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EPA to share stormwater improvement ideas Results of an EPA review of stormwater management in Beaufort’s historic Northwest Quadrant neighborhood will be shared with the public April 3 at Beaufort City Hall. Engineers, drainage experts and planners from the federal Environmental Protection Agency and its contractors visited Beaufort in November as part of a technical assistance grant valued at up to $100,000. Their goal: Find ways to improve stormwater
management in the Northwest Quadrant and, working with city staff, identify ways to incorporate these recommendations into street and block design. Ideas include a “green street” design at Duke Street and a vegetated filtering basin at the southeast corner of Hamar and Prince streets. The Duke Street location right-of-way is owned and maintained by the City of Beaufort. The proposed vegetated filtering basin site, however, is privately owned. Rights to the parcel must
City of Beaufort and Port Royal firefighters adopt CAPA shelter City of Beaufort and Port Royal firefighters have adopted the Open Arms Shelter for Abused and Neglected Children and Youth for volunteer services from cooking breakfast on Christmas morning to the building of a dining room table. Several years ago, shelter staff consulted the firefighters about assisting with the hanging of 2000+ ornaments on the shelter tree, one for each child that has lived there. They joyfully accepted the task over three years ago and have found many ways to assist the shelter since that time. Knowing that the residents would not be able to spend Christmas morning with their own families, the firefighters cooked breakfast for them and made sure that each child got a special gift. “The firefighters have been wonderful role models for our residents,” Tina Kuhn, shelter director stated. “Often, our youth will ask if they can be a firefighter when they grow up.” When the firefighters realized that the dining room table would no longer seat the average number of residents for each meal, they raised funds to purchase and build a sturdy extension table and benches. They plan to refinish the original table built over 28 years ago by the late Roger Pinckney X, a longtime board member of the Child Abuse Prevention Association (CAPA). The shelter is a CAPA program. The firefighters were recognized with a special award for their volunteerism in 2012.
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be secured before the project can begin. This planning grant makes Beaufort eligible to apply for additional EPA funds to build the project, Beaufort City Manager Scott Dadson said. On April 3, 2 p.m., the recommendations will be discussed in detail at City Council Chambers in City Hall, 1911 Boundary Street. For more information, contact Lauren Kelly at 5257014 or lkelly@cityofbeaufort.org.
Keeping Beaufort Beautiful Frank and Victoria Winters helped kick off the Great American Clean-Up in Beaufort County. The couple relocated to Beaufort in November and is celebrating 60 years of marriage. They walk on Johnny Morral Circle everyday for exercise and were amazed at the amount of trash and debris in the area. Instead of complaining, they decided to do something about it. In two days the couple picked up 42 bags of trash, moved two large televisions, and one big truck tire to the edge of the road for pickup and disposal. “Now that’s love,” exclaimed Veronica Miller, Keep Beaufort County Beautiful coordinator. “Love for each other and love for the environment”, she said.
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