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(40812, 4, '2019-07-24 14:31:24', '2019-07-24 18:31:24', '<h4>Beaufort\'s Hardie still going strong, set for CrossFit games\r\n\r\nBy JUSTIN JARRETT&nbsp;\r\nLowcoSports@gmail.com</h4>\r\nWhen Dave Hardie missed qualifying for last summer’s CrossFit Games by three spots, he figured his dream was over.\r\n\r\nAt age 60, Hardie just missed making the cut of 20 athletes who qualified for the CrossFit Games — the pinnacle of the fitness regime-turned-sport — in the 60-and-over Masters division. And with another year of allowing age to encroach, as well as the field being trimmed down to 10 competitors in each age division for the 2019 event, the outlook wasn’t good.\r\n\r\nAs if the advancement of age wasn’t enough of a challenge, Hardie also had surgery in June 2018 to repair the rotator cuff in his shoulder — the result of age, he says, not CrossFit — leading to a six-month rehabilitation process.\r\n\r\nNonetheless, Hardie made one more run at his ultimate goal. He was one of 40,000 competitors who entered the online CrossFit Open in February and advanced through the qualifying process, ultimately earning one of 10 spots in the 60-and-over division at the CrossFit Games, which take place Aug. 1-4 in Madison, Wisconsin.\r\n\r\n“This has been a dream for at least five years,” said Hardie, who in June won the 60-and-over division at the Granite Games in St. Cloud, Minnesota. “When I first started CrossFit, I didn’t know what the CrossFit Games were, but it’s been a dream for a long time. This is the athletic pinnacle for me.”\r\n\r\nHardie took up CrossFit in 2013 while living and working in suburban New York City, but he ratcheted up his training when he and his wife, Marissa, moved to Beaufort three years ago, trading his daily commute into the city for more time in the gym.\r\n\r\nHe spends two to three hours per day training, doing workouts provided by his remote coach and physical therapist in Pensacola, Florida, and working with world-class weightlifting coach Ray Jones to improve his lifts. Jones also coaches Marissa, a Masters weightlifter with Team Beaufort.\r\n\r\nHardie is a member at CrossFit Beaufort, the gym he will represent at the CrossFit Games, and also teaches a class there one night a week. But he says he couldn’t have achieved his lofty goal without help from other local gyms that have welcomed him for workouts when necessary.\r\n\r\nAlthough his competitive career is likely coming to a close after next weekend, Hardie says CrossFit will remain a big part of his life, and he hopes others will follow his path.\r\n\r\n“I think CrossFit is a fountain of youth,” he said. “I think it enables you to kick butt into your 90s. It’s only as intense as people make it, so not everybody there is trying to compete on a global level. It’s just a magical way to get fitter and stay younger.”\r\n\r\nAs for what to expect from his final competition, Hardie has only a vague idea — and he says that’s part of the beauty of the sport. Athletes will compete in seven to nine workouts over the three-day competition, but the disciplines could range from an open swim on a lake to heavy barbell lifts such as back squats or clean and jerk to a gymnastic element such as handstand pushups or ring muscle-ups.\r\n\r\n“They talk about CrossFit being the unknown and the unknowable,” Hardie said. “We don’t know what the workouts will be until we get there.”\r\n\r\nAfter the journey he’s taken to get there, Hardie is ready for anything.', 'Fountain of Youth', '', 'publish', 'closed', 'closed', '', 'fountain-of-youth', '', '', '2019-07-24 14:31:24', '2019-07-24 18:31:24', '', 0, 'https://staging.yourislandnews.com/?p=40812', 0, 'post', '', 0),
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(40815, 4, '2019-07-24 14:33:09', '2019-07-24 18:33:09', 'As part of its Community Risk Reduction and increased medical outreach programs, Burton fire officials are warning local residents about the outdoor burning of trash, and the risk it poses to the community beyond fire spread.\r\n\r\nThe improper outdoor burning of yard debris has caused numerous fire issues for Burton firefighters. Improperly placed and unattended burning has led to damages of property; including homes, buildings, and vehicles. While these fire hazards continue, there are other public hazards occurring that Burton fire officials are warning residents about, and that involves the burning of trash.\r\n\r\nBeaufort County ordinance 2011/31, which outlines the proper legal guidelines for conducting outdoor burning of yard debris, states only vegetation originating on the premises can be burned. The burning of trash is prohibited.\r\n\r\nBeyond fire safety issues, any type of burning can cause health issues, which is significantly increased when burning trash. When trash burns, the heat and flames cause the trash to break down into a gaseous chemical state, which when breathed in, allows those chemicals to enter the lungs and cardiovascular system. Many items found in trash are created from elements, that when burned, can release carcinogens into the air which can then be breathed in. This can cause both short and long term damage and illness to the lungs and body.\r\n\r\nOn Saturday, July 20, Burton firefighters responded to a reported brush fire and arrived on scene to find the remnants of a mobile home, stacked in piles, being burned, with smoke permeating the neighborhood.<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">&nbsp;</span>\r\n\r\nIt took firefighters more than 1,000 gallons of water to extinguish the fire, which included such items as PVC piping, electrical wires, and insulation.\r\n\r\nBurning any form of trash is not only a violation of county ordinance, but can also lead to a Department of Health and Environmental Control (DHEC) investigation and fine.<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">&nbsp;</span>\r\n\r\nDHEC was notified of Saturday’s illegal burn.', 'Burton Fire District warns of risks beyond the flames', '', 'publish', 'closed', 'closed', '', 'burton-fire-district-warns-of-risks-beyond-the-flames', '', '', '2019-07-24 14:33:09', '2019-07-24 18:33:09', '', 0, 'https://staging.yourislandnews.com/?p=40815', 0, 'post', '', 0),
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(40819, 4, '2019-07-24 14:35:08', '2019-07-24 18:35:08', 'On Wednesday, July 17, the <a href=\"http://r20.rs6.net/tn.jsp?f=001iDoHRUPY5JGwFUu4tQRPbiRYOZZ_rAzxtBevU2ma-6lbn0ngNwUmGkJCuxxKMo-sl7oFR3E8B2gZw8WOcwaJe1wsCuyfXdqIB6lsCMywR7o1W3Fxna9xj_nxjyd7PT7LxgvjB7QU5TCUFnrLFluWsl1jJkzMUNTy&amp;c=ehdciKk0IFIPU7sz-i3OUrFgC0tg_S4IePYBIgF_d3T6QxaQmpcXkQ==&amp;ch=c3k_dbgJC2BGu19oHeVDqj6PfcZVwa_zBjFtBFg_U_p9nGjCxjirFQ==\">Lowcountry Food Bank</a> announced that <a href=\"http://r20.rs6.net/tn.jsp?f=001iDoHRUPY5JGwFUu4tQRPbiRYOZZ_rAzxtBevU2ma-6lbn0ngNwUmGnAcccHW480qZE7vU2kAtAW9TGlmRsFnTyr0Qq9tV-v2RsANPynUjNaz0J_H_HWxInRbpINS6lbt3JncGTRI7jlZRIIJpvOMqoiH0aKQz0tERtpT5HaYuycAfGKKk-wiUCuo5FKCMKyQ&amp;c=ehdciKk0IFIPU7sz-i3OUrFgC0tg_S4IePYBIgF_d3T6QxaQmpcXkQ==&amp;ch=c3k_dbgJC2BGu19oHeVDqj6PfcZVwa_zBjFtBFg_U_p9nGjCxjirFQ==\">Food Lion Feeds</a> had donated a new 26-foot refrigerated truck to help fight hunger in the 10 coastal South Carolina counties – including Beaufort County – that LCFB serves.&nbsp;\r\n\r\nLCFB\'s ability to pick up and transport food to assist individuals who struggle with food insecurity is vital to fighting hunger in the Lowcountry.<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">&nbsp;</span>\r\n\r\n\"This new, refrigerated truck from Food Lion Feeds eases the hard choices that families are forced to make when they are hungry,\" LCFB President and CEO Pat Walker said. \"The truck helps provides our community with equitable access to nutritious food, including fresh produce.\"\r\n\r\nLCFB picks up food from about 48 Food Lion stores in coastal South Carolina. Last year, LCFB received 2.9 million pounds of food and distributed 2.4 million meals from Food Lion.<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">&nbsp;</span>\r\n\r\nThe number of children, adults and seniors in South Carolina who struggle with hunger is significant. The food-insecurity rate – the percentage of individuals without consistent access to nutritious food to live a healthy, active life – in South Carolina is 13.5 percent, which is higher than the national average of 12.5 percent.<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">&nbsp;\r\n\r\n\r\n</span>\r\n\r\n<em>Above: Lowcountry Food Bank President and CEO Pat Walker speaks July 16 in front of the organization’s new refrigerated truck at a Food Lion event in Columbia.</em>\r\n\r\n<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">&nbsp;</span>', 'Food Lion donates refrigerated truck to Lowcountry Food Bank', '', 'publish', 'closed', 'closed', '', 'food-lion-donates-refrigerated-truck-to-lowcountry-food-bank', '', '', '2019-07-24 14:35:08', '2019-07-24 18:35:08', '', 0, 'https://staging.yourislandnews.com/?p=40819', 0, 'post', '', 0),
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(40822, 4, '2019-07-24 14:38:20', '2019-07-24 18:38:20', 'This year is a banner year for loggerhead turtles laying eggs throughout the southeast. Sunday morning, Hunting Island broke its previous record, when Sea Turtle Conservation Project volunteers found the 142<sup>nd</sup>nest. In 2016 the island had 141 nests, the most recent “modern” record year. Data entry became more standardized in 2000, thus “modern.” The previous record before 2000 was 157 nests in 1984. Scientists explain the great number of nests as the result of conservation projects that have been implemented for more than 30 years.[i]\r\n\r\nThere are currently more than 12,200 loggerhead nests in Georgia, South Carolina, and North Carolina. The highest previous “modern” count was 11,321 in 2016. On Cape Island in the Cape Romaine National Wildlife Refuge, which gets one-third of the nests in South Carolina, there are so many nests this year that females are nesting on top of other nests. [<a name=\"_ednref2\"></a>ii]\r\n\r\nFor the sixth time this season on Hunting Island, volunteers discovered a mama turtle coming ashore after sunrise. In the past it was very unusual to see these turtles unless they were injured or trapped. But this year on beaches around the southeast, loggerheads have been coming ashore in daylight.\r\n\r\nThe Sunday turtle also was only the second time since 2000 that a turtle was discovered with a tag on its flipper. The tag is EEK 795. Tag numbers are reported to the Department of Natural Resources, most often when found on dead or injured turtles, but with daylight visits, additional tracking information can be gained when tags are discovered. &nbsp;<strong>&nbsp;</strong>\r\n\r\n&nbsp;', 'Unusual and Record-Breaking Loggerhead Turtle Summer', '', 'publish', 'closed', 'closed', '', 'unusual-and-record-breaking-loggerhead-turtle-summer', '', '', '2019-07-24 14:38:20', '2019-07-24 18:38:20', '', 0, 'https://staging.yourislandnews.com/?p=40822', 0, 'post', '', 0),
(40824, 4, '2019-07-24 14:41:42', '2019-07-24 18:41:42', 'Beaufort’s Pat Conroy Literary Center’s Anchorage Retreat is set for Sept. 6-8.\r\n\r\nThe Southern Living-inspired event is an exclusive writers retreat weekend at the award-winning historic Anchorage 1770 Inn.\r\n\r\nParticipating writers will immerse themselves in a collaborative experience. In the retreat’s intimate setting, writers will get to know one another as well as the retreat’s instructors over a span of three days and two nights of workshops, discussions, writing prompts, readings, critiques, and social gatherings.\r\n\r\nThe distinguished faculty of award-winning writers and publishing professionals will share their insights and experiences.<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">&nbsp;</span>\r\n\r\nThis year’s faculty includes novelists Kimberly Brock, Carla Damron, and Reavis Z. Wortham; memoirist and humorist Harrison Scott Key; biographer and book review editor Adam Parker; and literary agents Jeff Kleinman and Marly Rusoff.\r\n\r\nThe cost for the retreat is $1,500 per person and includes a two-night stay at the Anchorage 1770 Inn on Sept. 6-8, all retreat sessions, evening receptions on Friday and Saturday, breakfasts on Saturday and Sunday, and lunch on Saturday.<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">&nbsp;</span>\r\n\r\nThe registration fee will be billed in three equal installments to be paid in full by Sept. 6. Rooms are selected on a first-come, first-served basis. Registration is now open and is limited to 15 participants.\r\n\r\nFor more information or to register, call the Anchorage 1770 Inn at 877-951-1770.\r\n\r\nProceeds benefit the year-round educational programming of the nonprofit Pat Conroy Literary Center.', 'Pat Conroy Literary Center offers Anchorage Retreat', '', 'publish', 'closed', 'closed', '', 'pat-conroy-literary-center-offers-anchorage-retreat', '', '', '2019-07-24 14:41:42', '2019-07-24 18:41:42', '', 0, 'https://staging.yourislandnews.com/?p=40824', 0, 'post', '', 0),
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(40828, 4, '2019-07-24 14:44:10', '2019-07-24 18:44:10', 'Best-selling author, lecturer, activist and 2020 U.S. Presidential candidate Marianne Williamson will speak on her platform and answer questions from 4-6 p.m. Saturday at a Town Hall meeting at UNITED Church, located at 1801 Duke Street in Beaufort S.C.\r\n\r\nAll are welcome to attend this special event. Light refreshments will be served prior, and a limited number of Williamson’s signed books will be available for purchase at the conclusion of the Town Hall.\r\n\r\nWilliamson has been a well known American public voice for more than three decades. Seven of her 12 published books have been New York Times best sellers, and Williamson has been a popular guest on television programs such as Oprah, Good Morning America, and Bill Maher.<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">&nbsp;</span>\r\n\r\nWilliamson’s latest book, A Politics of Love: Handbook for a New American Revolution, was published in 2019. Her other books include The Law of Divine Compensation, The Age of Miracles, Everyday Grace, A Woman’s Worth, Illuminata, Healing the Soul of America, A Course in Weight Loss, The Gift of Change, Enchanted Love, A Year of Miracles, and Tears to Triumph: The Spiritual Journey from Suffering to Enlightenment.<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">&nbsp;</span>\r\n\r\nA native of Houston, Texas, in 1989, Williamson founded Project Angel Food, a meals-on-wheels program that serves homebound people with AIDS in the Los Angeles area. To date, Project Angel Food has served over 11 million meals. She also co-founded the Peace Alliance.', '2020 presidential candidate Williamson to visit Beaufort on Saturday', '', 'publish', 'closed', 'closed', '', '2020-presidential-candidate-williamson-to-visit-beaufort-on-saturday', '', '', '2019-07-24 14:44:10', '2019-07-24 18:44:10', '', 0, 'https://staging.yourislandnews.com/?p=40828', 0, 'post', '', 0),
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(40831, 4, '2019-07-24 14:48:11', '2019-07-24 18:48:11', '<h4>By MINDY LUCAS</h4>\r\nAn early morning fire at a downtown Beaufort business on Sunday, July 22, caused heavy smoke and fire damage to the front of the building where the business is housed.\r\n\r\nFire crews from the City of Beaufort/ Town of Port Royal Fire Department and the Burton Fire District responded to the fire at Charles Street Realty, on the 900 block of Charles Street, at around 7:30 a.m. Sunday.\r\n\r\nFirst responders arriving on the scene found heavy smoke and fire coming from the front porch and front door of the business. Firefighters were able to extinguish the blaze in 30 minutes, according to a news release from the City of Beaufort/Town of Port Royal Fire Department.\r\n\r\n<a href=\"https://staging.yourislandnews.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/07/IMG_0862.jpg\"><img class=\"alignright  wp-image-40832\" src=\"https://staging.yourislandnews.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/07/IMG_0862-1024x768.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"561\" height=\"421\"></a>No one was in the building at the time of the fire, and there were no injuries reported from the incident, the release stated.\r\n\r\nInvestigators with the South Carolina Law Enforcement Division were called to the scene since the building is a commercial property, said Ross Vezin, Battalion Chief for the City of Beaufort/Town of Port Royal Fire Department.\r\n\r\nJodi Joye, owner of both the building and Charles Street Realty, was out of town celebrating her husband’s 60th birthday, when the fire broke out. A friend called to let her know her building was on fire, she said.\r\n\r\n“I’m just devastated,” Joye said. “The whole building is ruined. We don’t know what happened.”\r\n\r\nJoye said she had just had the building painted, had replaced rotted wood and roof boots and completed various other “general maintenance” work.\r\n\r\nJoye said the company will relocate to another building close to the property on Washington Street. She and her employees can also work from home, she said.\r\n\r\n“It will all work out,” she said. “I’ll be open tomorrow.”\r\n\r\nThe cost of damages has yet to be determined. The fire remains under investigation.', 'Sunday morning blaze causes smoke and fire damage to local business', '', 'publish', 'closed', 'closed', '', 'sunday-morning-blaze-causes-smoke-and-fire-damage-to-local-business', '', '', '2019-07-24 14:48:11', '2019-07-24 18:48:11', '', 0, 'https://staging.yourislandnews.com/?p=40831', 0, 'post', '', 0),
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(40835, 4, '2019-07-24 14:55:03', '2019-07-24 18:55:03', '<strong>Photos by BOB SOFALY</strong>\r\n\r\nWith the Parade of Boats, the Blessing of the Fleet and the ceremonial tossing of the wreath, the 2019 Beaufort Water Festival came to a close on Sunday in the Beaufort River.<a href=\"https://staging.yourislandnews.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/07/RES4466.jpg\"><img class=\"alignright  wp-image-40837\" src=\"https://staging.yourislandnews.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/07/RES4466-855x1024.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"311\" height=\"372\"></a>\r\n\r\nUnlike 2018, this year’s event enjoyed good weather and great crowds.\r\n\r\nThe Water Festival will return next year, in its 65<sup>th</sup> incarnation, with Beaufort County Sheriff’s deputy Erin Morris as the commodore.<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">&nbsp;</span>\r\n\r\nUntil then …\r\n\r\n<em>&nbsp;Above: The Rev. Andrew Trapp, priest at St. Peter’s Catholic Church on Lady’s Island, blesses the iconic shrimp trawler Gracie Belle during the Blessing of the Fleet ceremony Sunday afternoon along the sea wall of Henry C. Chambers Waterfront Park. This year there were only about a dozen boats entered in the annual event.\r\n\r\nRight: 2019 Water Festival Commodore Brian Patrick tosses the traditional wreath into the Beaufort River in remembrance of all those who perished in Beaufort waters this year. The ceremony was part of the Blessing of the Fleet ceremony which marks the official end of the annual Beaufort Water Festival.\r\n</em>', 'Until Next Year', '', 'publish', 'closed', 'closed', '', 'until-next-year', '', '', '2019-07-24 14:55:03', '2019-07-24 18:55:03', '', 0, 'https://staging.yourislandnews.com/?p=40835', 0, 'post', '', 0),
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(40839, 4, '2019-07-24 14:58:18', '2019-07-24 18:58:18', 'Mark Richardson caught a few roseate spoonbills at Pleasant Point recently... with his camera, of course.&nbsp;', 'Lowcountry Life', '', 'publish', 'closed', 'closed', '', 'lowcountry-life-105', '', '', '2019-07-24 14:58:18', '2019-07-24 18:58:18', '', 0, 'https://staging.yourislandnews.com/?p=40839', 0, 'post', '', 0),
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(40843, 4, '2019-07-30 11:37:12', '2019-07-30 15:37:12', '<h4>By MIKE MCCOMBS</h4>\r\nBeaufort Bread Company is ceasing operations immediately.<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">&nbsp;</span>\r\n\r\nA Monday morning post, presumably by owners Eric and Robin Staton, on the restaurant and bakery’s Facebook page confirmed the closure.\r\n\r\n[caption id=\"attachment_40844\" align=\"alignright\" width=\"332\"]<a href=\"https://staging.yourislandnews.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/07/BBC-Eric-Robin-Staton.jpg\"><img class=\" wp-image-40844\" src=\"https://staging.yourislandnews.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/07/BBC-Eric-Robin-Staton-806x1024.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"332\" height=\"812\"></a> BBC on Bay Owners Eric and Robin Staton.[/caption]\r\n\r\n“We have made the difficulty (sp) decision to close down the Beaufort Bread Company and BBC on Bay as of Tuesday July 30, 2019,” the post reads. “At this time in our life we have other responsibilities that have become a different priority for us. Which makes it complicated for us to operate these business (sp). We have enjoyed meeting so many wonderful people in this great Beaufort community and have enjoyed the support we have received by this great community – for this we say thank you.”\r\n\r\nAs of press time, the owners had not responded to an email request for comment, and The Island News was unable to reach them by phone.\r\n\r\nIt had been business as usual as recently as Saturday. Both locations were open and the daily special was posted on the Facebook page.\r\n\r\n“Saturday’s Are Made for BBC Brunch!” the post read above the menu listing for eggs and tacos with fire-roasted salsa.\r\n\r\nBut on Sunday, the owners notified employees via a group text message that they would be closing both locations, Lady’s Island and 705 Bay Street in downtown Beaufort, as of Monday, giving the employees instructions on how to collect their paychecks.\r\n\r\nBeaufort Bread Company’s Lady’s Island location was launched by Rick Stone in 2013 and had become known for its fresh-baked bread, sandwiches and desserts before the business was sold to the Statons in August 2016.\r\n\r\nA second location in downtown Beaufort, in the works since December 2016, was opened in November 2018.\r\n\r\n“Our main goal was to bring something to Bay Street that Bay Street doesn’t have,” Robin Staton said at the time. “We’ve done that.”', 'Beaufort Bread Company closes its doors', '', 'publish', 'closed', 'closed', '', 'beaufort-bread-company-closes-its-doors', '', '', '2019-07-30 11:37:12', '2019-07-30 15:37:12', '', 0, 'https://staging.yourislandnews.com/?p=40843', 0, 'post', '', 0),
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(40846, 4, '2019-07-31 14:36:45', '2019-07-31 18:36:45', '<strong>Make A Friend, Be A Friend</strong>\r\n\r\nThe Beaufort Bookstore, located off Boundary St, between Bi-Lo and The Tabby House, is hosting S.C. author Sharon E. Bellwood and local illustrator Cheryl Johnson at 11 a.m. Aug. 10 for a book signing of their children\'s book, The Friendship Crown.\r\nCome and hear the story how making friends is the same regardless of differences and join the \"Make A Friend, Be A Friend\" movement! Along with a reading of the book, children will also be able to decorate their own crown! Don\'t miss this opportunity to support local business, local authors and artists, and have some fun along the way!<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">&nbsp;</span>\r\n\r\n<strong>YA Everlasting Book Club</strong>\r\n\r\nIf 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.\r\n\r\nUpcoming book discussions: Aug. 14 – Anger is a Gift by Mark Oshiro.\r\n\r\n<strong>Friends of Hunting Island’s Tuesday Turtle Talks</strong>\r\n\r\nThe Friends of Hunting island announce the 2019 Tuesday Turtle Talks running through Tuesday, Aug. 13 at 10:30am at the picnic shelter by the Lighthouse. There is no fee for the TTT, but the park entry fee does apply.<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">&nbsp;</span>\r\n\r\nEach week various topics will be discussed including the natural history of loggerhead turtles, what happens when the turtles come to Hunting Island to lay their eggs, and the conservation and challenges specific to a barrier island such as Hunting Island State Park. Participation, ideas and questions are always welcome.<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">&nbsp;</span>\r\n\r\nAfter the talk, participants can join TTT host Denise Parsick on a short beach walk. All ages are invited to attend this educational and engaging program.<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">&nbsp;</span>\r\n\r\nAnd for early risers: If you want to join a turtle patrol to check out loggerhead nests, come to the Visitor’s Center parking lot at 6 a.m. sharp any day of the week, and talk with a volunteer in an orange shirt to join a group for that day’s patrol. All ages welcome.\r\n\r\n<strong>Pat Conroy Center offers Anchorage retreat</strong>\r\n\r\nBeaufort’s Pat Conroy Literary Center’s Anchorage Retreat is set for Sept. 6-8.\r\n\r\nThe Southern Living-inspired event is an exclusive writers retreat weekend at the award-winning historic Anchorage 1770 Inn.\r\n\r\nParticipating writers will immerse themselves in a collaborative experience. In the retreat’s intimate setting, writers will get to know one another as well as the retreat’s instructors over a span of three days and two nights of workshops, discussions, writing prompts, readings, critiques, and social gatherings.\r\n\r\nThe distinguished faculty of award-winning writers and publishing professionals will share their insights and experiences.<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">&nbsp;</span>\r\n\r\nThis year’s faculty includes novelists Kimberly Brock, Carla Damron, and Reavis Z. Wortham; memoirist and humorist Harrison Scott Key; biographer and book review editor Adam Parker; and literary agents Jeff Kleinman and Marly Rusoff.\r\n\r\nThe cost for the retreat is $1,500 per person and includes a two-night stay at the Anchorage 1770 Inn on Sept. 6-8, all retreat sessions, evening receptions on Friday and Saturday, breakfasts on Saturday and Sunday, and lunch on Saturday.<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">&nbsp;</span>\r\n\r\nThe registration fee will be billed in three equal installments to be paid in full by Sept. 6. Rooms are selected on a first-come, first-served basis. Registration is now open and is limited to 15 participants.\r\n\r\nFor more information or to register, call the Anchorage 1770 Inn at 877-951-1770.\r\n\r\nProceeds benefit the year-round educational programming of the nonprofit Pat Conroy Literary Center.\r\n\r\n<strong>YMCA to offer CPR classes</strong>\r\n\r\nThe 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: Aug. 17, Sept. 7, Sept. 19, and Nov. 23.<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">&nbsp;</span>\r\n\r\nCost is $35 for this YMCA-certified course and those interested need to register at the Y as space is limited and filled on a first-come, first-served basis. Questions? Contact Lou Bergen, Aquatics Director to register for this class. Call the Y at 843-522-9622 or visit beaufort-jasperymca.org\r\n\r\n<strong>Activities at Hunting Island State Park</strong>\r\n\r\nThere are fun, interesting and educational activities every day hosted by Park Ranger and Lowcountry Master Naturalist Megan Stegmeier.<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">&nbsp;</span>\r\n\r\nMondays: Tie dye, 11 a.m.; Secrets of the Salt Marsh, 4 p.m.\r\n\r\nTuesdays: Sea Turtle Tracks, 10:30 a.m.; CCC Video, 1 p.m.; Beach Walk, 3 p.m.\r\n\r\nWednesdays: Alligator Talk, 11 a.m.; Stepping Stones, 2 p.m.; Sea Safari, 4 p.m.\r\n\r\nThursdays: Feeding Frenzy, 3 p.m.\r\n\r\nFridays: Lowcountry reptiles, 11 a.m.; Fish printing, 2 p.m.\r\n\r\nFor a description of these programs and a complete calendar of activities, go to southcarolinaparks.com/hunting-island and click on “Programs &amp; Events.”\r\n\r\nAll are invited to attend these free events, though there is an entry fee to Hunting Island State Park and reservations are needed for lighthouse programs.\r\n\r\nFor more information, call 843-838-7437 or go to the Friends of Hunting Island website and the Facebook page: FOHI Sea Turtle Conservation Project.\r\n\r\n<strong>Get moving with Beaufort Track Club</strong>\r\n\r\nJoin the Beaufort Track Club at the Beaufort High School track from 6:30-7:30 p.m. each Tuesday night for an open community track workout. Beginner, intermediate, and advanced workouts are posted each week to ensure that you are getting the workout that you need.\r\n\r\nVisit the Facebook page “Beaufort Track Club” for more information.', 'What To Do', '', 'publish', 'closed', 'closed', '', 'what-to-do-186', '', '', '2019-07-31 14:36:46', '2019-07-31 18:36:46', '', 0, 'https://staging.yourislandnews.com/?p=40846', 0, 'post', '', 0),
(40849, 4, '2019-07-31 14:39:10', '2019-07-31 18:39:10', '<h4>By SCOTT GRABER</h4>\r\nIt’s Sunday morning and I’m watching a rising sun send shafts of low-angled sunlight into my backyard. I’ve also got my Wall Street Journal — Weekend Edition — and a cup of Espresso Roast (“rich and caramelly’” courtesy of Starbucks.)\r\n\r\nToday’s Journal is focused on Iran, Venezuela and North Korea. Most of that news is disquieting, distinctly unhappy.<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">&nbsp;</span>\r\n\r\nBut we find relief with a story on Cori “Coco’ Gauff — the 15-year-old who upset Venus Williams. There is also the phenomenal news from Paris where the U.S. women’s soccer team has dominated the World Cup.\r\n\r\nI am old enough to remember when men’s baseball, boxing and football dominated the sports pages. In the 50s and 60s there were a few women athletes like Evonne Goolagong, Dawn Fraser and Margaret Court.<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">&nbsp;</span>\r\n\r\nAnd of course, I had read about Babe Zaharias and Althea Gibson.<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">&nbsp;</span>\r\n\r\nBut when I was a kid, the sports pages belonged to men.\r\n\r\nWhen I was 15, I found myself struggling — more of a downward death spiral — with algebra. I also had a runaway case of acne; and was not large or fast enough to play football.<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">&nbsp;</span>\r\n\r\nI was, to be more specific, lacking in self esteem.<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">&nbsp;</span>\r\n\r\nComplementing the self-esteem deficit was a remarkable capacity for self pity. I was heading for serious trouble when I stumbled upon an AAU-sponsored swim team at Ft. Sam Houston, Texas.\r\n\r\nThe team was made up of Army “dependents” and, unlike most other sports in those days, our coach encouraged women to join and compete.<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">&nbsp;</span>\r\n\r\nAlthough we did not wear goggles, we did wear an early prototype of the now ubiquitous “Speedo” that consisted of one (thin) layer of clinging nylon. It took me less than 10 minutes to discover that these swim suits gave one a pretty good idea of the underlying anatomy and, at first, I thought these ‘tank suits’ had to be illegal.\r\n\r\nOur swim meets were held all over Texas but usually at other military posts — most of the pools were never designed for competition. In fact, once off the homemade, wobbling starting blocks, one realized that the 100-yard swim was actually 125 yards; or sometimes 90 yards.\r\n\r\nBut in those days, regulation size and records didn’t make much difference to us. We were happy to ride four hours to Ft Hood; to sleep in an aging barrack building; to eat watery eggs in the mess hall.\r\n\r\nEarly on, I began to make observations.<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">&nbsp;</span>\r\n\r\nEven at 15 the boys were taller, had bigger feet and bigger hands than the girls.<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">&nbsp;</span>\r\n\r\nThat meant that the male “levers of propulsion” were larger and more powerful than those of female swimmers.<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">&nbsp;</span>\r\n\r\nBut I also observed that the girls — and I use this noun purposely — had better technique. They were more flexible in the knees and hips and pulled themselves through the water with more efficiency. They also had more endurance.\r\n\r\nWhen we went to meets, the boys did well in the 50-, 100- and 200-yard distances; the girls were good at 800 and 1,500 yards. The girls were never faster than the fastest boys (at the longer distances), but they would often beat the slower male swimmers — including me.\r\n\r\nBut none of theses comparisons mattered much — we were teenagers for God’s sake — but it was exciting to see the athleticism and toughness from a gender that (in those days) wasn’t supposed to be athletic, or tough, or competitive.\r\n\r\nIt was also exciting to watch a slight, thinly muscled girl cut through the water with a smooth stroke and a metronome-steady kick keeping her body streamlined and her toes extended.<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">&nbsp;</span>\r\n\r\nAnd, of course, it was sexy.\r\n\r\nIn the 1970s I was not surprised when Chris Evert’s double-handed finesse caught the attention of the public. Then came Billy Jean and Martina and suddenly women’s tennis found itself at center court and at popular parity with the men’s game.<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">&nbsp;</span>\r\n\r\nNor is it surprising to me that women’s soccer filled a stadium in Paris and pulled in 19 million viewers in the United States. Nor am I surprised when I read that this team wants equal pay.\r\n\r\nSeveral weeks ago, my wife walked in while I was watching a women’s beach volleyball match on television.\r\n\r\n“Wow! They’re wearing bikinis! Is that allowed?” she asked. “No wonder you love beach volleyball.”\r\n\r\n“You’re wrong,” I replied. “I love the flexibility, the coordination. Surely you remember that I’ve been watching women’s volleyball since Misty May-Treanor and Kerri Walsh Jennings won the gold in Beijing?”\r\n\r\n“Yeah,” she replied. “I remember.”', 'The sporting world is no longer just a man’s world', '', 'publish', 'closed', 'closed', '', 'the-sporting-world-is-no-longer-just-a-mans-world', '', '', '2019-07-31 14:39:10', '2019-07-31 18:39:10', '', 0, 'https://staging.yourislandnews.com/?p=40849', 0, 'post', '', 0),
(40851, 4, '2019-07-31 14:40:12', '2019-07-31 18:40:12', '<h4>By LEE SCOTT</h4>\r\nMy husband and I recently went to one of those craft stores so he could get a picture framed.<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">&nbsp;</span>\r\n\r\nWhile he was busy, I decided to wander around the store.<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">&nbsp;</span>\r\n\r\nI came upon two young teenage girls discussing the decorating items they needed. I assumed it was for their bedrooms, until the mother of one of the girls said, “Meg, I am not paying for any of that stuff!” Her daughter responded, “But Mom, it’s for my school locker.”\r\n\r\nI looked at the mother and asked, “Her locker?”\r\n\r\nEvidently there is now an industry built around decorating one’s school locker.<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">&nbsp;</span>\r\n\r\nI looked down the aisle and spotted a large selection of magnetic wallpaper. There were themes for sports, music, and academics. Then of course, one must change out the wallpaper for the various holiday seasons.<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">&nbsp;</span>\r\n\r\nAnd that was not all. There were magnetic mirrors, wooden locker shelves, all kinds of decorative magnets with flowers, animals, and symbols. You could even find locker curtains and cute little magnetic chandeliers. (REALLY!)\r\n\r\nAs I stood there gawking, I started to recall my own high school locker. I believe it had one metal shelf and two hooks. That was it.\r\n\r\nWhen I got into my locker it was to exchange books and grab my coat. The only real form of decorating might have been a school calendar taped to the inside of the door. And as I recall, everyone else’s were just as boring.\r\n\r\n“I did have to buy a lock though,” I told the mother.<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">&nbsp;</span>\r\n\r\nThen she told me about her own school locker. She was younger and by the time she went to school, kids were using magnetic plastic letters inside their lockers and they had started to carry bookbags. She said it was a challenge shoving the bag, a coat, and gym uniform into the skinny lockers.\r\n\r\nShe also recalled how easy it was to change out “I love Todd” to “I love Bill” when there was a breakup using her magnetic letters. I told her that in my day, girls would write on the wall in the girl’s locker room. It might be “I love Mikey – 4 Ever” only to have to scratch out Mikey’s name down the road.\r\n\r\nThen came the piece de resistance. As we stood there laughing, her daughter Meg walked up with a white fluffy carpet for the bottom of the locker. It looked like something Marilyn Monroe would have in her dressing room. I walked away as her mother rolled her eyes.\r\n\r\nLater, when we were leaving the store, I saw the mother subsidizing the daughter’s $40 bill.<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">&nbsp;</span>\r\n\r\n“You owe me,” she said to Meg.\r\n\r\n“What was that about?” asked my spouse.\r\n\r\n“You wouldn’t believe it!”', 'These aren’t your mom and dad’s school lockers', '', 'publish', 'closed', 'closed', '', 'these-arent-your-mom-and-dads-school-lockers', '', '', '2019-07-31 14:40:12', '2019-07-31 18:40:12', '', 0, 'https://staging.yourislandnews.com/?p=40851', 0, 'post', '', 0),
(40854, 4, '2019-07-31 14:41:31', '2019-07-31 18:41:31', 'The public is invited to review textbooks and instructional materials that have been proposed for use in South Carolina’s public schools.\r\n\r\nThe instructional materials are available virtually through Aug. 11 using internet links provided by publishers. The public comment form and publisher-provided links are posted online at <a href=\"https://bit.ly/2XJ4ge4\">https://bit.ly/2XJ4ge4</a>.\r\n\r\nThe State Board of Education will receive public comments before a final decision is made on adopting the supplemental instructional materials.\r\n\r\nThe materials for the following SCHSC courses will be recommended to the State Board of Education for supplemental adoption on Aug. 13: Essentials of English I–IV Essentials of Math I–IV, Essentials of Science I–II, Essentials of Social Studies I–II and Employability Education I–IV.', 'Parents, public can review proposed school materials', '', 'publish', 'closed', 'closed', '', 'parents-public-can-review-proposed-school-materials', '', '', '2019-07-31 14:41:31', '2019-07-31 18:41:31', '', 0, 'https://staging.yourislandnews.com/?p=40854', 0, 'post', '', 0),
(40856, 4, '2019-07-31 14:42:24', '2019-07-31 18:42:24', '<h2>Jump-Start Back-to-School event offers health screenings, school supplies, backpacks and more</h2>\r\n<a href=\"http://www.selecthealthofsc.com/index.aspx\">Select Health of South Carolina’s First Choice</a> health plan will host its <a href=\"http://www.selecthealthofsc.com/community/index.aspx\">Jump-Start Back-to-School</a> event, featuring back-to-school information, health screenings, children’s activities, and backpacks with school supplies provided at no cost (while quantities last) from 9 a.m. to noon Saturday, Aug. 3 at the Praise Assembly Church at 800 Parris Island Gateway.\r\n\r\nParticipants are asked to register in advance by calling 1-888-676-9588. Select Health of South Carolina is the state’s oldest and largest Medicaid managed care organization and is part of the AmeriHealth Caritas Family of Companies.\r\n\r\n“This year, we will serve more than 400 Beaufort-area families with school-aged children, helping make sure they’re healthy and ready for the new school year,” Addie Bors, director of community education at Select Health said in a release. “We’re very fortunate that more than 20 health care providers, agencies and community partners are willing to join us and help children get the checkups and school supplies they need.”\r\n\r\nJump Start has served more than 14,000 families in the last 10 years and has now been expanded to locations throughout the state. Select Health’s bilingual staff will assist Spanish-speaking families, and interpretation services will be available for attendees with limited English proficiency.<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">&nbsp;</span>\r\n\r\n“Good health is proven to help children perform their best in school,” Dr. Kirt Caton, market chief medical officer at Select Health, said. “School-age children up to age 21 need yearly well visits with a primary care physician, and our staff can help First Choice members schedule these appointments with their doctors.”\r\n\r\nFor more information, call 1-888-676-9588 or visit <a href=\"http://www.selecthealthofsc.com/community/index.aspx\">http://www.selecthealthofsc.com/community/index.aspx</a>.', 'First Choice hosting Jump-Start Back-to-School event', '', 'publish', 'closed', 'closed', '', 'first-choice-hosting-jump-start-back-to-school-event', '', '', '2019-07-31 14:42:24', '2019-07-31 18:42:24', '', 0, 'https://staging.yourislandnews.com/?p=40856', 0, 'post', '', 0),
(40859, 4, '2019-07-31 14:43:29', '2019-07-31 18:43:29', 'A new regulation has been established that affects the use of natural deer lures and attractants often used by deer hunters in South Carolina.<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">&nbsp;</span>\r\n\r\nThe new regulation makes it unlawful in South Carolina to possess or use, for the purpose of hunting or scouting, any substance or material that contains or claims to contain any excretion collected from a deer, including urine, feces, gland oil or other body fluid.\r\n\r\nThis does not prohibit the use of synthetic products or substances collected by a hunter from deer legally harvested in South Carolina. Synthetic products are clearly labeled as such. If a product is not clearly labeled as synthetic, it should be assumed to contain natural material.\r\n\r\nThis preventative measure was established as one tool in the battle to prevent the introduction of Chronic Wasting Disease (CWD) into South Carolina. CWD is a contagious, always fatal, neurological disease that affects members of the deer family.\r\n\r\nThe disease is not caused by a virus or bacteria, but is rather the result of a naturally occurring protein, called a prion, which becomes misfolded and thus resists being broken down by the body the way normal proteins are. When these misfolded proteins are introduced into a healthy deer, they multiply by causing the animal’s normal and healthy prion proteins to misfold and begin damaging the animal’s nervous system.\r\n\r\nThe infectious proteins (i.e., prions) known to transmit CWD have been found in the urine, feces and saliva of infected individuals.\r\n\r\nWhile there has not been a case of CWD detected in South Carolina, or in any neighboring states, the S.C. Department of Natural Resources (SCDNR) is following the lead of other states in proactively prohibiting the use of natural lures and attractants in order to minimize the potential risk for CWD introduction into the state.\r\n\r\n“Numerous other states have a ban on these products in place, this is part of a comprehensive effort to keep Chronic Wasting Disease out of our state and protect our valuable deer herd from this devastating disease,” Jay Cantrell, SCDNR Big Game Biologist, said in a release. “There’s no practical or feasible test that can be performed on these natural urine products, or on the deer they collect the urine from, so there’s no way to know if they are safe.”<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">&nbsp;</span>\r\n\r\nThe disease has been detected in 26 states including: Arkansas, Colorado, Kansas, Illinois, Iowa, Maryland, Michigan, Minnesota, Mississippi, Missouri, Montana, Nebraska, New Mexico, New York, North Dakota, Oklahoma, Ohio, Pennsylvania, South Dakota, Tennessee, Texas, Utah, Virginia, West Virginia, Wisconsin, Wyoming, and the Canadian provinces of Alberta and Saskatchewan. CWD also has been detected in South Korea (captive elk) and Norway (reindeer and moose).', 'State bans use of natural deer lures', '', 'publish', 'closed', 'closed', '', 'state-bans-use-of-natural-deer-lures', '', '', '2019-07-31 14:43:29', '2019-07-31 18:43:29', '', 0, 'https://staging.yourislandnews.com/?p=40859', 0, 'post', '', 0);
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(40861, 4, '2019-07-31 14:44:26', '2019-07-31 18:44:26', '<strong>County spraying for mosquitoes</strong>\r\n\r\nIn accordance with Federal and state regulations, Beaufort County Mosquito Control may conduct aerial and/or ground treatments through Aug. 2.<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">&nbsp;</span>\r\n\r\nMosquito Control applies EPA-registered public health insecticide during ideal weather using low-flying aircraft throughout daylight hours and spray trucks from 11 p.m. to 6:30 a.m.\r\n\r\nFor more, please contact Beaufort County Mosquito Control at 843-255-5800.\r\n\r\n<strong>Man shot on St. Helena Island</strong>\r\n\r\nAt approximately 4:20 p.m. on Friday, July 26, Beaufort County Sheriff\'s Office deputies responded to Saxonville Road on St. Helena Island to a report of an adult male gunshot victim.<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">&nbsp;</span>\r\n\r\nDeputies arrived on the scene and the victim — who was conscious and alert — was transported to the Beaufort Memorial Hospital for treatment of a gunshot wound.\r\nThe subject responsible for the shooting has not been located.\r\n\r\n<strong>League of Women Voters August meeting set</strong>\r\n\r\nThe League of Women Voters Beaufort Area will hold its monthly meeting from 6 to 7:30 p.m. Thursday, Aug. 8 at Beth Israel Synagogue in Beaufort. All members of the public are invited to attend.\r\n\r\nThe agenda will include topics of interest to voters and potential voters including preparations for the League’s 100th anniversary and the passage of the 19th amendment which gave women the right to vote.<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">&nbsp;</span>\r\n\r\nThe League has been concerned about issues in connection with the upcoming 2020 elections. The meeting agenda is being prepared and may include such items as redistricting/gerrymandering, education, voter access, election technology and fundraising.\r\n\r\nThe 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.\r\n\r\nFor more information, visit “League of Women Voters Beaufort Area” on Facebook, follow @beaufortvotes or #beaufortvotes on Instagram, email <a href=\"mailto:lwvbeaufort@gmail.com\">lwvbeaufort@gmail.com</a> or call 704-641-7357.\r\n\r\n<strong>Sportfishing and Diving Club’s August meeting set</strong>\r\n\r\nThe Beaufort Sportfishing and Diving Club’s August meeting will be held Thursday, Aug.8 at the Beaufort Yacht Club on Lady’s Island off Meridian Road. The social begins at 6:30 p.m., and the meeting begins at 7 p.m.\r\n\r\nThe guest speaker for August is well known Capt. Rick Percy of Reel Chance Charters of Hilton Head. Percy, also the author of \"Reel Chance Fish Tales,\" will review what species are available during this time of the year. He will include locations, baits of choice, rods and reels, and tackle.<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">&nbsp;</span>\r\n\r\nPercy will also discuss tides and the importance of staying hydrated.\r\n\r\nCongratulations to Pam Bailey for winning the $50 weigh-in drawing in June sponsored by Butler Marine.<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">&nbsp;</span>\r\n\r\nGuests are welcome and do not need a reservation. For more information, contact Captain Frank Gibson at 843-522-2122 or email <a href=\"mailto:fgibson@islc.net\">fgibson@islc.net</a>.\r\n\r\nCAPA selling Boston Butts for Labor Day\r\n\r\n<strong>Beaufort’s Child Abuse Prevention Association (CAPA) is hosting a BBQ Butt fundraiser for Labor Day.</strong>\r\n\r\nCAPA is selling fully cooked and seasoned barbecued Boston Butts for $35 each. Tickets must be purchased prior to Aug. 24. Tickets are available at the CAPA office, CAPA’s Closet and through CAPA friends. Boston Butts are to be picked up between 9 a.m. and 3 p.m. Friday, Aug. 31 in the parking lot of Piggly Wiggly at 1347 Ribaut Road.', 'News Briefs', '', 'publish', 'closed', 'closed', '', 'news-briefs-118', '', '', '2019-07-31 14:44:26', '2019-07-31 18:44:26', '', 0, 'https://staging.yourislandnews.com/?p=40861', 0, 'post', '', 0),
(40863, 4, '2019-07-31 14:45:23', '2019-07-31 18:45:23', '<h4>By MINDY LUCAS</h4>\r\nThe Beaufort-Port Royal Metropolitan Planning Commission voted to annex two properties on Lady’s Island into the City of Beaufort at a planning meeting on Monday, July 29.\r\n\r\nThe first property included two parcels totaling 20.71-acres on Miller Drive East while the second property included a collection of parcels totaling 6.9 acres along Mayfair Road, west of Sam’s Point Road.\r\n\r\nAlso up for consideration were changes in zoning for both properties, though the commission voted to recommend zoning that was either on par with the properties’ current zoning or that favored less density than what the owners had originally petitioned for.\r\n\r\nA number of residents who turned out for public comment on the Miller Drive East property took issue with the annexation citing concerns over of increased traffic and density in the area, the potential for increased property taxes and the negative impact growth would have on the semi-rural character of the island.\r\n\r\nOther residents cited apprehension over not knowing what property owners had planned for the property under the requested zoning changes. The owners, who were not present at the meeting, could sell to developers who could in turn build apartment buildings on the 6.9 acre site, the said.\r\n\r\nOthers took issue with the annexation and zoning stating it was at odds with the recently adopted Lady’s Island Plan.\r\n\r\nThe commission passed annexation on both properties but voted to recommend to city council zoning codes either on par with surrounding properties or that favored less density.', 'Commission approves city annexation for two properties, recommends less dense zoning', '', 'publish', 'closed', 'closed', '', 'commission-approves-city-annexation-for-two-properties-recommends-less-dense-zoning', '', '', '2019-07-31 14:45:23', '2019-07-31 18:45:23', '', 0, 'https://staging.yourislandnews.com/?p=40863', 0, 'post', '', 0),
(40865, 4, '2019-07-31 14:48:07', '2019-07-31 18:48:07', 'Paul Murdaugh, who is facing felony charges in connection to the fatal boat crash that killed 19-year-old Mallory Beach in February, will be allowed to travel outside the area, a judge has ruled.\r\n\r\nJudge Michael Nettles ruled on Monday, July 29 that Murdaugh could travel outside of Beaufort, Hampton, Allendale, Colleton and Jasper counties so that he could attend the University of South Carolina where he is enrolled, Robert Kittle, spokesman for the S.C. Attorney General’s Office confirmed.\r\n\r\nMurdaugh and Beach were among six people thrown from the boat when it crashed into a piling on Archers Creek near Parris Island on Feb. 24. Beach’s body was found one week later on March 3.\r\n\r\nMurdaugh, 20, was originally ordered not to leave the area while awaiting trial, but his attorneys filed a motion last week to allow him to travel anywhere in the state.\r\n\r\nMurdaugh has been charged with one count of boating under the influence causing death and two counts of boating under the influence causing great bodily injury in connection to the boat crash. He pleaded not guilty to the charges in May.&nbsp;&nbsp;\r\n\r\nThe trial, which does not have a court date yet, is waiting for a circuit judge to be appointed, Kittle said.\r\n\r\n&nbsp;', 'Murdaugh allowed to travel outside area, judge finds', '', 'publish', 'closed', 'closed', '', 'murdaugh-allowed-to-travel-outside-area-judge-finds', '', '', '2019-07-31 14:48:07', '2019-07-31 18:48:07', '', 0, 'https://staging.yourislandnews.com/?p=40865', 0, 'post', '', 0),
(40867, 4, '2019-07-31 14:49:12', '2019-07-31 18:49:12', '<h4>By DR. MARK SIEGEL</h4>\r\nLaser cataract surgery — also called Refractive Laser-Assisted Cataract Surgery (ReLACS) — is an advanced type of cataract surgery that uses femtosecond laser technology to bring a new level of precision and accuracy to specific steps in cataract surgery that traditionally have been performed with hand-held surgical tools.\r\n\r\nThese steps include: the corneal incision, the anterior capsulotomy and the lens and cataract fragmentation.\r\n\r\nThe added precision, accuracy and reproducibility of each of these steps, when performed with a laser, potentially can reduce certain risks and improve visual outcomes of cataract surgery.\r\n\r\nThe corneal incision\r\n\r\nThe first step in cataract surgery is making an incision in the cornea.\r\n\r\nIn conventional cataract surgery, the surgeon uses a hand-held instrument with a metal or diamond blade to create an incision in the peripheral clear cornea. This incision allows the surgeon to gain access to the interior of the eye to break up and remove the cataract, which is a clouding of the eye\'s natural lens that is located right behind the pupil.\r\n\r\nNext, an intraocular lens (IOL) is inserted and implanted, to replace the cloudy natural lens. The corneal incision is made in a special way so it will self-seal when surgery is complete, without any need for stitches.\r\n\r\nIn laser cataract surgery, the surgeon creates a precise surgical plan for the corneal incision with a sophisticated 3-D image of the eye called an OCT (optical coherence tomography).\r\n\r\nThe goal is to create an incision with a specific location, depth and length in all planes, and with the OCT image and a femtosecond laser, it can be performed precisely and reproducibly .\r\n\r\nThis is important not only for accuracy but also for increasing the likelihood that the incision will be self-sealing at the end of the procedure, which reduces the risk of infection.\r\n\r\nThe capsulotomy\r\n\r\nThe eye\'s natural lens is surrounded by a very thin, clear capsule. In cataract surgery, the front portion of the capsule is removed in a step called an anterior capsulotomy. This enable the surgeon to gain direct access to the cloudy lens (cataract).\r\n\r\nIt\'s very important that the remainder of the lens capsule that remains intact in the eye is not damaged during cataract surgery, because it must hold the artificial lens implant in place for the rest of the patient\'s life.\r\n\r\nIn traditional cataract surgery, the surgeon creates an opening in the capsule with a small needle and then uses that same needle or a forceps to tear the capsule in a circular fashion.\r\n\r\nIn laser cataract surgery, the anterior capsulotomy is performed with a femtosecond laser like the type used in LASIK vision correction surgery. Studies have shown that capsulotomies performed with a laser have greater accuracy and reproducibility.\r\n\r\nStudies also have shown that laser capsulotomies enable better centering of the intraocular lens, and IOL positioning is a significant factor in determining final visual outcomes.\r\n\r\nLens and cataract fragmentation\r\n\r\nAfter the capsulotomy, the surgeon now has access to the cataract to remove it.\r\n\r\nIn traditional cataract surgery, the ultrasonic device that breaks up the cataract is inserted into the incision. During this phacoemulsification procedure, the ultrasound energy can lead to heat buildup in the incision, which sometimes can burn the incision and negatively affect the visual outcome by actually inducing astigmatism.\r\n\r\nThe laser, on the other hand, softens the cataract as it breaks it up. By breaking up the cataract into smaller, softer pieces, less ultrasonic heat energy is needed to remove the cataract, so there should be less chance of burning and distorting the incision. Studies show nearly 50 percent less ultrasonic energy is required when the laser is used.\r\n\r\nLaser cataract surgery may also reduce the risk of capsule breakage that can cause vision problems after surgery.\r\n\r\nThe lens capsule is as thin as cellophane wrap and it\'s important that the portion that is left inside the eye after cataract surgery is undamaged, so it can hold the IOL in the proper position for clear, undistorted vision.\r\n\r\nThe reduced phacoemulsification energy required in laser cataract surgery may also make the procedure safer to the inner eye, which reduces the chance of certain complications, such as a detached retina or persistent corneal swelling.\r\n\r\nAstigmatism correction at the time of cataract surgery\r\n\r\nTo reduce the need for prescription eyeglasses or reading glasses after cataract surgery, it is important that little or no astigmatism is present after implantation of any type of IOL, especially presbyopia-correcting multifocal IOLs and multifocal-toric IOLs.\r\n\r\nAstigmatism usually is caused by the cornea being more curved in one meridian than others. (In other words, it\'s shaped somewhat like an American football rather than a baseball). Astigmatism affects distance, intermediate and near vision.\r\n\r\nTo reduce astigmatism, small incisions can be placed in the periphery of the more curved meridian; as the incisions heal, this meridian flattens slightly to give the cornea a rounder, more symmetrical shape.\r\n\r\nThis procedure is called limbal relaxing incisions (LRI) or astigmatic keratotomy (AK).\r\n\r\nDuring refractive laser-assisted cataract surgery, the OCT image can be used to plan laser LRI or AK incisions in a very precise location, length and depth. This increases the accuracy of the astigmatism-reducing procedure and the probability of good vision without glasses after cataract surgery.\r\n\r\nCataract surgeons who use lasers say that their advantages are especially evident when it comes to high-tech, premium implants such as presbyopia-correcting multifocal IOLs and Toric IOL’s for astigmatism. Advantages include better lens placement and therefore more accurate visual outcomes. However, the benefits still hold true for single vision monofocal IOL’s as well.\r\n\r\nCost of laser cataract surgery\r\n\r\nLaser cataract surgery costs more than conventional cataract surgery, and the extra costs associated with laser cataract surgery are not covered by Medicare or health insurance.\r\n\r\nFees for laser cataract surgery can vary. Be sure to ask about details of the cost of laser-assisted cataract surgery during your pre-surgical exam and cataract surgery consultation with your surgeon.\r\n\r\nWeighing the benefits\r\n\r\nIt\'s important to put laser cataract surgery technology into proper perspective.\r\n\r\nTraditional cataract surgery is very effective and successful. Most people who do not want to pay the extra cost of laser cataract surgery can feel very confident that conventional cataract surgery is likely to produce very good results, especially since I have been performing traditional microincisional cataract surgery for nearly 20 years.\r\n\r\nBut if you want the best possible technology, laser cataract surgery is appealing. A more accurate corneal incision, capsulotomy and astigmatic correction may help you achieve your goal of less dependence on glasses after cataract surgery. Having used the femtosecond laser in cataract surgery for the last four years, the laser has certainly exceeded my expectations.\r\n\r\nTo decide if laser cataract surgery is the best choice for you, ask your cataract surgeon for more information about this exciting technology during your preoperative exam and consultation.\r\n\r\n<em>Dr. Mark Siegel is the medical director at Sea Island Ophthalmology.</em>', 'Do your homework to decide if laser cataract surgery is for you', '', 'publish', 'closed', 'closed', '', 'do-your-homework-to-decide-if-laser-cataract-surgery-is-for-you', '', '', '2019-07-31 14:49:12', '2019-07-31 18:49:12', '', 0, 'https://staging.yourislandnews.com/?p=40867', 0, 'post', '', 0),
(40870, 4, '2019-07-31 14:49:44', '2019-07-31 18:49:44', 'The Beaufort Regional Chamber of Commerce will commemorate the re-dedication of Beaufort Nursing and Rehab on Friday, Aug. 9 with a ribbon cutting ceremony. The celebration starts at 11 a.m.\r\n\r\nThe public is encouraged to attend the ceremony to meet staff and tour the facility. Guests are also invited to enjoy a Lowcountry barbecue.\r\n\r\nBeaufort Nursing and Rehab is a skilled nursing and rehabilitation facility located in Beaufort. The facility provides both short-term treatment and long-term care. They offer comprehensive, sub-acute medical services, 24-hour skilled nursing care, and active programs in rehabilitation and restorative care. Learn more at <a href=\"http://r20.rs6.net/tn.jsp?f=0012sQNOQtDlhAyqhl-tJ7kiiFOHDDIcbNNujlMMG6NDZUa-BJjfVUDIMZb3cDqdxmKI9BnUlVw02-mzKChaplNPpLP9Iic0En0DiFoRF6HPM-gQUDzifboOWC8jQLN4S5avMvv4kcVH61cQWGyWWoGwGr7Qdt3CmSrhEBOZZiqwe5uC_gQluE-Jw==&amp;c=2FuD_s7SN796GDeJLlcSCcNYbO9wrx-42c_pJi1nrV21ZZHT6sGzpw==&amp;ch=iuzmKjLh58Sj7YZhzH1Sa9dmvyzBP_bp8rcByhs2yh8gJBWBsWqJPQ==\">BeaufortNursing.com</a>.', 'Beaufort Nursing and Rehab hosts re-dedication ceremony', '', 'publish', 'closed', 'closed', '', 'beaufort-nursing-and-rehab-hosts-re-dedication-ceremony', '', '', '2019-07-31 14:49:44', '2019-07-31 18:49:44', '', 0, 'https://staging.yourislandnews.com/?p=40870', 0, 'post', '', 0),
(40872, 4, '2019-07-31 14:50:43', '2019-07-31 18:50:43', 'The Beaufort Arts Council announced its annual meeting will be held at 4 p.m. Aug. 23 at its offices on the campus of the Technical College of the Lowcountry.\r\n\r\nThe meeting will include an overview of the organization’s accomplishments over the past year, as well as provide an outlook for its major initiatives planned for the remainder of 2019 and 2020 that support educational programming and community activities for artists and schools in Beaufort County.\r\n\r\n“We have made significant progress to enhance our programming and support of the Arts in Beaufort and around the Lowcountry,” Beaufort Arts Council Chairman Jeff Shawd said in a release. “This meeting is an opportunity to highlight this progress as well as share our exciting plans for the future.”\r\n\r\nThe meeting will also introduce several new board members and showcase a new art gallery exhibit. Tours will also be held of the Mather Interpretative Center, and the nearby Community Mural, which recently completed its first phase.\r\n\r\nFounded in 1991, the mission of the Beaufort Arts Council is to expand the presence of the arts in the daily experiences of residents and visitors, and to provide exposure to the local heritage, rich artistic legacy, and cultural uniqueness of our community.\r\n\r\nAs an all-volunteer organization, the Beaufort Arts Council is a resource for artists throughout the county. The organization fosters a creative environment and includes a numerous art gallery exhibits and a robust schedule of classes and workshops, ranging from painting and drawing, to photography and how to build a successful arts business. For more information, visit: <a href=\"http://www.beaufortartscouncil.org/\">www.beaufortartscouncil.org</a> or call 843-379-ARTS.', 'Beaufort Arts Council announces annual meeting', '', 'publish', 'closed', 'closed', '', 'beaufort-arts-council-announces-annual-meeting', '', '', '2019-07-31 14:50:43', '2019-07-31 18:50:43', '', 0, 'https://staging.yourislandnews.com/?p=40872', 0, 'post', '', 0),
(40874, 4, '2019-07-31 14:51:34', '2019-07-31 18:51:34', 'The Lowcountry Kappa Delta Alumnae Chapter is collecting gently-used purses as part of its 10th anniversary celebration. The purses will be donated to Hopeful Horizons in Beaufort.\r\n\r\nDonations may be dropped off at Village Self Storage, 10 Coastal Drive, Bluffton (behind Hilton Head BMW). Collections boxes can also be found at both locations of The Boathouse, 405 Squire Pope Road, Hilton Head, and 5279 N. Okatie Highway, Okatie.\r\n\r\nThe service project is part of National Kappa Delta’s “Go Confidently” initiative.\r\n\r\nLow Country KD Alumnae Chapter is a group of community-minded local women, who live in Hilton Head, Bluffton, Okatie, Ridgeland and Beaufort.\r\n\r\nFor more information, visit lowcountry.kappadelta.org or FaceBook at Low Country, SC Kappa Delta Alumnae Chapter. You may also send emails to kdjeanette@aol.com.', 'Lowcountry Kappa Delta Alumnae collect purses', '', 'publish', 'closed', 'closed', '', 'lowcountry-kappa-delta-alumnae-collect-purses', '', '', '2019-07-31 14:51:34', '2019-07-31 18:51:34', '', 0, 'https://staging.yourislandnews.com/?p=40874', 0, 'post', '', 0),
(40876, 4, '2019-07-31 14:52:34', '2019-07-31 18:52:34', 'Former Whale Branch Early College High School football star Nyles Pinckney was named to the Preseason All-ACC Team last week.\r\n\r\nA standout defensive tackle for defending national champion Clemson, Pinckney is in line for a full-time starting role this season after recording 26 tackles (4.5 for loss), a forced fumble and a fumble recovery as a redshirt sophomore last season. He had two tackles — including one for loss on a fake field-goal attempt — in the Tigers’ win over Alabama in the national championship game.\r\n\r\nPinckney earned his undergraduate degree in criminal justice from Clemson in May and is enrolled as a graduate student with two years of eligibility remaining. Listed at 6-foot-1 and 305 pounds, Pinckney is expected to be a key run-stopper for the Tigers.\r\n\r\n&nbsp;', 'Pinckney named preseason All-ACC', '', 'publish', 'closed', 'closed', '', 'pinckney-named-preseason-all-acc', '', '', '2019-07-31 14:52:34', '2019-07-31 18:52:34', '', 0, 'https://staging.yourislandnews.com/?p=40876', 0, 'post', '', 0),
(40878, 4, '2019-07-31 14:53:28', '2019-07-31 18:53:28', '&nbsp;\r\n\r\nWhen the Battery Creek softball team defends its Class 3A state championship next season, it will do so with a new coach at the helm.\r\n\r\nFormer Dolphins coach Chris Carr was announced Monday as the new coach at Calvary Day School in Savannah, and Battery Creek has already named Carr’s successor, hiring accomplished coach Bob Layman to head the program.\r\n\r\nCarr spent two seasons at Battery Creek and took the Dolphins to the Class 3A Lower State championship game in 2018 before capturing the state title in 2019. He was named the state Coach of the Year this season and has a career record of 186-109-1 over 12 seasons as a head coach.\r\n\r\n“I got a really great teaching offer (from Calvary) and I couldn’t let it pass me by,” Carr said. “It was such a hard decision, as I really wanted to keep coaching at Creek. I love that school and team.”\r\n\r\nLayman has been a staple on the local travel softball scene for years and enjoyed a successful run as the head coach at Thomas Heyward Academy from 2010-18, leading the Rebels to the SCISA state championship series six times in nine seasons, including a state championship in 2011. He stepped down following the 2018 season but continued to coach the S.C. Badkatz travel team, which included several players from Battery Creek.\r\n\r\n“Obviously, retirement wasn’t for me,” Layman said. “I’m honored (Athletic Director Sarah) Hayes and Principal (Chad) Cox are giving me this opportunity. Battery Creek is on the rise, and I’m excited to be a part of it.”', 'Layman to replace Carr as Creek softball coach', '', 'publish', 'closed', 'closed', '', 'layman-to-replace-carr-as-creek-softball-coach', '', '', '2019-07-31 14:53:28', '2019-07-31 18:53:28', '', 0, 'https://staging.yourislandnews.com/?p=40878', 0, 'post', '', 0),
(40880, 4, '2019-07-31 14:54:42', '2019-07-31 18:54:42', 'The South Carolina Badkatz 18U squad, featuring players from Beaufort and the surrounding area, made a historic run to finish in the top six at the USA Softball National Championships in Montgomery, Alabama, last week.\r\n\r\nThe Badkatz finished the tournament with a 3-2 record, ending with a 6-2 loss to the Ohio Wolfpack, which eventually finished third.\r\n\r\nThe team was made up of high school standouts from throughout the area, including Battery Creek’s Emily Crosby, McKenzie Young, Margaret Schubert, and Journeigh Doray, and Thomas Heyward Academy’s Cheyenne Strong and Ivy Bryan. Other players included Malena Wright, Smiley Kinloch, Amberly Way, Whitley Weathers, and Anna Grace Dennis.', 'Badkatz make final six at nationals', '', 'publish', 'closed', 'closed', '', 'badkatz-make-final-six-at-nationals', '', '', '2019-07-31 14:54:42', '2019-07-31 18:54:42', '', 0, 'https://staging.yourislandnews.com/?p=40880', 0, 'post', '', 0),
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(40883, 4, '2019-07-31 15:00:42', '2019-07-31 19:00:42', 'The Beaufort County All-Stars came short in their state title bid at the Dixie Junior Boys (13U) State Tournament, losing twice to Sumter in the championship round Thursday at Bluffton’s Oscar Frazier Park.\r\n\r\nSumter used a strong pitcher performance from Clark Kinney — who also added a three-run homer — to win the first game 9-5, forcing a winner-take-all rematch. Beaufort County left nine men on base and made three errors as Sumter claimed the second game 11-1 in six innings.\r\n\r\nBraydon Dineen was 2-for-3 with an RBI and Kyler McKeever had an RBI double and scored a run in the opener. McKeever was tagged with the loss on the mound.\r\n\r\nMcKeever had three of Beaufort County’s six hits in the finale, while Logan Brutcher, Owen Harwell, and Carter Zareva each added a hit. Brutcher took the loss on the mound.\r\n\r\n<a href=\"https://staging.yourislandnews.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/07/DSC_0413.jpg\"><img class=\"alignright  wp-image-40887\" src=\"https://staging.yourislandnews.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/07/DSC_0413-1024x683.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"554\" height=\"369\"></a>Beaufort County advanced to the championship game with two wins Wednesday, rallying for an 8-6 victory over St. George in a game that was suspended by thunderstorms Tuesday night before rolling to a 12-2 win over North Augusta later in the day.\r\n\r\nThe local team trailed 4-1 when storms rolled in during the fourth inning Tuesday but scored three runs in the fourth and three in the fifth when play resumed Wednesday morning to remain undefeated. Kevin Brown was 2-for-3 with two RBIs, and Brutcher and Hudson Mullen each had two hits, two runs, and an RBI to lead Beaufort County at the plate. Brutcher earned the win, allowing one runs and three hits over three solid innings in relief.\r\n\r\nBeaufort County again rallied from an early deficit in the nightcap, trailing 2-0 before outscoring North Augusta 12-0 over the next three innings, including a nine-run fourth to break it open.\r\n\r\nMullen was 2-for-4 with two doubles and four RBIs, Jadyn Andrews added two hits, and Brutcher and Dineen each drove in two runs. Zareva was the winning pitcher, allowing one run and four hits over 3 2/3 innings with three strikeouts.\r\n\r\nBoth Beaufort County and Sumter advance to the Dixie Junior Boys World Series from Aug. 3-7 in Aiken and will square off again in the opening round of the double-elimination tournament\r\n\r\n<strong>Photos by Bob Sofaly</strong>\r\n<em>\r\nBeaufort County’s Logan Brutcher delivers a pitch during the championship game of the Dixie Junior Boys State Tournament on Thursday at Oscar Frazier Park in Bluffton.\r\n\r\n</em><em>Beaufort County first baseman Jadyn Andrews receives a pickoff throw during the championship game of the Dixie Junior Boys State Tournament on Thursday at Oscar Frazier Park in Bluffton.</em><em>\r\n</em>\r\n\r\n&nbsp;', 'Beaufort County Junior Boys advance to Dixie World Series', '', 'publish', 'closed', 'closed', '', 'beaufort-county-junior-boys-advance-to-dixie-world-series', '', '', '2019-07-31 15:00:42', '2019-07-31 19:00:42', '', 0, 'https://staging.yourislandnews.com/?p=40883', 0, 'post', '', 0),
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(40889, 4, '2019-07-31 15:02:22', '2019-07-31 19:02:22', 'The American Association of University Women, Beaufort Branch, presented its annual scholarship as the culminating program for its 2018-2019 season.\r\n\r\nThis year’s recipient, Amy Mulnix, is a student at the University of South Carolina, Beaufort, working toward a four-year degree in nursing.\r\n\r\nThe scholarship is awarded annually to a non-traditional student in keeping with scholarship guidelines. Mulnix is a working mother of two and is employed at the Beaufort Memorial Hospital as a Wellness Coach in the Life Fit area. In addition to demonstrating high academic achievement, Mulnix has distinguished herself as a leader and critical thinker, showing outstanding qualities in working with all those with whom she works.\r\n\r\nMulnix meets the standards for the AAUW, Beaufort Branch, Etta Mann non-traditional Women’s Scholarship. Named to memorialize long-time member, Etta Mann, the scholarship is designed to help a local student realize her goal of furthering her education and gaining a degree in her chosen field.\r\n\r\nThis scholarship is in keeping with the mission of American Association of University Women, which is to advance equity for women and girls through advocacy, education, philanthropy, and research. AAUW strives to help aspiring women realize their goal of learning, which will lead to a better life.\r\n\r\nThe organization meets monthly from October to May.<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">&nbsp;</span>\r\n\r\nFor more information, contact President Celeste Nalwasky, Ph.D., at 412-915-5236.\r\n\r\nAAUW is a non-partisan, nonprofit organization.', 'AAUW awards scholarship to USC Beaufort student', '', 'publish', 'closed', 'closed', '', 'aauw-awards-scholarship-to-usc-beaufort-student', '', '', '2019-07-31 15:02:22', '2019-07-31 19:02:22', '', 0, 'https://staging.yourislandnews.com/?p=40889', 0, 'post', '', 0),
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(40918, 4, '2019-07-31 15:22:11', '2019-07-31 19:22:11', 'Publix Pharmacy and Beaufort Memorial Hospital (BMH) have announced a collaboration to expand health care services for residents of Beaufort County.<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">&nbsp;</span>\r\n\r\nThe agreement includes in-hospital delivery of patient prescriptions from a nearby Publix, as well as in-store telehealth centers at two Publix locations.\r\n\r\n“Patients are looking for more convenient access to health care, whether it’s treatment for non-emergency medical conditions or easier transitions from hospital to home,” Publix Vice President of Pharmacy Dain Rusk said in a release. “This collaboration with Beaufort Memorial Hospital will provide residents of the Beaufort community with a medical care option where they shop and eliminate an extra errand for patients leaving the hospital.”\r\n\r\n<a href=\"https://staging.yourislandnews.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/07/Meds-to-beds.jpg\"><img class=\"alignright  wp-image-40920\" src=\"https://staging.yourislandnews.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/07/Meds-to-beds-1024x683.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"486\" height=\"324\"></a>“We’re excited about this collaboration to expand access to care in the Lowcountry and to provide a direct prescription service to patients leaving the hospital,” Beaufort Memorial President and CEO Russell Baxley said in a release. “Our mission is to improve the health of our community and offering walk-in care through Publix Pharmacy provides a unique way to do just that. It’s another option for patients who need care when and where it is most convenient for them.”\r\n\r\nAs part of the collaboration, patients discharged from BMH can choose to have medications that are prescribed during their stay delivered to their room prior to leaving the hospital. The Publix Pharmacy at store 1463 in Beaufort will fill the prescriptions and a Publix associate will deliver them to the hospital room. Any payments can be made upon delivery.\r\n\r\nIn addition, Publix will install telehealth centers to provide non-emergency medical care at store 1463 in Beaufort and store 1205 in Bluffton. Powered by the BMH Care Anywhere online virtual care service, each telehealth center will have a private room with teleconferencing and medical diagnostic equipment, including stethoscopes, blood pressure cuffs, high-definition cameras and other tools necessary for common diagnoses.<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">&nbsp;</span>\r\n\r\nThe telehealth sites will allow patients to speak directly with a board-certified provider via video conferencing technology. The provider can direct the patient to use the available diagnostic tools in order to make a diagnosis and write any necessary prescriptions.<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">&nbsp;</span>\r\n\r\nPublix Pharmacy support staff will be available to assist patients, if needed. Visits will be $59 and will not require an appointment. The telehealth centers will open later this year.\r\n\r\nFor more information, visit BeaufortMemorial.org/PublixWalkInCare.', 'Publix, Beaufort Memorial collaborate on telehealth, prescriptions', '', 'publish', 'closed', 'closed', '', 'publix-beaufort-memorial-collaborate-on-telehealth-prescriptions', '', '', '2019-07-31 15:22:11', '2019-07-31 19:22:11', '', 0, 'https://staging.yourislandnews.com/?p=40918', 0, 'post', '', 0),
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(40923, 4, '2019-07-31 15:28:40', '2019-07-31 19:28:40', '<h2>Dr. Earnest Collins left a legacy to both the hospital and the community</h2>\r\nWhen Beaufort Memorial Hospital (BMH) unveiled its newly renovated Collins Birthing Center last month, it gave the community another opportunity to recognize the contributions of the late Dr. Earnest Collins, the area’s first OB-GYN.\r\n\r\nBut the birthing center’s namesake did far more than deliver babies in Beaufort. He created a family legacy of service now in its third generation.\r\n\r\n“My father was among a small group of physicians who started from the ground up,” BMH Medical Director of Laboratories Dr. Brad Collins, who joined the hospital in 1996, three years after his father retired, said. “We’re trying to build on that and improve the hospital every day.”\r\n\r\nThe family has a long history of supporting Beaufort Memorial Hospital Foundation’s annual Valentine Ball, a black tie fundraiser that has generated more than $5 million to improve services at the nonprofit hospital.\r\n\r\n<a href=\"https://staging.yourislandnews.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/07/Dr.-Earnest-Collins-and-wife-Sue.jpg\"><img class=\"alignright  wp-image-40925\" src=\"https://staging.yourislandnews.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/07/Dr.-Earnest-Collins-and-wife-Sue-727x1024.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"474\" height=\"668\"></a>Dr. Earnest Collins and his wife Sue attended the inaugural Valentine Ball in 1990 and went on to serve as volunteer hosts of the private, pre-ball dinner parties that have made the event such a success.\r\n\r\nBrad Collins and his wife Cindy carried on the tradition, hosting their first dinner party not long after moving back to Beaufort in 1996. In 2002, they served as co-chairs of the fundraiser, a mammoth endeavor requiring the help of hundreds of community volunteers.\r\n\r\nFollowing her parents’ lead, Allison Coppage and her husband Ben volunteered for their first pre-ball dinner party in 2013. This year, they stepped up to serve as co-chairs of the event while Brad and Cindy Collins hosted their 19th pre-ball dinner party.\r\n\r\n“The Valentine Ball has always and forever been a tradition in my family,” Coppage said. “We take great pride in the hospital and want to support it any way we can. It’s really an anchor of our community.”\r\n\r\nLike her father and grandfather before her, Coppage also works for the hospital. A former in-house counsel for Beaufort County, she has served as Beaufort Memorial’s associate vice president of compliance and privacy for two years.\r\n\r\n“When the opportunity presented itself to work for Beaufort Memorial, I jumped at the chance,” she said. “I saw how the hospital is growing to meet the needs of the community and I wanted to be a part of it.”\r\n\r\nHer father, who had left the Lowcountry after his residency to work for Greenville Health System, felt the same draw. His contributions to the hospital have gone far beyond his role as a board-certified pathologist.\r\n\r\nDuring his 23 years at BMH, Brad Collins has served as chief of medical staff, chaired several hospital committees, and started the multidisciplinary Tumor Conference and Blood Management Program. He also served on the Beaufort Memorial Hospital Foundation Board of Trustees for 10 years.\r\n\r\nAs it became more difficult for the hospital to obtain blood and services from the American Red Cross, Collins took it upon himself to find a community-based blood supplier capable of meeting Beaufort Memorial’s needs. Today, BMH has a more reliable and less expensive supply of high-quality blood products thanks to One Blood and Beaufort donors.\r\n\r\nDespite his own significant contributions, Collins can’t help but admire his father’s unwavering dedication to the hospital and the community it serves.\r\n\r\n“When our family thinks back on the personal sacrifice my dad made when he came in 1971, we can’t imagine how he did it,” Brad Collins said. “For four years he was on call 24/7.”\r\n\r\nAt that time, the father of three was the only OB-GYN between Charleston and Savannah.\r\n\r\n“We had gone through a very demanding 10½ years of medical school and residency, so we were used to the long hours,” his widow, Sue said. “We were just so happy to be in Beaufort.”\r\n\r\nIt wasn’t until 1975 that he was able to recruit two partners, easing his workload.\r\n\r\nWith the practice well established, he became more involved with the hospital. As chairman of Beaufort Memorial’s credentialing committee, he spearheaded the drive to add board-certification requirements to the hospital bylaws.\r\n\r\n<a href=\"https://staging.yourislandnews.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/07/Sue-Brad-Allison-and-families-5979.jpg\"><img class=\" wp-image-40926 alignleft\" src=\"https://staging.yourislandnews.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/07/Sue-Brad-Allison-and-families-5979-1024x682.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"711\" height=\"474\"></a>He helped organize and charter the Beaufort County Medical Society and served as its president for several years. He also was a consultant to the county health department, Beaufort-Jasper Comprehensive Health Services and Beaufort Naval Hospital.\r\n\r\nIn 1994, Beaufort Memorial named its birthing center in his honor. As part of the recent $6 million renovation project, the all-new waiting area now features a tribute wall dedicated to his legacy.&nbsp;\r\n\r\n“We don’t need a pat on the back,” Sue Collins said. “It’s why we came here – to make a better community.”\r\n\r\nA mong the thousands of babies who have been delivered in the Beaufort Memorial birthing center are two of Earnest Collins’ great-grandchildren.\r\n\r\n“It was humbling to pass my grandfather’s picture as I went into the labor room,” said Coppage, who gave birth to her son Harris in 2014 and daughter Bette in 2016. “I feel so privileged to have had my kids in a place dedicated to him.”\r\n\r\n\r\n<em>Pictured Above:</em>\r\n<em>Dr. Earnest Collins in his office (circa 1992). Beaufort Memorial named its Birthing Center after him when it opened in 1994. Dr. Collins passed away in 2002.</em>\r\n\r\n<em>Earnest and Sue Collins (circa 1980). The couple moved here in 1971 and for several years Dr. Collins was the only OB/GYN in the county. \"For four years he was on call 24/7,\" said son Brad.</em>\r\n\r\n<em>Four generations: Cindy and Brad Collins, Sue Collins, Allison and Ben Coppage pose in front of the recently dedicated tribute wall at the Collins Birthing Center. Brad and Allison are both on staff at Beaufort Memorial and her children, Harris and Bette, were both born at the facility named for their great grandfather, Dr. Earnest Collins. (Photo by Charlotte Berkeley)</em>\r\n\r\n&nbsp;', 'More than just a doctor', '', 'publish', 'closed', 'closed', '', 'more-than-just-a-doctor', '', '', '2019-07-31 15:28:40', '2019-07-31 19:28:40', '', 0, 'https://staging.yourislandnews.com/?p=40923', 0, 'post', '', 0),
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(40928, 4, '2019-07-31 15:31:55', '2019-07-31 19:31:55', 'It’s time for the Downtown Beaufort Merchants Association’s annual Sidewalk Sale.<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">&nbsp;</span>\r\n\r\nThe event kicks off on Friday, Aug. 2 during the First Friday celebration from 5 to 8 p.m.\r\n\r\nDowntown shops, restaurants, galleries, and specialty stores will offer discounts, sales, and promotions to celebrate the eve of the sale.<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">&nbsp; &nbsp;</span>\r\n\r\nSome retailers will display merchandise outside so shoppers can get a glimpse of their unique offerings ahead of the big Sidewalk Sale on Saturday which runs from 9 a.m. to 5 p.m.\r\n\r\nOthers will celebrate by bringing the outside inside with demonstrations, entertainment and refreshments inside their shops for customers to enjoy.<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">&nbsp;</span>\r\n\r\nThere will be music performed by John Sundrla at the clock on Bay and West streets.\r\n\r\nFirst Friday favorites the Harbormasters will be downtown and will pop in and out of shops belting out great melodies in perfect harmony.\r\n\r\nFirst Friday and the annual Saturday Sidewalk Sale is a great way to spend weekend time downtown taking in the sights and sounds, shopping, eating, and supporting local businesses. It’s a perfect time to get to know the owners, artists, and creative individuals who are part of the downtown business community. <span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">&nbsp;</span>\r\n\r\nThe Saturday Sidewalk Sale is also an opportunity to bag some great bargains and last-chance items.\r\n\r\nThis and all First Friday events are free and open to the public, and everyone is encouraged to come downtown with friends and family and enjoy this great community event.<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">&nbsp;</span>\r\n\r\nFor information, contact the Downtown Beaufort Merchants Association at <a href=\"mailto:dbmerchantsassociation@gmail.com\">dbmerchantsassociation@gmail.com</a>.', 'First Friday – A sneak peak of Beaufort’s annual Sidewalk Sale', '', 'publish', 'closed', 'closed', '', 'first-friday-a-sneak-peak-of-beauforts-annual-sidewalk-sale', '', '', '2019-07-31 15:31:55', '2019-07-31 19:31:55', '', 0, 'https://staging.yourislandnews.com/?p=40928', 0, 'post', '', 0),
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(40934, 4, '2019-07-31 15:33:32', '2019-07-31 19:33:32', 'Beaufort is home to the brown pelican, captured here by Ron Callari. They can be seen floating and walking the tidal creeks during low tides and perched upon vertical poles and docks during both low and high tides.<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">&nbsp;</span>', 'Lowcountry Life', '', 'publish', 'closed', 'closed', '', 'lowcountry-life-106', '', '', '2019-07-31 15:33:32', '2019-07-31 19:33:32', '', 0, 'https://staging.yourislandnews.com/?p=40934', 0, 'post', '', 0),
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(40937, 4, '2019-07-31 15:37:19', '2019-07-31 19:37:19', '<h4>By MINDY LUCAS</h4>\r\nAbout 130 people gathered at United Church of Jesus Christ in Beaufort on Saturday, July 27, to hear bestselling author, spiritual advisor and democratic presidential hopeful Marianne Williamson deliver her trademark message of love.\r\n\r\nSpeaking at a quick pace to a spirited crowd of residents, church members and area religious leaders, Williamson managed to jam a wide range of topics – from children’s health and well-being to the economy and race relations – into the nearly 25-minute-long talk.\r\n\r\nFor many like Marcia Whitman of Beaufort, it was an opportunity to purchase Williamson’s latest book, “A Politics of Love: A Handbook for a New American Revolution,” and see the author speak again in person.\r\n\r\n“She’s just awesome,” said Whitman who had heard the candidate speak once before. “She’s positive and she comes from a loving place.”\r\n\r\nWhitman, who is “in her 60s,” said she was still undecided as to who she would vote for come November of 2020 – she also likes Elizabeth Warren. Whatever the case, though, Whitman said she was tired of politics and looking for a change.\r\n\r\n“The main thing for me is somebody who can beat Trump,” she said.\r\n\r\nThough at times the 67-year-old Williamson has raised eyebrows or been mocked for her seemingly soft touch approach to politics, and despite polling among the bottom of the pack in an already crowded field of candidates vying for the Democratic party’s nomination, she has stuck with her message.\r\n\r\nOn more serious notes of criticism, she has drawn fire from mental health professionals and others for remarks made about the widespread use of antidepressants, which she said were over-prescribed, and most recently, for calling vaccination mandates “draconian” and “Orwellian.”\r\n\r\nOn the use of antidepressants, she later told the New York Times she regretted using Twitter to discuss the topic, and in June, apologized for comments made about vaccinations saying that she misspoke and understood that “many vaccines are important and save lives.”\r\n\r\n<a href=\"https://staging.yourislandnews.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/07/Williamson6.jpg\"><img class=\"alignright size-full wp-image-40938\" src=\"https://staging.yourislandnews.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/07/Williamson6.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"294\" height=\"241\"></a>Still, many voters have embraced her style.\r\n\r\nAt the Beaufort event, her opening remarks of love in the face of hatred were met with loud applause and shouts of “Amen.”\r\n\r\n“There’s only one thing that casts out darkness and that’s light,” she told the audience. “There’s only one thing that casts out fear and that’s love.”\r\n\r\nOn the idea that communities have to ask for grants or additional funding for public school education or the needs of the impoverished, Williamson said, “This is America. We all get to feast here.”\r\n\r\nShe went on to criticize “subsidies to fossil fuel companies” and the Trump tax cuts.\r\n\r\n“While we are passing a $2 trillion tax cut where 83 cents of every dollar is going for the very, very richest of individuals and corporations, while we are living at a time when so much money, so much wealth is transferred, I don’t know, where I grew up, we call that theft,” she said.\r\n\r\nWilliamson also answered questions about the environment, climate change, healthcare and the border crisis which she called government-sanctioned child abuse and a drama created by the president to dissuade people from applying for political asylum or sow seeds of division.\r\n\r\n“Do we need better processes at the border? 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(40943, 4, '2019-07-31 15:40:58', '2019-07-31 19:40:58', '<h4>By MIKE MCCOMBS</h4>\r\nBeaufort Bread Company is ceasing operations immediately.<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">&nbsp;</span>\r\n\r\nA Monday morning post, presumably by owners Eric and Robin Staton, on the restaurant and bakery’s Facebook page confirmed the closure.\r\n\r\n“We have made the difficulty (sp) decision to close down the Beaufort Bread Company and BBC on Bay as of Tuesday July 30, 2019,” the post reads. “At this time in our life we have other responsibilities that have become a different priority for us. Which makes it complicated for us to operate these business (sp). We have enjoyed meeting so many wonderful people in this great Beaufort community and have enjoyed the support we have received by this great community – for this we say thank you.”\r\n\r\nAs of press time, the owners had not responded to an email request for comment, and The Island News was unable to reach them by phone.\r\n\r\nIt had been business as usual as recently as Saturday. Both locations were open and the daily special was posted on the Facebook page.\r\n\r\n“Saturday’s Are Made for BBC Brunch!” the post read above the menu listing for eggs and tacos with fire-roasted salsa.\r\n\r\nBut on Sunday, the owners notified employees via a group text message that they would be closing both locations, Lady’s Island and 705 Bay Street in downtown Beaufort, as of Monday, giving the employees instructions on how to collect their paychecks.\r\n\r\nBeaufort Bread Company’s Lady’s Island location was launched by Rick Stone in 2013 and had become known for its fresh-baked bread, sandwiches and desserts before the business was sold to the Statons in August 2016.\r\n\r\nA second location in downtown Beaufort, in the works since December 2016, was opened in November 2018.\r\n\r\n“Our main goal was to bring something to Bay Street that Bay Street doesn’t have,” Robin Staton said at the time. “We’ve done that.”', 'Beaufort Bread Company closes its doors', '', 'publish', 'closed', 'closed', '', 'beaufort-bread-company-closes-its-doors-2', '', '', '2019-07-31 15:40:58', '2019-07-31 19:40:58', '', 0, 'https://staging.yourislandnews.com/?p=40943', 0, 'post', '', 0),
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(41060, 4, '2019-08-08 17:51:34', '2019-08-08 21:51:34', '<h4>By MIKE McCOMBS</h4>\r\nAndrew Yang will bring his campaign for president to Beaufort County on Thursday, Aug. 15.\r\n\r\nThe Democratic candidate will speak at the North of the Broad Democratic Club meeting at the Grand Army of the Republic Hall at 706 Newcastle Street.\r\n\r\nThe gathering and greeting begins at 6:30 p.m., followed by the meeting at 7 p.m., but Yang probably won’t speak until roughly 7:45 p.m.\r\n\r\nYang is known for his signature policy, called the “Freedom Dividend.” The Freedom Dividend is a form of Universal Basic Income (UBI), where all Americans 18 and older would receive $1,000 a month.\r\n\r\nAccording to Yang, this will soften the blow of an increasingly difficult U.S. labor landscape as a result of current and future job elimination due to automation. <span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">&nbsp;</span>\r\n\r\nYang’s two other major platform issues are Medicare for all and human-centered capitalism.\r\n\r\nThe founder of <a href=\"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Venture_for_America\">Venture for America</a> (VFA), a non-profit that focuses on creating jobs in struggling American cities, Yang is pro-choice, opposes discrimination based on sexual orientation or gender identification and wants the United States to rejoin the Paris Climate Accords.\r\n\r\nSpeaking before Yang will be the scheduled special speaker, Gloria Holmes, PhD, a professor at the University of South Carolina Beaufort. She teaches on \"Cultural Diversity in Education,\" preparing students to demonstrate an understanding of the depth and breadth of cultural diversity within the United States.<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">&nbsp;</span>\r\n\r\nAlso, Holmes is a member of Bridge4Unity, an interracial dialogue and cultural exchange project that bring together three distinct communities with diverse cultural, social, historical, and political profiles.<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">&nbsp;</span>\r\n\r\nYang joins a growing list of 2020 candidates who have visited Beaufort County since the spring. Previous candidates to swing through the Lowcountry include Beto O’Rourke, Elizabeth Warren, Cory Booker, John Hickenlooper and Marianne Williamson.', 'Entrepreneur Andrew Yang bringing campaign for president to Beaufort', '', 'publish', 'closed', 'closed', '', 'entrepreneur-andrew-yang-bringing-campaign-for-president-to-beaufort', '', '', '2019-08-08 17:51:34', '2019-08-08 21:51:34', '', 0, 'https://staging.yourislandnews.com/?p=41060', 0, 'post', '', 0),
(40949, 4, '2019-07-31 15:46:39', '2019-07-31 19:46:39', '<h2>Marina manager’s retirement signals end of an era for Beaufort</h2>\r\n<h4>By MINDY LUCAS</h4>\r\nRick Griffin’s father had been running the downtown marina for nearly a decade when Griffin returned home to Beaufort in 1974.\r\n\r\nA new graduate with a degree in administration management from Clemson, Griffin intended to work for his father who also owned and operated the adjoining service station, though his father wasn’t so sure his firstborn son was up to the task.\r\n\r\n“I wasn’t that good of a student,” Griffin said recently from his corner office in the small, red-brick building in the marina parking lot.\r\n\r\nNow, nearly 45 years later, and after a career that has seen everything from freak storms, to celebrity sailors and million dollar yachts, Griffin is hanging up his hat as marina manager.<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">&nbsp;</span>\r\n\r\nWhen the Beaufort native retires this week, it will be the end of an era – not only for Beaufort but for the Griffin family as well.\r\n\r\nDallas-based marina operations company Safe Harbor will take over the marina’s operations as approved by the city in May, and for the first time since 1946, there won’t be a Griffin on the property.\r\n\r\nBut the 67-year-old Griffin said he’s made his peace with that. He’s ready to retire and move on to other things.\r\n\r\n“I guess you just know when it’s time,” he said.&nbsp;\r\n<h4><strong>Built from Scratch</strong></h4>\r\nOutside of storm damage, little has changed about the marina since it was built in the mid ‘60s, Griffin said. He was 12 when work to fill in the parking lot began, he remembers.\r\n\r\nHis father, John Griffin Sr. – Rick is actually John Myrick Griffin Jr. – came to Beaufort in 1946 to take over the lease of the Sinclair Service Station, a white block building that once stood atop Freedom Mall, on Bay Street.\r\n\r\nHis father eventually bought the marina business but went on to sell it back to the city in 1975, which was in the midst of creating the Henry C. Chambers Waterfront Park. The Griffins, or Griffin Enterprises, Inc., has leased it since.\r\n\r\n“We really built the place up from scratch,” Griffin said.\r\n\r\nAfter the Chamber of Commerce and Visitors Center moved out in the ‘90s, the marina store and offices, once in the building where the laundry and showers are now, moved into the brick building next door, causing little disruption.\r\n\r\nThe storm, however, was another thing.\r\n\r\nBlowing up suddenly and seemingly out of nowhere, the ’93 Superstorm, or Storm of the Century, as it was also called, hit Beaufort along with most of the Eastern Seaboard on March 14, 1993.\r\n\r\nWith hurricane-force winds, the storm dumped snow as far south as Alabama, caused heavy flooding and storm surge around the southeast and left millions without power. More than 270 people died as a result of the storm.\r\n\r\nOut on Fripp Island where Griffin lived at the time, he decided to try calling the marina.\r\n\r\n“It was snowing sideways,” he said. “In March.”\r\n\r\nAfter the phone rang for what seemed like too long to be a good sign, an overwhelmed employee finally answered.\r\n\r\n“I’m on my way,” Griffin said and hung up.\r\n\r\nHe would spend the rest of the afternoon in his own 23-foot, fully covered Mako, towing and helping to move sailboats away from the splintering docks.\r\n\r\nThe marina docks were totally destroyed but would eventually be rebuilt – this time with a “T-head” added to its end.\r\n<h4>A View to the World</h4>\r\nFrom his modest, back-corner office tucked in at the back of the marina store, Griffin has had a front row seat to possibly one of the most interesting spots for people and boat-watching in Beaufort.\r\n\r\nJust outside his window, where the original seawall once stood, across a sliver of parking lot, sits the marina with its gleaming white boats – just one stop along the 1,100-mile Atlantic Intracoastal Waterway or the I-95 of waterways, as Griffin calls it.\r\n\r\nHowever Beaufort’s marina is unique, he says, since it’s one of the few stops where visitors can hop out of their boat and be in the middle of a thriving downtown complete with historic sights, places to eat and things to do.\r\n\r\nIn the fall, traffic heads south along the waterway toward Florida as boaters head for warmer locales. In the spring, it reverses as boaters head back northeast.\r\n\r\n“We’ve seen everything from derelicts bumming their way up the waterway to multi-million dollar yachts in here,” Griffin said.\r\n\r\nIn fact, the marina has harbored visitors from all over the world from boat captains or crews moving someone else’s boat to owners moving their own boat, to people who have sold their homes and are living off their boat.\r\n\r\nGriffin has even met Jimmy Buffett, who used to frequent the area on his fishing boat, as well as legendary news anchor Walter Cronkite.\r\n\r\n“He had a nice sailboat,” Griffin remembers.\r\n\r\nWhile the marina currently has 55 tenants, or boats staying on a long-term basis, on a busy day in the fall or spring, that number can swell to 100 from additional waterway traffic just passing through.\r\n\r\n“Many people don’t realize just how much money comes in off that dock and is left here in Beaufort,” he said.\r\n<h4>A Good Life</h4>\r\nNow that retirement is imminent, Griffin and his wife, Mandy, plan to spend more time at their second home in Clemson. To say orange runs through his veins would be an understatement.\r\n\r\nHe’s served on several boards for the university, is president and chairman of Clemson’s IPTAY executive committee, and currently serves on the university’s foundation board.\r\n\r\nHe’s also served or belonged to a half-dozen local organizations such as Main Street Beaufort, USA and the Greater Beaufort Chamber of Commerce. In addition, he belongs to another half dozen state or international organizations such as the S.C. Marine Association and the International Marina Institute.\r\n\r\nNot bad for someone once considered an average student.\r\n\r\nHis wife, Mandy Griffin, who manages the marina store, will also retire this week.\r\n\r\nA University of South Carolina graduate with a degree in business – something Griffin likes to point out since she went to “that other school” – has been setting the pace in the front of the store for 22 years. The store, he said, brings in a third of the marina’s revenue and sells tickets for area attractions.&nbsp;\r\n\r\nLeaving the business behind will be hard, she said, but she’s looking forward to having more time for football season at Clemson this fall.\r\n\r\n“I thought I’d be consoling him,” she said. “As it turns out, I’m the big baby.”\r\n\r\nIn addition to all the employees, she’ll miss being on the “front lines” at the marina.\r\n\r\n“I feel like we’re a virtual visitors center here,” she said.\r\n\r\nFor Griffin, he believes he’s had more anxiety over retiring than turning over the keys to a new owner, mainly because he thinks the new owner will do a good job.\r\n\r\n“I think the marina is in good hands,” he said.\r\n\r\nThe largest owner and operator of marinas in the world, according to its website, Safe Harbor has three marinas in Charleston and plans to buy Port Royal Landing at Skull Creek are “in the works” said Jeff Rose, Safe Harbor’s Vice President of Business Development, when reached by phone recently.\r\n\r\nOutside of future improvements and repairs, the company has no plans to make immediate changes to the marina before getting to know the community and the marina, Rose said. It also plans to keep all current employees on hand.\r\n\r\nStill, it will be a big change for Griffin who’s been planning and saving for this day since “the first IRA,” he said. He still has his health and has things he’d like to do, he added.\r\n\r\n“I’ve enjoyed the ride. I have,” he said. “Overall, it’s been a good life. I tell people I’m not getting rich, but I’m not look for another job either. I’m just moving on to something else.”\r\n\r\n&nbsp;\r\n\r\n<em><strong>Photo by Bob Sofaly</strong></em>', 'Changing of the Guard', '', 'publish', 'closed', 'closed', '', 'changing-of-the-guard', '', '', '2019-08-01 14:50:12', '2019-08-01 18:50:12', '', 0, 'https://staging.yourislandnews.com/?p=40949', 0, 'post', '', 0),
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(40952, 4, '2019-07-31 18:03:04', '2019-07-31 22:03:04', '<h4>By MINDY LUCAS</h4>\r\nA 20-year-old Pennsylvania woman vacationing at Hilton Head Island has died after the jet ski she was riding collided with another, officials say.\r\n\r\nCiara Eiriz, of Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, was pronounced dead near where the collision took place, just after 1 p.m. on Tuesday, said Beaufort County Deputy Coroner David Ott.\r\n\r\nOfficers with the S.C. Department of Natural Resources responded to the incident which occurred on Mackay Creek, a waterway between Pinckney and Hilton Head islands, said the agency’s Regional Public Information Coordinator David Lucas.\r\n\r\nEMS also responded to the C.C. Haigh Jr. Boat Landing, where the injured rider was taken. The collision involved two jet skis that were operated by a man and a woman, Lucas said.\r\n\r\nThe two were riding in a group that had rented jet skis earlier, Ott said.\r\n\r\nThe man, who has not been identified, was not injured in the collision, and no other watercraft was involved in the collision, Lucas said.\r\n\r\nThe Department of Natural Resources is continuing to investigate.', 'Pennsylvania woman killed in jet ski collision on Hilton Head Island', '', 'publish', 'closed', 'closed', '', 'pennsylvania-woman-killed-in-jet-ski-collision-on-hilton-head-island', '', '', '2019-08-01 08:42:20', '2019-08-01 12:42:20', '', 0, 'https://staging.yourislandnews.com/?p=40952', 0, 'post', '', 0),
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(40960, 4, '2019-08-07 13:46:11', '2019-08-07 17:46:11', '<strong>Local storytelling organization formed</strong>\r\n\r\nEvelene Stevenson, owner of the Spirit of Old Beaufort Tours, has formed a local storytelling organization, the Sea Isles Storytellers, which will be headquartered in the Sea Island Center at 876 Sea Island Parkway, St. Helena Island.\r\n\r\nAll are invited to come to the first meeting from 3:30 to 5 p.m. Sunday, Aug. 11, which will be&nbsp;christened by the Back Porch Storytellers from Charleston.<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">&nbsp;</span>\r\n\r\nAll have stories to tell, and Stevenson wants an organization that listens and encourages those of all ages to tell a story, sing a song and listen to others tales.<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">&nbsp;</span>\r\n\r\nPlease send an email, including name and phone number, to seaislandcenter@gmail.com or call Evelene Stevenson at 843-271-2478.\r\n\r\n<strong>Fripp Island Marina to host Labor Day Fishing Tournament</strong>\r\n\r\nFripp Island Marina\'s 2019 Fishing Tournament will take place Aug. 29-31. Fisherman are invited to compete for a payout of more than $5000 in the traditional Labor Day event. Prizes will include largest in the King Mackerel and Spanish Mackerel categories and more. For more information, call 843-838-1517, register on our website at <a href=\"http://www.frippislandresort.com/\">www.frippislandresort.com</a> or contact us via email at <a href=\"mailto:kingfishtournament@gmail.com\">kingfishtournament@gmail.com</a>. Proceeds for the event go to benefit the Pledge The Pink initiative.\r\n\r\n<strong>Make A Friend, Be A Friend</strong>\r\n\r\nThe Beaufort Bookstore, located off Boundary St, between Bi-Lo and The Tabby House, is hosting S.C. author Sharon E. Bellwood and local illustrator Cheryl Johnson at 11 a.m. Aug. 10 for a book signing of their children\'s book, The Friendship Crown.\r\nCome and hear the story how making friends is the same regardless of differences and join the \"Make A Friend, Be A Friend\" movement! Along with a reading of the book, children will also be able to decorate their own crown! Don\'t miss this opportunity to support local business, local authors and artists, and have some fun along the way!<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">&nbsp;</span>\r\n\r\n<strong>YA Everlasting Book Club</strong>\r\n\r\nIf 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.\r\n\r\nUpcoming book discussions: Aug. 14 – Anger is a Gift by Mark Oshiro.\r\n\r\n<strong>Friends of Hunting Island’s Tuesday Turtle Talks</strong>\r\n\r\nThe Friends of Hunting island announce the 2019 Tuesday Turtle Talks running through Tuesday, Aug. 13 at 10:30am at the picnic shelter by the Lighthouse. There is no fee for the TTT, but the park entry fee does apply.<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">&nbsp;</span>\r\n\r\nEach week various topics will be discussed including the natural history of loggerhead turtles, what happens when the turtles come to Hunting Island to lay their eggs, and the conservation and challenges specific to a barrier island such as Hunting Island State Park. Participation, ideas and questions are always welcome.<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">&nbsp;</span>\r\n\r\nAfter the talk, participants can join TTT host Denise Parsick on a short beach walk. All ages are invited to attend this educational and engaging program.<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">&nbsp;</span>\r\n\r\nAnd for early risers: If you want to join a turtle patrol to check out loggerhead nests, come to the Visitor’s Center parking lot at 6 a.m. sharp any day of the week, and talk with a volunteer in an orange shirt to join a group for that day’s patrol. All ages welcome.\r\n\r\n<strong>Pat Conroy Center offers Anchorage retreat</strong>\r\n\r\nBeaufort’s Pat Conroy Literary Center’s Anchorage Retreat is set for Sept. 6-8.\r\n\r\nThe Southern Living-inspired event is an exclusive writers retreat weekend at the award-winning historic Anchorage 1770 Inn.\r\n\r\nParticipating writers will immerse themselves in a collaborative experience. In the retreat’s intimate setting, writers will get to know one another as well as the retreat’s instructors over a span of three days and two nights of workshops, discussions, writing prompts, readings, critiques, and social gatherings.\r\n\r\nThe distinguished faculty of award-winning writers and publishing professionals will share their insights and experiences.<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">&nbsp;</span>\r\n\r\nThis year’s faculty includes novelists Kimberly Brock, Carla Damron, and Reavis Z. Wortham; memoirist and humorist Harrison Scott Key; biographer and book review editor Adam Parker; and literary agents Jeff Kleinman and Marly Rusoff.\r\n\r\nThe cost for the retreat is $1,500 per person and includes a two-night stay at the Anchorage 1770 Inn on Sept. 6-8, all retreat sessions, evening receptions on Friday and Saturday, breakfasts on Saturday and Sunday, and lunch on Saturday.<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">&nbsp;</span>\r\n\r\nThe registration fee will be billed in three equal installments to be paid in full by Sept. 6. Rooms are selected on a first-come, first-served basis. Registration is now open and is limited to 15 participants.\r\n\r\nFor more information or to register, call the Anchorage 1770 Inn at 877-951-1770.\r\n\r\nProceeds benefit the year-round educational programming of the nonprofit Pat Conroy Literary Center.\r\n\r\n<strong>YMCA to offer CPR classes</strong>\r\n\r\nThe 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: Aug. 17, Sept. 7, Sept. 19, and Nov. 23.<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">&nbsp;</span>\r\n\r\nCost is $35 for this YMCA-certified course and those interested need to register at the Y as space is limited and filled on a first-come, first-served basis. Questions? Contact Lou Bergen, Aquatics Director to register for this class. Call the Y at 843-522-9622 or visit beaufort-jasperymca.org\r\n\r\n<strong>Activities at Hunting Island State Park</strong>\r\n\r\nThere are fun, interesting and educational activities every day hosted by Park Ranger and Lowcountry Master Naturalist Megan Stegmeier.<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">&nbsp;</span>\r\n\r\nSundays: Sand/candy art, 11 a.m.; Hunting Island Bingo, 2:30 p.m.; Shark tooth excursion, 4 p.m. (Aug. 18).\r\n\r\nMondays: Dolphin ecology kayak tour, 10 a.m. (Aug. 19); Tie dye, 11 a.m.; Marine mammals of S.C., 2 p.m. (Aug. 12, 26); Secrets of the Salt Marsh, 4 p.m.\r\n\r\nTuesdays: Turtle Talk, 10:30 a.m.; CCC Video, 1 p.m.; Native American Dreamcatchers, 2 p.m. (Aug. 13); Beach Walk, 3 p.m.\r\n\r\nWednesdays: Alligator Talk, 11 a.m.; Stepping Stones, 2 p.m.\r\n\r\nThursdays: Dolphin ecology kayak tour, 7:30 a.m. (Aug. 15); Interpretive Lighthouse Tour, 10 a.m. (Aug. 15, 22, 29); Driftwood painting, 11 a.m. (Aug. 22, 29); Feeding Frenzy, 3 p.m.; Full-moon lighthouse climb, 8 p.m.\r\n\r\nFridays: Dolphin ecology kayak tour, 7:30 a.m. (Aug. 30); Lowcountry reptiles, 11 a.m.; Fish printing, 2 p.m.\r\n\r\nSaturdays: Sunrise lighthouse climb, 6:30 a.m. (Aug. 24); A walk in the woods, 11 a.m. (Aug. 24); Sharks! 11 a.m. (Aug. 17, 31); Creatures of the night, 2:30 p.m. (Aug. 17, 31)\r\n\r\nFor a description of these programs and a complete calendar of activities, go to southcarolinaparks.com/hunting-island and click on “Programs &amp; Events.”\r\n\r\nAll are invited to attend these free events, though there is an entry fee to Hunting Island State Park and reservations are needed for lighthouse programs.\r\n\r\nFor more information, call 843-838-7437 or go to the Friends of Hunting Island website and the Facebook page: FOHI Sea Turtle Conservation Project.\r\n\r\n<strong>Beaufort Drum Circle</strong>\r\nAll are invited to share some good vibes with the Beaufort Drum Circle. The Drum Circle gathers every second Monday of the month, 5:30-7:00 p.m. and every fourth Thursday of the month, 7-8:30 p.m., in the Contemplative Garden at the Henry C. Chambers Waterfront Park in downtown Beaufort.\r\n\r\nThe August Drum Circle dates are Monday, Aug. 12<sup>th</sup> – Joey and Naombi Shokes of Savannah will lead the group in drumming and dance – and Thursday, Aug. 22.\r\n\r\nEveryone 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 if you have one to share.\r\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\".\r\n\r\n<strong>Get moving with Beaufort Track Club</strong>\r\n\r\nJoin the Beaufort Track Club at the Beaufort High School track from 6:30-7:30 p.m. each Tuesday night for an open community track workout. Beginner, intermediate, and advanced workouts are posted each week to ensure that you are getting the workout that you need.\r\n\r\nVisit the Facebook page “Beaufort Track Club” for more information.', 'What To Do', '', 'publish', 'closed', 'closed', '', 'what-to-do-187', '', '', '2019-08-07 13:46:11', '2019-08-07 17:46:11', '', 0, 'https://staging.yourislandnews.com/?p=40960', 0, 'post', '', 0);
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(40962, 4, '2019-08-07 13:52:00', '2019-08-07 17:52:00', '<h4>By SCOTT GRABER</h4>\r\nIt is Saturday morning and it’s surprisingly cool on my deck — a wooden rectangle that extends out from our dining room and provides a distant, indistinct view of the Beaufort River. In a few hours that stretch of water will be full of local families and their recreational watercraft.\r\n\r\nIt’s July and we are in the midst of Beaufort’s Water Festival when thousands gather at the Henry Chambers Waterfront Park for a variety of water-related events. Last night it was the “River Dance.”\r\n\r\nAs I sat and watched 2,000 kids dancing and singing the strangely irresistible lyrics of YMCA— “Young man, there’s no need to feel down; Young man, pull yourself off the ground” — my mind went back to earlier times when the Water Festival only involved one weekend and that weekend was centered on the Water Festival beauty pageant — the selection of the Queen of the Carolina Sea Islands.\r\n\r\nIn the early 1970s young women from across South Carolina would arrive for a three-day contest that involved physical beauty, baton-twirling and the ability to smile and wave a white-gloved hand while being driven on the sun-baked asphalt of Bay Street.\r\n\r\nIn those now-faded days we owned a two-seat, entirely unreliable Fiat convertible. My wife and I bought this car right after I got out of the Army and it sometimes got us to Atlanta (or St Augustine) on the weekends— and sometimes it did not. But in those days, convertibles were rare, so rare that I always got a call from Jimmy Thomas (in June) asking me to carry one of the beauty pageant contestants in the Water Festival Parade.\r\n\r\nNow I must admit — here and now — that I liked this duty. I liked having Miss Hampton County Watermelon Festival or Miss Bright Leaf Tobacco or South Carolina’s reigning Collard Queen sitting on the atop the griddle-hot trunk of my convertible while cruising down Carteret Street.\r\n\r\nI liked bathing in the reflected spot-light of a beautiful young woman who had hopes of getting a crown later that night. And I liked the conversation.\r\n\r\n“I hate this,” Miss Lancaster County would say. “I really find this beauty business degrading.”\r\n\r\n“I wouldn’t mention that to the judges,” I would say.\r\n\r\n“It’s the scholarship money,” she would reply, exasperated. “But it’s going to pay my way through Winthrop.”\r\n\r\nAs we turned the corner at Bay Street and drove past the waving dignitaries — often including Strom Thurmond or Mendel Rivers — she would continue, ...\r\n\r\n“I know I’m cashing-in on my legs, my face, my…..”\r\n\r\n“Listen, you don’t have to apologize to me. You don’t have to explain your incredible cheekbones, those well-turned, well-defined ankles.”\r\n\r\n“Is it a crime Scott? Is it wrong that I make a few dollars on my looks?”\r\n\r\nSometime in the 80s (or 90s) it was decided that our beauty pageant was passe. Or that the celebration of reggae, bocce ball and croquet were more important than celebrating female beauty.<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">&nbsp;</span>\r\n\r\nMaybe the “Lowcountry Supper” generated more revenue and memories of Miss Cheraw belting out “Summertime” were fading.<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">&nbsp;</span>\r\n\r\nIn any event it was decided by the creative team at the Water Festival that we didn’t need a “Queen of the Sea Islands” anymore.\r\n\r\nAs I watched the kids dancing last night, I was reminded how things change — quickly change — and something as important as the beauty pageant can be replaced by the Bay Street Bed Race almost overnight.<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">&nbsp;</span>\r\n\r\nBut we must be nimble and creative if we are to survive in this new world of festival entertainment.<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">&nbsp;</span>\r\n\r\nBut then, as we were leaving the venue, I saw a wire-enclosed cage where one could throw a hatchet for prize money — actually one was awarded redeemable tickets if you hit the bulls eye.\r\n\r\nFascinated, mesmerized we lingered.\r\n\r\nI knew, of course, all about that the new tavern-based sport called “dwarf-tossing,” but I was new to the idea of ax throwing in the immediate vicinity of alcohol-drinking.<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">&nbsp;</span>\r\n\r\nBut this morning I read that ax throwing has largely replaced dart throwing in many northern cities — some pubs having up to 12 ax throwing lanes.\r\n\r\nI doubt that I’ll ever get over the loss of the beauty pageant — old customs die a slow death — but I also know things change.<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">&nbsp;</span>\r\n\r\nAnd I know that the Water Festival folks have to stay current and, if necessary, ax those events that have lost their relevance.\r\n\r\n&nbsp;\r\n\r\n&nbsp;', 'Old customs die a slow death', '', 'publish', 'closed', 'closed', '', 'old-customs-die-a-slow-death', '', '', '2019-08-07 13:52:00', '2019-08-07 17:52:00', '', 0, 'https://staging.yourislandnews.com/?p=40962', 0, 'post', '', 0),
(40964, 4, '2019-08-07 13:57:22', '2019-08-07 17:57:22', '<h4>By LEE SCOTT</h4>\r\nThere is a new phrase that now exists in my vocabulary. It is shun-piking. This is the art of avoiding turnpikes. The phrase came up on a recent trip when my husband suggested it.\r\n\r\n“Let’s just stay off the main roads and go shun-piking,” he said.\r\n\r\nEvidently one of his old buddies embraced the concept because he was too cheap to pay highway tolls. By avoiding turnpikes, he found he could save a lot of money. But the added benefit was the ability to see small towns and attractions that one normally would not see on turnpikes and interstates.\r\n\r\nAlthough there are not many tolls for our trips up and down the East Coast, we do find ourselves paying tolls for the “easy pass” lanes and bridges sometime.\r\n\r\nBut my husband’s thought was not so much as to save money, but to see explore areas we had never been before. And so off we went – shun-piking.<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">&nbsp;</span>\r\n\r\nIt allowed us to find places like Marie’s Diner for lunch (which was outstanding) and a cute little breakfast place which was packed with people greeting the waitresses as best friends and saying things like, “The usual, Mabel.” You just don’t hear that in McDonalds or Burger King.<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">&nbsp;</span>\r\n\r\nYou don’t need Trip Advisor to tell you where to eat. Just find the busiest parking lot in a rural town.\r\n\r\nWe discovered that Roanoke Rapids really did have rapids and is located on the edge of the North Carolina Piedmont and the coastal plain. My fifth-grade geography slowly came back to me as I read the brochure.\r\n\r\nWe found many fruit and vegetable stands and the out of the way antique stores. I told my husband that I felt like we were Mike Wolfe and Frank Fritz from the “American Pickers” television show. Fortunately, we saved one another from buying old junk that other people were trying to get rid of themselves.\r\n\r\n“Please, do not buy that old wooden bucket,” he said. “It will just be one more thing our children will have to throw away.”\r\n\r\n“You have no imagination.” I responded as I took the old pipe holder away from him. “You don’t smoke”\r\n\r\nWe did learn a couple of things, like take an atlas (we did). Because if there are no cell towers, your Google Map app is worthless.<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">&nbsp;</span>\r\n\r\nAlso, make sure your car is in good working order and filled with fuel. Gas stations and mechanics are far and few between.\r\n\r\nThe shun-piking was very interesting, but there is one hitch. Watch the speed limit signs!<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">&nbsp;</span>\r\n\r\nSmall towns have speed limits that plummet from 55 to 25 quickly. If you save any money on tolls, you may have to spend it on speeding tickets.', 'The art of shun-piking is a lost one these days', '', 'publish', 'closed', 'closed', '', 'the-art-of-shun-piking-is-a-lost-one-these-days', '', '', '2019-08-07 13:57:22', '2019-08-07 17:57:22', '', 0, 'https://staging.yourislandnews.com/?p=40964', 0, 'post', '', 0),
(40966, 4, '2019-08-07 13:59:08', '2019-08-07 17:59:08', '&nbsp;\r\n\r\nWHHI-TV will be broadcasting Lowcountry area high school football games again this fall.\r\n\r\nThe High School Football Bowl Series Presented by Hargray returns for its 12th season and will feature a weekly game-of-the-week featuring local teams, followed by a trophy presentation.\r\n\r\nThe tape-delayed games will air Saturdays at 7:30 p.m., Sundays at 11 a.m., and Tuesday at 8 p.m., as well as daily at midnight.\r\n\r\nThe first game will be taped Friday, Aug. 23, when Whale Branch travels to Battery Creek for a crosstown rivalry game.\r\n\r\nThe entire fall lineup is as follows:\r\n\r\nAug. 23&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; Whale Branch at Battery Creek (Beaufort Bowl)\r\n\r\nAug. 30&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; Bluffton at May River (Bluffton Bowl)\r\n\r\nSept. 6&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; Replay of best games\r\n\r\nSept. 13&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; Hilton Head High at May River (Hwy 278 Bowl)\r\n\r\nSept. 20&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; Replay of best games\r\n\r\nSept. 27&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; Hilton Head Prep at John Paul II (Intercounty Bowl)\r\n\r\nOct. 4&nbsp; Replay of best games\r\n\r\nOct. 11&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; Bluffton at Beaufort High (Broad River Bowl)\r\n\r\nOct. 18&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; May River at Beaufort High (Cross County Bowl)\r\n\r\nOct. 25&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; Hilton Head Christian at John Paul II (Independent Bowl)\r\n\r\nNov. 1&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; Bluffton at Hilton Head High (Bridge Bowl)\r\n\r\n*All games subject to change', 'WHHI high school football series returns for 12th season', '', 'publish', 'closed', 'closed', '', 'whhi-high-school-football-series-returns-for-12th-season', '', '', '2019-08-07 13:59:08', '2019-08-07 17:59:08', '', 0, 'https://staging.yourislandnews.com/?p=40966', 0, 'post', '', 0),
(40968, 4, '2019-08-07 13:59:56', '2019-08-07 17:59:56', 'The result wasn’t quite what Dave Hardie envisioned, but the 61-year-old Beaufort man lived his dream this weekend.\r\n\r\nAs one of 10 qualifiers for the CrossFit Games in the men’s 60-plus age division, Hardie reached the pinnacle of the CrossFit world. Although he finished ninth among the 10 competitors in his age group, Hardie enjoyed a moment of glory by winning the 4.5-kilometer ruck run.\r\n\r\nIn the ruck run, competitors run three 1,500-meter laps while carrying a ruck sack with an increasing amount of weight. In the 60-plus division, competitors completed their first lap without the pack, picked up a 20-pound pack for the second lap, and increased the weight to 30 pounds for the final lap.\r\n\r\nHardie covered the distance in 20 minutes, 33.42 seconds, nearly two minutes ahead of the second finisher. Unfortunately for Hardie, he finished no better than seventh in the remaining five events, but the experience nonetheless served as a satisfying finish to his competitive career.\r\n\r\n“It was amazing, absolutely amazing,” Hardie said. “I had high expectations and high hopes and it exceeded them all, not necessarily from a performance standpoint, but as an experience.”', 'Hardie finishes 9th at CrossFit Games', '', 'publish', 'closed', 'closed', '', 'hardie-finishes-9th-at-crossfit-games', '', '', '2019-08-07 13:59:56', '2019-08-07 17:59:56', '', 0, 'https://staging.yourislandnews.com/?p=40968', 0, 'post', '', 0),
(40970, 4, '2019-08-07 14:00:31', '2019-08-07 18:00:31', 'After dropping their opening game, the Beaufort County All-Stars reeled off three straight lopsided wins to advance to the final four of the Dixie Junior Boys World Series in Aiken.\r\n\r\nBeaufort County got off to a rocky start in the double-elimination tournament, losing 11-1 to Sumter on Saturday —&nbsp;the local team’s third consecutive loss to the state champs — but they rolled to big wins in their next three games, smashing Spring Hill, Florida, 21-6 on Sunday, beating Huntington, Texas, 13-3 on Monday, and routing Hattiesburg, Mississippi, 16-1 on Tuesday.\r\n\r\nBeaufort County managed only four hits in the opener, while Sumter scored in each of the first four innings to build a big lead en route to a third straight win over Beaufort County. Logan Brutcher went 2-for-3, Kevin Brown had an RBI double, and Hudson Mullen added a hit for Beaufort County. Starter Joab Stephens was charged with the loss.\r\n\r\nBeaufort County rediscovered its potent offense against Florida, scoring in each of the game’s six innings, including a pair of five-run frames and a seven-run sixth. Jadyn Andrews went 5-for-5 with four runs and four RBIs, and Kyler McKeever was 4-for-5 with a double, a triple, two runs, and five RBIs to lead the offensive outburst. Brown was 4-for-5 with three runs and an RBI, Carter Zareva was 3-for-4 with a double and three RBIs, and Braydon Dineen was 3-for-3 with two runs and an RBI. Brutcher started and earned the win on the mound, allowing one run and two hits over two innings.\r\n\r\nThe local squad kept rolling Monday, beating Texas 13-3 in five innings to stay alive. Beaufort County banged out 15 hits, including two apiece from McKeever, Brutcher, Mullen, Owen Harwell, Brown, and Andrews. Mullen and Zareva each drove in three runs, and Harwell added two RBIs. Mullen went the distance on the mound for Beaufort County, allowing three unearned runs and four hits with four strikeouts.\r\n\r\nThe hits kept coming against Mississippi, as Beaufort County put up 13 runs in the second inning en route to a 16-1 win in three innings. McKeever was 3-for-4 with a double, three RBIs, and three runs to lead the offense and struck out three while allowing one unearned run over two innings to earn the win. Dietrich Shuford and Dineen each added a hit and two RBIs.\r\n\r\nAt press time, Beaufort County was scheduled to play at 7 p.m. Tuesday with a spot in the championship game on the line. Check LowcoSports.com for the latest local sports news.', 'Beaufort County stays alive at Dixie World Series', '', 'publish', 'closed', 'closed', '', 'beaufort-county-stays-alive-at-dixie-world-series', '', '', '2019-08-07 14:00:31', '2019-08-07 18:00:31', '', 0, 'https://staging.yourislandnews.com/?p=40970', 0, 'post', '', 0),
(40972, 4, '2019-08-07 14:01:18', '2019-08-07 18:01:18', 'Former Whale Branch star Dee Delaney will get another shot at making an NFL roster this season after signing with the New York Jets last week.\r\n\r\nDelaney went undrafted in 2018 coming out of the University of Miami, where he played his final collegiate season after three years as a standout defensive back at The Citadel. He signed a free agent deal with the Jacksonville Jaguars and played two games before being claimed off waivers by the Miami Dolphins.\r\n\r\nAfter finishing last season on the Dolphins’ practice squad, Delaney signed a reserve/future deal with Miami in January but was released in May.\r\n\r\nThe 24-year-old Delaney, listed at 5-foot-11 and 200 pounds, was buried deep on the Jets’ first unofficial depth chart released Monday but will have the chance to work his way up the ladder during the preseason.', 'Delaney signs with Jets', '', 'publish', 'closed', 'closed', '', 'delaney-signs-with-jets', '', '', '2019-08-07 14:01:18', '2019-08-07 18:01:18', '', 0, 'https://staging.yourislandnews.com/?p=40972', 0, 'post', '', 0),
(40974, 4, '2019-08-07 14:01:54', '2019-08-07 18:01:54', 'A new regulation has been established that affects the use of natural deer lures and attractants often used by deer hunters in South Carolina.<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">&nbsp;</span>\r\n\r\nThe new regulation makes it unlawful in South Carolina to possess or use, for the purpose of hunting or scouting, any substance or material that contains or claims to contain any excretion collected from a deer, including urine, feces, gland oil or other body fluid.\r\n\r\nThis does not prohibit the use of synthetic products or substances collected by a hunter from deer legally harvested in South Carolina. Synthetic products are clearly labeled as such. If a product is not clearly labeled as synthetic, it should be assumed to contain natural material.\r\n\r\nThis preventative measure was established as one tool in the battle to prevent the introduction of Chronic Wasting Disease (CWD) into South Carolina. CWD is a contagious, always fatal, neurological disease that affects members of the deer family.\r\n\r\nThe disease is not caused by a virus or bacteria, but is rather the result of a naturally occurring protein, called a prion, which becomes misfolded and thus resists being broken down by the body the way normal proteins are. When these misfolded proteins are introduced into a healthy deer, they multiply by causing the animal’s normal and healthy prion proteins to misfold and begin damaging the animal’s nervous system.\r\n\r\nThe infectious proteins (i.e., prions) known to transmit CWD have been found in the urine, feces and saliva of infected individuals.\r\n\r\nWhile there has not been a case of CWD detected in South Carolina, or in any neighboring states, the S.C. Department of Natural Resources (SCDNR) is following the lead of other states in proactively prohibiting the use of natural lures and attractants in order to minimize the potential risk for CWD introduction into the state.\r\n\r\n“Numerous other states have a ban on these products in place, this is part of a comprehensive effort to keep Chronic Wasting Disease out of our state and protect our valuable deer herd from this devastating disease,” Jay Cantrell, SCDNR Big Game Biologist, said in a release. “There’s no practical or feasible test that can be performed on these natural urine products, or on the deer they collect the urine from, so there’s no way to know if they are safe.”<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">&nbsp;</span>\r\n\r\nThe disease has been detected in 26 states including: Arkansas, Colorado, Kansas, Illinois, Iowa, Maryland, Michigan, Minnesota, Mississippi, Missouri, Montana, Nebraska, New Mexico, New York, North Dakota, Oklahoma, Ohio, Pennsylvania, South Dakota, Tennessee, Texas, Utah, Virginia, West Virginia, Wisconsin, Wyoming, and the Canadian provinces of Alberta and Saskatchewan. CWD also has been detected in South Korea (captive elk) and Norway (reindeer and moose).', 'State bans use of natural deer lures', '', 'publish', 'closed', 'closed', '', 'state-bans-use-of-natural-deer-lures-2', '', '', '2019-08-07 14:01:54', '2019-08-07 18:01:54', '', 0, 'https://staging.yourislandnews.com/?p=40974', 0, 'post', '', 0),
(40976, 4, '2019-08-07 14:02:43', '2019-08-07 18:02:43', 'The 22nd annual Beaufort City Golf Championship is set for Aug. 10-11 on the Ocean Point and Ocean Creek courses at Fripp Island Resort.\r\n\r\nThe 36-hole stroke play event will include senior division, as well as an open division that will be flighted after the first round.\r\n\r\nEntry fee is $175 and includes green fees, cart fees, lunch on both days, practice balls, tee gifts, and prizes. Registration deadline is Aug. 2. Information and registration form are available on the Facebook event page “Beaufort City Golf Championship.\"', 'Fripp Island to host city championship', '', 'publish', 'closed', 'closed', '', 'fripp-island-to-host-city-championship', '', '', '2019-08-07 14:02:43', '2019-08-07 18:02:43', '', 0, 'https://staging.yourislandnews.com/?p=40976', 0, 'post', '', 0),
(40979, 4, '2019-08-07 14:03:22', '2019-08-07 18:03:22', 'The Technical College of the Lowcountry recognized 55 health sciences graduates during its Aug. 2 pinning ceremony at the Beaufort Campus. The ceremony honored graduates of the massage therapy, medical assisting, radiologic technology, surgical technology, practical nursing and associate degree nursing programs.\r\n\r\nThe special ceremony allows students to receive the respective pins for their professions while being recognized by faculty, staff, friends and family. The ceremony also includes class speakers, pledges and graduation traditions unique to each program. For example, the nursing tradition involves lighting of a lamp, a nod to Florence Nightingale who carried a lamp to light her path as she cared for the sick and dying soldiers during the Crimean War.\r\n\r\nIn the last five years, TCL has graduated nearly 500 health care professionals. After completing these programs, graduates will pursue licensing and become healthcare professionals in Lowcountry hospitals, nursing homes, clinics, physician offices, assisted living facilities, schools and more. Others will choose to continue their education.\r\n\r\nFor more information, please visit <a href=\"http://www.tcl.edu/health\">www.tcl.edu/health</a>.\r\n\r\nThe Aug. 2 graduates are:\r\n\r\nMassage Therapy: Leiah Roxann Castillo, Cambridge Davis, Julian Ignacio Diaz, Cynthia Denise Kostov, Beverly Nichole Long, Elia Sanchez Parker, Jessica Renée Singleton, Olivia Paige Smith.\r\n\r\nMedical Assisting: Alexandria Chenelle Bethea, Kenyonia Varntrell Brown, Justina Fuller, Kassandra Sue Hoffman, Paula Andrea Madrid, Kaylah Jade Wright, Kaila Wyatt.\r\n\r\nRadiologic Technology: Kellie Cooper, Stephanie N. Crosby, Anthony Fairbanks, Carson S. Fludd, Cory Frame, Devin Freeman, Rayanna Horan, Kendra Hudson, Lakeisha Milliner, Kasey E. Mixon, Jose G. Ortega, Breanna R. Procell, Marla K. Strickland, Madison Wachowski.\r\n\r\nSurgical Technology: John Benson, Kaila Eaddy, Taylor Hemming, Haleigh Kunich, Ashley Marshall, Ariel Phelps, Kathryn Pilcher, Brittany Smith.\r\n\r\nPractical Nursing: Amber Alvin, Lauren Fishel, Busaraphan (Ay) Fleming.\r\n\r\nAssociate Degree Nursing: Janelle Austin, Sydney Bennett, Franziska Bode, Aneka Campbell, Adrianna Delk, Kathleen Deloach, Avis Evans, Aneshia Frederick, Meridith Godinez Carrillo, Christina Harris, Megan Hodges, Haleigh Knight, Lakeya Quarterman, Jessica Tanner, Shanta Washington.', 'TCL honors August health science graduates', '', 'publish', 'closed', 'closed', '', 'tcl-honors-august-health-science-graduates', '', '', '2019-08-07 14:03:22', '2019-08-07 18:03:22', '', 0, 'https://staging.yourislandnews.com/?p=40979', 0, 'post', '', 0),
(40981, 4, '2019-08-07 14:04:04', '2019-08-07 18:04:04', 'The Beaufort County School District is teaming up with government agencies and private-sector business partners to hold its annual “Back-to-School Expo,” designed to give students and their families a free day of fun, food, door prizes and valuable information about the upcoming 2019-20 school year.\r\n\r\nThis year’s Expo is set for 10 a.m. to 2 p.m. Saturday, Aug. 10, at Battery Creek High School in Beaufort.<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">&nbsp;</span>\r\n\r\n“Getting ready for a new school year can be a stressful time,” Beaufort County School District Superintendent Frank Rodriguez said, “and this event is a terrific way for families to gather a lot of practical and helpful information. District schools are pitching in, district employees are volunteering on a Saturday, and we’re also getting assistance from our business partners, civic groups and faith-based groups.”\r\n\r\nStudents and their families are encouraged to attend the events, which will feature:\r\n\r\n– Booths operated by district schools that can supply information about school activities.\r\n\r\n– Door prizes from local restaurants and businesses.\r\n\r\n– Free school supplies for students.\r\n\r\n– Free dental and health screenings for adults and children will be provided, including free HIV testing, by Beaufort-Jasper-Hampton Comprehensive Health Services.\r\n\r\n– Sodexo Food Services will be taking early school lunch applications.\r\n\r\n– The district’s travelling preschool bus will be on site, and staff will share information with parents.<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">&nbsp;</span>\r\n\r\nTransportation is being provided at sites around the county, and details are available online (https://tinyurl.com/y67guxp5) or by calling 843-322-0770.\r\n\r\nFor additional information, contact Lakinsha Swinton (843-322-5417 or <a href=\"mailto:lakinsha.swinton@beaufort.k12.sc.us\">lakinsha.swinton@beaufort.k12.sc.us</a>) at the Beaufort County School District.', 'Back-to-School Expo event aimed at preparing students, parents for new year', '', 'publish', 'closed', 'closed', '', 'back-to-school-expo-event-aimed-at-preparing-students-parents-for-new-year', '', '', '2019-08-07 14:04:04', '2019-08-07 18:04:04', '', 0, 'https://staging.yourislandnews.com/?p=40981', 0, 'post', '', 0),
(40984, 4, '2019-08-07 14:04:38', '2019-08-07 18:04:38', 'The Citadel and 27 two-year schools throughout the south, including Technical College of the Lowcountry, are working together to make a Bachelor of Science in Business Administration (BSBA) degree available to a wider spectrum of students.<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">&nbsp;</span>\r\n\r\nEligible students would start in, or have already graduated from, one of the partner schools and finish with a degree from The Citadel, which has one of the top-ranked, online and part-time business programs in the country.\r\n\r\nThe agreements cover six southern states, from Alabama to West Virginia. They allow students who are pursuing associate in applied science (AAS) business degrees automatic acceptance into the Baker School of Business at The Citadel. In addition, those community and technical college graduates who are already holding an AAS in business can seamlessly transfer all of their credits to The Citadel.<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">&nbsp;</span>\r\n\r\nThe transferring students will attend non-cadet, civilian classes, with the option to choose between studying online, on campus, or both. The students then graduate with a full, four-year BSBA and the prestige of holding a Citadel diploma.\r\n\r\n“We are excited to support the advancement of business students at our partner community and technical colleges in six states through these agreements. Our program is designed to meet the needs of those students while allowing them to stay in their communities,” said Jeremy Bennet, Ph.D., director of the degree completion program at The Citadel. “Students in these two-year programs will have shown the dedication needed to complete their associate degrees. Now, they won’t have to sacrifice credits when transferring to the Citadel.”<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">&nbsp;</span>\r\n\r\nThe collaborations document a pathway between the technical colleges and The Citadel through a transfer course equivalency table. The table lays out the courses participating students must take to satisfy degree requirements before transitioning to their second two years of study with The Citadel.\r\n\r\nIf the table is followed, the technical school students who complete their associate degree are awarded full transfer credits for their classes and will be able to complete a BSBA in four semesters of study through The Citadel.', 'The Citadel, TCL partnering on business degree program', '', 'publish', 'closed', 'closed', '', 'the-citadel-tcl-partnering-on-business-degree-program', '', '', '2019-08-07 14:04:38', '2019-08-07 18:04:38', '', 0, 'https://staging.yourislandnews.com/?p=40984', 0, 'post', '', 0),
(40986, 4, '2019-08-07 14:05:17', '2019-08-07 18:05:17', 'The Beaufort County School District will receive 18 new school buses – the district’s first buses powered with propane – through the state’s settlement agreement with Volkswagen, Gov. Henry McMaster announced July 30.\r\n\r\nNew buses for Beaufort County and three other school districts are being funded from South Carolina’s portion of a $2.9 billion settlement reached with Volkswagen on behalf of all 50 states. The agreement was reached after the car manufacturer admitted to altering devices on its cars that were designed to cheat U.S. emission tests.\r\n\r\nTwo-thirds of Beaufort County’s 181 school buses are supplied by the S.C. Department of Education, which operates the nation’s oldest fleet. The district’s 18 new state-supplied buses – Thomas Built Saf-T-Liner propane models – will replace models that are 31 years old.\r\n\r\nThe infusion means that only a handful of state-supplied 1988 models will remain in Beaufort County, and those will serve only as substitute vehicles.\r\n\r\nAlthough the General Assembly has adopted a 15-year replacement cycle for buses, it has not budgeted sufficient funds each year to maintain that cycle.\r\n\r\n“These new buses are certainly a positive step,” district superintendent Frank Rodriguez said in a release. “We’ve done a lot locally to make our district bus transportation system more reliable by adding new vehicles, including 44 new buses that we leased ourselves. Newer buses mean fewer mechanical breakdowns, and that means fewer students arriving to school late and fewer students arriving home late.”\r\n\r\nState Superintendent of Education Molly Spearman said the new buses will cost half as much to fuel and maintain as the 1988 models they will replace, and also are better for the environment.\r\n\r\nBeaufort County School District Transportation Director Eldridge Black said the district expressed an interest to the state last spring in obtaining new propane-powered buses through a state grant program.&nbsp; In addition to providing the 18 new vehicles, Black said, the state also will provide funds to construct required infrastructure such as fueling equipment and a 2,000-gallon propane tank.\r\n\r\nThe district’s only financial commitment is providing electric power to the new fueling station, and district officials estimated that construction cost at $25,000 to $40,000.\r\n\r\nPropane buses have engines that burn “cleaner” and produce fewer harmful emissions than traditional diesel-powered buses. In addition, Black said, propane-powered engines have fewer moving parts and require less maintenance.\r\n\r\nThe district expects delivery of the new buses by early 2020. The fueling station will be constructed at the school district office in Beaufort, and initially the new buses’ routes will be focused on northern Beaufort County. The propane-powered vehicles will be used on shorter routes due to their 200-mile range.<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">&nbsp;</span>\r\n\r\nThe other three S.C. districts to receive propane-powered buses through the VW settlement agreement are Horry, Lexington District 1 and Richland District 2.\r\n\r\nAbout 12,000 of the Beaufort County School District’s 22,000 students ride a bus to or from school each day, and district buses – including 44 owned by the district – total about 11,000 route miles each day.', 'Beaufort County to get 18 new, propane-powered school buses', '', 'publish', 'closed', 'closed', '', 'beaufort-county-to-get-18-new-propane-powered-school-buses', '', '', '2019-08-07 14:05:17', '2019-08-07 18:05:17', '', 0, 'https://staging.yourislandnews.com/?p=40986', 0, 'post', '', 0),
(40989, 4, '2019-08-07 14:08:02', '2019-08-07 18:08:02', '<strong>Beaufort County’s Widgeon Point Preserve Park closed for improvements</strong>\r\n\r\nBeaufort County’s <a href=\"http://links.govdelivery.com/track?type=click&amp;enid=ZWFzPTEmbWFpbGluZ2lkPTIwMTkwNzMxLjg2NDc1NDEmbWVzc2FnZWlkPU1EQi1QUkQtQlVMLTIwMTkwNzMxLjg2NDc1NDEmZGF0YWJhc2VpZD0xMDAxJnNlcmlhbD0xNzUwMDUyNSZlbWFpbGlkPXRoZWlzbGFuZG5ld3NAZ21haWwuY29tJnVzZXJpZD10aGVpc2xhbmRuZXdzQGdtYWlsLmNvbSZmbD0mZXh0cmE9TXVsdGl2YXJpYXRlSWQ9JiYm&amp;&amp;&amp;100&amp;&amp;&amp;https://beaufortcountysc.gov/planning/passive-parks/Passive%20Park%20Projects.html?utm_medium=email&amp;utm_source=govdelivery\">Widgeon Point Preserve Park</a>&nbsp;is closed to the public until further notice, due to construction. A re-opening notice will be issued at a later time.\r\n\r\nLocated just south of the Broad River bridge, the park will include a pervious parking area and walkways, picnic pavilion, bird blind, restrooms, water fountain and nature trail. The property will be closed to the public during construction.<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">&nbsp;</span>\r\n\r\nOnce construction is completed, the Widgeon Point Preserve Park will be open to the public from dawn to dusk. For more information, contact Beaufort County Passive Parks Manager Stefanie Nagid at <a href=\"mailto:snagid@bcgov.net\">snagid@bcgov.net</a> or 843-255-2152.\r\n\r\n<strong>Coffee with the Cory Crew</strong>\r\n\r\nThose interested in joining the fight to get Sen. Cory Booker to the White House can join members of the New Jersey senator’s campaign from 4 to 6 p.m. Friday at City Java and News.\r\n\r\nThe Cory Crew is coming to Beaufort County to talk more about the issues the community faces and opportunities with the campaign. RSVP at https://tinyurl.com/y5d25db8.', 'News Briefs', '', 'publish', 'closed', 'closed', '', 'news-briefs-119', '', '', '2019-08-07 14:08:02', '2019-08-07 18:08:02', '', 0, 'https://staging.yourislandnews.com/?p=40989', 0, 'post', '', 0),
(40991, 4, '2019-08-07 14:10:32', '2019-08-07 18:10:32', 'Friends of Caroline Palliative and Hospice Care is proud to announce the addition of a Co-Medical Director, Dr. Steven Kessel, to the team. Dr. Kessel joins Dr. Gordon Krueger, who has been working with Friends of Caroline for the past seven years.\r\n\r\nKessel grew up in a medical family with both his grandfather and father physicians. After completing medical school himself, Kessel spent a year volunteering in the Samoan Islands.<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">&nbsp;</span>\r\n\r\nAfter backpacking around the world for a year, he settled down in West Virginia, practicing internal medicine. His career led him to Charlotte, N.C. and then to Beaufort, where he spent 18 of his 38 years providing care.<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">&nbsp;</span>\r\n\r\nDuring his early years of practice, Kessel was a member of Friends of Caroline.\r\n\r\n“I have continued to be impressed with the commitment of FOCH to their patients and the community in general,” Dr. Kessel said.<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">&nbsp;</span>\r\n\r\n“We are thrilled to have Dr. Kessel join our team. He is compassionate and very knowledgeable. The Lowcountry is lucky to have his ongoing care in this community,” Friends of Caroline Executive Director Lindsay Roberg said in a release.', 'Dr. Steven Kessel joins Friends of Caroline', '', 'publish', 'closed', 'closed', '', 'dr-steven-kessel-joins-friends-of-caroline', '', '', '2019-08-07 14:10:32', '2019-08-07 18:10:32', '', 0, 'https://staging.yourislandnews.com/?p=40991', 0, 'post', '', 0),
(40993, 4, '2019-08-07 14:11:16', '2019-08-07 18:11:16', '<h4>By Celia Strong</h4>\r\nYep. Wines do get promotions.<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">&nbsp;</span>\r\n\r\nNot new job titles, exactly, but new upgraded legal designations. Which means they’re doing a good job and deserve to be recognized. And, surprise, sell for a higher price.\r\n\r\nFrance was the first European country to recognize the value that quality controls would give to their wine industry. In 1935, they established their “Appellation d’Origine Controllée” laws. Federal laws with exact specifications for each region. And even for individual towns and vineyard sites in some cases.<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">&nbsp;</span>\r\n\r\nThese laws regulated grape varieties, growing practices, bottle shapes, label information and more. Plus below this top AOC (or AC) level, there are several lesser tiers with less strict regulations. In 2003, a wine from the tier below AOC, known as VDQS, got a promotion. This wine was Sauvignon de Saint-Bris.\r\n\r\nSaint-Bris is a village. It is located in the northern part of the Burgundy region, just south of the town of Chablis. Traditionally, Sauvignon Blanc was not considered to be a top quality grape for the Burgundy region. Its white wines had to be Chardonnay.<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">&nbsp;</span>\r\n\r\nTraditionally, Sauvignon Blanc was not thought to be suited for Burgundy’s soil and climate. And, traditions in French wine regions are tough. If a variety or technique or whatever is not traditional, it can be almost impossible for a wine to be approved for an upgrade. Saint-Bris wines, though, made from 100% Sauvignon Blanc, got past some rigid Burgundy traditions and got their promotion.\r\n\r\nSimonnet-Febvre is a producer based in Chablis. Founded in 1840, they are known for their high quality Chablis wines. Today, they are a satellite of the well-known Louis Latour company.<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">&nbsp;</span>\r\n\r\nTheir Saint-Bris is made from grapes grown in limestone and clay soil. On vines with an average age of 25 years. These soils encourage the Sauvignon Blanc grapes to show their full range of aromas, flavors and minerality.\r\n\r\nThe vineyards for these grapes in Saint-Bris are cooler, which lets the grapes ripen slowly. And develop more intense flavors for the finished wines. Fermentation is done in stainless steel tanks at temperatures from 60 to 68 degrees Fahrenheit. After, the wine is aged in stainless steel tanks for six to eight months. And malolactic fermentation is done 100%.<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">&nbsp;</span>\r\n\r\nThere are less than 150 acres growing grapes for this wine. Which is not much!\r\n\r\nThe finished wine is a pale, golden color. With some light green highlights. It has intense aromas that include tropical and exotic fruits (peaches, mangos, starfruit, kumquats), subtle lemons and grapefruits, notes of white flowers, a bit of fresh green grass, light thyme and chive nuances. And flavors that echo all these aromas. Plus more.<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">&nbsp;</span>\r\n\r\nAll with a great structure, and fresh acidity. A great apéritif wine, perfect with salads, shellfish, seafood, light cream sauces, cheeses, cold roast chicken, gravlax, and on and on.<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">&nbsp;</span>\r\n\r\nYum! Drink the promotion. For $14.99 at Bill’s Liquors. Enjoy.<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">&nbsp;</span>', 'Some wines are worthy of a promotion', '', 'publish', 'closed', 'closed', '', 'some-wines-are-worthy-of-a-promotion', '', '', '2019-08-07 14:11:16', '2019-08-07 18:11:16', '', 0, 'https://staging.yourislandnews.com/?p=40993', 0, 'post', '', 0),
(40996, 4, '2019-08-07 14:12:00', '2019-08-07 18:12:00', 'The Beaufort Regional Chamber of Commerce will celebrate the official re-branding of Coastal Physical and Hand Therapy to CORA Physical Therapy on Thursday, Aug. 15. The open house begins with a ribbon cutting ceremony at 5:30 p.m. and runs until 7:30 p.m.\r\n\r\nThe public is invited to attend the celebration for tours, demos, and to meet the team. Enjoy free snacks from local food trucks, Time to Eat and Motor City Pops. Guests will also have the opportunity to win<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">&nbsp; </span>prizes including a free pair of shoes from Grounded Running.\r\n\r\nCORA Physical Therapy was established in 2019 after a re-branding by Coastal Physical Therapy/Coastal Hand Therapy. The partnership offers more to patients, still delivered by the same team at the same location. CORA Beaufort provides state-of-the-art treatments with licensed clinicians laser-focused on superior outcomes, specializing in manual therapy and occupational hand therapy. To learn more, visit <a href=\"http://r20.rs6.net/tn.jsp?f=0013CbpqZcicXrXLUNBmJtJsno2oglYXTwIGfrGomUzQKec8TcNZU9cPkYefDGk1r_FMAIOfuGEcWXVK_SDCug0AE4r4FGaNkYOCQ563ZA3oWvreiqz6aXUjlJ7DQ3_oKp_9H2y54YhczVcURsaAi-1VBb8dLm_CsembS6FcDH13KIej8n71lyMhlNQ4cnxVWUon2jhq3-BgGV1BDDqJ_Nkyr_f9pgPVCerZtR8XqvZ1-w=&amp;c=ig6L--C6bsrNsjAQXZANGxspeNY0f061PczrK4WfHtg8iKELMDg6SA==&amp;ch=IF5J_a-hfxQdYl6giseeQeQwmVyzg3w-aq-Wdgc-gUquT-wAauNMww==\">CoraPhysicalTherapy.com</a>.', 'CORA Physical Therapy of Beaufort celebrates re-branding', '', 'publish', 'closed', 'closed', '', 'cora-physical-therapy-of-beaufort-celebrates-re-branding', '', '', '2019-08-07 14:12:00', '2019-08-07 18:12:00', '', 0, 'https://staging.yourislandnews.com/?p=40996', 0, 'post', '', 0),
(40999, 4, '2019-08-07 14:12:45', '2019-08-07 18:12:45', 'The National Safety Council (NSC) announced July 18 that Beaufort-Jasper Water and Sewer Authority has been honored with a 2019 Industry Leader Award.<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">&nbsp;</span>\r\n\r\nThe award is a component of the Council\'s member-exclusive Safety Awards Program. The Industry Leader Award benchmarks outstanding safety achievements among member companies based on self-reported data.\r\n\r\nBeaufort-Jasper Water and Sewer Authority (BJWSA) is one of 63 companies honored with the 2019 Industry Leader Award. The award recognizes the top five percent of member companies, units and facilities that have met the criteria and qualified for the 2019 Occupational Excellence Achievement Award (based on 2018 calendar year data) from NSC. NSC selects winners based on employee work hours, lowest total incident rate and North American Industry Classification System (NAICS) code.\r\n\r\nUnder the guidance of Safety Specialist Steve Lee, staff accumulated 1,388,395 safe work hours without a preventable lost workday, which included 1,559 safe working days. BJWSA’s current injury rate is 1.8, while the industry average is 5.4. The authority achieves these measurements through initiatives such as the 901 Safety Talks that took place within departments of the Authority, as well as 1,800 hours of Safety Training. Staff completed 2,186 Take Twos – pre-task inventories that support the “Take Two for Safety” program.\r\n\r\n“Safety is engrained in the culture at BJWSA and this award is a testament to our nearly 200 employees who take very seriously our commitment to maintaining a safe working environment,” general manager Joe Mantua said in a release. “Our staff does a tremendous job providing a vital service to the community and often under difficult weather conditions and challenging circumstances. To achieve such recognition speaks volumes about the caliber and professionalism of our team members.”', 'National Safety Council gives BJSWA Industry Leader Award', '', 'publish', 'closed', 'closed', '', 'national-safety-council-gives-bjswa-industry-leader-award', '', '', '2019-08-07 14:12:45', '2019-08-07 18:12:45', '', 0, 'https://staging.yourislandnews.com/?p=40999', 0, 'post', '', 0),
(41002, 4, '2019-08-07 14:13:24', '2019-08-07 18:13:24', '<strong>Lowcountry Chorale in need of singers</strong>\r\n\r\nLooking for singers! The Lowcountry Chorale, a mixed-voice community of singers, has begun preparation for its upcoming season.\r\n\r\nThe Chorale has been singing as a group since the spring of 1997, with continuous performances twice a year. Voices needed, no audition necessary, just a love of singing. Rehearsals begin at 6:45 p.m. Tuesday, Aug. 20 at St. John’s Lutheran Church, 157 Lady’s Island Drive, Beaufort.\r\n\r\nThirteen weeks of rehearsals will culminate in performances on Friday, Nov. 16 and Saturday, Nov. 16. All who love to sing are welcome to join. The group is led by music director Jordan Plair, a well-known Beaufort area music teacher and choral director.\r\n\r\nThe theme for this concert is “Music That Soothes The Soul,” songs that will set the mood for the upcoming holiday season.\r\n\r\nThe first rehearsal will atart at 6:15 p.m. for registration, and there is a $35 membership fee to help defray music and performance costs. New singers will be accepted through the first 3 rehearsals.\r\n\r\nCall Marsha at 207-323-1498 for more information.\r\n\r\n<strong>Moon Over Buffalo opening soon</strong>\r\n\r\nCoastal Stage Productions’ production of Moon Over Buffalo opens Friday, Aug. 16 at AmVets at 1831 Ribaut Road in Port Royal.\r\n\r\nThere are evening shows (8 p.m.) scheduled for Aug. 16, 17, 23 and 24. and matinees (2 p.m.) set for Aug. 18, 24 and 25.\r\n\r\nTickets are $25 in advance and available by calling 843-717-2175 or online at <a href=\"https://moonportroyal.bpt.me/\">https://moonportroyal.bpt.me/</a>. Tickets are $22 for groups of 10 or more and $27 at the door. Students are $20.', 'Arts Briefs', '', 'publish', 'closed', 'closed', '', 'arts-briefs-3', '', '', '2019-08-07 14:13:25', '2019-08-07 18:13:25', '', 0, 'https://staging.yourislandnews.com/?p=41002', 0, 'post', '', 0),
(41004, 4, '2019-08-07 14:14:01', '2019-08-07 18:14:01', 'The Beaufort Arts Council announced its annual meeting will be held at 4 p.m. Aug. 23 at its offices on the campus of the Technical College of the Lowcountry.\r\n\r\nThe meeting will include an overview of the organization’s accomplishments over the past year, as well as provide an outlook for its major initiatives planned for the remainder of 2019 and 2020 that support educational programming and community activities for artists and schools in Beaufort County.\r\n\r\n“We have made significant progress to enhance our programming and support of the Arts in Beaufort and around the Lowcountry,” Beaufort Arts Council Chairman Jeff Shawd said in a release. “This meeting is an opportunity to highlight this progress as well as share our exciting plans for the future.”\r\n\r\nThe meeting will also introduce several new board members and showcase a new art gallery exhibit. Tours will also be held of the Mather Interpretative Center, and the nearby Community Mural, which recently completed its first phase.\r\n\r\nFounded in 1991, the mission of the Beaufort Arts Council is to expand the presence of the arts in the daily experiences of residents and visitors, and to provide exposure to the local heritage, rich artistic legacy, and cultural uniqueness of our community.\r\n\r\nAs an all-volunteer organization, the Beaufort Arts Council is a resource for artists throughout the county. The organization fosters a creative environment and includes a numerous art gallery exhibits and a robust schedule of classes and workshops, ranging from painting and drawing, to photography and how to build a successful arts business. For more information, visit: <a href=\"http://www.beaufortartscouncil.org/\">www.beaufortartscouncil.org</a> or call 843-379-ARTS.', 'Beaufort Arts Council announces annual meeting', '', 'publish', 'closed', 'closed', '', 'beaufort-arts-council-announces-annual-meeting-2', '', '', '2019-08-07 14:14:01', '2019-08-07 18:14:01', '', 0, 'https://staging.yourislandnews.com/?p=41004', 0, 'post', '', 0),
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(41014, 4, '2019-08-07 14:25:04', '2019-08-07 18:25:04', '<h4>Photo by Bob Sofaly</h4>\r\nKatherine Malutich, left, lets in small groups of students and their parents during the back-to-school event Saturday at Praise Assembly. The event featured health screenings, children’s activities, school supplies and fresh fruit and vegetables.', 'Back to School', '', 'publish', 'closed', 'closed', '', 'back-to-school-2', '', '', '2019-08-07 14:25:04', '2019-08-07 18:25:04', '', 0, 'https://staging.yourislandnews.com/?p=41014', 0, 'post', '', 0),
(41017, 4, '2019-08-07 14:29:21', '2019-08-07 18:29:21', '<h4>Photo By BOB SOFALY</h4>\r\nWith the first day of school right around the corner, about 75 children converged in the pool July 31 at the Charles “Lind” Brown Neighborhood Activity Center on Green Street as they tried to beat the heat.\r\n\r\nPool manager Ruth Eklund said the popular pool traditionally closes after Labor Day, which is on Sept. 2. Once school starts, the pool will have reduced hours as most of the lifeguard staff has to go back to school as well, she said.\r\n\r\nEklund said the exact closure date hasn’t been set yet as the pool has only been open about a month because of recent repair work.\r\n\r\nAll 22,000 students in Beaufort County, from Pre-K to high school seniors, start school on Monday, Aug. 19.', 'Kids try to beat heat at pool as return to school draws near', '', 'publish', 'closed', 'closed', '', 'kids-try-to-beat-heat-at-pool-as-return-to-school-draws-near', '', '', '2019-08-07 14:54:49', '2019-08-07 18:54:49', '', 0, 'https://staging.yourislandnews.com/?p=41017', 0, 'post', '', 0),
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(41021, 4, '2019-08-07 15:14:07', '2019-08-07 19:14:07', 'Beaufort-Jasper Water and Sewer Authority’s Board of Directors has chosen Michael Bell to serve as chair for the fiscal year 2020.<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">&nbsp;</span>\r\n\r\nBell, a 27-year veteran of the board, represents the Town of Bluffton.<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">&nbsp;</span>\r\n\r\nThe Baxley, Ga., native is a graduate of Albany State University. After a long career in the public school sector, he currently serves as registrar and PowerSchool administrator at Lowcountry Montessori School in Beaufort.\r\n\r\n“It is truly an honor to serve again as board chair of one of the most vital organizations within Beaufort and Jasper counties,” Bell said in a release. “During this tenure, we work cooperatively and fiduciarily with the general manager and staff to strategically plan for the impacts of the continued area growth with an eye toward costs, service delivery and safety. It is truly our mission to inspire trust and enhance the public health of all within our service area.”\r\n\r\nAssisting Bell as officers are Jimmy Baker as vice-chair (representing Beaufort County Delegation/Hilton Head) and Gregory Padgett as secretary/treasurer (City of Hardeeville). Other members are: Donna Altman (Beaufort County); Lorraine Bond (Jasper County Delegation); Brandy Gray (Town of Port Royal); Donald Manson (Beaufort County); R. Thayer Rivers, Jr. (Town of Ridgeland); Jerry Schulze (Beaufort County) and Dr. William Singleton (Jasper County Delegation).\r\n\r\nAndy Kinghorn is awaiting final approval by the governor to serve as the representative for the City of Beaufort.\r\n\r\nFor more information about BJWSA or its Board of Directors, visit <a href=\"http://bjwsa.org/\">bjwsa.org</a>.', 'BJWSA board picks Bell as chair', '', 'publish', 'closed', 'closed', '', 'bjwsa-board-picks-bell-as-chair', '', '', '2019-08-07 15:14:07', '2019-08-07 19:14:07', '', 0, 'https://staging.yourislandnews.com/?p=41021', 0, 'post', '', 0),
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(41025, 4, '2019-08-07 15:17:04', '2019-08-07 19:17:04', 'Located between the Rustic Pup Boutique and Wishlist and across from Southern Sweets in Old Bay Marketplace at 917 Bay Street, Lily Beaufort will open its doors Friday.\r\n\r\nLily, inspired by French culture, is a unique, carefully-curated boutique with a French allure. It is all about cherishing and touting the elegant, delicate southern charms, associated with the very best of Beaufort’s Southern Belles.\r\n\r\nAt Lily, guests will find French parfum, artisan French jewelry, silk scarves, stationary, Lalique crystal, soaps, lotions and potions, and handbags, all curated by the shopkeeper who takes inspiration from French culture and incorporates the delicate airs of graceful Beaufort into Lily.\r\n\r\n“As shopkeeper, I have always had a love for all things French, Lily owner Kevin Borkowski said in a release. “I remember as a child, on a trip to Paris with my mother, how mesmerized I was by the parisienne beauté exceptionnelle and all the alluring objets de luxe. As Lily’s chief buyer, visual display merchandiser, luxury ambassador, and purveyor of life’s little luxuries, I believe in exceeding customer expectations and always going above and beyond what my patrons expect.<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">&nbsp;</span>\r\n\r\n“The bottom line with life’s little luxuries is that they have to be the best”\r\n\r\nLily will be open from 10 a.m. to 6 p.m. Mondays through Saturdays. For more information, call 843-379-3379, email at&nbsp;<a href=\"mailto:info@lilybeaufort.com\">info@lilybeaufort.com</a> or visit <a href=\"http://lilybeaufort.com/\">lilybeaufort.com</a>.', 'Lily Beaufort opening in Old Bay Marketplace', '', 'publish', 'closed', 'closed', '', 'lily-beaufort-opening-in-old-bay-marketplace', '', '', '2019-08-07 15:17:04', '2019-08-07 19:17:04', '', 0, 'https://staging.yourislandnews.com/?p=41025', 0, 'post', '', 0),
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(41041, 4, '2019-08-07 15:25:36', '2019-08-07 19:25:36', 'Chris Hook snapped this photo of a double rainbow over the tall pine trees on Cat Island. The photo was taken from the rear of his home on Cat, looking toward Cowen Creek.', 'Lowcountry Life', '', 'publish', 'closed', 'closed', '', '41041-2', '', '', '2019-08-07 15:26:38', '2019-08-07 19:26:38', '', 0, 'https://staging.yourislandnews.com/?p=41041', 0, 'post', '', 0),
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(41045, 4, '2019-08-07 15:28:15', '2019-08-07 19:28:15', '<h4>By Mindy Lucas</h4>\r\nAn area firefighter responding to a suspicious fire in a residential area in Burton on July 31, was injured after helping to extinguish the blaze, a fire official has said.\r\n\r\nFire crews from the Burton Fire District and the Beaufort-Port Royal Fire Department responding to the fire on Walker Circle around 6 p.m. found a mobile home “heavily involved” in flame, said Captain Daniel Byrne with the Burton Fire District.\r\n\r\nThe home, believed to have been abandoned, was within 50 yards of other homes in the neighborhood. High heat and humidity and thick vegetation growing on and around the home made it difficult for firefighters to respond, Byrne said.\r\n\r\nThe fire was fully extinguished within about an hour and investigators remained on the scene for several hours after, he said.\r\n\r\nThe injured firefighter suffered from minor burns. He was treated by EMS on the scene, then returned to fighting the fire.\r\n\r\nWhen reached by phone Monday, Byrne said he was otherwise doing fine.\r\n\r\nThe fire is being called suspicious and remains under investigation, Byrne said.\r\n\r\nAnyone with any information about the fire is asked to call the Beaufort County Sheriff’s Office or the state arson hotline at 1-800-92-ARSON.', 'Firefighter injured in suspicious mobile home fire in Burton', '', 'publish', 'closed', 'closed', '', 'firefighter-injured-in-suspicious-mobile-home-fire-in-burton', '', '', '2019-08-07 15:28:15', '2019-08-07 19:28:15', '', 0, 'https://staging.yourislandnews.com/?p=41045', 0, 'post', '', 0),
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(41050, 4, '2019-08-07 15:32:15', '2019-08-07 19:32:15', '<h4>By Mike McCombs</h4>\r\nThough we’re still in the dog days of summer, it’s that time of year again – it’s football season.\r\n\r\nArea high school players took to the field this past week, beginning practice for a season that begins in less than three weeks.\r\n\r\nThe season kicks off for northern Beaufort County’s public school teams on Aug. 23. Whale Branch travels to rival Battery Creek, while Beaufort High takes on A.C. Flora in Columbia. Both games are at<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">&nbsp; </span>7:30 p.m.\r\n\r\nThe next week, head coach Mark Clifford and Beaufort Academy open their defense of the SCISA 8-man state championship with a road game at Clarendon Hall.\r\n\r\nBetween now and then, area athletes will endure some grueling summer practices.<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">&nbsp;</span>\r\n\r\nBut it won’t be long before the officials are spotting the ball.', 'The Boys of Summer', '', 'publish', 'closed', 'closed', '', 'the-boys-of-summer', '', '', '2019-08-07 15:32:15', '2019-08-07 19:32:15', '', 0, 'https://staging.yourislandnews.com/?p=41050', 0, 'post', '', 0),
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(41054, 4, '2019-08-07 15:34:34', '2019-08-07 19:34:34', '<h4>By Mindy Lucas</h4>\r\nTwo water rescues within four days of each other have kept area first responders busy recently.\r\n\r\nThe first water rescue involved a 30-year-old woman who was rescued from the Beaufort River after she was swept away from a dock around 6 p.m. July 31, said Battalion Chief Ross Vezin with the City of Beaufort/Town of Port Royal Fire Department.\r\n\r\nIt was first thought the woman had jumped from the Woods Memorial Bridge after a 911 caller reported a person had jumped from the bridge.\r\n\r\nHowever, officers arriving on the scene at the Henry C. Chambers Waterfront Park later learned the woman had decided to go for a swim from the city’s day dock.\r\n\r\nAccording to the officers, she was then “carried away by the current,” said Patrick Schmucker, a spokesman for the Beaufort Police Department.\r\n\r\nAn officer with the fire department spotted the woman drifting towards the Old Point neighborhood. The woman tried to cling to the piling beneath the bridge but the current was too much for her, Vezin said.\r\n\r\n“She couldn’t hold on and that’s when he saw her go under several times,” he said.\r\n\r\nFirefighters were eventually able to rescue the woman after throwing water rope rescue bags from a dock off Port Republic Street in Old Point, then jumping into the water to get to the woman as she passed by.\r\n\r\nThe woman was given medical care by EMS and taken to the hospital. It was not known what her condition was as of Monday night.\r\n\r\nThe City of Beaufort/Town of Port Royal Fire Department, the Lady’s Island/St. Helena Fire Department, Beaufort Water Search &amp; Rescue, Beaufort-Port Royal Fire Department, City of Beaufort Police Department, Beaufort County Sheriff’s Office and Beaufort County EMS responded to the incident.\r\n\r\nThe second rescue, on Sunday, involved a 29-year-old man who became stranded on a sandbar off Hunting Island after the tide came in.\r\n\r\nFirefighters from the Lady’s Island-St. Helena Fire Department responded to the emergency around 9:15 a.m. after the man called 911, said Scott Harris a spokesman with the fire department.\r\n\r\nA Fripp Island firefighter was able to reach the man with the use of a jet ski and return him safely to shore, Harris said.\r\n\r\nThe man told first responders he was taking photos of birds on the sandbar when the tide came in behind him and cut him off from the island, Harris said.\r\n\r\nNo one was injured in the incident.', '2 rescued in separate water emergencies in Beaufort area', '', 'publish', 'closed', 'closed', '', '2-rescued-in-separate-water-emergencies-in-beaufort-area', '', '', '2019-08-07 15:34:34', '2019-08-07 19:34:34', '', 0, 'https://staging.yourislandnews.com/?p=41054', 0, 'post', '', 0),
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(41062, 4, '2019-08-13 13:07:53', '2019-08-13 17:07:53', '<h4>By MINDY LUCAS</h4>\r\nA Bluffton woman walking her dog close to her Sun City home was bit by an alligator Monday night.\r\n\r\nThe 68-year-old woman was walking her dog in an area between her home and the neighbor’s in the retirement community when the incident occurred, said David Lucas, a public information coordinator with the S.C. Department of Natural Resources.\r\n\r\nThe woman’s husband heard her yelling and ran outside to find she had been bitten on her leg and wrist.\r\n\r\nEMS responded to the scene and the woman was taken to a hospital in Savannah, Lucas said.\r\n\r\nThe alligator, which was roughly 8 to 9 feet long, was captured and removed by a state-contracted alligator control agent. It was in a nearby pond when it was captured, he said.\r\n\r\nThe attack follows a similar incident in August of 2018 when a Hilton Head Island woman, also walking her dog, was killed after an alligator dragged her into a lagoon at the Sea Pines Resort.\r\n\r\nThe dog was not injured in the incident.\r\n\r\nDNR is continuing to investigate.\r\n\r\n&nbsp;\r\n\r\n<em>&nbsp;</em>\r\n\r\n<em>&nbsp;</em>\r\n\r\n<em>&nbsp;</em>\r\n\r\n<em>&nbsp;</em>', 'Bluffton woman walking dog bit by alligator', '', 'publish', 'closed', 'closed', '', 'bluffton-woman-walking-dog-bit-by-alligator', '', '', '2019-08-13 13:07:53', '2019-08-13 17:07:53', '', 0, 'https://staging.yourislandnews.com/?p=41062', 0, 'post', '', 0),
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(41065, 4, '2019-08-14 12:27:45', '2019-08-14 16:27:45', '<strong>Fripp Island Marina to host Labor Day Fishing Tournament</strong>\r\n\r\nFripp Island Marina\'s 2019 Fishing Tournament will take place Aug. 29-31. Fisherman are invited to compete for a payout of more than $5000 in the traditional Labor Day event. Prizes will include largest in the King Mackerel and Spanish Mackerel categories and more. For more information, call 843-838-1517, register on our website at <a href=\"http://www.frippislandresort.com/\">www.frippislandresort.com</a> or contact us via email at <a href=\"mailto:kingfishtournament@gmail.com\">kingfishtournament@gmail.com</a>. Proceeds for the event go to benefit the Pledge The Pink initiative.\r\n\r\n<strong>Hair to Learn at the Beaufort County Library</strong>\r\n\r\nTosha Holmes, salon owner, cosmetology educator and hair care expert, answers questions about keeping your hair and scalp healthy. Includes a quick and easy style demonstration.\r\n\r\nCall 843-255-6458 to submit questions or for more information about this free event, 5:30-6:30 p.m., Monday, Aug. 26, 311 Scott Street.\r\n\r\n<strong>Mahjongg Interest Group at the Beaufort County Library</strong>\r\n\r\nEver wondered what mahjongg is? Join us to learn more or play a game, 4:30-5:45 p.m. Aug. 20, 311 Scott Street. Registration required.<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">&nbsp;</span>\r\n\r\nCan’t make the meeting? Call and let us know of your interest. To register or for more information, contact the Reference Desk at 843-255-6458.\r\n\r\n<strong>Pat Conroy Center offers Anchorage retreat</strong>\r\n\r\nBeaufort’s Pat Conroy Literary Center’s Anchorage Retreat is set for Sept. 6-8.\r\n\r\nThe Southern Living-inspired event is an exclusive writers retreat weekend at the award-winning historic Anchorage 1770 Inn.\r\n\r\nParticipating writers will immerse themselves in a collaborative experience. In the retreat’s intimate setting, writers will get to know one another as well as the retreat’s instructors over a span of three days and two nights of workshops, discussions, writing prompts, readings, critiques, and social gatherings.\r\n\r\nThe distinguished faculty of award-winning writers and publishing professionals will share their insights and experiences.<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">&nbsp;</span>\r\n\r\nThis year’s faculty includes novelists Kimberly Brock, Carla Damron, and Reavis Z. Wortham; memoirist and humorist Harrison Scott Key; biographer and book review editor Adam Parker; and literary agents Jeff Kleinman and Marly Rusoff.\r\n\r\nThe cost for the retreat is $1,500 per person and includes a two-night stay at the Anchorage 1770 Inn on Sept. 6-8, all retreat sessions, evening receptions on Friday and Saturday, breakfasts on Saturday and Sunday, and lunch on Saturday.<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">&nbsp;</span>\r\n\r\nThe registration fee will be billed in three equal installments to be paid in full by Sept. 6. Rooms are selected on a first-come, first-served basis. Registration is now open and is limited to 15 participants.\r\n\r\nFor more information or to register, call the Anchorage 1770 Inn at 877-951-1770.\r\n\r\nProceeds benefit the year-round educational programming of the nonprofit Pat Conroy Literary Center.\r\n\r\n<strong>YMCA to offer CPR classes</strong>\r\n\r\nThe 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: Aug. 17, Sept. 7, Sept. 19, and Nov. 23.<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">&nbsp;</span>\r\n\r\nCost is $35 for this YMCA-certified course and those interested need to register at the Y as space is limited and filled on a first-come, first-served basis. Questions? Contact Lou Bergen, Aquatics Director to register for this class. Call the Y at 843-522-9622 or visit beaufort-jasperymca.org\r\n\r\n<strong>Activities at Hunting Island State Park</strong>\r\n\r\nThere are fun, interesting and educational activities every day hosted by Park Ranger and Lowcountry Master Naturalist Megan Stegmeier.<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">&nbsp;</span>\r\n\r\nSundays: Sand/candy art, 11 a.m.; Hunting Island Bingo, 2:30 p.m.; Shark tooth excursion, 4 p.m. (Aug. 18).\r\n\r\nMondays: Dolphin ecology kayak tour, 10 a.m. (Aug. 19); Tie dye, 11 a.m.; Marine mammals of S.C., 2 p.m. (Aug. 12, 26); Secrets of the Salt Marsh, 4 p.m.\r\n\r\nTuesdays: Turtle Talk, 10:30 a.m.; CCC Video, 1 p.m.; Native American Dreamcatchers, 2 p.m. (Aug. 13); Beach Walk, 3 p.m.\r\n\r\nWednesdays: Alligator Talk, 11 a.m.; Stepping Stones, 2 p.m.\r\n\r\nThursdays: Dolphin ecology kayak tour, 7:30 a.m. (Aug. 15); Interpretive Lighthouse Tour, 10 a.m. (Aug. 15, 22, 29); Driftwood painting, 11 a.m. (Aug. 22, 29); Feeding Frenzy, 3 p.m.; Full-moon lighthouse climb, 8 p.m.\r\n\r\nFridays: Dolphin ecology kayak tour, 7:30 a.m. (Aug. 30); Lowcountry reptiles, 11 a.m.; Fish printing, 2 p.m.\r\n\r\nSaturdays: Sunrise lighthouse climb, 6:30 a.m. (Aug. 24); A walk in the woods, 11 a.m. (Aug. 24); Sharks! 11 a.m. (Aug. 17, 31); Creatures of the night, 2:30 p.m. (Aug. 17, 31)\r\n\r\nFor a description of these programs and a complete calendar of activities, go to southcarolinaparks.com/hunting-island and click on “Programs &amp; Events.”\r\n\r\nAll are invited to attend these free events, though there is an entry fee to Hunting Island State Park and reservations are needed for lighthouse programs.\r\n\r\nFor more information, call 843-838-7437 or go to the Friends of Hunting Island website and the Facebook page: FOHI Sea Turtle Conservation Project.\r\n\r\n<strong>Beaufort Drum Circle</strong>\r\nAll are invited to share some good vibes with the Beaufort Drum Circle. The Drum Circle gathers every second Monday of the month, 5:30-7:00 p.m. and every fourth Thursday of the month, 7-8:30 p.m., in the Contemplative Garden at the Henry C. Chambers Waterfront Park in downtown Beaufort.\r\n\r\nThe remaining August Drum Circle date is Thursday, Aug. 22.\r\n\r\nEveryone 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 if you have one to share.\r\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\".\r\n\r\n<strong>Get moving with Beaufort Track Club</strong>\r\n\r\nJoin the Beaufort Track Club at the Beaufort High School track from 6:30-7:30 p.m. each Tuesday night for an open community track workout. Beginner, intermediate, and advanced workouts are posted each week to ensure that you are getting the workout that you need.\r\n\r\nVisit the Facebook page “Beaufort Track Club” for more information.\r\n\r\n<strong>Friends of Hunting Island’s Tuesday Turtle Talks</strong>\r\n\r\nThe Friends of Hunting island announce the 2019 Tuesday Turtle Talks running through Tuesday, Aug. 13 at 10:30am at the picnic shelter by the Lighthouse. There is no fee for the TTT, but the park entry fee does apply.<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">&nbsp;</span>\r\n\r\nEach week various topics will be discussed including the natural history of loggerhead turtles, what happens when the turtles come to Hunting Island to lay their eggs, and the conservation and challenges specific to a barrier island such as Hunting Island State Park. Participation, ideas and questions are always welcome.<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">&nbsp;</span>\r\n\r\nAfter the talk, participants can join TTT host Denise Parsick on a short beach walk. All ages are invited to attend this educational and engaging program.<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">&nbsp;</span>\r\n\r\nAnd for early risers: If you want to join a turtle patrol to check out loggerhead nests, come to the Visitor’s Center parking lot at 6 a.m. sharp any day of the week, and talk with a volunteer in an orange shirt to join a group for that day’s patrol. All ages welcome.\r\n\r\n<strong>Local storytelling organization formed</strong>\r\n\r\nEvelene Stevenson, owner of the Spirit of Old Beaufort Tours, has formed a local storytelling organization, the Sea Isles Storytellers, which will be headquartered in the Sea Island Center at 876 Sea Island Parkway, St. Helena Island.\r\n\r\nAll are invited to come to the first meeting from 3:30 to 5 p.m. Sunday, Aug. 11, which will be\r\n\r\nchristened by the Back Porch Storytellers from Charleston.<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">&nbsp;</span>\r\n\r\nAll have stories to tell, and Stevenson wants an organization that listens and encourages those of all ages to tell a story, sing a song and listen to others tales.<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">&nbsp;</span>\r\n\r\nPlease send an email, including name and phone number, to seaislandcenter@gmail.com or call Evelene Stevenson at 843-271-2478.', 'What To Do', '', 'publish', 'closed', 'closed', '', 'what-to-do-188', '', '', '2019-08-14 12:27:45', '2019-08-14 16:27:45', '', 0, 'https://staging.yourislandnews.com/?p=41065', 0, 'post', '', 0),
(41067, 4, '2019-08-14 12:28:40', '0000-00-00 00:00:00', 'By SCOTT GRABER\n\nIt is Sunday morning and I’m sitting on my deck drinking my coffee and reading the Wall Street Journal — Weekend Edition.\n\nThis morning, the WSJ gives us an article on baseball caps and the grown men who wear them. The piece begins by describing a $21 cap with “Chinati stitched across the front in a neat sans serif font.”<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">&nbsp;</span>\n\nThis particular cap tells the world that one drove to Marfa, Texas — a town way off the beaten track — and spent time with the minimalist masterworks assembled by the Chinati Foundation. This cap is a what is called a ‘humblebrag.’\n\nOther humblebrag hats include headgear that say ‘Odeon,’ ‘Bohemian Grove,’ ‘Martha’s Vineyard’ and any cap that names any oyster bar in Abuja, Nigeria.\n\n“It’s a way to meet and sort of, I guess, notice other people who are at least like you in some ways,” said Brooks Riggins, 33, an advertising copywriter in Dallas who is partial to a hat from the One and Only Ocean Club, a since-renamed resort in the Bahamas.”\n\nFor many men, myself included, it is important to tell other people that one is well connected or extensively traveled.\n\n“I can’t help but notice you’re wearing a baseball cap that says ‘Ron Jon Surf Shop Myrtle Beach.’ Have you actually been to Myrtle Beach?”\n\nI must confess that I have a bald spot that sunburns easily so I have a reason for wearing a baseball cap. (But not backwards — there is no excuse for a man my age, of any age, wearing a cap backwards.) But I also know the sunburn excuse loses legitimacy in a darkened pub like Saltus, Breakwater or Circa 1875 in Savannah.\n\nIf the truth be told, I’ve never liked baseball caps because they emphasize the largeness of my already-too-large head.<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">&nbsp;</span>\n\nBut the article in the Journal takes me back maybe 40 years, when Beaufort Memorial Hospital decided to have a fundraiser in the form of a cummerbund-and-gold-cufflink ball at the Lyceum on Parris Island.\n\nIn those days, I spent a lot of time with a friend, Roger Steele, and several days before the event we were talking about what we would be wearing to the Valentine’s Ball. In those days many of our friends were active duty Marines, and they, of course, would be wearing their colorful uniforms accessorized with medals.\n\n“It’s just not fair,” Roger said as we sat in his Teal Room. “We wear a black jacket, boring black slacks and maybe a cummerbund with a little color. They cover their chest with ribbons and medals.”\n\n“They earned them,” I replied, knowing that Roger had spent time in the Marine Corps when he was younger.\n\n“I got a medal for marksmanship,” he said. “But its not much to look at.”\n\n“Perhaps we could design our own,” I said. “Perhaps something to commemorate your teaching; and my time in court.”\n\nLater that evening I took a medal my father had won in 1939 (at the Ohio State Junior Tennis Tournament) and added a ribbon. Roger, who was not shy and far more creative in these matters, found a medallion the size of a beer coaster and added a ribbon that looped around his head in the manner of a Nobel Laureate.<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">&nbsp;</span>\n\nAnd of course, Roger created an appropriate story that I didn’t hear until I got to the ball and was dancing with Helen Harvey.\n\n“Did you know that Roger rescued a diplomat’s daughter,” she whispered in my ear.\n\n“When?” I replied, stunned that I had not heard about this particular rescue.\n\n“When he was living in Japan,” she said. “And tonight he’s wearing the medal given to him by the Prime Minister.”\n\nMany of us know that life is a daily, perhaps hourly, contest between self-esteem and self-loathing. For years I did my esteem-building by way of T-shirts that memorialized huge tuition payments (St. Lawrence University) or bad destination decisions (the Barbed Wire Museum in McLean, Texas). Regrettably there is a dress code problem with most T-shirts — you can’t wear them to weddings, funerals or to The Grey in Savannah.\n\nMy reluctance to wear a conversation-starting T-shirt is antique in this day of self-promotion on Instagram, Facebook and LinkedIn.\n\nAnd self-esteem is a hungry creature requiring a constant stream of ‘likes.’<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">&nbsp;</span>\n\nAccording to recent statistics released by Facebook, the average daily user spends 41 minutes a day on Facebook — much of that time updating, or ‘curating,’ his or her resume.\n\nBut Facebook is a bridge too far for me.\n\nPostscript.<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">&nbsp;</span>\n\nFor those of us lucky enough to have known Roger Steele the Olympic-sized medallion he designed years ago is just about right for the years he spent teaching children to draw; for the creativity he instilled in hundreds of college students; for his uncanny ability to make us laugh at ourselves and the world around us.', 'Humblebrags and self promotion can be tricky propositions', '', 'draft', 'closed', 'closed', '', '', '', '', '2019-08-14 12:28:40', '2019-08-14 16:28:40', '', 0, 'https://staging.yourislandnews.com/?p=41067', 0, 'post', '', 0),
(41068, 4, '2019-08-14 12:34:27', '2019-08-14 16:34:27', '<h4>By SCOTT GRABER</h4>\r\nIt is Sunday morning and I’m sitting on my deck drinking my coffee and reading the Wall Street Journal — Weekend Edition.\r\n\r\nThis morning, the WSJ gives us an article on baseball caps and the grown men who wear them. The piece begins by describing a $21 cap with “Chinati stitched across the front in a neat sans serif font.”<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">&nbsp;</span>\r\n\r\nThis particular cap tells the world that one drove to Marfa, Texas — a town way off the beaten track — and spent time with the minimalist masterworks assembled by the Chinati Foundation. This cap is a what is called a ‘humblebrag.’\r\n\r\nOther humblebrag hats include headgear that say ‘Odeon,’ ‘Bohemian Grove,’ ‘Martha’s Vineyard’ and any cap that names any oyster bar in Abuja, Nigeria.\r\n\r\n“It’s a way to meet and sort of, I guess, notice other people who are at least like you in some ways,” said Brooks Riggins, 33, an advertising copywriter in Dallas who is partial to a hat from the One and Only Ocean Club, a since-renamed resort in the Bahamas.\r\n\r\nFor many men, myself included, it is important to tell other people that one is well connected or extensively traveled.\r\n\r\n“I can’t help but notice you’re wearing a baseball cap that says ‘Ron Jon Surf Shop Myrtle Beach.’ Have you actually been to Myrtle Beach?”\r\n\r\nI must confess that I have a bald spot that sunburns easily so I have a reason for wearing a baseball cap. (But not backwards — there is no excuse for a man my age, or any age, wearing a cap backwards.) But I also know the sunburn excuse loses legitimacy in a darkened pub like Saltus, Breakwater or Circa 1875 in Savannah.\r\n\r\nIf the truth be told, I’ve never liked baseball caps because they emphasize the largeness of my already-too-large head.<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">&nbsp;</span>\r\n\r\nBut the article in the Journal takes me back maybe 40 years, when Beaufort Memorial Hospital decided to have a fundraiser in the form of a cummerbund-and-gold-cufflink ball at the Lyceum on Parris Island.\r\n\r\nIn those days, I spent a lot of time with a friend, Roger Steele, and several days before the event we were talking about what we would be wearing to the Valentine’s Ball. In those days many of our friends were active duty Marines, and they, of course, would be wearing their colorful uniforms accessorized with medals.\r\n\r\n“It’s just not fair,” Roger said as we sat in his Teal Room. “We wear a black jacket, boring black slacks and maybe a cummerbund with a little color. They cover their chest with ribbons and medals.”\r\n\r\n“They earned them,” I replied, knowing that Roger had spent time in the Marine Corps when he was younger.\r\n\r\n“I got a medal for marksmanship,” he said. “But it\'s not much to look at.”\r\n\r\n“Perhaps we could design our own,” I said. “Perhaps something to commemorate your teaching; and my time in court.”\r\n\r\nLater that evening I took a medal my father had won in 1939 (at the Ohio State Junior Tennis Tournament) and added a ribbon. Roger, who was not shy and far more creative in these matters, found a medallion the size of a beer coaster and added a ribbon that looped around his head in the manner of a Nobel Laureate.<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">&nbsp;</span>\r\n\r\nAnd of course, Roger created an appropriate story that I didn’t hear until I got to the ball and was dancing with Helen Harvey.\r\n\r\n“Did you know that Roger rescued a diplomat’s daughter,” she whispered in my ear.\r\n\r\n“When?” I replied, stunned that I had not heard about this particular rescue.\r\n\r\n“When he was living in Japan,” she said. “And tonight he’s wearing the medal given to him by the Prime Minister.”\r\n\r\nMany of us know that life is a daily, perhaps hourly, contest between self-esteem and self-loathing. For years I did my esteem-building by way of T-shirts that memorialized huge tuition payments (St. Lawrence University) or bad destination decisions (the Barbed Wire Museum in McLean, Texas). Regrettably there is a dress code problem with most T-shirts — you can’t wear them to weddings, funerals or to The Grey in Savannah.\r\n\r\nMy reluctance to wear a conversation-starting T-shirt is antique in this day of self-promotion on Instagram, Facebook and LinkedIn.\r\n\r\nAnd self-esteem is a hungry creature requiring a constant stream of ‘likes.’<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">&nbsp;</span>\r\n\r\nAccording to recent statistics released by Facebook, the average daily user spends 41 minutes a day on Facebook — much of that time updating, or ‘curating,’ his or her resume.\r\n\r\nBut Facebook is a bridge too far for me.\r\n\r\nPostscript.<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">&nbsp;</span>\r\n\r\nFor those of us lucky enough to have known Roger Steele the Olympic-sized medallion he designed years ago is just about right for the years he spent teaching children to draw; for the creativity he instilled in hundreds of college students; for his uncanny ability to make us laugh at ourselves and the world around us.', 'Humblebrags and self promotion can be tricky propositions', '', 'publish', 'closed', 'closed', '', 'humblebrags-and-self-promotion-can-be-tricky-propositions', '', '', '2019-08-14 12:34:27', '2019-08-14 16:34:27', '', 0, 'https://staging.yourislandnews.com/?p=41068', 0, 'post', '', 0),
(41071, 4, '2019-08-14 12:35:55', '2019-08-14 16:35:55', '<h4>By LEE SCOTT</h4>\r\nIn a recent gathering with friends, one of the topics that came up involved tiaras. Each woman began to describe the tiaras they wore when they were young.<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">&nbsp;</span>\r\n\r\nSome of the tiaras were for prom dances or worn with their princess costumes; and one woman said she had a small tiara for her wedding. That is when I chimed in “I have never had a princess crown, nor did I ever pretend to be a Princess.”\r\n\r\nI explained to the group that I was brought up with a brother, one year older, who pretty much dictated our play for years. My mother said she knew there would be trouble with us very early.<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">&nbsp;</span>\r\n\r\nIt started when he was about 2 years old and I was around one. He climbed out of his crib and pushed the lever to slide my railing down so I could get out. She heard a noise and found us playing with some toys on the floor between the cribs.\r\n\r\nMy mother said my brother was just waiting for the day he would have a playmate and that day was the beginning of our shenanigans.\r\n\r\nBelieve me, when you have a brother so close in age, there is no room for Princess crowns. We played in puddles, made mud pies, and climbed trees. My two older sisters were the little princesses in the family. They wore matching dresses and had their hair permed. My mother could not get me to sit still long enough to ever perm my hair. They loved to dress up in their Holy Communion Dresses and put little crowns in their hair.\r\n\r\nIt was somewhere during my non-princess story, my friend Cindy decided, it was time I had a crown.\r\n\r\nA few days after the gathering Cindy showed up with a tiara for me.<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">&nbsp;</span>\r\n\r\n“Every girl should have a tiara sometime in her life!”\r\n\r\nShe is right. Nowadays, it seems like every little girl is a Princess. Disney has created a world of little princesses with more than 12 Disney Princesses from which to choose.\r\n\r\nThere were only Cinderella and Snow White when I was little, and I do not remember wanting to be like either of them. After all, I had to do chores like Cinderella. And I compared my seven siblings to Snow White’s seven dwarfs. Forget the crown.\r\n\r\nAfter Cindy left my house, I dressed up in a long white dress, put on my tiara and asked my husband to take a picture.<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">&nbsp;</span>\r\n\r\n“Why?” he asked.\r\n\r\nI just wanted to have evidence, that once in my life, I was dressed like Cinderella.<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">&nbsp;</span>\r\n\r\nAfter a childhood of being the girl with the ashes on my clothes, I finally looked like I was going to the ball.', 'I never pretended I was the princess at the ball', '', 'publish', 'closed', 'closed', '', 'i-never-pretended-i-was-the-princess-at-the-ball', '', '', '2019-08-14 12:35:55', '2019-08-14 16:35:55', '', 0, 'https://staging.yourislandnews.com/?p=41071', 0, 'post', '', 0),
(41073, 4, '2019-08-14 12:38:38', '2019-08-14 16:38:38', '<h4>By LAURA KAPONER</h4>\r\nRecently, I was at an appointment when the receptionist noticed I was dressed far nicer than my usual casual look and inquired why.<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">&nbsp;</span>\r\n\r\nI proudly told her I was working full time again, to which she wanted to know what I was doing.<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">&nbsp;</span>\r\n\r\nMy pride swelled even further as I announced it was with the mentally ill population.<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">&nbsp;</span>\r\n\r\nThe frown on her face was instantaneous as she muttered her apologies. I knew that those with Mental Illnesses faced a horrible Stigma, but I was unaware Mental Health Professionals faced that Stigma as well.\r\nThis is where I am at a complete loss because I always thought working in the medical field was prestigious as in \"Your child is a doctor? You must be so proud!\"<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">&nbsp;</span>\r\n\r\nAnother thought I had was that those who make a career out of serving others are honorable: military, firefighters, etc.<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">&nbsp;</span>\r\n\r\nSo why is it that I am constantly having to explain to others that my career choice wasn\'t a last resort because I couldn\'t find anything else or anything “better?” Why do others feel sorry for me?\r\nWell before I ever dreamed of walking down this path, I felt mental health professionals were unsung heroes who were in the position on often pushing a boulder up a hill.<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">&nbsp;</span>\r\n\r\nInsurance companies treat mental health benefits separate from other medical benefits even though mental illnesses are, in fact, medical conditions. There are often much lower provider reimbursements in comparison to other medical professionals, lots of red tape involving authorizations and unrealistic visit limitations that force many in the field to go private in order to make a their career livable.<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">&nbsp;</span>\r\n\r\nThe result is less providers accepting insurances makes fewer cost efficient options for patients to receive the care they need.<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">&nbsp;</span>\r\n\r\nBeing a mental health professional is by no means a flashy, high-profile or high-paying career in most instances, In my personal experience those who choose this path do so because of the genuine want to make a difference.<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">&nbsp;</span>\r\n\r\nGlamorous, hardly. Respectable, highly so.\r\nMental health facilities are closing all over the country, services becoming greatly reduced, yet the population keeps growing.<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">&nbsp;</span>\r\n\r\nCurrently, 1 in 5 Americans will experience a mental illness in their lifetime. Just as those with cancer, diabetes, HIV, those with a mental illness need resources for survival that include professionals to help them manage their symptoms in hopes of having an opportunity at a more fulfilling life.<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">&nbsp;</span>\r\n\r\nWhere will these 1 in 5 end up without the help they need? Most likely in jail, on the streets or dead.<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">&nbsp;</span>\r\n\r\nThat is what people should feel sorry about, not those working hard to prevent these horrible things from happening.\r\nFor most of my life I have felt insecure in the professional world often pushing through just to pay the bills. Working with the mentally ill is unlike anything I could have ever imagined for myself in the best possible way, because it is here I have the opportunity to take my first-hand knowledge to help my peers better navigate their own journeys. Hopefully, far less bumpy than mine was.<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">&nbsp;</span>\r\n\r\nIn reality, it is I who feels sorry for anyone too ignorant to understand the important work that is being done to help make the world at large a much better place.<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">&nbsp;</span>\r\n\r\nOne in 5 means your neighbors, your coworkers, your family and your friends. Mental health matters affect everyone.<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">&nbsp;</span>\r\n\r\nThis is for all the mental health professionals who have helped me in the last 30 years. Because I would not have survived without you.\r\n\r\nThank you.', 'A thank you letter to mental health professionals', '', 'publish', 'closed', 'closed', '', 'a-thank-you-letter-to-mental-health-professionals', '', '', '2019-08-14 12:38:38', '2019-08-14 16:38:38', '', 0, 'https://staging.yourislandnews.com/?p=41073', 0, 'post', '', 0);
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(41076, 4, '2019-08-14 12:39:23', '2019-08-14 16:39:23', '<strong>Join a multiple myeloma support group</strong>\r\n\r\nThere is a multiple myeloma support group in Okatie for the Beaufort, Bluffton, Hilton Head Island and Savannah areas that meets from 10 to 11:30 a.m. the fourth Saturday of each month at St. Luke\'s United Methodist Church on Okatie Highway. The International Myeloma Foundation helps support the group.<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">&nbsp;</span>\r\n\r\nInterested patients, caregivers, family and friends are encouraged to join. It’s an excellent way to meet and interact with other survivors and caregivers to learn the latest advances in treatment and management. For more information, contact Julie McKay at 843-729-8061 or <a href=\"mailto:TugboatJulie@yahoo.com\">TugboatJulie@yahoo.com</a>.\r\n\r\n<strong>Dr. Steven Kessel joins Friends of Caroline</strong>\r\n\r\nFriends of Caroline Palliative and Hospice Care is proud to announce the addition of a Co-Medical Director, Dr. Steven Kessel, to the team. Dr. Kessel joins Dr. Gordon Krueger, who has been working with Friends of Caroline for the past seven years.\r\n\r\nKessel grew up in a medical family with both his grandfather and father physicians. After completing medical school himself, Kessel spent a year volunteering in the Samoan Islands.<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">&nbsp;</span>\r\n\r\nAfter backpacking around the world for a year, he settled down in West Virginia, practicing internal medicine. His career led him to Charlotte, N.C. and then to Beaufort, where he spent 18 of his 38 years providing care.<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">&nbsp;</span>\r\n\r\nDuring his early years of practice, Kessel was a member of Friends of Caroline.\r\n\r\n“I have continued to be impressed with the commitment of FOCH to their patients and the community in general,” Dr. Kessel said.<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">&nbsp;</span>\r\n\r\n“We are thrilled to have Dr. Kessel join our team. He is compassionate and very knowledgeable. The Lowcountry is lucky to have his ongoing care in this community,” Friends of Caroline Executive Director Lindsay Roberg said in a release.', 'Health Briefs', '', 'publish', 'closed', 'closed', '', 'health-briefs-13', '', '', '2019-08-14 12:39:23', '2019-08-14 16:39:23', '', 0, 'https://staging.yourislandnews.com/?p=41076', 0, 'post', '', 0),
(41079, 4, '2019-08-14 12:41:11', '2019-08-14 16:41:11', 'CFRE International has named Jessica S. L. Chapman as a Certified Fund Raising Executive (CFRE). Chapman, Director of Development for the Child Abuse Prevention Association in Beaufort joins more than 6,300 professionals around the world who hold the CFRE designation.\r\n\r\nIndividuals granted the CFRE credential have met a series of standards set by CFRE International which include tenure in the profession, education, and demonstrated fundraising achievement. They have also passed a rigorous written examination testing the knowledge, skills, and abilities required of a fundraising executive, and have agreed to uphold Accountability Standards and the Donor Bill of Rights.\r\n\r\n“The CFRE credential was created to identify for the public and employers those individuals who possess the knowledge, skills, and commitment to perform fundraising duties in an effective and ethical manner,” CFRE International President and CEO Eva E. Aldrich said in a release. “As the certification is a voluntary achievement, the CFRE certification demonstrates a high level of commitment on the part of Jessica S L Chapman to the fundraising profession and the donors who are served.”\r\n\r\nCFRE recipients are awarded certification for a three-year period. To maintain certification status, certificants must demonstrate on-going fundraising employment and fundraising results and continue with their professional education.<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">&nbsp;</span>\r\n\r\nEmployers and donors who work with CFREs know they are getting a professional who is committed to the best outcomes for their organization and has the requisite knowledge and skills.\r\n\r\nThe CFRE certification program is accredited by the American National Standards Institute and is the only accredited certification for fundraising professionals.', 'CAPA’s Chapman earns fundraising honor', '', 'publish', 'closed', 'closed', '', 'capas-chapman-earns-fundraising-honor', '', '', '2019-08-14 12:41:11', '2019-08-14 16:41:11', '', 0, 'https://staging.yourislandnews.com/?p=41079', 0, 'post', '', 0),
(41082, 4, '2019-08-14 12:43:25', '2019-08-14 16:43:25', '<strong>USCB chancellor Panu earns Fulbright scholarship</strong>\r\n\r\nUSC Beaufort Chancellor Al M. Panu, Ph.D., has been selected to participate in the 2019-2020 Fulbright U.S. International Education Administrators Seminar in France in the fall.\r\nThe seminar is intended to familiarize higher education administrators in the U.S. with the higher education and research system of France. The seminar accomplishes this through briefings, campus visits, meetings with selected government officials, networking, cultural activities, and meetings with French international education professionals over a two-week period. It also includes tours of historical and cultural sites.\r\nA prestigious academic exchange program, the Fulbright international seminar was created to expand and strengthen relationships between the people of the United States and citizens of other nations as a means of promoting international understanding and cooperation.\r\nPanu is the sixth member of the USCB administration or faculty to earn a Fulbright scholarship to conduct research or teach in other countries.\r\n\r\n<strong>Battery Creek needs tissues, hand sanitizer\r\n</strong>\r\nThe Parent Teacher Student Organization (PTSO) at Battery Creek High School is collecting boxes of tissues and containers of hand sanitizer for classrooms. Donations may be left in the front office at BCHS. All donations should be dropped off by Aug. 16.\r\n\r\n<strong>Georgia Southern honors 4 students from Beaufort</strong>\r\n\r\nGeorgia Southern University recently recognized approximately 1,850 students for excellence in academics on the Spring 2019 President\'s List. To be eligible for the President\'s List, a student must have at least a 4.0 grade point average and carry a minimum of 12 hours for the semester.\r\n\r\nKaeley Heath and Alexia Neal of Beaufort earned President’s List honors\r\n\r\nApproximately 3,300 students made the Spring 2019 Dean\'s List. To be eligible for the Dean\'s List, a student must have at least a 3.5 grade point average and carry a minimum of 12 hours for the semester.\r\n\r\nBeaufort’s Haley Williams and Morgan Wood were honored on the Dean’s List.', 'School Briefs', '', 'publish', 'closed', 'closed', '', 'school-briefs-47', '', '', '2019-08-14 12:43:25', '2019-08-14 16:43:25', '', 0, 'https://staging.yourislandnews.com/?p=41082', 0, 'post', '', 0),
(41084, 4, '2019-08-14 12:44:37', '2019-08-14 16:44:37', 'Three veteran administrators have been selected to lead district schools, while a fourth has been selected to become the district’s new chief instructional services officer.\r\n\r\nAll four recommendations by Superintendent Frank Rodriguez were approved Aug. 6 by the Beaufort County Board of Education.\r\n\r\nJoseph S. Shanklin Elementary School – Elizabeth Rivera, an assistant principal at Shanklin for the past six years, replaces Celeste LaVan, who left the district last month to become Director of Elementary Education for the Darlington County School District.\r\n\r\nBeaufort Middle School – Alvilda Graham, an assistant principal at district middle and high schools for the past six years, replaces Carole Ingram, who left the district in July after serving 15 years as Beaufort Middle’s principal.\r\n\r\nHilton Head Island High School – Steve Schidrich, a teacher at Hilton Head Island High for 13 years and an assistant principal at Bluffton Middle School for the past seven years, replaces Amanda O’Nan.\r\n\r\nDistrict Chief Instructional Services Officer – Mary Stratos, currently principal at Forest Hill Community High School in Palm Beach County, Fla., replaces Bonnie Almond, who left the district in June.\r\n\r\n“Every strong school district has strong leaders, and I’m confident that these four educators will be successful in their new roles,” Rodriguez said in a release. “They’re experienced, they understand the importance of hard work, they understand the value of teamwork, and their No. 1 priority will be ensuring that each and every student succeeds.”\r\n\r\nRivera (Shanklin Elementary) began her education career in 2002 as a math and science teacher at Robert Smalls Middle School, a position she held for seven years. She was honored as the school’s 2006-07 Teacher of the Year. Rivera worked for four years at Beaufort Elementary, first as an Advanced Math, Engineering and Science program teacher and later as a TAP Master Teacher.&nbsp; She was an assistant principal at Shanklin Elementary from 2013 to 2019.\r\n\r\nRivera earned a bachelor’s degree in early childhood education from the University of South Carolina-Aiken and a master’s degree in educational leadership from the University of South Carolina.\r\n\r\nGraham (Beaufort Middle) began her career teaching fifth-grade science and social studies – and later high school biology – in Florence. She went on to teach middle school science courses in Durham, N.C. before becoming a principal intern at an elementary school and later dean of students at a middle school in Durham. After moving to Beaufort County, she served as an assistant principal at Hilton Head Island Middle School from 2013-2015, and since 2015 has been an assistant principal at Hilton Head Island High School.\r\n\r\nGraham earned a bachelor’s degree in biology from Claflin University in Orangeburg, a master’s degree in technology education from Lesley University in Cambridge, Mass. and a master’s degree in school administration from the University of North Carolina-Chapel Hill. She expects to complete work next year on an educational specialist degree from The Citadel in Charleston.\r\n\r\nSchidrich (Hilton Head Island High) began his career at Beach Channel High School in Rockaway, N.Y., where he taught social studies for three years. He worked at Hilton Head Island High from 1999 through 2012, serving as a social studies and International Baccalaureate teacher and later as a department head. He served on the school’s leadership team and helped to evaluate and mentor teachers. He has served as an assistant principal at Bluffton Middle School since 2012.\r\n\r\nSchidrich earned a bachelor’s degree in business administration from Baruch College of the City University of New York, as well as a master’s degree in secondary education-social studies from Queens College of the City University of New York.&nbsp; He also has completed the Master of Educational Administration program at the University of South Carolina.\r\n\r\nStratos (Chief Instructional Services Officer) began her teaching career as an adult education teacher in Haverstraw, N.Y. before teaching secondary-level bilingual language arts and social studies at the North Rockland School District in Thiells, N.Y. After relocating to South Florida, she worked as an English Language Learner coordinator at Gold Coast Community High School in West Palm Beach and later as a dropout prevention teacher in Delray Beach. For the past 21 years, she served in a variety of secondary-level assistant principal and principal positions at a diverse group of schools in Palm Beach County, Fla. She also served as an adjunct professor at Florida Atlantic University.\r\n\r\nStratos earned a bachelor’s degree in secondary education/bilingual education from St. Thomas Aquinas College in New York, a master’s degree in English Speakers of Other Languages at Nova Southeastern University in Florida and an Ed.D. in Instructional Leadership from Nova Southeastern University. Her educational background also includes leadership studies at Barry University and organizational instructional studies at Teachers College at Columbia University.', 'School board approves selections of three principals, district chief instructional services officer', '', 'publish', 'closed', 'closed', '', 'school-board-approves-selections-of-three-principals-district-chief-instructional-services-officer', '', '', '2019-08-14 12:44:37', '2019-08-14 16:44:37', '', 0, 'https://staging.yourislandnews.com/?p=41084', 0, 'post', '', 0),
(41087, 4, '2019-08-14 12:45:47', '2019-08-14 16:45:47', 'The Beaufort County School District is inaugurating a partnership with Purposity, a mobile app that allows users to identify community members in need and make donations to help them.\r\n\r\n“It’s a way to connect local people who need help with people who want to offer that help,” said Lakinsha Swinton, the school district’s Director of Student Services. “We have many people in Beaufort County who want to help those in need, but they don’t have reliable information about verifiable needs. This app bridges that gap and makes that connection.”\r\n\r\nPurposity founder Blake Canterbury said the app is all about providing useful information\r\n\r\n“We live in an age when we can make a doctor’s appointment right from our phone,” Canterbury said. “But we have no way of knowing if the family down the street has food on its table or if their children have shoes on their feet. Our belief is that if you knew your neighbor needed help, you’d help.”\r\n\r\nPurposity’s name is a mash-up of “purpose” and “generosity.”\r\n\r\nIn Beaufort County, the app will work with school social workers and parent liaisons who know families who need specific things. Social workers and parent liaisons will forward those needs to the school district’s Office of Student Services, which will review the needs and transmit them to Purposity.\r\n\r\nPurposity will take the list of items and put it into a database to be sent out to people who want to help. Once potential donors have downloaded the app and signed up, Purposity will send out a weekly notification with links to items on Amazon.com that specific community members need. Donors can then select a need and click “Meet the Need” to pay for the item, which will be sent directly to the appropriate school for distribution.<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">&nbsp;</span>\r\n\r\nThe process was created specifically to make sure the people receiving the items have been vetted, and donors can have a connection to the people they’re helping.', 'Purposity app will connect donors, students, families in need', '', 'publish', 'closed', 'closed', '', 'purposity-app-will-connect-donors-students-families-in-need', '', '', '2019-08-14 12:45:47', '2019-08-14 16:45:47', '', 0, 'https://staging.yourislandnews.com/?p=41087', 0, 'post', '', 0),
(41090, 4, '2019-08-14 12:47:01', '2019-08-14 16:47:01', 'Moody’s Investors Service has again assigned the Beaufort County School District an Aa1 rating, which means that Beaufort County continues to hold the second-highest rating among South Carolina’s 82 school districts.<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">&nbsp;</span>\r\n\r\nMoody’s cited the district’s “prudent fiscal management and effective long-range capital planning” as factors in assigning the high rating.\r\n\r\nOnly Greenville County – South Carolina’s largest school district, which is boosted by a business- and industry-heavy tax base – is rated higher than Beaufort County with a AAA designation.\r\n\r\nIn addition to the district’s effective fiscal management and long-range capital planning, Moody’s said the Aa1 rating “reflects the district’s sizeable tax base that benefits from a strong economy and ongoing population growth. The rating also incorporates the district’s moderate debt burden that could grow in the near term due to significant facility needs.”<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">&nbsp;</span>\r\n\r\nSuperintendent Frank Rodriguez said the Moody’s ratings would mean low interest rates for school bonds and also would serve to boost public confidence and trust in the district’s fiscal management.\r\n\r\n“We’re going to continue working hard to ensure that our community trusts us to make the best possible fiscal decisions to support our primary goal – and that is providing a world-class education for every student,” Rodriguez said in a release.', 'School district maintains excellent credit rating', '', 'publish', 'closed', 'closed', '', 'school-district-maintains-excellent-credit-rating', '', '', '2019-08-14 12:47:01', '2019-08-14 16:47:01', '', 0, 'https://staging.yourislandnews.com/?p=41090', 0, 'post', '', 0),
(41093, 4, '2019-08-14 12:49:54', '2019-08-14 16:49:54', 'By WHITNEY MCDANIEL\r\n\r\nWhen financial markets fluctuate, even the calmest investors can start to question their financial strategies. But volatile markets can present opportunities, says Tracie McMillion, head of global asset allocation strategy for Wells Fargo Investment Institute (WFII).\r\n\r\n&nbsp;\r\n\r\n“Financial markets are frequently volatile—that’s their nature,” she says. “Over longer periods of time, that volatility can add up to attractive portfolio growth.”\r\n\r\n&nbsp;\r\n\r\nMcMillion shares an analogy that compares this worry to seasickness: “If you stare at the waves directly ahead of you (the current financial market), the water may look bumpy and turbulent, and you might feel ill at ease. However, if you look outward at the horizon (your long-term investment goals), the ocean as a whole appears to be on a fairly even keel.”\r\n\r\n&nbsp;\r\n\r\nIn addition to focusing on your financial horizon, here are some strategies you can use to help weather economically turbulent times.\r\n\r\n&nbsp;\r\n<ol>\r\n 	<li><strong> Match your investments to your time horizon.</strong>The simplest way to feel more comfortable about your investments is to align them with your financial calendar, no matter what happens in the financial world this month or year. For example, do you need some of your money fairly soon, or want it close at hand in case of an emergency? If so, McMillion says you should consider investments such as cash holdings and short-term bonds that shouldn’t lose much, if any, value over the short term.</li>\r\n</ol>\r\n&nbsp;\r\n\r\nOn the other hand, if you won’t need some of your investment money until you retire multiple years in the future, equities or longer-term bonds are worth a closer look. Those investments carry more risks but also offer potentially better returns.\r\n\r\n&nbsp;\r\n<ol start=\"2\">\r\n 	<li><strong> Know what to expect from your assets. </strong>Some investors lose confidence because they don’t fully understand how their investments work. In that case, McMillion says, some knowledge of typical asset behavior is a good thing.</li>\r\n</ol>\r\n&nbsp;\r\n\r\nConsider reading up on different types of investments and asking questions of your financial advisor. Once you know how your investments are more likely to perform in certain financial markets, you can help ensure that your investment strategy is in line with your tolerance for risk.\r\n\r\n&nbsp;\r\n<ol start=\"3\">\r\n 	<li><strong> Tune out the noise.</strong>By “noise” McMillion means the constant barrage of financial reports from the 24/7 news media. “It’s common for the financial markets to temporarily get a little bit messy as they sort through the current news cycle,” she says.</li>\r\n</ol>\r\n&nbsp;\r\n\r\nHowever, investors usually don’t need to react to the everyday financial news, no matter how topsy-turvy things may seem. “Remember: The U.S. news tends to report on a very small slice of available investments, particularly U.S. large company stocks,” she says. “Your portfolio, if it’s diversified as it should be, probably isn’t going up and down to the same degree as these stocks. Your portfolio changes are probably much more moderate.”\r\n\r\n&nbsp;\r\n<ol start=\"4\">\r\n 	<li><strong> Regularly revisit your plan.</strong>There’s no such thing as a completely set-it-and-forget-it investment strategy, McMillion says. It’s always smart to check in regularly with your investment advisor. “Your life circumstances may change, or your financial goals could shift,” she says. “You’ll feel much more confident that your investments are doing their job if you review them regularly with your advisor.”</li>\r\n</ol>\r\n&nbsp;\r\n\r\n<em>Wells Fargo Investment Institute, Inc. is a registered investment adviser and wholly owned subsidiary of Wells Fargo Bank, N.A., a bank affiliate of Wells Fargo &amp; Company.</em>\r\n\r\n&nbsp;\r\n\r\n<strong>&nbsp;</strong>\r\n\r\nThis article was written by/for Wells Fargo Advisors and provided courtesy of Whitney McDaniel CFP®, AAMS®, Financial Advisor in Beaufort, SC at 843-524-1114.&nbsp; 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.\r\n\r\n<strong>Investments in securities and insurance products are: NOT FDIC-INSURED/NOT BANK-GUARANTEED/MAY LOSE VALUE</strong>\r\n\r\nWells 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.\r\n\r\n© 2019 Wells Fargo Clearing Services, LLC. All rights reserved.\r\n\r\n&nbsp;\r\n\r\n&nbsp;\r\n\r\n&nbsp;', 'Four Ways to Invest More Confidently in a Volatile Market', '', 'publish', 'closed', 'closed', '', 'four-ways-to-invest-more-confidently-in-a-volatile-market', '', '', '2019-08-14 12:49:54', '2019-08-14 16:49:54', '', 0, 'https://staging.yourislandnews.com/?p=41093', 0, 'post', '', 0),
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(41096, 4, '2019-08-14 13:32:20', '2019-08-14 17:32:20', 'The Island Packet and Beaufort Gazette newspapers, produced in Bluffton and Charlotte and printed in Columbia, will no longer produce a Saturday print edition, according to an announcement published in the newspapers and online Aug. 6.\r\n\r\nBeginning Nov. 9, the newspapers will cease printing the Saturday edition and launch a Weekend Edition with expanded editions on Friday and Sunday. They will continue to publish news to their website and social media platforms on Saturday.\r\n\r\n“We are making this strategic change to invest in our future and to continue to be your source of news and information on all the platforms you choose,” the story reads.\r\n\r\nThe message to the readers is signed by Brian Tolley, general manager and executive editor of the Island Packet and Beaufort Gazette.\r\n\r\nThe newspapers are owned by the McClatchy Company.<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">&nbsp;</span>\r\n\r\nThe Island Packet was founded as a weekly in 1970. The Beaufort Gazette was founded in 1897.', 'Beaufort Gazette killing Saturday print edition', '', 'publish', 'closed', 'closed', '', 'beaufort-gazette-killing-saturday-print-edition', '', '', '2019-08-14 13:32:20', '2019-08-14 17:32:20', '', 0, 'https://staging.yourislandnews.com/?p=41096', 0, 'post', '', 0),
(41098, 4, '2019-08-14 13:33:01', '2019-08-14 17:33:01', 'Thanks to additional airline capacity, Hilton Head Island Airport’s passenger boarding numbers are soaring. In fact, the Airport is experiencing record growth it has not experienced in decades.<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">&nbsp;</span>\r\n\r\nMore than 96,000 passengers made their way through the Island’s Airport in the first half of 2019. Compared to the same time period in 2018, it is more than a 225 percent increase in passengers arriving and departing from Hilton Head Island.<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">&nbsp;</span>\r\n\r\nIn 2018, the airport served a total of 78,795 (arriving/departing) passengers, which indicates the airport is well above target for a projected record year.\r\nAirport officials attribute the growth in passengers to new air service and added seat capacity, both products of passenger demand and the newly expanded runway at Hilton Head Island Airport, which opened in July 2018. The year has seen the addition of new route and seat capacity by American Airlines as well as the entry of Delta Air Lines and United Airlines, providing locals and visitors with a total of seven hub-destinations during the peak summer travel season.\r\n“The growth we’re seeing at the Airport goes to show how necessary these new flights were,” Airport Director Jon Rembold said in a release. “Whereas in the past, passengers had to often fly into an airport outside of the county and then drive, our new service options on American, United and Delta, allow passengers to fly into or out of Hilton Head Island Airport and truly start their vacation upon arriving. It’s a win-win for all of us.”\r\nAmerican, Delta, and United (seasonal) all offer passengers direct service to the island. Hilton Head Island Airport officials expect passenger boarding numbers to continue to soar throughout the remainder of 2019.\r\n“Interest in flying to our airport doesn’t appear to be slowing down anytime soon and we love it,” Beaufort County Council Chairman Stu Rodman said. “The Airport is an economic engine and every month we have increased boardings provides direct influence on our local businesses and tourism to the region.”<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">&nbsp;</span>', 'First half of 2019 record-setting for Hilton Head Island Airport', '', 'publish', 'closed', 'closed', '', 'first-half-of-2019-record-setting-for-hilton-head-island-airport', '', '', '2019-08-14 13:33:01', '2019-08-14 17:33:01', '', 0, 'https://staging.yourislandnews.com/?p=41098', 0, 'post', '', 0),
(41101, 4, '2019-08-14 13:33:54', '2019-08-14 17:33:54', '<h4>By Mindy Lucas</h4>\r\nA 60-foot-long shrimp boat tied up at a Port Royal dock sank on Tuesday, Aug. 6.\r\n\r\nThe Dream Catcher had been tied up for some time at the end of 11th Street in front of the Fish Camp restaurant when it started taking on water, Port Royal Town Manager Van Willis confirmed.\r\n\r\nThe Coast Guard, S.C. Department of Environment Health (DHEC) and the S.C. Department of Natural Resources responded to the scene.\r\n\r\nThe boat had about 10 gallons of diesel fuel in its tank at the time of the incident, said Chris Delcamp, with DHEC’s media relations department.\r\n\r\nWhile the fuel left an unsightly sheen on the water and odor in the air, the Coast Guard determined such a small amount would not require a cleanup.\r\n\r\n“It wasn’t substantial enough to require any type of mitigation,” Delcamp said.\r\n\r\nMeanwhile, the Town of Port Royal is contemplating what its next move should be, Willis said when reached by phone on Monday.\r\n\r\nA diver may be brought in to tie off the submerged boat and a skiff may be used to pick up anything that breaks apart, he said.\r\n\r\n“We have several options and all of them are expensive,” he said.\r\n\r\nThe town manages the dock and wants to make sure the boat doesn’t do any damage to the dock or surrounding boats, he said.\r\n\r\nOfficials had tried to reach the owner but had not heard from him by press time on Monday.\r\n\r\n“Ultimately, it’s his responsibility,” Willis said. “And he will be billed or (given a) lien for any of the costs related to removing the boat.”\r\n\r\nIn addition to the shrimp boat, Willis said they had concerns about other derelict boats at the dock and were giving the owners two weeks to remove those boats.\r\n\r\n“This is supposed to be a working dock,” he said. “If you’re not working, you don’t need to be here.”', 'Shrimp boat sinks at Port Royal dock', '', 'publish', 'closed', 'closed', '', 'shrimp-boat-sinks-at-port-royal-dock', '', '', '2019-08-14 13:33:54', '2019-08-14 17:33:54', '', 0, 'https://staging.yourislandnews.com/?p=41101', 0, 'post', '', 0),
(41104, 4, '2019-08-14 13:35:15', '2019-08-14 17:35:15', '<strong>Howard to host meet-and-greet with school board member, county administrator, school superintendent</strong>\r\n\r\nBeaufort County Council Member <a href=\"http://links.govdelivery.com/track?type=click&amp;enid=ZWFzPTEmbWFpbGluZ2lkPTIwMTkwODEyLjkwMTM3NDEmbWVzc2FnZWlkPU1EQi1QUkQtQlVMLTIwMTkwODEyLjkwMTM3NDEmZGF0YWJhc2VpZD0xMDAxJnNlcmlhbD0xNzUwNDkzNiZlbWFpbGlkPXRoZWlzbGFuZG5ld3NAZ21haWwuY29tJnVzZXJpZD10aGVpc2xhbmRuZXdzQGdtYWlsLmNvbSZmbD0mZXh0cmE9TXVsdGl2YXJpYXRlSWQ9JiYm&amp;&amp;&amp;100&amp;&amp;&amp;https://beaufortcountysc.gov/council/council-members/howard-alice.html?utm_medium=email&amp;utm_source=govdelivery\">Alice Howard (District 4)</a> will host a joint meet and greet with Beaufort County Board of Education member <a href=\"http://links.govdelivery.com/track?type=click&amp;enid=ZWFzPTEmbWFpbGluZ2lkPTIwMTkwODEyLjkwMTM3NDEmbWVzc2FnZWlkPU1EQi1QUkQtQlVMLTIwMTkwODEyLjkwMTM3NDEmZGF0YWJhc2VpZD0xMDAxJnNlcmlhbD0xNzUwNDkzNiZlbWFpbGlkPXRoZWlzbGFuZG5ld3NAZ21haWwuY29tJnVzZXJpZD10aGVpc2xhbmRuZXdzQGdtYWlsLmNvbSZmbD0mZXh0cmE9TXVsdGl2YXJpYXRlSWQ9JiYm&amp;&amp;&amp;101&amp;&amp;&amp;http://beaufortschools.net/cms/One.aspx?pageId=221217&amp;portalId=170925&amp;utm_medium=email&amp;utm_source=govdelivery\">Tricia Fidrych (District 4)</a> from 6 to 7 p.m. Wednesday, Aug. 28 at Beaufort Middle School at 2501 Mossy Oaks Road.\r\n\r\nGuests will be Beaufort County Administrator Ashley Jacobs and Beaufort County School Superintendent Dr. Frank Rodriguez.\r\nThe meeting will be held in the Multi-Purpose Room. The meeting is open to the general public.\r\nResidents do not need to register in advance for the meeting. For more information, please contact Howard by email at <a href=\"mailto:ahoward@bcgov.net\">ahoward@bcgov.net</a>, by phone at 843-255-2202 (office) or 843-986-7403 (mobile) or by mail at c/o Clerk to Council, Beaufort County, P.O, Box 1228 Beaufort, SC 29901.\r\n\r\n<strong>Federal government removes plutonium from S.C.</strong>\r\n\r\nOn Wednesday, Aug. 7 the U.S. Department of Energy provided notice that it has removed not less than one metric ton of plutonium from South Carolina in accordance with the injunction obtained by the State from Federal District Judge Michelle Childs.\r\n\r\nCongress passed a law requiring that the plutonium be removed from the Savannah River Site by January 1, 2016 if the Mixed Oxide (MOX) Fuel Facility’s production objective was not met by January 1, 2014. That objective was not met, and the State of South Carolina sued the Department of Energy in 2016.\r\n\r\nThe District Court sided with the State and ordered that one metric ton of plutonium be removed by January 1, 2020. The Department of Energy appealed to the U.S. Fourth Circuit Court of Appeals, which upheld the District Court’s order.\r\n\r\nAttorney General Alan Wilson, who brought the lawsuit against the federal government and the Department of Energy, said in a release, “Today’s news that one ton of weapons-grade plutonium has been removed from the state is a victory for South Carolinians and the rule of law. The Department of Energy disregarded many of its obligations to the State, and this outcome confirms the State will not sit idly by while the Department does so. We will continue enforce the law and hold the federal government to its commitments to South Carolina and its citizens.”\r\n\r\n<strong>Beaufort returns to drought status</strong>\r\n\r\nThe S.C. Drought Response Committee, meeting via conference call on Aug. 12, upgraded the drought status for 33 counties in the state, and Beaufort County was one of nine counties upgraded from normal to incipient, the first level of drought. The others are Anderson, Colleton, Dorchester, Georgetown, Hampton, Jasper, Oconee and Pickens.\r\n\r\n<strong>Beaufort County spraying for mosquitoes</strong>\r\n\r\nBeaufort County Mosquito Control may conduct aerial and/or ground mosquito treatments through Aug. 16. Mosquito Control applies EPA-registered public health insecticide during ideal weather using low-flying aircraft throughout daylight hours and spray trucks from about 11 p.m. to 6:30 a.m. For additional information, contact Mosquito Control at 843-255-5800.\r\n\r\n<strong>New episode of Coastline focuses on storm prep</strong>\r\n\r\nA new episode of The County Channel’s series <a href=\"http://links.govdelivery.com/track?type=click&amp;enid=ZWFzPTEmbWFpbGluZ2lkPTIwMTkwODA5Ljg5NTA2MTEmbWVzc2FnZWlkPU1EQi1QUkQtQlVMLTIwMTkwODA5Ljg5NTA2MTEmZGF0YWJhc2VpZD0xMDAxJnNlcmlhbD0xNzUwNDA3NiZlbWFpbGlkPXRoZWlzbGFuZG5ld3NAZ21haWwuY29tJnVzZXJpZD10aGVpc2xhbmRuZXdzQGdtYWlsLmNvbSZmbD0mZXh0cmE9TXVsdGl2YXJpYXRlSWQ9JiYm&amp;&amp;&amp;100&amp;&amp;&amp;https://www.youtube.com/watch?utm_medium=email&amp;utm_source=govdelivery&amp;v=SKT5pSDmQ5U\">Coastline</a> discusses the importance of storm preparation in case of natural disasters and evacuation. Discussion also covers the best way to stay informed with accurate emergency information, and how Beaufort County departments work together to prepare for emergency situations, to include evacuations and re-entry after a disaster.<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">&nbsp;</span>\r\n\r\nJoining host Suzanne Larson is Beaufort County Disaster Recovery Coordinator Pamela Cobb, Beaufort County Sheriff’s Office (BCSO) Emergency Management Division (EMD) Commander, Lieutenant Colonel Neil Baxley, BCSO Public Information Officer Major Bob Bromage, and Ron Morales, Warning Coordination Meteorologist with the National Weather Service in Charleston.\r\n\r\nCoastline airs on The County Channel Sundays at 9:30 a.m., Tuesdays at 11:30 a.m., Thursdays at 8 p.m., and Fridays at 9 a.m. Coastline is a monthly news show filmed in-studio and produced by The County Channel.\r\n\r\nWatch all programming for The County Channel on Comcast Ch. 2, Hargray Chs. 9 and 113, and Spectrum Ch. 1304. Viewers can also watch programming live and on-demand at <a href=\"http://links.govdelivery.com/track?type=click&amp;enid=ZWFzPTEmbWFpbGluZ2lkPTIwMTkwODA5Ljg5NTA2MTEmbWVzc2FnZWlkPU1EQi1QUkQtQlVMLTIwMTkwODA5Ljg5NTA2MTEmZGF0YWJhc2VpZD0xMDAxJnNlcmlhbD0xNzUwNDA3NiZlbWFpbGlkPXRoZWlzbGFuZG5ld3NAZ21haWwuY29tJnVzZXJpZD10aGVpc2xhbmRuZXdzQGdtYWlsLmNvbSZmbD0mZXh0cmE9TXVsdGl2YXJpYXRlSWQ9JiYm&amp;&amp;&amp;105&amp;&amp;&amp;https://beaufortcountysc.gov/the-county-channel/?utm_medium=email&amp;utm_source=govdelivery\">The County Channel’s website</a> at <a href=\"http://links.govdelivery.com/track?type=click&amp;enid=ZWFzPTEmbWFpbGluZ2lkPTIwMTkwODA5Ljg5NTA2MTEmbWVzc2FnZWlkPU1EQi1QUkQtQlVMLTIwMTkwODA5Ljg5NTA2MTEmZGF0YWJhc2VpZD0xMDAxJnNlcmlhbD0xNzUwNDA3NiZlbWFpbGlkPXRoZWlzbGFuZG5ld3NAZ21haWwuY29tJnVzZXJpZD10aGVpc2xhbmRuZXdzQGdtYWlsLmNvbSZmbD0mZXh0cmE9TXVsdGl2YXJpYXRlSWQ9JiYm&amp;&amp;&amp;106&amp;&amp;&amp;https://beaufortcountysc.gov/?utm_medium=email&amp;utm_source=govdelivery\">www.beaufortcountysc.gov</a>.', 'News Briefs', '', 'publish', 'closed', 'closed', '', 'news-briefs-120', '', '', '2019-08-14 13:35:15', '2019-08-14 17:35:15', '', 0, 'https://staging.yourislandnews.com/?p=41104', 0, 'post', '', 0),
(41106, 4, '2019-08-14 13:36:19', '2019-08-14 17:36:19', '<h4>By Mindy Lucas</h4>\r\nA Charleston-based recycling company is moving the manufacturing arm of its glass division to northern Beaufort County and plans to create between 45 to 50 jobs in the process.\r\n\r\nGlass WRX SC, a new company started by Fisher Recycling, will move into the 85,000 square-foot building at 302 Parker Drive, once occupied by manufacturer Parker Hannifin.\r\n\r\nFounded by Chris Fisher in 1992, Fisher Recycling makes kitchen countertops and other hard surfaces for use in homes and businesses out of the recycled glass it collects from across South Carolina and Georgia.\r\n\r\nThe company also recycles such materials as aluminum, plastic, office paper and cardboard at its collection plant based in Charleston’s Naval Shipyard.\r\n\r\nFisher said he plans to renovate the Beaufort building and make it completely solar powered. The site will also have a showroom floor.\r\n\r\n“The goal is to have all the equipment in by January 1, (of 2020),” he said.\r\n\r\nThe company plans to add 30 positions during its first year of operation and about 20 positions in its second year, for a total of 45 to 50 jobs. Those jobs will come with a starting pay of $18 an hour, he said.\r\n\r\nThe company is also looking to expand into air and water filtration systems, road surfaces and construction materials such as prefab interior walls – all made from recycled glass.\r\n\r\n“There are lots of new and exciting things we can do with glass,” Fisher said.\r\n\r\nTrying to find someone to fill the empty building off Trask Parkway has been in the works for more than a year, Beaufort County Economic Development Corporation executive director John O’Toole said.\r\n\r\nThe development group, which works to recruit companies to Beaufort, often works with the city and South Carolina’s Department of Commerce on tax-based incentive packages to make the area more attractive to potential businesses.\r\n\r\nIn addition, Beaufort has two “trump cards” that make it attractive for those looking to relocate or open a business here, he said.\r\n\r\n“We have a quality of life that’s indisputable and the work force here in particular is a factor,” he said.\r\n\r\nIncreased congestion in areas such as Charleston and Summerville have also played a role in why manufacturers like Glass WRX SC are choosing to go elsewhere, he said.\r\n\r\nGiven that, the challenge, he said, is to “keep things within scale” so that it does not negatively impact Beaufort’s quality of life.\r\n\r\n“I believe we project pretty clearly that we want companies that have a close loop system like this and aren’t going to adversely affect the environment,” he said. “And to have companies like (Glass WRX SC) that are going to improve the environment as well is a nice feather in our cap.”\r\n\r\nFisher has asked that the 37-acre property be annexed into the city so that the company can have access to city services and more favorable tax incentives, he said.\r\n\r\nIt is the only site within the Parker Drive industrial park not in the city, he added.\r\n\r\nThe company received preliminary approval from the Beaufort-Port Royal Metropolitan Planning Commission in July and hopes to receive final approval at the next city council meeting, Aug. 27.', 'Glass recycling business coming to Beaufort', '', 'publish', 'closed', 'closed', '', 'glass-recycling-business-coming-to-beaufort', '', '', '2019-08-14 13:36:19', '2019-08-14 17:36:19', '', 0, 'https://staging.yourislandnews.com/?p=41106', 0, 'post', '', 0),
(41108, 4, '2019-08-14 13:38:40', '2019-08-14 17:38:40', 'Rob Simmons ran away from the field to claim an 11-shot victory at the Beaufort City Championship over the weekend, capturing the title for a record fourth time.\r\n\r\nSimmons carded rounds of 67 and 66 for a 10-under-par total at Fripp Island Club, easily claiming the title over runner-up Matt O’Quinn. Defending champion Patrick Mitchell tied for third at 4-over.\r\n\r\nSimmons was the only player to break par Saturday on the Ocean Point course, as he carded six birdies and one bogey en route to a 67 and a six-shot lead entering the final round. Simmons didn’t let up on Sunday on the Ocean Creek course, making seven birdies and just one bogey to card a 66.\r\n\r\nSimmons, who previously won the event in 2011, 2014 and 2015, broke a tie with Mark Anderson for the most titles in the history of the tournament.\r\n\r\nDan Bostick won the pro division, shooting 1-over to hold off Jeff Pinckney by six shots.\r\n\r\n&nbsp;\r\n\r\n<strong>All-time Champions</strong>\r\n\r\n&nbsp;\r\n\r\n1998: Mike Ingram\r\n\r\n1999: Patrick Mitchell\r\n\r\n2000: Mike Ingram\r\n\r\n2001: Mark Anderson\r\n\r\n2002: Gary Shimmin\r\n\r\n2003: Jeff Pinckney\r\n\r\n2004: Trey Testino\r\n\r\n2005: Terry Lanning\r\n\r\n2006: Char Cormier\r\n\r\n2007: Christian Sherbert\r\n\r\n2008: Mark Anderson\r\n\r\n2009: Mark Anderson\r\n\r\n2010: Char Cormier\r\n\r\n2011: Rob Simmons\r\n\r\n2012: JD Hoft\r\n\r\n2013: Reed Weatherford\r\n\r\n2014: Rob Simmons\r\n\r\n2015: Rob Simmons\r\n\r\n2016: Matt O’Quinn\r\n\r\n2017: Doug Weaver\r\n\r\n2018: Patrick Mitchell\r\n\r\n2019: Rob Simmons', 'Simmons reclaims City Championship', '', 'publish', 'closed', 'closed', '', 'simmons-reclaims-city-championship', '', '', '2019-08-14 13:38:40', '2019-08-14 17:38:40', '', 0, 'https://staging.yourislandnews.com/?p=41108', 0, 'post', '', 0),
(41111, 4, '2019-08-14 13:39:23', '2019-08-14 17:39:23', 'Beaufort’s Mark Anderson will be back on the PGA Tour next month.\r\n\r\nAnderson officially regained his PGA Tour card for the 2019-20 season when the Korn Ferry Tour (formerly the Web.com Tour) season wrapped up Sunday.\r\n\r\nDespite playing only 13 events due to a broken ankle, Anderson finished 14th on the Korn Ferry Tour regular-season points list; the top 25 earn PGA Tour status for next season.&nbsp;\r\n\r\nAnderson put himself in position to earn a promotion when he won the Country Club de Bogota Championship in Colombia in February, but he played only one more event before reinjuring his ankle and missing more than two months.\r\n\r\nAnderson last played on the PGA Tour full-time in 2017, when he made only six cuts in 20 starts, though that included a 10th-place finish at the Puerto Rico Open.\r\n\r\nThe three-event Korn Ferry Tour Finals begin this week with the Nationwide Children’s Hospital Championship in Columbus, Ohio.', 'Anderson clinches PGA Tour card', '', 'publish', 'closed', 'closed', '', 'anderson-clinches-pga-tour-card', '', '', '2019-08-14 13:39:23', '2019-08-14 17:39:23', '', 0, 'https://staging.yourislandnews.com/?p=41111', 0, 'post', '', 0),
(41114, 4, '2019-08-14 13:40:21', '2019-08-14 17:40:21', 'The Beaufort County All-Stars saw their run at the Dixie Junior Boys (13U) World Series end at the hands of a familiar rival Tuesday in Aiken.\r\n\r\nAfter advancing to the final four with a 16-1 win over Hattiesburg, Mississippi, on Tuesday morning, Beaufort County later lost 11-2 to Sumter — its fourth loss this postseason to the eventual champs.\r\n\r\nAfter back-to-back mercy-rule wins in elimination games, the offense kept rolling against Mississippi, as Beaufort County put up 13 runs in the second inning en route to a 16-1 win in three innings. Kyler McKeever was 3-for-4 with a double, three RBIs, and three runs to lead the offense and struck out three while allowing one unearned run over two innings to earn the win. Dietrich Shuford and Braydon Dineen each added a hit and two RBIs.\r\n\r\nThe win earned Beaufort County another shot at the Sumter team it defeated once in the state tournament, but Sumter maintained its upper-hand with a fourth consecutive win over its new rival.\r\n\r\nKevin Brown and Jadyn Andrews each went 2-for-3, and Logan Brutcher and Carter Zareva each had a hit and an RBI in the finale. Brown started on the mound and took the loss, allowing five runs (three earned) over three innings.\r\n\r\nAll four of Beaufort County’s losses came to Sumter — two in the state tournament and two in the World Series.', 'Beaufort County Junior Boys fall to eventual champion', '', 'publish', 'closed', 'closed', '', 'beaufort-county-junior-boys-fall-to-eventual-champion', '', '', '2019-08-14 13:40:21', '2019-08-14 17:40:21', '', 0, 'https://staging.yourislandnews.com/?p=41114', 0, 'post', '', 0),
(41117, 4, '2019-08-14 13:40:50', '2019-08-14 17:40:50', 'A trio of Lowcountry baseball stars helped their team to the championship in the Diamond Prospects Palmetto Games this weekend at Founders Park in Columbia.\r\n\r\nBeaufort High’s Rhogue Wallace and Paul Winland and former May River standout Cooper George helped the Southwest Gold team go 2-0 in the prestigious showcase event.\r\n\r\nThe team opened the weekend with a 13-1 win over Southeast Black, as George went 1-for-2; Winland was 0-for-1 with a walk, a run, and an RBI; and Wallace drew two walks.\r\n\r\nSouthwest Gold clinched the title with a dramatic 13-9 win over Northeast Red, scoring eight runs in the bottom of the ninth. Winland was 1-for-3 with a run and two RBIs, George was 0-for-1, and Wallace was 0-for-1 with a walk.\r\n\r\nThe Southwest Gold team was one of two that went undefeated, but it won the title based on the run-differential tiebreaker.', 'BHS stars help Southwest Gold claim Palmetto Games title', '', 'publish', 'closed', 'closed', '', 'bhs-stars-help-southwest-gold-claim-palmetto-games-title', '', '', '2019-08-14 13:40:50', '2019-08-14 17:40:50', '', 0, 'https://staging.yourislandnews.com/?p=41117', 0, 'post', '', 0),
(41119, 4, '2019-08-14 13:42:24', '2019-08-14 17:42:24', 'Beaufort Academy has hired veteran coach Bobby Smith to lead its boys basketball program, athletics director Nick Field said Tuesday.\r\n\r\nSmith has 45 years of coaching experience at the high school and college levels, Field said, and has compiled nearly 500 wins as a head coach while sending more than 100 players to NCAA Division I programs.\r\n\r\n“He’s a guy who knows how to put kids in college and knows how to win,” Field said. “He’s done it for a long time.”&nbsp;\r\n\r\nSmith spent two years as an assistant at Beaufort High School, working alongside Field and former head coach Nathan Livesay, who resigned from Beaufort Academy last month.\r\n\r\nThe Eagles expect to return 11 players from last year’s team that reached the SCISA 1A quarterfinals, including all-state player Dawson Coleman.\r\n\r\n&nbsp;', 'BA names Smith new boys hoops coach', '', 'publish', 'closed', 'closed', '', 'ba-names-smith-new-boys-hoops-coach', '', '', '2019-08-14 13:42:24', '2019-08-14 17:42:24', '', 0, 'https://staging.yourislandnews.com/?p=41119', 0, 'post', '', 0),
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(41123, 4, '2019-08-14 13:43:44', '2019-08-14 17:43:44', '<h4>By MIKE McCOMBS</h4>\r\nIn the near future, there will be one more recreational way for families to spend their time in Beaufort, though exactly when that will be is unclear.\r\n\r\nAccording to their website and Facebook page, Glowcountry Indoor Mini Golf will be opening soon, the blacklit, air-conditioned indoor 18-hole course occupying the now-vacant building at 46 Robert Smalls Parkway, next to the Spanish Moss Trail.<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">&nbsp;</span>\r\n\r\nIt is unclear when exactly that will be, and phone calls to the number provided on the website had not been returned as of press time.\r\n\r\nAfter originally announcing their presence in February, the owners have posted on the Glowcountry Indoor Mini Golf Facebook page twice in the past two weeks.\r\n\r\nOn Aug. 2, they announced they were coming soon.\r\n\r\n“Our goal is to bring affordable fun for all ages to our sweet small town!” the post read. “We hope that you are as excited as we are to have another fun option for families that isn\'t far away! Please share your excitement with us as well as your ideas! We aim to please and are always open to suggestion!\r\n\r\nTo stay up to date on our opening and other exciting events, like our page not just this post. For more information about all we have to offer please check out our website.”\r\n\r\nThen Aug. 7, they announced their location.\r\n\r\n“We\'re super excited to be located right on the Spanish Moss Trail!! Glowcountry Indoor Mini Golf will be a great place to stop and cool off during your walk, run or ride! Along with black light mini golf, we will also have a party space, concession counter, and retail, all AIR CONDITIONED!!”\r\n\r\nAccording to the website, rounds will be $10 for adults and $8 for kids 12 and younger, seniors 65 and older and heroes (first responders, military, teachers and nurses).\r\n\r\nFor more information, visit <a href=\"https://l.facebook.com/l.php?u=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.glowcountryminigolf.com%2F%3Ffbclid%3DIwAR0jz1dORNF5lGuzv0Y64d11yRL9vP_RYY9bcZ86UovKX5lClcwbkcfKzdY&amp;h=AT1MEIFWu7s59I6nT6wqs82bKpDoTbjbiz_eaWVUjqHViXZxTsMWRHXGgrJJUCdbuiXfK-kUteq_M6yNQiyxQljpXb5okyse_l7yqjlyJr5WDVIRnKF55VEG7XjHfj03m66bnr_0j4UpRwvUE9efUfVH24mBq7FJzSyhbXioWV4ydxsKgp2t0Ze9Iqx7ehGxl6VvtNKKsTgc7qkXOt80qguU1-fMNFwgcgwVlevSvB-43-ay_z-ZkYX_xx7MyLujxKSnCuRiEJd7bakmTEy_Ns3JRSj0VfCuhMw6cJaJ2But0XcT4zjHFJL4LqqRXF1zzljQyfOjTM9oBEsyuiIcBHHpr2wHZCqIb4PD30LB-VqIHiriHgAy9f2AlleD4BKSa-sObSbLzk-A9_6-KLdHKCytJZg0c1Do1wdPcUqbmQePmxkwmqgl6sTcCNj0jG7mdCnFrAtO5qUpSoHfPVa3Sp0LX-AFR2C4N2WXSrYZznPPWIM0lMYTcWfr1qkHY_VOwNkJI2204S_LYgW5OUbhB9r4ory1q7c2TrigJnXyedv71wWET7Vovw8Rl3xknB1csUTx134NNH-rGDOtbNoReoS4kwz3uYZcIrHp9yVqbThIvXE5emSgiR-Sz3xmqTFLJB0\">www.glowcountryminigolf.com</a>.', 'Indoor mini golf course to open in Beaufort', '', 'publish', 'closed', 'closed', '', 'indoor-mini-golf-course-to-open-in-beaufort', '', '', '2019-08-14 13:43:44', '2019-08-14 17:43:44', '', 0, 'https://staging.yourislandnews.com/?p=41123', 0, 'post', '', 0);
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(41127, 4, '2019-08-14 13:46:51', '2019-08-14 17:46:51', 'Fourteenth Circuit Solicitor Duffie Stone has been named the 68th president of the National District Attorneys Association.\r\n\r\nFormed in 1950, the NDAA has more than 5,100 members across the nation representing state and local prosecutors’ offices from both urban and rural districts, as well as large and small jurisdictions. The organization works with Congress on law enforcement and prosecution issues and trains prosecutors across the United States.\r\n\r\nStone’s agenda for the organization for the upcoming year is to work with Congress to fund the John R. Justice student loan forgiveness program.\r\n\r\n“There are people throughout the country who want to be career prosecutors and public defenders but cannot afford to do so due to crippling student loan debt,” Stone said in a release. “If we are to tackle some of <a href=\"https://staging.yourislandnews.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/08/StoneNDAAspeech.jpg\"><img class=\"alignright  wp-image-41129\" src=\"https://staging.yourislandnews.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/08/StoneNDAAspeech-1024x576.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"625\" height=\"351\"></a>today’s most pressing criminal justice issues like the opioid crisis, we need both experienced prosecutors and public defenders and the John R. Justice program is one of those ways we can provide a career path for these public servants.”\r\n\r\nNext, Stone wants to create regional training facilities throughout the country.\r\n\r\n“The NDAA has trained thousands of prosecutors over the years with the only limitation being the offices ability to send their prosecutors to the classes,” Stone said.\r\n\r\nStone said he wants NDAA training to be available to all prosecution offices regardless of size or budget and aims to establish local training facilities.\r\n\r\n“This helps the prosecutors and the communities that they serve by bringing in top-notch national training,” he said.\r\n\r\nStone has already testified before the U.S. Senate concerning the dangers of child exploitation on the internet and has met with members of Congress concerning the funding of the John R. Justice program.\r\n\r\n“I am honored to hold this position,” he said. “The National District Attorneys Association has been the catalyst for a number of programs that we have put in place in the 14th Circuit. Our intelligence unit, our Special Victims Unit and our soon to be opened Family Justice Center are just some of the programs I learned about by serving on the NDAA board.”\r\n\r\nStone is only the second South Carolinian to serve as NDAA president. The first was the late Sixth Circuit Solicitor John Justice.\r\n\r\nThe 14th Judicial Circuit includes Allendale, Beaufort, Colleton, Hampton and Jasper counties.\r\n\r\n<em>Above: Fourteenth Circuit Solicitor Duffie Stone, right, speaks during&nbsp;last week’s ceremony in Quebec City, Canada. National District Attorneys Association Executive Director Nelson O. Bunn, Jr. is at left. Stone joins the late John R. Justice, who was the&nbsp;6th Circuit solicitor for nearly three decades, as the only South Carolinians to head the NDAA,&nbsp;the country\'s only nonpartisan organization representing state and local prosecutors.</em>', 'Stone chosen to lead national prosecutors organization', '', 'publish', 'closed', 'closed', '', 'stone-chosen-to-lead-national-prosecutors-organization', '', '', '2019-08-14 13:46:51', '2019-08-14 17:46:51', '', 0, 'https://staging.yourislandnews.com/?p=41127', 0, 'post', '', 0),
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(41132, 4, '2019-08-14 13:49:40', '2019-08-14 17:49:40', '<h4>By MINDY LUCAS</h4>\r\nA quick stop for a cold refreshment by firefighters proved to be too much for their fire truck last week.\r\n\r\nA crew with the City of Beaufort/ Town of Port Royal Fire Department had just stopped at the Parker’s gas station at the intersection of Savannah Highway and Parris Island Gateway when they noticed their truck seemed to be sinking.\r\n\r\nEngine 3 was carrying its normal capacity of 750 gallons of water at the time of the incident which occurred around 5:30 p.m. on Thursday, Aug. 8, said Ross Vezin with the fire department.\r\n\r\nThere was no indication that a sinkhole lurked beneath the asphalt when the firefighters pulled into the parking lot, he said.\r\n\r\n“They pulled the break like they normally do, got out and it just sank all at once. Thankfully they were all out at the time,” he said.\r\n\r\nThe truck sank 18 inches before coming to a rest on its front axle.&nbsp;\r\n\r\nThe fire crew called in a reserve engine from another station so they could respond to emergencies in the area, and Engine 3 was pulled free from the sinkhole by a heavy duty wrecker from Interstate Towing, Vezin said.\r\n\r\nThe hole has been covered with a metal plate and the South Carolina Highway Patrol is investigating.', 'Sinkhole opens up beneath fire truck in Port Royal', '', 'publish', 'closed', 'closed', '', 'sinkhole-opens-up-beneath-fire-truck-in-port-royal', '', '', '2019-08-15 08:53:13', '2019-08-15 12:53:13', '', 0, 'https://staging.yourislandnews.com/?p=41132', 0, 'post', '', 0),
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(41138, 4, '2019-08-14 13:51:59', '2019-08-14 17:51:59', '<h4>By MINDY LUCAS</h4>\r\nA trio of Lady’s Island Middle School students came out winners in a recent statewide video contest on Reconstruction.\r\n\r\nAlexander Tielens, Noah Henry and Parth Patel were the only winners from Beaufort County in the SCETV-sponsored “Deconstruct the Reconstruction Contest.”\r\n\r\nThe contest was held in conjunction with the April premier of the PBS documentary “Reconstruction: America After the Civil War” by renowned filmmaker, author and historian Henry Louis Gates.\r\n\r\n“Lady’s Island Middle School and our community are very proud of the boys as they collaborated through this project,” Lady’s Island Middle School teacher Scott Shipsey said.\r\n\r\nThe students were responsible for creating, editing and uploading the video to the SCETV website, Shipsey said.\r\n\r\nThe winners were announced in a live, virtual classroom event with Gates. The students won an iPad and the honor of having their video placed in the SCETV video files library.\r\n\r\nThe video can be viewed at <a href=\"https://www.scetv.org/reconstruction\">https://www.scetv.org/reconstruction</a>.', 'Lady’s Island Middle School students win SCETV contest on Reconstruction', '', 'publish', 'closed', 'closed', '', 'ladys-island-middle-school-students-win-scetv-contest-on-reconstructio', '', '', '2019-08-15 08:56:40', '2019-08-15 12:56:40', '', 0, 'https://staging.yourislandnews.com/?p=41138', 0, 'post', '', 0),
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(41142, 4, '2019-08-14 13:57:03', '2019-08-14 17:57:03', 'Photo by BOB SOFALY\r\n\r\nMore than a dozen volunteers and a hand full of Beaufort/Port Royal firefighters stuffed new backpacks with school supplies during the United Way’s Operation Backpack on Tuesday, Aug. 6, at the United Way on Ribaut Road.', 'Operation Backpack', '', 'publish', 'closed', 'closed', '', 'operation-backpack', '', '', '2019-08-14 13:57:03', '2019-08-14 17:57:03', '', 0, 'https://staging.yourislandnews.com/?p=41142', 0, 'post', '', 0),
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(41148, 4, '2019-08-14 14:04:49', '2019-08-14 18:04:49', '<h4>By MIKE McCOMBS</h4>\r\nWhen Massachusetts senator Elizabeth Warren visited Whale Branch Middle School in April, she vowed she would return to Beaufort County before the 2020 Democratic presidential primary.\r\n\r\nShe hasn’t made it yet, but her campaign is putting down roots here, opening a SC For Warren campaign office Saturday at 129 Burton Hill Road, Suite J.\r\n\r\nAbout 50 people showed up to celebrate the opening.<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">&nbsp;</span>\r\n\r\n“Elizabeth has a plan for South Carolina,” Warren campaign state director Alycia Albergottie said in a release. “As part of the next phase of our grassroots movement, we are opening five offices across the <a href=\"https://staging.yourislandnews.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/08/IMG_2064.jpeg\"><img class=\"alignright  wp-image-41151\" src=\"https://staging.yourislandnews.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/08/IMG_2064-1024x781.jpeg\" alt=\"\" width=\"726\" height=\"553\"></a>Palmetto State from the Upstate to the Lowcountry to give supporters a chance to join the fight for big structural change that is needed to make our government work for every American.”\r\n\r\nPhil Leventis, who represented the 35<sup>th</sup> district in the S.C. Senate from 1980 to 2012, was on hand to talk to thank supporters and tell them, and anyone else interested in listening, about Warren’s qualifications.\r\n\r\n“Senator Warren is just eminently qualified (to be president) based on her life experience, which is broad,” Leventis said, citing Warren’s roles as a mother, grandmother, attorney, professor, public school teacher and defender of the everyday American consumer.\r\n\r\nLeventis defended Warren from opponents who have tried to characterize her as a socialist and opposed to free markets.\r\n\r\n“Capitalism is open markets, not markets that are influenced by monopolies and the like. When Adam Smith, in 1776, the year our country was born, published “A Wealth of Nations,” he said there always has to be a leviathan in a marketplace so that nobody will get a monopoly, and if it’s beginning to happen, that leviathan will level the playing field for everyone,” Leventis said. “That’s what Senator Warren wants to do. And if people try to mischaracterize that, well, they’re dead wrong. Because, as she’s fond of saying, and I’m very much impressed by it, she has a plan for that.”\r\n\r\n“I have a plan for that,” has become a common phrase uttered on the campaign trail by Warren. She has written and made publicly available plans for everything from immigration reform and health care to the opioid crisis and gun violence.\r\n\r\nIn one room of the office, Warren’s numerous plans are available for interested people to read. On one wall was a poster where those in attendance Saturday were asked to note which plans were the most important to them. Immigration and health care were two early leaders.\r\n\r\nThere are four full-time staff members at the office, which will maintain regular hours Tuesday through Saturday. Campaign paraphernalia – signs, stickers, posters, shirts, etc. – will be available soon.\r\n\r\nLeventis pointed out how important is was that so many gave up time on their Saturday to show up for this event. Leadership doesn’t begin in Washington, he said. America is a grassroots nation.\r\n\r\n“The road to the White House begins in rooms like this,” he said.\r\n\r\n<em>Above: Supporters and volunteers gather for a group photo Saturday after the opening of Elizabeth Warren’s campaign office in Beaufort. Photo by Leila Mohaideen.</em>', 'Warren campaign opens office in Beaufort', '', 'publish', 'closed', 'closed', '', 'warren-campaign-opens-office-in-beaufort', '', '', '2019-08-14 14:04:49', '2019-08-14 18:04:49', '', 0, 'https://staging.yourislandnews.com/?p=41148', 0, 'post', '', 0),
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(41153, 4, '2019-08-14 14:17:06', '2019-08-14 18:17:06', '<h4>By MIKE McCOMBS</h4>\r\nJaime Harrison was adamant.\r\n\r\n“This race,” he said, “is not about Lindsay Graham.”\r\n\r\nThat didn’t mean Harrison had anything glowing to say about South Carolina’s senior Republican senator.\r\n\r\nHarrison, the Democratic candidate for Graham’s Senate seat in the 2020 election, met with 50 or so supporters for a brunch fundraiser Saturday morning at the home of Jane and Lloyd Sidwell in Beaufort.\r\n\r\nMost of Harrison’s message was bright. But that didn’t mean he had anything sunny to say about Graham, who in an about face from two years ago, has become one of President Trump’s most loyal supporters.\r\n\r\n“I never thought I’d be quoting (conservative pundit) George Will, but George Will said it perfectly,” Harrison said. “Lindsay Graham is a political windsock. He doesn’t care about his best friend John McCain or Donald Trump. He does what’s in the best interest of Lindsay Graham.”\r\n\r\nHarrison said that Graham’s silence in the face of Trump’s constant barbs aimed at McCain and his legacy was telling of what kind of person Graham is.\r\n\r\n“If he does that to his best friend,” Harrison said, “what will he do to all of us?”\r\n\r\nThe son of a single teenage mom from Orangeburg and raised by his grandparents, Harrison defied the odds, attending Yale University and then Georgetown Law School. He eventually became the youngest, as well as the first black head of the S.C. Democratic Party.\r\n\r\nRebuilding trust and giving people hope – these are the things Harrison believes he has to do to have a shot a winning a Senate seat in a solid red state.\r\n\r\nHarrison pointed out there are 200,000 unregistered African-American voters in South Carolina. There are 50,000 unregistered Latino voters, as well. And there are close to 150,000 voters who voted for Barack Obama for president and haven’t voted since.<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">&nbsp;</span>\r\n\r\nIf Democrats hope to win, Harrison said, they must get these people to the polls. He stressed getting help to the communities that need it the most and serving constituents, something he said South Carolina’s current senators – Graham, in particular – don’t do well.\r\n\r\nIn contrast, Harrison pointed out it was Strom Thurmond – ironically a longtime segregationist and a Republican – who answered his mother’s letter and assisted her in finding a job.\r\n\r\nHarrison unveiled “Harrison Helps,” his plan to “show and not just tell the folks” by networking with supporters to help constituents in need even before the election.\r\n\r\nAnd he stressed common sense.\r\n\r\n“If you talk common sense to people and let them know you’re grounded in reality,” Harrison said, “they may not agree with me on everything, but they’ll know I’ll always tell them the truth.”\r\n\r\nWhen asked about the way the Senate is being run, Harrison had harsh words for majority leader Mitch McConnell (R-Ky.) and Graham.\r\n\r\n“When you have two mass shootings that have taken place like they did, you would have thought that Congress would have run to go back into session to do something to address that,” Harrison said. “The American people are in need. We need our representatives to do something. What’s Lindsay Graham doing? He’s golfing with the president this weekend. He sent his thoughts and prayers and he’s golfing with the president.”\r\n\r\nHarrison called Graham and McConnell out for refusing to address legislation written by S.C. congressmen Joe Cunningham and Jim Clyburn to close the Charleston loophole.\r\n\r\n“You would have thought that (Graham), a United States Senator from South Carolina, who had nine of his constituents murdered, one of them a state senator, would have ... out of deference and respect for the nine folks who lost their lives here in South Carolina, those families, he should have said, I don’t agree with this legislation, but out of respect for my constituents and their families, I will allow consideration and discussion of in the judiciary committee of the United States Senate. And what has he said? No.”\r\n\r\nIn the end, Harrison said, it’s time for Graham to do his job and represent all of the people of South Carolina.\r\n\r\n“Time and time again, this guy has shown disrespect. And, you know, enough is enough. Who do you serve? Do you represent yourself? Or do you represent the people of South Carolina?” Harrison asked. “I don’t need to be on TV. I don’t need to be on Fox News. I don’t need to fly on Air Force One. What I need to do … if I put my hand on the Bible to protect and defend the Constitution of the United States, to represent the people of South Carolina, then, dammit, that’s the job.<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">&nbsp;</span>\r\n\r\n“Right now, we have someone who wants to do all these other things and be relevant and be important and be the best friend of the president, but that’s not why we sent him to Washington, D.C. 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(41157, 4, '2019-08-14 14:19:49', '2019-08-14 18:19:49', '<h4>By MIKE McCOMBS</h4>\r\nAdd two more names to the list of Democratic candidates for president who will have made the trip to Beaufort County.\r\n\r\nAndrew Yang and Pete Buttigieg will visit this week.\r\n\r\nYang will speak Thursday at the North of the Broad Democratic Club meeting at the Grand Army of the Republic Hall at 706 Newcastle Street.\r\n\r\nThe gathering and greeting begins at 6:30 p.m., followed by the meeting at 7 p.m., but Yang probably won’t speak until roughly 7:45 p.m.\r\n\r\nButtigieg will hold a rally from 10 a.m. until 12:30 p.m. Saturday. The rally is tentatively slated to be held at Whale Branch Middle School. Plans for the location have not been finalized. Follow YourIslandNews.com for potential updates.\r\n\r\nYang is known for his signature policy, called the “Freedom Dividend.” The Freedom Dividend is a form of Universal Basic Income (UBI), where all Americans 18 and older would receive $1,000 a month.<a href=\"https://staging.yourislandnews.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/08/Yang.jpg\"><img class=\"alignright  wp-image-41058\" src=\"https://staging.yourislandnews.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/08/Yang-1024x683.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"563\" height=\"375\"></a>\r\n\r\nAccording to Yang, this will soften the blow of an increasingly difficult U.S. labor landscape as a result of current and future job elimination due to automation. <span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">&nbsp;</span>\r\n\r\nYang’s two other major platform issues are Medicare for all and human-centered capitalism.\r\n\r\nThe founder of <a href=\"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Venture_for_America\">Venture for America</a> (VFA), a non-profit that focuses on creating jobs in struggling American cities, Yang is pro-choice, opposes discrimination based on sexual orientation or gender identification and wants the United States to rejoin the Paris Climate Accords.\r\n\r\nSpeaking before Yang will be the scheduled special speaker, Gloria Holmes, PhD, a professor at the University of South Carolina Beaufort. She teaches on \"Cultural Diversity in Education,\" preparing students to demonstrate an understanding of the depth and breadth of cultural diversity within the United States.<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">&nbsp;</span>\r\n\r\nButtigieg, the current mayor of South Bend, Ind., is a Rhodes Scholar and one of three combat veterans trying to earn the Democratic nomination. He was in U.S. Naval Intelligence and served in Afghanistan.\r\n\r\nAmong his platform planks are support for reducing income inequality, support for organized labor, universal background checks for firearm purchases, pro-environmental policies and support for the Equality Act.\r\n\r\nButtigieg wants to preserve DACA – the “dreamers” program for children of undocumented immigrants – end gerrymandering, overturn Citizens United and do away with the electoral college.\r\n\r\n<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">&nbsp;</span>Yang and Buttigieg join a growing list of 2020 candidates who have visited Beaufort County since the spring. Previous candidates to swing through the Lowcountry include Beto O’Rourke, Elizabeth Warren, Cory Booker, John Hickenlooper and Marianne Williamson.\r\n\r\n&nbsp;\r\n\r\nAbove: Pete Buttigieg and Andrew Yang', 'Yang, Buttigieg bringing campaigns for president to Beaufort', '', 'publish', 'closed', 'closed', '', 'yang-buttigieg-bringing-campaigns-for-president-to-beaufort', '', '', '2019-08-14 14:19:49', '2019-08-14 18:19:49', '', 0, 'https://staging.yourislandnews.com/?p=41157', 0, 'post', '', 0),
(41159, 4, '2019-08-14 14:30:43', '2019-08-14 18:30:43', 'U.S. Marine Capt. Anneliese Satz left her legacy on the Marine Corps’ F-35B Program when she became the first female Marine to complete the F-35B Basic Course on June 27.\r\nFlying is nothing new to Satz — prior to joining the Marine Corps, she earned her commercial pilots license flying a Robinson R44 Helicopter which she attributes to preparing her for a career in military aviation.\r\nOver the last four years, Satz, 29, has completed Aviation Pre-flight Indoctrination in Pensacola, Fla., Primary Flight Training in Corpus Christi, Texas, where she learned to fly the T-6 Texan II, then to Meridian, Miss., where she flew the T-45C Goshawk advanced jet training aircraft.<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">&nbsp;</span>\r\n\r\nUpon completing her initial trainings, she was assigned to Marine Fighter Attack Training Squadron 501, the “Warlords,” to train on her assigned fleet aircraft: the F-35B Lightning II Joint Strike Fighter, the world’s first supersonic STOVL stealth aircraft. It’s designed to operate from austere, short-field bases and a range of air-capable ships operating near front-line combat zones.\r\n\r\n“At each of my training schools I did my best,” said Satz, a Boise, Idaho native. “I truly believe that showing up prepared and working diligently are two major keys to success.”\r\nAfter arriving to MCAS Beaufort in July of 2018, she took her first flight in the F-35B in October that year.\r\n\r\n“The first flight in an F-35 is by yourself,” she said. “The syllabus thoroughly prepares you for that first time you take off and for every flight after that, it’s an exhilarating experience.”\r\nDuring her four years of training, Satz earned more than 300 flight hours, spent a significant amount of time practicing in simulators while also studying for written and practical application exams; and although training and learning never stops, she will now be assigned to her first operational unit, Marine Fighter Attack Squadron 121, the Green Knights in Iwakuni, Japan.\r\n\r\n“I’m very grateful for the instructors, the maintainers, and countless others at 501 who lent me their expertise and time while I was going through the syllabus,” Satz said. “This is a phenomenal program made possible by all of their hard work. I am thankful to have had the opportunity to learn from all of them. I am incredibly excited to get to VMFA-121 and look forward to the opportunity to serve in the Fleet Marine Forces.”\r\n\r\n<em>Photo by Sgt. Ashley Phillips</em>', 'MCAS Beaufort’s Satz 1st female Marine to complete F-35 training', '', 'publish', 'closed', 'closed', '', 'mcas-beauforts-satz-1st-female-marine-to-complete-f-35-training', '', '', '2019-08-14 14:30:43', '2019-08-14 18:30:43', '', 0, 'https://staging.yourislandnews.com/?p=41159', 0, 'post', '', 0),
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(41168, 4, '2019-08-21 07:06:52', '2019-08-21 11:06:52', '<strong>Fripp Island Marina to host Labor Day Fishing Tournament</strong>\r\nFripp Island Marina\'s 2019 Fishing Tournament will take place Aug. 29-31. Fisherman are invited to compete for a payout of more than $5000 in the traditional Labor Day event. Prizes will include largest in the King Mackerel and Spanish Mackerel categories and more. For more information, call 843-838-1517, register on our website at <a href=\"http://www.frippislandresort.com/\">www.frippislandresort.com</a> or contact us via email at <a href=\"mailto:kingfishtournament@gmail.com\">kingfishtournament@gmail.com</a>. Proceeds for the event go to benefit the Pledge The Pink initiative.\r\n\r\n<strong>Play soccer at the YMCA</strong>\r\n\r\n2019 YMCA Adult Soccer league registration is open at The Wardle Family Y located at 1801 Richmond Ave in Port Royal. Ages 18 and older. Games begin Sept. 8. Cost is $45 for Y members; $55 for non-members; $300 per team. For additional information, contact Mike Woods, Y Sports Director, at 843-522-9622, ext. 244. Register at the Y or <a href=\"http://beaufort-jasperymca.org/\">beaufort-jasperymca.org</a>.<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">&nbsp;</span>\r\n\r\n<strong>Hair to Learn at the Beaufort County Library</strong>\r\n\r\nTosha Holmes, salon owner, cosmetology educator and hair care expert, answers questions about keeping your hair and scalp healthy. Includes a quick and easy style demonstration.\r\n\r\nCall 843-255-6458 to submit questions or for more information about this free event, 5:30-6:30 p.m., Monday, Aug. 26, 311 Scott Street.\r\n\r\n<strong>Moon Over Buffalo continues run</strong>\r\n\r\nCoastal Stage Productions’ production of Moon Over Buffalo continues at AmVets at 1831 Ribaut Road in Port Royal. There are evening shows (8 p.m.) scheduled for Aug. 23 and 24. and matinees (2 p.m.) set for Aug. 24 and 25. Tickets are $25 in advance and available by calling 843-717-2175 or online at <a href=\"https://moonportroyal.bpt.me/\">https://moonportroyal.bpt.me/</a>. Tickets are $22 for groups of 10 or more and $27 at the door. Students are $20.\r\n\r\n<strong>Sportfishing and Diving Club to meet Sept. 12</strong>\r\n\r\nThe Beaufort Sportfishing and Diving Club’s September meeting will be held Thursday, Sept. 12 at the Beaufort Yacht Club on Lady’s Island off Meridian Road. The social begins at 6:30 p.m., and the meeting starts at 7 p.m.\r\n\r\nBob Martore, manager of S.C. Department of Natural Resources, Marine Resources Division Office of Fisheries Management, will be the guest presenter. His department has developed a new underwater video of State reefs; the new artificial reef booklets will also be available to Club members and guests. Please be on the lookout for notification of the deployment of a 106 foot tugboat at the Betsy Ross Reef. Congratulations again to Maddie Benfield for winning the $50 weigh-in drawing in July sponsored by Butler Marine. Guests are welcomed, and you do not need a reservation. For additional information,<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">&nbsp; </span>contact Captain Frank Gibson at 843-522-2122 or email <a href=\"mailto:fgibson@islc.net\">fgibson@islc.net</a>.\r\n\r\n<strong>Pat Conroy Center offers Anchorage retreat</strong>\r\n\r\nBeaufort’s Pat Conroy Literary Center’s Anchorage Retreat is set for Sept. 6-8.\r\n\r\nThe Southern Living-inspired event is an exclusive writers retreat weekend at the award-winning historic Anchorage 1770 Inn.\r\n\r\nParticipating writers will immerse themselves in a collaborative experience. In the retreat’s intimate setting, writers will get to know one another as well as the retreat’s instructors over a span of three days and two nights of workshops, discussions, writing prompts, readings, critiques, and social gatherings.\r\n\r\nThe distinguished faculty of award-winning writers and publishing professionals will share their insights and experiences.<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">&nbsp;</span>\r\n\r\nThis year’s faculty includes novelists Kimberly Brock, Carla Damron, and Reavis Z. Wortham; memoirist and humorist Harrison Scott Key; biographer and book review editor Adam Parker; and literary agents Jeff Kleinman and Marly Rusoff.\r\n\r\nThe cost for the retreat is $1,500 per person and includes a two-night stay at the Anchorage 1770 Inn on Sept. 6-8, all retreat sessions, evening receptions on Friday and Saturday, breakfasts on Saturday and Sunday, and lunch on Saturday.<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">&nbsp;</span>\r\n\r\nThe registration fee will be billed in three equal installments to be paid in full by Sept. 6. Rooms are selected on a first-come, first-served basis. Registration is now open and is limited to 15 participants.\r\n\r\nFor more information or to register, call the Anchorage 1770 Inn at 877-951-1770.\r\n\r\nProceeds benefit the year-round educational programming of the nonprofit Pat Conroy Literary Center.\r\n\r\n<strong>YMCA to offer CPR classes</strong>\r\n\r\nThe 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: Sept. 7, Sept. 19, and Nov. 23.<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">&nbsp;</span>\r\n\r\nCost is $35 for this YMCA-certified course and those interested need to register at the Y as space is limited and filled on a first-come, first-served basis. Questions? Contact Lou Bergen, Aquatics Director to register for this class. Call the Y at 843-522-9622 or visit beaufort-jasperymca.org\r\n\r\n<strong>Activities at Hunting Island State Park</strong>\r\n\r\nThere are fun, interesting and educational activities every day hosted by Park Ranger and Lowcountry Master Naturalist Megan Stegmeier.<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">&nbsp;</span>\r\n\r\nSundays: Sand/candy art, 11 a.m.; Hunting Island Bingo, 2:30 p.m.\r\n\r\nMondays: Tie dye, 11 a.m.; Marine mammals of S.C., 2 p.m. (Aug. 26); Secrets of the Salt Marsh, 4 p.m.\r\n\r\nTuesdays: Turtle Talk, 10:30 a.m.; CCC Video, 1 p.m.; Beach Walk, 3 p.m.\r\n\r\nWednesdays: Alligator Talk, 11 a.m.; Stepping Stones, 2 p.m.\r\n\r\nThursdays: Interpretive Lighthouse Tour, 10 a.m. (Aug. 22, 29); Driftwood painting, 11 a.m. (Aug. 22, 29); Feeding Frenzy, 3 p.m.; Full-moon lighthouse climb, 8 p.m.\r\n\r\nFridays: Dolphin ecology kayak tour, 7:30 a.m. (Aug. 30); Lowcountry reptiles, 11 a.m.; Fish printing, 2 p.m.\r\n\r\nSaturdays: Sunrise lighthouse climb, 6:30 a.m. (Aug. 24); A walk in the woods, 11 a.m. (Aug. 24); Sharks! 11 a.m. (Aug. 31); Creatures of the night, 2:30 p.m. (Aug. 31)\r\n\r\nFor a description of these programs and a complete calendar of activities, go to southcarolinaparks.com/hunting-island and click on “Programs &amp; Events.”\r\n\r\nAll are invited to attend these free events, though there is an entry fee to Hunting Island State Park and reservations are needed for lighthouse programs.\r\n\r\nFor more information, call 843-838-7437 or go to the Friends of Hunting Island website and the Facebook page: FOHI Sea Turtle Conservation Project.\r\n\r\n<strong>Beaufort Drum Circle</strong>\r\nAll are invited to share some good vibes with the Beaufort Drum Circle. The Drum Circle gathers every second Monday of the month, 5:30-7:00 p.m. and every fourth Thursday of the month, 7-8:30 p.m., in the Contemplative Garden at the Henry C. Chambers Waterfront Park in downtown Beaufort.\r\n\r\nThe remaining August Drum Circle date is Thursday, Aug. 22.\r\n\r\nEveryone 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 if you have one to share.\r\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.\"\r\n\r\n<strong>Beaufort Christian Women’s Connection</strong>\r\n\r\nPlease join the Beaufort Christian Women’s Connection for their fall catered luncheon and program Thursday, Sept. 19 from 11:30 a.m. to 1:30 p.m. at Sea Island Presbyterian Church, 81 Lady’s Island Drive. Nuances will feature a fashion show. Shannon Kaprive will speak on her journey on Becoming God’s Masterpiece. Cost is $18. Please reserve you spot by Sept. 13 by calling, texting or emailing Marti Myers at 843-321-0962 or <a href=\"mailto:puddlesportia@gmail.com\">puddlesportia@gmail.com</a>.\r\n\r\n<strong>Get moving with Beaufort Track Club</strong>\r\n\r\nJoin the Beaufort Track Club at the Beaufort High School track from 6:30-7:30 p.m. each Tuesday night for an open community track workout. Beginner, intermediate, and advanced workouts are posted each week to ensure that you are getting the workout that you need.\r\n\r\nVisit the Facebook page “Beaufort Track Club” for more information.\r\n\r\n<strong>Friends of Hunting Island’s Tuesday Turtle Talks</strong>\r\n\r\nThe Friends of Hunting island announce the 2019 Tuesday Turtle Talks running through Tuesday, Aug. 13 at 10:30am at the picnic shelter by the Lighthouse. There is no fee for the TTT, but the park entry fee does apply.<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">&nbsp;</span>\r\n\r\nEach week various topics will be discussed including the natural history of loggerhead turtles, what happens when the turtles come to Hunting Island to lay their eggs, and the conservation and challenges specific to a barrier island such as Hunting Island State Park. Participation, ideas and questions are always welcome.<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">&nbsp;</span>\r\n\r\nAfter the talk, participants can join TTT host Denise Parsick on a short beach walk. All ages are invited to attend this educational and engaging program.<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">&nbsp;</span>\r\n\r\nAnd for early risers: If you want to join a turtle patrol to check out loggerhead nests, come to the Visitor’s Center parking lot at 6 a.m. sharp any day of the week, and talk with a volunteer in an orange shirt to join a group for that day’s patrol. All ages welcome.\r\n\r\n<strong>Local storytelling organization formed</strong>\r\n\r\nEvelene Stevenson, owner of the Spirit of Old Beaufort Tours, has formed a local storytelling organization, the Sea Isles Storytellers, which will be headquartered in the Sea Island Center at 876 Sea Island Parkway, St. Helena Island.\r\n\r\nAll are invited to come to the first meeting from 3:30 to 5 p.m. Sunday, Aug. 11, which will be&nbsp;christened by the Back Porch Storytellers from Charleston.<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">&nbsp;</span>\r\n\r\nAll have stories to tell, and Stevenson wants an organization that listens and encourages those of all ages to tell a story, sing a song and listen to others tales.<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">&nbsp;</span>\r\n\r\nPlease send an email, including name and phone number, to seaislandcenter@gmail.com or call Evelene Stevenson at 843-271-2478.', 'What To Do', '', 'publish', 'closed', 'closed', '', 'what-to-do-189', '', '', '2019-08-21 07:06:52', '2019-08-21 11:06:52', '', 0, 'https://staging.yourislandnews.com/?p=41168', 0, 'post', '', 0),
(41171, 4, '2019-08-21 07:11:32', '2019-08-21 11:11:32', '<h4>By SCOTT GRABER</h4>\r\nIt is Sunday morning and I’m in Mobjack, Va. Mobjack is north of Norfolk in what is called the Virginia Tidewater.<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">&nbsp;</span>\r\n\r\nThis area — Mathews and Gloucester counties — is thinly developed and has struggled with keeping its high school graduates from leaving for Richmond, Norfolk and Washington as soon as they get their diplomas. Both counties envy nearby Williamsburg and Yorktown where millions of tourists tour the Governor’s Palace or climb around the British breastworks.\r\n\r\nGloucester and Mathews Counties are not without history, and recently the National Park Service agreed to create a new national park at the site of Werowocomoco — an important American indian settlement.\r\n\r\nWerowocomoco is located on a bluff on the York River and was home base for Powhatan, father of Pocahontas. We all remember that Pocahontas, a beautiful Indian maiden, saved the English map-making explorer, John Smith, from having his brains bashed-out after he was captured.<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">&nbsp;</span>\r\n\r\nThe story of Powhatan, Pocahontas, John Smith and the clash of cultures is the story that the National Park Service intends to tell. And the folks in this part of the Virginia Tidewater are obviously happy about this prospect.\r\n\r\nAlthough there is a statue of Pocahontas in Gloucester County, Werowocomoco does not exist in any physical sense. There is not a single dwelling place; or chieftain’s lodge; or timber palisade. There is only a large, empty field that is no different from thousands of other fallow fields around Mathews and Gloucester counties.\r\n\r\nThere are no “improvements” because the Virginia Indians did not believe in permanent dwellings. They wore little clothing and did not believe in sofas, chairs, dining room tables or anything else that would impede their movement.\r\n\r\nBut if the truth is told by the Park Service, this is not a happy story. It is the story of mistrust, misadventure and lost opportunities. It is the story of the invasion of coastal Virginia by English settlers and the fighting, killing and starvation that came with this effort. Though there were moments of generosity and a few attempts (by both sides) to work out a peaceful relationship.\r\n\r\nFor a time it appeared that Powhatan would win — and not by force of arms. The English settlers simply could not feed themselves. While the Indians were adept at foraging for food, the settlers were not. Nor were they good at fishing or growing corn.<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">&nbsp;</span>\r\n\r\nThey waited, behind their wooden barricades, for ships to arrive with supplies from England. While they waited they pleaded for food from the Indians. With the exception of one or two local tribes — the Chicahominy people in particular — food was not forthcoming. Many of the settlers starved to death while scanning the horizon for ships with food.\r\n\r\nBetween 1606 and 1630 the successful settlement of Virginia was in doubt. The number of settlers who crossed the Atlantic was modest, and many of them died of starvation and disease. Powhatan was content to contain the flow and let them starve to death. But after 1630 the small, erratic stream of “invaders” became a torrent that overwhelmed the native Americans.\r\n\r\n“The ancient ways of using the land got no respect from the newcomers,” writes Helen Rountree in her book, Pocahontas, Powhatan and Opechancanough. “They knew to shift their houses and fields at intervals, rather than wearing out the land by overfarming (supposedly that was “using it properly”) so they were labelled “nomads.”\r\n\r\nThe English settlers, for their part, believed this land was “empty,” and the Indians did not have a proper title, and therefore they could simply possess it.<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">&nbsp;</span>\r\n\r\nPossession is codified in our current law — called “adverse possession” — and goes back to the Code of Hammurabi and Roman Law. The time of possession varied, but eventually 12 years of continuous occupation was enough to depose the original owners.\r\n\r\nIn 1644, Chief Opechancanough made a last-ditch effort to throw out the English. The chief had heard that there was civil war in England and believed that the King would not be able to resupply the Virginia settlers.<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">&nbsp;</span>\r\n\r\nOpechancanough struck in the spring of that year killing many. But after the initial assault the settlers who survived began to fight back. They established new forts, further inland, where counter-attacks were launched against the Indians. Eventually, Opechancanough was captured and imprisoned at Jamestown.\r\n\r\nBut what sealed the deal was the discovery, by John Rolfe, that imported Orinoco tobacco would thrive in Virginia’s coastal soil. Tobacco brought a tsunami of new settlers seeking to make their fortune. This is precisely what the Crown wanted out of its Virginia colony.', 'Virginia Indians simply couldn’t stop ‘invasion’ of English settlers', '', 'publish', 'closed', 'closed', '', 'virginia-indians-simply-couldnt-stop-invasion-of-english-settlers', '', '', '2019-08-21 07:11:32', '2019-08-21 11:11:32', '', 0, 'https://staging.yourislandnews.com/?p=41171', 0, 'post', '', 0),
(41174, 4, '2019-08-21 07:13:01', '2019-08-21 11:13:01', '<h4>By LEE SCOTT</h4>\r\nAround the world, there are people who get off work and immediately head for the local bars or pubs. It is usually between 5 and 7 p.m. when people attend Happy Hour. Some bars have moved that time up an hour in order to accommodate those who take off work early.\r\n\r\nIt made me start wondering how the term Happy Hour came about. I mean when you think about it, a lot of people are stressed at the end of a workday. The strain of commuting, the long hours, and the job itself takes a toll on folks and by the end of the day, well, there are a lot of cranky people out there. Shouldn’t it be called Cranky Hour?\r\n\r\nIt seems that the end-of-the-day crankiness is inherent in all of us. Ask any new parent, caring for an infant and they will tell you that the rough part of the day for a baby (and parent) is between 5 and 7. Maybe we are all just programmed to be exhausted at this time of day. Whining, crying, and being generally out of sorts seems the norm.\r\n\r\nI did discover that the first referenced mention of Happy Hour appears in Shakespeare’s King Henry V where he says“, Therefore, my lords, omit no happy hour/that may give furtherance to our expedition.”<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">&nbsp;</span>\r\n\r\nBut I’m not sure he meant it as the time of the day we think of nowadays. However, there might have been a sign outside of the local British Ale house at the time saying “1 pence for a pot of ale and free biscuits.”\r\n\r\nHistory also suggests that the term may have originated from women’s social clubs as early as the 1880s. They were called Happy Hour Social Clubs. This makes a lot of sense to me since those women were the ones stuck with the crying babies from 5 to 7 p.m., although the reference does not necessarily address the whole alcohol connection.\r\n\r\nI am not sure when restaurants and bars realized they could advertise lower costs drinks and free appetizers to accommodate those workers who were hitting their cranky hour. But why not capitalize on what appears to be a universal need. They may have decided that calling it “cranky hour” had a negative connotation and the term Happy Hour is much more palatable.\r\n\r\nSo even if you do not drink, or maybe you are a light drinker like me, you can still have that time at the end of the day, where you are able to turn the cranky hour into a Happy Hour.<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">&nbsp;</span>\r\n\r\nMy husband and I do, because even at our age, we can still get a little cranky.', 'Is it Happy Hour or cranky hour?', '', 'publish', 'closed', 'closed', '', 'is-it-happy-hour-or-cranky-hour', '', '', '2019-08-21 07:13:01', '2019-08-21 11:13:01', '', 0, 'https://staging.yourislandnews.com/?p=41174', 0, 'post', '', 0);
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(41176, 4, '2019-08-21 07:15:46', '2019-08-21 11:15:46', '<strong>Sen. Graham to be honored by Beaufort County Republicans</strong>\r\n\r\nU.S. Senator Lindsey Graham will be honored with the Robert Smalls Leadership Award at the Beaufort County republican Party Awards Dinner to be held at 6 p.m. Friday, Sept. 27 at the Hampton Hall Clubhouse in Bluffton.<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">&nbsp;</span>\r\n\r\nTickets are $100 per individual and $175 per couple and include 2020 membership in the Beaufort County Republican Party. Sponsorships are also available.<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">&nbsp;</span>\r\n\r\nVisit www.beaufortscgop.com by Sept. 20 to purchase tickets. Checks can be mailed to 20 Towne Drive, Suite 172, Bluffton, S.C., 29910. Proceeds will go to support Republican candidates.\r\n\r\n<strong>MCRD Parris Island to host historical uniform pageant Nov. 6</strong>\r\n\r\nMarine Corps Recruit Depot Parris Island will host a historical uniform pageant Nov. 6 in observance of the 244th birthday of the United States Marine Corps.\r\n\r\nThe pageant will be held at 3 p.m. at the Depot’s All-Weather Training Facility.<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">&nbsp;</span>\r\n\r\nA variety of historical periods will be represented to include: the Revolutionary War, Civil War, World Wars I and II, the Korean War, the Vietnam War and the modern period. Marines will also re-enact the iconic flag raising at Iwo Jima.\r\n\r\nAdditionally, the pageant will also include a performance by the Parris Island Marine Band, the reading of Lt. Gen. John A. Lejeune’s birthday message, the reading of the Commandant of the Marine Corps’ birthday message and a cake-cutting ceremony.\r\n\r\n<strong>Landing Placed on top Republican list</strong>\r\n\r\nThe National Republican Congressional Committee announced today that Kathy Landing, Republican candidate for Congress in South Carolina’s 1st District, the seat currently held by Democrat Joe Cunningham, has been selected as an “On the Radar” candidate for the Committee’s 2020 Young Guns program.\r\n\r\nThe Youngs Gun program mentors and supports top-tier Republican candidates in races across the country and works to provide them with the necessary tools to run successful, winning campaigns against their Democratic opponents.\r\n\r\nThe program requires candidates to work towards specific goals and meet benchmarks throughout the election cycle to ensure their campaigns remain competitive, well-funded and communicative within their districts.\r\n\r\n<strong>County Councilman Glover holding meeting about Bay Point</strong>\r\n\r\nBeaufort County Council member <a href=\"http://links.govdelivery.com/track?type=click&amp;enid=ZWFzPTEmbWFpbGluZ2lkPTIwMTkwODE1LjkxNDM2NDEmbWVzc2FnZWlkPU1EQi1QUkQtQlVMLTIwMTkwODE1LjkxNDM2NDEmZGF0YWJhc2VpZD0xMDAxJnNlcmlhbD0xNzUwNjQ4NyZlbWFpbGlkPXRoZWlzbGFuZG5ld3NAZ21haWwuY29tJnVzZXJpZD10aGVpc2xhbmRuZXdzQGdtYWlsLmNvbSZmbD0mZXh0cmE9TXVsdGl2YXJpYXRlSWQ9JiYm&amp;&amp;&amp;100&amp;&amp;&amp;https://www.beaufortcountysc.gov/council/council-members/glover-york.html?utm_medium=email&amp;utm_source=govdelivery\">York Glover (District 3)</a> will hold a public meeting at 6 p.m. on Tuesday, Sept. 3 about Bay Point Island development. The meeting will be held at the St. Helena Branch Library, 6355 Jonathan Francis Sr. Road, St. Helena.<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">&nbsp;</span>\r\n\r\nThe guest speaker will be the developer of Bay Point Island.\r\n\r\nResidents do not need to register in advance for the meeting. For more information, please contact Beaufort County Council member Glover by email at <a href=\"mailto:yglover@bcgov.net\">yglover@bcgov.net</a>, by phone a: 843-986-7395 or by mail c/o Beaufort County Clerk to Council, P.O. Box 1228, Beaufort, S.C. 29901.\r\n\r\n<strong>S.C. AG Wilson suing opioid makers</strong>\r\n\r\nS.C. Attorney General Alan Wilson announced Thursday, Aug. 15 that he has filed a lawsuit against three major opioid distributors for their part in the opioid crisis. This is the second phase of his deliberate approach to hold additional companies accountable for their role in fueling the epidemic.<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">&nbsp;</span>\r\n\r\nIn his complaint, the Attorney General alleges Cardinal, McKesson, and AmerisourceBergen violated &nbsp;the S.C. Unfair Trade Practices Act and created a public nuisance, and seeks injunctive relief and civil penalties. The Attorney General previously filed suit on August 15, 2017 against opioid manufacturer Purdue Pharma L.P., Purdue Pharma, Inc., and the Purdue Frederick Company.\r\n\r\n“This lawsuit seeks to hold these companies responsible for their part in the opioid crisis,” Wilson said. “These distributors flooded the State with dangerously addictive drugs, devastating families across South Carolina.”\r\n\r\nOpioid distributors, which purchase the drugs from manufacturers and sell and deliver them to pharmacies, have the legal duty of ensuring that all prescription medications are distributed properly and are not diverted for illegal use. Under S.C. and federal law, these companies must monitor, investigate, report and refuse to ship suspicious orders of opioids. Until recently, these defendants made almost no effort to do so, even shipping orders that were deemed suspicious.\r\n\r\n<strong>SCDNR board member honored</strong>\r\n\r\nAt an annual dinner for the S.C. Hunters and Land Owners for the Hungry, S.C. Department of Natural Resources board member Duane Swygert was presented the “Man of the Year” award for his outstanding service.\r\n\r\n“Duane has been instrumental in the expansion of S.C. Hunters for the Hungry’s statewide expansion efforts,” a news release from the organization said.<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">&nbsp;</span>\r\n\r\nThe S.C. Hunters and Land Owners for the Hungry was established in 2004 as a 501c3 nonprofit organization. It was started by a group of hunters that wanted to give back to their community. Since its start, more than 500,000 pounds of harvested meat have been donated to those in food-insecure communities.<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">&nbsp;</span>\r\n\r\nThe organization supports 150 families on a monthly basis. Hunters or processors who are interested in donating can find more information at <a href=\"http://schuntersforthehungry.com/\">schuntersforthehungry.com</a>.\r\n\r\n<strong>SC’s Parrish 2019 State Tourism Director of the Year<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">&nbsp;</span></strong>\r\n\r\nDuane Parrish of the S.C. Department of Parks, Recreation and Tourism has been named national <a href=\"http://www.mmsend36.com/link.cfm?r=yvnj64Av0O_4ZbNTJsm3-A~~&amp;pe=OUjFG-2vilLt1kxxQVv4kDsxJw_VISjOtA7UdQDk3O1cNIxFLEN0yTRgavRBqQQg2oKyYWSILzwgthypS9pdhA~~&amp;t=dYYFqTY4sPCRL2L_uRXJ-Q~~\">State Tourism Director of the Year</a> for 2019.\r\n\r\nParrish was announced as the honoree before more than 1,000 destination marketing professionals at the U.S. Travel Association\'s annual <a href=\"http://www.mmsend36.com/link.cfm?r=yvnj64Av0O_4ZbNTJsm3-A~~&amp;pe=DtYh9IhHlZEfb6eRevyd6TJEG8q_j7EB0NIKzMrQPGtQXIQw1FH5pxMghenH_7gbN1bCBeX9JHATokzBt7MkQQ~~&amp;t=dYYFqTY4sPCRL2L_uRXJ-Q~~\">Educational Seminar for Tourism Organizations</a> (ESTO) conference in Austin, Texas. U.S. Travel\'s National Council of State Tourism Directors votes on the award annually ahead of ESTO.<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">&nbsp;</span>\r\n\r\n\"Duane Parrish has taken the South Carolina tourism industry to new levels of success,\" S.C. Governor Henry McMaster said in a release. \"Under his leadership, tourism has grown by more than 50 percent, becoming a $22.6 billion industry and employing one out of every 10 South Carolinians. Nobody is more deserving of this prestigious award than Duane, and we are proud that his peers have recognized him for his leadership and success.\"\r\n\r\nJust a few weeks ago, the S.C. State Park Service <a href=\"http://www.mmsend36.com/link.cfm?r=yvnj64Av0O_4ZbNTJsm3-A~~&amp;pe=0vICq_Yaer0XvIfKmM8pjmva2CdHx3jv1PxDtBnhQuWxHpWL-L7ilyRAzlNg5Rm47wORvKpc6e2Qx7KucTNQcg~~&amp;t=dYYFqTY4sPCRL2L_uRXJ-Q~~\">announced</a> record-setting revenue for the second year in a row, bringing in about $34 million. Ten years ago, the state park service was only able to cover 73 percent of its expenses and now covers 100 percent of its operational costs.', 'News Briefs', '', 'publish', 'closed', 'closed', '', 'news-briefs-121', '', '', '2019-08-21 07:15:46', '2019-08-21 11:15:46', '', 0, 'https://staging.yourislandnews.com/?p=41176', 0, 'post', '', 0),
(41179, 4, '2019-08-21 07:16:40', '2019-08-21 11:16:40', '<h4>By CELIA STRONG</h4>\r\nOne beautiful aspect of French wines is they are unique to the regions in which they grow.<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">&nbsp;</span>\r\n\r\nCalifornia has varietals that can be grown, from the same grape, throughout the country.<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">&nbsp;</span>\r\n\r\nIn France, you can only have a Chardonnay from the Loire Valley. It is unique because it can only be produced from a grape grown there and a wine produced there.\r\n\r\nBut that doesn’t mean the Chardonnay grape cannot be grown outside of that valley.<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">&nbsp;</span>\r\n\r\nChardonnay is a green skinned grape grown in almost every wine producing country in the world. Chardonnay, more than most any other variety, reflects the soils and climates where it is grown –<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">&nbsp; </span>the “terroir.” –<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">&nbsp; </span>and is easily affected by the winemaker’s style – oak aging, stainless steel tanks, malolactic fermentation, etc.<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">&nbsp;</span>\r\n\r\nIt is the second most widely grown grape in the world and is very malleable. France’s Burgundy region is home to some of the greatest Chardonnay wines ever, because of the soil and climate.<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">&nbsp;</span>\r\n\r\nBut across France, on the Atlantic coast, a tiny community at the mouth of the Loire River has a unique soil and climate which produces Chardonnay grapes of a unique complexity.<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">&nbsp;</span>\r\n\r\nThere are 87 different AC wine areas along the 350 miles of the Loire River, which runs from the just outside the Burgundy region out to the Atlantic. Sauvignon Blanc, Chenin Blanc and Muscadet are the primary white varieties.<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">&nbsp;</span>\r\n\r\nMuscadet – originally known as Melon de Bourgogne – was originally thought to be the only grape grown at the river delta. But he Couillaud family, owners and producers of Chateau de Ragptière Muscadet, also make a Chardonnay from their Domaine de Bernier estate.\r\n\r\nDomaine de Bernier Chardonnay is not an AC level wine. Because the Loire Valley has no sites that are classified for AC Chardonnay.<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">&nbsp;</span>\r\n\r\nBut this Chardonnay is IGP classified. (Indication Geographique Protegée) IGP was a new classification in the French wine laws in 2010. It replaced both the VDQS and Vins de Pays levels.<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">&nbsp;</span>\r\n\r\nIGP wines do control where qualified wines come from. So consumers are protected when they buy. Always important.\r\n\r\nThe Bernier Chardonnay was a pet project for members of the Couillard family. Because they felt the soil where their Muscadet grew was close in makeup to the soil of Chablis.<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">&nbsp;</span>\r\n\r\nOne of Burgundy’s great sources for Chardonnay. The birth of unique! This wine is 100 percent Chardonnay, grown on rocky metamorphic and schist soil. Only about 5,000 cases are made each year, from 6,500 vines.<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">&nbsp;</span>\r\n\r\nAfter harvest, the grapes are sorted on vibrating tables and, then, pressing is done with a pneumatic press. Fermentation is done completely in stainless steel tanks with 80 percent of the wine going through a malolactic fermentation.<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">&nbsp;</span>\r\n\r\nNo oak aging, but the wine is aged on its lees. This adds weight and texture.<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">&nbsp;</span>\r\n\r\nThe finished Bernier Chardonnay is clean and crisp with fresh apple, pear and lemon aromas and flavors. And an intense minerality on its finish.<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">&nbsp;</span>\r\n\r\nA delicious “copy” of what Burgundy can produce, just from a totally unique source. For $11.99 at Bill’s Liquors. Also, totally unique. Enjoy.', 'Everything Burgandy from a totally unique source', '', 'publish', 'closed', 'closed', '', 'everything-burgandy-from-a-totally-unique-source', '', '', '2019-08-21 07:16:40', '2019-08-21 11:16:40', '', 0, 'https://staging.yourislandnews.com/?p=41179', 0, 'post', '', 0),
(41181, 4, '2019-08-21 07:19:16', '2019-08-21 11:19:16', '<strong>Bathe celebrates one-year anniversary</strong>\r\n\r\nBathe of Beaufort will celebrate its one year anniversary from 6 to 8 p.m. Saturday, Aug. 24.\r\n\r\nThe public is invited to attend the celebration for an evening of fun. Guests can enjoy giveaways, catering by Saltus River Grill, and dessert bites made by Tout Sweet Macarons. The shop will also be unveiling their limited edition anniversary scent.\r\n\r\nBathe offers a complete line of handcrafted soap, bath, and body products made in Beaufort. The shop sources ingredients locally as often as possible and fills the products with nourishing oils and butters. Visit them at 210 Scott Street in downtown Beaufort or at <a href=\"http://r20.rs6.net/tn.jsp?f=0018dTJ_s1zoVKAZaA6iU3nIq5o2C4PmVxiJVVlURou3-j_IZOMLtNdOjIap0KXgjde8lrB8rbMIE2bYk95oVKapEmcLU4WRKb7dTX0K397NmHjMDJtcsXxKQwXPLydAoFGyNo15GQR2ScvqxpGv8VLUDw2T6wpWPArnscdQjjpTCnfr0T9PfZBs6By490irlF8&amp;c=UqraIM3ME-pxShf1NuTwh5kNMru97cthA41j98mR33Q2qzcz0dIJ5w==&amp;ch=ox7SaqO1XdupnxoR5EbD7P2898oNXS95vzoAfJEnEyxPl6pvqP60pw==\">BatheinBeaufort.com</a>.\r\n\r\n<strong>Chamber of Commerce hosting Military Appreciation Day</strong>\r\n\r\nThe Beaufort Regional Chamber of Commerce is proud to host its annual <a href=\"http://r20.rs6.net/tn.jsp?f=001zax5dhXx1MV10gyByDIuc9E56eyh8555cWcc28z8Fz1mNNGDJSF_YqbIMgH24zTOiFN_Po69cKMnkPoR0y5ERIodW51vg_rxvzRUwbRIXPuTbPSCVTKHlLPawDjVQpXHqry-RSWXh3dTW07PM_dslxegQDT7dsD5gGDAhUBWjP_E_G3k3F5evV3PK0C2Qw8KoKGv4b0I4332zyBb3Pep4FcSI8feQZSj&amp;c=EegesNY3IpAoynIX7PNOV_P7rWXfFeBUWjwIlbP040Yy8qo0ojS70A==&amp;ch=p9-ibNlBl7-eKt0NlCjcUygOlnEL92h-mxw5_chCRHE00SA-J9CEZQ==\">Military Appreciation Day</a> from 11 a.m. to 2 p.m. Saturday, Aug. 24 at the Laurel Bay Welcome Center.\r\n\r\nThis event is a way, as a community, to say “thank you” to the military personnel and families who sacrifice so much for us on a daily basis.\r\n\r\nThe event is free and open to active-duty military and their families and features a fun atmosphere with food, drinks, music, and games.\r\n\r\nFor more info, please contact Janessa Lowery at <a href=\"mailto:Janessa@BeaufortChamber.org\">Janessa@BeaufortChamber.org</a> or 843-525-8537.<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">&nbsp;</span>', 'Business Briefs', '', 'publish', 'closed', 'closed', '', 'business-briefs-22', '', '', '2019-08-21 07:19:16', '2019-08-21 11:19:16', '', 0, 'https://staging.yourislandnews.com/?p=41181', 0, 'post', '', 0),
(41184, 4, '2019-08-21 07:35:37', '2019-08-21 11:35:37', '<strong>BATTERY CREEK</strong>\r\n\r\nA hulking presence at 6-foot-5 and 265 pounds, Battery Creek senior Padric Payne has a confession. He’s the second-smallest starter on the Dolphins’ offensive line.\r\n\r\n“Yeah,” Payne says. “We’re pretty big up front.”\r\n\r\nThe Dolphins hope improved size, experience, and depth in the trenches will be the key to a winning season in 2019. Battery Creek appeared to be on its way in coach Walter Wilson’s first season in 2017, going 4-6, but they slid backwards last season, winning only two games.\r\n\r\n“I have never been so humbled in my life,” Wilson said. “Sometimes you need that, because it gets you to look at the little tiny things that you may overlook when you felt you were on the way.”\r\n\r\nWith the humility came a renewed work ethic and attention to detail, as well as a commitment to get back to basics. With running back Trey Booth back in the fold and working behind that powerful offensive line, as well as a number of key returners on defense led by defensive end Brandon Wilson, the Dolphins’ gameplan will be simple.\r\n\r\n“Our plan is to play defense and run the ball,” Walter Wilson said. “That ain’t hard.”\r\n\r\n<strong>BATTERY CREEK DOLPHINS FOOTBALL</strong>\r\n\r\n<strong>Coach:</strong>Walter Wilson\r\n\r\n<strong>Record at BCHS:</strong>6-15 (3rd season)\r\n\r\n<strong>2018 record:</strong>2-9 overall, 2-2 region (lost in first round of Class 3A playoffs)\r\n\r\n<strong>Returning starters:</strong>12\r\n\r\n<strong>Offensive scheme:</strong>21 personnel\r\n\r\n<strong>Defensive scheme:</strong>4-3\r\n\r\n<strong>Top returners:</strong>DE/TE Brandon Wilson, WR/DB Kyseem Jabbar, WR/DB Elijah Dean, LB Justin Smalls, OL/DL Lucas Kinsey, OL/DL Toddie Gray\r\n\r\n<strong>Notable losses:</strong>LB/K Brandon Benke, WR Denarol Brown, QB/DB Jordan Gwyn\r\n\r\n<strong>PLAYER TO WATCH</strong>\r\n\r\n<strong>Trey Booth, RB:</strong>A powerful runner who carried the Dolphins to a win over May River two years ago, Booth sat out last season but is back for his senior campaign. With sophomore Jacove Anderson taking over at quarterback, Booth will be the focal point of the offense and have a chance to put up big numbers behind a bulky offensive line.\r\n\r\n<strong>BURNING QUESTION</strong>\r\n\r\n<strong>Can the Dolphins stop the run?</strong>Wilson is excited to have enough depth on the line to avoid having linemen play both ways, but the question is whether there’s enough quality to shut down the strong running teams at the top of the region. If the Dolphins can answer in the affirmative, it could be a special season.\r\n\r\n<strong>REGION AND BEYOND</strong>\r\n\r\nMay River and Wade Hampton begin the season ranked in the top 10 in Class 3A, but they both have big holes to fill from last season. The Dolphins are in as good a position as anyone to be the team to close the gap and challenge for the region title.\r\n\r\n<strong>SCHEDULE</strong>\r\n\r\n8/23 — vs. Whale Branch\r\n\r\n8/30 — at Beaufort High\r\n\r\n9/6 — at Hilton Head High\r\n\r\n9/13 — at Woodland\r\n\r\n9/20 — Open\r\n\r\n9/27 — at Wade Hampton*\r\n\r\n10/4 — Creekside Christian\r\n\r\n10/11 — vs. Lake Marion*\r\n\r\n10/18 — at Ridgeland-Hardeeville*\r\n\r\n10/25 — vs. May River*\r\n\r\n11/1 — at Whale Branch\r\n\r\n&nbsp;\r\n\r\n*region opponent\r\n\r\n<strong>BEAUFORT ACADEMY</strong>\r\n\r\nNothing raises the level of excitement around a program like winning a state championship, but with great enthusiasm comes great expectations. Such is life at Beaufort Academy, where the Eagles are preparing to embark on their SCISA 8-man state title defense.\r\n\r\n“It’s a lot of pressure,” second-year BA coach Mark Clifford said. “Everybody knows who we are now. We realize that, and we realize that we can’t mistakes and we’ve got to be twice as good as we were last year.”\r\n\r\nThe Eagles’ offense will have a slightly different look after the departure of star running back De’Shaun Epps, but BA returns an experienced quarterback in Dawson Coleman, who has the benefit of a year playing in Clifford’s offense.\r\n\r\n“We’re way ahead of where we were last year,” Coleman said. “This time last year I was still learning the plays, but now we can start doing different reads at the line. It will change the game a lot.”\r\n\r\nBA also hopes to benefit from an influx of players who were already walking the hallways but had not shown an interest in playing football until the Eagles’ unexpected run to the state title last fall.\r\n\r\n“Everybody wants to be a part of it now,” Coleman said. “It’s definitely a different atmosphere.”&nbsp;\r\n\r\n<strong>BEAUFORT ACADEMY EAGLES FOOTBALL</strong>\r\n\r\n<strong>Coach:</strong>Mark Clifford\r\n\r\n<strong>Record at BA:</strong>11-2 (2nd season)\r\n\r\n<strong>2018 record:</strong>11-2 overall, 6-1 region (SCISA 8-man state champions)\r\n\r\n<strong>Returning starters:</strong>5 offense, 5 defense\r\n\r\n<strong>Offensive scheme:</strong>Split Back\r\n\r\n<strong>Defensive scheme:</strong>4-2\r\n\r\n<strong>Top returners:</strong>QB Dawson Coleman, WR/DB William Tumlin, RB/LB Ja’Sean Lawson, RB/DE Elijah Fess\r\n\r\n<strong>Notable losses:</strong>LB Edward McCormick, OL/DL Daniel Richards, RB De’Shaun Epps\r\n\r\n<strong>PLAYER TO WATCH</strong>\r\n\r\n<strong>Dawson Coleman, QB:</strong>Coleman didn’t need to show off his skills very often last year thanks to a dominant running back, but the Eagles will need him to be more of a focal point in the offense this season. He’s more than capable — an outstanding multi-sport athlete who has an uncanny ability to read defenses, according to Clifford — and should be in line to put up big numbers both on the ground and through the air.\r\n\r\n<strong>BURNING QUESTION</strong>\r\n\r\n<strong>Who will produce the big plays on offense?</strong>\r\n\r\nIt seemed every time the Eagles needed a big play last season, they could count on Epps to break a long run. With that explosiveness absent, they’ll need someone else to become the playmaker. Coleman is a capable passer and has some solid receivers, including William Tumlin, but BA will also need backs Ja’Sean Lawson and Elijah Fess to flourish in Clifford’s split-back system.\r\n\r\n<strong>REGION AND BEYOND</strong>\r\n\r\nThe Eagles face a daunting task in trying to repeat as state champs, especially with Epps out of the picture, but they have six games to work out the kinks before hosting perennial power Andrew Jackson in a state championship rematch on Oct. 11. The goal will be to again be in peak form at the end of the season in hopes of another magical playoff run.\r\n\r\n&nbsp;\r\n\r\n<strong>SCHEDULE</strong>\r\n\r\n8/23 — Open\r\n\r\n8/30 — at Clarendon Hall\r\n\r\n9/6 — vs. Laurens Academy\r\n\r\n9/13 — at Richard Winn Academy\r\n\r\n9/20 — at Holly Hill Academy*\r\n\r\n9/27 — vs. Northside Christian*\r\n\r\n10/4 — at St. John’s Christian*\r\n\r\n10/11 — vs. Andrew Jackson Academy*\r\n\r\n10/18 — vs. Cathedral Academy*\r\n\r\n10/25 — at Palmetto Christian*\r\n\r\n11/1 — vs. Patrick Henry*\r\n\r\n*region opponent\r\n\r\n<strong>BEAUFORT HIGH SCHOOL</strong>\r\n\r\nThe evolution of Beaufort High football continues with the Eagles’ entering a second consecutive season with a new head coach, and after a rare losing campaign a year ago, first-time head coach Bryce Lybrand has made it a focal point to incentivize giving maximum effort.\r\n\r\nLybrand noticed an improved work ethic during the offseason — an observation his players confirmed — and hopes to see if pay off in the form of more victories in 2019.\r\n\r\n“The kids have really bought into what we’re doing and why we’re doing it that way,” Lybrand said. “They’ve kind of bought into the concept of earning everything you get, and I’m really pleased with the effort.”\r\n\r\nAfter a 3-0 start a year ago, Beaufort lost five straight during a brutal stretch that included games against two Georgia powerhouses. The Eagles believe they are better prepared to face that difficult schedule this year, and they hope to do a better job of limiting the damage when things go wrong.\r\n\r\n“It’s all about weathering the storm,” Lybrand said. “Sometimes those games that we lost last year were because we didn’t handle adversity well. The biggest thing for us is making sure that when something bad happens it doesn’t affect us the next two or three plays down the line.”\r\n\r\nThe Eagles have loads of talent back on offense, including most of their offensive line and standout running back James Dagin, but the defense is a work in progress as players adjust to new and expanded roles.\r\n\r\n&nbsp;\r\n\r\n<strong>BEAUFORT HIGH EAGLES FOOTBALL</strong>\r\n\r\n<strong>Coach:</strong>Bryce Lybrand\r\n\r\n<strong>Record at BHS:</strong>0-0 (1st season)\r\n\r\n<strong>2018 record:</strong>5-6 overall, 2-1 region (lost in first round of Class 4A playoffs)\r\n\r\n<strong>Returning starters:</strong>6 offense, 3 defense\r\n\r\n<strong>Offensive scheme:</strong>Spread\r\n\r\n<strong>Defensive scheme:</strong>4-2-5\r\n\r\n<strong>Top returners:</strong>RB James Dagin, WR Matt Haley, OL Toby Strawderman, OL Henry Manley, OL Terrance Wilson, OL Caleb Hagood, LB/TE William Winburn, LB George Williams, S Kaedin Grissom\r\n\r\n<strong>Notable losses:</strong>LB Will Kelley, QB/S Jeffrey Smyth, OL/DL Chase Guynup, DL Dexter Ratliff, WR Reed Reichel, WR Trae Heyward\r\n\r\n<strong>PLAYER TO WATCH</strong>\r\n\r\n<strong>Tyler Haley, QB:</strong>The Eagles made it a point to get Haley playing time behind center in meaningful situations last season, and they hope to see the growing pains he experienced a year ago pay off now that he has fully taken the reins of the offense. The southpaw signal-caller has the potential to be a difference-maker, and his continued development could be the key to the Eagles’ success.\r\n\r\n<strong>BURNING QUESTION</strong>\r\n\r\n<strong>Who will step up on defense?</strong>\r\n\r\nThe Eagles have a handful of starters back on defense, but they also have some gaping holes to fill, including the one previously occupied by All-Lowco Defensive Player of the Year Will Kelley. Stefan Wechsler steps into Kelley’s spot, while massive freshman defensive tackle Eamon Smalls figures to be an effective run-stopper at some point but will need to adjust to the Class 4A schedule after playing 8-man football at Beaufort Academy last season. The Eagles have plenty of talent to plug the holes, but it might take a few games for the defense to hit its stride.\r\n\r\n<strong>REGION AND BEYOND</strong>\r\n\r\nIn a region without a clear-cut favorite, the Eagles believe they have as much claim to being the frontrunner as anyone. With an experienced offensive line blocking for an explosive running back and a promising quarterback, the offense should be potent. If the defense rounds into form, the Eagles could be a factor in the postseason.\r\n\r\n<strong>SCHEDULE</strong>\r\n\r\n8/23 — at A.C. Flora\r\n\r\n8/30 — vs. Battery Creek\r\n\r\n9/6 — at Effingham County\r\n\r\n9/13 — at Wayne County\r\n\r\n9/20 — at Valdosta\r\n\r\n9/27 — vs. Blythewood\r\n\r\n10/4 — Open\r\n\r\n10/11 — vs. Bluffton*\r\n\r\n10/18 — vs. May River\r\n\r\n10/25 — at Hilton Head High*\r\n\r\n11/1 — at Colleton County*\r\n\r\n*region opponent\r\n\r\n<strong>WHALE BRANCH HIGH SCHOOL&nbsp;</strong>\r\n\r\nDespite sending a steady stream of players to the next level in recent years, Whale Branch football keeps reloading, and the Warriors hope to do the same this season.\r\n\r\nA year after losing 19 seniors — including five who will play on Saturdays this fall — Whale Branch is nonetheless confident it will be a factor in a loaded Region 5-2A.\r\n\r\n“We may be short on seniors this year, but the seniors we have are really confident in what we’re doing,” senior De’Arius Hazel said. “We’ve really got great chemistry, and great chemistry within a team can take you a long way.”\r\n\r\nThe Warriors hope that chemistry and the seniors’ leadership will help them mask a lack of depth, especially in the trenches, where players will be asked to contribute on both sides of the ball. Whale Branch also has to replace star running back Irvin Mulligan and its entire starting secondary.\r\n\r\n“We’re light on depth, but I’m pretty confident our first-line players can get the job done,” coach Jerry Hatcher said.\r\n\r\nOne area where the Warriors aren’t hurting for depth, though, is at quarterback, where Henry Tome and Jaylen Reeves have been battling for the starting job. Hatcher said both the speedster Reeves and the more polished passer Tome will see time at the position.\r\n\r\n&nbsp;\r\n\r\n<strong>WHALE BRANCH WARRIORS FOOTBALL&nbsp;</strong>\r\n\r\n<strong>Coach:</strong>Jerry Hatcher\r\n\r\n<strong>Record at WBECHS:</strong>44-34 (8th season)\r\n\r\n<strong>2018 record:</strong>7-5 overall, 2-3 region (reached second round of Class 2A playoffs)\r\n\r\n<strong>Returning starters:</strong>4 offense, 4 defense\r\n\r\n<strong>Offensive scheme:</strong>Split Back\r\n\r\n<strong>Defensive scheme:</strong>4-2-5\r\n\r\n<strong>Top returners:</strong>RB/LB De’Arius Hazel, RB/LB Jaquez Frazier, OL/DL Jahiem Fripp, K Henry Tome\r\n\r\n<strong>Notable losses:</strong>RB/LB Irvin Mulligan, DB Jaheem Hazel, DB Ky’Shon Hipp, DB Marion Smalls, OL/DL Daquan Griswold, QB/DB CJ Brown, OL Jamari Evans, DB Taqui Polite\r\n\r\n<strong>PLAYER TO WATCH</strong>\r\n\r\n<strong>De’Arius Hazel, RB/LB:</strong>Hazel was a secondary option in the offense last season, garnering only 29 carries, but he averaged 6.8 yards per attempt and has shown an ability to break long runs in the preseason. He will need to be a bigger factor on both sides of the ball for the Warriors to have success this season.\r\n\r\n<strong>BURNING QUESTION</strong>\r\n\r\n<strong>Can the Warriors stop the pass?</strong>\r\n\r\nThe entire starting secondary was lost to graduation, and three of the four are playing college football. Fortunately for the Warriors, most of their region opponents feature run-heavy offenses, but they will face a couple of teams that like to air it out. The inexperienced secondary will need to get up to speed quickly and limit big plays through the air to keep the Warriors in games.\r\n\r\n<strong>REGION AND BEYOND</strong>\r\n\r\nWhale Branch plays in one of the toughest regions in the state in any classification, as frontrunners Barnwell and Bamberg-Ehrhardt both return plenty of firepower from last year’s strong teams and Woodland features an NCAA Division I commit on each side of the ball. The goal for the Warriors will be to weather the storm of region play, get into the playoffs, and see how far they can go.\r\n\r\n&nbsp;\r\n\r\n<strong>SCHEDULE</strong>\r\n\r\n8/23 — at Battery Creek\r\n\r\n8/30 — vs. Cross\r\n\r\n9/6 — vs. May River\r\n\r\n9/13 — at Ridgeland-Hardeeville\r\n\r\n9/20 — Open\r\n\r\n9/27 — vs. Philip Simmons\r\n\r\n10/4 — at Woodland*\r\n\r\n10/11 — vs. Barnwell*\r\n\r\n10/18 — vs. Allendale-Fairfax*\r\n\r\n10/25 — at Bamberg-Ehrhardt*\r\n\r\n11/1 — vs. Battery Creek\r\n\r\n*region opponent\r\n\r\n<em>Above: Beaufort Academy Eagles celebrate a 42-40 win over Andrew Jackson Academy (11-1) in the 2018&nbsp;SCISA 8-man state championship.</em>', '2019 High School Football Previews', '', 'publish', 'closed', 'closed', '', '2019-high-school-football-previews', '', '', '2019-08-21 07:35:37', '2019-08-21 11:35:37', '', 0, 'https://staging.yourislandnews.com/?p=41184', 0, 'post', '', 0),
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(41189, 4, '2019-08-21 07:38:30', '2019-08-21 11:38:30', 'Students, educators, elected officials and community members celebrated the official opening of Whale Branch Early College High School’s new performing arts center with a ribbon-cutting ceremony on Thursday.\r\n\r\nThe high school’s new 34,000-square-foot performing arts center can seat nearly 500 people and will be used not only for student performances, but also for community events.\r\n\r\n“This has been a long journey for our school and our community,” Whale Branch Principal Mona Lise Dickson said in a release. “We now have a beautiful facility we can use to give our students a professional-level environment that supports all of the performing arts, everything from band and drama productions to singing and dancing.”<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">&nbsp;</span>\r\n\r\nStudent performers at Thursday’s ribbon-cutting ceremony included Amari Johnson and Lawren Caldwell, and speakers at the event included Student Body President Jameah Moore and Vice President Jamyah Moore, who are twins.\r\n\r\n“This is an exciting day, not only for Whale Branch Early College High but also for the entire Beaufort County School District,” Superintendent Frank Rodriguez said. “I’m sure this wonderful facility will host many outstanding student performances in the years to come.”\r\n\r\nThe performing arts center’s lobby is decorated with a large and colorful mural, “Marshland Landscape,” by famed Lowcountry artist Jonathan Green.', 'Whale Branch celebrates opening of new performing arts center', '', 'publish', 'closed', 'closed', '', 'whale-branch-celebrates-opening-of-new-performing-arts-center', '', '', '2019-08-21 07:38:30', '2019-08-21 11:38:30', '', 0, 'https://staging.yourislandnews.com/?p=41189', 0, 'post', '', 0),
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(41192, 4, '2019-08-21 07:41:25', '2019-08-21 11:41:25', '<h4>By BOB SOFALY</h4>\r\nMore than 100 University of South Carolina Beaufort students moved into their dormitory rooms Sunday in the Beaufort College Honors Housing Complex.\r\n\r\nThey were met with a small army of volunteers, both students and faculty, to help them move in quickly and get settled in their new environment.\r\n\r\nIn Beaufort, community volunteers represented the Baptist Church of Beaufort, Young Life, Beaufort Memorial Hospital and The Parish Church of St. Helena.\r\n\r\nEach family had a specific time in which to move their student.\r\n\r\nThere were few complaints and the morning went smoothly.\r\n\r\nMore than 1,000 students moved into USCB’s housing facilities county-wide. USCB boasts a student-body population of more than 2,100 students across the university’s three campuses (Beaufort, Bluffton and Hilton Head).', 'Scores of USC Beaufort students move into dorms Sunday', '', 'publish', 'closed', 'closed', '', '41192-2', '', '', '2019-08-21 12:57:51', '2019-08-21 16:57:51', '', 0, 'https://staging.yourislandnews.com/?p=41192', 0, 'post', '', 0),
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(41196, 4, '2019-08-21 07:42:35', '2019-08-21 11:42:35', 'Five classroom teachers have been named as finalists for Beaufort County’s 2019-2020 District Teacher of the Year.\r\n\r\nThe finalists are Michelle Gordon, math teacher at Bluffton High School; Denise Bell, fifth-grade teacher at Hilton Head Island Elementary School; Keisha Miller, fourth-grade teacher at Joseph S. Shanklin Elementary School; Vicki Shockley, special education teacher at Lady’s Island Middle School; and Jill Exley, kindergarten teacher at M.C. Riley Elementary School.<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">&nbsp;</span>\r\n\r\nSuperintendent Frank Rodriguez made surprise visits to each of the finalists’ schools Monday and Tuesday to announce the five selections.\r\n\r\n“It has definitely been exciting to make these surprise visits and honor such deserving teachers,” Rodriguez said. “Their hard work and dedication has brought them well-deserved recognition, and we’re very proud of them.”<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">&nbsp;</span>\r\n\r\nThe District Teacher of the Year will be announced next month at an awards ceremony.\r\n\r\nBecoming District Teacher of the Year is a three-step process that began when school-level teachers of the year were selected in April. Those wishing to compete for District Teacher of the Year submitted detailed applications in July.\r\n\r\nIn the second step, a selection committee consisting of parents, former educators and community leaders from across Beaufort County reviewed the applications and rated them using a numerical scoring system. The five highest-scoring applicants were named as finalists.\r\n\r\nIn the next step, the five finalists will be interviewed by a separate review committee again composed of judges from across the county. The judges will score candidates based on how well they respond to questions about their teaching experiences and also about current education issues. After those interviews, the panel will select a District Teacher of the Year to represent Beaufort County’s classroom professionals.\r\n\r\nThe current Teacher of the Year is H.E. McCracken social studies teacher Karen McKenzie.', 'School district announces Teacher of the Year finalists', '', 'publish', 'closed', 'closed', '', 'school-district-announces-teacher-of-the-year-finalists', '', '', '2019-08-21 07:42:35', '2019-08-21 11:42:35', '', 0, 'https://staging.yourislandnews.com/?p=41196', 0, 'post', '', 0),
(41199, 4, '2019-08-21 07:43:55', '2019-08-21 11:43:55', 'Each year, the Rotary Club of Beaufort awards a $1,000 scholarship to a student who has chosen to further his or her education via technical training.\r\n\r\nAlyson Boggess has been selected this year based on the strength of her application. Boggess had received a bachelor’s degree in criminal justice and was also a licensed cosmetologist, but felt she could help people more as a nurse.\r\n\r\nWith the support of her husband, a Port Royal police officer, and her three children, she will begin studying nursing at the Technical College of the Lowcountry.\r\n\r\nThe vocational scholarship is just one of the recognition programs hosted by the Rotary Club of Beaufort, the oldest of Beaufort’s three Rotary clubs. The Club also recognizes outstanding military service members, outstanding law enforcement officers, and high school seniors for college scholarships.', 'Rotary Club gives $1,000 technical scholarship', '', 'publish', 'closed', 'closed', '', 'rotary-club-gives-1000-technical-scholarship', '', '', '2019-08-21 07:43:55', '2019-08-21 11:43:55', '', 0, 'https://staging.yourislandnews.com/?p=41199', 0, 'post', '', 0),
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(41202, 4, '2019-08-21 07:47:03', '2019-08-21 11:47:03', '<h4>By BOB SOFALY</h4>\r\nThe first day at a new job is often difficult, full of anxiety and fear of the unknown.\r\n\r\nFor Port Royal Elementary School’s Mahogany Bethea, 23, her entire career started with 16 sets of first-grade eyes staring back at her as if to say, “teach me, we dare ya!”\r\n\r\nSchool started for all Beaufort County School District students Monday, Aug. 19. Bethea, a recent graduate of the University of South Carolina Beaufort’s Early Childhood Development program, said she was as ready as she was going to get.\r\n\r\n“I have two sisters and a brother who are all younger than me,” she said as she counted out crayons into little plastic boxes. “I just have to figure out (her students’) personalities and how they will relate to me.”\r\n\r\nBethea admitted that she has one fear.\r\n\r\n“What if I’m not able to connect with them?” she said.\r\n\r\nReady or not, Bethea hopes to mold them into good citizens and get them ready for the second grade.\r\n\r\n“I don’t have any preconceived ideas of what to expect,” she said. “But I am really looking forward to helping them learn.”<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">&nbsp;</span>', 'Back to School', '', 'publish', 'closed', 'closed', '', 'back-to-school-3', '', '', '2019-08-21 07:47:04', '2019-08-21 11:47:04', '', 0, 'https://staging.yourislandnews.com/?p=41202', 0, 'post', '', 0),
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(41206, 4, '2019-08-24 07:49:35', '2019-08-24 11:49:35', 'Five students from AMIkids Beaufort served as crew members with the Fishery Research Team on the Floating Classroom Research Vessel Orion in mid-August.\r\n\r\nThe young men served as crew with Captain Gene Clark and First Mate Jay Marshall on the Orion. They spent the day conducting experiments, catching fish and recording data to be shared with the S.C. Department of Natural Resources. The research is part of a larger S.C. effort to help with conservation efforts.\r\n\r\n“This type of experience helps our young men get a better understanding of the coastal Lowcountry and to understand their role in conservation,” AMIkids Beaufort Board of Trustees chairman John Harris said in a release. “It’s also part of our local and national charter, as the non-profit Association of Marine Institutes.”\r\n\r\nAMIkids Beaufort is a residential facility in Dale that provides not only education but numerous hands-on educational opportunities, treatment and behavior modification.<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">&nbsp;</span>\r\n\r\nAMIkids partners with community service projects throughout Beaufort County. The program serves young men assigned to the facility through the S.C. Department of Juvenile Justice, and students work toward their high school equivalency diplomas.<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">&nbsp;</span>\r\n\r\nFor the past six years, the young men also have been able to earn nationally-recognized welding and food service certificates to help them with job skills.<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">&nbsp;</span>\r\n\r\nOn Aug. 10, the five AMIkids Beaufort students safely navigated Clark’s boat to the local research sites and, after anchoring, they measured the environmental conditions including ambient air temperature, water temperature, barometric pressure, tide flow and water depth, Clark said.\r\n\r\nThey used a Secchi disk to measure the water turbidity and a salinity refractometer to measure the salinity and specific gravity. After recording the data they fished the site to discover the fish types, sizes, and numbers inhabiting the area.<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">&nbsp;</span>\r\n\r\nThe AMIkids students and crew caught and released 27 fin fish including croakers, Southern kingfish, and an Atlantic Sharpnose shark. Three of the Southern kingfish were tagged prior to release.<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">&nbsp;</span>\r\n\r\n“It’s a special opportunity for our young men, and it wouldn’t be possible without the good work and service of Captain Clark and Jay Marshall,” AMIkids Beaufort executive director Matt Kingdom said. “When these young men graduate from our program and return to their homes and move ahead to brighter futures, this is an experience they will carry with them.”\r\n\r\nTo learn more about AMIkids Beaufort, visit <a href=\"http://www.amikidsbeaufort.org/\">www.amikidsbeaufort.org</a>.<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">&nbsp;</span>', 'AMIkids Beaufort students help with coastal research project for SCDNR', '', 'publish', 'closed', 'closed', '', 'amikids-beaufort-students-help-with-coastal-research-project-for-scdnr', '', '', '2019-08-26 13:43:58', '2019-08-26 17:43:58', '', 0, 'https://staging.yourislandnews.com/?p=41206', 0, 'post', '', 0),
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(41210, 4, '2019-08-21 07:51:22', '2019-08-21 11:51:22', 'The City of Beaufort/Town of Port Royal Fire Department and the Burton Fire District responded to a two-car, head-on collision at the intersection of Highway 170 and Parris Island Gateway Friday night at approximately 10:50 p.m.\r\n\r\nThe original dispatch report to fire units responding was that there was a female patient entrapped in the vehicle. The two vehicles involved in the collision were a Corvette and a mid-sized SUV. After units arrived on scene it was determined that there we no patients entrapped in the vehicle.\r\n\r\nFirefighters provided emergency medical care and secured hazards on the scene. The intersection was shut down for about an hour. One patient was transported by Beaufort County EMS with non-life-threatening injuries.\r\n\r\nThe City of Beaufort/Town of Port Royal Fire Department, the Burton Fire District, City of Beaufort Police Department, S.C.Highway Patrol, and Beaufort County EMS all responded to the incident.', 'Head-on collision draws Beaufort-area first responders', '', 'publish', 'closed', 'closed', '', 'head-on-collision-draws-beaufort-area-first-responders', '', '', '2019-08-21 07:51:22', '2019-08-21 11:51:22', '', 0, 'https://staging.yourislandnews.com/?p=41210', 0, 'post', '', 0),
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(41215, 4, '2019-08-21 08:03:04', '2019-08-21 12:03:04', '<h4>By Margaret Evans</h4>\r\nWhen I arrived a few minutes late for our gathering at Fishcamp on 11th Street, I was surprised to see the Lunch Bunch seated on the porch. It was August in Port Royal, after all. Nobody had warned me to wear my bathing suit.\r\n\r\nI needn’t have worried. There were breezes off the water and fans over our heads, and we were perfectly cool as we perused the lunch menu.\r\n\r\nBut before we get to that, I must confess that Fishcamp could serve me a plate of rocks and I’d enjoy myself. Why? Location, location, location.<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">&nbsp;</span>\r\n\r\nNestled alongside the historic Port of Port Royal shrimp docks, the place simply oozes character. With deepwater marsh and working shrimp boats on view from the expansive porch, and through the windows of <a href=\"https://staging.yourislandnews.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/08/Fish-Camp-GM-Tonya-Murphy-Chef-Garrett-Priester.jpg\"><img class=\"alignright wp-image-41221\" src=\"https://staging.yourislandnews.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/08/Fish-Camp-GM-Tonya-Murphy-Chef-Garrett-Priester-802x1024.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"315\" height=\"402\"></a>the pleasingly rustic interior, the restaurant radiates a laid-back hospitality that just&nbsp;makes you feel good. This is where you want to take your out-of-town guests for that “authentic” Lowcountry seafood dinner.\r\n\r\nBut we were here for lunch, and I was hungry.<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">&nbsp;</span>\r\n\r\nSince the others were busy chatting with general manager Tonya Murphy and Chef Garrett Priester (right) I took advantage of their inattention and called dibs on the Fish Tacos. (We Lunch Bunchers avoid doubling up on orders; that way we get to try as many items as possible.)<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">&nbsp;</span>\r\n\r\nBetty ordered next – t<a href=\"https://staging.yourislandnews.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/08/Fish-Camp-Jalepeno-Hush-Puppies.jpg\"><img class=\"wp-image-41220 alignleft\" src=\"https://staging.yourislandnews.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/08/Fish-Camp-Jalepeno-Hush-Puppies-1024x789.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"274\" height=\"211\"></a>he Spinach Salad with Fried Oysters – and Jeff claimed the Fish ‘n Chips. Mike came in last with the Catch of the Day Fish Sandwich. (I think he really wanted the Fish Tacos, but hey, you snooze you lose.)\r\n\r\nWhile we waited for our meals, we sampled a couple of appetizers. The calamari was good, especially if you like yours tender and not too crunchy on the outside. Our favorite were the Jalapeno Hushpuppies, which were like no hushpuppies I’ve ever tasted. Not as spicy as the name suggests – just a little kick – and they’re wonderfully textured and delicious, especially slathered with Fishcamp’s homemade honey butter. Really something special.\r\n\r\nMike is our soup guy, and he started with the Chef’s Soup of the Day, Tomato Crab Bisque, which he immediately deemed “amazing.” Between bites, he elaborated, calling it “incredibly fresh, rich, and tomatoey.”\r\n\r\nAnd now the entrees were arriving.\r\n\r\nBetty raved about her Spinach Salad, chock-full of yummy stuff like red onions, cucumbers, goat cheese, dried cranberries, and candied Georgia pecans. And then there was the icing on the cake – or oysters on the salad, as it were. “I asked for fried oysters on top – it wasn’t on the menu – and they said ‘sure’!” This answer made Betty very happy, as did the fried oysters, which were superb.\r\n\r\n<a href=\"https://staging.yourislandnews.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/08/Fish-Camp-Fish-Chips.jpg\"><img class=\" wp-image-41224 alignleft\" src=\"https://staging.yourislandnews.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/08/Fish-Camp-Fish-Chips-1024x786.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"360\" height=\"277\"></a>Jeff is a Fish ‘n Chips fan from way back, and he’s sampled the dish all over the Western world … including Beaufort. Fishcamp’s version stacked up nicely, with tasty, flaky flounder and “just the right ratio of breading to fish.” The fries were good, and the coleslaw sweet and crunchy, just the way I like it. (Yes, I picked on his plate. He’s used to it.)\r\n\r\nMike thoroughly enjoyed his Catch of the Day Fish Sandwich, and was particularly glad the Mahi wasn’t over-fried. (You can also get it grilled or blackened.) Served with lettuce and tomato on a pretzel bun, what’s not to love?\r\n\r\nLast, but certainly not least, my Fish Tacos. I’ve rarely met a fish taco I didn’t like, but these were truly outstanding. I had my fish grilled – again, fried and blackened are options – and it practically melted in my<a href=\"https://staging.yourislandnews.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/08/Fish-Camp-Fish-Tacos.jpg\"><img class=\"alignright wp-image-41218\" src=\"https://staging.yourislandnews.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/08/Fish-Camp-Fish-Tacos-1024x766.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"434\" height=\"324\"></a> mouth, along with the flavorful textures of roasted corn, black bean salsa, Calabrese chili aioli, and the aforementioned slaw. “Two thumbs up” is an understatement. Throw in a pinky.\r\n\r\nWe were all feeling fat and happy and ready for naps when our server broached the subject of dessert. “Oh no, we couldn’t possibly …” But of course, we did.\r\n\r\nFishcamp produces five different homemade desserts daily, and we felt it was our journalistic duty to sample each of them. The staff favorite is the Key Lime Pie, which took 30 attempts to perfect, according to Chef Priester. It was worth it! Perfection achieved.<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">&nbsp;</span>\r\n\r\n<a href=\"https://staging.yourislandnews.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/08/Fish-Camp-Bread-Pudding.jpg\"><img class=\"wp-image-41223 alignleft\" src=\"https://staging.yourislandnews.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/08/Fish-Camp-Bread-Pudding-1024x742.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"416\" height=\"302\"></a>My personal favorite, however, was the Bread Pudding – there are no words to describe it, so you’ll just have to try it – while others at the table were enamored of the Crème Brulee, the Oreo Lemon Cheese Cake, and the Peanut Butter Chocolate Mousse, respectively.<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">&nbsp;</span>\r\n\r\nThere was literally something for everybody, and everybody indulged.\r\n\r\nAnd now we really were ready for naps.<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">&nbsp;</span>\r\n\r\nAs we left the breezy porch, past the picturesque rope swings and the outdoor bar – where there’d be live music later – we thanked the friendly staff, bid the scenic view farewell, and vowed to return as soon as humanly possible.<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">&nbsp;</span>\r\n\r\nMaybe happy hour?\r\n\r\n&nbsp;\r\n\r\n&nbsp;\r\n\r\n<strong>Fishcamp on 11 th Street</strong>\r\n\r\n1699 11th Street\r\n\r\nPort Royal, S.C.\r\n\r\n843-379-2248\r\n\r\nwww.fishcampon11th.com\r\n\r\nOpen Seven Days a Week\r\n\r\nLunch 11 a.m.-4 p.m.\r\n\r\nSunday Brunch 11 a.m.-3 p.m.\r\n\r\nHappy Hour 4-6 p.m.\r\n\r\nDinner from 4 p.m.\r\n\r\nBar Open Late', 'The Lunch Bunch at Fishcamp on 11th Street', '', 'publish', 'closed', 'closed', '', 'the-lunch-bunch-at-fishcamp-on-11th-street', '', '', '2019-08-22 07:41:37', '2019-08-22 11:41:37', '', 0, 'https://staging.yourislandnews.com/?p=41215', 0, 'post', '', 0),
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(41229, 4, '2019-08-21 08:05:47', '2019-08-21 12:05:47', 'The City of Beaufort/Town of Port Royal Fire Department and the Burton Fire District responded to three confirmed structure fires between the hours of 5 and 7 p.m. Saturday afternoon during a heavy thunderstorm.\r\n\r\nTwo out of the three fires were at multi-family dwelling apartment complexes.\r\n\r\nThe first fire at approximately 5 p.m. was at Laurel Hill apartments in Port Royal.\r\n\r\nFirefighters arrived to find light smoke showing from the third floor. Firefighters were able assist with evacuating all residents in the apartment building and extinguish the fire.\r\n\r\nThe American Red Cross was requested to the scene for the resident of the of apartment being displaced from the fire.\r\n\r\nThe second fire was dispatched at approximately 6:15 p.m. at the Preserve of Port Royal Apartments.<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">&nbsp;</span>\r\n\r\nThe first arriving engine company reported smoke showing from the exterior of the apartment building.\r\n\r\nAfter units investigated, it was determined that the source of smoke was coming from the alarm panel in the breezeway of Building 300. The alarm panel and batteries for the system appeared to be charred from a lightening strike but the incident is under investigation at this time.\r\n\r\nThe third structure was dispatched at approximately 6:45 p.m. at Mystic Circle in the Mossy Oaks neighborhood. The first arriving engine company arrived on scene to find light smoke showing from the back of the residence.<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">&nbsp;</span>\r\n\r\nAfter investigating the incident, it was determined that porch caught on fire, possibly from a lightning strike. Crews were able to extinguish the fire quickly and prevent the fire from spreading to the residence.\r\n\r\n“All crews did an exceptional job today on this busy afternoon” acting Battalion Chief Josh Doud said.\r\n\r\nThe City of Beaufort/Town of Port Royal Fire Department responded to a total of 15 emergency incidents Saturday. Beaufort/Port Royal units responded to five structure fires, five medical calls, three fire alarms, one elevator rescue, and one service call.', 'Fire departments were busy Saturday during storm', '', 'publish', 'closed', 'closed', '', 'fire-departments-were-busy-saturday-during-storm', '', '', '2019-08-21 08:05:47', '2019-08-21 12:05:47', '', 0, 'https://staging.yourislandnews.com/?p=41229', 0, 'post', '', 0),
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(41237, 4, '2019-08-21 08:10:33', '2019-08-21 12:10:33', '<h2>Recent annexation requests to ‘up-zone’ may signal things to come for Beaufort County</h2>\r\n<h4>By MINDY LUCAS</h4>\r\nJanet Mulcahy still remembers how she felt when land along Sam’s Point Road was clear-cut for the 40-acre Oyster Bluff residential development near her Lady’s Island home.\r\n\r\nHaving moved to the island the year before to take care of her aging parents, Mulcahy was shocked at the sudden growth happening all around them.\r\n\r\nLand had already been cleared to make way for a new Publix and shopping plaza, which opened in 2014, then came the Oyster Bluff development in 2016, followed by a Walmart that same year – all within a few miles of the family’s home.\r\n\r\nSo when requests to annex and rezone two properties on either side of Sam’s Point Road came before the city of Beaufort in July, it was more than she could bear.\r\n\r\n“What is happening to our island?” an impassioned Mulcahy asked as she stood before members of the Beaufort-Port Royal Metropolitan Planning Commission on July 29. “It’s become the epicenter of let’s do everything.”\r\n\r\nHardly alone in her outrage, Mulcahy was joined by about a dozen other residents who voiced similar concerns at the meeting and were applauded by many more in attendance.\r\n\r\nUltimately, the commission voted to approve the two requests for annexation but paired back their accompanying zonings in favor of less density. The final decision rests with Beaufort’s city council which will take up the issue at its Aug. 27 meeting.\r\n\r\n<strong>Up-zoning and jurisdiction shopping</strong>\r\n\r\nSuch requests are troubling for area residents and critics of unfettered development who say annexation and “up-zoning” is being used by developers as a tactic for circumventing an area’s current zoning restrictions in favor of one that allows for denser housing or commercial development.\r\n\r\nWhat’s more, they say the requests to allow for denser zoning flies in the face of the recently adopted Lady’s Island Plan created to provide guidelines for growth and development on the island.\r\n\r\n“The Sea Island Corridor Coalition does not object to applications for annexation. We bristle a bit at the use of annexation for jurisdiction shopping,” said Chuck Newton at the July 29 meeting. Along with the Coastal Conservation League, the coalition led the effort to create the Lady’s Island Plan after the Walmart and Oyster Bluff projects caused public outcry.\r\n\r\nThe two bids for annexation taken up at the July 29 meeting were the first two “relevant applications” to come up since the Lady’s Island Plan was adopted in April, Newton said.\r\n\r\nThe coalition did not have an objection to the zoning requested for a collection of properties along Williams Street and Mayfair Court totaling 6.9 acres since it was similar to the current zoning of adjacent properties.\r\n\r\nHowever, the group had “serious concerns” with the annexing and rezoning of the other property, a 20-acre parcel at 44 and 50 Miller Drive East, Newton said at the meeting.\r\n\r\nThe property is “bounded on the east by marshes and water, and by the south by athletic fields and Lady’s Island Middle School. A large pond dominates the westerly half of the parcel. On the southwest and on the west and on the north are long-standing and fully developed residential neighborhoods,” he said. “For all intents and purposes, this parcel is an island in the middle of a residential neighborhood.”\r\n\r\n<strong>The usual process</strong>\r\n\r\nExacerbating the problem is the fact that annexation and rezoning are often inextricably linked. When a property owner asks to be annexed into a city, that city or municipality usually has to consider what the new zoning will be.\r\n\r\n“That is not an unusual process for cities across the state to follow,” said Scott Slatton, legislative and public policy advocate for the Municipal Association of South Carolina.\r\n\r\nThough how you take up the process is not spelled out in the law, he said.\r\n\r\n“It really is up to the city, and how you handle that process depends on the reaction you’re getting from residents, the public, property owners and also how much time and study you have to put into it,” he said.\r\n\r\nThe owner of the Miller Drive East property requested a change in zoning – from the county’s T3-HN to the city’s T4-N – which would have allowed for a mix of urban residential units and limited commercial development.\r\n\r\nMore specifically, the classification includes a “wide range of building types including, but not limited to, apartment buildings, mixed-use buildings, row-homes, duplexes, corner stores and both attached and detached single-family homes,” according to the Beaufort code.\r\n\r\nWhile Newton said it was true that no one knew what the property owner had in mind for the parcels, which is currently up for sale, it was “unlikely” she was applying for annexation and re-zoning if the intent was to build something similar to the surrounding homes already there.\r\n\r\n“Those are already permitted under the current zoning,” he said.\r\n\r\nHowever, Michael Mark, a commercial real estate broker who represented the property owner at the meeting, disagrees.\r\n\r\nMark said a change in zoning was needed for the “flexibility” it offers in building homes on the site.\r\n\r\nAs defined by the Lady’s Island Plan, the current property is in the “Village” which is described by the plan as being characteristically a mixed-use space.\r\n\r\n“We need the flexibility to make bigger lots and smaller lots,” he said. “If you tell me that every lot has to be a 100 by 150-foot lot or whatever size, you’re asking me to put a suburban neighborhood in the village neighborhood,” he said.\r\n\r\nWhile Mark said he could not say “right now” what the owner or a potential buyer plans to do with the property, he did say rumors of a 200-unit apartment complex were untrue.\r\n\r\n“There has never been a discussion that anything like that would happen,” he said.\r\n\r\nIn terms of annexation into the city, the owner made the request because she had “not been treated fairly by the county” in years past and “likes the way the city operates,” he said.\r\n\r\nWould the owner rescind her application to be annexed then, since the planning commission turned down the requested zoning?\r\n\r\n“It may impact going forward with the application,” he said.\r\n\r\n<strong>Circumventing the plan</strong>\r\n\r\nStill, there are those who remain concerned about unchecked development on the island and what these recent applications for annexation mean.\r\n\r\n“To me it’s a matter of clear intent,” said Steve Holland, who lives “around the corner” from the Williams Street and Mayfair Court properties and less than a mile from the Miller Drive East property.\r\n\r\nA Lady’s Island resident for 22 years, Holland said requests for annexation and zoning that allow for greater density signals a developer is interested in the land.\r\n\r\n“It’s as plain as the nose on your face,” he said by phone recently. “I think we are in the midst of watching how one circumvents the Lady’s Island Plan.”\r\n\r\nHolland, who attended many of the early community forums and planning sessions that led to the creation of the Lady’s Island Plan, was among those at the July 29 meeting who opposed the applications for annexation.\r\n\r\nHe said many residents who spent hundreds of hours putting together the plan were under the impression that developers would have to come before that group and disclose what they had in mind. One of the first meetings alone had more than 400 people in attendance, he said.\r\n\r\n“What was the point in all those meetings?” he said. “Were they nothing but theater?\r\n\r\nRobert Semmler, a member of the Beaufort-Port Royal Metropolitan Planning Commission who along with two other commission members sat on the steering committee for the Lady’s Island Plan, said the plan set forth specific guidelines for transparency and civic involvement.\r\n\r\nIt also asks that developers of major projects come before the community preservation committee.\r\n\r\n“It was not required but it was suggested or encouraged,” he said at the July 29 meeting. “And this is a major development if it gets rezoned the way it is versus the way it could be.”\r\n\r\nSemmler, who was the only member to vote against the annexation of the Miller Drive East property, said he was concerned that potential developers are bypassing the process for disclosing their plans to the community.\r\n\r\n“We don’t want to stop development … but my concerns are with rezoning and what we’re doing to that community,” he said at the meeting.\r\n\r\n“Once it’s rezoned, it’s out of our hands and they don’t have to come in front of the community preservation committee, they can go straight to city council,” he said. “… and we’re out of the picture and all of a sudden we have 200 apartments on Lady’s Island.”\r\n\r\nSemmler said he encouraged whoever is interested in the Miller Drive East property to come before the community preservation committee.\r\n\r\n“…And present their project and hear what the citizens say about it,” he said. “And that wasn’t done. It was bypassed completely.”\r\n\r\n<strong>Why annexation?</strong>\r\n\r\nSo why consider annexation at all? Is there an upside to it?\r\n\r\nFor municipalities, annexation is a way to expand its tax base and increase the services it’s able to offer its citizens, according to the Municipal Association of South Carolina.\r\n\r\nFavorable annexation can also attract jobs and businesses.\r\n\r\nA Charleston recycling company that recently announced the move of its manufacturing arm to Northern Beaufort County cited annexation as one of the reasons it was able to take over the building it plans to renovate there, vacated by another manufacturer.\r\n\r\nThe company, Glass WRX SC, asked that the 37-acre site be annexed so it could have access to city services and more favorable tax incentives, said CEO Chris Fisher. The company plans to hire between 45 to 50 workers over the next two years.\r\n\r\nHowever, critics of annexation say while the city may gain, those in the county are the ones who often lose.\r\n\r\n“Annexation for the city does mean increased revenue, and our contention is, and again we’re not opposed to annexation per se, but often that is their primary criteria for considering these things,” said Newton when reached later by phone.\r\n\r\nAnother part of the Lady’s Island Plan aims to address how far the city can expand its reach.\r\n\r\nThe plan aims to limit the footprint of urban and suburban growth by reducing the existing growth boundaries, because the more the city annexes the more it can continue to expand its reach since the question to annex a property often comes down to what is adjacent to it, Newton said.\r\n\r\n“…and because the city’s focus is on economic development, smart development and retention of moderate zoning often gets shortshrifted,” he said.\r\n\r\nSo while he thinks the city’s planning commission “did the right thing” in denying the requested zoning, he also thinks more work to incorporate the plan into the city and county’s planning processes needs to be done.\r\n\r\n“Part of the problem with the Lady’s Island Plan is that it’s been adopted, but there was to be an intergovernmental agreement among the county and city,” he said. “Not simply adopt the plan but implement it, and we’re working to get that done.”\r\n\r\n<strong>In search of protection</strong>\r\n\r\nIn the meantime, Janet Mulcahy has started a Facebook page for residents wanting to keep tabs on development projects in the area.\r\n\r\nShe says the community is “still very sore about what we saw happen,” referring to the Oyster Bluff development.\r\n\r\n“We saw a beautiful piece of land clear-cut and cookie cutter houses went in overnight,” she said. “All the oak trees, everything was gone and the wildlife was pushed out.”\r\n\r\nOyster Bluff was the wake up call for the once “sleepy island community,” she said. “That started a whole lot of people saying, ‘What is happening here?’ ”\r\n\r\nShe says now, with the recent applications for annexation, the perception is that Beaufort is trying to protect its historic flavor, while pushing city services, residential development, shopping and other commercial businesses outside the city to Lady’s Island.\r\n\r\n“They’re wanting to utilize Lady’s Island (for this) and that’s what’s frightening us,” she said.\r\n\r\nShe too wants to see the Lady’s Island Plan strengthened and wants to see greater protections afforded to the island.\r\n\r\n“Beaufort is protected because it is historic, and Saint Helena (Island) is protected because of its natural beauty. Well Lady’s Island wants to be known for something other than a one-intersection dumping ground for everything,” she said. “We want to be protected too.”', 'Annexation woes plague Lady’s Island residents', '', 'publish', 'closed', 'closed', '', 'annexation-woes-plague-ladys-island-residents', '', '', '2019-08-21 11:53:17', '2019-08-21 15:53:17', '', 0, 'https://staging.yourislandnews.com/?p=41237', 0, 'post', '', 0),
(41240, 4, '2019-08-21 08:13:29', '2019-08-21 12:13:29', '<h4>By MINDY LUCAS</h4>\r\nSouth Carolina’s top prosecutor visited a Lowcountry private school recently to talk to students on their first day back about a range of topics.\r\n\r\nAlan Wilson was the guest speaker at Beaufort Academy’s traditional first-day convocation on Monday, Aug. 19.\r\n\r\nSpeaking to an assembly of about 170 students, from 5th through 12th grade, Wilson touched on themes of commitment, leadership and character.\r\n\r\n“Never be afraid to surround yourself with people who are better than you,” said Wilson recalling how, at age 37, he became the youngest state attorney general in the country.\r\n\r\nHe told students that leadership isn’t about perks and privileges, but service.\r\n\r\n“As a leader, it’s not your job to be the best. You have to humble yourself to learn from others,” he said.\r\n\r\nWilson also talked about human trafficking and the dangers of the Internet, two topics his office is leading the charge on combating in South Carolina through its affiliation with the Internet Crimes Against Children Task Force.\r\n\r\nThe first day back for many of the students was also bittersweet, said Lisa Gallagher, the school’s director of communications, after the death of classmate Anna Grace Dennis.\r\n\r\nAn accomplished student athlete and National Honors Society inductee, Dennis died Aug. 5 from an epileptic seizure.\r\n\r\n“She was a friend to all of us,” Gallagher said choking back emotion at the assembly.\r\n\r\nThe school organized bereavement support groups for the students to participate in and had a grief counselor on hand on Monday,\r\n\r\nIn addition, the school planned to honor and remember Dennis later in the week with the release of 300 butterflies on the school’s softball field.\r\n\r\n<em>Above: S.C. Attorney General Alan Wilson makes his remarks to Beaufort Academy students during the annual convocation on Monday, the first day of school.</em>', 'S.C. Attorney General Alan Wilson gives address at Beaufort Academy convocation', '', 'publish', 'closed', 'closed', '', 's-c-attorney-general-alan-wilson-gives-address-at-beaufort-academy-convocation', '', '', '2019-08-21 08:13:29', '2019-08-21 12:13:29', '', 0, 'https://staging.yourislandnews.com/?p=41240', 0, 'post', '', 0),
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(41243, 4, '2019-08-21 08:15:07', '2019-08-21 12:15:07', '<h4>By MIKE McCOMBS</h4>\r\nAmong the 150 or so people who crowded around Democratic presidential candidate Andrew Yang on his campaign stop Thursday, Aug. 15 in Beaufort was a Lowcountry artist who made waves earlier this year with a painting of a different political figure.\r\n\r\nMent Nelson, a Beaufort-born, Hampton County-based artist, stopped by to hear what Yang had to say and to present him with a painting he finished of the candidate only a short time earlier in the day.<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">&nbsp;</span>\r\n\r\n“I’ve been following him on the internet. I saw him on The Breakfast Club. I saw him on the Joe Rogan podcast,” Nelson said. “He’s one of the only candidates who’s addressing AI, things like that. So I was just interested in that. And then, not too many people come to this area.<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">&nbsp;</span>\r\n\r\n“I grew up here and lived here all my life, so I just like to take part in the culture and what’s going on.”\r\n\r\nNelson has also attended campaign rallies this year for Cory Booker and Bernie Sanders, among others.\r\n\r\nThe 30-year-old artist’s legal first name is Clementia. He was named after a family friend, the Rev. Clementia Pinckney, who was killed by a white supremacist in 2015 in a mass shooting at the Mother Emmanuel AME Church in Charleston.<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">&nbsp;</span>\r\n\r\nNelson dropped out of Francis Marion University a decade ago but has made a name for himself as a painter – one that’s plugged into what’s going on through social media (@mentnelson on Twitter) and, in his words, tries to shine a light on his state and his culture.\r\n\r\nHis motto? “I make it cool to be from South Carolina.”\r\n\r\nAfter moving home with family in Varnville, he has seen his career grow. Last year, his work began to be featured in a traveling exhibit presented by the Smithsonian.\r\n\r\nBut it was earlier this year when many who hadn’t seen Nelson’s art got their first taste.\r\n\r\nInspired by Kanye West’s 2018 visit with Donald Trump at the White House – Make America Great Again hat and all – Nelson painted a watercolor of the pair complete with a smooch mark square on Trump’s cheek.\r\n\r\nNelson priced the painting, entitled “Kissin’ Up,” at $1 million, garnering him coverage on television and in newspapers across the country.\r\n\r\nThe buzz is what Nelson was after.\r\n\r\n“It’s mainly just talk, still. I haven’t gotten any inquiries,” Nelson said. “But it’s been helping me get my work out a lot more. Because it doesn’t really matter whether it sells or not – though it’d be really great if it did sell. For me it was just showing the people in my community you can price something at $1 million and with the technology, you never know where that story can travel to. My proof is having publications from all over the nation writing about it.”\r\n\r\nThe painting remains for sale on Nelson’s website – mentnelson.com – among other original pieces and prints, most selling for between $25 and $40.\r\n\r\nFor the most part, even though his work sometimes takes a political tone, Nelson says the response has been positive.\r\n\r\n“It’s mostly supportive, about 95 percent supportive, but you’re always going to have negative blowback, especially since I started doing political work,” he said. “You’re staring to get people from both sides starting to have something to say about it.\r\n\r\n“It’s something I’m prepared for, though. It comes with the territory. You’re always going to have controversy, people saying things.”', 'Lowcountry artist Ment Nelson stops in to hear Yang speak', '', 'publish', 'closed', 'closed', '', 'lowcountry-artist-ment-nelson-stops-in-to-hear-yang-speak', '', '', '2019-08-21 08:15:07', '2019-08-21 12:15:07', '', 0, 'https://staging.yourislandnews.com/?p=41243', 0, 'post', '', 0),
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(41246, 4, '2019-08-21 08:24:52', '2019-08-21 12:24:52', '<h4>By MIKE McCOMBS</h4>\r\nThere were nearly 100 people packed into the Grand Army of the Republic Hall on Thursday night and Andrew Yang wasn’t even there, yet.<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">&nbsp;</span>\r\n\r\nAs another 40 to 50 spectators gathered outside, it became increasingly clear that when Yang did arrive to speak at the North of the Broad Democratic Club’s monthly meeting, he wouldn’t be speaking inside.\r\n\r\nWhen he did arrive, he was greeted to a rock star-like reaction before gathering his supporters into a semicircle in the courtyard outside the building to pass along his message.\r\n\r\nThe good-natured Yang talked and joked his way through his life experiences that led him to the point where he is now, a presidential candidate who never expected to be a presidential candidate.<a href=\"https://staging.yourislandnews.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/08/IMG_3506.jpg\"><img class=\"alignright  wp-image-41250\" src=\"https://staging.yourislandnews.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/08/IMG_3506-1024x1024.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"369\" height=\"369\"></a>\r\n\r\n“I’m not a career politician, I’m a career problem solver,” Yang said. “I never imagined I’d run for president.”\r\n\r\nYang believes in, as he calls it, “trickle up” economics. Pointing out that the “trickle down” version championed by Ronald Reagan and most Republicans since hasn’t worked for the middle class, Yang espoused his signature policy, the “Freedom Dividend.”\r\n\r\nThe Freedom Dividend is a form of Universal Basic Income (UBI), where all Americans 18 and older would receive $1,000 a month that would not be taxed.\r\n\r\nWhile the idea seems radical, Yang pointed out that the United States has come close to adopting similar policies several times in the past, including twice during the early 1970s when such a plan actually passed the House of Representatives.\r\n\r\n<a href=\"https://staging.yourislandnews.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/08/IMG_3537.jpg\"><img class=\"wp-image-41249 alignleft\" src=\"https://staging.yourislandnews.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/08/IMG_3537-1024x1020.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"435\" height=\"433\"></a>“The fun thing about this campaign is there is a bit of a process where you’re digging into the ideas and you’re getting a sense of the history and the background and the rationale,” Yang said, “and I think more and more Americans are catching on to the idea that it’s not a radical idea, that it’s a deeply American idea that’s been with us for decades, maybe centuries. As more and more Americans open their eyes to that fact, then you’ll see the campaign grow and grow.”\r\n\r\nYang believes the UBI will soften the blow of an increasingly difficult U.S. labor landscape as a result of current and future job elimination due to automation. He believes the election of Donald Trump as president was directly related to the anxiety caused by the loss of such jobs that aren’t being replaced in the economy.\r\n\r\nHe pushed for simplifying the tax code, while eliminating the ability of big moneymakers like Amazon to get away with paying nothing, investing in infrastructure and preparing for sea-level rise and the most urgent effects of climate change.\r\n\r\nAnd he is for the U.S. resuming space exploration, but at this point, he said, the government should take a back seat to the private companies that are further along in research and development.\r\n\r\nYang, depending on which study you believe, is somewhere between fifth and 10<sup>th</sup> in the most recent polls. Yet, he’s optimistic that his camaign can make up the necessary ground before the primaries.\r\n\r\n“One great thing is that our data shows that we are less well known in South Carolina, than not just the other early states but in America,” Yang said. “So the fact that we’re as competitive as we are when most of America hasn’t heard about me and the campaign is really positive science, because the more people have heard about the campaign, the better we do. So the job is just to get the word out about us and the campaign.”\r\n\r\n<em>Above:</em>\r\n<em>Presidential Candidate Andrew Yang arrives outside the Grand Army of the Republic Hall in Beaufort on Thursday night, August 15.&nbsp;Photo by Harmony Cadien.</em>\r\n<em>Yang is greeted by Beaufort Mayor Billy Keyserling during the candidate’s tour of the Beaufort Black Chamber of Commerce. Photo by Jeff Evans.</em>\r\n<em>Yang joins in with the Family Slide Line Dancers while touring the facilities of the Beaufort Black Chamber of Commerce. Photo by Jeff Evans.</em>\r\n\r\n&nbsp;', 'Yang’s message popular enough to take it outside', '', 'publish', 'closed', 'closed', '', 'yangs-message-popular-enough-to-take-it-outside', '', '', '2019-08-21 08:24:52', '2019-08-21 12:24:52', '', 0, 'https://staging.yourislandnews.com/?p=41246', 0, 'post', '', 0),
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(41255, 4, '2019-08-21 08:32:45', '2019-08-21 12:32:45', '<h4>By MIKE McCOMBS</h4>\r\nSally Hannock of Coosaw was one of the 600 or so people who came out Saturday to Whale Branch Middle School to hear South Bend, Ind., Mayor Pete Buttigieg make his case to Lowcountry voters why he should be the Democrats’ choice to unseat Donald Trump as U.S. President in 2020.\r\n\r\nA Massachusetts native who moved to Beaufort two years ago, Hannock lists Buttigieg and Kamala Harris among her favorites so far, but she had been desperate to see Mayor Pete for the first time.\r\n\r\n“He’s smart and calm and clear,” Hannock said. “I just want to hear him. Anything he says has to be better than Trump. But he’s so smart. I just want to hear him.”<a href=\"https://staging.yourislandnews.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/08/RES5202.jpg\"><img class=\"alignright wp-image-41259\" src=\"https://staging.yourislandnews.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/08/RES5202-1024x711.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"506\" height=\"351\"></a>\r\n\r\nAnd hear him she did.<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">&nbsp;</span>\r\n\r\n“This country is running out of time,” Buttigieg said. “This election is about the future and our insistence that the future be better than the past.”\r\n\r\nHere’s a look at what Buttigieg had to say, both on his own and in response to questions:\r\n\r\n– “It’s time for a secretary of education that actually believes in public education,” he said.\r\n\r\nBetsy DeVos has been an abject failure, particularly for the students she claims to represent.\r\n\r\n– Patriotism, national security and God do not belong only to the Republican Party.\r\n\r\n“We get to speak up and nobody is going to question our loyalty to the republic,” Buttigieg said.\r\n\r\n– One of the biggest threats to our nation is white nationalist violence and it must be addressed as domestic terrorism.\r\n\r\n– “We have got to confront climate change as one of the biggest national security threats of our time,” he said.\r\n\r\n– Much like military service, we ought to give young Americans the opportunity to serve their nation through national civilian service. Buttigieg proposed creating a million paid public service jobs.\r\n\r\n– Like the Marshall Plan that rebuilt Europe after World War II, Buttigieg proposes a Douglas Plan that would create an equitable system (justice and economic) for black Americans. He said populating the current system with good people isn’t enough.\r\n\r\n<a href=\"https://staging.yourislandnews.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/08/RES5298.jpg\"><img class=\"wp-image-41256 alignleft\" src=\"https://staging.yourislandnews.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/08/RES5298-1024x654.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"720\" height=\"460\"></a>– “We are “running out of time to support rural America,” he said. The biggest issues are the closing of rural hospitals, a chronic teacher shortage and a lack of access to the Internet.\r\n\r\n– Dollars currently outvote people. It’s time for serious campaign finance reform.\r\n\r\n– We need to make government more representative. Getting rid of gerrymandering and the Electoral College is a start.\r\n\r\n– We need to work harder to address the problems in front of us. We have to deal with today’s problems so our children can focus on their own problems when they are actually in charge.\r\n\r\n– He expressed his support for Medicare for all who want it,\r\n\r\n“I believe in universal health care,” he said. “Every other country has figured this out. But how do we get there?”\r\n\r\nHe said the public option is better than the corporate option, but demonstrate it by leaving the corporate option. If the people see for themselves it is a better option, they’ll get there by their own choices.”\r\n\r\n– We have to do a better job of taking care of both the mental and physical health of our veterans. We made them a two-way promise. We have to provide better access to the VA facilities and programs. And we have to have a rural training program to better facilitate good care.\r\n\r\n– Buttigieg said he wouldn’t hesitate to use executive authority to undo all the bad executive orders of this president. Issues like family separation, the handcuffing of the EPA and overtime rules. However, “I would rather local cement these policies in through legislation.”\r\n\r\n– We have to rein in the NRA, Buttigieg said. “The kinds of weapons that I carried overseas have no place in our neighborhoods, he said. But the NRA’s own corruption is doing some of the job.”\r\n\r\n– And lastly, lobbyists are becoming too powerful. 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