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Falling Behind, Looking Ahead Educators see achievement gap widening, hope for brighter days

Hard numbers detailing how South Carolina students and teachers dealt with the switch to distance learning this semester have been scarce, but now that the first full semester during the pandemic is winding down, nationwide figures are trickling in.

They don’t look good.

A McKinsey and Co. study released Dec. 8 estimates the transition to remote learning set students back months. Those losses are compounded by racial and ethnic disparities.

According to the nationwide study, white students were set back by one to three months in mathematics. Students of color lost three to five months.

“The common denominator that I see locally is that a lot of online students are from parents who have a distrust of the school system for a variety of reasons,” said Jody Stallings, director of the Charleston Teacher Alliance. “They have a STALLINGS lot of skepticism about school, and that spills over to the student, influencing motivation and comprehension. That’s the gap you see widening now.”

The achievement gap is not a new concept.

Martin Luther King Jr. tackled the issue in 1967 by shining a light on the differences.

“Negroes lag one to three years behind

whites, and their segregated schools receive substantially less money per student than do the white schools,” he said.

A September report from the center-left Brookings Institution discussed the demographics of students who opted to learn online this year, a group that has been overwhelmingly Black or Latinx.

“This finding is not surprising for a number of reasons,” Brookings researchers wrote. “COVID-19 has been most prevalent in cities. Second, districts in cities and suburbs have schools with more students, making it more difficult to organize socially distanced in-person learning. Third, policymakers in cities are more Democratic, which likely makes them more likely to favor coronavirus caution than Republicans in rural areas and towns.”

According to the report, two-thirds of students of color live in districts that opted for remote-only learning.

Paired with the difficulties faced by learning from home, the achievement gap has only widened further since the onset of the pandemic, educators say. Hybrid in-person/ online classes were touted as the best-ofboth-worlds option, but advocates say it

has really only highlighted the differences between the two approaches.

“The best way I can describe it is, ‘You have to eat a salad and a bowl of soup at the same time, but you can only pick one implement to do it,’” Stallings said. “ ‘Do you pick a fork, or do you pick a spoon?’

“Most teachers are teaching hybrid as if it’s an in-person class, and that leaves the online kids trying to eat soup with a fork,” he continued. “Some teachers are better at designing sporks, for lack of a better word, but there’s just no model for doing this right now. We certainly haven’t seen one locally.”

These challenges have led to political leaders, educators and parents across the nation to butt heads over a solution. Many are crying for a full return to in-person classes, such as South Carolina Gov. Henry McMaster. Others believe teachers and students simply need more time to adjust.

“It’s dirty, and it’s messy, and it’s complicated,” said Trever Etminan, Ashley Ridge High School teacher who works with SC for Ed, a statewide education advocacy group. “If we just give it time, we could ETMINAN have something that’s really incredible here. We could be onto a new style of education that’s just world-class and unparalleled.”

The move to distance learning has also

changed the ability for educators to address challenges posed by classroom disparities during a normal school year.

“Before, it seemed as though we were addressing the gap with brick-and-mortar interventions,” Etminan said. “But, I think a lot of those solutions we have used in the past have really only ever put a gauze pad or a Band-Aid over a massively huge issue.”

Remote teaching does pose some issues, but Etminan also sees the challenges as an opportunity.

“I have to figure out how to adapt my instruction, or what I can do in the building to bring that student back,” he said.

And, that could change the way education professionals approach teaching once the pandemic is in the rear-view window.

“This will serve as a catalyst to inject some absolutely essential relevance back into the curriculum,” Etminan said.

Others aren’t as optimistic.

“I hate to be cynical, but I think the good that might come out of this is that we realize once and for all that online learning … we can’t do it very well,” Stallings said.

“We’ve seen a push trying to bring more of it to our schools, but this is showing people that’s not working.”

Pandemic or none, Stallings knows good teachers are going to do what works best for their students, regardless of where they’re sitting.

“It depends on how good a spork we build,” he said.

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“Charleston County lost about 10,800 acres of tree cover since 1992.”

—Equivalent to the combined geographic area of the Charleston peninsula and Daniel Island, the loss of trees has also played a role in the low-lying city’s susceptibility to stormwater and sea level rise. Source: The Post and Courier

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GRIFFIN REMOVED FROM RACE AND EQUITY COMMISSION AFTER APOLOGY OVER RALLY INVOLVEMENT

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Charleston City Councilman Harry Griffin was removed from a city committee charged with eradicating institutional racism after he issued an apology over involvement with a Dec. 5 rally attended by the Proud Boys, a nationwide hate group.

After initial discussions with organizers, Griffin has said he withdrew his participation before the event and did not attend.

In a joint announcement on Dec. 11, Councilmen William Dudley Gregorie and Jason Sakran, who cochair the city’s Commission GRIFFIN on Equity, Inclusion and Racial Conciliation, did not mention the rally specifically. The decision to remove Griffin, they said, was made to ensure the group “is able to complete its work without further distractions.”

“The Commission was formed with the task of eliminating institutionalized racism and achieving racial equity throughout the City of Charleston, and we look forward to continuing those critically important efforts,” Gregorie and Sakran said.

Griffin did not answer requests for comment.

Mayor John Tecklenburg called the action to remove Griffin “a good decision” in a Dec. 11 phone call.

“I think it’s important for the work of that commission to be clear, or not distracted, by statements that Councilmember Griffin has made,” Tecklenburg told the City Paper.

On Dec. 8, Sakran told the City Paper he was “disappointed” that Griffin had even a “loose relationship” with the event’s organizers.

The move came two days after Griffin publicly apologized for committing to speak at the event downtown, organized by representatives of the Facebook pages The Overton Report and Contemporary Conservative.

Initially billed as a tea party rally, organizers later praised the attendance of the Proud Boys, a designated hate group that has been involved with violent clashes during protests elsewhere in recent years. In his apology letter, Griffin explained he initially supported the organizers’ anti-tax sentiment, but that he pulled out of the event beforehand after learning more about it and disavowed support for the Proud Boys.

Police said no incidents were reported at the rally, which started at the U.S. Custom House and moved to city hall.

Meanwhile, an online petition calling for Griffin’s resignation has received more than 5,500 signatures. —Sam Spence

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CHARLESTON CRUISE SHIP CRITICS JOIN ‘RETHINK’ CAMPAIGN HEADING INTO 2021

Charleston cruise ship critics announced they were joining forces with the Global Cruise Activist Network’s “Rethink Cruise Tourism” campaign last week. Most cruise lines remain halted, but a vaccine on the horizon could signal an end to the industry’s months-long shutdown.

Residents who make up Charleston’s Communities for Cruise Control insist that things must be different once the pandemic is put behind us.

The campaign hopes to bring about change to the social, economic and environmental aspects of a responsible cruise industry before restarting the cruise ships sector after its pandemic pause.

“Cruise ships are proven to spread COVID-19,” said Carrie Agnew, executive director for Charleston Communities for Cruise Control.

“They are responsible for spreading this disease and remain a threat to public health and safety. It is not safe to resume cruising during a global pandemic and any future infectious disease outbreaks.”

The announcement comes as the idle cruise industry works through initial phases of a federal Centers for Disease Control plan aimed at safely resuming cruises from the U.S. At this

point, CDC says the risk of spreading the disease on cruise ships would still be “very high.”

Carnival Cruise Lines is the main cruise operator from downtown dock near the eastern end of Market Street.

Currently, Carnival’s Charleston operations have been suspended through at least Feb. 28, 2021. Ports of call are also halted indefinitely, according to South Carolina Ports Authority.

The Global Cruise Activist Network released two videos, “RethinkBeforeRebook” and “RethinkBeforeReinfect,” as part of the campaign, along with a series of graphics and fact sheets to prove a vision of what the new normal of the cruise industry could be.

The graphics promote a rethinking of the way the system works, each one targeting a different part of the network.

The network also published “Principles for Responsible Cruise Tourism” in September, providing a roadmap for a transition to the socially and environmentally responsible future GCAN members are looking toward. It addresses a range of concerns, including labor, climate change, pollution, public health and more. —Skyler Baldwin

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S.C. REGULATORS FLEX MUSCLE, REJECT DOMINION GROWTH PLAN

South Carolina’s Public Service Commission (PSC) sent Dominion Energy back to the drawing board last week in what is being interpreted as a new spirit of oversight.

Under the 2019 Energy Freedom Act, the state’s electric utilities were required to make a three-year Integrated Resource Plan (IRP) for managing future growth and to explore adopting sources of renewable energy and solar expansion.

The PSC, whose seven members have been appointed in the last two years, unanimously rejected the plan. The move requires the utility to make significant modifications to its draft plan, remodel the cost of its proposed plans and expand the availability of solar and renewable energy, among other things.

For at least one environmentalist, the order was a bold move for a new PSC. “This shows that we have a Dominion that’s doing things the same old status-quo way that they’ve been doing for the last decade,” said John Tynan of Conservation Voters of South Carolina. “And, we have a new Public Service Commission that’s not OK with the status quo.”

For the utility, the PSC decision was a setback they promised to overcome.

“Dominion Energy diligently strived to satisfy all requirements set forth in the new law and to address other parties’ comments during this proceeding in order to provide the most cost-effective, safe and reliable path to a sustainable energy future for our customers,” said spokesperson Rhonda O’Banion.

“We will thoroughly review the Public Service Commission’s final order on the IRP and make necessary revisions in a timely manner.”

The Dominion plan’s lack of renewable energy sources was the focus of a three-day PSC hearing in mid-October. The intricate aspects and issues of Dominion’s proposed IRP were thoroughly hashed out between utility officials and attorneys for several environmental groups.

In the IRP’s opening summary, Dominion claimed to be receptive to expanding clean energy, saying it “intends to utilize more power generated from clean energy sources.”

While state law requires a plan, it was clear during testimony, the IRP didn’t promise much.

PSC Commissioner Tom Ervin of Greenville grew frustrated during the October hearing when talk turned to updating the IRP. “You’re already staring at a potential update of a plan that really is not a plan” he said. “How can you update something that’s really not in place yet?”

“Dominion is essentially asking this commission to approve a ‘do-nothing’ plan” Sierra Club attorney Dorothy Jaffe said during the hearing. —Rodney Welch

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While searching a suspect’s vehicle for illegal substances, officers asked the driver if they would find anything other than marijuana, to which, according to the report, he excitedly replied, “A little cocaine and weed.” Calm down, man, they aren’t buying.

A downtown woman watched a guy on a bicycle ride up to her front porch and steal her Amazon package before riding away.

Joke’s on him, the package only contained hard candy, ballpoint pens, Altoids, Band-Aids and a portable DVD player. Wait … what?

Our favorite downtown lingerie store caught a break this week, as only $690 worth of perfume was shoplifted. This time, however, store employees said they got a good look at the thief and thought he was probably the same suspect from past thefts.

Another red string on the board, dirtbag.

A two-page report detailing a theft from a woman’s downtown home involved a number of colorful folks, including a mother with an aggressively French surname and a crab lady (a lady who delivers crab).

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Officers pulled over a driver after watching him aggressively changing lanes with a tag registered to a different vehicle. Inside the car, they found marijuana and a handgun, but let the guy off with a warning.

Spoiler alert: The driver was a white guy.

A West Ashley man said that he left his moped behind his place of business and came outside later to find it laying in the middle of the street, no longer able to start. These would-be thieves really need to start learning how to ride mopeds and bikes if they’re going to be successful in this city.

A student in a West Ashley middle school reportedly stole a can of pepper spray from a classmate’s bag and sprayed it in the bathroom because he “was curious of how it looked.” For you other curious cats out there, we’ll just tell you now: It’s orange.

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ive days before the Proud Boys showed up at a Dec. 5 protest in front of city hall, Charleston was named one of America’s friendliest cities.

Unfortunately, monikers like this may as well be a quiet rallying cry for the Lost Cause: another year to pat ourselves on the back and go on whistlin’ “Dixie.”

Members of Charleston City Council last week were forced to reckon with how one of its members, Harry Griffin, was buddy-buddy with Proud Boys sympathizers. It turns out, he doesn’t seem to care too much for his colleagues either. Or at least that’s what it sounded like based on what Griffin apparently told protest organizers who recruited him with primitive populist talking points.

The city has taken some steps in the right direction. But after an election season spiked with inflammatory racial rhetoric, nobody should be too surprised that hate found a home among the members of Charleston City Council.

We should be disappointed with how its members reacted timidly to Griffin’s coziness with these hateful groups.

Until the Emanuel AME Church massacre, Charleston leaders often found it difficult to acknowledge issues of race and injustice. In many ways they still do. It simply has not been required of them. Charleston was a boom town.

Tourism counts went up, along with home prices. The glossy magazine accolades kept coming. “Look away!”

Now with the face of one of its own plastered on the poster for a Proud Boys rally, too many Charleston leaders stayed quiet. Even those who were the most critical — City Councilmembers Jason Sakran and Carol Jackson — initially

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only mustered a tentative scolding with the mayor and most of council silent.

The Proud Boys is a recognized hate group, but its leaders claim it is not racist. Those claims belie the scenes of violence we saw just this past weekend at pro-Trump rallies in Washington, D.C., as Proud Boys reportedly targeted Black Lives Matter signs.

Is it too much to ask our leaders to unequivocally condemn their colleagues’ involvement with allies of such hate-filled violence?

What message does their silence send to the Charleston residents who could be the Proud Boys’ victims?

Every elected official at city hall should heed the words of school district engagement officer Crystal Rouse during last week’s meeting of the city’s Commission on Equity, Inclusion and Racial Conciliation, attended by Griffin along with the mayor, Jackson and Councilmembers William Dudley Gregorie and Marie Delcioppo: “When you’re doing equity work, it’s not a place for comfort. It’s a place for the real work and to tackle it head-on.”

We must remain friendly and welcoming. But it’s time to put aside friendliness for the sake of comity.

It’s time to stand up, Charleston. It’s time to move forward and do the real, hard work of conciliation.

Get to work.

PUBLISHER Andy Brack

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Good Reminder Beasley sets great SC example for world to see

“Waking up in this wealthy, modern, technologically advanced world, it’s hard to imagine us going through a famine like that,” Beasley said during a Thursday ceremony in Rome. “But, my tragic duty today is to tell you: Famine is at humanity’s doorstep. For millions and millions of people on earth. Failure to prevent famine in our day will destroy so many lives and cause the fall of much we hold dear.”

Beasley, 63, served as South Carolina’s governor from 1995 to 1999. Eighteen years later, after a business career mixed with missionary work, he became the executive director of the WFP, the world’s largest humanitarian agency. It helps 100 million people in 88 countries battle hunger every year.

In the past, we’ve described Beasley as the Palmetto State’s version of Jimmy Carter for serving as a leader making a larger difference on the world stage after years in public office.

“All of the darkness of the world can’t put out the smile on a face,” Beasley told us in 2017 just months

after taking the job that jets him from hunger-sapped countries to European capitals in search of funding to help more people. “This job brings humanity down to the core level. When you see a hungry person, you don’t see a Democrat or a Republican, a Black or white. You see a brother or sister who is struggling to survive. That transcends politics. All you want to do is help them.”

On Thursday, Beasley reinforced the WFP’s humanitarian mission by representing 19,000 people who work to alleviate hunger across the world.

“Thank you for acknowledging our work of using food to combat hunger, to mitigate against destabilization of nations, to prevent mass migration, to end conflict and … to create stability and peace,” he said in Rome. “We believe food is the pathway to peace.”

Unfortunately, there’s much more work in the business he and his colleagues are in. Some 600 million people go to bed hungry every night, he said. Of those, 270 million are “marching toward starvation”

and 30 million — more than everyone who lives in Texas — depend on the U.N. program for 100 percent of their survival.

In his acceptance speech, Beasley recalled the words of Martin Luther King Jr., who won the Nobel Peace Prize in 1964.

“Like Dr. King, from a very young age, I learned this teaching from Jesus of Nazareth, as he taught from the Torah: ‘Love your neighbor as yourself,’ ” Beasley said. “I have come to understand that a better translation of what Jesus actually said was ‘Love your neighbor as your equal.’ Think for a moment what that really means.

“Imagine every woman, man, girl and boy we share this planet with is our equal and if we would just love them as such. Imagine what that would do to war, to conflict, to racism, to division and to discrimination of every kind.”

Thank you, governor, for reminding us about the fragility of humanity around the world during this season of giving. Keep up the great work.

Andy Brack is publisher of Charleston City Paper. Have a comment? Send to: feedback@charlestoncitypaper.com.

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All South Carolinians should be proud of the display of leadership and the example set by former Gov. David Beasley when he accepted the Nobel Peace Prize on behalf of the United Nations World Food Programme.

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Charleston’s most interesting park project is about to get underway

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he Lowcountry Lowline will spur different opportunities, depending on who you ask. Some see a safe way to move people through downtown; or a critical piece of stormwater infrastructure; even a way to repair urban neighborhoods ripped in two by Interstate 26.

“It’s aspirational. And, a little ambitious,” Charleston Mayor John Tecklenburg told the City Paper before City Council was slated to sign off on the Lowline’s conceptual master plan on Tuesday.

Plans for the Lowline stretch a linear park two miles from Marion Square to Mount Pleasant Street along a historic, long-abandoned railroad line. Organizers envision the space as one commuters can use to get to work and where residents can unwind at the end of the day.

Work will begin on Charleston’s most interesting park project in the coming months. Fully built, its impact could be transformative.

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The Lowline is the latest attempt to build a park in the cavernous corridor underneath I-26. In 1976, the newly elected Mayor Joseph P. Riley built the I-26 Linear Park. Today, equipment in the Vivian Anderson Moultrie Playground sits mostly unused as trucks rumble above. A homemade skatepark grows in fits and starts.

Footpaths worn into the dirt show a lightly traveled passageway running parallel to King and Meeting streets, but bear little resemblance to the busy north-south roadways that shuttle people in and out of the city.

Where I-26 plowed across the peninsula as part of 1960s-era “urban renewal” that displaced thousands of Black families across the country, the Lowline hopes to reconnect the community.

Lowline life Starting from its southern terminus in Marion Square, the Lowline will snake through alleyways and promenades,

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transforming dramatically as it winds to downtown’s northern reaches.

Plans describe three distinct progressions for the park:

• Dense urban pathways woven between restaurants and

hotels will provide opportunities for pedestrian-oriented businesses a block off of the slam-packed sidewalks of upper King Street’s still-expanding business district.

• Wide-open natural spaces expand as the park moves north beneath the Ravenel Bridge overpasses, providing space for events and gatherings. Renderings show elevated walkways laced over newly renourished marshland at the head of Newmarket Creek. Purpose-built features will be designed to retain stormwater runoff in heavy storms.

• Alongside the North Central neighborhood, the Lowline settles into the wide space under I-26 and the adjacent abandoned railroad line. Organizers say the northern stretches will be an ideal place for markets, community events and leisure. Peeking onto Mount Pleasant Street, the Lowline will connect to a transportation hub serviced by CARTA and the forthcoming Lowcountry Rapid Transit line, slated to eventually provide express service to Summerville.

“I think it will be pretty free flowing.

Especially in the more northern sections of it,” said Tom Bradford, executive director of Friends of the Lowcountry Lowline, the nonprofit group spearheading the park’s construction.

“I see a place where people can come meet one another, mix and take advantage of the community in ways that are really sort of not available at this level yet in the BRADFORD city of Charleston,” Bradford said.

“It represents another quality of life asset to the community that will extend beyond just folks on the peninsula,” said

THE LOWLINE WILL TRANSFORM AN ABANDONED RAILWAY INTO AN EXPANSIVE PARK THAT ALSO ALLEVIATES DOWNTOWN STORMWATER ISSUES

Barney Blakeney, a reporter for The Charleston Chronicle who is on the Lowline board. “The residents will decide what this thing will look like, ultimately.”

Also folded into plans for the Lowline are millions of dollars to handle sudden stormwater surges downtown. Large portions of the project will be designed to retain water in heavy rains, creating temporary impoundments for surface runoff.

City planners working with Friends of the Lowline foresee early progress where investment is already taking shape.

BLAKENEY “It’s based on a couple things: availability of funding and applicability of funding, where things are already starting to happen and where things will likely happen — leveraging pending investment,” said Allen Davis, director of Charleston’s Civic Design Center.

Initially, that means areas between Spring and Line streets will likely be where some of the initial new stretches of the Lowline will be constructed, with some builders taking on improvements themselves, according to Davis.

Photo illustrations courtesy The Friends of the Lowcountry Lowline

Starting early next year, Bradford said his group will work with the city to secure preliminary funding to continue development.

Friends of the Lowline will have to take the wheel as plans take shape to reduce workload on city staff, Davis said.

“One of the biggest challenges is going to be figuring out how to create a public-private partnership that relies on the Friends of the Lowline to grow into a project delivery and maintenance entity, similar to the [Charleston] Parks DAVIS Conservancy model,” Davis said.

Early estimates put the cost of the project around $36.5 million, with roughly a third dedicated to stormwater infrastructure. Some funding will come from city tax-increment financing, with the rest coming from grants, donations and deals with developers as part of the build-out. A big to-do list item, Bradford said, is developing piecemeal revenue sources along the parkway to keep the Lowline self-sustaining.

Tecklenburg called the master plan a good starting point, but knows the finances will be tough heading into a year with an $18 million shortfall from the coronavirus pandemic.

“Putting together the funding sources to make that happen, will be a little bit of a challenge,” he said. “Like trying to eat the elephant, we’re gonna have to do it a bite at a time.”

to benefit from the latest “quality of life asset” to spring up as development moves in.

“I’d really like to hear people talk about minority business development … as it relates to the Lowline,” Blakeney said.

“This thing is going to happen,” Blakeney said. “What part are [Black people] going to play in this reality?”

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Blakeney remembers walking to school under I-26 as a teenager, growing up a block away on Sans Souci Street.

“Even on the hottest days in the summer, beneath that overpass was always one of the coolest spots in the city,” Blakeney said.

Since then, he’s watched the area change, with demographics shifting in the once-majority-Black neighborhood.

Even Bradford acknowledges the project’s potential to gentrify nearby neighborhoods as property values nudge longtime residents to take the money and run.

So, how can the city and Friends of the Lowline mitigate potential negative impacts of a pretty new urban park in neighborhoods long impacted by haphazard urban renewal?

“Simply put, provide more affordable housing,” Tecklenburg said.

The city is currently in the planning stages of one project to build 55-70 affordable apartments alongside the Lowline.

Elsewhere, high-end private complexes will be required to provide a handful of additional units. But, those efforts will likely still fall short of what’s said to be needed. The Charleston Metro Chamber of Commerce estimated in 2019 that more than 7,000 new housing units will be required each year in a good economy, with roughly half needing to be below market rate.

Bradford said the Friends of the Lowline is also undertaking a community history project in an effort to incorporate the nearby neighborhoods into the park.

Blakeney does not think the Lowline will have any added negative impact on the neighborhood that it would not otherwise feel. That does not mean it’s too late for Black residents

Mobility advocates see the Lowline as a critical way to expand Charleston’s transportation options.

“I think the more actual infrastructure you have in place, that that dedicates or acknowledges space for people to walk and bike or take the bus, I think that it’s a visual reminder for everybody that there are these other modes of transportation that need to be respected and need to be protected,” said Katie Zimmerman, executive director of Charleston Moves.

The route also provides safe passage down the length of the peninsula.

Now, Zimmerman said, a ride from the Hampton Park Terrace neighborhood to Marion Square has the potential to be “panic-inducing.”

With a connection to CARTA at the planned Mount Pleasant Street transit hub, Lowcountry Rapid Transit strategist Daniel Brock said the Lowline could be ZIMMERMAN key for park-and-ride commuters.

“I think what this does is start to create an entire network of transportation alternatives on the peninsula, where you’re looking at public transit in various modes,” Brock said. “And then, you’ve got a world-class [bicycle and pedestrian] facility running down the center of the peninsula.”

Bradford has high hopes for a barebones Lowline to be in use within the next three years, “if not completely polished,” with improvements to come along the way as funding permits.

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Christmas Double Feature Drive In Tradesmen Brewing Company is hosting a Christmas Double Feature with back-to-back classics The Polar Express and Elf. Santa will be visiting from the North Pole along with friends from the local Fire Department, and local food trucks. During the film, visitors can take the opportunity to get in some last-minute holiday shopping with local vendors. All proceeds go directly to Charleston’s Habitat for Humanity.

Dec. 18. 4 p.m. $60/per car, up to 6 passengers. Tradesmen Brewing Company. 1647 King Street Ext. North Charleston. tradesmanbrewing.com S TA R T S T H U R S D AY

Grand Illumination Dinner Take a trip through time to Christmas 1782 with actors in period dress celebrating Arthur Middleton from Philadelphia, the end of the Revolutionary War in the South and the departure of British troops from Charleston.

Feast on early American cuisine with a chef-and-attendant served buffet.

Dec. 17-Dec. 19. 6-8 p.m. $25-69, pending menu selection. Middleton Place. 4300 Ashley River Road. West Ashley. middletonplace.org S AT U R D AY

Reindeer Walk & Children’s Holiday Fest Begin a reindeer walk in the Conservatory where you’ll find your first reindeer, and then, head out into the gardens in search of the rest of Santa’s runaway reindeer. Each one will have a fun activity waiting for guests. Finally, finish up in the Holiday Village with Santa and enjoy festivities galore, like candy cane stilt walkers, juggling elves, balloon twisting and more.

Dec. 19. 11 a.m.-3 p.m. Free with general admission; $20/adult, $10/child, free under 5. Magnolia Plantation and Gardens. 3550 Ashley River Road.

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Holiday Pops!

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Yuriy Claus and the Charleston Symphony Orchestra elves are hard at work preparing the merriest Holiday Pops performance yet hosted by the Gaillard Center. All your favorites, like “Sleigh Ride,” “Rudolph the RedNosed Reindeer” and some surprise special guests can be expected.

Dec. 18, 7:30-9 p.m.; Dec. 19, 12-1:30 p.m. and 7:30-9 p.m. $25-114 pending ticket selection. Gaillard Center. 95 Calhoun Street. Downtown. charlestonsymphony.org

Mex 1 Cantina is hosting back-to-back Ugly Sweater/Christmas-themed trivia Thursday. Grab your crew and come dressed for a chance to win some sweet prizes. Then, get ready for a fun holiday-themed trivia covering your favorite movies from A Christmas Story and Elf to Die Hard. Just don’t forget to grab a glass of tequila while you’re there.

Dec. 17. 7 p.m. Free to attend. Mex 1 Coastal Cantina. 2205 Middle Street.

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DOUGLAS STREATER PLAYS LOUIS ARMSTRONG, MILES DAVIS AND DAVID GLASER

One-Man Band Douglas Streater embodies two jazz icons in Satchmo at the Waldorf

BY MIKE SCHOEFFEL Satchmo at the Waldorf Dec. 17 - Jan. 2 Streaming on-demand $15 PURE Theatre puretheatre.org

Douglas Streater thought of Louis Armstrong for years the way most Americans think of him: a jazz legend and the singer of “What a Wonderful World.” But after Streater agreed to play the role of Armstrong in PURE Theatre’s production of Satchmo at the Waldorf, his understanding of the American musical icon deepened.

“He brought [jazz] to the forefront,” Streater said. “His development with jazz parallels the development of America, and those changes reflected the sign of the times.”

Directed by PURE co-founder Sharon Graci, Satchmo at the Waldorf is the 10th one-man show in the theater’s history.

Streater not only portrays Armstrong, but also his manager, David Glaser, and his musical contemporary, Miles Davis. Streater’s acting background is extensive — he’s appeared on both the Lifetime network and IFC — but this is his first time tackling a solo show. “It’s a little tougher,” he said. “Because you have to be the one that brings all of the energy.”

“But, no play is really by yourself,” he added. “It’s always a collective of people coming together.”

Graci, too, finds one-person plays to be uniquely rewarding. “[They] create an inti-

mate connection not only between the audience and the performer, but also the director and performer,” she said.

Satchmo at the Waldorf was originally written by Terry Teachout. It’s set in Amstrong’s room at the Waldorf Astoria Hotel in New York, and follows an aging Satchmo as he reminisces about his uncommon life.

As Graci points out, Armstrong broke new ground in numerous ways. He was the first Black musician to have a radio show, the first to play in a mixed band in the South, the first to have a top billing in a movie and the first to refuse to play anywhere he couldn’t also book a room. “His saying was, ‘If you can’t stay, don’t play,’” Graci said.

Indeed, Satchmo at the Waldorf addresses a wide range of themes, from racial injustice to artistic authenticity to mortality. And, Streater will be doing it all on stage by himself for the first time in his career.

“Everything you do in life, you do on your own,” he said. “There’s a trepidation when we have to do things by ourselves. But you grew up in the womb alone. You work alone, even when you’re part of a collective. The challenge is to eliminate the negativity about being isolated. You have to remember that you have people to fall back on and experiences to pull from.”

Portraying a fictional character is one thing, but attempting to embody the spirit of a significant historical figure — particularly one that transcended racial and generational

barriers — is a more complex undertaking.

To prepare, Streater conducted hours of research. “There were sleepless nights,” he said. “The challenge is a mental one: Am I going to do this character justice? Will I represent Armstrong in a way that lives up to who he was and what he did?”

For Graci, who watched Streater transform in front of her eyes, the answer is yes.

“It’s been amazing to watch Douglas embody Armstrong a little more with every rehearsal,” she said. “The conversations about Louis, his loving perspective on life and his steadfast adherence to amplifying what’s beautiful about the world, were exactly what we all needed in the rehearsal room.”

Armstrong was undoubtedly a pioneer for his race and his music, but his story also has contemporary importance — especially during a moment in American history when the Black community continues to strive for equity. Streater mentioned something that his beloved mentor, Joy Vandervort-Cobb, told him about the Black experience in America: “It’s been one bad contract after another.” There’s a way to “break down those walls, to overcome those bad contracts, to still be successful,” even if the cards are stacked against you, as Streater put it.

“We’re currently facing a lot of things [in this country] we’ve never faced before, but also some things we know well,” he said. “Louis is an inspiration because he showed that it’s possible not only to survive, but to thrive.”

SPOLETO FAVORITE ‘FLYING LOVERS OF VITEBSK’ NOW ONLINE FOR STREAMING

The Flying Lovers of Vitebsk, Kneehigh Theatre’s popular 2018 Spoleto Festival play, is available for on-demand streaming through Dec. 18. Tickets are available online and allow ticket-holders to rent the performance for three days.

The play, written by Emma Rice, tells the story of Jewish modernist painter Marc Chagall and Bella Rosenfeld, his muse and a regular subject of his paintings.

The Flying Lovers of Vitebsk follows their romance during the Russian Revolution in the early 20th century.

Mary Scott Hardaway, in a review for the City Paper, said the Flying Lovers isn’t a traditional biographical piece, despite the historical background.

“This is a whole new world, one in which we are privy to the intimate space between two bright young people, tripping over and falling into love and loneliness and failure and fear,” she wrote.

This new performance of the play features the same special effects, but was recorded in the United Kingdom earlier this month. —HE

For daily updates from Charleston’s art world, check out the Arts+Movies section at charlestoncitypaper.com.

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Landing Contemporary Art will present a new online exhibit from now through Jan. 31 titled Traces of Being. The exhibit will comprise the work of photographers Nicki Klepper, Kyra Schmidt and Julia Wilson.

Traces of Being is composed of 27 works that explore memory, gender and technology’s impact on culture.

Schmidt and Klepper have found success in lumen prints that reflect on nature, and in Schmidt’s case, utilize images from the women’s suffrage movement.

Wilson is known for often eschewing the subject of an image for its materiality. All three obtained master’s degrees in photography from the Savannah College of Art and Design.

The online exhibition can be viewed at Landing Contemporary Art’s website, landingcontemporaryart.com. ­— Heath Ellison

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This is a staple of the holiday season in my family. Based on the beloved children’s book series Eloise at the Plaza, the film follows 6-year-old Eloise’s reckless journey to play cupid for her favorite hotel server and his childhood sweetheart who just returned home with a sleazy new guy. There is so much festive goodness packed into this movie between all of Eloise’s antics. You have Julie Andrews who plays the nanny belting Christmas carols into a tube of wrapping paper, all the glitz and glamour of Christmastime at the Courtesy ABC Plaza and Broadway star Gavin ELOISE AT CHRISTMASTIME IS CHOCKCreel stealing hearts with his FULL OF HOLIDAY SINGING AND DANCING piano and singing skills around every corner. It is so much fun, and I can’t imagine the holiday season without watching this one at least twice.

Emmet Otter’s Jug Band Christmas

This television special was created by the Jim Henson Company one year before they embarked on the classic hit The Muppet Movie. Based on the children’s book by Russell Hoban, this movie follows young Emmet Otter, a poor otter from the small Frogtown Hollow. He and his Ma are struggling to make ends meet before the holidays, and a cash prize at the town talent show offers a chance to grant each other a perfect Christmas present. This holiday special also includes a bunch of fun and catchy songs by the great Paul Williams of “Rainbow Connection” fame.

Jim Henson really started to experiment with different methods of puppeteering in this, and it paved the way for everything The Henson Company did after that. If you’re

a fan of The Muppet Christmas Carol, you’ll definitely want to watch this one.

Pee-wee’s Playhouse Christmas Special

Fans of weirdness and camp rejoice. Paul Reuben’s kooky character’s 1988 Christmas special is available on Netflix.

This is my personal favorite of all celebrity Christmas specials out there because it is so unapologetically Pee-wee.

Annette Funicello and Frankie Avalon act as Pee-wee’s personal Christmas assistants, Grace Jones is mailed to the Playhouse, Little Richard gets an ice skating lesson and so many more celebrities appear. Some of the guests flourish in Pee-wee’s wacky environment, and some stick out like a sore thumb, which only adds to the fun of it all. If you’re a fan of the original Pee-wee’s Playhouse or you’re just in need of some good old fashioned ’80s nostalgia, this one is definitely for you.

Call Me Claus

Call Me Claus may be the most underrated of all on this list.

Anytime I bring this up, it’s rare that anyone has heard of it.

Whoopi Goldberg stars as a grouchy TV shopping network executive who doesn’t believe in Santa Claus. Turns out, Santa Claus needs to stop the end of the world, and only Whoopi can help. He ends up auditioning to be the Santa for a Christmas shopping show to get into her good graces and things progress from there. This movie has a ridiculous script that only Whoopi Goldberg could add heart and spirit to, and it makes for a whirlwind adventure for the whole family.

Love Actually

What if you don’t have any kids running around your house, but you’re still desperate for some holiday entertainment?

Love Actually is the answer. Not enough people give this movie credit for being a great Christmas movie. It centers around a swath of different love stories that begin to intertwine, but it adds in festive cheer because it all takes place in the weeks leading up to Christmas. While it definitely is a good Christmas movie, it doesn’t beat you over the head with holiday cheer. It focuses more on all the different aspects of the blossoming (and crumbling) relationships as the holiday season blares on in the background. It’s a holiday film for those who are tired of hearing about Rudolph and Santa Claus.

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Vegan Demon co-owners and music festival fanatics Jordan Lied and Alexandra Lesley had trouble finding plant-based bites at concerts, a problem their new pop-up will help solve by serving 100% vegan fare that will satisfy even the most devout meat-lover.

“Our business model is more or less catered towards carnivores,” Lied said. “It’s a middle ground for people intrigued by veganism who want popular foods that you think you can’t enjoy anymore. We thought that there would be a great demand for it.”

The Charleston natives went vegan in 2017 shortly after moving to Florida, where they quickly fell in love with the vegan eateries in their Sarasota neighborhood. But, the couple came back to Charleston earlier this year with a new idea — one built around the food served at music festivals, Lied said.

“We’re big music festival fans, and we noticed a pretty big gap in the market at festivals for plant-based food,” said Lied, who was shocked at the lack of vegan options in his hometown. “We were really excited to be pioneers getting this culture developed in the city, and we wanted to collaborate with breweries. We have a nice list that we are putting together.”

But, how can you turn fried festival favorites into plant-based dishes? According to Lied, it’s simple.

“The technology we have today and the availability of local produce — it’s really a market that’s exploding right now,” he said.

“We have burgers, cheesesteaks, quick and

Spring Street restaurant Wild Common will donate a portion of the proceeds from its new “12 Days of Christmas” cocktail menu to the National MS Society, honoring executive chef Orlando Pagan’s fight with multiple sclerosis. The festive spin-off from the restaurant’s regular cocktail menu will pair with Pagan’s elevated winter tasting menu, which features dishes like seared diver scallops with autumn squash curry and slow roasted beef tenderloin with foie gras and chestnut pain perdu.

Pagan was diagnosed with the debilitating disease that affects the central nervous system in 2011 while he was working at Spruce in San Francisco. The chef is open about his battle with the disease and stays engaged in the MS community, helping others who have recently been diagnosed.

This is the second year Wild Common has put on the 12 Days of Christmas cocktail menu, and this year’s offering is broken into two categories: “naughty” and “nice.”

The naughty side features boozy beverages like the “Caroler’s Courage version 2.0,” a whiskey and vermouth drink with marshmallow bitters. The nice list is filled with classic Christmas cocktails like mulled wine, eggnog and a mint chocolate martini.

For more information on Wild Common’s 12 Days of Christmas cocktail menu, visit wildcommoncharleston.com. —Parker Milner

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fast fried foods and fried Oreos. Everything is 100% plant-based, and we want to focus on gluten-free options in the future.”

Vegan Demon’s burger, for instance, combines Impossible Foods’ plant-based patty with Bibb lettuce, tomato, dill pickle chips and Follow Your Heart American vegan cheese. It’s topped with their signature “demon sauce,” a riff on spicy mayonnaise that’s made using vegenaise mayo, melted vegan butter, tomato paste, maple syrup, garlic powder, paprika, sriracha and distilled water.

For dessert, Vegan Demon goes all in on the festival spirit with its made-from-

scratch fried Oreos, which are coated in an egg-free pancake batter and fried in vegetable oil.

Vegan Demon launched in March, and its recently popped up at Fatty’s Beer Works, Lo-Fi Brewing, Ghost Monkey Brewery and The Barrel. Moving forward, post-COVID-19, Lied and Lesley hope to purchase a truck so they make good on their vision of feeding the masses.

“We definitely still want to do a tour of the Southeastern music festivals, and the idea is to not only do music festivals but broaden that out too,” Lied said. “I just think the room for growth is huge in this market.”

A restaurant serving tacos, fried chicken and burgers is now open for limited indoor and outdoor dining on President Street in downtown’s Westside neighborhood.

Bodega Todo, a mashup of Semilla, Street Bird Westside and Charleston Burger Co. — all owned by brother and sister duo Macready Downer and Jill Schenzel — offers patrons the chance to place contactfree orders from each of the three concepts in one place.

From Semilla, patrons can order burritos, rice bowls and tacos, including the renowned brussels sprouts taco. Fans of Street Bird Westside will be able to choose from seven different fried chicken sandwiches, and Charleston Burger Co. will offer several fully loaded burgers, salads and fries. All orders can be placed at a self-service kiosk that helps limit contact between restaurant staff and diners.

Bodega Todo is now open for lunch and dinner daily from 11 a.m.-8:30 p.m., with limited indoor and outdoor seating available.

The Semilla and Street Bird food trucks will continue to roam the Lowcountry, and all three concepts will still be available on delivery services like Grubhub, Schenzel said.

For more information, follow @bodegatodo on Instagram. —PM

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IGNACIO CARRILLO LAUNCHED HIS IMPORT AND WHOLESALE COMPANY IN JUNE 2019

Country, Culture, Wine Cardel Wines brings bottles from family-owned Spanish wineries to local retail shops and restaurants

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Cardel Wines is a local importing and wholesaling company born out of a love for the familyowned Spanish wineries owner Ignacio Carrillo visited before launching the Charleston-based company that’s supplying restaurants and retail shops with curated bottles.

“Some of the wines we bring might only make 300 bottles,” Carrillo said. “A lot of these wineries, the only place you’re going to find them in the United States is in Charleston.”

Cardel Wines’ bottles are so rare because the wineries producing them aren’t on social media or actively marketing their products — some don’t even have a website. So how did Carrillo find them?

“In 2015, I was sent to Spain for an assignment, and I took my wife with me,” said Carrillo, a mechanical engineer. “During this time, we spent every weekend traveling around all the historic regions around Spain.

We encountered all of this food and wine that they had in each region, and we fell in love with the country, culture and their wine.”

Subsequent trips to Spain only increased this passion for family-owned “bodegas” that produce wines expressing the unique characteristics and flavors of their territories, Carrillo said.

“During one of those trips, I visited a winery in southern Spain, and one of the wines they gave me was something I had never tasted before,” he said. “That sparked my idea to get into the wine business.”

Initially, Carrillo wanted to solely import

the wines, but he couldn’t find a wholesaler to carry his products, leading him to also open a wholesale business.

“It was a hassle getting all the licenses because I was trying to do everything myself,” he said. But after 15 months, Carrillo began selling his Spanish wines to Charleston restaurants and retail shops in June 2019.

Building a customer base was difficult — small wholesalers like Cardel Wines struggle to compete with bigger companies that get volume pricing for large orders, Carrillo said.

“Any cost that I have to add, I have to find ways to cut that cost so I can offer my wines at a price that can compete with them,” he said. “It’s just hard to get new customers, especially with COVID.” Cardel Wines currently sells to Dashi, Park Cafe, Accent on Wine and Wine & Company, among others. So far, his local customers have been impressed with the product offering, which will soon expand to include select Mexican wines and ciders.

“The wines that Ignacio has chosen have a limited number of bottles produced and can only be found in South Carolina since he is a direct importer and distributor,” said Dashi general manager Paul Brylinski. “Not only are they great prices, but the wines are all small family wineries in Spain that genuinely care about the product. We love working with Cardel.”

For more information, visit cardelwines.com.

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Reverse Mortgage Funding LLC, PLAINTIFF, VERSUS Jason C. Kangeter, individually; The United States of America acting by and through its agency The Department of Housing and Urban Development; Jason C. Kangeter, as Personal Representative of the Estate of James L. Griffin; Pamela F. Kangeter; DEFENDANTS. Upon authority of a Decree dated the 20th day of March, 2020, I will offer for sale to the highest bidder for cash, at public auction, the premises fully described below, at the Front Entrance of CHARLESTON COUNTY CHAMBERS, 4045 Bridge View Drive, North Charleston, South Carolina on the 5th day of January, 2021 at 11:00 AM or shortly thereafter.

ALL THAT LOT, PIECE OR PARCEL OF LAND, TOGETHER WITH THE BUILDINGS AND IMPROVEMENTS THEREON, SITUATE, LYING AND BEING ON JAMES ISLAND, CHARLESTON COUNTY, SOUTH CAROLINA, BEING THE LOT DESIGNATED AS LOT NO. 59 ON A PLAT ENTITLED, “PART 4 OF LOCKWOOD HALL, JAMES ISLAND, CHARLESTON COUNTY, SOUTH CAROLINA”., DATED JULY,1966,

BY H. EXO CHARLESTON COUNTY, S.C. IN PLAT BOOK V, PAGE 5; SAID LOT HAVING SUCH SHAPE, BOUNDS, METES AND LOCATIONS AS ARE SET FORTH THEREON, TO WHICH REFERENCE IS HEREBY MADE FOR A FULLER DESCRIPTION. SUBJECT to assessments, Charleston Ad Valorem Taxes, any and all restrictions, easements, covenants and rightsof-way of record, and any other senior encumbrances.

This being the same property devised to James L. Griffin by deed of the Estate of Norma Faye S. Griffin, Case No. 1988ES1000939, dated June 28, 1990 and recorded December 19, 1990 and also by quit claim deed from Suesan S. Blevins dated February 15, 1996 and recorded February 27, 1996 in Deed Book U265 at page 030, also by quit claim deed from Donna L. Dudley dated February 15, 1996 and recorded February 27, 1996 in Deed Book U265 at page 065, also by quit claim deed from Jason C. Kangeter dated February 15, 1996 and recorded February 27, 1996 in Deed Book U265 at page 191, also by quit claim deed from James C. Kangeter, Jr dated February 15, 1996 and recorded February 27, 1996 in Deed Book U265 at page 195, also from quit claim deed from Molly A. Malinowsky dated February 15, 1996 and recorded February 27, 1996 in Deed book U265 at page 218 in the office of the Charleston County Register of Deeds. Subsequently, James L. Griffin died testate on July 23, 2019, leaving the subject property to his devisees namely, Jason C. Kangeter and Pamela F. Kangeter, as is more fully preserved in the probate records for Charleston County in Case No. 2019ES1001475.

TMS # 454-13-00-136 Case#: 2019CP1005973 Current Property Address: 812 Trafalgar St. Charleston, SC 29412 No personal or deficiency judgment being demanded, the bidding will not remain open after the date of sale, and 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, certified funds in the amount of five per cent (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 John J. Hearn (803) 744-4444 017108-00287 2019CP1005973 FOR INSERTION 12/2, 12/9 and 12/16 Mikell R. Scarborough Master in Equity

STATE OF SOUTH CAROLINA COUNTY OF CHARLESTON IN THE COURT OF COMMON PLEAS DOCKET NO. 2018CP1005656 U.S. Bank NA, successor trustee to Bank of America, NA, successor in interest to LaSalle Bank NA, as trustee, on behalf of the holders of the WaMu Mortgage Pass-Through Certificates, Series 2007-OA2, Plaintiff, v.

Jason C. Myers; Charles D. Myers, Jr.; Dove Run Phase I Horizontal Property Regime Homeowners Association, Inc.; First-Citizens Bank & Trust Company as successor by merger to First Citizens Bank and Trust Company, Inc., assignee of the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation as receiver for Atlantic Bank & Trust; Elizabeth Murray Austin Young; TD Bank, N.A.; First Citizens Bank and Trust Company, Inc.; Kathryn W. Colenda; South Carolina Department of Revenue; United States of America Acting by and through the Internal Revenue Service; Ruan Small Business Center, Inc.; Any unknown heirs or devisees of the Estate of Andrew W. Muller, including 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, by virtue of any interest claimed under the law of intestate succession (S.C. Code Section 62-2-109) or under decedent’s will; Defendant(s).

SUMMONS Deficiency Judgment Waived (011847-04493) TO THE DEFENDANT(S): Ruan Small Business Center, Inc. Any unknown heirs or devisees of the Estate of Andrew W. Muller, including 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, by virtue of any interest claimed under the law of intestate succession (S.C. Code Section 62-2-109) or under decedent’s will.

YOU ARE HEREBY SUMMONED and required to appear and defend by answering the Complaint in this foreclosure action on property located at 1408 Camp Road A, Charleston, SC 29412, being designated

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in the County tax records as TMS# 425 11 00 129, of which a copy is herewith served upon you, and to serve a copy of your Answer on the subscribers at their offices, 100 Executive Center Drive, Suite 201, Post Office Box 100200, Columbia, South Carolina, 29202-3200, 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.

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 within thirty (30) days after the service of this Summons upon you. If you fail to do so, Plaintiff will apply to have the appointment of the Guardian ad Litem Nisi, Ian C. Gohean, Willson, Jones, Carter & Baxley, PA, 325 Rocky Slope Road, Greenville, SC 29607, made absolute. s/Kevin T. Brown Rogers Townsend, LLC ATTORNEYS FOR PLAINTIFF Andrew W. Montgomery (SC Bar #79893), Andrew.Montgomery@rogerstownsend.com John J. Hearn (SC Bar # 6635), John.Hearn@rogerstownsend. com Kevin T. Brown (SC Bar # 064236), Kevin.Brown@ rogerstownsend.com Clark Dawson (SC Bar# 101714), Clark.Dawson@ rogerstownsend.com 100 Executive Center Drive Suite 210 Post Office Box 100200 (29202) Columbia, SC 29210 (803) 744-4444 Columbia, South Carolina NOTICE

CHARLESTON CITY PAPER 12.16.2020

TO THE DEFENDANTS: 1) Ruan Small Business Center, Inc., and 2) Any unknown heirs or devisees of the Estate of Andrew W. Muller, including 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, by virtue of any interest claimed under the law of intestate succession (S.C. Code Section 62-2-109) or under decedent’s will, YOU WILL PLEASE TAKE NOTICE that the Summons and Complaint, of which the foregoing is a copy of the Summons, were filed with the Clerk of Court for Charleston County, South Carolina on November 6, 2020.

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s/Kevin T. Brown Rogers Townsend, LLC ATTORNEYS FOR PLAINTIFF Andrew W. Montgomery (SC Bar #79893), Andrew.Montgomery@rogerstownsend.com John J. Hearn (SC Bar # 6635), John.Hearn@rogerstownsend. com Kevin T. Brown (SC Bar # 064236), Kevin.Brown@ rogerstownsend.com Clark Dawson (SC Bar# 101714), Clark.Dawson@ rogerstownsend.com 100 Executive Center Drive Suite 210 Post Office Box 100200 (29202) Columbia, SC 29210 (803) 744-4444 Columbia, South Carolina

NOTICE OF FORECLOSURE INTERVENTION PLEASE TAKE NOTICE THAT pursuant to the South Carolina Supreme Court Administrative Order 2011-05-02-01, you may have a right to Foreclosure Intervention.

To be considered for any available Foreclosure Intervention, you may communicate with and otherwise deal with the Plaintiff through its law firm, Rogers Townsend, LLC. Rogers Townsend, LLC represents the Plaintiff in this action.

Our law firm does not represent you. Under our ethical rules, we are prohibited from giving you any legal advice.

You must submit any requests for Foreclosure Intervention consideration within 30 days from the date you are served with this Notice. IF YOU FAIL, REFUSE, OR VOLUNTARILY ELECT NOT TO PARTICIPATE IN FORECLOSURE INTERVENTION, THE FORECLOSURE ACTION MAY PROCEED. s/Kevin T. Brown Rogers Townsend, LLC ATTORNEYS FOR PLAINTIFF Andrew W. Montgomery (SC Bar #79893), Andrew.Montgomery@rogerstownsend.com John J. Hearn (SC Bar # 6635), John.Hearn@rogerstownsend. com Kevin T. Brown (SC Bar # 064236), Kevin.Brown@ rogerstownsend.com Clark Dawson (SC Bar# 101714), Clark.Dawson@ rogerstownsend.com 100 Executive Center Drive Suite 210 Post Office Box 100200 (29202) Columbia, SC 29210 (803) 744-4444 Columbia, South Carolina STATE OF SOUTH CAROLINA COUNTY OF CHARLESTON IN THE COURT OF COMMON PLEAS DOCKET NO. 2018CP1005656 U.S. Bank NA, successor trustee to Bank of America, NA, successor in interest to LaSalle Bank NA, as trustee, on behalf of the holders of the WaMu Mortgage Pass-Through Certificates, Series 2007-OA2, Plaintiff, v.

Jason C. Myers; Charles D. Myers, Jr.; Dove Run Phase I Horizontal Property Regime Homeowners Association, Inc.; First-Citizens Bank & Trust Company as successor by merger to First Citizens Bank and Trust Company, Inc., assignee of the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation as receiver for Atlantic Bank & Trust; Elizabeth Murray Austin Young; TD Bank, N.A.; First Citizens Bank and Trust Company, Inc.; Kathryn W. Colenda; South Carolina Department of Revenue; United States of America Acting by and through the Internal Revenue Service; Ruan Small Business Center, Inc.; Any unknown heirs or devisees of the Estate of Andrew W. Muller, including 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, by virtue of any interest claimed under the law of intestate succession (S.C. Code Section 62-2-109) or under decedent’s will; Defendant(s).

ORDER APPOINTING GUARDIAN LITEM NISI Deficiency Judgement Waived (011847-04493) It appearing to the satisfaction of the Court, upon reading the Motion for the appointment of Ian C. Gohean as Guardian Ad Litem Nisi for any unknown minors and persons who may be under a disability, it is

ORDERED that, pursuant to Rule 17, SCRCP, Ian C. Gohean, be and hereby is appointed Guardian Ad Litem Nisi on behalf of all unknown minors and all unknown persons under a disability, all of whom may have or may claim to have some interest in or claim to the real property commonly known as 1408 Camp Road A, Charleston, SC 29412; that Ian C. Gohean is empowered and directed to appear on behalf of and represent said Defendant(s), unless the said Defendant(s), or someone on their behalf, shall within thirty (30) days after service of a copy hereof as directed, procure the appointment of a Guardian or Guardians Ad Litem for the said Defendant(s), and it is FURTHER ORDERED that a copy of this Order shall forthwith be served upon the said Defendant(s) Any unknown heirs or devisees of the Estate of Andrew W. Muller, including 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, by virtue of any interest claimed under the law of intestate succession (S.C. Code Section 62-2-109) or under decedent’s will, .by publication thereof in the Post and Courier, a newspaper of general circulation in the County of Charleston, State of South Carolina, once a week for three (3) consecutive weeks, together with the Summons in the above entitled action.

S/Mikell R. Scarborough 3062 Charleston, South Carolina 11/23/2020 STATE OF SOUTH CAROLINA COUNTY OF CHARLESTON IN THE COURT OF COMMON PLEAS DOCKET NO. 2018CP1005656 U.S. Bank NA, successor trustee to Bank of America, NA, successor in interest to LaSalle Bank NA, as trustee, on behalf of the holders of the WaMu Mortgage Pass-Through Certificates, Series 2007-OA2, Plaintiff, v.

Jason C. Myers; Charles D. Myers, Jr.; Dove Run Phase I Horizontal Property Regime Homeowners Association, Inc.; First-Citizens Bank & Trust Company as successor by merger to First Citizens Bank and Trust Company, Inc., assignee of the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation as receiver for Atlantic Bank & Trust; Elizabeth Murray Austin Young; TD Bank, N.A.; First Citizens Bank and Trust Company, Inc.; Kathryn W. Colenda; South Carolina Department of Revenue; United States of America Acting by and through the Internal Revenue Service; Ruan Small Business Center, Inc.; Any unknown heirs or devisees of the Estate of Andrew W. Muller, including 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, by virtue of any interest claimed under the law of intestate succession (S.C. Code Section 62-2-109) or under decedent’s will; Defendant(s).

FIRST AMENDED LIS PENDENS Deficiency Judgment Waived (011847-04493) NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN THAT an action has been or will be commenced in this Court upon complaint of the above-named Plaintiff against the above-named Defendant(s) for the foreclosure of a certain mortgage of real estate given

by Charles D. Myers, Jr. and Jason C. Myers to Washington

Mutual Bank, FA dated December 20, 2006, and recorded in the Office of the RMC/ROD for Charleston County on January 16, 2007, in Mortgage Book C612 at Page 221. This mortgage was assigned to JPMorgan Chase Bank, National Association by Assignment of Mortgage dated June 19, 2018 and recorded June 29, 2018 in Book 729 at Page 859 in the Charleston County Register of Deeds Office. This mortgage was further assigned to U.S. Bank NA, successor trustee to Bank of America, NA, successor in interest to LaSalle Bank NA, as trustee, on behalf of the holders of the WaMu Mortgage Pass-Through Certificates, Series 2007-OA2 by Assignment of Mortgage dated June 19, 2018 and recorded June 29, 2018 in Book 729 at Page 860 in the Charleston County Register of Deeds Office.

The premises covered and affected by the said mortgage and by the foreclosure thereof were, at the time of the making thereof and at the time of the filing of this notice, described as follows: CONDOMINIUM NO. 35 in the Dove Run Horizontal Property Regime, a Horizontal Property Regime established by Edgar A. Buck, Margaret B. Buck and S&C Partnership, pursuant to the South Carolina Horizontal Property Act, Section 27-31-10, et seq., 1976 Code of Laws of South Carolina, by Master Deed dated May 21, 1984, and recorded in the Charleston County ROD Office in Book F137, at Page 872, which apartment is shown on the Site Plan and/or physical survey of said Horizontal Property Regime prepared by E.M. Seabrook and recorded as an Exhibit to said Master Deed.

TOGETHER with an undivided interest in the common elements declared by said Master Deed to be an appurtenance conveyed hereby.

This being the same property conveyed to Charles D. Myers, Jr. and Jason C. Myers by deed of Geoff Edgell dated December 20, 2006 and recorded January 16, 2007 in Book A612 at Page 42 in the Charleston County Register of Deeds Office.

Property Address: 1408 Camp Road A Charleston, SC 29412 TMS# 425 11 00 129 s/Kevin T. Brown Rogers Townsend, LLC ATTORNEYS FOR PLAINTIFF Andrew W. Montgomery (SC Bar #79893), Andrew.Montgomery@rogerstownsend.com John J. Hearn (SC Bar # 6635), John.Hearn@rogerstownsend. com Kevin T. Brown (SC Bar # 064236), Kevin.Brown@ rogerstownsend.com Clark Dawson (SC Bar# 101714), Clark.Dawson@ rogerstownsend.com 100 Executive Center Drive Suite 210 Post Office Box 100200 (29202) Columbia, SC 29210 (803) 744-4444 Columbia, South Carolina 10/26/2020

Master’s Sale 2020-CP-10-00354 STATE OF SOUTH CAROLINA COUNTY OF CHARLESTON IN THE COURT OF COMMON PLEAS Deutsche Bank National Trust Company, as Indenture Trustee, for New Century Home Equity Loan Trust 2005-2, PLAINTIFF versus Rashawn L. Dawson aka Rashawn Lamon Dawson, Individually, and as Personal Representative of the Estate of Veronica Dawson; Sanquinette

Elmore; and any other Heirsat-Law or Devisees of Veronica Dawson, 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, City of North Charleston, Portfolio Recovery Associates, LLC assignee of Capital One Bank and World Group Mortgage, LLC, DEFENDANT(S).

Upon authority of a Decree dated the 19th day of November, 2020, 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 5th day of January, 2021, at 11:00 a.m. or shortly thereafter. All that certain piece, parcel, lot or tract of land with the buildings and improvements thereon, situate, lying and being in the County of Charleston, State of South Carolina, and being known and designated as Lot 277, Block “V,” Section Dorchester Terrace Subdivision, as shown on a plat of the Subdivision of Dorchester Terrace Sec #3, duly recorded in the Dorchester County RMC Office in Plat Book “F”, Page 119. Said parcel having such size, shape, metes, bounds, location and dimensions as shown on the aforesaid plat to which reference is made. Subject to any and all restrictions, covenants and easements of record. This is the same property conveyed unto Veronica Dawson by deed of Linda C. Peterson, Wendell F. Hamlin, and Michael F. Hamlin, dated September 16, 1997 and recorded September 17, 1997 in Deed Book A290 at page 157.

Thereafter, Veronica Dawson died intestate on October 24, 2017, leaving the subject property to her heirs at law or devisees, namely, Sanquinette Elmore and Rashawn L. Dawson, by Deed of Distribution dated February 16, 2019, and recorded February 25, 2019 in Deed Book 779 at Page 291 in the ROD Office for Charleston County, South Carolina. TMS No. 411-16-00-300 Property Address: 2622 Ferrara Drive, North Charleston, SC 29405 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. THIS SALE IS SUBJECT TO ASSESSMENTS, COUNTY TAXES, EXISTING EASEMENTS, EASEMENTS AND RESTRICTIONS OF RECORD, AND OTHER SENIOR ENCUMBRANCES. 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. The successful bidder will be required to pay for documentary stamps on the Deed and interest on the balance of the bid from the date of sale to the date of compliance with the bid at the rate of 3.2500%.

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.

Should the Plaintiff, or one of its representatives, fail to be present at the time of sale, the property is automatically withdrawn from said sale and sold at the next available sales day upon the terms and conditions as set forth in the Judgment of Foreclosure

and Sale or any Supplemental Order. 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 well before the foreclosure sale date. ATTENDEES MUST ABIDE BY SOCIAL DISTANCING GUIDELINES AND MAY BE REQUIRED TO WEAR A MASK OR OTHER FACIAL COVERING. Any person who violates said protocols is subject to dismissal at the discretion of the selling officer or other court officials.

PLAINTIFF’S ATTORNEY RILEY POPE & LANEY, LLC (803) 799-9993 FOR INSERTION December 16, 2020 December 23, 2020, December 30, 2020 Mikell R. Scarborough Master in Equity

STATE OF SOUTH CAROLINA COUNTY OF CHARLESTON IN THE COURT OF COMMON PLEAS FOR THE NINTH JUDICIAL CIRCUIT CASE NO.: 2020-CP-10-02037 Francis Key Scott, Jr., Plaintiff, v.

Francis Lee Scott, a deceased person, his heirs respective heirsat-law, 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: 0 John Smalls Road Johns Island, South Carolina Charleston County TMS # 318-00-00-055 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 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: 1721 Ashley River Road, 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 Plaintiffs 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 Masterin-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 May 1, 2020, the Order Appointing Guardian ad Litem was filed on May 6, 2020 and the Order of Publication was filed on May 26, 2020 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 Berkeley County, dated May 6, 2020 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 certain piece, part, parcel or lot of land with the buildings and improvements thereon, situate, lying and being off the West side of River Road, State Highway No. 91, on Johns Island, delineated as Lot “A” on a plat of J. O’Hear Sanders, Jr., Surveyor, dated November 10, 1975, titled “Subdivision of parcel of land on Johns Island, owned by the heirs of Simon Smalls”, which plat is being made a part hereof by reference as if the contents thereof were fully set forth herein.

TMS #: 318-00-00-055 s/Jeffrey T. Spell Jeffrey T. Spell 1721 Ashley River Road Charleston, South Carolina 29407 (843) 452-3553 Attorney for Plaintiff Date: October 12, 2020

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 ELSE THEREAFTER SUCH CLAIMS SHALL BE AND ARE FOREVER BARRED. ESTATE OF: BETTY R. KENNY 2020-ES-10-1815 DOD: 09/07/20 PERS. REP: GEORGE W. KENNY, JR. 324 SUMTER ST., CHARLESTON, SC 29403 ATTY: EDUARDO K. CURRY, ESQ. PO BOX 42270 CHARLESTON, SC 29423 ************* ESTATE OF: BARBARA COLVARD IRONS 2020-ES-10-1878 DOD: 10/08/20 PERS. REP: JAMES E. IRONS 2011 HWY 17 NORTH, #2100 MT. PLEASANT, SC 29466

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 ELSE THEREAFTER SUCH CLAIMS SHALL BE AND ARE FOREVER BARRED. ESTATE OF: JANE MONICA FLOYD 2020-ES-10-1710 DOD: 09/30/20 PERS. REP: GENO DAHL KOLLAR 747 BRANT RD. CHARLESTON, SC 29414 ************* ESTATE OF: MARION WEST SPILLMAN 2020-ES-10-1800 DOD: 10/15/20 PERS. REP: DOROTHY ILDERTON SPILLMAN 6 BATTLESEA RD. CHARLESTON, SC 29401 ************ ESTATE OF: MARION L. MORTON 2020-ES-10-1822 DOD: 09/09/20 PERS. REP: LAEVATA NELSON 2609 WYE LN. NO. CHARLESTON, SC 29405 ATTY: ARTHUR C. MCFARLAND, ESQ. 1847 ASHLEY RIVER RD., #200 CHARLESTON, SC 29407 *********** ESTATE OF: DIANNE T. GAINEY 2020-ES-10-1829 DOD: 10/12/20 PERS. REP: WANDA MICHELE G. FARTHING 2616 MONA AVE. CHARLESTON, SC 29414 ATTY: JOSEPH F. RUNEY, ESQ. 14 EXCHANGE ST. CHARLESTON, SC 29401 ************ ESTATE OF: MICHAEL HUNTER SISTARE 2020-ES-10-1836 DOD: 09/22/20 PERS. REP: RENAE STROBLE SISTARE 5736 GADSDEN ST. RAVENEL, SC 29470 ************ ESTATE OF: BESSIE ELLEN SPENCE 2020-ES-10-1837 DOD: 10/08/20 PERS. REP: JIMMY M. SPENCE 2021 CLIFTON ST. NO. CHARLESTON, SC 29406 ************ ESTATE OF: FRANCES ELIZABETH GALLAWAY MICHAEL 2020-ES-10-1841 DOD: 09/09/20 PERS. REP: DONALD EDWARD MICHAEL 7620 MEADOW RD. DALLAS, TX 75230

STATE OF SOUTH CAROLINA COUNTY OF CHARLESTON IN THE FAMILY COURT FOR THE NINTH JUDICIAL CIRCUIT DOCKET NO. 2020-DR- 10-2774 SOUTH CAROLINA DEPARTMENT OF SOCIAL SERVICES VERSUS Jane Doe and John Doe DEFENDANTS. IN THE INTERESTS OF: MINOR CHILD BORN in 2020 TO DEFENDANT: Jane Doe and John Doe YOU ARE HEREBY SUMMONED and required to answer the Complaint in this action filed with the Clerk of Court for Charleston County on November 2, 2020. Upon proof of interest, a copy of the Complaint will be delivered to you upon request from the Charleston 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, Kenneth Murphy, II, Legal Department of the Charleston County Department of Social Services, 3366 Rivers Ave. N. 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,

STATE OF SOUTH CAROLINA COUNTY OF CHARLESTON IN THE FAMILY COURT FOR THE NINTH JUDICIAL CIRCUIT DOCKET NO. 2020-DR-10-2586 SOUTH CAROLINA DEPARTMENT OF SOCIAL SERVICES VERSUS William Harold and Suezanna Gasson DEFENDANTS. IN THE INTERESTS OF: MINOR CHILD BORN IN 2019 TO DEFENDANT: William Harold and Suezanna Gasson YOU ARE HEREBY SUMMONED and required to answer the Complaint in this action filed with the Clerk of Court for Charleston County on October 15, 2020. Upon proof of interest, a copy of the Complaint will be delivered to you upon request from the Charleston 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, Dawn Berry, Legal Department of the Charleston County Department of Social Services, 3366 Rivers Ave. N. 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. Dawn Berry, SC Bar # 101675, 3366 Rivers Ave. N. Charleston, SC 29405, 843-953-9625.

STATE OF SOUTH CAROLINA COUNTY OF CHARLESTON IN THE FAMILY COURT FOR THE NINTH JUDICIAL CIRCUIT DOCKET NO. 2020-DR-10-1026 SOUTH CAROLINA DEPARTMENT OF SOCIAL SERVICES VERSUS Latesha Watson, DEFENDANT. IN THE INTERESTS OF: MINOR CHILD BORN 2020.

TO DEFENDANT: Latesha Watson YOU ARE HEREBY SUMMONED and required to answer the Complaint in this action filed with the Clerk of Court for Charleston County on April 6,

2020. Upon proof of interest, a copy of the Complaint will be delivered to you upon request from the Charleston 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, Kenneth L Murphy II, Legal Department of the Charleston County Department of Social Services, 3366 Rivers Avenue, Charleston, S.C. 29405-5714 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. Kenneth L Murphy II, SC Bar # 101817, 3366 Rivers Avenue, Charleston, S.C. 29405, (843) 953-9625.

STATE OF SOUTH CAROLINA COUNTY OF CHARLESTON IN THE COURT OF COMMON PLEAS Civil Action No. 2020-CP-10-04347 ANGELICA LAVECCHIA, Plaintiff, vs.

MONTRELL CORTEZ JACKSON, Defendant.

SUMMONS JURY TRIAL DEMANDED TO THE DEFENDANT ABOVE NAMED: 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 to the said Complaint on the subscriber, William J. Horvath, Esquire, at his office at the address below, within thirty (30) days after the service hereof, exclusive of the day of such service.

YOU ARE HEREBY GIVEN NOTICE FURTHER that if you fail to appear and defend and fail to answer the Complaint as required by this Summons within thirty (30) days after the service hereof, exclusive of the day of service, judgment by default will be entered against you for the relief demanded in the Complaint.

TURNER PADGET GRAHAM & LANEY, PA s/William J. Horvath William J. Horvath (SC Bar # 102054) Post Office Box 22129 Charleston, South Carolina 29413 Direct: 843-579-8305 Fax: 843-577-1661 Whorvath@turnerpadget.com ATTORNEYS FOR PLAINTIFF Charleston , South Carolina October 2, 2020

STATE OF SOUTH CAROLINA COUNTY OF CHARLESTON IN THE FAMILY COURT NINTH JUDICIAL CIRCUIT CASE NO.: 2020-DR-10-510

NOTICE TO CURRENT AND FORMER CLIENTS OF DAVID PAUL TRAYWICK:

By Order of the S.C. Supreme Court, the law office of David Paul Traywick of Charleston, SC, has been closed. The S.C. Supreme Court appointed Peyre T. Lumpkin as Receiver to protect the interests of the clients of David Paul Traywick. Personnel from the Receiver’s Office are available to assist you in obtaining your file(s). Please contact the Receiver’s Office at 803-734-1186 to make arrangements to receive your file(s).

VALYNDA “LINDA” HAM, Plaintiff, vs.

MARY ELIZABETH HAM, BABY GIRL V, and BABY BOY D, Minors under the age of seven (7) years, Defendant.

SUMMONS TO AMENDED COMPLAINT TO THE DEFENDANTS MARY ELIZABETH HAM, AND BABY GIRL V AND BABY BOY D, MINORS UNDER THE AGE OF SEVEN (7) YEARS: YOU ARE HEREBY SUMMONED to answer the Amended Complaint herein, a copy of which is herewith served upon you, and to serve a copy of your Answer to said Amended Complaint upon the subscriber, Shannon Jones, Esquire, of the Shannon Jones Law Firm, LLC at her office at 3 State Street, Charleston, SC 29401, within thirty (30) days of the service hereof, exclusive of the day of such service.

YOU ARE HEREBY GIVEN NOTICE FURTHER that, if you do not appear or answer the Amended Complaint as required by this Summons within thirty (30) days after the service hereof, judgment by default may be rendered per the relief requested in the Amended Complaint.

SHANNON JONES LAW FIRM, LLC

NOTICE OF CORPORATE DISSOLUTION To persons with claims against South Carolina Sea Island Farm Co-Operative, which was administratively dissolved by the S.C. Secretary of State’s office on August 5, 2020.

Persons with claims against the co-operative must state the basis for such claim and mail it, along with any supporting documentation to: Mark V. Evans at 147 Wappoo Creek Drive, Suite 202, Charleston, SC 29412.

Any claim against the cooperative is barred by law unless a proceeding to enforce the claim is commenced within five years after the publication of this notice.

Shannon Jones, Esquire 3 State Street Charleston, SC 29401 Telephone: (843) 720-3100 Facsimile: (843) 720-5999 ATTORNEY FOR PLAINTIFF

December 2, 2020

December 2, 2020 Charleston, South Carolina

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And what’s that work? 1. To translate your recent discoveries into practical plans. 2. To channel your new-found freedom into strategies that will ensure freedom will last. 3. To infuse the details of daily life with the big visions you’ve harvested recently. What will you name your temporary god?

TAURUS (April 20-May 20): Author Virginia Woolf said that we don’t wholly experience the unique feelings that arise in any particular moment.

They take a while to completely settle in, unfold and expand. From her perspective, then, we rarely “have complete emotions about the present, only about the past.” With that as your starting point, Taurus, I invite you to take a journey through the last 11 months and thoroughly evolve all the emotions that weren’t entirely ripe when they originally appeared.

Now is an excellent time to deepen your experience of what has already happened; to fully bloom the seeds that have been planted.

GEMINI (May 21-June 20): “Wonder is a bulky emotion,” writes author Diane Ackerman. “When you let it fill your heart and mind, there isn’t room for anxiety, distress or anything else.” I’d love for you to use her observation as a prescription in 2021, Gemini. According to my understanding of the coming year’s astrological portents, you will have more natural access to wonder and amazement and awe than you’ve had in a long time. And, it would make me happy to see you rouse those primal emotions with vigor — so much so that you drive away at least some of the flabby emotions like anxiety, which are often more neurotic than real.

CANCER (June 21-July 22): I’ll use the words of Cancerian painter Frida Kahlo to tell you the kind of intimate ally you deserve. If for some inexplicable reason you have not enjoyed a relationship like this before now, I urge you to make 2021 the year that you finally do. And if you HAVE indeed been lucky in this regard, I bet you’ll be even luckier in 2021.

Here’s Frida: “You deserve a lover who wants you disheveled . . . who makes you feel safe . . . who wants to dance with you . . . who never gets tired of studying your expressions . . . who listens when you sing, who supports you when you feel shame and respects your freedom . . . who takes away the lies and brings you hope.”

LEO (July 23-Aug. 22): In 2019, singer Ariana Grande got Japanese characters tattooed on her palm. She believed them to be a translation of the English phrase “7 Rings,” which was the title of a song she had released. But knowledgeable observers later informed her that the tattoo’s real meaning was “small charcoal grill.” She arranged to have alterations made, but the new version was worse: “Japanese barbecue grill finger.” I offer you this story for two reasons, Leo. First, I applaud the creativity and innovative spirit that have been flowing through you. Second, I want to make sure that you keep them on the right track — that they continue to express what you want them to express. With proper planning and discernment, they will.

VIRGO (Aug. 23-Sept. 22): While sleeping, most of us have over a thousand dreams every year. Many are hard to remember and not worth remembering.

But a beloved few can be life-changers. They have the potential to trigger epiphanies that transform our destinies for the better. In my astrological opinion, you are now in a phase when such dreams are more likely than usual. That’s why I invite you to keep a recorder or a pen and notebook by your bed so as to capture them. For inspiration, read this testimony from Jasper Johns, whom some call America’s “foremost living artist”: “One night, I dreamed that I painted a large American flag, and the next morning I got up and I went out and bought the materials to begin it.” Painting flags ultimately became one of Johns’ specialties.

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LIBRA (Sept. 23-Oct. 22): I composed a prayer that’s in alignment with your current astrological omens. If it feels right, say it daily for the next 10 days. Here it is: “Dear Higher Self, Guardian Angel, and Future Me: Please show me how to find or create the key to the part of my own heart that’s locked up. Reveal the secret to dissolving any inhibitions that interfere with my ability to feel all I need to feel.

Make it possible for me to get brilliant insights into truths that will enable me to lift my intimate alliances to the next level.”

SCORPIO (Oct. 23-Nov. 21): Author Hermann Hesse observed, “Whoever wants music instead of noise, joy instead of pleasure, soul instead of gold, creative work instead of business, passion instead of foolery, finds no home in this trivial world.” I hope you will prove him wrong in 2021, Scorpio. According to my reading of astrological omens, the rhythms of life will be in alignment with yours if you do indeed make bold attempts to favor music over noise, joy over pleasure, soul over gold, creative work over business, passion over foolery. Moreover, I think this will be your perfect formula for success — a strategy that will guarantee you’ll feel at home in the world more than ever before.

SAGITTARIUS (Nov. 22-Dec. 21): According to researcher Nick Watts and his documentary film The Human Footprint, the average person speaks more than 13 million words in a lifetime, or about 4,300 per day. But, I suspect and hope that your output will increase in 2021. I think you’ll have more to say than usual — more truths to articulate, more observations to express, more experiences to describe.

So please raise your daily quota of self-expression to account for your expanded capacity to share your intelligence with the world.

CAPRICORN (Dec. 22-Jan. 19): “Our thinking should have a vigorous fragrance, like a wheat field on a summer’s night,” wrote philosopher Friedrich Nietzsche. I encourage you to adopt that joyful mandate as your own. It’s a perfect time to throw out stale opinions and moldy ideas as you make room for an aromatic array of fresh, spicy notions. To add to your bliss, get rid of musty old feelings and decaying dreams and stinky judgments. That brave cleansing will make room for the arrival of crisp insights that smell really good.

AQUARIUS (Jan. 20-Feb. 18): Have you heard the term “catastrophize?” It refers to when people experience a small setback or minor problem but interpret it as being a major misfortune. It’s very important that you not engage in catastrophizing during the coming weeks. I urge you to prevent your imagination from jumping to awful conclusions that aren’t warranted. Use deep breathing and logical thinking to coax yourself into responding calmly. Bonus tip: In my view, the small “setback” you experience could lead to an unexpected opportunity — especially if you resist the temptation to catastrophize.

PISCES (Feb. 19-March 20): My Buddhist friend Marcia says the ultimate goal of her meditation practice is to know that the material world is an illusion and that there is no such thing as “I” or “you,” no past or future. There is only the quality-less ground of being. My Sufi friend Roanne, on the other hand, is a devotee of the poet Rumi. The ultimate goal of her meditation practice is to be in intimate contact, in tender loving communion, with the Divine Friend, the personal face of the Cosmic Intelligence. Given your astrological omens, Pisces, I’d say you’re in a prime position to experience the raw truth of both Marcia’s and Roanne’s ideals. The coming days could bring you amazing spiritual breakthroughs!

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Keen-eared listeners will quickly notice something about HellCast on their debut EP Anguish: This band’s got rhythm. Granted, it’s a heavy rhythm replete with all the crunch and volume you’d expect from a group with the word “death” in their genre title.

“I’ve always wanted to have something for people to groove to,” said lead guitarist Rhett Tanner, who cited metal icon Pantera and Florence band Through the Eyes of the Dead as key influences for the band.

Anguish is HellCast’s debut EP, coming out roughly a year after its formation. The band was born out of the ashes of a pop-punk group, composed of metalheads, Tanner said.

“It was definitely heavier pop-punk,” he clarified. “We decided, ‘Let’s play some metal, let’s do something different.’”

Because of the band’s love of all things heavy, most of the members had metal riffs in their back pockets, ready to be fleshed out.

Some of those early songs appear on Anguish.

“Torment,” the lead single from the album, is an attention-grabber partially for the things it doesn’t have as a metal song; “Torment” lacks loads of grinding distortion and guttural instrumentation so common in deathcore.

Don’t get it twisted, it’s still a brutal track, but the band’s sense of rhythm and interest in melody-adjacent riffs is a unique addition to the sound. The vocal accompaniment from David Lopez of Down Under adds miles to its intensity, as well.

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death metal bands before them, HellCast provides a punishing tonal assault of breakdowns, rapid fire bass drums and fleet-fingered guitar lines.

The EP starts in fifth gear with “Cesspool,” winding rhythm and lead guitars from Tanner and Jeff Adams together. The lyrics give a glimpse at the bleak world the band sees.

“How can you live with yourself/ so fucking heartless and spineless/ we’re living in a fucking cesspool,” vocalist Zach Hall screams.

“Anguish” takes the baton from the opener and speeds off into another head-ripping track. The band picks up the pace, with Robert Moring beating the drum kit into a pulp. He and bassist Austin Kraft are tightly wound, finding the right moments to slow it down and speed it up.

“We wanted to set ourselves apart by taking on some technicality side of metal, but also incorporating that beatdown and heavy side that people love.”

—HellCast lead guitarist Rhett Tanner

Tanner said many South Carolina bands of their stripe are pretty straightforward, something that has helped inform HellCast’s sound. “We wanted to set ourselves apart by taking on some technicality side of metal, but also incorporating that beatdown and heavy side that people love,” he said.

As a band that started to make moves when the pandemic began, HellCast hasn’t gotten many opportunities to show off that sound.

Thanks to the pandemic canceling a year of shows the band had lined up, HellCast has only been able to play one concert. Despite the sudden lack of visibility in a music scene heavily held down by live shows, Tanner believes it helped the band and made their debut album better. “We’ve really had a lot of time to persevere and work on crafting our sound, essentially,” he said. “It’s actually worked out in our favor. We’re very happy we had time to put in the work and not just rush into things.”

The Music Farm is up for sale after a tough year without loud concerts or late-night bar sales, but owners of the 30-year-old club are hoping it will remain a place where Charlestonians can see live music.

But, no deal has been inked yet.

“At this point, no one has signed on the dotted line, but we’re committed to keeping it as the Music Farm,” owner Jerry Scheer told the City Paper. “There’s no furniture store, there’s no restaurant or anything like that. [We] just want to keep it as the Music Farm.”

The Music Farm opened in its original location on East Bay Street in 1991 before moving to Ann Street in 1993.

Pandemic-induced restrictions on gatherings and operating hours have put an indefinite pause on the city’s normally vibrant live music scene. Clubs that also sell food have shifted operations, but many indoor venues have remained closed until very recently.

Scheer did not disclose the names of the companies vying for the Farm, but he said they work in the music industry and plan to keep the Music Farm as a music venue.

“I think we’ve got two very strong groups that understand the philosophy [of the Music Farm],” he said. “These are strong, viable groups that have a lot of strong history in the music business. It’ll only enhance the current Music Farm.”

The deal is estimated to be complete in January, but there is no deadline for the sale. Scheer and his partner Mark Cumins will continue to own the Music Farm building. —Heath Ellison

EASY HONEY RELEASES PART TWO OF MARITIME LOVE AFFAIR

Local rock band Easy Honey released part two of its album Maritime Love Affair on Dec. 10.

The first part of the album was released in September with four tracks. Maritime Love Affair: II features another five songs including Easy Honey’s singles, “Fork You” and “Like Glue.”

Track three, “Izzy Young” is a slower jam.

The song is less upbeat than the rest on the album and has a more laid-back feel.

The album picks up speed with track four, “Knocked Out.” It features a robust guitar and drum line. The two, in combination with the group’s vocals, give the song an older vibe, sounding like a good throwback.

Maritime Love Affair: II can be heard on spotify.com and charlestoncitypaper.com.

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Leave it to dysthemic folk songstress Mourning Dove to make a set of holiday music covers that sound as shut-in as 2020. Silent Night, a collection of four covers of holiday favorites, is everything fans of Mourning Dove could hope for in an EP. The project, performed by Greenville songwriter Lisa Stubbs, is another solemnly played set of tunes given a major boon by Stubb’s sensitive and capable vocals. Stubbs generally gravited toward the quieter Christmas hits, playing to her strengths as an artist. Her cover of “Christmas Time is Here” channels the childhood melancholy of the original song, written for A Charlie Brown Christmas. “Silent Night” sounds tailor-made for a folk singer like Stubbs, thanks to her knack for filling empty space with her voice. The guitar playing on the song is a fitting accompaniment, but it would have worked just as well a capela. The most up-beat of the four songs is a cover of Joni Mitchell’s “River.” Behind the keyboard, Stubbs plays a bright piano melody and gives her best vocal performance on the EP. Silent Night caps with a lyrically altered cover of “Have Yourself a Merry Little Christmas.” It’s one of the more hopeful notes to end on after an agonizing year. “Someday soon, we all will be together/ if the fates allow/ until then, we’ll have to muddle through somehow/ so have yourself a merry little Christmas now,” she sings. It hurts because it’s true. Silent Night can be heard on bandcamp.com or charlestoncitypaper.com. —Heath Ellison

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