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Lowcountry Literacy 18 What can we do?

South Coast Cyber Center Internet security comes home

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August 19 – September 1, 2020 Publisher: Jeff Evans — Jeff@LCWeekly.com Editor: Margaret Evans — Editor@LCWeekly.com Staff Writer: Mindy Lucas — Mindy@LCWeekly.com Editor at Large: Mark Shaffer — BackyardTourist@gmail.com Sales & Marketing Director: Amanda Hanna — 843-343-8483 or Amanda@LCWeekly.com Digital Marketing & PR Director: Kim Sullivan — 803-606-1530 or kim.theislandnews@gmail.com Advertising Sales: Betty Davis — 843-252-9076 or Betty.IslandNews@Gmail.com Art Director: Lydia Inglett Layout & Design: Amalgamated Sprinkle Works Contributing Writers: Will Balk Jr., Vivian Bikulege, Katherine Tandy Brown, Ryan Copeland, Debbi Covington, Sandra Educate, Susan Murphy, David Murray, Terry Rice. Laura Lee Rose, Sutty Suddeth, and Donald Wright What’s Happening Calendar: Staff – Editor@LCWeekly.com Letters to the Editor, comments or suggestions can be addressed to: Lowcountry Weekly 106 West Street Extension, Beaufort, SC 29902 Call: 843-986-9059 or Email: editor@lcweekly.com Lowcountry Weekly is published every other Wednesday and distributed throughout Beaufort County at various restaurants, retail locations, hotels and visitor ’s centers. The entire contents of Lowcountry Weekly is copyrighted 2020 by P. Podd Press, LLC. No part may be reproduced without permission from the publisher.

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Weird Science & Other Conspiracies

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on’t expect too much from this column.

We’re preparing to move our only child into her freshman dorm at Clemson this weekend, and I’m a little distracted.

I’m writing on Friday morning, before Amelia’s Sunday move-in date. I hope by the time you read this she’ll be happily ensconced, but at the moment, I’m not entirely convinced. It’s the second move-in date we’ve been given in a month, and I keep expecting it’ll be postponed – again – any minute now.

Also, we’re still awaiting the results of the Covid test she took Monday; without an official “negative,” she can’t move in. Turns out the “3-5 days” our testing site touted actually meant “3-5 business days” – and they don’t start counting ‘til the day after you take the test – so we may not make it. I received word from Clemson yesterday that she’ll have to take another Covid test on her move-in day. The results could take 48 hours, but if she’s got her first negative, they’ll allow her to move in. Otherwise, we’re SOL, as the kids say. It’s all very confusing.

I’m not even sure why this “double negative” is so crucial, considering Clemson already has hundreds of Covid cases, thanks to all the off-campus students who moved into their apartments a month ago – despite classes being online only – and proceeded to socialize, as young folk will.

But what do I know? I’m just another beleaguered American mom trying to navigate this unfamiliar territory . . . trying to “listen to the experts” and “follow the science.”

It’s an especially daunting task since there are so many “experts” and so much “science” and they don’t always agree. Every little aspect of this pandemic has been politicized beyond a sane person’s ability to see straight.

Yesterday morning, I stumbled across a sassy Facebook meme asking the rhetorical question: “Why are mask wearers still complaining about non mask wearers 6 months later? Shouldn’t the non mask wearers all be dead by now?” The meme had been posted by a popular area fitness and wellness specialist. It was followed by a long thread of adoring comments, all from like-minded anti-maskers who seemed to find it the wittiest zinger they’d ever encountered.

I tend to have an almost allergic reaction to group think, especially when it’s based on faulty logic. So, reader, I did something very foolish. I responded.

“I'm not one to ‘complain’ about non mask-wearers,” I wrote in a comment box, “but since the mask is mainly for protecting others – not yourself – your logic doesn't follow. Those of you who refuse to wear masks are being protected by the much larger number of us who are wearing them. There are now plenty of studies showing that mask wearing works to slow the spread. Here's one from our own neck of the woods.”

I attached an article summarizing a recent DHEC analysis of South Carolina cities with (and without) mask mandates. From that article: “When analysts compared areas with mask requirements with those that don’t have an ordinance in the place, the jurisdictions with mask mandates have shown a 46.3% greater decrease in the total number of cases during the four weeks after the requirements were implemented . . . During that same time frame, the numbers show that places without mask requirements have experienced a 30.4% increase in coronavirus cases.”

Well, reader, this did exchange not turn out well for yours truly. As of this morning, the laughing emojis are still coming, along with the comments either mocking me or insulting me with creative names I’ve never heard before. (“F*** Wit” was a new one on me.) I was accused of posting “propaganda” (from DHEC?), called a “fear monger,” and assured – by the wellness guru, himself – that masks are “unhealthy in every way possible – mentally, emotionally, physically, etc.” He also told me that “the whole Covid spread is a problem, reaction, solution.

Create the problem (Covid), get the reaction, provide the solution. The ‘solution’ being the vaccine, which was already pre-planned. They force the masks and then say you can stop wearing the mask once you get the vaccine. This is all in line with the NWO, agenda 21.”

Let me remind you that this conversation took place on the FB page of a fitness/wellness professional – someone many consider an expert, a follower of science. From what I can tell, he’s just one of millions of Americans who no longer trust our established institutions – in particular, the government, the media, and the pharmaceutical industry – and have embraced what you might call “alternative narratives.”

This group I fell in with yesterday believes that the Covid 19 pandemic is merely a disguise for some nefarious, top-secret global plot. The details are vague – nobody seems quite sure who’s behind the plot – but apparently Bill Gates is involved . . . and Big Pharma . . . and a bunch of high-powered Hollywood pedophiles. Sounds crazy, right?

An insane conspiracy theory?

But consider another meme I came across yesterday, which read: “The real ‘conspiracy theorists’ believe that the government cares about them and the media would never mislead or lie to them and the pharmaceutical industry that makes billions off sickness and disease wants to cure them.”

Margaret Evans

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Dude has a point. As off-the-rails as some Americans are sounding these days, it’s certainly not hard to understand how they got there. Every day, it seems, comes a new revelation to chip away at our trust in authority.

Just last week, thanks to a new book by Bob Woodward, we learned that the president intentionally minimized the seriousness of the coronavirus threat from the get-go, leading many to speculate that tens of thousands of lives have been needlessly lost.

A story that got far less attention, but by my lights is extremely significant, is the one about some recently released taped conversations from 2016 between former Trump lawyer Michael Cohen and CNN president Jeff Zucker.

Independent journalist Matt Taibbi writes: “The conversations between Zucker and Cohen go a long way toward explaining how Donald Trump became president. We see clearly how Zucker, famed now as a supposed stalwart force of anti-Trumpism, actually encouraged him during the 2016 campaign, to the point where he offered Trump help on how to succeed in a CNN-sponsored debate . . . CNN these days plays face to Trump’s heel, and vice versa, because that’s where the money is in this era of WWE politics and hate-for-profit media.”

People sometimes ask me why I spend so many column inches venting about the media instead of Donald Trump. My answer isn’t really that complicated. First, I believe there are more than enough Trump critics out there.

It’s like shooting fish in a barrel and it just doesn’t interest me. Second, as a member of the media, I feel a responsibility to police my own ranks. Last, but definitely not least, I strongly believe that fixating on Trump while ignoring media corruption – and media bias and flat-out media dishonesty – is like treating a symptom while ignoring the disease. This country has a disease, and I’m not talking about Covid 19. The corporate media are a big part of what ails us.

We may well be rid of Trump by 2021 – and God willing, maybe even Covid 19 – but this disease is not going away. Not anytime soon.

Margaret Evans is the editor of Lowcountry Weekly (www.lcweekly.com) and blogs at www.memargaret.com

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Where Did the Time Go? Cause time is the worst kind of friend Always there till you need it, then gone in the end Oh but love is stronger that it, love is stronger than it.

– Georgica Pond Johnnyswim

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ver Labor Day Weekend, I spent a morning living in my past.

Inside of two boxes, I uncovered birthday and anniversary cards, pictures and love letters, job offers and old pay stubs, and the temporary tag from my first car, a Chevrolet Monza. I read words written by my parents forty years ago. Take care of yourself. Be happy.

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years is a slow slog through dusty memory.

Papers, tossed into a box in Chicago in 2004, saw the light of day again after fermenting under the compression of heat and time.

Sorting through the debris of extinct positions I once held in acquired companies begged the question most of us ask ourselves if we’ve been blessed with years; where did the time go?

Recently, I’ve been praying to let go – let go of stuff, let go of control, let go of judgement.

As a Catholic, I have the opportunity to take my sins, shortcomings, and character flaws to confession and I did, all in an effort to receive grace to transform and change. As I sifted through postcards and photographs, evidence of a life long journey lay strewn on the garage floor. I made careful decisions on what I kept, respectful of my age, and understanding that releasing the weight of time was a gift in self-compassion.

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lyrics, the mournful yet hopeful way it informs that the ones we’ve loved most are our lighthouses in this life. To keep their spirits alive, we, in turn, are lighthouses to the lost, to those in danger, and in the darkness of our world. As a coastal community, it is a metaphor many of us understand.

When I stop looking backwards, the present moment and tomorrow illuminate. I’ll be back, but not until I take a deep breath of mountain air, exhale in the Blue Ridge, and feel a new kind of chill – call it hope or a promise. I trust that this Lowcountry will always be my lighthouse, beckoning me home to rest at the end of my life. Until then, I don’t intend to focus on where the time goes. I will honor what I leave behind with my determination to live this rare and singular life.

Vivian Bikulege shares her life with Mac & Trooper. Along with writing, her passions include faith, family, friends and the natural world. She holds an MFA from Queens University of Charlotte and has contributed to Lowcountry Weekly for fifteen years.

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Of all the gifts the Lowcountry has given to me, my beagle Toby was its absolute conveyance of love. The stray was hit by a car between B Wilson Road and Promise Lane on St. Helena Island. Dr. Mark mended the dog’s hip, broken in two places. On our walks, Toby’s whole rear end, scarred but healed, would wag with joy in a crooked run ahead of me down the sandy path to our neighborhood dock. In 2018, from the familiarity of my backyard, Dr. Doug helped me gently usher Toby to heaven. I do not understand the how’s and why’s of this life, but Toby helped me recognize God doing for me what I cannot do for myself.

The day my mother died, I went to the beach to watch the sun set and the moon rise.

It was February. It was cold. I picked up a stone mottled with holes. It signified new vacancies in my life and I kept it as a remembrance of loss. On Labor Day, as I crossed the Harbor Island swing bridge over slate gray water and cordgrass turning gold in its sway toward autumn, I left with empty hands. I fought every compulsion to pick up a sea shell to commemorate this new grief. Instead, I want to quit taking, holding on, and collecting.

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Lea, my goddaughter, sent it to me in a text after my mother died. It is powerful in so many ways – the melody, the

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Writers, Far and Wide – Here’s a chance to get paid for writing! Sea Island Spirit Writers’ critique group is again sponsoring a short story contest open to all writers 18 years old and up. The phrase “torn scraps of paper . . . ” must appear in your story of 750 words or less. Your story could net you $100 for first place, $50 for second place, or $25 for third, and publication in Lowcountry Weekly.

THE RULES ARE SIMPLE: • Entry fee is $10 per story. Only one entry per person please.

• All entries must include your name, address, email address and phone contact.

• Entries must be received by Friday, September 25th.

• Entries cannot have been previously published. We want new, fresh fiction.

• Digital entries only please. Submit to editor@lcweekly.com by email with “Short Story Contest” in the subject line.

• Payment may be made either by check or credit card. To pay by credit card, call Lowcountry Weekly at 843-522-0418. To pay by check, make checks out to “Lowcountry Weekly”, with “Short Story Contest” in the memo line. Mail to Lowcountry Weekly, 106 West Street Extension, Beaufort SC 29902.

• Winners will be published in the October 14th issue of Lowcountry Weekly.

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South Coast Cyber Center B

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Making the Internet a safer place from right here in Beaufort

y now, most of us have seen the frightening video or heard the news stories.

A hacker hacks a family’s security camera and scares their young daughter in the privacy of her own bedroom. s Russian hackers break into a company that rprovides technology services to nursing homes sacross the country. They hold the company’s odata hostage and demand millions in return. r And here in South Carolina, malicious rmalware, sent to the S.C. Department of Revenue in the form of an email attachment, -causes the largest data breach against a state egovernment agency in the history of the fcountry. d The 2012 theft of personal data belonging ato millions of residents becomes a cautionary ltale for businesses and governing bodies eeverywhere and causes South Carolina to toverhaul its own computer security practices. l While these real-life examples might -seem like the most extreme of scenarios, they actually aren’t the worst that could happen when computer systems aren’t protected.

But thanks to a new initiative called the South Coast Cyber Center underway right here in Beaufort, residents in the Lowcountry hmay soon play a vital role in helping to -combat these same sorts of attacks and -disruptions. . As Beaufort City Councilman Stephen Murray explains, the demand for cybersecurity services is so great, between the government, the private sector, universities and the military, it’s become an “all hands on deck” situation.

“We’ve got some (United States) generals who have said cybersecurity is the largest threat to our national security and defense,” said Murray, who also serves as the group’s vice chairman.

What’s more, the demand for those trained in this unique field of computer technology is outstripping the supply of skilled workers.

Currently an estimated 300,000 to half-amillion job openings the field of cybersecurity are going unfilled, which is why Murray, along with retired United States Marine Col. Warren Parker, who www.coastal-sc-Callawassie-homesite.com, are interested in helping to build a h u b d e d i c a t e d t o d eve l o p i n g a cybersecurity workforce right here in the Lowcountry. Parker helped spearhead the

initiative after he and others like Murray In addition, entry level cybersecurity realized Beaufort had many built-in elements jobs pay on average $70,000, according to that made it an ideal environment for various online job sites, another attractive cybersecurity training and education. piece of the economic development pie.

Members of the South Coast Cyber Center’s Advisory Board met with S.C. Gov. Henry McMaster, staff from the S.C. Adjunct General’s Office and other legislators earlier this year to discuss support for cybersecurity programs and training in Beaufort.

“Beaufort has universities, the Digital Corridor, exiting military, a significant military presence already, a great quality of life to attract people here,” Murray said. “If you put all those ingredients together, we have the makings of a cybersecurity ecosystem.”

It also aligns with the city’s strategic goals to diversify the economy, Murray said, or at least have it be less dependent on the seasonal aspects of tourism.

A hub devoted to cybersecurity could offer job opportunities to “home-grown” graduates and exiting members of the military, which would mean Beaufort could keep and attract families and professionals to stay and invest in its economy.

In 2019, approximately 2,100 trained members of the military left Parris Island, the Naval Hospital and the Marine Corps Air Station, for example.

“Many of them are invested here, have bought houses here, their kids are in school, their spouses are working in the community,” Murray said.

Still, only a fraction stay, often because Beaufort does not have the career opportunities they seek, he added.

To get the initiative off the ground, Murray and Parker brought various stakeholders together to discuss the possibilities.

Representatives from the City of Beaufort, Town of Port Royal, the University of South Carolina Beaufort, Technical College of the Lowcountry (TCL), the Beaufort Digital Corridor, the Beaufort County Economic Development Corporation and various members of the military and the private sector all met last summer to begin hammering out a plan and identify goals.

For starters, both USCB and TCL are working toward achieving the Centers of Academic Excellence in Cyber Defense designation.

A joint program sponsored by the National Security Agency and the Department of Homeland Security, a CAE designation means the United States government has essentially given its endorsement to a school’s program.

It takes a few years to work through the accreditation but both schools are in the process of applying and launching their own cybersecurity programs toward that end. At TCL, students will be able to earn an associate’s degree, and at USCB a bachelor’s degree in the field.

In fact, USCB launched its cybersecurity program just this semester and has hired a new professor to lead that program. The university plans to hire a second, but the coronavirus pandemic has delayed those plans, Murray said.

In addition, the group is working with the Beaufort County School District to introduce the basics of cybersecurity to middle and high school students there.

“Because cybersecurity training needs to happen earlier than college,” Murray said.

Members of the group are also bending the ear of those who control education funding in the state.

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Rise of Cyber Attacks Cyber attacks in America have been on the rise over the last few years, security experts say, and now that a large portion of the country ’s workforce is working from home due to the coronavirus pandemic the situation has only gotten worse.

In fact, one industry association group called the increased risk to company networks a “once-in-a-lifetime opportunity for hackers and online scammers,” a recent report from CNBC noted.

The same group, or the Information Systems Security Association (ISSA), reported in late 2019 that 2.8 million professionals work in cybersecurity jobs globally, but the industry needs another 4 million trained workers in order to close the skills gap and properly defend organizations. That includes about half a million workers needed in the U.S. to meet that demand.

Interested in learning more about the field of Cybersecurity and how you can protect your own household from a cyber attack? Visit www.ready.gov/ cybersecurity.

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Earworms I f you are worried by the title that I’m here to talk about those vile creatures Khan put in poor Pavel Chekov’s ear in Star Trek II: The Wrath of Khan, put your mind at ease. They are totally in another dimension along with eugenically enhanced humans. Everyone knows that. I’ve seen that Star Trek movie countless times since its 1982 release. Some things bear repetition.

No, I’m talking about those things that get in our head, for better or worse, and we can’t seem to shake them.

We desire to be free of want’s routine embrace, but how and why? First, let’s start with you telling me what you want, what you really, really want. Hint: It’s something we already have because we came from there and go back there. Let’s Spice things up and say that you feel out of touch and out of time, because you didn’t have your Oates this morning or you got a dear John letter last night. All you want is for your baby to come back and stop, in the name of love, being a Player. I reference romantic love here as that is what so often comes to mind first when we speak of LOVE. Is not nearly the entire music industry built on such songs?

Let’s posit this question: What if we hold our pointy rose quartz and let love use us?

(After I wrote the previous sentence, I received an elegant water bottle with a huge rose quartz mounted in its base. Thank you,

Upstate birthday crew.) What if we become the instrument of love? After all, Huey, not Louie and Dewey, said, “The power of love will keep you home at night.” To which you respond, “I want you to want me. I NEED YOU TO NEED ME.” I rebut, “That’s a Cheap Trick.

I’m only asking you to observe the wanter.”

What do I mean by “observe the wanter”? All that wanter screams—all that wanter carelessly whispers is, “Don’t You, Forget About Me.” You know I usually tie everything into some simple mind trick and wham, you’ve got it all figured out. Achtung Baby! When you pay attention to the wanter within, no matter what the wanter wants, great or small, it’s a dawning of a new day in terms of meditation and healing. Huge opportunities to let love in on the reg. It’s often the small increments that add up anyway, isn’t it? At what point do we see the strings to the puppets?

I say the line gets drawn here, in the blurriest of places. Can I get a woo hoo? After all, the devil actually did go down to Georgia to say the devil is in the details. Notice the little things that get wanted. You want an extra cookie? Okay. You want a part time lover? You want to be a victim of love? Or you can Fly Like an Eagle and take an extra little breath every time you want something.

One thing to keep in mind: No matter what, keep saying, “I’m Happy to be Stuck on You,” to

yourself. Not in a conceited way. I can’t conceive that most would want Carly to declare, “You’re So Vain.” Don’t give away the things you love for the things you think INXS. That’s only a new sensation that quickly fades to black as we approach the Dark Side of the Moon.

Something to consider – something to believe in, we don’t require lessons so much as we require reminders. We’re all Masters in our own way. You’re not effed up if you forget to observe that wanter. Seductive is she.

Always serenading, “One of these nights.”

Somehow, it’s always the night after you have crossed some arbitrary finish line. Always just beyond the horizon. When you see reflections of the way life used to be, be of Supreme confidence that you’ll want that wanter alongside of you as a companion rather than foe. Why? The wanter wants the battle, it wants you to believe love is a battlefield. No, you’ve got it down, Pat. Observe and allow. I said allow, not indulge.

Well, sometimes we have to indulge. For instance, I indulge myself by believing that Roger Moore was the best James Bond, 007 to ever swill a shaken martini. I hear you; I really do. You don’t have to remind me he was 57 and older than his leading lady’s mother when Duran Duran drew a bead on a View To A Kill with their Walther PPKS, 9mm, short. I finally had to face facts after Daniel Craig’s Skyfall.

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“M” had the death scene tear-jerker moment of all twenty-four films to date – surrounded by the most complete Bond movie evaaar. I still got what I wanted there by splitting hairs.

Sure, why not? You know it’s good when at nearly 2.5 hours, in duration, you’d like another two hours of Bond girls and Q gadgets. Octopussy, on the other hand . . .

Sometimes we want what we want.

Hey now. Hey now. Don’t dream it’s over because you have a Crowded House of wants.

It’s only a deluge in a paper cup if you allow it to be. That’s what meditation is all about.

Noticing every little breath you take. Start with marinating on the ever expansive “What if.” “What if I noticed what hungry eyes I have?” No one is watching but your private eyes, so it’s not a competition. Meditation is easy when your attitude is, “It’s all rock and roll to me. Whew!”

Chris (Sutty) Suddeth was born in Greenville and has lived his whole life in South Carolina. A graduate of USC, Sutty lives with his wife and daughter on Fripp Island, where he is a full-time Mr. Mom with his own holistic health business. He’s been a practicing Reiki Master and emotional energetic healing specialist since 2010. He uses his passion and proficiency with energy work to inform his writing. Visit www.soulshinerefinery.com for more info.

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Penny Healy’s Flowers & Seascapes

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rom Alabama’s Camellia to Wyoming’s InHer work has been displayed at the Christ pano Beach Club in Bermuda and the Junior dian Paintbrush, Penny Healy is showing Church Art Gallery in Charlotte NC, the Pom- League of Boston 45th Anniversary Show her love for her country one state flower at a time. The local artist captured all 50 state flowers and seascapes for her upcoming art exhibit, “USA From Sea to Shining Sea,” at The Society of Bluffton Artists (SOBA) gallery.

The exhibit will run Oct. 4-30 with an opening reception from 3-5 p.m. Sunday, Oct. 11 at the gallery, located in Old Town Bluffton.

Masks will be required, along with other social distancing best practices. The SOBA gallery limits to 6 people at a time in the gallery. Refreshments and networking will be available on the gallery’s porch.

Healy has a strong background in the creative arts. One of her pieces will be showcased at the National Association of Women Artists (NAWA) Juried Show, “Earth to Sky,” from Sept. 1-25 at the Art League of Hilton Head gallery, located inside Arts Center of Coastal Carolina at 14 Shelter Cove Lane.

House, The Nathaniel Allen House in West Newton, MA. Healy painted on and off for decades before painting full-time. She holds a bachelor’s in science degree in Design from the Rochester Institute of Technology. She also studied at Richmond College in London, England.

Healy is originally from Massachusetts, where she enjoyed painting a variety of New England subjects along with inspiration from her travels abroad. Her paintings span a broad range of styles, from oil street scenes of Boston and New York to colorful acrylic abstracts.

In addition to being a member of SOBA, she’s also a member of the Art League of Hilton Head and NAWA in New York, Boston and South Carolina.

Please visit www.sobagallery.com for a complete calendar of events and other information or call 843-757-6586.

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HHSO Announces 2020-2021 Season Changes

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he Hilton Head Symphony Orchestra has announced changes to the first part of its 2020-2021 Season concert schedule.

“We at the Hilton Head Symphony Orchestra have been monitoring the evolution of the COVID-19 pandemic throughout the summer, and continue to stay in contact with musicians, performance venues, nearby regional orchestras (with whom we share players), and others to figure out how to proceed with our 2020-2021 season,” stated HHSO President and CEO Alan Jordan. “We are now at a point where decisions must be made regarding the coming months.”

Out of caution for the safety of its performers, audience, and staff: • The planned outdoor pops concerts in Bluffton and on Hilton Head Island in late October have been cancelled, as both the Arts and Seafood Festival and Celebration Park grand opening events have been cancelled.

The Orchestra hopes to be part of 2021 activities scheduled by both partner organizations.

• The Orchestra Series concerts in October and November 2020 are being rescheduled for May 2021. Details with venues and performers are still being worked out and the HHSO will announce the rescheduled dates soon by e-mail and on its website.

• The HHSO is hoping that its Holiday Pops concerts will be able to be presented in some fashion and is working to see what will be safely possible in early December.

• There are current no re-start plans in place yet for in-person performances at SoundWaves, the intimate performance space in Coligny. The weekly Monday SoundWaves Streaming Live concerts—that include, mostly, live performances but, also, an occasional reprise of past HHSO and HHIPC presentations—will continue for the foreseeable future.

Single tickets for all HHSO 2020-2021 season performances will go on sale at a later date.

Patrons and members of the public and media are encouraged to refer to the HHSO’s website, www.hhso.org, for the most up-todate information.

Should further developments require additional changes to the season plans, the HHSO will make every effort to keep patrons and the general public informed of these changes.

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100 Women Who Care, Making a Difference

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ne woman can make a difference.

Women together can make a huge difference. In 2006, 100 Women Who Care began as the brainchild of a Michigan woman who thought that the easiest way to raise the $10,000 needed for a local charity was to ask 100 women to donate $100.00 each. And it was.

From this early beginning, there are now over 300 chapters of 100 Women Who Care throughout the United States. The Beaufort Chapter was organized in 2009 by Jeneane Ryan, who had recently moved to the Lowcountry from Illinois. Through her efforts, over 100 women attended the first meeting. The concept is simple. Meetings are held quarterly, and local charities are invited to be nominated to receive that quarter’s donation. After the charities’ presentation requests, members vote and select the winner. Each member writes a check for $100.00 to the winning charity. The 100 Women Who Care organization doesn’t even have bank account, so 100% of the funds collected go directly to the winning charity.

This quarter’s winning charity was The Extra Mile Club, a youth organization dedicated to promote academics, leadership, discipline, self-esteem and sportsmanship in a safe, healthy and enjoyable environment.

Over $12,000.00 was presented to the founders, Chris and Gaynelle Danzler, at an event in the Pavilion at Waterfront Park on September 2nd.

Does the power of 100 women have an impact? With this presentation, 100 Women Who Care in Beaufort has raised over $303,000.00 for local charities.

When 100 women donate $100 at the same time, the group accomplishes collectively what few can accomplish on their own— making a donation that can enable a charity to complete a project or attain a goal that had been out of reach. That’s real impact. No volunteering, no telemarketing, no event planning, no silent auction donations to solicit. It’s simply a great way to give back in the community! For information about becoming a member, visit www.100wwcbeaufort.org.

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hree Beaufort County School District students were announced today as finalists in the National Merit Scholarship Program.

Caleb Henry is a senior at Beaufort High, Dillon Watkins is a senior at Bluffton High and Grace Frederick graduated a year early from Bluffton High. The students will compete with other national semifinalists for 7,600 college scholarships worth more than $31 million.

“These are all outstanding students, and we wish them well as they move forward in this prestigious national scholarship competition,” said Superintendent Frank Rodriguez.

“We’re very proud of them.”

More than 1.5 million high school students from about 21,000 American high schools entered the 2021 National Merit Scholarship Program by taking the Preliminary SAT/National Merit Scholarship Qualifying Test. About 16,000 semifinalists were announced today.

To become a finalist in the next stage of the national competition, each semifinalist and his or her high school must submit a detailed application that provides information about the student’s academic record, partici-

pation in school and community activities, demonstrated leadership abilities, employment and honors and awards received. In addition, each semifinalist must have an outstanding academic record throughout high school, be endorsed and recommended by a high school official and write an essay.

Three types of National Merit Scholarships will be offered in the spring of 2021.

Each finalist will compete for one of 2,500 National Merit Scholarships that will be awarded on a state-representational basis. About 1,000 corporate-sponsored Merit Scholarship awards will be provided by approximately 220 corporations and business organizations for finalists who meet their specified criteria. In addition, about 180 colleges and universities are expected to finance college-sponsored Merit Scholarship awards for finalists who attend the sponsor institution.

The National Merit Scholarship Corp. is a nonprofit established in 1955, and its scholarships are underwritten by NMSC with its own funds and more than 400 businesses and higher education institutions.

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When You Need More Faith When I was in my 20s, I got really sick. Our neighbor, a doctor, overheard my coughing and told my husband I should be in the hospital. My worried husband wanted to take me to the emergency room if I wasn’t better by morning.

I’d had other healings through prayer before, so all that long night I prayed. But I felt afraid and doubtful.

My faith in everything that I believed felt sorely tested. I was no better as the sun came up, and I felt ready to throw in the towel. My faith didn’t seem enough, because I’d given this prayer thing all I’d got.

But then, I asked myself, “Have I really?” A quick inventory of my thoughts from the previous night showed that very few had been on the side of God’s love and care; most had been on the side of fear and doubt.

Right then I apologized to God for giving up, then added this P.S.: “But, God, there’s one thing I’ll

never give up on – that (Ephesians 2:8). This You are Love. That, I’m A CHRISTIAN SCIENCE means we all must have sure of.” faith, even if we havPERSPECTIVE Well, with that, it en’t discovered it yet, was as if the floodgates because it’s God-given. opened. Starting with that one tiny thing I had And this steadfast trust has unlimited potential to faith in, suddenly all the proofs I’d had of God’s lift us up and move us forward, because it’s sourced loving care poured into my thoughts. In minutes, in the infinite God. “If you have faith as small as a all the fear and doubt were gone. My fever was mustard seed,” Jesus told his disciples, “you can say also gone. I felt filled with God’s love for me. I was to this mulberry tree, ‘Be uprooted and planted in able to get up, speak without coughing, and make the sea,’ and it will obey you” (Luke 17:6). breakfast for my family. And in a couple of days I “God is Love” was my mustard seed. It started was totally well. small, but it came to my rescue when my faith was I’ve learned in Christian Science that God is the tested. And it has continued to, in more instances origin of everything good, and we are created to than I can count. reflect all of God’s goodness and love. We don’t Your mustard seed may be different, but it’s there, generate it ourselves. So even what appeared to be because it’s a gift God has given you that can never “my” faith was really God’s faithfulness to me that I be taken away. And through God’s love you’ll find was reflecting right back to Him. it – and it will grow.

I learned more about this from my study of the Bible, where it says of faith: “It is the gift of God” – By Judith Hardy Olson

For more information about Christian Science and our church services in Beaufort, contact us at www.BeaufortChristianScience.org or visit the Christian Science website at www.ChristianScience.com. To see more Perspectives on a variety of subjects visit www.csmonitor.com/Commentary/A-Christian-Science-Perspective.

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Bluffton Artisan Markets Open this Fall

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, he Bluffton Artisan Market is an openair shopping event with live music that features local makers from 1-6 p.m. Saturdays September 19, October 3, Octoh ber 17 and November 14 in the Southern aBarrel parking lot in

newsletter, special events, and wholesaling representation. The organization’s goal is to provide opportunities for local makers to help their brands succeed whatever each maker’s goals may be.

Buckwalter Plaza in Bluff-ton. A two-day Christmas .market will take place -from 11 a.m. to 6 p.m. Nov. d27-28. Sponsors are Sea 0Smiles Pediatric Dentistpry and 7th and Palm.

0 “We are excited to rgear up for the fall series nof the Bluffton Artisan sMarket! It’s a wonderful dopportunity to support -local makers and engage

with the creative commuanity,” said Katie Silva, -founder of Lowcountry nMade, the organization dsponsoring the events.

“We insist that everyone vendors and attendees wear masks and practice other social distancing best practices.”

Lowcountry Made is a promotional organization that represents a collective of Lowcountry artists, artisans, and “The open air markets provide an opentrepreneurs creating in the Lowcountry. portunity for families to get out of the house They promote their “shop small” agenda and feel a part of their community again in with an online directory, maker to shopper a safe way,” Silva said.

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raftHiltonHead2020, Art League’s 7th National Juried Fine Art Craft Exhibition, will showcase 2- and 3-dimensional fine art craft that encompass exemplary creativity, experimentation and imagination. 82 artists from 23 states will be represented, with cash awards totaling over $3,000.

“This exhibit only occurs once every two years. You won’t want to miss it,” says Kristen McIntosh, Art League General Manager. “This is a juried show, so the quality of the pieces is exceptional. We are very fortunate to be able to showcase such talent from all over the country right here on Hilton Head.”

The judging will be done by Jennifer McEwen, Director of Cultural Affairs for the Town of Hilton Head. McEwen has extensive experience in the private and non-profit arts administration sectors. She has held executive and managerial positions at theatre companies in Atlanta and New Orleans, and she’s a member of the Leadership South Carolina Class of 2020. She took part in the National Arts Strategies’ 2016-2017 Chief Executive Program, an international group of arts leaders working to advance the field. In 2016 she was named in Georgia Trend’s 40 Under 40 list. She currently serves on the Americans for the Arts Private Sector Advisory Council.

This exclusive presentation of a wide variety of imaginative crafts will be on display and for sale October 6-31, 2020. A virtual awards reception will be held Wednesday, October 7, 5-6pm via Facebook Live.

Art League Gallery is dedicated to providing as safe an environment as possible. To that end, Art League is following all CDC and Town of Hilton Head guidelines, including available masks for patrons and mandatory masks for all employees, contactless and cashless service, frequent sanitization of the gallery, and a limit of 10 visitors in the gallery at any one time.

Art League Gallery is located mid-island inside Arts Center of Coastal Carolina, 14 Shelter Cove Lane, Hilton Head Island, 843-681-5060.

Azure Mbola, Hand Blown Glass, Sandblasted and Wheelcut – by Carrie Santiagoe

Argalia,mixed media sculptural mosaic on animal skull – by Kate Hanley

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Living in the Material World, fiber art – by Janice Larson

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ooler fall weather is coming and I'm party planning. I'm hoping that we'll soon be able to take advantage of a cool and breezy Lady's Island evening to invite a few of our friends over for a grilled salad supper out on the deck. I already have really fun and yummy recipes in mind. The Blooming Pizza Bread is a great appetizer. I suggest serving it with a sharp bread knife, so that your guests can enjoy the bottom of the bread.

That's where all of the flavor from the butter and herbs ends up. The Southwestern Grilled Chicken Salad is quick and easy. Serve it with bottled ranch dressing and/or taco sauce. Grill the corn on the cob while you grill the chicken and then trim it from the cobs for the salad.

Canned or frozen corn kernels will work just as well. The Grilled Steak Salad takes a bit of time to prepare, but only because of the marinade. It's worth it. Your London Broil will be juicy and tender. I hope you'll have an opportunity to entertain soon. Even during an pandemic, life goes on. Happy Grilling!

BLOOMING PIZZA BREAD 1 unsliced loaf of Italian bread ½ pound mild Italian sausage 25 slices of pepperoni 2 cups shredded mozzarella cheese ½ teaspoon dried oregano ¼ teaspoon crushed red pepper flakes 1 tablespoon parmesan cheese

½ cup butter, melted 1 (.60-ounce) package Italian salad dressing mix Pizza sauce, for dipping Brown sausage in a medium skillet. Drain well and crumble; set aside. Prepare a baking pan by lining it with aluminum foil. Preheat oven to 350 degrees. Carefully slice bread in long slices, taking care not to go all the way through. Turn the bread 90 degrees and cut the slices in the opposite direction, again leaving the bottom connected. (Day old bread is easier to cut.) Tuck the sausage, pepperoni and mozzarella cheese into the cuts in the bread, pack it in as much as possible. Sprinkle oregano, crushed red pepper flakes and parmesan cheese over the top of the bread. In a small bowl, combine the melted butter the Italian dressing mix. Pour butter mixture over the top of the bread. Cover the bread with another piece of foil, molding it down and around the bread. Bake for 20 to 30 minutes.

Uncover and continue baking until the cheese is melted and the top is golden brown. Serve warm with pizza sauce.

SOUTHWESTERN GRILLED CHICKEN SALAD For the chicken: 8 to 10 chicken breast cutlets Vegetable oil or olive oil Salt and pepper 1 cup mayonnaise

2 chipotles in adobo sauce 1 tablespoon adobo sauce 1 tablespoon fresh lime juice Brush both sides of chicken cutlets with vegetable oil. Season with salt and pepper. Place

mayonnaise, chipotles, adobo sauce and lime in a food processor and puree; set aside. To cook chicken, preheat grill to high heat. Once the grill is hot, turn it down to medium. Place the chicken on grill and cook until it begins to turn opaque, turning often to prevent sticking. As the chicken cooks, baste on each side with the chipotle mayonnaise. Cook until chicken is completely opaque all the way through, but still juicy. Remove to a platter and let chicken rest for 5 minutes. Cut into bite-sized pieces.

For the salad: Mixed salad greens or green-leaf lettuce, torn Sliced pickled jalapenos Sliced black olives Grape tomatoes, sliced Fresh or canned corn (grilled or cooked to taste) Canned black beans, rinsed and drained Green onion, chopped Sharp cheddar cheese shredded Tortilla chips Salsa Guacamole Sour cream Limes, quartered Ranch dressing Taco sauce

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Place salad greens on a large platter or in a large bowl. Top with grilled chicken pieces, jalapenos, black olives, tomatoes, corn, black beans, green onion and cheddar cheese. Serve with tortilla chips, salsa, guacamole, sour cream and fresh limes. Dress salad with ranch dressing or taco sauce before serving.

GRILLED STEAK SALAD WITH BALSAMIC VINAIGRETTE For the steak: 2-3 pound London broil or flank steak 2 tablespoons balsamic vinegar 2 tablespoons fresh lemon juice 1 tablespoon Dijon mustard 1 tablespoon Worcestershire sauce 1 teaspoon finely minced fresh garlic ½ teaspoon dried oregano ½ teaspoon dried basil ½ teaspoon dried thyme ½ teaspoon smoked paprika ¼ cup olive oil Combine balsamic vinegar, lemon juice, mustard, Worcestershire sauce, garlic, and spices.

Whisk in olive oil. Place meat in a gallon-sized zip-lock bag. Pour marinade over meat. Marinate in the refrigerator for 12 to 48 hours. (The longer the meat marinates, the more tender it

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will be.) To cook, remove the meat from the marinade and let it come to room temperature. Preheat grill to high heat. Turn the grill down to medium high or let coals cool down before you put the meat on. Turn the meat about every 6 minutes. Cook to 130F. (Cooking time will depend on how hot the grill is and the size of your meat. The meat will continue to cook as it rests so it's best to remove from the grill when it's a bit underdone.)

When the meat reaches 130F, remove from the grill and let rest for 10-15 minutes. Cut meat into thin slices across the grain.

For the vinaigrette: ¼ cup balsamic vinegar 2 tablespoons honey 1 tablespoon Dijon mustard 1 large clove garlic, minced ¾ cup extra-virgin olive oil ½ teaspoon salt ½ teaspoon black pepper Place all ingredients in a small bowl. Whisk to

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combine. Set aside until ready to serve.

For the salad: Romaine lettuce, torn 1 bunch asparagus, steamed and cut into bitesized pieces 1 small red onion, diced Boiled eggs, cut into quarters 1 English cucumber, halved and sliced Blue cheese, crumbled Grape tomatoes, halved Pecans halves Place the lettuce on a large serving platter or in a large bowl. Top with sliced steak, asparagus, red onion, boiled eggs, cucumber, blue cheese, grape tomato halves and pecans. Toss with balsamic vinaigrette before serving.

The writer owns Catering by Debbi Covington and is the author of three cookbooks, Celebrate Beaufort, Celebrate Everything! and Dining Under the Carolina Moon. Debbi’s website address is www.cateringbydebbicovington.com. She may be reached at 525-0350 or by email at dbc@cateringbydebbicovington.com.

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Low Literacy in Beaufort County: What Can We Do?

By Terry Rice

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otivated by information gathered in a small group project during the 2018 Beaufort County Senior Leadership (BCSL) annual program, Charlie Cookson, Elaine Yates, Bruce Donatuti, Trish Lanier and other alumni from the last few years created a spin-off group (BCSL Reading Group) to expand their understanding of the low literacy rate in Beaufort County and identify actions to resolve the problem. For this is the exact thrust of the BCSL program – to guide participants through a 12-week journey exploring local topics such as History, Heritage & Culture, Local & County Government, the Arts, Education, Environment, Economic Development, Social Services, Health Resources, Military Ties, and Public Safety & Law Enforcement. The BCSL program is designed to tease out participant interest in at least one of these areas to leverage their own knowledge, experience & expertise as a way to channel their energy to have a meaningful impact on Beaufort County through volunteerism. Clemson Extension has run the program for over 20 years. Participants are generally newcomers looking to be informed about the region they now call home.

During the 2018 program on education, interim Superintendent Herb Berg, challenged Beaufort County citizens to help county schools and social organizations drive down the alarming 56% fail rate on the annual standardized 3rd grade language arts exam. Educators all over agree that if a child can’t read to standard by the end of 3rd grade, then their entire educational success is in jeopardy.

Kim Statler of the South Carolina Department of Commerce told participants during the economic development session, that the most important challenge to Beaufort County’s future economic development is to produce an educated workforce.

“We have learned there is no quick fix to teaching children to read and to pass the 3rd grade reading milestone. On the contrary, the solution requires starting at birth with parents and their newborn. It requires ongoing support through eight years of age. Driving down the fail rate requires dedication, persistence and money,” Charlie Cookson said after the group met with tutors, teachers and school leadership – to take a more in-depth look at what has been done in the past and what is being done now to deal with the low literacy rate.

“We have concluded that our best chance at having an impact on the literacy rate is to raise money and partner with three successful, existing literacy programs,” Charlie added. They are as follows: Born to Read, Inc – a registered 501(c)3 nonprofit charitable organization led by Janie Ephland promoting early literacy in the Lowcountry. Their mission is to serve families with children who are birth to age three. Volunteers give information and books to help assist with oral language development and early childhood literacy. Materials are in English and Spanish and all families who deliver their babies at Beaufort Memorial, Coastal Carolina and Hilton Head Hospitals are served.

My First Books SC – is a pre-reading, school readiness program for children from birth to age five, led by Nell Killoy. Their objective is to ensure all children in South Carolina enter kindergarten with basic literacy skills essential to first grade advancement and beyond.

Dolly Parton’s Imagination Library – a book gifting program that mails high-quality books to children from birth to age five. After substantial growth and success from their 1995 launch in Sevier County, Tennessee (Dolly’s hometown area), the Imagination Library went national and international in 2003 – sending millions of books to children throughout the country and around the world.

In contrast to other states, neither the state of South Carolina nor the Federal Government subsidize Dolly Parton’s Imagination Library in Beaufort County. The private sector is the only remaining option for raising funds.

The role of the BCSL Reading Group will be to raise funds by appealing to those who understand the following concepts: the value of reading to children from birth; the importance of reaching out to new parents to confirm their buy-in; the need to break the generational cycle of illiteracy; that every child is capable of reading, but some do not have the support and resources available to them; the value of achieving a high school diploma and becoming a contributing member of their local workforce, economy and community; their contributions will fill the need to help a child learn to read, in families whose parents are financially not able.

The work of Nobel Prize winning economist Dr. James Heckman, who is perhaps the

world’s leading scientist on early childhood education, says: • The most important time to focus on learning to read is from birth to 3 years, when 70% of the brain develops. Reading stimulates the side of the brain that helps with mental imagery, understanding and language processing.

• When parents read to their child at least 15 minutes a day, they greatly increase a child’s opportunity to become successful in their community. Further, early literacy significantly lowers rates of crime, addiction, school drop-out, teenage pregnancy, obesity, and welfare.

• Over the past 40 years, a growing fraction of US children have been born into disadvantaged families, which often, because of lack of guidance, do not promote their children’s physical and emotional development.

These are the children who need special help.

Ten newborns at local hospitals are recent recipients selected by Born to Read on the basis of family enthusiasm for regular reading.

Each baby will be given a “magic wand” for their future – a book a month for 36 months.

We invite contributors to come up with creative ways to fund the program through annual gifting ideas that satisfy their values.

For example, a 1953 graduate of Clemson University, Princeton and Georgetown recently contributed a three-year enrollment and is planning to make additional magic wand donations ($99) on the birthdays of all his grandchildren, instilling a desire to help others in them. He believes in the science behind Dolly Parton’s Imaginary Library and the economics of an educated community when its citizens are literate.

Several tutors, including Kay Roller, site director of a BCSL-supported pre-kindergarten reading/tutoring program at Broad River Elementary School, have donated magic wands or more. Most of these folks became tutors either after attending the BCSL program or were recruited by BCSL alumni from Callawassie Island and Sun City and are convinced that because all donations will go to Beaufort County children, it is a significant act of volunteerism and truly an important contribution for the future of our county; as Berg and Statler said, “so much is at risk.”

Donations in any amount are welcome. A “Magic Wand” donation of $99 will provide 36 books, one a month for three years, to one child.

Individuals, organizations and businesses are invited to donate funds on-line to support Dolly Parton’s Imagination Library in Beaufort County, South Carolina at https://myfirstbookssc.org/donate-2. Checks can be made out to: My First Books SC and mailed to: My First Books SC Palmetto Project, Suite 150 4500 Fort Jackson Boulevard Columbia, SC 29209

Donations go to First Books SC – Beaufort County, which is a 501 (C) (3) program of the Palmetto Project and the South Carolina affiliate of Dolly Parton’s Imagination Library. Its tax ID No. is 57-0807801. All donations will be acknowledged with a tax receipt.

In addition, the BCSL Reading Group is managing tutor volunteers; and in need of assistance in collecting donations from residential communities, hospitals, university alumni associations, and clubs and organizations – reading ambassadors, if you will.

The goal is to allow for 3,000 Beaufort County newborn to age five children to be a beneficiary of Dolly Parton’s Imagination library, Beaufort, South Carolina. Lastly, we need reading ambassadors to enlist organizations in which you participate (church, social groups, hospitals and schools) to encourage parents (or families and friends) to read to their kids every day. Volunteers are needed to work with groups that care for the health of these children too!

You are invited to send an email to BCReading99@gmail.com to express your desire to participate in this very important reading campaign.

WRITER’S NOTE:

In these COVID-19 pandemic times, when educational leaders are navigating their way through unprecedented planning exercises to secure the health and safety of students, staff and teachers, our at-risk readers are in an even more dire situation. Private funding and community volunteerism in support of education has never been more critical.

Terry Rice is a 2014 Alumna of Beaufort County Senior Leadership

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Cyber Center (continued from page 7) officials to lay out the reasons why it makes sense for Beaufort to be the next hub for cybersecurity.

The group made a pitch for $5 million in seed funding – what UCSB, TCL and the Beaufort Digital Corridor have estimated they would need to add the appropriate faculty, curriculum, technology and facilities.

Admittedly, USC Aiken, which has plans to construct a facility for cybersecurity on its campus, may be ahead of Beaufort since it too requested funds the year before.

But the group remains undaunted, Murray said, if only because the demand for skilled workers and expertise is so great. “(An education) in cybersecurity is going to be as ubiquitous as education or business degrees,” Murray asserts. “You’re going to need cybersecurity programming across the country.”

The group also envisions the Beaufort Digital Corridor offering boot camps for adults who want to learn more and mentor-

ing to startup companies. It will also work with the Beaufort County Economic Development Corporation to recruit existing cybersecurity firms who may be interested in relocating to the area.

In the meantime, the group has filed for nonprofit status for the South Coast Cyber Center, has been filling out its advisory board and will have a website rolling out in the new few months.

“So the idea is to bring this broad coalition of stakeholders together,” Murray said.

“We’ve got government, we’ve got education, we’ve got the private sector, we’ve got nonprofits – all working together under a common mission to create a cybersecurity and cyber defense ecosystem in Beaufort.”

Mindy Lucas is a staff writer for Lowcountry Weekly and reporter for The Island News.

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Head Case T uesday was partly sunny in the low 80s. On the two preceding days I’d talked myself out of running, using the usual excuses—recurring lumbago, high pollen count, unfavorable dew point, you name it—so by mid-afternoon I was intent on getting in a run.

Having two prescriptions to pick up at Walgreen’s, two miles away—ones to keep my blood pressure and serum cholesterol within a range considered “normal” (making these the only aspects of my being falling anywhere close to such limits)—I decided I could run to the pharmacy, fetch them, and run home. I wrapped my credit card and two Colgate coupons (in the event I found toothpaste on sale) in a plas-

tic bag and took off. It was a nice jog over, light breeze, birds flitting by. Once in the store I snagged the toothpaste ($2 off each), got my prescriptions, paid with my card, and walked outside.

To reduce what I would be carrying on my run home, I went to the trash receptacle near Walgreen’s front door, placed my credit card on top of it, tore off the packaging from the drugs and the toothpaste, and tossed the wad of paper and cardboard through the opening in the top. I put the medicine vials and toothpaste tubes into my plastic bag, but when I went to add my credit card, it wasn’t there. I’d apparently tossed it into the bin with the wrappings.

When I peered in through the recepta-

extracted it, closed the bin, and walked back inside to thank the clerk, waving the card at him.

“You get all sorts of people in here, don’t you?” I asked. “Wonder what the police would have said had they spotted me with my head stuck inside your trash can?”

“They probably would’ve figured you were just another drug addict,” he laughed.

I wrapped the card with my purchases and ran home. When I arrived and looked into the bathroom mirror, I found abrasions on my forehead and could feel worse ones on the back of my head at the hairline.

After showering and getting dressed, I spent a good part of the evening wondering if somewhere a woman was saying to her husband over the dinner table, “You won’t believe what I saw when I went into Walgreen’s this evening. There was this old guy with his head stuck in the trash bin.”

Her husband would have responded, “C’mon, Mabel, you gotta stop makin’ up stories like that!”

Donald Wright retired from SUNY-Cortland after 31 years as a professor of African history.

He has authored of half a dozen books, held Fulbright, Rockefeller Foundation, and NEH Fellowships, and lectured in South Africa, China, and cruises along Africa's Atlantic coast.

He lives with his wife, Doris, in Beaufort.

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cle’s openings, I could barely see what was inside, and when I reached in with my arm, I couldn’t feel anything like a credit card.

Then, I tested to see if I could get my head through the opening, so maybe I could see inside and, with some turning and negotiating, I got it in. It was still pretty dark in there, and after looking around, I couldn’t see the card, while the position was quickly becoming uncomfortable. But when I tried to remove my head, I couldn’t. I suddenly realized I was standing in front of Walgreen’s wearing sweaty running shorts, bent at the waist with my head stuck in a trash bin.

I had a short moment of wondering if they’d made the receptacle openings like Chinese handcuffs, easy to slip fingers into but next to impossible to get them out of, and more difficult the more you tried. As I worked to remove my head, the edges of the opening cut into my forehead and the back of my head; it felt like I might be bleeding. And so involved was I in working to extract my head that I didn’t pay attention to the people coming or going through Walgreen’s front door. Finally, after what must have been two minutes, I turned my head almost sideways, which must have been the position I’d used to get it through the opening in the first place, and extracted it.

The rest is anticlimactic: I went inside and told an incredulous staffer my story.

He shook his head, got a key, walked outside, and unlocked the trash bin. As he walked back inside to attend to customers at the cash register, I reached in and, fairly quickly, located the credit card, clinging to one side of the plastic bag lining the bin. I

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he title for this article was inspired by my friend, Alice Massey, a former contributor to this column who recently moved near Jacksonville, Florida. Many of us were the recipients of the pots she couldn’t take with her. She is a passionate and inspired gardener, but her new temporary home is a rental.

A real challenge for a passionate gardener. But she’s up to it. She loves pots.

We call it container gardening now. In bygone days, ‘container gardening’ was found mostly in large estates whose owners had pockets deep enough to buy huge urns and planters. And to pay a crew of gardeners to keep them fed, watered, and refreshed. As lightweight containers began to replace heavy concrete and stone, we home gardeners eagerly embraced the concept.

Unless you are a Zen gardener, less is not more. Most of us follow the “more is not nearly enough” concept in our gardens, and this is definitely true for containers. There’s no excuse for a skimpy container. The perceived wisdom for containers is “Thriller, Filler, and Spiller.” As with most perceived wisdom, this is subject to wide interpretation. But no matter what, when you think it’s full enough, add some more.

Here in the Lowcountry, small containers require the kind of monitoring needed to make soft boiled eggs. Inattention will result in failure. In our hot summers, daily watering is almost essential. However, if you do have small dcontainers, grouping them together makes .tending to them much easier and will make dthem read as a vignette rather than a garden Hwith measles. It goes without saying that you -need to group plants with like needs together. .Sun lovers won’t play well with shade lovers. .

We do love our hanging baskets down here, but they require some prep if they are to last through a Lowcountry summer. Because of the cost of potting soil and its shipping weight, hanging baskets rarely come with enough soil. If you have a drip irrigation system for your pots and baskets, you’re home free. If not, some prep when you get them home will save you a lot of time and effort. At the very least, add some good potting soil and tamp down well. Preferably, soak some hydrogel crystals in a weak solution of soluble fertilizer and mix them in with new potting soil and repot the entire basket. The crystals will re-hydrate each time you water, and you’ll have to water less often.

Lined and soil filled metal baskets can be wired together to make a hanging plant ball.

Just poke in small plants all over the ball and in no time, you’ll have an eye catching garden ornament to hang from a tree or shepherd’s crook. If you’re really ambitious and want to wow the neighbors, you can make a chain of

By Sandra Educate

Try planting small evergreen trees or shrubs in large containers to flank your entrance, and then surround them with colorful annuals which can be replaced seasonally.

You can bury small empty pots around the base of the evergreen to make replacing the Gardener website. http://lowcountrymga.org/ wp-content/uploads/2018/11/Container-Waflowers a snap. ter-Gardens.pdf There is even a concept called “Pot et Fleur,” a French garden idea for home décor in which a container holds both live plants and cut flowers. If the concept tickles your fancy, you can find several YouTube videos that describe how to construct them. Basically, it’s a large container into which you put a smaller one to hold water for cut flowers, and then surround it with potting soil to hold live plants.

The live plants make a permanent frame for a succession of cut flowers. Clever, no?

Just remember that in addition to the more frequent watering requirements, containers also need more fertilizer. Even if the fertilizer label says “season long”, monthly fertilizing during full growth is recommended. A few well placed, colorful containers can brighten an otherwise pretty dull area. And so Kathi McKinley's Garden what if your tender container plants evict your them to hang from your balcony. You could Be mindful that containers need good cars from the garage in winter? They’re worth even make a snow man from large and small drainage! The lightweight composite or plas- it. Just ask Alice. balls covered with white flowers. An upturned tic ones will usually need more holes than the basket makes a great body for a turtle, adding factory provided, so drill a few more before small clay pots for the head and feet and . . . I filling with soil. could go on and on. And probably would if An exception to this rule is a container there were space. water garden. Undoubtedly the most mainte- Sandra Educate is active in the local Master Gardeners Association and the Beaufort Garden Club, and she produces the annual Your small back yard needn’t be a deter- nance free container garden there is. Once es- Lunch and Learn series at the Port Royal Farmers Market. She rent to planting a large tree that you love. tablished, all you need do is top off with water loves strange and unusual plants and hates weeds. Sandra won’t You can plant trees in containers which, in and fertilize once in a while. You can find com- give away her age, but takes her inspiration from Thomas Jefferthe ground, would become too large for your plete instructions on the Lowcountry Master son, who said, "though an old man, I am but a young gardener." yard. Containers restrict root growth, and therefore plant size. The container will act like a large bonsai. It would need pruning for size and shape, and every few years, you would probably need to root-prune and repot it. Small price to pay for having a favorite tree. One of the benefits of a pot is that you can move the container to follow the sun if your garden tends to be shady. Invest in a good, wheeled plant dolly to make it easier.

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All Saints Garden Tour Contributes to Charities

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ormally all proceeds from the All Saints Garden Tour (ASGT) are distributed to charities in late summer or early fall once the numbers are finalized. In spite of cancelling the May 2020 Garden Tour, the ASGT Board was delighted that they were still able to continue the practice this year, though at a reduced level. The contributions to the six charities were made possible thanks to the generosity of the ASGT advertisers, early ticket purchasers, and donations from All Saints parishioners and friends.

Twenty-four sponsors who would have had ads in our ticket booklet contributed their ad monies totaling $5425 to the charities.

These businesses were Ace Hardware, All Saints Episcopal Church, Bruno Landscape & Nursery, Carolyn's Landscaping, Critter Management, Discount Fabrics, Enliten Salon, Episcopal Church of SC, Four Corners Fine Nancy Renner (right) presents a check to Helen Schuler, Director of The St. Stephens United Methodist Art & Framing, Green Thumb Nursery & Church Outreach Food Bank in Ridgeland, SC. Landscapes, Gum Tree Nursery, Snell & As- Jones Brothers Tree Surgeons, Kelca Count- Seabrook of Hilton Head, Wild Birds Unlimitsoc., Hilton Head Wine & Spirits , Island Quil- ers, Plantation Station, Charles Sampson ed, 100+ Women Who Care and Women's Fiters, Island Time Jewelers, It's Greek to Me, (Charter One), Dr. Robert Savarese, DMD, nancial Network .

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Fifteen individuals who purchased their tickets early contributed $700 of their ticket money to the charities. Donations from parishioners and friends of All Saints contributed another $4900.

Thanks to the generosity of many businesses and individuals, the ASGT Board made a contribution of $1870 to Family Promise of Beaufort Co., Hilton Head Island Safe Harbour, The Hunger Coalition of the Low Country (HHI Backpack Buddies), Antioch Educational Center (Jasper Co. Backpack Buddies), Crossroads Community Support Services (BackPack Buddies of Bluffton), St. Stephens UMC Outreach Foodbank.

While the Board were disappointed that we were not able to contribute at the normal level, responses from the charities who are most in need now were heartwarming. In several cases these unanticipated funds were extremely important for they filled an immediate unmet, pressing need. One recipient’s thank you note stated they wanted to “show how important what you thought was a small donation actually was.”

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Beaufort Digital Corridor Finds Strong BDC’s Nate Schaub Leapfrogs into DMS Entrepreneurial Spirit in the Lowcountry

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new survey from the Beaufort Digital Corridor revealed an interest in developing a diverse economy and fostering an entrepreneurial climate in the Lowcountry. More than 60% of the residents in Beaufort who responded to the survey consider themselves entrepreneurs and want to take a chance and pursue a dream. “The BDC was created for just such a purpose.

As Beaufort’s premier business incubator, the BDC offers tech entrepreneurs collaboration, mentorship, and a place where dreams meet reality,” said Nicie Phillips, Executive Director of the BDC. The survey, conducted during the last half of July and first half of August, gathered input from 232 Beaufort residents. The findings were an exciting mixture of new information and best kept secrets. Here are some key points: • Over 85% of the replies showed that people either want to begin or support a startup business. “Empowering localized efforts for the innovation community is crucial as South Carolina’s knowledge economy continues to grow,” said Secretary of Commerce Bobby Hitt when speaking about offering grants to diversify the economy in South Carolina. The BDC is here to empower Beaufortonians.

• Not surprisingly, almost 60% were concerned about finances and having access to capital. But did you know that the Beaufort Digital Corridor has dedicated investors with committed funds for curated technology startup businesses? “The reason the Beaufort Digital Corridor exists is to help

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technology entrepreneurs become growing, hiring companies, and part of that process is helping to source capital,” said BDC Board Chairman Kevin Klingler.

• As one would expect, 95% of Beaufort’s respondents think it is a good idea to diversify the economy in the Lowcountry by creating more tech-oriented job opportunities.

The BDC can help with startups by providing mentors with solid industry experience, planning next steps in business development and budgeting, and furnishing a collaborative environment in which to work.

• Over 75% are familiar with the BDC either by having heard of it or attending events such as the Fridays @ the Corridor, TECHconnect, CODEcamps, or having visited the Art Gallery. It is no secret that the BDC is open to helping others achieve their dream of starting a tech business. BDC’s BASEcamp is a place where minds engage with each other as well as the community to create a thriving ecosystem here in Beaufort.

“Nurturing Beaufort’s technology entrepreneurs is something we take very seriously at the BDC,” said Kevin Klinger. “This survey helps us understand the Beaufort entrepreneurial climate plus the findings potentially help other education and commerce initiatives here in the Lowcountry.”

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company owned in part by Nate Schaub, a member and resident at the Beaufort Digital Corridor, was recently acquired

by Digital Media Solutions (NYSE: DMS), a publicly-traded performance marketing company that helps some of the world’s biggest brands expand their reach and acquire new customers.

Nate originally moved his company, MINDFLINT, to Beaufort during the summer of 2018 and immediately became part of the Beaufort Digital Corridor (BDC) as a resident entrepreneur. After 18 months of mentorship and collaboration at the BDC, MINDFLINT was acquired

by SmarterChaos, a mid-size digital marketing agency based in Denver, Colorado.

Then, just 6 months later, SmarterChaos was acquired

by DMS. Schaub had this to say about the recent acquisitions: “2020 has definitely been a wild year so far. After 15 years of building a small business, it’s rewarding to have that hard work recognized by a leader in our industry. I’m grateful for all the support we’ve received at the BDC over the past 2 years, and I’m excited about this next chapter, both for our incredible team and our clients, especially those here in Beaufort.”

Kevin Klingler, BDC Chairman, commented, “We are proud of Nate. He is one of our own here at the BDC, and he has worked

hard to get where he is. To have been acquired not once but twice in less than a year is an incredible show of how mentorship and hard work pay off.”

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The Beaufort Digital Corridor is a community-sourced business initiative to attract, nurture and promote the city’s technology economy through an array of impactful programs, products and events while leveraging the city’s renowned livability.

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POTTERY CLASSES IN BEAUFORT McSweeney Clay Studio is offering morning, afternoon and evening classes for children and adults. Pottery dates and parties available as well. Classes are on going.

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LOWCOUNTRY SHAGGERS Mondays at the Moose Lodge, 350 Broad River Blvd. 6-9pm. Carolina Shag

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BEAUFORT ART ASSOCIATION offers classes for artists at all levels. For info visit www.beaufortartassociation.com. or 913 Bay St. WEDNESDAYS, BEAUFORT SHAG CLUB founded '02, meets Wed evenings at AMVETS on Ribaut Rd., Port Royal. Free lessons to members. The club is an ACSC, SOS, and the National Fastdance Association member. For info visit www.beaufortshagclub.com

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PASTEL ART CLASSES IN BEAUFORT now forming by artist Randall Messina. Beginner to advanced. Max class size 5 students. At Atelier on Bay, 203 West Street. Supplies provided. Classes fill quickly so call or email to reserve. One on one classes also available.

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PORT ROYAL MUSEUM now open to the public by The Historic Port Royal Foundation every Saturday at 1634 Paris Ave., from 10 - 2 or upon request. New exhibits added weekly; historian on hand 10 - 12. Free admission! Call 843-524-4333 or email unionchurch1004@gmail.com to request a special opening.

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Charles Street Gallery & frame shop presents

Over Fifteen Years Experience Serving the Lowcountry’s Buyers & Sellers with Closings, Deeds & Contracts 2 Professional Village Circle, Beaufort, SC 29907 Phone: (843) 524-4000 • Fax: (843) 524-4006

Derek C. Gilbert - derek@dcgilbert.com Melissa R. Wicker - melissa@dcgilbert.com

Alisha Doud - alisha@dcgilbert.com Bonnie Hart - bonnie@dcgilbert.com Dawn Shipsey - dawn@dcgilbert.com Joy McConnell - joy@dcgilbert.com

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Bobbi Tealey - bobbi@dcgilbert.com Daun Schouten - daun@dcgilbert.com Emily Dixon - emily@dcgilbert.com Kathy Crowley - kathy@dcgilbert.com

914 Charles Street in downtown Beaufort • 521-9054 www.thecharlesstreetgallery.com

Captain Woody’s, 6 Target Rd., Hilton Head or 17 State of Mind St., Bluffton. www. captainwoodys.com

10/2 & 10/3, Young Life Fishing Derby.

A great day of fishing, a chance to win prize money, and to help impact kids’ lives in Beaufort! Beaufort Yacht & Sailing Club. For details, visit www.ylfishingderby.com

The Jazz Corner, Village at Wexf1ord, Hilton Head. Sundays - Deas Guyz; Mondays Martin Lesch Band; Tuesdays - Fat Tuesdays - a Swinging Celebration of New Orleans & Beyond; Thursdays - Lavon Stevens with Louise Spencer. 9/16 Quiana Parler with The Lavon Stevens Trio, 9/18 & 9/19 Noel Freidline Quarter with Maria Howell, 9/20 The Corner Quintet - celebrates the Swing Era, 9/23 Bobby Ryder, 9/25 & 9/26 Edwin G. Hamilton Quartet, 9/30 Grammy Winner Quiana Parler with Lavon Stevens Trio, 10/2 & 10/3 Rodney Jordan Quintet. (843) 8428620 or www.TheJazzCorner.com Omni Hilton Head Ocean Front in Palmetto Dunes. Buoy Bar - HH Prime - (843) 842-8000 or www.omnihotels.com

BEAUFORT/PORT ROYAL

OUT OF TOWN

Foolish Frog, 846 Sea Island Pkwy, St. Helena The Music Farm, 32 Ann Street, Charleston.

Island. (843) 838-9300. thefoolishfrog.com 843-577-6969 or www.musicfarm.com.

Luther’s Rare & Well Done, 910 Bay Street.

(843) 521-1888 or www.luthersrareandwelldone. com Q on Bay, 822 Bay St, Beaufort. (843) 524-7771 or www.qonbay.com Rosie O’Gradys Irish Pub, in Beaufort Town center adjacent K-Mart. Karaoke Wednesdays, Fridays & Saturdays with Eric and the Girls 9pm. Open daily for Rock N Roll Lunch 11:30am.

Best Reubens, Phillys, Fish & Chips and Now a Great Shrimp Burger. (843) 379-7676 or Rosie O'Grady's on Facebook.

Saltus River Grill, 802 Bay St, Beaufort. (843) 379-3474 or www.saltusrivergrill.com

BLUFFTON/HILTON HEAD Big Bamboo, Coligny Plaza. (843) 686-3443 or www.bigbamboocafe.com

Logan LAW FIRM

Real Estate Closings • Titles • Deeds Impeccable Reputation • Reasonable Fees

Henri Ann Logan Attorney

email: henriann@loganlawfirm.com

www.loganlawfirm.com 806 Charles Street • Beaufort, SC 29901 • 843 524-0042

10/24 and 11/21, CPR Classes at The Wardle Family YMCA, located at 1801 Richmond Ave in Port Royal. 8am-12:00 pm. Cost is $35 for this YMCA certified course and those interested need to register at the Y as space is limited and filled on a first come, first serve basis. Questions? Contact Lou Bergen, Aquatics Director to register for this class.

Call the Y: 843-522-9622 or visit: beaufort-jasperymca.org

Editors Note: Events listed here may be subject to postponement or cancellation.

Please check for further information.

First & Third Tuesday, Beaufort Toastmasters Club meets from 5:30 pm - 6:45 pm in the Beaufort College Building, Rm. 103 (USC-Beaufort Campus), 801 Carteret Street, Beaufort. To learn more visit www.beauforttoastmastersclub.toastmastersclubs.org

GALLERIES/ART

First & Third Wednesday, FREE Acupuncture for Veterans – Veterans, Active Duty, Now - 9/26, Earth to Sky, an exhibit of work by Transition, Their Families and First RespondThe Pour House, 1977 Maybank Hwy, Charleston.

Performances on the Deck Stage until further the SC chapter of National Association of Women ers are Eligible) 4 - 6pm. Walk In Clinic. No notice. Sundays - Motown Throwdown, G.LO.W; Artists at Art League of Hilton Head Gallery. Lo- Need to Pre-Register or Call. Nourishing Mondays - Slim & Psychodelics; Tuesdays - cated mid-island inside Arts Center of Coastal Health Acupuncture and Herbs Clinic. 1214 Nightshades; Wednesdays - Grateful Dead Carolina, 14 Shelter Cove Lane, Hilton Head Is- Prince Street, Downtown Beaufort Wednesday with Reckoning; Saturdays - Ward land, 843-681-5060.

Buckheister. 9/17 Of Good Nature, 9/18 She Thursdays and some Tuesdays, Tours of the Returns From War, 9/19 Marshgrass Mamas, Now - 10/31, Seeking Solace, the work of artist Historic Hunting Island Lighthouse spon9/24 Guilt Ridden Troubadour, 9/25 The Grateful Beth Tokey Williams and her poet daughter Hai- sored by the Friends of Hunting Island. KeepBrothers - Grateful Dead and Allman Brothers ley Morgan Williams will be featured at the er Ted and his team will tell you all about the tribute, 10/1 9 to 5 Magazine Issue #10 Party, 10/2 Beaufort Art Association Gallery. This work was history of the Lighthouse which was built in Brandon 'Taz' Niederauer. (843) 571-4343 or www. created during an Artist in Residence stint in the 1875 and is the only Lighthouse in South Carcharlestonpourhouse.com Dry Tortugas National Park. Opening reception olina open to visitors. If you are at least 44 Fri9/4 from 5-8pm at 913 Bay Street in Beaufort inches tall you may also climb the 167 steps Windjammer, 1008 Ocean Blvd, Isle of Palms. on Friday, September 4, from 5 to 8 pm. to the top of the Lighthouse for a 360 degree Thursdays - Karaoke. 9/18 Bud Light Seltzer Beach Series with The Vegabonds, 9/19 Bud Now - 11/2, 'Art Speaks' Exhibit at USCB Center view. Reservations are recommended by calling the Nature Center at 843-838-7437. Tours Light Seltzer Beach Series with Warrick for the Arts. www.uscbcenterforthearts.com are $2 a person and park entry fees apply.

McZeke, 9/25 Bud Light Seltzer Beach Series with The Piedmont Boys, 9/26 Muscadine 10/1, Got Art? Art League of Hilton Head’s an- Third Thursday, TECHconnect is a monthly Bloodline - on the Sunset Stage; Bud Light nual fundraising benefit. Each $100 ticket pro- networking event for professionals working Seltzer Beach Series with Randall Fowler. (843) vides participation in the live Zoom drawing and in and around technology. Come and join on 886-8596 or www.the-windjammer.com guarantees one original piece of art. Only 100 the for the conversation at BASEcamp 500 tickets will be sold. Tickets available at www. Carteret 5:30-7:30pm. 843-470-3506. www. artleaguehhi.org/gotart beaufortdigital.com 10/4 - 10/30, USA from Sea to Shining Sea. Penny Healy has captured all 50 state flowers and seascapes for her upcoming art exhibit at The Society of Bluffton Artists (SOBA) gallery in Old Town Bluffton. For more information visit www. sobagallery.com or call 843-757-6586.

Thursdays, History Tours of Fort Mitchel by the Heritage Library, 10am. $12/Adult $7/ Child. 843-686-6560.

1st Saturday of Every Month, Maye River Quilters meeting at Palmetto Electric Cooperative, 1 Cooperative Way, Hardeeville.

10/6 - 10/31, CraftHiltonHead2020, Art Members meet at 9:30am for social exchange.

League's 7th National Juried Fine Art Craft Exhi- The meeting starts at 10 am. We welcome bition, Art League Gallery, 14 Shelter Cove Lane, new members. Please call 843-707-6034.

Hilton Head Island. A virtual awards reception will be held Wednesday, 10/7, 5-6pm via Face- 4th Saturday of Every Month, While Fort book Live. 843-681-5060.

Fremont is closed during the construction of

an Interpretive Center, the Friends of Fort Fremont is presenting historical lectures at 10am at the St. Helena Library. The first lecSaturdays, 9/19, 10/3, 10/17, 11/14, Bluffton ture will be “Bringing History to Life, Fort Artisan Market, an open-air shopping event Fremont Dioramas" by Dennis Cannady, with live music that features local makers Master Modeler. For more information call from 1-6 pm. Southern Barrel parking lot in the Library at 843-255-6487.

Buckwalter Plaza in Bluffton.

OTHER EVENTS

820 Bay Street • Beaufort, SC 29902

843.521.4200

$449,000

$260,000

$1,545,000

PIGEON POINT | MLS 167928 DATAW ISLAND | MLS 166999 HISTORIC DISTRICT | MLS 167935

3BDRM | 2B | 2026sqft | Marsh/Water View Karen Doherty 843.812.9689

$1,950,000

SUNSET BLUFF | MLS 167961 5BDRM | 4.5B | Waterfront | Private Dock Trea Tucker 843.812.4852

$1,500,000

DOWNTOWN BEAUFORT | MLS 160525 6BDRM | 1.5+B | Commercial/Residential Lloyd Williams 1.843.754.4735

3BDRM | 2B | 1853sqft Nancy Butler 843.384.5445 Trudy Arthur 843.812.0967

4BDRM | 3.5B | 3546sqft | Waterview Edward Dukes 843.812.5000

$419,000

$309,900

FRIPP ISLAND | MLS 157176

HABERSHAM | MLS 165303

$199,000

$1,475,000

3BDRM | 2B | 1404sqft Pat Dudley 843.986.3470

SHELL POINT | MLS 167300 3BDRM | 2B | 1075sqft Amy McNeal 843.521.7932

3BDRM | 3B | 1660sqft Paige Walling 843.812.8470

NEWPOINT | MLS 167122 5BDRM | 5.5B | 4928sqft | Water View Edward Dukes 843.812.5000

$515,000

CITY WALK | MLS 164482 3BDRM | 2.5B | 1890sqft Colleen Baisley 843.252.1066

$275,000

DATAW ISLAND | MLS 163774 3BDRM | 2B | 1809sqft Trudy Arthur 843.812.0967 Nancy Butler 843.384.5445

$410,000

CAT ISLAND | MLS 167190 3BDRM | 2.5B | 2100sqft Julia O’Hara 1.201.456.8620

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