Charleston City Paper 04/19/2024 - 27.38

S.C. Senate report blasts Loftis over $1.8 billion scandal

Dragon boating offers

‘lesson of our lives’

Bert & T.’s is Charleston’s sweetest new addition

Ebony Johnson of North Charleston can squeeze these stuffed animals to hear the recorded sound of her babies’ heartbeats. The pediatric palliative care team at the Medical University of South Carolina prepared the lamb, left, for Aspen Leigh and the hippo for Ashton Danielle. On her birthday, Johnson will observe a celebration of their lives the day after Mother’s Day.

Double tragedy highlights risk in Black maternal deaths

By Herb Frazier

Ebony Johnson could never have imagined that the day after Mother’s Day — her 39th birthday — she will also celebrate the life of twin daughters who died shortly after birth three weeks ago.

Johnson, a North Charleston trauma counselor and mother of a 14-year-old daughter, was surprised in early September to learn she was six-weeks pregnant. An even bigger surprise followed — she was carrying twins.

Then six weeks later, Johnson was reeling again when doctors diagnosed one of the twins with anencephaly, a lethal congenital disorder that placed her healthy baby at risk.

Doctors closely monitored the twins as Johnson, who suffers from hypertension, complained constantly of headaches and joint swelling. Her blood pressure rose to stroke-level numbers, but Johnson said her complaints were ignored.

Meanwhile, Johnson took each day in constant fear that her baby with anencephaly could die in her womb. “She’s holding on to (life) through the umbilical cord,” Johnson remembered. “She was growing, kicking, spinning.” Then Johnson said she placed a near unrealistic expectation on her to stay alive so her sister could grow and live.

The risks for mother and child

As a Black woman, Johnson was at a greater risk of not surviving her pregnancy because of her race, age, previous medical condition and discrimination, according to a new study released by the S.C. Department of Health and Environmental Control (DHEC).

In 2020, public health officials saw a 16.3% decline over three years in the pregnancy-related death rate for White women, but the rate for Black women in the same span rose 69.1%, according to a 2024

The Rundown

Charleston’s rain garden program to continue

You might have missed the part of the Charleston City Council meeting in which the city clarified how its rain garden water sequestration program isn’t dead.

Earlier this month, media outlets reported the city would cut the $10,000 a year program that awards $200 grants to 50 people for installation of rain gardens to sequester water on private property to help control flooding.

But just a few days later — and after a blistering City Paper editorial calling for the rain garden program to be expanded — came a mea culpa.

“[The rain garden program] will be expanded, and the (city’s) resiliency office had already developed a plan for improving the program,” said Councilman William Dudley Gregorie. “Thank you, Mr. Mayor.”

That prompted Cogswell to say “Thank you, Councilman Gregorie, and I appreciate your education for me on this program and thanks for your leadership.” —Andy Brack

maternal death briefing DHEC prepared for state legislators.

The study took a detailed review of 60 deaths between 2018 and 2020. Of that group, Black women were four times more likely to die compared to White women. A majority of all women who were older than 40 years old died from pregnancy-related reasons, and a third of them died within 43 days to a year after childbirth.

Tragic hospital admission

Johnson was finally hospitalized on March 13 at the Medical University of South Carolina. She was not admitted, she said, because of her complaints. Johnson said she was eventually given the medications she asked for to lower her blood pressure after her hypertension affected her daughter’s placenta, decreasing the chance of a normal delivery.

“Guaranteed it’ll be a woman, because [Donald Trump] is right now so deep down into the dumpster when it comes to women that he needs to show that he’s not the sexist misogynist that he is. … I see somebody like a Nancy Mace or maybe even [Sen. Katie] Britt because of their looks.”

—Michael Cohen, lawyer and star witness in the hush-money trial of former President Donald Trump, on who will be the GOP’s 2024 running mate, in an April 12 interview with Politico.

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6 shot, killed across S.C. April 10 to April 16

Charleston police arrested Ronald Nunn, 41, and Melissa Ochrymowich, 34, both of Johns Island, in connection with a Monday morning shooting that injured one and took place with children nearby.

Other shootings: Six others died, five others were hurt in shootings across the state, according to sources.

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Senate report blasts treasurer over $1.8 billion scandal

By Jack O’Toole

Voters may have something new to decide on this year’s ballot — not who their treasurer should be, but whether they should keep voting for one at all.

An explosive new interim report on Tuesday from an S.C. Senate Finance subcommittee concluded State Treasurer Curtis Loftis and his office are responsible for a $1.8 billion accounting scandal that has embarrassed state leaders. Senators said the snafu appeared to involve no criminal wrongdoing, but cast doubt on South Carolina’s ability to track its finances.

Sources say the legislature, which is already considering a vote to put the future of the state comptroller general’s office on the ballot as a result of a separate $3.5 billion scandal, likely will now also ask voters whether to make the elected treasurer’s office a position appointed by the governor. Loftis has already said he does not plan to seek a fifth term.

“Treasurer Loftis has failed to maintain the integrity of the state’s banking and investment records … (and) has known about (these) unresolved differences for at least seven years,” state Sen. Larry Grooms, R-Berkeley, said Tuesday on the Senate floor.

Weeks of finger-pointing

The Senate report comes after weeks of finger-pointing over an account that appears to contain $1.8 billion in unexplained and unreconciled funds. Put plainly, state accountants cannot say where the money came from or who it belongs to.

“The subcommittee concludes the state treasurer is responsible for the $1.8 billion discrepancy,” said Grooms.

He said while the committee discovered no evidence of criminal wrongdoing, “the possibility cannot be summarily dismissed due to the size of the errors, the length of time they were concealed, and the inaccurate condition of the treasury records.”

Meanwhile, the report’s allegations did not stop with the $1.8 billion error. Grooms’ detailed other money management problems.

“Research revealed that the (state) general fund was actually negative by $474 million at the close of the (2023) fiscal year,” Grooms said. “A determination was made to offset the negative balance by (using) state investments… despite positive cash balances held in banks and record receipts of revenues into the general fund.”

Doubling-down

Perhaps most surprising was an allegation that Loftis, in response to subcommittee requests for more transparency, threatened

to publish highly sensitive state financial records on the internet.

According to Grooms, that threat led to an emergency meeting with the state’s attorney general and members of the staff of Gov. Henry McMaster “to find a way to stop the treasurer from publishing detailed information that would have crippled our state.”

At one point, state Attorney General Alan Wilson was even working on an emergency injunction order to present to the state Supreme Court, Grooms said. But then, a direct intervention by the governor seemed to resolve the situation.

“The governor made a direct appeal to him by telephone, asking him to please don’t do it,” he said. “The governor believed the treasurer was backing down (and) the crisis was over.”

In response to Tuesday’s report, Loftis blasted Grooms and his subcommittee colleagues, noting in a statement that senators enjoy immunity from defamation laws when speaking on the floor.

“There are no penalties for senators making false statements, and no court action available to me,” Loftis said. “I’ll not read the Senate’s report, nor will I watch the Senate proceedings, as the subcommittee’s mission is not one based on honor and integrity.”

Tuesday’s report and continuing scandal arrive on the heels of S.C. Comptroller General Richard Eckstrom’s resignation last March after he admitted to a decadelong series of errors that artificially inflated the state’s cash reserves by $3.5 billion.

Putting Humpty Dumpty back together again

Efforts to right the state’s fiscal ship are currently moving forward in two lanes.

First, McMaster convened an interdepartmental meeting of state financial officers last Thursday and charged them with getting to the bottom of the mysterious $1.8 billion by July 1, according to McMaster spokesman Brandon Charochak

“The governor believes the public’s confidence is best maintained when elected officials and agencies work together to solve problems through collaboration, cooperation and communication,” Charochak said.

And second, with an eye toward restructuring, legislators are working on bills that would bring the state’s financial management under the control of the governor, with the comptroller general, the state auditor and now probably the treasurer becoming his appointees.

“Politics really shouldn’t come into play,” Grooms told reporters on April 2, in reference to the legislation. “People prefer their accountants not be crusaders.”

Blotter of the Week

North Charleston police on April 13 chased a shirtless man along Dorchester Road, around a hotel and through a car wash before eventually catching him. Police did not note why the man was running, but they arrested him for breach of peace and trespassing.

Asking politely

A downtown man on April 1 threatened to beat up another man in front of officers after their kids got into an argument and a bicycle was thrown into a lake. Officers told the men not to get any closer, to which one of them asked to “get at least one punch in.” Bold ask.

At

least he knocked

A Mount Pleasant man on April 14 answered a knock on his apartment door to find a man in his underwear who immediately tried to enter the apartment. The would-be intruder later told police he thought he was trying to enter his own apartment, and police noted that he appeared to be morethan-a-little intoxicated.

By Skyler Baldwin

Illustration by Steve Stegelin

The Blotter is taken from reports filed with area police departments between March 31 and April 13.

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Due to complications, however, Johnson did not carry the twins to full term. At 12:34 p.m. on March 29 — Good Friday — Ashton Danielle, who had been diagnosed with anencephaly, was delivered via an emergency cesarean section. She lived 33 minutes and died on her mother’s chest. A minute later, Aspen Leigh, was born, but she unexpectedly died three days later from acidosis.

Discrimination, mental health and access

Danielle Wingo, director of DHEC’s Bureau of Maternal and Child Health, said the majority of the 60 pregnancy-related deaths in South Carolina from 2018 to 2020 were preventable. Most of those deaths occurred one week to a year after childbirth, and a majority of the women who died lived in rural areas.

To increase access to care for women in rural areas, DHEC is seeking “funding for a mobile unit to provide prenatal, postpartum and general pediatric care … in these rural counties,” she said. “We have to meet [pregnant women] where they are by bringing access to care closer to people so that they will take advantage of making doctors appointments.”

Of the 14 South Carolina counties without obstetric services, 11 are rural. The rural counties are: Abbeville, Allendale, Bamberg, Barnwell, Calhoun, Chester, Chesterfield, Edgefield, Fairfield, Hampton, Lee, McCormick, Saluda and Williamsburg.

Early data from the pandemic years beginning in 2020, Wingo added, suggests the pregnancy-related mortality rate increased for Black women and decreased for White women.

The South Carolina Maternal Morbidity and Mortality Review Committee (SCMMRC), created in 2016 by the General Assembly, prepared the study. The 50-member commission is made up of physicians, coroners, social workers and community advocates who closely reviewed deaths of pregnant women statewide.

The committee determined that discrimination was linked to a third of the pregnancy-related deaths, Wingo said. The others are obesity, substance use disorder and mental health conditions.

Discrimination in the health-care setting, Wingo said, is the result of class, economic and racial bias. Often a pregnant woman’s complaints about her level of care or the way she is feeling is dismissed, Wingo said. To combat this problem, the Centers for Disease Control created the Hear Her Campaign and DHEC participates in it, she said.

The Southeast region has higher rates of maternal mortality, and data suggests South Carolina ranks 8th among its peers, said Kimberly Jenkins, a lead nurse abstractor for DHEC’s maternal mortality review program.

Ebony Johnson wears an urn bracelet that will hold a small amount of her daughters’ cremated remains. The bracelet is inscribed with: “God has you in His arms, I have you in my heart.”

Historically, maternal mortality has been higher in the South, according to the National Institutes of Health, Journal of the American Medical Association (JAMA) and other sources, with racial disparities, mental health conditions and substance use disorders considered as contributing factors, she said.

SCMMRC has formed two work groups to study mental health conditions, substance use disorders and racial disparities, Jenkins said. “The goal is to eliminate deaths, but to do that it requires a multi-faceted approach at various levels, to include patients and families, medical providers, health care facilities and hospital systems and community outreach,” she explained.

Three-quarters of the women who died are Medicaid recipients, the study said. In 2022, South Carolina extended the insurance coverage for pregnant women for one year after childbirth, Wingo said. “That is fantastic because look at when a majority of the deaths occur,” she added. The expanded Medicaid coverage, however, only applies to pregnant women.

Coping with stress and a celebration of life

A doula from the Beloved Early Education and Care (BEE) Collective visited Johnson while she was in the hospital to console her after the loss of her twins and to provide her with resources during her postpartum period. Being in her late 30s, Johnson said she’s keenly aware of the risk her age places on her surviving the postpartum period. As a trauma counselor, she’s also concerned about mental health issues that can arise after childbirth.

Johnson said the coming Mother’s Day is difficult because of her strained relationship with her mother. To ease the heartache of this Mother’s Day weekend, Johnson plans a quiet gathering on her birthday with family and friends.

The decision to hold a celebration of life for the twins on Mother’s Day weekend was intentional, Johnson said with a slight chuckle.

“It is a holiday that I am happy to see go, but I didn’t want to be sad all weekend,” she said. “I’ll be thinking about my babies [even with] the heartache that comes with it, it really does bring me joy … and it will allow my community of people, who have stood with me, to also express their feelings.”

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In Loving Memory

In Our Hearts

We thought of you today.

But that is nothing new. We thought about you yesterday.

And days before that too.

We think of you in silence. We often speak your name. Now all we have are memories. And your picture in a frame. Your memory is our keepsake. With which we will never part. God has you in his keeping. We have you in our hearts.

The children of the late Emily H. Meggett

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Don’t meekly accept sky-high dining prices

Face it, Charlestonians: Prices at too many restaurants are too high and we need to start squawking about it.

A $78 steak? $65 for four beers and an appetizer? A $24 side salad? Really? Too much.

Oh, you’ll hear big excuses like how food costs are up. Or staffing is too expensive. Or about how the pandemic is to blame.

We get it — some costs are higher. But we’re no longer buying the pandemic excuse. The height of the shutdown was more than two years ago.

But operating costs can’t be up so much as to justify costly menus around town, particularly at a few big restaurant groups and outside new venture vultures who call Charleston home. They seem to be opening new eateries just to keep cashing in. And perhaps that proves the point — some businesses seem to have too much money thanks to their inflated prices. It doesn’t take a rocket scientist to know this food and bev windfall that is funding expansions is from the patrons at packed restaurants with sky-high prices.

It’s just not justified for a shot of vodka in a martini to cost $14, the same price for a side of mac’ and cheese at one place. Or pan-seared scallops for $59. Scallops! Or how about that $38 piece of salmon or $44 cut of a “flaky, white fish.”

One thing that Charleston restaurateurs need to keep in mind is that Charlestonians — not tourists — kept local eateries open when the pandemic swept through. We patronized local establishments that were open, ordered from new take-out menus, enjoyed delivery and more.

Now, more than two years after the height of the pandemic, it’s time to stop trotting out that old horse and normalize pricing.

Yes, we’re now a foodie town that makes top lists. But that doesn’t mean local restaurants need to jack prices to outrageous levels as if we were in New York, Chicago or Los Angeles. As one local owner told us recently, he keeps from raising prices to what his competitors charge because he wants to be slightly lower. Why? Because he knows he’ll do more business in volume with reasonable prices than his competition will and his business will end up doing better at the bank. That’s the kind of attitude that needs to replace some of the greed going through Charleston’s food culture. Here’s more food for thought:

Offer more affordable items. If expensive restaurants want to keep charging outrageous prices, they should put a few affordable items on the menu to attract locals, their bread-and-butter customers.

Locals’ night. Or how about a once-weekly night for locals in which people who live here get a 25% credit on what they order (restaurants are carding patrons anyway to serve them overpriced booze).

We encourage you to tell restaurants that they need to be more reasonable on pricing if you feel you’re getting taken advantage of. Otherwise, look forward to more costs … and more meals at home.

CHARLESTON CHECKLIST of community objectives

We encourage community leaders to act on these audacious priorities:

1. Deal with the water. Build a strong resiliency plan to harden infrastructure and make smart climate change decisions about development, roads and quality of life.

2. Fix roads, traffic. Repair and improve roads and reduce traffic. Speed up alternatives, including more public transportation.

3. Be smarter about education. Inject new energy into the broken Charleston County school board by focusing on kids, not national mantras.

4. Conduct public business in public. Be transparent in public business. Stop the secrecy.

5. Invest in quality of life. Build more parks. Have more festivals. Invest in infrastructure that promotes a broad sense of community.

6. Engage in real racial conciliation. If we embark on more conversations and actions on racial reconciliation, our community will strengthen and grow.

7. Develop fewer hotels, more affordable housing. Make Charleston a more affordable place to live for everyone.

8. Develop Union Pier at scale. Let’s not put ship-sized buildings on the coveted Union Pier property downtown. Instead, make what comes appropriate.

9. Build and follow a 50-year plan. Plan for the county’s long-term future and follow the plan.

10. Pay people more. Pay a living wage. Push South Carolina lawmakers to set a real minimum wage.

Bad energy bill highlights broken system

Last week’s admission by a senior state senator pushing urgent passage of a controversial energy bill is a stark indictment of a broken legislative system.

“I think nobody has read this bill, nobody,” state Sen. Gerald Malloy, D-Darlington, admitted during a Senate Judiciary Committee meeting. The revelation came during an argument over whether to send the bill to the Senate floor — which would speed up the process — or slow down and consider it in committee like work is supposed to be done. “That’s a pretty good reason to give it fair consideration before we vote on it, right?” S.C. Sen. Wes Climer, R-York, asked, trying to put the brakes on this legislation that would dramatically rewrite energy policy in favor of utilities and relieve regulatory pressures which protect consumers.

Malloy wasn’t having it, according to reporting by The State newspaper: “If you don’t like (the bill) you object to it, you can move to carry over, continue, recommit or table it,” he said. “You have many opportunities in the process to stop or delay a bill, so unless we’re trying to kill (the bill) you don’t put it back in committee without having a pathway forward.”

By Andy Brack

The unmitigated gall. The irresponsibly. And it benefits who? The powerful utilities who helped draft 77 pages of complicated policy legislation secretly as critics and neighbors got frozen out of the process.

And legislators wonder why many people no longer trust them. This kind of insider mess smells much worse than anything emanating from a factory pig farm.

“That is how we get high electric bills in South Carolina — by having legislators pass whatever the utility company lawyers write without even reading it,” noted longtime energy analyst Eddy Moore, decarbonization director of the Southern Alliance for Clean Energy.

Another critic, who asked to be unnamed, was even more pointed: “This is legislative malpractice when you openly admit you are going to advance the bill out of committee having never read the bill. That’s shocking.”

Unfortunately, we’ve been down this road before. We’ve seen how bad energy policy costs billions of dollars and requires a huge bailout by ratepayers.

Remember, it wasn’t too many years ago that the General Assembly passed the Base Load Review Act, which quickly led to the stellar idea of building an expensive nuclear plant in Fairfield County. But when it failed — at a cost of more than $9 billion — guess who was left holding the bag?

Turn Up the Heat!

We’ve seen how bad energy policy costs billions of dollars and requires a huge bailout by ratepayers.

And now, guess who wants the state to commit to more bad energy policy to build an expensive natural gas plant and costly pipeline system surrounded by protected land in a rural Colleton County? Yep, the very same utility players who led us into the nuclear fiasco.

Regardless of anything in the bill, the backroom dealing that got it to this point — not to mention the lack of transparency and broad public input — should have been enough to turn noses.

“This bill is loaded with items that would only benefit the profit margins for these monopoly investor-owned utilities at the expense of poor ratepayers,” said Greenville lawyer Tom Ervin, who recently resigned from the state Public Service Commission because of the bill’s power play.

Moore added if the bill passed, it would block cheaper alternatives and add $1,000 in costs for every person in the state.

South Carolinians should be outraged. Twerking the system without proper process and consideration is a terrible way to govern. Call your state senators today and remind them that there’s an election in November.

What To Do

SUNDAY

Autism and neurodiversity awareness event

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Mount Pleasant Towne Centre and local nonprofit Just Bee are partnering for the Lights & Love event, a celebration in honor of Autism Awareness Month. Enjoy family-friendly entertainment such as arts and crafts, a bounce house, balloon animals, a jazz ensemble and more. Savor tasty treats and beverages from an array of local food trucks including favorites like Burtons Grill & Bar, Holy City Popcorn and Holy City Homemade Italian Ice.

April 21. 2 p.m. to 4 p.m. Free. Mount Pleasant Towne Centre. 1218 Belk Drive. Mount Pleasant. mtpleasanttownecentre.com

SATURDAY

Race for Life

Join We Are Sharing Hope SC’s 19th Annual 5k/10k Race for Life at Folly Beach, supporting educational awareness towards organ, eye and tissue donations. Last year, nearly 500 runners and walkers came to Folly Beach, making this race Sharing Hope’s largest event and fundraiser. Purchase a ticket online to attend or contribute by donating through the organization’s website.

April 20. 10k starts at 8 a.m.; 5k begins at 8:15 a.m. Ticket prices vary. Center Street. Folly Beach. sharinghopesc.org.

SATURDAY

Record Store Day at Monster Music & Movies

Don’t miss out on Monster Music & Movies’ storewide sale for Record Store Day, a global celebration of independent record stores. Shop limited edition vinyl releases available exclusively in-store. Italian food truck, Chow Bella, will satisfy your hunger hues, and an outdoor bounce castle will add to the festivities. A list of available vinyls can be found on its website.

April 20. 8 a.m. Monster Music & Movies. 946 Orleans Road. West Ashley. monstermusicsc.com

TUESDAY

The psychology of serial killers

Calling all true-crime fanatics for a thrilling evening uncovering fresh perspectives on the phenomenon of serial homicide. Renowned psychologist Dr. Rachel Toles, an expert in true crime, will address myths surrounding serial killers, techniques to identify different types of serial killers, reasons behind women’s attraction to them, the public’s interest in true crime and more. Tickets are available to purchase online.

April 23. Doors open at 7 p.m.; show starts at 8 p.m. Ticket prices vary. The Riviera Theater. 227 King St. Downtown. therivierachs.com

WEDNESDAY

Book signing at the aquarium

Explore the renowned work of Gaelin Rosenwaks, a celebrated photographer, videographer and author, who conducts research on polar ice core samples, climate change, conservation and fisheries. She continues to study sperm whales in the eastern Caribbean Sea and wrote her book Sperm Whales: The Gentle Goliaths of the Ocean. In addition to a book signing, tickets include light bites, as well as beer and wine.

April 24. 6 p.m. to 8 p.m. $20/member;$25/general admission. South Carolina Aquarium. 100 Aquarium Wharf. Downtown. scaquarium.org

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Dragon boating offers ‘lesson of our lives’

By Andy Brack

“Cancer had stolen my teammates’ mastery of their bodies. But the dragon boat had restored our hope as the rulers of our lives. We were learning that perfect harmony can be made out of broken things and broken people. It would be the lesson of our lives.”

The Final Victory, by Charleston dragon-boater, real estate executive and author Roger Jones

It’s one thing to paddle a boat on Charleston’s rivers for a little exercise and fun. It’s another to do it after surviving rounds of chemotherapy. And it’s quite another to do it with 19 others who are pulling in therapeutic harmony in their wrenching battle with and recovery from the hidden demons of cancer.

Welcome to Dragon Boat Charleston, an all-ages group of women and men. Many are cancer survivors or people who are devoted to the physical workout and team-building from the 2,000-year-old Chinese sport of dragon boat paddling.

“We have both cancer survivors and community supporters,” said Charleston resident Laura Francis. “Everyone has been touched by cancer. Fighting cancer turns your life upside down. For me, being part of a dragon boat family turned my life rightside-up.

“Being in a boat with these survivors who each have their own inspirational story of strength and overcoming that monster was exactly what I needed to turn my life around,” said Francis, who chairs the organization’s board.

They step, 20 at a time, into a one-ton boat. After they push off, a drummer knocks a beat to synchronize a series of high-intensity strokes in short intervals as a guide to power the boat. A sweep, or coach, controls the boat’s tiller as it slices through the water.

Francis This year’s Dragon Boat Festival on May 4 will draw hundreds of paddlers like these from last year’s event

Paddlers work so hard in a short time that they feel a burn which sometimes turns into nausea. They push themselves harder, as a team. Muscles cramp. Hearts pound. Breathing shortens. They heave, sucking in much-needed air. But endorphins kick in, helping them to keep pushing “harder, faster, deeper” — the three-word mantra emblazoned on many a paddle.

Up to three days a week, boats launch along the Ashley River at Brittlebank Park as paddlers push their bodies to the limits, seeking to power the long canoes as one. For many, it’s the hardest thing they’ve ever done physically — and the most exhilarating.

“Dragon-boating renews my spirit,” said Charleston paddler

Lucy Spears, a breast cancer survivor and a director of the organization. “Hearing 20 paddles hit the water in unison, pulling the boat forward with each stroke, is a testament to strength and synchronicity.

“I never saw myself as an athlete, but with Dragon Boat Charleston (DBC), I found myself winning gold medals all over the world. With DBC, I found a strength and sense of adventure I didn’t know I had.”

Freeman expressed a similar sentiment.

“I had never been athletic,” she said. “All of a sudden, I was part of a team. We all had to work together. I wanted to be my best, not just for me, but for everyone in the boat. It is an incredible feeling when you move that boat and you are all in sync.”

focus on the rhythm of my strokes and the cares of my day simply wash away.”

May 4 festival will celebrate strength, courage

You can see the power of team-building May 4 at the Charleston Dragon Boat Festival, the largest annual fundraising event for Dragon Boat Charleston.

The annual paddle at Brittlebank Park attracts dozens of teams, each of which includes mostly new paddlers who have only practiced just twice in the two weeks

Lois Rinehimer of Seabrook Island, vice chair of the DBC board, added, “The peacefulness of getting out on the water enables me to

leading up to the community competition. Many teams come from corporate supporters as well as community groups who want to poke their paddles during the daylong celebration to raise money for cancer survivor programs.

“The best part of the Dragon Boat Festival is seeing thousands from the community come out to support our wonderful organization,” said paddler Charles Hubbard of Charleston. “Everyone has been touched by cancer in some way. They may be a survivor themselves, have a family member or friend that is a survivor or currently going through treatment.

“Although DBC is well-known in the community, there are many more who are not aware of what DBC is about. By attending the festival, they can hear the testimonials given by a survivor, witness the emotions of the survivor ceremony and experience the excitement and happiness of the races.”

Spears added the excitement that teams bring to Brittlebank Park every year makes her day.

“They wear some fantastic costumes and are so enthusiastic about supporting each other and DBC,” she said. “They have a blast paddling and give it everything they’ve got! Some paddlers have even become DBC’s extended family, coming back year after year to paddle, fundraise and show their support.”

Longtime paddler Hazel Huff loves watching the racers.

“Their faces when they get off the water from their race — win/ lose or draw — they are exhilarating,” she said.

But for some, the festival may be bittersweet as teammates often shed tears of remembrance for those who they’ve lost as well as the tears of joy from the fun they’re having.

“My favorite part of the day is the survivor celebration,” Spears said. “Everyone is singing and dancing with arms wrapped around each other. Cancer survivors are waving carnations as they dance around.”

Dragon Boat Charleston is a new kind of family

What’s immediately obvious about Dragon Boat Charleston is how close paddlers become, particularly cancer survivors. They immerse themselves in supporting fellow paddlers, some of whom are continuing to deal with the ravages of disease.

Huff, a one-time oncology nurse who was recruited more than 20 years ago, recalls the energy she received from the group at a camp during a difficult time.

“It renewed me as much as it did the survivors who attended,” she said. “It allowed me to see the people in the outside world as opposed to always in the ‘patient role.’ ”

And that support has continued through the years.

“I have had the support of the members through many challenging and happy times in my life. I have also had the benefit of giving to others through this club. This support extends beyond the time we have together on the water.”

Hubbard says fellow members are a family for him.

“I know I can always count on them for anything,” he said, remembering how he once needed a lift to a hospital for a procedure. “One of my DBC family members volunteered without hesitation.

“When we are on the water, we are not only paddling for ourselves, but as one team supporting each other. When we face the sad time of losing a fellow paddler, we attend the funeral or memorial and form a paddle arch at the door for the family to walk through in honor of the member we lost.”

You don’t have to be a cancer survivor to enjoy dragon-boating or to thrill to the camaraderie paddlers enjoy. For more information, visit DragonBoatCharleston. org — or attend the May 4 festival to get a taste of this zen kind of family.

Roger Jones

The Final Victory takes you inside dragon-boating Provided

Charleston real estate developer Roger Jones’s life got turned upside down 15 years ago when he learned he had a rare form of liver cancer. He dealt with the physical trauma with a new kind of operation in Germany. But once through that, he faced rebuilding his spirit as he recovered.

Fortunately, he found comfort in the camaraderie of Dragon Boat Charleston and racing with 19 others in what led to an exhilarating national championship. Over the last 10 years, he’s worked to describe what he went through and the intense warmth offered through comradeship of the DBC team. What resulted is The Final Victory, an engaging semiautobiographical novel described on a book cover as being inspired by true events, shattered bodies, broken dreams and a race to win back hope.

The raw, tough team exercise helps cancer victims recover from chemotherapy, Jones said.

“We were always one big support group encouraging each other to continue on and press on,” he recalled in an interview. “You weren’t isolated and you weren’t alone. No pun intended — we were all in the same boat.”

He said he found his paddling time to be cathartic.

“For that period of time, you forget about cancer and you forget about being sick. There is a zen that comes over you.”

The festival also draws tributes, performances and family fun

New York Times bestselling author Mary Alice Monroe says Jones digs into courage in his debut novel.

“Jones explores the strength, resilience, compassion and willpower of a band of athletes who define courage and triumph over unspeakable odds,” she wrote on his website, rogerjonesauthor.com. “I laughed. I cried. I was inspired. The Final Victory is an uplifting novel we all need to read.”

Charleston paddler Lucy Spears said Jones’ novel captured the essence of Dragon Boat Charleston.

“It brought tears to my eyes, recognizing dear friends and teammates of mine as characters in the book. And reading about Roger’s personal journey was eye-opening. I had no idea what he’d been through until I read it,” Spears said.

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Jones will speak at a book launch at 6 p.m. April 30 at the Charleston Library Society, 164 King St. The cost is $10 for members, $15 for general admission. Copies of The Final Victory will be available. More info: charlestonlibrarysociety.org.

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Johns Island isn’t sleepy any more

By Blakelyn Faia

Johns Island, once a sleepy rural community of ancient grand oaks and truck farms, is in transition. The core of the 84-squaremile island, once bypassed by beachgoers rushing to Kiawah or Seabrook islands, now is emerging as a bustling suburb with breweries, new restaurants, subdivisions with larger-than-city lots and apartment complexes — lots of apartment complexes.

In just the last decade, the population has doubled to almost 28,000 residents, making Johns Island among the fastest-growing communities in Charleston County.

Today’s Johns island, County Councilman Joe Boykin says, is like a cultural blender. New residents are being infused into the community, he said.

“And I think a lot of those folks enjoy a little bit of a slower pace, a little more of the hospitality that is the Lowcountry — like please and thank you and yes sir and no sir, kind of a thing. And they’ve got to love the food. I think there’s a lot going on.”

As the island matures, many wonder what’s lost — and what’s gained. They want to know how they fit into the growing community and how Johns Island fits into the larger area, too.

Community needs

Jessica Welenteichick, co-owner of Sunrise Bistro at what has become a primary hub of the island at Main Road and Maybank Highway, believes her locally-cherished breakfast diner has fulfilled a big need for the community over the last 15 years.

A Lowcountry treasure, the Angel Oak on Johns Island is 65 feet tall and more than 400 years old. A new park is being built around the oak to conserve it.

“Everyone needs somewhere in a smalltown that’s theirs,” Welenteichick said on a recent morning over coffee. “They need somewhere to go — somewhere they are recognized, remembered, find friends or whatever they are looking for. They can find it here.”

Whether it’s the restaurant’s homemade biscuits, coffee bar or a table reserved every

week, Welenteichick said her team tries to adapt to a customer’s wants and needs, especially its regulars. She also said the diner offers a place for local groups to hold community meetings other than the nearby Johns Island Library. Why? Because the community’s expansion is sparking a growing need among locals to discuss concerns and questions, such as the horrors of traffic, more people and the need for better services.

“Right now, it’s sort of organized chaos out here as we are all trying to figure out, ‘Where do we go? Where do we commune?’  ” she said. “I think that’s all happening right now — right in front of our face.”

Efforts are being made to address traffic issues by expanding the intersection at Main Road and Maybank Highway. That may affect parking and potentially the premises of long-established eateries like Sunrise Bistro and Blackbird Market.

“As a resident I’m concerned about the people — as a business owner, I want more people — so I’m divided,” Welenteichick said.“It’s your for-lifers, who have grown up here, born here and are seeing it change so much and not having a voice— that’s the biggest concern.”

“The community from the get-go wants it an island, and wants the feel of an island, and I think [some] people are fighting for that.”

Living legacies

Cherly Glover, an islander for 60 years, recalls rural Johns Island childhood in which she crossed two-laned roads to visit cousins or neighbors about a mile away. Hardly a car passed in sight, she remembered, adding that about 40% of the people she grew up with never left South Carolina. The biggest portion of them never much set

foot off the island, she said.

“Those who are left are still trying to hold on to what they do have,” Glover said. “The legacy of the island is that they’ve always been there for each other.”

Glover, who is Black, describes the presence of her generation on Johns Island as “a speck of pepper in a bowl of salt,” in comparison to its newcomers. But people whose families have been there for generations are still there — at the heart of its community.

“I think it’s just a mutual understanding that I’ve always been here, and you’re a newcomer,” Glover said. “The benefit of all of this is going to be that we’re already one community, if we live as one community.”

Within the blend of the new and old on Johns Island, there’s a community firmly rooted in its historically rich Gullah Geechee heritage. Much of what Johns Island represents today draws upon legendary civil rights figure Esau Jenkins, grandfather to the Rev. DeMett Jenkins.

“Preservation is the key,” she told the Charleston City Paper. “The same way we can’t lose our Gullah Geechee culture, we can’t lose all the things that comprise that, and so if we just build over, nobody will know it was there.”

Jenkin suggests that people take time to learn Johns Island’s history, talk to natives and go to local events, including churches which have played a pivotal role in shaping John’s Island’s current identity.

“It’s an intentionality that you have to bring to say ‘I’m going to learn the area in which I live, I’m going to learn about the people here, the history,’ ” Jenkins said.

Significant historical milestones that occurred on Johns Island include the establishment of The Progressive Club in 1948 by Esau Jenkins to serve as a commu-

nity center for rural Blacks for education, voter registration and civil rights activism. Islanders are now revitalizing it to make it as “a center of history and hope.” Another historical landmark, the Moving Star Hall, is an old-time praise house that links today’s generation to the past.

Farm-to-table culture

Wild Olive, a pioneering restaurant on Johns Island that opened in 2009, greets visitors with the embrace of live oak trees and delightful Italian aromas wafting from the kitchen.

“As a chef, being in the center of everything that I need to achieve greatness — the ocean, these wonderful farms — you just can’t beat it. It’s a chef’s dream to work here,” said Bradley Grozis, who has worked with Wild Olive for 15 years.

Johns Island is renowned for its rich agricultural heritage and generations of skilled farmers. And it is gradually starting to gain recognition for its newer food scene, too.

“What I love to do is take a classic Italian dish and utilize these beautiful local ingredients and turn it into something still Italian but special to John’s Island,” Grozis said. “As far as the ingredients go, you just can’t beat the freshness.”

Grozis attributes some of Wild Olive’s success over the years to its strong-sense of community between restaurants and farmers in the area.

John’s Island’s rich history, tight-knit community and thriving local businesses is evolving as it preserves its unique identity and charm. As the population grows and its heritage is revitalized, the island represents a true testament to resilience, unity and the enduring spirit of its people.

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Bert & T.’s is Charleston’s sweetest new

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By Amethyst Ganaway

Christina Miller is a legacy baker and the owner of Bert & T’s Desserts. Her passion for baking is inspired by her two late grandmothers, “Bert & T.” She specializes in Gullah and southern desserts like benne brittle and chewies in addition to handcrafted ice cream inspired by Charleston and its local ingredients.

Sweet beginnings

Miller, a Lowcountry native who grew up on James Island, has deep roots across Charleston. Her mother grew up in North Charleston, her father grew up downtown and her grandparents had a large garden on Bonds Avenue. Her connection to her family and the area were a huge part of her starting her business, Bert & T’s Desserts, and play a role in the inspiration she draws from them for her desserts.

Miller, however, wasn’t always cooking professionally.

“I’ve had several F&B jobs prior to starting my company (none were planned, they all just happened),” she said. “In college, people discovered that I was a good baker and started ordering baked items from me on campus.”

Miller then pursued a career as an RN, a traveling nurse who has lived across the country in Los Angeles, New York, Atlanta, Houston and more before returning home due to the Covid-19 pandemic.

“During the pandemic I was working in pediatrics as an RN,” she said. “Children weren’t initially impacted by Covid, and I was getting canceled from work almost every shift. During the lockdown people were requesting desserts from me and with the nudging of many people I decided to turn my hobby into a business.”

But a childhood in the kitchen reeled her back in. Her grandmothers, “Bertha” and “Eutellia,” affectionately known as “Bert” and “T.” fueled Miller’s love for baking. By the age of 4, she was already helping her grandmothers roll pie crusts and fill cake pans in their kitchens. Everything on Bert & T’s menu is made from scratch and made

with high quality ingredients.

“I try to use local ingredients as much as possible,” she said. “My grandparents had a large garden off of Bonds Avenue in North Charleston, in addition to the garden in their backyard, and a lot of the things that we prepared utilized produce from the gardens.”

And not only are her recipes inspired by her grandmothers, she draws inspiration from many of the women in her community.

“I am inspired by the other older women that I grew up around:great aunts, older women in the community, church, etcetera. Many of them shared recipes and stories with me.”

Bert & T.’s serves up Gullah Goodness

When she’s not creating her handcrafted, small batch ice cream and sorbets, or creating old school Gullah favorite sweets like groundnut cakes and black walnut brittle, she’s enjoying Charleston’s growing culinary scene. “Charleston has always had great food but lacked some diversity in cuisine types. More diverse options are popping up and I love that. I recently ate at Bintu Atelier. This was easily the best bite I’ve eaten in 2023.” And, she’s being creative outside of the kitchen. “ I am creative in every way,” Miller said. “I enjoy creating all the things: music, art, graphics, clothing. I also enjoy cycling!”

While Bert & T’s Desserts may be one of Charleston’s newest confectioneries, it’s been

What’s new

South Carolina-based hospitality group, Republic Development & Management Group (the folks behind Republic, Mesu, Bourbon N’ Bubbles and Lamar’s Sporting Club), recently announced plans to open Zachary’s Daiquiris, a “chic frozen daiquiri destination.” Zachary’s Daiquiris, also known as Zach’s Daiqs, will open at 460 King Street later this spring. The menu will feature 12 frozen cocktails including an espresso martini, paloma and classic daiquiris. Learn more online at republic-dmg.com.

The team behind Island Provisions, all-day cafes located on Johns Island and downtown, recently announced plans for a new concept, The Heyday The all-day farm to table cafe, market and bar will open in Hayes Park on Johns Island later this summer. Follow along on Instagram at @theheydaysc.

What’s happening

racking up accolades and fans. Winning grants from The Heinz Black Kitchen Initiative and Lowcountry Locals “Ready, Set, Pitch!” competition, she’s been able to grow her operation with a mobile dessert truck where customers can grab her treats from around the city, or book to have the truck at an event. Bert and T’s Desserts also now delivers nationwide throughout the U.S..

You can find Miller and Bert & T’s at the upcoming Black Food Truck Festival, held April 27 and 28 at the Exchange Park Fairgrounds. Learn more online at blackfoodtruckfestival.com.

Reserve your spot now for a special dinner with James Beard Awardnominated chef Nikko Cagalanan on April 28. Cagalanan teams up with Tarpon Cellars Winemaker Jeremy Carter for a six-course dinner featuring a Filipino menu paired with an array of chilled wines. There will be two seatings at 5:30 p.m. and 7 p.m. and tickets ($145) can be purchased on resy.com. Charleston Cocktail Week kicks off on April 22, showcasing a variety of bars and restaurants in the area. The seven day festival features individual ticketed events as well as a cocktail week pass ($15), which entitles guests to specialty cocktails at each participating location. Learn more online at charlestoncocktailweek.us.

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Glazed Gourmet Doughnuts has announced it would close on April 17, after 13 years of business. In an Instagram post, the Glazed team said that the loss of their owner Allison Smith, who died in a car accident last year, had made it “difficult to continue.” The announcement was met with an outpouring of support online and the Glazed team even noted that they had to bring in former employees to keep up with the donut supply.

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Review: Two shows subvert theatrical forms

By Maura Hogan

It was a watershed event. Pardon the pun, but when Urinetown first hit the Broadway stage in 2001, it, well, opened the theatrical floodgates for a host of others to subvert the musical theater form. Think Avenue Q or The Book of Mormon.

The wordplay-averse should be warned: It’s near impossible to resist it when addressing a work framed by bodily functions that are frequently dealt with euphemistically. And this may be my first — and likely last — foray into potty humor.

That being said, the show’s aim (as it were) is true. Leveraging what is arguably one of the least alluring aspects of humanity, Urinetown merrily moved the needle in the early 2000s by upending the tried-and-true musical theater form.

In this case, it swapped out the razzle dazzle for dystopian drear, envisioning a water-short world in which a greedy capitalist by the name of Cladwell makes hay from the very human need to go.

The show, which features music and lyrics by Mark Hollman and book and lyrics by Greg Kotis, made a splash. That’s not only due to its incisive, silly fun, but also because it is a Broadway buff’s bonanza of sly winks and goofy spoofs.

Queen Street Playhouse stages Urinetown

Whether or not you can pinpoint such sendups, you’ll get the drift, and like those of us the near-full crowd at the Queen Street Playhouse you may well lap it up. The credit for that goes to a talented cast directed deftly by Kyle Barnette. All are clearly reveling in the mirth, and training some accomplished vocal cords on all the grime and mayhem, too.

Sure, one or two didn’t quite nail some numbers, but when you have the always commanding Madelyn Knight belting it out and mugging it up as Mrs. Pennywise, you’re getting your money’s worth. As paramour Bobby Strong, Brandon Chinn more than holds his own vocally, as does Jessica Shamble as Hope Cladwell.

I always enjoy the high-pitched faux-

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innocence of Jenny Bettke when she’s gone little-girl, as she has done in other shows for Footlight and does here as Little Sally, and Cladwell, Jackson Clark Haywood was having good sport being a major jerk.

The Flowertown Players tackle Take Me Out

In a turn for the probing, the same week I also made my way to Flowertown Players for a play that is part of its Studio Spotlight Series. Richard Greenburg’s Take Me Out is an entirely different proposition than Urinetown, but one that levels a gaze on another American pastime: the game of baseball.

Directed by Michael Smallwood, the production slips into the FTP Black Box Studio housed in out-building behind the main theater. It made its Broadway debut in 2003, which led to a Tony Award for Best Play.

But unlike the spoof-worthy stock villains, ingenue and rogue’s gallery of Urinetown, these nuanced characters grappled with a whole mess of contemporary dynamics — race, privilege, sexuality — some playing out right on the baseball diamond.

Much of the plot powering the revelations hinges on a Black star player, Darren Lemming, performed masterfully and affectingly by Noah Anderson. When he publicly announces that he is gay, it unleashes all manner of reverberations in the locker room.

Homing in on the frequently fraught aspects of modern-day masculinity, the work features 11 male roles, many quite meaty. Some spoken in another language, Japanese or Spanish, and together span backgrounds — adding more complexity to the dynamics at play.

As Shane Mungitt, an uneducated

pitcher who speaks publicly about his ire at his teammate’s sexuality, George Metropolis must navigate some of the more shameful impulses in American society — homophobia and racism — while contending with the character’s incapacity for expressing himself. A foil can be found in Lemming’s gay business partner, Mason Marzac, portrayed by Michael James Daly with self-deprecating humor, conveying how he has never been invited into this world of heterosexual masculinity.

As intellectual teammate Kippy Sunderstrom, Jay Sandix ably reveals the hazard of ascribing his own words to others. It is this character who breaks the fourth wall, teeing up to the audience that we’re about to take a turn for the Kafkaesque, as Greenberg hurls a curveball, like the high-velocity leather orb at the core of their chosen game (one I will not spoil).

With the stakes suddenly, unexpectedly high, each character must confront his own culpability.

Throughout, we consider that there is no level playing field where men can mine language to come together. Even, well, the playing field.

Catch Urinetown until April 26 and Take Me Out until April 21.

Blackstar Symphony celebrates Bowie

You won’t want to miss out on this oneof-a-kind musical experience — David Bowie’s final, critically acclaimed album, Blackstar, is reimagined for a 65-piece orchestra in the Charleston Symphony’s Blackstar Symphony. The show features some of Bowie’s original collaborators, plus vocal performances by John Cameron Mitchell (a well known name to Broadway fans). This poignant tribute will include touchstone songs like “Space Oddity,” “Life on Mars” and “Heroes.” Tickets start at $35. 7:30 p.m., April 27. Learn more at gaillardcenter.org.

Cheers on the Pier is back for the year

Enjoy live music while taking in views of the Charleston Harbor with Mount Pleasant’s free Cheers on the Pier series, on select Thursdays from 5:30 p.m. to 7:30 p.m. On April 25, watch the sunset and enjoy bluegrass music by Dallas Baker & Friends. For details, visit charlestoncountyparks.com or call (843) 795-4386.

Catch a two-woman show at PURE Theatre

PURE Theatre stages

The Roommate, starring Joy Vandervort Cobb and Sharon Graci, until April 27. Written by Jen Silverman, The Roommate is a dark comedy following a recent divorcee who takes in a quirky roommate. The show explores the joys and terrors of personal transformation and friendship after fifty. Visit puretheatre.org for more info. — Chloe Hogan

Catch Urinetown (above) at Queen Street Playhouse and Take Me Out (right), staged by Flowertown Players

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The Postal Service reunites at Credit One Stadium

By Kevin Murphy Wilson

Indie-Rock anomaly

The Postal Service is scheduled to deliver a rare reunion performance at Credit One Stadium on April 26 ahead of the evening’s headliners, Death Cab For Cutie.

It’s worth noting that The Postal Service members — Death Cab for Cutie’s frontman Ben Gibbard, sound artist/producer Jimmy Tamborello and multifaceted musician Jenny Lewis only regroup every ten years or so to celebrate their one proper release, a platinum-selling 2003 LP entitled Give Up.

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After their first meeting in 2001, Tamborello would build instrumentals and mail the CD to Gibbard, who would send it back again with vocals and other sonic components added.

“I would send Ben the beginnings of songs on CD-Rs up to where he was living in Seattle,” Tamborello said. “He would meticulously layer vocals, guitars and additional instrumentation and then send them back to me in Los Angeles.”

That went on for about a year, and the patient long-distance song-building process is where the group’s distinctive moniker came from (even though technically they were mostly utilizing UPS rather than USPS for their creative correspondence).

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“Ben originally sang all the lead and backing vocals himself when we first put the songs together,” Tamborello said, “but it was his idea to eventually bring in some vocal assistance so that it didn’t end up being an intricate chorus of just him.”

Singer Lewis told the Charleston City

Paper that in the early days she had been a “deep Death Cab fan,” which inspired her initial California-based band Rilo Kiley to successfully pursue a deal with the same Seattle underground label that handled DCFC, Barsuk Records.

Out of the blue, one of the label’s owners, Josh Rosenfeld, who Lewis coincidentally discovered was her long-lost cousin, called her up with the news that Gibbard was working on a side project and could use an assist on vocals, if she was interested.

“I got a follow up call from Ben to lock in the details and he asked if I could pick him up from the [Hollywood] Burbank Airport when he got to town,” Lewis said. “So, I arranged to take our Rilo Kiley 15 passenger van out there to get him. But since I had never met him and didn’t know what he looked like, I had to insist that he hold a sign that said ‘Ben Gibbard.’ And that’s how this all began.

“The basic tracks for Give Up were pretty much done at that point,” he added, “but we went over to Jimmy’s place — a house filled with an assortment of roommates and a studio in his bedroom — determined to lay down my vocals.”

By Lewis’ estimation, it only took an afternoon or two to complete the album’s finishing touches. Everyone involved immediately sensed that they had created something aesthetically innovative. They just weren’t able to gauge how well it would be received by the masses.

“I remember feeling unsure of who the record was meant for, and I wasn’t certain it would ever find a fan base,” Tamborello said. “It’s sort of in between a lot of worlds and I didn’t really have that high of hopes for it, commercially speaking.”

Lewis agreed. “I had no idea what the record would ultimately do. I just knew that these songs sounded so cool and that I had made some new friends along the

way. In retrospect, I’m so grateful for that transformative experience.”

Over 20 years later, the appeal of Give Up goes on, and the act is once again honoring it with a run of concerts. Tamborello and Lewis said they couldn’t be happier about that.

“The record itself is so beautiful, and the production is pretty avant-garde within this kind of pop structure,” Lewis mused. “It was just like a perfect nugget of the time in which it was made. In the end, there is only one record, and that has kind of kept these songs encapsulated, frozen in amber. I think that is honestly what keeps people coming out to our shows.”

Tamborello added that the record’s production was a fun and impactful moment in his life.

The Postal Service and Death Cab For Cutie play Credit One Stadium on April 26. Tickets start at $33 at creditonestadium.com.

Autumn DeWilde/Jimmy Fontaine Postal Service (top) will open for Death Cab for Cutie at Credit One Stadium for a rare live performance of Give Up

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CAROLINE ROUNDTREE, KENNETH BRADLEY, AUDREY ROUNDTREE, DEFENDANTS.

IN THE INTERESTS OF: MINOR CHILD BORN 2016.

TO DEFENDANT: Kenneth Bradley

YOU ARE HEREBY SUMMONED and required to answer the Complaint in this action filed with the Clerk of Court for Berkeley County on August 29, 2023, 3:47PM. Upon proof of interest, a copy of the Complaint will be delivered to you upon request from the Berkeley County Clerk of Court, and you must serve a copy of your Answer to the Complaint on the Plaintiff, the South Carolina Department of Social Services, at the office of its Attorney, Jason D. Pockrus, Legal Department of the Berkeley County Department of Social Services, 2 Belt Drive, Moncks Corner, S.C. 29461 within thirty (30) days of this publication, exclusive of the date of service. If you fail to answer within the time set forth above, the Plaintiff will proceed to seek relief from the Court.

Jason D. Pockrus, SC Bar #101333, 2 Belt Drive Moncks Corner, S.C. 29461 843-719-1080.

STATE OF SOUTH CAROLINA COUNTY OF BERKELEY IN THE FAMILY COURT FOR THE NINTH JUDICIAL CIRCUIT DOCKET NO. 2023-DR- 08-897

SOUTH CAROLINA DEPARTMENT OF SOCIAL SERVICES VERSUS KAILE A. SEDERSTROM, WILLIAM SCOTT STIMSON, DEFENDANTS. IN THE INTERESTS OF: MINOR CHILD BORN 2017.

TO DEFENDANT: Kaile A. Sederstrom; William Scott Stimson YOU ARE HEREBY SUMMONED and required to answer the Complaint in this action filed with the Clerk of Court for Berkeley County on May 9, 2023, 1:37 PM. Upon proof of interest, a copy of the Complaint will be delivered to you upon request from the Berkeley County Clerk of Court, and you must serve a copy of your Answer to the Complaint on the Plaintiff, the South Carolina Department of Social Services, at the office of its Attorney, Jason D. Pockrus, Legal Department of the Berkeley County Department of Social Services, 2 Belt Drive, Moncks Corner, S.C. 29461 within thirty (30) days of this publication, exclusive of the date of service. If you fail to answer within the time set forth above, the Plaintiff will proceed to seek relief from the Court.

Jason D. Pockrus, SC Bar #101333, 2 Belt Drive Moncks Corner, S.C. 29461 843-719-1080

COPYRIGHT NOTICE FOR THE STRAW

This copyright notice informs the potential user of the name JAIDEN MARCEL SAUNDERS and all its derivatives that is intended as pertaining to me, marcel bey, an American State National, In Propria Persona Sui Juris, Proprio Solo, Proprio Heredes, that any unauthorized use thereof without my express, prior, written permission signifies the user’s consent for becoming the debtor on a self executing UCC Financial Statement in the amount of $500,000 per unauthorized use of the name used with the intent of obligating me, plus costs, plus triple damages.

Letisha Jackson Adams, Plaintiff, vs. Lamar D. Jackson, Gary Banks, Freeman Banks, Richard Banks, Jr., Lakeysha Banks and JOHN DOE, adults, RICHARD ROE, infants, insane persons, incompetents and persons in the military service of the United States of America, being fictitious Names designating as a class any unknown person or persons who may be an heir, distribute, devisee, legatee, widower, widow, assign, administrator, executor, creditor, successor, personal representative, issue or alienee of Susie Ellis, Josephine Banks, Richard Banks, Sr. and Jonelle Banks all of whom are deceased, and any or all other persons or legal entities, known and unknown, claiming any right, title, interest or estate in or lien upon the parcel of real estate described in the Lis Pendens and Complaint herein filed, Defendants,

SUMMONS FOR PUBLICATION

YOU ARE HEREBY SUMMONED and required to answer the Complaint in the Action, a copy of which is herewith served upon you and to serve a copy of your answer to the said Complaint on the Plaintiff, through her Attorney, J. Chris Lanning, at his office, 12 Carriage Lane, Suite A, Charleston, South Carolina 29407, within thirty (30) days after the service hereof exclusive of the day of such Service; and, if you fail to answer the Compliant within the time aforesaid, the Plaintiff in the Action will apply to the Court for the relief demanded in the Complaint.

YOU WILL PLEASE TAKE NOTICE that should you fail to answer the foregoing Summons, the Plaintiff will move for a general Order of Reference of this cause to the Master-in-Equity/Special Referee for the aforesaid County which Order shall, pursuant to Rule 53, South Carolina Rules of Civil Procedure, specifically provide that the said Master-in-Equity/ Special Referee is authorized and empowered to enter final judgment in this case. An appeal from the final judgment entered by the Master-in-Equity/Special Referee shall be made directly to the Supreme Court.

YOU WILL PLEASE TAKE NOTICE

that the Summons, Lis Pendens and Complaint in the above entitled action were filed in the Office of the Clerk of Court for Charleston County on February 28, 2024. Dated at Charleston, South Carolina on February 28, 2024.

LIS PENDENS

NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that an action has been commenced and is pending in this Court upon Complaint of the above-named Plaintiffs against the above named Defendants, that said Action is brought under the provisions of the South Carolina Declaratory Judgment Act, Sections 15-53-10, et seq., Code of Laws of South Carolina, 1976, and under Section 15-67-10, et. seq. for the purpose of obtaining a decree establishing that the Plaintiffs and Defendants are the owners of the said property described in paragraph One (1) of the Plaintiffs’ Complaint. That said property affected by said Complaint in this Action hereby commenced was, at the time of the commencement of this Action, and at the time of the filing of this Notice is described as follows:

ALL that certain piece, parcel or lot of land, together with the buildings thereon, known as Lot No. 28 of Hobcaw Lots in Christ Church Parish, County of Charleston, State of South Carolina. Measuring and containing on the North and South Lines one hundred twenty-five feet, and on the East and West lines sixty feet; said lot butting and bounding

to the North on Lot No. 29, to the West by Lot No. 52, to the South by Lot Not. 27, and to the East by Spark Street. The above mentioned lot is now in Block “B” of Hobcaw Lots.

SUBJECT to all applicable easements and restrictions of record.

TMS # 535-04-00-032

GUARDIAN AD LITEM NISI

PLEASE TAKE NOTICE that Conrad Falkiewicz, Esquire, 6 Carriage Lane,, Charleston, South Carolina, 29407, by Order of this Court Common Pleas dated April 9, 2024 and filed in the Office of the Clerk of Court for Charleston County, South Carolina has been appointed Guardian ad Litem Nisi for such of the Defendants herein as may be unknown infants, persons insane, or otherwise incompetent or under legal disability, claiming any right, title, estate claim, interest in, or lien upon the property described in the Complaint herein, such appointment to become absolute unless they or someone on their behalf shall procure an Order appointing a Guardian ad Litem for such persons within (30) days after past publications of the Summons herein.

BRUSH LAW FIRM, P.A. s/ J. Chris Lanning J. Chris Lanning 12-A Carriage Lane Charleston, SC 29407 Phone – 843-766-5576

STATE OF SOUTH CAROLINA COUNTY OF CHARLESTON IN THE COURT OF COMMON PLEAS CASE NUMBER: 2024-CP-10-00304

Norman Ford, Plaintiff, vs.

Bruce E. Ford, Verna Ford Jones, Francina Ford Aiken, Kenneth Ford, Shawntiegh M. Fuzz, Timeka Fuzz and Marvin L. Fuzz, Jr. and JOHN DOE, adults, RICHARD ROE, infants, insane persons, incompetents and persons in the military service of the United States of America, being fictitious Names designating as a class any unknown person or persons who may be an heir, distribute, devisee, legatee, widower, widow, assign, administrator, executor, creditor, successor, personal representative, issue or alienee of Hastings Ford, Mary Ford Fields, Jeronica Ford, Louise Heyward Ford, Janice M. Ford Fuzz, Leroy Ford and Theodore Ford all of whom are deceased, and any or all other persons or legal entities, known and unknown, claiming any right, title, interest or estate in or lien upon the parcel of real estate described in the Lis Pendens and Complaint herein filed, Defendants, SUMMONS FOR PUBLICATION

YOU ARE HEREBY SUMMONED and required to answer the Complaint in the Action, a copy of which is herewith served upon you and to serve a copy of your answer to the said Complaint on the Plaintiffs, through their Attorney, J. Chris Lanning, at his office, 12 Carriage Lane, Suite A, Charleston, South Carolina 29407, within thirty (30) days after the service hereof exclusive of the day of such Service; and, if you fail to answer the Compliant within the time aforesaid, the Plaintiffs in the Action will apply to the Court for the relief demanded in the Complaint.

YOU WILL PLEASE TAKE NOTICE that should you fail to answer the foregoing Summons, the Plaintiffs will move for a general Order of Reference of this cause to the Master-in-Equity/Special Referee for the aforesaid County which Order shall, pursuant to Rule 53, South Carolina Rules of Civil Procedure, specifically provide that the said Master-in-Equity/ Special Referee is authorized and empowered to enter final judgment in this case. An appeal from the final judgment entered by the Master-in-Equity/Special Referee shall be made directly to the

said Action is brought under the provisions of the South Carolina Declaratory Judgment Act, Sections 15-53-10, et seq., Code of Laws of South Carolina, 1976, and under Section 15-67-10, et. seq. for the purpose of obtaining a decree establishing that the Plaintiffs and Defendants are the owners of the said property described in paragraph One (1) of the Plaintiffs’ Complaint.

That said property affected by said Complaint in this Action hereby commenced was, at the time of the commencement of this Action, and at the time of the filing of this Notice is described as follows:

ALL that certain piece, parcel or lot of land lying being situate in Red Top Community, County of Charleston, State of South Carolina containing 0.93 acres and designated as Lot C on a plat entitled, “Plat To Resubdivide Lots A, B, C and D, a Portion of Lot 10 Greenwich Tract” prepared by James G. Pennington, P.L.S dated June 5, 2022 and recorded on October 25, 2002 in Plat Book EF at Page 965 in the Office of the Charleston County Register of Deeds.

TMS # 287-00-00-135

required to answer the Complaint for Non-Emergency Removal in this action, filed with the Clerk of Court for Charleston County on September 15, 2023, at 9:06 a.m. Upon proof of interest, a copy of the Complaint for Non-Emergency Removal will be delivered to you upon request, and you must serve a copy of your Answer to the Complaint on the Plaintiff, the Charleston County South Carolina Department of Social Services, at the office of its Attorney, Regina Parvin, Legal Department of the Charleston County Department of Social Services,

6:30 pm in the Beverly T. Craven Council Chambers, Lonnie Hamilton, III Public Services Building, 4045 Bridge View Drive, North Charleston, SC, regarding an ordinance to amend the portion of Charleston County Code of Ordinances section 2-137 pertaining to the 9-1-1 Emergency Service

and required to answer the Complaint for Termination of Parental Rights in this action, filed with the Clerk of Court for Charleston County on March 26, 2024, at 10:11 a.m. Upon proof of interest, a copy of the Complaint for Termination of Parental Rights will be delivered to you upon request, and you must serve a copy of your Answer to the Complaint on the Plaintiff, the Charleston County South Carolina Department of Social Services, at the office of its Attorney, Regina Parvin, Legal Department of the Charleston County Department of Social Services, 3685 Rivers Avenue, Suite 101, North Charleston, S.C. 29405 within thirty (30) days of this publication, exclusive of the date of service. If you fail to answer within the time set forth above, the Plaintiff will proceed to seek relief from the Court.

Regina Parvin, SC Bar #65393, 3685 Rivers Avenue, Suite 101 North Charleston, SC 29405 843-953-3713.

ESTATES’ CREDITOR’S NOTICES

All persons having claims against the following estates are required to deliver or mail their claims to the Personal Representative indicated below and also file subject claims on Form #371ES with Irvin G. Condon, Probate Judge of Charleston County, 84 Broad Street, Charleston, S.C. 29401, before the expiration of 8 months after the date of the first publication of this Notice to Creditors or one year from the date of death, whichever date is earlier, or else thereafter such claims shall be and are forever barred.

Estate of: IRVING L. GREENBERG 2024-ES-10-0076

DOD: 11/16/23

Pers. Rep: JACK GREENBERG 5007 SALTY DOG DR. MEGGETT, SC 29449

Atty: CHARLES ALTMAN, ESQ. CHRIS LUTZ, ESQ. 575 KING ST., #A CHARLESTON, SC 29403

Estate of: ROBERT JOSEPH IMBUS 2024-ES-10-0241

DOD: 1/18/24

Pers. Rep: ROBERT ROY IMBUS 12 DUNE RIDGE LN. ISLE OF PALMS, SC 29451

Atty: DAVID H. KUNES, ESQ.

115 CHURCH ST. CHARLESTON, SC 29401 ************

Estate of: GREGORY LEE LYTTLE 2024-ES-10-0491

DOD: 1/22/24

Pers. Rep: ELLEN GAIL LYTTLE 5432 BUCKEYE RD. HOLLYWOOD, SC 29449

Atty: TERESA ZACHRY HILL, ESQ. 6209 SAVANNAH HWY. RAVENEL, SC 29470

************

Estate of: JAMES

RILEY, DAMION ARROYO and MICHELE ARROYO, JOHN DOE, adults, and RICHARD ROE, infants, insane persons, incompetents and persons in the military service of The United States of America, being fictitious names designating as a class any unknown person or persons or legal entity of any kind who may be an heir, distributee, legatee, widower, widow, assign, administrator, executor, creditor, successor, personal representative, issue or alienee of any of the said Defendants, if any be deceased, and ERNELL RILEY, SHIRLEY M. ARROYO, JOSHUA WASHINGTON, DAVID WASHINGTON and GLORIA WASHINGTON, all of whom are deceased and any all other persons or legal entities, known and unknown, claiming any right, title, interest or estate in or lien upon the parcel of real estate described in the Lis Pendens and Complaint filed herein, Defendants.

SUMMONS

TO THE DEFENDANTS ABOVENAMED:

YOU ARE HEREBY SUMMONED and required to answer the Complaint in this action, a copy of which is herewith served upon you, and to serve a copy of your Answer upon John J. Dodds III at his office located at 858 Lowcountry Blvd., Suite 101, Mt. Pleasant, South Carolina, 29464, within thirty (30) days after service hereof, exclusive of the date of such service; and if you fail to answer the Complaint within the time aforesaid, judgment by default will be rendered against you for the relief demanded in the Complaint.

NOTICE OF FILING

YOU WILL PLEASE TAKE NOTICE that the Summons, Lis Pendens, Notice and Complaint in the above action were filed in the office of the Clerk of Court for Charleston County on November 27, 2023.

LIS PENDENS

NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that an action has been commenced by the Plaintiffs against the Defendants to clear title to the parcel of real property hereinafter described and to establish ownership of said parcel in the name of the lawful owners, free and clear of any adverse claims whatsoever, and to effect a Partition by Sale of the said parcel. The property which is the subject of this action was at the commencement of this action and is now situate in the County of Charleston, State of South Carolina, and is more fully described as follows:

All that certain lot, piece or parcel of land, with the buildings thereon, situate, lying and being on the west side of Nassau Street in the City of Charleston, County of Charleston, South Carolina, between New Market Creek and Cedar Street, and known as Plat No. 43 North Nassau Street. Measuring and containing in from on Nassau Street, 30 Ft. By 120 Ft. In depth, the said dimensions being a little more or little less. Being the same property conveyed to Gloria Washington by deed of Josh Washington, dated December 5, 1959, and recorded in the Register’s Office for Charleston County (“ROD”), South Carolina in Book V-68,

You will please take notice that by Consent Order filed in the Clerk’s Office on December 15, 2023, Walter R. Kaufmann, Esquire, PO Box 459, Mt. Pleasant, SC 294650459, was appointed Guardian ad Litem Nisi for such of the unknown Defendants whose true names are unknown and fictitious names designating infants, insane persons, incompetents and persons in the military of The United State of America, being fictitious names designating as a class any unknown persons or legal entities of any kind, who may be an heir, distributee, devisee, legatee, widower, widow, assign, administrator, executor, creditor, successor, personal representative, issue or alienee of Ernell Riley, Shirley M. Arroyo, Joshua Washington, David Washington and Gloria Washington, all deceased, and any and all other persons or legal entities, known and unknown, claiming any right, title, interest or estate in or lien upon the real estate described in the Lis Pendens and Complaint filed herein; such appointment to become absolute unless the said defendants or someone in their behalf shall procure the appointment of a Guardian ad Litem on or before the thirtieth (30) day after the last publication of the Summons herein.

John J. Dodds III 858 Lowcountry Blvd. Suite 101 Mt. Pleasant, SC 29464 (P) (843) 881-6530

john@cisadodds.com

ATTORNEYS FOR PLAINTIFFS

STATE OF SOUTH CAROLINA COUNTY OF CHARLESTON IN THE COURT OF COMMON PLEAS OF THE NINTH JUDICIAL CIRCUIT CASE NO.: 2024-CP-10-00417

WILLIAM H. BROWN, JR., Plaintiff, vs. MARY MILLIGAN FLUDD, BETTY ELIZABETH TOWNSEND, LEROY MILLIGAN, JULIA M. BROWN, BLONDELL MILLIGAN, MARIE M. GADSDEN, EVELYN BROWN aka Evelyn B. Moore, CARRIE BROWN CLARKE ROPER, WILBERT ROSE, JOSEPH JENKINS, JR., KEVIN JENKINS, VANESSA JENKINS, CHARLENE JENKINS, TAKEELA MILLIGAN, SONYA BROWN, EMEL MARTINEZ LUCAS, KENNETH MARTINEZ, and if any of these Defendants be deceased, then JOHN DOE, adults, and RICHARD ROE, infants, insane persons, incompetents and persons in the military service of The United States of America, being fictitious names designating as a class any unknown person or persons or legal entity of any kind, who may be an heir, distributee, devisee, legatee, widower, widow, assign, administrator, executor, creditor, successor, personal representative, issue or alienee of any of the said Defendants, if any be deceased, and HENRY ROSE, JR., HENRY ROSE, SR., EVELINA ROSE MACK aka Evelyn Rose Mack, MARIE ROSE BROWN MILLER, EMEL ROSE, PERCIVAL MILLIGAN, HENRY MILLIGAN AND HENRIETTA M. JENKINS, all of whom are deceased, and any and all other persons or legal entities, known and unknown, claiming any right, title, interest or estate in or lien upon the parcel of real estate described in the Lis Pendens and Complaint filed herein, and ANNIE C. BROWN, Defendants.

YOU ARE HEREBY SUMMONED and required to answer the Complaint in this action, a copy of which is herewith served upon you, and to serve a copy of your Answer upon John J. Dodds III at his office located at 858 Lowcountry Blvd., Suite 101, Mt. Pleasant, South Carolina, 29464, within thirty (30) days after service hereof, exclusive of the date of such service; and if you fail to answer the Complaint within the time aforesaid, judgment by default will be rendered against you for the relief demanded in the Complaint.

NOTICE OF FILING

YOU WILL PLEASE TAKE NOTICE that the Summons, Lis Pendens, Notice and Complaint in the above action were filed in the office of the Clerk of Court for Charleston County on January 25, 2024.

LIS PENDENS

NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that an action has been commenced by the Plaintiff against the Defendants to clear title to the parcels of real property hereinafter described (“Subject Property”) and to establish ownership of the Subject Property in the names of the owners as lawful heirs of Henry Rose, Jr., free and clear of any adverse claims whatsoever, to Partition in Kind the Subject Property and to establish an Ingress/Egress Easement from South Carolina 174 over and across TMS# 076-00-00-088 owned by Annie C. Brown to TMS# 07600-00-089 The property which is the subject of this action was at the commencement of this action and is now situate in the County of Charleston, State of South Carolina, and is more fully described as follows:

ALL that certain lot, piece or parcel or land, situate, lying and being on Edisto Island, County of Charleston, State of South Carolina, containing fourteen point six five (14.65) acre, more or less, and known under the current street numbering system as 746 Highway 174, Edisto Island, South Carolina 29438.

BEING a portion of the same property conveyed to Henry Rose, Junior by deed of Forfeited Land Commission, dated April 15, 1939, and recorded in the Register’s Office for Charleston County on May 8, 1939, in Book U-039, at Page 227.

TMS#: 076-00-00-089

ALSO

ALL that certain lot, piece or parcel or land, situate, lying and being on Edisto Island, County of Charleston, State of South Carolina, containing point four five (.45) acre, more or less, and known under the current street numbering system as 8127 Oyster Factory Rd., Edisto Island, South Carolina 29438.

BEING a portion of the same property conveyed to Henry Rose, Junior by deed of Forfeited Land Commission, dated April 15, 1939, and recorded in the Register’s Office for Charleston County on May 8, 1939, in Book U-039, at Page 227.

TMS#: 076-00-00-076

NOTICE TO APPOINT A GUARDIAN AD LITEM NISI

You will please take notice that by Consent Order filed in the Clerk’s Office on February 27, 2024, Walter R. Kaufmann, Esquire, PO Box 459, Mt. Pleasant, SC 294650459, was appointed Guardian ad Litem Nisi for such of the unknown Defendants whose true names are unknown and fictitious names designating infants, insane persons, incompetents and persons in the military of The United State of America, being fictitious names designating as a class any unknown persons or legal entities of any kind, who may be an heir, distributee, devisee, legatee, widower, widow, assign, administrator, executor, creditor, successor, personal representative,

issue or alienee of Henry Rose, Jr., Henry Rose, Sr., Evelina Rose Mack aka Evelyn Rose Mack, Marie Rose Brown Miller, Emel Rose, Percival Milligan, Henry Milligan and Henrietta M. Jenkins, all deceased, and any and all other persons or legal entities, known and unknown, claiming any right, title, interest or estate in or lien upon the real estate described in the Lis Pendens and Complaint filed herein; such appointment to become absolute unless the said Defendants or someone in their behalf shall procure the appointment of a Guardian ad Litem on or before the thirtieth (30) day after the last publication of the Summons herein.

John J. Dodds, III 858 Lowcountry Blvd. Suite 101 Mt. Pleasant, SC 29464 (P) (843) 881-6530 john@cisadodds.com

ATTORNEYS FOR PLAINTIFF

COPYRIGHT NOTICE FOR THE STRAW (NAME CHANGE)

This copyright notice informs the potential user of the name TUBOOTA SAHIA CLARK and all its derivatives that is intended as pertaining to me, sho clark bey, an America State National, In Propria Persona Sui Juris, Proprio Heredes, that any unauthorized use thereof without my express, prior, written permission signifies the user’s consent for becoming a debtor on a self executing UCC Financial Statement in the amount of $500,000 per unauthorized use of the name used with the intent of obligating me, plus cost, plus triple damages.

COPYRIGHT NOTICE OR THE STRAW

This copyright notice informs the potential user of the name DESTINY ALLIYAH MARSHAY PHILLIPS and all its derivatives that is intended as pertaining to me, destiny el, an American State National, in Propria Persona Sui Juris, Proprio Solo, Proprio Heredes, that any unauthorized use thereof without my express, prior, written permission signifies the user’s consent for becoming the debtor on a self executing UCC Financing Statement in the amount of $500,000 per unauthorized use of the name with the intent of obligating me, plus cost, plus triple damages.

PUBLIC AUCTION

Extra Space Storage, on

05/07/2024 10:40 AM

Matthew Thomas 86’ tv, boxes

Facility 4: 3510 Glenn McConnell Pkwy Charleston, SC 29414 05/07/2024 10:00 AM

Lewis Rawls Misc household items

Marcellus Hunter Business products

Erika Johns Master bedroom, office, some tools

Brittany Dent Bedset, clothes, shoes, TV’S (2) Toys etc

Facility 5: 2443 Savannah Hwy Charleston, SC 29414 05/07/2024 10:30 AM

Gerald Frazier Personal Items

Facility 6: 1951 Maybank Hwy Charleston, SC 29412 05/07/2024 11:30 AM

LJH Landsurveying, LLC Household goods, furniture and work supplies.

Facility 7: 9670 Dorchester Rd Summerville, SC 29485 05/07/2024 10:15 AM

Melissa Medeiros Boxes

Arthur Snodgrass Misc household items

Josh Benbrook Household goods

Daria White Smalls Boxes

Facility 8: 6941 Rivers Ave North Charleston, SC 29406 05/07/2024 12:30 PM

Angel Williams 3 Bedroom and appliances

Trevonte Singleton 2 Bedroom set, tv’s

William Holmes Lumber

Facility 9: 5146 Ashley Phosphate Rd North Charleston, SC 29420 05/07/2024 12:00 PM

Leah Turner

Queen bed, frame, couch, dining set, 50- and 40-inch TV’s, clothes, crates, kitchen supplies, air fryer

Kateshia Garrett

Storage bins and Christmas tree

Aoleon Harrison 2 containers, bags and boxes

Soleah Wright 2 bedrooms, dressers, love seat, household items

facility in order to complete the transaction. Extra Space Storage may refuse any bid and may rescind any purchase up until the winning bidder takes possession of the personal property.

PUBLIC AUCTION

Extra Space Storage, on behalf of itself or its affiliates, Life Storage or Storage Express, will hold a public auction to sell personal property described below belonging to those individuals listed below at the location indicated:

Facility 1: 810 St. Andrews Blvd Charleston, SC 29407 5/07/2024 11:45 AM

Heath Verner Household items furniture decor and clothing

Karen Jackson

Living room items

Facility 2: 2118 Heriot St. Charleston, SC 29403 5/07/2024 12:15 PM

Shaniqua Franklin Couches, table, chairs

Facility 3: 1533 Ashley River Rd Charleston, SC 29407 5/07/2024 12:45 PM

Javionah Tucker Boxes only

James Ellis Couch, chair, ottoman, boxes

Eric Greenway Tool box, tools, tool cabinet

Facility 4: 1540 Meeting Street Rd Charleston, SC 29405 5/07/2024 1:00 PM

Ernest Murray Household Goods/Furniture

Facility 5: 1861 Ashley River Rd. Charleston, SC 29407 5/07/2024 1:15 PM

Adrienne Nelson Clothing

Charles Miller Boxes, beds

Jchernavia Shipman 2 bdr

The auction will be listed and advertised on www. storagetreasures.com. Purchases must be made with cash only and paid at the above referenced facility in order to complete the transaction. Extra Space Storage may refuse any bid and may rescind any purchase up until the winning bidder takes possession of the personal property.

48580.F51602

Master’s Sale

items

Renee Williams

Household items

Facility 2: 1514 Mathis Ferry Rd. Mt. Pleasant, SC 29464

05/07/2024

10:35 AM

Tarvia Blake Apartment Things

Bertrum McQueen

Household Goods and Furniture

Renea Williams

Household Goods and Furniture

Joseph Copley

Household

Rebecca Richardson Household furniture

Shamasia Jones

Clothing, furniture and tv’s

Facility 10: 45 Grand Oaks Blvd

Charleston, SC 29414 05/07/2024

11:15 AM

Jamal Evans Household Goods/Furniture

Shonette Gregg Boxes, Tote, Decorations

Michael Defeo TV/Stereo Equipment, Computer System

The auction will be listed and advertised on www. storagetreasures.com. Purchases must be made with cash only and paid at the above referenced

Office for Charleston County in Plat Book L12 at Page 0099 on April 24, 2012.

Said lot having such size, shape, dimensions, buttings and boundings as will by reference to said plat more fully and at large appear.

TMS #: 388-13-00-809

Current Property Address: 112 Tyger Street Summerville, SC 29485

No personal or deficiency judgment being demanded, the bidding will not remain open after the date of sale, but compliance with the bid may be made immediately.

The sale shall be subject to taxes and assessments, existing easements and easements and restrictions of record.

The property shall be sold for cash to the highest bidder. The highest bidder, other than the Plaintiff, will be required to deposit with the Master, at the conclusion of the bidding, cash or certified check in the amount of five (5%) per cent of the bid: the said deposit to be applied to the purchase price.

Should the highest bidder fail to comply with the bid within thirty days from the date of sale, the Master will resell the property at the risk and expense of the defaulting bidder upon the same terms as above set out. The Sheriff of Charleston County may be authorized to put the purchaser into possession of the premises if requested by the purchaser.

PLAINTIFF’S ATTORNEY Finkel Law Firm LLC (843) 577-5460

FOR INSERTION

Mikell R. Scarborough Master in Equity

Master’s Sale

Case No. 2023-CP-10-04520

STATE OF SOUTH CAROLINA COUNTY OF CHARLESTON IN THE COURT OF COMMON PLEAS

U.S. Bank National Association, PLAINTIFF, vs. Edward R Flanary, Jr; Jonathan M Flanary; Daybreak Homeowners Association, Inc., DEFENDANT(S)

CASE NO. 2023CP1004343

STATE OF SOUTH CAROLINA

COUNTY OF CHARLESTON IN THE COURT OF COMMON PLEAS

CitiMortgage, Inc., PLAINTIFF

VERSUS

Alyssa Nicole Battle, individually and as personal representative of the estate of Herschel C. Battle; B.C.B.; Neighborhood Assistance Corporation of America; Wells Fargo Bank, N.A.; Platte River Insurance Company; Cherryl Battle; and The Lakes Master Association Inc., DEFENDANT(S).

Upon authority of a Decree dated February 22, 2024, I will offer for sale to the highest bidder for cash, at public auction, the premises fully described below, in the County Council Chambers, 4045 Bridge

Upon authority of a Decree dated the 16th day of January 2024, will offer for sale to the highest bidder for cash, at public auction, the premises fully described below, at the County Council Chambers, 4045 Bridge View Drive, North Charleston, South Carolina, on the 7th day of May, 2024, at 11:00 a.m. or shortly thereafter.

ALL THAT CERTAIN piece, parcel or lot of land, including any and all improvements thereon, situate, lying and being in the Town of Mt. Pleasant, County of Charleston, State of South Carolina, and shown and designated as LOT 17, DAY BREAK SUBDIVISION, lying South of Diddy Drive, lying West of Kaycee’s Court, on a plat of survey dated July 25, 2002, prepared by Absolute Surveying, Inc. and entitled “FINAL

for Charleston County on July 29, 2002, in Plat Book EF, at Page 763. Reference to said plat being craved for a more complete description as to distances, courses, metes and bounds.

SUBJECT to all Easements, Restrictions, and Rights of Way of record.

THIS BEING the same property conveyed unto Edward R. Flanary, Jr. by virtue of a Deed from Keli Walden dated October 29, 2018 and recorded November 1, 2018 in Book 0757 at Page 508 in the Office of the Register of Deeds for Charleston County, South Carolina.

THEREAFTER, Edward R. Flanary, Jr. conveyed the subject property unto Edward R. Flanary, Jr. and Jonathan M. Flanary by virtue of a Quit-Claim Deed dated December 19, 2018 and recorded December 31, 2018 in Book 0769 at Page 392 in the Office of the Register of Deeds for Charleston County, South Carolina.

TMS #560-12-00145

Current Property Address: 1609 Diddy Drive Mount Pleasant, SC 29464

No personal or deficiency judgment being demanded, the bidding will not remain open after the date of sale, but compliance with the bid may be made immediately.

The property shall be sold for cash to the highest bidder. The highest bidder, other than the Plaintiff, will be required to deposit with the Master, at the conclusion of the bidding, cash or certified check in the amount of five (5%) per cent of the bid: the said deposit to be applied to the purchase price.

Should the highest bidder fail to comply with the bid within thirty days from the date of sale, the Master will resell the property at the risk and expense of the defaulting bidder upon the same terms as above set out. The Sheriff of Charleston County may be authorized to put the purchaser into possession of the premises if requested by the purchaser.

PLAINTIFF’S ATTORNEY

John S. Kay, Esquire

Telephone: 803-726-2700

FOR INSERTION

April 19th, 2024; April 26th, 2024 and May 3rd, 2024

Mikell R. Scarborough Master in Equity

STATE OF SOUTH CAROLINA

COUNTY OF CHARLESTON IN THE COURT OF COMMON PLEAS IN THE NINTH JUDICIAL CIRCUIT

Charleston Co. Case No. 2023-CP-10-03915

Berkeley Co. Case No. 2023-CP-08-03449

U.S. Bank National Association, as Trustee for Banc of America Funding Corporation, Mortgage Pass-Through Certificates, Series 2006-G, Plaintiff,

V. William 0. Hanahan, III; Frances G. Hanahan; Elizabeth H. Clark; Mortgage Electronic Registration Systems, Inc.; Rocket Mortgage LLC £’k/a Quicken Loans Inc.; South Carolina Department of Revenue, Defendants.

NOTICE OF SALE

and 13.763 acres on Old Jacksonboro Road known by TMS # 187-00-00-233

ENGINEERS, INC., DATED MARCH 22, 1972, AND DULY RECORDED IN THE OFFICE OF THE RMC FOR CHARLESTON COUNTY, SOUTH CAROLINA, IN PLAT BOOK AB AT PAGE 148.

SAID LOT HAVING SUCH SIZE, SHAPE, DIMENSIONS, BUTTINGS AND BOUNDINGS AS WILL BY REFERENCE TO SAID PLAT MORE FULLY AND AT LARGE APPEAR. THIS BEING THE SAME PROPERTY CONVEYED TO WILLIAM 0. HANAHAN, III, BY DEED OF DEVON W. HANAHAN

DATED APRIL 17, 2002, AND RECORDED APRIL 22, 2002, IN BOOK U403 AT PAGE 541 IN THE OFFICE OF THE REGISTER OF DEEDS FOR CHARLESTON COUNTY, SOUTH CAROLINA.

CURRENT ADDRESS OF PROPERTY: 522 West Wimbledon Drive Charleston, SC 29412

TMS: 340-04-00-055

SUBJECT TO ASSESSMENTS, CHARLESTON AD VALOREM TAXES, EASEMENTS, RESTRICTIONS OF RECORD, AND/OR OTHER SENIOR ENCUMBRANCES.

TERMS OF SALE: A 5% CASH DEPOSIT IS REQUIRED. The deposit will be applied towards the purchase price unless the bidder defaults, in which case the deposit will be forfeited. If the successful bidder fails, or refuses, to make the required deposit on the day of sale or fails or refuses to comply with the bid within 30 days, then the property will be resold at the bidder’s risk. No personal or deficiency judgment being demanded, the bidding will not remain open after the date of sale, but compliance with the bid may be made immediately. The successful bidder will be required to pay interest on the amount of the bid from date of sale to date of compliance with the bid at the rate of 7% per annum. For complete terms of sale, see Master in Equity’s Order and Judgment of Foreclosure and Sale - Deficiency Demanded as to Defendant William 0. Hanahan, III filed with the Charleston County Clerk of Court at Case No. 2023CP-10-03915.

NOTICE: The foreclosure deed is not a warranty deed. Interested bidders should satisfy themselves as to the quality of title to be conveyed by obtaining an independent title search prior to the foreclosure sale date.

Bruce Berlinsky, Esquire Special Referee Dated: 4/10/24 STATE OF SOUTH CAROLINA COUNTY OF CHARLESTON IN THE COURT OF COMMON PLEAS FOR THE FOURTEENTH JUDICIAL CIRCUIT CASE NO.: 2022-CP-10-03068

And also any unknown heirs, devisees or Distributes of the Deceased Defendants, And any unknown adults and those persons as who may be in the Military Service of the United States of America, all of them being a class designated as John Doe and any unknown minors or persons under a disability being a class Designated as Richard Roe and Jessie Ford, Pearl W. Burell, Francis W. Martin, Carolyn W. Miley, Alma W. Curnell, Joseph Smith, Samuel Smith, John Henry Smith, Earl Rivers, Ron Rivers, Dana Maria Heathy-Worthy and Tiffany Worthy, Defendants.

SUMMONS & NOTICE

To the Defendants above-named: YOU ARE HEREBY SUMMONED and required to answer the Complaint in the above entitled action, a copy of which is herewith served upon you, and to serve a copy of your Answer upon the undersigned at his office at: 925 Wappoo Road, Suite B, Charleston, South Carolina 29407, within thirty (30) days, after service hereof upon you, exclusive of the day of such service, except as to the United States of America, which shall have sixty (60) days, exclusive if the day of such service, and if you fail to answer the Complaint within the time aforesaid, judgment by default will be rendered against you for the relief demanded in the Complaint.

YOU WILL ALSO TAKE NOTICE that should you fail to answer the foregoing summons, the Plaintiff will move for a general Order of Reference of this cause to the Master-in-Equity or Special Referee for this County, which Order shall, pursuant to Rule 53(e) of the South Carolina Rule of Civil Procedure, specifically provide that the said Master-in-Equity or Special Referee is authorized and empowered to enter a final judgment in this case.

NOTICE OF FILING

PLEASE TAKE NOTICE that the Summons and Notice and Complaint were filed on July 7th, 2022, the Order Appointing Guardian ad Litem was filed on April 4th, 2024 and the Order of Publication was filed on April 4th, 2024 in the Office of the Clerk of Court for Charleston County, State of South Carolina.

NOTICE OF APPOINTMENT OF GUARDIAN AD LITEM

FURTHER TAKE NOTICE that Carl B. Hubbard, Esquire of 2201 Middle Street, Box 15, Sullivan’s Island, South Carolina 29482 has been designated as Guardian ad Litem for all Defendants who may be incompetent, under age, or under any other disability or in the Service of the Military by Order of the Court of Common Pleas of Charleston County, dated April 4th, 2024 and the said appointment shall become absolute 30 days after the final publication of this Notice, unless such Defendants, or anyone in their behalf shall procure a proper person to be appointed Guardian ad Litem of them within 30 days after the final publication of this Notice.

THE PURPOSE of this action is to clear the title to the subject real property described as follows:

s/Jeffrey T. Spell

Jeffrey T. Spell

925 Wappoo Road, Suite B Charleston, South Carolina 29407 (843) 452-3553 jeff@jeffspell.com

Attorney for Plaintiffs

April 9th, 2024

Date

BY VIRTUE of a decree heretofore granted in the case captioned U.S. Bank National Association, et al. v. William 0. Hanahan, III, et al. and bearing Charleston County Case Number 2023-CP-10-03915 and Berkeley County Case Number 2023-CP-08-03449, the following property will be sold on May 7, 2024, at 11:00 AM at the Charleston County Council Chambers, Public Services Building, 4045 Bridge View Drive, North Charleston, SC to the highest bidder: ALL THAT CERTAIN PIECE, TMS

2024 and the said appointment shall become absolute 30 days after the final publication of this Notice, unless such Defendants, or anyone in their behalf shall procure a proper person to be appointed Guardian ad Litem of them within 30 days after the final publication of this Notice.

THE PURPOSE of this action is to clear the title to the subject real property described as follows:

STATE OF SOUTH CAROLINA

COUNTY OF CHARLESTON IN

THE COURT OF COMMON PLEAS

FOR THE NINTH JUDICIAL CIRCUIT

CASE NO. 2024-CP-10-01797

TGD VSC LLC, a South Carolina Limited Liability Company, Plaintiffs, v.

Jake D. Elliott, M. E. Elliott, John Perry Seabrook, Clarice Wilkinson, Pauline B. Holloway and Rhoda Brown also known as Rhoda Brown Wright, ALL being deceased persons, their heirs, personal representatives, successors, and assigns and spouses, if any they have and all unknown persons with any right, title or interest in and to the real estate described in the Complaint and commonly known as: 10 acres on Highway 165 in the Town of Hollywood Charleston County, South Carolina TMS Number: 163-00-00-315 and also any unknown adults and those persons as who may be in the military service of the United States of America, all of them being a class designated as JOHN DOE; and any unknown minors or persons under a disability being a class designated as RICHARD ROE, Defendants.

SUMMONS & NOTICE

To the Defendants above-named: YOU ARE HEREBY SUMMONED and required to answer the Complaint in the above entitled action, a copy of which is herewith served upon you, and to serve a copy of your Answer upon the undersigned at his office at: 925 Wappoo Road, Suite B, Charleston, South Carolina 29407, within thirty (30) days, after service hereof upon you, exclusive of the day of such service, except as to the United States of America, which shall have sixty (60) days, exclusive if the day of such service, and if you fail to answer the Complaint within the time aforesaid, judgment by default will be rendered against you for the relief demanded in the Complaint.

YOU WILL ALSO TAKE NOTICE that should you fail to answer the foregoing summons, the Plaintiff will move for a general Order of Reference of this cause to the Master-in-Equity or Special Referee for this County, which Order shall, pursuant to Rule 53(e) of the South Carolina Rule of Civil Procedure, specifically provide that the said Master-in-Equity or Special Referee is authorized and empowered to enter a final judgment in this case.

NOTICE OF FILING

Robert Ford, Daisy Ford Riley, Jessie Ford and Marion Elizabeth Ford, Plaintiffs, v. John Ford, Sr., Isabella Mitchell, John Ford, Jr., Ruby Smith, Herman Smith, Edward Ford, Adeline Ford Gadsden, Thadeus Gadsden, Ernest Ford, Marie Ford, Samuel Ford, Evelina Middleton and Elizabeth Worthy all of whom are deceased persons, their heirs, Personal Representatives, Successors and Assigns and Spouses, if any they have and all other persons entitled to claim under them or through them, and all unknown persons with any right, title or interest in and to the real estate described in the Complaint, commonly known as: 39.071 Acres on Old Jacksonboro Road known by TMS # 187-00-00-006

ALL that certain piece, parcel or tract of land, with the improvements thereon, situate, lying and being in the Town of Hollywood, in the County of Charleston, State of South Carolina, containing 10 acres, more or less, and shown and delineated as “NEW TRACT “B-1” 435772.0 SQ. FEET 10.00

Acres” on that certain plat entitled “SUBDIVISION PLAT TRACT “B” 94.51 ACRES TMS NO. 163-0000-164 OWNED BY: BCR-1031 RVN LLC CREATING TRACT “B” (64.93 ACRES) TRACT “B-1” (19.49 ACRES) & TRACT “B-2 (10.00

ACRES) LOCATED IN THE TOWN OF HOLLYWOOD CHARLESTON COUNTY SOUTH CAROLINA”, prepared by Kevin M. Schwacke, Sr., PLS No. 20468, of A.H. Schwacke & Associates, Inc., dated July 5th, 2022, and recorded July 26th, 2022 in the Register of Deeds Office for Charleston County, South Carolina in Plat Book L22 at Page 0289 (the “Plat”). Said property having such size, shape, locating, buttings, boundings, courses and distances as by reference to said Plat will more fully appear.

TMS # 163-00-00-315

s/Jeffrey T. Spell

Jeffrey T. Spell

925 Wappoo Road, Suite B Charleston, South Carolina 29407 (843) 452-3553

Attorney for Plaintiff

April 10th, 2024

Date

STATE OF SOUTH CAROLINA COUNTY OF CHARLESTON IN THE COURT OF COMMON PLEAS FOR THE NINTH JUDICIAL CIRCUIT CASE NO.: 2024-CP-10-01521

LYNETTE P. GATHERS, Plaintiff,

v. KEISTER BODRICK, WILLIEMAE BODRICK and MARK ANTHONY BODRICK, all being deceased persons and their heirs, distributees, personal representatives, successors and assigns and spouses, if any they have and all other persons with any right, title or interest in and to the real estate described in the Complaint, commonly known as: 2017 Burton Lane Charleston County, South Carolina

will be rendered against you for the relief demanded in the Complaint.

YOU WILL ALSO TAKE NOTICE that should you fail to answer the foregoing summons, the Plaintiff will move for a general Order of Reference of this cause to the Master-in-Equity or Special Referee for this County, which Order shall, pursuant to Rule 53(e) of the South Carolina Rule of Civil Procedure, specifically provide that the said Master-in-Equity or Special Referee is authorized and empowered to enter a final judgment in this case.

NOTICE OF FILING

PLEASE TAKE NOTICE that the Lis Pendens, Summons and Notice, and Complaint, were filed on March 21st, 2024, the Order Appointing Guardian ad Litem was filed on March 22nd, 2024 and the Order of Publication was filed on April 11th, 2024 in the Office of the Clerk of Court for Charleston County, State of South Carolina.

NOTICE OF APPOINTMENT OF GUARDIAN AD LITEM

FURTHER TAKE NOTICE that Carl B. Hubbard, Esquire of 2201 Middle Street, Box 15, Sullivan’s Island, South Carolina 29482 has been designated as Guardian ad Litem for all Defendants who may be incompetent, under age, or under any other disability or in the Service of the Military by Order of the Court of Common Pleas of Charleston County, dated March 22nd, 2024 and the said appointment shall become absolute 30 days after the final publication of this Notice, unless such Defendants, or anyone in their behalf shall procure a proper person to be appointed Guardian ad Litem of them within 30 days after the final publication of this Notice.

THE PURPOSE of this action is to clear the title to the subject real property described as follows:

All that lot, piece or parcel of land, situate, lying and being in the County of Charleston, State of South Carolina, and known as Lot No. 3 in the subdivision of Sunrise Heights on a plat of the same by Hilliard B. Good, entitled “Plat of Subdivision of Sunrise Heights, situated on the South side of Burton’s Lane, in Charleston Heights, Charleston County, South Carolina, formerly parts of Lots 8 and 10 of the Stromboli Tract” dated November 16th, 1954 and recorded in the RMC Office for Charleston County, South Carolina, in Plat Book J, Page 148.

Measuring and containing 30 feet in front on Burton’s Lane, the same on the back line by 90 feet in depth.

any right, title or interest in and to the real estate described in the Complaint, commonly known as: 20 Kenilworth Ave. Charleston County, South Carolina

TMS Number: 460-02-04-003 and also any unknown adults and those persons as who may be in the Military Service of the United States of America, all of them being a class designated as John Doe; and any unknown minors or persons under a disability being a class designated as Richard Roe, Defendants.

SUMMONS & NOTICE

To the Defendants above-named: YOU ARE HEREBY SUMMONED and required to answer the Complaint in the above entitled action, a copy of which is herewith served upon you, and to serve a copy of your Answer upon the undersigned at his office at: 925 Wappoo Road, Suite B, Charleston, South Carolina 29407, within thirty (30) days, after service hereof upon you, exclusive of the day of such service, except as to the United States of America, which shall have sixty (60) days, exclusive if the day of such service, and if you fail to answer the Complaint within the time aforesaid, judgment by default will be rendered against you for the relief demanded in the Complaint.

YOU WILL ALSO TAKE NOTICE that should you fail to answer the foregoing summons, the Plaintiff will move for a general Order of Reference of this cause to the Master-in-Equity or Special Referee for this County, which Order shall, pursuant to Rule 53(e) of the South Carolina Rule of Civil Procedure, specifically provide that the said Master-in-Equity or Special Referee is authorized and empowered to enter a final judgment in this case.

NOTICE OF

TMS #460-02-04-003

s/Jeffrey T. Spell

Jeffrey T. Spell 925 Wappoo Road, Suite B Charleston, South Carolina 29407 (843) 452-3553 Attorney for Plaintiffs

ALL those certain pieces, parcels or lots of land located on Old Jacksonboro Road in the Town of Ravenel, in Charleston County, South Carolina, containing 39.071 acres and 13.73 acres respectively and shown and designated as “Tract J” and “Tract F” on a plat entitled “PLAT SHOWING TWO TRACTS OF LAND TOTALLING 52.834 ACRES, COMPRISED OF TRACT J, 39.071 ACRES AND TRACT F, 13.763 ACRES OWNED BY THE JOHN FORD ESTATE” prepared by F. Steven Johnson, RLS and dated August 31, 2001. Said tracts having such size, shape, metes and bounds as will by reference to said plat more fully and at large appear.

PLEASE TAKE NOTICE that the Summons and Notice and Complaint were filed on April 5th, 2024, the Order Appointing Guardian ad Litem was filed on April 9th, 2024 and the

TMS Number: 466-03-00-057 and also any unknown adults and those persons as who may be in the Military Service of the United States of America, all of them being a class designated as John Doe; and any unknown minors or persons under a disability being a class designated as Richard Roe and AMAR DIABLO BODRICK, MARK ANQUON BODRICK and CITIFINANCIAL AUTO CORPORATION as successor in interest to TRANSOUTH FINANCIAL CORPORATION Defendants.

SUMMONS AND NOTICE

To the Defendants above-named: YOU ARE HEREBY SUMMONED and required to answer the Complaint in the above entitled action, a copy of which is herewith served upon you, and to serve a copy of your Answer upon the undersigned at his office at: 925 Wappoo Road, Suite B, Charleston, South Carolina 29407, within thirty (30) days, after service hereof upon you, exclusive of the day of such service, except as to the United States of America, which shall have sixty (60) days, exclusive if the day of such service, and if you fail to answer the Complaint within the time aforesaid, judgment by default

Butting and bounding to the North on Burton’s Lane on said plat, to the East on Sunrise Street on said plat, to the South on Lot No. 4 on said plat and on the West by Lot No. 2 on said plat.

TMS #: 466-03-00-057

s/Jeffrey T. Spell

Jeffrey T. Spell

Attorney at Law

925 Wappoo Road, Suite B Charleston, South Carolina 29407 (843) 452-3553

Attorney for Plaintiff

April 12th, 2024

Date

STATE OF SOUTH CAROLINA COUNTY OF CHARLESTON IN THE COURT OF COMMON PLEAS FOR THE NINTH JUDICIAL CIRCUIT CASE NO.: 2024-CP-10-01345

BRENDA CLARK, KATRENA ELDRIDGE, REGINALD BROWN, FREDERICK BROWN and LAQUERA BROWN, Plaintiffs, v. CHRISTIAN BROWN and SHERIDAN BROWN, and their heirs, distributees, personal representatives, successors and assigns and spouses, if any they have and all other persons with

Jr. (Bar No. 66535) 307 Old Trolley Road Summerville, SC 29423-0637

Phone: (843) 832-6000

Facsimile: (843) 871-3232

Email:bobbyphipps@ johnpricelawfirm.com

been

Guardian ad

for all Defendants who may be

under

or in

under

Service of

Military by

of the Court of Common Pleas of Charleston County, dated March 15th, 2024 and the said appointment shall become absolute 30 days after the final publication of this Notice, unless such Defendants, or anyone in their behalf shall procure a proper person to be appointed Guardian ad Litem of them within 30 days after the final publication of this Notice.

THE PURPOSE of this action is to clear the title to the subject real property described as follows: ALL that lot, piece or parcel of land, with the buildings thereon, situate, lying and being in the City and County of Charleston, State of aforesaid, and known and designated as lot number One hundred and sixteen (116) on a plat of the Hampton Park Terrace lands, recorded in the R.M.C. Office for Charleston County in Plat Book D, at Page 200. Said lot being at the southeast corner of Moultrie Street and Kenilworth Avenue.

MEASURING AND CONTAINING forty-five (45) feet on Moultrie Street by the same on the back line,

line thirty-four and ninety-three one hundredths (34.93’) feet, in depth on the West side one hundred six and twenty-eight hundredths (106.28”) feet, and on the East side one hundred four and twenty-six hundredths (104.26’) feet.

BUTTING AND BOUNDING to

the North on Poplar Street, to the East on Lot 60, to the South on Lot 57, and to the West on Lot 56, all as shown on said plat.

Being the same property conveyed to Fadol Brown and David Simmons, Jr., by deed of David Simmons, Jr. and Theresa Marie Brown, dated and recorded September 27, 2018 in the Office of the Register of Deeds in Book 0749, Page 992.

TMS # 463-12-03-135

Property address: 15 Poplar Street Charleston, S.C.

A personal or deficiency judgment having been waived, the bidding will not remain open after the date of sale, any compliance with the bid may be made immediately.

The property shall be sold for cash to the highest bidder. The highest bidder, other than the Plaintiff, will be required to deposit with the undersigned Master-in-Equity, at the conclusion of the bidding, cash or certified check in the amount of five (5%) per cent of the bid; the said deposit to be applied to the purchase price in case of compliance, but to be forfeited and applied first to costs and then to Plaintiff’s debt in the case of non-compliance.

Should the highest bidder fail and refuse to make the required deposit at the time of bid or comply with the other terms of the bid within thirty (30) days from the date of sale, the undersigned Master-in-Equity will resell the property at the risk and expense of the defaulting bidder upon the same terms as above set out. The Sheriff of Charleston County may be authorized to put the purchaser into possession of the premises if requested by the purchaser. The successful purchaser shall pay for documentary stamps on the Foreclosure Deed, and interest on the amount of the bid from the date of sale to the date of compliance with the bid at the rate of 5.95% per annum.

If Plaintiff or its representative fail to appear and bid at the foreclosure sale, any such sale shall be null and void and of no effect.

SUBJECT TO ASSESSMENTS, COUNTY TAXES, EXISTING EASEMENTS, EASEMENTS AND RESTRICTIONS OR RECORD, AND OTHER

SENIOR ENCUMBRANCES.

Mikell R. Scarborough Master-in-Equity for Charleston County

5th Day of April 2024 Charleston, South Carolina

Submitted by: Larry D. Cohen, Esquire P.O. Box 30547 Charleston, South Carolina 29417 Tel. (843) 225-4445

Ldcohen@Ldcohenlaw.com

Attorney for Plaintiff

The Bank of South Carolina

NOTICE OF SALE

Docket No. 2023-CP-10-03337

By virtue of a decree heretofore granted in the case of Robert Barnett, as Trustee of the RH 401(k) Plan against Kenneth B. Canty, et al., I, the undersigned Master in Equity for Charleston County, will sell on Tuesday, May 7, 2024, at 11:00 a.m., at the Charleston County Public Services Building, Second Floor Charleston County Council Chambers, 4045 Bridge View Drive, N. Charleston, South Carolina, to the highest bidder: All that certain piece, parcel or lot of land, with the improvements

thereon, situate, lying and being in the County of Charleston, State of South Carolina, known and designated as Lot 76, Schieveling Plantation Subdivision, as shown on a plat entitled “Final Plat Showing: The Subdivision of TMS No. 358-00-00-006 Into Schieveling Plantation Phases V and VI, Lots 60-74 and 76-104; Parcels B, G, J, K, L, M, N, O and R; New Rights-of-Way; and Tract A2B Residual, Property

Owned By Schieveling Plantation Development, L.L.C., Located in The City of Charleston, Charleston County, South Carolina” prepared by Richard D. Lacey, Professional Land Surveyor, of Hoffman Lester Associated, Inc., dated January 28, 2002, and recorded March 27, 2002, in the RMC Office for Charleston County in Plat Book EF at Page 480-481. Said lot having such size, shape, dimensions, buttings and boundings as will by reference to said plat more fully and at large appear.

Being the same property conveyed to Kenneth B. Canty and Aretha Canty by Deed of James Samuel Plexico and Jan J. Plexico f/k/a Jan J. Hull dated January 13, 2012 and recorded in the Register of Deeds office for Charleston County on January 17, 2012 in Book 0228 at Page 043.

TMS No. 358-14-00-110

CURRENT ADDRESS OF PROPERTY IS: 695 Fair Spring Drive Charleston, South Carolina

SUBJECT TO ASSESSMENTS, CHARLESTON COUNTY TAXES, EXISTING EASEMENTS, EASEMENTS AND RESTRICTIONS OF RECORD, AND OTHER SENIOR ENCUMBRANCES, IF ANY.

TERMS OF SALE: The successful bidder, other than the Plaintiff, will deposit with the Master in Equity, at the conclusion of the bidding, Five per cent (5%) of the bid in cash or equivalent, as evidence of good faith, same to be applied to the purchase price in case of compliance, but to be forfeited and applied first to costs and then to Plaintiff’s debt in the case of non-compliance. Should the last and highest bidder fail or refuse to make the required deposit at time of bid or comply with the other terms of the bid within 30 days days, then the Master in Equity may resell the property on the same terms and conditions on some subsequent Sales Day (at the risk of the said highest bidder.)

No personal or deficiency judgment being demanded, the bidding will not remain open after the date of sale, but compliance with the bid may be made immediately.

Purchaser to pay for preparation of the Master in Equity’s deed, documentary stamps on the deed, recording of the deed, and interest on the amount of the bid from date of sale to date of compliance with the bid at the rate of 5.00% per annum.

The sale is subject to the right of the United States of America to redeem the subject property within 120 days after the date of sale as provided by law.

/s/Mikell R. Scarborough

Mikell R. Scarborough

Master in Equity for Charleston County Plaintiff’s Attorney:

J. Kershaw Spong [SC Bar #5289]

C. Elizabeth Weston [SC Bar #103305]

Robinson Gray Stepp & Laffitte, LLC

P.O. Box 11449 Columbia, SC 29211 (803) 929-1400

kspong@robinsongray.com

Michelle Anne Pelow and Justin Pelow, DEFENDANTS

Upon authority of a Decree dated the March 19, 2024, I will offer for sale to the highest bidder for cash, at public auction, the premises fully described below, in the Charleston County Public Services Building, Second Floor Council Chambers, 4045 Bridge View Drive, City of North Charleston, South Carolina 29401 on the 7th DAY OF MAY, 2024 at 11:00 AM or shortly thereafter.

All that piece, parcel or lot of land, together with the buildings and improvements thereon, situate, lying and being in Charleston County, State of South Carolina, known and designated as Lot 11, Block AA, Northwood Estates Subdivision, which lot is more fully delineated on a plat made by William H. Mitchell, dated August 8, 1966, and recorded in the RMC Office for Charleston County in Plat Book V, at Page 37, said lot having such size, shape, dimensions, buttings and boundings as will by reference to said plat more fully and at large appear.

This being the same property conveyed to Michelle Anne Pelow and Justin Pelow, as joint tenants with the rights of survivorship and not as tenants in common, by deed of Timothy Quain LeBlanc dated May 25, 2021 and recorded May 27, 2021 in Book 0995 at Page 802 in the Office of the Clerk of Court/ Register of Deeds for Charleston County.

TMS No. 485-02-00-071

Property address: 8300 Witsell Street North Charleston, SC 29406

No personal or deficiency judgment being demanded, the bidding will not remain open after the date of sale, but compliance with the bid may be made immediately.

The property shall be sold for cash to the highest bidder. The highest bidder, other than the Plaintiff, will be required to deposit with the Master, at the conclusion of the bidding, cash or certified check in the amount of five percent (5%) of the bid: the said deposit to be applied to the purchase price.

Should the highest bidder fail to comply with the bid within thirty days from the date of sale, the Master will resell the property at the risk and expense of the defaulting bidder upon the same terms as above set out. The Sheriff of Charleston County may be authorized to put the purchaser into possession of the premises if requested by the purchaser.

NOTICE: The foreclosure deed is not a warranty deed. Interested bidders should satisfy themselves as to the quality of title to be conveyed by obtaining an independent title search prior to the foreclosure sale date.

PLAINTIFF’S ATTORNEY

Ronald C. Scott (803) 252-3340

Mikell R. Scarborough Master in Equity

US Bank Trust National Association, Not In Its Individual Capacity But Solely As Owner Trustee For VRMTG Asset Trust, PLAINTIFF

VERSUS

Martin V. Rowell; et al., DEFENDANTS

Upon authority of a Decree dated the May 16, 2023, I will offer for sale to the highest bidder for cash, at public auction, the premises fully described below, in the Charleston County Public Services Building, Second Floor Council Chambers, 4045 Bridge View Drive, City of North Charleston, South Carolina 29401 on the 7th DAY OF MAY, 2024 at 11:00 AM or shortly thereafter.

The land referred to herein below is situated in the County of Charleston, City of Charleston, State of South Carolina and is described as follows:

All that certain piece, parcel or lot of land situate, lying and being in the City of Charleston, Charleston County, South Carolina and being shown and designated as Lot 12, Block A on a plat by G.E. Lohr, RLS dated October 12, 1978 and entitled “Ashleytowne Landing Section I” and recorded July 19, 1979 in Plat Book AN at Page 117 in the RMC Office for Charleston County. Said lot having such size, shape, dimensions, buttings and boundings as will by reference to said plat more fully appear.

This being the same property conveyed to Martin V. Rowell by Deed of David E. Rowell Sr., James R. Rowell, Gener R. Rowell and Janet Rowell Lukow dated June 15, 2018 and recorded March 1, 2019 in Book 0780 at Page 525 in the Office of the Clerk of Court/ Register of Deeds for Charleston County, South Carolina.

TMS No. 358-16-00-012

Property address: 2345 Assembly Drive Charleston, SC 29414

No personal or deficiency judgment being demanded, the bidding will not remain open after the date of sale, but compliance with the bid may be made immediately.

The property shall be sold for cash to the highest bidder. The highest bidder, other than the Plaintiff, will be required to deposit with the Master, at the conclusion of the bidding, cash or certified check in the amount of five percent (5%) of the bid: the said deposit to be applied to the purchase price.

Should the highest bidder fail to comply with the bid within thirty days from the date of sale, the Master will resell the property at the risk and expense of the defaulting bidder upon the same terms as above set out. The Sheriff of Charleston County may be authorized to put the purchaser into possession of the premises if requested by the purchaser.

NOTICE: The foreclosure deed is not a warranty deed. Interested bidders should satisfy themselves as to the quality of title to be conveyed by obtaining an independent title search prior to the foreclosure sale date.

PLAINTIFF’S ATTORNEY

Ronald C. Scott (803) 252-3340

Mikell R. Scarborough Master in Equity

LAURIE AND CINDY FLOYD; NARINE RAMLOGAN AND CARMEL RAMLOGAN; SIMMONS CREEK-JOHNS ISLAND, LLC; FREDERICK HOPE

TIMMS, ANTONIO D. NELSON, SR., HAROLD W. NELSON, JR, MARK NELSON, SR., AMBER JOI NELSON, LARRY NELSON, CHERYL D. NELSON, EPHRIAM

BUTLER, GEORGE MINUS, JAMES NELSON a/k/a JAMES E. NELSON, JOSHUA BUTLER, KALEB BUTLER, KAVONNA BUTLER, KHALYA

BUTLER, LATONYA MINUS, OTIS ALFRED FREEMAN, SHERONDA MINUS, SOLOMON BUTLER, VERNETTE NELSON BROWN, AARON A. LEGARE, BENZINA FLUDD WASHINGTON, BONITA

LEGARE, CARL BROWN, CHARLES

LEGARE, CLARA FLUDD, DARCELLA LEGARE, EUGENE LEGARE, JR., GEORGETTA

LEGARE, HEZKIAH B. FLUDD, JEROME FLUDD, LINCOLN LE GARE, III, LOUISE LEGARE

WELLS, MARVEL LE GARE, MARY LOUISE LEGARE HARRIS, METTIE CHAPMAN, MICHAEL FLUDD, NATALIE FRANKLIN, NATHANIEL

LEGARE, NICOLE CHAPMAN, PHLLIS DOWDELL, QUEEN ESTER HOLT, ROSALYN DAVIS a/k/a

ROSALYN GARRETT, RUBIN

LEGARE, RUTH RICE, SEQUOIA CAMPBELL, SHERINA WILBURN, VERMELL DOCTOR, YVONNE

LEGARE, ZORELL HEYWARD FLUDD, if they be alive, JOHN DOE, AND JANE DOE, whose true names are unknown and fictitious names designating the unknown heirs, devisees, distributees, issue, executors, administrators, successors, or assigns of the above named Defendants, if they or any of them be dead; and of EDWARD NELSON, FRED NELSON, FRED NELSON, JR., FRED NELSON III, HAROLD W. NELSON, SR., JAMES S. NELSON, JUNITA LINDA RICHARDSON a/k/a JUANITA NELSON

RICHARDSON a/k/a JUANITA

LINDA RICHARDSON a/k/a

LINDA MINUS RICHARDSON, KAREN NELSON BUTLER, NAOMI

LOTTIE FREEMAN NELSON, ROBERT LOWRY, LOUISE COLES

LOWRY LEGARE, EDWARD

LEGARE, SR., BERNARD FLUDD, MOZELLE FLUDD WILBURN, ROBERT LEGARE, EUGENE S. LEGARE, DAISY BELL WILSON

LEGARE, EDWARD LEGARE, JR., MARIE LEGARE, CATHALEEN

LEGARE CHAPMAN, LINCOLN

LEGARE a/k/a LINCOLN PAUL LE

GARE, ASALEE LEGARE, GILBERT

LEGARE, CLEMENT LEGARE, SR., CLEMENT LEGARE, JR., CATHERINE LEGARE a/k/a INEZ

LEGARE DUKES, WILHELMINA

LEGARE a/k/a VIOLA LEGARE, all deceased; and MARY ROE AND RICHARD ROE, whose true names are unknown and fictitious names designating infants, persons under disability, incompetents, imprisoned, or those persons in the military, if any; and also all other persons, known or whose true names are unknown, claiming any right, title, interest in, or lien upon the real estate described in the Amended Complaint herein, Defendant

SUMMONS AS TO CROSS-CLAIM TO THE DEFENDANTS ABOVE

NAMED IN THIS ACTION: YOU ARE HERBY SUMMONED and required to answer the CrossClaim, herein, a copy of which is herewith served upon you, or to otherwise appear, and to serve a copy of your Answer to said Complaint, upon the subscribers at his office, 1055-F North Main St., Summerville, SC 29483, or Post Office Box 85, Summerville,

SC 29484, within thirty (30) days after service hereof, exclusive of the day of such service; and if you fail to answer the Cross-Claim or otherwise appear and defend within the time allotted, the Plaintiff in this action will apply to the Court for the relief herein demanded, and judgment by default will be rendered against you for the relief demanded in this Complaint.

I. COUNTERCLAIM AND CROSSCLAIM AS TO ALL DEFENDANTS FOR EASEMENT BY NECESSITY

1. Defendant repeats the previous items of this Answer as if retyped verbatim right here.

2. Defendant craves reference to Items 1-6 of the Fourth Amended Complaint filed by Plaintiff which accurately shows the parties for the Complaint and for this CounterClaim and Cross-Claims.

3. Defendant craves reference to Items 7-9 of the Fourth Amended Complaint filed by the Plaintiff which accurately lays out the proper jurisdiction and venue for this Complaint, Counter-Claim and Cross-Claims.

4. Craving reference to No. 11 of the Plaintiff’s Fourth Amended Complaint, the referenced dirt road runs generally westward from the Tims property to the Plaintiff’s property as stated in No. 11.

5. Defendant also craves reference to No. 25 of the Plaintiff’s Fourth Amended Complaint for the Alternate Access easement.

6. Upon information and belief, Tims’ property was once part of a larger parcel along with and sharing unity of title with the Laurie Property, Ramlogan property, Simmons Creek Property, and/ or the Nelson property; the unity of title was later severed; and the Tims’ property use of the of the Old Pond access has been at all times been necessary, actual, real, reasonable, and not merely convenient. Alternatively, the Tims’ property was once part of a larger parcel along with, and therefore sharing unity of title with the Ramlogan Property, Harris Property, and/or the Nelson’s property and the Plaintiff’s property. The unity of title was later severed and the Tims’ use of the Alternate Access has at all times been necessary, actual, real, reasonable and not merely convenient.

7. Accordingly, Tims is entitled to a judicial declaration that it enjoys an easement implied by necessity, running with the Plaintiff’s property and the Seigler property for purposes of affording access between the Plaintiff’s property, and the Seigler property and the public right of way at Old Pond Road, either via the Old Pond Access or the Alternate Access.

II. COUNTER CLAIM AND CROSSCLAIM AS TO ALL DEFENDANTS FOR EASEMENT CREATED BY DEPICTION ON PLAT

8. Defendant repeats the previous items of this Answer as if retyped verbatim right here.

9. The Old Pond Access and Alternate Access are depicted on numerous plats within the Parties’ chain of title, thereby creating permanent, irrevocable easements.

10. Accordingly, Tims is entitled to a judicial declaration that it enjoys an easement by virtue of depiction in various plats, running with the Plaintiff’s and Seigler’s property for purposes of affording access between the Tims’ property and the Plaintiff’s property and the Seigler Property and the public right of way at Old Pond Road, either via the Old Pond Access or the Alternate Access.

WHEREFORE, having set forth their causes of actions, the Tims respectfully request that the Court enter judgment declaring that the Tims Property enjoys a permanent access easement, appurtenant to and running with the Tims Property; via the Old Pond Access or, in the alternative, via the Alternate Access, affording access between the Tims Property and

Old Pond Road; for the injunctive relief requested herein; and for such other and further relief as the Court deems just and appropriate.

s/William H. Sloan William H. Sloan Attorney for Fred Tims Post Office Box 85 Summerville, SC 29484 843-873-7531 whs@sloanlawfirm.net

February 27, 2024

Master’s Sale Case No. 2022-CP-10-05608

STATE OF SOUTH CAROLINA COUNTY OF CHARLESTON IN THE COURT OF COMMON PLEAS Builders FirstSource-Southeast Group, LLC, Plaintiff, v. Anson Street Construction, LLC, Dana Marie Slaven, and Mortgage Electronic Registration Systems, Inc., as Nominee for Angel Oak Mortgage Solutions, LLC, Defendants.

Upon authority of a Decree dated the 5th day of December, 2023, I will offer for sale to the highest bidder for cash, at public auction, the premises fully described below, at the County Council Chambers, 4045 Bridge View Drive, North Charleston, South Carolina, on the 7th day of May, 2024, at 11:00 a.m. or shortly thereafter.

All that lot of land, situate, lying and being in Avondale, a section of West Charleston in St. Andrew’s Parish, in the County of Charleston, State aforesaid, known and designated as Lot 173 on the plat of part of Section “A” in Avondale made by W.L. Gaillard, dated February, 1946 and recorded in Plat Book F, at page 230 in the RMC Office for Charleston County.

Measuring and containing in front on the Northwest line on a street on said plat known as Rosedale Drive ninety-two (92) feet, on the back of Southeast line seventy-five (75) feet, on the Northeast line one hundred and eight and six-tenths (108.6) feet, and on the Southwest line one hundred sixty-two and eight-tenths (162.8) feet, be the same dimensions a little more or less. Butting and bounding on the Northwest by said street, known as Rosedale, on the Northeast by Lot No. 174 on said plat, on the Southeast by Lot No. 111 on said plat and on the Southwest by Lot No. 172 on said plat.

TMS No: 418-14-00-111

Address: 3 Rosedale Dr. Charleston SC 29407

As a deficiency judgment is being demanded, the sale will be re-opened for bidding at the Charleston County Master in Equity’s Office, 100 Broad Street, Suite 266, Charleston, South Carolina, at 11:00 AM on the 6th day of June, 2024. PLAINTIFF RESERVES THE RIGHT TO WAIVE THE DEFICIENCY UP TO AND INCLUDING THE DATE OF SALE.

The property shall be sold for cash to the highest bidder. The highest bidder, other than the Plaintiff, will be required to deposit with the Master, at the conclusion of the bidding, cash or certified check in the amount of five (5%) per cent of the bid: the said deposit to be applied to the purchase price.

Should the highest bidder fail to comply with the bid within thirty days from the date of sale, the Master will resell the property at the risk and expense of the defaulting bidder upon the same terms as above set out. The Sheriff of Charleston County may be authorized to put the purchaser into possession of the premises if requested by the purchaser.

PLAINTIFF’S ATTORNEY

Steven L. Smith, Esquire Telephone 843-760-0220

Mikell R. Scarborough Master in Equity

Charleston County,

heretofore granted in the case of

Bank, National Association, vs. Michael Delambo; Amy Delambo; Dewees Island Property Owners Association, Inc.; Dewees Utility Corporation, Inc.; and Scott Washington, the undersigned Master-in-Equity for Charleston County, South Carolina or my agent, will sell on 7th day of May, 2024, at 11:00 A.M., in the County Council Chambers, at the Charleston County Public Services Building, located at 4045 Bridge View Drive, North Charleston, South Carolina 29405, to the highest bidder, the following described property, to wit:

ALL that certain lot, piece or parcel of land, situate, lying and being in the County of Charleston, State of South Carolina, being known and designated as Lot 72 on a plat entitled, “DEWEES ISLAND, CHARLESTON COUNTY, SOUTH CAROLINA,” by E. M. Seabrook, Jr., Surveyor dated June 11, 1993 and recorded in the RMC Office for Charleston County in Plat Book CN at Page 9, 10 and 11.

SAID lot having such size, shape, metes, buttings, and boundings as will by reference to said plat more fully appear.

TOGETHER with such rights in the roads, easements, rights-of-ways and common areas as set forth in the Declaration of Covenants and Restrictions of the Dewees Island Property Owners Association.

BEING the same property conveyed to Michael Delambo and Amy Delambo, as joint tenants with rights of survivorship and not as tenants in common, by Deed of Charlotte W. Lawson, Trustee of the Charlotte W. Lawson Trust dated February 2, 2001, Deed dated August 16, 2017, and recorded August 18, 2017, in the RMC Office for Charleston County in Book 0660 at Page 617.

TMS #: 608-14-00-046 Property Address: 284 Pelican Flight Drive Dewees Island, SC 29451 SUBJECT TO ASSESSMENTS, CHARLESTON COUNTY TAXES, EASEMENTS AND/ OR RESTRICTIONS OF RECORD, AND OTHER SENIOR ENCUMBRANCES, IF ANY.

TERMS OF SALE: The successful bidder, other than the Plaintiff, will deposit with the Master-In-Equity or his agent, at the conclusion of the bidding, five (5%) percent of the bid, in cash or equivalent, as evidence of good faith, same to be applied to purchase price in case of compliance, but to be forfeited and applied first to costs and then to Plaintiff’s debt in the case of noncompliance. Should the last and highest bidder fail or refuse to make the required deposit at the time of the bid or comply with the other terms of the bid within twenty (30) days, then the Master-In-Equity or his agent may resell the property on the same terms and conditions on some subsequent Sales day at the risk of the said highest bidder.

The sale shall be subject to Charleston County taxes and assessments and to existing easements and restrictions of record.

Purchaser shall pay for the preparation of the Deed, documentary stamps on the Deed, recording of the Deed, and interest on the amount of the bid from date of sale to date of compliance with the bid at the judgment rate of interest.

As a deficiency judgment is being demanded, the bidding will remain open for thirty (30) days after the date of the sale, on June 6, 2024, at the Master in Equity’s

If Plaintiff or its representative does not appear at the scheduled sale of the above-described property, then the sale of the property will be null, void and of no force and effect. In such event, the sale will be rescheduled for the next available sales day.

Judge Mikell R. Scarborough

Master-In-Equity for Charleston County Charleston, South Carolina

March 19, 2024

J. Ronald Jones, Jr.

Bar No: 066091

Smith Debnam Narron Drake Saintsing & Myers, LLP

171 Church Street, Suite 120C Charleston, SC 29401

Phone: (843) 714-2531

Email: rjones@smithdebnamlaw.com

Attorney for Plaintiff, SouthState Bank, National Association

ORDER APPOINTING GUARDIAN

AD LITEM

STATE OF SOUTH CAROLINA

COUNTY OF CHARLESTON IN THE COURT OF COMMON PLEAS

C/A NO. 2024-CP-10-01297

US Bank Trust National Association, Not In Its Individual Capacity But Solely As Owner Trustee For VRMTG Asset Trust, Plaintiff vs. The Personal Representative, if any, whose name is unknown, of the Estate of Willie Simmons, Jr.; Patrice Simmons, Glynice Simmons, and any other Heirsat-Law or Devisees of Willie Simmons, Jr., Deceased, their heirs, Personal Representatives, Administrators, Successors and Assigns, and all other persons entitled to claim through them; all unknown persons with any right, title or interest in the real estate described herein; also any persons who may be in the military service of the United States of America, being a class designated as John Doe; and any unknown minors or persons under a disability being a class designated as Richard Roe, Defendants.

SUMMONS AND NOTICE TO THE DEFENDANT(S) ALL UNKNOWN PERSONS WITH ANY RIGHT, TITLE OR INTEREST IN THE REAL ESTATE DESCRIBED HEREIN; ALSO ANY PERSONS WHO MAY BE IN THE MILITARY SERVICE OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA, BEING A CLASS DESIGNATED AS JOHN DOE; AND ANY UNKNOWN MINORS OR PERSONS UNDER A DISABILITY BEING A CLASS DESIGNATED AS RICHARD ROE; GLYNICE SIMMONS YOU ARE HEREBY SUMMONED and required to answer the Complaint in the above action, a copy which is herewith served upon you, and to serve a copy of your Answer upon the undersigned at their offices, 2838 Devine Street, Columbia, South Carolina 29205, within thirty (30) days after service upon you, exclusive of the day of such service, and, if you fail to answer the Complaint within the time aforesaid, judgment by default will be rendered against you for relief demanded in the Complaint.

NOTICE

NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that the original Complaint in this action was filed in the office of the Clerk of Court for Charleston County on March 11, 2024. NOTICE OF PENDENCY OF ACTION

Attorneys for Plaintiff 5991

STATE OF SOUTH CAROLINA COUNTY OF CHARLESTON IN THE COURT OF COMMON PLEAS

C/A No.: 2024-CP-10-00515

Carrington Mortgage Services, LLC, Plaintiff, vs. Wilhelmenia Perlote, LaQuanda Perlote, Rosalee Perlote, Northpointe Community Association, Defendant(s).

SUMMONS AND NOTICES (Non-Jury) FORECLOSURE OF REAL ESTATE MORTGAGE

TO THE DEFENDANT(S) ABOVE NAMED:

YOU ARE HEREBY SUMMONED and required to appear and defend by answering the Complaint in this action, a copy of which is hereby served upon you, and to serve a copy of your Answer on the subscribers at their offices at 339 Heyward Street, 2nd Floor, Columbia, SC 29201, within thirty (30) days after the service hereof, exclusive of the day of such service; except that the United States of America, if named, shall have sixty (60) days to answer after the service hereof, exclusive of the day of such service; and if you fail to do so, judgment by default will be rendered against you for the relief demanded in the Complaint.

NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN THAT an action has been commenced and is now pending or is about to be commenced in the Circuit Court upon the complaint of the above named Plaintiff against the above named Defendant for the purpose of foreclosing a certain mortgage of real estate heretofore given by Willie Simmons, Jr. to US Bank Trust National Association, Not In Its Individual Capacity But Solely As Owner Trustee For VRMTG Asset Trust bearing date of October 16, 2008 and recorded January 14, 2009 in Mortgage Book 0029 at Page 767 in the Register of Mesne Conveyances/ Register of Deeds/Clerk of Court for Charleston County, in the original principal sum of Two Hundred Thirteen Thousand Five Hundred and 00/100 Dollars ($213,500.00). Thereafter, by assignment recorded February 19, 2014 in Book 389 at Page 249, the mortgage was assigned to U.S. Bank National Association; thereafter, by assignment recorded December 11, 2018 in Book 765 at Page 444, the mortgage was assigned to Specialized Loan Servicing LLC; thereafter, by assignment recorded July 20, 2021 in Book 1015 at Page 500, the Mortgage was assigned to the Plaintiff., and that the premises effected by said mortgage and by the foreclosure thereof are situated in the County of Charleston, State of South Carolina, and is described as follows: All that certain lot, piece or parcel of land situate, lying and being in St. James-Santee Parish,

THE BANK OF NEW YORK MELLON FKA THE BANK OF NEW YORK AS TRUSTEE FOR THE BENEFIT OF THE CERTIFICATE HOLDERS OF THE CWALT, INC., ALTERNATIVE LOAN TRUST 2004-8CB, MORTGAGE PASS THROUGH CERTIFICATES, SERIES 2004-8CB Plaintiff, vs. Myra . Salemie a/k/a Myra Jane Salemie, Defendant(s).

SUMMONS AND NOTICES (Non-Jury) FORECLOSURE OF REAL ESTATE MORTGAGE

TO THE DEFENDANT(S) ABOVE

NAMED: YOU ARE HEREBY SUMMONED and required to appear and defend by answering the Complaint in this action, a copy of which is hereby served upon you, and to serve a copy of your Answer on the subscribers at their offices at 339 Heyward Street, 2nd Floor, Columbia, SC 29201, within thirty (30) days after the service hereof, exclusive of the day of such service; except that the United States of America, if named, shall have sixty (60) days to answer after the service hereof, exclusive of the day of such service; and if you fail to do so, judgment by default will be rendered against you for the relief demanded in the Complaint. YOU

WILL ALSO TAKE NOTICE that Plaintiff will move for an Order of Reference or the Court may issue a general Order of Reference of this action to a Master-in-Equity/ Special Referee, pursuant to Rule 53 of the South Carolina Rules of Civil Procedure.

ACRES, MORE OR LESS, KNOWN AND DESIGNATED AS “LOT H,” ON A PLAT THEREOF ENTITLED, “A SUBDIVISION OF LOTS F, G AND H FROM THE LANDS OF EUGENE C. WASHINGTON...”

DATED APRIL 19, 2002, REVISED

APRIL 29, 2002, PREPARED BY ROBERT L. FRANK, R.L.S., AND RECORDED IN THE RMC OFFICE FOR CHARLESTON COUNTY IN PLAT BOOK DD AT PAGE 273. THIS BEING THE SAME PROPERTY CONVEYED TO ALBERT TRUESDALE FROM EUGENE C. WASHINGTON, HEREIN BY DEED DATED JUNE 20, 2002 AND RECORDED JUNE 30, 2002 THE OFFICE OF REGISTER OF DEEDS FOR CHARLESTON COUNTY IN BOOK M412 AT PAGE 223.

CURRENT ADDRESS OF PROPERTY: 5795 Melvin Washington Drive Ravenel, SC 29470 Parcel No. 228-00-00-128

It appearing to the satisfaction of the Court, upon reading the Motion for the Appointment of Kelley Y. Woody, Esquire as Guardian ad Litem for all unknown persons and persons who may be in the military service of the United States of America (which are constituted as a class designated as “John Doe”) and any unknown minors and persons who may be under a disability (which are constituted as a class designated as “Richard Roe”), it is ORDERED that, pursuant to Rule 17, SCRCP, Kelley Y. Woody, Esquire is appointed Guardian ad Litem on behalf of all unknown persons and persons who may be in the military service of the United States of America (constituted as a class and designated as “John Doe”), all unknown minors or persons under a disability (constituted as a class and designated as “Richard Roe”), all of which have or may claim to have some interest in the property that is the subject of this action, commonly known as 1124 Sallie Manigault Lane, McClellanville, SC 29458, that Kelley Y. Woody, Esquire is empowered and directed to appear on behalf of and represent all unknown persons and persons who may be in the military service of the United States of America, constituted as a class and designated as “John Doe”, all unknown minors and persons under a disability, constituted as a class and designated as “Richard Roe”, unless the Defendants, or someone acting on their behalf, shall, within thirty (30) days

YOU WILL ALSO TAKE NOTICE that Plaintiff will move for an Order of Reference or the Court may issue a general Order of Reference of this action to a Master-inEquity/Special Referee, pursuant to Rule 53 of the South Carolina Rules of Civil Procedure.

TO MINOR(S) OVER FOURTEEN YEARS OF AGE, AND/OR TO MINOR(S) UNDER FOURTEEN YEARS OF AGE AND THE PERSON WITH WHOM THE MINOR(S) RESIDES, AND/OR TO PERSONS UNDER SOME LEGAL DISABILITY:

YOU ARE FURTHER SUMMONED AND NOTIFIED to apply for the appointment of a guardian ad litem within thirty (30) days after the service of this Summons and Notice upon you.

If you fail to do so, application for such appointment will be made by Attorney for the Plaintiff.

NOTICE OF FILING OF COMPLAINT

TO THE DEFENDANTS ABOVE NAMED:

YOU WILL PLEASE TAKE NOTICE that the original Complaint, Lis Pendens, and Certificate of Exemption from ADR in the above entitled action was filed in the Office of the Clerk of Court for Charleston County on January 30, 2024.

J. Martin Page, Esq. (SC Bar: 100200)

D. Max Sims, Esq. (SC Bar: 103945)

Bell Carrington Price & Gregg, LLC

339 Heyward Street, 2nd Floor Columbia, SC 29201

Phone (803) 509-5078

BCP No.: 24-40112 5942 Courtroom

TO MINOR(S) OVER FOURTEEN YEARS OF AGE, AND/OR TO MINOR(S) UNDER FOURTEEN YEARS OF AGE AND THE PERSON WITH WHOM THE MINOR(S) RESIDES, AND/OR TO PERSONS UNDER SOME LEGAL

DISABILITY:

YOU ARE FURTHER SUMMONED AND NOTIFIED to apply for the appointment of a guardian ad litem within thirty (30) days after the service of this Summons and Notice upon you.

If you fail to do so, application for such appointment will be made by Attorney for the Plaintiff. NOTICE OF FILING OF COMPLAINT TO THE DEFENDANTS ABOVE NAMED: YOU WILL PLEASE TAKE NOTICE that the original Complaint, Lis Pendens, and Certificate of Exemption from ADR in the above entitled action was filed in the Office of the Clerk of Court for Charleston County on January 19, 2024.

J. Martin Page, Esq.

(SC Bar: 100200)

D. Max Sims, Esq.

(SC Bar: 103945)

Bell Carrington Price & Gregg, LLC

339 Heyward Street, 2nd Floor Columbia, SC 29201

Phone (803) 509-5078

BCP No.: 24-40227 5943

No personal or deficiency judgment being demanded, the bidding will not remain open after the date of sale, but compliance with bid may be made immediately. The property shall be sold for cash to the highest bidder. The highest bidder, other than the Plaintiff, will be required to deposit with the Master, at the conclusion of the bidding, cash or certified check in the amount of five (5%) per cent of the bid: the said deposit to be applied to the purchase price. Should the highest bidder fail to comply with the bid within thirty days from the date of sale, the Master will resell the property at the risk and expense of the defaulting bidder upon the same terms as above set out. The Sheriff of Charleston County may be authorized to put the purchaser into possession of the premises if requested by the purchaser.

PLAINTIFF’S ATTORNEY

J. Martin Page, Esquire Telephone: 803-509-5078

File # 23-55361

FOR INSERTION

Mikell R. Scarborough Master in Equity 5886

STATE OF SOUTH CAROLINA COUNTY OF CHARLESTON IN THE COURT OF COMMON PLEAS NINTH JUDICIAL CIRCUIT CASE#: 2021-CP-10-02617

ROBERT J. SEIGLER TRUST (ROBERT J. SEIGLER, TRUSTEE), Plaintiff, v. PETER LAURIE AND CINDY FLOYD; NARINE RAMLOGAN AND CARMEL RAMLOGAN; SIMMONS CREEK-JOHNS ISLAND, LLC; FREDERICK HOPE TIMMS, ANTONIO D. NELSON, SR., HAROLD W. NELSON, JR, MARK NELSON, SR., AMBER JOI NELSON, LARRY NELSON, CHERYL D. NELSON, EPHRIAM BUTLER, GEORGE MINUS, JAMES NELSON a/k/a JAMES E. NELSON, JOSHUA BUTLER, KALEB BUTLER, KAVONNA BUTLER, KHALYA BUTLER, LATONYA MINUS, OTIS ALFRED FREEMAN, SHERONDA MINUS, SOLOMON BUTLER, VERNETTE NELSON BROWN, AARON A. LEGARE, BENZINA FLUDD WASHINGTON, BONITA LEGARE, CARL BROWN, CHARLES LEGARE, CLARA FLUDD, DARCELLA LEGARE, EUGENE LEGARE, JR., GEORGETTA LEGARE, HEZKIAH B. FLUDD, JEROME FLUDD, LINCOLN LE GARE, III, LOUISE

LEGARE WELLS, MARVEL LE GARE, MARY LOUISE LEGARE HARRIS, METTIE CHAPMAN, MICHAEL FLUDD, NATALIE FRANKLIN, NATHANIEL LEGARE, NICOLE CHAPMAN, PHLLIS DOWDELL, QUEEN ESTER HOLT, ROSALYN DAVIS a/k/a ROSALYN GARRETT, RUBIN LEGARE, RUTH RICE, SEQUOIA CAMPBELL, SHERINA WILBURN, VERMELL DOCTOR, YVONNE LEGARE, ZORELL HEYWARD FLUDD, JOSEPH LEE RICHARDSON if they be alive, JOHN DOE, AND JANE DOE, whose true names are unknown and fictitious names designating the unknown heirs, devisees, distributees, issue, executors, administrators, successors, or assigns of the above named Defendants, if they or any of them be dead; and of EDWARD NELSON, FRED NELSON, FRED NELSON, JR., FRED NELSON III, HAROLD W. NELSON, SR., JAMES S. NELSON, JUNITA LINDA RICHARDSON a/k/a JUANITA NELSON RICHARDSON a/k/a JUANITA LINDA RICHARDSON a/k/a LINDA MINUS RICHARDSON, KAREN NELSON BUTLER, NAOMI LOTTIE FREEMAN NELSON, ROBERT LOWRY, LOUISE COLES LOWRY LEGARE, EDWARD LEGARE, SR., BERNARD FLUDD, MOZELLE FLUDD WILBURN, ROBERT LEGARE, EUGENE S. LEGARE, DAISY BELL WILSON LEGARE, EDWARD LEGARE, JR., MARIE LEGARE, CATHALEEN LEGARE CHAPMAN, LINCOLN LEGARE a/k/a LINCOLN PAUL LE GARE, ASALEE LEGARE, GILBERT LEGARE, CLEMENT LEGARE, SR., CLEMENT LEGARE, JR., CATHERINE LEGARE a/k/a INEZ LEGARE DUKES, WILHELMINA LEGARE a/k/a VIOLA LEGARE, all deceased; and MARY ROE AND RICHARD ROE, whose true names are unknown and fictitious names designating infants, persons under disability, incompetents, imprisoned, or those persons in the military, if any; and also all other persons, known or whose true names are unknown, claiming any right, title, interest in, or lien upon the real estate described in the Fourth Amended Complaint herein, Defendants.

FOURTH AMENDED SUMMONS (Declaratory Judgement) (Non-Jury)

TO THE ABOVE-NAMED DEFENDANTS SIMMONS CREEKJOHNS ISLAND LLC and all of Nelson family heirs: YOU ARE HEREBY SUMMONED and required to answer the Fourth Amended Cross-Claim herein, a copy of which is herewith served upon you, and to serve a copy of your answer to this complaint on the subscriber, at the address shown below, within thirty (30) days after service hereof if service upon you was in person and thirtyfive (35) days after service hereof if service upon you was by U.S. Mail, exclusive of the day of such service; and if you fail to answer the Fourth Amended Complaint within the time aforesaid, or otherwise appear and defend, the Plaintiff in this action will apply to the Court for the relief demanded therein and judgment by default will be rendered against you for the relief demanded in the Fourth Amended Complaint. In addition, your answer should be filed with the court within five (5) days after service thereof.

TO MINOR(S) OVER FOURTEEN YEARS OF AGE, AND/OR TO MINOR(S) UNDER FOURTEEN YEARS OF AGE AND THE PERSON WITH WHOM THE MINOR(S) RESIDES, AND/OR TO PERSONS UNDER SOME LEGAL DISABILITY: YOU ARE FURTHER SUMMONED AND NOTIFIED to apply for the appointment of a guardian ad litem within thirty (30) days after the service of this Fourth Amended Summons and Notice upon you. If you fail to do so, application for such appointment will be made by the Plaintiff

immediately and separately and such application will be deemed absolute and total in the absence of your application for such an appointment within thirty (30) days after the service of the Fourth Amended Summons and Fourth Amended Cross Complaint upon you.

January 16, 2024 Charleston, SC

FIFTH AMENDED SUMMONS (Declaratory Judgment) (Non-Jury)

TO THE ABOVE-NAMED DEFENDANTS SIMMONS

CREEK-JOHNS ISLAND LLC by their attorneys: Ainsley Fisher Tillman and Ian S. Ford, To NELSON FAMILY MEMBERS: LARRY NELSON, by his attorneys Kenneth Allen Davis and Charles J. Boykin: other NELSON family members: ANTONIO

D. NELSON, SR., HAROLD W. NELSON, JR, MARK NELSON, SR., AMBER JOI NELSON, CHERYL

D. NELSON, EPHRIAM BUTLER, GEORGE MINUS, JAMES NELSON a/k/a JAMES E. NELSON, JOSHUA BUTLER, KALEB BUTLER, ICAVONNA BUTLER, KHALYA BUTLER, LATONYA MINUS, OTIS ALFRED FREEMAN, SHERONDA MINUS, SOLOMON BUTLER, VERNETTE NELSON BROWN and JOSEPH LEE RICHARDSON. In addition, any deceased NELSON family members: EDWARD NELSON, FRED NELSON, FRED NELSON, JR., FRED NELSON III, HAROLD W. NELSON, SR., JAMES S. NELSON, JUNITA LINDA RICHARDSON A/K/A JUANITA NELSON RICHARDSON, KAREN NELSON BUTLER, NAOMI LOITIE FREEMAN NELSON or any unknown heirs by court appointed attorneys: Charles Mac Gibson Jr and Lana Marie Jamrosyk representing for RICHARD ROE, MARY ROE, JANE DOE, AND JOHN DOE. YOU ARE HEREBY SUMMONED and required to answer the Fourth Amended Cross-Claim herein, a copy of which is herewith served upon you, and to serve a copy of your answer to this complaint on the subscriber, at the address shown below, within thirty (30) days after service hereof if service upon you was in person and thirtyfive (35) days after service hereof if service upon you was by U.S. Mail, exclusive of the day of such service; and if you fail to answer the Fourth Amended Complaint within the time aforesaid, or otherwise appear and defend, the Plaintiff in this action will apply to the Court for the relief demanded therein and judgment by default will be rendered against you for the relief demanded in the Fourth Amended Complaint. In addition, your answer should be filed with the court within five (5) days after service thereof.

TO MINOR(S) OVER FOURTEEN YEARS OF AGE,

ARE HEREBY SUMMONED and required to answer the Complaint in the above entitled action, copy of which is herewith served upon you, and to serve copy of your answer upon the undersigned at their offices, 2712 Middleburg Drive, Suite 200, P.O. Box 2065, Columbia, South Carolina 29202, within thirty (30) days after service hereof upon you, exclusive of the day of such service, and if you fail to answer the Complaint within the time aforesaid, the Plaintiff in this action will apply to the Court for the relief demanded in the Complaint, and judgment by default will be rendered against you for the relief demanded in the Complaint.

YOU WILL ALSO TAKE NOTICE that should you fail to Answer the foregoing Summons, the Plaintiff will move for a general Order of Reference of this cause to the Master in Equity for Charleston County, which Order shall, pursuant to Rule 53(e) of the South Carolina Rules of Civil Procedure, specifically provide that the said Master in Equity is authorized and empowered to enter a final judgment in this cause.

TO MINOR(S) OVER FOURTEEN YEARS OF AGE AND/OR MINOR(S) UNDER FOURTEEN YEARS OF AGE AND THE PERSON WITH WHOM THE MINOR(S) RESIDES AND/OR TO PERSONS UNDER SOME LEGAL DISABILITY:

YOU ARE FURTHER SUMMONED AND NOTIFIED to apply for the appointment of a Guardian Ad Litem to represent said minor(s) within thirty (30) days after the service of this Summons and Notice upon you.

If you fail to do so, application for such appointment will be made by the Plaintiff(s) herein.

NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that the original Complaint in the above entitled action was filed in the office of the Clerk of Court for Charleston County on February 23, 2024.

SCOTT AND CORLEY, P.A. By: /s/Angelia J. Grant

Ronald C. Scott (rons@scottandcorley.com), SC Bar #4996

for the appointment of a guardian ad litem within thirty (30) days after the service of this Fifth Amended Summons and Notice upon you. If you fail to do so, application for such appointment will be made by the Plaintiff immediately and separately and such application will be deemed absolute and total in the absence of your application for such an appointment within thirty (30) days after the service of the Fifth Amended Summons and Fourth Amended Cross Complaint upon you. Vaughan Law Firm, PA

Reginald P. Corley (reggiec@scottandcorley.com), SC Bar #69453

Angelia J. Grant (angig@scottandcorley.com), SC Bar #78334

Allison E. Heffernan (allisonh@scottandcorley.com), SC Bar #68530

H. Guyton Murrell (guytonm@scottandcorley.com), SC Bar #64134

Jordan D. Beumer (jordanb@scottandcorley.com), SC Bar #104074

ATTORNEYS FOR THE PLAINTIFF 2712 Middleburg Drive, Suite 200 Columbia, SC 29204

803-252-3340