in the SCDNR Rules and Regulations, available where licenses are purchased or <strong><a href=\"http://links.govdelivery.com/track?type=click&amp;enid=ZWFzPTEmbXNpZD0mYXVpZD0mbWFpbGluZ2lkPTIwMTkwOTE3LjEwMjg5MjYxJm1lc3NhZ2VpZD1NREItUFJELUJVTC0yMDE5MDkxNy4xMDI4OTI2MSZkYXRhYmFzZWlkPTEwMDEmc2VyaWFsPTE2Nzg5NDU5JmVtYWlsaWQ9dGhlaXNsYW5kbmV3c0BnbWFpbC5jb20mdXNlcmlkPXRoZWlzbGFuZG5ld3NAZ21haWwuY29tJnRhcmdldGlkPSZmbD0mbXZpZD0mZXh0cmE9JiYm&amp;&amp;&amp;104&amp;&amp;&amp;http://www.dnr.sc.gov/regulations.html?utm_content=&amp;utm_medium=email&amp;utm_name=&amp;utm_source=govdelivery&amp;utm_term=\">online</a>.</strong>\r\n\r\nCommercial harvest of shellfish requires a commercial saltwater license, mandatory harvester training, and other licenses and permits depending on where the harvest will occur. Call the Marine Permitting Office at 843-953-0453 for additional information on commercial harvesting requirements.\r\n\r\nAll harvesters are encouraged to \"cull in place,\" leaving dead shell and smaller oysters on the shoreline where they will continue to grow and provide habitat for future generations of oysters.<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">&nbsp;</span>\r\n\r\nOyster consumers are encouraged to recycle their shells. <a href=\"http://links.govdelivery.com/track?type=click&amp;enid=ZWFzPTEmbXNpZD0mYXVpZD0mbWFpbGluZ2lkPTIwMTkwOTE3LjEwMjg5MjYxJm1lc3NhZ2VpZD1NREItUFJELUJVTC0yMDE5MDkxNy4xMDI4OTI2MSZkYXRhYmFzZWlkPTEwMDEmc2VyaWFsPTE2Nzg5NDU5JmVtYWlsaWQ9dGhlaXNsYW5kbmV3c0BnbWFpbC5jb20mdXNlcmlkPXRoZWlzbGFuZG5ld3NAZ21haWwuY29tJnRhcmdldGlkPSZmbD0mbXZpZD0mZXh0cmE9JiYm&amp;&amp;&amp;105&amp;&amp;&amp;http://saltwaterfishing.sc.gov/oyster.html?utm_content=&amp;utm_medium=email&amp;utm_name=&amp;utm_source=govdelivery&amp;utm_term=\">Check online</a> or call 843-953-9397 to find locations near you where shell can be dropped off for recycling.<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">&nbsp;</span>\r\n\r\nSCDNR uses saltwater recreational fishing license revenues to construct and enhance renewable oyster resources in the coastal counties by replanting recycled shell. All shell collected by the SCDNR is used to restore shellfish grounds in coastal South Carolina.\r\n\r\n<strong>Tips for Recycling Your Oyster Shells</strong>\r\n\r\n– DO bring your shell to the nearest shell recycling center. Drop-off locations are available at <a href=\"https://tinyurl.com/y2b5vbds\">https://tinyurl.com/y2b5vbds</a>. If a center is not shown near you, please call 843-953-9397.\r\n\r\n– DO separate shell from trash. Shell mixed with trash (including shell in bags or containers) is not suitable for recycling. Provide separate containers at your events for shells and trash.<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">&nbsp;</span>\r\n\r\n– DON\'T put live or freshly shucked oysters in South Carolina waters. If the oysters you purchased were harvested outside South Carolina, it is illegal to place them in SC waters. Placing live oysters in our waters can create environmental problems and may harm local oysters or other animals. To avoid contamination, shell should be recycled to SCDNR and properly quarantined.\r\n\r\nSource: S.C. Department of Natural Resources', 'SC shellfish season set to open Saturday', '', 'publish', 'closed', 'closed', '', 'sc-shellfish-season-set-to-open-saturday', '', '', '2019-09-25 12:03:33', '2019-09-25 16:03:33', '', 0, 'https://staging.yourislandnews.com/?p=41741', 0, 'post', '', 0),
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(41746, 4, '2019-09-25 12:10:04', '2019-09-25 16:10:04', '<h4>By MIKE McCOMBS</h4>\r\nU.S. Representative Joe Cunningham (D), a freshman Congressman representing South Carolina’s 1st Congressional District, held a town hall meeting Saturday, Sept. 21 at the Beaufort County Black Chamber of Commerce.\r\n\r\nMembers of the public were invited to ask questions, share their priorities, and voice their concerns.\r\n\r\nHere’s a summary of the first few questions, along with Cunningham’s responses:\r\n\r\n<strong>What is your message to law-abiding, responsible gun owners? Are you going to take our guns?</strong>\r\n\r\nYou’re talking to a responsible gun owner here. I grew up around guns, I grew up with guns. I’ve got my concealed weapons permit. As far as my position, I’m not proposing confiscating any weapons. That’s not something that’s part of my platform, that’s not something I’d advance. Don’t confuse what you may see on CNN or other channels with how I stand. I think we can have common-sense gun safety legislation. I think background checks are something we ought to exercise. I think we can have common-sense gun safety measures and also respect the second amendment at the same time. And I don’t think that guns should be falling into the hands of criminals or those that are so mentally unstable that they should not have firearms.\r\n\r\nThe House of Representatives has already passed at least two pieces of legislation that respect the second amendment and also make an effort to make our communities safer. I think when children go to school, parents ought to rest easy about them going to school, or when they go to church or they go to a movie theater. And that’s what this is all about, making people feel safe and making sure we respect the second amendment, as well. Because, like you, Ralph, the high school I went to, I’d show up and be walking through the parking lot. My friends and colleagues would have their rifles hanging up in their trucks, unloaded, with the door locked. I grew up around responsible gun owners, and responsible gun owners should not be penalized.<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">&nbsp;</span>\r\n\r\nIn fact, when you look at the statistics here in America, over 80 percent of the people favor background checks. I think the fact that Sudafed is more difficult to purchase than firearms is an issue that we have in this country. I think that we can have common-sense gun safety measures. I think that we’ve already seen that. Two of those are already sitting over there waiting on (the Senate). We also passed a piece of legislation that would close the Charleston loophole. Ralph, you may be familiar with that. As it stands right now, if a background check is not complete within three days, a gun seller can sell that gun, regardless. It may come up later on that he would have failed that background check. And that’s named after Dylann Roof, who had a firearm sold to him because of this loophole and then took that firearm into Mother Emmanuel and murdered nine worshipers as their heads were bowed and as their eyes were closed. So that’s where I stand on this issue. We’re not proposing taking away anyone’s guns. I think that’s just a scare issue. Don’t confuse my stances with other people, particularly those who are running for president.\r\n\r\n<strong>Yesterday there was a recognition by young people of the dangers of climate change. What is the best way for Congress to pay it forward or improve our situation?</strong>\r\n\r\nThat’s a great question. That’s an issue that’s front and center for so many people. We’re here in the Lowcountry and we see climate change, or at least the effects of it, every single day. We’re seeing flooding increase, we’re seeing the intensity of hurricanes increase. We’re seeing things that are highly alarming. Personally, I feel like we need to recognize the impact that humans are having on this and we need to figure out a way to change the course. The ways we can do that, it’s obviously a short-term and long-term game. One of the things we can do is get the funding to improve our infrastructure and make ourselves in America and the Lowcountry more resilient to flooding and to the effects of climate change.\r\n\r\nBut also in the long-term solution, we need to finally have the realization that we are having an impact on this and we need to make that pivot away from dirty energy resources. And I’m proud of what the Lowcountry has done. I feel like we’re leading on this issue, specifically Parris Island, which is a gem here in our district, and something we’re extremely proud of. Not only because we’re one of two installations in the entire country were we make enlisted Marines, but we’re the only installation in the entire country that makes female enlisted Marines. It’s a gem in our district and something we’re extremely proud of. On Parris Island, they actually have solar panels and they produce more energy than they consume. They actually export solar power. I feel like that is something to be commended. And I feel like that is the path forward. And we’re not going to get there overnight, And we’re not going to get there in the next five years. But we need to have that in mind, making that pivot from coal and fossil fuels and oil and making that toward clean renewables to clean fuels and solar and wind. And what we did last week in the House of Representatives was a testament to that. Because last week on the House floor, we passed the bill that I introduced, H.R. 1941, which would ban offshore drilling off the coast of South Carolina.<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">&nbsp;</span>\r\n\r\nAnd that’s good because we don’t have to worry about sitting on the beach at Hilton Head and looking at oil rigs, and we also don’t have to worry about because there’s an oil spill we have birds and fish washing up on our shore covered in oil because there’s an oil spill. And we also recognize that the United States is now a net exporter of energy, and so why would we be opening up our shorelines to drill for more oil just so we can send more oil overseas to other countries. It just doesn’t make sense to me. So that was a step in not only protecting our shorelines, but it was a step toward saying this is not the future of energy, and we need to be looking toward the future and modernizing it so our children and grandchildren can have an environment down here in the Lowcountry just as beautiful as the one we enjoyed.\r\n\r\n<em><span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">&nbsp;</span>Joe Cunningham speaks during a town hall meeting Saturday morning at the Beaufort Black Chamber of Commerce. Photo by Bob Sofaly.</em>', 'Cunningham hosts town hall in Beaufort', '', 'publish', 'closed', 'closed', '', 'cunningham-hosts-town-hall-in-beaufort', '', '', '2019-09-25 12:10:28', '2019-09-25 16:10:28', '', 0, 'https://staging.yourislandnews.com/?p=41746', 0, 'post', '', 0),
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(41756, 4, '2019-09-26 06:20:13', '2019-09-26 10:20:13', 'The Zerbini Family Circus was in Beaufort Friday, near the fairgrounds. Here,&nbsp;Julian Zerbini takes a bow with his show horses after their performance. <em>Photo by Bob Sofaly</em>', 'The circus came to town!', '', 'publish', 'closed', 'closed', '', 'the-circus-came-to-town', '', '', '2019-09-26 06:20:13', '2019-09-26 10:20:13', '', 0, 'https://staging.yourislandnews.com/?p=41756', 0, 'post', '', 0),
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(41759, 4, '2019-09-26 06:24:33', '2019-09-26 10:24:33', 'Members of the Thomas Heyward, Jr. Chapter of the Daughters of the American Revolution (DAR) and friends gathered Wednesday, Sept. 18 at Beaufort’s Henry C. Chambers Waterfront Park, near the bust of Thomas Heyward, Jr. to mark the beginning of Constitution Week, the week-long national celebration of America’s most important document, the United States Constitution.\r\n\r\nMrs. Nancy Crowther, vice regent of the Thomas Heyward, Jr., chapter, presided over the celebration. The chapter chaplain, Mrs. Gladys Cousar, offered the opening and closing prayers.<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">&nbsp;</span>\r\n\r\nMike McFee, Mayor Pro Tem of Beaufort, presented chapter historian Jouette Duckworth with a Certificate of Proclamation signed by Mayor Billy Keyserling. S.C. Governor Henry McMaster sent a proclamation, as well.\r\n\r\nThe tradition of celebrating the Constitution was started decades ago by the Daughters of the American Revolution. In 1955, the DAR petitioned the U.S. Congress to set aside Sept. 17-23 annually for the observance of Constitution Week. The resolution was adopted by Congress and signed into Public Law 915 on Aug. 2, 1956, by President Dwight D. Eisenhower.\r\n\r\nA quick history lesson, courtesy of a release from the DAR.:\r\n\r\nThe United States of America functions as a Republic under the Constitution, the oldest document still in active use that outlines the self-government of a people. This landmark idea that men had the inalienable right as individuals to be free and live their lives under their own governance was the impetus of the American Revolution.\r\n\r\nThe 38 signers of the U.S. Constitution were delegates from the original states who gathered several times, in several places, first <a href=\"https://staging.yourislandnews.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/09/RES1150.jpg\"><img class=\"alignright  wp-image-41762\" src=\"https://staging.yourislandnews.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/09/RES1150-1024x726.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"505\" height=\"357\"></a>drafting the Declaration of Independence signed by South Carolina representatives Thomas Heyward Jr., Thomas Lynch Jr., Arthur Middleton and Edward Rutledge.\r\n\r\nOnce the colonists defeated the British army and won independence, the Continental Congress adopted the Articles of Confederation, the first constitution of the United States, on Nov. 15, 1777 with Henry Laurens, William Henry Drayton, John Mathews, Richard Hutson, and Thomas Heyward, Jr. as delegates representing South Carolina.<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">&nbsp;</span>\r\n\r\nThe Articles created a loose confederation of sovereign states and a weak central government, leaving most of the power with the state governments. The need for a stronger Federal government soon became apparent and eventually led to the Constitutional Convention in 1787.<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">&nbsp;</span>\r\n\r\nThe present U.S. Constitution replaced the Articles of Confederation on March 4, 1789. The signing delegates representing South Carolina were: John Rutledge, Charles Coteswortth Pinckney, and Pierce Butler.\r\n\r\n&nbsp;\r\n\r\n<em>The Thomas Heyard Jr. Chapter of the Daughters of the American Revolution continued their celebration of Constitution Week on Wednesday, Sept. 18 after receiving an official proclamation from the City of Beaufort. Chapter historian Jouette Duckworth &nbsp;received the proclamation from Beaufort City Councilman Mike McFee during a brief but patriotic ceremony at the bust of Thomas Heyward. Photo by Bob Sofaly.</em>', 'Local DAR chapter celebrates US Constitution Week', '', 'publish', 'closed', 'closed', '', 'local-dar-chapter-celebrates-us-constitution-week', '', '', '2019-09-26 06:24:33', '2019-09-26 10:24:33', '', 0, 'https://staging.yourislandnews.com/?p=41759', 0, 'post', '', 0),
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(41764, 4, '2019-09-26 10:36:28', '2019-09-26 14:36:28', '<h2><strong>Dispute over Warsaw Island boat ramp, road erupts into class action suit, community upheaval</strong></h2>\r\n<h4><strong>By MINDY LUCAS</strong></h4>\r\nA few years before he died, Charles Gardner’s father, Leroy, deeded Charles the land where he now lives in a modest, red-brick house at the end of Warsaw Island Road.\r\n\r\nThe oldest of five children, Gardner grew up just down the road in a three-bedroom, one-bath wooden house the children shared with parents, Leroy and Ardelle.&nbsp;\r\n\r\nFor as far back as anyone can remember, the Gardners and the Taylors, have lived on the land and on the island, long before a road was built to the mainland.&nbsp;\r\n\r\nIn the summers, the family would fish or row over to Dataw to pick vegetables or farm the land. In the winters they would hunt, pick oysters or butcher hogs. Nearby, roads such as Gardner Drive and Willie Gardner Road still carry the family name.\r\n\r\nNow the main road, and the only road on or off the island, Warsaw Island Road splits the land into equal halves before it turns slightly to the right and winds its way toward the northeast corner of the island and the Gardners’ property which overlooks Jenkins Creek.&nbsp;\r\n\r\nThere, the county road, which wasn’t paved until 1996, turns into a private, 30-foot dirt road that ends at a boat ramp.&nbsp;<a href=\"https://staging.yourislandnews.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/09/RES0644.jpg\"><img class=\"wp-image-41772 alignright\" src=\"https://staging.yourislandnews.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/09/RES0644-1024x690.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"441\" height=\"297\"></a>\r\n\r\nDespite only being a short distance from the Gardner’s home and an extended driveway that once veered off to the family’s garage, the road and boat ramp have been used for years by many in the community who rely on the access its provides to the creeks and rivers beyond.\r\n\r\nIt was, and still is, considered as much a part of the road system to those who live and work on the sea islands, as the road itself.\r\n\r\n“Before the road came across to Warsaw, that was the only way people used to go to church or go shopping,” said Gardner.\r\n\r\nBefore Charles took it over, Charles’ father maintained the road and ramp, often acting as an unofficial custodian of a place that served the community as much as his own family.\r\n\r\nIn fact, as far as anyone knew, the road belonged to the Gardners.\r\n\r\nBut now the road has been closed and the use of the boat ramp halted. A dispute over who actually owns the road and ramp has erupted into a legal battle and class action lawsuit.\r\n\r\nWhat’s even more upsetting, say many who live on the island, is the dispute has spilled over into a once peaceful community in the form of angry roadside confrontations and community upheaval.\r\n\r\nIt’s a situation that has caused many to wonder, where does the interpretation of the law as it is written end, and the history and intention of a place begin?\r\n<h4><strong>A new neighbor&nbsp;</strong></h4>\r\nCharles Gardner remembers the first time he met Ruben Adams. It was the moment he learned the one-acre strip of land next door had been sold.&nbsp;\r\n\r\nNeither he, nor many of his neighbors along the adjoining Ashton Drive, were even aware the property – previously owned by distant relatives of the Gardners – had been sold to a trust a year earlier in a tax sale for $4,000.&nbsp;\r\n\r\nIn January of 2015, Adams purchased the property for the astonishingly low price of $19,000, according to both Adams and county records.\r\n\r\n<a href=\"https://staging.yourislandnews.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/09/RES0693.jpg\"><img class=\"wp-image-41770 alignleft\" src=\"https://staging.yourislandnews.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/09/RES0693-1024x815.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"443\" height=\"352\"></a>At the time, Gardner thought it strange that anyone, including Adams, would want to buy the one-acre strip given you couldn’t build on\r\nthe property – at least that had been his understanding of the “property across the road” for all those years.\r\n\r\nAccording to David Youmans, a surveyor with extensive experience and knowledge of the area, the setback for the strip is 60 feet from the edge of the marsh and 75 feet for a septic system.\r\n\r\n“Nobody really wanted to buy it because nobody could build on it,” said Gardner. “I thought the only thing he could do was clean it up and have a picnic on it or something.”\r\n\r\nNonetheless, Adams soon moved a camper to the property and began living there full time. The two neighbors used the same 30-foot road to access their property, which Gardner didn’t think much about since he let others in the community use the road.\r\n\r\nAdams attended cookouts at Gardner’s house and helped Gardner get his garage door repaired. For all intents and purposes things were amicable – until Adams began asking Gardner about the road.\r\n\r\nIn the early ‘80s, Gardner’s father had leased part of the land, road and boat ramp to Alcoa which used the property as a staging area for developing Dataw. A 1995 survey conducted by Gasque and Associates for Gardner shows the boat ramp was “owned and claimed by Leroy Gardner.”\r\n\r\nAfter his father died, Gardner continued maintaining the road and boat ramp, which meant bringing in dirt or gravel for the road or repairing the concrete on the ramp, all things that Gardner has paid for over the years.\r\n\r\nWhat’s more, Gardner pays taxes on the road and the ramp, which are detailed on his property tax bill.\r\n\r\nSo why was his new neighbor asking about the road?\r\n\r\nAdams said he asked Gardner, who owned the road before he closed on the property, “just to see what he would say.”\r\n\r\n“I already knew (I owned it) because of my paperwork,” Adams said.\r\n\r\nA self-described “frustrated entrepreneur,” Adams, who once owned Carolina Sweets candy business, most recently built and sold spec houses on Hilton Head Island.\r\n\r\nBorn in Mobile, Alabama, and raised in Louisiana, Adams, who is 67 now, said he started building houses when he was 24.\r\n\r\nAfter the housing bubble burst, Adams said he lost millions on various properties he was holding the mortgages on, including a large home he was fixing up on Callawassie Drive. Before buying the Warsaw Island property, he was living at Tuck in the Wood Campground on St. Helena Island, he said.\r\n\r\nHis sudden interest in the road made Gardner suspicious.\r\n\r\nBut according to Gardner, it really wasn’t until July of 2018, when Adams put up a gate blocking the road – three years after he bought the property – that Gardner realized something was terribly wrong.\r\n\r\nAsked if he bought the land believing it included the 30-foot road and boat ramp, Adams joked that he “wasn’t real intelligent.”\r\n\r\n“What I normally do when I buy properties is I do my due diligence,” Adams said, later adding that it was his wife who questioned Gardner’s ownership of the road and ramp after finding a 1990 Quiet Title.\r\n<h4><strong>Three little words</strong></h4>\r\nDespite the history of the ramp’s use, the title for the land and a variety of documents Gardner has connecting his family to the road, the question of who rightfully owns the road and ramp now seems to hinge on a nearly 30-year-old judgment and three little words: “Save and Except.”\r\n\r\nIn 1990, after Charles’ mother died without a will, Gardner’s father sought to claim the land and settle with any potential heirs. The <a href=\"https://staging.yourislandnews.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/09/RES5929.jpg\"><img class=\"alignright wp-image-41768\" src=\"https://staging.yourislandnews.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/09/RES5929-1024x620.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"481\" height=\"291\"></a>“Quiet Title action” awarded Leroy Gardner several lots totaling close to 20 acres.&nbsp;\r\n\r\nHowever, a 1.054-acre portion of one lot was awarded to John Howard, a relative who was given the strip of land by Ardelle Gardner’s uncle, Dan Taylor.\r\n\r\nAccording to Page 11 of the judgment, Leroy Gardner owns all of Lot 15, “… Save and excepting, however, the 1.054 acre portion of Lot 15 situate immediately below (southeast) the unpaved Beaufort County road …”\r\n\r\nThe judgment goes on to state that the 1.054 acre is owned by John Howard.\r\n\r\nAnd, on Page 12 the judgment says, “The unpaved county road separates the respective portions of Lot 15 owned by the Plaintiff (Leroy Gardner) and John Howard.”\r\n\r\nThe language is repeated and summarized on the final page of the judgment.\r\n\r\nJudge Thomas Kemmerlin, Jr., who served as Master-in-Equity on the title clearance, died in 2010, but the language of his judgment and whether or not it could be interpreted in another way, would be called into question years later.\r\n<h4><strong>The Buckner Decision</strong></h4>\r\nIf Adams purchased the property once belonging to John Howard, that meant he only owned the 1.054 acre portion, reasoned Gardner’s attorney at the time. So Gardner, thinking he had open and shut case, decided to take Adams to court.\r\n\r\nHowever, in June of 2018, Judge Perry M. Buckner III of the 14th Judicial Circuit, handed down a partial summary judgment finding the road, the boat ramp and the property to the south belonged to Adams.&nbsp;\r\n\r\nThe decision left many in the community scratching their heads. Could Buckner have looked only at Page 15, which seems to have more ambiguous language than Pages 11 and 12?\r\n\r\nGardner’s attorney, Bryan Raymond said that part of the basis for an appeal they have filed is that the Circuit Court erred in interpreting the Quiet Title Order from 1990.&nbsp;\r\n\r\nIn addition, if there is ambiguity in the Quiet Title Order concerning the road and boat landing, the evidence does not show that Adams is the owner of the road or the landing.\r\n\r\n“We believe there would likely be an adverse possession of the road due to the Gardners’ use of it, which makes it an implied easement,” added Raymond.\r\n\r\nHowever Adams argues there are no right of ways on the property, including any made by SCE&amp;G for a utility pole discovered across the road from Gardner and servicing Gardner’s house.&nbsp;\r\n\r\n“There is not one easement anywhere on this property,” he said.\r\n\r\nAdams said after he and his wife did their “due diligence” and found the Quiet Title, they read it and decided that language on the final page means that Gardner owned Lot 15 “Save and Except” for the 30-foot dirt road owned by John Howard and therefore it now belongs to them.\r\n\r\nAdams said unlike the Gardners and others in the community, he is only “going by the documents” which for him includes a Warranty Title.&nbsp;\r\n\r\n“It’s their pride that causes their problems, not the facts,” he said.\r\n\r\nJust because the community has always used the road and boat ramp doesn’t make it right, he added.&nbsp;\r\n\r\n“For them to drive on this property that was not theirs and to try to claim it now, it was wrong then, and it’s wrong now,” he said.&nbsp;\r\n\r\nDespite the fact that a surveyor once told him he wouldn’t be able to build on the property, Adams said he would like to build a small home, about 1800 square-feet, on the property.\r\n\r\n<a href=\"https://staging.yourislandnews.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/09/RES5943.jpg\"><img class=\"wp-image-41767 alignleft\" src=\"https://staging.yourislandnews.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/09/RES5943-1024x620.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"471\" height=\"285\"></a>Adams tried to have the property surveyed again, and the property line re-drawn but that survey, conducted in Sept. of 2017 by Gasque &amp; Associates, was stamped “Problem Plat – See Assessor” and referenced the Quiet Title. A few months later, Adams was sent a letter from the Beaufort County assessor’s office, informing him that the Quiet Title, did not grant him the road.&nbsp;\r\n\r\nWith a court order in hand, Gardner attempted to have his own property surveyed along the road in 2018. Youmans, who also lives on Ashton Drive across from Gardner, along with Gardner and a few others from his family, were escorted onto the road by deputies from the Beaufort County Sheriff’s Office.&nbsp;\r\n\r\nThey were met at the gate by Adams who welcomed them, but about a third of the way through the survey, Youmans and the group were abruptly asked to leave by Adams.\r\n\r\nIn September of 2018, Gardner’s attorney sent a letter to the county asking that no other work be allowed on the road until the appeal is settled. A few months later, Judge Marvin Dukes III ordered an injunction stating that Adams could not build any permanent structures on the road or that would otherwise render the road permanently unusable.&nbsp;\r\n\r\nTo this day, the gate remains shut and barrels line its front.\r\n<h4><strong>A class action</strong></h4>\r\nIn January of 2019, a class action lawsuit was filed on behalf of those who say their work or livelihood has been negatively impacted by Adams’ closing of the road and boat ramp. Roughly 35 people have filed affidavits as part of the suit.&nbsp;\r\n\r\nWhile the landing is one of three on the island, it is the only one to provide access on that side of the island. “Distance and gas” is what make it preferable, many say.\r\n\r\nAmong those are Ed Atkins, owner and operator of Atkins Bait Shop on St. Helena Island. Atkins has used the ramp to get on and off Jenkins Creek for more than 50 years. His father used the ramp and his father before him, he said.\r\n\r\n“This is how we made our living for many a many years,” he said.\r\n\r\nThe closing of the ramp is costing him money, now that he’s having to travel farther by truck and by boat.\r\n\r\n“I’ve got to go at least 15 miles down the river, and then I’ve got to go back and I pass that ramp on the way,” he said.&nbsp;\r\n\r\nNot only is he spending about twice as much on gas, sometimes he has to go out twice a day to make up for the bait that dies on the way.\r\n\r\n“More than a third die before I can get back to the shop,” he said. “It’s taking too long to get back.”\r\n\r\nHe does not understand why the road can’t stay open until the question of ownership is settled.\r\n\r\nNeither does Scott Cheslak, another plaintiff in the suit. Cheslak operates the boats for Charles River Laboratories on Morgan Island, commonly referred to as Monkey Island. His work is part of a contract with the National Institutes of Health.\r\n\r\n“We’ve been using the boat landing for over 10 years,” Cheslak stated in an affidavit. The proximity of the ramp to Morgan Island made it so the work took “little time and manpower,” he said.\r\n\r\nNow that the landing is closed, operating the project’s three vessels requires much more time to complete the work.&nbsp;\r\n\r\n“This translates to an added cost to the project and to taxpayers,” he stated.\r\n\r\nIn addition to impacting livelihoods, many on the island feel that part of the community’s history and culture is being stolen as well.\r\n\r\n“We grew up around here. We went swimming and crabbing and fishing. We used to go over to Pollawana, which is Dataw now, and we used to go over by boat every day,” said Georgia Champion. Champion and Gardner share the same great grandparents.\r\n\r\n“So we know from our grandparents how that road was used and how that river was a source of income and a source of food. So to take that away is like trying to take part of our history and culture,” she said.\r\n<h4><strong>Things heat up</strong></h4>\r\nOn July 11, 2018, deputies from the Beaufort County Sheriff’s Office arrived to inform Gardner he would no longer be able to use the 30-foot road to get to his property.\r\n\r\n“I’ll never forget that date,” said Gardner. “We had no notification.”\r\n\r\nGardner was forced to move his vehicles and boat out of the garage since he will no longer be able to access that side of the house and anything parked inside will be blocked by a fence.\r\n\r\n“They said you will have to make your own road,” Gardner said.\r\n\r\nFriends and family members arrived the next day to help the 76-year-old cut a new road to his house while his wife, who was sick, remained inside. The new entrance is now off Ashton Drive.&nbsp;\r\n\r\n“It was heart wrenching,” said his daughter, Valerie Gardner, who was living in Atlanta at the time. “It made my father feel like he didn’t matter.”\r\n\r\nGardner said Adams frequently films or takes photos of him anytime he is in his yard, or has friends over, even when he is alone.&nbsp;\r\n\r\nValerie Gardner, who recently moved from Atlanta to look after her parents in large part because of the situation, has started taking video and photos of Adams in return. She sends them to the family’s attorney.\r\n\r\nMeanwhile, neighbors in the area said Adams frequently harasses them.&nbsp;\r\n\r\n“He follows people down the road and tries to fight with them,” said Champion, who has witnessed some of the confrontations. “He calls the police every week. They’ve been coming out constantly.”\r\n\r\nIn 2018, Adams called the sheriff’s department 40 times, on everything from trespassing to disturbances, to stolen property or <a href=\"https://staging.yourislandnews.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/09/RES0666.jpg\"><img class=\"alignright wp-image-41771\" src=\"https://staging.yourislandnews.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/09/RES0666-1024x754.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"442\" height=\"325\"></a>suspicious activity, according to sheriff’s department records.\r\n\r\nNeighbors said they are particularly concerned since Adams is often seen wearing a gun, his German Shepherd never far from his side.\r\n\r\nAdams did not deny this. The very few times he’s had his gun, it’s because he’s felt threatened, he said. Everything he does is to defend himself, he added.\r\n\r\n“I never start a fight with these people,” he said. “You have to watch your back. That’s what it feels like every time I’m around them. I have to watch my back because someone is going to turn loose on me.”\r\n\r\nHe said both he and his attorney have been physically threatened. He also said voodoo was involved, but could not offer up any specifics other than a smoke bomb that was left on his fence.\r\n\r\nAsked if he feels he’s being treated unfairly or if his character is being maligned, he said he is “being beaten down every single day.”\r\n\r\nRichard Williamson, who lives next door to the Gardners, said he met with Beaufort County Sheriff P.J. Tanner in the spring of 2018, on behalf of Gardner and the community. Like many, he cannot understand why the road has not been left open or a court order hasn’t been issued to keep it open.\r\n\r\n“He said, until I get an order from a judge telling me what I can and cannot do out there, this is what has to happen,” Williamson said.&nbsp;\r\n<h4><strong>Another round with Dukes</strong></h4>\r\nIn May of 2019, after more than two years of sending warning letters and trying to reach Adams, DHEC fined him a total of $5,750 for a number of violations, including occupying the premises without an approved means for treatment and disposal of sewage and domestic wastewater.&nbsp; He was ordered to vacate the premises.&nbsp;\r\n\r\n<a href=\"https://staging.yourislandnews.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/09/Ruben-Adams.png\"><img class=\" wp-image-41765 alignleft\" src=\"https://staging.yourislandnews.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/09/Ruben-Adams.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"478\" height=\"304\"></a>In July of 2019, about six months after Judge Dukes ordered Adams not to build any permanent structure on the road, neighbors watched incredulously as a Adams began digging up the road to install a septic system.\r\n\r\n“In my opinion, that’s why he’s claiming the road,” said David Youmans, the assessor most familiar with the property from previous plats. “So he’ll have enough room for the septic system.”\r\n\r\nOn Sept. 11, Adams was called back before Judge Dukes to determine if he was in contempt of his earlier injunction. Dukes determined that what Adams has installed, part of a drainage field, does not render the road impassable or constitute a permanent structure since it could be dug up.&nbsp;\r\n\r\nThe road was the only place he could put the drain field, Adams claimed.\r\n\r\nWhile Dukes said he could not find Adams in contempt, he still admonished him.\r\n\r\n“I wrote this order with the intent that basically everyone sort of leave that road alone,” Dukes said. “I had hoped and assumed that Mr. Adams wouldn’t do anything with the road, he would leave it completely alone, and y’all would wait to get the ruling. And so I am not happy with Mr. Adams for doing this without conferring with counsel.”\r\n\r\nAt the conclusion of the hearing, Adams turned toward several people in the courtroom there in support of Gardner and told them to “shut your mouth” and “kiss my ass.” He winked and smiled at his neighbors and continued to gesture until a sheriff’s deputy came over to calm the crowd.\r\n\r\nFive days later, Adams was arrested for assaulting a neighbor, who has nothing do with the road dispute.&nbsp;\r\n\r\nSick of glancing the mailbox or barrels Adams has placed in the narrow bend in the road, Joey Heyward stopped to take photos. His intention was to send them to the county administrator to see what could be done.&nbsp;\r\n\r\nSeeing Heyward stopped on the road, Adams ran out to confront him. As can be seen on a video obtained by The Island News, Adams threatened Heyward and began to get close to him. Heyward attempted to get back in his truck but Adams shut the truck’s door on his leg. Heyward called the police.\r\n\r\nHeyward said he has a hard time getting his boat trailer in and out of Ashton Drive and has hit Adams’ mailbox by accident before.\r\n\r\n&nbsp;The week before the arrest, Heyward said Adams chased him down Warsaw Island Road and followed him to a gas station where Heyward called police. Adams filmed Heyward the entire time, he said, until the police arrived.\r\n\r\n“He harasses everybody,” Heyward said.\r\n\r\nAt his bond hearing, Adams was ordered to turn over any firearms he owns. Heyward took out a restraining order soon after.\r\n<h4><strong>Waiting on a decision</strong></h4>\r\nGardner and the plaintiffs in the class action suit have been told it could take years before their suits are settled.&nbsp;<a href=\"https://staging.yourislandnews.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/09/RES5948.jpg\"><img class=\"alignright wp-image-41766\" src=\"https://staging.yourislandnews.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/09/RES5948-1024x764.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"462\" height=\"345\"></a>\r\n\r\nAsked if he would like to see the dispute solved peacefully, Adams said, “These people will not go to peace. They don’t want peace.”&nbsp;\r\n\r\nAsked if he would ever consider sharing the road, Adams said no.\r\n\r\nIn the meantime, Gardner still cannot go out into his yard without being filmed or photographed by his neighbor.\r\n\r\nGardner’s daughter, Valerie, said the dispute has taken a toll on their family. She has a brother in Atlanta who, along with some others, is helping with their father’s legal fees.\r\n\r\n“We’re very tied up in knots over this whole thing,” she said.&nbsp;\r\n\r\nAt times Gardner seems somewhat defeated, his shoulders slump forward when he is talking. At other times he is more animated, as if he still has some fight left.\r\n\r\n“They thought I was just going to take it,” he said. \"They thought I was going to lay down dead.”\r\n\r\nThe appeal is now with South Carolina’s Court of Appeals.\r\n\r\n<em>Above:</em>\r\n\r\n<em>Ed Atkins shows a copy of a legal document showing ownership of the disputed parcel of land to Charles Gardner, left. Gardner says the land is his. He says he pays the taxes on it but can’t get any help regarding the current dispute with a man who appears to be homesteading on the property.</em>\r\n\r\n<em>Valerie Gardner, left, daughter of Charles Gardner, discusses past legal action regarding ownership of the parcel of land in dispute.</em>\r\n\r\n<em>One of many plot maps showing clear ownership and property lines of the disputed parcel of land on Warsaw Island.</em>\r\n\r\n<em>The contested boat ramp.</em>\r\n\r\n<em>A “No Trespassing” sign nailed to a wire fence post and evidence of piping system on the disputed parcel of land.</em>\r\n\r\n<em>Richard Williamson, left, and Liz Santagati go over legal documents during their meeting Tuesday, Sept. 10, on Warsaw Island.</em>\r\n\r\n<i>Ruben Adams, who has closed the road at the end of Warsaw Island Road denying the community access to the boat ramp.</i>\r\n\r\n<em>Lumber balanced on 55-gallon drums, “Beward of the Dog” and “No Trespassing” signs and a “cattle fence” prohibit anyone from coming onto a parcel of land on Warsaw Island. 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(41780, 4, '2019-10-02 14:54:07', '2019-10-02 18:54:07', '<strong>Activities at Hunting Island State Park</strong>\r\n\r\nThere are fun, interesting and educational activities every day hosted by Park Ranger and Lowcountry Master Naturalist Megan Stegmeier.<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">&nbsp;</span>\r\n\r\nSundays: Dolphin Ecology Kayak Tour, 8:15 a.m. (Oct. 13); Sand/candy art, 11 a.m. (Oct. 6, 20, 27); Hunting Island Bingo, 2:30 p.m. (Oct 20, 27); Story River Dolphin Cruise, 5:30 p.m. (Oct. 13); Full Moon Lighthouse Climb, 6:30 p.m. (Oct. 13).\r\n\r\nMondays: Reptiles of the Lowcountry, 11 a.m. (Oct. 28); Secrets of the Salt Marsh, 4 p.m. (Oct. 7, 14, 21).\r\n\r\nTuesdays: Marine Mammals of South Carolina, 11 a.m. (Oct. 15); CCC Video, 1 p.m.; Beach Walk, 3 p.m.; Going Batty, 4 p.m. (Oct. 29).\r\n\r\nWednesdays: Alligator Talk, 11 a.m.; Stepping Stones, 2 p.m.; Lowcountry Legends &amp; Lore, 4 p.m. (Oct. 30).\r\n\r\nThursdays: Interpretive Lighthouse Tour, 10 a.m. (Oct. 10, 17, 24, 31); CCC Video, 1 p.m.; Feeding Frenzy, 3 p.m.; Shark Tooth Excursion, 4 p.m. (Oct. 31); Spooky Lighthouse Lantern Tours, 6-8:30 p.m. (Oct. 31).\r\n\r\nFridays: Fish printing, 2 p.m. (Oct. 4, 18, 25); Story River Dolphin Cruise, 5:30 p.m. (Oct. 11).\r\n\r\nSaturdays: Sunrise Lighthouse Climb, 6:30 a.m. (Oct. 19); Tie-Die, 11 a.m. (Oct. 19, 26); Story River Dolphin Cruise, noon (Oct. 12); Dolphin Ecology Kaya Tour, 1:15 p.m. (Oct. 5); Trunk or Treat, 5-9 p.m. (Oct. 26).\r\n\r\nFor a description of these programs and a complete calendar of activities, go to southcarolinaparks.com/hunting-island and click on “Programs &amp; Events.”\r\n\r\nAll are invited to attend these free events, though there is an entry fee to Hunting Island State Park and reservations are needed for lighthouse programs.\r\n\r\nFor more information, call 843-838-7437 or go to the Friends of Hunting Island website and the Facebook page: FOHI Sea Turtle Conservation Project.\r\n\r\n<strong>Register for YMCA youth indoor soccer<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">&nbsp;</span></strong>\r\n\r\nRegistration for YMCA Youth Indoor Soccer is open thru Oct. 7 at The Wardle Family Y located at 1801 Richmond Ave in Port Royal. Ages 3-9. Season is Oct. 28-Dec. 20. Cost is $55 for Y members, $70 for non-members. For additional info, contact Mike Woods, Y Sports Director, at 843-522-9622, ext. 244. Register at the Y or <a href=\"http://beaufort-jasperymca.org/\">beaufort-jasperymca.org</a>.\r\n\r\n<strong>Register to be a Tiger Shark</strong>\r\n\r\nBYAC Tiger Sharks Swim Team registration is open for the 2019-2020 season. There are three levels of swim team for ages 5 and up who meet swim team group requirements: Shark Pups; Group 1; and Group 2. Evaluations on going on now for group placement. Learn more online at <a href=\"http://beaufort-jasperymca.org/\">beaufort-jasperymca.org</a> (click on Aquatics&gt;Swim Team), stop by the Y in Port Royal (1801 Richmond Ave.) or call the Y at 843-522-9622.\r\n\r\n<strong>YMCA to offer CPR class</strong>\r\n\r\nThe Wardle Family YMCA, located at 1801 Richmond Ave in Port Royal, offers CPR classes for community members on Saturday, Nov. 23 from 8 a.m. to noon.\r\n\r\nCost is $35 for this YMCA-certified course and those interested need to register at the Y as space is limited and filled on a first-come, first-served basis. Questions? Contact Lou Bergen, Aquatics Director to register for this class. Call the Y at 843-522-9622 or visit beaufort-jasperymca.org\r\n\r\n<strong>Get moving with Beaufort Track Club</strong>\r\n\r\nJoin the Beaufort Track Club at the Beaufort High School track from 6:30-7:30 p.m. each Tuesday night for an open community track workout. Beginner, intermediate, and advanced workouts are posted each week to ensure that you are getting the workout that you need.\r\n\r\nVisit the Facebook page “Beaufort Track Club” for more information.\r\n\r\n<strong>May River Quilters Guild</strong>\r\n\r\nOn the first Saturday of every month, the May River Quilters Guild meets at Palmetto Electric Cooperative, 1 Cooperative Way, Hardeeville. Members meet at 9:30 a.m. for social exchange. The meeting starts at 10 a.m. Please call 847-707-6034.\r\n\r\n<strong>Seaside Stitchers return to action</strong>\r\n\r\nThe American Sewing Guild (ASG) is a notional Organization of sewing enthusiasts. The S.C. Central Savannah River Chapter of the American Sewing Guild has a neighborhood group in the Beaufort area named Seaside Stitchers, which hs returned from hiatus. The meetings are the third Monday of the month at the Beaufort Yacht and Sailing Club at 1 p.m.<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">&nbsp;</span>\r\n\r\nMonthly meetings are for everyone who sews. It is for sewers of a variety of skill levels and interests so anyone who has an interest in sewing is encouraged to attend and find out what ASG is all about. For more information, go to <a href=\"http://www.asg.org/\">www.ASG.org</a>. For more information about Seaside Stitchers, contact Sheila Tindall at 843-838-9473\r\n\r\nParkinson’s support group\r\nA support group for individuals with Parkinson’s Disease and carepartners meets the first Thursday of each month at the Beaufort Memorial Lifefit Wellness Center from 1:30 to 3 p.m. For more information, visit our Facebook page or call Ric at 843-525-1229.\r\n\r\n<strong>Celebrating Citizenship in Beaufort\r\n</strong>On Saturday, October 26th, an event will be held in Beaufort\'s Waterfront Park to welcome and honor all of our naturalized citizens and provide information to those seeking citizenship. From 2:00 - 4:00 p.m. Free refreshments! Live music! Bring a chair.\r\n\r\n<strong>4th Touch A Truck Fundraiser</strong>\r\n\r\nThe <a href=\"http://www.jslbeaufort.com/\">Junior Service League of Beaufort</a> will host its 4th Touch A Truck fundraiser on Saturday, Nov. 16 in downtown Port Royal from 11 a.m. to 4 p.m. on Paris Avenue. Cost of admission is $5 per person.\r\n\r\nTouch A Truck is a family event that offers a unique and interactive experience for children of all ages. Children will have the opportunity to see, touch, and safely explore their favorite vehicles that serve our community.\r\n\r\nThe event will feature many different types of equipment to explore, including a fire truck, ambulance, a Humvee, construction vehicles, and even a helicopter. The entertainment area will include a variety of activities including face painting, bounce-houses for kids and much more. And to round out the experience, enjoy music and fabulous food, drinks, and libations available for purchase.<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">&nbsp;</span>\r\n\r\nIn the case of rain, the event will be postponed to Dec. 7. Pets are not allowed at the event.\r\n\r\nCall Brittany Rosson at 618-967-6815 or visit <a href=\"http://www.touchatruckbeaufort.com/\">www.touchatruckbeaufort.com</a> for more information.\r\n\r\n<strong>Legal clinics at downtown library</strong>\r\n\r\nThe Beaufort County Library is offering free legal clinics at the downtown branch at 311 Scott St.\r\n\r\nEach clinic will feature a 30- to 40-minute lecture followed by an open question-and-answer session. All session run from 5:45 to 6:45 p.m.\r\n\r\nGet free answers concerning landlord/tenant law issues (Oct. 14) and family law issues (Oct. 28).\r\n\r\nFor more information, call the S.C. Bar Pro Bono Program at 803-799-6653, ext. 158 or 1-877-797-2227, ext. 158 or visit <a href=\"http://www.scbar.org/clinics\">www.scbar.org/clinics</a>.\r\n\r\nThe clinics are not designed to provide guidance on a specific situation. If you need legal advice on a specific situation, you will need to contact an attorney.\r\n\r\n<strong>Royal Pines arts and crafts event</strong>\r\n\r\nThe artists and crafts people of Royal Pines invite you to their fall event on the patio of The Tavern at the Lady’s Island Country Club from 9 a.m. to noon Saturday, Oct. 12. Items include handmade soaps and lotions, kiln-fired glass, bottle candles, photography, tie-dye clothing and much more. Bruster’s ice cream cart will be there with ice cream cups, apple dumplings, and their fall flavor.\r\n\r\n<strong>Friends of Hunting Island lighthouse tours</strong>\r\n\r\nThe Friends of Hunting Island will present tours of the historic Hunting Island Lighthouse at 10 a.m. every Thursday in October. Keeper Ted and his team will tell you all about the history of the Lighthouse, which was built in 1875 and is the only Lighthouse in South Carolina open to visitors.<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">&nbsp;</span>\r\n\r\nIf you are at least 44 inches tall, you may also climb the 184 steps to the top of the Lighthouse. Reservations are recommended by calling 843-838-7437 and the fee is $2 per person.\r\n\r\n<strong>Puppy Plunge at the YMCA</strong>\r\n\r\nYMCA Puppy Plunge will be held on the third Saturday of the month starting Oct. 19 from 9 to 11 a.m. (weather permitting) at the Y outdoor pool at 1801 Richmond Ave. in Port Royal. Pups can splash, swim and play in our safe, enclosed outdoor pool area.\r\n\r\nCost is $10 per pup, and all proceeds benefit the Y’s Learn to Swim program, which teaches local children and adults to swim at a reduced cost or for free. Dogs must be well behaved, current on all required vaccines and leashed until inside the pool area. Owners must be present at all times and humans are not permitted to swim in the Puppy Plunge. Visit <a href=\"http://beaufort-jasperymca.org/\">beaufort-jasperymca.org</a> or call 843-522-9622 for more information.\r\n\r\n<strong>TCL hosting annual oyster roast, 5k</strong>\r\n\r\nThe Technical College of the Lowcountry will host its annual oyster roast and 5K on Saturday, Oct. 19 at the Beaufort Campus at 921 Ribaut Road. The Halloween-themed Oyster Ghost Roast &amp; 5K by the Bay takes place on the TCL Beaufort Campus along the beautiful Beaufort River. The 5K starts at 5 p.m., spanning the campus and Spanish Moss Trail. The oyster roast kicks off at 6 p.m. with all-you-can-eat oysters, chili, hot dogs, brownies, lemon bars and more catered by Jim\'N Nick’s. All-You-Can-Drink wristbands are available for purchase at the gate for $10. The event will feature a live DJ, karaoke, cornhole, a college football viewing area, and lots of children’s activities.<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">&nbsp;</span>\r\n\r\nThe Oyster Ghost Roast (only) costs $30 for adults, $15 for ages 13-17 and is free for kids 12 and younger. The Oyster Ghost Roast and 5K by the Bay, which includes Oyster Roast/Afterparty Ticket, medal, and T-shirt, costs $60 for adults and $30 for those 17 and younger. All proceeds benefit the Student Veterans of America TCL Chapter and TCL’s Student Government Association. Learn more at <a href=\"http://www.tcl.edu/oyster\">www.tcl.edu/oyster</a> or call 843-525-8264.', 'What To Do', '', 'publish', 'closed', 'closed', '', 'what-to-do-193', '', '', '2019-10-07 09:53:44', '2019-10-07 13:53:44', '', 0, 'https://staging.yourislandnews.com/?p=41780', 0, 'post', '', 0),
(41782, 4, '2019-10-02 14:56:39', '2019-10-02 18:56:39', '<h4>By LEE SCOTT</h4>\r\nMy friends were all talking about the new Downton Abbey movie that has been released. Evidently it had a wonderful opening weekend.<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">&nbsp;</span>\r\n\r\nI expressed interest in seeing the movie because I did like the television series, but I am more interested in seeing the new movie Ad Astra. This is one of those science fiction movies and has to do with a daring mission to Neptune.<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">&nbsp;</span>\r\n\r\nNone of my friends seemed interested in going, but that is OK, because I am used to that response. I have been a lonely science fiction lover for years.\r\n\r\nIt started as a child when I found the first author I really liked, Jules Verne. He wrote Journey to the Center of the Earth, Twenty Thousand Leagues under the Sea, and The Mysterious Island, which all had me captivated.\r\n\r\nHe wrote more than 60 novels, and what is fascinating about these books is they were written in the 1860s and 1870s and described things that had not been invented yet. Things like solar sails, lunar modules, sky writing and tasers. I loved his imagination.\r\n\r\nAfter reading the Jules Verne books, I started to go to science fiction movies like Verne’s Around the World in Eighty Days. And I loved to watch the sci-fi television shows. It was so interesting to hear about a future that included communication devices (cell phones), video conferencing (Facetime) and voice activated digital assistants.\r\n\r\nI wonder how Jules Verne would feel about “Alexa” and “Hey Google.” With just a command from our voice they can turn on lights in our house, wake us up in the morning, describe our day’s appointments, and tell us if the traffic on our commuter route is blocked.<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">&nbsp;</span>\r\n\r\nOnce again, science fiction becomes realty and with it, I confess, my hidden fears about artificial intelligence and software. After all, my generation was exposed to movies like 2001, A Space Odyssey where a digital assistant named Hal killed the astronauts on the spaceship.\r\n\r\nI realize the voice-activated digital assistants must be very helpful for working parents with busy schedules.<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">&nbsp;</span>\r\n\r\n“Johnny has practice at 5 p.m.; Little Joanie has piano practice at 6; the heat in your home has just been turned up to 72 degrees at 4 p.m.”\r\n\r\nBut at what point, like Hal, does Alexa find a conflict between relaying information accurately and mission objectives. When does the science fiction turn into reality?\r\n\r\nYet, despite my fears regarding some of the science fiction predictions, I still love it.\r\n\r\nAnd so, as my friends get ready to watch Lady Mary welcome the King and Queen of England to Downton Abbey, I will be the one heading over to Auditorium No. 11 to watch Brad Pitt rocket off to Neptune.\r\n\r\n&nbsp;', 'I have mixed feelings about when science fiction becomes real', '', 'publish', 'closed', 'closed', '', 'i-have-mixed-feelings-about-when-science-fiction-becomes-real', '', '', '2019-10-02 14:56:39', '2019-10-02 18:56:39', '', 0, 'https://staging.yourislandnews.com/?p=41782', 0, 'post', '', 0),
(41784, 4, '2019-10-02 15:01:02', '2019-10-02 19:01:02', 'By SCOTT GRABER\r\n\r\nIt is Friday, and I’m in the Freight Yard Pub in North Adams, Mass. This afternoon, I have a cup of cheese- and scallion-topped chili ($5), a Blue Moon beer that comes with an orange slice, and a seat at the polished maple bar.<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">&nbsp;</span>\r\n\r\nI’m in North Adams because my wife has a loft in a nearby (converted) textile mill.\r\n\r\nNorth Adams was once a smoke-shrouded town whose factories employed every able-bodied man and woman, as well as children as young as 8-years old. I know this to be true because I have a photograph of four Biafra-thin, hollow-eyed children holding lunch buckets and standing in front of the Eclipse Mill, where my wife paints.\r\n\r\nThen the mills went south, some to South Carolina, and eventually there was a shift (in the case of North Adams) to the manufacture of electronic components like capacitors. In the 1990s capacitor making went elsewhere and North Adams went into an economic tailspin. When Sprague Electric closed its doors and abandoned its red brick buildings, there was no work for anyone, anywhere.\r\n\r\nIn 2000 the State of Massachusetts acquired the Sprague properties and converted its sprawling campus into the Massachusetts Museum of Contemporary Art. This was not to be a museum for Rembrandt, Rubens or even the impressionists like Matisse. This huge place was going to host contemporary art — MassMoCA would bring-in a dragonfly-looking, Huey Cobra-sized sculpture and hang it in a space large enough to house the Graf Zeppelin.\r\n\r\nFrom the start, the hip curators of MassMoCA believed in immersion — they wanted their patrons inside their “installations.” There was, for example, a frozen pond (indoor) where one was asked to jump into a hole in the ice. I know this to be true because I witnessed several museum goers jumping into this ice-cold, water-filled hole while the rest of us shook our heads in disbelief.\r\n\r\nA current installation — Into the Light — involves rooms suffused with a phosphorescent, cloud-like light that erases the walls, ceiling and floor. One enters these rooms after removing one’s shoes, putting on booties, and getting instructions about vertigo and nausea.\r\n\r\nChalkroom requires goggles and some instruction (for escape) if one panics. But once the preliminaries are over, one is allowed one to fly through a darkened universe in the manner of Luke Skywalker in the Millennium Falcon.\r\n\r\nThe art in these buildings is often confusing and usually controversial.<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">&nbsp;</span>\r\n\r\nAnd you do see older, balding, sandal and sock-wearing men looking upon a jumbled mound of concrete slabs, something you might see after a tsunami in Thailand, saying, “I can’t believe this crap! What the hell was this guy drinking?”\r\n\r\nIt’s clear their message is aimed at young people. These curators are betting their future on a younger cohort that wants to do more than look at Jackson Pollock and Mark Rothko. The numbers (245,000 visitors last year) seem to reinforce and reward this strategy.\r\n\r\nIt’s also clear that there’s a keen competition for tourists seeking enlightenment and entertainment in museums across the United States. This competition must be apparent to those who will manage Beaufort’s own Reconstruction Era National Park.\r\n\r\nIt’s not enough to display yellowing photographs or provide a gift shop stocked with mugs and magnets. These days there have to be exhibits that re-create the voices of Robert Smalls, Robert Brown Elliott and yes, Wade Hampton. There must be creative installations that highlight the hope, excitement and turmoil right after the Civil War.\r\n\r\nLikewise, we’ll need to show what St. Helena (and the South) looked, smelled and tasted like in 1870. There must be voices and videos that explain the complexity and confusion surrounding the division and sale of land to the Freedmen. There should be immersive, interactive exhibits that convey the disappointment with Jim Crow and, finally, the great migration from these parts in the first half of the 20th century.\r\n\r\nAnd these exhibits will have to be changed for time to time making way for new research, new writing, together with ongoing seminars where scholars debate land reform, reparations and the black experience in America. You’ve got to do these things if you intend to engage the Facebook-focused, iPhone-toting generation that rarely lifts his or her head from the small screen.\r\n\r\nThe Reconstruction Era National Park can become a center for research, debate and reform. 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(41787, 4, '2019-10-02 15:02:53', '2019-10-02 19:02:53', 'Whale Branch continued its best start to the season since 2011 with a 36-9 win at Philip Simmons on Friday.\r\n\r\nJadon Grant and Jaylen Reeves each scored two rushing touchdowns, De’Arius Hazel added a rushing score, and Jaden Jenkins had an interception for the Warriors.\r\n\r\nReeves rushed for 119 yards and two TDs on just nine carries, Hazel added 83 yards and a score on seven attempts, and Grant rushed six times for 41 yards and two TDs.\r\n\r\nJacQuez Frazier made 15 tackles and Hazel added seven to lead the defense.\r\n\r\nThe four-game winning streak is the Warriors’ longest to start the season since they won their first five games in 2011.\r\n\r\nWhale Branch (4-0) opens its difficult region schedule with a trip to Woodland on Friday.', 'Warriors roll to 4-0', '', 'publish', 'closed', 'closed', '', 'warriors-roll-to-4-0', '', '', '2019-10-02 15:02:53', '2019-10-02 19:02:53', '', 0, 'https://staging.yourislandnews.com/?p=41787', 0, 'post', '', 0),
(41790, 4, '2019-10-02 15:03:33', '2019-10-02 19:03:33', 'Battery Creek opened region play with a 35-8 loss at Wade Hampton on Friday.\r\n\r\nQuarterback Obadahous Wilson was the Dolphins’ top offensive threat, rushing nine times for 83 yards and the team’s lone touchdown and going 9-for-16 for 73 yards through the air.\r\n\r\nJaeon Allen added 73 yards on 14 carries, and Kyseem Jabar caught seven passes for 49 yards.\r\n\r\nBrandon Wilson had a team-high six tackles, Jeremiah Pinckney added five tackles (three for loss), and Jabar had three tackles and an interception to lead the Dolphins’ defense.\r\n\r\nBattery Creek (0-3) hosts Creekside Christian next Friday.', 'Dolphins fall to Red Devils', '', 'publish', 'closed', 'closed', '', 'dolphins-fall-to-red-devils', '', '', '2019-10-02 15:03:33', '2019-10-02 19:03:33', '', 0, 'https://staging.yourislandnews.com/?p=41790', 0, 'post', '', 0);
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(41793, 4, '2019-10-02 15:05:07', '2019-10-02 19:05:07', '<strong>School board sets weather make-up days for Dorian</strong>\r\n\r\nThe Beaufort County Board of Education Monday night approved three make-up days – and waived a fourth day – to compensate for instructional days missed due to Hurricane Dorian.\r\n\r\nDistrict schools were closed four days Sept. 3-6. South Carolina state law requires minimum numbers of instructional days or hours, depending on the grade levels of students. Districts must incorporate three make-up days into their annual calendars, and once those three days are used, local boards of education have authority to waive up to three additional days.\r\n\r\nThe vote by the board largely supported the 2019-20 calendar approved last January but added minor modifications. The newly revised calendar includes:\r\n\r\n– Nov. 11 as a full instructional day.\r\n\r\n– Nov. 26 as a full instructional day.\r\n\r\n– Nov. 27 as a half-day.\r\n\r\n– March 13 as a full instructional day.\r\n\r\nThat combination added three instructional days, and the board voted to use its state statutory authority to waive the fourth day missed due to Dorian. The district’s revised 2019-20 calendar will be posted this week on the district’s website (<a href=\"http://beaufortschools.net/\">beaufortschools.net</a>) under the “Students” and “Parents” tabs.\r\n\r\n<strong>Beaufort’s Stowe studies abroad during fall semester</strong>\r\n\r\nBeaufort’s Frances Stowe is one of more than 50 Wofford students studying abroad during the Fall 2019 semester. Stowe, a member of the class of 2021, is studying abroad in Alicante, Spain.<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">&nbsp;</span>\r\n\r\nWofford College, established in 1854, is a four-year, residential liberal arts college located in Spartanburg. It offers 26 major fields of study to a student body of 1,690 undergraduates. Nationally known for the strength of its academic programs, outstanding faculty, study abroad participation and successful graduates, Wofford is home to one of the nation\'s 283 Phi Beta Kappa chapters.<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">&nbsp;</span>\r\n\r\n<strong>Mitchell named to Limestone Spring Honor Roll<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">&nbsp;</span></strong>\r\n\r\nSammy Mitchell of Beaufort was named to the Limestone College\'s Spring 2019 Honor Roll.\r\n\r\nSammy was among 130 students honored. To qualify, students must be enrolled full time and earn a GPA of at least 3.75.\r\n\r\n<strong>Byam awarded scholarshp at Valdosta State<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">&nbsp;</span></strong>\r\n\r\nValdosta State University has awarded Beaufort’s Andrew Byam the Student Scholarship for the 2019-2020 academic year. Byam is one of nearly 500 currently enrolled, incoming first-year, or transfer students selected to receive a scholarship through VSU Foundation Inc. These scholarships were established by private donors and are awarded each year to students with excellent academic achievement and/or financial need. Each recipient represents the high standards of the university.', 'School Briefs', '', 'publish', 'closed', 'closed', '', 'school-briefs-51', '', '', '2019-10-02 15:05:07', '2019-10-02 19:05:07', '', 0, 'https://staging.yourislandnews.com/?p=41793', 0, 'post', '', 0),
(41796, 4, '2019-10-02 15:06:18', '2019-10-02 19:06:18', 'A math teacher with more than 15 years of classroom experience was named the Beaufort County’s 2019-2020 District Teacher of the Year on Friday, Sept. 27.\r\n\r\nThe selection of Michelle Gordon, who teaches math at Bluffton High School, was announced during a celebration honoring teachers of the year from all of the district’s schools.\r\n\r\n“I am so awed by this, and so humbled,” Gordon said. “All of these memories are rushing through my head right now – memories of the wonderful teachers I’ve had and memories of the wonderful students I’ve had.”\r\n\r\nThe other finalists were Vicki Shockley of Lady’s Island Middle School, Keisha Miller of Joseph Shanklin Elementary School, Jill Exley of M.C. Riley Elementary School and Denise Bell of Hilton Head Island Elementary School.<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">&nbsp;</span>\r\n\r\nBluffton High Principal Denise Donica said Gordon is respected not only by her students, but by her colleagues as well.\r\n\r\n“She’s amazing,” Donica said. “She’s so passionate about what she does, and everybody in our building loves her.”\r\n\r\nShane Gault, executive manager of Hilton Head Buick-GMC-Cadillac, presented Gordon with a $5,000 cash prize.<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">&nbsp;</span>\r\n\r\nGordon holds a Master of Education degree in Educational Leadership from the University of South Carolina, a Master of Science degree in Mathematics from the University of South Carolina, and a Bachelor of Science in Mathematics, summa cum laude, from South Carolina State University.\r\n\r\nShe is a member of the National Council of Teachers of Mathematics (NCTM), South Carolina Council of Teachers of Mathematics (SCCTM), and South Carolina Leader of Mathematics Education (SCLME).<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">&nbsp;</span>\r\n\r\nBecoming District Teacher of the Year is a three-step process that begins when school-level teachers of the year are selected in April. Those wishing to compete for District Teacher of the Year submit detailed applications by the end of July.\r\n\r\nIn the second step, a selection committee consisting of parents, former educators and community leaders from across Beaufort County reviews the applications and rates them using a numerical scoring system. The five highest-scoring applicants are named as finalists.<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">&nbsp;</span>\r\n\r\nIn the third step, the finalists are interviewed by a separate review committee again composed of judges from across the county. The judges scored candidates based on how well they respond to questions about current education issues. After those interviews, the panel selects the District Teacher of the Year in September, and that person represents Beaufort County in the S.C. State Teacher of the Year program. Finalists for the state program will be announced in February.\r\n\r\n<strong>2019-20 Teachers of the Year</strong>\r\n\r\nListed by school\r\n\r\nBattery Creek High School: Beth Ann Melton\r\n\r\nBeaufort Elementary School: Christene Johnson-Holmes\r\n\r\nBeaufort High School: Wendy Lacombe\r\n\r\nBeaufort Middle School: Rhonda McCauley\r\n\r\nBeaufort/Jasper Academy for Career Excellence: Raquel Bryan\r\nBluffton Elementary School: Rachel Gauvreau\r\n\r\nBluffton High School: Michelle Gordon**\r\n\r\nBluffton Middle School: Donna Floyd\r\n\r\nBroad River Elementary: Arriel Young\r\n\r\nCoosa Elementary: Cynthia Jeffrey\r\n\r\nH.E. McCracken Middle School: Emily Rietveld\r\n\r\nHilton Head ECC: Kimberly Bambeck\r\n\r\nHilton Head Island High School: Josh Wall<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">&nbsp;</span>\r\n\r\nHilton Head Island Elementary School: Denise Bell**<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">&nbsp;</span>\r\n\r\nHilton Head Island Middle School: DeAnna Campbell-Holmes\r\n\r\nHilton Head Island School for the Creative Arts: Lyn Raichle\r\nJoseph S. Shanklin Elementary School: Keisha Miller **\r\nLady’s Island Elementary School: Kwame Thornton<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">&nbsp;</span>\r\n\r\nLady’s Island Middle School: Vicki Shockley**\r\n\r\nMay River High School: Julie Collins\r\n\r\nMichael C. Riley Elementary School: Jill Exley**\r\n\r\nMossy Oaks Elementary School: Amy Squires<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">&nbsp;</span>\r\n\r\nOkatie Elementary School: Amanda Hogshead\r\n\r\nPort Royal Elementary School: Corey Hollis\r\n\r\nPritchardville Elementary School: Deree Ward\r\n\r\nRed Cedar Elementary School: Leanne Black\r\n\r\nRight Choices: Nancy Wolff<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">&nbsp;</span>\r\n\r\nRiver Ridge Academy: Kim Fields\r\n\r\nRobert Smalls International Academy: Ashley Holland\r\nSt. Helena Elementary School: Sharonda Coaxum\r\n\r\nWhale Branch Early College High School: Freda McCanick\r\n\r\nWhale Branch Elementary School: Gerald Greene\r\n\r\nWhale Branch Middle School: Karen Tooman\r\n\r\nAdult Education: Jannie Mae Williams\r\n\r\n**District Teacher of the Year Finalists', 'Bluffton’s Gordon named Beaufort County Teacher of the Year', '', 'publish', 'closed', 'closed', '', 'blufftons-gordon-named-beaufort-county-teacher-of-the-year', '', '', '2019-10-02 15:06:18', '2019-10-02 19:06:18', '', 0, 'https://staging.yourislandnews.com/?p=41796', 0, 'post', '', 0),
(41798, 4, '2019-10-02 15:07:54', '2019-10-02 19:07:54', '<strong>Country may spray for mosquitoes through Friday</strong>\r\n\r\nBeaufort County Mosquito Control may conduct aerial and/or ground treatments from through Oct. 4. Mosquito Control applies EPA-registered public health insecticide during ideal weather using low-flying aircraft throughout daylight hours and spray trucks from about 11 p.m. to 6:30 a.m. For additional information, please contact Mosquito Control at 843-255-5800.\r\n\r\n<strong>Marines conducting live fire training</strong>\r\n\r\nMarine Corps Recruit Depot, Parris Island will be commencing live fire training from 6 a.m. to 2 a.m. Saturday, Oct. 5.\r\nThe marsh and waterways in the range impact area – to include Archers Creek, Ribbon Creek, and Edding Creek – will be closed to boater traffic. For questions regarding firing times and waterway closures, please contact the Weapons and Field Training Battalion Range Control at 843-228-3170.\r\n\r\n<strong>BCSD’s Rodriguez speaker for LIBPA’s October meeting</strong>\r\n\r\nThe Lady’s Island Business Professionals Associtation will hold it’s October meeting at 8 a.m. Tuesday, Oct. 8 at the Beaufort Realtors’ Association Headquarters at Palmetto Business Park on Lady’s Island.\r\n\r\nThe guest speaker will be Beaufort County School District Superintendent Frank Rodriguez. Rodriguez served South Florida in a variety of capacities – as a teacher, principal as well as an Area and Regional Superintendent. He has a Bachelor of Science Degree, a Master\'s Degree and a Doctorate in Educational Leadership.\r\n\r\nDr. Rodriguez lives in Beaufort County with his wife and their two children. He is driven by the notion that a great education is the key to a person\'s future, and he dedicates himself to ensuring that each and every child receives one.\r\n\r\n<strong>100 Women Who Care Beaufort holding final meeting of year</strong>\r\n\r\n100 Women Who Care Beaufort will hold its final meeting of 2019 from 5:30 to 6:30 p.m. Tuesday, Oct. 8, 5:30-6:30 (registration at 5 p.m.).\r\n\r\nFounded by Jeneane Ryan, this organization brings together women four times a year to choose a deserving, nonprofit organization in Northern Beaufort County to receive $100 from each member. Since 2015, this organization has raised $266,700.\r\n\r\nThe meeting will be held at First Presbyterian Church of Beaufort, 1201 North Street in the Fellowship Hall. For more information, call 703-472-1780 or visit 100WWCBeaufort@gmail.com.\r\n\r\n<strong>County Channel’s Coastline features BCSD’s Rodriguez</strong>\r\n\r\nA new episode of The County Channel’s series <a href=\"http://links.govdelivery.com/track?type=click&amp;enid=ZWFzPTEmbXNpZD0mYXVpZD0mbWFpbGluZ2lkPTIwMTkwOTI2LjEwNzE0NjYxJm1lc3NhZ2VpZD1NREItUFJELUJVTC0yMDE5MDkyNi4xMDcxNDY2MSZkYXRhYmFzZWlkPTEwMDEmc2VyaWFsPTE2NzkzNDA1JmVtYWlsaWQ9dGhlaXNsYW5kbmV3c0BnbWFpbC5jb20mdXNlcmlkPXRoZWlzbGFuZG5ld3NAZ21haWwuY29tJnRhcmdldGlkPSZmbD0mbXZpZD0mZXh0cmE9JiYm&amp;&amp;&amp;100&amp;&amp;&amp;https://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=youtu.be&amp;utm_medium=email&amp;utm_source=govdelivery&amp;v=1VKirAL9AbE\">Coastline</a> introduces Beaufort County School District Superintendent Frank Rodriguez. Rodriguez will join host Suzanne Larson to discuss topics including the Beaufort County School District as one of the biggest employers in the county and the upcoming November school referendum.\r\n\r\nCoastline airs on The County Channel Sundays at 9:30 a.m., Tuesdays at 11:30 a.m., Thursdays at 8 p.m., and Fridays at 9 a.m. Coastline is a monthly news show filmed in-studio and produced by The County Channel.\r\n\r\nWatch all programming for The County Channel on Comcast Ch. 2, Hargray Chs. 9 and 113, and Spectrum Ch. 1304. Viewers can also watch programming live and on-demand at <a href=\"http://links.govdelivery.com/track?type=click&amp;enid=ZWFzPTEmbXNpZD0mYXVpZD0mbWFpbGluZ2lkPTIwMTkwOTI2LjEwNzE0NjYxJm1lc3NhZ2VpZD1NREItUFJELUJVTC0yMDE5MDkyNi4xMDcxNDY2MSZkYXRhYmFzZWlkPTEwMDEmc2VyaWFsPTE2NzkzNDA1JmVtYWlsaWQ9dGhlaXNsYW5kbmV3c0BnbWFpbC5jb20mdXNlcmlkPXRoZWlzbGFuZG5ld3NAZ21haWwuY29tJnRhcmdldGlkPSZmbD0mbXZpZD0mZXh0cmE9JiYm&amp;&amp;&amp;101&amp;&amp;&amp;https://beaufortcountysc.gov/the-county-channel/?utm_medium=email&amp;utm_source=govdelivery\">The County Channel’s website</a> at <a href=\"http://www.beaufortcountysc.gov/\">www.beaufortcountysc.gov</a>.\r\n\r\n<strong>LowCountry Habitat for Humanity announces staff change</strong>\r\n\r\nThe LowCountry Habitat for Humanity Board of Directors announced that Executive Director Chet Houston has accepted a new position at the Department of the Navy as a Management Supervisory Analyst. While an actual date for Chet’s departure has not yet been determined, the move is expected to be effective in November.\r\nThe Board of Directors has developed a committee to immediately begin an executive search for a new Executive Director. For more information about LowCountry Habitat for Humanity, please call 843-522-3500.\r\n\r\n<strong>United Way of the Lowcountry seeking Community Impact Volunteers</strong>\r\n\r\nUnited Way of the Lowcountry is recruiting volunteers to serve on the Community Impact Committee. These volunteers help determine how undesignated United Way Annual Campaign donations will be distributed to local agencies and services throughout Beaufort and Jasper Counties.\r\n\r\nWith the community\'s support, United Way is focusing on four priority areas: basic needs, education, health and income/family stability.\r\n\r\nThis funding cycle, United Way of the Lowcountry is seeking volunteers to review programs in the areas of Education and Health. No experience is needed and training is provided.\r\n\r\nVolunteers must be able to attend one of the training dates. All training will take place at the United Way of the Lowcountry office, located at 1277 Ribaut Road in Beaufort.\r\n\r\nThe remaining training dates are Oct. 7 (2-4 p.m.) and Oct. 15 (9-11 a.m.).<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">&nbsp;</span>\r\n\r\nThose interested in participating should contact Chrystie Turner at <a href=\"mailto:cturner@uwlowcountry.org\">cturner@uwlowcountry.org</a> or call 843-379-3067 for more information. Visit <a href=\"http://www.uwlowcountry.org/\">www.uwlowcountry.org</a> for more information.', 'News Briefs', '', 'publish', 'closed', 'closed', '', 'news-briefs-126', '', '', '2019-10-02 15:07:54', '2019-10-02 19:07:54', '', 0, 'https://staging.yourislandnews.com/?p=41798', 0, 'post', '', 0),
(41800, 4, '2019-10-02 15:09:04', '2019-10-02 19:09:04', 'The <a href=\"http://links.govdelivery.com/track?type=click&amp;enid=ZWFzPTEmbXNpZD0mYXVpZD0mbWFpbGluZ2lkPTIwMTkwOTE3LjEwMjk2MTAxJm1lc3NhZ2VpZD1NREItUFJELUJVTC0yMDE5MDkxNy4xMDI5NjEwMSZkYXRhYmFzZWlkPTEwMDEmc2VyaWFsPTE2Nzg5NTE0JmVtYWlsaWQ9dGhlaXNsYW5kbmV3c0BnbWFpbC5jb20mdXNlcmlkPXRoZWlzbGFuZG5ld3NAZ21haWwuY29tJnRhcmdldGlkPSZmbD0mbXZpZD0mZXh0cmE9JiYm&amp;&amp;&amp;100&amp;&amp;&amp;https://www.beaufortcountysc.gov/solid-waste-and-recycle/?utm_medium=email&amp;utm_source=govdelivery\">Beaufort County Public Works Department Solid Waste and Recycling Section</a> has rescheduled the two free electronics recycling events canceled due to Hurricane Dorian.<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">&nbsp;</span>\r\n\r\nThe events will be held Saturday, Oct. 5, from 9 a.m. to 3 p.m. at the following locations:\r\n– Beaufort County Public Works, 9 Benton Field Road, Bluffton\r\n– Beaufort County Public Works, 140 Shanklin Road, Beaufort\r\n\r\nThe event is open to all county residents. Any personal computers, laptops, CRT monitors, LCD monitors, CRT televisions, non-CRT televisions, printers, hard drives and miscellaneous electronics (microwaves, cell phones, radios, fax machines, and typewriters) will be accepted.\r\n\r\nThe department will also host a free shredding event for county residents Oct. 5, at the Shanklin Road Convenience Center from 9 a.m. to 3 p.m.\r\n\r\nFor more information, visit <a href=\"http://links.govdelivery.com/track?type=click&amp;enid=ZWFzPTEmbXNpZD0mYXVpZD0mbWFpbGluZ2lkPTIwMTkwOTE3LjEwMjk2MTAxJm1lc3NhZ2VpZD1NREItUFJELUJVTC0yMDE5MDkxNy4xMDI5NjEwMSZkYXRhYmFzZWlkPTEwMDEmc2VyaWFsPTE2Nzg5NTE0JmVtYWlsaWQ9dGhlaXNsYW5kbmV3c0BnbWFpbC5jb20mdXNlcmlkPXRoZWlzbGFuZG5ld3NAZ21haWwuY29tJnRhcmdldGlkPSZmbD0mbXZpZD0mZXh0cmE9JiYm&amp;&amp;&amp;104&amp;&amp;&amp;https://www.beaufortcountysc.gov/solid-waste-and-recycle/?utm_medium=email&amp;utm_source=govdelivery\">www.beaufortcountysc.gov/recycle</a> or contact the Solid Waste and Recycling Section at 843-255-2736.', 'County offers electronics recycling, shredding events Oct. 5', '', 'publish', 'closed', 'closed', '', 'county-offers-electronics-recycling-shredding-events-oct-5-2', '', '', '2019-10-02 15:09:04', '2019-10-02 19:09:04', '', 0, 'https://staging.yourislandnews.com/?p=41800', 0, 'post', '', 0),
(41802, 4, '2019-10-02 15:10:05', '2019-10-02 19:10:05', 'President Donald Trump has approved Federal aid to supplement state and local recovery efforts in Beaufort and 10 other South Carolina counties affected by Hurricane Dorian, according to a release from Governor Henry McMaster’s office.<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">&nbsp;</span>\r\n\r\nThe Federal Emergency Management Agency’s Public Assistance Program helps reimburse local governments, state agencies, and eligible private non-profit organizations for certain expenses they have incurred during large-scale emergencies. Federal disaster aid is not available for individual residents.\r\n\r\nOn Sept. 5, Governor McMaster formally requested a disaster declaration from the White House for Beaufort, Berkeley, Charleston, Colleton, Dillon, Dorchester, Georgetown, Horry, Jasper, Marion, and Williamsburg counties. His request followed an assessment of damages by representatives of the S.C. Emergency Management Division, local governments, and FEMA.\r\n\r\nUnder the Public Assistance Program, state agencies, affected local governments, and certain private non-profit organizations are eligible to apply for federal funding to pay 75 percent of the approved costs under certain categories such as debris removal and road repair related to the storm.\r\n\r\nThe FEMA Public Assistance program categories are as follows:\r\n\r\nCategory A: Debris Removal<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">&nbsp;</span>\r\n\r\nCategory B: Emergency Protective Measures<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">&nbsp;</span>\r\n\r\nCategory C: Roads and Bridges<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">&nbsp;</span>\r\n\r\nCategory D: Water Control Facilities<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">&nbsp;</span>\r\n\r\nCategory E: Buildings and Equipment<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">&nbsp;</span>\r\n\r\nCategory F: Utilities<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">&nbsp;</span>\r\n\r\nCategory G: Parks, Recreational Facilities, and Other Items<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">&nbsp;</span>\r\n\r\nThe division of the remaining 25 percent will be determined later.\r\n\r\nThe declaration also makes cost-shared funding available to the state for approved projects that reduce or mitigate future disaster risks. Funds under this program will be available to state agencies, local governments, and certain non-profit organizations only. A wide variety of potential projects are eligible.\r\n\r\nRepresentatives from the SCEMD Recovery Section will explain procedures for requesting assistance at a series of applicant briefings at locations to be announced soon in the affected areas.', 'Federal assistance approved for Beaufort, 10 other SC counties', '', 'publish', 'closed', 'closed', '', 'federal-assistance-approved-for-beaufort-10-other-sc-counties', '', '', '2019-10-02 15:10:05', '2019-10-02 19:10:05', '', 0, 'https://staging.yourislandnews.com/?p=41802', 0, 'post', '', 0),
(41805, 4, '2019-10-02 15:11:10', '2019-10-02 19:11:10', '<strong>Agapé Hospice seeking volunteers</strong>\r\n\r\nAgapé volunteers all have one thing in common: a calling and willing heart to serve. From teens to senior adults from all cultures and backgrounds, Agapé has a role you can fill. Our volunteer team members are such a huge part of who Agapé is, and we would love to have you on our team. We currently have volunteer positions opened in five counties: Allendale, Beaufort, Colleton, Hampton, and Jasper. If you are interested or would like more information please contact Ashlee Powers, Volunteer Coordinator at 843-473-6204 or by email at <a href=\"mailto:apowers@agapehospice.com\">apowers@agapehospice.com</a>.\r\n\r\n<strong>Lions Club adding eyeglass dropboxes</strong>\r\n\r\nIn honor of World Sight Day, Oct. 10, the Beaufort Lions Club will place additional drop boxes for eyeglasses donations in various businesses and locations around the area during the week of Oct. 6-12. Used prescription eyeglasses, unused contact lens, hearing aids, and cell phones are collected, sent to S.C. Lions Charitable Services in Columbia, sterilized and graded, and then provided to doctors to distribute to patients in developing areas of South America.<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">&nbsp;</span>\r\n\r\nPermanent donation boxes are at the Scott Street library, the St. Helena Library, Beaufort Memorial Hospital, AMVets, the Naval Hospital, and local eye doctor offices. Additional boxes will be placed at TCL (library, health science, and the administration office) and at Sea Island Presbyterian Church.\r\n\r\nPlease plan to donate your used/no longer needed prescription eyeglasses and contact the Lions Club to help those less fortunate who need eyeglasses. The Beaufort Lions Club meets the first and third Monday of each month in the back room at Golden Corral – dinner at 6, meeting at 6:30. Please come and get to know us.', 'Health Briefs', '', 'publish', 'closed', 'closed', '', 'health-briefs-15', '', '', '2019-10-02 15:11:10', '2019-10-02 19:11:10', '', 0, 'https://staging.yourislandnews.com/?p=41805', 0, 'post', '', 0),
(41808, 4, '2019-10-02 15:12:40', '2019-10-02 19:12:40', '<h4>By DR. MARK SIEGEL<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">&nbsp;</span></h4>\r\nOn August 27, 2019, Alcon introduced AcrySof IQ PanOptix Trifocal IOL in the U.S., the first and only FDA-approved trifocal lens. On September 18, 2019, I implanted the first patient in Beaufort County with this amazing and technologically advanced IOL.\r\n\r\nPanOptix delivers an exceptional combination of near, intermediate and distance vision and substantially reduces the need for glasses.\r\n\r\nMore than 99 percent of PanOptix patients in the FDA clinical study said they would choose the same lens again.<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">&nbsp;</span>\r\n\r\nPanOptix is already one of the leading presbyopia-correcting IOLs in more than 70 countries. It is designed for today’s active lifestyles, from viewing mobile devices and computer screens to high-quality distance vision in a range of lighting conditions.<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">&nbsp;</span>\r\n\r\nThe new lens uses ENLIGHTEN®Optical Technology, a proprietary design that optimizes intermediate vision without compromising near and distance vision. Available in spherical and toric designs for astigmatism, PanOptix is built on Alcon’s proven AcrySof IQ IOL platform that has been implanted in more than 120 million eyes globally.\r\n\r\nI am proud to bring this new class of IOL to Beaufort County. I am leveraging Alcon’s years of experience with PanOptix in other countries and my 15 years of experience with their ReStor multifocal IOL to provide the best possible outcome for our patients.<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">&nbsp;</span>\r\n\r\nMy goal is to ensure optimal outcomes for cataract patients looking to correct their vision at all distances, with the vast majority of them never needing to wear glasses post-surgery.\r\n\r\nThe FDA approval of PanOptix was based on a pivotal study at 12 investigational sites in the U.S. With this single trifocal lens design, PanOptix patients demonstrated exceptional, uninterrupted vision.<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">&nbsp;</span>\r\n\r\nMore than 4 million cataract surgeries are performed each year in the U.S., which is projected to increase by more than 16 percent by the end of 2024. The presbyopia-correcting IOL market is expected to grow 60 percent by the end of 2024.\r\n\r\nThe U.S. ophthalmology community has been eagerly awaiting FDA approval of PanOptix. While reviewing the clinical trials and now seeing firsthand the patients results I’ve already implanted with the PanOptix, my expectations have been exceeded as have those of my patients.<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">&nbsp;</span>\r\n\r\nI can appreciate how patients undergoing cataract surgery today want a replacement lens that delivers the vision they need to live full, active lives without always being dependent on glasses. PanOptix is an excellent lens option to address these needs and is clinically proven to deliver an outstanding range of vision.<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">&nbsp;</span>\r\n\r\nI am privileged and proud to offer this exciting new IOL technology in conjunction with laser-assisted refractive cataract surgery.\r\n\r\n<em>Dr. Mark Siegel is the medical director at Sea Island Ophthalmology at 111 High Tide Drive (off Midtown Drive near Low Country Medical Group). Visit <a href=\"http://www.seaislandophthalmology.com.\">www.seaislandophthalmology.com.</a></em>', 'First FDA-approved trifocal lenses rech Beaufort County patients', '', 'publish', 'closed', 'closed', '', 'first-fda-approved-trifocal-lenses-rech-beaufort-county-patients', '', '', '2019-10-02 15:12:40', '2019-10-02 19:12:40', '', 0, 'https://staging.yourislandnews.com/?p=41808', 0, 'post', '', 0),
(41811, 4, '2019-10-02 15:13:38', '2019-10-02 19:13:38', '<h4>By LAURA KAPONER</h4>\r\nEstablishing a strong support network is a key ingredient in recovery. Typically, supports may consist of medical professionals, peers, religious organizations, family, friends, and even social media.<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">&nbsp;</span>\r\n\r\nWhat might be just as beneficial is thinking slightly outside the box, using animal companions as supports.\r\n\r\nVeronica Morris, a founder of Psychiatric Service Dog Partners (PSDP), explains “Under the Americans with Disabilities Act three things are required for a dog to be a service dog. 1) The handler must have a disability. 2) The dog must be trained to do work or tasks that help with the disability. 3) The dog must be well behaved in public, because if it isn’t, the dog can legally be kicked out of the public place.”<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">&nbsp;</span>\r\n\r\nPsychiatric Service Dog Partners, founded in 2012, is unlike traditional service dog organizations because it is completely volunteer run by people with disabilities. Their mission is to promote the mental health of people using service dogs for psychiatric disabilities by educating, advocating, providing expertise, facilitating peer support, and promoting responsible service dog training and handling.<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">&nbsp;</span>\r\n\r\nThe organization’s main avenues of support are an extensive website and a free online peer guidance group.<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">&nbsp;</span>\r\n\r\nService animals are specifically trained to help a person with their disability whereas emotional support animals (ESAs) help their disabled handlers by just being there. ESAs are not allowed in public with the exception of flying, but are allowed in no-pet housing.<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">&nbsp;</span>\r\n\r\nUnfortunately there are several websites offering to “certify” animals; although they aren’t breaking any laws, there is no legal meaning in what they do. This is something people should be aware of.\r\n\r\nIt is because of these scams, as well as people claiming their animal companions are Service Animals when they are not, that actually make things even more challenging for legitimate service animals.\r\n\r\nMorris faced discrimination with her service dog, Hestia, especially having an invisible disability.<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">&nbsp;</span>\r\n\r\nPublic access issues can prove challenging. She was once kicked off a city bus by the driver who didn’t believe she had the right to have her service dog ride with her. This driver decided to communicate with all the other local bus drivers to refuse to pick Morris up.<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">&nbsp;</span>\r\n\r\nMorris experienced a panic attack, and she didn’t feel comfortable bus riding for months after the incident. Hestia is trained to intensely lick Veronica when she senses a rise in anxiety levels cueing Morris to utilize coping techniques to deescalate her symptoms.<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">&nbsp;</span>\r\n\r\nSecondly Hestia is trained to press off Morris’ arm and into her chest. This is called pressure therapy and has been shown to release oxytocin and serotonin to help mitigate some symptoms.<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">&nbsp;</span>\r\n\r\nIf you have a disability that could be helped by a dog and enjoy dogs, then a service animal may be an important addition to your recovery. However, it is important to do the research first, as it’s a huge lifestyle change, can be expensive, and the proper training requires plenty of time and patience.<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">&nbsp;</span>\r\n\r\nSee PSDP’s website <a href=\"http://www.psych.dog/\">www.psych.dog</a> for further information.', 'A service animal may be an important addition to recovery', '', 'publish', 'closed', 'closed', '', 'a-service-animal-may-be-an-important-addition-to-recovery', '', '', '2019-10-02 15:13:38', '2019-10-02 19:13:38', '', 0, 'https://staging.yourislandnews.com/?p=41811', 0, 'post', '', 0),
(41814, 4, '2019-10-02 15:14:54', '2019-10-02 19:14:54', '<h4>By CELIA STRONG</h4>\r\nAround the wine world, regardless of country or region, there are wine makers known more for making one type of wine than another. Even though they make others as well.<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">&nbsp;</span>\r\n\r\nChampagne makers are known for their bubbles even though they sometimes produce still wines.<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">&nbsp;</span>\r\n\r\nNew Zealand wineries are best known for their Sauvignon Blancs even though they make some terrific red wines.<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">&nbsp;</span>\r\n\r\nIn California, Orin Swift Cellars is far better known for all their red wines. And yet, they make some excellent and unique whites.\r\n\r\nIn 1995, David Swift Phinney went to went to Florence, Italy with a friend. To “study.”\r\n\r\nBut, surprise, surprise, he discovered wine. Not just drinking it, but making it, as well. A few years later, in 1997, and after graduation, he got a job at Robert Mondavi Winery, as a temporary harvest worker. As hard as the work was, he decided it had to be for himself.<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">&nbsp;</span>\r\n\r\nIn 1998, he founded Orin Swift Cellars. (His father’s middle name was “Orin,” and “Swift” was his mother’s maiden name.) Starting with two tons of Zinfandel, he made wine for himself and others. For 10 years. More travel, more success, more options financially and in the world of wine, he grew his brand to include a wide range of domestic wines as well as wines made from imported juice.<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">&nbsp;</span>\r\n\r\nSome brands he has sold, but he’s always moving forward. Today, maybe because he started with Zinfandels, and other big, bold reds, his reputation and success is hugely slanted toward reds. But he does do some spectacular whites that should be explored.\r\n\r\nThe Orin Swift Veldora is made from 100 percent Sauvignon Blanc, grown in the Tofanelli Vineyard in Calistoga. This is a canary yellow wine with vibrant aromas and flavors. Honeydew melons, peaches, citrus (lemon marmalade especially), rich cream, mango, fig, pineapple, and nectarine. It has a lively band of acidity, a hint of minerality, all wrapped in a silky, lush body.<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">&nbsp;</span>\r\n\r\nIt is 95 percent fermented in stainless steel and 5 percent in French oak barrels. The label depicts church candles and statues of Our Lady of Guadalupe. Proceeds from this wine go to a charity that provides medical services to immigrants, mostly from the vineyards. Dave Phinney did think the vineyard work was that hard. For $29.99 at Bill’s Liquors\r\n\r\nOrin Swift Mannequin is also from California. Sourced from several vineyards, these grapes, 100 percent Chardonnay, are allowed to stay on their vines until they turn golden brown. They are barrel fermented in new and slightly used French oak.\r\n\r\nIt is the blending of all the variations – vineyards, barrels, ripeness, nine months of sur lie aging -- that make this wine such a unique Chardonnay. It has aromas and flavors that include Meyer lemon, honeydew, butterscotch, honeysuckle, jasmine, white pepper, fennel, pineapple, honey, nectarines, crème brûlée. And more. This label, and the wine’s name, comes from a Nicki Minaj song, Roman’s Revenge. Dave heard it on the radio in his car one day, and loved the line “You at a stand still, mannequin.” For $29.99 at Bill’s Liquors.\r\n\r\nCorse white wine is named for Corsica, the French island where its grapes are grown. One hundred percent Vermentino. Corse is the result of three years of research and development to find the best vineyard sites to make a true “Corsican” style Vermentino.\r\n\r\nThese grapes are fermented in stainless steel tanks. Its aromas and flavors are huge, and lively and crisp. Fresh green apples, bittersweet almonds, Thai basil, and flowers. Well-suited to many different style cuisines, all year long. This label depicts the hand crafted shepherds’ knife used on Corsica. For $17.99 at Bill’s Liquors.\r\n\r\nSo, from the great red wine maker, three totally excellent and unique whites. Enjoy.', 'Not on the red side', '', 'publish', 'closed', 'closed', '', 'not-on-the-red-side-2', '', '', '2019-10-02 15:14:54', '2019-10-02 19:14:54', '', 0, 'https://staging.yourislandnews.com/?p=41814', 0, 'post', '', 0),
(41816, 4, '2019-10-02 15:16:54', '2019-10-02 19:16:54', 'October’s First Friday Event, hosted by The Downtown Beaufort Merchants Association, will be the perfect way to welcome fall and jump start the weekend while spending an evening out with family and friends.\r\n\r\nThe event runs from 5 to 8 p.m., and businesses and restaurants along Bay Street and the downtown business core will feature promotions, demonstrations and specials throughout the evening.\r\n\r\nFirst Friday shoppers will have the opportunity to join in the fun as 30 participating Merchant Association member businesses host a Halloween themed scavenger hunt.\r\n\r\nShoppers can pick up a punch card from one of the participating businesses and as they browse and shop, look for pumpkin photos placed throughout each business.<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">&nbsp;</span>\r\n\r\nAfter visiting at least 10 business and receiving a punch from each one, they will be entered to win a cash prize. First prize is $200, second prize is $100 and third prize is $50.<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">&nbsp;</span>\r\n\r\nEntries will be turned in for a drawing to take place at 8 p.m. (participants must be at least age 18 to be eligible for prizes). The drawing will take place and winners announced on the plaza by the clock on Bay St.\r\n\r\nFirst Friday is a perfect reason to visit downtown, to have a great meal and check out unique shops, galleries, and specialty stores.<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">&nbsp;</span>\r\n\r\nThis and all First Friday Events are free and open to the public. For information about First Friday and the Downtown Merchants Association, visit <a href=\"http://www.downtownbeaufortsc.org/\">www.downtownbeaufortsc.org</a>.', 'First Friday: Eat, Shop, and Be Scary', '', 'publish', 'closed', 'closed', '', 'first-friday-eat-shop-and-be-scary', '', '', '2019-10-02 15:16:54', '2019-10-02 19:16:54', '', 0, 'https://staging.yourislandnews.com/?p=41816', 0, 'post', '', 0),
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(41821, 4, '2019-10-02 15:17:38', '2019-10-02 19:17:38', 'On Friday, Oct. 11, the Beaufort Regional Chamber of Commerce will celebrate the grand opening of the Old South Exterminators\' new location with a ribbon cutting ceremony. The celebration takes place from noon until 4 p.m. The ribbon cutting ceremony will take place at 1 p.m.\r\n\r\nOld South Exterminators invites the public to attend the celebration. Guests are invited to 1 Oakwood Drive on Lady’s Island to meet the branch manager, see the new office, and enjoy light refreshments.\r\n\r\nOld South Exterminators is a family owned and operated business started in Ridgeland in 1968. Visit OldSouthExterminatorsInc.com for more information.', 'Old South Exterminators celebrates grand opening of Beaufort location', '', 'publish', 'closed', 'closed', '', 'old-south-exterminators-celebrates-grand-opening-of-beaufort-location', '', '', '2019-10-02 15:17:38', '2019-10-02 19:17:38', '', 0, 'https://staging.yourislandnews.com/?p=41821', 0, 'post', '', 0),
(41823, 4, '2019-10-02 15:18:22', '2019-10-02 19:18:22', 'Shorts at High Noon will begin its fall season Wednesday, Oct. 9.\r\n\r\nShorts at High Noon is a collection of indie short films, student films and animation films included in the Beaufort Film Society\'s library of films. These films were official submissions, finalists and, in some cases, winners the Beaufort International Film Festival from 2007-2019.\r\n\r\nScreenings will take place at the Technical College of the Lowcountry, Beaufort campus located at 921 Ribaut Road, Bldg 12, Auditorium. Check in at 11:30 a.m. Admittance is free.<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">&nbsp;</span>\r\n\r\nScreenings begin promptly at noon and will conclude by 1 p.m. School is in session. Please allow yourself some time to find a parking space. Vehicle parking is available immediately adjacent to Maclean Hall (film screenings take place here) and the opposite side of Ribaut Road adjacent to the Administration Building (Building 3).<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">&nbsp;</span>\r\n\r\nA pedestrian walkway is available under Ribaut Road from Building 3 parking to Maclean Hall. It is kindly requested that guests refrain from parking in posted faculty and staff parking spaces.<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">&nbsp;</span>\r\n\r\nCurb-side drop off is available at the front doors of Maclean Hall prior to proceeding to general parking.\r\n\r\nScreening on Oct. 9 include:\r\n\r\n– Unearthed (15 minutes), Charleston, S.C. (BIFF 2019) (Short)\r\n\r\n– Path of Dreams (26 minutes), Los Angeles, Calif. (BIFF 2019) (Short)\r\n\r\n– Karma (4 minutes), Los Angeles, Calif. (BIFF 2018) (Animation)', 'Shorts at High Noon returns for fall', '', 'publish', 'closed', 'closed', '', 'shorts-at-high-noon-returns-for-fall', '', '', '2019-10-02 15:18:22', '2019-10-02 19:18:22', '', 0, 'https://staging.yourislandnews.com/?p=41823', 0, 'post', '', 0),
(41825, 4, '2019-10-02 15:20:43', '2019-10-02 19:20:43', 'Blythewood spoiled Beaufort High’s home debut, as the Eagles dug an early hole and never recovered in a 56-21 loss Friday.\r\n\r\nThe Bengals jumped out to a 28-0 lead early in the second quarter before James Dagin got the Eagles on the board with a 5-yard touchdown run. Quarterback Tyler Haley added a 5-yard TD run later in the quarter, but Blythewood took a 42-14 lead into halftime.\r\n\r\nThe Bengals tacked on two more touchdowns to extend the lead to 56-14 before Haley hit Rhogue Wallace for a 20-yard touchdown pass to cap the scoring.\r\n\r\nHaley finished 22-of-37 for 239 yards and a touchdown and added 80 yards and a TD on 10 carries. Dagin rushed 12 times for 95 yards and a score and caught five passes for 44 yards, and Daniel Phares had seven receptions for 90 yards.\r\n\r\nEamon Smalls anchored the Eagles’ defense with six tackles, one for a loss.\r\n\r\nThe Eagles (0-4) travel to Effingham County (Ga.) on Friday.\r\n\r\n<em>Above: Beaufort High’s Matthew Haley gets some serious air time and comes down with the ball during the second quarter of the Eagles’ non-region game against Blythewood on Friday at Beaufort High School. Despite Haley’s efforts, the Eagles went on to lose 56-21.</em>', 'Bengals ruin Eagles’ home opener', '', 'publish', 'closed', 'closed', '', 'bengals-ruin-eagles-home-opener', '', '', '2019-10-02 15:20:43', '2019-10-02 19:20:43', '', 0, 'https://staging.yourislandnews.com/?p=41825', 0, 'post', '', 0),
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(41829, 4, '2019-10-02 15:22:33', '2019-10-02 19:22:33', 'Beaufort Academy picked up its first win since last year’s SCISA 8-man state championship game, as the Eagles routed Northside Christian 54-6 on Friday.\r\n\r\nThe defense got the scoring started with Jackson Davis’ 25-yard interception return for a touchdown on Northside’s opening series.\r\n\r\nElijah Fess rushed for 201 yards and a touchdown on 11 carries, and Kevin Rogers rushed for 153 yards and four scores on just eight attempts to fuel the Eagles’ offensive breakout. Kaishawn Jenkins threw a 17-yard touchdown pass to William Tumlin.\r\n\r\nBA’s defense turned in its best effort of the season with Jacob Union leading the way with 12 tackles and Malakai Steniger adding eight.\r\n\r\nThe Eagles (1-3) play at St. John’s Christian next Friday.\r\n\r\n<em>\r\nBeaufort Academy’s Elijah Fess (17) wraps up the legs of Northside Christian’s Max McKenna during the first quarter Friday night at Merritt Field. The BA defense held Northside Christian Academy to just 6 points during the Eagles’ non-region home game. BA won 54-6.</em>', 'BA gets back in win column', '', 'publish', 'closed', 'closed', '', 'ba-gets-back-in-win-column', '', '', '2019-10-02 15:22:33', '2019-10-02 19:22:33', '', 0, 'https://staging.yourislandnews.com/?p=41829', 0, 'post', '', 0),
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(41833, 4, '2019-10-02 15:23:26', '2019-10-02 19:23:26', 'With National Fire Prevention Week looming on the horizon Oct. 6-12,<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">&nbsp; </span>local State Farm insurance agent Andy Corriveau did his part to assist in the fight, donating fire prevention kits to the City of Beaufort/Town of Port Royal Fire Department.\r\n\r\n“These kits are designed to help educate and inform the community, and I appreciate Chief Reece Bertholf and Captain Ross Vezin for joining forces,” Corriveau said. “One life saved, one injury prevented, one house fire that doesn’t happen, that’s what we are all working toward with community education.”\r\n\r\nBertholf is chief for the combined Beaufort and Port Royal fire department and Vezin leads the department’s training division.\r\n\r\n“We have a strong community outreach effort, and we train our firefighters as well as our residents and business owners about preventing fires,” Bertholf said. “Having a partner like Andy Corriveau makes our work a little easier.”\r\n\r\nThe fire prevention kits donated to the City of Beaufort/Town of Port Royal Fire Department contain educational fire prevention materials for homeowners and children. Firefighters can share the information at fire stations or at community events.\r\n\r\nFor more information on National Fire Prevention Week, visit <a href=\"http://www.nfpa.org/fpw\">www.nfpa.org/fpw</a>.<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">&nbsp;</span>', 'Local insurance agent donates fire prevention kits to Beaufort Fire Department', '', 'publish', 'closed', 'closed', '', 'local-insurance-agent-donates-fire-prevention-kits-to-beaufort-fire-department-2', '', '', '2019-10-02 15:23:26', '2019-10-02 19:23:26', '', 0, 'https://staging.yourislandnews.com/?p=41833', 0, 'post', '', 0),
(41836, 4, '2019-10-02 15:25:20', '2019-10-02 19:25:20', 'Dr. James Swenson, a board-certified gastroenterologist with extensive clinical experience, has joined the team of specialists at Beaufort Memorial Lowcountry Medical Group.\r\n\r\nA specialist in the diagnosis and treatment of disorders of the digestive organs, Dr. Swensonhas performed more than 40,000 GI procedures over the course of his 35-year career.&nbsp;\r\n\r\nBefore moving to Beaufort, Dr. Swenson was chief of gastroenterology at the Veterans Affairs Medical Center in Tennessee, and site director of the East Tennessee State Gastroenterology University Fellowship Program there. He was also an assistant clinical professor of medicine at the university.<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">&nbsp;</span>\r\n\r\nHe had been in private practice for 17 years prior to that, and spent 11 years on active duty with the U.S. Navy.\r\n\r\nA graduate of St. Louis University School of Medicine, Dr. Swenson completed his internship at Portsmouth Naval Hospital and his residency and fellowship training at Bethesda Naval Hospital. During his time in the Navy, he served at Pearl Harbor, as well as Pensacola Naval Hospital and Jacksonville Naval Hospital in Florida.\r\n\r\nDr. Swenson will be working alongside board-certified GI physicians Drs. John Crisologo and Richard Stewart and physician assistants Kimberly Thorpe, Margaret Miler and Kristen Johnson at Lowcountry Medical Group. He will also be seeing patients at Beaufort Memorial Bluffton Medical Services, increasing much-needed access to GI care throughout the county.\r\n\r\nThe practice is located at 300 Midtown Drive, Beaufort; Bluffton Medical Services is in Westbury Park at 11 Arley Way. To schedule an appointment with Dr. Swenson or any of the Lowcountry Medical Group providers, call 843-770-0404.', 'Experienced gastroenterologist joins Beaufort Memorial', '', 'publish', 'closed', 'closed', '', 'experienced-gastroenterologist-joins-beaufort-memorial', '', '', '2019-10-02 15:25:20', '2019-10-02 19:25:20', '', 0, 'https://staging.yourislandnews.com/?p=41836', 0, 'post', '', 0),
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(41840, 4, '2019-10-02 15:27:06', '2019-10-02 19:27:06', 'Beaufort County resident Katie Lynn Godowns will hold a CD release party Saturday, Oct. 5 to debut her music and album \"Movin\' Mountains,\" as well as to help raise money for The Kiwanis Club of Beaufort\'s Scholarship Fund.\r\n\r\nThe Show is being presented by Martin Landscape and will take place at 7:30 p.m. at the USCB Center for the Arts at 805 Carteret Street. Tickets are $15 for children and $25 for adults and can be purchased at <a href=\"http://www.uscbcenterforthearts.com/\">www.uscbcenterforthearts.com</a> or by calling or visiting the box office at 843-521-4145. CD\'s will also be for sale.\r\n\r\nGodowns works full time for Beaufort County and is married to her childhood next door neighbor, Andrew Godowns, whith whom she has two children. Before she graduated from Battery Creek High School in 2006, Katie Lynn Godowns auditioned for Charleston Southern Universities Gospel Ensemble \" New Visions.\" She was awarded a 4-year scholarship to sing for them. Recording and releasing a CD realizes a lifelong dream for Godowns.', 'Beaufort native holding album release party', '', 'publish', 'closed', 'closed', '', 'beaufort-native-holding-album-release-party', '', '', '2019-10-02 15:27:06', '2019-10-02 19:27:06', '', 0, 'https://staging.yourislandnews.com/?p=41840', 0, 'post', '', 0),
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(41843, 4, '2019-10-03 15:30:25', '2019-10-03 19:30:25', '<h2>Beaufort’s Shrimp Festival celebrates the mighty crustacean</h2>\r\n<h4>By MINDY LUCAS</h4>\r\nFor a quarter of a century, the Shrimp Festival has served up delicious, mouth-watering morsels cooked in a variety of ways that would have made Forrest Gump’s pal, Bubba, proud.\r\n\r\nIn fact, the festival was started right after the famous film was released in 1994, as way to celebrate both the movie – which featured many scenes filmed right here in Beaufort – and the small but mighty crustacean that put Lowcountry cuisine on the map.\r\n\r\nNow the Shrimp Festival is back with two days of food, live music and fun. About 10,000 people are expected to attend the event which will serve up a whopping 3,500 pounds of shrimp.\r\n\r\nThe festival will take place on Friday, Oct. 4 and Saturday, Oct. 5 at the Henry C. Chambers Waterfront Park in downtown Beaufort.\r\n\r\nNew this year – fresh, South Carolina wild-caught “Grab and Go” shrimp will be available for purchase right off shrimp boats along the park’s seawall.\r\n\r\n“So you can go home and create all those great recipes the restaurants created at your own house,” said Blakely Williams, president and CEO of the Beaufort Chamber of Commerce.\r\n\r\nThe festival will run from 6 to 10 p.m. on Friday, Oct. 4, featuring a concert headlined by Deas Guyz, and again from 11 a.m. to 5 p.m. on Saturday, Oct. 5.\r\n\r\nThe event will also include a craft market featuring local and handmade wares open from noon to sunset on Friday, and 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. on Saturday.\r\n\r\nThe “Run Forrest Run” 5k Bridge Run/Walk will kickoff at 8 a.m. on Saturday. Motorists should expect the bridge to be closed from 8 to 9:30 Saturday morning.\r\n\r\nBoth days of the festival will feature tastings from a number of area restaurants and vendors. Prizes will be awarded for “best recipe” and “most creative recipe” so don’t forget to vote for your favorites.\r\n\r\nWilliams said one of the things people love about the event is the time of year.\r\n\r\n“October is a great time of year to welcome fall tourists back to town and it’s also the kickoff for our restaurants and our lodging and hotel partners who love the cuisine and waterfront,” she said. “It’s going to be a lot of what we all know and love about the Shrimp Festival.”\r\n\r\nAdmission to the event is free. Food will be sold separately.', '25 years and counting', '', 'publish', 'closed', 'closed', '', '25-years-and-counting', '', '', '2019-10-04 06:22:34', '2019-10-04 10:22:34', '', 0, 'https://staging.yourislandnews.com/?p=41843', 0, 'post', '', 0),
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(41851, 4, '2019-10-02 15:40:37', '2019-10-02 19:40:37', '<h4>By MINDY LUCAS</h4>\r\nA third family has been displaced in less than two weeks in what officials are calling a string of devastating house fires in the Burton area.\r\n\r\n“Why this is so devastating is you have three fires that have left three families displaced, two probably permanently, two involving four children each, and all three involving injuries,” said Captain Dan Byrne with the Burton Fire District.\r\n\r\nIn the latest incident, firefighters with the district and MCAS Beaufort Fire Department responded to an early morning fire on Shanklin Road on Sunday, Sept. 29.\r\n\r\nArriving on the scene just after 6 a.m., firefighters found smoke and flames coming from a single story home. A man trapped in the home was rescued from a front window of the house by deputies with the Beaufort County Sheriff’s Department who had arrived just before.\r\n\r\nA second man living at the residence is believed to have been out of the home at the time of the incident, Byrne said. Firefighters entered the home while it was still on fire to search for any other victims but found none. One of the men was taken the hospital with medical issues.\r\n\r\nFire crews quickly gained control of the blaze, which took over an hour to fully extinguish, due to some challenges, Byrne said. The fire had burned through the roof and spread to its insulation. In addition, the home’s power line had broken away causing electricity to charge and preventing firefighters from accessing certain areas.\r\n\r\nResidents said the home had no working smoke alarms and it was neighbors who alerted them to the fire.\r\n\r\nAn electrical issue is thought to have caused the fire, Byrne said.\r\n\r\nBeaufort County EMS also responded to the scene.\r\n\r\nThe other two fires were caused by unattended cooking. The first fire, which occurred on Sept. 18 on Laurel Street East, displaced a family of seven and left a woman with serious burns.\r\n\r\nA second fire, on Garret Smalls Road, in Seabrook, occurred on Sept. 22, and left a family of five displaced. A mother in that fire sustained minor injuries and burns from trying to get her children out of the home.\r\n\r\nWith Fire Prevention Week coming up, Oct. 6-12, and these recent fires, it is more important than ever to stress fire safety, Byrne said.\r\n\r\n“The three things we’re really stressing are smoke alarms, fire extinguishers mounted in the kitchen, or where you were see them the most, and making sure to sleep with bedroom doors closed,” he said.\r\n\r\nAccording to the “Close Before Your Doze” campaign close bedroom doors which can isolate a fire’s flow and keep carbon monoxide levels down can greatly increase a person’s chances of surviving a fire.\r\n\r\nThose who wish to help the three families displaced by the fires can email the Burton Fire District at <a href=\"mailto:safetyed@burtonfd.org\">safetyed@burtonfd.org</a>, Byrne added.\r\n\r\n&nbsp;', 'Third family displaced in string of ‘devastating’ house fires in Burton area', '', 'publish', 'closed', 'closed', '', 'third-family-displaced-in-string-of-devastating-house-fires-in-burton-area', '', '', '2019-10-02 15:40:37', '2019-10-02 19:40:37', '', 0, 'https://staging.yourislandnews.com/?p=41851', 0, 'post', '', 0),
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(41856, 4, '2019-10-02 21:09:24', '2019-10-03 01:09:24', '<h2>California senator struggling in polls</h2>\r\n<h4>By MIKE McCOMBS</h4>\r\nOn her 11th trip to South Carolina as a Democratic presidential candidate, Kamala Harris will finally visit Beaufort County.\r\n\r\nOn Saturday, Oct. 5, the junior U.S. Senator from California will host a town hall meeting at 5 p.m. in the Recreation Center at USCB\'s New River Campus, 1 University Blvd, Bluffton. Doors will open at 4:30 p.m.&nbsp;\r\n\r\nThe town hall was originally scheduled to take place in Beaufort, but plans changed after this publication went to print.\r\n\r\nPrior to her election as Senator to replace the retiring Barbara Boxer in 2017, Harris was the District attorney for San Francisco from 2004 to 2011 and the attorney general for the state of California from 2011 to 2017.\r\n\r\nA graduate of Howard University, double majoring in political science and economics, she earned her law degree from the University of California’s Hastings College of the Law in San Francisco.\r\n\r\nAs a senator, Harris has been in favor of single-payer healthcare, the legalization of marijuana, sanctuary cities, the DREAM Act, opposition to the death penalty, higher taxes for the wealthy and lower taxes for the working and middle classes.\r\n\r\nHarris has been vocal in recent days in her belief that President Donald Trump’s Twitter account should be suspended as he suggested his impeachment could result in a civil war and sought to reveal the identity of a whistle blower who has made the allegations against the president that have resulted in an impeachment inquiry by the House of Representatives..\r\n\r\n“The words of a president matter,” Harris tweeted Tuesday morning. “Trump has again shown he is irresponsible and endangering others with his tweets. He should lose the privilege to be on Twitter.”\r\n\r\n“The president\'s tweets and his behavior about this are just further evidence of the fact that he uses his power in a way that is designed to beat people down instead of lift people up,\" Harris said on CNN. \"If you look at what he\'s been tweeting today directed at the whistle blower, I frankly think that based on this and all we\'ve seen before, including attacking members of Congress, that his Twitter account should be suspended.\"\r\n\r\nHarris has shown her support for impeachment, as well.\r\n\r\n“Donald Trump has shown us he is lawless, and last week he gave us even more evidence that he is not fit for office. He must be impeached.” she tweeted Sunday.\r\n\r\nAccording to CNN, Harris’ campaign has undergone some reorganization in recent days, reflecting her struggles among Democratic candidates in recent polls. According to CNN, Harris is polling at 5 percent in Nevada and 3 percent in South Carolina.\r\n\r\nHarris is the eighth Democratic candidate for president to visit northern Beaufort County this year, joining Elizabeth Warren, Cory Booker, Pete Buttigieg, Andrew Yang, Beto O’Rourke, Julian Castro and Marianne Williamson.', 'Harris to host Town Hall in Bluffton', '', 'publish', 'closed', 'closed', '', 'harris-to-host-town-hall-in-bluffton', '', '', '2019-10-02 21:09:24', '2019-10-03 01:09:24', '', 0, 'https://staging.yourislandnews.com/?p=41856', 0, 'post', '', 0),
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(41867, 4, '2019-10-09 13:52:27', '0000-00-00 00:00:00', 'Activities at Hunting Island State Park\n\nThere are fun, interesting and educational activities every day hosted by Park Ranger and Lowcountry Master Naturalist Megan Stegmeier.<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">&nbsp;</span>\n\nSundays: Dolphin Ecology Kayak Tour, 8:15 a.m. (Oct. 13); Sand/candy art, 11 a.m. (Oct. 6, 20, 27); Hunting Island Bingo, 2:30 p.m. (Oct 20, 27); Story River Dolphin Cruise, 5:30 p.m. (Oct. 13); Full Moon Lighthouse Climb, 6:30 p.m. (Oct. 13).\n\nMondays: Reptiles of the Lowcountry, 11 a.m. (Oct. 28); Secrets of the Salt Marsh, 4 p.m. (Oct. 7, 14, 21).\n\nTuesdays: Marine Mammals of South Carolina, 11 a.m. (Oct. 15); CCC Video, 1 p.m.; Beach Walk, 3 p.m.; Going Batty, 4 p.m. (Oct. 29).\n\nWednesdays: Alligator Talk, 11 a.m.; Stepping Stones, 2 p.m.; Lowcountry Legends &amp; Lore, 4 p.m. (Oct. 30).\n\nThursdays: Interpretive Lighthouse Tour, 10 a.m. (Oct. 10, 17, 24, 31); CCC Video, 1 p.m.; Feeding Frenzy, 3 p.m.; Shark Tooth Excursion, 4 p.m. (Oct. 31); Spooky Lighthouse Lantern Tours, 6-8:30 p.m. (Oct. 31).\n\nFridays: Fish printing, 2 p.m. (Oct. 4, 18, 25); Story River Dolphin Cruise, 5:30 p.m. (Oct. 11).\n\nSaturdays: Sunrise Lighthouse Climb, 6:30 a.m. (Oct. 19); Tie-Die, 11 a.m. (Oct. 19, 26); Story River Dolphin Cruise, noon (Oct. 12); Dolphin Ecology Kaya Tour, 1:15 p.m. (Oct. 5); Trunk or Treat, 5-9 p.m. (Oct. 26).\n\nFor a description of these programs and a complete calendar of activities, go to southcarolinaparks.com/hunting-island and click on “Programs &amp; Events.”\n\nAll are invited to attend these free events, though there is an entry fee to Hunting Island State Park and reservations are needed for lighthouse programs.\n\nFor more information, call 843-838-7437 or go to the Friends of Hunting Island website and the Facebook page: FOHI Sea Turtle Conservation Project.\n\nSportfishing and Diving Club to hold Oct. meeting\n\nThe Beaufort Sportfishing and Diving Club’s October meeting will be held Thursday, Oct. 10 at the Beaufort Yacht Club on Lady’s Island off Meridian Road. The social begins at 6:30 p.m.; the meeting at 7 p.m.\n\nJoseph Ballenger, PhD from the S.C. Department of Natural Resources, will give a brief presentation on inshore fisheries – monitoring flounder issues in South Carolina.\n\nThe team of locally well known \"Cast Away Fishing Charters,\" Capt. Tim Deckard and Capt. Joe Marshall will present flounder fishing inshore and near shore. This will include favorite setups, baits, and locations. Tips will also be presented on the local black drum species.\n\nCongratulations again to Phillip Hodges for winning the $50 weigh-in drawing in July sponsored by Butler Marine.<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">&nbsp;</span>\n\nGuests are welcomed and you do not need a reservation. For additional information, contact Captain Frank Gibson at 843-522-2122 or <a href=\"mailto:fgibson@islc.net\">fgibson@islc.net</a>.\n\nRegister to be a Tiger Shark\n\nBYAC Tiger Sharks Swim Team registration is open for the 2019-2020 season. There are three levels of swim team for ages 5 and up who meet swim team group requirements: Shark Pups; Group 1; and Group 2. Evaluations on going on now for group placement. Learn more online at <a href=\"http://beaufort-jasperymca.org/\">beaufort-jasperymca.org</a> (click on Aquatics&gt;Swim Team), stop by the Y in Port Royal (1801 Richmond Ave.) or call the Y at 843-522-9622.\n\nYMCA to offer CPR class\n\nThe Wardle Family YMCA, located at 1801 Richmond Ave in Port Royal, offers CPR classes for community members on Saturday, Nov. 23 from 8 a.m. to noon.\n\nCost is $35 for this YMCA-certified course and those interested need to register at the Y as space is limited and filled on a first-come, first-served basis. Questions? Contact Lou Bergen, Aquatics Director to register for this class. Call the Y at 843-522-9622 or visit beaufort-jasperymca.org\n\nGet moving with Beaufort Track Club\n\nJoin the Beaufort Track Club at the Beaufort High School track from 6:30-7:30 p.m. each Tuesday night for an open community track workout. Beginner, intermediate, and advanced workouts are posted each week to ensure that you are getting the workout that you need.\n\nVisit the Facebook page “Beaufort Track Club” for more information.\n\nMay River Quilters Quild\n\nOn the first Saturday of every month, the May River Quilters Guild meets at Palmetto Electric Cooperative, 1 Cooperative Way, Hardeeville. Members meet at 9:30 a.m. for social exchange. The meeting starts at 10 a.m. Please call 847-707-6034.\n\nSeaside Stitchers return to action\n\nThe American Sewing Guild (ASG) is a notional Organization of sewing enthusiasts. The S.C. Central Savannah River Chapter of the American Sewing Guild has a neighborhood group in the Beaufort area named Seaside Stitchers, which hs returned from hiatus. The meetings are the third Monday of the month at the Beaufort Yacht and Sailing Club at 1 p.m.<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">&nbsp;</span>\n\nMonthly meetings are for everyone who sews. It is for sewers of a variety of skill levels and interests so anyone who has an interest in sewing is encouraged to attend and find out what ASG is all about. For more information, go to <a href=\"http://www.asg.org/\">www.ASG.org</a>. For more information about Seaside Stitchers, contact Sheila Tindall at 843-838-9473\n\nParkinson’s support group\nA support group for individuals with Parkinson’s Disease and carepartners meets the first Thursday of each month at the Beaufort Memorial Lifefit Wellness Center from 1:30 to 3 p.m. For more information, visit our Facebook page or call Ric at 843-525-1229.\n\n4th Touch A Truck Fundraiser\n\nThe <a href=\"http://www.jslbeaufort.com/\">Junior Service League of Beaufort</a> will host its 4th Touch A Truck fundraiser on Saturday, Nov. 16 in downtown Port Royal from 11 a.m. to 4 p.m. on Paris Avenue. Cost of admission is $5 per person.\n\nTouch A Truck is a family event that offers a unique and interactive experience for children of all ages. Children will have the opportunity to see, touch, and safely explore their favorite vehicles that serve our community.\n\nThe event will feature many different types of equipment to explore, including a fire truck, ambulance, a Humvee, construction vehicles, and even a helicopter. The entertainment area will include a variety of activities including face painting, bounce-houses for kids and much more. And to round out the experience, enjoy music and fabulous food, drinks, and libations available for purchase.<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">&nbsp;</span>\n\nIn the case of rain, the event will be postponed to Dec. 7. Pets are not allowed at the event.\n\nCall Brittany Rosson at 618-967-6815 or visit <a href=\"http://www.touchatruckbeaufort.com/\">www.touchatruckbeaufort.com</a> for more information.\n\nLegal clinics at downtown library\n\nThe Beaufort County Library is offering free legal clinics at the downtown branch at 311 Scott St.\n\nEach clinic will feature a 30- to 40-minute lecture followed by an open question-and-answer session. All session run from 5:45 to 6:45 p.m.\n\nGet free answers concerning landlord/tenant law issues (Oct. 14) and family law issues (Oct. 28).\n\nFor more information, call the S.C. Bar Pro Bono Program at 803-799-6653, ext. 158 or 1-877-797-2227, ext. 158 or visit <a href=\"http://www.scbar.org/clinics\">www.scbar.org/clinics</a>.\n\nThe clinics are not designed to provide guidance on a specific situation. If you need legal advice on a specific situation, you will need to contact an attorney.\n\nRoyal Pines arts and crafts event\n\nThe artists and crafts people of Royal Pines invite you to their fall event on the patio of The Tavern at the Lady’s Island Country Club from 9 a.m. to noon Saturday, Oct. 12. Items include handmade soaps and lotions, kiln-fired glass, bottle candles, photography, tie-dye clothing and much more. Bruster’s ice cream cart will be there with ice cream cups, apple dumplings, and their fall flavor.\n\nFriends of Hunting Island lighthouse tours\n\nThe Friends of Hunting Island will present tours of the historic Hunting Island Lighthouse at 10 a.m. every Thursday in October. Keeper Ted and his team will tell you all about the history of the Lighthouse, which was built in 1875 and is the only Lighthouse in South Carolina open to visitors.<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">&nbsp;</span>\n\nIf you are at least 44 inches tall, you may also climb the 184 steps to the top of the Lighthouse. Reservations are recommended by calling 843-838-7437 and the fee is $2 per person.\n\nPuppy Plunge at the YMCA\n\nYMCA Puppy Plunge will be held on the third Saturday of the month from 9 to 11 a.m. (weather permitting) at the Y outdoor pool at 1801 Richmond Ave. in Port Royal. Pups can splash, swim and play in our safe, enclosed outdoor pool area.\n\nCost is $10 per pup, and all proceeds benefit the Y’s Learn to Swim program, which teaches local children and adults to swim at a reduced cost or for free. Dogs must be well behaved, current on all required vaccines and leashed until inside the pool area. Owners must be present at all times and humans are not permitted to swim in the Puppy Plunge. Visit <a href=\"http://beaufort-jasperymca.org/\">beaufort-jasperymca.org</a> or call 843-522-9622 for more information.\n\nTCL hosting annual oyster roast, 5k\n\nThe Technical College of the Lowcountry will host its annual oyster roast and 5K on Saturday, Oct. 19 at the Beaufort Campus at 921 Ribaut Road. The Halloween-themed Oyster Ghost Roast &amp; 5K by the Bay takes place on the TCL Beaufort Campus along the beautiful Beaufort River. The 5K starts at 5 p.m., spanning the campus and Spanish Moss Trail. The oyster roast kicks off at 6 p.m. with all-you-can-eat oysters, chili, hot dogs, brownies, lemon bars and more catered by Jim\'N Nick’s. All-You-Can-Drink wristbands are available for purchase at the gate for $10. The event will feature a live DJ, karaoke, cornhole, a college football viewing area, and lots of children’s activities.<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">&nbsp;</span>\n\nThe Oyster Ghost Roast (only) costs $30 for adults, $15 for ages 13-17 and is free for kids 12 and younger. The Oyster Ghost Roast and 5K by the Bay, which includes Oyster Roast/Afterparty Ticket, medal, and T-shirt, costs $60 for adults and $30 for those 17 and younger. All proceeds benefit the Student Veterans of America TCL Chapter and TCL’s Student Government Association. Learn more at <a href=\"http://www.tcl.edu/oyster\">www.tcl.edu/oyster</a> or call 843-525-8264.\n\n******DON’T INCLUDE THESE … SAVED FOR FUTURE UPDATES******\n\nFriends of Hunting Island’s Tuesday Turtle Talks\n\nThe Friends of Hunting island announce the 2019 Tuesday Turtle Talks running through Tuesday, Aug. 13 at 10:30am at the picnic shelter by the Lighthouse. There is no fee for the TTT, but the park entry fee does apply.<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">&nbsp;</span>\n\nEach week various topics will be discussed including the natural history of loggerhead turtles, what happens when the turtles come to Hunting Island to lay their eggs, and the conservation and challenges specific to a barrier island such as Hunting Island State Park. Participation, ideas and questions are always welcome.<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">&nbsp;</span>\n\nAfter the talk, participants can join TTT host Denise Parsick on a short beach walk. All ages are invited to attend this educational and engaging program.<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">&nbsp;</span>\n\nAnd for early risers: If you want to join a turtle patrol to check out loggerhead nests, come to the Visitor’s Center parking lot at 6 a.m. sharp any day of the week, and talk with a volunteer in an orange shirt to join a group for that day’s patrol. All ages welcome.\n\nLocal storytelling organization formed\n\nEvelene Stevenson, owner of the Spirit of Old Beaufort Tours, has formed a local storytelling organization, the Sea Isles Storytellers, which will be headquartered in the Sea Island Center at 876 Sea Island Parkway, St. Helena Island.\n\nAll are invited to come to the first meeting from 3:30 to 5 p.m. Sunday, Aug. 11, which will be\n\nchristened by the Back Porch Storytellers from Charleston.<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">&nbsp;</span>\n\nAll have stories to tell, and Stevenson wants an organization that listens and encourages those of all ages to tell a story, sing a song and listen to others tales.<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">&nbsp;</span>\n\nPlease send an email, including name and phone number, to seaislandcenter@gmail.com or call Evelene Stevenson at 843-271-2478.\n\nBeaufort Soil and Water Conservation District hosts First Saturday program\n\nThe Beaufort Conservation District’s new FIRST SATURDAY programs begin Sept. 7 at Crystal Lake Park on Lady’s Island. The first program is called Snakes are Not Scary and is one of the most popular of their classroom presentations.\nThe program begins with a 9:15 a.m. trail hike, followed by the Snakes are Not Scary Presentation at 10 a.m. and story time at 11:15 a.m. For more information, call 843-255-7306 or email <a href=\"mailto:bswcd@islc.net\">bswcd@islc.net</a> <a href=\"http://beaufortconservationdistrict.org/\">beaufortconservationdistrict.org</a>', 'What To Do', '', 'draft', 'closed', 'closed', '', '', '', '', '2019-10-09 13:52:27', '2019-10-09 17:52:27', '', 0, 'https://staging.yourislandnews.com/?p=41867', 0, 'post', '', 0),
(41868, 4, '2019-10-09 13:54:36', '2019-10-09 17:54:36', '<h4>Activities at Hunting Island State Park</h4>\r\nThere are fun, interesting and educational activities every day hosted by Park Ranger and Lowcountry Master Naturalist Megan Stegmeier.<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">&nbsp;</span>\r\n\r\nSundays: Dolphin Ecology Kayak Tour, 8:15 a.m. (Oct. 13); Sand/candy art, 11 a.m. (Oct. 6, 20, 27); Hunting Island Bingo, 2:30 p.m. (Oct 20, 27); Story River Dolphin Cruise, 5:30 p.m. (Oct. 13); Full Moon Lighthouse Climb, 6:30 p.m. (Oct. 13).\r\n\r\nMondays: Reptiles of the Lowcountry, 11 a.m. (Oct. 28); Secrets of the Salt Marsh, 4 p.m. (Oct. 7, 14, 21).\r\n\r\nTuesdays: Marine Mammals of South Carolina, 11 a.m. (Oct. 15); CCC Video, 1 p.m.; Beach Walk, 3 p.m.; Going Batty, 4 p.m. (Oct. 29).\r\n\r\nWednesdays: Alligator Talk, 11 a.m.; Stepping Stones, 2 p.m.; Lowcountry Legends &amp; Lore, 4 p.m. (Oct. 30).\r\n\r\nThursdays: Interpretive Lighthouse Tour, 10 a.m. (Oct. 10, 17, 24, 31); CCC Video, 1 p.m.; Feeding Frenzy, 3 p.m.; Shark Tooth Excursion, 4 p.m. (Oct. 31); Spooky Lighthouse Lantern Tours, 6-8:30 p.m. (Oct. 31).\r\n\r\nFridays: Fish printing, 2 p.m. (Oct. 4, 18, 25); Story River Dolphin Cruise, 5:30 p.m. (Oct. 11).\r\n\r\nSaturdays: Sunrise Lighthouse Climb, 6:30 a.m. (Oct. 19); Tie-Die, 11 a.m. (Oct. 19, 26); Story River Dolphin Cruise, noon (Oct. 12); Dolphin Ecology Kaya Tour, 1:15 p.m. (Oct. 5); Trunk or Treat, 5-9 p.m. (Oct. 26).\r\n\r\nFor a description of these programs and a complete calendar of activities, go to southcarolinaparks.com/hunting-island and click on “Programs &amp; Events.”\r\n\r\nAll are invited to attend these free events, though there is an entry fee to Hunting Island State Park and reservations are needed for lighthouse programs.\r\n\r\nFor more information, call 843-838-7437 or go to the Friends of Hunting Island website and the Facebook page: FOHI Sea Turtle Conservation Project.\r\n<h4>Sportfishing and Diving Club to hold Oct. meeting</h4>\r\nThe Beaufort Sportfishing and Diving Club’s October meeting will be held Thursday, Oct. 10 at the Beaufort Yacht Club on Lady’s Island off Meridian Road. The social begins at 6:30 p.m.; the meeting at 7 p.m.\r\n\r\nJoseph Ballenger, PhD from the S.C. Department of Natural Resources, will give a brief presentation on inshore fisheries – monitoring flounder issues in South Carolina.\r\n\r\nThe team of locally well known \"Cast Away Fishing Charters,\" Capt. Tim Deckard and Capt. Joe Marshall will present flounder fishing inshore and near shore. This will include favorite setups, baits, and locations. Tips will also be presented on the local black drum species.\r\n\r\nCongratulations again to Phillip Hodges for winning the $50 weigh-in drawing in July sponsored by Butler Marine.<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">&nbsp;</span>\r\n\r\nGuests are welcomed and you do not need a reservation. For additional information, contact Captain Frank Gibson at 843-522-2122 or <a href=\"mailto:fgibson@islc.net\">fgibson@islc.net</a>.\r\n<h4>Register to be a Tiger Shark</h4>\r\nBYAC Tiger Sharks Swim Team registration is open for the 2019-2020 season. There are three levels of swim team for ages 5 and up who meet swim team group requirements: Shark Pups; Group 1; and Group 2. Evaluations on going on now for group placement. Learn more online at <a href=\"http://beaufort-jasperymca.org/\">beaufort-jasperymca.org</a> (click on Aquatics&gt;Swim Team), stop by the Y in Port Royal (1801 Richmond Ave.) or call the Y at 843-522-9622.\r\n<h4>YMCA to offer CPR class</h4>\r\nThe Wardle Family YMCA, located at 1801 Richmond Ave in Port Royal, offers CPR classes for community members on Saturday, Nov. 23 from 8 a.m. to noon.\r\n\r\nCost is $35 for this YMCA-certified course and those interested need to register at the Y as space is limited and filled on a first-come, first-served basis. Questions? Contact Lou Bergen, Aquatics Director to register for this class. Call the Y at 843-522-9622 or visit beaufort-jasperymca.org\r\n\r\nGet moving with Beaufort Track Club\r\n\r\nJoin the Beaufort Track Club at the Beaufort High School track from 6:30-7:30 p.m. each Tuesday night for an open community track workout. Beginner, intermediate, and advanced workouts are posted each week to ensure that you are getting the workout that you need.\r\n\r\nVisit the Facebook page “Beaufort Track Club” for more information.\r\n<h4>May River Quilters Guild</h4>\r\nOn the first Saturday of every month, the May River Quilters Guild meets at Palmetto Electric Cooperative, 1 Cooperative Way, Hardeeville. Members meet at 9:30 a.m. for social exchange. The meeting starts at 10 a.m. Please call 847-707-6034.\r\n<h4>Seaside Stitchers return to action</h4>\r\nThe American Sewing Guild (ASG) is a notional Organization of sewing enthusiasts. The S.C. Central Savannah River Chapter of the American Sewing Guild has a neighborhood group in the Beaufort area named Seaside Stitchers, which hs returned from hiatus. The meetings are the third Monday of the month at the Beaufort Yacht and Sailing Club at 1 p.m.<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">&nbsp;</span>\r\n\r\nMonthly meetings are for everyone who sews. It is for sewers of a variety of skill levels and interests so anyone who has an interest in sewing is encouraged to attend and find out what ASG is all about. For more information, go to <a href=\"http://www.asg.org/\">www.ASG.org</a>. For more information about Seaside Stitchers, contact Sheila Tindall at 843-838-9473\r\n\r\nParkinson’s support group\r\nA support group for individuals with Parkinson’s Disease and carepartners meets the first Thursday of each month at the Beaufort Memorial Lifefit Wellness Center from 1:30 to 3 p.m. For more information, visit our Facebook page or call Ric at 843-525-1229.\r\n<h4>4th Touch A Truck Fundraiser</h4>\r\nThe <a href=\"http://www.jslbeaufort.com/\">Junior Service League of Beaufort</a> will host its 4th Touch A Truck fundraiser on Saturday, Nov. 16 in downtown Port Royal from 11 a.m. to 4 p.m. on Paris Avenue. Cost of admission is $5 per person.\r\n\r\nTouch A Truck is a family event that offers a unique and interactive experience for children of all ages. Children will have the opportunity to see, touch, and safely explore their favorite vehicles that serve our community.\r\n\r\nThe event will feature many different types of equipment to explore, including a fire truck, ambulance, a Humvee, construction vehicles, and even a helicopter. The entertainment area will include a variety of activities including face painting, bounce-houses for kids and much more. And to round out the experience, enjoy music and fabulous food, drinks, and libations available for purchase.<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">&nbsp;</span>\r\n\r\nIn the case of rain, the event will be postponed to Dec. 7. Pets are not allowed at the event.\r\n\r\nCall Brittany Rosson at 618-967-6815 or visit <a href=\"http://www.touchatruckbeaufort.com/\">www.touchatruckbeaufort.com</a> for more information.\r\n<h4>Legal clinics at downtown library</h4>\r\nThe Beaufort County Library is offering free legal clinics at the downtown branch at 311 Scott St.\r\n\r\nEach clinic will feature a 30- to 40-minute lecture followed by an open question-and-answer session. All session run from 5:45 to 6:45 p.m.\r\n\r\nGet free answers concerning landlord/tenant law issues (Oct. 14) and family law issues (Oct. 28).\r\n\r\nFor more information, call the S.C. Bar Pro Bono Program at 803-799-6653, ext. 158 or 1-877-797-2227, ext. 158 or visit <a href=\"http://www.scbar.org/clinics\">www.scbar.org/clinics</a>.\r\n\r\nThe clinics are not designed to provide guidance on a specific situation. If you need legal advice on a specific situation, you will need to contact an attorney.\r\n<h4>Royal Pines arts and crafts event</h4>\r\nThe artists and crafts people of Royal Pines invite you to their fall event on the patio of The Tavern at the Lady’s Island Country Club from 9 a.m. to noon Saturday, Oct. 12. Items include handmade soaps and lotions, kiln-fired glass, bottle candles, photography, tie-dye clothing and much more. Bruster’s ice cream cart will be there with ice cream cups, apple dumplings, and their fall flavor.\r\n\r\nFriends of Hunting Island lighthouse tours\r\n\r\nThe Friends of Hunting Island will present tours of the historic Hunting Island Lighthouse at 10 a.m. every Thursday in October. Keeper Ted and his team will tell you all about the history of the Lighthouse, which was built in 1875 and is the only Lighthouse in South Carolina open to visitors.<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">&nbsp;</span>\r\n\r\nIf you are at least 44 inches tall, you may also climb the 184 steps to the top of the Lighthouse. Reservations are recommended by calling 843-838-7437 and the fee is $2 per person.\r\n<h4>Puppy Plunge at the YMCA</h4>\r\nYMCA Puppy Plunge will be held on the third Saturday of the month from 9 to 11 a.m. (weather permitting) at the Y outdoor pool at 1801 Richmond Ave. in Port Royal. Pups can splash, swim and play in our safe, enclosed outdoor pool area.\r\n\r\nCost is $10 per pup, and all proceeds benefit the Y’s Learn to Swim program, which teaches local children and adults to swim at a reduced cost or for free. Dogs must be well behaved, current on all required vaccines and leashed until inside the pool area. Owners must be present at all times and humans are not permitted to swim in the Puppy Plunge. Visit <a href=\"http://beaufort-jasperymca.org/\">beaufort-jasperymca.org</a> or call 843-522-9622 for more information.\r\n<h4>TCL hosting annual oyster roast, 5k</h4>\r\nThe Technical College of the Lowcountry will host its annual oyster roast and 5K on Saturday, Oct. 19 at the Beaufort Campus at 921 Ribaut Road. The Halloween-themed Oyster Ghost Roast &amp; 5K by the Bay takes place on the TCL Beaufort Campus along the beautiful Beaufort River. The 5K starts at 5 p.m., spanning the campus and Spanish Moss Trail. The oyster roast kicks off at 6 p.m. with all-you-can-eat oysters, chili, hot dogs, brownies, lemon bars and more catered by Jim\'N Nick’s. All-You-Can-Drink wristbands are available for purchase at the gate for $10. The event will feature a live DJ, karaoke, cornhole, a college football viewing area, and lots of children’s activities.<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">&nbsp;</span>\r\n\r\nThe Oyster Ghost Roast (only) costs $30 for adults, $15 for ages 13-17 and is free for kids 12 and younger. The Oyster Ghost Roast and 5K by the Bay, which includes Oyster Roast/Afterparty Ticket, medal, and T-shirt, costs $60 for adults and $30 for those 17 and younger. All proceeds benefit the Student Veterans of America TCL Chapter and TCL’s Student Government Association. Learn more at <a href=\"http://www.tcl.edu/oyster\">www.tcl.edu/oyster</a> or call 843-525-8264.\r\n\r\n&nbsp;', 'What To Do', '', 'publish', 'closed', 'closed', '', 'what-to-do-194', '', '', '2019-10-09 13:54:36', '2019-10-09 17:54:36', '', 0, 'https://staging.yourislandnews.com/?p=41868', 0, 'post', '', 0),
(41870, 4, '2019-10-09 13:57:04', '2019-10-09 17:57:04', '<h4>By LEE SCOTT</h4>\r\nWhile driving to the grocery store last Thursday, I had an imaginary conversation with the woman in the car ahead of me. It was not a real conversation because she was already on the telephone with someone else. I knew this based on the way she was holding her cell phone and the way she was driving.<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">&nbsp;</span>\r\n\r\nWe had left a 35 mph speed zone and headed into a 55 mph speed limit zone, and she was still doing about 30 mph. I waited awhile hoping she would end her conversation, but that is when I started to talk to her.\r\n\r\n“Excuse me,” I began, “You don’t know me, but I am in the car right behind you. I realize that your discussion with your husband regarding dinner tonight is important, but I really would appreciate it if you would pay attention to your driving. You are making me very nervous because you almost hit that street sign.”\r\n\r\nNeedless to say, she was ignoring me and continued, I imagined, discussing the kids, the weather, the upcoming vacation and a variety of topics which were so much more important to discuss while driving 32 mph in a 55 mph zone than paying attention to her driving.\r\n\r\nIt wasn’t until the truck behind me starting to “push” me from behind that I got a bit sterner in my conversation.\r\n\r\n“Excuse me!” I said again, “But the truck behind me is extremely anxious to get around both of us and do the correct speed limit (or more). Could you please get off the phone and pay attention to your driving because you almost hit that old guy on the bicycle trying to get to work and I don’t want to be pushed off the road by this truck.”\r\n\r\nShe continued her actual animated conversation, and so I moved over a bit so the truck could pass me in the suicide lane, and he pulled up to her bumper instead of mine. I held back a bit worrying about an accident as he flashed his lights, honked, and road the back of her car. It did not matter. She continued her conversation.\r\n\r\nI tried calling her again. “Excuse me. Could you please get off the phone before you are in an accident? You are a hazard and are frightening me, and the guy behind you now is even scarier.”\r\n\r\nObviously, she never heard me chatting with her, but at some point, her real conversation must have ended or maybe she noticed the guy in the truck. Whatever the reason, she suddenly picked up her speed as did the grateful line of cars behind her.<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">&nbsp;</span>\r\n\r\n“I am glad we had this little chat” I said out loud and put down my imaginary phone.', 'My imaginary conversation', '', 'publish', 'closed', 'closed', '', 'my-imaginary-conversation', '', '', '2019-10-09 13:57:04', '2019-10-09 17:57:04', '', 0, 'https://staging.yourislandnews.com/?p=41870', 0, 'post', '', 0),
(41872, 4, '2019-10-09 13:59:14', '2019-10-09 17:59:14', '<h4>By MARK SANFORD</h4>\r\nIf you are a Republican in South Carolina, you should be more than bothered by the South Carolina Republican Party’s Executive Committee’s recent decision to cancel the S.C. primary. This means that your voice in the 2020 political process was just knocked out.\r\n\r\nIn Donald Trump’s campaign, he promised to “drain the swamp,” but if this isn’t a display of “politics as usual,” I don’t know what is. What it is, is pure law of the jungle and brute force politics.<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">&nbsp;</span>\r\n\r\nShutting down elections is always good for the incumbent and, accordingly, this benefits the president. I understand the strategy, but the question for the rest of us as South Carolinians is whether it benefits us.\r\n\r\nThe answer is no, for three reasons.\r\n\r\nFirst, each of us loses our voice and our right to vote.<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">&nbsp;</span>\r\n\r\nThe idea of taking electioneering tactics from China and North Korea is in itself troubling, but the more practical question for each one of us rests in South Carolina’s historically unique status as the “First in the South” presidential primary. This has meant that candidates have criss-crossed our state many times over as they attempt to connect with Palmetto State voters. They don’t bother to go to many other states with populations of the same size or greater, but doing so means&nbsp; that South Carolinians could go to town hall meetings and actually talk to candidates and the national press corps.<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">&nbsp;</span>\r\n\r\nAs one who has run his share of races over the years, I can say first-hand that those conversations matter. Those opportunities will now be lost with the Executive Committee’s decision to deny South Carolinians the chance to express their beliefs and views on the national stage. Sadly this chance comes only once every four years.\r\n\r\nSecond, we lose collectively as a state. We are certainly a great people. But there are many talented individuals in different states across this country. Yet over and over again, our state has seen South Carolinians elevated to plum political assignments because of our “First in the south” primary.<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">&nbsp;</span>\r\n\r\nJust to name a few, former Governor Jim Edwards became Secretary of Energy under Ronald Reagan because of our early primary. Former Governor Dick Riley became Secretary of Education under President Clinton because of our early primary. Former Speaker of the S.C. House Wilkins became Ambassador to Canada because of our early primary.<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">&nbsp;</span>\r\n\r\nIn just the last election cycle, former Governor Nikki Haley became the U.S. Ambassador to the United Nations, and Ed McMullin the Ambassador to Switzerland for the same reason.<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">&nbsp;</span>\r\n\r\nCertainly each of these individuals were talented in his or her own right, but the question of talent lies in whether or not it has the chance to be recognized. Our early primary status gave us this opportunity.<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">&nbsp;</span>\r\n\r\nWhat this has in turn meant is that we have had profound influence in the decisions that get made in Washington based on the people that we sent there. This matters in money for the Port in Charleston, a federal pilot program in Marion County or a vendor selection in Anderson.\r\n\r\nThird and finally, there are issues at play in this election cycle that need our deliberation, discussion, and focus.<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">&nbsp;</span>\r\n\r\nI’m running as Republican for the office of President of the United States to try and raise awareness on the enormity of the financial disaster our country faces and its impact on each one of us. We are walking our way toward the most predictable financial storm in the history of our nation.<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">&nbsp;</span>\r\n\r\nOur debt has seen the fastest increase in our nation’s history under this president, and his proposals on domestic discretionary spending put his budget about 20 percent above President Obama’s.<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">&nbsp;</span>\r\n\r\nWe will now run more than a $1 trillion financial deficit this year, and we have never done that before under benign economic conditions.\r\n\r\nThis president declared and promised to eliminate the debt over the eight years that he might have in office, and yet his own budgets propose raising the national debt by $9 trillion over the next 10 years.<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">&nbsp;</span>\r\n\r\nIf these empty promises aren’t things worthy of a debate, I don’t know what is.\r\n\r\nIf you agree on these points, I’d ask that you pick up the phone and call Drew McKissick, the S.C. GOP Chairman at 803-988-8440. His email is <a href=\"mailto:drewmckissick@gmail.com\">drewmckissick@gmail.com</a>\r\n\r\nWhat has transpired here is not only error in judgment, it is wrongful neglect of the responsibility to present all interested Republicans with a choice of candidates.\r\n\r\nThey are breaking their own party rules to do this, and it’s never been about money. It is my hope that the Executive Committee will take it upon themselves to amend and correct their decisions.\r\n\r\n<em>Mark Sanford is a 2020 Republican Presidential candidate, the former Governor of South Carolina and the former U.S. Congressman for South Carolina’s 1st District.</em>', 'Why is the Republican Party taking its cues from China?', '', 'publish', 'closed', 'closed', '', 'why-is-the-republican-party-taking-its-cues-from-china', '', '', '2019-10-09 13:59:14', '2019-10-09 17:59:14', '', 0, 'https://staging.yourislandnews.com/?p=41872', 0, 'post', '', 0);
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(41875, 4, '2019-10-09 14:00:05', '2019-10-09 18:00:05', '<h4>By SCOTT GRABER</h4>\r\nIt is Saturday, and Susan and I are back in Port Royal. It’s been more than a month since Hurricane Dorian came boiling up the Atlantic seaboard sending millions Americans into a plywood-buying panic over the (possible) loss of their homes and their savings and presenting them with the prospect of spending a week in a dank, smoke infused, ‘contractor’s rate’ motel.\r\n\r\nWe were in Massachusetts in the midst of our vacation when the Weather Channel began its coverage and deployed Jim Cantore to Florida.<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">&nbsp;</span>\r\n\r\nWe packed our bags but as we were passing through the petrochemical moonscape in Rahway, N.J., we heard our own Henry McMaster order an evacuation of Beaufort County. After a coffee and bagel-fueled discussion at the James R. Hoffa Service Area, we decided to return to Massachusetts.\r\n\r\n“We’re going to need sandbags,” I shouted into the glass and metal rectangle that is called an IPhone by my technologically savvy friends.\r\n\r\n“Yes, Scott, we’ve made arrangements at Taylor’s Landscaping and will buy a half yard of sand. I’ve already got the bags,” replied my friend Dean Moss.\r\n\r\n“I want you to make a wall of sandbags around the back deck. That’s where it always floods,” I yelled into the IPhone.\r\n\r\n“I’m looking at your deck as we speak and see what you mean,” David Taub replied.\r\n\r\n“Stack the bags three deep in front of each door,” I screamed thinking my voice was competing with the sound of tropical force winds.\r\n\r\n“Yes, Scott, we’ve already done that. You do know this isn’t my first rodeo — I helped you during Matthew and Irma,” David replied.\r\n\r\n“After the rain starts turn on the sump pump, the plug is to the left of the back door. And you have to open-up the metal lid that covers the outlet,” I said.\r\n\r\n“You may be surprised to know that I have outdoor electrical outlets of my own. And I have long experience opening the little metal covers,” David said.\r\n\r\nThe problem with Dorian was that it was mostly stationary, sometimes going as fast as one-mile-an hour. I also knew (from a recent hike) that one walks at a speed of 3 miles an hour. So I began to think about my walking the distance from West Palm Beach to Port Royal.\r\n\r\nI would want to follow he beach if I could; stopping for an hour or so at The Alligator Farm in St. Augustine. Then a few minutes, perhaps an hour, for an IPA at the White Horse Tavern just across the street from Castillo San Marcos.<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">&nbsp;</span>\r\n\r\nThen I wondered if I could swim across the St. John’s River to Cumberland Island. I would probably have to borrow or steal a boat. In any case I began to believe I was looking an ETA in the first part of October. Meanwhile I was back on the phone with my neighbors,\r\n\r\n“Now, Kit, you’re going to find towels in the bathroom. But don’t use the monogrammed guest towels.”\r\n\r\n“Got it.”\r\n\r\n“Stuff them under the doors of Susan’s studio. And while you’re at it, could you clear the furniture from the upstairs porch?”\r\n\r\nI want to say — here and now — that we have a cohort of friends who are an essential component of our lives. It was David Taub, Dean Moss, Louis and Kit Bruce, Julie Peters and Joe Morrall (and his friends) who took on the “defense” of my small, fragile law office on Carteret Street and our home in Port Royal.\r\n\r\nPre-arrival hurricane anxiety is hard-wired to our imagination. We all have this large, internal jumbotron that plays a continuous loop showing the total destruction of the one thing that we have acquired with most of our life juice — I speak of our homes. So it’s OK to be anxious and slightly irrational while waiting for this creature — “This thing has got to be bigger than Rhode Island.” — to make its slow, meandering journey up the Atlantic coast.\r\n\r\nGod knows (S.C. Governor) Henry McMaster, (Beaufort Mayor) Billy Keyserling and the Town of Port Royal kept everyone informed. But the take home message for me centered on friends and friendship.\r\n\r\nIt’s when a storm arrives that we learn the depth of friendships.<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">&nbsp;</span>\r\n\r\nThese aren’t boozy hugs exchanged after a long, wine-infused dinner party. This is asking 60 and 70 year old people to take a shovel and fill bags with sand.<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">&nbsp;</span>\r\n\r\nIt’s asking these same Medicare-eligible, Motrin-gulping oldsters to stack those 50-pound bags around one’s office.\r\n\r\nI’ve got to believe there is something in Beaufort’s groundwater that makes people — people with their own anxiety — care about their neighbors.<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">&nbsp;</span>\r\n\r\n&nbsp;', 'When storms arise, we learn the depth of our friendships', '', 'publish', 'closed', 'closed', '', 'when-storms-arise-we-learn-the-depth-of-our-friendships', '', '', '2019-10-09 14:00:05', '2019-10-09 18:00:05', '', 0, 'https://staging.yourislandnews.com/?p=41875', 0, 'post', '', 0),
(41877, 4, '2019-10-09 14:02:17', '2019-10-09 18:02:17', 'Whale Branch suffered its first loss of the season with a heartbreaking 37-36 overtime defeat Friday at Woodland.\r\n\r\nThe Wolverines tied it with a 19-yard touchdown pass and two-point conversion late in the fourth quarter, and the Warriors missed a game-winning field goal try at the end of regulation.\r\n\r\nJadon Grant’s third touchdown run of the game gave the Warriors a 36-30 lead in overtime, but they failed to convert the PAT, and Woodland answered with a touchdown and extra point for the win.\r\n\r\nGrant rushed for 105 yards on 21 carries with three touchdowns, while De’Arius Hazel added 127 yards and a TD on 12 carries, and Jaylen Reeves contributed 116 yards and a TD on 17 attempts. JacQuez Frazier led the defense with 12 tackles.\r\n\r\nThe Warriors (4-1, 0-1 Region 5-2A) return home to face No. 2 Barnwell in a region matchup Friday.', 'Warriors drop region opener in OT', '', 'publish', 'closed', 'closed', '', 'warriors-drop-region-opener-in-ot', '', '', '2019-10-09 14:02:17', '2019-10-09 18:02:17', '', 0, 'https://staging.yourislandnews.com/?p=41877', 0, 'post', '', 0),
(41879, 4, '2019-10-09 14:03:45', '2019-10-09 18:03:45', 'Oct. 10\r\n\r\nVolleyball\r\n\r\nBattery Creek at Lake Marion, 6:30 p.m.\r\n\r\nBeaufort Academy at Hilton Head Christian Academy, 5 p.m.\r\n\r\nHilton Head Island at Beaufort, 6:30 p.m.\r\n\r\nWhale Branch at Bamberg-Ehrhardt, 6:30 p.m.\r\n\r\nOct. 11\r\n\r\nFootball\r\n\r\nAndrew Jackson Academy at Beaufort Academy, 7:30 p.m.\r\n\r\nBarnwell at Whale Branch, 7:30 p.m.\r\n\r\nBluffton at Beaufort, 7:30 p.m.\r\n\r\nLake Marion at Battery Creek, 7:30 p.m.\r\n\r\nOct. 12\r\n\r\nCross Country\r\n\r\nBattery Creek, Beaufort at Bon Jenkins SCTCCCA Coaches Classic, Carolina Cup, Camden, 9 a.m.\r\n\r\nGirls Golf\r\n\r\nBeaufort, Bluffton, Hilton Head Island, May River at Spring Island, Noon<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">&nbsp;</span>\r\n\r\nVolleyball\r\n\r\nBeaufort at West Ashley Tournament, TBA\r\n\r\nOct. 14\r\n\r\nGirls Golf\r\n\r\nBeaufort at Region 7-AAAA Meet, Legends at Parris Island, 11 a.m.\r\n\r\nSwimming\r\n\r\nBeaufort at University of South Carolina, Columbia\r\n\r\nOct. 15\r\n\r\nVolleyball\r\n\r\nBattery Creek at Beaufort, 6:30 p.m.\r\n\r\nOct. 17\r\n\r\nCross Country\r\n\r\nBeaufort Academy at Championship, Jasper, 5 p.m.\r\n\r\nVolleyball\r\n\r\nAllendale-Fairfax at Battery Creek, 6:30 p.m.\r\n\r\nBeaufort at Colleton County, 6:30 p.m.\r\n\r\nThomas Heyward Academy at Beaufort Academy, 6 p.m.\r\n\r\nOct. 18\r\n\r\nFootball\r\n\r\nAllendale-Fairfax at Whale Branch, 7:30 p.m.\r\n\r\nBattery Creek at Ridgeland-Hardeeville, 7:30 p.m.\r\n\r\nCathedral Academy at Beaufort Academy, 7:30 p.m.\r\n\r\nMay River at Beaufort, 7:30 p.m.\r\n\r\nVolleyball\r\n\r\nCathedral Academy at Beaufort Academy, 6 p.m.\r\n\r\n<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">&nbsp;</span>', 'Sports Schedule', '', 'publish', 'closed', 'closed', '', 'sports-schedule', '', '', '2019-10-09 14:03:45', '2019-10-09 18:03:45', '', 0, 'https://staging.yourislandnews.com/?p=41879', 0, 'post', '', 0),
(41881, 4, '2019-10-09 14:04:40', '2019-10-09 18:04:40', 'Beaufort High’s Marlon Belden won the boys race, and May River led the local contingent in the team standings at the Wendy’s Invitational cross country race Saturday at Charlotte’s McAlpine Park.\r\n\r\nThe Eagles and Sharks competed in the Open Division along with Bluffton, and the local runners made a strong showing.\r\n\r\nBelden won the 5K boys race with a time of 15 minutes, 56 seconds, finishing 10 seconds ahead of York’s Brannon Burns, while Eagles teammates Nash Mills (21st, 17:08) and Maxwell Davis (23rd, 17:17) also placed in the top 25. May River’s boys had three runners in the top 13 overall to finish second as a team.&nbsp;\r\n\r\nBeaufort’s Shannon Smith (19:19) led all local runners in the girls race, finishing third, while teammate Charlize Antia (20:16) was ninth. The Eagles finished eighth among 25 teams, two spots behind May River.', 'BHS’ Belden wins at Wendy’s Invitational', '', 'publish', 'closed', 'closed', '', 'bhs-belden-wins-at-wendys-invitational', '', '', '2019-10-09 14:04:40', '2019-10-09 18:04:40', '', 0, 'https://staging.yourislandnews.com/?p=41881', 0, 'post', '', 0),
(41884, 4, '2019-10-09 14:05:17', '2019-10-09 18:05:17', 'Beaufort High came up short in a bid for its first win of the season Friday, falling 38-24 at Effingham County (Ga.).\r\n\r\nThe Eagles grabbed an early lead on Tyler Haley’s 3-yard touchdown run, but the Rebels responded with 17 straight points to take control.\r\n\r\nBrandon Sarathy’s 30-yard field goal made it 17-10 at halftime, and the teams traded touchdowns to start the second half, with Haley’s 4-yard TD run pulling the Eagles within 24-17.\r\n\r\nEffingham County essentially sealed the victory with two more touchdowns, making it 38-17 before Daniel Phares came on in relief of Haley and threw an 18-yard touchdown pass to Marcus Goodwater.\r\n\r\nJames Dagin rushed for 112 yards on 12 carries, while Haley rushed for 96 yards on 15 attempts with two touchdowns and was 6-of-18 for 96 yards passing. Phares had four catches for 84 yards and was 2-for-2 passing for 57 yards and a score.\r\n\r\nThe Eagles (0-5) open region play at home against Bluffton on Friday.', 'Eagles denied first victory', '', 'publish', 'closed', 'closed', '', 'eagles-denied-first-victory', '', '', '2019-10-09 14:06:07', '2019-10-09 18:06:07', '', 0, 'https://staging.yourislandnews.com/?p=41884', 0, 'post', '', 0),
(41888, 4, '2019-10-09 14:06:54', '2019-10-09 18:06:54', 'Beaufort Academy couldn’t carry over the momentum from its first win of the season, falling 30-14 to St. John’s Christian on Friday.\r\n\r\nKevin Rogers rushed for 84 yards and a touchdown, and Elijah Fess added 73 yards and a score on the ground for the Eagles.\r\n\r\nBraydon Dineen collected 10 tackles and had an interception to lead the Eagles on defense.\r\n\r\nBA (1-4) hosts Andrew Jackson Academy next Friday in a rematch of last year’s SCISA 8-man state championship game.', 'BA can’t get offense going vs. Cavs', '', 'publish', 'closed', 'closed', '', 'ba-cant-get-offense-going-vs-cavs', '', '', '2019-10-09 14:06:54', '2019-10-09 18:06:54', '', 0, 'https://staging.yourislandnews.com/?p=41888', 0, 'post', '', 0),
(41890, 4, '2019-10-09 14:07:58', '2019-10-09 18:07:58', '<h4>TCL offering two open houses</h4>\r\nTechnical College of the Lowcountry is hosting two open houses this fall.\r\n\r\nHealth Sciences will offer a open house from 5 to 7 p.m. Thursday, Oct. 17 at Building 4 on the Beaufort Campus. RSVP at <a href=\"https://tinyurl.com/y4zxwonx\">https://tinyurl.com/y4zxwonx</a>.\r\n\r\nExplore TCL\'s health career programs in massage therapy, medical assisting, nursing, physical therapist assistant, radiologic technology, surgical technology, and central sterile processing. Meet faculty and staff and learn about the application process.\r\n\r\nBusiness &amp; Industrial Technologies and Public &amp; Human Services will offer an open house from 5 to 7 p.m. Thursday, Nov. 14 in Buidings 14, 15 and 16 on the Beaufort Campus. RSVP at https://tinyurl.com/y27rjahj.\r\n\r\nDiscover TCL\'s professional and technical career programs including building and industrial technologies; business administration; computers and electronics; early care and education; criminal justice; paralegal; and more. Meet faculty and learn how to apply\r\n\r\nCall 843-525-8207 or email <a href=\"mailto:admissions@tcl.edu\">admissions@tcl.edu</a> for more information.\r\n<h4>TCL receives $2.2 million grant to increase student success</h4>\r\nTCL has been awarded $2,202,111 over five years to increase student engagement and achievement. The Title III Strengthening Institutions grant is funded by the U. S. Department of Education.\r\n\r\nThe Pathways to the Future: Increasing Persistence and Retention to Graduation grant will focus on three key areas.\r\n\r\nThe first, enhanced curriculum and instruction, will include the development of guided program pathways that are infused with workplace learning options.<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">&nbsp;</span>\r\n\r\nThe second, expanded student support, will establish a one-stop Pathways Hub that will locate multiple functions in one place, offering services such as intake, coaching and advising, career assessment, and referrals to other campus resources.\r\n\r\nThe third component is a comprehensive technological system that integrates technology with services.<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">&nbsp;</span>\r\n\r\n<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">&nbsp;</span>', 'School Briefs', '', 'publish', 'closed', 'closed', '', 'school-briefs-52', '', '', '2019-10-09 14:07:58', '2019-10-09 18:07:58', '', 0, 'https://staging.yourislandnews.com/?p=41890', 0, 'post', '', 0),
(41893, 4, '2019-10-09 14:09:36', '2019-10-09 18:09:36', 'Beaufort County School District Superintendent Frank Rodriguez has scheduled public forums this month to brief parents and community members on the school district’s $344 million bond referendum set for Nov. 5.<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">&nbsp;</span>\r\n\r\n“The upcoming election is an important event for the school district, and it’s vital for parents and community members to have accurate information on the ballot questions they’ll be voting on,” Rodriguez said in a release. “At these public forums, we’ll be briefing parents on the key points of the referendum and answering their questions.”\r\n\r\nAccording to the school district, a group of community volunteers worked more than 900 hours – visiting 26 schools in Beaufort and other districts and receiving presentations from outside experts – before producing a district-wide projects list with a total estimated value of $629 million. Once the volunteer Community Project Review Committee submitted that list, the Board of Education developed a smaller set of priorities and approved a $344 million referendum for Nov. 5.\r\n\r\nThe referendum is targeted to address a variety of issues related to school facilities:\r\n\r\n– School buildings need upgrades related to their safety and security.\r\n\r\n– Older schools are experiencing maintenance and structural problems due to advancing age.\r\n\r\n– Schools have technology infrastructure that needs to be updated.\r\n\r\n– Hundreds of new students enroll in district schools, particularly in the Bluffton community.\r\n\r\n– Career and Technology Education courses need additional classroom space and resources.\r\n\r\nVoters will consider two separate ballot questions.\r\n\r\nFirstly, if Question 1 is approved, there will be: safety and security upgrades at all schools; technology infrastructure upgrades at nearly all schools; classroom additions at River Ridge Academy and May River High; a replacement building for Robert Smalls International Academy; and renovations at three schools (Beaufort Elementary, Hilton Head Island Middle and Battery Creek High). Question 1 represents a total investment of $290 million.\r\n\r\nThe projects that voters will consider in Question 2 would be funded only if Question 1 is approved. Those projects are: improvements to athletic facilities at middle and high schools; playground improvements at early childhood centers, elementary and Pre K-8 schools; Career and Technology Education expansions at Battery Creek and May River high schools; and design work for renovations at Hilton Head Island High. Question 2 represents a total additional investment of $54 million.\r\n\r\nIf voters approve the referendum on Nov. 5, Rodriguez said the district will develop a broad-based committee of community members who will monitor all expenditures of referendum-related construction funds. This committee will submit regular public reports that will be archived on the school district’s website. In addition, all referendum funds will be part of the district’s independent external audits.\r\n<h4>Want to Go?</h4>\r\n<strong>What: Public forums on Beaufort County School District’s $344 million bond referendum</strong>\r\n\r\n<strong>Schedule</strong>\r\n\r\n(All forums are scheduled for 6 p.m.)<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">&nbsp;</span>\r\n\r\nOct. 14: Beaufort High School\r\n\r\nOct. 16: Battery Creek High School\r\n\r\nOct. 21: Spanish-language town hall, Bluffton Middle School\r\n\r\nOct. 22: Bluffton High School\r\n\r\nOct. 23: Hilton Head Island High School\r\n\r\nOct. 28: Whale Branch Early College High School\r\n\r\nOct. 29: St. Helena Elementary School\r\n\r\n(Editor’s Note: There were eight forums, but the first occurred prior to press time.)', 'School bond referendum public forums scheduled', '', 'publish', 'closed', 'closed', '', 'school-bond-referendum-public-forums-scheduled', '', '', '2019-10-09 14:10:12', '2019-10-09 18:10:12', '', 0, 'https://staging.yourislandnews.com/?p=41893', 0, 'post', '', 0),
(41897, 4, '2019-10-09 14:11:03', '2019-10-09 18:11:03', 'The Technical College of the Lowcountry and the Beaufort County School District recently kicked off a new collaboration to offer career and technical programs through high school dual enrollment.<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">&nbsp;</span>\r\n\r\n“A technical career can be for anyone who has an interest, aptitude, and desire to enter a highly skilled occupation,” Beaufort County School District Director of Career and Technical Education Karen Gilbert said in a release.<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">&nbsp;</span>\r\n\r\nThe new collaboration expands the district’s current career and technical offerings at the high schools, allowing more students to benefit. Dual enrollment students receive both college and high school credit. TCL’s general education courses are already popular with high school students wanting college credit for transfer to four-year universities.<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">&nbsp;</span>\r\n\r\nWhale Branch Early College High School has enjoyed a special dual enrollment partnership with TCL for the past eight years. Now Whale Branch students are the first in the school district to pilot the new program.\r\n\r\n“This partnership was a natural fit for us to grow our technical offerings for all our students,” WBECHS Principal Mona-Lise Dickson said. “We want our students to be truly college and/or&nbsp;career ready, not only for our local economy but globally. It is truly a celebration to see the vision come to life.”\r\n\r\nBuilding construction is the first career pathway being offered, allowing high school students to take classes onsite at the college where they receive real-world training and hands-on experience.<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">&nbsp;</span>\r\n\r\n“Students in our building construction program will learn the skills and tools of the trade, making them more employable and work ready,” instructor Tim Newsome said.<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">&nbsp;</span>\r\n\r\nThe new dual enrollment offerings will allow more opportunities for students wanting to go right into the workforce or to more advanced technical training right after high school<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">&nbsp;</span>\r\n\r\n“Employers need these skilled workers and will be excited about the expanded pipeline this program is creating,” TCL President Dr. Richard Gough said.\r\n\r\nGilbert agrees, “Beaufort County School District dual enrollment students who graduate with a future technical or trades certificate in areas such as Construction, HVAC, Information Technologies, and Healthcare, help our local economy by meeting critical labor market needs.”\r\n\r\nAdditional career technology dual enrollment programs are in the works including: Heating and air (HVAC), electrician, medical office assistant, culinary arts, computer technology, criminal justice and early childhood development.\r\n\r\nInterested high school students and parents are encouraged to contact their high school counselors for more information.', 'TCL, BCSD launch career, technical dual enrollment', '', 'publish', 'closed', 'closed', '', 'tcl-bcsd-launch-career-technical-dual-enrollment', '', '', '2019-10-09 14:11:03', '2019-10-09 18:11:03', '', 0, 'https://staging.yourislandnews.com/?p=41897', 0, 'post', '', 0),
(41899, 4, '2019-10-09 14:13:33', '2019-10-09 18:13:33', '<h4>Beaufort County will hold public test of new voting system</h4>\r\nThe Board of Voter Registration and Elections of Beaufort County will conduct a public test of the new Ballot Marking and Ballot Scanning devices at 10 a.m. Friday, Oct. 11 for the following Nov. 5, 2019 elections:\r\n\r\n– Town of Bluffton general election\r\n\r\n– Town of Port Royal general election\r\n\r\n– School Bond Referendum special election\r\n\r\nThe test will be conducted at the Board of Voter Registration and Elections of Beaufort County office, located at 15 John Galt Road in Beaufort. For more information, visit <a href=\"https://www.b/\">https://www.b</a><a href=\"http://eaufortcountysc.gov/vote\">eaufortcountysc.gov/vote</a> or call 843-255-6900.\r\n\r\nIn-person absentee voting starts Oct. 14 in Beaufort County\r\n<h4>In-person absentee voting for the following elections held on Nov. 5, 2019 will start on Monday, Oct. 14:</h4>\r\n– Town of Bluffton general election (Town of Bluffton residents only)\r\n\r\n– Town of Port Royal general election (Town of Port Royal residents only)\r\n\r\n– School Bond Referendum special election (countywide)\r\n\r\nThe Beaufort Office of the Board of Voter Registration and Elections, located at 15 John Galt Road, and the Bluffton Office, located at 61B Ulmer Road, Bluffton, will be open 9 a.m. to 4 p.m., Monday to Friday.\r\n\r\nThe last day of in-person absentee voting is on Monday, Nov. 4. The Beaufort office and Bluffton office will be open 9 a.m. to 5 p.m.\r\n<h4>Councilman Dawson hosting two district meetings in Oct.</h4>\r\nBeaufort County Council member <a href=\"http://links.govdelivery.com/track?type=click&amp;enid=ZWFzPTEmbXNpZD0mYXVpZD0mbWFpbGluZ2lkPTIwMTkxMDA3LjExMTg2MTYxJm1lc3NhZ2VpZD1NREItUFJELUJVTC0yMDE5MTAwNy4xMTE4NjE2MSZkYXRhYmFzZWlkPTEwMDEmc2VyaWFsPTE2Nzk4MDYxJmVtYWlsaWQ9dGhlaXNsYW5kbmV3c0BnbWFpbC5jb20mdXNlcmlkPXRoZWlzbGFuZG5ld3NAZ21haWwuY29tJnRhcmdldGlkPSZmbD0mbXZpZD0mZXh0cmE9JiYm&amp;&amp;&amp;100&amp;&amp;&amp;https://beaufortcountysc.gov/council/council-members/dawson-gerald.html?utm_medium=email&amp;utm_source=govdelivery\">Gerald Dawson (District 1)</a> will hold two public meetings in October.\r\n\r\nThe guest speaker at both meetings will be Marie Smalls, Director, Beaufort County Board of Elections and Voter Registration, who will discuss updates and the new voting machines purchased by the County.\r\n\r\nBig Estate/Jenkins Community: 7 p.m., Tuesday, Oct. 15, Booker T. Washington Center, 182 Booker T. Washington Circle, Yemassee.\r\n\r\nBurton Community: 5 p.m., Sunday, Oct. 20, Burton Wells&nbsp;Recreation Center, 1 Middleton Recreation Drive, Beaufort.\r\nResidents do not need to register in advance for the meeting. For more information, please contact Dawson at <a href=\"mailto:gdawson@bcgov.net\">gdawson@bcgov.net</a>, 843-255-2192 or by mail care of Clerk to Council, Beaufort County, P.O. Box 1228, Beaufort, S.C. 29901.\r\n<h4>Councilman Glover hosting meeting about Bay Point Island</h4>\r\nBeaufort County Council member <a href=\"http://links.govdelivery.com/track?type=click&amp;enid=ZWFzPTEmbXNpZD0mYXVpZD0mbWFpbGluZ2lkPTIwMTkxMDA0LjExMDkwOTYxJm1lc3NhZ2VpZD1NREItUFJELUJVTC0yMDE5MTAwNC4xMTA5MDk2MSZkYXRhYmFzZWlkPTEwMDEmc2VyaWFsPTE2Nzk2OTk3JmVtYWlsaWQ9dGhlaXNsYW5kbmV3c0BnbWFpbC5jb20mdXNlcmlkPXRoZWlzbGFuZG5ld3NAZ21haWwuY29tJnRhcmdldGlkPSZmbD0mbXZpZD0mZXh0cmE9JiYm&amp;&amp;&amp;100&amp;&amp;&amp;https://beaufortcountysc.gov/council/council-members/glover-york.html?utm_medium=email&amp;utm_source=govdelivery\">York Glover (District 3)</a> will hold a public meeting at 6 p.m. Tuesday, Oct. 15 about Bay Point Island development. The meeting will be held at the St. Helena Branch Library, 6355 Jonathan Francis Sr. Road, St. Helena (<a href=\"http://links.govdelivery.com/track?type=click&amp;enid=ZWFzPTEmbXNpZD0mYXVpZD0mbWFpbGluZ2lkPTIwMTkxMDA0LjExMDkwOTYxJm1lc3NhZ2VpZD1NREItUFJELUJVTC0yMDE5MTAwNC4xMTA5MDk2MSZkYXRhYmFzZWlkPTEwMDEmc2VyaWFsPTE2Nzk2OTk3JmVtYWlsaWQ9dGhlaXNsYW5kbmV3c0BnbWFpbC5jb20mdXNlcmlkPXRoZWlzbGFuZG5ld3NAZ21haWwuY29tJnRhcmdldGlkPSZmbD0mbXZpZD0mZXh0cmE9JiYm&amp;&amp;&amp;101&amp;&amp;&amp;https://www.google.com/maps/place/St.+Helena+Library,+Beaufort+County+Library+System,+6355+Jonathan+Francis+Senior+Rd,+St+Helena+Island,+SC+29920/@32.3879972,-80.5735482,17z/data=!3m1!4b1!4m5!3m4!1s0x88fc1315e337d63b:0x47abf784b5e294c7!8m2!3d32.3879972!4d-80.5713595?utm_medium=email&amp;utm_source=govdelivery\">map</a>). The guest speaker will be the developer of Bay Point Island.\r\n\r\nResidents do not need to register in advance for the meeting. For more information, please contact Glover at <a href=\"mailto:yglover@bcgov.net\">yglover@bcgov.net</a>, 843-986-7395 or by mail care of Beaufort County Clerk to Council, P.O. Box 1228, Beaufort, S.C. 29901.\r\n<h4>Lowcountry Food Bank gets $5,000 donation</h4>\r\nThe Lowcountry Food Bank has announced that TD Charitable Foundation has donated $5,000 to support LCFB\'s BackPack Buddies program, which helps fight childhood hunger in the Lowcountry.\r\n\r\nThe funds will support enrollment of 1,200 food-insecure public school children in the BackPack Buddies program and distribute more than 40,000 packs of weekend food to children at risk of hunger. More than 150,000 pounds of food will be distributed through TD Charitable Foundation\'s donation during the 2019-2020 school year in Beaufort, Berkeley, Charleston, Dorchester, Georgetown, Horry and Jasper counties.\r\n\r\nThe LCFB serves the 10 coastal counties of South Carolina and distributed more than 30.5 million pounds of food in 2018. For more information, go to <a href=\"http://www.lowcountryfoodbank.org/\">www.lowcountryfoodbank.org</a>.\r\n<h4>County continues assault on mosquitoes</h4>\r\nIn accordance with Federal/State regulations, be advised Beaufort County Mosquito Control may conduct aerial and/or ground treatments through Oct. 11. Mosquito Control applies EPA-registered public health insecticide during ideal weather using low-flying aircraft throughout daylight hours and spray trucks from about 11 p.m. to 6:30 a.m. For additional information, please contact Mosquito Control at 843-255-5800.\r\n<h4>Peacock Subaru to host SubieStock to support Palmetto Animal League</h4>\r\nThe cool cats (and dogs) of Palmetto Animal League are ready to share the love at SubieStock 2019 on Thursday, Oct. 17 at 5:30 p.m. at Peacock Subaru. This annual concert event, supporting PAL’s rescue programs, has become known for fantastic food, beverages, groovy door prizes and, of course, live music, which will be provided by rock band Cranford Hollow this year.\r\n\r\nAdoption fees are waived during Subiestock thanks to a generous grant from the ASPCA. Adoptable pets will mingle with concert goers throughout the evening in hopes of finding their forever home.\r\n\r\nThe first 100 people to arrive at SubieStock with a pet supply or monetary donation for PAL will receive a free tie-dyed T-shirt. The party is “BYOD” (Bring Your Own Dog) as Peacock Subaru is a dog-friendly dealership.\r\n\r\nAttendees may RSVP to for a free ticket at <a href=\"https://subiestock2019.eventbrite.com/\">https://subiestock2019.eventbrite.com</a>.\r\n\r\nFor those who can’t make the concert, PAL is also waiving adoption fees Oct. 17, starting at noon, during their annual SubieStock Pre-Party at the PAL Adoption Center located in Okatie’s River Walk Business Park.', 'News Briefs', '', 'publish', 'closed', 'closed', '', 'news-briefs-127', '', '', '2019-10-09 14:13:33', '2019-10-09 18:13:33', '', 0, 'https://staging.yourislandnews.com/?p=41899', 0, 'post', '', 0),
(41901, 4, '2019-10-09 14:14:26', '2019-10-09 18:14:26', 'Penn Center has received a grant from the National Park Service in the amount of $50,000 to support an oral history project, which will collect the histories of 30 key Civil Rights Movement workers, who were with Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. at Penn Center between 1963 and 1967.\r\n\r\nPenn Center played a pivotal role in the Civil Rights Movement. After 86-years serving the educational needs of the Gullah-Geechee people in the Sea Islands, Penn School transformed to become Penn Community Services, and took on the mantle of social justice, ushering in the Civil Rights Movement.\r\n\r\nDuring a time of mandated segregation, Penn served as one of only two sites in the South where multi-racial groups could hold meetings and have safe sanctuary.<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">&nbsp;</span>\r\n\r\nPenn Center and the St. Helena Island community welcomed King and the Southern Christian Leadership Conferences (SCLC), along with other multi-racial groups, religious groups and organizations like the Peace Corps.\r\n\r\nMarion Burns, Penn Center’s Interim Executive Director said in a release: “Local and regional civil rights and social justice workers strategized and planned the Civil Rights Movement on a grassroots and national level, right here on the sacred grounds of Penn Center. These are the histories and stories that Penn’s oral history project desires to capture, preserve and share nationally and internationally. We are profoundly grateful to the National Park Service for their continued support.”\r\n\r\nThe National Park Service announced $12.259 million in African American Civil Rights grants to fund 44 projects across 17 states that will preserve and highlight stories related to the African American struggle for equality in the 20<sup>th</sup> century. Penn Center’s project is one of the 44 projects awarded.\r\n“Through the work and engagement of public and private partners, these grants will preserve a defining part of our nation’s diverse history,” National Park Service Deputy Director P. Daniel Smith said. “By working with underrepresented communities to preserve their historic places and stories, we will help tell a more complete narrative of the African American experience in the pursuit of civil rights.”', 'Penn Center receives grant to compile Civil Rights Movement oral history', '', 'publish', 'closed', 'closed', '', 'penn-center-receives-grant-to-compile-civil-rights-movement-oral-history', '', '', '2019-10-09 14:14:26', '2019-10-09 18:14:26', '', 0, 'https://staging.yourislandnews.com/?p=41901', 0, 'post', '', 0),
(41903, 4, '2019-10-09 14:15:43', '2019-10-09 18:15:43', '<h4>By CELIA STRONG</h4>\r\nIf a person never learns anything else about wine, they must know there is always another wine to be tried.<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">&nbsp;</span>\r\n\r\nNew region. New grape varieties. New vintages of old favorites at the very least.<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">&nbsp;</span>\r\n\r\nIt’s all hard work but someone has to do it.\r\n\r\nThis week’s new, for many, includes a new region and/or a new variety.<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">&nbsp;</span>\r\n\r\nPuglia, or Apulia in Italian, is one of Italy’s 20 DOC wine regions. It is located on the back and bottom of the Italian “boot.” It is the “high heel” of the boot and makes up the very southern east coast on the Adriatic.<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">&nbsp;</span>\r\n\r\nThis area has a Mediterranean climate with dry summers and mild winters. Puglia’s wine making history dates back to the ancient Greeks.<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">&nbsp;</span>\r\n\r\nHistorically, Apulia produces large quantities of rugged and deeply colored wines. They have 25 DOC regional designations.<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">&nbsp;</span>\r\n\r\nSome are not so wonderful, less expensive, locally favored wines. But, others are awesome. Discovered by searching out the new, tasting, and knowing the grape varieties that are used.<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">&nbsp;</span>\r\n\r\nThe Salento area is located at the southern end of the region and is the source for many wines. Salice Salentino (sa-lee-chay sahl-len-tee-no) is one of the better known DOCs that has better wines.\r\n\r\nThe Salice Salentino DOC was established in 1976, but its wines have records dating back to the 6th century, B.C. Today, the whole Apulian wine industry is just starting to expand itself.<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">&nbsp;</span>\r\n\r\nThese wines are mostly reds, with small productions of rosé and white. Negroamaro (literally translated\r\n\r\nas black or dark and bitter) and Malvasia Nero are the two main grapes allowed in the red wines.<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">&nbsp;</span>\r\n\r\nThe basic reds have no aging requirements, although reserve wines can require 24 months of aging.\r\n\r\nMost producers, today, are trying to make less traditional wines in favor of well-crafted, more fruity wines. Not limiting themselves to just local varieties.<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">&nbsp;</span>\r\n\r\nThese wines are well-received. Locally and exported. Although, they may not have DOC status.\r\n\r\nCastello Monaci is located in the center of the Salice Salentino DOC. They have a 16th century castle that was once run by Basilican monks. It has been owned by the same family since the 19th century.<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">&nbsp;</span>\r\n\r\nMonaci has an awesome record for wines made from Negroamaro and Malvasia Nero. Mostly from 350 acres of vineyards that they own.\r\n\r\nCoribante is a new red wine in the Monaci portfolio. It is a blend of Syrah and Malvasia Nero. New grape and old traditional grape.<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">&nbsp;</span>\r\n\r\nThese grapes grow in mostly clay soil, in very warm vineyards. The vines are an average of five years old. After harvest and crushing, each variety is fermented separately. At controlled temperatures in stainless steel vats. The Syrah stays in its stainless steel tanks while the Malvasia Nero goes through a\r\n\r\nmalolactic fermentation and sits in barriques (wood barrels) for 12 months.<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">&nbsp;</span>\r\n\r\nThe finished, blended, wine is a concentrated deep red color with hints of purple. It has aromas and flavors that include cherries, raspberries, elderflowers and hints of black pepper.\r\n\r\nThis wine is fairly full bodied, intense, smooth, juicy and has enough tannins to pair well with red meat, pasta and meatballs, strong cheeses and more.<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">&nbsp;</span>\r\n\r\nFor $11.99 at Bill’s. Awesome. Enjoy.', 'In wine, new regions, grapes, vintages always awesome', '', 'publish', 'closed', 'closed', '', 'in-wine-new-regions-grapes-vintages-always-awesome', '', '', '2019-10-09 14:15:43', '2019-10-09 18:15:43', '', 0, 'https://staging.yourislandnews.com/?p=41903', 0, 'post', '', 0),
(41905, 4, '2019-10-09 14:17:22', '2019-10-09 18:17:22', '<h4>I’m voting ‘yes’ for school referendum and you should too</h4>\r\nMy children have attended Beaufort County public schools for eight years. During that time, I have seen much to criticize about the school system, and I have not been afraid to be vocal about the things that are wrong.\r\n\r\nHowever, the school system is also doing plenty of things right. Every day, more than 22,000 children arrive at their respective schools. Regardless of the classroom conditions, more than 1,600 teachers welcome them in and teach.\r\n\r\nBCSD teachers instruct almost 13,000 students that are living in poverty, more than half the students in the district. They educate more than 3,500 students for whom English is a second language; that is about 1 out of every 6 children.\r\n\r\nIt is well documented that those factors are major obstacles toward normal measures of academic achievement, i.e. standardized testing. In addition, the schools across the district have buildings in need of major repairs or renovations, outdated safety and security measures, unsafe recreational facilities, and overcrowded classrooms.\r\n\r\nAs a community, we have a duty to promote the education of our youth in healthy, safe environments. I am willing to spend about $100 a year so that my children do not have to attend classes in trailers, under leaking roofs, or with unsafe air to breathe. What is it worth to you?\r\n\r\n– Barbara Mancini, Bluffton\r\n<h4>\r\nRuby Tuesday’s makes marine, service dog feel welcome</h4>\r\nAfter eight months and 29,000 miles on the road, I pulled the Roadrunner RV with my full medal service dog, Marine Girl, and myself into Beaufort, S.C. to visit my son, a member of the Beaufort Police Department.\r\n\r\n“Let’s go out to dinner,” I said. “Tell you what, I’ll pay.”<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">&nbsp;</span>\r\n\r\n“Okay,” my boy said, “I know a good place to eat. Ruby Tuesday’s near Walmart.”<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">&nbsp;</span>\r\n\r\nWell, when we got there Sara, the manager on duty, and Courtney, the server, came over smiling and gave my service dog some fresh water and made my son, his wife and myself feel right at home. They even said to take our time while the gave the dog something to eat.<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">&nbsp;</span>\r\n\r\nWe were given five-star treatment and, for a while, I even forgot my pain. We would all like to thank Ruby Tuesday’s for a welcome night of good food and good company. I didn’t even have to let Marine Girl clean my plate for me, … I did that all by myself.<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">&nbsp;</span>\r\n\r\nRuby Tuesday’s was a real gem to us, and I want to thank them again.\r\n\r\n– John McIntire, USMC, Ret.\r\n<h4>\r\nEckstrom is right: Canceling Republican primary is dumb</h4>\r\nI want to thank you for printing the op-ed by our S.C. Comptroller, Richard Eckstrom, a couple of weeks ago entitled “Canceling SC’s Republican Primary a Dumb Thing To Do.” I totally agree with all the reasons he gave for believing it was the wrong thing to do.\r\n\r\nI do NOT believe for one minute that our Republican State Executive Committee is authorized to determine whether an incumbent in ANY election has a “viable challenger.” That is the prerogative of the registered voters, and they express their opinion at the ballot box.\r\n\r\nAt the time this vote was taken to dispense with the Presidential Primary, there were two opponents who had legitimately filed as candidates and another one giving every indication that he intended to file. Had there been no opponents for the President and none indicating an interest, I might not be so incensed about this action.\r\n\r\nI’ve talked with many of my conservative activists in the Republican Party and haven’t found a single person who felt this was the thing to do, so on behalf of all the “Old Guard” and the new activists who’ve seen the light, I ask that the State Executive Committee of the Republican Party reconsider this issue and reverse their decision.<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">&nbsp;</span>\r\n\r\nThis is America and we don’t choose our leaders by canceling the right to vote.\r\n\r\n– Edie Rogers, Beaufort', 'Letters to the Editor', '', 'publish', 'closed', 'closed', '', 'letters-to-the-editor-20', '', '', '2019-10-09 14:17:22', '2019-10-09 18:17:22', '', 0, 'https://staging.yourislandnews.com/?p=41905', 0, 'post', '', 0),
(41908, 4, '2019-10-09 14:18:58', '2019-10-09 18:18:58', 'Up to two dozen food trucks will grace the parking lot at Beaufort Town Center off Boundary Street on Saturday as the Beaufort Food Truck Festival returns.\r\n\r\nThe 3<sup>rd</sup> annual event, sponsored by the Lowcountry Jaycees, runs from 11 a.m. to 5 p.m. and raises money for Camp Hope – a camp for kids and adults with cognitive disabilities.\r\n\r\nThe festival will feature other attractions, as well, including numerous vendors, the bookmobile and live music.\r\n\r\nPets are welcome, as long as they are on a leash. Owners must clean up after them.\r\n\r\nThere is no beer tent this year, but several restaurants in the surrounding area serve alcohol.', 'Food Truck Festival returns to Beaufort', '', 'publish', 'closed', 'closed', '', 'food-truck-festival-returns-to-beaufort', '', '', '2019-10-09 14:18:58', '2019-10-09 18:18:58', '', 0, 'https://staging.yourislandnews.com/?p=41908', 0, 'post', '', 0),
(41911, 4, '2019-10-09 14:24:13', '2019-10-09 18:24:13', '<strong>VOLLEYBALL</strong>\r\n\r\n<strong>Eagles win crosstown clash</strong>\r\n\r\nBeaufort High volleyball claimed bragging rights over crosstown rival Battery Creek with a 3-0 (25-16, 25-20, 25-19) victory Oct. 1.\r\n\r\nHannah Merchant led the Eagles with 17 kills and was 15-for-15 serving, and Olive Renforth had a strong night with 11 kills and 14-for-14 serving. Megan Schoener had four kills and served 8-for-8, Peyton Polk and Sakura Simmons anchored the Eagles’ serve receive, and Zyaire Middleton dished out 27 assists and was 17-for-19 at the service line.\r\n\r\nDazzani Hinton helped keep the Dolphins in it with 18 kills, three blocks, and five digs, and Laiani McCullough added nine kills, two blocks, and 10 digs. Paige McArthur had a team-high 12 digs, and Halle Dejesus handed out 25 assists for Battery Creek.\r\n\r\n<strong>BHS makes tourney semis</strong>\r\n\r\nBeaufort High volleyball advanced to the gold division semifinals in an eight-team tournament Oct. 5 at Oceanside Collegiate Academy.\r\n\r\nThe Eagles went 1-0-2 in pool play, sweeping Philip Simmons (25-21, 25-13) and splitting with Cathedral Academy (25-16, 23-25) and Hanahan (20-25, 25-17) to earn a spot in the gold bracket. They ran into a buzzsaw in the semifinals, though, falling 25-10, 25-18 to the host Landsharks, who went on to win the championship.\r\n\r\nHannah Merchant led the Eagles with 27 kills and 42 digs on the day, and she was 24-of-25 serving with four aces. Olive Renforth notched 12 kills and 38 digs and served 15-for-16 with two aces, setter Zyaire Middleton dished out 37 assists to go with 22 digs, and defensive specialists Sakura Simmons (29-of-30 serving, 3 aces, 36 digs) and Peyton Polk (44 digs) anchored the defense.\r\n\r\n<strong>Eagles top region rival Bobcats</strong>\r\n\r\nBeaufort High volleyball claimed a key region win with a 3-1 victory over Bluffton on Oct. 3.\r\n\r\nThe Eagles withstood a rally from the Bobcats to claim a 25-18, 25-17, 22-25, 25-19 win and keep their region title hopes intact.\r\n\r\nZyaire Middleton had a season-high 32 assists to go with 21 digs and was 19-of-21 serving to lead the Eagles’ offense. Hannah Merchant had a big night with 17 kills, 24 digs, and three aces on 25-of-27 serving, and Olive Renforth added 12 kills, 20 digs, and 11-for-12 serving for Beaufort.\r\n\r\nDefensive specialist Sakura Simmons had a team-high 26 digs and served 13-for-13 for the Eagles, and libero Peyton Polk had 24 digs and a strong performance on serve receive.\r\n\r\n<strong>HHCA tops BA in SCISA showdown</strong>\r\n\r\nHilton Head Christian Academy won a clash of two SCISA volleyball powerhouses Oct. 3, handing Beaufort Academy its first loss in nearly six weeks.\r\n\r\nVisiting HHCA was in control throughout a 3-0 (25-15, 25-13, 25-22) victory. Ady O’Grady led HHCA with a monster game, collecting 15 kills, 12 digs, and four blocks, and Lauryn Qualls added eight kills and 17 digs. Brielle McCarthy had 30 assists, Amelia Auld had 13 digs, and Kate Booth had five kills and five aces for HHCA.\r\n\r\nChase Vaigneur had 11 kills and eight assists, and McCayla Willingham racked up seven kills and 10 blocks for BA. Mary Hanna Hiers had a team-high 13 digs.\r\n\r\n<strong>BA takes down Holly Hill</strong>\r\n\r\nBeaufort Academy volleyball kept its winning streak going with a sweep of Holly Hill Academy on Oct 2.\r\n\r\nThe Eagles rolled to a 3-0 (25-8, 25-16, 25-15) victory, as McCayla Willingham held down the front row with nine kills and three blocks, and Emily Ann Hiers and Chase Vaigneur put up balanced stat lines. Hiers had 15 assists, seven kills, and three aces, and Vaigneur added 13 assists, seven kills, and five digs.\r\n\r\nAmelia Huebel added six kills and two blocks, and Mary Hanna Hiers had 12 digs.\r\n\r\n<em>Above: Beaufort High\'s Megan Schoener, center, sets up the volley the during the second set against Battery Creek Dolphins Tuesday at Battery Creek. The Lady Eagles went on to sweep the Lady Dolphins in straight sets 25-16, 25-20 and 25-19. At left is Heyley Traoer and right is Peyton Polk.</em>\r\n\r\n&nbsp;\r\n\r\n<strong>TENNIS</strong>\r\n\r\n<strong>BA falls to Sharks, Dolphins </strong>\r\n\r\nBeaufort Academy girls tennis lost 4-2 to May River on Oct. 1 and 6-0 to Hilton Head Prep on Oct. 3.\r\n\r\nThe Sharks swept the Eagles 6-0 in the first meeting, but Jayda Scheper and Tallie Pendarvis were able to break through and earn points for BA in the rematch. Scheper defeated Margaret Zendzian 6-3, 6-1 at No. 1 singles, and Pendarvis outlasted Harper Gray 6-4, 4-6, 10-6 at No. 5. Ellie Ford’s three-set win at No. 4 singles clinched the win for the Sharks, preventing a deciding No. 1 doubles match.\r\n\r\n<strong>BHS wraps up No. 2 seed</strong>\r\n\r\nBeaufort High tennis locked up the No. 2 spot in Region 7-4A with a doubleheader sweep of Colleton County on Tuesday.\r\n\r\nThe Eagles earned two 6-0 victories over the Cougars and gave a number of players the opportunity to play, using entirely different lineups in each match.\r\n\r\nSophie McMullen, Madeline Confare, Lucy Aydlette, Sophia Exley, Lauren Bartlett, Caroline Louw, Elizabeth Holloway, Juliana Lane, Grace Trask, and Natalie Turbeville all earned singles victories for BHS, and the team of Claire Bowden and Gracie Cunningham and the pairing of Vishwa Patel and Alisha Arora each won doubles matches.\r\n\r\nBeaufort will host a first-round playoff match on Oct. 23.\r\n\r\n&nbsp;\r\n\r\n<strong>GOLF</strong>\r\n\r\nMay River girls golf claimed two more victories over its county rivals, winning nine-hole matches at The Legends at Parris Island on Oct. 1 and at Golden Bear Golf Club on Oct. 3.\r\n\r\nLed by medalist Sydney Bowes’ 2-over-par 38, the Sharks posted a team score of 171 at Parris Island to hold off runner-up Hilton Head High (193). Bluffton (207) was third, followed by Beaufort High (229). Izzy Stone led the Eagles with a 42, followed by Elissa Hooper (55), Molly Hooper (63), Joeanne Straub (69), and Rylee Hill (69).\r\n\r\nKylie Bowes led the Sharks at Golden Bear with a round of 3-over 39, helping the Sharks posted a team score of 170 to edge Hilton Head High by 11 shots. Beaufort shot 240, and Bluffton did not have enough players to post a team score. Stone (45) led the Eagles, followed by Elissa Hooper (58), Straub (66), Hill (71), and Angelina Guerrero (71).', 'Sports Roundup', '', 'publish', 'closed', 'closed', '', 'sports-roundup-6', '', '', '2019-10-09 14:24:13', '2019-10-09 18:24:13', '', 0, 'https://staging.yourislandnews.com/?p=41911', 0, 'post', '', 0),
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(41914, 4, '2019-10-09 14:28:00', '2019-10-09 18:28:00', 'Battery Creek made its first win of the season an impressive one Friday, blowing out visiting Creekside Christian 31-6.\r\n\r\nJaeon Allen and Tre Booth had big games on the ground, and Kyseem Jabbar returned a punt 55 yards for a touchdown to lead the Dolphins.\r\n\r\nBooth opened the scoring with a 61-yard touchdown run and added a 6-yard TD run in the second half, finishing with 153 yards on 17 carries. Allen rolled up 112 yards on 14 carries, including a 4-yard TD in the first half and a 2-yard TD in the fourth quarter.\r\n\r\nThe Dolphins’ defense also had a great night, holding the Cougars scoreless until the fourth quarter and wreaking havoc in the backfield all night. Brandon Wilson had five tackles (one for loss) and two sacks, Shamar Hamilton had three tackles (one for loss) and a sack, and Elijah Dean recorded four tackles (one for loss) and an interception to lead the dominant defensive effort.\r\n\r\nThe Dolphins (1-3) host Lake Marion to open region play on Friday.\r\n\r\n<em>Above: Battery Creek’s Jaevon Allen, left, gets a big block Friday night from Devante Singleton (79) and breaks free to score during the first half against Creekside Christian Academy. Photo by Bob Sofaly</em>', 'Ground game, defense carry Creek to first win', '', 'publish', 'closed', 'closed', '', 'ground-game-defense-carry-creek-to-first-win', '', '', '2019-10-09 14:28:00', '2019-10-09 18:28:00', '', 0, 'https://staging.yourislandnews.com/?p=41914', 0, 'post', '', 0),
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(41917, 4, '2019-10-09 14:29:53', '2019-10-09 18:29:53', 'Nine Beaufort County schools – including Coosa Elementary, Riverview Charter and Lady’s Island Elementary – have earned Palmetto Gold or Silver awards for student academic achievement, the South Carolina Department of Education announced Oct. 7.\r\n\r\n“These are very noteworthy recognitions,” Superintendent Frank Rodriguez said in a release. “We’re very proud of the students who improved their performance and also proud of the hard-working educators who supported them.”\r\n\r\nThe state’s Education Oversight Committee establishes criteria for the awards, and the Department of Education applies those criteria to determine which schools are honored. The Education Department announced Palmetto Gold and Palmetto Silver winners for the 2017-18 and 2018-19 school years based on revised criteria approved earlier this year by the South Carolina Education Oversight Committee.\r\n\r\nBeaufort County winners for 2017-18 were Coosa Elementary and Riverview Charter (Palmetto Gold) and Bluffton High, Hilton Head Island High, May River High, Red Cedar Elementary and River Ridge Academy (Palmetto Silver).\r\n\r\nBeaufort County winners for 2018-19 were Riverview Charter (Palmetto Gold) and Bluffton Elementary and Early Childhood Center, Bluffton High, Hilton Head Island High, Lady’s Island Elementary, May River High, Red Cedar Elementary and River Ridge Academy (Palmetto Silver).\r\n\r\nState Superintendent of Education Molly Spearman said the awards demonstrate a school\'s commitment to excellence and ensuring every student meets the Profile of the South Carolina Graduate.\r\n\r\n“This achievement is testament to the hard work of the students, teachers, and principals in each school community,\" Spearman said.', 'Nine Beaufort County schools earn state recognition', '', 'publish', 'closed', 'closed', '', 'nine-beaufort-county-schools-earn-state-recognition', '', '', '2019-10-09 14:29:53', '2019-10-09 18:29:53', '', 0, 'https://staging.yourislandnews.com/?p=41917', 0, 'post', '', 0),
(41920, 4, '2019-10-09 14:32:26', '2019-10-09 18:32:26', '<h4>USCB Center for the Arts presents Masters of Soul</h4>\r\nUSCB Center for the Arts will host Masters of Soul at 7:30 p.m. Friday, Oct 11.\r\n\r\nMasters of Soul is a celebration of 1960s Motown and soul artists, their music and style. The show features stylishly costumed, fully choreographed tributes to both male and female groups backed by a live band.\r\n\r\nTickets are $35 for adults, $30 for seniors and military, and $15 for students and children. Tickets are available online at USCBcenterforthearts.com and at the box office located at 801 Carteret St. in Beaufort, or at the door the night of the show\r\n<h4>Thompson hosting book signing Oct. 11</h4>\r\nTina D. Thompson (above) will hold a book signing for her new book, “The Attack on Eve: God’s Vision vs. World’s Vision,” from 1 to 3 p.m. Friday, Oct. 11 at the McIntosh Book Shoppe in Beaufort.\r\n\r\nThe book, called “a survival guide for the modern soul” is the debut of Thompson, born and raised in the Great Smoky Mountains of Tennessee.\r\n<h4>BASEcamp’s fall exhibit focuses on Emily Scott Pack</h4>\r\nBeaufort Digital Corridor is pleased to present two unique angles of one artist’s vision for the BASEcamp Gallery Fall installation.\r\n\r\nEmily Scott Pack’s dual exhibit will include her encaustic works of art and paintings comprised of coastal inspired abstracts, landscapes, and lowcountry life. The other side of that will be The RAW Project, a series of black and white photos of Real Authentic Women – encouraging and empowering women \"to see themselves as the vulnerable, beautiful, and authentic humans they are.”\r\n\r\nThe exhibit will display throughout October, November, and December. Plan to meet Emily and enjoy a glass of wine and some light snacks as part of Beaufort’s Fall Art Walk from 5 to 8 p.m. Oct. 26 at BASEcamp, 500 Carteret Street, halfway between USC Beaufort Center for the Arts/Sea Islands Center Gallery and the downtown galleries. Art is for sale direct through artist.\r\n<h4>Presentation on Civil War photographers set for Oct. 17</h4>\r\nThe Beaufort County Historical Society and the Beaufort District Collection are collaborating to present Stephen Wise’s presentation, Civil War Photographers in Beaufort, at noon, Thursday, Oct. 17 at the Beaufort County Library at 311 Scott Street.\r\n\r\nThe talk is free and open to the public. Seating limited and first come, first seated.<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">&nbsp;</span>\r\n\r\nDoors open at 11:30 a.m..', 'Arts Briefs', '', 'publish', 'closed', 'closed', '', 'arts-briefs-4', '', '', '2019-10-09 14:32:26', '2019-10-09 18:32:26', '', 0, 'https://staging.yourislandnews.com/?p=41920', 0, 'post', '', 0),
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(41923, 4, '2019-10-09 14:35:11', '2019-10-09 18:35:11', 'Rain didn’t stop 16th century re-enactors from invading the grounds of the Santa Elena History Center along Bay Street on Saturday. Here Spanish military head gear, belts and other bits of military clothing hang on a tree branch as two re-enactors, Andy Broughton, center, and Dan Booney add life to the display.\r\n\r\n<em>Photo by Bob Sofaly</em>', 'Back in time', '', 'publish', 'closed', 'closed', '', 'back-in-time', '', '', '2019-10-09 14:35:11', '2019-10-09 18:35:11', '', 0, 'https://staging.yourislandnews.com/?p=41923', 0, 'post', '', 0),
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(41927, 4, '2019-10-09 14:38:40', '2019-10-09 18:38:40', '<h4>By BOB SOFALY</h4>\r\nA small but enthusiastic crowd attended the kick-off session of ENGAGE BEAUFORT, a free monthly series of forums on topics that affect daily lives, sponsored by the University of South Carolina Beaufort’s Center For the Arts.\r\n\r\nThe forums are free and open to the public and allow for one-on-one engagements before and after the presentations.\r\n\r\nThe first topic for Wednesday, Oct. 2 was Social Media and Us: A Guide to Internet Safety.\r\n\r\nFor more information regarding ENGAGE BEAUFORT go to uscbcenterforthearts.com or call 843-521-3145.\r\n\r\n<em>Above: Lakinsha “Keke” Swinton, center, Beaufort County School District’s Director of Student Services, discusses cyberbullying and how it can be identified and combated with children, parents and teachers Wednesday during ENGAGE BEAUFORT at USCB’s Center for the Arts.&nbsp;At far left is Susan Lynch, Beaufort County School District’s Social Media and Web Content Manager. Not shown is local attorney Sam Scoville. <strong>Photos by Bob Sofaly</strong></em>', '\'Engage Beaufort\' kicks off at USCB', '', 'publish', 'closed', 'closed', '', 'engage-beaufort-kicks-off-at-uscb', '', '', '2019-10-09 14:38:40', '2019-10-09 18:38:40', '', 0, 'https://staging.yourislandnews.com/?p=41927', 0, 'post', '', 0),
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(41931, 4, '2019-10-09 15:02:48', '2019-10-09 19:02:48', 'By MARGARET EVANS\r\n\r\nIt was a cool, bright day in September as the Lunch Bunch settled on the porch at Brody’s Bar &amp; Grill, reveling in the fluky weather. The next week would bring summer back with a vengeance, but for now we were getting our autumn on, and loving it.\r\n\r\n<a href=\"https://staging.yourislandnews.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/10/Brodys-Fried-Pickles.jpg\"><img class=\" wp-image-41938 alignleft\" src=\"https://staging.yourislandnews.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/10/Brodys-Fried-Pickles-1024x757.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"432\" height=\"320\"></a>I’ve always believed Brody’s serves up some of the finest bar food I’ve ever tasted. I’m a big fan of bar food, myself, but I wondered how owner Cris Morrison, a serious restaurateur, might feel about my use of that term to describe his fare. I asked him, and he embraced it.\r\n\r\n“Sure, you can call it bar food,” he said. “But the difference between us and other places that serve bar food is that we put our hands on everything here. Everything’s made from scratch. We spend as much time with our food preparation as any of the most upscale restaurants in Beaufort. Personally, I just think of our food as <em>good.</em> The best food in town.”\r\n\r\n<a href=\"https://staging.yourislandnews.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/10/Brodys-Chloes-Cob-Salad.jpg\"><img class=\"alignright wp-image-41935\" src=\"https://staging.yourislandnews.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/10/Brodys-Chloes-Cob-Salad-1024x813.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"481\" height=\"382\"></a>Who were we to disagree? I was already halfway through my delicious Chicken Caesar Wrap by the time the discussion rolled around. It occurred to me that I’d never actually <em>had</em> a Chicken Caesar Wrap at a bar, thus my “bar food” thesis was already losing steam. Meanwhile, Cris’s “best food in town” theory was still very much in play.\r\n\r\nWe’d already finished off our appetizers; the fried mushrooms were big and juicy and perfectly battered, which pretty well describes the fried pickles, too.\r\n\r\nDawn was going to town on her Chloe’s Cobb Salad.<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">&nbsp;</span>\r\n\r\n“For some reason, it’s hard to find a good, big, healthy salad around here,” she said, delighting in the one before her. “This bacon is really crispy and the veggies are so fresh.”<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">&nbsp;</span>\r\n\r\nGrilled chicken, mixed cheese, onion, tomatoes, cucumber and hard-boiled eggs rounded out the feast, half of which was clearly going home in a box.\r\n\r\nJeff went the less healthy, more hearty route with a Chili Dog, which he thoroughly relished. (Yeah, I went there.)<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">&nbsp;</span>\r\n\r\n“The hot dog’s big, the chili’s good, the bun’s tasty.”<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">&nbsp;</span>\r\n\r\nWho could ask for anything more? Actually, Jeff could. He added jalapenos for some extra spice.\r\n\r\nBetty had nothing but positive things to say about her Oyster Basket – “the oysters are such a nice size!” – and the Chicken Parm Linguini earned kudos from Mike.<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">&nbsp;</span>\r\n\r\n“The chicken is tasty and tender. Really good breading, too, and it’s not the same breading you get on the mushrooms and pickles.”\r\n\r\n<a href=\"https://staging.yourislandnews.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/10/Brodys-Oysters-Basket.jpg\"><img class=\" wp-image-41940 alignleft\" src=\"https://staging.yourislandnews.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/10/Brodys-Oysters-Basket-1024x803.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"505\" height=\"395\"></a>How could I forget to mention the superb Mac &amp; Cheese, which came with my Caesar Chicken Wrap? It reminded me of my mother’s – with hard, gooey cheese on top – and I was so overwhelmed by nostalgia I almost ordered seconds.\r\n\r\nBut just then, our server arrived with a “surprise” – a plate of vanilla ice cream and hot fudge over two soft, delectable chocolate chip cookies … and a handful of spoons. The conversation at the table came to an abrupt halt, unless you count “Mmmm” as conversation.\r\n\r\nThe challenge with any visit to Brody’s – along with pinning down what “kind” of food they serve – is deciding what to order. The selection is just so large and diverse.<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">&nbsp;</span>\r\n\r\nAlas, there were only five of us there that day, so we left without trying the vast majority of enticing menu items. Nobody had the Hotti Totti Chicken Sandwich or the Asian Twish Burger or the Mama Mia Chicken Parm. The Mac Daddy Burger went untried, as did the Guac Guac Chicken Sandwich.<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">&nbsp;</span>\r\n\r\nWe didn’t sample the Wing Bar (15 flavors!) or the Ultimate Nachos or the Buffalo Shrimp. In fact, we barely scratched the surface of that mind-boggling menu.\r\n\r\nClearly, this could not stand. We would have to return and further our research in order to make a full and proper assessment of Brody’s Bar &amp; Grill.\r\n\r\nLunch Bunching is a tough job, but somebody’s got to do it.', 'The Lunch Bunch goes to Brody’s', '', 'publish', 'closed', 'closed', '', 'the-lunch-bunch-goes-to-brodys', '', '', '2019-10-09 15:03:38', '2019-10-09 19:03:38', '', 0, 'https://staging.yourislandnews.com/?p=41931', 0, 'post', '', 0),
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(41943, 4, '2019-10-09 15:08:45', '2019-10-09 19:08:45', '<h4>By MINDY LUCAS</h4>\r\nA new restaurant opening soon in Port Royal will offer Caribbean and other island-inspired food as well as a fresh view of Port Royal Landing Marina.\r\n\r\nMarker 244, named for the Intracoastal Waterway marker nearby, will open in the building that was formerly occupied by Back Porch Grill, at 1 Port Royal Landing Drive.\r\n\r\nMarianna Taylor, who will serve as general manager for the restaurant, said the new venture will be a family-run business and will serve cuisine from a variety of island cultures such as Hawaiian and Caribbean.\r\n\r\n“And obviously the Lowcountry lifestyle as well, but it will be welcoming and have that island inspired vibe,” she said.\r\n\r\nThe menu will include fresh local-caught shrimp and fish, burgers, chicken salad sandwiches, kabobs, fried and jerked chicken and will also offer vegetarian options.<a href=\"https://staging.yourislandnews.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/10/view-marker-244.jpeg\"><img class=\"alignright wp-image-41945\" src=\"https://staging.yourislandnews.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/10/view-marker-244.jpeg\" alt=\"\" width=\"316\" height=\"237\"></a>\r\n\r\nLongtime Lowcountry chef Penn Ten Eyck, who formerly owned and operated Sweetgrass, will serve as Marker 244’s chef.\r\n\r\nThe Taylors took over the building’s lease in October of 2018 and have completely renovated the space. Improvements included doubling the size of the kitchen, expanding the seating area out toward the water and installing an outdoor patio and “garage door” to capture cross breezes, Taylor said.\r\n\r\n“Everyone will be able to interact with each other and have a great view of the water,” she said.\r\n\r\nThe restaurant will be about 2,000-square-feet in size and seat around 84 people. It is expected to open by Oct. 14, Taylor said.\r\n\r\n“We think we have the trifecta – an amazing location, a great attitude toward our guests and Penn in the back bringing a fine dining experience. It will check all three of those boxes.”', 'New Marker 244 restaurant to open soon in Port Royal', '', 'publish', 'closed', 'closed', '', 'new-marker-244-restaurant-to-open-soon-in-port-royal', '', '', '2019-10-09 15:14:00', '2019-10-09 19:14:00', '', 0, 'https://staging.yourislandnews.com/?p=41943', 0, 'post', '', 0),
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(41947, 4, '2019-10-09 15:21:06', '2019-10-09 19:21:06', '<h4>By MINDY LUCAS</h4>\r\nA trooper with the S.C. Highway Patrol has been placed on administrative duty after firing his weapon following a traffic stop and vehicle pursuit, officials say.\r\n\r\nThe incident occurred around 8:30 p.m. on Tuesday, Oct. 1 on U.S. Highway 21 near the Marine Corps Air Station Beaufort.\r\n\r\nTrooper J.W. Ward attempted to pull over a 2007 Pontiac two-door after the driver of the car disregarded a traffic signal, according to Capt. Kelley Hughes, with the South Carolina Department of Public Safety.\r\n\r\nThe driver, identified as Robert Lamont Wilson, 32, of St. Helena Island, failed to stop and Ward pursued him. The driver lost control of the car which came to a stop near the air base, Hughes said.\r\n\r\nWard approached the vehicle and during that time discharged his department-issued firearm, according to a news release from the department. The driver again fled, and Ward pursued him into Colleton County on Green Pond Highway.\r\n\r\nAfter entering Colleton County, another trooper joined the pursuit where they stopped the car by performing maneuvers designed to stop a fleeing vehicle.\r\n\r\nWilson was arrested and charged with disregarding a traffic control device, failure to stop for a blue light, driving with an expired license and operating a vehicle without insurance, according to the release.\r\n\r\nEMS was called to the scene to evaluate Wilson after the collision. There were no injuries, the release stated.\r\n\r\nThe highway was closed for a few hours Tuesday night while the incident was investigated.\r\n\r\nSouth Carolina Law Enforcement Division is investigating the discharge of the trooper’s firearm to see if it met department-protocols. Ward has been placed on administrative duty.\r\n\r\nThe Dorchester County Sheriff’s Office is investigating the collision.', 'Trooper fires weapon following Beaufort traffic stop, pursuit', '', 'publish', 'closed', 'closed', '', 'trooper-fires-weapon-following-beaufort-traffic-stop-pursuit', '', '', '2019-10-09 15:21:06', '2019-10-09 19:21:06', '', 0, 'https://staging.yourislandnews.com/?p=41947', 0, 'post', '', 0),
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(41951, 4, '2019-10-09 15:31:25', '2019-10-09 19:31:25', 'The York W. Bailey Museum at the historic Penn Center will host a special event — A Day at Penn School — on Saturday, Oct. 12.\r\n\r\nA Day at Penn School will provide guests the opportunity to enjoy a guided walking tour of the Penn School National Historic Landmark District, an outdoor community vendor fair, the Penn Club fish fry fundraiser and the opportunity to hear from special guest speaker, Michael Boulware Moore, the great great grandson of Robert Smalls.\r\n\r\nMoore will share his thoughts on why history matters.<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">&nbsp;</span>\r\n\r\n“History is far more than an academic pursuit. It has critical contemporary meaning in the way that it frames current national perceptions and individual realities,” Moore said in a release. “This connectivity creates incredible pressure to ensure that the stories that we, as a nation, are telling our children — all of our children — put them in the best position to be successful.”<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">&nbsp;</span>\r\n\r\nMoore leverages his personal connection — as the great great grandson of Civil War hero and Reconstruction Congressman Robert Smalls — to illustrate his story.<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">&nbsp;</span>\r\n\r\nMoore will also talk about the power that museums like the York W. Bailey Museum at Penn Center and the forthcoming International African American Museum, can have on our collective future.<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">&nbsp;</span>\r\n\r\nIn addition, Moore will also share how the Penn Center, a cultural epicenter and national historic site, is vital to our nation’s collective heritage.\r\n\r\nMoore is the founding President and CEO of the International African American Museum in Charleston. Located on the spot where almost half of all enslaved Africans brought to America took their first steps, the museum is scheduled to open in 2021 and will be an innovative, informative, and emotionally powerful experience for all.<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">&nbsp;</span>\r\n\r\nA Day at Penn School will kick off at 9 a.m. with a self-guided tour of the York W. Bailey Museum’s Education for Freedom exhibition, a viewing of Penn’s documentary film, a special viewing of Penn Center’s Sam Doyle art collection, and a guided walking tour of the 50-acre Penn School National Historic Landmark District led by Victoria A. Smalls, Penn Center’s Director of History and Culture.\r\n\r\nThe day will also include an outdoor community vendor fair, with farmers, craft makers, and artists like<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">&nbsp; </span>Gullah wood-burning artist Rev. Johnnie Simmons and Gullah Sweetgrass sewer Jery Bennett-Taylor.\r\n\r\nBeginning at 11 a.m., the museum will host special guest speaker, Michael Boulware Moore, with lunch to follow at noon. The Penn Club is sponsoring their local favorite fish fry, as a fundraiser for Penn Center.\r\n\r\nFor more information on A Day at Penn School, museum admission, the guided walking tour fee and vendor fair, please call 843-838-8554 or email <a href=\"mailto:vsmalls@penncenter.com\">vsmalls@penncenter.com</a>.', 'Great great grandson of Robert Smalls highlights Day at Penn School', '', 'publish', 'closed', 'closed', '', 'great-great-grandson-of-robert-smalls-highlights-day-at-penn-school', '', '', '2019-10-09 15:31:25', '2019-10-09 19:31:25', '', 0, 'https://staging.yourislandnews.com/?p=41951', 0, 'post', '', 0),
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(42066, 4, '2019-10-17 13:07:12', '2019-10-17 17:07:12', 'Dataw Island welcomes the South Carolina Golf Association and the Women’s S.C. Golf Association this weekend, October 19-20, as it hosts the 21<sup>st</sup>annual SCGA-WSCGA Mixed Team Championship.\r\n\r\nThe full-field 65-team event will take place on the island’s two golf courses: Tom Fazio’s “Cotton Dike,” and Arthur Hills’ “Morgan River.” Attendees hail from throughout the state of South Carolina and will be vying for the titles of “Mixed Team Champions” and “Senior Mixed Team Champions.”\r\n\r\nDataw Island’s own John and Sue Zankowski will be competing in the Senior Division, and the brother/sister team of Tim and Michelle Britton, whose father, Dave Britton, is the Dataw Island Director of Golf, will compete in the Championship Division.\r\n\r\nBeaufort’s Billy and Tamara Paul will be competing, as well.\r\n\r\n“This is a great event that we are excited to be hosting,” Dave Britton said in a release. “We look forward to showcasing both of our courses to these teams, the majority of who are married couples.”&nbsp;\r\n\r\nAnd, of course, we know who he will be cheering for in the Championship Division, Tim and Michelle, both graduates of Clemson.\r\n\r\n“They basically grew up here, so it’s really fun to have them come back and play in a tournament together,” Britton said.\r\n\r\nLast year’s champions, Jeremy Moore and Emily Rapp, as well as last year’s senior champions, Nick Avery and Julie Flynn, will return to defend their titles.\r\n\r\nThe players will enjoy practice rounds on Friday followed by a reception in the Carolina Ballroom. Saturday, they take the field at 10 a.m. on Morgan River, and at 9:30 a.m. on Sunday, the final round will be played on Cotton Dike.&nbsp;&nbsp;\r\n\r\n&nbsp;', 'Dataw Island hosts 21st Annual SCGA-WSCGA Mixed Team Championship this weekend', '', 'publish', 'closed', 'closed', '', 'dataw-island-hosts-21st-annual-scga-wscga-mixed-team-championship-this-weekend', '', '', '2019-10-17 13:07:12', '2019-10-17 17:07:12', '', 0, 'https://staging.yourislandnews.com/?p=42066', 0, 'post', '', 0),
(41955, 4, '2019-10-09 15:36:19', '2019-10-09 19:36:19', '<h4>By MINDY LUCAS</h4>\r\nPresidential candidate Kamala Harris brought her trademark “For the People” campaign to the Lowcountry, on Saturday, Oct. 5, where she spoke to several hundred people gathered at the University of South Carolina Beaufort – Bluffton campus.\r\n\r\nDespite a change in venue earlier in the week – from Beaufort to Bluffton – and a somewhat overcast, rainy day, it was an upbeat crowd, and those in attendance seemed ready to hear what the junior senator from California had to say.\r\n\r\n“I’m interested in her platform and what she can do to help the current state of our country,” said Kimberly Brown, of Beaufort, as she waited for the event, held at the university’s Campus Center to start.\r\n\r\nAs several hundred people packed the small room, another 75 to 100 stood out in the center’s lobby for a chance to hear Harris.\r\n\r\nAn educator and school counselor, Brown said she particularly likes Harris’ stance on education and raising the salary of public school teachers.\r\n\r\n“It’s very important considering this leader has hired someone who has no public education experience,” said Brown referring to President Trump and his controversial pick for Secretary of Education, Betsy DeVos.\r\n\r\nBut even though Harris checked several boxes for her, Brown had not chosen a candidate just yet.\r\n\r\n“It’s too early,” she said, adding that she was going to see who was leading closer to the primary and would make her decision then.\r\n\r\n“We have to have the numbers and we can’t be divided,” she added.\r\n\r\nElectability is something just about every candidate passing through Beaufort County has addressed in one way or another. Harris broached the topic toward the end of her 20-minute talk before opening the event to audience questions.\r\n\r\n“Is America ready, they say, for a woman of color to be President of the United States of America?” she asked Saturday’s audience. It was a question that received resounding applause and cheers.\r\n\r\n“This is a conversation I’ve heard take place in every campaign I have – and now here’s the operative word – won,” she said, to more cheers.\r\n\r\nHarris’ track record of winning elections includes serving two terms as District Attorney of San Francisco. When she was first elected in 2003, she defeated a two-term incumbent, and was re-elected to a second term in November 2007.\r\n\r\nShe went on to become a United States Senator in 2016, is the second African American woman in history to be elected to the Senate, and the first African American and first woman to serve as Attorney General of California.\r\n\r\nOn Saturday, Harris covered a range of issues from the economy to the border crisis to gun violence and healthcare.\r\n\r\nOn national security, she said, “The current Commander in Chief on the subject of the fact of Russian’s interference in the election of the President of the United States, prefers to take the word of the Russian President over the word of the American intelligence community.”\r\n\r\nOn healthcare, Harris detailed her ‘Medicare for All’ plan.\r\n\r\n“And, we’re not going to take away your choice,” she said, a difference, she noted, between her and others on the debate stage. “You want a private plan? You get that. You want a public plan? You get that. We won’t take away your choice.”\r\n\r\nBut it was her humor and directness that seemed to get the most response from the crowd, particularly when talking about the President and promises made to working Americans.\r\n\r\n“Dude gotta go,” she said, to a cheering crowd.\r\n\r\nFor Bluffton retirees, Ruth Lee and Ursula Mitrook, it seemed to be the right approach. The two stood next to each other and clapped throughout the speech, though neither had exactly landed on a candidate yet either.\r\n\r\n“Well, yes and no,” Lee said, adding that she thought the other candidates, Joe Biden and Bernie Sanders, were “too old.”\r\n\r\n“And Elizabeth Warren is too angry,” she said. “I’m tired of angry. I want someone who can speak clearly and precisely and appropriately.”\r\n\r\n<em>Above: Senator Kamala Harris of California held a town hall meeting at USC Beaufort’s Bluffton campus on Saturday, Oct. 5 as part of her campaign for the Democratic nomination for president. Photo by Bob Sofaly.</em>', 'Presidential hopeful Harris brings town hall to county', '', 'publish', 'closed', 'closed', '', 'presidential-hopeful-harris-brings-town-hall-to-county', '', '', '2019-10-09 15:36:19', '2019-10-09 19:36:19', '', 0, 'https://staging.yourislandnews.com/?p=41955', 0, 'post', '', 0),
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(41968, 4, '2019-10-16 12:19:30', '2019-10-16 16:19:30', '<h4>Activities at Hunting Island State Park</h4>\r\nThere are fun, interesting and educational activities every day hosted by Park Ranger and Lowcountry Master Naturalist Megan Stegmeier.<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">&nbsp;</span>\r\n\r\nSundays: Sand/candy art, 11 a.m. (Oct. 20, 27); Hunting Island Bingo, 2:30 p.m. (Oct 20, 27).\r\n\r\nMondays: Reptiles of the Lowcountry, 11 a.m. (Oct. 28); Secrets of the Salt Marsh, 4 p.m. (Oct. 21).\r\n\r\nTuesdays: CCC Video, 1 p.m.; Beach Walk, 3 p.m.; Going Batty, 4 p.m. (Oct. 29).\r\n\r\nWednesdays: Alligator Talk, 11 a.m.; Stepping Stones, 2 p.m.; Lowcountry Legends &amp; Lore, 4 p.m. (Oct. 30).\r\n\r\nThursdays: Interpretive Lighthouse Tour, 10 a.m. (Oct. 17, 24, 31); CCC Video, 1 p.m.; Feeding Frenzy, 3 p.m.; Shark Tooth Excursion, 4 p.m. (Oct. 31); Spooky Lighthouse Lantern Tours, 6-8:30 p.m. (Oct. 31).\r\n\r\nFridays: Fish printing, 2 p.m. (Oct. 18, 25).\r\n\r\nSaturdays: Sunrise Lighthouse Climb, 6:30 a.m. (Oct. 19); Tie-Die, 11 a.m. (Oct. 19, 26); Trunk or Treat, 5-9 p.m. (Oct. 26).\r\n\r\nFor a description of these programs and a complete calendar of activities, go to southcarolinaparks.com/hunting-island and click on “Programs &amp; Events.”\r\n\r\nAll are invited to attend these free events, though there is an entry fee to Hunting Island State Park and reservations are needed for lighthouse programs.\r\n\r\nFor more information, call 843-838-7437 or go to the Friends of Hunting Island website and the Facebook page: FOHI Sea Turtle Conservation Project.\r\n<h4>Beaufort County Historical Society “Historically Speaking” lectures</h4>\r\nAll talks, held at noon on Thursdays, are free and open to the public. Donations are welcome. First-come, first-seated, doors open 30 minutes prior to event.<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">&nbsp;</span>\r\n\r\nOct. 17: Dr. Stephen Wise, “Civil War Views of Beaufort,” Beaufort County Library, 311 Scott St.<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">&nbsp;</span>\r\n\r\nNov. 21: Maxine Lutz, “Not Just Gossip: Who Dwelt in Beaufort’s Historic Houses,” Beaufort County Library, 311 Scott St.<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">&nbsp;</span>\r\n\r\nJan. 23: Dr. Bernard Powers, “The New Face of African American Public History in Charleston: The Center for the Study of Slavery and the International African American Museum,” Beaufort County Library, 311 Scott St.\r\n\r\nMarch 12: Dr. Lawrence Rowland, “Kate Gleason, Libby Rowland, and Beaufort in the 1920s,” St. Helena Branch Library, 6355 Jonathan Francis, Sr. Blvd. St. Helena Island.\r\n\r\nMay 7: 81st annual meeting, Dr. Dale Rosengarten, “Blue Collars to Blue Serge Suits: Beaufort’s Jewish Settlers,” St. Helena Branch Library, 6355 Jonathan Francis, Sr. Blvd., St. Helena Island.\r\n<h4>Frisky, One Cool Cat anti-bullying program</h4>\r\n2 p.m., Friday, Oct. 18, St. Helena Branch Library. Grammy-nominated music mogul and gun-shot survivor Tobias Thomas will be at the library to kick off an anti-bullying campaign using his book Frisky, One Cool Cat. Bring you kids by the library for a story and to meet other cool anti-bullying guests on bikes.\r\n<h4>Oyster Ghost Roast &amp; 5k By The Bay</h4>\r\nSaturday, Oct. 19, Technical College of the Lowcountry Beaufort Campus, 921 Ribaut Road. The 5K starts at 5 p.m., spanning campus and Spanish Moss Trail. The oyster roast starts at 6 p.m. with all-you-can-eat oysters, chili, hot dogs, brownies, lemon bars and more catered by Jim\'N Nick’s. All-You-Can-Drink wristbands are $10. The event features a live DJ, karaoke, cornhole, a college football viewing area, and lots of children’s activities. Oyster roast is $30 for adults, $15 for ages 13-17 and is free for kids 12 and younger. The oyster roast and 5K, which includes oyster roast/afterparty ticket, medal, and T-shirt is $60 for adults, $30 for those 17 and younger. All proceeds benefit the Student Veterans of America TCL Chapter and TCL’s Student Government Association. Learn more at <a href=\"http://www.tcl.edu/oyster\">www.tcl.edu/oyster</a> or call 843-525-8264.\r\n<h4>Swing Bridge 5K &amp; Sunrise Prayer Walk</h4>\r\n8:15 a.m., Saturday, Oct. 19, downtown Beaufort. Holy Trinity Classical Christian School is offering a 5K race event in downtown Beaufort that features the Woods Memorial Bridge. In addition to the 5K, there will be a 1-mile family run and a prayer walk. The cost to register for the 5K is $35. The 1-mile run is $10 per person, and the prayer walk is free. The race will be preceded by a Community Prayer Gathering at 7:15 a.m. in the Henry C. Chambers Waterfront Park. The prayer will be led by Bishop Mark J. Lawrence of the Anglican Diocese of South Carolina. The gathering will conclude with a walk across the Woods Memorial Bridge led by the Rev. John Chol Daau, headmaster of Holy Trinity’s sister school in South Sudan. All are welcome at this free event. Online registration is available at <a href=\"https://htccs.us10.list-manage.com/track/click?u=6ff1473646366420a01b37c40&amp;id=7ab938f674&amp;e=636d9f3b9d\">RunSignUp.com</a>, search S.C. events for Swing Bridge 5K. Race day registration will also be available from 7-7:45 a.m. The course is pet and stroller friendly.<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">&nbsp;</span>\r\n<h4>Concert: Brass Roots Trio</h4>\r\n5 p.m., Sunday, Oct. 20, Fripp Island Community Centre, 205 Tarpon Blvd. The fabulous Brass Roots Trio (piano, trumpet, French horn, vocals) will perform an adventurous mix of Americana, jazz, light classical, tango, and spiritual music. You receive a free pass at the security gate. Tickets are available at the door — cash or check only. Cost is $30 for adults; students and children are free through a grant from the Peg Gorham Memorial Fund. Reserve tickets by calling Sheila Carlson at 843-812-2753. Become a member of Fripp Island Friends of Music and save $50 for the season’s five concerts. A \"Meet-the-Artists\" reception that follows the performance. The concert is sponsored by the Fripp Island Friends of Music, the S.C. Arts Commission and Hargray, and helps sustain the FIFOM’s Music-in-the Schools Program. For more information, visit <a href=\"http://frippfriendsofmusic.com/\">frippfriendsofmusic.com</a>.\r\n<h4>Workshop: The Rhythm is the Cure</h4>\r\n11 a.m. to 3 p.m., Thursday, Oct. 24, Effervesce Yoga Spa in Port Royal. Workshop: The Rhythm is the Cure with Alessandra Belloni. Cost is $65. Lunch is included. Must bring ocean drum and/or tambourine. Register at <a href=\"http://www.bcfolkheritage.com/\">www.bcfolkheritage.com</a>.\r\n<h4>Concert: Healing Journeys with The Black Madonna</h4>\r\n6 p.m., Friday, Oct. 25, TCL Auditorium. Healing Journeys with The Black Madonna with Alessandra Belloni and a multi-artist art exhibit inspired by The Black Madonna. Doors open at 5 p.m. Light hors d’oeuvres at Art Council Mather Building 1 and in Lobby of Auditorium at TCL. Cost is $10 at the door or reserve tickets at <a href=\"http://www.bcfolkheritage.com/\">www.bcfolkheritage.com</a>.\r\n<h4>The Art of Elegance book signing</h4>\r\n11:30 a.m.-1 p.m., Friday, Oct. 25. A lunch, presentation and book signing for The Art Of Elegance with author Marshall Watson hosted by Historic Beaufort Foundation, 208 Scott Street. For tickets and information, call 843-379-3331 or historicbeaufort.org.\r\n<h4>The Rise of the Madonna: Creation Myths Across Cultures</h4>\r\n4-5 p.m., Sunday, Oct. 27, TCL Building 1 (Arts Council Mather Building). Lecture with Slide Show – The Rise of the Madonna: Creation Myths Across Cultures by Heather Ford, mythology scholar. Cost $10. Register at <a href=\"http://www.bcfolkheritage.com/\">www.bcfolkheritage.com</a> or at the door.\r\n<h4>Legal clinics at downtown library</h4>\r\nThe Beaufort County Library is offering free legal clinics at the downtown branch at 311 Scott St.\r\n\r\nEach clinic will feature a 30- to 40-minute lecture followed by an open question-and-answer session. All session run from 5:45 to 6:45 p.m. Get free answers concerning family law issues (Oct. 28). For more information, call the S.C. Bar Pro Bono Program at 803-799-6653, ext. 158 or 1-877-797-2227, ext. 158 or visit <a href=\"http://www.scbar.org/clinics\">www.scbar.org/clinics</a>. The clinics are not designed to provide guidance on a specific situation. If you need legal advice on a specific situation, you will need to contact an attorney.\r\n<h4>Workshop: Writing Through the Eyes of Your Ethnic Feminine Divinity</h4>\r\n3-5 p.m., Tuesday, Oct. 29, TCL Building 1 (Arts Council Mather Building). Workshop: Writing Through the Eyes of Your Ethnic Feminine Divinity with Susan Madison. Cost $40. Register at <a href=\"http://www.bcfolkheritage.com/\">www.bcfolkheritage.com</a> or at the door.\r\n<h4>Barbershop groups looking for new members</h4>\r\n3 p.m., Sunday, Oct. 30, mission building behind St. John\'s Lutheran Church on Lady\'s Island Drive.\r\n\r\nThe Beaufort HarborMasters and the Beaufort Belles Barbershop choruses are starting their 2019-2020 season in October and need men and women. You don\'t need to be able to read music, but you do need to enjoy having a good time. Please join us for camaraderie, song and snacks. Visit our website at <a href=\"http://www.beaufortharbormasters.org/\">www.beaufortharbormasters.org</a> or call Hal McCann at 843-838-9326 and leave a message.<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">&nbsp;</span>\r\n<h4>Women’s Coastal Skills Clinic</h4>\r\nNov. 1-3, Hunting Island State Park. Cost is $250 per person. Limited to 30 participants, ages 16 and older. An exclusive outdoor experience designed just for women, the three-day workshop expands knowledge of the Lowcountry while teaching useful skills along the way. Learn about the history of the lighthouse, cast netting, salt-marsh kayaking, shell fishing and more. Register by calling 843-838-7437. Reservations are required. Sleeping accommodations are your responsibility. Make reservations to bring your tent/RV by calling 843-838-2011.<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">&nbsp;</span>\r\n<h4>Female Divinity in Our Unique Ancient Cultures</h4>\r\n4-6 p.m., Saturday, Nov. 2, TCL Building 1 (Arts Council Mather Building). Open Mic Community Sharing: Female Divinity in Our Unique Ancient Cultures. Share in poetry or writing from your own cultural perspective. Cost $10. Snacks and beverages provided. Sign up to listen or participate at <a href=\"http://www.bcfolkheritage.com/\">www.bcfolkheritage.com</a> or at the door.<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">&nbsp;</span>\r\n<h4>4th Touch A Truck Fundraiser</h4>\r\nThe <a href=\"http://www.jslbeaufort.com/\">Junior Service League of Beaufort</a> will host its 4th Touch A Truck fundraiser on Saturday, Nov. 16 in downtown Port Royal from 11 a.m. to 4 p.m. on Paris Avenue. Cost of admission is $5 per person.\r\n\r\nTouch A Truck is a family event that offers a unique and interactive experience for children of all ages. Children will have the opportunity to see, touch, and safely explore their favorite vehicles that serve our community.\r\n\r\nThe event will feature many different types of equipment to explore, including a fire truck, ambulance, a Humvee, construction vehicles, and even a helicopter. The entertainment area will include a variety of activities including face painting, bounce-houses for kids and much more. And to round out the experience, enjoy music and fabulous food, drinks, and libations available for purchase.<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">&nbsp;</span>\r\n\r\nIn the case of rain, the event will be postponed to Dec. 7. Pets are not allowed at the event.\r\n\r\nCall Brittany Rosson at 618-967-6815 or visit <a href=\"http://www.touchatruckbeaufort.com/\">www.touchatruckbeaufort.com</a> for more information.\r\n<h4>Art Gallery Artist Talk and Reception</h4>\r\n2-5 p.m., Sunday, Nov. 10, TCL Building 1 (Arts Council Mather Building). Artists will talk about their art. Free Admission. For more information, visit <a href=\"http://www.beaufortartscouncil.org/\">www.beaufortartscouncil.org</a> or <a href=\"http://www.bcfolkheritage.com/\">www.bcfolkheritage.com</a>.\r\n<h4>YMCA to offer CPR class</h4>\r\nThe Wardle Family YMCA, located at 1801 Richmond Ave in Port Royal, offers CPR classes for community members on Saturday, Nov. 23 from 8 a.m. to noon. Cost is $35 for this YMCA-certified course and those interested need to register at the Y as space is limited and filled on a first-come, first-served basis. Questions? Contact Lou Bergen, Aquatics Director to register for this class. Call the Y at 843-522-9622 or visit beaufort-jasperymca.org.\r\n<h4>Get moving with Beaufort Track Club</h4>\r\nJoin the Beaufort Track Club at the Beaufort High School track from 6:30-7:30 p.m. each Tuesday night for an open community track workout. Beginner, intermediate, and advanced workouts are posted each week to ensure that you are getting the workout that you need.\r\n\r\nVisit the Facebook page “Beaufort Track Club” for more information.\r\n<h4>May River Quilters Quild</h4>\r\nOn the first Saturday of every month, the May River Quilters Guild meets at Palmetto Electric Cooperative, 1 Cooperative Way, Hardeeville. Members meet at 9:30 a.m. for social exchange. The meeting starts at 10 a.m. Please call 847-707-6034.\r\n<h4>Seaside Stitchers sewing club</h4>\r\n1 p.m., 3<sup>rd</sup> Monday of each month, Beaufort Yacht and Sailing Club. The Seaside Stitchers, neighborhood group of the American Sewing Guild, holds a monthly meetings for everyone who sews. It is for sewers of a variety skill levels and interests so anyone who is interested in sewing is encouraged to attend and find out what ASG is all about. For more information, visit <a href=\"http://www.asg.org/\">http://www.asg.org</a>. For more information about Seaside Stitchers, call Sheila Tindall at 843-838-9473.\r\n<h4>Parkinson’s support group</h4>\r\nA support group for individuals with Parkinson’s Disease and carepartners meets the first Thursday of each month at the Beaufort Memorial Lifefit Wellness Center from 1:30 to 3 p.m. For more information, visit our Facebook page or call Ric at 843-525-1229.\r\n<h4>Friends of Hunting Island lighthouse tours</h4>\r\nThe Friends of Hunting Island will present tours of the historic Hunting Island Lighthouse at 10 a.m. every Thursday in October. Keeper Ted and his team will tell you all about the history of the Lighthouse, which was built in 1875 and is the only Lighthouse in South Carolina open to visitors.<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">&nbsp;</span>\r\n\r\nIf you are at least 44 inches tall, you may also climb the 184 steps to the top of the Lighthouse. Reservations are recommended by calling 843-838-7437 and the fee is $2 per person.\r\n<h4>Puppy Plunge at the YMCA</h4>\r\nYMCA Puppy Plunge will be held on the third Saturday of the month from 9 to 11 a.m. (weather permitting) at the Y outdoor pool at 1801 Richmond Ave. in Port Royal. Pups can splash, swim and play in our safe, enclosed outdoor pool area.\r\n\r\nCost is $10 per pup, and all proceeds benefit the Y’s Learn to Swim program, which teaches local children and adults to swim at a reduced cost or for free. Dogs must be well behaved, current on all required vaccines and leashed until inside the pool area. Owners must be present at all times and humans are not permitted to swim in the Puppy Plunge. Visit <a href=\"http://beaufort-jasperymca.org/\">beaufort-jasperymca.org</a> or call 843-522-9622 for more information.\r\n<h4>Register to be a Tiger Shark</h4>\r\nBYAC Tiger Sharks Swim Team registration is open for the 2019-2020 season. There are three levels of swim team for ages 5 and up who meet swim team group requirements: Shark Pups; Group 1; and Group 2. Evaluations on going on now for group placement. Learn more online at <a href=\"http://beaufort-jasperymca.org/\">beaufort-jasperymca.org</a> (click on Aquatics&gt;Swim Team), stop by the Y in Port Royal (1801 Richmond Ave.) or call the Y at 843-522-9622.', 'What To Do', '', 'publish', 'closed', 'closed', '', 'what-to-do-195', '', '', '2019-10-16 12:19:30', '2019-10-16 16:19:30', '', 0, 'https://staging.yourislandnews.com/?p=41968', 0, 'post', '', 0),
(41971, 4, '2019-10-16 12:21:52', '2019-10-16 16:21:52', '<h4>By RICHARD ECKSTROM</h4>\r\nThey’re a staple of the incumbent politician’s toolkit: the countless recognitions, resolutions, proclamations, ribbon-cuttings and photo-ops which are more ceremonial than anything else, but which nonetheless pay dividends for elected officials.\r\n\r\nCertainly, these ceremonial activities can be a good way to recognize someone’s good deeds or bring attention to a worthy cause. But as politicians are well-aware, they’re also a way to win favor with influential constituents or score points with campaign donors. Getting a picture with them in the local paper never hurts, either.\r\n\r\nOf course, it could be argued that such recognitions consume time and energy that might better be spent on important public business.\r\n\r\nOne such practice in particular has proven to be a potential source of heartburn: the naming of roads, interchanges, and bridges after living people. I’d offer that it’s time to stop naming things after individuals who are still among us – including public officials.\r\n\r\nThe most obvious pitfall of naming things after current or former public officials who are still living is that they have yet to have their legacies fully cemented … which is to say, they still have the potential to bring controversy or disgrace upon themselves.<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">&nbsp;</span>\r\n\r\nOff the top of my head, I can think of three instances in recent years of state landmarks being renamed after their namesakes ran afoul of the law – such as a major expressway in the Upstate that was named for a former state comptroller and renamed following his conviction on securities fraud charges.\r\nBut then, a public official’s crimes aren’t always enough to overturn a road-naming honor.<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">&nbsp;</span>\r\n\r\nFor example, in the Lowcountry a connector road leading to the Port of Charleston still bears the name of a former state Senator who in 2015 pleaded guilty to violating campaign ethics laws … which means many folks when heading to and from our state’s major port travel on an expressway named for an admitted lawbreaker.\r\nNames on landmarks aren’t just superficial; they can cut to a community’s identity. In that regard, it’s inconceivable that a roadway honoring a lawbreaker does any good for an area’s self-image.\r\n\r\nThere are other pitfalls as well. There’s the cost, both in terms of the time and energy spent on naming things, and in terms of the cost of signage. Speaking of which, it\'s hard to believe those little green signs are really the best way to honor someone anyway.\r\n\r\nWe should probably change altogether the way roads, bridges, and other landmarks are named. Currently, more than 1,000 state roadways bear the names of individuals. Most are named by the General Assembly, with some being named by the state Department of Transportation commission – which explains the heavy focus on government officials.\r\n\r\nThere has to be a better way.\r\n\r\nMaybe the answer is to take naming out of the hands of the Legislature and the DOT and leave it up to community-based citizen committees. That’s how schools are named, and it seems to work well.\r\n\r\nOr perhaps there ought to be a standardized criteria for naming things, with an emphasis on genuine heroes like fallen soldiers or peace officers. We’d run out of things to name long before we run out of people whose sacrifices are worthy of tribute.\r\n\r\nWhat’s clear is that it’s time to stop naming things after still-living public officials, or even anybody still living. Waiting until after someone passes would allow time for that person’s legacy to be properly assessed.\r\n\r\nBesides, no public official who is actually worthy of such a tribute would want a road, interchange, or bridge named after them anyway; the opportunity to serve the public would be enough of an honor in itself. If not, a nice plaque ought to do.\r\n\r\n<em>Richard Eckstrom is a Certified Public Accountant and the state’s Comptroller.</em>', 'Stop naming things after politicians', '', 'publish', 'closed', 'closed', '', 'stop-naming-things-after-politicians', '', '', '2019-10-16 12:21:52', '2019-10-16 16:21:52', '', 0, 'https://staging.yourislandnews.com/?p=41971', 0, 'post', '', 0),
(41973, 4, '2019-10-16 12:26:44', '2019-10-16 16:26:44', '<h4>By SCOTT GRABER</h4>\r\nIt is Saturday, and I’m on my small, weathered, often repaired deck in Port Royal.<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">&nbsp;</span>\r\n\r\nI’ve got the Wall Street Journal, Weekend Edition, and a book called ‘The Years That Matter Most.’\r\n\r\nThe Journal gives us a lengthy review of ‘The Meritocracy Trap’ by Daniel Markovits (Penguin Press, 418 pages, $30). It’s lengthy because Professor Dan is taking on Yale, Harvard, Duke and other elite colleges, arguing that their golden ticket is a hollow victory for those who win the “brutal education tournament.”\r\n\r\nHe says that once a student is admitted to Princeton, Stanford or MIT they gravitate, lemming-like to big salaried lives in investment banking, financial consulting, specialized medicine or law—where starting salaries are now $200,000.\r\n\r\n“Meritocrats work hard in school, even harder on the job, and are richly rewarded for their efforts.” But there is a price to be paid. That price — seven-day work weeks and 17-hour work days — condemns “them to existential anxiety and deep alienation that neither income nor status can eliminate.”\r\n\r\nThe piece goes on to say these alienated, angst-ridden graduates have taken jobs once handled by middle management — and the “once ascendant middle class has meanwhile become mired in hopelessness and resentment and simmering anger.”\r\n\r\n“Once a country dominated by its middle class, America now has a middle class that is now in retreat and diminishing. The distance between the elite and the middle class stretches well beyond that separating the middle class and the poor.”\r\n\r\nThen, according to the review, these middle managers slide into “obesity, drug addiction and early death.”\r\n\r\nWhoa, Dan, who knew that Williams and Wharton were sending millions of middle managers to an early death? But wait, there’s more.\r\n\r\nMarkovits — or the reviewer, Epstein — wonder whether these elite schools are any better at teaching. Or are Princeton and Penn just the “educational equivalent of Ralph Lauren, Prada and Louis Vuitton?”\r\n\r\nAnd while at it, “do we really need the 100,000 new MBAs” that are produced every year?\r\n\r\nWhile the professor attacks the flank of America’s highly competitive colleges, Paul Tough (The Years That Matter Most) goes right at the Holy of Holies — the Scholastic Aptitude Test.\r\n\r\n“The SAT, a highly stressful rite of passage for American teenagers that has cost their parents, many millions of dollars in test preparation schemes, is largely a worthless product.”\r\n\r\nTough also says that the SAT does not predict college success and is a “friend of privilege.”\r\n\r\nAs I sit in the early morning coolness, “friend of privilege” bounces around my sleep-deprived brain making me uncomfortable, irritable.\r\n\r\nAnd while I’m not blind to the current cheating scandal — cheating by monied parents of those who seek admission to Stanford and Southern California — I think any system grounded in a fair, fairly administered test is as good an opportunity as we get in life.\r\n\r\nYes. I know that rich kids are exhaustively and expensively coached, prodded on by parents seeking a window decal saying Brown or Williams in a small, discrete font. And yes the tests themselves are imperfect, not relating to the rural reality of, say, Jasper County.\r\n\r\nBut what does a parent blessed with a smart, ambitious kid do these days? Does one tell their issue to avoid the SAT — the “friend of privilege?”\r\n\r\n“For God’s sake Sarah, I don’t want to see any Ivy League applications in this house because they will lead to a life of stress, anxiety and alienation.”\r\n\r\n(If one is fortunate enough to face this predicament perhaps one should look West — to China. Wealthy Chinese parents continue to send their sons and daughters to the United States for their higher education. Although the numbers Chinese students may have declined with the current, ongoing xenophobia, in 2017-2018 more than 360,000 Chinese students were enrolled in colleges throughout the United States. Some at Stanford, the University of Southern California and Duke.)\r\n\r\nMany of our bedrock beliefs — including the fairness of the SAT — have been in question for some time. And the notion that an Ivy League elite is running the economy and shutting out those who actually make things is not entirely new.<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">&nbsp;</span>\r\n\r\nBut the notion that elite colleges are producing graduates that diminish and degrade the middle class in a new one for me. The idea that graduates from Cornell and Penn are sending people into opioid addition and early death is a stretch.\r\n\r\nBut this new charge fits the notion there is a chasm in this country — a divide, that badly needs a bridge.', 'There’s a chasm in this country that badly needs a bridge', '', 'publish', 'closed', 'closed', '', 'theres-a-chasm-in-this-country-that-badly-needs-a-bridge', '', '', '2019-10-16 12:26:44', '2019-10-16 16:26:44', '', 0, 'https://staging.yourislandnews.com/?p=41973', 0, 'post', '', 0),
(41976, 4, '2019-10-16 12:27:37', '2019-10-16 16:27:37', '<h4>By LEE SCOTT</h4>\r\nNot too long ago, I was sitting with Jeff Evans, one of the two publishers of The Island News. As we sat there chatting one of the questions that came up was the usual one “How’d you get here?”<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">&nbsp;</span>\r\n\r\nPlease notice the Southern contraction which has slid into my vernacular. After discussing our own stories, we realized how common this question has become because of all the newcomers.\r\n\r\nOccasionally, when I ask the question, I hear “I was born here.”<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">&nbsp;</span>\r\n\r\nBut for the most part, I can tell a “not-born-here” resident quickly.\r\n\r\nThe reasons people give, for the most part, are interesting and, many times, unique. Sometimes it is the person that came here to follow an old girlfriend only to watch the relationship fall apart but find their love of the Beaufort community remained.\r\n\r\nFor me, I fell in love with this area 15 years ago when we had traveled up and down the east coast looking for a place to retire. Beaufort’s history, small town atmosphere and military presence all seemed so familiar to me.<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">&nbsp;</span>\r\n\r\nWe didn’t move here until 2014 but knew we would when we both retired.\r\n\r\nThere are other great stories. The couple from San Diego, Calif., who wanted to live on the east coast and drew a line from their home across the United States. They went from latitude 32.7 to latitude 32.4. Interesting way to relocate. There are many retired military members who come here after being all over the world, and they decide to retire here.<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">&nbsp;</span>\r\n\r\nSome people come because their parents are here, or their children and they want to be closer.\r\n\r\nI have heard multiple friends who have said the climate, the golfing, and the fishing all drew them here.\r\n\r\n“But other places have good climate, golfing, and fishing too. How did you decide to choose Beaufort?”\r\n\r\nTurns out a lot of people were unanimous in saying they loved the people. There is a good manner attitude here that those of us from the Northeast were happy to experience. It has rubbed off on us, and we are nicer people for it.\r\n\r\nThis reminded me of a recent grocery store trip when a woman with two teenage daughters stood there and chatted instead of helping the clerk bag all their groceries, which was a lot.\r\n\r\nWhen it was my turn, I shook my head and expressed my shock at the inconsiderateness of the mother and daughters for not helping. The clerk’s response was exactly what I was thinking, “They’re not from around here.”<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">&nbsp;</span>\r\n\r\nWe both laughed.\r\n\r\nAnd that is the real answer, Jeff, to “How’d you get here, Lee?”\r\n\r\nIt was the people.', 'Well, … how did you get here? For me, it was the people', '', 'publish', 'closed', 'closed', '', 'well-how-did-you-get-here-for-me-it-was-the-people', '', '', '2019-10-16 12:59:47', '2019-10-16 16:59:47', '', 0, 'https://staging.yourislandnews.com/?p=41976', 0, 'post', '', 0),
(41978, 4, '2019-10-16 13:01:11', '2019-10-16 17:01:11', 'Battery Creek rolled to its second straight win with a 38-20 home victory over Region 8-3A rival Lake Marion on Friday.\r\n\r\nTre Booth rushed for 179 yards and two touchdowns, and Jacove Anderson rushed for 145 yards and two TDs to lead the Dolphins’ resurgent rushing attack.\r\n\r\nAfter spotting the Gators a 6-0 lead, Battery Creek scored 38 consecutive points before Lake Marion added a pair of late touchdowns.\r\n\r\nAnderson tied it with a 45-yard TD run, and the Dolphins took the lead with a two-point conversion. Jaeon Allen added a 6-yard TD run and Obadahous Wilson threw a 12-yard TD pass to Kyseem Jabbar to make it 22-6 at halftime.\r\n\r\nBooth’s 47-yard touchdown run and Anderson’s 5-yard TD run in the third quarter made it 38-6 before the Gators closed the gap with two late scores.\r\n\r\nShamar Hamilton collected 10 tackles (two for loss) and forced and recovered a fumble, and Brandon Wilson added six tackles (three for loss) to lead Battery Creek’s defense, while Jabbar had two interceptions and Luke Sanders had one.\r\n\r\nThe Dolphins (2-3, 1-1) travel to Ridgeland-Hardeeville for a region matchup Friday.', 'Creek runs over Gators for region win', '', 'publish', 'closed', 'closed', '', 'creek-runs-over-gators-for-region-win', '', '', '2019-10-16 13:01:11', '2019-10-16 17:01:11', '', 0, 'https://staging.yourislandnews.com/?p=41978', 0, 'post', '', 0),
(41980, 4, '2019-10-16 13:04:10', '2019-10-16 17:04:10', 'Hilton Head High captured the team title and Beaufort High’s Izzy Stone was the individual champion at the Region 7-4A girls golf meet Monday at The Legends at Parris Island.\r\n\r\nLed by Alexia Milbrandt (88), McKenzie Bradley (93), and Bridget McMahon (96), the Seahawks posted an 18-hole team score of 379 to win by 60 shots over runner-up Bluffton.\r\n\r\nStone fired a 6-over-par 78 to win individual medalist honors by 10 shots over Milbrandt, while Bradley was third, Bluffton’s Anna LaPour (94) was fourth, and McMahon was fifth. Hilton Head High’s Eliza Jane Coulter and Grace Weismantel tied for sixth to claim the final two spots on the all-region team.\r\n\r\nAll three teams will compete in the Lower State qualifier next Monday at Coastal Carolina University’s Hackler Course, with the top eight teams with team scores under 400 and the three lowest-scoring individuals from non-qualifying teams advancing to the state tournament.\r\n\r\n<em>HHIHS (379) — Alexia Milbrandt 88, McKenzie Bradley 93, Bridget McMahon 96, Eliza Jane Coulter 102, Grace Weismantel 102</em>\r\n\r\n<em>&nbsp;</em><em>Bluffton (439) — Anna LaPour 94, Lucia Serratelli 103, Sarah Lazier 117, Jennifer Richardson 125</em>\r\n\r\n<em>&nbsp;</em><em>Beaufort High (468) — Izzy Stone 78, Elissa Hooper 128, Molly Hooper 129, Joeanne Straub 133, Rylee Hill 133\r\n\r\n</em>\r\n\r\n<em>Above: All-Region 7-4A girls golf team: (L-to-R) Grace Weismantel, HHIHS; Bridget McMahon, HHIHS; Alexia Milbrandt, HHIHS; McKenzie Bradley, HHIHS; Eliza Jane Coulter, HHIHS; Izzy Stone, Beaufort High; Anna LaPour, Bluffton.</em>\r\n\r\n<em>&nbsp;</em>', 'Beaufort’s Stone claims region crown', '', 'publish', 'closed', 'closed', '', 'beauforts-stone-claims-region-crown', '', '', '2019-10-16 13:04:10', '2019-10-16 17:04:10', '', 0, 'https://staging.yourislandnews.com/?p=41980', 0, 'post', '', 0),
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(41983, 4, '2019-10-16 13:05:32', '2019-10-16 17:05:32', '<h4>Beaufort’s Patel graduates from Kennesaw State <span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">&nbsp;</span></h4>\r\nDishang Patel of Beaufort graduated from Kennesaw State during the Summer 2019 commencement ceremonies in July. More than 1,300 students earned bachelor\'s, master\'s and doctoral degrees during KSU\'s summer commencement.\r\n<h4>TCL offering two open houses</h4>\r\nTechnical College of the Lowcountry is hosting two open houses this fall. Health Sciences will offer a open house from 5 to 7 p.m. Thursday, Oct. 17 at Building 4 on the Beaufort Campus. RSVP at <a href=\"https://tinyurl.com/y4zxwonx\">https://tinyurl.com/y4zxwonx</a>. Explore TCL\'s health career programs in massage therapy, medical assisting, nursing, physical therapist assistant, radiologic technology, surgical technology, and central sterile processing. Meet faculty and staff and learn about the application process.\r\n\r\nBusiness &amp; Industrial Technologies and Public &amp; Human Services will offer an open house from 5 to 7 p.m. Thursday, Nov. 14 in Buidings 14, 15 and 16 on the Beaufort Campus. RSVP at <a href=\"https://tinyurl.com/y27rjahj\">https://tinyurl.com/y27rjahj</a>. Discover TCL\'s professional and technical career programs including building and industrial technologies; business administration; computers and electronics; early care and education; criminal justice; paralegal; and more. Meet faculty and learn how to apply\r\n\r\nCall 843-525-8207 or email <a href=\"mailto:admissions@tcl.edu\">admissions@tcl.edu</a> for more information.', 'School Briefs', '', 'publish', 'closed', 'closed', '', 'school-briefs-53', '', '', '2019-10-16 13:05:32', '2019-10-16 17:05:32', '', 0, 'https://staging.yourislandnews.com/?p=41983', 0, 'post', '', 0),
(41985, 4, '2019-10-16 13:06:58', '2019-10-16 17:06:58', 'Doris Jean Russom Gray Taylor, 89, of Beaufort, died at 2:30 PM, Monday, October 14, 2019 at Morningside of Beaufort. She was born October 31, 1929 in Selmer, TN, the daughter of a railroad gandy dancer turned small town farmer and persevering and strong&nbsp;natured mother. Dot married JB Taylor on September 24, 1956 and widowed on November 17, 2018. She was also preceded in death by her first husband, Charles Gray, father, Ives Russom, mother, Lessie Howell, second mother, Aline Williams, brother, Billy Preslar,&nbsp;son, Douglas Taylor, and grandson, Travis Odom. In hospice care for three months prior to her death, Dot died peacefully with her children beside her.\r\n\r\nShe leaves her son, Tracy Jeffrey Taylor, with wife, Brenda Lee Taylor, two daughters, Linda Ann Barnard, with husband Charles Barnard, and Delores Jean Taylor, and her two sisters Violet Russom Joyner and Lela Joyner. She has 7 grandchildren, 12 great-grandchildren,&nbsp;and 8 great great grandchildren.\r\n\r\nDot was born into a farming family where she learned to survive on animals for subsistence and harvesting the crops for clothes and food. She picked cotton from a young age and would ride to the gin in a wagon with her daddy to get a nickel bag of popcorn.&nbsp;She came from a loving home where her parents openly displayed affection.\r\n\r\nMarried and widowed at a young age with a small child, Dot worked at a shoe factory when women were just starting to enter the workforce and even saved up enough to buy an genuine Model T car. After meeting JB, a young widowed serviceman&nbsp;with a young daughter, she became a mother of two, and moved to California and then to Charleston, where she bore and raised a son that had an untimely passing. Dot eventually called Beaufort home for over 60 years where she would bear a fourth child and she&nbsp;would diligently take care of there home and family while raising teenage daughters and a young active son.\r\n\r\nDot and JB would later purchase the lot they were renting and began a family rental business to begin a life with her husband getting out of the Navy and working alongside each other. She would work in the properties at night getting&nbsp;them ready for rent while still maintaining a razor sharp focus for all of her loved ones. She made her children know the love she grew up with and admirably loved her husband and family with a passion.\r\n\r\nDot enjoyed crochet, country music and cooking. Most of all, she enjoyed the happiness and laughter of her family and friends. Dot is the glue of the&nbsp;family and holds everyone together with support and encouragement. Long known for her gentle and kind spirit, ability to empathize with immense compassion, strong faith in God and inspirational conversations, Dot will be dearly missed by all that were blessed&nbsp;to have known her.\r\n\r\nIn lieu of flowers the family request that memorials be made to Agape Hospice Beaufort, 188 Paris Ave, Port Royal SC 29935.\r\n\r\nCopeland Funeral Home is handling all arrangements and a funeral service will be held at Grays Hill Baptist Church, 2749 Trask Pkwy, Beaufort, SC 29906 on Monday, October 21, 2019 with service at 10:30 am with an eulogy by Pastor Jim Baker and burial&nbsp;at Beaufort National Cemetary, 1601 Boundary St, Beaufort, SC 29902 at 12 pm.', 'Doris ‘Dot’ Taylor, 89', '', 'publish', 'closed', 'closed', '', 'doris-dot-taylor-89', '', '', '2019-10-16 13:08:04', '2019-10-16 17:08:04', '', 0, 'https://staging.yourislandnews.com/?p=41985', 0, 'post', '', 0),
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(41988, 4, '2019-10-16 13:09:24', '2019-10-16 17:09:24', 'The <a href=\"http://links.govdelivery.com/track?type=click&amp;enid=ZWFzPTEmbXNpZD0mYXVpZD0mbWFpbGluZ2lkPTIwMTkxMDEwLjExMzY0NzIxJm1lc3NhZ2VpZD1NREItUFJELUJVTC0yMDE5MTAxMC4xMTM2NDcyMSZkYXRhYmFzZWlkPTEwMDEmc2VyaWFsPTE2Nzk5NzgyJmVtYWlsaWQ9dGhlaXNsYW5kbmV3c0BnbWFpbC5jb20mdXNlcmlkPXRoZWlzbGFuZG5ld3NAZ21haWwuY29tJnRhcmdldGlkPSZmbD0mbXZpZD0mZXh0cmE9JiYm&amp;&amp;&amp;100&amp;&amp;&amp;https://www.beaufortcountysc.gov/veterans-affairs/?utm_medium=email&amp;utm_source=govdelivery\">Beaufort County Department of Veterans Affairs</a> is hosting the 2019 Veterans Day Parade and Ceremony on Saturday, Nov. 9.\r\n\r\nThe parade will begin at 10 a.m. and follow an abbreviated route through downtown Beaufort, beginning at Boundary Street, by the Beaufort National Cemetery and will end at Newcastle Street and Bay Street.\r\n\r\nThe ceremony will begin at 11:30 a.m. at Henry C. Chambers Waterfront Park. The keynote speakers will be the four student winners from the Beaufort County School District who wrote essays on what a veteran means to them.<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">&nbsp;</span>\r\n\r\nThe Parris Island Marine Band and the Robert Smalls International Academy Chorus will perform during the ceremony. Food and beverages will be available to purchase from students in the Battery Creek High School Culinary Program and the Beaufort-Jasper Academy for Career Excellence Culinary Program.\r\n\r\nAny organization and school group interested in marching in the parade should contact Beaufort County Veterans Affairs at 843-255-6880. In the event of inclement weather, the parade and ceremony will be canceled. For more information, contact the Beaufort County Department of Veterans Affairs at 843-255-6880.', 'Veterans Day Parade set for Nov. 9 in Beaufort', '', 'publish', 'closed', 'closed', '', 'veterans-day-parade-set-for-nov-9-in-beaufort', '', '', '2019-10-16 13:09:24', '2019-10-16 17:09:24', '', 0, 'https://staging.yourislandnews.com/?p=41988', 0, 'post', '', 0),
(41992, 4, '2019-10-16 13:10:01', '2019-10-16 17:10:01', 'The National Park Service has announced expanded hours of operation and new programs for the Reconstruction Era National Historical Park in Beaufort.<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">&nbsp;</span>\r\n\r\nThe park visitor center, located at 706 Craven Street, will be open 9 a.m. to 5 p.m., Tuesday through Saturday. On October 18-19 and 26, the visitor center will remain open till 9 p.m. In addition to expanded visitor center hours, new programs will be offered at three different park sites on the following days:\r\n\r\n10 a.m. and 2 p.m., Thursdays – Bookends of Reconstruction Walk: Come hear stories of Reconstruction at two of the sites that serve as bookends to Reconstruction. Brick Church and Darrah Hall. Meet at Darrah Hall, located in the Penn Center National Historic Landmark District, 16 Penn Circle Drive.\r\n\r\n10 a.m. and 2 p.m., Fridays – Robert Smalls Walking Tour: Join a park ranger for a walk in the Beaufort National Historic Landmark District to hear stories about Robert Smalls. See the house he was born in and returned to after the Civil War and visit his grave site. Meet at the park visitor center.\r\n\r\n10 a.m. and 2 p.m., Saturdays – Union Forces in Beaufort: Join park staff for stories about the Union soldiers and Civil War medicine. Meet at the park visitor center.<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">&nbsp;</span>\r\n\r\nThe Reconstruction Era National Historical Park is administered by the National Park Service and is dedicated to commemorating the period from 1861 through 1900 when nearly four million African Americans, newly freed from bondage, sought to integrate into a free society and into the educational, economic, and political life of the country. The park visitor center and headquarters is located in the Old Firehouse, located at 706 Craven Street in Beaufort.', 'Reconstruction Park getting expanded hours, programs', '', 'publish', 'closed', 'closed', '', 'reconstruction-park-getting-expanded-hours-programs', '', '', '2019-10-16 13:10:01', '2019-10-16 17:10:01', '', 0, 'https://staging.yourislandnews.com/?p=41992', 0, 'post', '', 0),
(41994, 4, '2019-10-16 13:10:50', '2019-10-16 17:10:50', 'Penn Center has received a grant from the National Park Service in the amount of $50,000 to support an oral history project, which will collect the histories of 30 key Civil Rights Movement workers, who were with Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. at Penn Center between 1963 and 1967.\r\n\r\nPenn Center played a pivotal role in the Civil Rights Movement. After 86-years serving the educational needs of the Gullah-Geechee people in the Sea Islands, Penn School transformed to become Penn Community Services, and took on the mantle of social justice, ushering in the Civil Rights Movement.\r\n\r\nDuring a time of mandated segregation, Penn served as one of only two sites in the South where multi-racial groups could hold meetings and have safe sanctuary.<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">&nbsp;</span>\r\n\r\nPenn Center and the St. Helena Island community welcomed King and the Southern Christian Leadership Conferences (SCLC), along with other multi-racial groups, religious groups and organizations like the Peace Corps.\r\n\r\nMarion Burns, Penn Center’s Interim Executive Director said in a release: “Local and regional civil rights and social justice workers strategized and planned the Civil Rights Movement on a grassroots and national level, right here on the sacred grounds of Penn Center. These are the histories and stories that Penn’s oral history project desires to capture, preserve and share nationally and internationally. We are profoundly grateful to the National Park Service for their continued support.”\r\n\r\nThe National Park Service announced $12.259 million in African American Civil Rights grants to fund 44 projects across 17 states that will preserve and highlight stories related to the African American struggle for equality in the 20<sup>th</sup> century. Penn Center’s project is one of the 44 projects awarded.\r\n“Through the work and engagement of public and private partners, these grants will preserve a defining part of our nation’s diverse history,” National Park Service Deputy Director P. Daniel Smith said. “By working with underrepresented communities to preserve their historic places and stories, we will help tell a more complete narrative of the African American experience in the pursuit of civil rights.”', 'Penn Center receives grant to compile Civil Rights Movement oral history', '', 'publish', 'closed', 'closed', '', 'penn-center-receives-grant-to-compile-civil-rights-movement-oral-history-2', '', '', '2019-10-16 13:10:50', '2019-10-16 17:10:50', '', 0, 'https://staging.yourislandnews.com/?p=41994', 0, 'post', '', 0);
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(41997, 4, '2019-10-16 13:12:12', '2019-10-16 17:12:12', '<h4>Council’s Howard hosting Shell Point stormwater meeting Oct. 29</h4>\r\nBeaufort County Council member <a href=\"http://links.govdelivery.com/track?type=click&amp;enid=ZWFzPTEmbXNpZD0mYXVpZD0mbWFpbGluZ2lkPTIwMTkxMDA5LjExMjgxNzgxJm1lc3NhZ2VpZD1NREItUFJELUJVTC0yMDE5MTAwOS4xMTI4MTc4MSZkYXRhYmFzZWlkPTEwMDEmc2VyaWFsPTE2Nzk5MDU3JmVtYWlsaWQ9dGhlaXNsYW5kbmV3c0BnbWFpbC5jb20mdXNlcmlkPXRoZWlzbGFuZG5ld3NAZ21haWwuY29tJnRhcmdldGlkPSZmbD0mbXZpZD0mZXh0cmE9JiYm&amp;&amp;&amp;100&amp;&amp;&amp;https://beaufortcountysc.gov/council/council-members/howard-alice.html?utm_medium=email&amp;utm_source=govdelivery\">Alice Howard (District 4)</a> will host a community meeting for residents of Hamrick Drive and Broad River Drive in the Shell Point neighborhood at 6 p.m. October 29 to discuss existing stormwater and drainage issues.<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">&nbsp;</span>\r\n\r\nInvited guests Dan Ryback, interim Beaufort County Stormwater Manager and Matt Rausch, Beaufort County Infrastructure Superintendent, will be available for questions. Representatives from S.C. Department of Transportation and the Town of Port Royal will also be in attendance.\r\n\r\nThe meeting will be held Tuesday, Oct. 29, 6 p.m. at Port Royal Town Hall, 700 Paris Avenue, Port Royal <a href=\"http://links.govdelivery.com/track?type=click&amp;enid=ZWFzPTEmbXNpZD0mYXVpZD0mbWFpbGluZ2lkPTIwMTkxMDA5LjExMjgxNzgxJm1lc3NhZ2VpZD1NREItUFJELUJVTC0yMDE5MTAwOS4xMTI4MTc4MSZkYXRhYmFzZWlkPTEwMDEmc2VyaWFsPTE2Nzk5MDU3JmVtYWlsaWQ9dGhlaXNsYW5kbmV3c0BnbWFpbC5jb20mdXNlcmlkPXRoZWlzbGFuZG5ld3NAZ21haWwuY29tJnRhcmdldGlkPSZmbD0mbXZpZD0mZXh0cmE9JiYm&amp;&amp;&amp;101&amp;&amp;&amp;https://www.google.com/maps/place/700+Paris+Ave,+Port+Royal,+SC+29935/@32.3740455,-80.6946066,17z/data=!3m1!4b1!4m5!3m4!1s0x88fc0cccb5c7871d:0xdaecc5beb396daa1!8m2!3d32.3740455!4d-80.6924179?utm_medium=email&amp;utm_source=govdelivery\">(map)</a>. The meeting is open to the general public.\r\n\r\nResidents do not need to register in advance for the meeting. For more information, please contact Beaufort County Council Member Howard at <a href=\"mailto:ahoward@bcgov.net\">ahoward@bcgov.net</a>, by phone at 843-255-2202 (office), at 843-986-7403 (mobile) or, finally, by mail at care over Clerk to Council, Beaufort County, P.O. Drawer 1228, Beaufort, S.C. 29901.\r\n<h4>Marines conducting live-fire training</h4>\r\nMarine Corps Recruit Depot Parris Island will be commencing live-fire training Monday, Tuesday and Thursday, Oct. 21-22 and 24 from 6 a.m. to 2 a.m. The marsh and waterways in the range impact area to include Archers Creek, Ribbon Creek, and Edding Creek will be closed to boater traffic.<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">&nbsp;</span>\r\n\r\nFor questions regarding firing times and waterway closures, please contact the Weapons and Field Training Battalion Range Control at 843-228-3170.\r\n<h4>County spraying for mosquitoes</h4>\r\nBeaufort County Mosquito Control may conduct aerial and/or ground treatments from through Friday, October 18. Mosquito Control applies EPA-registered public health insecticide during ideal weather using low-flying aircraft throughout daylight hours and spray trucks from about 11 p.m. to 6:30 a.m. For additional information, please contact Mosquito Control at 843-255-5800.\r\n<h4>FWDG kicks off 29<sup>th</sup> annual winter coat drive</h4>\r\nFWDG’s 29th annual winter coat drive begins on Friday, Nov. 1 and runs through Dec. 31. The event collects winter coats for children and adults throughout Beaufort County.\r\n\r\nArea residents are encouraged to donate gently-used winter coats, sweaters and warm clothes such as scarves, hats, or gloves/mittens. Over the course of the past 29 years, FWDG has collected more than 45,000 garments for those in need. The drive benefits two local nonprofit organizations: Help of Beaufort and The Deep Well Project of Hilton Head Island.\r\n“This is an event we’re very proud of, as it directly impacts our immediate community,” FWDG founder and president Larry Mark said. “We invite you to go through your closets and find a garment to give. It means a lot to a fellow neighbor in your town who is struggling to keep himself or family warm.”\r\nThere are two donation drop-off points this year:\r\nFWDG (Foyer): <a href=\"https://www.google.com/maps/search/745+Robert+Smalls+Parkway?entry=gmail&amp;source=g\">745 Robert Smalls Parkway</a>, Beaufort, S.C. 29906, 843-524-8695.\r\nWHHI-TV (Foyer): <a href=\"https://www.google.com/maps/search/32+Office+Park+Rd.,+Suite+103+%0D%0AHilton+Head,+SC+29928?entry=gmail&amp;source=g\">32 Office Park Rd., Suite 103</a>, Hilton Head Island, S.C. 29928, 843-785-4545.\r\n<h4>SCPRT soliciting grant requests for Undiscovered SC Program</h4>\r\nThe S.C. Department of Parks, Recreation and Tourism is inviting interested eligible entities to submit a Letter of Intent Form for grant funding assistance from the <a href=\"https://www.scprt.com/tourism/grants/undiscovered-sc-grant\">Undiscovered South Carolina Grant Program</a>. The program assists non-profit organizations and communities with the development of publicly owned tourism products and attractions that will encourage visitation to South Carolina. The grant can help cover the implementation of existing plans or the expansion or enhancement of an existing tourism product. It is a 50-50 match grant, and the minimum project amount must be $200,000.\r\n\r\nFor more details about the program, read the <a href=\"https://p.widencdn.net/auuixc/2019-Memo-to-potential-Undiscovered-SC-applicants\">Memo to Potential Applicants</a> and <a href=\"https://p.widencdn.net/zmafaj/2019-Undiscovered-SC-policies--procedures-C\">Eligibility and Procedures</a>. For more information, contact Dawn Dawson-House at <a href=\"mailto:ddawson@scprt.com\">ddawson@scprt.com</a> or 803-734-1779.', 'News Briefs', '', 'publish', 'closed', 'closed', '', 'news-briefs-128', '', '', '2019-10-16 13:12:12', '2019-10-16 17:12:12', '', 0, 'https://staging.yourislandnews.com/?p=41997', 0, 'post', '', 0),
(42001, 4, '2019-10-16 13:13:10', '2019-10-16 17:13:10', 'Gov. Henry McMaster has proclaimed Oct. 24-31 as Bat Week in South Carolina, officially recognizing bats as an important species to the state.\r\n\r\nAs outlined in the proclamation, South Carolina is home to 14 species of bats that provide a valuable boost to farmers and others by helping to control mosquitoes and other insect pests.\r\n\r\nThe proclamation also notes the importance of “continuing federal and state efforts, including developing new public-private partnerships and increasing citizen engagement to promote the health of bat populations; increase the quality and quantity of bat roosting and foraging habitat; and restore bat populations to healthy levels” in the Palmetto State.\r\n\r\nDid you know?\r\n\r\n– For the first time, <a href=\"http://links.govdelivery.com/track?type=click&amp;enid=ZWFzPTEmbXNpZD0mYXVpZD0mbWFpbGluZ2lkPTIwMTkxMDE1LjExNTIxNDExJm1lc3NhZ2VpZD1NREItUFJELUJVTC0yMDE5MTAxNS4xMTUyMTQxMSZkYXRhYmFzZWlkPTEwMDEmc2VyaWFsPTE2ODAxMzQyJmVtYWlsaWQ9dGhlaXNsYW5kbmV3c0BnbWFpbC5jb20mdXNlcmlkPXRoZWlzbGFuZG5ld3NAZ21haWwuY29tJnRhcmdldGlkPSZmbD0mbXZpZD0mZXh0cmE9JiYm&amp;&amp;&amp;103&amp;&amp;&amp;http://www.dnr.sc.gov/news/2019/sept/sept24_bats.php?utm_content=&amp;utm_medium=email&amp;utm_name=&amp;utm_source=govdelivery&amp;utm_term=\">three pregnant Northern long-eared bats were captured and released</a> by SCDNR staff on the coast.\r\n\r\n– Bats provide an average annual pest suppression service of $115 million to South Carolina’s agricultural industry, or nearly $23 billion nationwide.\r\n\r\n– A single bat can consume 75 mosquito-sized insects in five minutes.', 'Governor\'s office recognizes Bat Week in SC', '', 'publish', 'closed', 'closed', '', 'governors-office-recognizes-bat-week-in-sc', '', '', '2019-10-16 13:13:12', '2019-10-16 17:13:12', '', 0, 'https://staging.yourislandnews.com/?p=42001', 0, 'post', '', 0),
(42003, 4, '2019-10-16 13:14:20', '2019-10-16 17:14:20', '<h4>Grounded Running celebrates new store location</h4>\r\nThe Beaufort Regional Chamber of Commerce will celebrate the grand opening of Grounded Running\'s new store location in Beaufort Town Center on Thursday, Oct. 17. The celebration begins at 5 p.m., and the ribbon cutting ceremony will take place at 5:30 p.m.<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">&nbsp;</span>\r\n\r\nAt 6:30 p.m., following the celebration, the Grounded Running team will host a group run.\r\n\r\nThe public is invited to attend the celebration. From 5 to 6 p.m., guests can check out the new space, meet the staff, and enjoy light refreshments. Guests are also invited and encouraged to participate in the group run.\r\n\r\nGrounded Running Beaufort, which opened its doors in 2016, is also the host of the Beaufort Track Club, which is Beaufort\'s free community running and walking club. For more information visit Grounded Running at 2139 Boundary St, Suite 108 or at <a href=\"http://r20.rs6.net/tn.jsp?f=001Maf_xGscRAUGbWCSX6G1NG3-5CRybvvbMD8LRQxe5sM8zL9SvB2l8MwnGSWwUs39yMpAWk4ZZgsksMdaEK1C9aJtsjPBKcV8h3v60ehO1OKOgGpzwKRuUsgf6RrIc0kFuXFR-96wOZxBnAoN4on9-4hoTvIMbYFkcGU8zJ6LcROVDvfXR60jbA==&amp;c=dtMGL-WMM3izknmNL6KjU-AJ349I4hcjYFMfA3g1mlYGzoc-s9b7mQ==&amp;ch=G-Z1a7Av5IgeR-7tOGpiOI8fdPFnhlEEHjrAx_hBcLO3UKTMt5TNIA==\">groundedrunning.com</a>.\r\n<h4>New insurance and financial planning services in Beaufort</h4>\r\nA new insurance and financial planning services company has opened in Beaufort. Licensed Insurance Producer, Michelle L. Kelly, has opened Sand Dollar Insurance &amp; Financial Planning, LLC. The company will provide consulting into annuities, final expense policies, life insurance and Medicare supplements. For more information contact <a href=\"mailto:Michelle@SandDollarInsurance.com\">Michelle@SandDollarInsurance.com</a>.\r\n<h4>Banks joins Chris Hervochon CPA firm</h4>\r\nHeather Banks recently joined Chris Hervochon, CPA, CVA accounting firm as a staff accountant. She will provide outsourced accounting and tax preparation for small businesses and individuals. Prior to joining the firm, Banks spent three years in the automotive accounting industry. She is finishing a degree in accounting from Brenau University and is a regular volunteer for the American Red Cross, Night of Champions and the Arts Council.\r\n<h4>Gaglia joins Collins Group Realty</h4>\r\nAmy Gaglia has joined Collins Group Realty as a team support specialist and will work in support of the group’s in-house closings department and marketing department. Gaglia is a graduate of UNC Wilmington with a bachelor’s degree in nursing. She previously worked as an RN, and in administration for the School of Nursing and School of Medicine at the University of Tennessee Chattanooga and Mercer University in Savannah.\r\n<h4>Wet Willie’s re-opens</h4>\r\nWet Willie\'s has re-opened its doors in Beaufort Town Center next to The Beaufort Bookstore. It is open from 11 a.m. to midnight Monday through Saturday and from noon to 11 p.m. Sundays.\r\n\r\nWet Willie\'s is a Daiquiri Bar dedicated to serving great-tasting frozen daiquiris with an honest portion of alcohol at fair prices and great food to go with them.\r\n\r\n<em>Have an employee or business announcement? The Island News routinely prints business briefs when space allows. Send announcements to: mindy@yourislandnews.com.</em>', '', '', 'publish', 'closed', 'closed', '', '42003-2', '', '', '2019-10-16 13:14:20', '2019-10-16 17:14:20', '', 0, 'https://staging.yourislandnews.com/?p=42003', 0, 'post', '', 0),
(42006, 4, '2019-10-16 13:15:13', '2019-10-16 17:15:13', '<h4>By ALAN SCHUSTER</h4>\r\nWhether it’s Jules Massenet’s Manon or Giacomo Puccini’s Manon Lescaut, both takes on the French novel by Abbe Prevost have achieved distinctive success in the opera world.\r\n\r\nMassenet’s premiered in 1884 and Puccini’s in 1893. Since then, the Met has staged Massenet’s work 270 times, and Puccini’s 230 times. This season, the Met will be adding even more to both lists.\r\n\r\nMassenet’s work was written in five acts, as described below, but will be effectively combined into three with two intermissions on Saturday.\r\n\r\nMilton Cross, the voice of the Met’s radio broadcasts for more than 40 years, portrayed Massenet’s Manon as “The story of a charming young French girl who is too anxious for a life of pleasure, too young to know the ways of the world and how to avoid its pitfalls – but still can’t find it in our hearts to condemn her, but feel only pity and sympathy as her career winds its course to a degrading and unhappy close.”\r\n\r\nColoratura soprano Lisette Oropesa is the enchanting heroine, with Michael Faviano is the young man after her heart. Maurizio Benini conducts.\r\n\r\nAct I\r\n\r\nManon, a beautiful young woman, arrives at an inn in Amiens to meet her cousin Lescaut, who will take her to a convent according to the wishes of her father, who wants to amend her worldly and extrovert character. Manon does not share her father\'s wishes, and after being courted by an older man, Guillot, she falls in love at first sight with Des Grieux, a young nobleman passing through town, and they elope and escape to Paris in Guillot’s coach.\r\n\r\nAct II\r\n\r\nThe young couple live in a modest home in Paris. Des Grieux writes to his father asking for his consent to marry Manon. But her cousin and his wealthy friend de Brétigny arrive, saying that Des Grieux’s father is going to have him arrested. Manon believes this and succumbs to the proposals of de Brétigny, who offers her a life of luxury in Paris.\r\n\r\nAct III\r\n\r\nManon is now de Brétigny’s lover and enjoying his wealth. But when she learns from Des Grieux’s father that his son has entered a seminary, she rushes off to find him. At first, he rejects her but can’t overcome her seductive ways. He yields to her and leaves the seminary to be with her.\r\n\r\nAct IV\r\n\r\nAt a gambling salon, Manon arrives with Des Grieux and convinces him to gamble. He defeats Guillot continuously but is accused of cheating. Guillot leaves, but returns with police, who arrest Des Grieux and Manon, on the grounds that she is a prostitute.\r\n\r\nAct V\r\n\r\nManon is condemned to be deported. Des Grieux and Lescaut plot to save her, but realize there is no hope against so many soldiers. The lovers reunite one last time before she dies in his arms.\r\n\r\nFrom the Met\r\n\r\n“Manon features one of the truly unforgettable, irresistible, and archetypal female characters in opera. While the story is firmly set in class and gender issues of the past, the character of Manon herself is timelessly familiar. Massenet’s score captures the drama of the heroine with deft craftsmanship, expressive vocal and orchestral writing, and an almost unparalleled level of sensuality. There is no shortage of passion, but much of the most dramatically (and erotically) charged passages rely on the simplest effects. The quivering of the violins, for example, when the lovers finally touch in the St. Sulpice scene is a brief musical detail, but it is as voluptuous as anything in opera. Likewise, many of the solos make an impact with sublety and delicate colors: The refinement of both Manon’s ‘Adieu, notre petite table’ and des Grieux’s ‘En ferment les yeux’ in Act II create a sense of breathless wonder and suspended time.”', 'Drama, passion highlight Massenet’s Manon', '', 'publish', 'closed', 'closed', '', 'drama-passion-highlight-massenets-manon', '', '', '2019-10-16 13:15:15', '2019-10-16 17:15:15', '', 0, 'https://staging.yourislandnews.com/?p=42006', 0, 'post', '', 0),
(42009, 4, '2019-10-16 13:16:13', '2019-10-16 17:16:13', '<h4>The Last Romance opens Oct. 25 at AmVets</h4>\r\nCoastal Stage’s production of The Last Romance, directed by Christine Grefe, opens with a VIP event Friday, Oct. 25 at AmVets at 1831 Ribaut Road in Port Royal.\r\n\r\nThe VIP opening night runs from 7 to 8 p.m., includes appetizers, beer and wine, catered by The Kitchen on Lady’s Island and costs $30. The doors open at 7 p.m. and the performance starts at 8 p.m.\r\n\r\nThere are 8 p.m. evening performances on Oct. 25, Oct. 26, Nov. 1 and Nov. 2 , while there are 2 p.m. matinees on Oct. 27 and Nov. 3.\r\n\r\nReserved seating is $25; group reserved seating (10+) is $22. Student reserved seating is $20 and tickets at the door are $27. Online tickets are available at <a href=\"https://thelastromanceportroyal.bpt.me/\">https://thelastromanceportroyal.bpt.me/</a>.\r\n\r\nFor more information, call 843-717-2175 or visit <a href=\"http://www.coastalstage.com/\">www.coastalstage.com</a>.\r\n<h4>Mystic Osprey Fine Art Gallery to open in Habersham</h4>\r\nMystic Osprey Gallery will host its opening exhibit and artist reception on Friday, Nov. 1 at 23B Market, No. 1 in the Habersham Marketplace. The reception is from 6 to 8 p.m.\r\n\r\nMystic Osprey Gallery will showcase original paintings, prints, sculpture, jewelry, and ceramics.\r\n\r\n“Mystic Osprey celebrates nature. And we are a sanctuary for artists who do so,” said Robert Howell, who’s curating the artists. “We hope these artistic and symbolic representations of nature and habitat might help us become better stewards of our planet, its fauna, and flora. And the work is gorgeous for people’s homes.”\r\n\r\nThe gallery’s first group show will open with artists Michael Ross, painter (Ga.), David Molesky, painter (N.Y.), Dianne Munkittrick, painter (S.C.), Susan Colwell, painter (S.C.), Rebeckah Strickland, Ceramic Artist (Ga.), Eric Moore, sculptor (S.C.), Valerie Lamott, jeweler (SC), and Sharon Whitham, printmaker (Mass.).\r\n\r\nAt the opening reception, Ross, Molesky and Munkittrick will be on hand to discuss their work with guests, and refreshments will be served.', 'Arts Briefs', '', 'publish', 'closed', 'closed', '', 'arts-briefs-5', '', '', '2019-10-16 13:16:13', '2019-10-16 17:16:13', '', 0, 'https://staging.yourislandnews.com/?p=42009', 0, 'post', '', 0),
(42011, 4, '2019-10-16 13:16:47', '2019-10-16 17:16:47', 'The 7th Annual Bourbon, Bubbles &amp; Brew fundraising event will be held from 6 to 8 p.m. November 3 at Breakwater Restaurant at 203 Carteret Street in Beaufort.\r\n\r\nThis annual fundraising event benefits the Beaufort Film Society and the 14th Annual Beaufort International Film Festival.\r\n\r\nTickets for this much anticipated event may be purchased online at beaufortfilmfestival.com.\r\n\r\nThe event includes tastings of the world\'s finest bourbons, champagnes, and craft beers. Live music will also be provided for your entertainment.\r\n\r\n\"This fundraising effort is a great opportunity to introduce the Beaufort Film Society to a lot of new folks, and we\'re especially thankful to Breakwater owners Donna and Gary Lang and Beth Shaw for this continued great community support,\" Beaufort Film Society President Ron Tucker said in a release.\r\n\r\nThe Beaufort Film Society (BFS) is a nonprofit, 501(c) 3, member-supported organization, dedicated to providing the highest levels of entertainment and education to the public from all areas of the film industry.', 'Bourbon, Bubbles & Brew fundraiser for Beaufort Film Society set for Nov. 3', '', 'publish', 'closed', 'closed', '', 'bourbon-bubbles-brew-fundraiser-for-beaufort-film-society-set-for-nov-3', '', '', '2019-10-16 13:16:47', '2019-10-16 17:16:47', '', 0, 'https://staging.yourislandnews.com/?p=42011', 0, 'post', '', 0),
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(42015, 4, '2019-10-16 13:22:09', '2019-10-16 17:22:09', '<h2>Case involved right to counsel in municipal courts</h2>\r\n<h4>By MIKE McCOMBS</h4>\r\nThe American Civil Liberties Union, the City of Beaufort and the Town of Bluffton announced a settlement last week in an Oct. 2017 lawsuit accusing the municipalities of depriving lawyers to poor people facing incarceration if convicted in municipal court.\r\n\r\nThe ACLU of South Carolina and Nelson Mullins Riley and Scarborough LLP were involved in the settlement, as well.\r\n\r\nAccording to Beaufort City Manager Bill Prokop, the parties had been on the same page for close to a year, but it simply took this long to work out all of the details. Prokop said the city’s procedures won’t change from what it has been doing for the past year.\r\n\r\n“Public defenders will be handled by the county’s public defender office in a contract with Beaufort, Bluffton and Port Royal,” Prokop said.\r\n\r\nHilton Head Island did away with its municipal court.\r\n\r\nProkop said the parties had to be sure the details of the settlement were within state law and satisfied the state court administration, as well as the public defenders.\r\n\r\nThe settlement comes at little cost for the city, Prokop said. The change in cost is “within a couple percentage points,” Prokop said.\r\n\r\nThe municipalities were responsible for $250,000 in ACLU court costs, but that will come from the state insurance reserve fund.\r\n\r\nAccording to the ACLU, in addition to the settlement on public defenders, the municipalities will provide written notice and oral advisement of the right to counsel to every person charged with an offense that carries the possibility of a jail sentence. They will also refrain from conducting trials in absentia without counsel unless such defendants have willfully waived their rights.<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">&nbsp;</span>\r\n\r\n“Whether you are rich or poor, the right to a lawyer is a pillar of our criminal legal system,” director of the ACLU’s Criminal Law Reform Project Ezekiel Edwards said in a release. “For far too long, municipal courts in South Carolina have run wealth-based systems by treating this constitutional protection as a luxury reserved only for people who could afford it. (Last week’s) settlement protects the guarantee of the right to a public defender for everyone facing criminal charges in municipal courts in Beaufort and Bluffton. Every city in South Carolina must ensure the same protections.”\r\n\r\nEach of the lead plaintiffs in the lawsuit, filed in Oct. 2017, was prosecuted, convicted, and jailed by municipal courts in the City of Beaufort or the Town of Bluffton without being appointed a public defender attorney or being advised of the right to counsel.<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">&nbsp;</span>\r\n\r\n“We applaud Beaufort and Bluffton for coming to the table and reaching a settlement that will address the constitutional failures in their municipal courts that we documented in our complaint,” ACLU of SC Legal Director Susan Dunn said in a release. “It is our hope that other cities across the state will take this opportunity to follow their lead and provide public defenders in their courts so that no one is subjected to unfair court proceedings simply because they are poor.”<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">&nbsp;</span>\r\n\r\nThis settlement could have an impact across the state. According to the ACLU, in a majority of South Carolina’s more than 200 municipal courts, public defenders are unavailable. Several fail to provide any representation for poor defendants.<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">&nbsp;</span>\r\n\r\n“The law is clear — if a city in South Carolina chooses to have a municipal court, either it must provide zealous advocates to poor people prosecuted in those courts or shut down its court,” Stuart Andrews, a partner at the law firm Nelson Mullins, said in a release.', 'City of Beaufort settles suit brought by ACLU', '', 'publish', 'closed', 'closed', '', 'city-of-beaufort-settles-suit-brought-by-aclu', '', '', '2019-10-16 13:22:09', '2019-10-16 17:22:09', '', 0, 'https://staging.yourislandnews.com/?p=42015', 0, 'post', '', 0),
(42017, 4, '2019-10-16 13:22:55', '2019-10-16 17:22:55', 'The League of Women Voters is sponsoring the Port Royal Candidates’ Forum at 7 p.m. Monday, Oct. 21 at<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">&nbsp; </span>at St. Mark’s Episcopal Church, 1104 11th Street, Port Royal.\r\n\r\nInitially conceived as two separate forums, the format will now include the three candidates running for two town council seats and the two candidates running for mayor.<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">&nbsp;</span>\r\n\r\nAn independent moderator – Asa Aarons, consumer reporter from “Just Ask Asa” – and timer will preside. Each candidate will have a set statement time; the moderator will then ask questions from the League and written questions from the audience.\r\n\r\nWriting materials will be available for attendees’ questions. You can also submit questions by Friday Oct. 18 to <a href=\"mailto:LWVBeaufort@gmail.com\">LWVBeaufort@gmail.com</a>.\r\n\r\nJerry Ashmore, Robert Landrum and Kevin Phillips are running for two town council seats. All three will be present Monday.\r\n\r\nMary Beth Gray-Heyward and Joe DeVito are running for mayor, as long-time mayor Sam Murray is not seeking re-election. Only DeVito will be present Monday.\r\n\r\nElection Day is Nov. 5.', 'League of Women Voters hosting Port Royal Candidates’ Forum', '', 'publish', 'closed', 'closed', '', 'league-of-women-voters-hosting-port-royal-candidates-forum', '', '', '2019-10-16 13:22:55', '2019-10-16 17:22:55', '', 0, 'https://staging.yourislandnews.com/?p=42017', 0, 'post', '', 0),
(42020, 4, '2019-10-16 13:23:49', '2019-10-16 17:23:49', 'Habersham Marketplace presents the 11th annual Habersham Harvest Festival celebrating the bounty of the fall season Saturday, Oct. 19 and Sunday, Oct. 20 from 10 a.m. to 6 p.m. each day.\r\n\r\nThis Lowcountry street festival features a vintage fair theme with family activities, celebrated local food purveyors and artisan crafts set against the backdrop of timeless southern architecture on Market Street.<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">&nbsp;</span>\r\n\r\nVisitrs can spend the day browsing artisan vendors, sampling and enjoying great local food, live music on the main stage, plus plenty of activities for kids of all ages including the ever-popular 47-ft Ferris wheel, vintage rides, contests, face painters, hayride, the Beaufort County Library bookmobile, a petting zoo and more.\r\n\r\nAdmission is free with food, drink, art and crafts available for purchase/ Select activities may include nominal entry fees.', 'Habersham hosts 11th annual Harvest Festival', '', 'publish', 'closed', 'closed', '', 'habersham-hosts-11th-annual-harvest-festival', '', '', '2019-10-16 13:23:49', '2019-10-16 17:23:49', '', 0, 'https://staging.yourislandnews.com/?p=42020', 0, 'post', '', 0),
(42023, 4, '2019-10-16 13:24:44', '2019-10-16 17:24:44', 'School bond referendum important to special ed students\r\n\r\nI am a “SPED Mom,” and mother of three children in Beaufort County Schools. Before you make a decision on your support for the School Bond Referendum, I want you to know how the referendum can improve schools for special education students.\r\n\r\n– Relieving overcrowding: Part of the referendum package adds classroom space to our most crowded schools. Many people don’t realize that there are caps on the number of children who can be placed in a self-contained Special Education (SPED) class. Depending on the grade and the needs of the students, this can be between five and 12 students. Some classes and programs have had to be moved to other schools, because there weren’t enough classrooms to accommodate the programs. Adding classroom space will allow more kids to attend their neighborhood school.\r\n\r\n– Security upgrades: Every school in the district will receive security upgrades that will improve communications systems. In SPED classes, communication between the teachers, assistants and administration are vital. Teachers need to trust that their phones and radios will work reliably when they call for help.\r\n\r\n– ADA requirements: Some older schools in our district have not had major renovations in many years. As a result, they don’t meet the most current standards under the Americans with Disabilities Act. The referendum will fund upgrades to wheelchair accessible doors, larger more accessible restrooms, and accommodations for people with vision and hearing impairments to name a few.\r\n\r\nI will be voting yes on November 5 and I hope you will too.\r\n\r\nThank you.\r\n\r\n– Lindsay Weller', 'Letter to the Editor', '', 'publish', 'closed', 'closed', '', 'letter-to-the-editor-33', '', '', '2019-10-16 13:24:44', '2019-10-16 17:24:44', '', 0, 'https://staging.yourislandnews.com/?p=42023', 0, 'post', '', 0),
(42025, 4, '2019-10-16 13:25:24', '2019-10-16 17:25:24', 'If you’ve ever wanted to be in a movie, here’s your chance.\r\n\r\nA pool of 100 background extras are needed for scenes being shot between Nov. 10 and 23 in Beaufort and Bluffton for VW Scheich’s feature film “Stars Fell on Alabama.”\r\n\r\nMales and females of all ethnic groups are needed, ages 18 and older.\r\n\r\nIf interested, email Megan Wilson at <a href=\"mailto:sfoaextras@gmail.com\">sfoaextras@gmail.com</a>. Include a picture or<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">&nbsp; </span>brief physical description with email address and telephone number.\r\n\r\n“Stars Fell on Alabama” is a romantic comedy.', '100 extras needed for movie shoot in Beaufort, Bluffton', '', 'publish', 'closed', 'closed', '', '100-extras-needed-for-movie-shoot-in-beaufort-bluffton', '', '', '2019-10-16 13:25:24', '2019-10-16 17:25:24', '', 0, 'https://staging.yourislandnews.com/?p=42025', 0, 'post', '', 0),
(42027, 4, '2019-10-16 13:29:36', '2019-10-16 17:29:36', 'From the time second-ranked Barnwell returned the opening kickoff for a touchdown, Whale Branch was overmatched in a 49-6 home loss Friday.\r\n\r\nThe Warriors couldn’t slow down Barnwell’s powerful rushing attack, as the Warhorses rolled up 314 yards on the ground. Jamari Chisolm rushed for 150 yards and two touchdowns on 16 carries, and Craig Pender added two touchdown passes to Ena Bynum.\r\n\r\nWhale Branch pulled within 14-6 on Jadon Grant’s 3-yard touchdown run early in the second quarter, but the Warhorses tacked on two more touchdowns before halftime to take a 28-6 lead to the break.\r\n\r\nBarnwell outscored the Warriors 21-0 in the second half, as Whale Branch struggled to move the ball. De’Arius Hazel rushed for 93 yards on eight carries, and Grant added 61 yards and a TD on 14 attempts, but the Warhorses bottled up speedy quarterback Jaylen Reeves.\r\n\r\nThe Warriors (4-2, 0-2) host Allendale-Fairfax on Friday.\r\n\r\n<em>Above: Whale Branch’s Keith Bing, right, turns the corner and gains extra yards during the second quarter Friday night against Barnwell High School. Photo by Bob Sofaly</em>', 'Warriors can’t hang with Warhorses', '', 'publish', 'closed', 'closed', '', 'warriors-cant-hang-with-warhorses', '', '', '2019-10-16 13:29:36', '2019-10-16 17:29:36', '', 0, 'https://staging.yourislandnews.com/?p=42027', 0, 'post', '', 0),
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(42030, 4, '2019-10-16 13:33:48', '2019-10-16 17:33:48', '<strong>SWIMMING</strong>\r\n\r\n<strong>BHS boys 9th, girls 17th at state meet</strong>\r\n\r\nBeaufort High’s boys finished ninth, and the girls were 17th at the SCHSL State Swimming Championships on Oct. 12 at the USC Natatorium in Columbia.&nbsp;\r\n\r\nBeaufort’s Samuel Marrero was fourth in the 100 back and 13th in the 50 free, and he helped the Eagles finish fourth in the 400 free relay and seventh in the 200 medley relay.\r\n\r\nJames Stone was sixth in the 100 fly and 12th in the 50 free, Witt Compton was ninth in the 200 IM and 12th in the 100 breast, and Cameron Hussman was 10th in the 200 free and 13th in the 100 back.\r\n\r\nLily Bostwick was the only scorer for Beaufort’s girls, placing sixth in the 50 free, and ninth in the 100 free.\r\n\r\n<strong>VOLLEYBALL</strong>\r\n\r\n<strong>Seahawks sweep Eagles in key region match</strong>\r\n\r\nHilton Head High volleyball moved a step closer to locking up the Region 7-4A title with a sweep of Beaufort High on Oct. 10.\r\n\r\nThe Seahawks won 3-0 (25-12, 25-18, 25-23) to complete a sweep of the season series and solidify their spot atop the region standings. HHIHS already has clinched at least a share of the region title and will claim it outright with a win in one of its two remaining matches.\r\n\r\nHannah Merchant led the Eagles with eight kills and added two blocks and 24 digs, while Sakura Simmons had 25 digs, Peyton Polk added 19, and Olive Renforth had 18 and three kills. Zyaire Middleton handed out 11 assists and picked up 13 digs for the Eagles, who were 56-for-56 serving with four aces.\r\n\r\n<strong>Bobcats edge Eagles in 5-set thriller</strong>\r\n\r\nBluffton volleyball pulled out a thrilling five-set win over Beaufort High in a key Region 7-4A matchup Oct. 8.\r\n\r\nThe Bobcats rallied from a 2-1 deficit to win 3-2 (20-25, 27-25, 21-25, 25-11, 15-10) to pull even with the Eagles in the region standings.\r\n\r\nHannah Merchant led Beaufort with 22 kills while adding 20 digs and serving 13-for-13, and Olive Renforth added 11 kills, 20 digs, and served 14-for-14. Megan Schoener led the Eagles with 26 digs and was 17-for-18 serving, and Peyton Polk added 16 digs.\r\n\r\n<strong>BHS makes silver semis at West Ashley</strong>\r\n\r\nBeaufort High went 2-1 in pool play and fell in the silver bracket semifinals at a 12-team tournament at West Ashley on Oct. 12.\r\n\r\nThe Eagles started the day with a 25-14, 25-22 loss to eventual gold division champion Carolina Forest, but they bounced back to beat Fort Dorchester (25-13, 26-24) and Cane Bay (25-22, 25-11) to earn a spot in the silver bracket. BHS dropped a tough, three-set match to Summerville (20-25, 25-23, 15-10) in the semifinal round.\r\n\r\nHannah Merchant led the Eagles with 19 kills while serving 24-for-25 and adding 25 digs. Arry Brown collected 11 kills in her best performance of the season,&nbsp; Zyaire Middleton dished out 28 assists to go with 25 digs and served 28-for-30, and Sakura Simmons had a team-high 32 digs and served 32-for-33 with three aces.\r\n\r\n<strong>HHCA outlasts BA in 5-set thriller</strong>\r\n\r\nThe rematch between SCISA volleyball powers Hilton Head Christian Academy and Beaufort Academy went down to the wire Oct. 10, with HHCA escaping with a five-set victory.\r\n\r\nBA won two of the first three sets, but HHCA rallied to claim the final two sets for a 3-2 (19-25, 25-20, 12-25, 25-21, 15-9) victory and sweep the season series.\r\n\r\nMcKayla Willingham (15 kills, five blocks) and Emily Ann Hiers (10 kills, nine assists, seven digs, two aces) led BA’s attack, while Amelia Huebel had seven kills and two blocks, Chase Vaigneur added four kills and four aces to go with 16 assists, and Mary Hanna Hiers had a team-high 16 digs.\r\n\r\n<strong>Dolphins down Bobcats in 5</strong>\r\n\r\nBattery Creek volleyball claimed a hard-fought five-set win over visiting Bluffton on Senior Night on Oct. 9.\r\n\r\nThe teams alternated taking each of the first four sets before the Dolphins claimed a tight fifth set to win the non-region match 3-2 (25-19, 23-25, 25-18, 15-25, 15-12).\r\n\r\nDazanni Hinton had a big night for the Dolphins with 13 kills, three blocks, and four aces, while Laiani McCullough compiled nine kills and four blocks, and Trezure Sipley added eight kills and three blocks. Halle DeJesus dished out 21 assists, and Paige McArthur collected six kills, six digs, and seven aces.\r\n\r\nOn Oct. 8, the Dolphins lost to May River 3-0 (25-20, 25-20, 25-17), clinching the Region 8-3A title for the Sharks.\r\n\r\n<strong>CROSS COUNTRY</strong>\r\n\r\n<strong>Holy Trinity outruns competition at Habersham</strong>\r\n\r\nHoly Trinity swept the team titles in a cross country meet featuring eight area private schools Wednesday in Beaufort’s Habersham community.\r\n\r\nThe Lions won the boys title by a wide margin over runner-up John Paul II, as Holy Trinity’s Collin Durham claimed the individual title with a 5K time of 17:57, with JPII’s Noah Brock in second.\r\n\r\nHoly Trinity edged Hilton Head Prep for the girls team title, while Hilton Head Christian Academy’s Devon Yarde won the girls race, ahead of runner-up Lauren Winegar of JPII.\r\n\r\n<strong>TENNIS</strong>\r\n\r\n<strong>BA takes down JPII</strong>\r\n\r\nBeaufort Academy girls tennis claimed a 6-3 victory over host John Paul II on Oct. 8 at Berkeley Hall.\r\n\r\nThe Eagles swept the six singles matches, while the Golden Warriors claimed all three doubles points.\r\n\r\nJayda Scheper, Ansleigh Pingree, Brycen Ambrose, Emma Dillinger, Tallie Pendarvis, and Kate Luckey each won singles matches\r\n\r\n&nbsp;\r\n\r\n<em>Above: Beaufort’s Hannah Marchant, right, powers the ball over the net during the first set against Hilton Head Island High School on Thursday at Beaufort High. Marchant’s efforts weren’t enough and the Eagles lost in straight sets to the Seahawks, 25-12, 25-18 and 25-23.&nbsp;Photo by Bob Sofaly</em>', 'Sports Roundup', '', 'publish', 'closed', 'closed', '', 'sports-roundup-7', '', '', '2019-10-16 13:33:49', '2019-10-16 17:33:49', '', 0, 'https://staging.yourislandnews.com/?p=42030', 0, 'post', '', 0),
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(42033, 4, '2019-10-16 13:38:15', '2019-10-16 17:38:15', '<h4>By Justin Jarrett&nbsp;\r\nLowcoSports.com</h4>\r\nThe desperation became evident when Beaufort High School faced a fourth-and-2 at its own 28-yard line and elected to go for it. Oh, yeah, it was the second quarter of a five-point game. And they were stuffed.\r\n\r\nIt really felt like that could have been the point when the Eagles’ season started swirling the drain. But the defense delivered a big play on the next snap, forcing a fumble that allowed Beaufort to get into the locker room without further damage.\r\n\r\nWhen they emerged, they were a different team. Featuring an effective option attack and a stingy defense, Beaufort rallied for a 35-24 victory over visiting Bluffton on Friday, giving Bryce Lybrand his first victory as a head coach.\r\n\r\nThe night couldn’t have started much worse for the Eagles, who mishandled a pooch kick on the opening kickoff to set up Kylan Simmons’ 12-yard touchdown run, then muffed a punt and two more kickoff returns in the first half. The Bobcats weren’t able to cash in enough, though, settling for Evan Hayes field goals from 40 and 28 yards and a 12-7 halftime lead.\r\n\r\nBeaufort’s offense came to life in the second half, as quarterback Daniel Phares — making his first start in place of Tyler Haley (shoulder) — spearheaded the Eagles’ option attack along with running backs James Dagin and Amariee Morris. Morris’ 3-yard run capped a 75-yard drive on Beaufort’s first series of the second half, and the Eagles never trailed again.\r\n\r\nPhares delivered several daggers in the fourth quarter to put the Bobcats away, hitting Eddie Warren over the top for a 30-yard touchdown pass, putting a late option pitch on Dagin’s hands for an 8-yard touchdown run, and setting up his second touchdown run of the night with a long option keeper to make it 35-18.\r\n\r\nPhares finished with a team-high 130 rushing yards and two touchdowns on 10 carries, and he was 6-of-8 passing for 61 yards and a TD. Morris added 96 yards and a TD on 14 carries, and Dagin had 81 yards and a TD on eight attempts.\r\n\r\nBluffton’s Rakim White took a Lee Kirkland pass and broke a tackle en route to a 63-yard touchdown reception to make it 35-24, and the Bobcats recovered another onside kick, but they ran out of time.\r\n\r\nWilliam Winburn racked up 12 tackles, Kaedin Grissom had nine tackles and a key pass break-up, and Theo Washington added five tackles and two sacks to lead Beaufort’s defense.\r\n\r\nThe Eagles (1-5, 1-0) step out of region play to host undefeated May River on Friday.\r\n\r\n<em>Above: Beaufort High coach Bryce Lybrand (right) gives instruction to a player on the sideline during the Eagles’ 35-24 home win over Bluffton on Friday. It was Lybrand’s first win as a head coach.</em>', 'Eagles erupt in 2nd half, give Lybrand 1st win', '', 'publish', 'closed', 'closed', '', 'eagles-erupt-in-2nd-half-give-lybrand-1st-win', '', '', '2019-10-16 13:38:15', '2019-10-16 17:38:15', '', 0, 'https://staging.yourislandnews.com/?p=42033', 0, 'post', '', 0),
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(42037, 4, '2019-10-16 13:40:38', '2019-10-16 17:40:38', '<h4>By BOB SOFALY</h4>\r\nMore than two dozen Marines with Marine Wing Support Squadron 273 from Marine Corps Air Station Beaufort brought their heavy equipment and assorted machinery to help remove tree stumps from the north end of Hunting Island State Park, commonly called the “boneyard.”\r\n\r\nThe “Sweat Hogs” even set up a bivouac area so they wouldn’t have to travel back and forth each day as the popular state park gets ready for a scheduled beach nourishment project.\r\n\r\nOne Marine said it’s been pretty nice the last couple of weeks after the weather has cooled off.<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">&nbsp;</span>\r\n\r\n“What’s not to like?” she said, of camping on the beach. “But it got a little chilly when the wind kicked up and was coming in straight off the ocean.”\r\n\r\n<em>Above: Marines from Marine Wing Support Squadron 273 from Marine Corps Air Station Beaufort use front end loaders and other heavy machinery too remove tree stumps from the north end of Hunting Island, commonly called the “boneyard”. The “Sweat Hogs” are clearing the area in preparation for an upcoming beach nourishment project. Photo by Bob Sofaly.</em>', 'Marines lend a hand on Hunting Island', '', 'publish', 'closed', 'closed', '', 'marines-lend-a-hand-on-hunting-island', '', '', '2019-10-16 13:40:38', '2019-10-16 17:40:38', '', 0, 'https://staging.yourislandnews.com/?p=42037', 0, 'post', '', 0),
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(42040, 4, '2019-10-16 13:43:43', '2019-10-16 17:43:43', 'On October 10, the Burton Fire District and Beaufort County School District received an award and spread the word to firefighters across the nation about their successful collaboration on the JACOB Kit program.\r\n\r\nThe Burton Fire District and Beaufort County School District, for their partnership on the JACOB Kit program, received the Firehouse Magazine Thomas Carr Community Service Award at the annual national Firehouse Expo conference in Nashville, which was attended by firefighters from across the nation.\r\n\r\nDuring the weeklong conference, fire district and school district personnel also presented a class and manned an informational booth teaching other firefighter how to partner with the schools and start their own JACOB Kit program.\r\n\r\n“I wanted those at the conference to realize that if their child is injured during a school shooting, that the teacher becomes the first responder, and we need the training and resources to act,” said Angela Byrne, a reading interventionist at Broad River Elementary. “Having this kit empowers teachers in knowing that they can protect their babies, and not have to possibly watch a child bleed to death in front of them. They can now do something.”\r\n\r\nBurton Fire Captain Daniel Byrne told conference attendees about the importance of fire departments having a voice in the national discussion on school violence.<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">&nbsp;</span>\r\n\r\n“Right now, the focus is on preventing and reacting to an event and planning for more resource officers and security,” Byrne said. “That’s an important part of the solution, but we also need solid plans for after the event, and treating the wounded. That’s where fire departments come in, that’s out area of expertise”\r\n\r\nFirehouse Magazine Editor-in-Chief Peter Matthews, who has followed the JACOB Kit program since its debut at Broad River Elementary, stated that the school district and fire district partnering together and combining their professional expertise to create a program to save lives are the reasons they were selected as one of four other programs to receive the award. Matthews also cited the spread of the JACOB Kit program to other communities and fire departments across the country as another reason for the selection.\r\n\r\nThe Thomas Carr Community Service Award is named after the former Charleston, South Carolina, Fire Chief, who assumed command of the department after the 2007 Super Sofa Store fire which killed nine Charleston firefighters. The award is presented to those who not only get involved in community service activities, but also to engage in activities that truly give back and elevate a community in a way that can change lives. Ann Carr, the wife of the late Chief Thomas Carr, was on hand to present the award.\r\n\r\nThe JACOB Kit program involves placing small trauma kits in every school classroom, along with providing annual teacher training on how to control critical bleeding. The program was named after Jacob Hall, a six-year-old Townville, S.C., student who was wounded in a 2016 shooting at his elementary school. Jacob died three days later as a result of massive blood loss.<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">&nbsp;</span>\r\n\r\nIn 2017, Broad River Elementary School piloted the program, which is funded by local grants and donations, and was well received by teachers and staff. Since its implementation, with help from other local fire departments, the Jacob Kit program has grown to include both public and private schools across the county. This year, led by County Councilman Michael Covert, Beaufort County has also placed kits in all county buildings.\r\n\r\nBurton Fire Chief Harry Rountree stated that while he is proud the fire district has been given the award, he stressed that this is truly a community award. “We started the program, but fire departments throughout Beaufort County took the program into their schools as well, and it’s been the citizens of this county that have made it all possible through donations,” he said. “This really has been a community supported and driven program, and we thank all our neighboring fire departments and citizens for their efforts.”\r\n\r\nCounty fire official state there are still classrooms in the school district without the kits, and they are still seeking donations and sponsorships to place a kit in every class. Anyone wishing to donate to the program, or to sponsor a class or school, can email <a href=\"mailto:safetyed@burtonfd.org\">safetyed@burtonfd.org</a> or visit <a href=\"https://www.stopthebleedbluffton.com/\">https://www.stopthebleedbluffton.com/</a>.\r\n\r\n<em><span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">Above: </span></em><em>Receiving the award, Burton Fire District Captain Daniel Byrne, Robert Daus Jr of Liberty Artworks, Firehouse Magazine Editor and Chief Peter Matthews, Beaufort County School District teacher Angela Byrne, and Ann Carr, wife of the late Thomas Carr.</em>', 'Burton Fire, Beaufort County School District receive award', '', 'publish', 'closed', 'closed', '', 'burton-fire-beaufort-county-school-district-receive-award', '', '', '2019-10-16 13:43:43', '2019-10-16 17:43:43', '', 0, 'https://staging.yourislandnews.com/?p=42040', 0, 'post', '', 0),
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(42044, 4, '2019-10-16 13:45:03', '2019-10-16 17:45:03', 'Three northern Beaufort County recruits were among the 22 graduates of the South Carolina Fire Academy in September.\r\n\r\nRonald L. Ball, Jr. (City of Beaufort/Town of Port Royal Fire Department), Tommy Buskirk (Lady\'s Island-St. Helena Fire District) and Jessica Tomasoski (City of Beaufort/Town of Port Royal Fire Department) graduated Friday, Sept. 27 from the eight-week firefighter candidate school in Columbia.\r\n\r\nThe graduation’s keynote speaker was Chief Bruce Kline of the Lady’s Island-St. Helena Fire District. The firefighters underwent a 320-hour training program of classroom and hands-on firefighting skills development.\r\n\r\n“This challenging eight-week program requires commitment, passion, and dedication,” Fire Academy Superintendent Dennis Ray said. “These recruits have successfully worked together as a team, performed extensive hands-on training with live fires, and passed intensive practical skills evaluations and written tests to meet the National Fire Protection Association standards.”\r\n\r\nThe comprehensive training, offered quarterly at the Fire Academy, includes emergency responder first aid training, hazardous materials operations training, auto extrication, flammable liquids and gas firefighting, rescue training, and National Fire Protection Association (NFPA) Firefighter I and Firefighter II levels.\r\n\r\nBall earned the Pride of the Battalion award, given to the recruit who has demonstrated “Leadership, Integrity, Determination and Good Value.” This award recipient is chosen by the instructor staff who worked with the recruits during the eight-week program.', 'Area firefighters graduate from SC Fire Academy', '', 'publish', 'closed', 'closed', '', 'area-firefighters-graduate-from-sc-fire-academy', '', '', '2019-10-16 13:45:03', '2019-10-16 17:45:03', '', 0, 'https://staging.yourislandnews.com/?p=42044', 0, 'post', '', 0),
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(42048, 4, '2019-10-16 13:48:54', '2019-10-16 17:48:54', '<h4>By MARIE McADEN</h4>\r\nBetween her full-time job at Beaufort Memorial Hospital (BMH) and babysitting her five grandkids, Willie Mae Powell had little time for much of anything else in her busy work week. Before she knew it, two years had passed since her last screening mammogram.\r\n\r\nBut the 55-year-old Beaufort resident wasn’t worried.<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">&nbsp;</span>\r\n\r\n“Breast cancer doesn’t run in my family,” she said.\r\n\r\nWhat she didn’t realize was that most women who develop breast cancer do not have a family history. In fact, according to the American Cancer Society, only 15 percent of women with breast cancer have a relative who had the disease.\r\n\r\nThen one evening this spring, she felt a lump in her right breast. The disconcerting discovery was all the motivation she needed to make an appointment for a mammogram at Beaufort Memorial’s Breast Health Center.\r\n\r\nThe X-ray revealed a suspicious lesion in her breast, which turned out to be a malignant tumor. Powell’s cancer was triple negative, a type of tumor that does not have any of the three receptors known to fuel most breast cancer growth.\r\n\r\nTriple negative occurs in about 10 to 20 percent of diagnosed breast cancers, often in younger women, African Americans, Hispanics and those with a BRCA1 gene mutation. It can be difficult to treat because hormone therapy and the drugs that target the three common cancer receptors – estrogen, progesterone and the HER-2 gene – are ineffective.\r\n\r\n“When they told me I had cancer, I couldn’t believe it,” said Powell, who has worked at BMH for 20 years and now serves as supervisor of Environmental Services. “I was very upset. And then a week later my husband found out he had multiple myeloma. I went into a little bit of a depression.”\r\n\r\nTo help her understand the complex treatment process involved in fighting the disease, Beaufort Memorial breast care navigator Chris Marino met with Powell as soon as she was diagnosed. She helped her set up appointments with the three board-certified BMH physicians who would be treating her cancer – medical oncologist Dr. Marcus Newberry, general surgeon Dr. Stephen Sisco and radiation oncologist Dr. Jonathan Briggs – and accompanied her on the office visits with the physicians.\r\n\r\n“Cancer is a scary word,” Marino said. “There are a lot of steps involved in the treatment of the disease. My job is to make those steps easier for the patient.”\r\n\r\nAfter meeting with Powell and evaluating her case, the cancer team developed an evidence-based treatment plan.\r\n\r\n“With triple negative breast cancer, you treat with chemotherapy pre-operatively to see the pathologic response it has on the tumor,” Newberry said. “More than 50 percent of cases will result in a pathologic complete response. If there’s residual disease, we can give the patient additional medication post-operatively to increase the chances of a long-term cure.”\r\n\r\nPowell’s treatment plan started with 16 rounds of chemo at the Beaufort Memorial Infusion Center. After the fourth round, she began to lose her hair. And it got worse from there.\r\n\r\n“I was very sick,” Powell recalled. “But I worked right through it. It helped me put my mind on something else.”\r\n\r\nAlong with Marino’s advice and encouragement, Powell has relied on the support of her hospital co-workers and family. Her husband, Ricky, and her daughter, Celless, have kept her spirits up, motivating her to push through the worst times.\r\n\r\n“She’s very strong,” Marino said. “You pass her in the hallway and you have no idea she has cancer. She’s always upbeat and smiling.”\r\n\r\nPowell finished her chemo treatments in September and the results have been encouraging.\r\n\r\n“We monitor for disease growth throughout the chemo process,” Newberry said. “The ultrasound midway through the treatments showed it had shrunk.”\r\n\r\nShe won’t know if she had a pathologic complete response until she undergoes surgery, which will involve removing breast tissue as well as some lymph nodes. Following her surgery this month, she’ll begin radiation therapy.\r\n\r\n“Radiation reduces the risk of recurrence in the chest and lymph nodes,” said Briggs, a board-certified radiation oncologist at the hospital’s Keyserling Cancer Center. “Typically, it’s a six-week course of treatment with 15 minutes of radiation five days a week.”\r\n\r\nNow months into her cancer journey, Powell is looking forward to getting back to doing the things she loves – fishing and crabbing with her husband and spending time with her grandkids.\r\n\r\n“I appreciate everything that’s been done for me,” Powell said. “The staff at the Breast Health Center, and the doctors – everyone has been wonderful.”\r\n\r\n<em>EDITOR’S NOTE:</em>\r\n\r\n<em>Beaufort Memorial Hospital promotes a story about a breast cancer survivor each year to help promote awareness.</em>\r\n\r\n<em>One in eight women will develop breast cancer, but early detection can save your life. Have you or your loved ones had your mammogram this year? Get screened today.</em>\r\n\r\n<em>Beaufort Memorial has partnered with MDsave to provide $99 screening mammograms through October 31. Mammograms purchased in October can be scheduled any time in the next six months. Visit MDsave.com/beaufort for information or to purchase.\r\n\r\nPhoto by Paul Nurnberg&nbsp;</em>\r\n\r\n&nbsp;', 'Beaufort grandmother doesn’t let breast cancer slow her down', '', 'publish', 'closed', 'closed', '', 'beaufort-grandmother-doesnt-let-breast-cancer-slow-her-down', '', '', '2019-10-16 13:48:54', '2019-10-16 17:48:54', '', 0, 'https://staging.yourislandnews.com/?p=42048', 0, 'post', '', 0),
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(42052, 4, '2019-10-16 13:51:08', '2019-10-16 17:51:08', 'The Beaufort/Jasper/Hampton Comprhensive Health Services honored some of its longest lasting employees recently. The are, from left, Roland Gardner, Chief Executive Officer; Elize Powell, Registered Nurse, 30 years; Julia C. Williams, 25 years; Georgella B. Allen, 47 years; Gertha Dansby, 25 years; and Marta Rodriquez, board member. Photo by Bob Sofaly.', 'Longtime healthcare employees honored', '', 'publish', 'closed', 'closed', '', 'longtime-healthcare-employees-honored', '', '', '2019-10-16 13:51:08', '2019-10-16 17:51:08', '', 0, 'https://staging.yourislandnews.com/?p=42052', 0, 'post', '', 0),
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(42056, 4, '2019-10-16 13:52:28', '2019-10-16 17:52:28', 'USC Beaufort’s Center for the Arts proudly presents Tapestry: The Carole King Songbook.\r\n\r\nFans will feel the earth move under their feet on at 7:30 p.m. Friday, Oct. 25.\r\n\r\nThis performance, starring Suzanne O Davis, is the premier musical tribute to the legendary Carole King.\r\n\r\nThis show recreates the sounds and vibes of a 1970’s Carole King concert experience following her legendary album, Tapestry.<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">&nbsp;</span>\r\n\r\nTapestry not only presents the record-breaking, Grammy winning album of the same name, but is a retrospective of the iconic songwriting team of Goffin and King, and her hits that continued into the 70’s for artists such as Aretha Franklin, Bobby Vee, The Beatles, James Taylor, the Drifters, Donny Osmond, and the list goes on.\r\n\r\nThe cost of admission to travel back in time is $35 for adults, $30 for seniors and military and $15 for students.\r\n\r\nTickets are available online at USCBcenterforthearts.com, at the box office located at 801 Boundary St. in Beaufort, or at the door the evening of the show.', 'USCB Center for the Arts presents King’s Tapestry', '', 'publish', 'closed', 'closed', '', 'uscb-center-for-the-arts-presents-kings-tapestry', '', '', '2019-10-16 13:52:28', '2019-10-16 17:52:28', '', 0, 'https://staging.yourislandnews.com/?p=42056', 0, 'post', '', 0),
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(42059, 4, '2019-10-16 13:54:47', '2019-10-16 17:54:47', '<h4>By MINDY LUCAS</h4>\r\nFormer Fire Chief Wendell Wilburn remembers Linda Edgerley not only as someone who was extremely capable and hard working but for one quality in particular.\r\n\r\n“She was always looking out for her extended family,” he said, referring to the City of Beaufort-Town of Port Royal Fire Department. “She made sure they had what they needed, when they needed it, and if she didn’t have it immediately, she would certainly fulfill that need.”\r\n\r\nLovingly called “Mrs. E” or “mom” by firefighters and staff, Edgerley served as the department’s executive office manager for 27 years before retiring in 2009.\r\n\r\nEdgerley, 74, who had chronic lung disease, died at her home on Sept. 30.\r\n\r\nWilburn, who hired Edgerley in 1982, said she was instrumental not only with the day-to-day needs of the fire house – from the paperwork all new hires filled out to everyday budgetary needs – but in building relationships with the community and the city as well.\r\n\r\n“She had some great relationships at city hall because she had to be there almost everyday to take paperwork over,” he said. “She was a huge asset.”\r\n\r\nEdgerley was also present during a time of great change, Wilburn said. This included the building of the new station on Ribaut Road and the adding of new fire trucks and new equipment including radios and protective gear that followed.\r\n\r\n“She was given a lot to deal with, but she handled it smoothly and seamlessly,” Wilburn said. “It would have been difficult to do our jobs without her. No doubt it about it.”\r\n\r\nHer deep devotion to the men and women who came through the fire department may have come from her own experience with personal loss, many have said.\r\n\r\nThe Edgerleys’ young son, Bruce, died in 1990, after being struck in the chest by a baseball at batting practice.\r\n\r\nCurrent fire chief Reece Bertholf, who worked with Edgerley for about 10 years before she retired, remembers the level of commitment and devotion Edgerley had.\r\n\r\n“The dedication in her was as strong as it was in many of our firefighters,” he said.\r\n\r\nBertholf said the department had some 33 firefighters when she retired, and she took care of all of them and whatever the needs were at the firehouse.\r\n\r\n“If we needed shopping done or laundry soap, she would go and make those purchases,” he said.\r\n\r\nEdgerley would also show up at fires with coffee for the firefighters.\r\n\r\n“Then she would be back at the fire house when we got back to make sure the reports were getting done,” he said. “It wasn’t odd to see her at the station at the odd hours that firefighters had to work.”\r\n\r\nEdgerley was laid to rest at Beaufort Memorial Gardens, on Oct. 4. She is survived by her husband, Donald “Don” Edgerley, also of Beaufort.\r\n\r\n<em>Photo courtesy of City of Beaufort/Town of Port Royal Fire Department.</em>', 'Community mourns beloved ‘Mrs. E’ of Beaufort-Port Royal Fire Department', '', 'publish', 'closed', 'closed', '', 'community-mourns-beloved-mrs-e-of-beaufort-port-royal-fire-department', '', '', '2019-10-16 13:54:47', '2019-10-16 17:54:47', '', 0, 'https://staging.yourislandnews.com/?p=42059', 0, 'post', '', 0),
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(42063, 4, '2019-10-16 14:00:29', '2019-10-16 18:00:29', 'Ghostly spirits are expected to take over downtown Beaufort while the Exchange Club hosts its 27th annual Ghost Tours. <span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">&nbsp;</span>\r\n\r\nSign up now to take a carriage ride or walking tour through Beaufort’s Historic District while listening to haunting tales of the area. Tours last about an hour and will run in the evenings of October 18-20, 25-27, and 30.\r\n\r\nAll proceeds benefit the Child Abuse Prevention Association (CAPA) of Beaufort County.\r\n\r\nSome of Beaufort’s oldest residents have shared stories from their childhood and the Exchange Club of&nbsp;Beaufort brings these stories to life each October. Costumed storytellers spellbind tour participants with&nbsp;the ghostly happenings while traveling the moss-lined streets of downtown.<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">&nbsp;</span>\r\n\r\nThe oldest ghost in America is said to live in “the Castle,” a 19th century renovated estate located on the river in downtown Beaufort.\r\n\r\nWalking tour tickets are $12 for all ages. Carriage tours are $12 for children ages 3-11 and $22 for adults. All children must be accompanied by an adult.<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">&nbsp;</span>\r\n\r\nA pet- and stroller-friendly walking tour leaves each night at 7 p.m.<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">&nbsp;</span>\r\n\r\nReservations can be made online at www.capabeaufort.org or by calling 843-52-GHOST. Reservations&nbsp;are strongly recommended.\r\n\r\n<strong>Want to go?</strong>\r\n\r\nWhat: 27<sup>th</sup> annual Beaufort Ghost Tours\r\n\r\nWhen: October 18-20, 25-27, 30.\r\n\r\nWhere: The streets of downtown Beaufort.\r\n\r\nCost: Walking tour – $12. Carriage tours – $12 for children ages 3-11, $22 for adults.<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">&nbsp;</span>\r\n\r\nReservations: www.capabeaufort.org or 843-52-GHOST.\r\n\r\nNotes: All children must be accompanied by an adult. … All proceeds benefit the Child Abuse Prevention Association (CAPA) of Beaufort County.\r\n\r\n<em>\r\nAbove: Beth “Capt. Elizabeth Swann” Lewis harasses a carriage full of living souls as it rolls down East Street during the annual Exchange Club Ghost Tour fund raiser for the Child Abuse Prevention Association in October 2018.&nbsp;Photo by Bob Sofaly</em>\r\n\r\n<strong>\r\nOTHER LOCAL HALLOWEEN FESTIVITIES</strong>\r\n\r\n<strong>Trunk or Treat</strong>\r\n\r\nFriday, Oct. 26, Hunting Island Campground. Come dressed in your favorite costume and candy will be provided. If you’d like to set up your own trunk, contact the campground store at 843-838-7437. Campers that participate will be provided with a sign for their campsite.\r\n\r\n<strong>Spooky Lighthouse Tours</strong>\r\n\r\n6-8:30 p.m., Thursday, Oct. 31, Hunting Island Lighthouse. $5 per person. Must be 44 inches to climb.', 'Ghost Tours re-establish their ghoulish grip on downtown Beaufort', '', 'publish', 'closed', 'closed', '', 'ghost-tours-re-establish-their-ghoulish-grip-on-downtown-beaufort', '', '', '2019-10-16 14:00:29', '2019-10-16 18:00:29', '', 0, 'https://staging.yourislandnews.com/?p=42063', 0, 'post', '', 0),
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(42313, 4, '2019-11-13 15:48:48', '2019-11-13 20:48:48', '<h4>By LEE SCOTT</h4>\r\nAt a recent coffee gathering with several women, the topic of decorating our homes for Christmas came up. That is when two of the women started to talk about the house they were going to decorate for the “Beaufort Homes for the Holidays” event.\r\n\r\nNow I did not say anything, but my first thought was “Why, in heaven’s name, would you want to decorate someone else’s house?”\r\n\r\nNot that I am a Scrooge, but I have enough problems dragging out my own decorations.\r\n\r\nThen they started to explain all the things they were doing. These two women are very creative, and I was intrigued by the details they were going through to make this home a standout at the event.\r\n\r\nOf the seven homes on the tour, five of them are historic and the house they were assigned is one of the five.\r\n\r\nSo, their intention was to decorate the house, keeping in mind its historic significance coupled with Lowcountry ambiance.\r\n\r\nFirst, they described the oyster shell garlands they had made.\r\n\r\nMy northern brain could not equate oyster shells with Christmas decorations, but again, I was quiet.\r\n\r\nThey described the washing and bleaching process, and then, after drying, getting a friend to punch holes in the shells.\r\n\r\nNext came the twine. They placed the twine through the oyster shell holes and made garlands. Some of the shells they had spray painted a silvery glow to be used as accents.\r\n\r\nMy brain started to kick into gear as to what they were doing.\r\n\r\nThen they talked about the greenery they were collecting for decorating. It included magnolia tree leaves, pine cones, and palm fronds.\r\n\r\nThey did admit to having some small non-historic electric lights to help illuminate the home also.\r\n\r\nIt was while we were chatting that a local arborist, who overheard our discussion, suggested that they could use okra to decorate.\r\n\r\n“How in the world would you use okra?” I asked.\r\n\r\nShe said to take a large vase and fill it with Pink Muhly grass then place a large flowering okra plant in the center. The flower resembles a hibiscus.\r\n\r\nShe said it makes a beautiful Lowcountry centerpiece.\r\n\r\nAs I sat there listening, I realized that it was time I embrace some of this Lowcountry decorating.\r\n\r\nAfterward, I pulled up the website for the Beaufort Homes for the Holidays and saw pictures from previous years. Decorators used items like Peacock feathers, candles, and Poinsettias. There were also pictures of old train sets, wooden reindeer, and lanterns all mixed in with Lowcountry greenery.\r\n\r\nNow I must go see those seven houses on the tour.\r\n\r\nAfter all, if I cannot come up with ideas for my house, at least I can use some of theirs.\r\n\r\n<i>Lee Scott, a writer and recent retiree, shares her everyday observations about life after career. A former commercial banker responsible for helping her clients to reach their business objectives, Scott now translates those analytical skills to her writings. She lives on St. Helena Island and enjoys boating, traveling and reading.</i>', 'I am embracing decorating in the Lowcountry', '', 'publish', 'closed', 'closed', '', 'i-am-embracing-decorating-in-the-lowcountry', '', '', '2019-11-13 15:48:48', '2019-11-13 20:48:48', '', 0, 'https://staging.yourislandnews.com/?p=42313', 0, 'post', '', 0),
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(42072, 4, '2019-10-23 08:21:06', '2019-10-23 12:21:06', '<h4>Activities at Hunting Island State Park</h4>\r\nThere are fun, interesting and educational activities every day hosted by Park Ranger and Lowcountry Master Naturalist Megan Stegmeier.<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">&nbsp;</span>\r\n\r\nSundays: Sand/candy art, 11 a.m. (Oct. 27); Hunting Island Bingo, 2:30 p.m. (Oct<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">&nbsp; </span>27).\r\n\r\nMondays: Reptiles of the Lowcountry, 11 a.m. (Oct. 28).\r\n\r\nTuesdays: CCC Video, 1 p.m.; Beach Walk, 3 p.m.; Going Batty, 4 p.m. (Oct. 29).\r\n\r\nWednesdays: Alligator Talk, 11 a.m.; Stepping Stones, 2 p.m.; Lowcountry Legends &amp; Lore, 4 p.m. (Oct. 30).\r\n\r\nThursdays: Interpretive Lighthouse Tour, 10 a.m. (Oct. 24, 31); CCC Video, 1 p.m.; Feeding Frenzy, 3 p.m.; Shark Tooth Excursion, 4 p.m. (Oct. 31); Spooky Lighthouse Lantern Tours, 6-8:30 p.m. (Oct. 31).\r\n\r\nFridays: Fish printing, 2 p.m. (Oct. 25).\r\n\r\nSaturdays: Tie-Die, 11 a.m. (Oct. 26); Trunk or Treat, 5-9 p.m. (Oct. 26).\r\n\r\nFor a description of these programs and a complete calendar of activities, go to southcarolinaparks.com/hunting-island and click on “Programs &amp; Events.”\r\n\r\nAll are invited to attend these free events, though there is an entry fee to Hunting Island State Park and reservations are needed for lighthouse programs.\r\n\r\nFor more information, call 843-838-7437 or go to the Friends of Hunting Island website and the Facebook page: FOHI Sea Turtle Conservation Project.\r\n<h4>Beaufort County Historical Society “Historically Speaking” lectures</h4>\r\nAll talks, held at noon on Thursdays, are free and open to the public. Donations are welcome. First-come, first-seated, doors open 30 minutes prior to event.<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">&nbsp;</span>\r\n\r\nNov. 21: Maxine Lutz, “Not Just Gossip: Who Dwelt in Beaufort’s Historic Houses,” Beaufort County Library, 311 Scott St.<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">&nbsp;</span>\r\n\r\nJan. 23: Dr. Bernard Powers, “The New Face of African American Public History in Charleston: The Center for the Study of Slavery and the International African American Museum,” Beaufort County Library, 311 Scott St.\r\n\r\nMarch 12: Dr. Lawrence Rowland, “Kate Gleason, Libby Rowland, and Beaufort in the 1920s,” St. Helena Branch Library, 6355 Jonathan Francis, Sr. Blvd. St. Helena Island.\r\n\r\nMay 7: 81st annual meeting, Dr. Dale Rosengarten, “Blue Collars to Blue Serge Suits: Beaufort’s Jewish Settlers,” St. Helena Branch Library, 6355 Jonathan Francis, Sr. Blvd., St. Helena Island.\r\n<h4>Workshop: The Rhythm is the Cure</h4>\r\n11 a.m. to 3 p.m., Thursday, Oct. 24, Effervesce Yoga Spa in Port Royal. Workshop: The Rhythm is the Cure with Alessandra Belloni. Cost is $65. Lunch is included. Must bring ocean drum and/or tambourine. Register at <a href=\"http://www.bcfolkheritage.com/\">www.bcfolkheritage.com</a>.\r\n\r\nConcert: Healing Journeys with The Black Madonna\r\n\r\n6 p.m., Friday, Oct. 25, TCL Auditorium. Healing Journeys with The Black Madonna with Alessandra Belloni and a multi-artist art exhibit inspired by The Black Madonna. Doors open at 5 p.m. Light hors d’oeuvres at Art Council Mather Building 1 and in Lobby of Auditorium at TCL. Cost is $10 at the door or reserve tickets at <a href=\"http://www.bcfolkheritage.com/\">www.bcfolkheritage.com</a>.\r\n<h4>The Art of Elegance book signing</h4>\r\n11:30 a.m.-1 p.m., Friday, Oct. 25. A lunch, presentation and book signing for The Art Of Elegance with author Marshall Watson hosted by Historic Beaufort Foundation, 208 Scott Street. For tickets and information, call 843-379-3331 or historicbeaufort.org.\r\n<h4>Dawn of the Light</h4>\r\n5 p.m., Saturday, Oct. 26, 178 Sam\'s Point Rd. Lady\'s Island. Baha\'is of Beaufort County will celebrate the Bicentenary of The Birth of The Bab with a feature movie, Dawn of the Light. This short film follows the personal search for truth and meaning undertaken by eight people from different parts of the world. Each one describes the journey to discovering that God has sent two Divine Manifestations for today, the Bab and Baha\'u\'llah. The program will include dinner followed by the film, Dawn of the Light. An RSVP (Text 803-467-2459) would be appreciated.\r\n<h4>The Rise of the Madonna: Creation Myths Across Cultures</h4>\r\n4-5 p.m., Sunday, Oct. 27, TCL Building 1 (Arts Council Mather Building). Lecture with Slide Show – The Rise of the Madonna: Creation Myths Across Cultures by Heather Ford, mythology scholar. Cost $10. Register at <a href=\"http://www.bcfolkheritage.com/\">www.bcfolkheritage.com</a> or at the door.\r\n<h4>Legal clinics at downtown library</h4>\r\nThe Beaufort County Library is offering free legal clinics at the downtown branch at 311 Scott St.\r\n\r\nEach clinic will feature a 30- to 40-minute lecture followed by an open question-and-answer session. All session run from 5:45 to 6:45 p.m. Get free answers concerning family law issues (Oct. 28). For more information, call the S.C. Bar Pro Bono Program at 803-799-6653, ext. 158 or 1-877-797-2227, ext. 158 or visit <a href=\"http://www.scbar.org/clinics\">www.scbar.org/clinics</a>. The clinics are not designed to provide guidance on a specific situation. If you need legal advice on a specific situation, you will need to contact an attorney.\r\n<h4>Workshop: Writing Through the Eyes of Your Ethnic Feminine Divinity</h4>\r\n3-5 p.m., Tuesday, Oct. 29, TCL Building 1 (Arts Council Mather Building). Workshop: Writing Through the Eyes of Your Ethnic Feminine Divinity with Susan Madison. Cost $40. Register at <a href=\"http://www.bcfolkheritage.com/\">www.bcfolkheritage.com</a> or at the door.\r\n<h4>Barbershop groups looking for new members</h4>\r\n3 p.m., Sunday, Oct. 30, mission building behind St. John\'s Lutheran Church on Lady\'s Island Drive.\r\n\r\nThe Beaufort HarborMasters and the Beaufort Belles Barbershop choruses are starting their 2019-2020 season in October and need men and women. You don\'t need to be able to read music, but you do need to enjoy having a good time. Please join us for camaraderie, song and snacks. Visit our website at <a href=\"http://www.beaufortharbormasters.org/\">www.beaufortharbormasters.org</a> or call Hal McCann at 843-838-9326 and leave a message.<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">&nbsp;</span>\r\n<h4>Women’s Coastal Skills Clinic</h4>\r\nNov. 1-3, Hunting Island State Park. Cost is $250 per person. Limited to 30 participants, ages 16 and older. An exclusive outdoor experience designed just for women, the three-day workshop expands knowledge of the Lowcountry while teaching useful skills along the way. Learn about the history of the lighthouse, cast netting, salt-marsh kayaking, shell fishing and more. Register by calling 843-838-7437. Reservations are required. Sleeping accommodations are your responsibility. Make reservations to bring your tent/RV by calling 843-838-2011.<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">&nbsp;</span>\r\n<h4>Female Divinity in Our Unique Ancient Cultures</h4>\r\n4-6 p.m., Saturday, Nov. 2, TCL Building 1 (Arts Council Mather Building). Open Mic Community Sharing: Female Divinity in Our Unique Ancient Cultures. Share in poetry or writing from your own cultural perspective. Cost $10. Snacks and beverages provided. Sign up to listen or participate at <a href=\"http://www.bcfolkheritage.com/\">www.bcfolkheritage.com</a> or at the door.<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">&nbsp;</span>\r\n<h4>4th Touch A Truck Fundraiser</h4>\r\nThe <a href=\"http://www.jslbeaufort.com/\">Junior Service League of Beaufort</a> will host its 4th Touch A Truck fundraiser on Saturday, Nov. 16 in downtown Port Royal from 11 a.m. to 4 p.m. on Paris Avenue. Cost of admission is $5 per person.\r\n\r\nTouch A Truck is a family event that offers a unique and interactive experience for children of all ages. Children will have the opportunity to see, touch, and safely explore their favorite vehicles that serve our community.\r\n\r\nThe event will feature many different types of equipment to explore, including a fire truck, ambulance, a Humvee, construction vehicles, and even a helicopter. The entertainment area will include a variety of activities including face painting, bounce-houses for kids and much more. And to round out the experience, enjoy music and fabulous food, drinks, and libations available for purchase.<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">&nbsp;</span>\r\n\r\nIn the case of rain, the event will be postponed to Dec. 7. Pets are not allowed at the event.\r\n\r\nCall Brittany Rosson at 618-967-6815 or visit <a href=\"http://www.touchatruckbeaufort.com/\">www.touchatruckbeaufort.com</a> for more information.\r\n<h4>Art Gallery Artist Talk and Reception</h4>\r\n2-5 p.m., Sunday, Nov. 10, TCL Building 1 (Arts Council Mather Building). Artists will talk about their art. Free Admission. For more information, visit <a href=\"http://www.beaufortartscouncil.org/\">www.beaufortartscouncil.org</a> or <a href=\"http://www.bcfolkheritage.com/\">www.bcfolkheritage.com</a>.\r\n<h4>Oyster Ghost Roast &amp; 5k By The Bay</h4>\r\nSaturday, Nov. 16, Technical College of the Lowcountry Beaufort Campus, 921 Ribaut Road. The 5K starts at 5 p.m., spanning campus and Spanish Moss Trail. The oyster roast starts at 6 p.m. with all-you-can-eat oysters, chili, hot dogs, brownies, lemon bars and more catered by Jim\'N Nick’s. All-You-Can-Drink wristbands are $10. The event features a live DJ, karaoke, cornhole, a college football viewing area, and lots of children’s activities. Oyster roast is $30 for adults, $15 for ages 13-17 and is free for kids 12 and younger. The oyster roast and 5K, which includes oyster roast/afterparty ticket, medal, and T-shirt is $60 for adults, $30 for those 17 and younger. All proceeds benefit the Student Veterans of America TCL Chapter and TCL’s Student Government Association. Learn more at <a href=\"http://www.tcl.edu/oyster\">www.tcl.edu/oyster</a> or call 843-525-8264.\r\n<h4>YMCA to offer CPR class</h4>\r\nThe Wardle Family YMCA, located at 1801 Richmond Ave in Port Royal, offers CPR classes for community members on Saturday, Nov. 23 from 8 a.m. to noon. Cost is $35 for this YMCA-certified course and those interested need to register at the Y as space is limited and filled on a first-come, first-served basis. Questions? Contact Lou Bergen, Aquatics Director to register for this class. Call the Y at 843-522-9622 or visit beaufort-jasperymca.org.\r\n<h4>Get moving with Beaufort Track Club</h4>\r\nJoin the Beaufort Track Club at the Beaufort High School track from 6:30-7:30 p.m. each Tuesday night for an open community track workout. Beginner, intermediate, and advanced workouts are posted each week to ensure that you are getting the workout that you need.\r\n\r\nVisit the Facebook page “Beaufort Track Club” for more information.\r\n<h4>May River Quilters Quild</h4>\r\nOn the first Saturday of every month, the May River Quilters Guild meets at Palmetto Electric Cooperative, 1 Cooperative Way, Hardeeville. Members meet at 9:30 a.m. for social exchange. The meeting starts at 10 a.m. Please call 847-707-6034.\r\n<h4>Seaside Stitchers sewing club</h4>\r\n1 p.m., 3<sup>rd</sup> Monday of each month, Beaufort Yacht and Sailing Club. The Seaside Stitchers, neighborhood group of the American Sewing Guild, holds a monthly meetings for everyone who sews. It is for sewers of a variety skill levels and interests so anyone who is interested in sewing is encouraged to attend and find out what ASG is all about. For more information, visit <a href=\"http://www.asg.org/\">http://www.asg.org</a>. For more information about Seaside Stitchers, call Sheila Tindall at 843-838-9473.\r\n<h4>Parkinson’s support group</h4>\r\nA support group for individuals with Parkinson’s Disease and carepartners meets the first Thursday of each month at the Beaufort Memorial Lifefit Wellness Center from 1:30 to 3 p.m. For more information, visit our Facebook page or call Ric at 843-525-1229.\r\n<h4>Friends of Hunting Island lighthouse tours</h4>\r\nThe Friends of Hunting Island will present tours of the historic Hunting Island Lighthouse at 10 a.m. every Thursday in October. Keeper Ted and his team will tell you all about the history of the Lighthouse, which was built in 1875 and is the only Lighthouse in South Carolina open to visitors.<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">&nbsp;</span>\r\n\r\nIf you are at least 44 inches tall, you may also climb the 184 steps to the top of the Lighthouse. Reservations are recommended by calling 843-838-7437 and the fee is $2 per person.\r\n<h4>Puppy Plunge at the YMCA</h4>\r\nYMCA Puppy Plunge will be held on the third Saturday of the month from 9 to 11 a.m. (weather permitting) at the Y outdoor pool at 1801 Richmond Ave. in Port Royal. Pups can splash, swim and play in our safe, enclosed outdoor pool area.\r\n\r\nCost is $10 per pup, and all proceeds benefit the Y’s Learn to Swim program, which teaches local children and adults to swim at a reduced cost or for free. Dogs must be well behaved, current on all required vaccines and leashed until inside the pool area. Owners must be present at all times and humans are not permitted to swim in the Puppy Plunge. Visit <a href=\"http://beaufort-jasperymca.org/\">beaufort-jasperymca.org</a> or call 843-522-9622 for more information.\r\n<h4>Register to be a Tiger Shark</h4>\r\nBYAC Tiger Sharks Swim Team registration is open for the 2019-2020 season. There are three levels of swim team for ages 5 and up who meet swim team group requirements: Shark Pups; Group 1; and Group 2. Evaluations on going on now for group placement. Learn more online at <a href=\"http://beaufort-jasperymca.org/\">beaufort-jasperymca.org</a> (click on Aquatics&gt;Swim Team), stop by the Y in Port Royal (1801 Richmond Ave.) or call the Y at 843-522-9622.', '', '', 'publish', 'closed', 'closed', '', '42072-2', '', '', '2019-10-23 08:21:06', '2019-10-23 12:21:06', '', 0, 'https://staging.yourislandnews.com/?p=42072', 0, 'post', '', 0),
(42074, 4, '2019-10-23 08:22:21', '2019-10-23 12:22:21', '<h4>By LEE SCOTT</h4>\r\nOn a recent road trip with my spouse, we discovered the Johnny Carson channel on Sirius Radio.<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">&nbsp;</span>\r\n\r\nBeing an old Johnny fan, I was thrilled to listen to some of the old monologues again.<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">&nbsp;</span>\r\n\r\nMy parents watched the show when I was young, and I even got to see him in California back in the 1980s. So, I was excited to hear him again.<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">&nbsp;</span>\r\n\r\nAfter a few hours of driving, we commented on how easy the drive was just listening to him. Talk about entertainment. It wasn’t only his monologues, but it was the people he was interviewing too.<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">&nbsp;</span>\r\n\r\nHe always interviewed major stars like Jimmy Stewart, Henry Fonda, and Elizabeth Taylor. He also had on comedians like Jerry Seinfeld, Joan Rivers and George Carlin. Then there were the animal spots and talented children interviews. It was a real variety show.<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">&nbsp;</span>\r\n\r\nWe noticed how fun it was to laugh at good old-fashioned humor. It was not mean-spirited. It was just plain entertainment.\r\n\r\nAfter the trip, I had lunch with three girlfriends who I had not spent much time with over the summer. I was telling them about the show and told them some of the jokes I heard.<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">&nbsp;</span>\r\n\r\nWell, that is when we started. Mind you, there was no alcohol involved here, but we got to laughing and carrying on with other stories that before you knew it, two hours had passed.\r\n\r\nThat same evening, I started getting texts from my three sisters about something that happened to the youngest the day before. Well before you know it, I was on another laughing spree. I could not type on my phone, because I was crying so hard.\r\n\r\nLater, while brushing my teeth I started to laugh again, and my husband came into the bathroom wondering about the strange sounds I was making.\r\n\r\n“You scared me!” he said.<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">&nbsp;</span>\r\n\r\nWhen I finally got control, I explained my laughter and he responded, “You had to be there.”\r\n\r\nIt’s true. There are some stories shared by siblings, people you have known all your life, that are hard to explain to other people.\r\n\r\nNeedless to say, I have laughter on my mind now. How wonderful to spend hours with people just laughing and enjoying life. When I looked up laughter on a search engine, I found articles like, “The natural high of laughter” from Psychology Today. Evidently, laughter releases a neurotransmitter –<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">&nbsp; </span>dopamine – which serves as a reward for the brain.\r\n\r\nI am not sure if my hours with Johnny Carson started my all-day laughing spell.<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">&nbsp;</span>\r\n\r\nBut I do know that I am reminded that laughter truly is the best medicine, and maybe we all need to get more of it in our lives.<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">&nbsp;</span>\r\n\r\nThanks, Johnny!', 'Thanks Johnny! Laughter IS the best medicine', '', 'publish', 'closed', 'closed', '', 'thanks-johnny-laughter-is-the-best-medicine', '', '', '2019-10-23 08:22:21', '2019-10-23 12:22:21', '', 0, 'https://staging.yourislandnews.com/?p=42074', 0, 'post', '', 0),
(42077, 4, '2019-10-23 08:23:12', '2019-10-23 12:23:12', '<h4>By SCOTT GRABER</h4>\r\nI have a friend, Dean Moss, who wants to do one thing before he dies. Well, maybe two things.\r\n\r\nMost long-time residents in Beaufort County know that Dean Moss was responsible, in large measure, for expanding the operations of the Beaufort Jasper Water and Sewer Authority.\r\n\r\nMoss took a small utility and made it larger, much larger. Bringing water (by canal from the Savannah River) was not Moss’ idea, that dream was first dreamed by Joab Dowling in 1963. But its fair to say that Moss took Dowling’s modest system and turned it into a vast empire of pumps, pipes and lift stations.\r\n\r\nBefore Dean Moss retired (2011) he made sure the Water Authority acquired the right of way once owned by the Port Royal and Western Carolina Railroad. Moss put Water Authority pipes in this right of way. However, he also dreamed of riding a Pinarello Dogma F8 atop the old rail-bed between Yemassee and Port Royal, SC. And after a great deal of work by Moss, and others, the Spanish Moss Trail came into being.\r\n\r\nBirthing was not without complications. The biggest was convincing adjacent landowners that the Trail would not attract thieves, hoodlums and dope dealers to the Mossy Oaks, Ribaut Island and Cottage Farm neighborhoods. Moss and Sissy Perryman worked through these objections and eventually most homeowners realized the Trail was an amenity that improved the value of their homes.\r\n\r\nBut in the end there was the fact that the Trail did not connect with downtown Beaufort. Nor did it connect with Port Royal’s soon to be developed port. This lack of connectivity means that few families will get on their bikes (in Mossy Oaks) and pedal to Saltus (or to Fish Camp) for the she crab soup or the stuffed flounder.\r\n\r\nBeyond connectivity there are other, ongoing problems the biggest being the perception that (in America) the right of way belongs to the automobile. Hundreds of thousands of balding engineers spend their lives making sure that large, sedentary men … driving large Tahoes or Tundra trucks ... can move efficiently and speedily from their suburban homes to Costco.<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">&nbsp;</span>\r\n\r\nThere is little time or effort spent by these engineers to make room for bicycles. This is not the case in the Netherlands where 18 million people own a total of 22 million bicycles.\r\n\r\n“It’s not just that every busy street has a handsome bike lane, paved in dark-red brick. It’s that on Dutch streets, bikes rule the road. They take priority in design and traffic flow. Traffic circles are laid out so that cyclists need never stop for cars. Busy intersections often have overpasses or underpasses so that cyclists never have to slow down,” writes Dan Kois in the New Yorker.\r\n\r\nAnd in New York City there are Citi Bike rentals on almost every corner, and Mayor Bill de Blasio has just built 100 miles of new, dedicated bike paths. But annoyance to biker and their carbon fiber bikes remains baked into most Americans who believe that they are guaranteed an Escalade and 70 mph highways free from sweating, panting, helmet-wearing cyclists.<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">&nbsp;</span>\r\n\r\nEven in New York there are fights over new bike trails that remove parking spaces from the City’s inventory.\r\n\r\nOpposition to the Bay Street connector initially focused on the placement of a bike path along the bluff overlooking the Beaufort River. There were residents who believed that the loss of parking (along the bluff) was fatal. (Mayor Keyserling for his part favors a route along King or North Streets — away from the magnificent view that one acquires when one travels down Bay.)<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">&nbsp;</span>\r\n\r\nOther residents were concerned that the bike path will make access to their Bay Street properties more difficult. Opposition in the social media has slowed-down the pathway placement, but Moss is indefatigable and will soon present options. But finding consensus will be difficult.\r\n\r\nPort Royal is a little different . Apparently the developers, Gray Ghost, have decided where to locate the spine road (and the Trail) running from Ribaut Road to the redeveloped port.<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">&nbsp;</span>\r\n\r\nBut the lingering problem here may be the creation of a new intersection and getting SCDOT to sign off on that intersection.\r\n\r\nDean Moss has spent the biggest part of his retirement trying to bring safe bicycle transportation to Beaufort. He has found allies and money in unusual places.<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">&nbsp;</span>\r\n\r\nAnd almost everyone believes that getting people out of their SUVs and onto bicycles is a good thing.<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">&nbsp;</span>\r\n\r\nBut his fight to find connectivity, and overcome notions about priority, continue.', 'Retirement hasn’t ended bicycle battle for Dean Moss', '', 'publish', 'closed', 'closed', '', 'retirement-hasnt-ended-bicycle-battle-for-dean-moss', '', '', '2019-10-23 08:23:12', '2019-10-23 12:23:12', '', 0, 'https://staging.yourislandnews.com/?p=42077', 0, 'post', '', 0),
(42086, 4, '2019-10-23 10:01:48', '2019-10-23 14:01:48', 'By CELIA STRONG\r\n\r\nhoosing wines for the holiday season is an annual chore.<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">&nbsp;</span>\r\n\r\nHow many bottles? What price? Red or white? Or rosé? Or bubbles?<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">&nbsp;</span>\r\n\r\nPart of the difficulty is there is no one wine that is perfect. Of course something that will go well with each meal, but also something that will be liked and enjoyed.<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">&nbsp;</span>\r\n\r\nOver the years, it seems categories of suitable wines are easier to discuss and study and, maybe taste, ahead of time. Specific wines are more of a personal choice. Considering holiday dinners are personal events.\r\n\r\nTorrontés (tore-ron-tez) wines are a more than suitable choice. They aren’t usual everyday choices so they stand out as special for the holidays. They are delicious on their own, but pair well with turkey, in particular. As well as multiple other foods. And, they are well-priced and deliver value for that price.\r\n\r\nTorrontés is white wine that is all but synonymous with Argentina.<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">&nbsp;</span>\r\n\r\nOver the past several years, studies of this variety have found that what are made as Torrontés wines actually come from several different grape varieties connected to this name. The three most significant are Torrontés Sanjuaino, Torrontés Mendocino and Torrontés Ruiojano.\r\n\r\nThe third is the most widely planted. Probably because it produces better wines. Duh? Torrontés wines’ styles ranges from lighter and fresher to heady, heavier and very perfumy.\r\n\r\nThe origins of Torrontés are a bit unsure. Most experts, though, still believe it is indigenous to Argentina. And it might have been crossed, in Argentina, with Muscat of Alexandria. It grows best in high-altitude vineyards with dry conditions. It has large berries with thick skins; it is susceptible to mildew; its wines from cooler climates retain their acidity.<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">&nbsp;</span>\r\n\r\nSince 2012, it is the second-most planted white variety in Argentina. More than 25,000 acres of vines. Very small amounts of Torrontés are also grown in the United States and Europe.\r\n\r\nTorrontés wines are aromatic. They are fruity, but dry, light to medium bodied, depending partly on where the grapes are grown, have good acidity, and moderate alcohol levels.<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">&nbsp;</span>\r\n\r\nThey have aromas and flavors that include Meyer lemons, peaches, lemon zest, rose petals, geraniums, perfumes and spices like cinnamon, cardamom, white pepper. Their are great matches for curries, coconut flavored dishes, Thai spicey peanut dishes, and, of course, roasted and fried turkey.\r\n\r\nTerrazas de Los Andes Reserva is a good example of what a Torrontés wine can be. Terrazas is a winery located in the Luján de Cuyo area of the Mendoza region of Argentina, founded in 1996 as part of Moët-Hennessy. They refurbished an old winery, from 1898, planted vineyards, and did more soil analysis and electro-condutivity mapping than most of the vineyards in the country. Each grape variety, Malbec, Cabernet Sauvignon, Chardonnay and Torrontés is grown at specific elevations that are best for them.<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">&nbsp;</span>\r\n\r\nTerrazas Torrontés comes from vineyards in Cafayate in the more northern Salta region. Which means it is the more dry, clean, fresh style of this wine. (Torrontés wines from Mendoza grapes are fuller bodied. A different style is all, so consider them both.) Its aromas and flavors are many and complex. Beyond the basic lemon and peach notes, it also has blood orange, kumquat, green tea, Chinese five spice blend, basil and more. It is crisp but smooth on the palette.<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">&nbsp;</span>\r\n\r\nAnd perfect for the holidays. For $12.99. Enjoy.<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">&nbsp;</span>\r\n\r\n<i>Celia Strong works at Bill’s Liquor &amp; Fine Wines on Lady’s Island.</i>', 'Torrontés are a great choice for the holidays', '', 'publish', 'closed', 'closed', '', 'torrontes-are-a-great-choice-for-the-holidays', '', '', '2019-10-23 10:01:48', '2019-10-23 14:01:48', '', 0, 'https://staging.yourislandnews.com/?p=42086', 0, 'post', '', 0);
