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how to SuCCEEd in buSinESS without rEAlly trying Written by the creators of Guys and Dolls, this mischievous Tony-winning musical pokes fun at all the usual office antics— brownnosing, nepotism, sex and greed.
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ArE you rEAdy For SomE PAddlEboArding? SUPfest set For Saturday, May 19
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ChEFS oF thE lowCountry Special advertising Section
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Food, gloriouS Food Decades of new food inventions have added a little spice to the life of americans. Who wants a moon pie?!?
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lowCountry dining guidE Special advertising Section
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mAKE it At homE Recipes from our local chefs
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bEhind thE gAtES: PArt thrEE Wexford, Long Cove, Spanish Wells & Windmill Harbour
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SummEr vACAtion Lowcountry camps offer creative outlets for kids
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mEEt thE doCtorS
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lEt’S tAlK About brEAStS Is that a lump? That can’t be a lump. Shoot. I think that’s a lump.
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SPring into SPortS Injury prevention for golf and tennis
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PEdiAtriC SPEECh thErAPy: muCh morE thAn ArtiCulAtion When you hear the term “speech therapy,” what is the first thing that comes to mind?
in Full bloom Counseling helps adolescents blossom from within
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thE AllErgy EPidEmiC Where is it coming from?
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driving on Stokes Brown Toyota Scion of Hilton Head celebrates five years
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Editor’S notE april showers bring May flowers...from Teleflora
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Sunny SidE uP Palmetto Bay Sunrise Café puts the shine on every day
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our town Bluffton Village Festival
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ChArity CornEr Spring Swing
dig in CQ’s celebrates farm to table freshness
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golF 101 Why you’re not improving
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A SEriES oF FortunAtE EvEntS your 15 minutes of fame
ElA’S blu wAtEr grillE For seafood, steak and style
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A linE in thE SAnd Tattoos & Piercings
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CElEbrAtE APril The Bluffton Village Festival, Mother’s Day and Memorial Day!
hEllo my nAmE iS . . . Chef Robert Irvine
whAt you nEEd to Know About... Shadow Banking
A word From thE mAyorS Drew Laughlin and Lisa Sulka update you on town happenings on Hilton Head Island and in Bluffton.
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diSCountS! Why in the world would you NOT show your CH2 card to get these fabulous discounts? If your issue doesn’t have one, e-mail us your mailing address and we’ll send you one! Card requests to m.washo@celebratehiltonhead.com.
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it’S 5 o’CloCK SomEwhErE Our entertainment calendar has a new name. It was time.
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Mistake # 1: In our Pet Issue (February 2012), we forgot to put Lukie’s photo in our collage of local pets. Sorry about that Lukie (and Michael).
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lovE AFFAir with Food! Dish pictured is from Ela’s Bluewater Grille
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Publisher / Editor-in-Chief: MaGGIE WaSHO Art director: KELLy STROUD Art & Production CaTHERINE DaVIES Advertising Sales: aSHTON KELLEy CHUCK BOUFFORD KIM CROUCH CaNDy EaZOR Executive Assistant LILy BaRTELL Contributing writers: DR. JOHN BaTSON THOMaS C. BELLER, M.D. JESSI DOLNIK
aPRIL SHOWERS BRING...May FLOWERS!
FRaNK DUNNE JR. COURTNEy HaMPSON LaURa JaCOBI DREW LaUGHLIN
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PETE POPOVICH MaRy FRaNCES LOWREy MaRIE MCaDEN ROBERT STaR LISa SULKa DEBBIE SZPaNKa DaVID TOBIaS GERRy WaLL PETER ZINK Contributing Photographers / Artist: PHOTOGRaPHy By aNNE MaRK STaFF PHOTOGRaPHy JOHN BRaCKETT PHOTOGRaPHy Contributing Art direction:
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wo months ago I used my Editor’s Note to share my friend Lindsey’s crazy story about entering hundreds of sweepstakes and winning a trip to NyC to tour Vogue and spend $2,500 in the Coach store. Well, we all know that hope springs eternal (how many tickets did you buy for the $640 Mega Million drawing?) so I went ahead and entered all sorts of sweepstakes myself. and you’ll never believe what happened... I won’t hold you in suspense any longer. I actually won something; to be exact, I won a $500 gift certificate to Teleflora! Quite frankly, I don’t even remember entering that contest, but there it is. So again, moral of the story is, you have to play to win. In other unrelated but fairly interesting news, I got a phone call from the casting department of aBC’s The Bachelor last week. It seems they are looking for the show’s next Bachelor and found CH2’s Bachelor of the
i goT A Phone cAll from The cASTing dePArTmenT of Abc’S The bAchelor lAST weeK. iT SeemS They Are looKing for The Show’S neXT bAchelor And found ch2’S bAchelor of The yeAr conTeST online. year contest online. The Internet sure makes the world a whole lot smaller. I sent Holly a few of our former contestants with my recommendations. How fun would it be if one of them gets chosen? They better wear a CH2 shirt on camera if they do. I wonder if there’s a finder’s fee... Don’t forget your mom this month! I’m going to send mine a big flower bouquet. From Teleflora. Until next month!
TOM STaEBLER P.O.Box 22949 Hilton Head Island, SC 29925 843.689.2658
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A SERIES OF FORTUNATE EVENTS
Stylin!
Amy L. Thompson, an accomplished stylist for over 17 years from Charlotte, North Carolina has joined Chez Michelle Salon at 119 Arrow Rd. on Hilton Head Island.
A New Stylist
Salon Karma would like to announce the addition of their new hair stylist, Brandi Trawick.
A New Hire
Frank Buchenroth has joined the staff of H & H Auto Service, Body and Sales as Marketing Ambassador.
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Chris Wycoff recently opened Golf Etc., a retail store offering performance club fittings, in the Publix/ Island Crossing shopping center off of Sea Pines Circle.
Art Exhibition
Rosemary Kimball introduces Walter Greer at “The Artists of Sea Pines” opening exhibit.
For a good cause
Low Country SC Kappa Delta Alumnae Association President Jeanette Davis presents a check for $925 to Katie Grindle, volunteer coordinator for CAPA (Child Abuse Prevention Association), after a successful fund raising Trivia Night event.
He’s so well read.
Sea Pines Montessori Academy student Trey Collins, the son of Stacey and Art Collins of Bluffton, is The Storybook Shoppe’s April Reader of the Month.
A New Hire
Nolan Moore has joined The Alliance Group Realty located in the Fresh Market Shoppes on Hilton Head Island.
Patti Laatsch, RN for achieving CPAN (Certified PeriAnesthesia Nurse) certification, a level of training only reached by 9000 RN’s out of the 3.1 million nurses practicing in the United States.
A Name Change
Johnson, Smith & Associates would like to announce a new partner, R. Craig Smith, and their new firm name.
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A ribbon cutting for Ables, Iannone, Moore and Associates brings another new business to Stock Farm in Bluffton, SC.
A Bigger Boat
Master Captain Megan McLaughlin of Island Time Charters recently upgraded her boat to a brand-new, beautiful Stingray. For a ride, email Megan at CaptainMegan@ IslandTimeChartersHHI.com.
Paddles Up!
Atlantic Paddle Surfing hosted “Paddle for a Purpose,” a paddle social to raise funds for Hospice Care of the Lowcountry on April 1, 2012.
Accolades
Wells Fargo Home Mortgage, recently named Home Mortgage Consultant Sue Ann Hess (NMLSR ID 461866) to its 2011 Leaders Club. Sue Ann’s team includes Home Mortgage Consultant Jim Hess.
A Big Accomplishment
John Rush, CRPC® recently received an award from RiverSource Life Insurance Company, recognizing Ameriprise financial advisors who have helped clients use annuity solutions to help plan for a more confident retirement in 2011. To be included in our next Series of Fortunate Events, please email Ashton Kelley a PHOTO and A SENTENCE (not a paragraph) at a.kelley@celebratehiltonhead.com. Photos will not be accepted without a sentence. Sentences will not be accepted without a photo. Paragraphs will be edited down to one sentence. Get it? Got it! Good.
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he 34th annual Bluffton Village Festival, coordinated by the Bluffton Rotary Club, will be held from 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. May 12 on Calhoun Street in Old Town Bluffton. The festival, commonly known as Mayfest, is a chance to enjoy the best Bluffton has to offer, meet old friends and make new ones. Karen Lavery, festival chair, describes the Bluffton tradition as “an old-fashioned street party with lots of good food, fun and laughter.” Entertainers and vendors promise to provide an electric atmosphere as they celebrate art, community and Bluffton fun. Organizers expect close to 10,000 guests as well as 200 vendors from South Carolina and all over the South, offering unique arts and crafts and delicious food. Some of the diverse goods for sale include jewelry, sweet grass baskets, ironworks, print and original artwork, quilts, glass art, pottery and more. Food vendors will offer choices ranging from Lowcountry favorites such as the festival’s famous shrimp salad sandwiches and barbecue to traditional festival food such
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as funnel cakes, crepes and Italian ice. Besides finding plenty of goods to fill your home and food to fill your belly, the Village Festival offers just the right mix of footstomping entertainment and quintessential Bluffton fun. Stake your claim in the Zonta Club of Bluffton’s popular Ducky Derby, jam to the steel drum band or tap your toes along with The Sun City Cloggers. Be sure to catch the 24th annual Ugly Dog contest at 1 p.m. on the porch at Sprouts. Richard Coefield, real estate agent with May River Realty, helped start the long-running tradition of the Ugly Dog Contest in
1988. The contest is a little unpredictable but always fun, Coefield said. He remembers a year when a man tried to enter his goat, but the imposter was quickly discovered. He describes the contest as a zany event that can be won by bribing two out of the three judges. The top three dogs receive handcrafted trophies from local potter, Jacob Preston. Four years ago, Bluffton Rotary took over organizing the event from the original creator, Babbie Guscio. Lavery has chaired the event all four years, co-chairing the first year with Michael Reeves. In those four years, the festival has grown from 70 vendors to close to 200. and with the help of the Rotary Club of Bluffton, the Town of Bluffton and the area’s law enforcement and emergency response teams, the event appears seamless. Lavery has participated
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in the festival since she joined the Bluffton Rotary in 1998 when she began working the club’s food booth. “I loved the energy the day brought and the excitement of seeing everyone on the street,” she said. Now serving as a Bluffton Town Council member, Lavery said it is time for someone else to take over the planning reins so she can devote more time to her other responsibilities. “It’s sad that this will be my last one [as event chair], but it’s a lot of fun.”
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island’s most scenic holes. The picturesque hole ends with a sublime view of the Intracoastal Waterway and Skull Creek just past the green and a canopy of live oaks bordering the water. The tournament could not be supported without its local sponsors, which include Callahan’s Sports Bar and Deluxe Grill, KFC / Shay Enterprises, Lee Distributors and the Heritage Classic Foundation. Over 20 volunteers, both HHFa members and local supporters, will help on tournament day to make sure things run smoothly. The proceeds will go toward sustaining the HHFa as well as numerous local charities at the discretion of the non-profit’s board of directors. “We’ve had nothing but generosity from the community. anytime we approach someone for a donation or sponsorship, the
answer is always yes. It’s been very refreshing,” McRorie said. “We are stewards of the community, so we’re giving back to the community that supports us.” The tournament is run as a captain’s choice format, with each player taking a shot, and the captain selecting the group’s best for the subsequent shot. This year’s field is 144 players, or 36 foursomes, with registration beginning at 7:30 a.m., followed by a 9 a.m. shotgun start. The entry fee includes green fees, cart, continental breakfast, post-tournament lunch, cold beverages, a goodie bag, HHFa apparel and hole–inone giveaways. The tournament, now entering its eighth year, has generated over $100,000 in charitable donations. Coupled with the concession stand the HHFa runs during the annual RBC Heritage golf
For more information on this year’s Spring Swing for Charity golf Tournament, contact HHFA president Chad Mcrorie at (843) 301-2423 or by e-mail at chadm@ hiltonheadislandsc. gov. For more information about the Hilton Head Firefighters’ Association, please visit hhfirefighters.org.
tournament, the HHFa is able to generate much of its annual proceeds from these two golfthemed events. and yet even as the last dimpled golf ball drops into the hole, the event is far from over. Prizes, trophies and the HHFa’s popular tournament raffle (with scores of free golf outings and restaurant gift certificates to be won) give participants more to look forward to while they swap stories about the 18 holes just played. “We try to give the participants a lot of bang for their buck,” McRorie said. “We want them to feel like they are contributing to a worthwhile charity and that they’ve got something of value for the money that they’ve spent.”
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A Line in the Sand Tattoos & Piercings
A r t i c l e b y F r a n k D u n n e, J r. Photography BY ANNE
Do employers have the right to require employees to conceal tattoos and other forms of body art while on the job? Of course they do, but why take my word for it? Let’s ask my friend Suzy (not her real name). Suzy and I were talking about this very subject the day before Maggie and Courtney proposed the question for our column. What are the odds?
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nyway, why should we ask Suzy? Because Suzy has a big tattoo that covers most of her back, and she works for an establishment that has a very explicit policy: No ink. It doesn’t say you can’t have ink on your body, it just says that it’s got to be covered up while you’re on the job. Suzy doesn’t just work there either. She’s a manager. That means she has to enforce the policy upon others as well as abide by it herself, and you know what? It doesn’t bother her a bit. Know why it doesn’t bother her? Because Suzy possesses something called common sense, which is something that people who view such policies as a violation of rights know nothing about. “The average person that I serve in here is not inked,” Suzy said. “If that’s the majority of your clientele and the people you want to serve, then you probably don’t want to present that way. So I agree with the policy.” “If you owned the company, would you retain the policy?” I queried. “Yes, I would.” See. Common sense. Suzy knows her customers and knows that you have to create an environment that appeals to them, or else they’ll stop coming through the doors. That’s really bad for business in any economy. What if Suzy demanded that she be allowed to expose her tattoo? In her case, that would mean she’d have to wear a bikini top or less, which would
also put her in violation of the dress code requirement that employees wear a collared shirt. So it would have to follow that if you can’t require employees to conceal tattoos, well then, you can’t require them to wear collared shirts either. See where this is going? Where does it stop? At what point do we just say that employers have no right to establish any dress codes or codes of conduct? Why stop there? As long as we’re telling employers that they can’t tell workers how to dress or how to behave, why not just say that they’re not allowed to require employees to work? Frank, you’re being absurd. That would never happen. Okay, probably not, so let’s try a different angle. I’m going to take a stab in the dark here and assume that people on the other side of this argument think of this as an issue of rights, as in, “this is a violation of our right to express ourselves,” or some such thing. To that I’ll say, yes, you do, but it doesn’t supersede somebody else’s right to decide how to run his or her business. If you were sitting down for an interview with my friend Suzy, she’d tell you straight up that should you decide to accept the privilege of working for her (and a job is a privilege, not a right), you’re going to play by the rules and conceal your tattoo just like she does. Don’t like it? Well, then you can exercise your right to seek employment and express yourself elsewhere.
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A Line in the Sand Tattoos & Piercings
Article by Courtney Hampson Photography BY ANNE
I can’t argue against tattoos. I have one. Okay, I have two. So, to avoid being the kettle calling the ol’ pot black, I say, express yourself!
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oes the fact that someone has a tattoo preclude him or her from being a good employee? A hard worker? An accounting whiz? A public speaking master? A leader? The answer is no. How shortsighted of us to assume that body art equals unemployable. What if your workplace felt that blondes were offensive or just plain stupid? How many of our readers would be out of a job right now? When I came home with a tattoo, my parents were less than thrilled. In fact, as I recall, my dad’s reaction most certainly included the f-bomb. As in, “What the f-bomb were you thinking?” Shortly after my new ink dried, my parents came to dine at the restaurant where I was waiting tables for the summer. Their “tip’ was scribbled on a napkin and it read, “Here’s a tip: Lose
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the tattoo.” And people wonder where I get my sarcasm. As summer came to an end, my mother’s concern for my pristine reputation heightened. I had just graduated college and landed my first “real job” at a very exclusive and conservative private school, and mom was certain that once they got a look at that “thing” on my ankle they would fire me immediately. She was so worried about how I would now be perceived that she rushed out to Sam’s Club and bought an industrial size box of 4x4 Band-Aids—basically enough to cover every square inch of New Jersey in one fell swoop. Each morning, as I set out for work, she would stick a Band-Aid on my ankle to hide my indiscretion. True story. I could see her point. I was in my rebel phase (which, by the way, lasted until age 28); however, I also knew I was a hard worker and that my work ethic and brilliance would beat any negative perceptions associated with tattoos. And as far as I know, I was right. And, if I was right then, by gosh, I am most certainly right now. Right? In 2006, a report in the Journal of the American Academy of Dermatology indicated that 24 percent of Americans between ages 18 and 50 are tattooed. This was a significant rise (66 percent) from three years prior when just 15 percent of U.S. adults had a tattoo. So, if one in four adults is tattooed, chances are, unless you are working solo on the international space station right now, you can look around and check out the ink on your co-workers, and maybe even spot a piercing or two. Go ahead, look! (That same report also indicated that about one in seven people have a piercing somewhere other than in the soft lobe of the ear.) These stats, of course, also suggest that 75 percent of the population do not have a tattoo. I wonder why not? Well, perhaps it is because in the late 1800s and early 1900s, tattoos were saved for the center ring at carnivals and circuses where folks flocked to the see the Tattooed Lady. In the early to mid-1900s, tattoos were
a signature of enlisted service members. In the ’50s and ’60s, renegade outlaw bikers started splashing the ink, “prison tats” became commonplace, and this is when the stereotypes and negative perceptions associated with tattoos really began. You know how I feel about perceptions. If perceptions become reality, then 25 percent of our population is now an outlaw thug with a tat from their stint in the joint. Or … perhaps tattoos are simply another attempt at freedom of speech and/ or expression, and we should take them for what they are: art. I mean, I think it’s kind of sweet that you want to pay homage to your mom with the double heart and arrow duo on your bicep. In 2003, a Wall Street Journal article, “The Tattooed Executive,” shared tattoo policies from major corporations, four of which we can find here in South Carolina. And, remarkably they aren’t as scathingly conservative as we may think. Boeing indicated that “non-offensive” tattoos were permitted. “I’ve seen people at all levels with tattoos and piercings,” said spokeswoman Barbara Murphy. Tenet Healthcare (parent company of Hilton Head Hospital) had no policy on tattoos indicating that “appearance must be appropriate to the position," per spokesperson Steven Campanini. “What we do is rely on local hospitals to enforce what is appropriate.” Wal-Mart stores are also okay with “non-offensive” tattoos showing. And, Subway restaurants allow discrete tattoos, but company literature specifies “nondangling earrings in the ears only. Any other visible parts of body may not be adorned with jewelry” (lest an earring drop into your $5 foot long). Interesting, just this week I saw the following quote on Facebook: “Having tattoos does not make you a delinquent or a thug. It is art. Art is about self-expression and creativity. Some people hang their art. We wear ours.”
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EVENTS THROUGHOUT MAY THE FILLING STATION ART GALLERY
69 Calhoun Street Starting April 20; 4-7pm “My Muse is Back,” a collection off new paintings by Art Cornell, acclaimed artist, photographer and poet. The show will run through May. More Info: www. fillingstationartgallery.com
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April 24 - June 2, SOBA Gallery (On the corner of Church & Calhoun Streets, Old Town Bluffton)
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20TH ANNUAL BUSINESS GOLF CLASSIC
HOW TO SUCCEED IN BUSINESS WITHOUT REALLY TRYING
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Every Thursday, 2-7PM Calhoun Street, Carson Cottages and Old Towne Bluffton
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24TH ANNIVERSARY CELEBRATION AT SMITH GALLERIES
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High Tide & Rainbow International Restoration & Cleaning, Inc. May 17 - 5:30-7:00 p.m. The cost to attend is $10 for members, and $20 for non-members. To register go to hiltonheadchamber.org, or call (843) 785-3673.
VIllage At Wexford. Stop by and say Congrats!
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SAFETY TOWN May 5; 9:30-12:00PM & 1:00-3:30PM The Rotary Club of Hilton Head Island. For more information contact: hhrotary@sc.twcbc.com.
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ECLECTIC – AN EXHIBITION OF CERAMICS BY SHERI FARBSTEIN
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Artist Opening Thursday May 3, 5-8 PM April 30 – May 27
April 25 - May 27 Arts Center of Coastal Carolina. Call 842-ARTS or visit www. artshhi.com for more information.
May 7, Wexford Plantation 10:30 a.m. Registration Noon Shotgun Start
THURSDAY
PALMETTO BLUFF CONCERT ON THE GREEN
Thursday, May 10, 2012 Concert begins at 6:30 PM; Gates open at 5:00 PM $25 per car at the gate benefits The Junior Jazz Foundation. For more information visit www.palmettobluff.com
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May 17, 1pm Christ Lutheran Church, 829 Wm. Hilton Pkwy, HHI Guests are welcome for a $5 visitor fee. Come early and socialize. For more information visit www. palmettoquiltguild.org.
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HHI MONTHLY SKI CLUB SOCIAL
It’s Greek to Me May 11, 5-7pm. For more information, call Bev Morgan at 843.681.4181 or visit www.hhiskiclub.com.
GOLF, ETC IS OPEN!
Grand Opening Celebration May 11, 3-7PM. For more call 843-341-7000 or visit www.golfetchhi.com
25TH ANNIVERSARY OF THE ALL SAINTS GARDEN TOUR “A POTPOURRI OF GARDENS” May 19; 10am-4pm All Saints Episcopal Church More Info: Contact Fred Gebler 843.540.9775 or fmagebler@gmail.com
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25 April 6 - December 7 Coastal Discovery Museum at Honey Horn. 8:30am - 1:00pm More Info: (843) 785-2767 or visit our website:
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AMERICA SINGS! PRESENTED BY THE HILTON HEAD CHORAL SOCIETY
First Presbyterian Church May 27; 7pm & May 28; 7pm Ticket Info: $15 general admission; $20 preferred seating. Please call 843-341-3818 or visit hiltonheadchoralsociety.org
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HAPPY MEMORIAL DAY!
Corks Neighborhood Wine Bar Wed., May 30 5:30-7 p.m. To register go to hiltonheadchamber.org or call 843-785-1106
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BLUFFTON VILLAGE FESTIVAL May 12; 10am - 4pm Old Town Bluffton The 34th festival, commonly known as Mayfest will be held from 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. Admission is FREE. For information call 843-815-2277 or visit blufftonvillagefestival.com.
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KIWANIS RIB BURN OFF May 19-20; 8:00am . Honey Horn . Admission: $12
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May 5; 6pm-8pm Bluffton Rotary Community Center Evening includes Student Dance Showcase, Matilda Jane Mother/Daughter Fashion Show, Silent Auction, Heavy Hors D’oeuvres and Live Music. Call 843-815-2619 for more information
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31 HARBOURFEST May 31 - Sept. 1; 8am Shelter Cove Harbour
Bring the whole family to enjoy this exciting, kid-friendly festival! More Info: www. palmettodunes.com/ harbourfest-hilton-head.php or 843-785-1106
UPCOMING EVENT? LET US HELP YOU GET THE WORD OUT! Email your event to: m.washo@celebratehiltonhead.com
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Stokes Brown Toyota Scion of Hilton Head celebrates five years
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hen you walk into the spacious showroom at Stokes Brown Toyota off Fording Island Road, you wouldn’t be remiss in thinking it was built yesterday. The floors glisten, light floods through the glass windows, and a friendly staff stands ready to greet you at the door. an elegant timeline of Toyota’s evolution from the 1950s is displayed above the showroom floors. There’s a quiet hum and energy that strikes you as you wait, service reps and customers chat amiably in the open and cars beckon you to check them out. In a sense, it’s easy to lose track of time here. Perhaps that explains why when we sat down with
Tom Farabaugh, general sales manager of Stokes Brown Toyota, even he couldn’t believe how far the dealership has come in the
Bern, and the south side of Pittsburgh. The customers here tend to be much more loyal and very easy to understand and work with.” Shepherding the dealership through a financial crisis, recall effort, and a tsunami in Japan, life has stayed interesting so far. Farabaugh credits the honest and direct approach he takes with his customers for pulling the dealership through. When recall allegations hit Toyota a few years ago, Stokes-Brown didn’t shy away from it. “We tried to be an outlet for information, to be transparent. There was a lot of spinning of facts that weren’t 100 percent accurate.
When the tsunami hit Japan, Stokes Brown watched their inventory on hand drop more than 60 percent. last five years. “It still really hasn’t sunk in, frankly, that it’s been five years,” he said. Serving as general sales manager since the dealership opened, Farabaugh knows cars. He’s worked with them for 30 years, but Stokes is a favorite. “There are a lot of great people here. They support us very well, and we’re very thankful to have them. I’ve worked in other markets like Savannah, New
and ironically, they later found out there was no problem. But that didn’t come out until three or four months later,” he said. When the tsunami hit Japan, Stokes Brown watched their inventory on hand drop more than 60 percent. But again, customers understood. “They were willing to preorder and wait to allow us to get the car they wanted. So we weathered the storm pretty well,” Farabaugh said. Looking ahead, Farabaugh wants to expand the dealership’s community involvement even further and give back to all the great clients that have kept them going. While Stokes has been active in the past with blood drives, golf outings, the Hilton Head Theater, and Family Promise, they want to give back more. The dealership hopes to have customer appreciation movie nights shortly where people can bring their cars or sit in new ones and watch a drive-in movie by the showroom. For Farabaugh and the crew, it just makes sense. “Stokes has been involved since 1983 with the local community, and that’s one of the things we want to continue with this dealership,” Farabaugh said. Come celebrate with Stokes Brown Toyota Scion of Hilton Head this month by visiting 100 Fording Island Rd. For more information, call (843) 815-4444 or visit stokesbrowntoyotahh.com.
Tom Farabaugh, general sales manager
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black marlin hurricane bar - Happy Hour (4 - 7PM) Frankie bones - Ladies Night Kingfisher (upstairs) - Comedy Show (8:30PM) Happy Hour (5-8PM) los Jalapenos - Happy Hour (4-7PM) old Fort Pub - Happy Hour (5-7PM) the lodge - Pinch The Pint Night San miguels - Live Music (5:30-9:30PM) the tiki hut - Davis Marhshall ! wild wing Café - 2 Fer Tuesday / Team Trivia
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black marlin hurricane bar - Happy Hour (4 - 7PM) Frankie bones - $10 Off any Bottle of Wine Kingfisher (upstairs) - Comedy Show (8:30PM) Kingfisher (downstairs) - Pete Carroll Acoustic (6PM), Happy Hour (5-8PM) the lodge - Kick The Keg Night los Jalapenos - Happy Hour (4-7PM) mellow mushroom - Trivia Night ! old Fort Pub - Happy Hour (5-7PM) San miguels - Live Music (5:30-9:30PM) the tiki hut - Gary Pratt wild wing Café - Rock Idol Karaoke Competition ! wise guys - Ladies Night, Neverending Bubbles and ! Spa Giveaways
black marlin hurricane bar - Happy Hour (4 - 7PM) Ela’s blu water grille - LIVE Music (Starting at 8PM) Kingfisher (upstairs) - Comedy Show (8:30PM) Kingfisher (downstairs) - David Wingo Soft Rock (6PM) Happy Hour (5-8PM) the lodge - Burgers & Beer Night (ONLY $5) los Jalapenos - Happy Hour (4-7PM) old Fort Pub - Happy Hour (5-7PM) San miguels - Live Music (5:30-9:30PM) Smokehouse - May 10th & 24th: Live Music the tiki hut - Mike Korbar wild wing Café - Live Music / Drink Specials
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black marlin hurricane bar - Drink Specials (12 - 7PM) Ela’s blu water grille - LIVE Music (Starting at 8PM) Kingfisher (upstairs) - Comedy Show (8:30PM) Happy Hour (5-8PM) los Jalapenos - Happy Hour (4-7PM) mellow mushroom - Karaoke Night (10PM) ! one hot mama’s - DJ and Dancing the Salty dog Café - Live Music (5 - 9PM) San miguels - Live Music (5:30-9:30PM) Skull Creek boathouse - 5/5: Full Moon Party / Derby Party. Live Music from The Storks (8-11PM) 5/19: Lobsterfest. Live Music from White Liquor (8:00-11:00PM) 5/17: Hoppy Hour at Giuseppi’s Shelter Cove. Victory Brewery “Summer Love” (4-6PM) Smokehouse - The Simpson Brothers (9:30PM) the tiki hut - Jon Bruner
SUNDayS black marlin hurricane bar - Drink Specials (12 - 7PM) Kingfisher (upstairs) - Comedy Show (8:30PM) Kingfisher (downstairs) - Tableside Magic with Joseph (6pm), Happy Hour (5-8PM) ! los Jalapenos - Happy Hour (4-7PM) old Fort Pub - Happy Hour (5 - 7PM) San miguels - Live Music (5:30-9:30PM) Smokehouse - May 27th - JoJo Squirrell & The Homepickles (10PM) the tiki hut - Mike Korbar
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listening or doing, but your assimilation of the material depends on the intelligences. This is why it is critical to learn from a teacher who understands these and knows how to apply them to your game. For example, take misalignment and lack of tempo. Assume you are a visual learner and your dominant intelligences are spatial and musical. By seeing your swing on video, your brain easily comprehends what is happening because you see it. Making changes, however, has to be done in a way that you can comprehend and apply spatially and musically. Now if an instructor told you to set two alignment rods (lines) on the ground in order for your alignment to be correct, you could do so easily on the range. But within a few swings on the course, you would fall right back into misalignment, because your brain does not relate very well to lines when spatial positions are different. A logical learner would respond differently. If your instructor adjusted you verbally each time you lined up incorrectly, it would do no good, but using alignment sticks (lines) would benefit you greatly. Why these differences in learning? Because of the different intelligences people possess. (A musically inclined learner whose swing tempo gets quick could more easily reset his tempo with a metronome rather than hearing someone tell him his swing is too fast.) The same holds true for practice sessions. Spatial golfers get bored if they hit pre-determined numbers of shots with each club, so they have to practice creatively to keep their brains stimulated while learning. Hitting five shots of five different shapes (straight, high, low, fade, draw) with each club from seven iron through driver will keep their creative mind occupied while improving their swing. The structure in their practice comes from hitting a specific number of each type shot, regardless of the outcome until, improving, they would hit only three types of shots per club then finally only one type per club. (A logical golfer would not find this way very beneficial; he would benefit more from working on hitting all shots with one club while practicing a particular drill.) As you can see, “different strokes for different folks” applies. Knowing how you learn is crucial to gaining knowledge, especially in the game of golf. Also, how swing faults are explained, how you go about curing them, as well as the manner in which the cure is applied all relate to how your brain best processes information. This information is rarely, if ever, mentioned in the how-to sections of golf magazines or teaching manuals. Most would rather capitalize, at your expense, on the newest fads or theories and tell you how much you will improve as a result. Yet after years of this, has your game really improved? Our efforts are geared toward improving your total game, from driver through putter and from tee through green. Our continued research in all facets of the game is second to none, and we are not afraid to be compared to other methods or philosophies. If you are wondering why you are not improving, or not improving at a pace that justified the time and effort you invest in your golf game, call the Golf Performance Academy-Hilton Head at (843) 338-6737, e-mail pete@ golfacademyhiltonhead.com or Facebook at Golf Performance Academy-Hilton Head. 38
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Article By Courtney Hampson
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almetto Electric Cooperative’s 10th Annual Touchstone Energy Million Dollar Shootout is slated for Thursday, May 31-Saturday, June 2. The three-day event at Old South Golf Links offers the opportunity for your favorite foursome to hit a few and raise money in support of the Bright Ideas teacher grant program, a program that funds innovative classroom projects. Odds are… The odds of making a hole-in-one vary somewhat depending on the source and the numbers used for calculating the odds. According to a 1999 Golf Digest report, “One insurance company puts an amateur’s odds at 1 in 12,750.” That same issue reported that the “odds of an amateur making two holes-in-one in a round are 9,222,500 to one.” Despite your individual odds, the guarantee is actually
in the annual impact of the event. Last year, more than 500 golfers participated in the Million Dollar Shootout and raised $13,000. That $13,000 was paired with the funds from “Operation Round Up” (the program in which Palmetto Electric customers round up the change on their bills), and more than $34,000 was put back into our local classrooms via Bright Ideas. Here’s how it works. Dust off your clubs. Head to Old South Golf Links on May 31 or June 1 from 9 a.m.-7 p.m., or June 2 from 9 a.m.-5 p.m. Bring your wallet. Ten dollars gets you a bag of a dozen balls, plus with the coupon that Palmetto Electric is offering (see next page), you get a second bag free. So, for the first $10 you spend, you have 24 chances at the final round and shooting for a million. I’m told that people have spent hundreds (of dollars and swings) in previous years for that shot at glory.
So, speaking of the final, the 28 closest to the pin from the three qualifying rounds (plus one media entry from Wednesday’s media day—oh yes, I’m practicing) will line up for the final shootout on June 2 at 6 p.m. They each get one shot to get it in the hole. Have a little hitch in your drive? No worries, in addition to the main attraction, a putting contest and silent auction offer plenty of additional entertainment for the folks whose short game is their real forte. If the final 28 don’t yield a hole in one, there is still a sweet spot: the closest to the pin gets $1,000 cash and a Las Vegas Golf vacation (speaking of odds…).
Ten dollars gets you a bag of a dozen balls, plus with the coupon that Palmetto Electric is offering, you get a second bag free. So, for the first $10 you spend, you have 24 chances at the final round and shooting for a million. Bright Ideas Whether you pull it, shank it, slice it, or miss it all together, the real glory lies in the enormous impact that is being made in our community. The Bright Ideas program invites teachers to submit proposals for innovative classroom projects. Last year, more than 100 grant applications, totaling over $89,117 in requests were received from teachers in the three counties, thus illustrating that the more balls you hit, the more requests can be granted! Here’s a look at what last year’s golfers granted: • Bring on the Rain at Hilton Head Island Elementary School. Student artists and scientists applied physics and design concepts as they designed “gears” and “whirligigs” that move in motion by both water and wind. The “gears” and “whirligigs” were made from clay, glazed and fired to withstand the outside elements. The moveable parts were then mounted to a reclaimed piece of metal and permanently placed at the front of the school. With creative collaborating, application of physics, principles of design, recycling, and conservation students broadened their perspective and created a functional and interesting rainwater harvester used to supply water for the many potted plants at the school. • Sink Into Science at Varnville Elementary. By creating a mobile science lab/sink, teachers at Varnville Elementary now have the ability to bring science lab projects into every classroom, increasing the number of opportunities for first through third grade students who now participate in at least one hands-on, inquiry-based science lab activity each week. Students have the opportunity to be true scientists, conducting and documenting scientific investigations, better preparing them for middle school, high school, and college. • Cell Phone Science, a Call to Learning at H.E. McCracken Middle School. This program was developed to help students understand how what they learn in school is interconnected with their lives and the technology they use every day. With A Call to Learning, students learn how their cell phones operate, what they are made of, how information travels, positive and negative impacts to society, how the sun impacts mobile signal, the importance of reducing usage of non-renewable resources and types of alternative energy. This project used creative strategies to make students look at their cell phones as so much more than a texting tool! 42
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“odds of an amateur making two holes-in-one in a round are 9,222,500 to one.” According to a 1999 Golf Digest report
• NewsAlive at Ridgeland Middle School. In an effort to make students more technology literate, NewsAlive is a live news program researched, produced, and executed by students in grades six through eight. Rotating roles every nine weeks, participants gained experience behind and in front of the camera, filming, photographing, writing, and anchoring a daily news show featuring weather, historical trivia, video clips of happenings around the school, interviews with faculty and administrators, birthday shout outs and student of the week winners. A sound investment Based on the Golf Digest research, you’d have to buy 1,062 bags of balls before you hit your hole in one. If you were a gambling woman/man, that would be more than a $10,000 investment and a set of sore arms. Of course, you’d also need the odds gods to be watching over you to ensure that it is indeed shot number 12,750 that you are taking into the final. Why not make the certain investment instead. No matter how many balls you hit, whether a dozen balls or a dozen bags, chances of you making an impact locally are 100 percent. That should feel pretty good.
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How to Succeed in Business Without Really Trying Article by Marie McAden P hotogr a ph y B y A n n e
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etting ahead never got so many laughs than in Broadway’s How to Succeed in Business Without Really Trying, a hilarious song-and-dance sendup to big business. Written by the creators of Guys and Dolls, this mischievous Tony-winning musical pokes fun at all the usual office antics—brownnosing, nepotism, sex and greed. Following Broadway’s recent revival of the show, the Arts Center of Coastal Carolina brings How to Succeed to its Elizabeth Wallace Theatre through May 27. “It’s a wonderfully lighthearted look at how people get ahead in business,” said director DJ Salisbury. “They put it all right there on stage and let the audience laugh at it.”
The office boys all have their eye on the new secretary, Hedy La Rue (played by Ann Burnette Mathews), who just happens to be the boss’ mistress.
“He represents every man,” said Anthony Christian Daniel, the New York actor playing Finch in the Arts Center production. “He wants to climb to the
“It’s a wonderfully lighthearted look at how people get ahead in business,” said director DJ Salisbury. “They put it all right there on stage and let the audience laugh at it.” Set in the “Mad Men” era of the early 1960s, the story follows the rise of J. Pierrepont Finch, who uses a self-help manual to climb the corporate ladder from lowly window washer to highpowered executive at the World Wide Wicket Company.
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top, but he doesn’t want to take all the steps that are necessary to get there.” Instead, he follows his trusty handbook and outsmarts the boss’s obnoxious nephew, bypassing a job as head of the mailroom to become a junior executive. “He’s not manipulative in an evil
way,” said Daniel, whose theater credits include the first national tours of Mary Poppins and High School Musical. “That’s why the audience roots for him.” Finch continues his ascent by schmoozing the boss, J.B. Biggley, played by Arts Center regular Drew Taylor, who has appeared in a number of Arts Center hits, including The Producers, White Christmas, The Full Monty and, most recently, The Drowsy Chaperone. “If what was going on at the World Wide Wicket Company was going on today, we’d all be called up to human resources,” said Taylor, who is starring in his ninth Arts Center production.
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Arts Center favorite Drew Taylor portrays World Wide Wicket Company president J.B. Biggley, with Anthony Christian Daniel as J. Pierrepont Finch, a young window washer who is hope to learn “How to Succeed in Business Without Really Trying.”
“It’s more than just office politics. There are all kinds of relationships and shenanigans.” Biggley is carrying on with his m i st re ss , a b u xo m ex- n i g h t c l u b cigarette girl intent on furthering her career at the Wicket Company. Finch, too, is embroiled in an office romance with the lovely Rosemary Pilkington, a young secretary determined to advance her lot in life by marrying the right man. “She wants what girls have been told they should want—a husband, kids and a house in the country with a white picket fence,” said Natalie Newman, who is playing Rosemary in
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her fourth production of the show. “She’s not that different from Finch. She knows what she wants and she’s going to do everything she can to get it.” In between the office politics and backroom romances are such memorable songs as, “I Believe in You” “Brotherhood of Man” and “Been a Long Day.” “Loesser was the greatest idea man in the history of American musical theater,” said musical director Fred Willard. “His songs always have a hook or something clever and inventive woven into them.”
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Performances of How to Succeed are at 8 p.m. Tuesday through Saturday with Sunday shows at 2 p.m. and a 7 p.m. show on May 27. Tickets are $55 and $39 for children 15 and younger, and may be purchased at the Arts Center box office, online at artshhi.com or by phone with a credit card by calling 842-ARTS (2787).
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Stand up paddle boarding is the world’s fastestgrowing water sport.
Are You Ready for Some Paddleboarding? SUPfest set For Saturday, May 19
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UPfest, A celebration of stand up paddleboarding, will be held Saturday, May 19, noon-4 p.m., on the May River from Wilson Landing at Palmetto Bluff. If you have been considering trying the sport of stand up paddleboarding, SUPfest will offer the perfect venue. The fun-oriented festival will include introductory clinics and instruction, equipment
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trials and demonstrations. Certified guides from Outside Hilton Head/Palmetto Bluff and several national paddlesport professionals will conduct the programs. Free paddleboard clinics will be offered at noon, 1 p.m. and 2 p.m.—no experience is necessary! Stand up paddle boarding is the world’s fastest-growing water sport. Popular for years in Hawaii, this fitness-based activity has come to Hilton Head. The sport is great in our flat water and low surf—great for core fitness and often referred to as Pilates on the water. O u t s i d e H i l to n H e a d /O u t s i d e Pa l m e t to B l u f f i s a Lowcountry-based outfitter established in 1979. The company has a national reputation as a leader in the paddlesport industry. Outside Hilton Head offers comprehensive nature-based activities in addition to team and leadership development, destination management, and is a specialty outdoor retailer.
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n the late 1800s, a lot was happening in our country. Development and commercial production of electric lighting and gasoline-powered automobiles was underway, steel frame construction of skyscrapers was happening for the first time, and Thomas Edison was inventing the first movie in his New Jersey workshop. Indeed, as the industrial revolution paved way to the Gilded Age and a lifestyle enjoyed like never before, our
newfound wealth as a country also yielded newfound power as a world leader in the Progressive Era. But, perhaps more exciting are the innovations that we didn’t read about in our middle school history books. While all of the progressive changes were taking root in America, a silent food revolution was also well underway. In 1874, concessionaire Robert Green invented the ice cream soda at a fair in Philadelphia. Two years later, Hires Root Beer debuted at the 1876 Centennial Exposition in
Philadelphia, making way for an even better ice cream soda combination, no doubt. Quick on root beer’s heels, in 1886, the first Coca Cola was sold by pharmacist John Pemberton as a tonic. It also contained a dash of cocaine, so I image the recipe has changed some since then. In the 1890s, the early origins of peanut butter were in process, thanks to Dr. John Harvey Kellogg’s patent for the “Process of Preparing Nut Meal.” Originally developed as a protein source for his vegetarian patients, this nut meal would be refined into the peanut butter we know today, over the next couple of decades. In 1896, two major food innovations, Cracker Jack and Tootsie Roll, stuck. Fast forward through condensed soup (are we really g rate f u l fo r t h i s i nve n t i o n? ) , Chiclets, Pabst B l u e R i b b o n , cotton candy, Fig Newtons and
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Hershey’s chocolate, and we hit the 20th century with gusto. In the early 1900s, we saw the introduction of moon pies and marshmallow fluff. Hostess cupcakes and the Good Humor man had both made their mark by 1920. In 1922, Girl Scout cookies debuted, and suddenly the organization had a new mission to honor. Kool Aid, Pez and cheese puffs were on the market by the ’30s with Hawaiian Punch and corn dogs not far behind. Decades of new food innovations added a little spice to the life of Americans, who with each new food fad had something to talk about. Food was a part of the conversation, made ever more obvious by the mad ad men hawking the products. In the 1950s something changed. As the “golden age” of television took hold, the make-up of family dinners changed, as did the food products that arrived on the scene. Instead of a hot meal on the table and “tell me
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about your day, dear,” housewives everywhere were rushing to get Swanson TV dinners on tray tables in front of the boob tube lest the family miss an episode of “I Love Lucy” or “This is Your Life.” Around the same time as the TV dinner, we also saw frozen pizzas and frozen piecrust become available. Oh, the horror! No more piecrust from scratch? What was happening in America? Doo-wop. Rock ’n’ roll. Elvis Presley. The Coasters. The Drifters. Chuck Berry. Johnny Cash. Marilyn Monroe. Elizabeth Taylor. Bridget Bardot. Rita Hayworth. Va va va voom. Women aren’t so interested in being in the kitchen; instead they’re getting in touch with their inner sex kitten. So, now that we’re swinging our hips and shaking our (ever-expanding) rears, life has changed. Life is fun again. World War II recovery was behind us. Women’s rights are ahead of us and the future is bright. Fast forward another decade or so and women are entering the workforce en mass, kids are latchkey (a term coined in the 1940s when Peppermint Patties were hitting the spot) and need a snack after school. And, it’s the 1960s, so “the munchies” are likely at an all-time high. So, what are people and potheads eating? Pop tarts, Tang, Spaghetti O’s and Doritos. The economic challenges of the 1970s forced folks to get creative with their meals. So, why not melt down all of the cheese in the house and dip whatever else fills the fridge into your hot fromage? And, fondue is born! The’70s also saw Orville Redenbacher make his mark with his Gourmet Popping Corn. Hamburger Helper, Egg McMuffins, Cup O’Noodles, and Miller Lite also launched during this decade. Burger King decides to let you “Have it Your Way,” Denny’s introduces their “Grand Slam Breakfast” and gratefully, Reese’s Pieces are born! With women now firmly planted in the workforce, Betty Crocker was no slouch and unveiled the “Working Women’s Cookbook” in 1982 with a plethora of “family-style” meal options. Jell-O Pudding Pops, Classic Coke and Oscar Meyer bun length hot dogs were also birthed in the 1980s, as was Olive Garden, a trend I’ll never understand. In 1993 the Food Network was launched and, frankly, we’ve been gorging goners ever since. Bravo TV and the Travel Channel add new food-related programming every television season, and suddenly what began as a “how to” resource for home cooks has now created a whole new segment of our population tuning in to see just how many super spicy hot wings one host can eat in under 60 minutes. We’re willing people to puke? In a society that used to lump people into categories like white collar, blue collar, yuppies, and hippies, today we find that “foodies” are an audience to be salivated over. Technology has only heightened the foodie phenomenon. You don’t even have to pick up the phone to make a dinner reservation anymore. Just pull up your Open Table App on your iPhone and reserve your table for four tonight at eight. Point your browser to TastingTable, Eater, or Ulterior Epicure for the latest in food fads and some frank conversation about who’s not hitting the popular palate. There, you’ll also find food porn. Ah yes, the latest in food fads… the pornography of the plate. I’m guilty. I admit it. I take photos of fabulous meals (prepared at home by moi or by well-known chefs) and post them to Facebook. And believe you me, they spark conversation. In fact, my picture of the CQs wedge salad launched a days-long discussion on the art of blue cheese and Vidalia onion dressing. Foodspotting is just a few years young, but picking up on the trend that people are in a food coma, and created a place (online and via their mobile App) with a mission to “find and share the foods you love: Instead of reviewing restaurants, you can recommend your favorite dishes and see what others have recommended wherever you go.” Of course you can link your Foodspotting account to your Facebook page, so every friend is always 100 percent in the know. Whew. We’re now a society on a mission to find the perfect plate, the next best the thing, the newest food trend; we want our “Artisan bread, dipped in artisan cheese, dipped in artisan nuts, dipped in artisan greens...” Have we gone too far? As the lyric above from the song “Eat It, Don’t Tweet It” suggests, we can’t all be gastronomists. Perhaps with all this food we’re consuming, we’re really all just full of hot air. May 2012
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Dining
guide Humans like choices. It’s a fact.
Especially when it comes to eating. Here in the Lowcountry, we have a lot of choices when it comes to dining out, and that is one of the best things about living here. How many towns as small as ours have over 200 restaurants to choose from? Big restaurants, small restaurants. Expensive restaurants, cheap (eh, “affordable”) restaurants. Restaurants that welcome children, restaurants that wish you would leave them home. Restaurants that offer entertainment while you dine, restaurants that slap down your food and tell you to hurry up and “Get Out!!” Restaurants on the water, restaurants in a strip mall. Restaurants with history, restaurants that just opened yesterday. Italian restaurants. French restaurants. American restaurants (aren’t they all American if they are in America?). Caribbean restaurants. Gullah restaurants. Diners. Eateries. Bistros. Cafes. Coffee Houses. Chow houses. Whatever you want to call them, we sure have a lot of them. And we wouldn’t want it any other way.
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For restaurants that most would consider Fine Dining, look for the RED DOT. Fine Dining does not mean jacket required. It just means you might want to take a shower before you go. And also, your entrees will most likely be in the $20 to $30 range.
If hopping off of your beach chair and slipping on your flippiefloppies is as much “getting ready for dinner” as you want to do, then head to any of the GREEN DOT restaurants. The atmosphere is laid-back but the food and service is still great. On The Water Live Music/ Entertainment
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For restaurants and bars that offer some type of entertainment, look for the YELLOW DOT. We use the term “entertainment” loosely. It could be a nightly comedian, a guy with a guitar, a six-piece band with back-up dancers and strobes, or just a Chef in an open kitchen you can keep your eye. Really, it all goes back to what YOUR idea of entertainment is. And who are we to say?
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Look for the BLUE DOT if you want a table for two with a view. Or a table for six, ten... whatever.
C2’s Top 25 Reasons to Dine Out tonight! #1 You came home after a long day of work and found that your husband had failed to make
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LAND’S END TAVERN South Beach Marina 843-671-5456 www.landsendtavern.com
Now serving Jake’s Salty Dog Pizza as well as Breakfast, Lunch and Dinner during the season. Land’s End Tavern offers delicious steaks and seafood with a fun, pirate theme. Families love the kid friendly environment and the great drink and appetizer specials. The upstairs crow’s nest ensures a bird’s eye view of the marina where you can watch the charter boats float in and out as dolphins and wildlife feed in the creek.
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wildwingcafe.com
In the United States, the food industry spends more than $33 billion a year. Of that, $12 billion a year is spent on marketing to youth.
The Original Wild Wing Cafe is still serving up the “Best Wings South of Buffalo,” in 34 different flavors as well as an extensive menu featuring ribs, burgers, salads, and more. A favorite local watering-hole and familyfriendly venue. Late night entertainment offered on weekends.
The Smokehouse 843.842.4227 www.smokehousehhi.com
This South-end joint has won just about every local award given for best BBQ. Serving lunch daily, Sunday Brunch from 10 to 2, and late night menu. Check it out for yourself! Indoor and outdoor dining available. Late night entertainment (inseason) on the weekends.
THE WRECK OF THE SALTY DOG South Beach Marina 843-671-SEAS www.saltydog.com
The Wreck offers the same delicious menu as The Salty Dog, but with a few extras. Its casual waterfront dining boasts two bars with extraordinary views of Braddock Cove. If you’re lucky, you can even catch a glimpse of the dolphins feeding in the creek. While seafood is the specialty, there are plenty of choices for the landlubbers.The Wreck of The Salty Dog is also an ideal choice for private parties.
The Salty Dog Cafe South Beach Marina 843-671CAFE www. saltydog.com
Hilton Head Island’s favorite waterfront cafe overlooking beautiful Braddock Cove. Live music and children’s entertainment echo the sounds of family fun nightly during the season while fresh seafood is served daily. A schedule of seasonal events can be found at saltydog.com. Be sure to check out The Salty Dog T-Shirt Factory to get your world famous Salty Dog T-Shirt.
Wild Wing Cafe Hilton Head: 72 Pope Avenue 843.785.WING Bluffton: Fording Island Rd. (278) 843.837.WILD
Buffalos Village at Palmetto Bluff 843.706.6630 www. palmettobluffresort. com
Serving lunch in a warm country setting, Buffalo’s, located in the center of the village, offers patrons picturesque views of the May River as well as the chapel. Buffalo’s signature is the brick oven, where freshly-made pizzas are highlighted on the menu and a chef pizza is featured daily for your enjoyment. As our chefs create local favorites in this comfortable atmosphere, you can also enjoy a selection of fine wines by the glass or bottle as well as a number of exotic coffees.
Los Jalapenos 1540 Fording Island Rd Ste B 843.757.5831
A new addition to Bluffton tucked just off the bridge from Hilton Head Island. An entertaining atmosphere, great drink menu, and traditional Mexican cuisine.
Coconuts Bar & Grill 39 Persimmon Street 843.757.0602 www.facebook.com/CoconutsBluffton Open 7 days a week with something for everyone! Pool tables, shuffleboard, large dance floor, and karaoke, DJs.
#5 The cat jumped up on the counter when you left the kitchen and you’re pretty sure that’s a hair in the tomato pie you just took out
dinner. Again. #2 It’s your very merry un-birthday. #3 You hate doing dishes. #4 You’re doing your part to support the economy.
The early dining menu (5:00-6:00 pm) includes a choice of six entrees, accompanied by side dishes, your choice of salad and a glass of house wine for only $16.99 - $21.99. a great place to enjoy happy hour with several drink & appetizer specials from 5-6:30pm.
Daniel’s Restaurant and Lounge Coligny by the Beach www.danielshhi.com 843.341.9379
Sake House 1017 Fording Island Rd., F-105 Bluffton 843.706.9222
Check out this new Bluffton restaurant for your sushi fix. The ambiance is beautiful and the hibachi table is lively. They offer half price sushi on Wednesdays & Thursdays and 15% off your entire bill with the CH2 coupons on page 77. Go back and cut it out. No really, go ahead.
The Big Chill 6 Target Road 843.715.2774 www.facebook.com/ TheBigChillBarGrill/ info
One plain milk chocolate candy bar has more protein than a banana.
It’s nice to see this former hot spot (The Blue Note, The Blue Nite, and Rider’s Lounge) reopen as a brand new concept. This chill new bar/ restaurant offers sandwiches, salads and dinner bites, as well as high octane frozen specialties and a full bar. Kids menu also available.
Daniel’s offers a truly unique dining and nightlife experience on Hilton Head Island. We create innovative cuisine from around the world, as well as fresh locally sourced ingredients for menu items to satisfy even the most discerning palate. Daniel’s features an International ‘Tapas’ Style menu with dishes created from inspirations around the globe, as well as a Butcher’s Block Steakhouse menu featuring everything from a petit filet mignon to a giant 22 ounce Porterhouse Steak. After Dinner the tables and chairs move out as Daniel’s transforms from restaurant to Nightclub and hosts the hottest DJ’s and Dance Party on the island, so come for dinner and stay for the party!
B’s Kitchen 12 Capital Drive 843.785.1185 www.lowreygroup.com
Healthy and easy to-go dinners allowing anyone to get a day off from cooking and be able to relax with an easy-to-assemble meal.
Main St. Café & Pub Main Street 843.689.3999 www. hiltonheadcafe. com
This laid back cafe on Main Street has become a favorite of residents in Hilton Head Plantation, Palmetto Hall, Indigo Run and other nearby neighborhoods, not to mention the savvy tourists that have inquired as to where the “locals” eat. Specializing in seafood and family favorites, they serves “Pub fare with a creative flair”. When your appetite calls for real food, creatively prepared and fairly priced in an unpretentious atmosphere, make a beeline to Main Street Cafe & Pub
Catch 22 37 New Orleans Road 843.785.6261 www.catch22hhi.com
Only fresh fish is served at Catch 22 and Chef Bryan cuts USDA Prime steaks in house. The Bone-On Filet is the one of the best steaks around – a must try while on Hilton Head. Weekly specials include Crab Legs (up to 2 1/2 pounds) on Sundays, Mondays & Tuesdays and roasted USDA Prime Strip on Wednesdays and Thursdays.
Mellow Mushroom Hilton Head: Park Plaza 843.686.2474 Bluffton: 872 Fording Island Rd. 843.706.0800 www.mellowmushroom.com
Great pizza, salads, and subs with dozens of beers on tap. Open for lunch, dinner, and late night! Affordable and kid-friendly! Seating available inside and out on the Island.
of the oven. #6 A new restaurant opened up last week and everyone has been but you. #7 You feel like dressing up and you need a reason.
#8 You have a babysitter. Your husband. It’s girl’s night out. #9 Your wife won’t let you get the Super Duper Sports Package on cable.
#11 It will take you less time to eat at Mellow Mushroom than it will to get through Publix to buy dinner. It’s Saturday. #12 Because the
So you hAvE to go to wild wings to watch it. #10 our kid got a b- on his report card. (hey, manage your expectations, right?)
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Cqs restaurant harbourtown 843.671.2779 www. cqsrestaurant.com
Captain woody’s hilton head: Palmetto bay marina 843.785.2400 bluffton: the Promenade 843.757.6222 www.captainwoodys.com Captain Woody’s is your neighborhood bar and grill- whether your neighborhood is Hilton Head Island or Bluffton. It is the ideal place to come after a day of fishing, sailing or lounging on the beach. Here you’ll find nothing but the basic staples of island life: oysters, shrimp, cold beer, beautiful sunsets and good conversation. at the end of the day, you don’t need anything else. Walking into Captain Woody’s is like walking into your favorite pub back home. The atmosphere is relaxed, informal.
Chef yuri Gow creates progressive american cuisine inspired by each season and our coastal ingredients. This quaint, former artist’s studio is draped in Hilton Head legends and is a favorite haunt of the ghost of the blue lady. Small plate menu available in the lounge. Fun, friendly, and inviting. CQ’s is a not to be missed Harbourtown hangout.
Skillets Coligny Plaza 843.785.3131 www. skilletscafe. com
Skillets is open all day and serves breakfast, lunch, and dinner. With a great early dining menu served until 6:30pm every day, kids menu, all-you-can-eat salad bar, and live music on the weekends, Skillets proves to be an island favorite year after year. Bring your best dog buddies out on the weekends for live entertainment and dog-friendly menu served outside.
Kingfisher Shelter Cove 843.785.4442 www. kingfisherseafood. com
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Jump & Phil’s bar & grill 3 hilton head Plaza 843.785.9070 www.jumpandphilshhi.com
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Menu includes soups, salads, sandwiches, and a variety of entrees. Open for lunch and dinner daily, with Brunch offerings on Sunday. Jump & Phil’s is definitely a local favorite where “everybody knows your name.”
San miguel’s Shelter Cove marina 843.842.4555 www.sanmiguels.com
This Mexican restaurant, located on the water in Shelter Cove Marina, is a great place to enjoy a margarita and listen to live music. Dine inside or alfresco. Kid-friendly!
Who says you can’t have award-winning food at affordable prices with a fantastic water view and live entertainment? Kingfisher offers seafood, steaks and more with panoramic views of Shelter Cove Harbour. With 15 meals under $15 and kid’s meals under $5, you can treat your family without breaking the bank. Kingfisher the microwave is kid-friendly was invented and casual, and after a pet-friendly on researcher our outside decks. walked by a Local musicians radar tube and and bands a chocolate bar perform indoors melted in his Wednesdaypocket. Friday, tableside magic will dazzle the kids and adults alike Monday and Tuesday, and fireworks light the sky most Tuesdays. Hilton Head Comedy Club Comedians perform at the “Top of the Kingfisher” Wednesday-Sunday.
old Fort Pub doesn’t have a tv in their dining room. but they do have a sunset. #13 it’s Friday night and you just got paid.
#14 Your fiancée is a bartender, and that’s the only way you get to see her. #15 You bought a Groupon. It expires tomorrow!
Dining Guide Philly’s Café & Deli 55 New Orleans Rd., Suite 102 843.785.9966 www.phillyscafe.com
An Island favorite for nearly 20 years, Philly’s Cafe & Deli is locally owned & operated. Fresh bread baked every day, the finest Gluten Free deli meats & cheeses, and as their ad says, “The BEST Sandwiches on the Island... PERIOD!!!” Open daily for lunch and late night Fridays & Saturdays.
Whether you are an early or late riser, start your day at Palmetto Bay. Breakfast is served all day, and the choices are hard to top: “eggs all ways,” hash browns, fresh grits, and deliciously generous pancakes, not to mention a whole section reserved for Eggs Benedict. This is a very popular spot on the weekends with the locals – so plan accordingly.
Old Fort Pub Hilton Head Plantation 843.681.2386 www.oldfortpub.com
Ela’s Blu Water Grille Shelter Cove Marina 843.785.3030 www.elasgrille.com
Ela’s Blu Water Grille has fresh catch seafood and prime cut steaks of the highest quality, prepared by Chef Chris Cohen. Featuring an interior designed by Rowe & Harlow of Chicago, Ela’s spectacular views of Shelter Cove Harbour provide the perfect setting for a dining ambiance that is casual yet intimate. A second floor dining room with wrap around water views is a perfect setting for special events, private parties, or rehearsal dinners. Small plates available in the lounge and dinner is served daily from 4-10pm.
Palmetto Bay Sunrise Café Palmetto Bay Marina 843.686.3232 www. palmettobaysunrisecafe.com
The Market Street CaféColigny Plaza 843.686.4976 www.marketstreetcafe.com
Centered in Coligny Plaza, The Market Street Café & Pub offers inside and outside dining just a few yards from Coligny Beach. Their menu offers soups, sandwiches, entrée specials, as well as a long list of desserts. A great place to people-watch in Coligny Plaza or relax after a busy day of shopping!
With breathtaking sunset views over the Intercoastal Waterway and Pinkney Island, right next to historic Fort Mitchel, Chef Keith Josefiak’s summer menu is full of fresh from the garden produce, local seafood, and tasty steaks to delight your taste buds. Relax on the romantic breeze brushed deck under moss draped oaks or gather family and friends inside our window wrapped dining room. The Island’s waterfront destination steeped in Low Country history.
#16 You are a terrible cook. You just are. But you do other things good. #17 It’s been too long since you’ve seen Jump. And Phil. of Old Town Bluffton, offers certified Angus Beef Prime steaks along with pasta & seafood entrees. Executive Chef Jonathan Hagins just recently returned to the Lowcountry after opening BLU in Charleston. Check out their ad on page 58 for two great deals in May.
Robert Irvine’s eat! Village at Wexford www.eathhi.com/ 843. 785.4850
Trattoria Divina 33 Office Park Rd., Suite 224 (Park Plaza) 843.686.4442 www.trattoriadivina.com
This restaurant, tucked away in the heart
The average wage for a server (waiter, waitress) is $2.13 an hour. Be kind – Tip BIG! (It will get you V.I.P service and a quicker drink next time you go too!).
You’ve seen him on the Food Network – now catch Robert Irvine at his very own restaurant on Hilton Head Island. The chic interior is reminiscent of Tao or some other trendy NYC restaurant, but the food is southern-inspired and delicious! On Tuesday evenings they offer half off Tapas – check out their online calendar for special cooking classes & other events.
Northern Italian coastal cuisine with Mediterranean influences brought to you by Chef Hugo Lee. Trattoria Divina offers an extensive wine list (over 400 bottles) to compliment fresh pastas, seafood, beef & chicken selections. The ambiance is warm and inviting, with artwork by local SCAD students and a stunning hand-painted bar. Owner Brett Guimarin hails from Texas, and has many years of experience the restaurant industry.
Sublime Prime Steakhouse, Pasta & Seafood 163 Bluffton Rd., Suite F (Opposite Bluffton Pharmacy) 843.815.6900
and in several local publications for his unique establishment. The ambiance is laid back and brightly colored, the staff is friendly and the food is just good down-home southern cooking.
Roastfish & Cornbread 70 Marshland Rd. www.roastfishandcornbread.com 843.342.2996
If you want to steep yourself in Lowcountry culture and Gullah Heritage, a trip to this restaurant is a must-do. Owner/ Chef David Young has been featured in an advertising campaign for the local Chamber of Commerce,
Robert Irvine’s NOSH 1414 Fording Island Road, Unit B-160 Tanger 2 843.837.5765 Robertirvinesnosh.com
The sophisticated, yet approachable, menu showcases Chef Irvine’s take on southern cuisine by utilizing regional ingredients with classic preparation, and a chef-driven twist. Daily features from the kitchen and bar showcase fresh seasonal foods, and the best wines and spirits under the close supervision of Chef Irvine.
#18 You’re STILL SINGLE, and quite frankly, it’s cheaper for one person to eat out than it is to cook. #19 You caught a cobia today and
Dining Guide Frankie Bones 1301 Main Street (Main Street Village) 843. 682.4455 www.frankieboneshhi. com
Enter through the revolving doors of The Fabulous Frankie Bones Restaurant and Lounge and into an atmosphere fondly reminiscent of a time past but not forgotten. At Frankie Bones, snappy sounds, high back burgundy leather booths, an award-winning menu inspired by the big cities of Chicago, New York, Vegas and Saint Louis, and firstclass service are the recipe for a fabulous experience. Voted “Best All Around Restaurant” by Hilton Head Monthly, Frankie Bones is a classic American-Italian restaurant and lounge serving the Island’s finest steaks, chops, seafood and pasta. Serving lunch daily from 11:30am4pm, dinner beginning at 4pm and Sunday brunch from 10am-3pm.
World Game Bar and Grill 33 Office Park Rd., Suite 226 843.342.5000
Try this on for size- Dave & Buster’s meets fine dining. Confused? Well don’t be. Check out Hilton Head’s newest indoor “playground.” A place where you and the spouse can enjoy a NY Strip prepared by Chef Hugo while the kids eat pizza and play the latest in high-tech video games, foosball and pool. Something the whole family can agree on – and a perfect destination for a rainy day. World Game Bar and Grill opens at 11 am, and offers a full menu all day and late night.
The Black Marlin 86 Helmsman Way (Palmetto Bay Marina) 843-785-4950 www.blackmarlinhhi.com
Black Marlin offers the Island’s largest selection of fresh-caught seafood, delicious hand-cut steaks, and premium frozen drinks, all in a relaxing Key West atmosphere. Located dockside at Palmetto Bay Marina, you can dine indoors or outdoors on the expansive patio. Take in the water views from your seat at The World Famous Black Marlin Hurricane Bar while enjoying selections from our menu, such as our award-winning Sushi Nachos.
Giuseppi’s Hilton Head – 32 Shelter Cove Lane (The Plaza at Shelter Cove) 843.785.4144 Bluffton – 25 Bluffton Road Suite 601 (Kittie’s Crossing) 843.815.9200 www.gpizzapie.com
At Giuseppi’s, it’s all about the food. For more than 20 years, we’ve been living out our passion for food by serving up the freshest pizza, pasta, hoagies and award-winning wings in a neighborhood atmosphere like the ones we knew in Pittsburgh. Whether you want to bring the whole neighborhood in, or bring Giuseppi’s home to the whole neighborhood, we have just what you need. From Original Products like our Homemade To Go, catering for parties and events at your place, or dinner for the whole family at ours, we have the menu and the atmosphere you’ve been looking for.
The Lodge 7 Greenwood Drive (Reilley’s Plaza) 843. 842.8966 www.hiltonheadlodge.com
The Lodge is the Southeast’s premier Craft Beer Bar, voted “Best Bar” by Hilton Head Monthly’s Reader’s Choice Awards and Rated “World 70
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#21 Your kitchen doesn’t have a water view. #22 Your great, great Uncle Melvin just passed on and left you $200. (You weren’t his favorite.)
the Skull Creek Boathouse will cook it for you! #20 You left your credit card at Reilley’s last night, so you might as well stay for brunch.
Class” by Beeradvocate. With 36 rotating taps and an extensive bar, The Lodge proves to be a popular spot for nights and evenings. Happy Hour daily from 4-8pm, billiards, shuffleboard, sports on 14 screens and a full late night menu with the Island’s best burgers and gourmet grilled cheeses.
One Hot Mama’s 7 Greenwood Drive (Reilley’s Plaza) 843-682-MAMA (6262) www.onehotmamas.com
Re-fried bean’s translation is inaccurate. The reason for this misconception is a translation error. The originals are frijoles refritos which actually means “well fried beans” – not re-fried.
One Hot Mama’s is One Cool Place! This family-friendly Hilton Head restaurant, located on the south end of Hilton Head Island, offers delicious baby-back ribs, authentic pit-to-plate BBQ, hand-cut steaks, char-grilled chicken, the world’s best wings, salads and more. For lunch, Mama’s offers a great “Meat & 3,” combo platters, burgers, wraps, and our famous BBQ platter. Hilton Head’s One Hot Mama’s is also a great place to watch your favorite team! Late night dining, take-out, Hilton Head catering, a children’s menu, and large party accommodations are available. We also offer daily food and drink specials. Hilton Head dining doesn’t get much better than One Hot Mama’s!
Skull Creek Boathouse 363 Squire Pope Road 843.681.3663 www.skullcreekboathouse.com
Situated on the banks of the Intracoastal Waterway, Skull Creek Boathouse offers the perfect Lowcountry setting with spectacular water and marina views. Whether you choose to dine indoors, at our Dive Bar – a raw bar featuring fresh sushi, oysters and more, or outdoors on our expansive terrace, you’ll find now where else better to partake in Hilton Head’s original sunsets and the freshest seafood or American cuisine favorites with a twist. The open air Buoy Bar serves up original drinks and a 360 degree view of the outdoors. From weekly Reggae Nights during the warmer months, to monthly Full Moon Parties, seasonal Lobsterfests, and daily Happy Hours, there’s always something fun for the entire family. One bite and you’re hooked!
WiseGuys Main Street 843.842.8866 www.wiseguyshhi.com
Unique to Hilton Head, WiseGuys is known for their Small Plates, Big Wines, Serious Cocktails and Steaks. The Small Plates menu at WiseGuys takes cocktail-party dining to a new level, showcasing urban flavors and strikingly exciting presentations. WiseGuys features hand-cut steaks aged a minimum of… 28 days for maximum flavor and tenderness, offering a contemporary twist on the classic steakhouse. Signature Entrees include amazing seafood creations. The award winning wine list delivers over 150 specially selected bottles; over 50 wines served by the glass. By using the Island’s first WineKeeper system, WiseGuys showcases and features 18 wines that are usually not available by the glass. They truly offer something for everyone including vegetarian, gluten free and children’s options. May 2012
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#23 There is no such thing as too much butter. #24 It’s not Monday. #25 Do you really need twenty-five reasons to eat out? C’mon!
Recipes Oricchette
Gamberi E Limone Recipe by Trattoria Divina Serves 4
1 pound cecco pasta (oricchette) 1 pound black tiger shrimp 1 cup white wine 3 oz. prosciutto 1 lemon 1 oz. butter Salt and pepper to taste Pinch of crushed pepper 1 oz. cannellini beans. 2 garlic cloves, sliced Heat 2 tbsp. olive oil in small saucepan. Add garlic till golden brown; add prosciutto and shrimp then white beans and white wine, butter then lemon juice and simmer for about one minute. Reduce by half. In a different pot, boil water salt and olive oil and cook pasta for 9 minutes for al dente. Transfer to the sauce.
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Citrus Grilled Swordfish With Spinach Artichoke Risotto and Old Country Tomatoes Recipe by Chef Yuri, Cq’s Serves 6
For the Swordfish:
6 seven-ounce swordfish steaks 1 lemon sliced thin 1 orange sliced thin 2 shallots sliced thin 4 garlic cloves sliced thin 3 cups vegetable oil 6 sprigs fresh thyme Place swordfish in bowl or Ziploc bag with all ingredients and marinate for 12-24 hours. To cook, remove fish from marinade, letting oil drain, salt and pepper your fish then grill on very hot clean grill. For Risotto:
3 cups Arborio rice 1/2 cup yellow onion, minced 1/2 cup vegetable oil 12 cup water, divided into thirds 1 cup white wine 3 Tbs. kosher salt 1/2 tsp. black pepper 2 cups quartered artichoke hearts 2 cups spinach, washed and trimmed 1/4 c. grated parmesan cheese
Heat a shallow, wide-bottomed pot; add oil, then onion and Arborio rice. Add salt and pepper. Stir constantly over medium heat for 2-3 minutes then add wine and one third of water. Cook while stirring constantly until liquid is almost cooked out; add another third of water. Repeat process until all water is used. Fold in artichokes, spinach, and parmesan and serve immediately. For Sauce:
4 large tomatoes, halved 6 garlic cloves, crushed 2 shallots, sliced thin 2 sprigs rosemary, picked 1/4 cup Kalamata olives 1/4 cup capers 1/4 cup honey 1/2 cup white wine 1/4 cup olive oil 3 Tbs. kosher salt 1 Tbs. cracked pepper Place all ingredients in casserole dish and cover with foil. Bake at 300 degrees for 1 1/2 hours. Using fork, gently smash all ingredients until sauce consistency. Enjoy!
Ela’s The family part of Ela’s is very literal. In fact, the name itself is an acronym comprised of the first initials of Earl and Diane Nightingale’s children, Erin, Lauren and Alex. The “S” is for Sam, the son of a best friend of the family. Each family member has played a role in the development of the restaurant.
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It was July and Paula abdul was hungry. She and her mini-entourage were on Hilton Head Island—just passing through—looking for a nice, quiet, restaurant where they could dine in peace, with no fanfare, away from the masses, with some privacy and a nice view of the water. God bless the Internet. a short browser search yielded Ela’s Blu Water Grille, recently opened, and tucked away in Shelter Cove Harbour with three-sided views of Broad Creek and the marina, and a back door that provided private access to a back stairway and a private third-floor dining room. Perfect, lovely and did we mention private?
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But Paula Abdul is human, and inevitably nature called. “Ms. Abdul, said Ela’s owner Earl Nightingale, our restroom is on the main floor, two levels down. People are going to see you there, and you’ll likely be recognized.” Sure enough, the private Paula became the public Paula and a slight flurry of gush later, pictures were posed for and autographs signed. Now, nine months later, Paula Abdul is one of several celebrities whose grip-and-grin photo is framed and hung on what has become a fledgling hall of fame section of Ela’s—a tradition in restaurants where Nightingale comes from—places like Chicago. Leslie Frazier, coach of the Minnesota Vikings, is also on that wall. It’s not a huge part of what makes this restaurant special, just a tip of the hat to tradition. There’s history and some tradition about the location of Ela’s, site of the locally famous Harbourmaster Restaurant that ruled for nearly 20 years, followed by the Ocean Grille, a Lowrey Group restaurant, which was open from 2002 until 2010. The “e” on the end of Grille, is Nightingale’s salute to Pierce & Bonnie Lowrey, whose Ocean Grille concept, he says, allowed Ela’s to become what it is: a family restaurant in a great location, with architectural integrity (“good bones”) and a continuing reputation for quality and value. The family part of Ela’s is very literal. In fact, the name itself is an acronym comprised of the first initials of Earl and Diane Nightingale’s children, Erin, Lauren and Alex. The “S” is for Sam, the son of a best friend of the family. Each family member has played a role in the development of the restaurant. Erin is an interior designer in Chicago and lent her skills to revising the look and feel. Carpeting has given way to hardwood floors and the tables are slices of reclaimed cypress trees from Florida. Lauren, a human resource director at the Art Institute in Raleigh, created all the HR forms and applications; and Alex, whose degree is in finance and financial planning, manages the accounting in addition to assistant managing all other aspects of the restaurant. Nightingale’s background is a solid 32 years in the hospitality industry, most of those with Hyatt, and he’s the former general manager of the Hilton in Palmetto Dunes Resort, which just recently became an Omni. While at the Hilton, Nightingale completely designed, built and conceptualized the HH Prime Restaurant, XO Lounge and Palmetto Market in preparation for the Omni Resorts transition in to the Hilton Head Resort market. 76
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“I’ve remodeled and rebuilt hotels and restaurants in 18 different cities,” Nightingale said. “Everywhere I’ve lived, the most successful restaurants were the ones where the owner was at the door, greeting the customer, and here on Hilton Head Island there’s affection for family-owned restaurants. After all my years in this business, we got together as a family and decided it was time to do our own thing.” That “thing” is “seafood, steak and style,” which was a phrase the family came up with, Nightingale says, during some wineaided market research. “We thought about ambiance, but we thought it was a bit too lofty, and besides style completes the alliteration.” It’s the ambiance, though, “Since we opened, along with the food itself, that we’ve probably allows Ela’s to shine. Despite served 10,000 Hilton Head Island being an meals,” Nightingale island, there are surprisingly said, “and I’ll bet few restaurants with this kind of 7,000 of them have water view. The fact that the first been the scallops. floor and casual dining deck is 12 feet off the ground, perched Chris fixes them above a marina tackle shop, uniquely, with a gives additional advantage. little crab risotto According to Nightingale, that in the middle and elevation, and usually a light a lobster cream breeze, gives the deck a bugsauce, and between free environment. Inside, with three floors that mix of flavors, it’s just become o f d i n i n g , t h e a m b i a n c e the number- one gets even better, with 165 seller.” total seats, 100 on the main floor, 50 on the second floor, seating for 12 up top and decorative and colorful sailboats hanging from the ceiling. The windows are enormous to afford the view, and there’s live music four nights a week. While all that is fine, it’s really the food that’s been the star during the restaurant’s nine-month incubation period. Thanks to a chef from New England, Chris Cohen, several of the featured dishes have a northeast flair, especially the sea scallops, which have emerged as the overwhelming favorite on the menu. That’s a surprise to Nightingale, who expected a regional dish like crab cakes or shrimp to be the crowd pleaser. “Since May 2012
It’s the ambiance, though, along with the food itself, that allows Ela’s to shine. Despite Hilton Head Island being an island, there are surprisingly few restaurants with this kind of water view.
“People are surprised by our wine prices, but it’s part of a larger strategy to tamp things down a bit and make the experience just good resort casual dining,” Nightingale said. “We want people to have value, so we do the right thing: good pricing, good portions, nice atmosphere.” All those aspects of Ela’s and more are now available at lunch as well. And
keep your eyes open in July. You never know when Paula Abdul—incognito— might return. Ela’s Blu Water Grille is located at 1 Shelter Cove Lane, on the water at Shelter Cove Harbour. For more information or reservations, call (843) 785-3030 or visit online at elasgrille.com.
we opened, we’ve probably served 10,000 meals,” Nightingale said, “and I’ll bet 7,000 of them have been the scallops. Chris fixes them uniquely, with a little crab risotto in the middle and a lobster cream sauce, and between that mix of flavors, it’s just become the numberone seller.” Cohen has also introduced cod, which he describes as a “nice, meaty fish,” to the list of entrées, which complements the more conventional and regional grouper. On the turf side of things, Cohen has discovered a source of great steak filets, at Southern River Farms in Augusta, Ga.—a secret Nightingale tried to hang onto but which inevitably leaked out. “The quality of the beef is so good,” Nightingale said of the restaurant’s hand-cut steaks, “it didn’t take long for other restaurants to start asking where we got it. It’s competitive that way in this business.” Wine-wise (Nightingale’s specialty) Ela’s has a marketing strategy. Nightingale calls it “cost plus 10” or “cost plus 20”—not quite a loss leader, but an effort to get a bottle of wine on every table. May 2012
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most of the regular customers. We know their stories about their families, their kids and their lives. Furthermore, the manager, Pam, is like a walking encyclopedia; when Bill and I are talking about some random subject, she always has something to add.” Watts, who now frequently leads photographic tours through the salt marshes, is sometimes there before the doors open at 6 a.m. “It really is a fun way to start the day,” he said. Leslie and Paul Stewart first opened the breakfast and lunch restaurant in 2002, after more than a decade of working the island’s food and beverage industry. Leslie was a server and “Stew,” as his friends call him, worked as a chef in several island locations. “There really wasn’t a classic breakfast place on the island. We found a place in Palmetto Bay Marina which, back then, was a shell of a building with raccoons living in the ceiling,” Leslie said. “We knew we could turn it into a special place.” The first day, they served 35 people in the restaurant, Stewart said. Now, a decade later, the cafe feeds more than 500 on a Sunday. What makes their restaurant different is that they literally and figuratively crack every egg. “Each egg is cracked, because to make fluffy omelets, air has to be involved, Leslie said.
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Quincy the Third, breakfasting with his canadian parents, Barbara and David. Did we mention Palmetto Bay Sunrise cafe is pet friendly?
Leslie and Paul Stewart first opened Palmetto Bay Sunrise cafe in 2002.
The culinary couple says they pride themselves in using fresh ingredients, and that’s what makes their restaurant different. Every day, the crew at Palmetto Bay Sunrise Cafe makes hollandaise sauce, stratas, quiches, soups, crab cakes, salad dressings and sausage gravy. The kitchen staff also hand cuts their steaks daily and deveins shrimp, which only comes from domestic waters. Care is taken to make each meal homemade, and that adds to the family feel of the food. However the food and friendliness are not the only elements that make it feel like a family. The other reason is that it really is. “I have never seen restaurant owners work as hard to take care of their employees,” said Lisa Carter, a server at Sunrise. “When you work at a company like this one, you don’t let it go.” Carter’s daughter Rachael also works there, and Lisa said she wouldn’t want her to work anywhere else as she starts her career. “I have worked at corporate places in Washington, D.C., and nothing comes close to the quality of the food and environment as here. The feeling comes from owners, generates through their staff and flows to the customer,” Lisa said. Just two years ago, the Palmetto Bay Sunrise Café family lost one of their own, and when asked about Linda, the “family” members still gather around to add what she meant to each of them. Linda Linden-MacNeille, 46, died of cancer, and remembering her last days still brings tears to Leslie’s eyes. Leslie remembers Linda visiting the restaurant for one of her last happy hours “with the girls” just days before she passed. That was the last time she ventured out of her house. A few days later, her family of fellow servers visited her at her home and had their final happy hour on her deck. While Linda couldn’t talk, she was among her favorite people hours before she died. The restaurant and Bluffton’s Cornerstone Grill Foundation, which was a part of the former Cornerstone Grill in the Tanger Outlets, named themselves “Team Linda” and raised more than $20,000 to help pay for her medical bills. A framed picture of Linda graces the wall of the Café. And every time someone drops a glass or breaks a plate, Stewart says he thinks she is right here. “She had the drops, and now when I hear a dish crack, I feel her presence,” he explained. According to Carter, the way they gather around Linda is the way they operate the restaurant. “The concept is that no one should want for anything—whether you are staff or a customer— that’s special,” he said. Palmetto Bay Sunrise Café is open seven days a week, from 6 a.m.-2 p.m. Monday through Friday and until 3 p.m. on the weekends. Breakfast is served all day. Check out the different variations of eggs Benedict, from its original city ham, crab cake, smoked salmon or shrimp and spinach. Different quiches and stratas are also made every day along with the staples of biscuits and gravy, pancakes, French toast and omelets. May 2012
Lunch options include fresh seafood such as Apalachicola oysters, crab wontons, and a variety of shrimp dishes. Among the most popular lunch items are the Café’s homemade she-crab soup, potato crusted flounder, shrimp Provencal and a slew of fresh sandwiches. Manager Pam Detert said it’s like having a dinner party with friends. “Every day is a new adventure. We are prepared and we love to serve our food and our family of customers. I think we do a great job of both. If we didn’t, our staff, our customers wouldn’t be having as much fun as they do, and they wouldn’t feel like the family that they are.” Call 843.686.3232 or visit www.palmettobaysunrisecafe.com for more information.
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with Gow’s secret dressing recipe, crunchy rosemary focaccia croutons and shaved grana padano cheese, which has a fresh fruity and mildly sweet flavor. On Gow’s recommendation, I chose the cheddar and apple tartlet. “This is a play on one of my favorite childhood memories of combining fresh apples and cheddar cheese,” Gow shared. It was not until he mentioned this background that I, too, remembered coming home from school to this favorite afternoon snack prepared by my own mom. Of course Gow’s version is delightfully more sophisticated, but it still brought forth that comfort food memory. The apples and cheese are baked with leeks and arugula in a light, flaky pastry shell and drizzled with a white truffle and soy
“Saying that a particular seafood is sustainable means that it’s been harvested in a way that doesn’t harm the future of the species. It’s not overfished or taken without regard to the environment around it,” Gow explained. vinaigrette. The mixture of sweet, tangy and salty is delightful. The entrée arrived with the well-portioned, bone-in grilled pork chop, which is pure simplicity, but absolute sophistication in rendition. The center cut pork chop is marinated with molasses, applesauce and a grain mustard, which keeps it moist and juicy, yet not sweet, and is served on a bed of bourbon glazed apples and fennel with a Dijon demi glaze lightly drizzled on top. It is a dish to be celebrated. CQ’s menu is diverse with endless creativity and a passion for local products. Only a handful of Hilton Head restaurants are as mindful of the Sustainable Seafood Initiative (SSI) as CQ’s restaurant, which has reached platinum status—the highest level of the SSI. “Saying that a particular seafood is sustainable means that it’s been harvested in a way that doesn’t harm the future of the species. It’s not overfished or taken without regard to the environment around it,” Gow explained. “It is important to me to be aware of my footprint on the environment, and it challenges me to be a better chef.” As I said, Gow lives the meaning of “Fresh from the Farm (or Waters) to your Table,” and nobody celebrates the bounty of the Lowcountry like CQ’s! Go in and dig in! 84
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This is a continuation of a several part series on island living in gated communities.
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hat does “Lowcountry lifestyle” mean to you? Does your vision include beaches, golf, sunshine, tennis, outdoor living, boating, entertaining, fishing, mild winters, kayaking or paddle surfing, gardening, crabbing, wine and food festivals, dining out and nightlife? Is it a big house on the beach or overlooking a fairway, or a house in a neighborhood that reminds you of where you grew up? Maybe it’s not a house, but a villa or townhome… who wants to mow the lawn with all this other stuff to do anyway? Surely something in there is on your list, but not everybody’s list is the same. The thing is, the South Carolina Lowcountry has all of it and then some to offer, and there’s a neighborhood somewhere around here that matches your personal vision. You’ve heard clarion call from your friends in the real estate business that this is a great time to purchase a home because prices are more favorable to buyers than they’ve been
for some years. If you are ready to take that advice any time soon, we’re here to help. No, this isn’t going to be a catalog of available listings or a market report or anything of that nature. You’ll have to pick up the phone and give your realtor a call for that. On these pages we’re profiling local communities in terms of lifestyles and amenities to help you identify where you should be looking if you’re in the market. This month’s installment has a bit of a maritime feel as we spotlight four venerable Hilton Head private communities that all feature either a marina, deep water home sites, or both. They are Long Cove Club, Windmill Harbour, Spanish Wells, and Wexford Plantation. Some of the things that differentiate these communities are obvious, and some are more subtle. We’ll give you a taste here, but the best way to find out which community best suits your lifestyle is to enlist the services of an experienced, local realtor who can take you behind the gates to see for yourself.
Long Cove Club
A discussion of what life is like in Long Cove Club usually starts with golf, and we will do that here, but speaking to those knowledgeable about the community, you’ll discover that golf doesn’t necessarily have to be the beginning, middle and end of the conversation. It begins with golf because the Long Cove Club course has long been regarded by the golf elite as one of legendary course architect Pete Dye’s finest creations. Naturally, the community attracts its fair share of the kind of folks who place golf very high on the priority list when choosing where to build or buy a home. And that choice is paid off with a robust agenda of member events and instructional clinics for adults and kids led by head golf pro Bob Patton and director of instruction Tim Cooke. With honors like Golfweek’s No. 8 Best Residential Golf Courses, Golf Digest’s No. 71 Best Course in the Nation, and Golf and Travel Magazine’s No. 2 Top 40 Real Estate Courses, among others, it’s a pretty nice place for the serious player to call “my home course.” That said, even the most die-hard of the die-hard golfers know that all of life isn’t lived on the fairways, and Long Cove Club delivers in that regard as well. Ask John McKenzie of Long Cove Club Realty what—aside from golf—sells Long
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Cove Club, and he’ll tell you, “Long Cove sort of sells itself. Just take a drive through and you’ll see.” Set on Hilton Head Island’s south end on the shores of Broad Creek, the community pays homage to the Lowcountry’s natural beauty with wooded, water and marsh views suitable for framing. The homes, nestled in with the lush indigenous vegetation, typically exhibit understated elegance with traditional Lowcountry style architecture. A collection of homes ranging in size from about 2,500 square feet to over 7,000 square feet, and in price from under $400,000 to about $3 million, sets the table nicely for a diverse group of neighbors who enjoy active lifestyles, with or without a club in hand. Speaking of clubs, Long Cove Club membership is automatic with home or land ownership in the community, and the soon-
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Speaking of clubs, Long Cove Club membership is automatic with home or land ownership in the community, and the soonto-be-renovated clubhouse is at the heart of Long Cove’s long list of social and recreational offerings.
to-be-renovated clubhouse is at the heart of Long Cove’s long list of social and recreational offerings. The tennis center features eight courts, four of them lighted, and a year-round schedule of competitive, social, and instructional events. Members can take a dip in the Jr. Olympic sized pool, or exercise their green thumbs on a complimentary garden plot at the Farm. Long Cove is also Hilton Head’s only private residential community with its own dog park. Long Cove Club’s 85-slip marina on Broad Creek completes the Lowcountry lifestyle picture for the community. The marina can accommodate craft up to 35 feet in length, and its docks are very popular with all members for fishing, crabbing, kayaking… or simply enjoying a sunset after cocktails and dinner in the clubhouse. McKenzie estimates that Long Cove’s population is split 70 percent/30 percent full-time residents/part-time residents, and according to the club’s own 2011 member survey, 66 percent who own a home in Long Cove live there for nine months or more per year. It is very much a neighborhood enjoyed equally by empty nesters and young, active families, like JoAnn Orischak and her
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husband who settled in Long Cove with their three children about a year ago, after much careful consideration. “We looked in a lot of places on and off the island, and we found great values everywhere,” Orischak said. “Obviously, it’s perfect for my 13-year-old son, because he’s pursuing golf pretty seriously (he’s a two handicap), and my older son has a nice group of friends his age.” A common sentiment among Long Cove members is an appreciation of the privacy of a neighborhood community, with an abundance of amenities in a self-contained area, while still feeling connected to the greater Hilton Head community. Long Cove’s main entrance is located on William Hilton Parkway, a short distance from the Sea Pines Circle, so members enjoy their privacy and seclusion without being way off the beaten path. “I think they like the proximity to ‘Downtown Hilton Head,’” McKenzie said. “Before we found our house in Long Cove we’d made an offer on a house that we were leasing at the time,” Orischak said. “That didn’t get done, and I’m glad that it didn’t. We would never have ended up here.”
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Windmill Harbour
Upon entering Windmill Harbour, you have a sense that you have actually left Hilton Head Island. That’s partly because you have. Windmill Harbour is actually located on Jenkins Island, which sits between Hilton Head and the base of the bridge to the mainland. But that’s a technicality. You feel like you’re in a different place because Windmill Harbour is cut from a rather different cloth than most Hilton Head gated communities. Golf is not a focal point and, instead of fairways, a 15-acre harbor, protected by one of only four lock systems on the entire East Coast, winds its way through the community. “Windmill Harbour is for somebody who’s interested in views, water, boats and harbors,” said J.R. Richardson, broker-in-charge of
“Windmill Harbour is for somebody who’s interested in views, water, boats and harbors,” said J.R. Richardson, broker-in-charge of the Richardson Group and Windmill Harbour’s developer. “That’s what we really are. We don’t have a golf course.” the Richardson Group and Windmill Harbour’s developer. “That’s what we really are. We don’t have a golf course.” The 172-acre community is also distinctive in that it offers a departure from the more classic Hilton Head architectural styles and land plans. “I immediately loved the look and feel,” said Windmill Harbour resident Christina Laios. “I like that the community is smaller with walking paths hidden throughout. Aesthetically, I love the colorful Charleston-style homes and the fact that they’re built among the existing foliage and old oaks. It makes for a romantic escape compared to some of the other nature90
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inspired hues of other developments. I also like the fact that the marina is the central point of interest…even though I’m not a boater!” Windmill Harbour is also home to the South Carolina Yacht Club. “The heart of the community is the club,” Richardson said, “and it’s a unique club because it’s not just property oriented,” meaning that membership is not a requirement of ownership in Windmill Harbour, nor is it limited to residents. “It’s a yacht club, it’s a property owners’ club, and it’s a community club, and it’s extremely well run.” The Yacht Club is a major attraction for Windmill Harbour with amenities such as clay tennis courts, a 25-meter swimming pool, saunas, a Jacuzzi, and plenty of social activities. “The Yacht Club was icing on the cake. It’s a great club with amazing food and community spirit,” Laios said. Windmill Harbour’s residential neighborhoods are a mixture of single-family homes, patio lots, and townhomes created in an aesthetic slightly reminiscent of historic Charleston, South Carolina. Although once considered off-the-beaten-path and out of the way, the Cross Island Parkway has effectively brought the rest of the island closer to Windmill Harbour. Combined with its proximity to the bridge connecting Hilton Head to the mainland, it just might be Hilton Head’s most conveniently sited community. Of course, the location affords some of the area’s finest water views overlooking the Intracoastal and the salt marshes of Jenkins Creek. “It’s a wonderful little jewel right on the Intracoastal,” Richardson said. “A huge plus is the ability to stroll to the pier to watch the dolphins or sunsets,” Laios added. “It has surpassed my expectations. I love (continued on next page)
“About half of the homes in Spanish Wells are on deep water, which is the highest percentage in this community; the other half are on fairways,” said James Wedgeworth of Charter One Realty. “The second thing that people like about Spanish Wells is that it’s the only development on Hilton Head where all of the lots are over an acre.”
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Spanish Wells sits on a peninsula separating Broad Creek and the Intracoastal Waterway, and is also favored by people who are water oriented. “About half of the homes in Spanish Wells are on deep water, which is the highest percentage in this community; the other half are on fairways,” said James Wedgeworth of Charter One Realty. “The second thing that people like about
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Spanish Wells is that it’s the only development on Hilton Head where all of the lots are over an acre.” The larger lots and an abundance of live oaks and other indigenous vegetation give Spanish Wells a special character in that it doesn’t “feel” like a planned residential development. Resident Blanche Sullivan describes it as a “serene park-like setting.” That peaceful serenity, plus the presence of some of Hilton Head Island’s most stately waterfront mansions, can be a bit deceptive. A closer look at Spanish Wells reveals a very friendly, energetic family oriented neighborhood with lots of activity to keep kids and adults entertained. “It’s a true community,” Wedgeworth said, “a lot of families and a lot of kids.” Those activities include golf and tennis at The Spanish Wells Club and a community pool. The Spanish Wells Clubhouse, the island’s only waterfront golf clubhouse, provides an idyllic setting for all kinds of social gatherings against a backdrop of gorgeous Calibogue Sound and May River views. A 100-foot community pier is located (continued on next page)
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behind the clubhouse for fishing, crabbing, or just taking in the views. The neighbors also enjoy special events like a Fourth of July golf cart parade, and a carnival atmosphere that engulfs all of Spanish Wells for trick-or-treating on Halloween night, with some of the wackiest Halloween displays you’ll ever see! Although access by car is limited to a one-lane entrance at the end of Spanish Wells Road, the community’s perceived remoteness is also somewhat deceptive. The entrance is only about a mile from the midpoint access to the Cross Island Parkway, so both the island’s north end and south end are a few minutes’ drive. “The best thing to happen to Spanish Wells was the Cross Island Parkway,” Wedgeworth said. Most of the folks who live in Spanish Wells have been on the island for some time, giving a feeling of familiarity that, along with its seclusion from the transient population, breeds a neighborly community disposition. “I love living in Spanish Wells,” Sullivan said. “It has such a casual, inviting atmosphere, and it’s a great life for our 13-year-old son. Plus, it’s got the most incredible sunsets you’ll find anywhere.”
Wexford
Steve Timperman is pretty excited about some things that are going on in Wexford Plantation. In the interest of full disclosure, he ought to be since he both lives in and sells real estate in Wexford. The biggest news is that Wexford’s nearly 30-year-old golf course emerged from a major renovation project in 2011 as the Arnold Palmer Signature Course at Wexford. On top of that, a clubhouse that underwent a complete renovation of its own in 2010 anchors the course. Those two developments should bring a few people through the gate to have a look, and Timperman anticipates that a lot of them will be surprised by what they see. “It’s a private lifestyle with one of the best golf courses on the island, and if you’re a boater we have one of the nicest marinas on the island,” he said. “It’s also a young and active community, more so than a lot of people may think,” he added, noting that the average age of Wexford residents is 51 years and there are about 140 kids living in the community. Real estate in Wexford is segmented by four lifestyles. Single family homes on the harbor, which sit on approximately third-acre lots, and single-family golf course homes on approximately half-acre lots. These lot sizes are average to a slightly larger than average for Hilton Head Island. Ideally, second home owners look for something more low 94
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maintenance and opt for a patio home or townhome, both of which are available in Wexford. About 35 percent of the occupied residences in Wexford are second homes, but short-term rentals are not permitted so you’re sheltered from the transient nature of the resort trade. “It’s mostly primary residents and second homeowners who don’t want to be near the chaos. Behind the gates it’s just you and your neighbors,” said Timperman. But that’s not to say that Wexford is isolated. The main entrance is located a short distance from the Sea Pines Circle on William Hilton Parkway. It’s also connected to Dunnagan’s Alley, giving a shortcut to the shopping, dining and services at the Village at Wexford, on Arrow and Palmetto Bay Roads, and quick access to the Cross Island Parkway and the north end. Homes in Wexford range in size from townhomes at about 3,000 square feet to single-family homes as large as 10,000 square feet. Naturally, that sort of variety brings with it a wide dispersion of prices from under $200,000 to $2 million and upward. Architectural styles depart from “typical” Lowcountry and favor more of a British West Indies motif. The harbor features a system of canals that wind through Wexford, allowing deepwater home sites to be situated throughout the community rather than around a single basin. Four of Wexford’s neighborhoods are sited on manmade islands in the harbor and connected by
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Heat E.A.C Heating & Air a breath of fresh air fter an unusually mild winter, an earlier than usual spring is here to remind us that plants are blooming and the heat is here to stay for a few months. It’s not unusual to walk outside your home and find cars coated with light dustings of pollen or to feel the all too familiar Lowcountry humidity permeating the air. The morning jogs become a little tougher, and seasonal allergies kick into high gear again. If you’re blaming the outdoor air for all your seasonal woes, you’re missing half the picture, or in some cases, nearly the whole picture. According to Patrick Epperson Jr. of E.A.C. Heating & Air, most people spend up to 90 percent of their time indoors, which means a lot of the seasonal respiratory and allergy issues experienced every year are a result of what’s happening right in your own home. Fortunately, the folks at E.A.C. are no strangers to dealing with a challenging indoor air environment. Originally started in 1981, today E.A.C. Heating and Air is owned by Patrick, his father Pat Epperson Sr., and longtime business partner Martin Jones. Talking with the three of them in their climate controlled office, it’s clear these guys stay abreast of the latest technical trends and take their customer service seriously.
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According to Patrick Epperson Jr. of E.A.C. Heating & Air, most people spend up to 90 percent of their time indoors, which means a lot of the seasonal respiratory and allergy issues experienced every year are a result of what’s happening right in your own home.
And for the amount of investment involved, the difference can be tremendous. “People buy nice cars for $40 to $60 thousand, but they don’t realize the benefits available for a lower price with our filters. You spend way more time at home than in your car. The best filter we have is only $1,500 dollars at most,” Epperson Jr. pointed out. His father remembers how their filtration technology had a huge impact on one customer. “We had a customer one time that was going to move away from Hilton Head and go to Florida because there was so much pollen in the air. But after we installed a filter, they decided to stay here. It’s a big change.” Customers for life All three owners agree that offering the very latest in HVAC technology has been crucial in keeping up with their customers’ needs. Now more than ever, customers are aware of what the top of the line models are. “Customers want the best of the best now,” Martin said. “That’s the thing about the Internet. People are just getting more conscious of what’s available; they’re researching it and finding the bells and whistles that they really want.”
“People buy nice cars for $40 to $60 thousand, but they don’t realize the benefits available for a lower price with our filters. You spend way more time at home than in your car. The best filter we have is only $1,500 dollars at most.” In response to their discerning clients, E.A.C. carries a wide range of high tech HVAC systems from Carrier, Trane, and other manufacturers. Modern units like the Carrier Infinity 20 with Greenspeed can easily cut utility costs by 50 percent or more a year. And judging by the feedback, E.A.C.’s Internet savvy customers have not been disappointed with the selection. Last year E.A.C. earned a 2011 Super Service Award from Angie’s List, a leading online review site for service providers. But with over 54 companies listed in the Hargray pages, no amount of technology can substitute for service and dedicated customer support, and all three of them believe that’s why they’ve managed to be so successful over the past 31 years. “A huge portion of our clients come from referrals, and that’s helped us a lot,” Epperson Jr. said. It’s easy to see why those referrals exist. If you’re heating or air conditioning goes out in the middle of the night, a simple call to E.A.C. will have a technician dispatched to your house to check it out, no matter what time of day. “We have 24/7 service call, and you’re not talking to a machine,” Martin said. “It’s a series of escalations, and our people know the procedures,” Epperson Sr. added. In addition to 24/7 support, E.A.C. also offers a thorough semiannual service plan that includes air filter replacement, coil cleaning, blower adjustments, and a whole lot more. With today’s complicated systems, “people are just fooling themselves if they don’t have one,” Epperson Sr. said. Martin Jones likens it to “buying a new car and never changing the oil or rotating the tires.” It’s clear that a thorough approach is key to their success. Where less established companies stop with a filter change and drain flush, E.A.C. does the extra work needed for a complete service. And when competitors install a unit and never return, E.A.C. comes back with comfort specialists to verify their technicians’ work. “It’s all about quality assurance,” Epperson Sr. said. With constantly evolving technology, a variety of projects, and ever-expanding referrals, none of the men will be calling it quits soon. “This job is a lot about helping people,” Epperson Jr. said. “They tend to come to you when they are in distress for the most part; if you can do a good job, make them happy and exceed their expectations, that’s a very satisfying experience.” To schedule an appointment with E.A.C Heating & Air, visit their offices just beyond the traffic circle at 76A Beach City Rd, or give them a call at (843) 681-3999. For more information, visit eacair.com. 98
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Ah, it’s summer. Remember the freedom you felt as a kid walking out of school on the last day of the year? There was nothing like it. Together, with our classmates, we used to count down the days until summer break and dream of what we would do during those hot, hazy, sun-drenched days. Truth be told, many of us desperately miss that time when our years were broken up with summer breaks and we had unstructured time to sleep in, hang out in shorts and flip flops and just meander through the day.
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All summer long: comprehensive camps If you need coverage for your children during the full workday, there are several summer sessions including Beaufort County’s Parks and Leisure Services (PALS) Summer Camp Program, Island Recreation Association All Day Summer Camp and local Boys & Girls Clubs’ Summer Programs. The summer camp offered by Beaufort County’s Parks & Leisure Services is a 9-week program, starting June 18 through August 17. Camp hours begin at 7: 30 a.m. and continue until 6 p.m. Cost is $325 for the summer and special rates are available for those children who qualify for free or reduced lunch. There are two locations in Bluffton, the Buckwalter Regional Park and the Bluffton Recreation Center on Ulmer
Road, and seven locations in the greater Beaufort area. Amy Matthews, office and marketing manager for Beaufort County PALS, said besides the athletic opportunities, arts and crafts and talent/fashion shows, campers also have an opportunity to go on weekly field trips to water parks, movies, local restaurants and bowling alleys. “We don’t have to advertise our program because we fill up so quickly,” Matthews said. “We design our camp so the children h ave a p l a ce to b u i l d t h e i r character, make new friends and have fun, summer memories. With the number of return campers, we feel assured the kids are having a fulfilling summer.” Hilton Head Island’s Recreation Association, known to m o st a s “ Th e I s l a n d Re c Ce n te r,” a l s o h a s a n a l l - d ay summer camp available to students in kindergarten to eighth grade. The fee is $125 a week, which also includes weekly field trips. A “Challenge Camp” is also available for special needs children. Leah Arnold, who coordinates Island Rec’s Summer Camp, said, “There’s no down time at camp; we offer such a wide range of activities so the campers can work on their sports, talents and life skills all summer long.” In addition to the regular spectrum of activities, the summer camp teaches lifelong activities such as cooking and computers. Arnold also said guest speakers frequently visit camp to introduce students to other topics such as science and stars. Local Boys & Girls Clubs also offer summer sessions. On Hilton Head Island, the session runs from June 11 through August 3. The summer session costs $350, and you can also pay by the month or the week.
Laura Vogel, assistant director of the Boys & Girls Mondays, Wednesdays and Fridays, from 8: 30 a.m. to 1 Club of Hilton Head Island, said if a child takes advantage p.m. Residents and visitors have participated in this barnof all the activities offered at the club, the worth of based camp to introduce kids to the equestrian lifestyle. the summer program would be “We offer kids an opportunity upwards of $8,000 a child. to make new human and horse Lowcountry camps give “The club has so many friends while learning how to children several all-day wonderful partnerships with our care take of horses. The camp programs as well as offering island neighbors and organizations activities include arts and crafts, a concentrated focus on that we are able to offer programs scavenger hunts throughout activities ranging from sports in sailing, boat rides, job the barn and learning the basic shadowing, book club, tennis, golf, of horsemanship,” said Cathy to spiritual growth. robotics, chorus, dance, gardening, Stangroom, trainer at the Moss and so much more.” Creek Equestrian Center. Cayenne Green, a 15-year old who has been going If your child is dreaming of a dance or theatrical to the club for nearly a decade said her favorite part of career, check out the summer sessions at The Bluffton the summer program is the trip to Disney World. In the School of Dance and Performing Arts. The school has past, club members just paid for the transportation. “I creative ways to trigger the theatre talent in dancers ages probably would have never been able to go to Disney 3 to adult. “Camp Make Believe” introduces little stars, World without the Club,” Green said. “Now, I have been ages two to six, to theatrical performance and dance in a four times.” weeklong camp. “Each week we have a theme such as mermaids, Camps to spotlight skills, train talents jungle safari, princesses and more. The kids come dressed and focus on fun in that theme and we have dance class, storytelling and Nearly 2,000 children and teenagers each summer arts and crafts which express that theme in different art kayak, skim board, paddle board and play and learn in forms,” said Dawn Rosa, owner of The Bluffton School of the waters around the Lowcountry, thanks to Outside Dance. “At the end of camp, they transform all they have Hilton Head. Outside Hilton Head has offered waterlearned into a performance for their parents.” based outdoor and environmental educational programs Summer sessions are also available for toddlers, presince 1979. It offers several one- or two-day summer school students, elementary school students, teenagers sessions, which immerse children into Mother Nature’s and adults. Dance classes are offered in ballet, jazz, tap local playground, complete with coastal ecology lessons, and hip-hop. outdoor skills and fun. If you want to open your child to the world of Mike Overton, owner of Outside Hilton Head, said performing arts in a professional theatre setting, The many of its camps are located on its private 30-acre chain Arts Center of Coastal Carolina is also offering several of islands behind Daufuskie Island. performing and visual art camps for children ages four “When the kids land at Page Island, we often hear, through 17. One theatre camp introduces students to wow, this is just like the island on the Survivor show,” the various facets of live performance from Broadway Overton said. “Our summer camps are a great way to choreography to hair and make-up for the stage. The Arts introduce kids to the history, culture and nature of the Center also offers a selection of courses for the visual arts. Lowcountry in a really fun way.” Finally, summer can be a time of spiritual renewal If you want to stay landlocked and horse around for adults and their children. Many local churches all summer, the Moss Creek Equestrian Center offers a offer vacation Bible school and other opportunities to three-day-a-week program for children ages five through strengthen a child’s or teenager’s spiritual expression 12. “Horsing Around Days,” is a half-day program, on during their time off. ( a list of camps avaialable on next page)
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The Sandbox Parents Night Out, Kids Night In Ages: 3-9 Time: 6-9 p.m. Dates: Wednesdays June 13-August 29 Cost: $30 per child (siblings and Sandbox members, $20 per child) (843) 842-7645 www.thesandbox.org Horsin’ Around Days of 2012 Moss Creek Equestrian Center Ages: 5-12 Time: 8:30 a.m.-1 p.m. Dates: Monday, Wednesday, and Friday Cost: $85/ day or $240/ session mosscreekequestrianctr.com (843) 816-7830 Camp Make Believe Bluffton School of Dance Ages: 3-6 Time: 9 a.m.-noon Dates: June 11-15 / July 30-August 3 Cost: $160 per week (843) 815-2619 Bluffton School of Dance Tiny Dance Classes Ages: 2-2 1/2 Time: 10:30-11 a.m. Dates: July 16-27 Tuesdays and Thursdays Cost: $50 for two-week program (843) 815-2619 Bluffton School of Dance Pre-School Dance Classes Ages: 3-4 Dates: July 16-27 Tuesdays and Thursdays Time: 11 a.m.-noon or 5:306:30 p.m. (843) 815.2619 Bluffton School of Dance Experienced Dancers Dance Classes Ages: 8 & up Time: 5:30-7:30 p.m. Dates: July 16-27 Tuesday: Ballet and Jazz Wednesday: Ballet and Tap Thursday: Ballet and Hip Hop Cost: $60 for one class / $100 for 2 classes / $130 for 3 classes (843) 815-2619 May 2012
Coastal Discovery Museum Ocean Adventures Mitchelville Beach Park Ages: 7-11 Time: 8 a.m.-1 p.m. Dates: June 13 Cost: $45 for members / $60 for non-members (843) 689-6767 x223 Outside Hilton Head DAY Camps for Kids Offered early June through August Skim Camp! Ages 8 and Up Days: Mon-Fri, (10AM12PM), Tuesday, 9-11AM. Price: $75. Includes equipment and Instructor. Learn the basics and build a foundation in the area’s fastest growing and most exciting beach sport! Discovery Days Ages: 7 to 10. Days: Tues & Wed., 9amnoon Price: $95 an engaging camp for young adventurers that combines environmental education with kayaking and lots of FUN! activities revolve around interpretive beach walks, marsh paddles and games. Eco-Venture Ages: 11 to 14 Days: Tues. & Wed., 9amnoon. Price: $95 Older campers will learn the basics of kayaking while developing an understanding of the natural world through hands-on study of coastal ecology. an emphasis on FUN makes this camp very popular. Kids Water Fun Day! Ages 7 and Up. Days: Friday mornings, 9am-noon. Price: $55 a 3-hour program that is simply a blast! May 2012
Page Island Teen Expedition Overnight Camp Ages: 12 to 15 Join our experienced staff for 3 days and 2 nights of adventure learning on secluded and private Page Island. Kayaking, fishing, crabbing, tubing, team building initiatives and games during the day...and at night, tent camping, campfires, night sky exploration and things that glow in the dark! For more info on ALL of Outside Hilton Head’s Summer Camps, call 843.686.6996 or visit www. outsidehiltonhead.com. Youth Group Tennis Lesson Chaplin Park Ages: 5-6/ 7-9/ 10-12 Time: 3:45-4:45 p.m./ 4:45-5:45 p.m./5:45-6:45 p.m. Dates: Tuesdays & Thursdays, May 8-24 Cost: $75 (843) 681-7173 www.islandreccenter.org HH Prep Sizzlin’ Summer Camps Sports, Arts, Learning for all ages and interests Cost: varies according to camp (804) 441-3745 www.hhprep.org/page. cfm?p=354&newsid=123 IDEA Studio Weekly Art Summer Camps starting June 18 Times: 9-12pm or 1-4pm Cost: $175 per week/ child Contact: Ginny Taylor, 843.342.5439 or www. scArtStudio.com Location: IDEA Studio, 21 Matthews Dr., Suite 2, Sutler’s Square IDEa Studio will be offering a variety of unique & creative art summer camps for kindergartens through 6th grade. The studio offers instruction in various art mediums including drawing, painting, pottery, stained glass, jewelry making and more. Different Weekly themes throughout the summer include “art around the World,” “I’m a Famous artist,” “Celebrate Red, White & Blue,” and “Let’s throw clay!” www.celebratehiltonhead.com 103
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entered the waiting room with an open umbrella and all I thought was “Close your umbrella. Don’t you know that’s bad luck! Look around, we all need good luck here!” The bottom line is, no one truly knows what causes breast cancer, so is it luck if you dodge the diagnosis? Either way, if you are reading this—man or a woman—you are at risk. But yikes! Do we want to talk about that? Of course not. Society doesn’t like to talk about uncomfortable topics. Especially cancer. And if the cancer is related to a sex organ, well then forget it. In the middle ages, women went into seclusion if they were diagnosed with breast cancer. In fact, it was Queen Anne, mother to Louis XIV who first made breast cancer public in the 1600s. Even in the present, we hesitate to talk about breast cancer. Dr. Herrmann tells me that a lot of women don’t even know their family medical history. “My grandmother had breast cancer, but we never really talked about it.” Well, why not? Despite the hushed voices and the stigma associated with cancer, breast cancer gets a lot of media coverage. Why? Because if detected early, the large majority of women survive. There are more joyful endings than not. Breast cancer doesn’t claim the number of lives that other cancers do. That’s the good news. But, Dr. Herrmann notes that a lot of the public support for breast cancer almost trivializes the disease. Campaigns to “save the tatas” and “do it for the boobs” irk Dr. Herrmann and her colleagues. She says, “A boob is a stupid person. Breasts are a beautiful part of the anatomy.” So, let’s talk about breasts. Breast cancer is rare in women under 40, and still not common in women under 50. Chances of breast cancer increase with every decade. Most lumps are benign. If you are like me and have a “busy breast,” it means that your breast is prone to developing things, and yes, you have an increased risk of developing cancer but you also have now been alerted to the fact that you need to be vigilant. This is why identifying any issues early and treating them, is key. Also important to the equation is identifying if you are at a higher risk (family history, never had children, or a late life pregnancy can be
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anyone who’s ever been a parent—or a child—knows how difficult adolescence can be. When you’re the child, teenager or young adult, trying to manage the angst is just so darn hard, because everything seems to be happening all at once (some sage once said that the reason God invented time was so everything didn’t happen all at once). as a kid, trying to understand physical and emotional changes, balancing a full plate of home, school and extracurricular demands, you just don’t have the skills or experience to deal. as parents, it’s like pain—difficult in the moment, but hard to remember—and with some distance, it doesn’t feel so bad. But if you’re a responsible parent, while it isn’t even your pain, you sense when something is wrong, and you wonder when it’s time to intervene. Coping with all of it, from every angle, sometimes takes professional help. The professional and personal experience of Gasser and Lauerer is sort of the perfect yin and yang. Gasser, as the lead therapist, mixes her experience as an elementary school teacher and counselor with her background as a therapist at an inpatient treatment facility for adolescent girls and her certification as a yoga instructor to offer a colorful and complete palette of expertise. Lauerer, as nurse practitioner, can write prescriptions for complete evaluations to see if there’s perhaps a chemical imbalance or if medication might help to stabilize a situation before talk therapy can be applied. Needs addressed by Bloom Within include aDHD, eating disorders, teen substance abuse, grief and loss, stress management, personality disorders, sexual abuse and more. It’s a wide range of needs with a wide range of services that are holistic and tailored to each client. The delicacy of some situations demands diplomacy, grace and patience under pressure. Both Gasser and Lauerer have all that, operating out of a peaceful suite on the south end of Hilton Head Island with calming views of live oaks draped in Spanish moss. “The most important thing in a therapeutic, confidential relationship is that the client feels comfortable with you,” Gasser said. “The most critical thing is trust. That’s why sometimes I get my yoga mat out from behind the chair, pick out some meditative music and say now just close your eyes, it’s going to be okay. I promise.” It’s difficult to promise “okay” when the issues that confront young people these days are so complex. Gasser says that times have changed and Lauerer concurs. “This is a totally different time to be an adolescent,” Lauerer said. “I think the culture has changed completely. There’s really early sexualization, and there’s a push for these kids to be technology driven. They can get a song in a minute, whereas we had to save money to buy it. They can get anything at the touch of their phone, so there’s not a lot of delayed gratification. We see a lot of kids who are just used to getting everything now.” When all that takes the form of uncomfortable or (continued on next page)
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inappropriate behavior in school, in public or at home, those are warning signs that indicate it may be time to consider Bloom Within Counseling. Signs may include learning or attention problems, episodes of sadness, social withdrawal or isolation, mood swings, signs of alcohol or drug abuse, a significant drop in grades or any of a dozen other indicators. Scheduling an assessment is the first step in making progress toward resolution, according to Gasser, and the actual process of the assessment and review of its findings often may be important in and of itself. “I believe in the power of intention,” Gasser said. “I think if you bring people in, calm them down and talk about what’s right with them, getting focus off some of the negatives, you can start to lift them up. I like to focus on the strengths.” Success in Bloom Within’s business takes the form of what Gasser calls “coping skills” for both parents and their kids, but it’s most important, she says, for adolescents. “I want to be able to teach them things I wish I’d known at their age,” Gasser said. “We can give them coping skills they can use for the rest of their life that can impact and change their life. Self-talk is a lot of what we do—cognitive therapy. The approach is to provide skills so you can self-manage and become more selfaware.” Lauerer says a critical piece of that is to help kids to slow down. “They are racing and running so fast it’s almost unconscious, and when you ask them their feelings, a lot of kids can’t tell you,” she said. “We want to help them build their autonomy and self-esteem—help them get quiet and get centered.” In most instances it’s not a quick fix, but it’s not necessarily therapy for a lifetime either. “Some people may shy away from care because they think it’s going to be a long process,” Lauerer said. “I think, realistically, if you come up with the right diagnosis and the right treatment plan that’s efficient and accurate, we can make rapid progress.” Working with adolescents is of particular interest to both Gasser and Lauerer since both are parents of 16- soon to be 17-year-old girls. Their awareness of issues they see every day (sometimes over a bowl of cereal at midnight) is professional and frequently very personal. Gasser said she finds working with adolescents most gratifying because they’re resilient and because “one person validating that child can make a difference.” That difference can take the form of personalities flourishing and growing like healthy flowers and plants in a properly tended garden—blooming from within, if you will. Bloom Within Counseling is located at Southern Lifestyle Center, 7 Office Way, Suite 207, on Hilton Head Island. For more information, call (843) 422-2041 or visit bloomwithincounseling.com.
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The Allergy Epidemic Where is it coming from?
Article By Thomas C. Beller, M.D.
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t seems that everywhere you look today, the prevalence of allergies is increasing. People are suffering more and more from the effects of pollen and other environmental allergies. The sense of happiness that spring flowers used to bring has been replaced by a sense of dread for many as the expectations of sneezing, nasal congestion, itchy eyes and sinus infections takes precedent. Gone also are the days when food allergies were rare, and here are the days when virtually every school in the country has a policy on how to deal with these dangerous allergies. Peanut allergies have become so commonplace that many schools have separate lunch tables for peanut allergic children and many principals’ offices have a supply of EpiPens®, the device used to reverse severe allergic reactions. If you haven’t noticed this dramatic increase in allergies, look at some of these U.S. statistics: • Peanut allergy increased by 350% from 1997 to 2008 • The cost of allergic rhinitis increased from $2.7 billion in 1995 to $7.3 billion in 2002 • 10,000 students miss school every day due to allergic rhinitis • 3.4% of children had asthma in 1982 while an estimated 15% have it today. • The prevalence of atopic dermatitis (eczema) tripled from 1960 to 1990. It is hard to deny that we are in the midst of an allergy epidemic. Why is this happening? The leading theory is something called the hygiene hypothesis. If you look at the areas of the world where allergies are common, it becomes clear that developed areas have a much higher prevalence of allergies than underdeveloped areas. English speaking societies are plagued the most. Many signs point to excessive hygiene as the reason. The status of the drinking water supply appears to be a particularly big factor. The cleaner the water supply, the more likely there are to be allergy sufferers. It seems that the more we escape a particular variety of infections, specifically May 2012
worms and parasites, the more likely we are to develop allergies. Understanding why this happens becomes somewhat simpler if you examine the problem closely. First, we have to remember that our bodies were designed to identify and attack a large variety of infectious organisms. When our natural defense system has been trained to fight a specific group of organisms that have been present since the dawn of time, it’s not hard to imagine that it might become confused when that group of organisms is suddenly taken away. In this confused state, our immune system goes into search mode and amplifies the searching process, seeking out the worms and parasites it expects to find. When this happens, it is prone to making mistakes, and this mistake is what leads to allergy. When our immune system has identified a benign substance that it thinks is a parasite, we have developed an allergy. In this setting, further exposure to this benign substance leads to a variety of inflammatory conditions, such as allergic rhino conjunctivitis, asthma, food allergy, and allergic eczema. The evidence for mistaken identity as the mechanism of allergy is strong. To see this, you have to understand the way our immune system deals with the invasion of worms and parasites. Once you understand this, you will see the similarities between the anti-parasitic response and allergy. The mechanism our immune system uses to attack worms and parasites is very different from the way it attacks other infections, such as viruses and bacteria. It uses a unique antibody called Immunoglobulin E (IgE) and a unique cell called a mast cell. When a worm or parasite invades the body, IgE recognizes certain proteins on the parasite and triggers the mast cell to release histamine. Histamine has specific functions that are helpful at blocking parasitic invasion and multiplication. First it is designed to release fluid from blood vessels in order to create a rapid swelling type of response. This swelling allows the immune system to surround the parasite for further attack. Parasites and worms are considerably large infections for the immune system to handle, and this surrounding mechanism is www.celebratehiltonhead.com 122
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a critical part of containing them. It also causes itching, the purpose of which is not perfectly understood, but perhaps functions to alert the infected host of its presence. Next, it has effects that limit access of common pathways parasites use to invade the body, specifically through the respiratory and gastrointestinal (GI) tracts. In the GI tract, it increases acid production in the stomach to kill parasites and activates various gastrointestinal processes to cause diarrhea and vomiting, thus expelling the parasites. In the lungs it causes significant mucous production to create a protective barrier from invasion. It also causes muscular contraction of the bronchioles and swelling of the larynx to reduce air intake temporarily, thus limiting access through the respiratory route. Th e a l l e rg i c re s p o n s e m i m i c s t h i s a n t i - p a ra s i t i c response. IgE antibodies, mast cells and histamine are also exactly the same weapons used to attack allergens. When we evaluate the symptoms of a patient to determine if they are allergic in nature we look for these effects of histamine. This is especially true with the most severe type of allergic reaction called anaphylaxis. When a patient experiences anaphylaxis, he or she has diffuse dilation of blood vessels causing diffuse swelling. Itching and hives are often present in the skin (a hive represents this swelling response occurring superficially in the skin). Because the dilation of blood vessels is diffuse, blood pressure can drop significantly causing diminished blood flow to the brain. When the drop in blood flow is severe, we call this anaphylactic “shock.” Severe anaphylaxis also causes nausea, vomiting, diarrhea, bronchospasm and swelling in the throat. all of these effects are related to the release of histamine and other similar weapons that have been historically used to fight parasites. Even allergic rhinitis shows remnants of the anti-parasitic response. Nasal congestion, runny nose and sneezing are all mechanisms our body would use to dispel parasites trying to invade through the nose. Because hygiene is becoming an increasing part of our society and is increasing worldwide, we can expect allergic diseases to increase, at least in the short term. However, as our understanding of the problem increases, so is the likelihood that we can solve the problem and devise a way to reverse this troublesome epidemic.
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Thomas C. Beller, M.D. specializes in allergy/immunology, internal medicine and clinical and laboratory immunology. For more information, call (843) 689-6442 or visit hiltonheadallergy.com.
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Spring into Sports
Injury prevention for golf and tennis Article By Dr. John Batson
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t is that time of year in the Lowcountry. The oak leaves are falling, azaleas are blooming and marsh grass is green. As a sport and spine physician, I see a large number of golf and tennis injuries this time of year in patients who have been less active during the winter. In this article we will discuss some of the more common injuries, ways to prevent them and when to seek medical attention.
Golf and tennis elbow. Golfer’s elbow affects the inside (medial aspect) of the elbow, and tennis elbow affects the outside (lateral aspect). In golfer’s elbow the problem usually is a result of poor swing mechanics. It affects the back arm of your swing and is usually a result of excessive hooking the ball or rolling the wrist in the follow through of the swing. Tennis elbow most commonly affects players with a slice backhand and results from excessive wrist extension. An injury may precede the symptoms, but more commonly these conditions are the result of overuse and not trauma. The pain with either condition will be fairly easy to pinpoint on the outside or inside of the elbow. These conditions can be chronic, so it is important to diagnose them early. Treatment usually
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involves stretching, strengthening and massaging the affected area. These modalities can encourage blood flow to the injured area. Icing after activity may help keep symptoms manageable and allow you to continue to play during rehabilitation. Swing mechanics in golf and equipment modifications in tennis (grip size, string tension, racquet stiffness) are also key to the treatment process. If symptoms persist past two-three weeks, if you notice weakness, or if there is associated numbness/ tingling, it is important to seek medical attention. Shoulder pain. Tennis players, in particular, often struggle with shoulder problems. In most cases, these problems are overuse related and involve the rotator cuff muscles in some capacity. Younger players often have tendonitis. Players over the age of 50 often have varying degrees of small rotator cuff tears. These four muscles help to hold the ball part of the shoulder in the socket. If they are not working properly, the ball can ride up in the socket and bursitis or impingement can occur. The pain from these problems usually occurs when reaching above your head or behind your body. Sleep can be difficult. The pain is usually on the outside of the shoulder and
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injury prevention. Flexibility in the hip and leg muscles also can assist with injury prevention. Supportive shoes can assist by maintaining proper alignment. If there are symptoms such as clicking, catching or locking, you should seek medical attention. also, if there is obvious swelling or instability (giving way), you should see a sports medicine physician. gEnErAl inJury PrEvEntion. Whether you are a professional athlete or weekend warrior there are some general concepts that can help with injury prevention. First of all you should be fit before you try to be an athlete. all too often, I see individuals simply skip over the fitness and try to play a sport. This is putting the cart before the horse and asking for an injury. Fitness involves maintaining some aerobic conditioning for the heart and large muscle groups. a reasonable goal is 30 minutes a day of some activity such as walking, biking or swimming. Strength training helps maintain muscle mass so less stress will be placed on the underlying joints and spine. Flexibility protects the muscles from injuries and aides in joint motion.
golf and TenniS elBoW. golfer’S elBoW affecTS THe inSide (Medial aSPecT) of THe elBoW, and TenniS elBoW affecTS THe ouTSide (laTeral aSPecT). in golfer’S elBoW THe ProBleM uSually iS a reSulT of Poor SWing MecHanicS. iT affecTS THe Back arM of your SWing and iS uSually a reSulT of eXceSSive Hooking THe Ball or rolling THe WriST in THe folloW THrougH of THe SWing. having pain during the activity it is important to rest and seek treatment rather that work through the pain. Tennis players may tolerate mini tennis and golfers can often chip and putt during the rehab process. This helps maintain sport-specific muscle use and hand/eye coordination, but does not stress the area. as your symptoms improve, you can gradually play more full-court tennis or move up golf club lengths and take more full swings. Golfers and tennis players should devote some time every week to core strengthening, general fitness and flexibility. Seek medical attention if your back pain persists past twothree weeks. See a spine specialist if you have difficulty with strength, balance, coordination or if you notice sciatica type leg pain, numbness or tingling. KnEE PAin. Knee injuries such as sprains or cartilage tears are common in tennis. In golf what I see often is a problem such as underlying arthritis cause symptoms during or after the activity. If there is simply mild pain after the activity, you may be able to rest for a short period, ice the area and perform some basic exercises to help with the problem. If the condition is a simple sprain, tendonitis or mild arthritis your doctor may recommend physical therapy, a knee sleeve and medications to help with the inflammation and pain. as with other conditions, mini tennis or in golf putting and chipping can often be continued during the treatment phase. If the problem is more significant arthritis, various injection therapies and stabilizing braces can help control symptoms. Exercises you learn in therapy to strengthen the quadriceps muscle should be continued as a means of
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More and more we are seeing athletes incorporate sport specific training and balance training into workouts to help with performance and injury prevention. Certified personal trainers can assist with this type of training. Nutrition is also a key component of injury prevention. Healthy protein (lean meats, fish, nuts, low fat dairy) can aide in muscle development and repair. Healthy carbohydrates (fruits, vegetables, whole grains) give you energy to fuel muscles and keep your brain alert during sports. Fruits and veggies are also high in antioxidants, which help your body repair and recover after exercise. Healthy sources of fat (certain nuts, avocados, cold-water fish) provide energy during more endurance oriented activities. Hydration is critical as we move into warmer months. If you are dehydrated, even a small amount, your performance is impaired and you are more prone to injury. avoid caffeine or alcohol around the time of sports participation. Proper fitness, healthy nutrition and hydration will also help you maintain a healthy weight. This is very important for back and knee injury prevention. Golf and tennis can be great lifelong activities. Hopefully the above suggestions will help you not only avoid an injury, but also improve your game. Dr. John Batson specializes in interventional spine care, adult and pediatric sports medicine and pain medicine. For more information, call (843) 208-2420 or visit Lowcountry Spine and Sport online at spineandsportmd.com.
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Pediatric Speech Therapy: Much More than Articulation
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hen you hear the term “speech therapy,” what is the first thing that comes to mind? I am guessing a therapist and 7-year old child practicing the “R” sound or overcoming a lisp. While these are very important goals that a speech language pathologist may have, we do so much more. Perhaps the best way to elaborate is to describe one of my mornings at our pediatric facility. My first patient of the day is a bright and creative 12-yearold girl. She is having difficulty hearing in a noisy classroom. Her hearing acuity is perfect, but she has been diagnosed (after a referral from her speech language pathologist to a pediatric audiologist) with Central Auditory Processing Disorder. She has a particularly difficult time concentrating and attending to directions in noise. The interfering noise, for her, can be as loud as the lawnmower outside of the window next to her desk or as quiet as her classmate tapping his pencil on his leg. We are targeting her working memory and sound discrimination skills. We are also working on her ability to stay focused on verbal directions in noisy and distracting environments. Her mom and teacher have both indicated that she is able to focus better in school and needs directions to be repeated to her less frequently. My next patient is a busy and determined four-year-old boy. He came to Lowcountry Therapy Center two months ago when his mother, father and daycare teacher noticed that he was having a difficult time following directions in his classroom, and he was only using two- and three-word sentences. After language testing, a long interview with mom and dad and a phone conference with his daycare teacher and pediatrician, it was determined that he has a receptive and expressive language delay. He had an especially hard time with basic concepts such as “first and last,” “all and some,” “over and under,” “in front of and behind.” As you can imagine, this made group instruction and communication in general difficult for him. With mom and dad always either participating or observing, we are working on many different basic concepts in functional activities and increasing his expressive language May 2012
substantially in every session. He will probably be discharged in another two months. My 10 a.m. patient is a nine-month-old twin. He is not advancing his diet as his sister is. He is still only drinking milk from a bottle. He gags on purée baby food and is not showing interest in finger foods. That’s right! Speech language pathologists also help children with feeding and swallowing difficulties. (This is My last patient a specialty area, however. You of the morning want to be sure your therapist is a sweet and has experience and specific sensitive five-year- training in feeding disorders and swallowing.) This child’s old boy who is mom and I are focusing on having difficulty introducing new oral sensations identifying to reduce his gag reflex. Since his mom and his pediatrician the sounds were proactive in not waiting to letters make see if he would advance his diet (i.e., phonemic on his own, he will most likely be graduating from therapy in only awareness). His three months and eating what classmates are other 12-month olds are eating, already reading including an array of purées, a few words, and mashed foods and some finger his dad came to us foods. My last patient of the worried that he is morning is a sweet and sensitive not “getting it.” five-year-old boy who is having difficulty identifying the sounds letters make (i.e., phonemic awareness). His classmates are already reading a few words, and his dad came to us worried that he is not “getting it.” We are focusing on using all of his senses to crack the letter-to-sound code. In addition to his reading delay, he is not always grammatically correct when speaking. He confuses his pronouns (e.g., “Him jumping.”); irregular past tense is difficult for him (e.g., “I drawed a picture.”); and helping verbs www.celebratehiltonhead.com 126
are missing (e.g., “They talking.”). Strong oral grammar is required for good writing skills. He is making great progress using a multisensory approach. His dad and his brother participate in the final 10 minutes of every session, so they know what to practice at home. His teacher and I communicate weekly via e-mail to make sure he is using his new skills in all environments. As this particular morning illustrates, s p e e c h t h e ra py i s n o t j u s t a b o u t articulation. Speech language pathologists are interested in supporting families with all aspects of communication, including listening, understanding, speaking, reading and writing. In my line of work as a private practice speech language pathologist, there is never a dull moment; I get to help children with a wide array of concerns. While I do see quite a few children for traditional articulation therapy, I have the opportunity to do much more! *The children mentioned in this editorial are a mosaic of the population that I treat. In no particular morning do I see these actual children in this order. Jessi Dolnik, MA, CCC-SLP is a pediatric speech language pathologist, practicing at Lowcountry Therapy Center in Bluffton. If you have concerns about your child’s development, call Lowcountry Therapy Center at (843) 815.6999.
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Advanced Women’s Care Pregnancy is both miraculous and terrifying at the same time— especially the first pregnancy.
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very flutter is questioned, celebrated and analyzed by the expectant mother. “Is this normal? Should I feel this way?” are thoughts that crowd her mind, especially in the first trimester. She has probably seen countless episodes of A Birthing Story on the Discovery Channel, and she has read hours of materials about pregnancy on the Internet. (There is even a site that allows you to put in the baby’s due date and you can monitor daily the changes that are occurring within your womb, e.g. today your baby has fingernails). Sitting down with Dr. Tracy Blusewicz and Dr. Katherine Coley, we discuss the obstetrics side of their practice Advanced Women’s Care. Blusewicz and Coley are both young mothers as well as physicians. In fact, Coley’s 14-monthold son crawled around on the floor and entertained us while we chatted about pregnancy, delivery, motherhood and all
things obstetrics at their new office location at 8 Hospital Center Blvd., Suite 150, Hilton Head Island. C2: What is your best advice for first time pregnant mothers? Blusewicz: Stay fit and eat healthy. Eating for two is not what you should really do. Actually, you should only increase your caloric intake by 300 daily calories. By staying fit and continuing to exercise during your pregnancy, it will be easier to lose the baby weight after the pregnancy as well. If you are a runner, then there should be no reason why you cannot continue to run unless you are advised not to by your physician. You may want to slow down the intensity of your workouts, but there is usually little reason to stop all together.
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C2: What do you find has changed the most in obstetrics since you first started practicing? Coley: Mothers are more aware of options of what they want for their delivery, and the medical technology has improved. For instance, ultrasound technology is much more advanced than in the past, which leads us to a greater knowledge. We can detect things much earlier and set in motion the protocol for ensuring a healthy mother and a healthy baby. Along with technology, prenatal vitamins and
medicines have improved—medicines like 17 OHP, a shot used to keep women who have a history of preterm labor pregnant longer into their next pregnancy. Every advancement in medicine and technology is something we strive to stay on top of and provide to our patients.
C2: How are you not your mothers’ OB/GYN? Coley: Well, for starters we are women! Our moms and grandmothers typically had male doctors. As females ourselves, we understand what it means to be a woman; we, like our OB patients, have been pregnant, have delivered our own children; and like many of our patients, we are also working mothers. We understand what it means to balance or try to balance work, motherhood and family life. We understand the stresses that women endure today. Blusewicz: Another way we are not our moms’ OB/GYNs is that today we are required to keep current with continuing education classes and seminars to keep abreast of the advancements in medicine. This knowledge prepares us to provide the very best care to our patients. We are current in what is available, and we can provide the latest tests to ensure your baby’s best health. C2: What brought you two to the Hilton Head area to practice? Blusewicz: Hilton Head is familyfriendly. It is a great place to raise your family, and Hilton Head Medical Center is a great place to practice obstetrics. Patients tend to have one-on-one nursing when delivering at Hilton Head Medical Center. It is small and personal. We both have had our own children born at Hilton Head Medical Center. I even delivered Katherine’s son. It is a great place to practice medicine. C2: Both of you have delivered thousands of babies. Being
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Special thanks to all of the moms, babies, toddlers & children who starred in this photo shoot with Tracy & Katherine.
May/Mother’s Day month, can you share a favorite delivery story? (Both doctors look at each other and kind of moan with this question. How can you pick a favorite?) Blusewicz: They are all good. They are all special. They are all different. Every delivery is a blessing. C2: Isn’t there one that stands out? Blusewicz: I remember the baby that was born and we set up Skype so the father who was serving in the military overseas could be present for the birth. That was very special. C2: Was that on Hilton Head? Blusewicz: Yes. But my favorite delivery story—well, those would be my own. Coley: Yes, those deliveries would be my favorite, too.
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Katherine Coley, M.D. and Tracy Blusewicz, M.D. specialize in obstetrics, gynecology and infertility. Their practice, Advanced Women’s Care offers full-time Bluffton and Hilton Head Island offices. The practice accepts Multi-Plan & PHCS and will file to all major insurance plans. For more information, visit AdvancedWomensCare. net or call (843) 341-3996.
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here are entities operating in the financial system as though they are banks without being regulated as banks. These entities are large institutions comprised of private capital and are engaged in what is called “shadow banking.” They may be hedge funds, private equity firms or other institutions that provide a service for institutional clients that traditional banks are not participating in. This type of activity, while potentially profitable and encouraging of economic innovation and development, poses a significant threat to the world’s financial system. As the immediate causes of the Global Financial Crisis abated, great concern was expressed that the governments of the world had not done enough to regulate their own financial systems, and consequently the world’s financial system had fallen into disarray. The obvious starting point for politicians seeking to avert popular outrage was banks and their appetite for risk and profit. Governments responded by introducing new institutions and new regulations, only to find that a vast amount of banking business was being conducted in the shadows. As the name suggests, shadow banking is defined in terms of banking. Banking is generally defined as the business of both taking money on deposit and making advances of money, including paying and collecting checks drawn by or paid in by customers. The economic functions of banks are integral to modern finance. Banks ensure the formation of significant capital in an efficient and stable manner. Banks also provide credit intermediation (back-to-back borrowing and lending of money),
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which includes credit quality improvement and maturity transformation. In performing credit intermediation, banks may be high quality borrowers of money who in turn lend to lower quality borrowers. The buffers provided by the banks allow them to absorb losses without defaulting on obligations, resulting in an overall credit quality improvement. This has important implications for the stability of the financial system. In addition, banks are able to borrow on shorter terms and lend on longer terms. This has important implications for improving the liquidity of the financial system. These functions and their systemic importance are generally well recognized by the laws of most countries, which creates special obligations for banks. Generally banks are highly regulated in the form of prudential supervision, designed to ensure there is a reserve of cash or cash-like assets. This provides the banks with the buffers to absorb losses without defaulting on their obligations. The most commonly used supervisory standards are set under the Basel Accords (currently Basel III). The laws usually create special rights for banks, which are generally expressed in terms of the banks’ access to central bank funding. This is integral to monetary policy and related fiscal matters. Banks act as a credit guarantor of final recourse.
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The size and scale of Shadow banking combined with its interconnectedness with the banking system presents a substantial risk to the financial system in that it may be a source of financial contagion.
of some or many of the economic functions of banks by various entities in the financial system that are not able to take deposits and do not have direct access to central bank funding. Examples include finance companies, asset-backed commercial paper issuers and distributors, structured investment vehicles, credit hedge funds, money market funds, securities lenders, and margin providers. Shadow banks do not have the special obligations and rights applicable to banks. They are not highly regulated in the form of prudential supervision, and they do not have the rights of recourse
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to public money. The implications of this are tremendous: Shadow banks are financial intermediaries that conduct capital formation, maturity, credit, and liquidity transformation without access to central bank liquidity or state credit guarantees. At the same time, Shadow banks are inextricably tied to the banking system. Some studies indicate that Shadow banking rivals the size of the traditional banking system in the intermediation of credit to households and businesses. The size and scale of Shadow banking combined with its interconnectedness with the banking system presents a
substantial risk to the financial system in that it may be a source of financial contagion. With visions of another Lehman B ro t h e r s , t h e G - 2 0 d i re c te d t h e Financial Stability Board (FSB), to examine Shadow banking and to make recommendations as to how to regulate the Shadow banks. The FSB, is a nongovernment organization comprised of representatives of all G-20 economies, several emerging economies, the European Commission and European Central Bank, the International Monetary Fund, the World Bank, the Bank of International Settlement and a raft of other international monetary and financial system related organizations. The FSB was established to monitor and make recommendations about the global financial system in order to address vulnerabilities and to develop and implement strong regulatory, supervisory and other policies in the interest of global financial stability.
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Regulation
When considering regulatory measures, the FSB suggests that there are four broad areas for regulatory responses: • Direct regulation: regulating shadow banking entities themselves. • Indirect regulation: regulating banks’ interactions with shadow banking entities. • Product and Market regulation: regulating particular products, markets or activities affecting shadow banking entities. • Regulation enabling effective macro-prudential measures: policies and regulations directed at strengthening market infrastructure to mitigate contagion. Generally, the regulatory systems assume that bank regulations make individual banks safer, which makes the financial system as a whole safer. This assumption may be flawed, because in times of crisis, the efforts that individual banks take to make themselves safer can undermine the system’s stability. These regulatory assumptions automatically exclude Shadow banking. The FSB would like to introduce a standardized approach: regulating substance over form with regard to function. In other words, by applying disclosure principles to the institutions engaged in shadow banking, the distinctions between banking and its shadow may better be overcome, thereby providing greater stability and mitigating system-wide risk by bringing the unsupervised aspect of the financial system within the regulatory net. This seems to be a sensible though unoriginal approach that ignores the reality and not always sensible idea of independence. There are fundamental differences in both the laws and the policies of individual countries when dealing with their own financial systems. For example, some countries believe that people are little better than irresponsible children who are not capable of making informed decisions and must be protected from themselves. Those countries adopt policies designed to control and restrict financial products or investment opportunities, even at the cost of innovation and development. Other countries believe that people are not only entitled to make decisions for themselves, but that the costs of individual financial loss are more than compensated by the benefits of overall financial innovation and development. Those countries make policies aimed at fair play while encouraging what they regard as important benefits for the welfare of their societies, namely individuals exercising their autonomy and taking responsibility for their own decisions. One way to reduce this risk would be to get rid of the shadows by casting a regulatory light on all aspects of bankinglike activity. This would require implementation of a globally uniform method for such regulation. There are, however, several approaches and philosophies used by countries to regulate their respective financial systems. These differences mean that even while the governments of the world are trying to cast more light on their banks, the shadows grow ever larger. It seems that while the FSB has made a good start, there is still a very long way to go before concrete and functional suggestions are made with regard to managing and regulating shadow banks. Robert Star is managing director of EDI Financial Group in Bluffton. For more information, call (843) 815-6636. May 2012
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Hilton Head Island Fire & Rescue and Hilton Head Hospital Fighting Back Against Cardiovascular Disease
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ardiovascular disease is the largest killer in the industrialized world. As reported in the USA Today, US News & World Report, and many medical journals, the survival rate for sudden cardiac arrest varies tremendously from community to community—from as low as 5 percent to as high as 50 percent– an astounding 10-fold difference! To help ensure that our citizens have the best possible chance of survival, Hilton Head Island Fire & Rescue has partnered with Hilton Head Hospital to develop a comprehensive Emergency Cardiovascular Care Program that has several components. • Training citizens in bystander CPR • Public access defibrillation with Automatic External Defibrillators (AEDs) • Pre-hospital 12-lead ECG program with ECG transmission to the hospital (Code STEMI) • A highly choreographed “pit crew” concept for patients suffering sudden cardiac arrest • Early induction of therapeutic hypothermia for cardiac arrest patients (Code ICE) • Data collection through the Cardiac Arrest Registry to Enhance Survival (CARES) • Participation in quarterly multidisciplinary committee meetings at Hilton Head Hospital When someone experiences a sudden cardiac arrest, we have a very short time to react with a very specific series of actions that are often referred to as the “chain of survival.” They include: • Immediate recognition of cardiac arrest and activation of 9-1-1 • Early CPR with an emphasis on chest compressions • Rapid defibrillation • Effective advanced life support • Integrated post-cardiac arrest care Hilton Head Island Fire & Rescue and Hilton Head Hospital track every cardiac arrest through the Cardiac Arrest Registry to Enhance Survival. By measuring our response to cardiac arrest, we can identify opportunities for improvement and determine which interventions are most effective. We also investigated the top performing EMS systems in the country to determine the best practices for management of cardiac arrest patients. This has led to various changes including: • Improved recognition of sudden cardiac arrest by 9-1-1 dispatchers and better coaching of bystanders • Additional staffing on suspected sudden cardiac arrest calls • A highly choreographed “pit crew” approach by Fire & Rescue personnel • Early induction of therapeutic hypothermia (our new “Code ICE” program) How successful have our efforts been? We are pleased to announce that for calendar year 2011, our survival rate was 40 percent for sudden cardiac arrest, which puts us on par with some of the best EMS systems in the nation! To schedule a CPR or first aid class or to find out how to purchase and use an AED, you can contact our public education officer Cinda Seamon at (843) 682-5141. 136
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Be Involved in our Town Commissions, Boards and Committees
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p until now, all of our commissions, boards and committees had random renewal times, and very few had term limits. Our town council has adopted general membership requirements and consistent membership terms and limits for applicable commissions, boards and committees. Terms for those affected begin on July 1 and end on June 30. By consolidating and aligning membership term limits, staff will be able to present all recommendations for appointments once per year. Commissions, boards and committees that have term limits include the Planning Commission, Historic Preservation Commission, Elections Commission, Board of Zoning Appeal, Construction Board of Adjustments and Appeals, Accommodations Tax Advisory Committee, Affordable Housing Committee and Public Safety Commission.
Many citizens want to give back to the town but feel that being on town council would be too time consuming. Being on a committee, commission or board is a great way to serve our community and not feel that you are taking too much time from your family or job.
Many citizens want to give back to the town but feel that being on town council would be too time consuming. Being on a committee, commission or board is a great way to serve our community and not feel that you are taking too much time from your family or job. Membership on a commission, board or committee provides the opportunity for citizens to learn about the town, to be involved in the community and to provide input. The town is soliciting citizens to apply for membership on commissions, boards and committees. An applicant must be a resident of, a freeholder in, or a business owner within the municipal boundary of the Town of Bluffton. By participating on the Town of Bluffton’s commissions, boards and committees, you will be doing your civic duty and, at the same time, helping shape the future of our town. Applications for commissions, boards and committees are available on the Town of Bluffton website (TownofBluffton. sc.gov). On the website, look in the right column and click on boards and commission vacancies. You can also read about each committee and see if it is something that interests you. If you have questions when filling out an application, please contact Kimberly Chapman at (843) 706-4505. Submit applications to the Town of Bluffton, attention to Kimberly Chapman. � May 2012
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