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Relish Media Group acquires EatSleepPlayBeaufort
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Relish Media Group, LLC, has acquired EatSleepPlayBeaufort, a brand that promotes Beaufort tourism by highlighting local businesses and attractions. Relish Media Group is a subsidiary of PickleJuice Productions, a Beaufort-based marketing firm owned and operated by Ginger and Will Wareham. Relish Media is located at 308 Charles Street in historic downtown Beaufort. “We are uniquely qualified to responsibly navigate the EatSleepPlayBeaufort brand,” said Ginger Wareham, co-principal of Relish Media. “We look forward to reinvigorating this brand across multiple media platforms and restoring it to prominence for Beaufort and the surrounding Sea Islands.” Relish Media acquired the EatSleepPlayBeaufort.com website and its content and all of its associated social media channels. Those social media channels include Facebook, Twitter, Instagram, Pinterest and YouTube. Additionally, Relish Media acquired EatSleepPlay domains for Bluffton, Hilton Head, Savannah and Charleston, and associated social media pages for most of those domains. Terms of the purchase were not disclosed. When the EatSleepPlayBeaufort brand was created in 2010, the Warehams were involved in creating the initial colorful brand and website. “As marketing professionals, we understand the potential of this brand” said Will Wareham, co-principal of Relish Media. “We are committed to restoring relationships with advertisers and other business partners, and helping our community thrive.”
Photos and story Bob Sofaly Cheryle Sanderson has sewn countless garments in a lifetime as a talented seamstress, but no project gives her more emotional satisfaction than the work she does for Angel Baby Gowns of the Lowcountry.
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anderson is part of a team of volunteer seamstresses who devote their free time to sewing bereavement garments for babies who are stillborn or die in infancy. Sanderson and her fellow volunteers sew all the garments by hand from donated wedding dresses. The organization gives the garments to the grieving parents at no charge and even covers the shipping. All of the material used comes from donated wedding dresses, and Sanderson sometimes uses pastel prom dresses for additional decoration if requested by the parents. While showing off some of her intricate work, Sanderson said she doesn’t use a lot of heavy beading or trim because sometimes the decorations weigh more than the baby for whom the garment is intended. And lightweight gowns are easier on the babies’ underdeveloped skin.
Cheryle Sanderson lays out a finished Angel Baby gown at her Port Royal home. Photo by Bob Sofaly.
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City supports Whitehall park but may move to scale down project The City of Beaufort has expressed its support for a public park on the Whitehall property on Lady’s Island, but the size and scope of the project might not live up to what advocacy groups were expecting. City manager Bill Prokop reported to City Council at its Aug. 28 meeting that a deal is in the works that may re-evaluate the size, scope, management and maintenance of a proposed park for the Whitehall development. “The city has always been a proponent of a park and open space
as a part of the Whitehall development,” Mayor Billy Keyserling said, but a preliminary agreement between the city and Beaufort County calls for a 1.5-acre park, rather than the proposed 10-acre park several groups have backed. The city currently has an agreement in place with Beaufort County for an approximate 1.5acre park on the site. That agreement has the developer assisting with the necessary space, the City of Beaufort maintaining it, and Beaufort County assisting with up to $300,000 for installation of
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a bridge/walkway connector. Preliminary plans show the park at the northwest tip of the property with a walkway connector to the existing pedestrian crossing of the Woods Memorial Bridge. Prokop acknowledged a proposal being discussed in the community that may allow for funding to be available for the eventual expansion of the proposed park to 10 acres. “There are many items that the Citizens of Beaufort need to be allowed to weigh in on,” Prokop said. “This could be a long-term
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commitment for the City of Beaufort that will see our grandchildren managing it and deserves to be appropriately vetted.” The City Council charged Prokop with negotiating the issues at hand with the stakeholders in the possible expansion and bring a vetted proposal back to council for public debate. The Friends of Whitehall Park group that has led the advocacy for the proposal sent out a statement saying, “We strenuously and wholeheartedly disagree that a 1.5-acre park would be sufficient.
It would leave the vast majority of the specimen oak trees outside of the park.” The group also fears reducing the area of the park would lead to additional environmental damage and increased traffic if the remaining 8.5 acres were developed. “A 1.5-acre pocket park is not at all what has been envisioned by the over 4,500 petition signers who have raised their voices,” the statement said. “Supporting ‘a park’ of 1.5 acres is not the same as supporting ‘the’ Whitehall park.”
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