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COVERING BEAUFORT COUNTY

HBF contests expanded use at historic Beaufort home

By Tony Kukulich The Historic Beaufort Foundation (HBF) has asked a state judge to clarify the terms of an easement held by the HBF that limits how the historic McKee-Smalls House property can be used after the current owners, Billy and Paul Keyserling, allowed the National Park Service to conduct regular tours of the property.

“Our role at Historic Beaufort is to, I guess the word is enforce, the

A front view of the historic McKeeSmalls house at 511 Prince Street in Beaufort.

Photo courtesy of Historic Beaufort Foundation.

Early voting replaces in-person absentee voting

terms of the easement,” said Cynthia Jenkins, HBF executive director. “When they Keyserlings got the property, they knew what those terms were.”

The Keyserlings acquired the property in August 2021 at a cost of $1.67 million.

The HBF argues that the expansion of public access to the building is a violation of the terms of the easement, which specifies that the

property is primarily a residence.

The easement, they say, allows public access under strictly limited circumstances.

According to Jenkins, the easement, which addresses only the exterior of the building, stipulates that the owner of the property make it accessible to the public at least four half days a year. Further access can

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THE RACE THAT WASN’T

New SC law changes rules just before June 14 primary From staff reports In-person absentee voting for the June 14 primaries was to have started Monday in Beaufort County, but because of a new law, the option no longer exists in South Carolina.

Governor Henry McMaster on Friday, May 13, signed into law legislation passed by the General Assembly that establishes early voting in South Carolina.

In-person absentee voting has now been replaced with a two-week early voting period. The period, for the June 14 primaries, runs from May 31 to June 10. Any voter can visit an early-voting location in Beaufort and vote like they would at their polling place on Election Day. To help prepare for the upcoming elections, the Board of Voter Registration and Elections of Beaufort County issued a release informing voters of all their options to vote.

Polling Place on Election Day • Polls are open from 7 a.m. to 7 p.m.

• Check your polling place at scVOTES.gov before leaving to vote.

• Bring your Photo ID (or voter registration card if you do not have a Photo ID).

Early Voting Any voter can visit an early-voting location in Beaufort and vote like they would at their polling place on Election Day. • Early-voting for June Primaries (June 14) is May 31 to June 10. Polls are open from 8:30 a.m. to 5 p.m.. Polls are closed Saturday and Sunday, June 5-6.

• Early-voting for June Runoffs (June 28) is Wednesday, June 22 to Friday, June 24 at the same hours and locations as the primaries.

• Bring your Photo ID (or voter registration card if you do not

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Despite being a spectacular day for everyone else, sailors couldn’t set sail for the noon Catboat race Saturday in the Beaufort River. After being delayed twice because of lack of wind and a strong running tide, the race had to be “abandoned.” Pictured here are three racers moving backwards. Photo by Bob Sofaly.

Keeping up with the Browns

Park programs paused at Hunting Island

By Tony Kukulich Not even the popular Hunting Island State Park (HISP) is immune from the current workforce shortage that is impacting businesses across the Lowcountry and across the nation.

A full schedule of short programs highlighting various aspects of the park for visitors has been canceled.

In the past, visitors to HISP could participate in programs like Gator Gab, Creature Feature, Serpent Exploration, Turtle Talk, Beach Walk and Sea Turtle Discovery. Programs generally ran for 30 to 60 minutes and all were free of charge.

“There’s not much of a story to report on that one, unfortunately,” said Park Manager Brandon Goff. “It all goes back to staffing.”

The recent resignations of the park’s program specialist and park interpreter have been particularly impactful.

“That’s why I don’t have any programs,” Goff said. “They’re not really canceled as much as they’re paused until I can find a new park interpreter to lead

Beaufort High siblings make earning academic honors a family affair

Hunting Island State Park lighthouse. File photo by Bob Sofaly. those programs again.”

It is estimated that one million people visit the 5,000-acre park each year. With the unofficial start of summer just weeks away, the park has struggled to fill open positions including lifeguards, maintenance staff and retail workers.

“It’s a challenge,” Goff said.

“We’re not unique. It’s a challenge that every other business is facing right now. For years we were spoiled

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By Mike McCombs When it comes to bringing home academic honors, a pair of fraternal twin seniors at Beaufort High School are keeping it in the family this spring.

Folklore holds that Friday the 13th is reserved for bad news. But that wasn’t so for Anna Brown.

On Friday, Brown, who will attend Duke, learned that she was one of three South Carolina students chosen as a Presidential Scholar.

“I was honestly very surprised when I received the email that I was selected …,” Brown said Tuesday, “but I am honored to have the opportunity to represent the Lowcountry and our community in this way. This award means a lot to me, and most importantly shows that hard work, along with luck, does pay off.”

U.S. Presidential Scholars are

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Fire damages Beaufort home, displaces two residents.

Runner-up finish doesn’t dampen JPII’s historic season.

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high school seniors from across the nation recognized for their accomplishments in academics, the arts, and career Anna Brown and technical education fields.

As directed by Executive Order, the 2022 U.S. Presidential Scholars are composed of one young man and one young woman from each state, the District of Columbia and Puerto Rico, and U.S. families living abroad, as well as Chas 15 chosen at-large, Brown 20 scholars in the arts and 20 scholars in career and technical education. There were 161 students selected this year.

A commission chooses students based on academic success, artistic

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Bob Sofaly captured this image of a mother bottlenose dolphin, showing signs of having survived a violent attack on her back and chewed-up dorsal fin, heading back down as her calf takes a breath of air while cruising the Beaufort River on Saturday near the Beaufort Yacht and Sailing Club. To submit a Lowcountry Life photo, you must be the photographer or have permission to submit the photo to be published in The Island News. Please submit high-resolution photos and include a description and/or names of the people in the picture and the name of the photographer. Email your photos to theislandnews@gmail.com.

VETERAN OF THE WEEK

Beaufort’s Chris Campbell, 48, joined the U.S. Navy in 1993 in Denver. After Boot Camp and Hospital Corpsman training in San Diego, he was assigned to Naval Hospital Charleston, working in preventive medicine. His next assignment was with the Marines at Camp Pendleton, from which he deployed with the Marines throughout the western Pacific and Middle East.

Next he served for three years at

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Chris Campbell

the medical clinic on Parris Island before duty aboard the USS Abra-

ham Lincoln (CVN-72), deploying twice again to the western Pacific and Persian Gulf in support of Operation Iraqi Freedom and action in Afghanistan. His next assignment was three years at MCAS Beaufort with an Air Wing that deployed to Iraq.

He returned to Beaufort for four years of duty at the Naval Hospital and the Parris Island medical clinic. He next served with Crisis

Response Units at Camp Lejeune, including deployment to eastern Europe. After three years he returned to Naval Hospital Beaufort, from which he retired with 26 years of active service as a Senior Chief Petty Officer.

– Compiled by John Chubb, American Legion Post 9.

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Correction/clarification for The Island News of April 21

By Peggy Simmer I am writing (May 4, 2022) with a correction and clarification to The Island News article, “Downtown apartment building earns final approval,” (written) by Tony Kukulich (in the April 21 edition).

It appears that Kukulich was misled by Beaufort Historic District Review Board (HRB) member Maxine Lutz.

As background, the article refers to a meeting of the HRB which occurred on April 13, 2022. During public comment regarding a proposed apartment building at 211 Charles Street, four members of the public provided comments.

… they were split evenly between those in favor of the project and those opposed. Peggy Simmer, who spoke in support of the project, drew the ire of Lutz after Simmer leveled criticism at the HRB and the Historic Beaufort Foundation. Simmer said the HRB “seems to have lost its way” and referred to the board’s concerns about the balconies as potential homeowners association or code enforcement issues, and well outside the purview of the board.

“I resent the tirade that just occurred.” Lutz said following Simmer’s remarks. “I also recall that our instructions initially at each meeting include that the public that speakers should identify what

their relationship is to the project and if they have any financial connections to the project.”

According to the article, in an email to The Island News following the meeting, Lutz said that Simmer’s criticisms were a violation of HRB protocol and should not have been allowed.

As quoted in the article, Lutz added, “This is the third blatant time that a member of the public has offered support for the project without mentioning their relationship to the developer.”

Ms. Lutz is incorrect regarding what is required when a member of the public speaks. For the record, what is required when speaking during “Public Comment” at a City of Beaufort Historic District Review Board (HRB) meeting is ONLY your name and address, NOT your relationship to the project nor any financial connections you have to the project.

This is documented both in the recording of the meeting, and in the reference below taken from the City of Beaufort (SC) Facebook page video archive of the HRB meeting on April 13.

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I agree with Jim Dickson

I enjoyed and agreed with Jim Dickson’s column about George Orwell’s book 1984. Another good one is Animal Farm.

I hardly recognize our America today and the completely un-American way our current leaders are steering our policies and disregarding our laws. May heaven (or whatever higher power you turn to for guidance) give us strength and wisdom to save our country.

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Confound the ‘Ministers of Truth’

Jim Dickson's writings are evidently causing the knicker knottings of the local "Ministers of Truth."

Intellectually devoid of any cogent response to his postings, they are reduced to the Left's prescribed play book, i.e., the ad hominem attack coupled, of course, with the obligatory allegation of racism.

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If you have a relevant comment, raise your hand with the “raise your hand” function. When public comment is called, you will be acknowledged, please state your name and address and you will be given time to speak. Please keep your hand raised until you’ve spoken.

We chose to state our relationship to the project – our historic residence will be most impacted by this project as we live directly across the street. However, we did not disclose nor were we (or anyone else for that matter) required to disclose any financial or other connections to the project.

We are concerned that Ms. Lutz’s implication that those speaking in favor of the project, including myself and my husband, have a connection to the developer which was published by The Island News without any attempt to contact us to determine if we actually have any connection to the developer of this property.

For the record, my husband (who also spoke in favor the project) and I have NO financial connection of any kind to this project, nor to Mr. Dick Stewart or 303 Associates (the developer of the project) and we have never had.

Given that The Island News did not check the facts before publishing this unfounded allegation, we request that a correction be pub-

lished in The Island News explaining that disclosure of relationships is not required before making a public comment, and clarifying that my husband and I have no connection, financial or otherwise to the developer or his company.

Please also reflect these changes in the online version of the article.

We also expect that you will contact us (or anyone else in our situation) in the future before publishing information that implies improper or unethical behavior by an individual identified in your publication.

We would also note that we believe it was inappropriate and unprofessional of an HRB member (Ms. Lutz) to insinuate that there was a financial connection because we were in support of the project and to use her position on the board to question the integrity of members of the public without any evidence. If she really wanted to know, all she had to do was ask.

As for my remarks, they were NOT in violation of HRB protocol as Ms. Lutz suggested. My remarks, while critical, all related to the project at hand and were simply to point out the impact that the HRB and the Historic Beaufort Foundation (HBF) have had on us and that both HRB and HBF need to be held accountable for their words and actions and they need to stay within their respective swim lanes.

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County to begin debate over newly proposed tax

By Tony Kukulich Beaufort County Council will soon debate a new 1% sales tax recommended this week by the Citizen Transportation Advisory Committee (TAC).

The tax, if approved, is projected to raise $700 million for critical transportation and mobility projects. That amount could grow significantly if the county qualifies for state and federal matching-fund programs.

“As we weaved through the process and reviewed the gravity of the assignment and the critical needs for improvement and new components for our local mobility, it became quite evident that there is much to do,” wrote TAC chair Dean Moss in the proposal to the county council dated May 10. “It appears that we are not just behind the eight ball, we are under it, and it will take a coordinated public relations effort to move even this limited referendum forward for a better mobility future for all of us.”

The council will first consider the proposed tax during its May 23 meeting. Three readings of the proposal are required. If passed by the

council, the measure could be placed on the ballot for the November general election.

Then, if approved by voters, the tax will go into effect in May 2023. It will remain in effect for either 10 years, or until the projected $700 million is raised, whichever comes first.

Application of the sales tax will follow state guidelines.

Groceries, pharmaceuticals, newspapers and magazines are among the items exempt from the collection of the sales tax by state statute. Certain services are also exempt.

Included with the tax proposal were two lists of recommended transportation projects. Specific projects were named roadways and recommended budgets. These projects accounted for $335 million with projects north of the Broad River receiving $115 million and projects south of the Broad slated to receive $220 million.

The TAC recommended that the Lady’s Island traffic corridor improvements project receive $40 million. A project to improve capacity from Bell Bridge to Boundary Street and Woods Memorial Bridge was slotted for $75 million.

S.C. 170 at Argent Blvd., in Okatie. Photo courtesy of Beaufort County.

"The committee wanted to ensure recommendations matched the long-term transportation goals and at the same time benefited every citizen in our county,” Moss said. “I thank all the members for their dedication and hard work over the last three months."

The proposal also included $365 million in recommended general transportation-improvement initiatives such as $25 million for mass transit and $20 million to address the effects of flooding, sea level rise, stormwater and

drainage.

The creation of a standing Transportation Advisory Committee was included in the TAC recommendation.

Members would “be appointed to assist the county council and staff in the prioritization and implementation of the projects and activities to be funded by the referendum.”

A similar 1% tax was approved by voters in 2018 to fund improvements to the Route 278 bridges to Hilton Head Island, make improvements along the Lady’s Is-

land Corridor and extend the network of pathways in the county. That tax expired earlier this year. Experience with the 2018 process helped shape the county’s approach to the current initiative. The result was a greater emphasis on pre-planning.

“Only one project has been completed off (the 2018) list,” said Chris Ophardt, Beaufort County public information officer.

“The rest are about to start because it took four years to go from the initial planning to the public hearing and

then do the design phase.

We’re in a much better place to get (the new) projects done sooner and get them all done because of the planning that the county and towns have done. The whole county, top to bottom, is in a better place to start these and get them done within the 10-year period.”

The committee consisted of 17 members, one each from the 11 county council districts, one each from the five municipalities and one from the city of Hardeeville.

"I would like to thank the members of the citizens of the committee that spent the last three months developing a balanced list of projects,” said County Administrator Eric Greenway. “If passed, these projects would improve citizens' commute times, business opportunities and quality of life within our county."

Tony Kukulich is a recent transplant to the Lowcountry. A native of Wilmington, Del., he comes to The Island News from the San Francisco Bay Area where he spent seven years as a reporter and photographer for several publications. He can be reached at tony.theislandnews@gmail.com.

Thieves strike county maintenance facility, steal truck

By Tony Kukulich A pickup truck and landscaping equipment were stolen from a Beaufort County facility last week.

The stolen property was valued at $40,000.

The Beaufort County Office of the Sheriff said that thieves made forcible entry into an enclosed area outside of the Beaufort County Pub-

lic Works facility in Burton sometime between Wednesday, May 11 and Thursday, May 12.

A 2008 Ford F-250 with South Carolina plate CG63025 was stolen, as were weed eaters, blowers, hedge trimmers, pole saws and chainsaws.

In 2019, the county was the victim of a string of thefts

related to landscaping equipment. From March through August of that year, six lawnmowers with a total value of approximately $50,000 were stolen using a variety of methods.

The first two mowers were stolen off trailers at work sites while workers were weed-eating or performing other landscaping work on the Spanish

Moss Trail and at Basil Green Park. A second pair were stolen after thieves cut their way through the fence at a facility on Benton Field Road. The final incident in August 2019 was different.

In that incident, thieves appeared to have keys to the Shanklin Road facility and to the mowers that were stolen.

At the time, it was reported

that the thieves appeared to have known where the mowers and security were and appeared to have been familiar with the layout of the facility.

Anyone who has information on the subjects or stolen property related to this most current incident is asked to contact LCpl. Lyle Harris at 843-255-3436 or Crime Stoppers of the Lowcountry at 843-

554-1111, if wishing to remain anonymous and for a possible reward.

Tony Kukulich is a recent transplant to the Lowcountry. A native of Wilmington, Del., he comes to The Island News from the San Francisco Bay Area where he spent seven years as a reporter and photographer for several publications. He can be reached at tony.theislandnews@gmail.com.

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Burton man arrested after shooting incident

By Tony Kukulich A report of shots fired in Burton led to the arrest of a man on drug and weapons charges.

Charles Hecksher, a 39-year-old Burton resident, was arrested and charged with Trafficking Cocaine, Possession with Intent to Distribute Marijuana, Possession of a Weapon During the Commission of a Violent Crime,

Memorial Day parade, celebration set for May 30 From staff reports The 2022 Memorial Day Celebration will be held Monday, May 30, in the City of Beaufort.

The annual Memorial Day Parade will begin at the corner of Rogers and Boundary streets in the City of Beaufort.

Lineup will begin at 9 a.m., and the parade will begin marching at 10 a.m.

Following the parade, the Memorial Day Ceremony will be held at noon at the Beaufort National Cemetery at 1601 Boundary Street. The public is invited to attend and participate in the parade and the Memorial Day Ceremony.

For questions, contact Rev. Eijah Washington, Chairman Memorial Day Committee, Sons of Union Veterans of the Civil War, P.O. Box 1961 Beaufort, S.C. 29901 or 843263-4620.

Use of a Firearm While Under the Influence and Pointing/ Presenting a Firearm.

The incident began Thursday, May 12 at approximately 8:30 p.m., when Beaufort County Sheriff’s Office deputies responded to a report of shots fired near Roseida Road Extension and Laurel Bay Road. They met with the complainant who said that a man drove up in a vehicle,

fired a gunshot into the air and drove off.

No one was injured by the shot.

While deputies were still on scene, they heard gunshots a short distance away on Laurel Bay Road. As they investigated that incident, they located the vehicle described by the complainant parked in front of 151 Laurel Bay Road.

A man who matched the description provided by the complainant was observed by the deputies. entering the residence at 151 Laurel Bay Road. He was taken into custody as he exited the home a short while later.

Sheriff’s Office investigators obtained search warrants for the Hecksher’s vehicle and the residence at 151 Laurel Bay Road.

They located and seized a trafficking weight of cocaine and a distribution weight of marijuana during their search. Additionally, investigators located a handgun on the hood of the car and seized it.

Hecksher was transported to the Beaufort County Detention Center and incarcerated. His bond was set at $25,000 by a Beaufort County

magistrate the following day.

Hecksher posted bond and was released from the detention center.

Tony Kukulich is a recent transplant to the Lowcountry. A native of Wilmington, Del., he comes to The Island News from the San Francisco Bay Area where he spent seven years as a reporter and photographer for several publications. He can be reached at tony.theislandnews@gmail.com.

Early-morning fire damages Beaufort home

By Tony Kukulich Residents of a Beaufort home escaped injury after a lightning strike is believed to have sparked an early-morning fire Friday, May 13.

Deputy Chief Rozz Vezin of the Beaufort/Port Royal Fire Department (BPRFD) told The Island News that the fire was reported by the homeowner shortly before 6 a.m. The first units arrived at the home, located on the 100 block of Sunset Court about eight minutes later. Upon arrival, fire crews observed smoke coming from the roof of the three-story residence.

“This fire required a larger response with many of our automatic aid and mutual partners from around the county due to the complexity of the fire and the size of the residence – approximately 5,000 square feet,” Vezin said. “This was a multiple-alarm fire.”

Agencies across northern

lice Department, Beaufort County Sheriff's Office, and Beaufort County Emergency Medical Services. In total, more than 60 personnel were on scene.

Crews remained on scene for approximately 10 hours, Vezin said.

No injuries to residents or firefighters were reported.

The home’s two residents were displaced due to the damage to the structure. An estimate of the value of the damage to the home was not available.

While a lightning strike is believed to have caused the fire, the investigation into the fire’s origin is ongoing.

Multiple fire crews were on scene for roughly 10 hours at a house fire on the 100 block of Sunset Court. Photo courtesy of Beaufort/Port Royal Fire Department.

Beaufort county responded to the incident. In addition to BPRFD, Parris Island

Fire Department, Bluffton Township Fire District, Lady’s Island – St. Helena Fire

District, the Burton Fire District, the Sheldon Fire District, Beaufort City Po-

Tony Kukulich is a recent transplant to the Lowcountry. A native of Wilmington, Del., he comes to The Island News from the San Francisco Bay Area where he spent seven years as a reporter and photographer for several publications. He can be reached at tony.theislandnews@gmail.com.

Burton firefighters battle trash fires

A brush fire caused by a mattress and trash. Submitted photo.

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and technical excellence, essays, school evaluations and transcripts, as well as a demonstrated commitment to community service and leadership.

“Anna Brown is well-deserving of this prestigious

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honor of being selected as a 2022 U.S. Presidential Scholar,” Beaufort High School Principal Charity Summers said in a news release. “Her hard work and dedication in her scholastic achievement has paid off for her through numerous recognitions and awards, but Anna’s academic achievements are not the only defining positive characteristic that she possess-

From staff reports The Burton Fire District responded to two trash fires that spread out of control within hours of each other last week.

Just past 3 p.m., Wednesday, May 11, Burton firefighters responded to a spreading fire in the woodland area off of Parker Drive that was started by a burning couch.

The fire not only spread, but became deep seated in the underbrush.

Burton firefighters request-

ed assistance from the MCAS Fire Department for special equipment to assist with access to the fire which took an hour and a half to extinguish.

Later that day, just before 7 p.m., Burton firefighters were again called to a spreading fire caused by a resident burning a mattress and other trash in their yard. The resident stated they thought they had extinguished the fire the night prior. It took fire crews an hour to extinguish the fire, but the home was not damaged.

The day prior, Burton firefighters extinguished two unattended yard debris fires after the residents left the fires smoldering and went inside to prepare for bed.

“With summer heat and dry conditions approaching, these fires become more dangerous because they will spread out of control quickly,” Burton Fire Captain Chris Moyer, who responded to all four fires, said in a release.

“Just as dangerous is burning trash. Not only is it illegal

to burn trash and they can quickly spread out of control, but they release carcinogens which can become a health concern for those who are exposed to the smoke.”

More information on the Beaufort County Outdoor Burning Ordinance can be found on the Beaufort County Government website. Residents living in incorporated areas of the county are encouraged to check with their local fire department for their rules and regulations.

es. She has exemplary character, is an excellent athlete, and a wonderful person. I am so proud of her.”

Then on Monday, Anna Brown’s brother, Timothy “Chas” Brown, brought home an accolade of his own when he was named a National Merit Scholarship winner by the National Merit Scholarship Corporation.

The 2,500 Merit Scholar

winners were chosen from a pool of more than 15,000 finalists in the 2022 National Merit Scholarship Program.

The $2,500 scholarship winners are the finalists in each state judged to have the strongest combination of accomplishments, skills, and potential for success in rigorous college studies.

The number of winners for each state is proportional to the state’s percentage of the nation’s graduating high school seniors.

Chas was “pleasantly surprised” at the announcement and said he sees the award as confirmation that the hard work put in by students is as or more important than the reputation of the school a student attends.

“The award, to me, means that one’s high school doesn’t need a robust legacy of award winners for them to succeed,” Chas said. “That may make it easier, but in any situation, each individual has some power to set themselves up for success.”

The $2,500 can be used at the school of the winner’s choice. Chas plans to attend Princeton to study Economics.

“Other than (the money), it’s just confidence that my efforts were somehow ‘good enough’ to be recognized by a national organization,” Chas said.

Once again, Summers was praising one of her Beaufort High students in a news release.

“What makes (Chas) so special is that in addition to being among the top students in his graduating class academically, his accomplishments are certainly not limited to the classroom,” she said. “Chas is also a talented artist who consistently seeks opportunities to make a difference for our school and local community, always working for the good of others.”

Given Chas and Anna’s home life, maybe the two of them each earning individual accolades shouldn’t be a surprise. Their mother, Susan Brown, is the 4th Grade Advanced Mathematics Engineering and Science lead teacher at Beaufort Elementary School. And both maternal grandparents, as well as their paternal grandmother, are or were educators, as well.

“I have to say I am not surprised with these two now that it’s happened. Both have always loved to learn,” Susan Brown said. “I think their desire to figure things out was inspired by being read to, encouraged to ask questions and engaged in conversations at a very young age.

“They have both had excellent teachers who taught them in ways that were authentic and engaging. They have a cohort of friends who think it’s cool to like school and serve others, and through the years these

friends have supported each other both academically and socially.”

Susan Brown said that having so many people in their lives that valued learning surely had a positive impact on their success in school.

“We grew up in an environment where learning was encouraged,” Anna said.

“We both developed a love for school, which led to us challenging and supporting each other in all aspects of life. I think that this relationship, of having someone to look to for motivation and inspiration, definitely helped me to be successful academically.”

While Anna gave credit to her relationship with her brother and her parents, Chas also praised the independence that came from those relationships.

“Our environment at home certainly values education, but (our) parents never really pushed anything on (us),” Chas said.

“They would encourage me, but I had to be the one to sign up for the club, study for the test, email the teacher, etc. That I think led me to willingly pursue education and what I value intrinsically, instead of it being a punishment.”

Mike McCombs is the Editor of The Island News and can be reached at TheIslandNews@gmail.com.

NEWS

An unexpected Lowcountry encounter Sidney Jones shares true story of a 1958 pilot rescue

By Tony Kukulich

W

hen local businessman Nick Hunt took the podium during the May 11 Rotary Club of Beaufort meeting, he began to tell the story of the 1958 mid-air collision that resulted in a 7,600-pound hydrogen bomb being dropped off the coast of Tybee Island, Ga. There’s no doubt that many, if not most, in the audience had at least a working knowledge of the incident, but Hunt was there to discuss a little-known facet of the story. For 64 years, the role of a man who played a critical role in the safe rescue of a pilot involved in the collision has been largely ignored. Hunt and his childhood friend, Sidney Jones, were there to tell the story of Pattamas James Jones Sr. Sidney was 11 years old and hunting racoons with his father, Pattamas, on a cold February night in 1958. Without a car or truck, they walked the few miles from their home in Garnett to the swamps that line the South Carolina side of Savannah River. Uncharacteristically, the pair lost their bearings in the swamp that night. They spent several hours trying to find their way out of the woods before beginning their walk home much later than usual.

That same night, a pair of B-47 Stratojet bombers took off on a training mission from Homestead Air Force Base located near Miami. Their mission took them toward New Orleans and then north to the Canadian border. They turned south and over Rad-

ford, Va., the crew dropped an electronic device that simulated a nuclear bomb drop.

Their mission complete, the crews were cleared to return to Florida.

Along the bomber’s flight path, Air Force fighters would be scrambled on their own training flights to intercept the bombers.

“They had flown 2,000 miles in eight hours, and they were exhausted,” Hunt said.

“After they released that electronic bomb in Virginia, they were headed back to Miami and did not realize they were going to be intercepted by any more fighter planes.”

Three F-86 Sabre fighters based in Charleston were ordered to intercept the flight.

Ground radar detected only one of the two bombers, and radar onboard the Sabre piloted by Lt. Clarence Stewart also identified a single bomber.

Stewart was descending and lining up on the tail of the blip on his radar when, a few minutes after midnight, he came down on top of the second, undetected bomber at an altitude of about 38,000 feet.

The collision ripped both wings off the Sabre and Stewart ejected.

“His parachute was programmed to open at 12,000 feet, but he didn’t trust that, as I probably wouldn’t have either,” Hunt said. He immediately pulled the ripcord and floated down for 30 minutes in 40-below zero weather. …

He came down in the swamp near my good friend’s house in Garnett.”

The B-47 suffered signifi-

Sidney Jones, Sr., right, describes how he and his father, while out coon hunting one cold night in 1958 near the Savannah River, managed to find a frostbitten pilot of a crashed F-86 that had collided with a B-47 on a training mission. The B-47 was carrying an unarmed hydrogen bomb which had been jettisoned into the ocean. At left is long-time friend Nick Hunt. Jones was the keynote speaker at the Beaufort Rotary Club on Wednesday, May 11. cant damage, but remained aloft. The bomber pilot, Maj. Howard Richardson, was directed to land at nearby Hunter Air Force Base.

Richardson, concerned that a rough landing could rip the bomb from its mounting and kill the crew as it tore through the fuselage, requested permission to jettison it.

Without waiting to receive a reply, Richardson dropped the unarmed nuclear bomb off coast of Tybee Island. He managed to land the plane safely, and all three crew members survived. Richardson was awarded the Distinguished Flying Cross for his efforts that night. The bomb has never been found.

Sidney said that he and his father heard the collision around midnight, but didn’t see anything and weren’t sure what they had heard. Thirty minutes later and a short distance from home, the two heard Stewart yelling for help, and they heard his attempt to fire a flare gun. They had no idea the cries for help were coming from a downed pilot, and Pattamas had good reason not to rush into the darkness in response.

Stewart had landed in an area used to operate an illegal whiskey still.

“Back in the ‘50s, everything was kind of bad,” Sidney explained. “If you was Black, people would shoot you if

you was trespassing. There’d be nothing to it. We rushed home and he said, ‘I’m going to get Andy Walker.’ He leaves. He has about a mile to walk. He didn’t have no car.

He walked to Andy Walker and got him out of bed and brought him back. They went and found that it was Clarence Stewart.”

People have asked Sidney why he and Pattamas didn’t go directly to the man in distress.

“My daddy had a lot of sense because he had an 11-year-old kid with him,” Sidney said. “If he had taken me there and somebody had set up a trap or something, they would kill me and him.

I thought he made a smart decision.”

Walker dropped Pattamas off at home and drove Stewart to the hospital. As a result, Walker, who was White, has generally received the credit for rescuing Stewart. Sidney believes that was because Pattamas was Black.

“All the newspapers put that Andy Walker found him,” Sidney said. “How’s he going to find him when he’s in his bed sleeping?”

A couple of years after the collision, Stewart stopped by the Jones’ Garnett home to thank Pattamas for his help that night. The downed pilot suffered severe frostbite on his hands that nearly resulted in their amputation.

Stewart refused to allow that and eventually recovered. He went on to fly more than 100 combat missions in Vietnam, where he was awarded the Silver Star and Distinguished Flying Cross. Stewart married Patricia Ann Hudson of Beaufort in 1958.

Pattamas died in 2021.

Sidney enjoyed a long and successful career as a wildlife officer with the South Carolina Department of Natural Resources. He is retired and is currently writing his autobiography. Sidney plans to include Pattamas’ story in his book.

Tony Kukulich is a recent transplant to the Lowcountry. A native of Wilmington, Del., he comes to The Island News from the San Francisco Bay Area where he spent seven years as a reporter and photographer for several publications. He can be reached at tony.theislandnews@gmail.com.

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G&G Feed and Seed closing for good

By Mike McCombs G&G Feed and Seed, a fixture at 3 Broad River Blvd., in Beaufort, is closing its doors for good Saturday, May 21.

All merchandise is discounted 10 to 15% now and could go lower before Saturday.

Hazel Pender has been the manager for the 17 years Guy Kirkland has owned the business. Not to mention, she worked for two previous owners in the same location, as well.

Everybody thought the Tractor Supply put us out of business ...

They couldn’t touch us.”

– G&G Feed and Seed Manager Hazel Pender Kirkland wasn’t available to speak to The Island News on Tuesday. But Pender said

poor business isn’t the reason for G&G’s closing.

“We’ve got the business,”

Pender said. “We’ve been fortunate to have good business here, people are loyal customers.”

Pender said a family issue, instead, is forcing Kirkland to close the store.

“So we’re having to close, but not because we want to,” she said.

She also laughed at the rumors that Tractor Supply had eaten into G&G’s business.

“We’ve been doing excellent business,” Pender said.

“Everybody thought the Tractor Supply put us out of business, but we’ve been doing excellent business. They couldn’t touch us.”

In addition to a variety of animal feed, seed, fertilizers, hay, dog houses and kennels, pet supplies, plants, outdoor equipment, chickens and other varieties of fowl G&G sells, there is a dog grooming and kennel business on site, as well. According to G&G’s Facebook page, that business

will remain open. For appointments, call 843-321-1286 or 843-694-3272.

But the Feed and Seed customers will have to find another option.

“I have been suggesting most people go to Jasper Feed & Seed in Ridgeland,” Pender said. “Or check out the Feed and Seed (on Lady’s Island).

Mike McCombs is the Editor of The Island News and can be reached at TheIslandNews@gmail.com.

Southside Park improvements estimated to cost $6 million From staff reports The Master Plan for Southside Park, which would include adding a new playground, pavilions, parking, half basketball court, and many other amenities, would have an estimated cost of $6 million, according to landscape design firm Wood + Partners, the City of Beaufort said in a news release Friday, May 13.

Consultants Kyle Theodore and Trey Griffin presented the plan to City Council at Work Session on May 10. The plan entails extensive regrading of a festival lawn that would be large enough for two soccer fields; a renovated dog park that would including new fencing, misting sprays, agility equipment and other features; a nine-hole disc golf course; a wetland habitat; additional restrooms; and new trails.

Southside Park, in the Mossy Oaks neighborhood, comprises 34 acres.

The most expensive item is the playground, which would include new parking, and is estimated at $1.6 million.

The playground would have a woodland theme and would feature a structure for 2- to 5-year-olds, and one for 5- to 12-year-olds. It would include

picnic tables and benches, and add parking for 41 spots.

It would also include swings and spinners.

Ideally, the playground

would have a poured-in-place rubberized surface under the fall zones of each piece of play equipment. The playground would be ADA-compliant.

The plan calls for a large event pavilion next to the festival lawn. It would house additional restrooms and six picnic tables. Smaller pavilions

would be built in the dog park.

The plan also would involve a new entrance, new streetscapes, and extensive landscaping, and connecting walkways to Waddell Road and the Beaufort County tennis courts.

From a community survey conducted last year, a playground at Southside Park was the top priority, and council agreed on Tuesday that the playground and new entrance near it should be prioritized.

City Manager Bill Prokop said that the next step is to put out a request for proposals for engineering and playground design, as the City determines how the improvements to the park will be financed.

The plan takes into account all the amenities proposed by the Southside Park Task Force, which was appointed

by City Council in 2021 to solicit public input and present that information to City Council. In late January of this year, City Council selected Woods + Partners to develop a master plan.

Campbell receives honorary doctorate from Sewanee

From staff reports Emory Campbell, retired Executive Director of Penn Center, received an honorary doctorate from the University of the South on Saturday, May 14 at a Baccalaureate service at All Saints Chapel in Sewanee, Tenn.

According to a citation read at the ceremony, Campbell was honored for his “lifelong commitment to articulating, preserving, and sharing the riches of a unique natural and cultural environment.”

A Hilton Head Island native with a B.S. in Microbi-

ology and a Master’s in Environmental Engineering, Campbell took over at Penn Center in 1980. According to Sewanee’s citation, in his 22 years at Penn Center, Campbell “insisted that the Gullah language and Gullah customs not be sacrificed in the interest of assimilation.”

“The foods we ate, the songs we sang, the spirits we embraced, the noble families in which we were loved, and the language we spoke,” he has written, were eminently worthy of study and preservation. And this became his life’s work.

Campbell received the Carter G. Woodson Award in 2005, and, in 2008, became Chairman of the Gullah-Geechee Cultural Heritage Corridor, which stretches from Wilmington, N.C., to Jacksonville, Fla. He has spoken and written extensively about Gullah history and culture.

“There is an old Gullah saying on the South Carolina sea islands that, in modern English admonishes: ‘Take care of the roots in order to heal the tree,’” the citation reads.

“Over a lifetime of service, Emory Campbell has always taken care of the roots.”

Retired Penn Center Executive Director Emory Campbell received an honorary doctorate from the University of the South on Saturday, May 14, in Sewanee, Tenn. Submitted photo.

Physician Administrator joins Beaufort Memorial Hospital Board

From staff reports William F. Jessee, M.D., FACMPE, was appointed last month by Beaufort County Council to a three-year term on Beaufort Memorial Hospital’s (BMH) nine-person Board of Trustees.

Jessee retired in 2020 as senior medical advisor at A.J. Gallagher Integrated Healthcare Strategies, and earlier

spent 12 years as president and chief executive officer of the Medical Group Management William F. Association Jessee, M.D (MGMA), gaining extensive experience in all facets of the management of well-run, cost-effec-

tive medical groups highly rated by both patients and physicians. Prior to his retirement he was consistently ranked in Modern Healthcare’s Top 100 Most Powerful People in Healthcare and Top 50 Most Powerful Physician Executives.

During his tenure with MGMA, Dr. Jessee also served for nine years as a

board member for Exempla Healthcare, a three-hospital system based in Denver, Colo.

Before joining MGMA, Jessee was vice president for quality and managed care standards at the American Medical Association.

He has also served as CEO of a regional integrated delivery system in Louisville, Ky.; vice president of the Joint

Commission on Accreditation of Healthcare Organizations; and corporate vice president for quality management at Humana Inc. From 1980 to 1986, Dr. Jessee was a full-time associate professor at University of North Carolina’s Gillings School of Global Public Health in Chapel Hill.

An honors graduate of Stanford University, he re-

ceived his medical degree at University of California San Diego School of Medicine and completed his residency in preventive medicine at University of Maryland Hospital in Baltimore. Prior to moving to Beaufort in 2018, Dr. Jessee’s family owned a home on Fripp Island where they regularly vacationed for more than a decade.

United Way recognizes Katie Phifer

UWLC President and CEO Dale Douthat presents this year's Peter Post Service Star Award recipient Katie Phifer with her own personalized star. Submitted photo.

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From staff reports United Way of the Lowcountry (UWLC) recently named Katie Phifer as the recipient of this year’s Peter Post Service Star Award.

The Peter Post Service Star Award was created to honor longtime United Way volunteer and Dataw Island resident Peter Post who has moved to the northeast to be closer to family. The award is bestowed annually to a community member in the

Lowcountry who has set an example of service above and beyond themselves.

“Katie’s impact in our community has been far-reaching, from collecting school items, uniforms and hygiene products for under-served students to raising scholarship funds to help nontraditional women earn college degrees,” UWLC President and CEO Dale Douthat said in a news release. “Through her selfless giving of time and talent and

her philanthropic support, Katie is leaving an indelible mark that will have an influence on Lowcountry families far into the future.”

Phifer has served as a board member for United Way of the Lowcountry, currently serves on the United Way finance committee and has been the chair of Women United for several years.

Through Women United, Phifer was instrumental in creating Operation Backpack,

which provides under-served students with backpacks filled with school supplies to start school; Mimi’s Closets, which offers essential school and personal supplies to students during the school year; and the Women United Scholarship fund, which supports local, non-traditional female students pursuing higher education degrees at University of South Carolina Beaufort or Technical College of the Lowcountry.

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Knitted Knockers

Sunday’s ‘Sit & Knit’ event to support local effort to provide breast prosthetics for cancer patients From staff reports

L

ike so many avid knitters, Jo Panayotoff has put her needle skills to work for a variety of charitable endeavors, from blankets for Radiance Women’s Center in Beaufort to baby gowns for preemies.

A few years ago, while looking for a new project, she came across the website for Knitted Knockers, an international nonprofit group that creates knit prosthetics for breast cancer survivors.

Panayotoff knew all too well the need for an alternative to the standard silicone breast forms, having heard her daughter, a breast cancer survivor, gripe about her cumbersome artificial boob.

“I remember my daughter complaining that her prosthetic was heavy and

Made with 100 percent cotton and stuffed with high-quality fiber fill, Knitted Knockers come in a variety of colors and have become popular with breast cancer survivors worldwide.

“Women love them because they feel real,” Panayotoff said.

“They have a little squish to them.”

hot,” Panayotoff recalled. “She found it so uncomfortable she started stuffing her bra with a rolled-up sock.”

To create a Knitted Knocker, Panayotoff had to learn how to knit in the round with double pointed needles, an advanced knitting technique that uses four needles with points at each end.

“The first couple of knockers I made were a little wonky, but I got the hang of it,” the retired Lady’s Island resident said. "I knitted a pink one for my daughter and sent it to her to try out.”

Made with 100 percent cotton yarn approved by Knitted Knockers and proven to be washable, breathable and durable, the wonderfully soft, contoured tata was a big hit.

Realizing these could help other women, Panayotoff set off to find local recipients for her Knitted Knockers.

Her first stop was Beaufort Memorial Hospital’s Breast Health Center.

“I loved them the moment I saw them,” said Beaufort Memorial Breast Care Navigator Erin Bulatao-Hollifield.

“They’re light and soft and look very natural.”

The knockers are especially popular with women who have just undergone a mastectomy and need to wait for the surgical site to heal before wearing a standard prosthesis. Available in sizes from A to double D, they are stuffed with high-quality fiber fill that can be adjusted through a small drawstring opening on the back. They also come in

INTERESTED IN HELPING? This weekend, Jo Panayotoff and Janice List are hosting a special “Sit & Knit” at Coastal Knitting at 900 Port Republic St., downtown Beaufort from 1 to 4 p.m., Sunday.

Knitters and crocheters – or anyone who would like more information – are invited to attend. Call the shop at 843-470-0148 to RSVP. If you can’t make the event but would like to volunteer, you can contact Panayotoff directly at handyhooters.jp@ gmail.com.

Janice List and Jo Panayotoff deliver Knitted Knockers to nurse navigator Erin Bulatao-Hollifield, RN, OCN, at the Beaufort Memorial Breast Health Center. List and Panayotoff will host a "Sit & Knit" event this Sunday from 1 to 4 p.m., at Coastal Knitting for anyone interested in learning how to make the knockers or helping with the project. Photos courtesy of Beaufort Memorial Hospital. an acrylic blend that can be used for swimming.

“Many women particularly like that there is a knocker made for swimmers,” said Bulatao-Hollifield. “It’s a great option especially for those who reside in our coastal area and want to get back to swimming in the pool or at the beach.”

Since she started her efforts back in the fall of 2019, Pan-

ayotoff has personally knitted more than 200 knockers.

“It typically takes me about eight hours to make one,” said Panayotoff. “Smaller ones can be done in less time, but it's mostly the larger sizes that are in demand.”

Recognizing that she wouldn’t be able to keep up with the demand for the free prostheses, she’s recruited several friends who knit, and

has partnered with Coastal Knitting in Beaufort to find additional knitters. The shop’s owner, Janice List, also offered to host a “sit & knit” event for the cause, as well as be a drop off location where knitters can leave unstuffed knockers for Panayotoff to pick up.

“Then I stuff and size each one, label and package them with care instructions and

distribute them,” she said.

In addition, Dataw Island’s knitting group took on Knitted Knockers as their charity project. Volunteer knitters pay for the yarn themselves, with a ball of yarn generating about five average-sized knockers.

And while support has grown, so has the need. In addition to providing for Beaufort Memorial patients, she has also expanded distribution to the hospital’s Okatie Medical Pavilion and Hilton Head Hospital’s Breast Care Center in Bluffton, and become a state provider for the national organization, fulfilling requests from the Knitted Knockers website.

“Bottom line is we need more knitters. With increased awareness, and the enthusiasm of the nurse navigators at the hospitals, I’m looking for a way to expand our ability to reach more women,” she said.

“I want to keep doing this until it's no longer necessary and there is no more need.”

Local church hosting program on need for prison reform

From staff reports America incarcerates more people than any other nation in the world, and the South is America’s incarceration center. A public presentation on the issue – “Need For Prison Reform In America” – is scheduled for 10 a.m., Sunday May 22, at the Unitarian Universalist Fellowship of Beaufort (UUFB), at 178 Sams Pt. Road, Lady’s Island. All are welcome.

Sentencing policies imple-

WANT TO GO? What: Public Presentation of “Need For Prison Reform In America” When: 10 a.m., Sunday, May 22 Where: Unitarian Universalist Fellowship of Beaufort, 178 Sams Pt. Road, Lady’s Island

mented between the 1970’s and 1990’s have filled prisons beyond capacity, and Black and brown communities have

been hit the hardest. In South Carolina today, prisons have become repositories for many of the most vulnerable people in society – those diagnosed with serious mental illness, struggling with addiction, or scarred from a lifetime of trauma and abuse.

Sunday’s presentation is part of the UUFB Sunday service and will address the intersection of race, poverty and the criminal legal system today.

Deputy city manager Bertholf completes Kennedy School executive program

From staff reports Deputy City Manager Reece Bertholf was awarded on May 6 an Executive Certificate in Public Leadership from the Harvard Kennedy School of Executive Education, according to a news release.

Bertholf completed three executive programs over 2021 and 2022, both online and in-person in Cambridge, Mass. They included: “Senior Executives in State and Local Government: Leading Resilient Communities,” “Leadership Decision Making,” and “Negotiation Strategies: Building Agreement Across Boundaries.”

The classes were taught

by Harvard faculty, and included diverse students from across the globe.

“This is a prestigious program, and we’re proud of ReReece ece and his Bertholf accomplishments,” City Manager Bill Prokop said in a release. “We support the continuing education of our staff, and this exceptional leadership program will be invaluable for the City of Beaufort.”

Bertholf said, “This was a

tremendous experience for me, and I appreciate the City’s continued support. It was an honor to learn from some of the finest faculty in America, and to share ideas with my fellow classmates. I’m looking forward to building on this experience.”

Bertholf was named deputy city manager in August 2021. Previously, he was assistant city manager and fire chief. He joined the Beaufort/Port Royal Fire Department in 2001. He has an MBA from The Citadel and a Bachelor of Science from the University of South Carolina Beaufort.

NEWS BRIEFS

County offering free electronics recycling event

The Beaufort County Department of Solid Waste and Recycling will host two free electronics recycling events for County residents. The next events will be held from 9 a.m. to 3 p.m., Saturday, May 21, at the following locations: • Beaufort County Public Works, 9 Benton Field Road, Bluffton.

• Beaufort County Public Works, 140 Shanklin Road, Beaufort.

Citizens are asked to stay in their car during the event.

Staff will unload electronics.

Residential only.

Any personal computers, laptops, CRT monitors, LCD monitors, CRT televisions, non-CRT televisions, printers, hard drives and miscellaneous electronics (microwaves, cell phones, radios, fax machines, and typewriters) will be accepted.

If you have questions about Beaufort County recycling events, call the Solid Waste and Recycling Office at 843255-2736 or visit www.beaufortcountysc.gov/recycle.

Local Democrats to meet

The monthly meeting of the Norther Beaufort County Democratic Club is at 6 p.m., Thursday, May 19 at Grace AME Chapel, 502 Charles Street, Beaufort.

Presenter Shirene Hansotia will lead a discussion on how we got to where we are today, and what we can do to reverse these trends and create a more just and equitable society.

Hansotia, born and raised in Wisconsin, earned her undergraduate degrees in Journalism, Political Science and African Studies from the University of Wisconsin-Madison; her master’s degree in Public Policy Administration from

Michigan State University; and a Juris Doctor from Charleston School of Law. She says those sent to South Carolina prisons face prolonged lockdowns that last months and even years, a dire lack of medical and mental health care, and substandard food and conditions.

Hansotia was a public defender for several years but has since been seeking structural change through lobbying, advocacy and litigation; first at

ACLU of South Carolina and now as the state director of Root & Rebound, an organization that works to restore power and resources to the families and communities most harmed by mass incarceration through legal advocacy, public education, policy reform and litigation. For more information visit www.rootandrebound.org.

For more information or to join via Zoom visit www. uubeaufort.org.

Host of County Channel nature series Coastal Kingdom receives 5th Southeastern EMMY nomination

From staff reports The County Channel's nature series Coastal Kingdom has been nominated for a 2022 Southeastern EMMY Award in the category of Best On-Camera Host.

This is the fifth time Coastal Kingdom’s host and naturalist Tony Mills has been nominated for Best TV Host and if successful, would be his third EMMY. The series won the award in 2018 and 2019.

To date, the Coastal Kingdom team has received seven Southeastern EMMY

New episode of Coastline: St. Phillips Island

A new episode of The County Channel's series Coastline showcases a remote island that is part of the South Carolina State Park at Hunting Island. No bridge has ever touched St. Phillips Island, so host Rick Forschner and the crew went with Coastal Expeditions on a day trip from Hunting Island.

nominations. The EMMY winners for 2022 will be announced later this year.

Southeastern EMMY Awards are a division of the National Academy of Television Arts and Sciences.

Coastal Kingdom is hosted by Mills, a naturalist and educator, and is a production partnership between The County Channel and The LowCountry Institute on Spring Island.

Created and produced by County Broadcast Services Producer Rob Lewis, Coastal Kingdom has been pro-

Coastline is an educational news and information show filmed in-studio and produced by The County Channel. It airs on The County Channel at 9:30 a.m., Sundays; 11:30 a.m., Tuesdays; 8 p.m., Thursdays; and 9 a.m., Fridays.

Watch all programming for The County Channel on Comcast Ch. 2, Hargray Chs. 9 and 113, and Spectrum Ch. 1304. Viewers can also watch programming live and on-demand on The County Chan-

duced for over a decade, and has been used in classrooms all over South Carolina.

It has been invaluable in featuring the beautiful habitats, and unique creatures of the South Carolina Lowcountry.

Watch all programming for The County Channel live on Comcast Ch. 2, Hargray Chs. 9 and 113, and Spectrum Ch. 1304. Viewers can also watch programming live and on-demand at The County Channel’s website at www.beaufortcountysc.gov.

nel's YouTube or The County Channel’s website at www. beaufortcountysc.gov.

For more information about taking a trip to Hunting Island State Park, visit the links below: https://southcarolinaparks. com/hunting-island https://www.coastalexpeditions.com/product/st-phillips-island-ferry/ https://southcarolinaparks. com/hunting-island/theturner-house MAY 19–25, 2022

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Chat with the Mayor

New SC law exempts military retirement from taxation From staff reports Governor Henry McMaster signed H. 3247 into law on Friday, May 13, making South Carolina one of more than three dozen states that exempt military retiree pay from taxation.

The law is effective beginning tax years after 2021, making military retiree pay 100% exempt from state income tax with no earned-income cap.

Prior to the passage of the bill, a portion of a military retiree’s income was taxed with only partial exemptions in place.

The legislation should incentivize service members transitioning from active duty to retirement to live, work, or consider relocating to South Carolina.

“We’re doing everything we can to incentivize our nation’s heroic veterans to live, work, and raise their families here in S.C.,” McMaster said in a release. “For years, we have fought to eliminate all state income taxes on their retirement pay. I’m proud to have finally signed a bill into law that will make that a reality. This is just one more way we can thank our Veterans for their sacrifice, and it adds to the long list of things that makes South Carolina the most military-friendly state in the country.”

Town of Port Royal Mayor Joe DeVito fields questions from residents during a 90-minute meeting held Thursday, May 12 in Live Oak Park in Port Royal. DeVito covered topics including development, impact fees and the future of the U.S. Naval Hospital Beaufort. Photo by Tony Kukulich.

United Way accepting applications for 2023-25 funding

From staff reports United Way of the Lowcountry (UWLC) is now accepting prequalification applications for UWLC Community Impact grants from health and human ser-

vice nonprofits serving residents in Jasper and/or Beaufort counties.

Grant applications must be submitted by 501(c)(3) certified agencies and must address critical program service

needs in health and education.

Previously funded programs ranged from summer learning loss prevention programs to free healthcare for uninsured adults.

Grant application require-

ments can be found online at www.uwlowcountry.org/ funding. The deadline for prequalification submissions is 4 p.m. on Friday, May 27.

Panels of community volunteers will review the ap-

plication submissions and funding announcements will be made in January.

For additional information, contact UWLC Vice President of Community Impact Chrystie Turner at 843-379-3067.

Lowcountry Phone Directory publisher rakes in awards again

From staff reports The Lowcountry Phone Directory published by CPC Yellow Pages captured eight prizes in the Association of Directory Publishers' annual awards competition, including Publisher of the Year honors for Brent Cooper for the second consecutive year.

In all, the Lowcountry Phone Directory has won 31 ADP awards in the past four years.

“We’ve had an outstanding run of success,” said Cooper, who has spent most of his life in Beaufort and has owned the phone directory since 1994. “I think we owe that success to our readers and our advertisers because they just ‘get’ what we’re trying to do — publish a directory that reflects the community it serves.

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A press release issued by the HBF dated May 9 stated, “The house has been a private residence since it was constructed, but the current owners, Billy and Paul Keyserling, are seeking to change that by opening the residence to tour groups on a daily basis.”

The HBF filing goes on to allege that the Keyserling’s plans might include convert-

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“I have a great staff, of course, but our community contributors are responsible for so much of what makes our phone book unique and enduring.”

Award winners were announced May 5, during the ADP’s annual conference in Orlando, Fla. CPC Yellow Pages has also won Publisher of the Year in three of the past four years, including 2021 and 2022.

ADP President and CEO Cindi Aldrich commended Cooper for the accomplishment.

“Back-to-back Publisher of the Year wins in the Directory Excellence Awards competition is the ultimate mark of distinction,” Aldrich said. “CPC Yellow Pages won in numerous categories in a competition judged by its

peers, and (Cooper’s) company was justly recognized as the best of the best by members of the directory publishing industry.”

In all, the Lowcountry

Phone Directory won eight awards: • Publisher of the Year; • Excellence in Cover Design and Art Print, first place, Hunting Is-

land Lighthouse, Delk Haigler photographer; Excellence in Cover Design and Art Product Branding, 1st place: Delk Haigler Excellence in Directory Ad Effectiveness & Design, first place, The Retreat at Lady’s Island; Excellence in Marketing Sales Support Collateral, first place, Marv’s Outboard Motor Repair; Excellence in Marketing Direct Mail, Contest, Magazine, Newspaper, Outdoor or Event, first place, directory photo contest, best newspaper advertisement (The Island News), best outdoor advertising (Marlin Signs) and Beaufort Regional Chamber of Commerce e-flash;

ing the home to a museum, though no specific evidence of that allegation is offered.

Scott Teodorski, superintendent of the Beaufort-based Reconstruction Era National Historic Park, confirmed that the McKee-Smalls House is sometimes included in the walking tours offered by the National Park Service.

“We work with partners in the community and the Keyserlings are one of those partners,” Teodorski explained.

“They’re not conducting any tours or imploring us to do tours. They’ve made the house available for some of our ranger-led tours. We do occasionally go into the house as part of our tour, talking about Reconstruc-

tion-era history here in Beaufort, but not always.”

The action, filed in the South Carolina Court of Common Pleas 14th Judicial Circuit, request an expedited non-jury trial and declaratory judgment on the matter, and asks that the defendants, the Keyserlings, be held responsible for the legal costs involved with bringing the issue to court.

“We disagree with the Keyserlings that a private residence includes opening it daily or regularly to the public,” Jenkins said.

A conservation and preservation easement for the property at 511 Prince St. in Beaufort’s Point neighborhood was donated to the HBF

by David and Marilyn Atwell in 2002 for the purpose of preserving and maintaining the premises and its architectural, historical, and cultural features.

“An easement, when it’s donated, it is attached to the deed and it runs with the property forever,” Jenkins said. “Whatever the terms of the easement cover is what the nonprofit that accepts it is charged with enforcing.”

Reached for comment, Billy Keyserling declined to discuss the matter on advice from his legal counsel.

According to Teodorski, there are no tours that focus exclusively on the McKee-Smalls House. A visit to the site on one the National

Park Service’s free walking tour is done entirely at the discretion of the ranger leading the tour. Tours are held twice a day from Tuesday through Saturday.

“We’re part of the community, so it’s really important to us that we respect the integrity of the neighborhood,” Teodorski added.

The McKee-Smalls House was originally built around 1810, and by the 1830s it was owned by the McKee family.

Henry McKee sold the house in 1851 and moved to a new home on Bay Street.

Robert Smalls bought the house from a tax auction in January 1864. Smalls had gained notoriety by stealing the C.S.S. Planter and

slipping unnoticed out of Charleston Harbor to freedom with 17 Black passengers. He later went on to hold elected office in the South Carolina State Assembly and Senate as well as the U.S. House of Representatives.

Smalls and his descendants lived in the house until 1940.

He died at the Prince Street home where he had lived and raised two families for more than 50 years.

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States, their spouses, and dependents residing with them.

Voters admitted to hospitals as emergency patients on the day of an election or within a fourday period before the election.

Voters who, for one of the following reasons, are unable to vote in person on any day of the early-voting period or on Election Day: Employment obligations; Attending sick or physically disabled

persons; Confined to a jail or pretrial facility pending disposition of arrest or trial; or Absent from their county for any reason.

To vote absentee: • Request an absentee application by phone, mail, or in person.

• Complete, sign and return the application by mail or in person. New applications will be issued soon based on the new requirements. The old application will con-

tinue to be accepted through May 31. After May 31, only new applications meeting current requirements will be accepted. The deadline to return a new application is June 3.

You will receive your absentee ballot in the mail.

Vote and return your ballot to the Board of Voter Registration and Elections of Beaufort County office by mail or in person no later than 7:00 p.m. on Election Day. Be

sure to sign the voter’s oath and have the return envelope witnessed.

There are no changes to the witness requirement in effect for the June Primaries. Witness requirement changes in the law go into effect in July.

Photo ID will be required to return your ballot in person. Ballots returned by mail should be mailed no later than one week prior to election day to help ensure timely delivery.

Absentee (by-mail only) Absentee voting allows qualified voters to cast a ballot by mail prior to Election Day. In-Person Absentee Voting is no longer authorized by law.

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The 2022 directory — the company’s 28th — was mailed recently to customers in Beaufort, Jasper, Hampton and Colleton counties.

In addition to residential and business listings, it includes profiles of prominent area residents, images captured by local photographers, a newcomer’s guide, and hurricane tracking and evacuation maps. The directory can also be found online at www.

CPCYellowPages.com.

Tony Kukulich is a recent transplant to the Lowcountry. A native of Wilmington, Del., he comes to The Island News from the San Francisco Bay Area where he spent seven years as a reporter and photographer for several publications. He can be reached at tony.theislandnews@gmail.com.

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What can market volatility teach about the fundamentals?

Provided by Wells Fargo

While market volatility can be painful, it can remind investors of the importance of sticking to the fundamentals.

Market volatility, painful as it can be, can actually provide an important lesson for investors about why it’s important to stick to the fundamentals, such as having an asset allocation strategy and reviewing your plan. With that in mind, here are suggestions for turbulent times that may help you turn today’s worries into tomorrow’s good habits.

Remembering asset allocation

When market volatility occurs, investors have the opportunity to get back to fundamentals they may have

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When he hired folks, we kept folks for 20 years or 30 years until they retired. It’s a sign of how things have changed.

We’re going to have to navigate that as best we can.”

In recent months, the park has had its share of challenges and successes. The 136-foot tall lighthouse was closed in February after engineers deemed it unsafe for visitors and for staff. It is expected to remain closed for the foresee-

forgotten. This is especially true for asset allocation — the strategy financial professionals return to time and again when investors want help dealing with volatile markets.

At its most basic level, asset allocation is how you diversify your investments across different asset classes (stocks, bonds, cash alternatives, etc.).

This varies based on a number of factors, primarily: • What you want your investments to help you achieve (objectives) • How comfortable you are with market volatility (risk tolerance) • How long it will be before you will need to access your investments (time horizon) The asset allocation model that best suits any given investor depends on where they land in regard to these three factors.

It’s important to remember that asset allocation offers investors a trade-off. During good times, a diversified portfolio’s return will lag the best performing asset class. On the other hand, during down periods, it will do better than the worst performing asset class. It’s up to each investor to decide what’s more important — participating more in the good times by holding more stock or avoiding the worst of the bad by holding less.

able future. The South Carolina State Legislature recently approved $3 million for structural repairs to the only publicly accessible lighthouse in South Carolina. The project to repair the iconic structure is currently in the design phase, but a date for completion of the project is not known.

In September, the fishing pier reopened after a four-anda-half year project to repair damage caused by Hurricane Matthew in 2016. That project cost nearly $1 million.

“We got the pier open in September of last year,” said Goff.

“This will be our first summer season with the pier open in a

long time, so that’s exciting.”

Another long-term project – repaving the park’s roads – is nearing completion.

“As soon as you come into the park, you’ll notice it,” Goff said. “If you’ve been coming here for the last 10 years, you know how bad the roads were.”

Despite their challenges, Goff said the staff remains committed to providing park visitors with a memorable experience.

“I feel like we do a good job providing that customer service,” noted Goff. “It’s certainly a load that the staff here carries on their shoulders. We pride ourselves on being able to pro-

Reviewing your plan regularly

If you have an asset allocation plan and still find yourself lying awake at night, volatility is a chance to revisit your plan for possible adjustments.

It’s possible you overestimated your risk tolerance

when creating your plan. Due to their potential for providing growth and, sometimes, income, stocks have an important role to play in many plans. But with that potential comes the likelihood for greater price volatility than is typically seen with other investments, such as bonds.

If concern about your investments when there’s volatility causes you stress, it may be time to see whether you need to scale back the amount you have allocated to stocks.

It’s also possible the problem is not with your plan.

Over time, market activity can shift your allocations away from your plan’s targeted amounts. Say you started with a hypothetical 60% stocks/40% bonds portfolio. An extended rise in the stock market could shift it to, for example, 75% stocks/25% bonds. As a result, when

there’s market volatility, you would experience more of it than intended.

You may want to consider rebalancing your portfolio regularly. Rebalancing is simply checking your investments to see whether market activity has caused them to drift. If they have, you can decide if you want to sell investments that have increased in value and use the proceeds to buy others that may have decreased. Doing this at least once a year — or allowing your investment platform to do it for you — can keep your allocations, and risk level, where you want them.

Asset allocation and diversification are investment methods used to help manage risk. They do not guarantee investment returns or eliminate risk of loss including in a declining market.

All investment involves risk, including the possible loss of principal.

vide quality customer service and take care of our park in a sustainable way. While it’s frustrating to have to pause programs, we’ll continue to move forward and hopefully find a replacement interpreter who will come in, hit the ground running and keep doing good things. I think we’re still able to provide those services to the guests.”

Tony Kukulich is a recent transplant to the Lowcountry. A native of Wilmington, Del., he comes to The Island News from the San Francisco Bay Area where he spent seven years as a reporter and photographer for several publications. He can be reached at tony.theislandnews@gmail.com.

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JERRY WHITE, ET AL. NOTICE OF LEGAL ACTION TO: Defendant, Jerry White NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN TO JERRY WHITE, 60 Shanklin Road, Lot 66, Beaufort, South Carolina you have been sued in the Court of Common Pleas for Richand County in cause number 2021CP-40-04005. COMPLAINT was filed August 10, 2021, for the purpose of instituting a Declaratory Judgment action against Defendants as a result of an auto accident. All persons having a defense are required to file a response herein within the time prescribed by law. Notice is hereby given that if an answer is not filed within the time prescribed by law a judgment by default will be rendered against you for the relief demanded in the complaint. For a full copy of the complaint you may contact the attorney named herein.

Unless an appearance is made by you, a Default Judgment will be taken on May 30, 2022 at 5:00 p.m. by the Law Office of R. Edward Henderson, P.O. Box 1764, Florence, SC 29503; Michael Parker, Parker LLP (Pro Hac Vice) 1200 Summit Ave, Suite 200, Fort Worth, Texas 76102 (Pro Hac Vice) attorney for Plaintiffs herein.

Need Healing?

All of us

can use healing: healing of a heart that cannot forgive, emotional wounds from the past, or physical illness or sufferings.

Reverend Greg Bramlage, a nationally known preacher, will come to Beaufort and offer three evenings of prayer and healing. He will share how Jesus Christ continues to show his love and mercy in our own day, including many miracles of healing!

You are invited to join us for “God’s Healing Love,” a parish mission held on the evenings of May 23, 24, and 25, starting at 6:30. Though the presentations build upon one another, if you cannot attend all three nights, come to the ones you can.

All are welcome: adults and children, believers and non-believers, and those of all faith backgrounds. There is no cost. Come with an open heart, ready to be awed by the extravagant love of God!

God’s Healing Love Three Nights of Prayer & Healing

“Blessed Are The Merciful” Monday, May 23 • 6:30pm

“Be Filled With The Holy Spirit” Tuesday, May 24 • 6:30pm

“Pray That You May Be Healed” Wednesday, May 25 • 6:30pm

Testimonies from Past Participants “I could not walk due to rheumatoid arthritis and now I can walk!”

- Philomena Vitale, Howell, MI

“I had macular degeneration in my left eye. I can now see colors and there is no difference between my left eye and my healthy right eye.”

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Held at Saint Peter’s Catholic Church 70 Lady’s Island Drive, Beaufort, SC 29907 (Across from Publix)

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HEALTH & WELLNESS Options & References for a Healthier Life

African Americans at higher risk of stroke May is National Stroke Awareness Month. According to the Centers for Disease Control (CDC.gov), a stroke occurs every 40 seconds in the U.S. Do you know that stroke is a leading cause of death and disability in the United States?

A stroke happens when blood supply to the brain is interrupted or reduced, preventing brain tissue from getting oxygen and nutrients. This causes brain cells to become damaged or die.

Risks of stroke vary by race and ethnicity. African American men and women are more likely to have a stroke than any other population in the country. Dr. Maisha Robinson, a Mayo Clinic neurologist, talks about what African American adults can do to lower their risk of stroke.

Everyone is at risk of stroke. But minorities are at greatest risk.

"We don’t understand exactly all the reasons behind this, but what we know is that the similar risk factors for stroke, which are apparent in the entire population, are more common, particularly

THINK “F A S T” Stroke symptoms often are characterized by a sudden inability to do something. And one way to recognize some of the key symptoms is the acronym "FAST." F stands for facial droop. If you notice a sudden droop or paralysis in your face, or sudden difficulty seeing out of one or both eyes, it could be stroke.

in African Americans," says Dr. Robinson.

She says African Americans are not only at increased risk of having a stroke, but they're also at increased risk of being debilitated by or dying from a stroke.

"Knowing your numbers, being able to assess the situation and then addressing

the situation with regard to blood pressure, cholesterol, diabetes, weight, diet is very important, especially in that population," says Dr. Robinson.

Stroke is a medical emergency. Symptoms include difficulty speaking, paralysis or numbness in the face, arm or leg, difficulty seeing, diffi-

culty walking or a sudden intense headache.

It's important to act quickly and call 911 if you or someone you are with shows signs of having a stroke.

Source: https://newsnetwork. mayoclinic.org/discussion/mayoclinic-minute-african-americans-athigher-risk-of-stroke/

A stands for arm weakness. Sudden weakness or paralysis on one side of the body—arm or leg—or difficulty walking can be a sign of stroke.

S stands for speech slurring. Sudden difficulty speaking or understanding others, perhaps even speaking unintelligible words, are all examples.

T stands for time. "If they see those symptoms occurring either in themselves, or a loved one or friend, they should seek emergency medical care immediately because every minute truly does count when there's a lack of blood flow to the brain or if there's been a hemorrhage into the brain tissue."

Recognizing these "FAST" symptoms and getting treatment quickly can minimize damage to the brain and lessen poststroke complications.

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How change in climate can impact allergies

An allergist comments on research that suggests climate change is impacting allergies.

Spring is in the air, but that’s not all. Current research indicates there’s more pollen in the air these days as well.

“What they found was that the human-caused climate change is really changing our pollen seasons, so it’s lengthening the

number of days that we can have pollen allergies and in addition to it, it has been increasing pollen counts.

They found that it seems to be linked to increased temperatures,” said Sandra Hong, MD, allergist with Cleveland Clinic.

Dr. Hong said warmer

temperatures lead to increased budding and pollination, which results in more allergy and asthma symptoms.

So, how can we combat extra pollen and keep symptoms controlled?

In addition to using allergy medications, environ-

mental controls can help.

Dr. Hong recommends closing windows to keep pollen out and using air conditioning when possible. Washing pollen by laundering clothes and showering after spending time outdoors can help too.

And don’t forget your fur-

ry friends.

“One thing a lot of times families will forget is that their furry pet will actually not only have their fur and dander, but on top of it they actually have the pollen coating them,” she noted.

Dr. Hong said it’s best to keep outdoor pets out of

your bed if you’re allergic to pollen. This will reduce nighttime allergy symptoms and help you get a good night’s sleep.

Source: https://newsroom. clevelandclinic.org/2022/04/20/ how-change-in-climate-can-impactallergies/

wiseWORDS© How gardening can help prevent osteoporosis

Try some gardening this summer. It’s good for your body, your soul, and the environment.

According to Deborah Benzil, MD, neurosurgeon for Cleveland Clinic, gardening can be a great way to help prevent osteoporosis.

“When you’re out in the garden, the fact that you’re walking, that you’re using

Dr. Benzil said start low and go slow, meaning you should only do a little bit in the beginning and then work your way up. instruments, that you’re using your body and your muscles in a certain way, it’s called weight bearing exercise. That’s exercise

when your body is attached to the ground, and so that’s the best kind of exercise for you if you want to prevent bone softening or osteopo-

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rosis,” said Dr. Benzil.

For those unfamiliar, osteoporosis weakens the bones, making them more susceptible to sudden and unexpected fractures.

Dr. Benzil said research has shown that gardening on a regular basis can also help prevent dementia and boost your immune system. Plus, there are mental health benefits too.

What should you keep in mind if you’re new to gardening?

Dr. Benzil said start low and go slow, meaning you should only do a little bit in the beginning and then work your way up. Don’t try to carry heavy items right away or dig too many holes.

Also be sure to use the right tools and equipment.

“I also strongly recommend you do a light stretch and warm your body up a little bit before you get out into the garden. And most important, after you have done the gardening, take the time to do a good ten- or fifteen-minute stretch, particularly for your back—your upper back, and your lower back—because both of these

Photo by CDC on Unsplash. areas get a lot of stress during gardening,” she said.

Dr. Benzil notes it’s never too late to get into garden-

ing. It can be beneficial for people of all ages.

Source: Cleveland Clinic News Service

Everywhere That People Care The trusted Care magazine is now back in print as a regular contributor to The Island News, with Karen Mozzo as editor. Together we’ll deliver information, references, and options for a healthier life.

HEALTH & WELLNESS Options & References for a Healthier Life

How can you evaluate health information on the internet?

Finding health information on the internet is fast and easy. But how can you tell if the information is: • Accurate or misleading?

• Based on solid medical evidence or just an opinion?

• Offering factual data or simply promoting a product someone wants you to buy?

The internet makes finding health information easy and fast. Much of the information on the internet is valuable; however, the internet also allows rapid and widespread distribution of false and misleading information.

You should carefully consider the source of information you find on the internet and discuss that information with your healthcare provider.

This fact sheet can help you decide whether the health information you find on the internet or receive by email, text, or social media is likely to be reliable.

1. Who runs the site? Online resources such as web and social media sites should make it easy for you to learn who is responsible for the site and its information. The web address or copyright information should be indicated on each page, along with a link to the site’s homepage.

2. Who pays for the site?

It costs money to run web and social media sites. The source of a website’s funding should be clearly stated or readily apparent. For example, the U.S. government funds websites with addresses ending in ”.gov,” educational institutes maintain ”.edu” sites, noncommercial organizations’ addresses often use ”.org,” and

”.com” denotes a commercial organization. A site’s source of funding can affect the content it presents, how it presents that content, and what the owner wants to accomplish on the site.

3. What is the site’s purpose? The person or organization that runs a website and the site’s funding sources determine the site’s purpose.

Many websites have a link to information about the site, often called “About This Site.” This webpage should clearly state the purpose of the site and help you evaluate the trustworthiness of the site’s information.

Looking for another source of health information that is independent and unbiased can help you validate the accuracy of the material presented on a site.

4. What is the original source of the site’s information? Many health and medical websites post information that the owner has collected from other websites or sources. If the person or organization in charge of the site did not write the material, they should clearly identify the original source. For social media sites, it is also important to consider whether the source of the information is reliable, that is, what is the background and expertise of the person posting the content?

5. How does the site document the evidence supporting its information? Websites should identify the medical and scientific evidence that supports the material presented on the site.

Illustration by PewResearch.org.

Medical facts and figures should have references (such as citations of articles published in medical journals). Also, opinions or advice should be clearly set apart from information that is “evidence based” (that is, based on research results). Testimonials from people who said they have tried a particular product or service are not evidence based and usually cannot be corroborated.

6. Who reviewed the information before the owner posted it on the site?

Health-related websites should give information about the medical credentials of the people who prepared or reviewed the material on the website.

7. How current is the information on the site?

Experts should review and update the material on websites on a regular basis. Medical information needs to be current because medical research is constantly coming up with new information about medical conditions and how best to treat or prevent them.

Sites should clearly post the most recent update or review date. Even if the information has not changed in a long time, the site owner should indicate that someone has reviewed it recently to ensure that the information is still valid.

8. How does the site owner choose links to other sites? Owners of reliable websites usually have a policy governing which links to other sites they post. Some medical websites take a conservative approach and do not provide links to any other sites; some sites provide links to any site that asks or pays for a link; and others provide links only to sites that have met certain criteria. Checking a website’s linking policy can help you understand how they choose links to other sites and what they’re trying to accomplish by posting those links.

9. What information about users does the site collect, and why?

Websites routinely track the path users take through their sites to determine what pages peo-

ple are viewing. However, many health-related websites also ask users to “subscribe” to or “become a member” of the site. Sites sometimes do this to collect a user fee or select relevant information for the user. The subscription or membership might allow the website owner to collect personal information about the user.

Any web or social media site asking you for personal information should explain exactly what the site will and will not do with the information. Many commercial sites sell “aggregate” data—such as what percent of their users take dietary supplements— about their users to other companies. In some cases, sites collect and reuse information that is “personally identifiable,” such as your ZIP code, gender, and birth date.

Be certain to read and understand any privacy policy or similar language on the site and do not sign up for anything that you do not fully understand.

10. How does the site man-

age interactions with users? Web and social media sites should always offer a way for users to contact the site owner with problems, feedback, and questions.

If the site hosts a chat room or some other form of online discussion, it should explain the terms of using the service. For example, the site should explain whether anyone moderates the discussions and, if so, who provides the moderation and what criteria the moderator uses to determine which comments to accept and which to reject. Always read online discussions before participating to make sure that you are comfortable with the discussion and with what participants say to one another.

11. How can you verify the accuracy of information you receive via email or text? Carefully evaluate any email or text messages you receive that provide health-related information. Consider the message’s origin and purpose. Some companies or organizations use email or text to advertise products or attract people to their websites. A critical eye is warranted if an individual or company is promoting a particular medical product or service in an email or text without providing supporting medical evidence.

Source: https://ods.od.nih.gov/ HealthInformation/How_To_ Evaluate_Health_Information_on_ the_Internet_Questions_and_Answers. aspx?utm_medium=email&utm_ source=govdelivery

Reduce wireless radiation exposure in your home

Numerous recent, peer-reviewed studies indicate a connection between wireless radiation and a variety of illnesses and symptoms, and doctors conclude that children are “more vulnerable.”

The Environmental Health Trust has compiled a list of the latest research studies that have linked wireless radiation to numerous health effects including impacts on memory damage, emotional problems, headaches, brain damage and reproduction issues, as well as increased thyroid and brain tumor risk.

The Federal Communications Commission is the U.S. agency in charge of regulating wireless exposures, but it is still using science from 1996, when most phones were flip phones. EHT recently won a lawsuit against the FCC that demanded the FCC re-examine the growing body of scientific evidence on their record indicating health risks from the wireless radiation of cell phones, smart speakers, and Wi-Fi. The court specifically mandated the FCC to address issues of children's vulnerability, long term exposure and modern-day technologies.

While the FCC contemplates how it will meet the court order, the Environmental Health Trust recommends the following to reduce wireless radiation exposure at home:

recommended minimum distance is 20 cm and Wi-Fi printers are 20 cm.

If a cell phone or device is held at body contact, the absorption of wireless radiation can be so high it exceeds even the government’s outdated safety limits, in some cases by up to 11 times the FCC limit.

1. Limit use, especially with and around children. Cell phones are not toys.

Instead of handing your child a cell phone or Wi-Fi connected iPad, choose a real toy. Minimizing your use around children as well as children’s use of cell phones and wireless devices greatly reduces their exposure.

2. Distance wireless connected devices away from the body. The closer a wireless device is, the more wireless is absorbed into body tissue.

Be aware that if you are holding your child with your cell phone nearby, some of the radiation from your phone is absorbed into their brain.

Do not use a cell phone

or wireless device while nursing or holding an infant in your lap. Do not hold your child on your lap in front of a Wi-Fi laptop or tablet. Is your child’s highchair near the smart speaker? WiFi routers should not be near places where adults work or anywhere where children sleep and play.

3. Know the fine print warnings.

All cell phones and wireless devices have fine print manufacturer instructions in their user manuals warning consumers to keep the phone or Wi-Fi device at a specific distance from the body.

For instance, the minimum distance for the Apple iPhone 13 is 5 mm; for the Amazon Echo Dot

4. Pre-download and use airplane mode as often as possible. The airplane mode setting turns wireless antennas off on your cell phone, tablet, or laptop. You can play pre downloaded music and videos and even take pictures with airplane mode. Be sure to ensure Bluetooth, WiFi, Cellular, and Hotspot antennas are toggled off as they also emit wireless. If your children watch shows on a phone or iPad, download the program, and then let the child watch while the device is in airplane mode. The more you use Airplane Mode with wireless antennas off, the less you and your chil-

dren are exposed.

5. Protect your and your child’s sleep. Remove TV’s, screens, and electronics from the bedroom. Try turning Wi-Fi and wireless off at night to ensure 8 hours of healthier sleep. Do not sleep with a cell phone under your pillow or a cordless phone base on your nightstand. Power cell phones off at night and use a battery powered alarm clock.

6. Replace your cordless phone with a corded phone. Just like cell phones, cordless phones also emit wireless radiation. The cordless phone base emits wireless radiation continuously.

Corded phones with the curly handset cords do not emit wireless radiation.

7. Used corded tech instead of everything wireless. You can easily swap out most wireless tech in your home for safer corded non-wireless technology. Use a wired keyboard and mouse.

Ditch the wireless smart speaker for wired computer speakers. Replace Wi-Fi with hardwired ethernet as much as possible. In fact, you can still connect to the internet, stream music and videos and social media–all with an ethernet corded connection. By choosing safer technology at home, parents can also greatly reduce their children's exposure.

EHT warns that children are especially vulnerable to wireless radiation due to the fact that their brains are still developing. According to the American Academy of Pediatrics, “Children are not little adults and are disproportionately impacted by all environmental exposures, including cell phone radiation.”

The American Academy of Pediatrics along with numerous medical organizations and health professionals worldwide recommend reducing children’s cell phone radiation exposure to protect their health.

For more information, visit the Environmental Health Trust at www.ehtrust.org.

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Eagles bow out of Lower State baseball bracket

By Justin Jarrett LowcoSports.com Beaufort High’s baseball team finally ran out of road on its phenomenal late-season surge, as the Eagles dropped their first two games in the double-elimination Class 4A Lower State tournament, losing road games at Hartsville and James Island.

First-year coach Zach Jacobs’ team ripped through the district bracket with three hard-fought wins

and had won eight of nine going into the Lower State tournament, but the Eagles met their match in a powerful Hartsville squad Thursday, falling 15-4. Beaufort couldn’t get the bats going in a 4-0 loss to James Island on Monday, as the Trojans handed the Eagles a third headto-head loss this season and ended their year in the Lower State bracket for the second straight spring.

The Red Foxes gave Beaufort

a rude welcome in Hartsville on Thursday, scoring five runs in the first inning and six more in the second to blow it open early. The rough outing overshadowed a big night from Beaufort’s Logan Brutcher, who was 3-for-3 with a homer, a double, and two RBIs. Hunter Rast and Hudson Mullen each added a pair of hits for the Eagles, but Hartsville roped eight extra-base hits including a pair of home runs in the rout.

PJ Daley gave the Eagles a strong outing in his swansong Monday against the Trojans, allowing just two hits and three earned runs in a six-inning complete game. He struck out five but walked five, and James Island took advantage of every opportunity. Meanwhile, Beaufort couldn’t muster any offense against a trio of Trojans pitchers who combined on a three-hit shutout.

The Eagles finished with a 14-16 overall record in Jacobs’ first season at the helm and will return a number of key players next season, though they do lose their ace in Daley as well as everyday starters Hunter Rast and Tommy Winburn.

Malcom Webb and Davis Woods will be back to lead the pitching staff along with offensive standouts Zack Talbert, Brutcher, and Mullen, among others.

Eagles finish 4th; Bruns earns all-state

Coach John Fox and the John Paul II Golden Warriors finish the season 15-3. Submitted photo.

Golden Warriors fall short Runner-up finish doesn’t dampen JPII’s historic season

By Matt Dakolios LowcoSports.com Although it ended in defeat, John Paul II boys soccer concluded its most successful season in program history Saturday. Forgive the Golden Warriors if it takes time for that to settle in and salve the sting of a 3-2 loss to perennial power Oakbook Prep on Saturday afternoon at Cardinal Newman School in Columbia.

While the Golden Warriors had reached the championship game for the first time, the Knights had their sights set on a third consecutive SCISA 2A state title.

In the opening half, Oakbrook controlled much of the possession and struck first for a 1-0 lead. Shortly before halftime, senior central defender Mark Knight scored off a header that came from a Brennan McDermott corner kick and briefly gave JPII momentum, but Oakbrook countered just moments later to take a 2-1 lead into the half.

Ultimately, the deciding goal came in the second frame when senior keeper Evan Slusne attempted a clearance

outside the box and the ball deflected off one of his defenders and found the feet of an Oakbrook forward and the back of the net.

This third — and ultimately decisive — Oakbrook goal was not without controversy, as the goal scorer was called offside by the line judge, only to be waved off by the center referee.

The Golden Warriors were not done, though, as senior Nic Richardson bent a cross into the box and junior Austin Floyd put his head to it to bring JPII within a goal with 3 minutes left in regulation.

Despite more desperate chances, the closest being another near header from Knight, JPII was not able to find the late equalizer, and Oakbrook remained the only school to win a SCISA 2A boys soccer title in the last four years — there was no championship in 2020.

John Paul II and Coach Josh Fox's historic 15-3 season included a dominant 6-0 region record with a region goal differential of 27-1 in his third year since taking over the program.

Much of the Golden Warriors’ success

was predicated on elite defending, as the starting back line of Knight, Sam Rembold, Peter Torinese, and Renzo Cedeno and holding midfielders Ben Quinty and Richardson contributed to 11 shutouts in 18 matches.

The Golden Warriors also owe much of this defensive mindset to senior keeper Slusne, who had not played soccer before his freshman year and quickly became a four-year starter in net. Slusne will be continuing his still young soccer career this fall at Spring Arbor University in Michigan.

The campaign also included a 4-2 overtime win against Class 5A Irmo in March, and a season goal differential of 74-13. Junior Anthony Hill led JPII with 16 goals, while Knight scored nine, and junior Jackson Ogden added eight. Richardson led the team with 11 assists.

Fox and assistants Nate Stevely and Louise Sanders will take some time to reflect on the success before they turn the page on the impressive campaign and set their sights on next year's team, which will include seven rising seniors.

By Justin Jarrett LowcoSports.com Beaufort High’s golf team didn’t have its best two days Monday and Tuesday at the SCHSL Class 4A state championships at Forest Lake Club in Columbia, but the Eagles still walked away with a fourth-place finish with junior Jerry Bruns leading the way with an allstate performance.

The Eagles posted team score of 310 on Monday and Jerry 317 on Tuesday to Bruns finish fourth at 627, just seven shots behind third-place Indian Land. A.C. Flora (565) ran away with the team title by a 40-shot margin over North Augusta (605), as the Falcons fired a blistering 7-under-par 277 in the final round.

Beaufort easily outpaced its region competition, as May River (667) finished 12th and Hilton Head High (672) was 15th in the 16-team field.

Bruns followed up an opening round of 4-over 75 with a 74 on Tuesday to tie for eighth and earn allstate honors for the second straight year. Teammate Jack Lubkin played steady with a pair of 6-over 77s to tie for 17th, while Jack Sumner (162, T37), Simon McAlister (164, 41st), and Gus Christian (177, T57) rounded out the lineup.

Indian Land’s Mason Kucia won the individual title with a 36-hole total of 1-under 141, edging A.C. Flora teammates Luke Sullivan and Charles Cauthen by one shot while fellow Falcons Adam Hunt (143) and Burch Harrison (144) rounded out the top five and Coleman Ferguson tied for 10th as Flora’s fifth player, firing a 3-under 68 on Tuesday.

Warriors, Eagles sending strong contingents to state track meet

By Justin Jarrett LowcoSports.com Northern Beaufort County will be well-represented at the SCHSL Track & Field State Championships this week in Columbia.

Whale Branch is sending 19 individuals and six relays to compete in 38 events in the Class 1A meet Thursday at Lower Richland, and Beaufort High will send 21 individuals and four relays to compete in 34 events in the Class 4A meet Saturday at Spring Valley. Battery Creek also has a contingent of five athletes qualified in six events for the Class 3A meet Saturday at Lower Richland.

The Warriors should be well-positioned to compete for team titles in Class 1A, especially on the girls side, where Kynew Barnwell is seeded first or second in three events — the 100and 400-meter hurdles and the long jump — Talaijah Bartley is seeded in the top three in both hurdles races, Destiny Pryor is top-three in the 100 and 200, and Kaylyn Caldwell qualified in three events. Whale Branch’s girls are also seeded first in the 4x100 and 4x800 relays and fourth in the 4x400, and Erin Rivers is seeded first in the discus. On the boys side, Whale Branch’s Keith Chisholm qualified in three events, and Xavier Chaplin is seeded third in both the discus and shot put.

Margaret Ames: PV Tanner McCracken: SP + Discus Devin Broaddus: Discus Anthony Phelan: Discus

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Beaufort High is sending 21 individuals and two relay teams to the SCHSL Track & Field State Championships this week in Columbia. Submitted photo.

The Eagles also have their sights set on bringing home some team trophies with a large group of boys and girls making the trip to Columbia.

Jayla Daise leads a promising Beaufort girls team, having qualified in all three throws and secured the No. 1 seed in the shot put, while teammates Charlize Antia, Anaiya Houseal, and Keasia Walker also qualified in multiple events. Zyrin Odom, Nash Mills, Alvin Wilson, and Kacy Fields all qualified in multiple events on the boys side, and the Eagles are seeded first in the 4x800 relay.

Tanner McCracken leads the Bat-

tery Creek contingent, having qualified in the shot put and discus — one of three Dolphin boys to qualify in the discus.

SCHSL State Track Qualifiers CLASS 4A Beaufort (21 athletes + 4 relays in 34 events) Isaiah Price: 100M Zyrin Odom: 400M + LJ Christopher Gordon: 400M Nash Mills: 800M + 3200M Xzavier Lacefield: 800M Charlie Bennett: 800M

Trae Campbell: 800M Gavin Moore: 3200M Zion Smart: 400 hurdles Eric Smart: LJ Alvin Wilson: SP + Discus Kacy Fields: SP + Javelin 4x400 boys + 4x800 boys Charlize Antia: 800M + 1600M Anaiya Houseal: 100 hurdles + HJ 4x400 girls + 4x800 girls Heaven Dagin: PV Anna Lyles: PV Keasia Walker: LJ + TJ Angel Johnson: TJ Jayla Daise: SP + Discus + Javelin Jakiyah Major: SP Acionna Lowe: Discus CLASS 3A BCHS (5 athletes in 6 events) Derrick Smalls: 800M

CLASS 1A Whale Branch (19 athletes + 6 relays in 38 events) Destiny Pryor: 100M + 200M Larmore Pryor: 200M Faith Eugene: 200M + 400M Ariehanna Wiltshire: 1600M Alani Crawford: 3200M Talaijah Bartley: 100 hurdles + 400 hurdles Kynew Barnwell: 100 hurdles + 400 hurdles + LJ Grace Bing: 100 hurdles + 400 hurdles Kaylyn Caldwell: 100 hurdles + LJ + TJ 4x100 girls + 4x400 girls + 4x800 girls Kandyce Karney: LJ + TJ Janiah Pryor: TJ Erin Rivers: Discus Jakhi Pusha: 100M Ja’leal Polite: 200M Jonas Foskey: 1600M Keith Chisholm: 110 hurdles + 400 hurdles + TJ 4x100 boys + 4x400 boys + 4x800 boys Xavier Chaplin: SP + Discus Bradford Thompson: SP + Discus Dorien Alston: Discus

EDUCATION

TCL honors 34 health sciences graduates

From staff reports The Technical College of the Lowcountry honored 24 Associate Degree in Nursing graduates and 10 Physical Therapist Assistant Associate Degree graduates at its May pinning ceremonies.

“We are so proud of these graduates for their perseverance and commitment to excellence, especially through COVID,” Health Sciences Assistant Dean Dr. Joey Swearingen said in a release. “TCL’s health sciences programs are rigorous but produce extremely qualified and successful graduates, giving them the confidence they need to walk proudly into the field.”

Students experience on-campus learning using high-tech simulation equipment and receive intense additional handson practice at clinical sites located throughout Beaufort,

Technical College of the Lowcountry’s May 2022 Associate Degree Nursing graduates. Submitted photo.

Bentley, Shayla Brown, Staci Chant, Aleksandr Dekhtyar, Tonya Dill, Kelly Erdel, Sofia Figueroa Hobler, Jaimee Gleisner, Tiphanie Griffin, Jacqueline Henderson,

Jasper, Hampton and Colleton counties. The majority of these TCL graduates go right to work in the Lowcountry.

The Associate Degree in Nursing graduates are Nancy

Veronica Hodges, Abigail Holmes, Makeda Khalilah Lonnon, Chelsea Maner, Shalayae McKelvey, Mary Montana, Brittany Nease, Alexis Noll, Elizabeth Pache-

Technical College of the Lowcountry’s May 2022 Physical Therapist Assistant graduates and faculty. Submitted photo. co, Rosalyn Paulino, Glaychia Reber, Jermey Smith and Taylor Wilkerson.

The Physical Therapist Assistant Associate Degree graduates are Taylor Ar-

nemann, Paul Batt, David Cunningham, Michael Lupi, Nicole Myers, Savannah Parmelee, Robert Powell, Sarah Rose, Samantha Schuetrum and Christina Woods.

EDUCATION BRIEFS

Applications being accepted for Women United Scholarships

United Way of the Lowcountry’s Women United is offering $1,000 scholarships to help ease the financial burden of nontraditional women in Beaufort and Jasper counties who are attending college.

The Women United scholarship is open to female students of any age who are currently employed and have a satisfactory employment rating. They may be a new or returning student registering for a minimum of six credit hours at the Technical College of the Lowcountry or the University of South Carolina Beaufort. Applicants must have made some contributions to the community through volunteering in church, nonprofits, civic

organizations, educational institutions, etc.

Additional scholarship criteria and an application can be found online at www.uwlowcountry.org/ wuscholar. The deadline to apply for funding for the 2022-2023 school year is May 31.

Established in 2020, The Women United Scholarship Fund has provided six local nontraditional female students with $1,000 scholarships each, totaling $6,000.

Beaufort’s Jones graduates from University of the Cumberlands

Beaufort’s Dawn Jones was a member of the recent graduating class at University of the Cumberlands in Williamsburg, Ky. Jones

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completed her Master of Arts in Addiction Counseling & Clinical Mental Health Counseling.

University of the Cumberlands held commencement ceremonies recently to celebrate its newest class, which included 2,068 graduates from 49 states and territories and the countries of Canada, India, Brazil, Spain, New Zealand, and Italy, among others.

University of the Cumberlands is one of the largest private universities in Kentucky.

Beaufort’s Wallace on SMC’s Spring 2022 President's List

Rhogue Hart Wallace of Beaufort has been named to the Spartanburg Methodist College President's List for grades earned during the spring

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Rescheduled Conroy event coming to Beaufort Library

From staff reports “A library could show you everything, if you knew where to look,” author Pat Conroy wrote in his book “My Reading Life.”

I Was Born to Be in a Library: Pat Conroy’s Great Love of Libraries, a presentation by Jonathan Haupt and Millie Bennett is coming, from 4:40 to 5:30 p.m., Monday, May 24, to the Beaufort County Library at 311 Scott Street in Beaufort.

The author of “The Prince

of Tides,” “The Great Santini” and “The Water Is Wide,” Conroy (1945–2016) is synonymous with the Lowcountry.

Haupt, the Pat Conroy Literary Center Executive Director, will discuss Conroy’s lifelong love of books and libraries — focusing on the roles public libraries, school libraries, and Conroy’s own personal library played in his writing life. Through video and audio clips, photographs, and published and unpublished writings by and about Conroy,

this presentation welcomes attendees into the book-filled world of one of America’s most beloved writers.

This program also includes an overview of the Pat Conroy Literary Center which honors and continues Conroy’s legacy as writer and educator in his adopted hometown of Beaufort.

This event was rescheduled following a weather cancellation during National Library Week and is free and open to the public.

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USCB Center For The Arts showing Licorice Pizza

Licorice Pizza will be showing at 3 and 7 p.m., Monday, May 23 at the USC Beaufort Center For The Arts as part of its Occasional Monday Movies series. Seats are $8.

The film is a coming-ofage comedy-drama written and directed by Paul Thomas Anderson. The ensemble cats includes Alana Haim, Cooper Hoffman, Sean Penn, Tom Waits, Bradley Cooper and Bennie Safdie.

Licorice Pizza was nominated for Best Picture, Best Director and Best Original Screenplay at the 2022 Academy Awards.

Tickets are available at https://www.uscbcent e r f o r t h e a r t s . c o m /m o n day-night-movies.

nounced recently by the National Academy of Television Arts and Sciences (NATAS) was an episode of By The River, a weekly, half-hour literature-focused series filmed at ETV Lowcountry in Beaufort.

The episode, No. 2 of Season 4, called “Natasha Trethewey,” is nominated in the Interview/Discussion, Long Form Content category.

It includes a discussion with the 19th U.S. Poet Laureate and Pulitzer Prize Winner Natasha Trethewey.

Trethewey discusses her book “Memorial Drive: A Daughter’s Memoir,” sharing the story of her mother’s death and how poetry helps her to deal with it. Originally airing on Sept. 16, 2021, this episode of By The River was hosted by Holly Bounds Jackson and produced by Caroline E. Sawyer.

Episode of By The River gets Emmy nod

Conroy Center hosting William Walsh

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Seating is limited; please call 843-379-7025 to reserve your spot. The author conversation will also be live-streamed on the Conroy Center Facebook page.

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New York Times bestselling author and Emmy-winning writer Matt Goldman, will be published on Tuesday, May 31. The Conroy Center is hosting a launch event at 5 p.m. that evening at Beaufort Bookstore (2127 Boundary Street, Suite 15). Goldman will be interviewed by Conroy Center executive director Jonathan Haupt. Books will be available for sale and signing. Please contact the bookstore at 843-525-1066 to reserve your seat for this free event.

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The God who is more than enough

any people today are struggling with the stress of everyday living and many feel lonely, depressed, and sad, but whatever you are going through today, be encouraged to know that God is able to take care of you. When we research the Hebrew name El Shaddai, we discover that it means, the all-sufficient one with all wisdom and authority and is commonly referred to as Omnipotent.

It’s very important to know that both optimism and pessimism are learned behaviors which means that choosing our thoughts has everything to do with our attitude and how we view life. Here are seven areas where we can believe and know that He is waiting to fill us with His joy, peace, and contentment.

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1. God knows: God is Omniscient and is fully aware when we are going through difficult times, our worries and fears, and even what we are thinking. Actually, He is the only one who really knows how we feel and we can always trust that He is working on a way to help us.

There are 3 answers to our prayers; yes, no and keep waiting so, whatever happens, have faith that He is in total control and always has our best interest in mind.

2. God loves: The love

and grace of God is greater than all of our sin. Jesus died a cruel and painful death in order to save us from ourselves.

The good news today is that when those who hear this gospel about God’s love and receive it into their lives, they can escape the torment of eternal darkness and be redeemed and transformed into a child of The Almighty. Read Romans 8:37-39.

3. God cares: The Lord of all glory is listening to every word we say; He sees every tear and knows all the problems we are going through.

Today He wants us to believe that He cares about us and desires to help us. He promises that His eye is on the sparrow which allows us to know how much more He is watching over us. He is sensitive and compassionate

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4. God provides: The Lord provides forgiveness, restoration, hope, and whatever we need, whenever we need it. Christ can give what no one else can provide, He is always on time and never fails! We can place our trust in God and believe with all of our hearts that He will do above and beyond all that we could ask or imagine.

Philippians 4:19 says, “But my God shall supply all your needs according to His riches in glory by Christ Jesus.”

5. God desires: God has a desire and that is for us to love Him and follow His voice. He also wants us to succeed, to be an overcomer, and to live an abundant life.

Before we were born, He drew our personal blueprint

and within this wonderful plan includes a destiny of victory and joy! He created us to be filled with His power and to walk confidently in His presence.

Deuteronomy 31:8 says, “It is the Lord who goes before you. He will be with you; he will not leave you or forsake you. Do not fear or be dismayed.”

6. God heals: The Almighty is the great physician and has all power and authority in heaven and earth. He gives instruction and wisdom to doctors; He creates medicines and knows the solutions to every health problem. God has the miracle power to take care of whatever we need perfectly and completely whether physical, mental, emotional, or spiritual.

I tell people all the time that either in this life or in

the next, God will heal His children perfectly and completely. In Exodus 15:26 God declares, “I am the Lord that heals you.”

7. God delivers: Whatever the bondage, temptation, or situation, the King of kings can lift you out of your agony and set your feet upon a solid rock. Believe, absorb, and allow His truth to set you free! Psalm 18:2-3 reminds us, “The Lord is my rock, and my fortress, and my deliverer; my God, my strength, in whom I will trust; my buckler, and the horn of my salvation, and my high tower. I will call upon the Lord, who is worthy to be praised: so, shall I be saved from my enemies.”

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4:30 to 5:30 p.m., Mondays, Lego Club, all ages welcome; 2 to 4 p.m., Thursdays, S.C. Works Job Coaching, free help with job searches, interviews; 1 to 2 p.m., Saturdays, Chess Club, ages 5 and older. 6355 Jonathan Francis Senior Road, St. Helena Island, 843255-6540.

Beaufort County Library Ongoing Programs

These are the ongoing programs available at the Beaufort Branch Library Downtown: 2:30 p.m., 1st Tuesday each month, Knitting/ Crochet Class; all day during business hours, 1st Thursday each month, Chess Club; 2:30 p.m., last Tuesday each month, Book to Movie Club; daily during library hours, Escape Quest Games.

Bluffton Night Bazaar — a Lowcountry Made Market

5 to 8 p.m., first Thursday of each month, Burnt Church Distillery, 120 Bluffton Road.

A highly curated selection of accessories, clothing, home goods, custom gifts and more by local artists and makers.

Rooted Beaufort Yoga classes

5:30 to 6:45 p.m., Thursdays, Cypress Wetlands, Port Royal; 9 to 10:15 a.m., Whitehall Park or Pigeon Point Park. Rooted Beaufort is a collective of local Yoga teachers who host outdoor yoga classes and donation-based events with proceeds being donated locally on a rotating basis.

The Historic Port Royal Museum

10 a.m. to 3 p.m. or upon request, Thursdays through Sundays, The Historic Port Royal Museum, 1634 Paris Ave. The museum features the turn-of-the-century businesses and industries of Port Royal: Shrimping, crabbing, oystering, the railroad, the school and the mercantile. Great gifts featuring local artists are available. For more information. visit www.portroyalhistory.org, email historicportroyalfoundation@gmail.com or call 843-524-4333.

Tour Historic Fort Fremont

10 a.m. to 2 p.m., Friday and 10 a.m. to 4 p.m., Saturday, Fort Fremont History Center, Fort Fremont Preserve, 1124 Land’s End Road, St. Helena Island. Docent-led tours are at 11 a.m. and 1 p.m. every Saturday. Travel back in time to the 1800s and the Spanish American War. Visitors to Fort Fremont can learn about the fort’s history by reading interpretive panels, taking a self-guided tour with a smart phone, visiting the history center exhibit hall, or attending a docent-led tour of the property.

The Preserve is open to the public Monday through Sunday from dawn to dusk. For more information, visit www.fortfremont.org or contact Passive Parks manager Stephanie Nagid at snagid@bcgov.net.

Port Royal Farmers Market

9 a.m. to noon, Saturdays, year round, Naval Heritage Park, 1615 Ribaut Road, Port Royal. Rain or shine. You will find fresh, local, seasonal produce, shrimp, oysters, poultry, beef, pork, eggs, bread and cheese, as well as plants, ferns, camellias, azaleas, citrus trees and beautiful, fresh cut flower bouquets. There are prepared food vendors serving barbecue, dumplings, she crab soup, crab cakes, paella, coffee, baked goods, bagels and breakfast sandwiches. No pets allowed. For more information, visit http:// www.portroyalfarmersmarket.com/, visit @ portroyalfarmersmarket on Facebook or call 843-295-0058.

A War on Two Fronts: African Americans Fight for Victory at Home and Abroad

Through Saturday, Aug. 13, Morris Center for Lowcountry Heritage, 10782 S. Jacob Smart Blvd., Ridgeland. A traveling exhibit adapted from an original exhibition and book developed by the Athenaeum Press at the Horry County Museum. The exhibition and book explore how African Americans in the 92nd and 93rd Army infantry divisions fought for racial equality during wartime, and then went on to be active participants in the Civil Rights Movement. It traces the little-known stories of soldiers on the front lines, and how segregation affected their training, service and recognition. The exhibition draws from the work of Maggi Morehouse, Burroughs Distinguished Professor of Southern History and Culture at Coastal Carolina University and a daughter of a commanding officer in the 92nd infantry division. To learn more about “A War on Two Fronts” and other Athenaeum Press projects, visit www.ccu. press or www.warontwofronts.com. Morris Center is open to the public from 10 a.m. to 5 p.m., Tuesday through Saturday. For more information, visit www.morrisheritagecenter. org or call 843-284-9227.

Lowcountry Made Markets

9 a.m. to 1 p.m., first and third Saturday of each month through December, Buckwalter

THIS WEEK’S MOVIES AT HWY 21 DRIVE-IN The movies scheduled for this week (Thursday, May 19 through Sunday, May 22) at the Highway 21 Drive-In are Dr. Strange in the Multiverse of Madness (PG-13, 8:45 p.m.) and Sonic The Hedgehog 2 (PG, 10:55 p.m.) on Screen 1; Ambulance (R, 8:45 p.m.) and Firestarter (R, 10:55 p.m.) on Screen 2; and Sonic The Hedgehog 2 (PG, 8:45 p.m.) and Dr. Strange in the Multiverse of Madness (PG-13, 10:55 p.m.) on the new Screen 3.

Online ticketing is available at hwy21drivein.com on the Now Playing page. Patrons are asked to arrive early on Friday and Saturday nights. Gates open at 6:30 p.m.

IMPORTANT NOTE Active or retired law enforcement officers will receive $2 off tickets for them and anyone in their car through May 22. Just present your current or retired credentials at the ticket window.

This offer is also extended to all current active dispatch/fire/EMS/coroner/hospital staff as well. Just present your credentials at the ticket window.

“Our family at the Hwy. 21 drive in feel a responsibility to our community,” a statement from Highway 21 Drive-In management reads.

“We are concerned about many things in these trying times and in making the right decisions. We are concerned with our employees, our patrons, our business, our community’s businesses, and the health and well-being of all.”

A reminder: no outside food or beverages can be brought into the drive-in.

Upcoming movies include Top Gun (Memorial Day Weekend) and The Bob’s Burgers Movie (May).

– Staff reports

Place Park, next to Kroger off Buckwalter Place Blvd., Bluffton. Each market includes local vendors, live music, food and drink. The events are free. Participating vendors include: Gullah Express LLC (food truck), Declan’s Delights, Pick N Paint Pottery, Preservation Tree Art, 7th & Palm, Kara Artman Art, Southern Botanica, Hedone (bath & body), Blue Door Boutique, The Herb Room Organic Apothecary, Juke Joint Sweets, BPC Custom Furniture, Back to Eden Self Care Products, LLC, Shutterbug Custom Designs LLC, Pet Wants Hilton Head, Grind Coffee Roasters, LLC, Fabula Collective, The Artsy Girl, KODA Glass Designs, Lowcountry Livin’, Legacy Art Gallery, Cottonwood Soap Company, Marsh View Candles and Crafted With A Purpose.

Lowcountry Made Markets in Port Royal

9 a.m. to 1 p.m., second Saturday of the month through November, Live Oaks Park, 904 14th Street, Port Royal. These markets showcase only local artists, artisans and small businesses. The open-air markets are held “farmer’s market” style with new vendors each month. Each market will also include live music, food and drink, and is free to attend. Vendors include Amidst the Alders, Preservation Tree Art, True South, Pet Wants, Meg’s Sweet Treats, Sativa Health Products, Back to Eden Self Care (Tea), Graceful Stitches, Cottonwood Soap Company (Bath & Body), Sweet Carolina’s Clothing Boutique, B&E Rustic Designs, Blue Door Boutique, Clayed by Reena LLC, Kara Artman Art, The Herb Room Organic Apothecary, Bliss Bites Cookies, Kilted Bee Mead (Soap), HandMade Beaufort, Lovin' My Skin, LLC, Purely, Inc. and KODA Glass, Lovely Olive Designs, Gone Gullah, Tout Sweet Macarons, Moonlight Crow Creations, Fabula Collective, Finch Sign & Design Metalworks LLC and Honey Bunny Boutique.

“Pull Yourself Up” Group Exercise Class for women

9:30 a.m., select Saturdays, Wardle Family YMCA, 1801 Richmond Ave., Port Royal. This multi-generational women’s group training is a 5-week program taught by Kelly Blackston.

It is designed for females who wish to be stronger especially using back muscle shoulders and arms plus build camaraderie and make new friends. Free for ages 13-19; $10 per class for YMCA members; $20 per class for adult non-member. Questions should be directed to Denice Davis, YMCA Healthy Living Program Director at 843-521-1904 or beaufort-jasperymca.org.

Beaufort Christian Women’s Connection May luncheon

11:30 a.m. to 1:30 p.m., Thursday, May 19, Baptist Church of Beaufort. Cost of $18 includes meal and speakers. We will be collecting unwrapped baby supplies for the Radiance Pregnancy Center. Reservations can be made with Marti Myers at 843-3210962 or puddlesportia@gmail.com.

Sea Island Quilt Guild

6:30 p.m., Thursday, March 19, Carteret Street United Methodist Church, 408 Carteret Street, Beaufort.

Sea Island Quilt Guild will be meeting “in person” and by Zoom. May is our Birthday Month so we will be having light refreshments and celebrating. We look forward to seeing you there. All are welcome.

Adaptive Golf Experience Clinic

9 to 11 a.m., Saturday, May 21, The Legends at Parris Island. Register at https:// adaptivegolfexperience.org/monthly-clinic/

by May 8 to get on base. Free and open to civilians, veterans and active military. Led

by golf professionals and physical therapists.

Clinics target veterans and civilians with physical disabilities or challenges. As a participant, you’ll receive complimentary instruction on both the full golf swing and putting, taught by experienced professional golf instructors, fellow adaptive athletes who are already golfers and volunteers. No prior experience with golf is necessary – just a desire to learn or to help others. Our goal is to help those with disabilities learn new abilities through adaptive golf.

Basic Skills Computer Class

11 a.m., Tuesday, May 24, Lobeco Library, 1862 Trask Parkway. Presented by the S.C. Department of Employment and Workforce.

Call 843-255-6479 or stop by to register.

Fripp Audubon Club’s Ten Eyck Lecture Series

7 p.m., Thursday, May 26, Fripp Island Community Center, 205 Tarpon Blvd. Allyssa Zebrowski, a Stewardship Coordinator with Audubon S.C., will speak about the incredible shorebirds and seabirds that use our coastline for nesting during the summer or resting and refueling during the spring, winter and fall. These birds face incredible threats from the natural to the anthropogenic, causing increasing population declines worldwide and especially in the Palmetto State. There will be no Meet & Greet. The program will begin at 7 in the Chapel with Club announcements followed by Bob's program.

Masks are required in the Chapel. Off island visitors are welcome – receive pass at gate.

Visit us at www.islc.net/audubon/ or contact us at frippaudubonclub@gmail.com.

Friends of Port Royal Cypress Wetlands guided tours

9 a.m., Friday, May 27. The Friends of Port Royal Cypress Wetlands (501c3) offers free tours with Master Naturalist Jill Moore, from Moore2Life, as guide. Learn about the different types of wildlife, birds, and plants that inhabit this special place. Tours are approximately 90 minutes and limited to 12 participants. To sign up for a tour please email Kat Bray at info@foprcw.org. For more information, visit www.foprcw.org.

Original Gullah Festival

May 27-29, Henry C. Chambers Waterfront Park, Beaufort. For more information, visit https://www.originalgullahfestival.org/.

Memorial Day Parade

10 a.m., Monday, May 30, City of Beaufort.

The annual parade will begin at the corner of Rogers and Boundary streets. Lineup will begin at 9 a.m. The public is invited to attend and participate in the parade. For questions, contact Rev. Eijah Washington, Chairman Memorial Day Committee, Sons of Union Veterans of the Civil War, P.O. Box 1961 Beaufort, S.C. 29901 or 843-263-4620.

Memorial Day Ceremony

Noon, Monday, May 30, Beaufort National Cemetery, 1601 Boundary Street. The public is invited to attend and participate in the Memorial Day Ceremony. For questions, contact Rev. Eijah Washington, Chairman Memorial Day Committee, Sons of Union Veterans of the Civil War, P.O. Box 1961 Beaufort, S.C. 29901 or 843-263-4620.

Maye River Quilters

10 a.m., Saturday, June 4, Church of the Palms, 1419 Okatie Highway. The wearing of masks is encouraged. For more meeting dates and times, and for membership forms to join the group, call 843-530-1244. To attend the meeting as a guest, send an RSVP email to mayeriverquilters@gmail.com.

Aviation Careers Expo

11 a.m. to 2 p.m., Saturday, June 4, Beaufort Executive Airport. Sponsored by the Beaufort Aviation Association. Learn about the many great careers available in aviation – maintenance and repair; design and engineering; management; avionics design; installation and repair; piloting; airline inflight cabin service; space exploration; air traffic control; flight instruction; university and college opportunities; airline ticketing; cargo and ground servicing; and military aviation. Participants include American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics,

the Beaufort County Airports Department, the Beaufort County School District, the Civil Air Patrol, Embry Riddle Aeronautical University, the Society of Women Engineers, Technical College of the Lowcountry, and Women in Aviation International. For more information, text 843-812-9909.

Listen on the Lawn Concert Series: The Cluster Shucks

6 p.m., Sunday, June 5, USC Beaufort’s Center For The Arts Lawn. Bring a chair or blanket, a picnic or snacks and beverages.

The CFA Lawn will open at 5:30 p.m. Tickets are $10 a person – children younger than 12 are free. Tickets may be purchased in advance at www.uscbcenterforthearts.com or by calling 843-521-4145. In case of inclement weather, the performance will be moved into the CFA theatre.

Beaufort County Library Special Programs

These are the special programs available at the Beaufort Branch Library Downtown: 2:30 p.m., June 14, Hurricane Preparedness; 2:30 p.m., July 12, Comic Con; 2:30 p.m., Aug. 16, Local Art Display; 2:30 p.m., Sept. 13, Civic Awareness; 2:30 p.m., Oct. 20, Friends of the Library Celebration; 2:30 p.m., Nov. 15, Beekeeping; 2:30 p.m., Dec. 13, Gingerbread House Contest.

Broadway Bound Summer Camp

9 a.m. to 2:30 p.m., Monday through Friday, June 20 through July 1, USC Beaufort Center For The Arts. Campers will engage in all aspects of musical theatre, while gaining self-confidence and the ability to express themselves as they learn basic acting skills, vocal instruction and choreography. The highlight of the camp will be the children’s creation of their own show. Tuition is $275. Register and pay at https://www. uscbcenterforthearts.com/summer-camp.

Indoor Gardening: Fruits and Veggies Class

4:30 p.m., Tuesday, June 21, Lobeco Library, 1862 Trask Parkway. Class presented by Horticulture Agent and Master Gardener Laura Lee Rose of the Beaufort County Clemson Extension. Call 843-255-6479 or stop by to register.

Firecracker 5K

8 a.m., Monday July 4, downtown Beaufort.

Hosted by HELP of Beaufort and Lowcountry Habitat For Humanity, the race starts at Freedom Mall, crosses the Woods Memorial Bridge and runs to Meridian Road before turning back. Pre-Raceday registration, $35. Virtual 5K registration, $25. Raceday registration, $45. For more information or to register, go to http://runsignup.com/race/ SC/Beaufort.

Junior Building Detectives – Solving the Mysteries of Built Histories

9:30 a.m. to 12:30 p.m., July 10 through July 15, historic John Mark Verdier House.

Hosted by the Historic Beaufort Foundation, this summer children’s camp for kids, ages 8 to 12, will enable participants to “solve the mysteries of built history” by learning about local architecture. The camp will teach the basics of historic architecture and preservation. Campers will learn how buildings change over time, the meaning of architectural features, and the relevance of historic buildings to our community through hands-on activities, walks, arts and crafts, experiments and more. Campers will create a building and present the design to the class and parents/guardians. Cost is $100 for HBF members and $125 for non members. Register by calling 843-379-3331 or visiting http:// historicbeaufort.org. Registration paperwork must be submitted at least two weeks before the start of the program to ensure a child’s spot.

Creative Arts Camp

10 a.m. to 1 p.m., July 11 to July 16, USC Beaufort’s Center For the Arts. Cost is $130.

Camp is for ages 7 to 11. Subjects include Drawing and Clay, Mixed Media and Trash to Treasures – Focusing on Recycled Art. To register or for more information, go to www.

USCBCenterForTheArts.com.

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U.S. Marine Corps Lt. Col. Timothy M. Miller, right, outgoing commanding officer, Marine Fighter Attack Squadron (VMFA) 115, passes the squadron colors to Lt. Col. Shannon M. Waller, left, oncoming commanding officer, during a change of command ceremony May 5, at Marine Corps Air Station Beaufort. During the ceremony, the outgoing commander passes the squadron’s colors to the incoming commander, symbolizing the transfer of authority, responsibility, and total commitment to all the Marines. Photo by Lance Cpl. Nathan Saucier, USMC.

How to get VA Housing Assistance – some things you need to know

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ast week’s article reminded veterans, military members, and their surviving spouses to take advantage of the excellent VA home loan and grant benefits they earned with selfless service, sweat, tears, blood, and sacrifice.

It also explained where to go to find detailed information (https://www.va.gov/ housing-assistance/ and https://www.youtube.com/ user/DeptVetAffairs) on the ins and outs of the VA Housing Assistance programs.

This week’s article will continue explaining the VA Housing Assistance Programs.

Veterans should use their VA Home Loan benefit If you have served your country with honor, a VA home loan can be a terrific financial tool to help a military member, veteran, or surviving spouse purchase a home. The VA loan’s unique benefits can help eligible veterans and survivors buy a home they may not be able to otherwise.

But veterans and survivors still need to shop around for the best price and make sure they can afford the monthly payments.

Some lenders do not know enough about the VA Home Loan benefit If you are a veteran and your lender does not recommend that you use your VA loan benefit, you are probably getting bad advice at best, and may be getting duped at worst. Some lenders and some real estate agents do not like using the VA loan option because they do not have enough knowledge, training, and experience with VA Loans. If they recommend against using a VA loan, find another lender.

Veterans and surviving spouses do need some money to buy a home Veterans can make a home loan down payment but they do not have to. With a 100% financed VA home loan, veterans do not have

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to make a down payment.

However, that does not mean the veteran does not have costs before and during the closing. It is very important for veterans and surviving spouses to read about fees and closing costs at https:// bit.ly/3Miauqq.

The veteran or surviving spouse needs to put down a deposit (ESCROW) to convince the seller to take the home off the market while the veteran gets his loan approved and closes on the home. There is also a VA funding fee. The VA Funding fee is waived for veterans who are service-connected disabled and for the veteran’s surviving spouse whose veteran spouse died in service or from a service-connected disability or who was totally disabled, and the spouse is receiving Dependency and Indemnity Compensation (DIC). Read the details on VA funding fees at https:// bit.ly/3Mo2V1y.

The veteran or surviving spouse (buyer) or the seller can negotiate who will pay other closing costs such as the: VA funding fee, Loan origination fee, Loan discount points or funds for temporary “buydowns,” credit report, and payment of any credit balances or judgments, VA appraisal (assessment) fee, hazard insurance, real estate taxes, state and local taxes, title insurance, and recording fee.

The VA requires that a seller cannot pay more than 4% of the total home loan in the seller’s concessions. But this rule only covers some closing costs, including the VA funding fee. The rule doesn’t cover loan discount points.

The seller must pay these

closing costs (sometimes called “seller’s concessions”) commission for real estate professionals, brokerage fee, buyer broker fee, and termite report (unless the veteran or surviving spouse is using a refinancing loan).

Home lender determinations The veteran’s or surviving spouse’s home loan lender (also called mortgage company and underwriter) will determine the Interest rate, and the discount points (fees you may pay to your lender at closing to get a lower interest rate on your loan), and other closing costs. These rates may vary from lender to lender.

Veterans should know that adding the VA funding fee and other loan costs to the loan amount could lead to the buyer (the veteran or surviving spouse) owing more money than the fair market value of the home.

This could reduce the benefit of refinancing since the veteran’s or survivor’s payment wouldn’t be as low as they may want it to be. It could also make it harder for the veteran or surviving spouse to get enough money out of the future sale of the home to pay off your loan balance.

VA home loan programs for surviving spouses According to the VA’s Home Loan Programs for Surviving Spouses information at https://bit.ly/3FTrIrL, to get a VA-backed home loan as the surviving spouse of a Veteran, the spouse will need a Certificate of Eligibility (COE) to show the lender that he or she qualifies for this benefit. Keep in mind that you will also need to meet your lender’s credit and income requirements to get a loan. Spouses should carefully review the information at this site.

How to Apply for a VA home loan Ask peers, brothers, sisters, and coworkers who handled their VA home loan and do they recommend the lender they used. Stay off of the internet. Beware that some companies advertise as if they are the VA. Many sites on the internet sell their leads to lenders. If you contact one of those companies through the internet, you will be bombarded with phone calls.

Veterans should tell the lender, “I am a veteran and want to use my VA loan benefit.” If the lender tries to convince the veteran to use another type of conventional loan, the veteran should stop right there and leave because that lender representative is not an expert in VA loans.

Interview the lender by asking him or her, How many VA loans have you done?

How does your company do VA loans? Does your company service their loans (or sell them to another lender)?

How long have you, the mortgage lender representative, been in the business? It is nice to have the mortgage representative who processes your loan also be the point of contact for questions and servicing the loan after closing.

Sometimes, veterans have problems with tax, insurance, and escrows when a lender sells the loan to another lender. Also, ask the lender what fees, costs, and timelines will be. Ask can I use my own attorney or do I have to use the lender’s attorney.

What must the veteran give to the lender (underwriter) during the application?

The VA home loan process is the easiest process available to the lender. The VA is very flexible in approving a VA guarantee for a home loan. Typically, the lender will need a copy of the veteran’s complete W2 Forms for the past two years, the most recent 30 days of pay stubs (if an active-duty member – a copy of the Leave and Earnings Statement – LES), the most recent one-month

complete bank statement, DD214 (discharge paper), and unexpired driver’s license. If the veteran is self-employed or a business owner the lender will need Tax forms 1120 (Shareholder of S Corporation), 1065 (US Return of Partnership Income), etc.

VA loans for active military duty persons are easier for lenders to approve and loans for military persons on Permanent Change of Station (PCS) are the easiest VA loans for lenders to approve.

By the way, non-VA loans require two months of bank statements.

and the lender processing the loan.

During this time frame, the veteran needs to get an appraisal, and the property must have minimal property repair requirements and problems.

In today’s high-volume real estate market, appraisals might take up to 15 days to get back to the buyer and the lender.

Eligibility requirements for a VA home loan There are a large number of requirements categories spelled out at the VA’s site – https://bit.ly/3NfIFz6. There are different eligibility service requirements for veterans and service members on active duty, National Guard members, and members of the Reserves. Veterans may be eligible for a COE if the veteran did not receive a dishonorable discharge and he or she meets the minimum active-duty service requirements shown at https://bit. ly/3FSWTDN. The eligibility requirements are based on when the veteran or service member served and days of service and were the days of service continuous or not. There is no room in this short article to spell out each of the eligibility requirements in this column. However, they are generous and easy to understand.

Fixer-uppers There are no VA home loans for fixer-uppers (homes requiring extensive work).

The property you buy does not have to be in turn-key condition but issues like peeling paint, missing handrails, interior paint needed, holes in walls, outdoor shed damage, fence disrepair, sills damaged, and porches need repair must be completed before you can get a VA home loan.

Lenders generally set limits on what renovations they will allow. VA home loans are not for building an additional room or floor but it may be possible to get a kitchen renovation approved.

However, most lenders limit renovations to about $25,000 and the renovation has to be included in the appraisal.

So, if a veteran is buying a $300,000 home that needs $30,000 work done to it, the home has to appraise for the sale price plus the renovation cost or in this case $320,000.

There is a VA Renovation Loan program that was suspended during the pandemic.

Next week’s Island News article on veterans’ benefits will conclude this series on VA home loans.

How long does it take to close on VA home loan approval?

If the lender is qualified, skilled, and experienced in processing VA home loans and if the veteran provides the lender’s need information quickly and completely, it will take about 30 days (sometimes as fast as 15 days). The process includes the veteran finding a dream home, making an offer on the home, the buyer accepting the offer,

Larry Dandridge is a Vietnam War wounded warrior, disabled veteran, ex-Enlisted Infantryman, ex-Warrant Officer Pilot, and retired Lt. Colonel.

He is a past Veterans Service Officer, a Patient Adviser at the RHJ VA Hospital, the Fisher House Charleston Good Will Ambassador, and the VP for Veteran Affairs for the local Army Association Chapter. Larry is the author of the award-winning book Blades of Thunder and a contributing free-lance writer with the Island News. Contact him at LDandridge@earthlink.net or 843-276-7164.

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HBF protecting Robert Smalls legacy at his historic house

obert Smalls is a major figure in local, regional and national history.

His story needs wider understanding and appreciation.

There are multiple ways to achieve this, but opening his former house to daily walking tours isn’t the answer – it’s a problem.

Because our efforts with the new owners to reach consensus have failed, this month we asked the South Carolina Circuit Court to review the easement and our interpretation of its requirements.

The new owners, Billy and Paul Keyserling, hope to

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convert the private residence to an “interpretive center” and already are having daily walking tours of the house at 511 Prince Street. That kind of overuse will accelerate deterioration of the house and grounds. It’s also a violation of the easement donated

to the Historic Beaufort Foundation by owners of the home 20 years ago.

The easement holds both HBF and all future owners to the terms of the legally binding contract. The use of the property was restricted by the words “only a private residence.” While the primary purpose of the document is to ensure the house and grounds are preserved and protected, it also allows public access in a limited fashion to prevent deterioration of this important property.

The Keyserlings don’t agree with this interpretation of the easement. Their stated

goal is to transfer the historic property to the Federal government so that it can be run for daily tours – which already are happening.

The ongoing tours violate the easement and threaten to erode the unique qualities of this protected neighborhood, one free from commercialization and large-scale tourism.

Residents of the Point bought their homes with the assurance and expectation that their historic neighborhood was protected by zoning.

Our work at HBF is guided by the U.S. Secretary of the Interior’s Standards which are the basic principles for

maintaining the integrity and significance of historic buildings. The first of the 10 Standards states that buildings should be used for their original purpose as much as possible – in this case, a private home.

From the beginning, we have been willing to work with the Keyserlings, the National Park Service and the National Trust to come to an agreement, within the terms of the easement, that would both protect the house and property while supporting reasonable public access. We are hopeful that a resolution can be reached.

In the meantime, the Historic Beaufort Foundation continues its mission to preserve, protect and present sites and artifacts of historic, architectural and cultural interest throughout Beaufort County.

Cynthia Jenkins is the executive director of Historic Beaufort Foundation and an acknowledged expert in preservation. In 2021, she received the prestigious Governor’s Award for Excellence in Preservation, the highest honor given by South Carolina in recognition of an individual’s significant achievements or landmark efforts in the support of historic preservation in the state.

Every accolade involves some hyperbole

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t is Saturday morning and I’m sitting in our small, tastefully furnished living room in Port Royal. From where I’m sitting I can see my wife, outside, working in the early morning half-light.

Susan is wearing black tights and my old, beaten-up bomber jacket.

It is May 7. We are in Port Royal, and I’m astounded that it is cool enough for a bomber jacket.

Next to the windows (in this room) are floor-to-ceiling bookshelves. Some of these bookshelves have books — some first editions — but most are fiction, good stories that I will re-read when I’m troubled or bored.

One of these shelves is given over to medals and small silver cups awarded many years ago for winning an August afternoon boat race. There is also my Dean’s List award from The Citadel; three medals given to my son

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for pole vaulting; my father’s medal for winning the Ohio State High School Tennis Championship in 1939.

Among this conglomeration are seven little swimmers. Each of these men has a huge head that bobbles and were given to me for winning (my age group) in the YMCA’s annual Beaufort River Swim – a Port Royal to Beaufort open water swim.

These big-headed, Speedo-wearing swimmers — crouched down on a starting block — are partially hidden from view. But I am careful to make several of them visible enough to anyone who visits

our living room. Inevitably some guest will spot the swimmers and ask, “What the hell are those things?”

Yes, I admit that I am vain, and need to feed that vanity on a regular basis. Giving a stroke-by-stroke account of these 3-mile races is usually enough to satisfy that re-occurring hunger. And this morning the Wall Street Journal carries front-page story on vanity and companies that seek out America’s best lawyers recognizing these litigators with a plaque.

“Demand for these plaques is considerable — at least judging from the array of companies offering them.

Among them are “Best Attorneys of America,” “America’s Top Fifty Lawyers,” “America’s Top 100 Attorneys,” and “America’s Best Advocates.”

So heated is the industry of professional superlatives in the legal sector that even the phrase best lawyer is entan-

gled in litigation.

Some believe this award-giving industry requires regulation. “It can be tricky to tell whether an award is earned through merit of is simply a marketing ploy,” says an FTC Consumer Alert.

But I happen to believe that most lawyers are plagued with self-doubt. I think that it is important to generate some recognition that re-enforces the notion that one’s work has value; that one will not die without leaving a small, positive footprint on the beach.

Today there are one million lawyers in the United States so the competition is fierce.

But if one can find a small, rarely visited corner of the profession (notary public malpractice), and became skilled in that area, one can legitimately seek a wooden plaque with a judge’s gavel attached to it. But finding a

niche, say nursing home, gender-reassignment or name change law is essential in this increasingly complicated, specialized legal landscape.

Recently, for example, i was in an assisted-living facility and noticed that just about every resident used a motorized wheelchair — more of a scooter — to navigate miles of empty corridors with no signage or any effort at traffic control. I wondered how often collisions happened and whether or not there were injuries. Eventually I decided that few of these free-wheeling seniors carried scooter insurance and, in any case, a wooden plaque was unlikely.

The Wall Street Journal ended its piece on awards by telling us about Jeffrey L. Mendelman who says he is the “Best Lawyer Alive” and has trademarked the phrase with the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office.

When I realized that “Best

Lawyer Alive” was out of reach, I wondered about categories. Perhaps“Best Balding, Distracted, Slightly Overweight Lawyer Living in a Cool, Coastal, Far From Ordinary Community” was still available?

The more I thought about self-generated awards, the more I realized that just about every accolade involves some hyperbole. As I though about this my eyes wandered back to one of my bobble-headed swimmers.

If one reads the little plaque beneath the Speedo-wearing swimmer it says; “First Place in the 70-75 age category.” But if memory serves I think I was the only entrant in that age category.

That particular fact never makes it into the narrative.

Scott Graber is a lawyer, novelist, veteran columnist and longtime resident of Port Royal. He can be reached at cscottgraber@gmail.com.

Scents of home will return in moments, memories

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ome scents linger throughout a lifetime, attaching to moments and memories like barnacles to a dock. Papaw's work truck smelled like coffee and dirt; Mamaw's hands always had hints of vanilla and sawdust. The aroma of Irish Spring soap settled into my pillow as Daddy tucked me in at night, and Momma's old bible never lost the fragrance of a wooden church pew. These smells are so distinctive that I can almost feel them as they drive me slowly back home on a seemingly ordinary day.

As the temperature rises toward the heat of summer, I find myself lost in old dirt

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roads, muddy rivers, and the first warm watermelon of the season. Back home, the summer scents were an aromatic casserole of burning asphalt, freshly mowed fields, diesel-fueled tractors, and the enigmatic black muddy bottom of my favorite swimming hole.

Mississippi heat was so stifling that you could see steam dancing above the orange-brown gravel like rainbows rising from the ground. It was a heat you could smell.

A certain amount of courage is lost as we age.

Today I would hesitate before jumping into deep waters underneath a canopy of trees housing snakes of treacherous intent. I may even second guess sliding face-first down the homemade mudslide plagued with roots perfectly placed to remind you that sticks and stones can break bones.

As a child desperate to avoid indoors, a few scrapes

and closer-than-preferred encounters with reptiles seemed a more pleasing alternative to the wicked chore chart.

Sun up to sunset, I was an adventurous pioneer bending thickets and thorns to my will, never unprepared with my Hello Kitty lunchbox filled with survival essentials like saltines and my lucky blanket. I fought battles with dragons disguised as cows while I readied the barn for war against adults harboring lists of responsibility.

Summer was my kingdom and animals, my people — feet roughened by rocks, skin freckled from the sun,

and confidence as towering as the pines. Summer was the scent of childhood.

My daughter's mud is pluff; her towering pine is the mystical salt marsh, and her river is the ocean. Wild and free, she combats sea monsters breaking in the waves and voyages her ship into the open sea.

She crosses rapids in sandy tide pools, narrowly evading restrictive rules from dragons masquerading in adult form. She is never unprepared, with her beach bag filled with survival necessities like saltines and her cup for building castles.

She dances in the sun, a pide piper of freedom, ro-

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Summer is her kingdom and marine life, her people – feet softened by the sand, skin freckled from the sun, and confidence as high as the tide. Many years from now, the wind will blow the salty scent on a seemingly ordinary day, connecting memories and moments to drive her slowly back home.

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Buffalo shooting repeats a pattern we know too well

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hadn't planned on writing about a mass shooting this week.

My original plan was to talk about the finale of the Netflix crime drama “Ozark” and what reactions to that finale say about the show and about us.

I might submit that column later if it doesn't start to feel outdated – something not likely to ever happen to a column about gun violence in this country.

A gunman, who’ll get no notoriety by being named here, drove about four hours from his home to a predominantly Black area of Buffalo, N.Y., and opened fire at a Tops grocery store. Thirteen people were shot by the attacker; 10 of them died.

The victims include a retired police officer who served as security at the store and 77-year-old Pearly Young, who ran a food pantry for more than 25 years in

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service to the city’s needy.

Almost all the shooting victims were Black, which fit the killer’s intent. He purposefully sought out an area with a high density of Black residents so his attack would help offset the “replacement theory” notions he subscribed to, wherein minorities are being promoted to replace white Americans.

Replacement theory sparked the violent 2017 “Unite the Right” march in Charlottesville, Va. ("Jews will not replace us”), continues to inspire much current anti-immigration rhetoric

and has even been pointed to as a motive behind the recent uptick in conservative legislative action against abortion rights.

If white women can be denied abortions, the theory goes, it will help offset the higher reproductive rates among minorities in this country. This, despite the fact Black women have abortions at a rate five times higher than white women.

If you’ve never heard such nonsense, you’re probably not a faithful viewer of Fox News, specifically of commentator Tucker Carlson.

He regularly promotes this racist nonsense on his show.

But let's get back to the gunman, an 18-year-old white male who wrote a manifesto detailing his racist thoughts and plans. He streamed the assault live in video on social media.

Interestingly enough, he was already being monitored

by authorities over things he had written in high school that raised concerns about his mental health, including expressing a desire to stage a shooting at graduation, according to reports. There is some concern over how the people who were monitoring him missed an escalation starting in January that resulted in the attack last week.

The weapon he used, an AR-15, was purchased legally, though New York Gov. Kathy Hochul questioned how he obtained the high-capacity magazine he used with the gun. Hochul raised the possibility he or an acquaintance might have purchased the magazine across the state line in Pennsylvania. Chicagoans are very familiar with the dangers of guns purchased under looser gun laws in neighboring states.

I haven't seen any media reports refer to the weapon

as an "assault rifle." I don't know if this is a capitulation to wiseacres who line up after every mass shooting to criticize the media for calling weapons assault rifles when they technically are not.

I will say, if that's the thing you worry about most after a mass-casualty event, you should probably get off the Internet and spend some time with the deity of your choice. Or maybe just spend some quiet time alone, trying to figure out where you misplaced your humanity.

In the face of overwhelming evidence, the federal government has decided to investigate the shooting as a white supremacist terror attack — when the evidence isn't overwhelming, authorities try to blame everything except racism.

As a society we like to scapegoat mental health, which exonerates us be-

cause, “Hey, you can’t stop somebody from being crazy.”

But you can justify killing a killer, and despite this, police peacefully took into custody yet another white man who had just gunned down a bunch of innocent Black people.

It's exhausting.

We are stuck in a cycle of violence, followed by outrage, followed by inconsequential response, followed by more violence. There's an anecdotal definition of insanity that points to doing the same things over and over and expecting different outcomes, but as we've already said, you can't stop crazy.

I'm starting to wonder if we even want to.

Terry E. Manning lives and works in Savannah, Ga. He is a Clemson graduate and worked for 20 years as a journalist. He can be reached at teemanning@gmail.com.

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LAST WEEK'S CROSSWORD & SUDOKU SOLUTIONS

MAY 19–25, 2022

B11

820 Bay Street

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Beaufort, SC 29902

843.521.4200

$320,000

$1,295,000

MOSSY OAKS | MLS 175836 3BDRM | 2B | 1457sqft Paige Walling 843.812.8470

$135,000

WARSAW ISLAND | MLS 174960 ST HELENA ISLAND | MLS 174484 4BDRM | 4.5B | Deep Water | Private Dock Colleen Baisley 843.252.1066

1.7acre Homesite | Convenient to Beach Lloyd Williams 1.843.754.4735

$90,000

$1,249,000

$2,875,000

DATAW ISLAND | MLS 174958

FRIPP ISLAND | MLS 175855

GIBBS ISLAND | MLS 175586

$1,845,000

$185,000

$2,600,000

.56acre Homesite | Lagoon View Trudy Arthur 843.812.0967 Nancy Butler 843.384.5445

NEWPOINT | MLS 175559

5BDRM | 4.5B | 3670sqft | Deepwater Dock Edward Dukes 843.812.5000 Sara Miller 1.540.209.5434

$95,000

4BDRM | 3B | 2638sqft Amy McNeal 843.521.7932

SEABROOK | MLS 175490 7acre Homesite | Marsh/Water View Dawn Yerace 843.441.6518

$673,500

SEABROOK | MLS 175941 4.6acre Private Island Lloyd Williams 1.843.754.4735

FRIPP ISLAND | MLS 175170 3BDRM | 3B | 1598sqft Pat Dudley 843.986.3470

5BDRM | 6.5+B | 6707sqft | Private Dock Julia O’Hara 1.201.456.8620

ST HELENA ISLAND | MLS 175156 223.85 Acres | Approx. 2900ft Marshfront Scott Sanders 843.263.1284

$49,500

ISLANDS OF BEAUFORT

MLS 174569 | .33acre Homesite | Marsh View Dawn Yerace 843.441.6518

$1,850,000 – $1,950,000

LUXURY NEW CONSTRUCTION MLS 174089 | 3BDRM | 2.5+B Elevator | Secured Parking Edward Dukes 843.812.5000

$120,000

LOST ISLAND | MLS 175737 .86acre Homesite | Marsh Front Sara Miller 1.540.209.5434

$699,000

DATAW ISLAND | MLS 175962 4BDRM | 3B | 2742sqft Nancy Butler 843.384.5445 Trudy Arthur 843.812.0967

$188,900

WALLING GROVE | MLS 170981 1.25acre Homesite | Private Dock Sara Miller 1.540.209.5434

$845,000

$125,000

$695,000

$989,000

PIGEON POINT | MLS 175387

BATTERY POINT | MLS 167765

COMMERCIAL OPPORTUNITY

PIGEON POINT | MLS 175917

$599,000

$3,750,000

$325,000

$369,000

DATAW ISLAND | MLS 172346

FRIPP ISLAND | MLS 172191

3BDRM | 3B | Marsh/Water View | OLREA Edward Dukes 843.812.5000

CAT ISLAND | MLS 175413 4BDRM | 2.5B | 2642sqft Julia O’Hara 1.201.456.8620

.18acre Homesite | Corner Lot Colleen Baisley 843.252.1066

ST. HELENA ISLAND | MLS 175916 9.23acres | Private Deepwater Island Edward Dukes 843.812.5000

MLS 174940 | 1.21acre High Traffic Area | Great Location Wayne Webb 843.812.5203

3BDRM | 2.5B | 1796sqft Trudy Arthur 843.812.0967 Nancy Butler 843.384.5445

4BDRM | 3B | 1.88acres Amy McNeal 843.521.7932

.06acre Homesite | Oceanfront Pat Dudley 843.986.3470

If you are thinking about selling, now is the time to consider your options!

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