Hilton Head Monthly September 2015

hilton head CONNECTING THE LOWCOUNTRY

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CITY GUIDE WHY WE CALL THE LOWCOUNTRY OUR HOME

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WHY WE LIVE HERE Reasons why we call Hilton Head and Bluffton home

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ISLAND LIFE

Why you should live on Hilton Head Island and nowhere else

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ISLAND LANDMARKS Popular Hilton Head Island places to go and things to see

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DAVID BENNETT

Hilton Head Island’s mayor talks the town’s present and future

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STEVE RILEY

A conversation with Hilton Head’s longtime town manager

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DON KIRKMAN

Executive director shares his plan for the HHIEDC

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P.J. TANNER

The sheriff’s take on the state of local law enforcement

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BLUFFTON LIFE

Rapidly growing town puts nature and neighbor side by side

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LISA SULKA

Mayor out to make sure Bluffton never loses small-town charm

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MARC ORLANDO

Town manager talks about the many challenges in Bluffton

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SHAWN LEININGER

Director of growth development shares Bluffton strategy

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JOEY REYNOLDS

Bluffton police chief focused on keeping the town safe

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DAUFUSKIE LIFE

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MARC ORLANDO

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SHAWN LEININGER

Just a short boat ride from HHI, but worlds away in ambiance

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FEATURES

DEPARTMENTS

22 ■ SOUTHERN MAN

12 ■ AT THE HELM

This month’s cover artist has devoted his life to colors of the Lowcountry

26 ■ NEW LEADER STEPS IN

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Lee Wilwerding begins his tenure with World Affairs Council of Hilton Head

30 ■ SEMI-CHARMED LIFE Fun-loving Shep Rose talks about his show, Charleston tragedy and more

34 ■ A STAR IS BORN Local actor Harrison Leahy on fast track to stardom

40 ■ ‘CALL MR. GRAY’ Lowcountry store builds 60 years with the Golden Rule

44 ■ T-SHIRT TRADITION Cafe’s “salty” T-shirts a hit with customers of all ages

72 ■ LIVING IN LUXURY

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Lavish planned communities set Lowcountry apart

114 ■ STORY OF SURVIVAL Team Happy Feet has plenty to be happy about at upcoming LoCo Motion

117 ■ A HELPING HAND Purple Angel Project helping Memory Matters raise awareness

118 ■ PICTURE-PERFECT Local couple’s dream wedding came true at Belfair

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14 ■ NEWS 19 ■ OPINION 19 ■ ONLINE 22 ■ VIBE 36 ■ WHERE IN THE WORLD? 40 ■ BUSINESS 50 ■ ON THE MOVE 56 ■ PROPERTY MANAGEMENT 114 ■ HEALTH 118 ■ BRIDAL 128 ■ HOME 139 ■ REAL ESTATE 164 ■ CALENDAR 184 ■ SOCIAL SPOTLIGHT 186 ■ MUSIC 188 ■ WHAT’S COOKING 195 ■ DINING 208 ■ LAST CALL

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2015 PROPERTY MANAGEMENT GUIDE

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188 ■ ALL FIRED UP New wood-fi red pizza place opening on New Orleans Road

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Lowcountry is where my heart is

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ne Christmas several years ago, the Monthly staff gave me an unusual present.

Instead of a popcorn sampler tin or one of those assortments of sausage and cheese, I was presented four quarters and a road map to Bluffton.

The quarters LORI GOODRIDGE-CRIBB were for the toll. lori@hiltonheadmonthly.com The joke around the offi ce back then was I never left the south end of Hilton Head Island.

Sure, I dealt with an hour commute when I used to live in Washington, D.C., but after moving here, I quickly adapted to the island lifestyle. Everything I need is less than fi ve minutes away. Why drive 10 to 15 minutes to Bluffton?

Over the years, my thoughts about the mainland have changed.

Many of the island’s most popular restaurants (Red Fish, Chow Daddy’s, Truffl es, Mellow Mushroom and Captain Woody’s) now have Bluffton locations. Tons of new businesses have chosen to call Bluffton home as well, places good enough to make me want to make that 10 to 15 minute drive.

When family comes to visit, many Bluffton stops are now on the checklist. It’s one of the

fastest-growing areas in the southeast, and for good reason.

Still, I’m in love with my home, the south end of the island. I love the beaches, the bike paths and the beauty. It’s what drew me to the Lowcountry in the fi rst place. I know many Bluffton residents feel the same way about the May River, Old Town and many other pieces of their charming community.

This issue is dedicated to all the great things about both Bluffton and Hilton Head.

Inside you will fi nd many articles related to what makes each town so great. We talk to area leaders, brag about local attractions, look back at our rich history and much, much more. And we didn’t forget about Daufuskie Island. Our neighbors to the south have it pretty good, too.

As part of this special issue, we take you behind the gates of some of the area’s top private communities.

We also share the success stories of several local businesses, identify local wildlife and analyze the evolution of Lowcountry home design.

For the third year in a row, our City Guide covers for Hilton Head and Bluffton feature paintings of a local landscape. Fittingly, the artist for this year’s covers is the incredibly talented West Fraser, a former island resident with deep roots in the Lowcountry. A profi le on him is also inside.

We hope you enjoy this issue! It’s a great reminder of why we call this beautiful place home. M

Guess who’s turning 30?!? Next issue, Monthly celebrates its 30th anniversary! We are very proud to reach such a milestone, serving this wonderful community. What is the most signifi cant thing that has happened to you here in the past 30 years?

Whatever it is, we would love to share your story with our readers in October. Email us at editor@hiltonheadmonthly.com to be a part of our very special next issue!

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ABOUT THE COVER: Both our Hilton Head Island and Bluffton covers are original paintings by famed plein air artist West Fraser. His newest book of paintings, “Painting the Southern Coast: The Art of West Fraser,” debuts in June 2016. Fraser is featured inside on Page 22.

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NEWS

BOARD OF EDUCATION APPROVES DRUG TESTING OF HIGH SCHOOL STUDENTS The Beaufort County Board of Education recently endorsed the Beaufort County School District's plan to phase in random drug testing of student athletes, students who participate in extracurricular activities and students who have school parking permits. Testing of athletes began in August, while testing of students who participate in

extracurricular activities will begin in August 2016. Consequences for positive test results will come in three steps, with the most severe punishment coming after three positive results. The district plans to test at least 50 percent of eligible students at each high school each year. Estimated costs of the program are $50,000 a year.

SPECIAL BLUFFTON ATHLETE WINS GOLD

PHOTO BY ROB KAUFMAN

TRAVEL SITE TRIPADVISOR RANKS HILTON HEAD BEACHES IN TOP 10 Popular travel site Trip Advisor recently ranked Hilton Head Island among its "10 East Coast Beaches Making a Splash." According to the site, "If paradise was ever lost, it’s been found in Hilton Head. Perfect for either a family getaway or romantic retreat, the boot-shaped island on South Carolina’s coast offers a laid-back yet swanky experience. The beaches sparkle and fabulous oceanfront homes line the sandy shores. Dine out at exceptional restaurants, grab a drink at the upscale bars and lounges, or pick up some wine and fresh catch-of-the-day seafood for a pleasant night in. Sunset views from your balcony offer the perfect backdrop for a family photo."

A number of South Carolina athletes recently represented the United States at the Special Olympics Summer Games in Los Angeles, including two Bluffton residents.

Meghan Witherly, 33, won gold in women’s tennis doubles division.

Her partner was Pennsylvania's Laura Thompson. Witherly also won the bronze medal in singles tennis.

Robert Seignious, 21, also of Bluffton, placed fourth in English equitation and fourth in equestrian dressing.

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Hilton Head District 8. The two were among nearly 6,500 participants from 165 countries competing in the Special Olympics Summer Games.

SIX-STORY HOTEL COMING TO POPE AVENUE Many of the vacant buildings near the back of Heritage Plaza will be replaced by a six-story, 104room Marriott Residence Inn. The developer behind the project is Blanchard & Calhoun Commercial, the same company that transformed The Mall at Shelter Cove into Shelter Cove Towne Centre.

Plans for the new hotel include five floors of rooms along with a rooftop pool and bar. The rooms will be designed for extended stays with

a small living room, a kitchenette and a sofa bed in addition to the standard hotel room features. Three of six businesses operating out of Heritage Plaza will be affected. New York City Pizza, Plantation Cafe and the Sage Room will stay. Bicycle Billy's will keep his main business next to Plantation Cafe but will lose his workshop near the back of the complex. Timeshare Resales and Hairitage Barber & Beauty will relocate.

BOLLARDS INSTALLED IN OLD TOWN

UBER XL COMES TO LOWCOUNTRY

The town of Bluffton recently installed retractable bollards to divert traffic on Calhoun Street during Old Town events. The bollards are located at the corners of Lawton and Lawrence streets to block vehicles during festivals and provide for a more pedestrian-friendly, walkable environment. According to Mayor Lisa Sulka, the new bollards mean more officers will be on patrol versus blocking traffic between those two streets during major events.

The ridesharing service Uber recently announced its high-capacity vehicle service, UberXL, is now available in the Hilton Head Island/Bluffton/Savannah region. The XL service uses minivans and SUVs capable of seating up to six passengers. The company offered XL fares for two sample routes — $10 from Mooring Buoy to Shelter Cove Towne Centre and $15 from Savannah's Oglethorpe Mall to Forsyth Park.

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Facelift is an excellent way to improve the neck and reduce years from your face.

We are healthier people with all the medical technology and advances over the years. We are living longer and enjoying life to a greater extent than ever before. So, we feel, at our age, younger than our parents did, when they were our age. Why do we have to look as old as our parents?

Our usual approach to a patient seeking facial cosmetic consultation is to ask, “What bothers you about your face?” Many patients say, “It’s just this!” And at the same time, the patient pulls the facial skin up and back, mimicking a facelift. “But what is your before concern?” “Just this!” This is often a circular conversation. If the concern is loose skin in the mid or lower face, a facelift is perfect. In this example, the patient is lifting the cheek or neck skin. And a facelift does just that.

The cheek and neck skin is loosened from the muscle plane beneath (yes, there are muscles after in the face). The muscle plane is then tightened with stitches, kept under the skin and unseen. Then the face and neck skin is pulled up and back to allow tightening and removal of the extra, loose, skin.

This is a fabulous technique for tightening the “turkey neck” or waddle underneath the chin. The cheeks are tightened as well, but perhaps the procedure would be best named, “neck lift”, but it is difficult to convince the entire nation of the re-naming. If, instead, before the cheeks have drooped more than the neck skin, a “subperiosteal” facelift is in order. This procedure loosens all the tissue on top of the cheekbones and below, so that it may be repositioned atop the cheek bones. It makes the cheeks better pronounced and stronger– appearing. after A minifacelift is an alternative to one of the bigger operations if the aging is not-so-severe. Be careful about choosing a patented “Lift” procedure. Many of the doctors offering this procedure have not been trained to offer a full range of facial surgery. Your best, and safest, bet is to choose a surgeon certified by the American Board of Plastic Surgery (easily verified on the internet).

Dr. David Reid has 24 years experience as a practicing plastic surgeon and has been board certified for 20.

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NEWS

SURVEY: MANY SMALL BUSINESSES NOT READY FOR EMV CHIP CARDS SHIFT A majority of small business owners are unaware of the impending EMV liability shift coming in October, according to a recent Wells Fargo/Gallup Small Business Index. In the quarterly small business survey, less than half (49 percent) of

small business owners who currently accept point-of-sale card payments report being aware of the Oct. 1 liability shift, the date when a card issuer or merchant that does not support EMV chip card technology will assume liability for any

fraudulent point-of-sale card transactions. To meet the Oct. 1 deadline, financial institutions are issuing EMV chip-enabled credit and debit cards, which are designed to protect against fraudulent transactions by encoding cardholder informa-

TEACHER OF THE YEAR FINALISTS ANNOUNCED

SHOPPING CENTER PLANNED FOR DUNNAGANS ALLEY Developer Robert Graves plans to remodel his 15,500-square-foot Dunnagans Alley warehouse into a new shopping center.

The warehouse, located at 17 Dunnagans Alley, was built in 1970 and sits mostly vacant.

Over the years it has housed a cabinet and millwork shop, a construction company and offices. Plans for the revitalized building were recently submitted to the town and showed a new restaurant in the corner space facing the street. The Island Packet reported Graves is negotiating with potential tenants, including the restaurant, offices, an interior design firm, a beauty salon, a local construction company, an ice cream shop and a petgrooming service. A proposed timeline for the project was not included with the plans.

tion within an encrypted microchip and data that changes with each transaction, and merchants are converting to new card readers or adding EMV capability to their existing magnetic stripe card reader payment terminals.

PHOTO BY ARNO DIMMLING

FORBES MAGAZINE SPENDS 'TWO PERFECT DAYS ON HILTON HEAD' Forbes Magazine recently published an article titled "How to Spend Two Perfect Days on Hilton Head."

Writer DeMarco Williams described his two days on the island and gave glowing reviews of several local attractions and businesses.

He described family-friendly musician Gregg Russell as the "luckiest man on earth" for getting to spend nearly every summer night performing under the large

Liberty Oak in Harbour Town. Williams made stops at several other Sea Pines locations, including the Inn & Club at Harbour Town, Harbour Town Golf Links, Harbour Town Lighthouse, Sea Pines Beach Club, Plantation Golf Club and Sea Pines Racquet Club.

Stops outside of Sea Pines included Java Burrito Company, the Coastal Discovery Museum and Skull Creek Boathouse.

MOTORING FESTIVAL PRESENTS 2015 PINNACLE, HONORED COLLECTORS Each year, the Hilton Head Island Motoring Festival & Concours d’Elegance features leading automotive collectors from around the world. Among the notable names visitors and enthusiasts will encounter at the 2015 event are Fred Guyton and William “Tom” Gerrard, selected respectively as this year’s Pinnacle and Honored Collectors. The men and their awardwinning collections will be featured in the Motoring Midway, to be held Oct. 31-Nov. 1 at the Port Royal Golf Club on Hilton Head Island.

Guyton has chosen to showcase three cars, including the 2014 Pebble Beach Concours d’Elegance Best in Class winner: a 1939 RollsRoyce Phantom III Coupe. Gerrard will be showcasing five cars, including a 1956 Packard Caribbean, a 1959 Pontiac El Catalina and a 1964 Pontiac LeMans GTO. Skip Barber, one of the leading personalities and most successful entrepreneurs in American road racing, will serve as Grand Marshal at the 2015 Savannah Speed Classic Oct. 23-25.

The Hilton Head IslandBluffton Chamber of Commerce Leadership Program recently installed 10 bronze crab statues along the Calhoun Street corridor in Old Town Bluffton. The project is meant to capture the imagination and inspire awareness of children and adults, as well as educate them on local marine life and the importance of preserving the May River. The 8-inch statues are attached to signs, poles and plaques along the historic street in hide-and-seek fashion.

SCHSL APPROVES 5 CLASSES FOR 2016 The South Carolina High School League's executive committee recently approved the move from four classific tions to five, beginning with the 2016-17 school year. The realignment and reclassific tion will move Hilton Head Island High School up to Region 8-AAAA along with Beaufort, Berkeley, Cane Bay, Colleton County and Stall. Bluffton and May River high schools will compete in Region 8-AAA with Battery Creek, Ridgeland-Hardeeville and Wade Hampton. The classifications will be in effect for two academic years.

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CONTRIBUTOR SPOTLIGHT Lily Stine is a rising junior at The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. She is taking classes in the School of Media and Journalism, where she is majoring in strategic communications, a combination of advertising and public relations. She plans to study abroad in Spain this spring, where she hopes to complete her double major in Spanish. In her free time, she enjoys the company of her cat, Snickers.

Lauren Burnham is going into her junior year at Bradley University in Peoria, Illinois, studying English with a marketing minor. English was a given when she wrote and published two young adult novels, one during her senior year of high school and the other during her freshman year of college. Burnham loves spending time outside hiking, biking or running and has fi nally gotten used to the heat and humidity of the South, compared to Illinois.

Leacy Kelley is a junior at the University of South Carolina’s Columbia campus. She is a Communications major in the Journalism School and has a minor in Retail and Fashion Merchandising. Kelley was born and raised on Hilton Head Island. In her free time she enjoys running, drinking coffee, and playing with her dog, Lulu.

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Robert, a seven-year-old friend of mine, loves superheroes. What seven-year-old doesn’t? It is fun to imagine being REMARKABLE and having special abilities that allow you to save people, turn negative situations into positive ones, or put the “bad guys” in a place where they can no longer hurt people. It is fun to imagine having some superpower—becoming invisible, or fl ying, or having super strength. Which would you choose?

One day, as I was having dinner with Robert, he pointed at me, and exclaimed, “You have the Power of Niceness!” It took me a while to understand what he was thinking, but eventually it became clear—“niceness” is what he perceives to be my particular “superpower.”

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NICENESS After tearing up a bit, I thought a lot about that particular statement. I would never have thought of “niceness” as a superpower. However, it does seem to be missing from a lot of everyday interactions and it could, in some cases, save the day.

What are YOUR superpowers?

How do you use them to improve the world around you? What have you done lately that “saves the day” for someone else?

Often, we see or experience road rage, or hear a sales clerk being berated by a customer, or we forget to thank someone for a particular kindness. We are witness to political leadership ranting at each other. There is bullying both in person and on social media.

Daily there are news reports of the horrors that individuals are somehow able to infl ict upon each other. “Niceness” seems to be in short supply.

I’m grateful everyday for my family and friends, but if they don’t know how important they are to me, it is my fault for not making it clear.

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More often than not, we think about those whose heroism goes unquestioned—fi re fi ghters, medical personnel and our military for example—but we forget that there are many, many everyday heroes who make daily living not only tolerable, but amazing.

Actually, we live in a region full of superheroes. There are teachers working miracles on a daily basis. Traffi c signals are maintained to control chaos on the streets. Water and electricity arrive without giving them a second thought. Entertainment is at our beck and call; groceries appear on market shelves; and somehow the technology we rely upon is most generally available.

I remember a Dennis the Menace cartoon where Dennis and his little buddy Joey are leaving the home of Mr. and Mrs. Wilson with a substantial supply of cookies. To Joey’s question, “I wonder what we did to deserve this?” Dennis responded, “Joey, Mrs. Wilson gives us cookies not because we’re nice, but because she’s nice.” How purposeful are we in trying to be nice—to be someone’s superhero when they may really need a friend, a little compassion, a little truth, an extra cookie?

What are YOUR superpowers? How do you use them to improve the world around you? What have you done lately that “saves the day” for someone else? Have you made a gift to a nonprofi t in support of its work to help others? Have you volunteered in your community? Have you attended a Town Council meeting, or studied the issues and voted when appropriate? Have you taken a casserole to a shut-in or visited someone who is ill? Have you sent a card?

Many of you have superpowers well beyond “niceness,” but we all can start there. I realize that I need to work harder to earn Robert’s belief in me that I not only have “the Power of Niceness,” but that I am not letting it languish unused. Once you’ve been given a superpower, you have a responsibility to use it. And we all have superpowers. So, live generously by using your superpowers daily, to the benefi t of all around you. The cape is optional.

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WEST FRASER:

SON OF THE LOWCOUNTRY THIS MONTH’S COVER ARTIST HAS DEVOTED HIS LIFE TO THE COLORS AND LIGHTS OF THE SOUTH.

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ou need only glance at this month’s cover to gain an instant appreciation for the works of West Fraser. His understanding of the unmistakable colors of the Lowcountry, the way the salt air tinges the setting sun with vibrant strips of orange and pink, the way a tangle of Spanish moss gently eases the light to the ground in a spiderweb of shadows, comes from roots that run deep.

WEST FRASER’S NEWEST BOOK OF PAINTINGS, “PAINTING THE SOUTHERN COAST: THE ART OF WEST FRASER,” DEBUTS IN JUNE 2016 AND IS AVAILABLE THROUGH THE UNIVERSITY OF SOUTH CAROLINA PRESS.

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And you need only glance at the name to know where those roots come from. West Fraser, one of the premier plein air painters in the world, renowned for his subtle mastery of the art form, is a Fraser. Of the Hilton Head Frasers, that is to say the founders of Sea Pines and by extension the founding family of modern Hilton Head Island.

The younger Fraser came to the island in his youth, along with his father, Joe, who was charting the course of the island’s future. Hilton Head was wild in those days, all dirt roads and unspoiled coastline. The hotels, shops and restaurants were all still a best-case scenario in a master plan that hadn’t been drafted yet. Instead, Fraser found himself on an island whose pristine wilderness would inform the art that would gain him fame.

“We would just disappear into the woods around Sea Pines. You could go for miles without seeing any sign of man,” he said. “I remember driving along the dirt road that led to what’s now the entrance to Sea Pines, and deer were just hopping over the car as we went.”

As much inspiration as the unspoiled wilderness of an undeveloped island provided, Fraser has never been known to stay in one place for long. A selfdescribed “inveterate traveler,” Fraser was soon off to see the world. And not just see it, but capture it.

“When I paint, I try not to just portray how a place appears, but to convey something about how it resonates with me,” he said. “I’ll capture one detail here, I’ll work in the way a certain hilltop appears there ... it’s never just a literal translation.”

Throughout Europe, Central America and the Caribbean, he followed his muse, creating breathtaking portraits as he went. His work garnered him endless acclaim: the John Young Hunter Award from Allied Artists of America in New York City, the Award of Excellence from Mystic International, The Mary S. Litt Award from The September 2015 23

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American Watercolor Society, the Pursuit of Excellence/American Master award from the Hubbard Museum of Art in New Mexico, and the Edgar Payne Gold Medal from the California Art Club’s 100th Gold Medal Exhibition, to name a few. He’s had solo exhibitions around the country, and you’ll even fi nd his work in the permanent collection at the White House Historical Association.

But despite all the wonders he discovered and coaxed into breathtaking works of art around the world, the pull of the Southeast was always there to call him home. He returned to South Carolina to live in Charleston, publishing his fi rst book of paintings, “Charleston in My Time: The Paintings of West Fraser,” in 2001.

The world has its wonders, but one glance at our cover, at the loving attention to detail paid to that inimitable splendor of the Lowcountry, and you’ll understand why West Fraser couldn’t ignore the siren song of the Southeast coast. M

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oday, the group is approaching 1,000 members — a milestone that refl ects the island’s intellectual curiosity and desire for a deeper perspective on geopolitical affairs.

This fall, Lee Wilwerding begins his tenure as the council’s new president. Monthly recently sat down with Wilwerding to gather his thoughts and insights on the Council.

Question: What about the World Affairs Council is so appealing that prompted you to accept a leadership role?

Answer: A high school history teacher made me think critically. He exposed me to something beyond suburban Minneapolis and sparked my interest in world affairs.

Then, when Uncle Sam sent me to Germany after college, I lived near the sites of historical events: the Prague Spring, student protests in Paris forcing out President Charles DeGaulle, the Six Day War in Israel and Gaddafi ’s coup in Libya. I was exposed to a view that wasn’t the American media view. That broader perspective and my experience in Vietnam stayed with me, fostering a very strong interest in world affairs.

Plus, the council is an organization that brings a lot of value to the community — paying it back is logical.

Q: You are reputed to be a history scholar.

How important is history when making programming decisions?

NEW LEADER OF LOCAL WORLD AFFAIRS COUNCIL A: Our Program Committee does the hard work in choosing topics and fi nding the speakers; I provide a little bit of guidance, but they deserve the credit. The volunteers — a retired admiral, an intelligence offi cer, a university president and international business leaders — offer a broad perspective on history and geopolitical affairs.

Q: Your leadership in the military and corporate America must give you a unique capacity to serve as the council’s president.

A: When I served in Vietnam then sat down in the Pentagon, I gained two different perspectives: one from the bottom up and the other from the top down. On the corporate side, I gained insights beyond the military mindset. The wider angle provides better context and forces me to think beyond an issue or problem in front of me.

Q: The council’s prized gem, the Friday Speaker Series, covers a broad range of subjects that, according to executive direc-

tor Joan Apple Lemoine, “refl ect the complex issues we face on geopolitical level from China’s ruling elite, post-Castro Cuba, or the threat of Middle Eastern terrorism.”

Over the past three or four years, the council scheduled programs on˛“Trends˛in Global Security” and “Critical Trends˛in U.S. Foreign Policy.” Do you see the˛“trends”˛theme going forward, and if so, where do think it will take the council?

A: The Program Committee uses the trends theme to provide focus. But we still need to be looking at what’s going on — world events change quickly. We consider the educational needs of our membership fi rst. If it’s a subject that we think the membership needs to better understand, then we add it to the program agenda. A good example is Cuba. After President Barack Obama restored U.S. diplomatic relations, we offered a program segment on postCastro Cuba.

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UPCOMING WORLD AFFAIRS COUNCIL OF HILTON HEAD EVENTS  Sept. 17: 2 pm “Rational Middle Energy Series”  Sept. 18: 10 am Annual meeting  Oct. 2: 10 am “Ramifications of the Iranian Nuclear Deal  Oct. 16: 10 am “China, Russian and Islamic Actors in Latin America” All meetings will be held at First Presbyterian Church, 540 William Hilton Parkway, Hilton Head Island. For membership information, please contact executive director Joan Apple Lemoine at wachh@gmail.com or 843-384-6758. For more information about the council, go to wachh.org.

Q: Do you intend to continue your predecessor’s focus on educational outreach?

A: Absolutely. The programs that we do with local high schools — Academic World Quest and Model UN — are essential. Earlier this year, we invited the kids who competed in Academic World Quest to attend a luncheon with Husain Haqqani, Pakistan’s former ambassador to the U.S. Such invaluable interactions help students develop a broader view of the world. Payback for the future of our country will be significant.

Q: How would you describe the council’s typical member?

A: A lot of our members are retired from military, intelligence and government service or corporate and educational institutions.

For the most part, our members worked in professional leadership roles. They are a well-educated and well-engaged audience.

In fact, our speakers say they like coming here because of the reputation of our wellinformed audience.

Q: How does the council serve working professionals who can’t attend the Friday morning talks?

A: We offer an eight-week, evening Great Decisions Series and a monthly Evening Series.

Q: What do you hope to be your legacy as president of the council?

A: I’m not worried about legacy. My goal is to keep the organization as viable as it is today; offer members the quality of speakers they want and expect; and deliver a breadth of topics that reflect the world we live in today. M September 2015 27

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hirty-four years ago, twelve Islanders began meeting at the Hilton

Washington, D.C., each Spring. The Beaufort High School Team, coached by

Head Library to discuss American interests and involvement in

teacher, Debi Kidd, has won the Beaufort County School District competition

foreign affairs. That was the beginning of today's 970-member

for three consecutive years, thereby earning the trip to D.C each year.

World Affairs Council of Hilton Head. The World Affairs Council of Hilton

We would welcome your participation in any of our many events and urge

Head is now celebrating our eleventh anniversary as a part of the World

you to contact us. To learn more about us, check out our website at www.

Affairs Councils of America national organization. That relationship has

wachh.org, e-mail us at wachhi@gmail.com, or write to us at PO Box 22523,

opened new doors and provided opportunities for even more access to

HHI, SC 29925. Or call and speak with our Executive Director, Joan Apple

national and international speakers.

Lemoine, at (843) 384-6758. On behalf of our working board of directors, our Our growth in membership and the

program committee, and our many volunteers, I thank you for this opportunity

quality of our programs are testimony

to showcase one of the many treasures of Hilton Head – the World Affairs

to your enthusiasm for learning more

Council. Please consider joining this adventure today.

about the United States' relationships in a more complex, more interrelated and

Sincerely,

technologically smaller world. It also tells

Lee J Wilwerding, President

a story about the continuing intellectual

World Affairs Council of Hilton Head

curiosity of the members of the greater Hilton Head community. Many of you stop me to express your enthusiasm for our fourteen Friday morning speaker programs that run from October to May each year. The World Affairs Council of Hilton Head has become an anchor for those who want to expand their own knowledge and understanding of the meaning of global events.

In addition to our Friday morning programs, we have launched an Evening Speaker Series to attract and welcome those who, because of work or standing commitments, cannot attend our Friday morning programs. This new series will be returning for an encore performance in early 2016.

Because we take our involvement in the Hilton Head area seriously, we focus on working with our youth as part of a community outreach. Our premier program has been Academic WorldQuest, which involves our fi ve Beaufort County public high schools in a competition on questions related to world affairs, geography, and international relations and events. We reward the top winning teams and accompany the fi rst-place team, all

The World Affairs Council of Hilton Head invites you to participate in a special screening & presentation that will bring people together to fi nd balanced and rational solutions to energy related concerns – a subject with regional, national and global implications.

On Thursday, September 17 Gregory Kallenberg, producer and director of the Rationale Middle Energy Series, will be a keynote speaker & moderate a panel discussion with energy experts drawn from the private and public sectors. Audience participation will be encouraged.

Guest panelists will include Alice Madden, former Assistant Secretary in the Congressional Offi ce of the Department of Energy and Climate Advisor to former Colorado Governor Bill Ritter.

The event will take place from 2:00 to 4:00 p.m. at the First Presbyterian Church of Hilton Head, 540 William Hilton Head Parkway. HHI. For more information visit: http://wachh.org/ rational-middle-energy-series/ or call 843-384-6758.

expenses paid, to the World Affairs Council of America national competition in

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WORLD AFFAIRS COUNCIL OF HILTON HEAD “Critical Trends for U.S. Foreign Policy” Speaker Program 2015-2016 The Program Committee’s intent for the 2015-2016 program year is to identify the ‘Critical Trends for U.S. Foreign policy’.° World Order is changing quickly due to technology, globalization and non-state actors.° Speakers renowned for their leadership and expertise are invited to share their views about the critical trends that are important to U.S. Foreign Policy and how the U.S. needs to respond.

You are invited to put the dates on your calendar. Confi rmed speakers are listed on the right. Up-to-date listing and speaker biographies at http://wachh.org

WORLD AFFAIRS EVENING SPEAKER SERIES Beginning in January 2016 and continuing through April, the World Affairs Evening Speaker Series features topics of local concern, with global reach, for participants to discuss and explore the critical questions regarding the economic, political and strategic trends that are shaping the U.S. Foreign Policy agenda.

Speakers are drawn from within the World Affairs Council of Hilton Head as well as regional experts known for their international experience in government, business, military affairs and academia.

For more information please call or visit the website.

OCTOBER 2 George Perkovich, PhD Vice President for Studies Carnegie Endowment for International Peace.

Speaking on the “Ramifi cations of the Iranian Nuclear Agreement.”

OCTOBER 16 R. Evan Ellis, PhD Research Professor of Latin American Studies, U.S. Army War College Strategic Studies Institute.

NOVEMBER 6 David Goldwyn President, Goldwyn Global Strategies and Nonresident Senior Fellow at the Brookings Institution.

NOVEMBER 20 Kingsley C. Moghalu Former Deputy Governor of the Central Bank of Nigeria "Why Nigeria could become one of the world's leading economies by 2030" DECEMBER 4 Ellen Laipson President and CEO, The Stimson Center.

JANUARY 22 Ambassador James Jeffrey Former ambassador in Ankara and Baghdad and Distinguished Fellow at the Washington Inst.

FEBRUARY 5 Robert Zoellick Senior Fellow at Harvard University's Kennedy School of Government and Chairman of Goldman Sachs International Advisors and former President of the World Bank.

FEBRUARY 19 Aaron David Miller, PhD Vice-President for New Initiatives and°Distinguished Scholar, theWilsonCenter.

MARCH 18 Jeremi Suri, PhD Mack Brown Distinguished Chair for Leadership in Global Affairs and Professor of History and Public Affairs at the University of Texas at Austin.

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BY LANCE HANLIN

you think you know reality TV star Shep Rose?

Actually, there’s a good chance you do.

The 35-year-old lives in Charleston now, but he grew up in Sea Pines, attended Hilton Head returns Preparatory School and returns home frequently to visit family and friends. he’s just just one one of of To many locals, he’s the guys sitting at the end of the bar at Mellow Mushroom. But for many fans of the Bravo TV show “Southern he’s THE THE guy. guy. The Theshow showhas has Charm,” he’s developed a cult following after two matata” seasons and Shep’s “hakuna matata” lifestyle has made him a fan favorite.

Monthly recently contacted him

to get his take on the show, what he’s been up to and his thoughts on the recent tragic event that took place in Charleston.

Question: First off, how is the Holy City holding up? How have things changed there following the church shooting tragedy?

Answer: I think it's been remarkable how Charleston has reacted.

There's been an outpouring of grief, sympathy and support. And really no violence. Anyone with a brain knows that racism exists, and as much as I'd like to see a utopian society, it's an impossible goal because of ignorance and hate. I'm proud that Charleston rose above the pitfalls of violent reaction.

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Q: What were you doing when all of that was happening?

A: I was in a taxi passing the crime scene almost immediately after it happened. There were police everywhere. I have a friend who lives in that neighborhood, I called her to see if she was OK and she had SWAT team all around her house. It was crazy and scary. We slowly found out through various sources. I hoped the numbers were wrong, but tragically, they were not.

Q: Do you have any connections to the church or any of the victims involved?

A: Not personally. I'm an investor and frequenter of the Alley (a bowling alley and bar in town) and we have an employee who lost three family members, so that was devastating. It just felt so close and harmful for many Charlestonians. It's a tight-knit city.

Q: What was going through your mind as all of that was unfolding?

A: There was definitely some anger,

that this racist psychopath came to our city to commit this massacre. But then there was so much unity. Apparently his goal was to create a race war, and he failed.

Q: The last time we talked, it was just before the premiere of Season 1. At the time, you weren’t sure how “Southern Charm” was going to be received.

Now, after two seasons, how would you describe the reaction?

A: The reaction continues to surprise me, people really like the show. Either people watch it and like it, or don't watch it and are indifferent. Either way is fine with me. I get no negativity thrown my way, thank goodness.

Q: Would you say the show changed your life for the better?

A: Definitely for the better. I mean, I'm out in L.A. right now meeting with different networks about some ideas that I have. It's amazing and surreal. Life is good. And people send me clothes sometimes, I hate shopping, so that's

pretty cool and convenient.

Q: There are rumors that there will be no Season 3. Can you speak on that?

A: Not really. There are some talks underway, but nothing definitive.

Q: Since filming of the last season wrapped, how have you been keeping busy?

A: I'm just making sure that the ship that is my life is on course. Tending to my current ventures, getting involved in a couple of new opportunities. Writing a lot.

Q: When is the last time you made it to Hilton Head?

A: It's been several months. I need to get back, it’s always relaxing.

Q: Do family, friends or acquaintances treat you any different?

A: Not at all, that's why I enjoy being with them all so much. I like giving and receiving grief, and that's what typically happens. But I also like meeting new people. I think I'm pretty easygoing, so I've really yet to experience many

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Q: Was there anything in the first two seasons you wish you could take back or do over?

A: I don't really look back very often. I wish my relationship with Craig (Conover) didn't appear so antagonistic and acrimonious, because it isn't that way at all. We yell at each other all the time, but that doesn't mean we aren't close. I was rough on my little brother growing up as well, until he got bigger than me. Now we never fight. (laughs) Q: Are you still friends with Craig?

A: Yes, we are definitely friends, and yes, he still drives me nuts sometimes.

Q: Do you know if he passed the bar exam?

A: I'm not sure about that. You'll have to ask him.

Q: Were you actually jealous when Craig got a higher bid at the charity auction?

A: Half-drunk and competitive would explain my disposition at that moment.

Q: Did you vote for Thomas (Ravenel) in November’s election?

A: I would have but I'm currently registered in Hilton Head. It’s strange that they make it difficult for citizens to vote. I would say that it's potentially conspiratorial on the government's part, but that would be giving them too much credit.

They're way too dumb, lazy and divisive to accomplish anything.

Q: Did you think Thomas had a shot to win the U.S. Senate seat?

A: Not particularly, but I admired his enthusiasm and shared many of his beliefs.

Q: What can you tell us about the status of Thomas and Kathryn’s relationship?

A: One never knows. I know that they love their daughter and she is a little beauty. I wish them all happiness.

Q: Was it just good editing or was Thomas and Kathryn’s relationship really that dramatic in real life?

A: It can be dramatic sometimes, no doubt. But I surmise if you put other couples’ relationships in front of a camera, you might see some interesting altercations.

Q: Whitney claimed Kathryn only had

Hilton Head Island native Shep Rose is one of seven socialites featured on the Bravo reality television series Southern Charm.

a baby to stay on the show. What do you think about that accusation?

A: There's no way I could know what is going through someone else's mind. I hope that isn't true.

Q: Your relationship with Cameron is hilarious to watch. Is she your voice of reason at times?

A: I had dinner with Whitney, Cameron and her husband last night in L.A. We had a hilarious time needling each other.

She and I lean on each other for advice all the time. We talk several times a week.

Q: Who (from the cast) were you friends with before the show started?

A: Landon is the one I've known for 13 years. Most all the others are friends via the show, but we've become close very fast.

Q: Does the “Southern Charm” cast hang out off camera?

A: Definitely. A producer last season was whining about it because they don't have cameras on us all the time. When we all hang out off camera, things are said and fun is had, and it's all happening on the fly, so they must adjust quickly to our co-mingled lives. Whereas the “Real Housewives” apparently don't hang out at all unless filming, so they're easier to deal with and predict.

Q: What are your plans for the future?

A: My 5-year plan is to never have a 5-year plan. Tomorrow is promised to no one. M

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or many actors, the road to the stage is long and winding, with twists and frustrations and pitfalls at every turn.

It’s a struggle you see time and again when you read about how Broadway stars slaved away waiting tables and doing bit parts in commercials for years waiting for their big break. Most of the time, raw talent is never enough.

Harrison Leahy, however, proves that sometimes it is.

“I first started just singing as I’d walk down the hall or in the shower, just making up my own songs,” Harrison says. “One day my mom asked me ‘How about being in a show?’ My response was ‘No, no, no.’ But she told me it was going to be OK, we auditioned, and I loved it.”

That audition was for “Holiday on Main,” performed by Main Street Youth Theatre. From that first tiny part in a local production, Harrison’s path took a Broadway arc: small parts

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turned to solos, and roles in bigger shows soon followed: “School House Rock” and a part as the Clarinet Boy in “Gypsy.” Soon after, he took his talents to the Big Apple, making his mark with the Broadway Dreams Foundation.

And finally, after all that, came his first role as a professional actor in a big-budget tour. But what makes this phenom’s arc truly remarkable?

For starters, he’s only 9 years old.

As if that’s not enough, this isn’t some dinner theater tour: Harrison can currently be seen as Chip in the international touring company production of Disney’s “Beauty and the Beast.” Yeah, that “Beauty and the Beast.” The one that’s brought in $3 billion since the Broadway production launched in 1994. And what’s more, the journey that led him there took just under a year from when his mom first talked him into that Main Street Youth Theatre audition.

“I haven’t really have a chance to process it,” he said. “I haven’t thought about it. Shows just went from being a 30-minute ride in the car to a 12-hour flight.

It’s so weird.”

When we spoke to Harrison, he’d just returned from China, enjoying a statemandated two-week sabbatical at home before he’d be allowed to return. His mother, Stacey, accompanied him for the leg of the tour that wound through Macau, while his father, David, had just tagged in for a stretch through Taipei.

“What’s interesting is that

in China, the audience reactions are different. They’re sitting down most of the time. There are no standing ovations, but they are really loud,” he said with a chuckle.

Seeing as one show was held at the Venetian Macao’s Cotai Arena, which seats 15,000, you can imagine the volume.

And if the shock of going from Main Street to the world’s biggest stage in just under a year wasn’t enough, there’s also the culture shock of simply being a 9-year-old boy in China.

“On the streets, they don’t even know I’m in ‘Beauty and the Beast,’ they just know I’m a child with blonde hair, and they go crazy. One dad wanted to make his kid hold my hand and take a picture.

My mom took a picture of that, and as I’m looking in the background, I see someone else with their iPad out taking a picture.”

After his two-week break is up, Harrison will return to Taiwan, then it will be on to the Middle East for a run through Dubai, followed by a trip around Europe to wind up the tour. You know, your typical 9-year-old experience.

And while it’s intriguing, it’s hardly surprising that Harrison’s rise to stardom has been so rapid. He gives immense credit to his vocal coach, Nancy Fontana, but with one conversation, one quickly sees he gave her plenty to work with.

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LOWCOUNTRY STORE BUILDS 60 YEARS WITH THE GOLDEN RULE

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nce, around midnight, Richard Gray answered an urgent call from a man needing a car clutch. Gray ran a gas station and auto parts store in Beaufort, and the caller had bought a clutch—the wrong one—from Gray’s competitor.

The man who sold it to him wouldn’t help at midnight.

But Gray would.

“I had the reputation of, ‘Call Mr. Gray, and he’ll get it for you,’” says the namesake of Grayco Hardware & Home.

“It was service, just giving people what they wanted.”

And the man needing a clutch all those years ago? “A lifetime customer,” Gray says.

Grayco celebrates its 60th anniversary this year, and its culture still glows with the Golden Rule — but now at stores on Hilton Head Island and in Bluffton, Ridgeland, Augusta, Savannah and Beaufort.

“Our No. 1 thing is, take care of that customer,” Gray says. “Treat people the way you want to be treated.”

“He’s the best trainer that we have,” CEO Herb Gray says of his father. If employees just watch Richard Gray and follow what he does, all will be well, Herb Gray says.

You’ll see the philanthropist’s impact at the home he built for a family in need, or

in Jasper County, where he donated land for a sports complex now bearing his name and a school.

But to see Richard Gray himself, head to Grayco, where you’ll find him greeting customers at the door, usually wearing khakis and his blue Grayco polo, smiling as he asks, “Can I help you find something?”

“He loves to chat with customers. That’s his favorite thing to do,” says Marjorie Gray of her father-in-law.

“You can find me in the store almost anytime,” Richard Gray says. Customers feel comforted with the greetings, he says.

“They’re going to run into a friend,” Herb Gray says of shoppers. Either they see someone they know, or employees befriend them. “Try to make a friend with everybody who walks through those doors” is a Grayco mantra.

Why be friendly? “I think that’s what I had to sell,” Richard Gray says.

He grew up in a large family in Port Royal and they “didn’t have anything to speak of,” he says. But they worked, and Richard Gray knew that to get ahead, he had to work harder than everyone else. His workdays sometimes lasted 14 hours,

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He ran a two-pump gas station on Boundary Street in the ’60s, and borrowed $5,000 from his father-in-law to add an auto parts shop. His Beaufort Muffler and Auto Supply store grew to include building supplies, hardware and now, with Marjorie Gray’s care, home goods.

“The common denominator is definitely great-looking products at a reasonable price,” Marjorie Gray says of the home goods inventory. “That’s why it’s been successful.”

At certain Grayco stores, shoppers can find everything from a soft polo shirt to a sofa and custom-built cabinets.

The new Hilton Head Island store, for instance, boasts expanded inventory since its April move to a 34,000-square-foot location on Bow Circle off Palmetto Bay Road. It offers hardware, yes, but shoppers can also find housewares, home décor, indoor and outdoor furniture and clothing.

Around the first of the year, contractors will also find a new Bluffton Grayco. Workers are currently constructing a building center on Buck Island Road across from Resort Services Inc. When completed, the hub will replace the current Grayco site near the Bluffton Home Depot. But it will still be contractors’ go-to spot for lumber and supplies, as well as a hardware store for the public.

“So if you just need a nut and a bolt, you can go in there and grab it,” says Liz Vallino, Grayco’s home décor operations manager. She calls the site public-friendly, but contractor-based.

And more on friendliness: These days, find Herb Gray and Grayco president Ben Tomlinson at Grayco’s helm. But though leaders discontinued items like auto parts, they want to keep Richard Gray’s principle intact.

“Customer service is what we strive for each and every day,” says Bob Vallino, general manager at the Hilton Head Island Grayco store. “We believe in a hands-on approach for our customers.”

When customers step inside, Grayco workers ask what they are looking for, and then bring shoppers to that item. “We don’t just point and walk away,” general manager Bob Vallino said.

“We know that we’re more sensitive to our customers’ needs, and we react a lot quicker,” Herb Gray says, comparing Grayco to big-box stores.

Grayco lacks the square footage of those big chain operations, but Herb Gray thinks that his company spends more time on staffing to put the right — and properly educated — employee at the best station. The store wants experts helping customers at each department. “It’s really all about customer service for us,” Herb Gray says.

Richard Gray remembers when his competitor said Gray’s company would probably fail. The man offered him a job nonetheless.

He declined. “And in about three or four years,” Richard Gray says with a laugh, “he was out of business.”

Richard Gray stayed the course, and on Grayco’s 60th anniversary, he reflects on the success: “I think it was just hard work, and take care of your customer.” He praises his “wonderful wife and wonderful family,” grateful for so many years in the business. “It’s been very nice.” M 42 hiltonheadmonthly.com

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'ST-SHIRTS ALTY' ARE A HIT WITH CUSTOMERS OF ALL AGES

The Cole Family, from Overland Park, Kansas, all wear their Salty Dog T-shirts on the beach.

Pictured are Chris, Cindy, Jacob and Kiera Cole, along with dog Haley Shrimp.

BY MEGAN MATTINGLY-ARTHUR

Boasting a beautiful waterfront deck, a menu packed with flavorful Lowcountry favorites, regular live entertainment and a lively island atmosphere, the Salty Dog Cafe is one of Hilton Head Island's most popular dining spots.

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t's not just the location, menu and great atmosphere that keep patrons coming back again and again — the restaurant's colorful T-shirts have proved immensely popular throughout the years.

The T-shirts started out as a uniform of sorts for Salty Dog staff members, but it wasn't long before customers began asking where they could purchase their own Salty Dog shirts. In response to the high demand, the owners of the Salty Dog Cafe opened the Salty Dog T-Shirt Factory, where they lovingly silkscreen the shirts for eager customers.

“The Salty Dog T-shirt was born in 1987, about a month after we opened the Salty Dog Cafe,” said owner Bob Gossett.

“We originally printed a few

shirts for the staff members, but it wasn't long before our customers asked to purchase their own. The Salty Dog T-shirt proved to be an instant success and we opened the Salty Dog T-shirt Factory the following year. We brought the silkscreen process in-house in 1989, and every Salty Dog T-shirt is printed, with love, at our facility on Hilton Head Island.”

The Salty Dog offers several T-shirt designs, with the original design — which features the restaurant's logo, a profi le of Jake the Salty Dog wearing a smart-looking sou'wester hat — ranking as the most popular. Variations on the design include Jake wearing seasonal hats, such as a red Santa cap, a ski-style hat and a pointy witch

hat for Halloween. Patrons can also scoop up Salty Dog shirts featuring Jake captaining his very own boat or behind the wheel of a racing vehicle.

“Our logo seems to possess an intangible quality that appeals to a wide range of the population,” Gossett said.

“We offer several designs and prices, and the original is still our most popular. Our shirts are available for purchase online, at our three stores on Hilton Head Island, in Bluffton at Tanger II, and at our newest store in Key West, Florida.”

Available in a wide range of styles, sizes and colors, there seems to be no limit to the popularity of the Salty Dog Cafe's sassy shirts. According to Gossett, the shirts have made

their way to every state in the United States and are often ordered by folks who have never even been to Hilton Head.

“The Salty Dog T-shirt has been worn by newborn babies, and several people have worn them as they were laid to rest,” Gossett said. “We have shipped our shirt to every state in the Union and to several foreign countries, often to people who have never visited Hilton Head Island. As we enter our third decade with the Salty Dog, we hope to continue serving our customers in the Salty Dog tradition.”

For more information on the Salty Dog Cafe or its T-shirts, call 843-671-2233, email info@ saltydog.com or visit www.saltydog.com. M

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AN ISLAND LANDMARK CELEBRATES SIX DECADES WITH A CAN’T-MISS BLOWOUT.

The past 60 years have seen, to put it mildly, incredible change on Hilton Head Island. And Coligny has been there through all of it. Starting as a single corner market, Forest Beach Market, Coligny’s story begins on an island with just a single-lane dirt road and no bridge. Just six short decades later and that little market has kept pace with the island’s growth to serve as downtown to a bustling resort paradise.

A journey like that deserves a celebration.

And Hilton Head Island’s downtown, home to some of the island’s best dining, shopping and entertainment, has put together a 60th birthday blowout of historic proportions.

“It’s not just a celebration of Coligny, it’s a celebration of how far we’ve come,” says JR Richardson, whose family has run Coligny since the beginning. “Really, it’s a celebration of Hilton Head Island. Since we’re Hilton Head Island’s downtown, this is everyone’s party.”

The festivities kick off Sept. 12 with a daylong extravaganza that people will be talking about until it’s time to start planning the 70th birthday.

Monty Jett, an island icon in his own right, will serve as emcee from 4 to 7 p.m. at Coligny’s center stage, keeping the fun rolling, leading the crowd through shag lessons and handing out prizes from Coligny’s shops and vendors.

“The beach is a huge part of Coligny’s past, present and future,” Richardson says. “So we’re excited to get the crowd dancing to the best beach music. And we’re even more excited to see how all of our shops have come through in providing some amazing prizes.”

Some of those amazing prizes will be doled out through an exciting raffl e (you don’t need to be present to claim your prize, but really, there’s no reason to be anywhere else during the biggest party of the year). And a grand prize will be awarded through a drawing on Coligny’s website, where you can play along in an interactive throwback bingo game.

Head to www.ColignyPlaza.com and you’ll fi nd yourself immersed in an exciting interactive game that blends views of Coligny’s past and present, touring you through the many shops and attractions of Coligny as you try to fi ll your bingo card. Spell out bingo, and you’re entered for a grand prize that includes fi ve nights

at Holiday Inn Resort Beach House, plus an astounding Coligny prize package worth thousands in dining, shopping and entertainment at Hilton Head’s downtown.

“We’re really excited about the interactive bingo game,” said Leslie Richardson, JR’s wife and cheerleader of Coligny. “This really gives people a chance to make their way through Coligny and get to know each of the stores who have made this such a special place.”

Not that folks need much of a reminder of how special Coligny is. The thing about having a 60th birthday party is you have to have been around a while, and as far as Hilton Head Island goes, Coligny’s been there from the start.

“There was just a single lane of dirt road on the island when my father, Norris Richardson, arrived with an eye to build the island’s fi rst grocery store,” said JR Richardson, whose father brought him to the island in 1955. “We shipped all the materials to build Forest Beach Market by barge.”

JR added with a chuckle, “One of our fi rst customers was Charles Fraser, a young man who was at that time building this place he called Sea Pines.”

Forest Beach Market would eventually expand, forming the nucleus of a downtown for the tiny island that featured a barbershop, ice cream parlor, the island’s fi rst pharmacy and the south end’s fi rst post offi ce. It eventually became Coligny, birthing a mission to serve as Hilton Head Island’s downtown that JR and Leslie carry on to this day.

“It’s humbling to have been a part of this special place that has called the island home for 60 years,” said Lois, Norris' wife and JR's mother.

“And I’m tremendously excited about the birthday party we have planned. This is going to be something truly special. And JR, Leslie and I will be there to cut the cake.”

It’s been 60 years since Forest Beach Market opened its doors, ushering in a new era in the island’s history. On Sept. 12, those 60 years will be honored in true Coligny fashion: with all the fun and excitement you’ve come to expect from Hilton Head Island’s downtown.

Come by to celebrate with the Richardson family, come by to win and come by to enjoy a slice of Hilton Head Island's history. M

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REMOVAL OF THE CONFEDERATE FLAG:

AN IMPORTANT BENEFIT TO SOUTH CAROLINA’S ECONOMY Not many of our readers know Elihu Spencer, so in view of the subject of this article, I need to provide a little personal background. BY ELIHU SPENCER

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he Spencer family hails from the South. The first Elihu Spencer (one of many with that name) graduated from Yale in 1746 with a degree in divinity.

He was sent to the “New York frontier” (and it really was) to be a missionary to the Six Nations of the Iroquois. Later, he served as a Presbyterian pastor to churches in Elizabeth, New Jersey, and Jamaica Queens, New York, where he became active in the “patriot cause.” In 1764, the Presbyterian Synod of New York sent him to the Carolinas to organize Protestant congregations in support of the growing movement for independence from England.

Elihu later returned north to serve as a chaplain in the Revolutionary Army, but his son remained in what is now South Carolina.

During the Civil War, several Spencers were Confederate officers.

So, I view myself as a proud “son of the South.” But that does not prevent me from concluding that flying a Confederate flag on South Carolina’s Statehouse grounds has resulted in substantial economic losses for the people of South Carolina during the more than 50 years since it was first raised over the Statehouse dome. Moving the flag to the Confederate Relics Room of the State’s military museum provides a longoverdue opportunity for South Carolina to improve its economy.

It may be useful to remind ourselves that South Carolina did not remove a South Carolina flag that proudly flew over our Capitol since the devastating years of the Civil War. The flag that was removed — officially the battle flag of the Army of Northern Virginia — was first hoisted over the Statehouse in 1962 to “commemorate” the beginning of the Civil War. That action occurred early in the tumultuous years

of long-needed changes in civil rights laws and practices. The symbolic impact was arguably moderated in 2000 when, after major protests, it was relocated to a Confederate memorial on the Statehouse grounds in 2000. But that relocation did little to alleviate the formal and informal boycotts by organizations and businesses of South Carolina that still exist.

The most visible and economically destructive organized restraint on South Carolina’s economy has obviously been the NAACP-sponsored boycott and the NCAA’s prohibition against holding any pre-planned championship events in South Carolina. Many businesses and organizations respected the NAACP boycott by holding their major meetings in states where they felt that their shareholders, employees, members, customers and attendees would be more supportive. The last major NCAA event held in South Carolina was in 2002, when 14,000 people attended a sold-out basketball game in Greenville. In recent decades, North Carolina has hosted hundreds of NCAA events, sometimes at facilities that are inferior to those available in Greenville, Columbia, Charleston, Myrtle Beach, Hilton Head Island and other South Carolina sites.

There have been some major economic successes since the Confederate flag was removed from atop the Statehouse in 2000.

Boeing, BMW, Continental Tire, Michelin and, recently, Volvo, have created or proposed major facilities in South Carolina. Many other smaller businesses have also relocated to South Carolina. But how many other businesses decided that the all-too-common perception of South Carolina as a state living in the past outweighed the state’s many positive elements?

Now that the Confederate flag is no longer a visible focus for controversy, I am willing to make a reasonable bet that we are going to see a substantial expansion in business activity in South Carolina. Why? Our state is blessed with an exceptional array of natural and man-made resources.

We have beautiful beaches, lakes, forests and mountains, and the weather to make it possible to enjoy them year-round. We have some of the best and most accessible port facilities on the East Coast. Our road and rail systems, albeit in need of repair and expansion, provide ready access to major population centers. We have towns and communities where housing is affordable and our history and environment are increasingly being protected. We have a university and technical college system that, with proper funding, can be among the best in the country in training our abundant and hard-working citizens. We have pro-business leadership, including a governor and legislature that have recently been willing to provide economic incentives that attract new businesses and encourage existing businesses to expand.

Now that the Confederate flag has respectfully been removed from the Statehouse grounds, South Carolina can capitalize on those extraordinary assets and renew its historic role as a forwardlooking state. M Elihu Spencer is a banking expert with a long business history in global finance. His life work has been centered on understanding credit cycles and their impact on local economies. The information contained in this article has been obtained from sources considered reliable but the accuracy cannot be guaranteed.

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Ehrlich Pest Control has announced that Ken Kolbe has joined the company as its sales consultant for the Lowcountry. Kolbe will be responsible for all residential and commercial sales in Jasper and Beaufort counties, with special concentration on Sun City Hilton Head and the surrounding communities. He brings 45 years of sales expertise and 35 years in the global logistics industry.

Taylor Jacobs has been named director of marketing for LAVA 24 Fitness. The Ashland, Illinois, native got her bachelor’s degree in exercise science and master’s degree in communication from Quincy University.

She also was a volleyball player and assistant volleyball coach at the university.

Wendy Jones has joined Community Foundation of the Lowcountry as communications associate. She will assist with the foundation’s communications and marketing efforts as well as its biennial Public Art Exhibit on Hilton Head Island. Jones brings extensive nonprofit marketing and public relations experience to her position at Community Foundation of the Lowcountry.

Greencraft Homes and Reardon Properties has hired Kathy Bolton as sales executive for its South Carolina division. Bolton brings more than 20 years of real estate and home sales experience to the company. She has won numbers awards and is a member of the RE/MAX Hall of Fame.

H & H Auto Service announces the addition of Vince Handley as service adviser and customer service ambas-

SUNGATE WELCOMES NEW OPHTHALMOLOGIST SunGate Medical Group has welcomed Dr. David “Drew” Hunter to the group’s thriving multi-specialty practice. Hunter received his undergraduate degree from the University of North Carolina, where he also completed his ophthalmology residency. He earned his doctorate of medicine in 2011 from the Medical University of South Carolina. Hunter was recently awarded the Senior Surgical Excellence Award. He has undergone extensive volunteer hours at eye clinics serving low-income residents, as well as a children’s hospital. He has served as an adaptive ski-coach, assisting physically and mentally handicapped children, and took a mission to West Africa, where he treated patients in a primary-care facility and educated local residents on publichealth issues. He is now accepting patients at the Hilton Head, Okatie and Lady’s Island locations. For more information, visit www.sungatemedicalgroup.com or call 843-842-2020.

sador. A longtime resident of Hilton Head, Handley has extensive knowledge of the auto industry, owning his own business for 10 years, and has expertise in all aspects of the replacement tire category, having been responsible for purchasing and maintenance of a workable tire inventory for over 30 years. His reputation in the industry is of honesty and attention to detail.

Palmetto Animal League announced that Laurie K. Brown, founder and owner of Aunt Laurie’s, has been elected to the league’s board of directors. Brown brings extensive experience in leadership, strategy, finance, philanthropy and marketing to the board. She holds a master’s degree in organizational management and several certific tions in leadership, strategy and project management.

Charlie Frangos has joined The Energy Center, located at Island Medical Plaza on Hilton Head Island.

Frangos is a certified sex addiction therapist candidate, certified in rapid

HOSPICE CARE OF THE LOWCOUNTRY NAMES DIRECTOR Hospice Care of the Lowcountry has named Heather Thornburg as its new clinical director.

Thornburg joins the group from Hospice Advantage and brings a wealth of knowledge from working with hospices in the Lowcountry as well as in Colorado. As a fan and user of aromatherapy, she is so pleased that Hospice Care of the Lowcountry has initiated an aromatherapy program for its patients and hopes to help grow and develop that program amongst the other unique services that Hospice Care of the Lowcountry offers..

resolution therapy and daring greatly facilitator. He specializes in working holistically with people with trauma and addictions.

The Greater Bluffton Chamber of Commerce is pleased to announce the addition of Daniella AugensteinSquicquero as its new director of business development. She will focus on local business growth through needs assessment and relationship building.

Her role also includes researching and assisting regional efforts to facilitate the area’s economic growth.

The Seabrook of Hilton Head retirement community welcomes Louise Lund as its new fitness instructor. An islander since 1986, Lund currently is an instructor at Hilton Head Institute and the Country Club of Hilton Head and has worked for many years for Sea Pines Company, and started the fitness center in Sea Pines. She is an AFAA- and Silver Sneakers-certified fi ness instructor and is knowledgeable and caring about the benefits of safe exercise for all ages.

The Hilton Head Institute has announced that Alan McCollough, Coleman Peterson and Eric Wojcikiewicz have been appointed to the institute’s board of directors.

The three new board members join a group of established national thought leaders and well-known business professionals comprising the board of the Hilton Head Institute.

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McCarthy

The Greater Bluffton Chamber of Commerce recently announced the appointment of Mike Tripka as the director for Leadership Bluffton 2016.

Tripka has been in the Bluffton area for more than 10 years as an independent insurance agent. Before relocating to the Lowcountry, he spent 25 years in industrial sales to the chemical and pharmaceutical industries.

Ruth Bartlett, audit partner at Frazier & Deeter, has been chosen as the president of the University of Georgia Alumni Association. Bartlett will serve a two-year term. As part of her responsibilities, she will also join the boards of the UGA Foundation and the UGA Athletic Association.

Barry Fiebert is now a sales agent with Gateway Realty. Fiebert and his wife moved to the Lowcountry from northern Virginia, where he most recently worked with Scientific Application International Corporation in Washington, D.C. His professional career includes teaching public school for six years, 34 years as an information technology consultant, and six years as a real estate agent.

Group46 announced the addition of two new team members to its expanding agency of professional brand navigators: account manager Barrett Gilham and graphic designer Aaron McCarthy. A native of Birmingham, Alabama, Gilham will provide public relations and marketing services to group46’s growing client base. Gilham has nearly 10 years of public relations and marketing experience at the highest level of collegiate sports, leading the branding initiatives for Georgia Southern University’s recent move to the FBS and Sun Belt Conference. Originally from Parkersburg, West Virginia, McCarthy has been a staple in the Savannah market working for local TV

COMMUNITY FOUNDATION NAMES VP FOR GRANTMAKING Cassie Mead has been named vice president for grant-making and community leadership for the Community Foundation of the Lowcountry. In this position, Mead will lead the foundation’s extensive grant process, work to achieve community goals, lead efforts to connect the community’s needs with available resources and direct special initiatives. In other news, the Community Foundation of the Lowcountry awarded $823,331 in grants and scholarships in June and July. Of that total, $548,831 went toward student scholarships; the remaining $274,500 was awarded to six local nonprofit groups in the form of grants. Since 1994, Community Foundation of the Lowcountry has awarded more than $54 million in grants and scholarships.

station WTOC 11, TMX Finance and CampusSports.net providing experience in sales, design, production and graphic design.

Bluffton Town Council recently appointed new directors for the Bluffton Public Development Corporation. Berl Davis is chairman of the board of directors and president and chief executive officer of Palmetto Electric Cooperative, Inc. Sarah Reed is the vice chairman and an Edward Jones financial adviser, opening the first Bluffton branch office in 2008.

Meredith Truitt is a director and is also an ex officio board member for the Don Ryan Center for Innovation, acting as the liaison between the two organizations. Brian Rose Jr. is a director and the president and principal for Beacon Insurance. Dr. Richard Gough is a new director and the president of the Technical College of the Lowcountry. Tom Neal is a new director and the chief operating of cer at Hilton Head Hospital. Lynn King is a new director and has worked for more than 30 years in business communities. Evva Anderson is an ex officio member of the Bluffton Public Development Corporation, representing the Beaufort County School District Board of Education. Anderson is an elected member of the Beaufort County Board of Education representing District 7.

RED ROVER EXPANDS TO NEW SPACE Red Rover, Hilton Head Island’s first do-it-yourself dog wash and grooming bo tique, is moving into its new location at 25 Bow Circle on Sept. 2, just in time for Labor Day. Red Rover will continue to offer dog food, treats and other items in its new location, as well as its do-it-yourself dog washing and full-service bathing and grooming. Red Rover will also expand its PlayCare and offer overnight boarding, with 24-hour on-site supervision.

AWARDS & CERTIFICATIONS The Hilton Head Island-Bluffton Chamber of Commerce has been honored with the M&C: Meetings and Conventions magazine Gold Award rewarding excellence. Honorees are chosen by the magazine’s industry readers, who voted for outstanding destinations that best served their corporate meetings and incentive travel programs during the past year.

The chamber’s Visitor & Convention Bureau is a three-time M&C Gold Award recipient, having also received the award in 2014 and 2009.

The Hospital Auxiliary recently honored Dotty Gottdenker for her 20,000 hours of volunteer service spanning a 25-year period. If you have ever been in the gift shops at Hilton Head or Coastal Carolina hospitals, you have likely felt Gottdenker’s presence. She has served as manager of the Hilton Head Hospital gift shop since 2005 and the Coastal Carolina Hospital gift shop since 2010. Gottdenker handles merchandise selection, purchasing, accounting and customer service for both gift shops, which are the major source of income for the auxiliary.

Synovus, the Columbus, Georgiabased financial services company, announced its 2015 Jack Parker Scholarship recipients. This year, 104 scholarships totaling $132,000 were awarded to children of Synovus team members. Scholarship funds are generated each year through team member donations and internal fundraising activities. Among the recipients, Jackson Henz of the Hilton Head area was awarded a scholarship for 2015.

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BUSINESS NEWS Bill Sampson, director of golf at Spring Island’s Old Tabby Links, has set his sights on playing 200 holes of golf on Sept. 6 to raise $60,000 for the Folds of Honor Foundation.

The foundation provides post-secondary educational scholarships for children and spouses of military service men and women killed or disabled in service. For more information on Patriot Golf Day and the Folds of Honor Foundation, visit www.patriotgolfday. com. To support Sampson’s efforts, contact the Spring Island golf shop at 843-987-2013 or email bsampson@springisland.com.

This school year, Jamison Consultants will be distributing free school uniforms and backpacks for those who qualify on Hilton Head Island and in Bluffton, helping many families as we move into a new school year.

Each client will receive a voucher for two sets of uniforms and a backpack. For more information, call 843-757-7500.

The U.S. Chamber of Commerce recently announced the national reappointment of Hilton Head Island-Bluffton Chamber of Commerce President and CEO Bill Miles to its Chamber of Commerce Committee of 100. Appointment to the national committee is one of the most prestigious honors bestowed in the chamber profession. The Committee of 100 is made up of the country’s leading chamber of commerce chief executives.

The Kroger Community Rewards program designates a percentage of any money spent at Kroger by enrolled Kroger customers to go to a designated charity. The Heritage Library is a listed charity with this program. You can help the Heritage Library every time you shop simply by clicking on Kroger Community Rewards and creating an account to link your card to the Heritage Library.

J BANKS DESIGN ANNOUNCES PROMOTIONS OF 3 TEAM MEMBERS J Banks Design recently promoted four team members. Director of design Kristin Magowitz is now the vice president of design production; accounts payable representative Sarah Tillman is now the vice president of finance; design assistant Jordan Treadaway is now the director of design administration; and expeditor Wendy George is now the warehouse manager.

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The RSM Foundation recently announced a gift to The Literacy Center of Bluffton and Hilton Head Island, which equips adults with the reading, writing, math and speaking skills they need to be successful in the family, the workplace and the community. The gift of $5,000 will go towards a computer lab software upgrade in The Literacy Center’s two locations. The software, which includes ESL programs and applications from Rosetta Stone, is primarily used by students in the English as a Second Language Program, where independent practice in the computer lab is a critical component of gaining fluency Golden Age Insurance Agency has relocated to 200 Main Street, Suite 101B on Hilton Head Island. The agency has been providing customized health insurance needs on Hilton Head for 23 years, specializing in Medicare supplement and prescription drug plans, health, dental, long-term care and life insurance plans.

TD Bank recently hosted a “Green Friday” event at its main Hilton Head location on New Orleans Road. As part of the bank’s national “Bring Change” initiative, a penny arcade was installed in the lobby of the New Orleans Road branch to collect donations of loose change for local nonprofit The Outside Foundation. TD Bank matched donations and presented a check for $2,353.63 to the

BELFAIR ANNOUNCES 1811 CHARITABLE FUND Belfair, a private golf community in Bluffton, recently announced the formation of the Belfair 1811 Charitable Fund. The fund’s mission is to embrace the pride, passion and commitment of Belfair members to impact the lives of those people in need in the greater Bluffton area. To assist in the administration of the fund, Belfair is partnering with Community Foundation of the Lowcountry, which for 20 years has been connecting people in need with resources by building stronger communities and assisting donors in making a difference through charitable giving. A golf tournament is scheduled for Sept. 29 on Belfair’s West Course. For more information, contact Marshall Coleman at MColeman1956@gmail.com.

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foundation. The funds are earmarked for The Outside Foundation’s “Kids in Kayaks” program, which has a goal of getting every middle-schooler in Beaufort County into a kayak. Through February 2016, TD’s coincounting penny arcades in 500 select stores will serve as designated hubs to collect change and fund local community initiatives across the company’s Maine to Florida footprint.

Island Links Resort, one of four Hilton Head Island resorts collectively referred to as the Coral Resorts family of properties, has received the Certificate of Excellence award from TripAdvisor for the fifth consecutive year and has been inducted into the world’s largest travel site’s “Hall of Fame.”

The Boys & Girls Clubs of the Lowcountry recently relocated its corporate offices. The administrative offices, formerly located at the Hilton Head Island Boys & Girls Club, was moved to 10 Pinckney Colony Road, Suite 103, in Bluffton. The phone number will remain 843-379-5430.

Named one of the world’s best getaways for families by Travel + Leisure in 2013, Palmetto Dunes has added even more family fun to its many offerings with the addition of pickle ball at the Palmetto Dunes Tennis Center. Described as tennis meets pingpong, the game is easy to pick up and popular with all ages. Played with oversized pingpong paddles and a softball-sized plastic perforated ball, the goal is to volley the ball over a net that stands 34 inches.

The Beaufort County School District’s sold-out Swinging with the Superintendent golf tournament raised more than $70,000 to support a new scholarship program that will pay two years of college tuition to qualified students. The Building a Better Beaufort Scholarship — dubbed “B3” — covers up to two years of tuition costs at the Technical College of the Lowcountry. M

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MONTHLY’S OFFICIAL

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management GUIDE If you already own a vacation rental property and you want to make a change in management, or if you have a new home that you’re converting into a vacation rental, first consider long-term or short-term rental.

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THERE ARE TREMENDOUS REWARDS THAT COME WITH OWNING RENTAL PROPERTY ON HILTON HEAD ISLAND. STORY BY JEREMY GRACE PHOTOS BY ROB KAUFMAN

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ou’re able to enjoy your own piece of paradise: a place to relax, rejuvenate and reconnect with family and friends. As an island property owner, you can take advantage of beach parks built just for you and enjoy discounts on golf, retail and restaurants. Your property can be a place to create long lasting memories for years to come, and it could become your future retirement home.

The financial reward for rental property owners begins with asset appreciation.

For prospective rental property buyers, real estate transactions have been steadily increasing the past few years while median pricing has remained relatively flat. Couple current pricing with low interest rates and an incredible amount of renovation and redevelopment momentum on the island and you have a high probability that you will build equity in your property in a relatively short period of time. The income generated from rental activity will help offset taxes, insurance and maintenance expenses. Consult your lawyer and accountant to understand the tax benefits of owning rental property and how to best structure the property’s ownership.

If you are considering purchasing or already own a rental property, you have two options: renting it short-term as a vacation rental or long-term with a residential tenant.

There are certain advantages and benefits to both.

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Long-term rentals work very well for owners or investors who don’t want to use the property regularly; the benefi ts of a fi xed, regular rent check is very appealing and your property may not receive as much normal wear and tear as would a short-term property. Long-term rental managers can make ownership extremely easy, and their fees are usually well worth avoiding the time, energy and problem-solving skills necessary to manage your long-term rental.

If you own a desirable property, something a visitor would love to spend a vacation in, short-term rental is a great option. Hilton Head hosts more than 2.4 million visitors annually, and more than 50 percent of those guests stay in home and villa rental properties.

In today’s technology- and Internet-driven world, more and more vacation property owners are attempting to book and manage their properties on their own. But what often happens is these owners can soon get overwhelmed with responding to reservation requests, maintenance and housekeeping issues and even late-night phone calls if for example, a rental guest has locked themselves out of the property.

What started as a “hobby” can quickly turn into an overwhelming fulltime job. The good news is there is a wide selection of exceptional vacation rental management companies on Hilton Head Island.

Hiring an effective vacation manager can greatly ease the burden of property management and fees; their services can often pay for themselves through increased revenues and peace of mind, and may even have tax benefi ts for you. So how do you choose the right company and what are the top functions you can expect from your vacation rental manager?

The best vacation rental management companies are fi rst and foremost all about marketing. Look for a company that not only has a good website to book your property but also has a mobile website, a mobile app and a social media and local Internet marketing strategy. Your property should be marketed globally utilizing the hundreds of vacation rental distribution channels readily available.

Your vacation rental management company should provide aroundthe-clock phone support to take advantage of every opportunity to book your home.

Next, your vacation rental manager should take care of your property like it is his own. Look for a company that offers outstanding cleaning support.

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VISIT OUR NEW WEBSITE AT SUNSETRENTALS.COM

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unset Rentals understands what makes a vacation home right for our guests. We make it our business to find vacation rentals of the highest standard that go above and beyond our guest’s expectations. We provide quality homes, and quality customer service which sets us apart from the rest. Our mission statement is to provide superior management services to our home owners and a memorable vacation to our guests.

Only when both are successful are we satisfied. Whether you are renting with us or putting your rental in our hands as an owner you can be sure that you are working with the best on Hilton Head Island.

ABOUT SUNSET RENTALS  Family Owned and Operated Since 1993  5 Star Customer Service & A+ BBB Rating  Maintenance Techs 7 Days a week  Banner Ads on Major Rental Websites  Guest & Owner Friendly Website  Special Promotions with Free Bikes & Golf  No Marketing Fees to Owners

CONTACT US TODAY! 843-785-6767 • 800-276-8991 • 21D New Orleans Rd, Hilton Head Island, SC 29928 • sunsetrentals.com • info@sunsetrentals.com

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SERVICES  Inclusion in Island Getaway’s annual edition of Hilton Head Island’s Rental Homes and Villas, a 100 page printed catalog that is distributed to their extensive and highly qualified database.

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ABOUT ISLAND GETAWAY RENTALS Island Getaway has established itself as the premier home and villa rental company on Hilton Head Island since its inception over 25 years ago.

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sland Getaway Rentals is the largest provider of high-end homes and villas on Hilton Head Island, which is a distinct advantage for vacationers and property owners alike. As an owner, you have access to the largest database of those who choose Hilton Head as their vacation destination and who appreciate and respect premium properties. This, coupled with an award winning website and extensive marketing plan; has enabled Island Getaway to provide their clients with the highest occupancy levels and overall return on the Island. As a vacationer, you feel confident that your accommodations will meet your expectations and the vast selection of homes and villas is unrivaled by any other provider.

Island Getaway is a past recipient, and the first vacation rental company, to receive the prestigious “Chamber of Commerce Business of the Year.” It is with great pride that the company lives up to this honor.

Island Getaway does not take the responsibility of property management lightly; and realizes the financial and emotional commitment of owning a second home. Their attitude, attention to detail, and overall results separate them from the competition. They understand that your vacation home is a valued asset, and will partner with you to design a flexible management agreement that addresses any concerns you may have about renting your property. With Island Getaway Rentals, you can talk directly with the owner of the company, and rest assured that decisions will be made and any problems will be solved immediately.

The customer service provided is a major advantage when selecting Island Getaway Rentals to manage your property. The friendly and dedicated staff have forged invaluable relationships within the community of local vendors and will treat your home with top priority. If you are hundreds of miles from your home, it is comforting to know that a situation will be handled without having to make numerous follow-up phone calls.

Island Getaway’s personal approach to property management and high level of communication provide great “peace of 9 JUNKET mind” to absentee owners.

 Island Getaway offers an extensive media marketing plan that relies on regional, national and international publications, as well as an unprecedented Internet marketing strategy. At Island Getaway’s award winning website (islandgetaway.com) guests can book online and review each property with multiple photos and detailed descriptions. Islandgetaway.com has attained top ranking on all major search engines including Google, Yahoo and MSN/Bing.  The combination of the highest occupancy and lowest commissions on the Island gives Island Getaway’s property owners the highest year-end net income. This becomes evident when an owner is not required to provide complimentary nights to the rental agency, pay a marketing fee, provide tennis privileges, or support the rental agency’s housekeeping department.  Island Getaway works closely with the Island’s top real estate professionals providing them with invaluable information regarding the rental market on Hilton Head Island. Island Getaway provides realistic rental projections based on actual figures that will assist in purchasing the right property. From market trends to providing feedback from our extensive database, Island Getaway will provide the best overall return on investment.  Island Getaway’s flexible management agreements are tailored to the specific needs and interests of their property owners. Negotiable commission rates and no restrictions on the amount of owner use of their property creates a successful working relationship and peace of mind for owners.  Detailed monthly online statements, newsletters and Owner Link keep property owners up to date on their property and income. Property owners are always kept abreast of issues on Hilton Head that are relative to their investments.  Island Getaway staff members are available 24 hours a day, 7 days a week.  islandgetaway.com is the Island’s most prominent website. It can be found on the first page of all the major search engines when searching for vacation rentals on Hilton Head Island.

“SETTING THE STANDARD FOR HILTON HEAD ISLAND VACATION HOME AND VILLA RENTALS FOR OVER 25 YEARS” CONTACT US FOR A FREE RENTAL ANALYSIS 28 New Orleans Rd., Hilton Head Island, SC 29928 • 843-842-4664 • 800-476-4885 • islandgetaway.com

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ABOUT THE VACATION COMPANY Perfect Vacations & Extraordinary Property Management

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e are guest satisfaction superstars! A national survey of over 50,000 guests rated us 8th out of 250 vacation rental companies.

We encourage owners to participate in marketing efforts across the board to increase exposure and revenues wherever they feel comfortable, by offering professional management assistance with owner-guest sites such as Vacation Rentals By Owner (VRBO).

We have secured top placement in organic online searches, and have enhanced our brand exponentially by expanding our online presence through website optimization, social media, press releases, and email newsletters. In short, we’re everywhere in travel cyber space that matters!

Free wireless Internet access is provided in all of our properties. We have in-house professional tech support so guests are not dependent solely on cable and phone company responses.

Every one of our staff is a South Carolina licensed realtor or property manager, and each possesses a personal, in-depth knowledge of our homes. We also have a full-time interior decorator to help owners with upgrades and other interior enhancements.

SERVICES  24/7 personal answering service – no recordings  www.vacationcompany.com – popular and effective website  Competitive management fees – no marketing fees  Credit card security deposit for all guests  2 complete property inspections for each arrival  AND MUCH, MUCH, MORE! We specialize in amenity-rich properties like Forest Beach,

Celebrating 28 years of providing extraordinary property management leadership and most of all, customer service.

Palmetto Dunes, Sea Pines, Shelter Cove, Shipyard, and luxury villas at Barrington, Beachside Tennis, Captains Walk, Hampton Place, Lands End, SeaCrest, Shorewood, Sound Villas, South Beach Villas, Turtle Lane Club, Windsor, Villamare and many more…all perfect for a family vacation or a long, leisurely, weekend getaway.

42 New Orleans Road, Hilton head Island, South Carolina 29928 • 800.545.3303 • vacationcompany.com

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ABOUT FIVE STAR PROPERTIES HILTON HEAD

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ive Star Properties Hilton Head Island hand-selects each property that joins the vacation rental program. Association with our program places your home into the company of Hilton Head’s most luxurious and sought-after vacation rentals. Guests are obsessed with the Five Star service, and property owners love it too.

You can have what every rental owner longs for: a property management company you can trust! With Five Star Properties as your property management company, you will develop a personal relationship with the management team. We take care of every challenge that pairs with renting out a vacation property for you! Our team of professionals know the best way to market and maintain your property to get bookings! Promo videos and photography, advertisements, and property listings are just a few of the things we will take care of for you! We also take care of the regular maintenance and cleaning services your home needs to stay in the best shape for you and the guests!

Five Star Hilton Head Island has all the resources to manage your property successfully. Give us a try and put us to the test. We can even guarantee you the specific dollar amount of your monthly check!

SERVICES  Secured Income!  No cleaning fees!  Limited maintenance fees covered by Five Star!  Quality properties only!  A company that's invested in your property!

OWNER TESTIMONIALS “Five Star Properties has exceeded all our expectations. Our property is well cared for, all guests have been happy and we’ve been provided flexibility for our personal use.

They do everything promised. Truly outstanding service and follow through.”

— Greg Morris; Owner “Heart of the Harbour”

4 Pensacola Place, Unit D, Hilton Head, SC 29928 • 1.800.746.0242 • www.experiencehiltonheadsc.com

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TOP 10 REASONS Why Hilton Head Rentals & Golf Is the RIGHT Rental Company For You! 1 Exceptional rental income throughout the year, NOT just summer 2 Acclaimed property care and maintenance program 3 Dedicated, friendly staff committed to exceeding owners and guests expectations 4 Competitive commissions, reduced costs, greater ROI 5 Massive advertising support including a strong social media presence 6 State of the art website, easy search, NEW property customized APP 7 Top placement in Google and other key directories 8 FREE property listing on VRBO and Home Away 9 Hi tech floor plans, with imbedded photos for homes 10 Innovative technology adapting our website for the huge mobile and tablet searches Call for a FREE customized Rental Income Projection and a Marketing/Advertising plan developed for YOUR property!

See what a difference the RIGHT Rental Company can make!

For more information, please go to our website www.hiltonheadvacation.com In the upper right hand corner click onto the owner’s button.

Call Tom or Judy at 1-800-445-8664.

Or email us at tom@hiltonheadvacation.com or judy@hiltonheadvacation.com (See our ad on page 5)

CONTACT US TODAY 800.445.8664 • 843.785.8687 • 578 William Hilton Pkwy., Hilton Head Island, SC 29928 • www.HiltonHeadVacation.com

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GOODE VACATION RENTALS Goode Vacation Rentals is a family owned & operated company with over 25 years of exceeding the expectations of our property owners and guests.

PMG: PEACE OF MIND GUARANTEED  Guaranteed Increase in Net Income for incoming properties.  Free management of renovation and redecorating services by experts in the business.  Highest Net Income to Owners

MARKET LEADERSHIP  Fastest, easiest to navigate website on Hilton Head Island: GoodeVacationRentals.com. The least amount of “clicks” required to make a booking results in the greatest number of reservations.  Biggest color property photos of any website on HHI. Great pictures tell it all.  Easiest to use Online Booking module and Online Owner Module  Proprietary, direct marketing partnerships with the largest travel- generators in the industry such as Trip Advisor, HomeAway, VRBO, VacationHomes, FlipKey and numerous other Vacation Rental Internet portals and most major search engines such as Google, Yahoo, and Bing.  Most technologically advanced software and Guest Services on HHI  Proprietary Goode Vacation Rentals Mobile App enhancing the Guest Experience.  Facebook’s leading HHI vacation rental company.  100,000+ of previous and potential guest database receives eMail Blasts regularly.  Best office location with greatest visibility on Hilton Head Island - for easy access and great walk-in traffic.

PROPERTY MANAGEMENT  Inspections by GVR trained staff are a priority after departure and before guest arrival  Hands-on management + vendor scrutiny = lower maintenance cost  Keyless Entry is offered for virtually all properties

TESTIMONIALS FROM OUR OWNERS “After using another rental management company, we transferred management responsibilities to Goode Vacation Rentals over three years ago and never looked back. Rentals tripled, the house is much better taken care of, and they are always there for us when we need anything. The personalized service just cannot be beat. Brian and his staff are like having family down on the island to look after our house.”

— Tony & Liz Bradshaw, 2nd Row Ocean, 5 Bedroom/6 Bath, Singleton Beach “Brian, his family & crew are the most efficient we have ever dealt with in our 20 years of owning rental properties on Hilton Head Island. Our properties look great and we can depend on them to keep them that way.”

— Jim & Opal Propes, 3 Oceanfront Shorewood Villas, 2 & 3 bedrooms “The Goode’s provide the personal knowledge and attention to my property that I was looking for. They are honest, hard-working and they deliver the results! Their commitment to positive guest services is unmatched. My return guest numbers are beyond my expectations.

— Jim Hackett, Oceanfront, 8 Bedroom/6 Bath, Forest Beach “We looked for a property management company with personal service and accessible managers, who would be familiar with us and our home. We have found that in Goode Vacation Rentals. In addition, Brian’s help on a property related issue saved us a lot of money this year.”

— Cary & Kathy Klein, Oceanfront, 5 Bedroom/5 Bath, Sea Pines “For almost 10 years, we’ve had the pleasure and privilege of working with one of the greatest property management teams anywhere – certainly on Hilton Head. There have been some face changes over the years, but the quality of service and attention to our needs, and those of our renters, has remained the same – top notch! We engaged Goode based on a promise

by Brian that we and our renters would not be disappointed, and he was absolutely correct.

All of you are to be commended and I have reinforced that when I’ve had calls from other property owners considering engaging Goode to handle their rentals.”

- Fred & Barbara Crowe, 3 Bedroom/3 Bath, Palmetto Dunes

CONTACT US TODAY 800.673.9385 • 42 New Orleans Rd, Ste 103, Hilton Head Island, SC • GoodeVacationRentals.com

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ABOUT OUR PROPERTIES PERSONAL ATTENTION

We treat your property like it is our own  Beach Properties provides owners with their own Licensed Property Manager - a single point of contact to handle all of your needs.  #1 Property Management Team with 9 full time Licensed Property Managers.  Skilled Vacation Planners that focus on maximizing bookings.  In house Inspectors check and secure your property before and after each guest stay - performing a comprehensive, 40 point property inspection.

ABOUT BEACH PROPERTIES OF HILTON HEAD

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As a property owner or potential owner on Hilton Head Island, you deserve the best in service excellence when it comes to the rental and care of your vacation home or villa.

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each Properties of Hilton Head has been successfully managing Luxury Vacation Rental Properties on Hilton Head since 1995.

At Beach Properties, we know that exceptional properties require exceptional service. We understand that clean, well-maintained homes and villas make for happy owners and repeat guests. Our dedicated, professional team works together to ensure each guest and owner receive the outstanding level of service excellence they deserve. As the only vacation rental company voted #1 for six years and also voted #1 best property management company for two years in the Island Packet Readers Choice Awards, and a recipient of the Hilton Head Island - Bluffton Chamber of Commerce’s Small Business of the Year Award, Beach Properties has the proven track record and solid long term financial resources to market and care for your property with the highest level you deserve.

Maximizing Your ROI

 Highest net income to owners; flexibility to analyze owner income weekly and make adjustments to maximize ROI.  No annual marketing fees or travel agent free nights.  Monthly statements distributed on the 8th of each month.  Direct Deposit available to get funds to you sooner.  Dedicated Owner’s area on our website to book your online reservations and view your monthly statement  Beach Properties monthly owner’s newsletter.

MARKETING

To Achieve Your Goals  State of the art Cloud Based Reservation System and Website.  Experienced in house Marketing Team.  Extensive Internet Marketing.  Professional website attracts over 800,000 visitors per year.  24/7 online reservation booking system and Mobile Website.  Professional photos (interior and exterior), descriptions, and floor plans for each property at no charge to owner.  Included in Frommers’ South Carolina Travel Guide and we hold the Coveted AAA accreditation

Best Vacation Rental Company 2010-2015

HILTON HEAD ISLAND-BLUFFTON CHAMBER - SMALL BUSINESS OF THE YEAR!

Best Property Management Company 2014-2015

WHAT OWNERS & GUESTS SAY ABOUT BEACH PROPERTIES:

 Monthly e-mail campaigns to over 45,000 previous and potential guests.  Active Social Media Marketing on Facebook, Twitter, Instagram, YouTube, & Google+.  Exclusive Advantage Discount Card provides discounts to Owners and Guests at over 135 Local Businesses.

“I have personally witnessed the highest individuals in the company sweating it out on a Saturday in the interest of the client and the guest. They understand the value of the internet, but they utilize many avenues to drive performance of their properties and work with clients to deliver great guest experiences that are desired to be repeated.” — Owner, Sea Pines and Palmetto Dunes

PROVEN SUCCESS

“As far as management companies, we have been coming to HHI for 15 years and yours is the easiest to deal with. LOVE that we do not have to check-in!” — Lauri, Saint Clair, August 7, 2015

 Customer Satisfaction has resulted in one of the highest percentage of repeat guest bookings.

 Record sales for 2015.  10% Owner Revenue Growth over 2014’s record sales.  99.6% Owner Retention.

CONTACT OUR BUSINESS DEVELOPMENT MANAGER, DRU BROWN AT 800.671.5155 • PO Box 7408, Hilton Head Island, SC 29938 • rentmyhhihome.com • Dru@beach-property.com

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ABOUT DESTINATION VACATION

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f you own a luxury vacation rental, you already know how challenging it can be to market your property to the right guests, ensure a positive guest experience and have someone care for your home as their own in your absence.

As industry leaders in luxury vacation rentals, we understand the value of your investment and the challenges you face as an absentee owner. Partnering with Destination Vacation is the most effective way to maximize the return on your valued investment and now is the perfect time to discover the difference that sets us apart.

We are proud of our reputation of offering the best customer service and highest quality vacation rentals on Hilton Head Island, and it starts with our team of local property managers who raise the bar in terms of level of service that we offer. In turn, we take care of our team members by providing a positive work environment with compensation and incentives that inspire great attitudes, hard work and low turn-over.

Our early business goals were to serve a specific niche of quality ocean-oriented vacation rentals and maintain a limited number of inventory. By being selective, we only offer the best of the best in vacation rentals, which is expected from our elite clientele. We are proud of the fact that we book 65% of our reservations to repeat guests and retain 99% of our homeowners on an annual basis.

If you have an amazing home or villa in Sea Pines, Palmetto Dunes or Forest Beach, we would love the opportunity to speak with you about your goals, our services and if your property might be a fit with our inventory. Please contact us to discuss the ways we can help you make a smooth transition to Destination Vacation!

OWNER TESTIMONIALS “We chose Destination Vacation as our management company because of our past experience as renters for many years.

During that time, Destination Vacation became our “go to” rental agency because their units never disappointed us.”

— J. Leeuw, Owner, 1894 Beachside Tennis “We selected Destination Vacation for our rental company when we first acquired our house in Sea Pines four years ago. I interviewed several companies before selecting Destination Vacation to represent us and manage our property. I have not second-guessed our decision for one minute.”

— S. Goldstein, Owner, 11 Royal Tern

7 Executive Park Road, Hilton Head Island, SC 29928 • 877.874.7244 • 843.785.7774 • destinationvacationhhi.com

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ABOUT WYNDHAM VACATION RENTALS HILTON HEAD ISLAND The Local Company with A Global Reach

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yndham Vacation Rentals is the perfect partner to manage your vacation rental property. We strive to make your homeowner experience one of individual attention and professionalism, and to ensure that your property is realizing its full investment potential.

WE WILL PARTNER WITH YOU TO PROVIDE:  Hands-on property care, managed by a dedicated property manager and supported by our full team of property professionals.  Personalized relationships which establish trust, exceed your expectations and ensure you are always treated as our first priority.  Consistent standards meaning that we hold all service vendors accountable, ensuring your home is as clean and well-maintained as possible.  Regular communication from our team, to keep you connected to your property and our performance.  Powerful marketing and sales capabilities, through well-trained reservationists, revenue management analytics, and regional, national, and international media channels.

WYNDHAM HOME EXCHANGE® PROGRAM The Wyndham Home Exchange program allows you to turn select rental weeks at your vacation rental property into your own vacation stays all around the world.* When you deposit up to five weeks from your vacation rental property into the exchange system, you will receive Points that can be exchanged for stays at a selection of nearly 4,500 affiliated resorts or rental properties worldwide.* Whether exchanging for a stay in a luxurious ski house in Colorado, or swapping for a country cottage in England, the Wyndham Home Exchange program offers a vast database full of vacation destinations for you to choose from, all backed by a trusted hospitality brand. *These vacations are limited, subject to availability and your accessible Points balance.

For more information, contact Susan Rowland at 843.247.2934 or e-mail Susan.Rowland@wynvr.com • www.WVRHiltonHead.com

21 Executive Park Road, Hilton Head Island, SC 29928 • 843.247.2934 • WVRHIiltonHead.com

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ABOUT VACATION TIME OF HILTON HEAD ISLAND, INC. Celebrating 40 Years Serving Hilton Head Island Owners and Vacationers Rentals • Real Estate Sales • Regime Management

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acation Time of Hilton Head Island, Inc. is a full-service, family owned and operated company, established in 1976. Its offices are conveniently located in the heart of the South Forest Beach area of Hilton Head Island, perfect for easy guest check-in and quick response time for management.

Our services include: Real Estate Sales, Oceanfront Vacation Rentals, Long Term Rentals as well as Property Management. We manage over 600 resort villas primarily the in South Forest Beach area. All of our rental properties are ocean front, ocean view or ocean access, within steps of the beach. The variety of property size and prices available mean that there is something for anyone who wants a memorable beach vacation on Hilton Head Island.

Our 24/7 in-house maintenance staff, extensive online marketing presence, high percentage of repeat guests, long standing relationships with condominium regime clients, rental property owners and guests are all great reasons to consider Vacation Time for your management needs.

ABOUT SEASHORE VACATIONS, INC. LOCALLY OWNED & OPERATED FOR OVER 40 YEARS

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wner/B.I.C., Buddy Konecny and his staff have been providing guests and owners with unparalleled customer service year-after-year. Our “Hands On” approach ensures your property will receive the attention it deserves while maximizing rental income. Allow us to customize a program to suit your particular needs.

We specialize in Oceanfront & Ocean-oriented properties on Hilton Head Island’s famous South End: Forest Beach, Sea Pines & Shipyard.

SERVICES  Easy to navigate web site, www.seashorevacations.com, featuring on-line reservations, up-to-the-minute booking calendar, photos of the properties, amenities and other valuable information. We offer a Mobile Application for Apple & Android devices. This application includes property information, restaurants and local activities. We are partners with multiple online travel sites including: Home Away, Trip Adviser/Flip Key, Clear Stay, Perfect Places and VRBO (among others).  Timely statements (also available online), property inspections, periodic inventories, security checks and 24 hour on-call service.  No marketing fees or invoice “Mark Up” charges.  Our top priority is renting the properties we manage. We do not own any of the properties on our rental program nor do we sell real estate. We focus on your rentals.

CONTACT Terry Notartomaso - terry@vthhi.com Gary Fons - gwfhhi@hotmail.com

Find us on Facebook (www.facebook.com/vacationrentalhhi) and Pinterest (www.pinterest.com/vthhi) 3 Lemoyne Avenue, Hilton Head Island, SC 29938 843.785.5151 • 1.800.845.9500 • vthhi.com

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P.O. Box 5071, 11 Executive Park Road, Hilton Head Island, SC 29938 800.845.0077 • 843.785.2191 • rentals@seashorevacations.com seashorevacations.com

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HILTON HEAD LONG-TERM RENTALS, INC.

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Want to rent your property long-term?

ilton Head Long-Term Rentals is an owner oriented firm that is dedicated to protecting the owner’s real estate investment by providing quality management services.

Established in 1981, Hilton Head Long-Term Rentals is the only firm that exclusively handles long-term rental management on Hilton Head Island and the surrounding communities.

Our long-term management services are designed for property owners who wish to rent their home or villa for six months or longer, either furnished or unfurnished.

OWNER SERVICES:  Marketing the property for lease  Insuring that the rental rate is competitive in the area so that you, the owner, receive consistent monthly income  Screening prospective tenants by performing a credit check through a national credit bureau  Collecting the security deposit (pet deposit if applicable) and monthly rent  Coordinating legal action for the collection of late rents and eviction if necessary  Preparing detailed monthly owner’s statements of income and expenses  No up-charge on 24 hr. regular maintenance  Inspecting the property to insure tenant care of premises with a written report sent to you, the owner

ABOUT SOUTH BEACH INN & VACATION RENTALS FOCUS ON SOUTH BEACH

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n an island the size of Hilton Head, it is easy to spread your resources too thin. That’s why we, at South Beach Inn and Vacation Rentals, concentrate on marketing only the South Beach area. By partnering with The Salty Dog and the South Beach community, we are able to effectively reach guests on a national, regional and local level while offering the personal attention you expect.

In addition to our villa rentals, The South Beach Inn has a collection of suites available for nightly rentals. The suites are an affordable way to accomadate extra visitors and remain in the South Beach and Sea Pines area. Suites are equipped with kitchenettes and include the same service people have come to expect from The South Beach Inn. It’s no wonder we are constantly growing and our guests return year after year.

SERVICES  Secure custom website with online booking.  Detailed photo gallery and a searchable database that enables guests to find accommodations to fit their needs.  Detailed property inspection before, DURING, and after every visit to address any issues that might arise.  Full-time maintenance staff to protect your investment in the event of an emergency.  High occupancy rates with lower commissions ensure owner profitability.  Timely and concise monthly statements.

Michael Manesiotis, Broker-In-Charge

Contact us at hhltr@hargray.com Michael Manesiotis, Broker-In-Charge 1000 Main Street, Suite 100C Hilton Head Island, SC 29926 843.681.6800 • www.longtermrentals.com

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232 South Sea Pines Drive, Hilton Head Island, South Carolina 29928 1.800.367.3909 • sbinn.com

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ABOUT COASTAL LONG TERM RENTALS At Coastal Long Term Rentals, we’re as particular about who lives in your long-term rental property as you are about who manages it.

Coastal Long Term Rentals has been in operation for over 30 years on Hilton Head Island.

Owner, Laura Wuller, has been working in the rental/real estate industry since coming to Hilton Head from her home state of Montana. Since taking ownership, Coastal’s inventory has grown tremendously. Integrity, professionalism, resourcefulness, and experience are just some of the reasons for our success.

Please call us today for a rental evaluation of your island home or villa. Take advantage of this incredibly strong rental market! Vacant inventory is low and rental rates are increasing!

Why Choose Coastal Long Term Rentals?  Competitive management fees  Specialize in Island home and villa rentals, and we DO NOT sell real estate  Strict tenant screenings including credit checks, background checks, prior landlord references, employment verification, etc.  Security deposits no less than one month’s rent held throughout tenancy  Vendor invoices for repairs are paid from rent with NO mark-ups  Thorough and prompt property inspections  Owner statements and proceeds sent ASAP upon the clearing of the tenant’s payment

ABOUT BEACHSIDE GETAWAY

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eachside Getaway is locally owned by your neighbor who has been an Islander for over 30 years. Our unique approach to property management is proven. Our guests love it and have come back year after year.

Two licensed property managers and professional reservationists will insure that your property is in tip top shape while maximizing your rental potential. Your property will also be carefully inspected before and after each guest by our in-house inspectors.

Our rates are comparable and we offer much more service to our home owners. We understand not all owners are the same and we are flexible to meet those needs. Our homeowners have 24/7 access to their calendars and accounts, and we are only a phone call away if you ever need anything. You will speak to a person who knows your name and your property like it was their own.

WE OFFER UNIQUE PROPERTY MANAGEMENT:  Exclusive number of properties

 Website and National Advertising

 Hands On service  Competitive fees

 Member of Hilton Head Island Chamber of Commerce

 Reasonable cleaning and maintenance fees

 Locally owned and operated by your Neighbor

 Optimal rental revenue

 Extensive data base of past customers

 Owner access to account and calendar on website

 Owner referral program  On time monthly payments

“Dear Lisa, Frank and all of the wonderful Beachside Getaway staff — First, we would like to thank you for all your attention to detail in caring for our property. We are also pleased with the bookings we have received this summer. Again, thank you for your professional and personal touch!” — Teri and James Proctor “Good Morning Beth and Lisa — Thank you to all of you at Beachside for finding the wonderful guests this summer. This was the best rental season we have had in several years in spite of the economy. We truly appreciate all you do in the management of our home. The approach and attention you give to guests and the homeowner is unique.” — Ginny Jones

TESTIMONIAL “If someone ever asks for a reference for your business, feel free to give them my name.˜ You have been so easy to work with and incredibly helpful.˜ Thank you again for everything. I was apprehensive being a “landlord” from such a distance, but you have made it painless.˜ We both really appreciate it.” — Patty Borges

Please give us a call to discuss carefree rental property ownership on Hilton Head Island.

Laura Wuller, Broker-in-Charge coastalhiltonhead.com

#2 The Business Center, 18 Executive Park Road, Hilton Head Island, SC 29928 O: 843-842-4546 • C: 843-263-4332 • coastalhiltonhead@gmail.com

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61 Arrow Rd Suite E, Hilton Head Island, SC 29928 843.686.6044 • Toll Free 1.866.443.5922 • www.beachsidegetaway.com

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THERE ARE MANY REASONS TO CHOOSE A PROPERTY MANAGEMENT COMPANY TO OVERSEE YOUR PROPERTY. ACCORDING TO MANY EXPERTS, HERE ARE THE TOP 10 REASONS TO HIRE A PROPERTY MANAGEMENT COMPANY: 1. Peace of mind: You’ll sleep easier knowing that someone is taking care of any problems that may arise, even when you’re hundreds of miles away.

2. Maximize rental income: A property management company has tremendous resources to market your property, advertising in a multitude of channels and giving your property a wide exposure.

3. Worry-free transactions: Your rental management company takes care of reservation confirmations, keys and visitor passes, making renting your property a hassle-free experience.

4. Financial accountability: You’ll be able to keep track of your property’s profitability thanks to an itemized account of your rental income and expenses.

5. Routine maintenance: Your property management company will offer maintenance staff capable of addressing many issues, and for more complex problems, the company can suggest trusted outside vendors.

6. No late-night phone calls: There’s nothing worse than a late-night phone call telling you the toilet is overflowing. Your property management company can eliminate this pesky problem by handling all calls from renters.

7. Fewer tax worries: Eliminate tax headaches by having your property management company process any accommodation taxes paid by guests.

8. Marketing: You’ll never worry about marketing your property again. Your property management company has the resources and expertise necessary to effectively market your property with no hassle.

9. Cancellation protection: Should a renter back out, you won’t have to worry — your property management company will clearly promote its cancellation policy, protecting you.

10. Control of use: You’ll be able to enjoy the use of your property whenever you choose, but still receive income when it is rented.

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ABOUT PALMETTO DUNES VACATION RENTALS Hilton Head Island’s Preferred Vacation Rental Solution

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enting a vacation home shouldn’t feel like work. With Palmetto Dunes Vacation Rentals, owners will enjoy a complete property management solution – from rental marketing to exceptional guest services, superior property care and maintenance, and everything in between. We do more, which means owners get a whole lot more – all from one reliable and reputable source.

SERVICES Full-Service Property Management & Care  Our licensed and experienced staff provides superior property care services 24/7, every day of the year. We are committed to providing an exceptional rental experience for owners and guests.

World Class Marketing  Our marketing efforts are targeted to attract more guests to Hilton Head Island. Our new website features three distinct booking engines for vacation rentals, golf and bike rentals, making it easy and efficient for guests to book their vacation plans. Palmetto Dunes is #1 in SEO rankings for branded keywords and top searched Hilton Head keywords. We place special emphasis on digital marketing, social media and targeted public relations. Visit PalmettoDunes.com the official website for the resort.

Dream Vacation Packages  We create a superior vacation experience and offer preferred rates and priority access to resort operated amenities such as; golf, tennis, bikes, kayaking, pickleball and more!

Welcome Center & Guest Check-In  We have the only on-site guest registration facility and Welcome Center in Palmetto Dunes with extended hours of operation and a friendly staff who greet guests with southern hospitality.

Year-Round Promotion  The Palmetto Dunes Oceanfront Resort attracts visitors year-round, we promote vacation rentals all year, including the off-season with targeting marketing programs to provide owners with the greatest rental success.

Special Benefits & Privileges  We provide owners with membership privileges and benefits. We also provide guests with special privileges and discounts to increase rentals and enhance the visitors’ experience.

To learn more about our vacation rental program call Jamie at 843.686.9627 or email pmteam@palmettodunes.com.

4 Queens Folly Road, Hilton Head Island, SC, 29928 843.686.9627 • palmettodunes.com

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Living in Luxury Lavish planned communities set the Lowcountry apart 

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here is paradise? It’s closer than you think. Each day, more and more people are discovering how sweet life can truly be along the Lowcountry’s sandy beaches, tidal rivers, lush forests and serene marshes.

Decades of well-planned development have influenced existing and new resort towns around the globe. With every breath of invigorating salt air, newcomers and residents experience the results of combining natural beauty with laws that promote smart, strategic growth.

Luxury living can truly be obtained in one of the Lowcountry’s many private communities.

In Okatie, Spring Island has 3,000 spectacular acres divided among only 410 home sites. In a nature park with 1,250 acres of undisturbed and protected preserves and open space, and surrounded by the Chechessee and Colleton rivers, members enjoy unparalleled natural beauty, a casual lifestyle, an equestrian center with 45 miles of marked trails, on- and off-island fishing, an Arnold Palmer-designed golf course, arts and crafts, sporting clays, community docks and a sports garden with fitness center. It is connected to the mainland by a bridge.

Located off U.S. 278 in Bluffton just five miles from the bridge to Hilton Head Island, you’ll find Belfair, a private, 1,100-acre community on the scenic marshes of the Colleton River. A magnificent avenue of oaks leads you into Belfair, where you’ll find two 18-hole championship Tom Fazio-designed golf courses, as well as nature trails, wildlife viewing areas and a carefully preserved wading-bird rookery. A variety of facilities can be found at the 10,000-square-foot Fitness and Sports Complex, including a tennis club, indoor/outdoor pools, fitness club, playground, basketball court and picnic grounds. A grand clubhouse and a 29-acre, state-of-the-art golf practice facility round out the community’s features.

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 On Hilton Head Island, Wexford Plantation is a highly acclaimed residential gated community. What separates Wexford from other communities is not only its serene natural backdrop, inland harbor and luxurious amenities, but also its inviting atmosphere and friendly residents and staff. Wexford is a fully developed yachting, golf and tennis community, home to an incredible 37-acre inland harbor with an innovative lock system, one of only three on the East Coast; the distinctive Arnold Palmer Signature Golf Course; and a championship tennis center with six Har-Tru clay courts. Other amenities include 24-hour gated security, a swimming pool, croquet and bocce lawn, miles of bike trails and an elegant clubhouse.

Long Cove Club, a gated residential community, features one of South Carolina’s favorite country clubs. It is located in a masterfully planned setting that seems to have naturally fallen into place.

Residents cherish its nationally ranked Pete Dye golf course, perfect island location and tidal creeks and marshes. The community offers a memorable way of life for those who live there; from the first-class tennis facility to the breathtaking marina, members enjoy all the activity they could hope for and all the solitude they could want.

Haig Point is a private, 1,050-acre community on nearby Daufuskie Island. It was founded in 1986 by International Paper but has been owned by its members since 2001 and memberoperated since 2009. Haig Point was ranked as one of the top 100 private golf course communities in the country by Links magazine in 2005. Haig Point’s Rees Jones Signature Course, designed by Rees Jones in 1986 and renovated by the “Open Doctor” in 2007, has been ranked in Golf Digest’s “America’s 100 Greatest Golf Courses” and in Golf Magazine’s “Top 100 Courses in the World.”

Thanks to its distance from the mainland, Haig Point has remained unspoiled in many ways.

Here is a closer look at these five unique and luxurious private communities. 

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Spring Island Uncover the Wonders of Spring Island Some places wow with their sensational setting. Some with their vibrant social life.

The rare community connects the two fl awlessly. Pristine and private, Spring Island is a community woven into a landscape of breathtaking natural beauty. A place where nature is revered and a full social life is treasured. Where you can enjoy the solitude of sunrise on the saltwater marsh and fi ll your days in the rewarding company of family and friends. A place where you can get lost. And fi nd yourself.

Live the life you’ve dreamed. Call us today at 866-740-0400 or visit us at SpringIsland.com

42 Mobley Oaks Lane Spring Island, SC 29909 866.740.0400 www.SpringIsland.com

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A M E N I T I E  Golf Clubhouse and Riverhouse, both with dining

 Deepwater docks

 4-acre community farm

 Over 300 trails

 Sporting Clays

 13,000 Sports Complex & Spa

Hunting

 Equestrian Center  Salt and fresh water fi shing

 Swimming pools

ArtProgram

 Arnold Palmer Golf

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The Spring Island Trust & Master Naturalist Program

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Belfair A M E N I T I E S  2 Championship Fazio Courses  29-acre World Class Golf Learning Center  Fitness and Sports Center – 6 Har-Tru and 2 Grass Tennis Courts – Heated and Cooled Indoor & Outdoor Pools – Basketball Court, Pickleball, Volleyball Court, Soccer Field and Playground – Poolside Grille & Bar  1-Acre Dog Park  Renovated Clubhouse with 2 Dining Venues and No Minimums

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The first time I drove that property I said, Oh, wow, look at this! I loved the vegetation.

We had this beautiful marsh and these gorgeous big trees. I felt honored to have the chance to build there.” Fast forward 19 years and Belfair maintains the beauty Tom Fazio once envisioned. Members and visitors are welcomed by a beautiful drive through an expansive canopy of live oaks that has been mentioned among the most spectacular in the South.

Belfair is the ultimate setting for an active life well-lived. Because more than half of the 770 members call this vibrant community their full-time residence, there’s constant activity at the 1100-acre property. Members enjoy working on their game at the award winning Golf Learning Center, a double-ended, 29-acre facility with target greens, short-game area, covered outdoor and indoor hitting bays, stretching room, as well as a teaching studio featuring state-of-the-art swing technology and nationally accredited instructors.

After a round of golf, members appreciate dining in the Georgian-style, 36,000-squarefoot clubhouse. Overlooking an English garden, the 18th holes of both courses, and the ever-changing tidal marsh, this newly expanded venue is home to many of Belfair’s social events like Casino Night, Margaritaville Party, Candlelight Fine Dining, and Seafood Festival.

With every trip through the stately oaks, every swing on the Fazio courses, and every evening with friends at the clubhouse, you’ll be living the Lowcountry dream at Belfair.

200 Belfair Oaks Blvd, Bluffton, SC 29910 • 843.757.0701 www.Belfair1811.com

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Wexford Plantation Nestled amidst 525 acres of picturesque Lowcountry landscapes on the south end of Hilton Head Island, Wexford is an inviting and energetic community offering incomparable amenities and social activities for everyone in the family to enjoy. Voted “Best for Boating” in LINKS 2015 Premier Property Guide, Wexford is home to a remarkable 37-acre inland harbour and unique lock system, one of only three on the East Coast.˜ Its waterfront location affords residents 24-hour deep water access to Broad Creek and the Intracoastal Waterway.

Wexford also offers highly acclaimed golf and tennis amenities.˜ Wexford’s Arnold Palmer Signature Course was rated “Top 100 Residential Golf Courses in the U.S.” in Golfweek’s 2014 and 2015 Ultimate Guide to Golf Course Living & Great Escapes.˜ It was also voted “Best Golf Couse/Club” in the 2013 and 2015 Island Packet Readers’ Choice Awards.

Wexford Tennis received an Outstanding Tennis Facility Award from the USTA in 2014 and is a Professional Tennis Registry (PTR) Proud Facility.

The Wexford Clubhouse is the social center of the community, hosting events such as Happy Hour, Nine & Dine dinners, Cooking Demonstrations, Chef’s Table dinners, Children’s Carnivals and much more! The Clubhouse offers an elegant, yet warm atmosphere with high-quality service and an exquisite menu selection.

Beyond boating, golf and tennis…a way of life.

111 Wexford Club Drive, Hilton Head Island, SC 29928 • 843.686.8810 www.WexfordPlantation.com

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A M E N I T I E S  37-acre Inland Harbour & Lock System  Arnold Palmer Signature Golf Course  Tennis Center & 6 Har-tru Clay Tennis Courts (4 of which are lighted)  Renovated Clubhouse & Golf Shop  Swimming Pool  Children’s Playground & Basketball Court  Croquet & Bocce Lawn  Leisure & Bike Trails  24-Hour Gated Security

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Long Cove Club A M E N I T I E S  Pete Dye Signature Golf Course  Tennis Club with 8 Har-Tru courts  Certifi ed Clean Marina – Deep Water on the Broad Creek – No slip fees  Kayak Launch and Storage  Newly renovated Clubhouse  Heated- Saline Jr. Olympic-Size pool  Book Exchange featuring over 2,000 titles  Dog Park  Community Farm Playground  24 hour manned Security Gate

Established in 1981, Long Cove Club has been recognized as the standard by which private residential communities are measured; a masterfully planned setting, a nationally ranked Pete Dye golf course, the perfect Hilton Head Island Location and the blessings of tidal creeks and marsh. There’s no doubt about it, Long Cove Club is committed to the spirit of golf, but before that, they are committed to the spirit of community.

Long Cove Club is a member-owned private community with 570 properties on over 630 community acres. All property owners are considered Members of the community and can immediately take advantage of our many amenities including the newly renovated Clubhouse, Tennis, Golf, and the Certifi ed Clean Marina with no slip fees.

Behind the superlative golf, outstanding tennis, premier dining and beautiful marina there is the real story of Long Cove Club – the full social schedule and active membership that allows you to build lasting friendships. From book club and garden club, to the Long Cove Yacht Club there is always a new group to join or friendly face around the corner.

The Members also support the extraordinary tradition of giving back to the Lowcountry through the Long Cove Club Community Charitable Fund. Since its inception in 2003, the fund has donated over $587,000 to Lowcountry nonprofi ts.

We invite you to join the tradition and make Long Cove Club your home.

399 Long Cove Drive,Hilton Head Island, SC 29928 • 843.686.1070 www.LongCoveClub.org

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A M E N I T I E S  Rees Jones 20-hole Signature Golf Course

Haig Point Haig Point is truly unique among the Lowcountry communities. It is the kind of community that really should only be approached by boat! Its natural beauty and historic drama is so breath-taking that any sensitive soul should have at least 25-minutes of sea borne tranquility to desensitize from the faster pace and clamor of the world beyond Haig Point! That tranquility transition is not a problem, Haig Point being located on bridgeless Daufuskie Island. The only way to get there is by Haig Point passenger ferries and water taxis. Your car is left at the exclusive Embarkation Center on Hilton Head. Golf carts are the way to navigate the delightful 1,050 acres of Haig Point.

Great effort has gone into preserving its rich history and environmental splendor, including building covenants that protect the natural character and refl ect the Lowcountry architectural heritage. Rees Jones has designed a golf masterpiece here.

Along with this historical backdrop Haig Point is offering a new community of homes built with modern islanders in mind. The twelve homes of The Sanctuary are a wonderful way you can enjoy the peace of Haig Point and its rich history without sacrifi cing any of the comforts of a modern home.

 Osprey Executive 9-holes Golf Course  The Outer Banks of Haig Point  Haig Point Beach Club  The Calibogue Club  The 1910 Strachan Mansion Activity Center  Haig Point Golf Club  Driving range and 2 practice greens  30th-Hole Grill  Haig Point Dockage  Equestrian Center  Haig Point Tennis Center  Haig Point Embarkation Center – HHI  Passenger ferry service to Haig Point  10-minute water taxi service to Harbour Town  1873 Haig Point Lighthouse  1830s Tabby Ruins Historic Park

10 Haig Point Circle, Hilton Head, SC 29928 • 1.843.341.8148 info@haigpoint.com • wwwHaigPoint.com

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HOW DO YOU GET TO OLD TOWN BLUFFTON FROM HERE?

WE'RE HERE FROM OHIO AND ARE NEVER I'M THIRSTY, GOING HOME! WHERE'S THE BAR?

I CAN'T FIND THE BRIDGE TO DAUFUSKIE.

WHERE IS THE BEST SEAFOOD PLACE? SOMETHING CHEAP WITH NO WAIT.

WHERE CAN WE SEE A GATOR? WHERE ARE ALL THE PALMETTO BUGS? I ONLY SEE GIANT COCKROACHS!

DID THEY SAY THEY WENT FISHING FOR DOLPHIN?!?

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FREEEEDOOOOOOM!!

LIVING ON

Hilton Head & Bluffton

THE GOOD LIFE, DAY IN AND DAY OUT

BY LISA J. ALLEN | PHOTOS BY ARNO DIMMLING

WOULD YOU MIND TAKING A PHOTO OF US? WHO NEEDS A BIKE PATH WHEN YOU CAN RIDE IN THE STREET?

WHO TURNED OUT THE LIGHTS?

Americans are a mobile people.

Families are far-flung, turning “over the hills and through the woods to grandmother’s house we go” into “let’s use our frequent flyer miles.”

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are no longer tied to the family homestead. We can live anywhere we want, and we do. Most of us limit that wanderlust to our countries of birth, but not always. (Just listen to the accents at the Pineland Station Starbucks.)

Given our many choices, one thing to consider when deciding where to live is whether you want your family to come to you for holidays and visits or vice versa. For example, where would you rather spend Easter weekend? Your sister’s house in Cleveland or at Aunt Pat’s on Hilton Head Island? Yeah, we thought so. You can follow brunch with a family golf round.

Try THAT in Cleveland in March or April.

OK, we live here because of the beauty and the weather, we get that. But why here? Why this particular county in southeast South Carolina? Why not Florida or California or Texas? They’re warm. We can assume there are pretty spots there, too, right?

What is so special about Hilton Head Island and Bluffton?

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Here is where the list gets pretty darned long.

Let’s start with the trees. They are everywhere. Why? Because this area was pretty much left alone for about 100 years after the Civil War. There wasn’t any industry and only small sustenance farms. The original islanders made their living from the area’s riches, pulling vegetables from the soil and fish and seafood from the surrounding waters.

In the 1950s, when Charles Fraser began planning the community that would become the Hilton Head and ensuing Bluffton of today, he didn’t cut corners and he never strayed from his vision. The focal point would remain the local beauty and gorgeous beaches, not man’s architectural efforts. Development was brilliantly designed to fit into the landscape, creating a breathtaking synergy. The best of nature, meet the best of the building arts.

But that wasn’t all. Fraser and company also wove the threads together that made Hilton Head and Bluffton not only irresistible places to visit, but coveted places to live and raise a family or enjoy retirement.

That pull came about because Fraser and the Sea Pines Company recruited the country’s smartest people to help develop the area and then enticed them to stay by making sure his employees became like family to each other. It was the start of a brand-new community, not just a resort.

Through masterful marketing and wining and dining leaders from dozens of communities in the Northeast and Midwest, family after family moved to Hilton Head.

Churches formed, clubs met and schools and small businesses opened.

Without shame (and likely encouragement from Fraser), other developers mimicked Sea Pines’ efforts elsewhere on the island and after a while, just over the bridges in Bluffton.

As gated communities arose, so did areas outside the gates, which added to the diversity that makes an area vibrant. Like nested Russian dolls, the island became an overall community, then within developments and again among clubs and social groups.

As the community grew, so did the caliber of the essentials to a life well lived: food, culture, intellectual pursuits and health care.

Today, Hilton Head and Bluffton have perfected the formula for the good life, no matter your age, interests or income.

THE LOCAL ECONOMY Although many of the first residents of the new developments earned much of their wealth elsewhere, as the island’s economy grew, more and more local job opportunities arose. Tourism continues to be king, but with it came real estate, education, retail, law, health care and finance. The area also spurred a strong entertainment and artist economy, allowing people to make a living from their passions.

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EDUCATION As more people called Hilton Head and Bluffton home, the educational infrastructure grew, too. New public schools continue to arise, from elementary schools to a new campus for the University of South Carolina Beaufort. Scores of private schools and academies opened, ranging from the brand-new John Paul II Catholic School to the world-famous International Junior Golf Academy, the Smith Stearns Tennis Academy and Van Der Meer Tennis Academy.

Outside the classroom, the area’s historical sites and natural surroundings provide educational opportunities not found anywhere else, from shrimping excursions through the Coastal Discovery Museum to naturalist classes at Outdoor Hilton Head and first-hand fisheries studies at Waddell Mariculture Center.

Unique to the area is Hilton Head Institute, known for its annual three-day forum that fosters deep conversations about global issues and features internationally known speakers, often former Cabinet members.

LIFE IN RETIREMENT One thing stands out about the thousands of people who moved to Hilton Head and Bluffton for retirement: They do not sit still. They join golf clubs, tennis groups, biking tours, sailing regattas and paddling clubs. They travel, they paint, they socialize. And they volunteer for everything. To manage the volume, the Community Foundation of the LowSeptember 2015 81

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country has a sophisticated system that aligns a volunteer’s skills and interests with the local nonprofit groups that need help.

Other noteworthy nonprofit entities founded on Hilton Head and dependent on retirees include Volunteers in Medicine Clinic, which has provided medical and dental care to tens of thousands of residents over its 20-year history, and the community’s fla ship event, the annual RBC Heritage Presented by Boeing, the PGA Tour event that has contributed millions to the community through the Heritage Classic Foundation.

No matter what your background or interest, it’s likely your peers already formed a club around it.

THE OUTDOORS Irrefutably, the best part of living on Hilton Head and in Bluffton is the environment. No matter where you are, you will see wildlife, from the ibis flying overhead when traveling along U.S. 278 in Bluffton to the stillness of the surrounding marshes from the vantage of a kayak.

Walk the beach and you’ll see only sand and dunes. Buildings are set back, deferential to the reason we’re here: a true beach experience, not man’s take on the beach with vendors’ booths and overpowering development. Trees are the skyscrapers here, not hotels.

The best part of living here is that no matter where you live, you can be overlooking water in 20 minutes, tops. There are no hourlong drives to the beach, the marina or the marsh. You can be waterside every day after work in minutes. Beautiful views are all around us, and we get to see them every day. That’s why we live here. You want to launch a kayak or a fishing boat or just put your toes in the water? There are a dozen public parks on 12-milelong Hilton Head Island where you can fish, hike, swim, boat and explore. Bluffton also has half a dozen parks with walking trails, a skate park and soccer fields and access to the beautiful May River.

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CULTURE Our great natural environment inspires the artists in us all, whether we want to create it or enjoy the work of others. Visual arts are everywhere, from an abundance of galleries to the Public Art Exhibition sponsored by the Community Foundation of the Lowcountry that runs from October to December.

For performing arts, there is the Hilton Head Symphony Orchestra, the Arts Center of Coastal Carolina, dance studios, singing groups and community theater productions.

To learn about our fascinating history, check out the Gullah Museum of Hilton Head Island, the Heyward House Historic Center in Bluffton and the Coastal Discovery Museum at Honey Horn, to name a few resources.

You can’t overlook the local music scene either, from the entertainment institutions of Gregg Russell under the Live Oak in Harbour Town to Shannon Tanner at Shelter Cove and the nationally known Jazz Corner. Every night of the week, someone is performing live at one of the many restaurants, taverns and nightclubs in the area.

CULINARY ARTS Hilton Head and Bluffton have long been known for their beauty, beaches, waterways, golf and tennis, but food is quickly moving up the list of attractions for visitors and residents.

Talented, inspired chefs have created a local culinary landscape that earns regular mention in national food, wine and travel media. There are literally hundreds of restaurants to choose from within 30 miles, and bad restaurants simply don’t survive.

Each year, local food- and beverage-themed festivals grow larger and draw the best local and national talent. Local farmers and fish markets supply fresh, local ingredients for delicious fare at home, too. Rest assured, one eats very well here.

THE NECESSITIES FOR THE GOOD LIFE Central to a life well lived is physical, intellectual and emotional well-being. Hilton Head and Bluffton had the natural beauty to start, but they didn’t squander it. They built communities that revel in that natural environment rather than overpowering it. They also created communities that meet human needs in grand fashion, from education, recreational pursuits and world-class health care.

That’s why tens of thousands of people have moved here in the past 15 years, and more arrive every day.

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WHY YOU SHOULD LIVE ON

Hilton AND Head Island NOWHERE ELSE

BY LISA J. ALLEN | PHOTOS BY ARNO DIMMLING

At first blush, it’s easy to see the appeal of Hilton Head Island: The beach, the golf courses, the restaurants. You certainly can enjoy those attractions as a visitor.

So

why live here?

Because there is another side of Hilton Head that only residents get to see.

Only living here can you see how the greenery changes by the season, especially the color spectrum of spartina grass as it transitions from vivid green to darker green then fades into a glowing golden hue.

Only living here do you increase your chances of hearing Gullah-Geechee spoken and see firsthand the people celebrated as part of the U.S National Park Service’s GullahGeechee Cultural Corridor that runs from Wilmington, North Carolina, to St. Augustine, Florida.

As a resident, you’ll learn about Hilton Head Institute, which was formed to keep resi-

dents informed about global issues, from the Middle East to education to the environment.

It does it in a big way. Its annual three-day forum sells out months in advance and usually features a speaker we’ve all heard of, like a Cabinet member or ambassador or foreign leader.

You can buy season tickets to the Hilton Head Symphony Orchestra and catch all of the shows produced by the Arts Center of Coastal Carolina.

You’ll be around for the Hilton Head Island Motoring Festival & Concurs d’ Elegance, a high-end car show that is held every fall in Savannah and Hilton Head, one of only about 20 locations worldwide for the international event.

And in the spring, all attention turns to the RBC Heritage Presented by Boeing, an

annual PGA Tour event that has been a highlight of Hilton Head society for nearly four decades.

The secret of Hilton Head is out, as evidenced by the many new residents who are drawn here from all over the world.

Some of the country’s most influential people have chosen to buy property on Hilton Head Island. Professional athletes, actors, politicians and Fortune 100 CEOs gravitate to Hilton Head for the same reasons we all do. If you go by what the “in” crowd is doing, owning a home on Hilton Head has been “in” for years.

(Yes, that’s John Mellencamp or author Patricia Cornwell or the former CEO you followed in the Wall Street Journal.

Please don’t stare.)

As a resident, you’ll also have more time to take

advantage of the best-inclass golf and tennis facilities, instructors and athletes. Golf remains Hilton Head’s jewel, from the famed Harbour Town Golf Links to impeccably maintained courses designed by a who’s who of architects: Pete Dye, Davis Love, Greg Norman, Jack Nicklaus, Arthur Hills, George Fazio, Rees Jones and Robert Trent Jones.

And anyone can play these courses. The options escalate if you choose a gated community with a private course.

Tennis also helped Hilton Head land on the map and its reputation hasn’t flagged, with academies founded by worldrenowned coaches Stan Smith and Dennis Van Der Meer.

As a local, you can enjoy our waterways 365 days a year.

From public marinas to fishing piers and boat launch sites that dot the island’s perimeter, you’re never more than 20 minutes from a marsh, river or the Atlantic Ocean.

You also can commute to work via two wheels, thanks to the island’s 60-plus miles of biking trails that crisscross the island.

As a resident, you’ll discover a vibrant, close-knit community that becomes more visible in the off season. You’ll get to know people quickly in your neighborhood, the grocery store and at your favorite restaurants.

Those friendships lead to a side of Hilton Head only locals know about, especially during the “season," when socializing moves from restaurants to homes and other locales only locals know about. You’ll be a part of a social network you never knew was there.

It’s like two different worlds for the price of one.

That’s why you should live here. “Local" has its privileges. M

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Hilton Head Landmarks & Hotspots

TALBIRD LIVE OAK Back gate, Hilton Head Plantation Just inside the Hilton Head Plantation stands a tree with a heart-breaking story.

In October 1781, during the Revolutionary War, a royal militia on Daukuskie Island was commanded to burn the homes of patriots from Beaufort to Savannah. The Taibird Plantation belonged to Lt. John Talbird, who was away at war while his wife — who was nine months pregnant — remained at home.

Mary Ann Talbird’s brother-in-law was in charge of the burnings for the militia, and when he arrived at her door he refused to pass by without fulfilling his duty. However, he did allow Mary Ann to move all the household goods out of the house and put them under a live oak about 100 yards from the house. After watching her home burn to the ground, Mary Ann gave birth to a son the next day. The tree still stands today, keeping alive the history with it.

MAIN STREET THEATRE 3000 Main St. Many performances are put on each year. The theater is also home to live music and other special events.

THE SANDBOX: AN INTERACTIVE CHILDREN’S MUSEUM 18A Pope Avenue A children’s museum that offers plenty of activities for rainy days.

MITCHELVILLE FREEDOM PARK 229 Beach City Road Built during the Civil War for freed and escaped slaves and named after Union Gen. Ormsby M. Mitchel, who created the town to allow the former slaves to govern themselves. The people created a community and built simple homes, a church and stores, and worked to provide education for their children. Many worked for the Union Army until it left the island, then many turned to the land.

ARTS CENTER OF COASTAL CAROLINA 14 Shelter Cove Lane Located in the middle of Hilton Head Island, this 349-seat main stage house along with a smaller black box venue puts on professional and visual arts performances, as well as festivals and educational programs. From musicals to comedies and dramas, the arts center does it all and also brings in visiting performers. Stop by for an entertaining night that will enlighten you.

BAYNARD PLANTATION RUINS Baynard Cove Road (Sea Pines) The ruins are all that’s left of the Baynard estate, which was built in 1793 by Capt. Jack Stoney and once included a main house and slave quarters. The buildings were made using timber and tabby, a mixture of oyster shells, lime and sand. William Edings Baynard acquired the property from the bank after the Stoney family declared bankruptcy in 1837. It was raided during the Civil War and used by Union forces for a headquarters, and burned down shortly after the Civil War. MAIN STREET VILLAGE 1500 Main St. Shopping center with specialty boutiques, restaurants, health care services and a supermarket.

PINCKNEY ISLAND NATIONAL WILDLIFE REFUGE Off of U.S. 278, just before the bridge to Hilton Head Island Wildlife, photography, hiking, bicycling and fishing.

LAWTON STABLES 190 Greenwood Drive (Sea Pines) Horseback riding and an awesome free animal farm. Bring carrots or apples and feed Harley the Clydesdale or the other horses.

THE BARMUDA TRIANGLE 7 Greenwood Drive Located just outside the Sea Pines gate, this grouping of popular bars and restaurants shares a courtyard, perfect for enjoying their late-night menus and entertainment.

BRADDOCK POINT AND COVE South Sea Pines Drive (Sea Pines) On the southern-most point of Hilton Head, at the junction of Calibogue Sound and the Atlantic Ocean, is Braddock Point. It was named after David Cutler Braddock, captain of South Carolina’s provincial galley, Beaufort, which was stationed in the cove.

BROAD CREEK MARINA 18 Simons Road Offering watersport rentals, boat tours, a zip line course, a waterfront restaurant and an in-tree obstacle course.

ADVENTURE COVE 18 Folly Field Road A miniature golf course featuring 36 holes on two Caribbean-themed courses, plus an arcade.

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THE STATE OF

Hilton Head Island WITH MAYOR DAVID BENNETT

BY MAYOR DAVID BENNETT | PHOTO BY ARNO DIMMLING

I am honored to present this annual community update for Hilton Head Monthly magazine on behalf of our Town Council, which is comprised of unique individuals who have been working very hard representing a talented diversity of Islanders.

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ast December, Town Council came together along with town staff at a planning workshop that extended beyond its original schedule because of the magnitude of issues and opportunities faced by the Hilton Head Island community. During this workshop, Town Council developed the following top priorities: • Coligny Circle & Sea Pines Circle Area Plan • Arts and Culture Collaborative Study • USCB Campus Development • The Mitchelville Project • Sewer Service Availability • Vision & Master Plan for the Island Other high priorities included: • Town-Owned Land Inventory & Direction • Economic Development Corporation Plans and Tools • Workforce Housing Policy & Tools • Community Organization Financial/Performance Oversight & Review • Comprehensive Town-wide Dredging Policy, Management, Direction

This was and remains a truly ambitious list of objectives, but I am very pleased with how the council members have moved forward to tackle them, one after another, in a determined, efficient ma ner.

To facilitate the advancement of these priorities effectively and to increase accountability and transparency within our town government, two new Town Council committees — the Finance & Administrative Committee and the Community Services Committee — were established with council members John McCann and Kim Likins, respectively, appointed as chairmen. In addition, the Circle-to-Circle Committee was formed and placed under the auspices of our Planning Commission, with councilman Tom Lennox serving as Town Council’s liaison.

The Finance & Administrative Committee has a number of responsibilities, including managing our balance sheet and reviewing and analyzing budgets and financial statements, all third-party vendor relationships, the accommodations tax application and vetting process

and establishing goals for and reviewing the performance of the town manager and organizations that receive major tax dollars, specifically atax funding. Not bly, this committee has already recommended several means of improving the atax process that have been adopted by the full council, and it has established a formal process for reviewing the performance of our town manager and set forth clear, quantifiable and measurable goals by which the town manager’s performance will be evaluated at the conclusion of this fiscal year. The committee also has taken a lead role in negotiating the town’s first contract with the Hilton Head Island-Bluffton Chamber of Commerce. This contract will help us ensure that public funds invested with the chamber are done so wisely and in full compliance with all applicable statutes.

The Community Services Committee has been asked to develop the full potential of Hilton Head’s arts and cultural organizations. It has also been tasked with identifying affordable and workforce housing opportunities. While we expect September 2015 87

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We know that Hilton Head has a great deal of arts, cultural and historical assets, and we want to make sure that we are maximizing their value to our community and visitors. We want Hilton Head Island to be recognized as a place where there is an array of arts and culture events and historical sites in addition to our expansive beaches, variety of sports and exquisite natural beauty.

The Arts & Cultural Strategic Planning Committee was established to recommend the role that town government should play in supporting that vision.

This nine-member citizen committee is comprised of individuals with diverse backgrounds who bring to bear a wealth of art and cultural education and experience. The committee was assigned four objectives: • Recommend whether the economic impact of arts and cultural organizations is large enough for the town or other entities to increase support through various methods.

• Recommend if the town or other entities should play a role in furthering the collaborative efforts of arts and cultural organizations.

• Recommend what the arts and cultural community would look like in the year 2030 to help that community be as self-sustaining as possible.

• Recommend if the town or other entities should financially support the arts and cultural initiative and in what areas (facilities, programming or collaboration); and if so, how.

The committee designed a strategy for completing the scope of work that includes determining the community economic impact of the arts, researching the collaboration practices of other successful arts and cultural destinations, reaching out to a large and diverse Hilton Head constituency to determine

their desires and ideas for future arts and cultural experiences, and determining the most impactful ways town funds can be used to support a rich and vibrant community.

We encourage everyone to become part of this important conversation. Arts & Strategic Planning Committee meetings are held at Town Hall weekly and include public presentations and public comment. The committee plans to make recommendations and develop possible actions to be taken by Town Council prior to our November Strategic Planning Workshop.

The Circle to Circle Committee has been tasked with developing a vision and master plan as well as identifying current and future infrastructure needs for this critical sector of Hilton Head Island, which extends from the Cross Island Bridge to Sea Pines Circle and then Coligny Circle, including portions of the North and South Forest Beach areas as well as ancillary roadways that impact traffic flow. A series of public forum were held throughout April and May seeking input from our citizens that will be used by committee members as they continue to develop a vision for this area.

This committee, in conjunction with the Planning Commission, will also address the University of South Carolina Beaufort’s proposed Hilton Head campus..

Similar to the Community Services Committee, the Circle-to-Circle Committee has a significant citizen volunteer component. I am very appreciative that many highly qualified Hilton Head residents have stepped forward to volunteer their time and talent to serve on these special committees.

Town Council and staff are firmly co mitted to these endeavors. As part of the Circle to Circle planning, I was pleased to announce recently the purchase by the town of four parcels of land totaling 4.3 acres along Palmetto Bay Road across from the Publix/Island Crossing parking lot. This was a strategic decision to control this acreage, which may well serve to be significant in improving the functionality of the Sea Pines Circle area from both a traffic and quality of life perspective.

I have also been pleased with the progress being made in providing sanitary sewer service to all residents who want it. In May, we held a well-attended "Sewer Summit" at Town Hall. Residents from all across the island heard from both Hilton Head Public Service District officials as well as an environmental expert from the University of South Carolina about the challenges that exist and the impacts on our environment associated with septic systems and soils in areas with high water tables, as is the case on Hilton Head. At the summit, Town Council voted unanimously, with one member absent, to direct staff to pursue a master plan to provide sanitary sewer access to everyone who desires it within five years.

Staff has been tasked with assessing the costs of the project, developing funding and policy recommendations that will be necessary to bring the project to fruition for council’s consideration, and diligently pursuing cost-efficient ways to pay for it including bonding, federal and state grants and shifting money within the town’s budget.

I can assure you that public health as well as the quality of our environment and local waters is a priority for Town Council. And, while we know the cost to bring sanitary sewer to the more than 900 island parcels that still don't have it is significant, it remains a priority noneth less to make it happen. As such, the town is proceeding with projects to sewer two of the 10 areas without sanitary sewer access over the next 12 months. The Community Foundation of the Lowcountry is working with the town and Hilton Head Public Service District on this initiative by convening a special task force and mobilizing to enhance the funding of Project SAFE, which stands for Sewer Access for Everyone. Project SAFE provides grants to owner-occupied households for use by the residents in paying sanitary sewer hook-up fees and associated costs. The foundation’s involvement will be integral to our community’s success in resolving this important issue.

On the topic of Mitchelville, it occurred to me that the best opportunity associated with heritage tourism in our community is not found solely within the story of

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by Capt. William Hilton, the Town Council Gullah, the Untakes every derground Railemail road, the Civil War, Mitchelville, and letter seriously ... We Reconstruction so on. With represent each and the foregoing in of you, and we mind, Beaufort always want to County Councilknow what you man Stu Rodman, a couple think. of very capable islanders with in-depth knowledge of our rich history and I have convened the mayors of Bluffton, Beaufort and Port Royal along with the chairman of the Beaufort County Council to develop a collaborative, regional approach to telling this story. With the assistance of staffs from each area, potential sites have been identified for inclusion in the effort. A special task force of citizens of Beaufort County will be populated in the weeks ahead and will conduct the mapping and assessment of these sites. In many instances, these citizens will be representatives of organizations such as Mitchelville, the Heritage Library and Coastal Discovery Museum.

Look for the visioning process to begin in earnest in early 2016. With the help of a few knowledgeable islanders, I have provided Town Council and staff with suggested consultants and a process that could be used as we bring our citizens together to forge a vision that we all can coalesce around and work toward. The council’s public planning sub-committee will vet these consultants and process beginning in September.

Just as important, our economy depends on retirees and we should have the welcome mat out for them. They offer a wealth of experience and wisdom, which I believe is an untapped resource for our future. But I understand their needs and desires in many instances are different from the often-discussed needs of tourists. I envision certain areas of the

island serving residents first and for most, other areas emphasizing tourists’ needs and activities, while still others are bringing everyone together. To achieve this, we need an island-wide master plan that the community has helped create as well as strategies for realizing our preferred future.

With regard to our town's financial stability, it remains very strong, with the highest ratings from all major bond-rating agencies. The town has received an AAA rating from Moody's Investor Service, which represents the strongest creditworthiness a municipality can receive, and AA+ from both Standard & Poor's and Fitch Ratings, representing very strong creditworthiness. These ratings demonstrate the town's fiscal strength and translate into lower interest rates for town bonds.

Last but not least, I would be remiss if I didn’t call to your attention two significant awards that I was pleased to accept on behalf of our community earlier this year.

First, we were recognized as one of the top 25 bicycle-friendly communities in America and one of only 21 nationwide to achieve “gold-level” status for its commitment to being bicycle-friendly. This is yet another example of a tremendous public-private partnership — this time between the Town of Hilton Head, the chamber of commerce and the Bicycle Advisory Committee. Second, the Municipal Association of South Carolina recognized the redevelopment of Shelter Cove Towne Centre as the No. 1 economic development project in the state of South Carolina. Congratulations to all those who played a role in these outstanding achievements.

In closing, I want to express my personal thanks for the helpful feedback I receive on an almost daily basis from our residents. Town Council takes every email and letter seriously, and we appreciate it when residents and business owners take the time to reach out and provide us with helpful information, ask questions or give us their thoughts on an issue. We represent each of you, and we always want to know what you think. M David Bennett is mayor of the Town of Hilton Head Island.

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WITH HILTON HEAD TOWN MANAGER STEVE RILEY

Hilton Head Island may be only 12 miles long and 5 miles wide, but the 2.5 million visitors that the intimate subtropical locale attracts annually enjoy miles of award-winning beaches, more than 100 miles of scenic leisure paths, 24 worldclass golf courses, 350 tennis courts, more than 250 restaurants, numerous outdoor activities, noteworthy cultural offerings, a large number of shopping experiences and more.

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ost, if not all, will agree that Hilton Head is among the most family-friendly and popular vacation destinations in the world.

Many also believe that Hilton Head offers quality health care facilities, expansive educational and philanthropic opportunities, and a strong business community. As a result, many who were once visitors have decided to call the island home and, today, Hilton Head boasts about 40,000 residents.

However, when it comes to attracting businesses and growing the economy, Hilton Head is not without its challenges.

Few know more about this than town manager Steve Riley, who has resided on the island for decades and has served the

Town of Hilton Head Island since 1991.

Monthly sat down with Riley to discuss the Island’s business and economic development, including birds, beaches, buildings and more.

Question: You’ve been on the Island and serving the town for a long time. How are things going?

Answer: Yes, I have been here for a long time and initially served the town as the community development director. I became town manager in 1994, and things have changed quite a bit since then.

Things are still pretty good, but we are facing some challenges.

Q: Is this why the town established the Hilton Head Island Economic Development Corporation?

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Q: What are some of your specific goals and plans?

A: In the short term, two to five years, we have the University of South Carolina Beaufort initiative on Hilton Head — our campus location is locked in, a build-out of the sewer system on the north end — we want to offer access to those who want it, and our next big beach renourishment project.

Q: What challenges are you facing?

A: Well, let’s take the beach renourish-

ment, for example. Costs around the country have increased dramatically and there are new federal restrictions regarding this bird, the piping plover, and its season of protection. It’s a wintering bird, which pushes us away from a wintertime project to a summertime project, which then falls during the busy season. We can’t just nourish and stop, and then start back up. Also, everyone loves the beaches, and most people understand the need to renourish, but not everyone wants the dredging to take place in their backyard. We also have a challenging situation with office space and buildings. Some of the buildings on the island should be condemned and need to be torn down. Many of the condos here need to be renovated. Some of them are 800 square feet with 8-foot ceilings and are very dated. People don’t want to stay in a place like that. You could create incentives to renovate, but who can afford to do so? These are just some of the challenges we are working to address.

Q: What is your biggest challenge?

A: Our biggest challenge is paying for stuff — for new stuff and for maintenance of existing stuff. Our long-term goal is figuring out how to broaden our economy and finance everything we need and want to do. We have a public meeting calendar, openings on our boards and committees, and a lot of information on our website.

We welcome anyone who wants to share their ideas and wants to help make a difference. M For additional information regarding the Town of Hilton Head Island and its collaborative efforts with the Hilton Head Island Economic Development Corporation, please visit hiltonheadislandsc.gov or hhiedc.com. The Hilton Head IslandBluffton Chamber of Commerce also offers economic and business metrics for Hilton Head Island, Bluffton and Beaufort County, which can be found online at ThinkHiltonHeadIsland.org.

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HHIEDC EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR DON KIRKMAN

For many, the only thing better than vacationing in a top travel destination, such as Hilton Head Island, is being able to call that paradise one’s home and place of business.

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Special thanks to MAPtech Packaging for the photo shoot location.

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owever, while Hilton Head offers countless amenities that appeal to both visitors and residents, including beautiful beaches, a pleasant climate, countless cultural and culinary offerings, and beyond, maintaining and attracting businesses requires much more than award-winning aesthetics and attractions. Few know about this better than Don Kirkman, executive director of the Hilton Head Island Economic Development Corporation. Kirkman, who joined the group in August 2014, brings years of experience and expertise to his role.

Monthly sat down to speak with the North Carolina native about his first year on the job and the economic group’s priorities, challenges and goals.

Question: What is your background and how do you feel it makes you wellsuited for or qualified to help lead Hilton Head’s economic growth and development?

Answer: I have been an economic development practitioner for 25 years. I was an attorney for 10 years in Morehead, North Carolina, and during that time I began volunteering for the Carteret County Economic Development Council. In 1990,

I applied for the director position and held it for 10 years. Then I spent 10 years as the CEO/president of the Piedmont/ Triad Partnership, a 12-county regional economic development organization.

After that, I was hired by Florida’s Great Northwest, a 16-county regional economic development organization, to serve as its president. In 2012, I returned to North Carolina and started my own economic development consulting practice. I closed that practice when I was hired to serve as the first executive director of Hilton Head’s EDC in 2014, and I am a certified economic developer.

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City Guide Q: What is your mission with the EDC? A: The EDC has articulated a mission to make Hilton Head Island more than a leisure community — with greater housing opportunities, educational opportunities, etc. — with the attributes of a mid-sized city. We don’t want to do anything to dilute the Hilton Head brand.

Q: What are the EDC’s goals?

A: The EDC was incorporated by the Town of Hilton Head Island in June 2013, and we work closely to help deepen, diversify and grow the economy of the town. We have four main goals.

Our first is to identify barriers to new business attraction and existing business retention and expansion on Hilton Head Island and to provide recommendations.

Our second goal is to support an entrepreneurial ecosystem that encourages new business formation and existing business retention and expansion. Goal three is to retain and expand existing Hilton Head businesses, and our fourth goal

is to attract new businesses to the island.

Q: What challenges do you face?

A: As the island has matured, development has dried up and we are coming off of a recession. Our economy is also very tied to tourism and hospitality, instead of being diversified. From 1990-2000, our tax base and revenue nearly doubled.

From 2010 until now, things have been stagnant.

Q: What are your strategies for overcoming these challenges and accomplishing your goals?

A: Town Council and the EDC agree that we need to diversify and not be so reliant upon tourism and hospitality.

During the past year, the EDC requested proposals for and enacted a Second Homeowner Outreach Strategy to get input from non-resident property owners, we have created an aviation action plan, we have surveyed existing businesses and have a new board of directors with very skilled locals representing various

industries. The board governs the EDC and Hilton Head’s town manager, Steve Riley, serves as a non-voting, ex officio member. These are just a few of our strategies. We encourage folks to share their thoughts, participate in our meetings and help spread the word that “Life is Good on the Island.”

Kirkman believes that he and the HHIEDC have made great progress during the past year, but agrees that there is still much work to be done. He encourages those who are passionate about Hilton Head and its future to get involved with the group. M For additional information regarding the advantages of locating your business on Hilton Head Island and the Hilton Head Island Economic Development Corporation, including its many services and resources, call 843-686-0868 or visit hhiedc.com. You can also subscribe to receive news and event information.

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READ THE FULL INTERVIEW ONLINE AT HILTONHEADMONTHLY.COM

WITH BEAUFORT COUNTY SHERIFF P.J. TANNER

BY TIM WOOD | PHOTO BY W PHOTOGRAPHY

The dream began to take shape 42 years ago.

P.J.

Tanner got to shadow his uncle, an officer with the South Car lina Department of Natural Resources.

“We rode in the DNR boat.

They paid for him to have a truck. A boat, a truck and serving others? Wow. That’s a dream job right there.”

As he became an adult, he looked to apply for the DNR, but because of a budget freeze, there were no jobs available. So his uncle introduced him to Beaufort County Sheriff Morgan McCutchen, who hired him three days after his 21st birthday.

McCutchen mentored Tanner, who is now in his 17th year as Sheriff.

Tanner reflects on where he’s been, where the county is now and what’s needed for the future.

Question: What’s the state of law enforcement in Beaufort County?

Answer: I see us in a real good position, with opportunities to better ourserves at what we do. Since I took office in 1999, we have increased spe-

cial teams, increased technology, and we have grown the team and the budget.

It’s been a real benefit to the county to see the Bluffton Police Department take shape.

Their department has grown from 5 to 50, and their coverage went from one square mile to 55 square miles. We’ve seen similar growth in Beaufort and Port Royal. It helps us focus on patrols and being visible.

We still are behind in the number of state troopers we have in the county. We are increasing gradually and hopefully we’ll see more numbers as the economy improves. The more traffic enforcement with multiple agencies, it reduces our responsibility on accidents.

S.C. Highway Patrol, they own the highways. That allows us to increase patrols in neighborhoods and shopping centers.

We have good federal representation from the FBI, DEA and SLED. All and all, we’re in good shape.

I’d like to see the Town of Hilton Head work with us to increase our patrol numbers as part of their contract with our office. They pay $2.5 million for

our services versus about a $15 million budget if they ran their own department. We need more bodies there. We are strong on service calls, but we need more patrols, especially in areas like the South End during summer.

We have the same number of patrols in the dead zone of February on the island as we do with 250,000 people here during summer.

Overall, I see a lot of positives. We know the economy is picking up when we see new home construction rising and tourism going up like it did this past summer.

The crime rate is low. There has been a decrease in violent crime for the last nine years.

We’re very proud of the forensics lab we opened in 2010. All in all, we’re moving in the right direction.

Q: How does law enforcement change as the county goes through these growth spurts?

A: It’s a lot of management and identifying trends to

make sure we’re ready budget wise to get out in front of the growth. We’ve had amazing help in doing that from the county and from each town.

The technology has been so important. It works for us 24 hours, seven days a week. But we need the talented men and women to maximize that, and we’ve been very fortunate in our recruitment.

Q: You’ve been very vocal in your stance on body cameras.

As such a tech advocate, why not this?

A: It’s a hot button issue and I understand that. I’m not against body cameras, I just think we need to see this from all sides. I’ve been researching this for 10 years. We already have a top-of-the-line dashboard camera system across our fleet. They have micr phones in the car and on the officers’ gun belt that picks up sound 1,000 feet away from the car. The body camera video quality is not as good as the dashboard cams yet. County taxpayers helped us achieve

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The state was going to try to mandate the use of the body cameras, and that just shouldn’t happen. We have issues with invasiveness and liability when we’re going into folks’ homes with these, and that kind of video will not be subject to the Freedom of Information Act like dashboard footage. There’s too many privacy issues involved.

I was very active in creating the statewide guidelines for dashboard cameras and I am now with body cameras. We need to make sure that the state will fully fund this before we attempt to roll this out.

With a workforce like ours with 335 officers, at least 250 of them would need body cameras. Across the state, it’s a $20 to $30 million cost just to get this going. Then you talk about storage of the video, which we keep as evidence for 10 years.

Right now, we’re storing 250 to 300 videos per day with the dashboard cameras. We’re talking about a huge cost just for server storage of the body camera footage, which we’d have exponentially more footage to store.

We’re five years away at least before the state could even consider being able to fund this. And in that time, we’ll work to make sure we have the best technology and best training for our officers to be ready Q: With the incidents nationally and the climate for officers getting increasingly tense, what do you see in Beaufort County?

A: We are very fortunate. We have not been affected like Ferguson, Baltimore, New York and so many areas around the country. The community is extremely supportive of law enforcement here. We’ve had one complaint related to extreme use of force

over the last eight years of accreditation.

Our officers watch a lot of TV, and go to sleep feeling very fortunate that we don’t face these issues. But seeing what’s happening around the country, it’s good training for our officers on what not to do. It leads to good conversations. Our officers are in shock as to what they see and how it leads a community to reject and mistrust law enforcement.

Q: How much of your job is politics? How have you gotten better at playing that game through the years?

A: I was told a long time ago

by Sheriff McCutchen, when I first ran in 1994, that you need to keep the politics to a nine-month window every four years during a re-election. I make decisions based on public safety. It’s never about political ramifications That said, I wasn’t ready to be sheriff in 1994. I was still too much Robocop. I went to work for the state from 1995 to 1998.

I made connections, saw how the political machine works by being in Columbia, by being on the Governor’s security detail. It made me ready and made me understand how to simply make friends instead of play politics.

Ultimately, that makes sure we’re always focused on public safety.

I get along with County Council members and town councils, but we’re really only butting heads during the budget process. I don’t work for councils, I am an elected state official charged with leading public safety efforts. Our ties are financial.

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History

A liberated female slave and Union soldiers stand in at the entrance to the captured plantation of the General Thomas F. Drayton, Hilton Head Island, South Carolina. Photo by Henry P. Moore, May 1862.

THE

OF HILTON HEAD (ISLAND)

EDITOR’S NOTE: For our annual City Guide, we reached out to longtime resident Glen McCaskey to help tell the story of Hilton Head Island and Bluffton. McCaskey has been deeply involved in the evolution of the Lowcountry since moving here in 1970.

BY GLEN MCCASKEY

There are lots of ways to tell a story, even a history, with an almost passing glance.

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his is one of those: a quick peek mostly at people groups who have been part of the story of this very special island.

Aborigines – The first visitors enjoyed Hilton Head when Calibogue Sound was really a valley through which a small river and wildlife passed and the visiting hunter/gatherers crouched along the banks awaiting dinner. If our dating of their left-behinds are accurate, that was 10,000 years ago, preisland days for Hilton Head and during a major global warming that was causing the distant ocean to march westward.

Mystery Guests – A few thousand years later, the high banks over that valley had

become the low-lying islands of Hilton Head and Daufuskie Island. After that time, around 4,000 years ago, a mysterious group of Indians paid repeated visits to Hilton Head over many generations and left behind three puzzling shell rings. One is still preserved in the Sea Pines Forest Preserve, but two others were used by early settlers to build tabby houses and surface roads. They are some of only 20 known such rings in the Sea Islands.

Spaniards – Entering “recorded history,” this area first shows up in the 1500s, after the Europeans thought they discovered a New World in 1492. But Hilton Head and the adjacent North America were not their focus — most eyes were on the

Aztec and Incan gold in South America. The Spanish were dominant in the exploitation and plundering, and they often sent their treasure-loaded galleons up to Hilton Head for wind and water. They got the water at Spanish Wells and the wind off shore where the “easterlies” would take them straight to Spain.

Barbadians –Meanwhile, English settlers had focused on the Caribbean Islands and establishing agricultural-based economies. Wanting to expand operations, and sniffing the political winds, planters in Barbados sent Capt. William Hilton to this area to check out its potential. Captain Hilton showed up in 1663, gave us nothing and went home, leaving only his name behind.

King’s Cronies - Not so coincidentally, during Hilton’s visit, England’s King Charles II granted this region to eight loyal English cronies, known as the Lord Proprietors. They arranged for the 1670 settlement of Charles Town by Englishmen from Bermuda, to be followed by settlers from Barbados, England and Virginia.

Heros – As settlement moved south, the Yemassee Indian

Matt Jones in regimentals. Hilton Head Island, April 6, 1904.

Wars of 1715-1730 interrupted the 1711 settlement of Beaufort. But when work resumed, focus also turned to Hilton Head when Col. John Barnwell, a Carolina hero of the Yemassee conflict, was granted 1,000 acres on the island’s north end.

Revolutionaries - Island settlement was still advancing when the 1776 American Revolution erupted, not that devastating for the island, which consisted of maybe 30 families and a few plantations.

It did result in casualties and something of a row-boat war with English sympathizers on Daufuskie.

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Slaves - After the Revolution, Hilton Head became home to almost two dozen cotton plantations during an 80-year run of prosperity, between the Revolutionary and Civil Wars.

While those eight decades were mostly smooth sailing, it was on the backs of more than an estimated 1,000 enslaved souls working on the island.

Yankees – With succession, the prosperity run came to a crashing halt in 1861 and island life was turned upside down.

The Union headquartered its coastal blockade here with up

to 50,000 Union troops in a tent city, which also housed thousands of support civilians, slave refugees, wounded soldiers and captured Confederate troops.

The Gullah - When it was all over, the economy again turned rural and the former slaves who remained settled small communities scattered around the island where they farmed, worked the sea and lived in relative isolation for almost a full century. Those were the decades that the rich Gullah culture with its language, crafts,

A Union soldier stands with African Ameri cans on the plantation Thomas F. Drayton, Hilton Head Island, South Carolina, 1862.

Photo by Henry P. Moore, May 1862.

community and faith became solidified.

Timbermen - By the 1950s, the tall timber, which had been mostly cleared to make room for Sea Island Cotton, had grown back and a timber consortium from Hinesville, Georgia, bought 19,000 of the island’s 25,000 acres. Those timber tycoons all became benefactors of the island, not just exploiters, and the son of one, Charles E. Fraser, was particularly enraptured by

the natural wonder and beauty of Hilton Head. He put his special intellect to work devising ways to create a profitable coastal resort for regular people without destroying the resource in the process.

The Rest of Us – That is where we came in, starting slowly in the 1950s. Those first families caught the vision, loved it and lived it. Carrying it forward now depends on the rest of us. M

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MAY RIVER The town of Bluffton is situation on the northern bluff of the majestic river, which winds through the Old Town area, which locals call “the last true coastal village of the South.” In the heart of Old Town, one can experience the mystery of the river with one of the many outfitters that navigate nature lovers along the waterway to view dolphins, catch shrimp or just enjoy the rhythm of the tides.

Bluffton

PUTS NATURE AND NEIGHBOR SIDE BY SIDE

BY LISA J. ALLEN | PHOTOS BY ARNO DIMMLING

Bluffton began as a Native American enclave where tribes could fish and collect oysters, then trade them along the May River.

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ater, it became a retreat for wealthy cotton, indigo and rice plantation owners who enjoyed the river breezes from the town’s bluff. Thus its name, Bluffton.

That life revolving around gentle breezes continues today, earning the town the designation of “one of the last true Southern coastal villages.”

Bluffton didn’t change much for decades, not until interest in Hilton Head flowed over the bridges onto the mainland — a little at first, then Bluffton’s population surged with the construction of Sun City Hilton Head, now home to 14,000 people.

Geographically, Bluffton mushroomed through vigorous annexation, going from 1 square mile to 53 square miles in the 1990s.

Within that perimeter, development exploded, creating a critical mass of young families that have given Bluffton its own flavor.

Town planners grouped development, so residential areas remain nice and peaceful.

Shopping centers are clustered along U.S. 278, several schools and athletic fields ring McCracken Circle and a dining and enter-

tainment district keeps the Calhoun Street Promenade hopping.

Yet still central to the town’s ambiance is Old Town, which is Bluffton’s original square mile. It’s sprinkled with artisan shops, art galleries and one-of-kind eateries.

Now a National Historic District, Old Town includes the pre-Civil War Church of the Cross and the antebellum Heyward House, which serves as Bluffton’s visitor center.

Not only is Bluffton a great coastal village, a couple of attractions keep Bluffton on many “best of" or “most interesting town" lists. One is the iconic Bluffton Oyster Co., one of the last operating oyster factories on the Eastern Coast.

Another landmark is Palmetto Bluff, a coveted community that boasts the five-star Inn at Palmetto Bluff and protected wilderness overlooking the May River.

Despite its vastly expanded dimensions, Bluffton remains a small town. You’ll know your neighbors. You’ll know where the “locals” congregate and form clubs, plan social events and start new youth sports leagues.

Of course, because our warm weather makes outdoor activities possible yearround, those parks host a plethora of festivals, events and public gatherings in every season.

The May River Theater Co. also puts a wealth of local talent on stage for performances throughout the year.

In the summer, you’ll plan your weekends around low tide so you can spend a couple of hours on the May River sand bar, or kicking back with a picnic at Oyster Factory Park.

Maybe you’ll launch a kayak or stand-up paddleboard and go in search of dolphins.

As a resident, you’ll discover the best fis ing spots and enjoy the town’s many parks and walking trails.

Bluffton offers an ideal blend for its residents: small town feel with the shopping, dining and entertainment found in much more cosmopolitan areas.

But if you really want to know what makes Bluffton unique, head to the May River.

After all, Bluffton’s elevated view of that waterway gave it its name, and the town remains true to its watery roots. M

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Bluffton Landmarks & Hotspots HEYWARD HOUSE 70 Boundary Street Built as a summer home for a local plantation owner in 1841, the ColeHeyward House is one of only eight antebellum houses remaining in Bluffton.

It is a perfect example of the Carolina farmhouse style brought from the West Indies and popularized during the Colonial period just before the Civil War. It served as a retreat for John J. Cole and his family to escape the summer heat, insects and disease that infested plantations in the long summer months. The Heyward family owned the home from the 1880s to 1998.

The home has maintained its original architecture and structure over the past 170 years, remaining virtually identical to its original appearance. Its well-preserved condition has made it part of an official project of the Save America’s Treasures Program; it also serves as the official welcome center for the town of Bluffton.

THE CALHOUN STREET PROMENADE Promenade Street While the recession really took a toll on the Calhoun Street Promenade, businesses are coming back and booming. With new buildings and businesses, the street has almost an urban feel with a variety of restaurants, shops and specialty shops.

THE CHURCH OF THE CROSS 110 Calhoun Street This historic Episcopal Church is located on Calhoun Street in the heart of Bluffton.

It was built in 1857 with fanned arches and latticed shutters. Federal troops destroyed much of the town in 1863, but the church was spared, allowing the original architecture to remain to this day — although a hurricane did damage the building in 1898. The church has been listed on the National Register of Historic Places since 1975.

OLD TOWN BLUFFTON You don’t want to miss historic Bluffton near the May River for some of the most unique shopping and dining in the Lowcountry. It’s all blended with colorful and creative art galleries, history up and down local streets, and dining for lunch and dinner in charming settings. Flower boxes and rocking chairs, fun garden art and sculptures, a cat or a dog lounging on a front porch store entrance, and lots of smiles await you.

FARMER’S MARKET OF BLUFFTON 40 Calhoun Street Not much tops Thursday afternoons on Calhoun Street during the summer months.

The Farmers Market of Bluffton offers locally grown vegetables, fruits, flowers, plants and herbs — and a lot more. You can pick up fresh-off-the-boat seafood and even enjoy lunch or dinner from one of the vendors.

Aside from pleasing your taste buds, you can please your other senses as well. With handmade crafts and the sound of local musicians, you can’t go wrong. So stop by from 2 to 7 p.m. and see for yourself what all the hype is about.

BUCKWALTER PLACE 103 Buckwalter Place Blvd.

This shopping complex offers high-quality restaurant and retail experiences. To date, the corporate headquarters for a large IT and healthcare company, a major grocery chain, a state-of-the-art entertainment facility, a cutting-edge civic law enforcement center and many others make their home at Buckwalter Place.

BLUFFTON OYSTER CO. 63 Wharf Street Family run since 1899, the Bluffton Oyster Co. is the only remaining handshucking house in the state of South Carolina. It is open from 9 a.m. to 5:30 p.m. Monday through Saturday. You can also find its fresh fried shrimp, oysters and crabs at the Farmers Market of Bluffton every Thursday. Don’t miss out on this fresh and local seafood.

TANGER OUTLETS 1414 Fording Island Road This shopping center houses more than 2,200 name brands and designers at unbeatable outlet prices. Spend the day bargain hunting with your friends and family, finding items up to 70 percent off everyday retail prices. There are even places to dine or snack if you happen to get hungry. There are two locations in Bluffton, Tanger Center 1 and Tanger Center 2, so make sure to check where the stores you want to visit are located before venturing off.

MAY RIVER THEATRE CO. 20 Bridge Street Consistently performing top-notch shows with a local cast. If you're a theater groupie, this is the place for you.

Spend a relaxing evening watching an intimate performance of live theater in the heart of the Lowcountry.

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Bluffton

BY LISA SULKA, MAYOR OF BLUFFTON

OUR PEOPLE AND OUR LIFESTYLE ARE WHAT DIFFERENTIATE BLUFFTON FROM OTHER TOWNS.

It’s a great time to live, work, play and love Bluffton. As a town, we know who we are and where we are going.

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luffton has recently been recognized as a municipal leader in areas such as fi nancial management, economic development and revitalization. National and regional media outlets, such as Money Magazine, continue to bestow titles on our town as one of the best places to retire and live.

Garden & Gun Magazine recently named Bluffton “A Southern Dream Town.” As a municipal leader, I am proud of our town and the people who work so diligently to create a place which many want to be a part.

Like it or not, Bluffton is no longer a well-kept secret. We are well aware development will come and town leaders continually strive to partner with these projects and direct them in the best ways to protect our natural resources and lifestyle. Each year Town Council, together with our residents, evaluates our longterm vision and annual strategic plan to ensure our projects and policies refl ect our values.

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We keep our values in the forefront of every decision. The Town has a covenant that guides us in our quest for balance.

Below is the fi rst part of this agreement between our residents: As citizens of Bluffton, South Carolina, we hold the following to be true: That social, cultural and economic diversity and inclusiveness are the essence of our community; That we bear responsibility for the stewardship of nature’s blessings entrusted to us in Bluffton and along the May River; That freedom and civic duty work hand-in-hand to create a culture of individuality and a sense of community; That our natural, physical and cultural history are worthy of our protection as trustees in order for us to embrace our future.

Our people and our lifestyle are what differentiate Bluffton from other towns.

Below are some examples of how the town strives to be progressive as we “build community” and honor our values with every project.

Economic Development:  Developers Blanchard & Calhoun will build out Buckwalter Place. Its plans include an 113,000 square-foot Kroger marketplace, multi-family residential units, parks and open space.  The Don Ryan Center for Innovation continues to fl ourish; its current and graduated 19 companies have added 77 employees and more than $4 million to the region’s annual payroll. The center is also working with the Beaufort County School District to nurture the innovative spirit at every age and skill level.  New residential homes are exploding around Bluffton, especially in Hampton Lake, Hampton Hall, Palmetto Bluff and Old Town Bluffton.

Strong Financial Position: The town’s new fi scal year began July 1. The new consolidated budget is $3.5 million

more than last year’s consolidated budget with no new tax increase. The additional revenue is generated through growth in the property tax base and construction permits due to Bluffton’s robust economy.

Park Improvements: Renovations were recently completed at DuBois Park and Tom Herbkersman Commons as more seating, fencing and lighting were installed. The next phase of the May River Streetscape project will add more walkability to Old Town. Oyster Factory Park improvements are also scheduled for the fall; this project includes building a courtesy dock for boaters. As a reminder, the town has provided Wi-Fi at the following parks: Oscar Frazier, Oyster Factory and DuBois parks.

Natural Resources Protection: Town staff are also implementing projects aimed at improving water quality in the May River. One project, located in the Pine Ridge neighborhood, will collect stormwater in ponds and use that water for irrigation. In addition, the town continues to bring sewer lines to neighborhoods that use septic tanks.

This is a benefi t for residents as well as a safeguard against failed septic systems and a protection for the May River.

Historic Preservation: The town will renovate the Garvin House, the only known former slave’s cottage on the May River. The house is located across from Oyster Factory Park and is a historic asset to Bluffton’s story.

Bluffton Police Department: This year, the Bluffton Police Department received accreditation with excellence; the highest level of recognition of the re-accreditation process from the Commission on Accreditation for Law Enforcement Agencies. The police deptartment also added a substation in Old Town Bluffton for better accessibility to residents and events.

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WITH BLUFFTON TOWN MANAGER MARC ORLANDO

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Marc Orlando has been at the forefront of a decade of enormous change in Bluffton.

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joined the town as a planning director in 2004, moving into positions as director of growth management and deputy town manager before taking over for retiring town manager Anthony Barrett in September 2014.

We let the 44-year-old town leader reflect on a decade of growth and what’s ahead as the once “sleepy little hamlet” evolves into a metropolis.

Question: What are the town's priorities right now?

Answer: The town’s Strategic Plan guides the staff’s daily activities, and fiscal year 2016 priorities are detailed. I encourage everyone to glance through the document at www. townofbluffton.sc.gov/government/Documents/strategic.plan.pdf. The Strategic Plan’s guiding philosophy is to have thoughtful growth while preserving the town’s high quality of life, culture, history and spirit. That philosophy comes to life in our projects, such as preserving the Garvin House, the

May River Road Streetscape and our capital improvements program, our Neighborhood Assistance program, and park improvements and creating memorable public spaces.

Q: There has been much talk of a Main Street atmosphere at the new Kroger Marketplace development at Buckwalter Place.

Is the idea to make Buckwalter more of a downtown/town center?

A: The developers, Blanchard & Calhoun, approached town officials for our ideas, and town leaders are excited both parties want Buckwalter Place development to create a “sense of place.” We do that by incorporating walkable areas where people can work, live and play with parks and open spaces.

Incorporating ways to “build a community” is as important as erecting buildings and very important to the culture of Bluffton.

Q: How do you balance the growth on Buckwalter with Old Town residents and merchants who feel that is the center of town?

A: The town balances this through its Growth Framework Map, which has identi-

fied areas in Bluffton best for growth in terms of space and protecting the town’s natural resources. This is the town’s guiding document, which balances growth within Bluffton.

Town leaders strive daily to achieve a balance between new growth and preservation. This balance is what makes our town different from others; we offer the progressiveness and conveniences of a larger city while maintaining the charm of a small town.

In addition, there is growth in multiple places in Bluffton, not just Buckwalter and Old Town. In speaking about Bluffton’s growth, we must also mention the multiple neighborhoods that are populating the New River area; Hampton Lake is exploding with new construction; and Palmetto Bluff is in the middle of $250 million investment to Wilson Village (i.e. additions to hotel, etc.) as well as creating a new residential community called Moreland Village.

Q: Do you feel the town has made progress in uniting Old Town and newer residents and developments into one Bluffton? How

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A: The Bluffton Historic District is and will always be the heart and soul of Bluffton.

This district, which is on the National Historic Registry along with The Church of the Cross, is the town’s roots. Bluffton is like a very large extended family, and Old Town is where we gather to have festivals and gather at parks, like Oyster Factory Park and DuBois Park. It has been and will be our gathering place.

As the town has grown, Old Town has added numerous offices, small businesses, retail shops, arts galleries and restaurants.

However, Old Town will remain the place where our community comes together. The town has reinvested millions in this district to preserve this purpose.

For decades, Old Town has been where residents, recent and lifelong, gather for the Bluffton Village Festival, Bluffton Christmas Parade and, in the last decade, the Historic Bluffton Arts and Seafood Festival. These festivities are a type of homecoming for many, and Old Town is our home base.

Q: What’s the biggest challenges facing the town right now?

A: There are many. Smart growth, preserving the May River and the town’s natural resources, maintaining the town’s high quality of life, creating and maintaining different housing choices and price points Maintaining Bluffton’s small-town charm while being one of the fastest growing municipalities in the nation; preparing infrastructure for future growth; preparing service delivery for the growth; realizing growth is inevitable and ensuring that comes with maintaining Bluffton’s “sense of place” and community pride.

Q: How do you balance increasing the profile of the town and still keep it as “the best kept secret” that seems to be part of its appeal for so many?

A: The recent downturn in the economy has taught all of us that it is impossible to predict five years or even 10 years from now.

In 10 years, I am hopeful Bluffton’s spirit will be the same as it is today.

Due to the town’s land use and financial policies, which are already in place, we know our population figures are on an upward trajectory. However, our policies and projects also indicate the town will plan for parks, festivals and open space to preserve our smalltown charm and our sense of community.

Another big part of keeping our small-

town feel is public safety. The Bluffton Police Department is a large part of our pride as its community-led policing philosophy has integrated officers in every facet of the town.

In March, the Commission on Accreditation for Law Enforcement Agencies awarded the Bluffton Police Department Accreditation with Excellence, the highest level of recognition of the reaccreditation process. Our highly honored police force is a huge asset to Bluffton.

In addition, Bluffton has an overall philosophy about who we are and how we do things. The Bluffton Covenant is a constant reminder of what we hold sacred, if we are mindful of those tenets, we will stay balanced.

Q: A year into the new job and increased duties, what’s the most important part of the job the public doesn’t see?

A: I have been fortunate to work with several town councils in Bluffton. What the public doesn’t see is how dedicated our leaders are to this town. While they may have differing opinions on various issues, I have never met a more dedicated group of elected officials who share the common ground of really wanting to do the right thing for the right reasons.

I also don’t think the public sees how hard council members work. We see the time and talent they invest as they attend multiple and time-consuming meetings, workshops and strategic planning sessions while attending to individual constituent needs.

Q: What do you see as the future for the Don Ryan Center for Innovation? How or when do we judge whether the center has been a success?

A: The Don Ryan Center for Innovation has been in operation for three years and we measure its success every day. It has truly become a regional economic development initiative with the leadership provided by the town of Bluffton. Many of the other business incubators around the state look to us for guidance and that, in itself, is a measure of success.

The bottom line of the center’s success is that its 19 current and graduated companies have added 77 employees to the region, generating more than $4 million in annual payroll.

We are also very proud of the center’s partnerships with the Savannah College of Art and Design and with the Beaufort County

School District. Innovation has to be nurtured at every age and skill level, and we are proud to be a player in this mission.

Q: There’s a lot of talk about Calhoun Street Promenade parking. What role can/will the town play in solving the evolving parking issues when the promenade is controlled by the private businesses?

A: The Old Town Master Plan envisioned a highly dense urban village and, as with many urban centers, parking is provided on the street.

The town has also surveyed the parking spaces in the Bluffton Historic District and found there are nearly 550 public spaces within a five-minute walk of Calhoun Street and the promenade. We have to educate the public about where they are and encourage walkability.

Q: What’s the one question you get asked the most that you wish you could just hand out a business card with a canned response?

A: “Why is my hair getting so gray?”

And then there’s “Do I live in the town of Bluffton?” While many share the Bluffton address, there are those who think they live in Bluffton but do not. For instance, Westbury Park, Woodbridge and Sandy Point are in the “donut holes” of the town; they weren’t annexed into the town’s jurisdiction. The simple answer is if you don’t pay taxes to the town of Bluffton, you aren’t a resident. However, we do have staff ready and able to explain the annexation process to you.

Q: What’s the biggest thing you learned in your first decade working for the town that will help you in your next 10 years?

A: I have been very lucky to work with different Town Councils whose members all believed in a vision for Bluffton. The council members had the foresight and they have provided the guiding documents and ordinances to create reality from that vision.

They have not been afraid to lead and to take pride in setting the pace. Two examples of this leadership are the success of the Don Ryan Center for Innovation and Old Town.

In mid-July, more than 100 mayors and municipal leaders from across the state toured the Bluffton Historic District and learned what worked here to create such an active business corridor and community gathering place. It was great to hear how other municipal leaders were energized with Bluffton’s ideas and implementation. I have learned a lot from Bluffton’s leadership. M

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WITH BLUFFTON’S DIRECTOR OF GROWTH DEVELOPMENT, SHAWN LEININGER

BY TIM WOOD | PHOTO BY LLOYD WAINSCOTT

Shawn Leininger knows he’s a Lowcountry cliché, the Ohio native and Ohio State Buckeyes alum drawn south by the siren call of the May River.

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luffton’s director of growth development once admired the town’s expansion from afar while forging his own real-life “SimCity” efforts up north.

Leininger made the move to Bluffton in 2011 and has spent the past four years using that admiration as a base for putting his own mark on the area’s growth plan. How does he think it’s working out so far?

Question: What did you learn from your past stops in Ohio that you’ve been able to put to work in managing growth in Bluffton?

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City Guide Answer: The Ohio cities of Delaware and Powell are very similar to Bluffton in that they were and remain high-growth communities with small-town, historic roots. During my time with those cities, they were in the heart of the fourth fastestgrowing county in the United States. Those communities, like Bluffton, had council members who had the foresight and courage to put in place a vision and tools that would both promote growth yet protect the quality of life that attracted growth. The broad spectrum of policies and projects I was involved with in Ohio prepared me well for my role in Bluffton helping to balance growth with the preservation of culture, history, and environment.

Q: What do you expect from your Buckeyes this fall? Do you and (Beaufort County administrator and diehard OSU fan Gary Kubic) ever talk Buckeyes?

A: I love my Buckeyes. It is a pleasant surprise to be surrounded by so many Buckeye fans in the heart of the Lowcountry.

Fortunately for me, there are plenty of fans in the area and we have places that welcome us, like Mangiamo’s. When it comes to The Ohio State University, I am in good company with other local government leaders like Gary Kubic who are also alumni and avid fans.

Obviously, Ohio State had a phenomenal year winning the National Championship and we had fun watching them on that journey. That being said, the Buckeyes are solid this year and I look forward to a potential rematch with Alabama.

Q: Why do town and county offi cials continue to push for the realignment of the 2.5-mile stretch of Bluffton Parkway between Buck Island Road and Buckwalter Parkway? Can you explain it from a planning point of view?

A: To understand the realignment, you have to look at the current plan for Bluffton Parkway in its entirety, from the bridges to Hilton Head to the future exit 3 on Interstate 95, and consider the future development of the region. As this area, along with Hardeeville and Jasper County, when built out, U.S. 278 will no longer be able to solely support the traffi c needs of the region.

Bluffton Parkway, including the realignment, is an alternative to U.S. 278 and adds capacity to the region’s east-west road network.

Also, while we have been fortunate to avoid a major storm event, we have to be cognizant that we live along the coast and are at risk for a hurricane. Evacuation of the area’s residents to safety has to be a priority. Bluffton Parkway provides an alternative evacuation route to U.S. 278.

Q: What drew you to Bluffton? What’s the one thing that’s been better than you imagined and one part of living here you weren’t expecting?

A: An opportunity to work and expand my career as a planner with the town of Bluffton brought me here. My wife and I visited during the interview process and we were hooked. Bluffton is a special place. The combination of a coastal culture with a rich history and natural beauty is unlike any place we have ever seen. I love Ohio and am proud of my roots, but it is hard to not see the sun so many days out of the year.

No question, the people are better than we expected. Southern hospitality is alive and well in Bluffton.

Beaufort County Schools have been a welcome surprise.

Schools are hard to judge without being in them and seeing the results fi rsthand. That being said, the experiences and growth we have seen in our kids since arriving in Bluffton have exceeded our expectations. As shown in Red Cedar Elementary School being named Palmetto’s Finest, the teachers, administrators and resources available to our kids are unmatched. I am so proud of our schools.

Q: Bluffton has been a model in fi ltering growth away from the May River and into areas that won’t impact the May as much.

What’s the biggest factor in managing urban sprawl away from the river moving forward?

A: Monitoring development and taking every opportunity to re-direct development rights away from the river are a high priority for the town. Bluffton has identifi ed via its Growth Framework Map where higher-intensity growth is supported by infrastructure while protecting critical natural areas. The town’s residents and businesses have also been important partners.

For example, Crescent Resources (Palmetto Bluff) has already proven to be a leader in this effort by transferring 1,300 dwelling units out of the critical area of the May River watershed.

Q: Affordable housing is always a hot topic. Where does the idea of a fee for building permits to create an affordable housing trust fund currently stand? What else is being discussed to address affordable housing?

A: It remains one of several ideas to support affordable housing. Through the 2015-16 Strategic Plan, Town Council has directed town staff to explore a comprehensive approach to affordable housing. Among the ideas to be discussed are removing regulatory barriers and providing incentives to promote the development of affordable housing units and choices. These incentives could be fi nancial or involve the provision of additional development rights to help offset high land and development costs.

Q: How do you balance the growth on Buckwalter vs. the Old Town residents and merchants who feel that is the center of town?

A: While the town is now more than 54 square miles in size, Old Town is and will always be the heart of Bluffton. However, each section of Bluffton — whether it is Buckwalter, Palmetto Bluff, New Riverside or Old Town — will have its own distinctive identities and offer residents unique benefi ts and opportunities.

Q: What’s the biggest challenge facing Bluffton in managing growth in the next fi ve years?

A: From my perspective, I’d say protecting the May River, ensuring housing options are available for all income levels and preserving historical assets.

The last growth period negatively impacted the river, resulting in areas being closed to shellfi sh harvesting. The town has made huge strides in recent years, resulting in more and more areas of the river being reopened. As growth returns to the area, we need to continue to enforce our stormwater regulations and invest in sewer and stormwater infrastructure.

Land prices and the cost of construction are rising again.

As a result, the ability to provide housing options for low- to moderate-income families is being strained. It will be important

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City Guide to focus efforts on identifying reasonable and appropriate mechanisms to offset those rising costs and ensure workforce housing is available.

As the town grows and welcomes new residents and businesses to the community, we must not lose track of the history and culture that attracted us all here. It defi nes Bluffton, it defi nes its people. We need to continue to protect and invest in our historic resources, such as Oyster Factory Park, Garvin House and Calhoun Street.

Q: Where’s the one area that hasn’t grown yet that town offi cials feel could be the next pocket of growth in town?

A: All areas of Bluffton have experienced growth at this point. It is always diffi cult to predict trends, particularly in the current economy. However, Town Council established a Growth Framework Map that identifi es where we want to grow and where do not want grow. This policy tells us where and how to focus our efforts in supporting growth and preservation in the community.

Q: What’s the one store/chain you’d like to see come to Bluffton? Asking as a resident, you’d need to take the town employee hat off for this one.

A: As a resident, we need a Noodles & Company. It is heaven in a bowl.

Q: Bluffton is on the verge of another big growth spurt.

What lessons did the town learn from the 2005-era growth that can apply this time?

A: We are better prepared. The town has an Old Town Master Plan, May River Watershed Action Plan, updated Unifi ed Development Ordinance and stormwater regulations, Growth Framework Strategy, and Strategic Plan. These documents, as adopted by Town Council, tell us where to focus our efforts and how to manage growth. From an operations standpoint, we have the people and policies in place to manage zoning, development, and building permit applications from the initial application through the fi nal inspection and occupancy of a new home or business.

Q: What makes Bluffton such an attractive draw for families? How do you protect that from a growth perspective?

A: The schools, recreational opportunities, activities and festivals, and being a safe place with a strong sense of community. It doesn’t hurt that we can have 70-degree weather in February and we can be out on the May River instead of shoveling snow and ice off the driveway.

Growth pressures are always changing and we need to be able change with them. We have to continue to invest in the town’s assets and ensure we have the tools in place to protect them from any potential adverse growth impacts.

Q: What’s the one question you get asked the most by residents when it comes to managing growth? The question you wish you could just put an answer on a business card and hand out when it’s asked?

A: The No. 1 question I hear is, “How do we do it?” The answer is simple. We have elected leaders who care deeply about the future of Bluffton and who have established a clear vision and have equipped town staff with ordinances, policies and tools to implement that vision. M September 2015 107

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WITH BLUFFTON POLICE CHIEF JOEY REYNOLDS

BY DEAN ROWLAND PHOTO BY LLOYD WAINSCOTT

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ven before Bluffton Police Chief Joey Reynolds, 57, was appointed to his position after 35 years in law enforcement, he and his wife wanted to move to the Lowcountry after falling in love with Bluffton after vacationing here.

The South Carolina native inherited a full-time staff of 33 officers in September 2012 when he took office; the police department now totals 49 with a support staff of five. The depar ment’s $6.2 million budget and increased force numbers reflect Bluffton’s growth to a town of more than 13,600 residents.

His department polices 54.3 square miles, and logged 38,366 phone calls for service last year.

Reynolds discusses the issues facing Bluffton and how the police department will deal with them: Question: Is Bluffton a safe place to live, work and visit?

Answer: I get that question a lot, and I think we are a very safe community. Everything is

relative. When you compare us to our surrounding areas, we are extremely safe. Do we have concerns we want to stay on top of? Absolutely. But I’m proud that our crime stats are relatively low.

Q: In 2014, there were 510 Part 1 offenses (serious) and 1,006 Part 2 offenses (less serious), up from 431 and 778 from the year before. What do the numbers tell you?

A: A number of things. We’re growing, our community is growing and that happens, unfortunately. I have great people who find out about the bad people and they find out about us, too. Anytime we have crime increases, we’re concerned about it. What we see a lot of is property crimes, and we’re concerned about that. We also had

our first homicide in the town of Bluffton last year, and that’s such a tragedy for our community.

We’re trying to do some things to head those things off.

Q: Bluffton’s population has increased 967 percent since 2000. How is it possible to stay ahead of the population surge with police matters?

A: A lot of different ways. We have to build an infrastructure internally to be able to observe that kind of growth. … We try to stay on top of that through our strategic plan: crime reduction, enforcement, our public safety, training and our community orientation, technology and keeping up with the latest and greatest tools to help accomplish mission goals. And then we invest in our people … We have to have succession plans.

When I hire a new officer, I’m looking at him or her to see how he or she will do as an officer, sergeant, lieutenant and captain. Our goal is to get those people into those positions. It’s a long-term plan.

Q: Give me a status report on how things are going now in the department.

A: I think things are going good. We had an amazing turnout on Aug. 4 for our National Night Out, and it was a diverse turnout that represented every aspect of our community. It made us feel really proud that people feel comfortable coming here and interacting with our officers and building relatio ships. We had churches, other community groups, schools, corporate community and businesses … It was amazing.

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City Guide Q: When you assumed duties in late 2012, what were the biggest challenges at that time?

A: There were some concerns.

There was a lot of lossage in this department, internal strife, some community relations concerns, law enforcement relationship problems … so in my first year, I focused on how we can fix that.

How do we improve our internal relationships inside the department, and how do we repair our relationships with our community? We’ve got some really bright, talented people, and you come in and you embrace them and tell them you support them.

You want them to be successful, so I just tell them, “Here are some clear expectations, here’s what we’re going to do, here’s a plan on how we’re going to do it, and here’s where you fit in.” That seemed to work.

Q: What are the biggest challenges facing your department now and in the years ahead?

A: The challenges for us now and in the future are similar to the challenges we’re seeing across the country. How does law enforcement maintain the respect of the community, how do we will build on it and make it better? And at the same time, we deal with some pretty significant problems, whether it’s gangs, drugs, weapons, domestic violence, increased traffic. We have to be well-rounded.

Q: How is Bluffton different and similar to other towns its size, like Beaufort or Orangeburg, regarding its policing practices?

A: We all have pretty much the same issues; it’s scale. We all have people, we all have communities and we all have crime.

Where Bluffton to me is different is we have an amazing community. The community in Bluffton makes it easier for us to do our job, and it also boils down to the government support. The mayor and Town Council are very supportive and give us the tools to

do our job — I’ve never seen this before anywhere.

Q: Describe your department’s efforts regarding everyday issues, such as parking, traffic and marine patrol.

A: Everyday life is interesting.

We do a lot of special events and festivals, and we’re proud to be part of them, but sometime they spread us thin.

Q: In the department’s summary report for 2014, you wrote that there were many advancements in the past year. What were they?

A: Part of what you’re talking about is how do we keep up with the growth; part of that is having to build the infrastructure — a lot of internal reorganization. It helps us manage our growth and puts us in a place for the next step down the road. I want to get these guys onboard, trained and ready when that need comes.

Q: As police chief, what are your specific duties and respo sibilities?

A: My main focus internally is to build our team and to try to get them all headed in the right direction — encourage and support them and give them the right tools. Externally, I’m the face of the department. It starts with me. If I’m not out there in the community and people know who I am, then I can’t expect the guys to do it. Building relationships is a big part of what I have to do, and I enjoy it.

Q: What are the responsibilities of your department?

A: Our core mission is public safety.

Q: What’s the biggest complaint from local residents?

A: The biggest thing people complain about is quality of life.

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Bluffton THE LOWCOUNTRY’S MALIBU BEACH

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EDITOR’S NOTE: For our annual City Guide, we reached out to longtime resident Glen McCaskey to help tell the story of Hilton Head Island and Bluffton. McCaskey has been deeply involved in the evolution of the Lowcountry since moving here in 1970.

BY GLEN MCCASKEY

my opinion, PR people have never done right by Bluffton. Bluffton needs to do what my mother once admonished me to do after I had quit a pretty good job on Hilton Head to do something that I thought more important. I was explaining that to a puzzled acquaintance while my mother was with me, and with a stage whisper that could be heard from the lighthouse to ships at sea, she coached me, “Tell him who you used to be!”

That’s kind of how I feel about Bluffton. Do you, the passing average reader on the street, even know who Bluffton used to be?

Well, during the first 60 percent of the 1800s, Bluffton used to be — to Hilton Head, and the rest of the Lowcountry — what Malibu Beach is to Hollywood today.

Hollywood has all the glamour, the commercialism and those famous names we see on the big screens. But when those famous names go home at night, do they go around the block in Hollywood? No, they get in their Ferrari and take a California autobahn straight to Malibu Beach and their comfortable mansion with a stupendous view, and with the ultimate in-crowd for neighbors. That is the good life, as opposed to where they work.

That’s Bluffton.

Bluffton has exactly the same foundation. Back in the day, just after 1800, two

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wealthy families built summer homes at what is now Bluffton — the Popes (as in Squire Pope) and the Kirks, as in Kirk’s Bluff and Rose Hill. Simply called “May River,” at the time, the Popes and the Kirks and began inviting their wealthy friends to join them at the “Malibu Beach” of the day.

The keepers of history are not sure of exact dates, but there is evidence the Kirks and Popes were on the bluff just after the century turned and that a growing little “hamlet” was located there

The historic Rose Hill Mansion has long held a treasured place in Southern history. Originally built in the late 1850s by planter and physician, Dr. John Kirk and his wife Caroline, the plantation was a wedding present from Caroline's father, James Kirk.

well before James B. Kirk created in 1828 a Kirk’s Bluff suburb of that hamlet in today’s Alljoy community. Both families wanted their names on the growing elite community — “Bluffton” being the compromise solution (Malibu was not considered) — but the resulting town still ended up being made up of absolutely anybody who was somebody in the Lowcountry.

Included were such families as the Barnwells and other rich cotton planters of Squire Pope’s crowd on Hilton Head;

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An African American boy shucking oysters, Varn & Platt Canning Co., Bluff ton, South Carolina, photograph by Lewis Wickes Hine, February, 1913.

the Fripps, who had holdings everywhere (yes, the Fripp Island Fripps); and the Prichards of, well, Prichardville.

The Bluffton Heywards, of course, were not new money but aristocracy of the Lowcountry with nothing short of a rice empire a half-day’s boat ride up the Broad River, not to mention humble credentials to their name such as the Continental Congress, the Declaration of Independence, yadda yadda. Bluffton people: every bit as much a Who’s Who of that day as are folks in Malibu Beach today.

But why Bluffton? Well, why Malibu? Location, location, location. The work in Hollywood often is a dirty, tiring, even unsafe business. Malibu is the great escape. It is a place where people in the public glare can be themselves, can be safe and be in an absolutely delightful place. It was the same with Bluffton.

The cotton and rice plantation business was dirty, hot, exhausting and unsafe during the April to October “summer” months, as they called them. Back then, local mosquitoes carried yellow fever and malaria, which particularly plagued people with white skin. Life on the hot, mosquito-ridden islands, where Sea Island Cotton thrived, could also be stifling and rice field enterprises were necessarily in the low lands where “country fever,” malaria, thrived.

The only area refuge from all these beastly by-products of being absurdly rich was delightful Bluffton. The eastern orientation and the high bluff over the May River provided vistas and cooling breezes that mitigated the seasonal maladies elsewhere. Bluffton became the place for stay-at-home moms of means and their charges and, naturally, an exclusive private school was established to meet the needs of the kids, while stores and services also appeared.

The May River was the local autobahn and ran right to Bluffton’s front doors. So particularly during those long, seven summer months, the cotton kings and rice barons were back and forth from overseeing their holdings which, in reality, owned them as much as vice versa. Some things don’t change.

But change Bluffton did when the Civil War came to town, triggered by some of those same prominent people who so cherished their Malibu Beach. But that is another story for another time. Meanwhile, when somebody notices this old town, don’t forget to tell them who Bluffton used to be. M September 2015 111

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Daufuskie Island JUST A SHORT BOAT OR FERRY RIDE FROM HILTON HEAD, BUT WORLDS AWAY IN AMBIANCE

BY MEGAN MATTINGLY-ARTHUR | PHOTOS BY ROB KAUFMAN

A visit to Daufuskie Island can feel a bit like being transported back to a time before bridges and causeways opened the Lowcountry's Sea Islands to both development and the outside world.

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espite the presence of a luxurious resort and four gorgeous golf courses, the largely undeveloped residential island maintains a blissfully rustic and intoxicatingly timeless feel that attracts as many as 150,000 visitors each year.

“Daufuskie Island is unique because it's so undeveloped,” said Tony Chase, owner of The Daufuskie Island Rum Company — a Made in America-certified distillery that crafts its premier white, spiced and aged rums by hand right on the island. “When you get here, what you see is that, out of the 5,200 acres, there's only a very small portion that has actually been developed, so it's very much a throwback to a simpler time and everything is full of nature. Basically, it's

only a couple miles from Hilton Head, but it's worlds away as it relates to development.

Hilton Head has done a wonderful job in developing the property in a way that it didn't become really commercial, but over here, it's totally rustic and the people here really make it great — we like to say that the character of the island are the characters on the island.”

Chase Allen — a Daufuskie Island resident and metal sculptor whose unique, handcrafted, coastal-themed works of art are featured at The Iron Fish gallery — agrees that it's both the island's seclusion and its colorful, closeknit residents that make Daufuskie a great place to live and visit.

“The fact that it's so underdeveloped is really the foundation of what makes Daufuskie

Island so unique,” Allen said. “Around here, anything that has a coast is developed, and Daufuskie is not like that at all. It's difficult to get to and the people that live here have a common bond; we're all friends and neighbors. There's a very strong sense of community here.”

The seclusion of the island, which is accessible only by boat or ferry and usually navigated via golf cart, is decidedly a part of its charm, rather than an inconvenience.

The pre-planning required for a successful visit hasn't deterred eager tourists, many of whom come to the island to play the 18-hole, Jack Nicklaus-designed golf course at the Melrose on the Beach resort or to attend one of the Daufuskie Island Rum

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City Guide Company's distillery tours, which are offered from 11 a.m. to 3 p.m. Wednesdays through Saturdays. The tours offer a glimpse into the entire rum-making process — including fermentation, distillation, bottling and labeling — and also include a tasting of the company's products.

“We've only got 250 of us who live on the island full time, but we get about 150,000 visitors per year and the vast majority of them are coming over on a day trip from either Hilton Head or Savannah,” Chase said. “It's not really easy to get here.

We actually call our distillery 'the leastaccessible distillery in America' because you have to bring a boat over or get on a ferry — there's no bridge or typical route to get here. It makes getting here kind of an adventure and, in seven months, we've had visitors from 27 states and 25 different countries from five different continents. We take between 50 and 80 people on a tour of the distillery per day.”

Daufuskie is also home to Haig Point Club, a posh private community located on the northeast end of the island.

The club was founded in 1986 by International Paper. It has been owned by its members since 2001 and memberoperated since 2009.

Haig Point was ranked as one of the top 100 private golf course communities in the country by Links magazine in the mid2005. Haig Point's Rees Jones Signature Course, designed by Rees Jones in 1986 and renovated by the "Open Doctor" in 2007, has been ranked in Golf Digest' s "America's 100 Greatest Golf Courses" and in Golf Magazine's "Top 100 Courses in the World."

Boasting a rich Gullah and Civil War history, Daufuskie Island is also a popular destination for American history enthusiasts who flock to the island to examine the artifacts on display at the Daufuskie Island Historical Foundation Museum. The entire island was designated a historic district by the United States Department of the Interior's National Park Service and it was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 1982.

Whether coming to the island for its beautiful scenery, fabulous golf courses, rich historical significance or premium Amer can-made rums, visitors to Daufuskie Island can look forward to a unique and unparalleled experience. M September 2015 113

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WHEN TEAM HAPPY FEET SETS OFF AT THIS YEAR’S LOCO MOTION, THEY’LL HAVE PLENTY TO BE HAPPY ABOUT.

BY BARRY KAUFMAN PHOTO BY ROB KAUFMAN

arolyn Neely is smiling. She is ordering lunch at Bluffton’s Corner Perk, the late summer heat ruling out a coffee and casting pearls of condensation on her water glass. Along May River Road, cars are rumbling along. And Carolyn Neely is happy.

Happy because she can call herself a survivor, smiling because she knows all too well how much the deck was stacked against her.

Family history is one of the leading indicators of cancer, and Neely has lost two loved ones to the disease. Her mother had been diagnosed with colon cancer, a form with a direct genetic link to a predilection for breast cancer. This cruel disease reared its head again when her sister Karen was diagnosed with aggressive breast cancer at age 31. By 39, she was gone.

A family history that tragic may have placed Neely in harm’s way, but it also gave

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Carolyn Neely

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her a vigilance that may have saved her life.

“When that many people in your family are diagnosed, they start looking down the line. I started getting regular mammograms, but I never thought it would happen to me,” she said.

In January 2013, it happened. A routine mammogram turned up a concerning 2-centimeter-wide spot that consultations with a radiologist, an ultrasound and finally a needle biopsy confirmed as stage 1 invasive ductal carcinoma.

She was referred to Hilton Head Hospital’s Breast Health Center and found an astounding support group.

“They made me feel really comfortable. They said, ‘We’ll be alongside you your whole journey,’” Neely said. “They also guided me. Dr. (Virginia) Hermann told me, “I don’t want you on a bunch of websites. You go to exactly two: The Susan G. Komen Foundation and the American Cancer Society.’”

Thinking back on her sister, and what she went through, Neely was determined to fight this thing head on, and amazingly it was her doctors who talked her down.

“I said, ‘Let’s do the mastectomy. Take if off, I don’t care,’” Neely said. But Dr. Hermann insisted that based on what she was seeing, a lumpectomy would be the best course of action. One outpatient procedure later, along with careful study of lymph nodes and 32 radiation treatments, and Neely was declared cancer-free.

She’ll still need to carefully manage and monitor certain hormone markers for the

next five years or so, but for today, Carolyn Neely is a survivor.

And that gives her plenty to be happy about; an enthusiasm that can be found in her LoCo Motion team, Happy Feet.

“I first did the LoCo Motion in 2013. I had just finished treatments May 1, and I did it that September,” Neely said. “This year, I have a whole team. Ten people, two of my sisters, I’m really excited to participate this year. We’re doing all three islands — 30 miles.”

It’s a happiness that comes with having lived through one of the most terrifying diagnoses there is. And it’s a happiness tempered with bittersweet memories of the mother and sister in whose honor she walks.

“When I get to a point where I just can’t walk another step, I think of them,” Neely said. “I think of my sister, how much pain she went through… that really drives me to continue.”

This year’s LoCo Motion runs Sept 25-27 and covers Daufuskie, Callawassie and Hilton Head islands.

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DETAILS WHAT: 2015 LoCo Motion breast cancer walk WHEN: Sept. 25-27 WHERE: Daufuskie Island (Sept. 25), Callawassie Island (Sept. 26) and Hilton Head Island (Sept. 27) DETAILS: Participate in all three events or pick just one. A community kickoff and packet pickup party starts at 5 p.m. Sept. 24 at Poseidon restaurant on Hilton Head MORE INFO: dothelocomotion.org September 2015 115

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Memory Matters executive director Edwina Hoyle is showing with Daniel Lentz, who heads up the Purple Angle Project.

Purple Angel Project HELPING MEMORY MATTERS RAISE AWARENESS

BY LAUREN BURNHAM | PHOTO BY ROB KAUFMAN emory Matters is a nonprofit organization that ensures that even those dealing with memory loss feel safe in the community going about their everyday lives.

As part of its efforts, it is working with area businesses and organizations to spread awareness.

The nonprofit group launched its Purple Angel Project in January, and has already trained 650 employees at more than 30 Hilton Head Island businesses to recognize the signs of dementia, as well as how to help someone who is suffering from dementia and memory loss — skills that will be invaluable on Hilton Head, where the latest U.S. Census showed that 68 percent of island residents are older than 65.

Aging is a concern not just on Hilton Head, but also around the country. Baby boomers are the largest segment of the U.S. population, and about one in eight people will develop Alzheimer’s disease.

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Those with dementia are not able to do activities that they once enjoyed. Lacking confidence, they withdraw from their communities and tend to spend most of their time at home. People with dementia often are wary of the attitude and reaction of others; 35 percent of people with dementia said they only go out once a week or less, and 10 percent said once a month or less.

People with dementia face psychological, emotional and physical barriers such as worry, lack of confidence, feeling lost, mobility issues, physical health and not wanting to be a burden on others.

By training its employees to recognize the needs of these residents, businesses will be better able serve the community. If those with dementia feel welcomed and supported by the community, they will in turn venture out again by eating out, shopping and more — all of which are good for the economy and our community.

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REAL WEDDING: LINDSAY DODGE & MARK FINGER A kiss at the end of the rainbow

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ith every glance at the forecast leading up to her nuptials last March, Lindsay Finger thought she might be facing every bride’s nightmare: A rainy wedding day.

“The weather forecast called for stormy weather on March 14, and we even went to the extreme of renting a tent because it didn't look like the weather was going to cooperate,” says Finger, who married Hilton Head Island native Mark Finger that spring day at Belfair Plantation. “The morning of our wedding, I woke up, looked outside and saw the sun shining for the fi rst time in three days.”

Not only did Mother Nature keep the nightmare from coming true, she actually sent a wedding gift of her own.

“Just as the wedding was beginning to start, a rainbow shot right over the wedding venue,” said Lindsay’s friend and wedding planner Geist Ussery of Geist & Company.

“She could not have been happier. She glowed. She beamed.

Everybody was happy.”

The Fingers wanted their wedding to have an understated elegance, a look Ussery pulled off using a variety of local plants and other elements.

“The wedding was at Belfair, so the bones of the place is Southern elegance, but they wanted a very Lowcountry chic feel,” he said. “So we did a lot of seasonal blooms — pear blos118 hiltonheadmonthly.com

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soms, palm fronds, hydrangeas — with pops of roses. We used a lot of greenery from the area, and implemented some rustic pieces like burlap and chalkboard, things that took this very sophisticated environment and gave it a casual feel.”

Lindsay agreed that having the wedding at Belfair was one of the best decisions they made.

“The people at Belfair were wonderful, they provided a day-of coordinator for us, Millie Grimes, who took care of everything,” she said. “We couldn’t have picked a better venue.”

On the day of the wedding, Lindsay and her bridesmaids were treated to pampering by Justice Mellencamp of Platinum Design, who did Lindsay’s hair and makeup and all the bridesmaids’ hairdos, too.

A personal touch Ussery added to the event was the use of sunflowers, a nod to Lindsay’s Kansas roots.

“We included one large sunflower in Lindsay’s arrangement.

And the mothers each got a matching sunflower. They both loved it and of course teared up,” Ussery said. “Also, the flo er girls handed out miniature sunflowers as they went down the aisle.”

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BRIDAL The guests arrived at 5 p.m. and were offered a drink before sitting down. One of the most touching moments of the day for Lindsay came before the ceremony even began, when Grimes ushered the bridesmaids and flower girls toward the ceremony site, leaving Lindsay alone with her father for a few minutes.

“There was a huge window that looked out over our ceremony. We could literally see everybody coming in,” Lindsay said. “I got to see Mark coming in, my bridesmaids and groomsmen going down the aisle. I watched it all and thought about how all those people were there for Mark and I. Seeing him first and seeing how nervous he was too was so special.”

Musician Whitley Deputy serenaded the crowd and played a beautiful song while Lindsay walked down the aisle, where one of their friends performed the ceremony. After the “I dos,” the couple walked back up the aisle to Stevie Wonders’ "Signed, Sealed, Delivered,” setting the mood for the party to follow.

Belfair catered the reception with stations of some of the Fingers’ favorite foods, including fajitas, sliders and mashed potatoes. The band Deas Guyz kept the crowd dancing — when people weren’t using the photo booth provided by DJ Motion Pictures — while wedding photographer Whitney Boring snapped pictures of all of the evening’s highlights.

“Whitney Boring helped make our day,” Lindsay said.

“We got back from our honeymoon and she had a sneak peek ready for us. There were instant tears, she captured everything so perfectly.”

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who gave her the Lowcountry wedding she wanted using a neutral palette of light peaches and pinks with grays and greens to make the colors pop.

“I had so many wonderful ideas in my head about what it would look like and how the day would go, and Geist was my No. 1 man throughout the whole process,” Lindsay said.

“I walked in and was almost in tears, because it was seriously something out of a magazine.

He had literally taken all my thoughts and put them in one room. It was absolutely perfect.” M

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Fall wedding season is upon us on Hilton Head and Bluffton, and in this dynamite destination wedding locale, you better believe there are some outrageous shindigs being planned.

BY LIBBY O’REGAN what can you expect at the weddings you attend this fall?

What last-minute trends can you incorporate into your own fall wedding? Monthly has you covered with the latest from fashion to food to favors — and everything in between. This season promises to shake things up more than ever and break the mold like no other season before. Here are some of those trends, in no particular order: Fashion & style: For bridal gowns, you can expect fashionforward brides to be clad in plunging necklines, feathery skirts, dramatic princess gowns, crop tops and two-piece gowns. (Don’t gasp, mom!

It’s true. Cutout, crop tops are highly fashionable in 2015 and have carried over the wedding industry. Expect midrifts! ) Don’t be scared. If you have the right body type to pull it off, you can tastefully expose some skin and be oh-so-hip. Whether you will

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look back on it in 2050 and cringe has yet to be determined.

Also note that you will see bridesmaids wearing a mix of patterns, sequins, solids and florals. For another year in a row, you will not see fashion-forward brides dressing their maids in cookie-cutter dresses. Just like each friend is unique, so should each dress.

Oh! And don’t forget long dress styles. They’re in. Or really, really short dresses — but that’s another gasping style-trend for moms and not likely embraced locally in the South.

For jewelry, you will see a lot of heirloom pieces on brides and on bridesmaids, especially in the South. Ladies are wearing monogram necklaces, monogram earrings and monogram bracelets.

The Lowcountry is blessed with many fantastic jewelers. Reach out to your favorite to see what they have to offer.

Photography: For the last several years, there’s been a movement towards Instagram-style filters in wedding photography.

Blurry or hazy, transferred or sepia-tinted was all the rage. Lots of inexpensive photographers broke onto the market and claimed skill with some fancy post-production tricks. This season, brides are rediscovering the art of classic, timeless, journalistic-style photography that pays homage to natural light and true-to-form events. It seems that finally, we’re passed that retro, vintage haze.

(Amen!) To find a classic, journalistic-style photographer, look no further than Monthly online. We have you covered with the area's best. Though this style tends to be a little pricey, Monthly would like to remind brides that after the cake has been eaten, the flowers have died, the music has stopped playing and the gown has been put away — what’s left? Your wedding photos. It’s probably worth that expense. It’s all that remains apart from your memories.

Food: Over the last two or more years, the Lowcountry has really embraced a farm-to-table movement and sustainable food sourcing. This is a trend that doesn’t seem to be disappearing. Though some of the larger hotels won’t always start the conversa124 hiltonheadmonthly.com

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tion with a farm-to-table or sustainable menu, all you have to do is ask. Our local venues have some of the best chefs and world-class kitchen staffs in the country. In the hospitality industry, they’re here to serve you. So planning a menu that fits your style and desires — even if it’s not technically on the printed menu — is completely doable and en vogue this season. Sit down with your caterer and explain your vision.

You’ll continue to see miniature, bite-sized foods; lots of post-reception late-night snacks, cookie & milk bars, candy buffets, and signature drinks.

Color palettes. It’s fall, right? Expect the color palette to reflect the season. Pantone named Marsala the 2015 color of the year, and 2014’s color of the year, Radiant Orchid, is still hot on the scene. Gray, herb/ sage green, navy, and a “rose” color are also popular.

We are not seeing as many all blush-, white-, and gold-

accented weddings this fall as brides are striving for a more unique look than what’s been hitting the scene over the past few years. That being said, can you ever go wrong with gold? (The answer is no.)

Gold utensils are very hot for fall. If you happen to score renting some, or find yourself eating from a gold fork this season at a wedding, you are so now.

Group gifts. These days, the hottest gift you can get the bride and groom is a spectacular excursion on their honeymoon or a big-ticket item on their registry. Since these obviously are expensive, group gifts are increasingly popular. Grab a group of friends, chip in whatever you are comfortable with and send the bride and groom on a two-day spa trip, a cooking class or a golf outing they’ll never forget.

Because so many couples these days live together before they get married, or are already established with homes post-college, there is not a whole lot of appeal in a set of kitchen knives. Think beyond.

But here’s a tip: always check their registry first. Chances are, they have registered for a honeymoon fund or experiences on emerging experience wedding websites.

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Ask any bride and she’ll tell you that she spends time on Pinterest or flipping through the pages of Martha Stewart Weddings or BRIDES, but the idea she’s pinned or cut out “will be different.” No bride wants a cookie-cutter wedding. No bride wants something that someone else did. Almost everyone wants it to be completely unique. For this reason, you will see that fall 2015 weddings are increasingly more personal.

To make things personal, you’ll see couture designed monograms that are reflected through every detail: the favors, the dance floor, the programs, even the macaroons. Specialty stationary stores can help with all of your personalized items.

You’ll also see lots of photos of the couple incorporated into the design, especially for sentimental brides. Maps journeying the couple’s travels together, places they have lived or vacationed, or unique ways of telling their love story will be everywhere.

For DIY, crafty brides, you may see some hand-stamped monogram or personalized stamps onto projects. From the table markers to the seating chart, the straw flags to the favor tags, personalized stamps are making their way into design. Get one made with local stamp manufacturer PSA Essentials.

Flower power. You can never go wrong with longtime favorites such as dahlias, hydrangeas, peonies or English roses. They continue to be an elegant and safe choice for both traditional and more casual ceremonies. Pale and pink are especially popular arrangement colors heading into the fall bridal season. Mixing flowers and succulent plants is also fashionable, giving your bouquet a "justpicked-from-the-garden" look.

Hire professionals. This one is not so much a trend but always a good idea. The day of your wedding should be a stress-free one.

Outsourcing the planning, the catering (duh! Who wants to cook for all those guests!?), the photography, the videography, the rentals, the clean-up, and just about every element is possible. Luckily the area is full of outstanding wedding professionals that work with a variety of budgets. Where should you start? Hire a planner. There are several leading ones in the Lowcountry that can start from the beginning or jump on in for day of coordination. If it’s one thing that is always in trend, it’s a happy, stress-free couple and family on the big day. Don’t leave it completely on your shoulders.

More is more. For less. Are you on a budget for your wedding? Well, who isn’t. This fall, you can expect to see smaller guest lists at weddings. As brides and grooms have be mindful of their wedding budgets but don’t want to skimp on the food, venue, flowers or any other detail — they are executing their vision for less people. Brides can still have more — everything that they want — but for less people. Consult online guides, your wedding planner, or Peggy Post’s Wedding Etiquette for tips on cutting your guest list.

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Recently ranked the fi fth best island in the United States by TripAdvisor.com and No. 2 by Travel + Leisure, Hilton Head offers beautiful views, a sunny climate and a vast array of talented wedding professionals to choose from.

The annual Hilton Head Bridal Show is the perfect place to kick off your wedding planning. With a wide array of wedding vendors all under one roof, couples can fi nd the perfect venue, caterer, photographer and dress all in one place. This is the day to see sample photography, to taste a variety of cakes, to ask all your questions and to get the information you need.

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Lowcountry home design has evolved much like the history of the South Carolina coast itself in population growth, economic forces, cuisine and culture. Naturally, adaptations to original home designs had to be made — and they were.

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ts infancy began when the first permanent settlement in South Carolina took root in 1670 along the Ashley and Cooper rivers near present-day Charleston. The English transplanted their basic one-room cottage design from coastal tidewater Virginia and Maryland locations, and that marked the beginning of Lowcountry home design.

In the ensuing six decades, waves of European settlers from England, France, the Netherlands, Germany and elsewhere dug into the South Carolina backcountry. The tried to pay deference to the architecture in their homelands, but the lack of natural materials and the harsh Southern climate dictated adjustments to their simple home design plans.

One of the first concessions made to the hot, humid climate from Savannah to Charleston was building homes over crawlspaces or on piers to thwart coastal flooding and to allow air

to circulate from underneath the home.

Numerous double-hung windows opened at the bottom (to let cool air in) and top (to let warm air out) for temperature control, and large wraparound porches faced south, shading the interior from the blistering summer sun during the day. High ceilings helped push the stifling heat upward from the living space.

Many of the practical adjustments made in Lowcountry home design beginning in the late 17th century are signature elements of Lowcountry homes today.

But make no mistake in thinking there’s only one design style of a Lowcountry home. There isn’t. There are formal, informal, cottage, farmhouse, contemporary, tropical and one- and twostory floor plans.  Hip roof design slopes down to the eaves on all four sides, forming a horizontal ridge at the top that is often vented. Many hip roofs have dormers or connecting wings with gables. Because of their design, hip roofs provide additional living space for an attic or vaulted ceilings. Gable roof design features two dual-pitched sides sloping inward that create a ridge at the top and form a triangle where the siding rises to meet the roof (picture an inverted “v”).

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 Metal roofs of aluminum, steel and copper have been a material of choice for years for their durability (they have a lifespan of up to 50 years).

They’re also favored for their resistance to weathering (especially their resistance to the salt in the Lowcountry air) and wind erosion, both of which degrade organic and composite materials. Besides its low-maintenance and versatility in shingle patterns, metal roofs resist thermal expansion. Metal roofing, which is sustainable, comes in a large palette of colors and granular coating with a heat reflectivity rating as high as 90 percent.  Symmetrical doublestacked front porches shaded by live oaks, a quintessential and traditional Lowcountry design, are abundant in downtown Charleston, along Bay Street in Beaufort facing the river (the Rhett House was built in 1820 and the antebellum Cuthbert House in 1790 in the historic district), the quaint small village of Habersham near the county seat, current-day Palmetto Bluff and, of course, downtown Savannah.

Built to capture the cool coastal breezes and waterfront views wherever possible, homeowners hosted social engagements with friends and neighbors, enjoyed casual light dining or afternoon

tea. Ideally, the porches faced south to escape the sweltering summer heat and to heat the home in the winter light. The first settlers here paid homage to the Palladian architectural influence adopted by England in the early 18th century. Multiple large, cylindrical front-porch columns stretching from floor to ceiling were both aesthetically pleasing and structurally necessary, and are seen in abundance today in the greater Hilton Head area.  Open-sided roofed breezeways usually connect the main residential home with smaller secondary buildings such as a garage or guest cottage to allow refreshing air to circulate throughout, for overhead shelter from nature’s elements, for guest entry, for outdoor living space and for providing a swift escape for unhealthy air pollutants emanating from other buildings. A “dogtrot” house on the American frontier and in the Carolinas in the early 19th century featured a centrally located open breezeway connecting two living/working areas of a double log cabin or home, all covered by a common roof. Select doors in the cabin would open up to the breezeway.  Carolina rooms have been a popular architectural detail on Hilton Head since the founding of Sea Pines Plantation. Enclosed casual comfort, plenty of sunlight, views of the golf course and lagoon, floor-to-ceiling windows on all three sides, and an open living space with easy access the main home make Southern living easy.  Elevated first floor raised on piers or above crawlspaces originally were constructed to avoid coastal flooding and tidewaters and to circulate fresh cool air from below. Lattice siding to the open space is often used for cosmetic and practical reasons.

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AT HOME construction codes require that the lowest floor in new home construction in a flood hazard zone be built no lower than base flood elevation (based on 100year flood evaluation).

Many other Lowcountry home design details have a long history along the Southeast coastal areas and are prevalent in today’s architecture:  Louvered shutters that roll up or down in second-floor bedrooms are often painted in Charleston green or white; hurricane shutters can be closed from the inside.  Haint blue-colored ceilings on porches that were thought by the Gullah culture to dispell evil spirits from the home and protect its inhabitants.  Interior colors of soft neutrals, grays, blues and greens that are inspired by nature.  French doors arrived in Santee in the late 1600s with dissident French Huguenot settlers who were loyal to England.

Originally made of wood, these doors contained glass for its full length to allow maximum exposure to natural light and were used primarily to access balconies. Today, French doors are made from a variety of materials and can be found in home offices, great rooms, bedrooms and elsewhere.  Brick (formed from local clay in its core) and tabby (originally imported from Florida but later a staple construction material here in its own right) for fir places, exterior walls, walkways and accent interior touches.

Stone has always been imported to the Lowcountry.  Heart pine and cypress are indigenous to the Lowcountry and have been used as the dominant home-construction material for hundreds of years.

Both are tolerant to the hot, humid climate along the coastal areas, and are often used as

flooring and beams in today’s homes.  Much like double-hung windows helped push hot air out and let cool air in, high ceilings provided interior comfort because they allowed the hot air to rise and kept sitting height cooler.  The Barbados/Bermuda influenc (both British colonies in the 1600s) can be seen in the use of brightly colored stucco, and interior pastel colors like pink, yellow, green and blue, along with red and purple roofs.

Barbados was the primary trading route in the West Indies that took English sailors and merchants swiftly through the warm ocean currents to South Carolina. The “little England” also gave us wicker, rattan and cane-back furniture. The Gullah culture, slaves imported from western Africa and oftentimes through Barbados, has left an indelible stamp on our Low country history, language and cuisine here.

Signature Lowcountry design elements are as common as Spanish moss dripping from massive live oaks. Our residential architectural lineage is a “living history” and a grand testament to the preservation of a distinct Lowcountry lifestyle. M

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THE GOOD & NOT-SO-GOOD NEWS ABOUT THE

housing market ACCORDING TO THE NATIONAL ASSOCIATION OF REALTORS, THE MEDIAN SALES PRICE OF HOMES IS AT AN ALL-TIME HIGH BECAUSE OF A NUMBER OF FACTORS.

BY JEAN BECK

RISING HOME PRICES MAKE IT MORE DIFFICULT FOR FIRST-TIME, YOUNGER BUYERS TO ENTER THE MARKET

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he group’s chief economist, Lawrence said that that can can be be viewed viewed as as both both Yun, said good and not-so-good news. On one hand, current homeowners looking to sell their homes can get more for their property, gaining equity for the down payment on their next homes. On the other hand, rising home prices make it more diffi cult for fi rst-time, younger buyers to enter the market, as they don’t have equity from a previous home — and often are struggling to save as it is.

Yun said the declining homeownership rate — currently at a 25-year low — could contribute to a more unequal wealth distribution.

Locally, the midyear market reports indicate the Lowcountry has seen a 12.9 percent increase in closed transactions compared to last year at this time. Prices also moved higher, as median

CURRENT HOMEOWNERS LOOKING TO SELL THEIR HOMES CAN GET MORE FOR THEIR PROPERTY

sales price was up 2.4 percent to $289,950.

Month’s supply of inventory was down 17.4 percent to 7.1 months, indicating that demand increased relative to supply.

For our area, rising rising national national prices prices will will allow allow baby boomers to consider relocation. As we wind down from the summer season, our local real estate market typically picks back up.

The thought of another cold long winter up north brings fall buyers looking to make the Lowcountry home.

If you are looking to buy or sell a home, be sure to ask if your agent is a Realtor and a member of the Hilton Head Area Association of Realtors. M Jean Beck is the executive vice president of the Hilton Head Area Association of Realtors.

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CONTEMPORARY great room home nestled under moss draped oaks with private view of the 17th fairway and green of the CC of HH. Enjoy outdoor living from the covered and open two-level deck with a hot tub. 3-Bedroom, 3.5-Bath, split bedroom plan, updated kitchen and master bath, granite and limestone, smooth ceilings, 2-Car garage, fireplace. Hilton Head Plantation location near the CC of HH clubhouse, docks along the Intracoastal Waterway and Spring Lake recreation area. $545,000

A SHORT DISTANCE from the Hilton Head Plantation Bluff. Enjoy morning coffee while viewing the spectacular sun rises. The walkway leads to the Dolphin Head Beach Park and Pine Island beach. This 6th row home is on a full size corner lot and features 3 Bedrooms, 2.5 Baths, smooth ceilings, granite tops, expansive laundry room, great room and dining room with hand scraped wood floors, masonry fireplace, 50 year metal roof and more. $426,800

OYSTER REEF GOLF CLUB’S 4TH FAIRWAY and lagoon view, short distance to the Port Royal Sound and located in the heart of Hilton Head Plantation on a cul de sac street.

This 3 Bedroom, 3.5 Bath home offers views and values. There is a formal Living Room & Dining Room, an open Kitchen/Family Room, 2 car side entry Garage, cathedral and tray ceilings. Great curb appeal and mature landscaping. $415,000

HILTON HEAD PLANTATION home with panoramic view of Dolphin Head Golf Club 2nd fairway and green. Wrap around deck, short distance to both Spring Lake Pool Complex, Dolphin Head Beach Park and the Bluff walkway along Port Royal Sound. 3 BR or 2 plus den, living and dining room with wood floors and high ceilings, eat-in kitchen. Masonry Savannah grey brick fireplace. One owner house. $362,500

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2017 HILTON HEAD CLUB VILLA

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LOCATED in the exclusive Golf Club Community of Indigo Run. Outdoor living area with fire pit and large stone and tile hot tub. High coffered ceiling with skylights and ceiling fan. Slate counter and an island with a Lynx grill and stainless steel Vent-A-Hood.

3500 sq. ft. 4 BR or 3 plus a bonus room, 4 full baths and an office home. Built in 2002 and features include hard coat stucco, high smooth ceilings, formal living room and dining room, wood and tile floors, granite tops and stainless steel appliances. $695,000

OPPORTUNITY TO BUILD your dream home in exclusive Spanish Wells. This homesite is 1.25 acres and is on the second fairway of the Spanish Wells Golf Club. Shown is a 3100+ sq.ft. home with a first floor master, future bonus room, easy to be a 3-car garage, generous allowances, office, kitchen/family room, walk in pantry and more.

Outstanding view of the golf course and easy walking distance to the community pool, tennis and clubhouse. Other floor plans available. $935,000

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SELDOM ON THE MARKET, Hilton Head Plantation Club Villa, 3 bedrooms, 3 bath outstanding view of Dolphin Head Golf Club 10th fairway and green. Short distance to the Dolphin Head Beach Pool and Bluff walkway along Port Royal Sound. Stucco exterior and elegant great room, outside storage and two courtyards. $327,500

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FANTASTIC private oversized cul-de-sac Port Royal Plantation homesite nestled under the canopy of stately moss-draped live oaks and enhanced by the mature landscaping. Incredible marsh, Fish Haul Creek & Port Royal Sound views. The panoramic view is all the way across the Sound to Lands End on St. Helena Island. Features of this home include a raised tabby foundation, formal Living Room, formal Dining Room, an oversized Master Suite, 2 guest suites, 3 full baths, 3 half baths, 3 car garage, large utility room and very special wet bar with built-in wine racks for over 100 of your best bottles of wine. The Kitchen, Family Room and Carolina Room are totally open to each other.

Every room in the house has been remodeled with new pine or stone flooring, smooth ceilings, appliances, bathroom fixtures, cabinetry and more! $1,450,000

HILTON HEAD ISLAND 3rd Row ocean 8 bedroom, 7 bath home. Close to all Palmetto Dunes has to offer. Private 2 level pool, outdoor kitchen, 4 outdoor balconies, split bedroom and multi living areas, great multi-generation rental property where family memories will be made. $1,975,000

WEXFORD PLANTATION. One of Hilton Head Island’s finest communities. For boaters the Wexford Harbor is just off Broad Creek and easy access to the ICW. Golf Course has recently been redesigned. Tennis at Wexford is first class. This 4 Bedroom 4.5 Bath home has been totally redone with travertine and hand scraped wood floors, high smooth ceilings with exposed beams, a chef’s kitchen with granite. Beautiful view of the 8th fairway.

Close to beach, shopping and dining. $980,000

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18 Coquina Road is second row ocean in Port Royal Plantation and just off the open space walkway to the beach and is nestled under stately moss draped hardwoods. Quality built in 1965 by one of Hilton Head Island’s original craftsmen. It is a home with a floor plan ahead of its time. The living space, living room, dining room and kitchen are all open and the ceiling is high. The masonry fireplace separates the living space. $610,000

DIRECT INTRACOASTAL WATERWAY and Fantastic Sunsets over Skull Creek and Pinckney Island. the first right just off the bridge.

Enjoy kayaking from your backyard or from the Mariners Cove docks. There is a complex pool, tennis and docks. 103 Mariners Cove is very unique in that it has 2 bedrooms and 2 full baths and a half bath. Updated with granite counters and tile flooring. Great for a permanent home, second home or rental property. $249,000

AN OCEAN FRONT community in the heart of Hilton Head Island, home of Van Der Meer Tennis Center, Sonesta Resort Hotel and the Shipyard Golf Club. Owners have use of the Shipyard Beach Club a bike ride away. 903 is an oversized 2 BR, 2.5 BA with two extra flex rooms, kitchen and baths have been updated. Kitchen has granite. Harbour Master pool is great and overlooks a lagoon and golf fairway. Harbour Master is a small quiet community. $215,000

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HILTON HEAD PLANTATION 7 ANGLERS POND CT. LAGOON VIEW $177,555 18 CHINA COCKLE LANE 2ND ROW SOUND $222,000 COLLETON RIVER 14 BALLYBUNION GOLF VIEW $25,000 HAMPTON HALL 280 FARNSLEIGH AVE $179,000 A GREAT WAY TO OWN a get-a-way at the Hilton Head Island Beach. Just steps from the ocean and in Coligny Plaza with its dining, shopping, night life and music. The oceanfront pool complex is outstanding. There is covered parking. This 1st floor one bedroom villas which can sleep 6 is turnkey ready. All you need to do is bring your toothbrush, bathing suit and some suntan lotion. $148,500

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UNIQUE OPPORTUNITY to own an acreage on Hilton Head Island overlooking marsh to deep water. There is a possibility to subdivide the 5 acres into multiple homesites with two of those being marshfront. Drive by and scout out this great Bank Owned property. $360,000

WONDERFUL 3BD/2BA home located on the Park in Woodbridge. This home has been updated with granite counters, wood floors and a large deck. There is a private wooded view in the back and a park view in the front.

Other features include an office, formal dining room, eat-in-kitchen and unfinished bonus room. $315,000

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Selling Island-wide for Over 29 Years with Over $245 Million Sold!

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Selling Island-wide for Over 29 Years with Over $225 Million Sold!

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Selling Island-wide for Over 25 Years with Over $250 Million Sold!

5 BOLEN HALL – LONG COVE CLUB – Beautiful views of the 16th hole of the Pete Dye golf course, 4 bedrooms, 4 baths, cozy family room with fireplace, sun room and private pool. NEW ROOF! $569,000

27 SPARTINA CRESCENT – Fabulous newer contemporary marsh front 4 bed/4 1/2 bath plus library, Carolina room, living room/ sitting room. Popular great room with open kitchen. Smooth 10 ft ceilings, wood floors, commumit pool and tennis. $995,000

36 RED OAK — SEA PINES — Charming 3BR/3BA home built by Johnson Delaney features a lg. Carolina room, living room, kitchen/family, sep. dining room, gas fireplace and stove. Oak, tile and brick floors. Heated pool with great decking area. Mature landscaping in a very private setting. $699,000

4 PINTAIL — Charming 3 BR English cottage only steps to the beach with screened porch, private HEATED POOL, exquisite furnishings and proven rental history. $725,000 furnished.

38 GULL POINT – Stunning remodel of custom 4 BR, 3.5 BA home plus Carolina room, screen porch, heated pool, spa & lush landscaping on high 14 ft elevation property with expansive marsh views. Community marina, tennis courts and less than a mile to the beach. $1,695,000

1 BRIDGEPORT — SHIPYARD — Ideal beach getaway with great Golf views and open space on one side. One of 14 free-standing homes on Bridgeport Island. 3BR/3.5BA, FP. Pool/Tennis on-site. Walk to SY Golf Club, bike to SY Beach and Racquet Clubs. Great villa alternative. $369,000 furnished.

7 SEASIDE SPARROW — A charming 3rd row beach house with 4 bedrooms, 4 baths, private heated pool, screened porch and views of Sprunt Pond. Excellent rental history and fully furnished for $1,245,000.

66 DUNE LANE – FOREST BEACH – Southern styles newer 5 BR/5 BA home with wide verandas taking advantage of ocean views and breezes.

Enclosed pool, billard room tiki bar area. Fun vacation home or rental property with over $100,000 in rental income. $1,595,000 fully furn.

6 RUDDY TURNSTONE – SEA PINES – Utterly charming 4 BR, 4 BA walk to the beach! Open floor plan with updated kitchen & baths, separate family room, wood floors and private pool. $1,499,000 furnished.

63 BAYNARD COVE – Spectacular sunsets over the marshes out to Calibogue Sound from this private estate. Own approx. 1 acre of privacy in Sea Pines; 4 bedroom home with new, top of the line kitchen, heated pool, 3 fireplaces, and 3 car garage. One of a kind! $1,999,000

SEA PINES – Charming all one level 2 plus den/2 bath home in Greenwood Forest midway between the beach and Harbour Town. Vaulted ceilings, fireplace, eat in kitchen, dining room.

Community pool, tennis, playground and park. $385,000

102 CLUB COURSE DRIVE – SEA PINES – Curb appeal, location, view, lg. size of all rooms and excellent condition makes this gracious home extra special. 3BR/3BA, approx.

3888 sq.ft. in a beautiful golf course setting. $749,900

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INDIGO RUN

PALMETTO HALL

INDIGO RUN

FOLLY FIELD

FORMER MCNAIR BUILDERS home overlooking 16th Fairway of the Golf Club. 4 Bedroom, 4.5 Bath home.

Separate Cabana overlooks courtyard Pool. $799,000

CUSTOM HOME with the most spectacular Lagoon|Golf View. Quality workmanship + pride of ownership. 4 Bedrooms,4.5 Baths + Study|Office. $749,000

UNDER CONSTRUCTION - “Homes

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3 Bedrooms, 3.5 Baths + Study. Double Fairway View. $739,000

PANORAMIC VIEW! Oceanfront Sea Cloisters penthouse, furnished villa with 3 Bedrooms and 3 Full Baths. Great 2nd home or rental property. $625,000

PALMETTO HALL

INDIGO RUN

HILTON HEAD PLANTATION

FOLLY FIELD

CUSTOM BUILT CLASSIC Lowcountry home. 4 Bedrooms + Bonus Room and 3.5 Baths. Lagoon view. $599,000

LOWCOUNTRY HOME overlooking the 15th Fairway. 4 Bedroom, 3.5 Bath Home. Carolina Room plus Flex Room Study. $549,000

PANORAMIC LAGOON View!

Beautiful McNair built 3 Bedroom, 3 Bath home. A decorator’s dream! 2nd home. $539,000

PANORAMIC Direct Oceanfront 2 Bedroom, 2 Bath beautifully furnished villa. Sea Cloisters is a private gated oceanfront community + pool. $525,000

HILTON HEAD PLANTATION

SEA PINES

HILTON HEAD PLANTATION

HILTON HEAD PLANTATION

BEAUTIFUL UPDATED Home overlook ing the 8th Fwy. 3 Bedrooms + 2.5 Baths. New hardwood floors, Kitchen + Baths + much more! $434,500

DESIGNER DECORATED! Desirable 1st floor 2 Bedroom, 2 Bath beautifully furnished villa. Overlooking the sunsets on the Intracoastal Waterway and Skull Creek. $425,000

FABULOUS TOWNHOMES across BEST VALUE 4 BR Home. Secluded from the CCHH. 3 Bedrooms and 3.5 Baths. corner lot w/open space opening to a lagoon view. Carolina Room + incredible Screened Prices starting at $479,000 Porch. $449,000

HILTON HEAD PLANTATION

HILTON HEAD PLANTATION 62 Bear Creek Drive. . . . . . . . . . $275,000 INDIGO RUN 72 River Club Drive . . . . . . . . . . $199,000 VIEWS across golf course to Dolphin Head Beach. Remodeled with beautiful upgrades! 2nd home. 3 Bedrooms and 2 Baths. $399,000

FOR INCREDIBLE HOMESITES CONTACT RICHARD MACDONALD

HAMPTON HALL 11 Sherbrooke Avenue . . . . . . . . . $115,000 6 Normandy Circle . . . . . . . . . . $75,000

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7 Wanderer Lane

46 Plantation Drive

29 Wilers Creek Way

North Forest Beach - $4,495,000

Sea Pines - $739,500

Broad Point, Indigo Run - $825,000

Oceanfront 8 bed 8.5 bath 6,500+ sq ft mls 335254 Text to 51004 : E135319

4 bed 4 bath - Golf view - mls 337054 Text to 51004 : E135493

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Commercial - $694,000 - Bluffton

Palmetto Dunes - 2nd Row Lot $1,599,000

Palmetto Dunes - $1,275,000

13 Offices, 6,000 sq ft total - 2,000 sq ft storage mls 331883 Text to 51004 : E143714

ANDRÉ CILLIERS 843.683.6611 andrehhi@aol.com andrecilliersluxuryhomes.com

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22 New Orleans Rd., Suite 3 & 4 Hilton Head, SC 29928

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4th row ocean - 5 bed 5.5 bath - 4,276 sq ft Golf View mls 331865 Text to 51004 : E143647

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EXCELLENCE IN ISLAND REAL ESTATE

CLARK, CRAMER & FRANK The principals of the Clark, Cramer and Frank team – Bob Clark, Laura Cramer, Carol Cramer, Linda Frank and Forest Frank– draw from backgrounds in real estate sales as well as retail sales, marketing, telecom, education, banking and law to provide the fi nest expertise available for the marketing and sale of Hilton Head Island real estate.

When assisting buyers and sellers, this wealth of business and real estate experience enables the team to provide unique and compelling insight into the ever-changing conditions of the Island real estate market.

As one of the top performing real estate teams in the Hilton Head Island area, Clark, Cramer & Frank take pride in their extensive knowledge of

the entire local real estate market, with particular emphasis on the Sea Pines community.

They have consistently ranked among the top fi ve real estate agents and teams within the entire Hilton Head/Bluffton market for total annual sales, and since 2007, have closed more Sea Pines real estate transactions than any other agent or team.

Starting with a commitment to honesty and integrity, and blending the benefi ts of experience, broad knowledge, and a long track record of success, the Clark, Cramer & Frank client experience is second to none. We would truly appreciate the opportunity to show you what we mean!

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Drew Butler

43 years Island resident. 30 years in Real Estate.

Let intimate local knowledge and experience work for you.

If you are considering selling or buying a property, call Drew.

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The Golf Club at Indigo Run

The Golf Club at Indigo Run

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A great design, new HVAC, fresh paint, meticulously taken care of. High ceilings, granite, coffered ceilings, saturnia, and many more incredible features. Private homesite on the 13th Hole of The Golf Club. 4BR, 2 bonus rooms, and an office. $799,000

Casual elegance makes this a very comfortable home. 5 BR/5 BA. This immaculate home is privately situated on the 16th hole of the Golf Club of Indigo Run. $799,900

The Golf Club at Indigo Run

Indigo Run

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Southern charm from the moment you enter this home! 4 BR/4.5 BA. The lush landscaping in the back hides the heated pool from the golf course while offering a private view of the 16th Green of the Golf Club. $1,025,000

Priced to Sell! – great opportunity to move right in or, at this list price, customize to your liking! 4 BR/3 BA. Close proximity to the indigo Run Clubhouses and 10 minutes from the beach. $495,000

The Golf Club at Indigo Run

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An awesome view of the entire 15th hole of The Golf Club at Indigo Run makes this a special location. 4 BR/4.5 BA. Well maintained by original owner. 10 minutes from shopping and the beach. $599,000

A Charleston style feel, this home has character! Recently updated in June of 2015. 3 BR/ 2.5 BA. Meticulously maintained with its upgrades, location and creative design make this a charming gem. $355,000

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LOTS FOR SALE 7 Ventura Lane . . . . . . . . . . $149,000 712 Colonial Drive . . . . . . . $229,900 720 Colonial Drive . . . . . . . $299,900 24 Lexington Drive. . . . . . . $150,000 3 Laurel Spring Road . . . . . $695,000 81 Peninsula Drive . . . . . . . $249,000

220 GRAVEL HILL ROAD Own a piece of History 7,000 sq. ft. Built in 1857 this Antebellum home is on 8.15 acres, with added acreage available. ONE OF A KIND! $840,000

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23 Drummond Lane . . . . . . $119,000 220 - B Gravel Hill Road . . $480,000 631 Colonial Drive . . . . . . . $119,000

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NORTH FOREST BEACH

1 Guscio Way — Fabulous oceanfront retreat with views that will last a life time! Multi level 6 bedroom, 7.5 Bath home. All elevator serviced and 3+ car garage. Covered back porch with pool and spa overlooking the beach. Annual rental income of $160,000! $3,150,000

PALMETTO DUNES

21 Promontory Court — Breathtaking panoramic 180 degree pool, lagoon & double Fazio golf views w/boat dock...await you from this 3BR, 2BA home.

All on one level offering crimson sunset views on 1/2 acre cul-de-sac lot. Remodeled in 2009 w/new paint inside & out, all new kitchen cabinets & granite. Just a short walk or bike ride to the beach! $895,000

PALMETTO HALL

28 Clyde Lane — BRAND NEW!! High quality home being offered by Tom Peeples Builder Inc. Enjoy super views of unique semi island green and water from your screened in porch downstairs & golfers porch upstairs. Features 4 Bedrooms/4.5 Baths with open floor plan, hardwood, granite, crown molding, and all the goodies, 2-car garage plus golf cart garage. $699,500

HH PLANTATION

35 Bent Tree Lane — Incredible views and location…just 300 steps to Dolphin Head Beach, Port Royal Sound and Rec Center. Spacious open floor plan with 3 BR/ 2.5 BA, panoramic golf views, updated granite kitchen, stone and wood flooring, extensive crown moldings, skylights, 2 sided fireplace, huge screened in porch, beautifully landscaped and more! $549,000

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26 Spindle Lane - $469,000 Muffy Schulze muffyschulze@aol.com 843.290.6424

18 Millwright Drive - $1,395,000 Joe Lucchesi ndlucchesi@aol.com 843.384.6183

3 Fernwood Trail - $249,500 Lonnie Goulet lonniegoulet@aol.com 843.338.0094

28 Millwright Drive - $849,000 Terry Deery tdeery@richardsongrp.com 843.683.9996

21 & 21 1/2 Egret Street - $799,000 Marguerite Carver margcarver@yahoo.com 215.680.5650

47 Sparwheel Lane - $786,000 Lonnie Goulet lonniegoulet@aol.com 843.338.0094

34 S. Forest Beach, #1-C Xanadu - $239,000 Lonnie Goulet lonniegoulet@aol.com 843.338.0094

9 Crosstree Drive - $625,00 Lonnie Goulet lonniegoulet@aol.com 843.338.0094

6 Sparwheel Lane - $549,000 Lonnie Goulet lonniegoulet@aol.com 843.338.0094

70 Helmsman Way, #1401 Brighton Bay - $129,000 Lonnie Goulet lonniegoulet@aol.com 843.338.0094

34 Tucker Ridge Court - $485,000 Lonnie Goulet lonniegoulet@aol.com 843.338.0094

3 Leeward Passage - $599,000 Lonnie Goulet lonniegoulet@aol.com 843.338.0094

Boatslip Ownership starting at $39,900 Financing Available For more information on all these properties please call 119 Harbour Passage.- $749,000 Lonnie Goulet lonniegoulet@aol.com 843.338.0094

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Are you ready for a 4 bedroom home on Island w/fenced in back yard, AWESOME master bedroom with beautiful master bathroom all for well under $250k? Here you go!

Located in the ideal cul de sac location w/eat in kitchen, laundry room, nice bedroom separation, wood, tile and carpeting and a super location off of Spanish Wells Road.

This home has so much character and charm, you will love it the minute you pull up to the driveway. On the Island for only $239,000.

Unbelievable VIP 1st floor fully furnished villa in Sea Pines.

Gorgeous bamboo flooring, custom kitchen cabinets, newer furnishings and best of all GOLF VIEWS! This is such a clean unit and it is really a rental machine! An iron away from Harbourtown, the NEWLY renovated Club house and Harbourtown Grill, not to mention all of the spectacular amenities in Sea Pines. Racquet Club villas even have their own pool and tennis courts. Over $21,000 in rentals in 2014. A great value in Sea Pines for $219,000.

42 W. Morgan Court:

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This is a fantastic value to be on the Island in a newer (2002) one level 3 bedroom home w/Carolina room.

Plenty of natural light from this home that has such a great floor plan w/large open eat in kitchen/gathering area. Some super features that include: Vaulted and smooth ceilings, wood and tile flooring, large master bathroom, partially floored attic space that offers plenty of extra storage. Even a newer paver patio and new HVAC in November 2012. This home even has a 2 car garage all for a great price! POA $300.00 a year. Offered for sale for $319,000.

One of the nicest views you will find in Village West! This is a 2nd floor end unit with complete privacy to the left of the unit and drop dead gorgeous Sound views from nearly every room. Open kitchen to living room with views and a fabulous screened in porch that will be tough to bring yourself to leave the minute you see it.

Very good condition on this 3 bedroom furnished villa with tenant in place for a year! Take a look at all of the buildings and then take a look at this, you will see why this is that special at $395,000.

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122 Pinecrest Circle:

This 2 bedroom/2 bath flat with screened in porch has stunning golf and lagoon views the minute you enter and best of all renovated! Gorgeous kitchen w/stainless steel apps, custom cabinet’s w/granite counter tops, newer furniture package, all across the street from the Sea Pines Beach Club, across from the Heron Point, Sea Marsh Golf Course and the BEACH, this is the best kept secret in all of Sea Pines. Excellent condition, with a solid owner rental history over $30k…even selling furnished for $499,000.

Now is your chance to purchase a fantastic 4 bedroom home w/loft and Carolina Room on the golf course at a great price! The desired open floor plan with eat in kitchen all open to the family room area w/vaulted ceilings. Great bedroom separation w/1st floor master bedroom w/trey ceilings, large master bathroom and plenty of closet space throughout. Everything in this home has been tastefully done and there are plenty of upgrades, from the kitchen to the floors to the moldings.

Offered for $349,000.

16 Otter Road:

Ready for the perfect combination of location, condition and layout......this is it! One level home located in the Club Course section of Sea Pines Plantation with a perfect layout for entertaining, all with plenty of natural light.

Fireplace, eat in kitchen and large back deck are just some of the fantastic features of this home. New roof, HVAC, and skylight in 2008, New gutters in 2009 and even a new H20 heater in 2013 are just a few of the many updates. Offered for $359,900.

13 Sams Point Lane:

Unbelievable is the only way to describe this home, the detail is absolutely stunning! Over 1/2 an acre perfectly situated to capture GORGEOUS Marsh and Sound views. Sit back on your deck or enjoy your screened in porch with fireplace taking it all in. Open floor plan w/ eat in kitchen complete with top of the line everything!

The detail is endless: Stunning wood and tile flooring, detailed crown molding/chair rail, newer energy efficient HVAC’s, mosquito system & more. 3 car garage, office, dining room and media room. Offered for $1,399,000.

Rick Saba

Carolina Realty Group (843) 683-4701 Rick@TheBestAddressinTown.com www.RickSaba.com 2009 Realtor® of the Year Hilton Head Area Association of Realtors® 2005 President Hilton Head Area Association of Realtors®

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SEPT. 29-OCT. 3 “Got Art?”: A free public preview will be held from 10 a.m.-4 p.m. Sept. 29-Oct. 2 at the Art League of Hilton Head Gallery.

More than 100 “Got Art?” artworks will be on display. “Got Art?” is the Art League of Hilton Head’s annual fundraising benefi t and promises to make collectors out of art enthusiasts. The “Got Art?” event will be held at 5 p.m. Saturday, Oct. 3, at the Art League of Hilton Head Gallery. Each $100 ticket admits two guests to an evening fi lled with art and entertainment, as well as a live drawing that guarantees the ticket holder one original piece of art. Only 100 tickets will be sold. This fun and popular event is sure to sell out. 843-681-5060, artleaguehhi.org

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“David Millman: Portrait of the Human Spirit” exhibit: Sept. 1-26, Art League of Hilton Head Gallery, Arts Center of Coastal Carolina. David Millman gives a fi rst impression of being quiet and conservative. A gregarious laugh soon changes that misinterpretation. Lively in both thought and art, he embodies the spirit of an artist with expert ability across many disciplines, including sculpture, photography, illustration and music. An opening reception will be 5-7 p.m. on Thursday, Sept. 3, at the gallery. Enjoy light refreshments and meet the artist.

Free. 843-681-5060, artleaguehhi.org

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“Cool Abs … Edgy Art”: An exceptional exhibition of abstract art presented every other year by the

Art Beyond Tradition group. Using a variety of media, 13 artists bring new and exciting artwork to the public at the Coastal Discovery Museum at Honey Horn. The exhibit includes paintings, photography, metal and stone sculptures, inks, assemblages and collages. The opening reception is 5-7 p.m. Thursday, Sept. 10, at the Coastal Discovery Museum. 843-6896767, ext. 223

ATHLETIC EVENTS SEPT. 4-6

SEPT. 29

SEPT. 5

Memory Matters art show: 6-9 p.m.

Tuesday, Sept. 29, at Memory Matters.

“Bella Notte” celebrating the art of amazing minds. Memory Matters will host its 16th annual art show and fundraiser. Enjoy fi ne wine, excellent food and great live music. The best part of the evening is the art work created by program participants. $40. 843-8426688, memory-matters.org

8th annual Palmetto Dunes Tennis Fall Classic: Sept. 4-6, Palmetto Dunes Tennis Center. Men’s and women’s doubles and mixed doubles. tennisinfo@palmettodunes.com, 877567-6507 Run for Ret 5K: 8 a.m. Saturday, Sept. 5, Sea Pines Forest Preserve. The 5K run/walk, open to all levels and ages, will feature age brackets and overall prizes. retfoundation.com

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15th annual Special Olympics North America Golf Invitational Tournament: Opening ceremony at 7:30 p.m. Thursday, Sept. 10, and

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6: DAVID MILLMAN: PORTRAIT OF THE HUMA three golf rounds on Friday, Sept. 11 through Sunday, Sept. 13; Port Royal Golf Club, Hilton Head. More than 220 golfers from U.S. and Canadian Special Olympics Programs will compete. The Special Olympics North America Golf Invitational, presented by KPMG, is seeking volunteers to assist with the tournament. Golf knowledge is not necessary for all volunteer roles; however, for volunteers with golf knowledge, specific volunteer roles are available.

Volunteers will be provided with a meal during their shift and an event shirt.

Those interested may apply online athttp://bit.do/sonagolfvolunteer

SEPT. 13-15

54th Carolinas Senior Amateur Championship: Sunday, Sept. 13 through Tuesday, Sept. 15, Cotton Dike course, Dataw Island. Dataw Island will host the 54th Carolinas Senior Amateur Championship featuring a field of 68 senior amateur golfers who will compete on Dataw’s Cotton Dike course, a Tom Fazio design. 843-838-8282

SEPT. 29

Belfair 1811 Charitable Fund golf tournament: Tuesday, Sept. 29, Belfair’s West Course. Sponsorships are still available. Contact Marshall Coleman at MColeman1956@gmail.com for more information. Mercedes-Benz of Hilton Head is the featured golf tournament sponsor. Supporting sponsors include Wells Fargo Insurance Services, St. Joseph’s/Candler Immediate Care and Taylor’s Landscaping.

EDUCATIONAL SEPT. 1

“The Story of Santa Elena”: 10:30 a.m. Tuesday, Sept. 1, Heritage Library, 852 William Hilton Parkway. Before Jamestown and Plymouth, there was the Spanish settlement of Santa Elena on Port Royal Sound in Beaufort County.

The story of Santa Elena, founded in 1566 on Parris Island, is one of religion, geopolitics, cultural clashes, war and struggles to survive. The history is not well-known — even in South Carolina. $10 per person; reservations required.

843-686-6560

SEPT. 1

History Forum of the Lowcountry book signing: 3 p.m. Tuesday, Sept.

1, Coastal Discovery Museum. Two of Beaufort’s most highly regarded historians and authors, Stephen R. Wise and Lawrence S. Rowland, will visit the Coastal Discovery Museum to sign copies of their newest publication, “Rebellion, Reconstruction and Redemption, 1861-1893, the History of Beaufort County, Volume II,” and speak briefly about the project. This new release is the long-anticipated second volume in their trilogy of Beaufort County history. 843-689-6767, ext. 223

SEPT. 8

“Historic Sites of Hilton Head Island”: 10:30 a.m. Tuesday, Sept. 8, Heritage Library, 852 William Hilton Parkway.

Join us for a one-and one-half-hour

SEPT. 28

Don Ryan Center for Innovation Golf Invitational: 11 a.m. Monday, Sept. 28, May River Golf Club, Palmetto Bluff. Presented by Coastal Carolina Hospital. Putting contest and shamble format with an awards reception. $250 per player. 843-384-0408, brittany@drcigolf.com September 2015 165

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SEPT. 15: THE STORY OF MITCHELVILLE ... SEPT. 15: RIBBON CREEK . talk about the history of Hilton Head Island and the historic sites on the island, accompanied by a map that you can then use for your own selfguided tour of the sites by car or by bicycle. $10 per person; reservations required. 843-686-6560

SEPT. 15

“The Story of Mitchelville”: 10:30 a.m. Tuesday, Sept. 15, Heritage Library, 852 William Hilton Parkway.

Hear the story of the establishment of Mitchelville, the nation’s first selfgoverned village for freed slaves, and the reasons why it should be remembered. $10 per person; reservations required. 843-686-6560

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he ninth annual Pedal 4 Kids Community Bike Ride will be held Saturday, Sept. 26. It is the largest bike event in the Lowcountry, with 100 percent of the proceeds benefitting the Boys & Girls Club of Hilton Head Island.

Over 400 bicyclists are expected to turn out for this year’s event.

People of all ages and skill levels are encouraged to participate. It is a great way for residents and guests on the island to kick back while benefitting their community.

Come join your friends, family, coworkers and neighbors in a group ride through the island’s beautiful pathways and parks.

There are five separate rides participants can sign up for: The Metric Century (62-mile ride), the 40-mile ride, the 20/25-mile ride, the 10-mile ride and the Family Fun Ride.

By having five separate paths, riders have the choice to engage in an incredible workout or to take a pleasant ride through the beautiful trails, where they can

DETAILS

What: Pedal 4 Kids community bike ride When: 8 a.m., Saturday, Sept. 26 Where: Hilton Head Island High School Details: A non competitive, multi-distance bike tour for riders of all abilities. It is a safe ride through pathways and the most scenic parks on Hilton Head Island.

More information: pedal4kids.com

enjoy the company of friends. If you do not own a bike, rentals are available for $10 at Hilton Head Bicycle Company.

For more information about the event or to register, email info@pedal4kids.com or go to pedal4kids.com.

Registration is $35 for adults, $15 for students (ages 6 to 22) and free for children younger than 5. If you are unable to attend the event, but would still like to participate and support a great cause, visit the website and donate under the register link.

All donations are greatly appreciated. The event is rain or shine, so come ready for a day of fun, regardless of weather. M

SEPT. 15

Ribbon Creek incident with author Jay Stevens: 11 a.m., Tuesday, Sept.

15, Bluffton library. On the night of April 8, 1956, a forced march led to the death of six Marine recruits on Parris Island. Author and jurist John Stevens explains the court martial and the effects of the Ribbon Creek Incident on the U.S. Marine Corps.

Co-sponsored by the Beaufort County Historical Society. Free. 843-2556468, gracec@bcgov.net

SEPT. 16

“Lowcountry Dragonflies” 3 p.m. Wednesday, Sept. 16, Coastal Discovery Museum. A presentation on the dragonflies inhabiting the lagoons of Hilton Head. Biologist Vicky McMillan, a member of the faculty of Colgate University for 30 years, will present how these fascinating insects feed, find mates, defend territories and reproduce. $7. 843-6896767, ext. 223

SEPT. 17

“The History of Beaufort County, Vol. 2” with Drs. Larry Rowland and Steve Wise: 4-6 p.m. Thursday, Sept. 17, Beaufort library, 311 Scott Street, Beaufort. The local historians provide an overview of their book “Rebellion, Reconstruction, and Redemption, 1861-1893: The History of Beaufort County, South Carolina, Vol. 2.” Copies of the book will be available for purchase and signing.

Co-sponsored by the University of South Carolina Beaufort. gracec@ bcgov.net; 843-255-6468

SEPT. 22

“The Role of Women in the History and Development of Hilton Head Island”: 10:30 a.m. Tuesday, Sept.

22, Heritage Library, 852 William Hilton Parkway. This one-and-a-halfhour presentation will discuss the roles and contributions of women while looking at the history of the island during the Revolutionary War, the Civil War, the isolation after the Union Army left, and the development era to modern times. Join us as we discuss the history and the women who survived, contributed and excelled on the island. $10 per person; reservations required. 843686-6560

SEPT. 22

“Mysteries of the Marsh”: 4 p.m.

Tuesday, Sept. 22, Bluffton library.

Just outside our back doors and in the waters that surround our lives is a whole world we may know little about. Discover the mysteries of the marsh with Capt. Kathy Grymes. 843255-6512, areasoner@bcgov.net

SEPT. 29

“The Gullah People and Culture”: 10:30 a.m. Tuesday, Sept. 29, Heritage Library, 852 William Hilton Parkway. The presentation will discuss how the Gullah people came to Hilton Head and the efforts to save their culture and history for future generations. $10 per person; reservations required. 843-686-6560

SEPT. 30, OCT. 7

Starting Family Research: A TwoSession Class for Beginners”: 1:303:30 p.m. Wednesday, Sept. 30, and Wednesday, Oct. 7, Heritage Library, 852 William Hilton Parkway. If you are just starting family research, this class is for you. This two-part workshop introduces the first-time family researcher to the fascinating field of genealogy, its unique nomenclature and suggested research techniques.

It may also be of value to researchers with limited experience who wish to refresh their skills. Participants will receive handouts to help guide them in their research. Fee: $25 for foundation members; $35 for nonmembers.

Call 843-686-6560 for registration.

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FESTIVALS SEPT. 13

6th annual Latino Food Festival: 11 a.m.-5 p.m.

Sunday, Sept. 13, Shelter Cove Community Park. All proceeds from the event will benefit Volunteers in Medicine Hilton Head Island to provide for the health care needs of our community’s medically underserved.

The event will include activities for kids of all ages, live Latino music, local exhibitors and fabulous Latino cuisine. Exhibition booths for local businesses are still available. 843-689-6612

SEPT. 18-19

41st annual Catfish Festival: 6 p.m. Friday, Sept. 18, and 10 a.m. Saturday, Sept. 19, behind City Hall on Main Street, Hardeeville. The festival offers an assortment of amusement rides, parades, contests, food, crafts and family musical entertainment. The festival will wrap up Saturday evening with a spectacular fireworks display at 10 p.m. For details, contact Deanne Spikes at 843-368-1706 or visit www.hardeevillecatfishfestival com.

SEPT. 18

BlufftemberFest Sunset Party: 5-9 p.m. Friday, Sept. 18, Bluffton Oyster Factory Park. A Bluffton-style Octoberfest celebration on the May River. Live music from Souls Harbor and The Chiggers. There will be an Octoberfest and harvest-style craft beer garden, as well as a food court with German and American favorites from area restaurants and several food trucks. Plus a kids play zone and more. The series of sunset celebrations on the May River benefit the Palmetto Animal League, which is a no-kill animal rescue and adoption organization serving animals in the Lowcountry. The Palmetto Animal League will have dogs available for adoption from 5:30-7:30 p.m. $5. 843-757-8520, www. blufftonsunsetparty.com

SEPT. 20

Harbour Town Fall Fest: 11 a.m.-6 p.m. Sept. 20, Sea Pines Resort. Enjoy the splendor of Harbour Town with this family-friendly event that will include a sidewalk sale with Harbour Town shops offering great deals and fabulous finds; local favorite Deas Guyz in concert featuring an entertaining mix of old Motown, rhythm and blues, pop, rock, reggae and dance beats; nautical activities featuring a variety of watersports, nature tours and boat rides; great dining on the harbor all day and children’s activities. seapines.com/events

FUNDRAISERS SEPT. 9-10

Brain Balance Back to School Bash: 4-5 p.m.

Wednesday, Sept. 9, Shelter Cove Community Park; 6:30-11 p.m. Thursday, Sept. 10, Shelter Cove Community Park and Poseidon restaurant. The newly September 2015 167

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The VanLandingham Rotary Club has funded more than $1 million in projects, including $250,000 for land for the Boys & Girls Club of Hilton Head Island (top), and $350,000 for The Children’s Center, Inc. (above).

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he VanLandingham Rotary Club is looking to give between $50,000 to $350,000 to a special benefi ciary on Hilton Head Island. The club recently fulfi lled its pledge of $100,000 for the Discovery Lab at the Coastal Discovery Museum at Honey Horn, and is looking for a new group or project to support. Now in its 22nd year, the club has funded more than $1 million in projects, including $250,000 for the land at the Boys & Girls Club of Hilton Head Island; $350,000 for the The Children’s Center, Inc. on Hilton Head; and $100,000 for the Volunteers in Medicine and several others worthy organizations. The annual Rotary Auction has been televised for the past 15 years by CBS affi liate WTOC. The VanLandingham Rotary Club is looking for a project that meets the following criteria: • The project needs to be substantial and sustainable.

Equipment purchases and operat-

ing expenses would not qualify.

• The project must be for the benefi t of children and open to all.

• The project is to be located on Hilton Head for the benefi t of the Hilton Head Island community.

• Ideally, the funding would be leveraged by acting as a catalyst for a major capital campaign. For example, the Boys & Club funding led to a $5.5 million capital campaign. However, the club also looks at worthy projects that it can fund with a single-year pledge of $50,000, in addition to multi-year projects to which it will pledge as much as $350,000.

To nominate a qualifi ed project, contact Brian Goode at 843681-9325 before Sept. 10. The VanLandingham Rotary Club’s benefi ciary committee will be making its preliminary selection of candidates by Sept. 15. Two to three fi nalists will be selected and will present their projects to the entire club. A club vote on the fi nal selection will be made

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... SEPT. 12: 4th annual Cut-A-Thon opened Brain Balance Achievement Center of Bluffton will be sponsoring a Back to School Bash, with proceeds going to local charities supporting children with special needs. edmccullough@gmail.com

SEPT. 11

Lowcountry Autism Foundation Fall Fling benefi t: 6-10 p.m. Friday, Sept. 11, Country Club of Hilton Head.

Help support free evaluations and services for children with autism on Hilton Head, in Bluffton and throughout the Lowcountry. Music by Deas Guyz, dinner, dancing and auctions. $90 per ticket. 843-876-0415, lafi nc.org

SEPT. 12

PEP Fall Gala: 6 p.m. Saturday, Sept. 12, Sea Pines Country Club. An elegant way to help a vital cause, Programs for Exceptional People. Live and silent auctions, cash bar, dinner, live music and dancing. $75.

843-681-8413

SEPT. 12

4th annual Cut-A-Thon: 11 a.m.-3 p.m. Saturday, Sept.

12, Tara’s at Fountain Center. All proceeds from haircuts will go to local shelter programs specifi cally benefi ting the feral cat program. Hilton Head Ice Cream and Groomingdales are also involved in the event.

SEPT. 16

Bake Sale: Wednesday, Sept. 16, Brookdale Hilton Head, 80 Main Street, Hilton Head Village. Brookdale Senior Living is hosting a bake sale to benefi t the Alzheimer’s Association. The public is welcome to stop by for tasty treats — cookies, brownies, cakes, pies, muffi ns and more — and support a great cause. All items are on a donation basis. Call Taylor Garcia for more information or directions. 843-689-9143

SEPT. 19

Pregnancy Center 25th Anniversary Dinner & Auction: Saturday, Sept. 19, Sea Pines Country Club.

Celebrate the 25th anniversary of the Pregnancy Center and Clinic of The Lowcountry. Tickets are $75 and benefi t the center and clinic. Black tie or business attire.

843-689-2222

SEPT. 26

“On the Edge” Day of Adventure: 10 a.m.-2 p.m.

Saturday, Sept. 26, Aerial Adventure Hilton Head. NAMI Lowcountry would like to invite you to its fi rst ever “On the Edge” Day of Adventure at Aerial Adventure Hilton Head. The event helps raise awareness for mental health among the community. There will be 50 “in the tree” challenges on six different courses, activities for children and live music. Tickets, which are $35 per person and benefi t NAMI Lowcountry, guarantee a 1-hour tour throughout the Aerial Adventure course. For reservations, call 843-715-2842.

SEPT. 26

Pedal 4 Kids Community Bike Ride: Saturday, Sept.

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percent of its proceeds benefiting the Boys & Girls Club of Hilton Head Island. Now in its ninth year, the Pedal 4 Kids Community Bike Ride attracts more than 400 bicyclists of all ages and skills levels. The event gives residents and guests of the island an opportunity to join their friends, family, co-workers, associates and neighbors in a group ride throughout the island’s beautiful pathways and parks. pedal4kids.com

SEPT. 26

Step Forward to Cure TSC: 10 a.m. Saturday, Sept.

26, Jarvis Creek Park. Step Forward to Cure TSC is a national walkathon hosted in more than 30 cities across the country to raise awareness, money and hope on behalf of everyone living with tuberous sclerosis complex. For the second year in a row, Bluffton’s Chloe Bredeson and her family will host the walk on Hilton Head Island, and they are asking the community to join them. Registration is at 9 a.m. Participants can also register online in advance by going to http:// bit.ly/1KHp84p. After the walk, there will be refreshments, kids activities, and entertainment by Cappy the Clown and Crush Entertainment with DJ Crush.

South Carolina Sen. Tom Davis is expected to speak at the walk. The theme for the event is superheroes, and walkers are encouraged to dress like their favorite heroes — whether they are firefighters police officers, doctors or Superman. There is no fee to walk;

however, donations are appreciated. Participants who donate $100 will receive a free Step Forward to Cure TSC T-shirt. 843-290-2741, acbredeson@yahoo.com

HEALTH THROUGH OCT. 19

Yoga of the Heart series: 4-5:30 p.m. Mondays, Jiva Yoga Center on the south end of Hilton Head.

An eight-week series designed specifically for people who are currently being treated for a heart-related diagnosis, including arrhythmias and other heart diseases. The focus will be on the therapeutic and healing benefits of yoga for the mind, body and spirit. $140 for the series. 843-247-4549

SEPT. 17-NOV. 26

Brain Boosters: Starting Sept. 17 at Memory Matters. Optimize your brain fitness with Brain Boosters classes. Improve and enhance your brain’s jaw-dropping powers. All ages are welcome. Make a commitment to feel healthier in body and mind through this 10-week course. 843-842-6688, memory-matters.org

ONGOING

STARS charity raising AED awareness: STARS (Syncope Trust and Reflex anoxic Seizures) is the

leading patient advocacy organization providing guidance and information on syncope, a common cause of unexplained blackouts or faints. STARS aims to ensure that anyone with unexplained loss of consciousness receives a timely and accurate diagnosis, effective treatment, support and direction to appropriate medical professionals. www.stars-us.org

MEETINGS & SEMINARS SEPT. 5, 12, 19, 26

Hilton Head University of Georgia Alumni football gatherings: Watch the big game on Saturday, Sept. 5 vs. Louisiana-Monroe; Saturday, Sept. 12 vs.

Vanderbilt; Saturday, Sept. 19 vs. South Carolina; Saturday, Sept. 26 vs. Southern University; Hilton Head Brewing Company, 7C Greenwood Drive, Reilley’s Plaza. Open to all alumni, fans and friends of UGA in the Lowcountry. Cost: Food and beverage purchased on your own. Contact Brince Dixon at brincestacey@hotmail.com.

SEPT. 9

Liberal Men of the Lowcountry: Noon, Sept. 9, the Golf Club at Indigo Run. $15 for lunch. Sue Fuetz of the League of Women Voters of Hilton Head Island/ Bluffton Area will discuss the history of voting in U.S.,

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Wheelchair Championships return to HHI

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rofessional Tennis Registry will host the annual PTR Wheelchair Tennis Championships in October.

Matches will be held at Chaplin Community Park and Hilton Head Island Motorcoach Resort. Tournament play begins at 9 a.m. Thursday, Oct. 1, and continues through Sunday, Oct. 4, with men’s, women’s, quad and junior divisions.

Many of the world’s top wheelchair players have competed in this event, which is part of the UNIQLO Wheelchair Tennis Tour and sanctioned by the United States Tennis Association and the International Tennis Federation. The ITF named this event one of only seven Grade A Junior Tournaments in the world.

Ahead of the tournament, Up/Down pro exhibitions will be held at 5:30 p.m. Monday, Sept. 28, at Palmetto Dunes Tennis Center and at 4:30 p.m. Tuesday, Sept. 29, at Long Cove Club. The exhibitions are doubles matches featuring two wheelchair players teaming up with two of the island’s top pros.

Larry Keeter returns a serve during last year’s PTR Wheelchair Tennis Championships at Hilton Head Island Motorcoach Resort.

The event returns to the island Oct. 1-4 with men’s, women’s quad and junior divisions at both the Motorcoach Resort and Chaplin Community Park.

PHOTO BY DAYLE THOMAS

On Wednesday, Sept. 30, local tennis players can participate in the Run/ Roll Tournament from 5:30 to 6:30 p.m. at Chaplin Community Park. To participate in the Run/Roll Tournament, in which local players will be partnered with wheelchair athletes, email Julie Jilly at julie@ptrtennis.org.

Spectators are welcome to enjoy the excit-

ing exhibitions, as well as all tournament matches. See for yourself why tennis is the fastest growing of all wheelchair sports.

Volunteers to help serve lunches and ball people of all ages are needed. Volunteer for an afternoon or for the entire tournament. To volunteer, contact Paige Payne at 843-7857244 or paige@ptrtennis.org. M

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including laws and commissions currently affecting voting, gerrymandering and fraud, South Carolina voter ID laws, machines and pending legislation and what to do to protect voting rights. 847-9218188

strengths and align their talents to their business, and use their natural strengths to develop and execute business goals to best achieve success and growth. $10. Register online at www.ryan-innovation-center.com or by calling 843-540-0405.

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SEPT. 17

The Lowcountry Christian Women’s Connection September luncheon: 11:30 a.m. Wednesday, Sept. 16, Hampton Hall Clubhouse, Bluffton. The feature will be a fashion show including the latest fall fashions and accessories from Stein Mart in Bluffton. The guest speaker will be Kae Harper Childs from Isle of Palms. Childs is a retired counselor and presently teaches shag dancing. $25 with prepaid reservations due by Sept. 9. Make checks payable to CWC Bluffton and mail to CWC Bluffton, P.O. Box 1098, Bluffton, SC 29910. 843-290-5925

SEPT. 17

“How Your Passion Can Feed Your Purpose”: 6-7:30 p.m. Thursday, Sept. 17, Don Ryan Center for Innovation, Bluffton. The Don Ryan Center for Innovation will be hosting an educational seminar for entrepreneurs, new business owners and anyone interested in starting a business. The seminar will provide attendees with important insight from two top business/life coaches to offer important strategies to help people effectively identify their

“Rational Middle Energy Series”: 2-4 p.m., Thursday, Sept. 17, First Presbyterian Church, Hilton Head Island. Energy. It’s all round us. It lights our homes, cooks our food, gets us to work and helps to create almost every amenity we enjoy. The World Affairs Council of Hilton Head invites you to participate in a special video screening and presentation that addresses the energy issue. “Rational Middle Energy Series” producer and director Gregory Kallenberg will be a keynote speaker and will moderate a panel discussion with experts, drawn from the private and public sectors. 843-384-6758

SEPT. 17

Palmetto Quilt Guild meeting: 1 p.m. Thursday, Sept. 17, Hilton Head Beach & Tennis Resort. The speaker will be Judy Lilly, an award-winning art quilter. She will speak on “The Joy of Landscapes.”

Guests are welcome for a $5 visitor fee. Come early and socialize. 843-689-1922, palmettoquiltguild. org

SEPT. 17

American Revolution Round Table and S.C. Quarterly Luncheon: 11:30 a.m. Thursday, Sept. 17, Hampton Hall Club. The luncheon speaker, Joe Epley, is an award-winning author of several books on the American Revolution and will discuss the subject of his next book, David Fanning, a notorious partisan fighter who became a legend in both Carolinas. $25 for members and $33 for guests. 843-705-7575

SEPT. 20

Big Ten on Hilton Head Picnic: 2:30-5 p.m. Sunday, Sept. 20, Honey Horn. All Big Ten alumni, supporters, fans and friends are invited to attend and wear their school colors. $15 per person, children 12 and younger are free. The Hilton Head Big Ten conference group has held picnics for three years, with attendance increasing each year. A chicken entrée will be provided.

BIG10onHH@gmail.com

SEPT. 22

“Hilton Head in the Modern Era: Personal Perspectives”: 5:30 p.m. wine reception, 6 p.m. presentation, Tuesday, Sept.

22, Coligny Theater. Join The Heritage Library and the Coastal Discovery Museum for the fourth speaker in their 2015 series: “Hilton Head in the Modern Era: Personal Perspectives.” Dr. Charles Calvert, chairman of the hospitality management department at the University of South Carolina Beaufort, will discuss the proposed USCB south end campus. The USCB campus on Hilton Head Island has generated passionate conversations, both for and against the project. Calvert will discuss the campus and preparing the next generation of hospitality professionals on Hilton Head. $30 per person; $45 per couple. Call 843-686-6560 to register or visit coastaldiscovery.org.

SHOPPING SEPT. 11-13

Pyramids Seasonal Sale: 10 a.m.-6 p.m. Friday, Sept.

11, 10 a.m.-5 p.m. Saturday, Sept. 12, noon-4 p.m.

Sunday, Sept. 13; Pyramids, 1600 Main St. 50-70 percent off select seasonal products, gourmet items, fashion accessories, candles, home accessories, greenery and florals. Make a $5 donation to The Lowcountry Foundation for Wounded Military Heroes & receive $10 toward your purchase on sale days only. One coupon per customer per day. 843-689-6367, www.pyramidshiltonhead.com

SEPT. 17-19

LAGOS Trunk Show: Sept. 17-19 at Forsythe Jewelers.

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Hampton Lake hosts

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he eighth annual Tiger Bass 5K, 12K and 1-Mile Fun Run/Walk returns to Hampton Lake at 8 a.m.

Sept. 19.

This year, the run will benefit Bluffton Self Help and BlufftonJasper County Volunteers in Medicine. Bluffton Self Help provides food, clothing and financial assistance to those in need to help them become more self-reliant, while Bluffton-Jasper County Volunteers in Medicine offers free medical care to the uninsured residents of Jasper County and greater Bluffton. The goal of this year’s event is to donate $25,000 to the two charities.

The race has come a long way since it began in 2008. The Tiger Bass now has more than 300 participants and 500 spectators. The three different courses — 5K, 12K and 1 mile — all offer views of the Hampton Lake property.

And the fun doesn’t stop at the finish line. There is an after party with concessions, beer, prizes,

DETAILS

What: Eighth annual Tiger Bass 5K, 12K and 1 Mile Fun Run/Walk When: 8 a.m. Saturday, Sept. 19 Where: Hampton Lake in Bluffton Details: If registered before Sept. 16: 1-mile fun run is $15; 5K is $30; the 12K is $35. Register online or drop off form in person.

Contact: 843-815-1718, rob@palmettorunning.com, www.tigerbassrace.com

performances by popular local musicians Harden & Crenshaw, food trucks including Downtown Curbside Kitchen and more.

The race has become a popular event in the community, and participants are determined to raise as much money as possible to help community members in need.

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SEPT. 19: Italian Heritage Festival

Italian Heritage celebrated with festival

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BY CARMEN HAWKINS DECECCO

he time of year to honor Italy’s San Gennaro, or St. Januarius, the patron saint of Naples, Italy, is upon us. This year’s festivities, held by the Italian-American Club of Hilton Head, will be held from 11 a.m. to 4 p.m. Sept.

19 at the Coastal Discovery Museum at Honey Horn, and will be slightly different from the festivals of years past.

For those islanders who don’t know the signifi cance of San Gennaro — a deeply revered fourth-century martyr and saint — a brief history lesson will explain his popularity in the Roman Catholic tradition: Born in the third century, he became an ordained priest at the tender age of 15 in his hometown of Benevento, Italy.

At that time, Italy was largely pagan, and Christians were still being tortured, crucifi ed, fed to lions, occasionally thrown into furnaces, and — in case any of the above didn’t do the trick — often beheaded. According to Catholic legend, St. Januarius survived all of the above, until he was fi nally beheaded. He was so amazing, he apparently walked out of the furnace unscathed, and the lions wouldn’t go near him.

Several hundred years after his death, during several religious and political upheavals, his remains were separated. The body was moved twice, while the head remained in Naples, perhaps mounted above someone’s fi replace. In a further separation of his vital parts, a woman named Eusebia saved his blood in vials just after his death.

The earliest record of the

DETAILS

What: The sixth annual Italian Heritage Festival When: 11 a.m.-4 p.m., Sept. 19 Where: Coastal Discovery Museum at Honey Horn Cost: $6 Contact: Italian-American Club of Hilton Head festival chairman Paul Caimano, 412-897-1148, or club president John DeCecco, 401-524-1416; www.iachh.org or ciao@iachh.org

miracle that led to his offi cial canonization appeared in 1389, when the coagulated blood in the vials inexplicably melted. Yes, it liquefi ed, and then re-clotted, and repeated this procedure three times a year. The vials have been sealed in a reliquary. Kept in a bank vault, the vials are unlocked on the day of impending liquefaction and viewed by Vatican dignitaries — including most recently Pope Francis — as the blood liquefi es.

According to science, this phenomenon is not medically possible on regular human corpses.

To Catholics, that means he must be a saint. Many theories were posited about this legend, but regardless of the why of it, here’s the fun part of our lesson: one of the dates of the annual blood melt is Sept. 19. Yes, the exact day of this year’s Hilton Head Feast of San Gennaro Festival, held by the Italian-American Club of Hilton Head. It would be a good idea to attend on such an auspicious date, I would think, even if one is not Catholic. Much great mojo will be in the cosmos on that day, especially for those celebrating this wondrous man of the cloth.

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ge Festival ... SEPT. 17: Roxy Roca at Poseidon . tion of this year’s sixth annual festival is that thanks to the efforts of Fred Nesta with the Myrtle Beach Sons of Italy, and S.C. Sen. Raymond Cleary, a law was passed proclaiming October to be Annual Italian Heritage Month in South Carolina. Ratifi ed on March 25 and signed into law by Gov. Nikki Haley on March 27, the new law states, in part, “The month of October of every year is designated ‘Italian American Heritage Month’ in South Carolina in order to recognize ItalianAmericans for their many contributions to our state and nation.”

And even more importantly, Hilton Head is in the running with three other towns — Columbia, Charleston and Myrtle Beach — to be host to the 2016 statewide Columbus Day parade, an event that planners say will be held annually.

“This event, if held on Hilton Head, could bring upwards of 25,000 or more attendees to Hilton Head at a time of year when things are slowing down for the hospitality industry,” according to Italian-American Club of Hilton Head president John DeCecco.

According to Nesta, ItalianAmerican are fl ocking to South Carolina, bringing with them their long-standing commitment to their communities and cultural awareness — no wonder the food down here has improved so much through the years.

The presenting sponsor of this year’s Hilton Head festival is the Bluffton Center for Dentistry.

The platinum sponsor is Armor Building Solutions. Also, many diverse vendors will feature an array of Italian-inspired wares, such as handcrafted ceramics, artwork, live entertainment by Larry Tannelli, and a kid’s zone with tons of infl atable fun.

The silent auction is always a hit, featuring donations of all kinds from local businesses. Club tents are arranged where attendees

can fi ll out applications to join the Italian-American Club of Hilton Head, buy tickets to October’s The Zin Experience at the Omni in Shipyard, and purchase T-shirts.

And last, but certainly not least, there’s the food and wine.

Many food tents from local Italian restaurants will feature delicious Italian dishes, popular Italian pastries cooked on-site like cannoli and zeppoli, food preparation demonstrations, grape-stomping and pizza-eating contests, to name just a few events and delights.

A bocce court will be set up for game lovers, and if you want to indulge the sophomoric attitude that can emerge after a little wine or beer, don’t forget to visit the notorious dunk tank.

“No one ever leaves the festival bored, hungry, or thirsty. Each year gets bigger and better, and yet maintains its level of community camaraderie,” says Paul Caimano, festival chairman. As proof of its dedication to the Hilton Head community, only local nonprofi t groups and scholarships benefi t from all Italian-American Club of Hilton Head events. M September 2015 175

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WHAT TO DO

SEPT. 1: Trevor Hall at Poseidon .

ON STAGE SEPT. 1

Trevor Hall at Poseidon: 9 p.m.

Tuesday, Sept. 1, The Rooftop Bar at Poseidon at Shelter Cove Towne Centre.

Coming back to Hilton Head is always exciting for Trevor Hall, and it’s even more exciting when he gets to perform.

Tickets can be purchased at coastalprovisionsco.com or trevorhallmusic.com.

in 2000 and has quickly developed a reputation for getting a room on its feet and in motion with a sound that has been described as dynamite Texas soul —driving horn-powered Southern soul with an explosiveness and swagger that is distinctly Texan. The one-night show at The Rooftop Bar at Poseidon at Shelter Cove Town Centre is part of the band’s Southeast tour. Ages 21 and over. www.roxyroca.com

SEPT. 11

SEPT. 20

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SEPT. 23

Hilton Head Choral Society’s POPS Concert “Five American Musical Icons”: 8 p.m. Friday, Sept. 11, First Presbyterian Church. The group kicks off its 40th anniversary season with a salute to fi ve great composers of the 20th century. $20-$35. 843-341-3818, www.hiltonheadchoralsociety.org 2nd annual Jazz Festival: 7 p.m.

Thursday, Sept. 10, Seahawk Cultural Center; 7 p.m. Friday, Sept. 11, Sonesta Resort. A benefi t for the Junior Jazz Foundation. The Thursday performance will open with the Noel Freidline Quintet. The Friday performance will feature Joe Gransden and his 16-piece big band. www.jazzforallages.com

SEPT. 13

Auditions for “Mary Poppins”: 11 a.m.-6 p.m. Sunday, Sept. 13, Arts Center of Coastal Carolina. The production will be directed by Casey Colgan, known for directing “42nd Street” and “Singin’ in the Rain,” among others.

Rehearsals for “Mary Poppins” begin Nov. 17, and performances run from Dec. 9-31. Actors must be available for all rehearsals and performances.

Auditions are by appointment only.

Prepare a song either from the show or in the style of the show. If you dance, please bring in-character shoes. Bring a picture and resume, stapled together.

To schedule an appointment, call Gail Ragland at 843-686-3945, ext. 202, or email GRagland@artshhi.com.

SEPT. 17

Roxy Roca at Poseidon: 9 p.m.

Thursday, Sept. 17, The Rooftop Bar at Poseidon at Shelter Cove Towne Centre.

Roxy Roca is a powerhouse of Southern soul, stirring the spirit with a gritty and infectious sound. The band formed

Gospel & Contemporary Music Concert: 4 p.m. Sunday, Sept. 20, Bluffton United Methodist Church. The concert will feature musician Lavon Stevens, CrossRoads music and worship director at First Presbyterian Church.

The concert is free and open to the public. blufftonumc.org African Children’s Choir: 6:30 p.m.

Wednesday, Sept. 23, First Presbyterian Church. The African Children’s Choir is a large choir made up of children ages 7 to 10 from several African nations including Uganda, Kenya, Rwanda, South Africa, Nigeria and Ghana. Many of the children have lost one or both parents to poverty-related diseases, and all of them are victims of extreme poverty. The choir was founded in 1984 to help the thousands of orphaned African children feed and protect themselves through housing, education and a choral touring program. Several choirs tour and perform worldwide each year.

Free. 843-681-3696, mhall@fpchhi.org, www.fpchhi.org

VOLUNTEER SEPT. 19

Sea Pines Beach Sweep: 9 a.m.-noon Saturday, Sept. 19, Sea Pines Resort.

Take part in the largest one-day volunteer cleanup event of its kind in South Carolina as a volunteer with the Sea Pines Resort’s “Life’s a Clean Beach” team. Conducted annually since 1988, the sweep takes place in conjunction with the International Coastal Cleanup, coordinated by the Ocean Conservancy.

843-842-1979, seapines.com

SEPT. 19

27th annual Burkes Beach Sweep/ River Sweep: 9 a.m.-noon Saturday,

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Poseidon ... SEPT. 11: HILTON HEAD CHORAL SOCIET Sept. 19, Burkes Beach. The Coastal Discovery Museum will once again organize the cleanup of Burkes Beach on Hilton Head Island. Burkes Beach is located off William Hilton Parkway at Burkes Beach Road. Plastic bags and gloves will be provided. All you need to do is show up and join the effort.

Spread the word, invite friends and family and come and join the museum for this event. 843-689-6767, ext. 226

SAVE THE DATE OCT. 1-DEC. 31

The Public Art Exhibition on Hilton Head Island: Oct. 1-Dec. 31, Coastal Discovery Museum. The exhibition showcases 20 large-scale outdoor sculptures by local and national artists.

In addition, there will be many educational and community events scheduled during the three-month period.

Examples include a curator-guided tour of the sculptures and educational opportunities for adults and youth. 843681-9100, jheyduck@cf-lowcountry.org

OCT. 3

Lowcountry Rockin’ the Pink Breast Cancer Walk: Saturday, Oct. 3, Red Cedar Elementary School in Bluffton.

Hosted by the Bluffton Fire Auxiliary. In its fi rst fi ve years, the walk has raised more than $51,000, which was donated to local charities that help women battling this disease. A large part of the event is a silent auction. The planning committee meets at 7 p.m. the second Monday of each month at Bluffton Township Fire District headquarters.

All interested parties are welcome.

Businesses interested in becoming sponsors should call 843-757-2800 or by email at ljhart@blufftonfd.com. Find more information at facebook.com/ Lowcountrybreastcancerwalk.

OCT. 3

Zonta Club of Hilton Head Island’s 5th annual Community Walk: 6 p.m.

Saturday, Oct. 3, Coligny Beach Park.

October is Domestic Violence Awareness Month. The Zonta Club of Hilton Head invites you to participate in a onemile walk, starting at Coligny Beach Park. The walk will end with a closing candlelight vigil in conjunction with Citizens Opposed to Domestic Abuse,

Hope Haven of the Lowcountry and the Lowcountry Coalition Against Human Traffi cking. The event is free. zontahhi.org

OCT. 4

CODA/My Sister’s Keeper annual fundraising and awareness event: 5-8 p.m. Sunday, Oct. 4, at the May River home of Peggy Parker, located at 107 Myrtle Island Road in Bluffton. www. codalowcountry.org, coda.lowcountrylove@gmail.com

OCT. 4

Hilton Head Island Fire/Rescue Fire Prevention Pancake Breakfast: 9 a.m.-12:30 p.m. Sunday, Oct. 4, Hilton Head Fire Rescue Station 4, Squire Pope Road. Fire Prevention Week is Oct. 4-10. 843-682-5141

OCT. 8

Mind, Body and Soul Wellness Workshop: 5-8 p.m. Thursday, Oct. 8, Berkeley Room at Berkeley Hall.

Presenters for the evening are Pamela Blackshire, Catherine Shanahan, Rosemary Clark and Dr. Joseph Hickey.

The four professionals will break down the divorce process and discuss how to overcome the negative effects it can have on your life and your future.

Tickets are $35 and include petit fours and refreshments. rosemaryclarklpc. com, 215-486-8347

OCT. 10

Hilton Head Art Auction: 2 p.m.

Saturday, Oct. 10, Arts Center of Coastal Carolina. Live art auction hosted by Morris & Whiteside Auctions. Featuring more than 80 works by local, regional, national and international artists.

Internet bidding will be available. For reservations and a free full color illustrated catalogue, call 843-842-4433 or visit hiltonheadartauction.com.

OCT. 12

Bluffton Police Department Citizens Police Academy: 6:30-8:30 p.m. beginning Monday, Oct. 12. The academy will run for 10 weeks at the Bluffton Police Department, 101 Progressive Street. The academy allows citizens to express their concerns, ask meaningful questions and gain a better understanding of some of the decisions made by public safety professionals. Participants must be at least 18 years old, have September 2015 177

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OCT. 8: Mind, Body and Soul Wellne

valid driver’s licenses and submit to background checks. Deadline to apply is 5 p.m. Sept. 28. For more information, call Sgt. Danyov, 843-706-4516, or Lt. Gonzales, 843-706-4544

Speed Classic is a great destination for drivers, crew, family, friends and spectators alike. www.hhiconcours.com

OCT. 30

OCT. 14

Le Spa’s Night of Beauty Secrets: 5:30-7:30 p.m. Wednesday, Oct. 14, Le Spa. Refreshments and hors d’oeuvres will be served. Demonstrations begin at 6 p.m. See salon and spa artists work their magic and meet medical director Dr. Reid. Reservations required; space is limited. 843-363-6000, lespahiltonhead.com

Flights & Fancy Aeroport Gala: 6-10 p.m. Friday, Oct. 30, Hilton Head Island Airport. A preview event for the 2015 Hilton Head Island Motoring Festival & Concours d’Elegance. A ticket includes a fi rst look at the fi nest antique aircraft and modern aviation innovations, hors d’oeuvres and a full bar and a signed commemorative poster by famed Gullah artist Amiri Farris. hhiconcours.com/ tickets

OCT. 23-25

OCT. 30-NOV. 1

Savannah Speed Classic: Nestled across the water from famed River Street, Savannah’s own little private island comes alive with the roar of engines Oct. 23-25. With its storied past and cobblestone streets, Savannah, unbeknownst to most, is the birthplace of grand prix racing. Celebrating that heritage, the Savannah Speed Classic is a unique road race experience offering an intimate look at the inner workings of racing. HSR brings wheel-to-wheel racing back to its roots in Savannah.

Featuring series races, endure races and hot lap rides, test drives, an off-road experience and pit access. The Savannah

2015 Hilton Head Island Motoring Festival & Concours d’Elegance: Oct. 31-Nov. 1, Port Royal Golf Club, Hilton Head Island. Flights & Fancy Aeroport Gala, Car Club Showcase, Aero Expo, Hilton Head Island Auction, Motoring Midway and the Concours d’Elegance. hhiconcours.com

NOV. 2

Memory Matters 16th annual Charity Golf Tournament: Monday, Nov. 2, Moss Creek Golf Club. Register today; space is limited. 843-842-6688, jeannie@memory-matters.org

OCT. 17-18

Regatta Weekend on Calibogue Sound: The Yacht Club of Hilton Head Island recently announced its upcoming Regatta Weekend, sponsored by Harbour Town at Sea Pines Resort. The 46th annual Harbour Town Cup Regatta will be Saturday, Oct. 17.

The 45th annual Calibogue Cup Regatta will be held Sunday, Oct. 18. The regattas, showcased by this year’s fall events in Harbour Town, can be enjoyed by spectators from the piers of Harbour Town. The series of races begin at noon Saturday and 10 a.m. Sunday. All are invited to enjoy the fall festivities and watch the exciting sailboat races. 843-671-6536, yachtclubhh.org 178 hiltonheadmonthly.com

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NAMI Lowcountry hosting

‘ON THE EDGE’

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he Lowcountry division of the National Alliance on Mental Illness is hosting its fi rst ever “On the Edge” Day of Adventure from 10 a.m. to 2 p.m. on Sept. 26 at the Aerial Adventure Hilton Head.

The event is to help raise awareness for mental health among individuals, families and throughout the community. Participants will be able to enjoy 50 “in the tree” challenge activities on 6 different courses.

Patrick Carr, partner of Hilton Head and Beaufort law fi rm, Berry & Carr, is a proud supporter of NAMI Lowcountry.

“NAMI Lowcountry does great things for people with mental illnesses, as well as their families around our community,” said Carr.

“They strive to erase the attached stigmas and help everyone affected live healthy, happy lives.”

Children will be able to enjoy activities including Cappy the Clown, a coin toss, snow cones and a duck pond game. There will also be live music and entertain-

ment by local bands. Food and beverages will be available for purchase at the Up the Creek Pub & Grill.

Tickets are $35 per person, benefi tting NAMI Lowcountry, which guarantees you a 1-hour tour throughout the Aerial Adventure course. To reserve your spot, call 843-715-2842.

For more information about “On the Edge” and NAMI Lowcountry, go to www.namilowcountry.org or contact Mollie Kinard at 843-3014736.

NAMI Lowcountry, formerly NAMI Beaufort County, is the Lowcountry’s affi liate of the National Alliance on Mental Illness, the nation’s fi rst and leading organization to support individuals and families affected by mental illness.

NAMI Lowcountry is dedicated to improving the lives of people with mental illness and their families.

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SEPT. 11: Hilton Head Choral Society presents ‘Five American icons’

Choral Society kicks off 40th season

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or the past 40 years, our community has been graced with the harmonious sounds of the Hilton Head Choral Society. Touted as the longest-running performing arts group on Hilton Head Island, the 120-member chorus is set to present an exciting season this year.

Tim Reynolds, who has been the choral society’s artistic director for 16 years, attributes the group’s longevity to a universal love of music. “People across the world may not speak the same language, but we can speak volumes by making music together,” he says.

The group will present four major programs for its 40th season at First Presbyterian Church, 540 William Hilton Parkway, Hilton Head. In addition to its regular schedule, the choral group will host the Grammy-award winning ensemble Chanticleer at 8 p.m. Oct. 23 at Holy Family Catholic Church, 24 Pope Ave., Hilton Head.

To kick off its anniversary season, the chorus and orchestra will perform “Five American Musical Icons” at 8 p.m. Friday, Sept. 11. The concert is a powerful salute to fi ve of the most talented composers of the 20th century. Selections will feature music from iconic American legends such as Cole Porter, the Gershwin brothers, Hoagy Carmichael and Leonard Bernstein.

BY EMILY CAMPBELL

DETAILS

What: Hilton Head Choral Society presents “Five American Musical Icons” When: 8 p.m., Friday, Sept. 11 Where: First Presbyterian Church, Hilton Head Island Details: Selections will feature music from iconic American legends such as Cole Porter, the Gershwin brothers, Hoagy Carmichael and Leonard Bernstein.

Contact: hiltonheadchoralsociety.org, 843-341-3818

One of the highlights will be music by composer Aaron Copland, performed in remembrance of the solidarity of the American people following the tragedy of the Sept. 11, 2001, terrorist attacks. The audience will hear classics like “Someone to Watch Over Me,” “I’ve Got You Under My Skin” and “Georgia On My Mind.”

Music lovers should get their tickets early.

Concerts in recent years have brought record-breaking attendance. Mark your calendars now for these upcoming performances.

This year’s performance will mark Chanticleer’s second trip to Hilton Head. This 12-man a cappella ensemble performs music from a broad genre of vocal favorites in an unparalleled style.

The Sounds of Christmas concert, “A Merrie Olde Christmas,” will be at 8 p.m.

Friday, Dec. 11. This island tradition rings

in the yuletide season with a sleigh full of holiday classics as the full chorus performs with orchestra. Concertgoers will be caught up in the spirit of the season from the opening note.

This season’s spring Musical Masterworks concert, “Notes from a Small Island,” will feature a full chorus, guest soloists and orchestra. It will take place at 8 p.m. Friday, April 1.

The chorus will bring the audience along as they travel to the United Kingdom for a musically diverse evening of pomp and ceremony. With music ranging from text settings by Shakespeare to Scottish, English and Welsh folk songs, this springtime performance features something for everyone.

At 7 p.m. Sunday, May 29, the choral group will present its annual Memorial Day weekend concert, “America Sings!” All are welcome to this casual, family-friendly concert with music refl ecting the true meaning of Memorial Day. Tickets for the POPs concert and the entire season are on sale now.

They may be purchased online at www. hiltonheadchoralsociety.org or by calling 843-341-3818. New this year, all seating is reserved. M September 2015 181

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Oct. 30: Hilton Head Island Motor

Motoring Festival

expands with aviation events

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he Hilton Head Island Motoring Festival & Concours d’Elegance, one of the nation’s largest and fastest growing automotive and motorsports enthusiast event, recently announced the newest additions to its 2015 schedule. The inaugural Flights & Fancy Aeroport Gala, to be held at Hilton Head Island Airport, will feature an exclusive VIP cocktail hangar party on Friday, Oct. 30, and the Aero Expo will be held on Saturday, Oct. 31.

Both events will showcase a unique collection of vintage and historical aircraft alongside the newest airplanes from sponsors such as Cirrus Aircraft.

Automotive manufacturers with aviation heritage, including BMW and Volvo, will also be on display.

BMW is celebrating three signifi cant milestones, including its 100th anniversary of BMW worldwide in 2016, the 40th anniversary of BMW in North America and the 20th anniversary of BMW manufacturing in South Carolina. A special exhibit will honor one signifi cant vehicle from each decade, including a 1930s-era BMW 328 Roadster; an original E30 M3, with its iconic wings and fl ares; a 850csi, one of only 200 imported to the U.S.; and the very latest luxury entry from the German manufacturer, the all-new 2016 7 Series debuting in October at the Frankfurt Auto Show.

Aircraft as well as vehicles will be on display both Friday evening and Saturday from 9 a.m. to 4 p.m. Access is included with admission to the Car Club Showcase. Some of the aircraft visitors can expect to see include:

• A 1928 Ford Motor Company Tri-Motor 5-AT-Bfrom EAA, Inc. of Oshkosh, Wisconsin, fi rst fl own on Dec. 1, 1928, and used for Grand Canyon tours from February to December of 1937.

• A 1936 Waco YKS-6 from James Wilson of Cross, one of only 65 of this particular model made.

• A 1938 Lockheed 12 A Electra from David Marco of Jacksonville, Florida, one of only 125 built before Lockheed stopped production to build aircraft for World War II.

• A 1943 Boeing PT-13D from Scott Martin of Hilton Head Island, used primarily as a trainer for World War II Air Corps and Navy pilots.

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• A 1946 Globe Swift GC-1B from Steven Roth of Madison, Virginia, perhaps one of the most modifi ed production aircraft and often described as “snowfl akes,” as no two are alike.

• A 1920 Peugeot Propeller Bicycle from the Lane Motor Museum in Nashville, Tennessee.

CLASSIC RIDES Each vintage airplane will be paired with a Concours-caliber car from the same era. The cars will also be presented at the Concours d’Elegance on Sunday, Nov. 1. Some notable vehicles scheduled to appear include:

• A 1926 Lincoln L Type 130 Boat-Tail Speedsterfrom Robert S. Jepson Jr. of Savannah that was originally owned by Henry Harper, founder and president of the National Lincoln Club.

• A 1933 Chrysler Custom Imperial Phaeton from Joseph and Margie Cassini III of West Orange, New Jersey, the personal car of renowned automotive designer Ralph Roberts, equipped to his order as a gift to his wife.

• A 1930 L’Éclair from the Lane Motor Museum in Nashville, Tennessee.

• A 1932 Helicron from the Lane Motor Museum in Nashville, Tennessee.

“Wings and wheels enthusiasts have always shared a passion for innovative design, technology and performance,” said Carolyn Vanagel, president of the Hilton Head Island Motoring Festival.

“That’s why we’re pleased to add this newest event for our expected 20,000 visitors.”

For more information on the Hilton Head Island Motoring Festival & Concours d’Elegance, visit the offi cial website at www. hhimotoringfestival.com. Tickets for the 2015 Motoring Festival — including passes to the Flights & Fancy Aeroport Gala, which starts at $150 — are available for at www.hhimotoringfestival.com/ tickets. M September 2015 183

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SOCIAL SPOTLIGHT

From left: Mimi Carman, Jan Davis, Franny Gerthoffer (holding Pokey) and Katie Peterson. Gerthoffer was at the Kappa Delta Lowcountry Chapter’s meeting to talk about the work the Hilton Head Humane Association is doing.

The PTR Foundation, the charitable arm of Professional Tennis Registry, received a $2,600 donation from The Pro League of Hilton Head Island. PTR’s Julie Jilly (center) is shown with Matt Wuller (left) and Lee Holyoak from the Pro League.

Boomkin Productions was the proud winner of Best Film at the 48 Hour Film Project –Savannah.

Pictured from left: Madeleine Tipton, Sophie Tipton, Jack Firestone, Rob Tipton, Meredith Farmer and Anthony Paderewski.

Food trucks set up shop at Tanger 2 in Bluffton. The trucks serve lunch from 10 a.m. to 2 p.m. Monday through Thursday and 11 a.m. to 5 p.m. Friday through Sunday.

Jim Clark, presi dent and CEO of Boys & Girls Clubs of America, recently visited the Bluffton and Hilton Head clubs. Bluffton club members dressed up as Secret Service agents (equipped with sunglasses, walkie-talkies and ear buds) to escort “The President.”

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GET IN THE SPOTLIGHT To submit photos from your event or party, email editor@hiltonheadmonthly. com or you can share them directly from your Facebook page by liking us on Facebook. All photos courtesy those pictured unless otherwise noted.

Rodney Engard, president of Engard Real Estate Company, presented new team T-shirts to the Bluffton High School football team. Pictured are head coach Ken Cribb, Engard and several members of the team.

Pet of the Month: Zander is a very playful hound and full of energy. He would like an active family to share all his love with. Zander is a medium-sized 2-year-old and weighs 52 pounds.

For more information on Zander or any of the animals at the Hilton Head Humane Association, call 843681-8686 or visit www.hhhumane.org.

The Women’s Association of Hilton Head Island recently made a $1,000 donation to Hilton Head Regional Habitat for Humanity.

Lou Benfante, president of the Heritage Library, and Linda Piekut, the executive director, hold a certificate from the National Park Service declar ing the Hilton Head research center to be an official facility of the Underground Railroad Network to Freedom. The park service also lists two other Hilton Head sites in the state as part of the network: Mitchelville Freedom Park and Fort Howell.

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LI V E R CALENDA SUNDAYS

• Aunt Chilada’s: 7-10 p.m., Peter & Yani • Bomboras Grille: Kevin Richmond • Captain Woody’s Bluffton: John Creidler • Coast: 5-9 p.m., Jordan Ross • Crazy Crab (north end): 6-9 p.m., David Wingo • Harbourside Burgers: 6-8 p.m., 9:30-11 p.m., Tommy Simms • Harbour Town, 8-9:30 p.m., Liberty Oak, Gregg Russell • Hudson’s Seafood House On the Docks: 6-9p.m., Trillium • The Jazz Corner: 8 p.m., Deas Guy • Comedy Club of HHI: 8 p.m., mentalist Bill Gladwell • Quarterdeck: 5-9 p.m., Rob Ingman • Reilley’s South: Simpson Brothers • ELA’S Blu Water Grille: 11 a.m.-2 p.m. Sunday Jazz Brunch on the water • Jamaica Joe’z: 4-7 p.m., The Local Visitors • Salty Dog Cafe: 6-10 p.m., Todd Cowart

MONDAYS

• Aunt Chilada’s: 7-10 p.m., Tommy Simms • Boardroom: Swampfi re Sessions • Big Bamboo: 6:30 p.m., Souls Harbor • Bomboras Grille: Craig Coyne • Captain Woody’s HHI: 6-9 p.m., Hannah Wicklund • Charbar: 6:30 p.m., Dave Wingo • Coast: 5:30-9:30 p.m., Sara Burns • Crazy Crab (north end): 6-9 p.m., Mike Wilson • Harbourside Burgers & Brews: 6-8 p.m. and 9:30-11 p.m., Pete Carroll • Harbour Town, 8-9:30 p.m., Gregg Russell • Hudson’s: 6-9 p.m., Bruce Crichton • The Jazz Corner: 8 p.m., The Martin Lesch Band • Liberty Oak: 7:30-9 p.m., Gregg Russell Concert • Comedy Club of HHI: 8 p.m., mentalist Bill Gladwell • Quarterdeck: 5-9 p.m., Mike Kavanaugh • Ruby Lee’s: Sterling and Shuvette • Salty Dog Cafe: 6-10 p.m., Todd Cowart

TUESDAYS

• Aunt Chilada’s: 7-10 p.m., Peter Bouanouto • Boardroom: live music every night • Big Bamboo: 6:30 p.m., solo acoustic show • Bomboras Grille: Jordan Sturm • Captain Woody’s HHI: 6-9 p.m., Harry Santana • Charbar: 6:30 p.m., Reid Richmond • Coast: 5:30-9:30 p.m., Jordan Ross • Comedy Club of Hilton Head: 8 p.m., Bill Gladwell • Crazy Crab (north end): 6-9 p.m., Tye Miller • Harbourside Burgers & Brews: 6-8 p.m. and 9:30-11 p.m., Pete Carroll

• Harbour Town, 8-9:30 p.m., Gregg Russell • Hudson’s Seafood House On the Docks: 6-9pm, Lowcountry Boil • The Jazz Corner: 8 p.m., The Jazz Corner Quintet • Liberty Oak: 7:30-9 p.m., Gregg Russell Concert • Mellow Mushroom Bluffton: 9 p.m., Trivia night • Poseidon: 9 p.m., Trevor Hall (Sept. 1) • Comedy Club of HHI:: 8 p.m., mentalist Bill Gladwell • Quarterdeck: 5-9 p.m., Chris Jones • Ruby Lee’s: Candace Woodson and the Domino Theory Band • Salty Dog Cafe: 6-10 p.m., Todd Cowart • Skull Creek Boathouse: 6 p.m., Luke Mitchell

WEDNESDAYS

• Aunt Chilada’s: 7-10 p.m., Simpson Brothers • Boardroom: TBD • Big Bamboo: 9:30 p.m., Reggae Nite • Bomboras Grille: Jesse Watkins and David Wingo • Captain Woody’s HHI: 6-9 p.m., Bruce Crichton • Charbar: 7 p.m., Whitley Deputy • Coast: 5:30-9:30 p.m., local talent night • Crazy Crab (north end): 6-9 p.m., Brad Wells, or Harry Santana • ELA’s Blu Water Grille: 7-10 p.m., Dean St. Hillaire • Harbourside Burgers: 6-8 p.m. and 9:30-11 p.m., Pete Carroll • Harbour Town, 8-9:30 p.m., Liberty Oak, Gregg Russell • Hudson’s: 6-9pm, Taylor Kent & Sarah Burns • The Jazz Corner: 8 p.m., The Bobby Ryder Quartet or The Earl Williams Quartet • Liberty Oak: 7:30-9 p.m., Gregg Russell Concert

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MUSIC • Mellow Mushroom Hilton Head: 9 p.m., Trivia night • Pelican’s Point: 6 p.m., Mike Wilson • Comedy Club of HHI:: 8 p.m., Comedy Club of Hilton Head • Quarterdeck: 5-9 p.m., Mike Kavanaugh • Ruby Lee’s: Reggie Deas and Lavon Stevens • Salty Dog Cafe: 6-10 p.m., Dave Kemmerly • Skull Creek Boathouse: 6 p.m., Luke Mitchell

THURSDAYS

• Aunt Chilada’s: 6-9 p.m., Nick Poulin, 9 p.m., Poulin Trio • Boardroom: TBD) • Big Bamboo: 6:30 p.m., Souls Harbor • Bomboras Grille: Evans and Davey Masteller • Captain Woody’s HHI: 6-9 p.m., John Bruner • Charbar: 7 p.m., Mike Bagentose • Chow Daddy’s Bluffton: 7-10 p.m. The Local Visitors • Crazy Crab (north end): 6-9 p.m., Mike Wilson • Coast: 5:30-9:30 p.m., Jordan Ross • ELA’s Blu Water Grille: 7-10 p.m., Reid Richmond • Harbourside Burgers & Brews: 6-8 p.m. and 9:30-11 p.m., Pete Carroll • Harbour Town, 8-9:30 p.m., Liberty Oak, Gregg Russell • The Jazz Corner: 8 p.m., Lavon & Louise • Pelican’s Point: 6 p.m., David Wingo • Poseidon: 9 p.m., Roxy Roca (Sept. 17) • Comedy Club of HHI:: 8 p.m., Comedy Club of Hilton Head • Quarterdeck: 5-9 p.m., Mike Kavanaugh • Ruby Lee’s: Target the Band • Seahawk Cultural Center: 7 p.m., Jazz Festival (Sept. 10) • Shelter Cove Harbour: 6-9 p.m., Music & Taste;

• Wild Wing Cafe: TBD • Salty Dog Cafe: 6-10 p.m., Dave Kemmerly • Sonesta Resort: 7-10 p.m., Sara Burns • Skull Creek Boathouse: 6 p.m., Luke Mitchell

FRIDAYS

• Aunt Chilada’s: 7-10 p.m., Harry Santana • Boardroom: TBD • Big Bamboo: 6:30 p.m., The Beagles • Bomboras Grille: Reid Richmond • The Brick Chicken: 9 p.m., Bingo night • Bomboras Grille: Reid Richmond • Charbar: 7 p.m., Tommy Dargan Sims • Chow Daddy’s HHI: 9-midnight, The Local Visitors • Coast: 5:30-9:30 p.m., Sara Burns • Crazy Crab (north end): 6-9 p.m., Nick Poulin • ELA’s Blu Water Grille: 7-10, David Bohn, 7-10 John Wasem • Harbourside Burgers & Brews: 6-8 p.m. and 9:30-11 p.m., Pete Carroll • Harbour Town, 8-9:30 p.m., Liberty Oak, Gregg Russell • Hudson’s: 6-9pm, Bruce Crichton • The Jazz Corner: Daline Jones (Sept. 4), The Notel Freidline Quartet (Sept. 11), The Champian Fulton Quartet (Sept 18), Diane Marino Quartet (Sept. 25) • Old Town Dispensary: 7-10 p.m., Harden & Crenshaw • Pelican’s Point: 6 p.m., Daryl Ingham • Comedy Club of HHI: 8 p.m., Comedy Club of Hilton Head • Quarterdeck: 5-9 p.m., Mike Kavanaugh • Reilley’s South: Simpson Brothers (August 7, 21), Vinyl on Fire (August 14) • Ruby Lee’s: Earl Williams or Deas Guyz

• Salty Dog Cafe: 6-10 p.m., Dave Kemmerly • Seahawk Cultural Center: 7 p.m., Jazz Festival (Sept. 11) • Shelter Cove Towne Centre: 6-9p.m., Time Cadiere and the Washboard Road Band • Up the Creek Pub: 7 p.m., Night Train (Sept. 4) • Skull Creek Boathouse: 6 p.m., Luke Mitchell

SATURDAYS

• Aunt Chilada’s: 1-4 p.m. & 7-10 p.m., Adam Gardner • Boardroom: TBD • Big Bamboo: 6:30 p.m., live bands on deck • Bomboras Grille: Reid Richmond Encore Show • Charbar: 6:30 p.m., Derrick and Sammy • Coast: 5:30-9:30 p.m., local talent night • Crazy Crab (north end): 6-9 p.m., Sean Biggins • ELA’s Blu Grille: 7-10 p.m., John Wasem, 7-10 p.m., David Bohn • Harbourside: 6-8 p.m. and 9:30-11 p.m., Sara Burns • Harbour Town, 7:30-9:30 p.m., The Local Visitors • The Jazz Corner: Daline Jones (Sept. 5), The Notel lFreidline Quartet (Sept. 12), The Champlain Fulton Quartet (Sept. 19), Diane Marino Quartet (Sept. 26) • Comedy Club of HHI:: 8 p.m., Comedy Club of Hilton Head • Quarterdeck: 5-9 p.m., local talent • Reilley’s South: TBD • Ruby Lee’s: Earl Williams or Deas Guyz • Salty Dog Cafe: 6-10 p.m. Bruce Crichton

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A HEAPING HELPING OF LOCAL RESTAURANT NEWS

Pictured from left are J.R. Richardson, Jack McNulty and Lee Lucier.

Local Pie: All fired up

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BY CARRIE HIRSCH | PHOTO BY CHARLES GRACE

in any relationship, you get out of it what you put into it. This is especially true when it comes to thincrust pizza. Local Pie’s chefs Lee Lucier and Jack McNulty and partner J.R. Richardson understand it’s all about the culinary team — and the “double 00” fl our of course.

Translated from the Italian “dopio zero,” the “double 00” refers to the ultrafi ne grind of the wheat fl our, powdery and silky in texture, used to make the

sourdough starter for the restaurant’s pizza dough. The custom pizza ovens, which reach temperatures of 900 degrees or more (affectionately called “the twins”), are designed to make pizzas with thin, crisp crusts.

“Clean, simple, food is what we’re looking to achieve. You can’t really pigeon-hole Neapolitan into a type of pizza; it’s more an art form of Italian passion for food and the process of how the ingredients evolve into an experience,” says McNulty. “We constantly challenge one another to be even better and more creative.”

With Local Pie’s open kitchen, diners can witness the art of hearth cooking from their seats. The ovens are fi red with locally sourced, sustainable wood from cherry, apple, pecan and oak trees and, depending on the number of ingredients on the pizza, the cooking time be as quick as 1 to 3 minutes. Don’t blink, or you might miss it.

“While we’ll have some classics on the menu, we’ll be sourcing our ingredients from regional suppliers throughout the South. Blended with our culinary experiences over the last three decades means we’re sure to come up with something

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new and delicious, like our collard and quail pie,” says Lucier of the new restaurant. The Local Pie team makes its own house-cured meats like duck prosciutto, bacon and sausages, as well as freshwater mozzarella and other ingredients, allowing the restaurant to eliminate the use of GMOs, MSG, high fructose and other ingredients they prefer to exclude.

Using recycled materials and reclaimed woods in the décor lessened the restaurant’s environmental footprint.

“We designed a simple, efficient floor plan utilizing indoor and outdoor space, all to benefit our guests each time they visit,” says Lucier. “And serving wine and cocktails on draft and craft beers in kegs is our way of reducing the volume of glass bottles and aluminum cans. Even the pizza boxes are made of recycled materials.”

Other amenities include large-screen TVs, a sprawling 800-foot deck with a bar and generous bike parking.

A little bit of pizza history to whet the appetite: the port city of Naples — Napoli in Italian — in southern Italy is credited with being the home of pizza. Pizza Margherita, made with tomato, mozzarella, basil and extra-virgin olive oil, was created for Queen Margherita of Savoy in honor of her visit there. Local Pie pays homage to the spirit of Napoli’s pizza legacy and brings an Italian tradition to the Lowcountry with hand-crafted, creative influences of the Southeast. “All together we have an artfully achieved, casual atmosphere where the food is the star. Our goal is to have our guests experience that passion throughout their experience,” says McNulty. “Our goal is for people who know and appreciate food to want to come here.” M

COMING SOON! LOCAL PIE 55 New Orleans Road, #106 Hilton Head Island, SC 29928 www.localpie.com 11:30 am until whenever Open 7 days a week

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ONE HOT

POTATO

It’s no surprise that sweet potatoes are at the top of nearly everyone’s healthiest foods list. One baked, medium-sized sweet potato contains 438 percent of your daily value of vitamin A (a white potato contains 1 percent), 37 percent of your vitamin C, and some calcium, potassium, and iron too. All this at just 105 calories! What’s more, they also deliver 4 grams of dietary fiber — 16 percent of the daily value — and absolutely zip in terms of fat.

Stuffed Red Bell Peppers with Sweet Potato

by Carrie Hirsch

INGREDIENTS (Serves 4)

LIFE IS

SWEET CHEF TIP ON SWEET POTATOES CHRIS JOHNSON | EXECUTIVE CHEF

MICHAEL ANTHONY’S CUCINA ITALIANA Sweet potatoes are packed with healthy goodness. They’re high in vitamins A and C and are a great source of fiber. At Michael Anthony’s, our favorite way to use sweet potatoes is in our homemade Sweet Potato Gnocchi, which we feature in the fall. For best results, cook the potatoes whole as most of the nutrients are next to the skin, and skins are easier to remove after they have been cooked. Pierce skin with fork, place potatoes on a sheet pan and bake in a 375 degree oven for about one hour or until fork-tender. Cool potatoes slightly before removing skins and then use in your favorite recipe.

• 2 medium sweet potatoes • 4 medium red bell peppers • 1 cup orange juice • Zest of 1 orange • 4 tablespoons honey • 4 tablespoons salted butter • Salt and pepper to taste Preheat oven to 400 degrees. Arrange sweet potatoes on a foil-lined, rimmed baking sheet, prick with a fork then roast for 45-55 minutes or until done. Reduce oven temperature to 350 degrees.

Remove skins, then trim off excess fibers or dark spots. Cut off the top of each bell pepper, scrape out core and seeds using a spoon and set aside. Set the tops aside for later use. Cut each sweet potato in half and stuff halves into the cavities of the bell peppers, gently mashing down with the back of a fork. Arrange stuffed peppers, cut side up, in an 8-inch-by-8-inch baking dish to keep them upright while baking.

In a small saucepan, bring orange juice, zest, honey, butter, salt and pepper to a boil, then simmer on low heat, stirring often, for 8-10 minutes. Spoon two-thirds of the orange sauce over the mashed sweet potato in each pepper, then replace the pepper tops.

Cover with foil, then bake for 45 minutes or until peppers are roasted. Once plated, drizzle with remaining orange sauce. Serve warm.

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LOCAL PITMASTERS TO COMPETE IN BARBECUE EVENT Hog Heaven Bar-B-Que has established itself as one of the top barbecue teams in the Lowcountry. Next month, the group of local cooks will introduce its tasty pork offerings to a regional audience.

The team has been invited to compete against other top South Carolina pitmasters in Hogs for the Cause Charleston. The fundraiser is a regional competition linked to the national Hogs for the Cause competition in New Orleans.

The event takes place from 11 a.m. to 9 p.m. Oct. 3 at The Grove at Patriot’s Point. The Hog Heaven Bar-B-Que team will set up Oct. 2 and cook through the night.

“It gives us an excuse to get out, drink beer and play poker all night,” joked Mark “Boss Hog” Vanagel, the unoffi cial leader of the team.

Other team members are Rogers Clifford, Keith Tillman, Larry Setola, Mike Blackshire and Bob Cherichella. Wives Pam Blackshire and Carolyn Vanagel also help out.

The team will cook in stages, with the fi rst batch of barbecue hitting at 11 a.m. when the festival begins. Many other batches will follow to ensure fresh product is always offered. Vanagel expects to cook 300 pounds of Boston butts, 150 pounds of ribs and a healthy amount of Brunswick stew.

The team’s barbecue will be jugged by both professional and amateur judges in categories including best overall plate of barbecue, people’s choice, best sauce and fundraising champion.

Hogs for the Cause raises money to help with expenses facing families whose children are being treated for pediatric brain cancer.

Currently, Hogs for the Cause operates as the premier funding source for pediatric brain cancer outreach services in the United States and has given grants to more than 200 families in just six years. The organization partners with several hospitals nationally, including the Medical University of South Carolina’s Children’s Hospital.

Fundraising is nothing new to Hog Heaven.

The team started cooking back in 2001, through events tied to St. Luke’s Episcopal Church. The team has developed into both a fan and judge favorite at Hilton Head’s annual Kiwanis Club Rib Burnoff & BBQ Fest, a fundraiser benefi tting many local charities.

“This is what we’re all about,” Vanagel said. “We have a good time doing it but the most important part is helping others.”

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BLACK MARLIN FEATURED ON FOOD NETWORK On Aug. 12, Black Marlin Bayside Grill executive chef Chris Carge made a featured appearance on the series premiere of the Food Network TV show “Beach Eats.” The episode showed Carge and the show’s host, Curtis Stone, cooking two of Black Marlin’s specialty dishes and having a blast at the Hurricane Bar, serving up the restaurant’s signature drink, the Hurricane.

To celebrate, Black Marlin hosted a viewing party bash with complimentary Hurricane drinks in autographed souvenir glasses, vintage popcorn bags, string lights and more. While fi lming, Stone had high praise for Carge’s creations, calling the Black Marlin’s shrimp burger “the best shrimp burger I’ve put in my mouth.”

SMOKEHOUSE PLANS PIG ROAST The Smokehouse is kicking off the 2015 NFL football season with a pig roast starting at 11 a.m. Sept. 13. Cheer on your favorite team with 25 TVs, an indoor and outdoor bar and food and drink specials all day. For more information, call 843-842-4227.

SALTY DOG ANNOUNCES FESTIVALS

The Salty Dog Cafe announced four events planned for September. The annual Crab Boil will be from 4 to 8 p.m. Sept. 5, and will feature a variety of crab leg selections, burgers and more. The Craft Beer & BBQ Festival will be from 4 to 8 p.m. Sept. 12. Craft beer selections from around the world will be paired with Lowcountry barbecue. The Salty Dog Lowcountry Boil is 4-8 p.m., Saturday, Sept. 19. The event will offer tradition Lowcountry Boil with fresh shrimp, sausage, corn and potatoes. South Beach Fall Fest is from noon to 4 p.m. on Saturday, Sept. 26. Sample food and enjoy sidewalk shopping and carnival games.

DISPENSARY ADDING NEW RESTAURANT, RAW BAR

ZAXBY’S COMING TO VILLAGE AT WEXFORD The popular fast-food chicken chain restaurant Zaxby’s is moving into the former Wendy’s building at The Village at Wexford. The company operates as a casual dining restaurant, offering prepared-at-order chicken fi ngers, chicken wings, sandwiches, salads, and appetizers. Construction is expected to be completed by the end of the year.

The Old Town Dispensary is planning to expand its operations with a fi ne-dining restaurant called The Depot and a raw bar connected to its popular Bluffton restaurant. Owner Matt Jording said the raw bar will serve steamed crab legs, oysters from the May River and other items. The fi ne-dining restaurant will feature a menu similar to Jording’s popular Hilton Head Island restaurant, The Sage Room.

Jording hopes the expansion will be completed by Christmas.

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OMNI APPOINTS NEW EXECUTIVE CHEF Omni Hilton Head Oceanfront Resort recently named Graham Fontes as its new executive chef. Fontes will oversee the culinary operations for the property’s restaurants, as well as manage all catering and in-room dining endeavors. Fontes comes to Hilton Head from the Omni Richmond Hotel in Virginia, where he worked as executive chef for two years.

LOCAL SUBWAY OWNERS HELP SET WORLD RECORD Local Subway franchise owners John and Karla Remegi recently helped set a Guinness World Record for “most people making sandwiches simultaneously.”

The Remegis were two of 1,481 people making sandwiches at the Venetian Resort Hotel Casino in Las Vegas during Subway’s annual convention. After the record was set, all of the sandwiches were donated to the Salvation Army.

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SIPPIN COW, PEPPER’S OLD TOWN TEAM UP Two Bluffton restaurants — The Sippin Cow and Pepper’s Old Town — have combined into one location. The new eatery is called The Sippin Cow at Pepper’s Old Townand is located at 1255 May River Road. The restaurant is managed and owned by Christy Pinski, Mary Vaux Bell and Jonathan Cherol, with additional management and support from Roberts Vaux.

SIX FOOD TRUCKS SERVICING TANGER 2

There are six food trucks in rotation at the Tanger 2 Outlet Center in Bluffton. The trucks are Downtown Curbside Kitchen, Lowcountry Rocks Lobster, Shrimp Loco, Ragin Cajun, Kaboom Kababos and Crave Cupcakes. Hours are 11 a.m.-2 p.m.

Monday through Thursday and 11 a.m.-5 p.m. Friday through Sunday. Truck hours through Labor Day are posted online at tangeroutlet.com/hiltonhead/events. After Labor Day, the plan is to offer the trucks Wednesday through Sunday.

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Charlie’s L’etoile Verte

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The 32-year-old restaurant is an island landmark for lunch or dinner and has earned national and international accolades. Owner Charlie Golson and his son Palmer write their entire menu by hand each day, based on the freshest local seafood available. The dinner menu offers an array of 14 fresh fi sh, rack of lamb, fi let mignon and more.

8 New Orleans Road, HHI 843-785-9277, www.charliesgreenstar.com

PHOTOS BY ROB KAUFMAN

dininglistings HILTON HEAD north end

Atlanta Bread Company: 45 Pembroke Drive 843-342-2253.  Bella Italia Bistro and Pizza: 95 Mathews Drive in Port Royal Plaza.

843-689-5560.  The Carolina Room: The Westin Resort, Port Royal Plantation. 843-6814000, ext. 7045.  Chart House: 2 Hudson Road. 843342-9066.  Crazy Crab (north): 104 William Hilton Parkway, 843-681-5021, www. thecrazycrab.com.  Fiesta Fresh Mexican Grill (north): 95 Mathews Drive. 843-342-8808.  Frankie Bones: 1301 Main Street.

843-682-4455.  Hudson’s Seafood House On the Docks: Hudson’s employs the largest and one of only two remaining fi shing

fl eets on the island, which brings fresh local seafood straight from the docks to your table.

TRY THIS: Fish N’ Chips; Fat Tire beer batter, malt vinegar, tartar sauce. $18.

1 Hudson Road. 843-681-2772. www. hudsonsonthedocks.com.  Il Carpaccio: If you’re hankering for some authentic Italian cuisine, this island institution is worth fi nding. Pizza is cooked in a hardwood burning oven and everything is made from scratch.

TRY THIS: Vitella Piemonteste; veal scaloppine sauteed with mushrooms and Italian mild sausage in a light cream sauce, $16.95. 200A Museum Street.

843-342-9949. ilcarpaccioofhiltonhead. com.  LagerHead Tavern: 155 High Bluff Road, Hilton Head Plantation. 843-6842184, www.lagerheadtavern.com Main Street Café: 1411 Main Street Village. 843-689-3999.  Mangiamo!: 2000 Main Street. 843682-2444. 

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Breakfast Lunch Dinner Open Late Sunday Brunch

Munchies: 1407 Main St. 843-7853354. 

dressing. $9.99. 95 Mathews Drive.

681-4153. 

New York City Pizza: 45 Pembroke Dr. 843-689-2222. 

Relish Cafe: 33 Offi ce Park Road, Park Plaza. 843-342-4800.

OKKO: 95 Mathews Dr. 843-341-3377. 

Ruby Lee’s: 46 Wild Horse Road.

843-681-7829. 

Old Fort Pub: 65 Skull Creek Drive.

843-681-2386. 

Skull Creek Boathouse: 397 Squire Pope Road. 843-681-3663. 

Outback Steakhouse: 20 Hatton Place. 843-681-4329. 

Starbucks: 430 William Hilton Pkway in Pineland Station, 843-689-6823.

Pan Fresco Ole: 55 Matthews Dr. 843-681-5989. 

Street Meet: 95 Mathews Drive, Port Royal Plaza. 843-842-2570. 

Plantation Café and Deli: 95 Mathews Drive. 843-342-4472. 

Sunset Grille: 43 Jenkins Island Road. 843-689-6744. 

Reilley’s Grill & Bar (north): Serving up delicious steaks, seafood, pasta and sandwiches on Hilton Head Island for over 30 years. With a sophisticated, warm ambiance. Reilley’s is reminiscent of a true Boston pub.

TRY THIS: Reuben; a tradition since 1982. Thinly sliced corned beef served on grilled rye with fresh sauerkraut, Swiss cheese and Thousand Island

TJ’s Take and Bake Pizza: 35 Main Street. 681-2900.  Turtles Beach Bar & Grill: 2 Grasslawn Avenue at the Westin Resort. 843-681-4000.  WiseGuys: 1513 Main Street. 843842-8866.  Yummy House: 2 Southwood Park Drive. 843-681-5888.  September 2015 195

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843: 890 William Hilton Parkway, Fresh Market Shoppes. 686-8843.

LD Alexander’s: 76 Queens Folly Road.

785-4999. LD Alfred’s: European-trained chef Alfred Kettering combines some of the most appealing elements of classic American and Continental cuisine in this tiny Plantation Center hideaway. Grab a seat at the chef’s counter to watch the master at work.

TRY THIS: Roast Rack of Spring Lamb with mashed potatoes and vegetables $34.95. 807 William Hilton Parkway, #1200, in Plantation Center, 341-3117, www.alfredsofhiltonhead.com D Arthur’s Grille: Arthur Hills course, Palmetto Dunes. 785-1191. LD Big Jim’s BBQ, Burgers and Pizza: Robert Trent Jones course, Palmetto Dunes. 785-1165. LD Bistro 17: 17 Harbourside Lane in Shelter Cove. 785-5517. www.bistro-

17hhi.com. LD Bonefish 890 William Hilton Parkway. 341-3772. LD Carrabba’s Italian Grill: 14 Folly Field Drive. 785-5007. LD Café at the Marriott: Oceanside at Hilton Head Marriott Resort & Spa, Palmetto Dunes. 686-8488. BL Coco’s On The Beach: 663 William Hilton Parkway; also located at beach marker 94A. 842-2626. LD CocoNutz Sportz Bar: Open to the public. Imagine your favorite sporting events shown on a 12-foot high definition television you can see from the street plus 18 other TVs tuned in to every sporting event you can imagine. That’s what you will find at CocoNutz, the perfect spot for watching sports. Grab a friend or two and head to CocoNutz for $12 buckets of beer, darts and pool. If you get hungry, there is food too: great apps, burgers, prime rib, incredible smoked bbq and more.

TRY THIS: Prime Rib Sandwich; served with grilled onions or lettuce and tomato. $9.99. Hilton Head Island

Beach and Tennis Resort, 40 Folly Field Road. 842-0043 DO Conroy’s: Hilton Head Marriott Resort & Spa, Palmetto Dunes. 686-8499.

DS Dye’s Gullah Fixin’s: 840 William Hilton Parkway, Atrium Building.

681-8106, www.dyesgullahfixins.com.

LD ELA’s Blu Water Grille: Featured in Bon Appetit and the winner of numerous Open Table awards. Fresh-caught seafood and prime-cut steaks of the highest quality complement the extensive boutique wine selection. ELA’s is known for the best water views on the island. Serving lunch Monday-Friday from 11 a.m.-2 p.m. Dinner nightly starting at 5 p.m., and now offering “Sunday Brunch on the Water” complete with live jazz music every Sunday from 11 a.m.-2 p.m.

TRY THIS: ELA’s Calamari; lightly battered long strips, served with wasabi and red pepper remoulade. $10. 1 Shelter Cove Lane in Shelter Cove Harbour. 785-3030. www.elasgrille. com. LD

Flora’s Italian Cafe: 841 William Hilton Parkway in South Island Square.

842-8200. D French Bakery: The bakery was established in 1998 by the Leon family, and taken over by the Belka family from Poland in 2012.The Belka family lovingly create baked goods for their local Hilton Head and Bluffton neighbors, as well as for tourists.

TRY THIS: Signature Chicken Salad; white meat chicken salad, lettuce, tomato on cranberry-apricot bread. $7.99. 120 Shelter Cove Lane, Shelter Cove Towne Centre. 843-342-5420.

BL Gator’z Pizza: Gator’z is famous for its square pizza — hence the tagline “Pie R Square.” Gator’z also has salads, wings and grinders. Chef Cochise sticks around all fall and winter and lovingly makes his tasty pizzas – just like he’s making it for his own mother.

TRY THIS: Mega Meat Lover’s: A 20-inch by 20-inch monster loaded with pepperoni, sausage, ham and ground beef. $29.99. HHI Beach & Tennis Resort. 842-0004. D

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DINING Giuseppi’s Pizza and Pasta: 32 Shelter Cove Lane in Shelter Cove.

785-4144. LD Harold’s Diner: 641 William Hilton Parkway. 842-9292. BL HH Prime: Omni Hilton Head Oceanfront Resort in Palmetto Dunes.

842-8000. BLDS Island Bagel & Deli: Fresh baked bagels made from scratch, boiled and baked each day. Hoagies, salads, pastries and coffee are also served.

The restaurant was featured in the July 2013 issue of Southern Living magazine.

TRY THIS: Island Omelet; served on the bagel of your choice. Egg, cheese, sausage, green peppers and tomato. $4.50. South Island Square. 686-3353.

BL Jamaica Joe’z Beach Bar: A fun and dynamic Beach Bar with frozen specialty drinks, all day and sunset menus, and an awesome view of the beach as well as the island’s largest pool! Located at Hilton Head Island Beach & Tennis Resort. If you are not a

guest at the Hilton Head Island Beach & Tennis Resort, simply pay $5 for a pass and you will be rewarded with $5 in Jamaica Joe’z bucks.

TRY THIS: House-smoked pulled pork. $6.99. Hilton Head Island Beach & Tennis Resort, 40 Folly Field Road.

842-0044.

La Fontana Grill & Pizzeria: 13 Harbourside Lane, Shelter Cove. 7853300. LDO Lucky Rooster Kitchen + Bar: 841 William Hilton Pkwy, Unit A, South Island Square. 681-3474. www.luckyroosterhhi.com. DO Mediterranean Harbour: 13 Harbourside Lane, Unit B, Shelter Cove Harbour. 842-9991, mediterraneanharbour.com. DO New York City Pizza: 28 Shelter Cove Lane, Suite 119, Shelter Cove Towne Centre. 843-785-4200. LD Old Oyster Factory: With panoramic views overlooking Broad Creek, this Hilton Head landmark was voted one of the country’s “Top 100 Scenic View Restaurants” by OpenTable. It was

also recently recommended in the “Off the Beaten Track” column of The Wall Street Journal. Wine Spectator magazine bestowed its “Award of Excellence” for the restaurant’s wine list and knowledge of wine.

TRY THIS: Potato Crusted Black Grouper served with garlic Parmesan rice and julienned vegetables, finished with a horseradish cream, $24.99. 101 Marshland Road. 843-681-6040. www. oldoysterfactory.com DO Orange Leaf: 38 Shelter Cove Lane, 843-689-5323, orangeleafyogurt. com.

Pazzo: 807 William Hilton Parkway in Plantation Center. 843-842-9463. LD Pelican’s Point Seafood & Steakhouse: Formerly known as Kingfisher Seafood, Pasta & Steakhouse. The Old World Mediterranean décor has been replaced with “contemporary nautical.”

Dana Torres, a Le Cordon Bleu-trained chef has redefined excellence with a new menu including local favorites for seafood, steaks, ribs, crab legs and good ol’ Southern recipes with a

West Coast twist. Torres also runs the restaurant operations. 18 Harbourside Lane in Shelter Cove. 843-785-4442. pelicanpointseafood.com DO Poseidon: 38 Shelter Cove Lane, Shelter Cove Towne Centre. 843-3413838, poseidonhhi.com LDO Ruan Thai Cuisine I: 81 William Hilton Parkway, Hilton Head Island.

843-785-8575. LD Scott’s Fish Market Restaurant and Bar: 17 Harbour Side Lane. 843785-7575. D San Miguel’s: 9 Shelter Cove Lane in Shelter Cove Harbour. 843-842-4555. www.sanmiguels.com. LD Santa Fe Café: 807 William Hilton Parkway in Plantation Center. 843785-3838. LD Sea Grass Grille: 807 William Hilton Parkway. 785-9990. LD Starbucks: 32 Shelter Cove Lane.

843-842-4090 Up the Creek Pub & Grill: Broad Creek Marina, 18 Simmons Road. 843681-3625. LDO

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Cooking demonstrations & classes

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cooking class is typically hands-on, with participants prepping and cooking the recipes with instructions from the chef. A cooking demonstration, on the other hand, typically allows the participants to watch a chef prepare and cook the recipes, then either sample or enjoy a full meal of what was prepared. Many area restaurants offer cooking classes and demonstrations for groups; please be sure to contact the venue for more information.

HogsHead Kitchen and Wine Bar 1555 Fording Island Road Hilton Head Island 843-837-4647, hogsheadkitchen.com

Red Fish (two locations) 8 Archer Road Hilton Head Island 843-686-3399, redfishofhiltonhead.co

Michael Anthony’s Cucina Italiana 37 New Orleans Road (Orleans Plaza) Hilton Head Island 843-785-6272, michael-anthonys.com

32 Bruin Road Bluffton 843-837-8888, redfishofbluffton.co

NEO 326 Moss Creek Village Hilton Head Island 843-837-5111, neohhi.com

Simmons Fish Camp 11 Simmons Road Hilton Head Island 912-604-8210

OMBRA Cucina Rustica The Village at Wexford Hilton Head Island 843-842-5505, ombrahhi.com

Does your restaurant or related business offer cooking demonstrations or cooking classes? If so, please email editor@hiltonheadmonthly.com.

Wayback Burgers: 32 Shelter Cove Lane, Shelter Cove Towne Centre. 843-785-2650, waybackburgers. com.

XO Lounge: Omni Hilton Head Oceanfront Resort in Palmetto Dunes. 843-341-8080.

YoAddiction!: 890 William Hilton Parkway. 843-3413335

HILTON HEAD south end

Amigos Cafe y Cantina: 70 Pope Avenue. 843-7858226. LD Angler’s Beach Market Grill: 2 North Forest Beach Dr., 843-785-3474. LD Annie O’s: 124 Arrow Road. 843-341-2664. LD Asian Bistro: 51 New Orleans Road. 843-686-9888.

LD Aunt Chilada’s Easy Street Cafe: 69 Pope Avenue.

843-785-7700. LD Beach Break Grill: 24 Palmetto Bay Road, Suite F. 843-785-2466. LD Bess’ Delicatessen and Catering: Lunch specials include fresh homemade soups and assorted salads, and the only 100 percent freshly oven-roasted turkey breast on the island. Bess’ features Boar’s Head meats and cheeses.

TRY THIS: Soap’s Delight; freshly baked turkey breast, cranberry mayo, bacon, Swiss and lettuce on wheat. $7.50. 55 New Orleans Road, Fountain Center. 843785-5504. www.bessdeli.com. BL Big Bamboo Cafe: After expanding its outside deck, owners of The Big Bamboo Café decided to upgrade their menu, focusing on fresh seafood items. Many fried items have been replaced with healthier grilled options, such as chargrilled chicken tacos.

TRY THIS: Bikini Wrap; hummus, cucumbers, tomatoes, peppers, feta and viagrette, served with blue cheese coleslaw, $8.50. 1 North Forest Beach Drive, Coligny Plaza. 686-3443, www.bigbamboocafe.com.

LDO Black Marlin Bayside Grill and Hurricane Bar: 86 Helmsman Way in Palmetto Bay Marina. 843-7854950. LDS Bomboras Grille: An award-winning restaurant and bar, located steps away from the beach. Offering fresh and local Lowcountry ingredients paired with craft beers and wine. Bomboras Grille is open for lunch and dinner. A kids menu is available. The locals call them the BOMB. TRY THIS: The “Bomb” Kobe Beef Sliders: Two Kobe beef burgers on Lowcountry-made Brioche buns with American cheese, South Carolina tomato and topped with cornichons. Served with three house dipping sauces. $10. 101 A/B Pope Avenue, Coligny Plaza. 843689-2662 LDO

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DINING Bayley’s: 130 Shipyard Drive. Sonesta Resort. 843-842-2400. BD British Open Pub: 1000 William Hilton Parkway D3 in the Village at Wexford. 843-686-6736. LDO Bullies BBQ: 3 Regents Pkwy. 843686-7427. LD Callahan’s Sports Bar & Grill: 49 New Orleans Road. 843-686-7665.

LDO Captain Woody’s: Many restaurants claim to be a favorite of locals.

Speaking as locals, one of our favorites is Captain Woody’s. Owners Shannon and Russell Anderson made a good thing even better with their new location at 6 Target Road. Woody’s now offers more seating, an expanded menu and an attractive outdoor patio with an attached bar.

TRY THIS: Grouper Melt, fried and topped with sauteed onions, mushrooms and melted cheese. Served open faced on a kaiser roll with homemade chips, $13.99. 6 Target Road.

843-785-2400. www.captainwoodys. com. LDO Carolina Crab Company: 86 Helmsman Way, Palmetto Bay Marina.

843-842-2016 LD Casey’s Sports Bar and Grille: 37 New Orleans Road. 843-785-2255.

LDO Catch 22: 37 New Orleans Plaza. 843785-6261. D Charbar Co.: Executive chef Charles Pejeau’s burger creations have made this a local favorite, serving awardwinning gourmet burgers, sandwiches, salads and more.

TRY THIS: Champ Burger; signature beef blend on toasted brioche with sharp cheddar cheese, bacon marmalade, dijon mustard and dill pickles. $10. 33 Office Park Rd., Suite 213.

Park Plaza, 843-85-CHAR (2427).

Charlie’s L’etoile Verte: A great place for a power lunch or a romantic dinner. Owner Charlie Golson and his son Palmer write their entire menu by hand each day, based on the freshest local seafood available. The dinner menu offers an array of 14 fresh fish, rack of lamb, filet mignon and more.

TRY THIS: Local Cobia grilled with mango vinaigrette, $29. 8 New Orleans Road. 843-785-9277. www.charliesgreenstar.com.D

Chow Daddy’s: Located in the old Dry Dock building on Executive Park Road, using local, organic ingredients with meals prepared to order. Featuring salad bowls, sandwiches, tacos, hot bowls, platters and other snacks. The daily happy hour is 4-6 p.m.

TRY THIS: Pork tacos; sriracha aioli, arugula, avocado and peppadew pepper sauce. $8.50. 14B Executive Park Road, Hilton Head Island, 843-842CHOW, chowdaddys.com.

Coast: Sea Pines Beach Club. 8421888 LD Coligny Deli & Grill: Coligny Plaza.

843-785-4440. LD Corks Neighborhood Wine Bar: 11 Palmetto Bay Road. 843-671-7783.

LD Cowboy Brazilian Steakhouse: 1000 William Hilton Pkwy, Unit B6, The Village at Wexford. 843-715-3565, cowboybraziliansteakhouse.com.

CQ’s: 140A Lighthouse Lane.

843-671-2779. LD Crane’s Tavern and Steakhouse: 26 New Orleans Road. 843-341-2333.

D Crazy Crab (Harbour Town): 149 Lighthouse Road. 843-363-2722. LD DelisheeeYo: 32 Palmetto Bay Road in the Village Exchange. 843-7853633. www.delisheeeyo.com.

Daniel’s Restaurant and Lounge: 2 North Forest Beach Drive. 843-3419379. www.danielshhi.com. LD Dough Boys Pizza: 1-B New Orleans Road. 843-686-2697. doughboyshhi. com. LD DryDock: 21 Office Park Road. 843842-9775.LDO Earle of Sandwich Pub: 1 North Forest Beach Drive in Coligny Plaza.

843-785-7767. LD Electric Piano: 33 Office Park Road.

843-785-5399. O Fat Baby’s: 1034 William Hilton Parkway. 843-842-4200. LD Fiesta Fresh Mexican Grill: 51 New Orleans Road. 843-785-4788. LD FlatBread Grill: 2 North Forest Beach Drive, 843-341-2225, flatbreadgrillhhi com.

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DINING French Kiss Bakery: Coligny Plaza, 1 North Forest Beach Drive. 843-6875471. BL

HUGO. LD

Frozen Moo: Coligny Plaza, 1 North Forest Beach Drive. 843-842-3131

Java Burrito Company: 1000 William Hilton Pkwy. 843-842-5282.

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Frosty Frog Cafe: 1 North Forest Beach in Coligny Plaza. 843-686-3764.

LDO Gringo’s Diner: E-5, Coligny Plaza.

843-785-5400.

Gruby’s New York Deli: 890 William Hilton Parkway in the Fresh Market Shoppes. 843-842-9111. BL Harbourside Burgers and Brews: Harbour Town, Sea Pines Resort, 843842-1444, www.seapines.com. LD Harbour Town Bakery and Cafe: Harbour Town, Sea Pines. 843-3632021. BL Heyward’s: 130 Shipyard Drive.

Sonesta Resort. 843-842-2400. BD Hilton Head Diner: 6 Marina Side Drive. 843-686-2400. BLDO Hilton Head Brewing Company: 7C Greenwood Drive (Reilley’s Plaza), Hilton Head Plaza. 843-785-3900. www.hhbrewingco.com.LD Hilton Head Ice Cream: 55 New Orleans Road, #114. 843-852-6333.

Hinchey’s Chicago Bar and Grill: Circle Center, Pope Avenue. 843-6865959. LDO Hinoki of Kurama: 37 New Orleans Road. 843-785-9800. LD Holy Tequila: Holy Tequila offers a harmonizing blend of Mexican street food with new American flavors. Its inviting space features an open kitchen, an indoor/outdoor open air seating area, a large tequila bar and a private tasting room. The menu features a wide variety of gourmet tacos, quesadillas, salads and smalls plates, all priced under $11; and a fully stocked bar with more than 40 premium tequilas, handcrafted specialty cocktails, Mexican beers and spanish inspired wines.

TRY THIS: Asian Shrimp Taco; Crispy shrimp topped with a house soy aioli, cotija cheese, pickled onions and cabbage, cilantro and sriracha on a fresh corn tortilla. $3.95. 33 Office Park Rd., Suite 228. 843-681-8226. LD Hugo’s Seafood & Steakhouse: 841 William Hilton Parkway. 843-785-

It’s Greek To Me: 11 Lagoon Road in Coligny Plaza. 843-842-4033. LDO

Java Joe’s: 101 Pope Avenue in Coligny Plaza. 843-686- 5282.

BLDO Jazz Corner: Village at Wexford. 843842-8620. DO Jump and Phil’s Bar and Grill: 7 Greenwood Drive, Suite 3B. 843-7859070. LDO Kenny B’s French Quarter Cafe: 70 Pope Avenue in Circle Center. 843785-3315. BLDS Jersey Mike’s: 11 Palmetto Bay Rd., Island Crossing. 843-341-6800.

Kurama Japanese Steak and Seafood House: 9 Palmetto Bay Road. 843-785-4955. D La Hacienda: 11 Palmetto Bay Road.

843-842-4982. LD Land’s End Tavern: South Beach Marina, Sea Pines. 843-671-5456.

BLD Links, An American Grill: Harbour Town Golf Links Clubhouse, Sea Pines.

843-363-8380, linksamericangrill.com Live Oak: 100 North Sea Pines Drive, 843-842-1441, liveoaklowcountrycuisine.com Local Pie: Only the highest quality, regionally sourced ingredients go into these wood-fired, house-made pies. A local business, with local staff and local suppliers.

TRY THIS: The Gump Pie; shrimp, scallop sausage, calamari, roast tomato, goat cheese and arugula. 843-8427437, info@localpie.com A Lowcountry Backyard: 32 Palmetto Bay Road at The Village Exchange. 843-785-9273. BLD Lodge Beer and Growler Bar: 7B Greenwood Drive, Hilton Head Plaza.

843-842-8966. DO Mellow Mushroom: The place where Hilton Head’s pizza lovers and beer lovers gather. Outstanding pies made with spring water dough, prepared fresh every day. The ‘Shroom is also a great spot for hoagies, calzones,

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salads. A large bar and numerous flat screen TVs make it a popular spot for watching sporting events.

TRY THIS: The Mad Italian pizza; oil and garlic base topped with salami, roasted red peppers, onions, ham, mozzarella and pepperoncini, $24.95 (large). 33 Office Park Road in Park Plaza. 843686-2474. www.mellowmushroom. com. LDO Mi Tierra (Hilton Head): 130 Arrow Rd. 843-342-3409. LD Market Street Cafe: 12 Coligny Plaza. 843-686-4976. LD Marley’s Island Grille: 35 Office Park Road in Park Plaza. 843-6865800. DO Michael Anthony’s: 37 New Orleans Road. 843-785-6272, michael-anthonys.com.

New York City Pizza: 81 Pope Avenue. 843-842-2227. LD Nick’s Steak & Seafood: 9 Park Lane. 843-686-2920. D OMBRA Cucina Rustica: Popular local chef Michael Cirafesi and distinguished Philadelphia chef Nunzio Patruno have teamed up to open this upscale Italian restaurant in the Village at Wexford. Many dishes were created hundreds of years ago, passed down from generation to generation. All desserts, pastas and breads are made daily using natural and fresh ingredients imported from Italy.

TRY THIS: Carpaccio di Manzo; thinly sliced raw “Piemontese” beef, arugula, olive oil and shaved Parmigiano, $14.

Village at Wexford. 843-842-5505. www. ombrahhi.com. D

Pomodori: 1 New Orleans Road. 843686-3100. D The Porch: Beach House hotel. One South Forest Beach Drive. 843-7855126. BLD Porter & Pig: Quality beer, proprietary cocktails and select wines with accompanying charcuterie, cheeses and share plates.

TRY THIS: The Gourmet; Gruyere, Boursin and Gouda with roasted tomato aioli, smoked thick bacon and fresh basil. 1000 William Hilton Parkway, The Village at Wexford. 843-715-3224. www.porter-pig.com D Quarterdeck: 149 Lighthouse Road, Harbour Town, Sea Pines. 843-8421999. LDO Red Fish: Upscale dining at its finest.

Head chef Chaun Bescos takes advantage of his close relationship with local growers and farmers markets, tailoring Red Fish’s menu around which foods are in season. The result is an eclectic blend of seafood, steaks, fresh fruit and local vegetables.

TRY THIS: Lowcountry Shrimp and Grits; served with Keegan Filion Farms chorizo gravy and fried okra over a bed of sauteed kale, $24. 8 Archer Road.

843-686-3388. redfishofhiltonhead com. LD

One Hot Mama’s: 7 Greenwood Drive, Hilton Head Plaza. 843-6826262. LDSO

Reilley’s Grill & Bar (south): Serving up delicious steaks, seafood, pasta and sandwiches on Hilton Head Island for over 30 years. With a sophisticated warm ambiance. Reilley’s is reminiscent of a true Boston pub.

TRY THIS: Reuben; a tradition since 1982. Thinly sliced corned beef served on grilled rye with fresh sauerkraut, swiss cheese and Thousand Island dressing. $9.99. 7D Greenwood Drive.

842-4414. LDO

Palmetto Bay Sunrise Café: 86 Helmsman Way in Palmetto Bay Marina. 843-686-3232. BL

Rita’s Italian Ice: 1 North Forest Beach Drive, Coligny Plaza. 843-6862596, ritasice.com.

Philly’s Café and Deli: 102 Fountain Center, New Orleans Road.

843-785-9966. L

Salty Dog Cafe: One of Hilton Head’s favorite outdoor cafes for more than 20 years. Fresh seafood. Located at South Beach Marina, overlooking Braddock Cove. Both indoor and outdoor seating are available. Live music and children’s entertainment nightly during the season.

TRY THIS: Crab Cake Dinner; two freshly prepared Chesapeake-style lump crab cakes with homemade

Pino Gelato: 1000 William Hilton Parkway, Village at Wexford. 843-8422822.

Plantation Café and Deli (south): 81 Pope Avenue in Heritage Plaza.

843-785-9020. BL

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DINING remoulade sauce. Served with Captain’s Au Gratin potatoes and fresh vegetables, $22.99. South Beach Marina Village, Sea Pines Resort. 843-671-7327. www.saltydog. com. LD

Tiki Hut: 1 South Forest Beach Drive at the Beach House. 843-785-5126.

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Sage Room: 81 Pope Ave., Heritage Plaza. 843-785-5352. D

Trattoria Divina: 33 Office Park Rd. 843-686-4442. D

Sea Shack: 6 Executive Park Drive.

843-785-2464. LD

Truffles Cafe (Sea Pines): Fresh local seafood, Black Angus steaks, baby back ribs, homemade soups and garden salads.

TRY THIS: Chicken Pot Pie; tender breast meat, carrots, mushrooms, sweet bell peppers and white wine cream sauce covered with a puff pastry. $12.95. 843-671-6136. 71 Lighthouse Road. Sea Pines Center. trufflescafe com LD

Signals Lounge: 130 Shipyard Drive, Sonesta Resort. 843-842-2400.

Signe’s Bakery & Cafe: 93 Arrow Road. 843-785-9118. BLS Skillets Café: Coligny Plaza. 843785-3131. BLD The Smokehouse: Serving up its famous, award-winning barbecue on the island since 1999. The Smokehouse offers a diverse lunch and dinner menu, including many specialties, such as barbecue, ribs, wings and chili.

TRY THIS: Smokehouse Plate; a smokey foursome of pulled pork, beef brisket, smoked chicken and baby back ribs. $19. 34 Palmetto Bay Road. 842-4227.

BLDO Smuthiland: 11 Palmetto Bay Road in Island Crossing shopping center.

843-842-9808.

Southern Coney & Breakfast: 70 Pope Avenue in Circle Center. 843689-2447. BL Spirit of Harbour Town: 843-843363-9026. www.vagabondcruise.com.

Stack’s Pancakes of Hilton Head: 2 Regency Parkway. 843-341-3347.

BLD Starbucks (south): 11 Palmetto Bay Road. 843-341-5477 Steamers: 28 Coligny Plaza. 843-7852070. LD

Topside Waterfront Restaurant: Harbour Town, Sea Pines. 843-8421999. D

Urban Vegan: 86 Helmsman Way, Palmetto Bay Marina. 843-671-3474.

LD Vari Asian Seafood and Sushi Buffet: 840 William Hilton Pkwy. 843785-9000. LD Vine: 1 North Forest Beach Drive in Coligny Plaza. 843-686-3900. LD Watusi: A place for breakfast, lunch and coffee. The cafe’s interior mirros a warm, cozy living room where families and friends can gather and enjoy food in a casual home-style setting. TRY THIS: The Pope Avenue; roasted red peppers, sundried tomato, goat cheese, provolone, tomato and balsamic vinaigrette on a fresh house baked french baguette. $11.95. 71 Pope Ave. 843-686-5200. www.islandwatusi.com. BL Which Wich?: 70 Pope Ave., Suite 13. 843-715-9424, whichwich.com Wild Wing Café: 72 Pope Ave. 843785-9464. LDO

Stellini:15 Executive Park Road. 843785-7006. D

Wine and Cheese If You Please: 24 Palmetto Bay Road, Ste. G. 843842-1200.

Stu’s Surfside: 1 North Forest Beach Drive, Coligny Plaza. 843-686-7873.

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Wreck of the Salty Dog: South Beach Marina Village, Sea Pines. 843671-7327. D

The Studio: 20 Executive Park Road.

843-785-6000. D

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Sunset Slush: 81 Pope Avenue, 843785-7851.

Agave Side Bar: 13 State of Miind St., 843-757-9190. LD

Sweet Carolina Cupcakes: 1 N. Forest Beach Drive. 843-342-2611.

Amigos Belfair (Bluffton): 133

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Towne Drive. 843-815-8226. LD Backwater Bill’s: 20 Hampton Lake Drive. 843-875-5253. LDO Bluffton BBQ: 11 State of Mind St. 843-757-7427, blufftonbbq.com. LD Bluffton Family Seafood House: 27 Dr. Mellichamp Drive. 843-7574010. LD The Bluffton Room: 15 Promenade St., 843-757-3525, www.theblufftonroom.com D The Brick Chicken: 1011 Fording Island Road in the Best Buy Shopping Center. 843-836-5040. LDO The British Open Pub: 1 Sherington Drive, Suite G, 843-815-6736. LDO Buffalos Restaurant: 476 Mount Pelia Road inside Palmetto Bluff. 843706-6500. LD Burnin’ Down South: 198 Okatie Village Drive, Suite 108. 843-7052453. LD Butcher’s Market and Deli: 102 Buckwalter Parkway, Suite 3-G. 843815-6328. BLD Cahill’s Market & Chicken Kitchen: 1055 May River Road. 843757-2921. LD

The daily happy hour is 4-6 p.m.

TRY THIS: Pork tacos; sriracha aioli, arugula, avocado and peppadew pepper sauce. $8.50. 15 Towne Drive, Belfair Towne Village, 843-842-CHOW, chowdaddys.com.

Claude & Uli’s Bistro: 1533 Fording Island Road. 843-837-3336. LD Coconuts Bar & Grille: 39 Persimmon St. 843-757-0602. DO Corks Neighborhood Wine Bar: 1297 May River Road. 843-815-5168.

DO Corner Perk Cafe: 1297 May River Road, Old Town. 843-816-5674, cornerperk.com. BL The Cottage Cafe, Bakery and Tea Room: 38 Calhoun St. 843-757-0508. www.thecottagebluffton.com. BL Dolce Vita: 163 Bluffton Rd. Unit F. 843-815-6900, veritasbluffton.com. D Dough Punchers Bakery: 1536 Fording Island Road, Unit 104. 843837-1177 BL Downtown Deli: 27 Dr. Mellichamp Drive. 843-815-5005. BL El Super Internacional: 33 Sherington Dr. 843-815-8113. LD Firehouse Subs: 32 Malphrus Rd., #109. 843-815-7827. LD

Captain Woody’s: Many restaurants claim to be a favorite of locals. Speaking as locals, one of our favorites is Captain Woody’s.

TRY THIS: Grouper Melt, fried and topped with sauteed onions, mushrooms and melted cheese. Served open faced on a kaiser roll with homemade chips, $13.99. 17 State of Mind St. in the Calhoun Street Promenade. 843-7576222. www.captainwoodys.com. LDO

Hana Sushi and Japanese Fusion: 1534 Fording Island Road. 843-8373388. hanasushifusion.com LD

The Carolina Tavern: 5 Godfrey Place. 843-757-9464. thecarolinatavern.com LD

Hinchey’s Chicago Bar & Grill: 104 Buckwalter Place, Suite 1A. 843-8365909. LD

Cheeburger Cheeburger: 108 Buckwalter Parkway. 843-837-2433.

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HogsHead Kitchen and Wine Bar: 1555 Fording Island Rd. 843-837-4647.

Chipotle: Tanger I Outlet Center. 843836-2442, chipotle.com. LD Choo Choo BBQ Xpress: 129 Burnt Church Road. 843-815-7675. LDO Chow Daddy’s: This new restaurant is using local, organic ingredients with meals prepared to order. The menu features salad bowls, sandwiches, tacos, hot bowls, platters and other snacks.

Fiesta Fresh Mexican Grill: 876 Fording Island Road (Hwy. 278), Suite 1. 843-706-7280. LD Giuseppi’s Pizza and Pasta: 25 Bluffton Road. 843-815-9200. LD

Honeybaked Ham: 1060 Fording Island Road. 843-815-7388. BLD The Infield 9 Promenade St., Suite 1201-2, 843-757-2999. LD Island Bagel & Deli: Sheridan Park.

843-815-5300. BL Jameson’s Charhouse: 671 Cypress Hills Drive, Sun City. 843-705-8200.

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DINING Jim ‘N Nick’s Bar-B-Q: 872 Fording Island Road. 843-706-9741. LD Katie O’Donnell’s: 1008 Fording Island Road (Kittie’s Crossing). 843815-5555. LDO Kelly’s Tavern: 11B Buckingham Plantation Drive. 843-837-3353.

BLDO Kobe Japanese Restaurant: 30 Plantation Park Drive. 843-757-6688.

LD Longhorn: Inside Tanger I. 843-7057001. LD Los Jalapeno’s Mexican Grill: The Bridge Center. 843-837-2333. LD Lowcountry Flower Girls: Berkeley Place. 843-837-2253.

May River Grill: 1263 May River Road. 843-757-5755. LD Mellow Mushroom: The place where Bluffton’s pizza lovers and beer lovers gather. Outstanding pies made with spring water dough, prepared fresh every day. The ‘Shroom is also a great spot for hoagies, calzones, salads. A large bar and numerous flat-screen TVs make it a popular spot for watching sporting events.

TRY THIS: The Mad Italian pizza; oil and garlic base topped with salami, roasted red peppers, onions, ham, mozzarella and pepperoncini, $24.95 (large). 872 Fording Island Rd. 843-706-0800. www.mellowmushroom.com. LDO Midnight Baker: 14 Promenade St. 843-815-5355. LB Mi Tierra: 27 Dr. Mellichamp Drive.

843-757-7200. LD Mi Tierrita: 214 Okatie Village Drive.

843-705-0925. LD Moon Mi Pizza: 15 State of Mind Street. 843-757-7007. LD

Orobello’s Bistro & Pizzeria: 103 Buckwalter Place, Unit 108. 843-8375637, www.orobellosbluffton.com.

LDO Outback Steakhouse: 100 Buckwalter Place. 843-757-9888. LD Panda Chinese Restaurant: 25 Bluffton Road. 843-815-6790. LD Pino Gelato Gourmet Cafe: A European-style coffeehouse that offers freshly orated coffee and high-end treats. High-quality desserts, sandwiches, flatbreads and more. No items have preservatives.

TRY THIS: Gourmet Sandwich; French salad, eggs, ham, salami and pickles. $7.95. 1536 Fording Island Road (Bridge Center), Bluffton, 843-8372633, pinogelatogourmetcafe.com.

BLD Plantation Cafe & Deli: 1532 Fording Island Road. 843-815-4445.

Pour Richard’s: 4376 Bluffton Parkway. 843-757-1999. DO The Pub at Old Carolina: 91 Old Carolina Road. 843-757-6844. D R Bar: 70 Pennington Drive. 843-7577264. LD Red Fish: Upscale dining at its finest.

Head chef Chaun Bescos takes advantage of his close relationship with local growers and farmers markets, tailoring Red Fish’s menu around foods in season.

TRY THIS: Lowcountry Shrimp and Grits; served with Keegan Filion Farms chorizo gravy and fried okra over a bed of sauteed kale, $24. 32 Bruin Road, 843-837-8888. LD Red Stripes Caribbean Cuisine and Lounge: 8 Pin Oak Street. 843757-8111. LDO

Moe’s Southwest Grill: 3 Malphrus Road. 843-837-8722. LD

River House Restaurant: 476 Mount Pelia Road in Palmetto Bluff.

843-706-6500. LD

Mulberry Street Trattoria: 1476 Fording Island Road. 843-837-2426.

LDS

Ruan Thai Cuisine II: 26 Towne Drive, Belfair Town Village. 843-7579479. LD

Napoli Bistro Pizzeria & Wine Bar: 68 Bluffton Road, 843-706-9999. LD

Saigon Cafe: 1304 Fording Island Road. 843-837-1800. BLD

NEO: 326 Moss Creek Village. 843837-5111. LD

Sake House: G1017 Fording Island Road Ste 105. 843-706-9222. LD

Old Town Dispensary: 15 Captains Cove. 843-837-1893. LDO

Sigler’s Rotisserie: 12 Sheridan Park Circle. 843-815-5030. D

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Sippin’ Cow at Peppers Old Town: 1255 May River Road. 843-757-5051.

BL Southern Barrel Brewing Co.: 375 Buckwalter Place Blvd., 843-837-2337, southernbarrelbrewingco.com Squat N’ Gobble: 1231 May River Road. 843-757-4242. BLD Stooges Cafe: 25 Sherington Drive.

843-706-6178. BL Truffles Cafe: Fresh local seafood, Black Angus steaks, baby back ribs, homemade soups and garden salads.

TRY THIS: Chicken Pot Pie; tender breast meat, carrots, mushrooms, sweet bell peppers and white wine cream sauce covered with a puff pastry. 91 Towne Drive Belfair Towne Village. 843-815-5551. trufflescafe com. LD

Vineyard 55: 55 Calhoun St. 843757-9463. D Walnuts Café: 70 Pennington Drive in Sheridan Park. 843-815-2877.

BLS Wild Wing Café (Bluffton): 1188 Fording Island Road. 843-837-9453.

LD Zepplin’s Bar & Grill: Inside Station 300. 25 Innovation Drive. 843-8152695. LDO Zoes Kitchen: Tanger I Outlet Center.

843-837-5410. LD

DAUFUSKIE ISLAND Eagle’s Nest: 56 Fuskie Lane, Bloody Point, 843-341-5522.

Marshside Mama’s Cafe: 15 Haig Point Road on County Landing. 843785-4755. LD M

Wine tastings Does your restaurant or shop offer wine tastings?

If so, please email editor@hiltonheadmonthly.com.

Bomboras Grille 101 Pope Ave. (Coligny Plaza) Hilton Head Island 843-689-2662, bomborasgrille.com Carolina Tasting Room Coligny Plaza Shopping Center 1 North Forest Beach Hilton Head Island, 843-842-6050 Corks Neighborhood Wine Bar (two locations) Island Crossing Center 11 Palmetto Bay Road Hilton Head Island 843-715-9198, corkshiltonhead.com Calhoun Street Promenade 14 Promenade Street Bluffton, 843-815-5168 corkswinecobluffton.com Island Spirits & Wine Festival Centre at Indigo Park 45 Pembroke Drive Hilton Head Island, 843-689-9333 Island Winery 12A Cardinal Road Hilton Head Island, 843-785-3066 islandwinery.com

Reilley’s Wine & Spirits (two locations) 2 New Orleans Road Hilton Head Island, 843-785-3339 reilleyswineandspirits.com Main Street Village 1105 Main St. Hilton Head Island, 843-681-5778 reilleyswineandspirits.com Rollers Wine & Spirits (three locations) Port Royal Plaza 95 Mathews Drive Hilton Head Island, 843-681-8454 Coligny Plaza, 6 Lagoon Road Hilton Head Island, 843-785-3614 rollerswineandspirits.com 24 Palmetto Bay Road, Suite G Hilton Head Island, 843-785-1200 rollerswineandspirits.com Wine & Cheese, If You Please Island Crossing, 24 Palmetto Bay Road Hilton Head Island, 843-842-1200 wineandcheeseifyouplease.com

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DINING

BEST PLAYS

ONGAMEDAY GAMEDAY

LOCAL RESTAURANT SPECIALS FOR FOOTBALL SEASON IT’S FOOTBALL SEASON! Many local sports bars and restaurants are full of people watching football on Saturdays, Sundays, Mondays and sometimes Thursdays. Here are a few places where you can score a great deal on food and drinks while watching your favorite team play.

COCONUTZ SPORTZ BAR 843-842-0043 Chopped pork shoulder $9.99 BBQ ribs $21.99 (full) $15.99 (half) BBQ chicken (whole) $13.99

BOMBORAS GRILLE 843-689-2662 Before each Bengals game: Tailgating party. All-you-caneat Lowcountry boil and beer bucket specials. Fundraising for the Kenny Anderson Foundation. Game raffl e and much, much more!

Who Dey!

CHARBAR CO. 843-785-2427 $5 Jameson Whisky $10 Beer Buckets $15 Craft Beer Pitchers $20 Signature Cocktail Pitchers $2.5 New GameDay Bar Snack Menu 1-10ft Big Screen, 10 Flat Screens, Outdoor FirePit

UP THE CREEK PUB & GRILL 843-681-3625 Domestic buckets with free homemade salsa and warm chips $13 Import buckets with free homemade salsa and warm chips $18

CAPTAIN WOODY’S 843-785-2400 (Hilton Head) 843-757-6222 (Bluffton) Kentucky Beer Cheese, served with pretzels $5.99 $2 Domestic bottle beer $3 Liquor drinks

MELLOW MUSHROOM 843-686-2474 (Hilton Head) 843-706-0800 (Bluffton) Kickoff Party! 9/13 at 12pm.

Many game day food & drink specials and giveaways all season long!

STREET MEET

HOLY TEQUILA 843-681-8226 $5 Patron Tequila $10 Beer Buckets $15 Mexican Beer Pitchers $20 Signature Cocktail Pitchers $2.5 New GameDay Bar Snack Menu 1 Big Screen, 5 Flat screens, Outdoor Patio

TRUFFLES CAFE 843-671-6136 (Sea Pines) 843-815-5551 (Bluffton) Domestic lagers $2 Select craft beers $4

THE SMOKEHOUSE 843-842-4227 NFL Kickoff Pig Roast!

Join us on 9/13 at 11am.

Loads of game time specials all season long!

843-842-2570 $3 Bloody Mary $6 PBR Pitcher Weekly specials throughout the entire season!

*Gameday specials are subject to change. Contact the restaurant to ensure these specials and prices are valid.

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BLUFFTON

A1 Spirits Bills Fine Wine & Spirits

IT’S YOUR CHOICE

Belfair Wine & Spirits Lowcountry Liquors Big Jim’s Wine & Spirits Okatie Spirits

HILTON HEAD

Brelands Wholesale Liquors Rollers Wine & Spirits Sea Pines Liquors Park Plaza Liquors Island Liquors Island Spirits Wine & Spirits LBL Reilley’s Wine & Spirits

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LAST CALL

OF ALL PLACES ON EARTH

why Hilton Head?

The flight that changed our destiny:

Swissair flight 204 ZRH – ATL August 10. 1987 MARC FREY mfrey@freymedia.com

there is a balance between civilization and nature, overwhelming natural beauty that surrounds you everywhere

SOUND OFF Please send your comments to mfrey@freymedia.com.

I would like to get your feedback on this idea.

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the summer of 1987 our workload did not allow us to make any vacation plans in advance. So when my wife and I found a 10-day window in our schedule we had to make up our minds quickly.

Swissair just started a new daily flight from Zurich to Atlanta.

Discovering a new part of the USA sounded interesting. The next day we boarded the plane and crossed the Atlantic. Upon arrival we picked up our rental car and drove down to the coast.

A friend told us we should visit Hilton Head Island, so we made a reservation at a hotel on the beach. How are we going to find the hotel my wife asked? Don’t worry, there will be a big red neon sign…

When we arrived, it was not only night but also dark. No bright signs leading the way and 28 years ago there were no smart phones. After stopping three times and asking for directions, we eventually found the hotel. The first two days were spent on the beach and enjoying the resort amenities. But then it started to rain and did not stop.

We picked up every magazine and started to develop a feel for the place. “Why don’t we take a real estate tour,?” I asked. It seemed a good way to discover the different private plantations and see how people live here.

The next day, an elegant lady picked us up in her sedan, ready

to show us the island.

The second home we saw was a darling three bedroom home in Port Royal overlooking a lagoon with sunsets. A young couple had re-decorated it, and even the bed spreads and window curtains matched the colors of the interior — a novelty from a European perspective. Long story short, we ended up signing the offer on our last vacation day before flying back (it was still raining).

What made us choose Hilton Head versus any other place on earth? There was a distinctively romantic side to the decision, namely the feeling that there is a balance between civilization and nature, overwhelming natural beauty that surrounds you everywhere and that the beach is always within biking distance.

There was also a pure rational side: the fact that we could buy a free standing home on ¾ of an acre for the equivalent of a 1-bedroom apartment in Switzerland.

Four years later we moved here permanently, raised a family and started our own publishing company from scratch.

Reflecting back on a quarter of a century of living and working in the Lowcountry, it still feels like it was a good decision.

The inconvenience of living in a small place can be made up with “reverse tourism” (we travel for business and big city fixes)

and once back home nothing replaces the quality of life we enjoy on a daily basis. There are very few places where you can play tennis in the morning, then go for an afternoon sail and hear the symphony at night all on the same Sunday.

People know you by name and personal or business advice is straightforward and forthcoming. If you need something, you simply ask around and before you know it, you are connected to the right person. The constant wave of interesting people that just moved here gives me the opportunity to meet new faces and expand my own horizons.

If you like crowds, I recommend Manhattan. It’s also an island and about the same geographic size, but it is inhabited by 1.6 million residents and hosts 30 times more visitors than we do. Having traveled to four continents, 30 countries and crisscrossed the USA, I can say that living in the Lowcountry nestled in between historic Savannah and Charleston is special.

When the world at times seems to spin out of control our community feels grounded and able to preserve a sense of normal better than most places do; it is a sanctuary that allows me to focus and find my inner voice and where I can connect to nature every day. That is what I like about this place. M Homewards!

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