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(39996, 4, '2019-05-16 11:09:30', '2019-05-16 15:09:30', '<!-- wp:paragraph -->\n<p>Lowcountry residents Dick Bradbury, John Tashjian, Joseph Trapani and William VanDerBeek have been named to The Beaufort Memorial Hospital Foundation, the fundraising arm of the non-profit community hospital.&nbsp;</p>\n<!-- /wp:paragraph -->\n\n<!-- wp:paragraph -->\n<p>Each of the four new members brings years of experience serving in executive positions in their respective professional fields, as well as civic and charitable boards.&nbsp;</p>\n<!-- /wp:paragraph -->\n\n<!-- wp:paragraph -->\n<p>A graduate of Colorado College, Bradbury began his corporate career with Illinois Tool Works after serving three years as a U.S. Army infantry officer.&nbsp;</p>\n<!-- /wp:paragraph -->\n\n<!-- wp:paragraph -->\n<p>He earned his MBA from Northwestern University while working full time. He joined United Dominion Industries in 1981 as vice president of sales, working his way up to division president and senior vice president of operations. He retired in 2001 to pursue part-time consulting and property development investments.&nbsp;</p>\n<!-- /wp:paragraph -->\n\n<!-- wp:paragraph -->\n<p>Over the years, he has served on several boards, including a North Carolina family foundation and a home for children, and committees at First Presbyterian Church of Beaufort.&nbsp;</p>\n<!-- /wp:paragraph -->\n\n<!-- wp:paragraph -->\n<p>Tashjian is a founder and principal of Centurion Real Estate Partners, an owner and developer of office and luxury residential condominium properties in New York and Los Angeles. Prior to forming Centurion in 2003, he was a senior vice president at USB, specializing in real estate investment banking and principal investment transactions.&nbsp;</p>\n<!-- /wp:paragraph -->\n\n<!-- wp:paragraph -->\n<p>A graduate of Babson College in Massachusetts, Tashjian sits on the board of the Centurion Foundation, a charitable organization that supports the NYPD and other law enforcement agencies throughout the U.S.&nbsp;</p>\n<!-- /wp:paragraph -->\n\n<!-- wp:paragraph -->\n<p>Trapani is a graduate of New Jersey’s Fairleigh Dickinson University where he earned his B.A. and M.A. in International Relations/Finance. He went on to earn a certificate in Business Management/Finance from Northwestern University’s Kellogg Graduate School of Business.&nbsp;</p>\n<!-- /wp:paragraph -->\n\n<!-- wp:paragraph -->\n<p>Most recently he served as executive vice president of Hart Schaffner Marx, one of the largest manufacturers of men’s suits in the world. He currently serves as vice president of the board of directors for Oldfield Club.&nbsp;</p>\n<!-- /wp:paragraph -->\n\n<!-- wp:paragraph -->\n<p>VanDerBeek is a retired police chief with more than 30 years of experience in law enforcement. He was a certified police instructor with the New Jersey State Police Training Commission and served as an adjunct professor of Criminal Justice at Mercy College in New York.</p>\n<!-- /wp:paragraph -->\n\n<!-- wp:paragraph -->\n<p>A U.S. Air Force veteran, VanDerBeek graduated from Mercy College with a B.S. in Criminal Justice and Behavioral Science and earned his master’s in Education and Management from Seton Hall University in New Jersey. He has served on numerous boards and committees, including the Bergen County Municipal Alliance Program and the Child and Family Agency of Southeastern Connecticut.&nbsp;</p>\n<!-- /wp:paragraph -->\n\n<!-- wp:paragraph -->\n<p>The Beaufort Memorial Board of Trustees is led by chair Sara Dyson, vice chair Hampton Long and secretary Tony Britton. Bradbury was elected to serve as treasurer.</p>\n<!-- /wp:paragraph -->\n\n<!-- wp:paragraph -->\n<p>Other members of the 15-member board include Andrea Allen, Dan Barton, Laura Beall, Hugh Gouldthorpe, Marjorie Gray, Tei Tober, Robert Trask and David House, who also serves as chair of the Beaufort Memorial Hospital Board of Trustees.&nbsp;<br></p>\n<!-- /wp:paragraph -->', 'Beaufort Memorial Hospital Foundation board elects new officers', '', 'publish', 'closed', 'closed', '', 'beaufort-memorial-hospital-foundation-board-elects-new-officers', '', '', '2019-05-16 11:09:33', '2019-05-16 15:09:33', '', 0, 'https://staging.yourislandnews.com/?p=39996', 0, 'post', '', 0),
(39998, 4, '2019-05-16 11:12:15', '2019-05-16 15:12:15', '<!-- wp:heading {\"level\":4} -->\n<h4>By LAURA KAPONER</h4>\n<!-- /wp:heading -->\n\n<!-- wp:paragraph -->\n<p>For me, I think one of the most damaging things those around me can do is belittle my food addiction, not hold it on the same level of severity as any other addiction.&nbsp;</p>\n<!-- /wp:paragraph -->\n\n<!-- wp:paragraph -->\n<p>The other equally detrimental action is fat shaming. <br> </p>\n<!-- /wp:paragraph -->\n\n<!-- wp:paragraph -->\n<p>The cycle of addiction goes like this: use my addiction as a coping mechanism for any trigger or stress that I’m experiencing, then feel a deep guilt and shame about giving into my addiction thus creating another circumstance where I feel the need to self soothe and once again give into my addiction. <br></p>\n<!-- /wp:paragraph -->\n\n<!-- wp:paragraph -->\n<p>For most of my life I have struggled with maintaining a healthy weight and for just as long those around me have taken advantage of my insecurity by outwardly harassing me about it. </p>\n<!-- /wp:paragraph -->\n\n<!-- wp:paragraph -->\n<p>Harassing is the act of disturbing, pestering or troubling repetitively. I believed I was unworthy, ugly and a horrible person for being overweight; even more so because of the behavior that led to me being overweight.&nbsp;</p>\n<!-- /wp:paragraph -->\n\n<!-- wp:paragraph -->\n<p>A key component in Binge Eating Disorder according the DSM V is the deep sense of guilt and shame felt during and after each episode. </p>\n<!-- /wp:paragraph -->\n\n<!-- wp:paragraph -->\n<p>On the other hand, normalizing my behavior allowed me to delude myself into believing I, in fact, did not have a problem. I convinced myself for nearly a year that I just enjoyed treating myself to fun food, and there was no harm in that. </p>\n<!-- /wp:paragraph -->\n\n<!-- wp:paragraph -->\n<p>Everyone else was doing it, so why couldn’t I do it too?&nbsp;</p>\n<!-- /wp:paragraph -->\n\n<!-- wp:paragraph -->\n<p>The weight gain, heart burn, acid reflux and crippling pain I felt was also normalized by those around me. It’s real easy to live a lie when those around you actively contribute to it.&nbsp;</p>\n<!-- /wp:paragraph -->\n\n<!-- wp:paragraph -->\n<p>The reality is that not everyone else was doing it, at least not to the level I was.<br></p>\n<!-- /wp:paragraph -->\n\n<!-- wp:paragraph -->\n<p>Binge Eating, along with any addiction, is not healthy and needs intervention. The hardest part for me was admitting I had relapsed in my addiction and couldn’t deal with it on my own. </p>\n<!-- /wp:paragraph -->\n\n<!-- wp:paragraph -->\n<p>For me, I addressed my addiction in therapy, with friends and family and the community at large. Not only did this give me accountability for my actions, but it gave me relief to know I had others who would help me get through this.</p>\n<!-- /wp:paragraph -->\n\n<!-- wp:paragraph -->\n<p>I examined the events in my life that led to my relapse and ways I could better handle them in the future. </p>\n<!-- /wp:paragraph -->\n\n<!-- wp:paragraph -->\n<p>To avoid a drug for the rest of your life is a possibility. To avoid food is not.&nbsp;</p>\n<!-- /wp:paragraph -->\n\n<!-- wp:paragraph -->\n<p>But I could not be on a structured nutrition program forever and I couldn’t avoid every social event with food either. While I can’t avoid every single trigger I may face, I can formulate a plan for those I know about ahead of time. <br></p>\n<!-- /wp:paragraph -->\n\n<!-- wp:paragraph -->\n<p>My recovery will be one day, one meal, one food choice at a time. I would need to be patient with myself and the process, as it wasn’t going to be easy.<br></p>\n<!-- /wp:paragraph -->', 'The reality of food addictions, Part II', '', 'publish', 'closed', 'closed', '', 'the-reality-of-food-addictions-part-ii', '', '', '2019-05-16 11:12:18', '2019-05-16 15:12:18', '', 0, 'https://staging.yourislandnews.com/?p=39998', 0, 'post', '', 0),
(40000, 4, '2019-05-16 11:14:51', '2019-05-16 15:14:51', '<!-- wp:paragraph -->\n<p>Turning its plan to expand medical services south of the Broad into action, Beaufort Memorial broke ground earlier this week on its new medical office building at Okatie Crossing in Okatie.&nbsp;&nbsp;</p>\n<!-- /wp:paragraph -->\n\n<!-- wp:paragraph -->\n<p>The 70,000-square-foot, three-story medical office building will stand on a 19-acre parcel owned by the hospital. It will offer residents of southern Beaufort and Jasper counties access to a variety of medical services and specialties.&nbsp;</p>\n<!-- /wp:paragraph -->\n\n<!-- wp:paragraph -->\n<p>Besides full-time primary care, OB-GYN, orthopaedics and urgent care practices and regularly scheduled clinics for specialists in cardiology, gastroenterology, general surgery, vascular surgery and neurology, the building will include Beaufort Memorial’s second full-service cancer center. A partnership with MUSC Health and Alliance Oncology, the cancer center will provide radiation oncology, medical oncology, chemotherapy and infusion services.&nbsp;</p>\n<!-- /wp:paragraph -->\n\n<!-- wp:paragraph -->\n<p>In addition, the medical office building will house a breast health center, outpatient rehabilitation and laboratory and imaging services. Subspecialists from MUSC Health will provide in-person and telemedicine consultations there as well.</p>\n<!-- /wp:paragraph -->\n\n<!-- wp:paragraph -->\n<p>“As the county’s hospital we are committed to our mission to improve the health of the community, and that includes our patients in southern Beaufort and Jasper counties,” said BMH CEO Russell Baxley. “We are excited to break ground for our medical office building in Okatie and to expand medical services for all area residents.”</p>\n<!-- /wp:paragraph -->\n\n<!-- wp:paragraph -->\n<p>The building, which will replace Beaufort Memorial’s existing multispecialty offices in Westbury Park, is the first of three facilities the hospital plans to develop in the greater Bluffton and Okatie areas. It has received state approval for a 20-bed micro hospital—the first in the state—near the corner of Buckwalter and Bluffton parkways, with completion expected in 2021. This fall it will open a combined express care, occupational health and primary care practice off U.S. 278 at 1 Burnt Church Road.</p>\n<!-- /wp:paragraph -->\n\n<!-- wp:paragraph -->\n<p>The medical office building is scheduled to open in late 2020. Hammes Company will manage the project, whose team also comprises Novus Architects and M.B. Kahn Construction.</p>\n<!-- /wp:paragraph -->', 'Beaufort Memorial breaks ground on new building in Okatie', '', 'publish', 'closed', 'closed', '', 'beaufort-memorial-breaks-ground-on-new-building-in-okatie', '', '', '2019-05-16 11:14:54', '2019-05-16 15:14:54', '', 0, 'https://staging.yourislandnews.com/?p=40000', 0, 'post', '', 0),
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(40003, 4, '2019-05-16 11:19:50', '2019-05-16 15:19:50', '<!-- wp:paragraph -->\n<p><strong>C</strong>For most investors, the key to success is simple: Buy low and sell high. But how often have you seen this scenario played out? (You may have done it yourself.)</p>\n<!-- /wp:paragraph -->\n\n<!-- wp:list -->\n<ul><li>When the market is up, an investor feels good and buys stocks.</li><li>When the market is down, that same investor gets scared and sells.</li></ul>\n<!-- /wp:list -->\n\n<!-- wp:paragraph -->\n<p>Although reacting like this may feel instinctively right at the time, buying high and selling low is unlikely to result in a profit.&nbsp;</p>\n<!-- /wp:paragraph -->\n\n<!-- wp:paragraph -->\n<p>Why do investors do this? The reason may have a lot to do with us making investment choices the same way we do many important decisions: using both our heads and our hearts (i.e., logic and emotion). When there’s market volatility – including both market highs and market lows – our emotions tend to take over and we may make illogical choices going against our best interests.</p>\n<!-- /wp:paragraph -->\n\n<!-- wp:paragraph -->\n<p>Rather than falling victim to the potential perils of emotional investing, you may want to be completely logical: get into the market when it’s down and out when it’s up. This is known as “market timing.” While this approach sounds rational, the problem is it’s extremely difficult, even for experienced investors, to do consistently. There’s an old saying: “No one rings a bell” when the market reaches the top of a peak or the bottom of a trough. Translated, that means anyone attempting to time the market finds it difficult to know exactly when to make their move.</p>\n<!-- /wp:paragraph -->\n\n<!-- wp:paragraph -->\n<p>For example, if you think the market has reached a peak and get out and then share prices keep rising, you’ll miss out on the additional profits you could have made by waiting. And after you get out, how do you know when to get back in? If you act too quickly, you’ll forego better bargains as prices continue to fall. If you wait too long, you may sacrifice the chance to fully benefit from a market rally.</p>\n<!-- /wp:paragraph -->\n\n<!-- wp:paragraph -->\n<p><strong>Give dollar cost averaging a look</strong></p>\n<!-- /wp:paragraph -->\n\n<!-- wp:paragraph -->\n<p>To avoid the potential problems of emotional investing and market timing, consider a strategy called “dollar cost averaging.”</p>\n<!-- /wp:paragraph -->\n\n<!-- wp:paragraph -->\n<p>Dollar cost averaging is the practice of putting a set amount into a particular investment on a regular basis (weekly, monthly, quarterly, etc.) no matter what’s going on in the market. For example, you could invest $500 each month. In a fluctuating market, this practice lets you purchase:</p>\n<!-- /wp:paragraph -->\n\n<!-- wp:list -->\n<ul><li>Additional shares at a bargain when prices are low</li><li>Fewer expensive shares when prices increase&nbsp;</li></ul>\n<!-- /wp:list -->\n\n<!-- wp:paragraph -->\n<p>As shown in the table below, if the price is $24 per share, you’d buy 20.83 shares (keep in mind mutual funds let you purchase fractional shares). If it rises to $30, you would buy only 16.67 shares.</p>\n<!-- /wp:paragraph -->\n\n<!-- wp:table -->\n<table class=\"wp-block-table\"><tbody><tr><td><strong>Using dollar cost averaging in a fluctuating market</strong>Investing $500 per month over one year</td></tr><tr><td><strong>Month</strong></td><td><strong>Price per share</strong></td><td><strong>Shares purchased</strong></td></tr><tr><td>January</td><td>$24</td><td>20.83</td></tr><tr><td>February</td><td>$25</td><td>20.00</td></tr><tr><td>March</td><td>$28</td><td>17.86</td></tr><tr><td>April</td><td>$30</td><td>16.67</td></tr><tr><td>May</td><td>$27</td><td>18.52</td></tr><tr><td>June</td><td>$22</td><td>22.73</td></tr><tr><td>July</td><td>$24</td><td>20.83</td></tr><tr><td>August</td><td>$27</td><td>18.52</td></tr><tr><td>September</td><td>$26</td><td>19.23</td></tr><tr><td>October</td><td>$29</td><td>17.24</td></tr><tr><td>November</td><td>$28</td><td>17.86</td></tr><tr><td>December</td><td>$27</td><td>18.52</td></tr><tr><td>This example is hypothetical and for illustrative purposes only.</td></tr></tbody></table>\n<!-- /wp:table -->\n\n<!-- wp:paragraph -->\n<p>In a fluctuating market, dollar cost averaging will result in an average cost per share that’s less than the average market price per share. The average market price per share in the table (the sum of the market prices [$317] divided by the number of purchases [12]) is $26.42. However, the average price per share (the total invested [$6,000] divided by the number of shares purchased [228.81]) is only $26.22.</p>\n<!-- /wp:paragraph -->\n\n<!-- wp:paragraph -->\n<p>While you’re mulling dollar cost averaging’s potential merits, consider this: You may well be using the strategy already. If you participate in an employer-sponsored retirement plan, such as a 401(k) or 403(b), and contribute the same amount each payday, you’re using dollar cost averaging.<strong><br></strong></p>\n<!-- /wp:paragraph -->\n\n<!-- wp:paragraph -->\n<p><strong>Get help for when the going gets tough</strong></p>\n<!-- /wp:paragraph -->\n\n<!-- wp:paragraph -->\n<p>One of the dollar cost averaging’s challenges is you have to stick with the strategy even when the market declines, and that can be difficult (see our previous discussion about emotional investing). However, during times like these, dollar cost averaging can be most useful by letting you purchase shares at bargain prices.&nbsp;</p>\n<!-- /wp:paragraph -->\n\n<!-- wp:paragraph -->\n<p>Because dollar cost averaging can be simultaneously more difficult and advantageous when the going gets toughest, consider turning to a professional financial advisor for help. He or she should offer a voice a reason during these periods as you grapple with whether to adhere to the strategy.</p>\n<!-- /wp:paragraph -->\n\n<!-- wp:paragraph -->\n<p><em>Like any investment strategy, dollar cost averaging doesn’t guarantee a profit or protect against loss in a declining market. Because dollar cost averaging requires continuous investment regardless of fluctuating prices, you should consider your financial and emotional ability to continue the program through both rising and declining markets.</em></p>\n<!-- /wp:paragraph -->\n\n<!-- wp:paragraph -->\n<p><br>This article was written by/for Wells Fargo Advisors and provided courtesy of Whitney McDaniel, CFP®, Associate Vice President - Investments at 843-524-1114.  Any third-party posts, reviews or comments associated with this listing are not endorsed by Wells Fargo Advisors and do not necessarily represent the views of Whitney McDaniel or Wells Fargo Advisors and have not been reviewed by the Firm for completeness or accuracy. </p>\n<!-- /wp:paragraph -->\n\n<!-- wp:paragraph -->\n<p><em>Investments in securities and insurance products are: NOT FDIC-INSURED/NOT BANK-GUARANTEED/MAY LOSE VALUE</em></p>\n<!-- /wp:paragraph -->\n\n<!-- wp:paragraph -->\n<p><em>Wells Fargo Advisors is a trade name used by Wells Fargo Clearing Services, LLC, Member SIPC, a registered broker-dealer and non-bank affiliate of Wells Fargo &amp; Company.</em></p>\n<!-- /wp:paragraph -->\n\n<!-- wp:paragraph -->\n<p>© 2018 Wells Fargo Clearing Services, LLC. All rights reserved.&nbsp;</p>\n<!-- /wp:paragraph -->', 'Consider a Simple Investment Strategy to Help Reduce Guesswork', '', 'publish', 'closed', 'closed', '', 'consider-a-simple-investment-strategy-to-help-reduce-guesswork', '', '', '2019-05-16 11:19:52', '2019-05-16 15:19:52', '', 0, 'https://staging.yourislandnews.com/?p=40003', 0, 'post', '', 0),
(40005, 4, '2019-05-16 11:21:16', '2019-05-16 15:21:16', '<!-- wp:paragraph -->\n<p><strong>Bus Stop coming to AmVets</strong></p>\n<!-- /wp:paragraph -->\n\n<!-- wp:paragraph -->\n<p>Coastal Stage Productions is bringing its production of Bus Stop to AmVets on 1831 Ribaut Road in Port Royal.</p>\n<!-- /wp:paragraph -->\n\n<!-- wp:paragraph -->\n<p>The group will hold evening performances at 8 p.m. May 24, 25, 31 and June 1, as well as 2 p.m. Sunday matinees May 26 and June 2.</p>\n<!-- /wp:paragraph -->\n\n<!-- wp:paragraph -->\n<p>Advanced reserved seats are $25, while groups of 10 or more get reserved seats at $22. Student seats are $15. Tickets at the door are $27.</p>\n<!-- /wp:paragraph -->\n\n<!-- wp:paragraph -->\n<p>Tickets are available by calling the local box office at 843-717-2175 or buying online at <a href=\"https://busstopportroyal.bpt.me/\">https://busstopportroyal.bpt.me/</a>.</p>\n<!-- /wp:paragraph -->\n\n<!-- wp:paragraph -->\n<p>Reserved seats are $5 off for the May 25 show if you use the code SAVE5 at CoastalStage.com.</p>\n<!-- /wp:paragraph -->\n\n<!-- wp:paragraph -->\n<p><strong>Lowcountry Chorale’s spring concert is ‘A Night At The Drive-in’</strong></p>\n<!-- /wp:paragraph -->\n\n<!-- wp:paragraph -->\n<p>The Lowcountry Chorale announced its upcoming spring concert “A Night At The Drive-in,” which will be held at 7 p.m. Friday, May 17 and 3 p.m. May 18 at St. John’s Lutheran Church on Lady’s Island.</p>\n<!-- /wp:paragraph -->\n\n<!-- wp:paragraph -->\n<p>Music director Jordan Norris Plair and accompanist Gloria Bockelman will lead the Chorale through songs from movies we used to watch at drive-in theaters, including a complimentary bag of popcorn.</p>\n<!-- /wp:paragraph -->\n\n<!-- wp:paragraph -->\n<p>The Lowcountry Chorale is comprised of local area singers who love music and singing.</p>\n<!-- /wp:paragraph -->\n\n<!-- wp:paragraph -->\n<p>Admission is free, but donations are accepted. For more information, call Marsha Oakes at 207-323-1498.</p>\n<!-- /wp:paragraph -->\n\n<!-- wp:paragraph -->\n<p><strong>Auditions set for Spamalot</strong></p>\n<!-- /wp:paragraph -->\n\n<!-- wp:paragraph -->\n<p>USC Beaufort’s Center For The Arts and the Beaufort Theater Company announce auditions for “Monty Python’s Spamalot, a new musical lovingly ripped off from the motion picture Monty Python and the Holy Grail.”</p>\n<!-- /wp:paragraph -->\n\n<!-- wp:paragraph -->\n<p>The “Spamalot” auditions will be held at 6:30 p.m. Monday May 21 and Tuesday, May 22 at the USCB Center For The Arts at 801 Carteret Street. The cast calls for six male singers, seven female singers and a chorus. There are several non-singing roles available, as well.</p>\n<!-- /wp:paragraph -->\n\n<!-- wp:paragraph -->\n<p>Auditioners should bring a non-returnable photo of themselves and prepare a portion of a showtune that best showcases their voice. Bring tracks or be prepared to sing a-capella.</p>\n<!-- /wp:paragraph -->\n\n<!-- wp:paragraph -->\n<p>Arrive 15 minutes early to complete paperwork and pick up sides to read for audition. Wear comfortable clothes and shoes you can dance in. No sandals.</p>\n<!-- /wp:paragraph -->\n\n<!-- wp:paragraph -->\n<p>The process includes a musical audition, a short dance number and then reading preselected parts of the script.</p>\n<!-- /wp:paragraph -->\n\n<!-- wp:paragraph -->\n<p>“Spamalot” will be performed Sept. 21, 22 and 27-29.</p>\n<!-- /wp:paragraph -->\n\n<!-- wp:paragraph -->\n<p><br>\n.<br></p>\n<!-- /wp:paragraph -->', 'Arts Briefs', '', 'publish', 'closed', 'closed', '', 'arts-briefs', '', '', '2019-05-16 11:21:18', '2019-05-16 15:21:18', '', 0, 'https://staging.yourislandnews.com/?p=40005', 0, 'post', '', 0),
(40007, 4, '2019-05-16 11:22:51', '2019-05-16 15:22:51', '<!-- wp:paragraph -->\n<p>The Pat Conroy Literary Center will host two free public events featuring visiting southern writers George Singleton and Roberts Hicks on Tuesday, May 28, and Thursday, May 30, respectively. The author events will begin at 5:30 p.m. and be held in the Conroy Center at 905 Port Republic Street, Beaufort.&nbsp;</p>\n<!-- /wp:paragraph -->\n\n<!-- wp:paragraph -->\n<p>Books will be available for sale and signing.&nbsp;</p>\n<!-- /wp:paragraph -->\n\n<!-- wp:paragraph -->\n<p>Singleton has published seven collections of stories (most recently Staff Picks), two novels, and a book of writing advice. More than 200 of his stories have appeared in magazines such as the Atlantic Monthly, Harper’s, Playboy, the Georgia Review, the Southern Review, the Cincinnati Review, and elsewhere.&nbsp;</p>\n<!-- /wp:paragraph -->\n\n<!-- wp:paragraph -->\n<p>A 2010 Inductee to the S.C. Academy of Authors, he is also the recipient of a Pushcart Prize, a Guggenheim fellowship, the Hillsdale Award from the Fellowship of Southern Writers, and the Corrington Award for Literary Excellence. Singleton lives in Spartanburg, where he holds the John C. Cobb Chair in Humanities at Wofford College.</p>\n<!-- /wp:paragraph -->\n\n<!-- wp:paragraph -->\n<p>Staff Picks provides a loosely linked baker’s dozen of stories set in small, often-floundering towns.In turns both comic and tragic, Singleton shows characters trying to make sense out of the Old South, the New South, and the New New South in all their ragged glory.</p>\n<!-- /wp:paragraph -->\n\n<!-- wp:paragraph -->\n<p>Hicks is the New York Times best-selling author of the historical novels The Widow of the South, The Orphan Mother, and A Separate Country. Blues legend B.B. King gave Hicks his favorite title: “Curator of Vibe.”&nbsp;</p>\n<!-- /wp:paragraph -->\n\n<!-- wp:paragraph -->\n<p>Named No. 2 in the most recent listing of the top 100 Reasons to Love Nashville by Nashville Lifestyles magazine, Hicks was described as Nashville’s “Master of Ceremonies.” A lifelong collector, Hicks was the first Tennessean to be listed among Arts &amp; Antiques’ Top 100 Collectors in America—his collection focuses on outsider art and southern material culture.&nbsp;</p>\n<!-- /wp:paragraph -->\n\n<!-- wp:paragraph -->\n<p>He served as curator on the exhibition, Art of Tennessee, at the Frist Center for the Visual Arts in Nashville. Hicks is founding chairman of Franklin’s Charge: A Vision and Campaign for the Preservation of Historic Open Space in the fight to secure and preserve the historic battlefield in Williamson County. <br> <br>In December 2005, the Nashville Tennessean named him Tennessean of the Year for the impact his best-selling novel The Widow of the South has had on Tennessee heritage tourism and preservation. </p>\n<!-- /wp:paragraph -->\n\n<!-- wp:paragraph -->\n<p>In the October 2014, he introduced his Battlefield Bourbon, a very small batch, Tennessee-made, aged and hand-bottled bourbon whiskey. With this, the Tennessean gave Hicks his other favorite title: “Whiskey Preservationist.” He is also the host of the annual Seriously Seersucker, the largest seersucker party in the world.<br>\nSingleton and Hicks will each appear on Season 2 of SCETV’s By The River author interview program, which films in Beaufort.&nbsp;</p>\n<!-- /wp:paragraph -->\n\n<!-- wp:paragraph -->\n<p>The Conroy Center is located at 905 Port Republic Street in Beaufort and is open to the public from noon to 4 p.m. Thursdays through Sundays. To learn more about the educational programs offered through the Conroy Center, please visit www.patconroyliterarycenter.org.<br></p>\n<!-- /wp:paragraph -->', 'Conroy Center to host readings by two southern authors', '', 'publish', 'closed', 'closed', '', 'conroy-center-to-host-readings-by-two-southern-authors', '', '', '2019-05-16 11:22:54', '2019-05-16 15:22:54', '', 0, 'https://staging.yourislandnews.com/?p=40007', 0, 'post', '', 0),
(40009, 4, '2019-05-16 11:26:30', '2019-05-16 15:26:30', '<!-- wp:paragraph -->\n<p>The Beaufort History Museum’s fifth-annual Tea, “Pearls of Wisdom”, held May 7 at Dataw Island Club, was a resounding success, attracting 150 guests and raising funds to support the renovation of the museum’s exhibit hall.</p>\n<!-- /wp:paragraph -->\n\n<!-- wp:paragraph -->\n<p>Patrons of the event, the organization’s principal fundraiser, sipped tea, savored delicious traditional tea delicacies, met authors, had books signed, bid on auction items and listened to speakers who described their heritage and topics from their books.&nbsp;</p>\n<!-- /wp:paragraph -->\n\n<!-- wp:paragraph -->\n<p>Author Kristy Woodson Harvey used the occasion to unveil her latest book The Southern Side of Paradise. Local writer and featured speaker Patricia Bee (Mama’s Pearls) was on hand to sign books.</p>\n<!-- /wp:paragraph -->\n\n<!-- wp:paragraph -->\n<p>The Museum also recognized Mary Rivers Legree, information specialist at the Beaufort Visitor’s Center, recipient of the S.C. Hospitality Employee of the Year Award, and Scott Teodorski, Supervisor of the National Park Services Reconstruction Era National Park in Beaufort.</p>\n<!-- /wp:paragraph -->\n\n<!-- wp:paragraph -->\n<p>Larry Koolkin, co-chairman of the Museum’s Exhibit Committee, said that funds raised at the Tea would help toward paying the $200,000 price tag for completing the new exhibit hall and the ongoing need for sponsors and supporters.</p>\n<!-- /wp:paragraph -->\n\n<!-- wp:paragraph -->\n<p>The Tea Committee comprised co-chairs Stuart Heath and Carla Marsh, Carol Lauvray, Kathy Mixon, Larry Koolkin, Jeff Kidd and Steve Guida.&nbsp;</p>\n<!-- /wp:paragraph -->\n\n<!-- wp:paragraph -->\n<p>Sponsors included Modern Jewelers, Merrill Lynch Bank of America Corporation, The Clark-Troutman Group Wealth Management, Lady’s Island Oyster Company, Fernwell Florals, Hairplay, Bay Street Outfitters, Eat Local (Hearth Wood Fired Pizza, Plum’s and Saltus River Grill restaurants), Hand and Tanner, Rossignol’s, MacDonald’s Marketplace, Kilwins, and Seaside Grown Bloody Mary Mix.</p>\n<!-- /wp:paragraph -->\n\n<!-- wp:paragraph -->\n<p>Beaufort History Museum has evolved to focus specifically on the history of the Beaufort District. It strives to manage and display artifacts and documents held by the City of Beaufort, telling the compelling stories of this area from the early 16th Century to the modern era.&nbsp;</p>\n<!-- /wp:paragraph -->\n\n<!-- wp:paragraph -->\n<p>The Museum’s hours of operation are 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. Monday through Saturday. Docents are on duty to provide information and conduct tours. Admission is $7 per visitor ($6 for Seniors). Children and active military are admitted free of charge.</p>\n<!-- /wp:paragraph -->\n\n<!-- wp:paragraph -->\n<p>Please visit <a href=\"http://www.beauforthistorymuseum.com/\">www.beauforthistorymuseum.com</a> or BHM’s Facebook page for updates and news from the museum.<br></p>\n<!-- /wp:paragraph -->', 'Beaufort History Museum patrons savor “Pearls of Wisdom”', '', 'publish', 'closed', 'closed', '', 'beaufort-history-museum-patrons-savor-pearls-of-wisdom', '', '', '2019-05-16 11:26:33', '2019-05-16 15:26:33', '', 0, 'https://staging.yourislandnews.com/?p=40009', 0, 'post', '', 0),
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(40012, 4, '2019-05-16 11:29:23', '2019-05-16 15:29:23', '<!-- wp:heading {\"level\":4} -->\n<h4>By JANWEB LAGAZO</h4>\n<!-- /wp:heading -->\n\n<!-- wp:paragraph -->\n<p>Seaman Apprentice Jessica Seigler, a native of Beaufort, said her mother had served in the Navy and she always knew she would end up serving, too.</p>\n<!-- /wp:paragraph -->\n\n<!-- wp:paragraph -->\n<p>Now, a year after enlisting and half a world away from home, Seigler serves aboard the aircraft carrier USS Ronald Reagan, patrolling one of the world’s busiest maritime regions as part of the leading-edge of U.S. 7th Fleet. <br> “It\'s always busy, especially working down in the personnel office,” she said. “We see the most people on the ship.” <br></p>\n<!-- /wp:paragraph -->\n\n<!-- wp:paragraph -->\n<p>Seigler is a personnel specialist aboard the Yokosuka, Japan-based ship, the only forward-deployed aircraft carrier in the Navy.  “I\'m in charge of the command muster report,” she said. “We have to take account of the whole ship, and if something\'s wrong, then it\'s something we have to fix.” <br> </p>\n<!-- /wp:paragraph -->\n\n<!-- wp:paragraph -->\n<p>Seigler credits her success in the Navy to lessons she learned in Beaufort. <br> “Being nice to people takes you a long way,” she said. “My job requires me to talk to people all day, and paying attention to detail helps build a relationship of trust. I like handling people\'s documents like they’re my own.” <br> </p>\n<!-- /wp:paragraph -->\n\n<!-- wp:paragraph -->\n<p>U.S. 7th Fleet spans more than 124 million square kilometers, stretching from the International Date Line to the India/Pakistan border; and from the Kuril Islands in the North to the Antarctic in the South. U.S. 7th Fleet\'s area of operations encompasses 36 maritime countries and 50 percent of the world’s population with between 50 to 70 U.S. ships and submarines, 140 aircraft, and approximately 20,000 sailors. <br></p>\n<!-- /wp:paragraph -->\n\n<!-- wp:paragraph -->\n<p> “I\'m in Japan,” Seigler said. “Not many people get to be paid to come to Japan.” <br></p>\n<!-- /wp:paragraph -->\n\n<!-- wp:paragraph -->\n<p> With more than 50 percent of the world\'s shipping tonnage and a third of the world\'s crude oil passing through the region, the United States has historic and enduring interests in this part of the world. The Navy\'s presence in Yokosuka is part of that long-standing commitment, explained Navy officials. <br></p>\n<!-- /wp:paragraph -->\n\n<!-- wp:paragraph -->\n<p> \"The Navy is forward-deployed to provide security and strengthen relationships in a free and open Indo-Pacific. It\'s not just the ships and aircraft that have shown up to prevent conflict and promote peace,\" said Vice Adm. Phil Sawyer, commander, U.S. 7th Fleet. \"It is, and will continue to be our people who define the role our Navy plays around the world. People who\'ve made a choice, and have the will and strength of character to make a difference.\" <br> </p>\n<!-- /wp:paragraph -->\n\n<!-- wp:paragraph -->\n<p>Named in honor of former President Ronald Reagan, the carrier is longer than three football fields, measuring nearly 1,100 feet. The ship, a true floating city, weighs more than 100,000 tons and has a flight deck that is 252 feet wide. Two nuclear reactors can push the ship through the water at more than 35 mph. <br> </p>\n<!-- /wp:paragraph -->\n\n<!-- wp:paragraph -->\n<p>Sailors’ jobs are highly varied aboard the carrier. Approximately 3,200 men and women make up the ship\'s crew, which keeps all parts of the aircraft carrier running smoothly – this includes everything from handling weapons to operating nuclear reactors. Another 2,500 men and women form the air wing responsible for flying and maintaining more than 70 aircraft aboard the ship. <br></p>\n<!-- /wp:paragraph -->\n\n<!-- wp:paragraph -->\n<p> Ronald Reagan, like each of the Navy’s aircraft carriers, is designed for a 50-year service life. When the air wing is embarked, the ship carries more than 70 attack jets, helicopters and other aircraft, all of which take off from and land aboard the carrier at sea. <br></p>\n<!-- /wp:paragraph -->\n\n<!-- wp:paragraph -->\n<p> Serving in the Navy means Seigler is part of a world that is taking on new importance in America’s focus on rebuilding military readiness, strengthening alliances and reforming business practices in support of the National Defense Strategy. <br> </p>\n<!-- /wp:paragraph -->\n\n<!-- wp:paragraph -->\n<p>A key element of the Navy the nation needs is tied to the fact that America is a maritime nation, and that the nation’s prosperity is tied to the ability to operate freely on the world’s oceans. More than 70 percent of the Earth’s surface is covered by water; 80 percent of the world’s population lives close to a coast; and 90 percent of all global trade by volume travels by sea. <br> </p>\n<!-- /wp:paragraph -->\n\n<!-- wp:paragraph -->\n<p>“Our priorities center on people, capabilities and processes, and will be achieved by our focus on speed, value, results and partnerships,” said Secretary of the Navy Richard V. Spencer. “Readiness, lethality and modernization are the requirements driving these priorities.” <br> </p>\n<!-- /wp:paragraph -->\n\n<!-- wp:paragraph -->\n<p>There are many ways for sailors to earn distinction in their command, community, and career. For now, Seigler is most proud of having simply joined up. <br></p>\n<!-- /wp:paragraph -->\n\n<!-- wp:paragraph -->\n<p> “I feel like joining the Navy gave me a sense of purpose to accomplish more,” she said. <br> </p>\n<!-- /wp:paragraph -->\n\n<!-- wp:paragraph -->\n<p>As a member of one of the U.S. Navy’s most relied upon assets, Seigler and other sailors know they are part of a legacy that will last beyond their lifetimes contributing to the Navy the nation needs. <br> </p>\n<!-- /wp:paragraph -->\n\n<!-- wp:paragraph -->\n<p>“It\'s a big responsibility,” she said. “I feel responsible to my sailors on the ship. I have to take care of them.” <br></p>\n<!-- /wp:paragraph -->', 'Beaufort native riding the seas halfway around the world', '', 'publish', 'closed', 'closed', '', 'beaufort-native-riding-the-seas-halfway-around-the-world', '', '', '2019-05-16 11:29:26', '2019-05-16 15:29:26', '', 0, 'https://staging.yourislandnews.com/?p=40012', 0, 'post', '', 0),
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(40015, 4, '2019-05-16 11:31:07', '2019-05-16 15:31:07', '<!-- wp:paragraph -->\n<p>Dataw Island members, this April, hosted “Master the Cure” Tournaments for their week-long series of cancer fundraising efforts, together raising an impressive $12,127.&nbsp;</p>\n<!-- /wp:paragraph -->\n\n<!-- wp:paragraph -->\n<p>The Battle for Life cancer fundraiser is a volunteer-driven event that has become an institution on the Island. Spearheaded by the Dataw Island Women’s Golf Association (DIWGA), the event began in 2002, and now in its 17th year includes around 300 Dataw members each year who are dedicated to supporting the Beaufort Memorial Hospital Foundation and the Keyserling Cancer Center.&nbsp;</p>\n<!-- /wp:paragraph -->\n\n<!-- wp:paragraph -->\n<p>Dataw’s fundraising events consisted of a golf tournament with a raffle, a memory wall featuring sponsored listings in honor of and in memory of loved ones, a round-robin tennis tournament, croquet and a “Margaritaville” style pickleball tournament.&nbsp;</p>\n<!-- /wp:paragraph -->\n\n<!-- wp:paragraph -->\n<p>Dataw member Susan Emons, this year’s chair of the Master the Cure events, says that she owes the success to Dataw members.&nbsp;</p>\n<!-- /wp:paragraph -->\n\n<!-- wp:paragraph -->\n<p>“This was my first fundraiser and this event was only successful because of the generosity and spirit of Dataw Members,” Emons said. “Over 156 sports enthusiasts participated and had a blast doing it.”&nbsp;</p>\n<!-- /wp:paragraph -->\n\n<!-- wp:paragraph -->\n<p>A portion of Dataws funds will be going to creating a manual for cancer patients to guide them through a tough journey.&nbsp;<br></p>\n<!-- /wp:paragraph -->', 'Dataw Island members raise money to fight cancer', '', 'publish', 'closed', 'closed', '', 'dataw-island-members-raise-money-to-fight-cancer', '', '', '2019-05-16 11:31:09', '2019-05-16 15:31:09', '', 0, 'https://staging.yourislandnews.com/?p=40015', 0, 'post', '', 0),
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(40021, 4, '2019-05-16 11:35:24', '2019-05-16 15:35:24', '<!-- wp:paragraph -->\n<p>The Beaufort Hustle AAU basketball program had a big weekend at the LowCountry Lightning May Madness tournament from May 3-5 in Charleston.&nbsp;</p>\n<!-- /wp:paragraph -->\n\n<!-- wp:paragraph -->\n<p>The Hustle claimed two team titles, as the high school boys team remained undefeated en route to a division title and the 10th-grade boys won their division.</p>\n<!-- /wp:paragraph -->\n\n<!-- wp:paragraph -->\n<p>Tournament MVP Davis Molloy led the high school boys with 22 points per game and hit the game-winner in the championship game as the team improved to 15-0 on the season.&nbsp;</p>\n<!-- /wp:paragraph -->\n\n<!-- wp:paragraph -->\n<p>David Smith (20 points per game) and Adam Clark (17 ppg) led the 10th-grade team to a division title with a win over the Carolina Bulldogs in the championship game.</p>\n<!-- /wp:paragraph -->\n\n<!-- wp:paragraph -->\n<p>The Hustle’s ninth-grade boys team led by Zyrin Odom (18 ppg) fell just short of the championship, losing by one point to the Hilton Head Hornets.&nbsp;</p>\n<!-- /wp:paragraph -->', 'Hustle takes two titles in Charleston', '', 'publish', 'closed', 'closed', '', 'hustle-takes-two-titles-in-charleston', '', '', '2019-05-16 11:35:26', '2019-05-16 15:35:26', '', 0, 'https://staging.yourislandnews.com/?p=40021', 0, 'post', '', 0),
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(40026, 4, '2019-05-16 11:41:08', '2019-05-16 15:41:08', '<!-- wp:heading {\"level\":4} -->\n<h4>Dolphins take opener of state championship series</h4>\n<!-- /wp:heading -->\n\n<!-- wp:paragraph -->\n<p>Battery Creek is one win away from claiming the school’s first softball state title after a 2-1 win at Union County in the opening game of the Class 3A state championship series Monday.</p>\n<!-- /wp:paragraph -->\n\n<!-- wp:paragraph -->\n<p>At press time, the Dolphins (21-8-1) were set to try to clinch the state title when they hosted the second game of the series Wednesday. If the series goes to a third game, it will be played Friday with the host team determined by a coin flip.</p>\n<!-- /wp:paragraph -->\n\n<!-- wp:paragraph -->\n<p>Mackenzie Young went 3-for-3 with a walk and an RBI for the Dolphins, who were able to scratch across single runs in the fourth and fifth innings and win the pitchers’ duel.&nbsp;</p>\n<!-- /wp:paragraph -->\n\n<!-- wp:paragraph -->\n<p>Alexis Ortiz continued her outstanding postseason, striking out eight and limiting Union County to one run and three hits.&nbsp;</p>\n<!-- /wp:paragraph -->\n\n<!-- wp:paragraph -->\n<p>Battery Creek broke a scoreless tie in the fourth, when Young delivered a two-out RBI single to plate Bailey Emmert. The Dolphins tagged on a run in the fifth, when Emily Crosby and Ortiz drew walks, then combined on a double-steal with Crosby swiping home.</p>\n<!-- /wp:paragraph -->\n\n<!-- wp:paragraph -->\n<p>The Yellowjackets broke through for a run in the bottom of the fifth and had the tying run at first with one out before Ortiz got out of the jam. Ortiz worked around a leadoff walk in the sixth and retired the side in order in the seventh to seal the win.</p>\n<!-- /wp:paragraph -->\n\n<!-- wp:paragraph -->\n<p>The Dolphins advanced to the championship series with a 7-1 win over visiting Hanahan on Friday.&nbsp;</p>\n<!-- /wp:paragraph -->\n\n<!-- wp:paragraph -->\n<p>Kelsey Hill went 3-for-4 with a double, a homer, and four RBIs, and Ortiz had another strong night in the circle for the Dolphins. Ortiz allowed one run and two hits in a complete game, striking out eight.</p>\n<!-- /wp:paragraph -->\n\n<!-- wp:paragraph -->\n<p>Hill singled and came around to score on Journeigh Doray’s sacrifice fly to give the Dolphins a 1-0 lead in the first. Battery Creek tacked on two more runs in the second when Hill doubled home Margaret Schubert and Young for a 3-0 advantage.&nbsp;</p>\n<!-- /wp:paragraph -->\n\n<!-- wp:paragraph -->\n<p>The Hawks got to Ortiz for a run in the fourth, but she was able to get out of the jam, and the Dolphins added some insurance in the fourth when Hill and Emily Crosby hit back-to-back homers — Hill’s a two-run shot — for a 6-1 lead. Ortiz added a sacrifice fly to score Olivia Gee in the sixth.<br><br><em>The Battery Creek Lady Dolphins defeated the Hanahan Hawks to become the Lower State softball champions on Friday, May 10. Here, Battery Creek’s catcher McKenzie Young hustles to catch a foul ball but runs out of room colliding with the backstop during the Dolphin’s 7-1 win over the Hawks. Photo by Bob Sofaly</em><br></p>\n<!-- /wp:paragraph -->', 'One Win Away', '', 'publish', 'closed', 'closed', '', 'one-win-away', '', '', '2019-05-16 11:41:10', '2019-05-16 15:41:10', '', 0, 'https://staging.yourislandnews.com/?p=40026', 0, 'post', '', 0),
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(40029, 4, '2019-05-16 11:45:24', '2019-05-16 15:45:24', '<!-- wp:paragraph -->\n<p>The 12th year of Street Music on Paris Avenue kicked off Saturday, May 11 with the band Yarn from New York playing to a couple hundred people who gathered between 9<sup>th</sup> and 10<sup>th</sup> streets to listen under perfect conditions.</p>\n<!-- /wp:paragraph -->\n\n<!-- wp:paragraph -->\n<p>The next Street Music date is May 11, when soul and R&amp;B artist Annika Chambers takes the stage.</p>\n<!-- /wp:paragraph -->\n\n<!-- wp:paragraph -->\n<p>Black Cat Zydeco featuring Dwight Carrier comes to town June 8, followed by blues artist EG Knight on June 22.</p>\n<!-- /wp:paragraph -->\n\n<!-- wp:paragraph -->\n<p>Admission is free. Bring your chairs and your dancing shoes.</p>\n<!-- /wp:paragraph -->\n\n<!-- wp:paragraph -->\n<p><em>The band Yarn kicked off the 12th year of Street Music on Paris Avenue on Saturday, May 11. From left are lead guitarist Roderick Hohl, Blake Christiana playing acoustic guitar, Robert Bonhoma on drums and Rick Bagel on bass. Photo by Bob Sofaly</em></p>\n<!-- /wp:paragraph -->', 'Street Music on Paris Avenue returns', '', 'publish', 'closed', 'closed', '', 'street-music-on-paris-avenue-returns-4', '', '', '2019-05-16 11:45:25', '2019-05-16 15:45:25', '', 0, 'https://staging.yourislandnews.com/?p=40029', 0, 'post', '', 0),
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(40032, 4, '2019-05-15 11:46:01', '2019-05-15 15:46:01', '<!-- wp:paragraph -->\n<p>Historic Penn Center has received a grant from the 1772 Foundation for a 12-month capacity building project that will improve Penn Center’s ability to sustain itself and be effective well beyond its current 157-year-old history, which spans the Civil War, Reconstruction Era, and Civil Rights Movement through today.</p>\n<!-- /wp:paragraph -->\n\n<!-- wp:paragraph -->\n<p>The 1772 Foundation uses matching grants to ensure the safe passage of America’s historic buildings and farmland to future generations.</p>\n<!-- /wp:paragraph -->\n\n<!-- wp:paragraph -->\n<p>In 2017, an extraordinary moment in public history occurred with the creation of the Reconstruction Era National Monument. Penn Center’s Darrah Hall became one of four monument sites in Beaufort County.</p>\n<!-- /wp:paragraph -->\n\n<!-- wp:paragraph -->\n<p>With the founding of Penn School in 1862, Beaufort County became the birthplace of Reconstruction. In 2019, the Reconstruction monument expanded to become the Reconstruction Era National Historic Park in portions of Beaufort County to include St. Helena Island.&nbsp;</p>\n<!-- /wp:paragraph -->\n\n<!-- wp:paragraph -->\n<p>“These external events, as well as internal changes lead us to the conclusion that we need to increase the effectiveness of Penn Center with a focus on the restoration, preservation and protection of the Penn Center physical assets,” Penn Center interim executive director Marion Burns said in a release. “We also need to better support our ability to accomplish our mission by obtaining greater financial performance from our land and building assets, and also strengthen our programs, management systems and governance.</p>\n<!-- /wp:paragraph -->\n\n<!-- wp:paragraph -->\n<p>“We believe the two key capacity building strategies vital to Penn Center at this time, are the development of robust financial plans to diversify and expand our organizational revenue sources, and improve our organization\'s operations, administration, and management. Penn would also like to establish stronger partnerships with local community groups and organizations like universities, the National Park Service, preservation organizations, and regional and national historical and cultural organizations.”&nbsp;</p>\n<!-- /wp:paragraph -->\n\n<!-- wp:paragraph -->\n<p>Specific activities and topics supported by the 1772 Foundation include a feasibility study, strategic planning, data collection, examination of best models, community visioning, organizational assessment and the examination of an internal revolving fund.&nbsp;</p>\n<!-- /wp:paragraph -->\n\n<!-- wp:paragraph -->\n<p>The Foundation funding includes staffing, consultant and facilitation costs; and funds for group convening and meetings. This will be a short-term (one-year) project, which will enable Penn Center to catalyze organizational development activities, strengthen the organization and help it better fulfill its mission.&nbsp;</p>\n<!-- /wp:paragraph -->\n\n<!-- wp:paragraph -->\n<p>Future staff requirements will be determined by the results of the planning process and feasibility study. &nbsp;</p>\n<!-- /wp:paragraph -->\n\n<!-- wp:paragraph -->\n<p>“We anticipate being able to implement a new staffing plan through increased revenue from programs, grants and a new funding strategy,” Burns said.&nbsp;</p>\n<!-- /wp:paragraph -->\n\n<!-- wp:paragraph -->\n<p>Penn Center is one of the most significant African American historical and cultural institutions in existence today. Founded in 1862 as Penn School, Penn Center was a central component of the Port Royal Experiment and was one of the first academic schools in the South for formerly enslaved West Africans known as the Gullah Geechee people.&nbsp;</p>\n<!-- /wp:paragraph -->\n\n<!-- wp:paragraph -->\n<p>After the school was removed to the Beaufort County School District, it became Penn Community Services, taking on the mantle of social justice and ushering in the Civil Rights Movement of the 1960’s with Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr., and the Southern Christian Leadership Conferences and other multi-racial groups and organizations like the Peace Corps.</p>\n<!-- /wp:paragraph -->\n\n<!-- wp:paragraph -->\n<p>Designated a National Historic Landmark District in 1974, Penn Center is a repository of historical and cultural heritage of the African American Sea Island experience.&nbsp;</p>\n<!-- /wp:paragraph -->\n\n<!-- wp:paragraph -->\n<p>In 2017, President Barack Obama designated four sites in Beaufort County a Reconstruction Era National Monument. Most recently, in March 2019, the monument became the Reconstruction Era National Historic Park.&nbsp;<br></p>\n<!-- /wp:paragraph -->', 'Penn Center draws support from 1772 Foundation', '', 'publish', 'closed', 'closed', '', 'penn-center-draws-support-from-1772-foundation', '', '', '2019-05-16 11:46:56', '2019-05-16 15:46:56', '', 0, 'https://staging.yourislandnews.com/?p=40032', 0, 'post', '', 0),
(40034, 4, '2019-05-16 11:51:49', '2019-05-16 15:51:49', '<!-- wp:paragraph -->\n<p>When the swimmers hit the water at 7:15 a.m. Saturday for the Beaufort River Swim, now in its 13<sup>th</sup> consecutive year, spectators will see some of the best swimmers in the Lowcountry take part in the 3.2-mile open-water race.</p>\n<!-- /wp:paragraph -->\n\n<!-- wp:paragraph -->\n<p>Oddly enough, however, the Beaufort River Swim is really all about people like Leigh Aiken, originally from St. Helena Island.</p>\n<!-- /wp:paragraph -->\n\n<!-- wp:paragraph -->\n<p>The Beaufort River Swim, hosted by the Wardle Family YMCA in Port Royal, is actually a fundraiser for the YMCA Learn To Swim Program.</p>\n<!-- /wp:paragraph -->\n\n<!-- wp:paragraph -->\n<p>And that’s where people like Leigh Aiken come in.</p>\n<!-- /wp:paragraph -->\n\n<!-- wp:paragraph -->\n<p><strong>Fear of the water</strong></p>\n<!-- /wp:paragraph -->\n\n<!-- wp:paragraph -->\n<p>Thanks, in part, to her protective parents, Aiken was afraid of the water from the start.</p>\n<!-- /wp:paragraph -->\n\n<!-- wp:paragraph -->\n<p>“Stay away from that water! Never ever go near that water!” Aiken recalls hearing.</p>\n<!-- /wp:paragraph -->\n\n<!-- wp:paragraph -->\n<p>“If you were a child growing up in the Lowcountry, you were probably told this on a daily basis,” she said. “In my community (Warsaw and Pollawanna Island on St. Helena Island), the water was something to fear. You could drown and possibly never be found.”&nbsp;</p>\n<!-- /wp:paragraph -->\n\n<!-- wp:paragraph -->\n<p>Aiken grew up, graduated from high school and left the Lowcountry. But her fear of the water never fully left.</p>\n<!-- /wp:paragraph -->\n\n<!-- wp:paragraph -->\n<p>“I always heard my parents warning (me) to stay away from the water (in my head),” she said.</p>\n<!-- /wp:paragraph -->\n\n<!-- wp:paragraph -->\n<p>While living in Seattle, the grip of Aiken’s fear seemed to be loosening. But then tragedy struck on a rafting trip.</p>\n<!-- /wp:paragraph -->\n\n<!-- wp:paragraph -->\n<p>“Because of that year’s snowmelt, the water was rough and scary,” Aiken said. “My canoe capsized, and I was pulled to safety. Unfortunately, one of our friends in the group drowned that day. It was devastating.”</p>\n<!-- /wp:paragraph -->\n\n<!-- wp:paragraph -->\n<p>It was also in Seattle that Leigh decided to cool off in her neighborhood pool on an unseasonable hot day.</p>\n<!-- /wp:paragraph -->\n\n<!-- wp:paragraph -->\n<p>“I drifted, unknowingly, into the deep end of the pool and then I panicked,” Aiken said. “I was not aware of anything until I found myself on the pool deck with someone pushing on my chest. That person, my neighbor saved me that day, and I thank God for sending him.&nbsp;</p>\n<!-- /wp:paragraph -->\n\n<!-- wp:paragraph -->\n<p>“I never went into another body of water in Seattle again.”</p>\n<!-- /wp:paragraph -->\n\n<!-- wp:paragraph -->\n<p><strong>Closer to home</strong></p>\n<!-- /wp:paragraph -->\n\n<!-- wp:paragraph -->\n<p>Eventually, Aiken’s job brought her to Atlanta, much closer to home, and she visited her family in the Lowcountry more often, including her “favorite brother,” who had 22 years of Navy experience and swam like a fish.&nbsp;</p>\n<!-- /wp:paragraph -->\n\n<!-- wp:paragraph -->\n<p>She often watched him leave for a day of fishing from the safety of the dock. But what came next only solidified Aiken’s fear of the water.</p>\n<!-- /wp:paragraph -->\n\n<!-- wp:paragraph -->\n<p>“In 2005, my brother did not return from fishing one day. He drowned, and our family never got closure or truly knew what happened,” Aiken said. “After this incident, I hated the water. The joy and the beauty of the Lowcountry was gone for me. It took several years of praying and searching for peace, because I still had to visit … my family is here.”</p>\n<!-- /wp:paragraph -->\n\n<!-- wp:paragraph -->\n<p>In 2006, Aiken retired and found herself visiting the Lowcountry even more often before moving back n 2013, when she settled on Lady’s Island.</p>\n<!-- /wp:paragraph -->\n\n<!-- wp:paragraph -->\n<p>This is when she found the YMCA and instructor and personal trainer Jeff Lewis.&nbsp;</p>\n<!-- /wp:paragraph -->\n\n<!-- wp:paragraph -->\n<p><strong>Working her way back</strong></p>\n<!-- /wp:paragraph -->\n\n<!-- wp:paragraph -->\n<p>&nbsp;“I took kickboxing classes, which turned into running, which led me to doing 10K bridge runs in Savannah and Charleston. To prep for the runs and give us strength training, one day Jeff said, ‘We are going to get into the pool.’&nbsp;</p>\n<!-- /wp:paragraph -->\n\n<!-- wp:paragraph -->\n<p>“Well, I said, ‘That’s it for me, no pool. I will not put my face into that water and I am deathly afraid of the water!’&nbsp;</p>\n<!-- /wp:paragraph -->\n\n<!-- wp:paragraph -->\n<p>“But by this time, Jeff’s class felt like family and no one tried to pushed me toward getting in the pool, instead they said things like ‘I will help you Ms. Leigh,’ ‘We’ve got your back!’ and ‘You can do this!’ ”</p>\n<!-- /wp:paragraph -->\n\n<!-- wp:paragraph -->\n<p>Gradually Aiken became more confident.&nbsp;</p>\n<!-- /wp:paragraph -->\n\n<!-- wp:paragraph -->\n<p>“I was given some goggles and told to just put my face into the water very slowly,” Aiken said. “I thought, ‘Okay, I can do that!’ Besides, me being the only one in this group that couldn’t swim … was not cool.”</p>\n<!-- /wp:paragraph -->\n\n<!-- wp:paragraph -->\n<p>Before she knew it, Aiken was in (YMCA aquatics director) Lou Bergen’s office wanting to register for swim lessons.&nbsp;</p>\n<!-- /wp:paragraph -->\n\n<!-- wp:paragraph -->\n<p>“She was excited to get me enrolled. I started out taking lessons with Shelia, but it was close to her summer hiatus in Maine, so I began in earnest with Instructor Franzi,” Aiken said. “We have been together since last fall. She is patient, supportive and we laugh together, even when I mess up.”</p>\n<!-- /wp:paragraph -->\n\n<!-- wp:paragraph -->\n<p><strong>Swimming is not a luxury</strong></p>\n<!-- /wp:paragraph -->\n\n<!-- wp:paragraph -->\n<p>What if someone wants to learn to swim, but unlike Aiken, doesn’t have the financial means to do so?</p>\n<!-- /wp:paragraph -->\n\n<!-- wp:paragraph -->\n<p>The Y is the answer.</p>\n<!-- /wp:paragraph -->\n\n<!-- wp:paragraph -->\n<p>The Y Learn to Swim Program provides the financial assistance for children, families, and individuals in the community to take swimming lessons and be safe around the water.&nbsp;</p>\n<!-- /wp:paragraph -->\n\n<!-- wp:paragraph -->\n<p>In 2018, the Y taught more than 7,000 swimming sessions. Hundreds of these were with Learn to Swim program participants who received financial assistance, due in part to proceeds raised at the Beaufort River Swim.</p>\n<!-- /wp:paragraph -->\n\n<!-- wp:paragraph -->\n<p>Among preventable injuries, drowning is the leading cause of death for children, ages 1 to 4; the second leading cause of death for children, ages 5 to 14; and the third leading cause of death for children under the age of 1 and ages 15 to 17 in the United States.&nbsp;</p>\n<!-- /wp:paragraph -->\n\n<!-- wp:paragraph -->\n<p>Swimming is “not only a recreational activity – it’s a skill that saves lives,” Bergen said. “Swimming programs not only teach people how to swim, but they also provide other safety training such as CPR, demonstrations of how to use safety equipment, like flotation devices, and tips on safe places to swim.</p>\n<!-- /wp:paragraph -->\n\n<!-- wp:paragraph -->\n<p>“At the Y, we believe learning how to swim is a necessity not a privilege, so we work to eliminate any obstacles that may interfere with someone’s ability to learn to swim. We do this by offering age-appropriate group classes, private lessons and financial assistance through our Learn to Swim program.”</p>\n<!-- /wp:paragraph -->\n\n<!-- wp:paragraph -->\n<p>According to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, more than a third of adults in the United States can’t swim the length of a pool, which puts them at risk of being one of the 10 people who drown every day in the U.S.&nbsp;</p>\n<!-- /wp:paragraph -->\n\n<!-- wp:paragraph -->\n<p>Overcoming her fears</p>\n<!-- /wp:paragraph -->\n\n<!-- wp:paragraph -->\n<p>Aiken doesn’t intend to be one of those statistics. But she has found that learning to swim as an adult is not as easy as you might expect.&nbsp;</p>\n<!-- /wp:paragraph -->\n\n<!-- wp:paragraph -->\n<p>“It uses muscles that I didn’t know I had, and swimming in the winter takes a lot of discipline. These lessons have been most challenging, but when you begin to get the hang of it, it can be fun,” Aiken said.</p>\n<!-- /wp:paragraph -->\n\n<!-- wp:paragraph -->\n<p>Aiken’s story is a powerful reminder that even through tragedy, there can be peace and even moments of triumph.&nbsp;</p>\n<!-- /wp:paragraph -->\n\n<!-- wp:paragraph -->\n<p>“Never think you are too old to learn something new, and don’t limit your learning,” Aiken said. “I understood my parents’ warnings because it was out of love and a reflection of what they were taught from their parents.&nbsp;</p>\n<!-- /wp:paragraph -->\n\n<!-- wp:paragraph -->\n<p>“Learn how to overcome your fears, believe in yourself, and put yourself in the company of positive people. Join the Y. Get in the water.”<br><br></p>\n<!-- /wp:paragraph -->\n\n<!-- wp:paragraph -->\n<p><strong>The 13</strong><sup><strong>th</strong></sup><strong> Annual Beaufort River Swim</strong></p>\n<!-- /wp:paragraph -->\n\n<!-- wp:paragraph -->\n<p>Saturday, May 18</p>\n<!-- /wp:paragraph -->\n\n<!-- wp:paragraph -->\n<p>The 3.2-mile competitive open water swim and one-mile fun swim in the Beaufort River supports the Wardle Family YMCA Learn to Swim Program.&nbsp;</p>\n<!-- /wp:paragraph -->\n\n<!-- wp:paragraph -->\n<p>Want to swim? Register online at <a href=\"http://beaufortriverswim.com/\">beaufortriverswim.com</a> or at the downtown Beaufort Marina starting at 6 a.m. on the day of the race. The 3.2-mile race starts at 7:15 a.m. and the fun swim starts at 7:45 a.m.&nbsp;</p>\n<!-- /wp:paragraph -->\n\n<!-- wp:paragraph -->\n<p>Cost: The price for the 3.2-Mile Race is $65. The price for the Fun Swim is $40.&nbsp;</p>\n<!-- /wp:paragraph -->\n\n<!-- wp:paragraph -->\n<p>Want to watch? 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(40039, 4, '2019-05-23 08:59:01', '2019-05-23 12:59:01', '<!-- wp:paragraph -->\n<p><strong>Shorts at High Noon</strong></p>\n<!-- /wp:paragraph -->\n\n<!-- wp:paragraph -->\n<p>Shorts 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 and they are screened each Wednesday. Screenings are free.</p>\n<!-- /wp:paragraph -->\n\n<!-- wp:paragraph -->\n<p>These films were official submissions and finalists at our film festivals and in some cases winners at the Beaufort International Film Festival from 2007 to the present.</p>\n<!-- /wp:paragraph -->\n\n<!-- wp:paragraph -->\n<p>Screenings will take place at the Technical College of the Lowcountry, Beaufort campus located at 921 Ribaut Road, Bldg. 12 Auditorium.</p>\n<!-- /wp:paragraph -->\n\n<!-- wp:paragraph -->\n<p>Check in at 11:30 a.m. Screenings 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).&nbsp;</p>\n<!-- /wp:paragraph -->\n\n<!-- wp:paragraph -->\n<p>A 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. Curb-side drop off is available at the front doors of Maclean Hall prior to proceeding to general parking.</p>\n<!-- /wp:paragraph -->\n\n<!-- wp:paragraph -->\n<p>More information can be found at our website, <a href=\"http://beaufortfilmfestival.com/\">beaufortfilmfestival.com</a>.</p>\n<!-- /wp:paragraph -->\n\n<!-- wp:paragraph -->\n<p>Schedule</p>\n<!-- /wp:paragraph -->\n\n<!-- wp:paragraph -->\n<p>May 29</p>\n<!-- /wp:paragraph -->\n\n<!-- wp:paragraph -->\n<p>Bean (19 min) Los Angeles, Calif. (BIFF 2010) (Student)</p>\n<!-- /wp:paragraph -->\n\n<!-- wp:paragraph -->\n<p>Trailer: <a href=\"https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ESUUARd7zmw\">https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ESUUARd7zmw</a></p>\n<!-- /wp:paragraph -->\n\n<!-- wp:paragraph -->\n<p>Grandpa (11 min) Boiling Springs, S.C. (BIFF 2019) (Short)</p>\n<!-- /wp:paragraph -->\n\n<!-- wp:paragraph -->\n<p>Trailer: <a href=\"https://vimeo.com/265905515\">https://vimeo.com/265905515</a></p>\n<!-- /wp:paragraph -->\n\n<!-- wp:paragraph -->\n<p>Last Night at the Ellington (12 min) Charleston, S.C. (BIFF 2015) (Short)</p>\n<!-- /wp:paragraph -->\n\n<!-- wp:paragraph -->\n<p>Passive Aggressive Dads (5 min) Brooksville, ME (BIFF 2019) (Short)</p>\n<!-- /wp:paragraph -->\n\n<!-- wp:paragraph -->\n<p>Registration open for game design and development classes</p>\n<!-- /wp:paragraph -->\n\n<!-- wp:paragraph -->\n<p>The Beaufort Digital Corridor announces TWO summer camp sessions of Game On! – game design and development geared toward middle and high school students. Registration is now open for this limited seating opportunity.</p>\n<!-- /wp:paragraph -->\n\n<!-- wp:paragraph -->\n<p>The courses will be held at the Beaufort Digital Corridor’s BASEcamp facility from 9 a.m. until noon, Monday-Friday, June 10-14 and July 15-19.</p>\n<!-- /wp:paragraph -->\n\n<!-- wp:paragraph -->\n<p>Among the topics will be game strategy, puzzle design and a final project.</p>\n<!-- /wp:paragraph -->\n\n<!-- wp:paragraph -->\n<p>This is a special curriculum by Seth Konoza, an animation, game design and computer science educator at Beaufort High School. Students are introduced to the theory, tools, and practice required to create their own games.</p>\n<!-- /wp:paragraph -->\n\n<!-- wp:paragraph -->\n<p>Helping students to discover a passion for game design, computer science and coding, Game On! presents kids with the possibility of continuing their education in technology.&nbsp;</p>\n<!-- /wp:paragraph -->\n\n<!-- wp:paragraph -->\n<p>Program manager Shelley Barratt adds, “In our third season of offering this course, we are well awareof the tech skills that the newer generation gains early on. The goal is to offer other skills — like critical thinking and user experience — to augment that, and the real work commences once they follow that curiosity throughout their education and into a potential tech career.”</p>\n<!-- /wp:paragraph -->\n\n<!-- wp:paragraph -->\n<p><strong>Hunting Island Sand Sculpting Contest</strong></p>\n<!-- /wp:paragraph -->\n\n<!-- wp:paragraph -->\n<p>The Friends of Hunting island will sponsor the annual Sand Sculpting Contest at Hunting Island State Park on Saturday, June 1 at North Beach near the Lighthouse.</p>\n<!-- /wp:paragraph -->\n\n<!-- wp:paragraph -->\n<p>Registration begins at 10:30 a.m. and sand sculpting is from 11 a.m. 1 p.m. T-shirts and hot dogs will be for sale. Prizes will be awarded at 1:30 p.m. You can cast your votes for a $1 donation in three categories of contestants: Sand Fleas, up to 10 years of age; Sand Hoppers, 11 to 17 years of age; and Sand Tribes, families and teams.</p>\n<!-- /wp:paragraph -->\n\n<!-- wp:paragraph -->\n<p><strong>Spring activities at Hunting Island State Park</strong></p>\n<!-- /wp:paragraph -->\n\n<!-- wp:paragraph -->\n<p>There are fun, interesting and educational activities every day hosted by Park Ranger and Lowcountry Master Naturalist Megan Stegmeier.&nbsp;</p>\n<!-- /wp:paragraph -->\n\n<!-- wp:paragraph -->\n<p>Mondays: Secrets of the Salt Marsh, 4 p.m.</p>\n<!-- /wp:paragraph -->\n\n<!-- wp:paragraph -->\n<p>Tuesdays: CCC Video, 1 p.m.; Beach Walk, 3 p.m.</p>\n<!-- /wp:paragraph -->\n\n<!-- wp:paragraph -->\n<p>Wednesdays: Alligator Talk, 11 a.m.</p>\n<!-- /wp:paragraph -->\n\n<!-- wp:paragraph -->\n<p>Thursdays: Feeding Frenzy, 3 p.m.&nbsp;</p>\n<!-- /wp:paragraph -->\n\n<!-- wp:paragraph -->\n<p>Saturdays: Creatures of the Night (owls, raptors, bats), 2:30 p.m. (May 25).</p>\n<!-- /wp:paragraph -->\n\n<!-- wp:paragraph -->\n<p>For a description of these programs and a complete calendar of activities, go to southcarolinaparks.com/hunting-island and click on “Programs &amp; Events.”</p>\n<!-- /wp:paragraph -->\n\n<!-- wp:paragraph -->\n<p>All 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.</p>\n<!-- /wp:paragraph -->\n\n<!-- wp:paragraph -->\n<p>For more information, call 843-838-7437 or go to the Friends of Hunting Island website and the Facebook page: FOHI Sea Turtle Conservation Project.</p>\n<!-- /wp:paragraph -->\n\n<!-- wp:paragraph -->\n<p><strong>YMCA to offer CPR classes</strong></p>\n<!-- /wp:paragraph -->\n\n<!-- wp:paragraph -->\n<p>The Wardle Family YMCA, located at 1801 Richmond Ave in Port Royal, offers CPR classes for community members on Saturdays from 8 a.m. to noon on the following dates in 2019: June 8, June 22, July 20, August 17, September 7, September 19, and November 23.&nbsp;</p>\n<!-- /wp:paragraph -->\n\n<!-- wp:paragraph -->\n<p>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</p>\n<!-- /wp:paragraph -->\n\n<!-- wp:paragraph -->\n<p><strong>Get moving with Beaufort Track Club</strong></p>\n<!-- /wp:paragraph -->\n\n<!-- wp:paragraph -->\n<p>Join 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.</p>\n<!-- /wp:paragraph -->\n\n<!-- wp:paragraph -->\n<p>Visit the Facebook page “Beaufort Track Club” for more information.</p>\n<!-- /wp:paragraph -->\n\n<!-- wp:paragraph -->\n<p><strong>Three-part workshop at Pat Conroy Literary Center in June</strong></p>\n<!-- /wp:paragraph -->\n\n<!-- wp:paragraph -->\n<p>The Self at the Center of Creativity is a three-part workshop for writers and artists that will include discussions, readings, writing prompts, and activities to stabilize and deepen your creativity and to bring more authenticity and enthusiasm to your own unique creative practice.<br>\nThe workshop will be held the from 5:30 to 7:30 p.m. the first three Tuesdays in June (June 4, 11, and 18) at the Pat Conroy Literary Center in Beaufort. <br>\nSpace is limited to 10 people, and two full scholarships are available. Those interested in applying should email a brief statement of financial need by May 27 to course instructor, Emily Davis-Fletcher, at <a href=\"mailto:emilydfj@gmail.com\">emilydfj@gmail.com</a>. Applicants will be notified by June 1. Three-part workshop fee is $100. For full information and to register, please visit: <a href=\"https://selfatthecenter.brownpapertickets.com/\">https://selfatthecenter.brownpapertickets.com/</a><br></p>\n<!-- /wp:paragraph -->', 'What To Do', '', 'publish', 'closed', 'closed', '', 'what-to-do-179', '', '', '2019-05-23 08:59:04', '2019-05-23 12:59:04', '', 0, 'https://staging.yourislandnews.com/?p=40039', 0, 'post', '', 0),
(40041, 4, '2019-05-23 09:03:03', '2019-05-23 13:03:03', '<!-- wp:heading {\"level\":4} -->\n<h4>By SCOTT GRABER</h4>\n<!-- /wp:heading -->\n\n<!-- wp:paragraph -->\n<p>John Warley was born in Florence, just as World War II was coming to an end. His father, a naval officer, remained in the Navy after the war and John’s youth was that of a restless, peripatetic military brat.&nbsp;</p>\n<!-- /wp:paragraph -->\n\n<!-- wp:paragraph -->\n<p>That wandering brat-hood ended when he enrolled at The Citadel in 1963.</p>\n<!-- /wp:paragraph -->\n\n<!-- wp:paragraph -->\n<p>After graduating from The Citadel in 1967 John went to the University of Virginia School of Law. When he graduated in 1970 he began to practice law and remained a lawyer for almost 40 years. Then, abruptly, he stopped and decided to be a writer.</p>\n<!-- /wp:paragraph -->\n\n<!-- wp:paragraph -->\n<p>One might assume that writing comes naturally to lawyers. They do write briefs and pleadings. But for those lawyers who choose to write fiction, or novels, lawyering is not the best foundation.&nbsp;</p>\n<!-- /wp:paragraph -->\n\n<!-- wp:paragraph -->\n<p>Novels require imagination, creativity and the ability to let one’s characters take them into unknown, uncharted waters. The writing of legal briefs is never a meandering journey into terra incognito.&nbsp;</p>\n<!-- /wp:paragraph -->\n\n<!-- wp:paragraph -->\n<p>One might think that putting together a good legal argument is much like writing fiction. But legal arguments are grounded in precedent — case law that was decided by long-dead judges who dictate the outcome of almost every conflict, civil or criminal, from the grave.&nbsp;</p>\n<!-- /wp:paragraph -->\n\n<!-- wp:paragraph -->\n<p>John had to learn to write fiction — to practice. And during that years-long practice, John probably wiped out at least 100 acres of Jasper County pine trees.&nbsp;</p>\n<!-- /wp:paragraph -->\n\n<!-- wp:paragraph -->\n<p>But John had a good teacher — Pat Conroy.</p>\n<!-- /wp:paragraph -->\n\n<!-- wp:paragraph -->\n<p>John and Pat had been classmates at The Citadel. Both were athletes and both lived in the 4th Battalion — home of young men The Citadel was interested in keeping in hopes that sometime in the future they would win a Southern Conference Championship. Both were on the baseball team.</p>\n<!-- /wp:paragraph -->\n\n<!-- wp:paragraph -->\n<p>After graduation John became a sought-after trial lawyer; and Pat became a famous writer. Notwithstanding their differing paths, they remained friends and, from time to time, Pat would seek refuge from his celebrity with John and John’s family. Sometimes, not always, Pat would read what John was writing.&nbsp;</p>\n<!-- /wp:paragraph -->\n\n<!-- wp:paragraph -->\n<p>“Don’t under any circumstances quit your day job,” was usually the advice that Pat would leave with John as he backed out of John’s driveway in Newport News, Va.&nbsp;</p>\n<!-- /wp:paragraph -->\n\n<!-- wp:paragraph -->\n<p>Notwithstanding Pat’s advice, John continued to write and eventually published Bethesda’s Child. This novel was followed by A Southern Girl, which was followed by The Moralist — Volumes 1 and 2. Now he has written The Home Guard.</p>\n<!-- /wp:paragraph -->\n\n<!-- wp:paragraph -->\n<p>Home Guard is set in Beaufort County in 1862 just when Abraham Lincoln decided to invade the South, choosing Beaufort and Port Royal Sound as targets. Specifically it concerns a boy, 12-years old, who is left behind and becomes a spy for the Confederacy.</p>\n<!-- /wp:paragraph -->\n\n<!-- wp:paragraph -->\n<p>Home Guard will be of interest to local folks because it brings to life the old homes and tide-washed topography that is familiar to all of us. However, John gives us a Civil War period piece just when many critics are blasting all things Confederate — especially the monuments that memorialize its soldiers.</p>\n<!-- /wp:paragraph -->\n\n<!-- wp:paragraph -->\n<p>John is familiar with this controversial landscape having previously written Standing Forever, Yielding Never — the modern history of The Citadel. And in his history he deals with The Citadel’s loose connection with Denmark Vesey’s attempted slave rebellion in 1822 — a scare that caused South Carolina to establish armories in Columbia and Charleston.</p>\n<!-- /wp:paragraph -->\n\n<!-- wp:paragraph -->\n<p>Eventually the Charleston armory came to be guarded by a local militia that morphed into the Corps of Cadets.</p>\n<!-- /wp:paragraph -->\n\n<!-- wp:paragraph -->\n<p>John creates his Home Guard characters with attention to detail — clothing, food and dates. But it’s dialogue that makes you like, or dislike, his characters.&nbsp;</p>\n<!-- /wp:paragraph -->\n\n<!-- wp:paragraph -->\n<p>With respect to dialogue, John gives the reader his version of the Gullah/Geechee language used by the newly freed slaves. This effort is a potential landmine that some academics have criticized.&nbsp;</p>\n<!-- /wp:paragraph -->\n\n<!-- wp:paragraph -->\n<p>In fact Kirkus Review writes: “Black characters speak in painfully rendered dialect — Me peoples yere. Uh spect uh gwine stay. Barnwells bin good to ole Rosa. I tank ya fo dat. Dem forts fall. We gwain stay right ‘chere’”</p>\n<!-- /wp:paragraph -->\n\n<!-- wp:paragraph -->\n<p>When John began writing Home Guard he must have known that recreating the Gullah dialogue could open him up to criticism.&nbsp;</p>\n<!-- /wp:paragraph -->\n\n<!-- wp:paragraph -->\n<p>But I suspect he remembered his mentor — Pat Conroy — who told many of his stories knowing some readers might be offended.&nbsp;</p>\n<!-- /wp:paragraph -->\n\n<!-- wp:paragraph -->\n<p>But Pat also told John, and other writers, to tell their stories as honestly as they could. It was, he would say, “your story to tell.”&nbsp;</p>\n<!-- /wp:paragraph -->\n\n<!-- wp:paragraph -->\n<p>Writing takes candor and courage. One should never write timidly, tentatively or with one eye looking at the rear-view mirror.&nbsp;<br></p>\n<!-- /wp:paragraph -->', 'Home Guard is John Warley’s story to tell', '', 'publish', 'closed', 'closed', '', 'home-guard-is-john-warleys-story-to-tell', '', '', '2019-05-23 09:03:05', '2019-05-23 13:03:05', '', 0, 'https://staging.yourislandnews.com/?p=40041', 0, 'post', '', 0),
(40043, 4, '2019-05-23 09:08:51', '2019-05-23 13:08:51', '<!-- wp:heading {\"level\":4} -->\n<h4>By BILL RAUCH</h4>\n<!-- /wp:heading -->\n\n<!-- wp:paragraph -->\n<p>There’s a new biography of Beaufort’s heavyweight boxing champion of the world from 1970-1973, Joe Frazier, due out next month although advance copies are available online already.&nbsp;</p>\n<!-- /wp:paragraph -->\n\n<!-- wp:paragraph -->\n<p>The book, Smokin’ Joe: The Life of Joe Frazier by Mark Kram, Jr., contains the fascinating tidbit that after Frazier beat Muhammad Ali in 1971 he used his newly-acquired celebrity to promote racial unity, including speaking on the topic to lawmakers in Columbia, and proposing a park in Beaufort with just one drinking fountain where children from all backgrounds might play together.</p>\n<!-- /wp:paragraph -->\n\n<!-- wp:paragraph -->\n<p>Frazier, the book makes clear, had bridled at the separate-but-equal Jim Crow laws that were enforced throughout the boxer’s youth and in more subtle ways beyond. It was because of the Jim Crow laws that the fighter imposed the one drinking fountain stipulation.</p>\n<!-- /wp:paragraph -->\n\n<!-- wp:paragraph -->\n<p>Frazier’s park ran into community opposition, the book says, and it was never built.</p>\n<!-- /wp:paragraph -->\n\n<!-- wp:paragraph -->\n<p>I wonder when Beaufort will be ready to welcome that park.</p>\n<!-- /wp:paragraph -->\n\n<!-- wp:paragraph -->\n<p>It wasn’t in 2004.</p>\n<!-- /wp:paragraph -->\n\n<!-- wp:paragraph -->\n<p>That was the year the city hired a world class design firm, Sasaki Associates of Watertown, Mass., to redesign the then 30-year-old Henry C. Chambers Waterfront Park. The park is built on a steel reinforced concrete shelf that is supported by hundreds of steel reinforced concrete columns that are anchored to the river’s floor.</p>\n<!-- /wp:paragraph -->\n\n<!-- wp:paragraph -->\n<p>In the early 2000’s some of the park’s structural elements were deteriorating. Parts of the park were literally washing into the Beaufort River. Altogether fixing the park in 2004-2006 came to be an $8 millioin-plus job.</p>\n<!-- /wp:paragraph -->\n\n<!-- wp:paragraph -->\n<p>Sasaki won the bid to provide the design and engineering. The firm’s designers were instructed to keep the best of the original park, but to suggest also ways to update and improve upon the original. Their proposed master plan for the rebuild showed several substantial changes, most of which sought to make the park more kid-friendly.&nbsp;</p>\n<!-- /wp:paragraph -->\n\n<!-- wp:paragraph -->\n<p>At the end of the park by the Woods Bridge Sasaki proposed a playground and bathrooms, all of which was built.</p>\n<!-- /wp:paragraph -->\n\n<!-- wp:paragraph -->\n<p>The designers also proposed an interactive fountain at the foot of the Scott Street Extension that was not built.</p>\n<!-- /wp:paragraph -->\n\n<!-- wp:paragraph -->\n<p>The proposed fountain, it was imagined, would be here – as were similar fountains elsewhere – a big hit with the children, and thus it was proposed to be built right outside of the playground’s front gate. The area finally became the now-familiar circular flower-bed that is known in some circles with derision as “the dirt fountain.”</p>\n<!-- /wp:paragraph -->\n\n<!-- wp:paragraph -->\n<p>Why?</p>\n<!-- /wp:paragraph -->\n\n<!-- wp:paragraph -->\n<p>In 2004, Council took up the Sasaki-proposed improvements one-by-one. The issue was not the money. The city had the money. It was the willingness of the Beaufort City Council to build a place where children from all backgrounds might splash around together. In a surprise, the deciding “no” vote was cast by Beaufort’s present mayor, Billy Keyserling, then a city council member who explained his vote saying “Beaufort isn’t a fountains city.”</p>\n<!-- /wp:paragraph -->\n\n<!-- wp:paragraph -->\n<p>That’s what he said, but we knew what he meant.&nbsp;</p>\n<!-- /wp:paragraph -->\n\n<!-- wp:paragraph -->\n<p>Beaufort’s city manager, John McDonough, arranged in the end for a water line to be constructed down the Scott Street Extension to where the street turns left to the parking lot. It is stubbed off there, silently awaiting the day when all the joy an interactive fountain will bring the city’s children seems to the Beaufort City Council to outweigh whatever problems may arise from children of all backgrounds playing together in the spray.</p>\n<!-- /wp:paragraph -->\n\n<!-- wp:paragraph -->\n<p>When the fountain is finally built, let’s call it the Joe Frazier Fountain.<br></p>\n<!-- /wp:paragraph -->', 'Are we ready for the Joe Frazier Fountain yet?', '', 'publish', 'closed', 'closed', '', 'are-we-ready-for-the-joe-frazier-fountain-yet', '', '', '2019-05-23 09:08:54', '2019-05-23 13:08:54', '', 0, 'https://staging.yourislandnews.com/?p=40043', 0, 'post', '', 0),
(40045, 4, '2019-05-23 09:10:09', '2019-05-23 13:10:09', '<!-- wp:heading {\"level\":4} -->\n<h4>By LEE SCOTT</h4>\n<!-- /wp:heading -->\n\n<!-- wp:paragraph -->\n<p>My girlfriend, up north, called to give me some good news a few weeks ago.&nbsp;</p>\n<!-- /wp:paragraph -->\n\n<!-- wp:paragraph -->\n<p>“Guess what! We are sleeping together again.”&nbsp;</p>\n<!-- /wp:paragraph -->\n\n<!-- wp:paragraph -->\n<p>She was referring to herself and her husband. Now, I thought it kind of odd that she should call with this news, but as it turned out, it was very good news.&nbsp;</p>\n<!-- /wp:paragraph -->\n\n<!-- wp:paragraph -->\n<p>She then explained that her husband’s snoring had gotten so bad, that she had been sleeping in the guest room.&nbsp;</p>\n<!-- /wp:paragraph -->\n\n<!-- wp:paragraph -->\n<p>But now he has a new device that he is wearing at night. It is called a CPAP machine and it helps with his sleep apnea.&nbsp;</p>\n<!-- /wp:paragraph -->\n\n<!-- wp:paragraph -->\n<p>You may have seen the commercials for the CPAP machines in magazines or on television. They usually have the man lying in bed with the breathing mask on and the wife sleeping soundly next to him. It makes you wonder how many men get dragged to the doctor after their wives have seen these advertisements.</p>\n<!-- /wp:paragraph -->\n\n<!-- wp:paragraph -->\n<p>I knew her husband had some snoring issues. Even her granddaughters did not want to spend the night with them anymore.&nbsp;</p>\n<!-- /wp:paragraph -->\n\n<!-- wp:paragraph -->\n<p>“Pop Pop is just too noisy!” they declared.&nbsp;</p>\n<!-- /wp:paragraph -->\n\n<!-- wp:paragraph -->\n<p>However, I had not realized that excessive snoring was a symptom of Obstructive Sleep Apnea which is potentially a serious sleep disorder.</p>\n<!-- /wp:paragraph -->\n\n<!-- wp:paragraph -->\n<p>The couple had tried everything from humidifiers, to fans, to antihistamines, but nothing seemed to help. Then their doctor suggested he get tested and it was not long before the prescription for the CPAP was written.</p>\n<!-- /wp:paragraph -->\n\n<!-- wp:paragraph -->\n<p>After a few days of using the CPAP, they were both thrilled how well the device resolved his snoring issues.</p>\n<!-- /wp:paragraph -->\n\n<!-- wp:paragraph -->\n<p>And Donna was thrilled to get back into her own comfortable bed.&nbsp;</p>\n<!-- /wp:paragraph -->\n\n<!-- wp:paragraph -->\n<p>They were both sleeping better at night. Then she called her son to have the granddaughters spend the night again.&nbsp;</p>\n<!-- /wp:paragraph -->\n\n<!-- wp:paragraph -->\n<p>Although they were hesitant, she assured them that their Pop Pop had been fixed. Finally, they agreed and were surprised how much quieter the house was at night.&nbsp;</p>\n<!-- /wp:paragraph -->\n\n<!-- wp:paragraph -->\n<p>The next morning the youngest granddaughter walked into her grandparent’s bedroom and screamed when she saw the strange man in the bed with a mask on his face. But her grandmother assured her it was just Pop Pop and that the machine helped him breathe better and best of all – not to snore.</p>\n<!-- /wp:paragraph -->\n\n<!-- wp:paragraph -->\n<p>When Pop Pop woke up, he announced that he was practicing with his SCUBA diving gear before he got in the water. Then he showed her the equipment.</p>\n<!-- /wp:paragraph -->\n\n<!-- wp:paragraph -->\n<p>But a few days ago, my girlfriend called me again.&nbsp;</p>\n<!-- /wp:paragraph -->\n\n<!-- wp:paragraph -->\n<p>“Bad news,” she said, “I’m back to the guest bedroom again.”</p>\n<!-- /wp:paragraph -->\n\n<!-- wp:paragraph -->\n<p>“I’m so sorry.” I said, “What happened?”</p>\n<!-- /wp:paragraph -->\n\n<!-- wp:paragraph -->\n<p>“Well, it turns out I snore too loud.”&nbsp;</p>\n<!-- /wp:paragraph -->\n\n<!-- wp:paragraph -->\n<p>Looks like we need some new CPAP commercials.&nbsp;<br></p>\n<!-- /wp:paragraph -->', 'The SCUBA diver in the house', '', 'publish', 'closed', 'closed', '', 'the-scuba-diver-in-the-house', '', '', '2019-05-23 09:10:12', '2019-05-23 13:10:12', '', 0, 'https://staging.yourislandnews.com/?p=40045', 0, 'post', '', 0),
(40047, 4, '2019-05-23 09:11:12', '2019-05-23 13:11:12', '<!-- wp:paragraph -->\n<p><strong>Anderson 2nd at Knoxville Open</strong></p>\n<!-- /wp:paragraph -->\n\n<!-- wp:paragraph -->\n<p>Beaufort’s Mark Anderson continued his outstanding season on the Web.com Tour with a runner-up finish at the Knoxville Open over the weekend.&nbsp;</p>\n<!-- /wp:paragraph -->\n\n<!-- wp:paragraph -->\n<p>Anderson carded four rounds in the 60s to finish at 14-under-par, one shot behind champion Robby Shelton.&nbsp;</p>\n<!-- /wp:paragraph -->\n\n<!-- wp:paragraph -->\n<p>Despite missing two months with an ankle injury, Anderson sits fourth on the Web.com Tour points list. The top 25 players at the end of the season will earn PGA Tour status.</p>\n<!-- /wp:paragraph -->\n\n<!-- wp:paragraph -->\n<p><strong>BHS spring football game this Friday</strong></p>\n<!-- /wp:paragraph -->\n\n<!-- wp:paragraph -->\n<p>Beaufort High will hold its annual spring football game at 7 p.m. on Friday, May 24.</p>\n<!-- /wp:paragraph -->\n\n<!-- wp:paragraph -->\n<p>Admission is free for anyone who wants to get a first look at the Eagles under new head coach Bryce Lybrand.&nbsp;</p>\n<!-- /wp:paragraph -->\n\n<!-- wp:paragraph -->\n<p><strong>Softball stars earn all-state honors</strong></p>\n<!-- /wp:paragraph -->\n\n<!-- wp:paragraph -->\n<p>Four local softball standouts have been named to the all-state team by the S.C. Coaches Association of Women’s Sports.</p>\n<!-- /wp:paragraph -->\n\n<!-- wp:paragraph -->\n<p>Beaufort High’s Essence Champion and Lily Bearden were named to the Class 4A team, while Alexis Ortiz and Emily Crosby represented state champion Battery Creek on the Class 3A team.</p>\n<!-- /wp:paragraph -->\n\n<!-- wp:paragraph -->\n<p><strong>Eagles 8th at state golf</strong></p>\n<!-- /wp:paragraph -->\n\n<!-- wp:paragraph -->\n<p>Beaufort High shot 632 over 36 holes to finish eighth among 16 teams at the Class 4A state golf championships last week at Port Royal Plantation’s Barony Course on Hilton Head Island.</p>\n<!-- /wp:paragraph -->\n\n<!-- wp:paragraph -->\n<p>Jerry Bruns carded rounds of 79 and 75 to lead the Eagles and tie for 20th overall. Max Kase (75-80), Riley Kase (82-78), Jack Lubkin (80-83), and Mason Westerfield (95-92) rounded out the lineup for the Eagles.</p>\n<!-- /wp:paragraph -->\n\n<!-- wp:paragraph -->\n<p>Host Hilton Head High won the team title with a 607 behind individual medalist Derek Bunce (70-71).&nbsp;</p>\n<!-- /wp:paragraph -->', 'Sports Briefs', '', 'publish', 'closed', 'closed', '', 'sports-briefs-18', '', '', '2019-05-23 09:11:14', '2019-05-23 13:11:14', '', 0, 'https://staging.yourislandnews.com/?p=40047', 0, 'post', '', 0),
(40049, 4, '2019-05-23 09:34:26', '2019-05-23 13:34:26', '<!-- wp:paragraph -->\n<p><strong>SCDNR offers courtesy boat inspection</strong></p>\n<!-- /wp:paragraph -->\n\n<!-- wp:paragraph -->\n<p>With the approaching Memorial Day holiday weekend, the S.C. Department of Natural Resources (SCDNR) Law Enforcement Division will be holding courtesy boat inspections at public boat landings across the state.&nbsp;</p>\n<!-- /wp:paragraph -->\n\n<!-- wp:paragraph -->\n<p>SCDNR officers will perform a quick, but thorough, inspection of your boat to make sure you have the required safety equipment and proper boat and motor registration for your watercraft before you launch. Those who are not in compliance with safety regulations or registration requirements will not be ticketed during the complimentary inspections. Instead, they will be given an opportunity to correct the problem before they launch their boat.</p>\n<!-- /wp:paragraph -->\n\n<!-- wp:paragraph -->\n<p>SCDNR officers will also be available to answer questions and give boaters tips on how to stay safe on the water.</p>\n<!-- /wp:paragraph -->\n\n<!-- wp:paragraph -->\n<p>For Beaufort residents, the courtesy inspection will be held from 10 a.m. to noon, Monday, May 27 at the Edgar Glenn (Lemon Island) Landing on the Chechessee River.</p>\n<!-- /wp:paragraph -->\n\n<!-- wp:paragraph -->\n<p>To report boating violations, such as reckless operation or an intoxicated boat operator, call the SCDNR toll-free, 24-hour hotline at 1-800-922-5431.</p>\n<!-- /wp:paragraph -->\n\n<!-- wp:paragraph -->\n<p><strong>Beaufort County announces Memorial Day closings</strong></p>\n<!-- /wp:paragraph -->\n\n<!-- wp:paragraph -->\n<p>All Beaufort County facilities, including <a href=\"http://links.govdelivery.com/track?type=click&amp;enid=ZWFzPTEmbWFpbGluZ2lkPTIwMTkwNTE1LjU4OTY3NzEmbWVzc2FnZWlkPU1EQi1QUkQtQlVMLTIwMTkwNTE1LjU4OTY3NzEmZGF0YWJhc2VpZD0xMDAxJnNlcmlhbD0xNzQ3MTQzOSZlbWFpbGlkPXRoZWlzbGFuZG5ld3NAZ21haWwuY29tJnVzZXJpZD10aGVpc2xhbmRuZXdzQGdtYWlsLmNvbSZmbD0mZXh0cmE9TXVsdGl2YXJpYXRlSWQ9JiYm&amp;&amp;&amp;100&amp;&amp;&amp;https://beaufortcountysc.gov/solid-waste-and-recycle/convenience-centers.html?utm_medium=email&amp;utm_source=govdelivery\">Convenience Centers</a>, l<a href=\"http://links.govdelivery.com/track?type=click&amp;enid=ZWFzPTEmbWFpbGluZ2lkPTIwMTkwNTE1LjU4OTY3NzEmbWVzc2FnZWlkPU1EQi1QUkQtQlVMLTIwMTkwNTE1LjU4OTY3NzEmZGF0YWJhc2VpZD0xMDAxJnNlcmlhbD0xNzQ3MTQzOSZlbWFpbGlkPXRoZWlzbGFuZG5ld3NAZ21haWwuY29tJnVzZXJpZD10aGVpc2xhbmRuZXdzQGdtYWlsLmNvbSZmbD0mZXh0cmE9TXVsdGl2YXJpYXRlSWQ9JiYm&amp;&amp;&amp;101&amp;&amp;&amp;https://www.beaufortcountylibrary.org/?utm_medium=email&amp;utm_source=govdelivery\">ibrary branches</a> and <a href=\"http://links.govdelivery.com/track?type=click&amp;enid=ZWFzPTEmbWFpbGluZ2lkPTIwMTkwNTE1LjU4OTY3NzEmbWVzc2FnZWlkPU1EQi1QUkQtQlVMLTIwMTkwNTE1LjU4OTY3NzEmZGF0YWJhc2VpZD0xMDAxJnNlcmlhbD0xNzQ3MTQzOSZlbWFpbGlkPXRoZWlzbGFuZG5ld3NAZ21haWwuY29tJnVzZXJpZD10aGVpc2xhbmRuZXdzQGdtYWlsLmNvbSZmbD0mZXh0cmE9TXVsdGl2YXJpYXRlSWQ9JiYm&amp;&amp;&amp;102&amp;&amp;&amp;https://www.bcscrec.com/?utm_medium=email&amp;utm_source=govdelivery\">Parks and Recreation facilities</a>, will be closed Monday, May 27, in observance of the Memorial Day holiday. All facilities will open according to their regular schedules Tuesday, May 28. Residents are encouraged to plan accordingly.</p>\n<!-- /wp:paragraph -->\n\n<!-- wp:paragraph -->\n<p>Emergency services and law enforcement personnel will remain available.<br></p>\n<!-- /wp:paragraph -->', 'News Briefs', '', 'publish', 'closed', 'closed', '', 'news-briefs-111', '', '', '2019-05-23 09:34:27', '2019-05-23 13:34:27', '', 0, 'https://staging.yourislandnews.com/?p=40049', 0, 'post', '', 0),
(40051, 4, '2019-05-23 09:35:22', '2019-05-23 13:35:22', '<!-- wp:paragraph -->\n<p>After a nationwide search, United Way of the Lowcountry announced Dale Douthat will take the reigns as president and chief executive officer of the organization later this month.</p>\n<!-- /wp:paragraph -->\n\n<!-- wp:paragraph -->\n<p>Prior to taking this position, Douthat was Director of ReStore at Habitat for Humanity of Metro Louisville, Ky., where he was born and raised.</p>\n<!-- /wp:paragraph -->\n\n<!-- wp:paragraph -->\n<p>“We believe Dale has the skills, experiences and attitude to be an excellent president and CEO for this organization and leader in our community,” said Becky Francis, CEO search committee member and chair-elect of United Way of the Lowcountry’s board of directors. “Dale\'s leadership will bring fresh ideas to United Way of the Lowcountry and we look forward to seeing the many ways he, along with the staff, will positively impact Beaufort and Jasper Counties.\"</p>\n<!-- /wp:paragraph -->\n\n<!-- wp:paragraph -->\n<p>Douthat graduated from Murray State University with a Bachelor of Fine Arts degree. After a 15-year career in advertising and design, he used his strategic planning, entrepreneurial and marketing skills to gain a leadership role in Habitat for Humanity of Metro Louisville.</p>\n<!-- /wp:paragraph -->\n\n<!-- wp:paragraph -->\n<p>As director of ReStore at Habitat for Humanity, he was responsible for the strategic planning, operations, and results of the thrift store operations. He started the operation in 2005 with zero resources and under his leadership, grew it to three retail locations including a paint recycling program, distribution center and logistics team with more than 30 employees.</p>\n<!-- /wp:paragraph -->\n\n<!-- wp:paragraph -->\n<p>“If we focus more on serving others than being served, we will do our part in leaving this world a better place,” Douthat said in a release.</p>\n<!-- /wp:paragraph -->\n\n<!-- wp:paragraph -->\n<p>Douthat, along with his wife, Dawn, and his four-legged friend, Emma, are looking forward to making the Lowcountry their home. Douthat will begin his position at United Way of the Lowcountry on May 28.<br></p>\n<!-- /wp:paragraph -->', 'Lowcountry United Way picks Douthat as president', '', 'publish', 'closed', 'closed', '', 'lowcountry-united-way-picks-douthat-as-president', '', '', '2019-05-23 09:35:24', '2019-05-23 13:35:24', '', 0, 'https://staging.yourislandnews.com/?p=40051', 0, 'post', '', 0);
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(40053, 4, '2019-05-23 09:36:16', '2019-05-23 13:36:16', '<!-- wp:paragraph -->\n<p>With help from Habitat Humanity and after years of planning, The Lending Room’s new service facility on Parris Island Gateway opens Wednesday, May 29.</p>\n<!-- /wp:paragraph -->\n\n<!-- wp:paragraph -->\n<p>An all-volunteer organization that has operated for the past 58 years, The Lending Room provides needed medical equipment to Beaufort residents, regardless of insurance or ability to pay.</p>\n<!-- /wp:paragraph -->\n\n<!-- wp:paragraph -->\n<p>Located on Parris Island Gateway behind Lowcountry Habitat for Humanity offices, the new building was built by Habitat with funds provided by The Lending Room.</p>\n<!-- /wp:paragraph -->\n\n<!-- wp:paragraph -->\n<p>The new headquarters facility is home to hundreds of individual pieces of medical and rehabilitation equipment – wheelchairs, canes, crutches, orthopedic walking boots and more – collected though community donations, repaired and made available to recipients for a nominal donation per item.&nbsp;</p>\n<!-- /wp:paragraph -->\n\n<!-- wp:paragraph -->\n<p>Last year, more than 430 pieces of equipment were lent out to some 396 Beaufort-area residents and beyond. This number is set to increase now that the organization has more convenient facilities and volunteers to assist individuals in obtaining equipment.</p>\n<!-- /wp:paragraph -->\n\n<!-- wp:paragraph -->\n<p>The Lending Room operates through a network of volunteers, receives partial funding from grants and individual donations and can accept tax-deductible donations (to the extent provided by law) to support its work in northern Beaufort County and beyond.</p>\n<!-- /wp:paragraph -->\n\n<!-- wp:paragraph -->\n<p>On its website, The Lending Room extended its gratitude to Dick Stewart.</p>\n<!-- /wp:paragraph -->\n\n<!-- wp:paragraph -->\n<p>“We want to extend a special shout out to Dick Stewart for his support over the years by giving The Lending Room a place to hang our hats (and crutches, walkers and commodes) rent free for 19+ years so we could save our money and make this possible too,” the website read.</p>\n<!-- /wp:paragraph -->\n\n<!-- wp:paragraph -->\n<p>A grand-opening celebration will be held from 4 to 6 p.m. Wednesday, May 29 at the new headquarters at 616B Parris Island Gateway in Beaufort. The public is invited to visit the new space and meet the volunteers.<br></p>\n<!-- /wp:paragraph -->', 'Lending Room opens new facility with Habitat help', '', 'publish', 'closed', 'closed', '', 'lending-room-opens-new-facility-with-habitat-help', '', '', '2019-05-23 09:36:18', '2019-05-23 13:36:18', '', 0, 'https://staging.yourislandnews.com/?p=40053', 0, 'post', '', 0),
(40055, 4, '2019-05-23 09:37:15', '2019-05-23 13:37:15', '<!-- wp:paragraph -->\n<p>South Carolina governor Henry McMaster signed into law a bill last week that will give physician’s assistants increased access to improve patient care in S.C.</p>\n<!-- /wp:paragraph -->\n\n<!-- wp:paragraph -->\n<p>The <a href=\"https://www.scapapartners.org/\">S.C. Academy of Physician Assistants (SCAPA)</a> commended McMaster for signing Senate Bill 132 into law on May 13. The legislation, to go into effect August 11, will allow PAs to increase access to care for patients and families throughout the state through its modernization of the regulation of PA practice.</p>\n<!-- /wp:paragraph -->\n\n<!-- wp:paragraph -->\n<p>\"We are excited that the General Assembly continues to show their commitment to improving access to healthcare for all South Carolinians. When providers are able to work collaboratively at the top of their skill sets, patients win,\" said Thornton Kirby, president and CEO of the South Carolina Hospital Association.</p>\n<!-- /wp:paragraph -->\n\n<!-- wp:paragraph -->\n<p>The new law will expedite PA entry into the healthcare workforce by streamlining licensure processes and removing archaic, extraneous requirements that serve no public protection role. For example, prior to the enactment of Senate Bill 132, South Carolina was one of 10 states that required PAs to pass a jurisprudence exam as part of the licensure process.</p>\n<!-- /wp:paragraph -->\n\n<!-- wp:paragraph -->\n<p>“I applaud South Carolina legislators for putting patients above politics.  After evaluating the medical evidence, key outcome data, and best practices legislators are even more committed to removing barriers in the form of restrictive scope of practice laws,” said SCAPA Legislative Co-Chair, Kevin Harmon.</p>\n<!-- /wp:paragraph -->\n\n<!-- wp:paragraph -->\n<p>PAs are medical providers who diagnose illness, develop and manage treatment plans, prescribe medications, and often serve as a principal healthcare provider. With thousands of hours of medical training, PAs are versatile and collaborative. PAs practice in every medical setting and specialty, improving healthcare access and quality.</p>\n<!-- /wp:paragraph -->\n\n<!-- wp:paragraph -->\n<p>“Admission to PA school is highly competitive with many student applicants coming in with a concentration in pre-medicine. PA students have diverse patient care backgrounds that include roles such as paramedics, registered dieticians, researchers and nurses,” said SCAPA Legislative Co-Chair Megan Fulton, MSPAS, PA-C.</p>\n<!-- /wp:paragraph -->\n\n<!-- wp:paragraph -->\n<p>States are increasingly removing barriers in an effort to expand access to the high-quality care that PAs provide.&nbsp;</p>\n<!-- /wp:paragraph -->\n\n<!-- wp:paragraph -->\n<p>A June 2018 study conducted by the Hamilton Project, an economic research group and think tank within the Brookings Institution, concludes that removing barriers to PA care would alleviate healthcare shortages and would improve efficiency and productivity in the delivery of healthcare — all with no adverse effects on patient outcomes.</p>\n<!-- /wp:paragraph -->\n\n<!-- wp:paragraph -->\n<p>“PAs are playing a critical role in addressing healthcare shortages throughout the country. We want to extend our gratitude to Gov. McMaster and the legislature for their efforts to ensure patients in South Carolina continue to benefit from the high-quality care PAs provide,” said SCAPA President Jen Marshall</p>\n<!-- /wp:paragraph -->\n\n<!-- wp:paragraph -->\n<p>“Many people in South Carolina lack adequate access to quality healthcare, especially in rural areas – partly because South Carolina ranks 40th among the states with just 77.5 physicians per 100,000 residents. Nationally, the number is 90.1 per 100,000.  This problem is compounded by a strong bias in the distribution of those physicians to urban or suburban areas. S. 132 eases this access problem by empowering physician assistants to provide health care services that are commensurate with their increased level of education and training,” said Senator Tom Davis.<br></p>\n<!-- /wp:paragraph -->', 'Change in law paves way for more PAs in South Carolina', '', 'publish', 'closed', 'closed', '', 'change-in-law-paves-way-for-more-pas-in-south-carolina', '', '', '2019-05-23 09:37:17', '2019-05-23 13:37:17', '', 0, 'https://staging.yourislandnews.com/?p=40055', 0, 'post', '', 0),
(40057, 4, '2019-05-23 09:39:45', '2019-05-23 13:39:45', '<!-- wp:heading {\"level\":4} -->\n<h4>By CELIA STRONG</h4>\n<!-- /wp:heading -->\n\n<!-- wp:paragraph -->\n<p>Once again, we’re talking wine names that have special meanings.&nbsp;</p>\n<!-- /wp:paragraph -->\n\n<!-- wp:paragraph -->\n<p>The name of a California growing area – Carneros. And the name of a winery –&nbsp; Cuvaison.&nbsp;</p>\n<!-- /wp:paragraph -->\n\n<!-- wp:paragraph -->\n<p>Just interesting facts that can make learning new wines a bit more fun.&nbsp;</p>\n<!-- /wp:paragraph -->\n\n<!-- wp:paragraph -->\n<p>Carneros (Los Carneros also works) is a California American Viticultural Area (AVA) that is located across the southern tip of both Napa and Sonoma counties. It is one of the oldest grape growing and wine making areas in California.&nbsp;</p>\n<!-- /wp:paragraph -->\n\n<!-- wp:paragraph -->\n<p>Created in 1983, it covers ninety square miles in the foothills of the Mayacamas Mountains. And, it is known for high quality Chardonnays and Pinot Noirs – still wines and lots of sparkling also. (Like Domaine Carneros owned by Taittinger, Gloria Ferrer owned by Freixenet and Mumm Napa owned by G H Mumm.)&nbsp;</p>\n<!-- /wp:paragraph -->\n\n<!-- wp:paragraph -->\n<p>Carneros has a cool, windy, foggy climate. In its early years of growing wine grapes, this caused vineyard problems. But by the 1970s, quality and consistency were achieved.&nbsp;</p>\n<!-- /wp:paragraph -->\n\n<!-- wp:paragraph -->\n<p>By then, winemakers had learned that the cooler weather of Carneros was perfect for cooler climate varieties. Chardonnay that is typically more elegant that most other California Chards, with crisper acidity and fresh, stone-fruit aromas. And Pinot Noir that is traditionally lighter and tighter those from other California regions, with berry and herb notes.&nbsp;</p>\n<!-- /wp:paragraph -->\n\n<!-- wp:paragraph -->\n<p>In short, these wines resemble more closely French-style versions than American.&nbsp;</p>\n<!-- /wp:paragraph -->\n\n<!-- wp:paragraph -->\n<p>Besides the climate, Carneros’ soil also helps produce this style of wines. It is predominantly clay, very thin and shallow, so there is poor drainage and low fertility. Grape ripening can be delayed and crops can be low yields. But struggling grapes in longer growing seasons can ripen to intense and vivid and deep flavors.</p>\n<!-- /wp:paragraph -->\n\n<!-- wp:paragraph -->\n<p>The wines from Cuvaison are perfect examples of what Carneros wine can be. Releasing their first wine in 1969, Cuvaison has played an important part for years in establishing and maintaining this AVA’s reputation.&nbsp;</p>\n<!-- /wp:paragraph -->\n\n<!-- wp:paragraph -->\n<p>In 1979, they acquired 400 acres of prized vineyard land north of San Pablo Bay in the AVA. In 1991, they started a replanting program that emphasized each plot of land within the 400 acres, so that each specific plot got the best variety and best clone for its specific attributes. In 2012, Cuvaison was honored by “Wine &amp; Spirits” as one of the Top 100 Wineries in the World.”</p>\n<!-- /wp:paragraph -->\n\n<!-- wp:paragraph -->\n<p>Cuvaison Chardonnay is a luxurious bottle of wine. It is 100 percent Chardonnay, 100 pecent grown on their estate and 100 percent Carneros fruit. The grapes are picked slowly over three to four weeks so that each one is ripe.&nbsp;</p>\n<!-- /wp:paragraph -->\n\n<!-- wp:paragraph -->\n<p>Fermentation takes two to three weeks, and the wine is aged in French oak barrels for 11 months. Twenty-five percent new barrels. It has aromas and flavors including honeysuckle, jasmine, daffodils, vanilla, cloves and other baking spices, pears and peaches, lemons and toasty brioche. It is medium to full bodied with very bright, focused acidity. For $19.99.&nbsp;</p>\n<!-- /wp:paragraph -->\n\n<!-- wp:paragraph -->\n<p>Cuvaison Pinot Noir is just as exceptional. Also 100 percent Pinot Noir, 100 percent estate-grown, 100 percent Carneros grapes. Also, a longer harvest time, so each grape is allowed to ripen as completely as possible and a one and a half to two and a half weeks for fermentation. Aging is done in French oak for 15 months. The finished wine is known for its velvety texture and concentrated aromas and flavors. Cherry tarts, dried raspberries, cinnamon and earth, wild raspberries, black plums, coffee notes, baking spices and crème brulée all float on silky tannins.&nbsp;</p>\n<!-- /wp:paragraph -->\n\n<!-- wp:paragraph -->\n<p>And what about the new names?</p>\n<!-- /wp:paragraph -->\n\n<!-- wp:paragraph -->\n<p>“Carneros” is Spanish for sheep. Herds of them, Los Carneros, have been raised in this AVA for years.&nbsp;</p>\n<!-- /wp:paragraph -->\n\n<!-- wp:paragraph -->\n<p>Which explains all the special Sonoma County goat cheeses too.&nbsp;</p>\n<!-- /wp:paragraph -->\n\n<!-- wp:paragraph -->\n<p>“Cuvaison” is a French word that means the aging time wines spend in vats. Vatting. A reference by the winery’s European owners to their heritage and their style of wines.&nbsp;</p>\n<!-- /wp:paragraph -->\n\n<!-- wp:paragraph -->\n<p>Enjoy.&nbsp;<br></p>\n<!-- /wp:paragraph -->', 'It’s all about the name, once again', '', 'publish', 'closed', 'closed', '', 'its-all-about-the-name-once-again', '', '', '2019-05-23 09:39:46', '2019-05-23 13:39:46', '', 0, 'https://staging.yourislandnews.com/?p=40057', 0, 'post', '', 0),
(40059, 4, '2019-05-23 09:41:17', '2019-05-23 13:41:17', '<!-- wp:paragraph -->\n<p>Three Piccolo Spoleto concerts of Early Music will be performed in Beaufort over the next three weeks.&nbsp;</p>\n<!-- /wp:paragraph -->\n\n<!-- wp:paragraph -->\n<p><strong>Saturday, May 25, The Virtuoso Spanish Guitar Through the Ages: </strong>7 p.m. at First Presbyterian Church, 1201 North Street, Beaufort, $25, cash or check only at the door.</p>\n<!-- /wp:paragraph -->\n\n<!-- wp:paragraph -->\n<p>Award-winning guitarist Marco Sartor takes us on a musical journey illustrating the genius of Spanish guitar. This program covers four centuries of masterpieces, including iconic works by Fernando Sor, Francisco Tarrega, Isaac Albeniz and others.&nbsp;</p>\n<!-- /wp:paragraph -->\n\n<!-- wp:paragraph -->\n<p><strong>Sunday, June 2, Vivaldi’s Four Seasons:</strong> 3 p.m. Baptist Church of Beaufort, 601 Charles Street, $25 cash or check only at the door. </p>\n<!-- /wp:paragraph -->\n\n<!-- wp:paragraph -->\n<p>Featuring one of the most monumental works of all time, Charleston Baroque, an ensemble including members of the Charleston Symphony Orchestra, presents these four concertos, each representing a season.</p>\n<!-- /wp:paragraph -->\n\n<!-- wp:paragraph -->\n<p><strong>Sunday, June 9, The Virtuoso Recorder with Steve Rosenberg: </strong>3 p.m. at the Verdier House, 801 Beaufort, $25, cash or check only at the door (limited seating).</p>\n<!-- /wp:paragraph -->\n\n<!-- wp:paragraph -->\n<p>This unique program features music for the recorder and harpsichord. Performer Steve Rosenberg covers music from the medieval, Renaissance, and Baroque eras accompanied by Julia Harlow on harpsichord.&nbsp;<br></p>\n<!-- /wp:paragraph -->', 'Piccolo Spoleto brings Early Music to Beaufort', '', 'publish', 'closed', 'closed', '', 'piccolo-spoleto-brings-early-music-to-beaufort', '', '', '2019-05-23 09:41:20', '2019-05-23 13:41:20', '', 0, 'https://staging.yourislandnews.com/?p=40059', 0, 'post', '', 0),
(40062, 4, '2019-05-23 09:45:01', '2019-05-23 13:45:01', '<!-- wp:paragraph -->\n<p>The Beaufort Hustle and Bluffton Bulls AAU basketball programs teamed up to host the first-ever USBA tournament in Beaufort County last weekend — and they kept three of the four division titles at home in the inaugural Battle by the Broad.</p>\n<!-- /wp:paragraph -->\n\n<!-- wp:paragraph -->\n<p>Nearly 30 teams from three different states gathered in Beaufort for the event, but the local talent ruled the day. The Hustle won the middle school girls and high school boys divisions, while the Bulls claimed the seventh-grade boys division and the Lowcountry Storm from Charleston won the eighth-grade boys title.</p>\n<!-- /wp:paragraph -->\n\n<!-- wp:image {\"id\":40064,\"align\":\"left\",\"width\":351,\"height\":468} -->\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\"><figure class=\"alignleft is-resized\"><img src=\"https://staging.yourislandnews.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/05/Hustle1-768x1024.jpeg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-40064\" width=\"351\" height=\"468\"/></figure></div>\n<!-- /wp:image -->\n\n<!-- wp:paragraph -->\n<p>McKayla Washington put up a tournament-best 20.1 points per game to lead the Hustle to the girls title, while Jawuan Watson scored 22.4 points per game to lead Beaufort’s high school boys. Watson put up 30 points —&nbsp;including eight 3-pointers —&nbsp;in the Hustle’s semifinal win.</p>\n<!-- /wp:paragraph -->\n\n<!-- wp:paragraph -->\n<p>The Hustle will compete in the Port City Shootout in Charleston this weekend and will team up with the Bulls to host another tournament on July 6-7.&nbsp;</p>\n<!-- /wp:paragraph -->', 'Host Hustle takes two titles', '', 'publish', 'closed', 'closed', '', 'host-hustle-takes-two-titles', '', '', '2019-05-23 09:45:03', '2019-05-23 13:45:03', '', 0, 'https://staging.yourislandnews.com/?p=40062', 0, 'post', '', 0),
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(40066, 4, '2019-05-23 09:48:07', '2019-05-23 13:48:07', '<!-- wp:paragraph -->\n<p><strong>BA’s Lower School honors five students</strong></p>\n<!-- /wp:paragraph -->\n\n<!-- wp:paragraph -->\n<p>Beaufort Academy’s Dr. Randy Wall Memorial Fountain is surrounded by 100 bricks and five benches honoring five students each year who exemplify one of the school’s core values: integrity, intellect, leadership, pride and respect.&nbsp;</p>\n<!-- /wp:paragraph -->\n\n<!-- wp:paragraph -->\n<p>A week after naming the 2019 honorees for the upper school, the school announced this year’s honorees for the lower school. 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(40124, 4, '2019-05-30 14:01:08', '2019-05-30 18:01:08', '<!-- wp:paragraph -->\n<p><strong>Piccolo Spoleto brings Early Music to Beaufort</strong></p>\n<!-- /wp:paragraph -->\n\n<!-- wp:paragraph -->\n<p>Two more Piccolo Spoleto concerts of Early Music will be performed in Beaufort over the next two weeks.&nbsp;</p>\n<!-- /wp:paragraph -->\n\n<!-- wp:paragraph -->\n<p>Sunday, June 2, Vivaldi’s Four Seasons: Baptist Church of Beaufort, 3 p.m. 601 Charles Street, $25 cash or check only at the door. </p>\n<!-- /wp:paragraph -->\n\n<!-- wp:paragraph -->\n<p>Featuring one of the most monumental works of all time, Charleston Baroque, an ensemble including members of the Charleston Symphony Orchestra, presents these four concertos, each representing a season.</p>\n<!-- /wp:paragraph -->\n\n<!-- wp:paragraph -->\n<p>Sunday, June 9, The Virtuoso Recorder with Steve Rosenberg: 3 p.m. at the Verdier House, 801 Beaufort, $25, cash or check only at the door (limited seating).</p>\n<!-- /wp:paragraph -->\n\n<!-- wp:paragraph -->\n<p>This unique program features music for the recorder and harpsichord. Performer Steve Rosenberg covers music from the medieval, Renaissance, and Baroque eras accompanied by Julia Harlow on harpsichord.&nbsp;</p>\n<!-- /wp:paragraph -->\n\n<!-- wp:paragraph -->\n<p><strong>Registration open for game design and development classes</strong></p>\n<!-- /wp:paragraph -->\n\n<!-- wp:paragraph -->\n<p>The Beaufort Digital Corridor announces TWO summer camp sessions of Game On! – game design and development geared toward middle and high school students. Registration is now open for this limited seating opportunity.</p>\n<!-- /wp:paragraph -->\n\n<!-- wp:paragraph -->\n<p>The courses will be held at the Beaufort Digital Corridor’s BASEcamp facility from 9 a.m. until noon, Monday-Friday, June 10-14 and July 15-19.</p>\n<!-- /wp:paragraph -->\n\n<!-- wp:paragraph -->\n<p>Among the topics will be game strategy, puzzle design and a final project.</p>\n<!-- /wp:paragraph -->\n\n<!-- wp:paragraph -->\n<p>This is a special curriculum by Seth Konoza, an animation, game design and computer science educator at Beaufort High School. Students are introduced to the theory, tools, and practice required to create their own games.</p>\n<!-- /wp:paragraph -->\n\n<!-- wp:paragraph -->\n<p>Helping students to discover a passion for game design, computer science and coding, Game On! presents kids with the possibility of continuing their education in technology.&nbsp;</p>\n<!-- /wp:paragraph -->\n\n<!-- wp:paragraph -->\n<p>Program manager Shelley Barratt adds, “In our third season of offering this course, we are well awareof the tech skills that the newer generation gains early on. The goal is to offer other skills — like critical thinking and user experience — to augment that, and the real work commences once they follow that curiosity throughout their education and into a potential tech career.”</p>\n<!-- /wp:paragraph -->\n\n<!-- wp:paragraph -->\n<p><strong>Hunting Island Sand Sculpting Contest</strong></p>\n<!-- /wp:paragraph -->\n\n<!-- wp:paragraph -->\n<p>The Friends of Hunting island will sponsor the annual Sand Sculpting Contest at Hunting Island State Park on Saturday, June 1 at North Beach near the Lighthouse.</p>\n<!-- /wp:paragraph -->\n\n<!-- wp:paragraph -->\n<p>Registration begins at 10:30 a.m. and sand sculpting is from 11 a.m. 1 p.m. T-shirts and hot dogs will be for sale. Prizes will be awarded at 1:30 p.m. You can cast your votes for a $1 donation in three categories of contestants: Sand Fleas, up to 10 years of age; Sand Hoppers, 11 to 17 years of age; and Sand Tribes, families and teams.</p>\n<!-- /wp:paragraph -->\n\n<!-- wp:paragraph -->\n<p><strong>Friends of Hunting Island’s Tuesday Turtle Talks</strong></p>\n<!-- /wp:paragraph -->\n\n<!-- wp:paragraph -->\n<p>The Friends of Hunting island announce the 2019 Tuesday Turtle Talks running Tuesday, June 11 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.&nbsp;</p>\n<!-- /wp:paragraph -->\n\n<!-- wp:paragraph -->\n<p>Each 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.&nbsp;</p>\n<!-- /wp:paragraph -->\n\n<!-- wp:paragraph -->\n<p>After the talk, participants can join TTT host Peggy Willenberg on a short beach walk. All ages are invited to attend this educational and engaging program.&nbsp;</p>\n<!-- /wp:paragraph -->\n\n<!-- wp:paragraph -->\n<p>And 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.</p>\n<!-- /wp:paragraph -->\n\n<!-- wp:paragraph -->\n<p><strong>YMCA to offer CPR classes</strong></p>\n<!-- /wp:paragraph -->\n\n<!-- wp:paragraph -->\n<p>The Wardle Family YMCA, located at 1801 Richmond Ave in Port Royal, offers CPR classes for community members on Saturdays from 8 a.m. to noon on the following dates in 2019: June 8, June 22, July 20, August 17, September 7, September 19, and November 23.&nbsp;</p>\n<!-- /wp:paragraph -->\n\n<!-- wp:paragraph -->\n<p>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</p>\n<!-- /wp:paragraph -->\n\n<!-- wp:paragraph -->\n<p><strong>Three-part workshop at Pat Conroy Literary Center in June</strong></p>\n<!-- /wp:paragraph -->\n\n<!-- wp:paragraph -->\n<p>The Self at the Center of Creativity is a three-part workshop for writers and artists that will include discussions, readings, writing prompts, and activities to stabilize and deepen your creativity and to bring more authenticity and enthusiasm to your own unique creative practice.<br>\nThe workshop will be held the from 5:30 to 7:30 p.m. the first three Tuesdays in June (June 4, 11, and 18) at the Pat Conroy Literary Center in Beaufort. <br>\nSpace is limited to 10 people, and two full scholarships are available. Those interested in applying should email a brief statement of financial need by May 27 to course instructor, Emily Davis-Fletcher, at <a href=\"mailto:emilydfj@gmail.com\">emilydfj@gmail.com</a>. Applicants will be notified by June 1. Three-part workshop fee is $100. For full information and to register, please visit: <a href=\"https://selfatthecenter.brownpapertickets.com/\">https://selfatthecenter.brownpapertickets.com/</a>.</p>\n<!-- /wp:paragraph -->\n\n<!-- wp:paragraph -->\n<p><strong>Santa Elena History Center hosting author Richard Thomas</strong></p>\n<!-- /wp:paragraph -->\n\n<!-- wp:paragraph -->\n<p>The Santa Elena History Center is hosting a lecture and book signing with author Richard Thomas at 11:30 a.m. Saturday June 8, where he will discuss “Backwater Frontier: Beaufort County, South Carolina at the Forefront of American History.”</p>\n<!-- /wp:paragraph -->\n\n<!-- wp:paragraph -->\n<p>In this wholly original perspective on the history of a relatively isolated region of Southeastern coastline, Richard Thomas focuses on singular stories of leadership in various contexts to track and reveal a remarkable pattern of leading-edge developments which solely directed or heavily influenced the subsequent course of history across the entire American landscape.</p>\n<!-- /wp:paragraph -->\n\n<!-- wp:paragraph -->\n<p>The stories and their unmistakable implications, little-known historical highlights which chronicle 450 years of groundbreaking initiative, emanated from a concentrated and remote pocket of American wilderness. Comprehending these stories leaves the reader with no doubt as to the extraordinary and pivotal role Beaufort County, S.C. has played in the evolution of the American character and culture.&nbsp;</p>\n<!-- /wp:paragraph -->\n\n<!-- wp:paragraph -->\n<p>Richard Thomas is a history scholar whose work since 2001 has included delivering presentations and leading tours for corporate executives to many notable historic sites in the U.S. and Europe. He is a graduate of Princeton University in East Asian Studies and did graduate field work in Cultural Anthropology with Thammasat University and the Siam Society in Thailand.</p>\n<!-- /wp:paragraph -->\n\n<!-- wp:paragraph -->\n<p><strong>Beaufort Heritage Explorers Camp at the Santa Elena History Center</strong></p>\n<!-- /wp:paragraph -->\n\n<!-- wp:paragraph -->\n<p>Immerse your child in a week of interesting local history from 1566 to the 1900s at the Beaufort Heritage Explorers summer camp at the Santa Elena History Center, hosted by the <a href=\"https://www.facebook.com/santaelenafoundation/\">Santa Elena History Center</a>, <a href=\"https://www.facebook.com/reconstructionbeaufort/\">The Second Founding of America: Reconstruction Beaufort</a> and the <a href=\"https://www.facebook.com/HistoricBeaufortFoundation/\">Historic Beaufort Foundation</a>.</p>\n<!-- /wp:paragraph -->\n\n<!-- wp:paragraph -->\n<p>Dates are June 20-28 or July 29-Aug. 2, 9&nbsp; a.m.-1 p.m. Each day concludes with lunch from 12:15 p.m. until pick up with lunch provided on Friday.<br>\nThe cost is $150 per child with all proceeds benefit participating nonprofits. There are 15 openings for rising 3rd grade through rising 5th grade and 15 openings for rising 6th grade through rising 8th grade.<br>\nThere must be a minimum of 10 per age group registered by June 15. For more information or to register, visit <a href=\"https://santa-elena.org/new-summer-camp-for-2019/\">https://santa-elena.org/new-summer-camp-for-2019/</a>.</p>\n<!-- /wp:paragraph -->\n\n<!-- wp:paragraph -->\n<p><strong>Spring activities at Hunting Island State Park</strong></p>\n<!-- /wp:paragraph -->\n\n<!-- wp:paragraph -->\n<p>There are fun, interesting and educational activities every day hosted by Park Ranger and Lowcountry Master Naturalist Megan Stegmeier.&nbsp;</p>\n<!-- /wp:paragraph -->\n\n<!-- wp:paragraph -->\n<p>Mondays: Secrets of the Salt Marsh, 4 p.m.</p>\n<!-- /wp:paragraph -->\n\n<!-- wp:paragraph -->\n<p>Tuesdays: CCC Video, 1 p.m.; Beach Walk, 3 p.m.</p>\n<!-- /wp:paragraph -->\n\n<!-- wp:paragraph -->\n<p>Wednesdays: Alligator Talk, 11 a.m.</p>\n<!-- /wp:paragraph -->\n\n<!-- wp:paragraph -->\n<p>Thursdays: Feeding Frenzy, 3 p.m.&nbsp;</p>\n<!-- /wp:paragraph -->\n\n<!-- wp:paragraph -->\n<p>For a description of these programs and a complete calendar of activities, go to southcarolinaparks.com/hunting-island and click on “Programs &amp; Events.”</p>\n<!-- /wp:paragraph -->\n\n<!-- wp:paragraph -->\n<p>All 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.</p>\n<!-- /wp:paragraph -->\n\n<!-- wp:paragraph -->\n<p>For more information, call 843-838-7437 or go to the Friends of Hunting Island website and the Facebook page: FOHI Sea Turtle Conservation Project.</p>\n<!-- /wp:paragraph -->\n\n<!-- wp:paragraph -->\n<p><strong>Get moving with Beaufort Track Club</strong></p>\n<!-- /wp:paragraph -->\n\n<!-- wp:paragraph -->\n<p>Join 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. 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(40093, 4, '2019-05-23 10:18:13', '2019-05-23 14:18:13', '<!-- wp:heading {\"level\":4} -->\n<h4>By Justin Jarrett</h4>\n<!-- /wp:heading -->\n\n<!-- wp:heading {\"level\":4} -->\n<h4></h4>\n<!-- /wp:heading -->\n\n<!-- wp:paragraph -->\n<p>As she recalled watching the final out fall into first baseman Bailey Emmert’s mitt, Battery Creek pitcher Alexis Ortiz pointed out her wounds — not from the battle, but from the celebration.</p>\n<!-- /wp:paragraph -->\n\n<!-- wp:paragraph -->\n<p>After throwing a one-hitter and blasting the go-ahead home run, Ortiz found herself at the bottom of a dogpile with catcher McKenzie Young as the Dolphins celebrated a 2-1 win over visiting Union County that clinched the Class 3A state championship Wednesday night.</p>\n<!-- /wp:paragraph -->\n\n<!-- wp:paragraph -->\n<p>Ortiz pitched another gem, and she and Emily Crosby each hit long home runs in the fourth inning to give Battery Creek its first state championship in softball and its first in any sport since 2015. The Dolphins celebrated the win with a huge home crowd that packed the bleachers and lined the fences around much of the field.</p>\n<!-- /wp:paragraph -->\n\n<!-- wp:paragraph -->\n<p>“I don’t even have words to describe it,” Ortiz said. “We’ve had so much support. It’s just the best feeling in the world.”&nbsp;</p>\n<!-- /wp:paragraph -->\n\n<!-- wp:paragraph -->\n<p>Ortiz made only one mistake, allowing Union County’s Kristin Kicidis to pull a pitch down the left-field line for a home run leading off the second inning.&nbsp;</p>\n<!-- /wp:paragraph -->\n\n<!-- wp:paragraph -->\n<p>The Dolphins didn’t have a hit through three innings against Bailey Betenbaugh, but Crosby changed that when she teed off on a 2-2 changeup and drove it over the left-field fence to tie the game.</p>\n<!-- /wp:paragraph -->\n\n<!-- wp:paragraph -->\n<p>“I just had a feeling she was going to throw that changeup, and I just told myself to keep my weight back,” Crosby said. “Obviously, it worked.”&nbsp;</p>\n<!-- /wp:paragraph -->\n\n<!-- wp:paragraph -->\n<p>Ortiz followed two batters later and crushed a 3-2 pitch to left-center to give the Dolphins the lead, and she made sure it stood up.&nbsp;</p>\n<!-- /wp:paragraph -->\n\n<!-- wp:paragraph -->\n<p>The Yellowjackets didn’t manage another hit after the Kicidis home run. The only time they threatened was in the fifth, when Ortiz hit the leadoff batter and a two-out error put runners at the corners before the Dolphins got out of the jam.</p>\n<!-- /wp:paragraph -->\n\n<!-- wp:paragraph -->\n<p>Ortiz needed only five pitches — and a nifty over-the-shoulder catch from shortstop Journeigh Doray on a looping liner into left-center — to retire the side in order in the seventh, resulting in the mountain of Dolphins that Ortiz and Young found themselves on the bottom of in front of home plate.</p>\n<!-- /wp:paragraph -->\n\n<!-- wp:paragraph -->\n<p>Ortiz pitched all 48 postseason innings for the Dolphins, allowing four runs for a 0.58 ERA. She gave up 16 hits and eight walks and struck out 66.&nbsp;</p>\n<!-- /wp:paragraph -->\n\n<!-- wp:paragraph -->\n<p>“I just do better under pressure, in bigger games. I’ve always done that,” Ortiz said. “I believe in myself and believe in my team.”&nbsp;</p>\n<!-- /wp:paragraph -->\n\n<!-- wp:paragraph -->\n<p>There were times early in the season when the Dolphins had to be reminded to believe in themselves. They lost seven of their first eight games against a brutal early-season schedule designed to prepare them for the postseason.</p>\n<!-- /wp:paragraph -->\n\n<!-- wp:paragraph -->\n<p>Mission accomplished. In seven postseason games, Battery Creek outscored its opponents 33-4.&nbsp;</p>\n<!-- /wp:paragraph -->\n\n<!-- wp:paragraph -->\n<p>“It’s a tribute to the kids we have. I came in and tried to help them instill a championship attitude,” second-year coach Chris Carr said. “I’m really fortunate we had some talented kids and they bought in to everything we were talking about. We kind of had all those special ingredients that made for a historic day like today.”</p>\n<!-- /wp:paragraph -->\n\n<!-- wp:paragraph -->\n<p><em>Above: Emily Crosby is congratulated after she hit a home run in the bottom of the fourth inning to tie the game against the Union County Yellow Jackets on Wednesday at Battery Creek.</em><br></p>\n<!-- /wp:paragraph -->\n\n<!-- wp:paragraph -->\n<p><em><strong>Contact Justin Jarrett at LowcoSports@gmail.com</strong></em></p>\n<!-- /wp:paragraph -->', 'STATE CHAMPS! Battery Creek Claims First Softball Title', '', 'publish', 'closed', 'closed', '', 'state-champs-battery-creek-claims-first-softball-title', '', '', '2019-05-23 10:18:15', '2019-05-23 14:18:15', '', 0, 'https://staging.yourislandnews.com/?p=40093', 0, 'post', '', 0),
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(40100, 4, '2019-05-23 10:21:23', '2019-05-23 14:21:23', '<!-- wp:heading {\"level\":4} -->\n<h4>By Mike McCombs</h4>\n<!-- /wp:heading -->\n\n<!-- wp:paragraph -->\n<p>When Battery Creek beat Union County last Monday in the 3A softball championship series, I knew the Dolphins would have a chance to win the title at home on Wednesday, so I brushed away any thoughts of seeing John Cusack in Savannah and committed to watch a hometown team try to win its first crown.</p>\n<!-- /wp:paragraph -->\n\n<!-- wp:paragraph -->\n<p>I wasn’t doing any work for The Island News as our sports guy and former editor, Justin Jarrett, had that covered. But as a favor to my friend Jed Blackwell of the Spartanburg Herald-Journal, I promised to send him something short from a Union County perspective after the game but before a quite early deadline.</p>\n<!-- /wp:paragraph -->\n\n<!-- wp:paragraph -->\n<p>During the course of the game, I spent some time on the Yellow Jackets’ side because there was no where else from which I could see the action.&nbsp;</p>\n<!-- /wp:paragraph -->\n\n<!-- wp:paragraph -->\n<p>Over those couple innings, I became aware that a significant portion of the Union County crowd was quite unhappy. Not in a “we’re losing, let’s rally” kind of way. But in a mean-spirited kind of way.</p>\n<!-- /wp:paragraph -->\n\n<!-- wp:paragraph -->\n<p>I heard things that should never be uttered at a sporting event where kids are involved, if at all.</p>\n<!-- /wp:paragraph -->\n\n<!-- wp:paragraph -->\n<p>I made an effort to let it ride, block it out. Something at which I’m not good.&nbsp;</p>\n<!-- /wp:paragraph -->\n\n<!-- wp:paragraph -->\n<p>Once BC took the lead in the fourth inning, it got worse. And of course, when the Dolphins won, it was nasty.</p>\n<!-- /wp:paragraph -->\n\n<!-- wp:paragraph -->\n<p>After the Union County players had received their runner-up medals and trophy, I moved to their side on the field to get quotes from head coach Tommy Petty. I stood on the field next to their dugout, and directly in front of a large group of Yellow Jackets fans gathered at the fence.&nbsp;</p>\n<!-- /wp:paragraph -->\n\n<!-- wp:paragraph -->\n<p>Not just fans, but parents.</p>\n<!-- /wp:paragraph -->\n\n<!-- wp:paragraph -->\n<p>As the Battery Creek players, coaches and administrators were introduced, the ugliest comments came from the Union County gallery.&nbsp;</p>\n<!-- /wp:paragraph -->\n\n<!-- wp:paragraph -->\n<p>As assistant principal Gil Sanchez was introduced, one fan uttered, “Sanchez, Ortiz, Cortez, they’re all the same.”</p>\n<!-- /wp:paragraph -->\n\n<!-- wp:paragraph -->\n<p>It wasn’t the ugliest thing said, but it’s the one I’ll repeat. Things about people’s ethnicity.</p>\n<!-- /wp:paragraph -->\n\n<!-- wp:paragraph -->\n<p>As Petty gathered his team in the right field grass and took turns with assistant coaches telling his players how proud they were of them, the team’s fans and parents were doing anything but making their daughters proud.</p>\n<!-- /wp:paragraph -->\n\n<!-- wp:paragraph -->\n<p>It didn’t seem to matter an outsider was standing feet away, hearing things.&nbsp;</p>\n<!-- /wp:paragraph -->\n\n<!-- wp:paragraph -->\n<p>In the end, I don’t mean to crucify Union County. I understand this is a small number of people and not necessarily representative of a big community.</p>\n<!-- /wp:paragraph -->\n\n<!-- wp:paragraph -->\n<p>But these parents aren’t setting any sort of example for their kids. And this is one of dozens of examples we see every day.</p>\n<!-- /wp:paragraph -->\n\n<!-- wp:paragraph -->\n<p>This will be behavior they will learn. Some will go on to repeat their elders’ mistakes instead of getting a chance to make their own.</p>\n<!-- /wp:paragraph -->\n\n<!-- wp:paragraph -->\n<p>I’m not sure why this has become the norm. Why it’s accepted. In some cases, why it’s expected.</p>\n<!-- /wp:paragraph -->\n\n<!-- wp:paragraph -->\n<p>These girls on both teams worked hard to get there Wednesday night. Not just this year, but all of their lives.&nbsp;</p>\n<!-- /wp:paragraph -->\n\n<!-- wp:paragraph -->\n<p>For some it was the last organized sporting event of their lives. It’s a day they will remember until they can’t remember.</p>\n<!-- /wp:paragraph -->\n\n<!-- wp:paragraph -->\n<p>The Union County girls deserved better. The Battery Creek girls did, too.</p>\n<!-- /wp:paragraph -->\n\n<!-- wp:paragraph -->\n<p></p>\n<!-- /wp:paragraph -->\n\n<!-- wp:paragraph -->\n<p><em>Mike McCombs is the editor of The Island News</em></p>\n<!-- /wp:paragraph -->', 'These girls deserved better.', '', 'publish', 'closed', 'closed', '', 'these-girls-deserved-better', '', '', '2019-05-23 10:21:25', '2019-05-23 14:21:25', '', 0, 'https://staging.yourislandnews.com/?p=40100', 0, 'post', '', 0),
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(40103, 4, '2019-05-23 10:22:30', '2019-05-23 14:22:30', '<!-- wp:paragraph -->\n<p>The 2019 Original Gullah Festival comes to Beaufort’s Henry C. Chambers Waterfront Park this weekend, opening on Friday and closing Sunday evening.</p>\n<!-- /wp:paragraph -->\n\n<!-- wp:paragraph -->\n<p>On Friday, the family oriented event opens with Children and Family Day, free to all, from 10 a.m. until 5 p.m., featuring performances by various school bands, dance troupes, drama groups and other acts.</p>\n<!-- /wp:paragraph -->\n\n<!-- wp:paragraph -->\n<p>A Gullah Festival Youth Pageant follows at 6 p.m., and then there is an “all-white” party from 9 p.m. until midnight. Tickets for the party are $30.</p>\n<!-- /wp:paragraph -->\n\n<!-- wp:paragraph -->\n<p>Saturday is filled with entertainment from 10 a.m. until 7 p.m. There will be music, dancing, storytelling and more. Tickets cost $25.&nbsp;</p>\n<!-- /wp:paragraph -->\n\n<!-- wp:paragraph -->\n<p>Then Saturday night, there is a concert featuring Cece Peniston and the Liquid Pleasure Super Show Band from 8 p.m. until midnight. Concert tickets are $35.</p>\n<!-- /wp:paragraph -->\n\n<!-- wp:paragraph -->\n<p>Also, from 10 a.m. until 3 p.m. on Friday and Saturday is Lest We Forget, an educational platform for panel discussions on the history, customs and culture of Gullah. These lectures will be held at Grace AME Church on Charles Street.</p>\n<!-- /wp:paragraph -->\n\n<!-- wp:paragraph -->\n<p>Sunday opens with the Hour of Power Worship Service at 9 a.m. Admission to the unique worship experience is free. Be prepared to have your spirit lifted.</p>\n<!-- /wp:paragraph -->\n\n<!-- wp:paragraph -->\n<p>After a day of entertainment, the festival closes with a Unity Circle around the park at 7 p.m.</p>\n<!-- /wp:paragraph -->\n\n<!-- wp:paragraph -->\n<p>Throughout the three days, the vendor market and food court, featuring local cuisine and traditional Gullah dishes, will be open.</p>\n<!-- /wp:paragraph -->\n\n<!-- wp:paragraph -->\n<p>For more information on the festival, visit <a href=\"http://www.originalgullahfestival.org/\">www.originalgullahfestival.org</a>, email <a href=\"mailto:info@originalgullahfestival.org\">info@originalgullahfestival.org</a> or call 843-525-0628 or 843-321-9288.&nbsp;</p>\n<!-- /wp:paragraph -->\n\n<!-- wp:paragraph -->\n<p>.<br></p>\n<!-- /wp:paragraph -->', 'Gullah Festival visits Waterfront Park', '', 'publish', 'closed', 'closed', '', 'gullah-festival-visits-waterfront-park', '', '', '2019-05-23 10:22:33', '2019-05-23 14:22:33', '', 0, 'https://staging.yourislandnews.com/?p=40103', 0, 'post', '', 0),
(40105, 4, '2019-05-23 10:26:28', '2019-05-23 14:26:28', '<!-- wp:heading {\"level\":4} -->\n<h4>CBD plant brings new technology, jobs to Beaufort County</h4>\n<!-- /wp:heading -->\n\n<!-- wp:paragraph -->\n<p>Agricultural hemp is growing into a major cash crop in South Carolina, and the newly-opened Blue Sky Processing facility is bringing some of the action to Beaufort County.</p>\n<!-- /wp:paragraph -->\n\n<!-- wp:paragraph -->\n<p>Blue Sky Processing held its grand opening Thursday, May 16, as about 200 residents and local and state dignitaries gathered to celebrate the Palmetto State’s newest hemp CBD (cannabidiol) processing plant.&nbsp;</p>\n<!-- /wp:paragraph -->\n\n<!-- wp:paragraph -->\n<p>After a ribbon-cutting and champagne toast, guests toured the 15,000 square-foot facility near Gardens Corner in the Sheldon community. 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We all love the weather, wildlife, and people here.”</p>\n<!-- /wp:paragraph -->\n\n<!-- wp:paragraph -->\n<p>While Blue Sky is not the first hemp processing facility in the state, it is unique thanks to its proprietary Delta-9 Technologies extraction equipment — the only automated hydrocarbon extraction system on the market.</p>\n<!-- /wp:paragraph -->\n\n<!-- wp:paragraph -->\n<p>“One of the things that makes hydrocarbons unique is the diversity and quality of products we can make compared to CO2 and ethanol extraction methods,” Hartsel explained to the first group to tour the facility. “They’re really limited to isolate and distillate, whereas we can make a lot of the high-value products that you would associate with the cannabis industry, that are now being sold in CBD markets around the country.”</p>\n<!-- /wp:paragraph -->\n\n<!-- wp:paragraph -->\n<p>Another advantage Blue Sky has is its short path distillation machine, which produces a purer form of oil. Many processors don’t have that option, so Blue Sky may find ample opportunity to take the handoff from other processors and further distill their crude product.</p>\n<!-- /wp:paragraph -->\n\n<!-- wp:paragraph -->\n<p>Blue Sky expects to have plenty of hemp to process thanks to South Carolina’s commitment to the growing industry. State Agriculture Secretary Hugh Weathers told the assembled crowd that new laws will increase the number of farmers allowed the cultivate industrial hemp from 40 in 2018 to 110 this year, with between 3,300 and 3,400 acres devoted to the crop statewide.</p>\n<!-- /wp:paragraph -->\n\n<!-- wp:paragraph -->\n<p>That’s great news for Blue Sky, which has the capabilities for hemp toll processing, as well as the ability to develop bulk wholesale CBD products and create white-labeled packaged products such as topical treatments, nutritional supplements, and even pet products.</p>\n<!-- /wp:paragraph -->\n\n<!-- wp:paragraph -->\n<p>Blue Sky also hopes to make good use of its waste. The plant produces up to 500 pounds of byproduct of the extraction process per day, and Hartsel said the company is experimenting with using the chaff to create pellets that could be used as a fuel source.</p>\n<!-- /wp:paragraph -->\n\n<!-- wp:paragraph -->\n<p>Blue Sky officially moved into the state-of-the-art plant, which was built by local company Fraser Construction, in late-April and has already begun processing hemp. Pfuhl said they had amassed a sizeable quantity of winterized crude CBD oil that they are continuing to stockpile before firing up the distillation process.</p>\n<!-- /wp:paragraph -->\n\n<!-- wp:paragraph -->\n<p>With its genesis as a testing company, Blue Sky is able to perform full-scale tests on its products on site to confirm the THC and CBD levels are within the allowable limits and ensure its processes are working properly.</p>\n<!-- /wp:paragraph -->\n\n<!-- wp:paragraph -->\n<p>“It takes it a little while to dial it in,” Pfuhl said. “You want to make sure you’re not leaving anything in the plant, because it’s so valuable, so we’ve been sometimes extracting the same batch more than once to verify that we got everything out of it.”</p>\n<!-- /wp:paragraph -->\n\n<!-- wp:paragraph -->\n<p>To learn more about Blue Sky Processing and sister company Delta-9 Technologies, please visit the company’s website at madebybluesky.com.</p>\n<!-- /wp:paragraph -->\n\n<!-- wp:paragraph -->\n<p></p>\n<!-- /wp:paragraph -->\n\n<!-- wp:paragraph -->\n<p><em>Above: S.C. 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(40108, 4, '2019-05-23 10:30:04', '2019-05-23 14:30:04', '<!-- wp:heading {\"level\":4} -->\n<h4>Siblings win men’s, women’s overall titles<br></h4>\n<!-- /wp:heading -->\n\n<!-- wp:paragraph -->\n<p>Sixteen-year-old Cohen Bruner of Hilton Head Island beat runner-up Kenny Geist by 4.46 seconds Saturday morning to win the annual Beaufort River Swim.</p>\n<!-- /wp:paragraph -->\n\n<!-- wp:paragraph -->\n<p>But in the future, it could be it isn’t Geist that Bruner has to watch out for.&nbsp;</p>\n<!-- /wp:paragraph -->\n\n<!-- wp:paragraph -->\n<p>It’s Cohen’s younger sister.</p>\n<!-- /wp:paragraph -->\n\n<!-- wp:paragraph -->\n<p>Skyler Bruner, 14, was only 8 seconds or so behind in the 3.2-mile race. Fast enough at 47:29 to win the overall women’s title.</p>\n<!-- /wp:paragraph -->\n\n<!-- wp:paragraph -->\n<p>“I’ll catch him next year,” Skyler Bruner said.</p>\n<!-- /wp:paragraph -->\n\n<!-- wp:paragraph -->\n<p>Cohen Bruner’s time was 47:21. Cohen and Skyler’s father, Carlton Bruner, swam for the United States in the 1996 Summer Olympic Games in Atlanta.</p>\n<!-- /wp:paragraph -->\n\n<!-- wp:paragraph -->\n<p>According to Betsy Hinderliter, the director of marketing and development for the Beaufort-Jasper YMCA of the Lowcountry, there were 147 swimmers entered in the 3.2-mile race and a record-high 28 in the fun swim.</p>\n<!-- /wp:paragraph -->\n\n<!-- wp:paragraph -->\n<p>And most importantly, the YMCA raised more than $15,000 for the Y Learn To Swim program.</p>\n<!-- /wp:paragraph -->\n\n<!-- wp:paragraph -->\n<p>For complete results, visit https://tinyurl.com/y4bnz3rj.</p>\n<!-- /wp:paragraph -->\n\n<!-- wp:paragraph -->\n<p></p>\n<!-- /wp:paragraph -->\n\n<!-- wp:paragraph -->\n<p><em>Above: Cohen Bruner, 16, left, and his 14-year-old sister Skyler, both from Hilton Head Island, took top honors during the annual Beaufort River Swim. Cohen was the top overall male finisher with a time of 47:21. Skyler was the overall female winner with time of 47:29, just 8 seconds behind her brother. “I’ll catch him next year” she said.</em><br><br></p>\n<!-- /wp:paragraph -->', '2019 Beaufort River Swim a family affair', '', 'publish', 'closed', 'closed', '', '2019-beaufort-river-swim-a-family-affair', '', '', '2019-05-23 10:30:07', '2019-05-23 14:30:07', '', 0, 'https://staging.yourislandnews.com/?p=40108', 0, 'post', '', 0),
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(40117, 4, '2019-05-23 16:49:51', '2019-05-23 20:49:51', '<!-- wp:paragraph -->\n<p>Former Beaufort High School varsity boys basketball coach Will Lowther provided alcohol to a minor when the two met up after chatting on a social networking and dating app, according to a Beaufort Police Department report obtained by&nbsp;<a href=\"http://lowcosports.com/\">LowcoSports.com</a>.</p>\n<!-- /wp:paragraph -->\n\n<!-- wp:paragraph -->\n<p>Lowther was dismissed from his coaching position and placed on administrative leave from his role as a physical education teacher at BHS following his arrest Monday. He is charged with the transfer of alcohol to a minor.</p>\n<!-- /wp:paragraph -->\n\n<!-- wp:paragraph -->\n<p>According to the report, the incident occurred April 6, when Lowther and a minor visiting from Aiken agreed to meet up after messaging one another on the app throughout the afternoon. Lowther arrived at a Beaufort residence with two bottles of liquor but stayed only a short time before a minor female who lives at the residence told him to leave.&nbsp;</p>\n<!-- /wp:paragraph -->\n\n<!-- wp:paragraph -->\n<p>All names other than Lowther’s were redacted from the police report.</p>\n<!-- /wp:paragraph -->\n\n<!-- wp:paragraph -->\n<p>During his first interview with Beaufort Police, Lowther denied the incident occurred and claimed he did not have an account on the app in question. He also provided a detailed account of his activity and whereabouts that day, most of which was corroborated during the investigation. Cell phone records, however, placed Lowther in the Mossy Oaks neighborhood of Beaufort from 6:30-7 p.m., when he claimed to be at home or en route to Bluffton with a friend. When met with that evidence, the report says Lowther “appeared to be defeated” and asked to speak to an attorney before continuing the interview.</p>\n<!-- /wp:paragraph -->\n\n<!-- wp:paragraph -->\n<p>At a second interview with his attorney present, the report says Lowther admitted to police he had “engaged in conversation with someone he thought was 18 years old and was in college” and taken two bottles of liquor to the residence to meet up.&nbsp;</p>\n<!-- /wp:paragraph -->\n\n<!-- wp:paragraph -->\n<p>Upon hearing an adult male’s voice from the bedroom, the minor who lives at the house — a student at BHS — entered the living room and asked Lowther to leave. The second minor recognized Lowther as a teacher from the school.&nbsp;</p>\n<!-- /wp:paragraph -->\n\n<!-- wp:paragraph -->\n<p>Lowther told police he claimed to be 25 — he is 33 — in his account on the app.</p>\n<!-- /wp:paragraph -->\n\n<!-- wp:paragraph -->\n<p>Lowther is scheduled for a municipal court date May 30.</p>\n<!-- /wp:paragraph -->', 'Former Beaufort High basketball coach arrested', '', 'publish', 'closed', 'closed', '', 'former-beafort-high-basketball-coach-arrested', '', '', '2019-05-24 13:57:14', '2019-05-24 17:57:14', '', 0, 'https://staging.yourislandnews.com/?p=40117', 0, 'post', '', 0),
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(40126, 4, '2019-05-30 14:02:14', '2019-05-30 18:02:14', '<!-- wp:heading {\"level\":4} -->\n<h4>By LEE SCOTT</h4>\n<!-- /wp:heading -->\n\n<!-- wp:paragraph -->\n<p>There are people in my neighborhood who know me only as “Brandy’s mother.”</p>\n<!-- /wp:paragraph -->\n\n<!-- wp:paragraph -->\n<p>That is what happens when you own a dog. People are always asking the dog’s name. How old is she? What kind of dog? They never ask my name.</p>\n<!-- /wp:paragraph -->\n\n<!-- wp:paragraph -->\n<p>I really do not mind because there are many benefits of being “Brandy’s mother.”&nbsp;</p>\n<!-- /wp:paragraph -->\n\n<!-- wp:paragraph -->\n<p>Besides the unconditional love she provides, she also requires me to take her for walks, even when the thought of a walk is excruciating.&nbsp;</p>\n<!-- /wp:paragraph -->\n\n<!-- wp:paragraph -->\n<p>Occasionally, I can feel her eyes boring into me as she patiently waits until I wake up and smile. Then her tail begins to wag, and my day begins, regardless of the weather.</p>\n<!-- /wp:paragraph -->\n\n<!-- wp:paragraph -->\n<p>Of course, there are those miserable rainy days when I would prefer to stay in bed.&nbsp;</p>\n<!-- /wp:paragraph -->\n\n<!-- wp:paragraph -->\n<p>But on those beautiful mornings when the sun is rising and there is a light breeze, I am glad she has been able to get me moving. Her wagging tail speaks volumes as she anxiously awaits me. I also think that in her mind, she is taking me for a walk.</p>\n<!-- /wp:paragraph -->\n\n<!-- wp:paragraph -->\n<p>There are other dog people in my neighborhood who are out walking their dogs or “getting” walked like me. I do know the names of some of the dog owners; neighbors who have Finch, Tosca, and Tess.&nbsp;</p>\n<!-- /wp:paragraph -->\n\n<!-- wp:paragraph -->\n<p>But many times, I only know the dog’s name.&nbsp;</p>\n<!-- /wp:paragraph -->\n\n<!-- wp:paragraph -->\n<p>It does not seem to bother people with dogs. As it turns out we see this practice of asking the dog’s name all the time.&nbsp;</p>\n<!-- /wp:paragraph -->\n\n<!-- wp:paragraph -->\n<p>When my husband and I walk Brandy at the Beaufort Waterfront Park, people will come up and ask her name and if they can pet her. They never ask our names. We are just on the other end of Brandy’s leash.&nbsp;</p>\n<!-- /wp:paragraph -->\n\n<!-- wp:paragraph -->\n<p>“Hello, my name is Lee!” I say in a needy tone, as they ignore me and get down on their knees to pet her.</p>\n<!-- /wp:paragraph -->\n\n<!-- wp:paragraph -->\n<p>But we are just as guilty of the practice, so I cannot complain.&nbsp;</p>\n<!-- /wp:paragraph -->\n\n<!-- wp:paragraph -->\n<p>Recently, I stopped a woman and asked the dog’s name.&nbsp;</p>\n<!-- /wp:paragraph -->\n\n<!-- wp:paragraph -->\n<p>“Wilson,” she replied.</p>\n<!-- /wp:paragraph -->\n\n<!-- wp:paragraph -->\n<p>That is when I realized I had not asked her name. Typical dog owner. But she responded “I’m Holly, but Wilson is not really our dog. We are fostering him while our son is away at school.”&nbsp;</p>\n<!-- /wp:paragraph -->\n\n<!-- wp:paragraph -->\n<p>Children do that to parents all the time. It made me wonder how she will feel when she stops being Wilson’s adopted Mother.&nbsp;</p>\n<!-- /wp:paragraph -->\n\n<!-- wp:paragraph -->\n<p>I know, someday, I will not be Brandy’s mother anymore. Her picture will hang beside the pictures of our other dogs.&nbsp;</p>\n<!-- /wp:paragraph -->\n\n<!-- wp:paragraph -->\n<p>Regardless, there will always be another dog in my future, ready to take me for a walk.</p>\n<!-- /wp:paragraph -->\n\n<!-- wp:paragraph -->\n<p>But for now, I like being known as Brandy’s mother.<br></p>\n<!-- /wp:paragraph -->', 'Walking Brandy’s mother', '', 'publish', 'closed', 'closed', '', 'walking-brandys-mother', '', '', '2019-05-30 14:02:16', '2019-05-30 18:02:16', '', 0, 'https://staging.yourislandnews.com/?p=40126', 0, 'post', '', 0);
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(40129, 4, '2019-05-30 14:03:46', '2019-05-30 18:03:46', '<!-- wp:heading {\"level\":4} -->\n<h4>By SCOTT GRABER</h4>\n<!-- /wp:heading -->\n\n<!-- wp:paragraph -->\n<p>When I moved to Beaufort — in 1971 — Bay Street came with two hardware stores (Fordham’s and Beaufort Hardware); a drug store (Luther’s); and a movie theatre (The Breeze). There were also places to buy a seersucker suit (Wallace and Danner and Schein’s); dress shoes (Lipsitz) and lingerie (Pink Pussycat).&nbsp;</p>\n<!-- /wp:paragraph -->\n\n<!-- wp:paragraph -->\n<p>Just off Bay Street there was a grocery (Piggly Wiggly) and a boarding house for traveling salesmen.&nbsp;</p>\n<!-- /wp:paragraph -->\n\n<!-- wp:paragraph -->\n<p>The point I’m trying to make is that one could find soft goods, dry goods, and hardware on Bay Street — or within walking distance of Bay Street.&nbsp;</p>\n<!-- /wp:paragraph -->\n\n<!-- wp:paragraph -->\n<p>Today that is not the case.&nbsp;</p>\n<!-- /wp:paragraph -->\n\n<!-- wp:paragraph -->\n<p>Today one finds restaurants, realtors, fudge and flip flops along Bay Street. These days one must travel if one wants aspirin, asparagus, ammunition or a chain saw — gasoline or electric.</p>\n<!-- /wp:paragraph -->\n\n<!-- wp:paragraph -->\n<p>One must get in one’s Range Rover and drive several miles to several locations if one wants to meet one’s bodily or material needs.&nbsp;</p>\n<!-- /wp:paragraph -->\n\n<!-- wp:paragraph -->\n<p>There have been theories about the demise of Bay Street shopping but some — and I hasten to say there is no empirical evidence on this question — say the arrival of Walmart hastened the death of serious downtown shopping.&nbsp;</p>\n<!-- /wp:paragraph -->\n\n<!-- wp:paragraph -->\n<p>Surely Walgreens, Lowe’s and the relocation of Belk’s pulled people away and put the kibosh on downtown shopping. But now we know that Walmart (and even the large grocery stores like Publix and BiLo) face a new competitor — the dollar stores.</p>\n<!-- /wp:paragraph -->\n\n<!-- wp:paragraph -->\n<p>Every day four new dollar stores open in the US — and, apparently, there are 30,000 dollar stores versus 5,000 Walmarts.&nbsp;</p>\n<!-- /wp:paragraph -->\n\n<!-- wp:paragraph -->\n<p>Actually there are more dollar stores than there are Walmarts and McDonald’s combined. Why?&nbsp;</p>\n<!-- /wp:paragraph -->\n\n<!-- wp:paragraph -->\n<p>In an effort to understand the lure of the dollar store — to understand why there are three on Ribaut Road alone — I decided I would see for myself.&nbsp;</p>\n<!-- /wp:paragraph -->\n\n<!-- wp:paragraph -->\n<p>The first impression one gets is a room, jammed floor to ceiling, with stuff. One must navigate narrow, canyon-high isles that pass under walls of merchandise. I was, of course, first drawn to the lingerie department where one can purchase a brassiere for $4 or a bag of panties for $5. This section didn’t have the same allure one might find at Victoria’s Secret but my mind was diverted to The Pink Pussycat.</p>\n<!-- /wp:paragraph -->\n\n<!-- wp:paragraph -->\n<p>The Pink Pussycat — a store that specialized in women’s undergarments — thrived on Bay Street in the early 70s. Its success was related to the fact that men were encouraged to shop, linger, and not be embarrassed.&nbsp;</p>\n<!-- /wp:paragraph -->\n\n<!-- wp:paragraph -->\n<p>The highlight of the Christmas Season in Beaufort — before they began lighting-up sail boats — was the Yuletide, men’s only fashion show at the Pink Pussycat. We’re talking live models, lingerie and yes, we’re talking about Bay Street.</p>\n<!-- /wp:paragraph -->\n\n<!-- wp:paragraph -->\n<p>Then it was over to the dollar store’s hardware section where one can buy a plastic box of nails for $1.50. This took me back to Fordham’s where nails came out of huge, galvanized buckets arranged in the shape of a huge pittosporum plant. Nails were purchased by the pound and came with commentary and the dry wit of Duncan Fordham.&nbsp;</p>\n<!-- /wp:paragraph -->\n\n<!-- wp:paragraph -->\n<p>Then I wandered into groceries — mostly frozen pizzas, red and yellow colored sports drinks and huge, $1 bags of red hots. This took me back to the “downtown” Piggly Wiggly (actually it was on Port Republic Street) where one found rice in 50-pound bags and Adluh all-purpose flour in 20-pound bags. This particular Piggly Wiggly was ground zero, on Saturday morning, for the African-Americans who lived north of the Broad. They were, in many cases, ferried in from St Helena by Maceo Griffin who owned and operated Beaufort’s only taxi.</p>\n<!-- /wp:paragraph -->\n\n<!-- wp:paragraph -->\n<p>And, yes, there was also entertainment — The Breeze Movie — which operated out of the Panini’s Building. The Breeze had current films but the projectionist would sometimes get confused and put the reels on the projector in the wrong sequence. Given the quality of movies in those days — Animal House, Straw Dogs, Young Frankenstein — this error was not immediately apparent. But, finally, my wife would lean over and whisper;</p>\n<!-- /wp:paragraph -->\n\n<!-- wp:paragraph -->\n<p>“Are you going to go up there? Or am I?”</p>\n<!-- /wp:paragraph -->\n\n<!-- wp:paragraph -->\n<p>Today Bay Street is mostly the domain of the tourist. And I suppose tourists are the folks who “saved” Bay Street and, of course, there is the stunning beauty of our Waterfront Park.&nbsp;</p>\n<!-- /wp:paragraph -->\n\n<!-- wp:paragraph -->\n<p>But I do miss the shops (that came with parrots); and dentists (Hymie Lipsitz) who would work on your teeth while your wife and dog were in the same room. 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(40132, 4, '2019-05-30 14:05:38', '2019-05-30 18:05:38', '<!-- wp:heading {\"level\":4} -->\n<h4>By TOM DAVIS&nbsp;</h4>\n<!-- /wp:heading -->\n\n<!-- wp:paragraph -->\n<p>Last January, on the first day of the 2019 session of the S.C. General Assembly, Rep. Peter McCoy, R-Charleston, and I filed identical bills titled the \"Energy Freedom Act\" in the House and Senate, respectively. Two weeks ago, on the last regular day of that session, the bill was ratified as having passed both legislative chambers and sent to Gov. Henry McMaster.&nbsp;</p>\n<!-- /wp:paragraph -->\n\n<!-- wp:paragraph -->\n<p>And this past Tuesday, in a State House rotunda packed with media, renewable-energy activists and solar-industry entrepreneurs, I stood alongside the governor as he signed the bill into law.&nbsp;</p>\n<!-- /wp:paragraph -->\n\n<!-- wp:paragraph -->\n<p>It has been widely reported that this new law is about promoting clean energy, and that\'s partially true. But it\'s really about something more fundamental: it is a first and important step away from the energy-production monopolies that have saddled South Carolinians with some of the highest electricity bills in the nation, and toward real competition through an open market of many buyers and many sellers that will provide downward pressure on the cost of producing energy.</p>\n<!-- /wp:paragraph -->\n\n<!-- wp:paragraph -->\n<p>More than 60 years ago, the S.C. General Assembly began passing laws that provided mega-utilities with service-area monopolies and guaranteed them a generous return on their invested capital. That made sense then, given the high fixed costs of building plants and power grids and the general difficulty the South had at the time in attracting investment capital. That same model is essentially still in place today, with Santee Cooper, Duke Energy and Dominion Energy (formerly SCE&amp;G) holding the territorial monopolies.&nbsp;</p>\n<!-- /wp:paragraph -->\n\n<!-- wp:paragraph -->\n<p>But as the nuclear-facility debacle in Fairfield County illustrated, with $9 billion having been spent by Santee Cooper and SCE&amp;G (and to be paid for by their customers) on a now-abandoned project, there are dangers inherent in this model.&nbsp;</p>\n<!-- /wp:paragraph -->\n\n<!-- wp:paragraph -->\n<p>Mega-utilities with service-area monopolies will inevitably pursue capital-intensive projects because the return they get is directly related to what they spend. There is little incentive for them to embrace cutting-edge technologies in order to lower energy-production costs for the benefit of consumers.</p>\n<!-- /wp:paragraph -->\n\n<!-- wp:paragraph -->\n<p>As a result we have not fully benefited from the explosion in information and communications technology which, in other parts of our country, has revolutionized every aspect of the electricity-supply chain. That technology makes it much easier to communicate, coordinate, and automate grid interactions and facilitates access to new market participants that have natural incentives to innovate.&nbsp;</p>\n<!-- /wp:paragraph -->\n\n<!-- wp:paragraph -->\n<p>The Energy Freedom Act will start to open up the grid to this new technology and these new participants. Among other things, like eliminating the cap on the credit to customers for the excess power their rooftop solar panels produce, it says if an independent power producer demonstrates the ability to generate electricity more cheaply than a mega-utility, then that IPP must be allowed to sell that power to the grid, with savings being passed along to consumers.&nbsp;</p>\n<!-- /wp:paragraph -->\n\n<!-- wp:paragraph -->\n<p>The objective here is for consumers to pay rates that are a function of what competition in the energy-production market dictates, as opposed to simply paying a mega-utility a guaranteed rate of return on its invested capital. And also to remove barriers to market-driven innovations, for no one knows what else markets may come up with when the grid is open to all.&nbsp;</p>\n<!-- /wp:paragraph -->\n\n<!-- wp:paragraph -->\n<p>This latter point was made in a recent piece published in Utility Drive:&nbsp;</p>\n<!-- /wp:paragraph -->\n\n<!-- wp:paragraph -->\n<p>\"As thousands of new 5G cell towers are installed across the country over the next few years and ubiquitous sensors allow for more sophisticated management of electric load and accommodation of innovation, the \'Internet of Things\' has the power to revolutionize the electric industry … Like the telecommunication industry, where customers have transitioned from purchasing a monthly landline service to enrolling in subscription plans for data and messaging services, the electric-utility industry has the potential to deliver innovations in service that have heretofore been unimaginable.\"&nbsp;</p>\n<!-- /wp:paragraph -->\n\n<!-- wp:paragraph -->\n<p>The Energy Freedom Act will help clear the way for these innovations, but considerable work remains to be done, for the old way of doing business and those who benefit from it never yield to any change without a fight.&nbsp;</p>\n<!-- /wp:paragraph -->\n\n<!-- wp:paragraph -->\n<p>In particular, careful attention must be paid to the actions of the Public Service Commission, which is charged with implementing the new law.&nbsp;</p>\n<!-- /wp:paragraph -->\n\n<!-- wp:paragraph -->\n<p>Still, this was a win for South Carolinians and a good first step.&nbsp;</p>\n<!-- /wp:paragraph -->\n\n<!-- wp:paragraph -->\n<p><em>Tom Davis is a State Senator representing portions of Beaufort and Jasper counties.</em><br> <br></p>\n<!-- /wp:paragraph -->', 'Energy Freedom Act opens energy production market to competition', '', 'publish', 'closed', 'closed', '', 'energy-freedom-act-opens-energy-production-market-to-competition', '', '', '2019-05-30 14:05:41', '2019-05-30 18:05:41', '', 0, 'https://staging.yourislandnews.com/?p=40132', 0, 'post', '', 0),
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(40135, 4, '2019-05-30 14:07:48', '2019-05-30 18:07:48', '<!-- wp:paragraph -->\n<p>Clemson University awarded more than 3,600 degrees in ceremonies at Littlejohn Coliseum this month. Among the local students who graduated from Clemson at Spring 2019 commencement ceremonies are:</p>\n<!-- /wp:paragraph -->\n\n<!-- wp:paragraph -->\n<p>Elizabeth L. Crowther of Beaufort graduated with a Bachelor of Science in Sociology.</p>\n<!-- /wp:paragraph -->\n\n<!-- wp:paragraph -->\n<p>Benjamin L. Hetherington of Beaufort graduated Cum Laude with a Bachelor of Science in Physics.&nbsp;</p>\n<!-- /wp:paragraph -->\n\n<!-- wp:paragraph -->\n<p>Jacob C. Hincher of Beaufort graduated with a Bachelor of Science in Civil Engineering.&nbsp;</p>\n<!-- /wp:paragraph -->\n\n<!-- wp:paragraph -->\n<p>Andrew Jacob Jezewski of Beaufort graduated with a Bachelor of Science in Mechanical Engineering.&nbsp;</p>\n<!-- /wp:paragraph -->\n\n<!-- wp:paragraph -->\n<p>Abbey Louise Knox of Beaufort graduated with a Bachelor of Arts in Psychology.&nbsp;</p>\n<!-- /wp:paragraph -->\n\n<!-- wp:paragraph -->\n<p>Kody L. McHale of Beaufort graduated Cum Laude with a Bachelor of Science in Civil Engineering.&nbsp;</p>\n<!-- /wp:paragraph -->\n\n<!-- wp:paragraph -->\n<p>Jonah Richard Miller of Beaufort graduated with a Bachelor of Science in Electrical Engineering.&nbsp;</p>\n<!-- /wp:paragraph -->\n\n<!-- wp:paragraph -->\n<p>Frances Dunbar Myrick of Beaufort graduated with a Bachelor of Science in Mathematical Sciences.&nbsp;</p>\n<!-- /wp:paragraph -->\n\n<!-- wp:paragraph -->\n<p>Vincent Nicholas Phaneuf of Beaufort graduated with a Bachelor of Science in Materials Science and Engineering.&nbsp;</p>\n<!-- /wp:paragraph -->\n\n<!-- wp:paragraph -->\n<p>Nyles J. Pinckney of Beaufort graduated with a Bachelor of Science in Criminal Justice.&nbsp;</p>\n<!-- /wp:paragraph -->\n\n<!-- wp:paragraph -->\n<p>Brandon A. Pratt of Beaufort graduated with a Bachelor of Science in Chemical Engineering.&nbsp;</p>\n<!-- /wp:paragraph -->\n\n<!-- wp:paragraph -->\n<p>Alexandra A. Sebestyen of Beaufort graduated Cum Laude with a Bachelor of Science in Marketing.&nbsp;</p>\n<!-- /wp:paragraph -->\n\n<!-- wp:paragraph -->\n<p>Shivin S. Shetty of Beaufort graduated with a Bachelor of Science in Computer Engineering.&nbsp;</p>\n<!-- /wp:paragraph -->\n\n<!-- wp:paragraph -->\n<p>Paula Carol Sommerville of Beaufort graduated with a Bachelor of Science in Financial Management.&nbsp;</p>\n<!-- /wp:paragraph -->\n\n<!-- wp:paragraph -->\n<p>Emily C. Waters of Ladys Island graduated Cum Laude with a Bachelor of Arts in Early Childhood Education.&nbsp;</p>\n<!-- /wp:paragraph -->\n\n<!-- wp:paragraph -->\n<p>Jackson C. Williams of Beaufort graduated with a Bachelor of Science in Mechanical Engineering.<br></p>\n<!-- /wp:paragraph -->', 'Clemson awards degrees to Beaufort students', '', 'publish', 'closed', 'closed', '', 'clemson-awards-degrees-to-beaufort-students', '', '', '2019-05-30 14:07:50', '2019-05-30 18:07:50', '', 0, 'https://staging.yourislandnews.com/?p=40135', 0, 'post', '', 0),
(40137, 4, '2019-05-30 14:09:56', '2019-05-30 18:09:56', '<!-- wp:paragraph -->\n<p><strong>BA’s Lower School honors five students</strong></p>\n<!-- /wp:paragraph -->\n\n<!-- wp:paragraph -->\n<p>Beaufort Academy’s Dr. Randy Wall Memorial Fountain is surrounded by 100 bricks and five benches honoring five students each year who exemplify one of the school’s core values: integrity, intellect, leadership, pride and respect.&nbsp;</p>\n<!-- /wp:paragraph -->\n\n<!-- wp:paragraph -->\n<p>A week after naming the 2019 honorees for the upper school, the school announced this year’s honorees for the lower school. They are: Parker Doscher (intellect), Lorelei Vasquez (integrity), Amorette Chapman (leadership), Ella Bekemeyer (pride) and Raynor Gault (respect).</p>\n<!-- /wp:paragraph -->\n\n<!-- wp:paragraph -->\n<p><strong>Beaufort’s Gress makes Austin Peay Dean’s List</strong></p>\n<!-- /wp:paragraph -->\n\n<!-- wp:paragraph -->\n<p>Austin Peay State University in Clarksville, Tenn., recognized Beaufort’s Natasha Gress as one of more than 2,200 students named to the Dean\'s List for academic achievement during the Spring 2019 semester. To qualify for the Dean\'s List, students must earn a semester GPA of 3.5 or greater.</p>\n<!-- /wp:paragraph -->\n\n<!-- wp:paragraph -->\n<p><strong>Four Broad River students perfect at WordMasters</strong></p>\n<!-- /wp:paragraph -->\n\n<!-- wp:paragraph -->\n<p>Seven Beaufort County School District students earned perfect scores in the spring edition of a national vocabulary competition, four of them coming from Beaufort’s Broad River Elementary School.</p>\n<!-- /wp:paragraph -->\n\n<!-- wp:paragraph -->\n<p>The WordMasters Challenge, the nation’s longest-running language arts competition for elementary and middle school students, holds three meets for nearly 150,000 students during each school year. In the 2018-19 academic year’s third competition in the Blue Division, four Broad River Elementary School students earned perfect scores – third-grader Maddox Adcox and fifth-graders Kylee Douglas, Angela Estrada and Jaime Maldonado Najera. The students were coached by Patricia Horton.&nbsp;</p>\n<!-- /wp:paragraph -->\n\n<!-- wp:paragraph -->\n<p>The other perfect scored came from Anna Williams (Hilton Head Island Elementary, coach Sharon Politi), Kensley Kaney (Red Cedar Elementary, 4<sup>th</sup> grade, coach Virginia Pratt) and Sosie Spires (Bluffton Middle School, 6<sup>th</sup> grade, coach Erin Morgan).</p>\n<!-- /wp:paragraph -->\n\n<!-- wp:paragraph -->\n<p>“Perfect means just what it says, and that obviously represents an outstanding performance on a national stage,” said interim superintendent Herb Berg. “To have these students build such strong vocabularies at such young ages is wonderful.”</p>\n<!-- /wp:paragraph -->\n\n<!-- wp:paragraph -->\n<p>Nationally, only 15 third-graders, 29 fourth-graders, 59 fifth-graders and 49 sixth-graders earned perfect scores.&nbsp;</p>\n<!-- /wp:paragraph -->\n\n<!-- wp:paragraph -->\n<p>The WordMasters Challenge is an exercise in critical thinking that encourages students to become familiar with new words that are considerably harder than grade level, then challenges them to use those words to complete analogies that express various kinds of logical relationships.</p>\n<!-- /wp:paragraph -->\n\n<!-- wp:paragraph -->\n<p>Although most vocabulary enrichment and analogy-solving programs are designed for use by high school students, WordMasters materials are created for younger students in grades 3-8. Working to solve the analogies helps students learn to think both analytically and metaphorically.</p>\n<!-- /wp:paragraph -->\n\n<!-- wp:paragraph -->\n<p><strong>Beaufort’s Petrone earnes Master’s degree from The Citadel</strong></p>\n<!-- /wp:paragraph -->\n\n<!-- wp:paragraph -->\n<p>Jennifer Petrone, who works for the Beaufort Police Department, earned a Master of Arts in Social Science from The Citadel, graduating during The Citadel Graduate College commencement ceremony on Saturday, May 4 in McAlister Field House.</p>\n<!-- /wp:paragraph -->\n\n<!-- wp:paragraph -->\n<p>Graduates accepted their diploma from Citadel alumnus Gen. Glenn W. Walters, USMC (Ret.), who was officiating as president for the first time.</p>\n<!-- /wp:paragraph -->\n\n<!-- wp:paragraph -->\n<p>The Class of 2019 includes 350 graduates who received a master\'s degree and 98 who earned a bachelor\'s degree.</p>\n<!-- /wp:paragraph -->\n\n<!-- wp:paragraph -->\n<p><strong>Four BA students earn seals of biliteracy</strong></p>\n<!-- /wp:paragraph -->\n\n<!-- wp:paragraph -->\n<p>Beaufort Academy students Emma Hincher, David Mathai, Jane Ward and Ariana Gonzalez earned Global and S.C. Seals of Biliteracy as a result of their STAMP test scores.</p>\n<!-- /wp:paragraph -->\n\n<!-- wp:paragraph -->\n<p>STAMP (Standards-based Measurement of Proficiency) is a web-based test that assesses foreign language proficiency. The STAMP test has three sections – reading, writing and speaking. </p>\n<!-- /wp:paragraph -->\n\n<!-- wp:paragraph -->\n<p>Test items are based on real-world, every-day situations. STAMP measures a test taker’s language ability according to benchmark levels that are based on national standards.&nbsp;</p>\n<!-- /wp:paragraph -->\n\n<!-- wp:paragraph -->\n<p><strong>BA’s Rushing, Ingraham conduct oral history project</strong></p>\n<!-- /wp:paragraph -->\n\n<!-- wp:paragraph -->\n<p>In conjunction with the U.S. Library of Congress, Jeffery Rushing and Heston Ingraham, two juniors from Beaufort Academy, had the opportunity to conduct a veterans oral history project.&nbsp;</p>\n<!-- /wp:paragraph -->\n\n<!-- wp:paragraph -->\n<p>This oral history project is a program designed to use students and other citizens to interview men and women who have served in the U.S. armed forces. These interviews are recorded digitally and archived in the Library of Congress in Washington, D.C.&nbsp;</p>\n<!-- /wp:paragraph -->\n\n<!-- wp:paragraph -->\n<p>This way the descendents of veterans can hear their achievements and stories in their own words.</p>\n<!-- /wp:paragraph -->\n\n<!-- wp:paragraph -->\n<p>Jeffery and Heston met with a decorated Marine who had served in Vietnam. The students were able to interview the veteran and record his story. This Marine wished to remain anonymous to the public, but his story will be available for his loved ones to hear and see.</p>\n<!-- /wp:paragraph -->\n\n<!-- wp:paragraph -->\n<p>The Library of Congress began the Veterans Oral History Project in 2000. The library is dependent on volunteers to identify and record the stories of men and women who have served their country. The Library of Congress describes the project as one that “ collects, preserves, and makes accessible the personal accounts of American war veterans so that future generations may hear directly from veterans and better understand the realities of war.”</p>\n<!-- /wp:paragraph -->\n\n<!-- wp:paragraph -->\n<p><strong>Battery Creek grad Watson honored by USC Aiken</strong></p>\n<!-- /wp:paragraph -->\n\n<!-- wp:paragraph -->\n<p>USC Aiken\'s Veterans Honor Society inducted more than 60 new members, including Battery Creek graduate Fatima Watson, into the organization, which celebrates the academic achievements of veteran and military students. The Office of Veteran and Military Student Success team helps Watson and other veterans, retirees, currently serving members of the armed forces, or their family members navigate the university system.<br></p>\n<!-- /wp:paragraph -->', 'School Briefs', '', 'publish', 'closed', 'closed', '', 'school-briefs-43', '', '', '2019-05-30 14:09:59', '2019-05-30 18:09:59', '', 0, 'https://staging.yourislandnews.com/?p=40137', 0, 'post', '', 0),
(40139, 4, '2019-05-30 14:11:37', '2019-05-30 18:11:37', '<!-- wp:paragraph -->\n<p>An Okatie Elementary School kindergarten assistant was named Friday, May 24, as the Beaufort County School District’s 2019 Support Person of the Year.</p>\n<!-- /wp:paragraph -->\n\n<!-- wp:paragraph -->\n<p>The selection of Kari Dollar was announced at a breakfast recognizing schools’ previously announced individual honorees.</p>\n<!-- /wp:paragraph -->\n\n<!-- wp:paragraph -->\n<p>Dollar is completing her second year as a kindergarten assistant at Okatie Elementary, where she helps students with their math, reading and writing skills, helps with overall classroom management and works behind the scenes to help keep the school running smoothly.</p>\n<!-- /wp:paragraph -->\n\n<!-- wp:paragraph -->\n<p>“Kari is a very genuine and dedicated person,” Okatie Elementary Principal Jamie Pinckney said in a release. “She’s kind, patient, generous, smart and organized, and nobody is going to out-work her.”</p>\n<!-- /wp:paragraph -->\n\n<!-- wp:paragraph -->\n<p>Dollar said she was surprised and excited by today’s announcement.</p>\n<!-- /wp:paragraph -->\n\n<!-- wp:paragraph -->\n<p>“What an honor to be chosen to represent support staff across our entire district,” Dollar said. “We’re blessed with lots of wonderful employees who also deserve this recognition. This is a great place to be.”</p>\n<!-- /wp:paragraph -->\n\n<!-- wp:paragraph -->\n<p>Dollar has a bachelor’s degree in animal nutrition.</p>\n<!-- /wp:paragraph -->\n\n<!-- wp:paragraph -->\n<p>Pinckney said Dollar was active in Okatie Elementary’s PTO and School Improvement Council when her two children were students there, and now that her children attend May River High, she is active in that school’s PTO and SIC.</p>\n<!-- /wp:paragraph -->\n\n<!-- wp:paragraph -->\n<p>Interim Superintendent Herb Berg said Dollar would be an excellent representative for the school district’s diverse array of support staff, which can include teaching assistants, social workers, school nurses, bookkeepers, office managers, media specialists, school secretaries and technology and data specialists.</p>\n<!-- /wp:paragraph -->\n\n<!-- wp:paragraph -->\n<p>“No school can be successful without a strong support staff,” Berg said. “What they do each and every day makes it possible for teachers and students to succeed in the classroom.”</p>\n<!-- /wp:paragraph -->\n\n<!-- wp:paragraph -->\n<p>Dollar was awarded a $250 gas card from Parker’s, which sponsored the breakfast.<br></p>\n<!-- /wp:paragraph -->', 'Kindergarten assistant honored as school district’s 2019 Support Person of the Year', '', 'publish', 'closed', 'closed', '', 'kindergarten-assistant-honored-as-school-districts-2019-support-person-of-the-year', '', '', '2019-05-30 14:11:40', '2019-05-30 18:11:40', '', 0, 'https://staging.yourislandnews.com/?p=40139', 0, 'post', '', 0),
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(40142, 4, '2019-05-30 14:14:11', '2019-05-30 18:14:11', '<!-- wp:paragraph -->\n<p><strong>Nurse practitioner Vigil joins Beaufort Memorial Express Care </strong></p>\n<!-- /wp:paragraph -->\n\n<!-- wp:paragraph -->\n<p>Board-certified nurse practitioner Allison Vigil has joined Beaufort Memorial Express Care and Occupational Health.</p>\n<!-- /wp:paragraph -->\n\n<!-- wp:paragraph -->\n<p>An experienced health care professional, Vigil earned her nurse practitioner degree from Olivet Nazarene University in Illinois in 2016 and has been working the last two years in a Beaufort primary care practice.</p>\n<!-- /wp:paragraph -->\n\n<!-- wp:paragraph -->\n<p>Vigil started her career in 2003 as a certified nursing assistant at an Illinois hospital and went on to serve as an obstetrics scrub technician before earning her associate degree in nursing in 2009 from the Technical College of the Lowcountry. In 2012, she graduated magna cum laude with a Bachelor of Science in nursing from Ohio University.&nbsp;</p>\n<!-- /wp:paragraph -->\n\n<!-- wp:paragraph -->\n<p>Prior to becoming a certified nurse practitioner, Vigil served as an emergency room nurse for more than 2½ years in children’s hospitals in Chicago, Illinois, and Norfolk, Virginia, gaining experience in pediatric trauma care. Over the years, she has served as a registered nurse in hospital emergency rooms and medical practices in Alaska, Illinois and the Lowcountry.&nbsp;</p>\n<!-- /wp:paragraph -->\n\n<!-- wp:paragraph -->\n<p><strong>Volunteers needed for PruittHealth Hospice</strong></p>\n<!-- /wp:paragraph -->\n\n<!-- wp:paragraph -->\n<p>Volunteers are needed for PruittHealth Hospice. If interested, call 843-522-0476 or stop by 1605 North St. in Beaufort.</p>\n<!-- /wp:paragraph -->\n\n<!-- wp:paragraph -->\n<p><strong>Pinnacle brings Beaufort Dermatology on board</strong></p>\n<!-- /wp:paragraph -->\n\n<!-- wp:paragraph -->\n<p>Pinnacle Medical Group cut the ribbon Thursday, May 23, on its newest location, Beaufort Dermatology at 1096 Ribaut Road. The practice’s parent company brings the latest in technology to the region, including the ability to diagnose skin cancer non-invasively.<br> </p>\n<!-- /wp:paragraph -->\n\n<!-- wp:paragraph -->\n<p>Dr. Audrey Klenke, owner of Pinnacle Medical Group, was on hand for the festivities. Joining her were Beaufort Mayor Billy Keyserling; Beaufort city councilman Philip E. Cromer; Beaufort city councilwoman Alice Howard; </p>\n<!-- /wp:paragraph -->\n\n<!-- wp:paragraph -->\n<p>Jose Casey, field representative for Rep. Joe Cunningham (S.C. 1<sup>st</sup>);  Beaufort Regional Chamber of Commerce representatives; and Trevor Klenke, Dr. Klenke’s husband.<br> </p>\n<!-- /wp:paragraph -->\n\n<!-- wp:paragraph -->\n<p>Klenke acquired the original practice from two retiring dermatologists and added it to Pinnacle Medical Group’s holdings, which include Pinnacle Plastic Surgery and PURE Medical Spa in Bluffton.</p>\n<!-- /wp:paragraph -->\n\n<!-- wp:paragraph -->\n<p>A full-time dermatologist will join the practice after a national search is completed. Meanwhile, Jo Ann Cullen, an advanced practice nurse practitioner, will serve as the physician extender. Assisting her will be medical assistants Aylin Flores and Jessica Fico and patient concierge, Katie Bruns.<br></p>\n<!-- /wp:paragraph -->', 'Health Briefs', '', 'publish', 'closed', 'closed', '', 'health-briefs-10', '', '', '2019-05-30 14:14:13', '2019-05-30 18:14:13', '', 0, 'https://staging.yourislandnews.com/?p=40142', 0, 'post', '', 0),
(40144, 4, '2019-05-30 14:15:21', '2019-05-30 18:15:21', '<!-- wp:heading {\"level\":4} -->\n<h4>By CELIA STRONG</h4>\n<!-- /wp:heading -->\n\n<!-- wp:paragraph -->\n<p>A little concentration will go a long way.&nbsp;</p>\n<!-- /wp:paragraph -->\n\n<!-- wp:paragraph -->\n<p>Especially when trying to decipher Pinot Gris wines. Distinguishing Pinot Grigio wines from Pinot Gris wines is easier. But even in Alsace, which is the original “gris” producing area, there are different styles of wines. Pinot Gris and Pinot Grigio are the same variety. But “gris” is the French version of the name and it is, obviously, used in the Alsace region. So “gris” it is.&nbsp;</p>\n<!-- /wp:paragraph -->\n\n<!-- wp:paragraph -->\n<p>Alsace wines are strongly influenced by their neighbor across the Rhine River, Germany. For that matter, Alsatian food, architecture and language are also closely tied to Germany.&nbsp;</p>\n<!-- /wp:paragraph -->\n\n<!-- wp:paragraph -->\n<p>For centuries, this region passed back and forth between France and Germany. With The Treaty of Versailles in 1919, Alsace was returned to French control and has remained there since. The name Alsace comes from the Old High German “Elisaz” which means foreign domain.</p>\n<!-- /wp:paragraph -->\n\n<!-- wp:paragraph -->\n<p>About 90 percent of Alsatian wines are white. From about 40,000 acres of vineyards. These wines come in taller, German Rhine style bottles, legally, and are labeled for their grape variety. A rarity in France.&nbsp;</p>\n<!-- /wp:paragraph -->\n\n<!-- wp:paragraph -->\n<p>In recent years, plantings of Pinot Gris have started to increase. Partly because of the popularity of Pinot Grigio. And, partly, because these are such good wines.&nbsp;</p>\n<!-- /wp:paragraph -->\n\n<!-- wp:paragraph -->\n<p>Alsatian Pinot Gris wines, in general, are golden yellow in color. Their aromas are rich with smoky notes, dried fruits, apricots, honey, ginger and gingerbread and florals.&nbsp;</p>\n<!-- /wp:paragraph -->\n\n<!-- wp:paragraph -->\n<p>Its flavors are also rich with peaches, meyer lemon, ginger and stone fruits. With good acidity levels, they are medium- to full-bodied with great structure, roundness, balance and strength.&nbsp;</p>\n<!-- /wp:paragraph -->\n\n<!-- wp:paragraph -->\n<p>And concentration. Definitely, they are more food-friendly.</p>\n<!-- /wp:paragraph -->\n\n<!-- wp:paragraph -->\n<p>Famile Hugel (Hugel Family) has produced wines in Alsace for more than 370 years. Thirteen generations of the family, beginning in 1639, with Hans Ulrich Hugel, a Swiss national.&nbsp;</p>\n<!-- /wp:paragraph -->\n\n<!-- wp:paragraph -->\n<p>Over all these years, they have established a reputation for passion and a dynamic, modern outlook. They own about 62 acres, over half of them with Grand Cru designation although none of their labels claim this designation. Their wines are produced in several tiers, Classic being the basic.&nbsp;</p>\n<!-- /wp:paragraph -->\n\n<!-- wp:paragraph -->\n<p>Hugel Classic Pinot Gris is 100 percent Pinot Gris and stands out for several reasons. It’s easily spotted on shelves by its distinctive label. A French winemaker with a corkscrew for his nose and a bunch of grapes in his hands.&nbsp;</p>\n<!-- /wp:paragraph -->\n\n<!-- wp:paragraph -->\n<p>This wine is made from some Hugel estate grapes and from purchased grapes that go through extreme selection processes. All sustainably grown on clay-limestone soils. They are hand picked and taken intact to the presses.&nbsp;</p>\n<!-- /wp:paragraph -->\n\n<!-- wp:paragraph -->\n<p>Fermentation is done in temperature-controlled vats with natural yeasts. Minimal intervention in the winemaking process is the rule at Hugel.&nbsp;</p>\n<!-- /wp:paragraph -->\n\n<!-- wp:paragraph -->\n<p>The finished wine is rich and full but still dry. Concentrated. Pinot Gris is the most discreet and subtle of their varieties. And, it has the longest aging potential. Its aromas are subtle and soft, but still intense, with ripe fruits (apricots), licorice, some buttery brioche, sesame seed, pistachio and hazelnut. Its flavors echo these aromas along with apples, guava, cinnamon and nutmeg. Think spicy bread pudding made with brioche.&nbsp;</p>\n<!-- /wp:paragraph -->\n\n<!-- wp:paragraph -->\n<p>This wine, made by Marc Hugel, is mouth-filling. All these flavors and textures make this wine stand out in your wine memory banks. Without too much concentration.&nbsp;</p>\n<!-- /wp:paragraph -->\n\n<!-- wp:paragraph -->\n<p>A Pinot Grigio it is not.&nbsp;<br></p>\n<!-- /wp:paragraph -->', 'Concentration has its benefits', '', 'publish', 'closed', 'closed', '', 'concentration-has-its-benefits', '', '', '2019-05-30 14:15:24', '2019-05-30 18:15:24', '', 0, 'https://staging.yourislandnews.com/?p=40144', 0, 'post', '', 0),
(40146, 4, '2019-05-30 14:16:13', '2019-05-30 18:16:13', '<!-- wp:heading {\"level\":4} -->\n<h4>Southern Palette holding grand opening</h4>\n<!-- /wp:heading -->\n\n<!-- wp:paragraph -->\n<p>Southern Palette Art Studio is holding a grand opening and ribbon cutting for its new studio from 4 to 7 p.m. Thursday, May 30.</p>\n<!-- /wp:paragraph -->\n\n<!-- wp:paragraph -->\n<p>City Councilwoman and local business owner Nan Sutton will be on hand, and visitors can check out the new studio, talk with artist and owner Kandace Palmer and enjoy some fabulous complimentary food, beverages and wine.</p>\n<!-- /wp:paragraph -->\n\n<!-- wp:paragraph -->\n<p>There will be prizes, gift certificate giveaways and more, including a drawing for a special grand prize near the end of the evening.<br>\nSouthern Palette is located at 1211 Boundary Street.</p>\n<!-- /wp:paragraph -->\n\n<!-- wp:heading {\"level\":4} -->\n<h4>EarthFIT in Habersham holding grand opening</h4>\n<!-- /wp:heading -->\n\n<!-- wp:paragraph -->\n<p>The Beaufort Regional Chamber of Commerce will celebrate the grand opening of the new EarthFIT @ Habersham facility with a ribbon cutting ceremony at 1 p.m. Friday, May 31 at 101 North Market in Habersham.</p>\n<!-- /wp:paragraph -->\n\n<!-- wp:paragraph -->\n<p>The event will include remarks and a ribbon cutting as well as an opportunity to tour the new facility. The public is invited to attend.</p>\n<!-- /wp:paragraph -->\n\n<!-- wp:paragraph -->\n<p>EarthFIT helps their clients to burn fat, gain lean muscles, increase their energy, and reduce ache and pains in the safest, fastest and most effective ways possible using cutting edge, scientific training techniques.To learn more, visit <a href=\"http://r20.rs6.net/tn.jsp?f=0010Cq8KS-12NMBUbj8r2qxY0ENIAGh8jEec4Te0q9wsfCnf6IJiRzJrQv-OVwhTWgBljC-xC5FRGTTP5J6SRKXlI0vFOZ0RHkMBhlJoAsPCQY9VDMiDefFgtjFsFci74u9_yXvoOMX9-W8LQ5x25LgfhO7u4YElIdrBde1V7ffMemhx1Mv9pyKcUHhZf9SEMHj&amp;c=cBqgeCTfY2yk5VJAc8A1lnoGYCQpviRNbx1v-R0W_NZDW0_rBPGGXg==&amp;ch=KTCHOku7OZoEDcSqhTr_AmxSO0CZ6V_2V1UmEvI-1zLudYG0tZb6iA==\">BeaufortPersonalTraining.com</a>.<br></p>\n<!-- /wp:paragraph -->', 'Business Briefs', '', 'publish', 'closed', 'closed', '', 'business-briefs-19', '', '', '2019-05-30 14:16:15', '2019-05-30 18:16:15', '', 0, 'https://staging.yourislandnews.com/?p=40146', 0, 'post', '', 0),
(40148, 4, '2019-05-30 14:17:18', '2019-05-30 18:17:18', '<!-- wp:paragraph -->\n<p>The USC Beaufort Center for the Arts has announced the addition of National Theatre Live to its lineup.</p>\n<!-- /wp:paragraph -->\n\n<!-- wp:paragraph -->\n<p>National Theatre Live brings the best of British theater to cinema screens all over the world.</p>\n<!-- /wp:paragraph -->\n\n<!-- wp:paragraph -->\n<p>“With state-of-the-art filming techniques, tailored to every play, we bring you each performance as it happens, in all it’s glory,” says the National Theatre Live release. “From close-ups that capture every flicker of emotion, to sweeping wide shots of the stage. Whether you come along to the live broadcast, or catch one of many replays, you’ll have the best seats in the house.</p>\n<!-- /wp:paragraph -->\n\n<!-- wp:paragraph -->\n<p>“You’ll also be part of something much bigger. There will be thousands of others all around the world watching along with you. Sharing every gasp, every laugh, every dramatic moment. This is theatre for everyone.”</p>\n<!-- /wp:paragraph -->\n\n<!-- wp:paragraph -->\n<p>The lineup additions opened with King Lear over Memorial Day weekend. The rest of the schedule is as follows:</p>\n<!-- /wp:paragraph -->\n\n<!-- wp:paragraph -->\n<p>June 2: 42<sup>nd</sup> Street, The Musical, 3 p.m., Sunday</p>\n<!-- /wp:paragraph -->\n\n<!-- wp:paragraph -->\n<p>June 30: The Audience, 3 p.m., Sunday – Helen Mirren reprises her Oscar-winning performance on the stage.</p>\n<!-- /wp:paragraph -->\n\n<!-- wp:paragraph -->\n<p>July 7: Small Island, 3 p.m., Sunday – An adaptation of Andrea Levy’s Windrush novel.</p>\n<!-- /wp:paragraph -->\n\n<!-- wp:paragraph -->\n<p>July 21: Hamlet, 3 p.m., Sunday – Benedict Cumberbatch plays the title role in Shakespeare’s tragedy.</p>\n<!-- /wp:paragraph -->\n\n<!-- wp:paragraph -->\n<p>All tickets are $18. They can be purchased online at uscbcenterforthearts.com, by phone at 843-521-4145 or at the door. Concessions will be serving red and white wine, bottled water and sodas.<br></p>\n<!-- /wp:paragraph -->', 'USCB Center For The Arts adds National Theatre Live', '', 'publish', 'closed', 'closed', '', 'uscb-center-for-the-arts-adds-national-theatre-live', '', '', '2019-05-30 14:17:20', '2019-05-30 18:17:20', '', 0, 'https://staging.yourislandnews.com/?p=40148', 0, 'post', '', 0),
(40150, 4, '2019-05-30 14:18:16', '2019-05-30 18:18:16', '<!-- wp:paragraph -->\n<p><strong>Bus Stop adding Saturday matinee to AmVets run</strong></p>\n<!-- /wp:paragraph -->\n\n<!-- wp:paragraph -->\n<p>Coastal Stage Productions is adding a 2 p.m. June 1 matinee of its production of Bus Stop to AmVets on 1831 Ribaut Road in Port Royal.</p>\n<!-- /wp:paragraph -->\n\n<!-- wp:paragraph -->\n<p>The group’s remaining performances, in addition to the June 1 Saturday matinee, are at 8 p.m. May 31 and June 1, as well as a 2 p.m. Sunday matinee June 2.</p>\n<!-- /wp:paragraph -->\n\n<!-- wp:paragraph -->\n<p>Advanced reserved seats are $25, while groups of 10 or more get reserved seats at $22. Student seats are $15. Tickets at the door are $27.</p>\n<!-- /wp:paragraph -->\n\n<!-- wp:paragraph -->\n<p>Tickets are available by calling the local box office at 843-717-2175 or buying online at <a href=\"https://busstopportroyal.bpt.me/\">https://busstopportroyal.bpt.me/</a>.<br></p>\n<!-- /wp:paragraph -->', 'Arts Brief', '', 'publish', 'closed', 'closed', '', 'arts-brief', '', '', '2019-05-30 14:18:18', '2019-05-30 18:18:18', '', 0, 'https://staging.yourislandnews.com/?p=40150', 0, 'post', '', 0),
(40152, 4, '2019-05-30 14:20:16', '2019-05-30 18:20:16', '<!-- wp:paragraph -->\n<p>A team of self-proclaimed “old dudes” from northern Beaufort County teamed up to win the men’s 70-and-over 3.0 title at the USTA South Carolina League State Championships on Hilton Head Island last month.&nbsp;</p>\n<!-- /wp:paragraph -->\n\n<!-- wp:paragraph -->\n<p>The Habersham String Chickens team — made up of players from Habersham, Lady’s Island, Cat Island, and the City of Beaufort — went 3-0 at the event, defeating teams from Hilton Head, McCormick, and John’s Island. The String Chickens won seven of nine individual courts and dropped the fewest sets (7) and games (67) of any of the four teams.</p>\n<!-- /wp:paragraph -->\n\n<!-- wp:paragraph -->\n<p></p>\n<!-- /wp:paragraph -->\n\n<!-- wp:paragraph -->\n<p><em>The Habersham String Chickens won the men’s 70-and-over 3.0 title at the USTA South Carolina League State Championships last month on Hilton Head Island. Back row from left Kim Barrett (co-captain), David Yates, Jeff Lewis, Ed Hancock, Ryan Norris,  Don Wilson, Paul Murrell and Guy Birkhead. Front row kneeling, Rob Hilton and Dick Purdy (co-captain)   </em></p>\n<!-- /wp:paragraph -->', 'Local team wins USTA state title', '', 'publish', 'closed', 'closed', '', 'local-team-wins-usta-state-title', '', '', '2019-05-30 14:20:17', '2019-05-30 18:20:17', '', 0, 'https://staging.yourislandnews.com/?p=40152', 0, 'post', '', 0),
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(40155, 4, '2019-05-30 14:21:53', '2019-05-30 18:21:53', '<!-- wp:paragraph -->\n<p>Beaufort Academy’s boys tennis team claimed its second consecutive SCISA 1A state title with a 5-2 win over Mead Hall earlier this month.</p>\n<!-- /wp:paragraph -->\n\n<!-- wp:paragraph -->\n<p>Daniel Richards, Andrew Alicknavitch, Connor Aivez, and Brandon Trapp all won singles matches, leaving the Eagles in need of only one doubles victory to clinch the title. Jack McDougall and Trapp teamed up to provide the clinching doubles win.&nbsp;</p>\n<!-- /wp:paragraph -->\n\n<!-- wp:paragraph -->\n<p>It’s the Eagles’ third state title in the past four years.</p>\n<!-- /wp:paragraph -->', 'BA boys win tennis title', '', 'publish', 'closed', 'closed', '', 'ba-boys-win-tennis-title', '', '', '2019-05-30 14:21:55', '2019-05-30 18:21:55', '', 0, 'https://staging.yourislandnews.com/?p=40155', 0, 'post', '', 0),
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(40158, 4, '2019-05-30 14:25:39', '2019-05-30 18:25:39', '<!-- wp:paragraph -->\n<p>Beaufort High football fans got a sneak preview of next year’s team —&nbsp;and a first look at their new head coach — at the team’s annual spring game Friday night.</p>\n<!-- /wp:paragraph -->\n\n<!-- wp:paragraph -->\n<p>And as often is the case during the spring, optimism abounds.</p>\n<!-- /wp:paragraph -->\n\n<!-- wp:paragraph -->\n<p>“I thought it went well,” new head coach Bryce Lybrand said. “I was happy with what I saw.”</p>\n<!-- /wp:paragraph -->\n\n<!-- wp:paragraph -->\n<p>The first-team offense and first-team defense took turns on the field for 10-play sequences. As Lybrand expected, the offense was ahead of the defense thanks to four returning starters on the offensive line, along with star running back James Dagin and quarterback Tyler Haley.</p>\n<!-- /wp:paragraph -->\n\n<!-- wp:paragraph -->\n<p>Haley split time with senior Jeffrey Smyth at quarterback last season but took on a bigger role as the season progressed. That experience helped him hit the ground running with the offense this spring.</p>\n<!-- /wp:paragraph -->\n\n<!-- wp:paragraph -->\n<p>“We’ve got so many guys coming back on offense that we were able to do almost our full offensive install in the spring,” Lybrand said. “There wasn’t really anything that we installed that he didn’t already know. We were able to throw a lot at him.”</p>\n<!-- /wp:paragraph -->\n\n<!-- wp:paragraph -->\n<p>Speaking of throwing, Haley had quite a night Friday. He completed 12 of 17 passes for 255 yards and three touchdowns, hooking up often with speedster Tre Smalls, who had four catches for 190 yards and two TDs. Dagin broke three long touchdown runs of 60 yards or longer and finished with 209 yards and three TDs.</p>\n<!-- /wp:paragraph -->\n\n<!-- wp:paragraph -->\n<p>While the offense stole the show, the defense provided some highlights, as well. Alvin Wilson had multiple sacks and knocked down multiple passes, Kaedin Grissom had an interception, and William Winburn made several tackles to lead the defense.</p>\n<!-- /wp:paragraph -->\n\n<!-- wp:paragraph -->\n<p>The Eagles open the season Aug. 23 at A.C. Flora and play their first home game Aug. 30 against Battery Creek.</p>\n<!-- /wp:paragraph -->\n\n<!-- wp:list -->\n<ul><li></li></ul>\n<!-- /wp:list -->\n\n<!-- wp:paragraph -->\n<p><em>Above: Quarterback Tyler Haley performed well during Beaufort High’s annual spring football game Friday night. After splitting time with senior Jeffrey Smyth last season, Haley is poised to take over the role full-time in 2019.</em></p>\n<!-- /wp:paragraph -->', 'Lybrand happy with Eagles’ spring progress', '', 'publish', 'closed', 'closed', '', 'lybrand-happy-with-eagles-spring-progress', '', '', '2019-05-30 14:25:40', '2019-05-30 18:25:40', '', 0, 'https://staging.yourislandnews.com/?p=40158', 0, 'post', '', 0),
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(40161, 4, '2019-05-30 14:28:17', '2019-05-30 18:28:17', '<!-- wp:paragraph -->\n<p>Beaufort High School senior Cecilia Wright was presented with a $1,000 check at the Lowcountry Wind Symphony’s recent spring concert, “European Treasures,” at Sea Island Presbyterian Church.&nbsp;</p>\n<!-- /wp:paragraph -->\n\n<!-- wp:paragraph -->\n<p>The gift from the LWS board and Hamner Music Company is in honor of Wright’s two-year commitment to the French horn section of LWS and will go toward her college expenses as she begins a degree program in Music Education at Western Carolina University in September.&nbsp;</p>\n<!-- /wp:paragraph -->\n\n<!-- wp:paragraph -->\n<p>One of the missions of the Lowcountry Wind Symphony is to support and encourage young musicians. It is finalizing plans for a music scholarship program that will allow Beaufort County School District music students who are accepted at a school of music for their academic studies to apply for financial consideration.&nbsp;</p>\n<!-- /wp:paragraph -->\n\n<!-- wp:paragraph -->\n<p>In addition to her skills as a French horn player, Wright served as pianist for the Beaufort High School musicals for the past three years. She is an honor student, being selected for both the French National Honor Society and the National Honor Society at Beaufort High School.&nbsp;</p>\n<!-- /wp:paragraph -->\n\n<!-- wp:paragraph -->\n<p>She plays in the Honor Band at Beaufort and served as Brass Section Captain of the Marching Band, and Concertmaster of the Honor Band.&nbsp;</p>\n<!-- /wp:paragraph -->\n\n<!-- wp:paragraph -->\n<p>Since January, Wright has studied music theory and harmony, and begun to explore conducting with LWS Music Director Donald F. Jemella.&nbsp;</p>\n<!-- /wp:paragraph -->\n\n<!-- wp:paragraph -->\n<p>Talented high school students and adults are welcome to join LWS, depending on the instrumentation needs of the percussion, brass or wind sections. For more information about LWS, or the Lowcountry Youth Wind Symphony, contact Donald F. Jemella at 917-439-0244 or Bobbi Logan at 843-705-3289 or visit www.lowcountrywindsymphony.com.&nbsp;</p>\n<!-- /wp:paragraph -->', 'Lowcountry Wind Symphony honors Beaufort graduate', '', 'publish', 'closed', 'closed', '', 'lowcountry-wind-symphony-honors-beaufort-graduate', '', '', '2019-05-30 14:28:19', '2019-05-30 18:28:19', '', 0, 'https://staging.yourislandnews.com/?p=40161', 0, 'post', '', 0),
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A day to recognize and honor the Americans before us who paid the highest price in service of their country.&nbsp;</p>\n<!-- /wp:paragraph -->\n\n<!-- wp:paragraph -->\n<p>The ultimate sacrifice. They died for us, so that we may be free.</p>\n<!-- /wp:paragraph -->\n\n<!-- wp:paragraph -->\n<p>So how do we honor those men and women? What do we do to celebrate such a somber occurrence? Given the celebrations, laying of wreaths and parades, do we do enough?</p>\n<!-- /wp:paragraph -->\n\n<!-- wp:paragraph -->\n<p>How can we repay them?&nbsp;</p>\n<!-- /wp:paragraph -->\n\n<!-- wp:paragraph -->\n<p>The answer is complicated, and yet it’s simple.</p>\n<!-- /wp:paragraph -->\n\n<!-- wp:paragraph -->\n<p>The first and biggest step is to stop making it something we do just once a year. It should be a part of our lives every day.</p>\n<!-- /wp:paragraph -->\n\n<!-- wp:paragraph -->\n<p>And then the second step is to be worthy of their sacrifice. How to do that is a little less clear.</p>\n<!-- /wp:paragraph -->\n\n<!-- wp:paragraph -->\n<p>I’ve seen that sentiment on social media and T-shirts in the past week.&nbsp;</p>\n<!-- /wp:paragraph -->\n\n<!-- wp:paragraph -->\n<p>And I think some of the people I’ve seen it from might disagree with me on exactly what that means.</p>\n<!-- /wp:paragraph -->\n\n<!-- wp:paragraph -->\n<p>It’s not about being more patriotic. It’s not about supporting the military. Although those things aren’t necessarily bad.</p>\n<!-- /wp:paragraph -->\n\n<!-- wp:paragraph -->\n<p>It’s not about being more “American.”&nbsp;</p>\n<!-- /wp:paragraph -->\n\n<!-- wp:paragraph -->\n<p>It’s about being a better American.</p>\n<!-- /wp:paragraph -->\n\n<!-- wp:paragraph -->\n<p>We should do the things we can do as Americans to make America better. We should be good citizens.</p>\n<!-- /wp:paragraph -->\n\n<!-- wp:paragraph -->\n<p>First of all, we should be informed. And we should vote.&nbsp;</p>\n<!-- /wp:paragraph -->\n\n<!-- wp:paragraph -->\n<p>We should hold our elected officials – from our towns and counties to Congress and the White House – accountable. Right or left, Democrat or Republican, we should hold them to the same standards. And we should insist they follow the law.</p>\n<!-- /wp:paragraph -->\n\n<!-- wp:paragraph -->\n<p>We should be vigilant so that we don’t require the same sacrifice these soldiers made frivolously. We should question our leaders vigorously any time they want to send our troops into harm’s way. It’s our responsibility. Our leaders work for us.</p>\n<!-- /wp:paragraph -->\n\n<!-- wp:paragraph -->\n<p>And when our men and women in uniform come home broken, we should address their needs adequately and promptly.</p>\n<!-- /wp:paragraph -->\n\n<!-- wp:paragraph -->\n<p>But our responsibilities shouldn’t just be toward our government and our military.</p>\n<!-- /wp:paragraph -->\n\n<!-- wp:paragraph -->\n<p>We should take care of those who came before us, our elderly.</p>\n<!-- /wp:paragraph -->\n\n<!-- wp:paragraph -->\n<p>We should care about children, even those that are not our own.</p>\n<!-- /wp:paragraph -->\n\n<!-- wp:paragraph -->\n<p>We should help and show empathy toward the sick, the mentally ill, the homeless and the poor.</p>\n<!-- /wp:paragraph -->\n\n<!-- wp:paragraph -->\n<p>We should give blood. We should give to charity.</p>\n<!-- /wp:paragraph -->\n\n<!-- wp:paragraph -->\n<p>We should care about our environment.&nbsp;</p>\n<!-- /wp:paragraph -->\n\n<!-- wp:paragraph -->\n<p>We should speak out when there is wrongdoing, racism, bigotry or greed.</p>\n<!-- /wp:paragraph -->\n\n<!-- wp:paragraph -->\n<p>All these things seem idealistic. Maybe they are.</p>\n<!-- /wp:paragraph -->\n\n<!-- wp:paragraph -->\n<p>But they can be done. And they can be done every day, even if in small doses.&nbsp;</p>\n<!-- /wp:paragraph -->\n\n<!-- wp:paragraph -->\n<p>And they will make this country a better place, and the people will be better for it, as well.</p>\n<!-- /wp:paragraph -->\n\n<!-- wp:paragraph -->\n<p>And that’s how you repay them. 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(40202, 4, '2019-05-30 14:54:11', '2019-05-30 18:54:11', '<!-- wp:paragraph -->\n<p>As manatees return to their summer haunts along the coast, S.C. Department of Natural Resources (SCDNR) and U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service (USFWS) biologists are reminding residents and visitors to be particularly alert while boating and to report sightings of these gentle giants online.&nbsp;</p>\n<!-- /wp:paragraph -->\n\n<!-- wp:paragraph -->\n<p>Manatees, or sea cows, are large marine mammals that reach around 10 feet in length and weigh up to a ton. They\'re warm-weather visitors to South Carolina, typically arriving in May and leaving by November, when water temperatures drop below 68 degrees Fahrenheit.</p>\n<!-- /wp:paragraph -->\n\n<!-- wp:paragraph -->\n<p>Because of the difficulty of counting them in murky waters, South Carolina\'s manatee population is currently unknown – but it\'s a small fraction of the United States\' estimated 6,600 animals, most of which remain in Florida. Due to federal and state protections, it\'s illegal to hunt, play with or harass manatees, which includes touching, providing water to or attempting to feed them.</p>\n<!-- /wp:paragraph -->\n\n<!-- wp:paragraph -->\n<p>Biologists with the Clearwater Marine Aquarium Research Institute are tagging rescued animals in an effort to study their migration habits outside the state of Florida. A number of manatees, some familiar to South Carolina’s waters, have already begun to make their way north out of Florida, including ones bearing satellite transmitters.&nbsp;</p>\n<!-- /wp:paragraph -->\n\n<!-- wp:paragraph -->\n<p>Tagged manatees wear a \"belt\" around the base of their tails and trail a floating satellite transmitter that collects and sends information about the animal\'s location (see photo). The tags are harmless to the animal and designed to break free in case of entanglement. Officials ask that members of the public do not pull or tamper with these tags – they\'re providing valuable information to help wildlife researchers better understand and protect these mammals.</p>\n<!-- /wp:paragraph -->\n\n<!-- wp:paragraph -->\n<p>There are a number of ways members of the public can help South Carolina\'s manatees. 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All ages are invited to attend this educational and engaging program.&nbsp;</p>\n<!-- /wp:paragraph -->\n\n<!-- wp:paragraph -->\n<p>And 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. 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Call the Y at 843-522-9622 or visit beaufort-jasperymca.org</p>\n<!-- /wp:paragraph -->\n\n<!-- wp:paragraph -->\n<p><strong>Santa Elena History Center hosting author Richard Thomas</strong></p>\n<!-- /wp:paragraph -->\n\n<!-- wp:paragraph -->\n<p>The Santa Elena History Center is hosting a lecture and book signing with author Richard Thomas at 11:30 a.m. Saturday June 8, where he will discuss “Backwater Frontier: Beaufort County, South Carolina at the Forefront of American History.”</p>\n<!-- /wp:paragraph -->\n\n<!-- wp:paragraph -->\n<p>In this wholly original perspective on the history of a relatively isolated region of Southeastern coastline, Richard Thomas focuses on singular stories of leadership in various contexts to track and reveal a remarkable pattern of leading-edge developments which solely directed or heavily influenced the subsequent course of history across the entire American landscape.</p>\n<!-- /wp:paragraph -->\n\n<!-- wp:paragraph -->\n<p>The stories and their unmistakable implications, little-known historical highlights which chronicle 450 years of groundbreaking initiative, emanated from a concentrated and remote pocket of American wilderness. Comprehending these stories leaves the reader with no doubt as to the extraordinary and pivotal role Beaufort County, S.C. has played in the evolution of the American character and culture.&nbsp;</p>\n<!-- /wp:paragraph -->\n\n<!-- wp:paragraph -->\n<p>Richard Thomas is a history scholar whose work since 2001 has included delivering presentations and leading tours for corporate executives to many notable historic sites in the U.S. and Europe. He is a graduate of Princeton University in East Asian Studies and did graduate field work in Cultural Anthropology with Thammasat University and the Siam Society in Thailand.</p>\n<!-- /wp:paragraph -->\n\n<!-- wp:paragraph -->\n<p><strong>Beaufort Heritage Explorers Camp at the Santa Elena History Center</strong></p>\n<!-- /wp:paragraph -->\n\n<!-- wp:paragraph -->\n<p>Immerse your child in a week of interesting local history from 1566 to the 1900s at the Beaufort Heritage Explorers summer camp at the Santa Elena History Center, hosted by the <a href=\"https://www.facebook.com/santaelenafoundation/\">Santa Elena History Center</a>, <a href=\"https://www.facebook.com/reconstructionbeaufort/\">The Second Founding of America: Reconstruction Beaufort</a> and the <a href=\"https://www.facebook.com/HistoricBeaufortFoundation/\">Historic Beaufort Foundation</a>.</p>\n<!-- /wp:paragraph -->\n\n<!-- wp:paragraph -->\n<p>Dates are June 20-28 or July 29-Aug. 2, 9&nbsp; a.m.-1 p.m. Each day concludes with lunch from 12:15 p.m. until pick up with lunch provided on Friday.<br>\nThe cost is $150 per child with all proceeds benefit participating nonprofits. There are 15 openings for rising 3rd grade through rising 5th grade and 15 openings for rising 6th grade through rising 8th grade.<br>\nThere must be a minimum of 10 per age group registered by June 15. For more information or to register, visit <a href=\"https://santa-elena.org/new-summer-camp-for-2019/\">https://santa-elena.org/new-summer-camp-for-2019/</a>.</p>\n<!-- /wp:paragraph -->\n\n<!-- wp:paragraph -->\n<p><strong>Spring activities at Hunting Island State Park</strong></p>\n<!-- /wp:paragraph -->\n\n<!-- wp:paragraph -->\n<p>There are fun, interesting and educational activities every day hosted by Park Ranger and Lowcountry Master Naturalist Megan Stegmeier.&nbsp;</p>\n<!-- /wp:paragraph -->\n\n<!-- wp:paragraph -->\n<p>Mondays: Secrets of the Salt Marsh, 4 p.m.</p>\n<!-- /wp:paragraph -->\n\n<!-- wp:paragraph -->\n<p>Tuesdays: CCC Video, 1 p.m.; Beach Walk, 3 p.m.</p>\n<!-- /wp:paragraph -->\n\n<!-- wp:paragraph -->\n<p>Wednesdays: Alligator Talk, 11 a.m.</p>\n<!-- /wp:paragraph -->\n\n<!-- wp:paragraph -->\n<p>Thursdays: Feeding Frenzy, 3 p.m.&nbsp;</p>\n<!-- /wp:paragraph -->\n\n<!-- wp:paragraph -->\n<p>For a description of these programs and a complete calendar of activities, go to southcarolinaparks.com/hunting-island and click on “Programs &amp; Events.”</p>\n<!-- /wp:paragraph -->\n\n<!-- wp:paragraph -->\n<p>All 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.</p>\n<!-- /wp:paragraph -->\n\n<!-- wp:paragraph -->\n<p>For more information, call 843-838-7437 or go to the Friends of Hunting Island website and the Facebook page: FOHI Sea Turtle Conservation Project.</p>\n<!-- /wp:paragraph -->\n\n<!-- wp:paragraph -->\n<p><strong>Get moving with Beaufort Track Club</strong></p>\n<!-- /wp:paragraph -->\n\n<!-- wp:paragraph -->\n<p>Join 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.</p>\n<!-- /wp:paragraph -->\n\n<!-- wp:paragraph -->\n<p>Visit the Facebook page “Beaufort Track Club” for more information.<br></p>\n<!-- /wp:paragraph -->', 'What To Do', '', 'publish', 'closed', 'closed', '', 'what-to-do-181', '', '', '2019-06-06 09:11:48', '2019-06-06 13:11:48', '', 0, 'https://staging.yourislandnews.com/?p=40209', 0, 'post', '', 0);
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(40212, 4, '2019-06-06 09:27:35', '2019-06-06 13:27:35', '<!-- wp:heading {\"level\":4} -->\n<h4>By SCOTT GRABER</h4>\n<!-- /wp:heading -->\n\n<!-- wp:paragraph -->\n<p>It is Sunday morning and I’m in my home in Port Royal drinking my first cup of coffee. This morning I have my Gazette and a front page story about work on the Hilton Head Island Bridge.&nbsp;</p>\n<!-- /wp:paragraph -->\n\n<!-- wp:paragraph -->\n<p>There is also a story about Joe Cunningham and the Republican hopefuls who intend to recapture the 1st Congressional District and bring it back to its rightful, conservative political tribe.&nbsp;</p>\n<!-- /wp:paragraph -->\n\n<!-- wp:paragraph -->\n<p>I also have my Wall Street Journal and its weekend section, called Review, which I will read throughout the coming week hoping for a book that will inspire. This week there is a review that gives one a thoughtful re-appraisal of Oliver Wendell Holmes; a lengthy review centered on amusement parks; a review (of a book) about the 38 sets of siblings aboard the USS Arizona when the Japanese came calling.&nbsp;</p>\n<!-- /wp:paragraph -->\n\n<!-- wp:paragraph -->\n<p>I find all of this early morning reconnaissance entertaining, but I’m drawn to a book called “Charleston Fancy” by Witold Rybczynski — Yale, 246 pages, $28. I am intrigued by the blurb “A city like Charleston cannot be planned. It boasts no iconic buildings or monuments. So what accounts for its charm?”</p>\n<!-- /wp:paragraph -->\n\n<!-- wp:paragraph -->\n<p>The book tells us the story of George Holt — who dropped out of the College of Charleston in the 70s — and came under the influence of an architect, “from whom Mr. Hold learns to love and understand old buildings.” Then George acquired a little money of his own, and two friends with a little more money, and they bought a run-down, “single house” on Perry Street.</p>\n<!-- /wp:paragraph -->\n\n<!-- wp:paragraph -->\n<p>The three friends renovated the house. But what makes these folks a different is their instinctive, or learned, love of the “narrow two-story affairs with its gable end facing the street and its upper piazzas — or verandas — overlooking a small side yard.”&nbsp;</p>\n<!-- /wp:paragraph -->\n\n<!-- wp:paragraph -->\n<p>What makes this renovation story distinctive is the fact that these folks had to work within the framework of the existing (exterior) walls, porches and piazza.&nbsp;</p>\n<!-- /wp:paragraph -->\n\n<!-- wp:paragraph -->\n<p>Many years ago Charleston decided that it was content with its scale — its modest height limitation.&nbsp;</p>\n<!-- /wp:paragraph -->\n\n<!-- wp:paragraph -->\n<p>One could admire the 40-story buildings in midtown Manhattan, or Portman’s towers in Atlanta for that matter, but Charleston wasn’t going to get into the high-rise, glass-enclosed-penthouse-on-the-top market. If one was looking for that kind of that vertical atmospheric life, well, one could move.</p>\n<!-- /wp:paragraph -->\n\n<!-- wp:paragraph -->\n<p>But the interiors of these modest, “two-story affairs” were another matter.&nbsp;</p>\n<!-- /wp:paragraph -->\n\n<!-- wp:paragraph -->\n<p>Recognizing there is an irrepressible desire to knock out walls, replace countertops, and redesign one’s bathroom with Kohler-quality shower heads, the rules for interior change were almost non-existent.</p>\n<!-- /wp:paragraph -->\n\n<!-- wp:paragraph -->\n<p>“And then there’s Mr Holt’s home, a Byzantine-inspired wonderland at the end of a back lane, hidden behind an undecorated plaster exterior. The stone entry hall contains a small swimming pool surrounded by an arched colonnade and lighted by a pair of Venetian gondola lanterns. A domed ceiling towers over the living room, with four smaller domes in the corners, a quincunx arrangement modeled after an 11th-century Greek Orthodox church in Istanbul.”</p>\n<!-- /wp:paragraph -->\n\n<!-- wp:paragraph -->\n<p>One imagines a horse drawn carriage passing by Mr. Holt’s home — these passengers not knowing that behind the plain plaster walls there is an 11th Century Greek Orthodox church. One wonders whether or not this revelation would be amusing or would it disappoint.</p>\n<!-- /wp:paragraph -->\n\n<!-- wp:paragraph -->\n<p>While Charleston has been rock-solid in protecting its residential architecture, it has been less successful keeping local businesses alive. Hughes Lumber, Bob Ellis Shoes and Morris Sokol Furniture have given way to Vans, Forever 21, Williams Sonoma, West Elm and Urban Outfitters. It seems the six million tourists who flood Charleston’s narrow streets every year want their Five Guys burgers, their Chipotle salads and their Starbuck’s latte. The local, family-owned businesses are giving way to corporate brands.</p>\n<!-- /wp:paragraph -->\n\n<!-- wp:paragraph -->\n<p>What is more troubling is the fact that short term rentals are squeezing-out long term renters, and that a dining food tax (10.5 percent) and an alcohol tax (15 percent) are making it hard for residents to find a local, reasonably-priced restaurant.&nbsp;</p>\n<!-- /wp:paragraph -->\n\n<!-- wp:paragraph -->\n<p>While Charleston’s facade is being maintained, the local folks are giving way to the tourists who pour into its new hotels on upper King Street.&nbsp;</p>\n<!-- /wp:paragraph -->\n\n<!-- wp:paragraph -->\n<p>Many of the homes south of Broad Street are now owned by corporations. Long time residents have departed Tradd and Coming Streets for Mount Pleasant or Sullivan’s Island. I suppose this transformation was inevitable.&nbsp;</p>\n<!-- /wp:paragraph -->\n\n<!-- wp:paragraph -->\n<p>Some places are just too beautiful for their own good.&nbsp;</p>\n<!-- /wp:paragraph -->\n\n<!-- wp:paragraph -->\n<p>Venice, for example, is expected to lose all of its residential population by 2030. We’re not just talking poor people who can’t afford the rents or meals at the local trattoria. We’re talking everybody who lives on those iconic canals will be displaced by those sleeping at the Baglioni or having their gnocchi on Piazza San Marco.</p>\n<!-- /wp:paragraph -->\n\n<!-- wp:paragraph -->\n<p>One wonders if Charleston is on that road?<br></p>\n<!-- /wp:paragraph -->', 'Too beautiful for their own good', '', 'publish', 'closed', 'closed', '', 'too-beautiful-for-their-own-good', '', '', '2019-06-06 09:27:37', '2019-06-06 13:27:37', '', 0, 'https://staging.yourislandnews.com/?p=40212', 0, 'post', '', 0),
(40214, 4, '2019-06-06 09:30:08', '2019-06-06 13:30:08', '<!-- wp:heading {\"level\":4} -->\n<h4>By LEE SCOTT</h4>\n<!-- /wp:heading -->\n\n<!-- wp:paragraph -->\n<p>If there is one thing I have learned through the years as a mother and grandmother is that regardless of how many toys a child possesses, they will inevitably tell you they are bored.&nbsp;</p>\n<!-- /wp:paragraph -->\n\n<!-- wp:paragraph -->\n<p>But give them something simple and their imagination goes wild.&nbsp;</p>\n<!-- /wp:paragraph -->\n\n<!-- wp:paragraph -->\n<p>This is why I have found, that the best pool toy ever is a noodle.</p>\n<!-- /wp:paragraph -->\n\n<!-- wp:paragraph -->\n<p>Now you may not be familiar with noodles, but you have probably seen them at the grocery store or in front of one of those dollar stores. They are those spongy tubular pool toys that only weigh a few ounces.&nbsp;</p>\n<!-- /wp:paragraph -->\n\n<!-- wp:paragraph -->\n<p>Noodles allow you to float effortlessly in the pool with your arms draped over them. Most of them are about four feet long and only cost about $3, although you do have the option of spending a lot more money.&nbsp;</p>\n<!-- /wp:paragraph -->\n\n<!-- wp:paragraph -->\n<p>There are jumbo noodles and multi-colored noodles, but why bother; a child’s imagination can go wild with these things even with the simplest ones.&nbsp;</p>\n<!-- /wp:paragraph -->\n\n<!-- wp:paragraph -->\n<p>It is fascinating to watch a child play with a noodle, because in addition to the floatation aspect of the device, they will come up with so many more uses. Initially though, they will start with using it as a nice comfortable chair where they sit on the center of it and hold up the ends.&nbsp;</p>\n<!-- /wp:paragraph -->\n\n<!-- wp:paragraph -->\n<p>Or maybe they grab two noodles with one under the knees and the other under the neck and pretend they are in a bed. Be careful trying this yourself, or else you may find yourself falling asleep.&nbsp;</p>\n<!-- /wp:paragraph -->\n\n<!-- wp:paragraph -->\n<p>There are other creative uses like filling the middle of the noodle with water and blowing the water out the end which sprays everyone around you.&nbsp;</p>\n<!-- /wp:paragraph -->\n\n<!-- wp:paragraph -->\n<p>The noodles can also become weapons used for sword or lightsaber fighting (think Star Wars).&nbsp;</p>\n<!-- /wp:paragraph -->\n\n<!-- wp:paragraph -->\n<p>I was also told by my granddaughter, Marin, that you can smack your little sister on the head with the noodle and you do not get in too much trouble either. Kids also like to put the noodle between their legs and pretend they are riding a horse. Naturally, all the sounds coming from their mouths reflect the current use of the noodle.</p>\n<!-- /wp:paragraph -->\n\n<!-- wp:paragraph -->\n<p>This past week, I saw a father putting his daughter’s noodle over a water fountain and spraying her as she shrieked with giggles. Imagination is not limited to just children.</p>\n<!-- /wp:paragraph -->\n\n<!-- wp:paragraph -->\n<p>The list of things to do with these simple toys is amazing.&nbsp;</p>\n<!-- /wp:paragraph -->\n\n<!-- wp:paragraph -->\n<p>My spouse said it reminded him of Christmas when the most used “toy” was the box leftover from a large gift. Like boxes, the use of the noodles relies on the imagination of the owner.&nbsp;</p>\n<!-- /wp:paragraph -->\n\n<!-- wp:paragraph -->\n<p>So, do not bother spending a fortune on pool toys this year. Just go buy a couple of noodles and have some fun.<br></p>\n<!-- /wp:paragraph -->', 'The best pool toy ever: noodles', '', 'publish', 'closed', 'closed', '', 'the-best-pool-toy-ever-noodles', '', '', '2019-06-06 09:30:11', '2019-06-06 13:30:11', '', 0, 'https://staging.yourislandnews.com/?p=40214', 0, 'post', '', 0),
(40216, 4, '2019-06-06 09:33:06', '2019-06-06 13:33:06', '<!-- wp:paragraph -->\n<p><strong>BA’s Lower School honors five students</strong></p>\n<!-- /wp:paragraph -->\n\n<!-- wp:paragraph -->\n<p>Beaufort Academy’s Dr. Randy Wall Memorial Fountain is surrounded by 100 bricks and five benches honoring five students each year who exemplify one of the school’s core values: integrity, intellect, leadership, pride and respect.&nbsp;</p>\n<!-- /wp:paragraph -->\n\n<!-- wp:paragraph -->\n<p>A week after naming the 2019 honorees for the upper school, the school announced this year’s honorees for the lower school. They are: Parker Doscher (intellect), Lorelei Vasquez (integrity), Amorette Chapman (leadership), Ella Bekemeyer (pride) and Raynor Gault (respect).</p>\n<!-- /wp:paragraph -->\n\n<!-- wp:paragraph -->\n<p><strong>Beaufort’s Gress makes Austin Peay Dean’s List</strong></p>\n<!-- /wp:paragraph -->\n\n<!-- wp:paragraph -->\n<p>Austin Peay State University in Clarksville, Tenn., recognized Beaufort’s Natasha Gress as one of more than 2,200 students named to the Dean\'s List for academic achievement during the Spring 2019 semester. To qualify for the Dean\'s List, students must earn a semester GPA of 3.5 or greater.</p>\n<!-- /wp:paragraph -->\n\n<!-- wp:paragraph -->\n<p><strong>BA 4th-grader’s art is honored</strong></p>\n<!-- /wp:paragraph -->\n\n<!-- wp:paragraph -->\n<p>Fourth-grader Elsa Billig of Beaufort Academy\'s Lower School Art Department will have her art published in the book \"Celebrating Art,\" a book of juried artwork from students all over the country. The mixed media piece is a portrait of artist Frida Kahlo.</p>\n<!-- /wp:paragraph -->\n\n<!-- wp:paragraph -->\n<p><strong>Four Broad River students perfect at WordMasters</strong></p>\n<!-- /wp:paragraph -->\n\n<!-- wp:paragraph -->\n<p>Seven Beaufort County School District students earned perfect scores in the spring edition of a national vocabulary competition, four of them coming from Beaufort’s Broad River Elementary School.</p>\n<!-- /wp:paragraph -->\n\n<!-- wp:paragraph -->\n<p>The WordMasters Challenge, the nation’s longest-running language arts competition for elementary and middle school students, holds three meets for nearly 150,000 students during each school year. In the 2018-19 academic year’s third competition in the Blue Division, four Broad River Elementary School students earned perfect scores – third-grader Maddox Adcox and fifth-graders Kylee Douglas, Angela Estrada and Jaime Maldonado Najera. The students were coached by Patricia Horton.&nbsp;</p>\n<!-- /wp:paragraph -->\n\n<!-- wp:paragraph -->\n<p>The other perfect scored came from Anna Williams (Hilton Head Island Elementary, coach Sharon Politi), Kensley Kaney (Red Cedar Elementary, 4<sup>th</sup> grade, coach Virginia Pratt) and Sosie Spires (Bluffton Middle School, 6<sup>th</sup> grade, coach Erin Morgan).</p>\n<!-- /wp:paragraph -->\n\n<!-- wp:paragraph -->\n<p>“Perfect means just what it says, and that obviously represents an outstanding performance on a national stage,” said interim superintendent Herb Berg. “To have these students build such strong vocabularies at such young ages is wonderful.”</p>\n<!-- /wp:paragraph -->\n\n<!-- wp:paragraph -->\n<p>Nationally, only 15 third-graders, 29 fourth-graders, 59 fifth-graders and 49 sixth-graders earned perfect scores.&nbsp;</p>\n<!-- /wp:paragraph -->\n\n<!-- wp:paragraph -->\n<p>The WordMasters Challenge is an exercise in critical thinking that encourages students to become familiar with new words that are considerably harder than grade level, then challenges them to use those words to complete analogies that express various kinds of logical relationships.</p>\n<!-- /wp:paragraph -->\n\n<!-- wp:paragraph -->\n<p>Although most vocabulary enrichment and analogy-solving programs are designed for use by high school students, WordMasters materials are created for younger students in grades 3-8. Working to solve the analogies helps students learn to think both analytically and metaphorically.</p>\n<!-- /wp:paragraph -->\n\n<!-- wp:paragraph -->\n<p><strong>Beaufort’s Petrone earnes Master’s degree from The Citadel</strong></p>\n<!-- /wp:paragraph -->\n\n<!-- wp:paragraph -->\n<p>Jennifer Petrone, who works for the Beaufort Police Department, earned a Master of Arts in Social Science from The Citadel, graduating during The Citadel Graduate College commencement ceremony on Saturday, May 4 in McAlister Field House.</p>\n<!-- /wp:paragraph -->\n\n<!-- wp:paragraph -->\n<p>Graduates accepted their diploma from Citadel alumnus Gen. Glenn W. Walters, USMC (Ret.), who was officiating as president for the first time.</p>\n<!-- /wp:paragraph -->\n\n<!-- wp:paragraph -->\n<p>The Class of 2019 includes 350 graduates who received a master\'s degree and 98 who earned a bachelor\'s degree.</p>\n<!-- /wp:paragraph -->\n\n<!-- wp:paragraph -->\n<p><strong>Four BA students earn seals of biliteracy</strong></p>\n<!-- /wp:paragraph -->\n\n<!-- wp:paragraph -->\n<p>Beaufort Academy students Emma Hincher, David Mathai, Jane Ward and Ariana Gonzalez earned Global and S.C. Seals of Biliteracy as a result of their STAMP test scores.</p>\n<!-- /wp:paragraph -->\n\n<!-- wp:paragraph -->\n<p>STAMP (STAndards-based Measurement of Proficiency) is a web-based test that assesses foreign language proficiency. The STAMP test has three sections – reading, writing and speaking.&nbsp;</p>\n<!-- /wp:paragraph -->\n\n<!-- wp:paragraph -->\n<p>Test items are based on real-world, every-day situations. STAMP measures a test taker’s language ability according to benchmark levels that are based on national standards.&nbsp;</p>\n<!-- /wp:paragraph -->\n\n<!-- wp:paragraph -->\n<p><strong>BA’s Rushing, Ingraham conduct oral history project</strong></p>\n<!-- /wp:paragraph -->\n\n<!-- wp:paragraph -->\n<p>In conjunction with the U.S. Library of Congress, Jeffery Rushing and Heston Ingraham, two juniors from Beaufort Academy, had the opportunity to conduct a veterans oral history project.&nbsp;</p>\n<!-- /wp:paragraph -->\n\n<!-- wp:paragraph -->\n<p>This oral history project is a program designed to use students and other citizens to interview men and women who have served in the U.S. armed forces. These interviews are recorded digitally and archived in the Library of Congress in Washington, D.C.&nbsp;</p>\n<!-- /wp:paragraph -->\n\n<!-- wp:paragraph -->\n<p>This way the descendents of veterans can hear their achievements and stories in their own words.</p>\n<!-- /wp:paragraph -->\n\n<!-- wp:paragraph -->\n<p>Jeffery and Heston met with a decorated Marine who had served in Vietnam. The students were able to interview the veteran and record his story. This Marine wished to remain anonymous to the public, but his story will be available for his loved ones to hear and see.</p>\n<!-- /wp:paragraph -->\n\n<!-- wp:paragraph -->\n<p>The Library of Congress began the Veterans Oral History Project in 2000. The library is dependent on volunteers to identify and record the stories of men and women who have served their country. The Library of Congress describes the project as one that “collects, preserves, and makes accessible the personal accounts of American war veterans so that future generations may hear directly from veterans and better understand the realities of war.”</p>\n<!-- /wp:paragraph -->\n\n<!-- wp:paragraph -->\n<p><strong>Battery Creek grad Watson honored by USC Aiken</strong></p>\n<!-- /wp:paragraph -->\n\n<!-- wp:paragraph -->\n<p>USC Aiken\'s Veterans Honor Society inducted more than 60 new members, including Battery Creek graduate Fatima Watson, into the organization, which celebrates the academic achievements of veteran and military students. The Office of Veteran and Military Student Success team helps Watson and other veterans, retirees, currently serving members of the armed forces, or their family members navigate the university system.</p>\n<!-- /wp:paragraph -->\n\n<!-- wp:paragraph -->\n<p><strong>Beaufort’s Polite conquers Troy</strong></p>\n<!-- /wp:paragraph -->\n\n<!-- wp:paragraph -->\n<p>Ad\'Dweena Polite of Beaufort, graduated from Troy University during the Spring Semester with a Bachelor of Science degree.</p>\n<!-- /wp:paragraph -->\n\n<!-- wp:paragraph -->\n<p>Polite was previously named to the Chancellor\'s List, which honors full-time undergraduate students who are registered for at least 12 semester hours and who earn a grade point average of 4.0.</p>\n<!-- /wp:paragraph -->\n\n<!-- wp:paragraph -->\n<p>B<strong>eaufort’s Langehans finishes Grove City</strong></p>\n<!-- /wp:paragraph -->\n\n<!-- wp:paragraph -->\n<p>Tucker Langehans is one of 511 seniors to earn their degree from Grove City (Pa.) College on May 18.. Langehans earned a Bachelor of Arts degree in English and is from Beaufort.</p>\n<!-- /wp:paragraph -->\n\n<!-- wp:paragraph -->\n<p><strong>Whale Branch’s Beasley makes Dean’s List</strong></p>\n<!-- /wp:paragraph -->\n\n<!-- wp:paragraph -->\n<p>Ebony S. Beasley, a Exercise and Sport Science major from Whale Branch Early College High School, was named to the Dean\'s List for Spring 2019 at Coastal Carolina University in Conway.</p>\n<!-- /wp:paragraph -->\n\n<!-- wp:paragraph -->\n<p><strong>Beaufort County Library, Schools team up for summer reading</strong></p>\n<!-- /wp:paragraph -->\n\n<!-- wp:paragraph -->\n<p>Beaufort County Library System and Beaufort County School District have united to combat the loss of literacy skills with an innovative county-wide summer reading program. This program will provide an easy-to-follow game board with prizes that will, most importantly, promote reading and literacy.<br>\nEach student in the Beaufort County School District received a game board before schools broke for summer. Beaufort County Libraries will simultaneously distribute game boards to visitors to its branch libraries and bookmobiles.&nbsp;</p>\n<!-- /wp:paragraph -->\n\n<!-- wp:paragraph -->\n<p>This county-wide program is set to run until July 31. No registration is required. This activity is open to adults, teenagers and children of all ages.<br>\nThe Public Library Foundation of Beaufort County, all three Friends of the Library groups and more than 50 local establishments have donated prizes and treats for the program. Summer reading participants who complete their game boards can enter into a drawing of their choice for one of more than 20 grand prizes.<br>\nStop by your nearest Beaufort County Library branch or visit <a href=\"http://links.govdelivery.com/track?type=click&amp;enid=ZWFzPTEmbWFpbGluZ2lkPTIwMTkwNTI5LjY0MDczNzEmbWVzc2FnZWlkPU1EQi1QUkQtQlVMLTIwMTkwNTI5LjY0MDczNzEmZGF0YWJhc2VpZD0xMDAxJnNlcmlhbD0xNzQ3NjUzNCZlbWFpbGlkPXRoZWlzbGFuZG5ld3NAZ21haWwuY29tJnVzZXJpZD10aGVpc2xhbmRuZXdzQGdtYWlsLmNvbSZmbD0mZXh0cmE9TXVsdGl2YXJpYXRlSWQ9JiYm&amp;&amp;&amp;100&amp;&amp;&amp;https://www.beaufortcountylibrary.org/summer?utm_medium=email&amp;utm_source=govdelivery\">beaufortcountylibrary.org/summer</a> to get a game board.</p>\n<!-- /wp:paragraph -->\n\n<!-- wp:paragraph -->\n<p><strong>10 Beaufort-area students make Dean’s List at CCU</strong></p>\n<!-- /wp:paragraph -->\n\n<!-- wp:paragraph -->\n<p>Ten Coastal Carolina University students from the Beaufort area were named to the Dean\'s List for the Spring 2019 semester. Those students posted a grade point average between 3.5-3.99 for the spring semester.</p>\n<!-- /wp:paragraph -->\n\n<!-- wp:paragraph -->\n<p>Among the Beaufort-area students earning recognition are: Ericka D. Alston, an Art Studio major; Zachary M. Bogle, a Management Pre-Major major; Will H. Durbin, a Political Science major; Devin J. Hyatt, an Information Technology major; Xavier C. Jackson, a Theatre major; Shaeffer A. Jenkins, a Management major; Rachel K. Kirberger, a Hospitality Resort and Tourism Management major; Abbigail F. Larocque, a Theatre Arts major; Jessica T. Odell, a Middle Level Education major; and Kenneth C. Sitkowski, a Communications major.<br></p>\n<!-- /wp:paragraph -->', 'School Briefs', '', 'publish', 'closed', 'closed', '', 'school-briefs-44', '', '', '2019-06-06 09:33:09', '2019-06-06 13:33:09', '', 0, 'https://staging.yourislandnews.com/?p=40216', 0, 'post', '', 0),
(40218, 4, '2019-06-06 09:34:42', '2019-06-06 13:34:42', '<!-- wp:paragraph -->\n<p>Clemson University awarded more than 3,600 degrees in ceremonies at Littlejohn Coliseum this month. Among the local students who graduated from Clemson at Spring 2019 commencement ceremonies are:</p>\n<!-- /wp:paragraph -->\n\n<!-- wp:paragraph -->\n<p>Elizabeth L. Crowther of Beaufort graduated with a Bachelor of Science in Sociology.</p>\n<!-- /wp:paragraph -->\n\n<!-- wp:paragraph -->\n<p>Benjamin L. Hetherington of Beaufort graduated Cum Laude with a Bachelor of Science in Physics.&nbsp;</p>\n<!-- /wp:paragraph -->\n\n<!-- wp:paragraph -->\n<p>Jacob C. Hincher of Beaufort graduated with a Bachelor of Science in Civil Engineering.&nbsp;</p>\n<!-- /wp:paragraph -->\n\n<!-- wp:paragraph -->\n<p>Andrew Jacob Jezewski of Beaufort graduated with a Bachelor of Science in Mechanical Engineering.&nbsp;</p>\n<!-- /wp:paragraph -->\n\n<!-- wp:paragraph -->\n<p>Abbey Louise Knox of Beaufort graduated with a Bachelor of Arts in Psychology.&nbsp;</p>\n<!-- /wp:paragraph -->\n\n<!-- wp:paragraph -->\n<p>Kody L. McHale of Beaufort graduated Cum Laude with a Bachelor of Science in Civil Engineering.&nbsp;</p>\n<!-- /wp:paragraph -->\n\n<!-- wp:paragraph -->\n<p>Jonah Richard Miller of Beaufort graduated with a Bachelor of Science in Electrical Engineering.&nbsp;</p>\n<!-- /wp:paragraph -->\n\n<!-- wp:paragraph -->\n<p>Frances Dunbar Myrick of Beaufort graduated with a Bachelor of Science in Mathematical Sciences.&nbsp;</p>\n<!-- /wp:paragraph -->\n\n<!-- wp:paragraph -->\n<p>Vincent Nicholas Phaneuf of Beaufort graduated with a Bachelor of Science in Materials Science and Engineering.&nbsp;</p>\n<!-- /wp:paragraph -->\n\n<!-- wp:paragraph -->\n<p>Nyles J. Pinckney of Beaufort graduated with a Bachelor of Science in Criminal Justice.&nbsp;</p>\n<!-- /wp:paragraph -->\n\n<!-- wp:paragraph -->\n<p>Brandon A. Pratt of Beaufort graduated with a Bachelor of Science in Chemical Engineering.&nbsp;</p>\n<!-- /wp:paragraph -->\n\n<!-- wp:paragraph -->\n<p>Alexandra A. Sebestyen of Beaufort graduated Cum Laude with a Bachelor of Science in Marketing.&nbsp;</p>\n<!-- /wp:paragraph -->\n\n<!-- wp:paragraph -->\n<p>Shivin S. Shetty of Beaufort graduated with a Bachelor of Science in Computer Engineering.&nbsp;</p>\n<!-- /wp:paragraph -->\n\n<!-- wp:paragraph -->\n<p>Paula Carol Sommerville of Beaufort graduated with a Bachelor of Science in Financial Management.&nbsp;</p>\n<!-- /wp:paragraph -->\n\n<!-- wp:paragraph -->\n<p>Emily C. Waters of Ladys Island graduated Cum Laude with a Bachelor of Arts in Early Childhood Education.&nbsp;</p>\n<!-- /wp:paragraph -->\n\n<!-- wp:paragraph -->\n<p>Jackson C. Williams of Beaufort graduated with a Bachelor of Science in Mechanical Engineering.<br></p>\n<!-- /wp:paragraph -->', 'Clemson awards degrees to Beaufort students', '', 'publish', 'closed', 'closed', '', 'clemson-awards-degrees-to-beaufort-students-2', '', '', '2019-06-06 09:34:44', '2019-06-06 13:34:44', '', 0, 'https://staging.yourislandnews.com/?p=40218', 0, 'post', '', 0),
(40220, 4, '2019-06-06 09:38:14', '2019-06-06 13:38:14', '<!-- wp:paragraph -->\n<p><strong>Davis to speak to Beaufort Tea Party</strong></p>\n<!-- /wp:paragraph -->\n\n<!-- wp:paragraph -->\n<p>State senator Tom Davis will be the guest speaker at the June meeting of the Beaufort Tea Party from 5:30 to 7:30 p.m. Monday, June 17 at Fuji\'s Restaurant at 97 Sea Island Parkway on Lady\'s Island.</p>\n<!-- /wp:paragraph -->\n\n<!-- wp:paragraph -->\n<p>Davis was slated to speak at the May meeting but had to reschedule. This month, Davis will discuss the state budget, the Compassionate Care Act, the Personhood Act, hemp and more. Bring your questions, and seating is limited, so come early.</p>\n<!-- /wp:paragraph -->\n\n<!-- wp:paragraph -->\n<p><strong>League of Women Voters Beaufort Area hosting June meeting</strong></p>\n<!-- /wp:paragraph -->\n\n<!-- wp:paragraph -->\n<p>Members and non-members are invited to attend the monthly meeting of the League of Women Voters Beaufort Area from 6 to 7:30 p.m. Thursday, June 13 at Beth Israel Synagogue at 401 Scott Street in Beaufort.</p>\n<!-- /wp:paragraph -->\n\n<!-- wp:paragraph -->\n<p>The League is preparing for many activities leading up to the 2020 elections, and this month\'s meeting agenda will include discussions and planning for the following committees: Voter services, voter access, education, Observer Corps, legislative issues (ERA, redistricting), membership, 100th anniversary celebration, fundraising and the Harriet Keyserling Emerging Leader Fund.</p>\n<!-- /wp:paragraph -->\n\n<!-- wp:paragraph -->\n<p>The League recently conducted a successful annual meeting and luncheon to elect new officers and confirm its priorities. Nearly 100 tickets were sold to the event, which featured presentations on Women of the Reconstruction Era.&nbsp;</p>\n<!-- /wp:paragraph -->\n\n<!-- wp:paragraph -->\n<p>The organization’s top action priorities include voter access, voter technology and voter registration. Program priorities, based on polling, include redistricting, voter education, healthcare reform, natural resources protection and passage of the Equal Rights Amendment.</p>\n<!-- /wp:paragraph -->\n\n<!-- wp:paragraph -->\n<p><strong>All meetings of the League are open to the public.</strong></p>\n<!-- /wp:paragraph -->\n\n<!-- wp:paragraph -->\n<p>The League of Women Voters of Beaufort Area, a nonpartisan political organization, encourages informed and active participation in government, works to increase understanding of major public policy issues, and influences public policy through education and advocacy.</p>\n<!-- /wp:paragraph -->\n\n<!-- wp:paragraph -->\n<p>Find us on Facebook at League of Women Voters Beaufort Area, follow us on Instagram @beaufortvotes and #beaufortvotes, contact us at&nbsp;<a href=\"mailto:lwvbeaufort@gmail.com\">lwvbeaufort@gmail.com</a> or call 704-641-7357.</p>\n<!-- /wp:paragraph -->\n\n<!-- wp:paragraph -->\n<p><strong>CAPA hosting foster parent meeting</strong></p>\n<!-- /wp:paragraph -->\n\n<!-- wp:paragraph -->\n<p>The Child Abuse Prevention Association is one of the most experienced, nationally accredited agencies in our region. When they created a foster parent division recently their goal was simple: keep children safe and support families. They invite anyone interested to attend a foster parent information night to learn about local children who need us.&nbsp;</p>\n<!-- /wp:paragraph -->\n\n<!-- wp:paragraph -->\n<p>The meeting will be at 7 p.m. on Thursday, June 6. It will be held in the Walsh Palmetto Community Room next to St. Peter’s Catholic Church on Lady’s Island in Beaufort.</p>\n<!-- /wp:paragraph -->\n\n<!-- wp:paragraph -->\n<p>Even if you are not interested in becoming a foster home, there are many other ways to offer support. RSVP to <a href=\"mailto:angelflewelling@gmail.com\">angelflewelling@gmail.com</a> or 843-525-0102. Dinner will be served.</p>\n<!-- /wp:paragraph -->\n\n<!-- wp:paragraph -->\n<p><strong>Civitas Awards Celebration</strong></p>\n<!-- /wp:paragraph -->\n\n<!-- wp:paragraph -->\n<p>Join the Beaufort Regional Chamber of Commerce as they celebrate excellence in the community by recognizing businesses, organizations and individuals who are exemplary in their area at the Civitas Awards Celebration from 6 to 10 p.m. Friday, June 7 at the Dataw Island Club.<br>\nThere will be dinner, libations and celebration. Cost is $75 for Chamber members, $100 for non-members. A table of 10 is $750.</p>\n<!-- /wp:paragraph -->\n\n<!-- wp:paragraph -->\n<p>Seating is limited. For more information, contact Janessa Lowery at <a href=\"mailto:janessa@beaufortchamber.org\">janessa@beaufortchamber.org</a> or visit BeaufortChamber.org for additional information.<br></p>\n<!-- /wp:paragraph -->', 'News Briefs', '', 'publish', 'closed', 'closed', '', 'news-briefs-112', '', '', '2019-06-06 09:38:17', '2019-06-06 13:38:17', '', 0, 'https://staging.yourislandnews.com/?p=40220', 0, 'post', '', 0),
(40223, 4, '2019-06-06 09:39:02', '2019-06-06 13:39:02', '<!-- wp:paragraph -->\n<p>At the May 28 City Council meeting, City Manager Bill Prokop announced the receipt of a $500,000 S.C. Rural Infrastructure Authority grant, under the state’s Basic Infrastructure grant program.&nbsp;</p>\n<!-- /wp:paragraph -->\n\n<!-- wp:paragraph -->\n<p>This grant will specifically go towards the cost of the Mossy Oaks Drainage Project, Basin 1.</p>\n<!-- /wp:paragraph -->\n\n<!-- wp:paragraph -->\n<p>“I want to first thank Matt St. Clair, and his staff in the department of public works along with Jared Felix of Infrastructure, Consulting and Engineering (ICE) who worked diligently to secure this grant” Prokop said in a release. “They, along with Neil Pugliese, who is the city’s representative on the multi-jurisdictional Mossy Oaks Stormwater Task force, have done an excellent job at identifying multiple funding streams for the Mossy Oaks Basin project.”</p>\n<!-- /wp:paragraph -->\n\n<!-- wp:paragraph -->\n<p>Residents will recall that the city recently announced the beginning of drainage maintenance and repair work on the Jane Way Canal in the Jane Way/Elizabeth Lane area bordering the Beaufort Middle School sports fields.</p>\n<!-- /wp:paragraph -->\n\n<!-- wp:paragraph -->\n<p>“Work is beginning, and we are diligently working with the various state and federal regulatory agencies to move the overall project through the permitting process” Pugliese said. “This grant will go a long way in increasing our financial resources available for the basin 1 project.”</p>\n<!-- /wp:paragraph -->\n\n<!-- wp:paragraph -->\n<p>Citizens and concerned parties can learn about the Mossy Oaks project on the City of Beaufort Website under public works draining projects or by following this link: <a href=\"https://www.cityofbeaufort.org/DocumentCenter/View/4922/Mossy-Oaks-Update-to-Taskforce-27-Feb-19\">https://www.cityofbeaufort.org/DocumentCenter/View/4922/Mossy-Oaks-Update-to-Taskforce-27-Feb-19</a>.<br></p>\n<!-- /wp:paragraph -->', 'State grant to help city pay for Mossy Oaks drainage work', '', 'publish', 'closed', 'closed', '', 'state-grant-to-help-city-pay-for-mossy-oaks-drainage-work', '', '', '2019-06-06 09:39:05', '2019-06-06 13:39:05', '', 0, 'https://staging.yourislandnews.com/?p=40223', 0, 'post', '', 0),
(40225, 4, '2019-06-06 09:39:41', '2019-06-06 13:39:41', '<!-- wp:paragraph -->\n<p>The Beaufort County Open Land Trust has teamed up with local event planner, Ashley Rhodes, to host the 2019 Auldbrass Plantation Tours.</p>\n<!-- /wp:paragraph -->\n\n<!-- wp:paragraph -->\n<p>Auldbrass is Frank Lloyd Wright’s only home in the South Carolina Lowcountry.</p>\n<!-- /wp:paragraph -->\n\n<!-- wp:paragraph -->\n<p>The tour dates are Friday, Nov. 1 and Saturday, Nov. 2.</p>\n<!-- /wp:paragraph -->\n\n<!-- wp:paragraph -->\n<p>Tickets are $175 and can be purchased at https://tinyurl.com/y3gvshaw.</p>\n<!-- /wp:paragraph -->\n\n<!-- wp:paragraph -->\n<p>Auldbrass was built in 1939 for C. Leigh Stevens, a Michigan industrialist. Wright famously designed the residential structure without any right angles. He was supposedly inspired by the lean of the live oak trees found throughout the local region.</p>\n<!-- /wp:paragraph -->\n\n<!-- wp:paragraph -->\n<p>The Frank Lloyd Wright Foundation describes the property as a “4,000-acre tract of land on the banks of the Combahee River, the plantation is one of the largest and most complex residential projects Wright ever undertook.”</p>\n<!-- /wp:paragraph -->\n\n<!-- wp:paragraph -->\n<p>Wright is arguably the most famous architect in American history. Auldbrass Plantation was placed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1976 and is one of only two buildings Wright designed in South Carolina. The other is an additional residential project called Broad Margin upstate in Greenville.</p>\n<!-- /wp:paragraph -->\n\n<!-- wp:paragraph -->\n<p>Proceeds from the tour benefit the Beaufort County Open Land Trust.</p>\n<!-- /wp:paragraph -->\n\n<!-- wp:paragraph -->\n<p>For more information about this year\'s Auldbrass Tours email <a href=\"mailto:auldbrasstours@gmail.com\">auldbrasstours@gmail.com</a> or call 843-368-2554.<br></p>\n<!-- /wp:paragraph -->', 'Tickets on sale for Auldbrass tours', '', 'publish', 'closed', 'closed', '', 'tickets-on-sale-for-auldbrass-tours', '', '', '2019-06-06 09:39:44', '2019-06-06 13:39:44', '', 0, 'https://staging.yourislandnews.com/?p=40225', 0, 'post', '', 0),
(40227, 4, '2019-06-06 09:40:34', '2019-06-06 13:40:34', '<!-- wp:paragraph -->\n<p>Lady’s Island Baptist hosting senior health fair</p>\n<!-- /wp:paragraph -->\n\n<!-- wp:paragraph -->\n<p>The will be a Senior Health and Wellness Fair from 9:30 a.m. to 1 p.m. Saturday, June 8 at Lady\'s Island Baptist Church at 105 Brickyard Point Road South.</p>\n<!-- /wp:paragraph -->\n\n<!-- wp:paragraph -->\n<p>The fair will offer free blood pressure checks, health information and demonstrations. Lowcountry Food Bank will also host its Grocery Store Pop Up Tour.</p>\n<!-- /wp:paragraph -->\n\n<!-- wp:paragraph -->\n<p>The event is sponsored by Beaufort Jasper Comp Health, LowCountry Food Bank and Kindred at Home. For more info, call 843-322-1835.<br></p>\n<!-- /wp:paragraph -->', 'Health Briefs', '', 'publish', 'closed', 'closed', '', 'health-briefs-11', '', '', '2019-06-06 09:40:37', '2019-06-06 13:40:37', '', 0, 'https://staging.yourislandnews.com/?p=40227', 0, 'post', '', 0),
(40229, 4, '2019-06-06 09:41:22', '2019-06-06 13:41:22', '<!-- wp:paragraph -->\n<p>The numbers are clear: fireworks are dangerous, and the month around July 4 is the most dangerous time.&nbsp;</p>\n<!-- /wp:paragraph -->\n\n<!-- wp:paragraph -->\n<p>According to the U.S. Consumer Product Safety Commission\'s most recent annual fireworks injury report fireworks caused eight deaths and nearly 13,000 injuries in 2017. Two-thirds of the fireworks injuries treated in emergency rooms happened between mid-June and mid-July.</p>\n<!-- /wp:paragraph -->\n\n<!-- wp:paragraph -->\n<p>Fireworks may be advertised like toys around the Fourth of July. You may think you know how to handle them safely.&nbsp;</p>\n<!-- /wp:paragraph -->\n\n<!-- wp:paragraph -->\n<p>But playing with fireworks can blind you or your loved ones. Leave fireworks to the professionals.</p>\n<!-- /wp:paragraph -->\n\n<!-- wp:paragraph -->\n<p>The most recent Consumer Product Safety Commission report found that 14 percent of fireworks injuries were eye injuries. In the most severe cases, fireworks can rupture the globe of the eye, cause chemical and thermal burns, corneal abrasions and retinal detachment — all of which can cause permanent eye damage and vision loss.</p>\n<!-- /wp:paragraph -->\n\n<!-- wp:paragraph -->\n<p>Children and young adults are frequent victims. Children age 15 and under accounted for 36% of the total injuries, according to the commission\'s report. And half of the injuries requiring an emergency room visit were to people age 20 or younger.</p>\n<!-- /wp:paragraph -->\n\n<!-- wp:paragraph -->\n<p>Even sparklers can be dangerous, as they burn at more than 2,000 degrees Farenheit. Sparklers were responsible for 1,200 of the injuries in the latest report, and a sparkler mishap caused one of the fireworks deaths reported in 2017.</p>\n<!-- /wp:paragraph -->\n\n<!-- wp:paragraph -->\n<p>The people injured by fireworks aren\'t necessarily handling the explosives themselves. In fact, nearly half of people injured by fireworks are bystanders.&nbsp;</p>\n<!-- /wp:paragraph -->\n\n<!-- wp:paragraph -->\n<p>Children and people not handling fireworks themselves are in as much danger as the people actually lighting fireworks.</p>\n<!-- /wp:paragraph -->\n\n<!-- wp:paragraph -->\n<p>What to do for a fireworks eye injury</p>\n<!-- /wp:paragraph -->\n\n<!-- wp:paragraph -->\n<p>Fireworks-related eye injuries can combine blunt force trauma, heat burns and chemical exposure. If an eye injury from fireworks occurs, it should be considered a medical emergency.</p>\n<!-- /wp:paragraph -->\n\n<!-- wp:paragraph -->\n<p>– Seek medical attention immediately.</p>\n<!-- /wp:paragraph -->\n\n<!-- wp:paragraph -->\n<p>– Do not rub your eyes.</p>\n<!-- /wp:paragraph -->\n\n<!-- wp:paragraph -->\n<p>– Do not rinse your eyes.</p>\n<!-- /wp:paragraph -->\n\n<!-- wp:paragraph -->\n<p>– Do not apply pressure.</p>\n<!-- /wp:paragraph -->\n\n<!-- wp:paragraph -->\n<p>– Do not remove any objects that are stuck in the eye.</p>\n<!-- /wp:paragraph -->\n\n<!-- wp:paragraph -->\n<p>– Do not apply ointments or take any blood-thinning pain medications such as aspirin or ibuprofen unless directed by a doctor.</p>\n<!-- /wp:paragraph -->\n\n<!-- wp:paragraph -->\n<p>Fireworks safety tips</p>\n<!-- /wp:paragraph -->\n\n<!-- wp:paragraph -->\n<p>The best way to avoid a potentially blinding fireworks injury is by attending a professional, public fireworks show rather than purchasing fireworks for home use.</p>\n<!-- /wp:paragraph -->\n\n<!-- wp:paragraph -->\n<p>If you attend or live near a professional fireworks show:</p>\n<!-- /wp:paragraph -->\n\n<!-- wp:paragraph -->\n<p>– Respect safety barriers, follow all safety instructions and view fireworks from at least 500 feet away.</p>\n<!-- /wp:paragraph -->\n\n<!-- wp:paragraph -->\n<p>– Do not touch unexploded fireworks; instead, immediately contact local fire or police departments to help.</p>\n<!-- /wp:paragraph -->\n\n<!-- wp:paragraph -->\n<p>For those who decide to purchase and use consumer fireworks in states where they are legal, follow these safety tips from the Consumer Product Safety Commission:</p>\n<!-- /wp:paragraph -->\n\n<!-- wp:paragraph -->\n<p>– Do not allow young children to play with fireworks. Sparklers, a firework often considered by many to be the ideal \"safe\" device for the young, burn at very high temperatures and should not be handled by young children.</p>\n<!-- /wp:paragraph -->\n\n<!-- wp:paragraph -->\n<p>Children may not understand the danger involved with fireworks and may not act appropriately while using the devices or in case of emergency.</p>\n<!-- /wp:paragraph -->\n\n<!-- wp:paragraph -->\n<p>– Older children should be permitted to use fireworks only under close adult supervision.</p>\n<!-- /wp:paragraph -->\n\n<!-- wp:paragraph -->\n<p>– Do not allow any running or horseplay.</p>\n<!-- /wp:paragraph -->\n\n<!-- wp:paragraph -->\n<p>– Set off fireworks outdoors in a clear area, away from houses, dry leaves, or grass and other flammable materials.</p>\n<!-- /wp:paragraph -->\n\n<!-- wp:paragraph -->\n<p>– Keep a bucket of water nearby for emergencies and for pouring on fireworks that fail to ignite or explode.</p>\n<!-- /wp:paragraph -->\n\n<!-- wp:paragraph -->\n<p>– Do not try to relight or handle malfunctioning or \"dud\" fireworks. Soak them with water and throw them away.</p>\n<!-- /wp:paragraph -->\n\n<!-- wp:paragraph -->\n<p>– Be sure other people are out of range before lighting fireworks.</p>\n<!-- /wp:paragraph -->\n\n<!-- wp:paragraph -->\n<p>--Never light fireworks in a container, especially a glass or metal container.</p>\n<!-- /wp:paragraph -->\n\n<!-- wp:paragraph -->\n<p>– Keep unused fireworks away from firing areas.</p>\n<!-- /wp:paragraph -->\n\n<!-- wp:paragraph -->\n<p>– Store fireworks in a cool, dry place.</p>\n<!-- /wp:paragraph -->\n\n<!-- wp:paragraph -->\n<p>– Check instructions for special storage directions.</p>\n<!-- /wp:paragraph -->\n\n<!-- wp:paragraph -->\n<p>– Observe local laws.</p>\n<!-- /wp:paragraph -->\n\n<!-- wp:paragraph -->\n<p>– Never have any portion of your body directly over a firework while lighting.</p>\n<!-- /wp:paragraph -->\n\n<!-- wp:paragraph -->\n<p>– Do not experiment with homemade fireworks.</p>\n<!-- /wp:paragraph -->\n\n<!-- wp:paragraph -->\n<p>Dr. Mark S. 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(40231, 4, '2019-06-06 09:42:18', '2019-06-06 13:42:18', '<!-- wp:heading {\"level\":4} -->\n<h4>By CELIA STRONG</h4>\n<!-- /wp:heading -->\n\n<!-- wp:paragraph -->\n<p>A little concentration will go a long way.&nbsp;</p>\n<!-- /wp:paragraph -->\n\n<!-- wp:paragraph -->\n<p>Especially when trying to decipher Pinot Gris wines. Distinguishing Pinot Grigio wines from Pinot Gris wines is easier. But even in Alsace, which is the original “gris” producing area, there are different styles of wines. Pinot Gris and Pinot Grigio are the same variety. But “gris” is the French version of the name and it is, obviously, used in the Alsace region. So “gris” it is.&nbsp;</p>\n<!-- /wp:paragraph -->\n\n<!-- wp:paragraph -->\n<p>Alsace wines are strongly influenced by their neighbor across the Rhine River, Germany. For that matter, Alsatian food, architecture and language are also closely tied to Germany.&nbsp;</p>\n<!-- /wp:paragraph -->\n\n<!-- wp:paragraph -->\n<p>For centuries, this region passed back and forth between France and Germany. With The Treaty of Versailles in 1919, Alsace was returned to French control and has remained there since. The name Alsace comes from the Old High German “Elisaz” which means foreign domain.</p>\n<!-- /wp:paragraph -->\n\n<!-- wp:paragraph -->\n<p>About 90 percent of Alsatian wines are white. From about 40,000 acres of vineyards. These wines come in taller, German Rhine style bottles, legally, and are labeled for their grape variety. A rarity in France.&nbsp;</p>\n<!-- /wp:paragraph -->\n\n<!-- wp:paragraph -->\n<p>In recent years, plantings of Pinot Gris have started to increase. Partly because of the popularity of Pinot Grigio. And, partly, because these are such good wines.&nbsp;</p>\n<!-- /wp:paragraph -->\n\n<!-- wp:paragraph -->\n<p>Alsatian Pinot Gris wines, in general, are golden yellow in color. Their aromas are rich with smoky notes, dried fruits, apricots, honey, ginger and gingerbread and florals.&nbsp;</p>\n<!-- /wp:paragraph -->\n\n<!-- wp:paragraph -->\n<p>Its flavors are also rich with peaches, meyer lemon, ginger and stone fruits. With good acidity levels, they are medium- to full-bodied with great structure, roundness, balance and strength.&nbsp;</p>\n<!-- /wp:paragraph -->\n\n<!-- wp:paragraph -->\n<p>And concentration. Definitely, they are more food-friendly.</p>\n<!-- /wp:paragraph -->\n\n<!-- wp:paragraph -->\n<p>Famile Hugel (Hugel Family) has produced wines in Alsace for more than 370 years. Thirteen generations of the family, beginning in 1639, with Hans Ulrich Hugel, a Swiss national.&nbsp;</p>\n<!-- /wp:paragraph -->\n\n<!-- wp:paragraph -->\n<p>Over all these years, they have established a reputation for passion and a dynamic, modern outlook. They own about 62 acres, over half of them with Grand Cru designation although none of their labels claim this designation. Their wines are produced in several tiers, Classic being the basic.&nbsp;</p>\n<!-- /wp:paragraph -->\n\n<!-- wp:paragraph -->\n<p>Hugel Classic Pinot Gris is 100 percent Pinot Gris and stands out for several reasons. It’s easily spotted on shelves by its distinctive label. A French winemaker with a corkscrew for his nose and a bunch of grapes in his hands.&nbsp;</p>\n<!-- /wp:paragraph -->\n\n<!-- wp:paragraph -->\n<p>This wine is made from some Hugel estate grapes and from purchased grapes that go through extreme selection processes. All sustainably grown on clay-limestone soils. They are hand picked and taken intact to the presses.&nbsp;</p>\n<!-- /wp:paragraph -->\n\n<!-- wp:paragraph -->\n<p>Fermentation is done in temperature-controlled vats with natural yeasts. Minimal intervention in the winemaking process is the rule at Hugel.&nbsp;</p>\n<!-- /wp:paragraph -->\n\n<!-- wp:paragraph -->\n<p>The finished wine is rich and full but still dry. Concentrated. Pinot Gris is the most discreet and subtle of their varieties. And, it has the longest aging potential. Its aromas are subtle and soft, but still intense, with ripe fruits (apricots), licorice, some buttery brioche, sesame seed, pistachio and hazelnut. Its flavors echo these aromas along with apples, guava, cinnamon and nutmeg. Think spicy bread pudding made with brioche.&nbsp;</p>\n<!-- /wp:paragraph -->\n\n<!-- wp:paragraph -->\n<p>This wine, made by Marc Hugel, is mouth-filling. All these flavors and textures make this wine stand out in your wine memory banks. Without too much concentration.&nbsp;</p>\n<!-- /wp:paragraph -->\n\n<!-- wp:paragraph -->\n<p>A Pinot Grigio it is not.&nbsp;<br></p>\n<!-- /wp:paragraph -->', 'Concentration has its benefits', '', 'publish', 'closed', 'closed', '', 'concentration-has-its-benefits-2', '', '', '2019-06-06 09:42:21', '2019-06-06 13:42:21', '', 0, 'https://staging.yourislandnews.com/?p=40231', 0, 'post', '', 0);
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(40233, 4, '2019-06-06 10:01:41', '2019-06-06 14:01:41', '<!-- wp:heading {\"level\":4} -->\n<h4>By MARGARET EVANS</h4>\n<!-- /wp:heading -->\n\n<!-- wp:paragraph -->\n<p>It was almost mid-afternoon when the Lunch Bunch straggled into the Red Rooster Café in its semi-new location on Boundary Street. Not to be confused with the Red Lobster, which briefly occupied the building, the Red Rooster has been delighting Beaufort diners since 2011, when it first established itself on Ribaut Rd.&nbsp;</p>\n<!-- /wp:paragraph -->\n\n<!-- wp:image {\"id\":40237} -->\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image\"><img src=\"https://staging.yourislandnews.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/06/Red-Rooster-Gang-of-4-1024x671.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-40237\"/><figcaption>Island News staffers, left to right: Margaret Evans, Betty Davis, Mike McCombs and Hope Oswald. Not pictured: Jeff Evans</figcaption></figure>\n<!-- /wp:image -->\n\n<!-- wp:paragraph -->\n<p>While waiting for a couple of late arrivals, we perused the menu. The humor and creativity displayed there is reason enough to give this restaurant a try. How can you not love a place that gives its sandwiches names like The Humpty Dumpty, Toasted Disco, Yo, Adrian, and Wile E Coyote?&nbsp;</p>\n<!-- /wp:paragraph -->\n\n<!-- wp:paragraph -->\n<p>There’s a burger called Hey, Y’all and one called Rooster Cogburn, and the salads sport names like Et Tu, Brute, Veggin’ Out, and The Free Bird.&nbsp;</p>\n<!-- /wp:paragraph -->\n\n<!-- wp:paragraph -->\n<p>Hope was running late – and our stomachs were growling – so we ordered for her, a Panini called The Gobbler. (Our server said it was a house favorite.) Betty ordered the Curried Rooster Waldorf sandwich, I had the Pear Necessities salad, Jeff got the Southern Sunrise breakfast (you can order breakfast all day!), and Mike ordered the Butch Cassidy burger, with a starter of She Crab Soup.&nbsp;</p>\n<!-- /wp:paragraph -->\n\n<!-- wp:image {\"id\":40235,\"align\":\"left\",\"width\":388,\"height\":338} -->\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\"><figure class=\"alignleft is-resized\"><img src=\"https://staging.yourislandnews.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/06/Red-Rooster-She-Crab-Soup-1024x891.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-40235\" width=\"388\" height=\"338\"/></figure></div>\n<!-- /wp:image -->\n\n<!-- wp:paragraph -->\n<p>Mike was done with work for the day, so he was able to avail himself of the Red Rooster’s full bar. Margaritas were his poison of choice, and he was forced to order a second when he found that the She Crab Soup – though delicious and full of crab – contained a healthy dose of paprika.</p>\n<!-- /wp:paragraph -->\n\n<!-- wp:paragraph -->\n<p>Betty declared her Curried Rooster Waldorf sandwich outstanding. “It’s a real treat,” she said. “Not over-curried.” Hope thoroughly enjoyed The Gobbler Panini – with its roasted turkey breast, soft brie and homemade strawberry sauce – and especially loved the Asian slaw that came with it.</p>\n<!-- /wp:paragraph -->\n\n<!-- wp:paragraph -->\n<p>Jeff’s Southern Sunrise satisfied his mid-day hankering for breakfast and even surpassed his expectations. It’s hard to go wrong with a hearty serving of eggs and sausage, but grits can be dicey. These were particularly good – stone ground and fluffed to perfection.&nbsp;</p>\n<!-- /wp:paragraph -->\n\n<!-- wp:paragraph -->\n<p>“The best part,” he said, “is that I’m sitting here eating breakfast at 1:45 pm.”</p>\n<!-- /wp:paragraph -->\n\n<!-- wp:image {\"id\":40238,\"align\":\"right\",\"width\":405,\"height\":357} -->\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\"><figure class=\"alignright is-resized\"><img src=\"https://staging.yourislandnews.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/06/Red-Rooster-Pear-Necessities-Salad-1024x901.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-40238\" width=\"405\" height=\"357\"/></figure></div>\n<!-- /wp:image -->\n\n<!-- wp:paragraph -->\n<p>I had ordered the Pear Necessities salad almost entirely because of its name – I like to reward whimsy – but it’s just as delicious as it is cleverly-named. A spring mix topped with fresh pears, dried cranberries, grilled chicken, sweet and salty toasted pecans, bacon, and feta… with light poppy seed dressing. Need I elaborate?&nbsp;</p>\n<!-- /wp:paragraph -->\n\n<!-- wp:paragraph -->\n<p>Mike had finished his She Crab Soup, and his second margarita, and it was time to tackle the Butch Cassidy Burger. He deemed it “a good, big, basic burger.” (Personally, this is all I want a burger to be. Ever.)&nbsp;</p>\n<!-- /wp:paragraph -->\n\n<!-- wp:paragraph -->\n<p>He was especially impressed with the pasta salad on the side, calling it “very rich and creamy; heavy on mayonnaise.”&nbsp;</p>\n<!-- /wp:paragraph -->\n\n<!-- wp:image {\"id\":40240} -->\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image\"><img src=\"https://staging.yourislandnews.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/06/Red-Rooster-Butch-Cassidy-Burger-1024x821.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-40240\"/></figure>\n<!-- /wp:image -->\n\n<!-- wp:gallery -->\n<ul class=\"wp-block-gallery columns-0 is-cropped\"></ul>\n<!-- /wp:gallery -->\n\n<!-- wp:paragraph -->\n<p>Near the end of lunch, manager Fredrick McKnight paid a visit to our table. Freddie’s one of those F&amp;B people who loves the business and has mastered every aspect of it.&nbsp;</p>\n<!-- /wp:paragraph -->\n\n<!-- wp:paragraph -->\n<p>“I started at Dockside as a dishwasher when I was a teenager,” he told us. “Pretty soon, I discovered cooking and thought: This is it!”&nbsp;</p>\n<!-- /wp:paragraph -->\n\n<!-- wp:paragraph -->\n<p>He’s been in the biz ever since and clearly does a little bit of everything – or, more likely, a lot of everything – at the Red Rooster.</p>\n<!-- /wp:paragraph -->\n\n<!-- wp:paragraph -->\n<p>Freddie told us that the restaurant recently extended its hours. After years of serving only breakfast and lunch, they now serve dinner Wednesday-Saturday. (And remember, there’s a full bar!) They also serve free breakfast most Friday mornings to cadets graduating from boot camp on Parris Island.&nbsp;</p>\n<!-- /wp:paragraph -->\n\n<!-- wp:paragraph -->\n<p>“These kids are risking more than I ever would to serve our country,” he said. “Feeding them breakfast is the least we can do.”&nbsp;</p>\n<!-- /wp:paragraph -->\n\n<!-- wp:paragraph -->\n<p>Freddie McKnight is a good guy and The Red Rooster Cafe is a delightful restaurant. We of the Island News Lunch Bunch give its two thumbs up and a promise to return soon.</p>\n<!-- /wp:paragraph -->\n\n<!-- wp:paragraph -->\n<p></p>\n<!-- /wp:paragraph -->\n\n<!-- wp:heading {\"level\":4} -->\n<h4><strong>Red Rooster Café</strong></h4>\n<!-- /wp:heading -->\n\n<!-- wp:paragraph -->\n<p>2045 Boundary Street</p>\n<!-- /wp:paragraph -->\n\n<!-- wp:paragraph -->\n<p>Beaufort, SC</p>\n<!-- /wp:paragraph -->\n\n<!-- wp:paragraph -->\n<p>843-379-2253</p>\n<!-- /wp:paragraph -->\n\n<!-- wp:paragraph -->\n<p>Mon and Tues: 7 a.m. – 3 p.m.</p>\n<!-- /wp:paragraph -->\n\n<!-- wp:paragraph -->\n<p>Wed-Fri: 7 a.m. – 9 p.m.</p>\n<!-- /wp:paragraph -->\n\n<!-- wp:paragraph -->\n<p>Sat: 8 a.m. – 9 p.m.</p>\n<!-- /wp:paragraph -->\n\n<!-- wp:paragraph -->\n<p>Sun: 8 a.m. – 3 p.m.<br></p>\n<!-- /wp:paragraph -->\n\n<!-- wp:paragraph -->\n<p><em>Top photograph: Red Rooster manager Fredrick McKnight</em></p>\n<!-- /wp:paragraph -->', 'Lunch Bunching at the Red Rooster Cafe', '', 'publish', 'closed', 'closed', '', 'lunch-bunching-at-the-red-rooster-cafe', '', '', '2019-06-10 07:48:40', '2019-06-10 11:48:40', '', 0, 'https://staging.yourislandnews.com/?p=40233', 0, 'post', '', 0),
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(40244, 4, '2019-06-06 10:02:50', '2019-06-06 14:02:50', '<!-- wp:paragraph -->\n<p>Beaufort–Jasper Water and Sewer Authority (BJWSA) has announced that Patrick Burke, P.E. is now serving as Deputy General Manager, Operations and Technical Services, as of May 24, 2019.&nbsp;</p>\n<!-- /wp:paragraph -->\n\n<!-- wp:paragraph -->\n<p>Burke has more than 30 years’ experience in the water and wastewater industry, including the past 27 at Aqua Pennsylvania, an investor-owned utility that serves more than 28 counties throughout Pennsylvania.</p>\n<!-- /wp:paragraph -->\n\n<!-- wp:paragraph -->\n<p>Aqua Pennsylvania is a subsidiary of Aqua America, which provides water and wastewater services to more than 3 million people in eight states. In his most recent role at Aqua, he was the Director of Operations for greater Pennsylvania. Burke has a Bachelor of Science in Structural Design and Construction Engineering Technology from Penn State University, a Masters of Business Administration from Bloomsburg University and is a licensed professional engineer.</p>\n<!-- /wp:paragraph -->\n\n<!-- wp:paragraph -->\n<p>The extensive search for the deputy general manager was conducted nationwide by Cabot Associates. General Manager Joe Mantua is “excited to have Pat join us; his extensive knowledge of water and wastewater systems and enthusiastic approach make him a great addition to our team.”</p>\n<!-- /wp:paragraph -->\n\n<!-- wp:paragraph -->\n<p>Burke is ready to offer his expertise and comprehensive knowledge to BJWSA.</p>\n<!-- /wp:paragraph -->\n\n<!-- wp:paragraph -->\n<p>“I am very excited to join the BJWSA team of highly qualified water and wastewater professionals,” Burke said in a release</p>\n<!-- /wp:paragraph -->\n\n<!-- wp:paragraph -->\n<p>In his role as Deputy General Manager, Burke will oversee approximately 135 employees, in the operational side of the authority.&nbsp;</p>\n<!-- /wp:paragraph -->\n\n<!-- wp:paragraph -->\n<p>For more information about BJWSA, go to <a href=\"http://www.bjwsa.org/\">www.bjwsa.org</a>.<br></p>\n<!-- /wp:paragraph -->', 'BJWSA hires Burke as deputy general manager', '', 'publish', 'closed', 'closed', '', 'bjwsa-hires-burke-as-deputy-general-manager', '', '', '2019-06-06 10:02:52', '2019-06-06 14:02:52', '', 0, 'https://staging.yourislandnews.com/?p=40244', 0, 'post', '', 0),
(40246, 4, '2019-06-05 10:03:07', '2019-06-05 14:03:07', '<!-- wp:paragraph -->\n<p>Tickets for Beaufort Film Society members for the 2020 Beaufort International Film Festival are on sale at a discount for the rest of June.</p>\n<!-- /wp:paragraph -->\n\n<!-- wp:paragraph -->\n<p>The All Events Ticket provides priority access to everything at BIFF – bypass the lines, see as many films as you want and attend all special events including the opening night reception, awards ceremony, all workshops and screenings.</p>\n<!-- /wp:paragraph -->\n\n<!-- wp:paragraph -->\n<p>The sale price for the All Events Ticket is $175 plus processing fees. Regular BFS member price is $255. Non-member price is $320. Tickets can be ordered at https://tinyurl.com/y48vqhjx.</p>\n<!-- /wp:paragraph -->\n\n<!-- wp:paragraph -->\n<p>Membership is required. Those uncertain of their membership status should examine their membership card for the expiration date or call 843-522-3196.</p>\n<!-- /wp:paragraph -->\n\n<!-- wp:paragraph -->\n<p>Those who are not members can still join and receive the discount.</p>\n<!-- /wp:paragraph -->\n\n<!-- wp:paragraph -->\n<p>The 14th-annual Beaufort International Film Festival will be held Feb. 18-23, 2020.</p>\n<!-- /wp:paragraph -->\n\n<!-- wp:paragraph -->\n<p>The schedule of events and screening times will be determined once finalists are identified on Dec. 15, 2019.</p>\n<!-- /wp:paragraph -->\n\n<!-- wp:paragraph -->\n<p>The opening ceremony will take place at 6 p.m. Tuesday, Feb, 18, 2020 at Tabby Place at 913 Port Republic Street. The dress code is business casual, and there are no ticket sales at the door.</p>\n<!-- /wp:paragraph -->\n\n<!-- wp:paragraph -->\n<p>Screenings on Wednesday, Thursday, Friday, and Saturday (Feb. 19-22) are to be held at USC Beaufort, Center for the Arts, located at 805 Carteret Street.</p>\n<!-- /wp:paragraph -->\n\n<!-- wp:paragraph -->\n<p>The awards ceremony will be held at 7 p.m. Feb. 23 at USC Beaufort’s Center for the Arts. No ticket sales at the door. All ticket sales are final. No refunds</p>\n<!-- /wp:paragraph -->\n\n<!-- wp:paragraph -->\n<p>Online ticket holders should print tickets and present them at the door. Proof of purchase by smart phone or iPad confirmation email will also be accepted. Lanyards are to be picked up at the venue upon arrival.</p>\n<!-- /wp:paragraph -->\n\n<!-- wp:paragraph -->\n<p>The sale ends at midnight, June 30.<br></p>\n<!-- /wp:paragraph -->', 'All event tickets on sale for 2020 Beaufort International Film Festival', '', 'publish', 'closed', 'closed', '', 'all-event-tickets-on-sale-for-2020-beaufort-international-film-festival', '', '', '2019-06-06 10:03:38', '2019-06-06 14:03:38', '', 0, 'https://staging.yourislandnews.com/?p=40246', 0, 'post', '', 0),
(40248, 4, '2019-06-06 10:04:27', '2019-06-06 14:04:27', '<!-- wp:paragraph -->\n<p>Last Christmas, Garrett Seckinger told his parents he wanted to do something to help feed the hungry.</p>\n<!-- /wp:paragraph -->\n\n<!-- wp:paragraph -->\n<p>As a result of that desire, the 12-year-old from Lady’s Island will collect the Unsung Hero Award when Help of Beaufort honors its top supporters from 5:30 to 7 p.m. at a Friends Appreciation event to be held at the Santa Elena History Museum.</p>\n<!-- /wp:paragraph -->\n\n<!-- wp:paragraph -->\n<p>Last Christman, Seckinger decided to collect canned goods for the hungry. With the help of his parents and neighbors, who hosted holiday parties, Seckinger’s initial goal of 100 canned goods was met easily.</p>\n<!-- /wp:paragraph -->\n\n<!-- wp:paragraph -->\n<p>So Seckinger decided to double down and shoot for 200 cans. He and his friends then went door to door in his neighborhood, soon reaching the goal of 200 and donating the food to Help of Beaufort.</p>\n<!-- /wp:paragraph -->\n\n<!-- wp:paragraph -->\n<p>Founded forty years ago, Help of Beaufort has always been about providing food for those most in need.&nbsp;</p>\n<!-- /wp:paragraph -->\n\n<!-- wp:paragraph -->\n<p>In addition to a food pantry and clothing boutique, Help of Beaufort’s Mobile Meals program brings food daily to more than 60 local elderly unable to get around.&nbsp;</p>\n<!-- /wp:paragraph -->\n\n<!-- wp:paragraph -->\n<p>Highlights for the evening will include an Angel Award to Ameris Bank for their food donations as well as cash contributions totaling more than $3000.&nbsp;</p>\n<!-- /wp:paragraph -->\n\n<!-- wp:paragraph -->\n<p>Above and Beyond Beaufort Business Awards go to three businesses – Piggly Wiggly, Butler Chrysler, Dodge and Jeep, and the Surf 104.9’s Jeff T-Bone Tayor show – who put on a monthly food and car give-away and reached out to Help of Beaufort to work with them.&nbsp;</p>\n<!-- /wp:paragraph -->\n\n<!-- wp:paragraph -->\n<p>More Unsung Hero Awards go to webmaster John Gladstone, who has worked tirelessly to build and main the Help of Beaufort website, and Anjanette Neale, a volunteer bookkeeper for almost a decade.&nbsp;<br></p>\n<!-- /wp:paragraph -->', 'Local nonprofit honoring Lady’s Island 12-year-old', '', 'publish', 'closed', 'closed', '', 'local-nonprofit-honoring-ladys-island-12-year-old', '', '', '2019-06-06 10:04:30', '2019-06-06 14:04:30', '', 0, 'https://staging.yourislandnews.com/?p=40248', 0, 'post', '', 0),
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(40260, 4, '2019-06-06 10:20:01', '2019-06-06 14:20:01', '<!-- wp:heading {\"level\":4} -->\n<h4>By BOB SOFALY</h4>\n<!-- /wp:heading -->\n\n<!-- wp:paragraph -->\n<p>The public swimming pool at the Charles Lind Brown Community Center on Greene Street is getting a face lift.</p>\n<!-- /wp:paragraph -->\n\n<!-- wp:paragraph -->\n<p>“The old surface was starting to flake off. It was getting pretty old,” said a representative of Andersen Pool Plastering in Bluffton. “It was ready for a face lift.”</p>\n<!-- /wp:paragraph -->\n\n<!-- wp:paragraph -->\n<p>The Greene Street pool normally opens on Memorial Day and remains open during the summer months.&nbsp;</p>\n<!-- /wp:paragraph -->\n\n<!-- wp:paragraph -->\n<p>“We should be finished by mid-June,” he said.</p>\n<!-- /wp:paragraph -->', 'Greene Street pool getting much-needed updates', '', 'publish', 'closed', 'closed', '', 'greene-street-pool-getting-much-needed-updates', '', '', '2019-06-06 10:20:03', '2019-06-06 14:20:03', '', 0, 'https://staging.yourislandnews.com/?p=40260', 0, 'post', '', 0),
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(40268, 4, '2019-06-06 10:23:59', '2019-06-06 14:23:59', '<!-- wp:paragraph -->\n<p>The Beaufort County School District is participating in the Summer Food Service Program, helping to provide meals to all eligible children free of charge.</p>\n<!-- /wp:paragraph -->\n\n<!-- wp:paragraph -->\n<p>Acceptance and participation requirements for the program and all activities are the same for all regardless of race, color, national origin, sex, age, or disability, and there will be no discrimination in the course of the meal service.</p>\n<!-- /wp:paragraph -->\n\n<!-- wp:paragraph -->\n<p>Meals will be provided, on a first-come, first-serve basis, at the sites and times as follows:</p>\n<!-- /wp:paragraph -->\n\n<!-- wp:paragraph -->\n<p>Beaufort County Libraries</p>\n<!-- /wp:paragraph -->\n\n<!-- wp:paragraph -->\n<p>– St. Helena Library, through July 31, 10:45-11:30 a.m.</p>\n<!-- /wp:paragraph -->\n\n<!-- wp:paragraph -->\n<p>6355 Jonathan Francis Sr. Rd., St Helena, S.C. 29920</p>\n<!-- /wp:paragraph -->\n\n<!-- wp:paragraph -->\n<p>– Beaufort Library, through July 31, noon-12:45 p.m.</p>\n<!-- /wp:paragraph -->\n\n<!-- wp:paragraph -->\n<p>311 Scott St., Beaufort, S.C. 29902</p>\n<!-- /wp:paragraph -->\n\n<!-- wp:paragraph -->\n<p>– Lobeco Library, through July 31, 1:30-2:15 p.m.</p>\n<!-- /wp:paragraph -->\n\n<!-- wp:paragraph -->\n<p>1862 Trask Parkway, Lobeco, S.C. 29931</p>\n<!-- /wp:paragraph -->\n\n<!-- wp:paragraph -->\n<p>– Beaufort County YMCA, through Aug. 16, 7:30-8:30 a.m., 11:00 a.m.-1 p.m.</p>\n<!-- /wp:paragraph -->\n\n<!-- wp:paragraph -->\n<p>1801 Richmond Ave., Port Royal, S.C. 29935</p>\n<!-- /wp:paragraph -->\n\n<!-- wp:paragraph -->\n<p>Meals will be provided at the sites and times as follows, only to enrollees of the programs. 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(40375, 4, '2019-06-19 06:32:26', '2019-06-19 10:32:26', '<!-- wp:heading {\"level\":4} -->\n<h4>By SCOTT GRABER</h4>\n<!-- /wp:heading -->\n\n<!-- wp:paragraph -->\n<p>It is Saturday morning and I’m in the Chestnut-paneled, stone-hearth-accessorized lobby of the Fryemont Inn in Bryson City, N.C.&nbsp;</p>\n<!-- /wp:paragraph -->\n\n<!-- wp:paragraph -->\n<p>There is a cool breeze washing through the open windows — the same windows that give me a view of the empty rockers on the front deck. As I sit and write, my mind takes me back to those who sat and rocked in those chairs many years ago.</p>\n<!-- /wp:paragraph -->\n\n<!-- wp:paragraph -->\n<p>In 1986, when my son was 6-years-old, we discovered the Fryemont. I’m not sure who told us about this rambling, poplar-sided building built by Amos Frye in the 1920s. But we liked the rustic, paneled rooms and the fact that the rooms came with breakfast and dinner.&nbsp;</p>\n<!-- /wp:paragraph -->\n\n<!-- wp:paragraph -->\n<p>But more than these throw-backs, we liked the feeling that came with no television (in the rooms), no air conditioning, and the premium put on sitting in the lobby. Maybe you played Monopoly, or maybe you read James Michener. Or perhaps you had a conversation with a stranger before having “Trout Amos” in the dining room.</p>\n<!-- /wp:paragraph -->\n\n<!-- wp:paragraph -->\n<p>In the past, my wife and I came here with our son, or with my parents, or with friends. We gathered in the morning and talked about the weather and the difficulty of the Mt. Leconte ascent.&nbsp;</p>\n<!-- /wp:paragraph -->\n\n<!-- wp:paragraph -->\n<p>Or we talked about the rocks and small waterfalls we would encounter as we tubed down Deep Creek. As we ate our scrambled eggs, biscuit and heavily buttered grits we talked about the vigorous, gasping-for-breath exercise that would come later that morning, never doubting our ability to get to the Alum Caves before noon.&nbsp;</p>\n<!-- /wp:paragraph -->\n\n<!-- wp:paragraph -->\n<p>In those days, Mt. Leconte was a favorite trail because it was almost vertical.&nbsp;</p>\n<!-- /wp:paragraph -->\n\n<!-- wp:paragraph -->\n<p>At one point there is a narrow ledge, so narrow that the Park Service has bolted a steel cable into the wall of the rock face. This cable was altogether central to the stories we told once back in the lobby of the Fryemont. The ledge, the rocks in the river and the (small) possibility of injury were important in those days.&nbsp;</p>\n<!-- /wp:paragraph -->\n\n<!-- wp:paragraph -->\n<p>When one hikes one also talks. I remember climbing LeConte with my father who told me about his family having just enough money to send his older brother to law school — and not enough money to send him to medical school.&nbsp;</p>\n<!-- /wp:paragraph -->\n\n<!-- wp:paragraph -->\n<p>He also told me about his time in the Aleutian Islands in World War II. (I would later learn that he discovered the Army-supplied overcoats were saturated with a chemical that made the men sick. He never mentioned this to me or the fact he was commended for his discovery of this contaminant.)</p>\n<!-- /wp:paragraph -->\n\n<!-- wp:paragraph -->\n<p>I also took this vertical hike with Tom Davis, Dean Moss and David Taub. Tom was not yet a Senator; but Dean then ran the Water Authority and David (I think) was the Mayor of Beaufort.&nbsp;</p>\n<!-- /wp:paragraph -->\n\n<!-- wp:paragraph -->\n<p>I cannot remember the details of our conversation as we struggled up the mountain — perhaps we argued about annexation, or the water and sewer contract for Sun City, or the controversial Comprehensive Plan.&nbsp;</p>\n<!-- /wp:paragraph -->\n\n<!-- wp:paragraph -->\n<p>But once at the lodge, and once we had a glass of scotch under our belts, we felt a sense of wonder and gratitude that we lived in this hot, febrile county and each had small role in it’s development.&nbsp;</p>\n<!-- /wp:paragraph -->\n\n<!-- wp:paragraph -->\n<p>Now our son lives in New York City and has his own adventures. Our parents are dead and our friends mostly choose less rigorous activities like cruises on the Danube.&nbsp;</p>\n<!-- /wp:paragraph -->\n\n<!-- wp:paragraph -->\n<p>This morning, my wife and I are alone in this Chestnut-paneled interior that feels and smells precisely the same as it did when we were younger, and we’re saturated with a sense of adventure and expectation.</p>\n<!-- /wp:paragraph -->\n\n<!-- wp:paragraph -->\n<p>In a few minutes, I’ll meet Susan in the dining room — just the two of us — and we will look over at the long tables that seat eight or more people. We will look at those noisy, younger, crowded tables remembering the multiple conversations, the early-morning complaints and, of course, the excitement about the forthcoming, almost vertical movement into the Smoky Mountains.<br>\n<br></p>\n<!-- /wp:paragraph -->', 'The Fryemont still provides sense of expectation, adventure', '', 'publish', 'closed', 'closed', '', 'the-fryemont-still-provides-sense-of-expectation-adventure', '', '', '2019-06-19 06:32:28', '2019-06-19 10:32:28', '', 0, 'https://staging.yourislandnews.com/?p=40375', 0, 'post', '', 0);
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(40286, 4, '2019-06-12 09:45:53', '2019-06-12 13:45:53', '<!-- wp:paragraph -->\n<p>Conservative Republican Kathy Landing, 56, was in Beaufort for a meet-and-greet at Panini’s Monday, having announced her candidacy for Congress earlier that day. A businesswoman, financial planner, military wife, mother and public servant from Mount Pleasant, Landing is hoping to unseat Democrat Joe Cunningham in South Carolina’s 1st Congressional District. <br>\nWith Landing’s announcement, three Republicans have now formally challenged Cunningham for the seat he won in 2018. The two other declared challengers — Beaufort County Councilman Mike Covert and Hilton Head Island teacher Logan Cunningham, who is not related to the congressman — both live in Bluffton.</p>\n<!-- /wp:paragraph -->\n\n<!-- wp:paragraph -->\n<p>Kathy Landing spoke to the group at Panini’s then sat down briefly with The Island News.</p>\n<!-- /wp:paragraph -->\n\n<!-- wp:paragraph -->\n<p><strong>On her reasons for running:</strong><br>\n“Today, we can truly say America is strong and thriving, but Washington remains broken. Congress seems lost and confused, with vicious partisan politics, endless attacks on our President, sideshows of attention-getting political stunts, and a lack of focus on what we need our representatives to do to solve the problems we still face as a nation. I can no longer sit by and watch this, and I am running to restore dignity and focus to the seat that belongs to you.</p>\n<!-- /wp:paragraph -->\n\n<!-- wp:paragraph -->\n<p>“We are all tired of Congress being entirely focused on investigating our successful President, while failing to act on their primary duties and what we need most – a responsible and balanced budget, improved infrastructure, a fix to the broken healthcare system, and most importantly, a commitment to keep American families safe.</p>\n<!-- /wp:paragraph -->\n\n<!-- wp:paragraph -->\n<p>“I am running for Congress to provide solutions to the issues most important to us in the Lowcountry, just as I have done as a [Mount Pleasant] Town Council Member working on infrastructure improvements, traffic relief, attracting high quality jobs, and improving our quality of life.”&nbsp;</p>\n<!-- /wp:paragraph -->\n\n<!-- wp:paragraph -->\n<p><strong>On the incumbent, Joe Cunningham:</strong></p>\n<!-- /wp:paragraph -->\n\n<!-- wp:paragraph -->\n<p>“We were told during the last election cycle that our current Congressman would put ‘Lowcountry over party.’ Now, he has a voting record to examine so we can see how that is going.&nbsp;According to FiveThirtyEight, he has the least bipartisan voting record possible, voting in favor of President Trump’s positions 0% of the time. Instead, according to&nbsp;<a href=\"http://propublica.org/\">ProPublica.org</a>, out of over 235 votes cast so far, he has voted 84% with Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, 87% with Adam Schiff, and 90% with Maxine Waters. Does this sound like Lowcountry over party to you? Are these the values of the 1stDistrict of South Carolina, or are they the liberal values of California or the Bronx?</p>\n<!-- /wp:paragraph -->\n\n<!-- wp:paragraph -->\n<p>“… Our current Congressman may be a nice guy, but the Lowcountry needs a strong leader in Congress that truly represents the majority of voices in SC1… Rather than attention-seeking stunts, we need a more thoughtful, and dare I say, mature approach in Congress.”</p>\n<!-- /wp:paragraph -->\n\n<!-- wp:paragraph -->\n<p><strong>Attention-seeking stunts?</strong>&nbsp;</p>\n<!-- /wp:paragraph -->\n\n<!-- wp:paragraph -->\n<p>“… Like carrying a six-pack of beer onto the Congressional floor. It was probably a mistake, maybe even an honest mistake, and he was thrown out of Congress. Some people might say, ‘Oh, that’s funny.’ But there is a decorum associated with Congress and I feel like you should find out what the rules are before you start doing things off the cuff. Also, he got a lot of attention for blowing an air horn when he was trying to make a point about how loud seismic testing might be to the ears of mammals under water. He talks a lot about being an ocean engineer. I don’t know if he actually worked as one; I know he wasn’t certified in that. I bring this up only because I was with the Duke Marine lab as an undergrad and I have a fair amount of knowledge too, and I feel like if you want to make a point about seismic testing you don’t have to necessarily kill everybody’s ears with an air horn. You can make that point without making it a stunt.”</p>\n<!-- /wp:paragraph -->\n\n<!-- wp:paragraph -->\n<p><strong>On offshore drilling:</strong></p>\n<!-- /wp:paragraph -->\n\n<!-- wp:paragraph -->\n<p>“During the last election, our current Congressman stood for one issue above anything else. He was against offshore drilling. I stand before you now to declare that I am absolutely and unequivocally against offshore drilling and seismic testing for the South Carolina coastline.”&nbsp;</p>\n<!-- /wp:paragraph -->\n\n<!-- wp:paragraph -->\n<p><strong>On healthcare:</strong></p>\n<!-- /wp:paragraph -->\n\n<!-- wp:paragraph -->\n<p>“We know that Obamacare is not paying for itself and that it needs bailouts from time to time just to keep going. When the first constructed the Affordable Care Act – I hate to call it that because it’s not affordable – they missed the mark on the main idea. We wanted to cover more people with insurance, certainly, but bringing down health care costs needed to be done. And that wasn’t addressed at all. There are so many things we can do to bring costs down. I think the President is working on some things right now that are potentially worthwhile in terms of getting vendors and hospitals and doctors to show the real costs as opposed to having these things that are adjusted after. I have ideas on all these things, but what we’re going to be doing is fully forming my positions on each issue as we move forward. We do have a lot of this covered already on my website, for instance my thoughts on pre-existing conditions…”<br> </p>\n<!-- /wp:paragraph -->\n\n<!-- wp:paragraph -->\n<p><strong>On being pro-life:</strong></p>\n<!-- /wp:paragraph -->\n\n<!-- wp:paragraph -->\n<p>&nbsp;“[I am someone] who understands, through my volunteer work with crisis pregnancy centers, that we can and must do a better job of supporting women who feel helpless or trapped in unwanted pregnancies, making it substantially easier for them to carry to term, making adoption more readily available if they still cannot or do not want to raise the babies, and helping make the children’s lives legacies of love after birth by providing true support for the family.”&nbsp;&nbsp;</p>\n<!-- /wp:paragraph -->\n\n<!-- wp:paragraph -->\n<p><strong>On supporting the Second Amendment:</strong></p>\n<!-- /wp:paragraph -->\n\n<!-- wp:paragraph -->\n<p>“We deserve a member of Congress who understands the risks to individual liberty and our country’s freedoms when we try to restrict this critically important right. And oh, by the way, I do have a Concealed Weapons Permit and own a 9mm Smith &amp; Wesson Shield.”</p>\n<!-- /wp:paragraph -->\n\n<!-- wp:paragraph -->\n<p>For more information about Kathy Landing and her positions, visit <a href=\"http://www.kathylanding.com/\">www.kathylanding.com</a> <br><br><em>Above: Kathy Landing, center, discusses her campaign on Monday with Kandy Gallagher, left, and Marian Sheldrake prior after her official announcement of her candidacy for the 1st Congressional District seat being held by Democrat Joe Cunningham. <strong>Photo by Bob Sofaly</strong></em><br></p>\n<!-- /wp:paragraph -->', 'Landing makes appearance in Beaufort after announcing run for Congress', '', 'publish', 'closed', 'closed', '', 'landing-makes-appearance-in-beaufort-after-announcing-run-for-congress', '', '', '2019-06-12 12:42:39', '2019-06-12 16:42:39', '', 0, 'https://staging.yourislandnews.com/?p=40286', 0, 'post', '', 0),
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(40290, 4, '2019-06-11 10:05:52', '2019-06-11 14:05:52', '<!-- wp:paragraph -->\n<p>YA Everlasting Book Club</p>\n<!-- /wp:paragraph -->\n\n<!-- wp:paragraph -->\n<p>If you are an adult or teen who enjoys reading Young Adult Literature, this book club is for you. All meetings begin at 5:30 p.m. at the Beaufort Branch Library on Scott Street downtown and are free to the public.</p>\n<!-- /wp:paragraph -->\n\n<!-- wp:paragraph -->\n<p>Upcoming book discussions: July 10 – For a Muse of Fire by Heidi Heilig; Aug. 14 – Anger is a Gift by Mark Oshiro.</p>\n<!-- /wp:paragraph -->\n\n<!-- wp:paragraph -->\n<p><strong>Beaufort Sportfishing and Diving Club June meeting</strong></p>\n<!-- /wp:paragraph -->\n\n<!-- wp:paragraph -->\n<p>The Beaufort Sportfishing and Diving Club’s June meeting will be held Thursday, June 13 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.</p>\n<!-- /wp:paragraph -->\n\n<!-- wp:paragraph -->\n<p>The guest speaker will be well known local angler Jim Golier, a formal SCDNR representative and current Executive Director of the Hampton Wildlife Fund. He will discuss the latest in electronic and maintenance issues. This will include various plotters, sounders, and utilization. A representative from West Marine will also be available for various product pricing for makes and models.</p>\n<!-- /wp:paragraph -->\n\n<!-- wp:paragraph -->\n<p>Guests are welcomed and you do not need a reservation. For additional information, please contact Captain Frank Gibson at 843-522-2122 or email <a href=\"mailto:fgibson@islc.net\">fgibson@islc.net</a>.</p>\n<!-- /wp:paragraph -->\n\n<!-- wp:paragraph -->\n<p><strong>Registration open for game design and development classes</strong></p>\n<!-- /wp:paragraph -->\n\n<!-- wp:paragraph -->\n<p>The Beaufort Digital Corridor announces a second summer camp sessions of Game On! – game design and development geared toward middle and high school students. Registration is now open for this limited seating opportunity.</p>\n<!-- /wp:paragraph -->\n\n<!-- wp:paragraph -->\n<p>The course will be held at the Beaufort Digital Corridor’s BASEcamp facility from 9 a.m. until noon, Monday-Friday, July 15-19.</p>\n<!-- /wp:paragraph -->\n\n<!-- wp:paragraph -->\n<p>Among the topics will be game strategy, puzzle design and a final project.</p>\n<!-- /wp:paragraph -->\n\n<!-- wp:paragraph -->\n<p>This is a special curriculum by Seth Konoza, an animation, game design and computer science educator at Beaufort High School. Students are introduced to the theory, tools, and practice required to create their own games.</p>\n<!-- /wp:paragraph -->\n\n<!-- wp:paragraph -->\n<p>Helping students to discover a passion for game design, computer science and coding, Game On! presents kids with the possibility of continuing their education in technology.&nbsp;</p>\n<!-- /wp:paragraph -->\n\n<!-- wp:paragraph -->\n<p>Program manager Shelley Barratt adds, “In our third season of offering this course, we are well awareof the tech skills that the newer generation gains early on. The goal is to offer other skills — like critical thinking and user experience — to augment that, and the real work commences once they follow that curiosity throughout their education and into a potential tech career.”</p>\n<!-- /wp:paragraph -->\n\n<!-- wp:paragraph -->\n<p><strong>Eco Camp celebrates 30th year</strong><br> </p>\n<!-- /wp:paragraph -->\n\n<!-- wp:paragraph -->\n<p>Beaufort Conservation District will have its 30th Eco Camp July 22-26th. \"The Best of Eco Camp\" will feature favorite programs from years past with a focus on our coastal ecosystem. Elementary students will examine critters found in oyster reefs, pluff mud, and dock fouling, dissect fish, do a mock dolphin necropsy, as well as practice shrimp net casting. Campers will see local live critters, learn about butterflies, safety and first aid. Friday the students will tour the Port Royal Sound Maritime Museum and take a marsh walk. All campers will receive a T-shirt to decorate and have lunch on Friday sponsored by the Farm Bureau Women\'s Committee. Please sign up by July 9 to get this years T-shirt. For details, call 843-255-7306 or visit <a href=\"http://beaufortconservationdistrict.org/\">beaufortconservationdistrict.org</a>.</p>\n<!-- /wp:paragraph -->\n\n<!-- wp:paragraph -->\n<p><strong>June Beaufort Drum Circle Dates</strong><br> All are invited to share some good vibes with the Beaufort S.C. Drum Circle. The Drum Circle gathers every second Monday of the month from 5:30 to 7 p.m. and every fourth Thursday of the month from 7 to 8:30 p.m. Our final June event will be Thursday, June 27 at the Contemplative Garden in Henry C. Chambers Waterfront Park in downtown Beaufort.</p>\n<!-- /wp:paragraph -->\n\n<!-- wp:paragraph -->\n<p>Everyone is welcome to attend this family friendly event. No experience is necessary. Rain or shine. Please bring a chair, a friend, and maybe an extra drum or hand percussion instrument if you have one to share.<br>\nFor questions or to join our mailing list, please email us at <a href=\"mailto:beaufortscdrumcircle@gmail.com\">beaufortscdrumcircle@gmail.com</a> or contact us on our Facebook page Beaufort SC Drum Circle.</p>\n<!-- /wp:paragraph -->\n\n<!-- wp:paragraph -->\n<p><strong>Hunting Island Lighthouse tours</strong></p>\n<!-- /wp:paragraph -->\n\n<!-- wp:paragraph -->\n<p>Climb the only Lighthouse in South Carolina open to the public and learn about the workings and history of the Lighthouse at Hunting Island State Park.&nbsp;</p>\n<!-- /wp:paragraph -->\n\n<!-- wp:paragraph -->\n<p>Join Keeper Ted and tour guides any Thursday in June at 10 a.m. You must be 44-inches tall to climb. Cost is $2 per person. Call the Nature Center at 843-838-7437 for reservations. Park entry fees apply.</p>\n<!-- /wp:paragraph -->\n\n<!-- wp:paragraph -->\n<p><strong>Friends of Hunting Island’s Tuesday Turtle Talks</strong></p>\n<!-- /wp:paragraph -->\n\n<!-- wp:paragraph -->\n<p>The Friends of Hunting island announce the 2019 Tuesday Turtle Talks running Tuesday, June 11 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.&nbsp;</p>\n<!-- /wp:paragraph -->\n\n<!-- wp:paragraph -->\n<p>Each 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.&nbsp;</p>\n<!-- /wp:paragraph -->\n\n<!-- wp:paragraph -->\n<p>After the talk, participants can join TTT host Peggy Willenberg on a short beach walk. All ages are invited to attend this educational and engaging program.&nbsp;</p>\n<!-- /wp:paragraph -->\n\n<!-- wp:paragraph -->\n<p>And 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.</p>\n<!-- /wp:paragraph -->\n\n<!-- wp:paragraph -->\n<p>YMCA to offer CPR classes</p>\n<!-- /wp:paragraph -->\n\n<!-- wp:paragraph -->\n<p>The Wardle Family YMCA, located at 1801 Richmond Ave in Port Royal, offers CPR classes for community members on Saturdays from 8 a.m. to noon on the following dates in 2019: June 22, July 20, August 17, September 7, September 19, and November 23.&nbsp;</p>\n<!-- /wp:paragraph -->\n\n<!-- wp:paragraph -->\n<p>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</p>\n<!-- /wp:paragraph -->\n\n<!-- wp:paragraph -->\n<p>Beaufort Heritage Explorers Camp at the Santa Elena History Center</p>\n<!-- /wp:paragraph -->\n\n<!-- wp:paragraph -->\n<p>Immerse your child in a week of interesting local history from 1566 to the 1900s at the Beaufort Heritage Explorers summer camp at the Santa Elena History Center, hosted by the <a href=\"https://www.facebook.com/santaelenafoundation/\">Santa Elena History Center</a>, <a href=\"https://www.facebook.com/reconstructionbeaufort/\">The Second Founding of America: Reconstruction Beaufort</a> and the <a href=\"https://www.facebook.com/HistoricBeaufortFoundation/\">Historic Beaufort Foundation</a>.</p>\n<!-- /wp:paragraph -->\n\n<!-- wp:paragraph -->\n<p>Dates are June 20-28 or July 29-Aug. 2, 9&nbsp; a.m.-1 p.m. Each day concludes with lunch from 12:15 p.m. until pick up with lunch provided on Friday.<br>\nThe cost is $150 per child with all proceeds benefit participating nonprofits. There are 15 openings for rising 3rd grade through rising 5th grade and 15 openings for rising 6th grade through rising 8th grade.<br>\nThere must be a minimum of 10 per age group registered by June 15. For more information or to register, visit <a href=\"https://santa-elena.org/new-summer-camp-for-2019/\">https://santa-elena.org/new-summer-camp-for-2019/</a>.</p>\n<!-- /wp:paragraph -->\n\n<!-- wp:paragraph -->\n<p>June activities at Hunting Island State Park</p>\n<!-- /wp:paragraph -->\n\n<!-- wp:paragraph -->\n<p>There are fun, interesting and educational activities every day hosted by Park Ranger and Lowcountry Master Naturalist Megan Stegmeier.&nbsp;</p>\n<!-- /wp:paragraph -->\n\n<!-- wp:paragraph -->\n<p>Mondays: Tie dye, 11 a.m.; Secrets of the Salt Marsh, 4 p.m.</p>\n<!-- /wp:paragraph -->\n\n<!-- wp:paragraph -->\n<p>Tuesdays: Sea Turtle Tracks, 10:30 a.m.; CCC Video, 1 p.m.; Beach Walk, 3 p.m.</p>\n<!-- /wp:paragraph -->\n\n<!-- wp:paragraph -->\n<p>Wednesdays: Alligator Talk, 11 a.m.; Stepping Stones, 2 p.m. (except June 19)</p>\n<!-- /wp:paragraph -->\n\n<!-- wp:paragraph -->\n<p>Thursdays: Interpretive lighthouse tour, 10 a.m.; Feeding Frenzy, 3 p.m.; Sea safari, 4 p.m. (June 20)</p>\n<!-- /wp:paragraph -->\n\n<!-- wp:paragraph -->\n<p>Fridays: Lowcountry reptiles, 11 a.m.; Fish printing, 2 p.m.</p>\n<!-- /wp:paragraph -->\n\n<!-- wp:paragraph -->\n<p>Saturdays: Turtle time, 11 a.m.; Creatures of the Night, 2:30 p.m. (June 27); Hunting Island bingo, 3 p.m. (June 15); Sharks!, 3 p.m. (June 29)</p>\n<!-- /wp:paragraph -->\n\n<!-- wp:paragraph -->\n<p>For a description of these programs and a complete calendar of activities, go to southcarolinaparks.com/hunting-island and click on “Programs &amp; Events.”</p>\n<!-- /wp:paragraph -->\n\n<!-- wp:paragraph -->\n<p>All 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.</p>\n<!-- /wp:paragraph -->\n\n<!-- wp:paragraph -->\n<p>For more information, call 843-838-7437 or go to the Friends of Hunting Island website and the Facebook page: FOHI Sea Turtle Conservation Project.</p>\n<!-- /wp:paragraph -->\n\n<!-- wp:paragraph -->\n<p>Get moving with Beaufort Track Club</p>\n<!-- /wp:paragraph -->\n\n<!-- wp:paragraph -->\n<p>Join 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.</p>\n<!-- /wp:paragraph -->\n\n<!-- wp:paragraph -->\n<p>Visit the Facebook page “Beaufort Track Club” for more information.<br></p>\n<!-- /wp:paragraph -->', 'What To Do', '', 'publish', 'closed', 'closed', '', 'what-to-do-182', '', '', '2019-06-12 10:11:25', '2019-06-12 14:11:25', '', 0, 'https://staging.yourislandnews.com/?p=40290', 0, 'post', '', 0),
(40292, 4, '2019-06-11 10:11:25', '2019-06-11 14:11:25', '<!-- wp:paragraph -->\n<p>SCDNR alligator hunting deadline approaching</p>\n<!-- /wp:paragraph -->\n\n<!-- wp:paragraph -->\n<p>The application deadline to enter this year\'s public alligator hunting season lottery drawing is 5 p.m. Saturday, June 15.</p>\n<!-- /wp:paragraph -->\n\n<!-- wp:paragraph -->\n<p>A $10 nonrefundable application fee is required to apply for the Public Lands Hunt. A randomized computer drawing based on a preference point system will determine the selection of hunters. Unsuccessful applicants will receive a preference point for use in future alligator lottery hunts.</p>\n<!-- /wp:paragraph -->\n\n<!-- wp:paragraph -->\n<p>This year’s public season will begin at 12 p.m. noon Sept. 14 and run until noon Oct. 12.</p>\n<!-- /wp:paragraph -->\n\n<!-- wp:paragraph -->\n<p>If selected, tag fees are $100. Additional fees apply for nonresident applicants.</p>\n<!-- /wp:paragraph -->\n\n<!-- wp:paragraph -->\n<p>By law, the fees collected are used to support the Alligator Management Program\'s research and management activities, and for conservation of the American Alligator in South Carolina.</p>\n<!-- /wp:paragraph -->\n\n<!-- wp:paragraph -->\n<p>Please check the S.C. Department of Natural Resources website at <a href=\"http://www.dnr.sc.gov/wildlife/alligator/index.html\">www.dnr.sc.gov/wildlife/alligator/index.html</a> for more alligator hunting information and any changes or updates.</p>\n<!-- /wp:paragraph -->\n\n<!-- wp:paragraph -->\n<p>The SCDNR will closely monitor these hunts, and the harvest and regulations may be modified for future seasons. If you encounter problems with applying please contact SCDNR at 803-734-3887 before continuing.</p>\n<!-- /wp:paragraph -->\n\n<!-- wp:paragraph -->\n<p>SC AG Wilson joins motion to unseal generic drug price fixing complaint</p>\n<!-- /wp:paragraph -->\n\n<!-- wp:paragraph -->\n<p>South Carolina Attorney General Alan Wilson joined a 44-state coalition led by Connecticut Attorney General William Tong in a motion Friday, June 7 to unseal their complaint against Teva Pharmaceuticals and 19 of the nation\'s largest generic drug manufacturers. The complaint, filed on May 10 in U.S. District Court for the District of Connecticut, alleges a broad conspiracy to artificially inflate and manipulate prices, reduce competition and unreasonably restrain trade for more than 100 different drugs.</p>\n<!-- /wp:paragraph -->\n\n<!-- wp:paragraph -->\n<p>Marines live-fire training in June</p>\n<!-- /wp:paragraph -->\n\n<!-- wp:paragraph -->\n<p>Marine Corps Recruit Depot Parris Island will be commencing live-fire training from 6 a.m. to 2 a.m. on Monday and Tuesday, June 17 and 18.<br>\nThe marsh and waterways in the range impact area to include Archer’s Creek, Ribbon Creek, and Edding Creek will be closed to boater traffic.<br>\nFor questions regarding firing times and waterway closures, please contact the Weapons and Field Training Battalion Range Control at 843-228-3170.</p>\n<!-- /wp:paragraph -->\n\n<!-- wp:paragraph -->\n<p>Davis to speak to Beaufort Tea Party</p>\n<!-- /wp:paragraph -->\n\n<!-- wp:paragraph -->\n<p>State senator Tom Davis will be the guest speaker at the June meeting of the Beaufort Tea Party from 5:30 to 7:30 p.m. Monday, June 17 at Fuji\'s Restaurant at 97 Sea Island Parkway on Lady\'s Island.</p>\n<!-- /wp:paragraph -->\n\n<!-- wp:paragraph -->\n<p>Davis was slated to speak at the May meeting but had to reschedule. This month, Davis will discuss the state budget, the Compassionate Care Act, the Personhood Act, hemp and more. Bring your questions, and seating is limited, so come early.</p>\n<!-- /wp:paragraph -->\n\n<!-- wp:paragraph -->\n<p>League of Women Voters Beaufort Area hosting June meeting</p>\n<!-- /wp:paragraph -->\n\n<!-- wp:paragraph -->\n<p>Members and non-members are invited to attend the monthly meeting of the League of Women Voters Beaufort Area from 6 to 7:30 p.m. Thursday, June 13 at Beth Israel Synagogue at 401 Scott Street in Beaufort.</p>\n<!-- /wp:paragraph -->\n\n<!-- wp:paragraph -->\n<p>The League is preparing for many activities leading up to the 2020 elections, and this month\'s meeting agenda will include discussions and planning for the following committees: Voter services, voter access, education, Observer Corps, legislative issues (ERA, redistricting), membership, 100th anniversary celebration, fundraising and the Harriet Keyserling Emerging Leader Fund.</p>\n<!-- /wp:paragraph -->\n\n<!-- wp:paragraph -->\n<p>The League recently conducted a successful annual meeting and luncheon to elect new officers and confirm its priorities. Nearly 100 tickets were sold to the event, which featured presentations on Women of the Reconstruction Era.&nbsp;</p>\n<!-- /wp:paragraph -->\n\n<!-- wp:paragraph -->\n<p>The organization’s top action priorities include voter access, voter technology and voter registration. Program priorities, based on polling, include redistricting, voter education, healthcare reform, natural resources protection and passage of the Equal Rights Amendment.</p>\n<!-- /wp:paragraph -->\n\n<!-- wp:paragraph -->\n<p>All meetings of the League are open to the public.</p>\n<!-- /wp:paragraph -->\n\n<!-- wp:paragraph -->\n<p>The League of Women Voters of Beaufort Area, a nonpartisan political organization, encourages informed and active participation in government, works to increase understanding of major public policy issues, and influences public policy through education and advocacy.</p>\n<!-- /wp:paragraph -->\n\n<!-- wp:paragraph -->\n<p>Find us on Facebook at League of Women Voters Beaufort Area, follow us on Instagram @beaufortvotes and #beaufortvotes, contact us at <a href=\"mailto:lwvbeaufort@gmail.com\">lwvbeaufort@gmail.com</a> or call 704-641-7357.<br></p>\n<!-- /wp:paragraph -->', 'News Briefs', '', 'publish', 'closed', 'closed', '', 'news-briefs-113', '', '', '2019-06-12 10:13:14', '2019-06-12 14:13:14', '', 0, 'https://staging.yourislandnews.com/?p=40292', 0, 'post', '', 0),
(40294, 4, '2019-06-11 10:14:02', '2019-06-11 14:14:02', '<!-- wp:paragraph -->\n<p>Home2 Suites By Hilton to celebrate grand opening</p>\n<!-- /wp:paragraph -->\n\n<!-- wp:paragraph -->\n<p>On Thursday, June 20, the Beaufort Regional Chamber of Commerce will celebrate the grand opening of the new Home2 Suites By Hilton in Beaufort. The celebration kicks off at 5 p.m., and the official ribbon cutting ceremony takes place at 5:30 p.m.</p>\n<!-- /wp:paragraph -->\n\n<!-- wp:paragraph -->\n<p>Home2 Suites invites the public to attend the event from 5-7 p.m. Guests can enjoy hors d\'oeuvres and enter to win door prizes.</p>\n<!-- /wp:paragraph -->\n\n<!-- wp:paragraph -->\n<p><a href=\"http://r20.rs6.net/tn.jsp?f=001j8Alm6Q3mQQgaLBe1sL5uuy7Y3p1z1WK4cflGCpGJuTRy8oeuR80PN0Sd11hVqeXZxfuVvaYGB_Q1dXI5jAJHdwWaW9TQjtI2uOJKNYLMb_iHcDcytuCZE-8uWw8cIXjZElp_h28VMFxxmI0v14jpXE92b07OcleHRamLHDRAaTLs3ho9VfY67s-613BY4vGKyb2UgnFU5gICbiQedbVca2lGT77YJMMbg5jFyGHQn9-CBuOJ88L9g==&amp;c=buv-TgKZtKs_MZjh50IQFFsQu4Zg2bVLkSSIJYvBMm_pQRfC2ZhbLA==&amp;ch=K5VCxjyt2zJgKoPSeoMAV3YiYq7lQntihcviOMQAU20TKpDSu_65KA==\">Home2 Suites</a> is a modern extended stay brand featuring innovative elements and amenities. Visit their new location at 3658 Trask Parkway in Beaufort.</p>\n<!-- /wp:paragraph -->', 'Business Briefs', '', 'publish', 'closed', 'closed', '', 'business-briefs-20', '', '', '2019-06-12 10:14:34', '2019-06-12 14:14:34', '', 0, 'https://staging.yourislandnews.com/?p=40294', 0, 'post', '', 0),
(40296, 4, '2019-06-11 10:14:50', '2019-06-11 14:14:50', '<!-- wp:paragraph -->\n<p><strong>Moon Over Buffalo auditions</strong></p>\n<!-- /wp:paragraph -->\n\n<!-- wp:paragraph -->\n<p>There will be auditions for the Coastal Stage production of Moon Over Buffalo at 7 p.m. June 17-18 at 100 Sea Island Pkwy in Beaufort.</p>\n<!-- /wp:paragraph -->\n\n<!-- wp:paragraph -->\n<p>The play will be performed Aug. 16 -25 by Coastal Stage at AMVETS at 1831 Ribaut Rd. in Port Royal.</p>\n<!-- /wp:paragraph -->\n\n<!-- wp:paragraph -->\n<p>The director has chosen to make summer rehearsal schedules flexible and will coordinate with pre-arranged vacation and out-of-town holiday time. For more information and role descriptions, visit <a href=\"https://u7364905.ct.sendgrid.net/wf/click?upn=Lp-2B2HLyizzAa4uC1gd2tJR3WWmpKdkCcBYJDGEWDn-2FeO35qChlgyOTwoSFQOoac5VwIZAMf5rPKH4XLObIxNbowxp-2BtM4vtziIKykgMnSNJwlFFQCO6TYpbbMQT4jesAxcAfhPmsZSObHbB7NCDfuxpMK7d5KDdgamJ5CPa7dvuxX2aZi51fh-2BmmmhB-2BEybwsoNsrg4pI-2FmAgzF3pPTCwuIKTrC-2BoVn-2Fl13fsgQTPITltyTblZdY46biFI6nFCA0AvGAdGlZCYH8ELz27lDHIGhtmkYx2CuLuYkIsHcaKY1koJ8x2mcm7wqJqx2IhtZRkadHA9IQQitet2h6fD9YAhrd8UAqyZ4P-2BPtt0-2BWM7WK0LcXEJpUDzMP7w5yJbrZTKqJU23SLYE7iY2N-2B8kwbYCNjwDLj1SWGbHJjhsWReF49Qd0k-2Fp350g9tJVvaP7YQrvBe9EE-2BeZaUxRtglxvo2v-2BUNzJOpWolEQG39rz4HCSqatStY4XgSSFqbfco17mTmOr5Ckt6-2BByp-2FUfVAtxQ0hti8ClV4Dv-2Fo6GfoR8OUqvawf9kuWb9OTim0SR8v943ULZqZM9WG83P6MR2OfqMUbUEGdRyqFMs3waq-2BzG-2FNMdF597eQNE7YohyqBd4UXJmqW8t6Bb4D6u1c15hH5HeCKnD5a9Q4cShPBt0zuulcPoVEkmny7OUiptOodSl3hzUp2k730un9PRt24Qlkgm1S60ifHJScLvhZi2WZpUoHAQH05hsqQQuCrwwP2PqdtObCievVuRZ7sl4X47O2Fuzlmlbv-2B3WF1hqlkSs7Fjvx9lB7-2BoKKOU1JhY0t5MVZvt2LBHe2KSQDF80iM4-2BtwAts7A-2FQBDQ1EQYj7s3LclrjVTE7vI7iPLTToYgW0cuWbUkpmA1BNyt-2\">www.coastalstage.com/get-involved</a>.<br></p>\n<!-- /wp:paragraph -->', 'Arts Briefs', '', 'publish', 'closed', 'closed', '', 'arts-briefs-2', '', '', '2019-06-12 10:15:53', '2019-06-12 14:15:53', '', 0, 'https://staging.yourislandnews.com/?p=40296', 0, 'post', '', 0),
(40298, 4, '2019-06-11 10:19:48', '2019-06-11 14:19:48', '<!-- wp:heading {\"level\":4} -->\n<h4>By RICHARD ECKSTROM</h4>\n<!-- /wp:heading -->\n\n<!-- wp:paragraph -->\n<p>Seven and a quarter percent.&nbsp;</p>\n<!-- /wp:paragraph -->\n\n<!-- wp:paragraph -->\n<p>That’s the official “assumed rate of return” for South Carolina’s retiree pension system.&nbsp;</p>\n<!-- /wp:paragraph -->\n\n<!-- wp:paragraph -->\n<p>In other words, state officials tell us the system should expect to earn 7.25 percent on its assets for decades to come.</p>\n<!-- /wp:paragraph -->\n\n<!-- wp:paragraph -->\n<p>It’s a safe bet that most folks have never given a thought to this number and what it means. But while obscure to most people, it’s at the heart of our state’s most serious financial problem. I’ll explain.</p>\n<!-- /wp:paragraph -->\n\n<!-- wp:paragraph -->\n<p>Most state retirees’ pension benefits are paid from a plan operated by the S.C. Retirement System. This plan is funded by three revenue sources: Employees contribute 9 percent of each paycheck to it, and the state, i.e. the taxpayers, kick in an amount equal to 14.5 percent of that same paycheck. That money is invested by an eight-member commission, and the investment earnings are the third revenue source.&nbsp;</p>\n<!-- /wp:paragraph -->\n\n<!-- wp:paragraph -->\n<p>State lawmakers adopt an official assumption of investment earnings, ostensibly to calculate how much money will eventually be on hand to cover the benefits promised to retirees. Their assumption affects the rates that employees and taxpayers contribute to the plan.</p>\n<!-- /wp:paragraph -->\n\n<!-- wp:paragraph -->\n<p>Unfortunately, few things in government escape the tinge of political calculation, and the assumed rate of return is no exception to the rule. Thus, this projection has historically been kept unrealistically high.</p>\n<!-- /wp:paragraph -->\n\n<!-- wp:paragraph -->\n<p>Why?&nbsp;</p>\n<!-- /wp:paragraph -->\n\n<!-- wp:paragraph -->\n<p>Because, in general, politicians like to pretend they’ve got more money than they do. It lets them spend more freely – in this case, to bestow retirees with benefit increases without setting aside money to cover them.</p>\n<!-- /wp:paragraph -->\n\n<!-- wp:paragraph -->\n<p>The downside, of course, is that it causes us to shortchange the system. Our actual investment returns have been far short of projected returns – with the five-year average being less than six percent – yet we haven’t done anything to make up the difference.</p>\n<!-- /wp:paragraph -->\n\n<!-- wp:paragraph -->\n<p>Today, the pension system faces a whopping $24 billion shortfall. It’s a big problem. If we’re to honor our commitments to past and current employees, somebody will have to pay up. There are no painless options.</p>\n<!-- /wp:paragraph -->\n\n<!-- wp:paragraph -->\n<p>This problem isn’t unique to South Carolina. Other public pension plans across the country are caught in similar crises, largely for the same reasons. Yet the folks who oversee these plans often revise their projections downward only reluctantly and modestly, knowing a change of even a quarter of a percent can reveal billions in previously concealed “unfunded liabilities” – the gap between how much is owed in benefit payouts and how much real money is likely to be available to cover the payouts.</p>\n<!-- /wp:paragraph -->\n\n<!-- wp:paragraph -->\n<p>In South Carolina, the assumed rate of return has been gradually reduced from 8 percent a decade ago to today’s 7.25 percent. Still, many experts believe it’s unreasonable to count on plan assets earning an average of 7.25 percent annually going forward, and that a 4-5 percent return is more realistic.&nbsp;</p>\n<!-- /wp:paragraph -->\n\n<!-- wp:paragraph -->\n<p>In 2016, a noted public pension expert advised S.C. legislators they should reduce their inflated assumption significantly. That advice apparently fell on deaf ears. That’s a shame. Given the terrible consequences associated with using inflated revenue assumptions, adjusting to a more conservative rate would much better serve the state’s interests.</p>\n<!-- /wp:paragraph -->\n\n<!-- wp:paragraph -->\n<p>Again, the price of failing to address the crisis directly could be a steep one. Consider some of the harsh measures taken by states and local governments who were forced to play catch-up after years of ignoring their pension woes: tax hikes costing property owners hundreds of dollars a year indefinitely; layoffs of employees, including those in public safety; and cuts in services, including even reducing the school week to four days.&nbsp;</p>\n<!-- /wp:paragraph -->\n\n<!-- wp:paragraph -->\n<p>Legislators must accept reality and adopt a more reasonable forecast for the state’s investments. While they’re at it, they should put future projections entirely in the hands of actuarial professionals, removing themselves — i.e. removing politics — from the process. And they must start paying down our unfunded liability now, rather than allowing it to continue to swell.</p>\n<!-- /wp:paragraph -->\n\n<!-- wp:paragraph -->\n<p>But first things first: It’s time to pull our heads out of the sand and acknowledge the problem and its magnitude. Politicians hate to discuss unfunded pension liabilities; it’s not a well-understood issue to them, nor are there any simple fixes.</p>\n<!-- /wp:paragraph -->\n\n<!-- wp:paragraph -->\n<p>But it’s our most critical challenge, and the consequences of allowing it to grow like an untreated disease will be severe and long-lasting. Lawmakers who have the state’s best interests at heart will put the pension system’s deficit front and center.</p>\n<!-- /wp:paragraph -->\n\n<!-- wp:paragraph -->\n<p><em>Richard Eckstrom is a CPA and the state’s Comptroller.</em><br></p>\n<!-- /wp:paragraph -->', 'The number at the root of SC’s biggest problem', '', 'publish', 'closed', 'closed', '', 'the-number-at-the-root-of-scs-biggest-problem', '', '', '2019-06-12 10:35:07', '2019-06-12 14:35:07', '', 0, 'https://staging.yourislandnews.com/?p=40298', 0, 'post', '', 0),
(40300, 4, '2019-06-11 10:21:29', '2019-06-11 14:21:29', '<!-- wp:heading {\"level\":3} -->\n<h3>Hall-of-fame coach died June 1 at 98</h3>\n<!-- /wp:heading -->\n\n<!-- wp:heading {\"level\":4} -->\n<h4>By SCOTT GRABER</h4>\n<!-- /wp:heading -->\n\n<!-- wp:paragraph -->\n<p>It is Monday, June 3, 2019, and I’m in Bryson City, N.C.&nbsp;</p>\n<!-- /wp:paragraph -->\n\n<!-- wp:paragraph -->\n<p>It’s early — I’m on vacation — but my e-mail tells me that Richard Fetters has died.&nbsp;</p>\n<!-- /wp:paragraph -->\n\n<!-- wp:paragraph -->\n<p>Coach Dick Fetters was 98 and living in Indianapolis when he died on June 1. He was predeceased by his wife, Dorothy.</p>\n<!-- /wp:paragraph -->\n\n<!-- wp:paragraph -->\n<p>Coach Fetters was a swimming coach for most of his life — most notably at Michigan State University. After he retired he sailed across the Great Lakes and then down the Intracoastal Waterway. When he got to Beaufort he stopped and built a house just off Meridian Road on Lady’s Island.</p>\n<!-- /wp:paragraph -->\n\n<!-- wp:paragraph -->\n<p>Dick Fetters had planned a conventional retirement — doing laps in his pool and watching Notre Dame football on Saturday afternoon.&nbsp;</p>\n<!-- /wp:paragraph -->\n\n<!-- wp:paragraph -->\n<p>But before that routine got started he was asked to evaluate the “Water Survival Course” at Parris Island. After a couple of days of watching recruits he told the instructors they were doing it wrong.&nbsp;</p>\n<!-- /wp:paragraph -->\n\n<!-- wp:paragraph -->\n<p>“The recruits should learn to swim without their helmets, boots and backpacks. They should learn the basics before being tossed, fully equipped, into the pool at Weapons Battalion.”</p>\n<!-- /wp:paragraph -->\n\n<!-- wp:paragraph -->\n<p>The Marines were not impressed.&nbsp;</p>\n<!-- /wp:paragraph -->\n\n<!-- wp:paragraph -->\n<p>“We’re teaching water survival, not the breast stroke, Thanks for your help but we’re going to keep the Marine Corps method,” they replied.&nbsp;</p>\n<!-- /wp:paragraph -->\n\n<!-- wp:paragraph -->\n<p>But while he was on the deck, three Navy dentists approached him and asked if he would help them with their strokes. He agreed and Parris Island Masters sprang into being.</p>\n<!-- /wp:paragraph -->\n\n<!-- wp:paragraph -->\n<p>In the beginning the small team (six members including myself) made little impact on adult swimming in South Carolina. There were meets in Charleston, Greenville and Anderson and we wore green T-shirts that begged the question, “Is Parris Island in South Carolina?”&nbsp;</p>\n<!-- /wp:paragraph -->\n\n<!-- wp:paragraph -->\n<p>Dick Fetters believed that half the team should consist of active duty Marines. That meant we often got talented swimmers just graduated from the Naval Academy. But we also got people who had not raced in college — people who simply wanted a workout. But when you joined the team there was an unwritten contract.</p>\n<!-- /wp:paragraph -->\n\n<!-- wp:paragraph -->\n<p>“I’ll work with you. Help you be a better swimmer. But I want something in return,” Fetters would say to the curious who wandered onto the pool deck at Parris Island. “I want you to compete at three swim meets every year. And when you go I want you to swim 10 events.”&nbsp;</p>\n<!-- /wp:paragraph -->\n\n<!-- wp:paragraph -->\n<p>Unknown to many, Masters Swimming in the United States is men and women doing bi-weekly workouts. Most who join do not climb the starting blocks and test their kick, their shoulder strength, their lung capacity against others in their age group. But Fetters knew that periodic testing was essential. The possibility of humiliation; or winning a towel featuring the embroidered message ‘high point winner’ was what made many endure 2,000 yards of nighttime, after-work practice.</p>\n<!-- /wp:paragraph -->\n\n<!-- wp:paragraph -->\n<p>In 1992 the team won its first S.C. State Championship. It won another in 1993. And then another 12 State Championships in a row.&nbsp;</p>\n<!-- /wp:paragraph -->\n\n<!-- wp:paragraph -->\n<p>In 2004, Parris Island finished third (medium-sized team) at the National Championships. And in 2014 Richard Fetters was inducted into the American Swim Coaches Hall of Fame.</p>\n<!-- /wp:paragraph -->\n\n<!-- wp:paragraph -->\n<p>During its halcyon years, Parris Island Masters held onto its active duty Marines — at one time the Commanding General at Parris Island was a member. But there were also doctors, lawyers, preachers and nurse practitioners who churned through the chlorinated water in Raleigh, Atlanta and Santa Clara.&nbsp;</p>\n<!-- /wp:paragraph -->\n\n<!-- wp:paragraph -->\n<p>And all the while Dick Fetters sat on the pool deck, stopwatch in hand, telling swimmers just out of the water, “Good race, John. But the next time you swim backstroke be sure your little finger is extended and goes into the water first.”</p>\n<!-- /wp:paragraph -->\n\n<!-- wp:paragraph -->\n<p>It is hard to estimate the number of people who were touched by Dick Fetters in the 22 years that he lived in Beaufort. That number is surely in the hundreds. For many, including myself, he instilled a love for movement, vigorous aerobic movement, at least three times a week.&nbsp;</p>\n<!-- /wp:paragraph -->\n\n<!-- wp:paragraph -->\n<p>And I know that I’m not alone with this affliction.&nbsp;</p>\n<!-- /wp:paragraph -->\n\n<!-- wp:paragraph -->\n<p>I know there are hundreds of others, now scattered across the country, who still do weekly workouts crafted by Dick Fetters.&nbsp;</p>\n<!-- /wp:paragraph -->\n\n<!-- wp:paragraph -->\n<p>If one includes the swimmers he coached at Michigan State, there are thousands of aging men and women who have lived happier, healthier lives because Richard Fetters said to them, “… and you must compete. And when you go you must swim at least 10 events.”&nbsp;<br></p>\n<!-- /wp:paragraph -->', 'Fetters left indelible mark on Beaufort swimming, swimmers', '', 'publish', 'closed', 'closed', '', 'fetters-left-indelible-mark-on-beaufort-swimming-swimmers', '', '', '2019-06-12 10:34:26', '2019-06-12 14:34:26', '', 0, 'https://staging.yourislandnews.com/?p=40300', 0, 'post', '', 0),
(40302, 4, '2019-06-11 10:25:28', '2019-06-11 14:25:28', '<!-- wp:heading {\"level\":4} -->\n<h4>By LEE SCOTT</h4>\n<!-- /wp:heading -->\n\n<!-- wp:paragraph -->\n<p>On June 22, the Beaufort Waterfront is going to be packed with participants and observers as the latest Dragon Boat Race takes place. This is the seventh year the races have taken place here. It is one of those popular fundraisers where local citizens raise money to assist cancer patients who live, work or receive treatment for cancer treatments.&nbsp;</p>\n<!-- /wp:paragraph -->\n\n<!-- wp:paragraph -->\n<p>My church was recruiting people for its group, The Parish Paddlers, so I decided to investigate it.&nbsp;</p>\n<!-- /wp:paragraph -->\n\n<!-- wp:paragraph -->\n<p>When I first called them, I was picturing these young athletic college men and women who would see me and cringe.&nbsp;</p>\n<!-- /wp:paragraph -->\n\n<!-- wp:paragraph -->\n<p>But Sally Miller who responded to my phone call assured me that I would not be the oldest. As a matter of fact there were people in their 80s on the team.</p>\n<!-- /wp:paragraph -->\n\n<!-- wp:paragraph -->\n<p>So, I went down one Saturday morning to watch.&nbsp;</p>\n<!-- /wp:paragraph -->\n\n<!-- wp:paragraph -->\n<p>First, anyone who can climb in a paddle boat and pick up a paddle can and should do it. It’s easy and it is fun. There is also a collective desire for all these paddlers to be there to support the cause. That common interest binds this team immediately.&nbsp;</p>\n<!-- /wp:paragraph -->\n\n<!-- wp:paragraph -->\n<p>The boats can have up to 22 people, with 20 paddlers facing toward the bow, one drummer (or caller) who sits at the front of the boat and faces the paddlers, and finally, the steer person at the rear of the boat.&nbsp;</p>\n<!-- /wp:paragraph -->\n\n<!-- wp:paragraph -->\n<p>I thought it would be fun to be the drummer, but someone had already taken that place. Talk about a great job. Ride along while everyone else does the work and all you do is call out commands. I am very good at telling people what to do</p>\n<!-- /wp:paragraph -->\n\n<!-- wp:paragraph -->\n<p>Besides, there are a slew of fun “Dragon Boat orders” the caller must know. Like “Hitting the catch” “Hold the boat hard,” “Paddles in the boat” and “Prepare to back down.”&nbsp;</p>\n<!-- /wp:paragraph -->\n\n<!-- wp:paragraph -->\n<p>I was practicing in my office when my husband came into my office.</p>\n<!-- /wp:paragraph -->\n\n<!-- wp:paragraph -->\n<p>“What are you doing?” he said.</p>\n<!-- /wp:paragraph -->\n\n<!-- wp:paragraph -->\n<p>“I’m practicing being a Drummer on a Dragon Boat for The Parish Paddlers. I was told there is one assigned already, but I’m thinking they might need a backup, so I’m practicing just in case.”</p>\n<!-- /wp:paragraph -->\n\n<!-- wp:paragraph -->\n<p>That is when he reminded me that we have another family obligation that could not be ignored, and I could not play on the Dragon Boat.</p>\n<!-- /wp:paragraph -->\n\n<!-- wp:paragraph -->\n<p>I called Sally with the bad news, but she assured me that I could be on the team next year.&nbsp;</p>\n<!-- /wp:paragraph -->\n\n<!-- wp:paragraph -->\n<p>That is when I told her that I was practicing for the Drummer position and explained how well I can bark out commands and call out “Time it up!” to get all the paddlers in sync.&nbsp;</p>\n<!-- /wp:paragraph -->\n\n<!-- wp:paragraph -->\n<p>She only laughed and said pleasantly, “We’ll see you next year, Lee.”<br></p>\n<!-- /wp:paragraph -->', 'The Parish Paddlers', '', 'publish', 'closed', 'closed', '', 'the-parish-paddlers', '', '', '2019-06-12 10:33:39', '2019-06-12 14:33:39', '', 0, 'https://staging.yourislandnews.com/?p=40302', 0, 'post', '', 0);
