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CHARLESTON COUNTY HAS THE SECOND-HIGHEST RATE OF COVID-19 CASES IN SOUTH CAROLINA

‘Things Look Grim’

COVID-19 figures worry SC health experts as cases spread to young adults

BY HEATH ELLISON

CHARLESTON CITY PAPER 07.15.2020

With a new COVID-19 spike in full swing and an increase in the percent of positive tests showing a higher rate of cases, it’s likely we won’t see an end to the pandemic any time soon. In fact, several South Carolina health experts believe the situation will only get worse.

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“What we’re seeing right now is something that we weren’t expecting,” said Mufaro Kanyangarara, an epidemiologist at the University of South Carolina. “I think with reopening plans in place, KANYANGARARA it’s not likely that we’re going to see significant declines in transmission.”

After the lockdown ended amid calls for the economy to reopen, a rise in COVID19 cases occurred in South Carolina. As of Monday, 58,003 people had been infected in S.C. and 961 had died. In Charleston County, there had been 7,832 confirmed cases of novel coronavirus, with the second-highest rate of infection in the state.

On Thursday, state epidemiologist Linda Bell said case numbers could “rise to levels I don’t care to imagine” if S.C. does not get its escalating numbers under control. “If we don’t take action now, if we don’t social distance BELL and wear our masks, then we will see more of our friends, family members and loved ones

become ill, hospitalized and even die,” she added.

Some experts, like College of Charleston public health professor Brian Bossak, don’t have a bleak outlook, even though they recognize the numbers can go up.

BOSSAK “It’s still going to be an active fall in terms of COVID-19, but at least to me, it’s not as bad as it could be,” he said. “We’re not looking at the Black Death or Ebola, at least not right now.”

One of the biggest contributing factors to the pandemic’s recent explosion is an increase in the amount of young people who have been infected. “I think this is likely a function of exposure,” Bossak said, “People indoors, not wearing masks, at close range, lots of exhalation, et cetera.”

In S.C., people ages 21-30 account for over 20 percent of all confirmed cases. Since late June, national trends have indicated young people are a primary reason for the surge of cases.

“While most youth and younger adults with COVID-19 only experience a mild illness, that is not true for all,” Bell said.

“More importantly, they put older and vulnerable people at risk with whom they

might come into contact.”

Health experts note that young people often have less severe symptoms or are asymptomatic, meaning they can carry the virus and transfer it to others without realizing they are sick.

Gov. Henry McMaster reiterated those concerns at a press conference Friday. “We are saying, emphatically, it’s time for our younger adults to behave like mature adults,” he said.

The state’s rate of infection has risen higher than any individual country, according to data analyzed by The New York Times last week. S.C.’s rate of positive COVID-19 tests is at 21.2 percent, as of Monday.

The combination of a high infection rate and high number of cases has doctors at MUSC “very concerned,” according to Michael Sweat, the Medical University of South Carolina’s director for the center of global health. “You can tolerate SWEAT that kind of high growth rate when there aren’t so many cases, but as we’re now getting into larger numbers of cases, it can really explode real quick.”

If case numbers and the rate of infection stay high, experts believe it could strain local hospitals’ capabilities to keep citizens safe.

In recent weeks, face mask ordinances have been implemented in Charleston County, Columbia and Greenville. Sweat told the City Paper at the beginning of July the mask ordinance will help lower the rate of infection. “I think this is going to

raise their awareness,” he said. “I think the fact that it is a policy empowers businesses to uphold that. It’s been very awkward for businesses because they were kind of damned if they did and damned if they didn’t enforce that.”

McMaster has not implemented a statewide mask ordinance, opting to instead encourage local ordinances and statewide rules preventing the sale of alcohol after 11 p.m. to encourage people to go home earlier in the evening.

“I think [face mask ordinances] definitely will have an impact on transmission,” Kanyangarara said. “The extent to which that’s going to have an impact is going to depend on [the] individual’s behaviors and adherence to those ordinances.”

“It will certainly help if people actually wear them,” Bossak added. “I don’t know what the reluctance is — wear the mask.”

Health experts continue to beat the same drum they’ve been pounding since the pandemic began: Wear a face mask, wash your hands and social distance to slow the spread of COVID-19. But, they concede those measures rely on citizens to follow the advice of the experts, and citizens must implement every measure.

When asked if things will get worse before they get better, Kanyangarara said the game changer would be a readily available vaccine. “Given the timeline for the vaccine, it’s highly unlikely that we’re going to have a vaccine before the end of the year,” she said. “We still need to get through the rest of the summer, as well as the fall and the flu season. With that in mind, I would say things look grim.”

—Travel + Leisure Editor in Chief Jacqui Gifford nudged caution when visiting Charleston, which tops the magazine’s list of U.S. cities in the middle of the coronavirus pandemic. Source: Travel + Leisure

SHERIFF’S CAMPAIGN PAID $500 TO CREATE HIS WIKIPEDIA PAGE

The reelection campaign for Charleston County Sheriff Al Cannon paid a sheriff’s office employee to create his Wikipedia page during his off-duty hours, according to new ethics disclosures. The job may not violate state ethics laws, according to officials, but it has drawn the attention of his political opponent and Wikipedia moderators.

According to filings with the South Carolina Ethics Commission on July 7, Cannon’s campaign paid Andrew Knapp of Mount Pleasant $500 for “Wikipedia Development Page.” Knapp is currently the social media coordinator for the sheriff’s office, according to Roger Antonio, who is the public information officer and Knapp’s superior. Antonio confirmed Knapp “did assist Sheriff Cannon in an off-duty capacity, not paid by county funds.”

Cannon’s campaign organization did not respond to requests for info about the nature of the work.

Cannon did not have a Wikipedia entry before user Knapp84 initially created it on May 5. The initial 3,700-word article included Cannon’s military service, Hurricane Hugo’s damage to his Isle of Palms home, and controversial incidents such as a high-speed chase through Mount Pleasant in 2012 that the entry said earned him “notoriety and praise.” (Subsequent changes removed what one editor described as “editorializing,” adding a section on “Controversies.”)

As long as Knapp’s work did not utilize government time or resources, the job would not amount to an ethics violation, according to a representative from the South Carolina Ethics Commission. State ethics laws govern the conduct of both elected officials and public employees.

Cannon’s paid Wikipedia page may not violate South Carolina’s ethics laws, but it appears to have ruffled some of the moderators on the user-maintained reference site. After Cannon’s disclosure was filed and a screenshot was posted on Twitter, a warning banner was placed on the page noting it may be in violation of the website’s terms of use.

Paid posts are “extremely strongly discouraged” on Wikipedia, but they are allowed with specific disclosures by the author. Knapp84’s user page included a conflict of interest notification, but not that the user has been paid for submitting articles, as is required by the terms of use.

Cannon has not had much competition since he first took office in 1988, but this November he faces a longtime Charleston deputy, Kristin Graziano. Cannon asked her to step away from her duties earlier this year before she filed paperwork to run as a Democrat.

“The fact that an employee is doing paid political work for the department head raises some ethical questions, such as the culture of the department and whether employees are feeling intimidated to support their boss,” Graziano told the City Paper.

“It’s clear to me that he is nervous.” —Sam Spence

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INTERNATIONAL AFRICAN AMERICAN MUSEUM MARKS CONSTRUCTION MILESTONE

A social-distanced group of supporters gathered Friday morning to mark a milestone in the construction of the International African American Museum at Gadsden’s Wharf in downtown Charleston. The wharf is the site of the former port where thousands of enslaved Africans arrived in America at the height of the transatlantic slave trade.

Crews lifted the final steel beam of the museum into place Friday. Keeping with tradition, the beam bears the signatures of the crew and supporters, along with a tree.

“Every steel beam represents the hopes and dreams of citizens committed to building an institution that will impact the world,” said former Charleston Mayor Joe Riley, who is also a lifetime member of the museum’s board of directors. “At this extraordinary moment when people across the country are confronting racial injustice in remarkable ways, including protest marches with unprecedented diversity, the need for this museum is undeniable.”

Museum leaders have raised more than $75 million to fund the construction. The museum is expected to open in 2022. You can find a livestream of the topping-out ceremony on the museum’s Facebook page. —Sam Spence

“I have seen the pattern where we seem to unfairly and unjustly target black elected officials from things that aren’t covered nearly to the level and to the degree of their white counterparts.”

—S.C. Rep. Marvin Pendarvis, D-North Charleston, attended a July 10 gathering outside The Post and Courier where black leaders were asking to meet with the paper’s opinion page staff after the publication of a column critical of a black North Charleston city councilman.

CURBING VIRUS IS KEY TO REOPENING SCHOOLS, SAVING ECONOMY, EXPERTS SAY

Reopening school has become a central focus from the Statehouse to the White House as politicians seek to save a floundering economy.

“The thing we’re the most focused on is how do we get the economy moving as quickly as we can to increase jobs, increase people’s pay and get children back in school?” said state Rep. Kirkman Finlay, the Columbia Republican who chairs the House COVID-19 Employment, Workforce and Business Recovery Committee.

But coronavirus cases are still soaring in South Carolina, leading medical experts to caution that the state needs to reel in the virus before reopening schools.

Data showed last week that Arizona, Florida and South Carolina led the world in coronavirus cases per capita. As of Monday, South Carolina had 58,003 confirmed cases with more than 21 percent of those tested being positive for the virus. There have been 961 confirmed deaths linked to the coronavirus. State health officials predict that the death toll will soar to nearly 3,000 by Oct. 1.

Unemployment related to the pandemic has crippled the state’s economy. Previous to the virus’ emergence in the state, the jobless rate was 2.5 percent — or 58,614 people looking for work.

In May, 12.5 percent, or 303,218, were reportedly without jobs.

Since mid-March, 651,750 people have received unemployment insurance benefits in the state, according to the S.C. Department of Employment and Workforce (DEW). The state’s average weekly benefit of $236 has been supplemented by $600 per week from the federal government. But the federal boost is scheduled to end July 25, DEW said. The federal program also paid 13 weeks beyond the state’s 20-week limit on unemployment.

In South Carolina, low-income advocates are worried about what will happen when those benefits decrease. They predict a rise in evictions and hunger.

“It’s not going to be good,” S.C. Appleseed Legal Justice Center Director Sue Berkowitz said.

Pediatricians agree school needs to be restarted.

The Association of American Pediatrics released a statement June 26 encouraging schools to reopen since they provide “academic instruction, social and emotional skills, safety, nutrition, physical activity, and mental health therapy.”

And children can be safer, too, since educators can help catch abuse or neglect. South Carolina’s reports of child abuse or neglect have decreased since schools shuttered, and as of last week, schools have failed to contact 16,085 students statewide since in-person classes closed March 15.

S.C. pediatrician Deborah Greenhouse testified to the Senate select committee this week to support schools’ reopening. She said there is evidence suggesting that not only are children less likely to contract COVID-19, but they are also less likely to carry and pass on the virus to others. Still, she said, social distancing and masks at school will be needed.

But it isn’t as easy as setting a start date in August, other medical experts warn.

“That risks not only infecting the children but the parents as well, which will ultimately harm the economy and overflow the hospital system,” Clemson Public Health Sciences professor Lior Rennert said. —Lindsay Street

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Items were stolen from an emergency room doctor’s car one night after she parked it on a downtown street, including a stethoscope valued at $200. We imagine every medical professional reading this is softly, sadly saying to themselves, “Yeah, $200 sounds right.”

What’s the one thing you never want to say when meeting up with someone you met through the Facebook Marketplace?

“Am I being robbed, is that a gun?” one man asked.

“I guess so,” the offender responded before running off with a stolen cell phone.

Police officers responded to reported gunshots around midnight on the Fourth of July. We were surprised the police even responded, because of fireworks and all, but it turns out the claim was real. Officers found 54 shell casings and live rounds from at least six different firearms in the area. They also found about 87 grams of marijuana, but that was probably unrelated.

When approached by officers, a suspect claimed he had not been inside the store that had reported a shoplifting but was just looking in through the window. He should trademark the term “window shoplifting” then, because he had about $100 worth of stolen merchandise in his pockets.

A West Ashley man reported his car vandalized when he found it in a handicap parking spot, damaged with multiple bricks laying around it.

Turns out, the night before, one of his friends took the car and parked it in the handicap spot. Not sure about the bricks though.

In an effort to appear more family-friendly, the deviant minds behind The Blotter have decided to censor the following entry: Officers met with a [redacted] [redacted] whose [redacted] had been [redacted]. It is worth noting that the [redacted] was [redacted] across from a crew of [redacted], who claimed they didn’t see the [redacted] when they [redacted] on site in the morning.

Officers responded to a downtown bar where a woman was being escorted out of the establishment for removing her clothes and refusing to put them back on. Responding officers noted the women appeared to be intoxicated to the “ordinary observer.” When talking to her, she told police her dad is a judge, a sergeantmajor and that the officer’s daughter is in the bar. She was arrested. Life was so much more peaceful when all the bars were shut down.

Officers watched a man distribute multiple bottles of wine to associates on the corner of King and Calhoun, and after approaching, observed an additional three bottles stuffed in his pockets. At first, we thought this was a simple misunderstanding, as this man was clearly a local wine peddler.

Turns out they were stolen.

Who knew?

A James Island woman noticed that her decorative yard lights were missing from her front yard and launched a solo investigation into the matter vigilante style. Using security camera footage, she tracked the thief to a house down the road and found the missing lights in someone else’s yard. I guess the thief’s yard was green with envy.

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outh Carolina is reaping decades of underinvestment in education. Just look at how our state’s residents are handling coronavirus. Too many are ignoring the guidance of smart people. And that, in turn, is causing COVID-19 to spread like wildfire and become a danger to those who seem to understand the seriousness of this pandemic and who are trying to not get it.

So as a state, we’re not going to win any award for being smart. But right now, we’re the odds-on favorite to win one for being dumb. The New York Times reported last week that South Carolina ranked third in the world — just behind Arizona and Florida — as the place where coronavirus is growing most quickly. The Palmetto State had more cases of the virus on average than any other country. Yes, country.

No one at the top of this list is going to be confused with a modern-day Einstein.

While the state’s establishment seems more interested — perhaps cowed — in keeping businesses open than taking the threat as seriously as did New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo, many of the state’s progressives are rightly demanding the time of fiddle-faddling to be over.

“It is clear that urging citizens and employers to mask up and follow safety guidelines isn’t working,” said state Rep. Gilda Cobb-Hunter, an Orangeburg Democrat, a longtime inspiration within the S.C. Progressive Network. “The virus has become a political issue, and DHEC must stand up for science or we are all going to continue to suffer.”

The state Department of Health and Environmental Control needs to stop sitting on its hands and take “every available means to prevent the transmission of infectious disease and to ensure that all cases of infectious disease are subject to proper control and treatment.” That quote comes from the power the agency has under an existing order of a public health emergency. So far it, like Gov. Henry McMaster and his administration, is failing miserably as we now are topping 2,000 new cases a day.

We’re doing so poorly with this Palmetto pandemic because conservatives had a liberal impatience with the virus.

Obsessed with economics over health, the state opened back up too early. By Memorial Day, too many people acted as if everything was normal and had beach parties, house parties, happy hours and more. But the silent terrorist trudged forward, leaping from person to person as South Carolinians did just what it needed to spread. Now too many people have the disease and more are getting it. Too many will die.

As a state, we need to start over. Curbing the virus isn’t rocket science. It’s going to take determination and will to wear masks, stay at home, wash hands, enforce social distancing, limit shopping and cut out social activity. And for goodness sake, don’t gather in large groups.

It’s in our common interest to sit out the next few weeks and be smarter than we have been. Let’s beat the viral terrorist instead of putting individual desires at the forefront.

Otherwise, it’s going to get even worse. And you can take that to the bank.

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It's never been about the money. Cannon Wine’s owner Alison Green closed the last outpost of her beloved vegan restaurant on Feb. 27.

She'd spent six years at the corner of Rutledge Avenue and Nunan off the Crosstown. Business Street, right was good, a concept proven over and over again since Grayson's first Dell'z opened on Cannon Street a decade ago.

The Uptown space was packed in the days leading chilly Thursday — massiveup to that gray, catering orders put lunch wait times at an traveled from Columbia hour, and people and Atlanta to soak in one last afternoon at the sunny bohemian deli. "I've never seen so many orders of nachos," says Grayson.

Of course, in Charleston, a restaurant closing is hardly news.

It happens all the time, as natural as high tides and traffic on the bridge. For Grayson, closing one place to focus on another was just as natural: In 2009 Dell'z Deli opened on Cannon Street. In 2011, Dell'z Vibes, a juice bar, popped up on King Street around the corner. Both of those closed, but then up popped Dell'z Uptown, followed by yet another short-lived space near what's now King Street Dispensary.

There was a James Island offshoot inside a Gold's Gym. Dell'z on the Macon, helmed

by Grayson's eldest daughter Smarel Nicole Brown, brought vegan eats and fresh juices to Reynolds Avenue in late 2017.

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Even as businesses changed, expanded, contracted, for the past decade there's always been a Jazzy pizza close at hand. But this time, it's different.

"If you pay attention to tion we've had we turn Dell'z, every locaaround super fast," says Brown. "She's had this building [the new lifestyle cafe] for over a year."

Grayson nods, slowly, as if she's calculating just how much time this particular project has been swirling in her mind. She sits to the left of her daughter, two-thirds of our small circle, the equanimou s counter to the chatty, beaming Brown.

Brown has spent most of her time the past six months working on Democratic candidate Tom Steyer's presidential campaign — she's incredibly adept at speaking to people, at translating complex ideas cepts. She's a campaigner into relatable con, a civic champion.

Her mother is more reserved, telling her life story in jolts and waves.

"I've proven I can do the restaurant," Grayson says. "Now it's time to come down and help other people."

Maudellz Lifestyle Cafe 1617 Ashley River Road. is located at The building is painted a pale pink, and inside than you'd think. is much bigger There's a kitchen and a half-dozen brightly with space for a market, painted rooms a yoga studio, a dining room, even a sauna.

'I started out with a can opener' Grayson possesses the calm of a person who has seen more than her fair share of hardships. Her story is not one of detached nostalgia — she's still in it. She started with a can opener.

When Grayson, her son youngest daughter moved Michael, and to Charleston from Kansas City 12 years ago, it was not all Lowcountry sunsets and downtown dreams.

Her husband at the time was fighting personal struggles, she and Michael say, and his troubles didn't magically disappear into the salty ocean air. They hit a rough patch.

Grayson and Michael had a falling out.

He was only 16 when they relocated, and he hadn't spoken to his mother in two years when she showed up at his graduation.

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British thinker and science writer Matt Ridley has a reminder for anyone looking for a quick fix for coronavirus: Innovation takes time.

In what may be the most impactful and important non-fiction book of the year, Ridley’s How Innovation Works says we’ll eventually figure out how to deal with the deadly virus, but it won’t happen overnight.

“As always with innovation, trial and error will decide, but the chances that none of them [potential cures] can cure or ameliorate this disease are small,” writes Ridley in a new afterword of the book, first published in May. “One way or another we will eventually escape from this nightmare and resume economic activity.”

Ridley is an award-winning writer who also happens to be a libertarian and member of Britain’s House of Lords. A columnist for The Times of London and The Wall Street Journal, he collects and interprets research on science, economics and prosperity to explain complicated stuff, such as how ideas and innovation power our society.

What’s most compelling about his new book is it has a pretty clear lesson for anybody who suggests a COVID-19 cure is just around the corner. It may be, he says. But again, it also may not be — because innovation works on its own schedule.

For us, the book teaches any politician or pundit who promises an antiviral therapy, vaccine or miracle cure by the end of the year is either filled with malarkey or spinning political hocus-pocus in what is, remember, an election year.

Don’t be shocked if there’s some kind of pandering political surprise in October.

Right now, Ridley warns, our current way of developing something like a vaccine is too cumbersome and expensive, often punctuated with bureaucratic hurdles and medical landmines. Governments tend, he says, to get in the way of private companies that can innovate. But in an unfortunate twist, those very same companies generally don’t spend enough time developing vaccines because it’s expensive and not profitable in the short term.

“By far the biggest failure of the 2020 pandemic is the failure to have done enough innovation in the field of vaccines,” Ridley wrote.

He explains the difference between innovation and invention by using a quote from Charles Townes (1915-2015), a Nobel Prize-winning physicist born in Greenville who was critical in the development of the laster.

Townes often pointed to an old cartoon of a beaver and a rabbit looking at the Hoover Dam, Ridley wrote. “‘No, I didn’t build it myself,’ says the beaver.

‘But it’s based on an idea of mine.’” An inventor, Ridley explains, may come up with a really good idea that solves a huge problem, such as how to use steam to power an engine or how to use electricity to produce light. But an innovator, through hard work, perspiration, determination and sheer force of will, ferrets out how to make it work in an affordable, easy-to-use manner. For example, several inventors figured out how to make a light bulb, but it took innovator Thomas Edison and his team of scientists to test more than 6,000 plant materials to find the ideal carbon filament to make a bulb really work.

“Edison understood better than anybody before, and many since, that innovation is itself a product, the manufacturing of which is a team effort requiring trial and error,” Ridley wrote.

While the applied sciences of innovation eventually will rout the virus, Ridley says something else has happened as people socially distance and have started to wear masks to protect themselves and others. Before the pandemic, online meetings were possible, but not ubiquitous. But now, Zoom meetings are routine because they’re easy. Twenty years ago, online shopping was terrible; broadband didn’t exist.

In the days ahead, productivity likely will accelerate thanks to innovations, Ridley says. More data will be shared. Cash will become less important. Technology will improve delivery of health care.

Coronavirus cure of some sort is on the way. Just watch out for an October surprise.

Andy Brack is publisher of Charleston City Paper.

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These days, politicians rarely deserve credit when they get around to taking bold and decisive action. Their basic job requirement is to represent the will of the people, after all. For years in South Carolina, the conscience of our state has been heard in the cries of its activists, not the halls of Columbia.

Maybe there was a time when statewide political leaders in South Carolina put their necks on the line and initiated change on their own.

That has not been the story of the Palmetto State of my generation. The principles of effective democracy, along with the spirits of many South Carolinians, have been gutted in this state for decades, replaced by the will of cruel leaders heartened only by low unemployment and corporate giveaways.

To be honest, speaking out is not all that hard in a state where the governor refuses to listen to science. (Maybe he’ll mandate masks.) Or refuses to acknowledge pleas of the ignored. (She’ll call for the flag to come down eventually.) Or when schools and skin color still determine our young people’s fates. (Education reform will happen one day.)

The loud, insistent, unapologetic and moral voices of activists are among the only constants when change has happened in this state. We need their demands today more than ever.

We have come to expect so little of our leaders that without pressure to take action and persevere in the face of criticism, they can skate by doing the bare minimum. Worse, they earn praise or feel the heat for doing what any normal person could tell you is the right thing outside of the insidious world of politics. (Think: State Rep. Nancy Mace boasting a measure banning the shackling of pregnant inmates or U.S. Rep. Joe Cunningham drawing pushback over opposing offshore drilling.)

In South Carolina, where politicians are often security blankets for the status quo, Above all, a diverse and when new policies emerge, you can bet the activists and dissidents were there first. dynamic movement of In just the past 70 years: Before Jim individuals — not personally Crow ended, there was Minerva Brown, interested politicians — is what Harvey Gantt and others at a King Street will break us free from endless, lunch counter. Before Charleston hospital workers got a voice, there was Mary unproductive speculation on Moultrie. Before the Confederate flag came down, there was Bree Newsome. Before the issues that affect us all. idea of LGBTQ rights became mainstream, there was John Zeigler and Edwin Peacock.

Before Calhoun was cut away, days of protests by young activists called out the staggering toll of systemic racism.

In Charleston, it was activists, not politicians, who started the preservation movement. Activists got a Charleston police audit for racial bias done — and another on the way in North Charleston. Activists have pushed against over-eager developers snapping up open land and oil companies drilling off our beaches. Activists marched in the street as our police showcased violent military tactics. Activists young and old, some of whom have navigated to the halls of power, applied pressure to topple Calhoun.

But above all, a diverse and dynamic movement of individuals — not personally interested politicians — is what will break us free from endless, unproductive speculation on issues that affect us all.

“Protests will change some things, but I think people as a whole, will have to change themselves individually inside,” said Councilman Robert Mitchell, a veteran of the civil rights movement himself.

Our state’s righteously independent leaders seem determined to go on needlessly punishing people who don’t fit into their limited views of reality. But give them time, a few choice words and maybe a political opponent and watch when they pick up a sign and start marching.

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Charleston’s traffic troubles won’t magically disappear, but a major mass transit project connecting downtown and Summerville is poised to shift thinking and relieve congestion over the next few years.

“This isn’t something that will be transformed overnight,” said communities and transportation program director for the Coastal Conservation League Jason Crowley. “But, this project opens doors that might otherwise have been unavailable and the ability to transform a community that might not have been a center for investment before.”

Since 2014, regional planners at the Berkeley-CharlestonDorchester Council of Governments (BCDCOG) have looked at the ways they could address traffic bottlenecks along busy commuter corridors, hoping to move people along Interstate 26 and Rivers Avenue more quickly with Lowcountry Rapid Transit (LCRT). The first major phase of that effort is a bus rapid transit system along Rivers Avenue, a first-of-its-kind project for the region, slated to begin running in 2025.

Bus rapid transit combines the benefit of buses to be able to drive alongside other vehicles with the efficiency of a light rail system to travel along designated lanes separate from normal traffic, making periodic stops along the route.

Stoplights are timed along the way to minimize slowdowns, giving the high-volume buses an edge over local traffic.

Lowcountry Rapid Transit expects to be able to keep a one-way trip under an hour along the 26-mile corridor connecting Summerville to the downtown hospital district.

The system will be able to handle 6,784 passenger trips per day, or about 2 million trips per year.

“It’s for the people in the middle who can’t get in a car to go to the grocery store,” Crowley said. “The people who live in North Charleston are the people who have the ability to make this the most successful. They are the ones that are relying heavily on the local bus line … This isn’t meant to replace that — it’s meant to expand on that transit.”

The completion of this project will mark the first time the region has a large-scale, consolidated transportation project that addresses mobility, zoning and growth.

“It will be a major reconstruction of Rivers Avenue,” said LCRT project manager Sharon Hollis. “Adding bicycle and pedestrian facilities that aren’t there today … It gives folks access to economic opportunities that they otherwise wouldn’t have. It provides an option HOLLIS that’s just not there.”

‘The state’s first real mass transit project’ While this program would primarily serve the Lowcountry, it could have a broader impact.

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Carolina,” Crowley said. “This is the state’s first real mass transit project: Charleston County put a portion of the transportation sales tax funding toward the creation of LCRT and the BCDCOG has used this as the spine of a larger regional transit framework.”

The project is an opportunity to look at transforming the region, Crowley said. “After years of our region’s winding roads and new roads, and traffic continuing to be an issue, it’s evident that we can’t build our way out of transportation problems. We need to invest in equitable mobility.”

That’s the goal, according to LCRT officials.

Drawing a line from Summerville to the hospital district in downtown Charleston, the proposed transit route will connect suburban and rural communities to the region’s urban hub, stimulating growth along the way.

“It hits the employment corridor. It hits the hospital, the colleges. It hits all those communities that have a transit need,” Hollis said. “It helps the existing transit riders, and perhaps the future riders that don’t have a viable option from Charleston to Summerville, to get to where they’re going. It’s for everyone.”

Now, armed with the concerns and suggestions from nearly 500 members of the community, Lowcountry Rapid Transit is moving into its next phase.

Getting input Over the past year, Lowcountry Rapid Transit has hosted public meetings to gather feedback, ranging from items as small as bus design to major decisions like station locations.

“It helps us to understand what some of the concerns are,” Hollis

Lowcountry Rapid Transit has hosted several public meetings to gather feedback and suggestions for the project’s usability and visual design Source: Lowcountry Rapid Transit

said. “Are there some areas where people are concerned with traffic, are there others with people who are concerned about access?“ While the coronavirus pandemic that swept through the Lowcountry in mid-March stopped in-person public meetings, the team shifted conversations online. A virtual public forum that ran through July 10 counted more than 5,000 people attending and interacting with the forum online.

The latest presentation is still available at lowcountryrapidtransit.com “We are consistently taking input,” Hollis said. “When this ends, it doesn’t mean that input ends. We respond to every comment or question we get. We review them, we talk about them and we respond to them.”

There have been a lot of questions and concerns raised by the public regarding the proposed route of the LCRT corridor, leading the team to generate multiple options based on feedback from those who participated in public forums.

Finalizing the route’s alignment as well as station location and design are the next steps before the project moves on to engineering and financing.

Roadblocks and speed bumps As with any project of this scale, there have been some bumps along the way. Redesigning the way a community views and uses its roadways is a tall order according to CARTA Chairman Mike Seekings, who also serves on Charleston City Council.

“It’s not just picking out a route,” he said. “It’s figuring out what communities it goes through and making sure that we protect those communities for both short-and-long-term success. Those are fairly substantial assignments, and we are working on them all simultaneously.”

Other concerns include unintended growth pressure or the potential for gentrification of neighborhoods, Crowley said.

Not only that, but it can be difficult to find a place to start a project like this from scratch, Seekings said. But, the project’s long lead time is comparable to others like it.

“I think people comment often that we seem to be taking forever, but as far as transit projects go, this one is moving fairly quickly,” Hollis said.

With all the discussion and public input, one of the main things people want to see is how this system will actually take shape here in Charleston.

“What the community wants to see the most is what it will look like on the roadway,” Hollis said. “So, our next step moving forward is starting to create those visualizations and help people understand how it will actually function in their community.”

Once the public has a stronger vision of LCRT working in their neighborhoods, the team will be able to start more concrete designs and plans for the construction and implementation of their bus rapid transit corridor.

The success of LCRT hinges on ensuring it is not just a commuter line, but something functional and accessible for everyone along its route, Crowley said.

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From the Archives: Art of Jazz Series The Gibbes and Charleston Jazz present the virtual series, From the Archives: Art of Jazz Edition. Each month, Charleston Jazz releases a full Art of Jazz performance on Facebook and YouTube. This Thursday, you’ll hear from The Absolutes saxophonist Kevin Patton and pianist Maxx Bradley, who debuted eight original compositions inspired by artwork on exhibit at the Gibbes Museum. The quartet included Fisher Wilson on bass and Miller Boone on drums.

July 16 at 7 p.m. gibbesmuseum.org

Next Wednesday head to West Ashley’s Old Towne Creek County Park during Wine Down Wednesday. Guests will enjoy wine, food truck fare from Semilla, and live music from Lane Doss.

For the safety of participants, there will be no onsite registration and tickets must be purchased in advance. Tickets are very limited so snag yours soon.

July 22, 5:30-7:30 p.m. $15. Old Towne Creek County Park, 1400 Old Towne Road.

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This Saturday, head to Safe Sounds at Firefly for live music from The Reckoning, Firefly cocktails, and local food trucks. Tickets for the event are limited to 500 and are purchased in sets of four. Each set of four tickets will secure a spot in a 10-by-10 square, separated on all sides by 8 feet. Guests are encouraged to bring blankets and chairs to enjoy the concert, but please leave your dogs, children and outside food and drink at home.

July 18 at 7 p.m. $100/four tickets.

Firefly Distillery, 4201 Spruill Ave. North Charleston

Pop-up Gallery by The Scouted Studio Local online art gallery, The Scouted Studio (formerly Straight to Art), returns to Timbers Kiawah this summer for an outdoor pop-up gallery event, held each Monday through the end of August. Held in an open air venue at Timbers Kiawah, the pop-up features work by local and regional artists. Head to Timbers Kiawah each Monday, 5-7 p.m. to shop art, social distanced style. Be sure to call (843) 867-7100 to let Scouted Studio know you’re attending.

Mondays, 5-7 p.m. Through August.

Free to attend. Timbers Kiawah, 3000 Southern Pines Lane. Kiawah Island. thescoutedstudio.com

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Safety Jam Tradesman Brewing Co. and Awendaw Green present Safety Jam, a socially distanced outdoor music event, held every Wednesday this summer at Tradesman Brewing. Enjoy a free show sampling the artistic talents of local and regional acts (donations to artists are encouraged).

Beer, soft drinks, and bites from local vendors will be available for purchase.

Bring chairs and blankets to spread out on Tradesman’s patio.

Wednesdays, 6-10 p.m. Donations.

Tradesman Brewing Co., 1647 King St. Ext. Downtown

Head to the Pour House on July 18 at 11 a.m. for a special yoga and meditation class, Move for the Movement, designed to honor black lives. Guided by yoga instructor Ashley Mizzell (@ashleywiththeasanas) the class is just $10, with all proceeds donated to local community-led campaign, Friends of Gadsden Creek. Friends of Gadsden Creek is a grassroots group that opposes the destruction of Gadsden Creek and demands the revitalization of the area and its surrounding wetlands. The yoga class will take place in the back lot at the Pour House; be sure to pre-register so the organizers have an accurate head count and can comply with social distancing guidelines.

July 18 at 11 a.m. $10. Charleston Pour House, 1977 Maybank Hwy. James Island. charlestonpourhouse.com

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artifacts CHARLAMAGNE THA GOD REPORTEDLY GETTING WEEKLY TALK SHOW ON COMEDY CENTRAL

Finding Joy

Moncks Corner native Charlamagne Tha God, best known as the host of popular radio franchise The Breakfast Club, may soon be getting his very own talk show on Comedy Central.

According to Vulture, Charlamagne’s series will air weekly during a half-hour time slot with a focus on current events and cultural issues. The goal is to have the series in production by November.

Charlamagne told Vulture that his new show will have a cable news feel, inspired by the likes of TV personalities John Oliver and Bill Maher. He notes that he doesn’t want the show to simply be a “rehash” of the week, telling Vulture: “I want to talk about the things that can actually impact somebody’s life, in a real way — the things that can actually help move the culture forward.”

TV vet Chris McCarthy recently took over control of Comedy Central, and hopes to revitalize the network with shows like Charlamagne’s. McCarthy told Vulture: “The reality is we’re not channels. We’re content. What represents us is the content that we create, the talent we work with. So the whole idea of what we’ve been doing has been about shifting the entire paradigm so that we take the best out of the groups [and] really liberate the brand.”

On Charlamagne, McCarthy said: “Charlamagne’s voice is very right for today. It’s fresh and real and resonating in a way that very few can do.”

—Connelly Hardaway

BY GABRIELA CAPESTANY Bold colors and joyful memories of black girlhood mark Charleston artist Jirah Perkins’ Miss Mary Mack: An Homage to Black Girl Nostalgia. The artist’s latest exhibit briefly debuted at the Charleston County Public Library back in March, before the coronavirus pandemic shut down most of the city.

Perkins had started working on Miss Mary Mack just before she knew it was going to be shown at the Main Library’s Saul Alexander Gallery. “I started it and I kept going with it for the exhibit; I wanted to make it the whole theme for that show,” Perkins said. “I had gotten approved for this show and I knew I could go anywhere I wanted but around that time I was really focusing on black women and what it means to be a black woman.”

Perkins was able to have an opening reception for the show in March, but her work was “in quarantine basically, for the rest of the month.” However, the public can still view Miss Mary Mack on Perkins’ website.

Miss Mark Mack was created out of Perkins’ desire to share black girls’ shared childhood experiences of joy specifically by highlighting games played by young girls, as the exhibit title references the singing and clapping children’s game. “I was reading this book, it’s called Pushout [by Monique W. Morris] and it talks about the criminalization of black girls in schools and how that follows us into adulthood. I really wanted to just inspire people to research and learn the many narratives of black women and dig deeper into understanding the games we played as young girls,” said Perkins. “I wanted to highlight that and highlight the joyous moments that were taken away from a lot of us as children.”

Honoring “the flair, togetherness, and unadulterated joy of black womanhood” as Perkins describes, she paints a series of works using bright colors and acrylics. “I’m in an experimental stage I’ve been going [through] for a while, so I definitely do different mediums and I’m just figuring out my way.

Recently, especially with this collection, I include my own references as far as taking pictures and even kind of writing poetry behind the scenes to go with it. I picked up beauty supplies and I have pictures to go along with some of the paintings.” Perkins shares much of her process, including these

Photo by Ruta Smith

JIRAH PERKINS CELEBRATES BLACK WOMANHOOD IN ALL OF HER WORK. YOU CAN SEE HER PROCESS ON INSTAGRAM (@UJORII)

reference photos and descriptions, on her Instagram account.

While some of her technique may be new for Miss Mary Mack, her subject stays within the ideas that Perkins generally focuses on when creating art. “My past work has been mostly just black women-focused and African culture-focused, but this one I really wanted to dig into especially African-American culture, especially seeing how it’s been appropriated so much with influencers nowadays.”

“People have tried to reinvent and appropriate our culture without giving proper recognition. So much that they’ve even profited from it,” Perkins said. “We’re not given our proper recognition so I just wanted to put more narratives out there so people can really learn and be inspired to learn.”

Perkins makes that idea clear when framing Miss Mary Mack and specifically chooses to express how the source of black womanhood comes from the joy of childhood as a black girl. “I wanted to shed light on some of the positive memories we shared in our childhood. In school, young black girls are disciplined and criminalized at disproportionately higher rates than other children. It can be difficult to enjoy the spaces we take up when we’re encouraged to tiptoe around them. That conduct followed a lot of us into adulthood, causing a systematic erasure of adolescence.”

Beyond her latest exhibit, Perkins creates art in a variety of styles and mediums. “In the middle of a pandemic and an uprising it’s hard to really know exactly what subjects to paint and which route to go, so sometimes for me I just have to paint what I feel and

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that comes out in my abstract work most, just feelings alone and colors and texture.”

In addition to abstract work, Perkins has been commissioned to create body paint for Charleston-based photograper New Moon Visuals aka Raven Green, who was recently featured in Time magazine.

Images of Perkins’ commissions, abstract art, and Miss Mary Mack, are available for viewing and purchase on her website, Ujorii Fine Art. “[Ujorii] is a blend of the two words ‘Ujima’ and ‘Satori’. ‘Ujima’ is a Swahili term for collective work and responsibility and ‘Satori’ is a Buddhist term for sudden enlightenment,” she said.

Perkins hopes her pieces will push others to learn, question and create in their own lives. “I just hope for people to read more and to learn more and definitely get inspired to do the same thing: to create work that raises questions,” said Perkins. “Especially people my age, young black artists especially, to be inspired and to do the same thing.”

Jirah Perkins’ art can be found at ujorii.com and on her Instagram @ujorii.

HOLY CITY MAGIC CLOSES, BLAMING “DISPROPORTIONATE” ENFORCEMENT OF COVID -19 CLOSURES

Last week local magic parlor Holy City Magic announced that it is closing its doors. In a statement posted on Facebook, owner of Holy City Magic, Howard Blackwell, blamed “government bureaucracy and the disproportionate way the law is being enforced” for the location’s closing.

You can find the full statement on Holy City Magic’s Facebook page.

Per Gov. Henry McMaster’s orders, entertainment venues like theaters and performing arts centers are still not allowed to reopen during the current coronavirus pandemic.

Holy City Magic opened last July and hosted a slew of popular shows, bringing in local and national talent and even presenting family-friendly matinee performances.

—CH For daily updates from Charleston’s art world, check out the Arts+Movies section at charlestoncitypaper.com.

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Keeping the Creative Flame Alive Talking American Graffiti, on-demand and good films with Adrian Roman Capturing scenes throughout the Lowcountry and directed

by Charleston’s own Adrian Roman, The Blood Thins follows Polly Duggin (Jessica Bell), a young wife and mother, who abruptly loses her husband and young daughter under weird and unusual circumstances. This loss begins a winding quest for the truth behind the tragedy while confronting strange visions and disembodied voices. In between projects, including Collateral Damage: A COVID-19 Lockdown Story and the political short, The Third Party, Roman spoke with us about his life making movies, watching movies and keeping that creative flame within from going out.

City Paper: What’s the first movie you remember seeing in the theater?

Adrian Roman: I’m going to show my age here: My dad took me and my brothers to see American Graffiti. George Lucas directed. It was a fun film, great music, and I dreamed of owning a “muscle car” for years. I don’t know if it influenced me as a filmmaker, but I think it influenced me as a teenager.

CP: Can you name a few of your favorite films?

AR: A Few Good Men, Casablanca, Blade Runner, Tombstone, Saving Private Ryan, Pretty Woman.

Sometimes it’s hard to say why one loves a film as the emotional experience doesn’t break down as easily as saying, “Great acting, great score, beautiful cinematography, etc., etc.” I know that I enjoy a romantic and heroic story. It’s also important, to me, for it to not be predictable. I gravitate to stories where the hero has flaws and their humanity shows.

One of the greatest films ever made that challenges our humanity is David Lynch’s The Elephant Man. My favorite TV show is The West Wing. Nobody writes dialogue better than Aaron Sorkin.

CP: What was your first movie-making experience?

AR: The first thing I ever did in the film business was write a feature screenplay; a sophomoric comedy called Dick Sloan.

It did well in the screenwriting competition and film festival circuit. Making a feature right out of the gate is too big a project as a first go-round, so I wrote a short, talked a few friends into acting in it, found a guy who is a videographer, and we shot it. I edited and scored it as well. I made every new-filmmaker mistake in the book. From that point on, I’ve written scripts, and directed on set, with the edits in mind.

CP: What are some themes in your work?

AR: Since I write dramas, comedies, romance, thrillers, and action films, I can’t say, thematically, that my work fits snuggly into any one genre. That said, I know now, years into it, that people consistently mention the look of my films and the witty dialogue. I’m an oil painter and believe my work and study in that discipline bleeds into the cinematography of my films. Understanding light and composition as a painter has influenced me as a director of photography. Also, I enjoy TV and films with intelligent dialogue and snappy repartee.

CP: With COVID-19, closing entertainment venues, do you find yourself missing the theater experience?

AR: Seventy-inch TVs are great, but there is something special about sharing the movie experience with several hundred people who feel similar emotions at the same

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moments. There’s a synergy that happens in a theater, like when the shark is stalking a swimmer, and the audience, collectively, feels tension and fear; it therefore escalates that tension and fear. That is irreplaceable.

CP: While we’re on the subject of on-demand, what is that process like to get your stuff on a platform?

AR: The relative difficulty of getting content on different platforms varies. The higher the platform profile, the more “deliverables” they require. Generally, they want a laundry list of things relating to aspect ratios, sound, artwork, loglines, and synopsis, as well as other technical requirements that a film must comply with to be accepted. The bigger, better platforms are rightly attempting to only allow content that fits at least a minimum quality standard. I respect that, even though I’ve seen some pretty bad films get on them. Some filmmakers complain when their film is not accepted, but my response is, make better films. Most of the really horrible films that are on these platforms got accepted before they tightened quality requirements. I expect that trend to continue.

CP: It can be a frustrating/exhausting trip — making a film that is. What would you say has kept you driven to create a film even when the chips are down?

AR: I’ve quit a thousand times. It’s easy to make a bad film and brutal to make a good one. There is a saying, “you can make a good film with no money, but slowly, or, you can make a good film fast, with money.” Aside from the difficulties of filmmaking, in general, making films on a low budget that have any true worth or value is 10 times more challenging. There is no accounting for passion. If I wasn’t so taken by the visual storytelling venue of film, then I would simply write novels. (I am writing a novel, but that is beside the point.) Being on a movie set is intoxicating. There’s no other way to describe it. All the pre-production work, all the post-production work, all of it is done for those days on set collaborating with other artists and technicians. They call it getting “the bug.” I’ve quit a thousand times and then get up the next day with a new screenplay rumbling around in my head and thoughts of how to produce it.

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“Because of the current climate, we felt as though it was the best decision for both our customer base and for our business,” said Uptown Social operating partner Kara Graves. “Socially distant outdoor seating is safest for our community and gives us the ability to still operate.” The interior of the 10,000-square-foot bar will remain open at partial capacity.

The mural, painted by local Charleston artist Sarah Winecoff, plays off a scene in Mean Girls where Regina George is told she can’t sit with the other mean girls at lunch.

“We wanted something fun, bright and Instagrammable,” said Graves. “We also wanted people to know that even though times are tough, you can sit with US — outside.” —Parker Milner

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Orozco and Lago said representing these don’t have the money like a giant distributor would to just sit on giant cases of wine.” producers is important, especially since Despite the obstacles ahead, Orozco the wine distribution industry has high and Lago said they barriers to entry.

“We’ve had a lot of positive have producers to “We are still in the represent once the fundraising stage,” responses from producers permits are in. So said Lago. “The funds and most of them have said far, the women that we’ve raised so far, we’re putting they really resonate with what have made connections in California, towards getting the we’re doing and have found Oregon and Texas programs processed, that representation has been with wine producers getting licensing and they hope to bring setting up things that a huge issue for them.” to Charleston. As of we need to do. Right July 6, Mantra Wine now, we haven’t raised —Brooke Lago, co-owner of Mantra Wine Distributors Distributors made enough capital to start some official contract offers, they said. purchasing product.”

“A lot of the smaller producers are familyAccording to Lago, they are still waiting on permits to be approved — a process that can owned, and we kind of shine dealing with them one-one-one,” said Lago. “We really take up to eight weeks. look into each producer that we want to carry “South Carolina and the federal governand we go in with the hope that they want us ment are really picky with distributors as far as legalities go,” Orozco said. “There’s a lot of to carry them because we already know that we want to carry them. We’ve had a lot of compliance stuff that we need to look into.”

“The permits are expensive,” said Lago. positive responses from producers and most “And when we do receive them, it’s $2,500 bi- of them have said they really resonate with annually just to keep running. There are a lot what we’re doing and have found that repreof breaks in prices the bigger you go, but unfor- sentation has been a huge issue for them.” tunately that’s the antithesis of what we’re trying to do. We are the only employees, so our For more about Mantra Wine Distributors whole business model is going to rely on getting and to donate to their GoFundMe, visit cases in and turning them back out because we mantrawinedistributors.com.

Last week, Handcraft Kitchen & Cocktails announced it would reopen with a new executive chef and general manager following a temporary closure due to the coronavirus pandemic.

Executive chef Justin Rambo-Garwood joins Handcraft after spending three years leading the kitchen at 39 Rue de Jean.

Rambo-Garwood’s revamped Handcraft menu features additions like mac and cheese with pancetta, peas, fontina and parmesan breadcrumbs and pork belly with butterbean succotash.

New general manager Daniel Farrell is a level one certified sommelier and brings 15 years of experience in resorts and restaurants to the Mount Pleasant restaurant and cocktail bar. Since joining the team, Farrell has reconfigured the restaurant to allow for more socially distant dining.

“We are so excited to showcase our new menu items and team members to the Charleston area,” Farrell said in a press release. “We are enthused about this new chapter for Handcraft Kitchen & Cocktails.”

Handcraft Kitchen & Cocktails is open Tuesday through Saturday starting at 4 p.m. for indoor and outdoor dining while also offering online ordering and curbside pick-up. —PM

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Jonella Orozco and Brooke Lago want to expand local wine selections beyond red, white and rose by making the lists more representative of the people producing such wines.

But first, they need capital.

With more than 30 years of combined hospitality experience, Orozco and Lago have long known that minority representation is lacking on many local wine lists. That’s why they launched Mantra Wine Distributors, among the first American distributors that will work solely with black, Latinx, female and LGBTQ+ producers.

Orozco and Lago said consumers are willing to try wine from minority-owned producers, but those wines aren’t as easy to find.

The idea began when Orozco, the certified sommelier at Peninsula Grill prior to the pandemic, wanted to add some wines that represented her Mexican American heritage.

“Despite several months of effort, we ultimately were unable to get the wine into our program through our local distributors. From that research, I found that Latinx-owned wineries had very little representation in our food and beverage scene,” she said.

When the George Floyd protests began in May, Orozco said she looked into blackowned wineries and also noticed their lack of representation in the local market.

“I compiled a list of about 60 known black-owned wineries in the U.S. and found that only three of them were available in the area, two of which were bought by superstars and millionaires, and not by working class citizens,” she said.

Those experiences led Orozco and Lago to create a business plan for Mantra Wine Distributors while both were furloughed from Peninsula Grill, which closed temporarily due to the pandemic. The business partners are confident they can make a difference for small, family-owned wineries.

“That’s the thing. We’re not saying, ‘Try this wine because it’s a Mexican-owned winery,’” Lago said. “It’s more that it’s a really great wine and you should try it.

They’re not getting the opportunity to try it and they’re not realizing that they’re not getting the opportunity.”

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Defendant(s).

REVISED LIS PENDENS NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that

an action has been commenced by the Plaintiff, R. Wayne Wiggins, complaining of Defendants Sharon E. Howard, Monika V. Coker, Sadye Logan, ADEM, LLC, and if any of the above-named Defendants be deceased, then their respective heirs-at-law, distributees, personal representatives, assigns, administrators, creditors, successors, assigns, children and/or spouses, John and Jane Does, adults, and Richard Roe, infants, insane persons, incompetents, and persons in the Military Service of the United States of America, being fictitious names designated as a class of any unknown person or entity who may be an heir, distributee, devisee, legatee, widower, widow, assign, administrator, executor, creditor, successor, personal representative, issue or alienee of Sharon E. Howard, Monika V. Coker, or Sadye Logan, as well as any of the other Defendants abovenamed who may be deceased and any other persons or legal entities, known or unknown, claiming any right, title, interest or estate in or lien upon the parcel of real estate described in the Lis Pendens and Complaint filed herein (hereinafter referred to collectively as “Defendants”), to quiet title on the property described more thoroughly herein.

The following is a description of the premises subject of said foreclosure action:

Daniel Island, South Carolina

STATE OF SOUTH CAROLINA, COUNTY OF CHARLESTON IN THE COURT OF COMMON PLEAS FILE NO. 2019-CP-10-0514

R. Wayne Wiggins, Plaintiff, vs.

Sharon E. Howard, Monika V. Coker, Sadye Logan, and if any of the above-named Defendants be deceased, then their respective heirs-at-law, distributees, personal representatives, assigns, administrators, creditors, successors, assigns, children and/ or spouses, John and Jane Does, adults, and Richard Roe, infants, insane persons, incompetents, and persons in the Military Service of the Unites States of America, being fictitious names designated as a class of any unknown person or entity who may be an heir, distributee, devisee, legatee, widower, widow, assign, administrator, executor, creditor, successor, personal representative, issue or alienee of Sharon E. Howard, Monika V. Coker, or Sadye Logan, as well as any of the other Defendants above-named who may be deceased and any other persons or legal entities, known or unknown, claiming any right, title, interest or estate in or lien upon the parcel of real estate described in the Lis Pendens and Complaint filed herein.

Defendant(s).

ALL THAT CERTAIN PIECE, PARCEL, OR LOT OF LAND, SITUATE, LYING AND BEING ON JOHNS ISLAND, COUNTY OF CHARLESTON, STATE OF SOUTH CAROLINA, CONTAINING 11.74 ACRES, MORE OR LESS, AND BEING MORE PARTICULARLY SHOWN AND DESIGNATED AS TRACT A ON THAT CERTAIN PLAT ENTITLED “BOUNDARY SURVEY OF 281-00-00-244 11.74 ACRES ON BENJAMIN ROAD OWNED BY WAYNE WIGGINS LOCATED ON JOHNS ISLAND CHARLESTON COUNTY SOUTH CAROLINA,”

BY JERROLD ANDERSON, P.L.S. # 16123, DATED MARCH 21, 2011, REVISED APRIL 23, 2011, AND ATTACHED HERETO AS EXHIBIT B. SAME PLAT BEING RECORDED IN BOOK S11 AT PAGE 0087 ON APRIL 29, 2011 IN THE RMC OFFICE OF CHARLESTON COUNTY.

ORDER APPOINTING GUARDIAN AD LITEM

BEING THE SAME PROPERTY CONVEYED TO R. WAYNE WIGGINS BY DEED OF RICHARD W. WIGGINS DATED JANUARY 8, 2008, AND RECORDED IN THE REGISTER OF DEEDS OFFICE FOR CHARLESTON COUNTY IN BOOK H648 AT PAGE 805 ON JANUARY 8, 2008.

TMS No. 281-00-00-244 LESS AND EXCEPT THAT PORTION KNOWN AS TMS. NO. 281-00-00-005 MORE THOROUGHLY DESCRIBED AS: ALL THAT CERTAIN LOT, PIECE OR PARCEL OF LAND, TOGETHER WITH THE BUILDINGS AND IMPROVEMENTS THEREON, SITUATE, LYING AND BEING ON THE BENJAMIN ROAD EXTENSION ON JOHNS ISLAND IN THE COUNTY OF CHARLESTON, STATE OF SOUTH CAROLINA, SHOWN AND DESIGNATED AS CONTAINING ONE-ACRE OF LAND ON A PLAT PREPARED

BY ASHLEY LAND SURVEYING, INC., DATED MARCH 26, 2010 AND RECORDED IN THE R.M.C. OFFICE FOR CHARLESTON COUNTY IN PLAT BOOK L 11 AT PAGE 0037; SAID LOTS HAVING SUCH BUTTINGS BOUNDINGS, SIZE, SHAPE, AND DIMENSIONS AS WILL BY REFERENCE APPEARED TO THE SAID PLAT MORE FULLY APPEAR AND SAID PLAT IS MADE IMPORTANT PARCEL OF THIS DESCRIPTION

BY REFERENCE THERETO. Respectfully Submitted, Victoria N. Smith (101864) Payne Law Firm, LLC 280 Seven Farms Drive, Suite A Daniel Island, SC 29492 May 7, 2019

This Matter comes before the Court on the Motion of the Plaintiff, represented by his counsel of record, Victoria N. Smith, Esq. It is appearing that there may be unknown persons who have or may claim an interest in the subject matter who are either minors, incompetents, imprisoned, or subject to the protections of the Soldier’s and Sailor’s Civil Relief Act and in need of a guardian.

IT IS THEREFORE ORDERED that Edward Merritt Farmer of Charleston, SC is hereby appointed as guardian ad litem for all such Defendants who are or may be minors, incompetent, imprisoned, or subject to the protections of the Soldiers and Sailor’s Civil Relief Act; AND IT IS SO ORDERED this 17th day of February in the Year of Our Lord 2019, in Charleston County, State of South Carolina. s/The Honorable Roger Young Charleston, South Carolina

RDC File No.: 19-12986 STATE OF SOUTH CAROLINA COUNTY OF CHARLESTON IN THE COURT OF COMMON PLEAS CASE NO.: 2020-CP-10-1284 Ronald Wilson, Plaintiff, vs.

John Doe and Jane Doe, whose names are unknown and fictitious names designating the unknown heirs, devisees, distributes, issue, executors, administrators, successors, or assigns of Marion Wilson, deceased, if they or any of them be dead; and Mary Roe and Richard Roe, whose true names are unknown and fictitious names designating infants, persons under disability, incompetents, imprisoned, or those person in the military, if any; and also all other persons known or whose true names are unknown, claiming any right, title, interest in, or lien upon the real estate described in the Complaint herein, Defendants.

SUMMONS AND NOTICE TO: THE ABOVE NAMED DEFENDANTS: YOU ARE HEREBY SUMMONED and required to answer the Complaint in the above entitled action, a copy of

which is herewith served upon you, and to serve a copy of your answer upon the undersigned at his office, 2050 Spaulding Drive, Suite 2, North Charleston, South Carolina 29406, within thirty (30) days after service hereof upon you, exclusive of the day of such service, and if you fail to answer the Complaint within the time aforesaid, judgment by default will be rendered against you for the relief demanded in the Complaint.

YOU WILL ALSO TAKE NOTICE that should you fail to answer the foregoing summons, the Plaintiff will move for a general Order of Reference of this cause to the Master in Equity or Special Referee for this County, which order shall, pursuant to Rule 53(e) of the South Carolina Rules of Civil Procedure, specifically provide that the said Master in Equity or Special Referee is authorized and empowered to enter a final judgment in this case.

NOTICE OF FILING TO THE DEFENDANT(S) ABOVE NAMED: YOU WILL PLEASE TAKE NOTICE that the foregoing Summons and Complaint, were filed with the Clerk of Court for Charleston County, South Carolina on March 9, 2020.

ORDER APPOINTING GUARDIAN AD LITEM UPON READING AND FILING the Petition of the Plaintiff for the appointment of Richard A. Steadman, Jr., Esquire, as Guardian ad Litem for any unknown defendants who may be minors, infants, persons under disability or incompetent, including those persons who might be in the military service within the meaning of Title 50, United States Code, commonly referred to as the Soldiers and Sailors Relief Act of 1940, being as a Class designated as “John Doe,” and “Richard Roe,” and it appearing that the names and addresses of such persons, if any, whether residents or non-residents of the State of South Carolina, are unknown to Plaintiff and cannot, with reasonable diligence be ascertained, and that the said Richard A. Steadman, Jr., Esquire, whose office is located at 6296 Rivers Avenue, Suite 102, North Charleston, South Carolina, is a suitable and competent person to understand and protect the rights and interests of said Defendants and has no interest therein adverse to the interest of said Defendants, if any, and is not connected in business with the Plaintiff, in this action or with its counsel.

IT IS, THEREFORE, ORDERED that said Richard A. Steadman, Jr., Esquire, be and he is hereby designated and appointed Guardian ad Litem Nisi for said unknown Defendants who may be minors, infants, persons under disability of incompetent, including those persons who might be in the military service within the meaning of Title 50, United States Code, commonly referred to as the Soldiers and Sailors Relief Act of 1940, being as a class designated as “John Doe,” and “Richard Roe,” and he is hereby authorized to appear and defend the said action on behalf of said Defendants, unless Defendants, if any, or any of them shall within thirty (30) days after the service of a copy of this Order upon them, exclusive of the day of service, as herein provided, procure to be appointed, procure to be appointed a Guardian ad Litem for said Defendants, if any, for the purposes of this action.

IT IS FURTHER ORDERED that this Order shall be served upon said unknown Defendants who may be minors, infants, persons under disability or incompetent, including those persons who might be in the Military Service within the meaning of Title 50,

United States Code, commonly referred to as the Soldiers and Sailors Relief Act of 1940, being as a Class designated “John Doe,” and “Richard Roe,” by publication of a notice of this Order as required by law in a newspaper published in Berkeley County, South Carolina, once a week for three (3) consecutive weeks.

S/R R. David Chard S.C. Bar No.: 1190 Attorney for the Plaintiff 2050 Spaulding Drive, Suite 2 N. Charleston, SC 29406 (843) 554-6984

RDC File No.: 19-13003 STATE OF SOUTH CAROLINA IN THE COURT OF COMMON PLEAS COUNTY OF CHARLESTON CASE NO.: 20-CP-10-0778 Burton Street Properties, LLC, Plaintiff, vs.

The Estate of Hezekiah Bryant, deceased, his Heirs at Law, or Distributees, Personal Representatives, Successors, Assigns, or Spouses, if any, and all other persons entitled to claim under or through them and all unknown persons with any right, title or interest in the real property subject to this action, those who are adults being as a class designated as John Doe and any unknown infants or Persons under any disability or person in the military service of the United States of America being as a class designated as Richard Roe, and the City of North Charleston, Defendants.

LIS PENDENS Notice is hereby given that Plaintiff will, within twenty (20) days from the date hereof, commence foreclosure proceedings against the above named Defendants for the foreclosure of the below described mortgage:

Mortgagee: Palmetto Mortgage Corporation Mortgagor: Hezekiah Bryant Date Signed: October 4, 2006 Book and Page: Book Z600 Page 128 Date Recorded: October 5, 2006 Assignment From: Palmetto Mortgage Corporation Assignment To: Ginger Renee Rink, Trustee for the Ginger Renee Rink Revocable Trust U/A 12/4/2012 Date Signed: May 1, 2018 Book and Page: Book 0723 Page 889 Recorded: June 6, 2018 Assignment From: Ginger Renee Rink, Trustee for the Ginger Renee Rink Revocable Trust U/A 12/4/2012 Assignment To: Burton Street Properties, LLC Date Signed: November 5, 2019 Book and Page: Book 0845 Page 978 Recorded: December 11, 2019 The premises covered by said Mortgage are fully described as follows and incorporated herein by reference.

All that certain piece, parcel or lot of land, with all improvements thereon, or hereafter constructed thereon situate, lying and being in the State of South Carolina, County of Charleston, and comprising lot No. 62 Delaware Avenue on a map of the Westerly part of Union Heights prepared for the Kopp-Isenhour Realty Company by J.E. Thomas, dated 1919 and recorded in the RMC Office for Charleston County in Plat Book “C”, Page 137 and

having such size, shape, location, dimensions and bounds as may be seen by reference to the aforesaid plat on record.

TMS No.: 466-12-00-064 Address: 1996 Delaware Avenue, North Charleston, SC 29405 SUMMONS AND NOTICE

YOU ARE HEREBY SUMMONED and required to appear and defend by answering the Complaint in this action, a copy of which is hereby served upon you, and to serve a copy of your Answer on the subscriber at his office, 2050 Spaulding Drive, Suite 2, North Charleston, South Carolina 29406, within thirty (30) days after service hereof, exclusive of the day of such service, except that the United States of America, if named, shall have sixty (60) days to answer after the service hereof, exclusive of the day of such service, and if you fail to do so, judgment by default will be rendered against you for the relief demanded in the Complaint.

TO MINOR(S) OVER FOURTEEN YEARS OF AGE, AND/OR TO MINOR(S) UNDER FOURTEEN YEARS OF AGE AND THE PERSON WITH WHOM THE MINOR(S) RESIDES, AND/OR TO PERSONS UNDER SOME LEGAL DISABILITY: YOU ARE FURTHER SUMMONED AND NOTIFIED to apply for the appointment of a Guardian ad Litem within thirty (30) days after the service of this Summons and Notice upon you. If you fail to do so, application for such appointment will be made by Plaintiff.

YOU WILL ALSO TAKE NOTICE that should you fail to answer the foregoing Summons, the Plaintiff will move for a general Order of Reference of this cause to the Master in Equity or Special Referee for the aforesaid County, which order shall, pursuant to Rule 53(e) of the South Carolina Rules of Civil Procedure, specifically provide that the said Master in Equity or Special Referee is authorized and empowered to enter a final judgment in this case.

NOTICE OF FILING TO THE DEFENDANT(S) ABOVE NAMED: YOU WILL PLEASE TAKE NOTICE that the foregoing Summons and Complaint, were filed with the Clerk of Court for Charleston County, South Carolina on February 12, 2020.

ORDER APPOINTING GUARDIAN AD LITEM UPON READING AND FILING the Petition of the Plaintiff for the appointment of Richard A. Steadman, Jr., Esquire, as Guardian ad Litem for any unknown defendants who may be minors, infants, persons under disability or incompetent, including those persons who might be in the military service within the meaning of Title 50, United States Code, commonly referred to as the Soldiers and Sailors Relief Act of 1940, being as a Class designated as “John Doe,” and “Richard Roe,” and it appearing that the names and addresses of such persons, if any, whether residents or non-residents of the State of South Carolina, are unknown to Plaintiff and cannot, with reasonable diligence be ascertained, and that the said Richard A. Steadman, Jr., Esquire, whose office is located at 6296 Rivers Avenue, Suite 102, North Charleston, South Carolina, is a suitable and competent person to understand and protect the rights and interests of said Defendants and has no interest therein adverse to the interest of said Defendants, if any, and is not connected in business with the Plaintiff, in this action or with its counsel.

IT IS, THEREFORE, ORDERED that said Richard A. Steadman,

Jr., Esquire, be and he is hereby designated and appointed Guardian ad Litem Nisi for said unknown Defendants who may be minors, infants, persons under disability of incompetent, including those persons who might be in the military service within the meaning of Title 50, United States Code, commonly referred to as the Soldiers and Sailors Relief Act of 1940, being as a class designated as “John Doe,” and “Richard Roe,” and he is hereby authorized to appear and defend the said action on behalf of said Defendants, unless Defendants, if any, or any of them shall within thirty (30) days after the service of a copy of this Order upon them, exclusive of the day of service, as herein provided, procure to be appointed, procure to be appointed a Guardian ad Litem for said Defendants, if any, for the purposes of this action.

IT IS FURTHER ORDERED that this Order shall be served upon said unknown Defendants who may be minors, infants, persons under disability or incompetent, including those persons who might be in the Military Service within the meaning of Title 50, United States Code, commonly referred to as the Soldiers and Sailors Relief Act of 1940, being as a Class designated “John Doe,” and “Richard Roe,” by publication of a notice of this Order as required by law in a newspaper published in Berkeley County, South Carolina, once a week for three (3) consecutive weeks.

S/R R. David Chard S.C. Bar No.: 1190 Attorney for the Plaintiff 2050 Spaulding Drive, Suite 2 N. Charleston, SC 29406 (843) 554-6984

STATE OF SOUTH CAROLINA COUNTY OF CHARLESTON IN THE COURT OF COMMON PLEAS FOR THE NINTH JUDICIAL CIRCUIT CASE NO.: 2020-CP-10-01848 SANDRA C. LOY, Plaintiff, vs.

FREDERICK L. COAXUM, FRED SINGLETON, MATTIE SINGLETON, BESSIE WASHINGTON, ISABELLE HOLMES, and if any of them be deceased, then JOHN DOE, adults, and RICHARD ROE, infants, insane persons, incompetents, and persons in the Military of the United States of America, being fictitious names designating as a class any unknown person or persons who may be an heir, distributee, devisee, legatee, widower, widow, assign, administrator, executor, creditor, successor, personal representative, issue or alienee of FREDERICK L. COAXUM, FRED SINGLETON, MATTIE SINGLETON, BESSIE WASHINGTON, ISABELLE HOLMES, if any of them be deceased, and TONY SINGLETON AND FLOSSIE COAXUM, both deceased, and any or all other persons or legal entities, known and unknown, claiming any right, title, interest or estate in or lien upon the parcel of real estate described in the Lis Pendens and Complaint filed herein, Defendants.

SUMMONS TO THE DEFENDANTS ABOVENAMED: YOU ARE HEREBY SUMMONED and required to answer the Complaint in this action, a copy of which is herewith served upon you, and to serve a copy of your Answer upon the subscribers at their office located at 858 Lowcountry Blvd., Suite 101, Mt. Pleasant, South Carolina, 29464, within thirty (30) days after service hereof, exclusive of the date of such service; and if you fail to answer the Complaint within the time aforesaid, judgment by default will be rendered against you for the relief demanded in the Complaint.

LIS PENDENS NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that an action has been commenced by the Plaintiff, above-named, against the Defendants, abovenamed, to quiet title and to confirm a tax title relative to the following described real property, together with improvements, located in Charleston County, South Carolina, to-wit:ALL that tract of land in St. Pauls School District No. 19, and more particularly described as follows: Bounded on the north by the lands of the grantor now conveyed to Flossie Coaxum, on the east by the S.C. Highway No. 174, on the south by the lands of Ella Simmons, and on the west by the lands of the grantor now conveyed to James Seabrook and Charlotte Singleton, and containing three acres, more or less.

LESS AND ACCEPTING: All that tract of land in St Pauls School District and more particularly described as follows: Bounded on the north by the lands of Tony Singleton, on the east by S.C. Highway 174, on the south by the lands of Ella Simmons, and on the west by the lands of James Seabrook, and containing one (1) acre, more or less. Being property conveyed to Robert Holmes by deed from Tony Singleton, dated 2/4/1943, and recorded 2/26/1943, at V43-491.

LESS AND ACCEPTING: All that certain piece, parcel or tract of land measuring and containing one (1) acre, more or less, situate, lying and being in St. Paul’s School District, No. 19, Charleston County, South Carolina and being more fully described as follows: Beginning at an iron stake on paved S.S. Highway No. 174 which said iron stake is the Southeast corner of the lands hereby conveyed and is located Two Hundred Ten (210) feet North of a County maintained dirt road and running thence in a Westerly Direction along lands of the Estate of Tony Singleton for a distance of Four Hundred Eight (408) feet to an iron stake and thence running in a Northerly direction along lands of James Seabrook for a distance of One Hundred Five (105) feet to an iron stake and thence running in an Easterly direction along the lands of Flossie Coaxum for a distance of Four Hundred Six (406) feet to an iron stake on S.C. Highway No. 174 and thence running in a Southerly direction along S.C. Highway 174 for a distance of One Hundred Five (105) feet to an iron stake being the point of beginning.

Being property inherited by Fred Singleton, Mattie Singleton, Bessie Washington, Isabelle Holmes and Flossie Coaxum as heirs of Tony Singleton, as evidenced by deed to Christopher Singleton, dated 3/10/1966, and recorded 3/21/1966, at E85-187.

BEING a portion of the property conveyed to Tony Singleton by deed from Sallie M. Witsell, dated 2/16/1943, and recorded 3/11/1943, in Book C44, Page 35. Being the same property transferred to William Coker

by Tax Deed, dated 3/10/16, recorded 3/29/16, in Book 0543, Page 523. ALSO, being the same property conveyed to Plaintiff by Deed of Distribution recorded 9/17/19, in Book 0822, Page 260.

T.M.S.#: 061-00-00-034 NOTICE TO APPOINT A GUARDIAN AD LITEM NISI You will please take notice that by an Order dated the 1st day of July, 2020, and on file in the Office of the Clerk of Court for Charleston County, Walter R. Kaufmann, Esquire, whose mailing address is PO Box 459, Mt. Pleasant, SC 29465, was appointed Guardian ad Litem Nisi for such of the unknown Defendants whose true names are unknown and fictitious names designating infants, persons under disability, incompetents, imprisoned, or

CISA & DODDS, LLP s/John J. Dodds, III 858 Lowcountry Blvd., Suite 101 Mt. Pleasant, SC 29464 (P) (843) 881-6530 (F) (843) 881-5433 john@cisadodds.com ATTORNEYS FOR PLAINTIFF July 1, 2020.

STATE OF SOUTH CAROLINA COUNTY OF CHARLESTON IN THE COURT OF COMMON PLEAS FOR THE NINTH JUDICIAL CIRCUIT CASE NO. 2020-CP-10-02440 GALINA S. BOGATKEVICH, Plaintiff, vs.

NANCY C. BENNETT, and if she be deceased, JOHN DOE, adults, and RICHARD ROE, infants, insane persons, incompetents, and persons in the Military of The United States of America, being fictitious names designating as a class any unknown person or persons who may be an heir, distributee, devisee, legatee, widower, widow, assign, administrator, executor, creditor, successor, personal representative, issue or alienee of Nancy C. Bennett, if she be deceased, FRIDAY BENNETT, CHRISTIE BENNETT, ABNER Y. BENNETT, PHILIP BENNETT, RICHARD BENNETT, EDWARD BENNETT, NELLIE MARTIN, WIFE OF PHILIP BENNETT WHOSE NAME IS UNKNOWN AND WIFE OF RICHARD BENNETT WHOSE NAME IS UNKNOWN, all deceased, and any or all other persons or legal entities, known and unknown, claiming any right, title, interest or estate in or lien upon the parcel of real estate described in the Lis Pendens and Complaint herein filed, Defendants.

the ROD Office for Charleston County, South Carolina on August 8, 2007, in Book EK at Page 932 said lots having such size, shape, dimensions, buttings and boundings as will by reference to said plat more fully appear.

BEING the same property conveyed to Nancy C. Bennett by deed from Sam C. Bennett, dated May 28, 2015, and recorded June 8, 2015, in Book 0481, Page 349 at the Charleston County Register of Deed’s Office. Also, being the same property conveyed to Galina S. Bogatkevich by Tax Deed, dated March 2, 2020, and recorded in the Office of the Register of Deeds for Charleston County on March 31, 2020, in Book 0870, at Page 511.

T.M.S. No. 245-00-00-222 NOTICE TO APPOINT A GUARDIAN AD LITEM NISI You will please take notice that by an Order dated the 25th day of June, 2020, and on file in the Office of the Clerk of Court for Charleston County, Walter R. Kaufmann, Esquire, whose mailing address is PO Box 459, Mt. Pleasant, SC 29465, was appointed Guardian ad Litem Nisi for such of the unknown Defendants whose true names are unknown and fictitious names designating infants, persons under disability, incompetents, imprisoned, or those persons in the military, if any; such appointment to become absolute unless the said defendants or someone in their behalf shall procure the appointment of a Guardian ad Litem on or before the thirtieth (30) day after the last publication of the Summons herein.

CISA & DODDS, LLP s/John J. Dodds, III 858 Lowcountry Blvd., Suite 101 Mt. Pleasant, SC 29464 (P) (843) 881-6530 (F) (843) 881-5433 john@cisadodds.com ATTORNEYS FOR PLAINTIFF June 25, 2020.

Mount Pleasant, SC.

SUMMONS TO THE DEFENDANTS ABOVENAMED: YOU ARE HEREBY SUMMONED and required to answer the Complaint in this action, a copy of which is herewith served upon you, and to serve a copy of your Answer upon the subscribers at their office located at 858 Lowcountry Blvd., Suite 101, Mt. Pleasant, South Carolina, 29464, within thirty (30) days after service hereof, exclusive of the date of such service; and if you fail to answer the Complaint within the time aforesaid, judgment by default will be rendered against you for the relief demanded in the Complaint.

LIS PENDENS NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that an action has been commenced by the Plaintiff, above-named, against the Defendants, abovenamed, to quiet title and to confirm a tax title relative to the following described real property, together with improvements, located in Charleston County, South Carolina, to-wit: All that certain piece, parcel or tract of land with the improvements thereon, situate, lying and being in St. Paul’s Parish, Charleston County, South Carolina being designated as Lot 1 (174,663 sq.ft., 4.010 acres) as shown on a plat entitled “Plat Showing the Subdivision of T.M.S. No. 245-00-00-030, a 30.205 Acre tract to Create Lot 1, a 4.002 Acre Tract and Lot 2, a 1.009 Acre Tract Owned

by Nancy J. Bennett Located in the Town of Ravenel, St. Paul’s Parish, Charleston County, South Carolina” prepared by F. Steven Johnson, R.L.S. SC No. 10038 dated August 30, 2006, revised July 27, 2007, and recorded in

THE SUMMONS AND COMPLAINT WERE DULY FILED IN THE COURT OF COMMON PLEAS FOR THE NINTH JUDICIAL CIRCUIT IN CHARLESTON COUNTY ON OCTOBER 2, 2019 AT 11:36 A.M. STATE OF SOUTH CAROLINA COUNTY OF CHARLESTON IN THE COURT OF COMMON PLEAS FOR THE NINTH JUDICIAL CIRCUIT CASE NO.: 2019-CP-10-5053 OAK BLUFF HOMEOWNERS ASSOCIATION, INC., Plaintiff, v.

KEVIN L. RAY, Defendant.

SUMMONS and NOTICE TO: ABOVE-NAMED DEFENDANT YOU ARE HEREBY SUMMONED and required to answer the Complaint herein, a copy of which is herewith served upon you, or to otherwise appear and defend, and to serve a copy of your Answer to said Complaint upon the subscribers at their office, 147 Wappoo Creek Drive, Suite 604, Charleston, South Carolina 29412, or to otherwise appear and defend the action pursuant to applicable court rules, within thirty (30) days after service hereof, exclusive of the day of such service; except that the United States of America, if named, shall have sixty (60) days to answer after the service hereof, exclusive of such service; and if you fail to answer the Complaint or otherwise appear and defend within the time aforesaid, Plaintiff in this action will apply to the Court for relief demanded therein, and judgment by default will be rendered against you for the relief demanded in the Complaint.

TO MINOR(S) OVER FOURTEEN YEARS OF AGE, AND/OR TO MINOR(S) UNDER FOURTEEN YEARS OF AGE AND THE PERSON

WITH WHOM THE MINOR(S) RESIDE(S), AND/OR TO PERSONS UNDER SOME LEGAL DISABILITY: YOU ARE FURTHER SUMMONED AND NOTIFIED to apply for the appointment of a guardian ad litem within thirty (30) days after the service of this Summons and Notice upon you. If you fail to do so, application for such appointment will be made by Plaintiff.

YOU WILL ALSO TAKE NOTICE that pursuant to Rule 53(b) of the South Carolina Rules of Civil Procedure, as amended effective September 1, 2002, Plaintiff may move for a general Order of Reference to the Master in Equity for Charleston County, which Order shall, pursuant to Rule 53(b) of the SCRCP, specifically provide that the said Master in Equity is authorized and empowered to enter a final judgment in this action. s/Derek F. Dean Derek F. Dean S.C. Bar No. 65279 Attorneys for Plaintiff SIMONS & DEAN 147 Wappoo Creek Drive, Ste. 604 Charleston, SC 29412 843-762-9132 dfdean@charlestonattorneys.net September 30, 2019 Charleston, South Carolina

THE SUMMONS AND COMPLAINT WERE DULY FILED IN THE COURT OF COMMON PLEAS FOR THE NINTH JUDICIAL CIRCUIT IN CHARLESTON COUNTY ON APRIL 8, 2020 AT 10:02 A.M. STATE OF SOUTH CAROLINA COUNTY OF CHARLESTON IN THE COURT OF COMMON PLEAS FOR THE NINTH JUDICIAL CIRCUIT CASE NO.: 2020-CP-10-01775

OAK BLUFF HOMEOWNERS ASSOCIATION, INC., Plaintiff, v.

HAROLD E. SINGLETARY, JR., INDIVIDUALLY AND AS PERSONAL REPRESENTATIVE OF THE ESTATE OF ANNA DELORES ROPER SINGLETARY A/K/A ANNA DELORES SINGLETARY A/K/A ANNA D. SINGLETARY; MICHAEL W. SINGLETARY; JOHN DOE, a fictitious name representing all unknown persons, heirs, devisees, distributees, legatees, widows or widowers, executors, administrators, successors, assigns, personal representatives, issue and alienees of the deceased person Anna Delores Roper Singletary a/k/a Anna Delores Singletary a/k/a Anna D. Singletary, and all persons or entities entitled to claim under or through any of them; and RICHARD ROE, a fictitious name representing all unknown adults, unknown minors, incompetents, persons in military service, persons imprisoned, persons under any legal disability, and all other unknown persons or entities claiming any right, title or interest in the real property described herein, Defendants.

SUMMONS and NOTICE

TO: ABOVE-NAMED DEFENDANTS YOU ARE HEREBY SUMMONED and required to answer the Complaint herein, a copy of which is herewith served upon you, or to otherwise appear and defend, and to serve a copy of your Answer to said Complaint upon the subscribers at their office, 147 Wappoo Creek Drive, Suite 604, Charleston, South Carolina 29412, or to otherwise appear and defend the action pursuant to applicable court rules, within thirty (30) days after service hereof, exclusive of the day of such service; except that the United States of America, if named, shall have sixty (60) days to answer after the service hereof, exclusive of such service; and if you fail to answer the Complaint or otherwise appear and defend within the time aforesaid, Plaintiff in this action will apply to the

Court for relief demanded therein, and judgment by default will be rendered against you for the relief demanded in the Complaint.

TO MINOR(S) OVER FOURTEEN YEARS OF AGE, AND/OR TO MINOR(S) UNDER FOURTEEN YEARS OF AGE AND THE PERSON WITH WHOM THE MINOR(S) RESIDE(S), AND/OR TO PERSONS UNDER SOME LEGAL DISABILITY: YOU ARE FURTHER SUMMONED AND NOTIFIED to apply for the appointment of a guardian ad litem within thirty (30) days after the service of this Summons and Notice upon you. If you fail to do so, application for such appointment will be made by Plaintiff.

YOU WILL ALSO TAKE NOTICE that pursuant to Rule 53(b) of the South Carolina Rules of Civil Procedure, as amended effective September 1, 2002, Plaintiff may move for a general Order of Reference to the Master in Equity for Charleston County, which Order shall, pursuant to Rule 53(b) of the SCRCP, specifically provide that the said Master in Equity is authorized and empowered to enter a final judgment in this action. s/Derek F. Dean S.C. Bar No. 65279 Attorney for Plaintiff Simons & Dean 147 Wappoo Creek Drive Suite 604 Charleston, SC 29412 843-762-9132 dfdean@charlestonattorneys.net April 3, 2020 Charleston, South Carolina

THE ORDER APPOINTING GUARDIAN AD LITEM NISI AND FOR PUBLICATION WAS DULY FILED IN THE COURT OF COMMON PLEAS FOR THE NINTH JUDICIAL CIRCUIT IN CHARLESTON COUNTY ON JUNE 18, 2020 AT 4:43 P.M. STATE OF SOUTH CAROLINA COUNTY OF CHARLESTON IN THE COURT OF COMMON PLEAS FOR THE NINTH JUDICIAL CIRCUIT CASE NO.: 2020-CP-10-01775

OAK BLUFF HOMEOWNERS ASSOCIATION, INC., Plaintiff, v.

HAROLD E. SINGLETARY, JR., INDIVIDUALLY AND AS PERSONAL REPRESENTATIVE OF THE ESTATE OF ANNA DELORES ROPER SINGLETARY A/K/A ANNA DELORES SINGLETARY A/K/A ANNA D. SINGLETARY; MICHAEL W. SINGLETARY; JOHN DOE, a fictitious name representing all unknown persons, heirs, devisees, distributees, legatees, widows or widowers, executors, administrators, successors, assigns, personal representatives, issue and alienees of the deceased person Anna Delores Roper Singletary a/k/a Anna Delores Singletary a/k/a Anna D. Singletary, and all persons or entities entitled to claim under or through any of them; and RICHARD ROE, a fictitious name representing all unknown adults, unknown minors, incompetents, persons in military service, persons imprisoned, persons under any legal disability, and all other unknown persons or entities claiming any right, title or interest in the real property described herein, Defendants.

ORDER APPOINTING GUARDIAN AD LITEM NISI AND FOR PUBLICATION

It appearing to the satisfaction of the Court, upon reading Plaintiff’s Ex Parte Petition for Order Appointing Guardian ad Litem Nisi and for Order of Publication, for the appointment of Kelley Yarborough Woody, Esquire, to represent “John Doe” (all unknown persons, heirs, devisees, distributees, legatees, widows or widowers, executors, administrators, successors, assigns, personal representatives, issue and alienees of the

deceased person Anna Delores Roper Singletary a/k/a Anna Delores Singletary a/k/a Anna D. Singletary) and “Richard Roe” (all unknown adults, unknown minors, incompetents, persons in military service, persons imprisoned, persons under any legal disability, and all other unknown persons or entities claiming, or who may claim, any right, title or interest in the real property described herein), and It further appearing to the satisfaction of the Court, upon reading Plaintiff’s Affidavit for Order of Publication and from the Complaint herein that a cause of action exists in favor of Plaintiff against Defendant(s); that the action is to quiet title for real property located in Charleston County, South Carolina; that the following named and/ or designated Defendants on whom service of the Summons and Notice, Complaint and Lis Pendens is to be made cannot be found, after reasonable due diligence, within the jurisdiction of the courts of this state; and that these named and/or designated Defendant(s) are necessary parties to this action.

These Defendant(s) named and/ or designated Defendant(s) are as follows: “John Doe”, a fictitious name representing all unknown persons, heirs, devisees, distributees, legatees, widows or widowers, executors, administrators, successors, assigns, personal representatives, issue and alienees of the deceased person Anna Delores Roper Singletary a/k/a Anna Delores Singletary a/k/a Anna D. Singletary, and all persons or entities entitled, or who may be entitled, to claim under or through any of them, and “Richard Roe”, a fictitious name representing all unknown adults, unknown minors, incompetents, persons in military service, persons imprisoned, persons under any legal disability, and all other unknown persons or entities claiming, or who may claim, any right, title or interest in the real property described herein.

NOW THEREFORE, on motion of Plaintiff, IT IS ORDERED that Kelley Yarborough Woody, Attorney at Law, LLC, of PO Box 6432, Columbia, SC 29260, 803-7879678, kwoody@kelleywoody. com, be and hereby is appointed Guardian ad Litem Nisi on behalf of all such unknown persons, heirs, devisees, distributees, legatees, widows or widowers, executors, administrators, successors, assigns, personal representatives, issue and alienees of the deceased person Anna Delores Roper Singletary a/k/a Anna Delores Singletary a/k/a Anna D. Singletary, and all persons or entities entitled, or who may be entitled, to claim under or through any of them, if any, being a class designated as “John Doe” and on behalf of all such unknown adults, unknown minors, incompetents, persons in military service, persons imprisoned, persons under any legal disability, and all other unknown persons or entities claiming, or who may claim, any right, title or interest in the real property described herein being a class designated as “Richard Roe”, who have, or may claim to have, some right, title or interest in or to that real property commonly known as 7943 Shadow Oak Drive, North Charleston, Charleston County, SC 29406, TMS No. 484-00-00-149; that Kelley Yarborough Woody is empowered and directed to appear on behalf of and represent said Defendant(s) unless the said Defendant(s), or someone on their behalf shall, within thirty (30) days after service of a copy hereof as directed, procure the appointment of a Guardian or Guardians ad Litem for the said Defendant(s), and IT IS FURTHER ORDERED that should said Defendant(s) fail to

procure the appointment of a Guardian ad Litem within thirty (30) days from the last day of service by publication, the appointment of Kelley Yarborough Woody as Guardian ad Litem shall be made automatically absolute, without further action

by Plaintiff, and IT IS FURTHER ORDERED that the Order Appointing Guardian ad Litem Nisi and for Publication be served upon said Defendant(s) John Doe and Richard Roe by publication in The Charleston City Paper, a newspaper of general circulation in Charleston County, South Carolina, once a week for three (3) consecutive weeks, together with the Summons in the above titled action.

Honorable Julie Armstrong Clerk of Court for Charleston County July 15, 2020 Charleston, South Carolina

NOTICE OF SALE Docket No. 2018-CP-10-5995 By virtue of a Decree of the Court of Common Pleas for Charleston County, heretofore granted in the case of The Lakes Master Association, Inc., Plaintiff v. Priscilla L. Johnson a/k/a Priscilla Lois Johnson, Defendant.

I, the undersigned Master-inEquity for Charleston County, will sell on August 4, 2020 at 11:00 o’clock a.m., at the County Council Chambers, Public Services Building, 4045 Bridge View Drive, North Charleston, South Carolina, to the highest bidder, the following described property, to wit: ALL that certain piece, parcel or lot of land, situate, lying and being in the Town of Summerville, County of Charleston, State of South Carolina, known and designated as “Lot 216” of The Lakes of Summerville as shown on that certain plat of Associated E & S, Inc. entitled, “REVISED FINAL SUBDIVISION PLAT PREPARED OF THE LAKES OF SUMMERVILLE - PHASE III-A, SITE LOCATED IN THE TOWN OF SUMMERVILLE, CHARLESTON COUNTY, SOUTH CAROLINA PROPERTY OWNED BY LAKES OF SUMMERVILLE, LLC,” dated April 10, 2007 and recorded April 30, 2007 in Plat Book EK at Pages 656, 657 and 658 in the RMC Office for Charleston County, South Carolina. Said lot having such size, shape, dimensions, buttings and boundings as will by reference to said plat more fully and at large appear.

SUBJECT to any and all applicable easements, restrictions, conditions, right-of-ways and setbacks of record and as may be shown on the above-referenced plat.

BEING the same property conveyed to Priscilla L. Johnson by deed of Lakes of Summerville, LLC dated October 30, 2008 and recorded November 3, 2008 in the RMC Office for Charleston County, South Carolina in Book 0018, Page 653.

SUBJECT, to any and all applicable easements, restrictions and reservations of record as set forth in Exhibit A of said deed recorded on November 3, 2008 in the RMC Office for Charleston County in Book 0018, at Page 653.

TMS No.: 388-13-00-573 Property Address: 507 Savannah River Drive, Summerville, SC 29485 TERMS OF SALE: FOR CASH: The Master-in-Equity will require a deposit of five (5%) per cent of the amount of bid (in cash or equivalent), same to be applied on the purchase price only upon compliance with the bid, but in case of non-compliance within thirty (3) days after the date of the sale, same to be forfeited and applied to costs and the property re-advertised for sale upon the same terms at the risk of the former highest bidder.

The sale shall be subject to

taxes, to existing easements and restrictions of record, and to homeowners association assessments accruing subsequent to the date of the deed issued to the purchaser [Purchaser to pay interest on his bid from the date of sale to the date of compliance at the rate of 6.875% per annum].

The sale shall be subject to that certain mortgage lien held by Chase Home Finance, LLC, by assignment from Mortgage Electronic Registration Systems, Inc., solely as nominee for Freedom Mortgage Corporation. In the original amount of $125,419.00, dated October 31, 2008, and recorded November 3, 2008, in Book 0018 at Page 654 with the Charleston County Register of Deeds.

Purchaser shall pay for all costs of recording the deed. Any sale pursuant to this order, is without warranty of any kind. Neither Plaintiff nor the Court warrant title to any third-party purchaser.

All third-party purchasers are made parties to this action and are deemed to have notice of all matters disclosed by the public record, including the status of title.

See Ex parte Keller, 185 S.C. 283, 194 S.E. 15 (1937); Wells Fargo Bank, NA v. Turner, 378 S.C. 147, 662 S.E2d 424 (Ct. App. 2008)

No personal or deficiency judgment being demanded, the bidding will not remain open after the date of the sale, but compliance with the bid may be made immediately.

Mikell R. Scarborough Master-in-Equity for Charleston County Attorney for the Plaintiff Derek F. Dean Simons & Dean 147 Wappoo Creek Drive, Suite 604 Charleston, SC 29412

STATE OF SOUTH CAROLINA COUNTY OF CHARLESTON IN THE COURT OF COMMON PLEAS Case No.: 2020-CP-10-01796 KENNETH M. BRADY, Plaintiff, vs.

MICHAEL ANTHONY LINDSLEY, Defendant.

SUMMONS (Negligence / Automobile Wreck) (Jury Trial Demanded) TO THE DEFENDANT ABOVENAMED: YOU ARE HEREBY SUMMONED and required to answer the Complaint in this action, a copy of which is herewith served upon you, and to serve a copy of your Answer to the said Complaint on the subscriber at his office, 3045 Ashley Phosphate Road, N. Charleston, South Carolina 29418, within thirty (30) days after the service hereof, exclusive of the day of such service; and if you fail to answer the Complaint within the time aforesaid, the Plaintiff in this action will apply to the Court for the relief demanded in the Complaint.

JOHN PRICE LAW FIRM, LLC s/Matthew T. Douglas Matthew T. Douglas (SC Bar # 76147) 3045 Ashley Phosphate Road North Charleston, SC 29418 Phone #: (843) 552-6011 Fax # : (843) 760-6840 Matthewdouglas@johnpricelawfirm.com Attorney for the Plaintiff Date: 4/9/2020

ESTATES’ CREDITOR’S NOTICES All persons having claims against the following estates are required to deliver or mail their claims to the Personal Representative indicated below and also file subject claims on Form #371ES with Irvin G. Condon, Probate Judge of Charleston County, 84 Broad Street, Charleston, S.C. 29401, before

the expiration of 8 months after the date of the first publication of this Notice to Creditors, or else thereafter such claims shall be and are forever barred.

Estate of: EDWARD LEO HOGAN 2020-ES-10-0773 DOD: 05/03/19 Pers. Rep: PATRICK FRANCIS HOGAN 430 OAKMONT LN. CHARLESTON, SC 29412 Pers. Rep: MARYELLEN MARGARET HOGAN GIBSON 19 ELIZABETH ST., #403 CHARLESTON, SC 29403 Atty: SUSAN A. TESCHNER, ESQ. 3 LOCKWOOD DR., #204 CHARLESTON, SC 29401 ************ Estate of: MARY CATHERINE CAMPBELL 2020-ES-10-0798 DOD: 05/06/20 Pers. Rep: CAROL A. WEBB 3121 ION AVE. SULLIVANS ISLAND, SC 29482 ************ Estate of: BILL LEVON DEMPSEY AKA B. L. DEMPSEY 2020-ES-10-0804 DOD: 05/19/20 Pers. Rep: PAMELA D. TURNER 5435 HWY 162 HOLLYWOOD, SC 29449 Pers. Rep: KIMBERLY D. VENDRICK 1625 OCEAN NEIGHBORS BLVD. CHARLESTON, SC 29412 Atty: SHIRRESE B. BROCKINGTON, ESQ. PO BOX 31312 CHARLESTON, SC 29417 ************ Estate of: MAURICE B. DUMAS 2020-ES-10-0807 DOD: 06/02/20 Pers. Rep: SHIRRESE B. BROCKINGTON PO BOX 31312 CHARLESTON, SC 29417 ************ Estate of: DONALD EDSON SNELL 2020-ES-10-0820 DOD: 06/21/19 Pers. Rep: KIM R. SNELL 23 HUNTERS FOREST DR. CHARLESTON, SC 29414 ************ Estate of: CLINTON EUGENE WALLS 2020-ES-10-0843 DOD: 05/13/20 Pers. Rep: BRADLEY CHRISTOPHER WALLS 627 COX DAIRY RD. MOULTRIE, GA 31768 ************ Estate of: SHERRYLL JOSEPHINE COOK 2020-ES-10-0844 DOD: 04/02/20 Pers. Rep: KRISTAN J. MATOSKA 13 WATSON LN. MIDDLETOWN, DE 19709 Atty: CHRISTOPHER PAUL BECKER, ESQ. 2828 WATERPINTE CIR. MT. PLEASANT, SC 29466

STATE OF SOUTH CAROLINA COUNTY OF HORRY IN THE COURT OF COMMON PLEAS FIFTEENTH JUDICIAL CIRCUIT CIVIL ACTION NO. 2020-CP26-03365 Second Avenue Executive Center, LLC, Plaintiff, vs.

Aventus LLC; Jared Esguerra; and Josh Royal, Defendants.

SUMMONS ON PUBLICATION TO: THE ABSENT DEFENDANT, JOSH ROYAL YOU ARE HEREBY SUMMONED and required to answer the Complaint in this action, which was filed on June 3, 2020, in Horry County, South Carolina, a copy of which is herewith served upon you, and to serve a copy of your answer to the said Complaint on the subscribers at their office at 1000 29th Avenue North, Myrtle Beach, South Carolina 29577, and to file your answer with the Clerk of Court for Horry County, all within thirty (30) days after the service hereof; exclusive of the day of such service; and if

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those persons in the military, if any; such appointment to become absolute unless the said defendants or someone in their behalf shall procure the appointment of a Guardian ad Litem on or before the thirtieth (30) day after the last publication of the Summons herein.

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you fail to answer the Complaint within the time aforesaid, the Plaintiff in this action will apply to the Court for judgment by default for the relief demanded in the Complaint and a judgment will be rendered against you.

BELLAMY, RUTENBERG, COPELAND, EPPS, GRAVELY & BOWERS, P.A. Post Office Box 357 Myrtle Beach, SC 29578-0357 (843) 448-2400 Attorneys for the Plaintiff Douglas M. Zayicek, S.C. Bar No. 11304 Dated: July 15, 2020

STATE OF SOUTH CAROLINA COUNTY OF CHARLESTON IN THE COURT OF COMMON PLEAS C/A NO.: 2018-CP-10-06074 Broadview Capital, LLC, Plaintiff, v.

Darrin Griffin a/k/a Darin Griffin; Lenders Loans; RMC Financial; South Carolina Department of Motor Vehicles; Vertrell Griffin a/k/a Vertrell E. Griffin; South Carolina Department of Revenue; Floyd Wright; The United States of America, acting by and through its agency, The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers; Bianca Wright; Raven Greene, Defendant(s).

AMENDED SUMMONS AND RULE TO SHOW CAUSE (Non-Jury)

CHARLESTON CITY PAPER 07.15.2020

FORECLOSURE OF REAL ESTATE MORTGAGE

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TO: Raven Green UPON consideration of the within Motion for Rule to Show Cause submitted by Gregory T. Whitley, attorney for the Plaintiff, IT IS ORDERED that you do show cause before the undersigned, if any exists, at the office of Master in Equity Mikell R. Scarborough located at 100 Broad Street, Suite 266, Charleston County Judicial Center, Courtroom 2A, Charleston County Judicial Center, Courtroom 2A Charleston, SC 29401 on October 1, 2020 at 2:00 P.M. as to why your interests should not be released as to the property subject to this foreclosure action and bound by the Findings of Fact and Conclusions of Law as ordered by this Court in the Master in Equity’s Report and Judgment of Foreclosure and Sale filed on August 26, 2019. Said real property is known as 6156 Brown Way, Ravenel, SC 29470 and is more fully described in the Motion for Rule to Show Cause, which is incorporated herein by reference.

YOU ARE HEREBY SUMMONED and required to answer the Rule to Show Cause herein, a copy of which is herewith served upon you, or otherwise appear and defend, and to serve a copy of your Answer to said Rule to Show Cause upon the subscribers at 3800 Fernandina Road, Suite 110, Columbia, SC 29210 within thirty (60) days hereof, exclusive of the day of such service; except that the United States of America, if named, shall have sixty (90) days to answer the service hereof, exclusive of the day of such service; and, if you fail to answer the Rule to Show Cause within the time aforesaid, or otherwise appear and defend, the Plaintiff will apply to the Court for the relief demanded therein, and judgment by default will be rendered against you for the relief demanded in the Rule to Show Cause.

WE SO MOVE: Brock & Scott, PLLC Attorneys for Plaintiff S.C. Bar No. 100792 3800 Fernandina Road, Suite 110 Columbia, SC 29210 Phone 844-856-6646 Fax 866-676-7658 CW # 19-15898

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TAURUS (April 20-May 20): “Whatever inspiration is, it’s born from a continuous ‘I don’t know.’”

A wise and talented woman said that: Nobel Prizewinning poet Wisława Szymborska. According to my analysis of the astrological omens, it’s excellent advice for you to embrace during the coming weeks.

You’re close to finding and accessing a mother lode of inspiration, and one of the best ways to ensure that happens in an optimal way is to make “I don’t know” your mantra. In other words, be cheerfully devoted to shedding your certainties. Lose your attachment to the beliefs and theories you tend to overly rely on. Make yourself as empty and clear and spacious as you possibly can.

GEMINI (May 21-June 20): Gemini-born author Djuna Barnes (1892–1982) was a world traveler who wrote in several different genres, ranging from lesbian fiction to essays on boxing to plays that used poetic language. She was experimental and empirical and experiential. On one occasion, she voluntarily submitted to the force-feeding endured by hungerstriking suffragists so she could write about what it was like to be tortured. Another fun fact about Djuna: Every morning, she did up her hair and put her make-up on, then climbed into bed and wrote for many hours. In the coming weeks, Gemini, I recommend you draw inspiration from every aspect of her life — except the torture part, of course. The coming weeks will be a fine time to be versatile, exploratory, and committed to expressing yourself purely in whatever ways make you comfortably excited.

CANCER (June 21-July 22): As a Cancerian, you have a natural propensity to study and understand what author Margaret Atwood describes as “echoes and emptiness and shadow.” I believe this aspect of your repertoire will be especially active and available to you in the coming weeks. For best results, regard your attunement to these echoes and emptiness and shadow as an asset, even a precious talent. Use it to discern what’s missing or lost but could be recovered. Invoke it to help you navigate your way through murky or confusing situations. Call on it to help you see important things that are invisible to others.

LEO (July 23-Aug. 22): “Time can turn a scab into a beauty mark,” said actor and screenwriter Nia Vardalos. That’s a rousingly poetic speculation — and more metaphorically true than literally. But I suspect that if it ever might have a useful and meaningful application to an actual human struggle, it will be yours in the coming months. In my view, you are in fact capable of harnessing the magic necessary to transform a wound into a lovely asset. Be bold and imaginative as you carry out this seemingly improbable feat — which is actually not improbable.

VIRGO (Aug. 23-Sept. 22): Would you like to boost your mental and physical health in the coming weeks? Try this: Immerse yourself in the understanding that you’re interconnected with everything in the world. Tell yourself stories about how the atoms that compose your body have previously been part of many other things. This isn’t just a poetic metaphor; it’s scientific fact. Now study this passage by science writer Ella Frances Sanders: “The carbon inside you could have existed in any number of creatures or natural disasters before finding you. That particular atom residing somewhere above your left eyebrow?

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SCORPIO (Oct. 23-Nov. 21): ‘”Deciding to remember, and what to remember, is how we decide who we are,” writes poet Robert Pinsky. That’s useful counsel for you right now, Scorpio. You’re entering a phase when you can substantially reframe your life story so that it serves you better. And one of the smartest ways to do that is to take an inventory of the memories you want to emphasize versus the memories you’d like to minimize. Another good trick is to reinterpret challenging past events so that you can focus on how they strengthened you and mobilized your determination to be true to yourself.

SAGITTARIUS (Nov. 22-Dec. 21): “A person must dream a long time in order to act with grandeur,” wrote Sagittarian author and activist Jean Genet.

“And dreaming is nursed in darkness.” According to my analysis of your astrological omens, this is an apt description of what has been unfolding for you, Sagittarius — and will continue to play out for you in the next two weeks. If you’re aligned with cosmic rhythms, you have been nursing your dreams in darkness — exploring and cultivating and learning from the raw creative energy that is simmering and ripening in your inner depths. Keep doing this important work, even if there are not yet any productive results. Eventually, it will enable you to “act with grandeur,” as Genet said.

CAPRICORN (Dec. 22-Jan. 19): Poet and filmmaker Jean Cocteau said, “There are truths that one can only say after having won the right to say them.”

In my estimation, you have recently earned the right to express a fresh batch of scintillating and useful truths. Please do us all a favor and unveil them — preferably with both candor and tact. In behalf of everyone who will benefit from your insights, I’m sending you congratulations for the work you’ve had to do on yourself so as to win them.

AQUARIUS (Jan. 20-Feb. 18): “After you make a fool of yourself a few hundred times, you learn what works,” testifies musician and singer Gwen Stefani.

In my own life, I’ve had to make a fool of myself more than a few hundred times to learn what works.

My number is closer to a thousand — and I’m still adding new examples on a regular basis. In the coming weeks, Capricorn, I highly recommend that you try what has served me and Gwen Stefani so well.

You’re entering a phase when your foolishness will generate especially useful lessons. Being innocent and wildly open-minded will also be very useful.

PISCES (Feb. 19-March 20): “It is better to err on the side of daring than the side of caution,” wrote author and futurist Alvin Toffler. While I hesitate to declare that idea to be absolutely and always true, I do recommend it to you in the coming weeks. Given the fact that you have recently been expanding possibilities and cultivating breakthroughs, I’d love to see you keep on pushing forward until you climax your momentum. To boost your courage, try to think of a crazy cry of exhilaration you might exclaim as you make your leaps, like “YAHOO!” or ‘HELL YES!” or HERE I COME!” Homework: What’s the best change you’ve experienced since the beginning of the pandemic?

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pulse STORMY HAS A NEW GROOVE ON MR. WOODS

Not Dark Yet

SC singer Ash Vapor gives music her all after overcoming illness

CHARLESTON CITY PAPER 07.15.2020

BY KEVIN WILSON

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Locally, you’ve heard Ash Vapor on Charleston punk band Anergy’s newest single, “Society.” Even before that powerful performance, however, this somewhat shy songstress had already decided to step out of the shadows and pursue a solo career. This was a big feat for Vapor, who grew up with cystic fibrosis, a potentially fatal lung disease.

Still, for as long as she can remember, Vapor has been drawn down this path. “I really had an outlet for my sorrow watching Fantasia as well as when I first heard Evanescence and Within Temptation,” she said. “I also grew up playing Zelda games and the intensity in that was quite a relief as well. I don’t think I would’ve even begun to understand music theory if it weren’t for that beautiful moment that I played a recorder and realized I was playing their soundtrack.”

At a certain point, some of her early heroes morphed into mentors, most notably Amy Lee of Evanescence. “We first met through a Make-A-Wish [Foundation] trip I had back in 2008. And we always check in on each other.” This sort of personalized input had a huge impact on Vapor’s own development as a singer/songwriter.

Yet, in terms of her own style, Vapor is hesitant. “This is always difficult to grasp, given all of my influences. I suppose lately I am more into goth alternative, industrial metal, shoegaze. I am so inspired by all sorts of music, regardless of how much I may know. I listen to bands like Curve, Deftones, Dead Can Dance, wishing I could achieve such a gloomy and beautiful atmosphere in my own tunes.”

In part, Vapor credits her recent momentum to the tight-knit group of local musicians who encourage and challenge each other.

Prior to the lockdown, she was finding plenty of audiences for her original material onstage.

“If you want to achieve success in the arts here you definitely can start and develop as long as you need to,” she said.

Being involved in the recording process has been an eye-opener for Vapor. “When you perform live, you can get away with more than you can in the studio,” she said.

“For example, when I recorded with Anergy for ‘Society,’ I realized certain aspects of recording require more focused input. I was yelling, ‘Society! Society!’ and when it got played back the ‘suh’ was missing so I sounded like I was yelling, ‘Ziety! Ziety!’ and I really had to give every single thing I had to annunciate that syllable.”

Although Vapor has had some breaks,

Rapper Stormy released his latest EP, Mr. Woods, July 7. The album’s a little trip-hop and pop-rap from the front to back. Just like the cover, it’s a colorful release.

Intro track “TROP HAZE” gives a taste of the album’s simple and cool beats, over busy drum loops. “OKAY” is a solid summer jam, perfect for a drink on the porch or a drive with the windows down.

“ON YA MIND” is a quiet tune reliant on keys and Stormy’s raspy sing-rapping. DJ DollaMenu comes in on the assist with a verse more serious than some of his previous humorous material. Outro tune “B” concludes the album in a similar place to where it started. It’s trippy and cold, with Stormy using his gritty vocal tone to great affect.

As Stormy puts it, the EP is a series of summer tunes for a beach day. “I wanted to keep it concise with all trap and pop tracks I thought would sound good on the radio,” he said. “Mr. Woods is basically an introductory project for me to the Charleston area, because I moved here from Johnson City, Tennessee about a year ago along with my brother DJ KLWD.” Mr. Woods is preceded by three other albums, but what makes his recent release different is Stormy’s new focus on shifting his flow from rhythmic to melodic. The man can still rap, but he’s keeping things fresh by calling attention to his beats and calm voice. —Heath Ellison

DEAR BLANCA TAKES US TO THE “OVERPASS” FOR A NEW SUMMER TRACK

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PUNK VOCALIST ASH VAPOR FINDS SUCCESS IN HAPPINESS AND SUSTAINABILITY

she acknowledges that her transformative journey is far from over. After all that she has been through, Vapor still believes musicmaking is what matters most in her world, and she’s determined to take it as far as she can. That said, she probably measures success a little differently than most.

“For me, I’ve had my illness, cystic fibrosis, my whole life and have already had to live quite differently from others with routines to stay healthy and strategies to still get what I needed done the best I could with how quickly I can go from amazing, decent, to awful in health,” she said. “To me, success is finding genuine happiness and sustainability. If I can take care of myself

Dear Blanca released “Overpass,” a summer indie-rock jam to rule the stereo for the hottest time of the month. The music video dropped on Friday, along with the announcement of a new album, titled Perched, due July 31.

The latest track is a forward thinking power pop tune, outfitted with a punchy guitar line, world-weary vocals and a spoken word intro from Mike Watt of punk legends the Minutemen.

“Overpass” and the LP it comes from was recorded at Rialto Row with producer Wolfgang Zimmerman. —HE

“If I can take care of myself and loved ones and even strangers enough whilst pursuing my passion, then that’s my heaven on earth.”

—Ash Vapor

and loved ones and even strangers enough whilst pursuing my passion, then that’s my heaven on earth. If I can grant any amount of happiness, safety, and relief to others so they can make the best for themselves then I’ll feel quite happy with life.”

If you or your band is about to enter the studio, hit the road, or has a special gig coming up, contact Heath Ellison at heath@charlestoncitypaper.com.

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After making a splash in the local scene with a sound inspired by ’90s pop, R&B five-piece Cry Baby is conquering a new hill on their latest single: ’90s hip-hop. While the band points to Will Smith and Coolio as the inspirations for the glitzy funk track, it’s heavy on the house party vibes. “We gonna party like it’s 1991,” the band excitedly chants in the chorus. “As a band we love to explore different areas of pop and R&B music, which is showcased on our future full length,” said bassist Joey Haines. “ ‘1991’ really pushed us as we stepped into the realm of hip-hop even featuring a rap verse.” The music video for the track is all about matching the fun aesthetic of the song. According to Haines, that “naturally” led the band to put on costumes similar to what boy bands would wear. In this case, it’s spacesuits. The video culminates in the band finding a downed spaceship and partying on it, which is exactly how you should have expected it to end. The track, and it’s accompanying music video, will be released on July 17. Check them out at charlestoncitypaper.com. —Heath Ellison

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