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Planning expert Victor Dover makes his remarks to City of Beaufort officials and concerned citizens Tuesday, April 26 at the USC Beaufort Center For the Arts. Photos by Bob Sofaly.

Left: The entrance to the iconic Highway 21 Drive-In. Photo by Bob Sofaly.

Expert takes on Beaufort’s growth concerns

By Tony Kukulich Victor Dover, a nationally renowned planner and land-use expert, was in Beaufort for three days last week to offer strategies that can help the city manage its inevitable growth in a manner that retains the city’s Lowcountry character and the natural resources that define the region.

“The urgency for the forum came from the omnipresent realization that Beaufort has been discovered by the masses, and that it is up to us to support, guide and advocate for what makes Beaufort special in the wake of new growth,” Open Land Trust Director of Land Protection Kate Schaefer said. “Victor shared great insight, advice, and examples to help guide Beaufort when developers come knocking.”

Dover opened his Tuesday night presentation, held at the USCB Center for the Arts, by emphasizing that communities need to thoughtfully

Highway 21 Drive In changes hands New owner has big plans for Lowcountry’s only outdoor movie theater

By Mike McCombs

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n 2002, Joe Barth saw the news that the Highway 21 Drive In was closing and was troubled.

“Damn, I love the drive in,” Barth said to himself. “I told my wife, ‘I think I’m going to buy the drive in.’”

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In 2003, Joe and Connie Barth did just that, adding running a drive-in to their day jobs of installing flooring and sales, respectively.

Now, nearly two decades and hundreds of movies later, the Barths have stepped away and the Highway

21 Drive In has a new owner, Jake Higgins of Bluffton.

The Barths have known Higgins, a business owner and S.C. Highway Patrolman, for several years, meeting

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Case of disputed road, boat ramp takes turn

Charles Gardner points out the property of neighbor Ruben Adams on Warsaw Island. Gardner is engaged in a multi-year legal dispute over the ownership of a road that separates his property from Adams'. In 2018, the 14th Circuit Court awarded Adams ownership of the road, but the South Carolina Court of Appeals recently ruled that neither man has a valid claim of ownership. Photo by Tony Kukulich.

By Tony Kukulich Ownership of an unassuming stretch of dirt road in rural Beaufort County has been the focus of a yearslong legal struggle, and a recent appellate court ruling determined that neither party involved in the dispute has a valid claim to the road.

At stake is long-standing tradition of community access to a dirt track that connects the end of Warsaw Island Road to a boat ramp on the banks of Jenkins Creek on Warsaw Island.

Nearly three years ago, Judge Perry M. Buckner III of the 14th Judicial Circuit assigned ownership of the road to Ruben Adams, who

MORE ONLINE A look back at The Island News’ past coverage of this story: The road not taken, Sept. 26, 2019 – https://yourislandnews.com/theroad-not-taken/ Judge: Allow road to be surveyed, Nov. 26, 2019 – https:// yourislandnews.com/judge-allowroad-to-be-surveyed/ Also, the listing for Ruben Adams’ property he is attempting to sell: https://bit.ly/3Fabf2a

had purchased a small plot of land adjacent to the road three years earlier. Shortly after the 2018 ruling, Adams erected a cattle gate across

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Solicitor Duffie Stone discusses prosecution with Beaufort residents.

Lady’s Island Middle School student riding science fair three-peat.

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We’re growing!

We have officially broken ground on our outdoor educational pavilion!

The pavilion will help us expand our field trips & educational events and will also be available for event rentals.

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the road, ending the community’s use of the road and boat landing.

Last week the South Carolina Court of Appeals overturned Buckner’s ruling and stated Adams had presented no proof of ownership.

For now, the gate remains in place.

Charles Gardner lives on the north side of the unnamed road, which is referred to in legal documents as the 30-foot road. Gardner, and his father before him, claimed ownership of the road and the ramp. They maintained them and paid taxes on them.

“We always considered it our

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VETERAN OF THE WEEK

Beaufort’s George Winslow, 74, joined the United States Army in 1966 in Hertford, N.C. After basic training at Fort Gordon, Ga., and training as a Communications Specialist, he was assigned duties in the Pentagon and other Washington locations. Separating in 1998 he earned a college degree from Florida State using the GI

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REGISTER TO VOTE

From staff reports The deadline to register online to vote in time for the June 14 S.C. primaries is May 15. The League of Women Voters Beaufort urges all eligible U.S. citizens who are not currently registered and who will be 18 years old by Nov. 8, 2022 to register to vote online as soon as possible at scvotes.gov, the League of Women Voters’ VOTE411.org website or via the accompanying QR code.

If you are already registered to vote, you can use these same sites to access information on

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1981: Greg Jones was born in Columbia. Jones was a star athlete at Battery Creek High School in the 1990s, earning AllState honors on offense (running back) and defense (linebacker) in football before going on to play college football at Florida State University. Drafted in the second round of the 2004 NFL draft by the Jacksonville Jaguars, Jones played nine seasons in the NFL,

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You can also get information on absentee voting rules.

The primaries are June 14 and the general election is Nov. 8.

eight with the Jaguars and one with the Houston Texans.

Editor’s Note: If you know of any significant dates pertaining to history, business, social life, etc., in the City of Beaufort, the Town of Port Royal, the old Beaufort District, the Sea Islands or anywhere else in northern Beaufort County that you feel we could or should add to our list, please let us know at TheIslandNews@gmail.com.

PAL PETS OF THE WEEK Cat of the Week: Zach is a wonderful orange boy who is looking for his next home.

He was recently diagnosed as a diabetic, and his care is very simple. He would make a great companion to any type of household.

He is 5 years old, neutered, up to date on vaccines, and microchipped.

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Bill. Over the years he worked in eight different states and added a degree in Occupational Therapy from the University of Alabama.

Married to Marynell, their son Ryan joined the Marines and was deployed to Iraq where he was killed in action in April 2006. The American Legion named its Alabama Post 911 the Ryan Winslow

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LETTERS TO THE EDITOR

Tell Jim Dickson he’s fired

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GEORGE WINSLOW

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Does anyone fact check the rantings of Jim Dickson or are you allowing him to have his own little Fox News gig in your paper?

For him to say that "anyone who does not live in a cave somewhere in Mexico knows" … Wow, how degrading (and do you think racist) is that?

There are caves right here in the good old USA – I guess he assumes American cave dwellers are more intelligent?

He is often rude and suggests that those that don't think as he does are apparently ignorant.

He appears to be just another Republican (who has) no positive platform, and all he knows to do to try to make up for that is to put down and insult those that do.

I would encourage you to find a Republican that will truthfully discuss just what their party has to offer the American people in a more civilized and less divisive way to include in your

newspaper and tell Mr. Dickson "you're fired."

– Denise Sullivan, Dataw Island

From a proud veteran’s spouse and daughter My late husband and departed dad were proud veterans. My children, family, and I are proud of our veterans. We are especially proud to have served as highly supportive family members.

I know your columnist Larry Dandridge, and he recently helped me get his local VFW Post to properly fold my departed dad’s and husband’s flags so that they could be proudly displayed and passed on to my children.

I hope someone or some organization soon recognizes The Island News for all the support they give to our military and veteran communities.

Sincerely and respectfully,

Dog of the Week: Smiley is all smiles. This adorable boy with a toothy grin loves to play and go one walks.

He makes our staff and volunteers laugh every day with his goofy antics. He would make a great addition to any family. Smiley is 10 months old, up to date on vaccines, and microchipped.

– Anne Watson, A Veteran’s Spouse and Daughter

If you are interested in adopting Zach, Smiley or any of our other pets, call our adoption center at 843-645-1725 or email us at info@ palmettoanimalleague. org to set up an appointment.

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We love our nurses.

And we know that you love them, too.

You’ll never find our nurses on the sidelines.

By your side is where they want to be.

They know that caring for patients is the essence of their profession.

Which is why they chose it.

National Nurses Week is celebrated each year from May 6 through

May 12—the birthday of Florence Nightingale—to recognize nurses for their foundational role in patient care and invaluable contributions to the well-being of communities everywhere.

This year, we again pay tribute to our extraordinary nurses at Beaufort Memorial, and to nurses around the world, who with kindness and skill continue to comfort and heal.

There are no words sufficient to thank them for what they do.

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Urban planning ‘Rock Star’ brings tidings of good will to city retreat

BEAUFORT ictor Dover, aka “the rock star of urban planning” as Mayor Stephen Murray called him last week, spent some time in the Lowcountry and left at least some of his audience in a kumbaya frame of mind.

Dover, whose Florida-based firm of Dover, Kohn & Partners, has done considerable work in the area, including helping to draft plans for the city/county’s $30 million Boundary Street Redevelopment Plan. He worked with private developers of Habersham and Newpoint to carve residential communities out of those once isolated woodlands and fields.

The nationally known talent was in town to confer with the Beaufort City Council during its two day retreat as the elected officials reviewed their development codes and figure out what to do next.

The seven-hour session, which can be viewed on the city’s Facebook if you REALLY want to find out what was said, left sometime-critics like representatives of the Coastal Conservation League, the Historic Beaufort Foundation, the Sea Island Corridor Coalition saying they felt “encouraged,” … “energized” by the discussions. Even retired 303 Associates CEO Dick Stewart, who has had his

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issues with the city and interpretations of its regulations, sat in on the discussion and offered his two cents.

Whether Dover’s comments about slowing traffic, protecting trees and open vistas, creating housing for the “middle” (which has come to mean police officers, nurses and school teachers) will carry during this development frenzy the community is facing, that’s to be seen.

City Manager Bill Prokop has to hire a new planning director to oversee the operations. That person will be charged with balancing a master plan for development while allowing growth. All while City Council members want to “work with everybody and just get along,” as the Mayor summer it up.

But Dover stated the obvious when he warned it wasn’t going to be easy, … that Santa Claus nor the Easter Bunny were going to bring the answers.

He stressed groups like

the City Council and review boards had to be tough and learn to say “no” when a project didn’t fit the master plans or development codes.

He must have viewed some of the city’s review boards where members sometimes apologize to developer applicants or homeowners for “taking so long” to take action on a project.

Dover had lots of advice for the elected officials, their paid staff and the 74 or so folks who turned out last Monday night for his presentation at the USCB Center for the Performing Arts.

He called parking issues a “narcotic. You never manage to get enough.” He stressed that it takes “eternal vigilance” to protect a beautiful place like the Lowcountry.

But one of the most interesting had to be his final remarks at the Monday night session: let’s all work together and love each other.

Amen.

Want to talk about progress? Don’t talk about short-term rentals BLUFFTON – In case you missed the story last month, a group of Palmetto Bluff homeowners are suing the luxury resort’s new owners because of, among other things, short-term rentals.

In a lengthy court doc-

ument detailing various concerns, these Beaufort County residents south of the Broad River are upset that the new resort owners, the lawsuit claims, have a strategy to restrict short-term rentals which they (the new owners) believe hurt the occupancy of their 5-star hotel business within the 20,000 acre confines.

The lawsuit’s complaints, that short-term rentals are being discouraged, might be welcome news to some folks on this side of the Broad River. According to some folks, the increasing number of short-term rentals is part of the reason for the shortage of affordable housing, that property owners are choosing to rent their homes out for the short-term rather than to long-term renters.

The complaint has caught the ear of short-timer Beaufort City Councilman Phil Cromer, who says he’s not going to seek re-election after eight years. But he also says he’s going to push for the council to tighten up its regulations, at least requiring property owners to live on site of their rentals.

That requirement would at least prevent those with the cash to buy multiple houses and rent them out for shortterm income, is Cromer’s thinking.

The city’s regulations, which have been in place for more than five years, cap the number of short-term rentals to 6 percent of homes within specified neighborhoods.

But when Cromer brought up the issue at last week’s City Council retreat, as part of the discussion on what to do about affordable housing, Mayor Stephen Murray was quick to nix the conversation. According to Murray, the city’s codes department records approximately 100 short-term rentals and while some neighborhoods – like Pigeon Point – may be close to its cap, that’s not the case city-wide.

Murray and Councilman Mike McFee, who were on council during the shortterm debates, agree it’s an issue that’s “a hornets’ nest that sucks the energy right out of the room.”

We’ve got much bigger fish to fry. That’s what the Mayor said.

State legislators still in Columbia doing their thing And speaking of shortterm … or bigger fish to fry, the state General Assembly is heading down the finish line with a $12 billion state budget to be resolved.

The budget, which may or may not include rebates for property owners, isn’t the

only issue left hanging.

One budget amendment – heaven knows how many have been tacked on in recent weeks – proposes a limitation of state funding for public libraries that don’t agree to limit “materials of prurient interest to children under the age of 13.”

As of this writing, the state’s Compassionate Care Act, aka the medical marijuana bill made famous

by Sen. Tom Davis, made it through a House subcommittee making it possible, just possible the full House may deal with the issue before May 12.

Our state leaders also have to agree on how to divide the S.C. Department of Health and Environmental Control, a move mental health advocates warning could have dire consequences for those who need help.

The session will finish and Gov. Henry McMaster will get to use his official pen converting the bills into law.

And then, they’ll go home to face the voters.

Lolita Huckaby Watson is a community volunteer and former reporter/ editorial assistant/columnist with The Beaufort Gazette, The Savannah Morning News, Bluffton Today, Beaufort Today and The Robesonian (Lumberton, N.C.). She can be reached at bftbay@gmail.com.

County accepting bids for surplus property From staff reports Beaufort County is accepting bids on two properties located at 600 Wilmington Street and 1407 King Street within the City of Beaufort.

Bids must be submitted no later than 5 p.m., Friday, May

2 properties designated for workforce housing

27, and must be for the purchase of both properties.

The County is specifically interested in selling the properties for the purpose of establishing work force housing and/or affordable housing. In evaluating offers, the County

Administrator will review and consider the purchase price as well as the proposed future development of the property.

Therefore, the County encourages individuals to submit any supporting documents for work force housing and/

or affordable housing development with their initial offer.

All offers will be reviewed by the County Administrator and a final recommendation will then be made to County Council for the sale of the properties. The County’s abil-

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him through a friend the day they lost their home to a fire in 2016.

Though the topic had been discussed before, serious talks about Higgins acquiring the drive-in started about six months ago.

“We have an agreement with somebody that is going to make some improvements, …,” Joe Barth said by phone Saturday from Florida, where he and his wife now live. “I want him to do really well with it. He has other businesses he does really well with. It’s what’s good for Beaufort, it’s what’s good for the drive-in.”

Higgins, who has lived in Bluffton for about 10 years, previously worked for the Jasper County Sheriff’s Office and was a detective with the Bluffton Police Department. He also owns a successful security firm.

“In my time policing here, I noticed there was a need for more employers that treat their employees well with a family-style atmosphere for employees, staff and customers,” Higgins said Monday. “This is something honorable. The drive-in has been a part of everybody’s upbringing. To be able to keep that going and make it better, that’s something worth doing.”

If there were any worries that the drive-in might slip, Higgins has his eye on

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ity to sell the properties and the approval of an offer to purchase are contingent upon Beaufort County Council’s approval through the form of an ordinance and public hearing.

By submitting an offer here, the County is under no obli-

gation to sell the properties and cannot sell the properties unless Beaufort County Council approves the sale of the properties through an ordinance and public hearing.

To submit a bid, go to https://bit.ly/38PEviI.

This is something honorable.

The drive-in has been a part of everybody’s upbringing.

To be able to keep that going and make it better, that’s something worth doing.”

– Bluffton’s Jake Higgins, Highway 21 Drive In

new owner of the

Highway 21 Drive In General Manager Cara Brace sits at “The Beast,” a 6,000-watt, digital projector used for Screen 1. Another digital projector used for Screen 2 is seen at right. The second projector “only” uses 3,500 watts, but it doesn’t have to project an image as far as The Beast. Both units use a powered exhaust system to help keep them from over heating. Photo by Bob Sofaly. improving the 44-year-old establishment. In a hurry.

As early as next week, Higgins said customers will start to see improvements in the grounds, concessions, buildings and lighting, among other things. He said the picture quality would improve as all the screens will see a fresh coat of white paint, and there will be new, brighter bulbs for the projectors.

In the near future, Higgins hopes to add a third screen – “My hope for that field is more of a lawn-chair and blanket kind of field. Different options with another screen.”

And Higgins hopes a flea

market can return to the property.

“He’s putting a lot of money into it, and I think it’s good,” Joe Barth said. “It seems like he’s got the funds and assets to make it as good as it can be. We were always limited on funds.”

The additional screen and flea market are pending the approval of Beaufort County and MCAS Beaufort.

Higgins said the white metal speaker poles throughout the grounds will be removed since they aren’t needed. And he hopes to add entertainment prior to the start time of movies.

The general manager the

Barths hired to run the drivein when they moved to Florida will stay, Higgins said.

And the hope is to hire more young people, which may be a necessity, since Higgins hopes to have carhops to provide in-car concession service during movies.

“I want this to be more of an entertainment experience as opposed to just watching a movie,” he said.

Open since 1978, the Highway 21 Drive In is located at 55 Parker Drive, off Highway 21 just north of Marine Corps Air Station Beaufort.

It features two screens, open year round, which each show double features Thursday

through Sunday nights. The drive-in opens seven days a week in the busy spring and summer.

The only operating drivein in the Lowcountry, the Highway 21 Drive In is the only movie theater open to the public in northern Beaufort County. It’s also part of a dying breed.

According to the United Drive-In Theatre Owners Association (UDITOA), there are just 318 drive-in theaters remaining in the United States, three in South Carolina, and just 571 screens.

That’s down from 433 and 667, respectively, in 2002, the year before the Barths bought the drive-in.

Running a drive-in has been a unique business that has provided unique challenges for the Barths.

In 2012, because of the changing technology, the Barths had to upgrade all their film equipment to digital. It required some change and

sacrifice, but they got it done.

“The first two or three years were a struggle,” Joe Barth said. “Then there were a bunch of really good years in the middle. But the last two or three years have been a struggle.

“But you only get one life to live,” he said. “You might as well enjoy it and get what you can out of it.”

Joe Barth thinks the future of the drive-in under Higgins will be a bright one. And he’s proud of what he and his wife did to keep it alive and get it to where it is.

“Honestly, we bought it as more of an investment for our future,” he said. “I love the drive-in. Me and my wife and family have put put a lot of getting it to where it is right now. We think the drive in is ready to spread it’s wings and fly.”

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

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Are you ready for a Taste of Beaufort?

From staff reports The annual Taste of Beaufort Culture, Music and Food Festival is back.

The event will be held from 5 to 10 p.m., Friday, May 6, and 11 a.m. to 4 p.m., Saturday, May 7, at Henry C. Chambers Waterfront Park. Admission is free.

Attendees can listen to great music while sampling dishes from the best of Beaufort’s restaurants. There will be a Kids Zone, sponsored by

Beaufort Lowe’s, and arts and craft vendors as well.

This year’s restaurant lineup includes Tout Sweet Macarons, the Island Fudge Shoppe, Brusters, the Lowcountry Cider Company, New Jade, Sea Eagle Market, McKinnon’s Seafood, Wingz & Gullah Tingz, Duke’s Olde

House BBQ, and Marker 244.

There may be more.

Whale Branch High School will be serving kid-friendly food.

The entertainment lineup: Friday 5:30 p.m.: Mark Boughton 7:30 p.m.: Departure – A Journey Tribute Band

Bomb threat prompts evacuation of BCHS

Saturday 11:15 a.m.: Chris Jones 12:30 p.m.: Parris Island Rock Band 1:45 p.m.: Liz Jane 3 p.m.: Tricky Lick Blues Band More information can be found at beaufortsc.org/ atasteofbeaufort.

From staff reports Students and staff at Battery Creek High School were evacuated after a bomb threat was called into the school Wednesday, April 27.

The search for an explosive device concluded with no such device found.

All students and staff members evacuated safely.

According to the Beaufort County Sheriff’s Office, the threat was received by a staff member at the school around noon. Sheriff's Office deputies and a K9 were on scene to search the school for any sign of an explosive device.

The identity of the individual responsible for the threat is under investigation.

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Hunting Island joins beach reporting system From staff reports Hunting Island State Park has joined Mote Marine Laboratory & Aquarium’s Beach Conditions Reporting System (BCRS).

The BCRS acts as a public resource to help visitors choose the beach best suited to their needs, depending on varying conditions and amenities.

Locations that utilize the BCRS report daily updates on crowds, surf conditions, currents, drift algae, water/air temperatures, the presence of respiratory irritation and a list of recreational amenities available at the beach.

Each beach is monitored by trained Beach Ambassadors, including lifeguards, park rangers and others coordinated by Mote. Beachgoers are also encouraged to submit their own observations through Community Reporting.

BCRS is also equipped with education features and other resources expected to expand over time. BCRS is available as an Android or iOS mobile app or online at visitbeaches.org.

S.C. State Senator Mia McLeod, a Democrat representing District 22, encompassing Kershaw and Richland Counties, makes remarks to supporters during a meet-and-greet Sunday afternoon at the Island Grill on Martin Luther King Blvd. on St. Helena Island. McLeod said if elected governor of South Carolina she would be in favor of increasing the minimum wage to $15 per hour or more, increase unemployment and Medicare benefits. She hopes to end voter suppression of minority voters by Republicans because “God wants it.” Several dozen people showed up to hear her speak and enjoy an old-fashioned St. Helena fish fry. Photo by Bob Sofaly.

Beaufort raises more than $64K in Ukraine relief

From staff reports Having raised more than $64,000 for Ukraine relief, according to a news release, the City of Beaufort was to end its Pride of Place campaign at the end of April. Of those funds, approximately half were donated by Thibault Gallery through the sale of

pins and pendants honoring Ukraine’s yellow and blue flag.

The donations to the Pride of Place fund went to help the city of Ostroh, in western Ukraine, as it serves refugees from other parts of the wartorn country.

In mid-March, Mayor Ste-

phen Murray reached out to Ostroh Mayor Yurii Yahodka to see how Beaufort might help this historic city. Mayor Yurii said he welcomed the help. He said that any donations would help Ostroh feed and offer shelter to refugees coming to Ostroh, and would help to supply the military

with various needs.

Shortly after this relief campaign began, Greg Rawls, a glass artist whose work is displayed at Thibault Gallery on Bay Street, designed a blue and yellow glass pin that sells at the gallery for $20.

The gallery will have donated $32,280 to the Pride of Place

fund by the end of the month.

Beaufort has transferred some funds to a special bank account that Ostroh has set up, and will transfer the rest at the end of the campaign.

The City will keep the Pride of Place fund open for several more weeks to gather any last donations.

South Carolina's first sea turtle nest of the year laid

From the SCDNR One day after the ‘official’ start of sea turtle nesting season in South Carolina, a team spotted the first nest of 2022.

Sea turtle staff and volunteers with the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service were scouting in Cape Romain National Wildlife Refuge when they saw telltale tracks in the sand on Lighthouse Island. Abigail King (“AK”), Billy Shaw and Gina McQuilken, who also found the season’s first nest in 2020, identified the tracks as belonging to a loggerhead sea turtle, by far the most common nester in South Carolina.

Cape Romain National Wildlife Refuge sits approximately 45 minutes north of Charleston and hosts one of the densest sea turtle nesting locations along the eastern seaboard north of Florida. Refuge staff join South Carolina Department of Natural Resources (SCDNR) biologists

A sea turtle 'crawl' is the track left by a female coming ashore to find a suitable place to dig a nest and lay her eggs. This crawl on Lighthouse Island led to the state's first nest of the season. Photo by Gina McQuilken. and more than 1,500 coastwide volunteers in regularly patrolling beaches from May 1 to October 31 to count, monitor and protect sea turtle nests.

"We're excited and optimistic for a great nesting sea-

son for sea turtles along our coast," said SCDNR biologist Michelle Pate, who leads the state's sea turtle nesting program.

For the last two years, nest numbers have held steady at

5,644 nests in 2021 and 5,560 in 2020. Typically, nesting fluctuates from year to year, as female sea turtles lay in a cyclical pattern – it’s not unusual for record-breaking years (like 2019; 8,795 nests) to follow low nesting years (like 2018; 2,766).

Overall, sea turtle nest numbers across the Southeast have trended up over the past decade, making biologists across the region optimistic that these threatened reptiles are beginning to recover after several decades of conservation efforts.

Four sea turtle species nest on South Carolina beaches: loggerheads, greens, Kemp’s ridleys and leatherbacks. All four species are classified as endangered or threatened and are protected under the Endangered Species Act in addition to local and state ordinances. Loggerhead nests comprise most of the state’s total number of nests each

SEA TURTLE NESTING SEASON REMINDERS • Report all sick/injured/dead sea turtles and nest disturbances to the SCDNR at 1-800-922-5431 so that staff/volunteers can respond as soon as possible.

• Respect boating laws and boat cautiously, especially in small tidal creeks where sea turtles like to feed. Boat strikes have emerged as the leading cause of death for sea turtles in South Carolina.

• Keep artificial lights off the beach at night during nesting season – this includes beachfront property lights and flash photography, which can disorient nesting mothers and hatchlings.

• Always respect sea turtles by observing them from a distance on the beach. Individuals that violate federal law by harming or interfering with sea turtles or their nests can be subject to civil penalties of up to $25,000 and up to a year’s imprisonment.

• Keep our beaches and ocean clean by avoiding single-use plastics.

Plastic bags and balloons are among the most common trash items found on South Carolina beaches and can cause injury or death when sea turtles mistake them for food.

• Promote and support continued conservation of sea turtles in South Carolina.

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LEGAL NOTICES STATE OF SOUTH CAROLINA COUNTY OF BEAUFORT

THE FOURTEENTH JUDICIAL CIRCUIT CASE NO: 2020-CP-07-00089

IN THE COURT OF COMMON PLEAS THE FOURTEENTH JUDICIAL CIRCUIT CASE NO: 2020-CP-07-00089 Summons, Notice of Motion and Motion for Order of Reference (Quiet Title Action, Non-Jury) (21 Front Street, St. Helena Island) (TMS R300 028 000. 0076. 0000) STEPHEN C. HUCKS, JR., Plaintiff, -vsPhilip T. Askins and Courtney B. Askins, BroadRiver TRF I, L.P. Series C. US Bank as Cust for BroadRiver TRF I LP, Beaufort County Treasurer, James D. Hayes and Miriam D. Hays as defaulting taxpayers, their heirs at law, successors and assigns; and all other persons or entities unknown claiming any right, title, interest, estate in or lien upon the Real Estate described in the Complaint; and also any Unknown Adults and Servicemembers being as a class designated as JOHN DOE; and also any Unknown Minors or Persons under Disability being as a class designated as RICHARD ROE,

NOTICE OF FILING COMPLAINT STEPHEN C. HUCKS, JR., Plaintiff, -vsPhilip T. Askins and Courtney B. Askins, BroadRiver TRF I, L.P. Series C. US Bank as Cust for BroadRiver TRF I LP, Beaufort County Treasurer, James D. Hayes and Miriam D. Hays as defaulting taxpayers, their heirs at law, successors and assigns; and all other persons or entities unknown claiming any right, title, interest, estate in or lien upon the Real Estate described in the Complaint; and also any Unknown Adults and Servicemembers being as a class designated as JOHN DOE; and also any Unknown Minors or Persons under Disability being as a class designated as RICHARD ROE, Defendants TO: THE DEFENDANT(S) ABOVE-NAMED:

NONJUDICIAL FORECLOSURE PROCEDURE AND REQUIRE FORECLOSURE OF YOUR TIMESHARE INTEREST TO PROCEED THROUGH THE JUDICIAL PROCESS. AN OBJECTION MUST BE MADE IN WRITING AND RECEIVED BY THE TRUSTEE BEFORE THE END OF THE THIRTY-DAY TIME PERIOD. YOU MUST STATE THE REASON FOR YOUR OBJECTION AND INCLUDE YOUR ADDRESS ON THE WRITTEN OBJECTION. IN A JUDICIAL FORECLOSURE PROCEEDING THAT RESULTS FROM YOUR OBJECTION, YOU MAY BE SUBJECT TO A DEFICIENCY JUDGMENT AND PERSONAL LIABILITY FOR THE LIEN BEING FORECLOSED IF THE SALE OF YOUR TIMESHARE ESTATE RESULTING FROM THE JUDICIAL FORECLOSURE IS INSUFFICIENT TO SATISFY THE AMOUNT OF THE LIEN BEING FORECLOSED. FURTHERMORE, YOU ALSO MAY BE SUBJECT TO A PERSONAL MONEY JUDGMENT FOR THE COSTS AND ATTORNEY’S FEES INCURRED BY THE LIENHOLDER IN THE JUDICIAL FORECLOSURE PROCEEDING IF THE COURT FINDS THAT THERE IS COMPLETE ABSENCE OF A JUSTIFIABLE ISSUE OF EITHER LAW OR FACT RAISED BY YOUR OBJECTIONS OR DEFENSES. YOU HAVE THE RIGHT TO CURE YOUR DEFAULT AT ANY TIME BEFORE THE SALE OF YOUR TIMESHARE ESTATE, BY PAYMENT OF ALL PAST DUE LOAN PAYMENTS OR ASSESSMENTS, ACCRUED INTEREST, LATE FEES, TAXES, AND ALL FEES AND COSTS INCURRED BY THE LIENHOLDER AND TRUSTEE, INCLUDING ATTORNEY’S FEES AND COSTS, IN CONNECTION WITH THE DEFAULT. Any response or inquiry should be made in writing to King Cunningham, LLC, Attn: Jeffrey W. King, Esq. who is serving as Trustee in this matter, at the following address: 1000 2nd Ave S, Ste 325, North Myrtle Beach, SC 29582.

You will please take notice that the above captioned action was filed in the office of the Clerk of Court for Beaufort County on January 19, 2022, in order to obtain the relief set forth in the Complaint in this action to quiet title. If the Defendant Defendants fails to answer the Complaint within the time mentioned in the Summons, the Plaintiff in this TO: THE DEFENDANT(S) ABOVE-NAMED: action will apply to the Court for a judgement by default for the relief demanded in the complaint.

NOTICE OF DEFAULT AND INTENT TO SELL YOU ARE HEREBY SUMMONED and required to

Name and address of Purchaser: JOSEPH MIanswer the Complaint, a copy nof which is hereby HUCKS & FELKER, L.L.C. CHAELS & MARILYN L. WEISSMAN, 33 SURREY served upon you, and to serve a copy of your Answer LN, ROCKVILLE CENTRE, NY 11570-1853 to the said Complaint on the subscriber at the law Stephen C. Hucks, Sr. (SC Bar #14219) A fee simple undivided 0.0147723220820258 offices of Hucks & Felker, 9610 Two Notch road, suite 9610 Two Notch Road, Suite 5 % ownership interest in the Project as tenants(s) 5, Columbia, South Carolina 29223, within thirty Columbia, South Carolina 29223 in common with the holders of other undivided (30) days after service hereof, exclusive of the day of Phone: (803) 865-6370 interests in and to the timeshare property known such service, and if you fail to answer the Complaint ATTORNEY FOR PLAINTIFF as MBV VACATION SUITES, as established by that within the time aforementioned, the Plaintiff in this certain Declaration of Covenants, Conditions and action will apply to the Court for a default judgeApril 22, 2022 Restrictions and Vacation Ownership Instrument ment and for the relief demanded in the Complaint for MBV Vacation Suites, recorded at Book 3406, and an Order of Default will be rendered against NOTICE OF DEFAULT AND INTENT TO SELL Pages 1312- 1365, et seq., of the records of the you for the relief so demanded in the Complaint.

Name and address of Purchaser: CARRIE JO R.O.D. Office for Beaufort County, South Carolina, SHARP & BRIAN COLYER SHARP, 87 VIRGINIA AVE as amended or supplemented (the “DeclaraYOU ARE HEREBY GIVEN FURTHER NOTICE that UNIT A, PALMYRA, VA 22963-6240 tion”), having Interval Control Number U1502should you fail to answer the foregoing Summons A fee simple undivided 0.0147723220820258 W51B. Deed recorded and Complaint, the Plaintiff will move for a general % ownership interest in the Project as tenants(s) in Book 3682, Pages 2316, Mortgage in Book Order of Reference of this cause to the Honorable in common with the holders of other undivided 3682, Pages 2321. Total amount presently deMarvin H. Dukes, III, Master-In-Equity for Beaufort interests in and to the timeshare property known linquent $24,690.34, Attorneys fees $350.00, County, or his successor or successors in office of as MBV VACATION SUITES, as established by that Costs $457.33. You are currently in default unsuch Special master of Special Referee to whom this certain Declaration of Covenants, Conditions der certain provisions of the above referenced case may be assigned, which Order shall, pursuant and Restrictions and Vacation Ownership Instrumortgage and timeshare instrument. As proto Rule 53 of the South Carolina Rules of Civil Proment for MBV Vacation Suites, recorded at Book vided for in paragraph 4. of the aforementioned cedure, specifically provide that the said Master or 3406, Pages 1312- 1365, et seq., of the records mortgage, the lien-holder has chosen to proceed his successor or successors in office or such Special of the R.O.D. Office for Beaufort County, South with a non-judicial foreclosure procedure in acMaster or Special Referee, be authorized and emCarolina, as amended or supplemented (the cordance with Article 3 of Chapter 32 of Title 27 powered to enter a final Judgment in the cause with “Declaration”), having Interval Control Number of the Code of Laws of South Carolina. appeal, if any, to the South Carolina supreme Court.

U1609-W14B. PURSUANT TO SECTION 27-32-325, S.C. CODE Deed recorded in Book 3620, Pages 379, MortANN., 1976, AS AMENDED, YOU ARE HEREBY TO MINOR(S) OVER FOURTEEN YEARS OF AGE, AND/ gage in Book 3620, Pages 384. Total amount ADVISED OF THE FOLLOWING: OR MINOR(S) UNDER FOURTEEN YEARS OF AGE presently delinquent $32,673.92, Attorneys IF YOU FAIL TO CURE THE DEFAULT OR TAKE OTHAND THE PERSON WITH WHO THE MINOR(S) REfees $350.00, Costs $457.33. You are currently ER APPROPRIATE ACTION WITH REGARD TO THIS SIDES, AND/OR TO PERSONS UNDER SOME LEGAL in default under certain provisions of the above MATTER WITHIN THIRTY CALENDAR DAYS AFTER DISABILITY: YOU ARE FURTHER SUMMONED AND referenced mortgage and timeshare instrument.

RECEIPT OF THIS NOTICE, YOU WILL RISK LOSNOTIFIED to apply for the appointment of a GuardAs provided for in paragraph 4. of the aforemenING YOUR INTEREST IN THIS TIMESHARE ESTATE ian ad Litem within thirty (30) days after the service tioned mortgage, the lien-holder has chosen to THROUGH A NONJUDICIAL FORECLOSURE PROof this Summons and Notice upon you. If you fail proceed with a non-judicial foreclosure proceCEDURE. HOWEVER, UNDER THE NONJUDICIAL to do so, application for such appointment will be dure in accordance with Article 3 of Chapter 32 PROCEDURE, YOU WILL NOT BE SUBJECT TO A made by the Plaintiff. of Title 27 of the Code of Laws of South Carolina.

DEFICIENCY JUDGMENT OR PERSONAL LIABILITY

PURSUANT TO SECTION 27-32-325, S.C. CODE FOR THE LIEN BEING FORECLOSED EVEN IF THE HUCKS & FELKER, L.L.C. ANN., 1976, AS AMENDED, YOU ARE HEREBY SALE OF YOUR TIMESHARE ESTATE RESULTING ADVISED OF THE FOLLOWING: FROM THE NONJUDICIAL FORECLOSURE IS IN/s/ Stephen C. Hucks, Sr. IF YOU FAIL TO CURE THE DEFAULT OR TAKE OTHSUFFICIENT TO SATISFY THE AMOUNT OF THE LIEN Stephen C. Hucks, Sr. ER APPROPRIATE ACTION WITH REGARD TO THIS BEING FORECLOSED. YOU MAY OBJECT TO THE 9610 Two Notch Road, Suite 5 MATTER WITHIN THIRTY CALENDAR DAYS AFTER SALE OF YOUR TIMESHARE ESTATE THROUGH THE Columbia, South Carolina 29223 RECEIPT OF THIS NOTICE, YOU WILL RISK LOSNONJUDICIAL FORECLOSURE PROCEDURE AND Phone: (803) 865-6370 ING YOUR INTEREST IN THIS TIMESHARE ESTATE REQUIRE FORECLOSURE OF YOUR TIMESHARE ATTORNEY FOR PLAINTIFF THROUGH A NONJUDICIAL FORECLOSURE PROINTEREST TO PROCEED THROUGH THE JUDICIAL CEDURE. HOWEVER, UNDER THE NONJUDICIAL PROCESS. AN OBJECTION MUST BE MADE IN Columbia, South Carolina PROCEDURE, YOU WILL NOT BE SUBJECT TO A WRITING AND RECEIVED BY THE TRUSTEE BEFORE January 19, 2022 DEFICIENCY JUDGMENT OR PERSONAL LIABILITY THE END OF THE THIRTY-DAY TIME PERIOD. YOU FOR THE LIEN BEING FORECLOSED EVEN IF THE MUST STATE THE REASON FOR YOUR OBJECTION SALE OF YOUR TIMESHARE ESTATE RESULTING AND INCLUDE YOUR ADDRESS ON THE WRITTEN STATE OF SOUTH CAROLINA FROM THE NONJUDICIAL FORECLOSURE IS INOBJECTION. IN A JUDICIAL FORECLOSURE PROCOUNTY OF BEAUFORT SUFFICIENT TO SATISFY THE AMOUNT OF THE LIEN CEEDING THAT RESULTS FROM YOUR OBJECBEING FORECLOSED. YOU MAY OBJECT TO THE TION, YOU MAY BE SUBJECT TO A DEFICIENCY IN THE COURT OF COMMON PLEAS SALE OF YOUR TIMESHARE ESTATE THROUGH THE JUDGMENT AND PERSONAL LIABILITY FOR THE

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LIEN BEING FORECLOSED IF THE SALE OF YOUR TIMESHARE ESTATE RESULTING FROM THE JUDICIAL FORECLOSURE IS INSUFFICIENT TO SATISFY THE AMOUNT OF THE LIEN BEING FORECLOSED. FURTHERMORE, YOU ALSO MAY BE SUBJECT TO A PERSONAL MONEY JUDGMENT FOR THE COSTS AND ATTORNEY’S FEES INCURRED BY THE LIENHOLDER IN THE JUDICIAL FORECLOSURE PROCEEDING IF THE COURT FINDS THAT THERE IS COMPLETE ABSENCE OF A JUSTIFIABLE ISSUE OF EITHER LAW OR FACT RAISED BY YOUR OBJECTIONS OR DEFENSES. YOU HAVE THE RIGHT TO CURE YOUR DEFAULT AT ANY TIME BEFORE THE SALE OF YOUR TIMESHARE ESTATE, BY PAYMENT OF ALL PAST DUE LOAN PAYMENTS OR ASSESSMENTS, ACCRUED INTEREST, LATE FEES, TAXES, AND ALL FEES AND COSTS INCURRED BY THE LIENHOLDER AND TRUSTEE, INCLUDING ATTORNEY’S FEES AND COSTS, IN CONNECTION WITH THE DEFAULT. Any response or inquiry should be made in writing to King Cunningham, LLC, Attn: Jeffrey W. King, Esq. who is serving as Trustee in this matter, at the following address: 1000 2nd Ave S, Ste 325, North Myrtle Beach, SC 29582.

NOTICE OF DEFAULT AND INTENT TO SELL Name and address of Purchaser: ALAN JOHN MUNKACSY & SARAH JANE MUNKACSY, 180 SEAGLASS DR, MELBOURNE BEACH, FL 32951-3275 A fee simple undivided 0.0147723220820258 % ownership interest in the Project as tenants(s) in common with the holders of other undivided interests in and to the timeshare property known as MBV VACATION SUITES, as established by that certain Declaration of Covenants, Conditions and Restrictions and Vacation Ownership Instrument for MBV Vacation Suites, recorded at Book 3406, Pages 1312- 1365, et seq., of the records of the R.O.D. Office for Beaufort County, South Carolina, as amended or supplemented (the “Declaration”), having Interval Control Number U1608W38B. Deed recorded in Book 3596, Pages 1965, Mortgage in Book 3596, Pages 1970. Total amount presently delinquent $17,700.28, Attorneys fees $350.00, Costs $457.33. You are currently in default under certain provisions of the above referenced mortgage and timeshare instrument. As provided for in paragraph 4. of the aforementioned mortgage, the lien-holder has chosen to proceed with a non-judicial foreclosure procedure in accordance with Article 3 of Chapter 32 of Title 27 of the Code of Laws of South Carolina.

PURSUANT TO SECTION 27-32-325, S.C. CODE ANN., 1976, AS AMENDED, YOU ARE HEREBY ADVISED OF THE FOLLOWING: IF YOU FAIL TO CURE THE DEFAULT OR TAKE OTHER APPROPRIATE ACTION WITH REGARD TO THIS MATTER WITHIN THIRTY CALENDAR DAYS AFTER RECEIPT OF THIS NOTICE, YOU WILL RISK LOSING YOUR INTEREST IN THIS TIMESHARE ESTATE THROUGH A NONJUDICIAL FORECLOSURE PROCEDURE. HOWEVER, UNDER THE NONJUDICIAL PROCEDURE, YOU WILL NOT BE SUBJECT TO A DEFICIENCY JUDGMENT OR PERSONAL LIABILITY FOR THE LIEN BEING FORECLOSED EVEN IF THE SALE OF YOUR TIMESHARE ESTATE RESULTING FROM THE NONJUDICIAL FORECLOSURE IS INSUFFICIENT TO SATISFY THE AMOUNT OF THE LIEN BEING FORECLOSED. YOU MAY OBJECT TO THE SALE OF YOUR TIMESHARE ESTATE THROUGH THE NONJUDICIAL FORECLOSURE PROCEDURE AND REQUIRE FORECLOSURE OF YOUR TIMESHARE INTEREST TO PROCEED THROUGH THE JUDICIAL PROCESS. AN OBJECTION MUST BE MADE IN WRITING AND RECEIVED BY THE TRUSTEE BEFORE THE END OF THE THIRTY-DAY TIME PERIOD. YOU MUST STATE THE REASON FOR YOUR OBJECTION AND INCLUDE YOUR ADDRESS ON THE WRITTEN OBJECTION. IN A JUDICIAL FORECLOSURE PROCEEDING THAT RESULTS FROM YOUR OBJECTION, YOU MAY BE SUBJECT TO A DEFICIENCY JUDGMENT AND PERSONAL LIABILITY FOR THE LIEN BEING FORECLOSED IF THE SALE OF YOUR TIMESHARE ESTATE RESULTING FROM THE JUDICIAL FORECLOSURE IS INSUFFICIENT TO SATISFY THE AMOUNT OF THE LIEN BEING FORECLOSED. FURTHERMORE, YOU ALSO MAY BE SUBJECT TO A PERSONAL MONEY JUDGMENT FOR THE COSTS AND ATTORNEY’S FEES INCURRED BY THE LIENHOLDER IN THE JUDICIAL FORECLOSURE PROCEEDING IF THE COURT FINDS THAT THERE IS COMPLETE ABSENCE OF A JUSTIFIABLE ISSUE OF EITHER LAW OR FACT RAISED BY YOUR OBJECTIONS OR DEFENSES. YOU HAVE THE RIGHT TO CURE YOUR DEFAULT AT ANY TIME BEFORE THE SALE OF YOUR TIMESHARE ESTATE, BY PAYMENT OF ALL PAST DUE LOAN PAYMENTS OR ASSESSMENTS, ACCRUED INTEREST, LATE FEES, TAXES, AND ALL FEES AND COSTS INCURRED BY THE LIENHOLDER AND TRUSTEE, INCLUDING ATTORNEY’S FEES AND COSTS, IN CONNECTION WITH THE DEFAULT. Any response or inquiry should be made in writing to King Cunningham, LLC, Attn: Jeffrey W. King, Esq. who is serving as Trustee in this matter, at the following address: 1000 2nd Ave S, Ste 325, North Myrtle Beach, SC 29582.

NOTICE OF DEFAULT AND INTENT TO SELL Name and address of Purchaser: TRACY NICHOLAS EASTER & COLETTE RAE EASTER, 2881 FORT PICKENTS RD, LA GRANGE, KY 40031 A fee simple undivided 0.0147723220820258 % ownership interest in the Project as tenants(s) in common with the holders of other undivided interests in and to the timeshare property known as MBV VACATION SUITES, as established by that certain Declaration of Covenants, Conditions and Restrictions and Vacation Ownership Instrument for MBV Vacation Suites, recorded at Book

3406, Pages 1312- 1365, et seq., of the records of the R.O.D. Office for Beaufort County, South Carolina, as amended or supplemented (the “Declaration”), having Interval Control Number U1602-W3B. Deed recorded in Book 3723, Pages 1725, Mortgage in Book 3723, Pages 1730. Total amount presently delinquent $17,694.44, Attorneys fees $350.00, Costs $457.33. You are currently in default under certain provisions of the above referenced mortgage and timeshare instrument. As provided for in paragraph 4. of the aforementioned mortgage, the lien-holder has chosen to proceed with a non-judicial foreclosure procedure in accordance with Article 3 of Chapter 32 of Title 27 of the Code of Laws of South Carolina.

PURSUANT TO SECTION 27-32-325, S.C. CODE ANN., 1976, AS AMENDED, YOU ARE HEREBY ADVISED OF THE FOLLOWING: IF YOU FAIL TO CURE THE DEFAULT OR TAKE OTHER APPROPRIATE ACTION WITH REGARD TO THIS MATTER WITHIN THIRTY CALENDAR DAYS AFTER RECEIPT OF THIS NOTICE, YOU WILL RISK LOSING YOUR INTEREST IN THIS TIMESHARE ESTATE THROUGH A NONJUDICIAL FORECLOSURE PROCEDURE. HOWEVER, UNDER THE NONJUDICIAL PROCEDURE, YOU WILL NOT BE SUBJECT TO A DEFICIENCY JUDGMENT OR PERSONAL LIABILITY FOR THE LIEN BEING FORECLOSED EVEN IF THE SALE OF YOUR TIMESHARE ESTATE RESULTING FROM THE NONJUDICIAL FORECLOSURE IS INSUFFICIENT TO SATISFY THE AMOUNT OF THE LIEN BEING FORECLOSED. YOU MAY OBJECT TO THE SALE OF YOUR TIMESHARE ESTATE THROUGH THE NONJUDICIAL FORECLOSURE PROCEDURE AND REQUIRE FORECLOSURE OF YOUR TIMESHARE INTEREST TO PROCEED THROUGH THE JUDICIAL PROCESS. AN OBJECTION MUST BE MADE IN WRITING AND RECEIVED BY THE TRUSTEE BEFORE THE END OF THE THIRTY-DAY TIME PERIOD. YOU MUST STATE THE REASON FOR YOUR OBJECTION AND INCLUDE YOUR ADDRESS ON THE WRITTEN OBJECTION. IN A JUDICIAL FORECLOSURE PROCEEDING THAT RESULTS FROM YOUR OBJECTION, YOU MAY BE SUBJECT TO A DEFICIENCY JUDGMENT AND PERSONAL LIABILITY FOR THE LIEN BEING FORECLOSED IF THE SALE OF YOUR TIMESHARE ESTATE RESULTING FROM THE JUDICIAL FORECLOSURE IS INSUFFICIENT TO SATISFY THE AMOUNT OF THE LIEN BEING FORECLOSED. FURTHERMORE, YOU ALSO MAY BE SUBJECT TO A PERSONAL MONEY JUDGMENT FOR THE COSTS AND ATTORNEY’S FEES INCURRED BY THE LIENHOLDER IN THE JUDICIAL FORECLOSURE PROCEEDING IF THE COURT FINDS THAT THERE IS COMPLETE ABSENCE OF A JUSTIFIABLE ISSUE OF EITHER LAW OR FACT RAISED BY YOUR OBJECTIONS OR DEFENSES. YOU HAVE THE RIGHT TO CURE YOUR DEFAULT AT ANY TIME BEFORE THE SALE OF YOUR TIMESHARE ESTATE, BY PAYMENT OF ALL PAST DUE LOAN PAYMENTS OR ASSESSMENTS, ACCRUED INTEREST, LATE FEES, TAXES, AND ALL FEES AND COSTS INCURRED BY THE LIENHOLDER AND TRUSTEE, INCLUDING ATTORNEY’S FEES AND COSTS, IN CONNECTION WITH THE DEFAULT. Any response or inquiry should be made in writing to King Cunningham, LLC, Attn: Jeffrey W. King, Esq. who is serving as Trustee in this matter, at the following address: 1000 2nd Ave S, Ste 325, North Myrtle Beach, SC 29582.

NOTICE OF DEFAULT AND INTENT TO SELL Name and address of Purchaser: TIMOTHY EDWARD GARD & CHRYSTAL SANDERS JONES, 8203 LAKESIDE DR, ORE CITY, TX 75683 A fee simple undivided 0.0147723220820258 % ownership interest in the Project as tenants(s) in common with the holders of other undivided interests in and to the timeshare property known as MBV VACATION SUITES, as established by that certain Declaration of Covenants, Conditions and Restrictions and Vacation Ownership Instrument for MBV Vacation Suites, recorded at Book 3406, Pages 1312- 1365, et seq., of the records of the R.O.D. Office for Beaufort County, South Carolina, as amended or supplemented (the “Declaration”), having Interval Control Number U1201-W6B. Deed recorded in Book 3609, Pages 1818, Mortgage in Book 3609, Pages 1823. Total amount presently delinquent $12,659.98, Attorneys fees $350.00, Costs $457.33. You are currently in default under certain provisions of the above referenced mortgage and timeshare instrument. As provided for in paragraph 4. of the aforementioned mortgage, the lien-holder has chosen to proceed with a non-judicial foreclosure procedure in accordance with Article 3 of Chapter 32 of Title 27 of the Code of Laws of South Carolina.

PURSUANT TO SECTION 27-32-325, S.C. CODE ANN., 1976, AS AMENDED, YOU ARE HEREBY ADVISED OF THE FOLLOWING: IF YOU FAIL TO CURE THE DEFAULT OR TAKE OTHER APPROPRIATE ACTION WITH REGARD TO THIS MATTER WITHIN THIRTY CALENDAR DAYS AFTER RECEIPT OF THIS NOTICE, YOU WILL RISK LOSING YOUR INTEREST IN THIS TIMESHARE ESTATE THROUGH A NONJUDICIAL FORECLOSURE PROCEDURE. HOWEVER, UNDER THE NONJUDICIAL PROCEDURE, YOU WILL NOT BE SUBJECT TO A DEFICIENCY JUDGMENT OR PERSONAL LIABILITY FOR THE LIEN BEING FORECLOSED EVEN IF THE SALE OF YOUR TIMESHARE ESTATE RESULTING FROM THE NONJUDICIAL FORECLOSURE IS INSUFFICIENT TO SATISFY THE AMOUNT OF THE LIEN BEING FORECLOSED. YOU MAY OBJECT TO THE SALE OF YOUR TIMESHARE ESTATE THROUGH THE NONJUDICIAL FORECLOSURE

PROCEDURE AND REQUIRE FORECLOSURE OF YOUR TIMESHARE INTEREST TO PROCEED THROUGH THE JUDICIAL PROCESS. AN OBJECTION MUST BE MADE IN WRITING AND RECEIVED BY THE TRUSTEE BEFORE THE END OF THE THIRTY-DAY TIME PERIOD. YOU MUST STATE THE REASON FOR YOUR OBJECTION AND INCLUDE YOUR ADDRESS ON THE WRITTEN OBJECTION. IN A JUDICIAL FORECLOSURE PROCEEDING THAT RESULTS FROM YOUR OBJECTION, YOU MAY BE SUBJECT TO A DEFICIENCY JUDGMENT AND PERSONAL LIABILITY FOR THE LIEN BEING FORECLOSED IF THE SALE OF YOUR TIMESHARE ESTATE RESULTING FROM THE JUDICIAL FORECLOSURE IS INSUFFICIENT TO SATISFY THE AMOUNT OF THE LIEN BEING FORECLOSED. FURTHERMORE, YOU ALSO MAY BE SUBJECT TO A PERSONAL MONEY JUDGMENT FOR THE COSTS AND ATTORNEY’S FEES INCURRED BY THE LIENHOLDER IN THE JUDICIAL FORECLOSURE PROCEEDING IF THE COURT FINDS THAT THERE IS COMPLETE ABSENCE OF A JUSTIFIABLE ISSUE OF EITHER LAW OR FACT RAISED BY YOUR OBJECTIONS OR DEFENSES. YOU HAVE THE RIGHT TO CURE YOUR DEFAULT AT ANY TIME BEFORE THE SALE OF YOUR TIMESHARE ESTATE, BY PAYMENT OF ALL PAST DUE LOAN PAYMENTS OR ASSESSMENTS, ACCRUED INTEREST, LATE FEES, TAXES, AND ALL FEES AND COSTS INCURRED BY THE LIENHOLDER AND TRUSTEE, INCLUDING ATTORNEY’S FEES AND COSTS, IN CONNECTION WITH THE DEFAULT. Any response or inquiry should be made in writing to King Cunningham, LLC, Attn: Jeffrey W. King, Esq. who is serving as Trustee in this matter, at the following address: 1000 2nd Ave S, Ste 325, North Myrtle Beach, SC 29582.

NOTICE OF DEFAULT AND INTENT TO SELL Name and address of Purchaser: MALIKA HARRIS , 1837 S 68TH ST, PHILADELPHIA, PA 19142 A fee simple undivided 0.0073861610410129 % ownership interest in the Project as tenants(s) in common with the holders of other undivided interests in and to the timeshare property known as MBV VACATION SUITES, as established by that certain Declaration of Covenants, Conditions and Restrictions and Vacation Ownership Instrument for MBV Vacation Suites, recorded at Book 3406, Pages 1312- 1365, et seq., of the records of the R.O.D. Office for Beaufort County, South Carolina, as amended or supplemented (the “Declaration”), having Interval Control Number U1305-W31E. Deed recorded in Book 3941, Pages 2074, Mortgage in Book 3941, Pages 2079. Total amount presently delinquent $30,006.23, Attorneys fees $350.00, Costs $457.33. You are currently in default under certain provisions of the above referenced mortgage and timeshare instrument. As provided for in paragraph 4. of the aforementioned mortgage, the lien-holder has chosen to proceed with a non-judicial foreclosure procedure in accordance with Article 3 of Chapter 32 of Title 27 of the Code of Laws of South Carolina.

PURSUANT TO SECTION 27-32-325, S.C. CODE ANN., 1976, AS AMENDED, YOU ARE HEREBY ADVISED OF THE FOLLOWING: IF YOU FAIL TO CURE THE DEFAULT OR TAKE OTHER APPROPRIATE ACTION WITH REGARD TO THIS MATTER WITHIN THIRTY CALENDAR DAYS AFTER RECEIPT OF THIS NOTICE, YOU WILL RISK LOSING YOUR INTEREST IN THIS TIMESHARE ESTATE THROUGH A NONJUDICIAL FORECLOSURE PROCEDURE. HOWEVER, UNDER THE NONJUDICIAL PROCEDURE, YOU WILL NOT BE SUBJECT TO A DEFICIENCY JUDGMENT OR PERSONAL LIABILITY FOR THE LIEN BEING FORECLOSED EVEN IF THE SALE OF YOUR TIMESHARE ESTATE RESULTING FROM THE NONJUDICIAL FORECLOSURE IS INSUFFICIENT TO SATISFY THE AMOUNT OF THE LIEN BEING FORECLOSED. YOU MAY OBJECT TO THE SALE OF YOUR TIMESHARE ESTATE THROUGH THE NONJUDICIAL FORECLOSURE PROCEDURE AND REQUIRE FORECLOSURE OF YOUR TIMESHARE INTEREST TO PROCEED THROUGH THE JUDICIAL PROCESS. AN OBJECTION MUST BE MADE IN WRITING AND RECEIVED BY THE TRUSTEE BEFORE THE END OF THE THIRTY-DAY TIME PERIOD. YOU MUST STATE THE REASON FOR YOUR OBJECTION AND INCLUDE YOUR ADDRESS ON THE WRITTEN OBJECTION. IN A JUDICIAL FORECLOSURE PROCEEDING THAT RESULTS FROM YOUR OBJECTION, YOU MAY BE SUBJECT TO A DEFICIENCY JUDGMENT AND PERSONAL LIABILITY FOR THE LIEN BEING FORECLOSED IF THE SALE OF YOUR TIMESHARE ESTATE RESULTING FROM THE JUDICIAL FORECLOSURE IS INSUFFICIENT TO SATISFY THE AMOUNT OF THE LIEN BEING FORECLOSED. FURTHERMORE, YOU ALSO MAY BE SUBJECT TO A PERSONAL MONEY JUDGMENT FOR THE COSTS AND ATTORNEY’S FEES INCURRED BY THE LIENHOLDER IN THE JUDICIAL FORECLOSURE PROCEEDING IF THE COURT FINDS THAT THERE IS COMPLETE ABSENCE OF A JUSTIFIABLE ISSUE OF EITHER LAW OR FACT RAISED BY YOUR OBJECTIONS OR DEFENSES. YOU HAVE THE RIGHT TO CURE YOUR DEFAULT AT ANY TIME BEFORE THE SALE OF YOUR TIMESHARE ESTATE, BY PAYMENT OF ALL PAST DUE LOAN PAYMENTS OR ASSESSMENTS, ACCRUED INTEREST, LATE FEES, TAXES, AND ALL FEES AND COSTS INCURRED BY THE LIENHOLDER AND TRUSTEE, INCLUDING ATTORNEY’S FEES AND COSTS, IN CONNECTION WITH THE DEFAULT. Any response or inquiry should be made in writing to King Cunningham, LLC, Attn: Jeffrey W. King, Esq. who is serving as Trustee in this matter, at the following address: 1000 2nd Ave S, Ste 325, North Myrtle Beach, SC 29582.

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Decorated Burton Fire Captain promoted to rank; father honored

From staff reports With family, friends and co-workers in attendance, Captain Ethan Webb was promoted to his current rank on Monday, April 25, at a ceremony held at the Burton Fire District Pinewood fire station.

Webb’s wife Molly, who is expecting their first child, pinned on his new rank, and his father, Deputy Fire Chief Tom Webb, who also received a South Carolina Firefighters’ Association Medal of Valor award and a Firehouse Honorable Valor Award for saving the life two kayakers while off duty, pinned on his new badge.

“This is a family that excels

in the service of others,” Burton Fire District Fire Chief Harry Rountree said in a news release. “As Burton fire officers, they also best represent who the men and woman of the Burton Fire District are, and what we do daily for our citizens.”

Captain Webb, hired by the Burton Fire District in 2012, is no stranger to honors. He was nominated by his fire academy classmates that year to receive the prestigious Order of the Maltese Cross award for being the candidate who most represents the honor and ethos of the fire service.

In 2016, then firefighter Webb, was selected as Fire-

fighter of the Year for both the Burton Fire District and the Beaufort Exchange Club, and received a Firehouse Magazine Honorable Valor Award for saving the life of a woman in cardiac arrest by performing CPR while off duty.

In addition to command of emergency scenes and overall scene safety, Captain Webb will also be responsible for overseeing the training program for the 15 firefighters on his shift and ensuring that all are prepared to safely and effectively handle the challenges they will face in the situations they are called to.

Molly Webb pins the new rank on her husband, Burton Fire District Captain Ethan Webb, as hs father, Deputy Chief Tom Webb looks on. Photos courtesy of Burton Fire District.

PERSONAL SAFETY

The Beaufort Republican Women's Club sponsored a Personal Safety & Self Defense Class for its members on April 30 at Dataw Island.

Staff Sergeant Daniel Allen from the Beaufort County Sheriff’s Office Crime Prevention/Community Liaison Division educated the ladies with his expertise and humor. Photos by Rosemary Patterson.

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from page A1 road,” Gardner said. “For 35 to 40 years me and my father maintained that road.”

For decades the Gardner family provided access to the ramp to members of the community. It was used to launch fishing boats; for recreation and for travel to and from the island in the days before Warsaw Island Road existed.

According to Gardner, the landing has served the Warsaw Island community for 200 years, maybe longer.

“There’s a lot of people that’ve been using this boat landing over the years,” said Richard Williamson, a neighbor of Gardner. “Lots and lots of folks grew up on this island using this landing to learn to swim, learn to fish, learn to boat. They fed their family.

It was very important to the island, very important to the people.”

The 30-foot road also provided Gardner the only access to his property.

By all accounts, the arrangement worked well for everyone. That began to change in January 2015 when Adams purchased a 1.054-acre

plot of land on the south side of the 30-foot road at a county tax auction for $19,000.

He took up residence on the land, living in a travel trailer he moved onto the property. Initially, Gardner and his new neighbors got along well enough, but the relationship soon soured.

Adams’ access to his property was also dependent on the 30-foot road, and in 2017 Gardner sued Adams for trespass. Adams claimed ownership of the road and the boat ramp in his response. According to court documents, Adams asserted that a 1990 quiet title order assigned ownership of the 30-foot road and the 1.054-acre plot to John Howard, and his purchase of the Howard property in the county tax sale gave him ownership of the road.

While Gardner did not contest the provenance of the 1.054-acre plot, he did argue that Gardner provided the court no proof of ownership of the Howard property as Adams did not produce a deed. Without a clear title of ownership, Adams’ claim on the road and ramp was invalid, he argued. Gardner’s point regarding Adams’ ownership of the property was interrupted by Buckner, and

that would be a factor in the most recent ruling by the appellate court.

Buckner sided with Adams. He handed down a partial summary judgment in June 2018 finding the road, the boat ramp and the property to the south belonged to Adams, stating that he was the successor to the Howard property.

Several weeks later, Gardner returned home to find that Adams had erected a gate across the 30-foot road.

With no access to his property. Gardner and his neighbors hacked a new track through a thick stand of trees and undergrowth to give him access from Ashton Road.

Adams’ gate cut off the community’s access to the 30-foot road and the Jenkins Creek boat ramp. More than an inconvenience, the move impacted the ability of some community members to earn a living. Eventually, a class action suit was filed against Adams with approximately three dozen plaintiffs joining the case.

“I’m spending over $50 a day just to get to a boat ramp I can use,” said Ed Atkins, who has fished Jenkins Creek for more than 50 years to supply his bait shop busi-

Beaufort Memorial Express Care adds practitioner From staff reports Beaufort Memorial has added a board-certified family nurse practitioner to its Express Care & Occupational Health team.

Carri Knapp, FNP-C, brings experience in Carri Knapp both critical care and palliative care nursing to the practice. Before joining Express Care, she worked as a staff nurse in the Beaufort Memorial Hospital intensive care unit from 2017 to 2021 and most recently for SC House Calls as an advanced practice nurse providing inpatient palliative care at the hospital.

A native of Upstate New York, Knapp earned a Master of Science in Nursing in the Family Nurse Practitioner program at University of South Carolina College of Nursing in Columbia and a Bachelor of Science in Nursing at Southern New Hampshire University in Manchester.

At Beaufort Memorial Express Care, Knapp will see patients in the clinics’ three locations: Bluffton, Okatie and Port Royal. All are open seven days a week, including weekday evenings, and offer on-the-spot treatment for non-life-threatening medical issues. The practice also provides services to employees of businesses participating in Beaufort Memorial’s Well at Work program.

Charles Gardner and Ed Atkins pause for moment on Gardner's property on Warsaw Island. ness on St. Helena Island.

“When Adams blocked that road, that really hurt me. It’s costing me time and money, losing bait and everything else.”

Gardner filed a motion for reconsideration of Buckner’s ruling, pressing the issue of Adams’ lack of a clear title to the property. He added that Buckner’s interpretation of the 1990 quiet title was flawed. He said the quiet title actually identified Beaufort County as the owner of the 30-foot road, and that it was

A gate erected by Ruben Adams remains in place April 30 on the 30-foot road on Warsaw Island. in 2018, Adams was awarded ownership of the road leading to a boat ramp on Jenkins Creek, but an appellate court recently reversed that decision. Photos by Tony Kukulich.

not part of the Howard property. That motion was denied.

Gardner then appealed Buckner’s ruling in April 2021, and late last month the South Carolina Court of Appeals found that Buckner erred in his decision.

“We find Gardner’s challenge of the circuit court’s conclusion that Adams owned the Howard property is preserved because Gardner attempted to bring proof to the attention of the circuit court before the court essentially cut off the argument with interjected questions,” read the April 27 court decision signed by Judge Aphrodite K. Konduros, Judge John D. Geathers and Judge Stephanie P. McDonald.

The court went on to state that the Gardner’s deed to his property excluded the 30foot road. As a result, he has no claim on it. That decision “in no way places the title of the road to Adams,” the court said.

The court concluded that neither Gardner nor Adams owns the 30-foot road.

The next steps in the dispute are still to be determined. In the meantime, tensions between Adams and his neighbors along Warsaw Island and Ashton roads remain high. Adams was arrested twice for assault.

In 2019 he was arrested for assaulting a neighbor, Joey Heyward. He was arrested a second time shortly after Christmas 2021 for assaulting Gardner’s daughter, Valerie Gardner. That charge was recently dismissed.

“They didn’t give me a lawyer,” she said in an interview with The Island News. “They didn’t give me a state-appointed lawyer. They didn’t give me that. They didn’t have anybody for me.”

Adams’ property at 240 Warsaw Island Rd. is currently listed for sale for $540,000.

An online listing states, “The property features a long drive which leads to your own private boat ramp.”

An attempt to reach Adams through his attorney was unsuccessful. Adams was represented by Terry A. Finger, founder and senior partner at Finger, Melnick, Brooks & LaBruce, P.A. He also serves as the Town Attorney for Bluffton. As of press time, Finger had not responded to a request for an interview.

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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Solicitor Duffie Stone discusses prosecution with Beaufort residents

By Tony Kukulich After recent appearances

by Beaufort Police Chief Dale McDorman and Sheriff P.J. Tanner addressed residents’ concerns about gun violence in Beaufort County and the City of Beaufort, it was Solicitor Duffie Stone’s turn when he spoke at the invitation of the Northwest Quadrant Neighborhood Association (NWQNA) last week.

Stone is the 14th Circuit solicitor responsible for criminal prosecution in Allendale, Beaufort, Colleton, Hampton and Jasper counties. He was appointed to the role in 2006 by then-Gov. Mark Sanford to replace Randolph Murdaugh III, who left the office in 2005 to go into private practice. His first full term came after his election in 2008, followed by election victories in 2012, 2016 and 2020. His current term expires in 2024. According to the solicitor's website, Stone is the first solicitor in the 14th circuit who isn’t from the Murdaugh family since the elected office was created in 1920.

When McDorman spoke during an NWQNA meeting in March, his appearance came on the heels of two shootings in the Northwest Quadrant that had residents understandably shaken. While he handled pointed questions from residents demanding action, Stone faced fewer direct questions concerning local acts of violence.

There were three principal

topics that Stone addressed; the role of technology in criminal prosecution; changing the prioritization of cases and the number of cases currently pending in his office.

Stone began his presentation by describing his first days as the solicitor in 2006.

He requested a list of pending cases the office was handling and was told it would take two days to get the information. The reason for the long turnaround, he said, was that the entire office was running off an antiquated Tandy 1000 computer.

“The technology that criminals are using today, you have got to use from a police standpoint as well as a prosecutor’s office standpoint or else you will not be able to successfully prosecute cases today,” he said. “The long and short of it is that the Tandy computer built by Radio Shack doesn’t cut it anymore. Technology and the use of technology and the focus on technology, both outside of the courtroom and inside, is now crucial.”

The second point Stone addressed was the need to consider the criminal in addition to the crime when determining prosecution strategies. He argued that career criminals are different from the average criminal and he assembled a Career Criminal Team to prosecute them. The team was instructed to not offer pleas bargain deals and to seek the most severe sentences allowed

Fourteenth Circuit Solicitor Duffie Stone addresses recent gun violence and plans to prosecute the offenders during a Thursday, April 28, meeting of the Northwest Quadrant Neighborhood Association at the United Church on Hamar Street in Beaufort. Photo by Bob Sofaly. under the law. He tasked the team with achieving a 75 percent conviction rate. Since 2010, the team has won 421 of the 451 cases it has tried, a 93 percent conviction rate.

“You have to look at your body of work,” Stone explained. “You look at the cases pending. Who are the most important people to get to first? That’s where the whole career criminal concept comes from. You don’t just look at the cases and say, ‘This is the old-

est case. Let’s take that one.’

You have to figure out who to prioritize. Is it a career criminal from the Career Criminals Team or a career criminal from the Special Victims Unit?

Those are the people we have to prioritize and get those first.

That’s where our focus is, is to make sure we’re getting the people who are really driving the crime to the top of the docket as soon as possible.”

Speaking to The Island News after Stone's presenta-

tion, City of Beaufort Police Chief Dale McDorman was not completely convinced that Stone’s emphasis on the criminal above the crime was always the best approach.

“As for prioritizing cases based on the criminal and not the crime, I can’t say I completely agree on this point although I understand it,” he said. “The crime, I think, will always play a role. This was part of the larger conversation about the Solicitors Career

Criminal Prosecution Team, which I support completely.”

The number of cases pending the solicitor’s office has been a hot-button topic, particularly between Stone and Tanner. In May 2021, Stone issued a press release addressing accusations that Tanner made in a media interview suggesting that Stone inflated the caseload to secure more funding for his organization, an accusation Stone vehemently denied. He placed much of the blame on the pandemic which shut the courts for a year between 2020 and 2021.

Without the threat of going to trial, Stone explained, accused criminals had no motivation to accept plea deals. It was to their advantage to wait for a trial. With no plea deals clearing the docket, cases piled up.

“The year before the pandemic, we cut 300 roughly cases off the backlog to get to the 3,500 number,” Stone explained. “We rose to over 6,000. It hopefully peaked in January of this year. We just now started the downward trend. We’re in the 5,000s now.

It’s not going to go anywhere soon.”

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.

City of Beaufort holding Public Safety Job Fairs

From staff reports Those interested in a public safety career – as either a police officer or firefighter/EMT – will have the opportunity to learn more about the possibilities at the City of Beaufort Public Safety Job Fair, which

will be held Wednesday, May 11, and Saturday, May 14, at City Hall. The job fair will run from 10 a.m. to 2 p.m. on both days.

Police officers and firefighters from the Beaufort Police Department and Fire

Department will be available to discuss career opportunities and what new recruits can expect.

The Police Department is offering a $5,000 bonus for an officer who is already certified by South Carolina, and

up to $2,500 in relocation assistance for candidates from out-of-state. Starting salary ranges from $42,484 to $50,000.

The Fire Department, which serves both the City of Beaufort and Town of Port

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decide what they want to be.

“People don’t get the city that they want or the town that they want or the village that they want from the Easter Bunny or from Santa Claus,” Dover said. “They get it by drawing lines on a map and showing it to their neighbors or their fellow leaders and saying, ‘How about like this,’ actually deciding what they want.”

No stranger to the Lowcountry, Dover previously worked on the Port Royal revitalization plan and Beaufort’s Boundary Street plan.

He made it clear that future growth pressure in Beaufort will be significant.

“The actual numbers are daunting,” he said. “If you look at the census, the change in population from 2010 to 2020 in Beaufort County is 15.3 percent.

That’s a dramatic amount of growth.”

Looking at the growth curve leads city planners to ask what the future will hold and how it can be managed.

According to Dover, the strategy of building on large lots far from work, shopping, dining and recreation is the wrong approach.

Planning expert Victor Dover explains how Beaufort County demographics have changed over the last 40 years. Photo by Bob Sofaly.

“Density is your friend,” Dover said. “Density means that you don’t have to build everywhere to satisfy the economic propulsion and momentum and market demands and growth pressure that you’re trying to solve.

Density means that you can actually bring things together in community to make it feel nicer. You’ll have enough souls to support that corner commerce. Density is not this big enemy that people make it out to be.”

Dover added that while

housing density can help solve many of the challenges presented by growth, there is no magic number that will guarantee success.

Success will also depend on good design. The important design elements, Dover said, have been staring Beaufort residents in the face for centuries. They are the design elements that have long been present in the historic district – narrow lots, front porches, conversation distance from the front porch to the sidewalk, interconnect-

ed street networks and the fronts of homes facing the street.

“Our challenge in the community is to encourage appropriate and desirable development in each sector of the City,” said Dick Stewart, developer and founder of 303 Associates. “Curtailing sprawl, accommodating parking and cars, providing public access to public assets are all important factors in quality of life. Victor's suggestions are easiest to apply in greenfield areas. Compro-

Royal, offers a starting salary of $40,144 to $50,180 depending on overtime.

Firefighters work 48 hours on/96 hours off. The Fire Department is also hiring parttime firefighters.

Both departments offer ex-

tensive training to their officers and firefighters.

The City of Beaufort’s benefits include 12 paid holidays, medical, dental, and vision insurance, tuition assistance, and payment into the South Carolina Retirement System.

mise and incremental progress are required in redevelopment areas. We applaud the city seeking answers.

Victor offers good answers but not one-size-fits-all answers as some would prefer.”

Having a well defined civic master plan is important, but useless if city managers allow deviation from the plan every time a large, national developer shows up and wants to do things their own way. Conceding to that sort of pressure, Dover said, is a race to the bottom.

“When the would-be investor/developer arrives in town, they need to very quickly get the message that what you’re set up for here is what it said on the final paragraph of the civic master plan – building more of what the real Beaufort really is,” Dover advised. “If that’s not what they want to do, then don’t feel bad when they walk away. That’s perfectly OK.” Following Dover’s presentation, he spent two full days with the Beaufort city council to discuss opportunities to improve the city’s development code during. Mayor Pro Tem Mike McFee provided feedback on the two-day strategy session during the joint council meeting conducted with the Town of Port Royal Tuesday night.

“The deep dive was specific to a lot of the things that we’d already dealt with as being issues and problems,” McFee said. “It gave us a great opportunity to talk about how the code works really well but has some shortfalls from the standpoint of how we sort of custom designed it for the City of Beaufort.”

In the same meeting, Mayor Stephen Murray said that updates to the city’s ordinances resulting from the meeting would start getting proposed over the next three to four months.

“Eighteenth-century streets and buildings are easily overwhelmed by inappropriately large buildings with little or no architectural merit,” said Cynthia Cole Jenkins, executive director of the Historic Beaufort Foundation. “Zoning guides and informs use and development as well as design. Mr. Dover’s understanding of form-based zoning codes and the complex issues associated with it was thought provoking and insightful.”

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Release & Remember

Joanna Rasciszawski, far right, holds the envelope open as she releases her Painted Lady butterfly during Friends of Caroline Hospice’s second annual Butterfly Release and Remember Ceremony on Saturday at Henry C. Chambers Waterfront Park. Some 1,400 Painted Lady butterflies were released, according to LaNelle Fabian, Director of Community Engagement for Friends of Caroline Hospice. Photos by Bob Sofaly.

Pets are family, too. Minerva Anderson writes in family members’ names and her dog who died recently. Anderson and many others were on hand for Friends of Caroline Hospice’s second annual Butterfly Release and Remember Ceremony on Saturday at Henry C. Chambers Waterfront Park.

Elaine Sullivan, center right, comforts Joanna Rasciszowski as they both brush away tears while Elaine Lake sings Harold Arlene and Yip Harburg’s “Somewhere Over the Rainbow.” The sisters said they released butterflies in remembrance of their parents and other loved ones.

Friends of Caroline Hospice held its second annual Butterfly Release and Remember Ceremony on Saturday at Henry C. Chambers Waterfront Park. Many people released several butterflies in remembrance of loved ones who have passed on.

A little girl holds up a folded envelope containing her butterfly to her grandmother’s ear so she can hear it moving while others take photos of their loved ones’ names on a display during Friends of Caroline Hospice’s Release and Remember Ceremony.

NEWS BRIEFS

Walls to speak at May LIBPA meeting

The Lady’s Island Business Professional Association will meet at 8 a.m., Tuesday, May 10, at the Beaufort Realtors’ Association Headquarters at 22 Kemmerlin Lane, Lady’s Island.

Beaufort County Treasurer Maria Walls will be the featured speaker. Stop by for coffee and conversation concerning our community.

League of Women Voters meeting set for May 12

Voter education will be the focus for the upcoming Thursday, May 12, working committee meeting for League of Women Voters Beaufort Area from 6 to 7:30 p.m., at the Sea Island Presbyterian Church Meeting Room at 81 Lady’s Island Drive.

The meeting will be an informal gathering of members, friends, partners, and anyone who would like to be informed about the details of the upcoming Primary Elections on June 14.

The objective is to ensure that all members and friends have the information that they need to #GetVoteReady and prepare everyone for sharing the information in their communities.

As reported by the LWVB Voter Access Committee, the lowest voter turnout is among 18-24 year olds and 25-44 year olds. Organizers ask that each participant bring one or more names of organizations or communities that would be candidates to work with and help them #GetVoteReady, especially in the low

turnout populations. As a group, we will also develop fresh #GOTV (Get Out The Vote) messaging, as we prepare to provide outreach communications to the community.

All are welcome to join and participate at the May 12 meeting. For more information visit lwvbeaufort.org.

Zonta hosting yard sale

The Zonta Club of Beaufort will be having a giant yard sale from 8 a.m. to noon, Saturday, May 14, at the Robinson Grant, CPA Firm's parking lot located at 806 Boundary Street, near Bellamy Curve leading onto Carteret Street.

Proceeds will benefit the club's service projects in the community. Sale items include tools, garden tools, books, puzzles, linens, baskets, stuffed animals, weight scale (up to 300 pounds), jewelry, purses, belts, scarves and wraps, queen size comforter, bed skirt, shams and custom made pillows, household items and many items too numerous to mention.

SCDNR to hold courtesy boat inspections on Memorial Day

On Memorial Day, Monday, May 30, S.C. Department of Natural Resources (SCDNR) Law Enforcement Division will be hold courtesy boat inspections from 10 a.m. to noon at the Lemon Island Boat Landing.

SCDNR officers will perform a quick, but thorough, inspection of your boat to make

sure you have the required safety equipment and proper boat and motor registration for your watercraft before you launch. These inspections are completely voluntary and are not required before launching.

Boaters who take advantage of the inspection, and are found not to be in compliance with safety regulations or registration requirements, will not be ticketed during the complimentary inspections. Instead, boaters will be given an opportunity to correct the problem before they launch their boat.

SCDNR officers will also be available to answer questions and give boaters tips on how to stay safe on the water.

Public input sought on Long Range Transportation Plans

Lowcountry Council of Governments, the rural transportation planning agency for Beaufort, Colleton, Hampton, and Jasper Counties, and the Lowcountry Area Transportation Study (LATS) are asking for public comment on the proposed Long Range Transportation Plans (LRTP).

The plans can be viewed by clicking on the links below: LATS Long Range Transportation Plan (Draft) (Metropolitan Area): https://bit.ly/3KKU6Nr LCOG Long Range Transportation Plan (Draft) (Rural Area): https://bit.ly/3OS0w0F Written comments on the proposed updates will be accepted until close of business Thursday, May 12.

Please send your comments to Stephanie Rossi at 634 Campground Road, Yemassee, S.C. 29945 or srossi@lowcountrycog.org.

Employment Opportunity Seeking Administrative Lead for entrylevel position at insurance service center.

Exposure to insurance field desired. Licenses not required, but must clear background check. Requires proficiency in basic computer skills, to include Excel. Applicants should possess the ability to communicate effectively by phone and email, and have a strong customer service orientation.

INTERESTED? Contact 843-521-8905 or

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HEALTH & WELLNESS Options & References for a Healthier Life

How to make hands look younger

Skin aging is a natural and inevitable part of the aging process, and the hands are one of the first places to show signs of aging. The skin on the hand is one of the thinnest, so the loss of collagen is more noticeable.

It is also one of the first places to show signs of aging, partly due to frequent sun exposure and people constantly using their hands.

Why hands may appear older

Skin aging is a natural part of the aging process. Below are some factors that may cause the hands to look older.

Wrinkles are a usual part of the aging process. They can develop on the face and other areas, including the hands. As people age, skin becomes drier, thinner, and less elastic. This combination of factors makes the skin less flexible and less resilient to damage, resulting in the formation of lines and wrinkles.

Loose skin. As people age, the gradual loss of collagen and elastin can cause the skin to lose its firmness and plumpness. This may result in loose skin on the backs of the hands. UV light from sun exposure breaks down the proteins collagen and elastin, which provide structural support to the skin. As these proteins degrade, the skin becomes weaker and more prone to sagging and wrinkling.

Age spots or “sunspots” are darker patches that typically develop on areas of skin that experience frequent sun exposure. As people age, these spots may increase in size. While they are harmless, they can cause a person to feel self-conscious.

Actinic keratoses are precancerous skin growths that occur in response to sun damage. The growths usually appear on areas of skin that have received the most sun exposure, such as the backs of the hands. Actinic keratoses may appear similar to age spots or may present as distinct patches of skin irritation.

Anyone who notices new and unusual skin blemishes or irritations should consult their doctor. Diagnosing and treating actinic keratoses early can help prevent the growth from developing into skin cancer.

Brittle nails. According to the American Academy of Dermatology Association (AAD), around 20% of people have brittle nails. While anyone can develop brittle nails, the condition is more common among females over 60 years. As such, people may associate brittle nails with aging hands.

Yellow nails can make the hands appear older. Nails may appear yellow for various reasons, the most common being smoking and fungal infections. Anyone who has yellow nails should talk

with their doctor to determine the cause and receive appropriate treatment.

Dry skin. As a person ages, their skin cell turnover begins to slow, and skin produces fewer natural oils. This can result in dry skin on the face and body, including the hands. Dry skin can also occur if a person does not drink enough water or does not get enough sleep.

Protruding veins. As people age, their skin loses plumpness and fullness. This can make the structures beneath the skin more prominent. People may notice that the veins in the backs of the hands become more prominent. Protruding veins can make the skin appear older.

Certain lifestyle changes can help to improve the appearance of the hands. Some examples include.

1. Manage stress. Stress triggers the release of the hormone cortisol, which can break down collagen in the skin.

This can cause signs of skin aging, such as sagging and wrinkling.

2. Apply hand cream.

Applying hand cream after handwashing helps lock in moisture.

This can help to plump the skin and prevent drying. Using a hand cream containing retinol may reduce the appearance of wrinkles, helping the skin look

and feel smoother.

3. Use moisturizers at night. Using a hand lotion with retinol or glycolic acid before bedtime can help relieve dry, cracked or scaly skin. Covering the hands with cotton gloves after applying the lotion can help lock in the moisture, allowing the active ingredients time to work on the skin.

4. Apply sunscreen. Applying sunscreen to the hands every day can help prevent or slow skin aging. After handwashing, people should reapply the sunscreen to ensure continued

protection against damaging UV rays.

5. Wear hand protection. Wearing gloves in certain circumstances can help to protect the hands and keep them looking youthful.

6. Quitting smoking.

Smoking reduces levels of collagen and elastin in the skin’s dermis, which is the inner layer of the skin. Fewer collagen and elastin fibers in the dermis cause skin to become slacker and less elastic. Smoking also damages mechanisms that help repair the skin, causing signs of aging to appear more pronounced.

There are some additional treatment options for aging hands, such as skin-lightening creams and lotions, microdermabrasion, chemical peel, laser therapy, radiofrequency, cryotherapy, sclerotherapy or fillers.

In summary, although aging hands are not usually a cause for concern, the appearance of aging hands may cause some people to feel self-conscious. A range of treatment options can help reduce, reverse, and prevent the signs of aging hands. A person can consult a doctor or dermatologist for individual advice on treatments.

Source: https://www. medicalnewstoday.com/articles/howto-make-hands-look-younger

How a Southern diet is connected to chronic diseases Warmer weather brings more opportunities for picnics, barbecues and gatherings around food. But before you reach for a second helping, consider if what you’re eating may be increasing your risk for chronic disease.

In a traditional Southern diet—highlighted by fried foods, organ meats, processed meats, eggs and egg dishes, sugar-sweetened beverages, and bread—the prevalence of high blood pressure in the African American population is higher according to Dr. Ivan

Porter II, a nephrologist at Mayo Clinic. Dr. Porter explains dietary changes can have a significant impact on their blood pressure and overall health.

Fried chicken, macaroni and cheese, and sweet tea: … "… Those tend to play a larger role in the Southern diet, and we know that those are associated with high blood pressure," says Dr. Porter.

That’s because Southern cooking tends to be high in saturated fats, salts and loaded with added sugar—all

risk factors for hypertension.

And these excesses are major risk factors for heart disease, stroke, vision problems and kidney disease—huge problems in the African American community, says Dr. Porter.

"Forty-one percent of African Americans can have high blood pressure, compared with 27% of their white counterparts or Caucasians." Dr. Porter says it’s time to change that.

"If you can change the way that you approach your diet, you can certainly change the impact that high blood pres-

sure can have on your health."

But it doesn’t mean fried chicken is completely off the menu. Everything must be in moderation.

Dr. Porter tells his patients to start change by eliminating one high-risk food at a time. "Look at the calories that they’re getting from sugar-sweetened beverages and try to eliminate that as a start."

Source: https://newsnetwork. mayoclinic.org/discussion/mayo-clinicminute-how-a-southern-diet-isconnected-to-chronic-diseases/

SC Red Cross seeks more volunteers to respond to active hurricane season Hurricane Preparedness Week is May 1-7, 2022

As forecasters predict another active Atlantic hurricane season, the American Red Cross of South Carolina is seeking new volunteers to respond to a growing number of climate-driven disasters. This year’s heightened hurricane outlook is part of a years-long trend of more frequent and intense climate disasters, such

as hurricanes, wildfires, severe storms and floods.

“Volunteers are at the heart of our mission, representing 90% of our workforce and responding on a near-constant basis to provide safe shelter, food, and comfort after disasters across the country,” said Rod Tolbert, Chief Executive Officer for the American Red

Cross of South Carolina. “As this relentless pace of severe crises continues, we need more volunteers to grow our capacity and help ensure families never face these emergencies alone.”

Our most-needed positions include: • Shelter support: Help at a shelter during a large

disaster by welcoming and registering residents, serving meals, setting up cots, distributing blankets and personal hygiene kits, and providing information and other assistance to people in need.

• Health services: Use your professional skills as

a licensed health care provider to deliver hands-on support, including care and education to people staying at a shelter during a large disaster. Qualified licenses include RN, LPN, LVN, EMT, Paramedic, MD, DO, PA, NP and APRN. • Disaster Action Team:

Join your local Disaster Action Team to help families affected by home fires and other disasters by providing support, such as food, lodging, comfort and recovery assistance.

Visit redcross.org/volunteertoday to help provide relief and hope to people affected by disasters.

careTALK© Low-dose aspirin to prevent heart issues not beneficial for some

The U.S. Preventive Services Task Force has issued a final recommendation on the use of aspirin in cardiovascular disease prevention. This makes it a good time to talk with your health care team about your course of treatment.

"Evidence is pointing to the fact that we're not seeing

a benefit from using low-dose aspirin for reducing risk in patients who don't already have cardiovascular disease," says Dr. Demilade Adedinsewo, a Mayo Clinic cardiologist. "Further, the evidence has been pointing toward increased bleeding risk in older patients, specifically those older than 60

who take low-dose aspirin for primary prevention."

Based on research, the task force's updated recommendation revises its previous recommendation on who should take aspirin to prevent heart disease, namely people who do not have a history of heart disease.

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These are now the recommendations for aspirin use: • Patients, particularly those over 60, with no history of cardiovascular disease and who have not started a low-dose aspirin regimen for heart disease or stroke prevention, should not begin taking a low-dose aspirin without first consulting their health care team.

• Patients with documented cardiovascular disease, as well as those

who have artificial heart valves or stents in their arteries, should continue their aspirin regimen, as prescribed by their health care professional.

If patients are unsure if they have heart disease, they should discuss whether taking low-dose aspirin is appropriate.

Source: https://newsnetwork. mayoclinic.org/discussion/low-doseaspirin-to-prevent-heart-issues-notbeneficial-for-some/

HEALTH & WELLNESS Options & References for a Healthier Life

After COVID-19, experts say watch for these potential heart and brain problems COVID-19 was full of surprises early on, causing mild problems in the short term for some people and serious complications for others.

Long term, it may be just as unpredictable.

Studies are spotting potential heart and brain problems up to a year after infection with SARS-CoV-2, even in people who had mild COVID-19. The possible long-term effects include "a myriad of symptoms affecting different organs," said Dr. José Biller, director of the COVID-19 neurology clinic at Loyola Medicine in Maywood, Illinois. "So, it could be the lungs, it could be cardiovascular, it could be the nervous system, it could be mental health or behavioral problems."

Estimates vary widely on how many people may be affected. Research suggests about 10% to 20% of people experience mid- or long-term issues from COVID-19, according to the World Health Organization.

That may sound small, but COVID has affected hundreds of millions of people.

In the U.S. alone, about 80

million people have been infected with the coronavirus since the pandemic started in early 2020.

There are many more questions than answers, including about who is most at risk for post-COVID problems and how long the effects might last. But experts say people who have had COVID-19 should be aware of these potential risks: Heart disease and stroke: A study published in Nature Medicine in February concluded the risk of heart problems one year after COVID-19 infection is "substantial."

Those heart problems include irregular heartbeats, heart failure (the inability of the heart to pump properly), coronary disease (buildup in arteries that limits blood flow), heart attacks and more.

Researchers adjusted for pre-existing conditions and found that after one year, those who had COVID-19 were 63% more likely to have some kind of cardiovascular issue, resulting in about 45 additional cases per 1,000 people.

Risks were elevated even among people who did not

have severe COVID-19. Many patients that have verifies long-haul symptoms had minor illness and had been treated at home.

The Nature Medicine study also found a 52% increased risk of stroke at one year among COVID-19 survivors, or about four extra strokes per 1,000 people.

Brain problems: Many patients have reported so-called brain fog. They are unable to multitask, and have difficulties in learning new skills. A recent Nature study of 785 people ages 51 to 81 found those who had COVID-19 lost more grey matter and had more brain shrinkage than those who had not.

Mental health: A study published in February in BMJ indicates a 35% increased risk of anxiety disorders after COVID-19, or 11 additional cases per 1,000 people after one year compared to those without COVID-19. The risk for depression was slightly higher. When researchers compared people who'd had COVID-19 versus the flu, the risk of mental health disorders was again significantly higher with COVID-19.

Many COVID-19 survivors also have unresolved pain, grief and post-traumatic stress disorder, which can contribute to a decline in mental health.

Fatigue: Fatigue was the most common post-COVID symptom reported in a review of several studies published in August in Scientific Reports.

sure your cardiovascular risk factors are well-controlled. Obviously, if one is having chest pain, shortness of breath or palpitations, that should not be ignored.

• Symptoms lingering?

See a doctor. It can take anywhere from two to six weeks to completely bounce back from the COVID-19 infection. But if people have persistent physical and mental symptoms beyond four to six weeks, it's wise to get checked out.

• Pay attention to sleep.

Sleep disorders—which are linked to heart problems—can develop after COVID-19, research shows. The importance

What you can do

Even though the long-term risks from having COVID-19 may be real, they should not cause most people to be terribly worried. Instead, it's a good time to be proactive: • Take care of yourself.

Be a bit more vigilant when it comes to cardiovascular health and make

of good sleep cannot be overemphasized. If you're having trouble, you might need to see a specialist.

• Stay informed. As research continues to untangle the mysteries of COVID-19, people will need trustworthy information. The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) offers regular updates about the coronavirus, and the National Library of Medicine provides a tutorial for evaluating health information.

• Get vaccinated.

COVID-19 vaccines reduce the risk of infection and severe illness. And while it's not yet clear whether vaccination influences long-term symptoms in people who get breakthrough infections, prevention is the key.

Adapted from an article by Michael Merschel, American Heart Association News Source: https://www.heart.org/ en/news/2022/03/31/after-covid19-experts-say-watch-for-thesepotential-heart-and-brain-problems

How does social media affect relationships?

Social media can affect all types of relationships in both positive and negative ways.

People can use social media to stay connected to long-distance friends and family members or improve communication with their partners, children, and healthcare professionals.

In contrast, social media use can lead to less quality in-person time spent with loved ones and relationship dissatisfaction. These drawbacks may be related to pre-existing relationship issues or psychological conditions.

Positive effects

1. Helps boost connectivity 2. Helps improve communication 3. Aids relationship gratification

Negative effects

1. Fuels functional impairments. Substituting social media interactions for face-to-face communication may impact not only existing relation-

ships but also the ability to form new relationships.

2. Decreases quality time and relationship satisfaction. Excessive social media use can negatively impact quality time, create conflict, and reduce relationship satisfaction—whether the relationship is romantic or not.

There is also the issue of phubbing—the act of snubbing a person in a social setting by focusing on one’s smartphone. For example, if two people sit down for a face-to-face conversation and one continues to scroll social media apps and check notifications, that person is phubbing the other.

3. Provides an avenue for infidelity-related behaviors, such as communicating with alternative partners, can lead to relationship dissatisfaction, breakups, and divorce. Social media

provides such an avenue for those behaviors.

How to manage social media use around relationships

Regardless of the relationship type, ideas for managing social media use around relationships include: • putting away their smartphones while spending time together • planning activities that do not leave space or time for scrolling • leaving their phones outside the bedroom • avoiding reaching out to old romantic relationships Ways to manage social media usage during everyday life include: • moving social media apps away from the home screen or into folders • turning off social media notifications • installing internet browser extensions that limit or block social media access on computers • setting time limits for

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using social media apps on smartphones—for example, through iPhone’s built-in Screen Time feature or Android’s built Digital Wellbeing • committing to a social media detox

Risks and dangers of social media

Social media may bring risks unrelated to relationships. For example, social media use—including problematic social media use—may: • have associations with mental health concerns such as depression, anxiety, and low self-esteem— although some studies have limitations • spread misinformation about health issues • exacerbate existing dangerous behaviors, for example, the possible link

between social media and heavy alcohol consumption • lead to less physical activity and poor sleep patterns • decrease productivity at home, school, and work In summary, social media can have both positive and negative effects on interpersonal and intrapersonal relationships. While the advantages of social media and relationships tend to occur

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EDUCATION

Lady’s Island Middle School student riding science fair three-peat

By Mike McCombs

W

hen Halle Tran embarked on her first science fair project as a student two years ago at Lady’s Island Middle School, she had no expectation that she’d win, but it would have been a mistake to believe she wasn’t trying.

“I was definitely aiming to win,” Tran said. “I’m too competitive.”

Not only did she win, she made it a habit.

Tran was awarded an amazing third win Wednesday, March 30 as Grand Award Winner at the middle school Sea Island Regional Science Fair held at May River High School. For the third year in a row, Halle beat competitors from neighboring public and parochial schools throughout Beaufort County to win first place in her category and be recognized as overall Grand Award winner.

That first win two years ago only set the stage for Tran.

“I thought my project was pretty good, but I didn’t think I was going to get first place,” she said. “But I built a lot of confidence after that first one.

I knew what I needed to say and what I needed to know.”

Lady’s Island Middle School student Halle Tran is a three-time Grand Award Winner at the middle school Sea Island Regional Science Fair. Submitted photo.

Tran’s winning projects include that first entry – “Can Plants Learn? Habituation of the Mimosa pudica plant” (6th grade Botany), then she followed that up last year with “Is Mycelium the Material of the Future?” (7th grade Physical Science).

And her most recent winning project this year was “Eco-Friendly Thermal Insulators” (8th grade Mathematics/Engineering/ Computers), in which she explored the potential for using sustainable natural materials as alternative

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insulators to commercial chemical-based products.

“Halle (Tran) has both a sharp intellect and imaginative perspective on the world,” Lady’s Island Middle School STEAM Coordinator Nan Burvenich said. “She engages in problems with an inquisitive mind and has the ability to focus and discipline needed to perform explorations with precision and thoroughness.”

“It was a lot of work,” Tran said, pleased with her accomplishments. “Between coming up with an idea and finding something within my range that I could actually physically do, between costs and materials and all the time that experimenting took, and putting all this data into my presentation and my board. And research-

ing took a long time.”

Time is the key, according to Tran. The projects take about a month, though she said she typically started earlier than most, brainstorming for a topic. And the projects, in large, are typically on the student’s own time.

“Time … time is so important. Time to come up with an idea, gauge what’s possible,” Tran said. “And ideas. A lot are recycled. If you want to win, you need something original. Time and an idea.”

Tran credits her parents for being supportive. Emily and Thomas Tran are both optometrists, know how to do research and are focused on science.

“Of course, they know me, what I like, … they’re very supportive,” she said.

Her mother credited Halle Tran’s own choices for her success.

“She has consistently chosen innovative science fair projects that have yielded very usable data,” Dr. Emily Tran said. “She wanted to learn something new from each project, not something from a textbook, but something truly cutting-edge.

She definitely accomplished. that. We are very proud of

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her hard work and success.”

While Halle Tran’s science fair wins are in the field of Physical Science, her scientific and future career interests lie in the health science and medical fields – the soon-to-be Beaufort High School freshman is interested in being a doctor.

“Throughout her middle school years at Lady’s Island, Halle has achieved success in all of her endeavors and does so with composure and self-confidence,” Burvenich said. “She has the ability and work ethic to be successful in any future career that she sets her sights on.”

No matter what career she chooses, there’s one thing Halle Tran won’t be … a fourtime defending science fair grand winner.

“I’m not doing it,” she said. “I only did it in middle school because it was required for advanced classes.

I was in those science classes. I’m not doing it next year, it’s way too much work.”

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

PROM PROMISE

College asking community to help celebrate ‘graduation day’ May 13

From staff reports After a two-year hiatus due to COVID-19, the Technical College of the Lowcountry is returning to an in-person graduation ceremony to be held at the Henry C. Chambers Waterfront Park in Beaufort.

This year’s graduation will take place at 6 p.m. May 13, at the park, and will include approximately 270 graduates.

“We are excited to return to this beautiful setting af-

ter holding virtual or drivethrough graduations for the last couple of years,” TCL President Dr. Richard Gough said in a news release. “Graduating from college is a significant milestone in one’s life, so we’re very happy to offer this year’s ceremony in a place that rises to that occasion.”

To mark the event, the college is asking those who live or work in the downtown area to help celebrate

along with graduates by hanging posters or balloons on May 13.

“Many graduates live and work in the area already, and most stay in the Beaufort area after graduation, so we are hoping our downtown businesses will help us make them feel extra special on this day,” Dr. Gough said.

TCL plans to hand out balloons to businesses along Bay Street the week of the ceremony.

Palmetto Pride announces Youth Ambassador program

From staff reports PalmettoPride, South Carolina’s anti-litter organization, has created a new leadership program for South Carolina teens with its Youth Ambassadors. This new initiative seeks applications from South Carolina students ages 14 to 18 who are active in litter prevention in their communities.

“There are many students and young adults around the state who are passionate about creating cleaner environments, and we want to recognize them for their leadership,” PalmettoPride Executive Director Sarah

Lyles said in a release.

PalmettoPride Youth Ambassadors will represent the organization for one year in peer group events and activities both locally and around the state. Some suggested activities will be attending functions at the State House, promoting litter prevention messages and actions in your communities, making presentations to local government councils the importance of litter prevention, and appear in media and social media campaigns for PalmettoPride and KSCB programs.

“Litter prevention is a crit-

ical life lesson that people of all ages need to learn,” Lyles said. “Let’s engage our youth in helping to spread that message.”

The benefits of being a PalmettoPride Youth Ambassador will include statewide recognition, college application and resume building, community service hours and a $1,000 scholarship.

Applications for the school year 2022-2023 are due Aug. 15. Information can be found at https://bit.ly/3s2H9s3. For more information, please contact slyles@palmettopride.org.

To help ensure a safe Prom experience, officials at Beaufort High School, Lady’s Island Fire Department, Beaufort Police Department and Beaufort County EMS put on a live demonstration illustrating what happens following a fatal car accident caused by a drunk driver. All the participants were BHS students.

A fatal accident involving a drunk driver was staged in the parking lot of Beaufort High School in advance of the school’s Prom as part of the Prom Promise to not drink and drive. Here a body (BHS student Carter May) is left out in the open for full dramatic effect for the students to see. Though leaving a body out in public view would never happen, it did give students something to think about.

Photos by Bob Sofaly

Planet Fitness invites high school students to work out for free all summer

From staff reports Planet Fitness is inviting high school students ages 14 to 19* to work out for free at any Planet Fitness location in South Carolina from May 16 through August 31 as part of its High School Summer Pass initiative.

High School Summer Pass – formally known as Teen Summer Challenge – was the first program of its kind launched

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in 2019 and saw more than 900,000 teens sign-up and complete more than 5.5 million workouts over a three-and-ahalf-month period.

High school students can visit PlanetFitness.com/SummerPass to pre-register, and get a reminder to formally sign up when the program officially kicks off on Monday, May 16.

Teens must work out at the location they sign up at and

are not permitted to use other locations. Teens younger than 18 must sign-up with a parent or guardian in-club or online at PlanetFitness.com/SummerPass. Once the parent or guardian waiver is signed for teens younger than 18, teens can work out alone. Students who are already 18 do not need a parent or guardian to be present during the sign-up process.

To further motivate high school studentss to make fitness a priority, all participants who sign up starting May 16 are automatically entered into The Planet Fitness High School Summer Pass Sweepstakes. Planet Fitness will award one $500 scholarship in each state (and the District of Columbia), and one grand prize $5,000 scholarship at the end of the summer. These

scholarships can be used for academic or athletic activities or programs.

In addition to free in-club fitness training that all High School Summer Pass participants will have access to, the certified trainers at Planet Fitness have also designed 15 trainer-led workout videos and 10 downloadable workouts – encompassing cardio, strength, toning and sports cir-

cuits – just for high school students (across all fitness levels).

This content will be available on the Planet Fitness App and at PlanetFitness.com/SummerPass starting May 16.

For more information on High School Summer Pass, including how to sign up for the free membership at any Planet Fitness location in South Carolina, visit PlanetFitness.com/ SummerPass.

ARTS BOOK REVIEW

T.D. Johnston’s debut novel much more than a genre thriller

By Dan Conover My favorite T.D. Johnston short story summoned a familiar Southern Gothic darkness into a contemporary moment of conflict and transformed it into a waking nightmare. Reciprocity is an entirely different animal – it fits snugly into the crime/ political thriller genre – but it too showcases Johnston's ability to transmute the comfortably familiar into something deeply sinister.

This debut novel starts with the sort T.D. of premise Johnston that a good thriller demands: What if a small group of smart, capable civilians decided to decapitate the modern American Mafia by killing the heads of crime families in major cities? The first third of Reciprocity shows that team in action, marks its quick rise to mass media celebrity as "The Godfather Assassins," and introduces the FBI team assigned to track them down.

It's all fast-paced, well-written tradecraft, like plenty of other popular thrillers.

It's only in the book's second third that Reciprocity takes its ominous turn into

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Johnston country. The details of that turn all count as spoilers, so I'll avoid them and say this: Reciprocity is a novel with a moral center, but no illusions about "morality" or the lack of it. The more Dons the vigilantes kill, the more organized and influential their enemies become. Their resolve to destroy The Godfather Assassins eventually summons a "hunter" named Fingo from the Old Country, and this classic villain embodies an uncomfortable truth about violence: To kill is one thing, but the true power of organized crime is its ability to terrify the living.

A lesser book would strike a pose: For evil, against evil, or perhaps the fashionable literary ambivalence that renders such questions indecipherably vague. To its great credit, Reciprocity takes the

Former Beaufort resident T.D. “Tim” Johnston – winner of the 2017 International Book Award for Best Short Fiction – will be in town the second weekend in May promoting his debut novel.

Friday, May 13, he’ll sign books at the Beaufort Bookstore (2127 Boundary Street) from 6 to 8 p.m., at a wine and cheese reception.

Saturday, May 14, he’ll discuss his book – and sign copies – at the Pat Conroy Literary Center (601 Bladen Street) from 2 to 3 pm.

(Seating is limited; please call to reserve your spot at 843379-7025).

Both events are free and open to the public, and books will be available for purchase.

reader into the dark places where the truly hard choices are made. Whatever ambivalence it presents is neither a pose nor a retreat, but an insight – because even when you're entirely off the map, you still have to choose a direction.

Reciprocity works as a genre thriller. But it's much more.

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Listen on the Lawn Series returns with Gwen Yvette

From staff reports USCB Center for the Arts continues the, “Listen on the Lawn Concert Series” at 6 p.m., Sunday, May 15 with vocalist Gwen Yvette. Bring a chair or blanket and a picnic dinner or snacks and beverages and come prepared to enjoy a beautiful afternoon.

Gwen Yvette is an independent R&B/Soul singer and songwriter from Beaufort. An artist with extraordinary talent and vocal range, the Harlem-born, St. Helena Island product first picked up a microphone at the tender age of 3 and performed at community events.

Yvette first entered the music scene as a professional singer in the early 1990's, performing

with a popular local band, and was later invited to tour with notable musician Roy C. In 2013, the Gwen songstress had Yvette a successful run on Fox's national television series, "The X Factor.”

Yvette counts it all joy to have been blessed with the opportunities to open for outstanding and legendary musicians, including Big Daddy Kane, Carl Thomas, Freddie Jackson, Keith Sweat, Kem, Sir Jeffrey Osborne, Ms. Patti LaBelle, and The Mighty O'Jays!

The CFA Lawn will open at 5:30 p.m., with the show starting at 6. Tickets are $10

WANT TO GO? What: Gwen Yvette What: Listen on the Lawn Series When: 6 p.m., Sunday, May 15 Where: USC Beaufort’s Center For The Arts lawn Tickets: $10 per person, kids 12 and younger free. Tickets may be purchased in advance at www.uscbcenterforthearts. com or by calling 843-5214145

per 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 theater.

Architectural Accents II Exhibit on display at USCB Center for the Arts

From staff reports Architectural Accents II, an exhibit featuring 29 paintings by award-winning watercolor artist Robert Steinmetz, will be on display through May 26 at USCB Center for the Arts (Small Gallery).

As a practicing architect in Connecticut for 27 years prior to his career as an artist, Mr. Steinmetz followed the design dictates of the post-WWII “modern movement.”

This meant the philosophy of “Form follows function,” the use of new building materials and technologies, and above all, a total absence of any decorative elements in building design.

When he retired as a professional in 1990, moved to Maine, and took up watercolor painting, Steinmetz continued with his interest in architecture, but only with existing buildings from eras prior to

the “modern movement.”

The reason being that all man-made structures in that time frame included and depended on decoration in many forms. Steinmetz soon discovered that watercolor is the perfect artistic media to depict the “subtleties of shade and shadow,” which is the essence of all three dimensional decorative design. Architecture based on decorative design concepts provide an expansive and expressive world of painting subject matter.

Steinmetz has assembled a show of paintings highlighting this world, from examples he has found in his travels near and far.

Eighteen of the show’s paintings are part of an ongoing series focusing on carefully chosen decorative elements in a specific building’s façade.

These paintings are all the same size, with a consistent

WANT TO GO? What: Architectural Accents II Exhibit When: 10 a.m. to 5 p.m., Monday through Friday, through May 26. Opening reception is 5:30 to 7 p.m., Friday, May 6.

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format, and matching frames.

They can be combined effectively in groups of two or more.

The show opens with a reception for the artist from 5:30to 7 p.m., Friday, May 6 and will continue through Thursday, May 26, 2022. Visit www.robertsteinmetzart.com for additional information and examples of his work.

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Beaufort’s Stanley set to compete in Junior World Championships

Team Beaufort’s Dade Stanley stands atop the podium after winning the Overall gold medal for the 89-kilogram weight class at the USA Weightlifting Junior Nationals on July 1 in Detroit. Photo

by Ray Jones.

By Mike McCombs Beaufort weightlifter Dade Stanley is one of 20 Americans competing in the 2022 International Weightlifting Federation (IWF) Junior World Championships taking place this week in Heraklion, Greece on the island of Crete.

Stanley is competing in the 89-kilogram weight class – his group lifts at 5:30 a.m., Saturday, May 7 – in the event held from May 2-10. It’s likely to be a tough road to the podium for Stanley, who is lifting in his weight class’ B session, which is determined by entry total.

One thing Stanley may have going for him, however, is experience. He is one of seven American athletes at the Junior Worlds who have medalled at the youth worlds level.

In fact, the past year might

be enough experience for a lifetime for the Clemson sophomore.

In July, Stanley, then 19, swept the Snatch and Clean & Jerk and set a personal record with an Overall total of 306 kilograms shockingly win the 89kg gold by 10 kg at the USA Weightlifting Junior National Championships in Detroit.

Stanley was coming off an injury, had not lifted competitively in more than a year (since March 2020) and had only trained for roughly seven weeks.

Then in December 2021 came another surprise. Despite little competition over the past two years, Stanley was invited to compete as a funded athlete for the United States in these IWF Junior World Championships.

“I wasn’t expecting it at

all. My training has been so minimal over the past year while I’ve been in college that I thought I wouldn’t make another world team for a long time,” Stanley told The Island News in January. “The decision came from the Junior Nationals back in June in Detroit. That total was enough to put me on the team.”

Stanley’s mother, Missy Moberly, was more blunt at the time: “I was blown away.”

Team Beaufort Coach Ray Jones simply repeated what he has often said about Stanley.

“There is not really a whole lot about Dade’s potential as a weightlifter that surprises me,” Jones said.

Jones has long advocated that “the only thing holding Dade Stanley back is Dade Stanley,” comparing him fa-

WANT TO WATCH? The 2022 IWF Junior World Championships are taking place through May 10 in Heraklion, Greece on the island of Crete. Live stream of the competition will be available at usaw.live.

vorably to more publicized teammate and fellow Beaufort native C.J. Cummings, who competed in the Tokyo Summer Olympics in July.

Since he has turned 20, this is Stanley’ final year of junior eligibility, and this will be his final Junior World Championships.

Live stream of the competition will be available at usaw. live.

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

RIDING THE MOMENTUM

Beaufort left fielder Tommy Winburn makes a diving catch for the second out during the top of the first inning against Bluffton last Wednesday. The visiting Bobcats won, 6-2, in 10 innings. Beaufort High baseball continued the momentum from a red-hot regular season finish to pull off another thrilling win Tuesday at home, opening the Class 4A District 6 tournament with a 5-4 walk-off win over West Florence. Tommy Winburn led off the eighth with a single, advanced on a sacrifice bunt, and took third and home on wild pitches to send the Eagles into a second-round game Thursday at Aiken. Zach Talbert drove in two runs and threw four scoreless innings in relief to earn the win. Photo by Bob Sofaly.

Eagles capture region golf crown LowcoSports.com The stellar spring sports season continued for Beaufort High on Monday, as the Eagles golf team posted an impressive 6-over 290 to capture the SCHSL Region 7-4A tournament at Crescent Pointe Golf Club. Bluffton’s Jones Saylor took the individual title with a 2-under 69 for low medalist honors.

May River placed second with a score of 318, while Bluffton and Lucy Beckham tied for third place with matching 337s.

The Eagles were outstanding across the lineup with all four scoring golfers shooting

Jerry Bruns. File photo.

75 or lower. Jerry Bruns led the way with a spectacular 1-under 70, and Jack Lubkin

was right behind with an even-par 71. Simon McAlister turned in a strong 2-over 74, and Jack Sumner rounded out the scoring lineup with a 75 as all four golfers earned All-Region honors.

Nick Nelson posted a 75 to lead May River and join the All-Region contingent alongside James Island’s Canon Moriarty. Nolan Hawkins paced Hilton Head High with an 82 as the Seahawks finished fifth.

The SCHSL Class 4A Lower State meet will be held Monday at the Country Club of South Carolina in Florence.

POSTSEASON BOUND

Beaufort shortstop Riley Brozek tries to field a bad throw as Bluffton’s Parker Ray safely steals second base during Wednesday’s region game. The Lady Eagles outscored the visiting Bobcats, 5-1. Beaufort High School’s softball team has earned a spot in the postseason and was set to open the Class 4A District 6 tournament Wednesday at Midland Valley. Win or lose, the Eagles will play again Friday in the double-elimination tournament, facing either Bluffton, again, or West Florence. Photo by Bob Sofaly.

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Beaufort High boys golf team. Submitted photo.

Beaufort boys hold serve in Class 4A playoffs

LowcoSports.com Beaufort High’s boys tennis team is putting together another impressive playoff run, as the Eagles rolled past their first two opponents in the postseason to advance to the Class 4A Lower State finals. Beaufort was set to try to punch its ticket to a second consecutive state championship match Wednesday at Myrtle Beach.

Coach Dave Riedmayer’s team blanked Aiken 6-0 in its playoff opener before ousting Region 7-4A rival James Island 4-2 on Monday. If they knock off the Seahawks from

the Grand Strand on the road Wednesday, they’ll head back to Florence for the state title match at 10 a.m. Saturday.

Beaufort 6, Aiken 0 Singles 1. Graeme Angus def. Liam McCarthy 6-0, 6-0 2. Diego Alvarez def.

Christian Grove 6-0, 6-1 3. Tucker Martin def. J. Strom Thurmond 6-1, 6-0 4. Bodie Daniel def. Kyle Tucker 6-0, 6-0 5. Joseph Combs won by forfeit Doubles 2. Casey Hoogenboom/

Charlie Bowden won by forfeit Beaufort 4, James Island 2 Singles 1. Graeme Angus (B) def.

Neo James 6-2, 6-3 2. Jonah Holler (J) def. Diego Alvarez 7-6 (8-6), 7-5 3. Tucker Martin (B) def.

Matthew Ogiba 6-1, 6–3 4. Helms Sander (J) def.

Bodie Daniel 6-1, 7-6 (7-5) 5. Joseph Combs (B) def.

Lawton Nickerson 6-1, 7-5 Doubles 2. Casey Hoogenboom/ Charlie Bowden (B) def.

Whitt Strickland/Basel Sheppard 7-6 (7-3), 4-6, 10-4

WHAT’S HAPPENING Hunting Island State Park Nature Center May naturalist programs

All programs are free with park admission.

Call 843-838-7437 for information or reservations.

Tuesday: Creature Feature – 10:30-11 a.m., Nature Center. Discover some of the wildlife found around Hunting Island as represented by the animal ambassadors. (all ages); Sea Turtle Discovery – 12:30-1 p.m., Nature Center.

Four species of sea turtles are found on the S.C. coast, and one is the state reptile. (all ages); Beach Walk – 3-4 p.m., Lighthouse. Walk along the beach with a naturalist to learn more about the treasures from the ocean. (all ages).

Wednesday: Creature Feature – 10:30-11 a.m.; Turtle Talk – 12:30-1 p.m., Nature Center.

Learn about the variety of turtles on Hunting Island. (all ages); Walk With a Naturalist – 2:30-3:15 p.m., Nature Center. Enjoy a 0.7-mile scenic walk that ends at Little Hunting Island, which you can explore on your own. Wear walking shoes, comfortable clothes, and bring sunscreen, bug spray and water. (limited to 15 walkers) Call by noon the previous day for reservations.

Thursday: Creature Feature – 10:30-11 a.m.; Gator Gab – 12:30-1 p.m., Nature Center.

Congregate around our modern-day dinosaurs and watch our vicious hunters eat a delicious meal. (all ages); What a Wharf – 2:30-3 p.m., Nature Center. Walk down the pier and learn how Hunting Island and its ecosystems came to be. (all ages).

Friday: Creature Feature – 10:30-11 a.m.; Serpent Exploration – 12:30-1 p.m., Nature Center. Get a chance to fight your fears and touch a snake or two. (all ages); Beach Walk – 3-4 p.m., Lighthouse.

Saturday: Walk With a Naturalist – 12:301:15 p.m., Nature Center.

St. Helena Library Activities

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, 843-2556540.

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,

THIS WEEK’S MOVIES AT HWY 21 DRIVE-IN The movies scheduled for this week (Thursday, May 5 through Sunday, May 8) at the Highway 21 Drive-In are Dr. Strange in the Multiverse of Madness – an early show (PG, 8:30 p.m.) and a late show (PG, 10:40 p.m.) – on Screen 1 and The Bad Guys (PG, 8:30 p.m.) and Sonic The Hedgehog 2 (PG, 10:20 p.m.) on Screen 2.

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.

“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 Firestarter (May 13).

– Staff reports

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 843-2849227.

Lowcountry Made Markets

9 a.m. to 1 p.m., first and third Saturday of each month through December, Buckwalter 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., fourth Saturday of the month through May; second and fourth Saturday 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 beaufortjasperymca.org.

Taste of Beaufort

Friday and Saturday, May 6-7, Henry C. Chambers Waterfront Park, Beaufort.

Maye River Quilters

10 a.m., Saturday, May 7, 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.

Wild Women’s Tea Party

2 to 4 p.m. Saturday, May 7, Indigo Hall at Indigo Run, Hilton Head Island. Tickets are just $50 and includes admission, food, a French-themed fashion show and silent auction. All proceeds will benefit Lowcountry Legal Volunteers, a nonprofit organization dedicated to bringing equal justice to those in need within Beaufort, Jasper and Hampton counties. In 2021, Lowcountry Legal Volunteers provided assisted more than 400 people and held 16 legal clinics. To learn more about sponsorship opportunities or to buy a ticket, visit lowcountrylegalvolunteers.org or call 843815-1570.

City of Beaufort Public Safety Job Fairs

10 a.m. to 2 p.m., Wednesday, May 11, and Saturday, May 14, City Hall. Police officers and firefighters from the Beaufort Police Department and Fire Department will be available to discuss career opportunities and what new recruits can expect. The Police Department is offering a $5,000 bonus for an officer who is already certified by South Carolina, and up to $2,500 in relocation assistance for candidates from out-of-state.

Starting salary ranges from $42,484 to $50,000.

The Fire Department, which serves both the City of Beaufort and Town of Port Royal, offers a starting salary of $40,144 to $50,180 depending on overtime. Firefighters work 48 hours on/96 hours off. The Fire Department is also hiring part-time firefighters.

Beaufort Sportfishing and Diving Club’s May meeting

7 p.m., Thursday, May 12, Beaufort Yacht and Sailing Club, Lady’s Island, Meridian Road. Social begins at 6:30 p.m. Tallboy Fishing Charters Captain Richard Pollitzer’s presentation will be on Cobia. Captain Pollitzer recently relocated his 31-foot Contender Center Console from the Northend Fleet (Hilton Head) to Port Royal Landing Marina – Safe Harbor. He will discuss inshore and artificial reef fishing for Cobia. This will include baits of choice, setups, rods and reel, and the importance of the correct use of netting Cobia before gaffing. Beaufort Boat & Dock Supply, Butler Marine, and Adams Marine Seminars again are our drawing sponsors. Remember to weigh in your favorite catch at the Port Royal Landing Marina – Safe Harbor – during regular hours. Winners must be present at the next month’s meeting to receive the cash award. Guests are welcome.

Reservations are not needed. For additional information, please contact Captain Frank Gibson at 843-522-2122 or fgibson@islc.net.

Basic Skills Computer Class

11 a.m., Thursday, May 12 or 11 a.m., Tuesday, May 24, Lobeco Library, 1862 Trask Parkway. Presented by the S.C. Department of Employment and Workforce. Call 843-2556479 or stop by to register.

Full 30-hour lifeguard training

May 13-16 & 22, location TBD. Cost is $170. Schedule: Thursday 4 p.m. – swim test; Friday 4-9 p.m.; Saturday 8-5 p.m.; Sunday 1-5 p.m. Those interested need to register at the Y as space is limited and filled on a first come, first serve basis. Questions? Contact Contact Frank Hamilton at 843-525-0233 or ghh60fwh@comcast.net.. To register visit the Y front desk or online at beaufort-jasperymca. org and click ‘Register for a Program’ at the top of the page. See Frank Hamilton for lifeguard recertification dates and times.

Friends of Port Royal Cypress Wetlands guided tours

Sunset walk at 6 p.m., Saturday, May 14; 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.

Listen on the Lawn Concert Series: Gwen Yvette

6 p.m., Sunday, May 15, 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.

Late Season Gardening Class

4:30 p.m., Tuesday, May 17, 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.

Christian Women’s Connection luncheon and fashion show

11:30 a.m., Wednesday, May 18, Hampton Hall Clubhouse. The Christian Women’s Connection will host a fashion show and luncheon. Maggie and Me Boutique of Bluffton will show the latest trends – perfect for Lowcountry Spring and Summer. Anne Hart, former teacher, model and recording artist, will share “Finding the Missing Piece to the Puzzle.” Prepaid reservations are $28, payable to "CWC Bluffton" care of Carol Mock, 607 Argent Way, Bluffton SC 29909.

For more details, contact Julie at 602-7505465 or Julie.ott.az@gmail.com.

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.

Original Gullah Festival

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

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.

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LOCAL MILITARY

A VIP VISITOR

U.S. Marine Corps Sgt. Maj. Troy E. Black, the 19th Sergeant Major of the Marine Corps, poses for a photo with veterans April 7 at Marine Corps Recruit Depot Parris Island. The sergeant major of the Marine Corps and his spouse, retired First Sgt. Stacie Black, were the parade reviewing officials for Lima Company graduation ceremony. Photo by Staff Sgt. Victoria Ross, USMC.

Veterans can file claims against asbestos trusts, file lawsuits for asbestos injuries, illnesses

M

ost veterans know that they can file a VA disability claim for a military service-connected disability (injury, illness, and condition) caused by asbestos and other hazardous materials exposure.

However, few recognize that veterans (and non-veterans) can also file claims against asbestos trusts and file lawsuits against companies still in business for asbestos injuries.

The Asbestos Bankruptcy Trust System Today, thousands of veterans are suffering from life-threatening illnesses that are a result of exposure years ago to asbestos. Asbestos is a material that was commonly used in hundreds of military applications, products, and ships because of its resistance to heat.

Every branch of the military used asbestos products during the 20th century, causing high rates of asbestos-related cancers and non-cancer injuries among veterans today. The timing of these high rates of injuries and claims is due to the latent nature of asbestos-related diseases, in which the manifestation of the disease can occur 25-40 years after exposure.

Veterans can also receive compensation from the manufacturers of the asbestos-containing products to which they were exposed.

Currently, there are more than 50 asbestos bankruptcy settlement trusts with billions of dollars set aside for the purpose of compensating workers injured by their products. Today, more than $20 billion in assets reside in the trust system.

History of Asbestos Trusts Asbestos was used everywhere in the country prior to the 1980s. Starting in the 1980s, companies mining, manufacturing, and using asbestos faced tens of thousands of lawsuits in court.

In 1994, Congress passed an amendment to bankruptcy law that allowed companies to set up asbestos trusts to compensate asbestos victims and spare the companies further lawsuits.

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ted by the claimant and if the claimant can check the required boxes, he gets paid.

LARRY DANDRIDGE

South Carolina has a high asbestos disease and injury rate. According to the South Carolina Detailed Mortality Statistics Volume II Annual Vital Statistics Series, many South Carolinians die from mesothelioma.

Charleston (probably due to the old Charleston Navy Yard and industries like the bankrupt Raybestos Manhattan of North Charleston) records nine asbestos-related deaths per 100,000 residents.

This high rate is double the state rate and exceeds the national average.

Good news for Asbestos Trust claimants The good news is veterans do not, in an Asbestos Trust Claim, have to prove their injuries are caused by asbestos exposure, they only need to prove their condition was worsened or was related to asbestos. Veterans can establish their exposure simply by showing that they served at locations (which include Navy vessels) on the very extensive site lists maintained by the trusts.

Multiple Asbestos Trusts Veterans, who are eligible to file a claim against an asbestos trust, can file claims with multiple trusts and receive separate payments from each trust when their claim is approved. Because Veterans’ exposure is presumed for any site listed on the Approved Asbestos Trust Site Lists, veterans are often awarded thousands of dollars for non-cancer-related injuries and six-figure amounts for cancer injuries.

Trusts are set up on a model similar to Medicare: if a claimant meets the eligibility requirements, the claimant gets paid. There is no litigation, no discovery, and no courts in claims against asbestos trusts. Eligibility is determined by information and documentation submit-

Thousands of military bases and sites are on Approved Asbestos Trust Site Lists There are thousands of military bases and sites on the Approved Asbestos Trust Site Lists. For example, this author was stationed at Forts Jackson, Polk, Gordon, Campbell, Bragg, Eustis, Benning, and Rucker – and in Vietnam, Iran, Germany, Sierra Depot, and all these locations are on approved asbestos trust lists.

Veterans are especially at high risk for asbestos injuries. Veterans make up about 30 percent of all people diagnosed with mesothelioma and are paid by asbestos trusts. According to Asbestos.com, veterans from every branch of military service, who served before the late 1980s are at high risk of asbestos injuries. Veterans who served as aircraft, wheeled, and tracked vehicle mechanics, navy jobs, and other maintenance specialties were at high risk for asbestos exposure. Before the 1980s, the military (and industry) had weak hazardous material handling programs and few Hazardous Material Data Sheets.

Asbestos is all around us The people with the heaviest exposure to asbestos are those who worked in asbestos industries, such as shipbuilding, insulation, maintenance, and mining.

Asbestos is found in plumbing insulation, electrical box insulation, wall insulation, attic insulation, auto/ aircraft parts (brake pads, transmission bands, heat shields, gaskets, clutches, etc.), personal protective equipment (gloves, firefighting suits, hoods, aprons, etc.), talc-based powders, electric blankets, heat resistant fabrics, some popcorn ceilings, clothes dryers, gardening products (vermiculite), hairdryers, ironing board covers, and hundreds of other seemingly harmless products.

Asbestos was used in military mess halls, barracks, waterproofing grease, boiler

rooms, laundries, asphalt cement, asphalt shingles, firebrick, millboard, HVAC duct vibration dampers, jet engine exhaust cones, aircraft ignition systems, rocket motor insulation, gas mask filters, ammunition wadding, torpedoes, bedding compounds, aircraft spray coatings, and cockpit cooling systems.

Asbestos was used extensively in shipbuilding and ships. Asbestos has been used in all modes of military transportation, including military wheeled and tracked vehicles, trailers, automobiles, and aircraft.

Lung cancer risk is high The risk of lung cancer among people exposed to asbestos is seven times greater than that of the general population. Read more about this at https://bit.ly/39y0VoV. Eligibility to file a claim against an asbestos trust In order to qualify for an asbestos trust payment, you must (1) be diagnosed with one of several specific asbestos-related diseases; (2) have spent at least six months exposed to the specific trust company’s asbestos; and (3) have been exposed to asbestos from any source for at least five cumulative years.

An individual is eligible for payment from asbestos bankruptcy trusts if he or a family member suffers from an asbestos-related disease and can document exposure to a specific company’s asbestos and asbestos generally. Asbestos bankruptcy trust sites are presumptive that you have been exposed to asbestos if you were present at that location.

How to file a claim against an asbestos trust Veterans have two options for filing claims against the trusts: (1) either attempt to self-file via a multitude of complicated asbestos trust websites or mail-in applications or (2) use a law firm to help them file their claim.

The asbestos trust claim process requires veterans to obtain military records, if applicable, employment verification, and medical documentation.

There are many qualified VSOs, claim agents, and law firms available to help veterans file claims with the VA. There are also many lawyers qualified to help veterans file claims for “cancer” with asbestos trusts and businesses.

However, veterans need to carefully research who to use to help them because some charge much higher rates (after a claim is approved and paid) than others. Beware! Many law firms only represent cancer patients and will not help with non-cancer injuries such as less lucrative claims for lung scarring, respiratory problems, heart problems, and kidney damage.

How to find a lawyer Finding a highly qualified lawyer that best meets your needs in filing a non-cancer-related claim with Asbestos Trusts may be harder than filing the claims. It was especially hard for this writer to find a law firm that will help veterans to file asbestos trust claims for non-cancer-related injuries.

You may want to contact the South Carolina Bar Association Lawyer Referral Service at 803-799-6653 or 800-868-2284. The S.C. Bar website is found at https:// www.scbar.org.

You may contact the Mesothelioma Center, a free help center, at https://www. asbestos.com or 888-7091298. They do not handle non-cancer-related asbestos claims.

Veterans can also contact Charleston, S.C., attorney Robert M. Turkewitz at 843696-4549 or https://rmtlegal. com, He handles lots of veterans’ claim cases against the VA and has asbestos litigation experience.

Veterans may contact ClearTrust Claims LLP, a firm that specializes in non-cancer-related claims at https://www.cleartrustclaims. com or 202-449-7681. This firm has a low-cost fee.

The bottom line The bottom line is if you are a veteran, especially an older veteran, you are almost certainly to have been exposed to asbestos. If you have been exposed to asbes-

tos and have been diagnosed with mesothelioma, other asbestos-related cancers, or asbestos-related non-cancer injuries or illnesses or have symptoms of those injuries or diseases, you should file a claim against multiple asbestos trusts or file a suit with existing firms who mined, manufactured, or used asbestos in their products.

The Asbestos Trust Claim process and litigation process are totally separate from VA disability claims. If your doctor has determined that you have asbestos injuries and illnesses, that is Prima facie evidence that will help veterans in winning a claim with Asbestos Trusts or a lawsuit.

Sources of information Asbestos Disease Awareness Organization (ADAO) – https://www.asbestosdiseaseawareness.org.

United States Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) – https://www.epa.gov/ asbestos.

United State Department of Labor Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA) Asbestos site – https://www.osha.gov/ asbestos.

South Carolina Bar Association – https://www.scbar.org.

The Mesothelioma Center – https://www.asbestos.com, 888-709-1298, pateintadvocates@asbestos.com.

ClearTrust Claims LLP – https://www.cleartrustclaims. com, 202-449-7681.

Wikipedia The Free Encyclopedia – https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Asbestos.

Law Office of Robert Turkewitz – 768 St. Andrews Blvd., Charleston, SC 29407, 843-696-4549, https://rmtlegal.com.

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.

LOCAL MILITARY

UNITED STATES MARINE CORPS

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VOICES Editor’s Note: The opinions of our columnists in the Voices section are not necessarily the opinions of The Island News.

Happy Mothers’ Day to all the artists O We are devoting the most fervent ccasionally the stars align, and several hours become my own. In this extraordinary freedom, I often find myself strolling through art galleries.

Untrained in classic forms, wandering is guided only by what pleases my eyes and speaks to my soul.

Lost in color, I float through an immersive experience as the stress of a black and white world wilts with each landscape and portrait.

Happily residing in my thoughts, I find solace in the quiet communication between myself and the artists.

Each painting is a unique view of the world through another's eyes.

Gently I converse with each, never having to find words but rather feel them. I understand that each stroke,

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color choice, and shape comes from a perspective other than my own, warmly inviting me on a journey without knowing the destination.

There are stories, memories, triumphs, and loss awaiting acknowledgment and appreciation within each creation. Someone silently screams or cautiously whispers a message as individual as a fingerprint,

offering the world a piece of themselves. It is an openness on canvas, a window inside the most passionate areas of an artist's soul, available for translation, analysis, and possession.

Courageously, artists visually breathe purpose into images awaiting acceptance from the recipient.

Consumed by beauty, my thoughts land firmly on a comparison. How is art defined? Is it in the giving or receiving? Enamored by my question, I feel a gentle tug on my hand. I look down at her kaleidoscope eyes, realizing I am an artist. The detail in each freckle, tone in her voice, and the uniqueness she adds to her surroundings are partly because of me.

Mothers are artists in the raising of their children. I

am sharing pieces of myself with the world without control of perception. It is a transfer of energy coming directly from the most protected areas of my soul.

She is a piece of me, beautifully created to add warmth, loveliness, and a connection from my heart to

all those that see her. Daily mothers offer the color of their life's most significant work to a world tormented by areas of gray. It is a vulnerability unmatched.

With the heart of an artist, we hope our work is understood, cared for, and treasured. We are devoting

Cherimie Crane Weatherford is the owner/founder of SugarBelle, a long-time real estate broker and a lover of the obscurities of southern culture. To contact her with praise and adoration, email CCWIslandNews@ gmail.com. To complain, call your local representative.

Political reporters earn eviction notices

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ournalists are supposed to live outside their beats, the areas they cover every day and write about.

This objectivity is essential for being able to tell the stories the public needs to know.

And practiced consistently, it wins access into places most people will never see and can even garner respect from the gatekeepers and those who work behind those gates.

There’s a point, though, where being “objective” is less a professional obligation and more a convenient excuse from telling uncomfortable truths. I worry too many in the corps of reporters who cover our politics are taking the latter option.

I have written before about my distaste for reporters who sit on important news so they can leverage that information into book deals. That continues unabated with the release of “This Will Not Pass:

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Trump, Biden and the Battle for America’s Future.”

This “shocking, definitive account” by a couple of New York Times political reporters promises to give the inside story of the tumultuous aftermath of the 2020 election, including the Jan. 6, 2020, assault on the U.S. Capitol.

When Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell said Donald Trump was “practically and morally responsible” for the attack, he was speaking after the Senate had already acquitted the former president in his

second impeachment trial.

What felt like lip service in February 2021 would have felt like something altogether different if Jonathan Martin, one of the new book’s co-authors, had reported what McConnell said to him in the insurrection’s immediate aftermath.

“I feel exhilarated,” McConnell told Martin the night of Jan. 6, “by the fact that this fellow finally, totally discredited himself. … He put a gun to his head and pulled the trigger. Couldn’t have happened at a better time.”

What a bombshell a comment like that would have been. And Martin knew it. Which is probably why he didn’t report it then, but saved it for a book released a year and half after the fact.

After Trump was acquitted.

An acquittal McConnell voted for.

Last week, the political news site Politico published

“The Rise and Fall of the Star White House Reporter.” The story bemoaned the loss in prestige of covering the president, quoting insiders upset over reduced salaries, lower ratings and, of course, fewer chances at book deals.

The culprit? The Biden administration’s professionalism. There are few leaks, few controversies and fewer gaffes by the current leader of the free world. Compared to the freewheeling, cokebinge climate of the previous administration, the current White House is, in a word, boring.

Hopefully these reporters were able to drown their sorrows at last Saturday night’s dinner put on by their White House Correspondents’ Association. That institution in and of itself is problematic.

The notion of haha-ing and heehee-ing with the people you cover professionally seems like a willful abandon-

ment of objectivity.

Much better was a package of stories posted earlier the same day on NYTimes.com featuring analysis of Fox News host Tucker Carlson’s juggernaut nightly show. In uncharacteristically blunt terms, the piece describes the broadcast as likely “the most racist show in the history of cable news.”

Using his own words, the package features soundbites of Carlton’s constant framing of the news as “they” versus “you,” a constant fear state of “them” colluding to take away what is “yours”: your guns, your money, your rights, your freedoms, your country. Who are “they”? Any number of a revolving set of targets, from Democrats to minorities to feminists to Black Lives Matter to even members of the Republican Party “ruling class.”

“They” all hate America, Carlson warns. “They” all

hate you.

The package comes up just short of brilliance – a lengthy and unnecessary biography is pro forma for the Times of this era – but it is strong stuff, keenly reported and smartly presented.

We used to call news like this broccoli or spinach: you don’t like the taste, but it’s good for you.

Now many outlets insist on adding a spoonful of sugar to every piece, creating a false equivalence between balance and needlessly including perspectives that are often biased or simply not true.

At all levels, political reporters should consider whose favor they are trying to keep and whether it’s worth the loss of their integrity.

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.

Culture of Putin, Russia led to brutality

hen my wife and I first got to Beaufort, we befriended a German couple. They were young, smart and she was beautiful. And she — I won’t use her name here — was living in Dresden at the end of World War II. This woman — then a girl — was on the ground when the Soviet Army arrived and the large-scaled raping and killing of German civilians commenced. Her testimony was first-person, detailed, dead-eyed and that narrative still inhabits my memory some 40 years later.

This Sunday morning the news centers on Ukraine and the plastic body bags that are being methodically unearthed and their blackened, lumpen contents removed and photographed. The helmet-wearing journalists report these were deliberate, line-them-up-against-the wall executions. We’re not talking “collateral damage” here.

“Who are these killers?”

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Some say that these young, conscripted Russian soldiers carry the chromosomes of Genghis Khan. Actually, some claim these cold blooded killers are descendants of Batu Khan, Genghis Khan’s grandson, who led his rabid, raping horsemen — the so called Golden Horde — into Russia in 1248.

In 2004 Russian geneticists decided to test this theory by finding out how many Russians actually carried the Y chromosome of Genghis Khan. They looked at 1,400 men from various ethnic groups and found a “cluster” of “Ghenghisides” among the Kazakhs, Altai and Buryats of Northern Eurasia. But they

didn’t find any genetic trace of the Mongol marauder in Russia itself.

It is also worth noting that Bubonic Plague almost certainly came from the region around Lake Issyk Kul — where China, Kazakhstan and Kyrgyzstan meet. Yersina pestis (the bacterial pathogen) was brought by the “Golden Horde” as it leveled and looted thriving civilizations from central China to Southern Russia. But the tectonic shifts associated with Black Death and with Batu Khan don’t seem to be connected to the execution-style killings in Ukraine.

There is other evidence out there, specifically that of David Reich a Harvard geneticist who has sequenced the DNA of more than 10,000 long dead individuals.

Recently the scientist looked at 270 ancient skeletons from the Iberian Peninsula.

Reich discovered that 2,000 years ago the local type of Y chromosome was replaced

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the most fervent corners of our souls to a world that needs beauty. By raising our children, we make our world more captivating in a way only we can.

Picasso said, “Art washes away from the soul the dust of everyday life,” as mothers, our children renew a sense of hope in a world heavy with dust.

Happy Mother's Day to all mothers, mother figures, and those who lend energy to a child, making the world a more beautiful place.

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by an entirely different type, found only in males, passed down from father to son.

“It is likely that the newcomers perpetrated large-scale killing of men, boys, possibly male infants,” writes Douglas Preston in the December, 14, 2020, edition of the New Yorker.

“The predominant Y chromosome seems to have originated with a group called the Yamnaya, who arose about five thousand years ago, in the steppes north of the Black Sea and the Caspian Sea. By adopting the wheel and the horse, they became powerful and fearsome nomads expanding westward into Europe as well as east and southward into India.”

If one happens to have a map, one sees that the areas just north of the Black and Caspian Seas include Ukraine as well as Russia. So the brutalized Ukrainians might, themselves, be descendant of the Yamnaya nomads.

There are other explana-

tions (for the Russian love of killing) floating in ether that don’t involve biology.

Bret Devereaux, a historian specializing in the Roman military, says hazing of first year Russian conscripts, called “dedovshchina”, is well-documented and is part of the Russian military culture. He explains “hazing” by taking us back to Sparta.

“The same dynamics can be glimpsed even in ancient Sparta. The Spartan system for raising citizen boys, the agoge, was an extended hazing ritual where boys were intentionally underfed, encouraged to steal but severely beaten if caught, and forced to violently discipline younger boys. The result was that abroad, Spartans resorted to violence against both friends and foes, leading Spartan hegemony to collapse almost before it began.”

Devereaux goes on to say that these are not individual soldiers gone rogue, “Instead, it must be understood that

Russian leadership — including Putin, himself — are responsible for first fostering the kind of organizational culture that lends itself to such brutality.”

“Armies prone to atrocity are more often not the consequence of undisciplined soldiers escaping the control of their officers but rather of obedient soldiers following the brutal commands of their officers.”

Devereaux says Roman mass violence against civilians could be strategically effective when the Romans were winning. But when the Romans were losing, such ‘take-no-prisoners-tactics” hardened the resistance, resolve and tenacity of their opponents.

Devereaux believes this could be the result in Ukraine.

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

FAITH LIVING ON PURPOSE

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Developing an effective prayer life

rayer is a familiar word that we hear every day and is usually associated with something being wrong and needing to be fixed. I receive emails and texts on a regular basis from those who are having a crisis and call on me to pray for them and I certainly do.

For Christians, being in agreement with the prayers of others is a blessing and responsibility as the power of God is increased and multiplied. For those who are not familiar with talking to God, it’s common for them to call others who they believe can plead with the Lord on their behalf.

It’s an honor for people to ask someone to pray as they trust this person knows God, but the truth is that everyone has the opportunity to be as close to God as they desire. This is not the most popular statement but

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nonetheless true.

Prayer was never intended to be a last resort option that is used in an emergency like calling the fire department. The miracle of Christ being crucified and resurrecting from the dead, restored the broken relationship between God and mankind that happened when Adam and Eve sinned in the Garden of Eden. God gave His Son so that we could be saved and communicate with Him. To begin, we must pray for a desire to pray, for if we

are not interested in praying it will not happen. Everyone does what they want and prayer will never become a habit until we become determined to make it a lifestyle.

Designate a time and a place. When we become serious about spending quiet time talking and listening to God, our life becomes more focused, filled with meaning, peace, purpose, and confidence. We do not arrange our prayer time around our life, we must be determined to arrange our life around our time with Him. Learn all you can about self-discipline. When you make a decision about the best time and place to pray – stick to it. This will be much more of a personal challenge than you ever dreamed.

Remember, the enemy will do all that he can to discourage, distract and prevent you from advancing in your

relationship with God. Open your Bible and ask Him to reveal His word.

Prayer is not always closing our eyes and just asking for things. It’s a time of sharing our deepest thoughts with God and this includes giving Him an opportunity to respond. Listen intently and write it down. Silence is golden in His presence.

Prayer has no substitute.

Many have thought that attending church or listening to Christian music is our “quota” of spiritual nourishment. These are good but not enough. We can do all these things and actually grow distant from the Lord if we are not spending personal quiet time with Him. Prayer is our lifeline to His throne and the fountain of our joy. Prayer is progressive. When we decide to enter into this deeper walk with God we will compre-

hend the true meaning of praying without ceasing.

The beauty and ultimate goal of daily meditation is developing a constant awareness of His presence.

This is where we grow stronger in our spiritual wisdom and discernment.

Begin a prayer journal.

The word of our testimony is a wonderful way to keep track of our burdens, petitions, and victories. What a faith-builder when we make a record of answered prayers and how the Lord manifested a miracle when the situation seemed impossible.

Also, study about the armor of God. The Christian life is a battle and make sure you do not step into the front line unarmed. It’s no secret that the devil and His demons are not threatened with lukewarm religion, but they target anyone that makes a decision to pray.

Our words contain power.

Silent prayers are fine but praying out loud is even better. Confessing and decreeing God’s word is being in agreement with His will. He has promised in Isaiah 57:19 that He would create the fruit of our lips and in Matthew 18:18-20 Jesus speaks about the authoritative power of binding, loosing, and agreeing in faith with His desires. Prayer and obedience are powerful weapons.

Yes, we have a nature to worry, be afraid, to wring our hands and speak negative, but this has never helped anyone, it only makes things worse. If we invest the same amount of time praying that we do worrying, we would see more of God’s will being done on earth as it is in heaven.

Read more about the Christian life at billyhollandministries.com.

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16 Professional Village Circle, Lady's Island Office: 843-986-9449 • Fax: 843-986-9450 chris@bftsclaw.com • www.geierlaw.com

Gallery, Gift Shop & Custom Framing

NEW LOCATION:

Fran Sobieski, Framer

AUDIOLOGY & HEARING

102 Sea Island Pkwy, Suite P Lady's Island, SC 29907

843-473-9193

Beaufort Audiology & Hearing Care Monica Wiser, M.A. CCC-A Licensed Audiologist 38 Professional Village West, Lady's Island, SC 29907 monica@beauforthearing.com www.beauforthearing.com | 843-521-3007

residential commercial real estate

FURNITURE / HOME DECOR

PET SERVICES

Furbulas Dog Grooming and Pet Sitting

Hear the Beauty that Surrounds You

The Beaufort Sound

furniture, home decor & more (843) 379-4488

206 Sea Island Parkway, Suite 31, Beaufort, SC 29907 thebeaufortsound@gmail.com

PRESSURE WASHING

Allison & Ginny DuBose, Owners aldubose@yahoo.com • www.baysttreasures.com

www.thebeaufortsound.com | 843-522-0655

Pressure Washing • Window Cleaning Soft Roof Wash • Residential & Commercial

GARDEN CENTER

AUTOMOBILE SERVICES

Zippy Lube, Inc.

Retail Garden Center

843-522-3331

Visit Our Retail Garden Center

CHSClean.com Locally Owned and Operated

Serving Beaufort & LowCo Areas

www.zippylubebeaufortsc.com zippylubeinc@gmail.com 843-522-3560

Ronnie Kizer, Owner 149 Sea Island Parkway • Beaufort, SC 29907

Brittany Riedmayer 843-476-2989 • 843-522-3047 furbulasdoggrooming@hotmail.com Member of National Dog Groomers Association of America

1001 Bay St, Beaufort, SC 29902 open Mon-Sat 10-5, Sun. by chance

Hearing and Balance Center Dr. Larry Bridge, AU.D./CCC-A

Quick Lube and Full Service Automobile Repair

843-379-0185

www.BeaufortPestControl.com

Plants • Flowers • Gifts • Coffee Other Services Include: Plant Design • Consultation Install • Landscape Maintenance

1 Marina Blvd. • Beaufort • 843-521-7747 www.LowCoGardeners.com • Mon-Sat 8-6

DA Roofing Company

HOME CARE SERVICES

COINS & COLLECTIONS

ROOFING

Donnie Daughtry, Owner

Call us for ALL of your roofing needs. New Construction, Residential and Commercial, Shingles, Metal, Hot Tar & Hydrostop.

All repairs and new additions.

FREE ESTIMATES — 843-524-1325

COINS AND COLLECTIONS WANTED:

Southeastern Coin Exchange

FL, GA, & the Carolinas. Call “Guy” at 843-986-3444.

Free appraisals. Highest prices paid.

Over 60 years experience. Licensed.

Private appointments available.

THRIFT STORE

DNA & OTHER TESTING SERVICES LANDSCAPING & MAINTENANCE

Buds & Blooms

HOURS | 10AM-3PM | Tuesdays – Saturdays 612D Robert Smalls Parkway | 843-263-4218 YARD SATHLE MAY 7

FULL SERVICE FLORIST

Beautiful Arrangements & Bouquets

Leading FTD Florist | Order online/Delivery

CIRCLE OF

HOPE MINISTRIES

Landscaping & Maintenance Extensive Nursery Selection

WINDOW TINTING

843-322-9936 beaufortscflowershop.com

FEED & SEED

42 SEA ISLAND PKWY | BEAUFORT, SOUTH CAROLINA 29907

NEW OWNERSHIP & NEW INVENTORY PET SUPPLIES COLE’S BIRD SEED LOCAL HONEY GOAT SOAP • CBD OIL LAWN & GARDEN

A U T O

347 Sea Island Parkway, Lady’s Island, SC 29907

MOBILE HOME INSURANCE

John D. Polk Agency

Site Built Homes

TOP-Quality Window Tinting Services for Your Home, Business & Automobile

843-525-1710

www.lowcountrywindowtint.com

Manufactured Housing Insurance

102 Sea Island Parkway, Suite 0 • Lady's Island, SC 29907 Fax: 843-524-6928 John D. Polk: 843-524-3172 • Leslie Lynam: 843-524-3172 polkagency@gmail.com

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LAST WEEK'S CROSSWORD & SUDOKU SOLUTIONS

MAY 5–11, 2022

A21

820 Bay Street

•

Beaufort, SC 29902

843.521.4200

$1,845,000

$125,000

NEWPOINT | MLS 175559

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

DATAW ISLAND | MLS 175626 .27acre Homesite | Cul-De-Sac | Pond/Lake View Nancy Butler 843.384.5445 Trudy Arthur 843.812.0967

$599,000

$673,500

CAT ISLAND | MLS 175413

FRIPP ISLAND | MLS 175170

4BDRM | 2.5B | 2642sqft Julia O’Hara 1.201.456.8620

3BDRM | 3B | 1598sqft Pat Dudley 843.986.3470

www.LowcountryRealEstate.com Treat Mom for Mother’s Day! Blueberry French Toast Charleston Shrimp & Grits Bacon Tomato pie

Closed Sunday , May 8, in observance of Mother ’s Day.

Shrimp & Crab Quiche Ham Asparagus Mushroom Quiche Spinach Tomato Feta Quiche Visit thebeaufortkitchen.com for full menu options.

Online ordering for easy pick up or delivery

136 Sea Island Parkway Open Monday – Friday 9am-6pm Saturday 10am-5pm & Sunday 11am-3pm

843-379-3303 • contact@beaufortkitchen.com

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.”

- Iris Alvarez, Arvada, CO

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