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Spotty broadband access getting better for some S.C. consumers

By Herb Frazier

Tim Bailey’s new modern house in the Pauline community in remote Spartanburg County will have many of the comforts of home — except for an internet connection, a service many South Carolinians take for granted.

Bailey, a contractor based in Union, and his wife, Anne, are planning to move into their new home in about two weeks. Without internet service, however, the heating and air conditioning unit, bur glar alarm system, swimming pool system equipment and standby electric generator will not function as designed. He’ll even have to step outside to get a strong cell phone signal to send and receive an email.

Two months after Bailey began building the house in October 2021, he called an internet service provider. But he was told it couldn’t connect him to the system because his new house is outside their service area. On a clear day, he can see the distant mountains.

Frustrated, Bailey called his Pauline neighbor, S.C. Sen. Shane R. Martin, R-Spartanburg, to tell him something has to change. “The state and the [federal gov ernments] are giving these providers a lot of taxpayers’ money, and we are getting left out,” he said.

Gov. Henry McMaster and U.S. Rep. James Clyburn, D-S.C., in a rare moment of Palmetto State bipartisanship, shared the podium during a recent press confer ence in Columbia to announce that as of March 2022, more than 100,000 additional customers, many in rural areas, have gained high-speed broadband access through state

and federal government investments in broadband expansion.

Lots of people in Bailey’s situation

The expansion of service, however, won’t pro vide immediate help for Bailey and slightly more than 181,000 households across the state that have poor internet service or don’t have access to a connection because they are beyond the service provider’s reach, according to the S.C. Broadband Office.

“Our rural areas are loaded with talent, and it is vital to our future prosperity that our rural areas and everyone in our state has broadband access,” McMaster said in a state ment. “Thanks to Congressman Clyburn, and our entire team, we are making great progress. The best is yet to come.”

Clyburn added, “I want to thank the gov ernor for doing something that a lot of people with less vision did not do. Through the State Broadband office and its leadership, South Carolina has created a model that other states are now following. When it comes to educa tion, health, or anything else — broadband will make it all more accessible and affordable.”

The expanded service area cost nearly $480 million in federal and state funds. So far, the state has awarded more than $55 million in grants to internet service pro viders to make it financially feasible to run costly lines to more homes and businesses. Another $400 million will be awarded in the coming year, beginning with $180 million by December. At a minimum, $100 million will be awarded to the state through the

Infrastructure Investment and Jobs Act.

Beginning in 2019, the state also received nearly $40 million from the U.S. Department of Agriculture ReConnect Program.

The S.C. Office of Regulatory Staff (ORS) estimates it will cost $600 million to serve every unserved household. Fortunately, the money’s already available. Sources include $400 million from the American Rescue Plan Act, $100 million from the Federal Communication Commission’s Rural Digital Opportunity Fund Program and at least $100 million from the Infrastructure Investment and Jobs Act, which is expected to be available in 2024.

Charleston falls short on grant funding

In the Lowcountry, as of June 6, 2022, ORS has awarded $6.2 million in grants to service providers in Berkeley County and $1.5 million in Dorchester County to bring service to 2,227 and 533 customers, respectively. No grant funds were awarded, however, to service providers in Charleston County. Because of demographic rankings based on a variety of factors, Charleston County didn’t qualify for the latest round of grant funding, said Jim Stritzinger, director of the S.C. Broadband Office.

Many rural residents have internet access at work, school or home, “but that is not the same as having [high-speed] internet connectivity in your house,” he said. “This is what the [pandemic] really laid bare for

The Rundown

Todd, Critic move on from The Bridge radio

Veteran radio DJs Richard Todd and Jim “The Critic” Voigt have left Charleston’s 105.5 The Bridge radio station, the City Paper has confirmed. Saturday was the last day on the air for Todd. Voigt retired in August.

They have 60 years of combined broadcasting experience in the Charleston area with loyal followings of listeners comfortable with their blend of alternative rock and locally made music.

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—Dr. Robert A. Saul wrote in a recent guest column for City Paper regarding a campaign ad from U.S. Sen. Tim Scott, R-S.C., in which he suggests no racism exists in America.

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“Senator Scott’s whitewashing of the past and the uncomfortable present only serves to ignore the issues and to perpetuate the inequities.”

Blotter of the Week

Community responds to new details on Lowcountry Rapid Transit Line

By Chelsea Grinstead

When the $625 million Lowcountry Rapid Transit Line project is completed in 2028, the 21.5 mile rapid transit line will con nect Berkeley, Charleston and Dorchester counties with a separate bus transportation system running from the Summerville area to the downtown area.

Two local residents respond to devel opments in the conversation around the project that has carried on for years, asking whether underserved communities will benefit from the massive undertaking or whether it will simply speed up travel between commercial districts.

“This is going to be the longest single-line rapid transit system in the country,” said Mike Seekings, chairman of the Charleston Area Regional Transit Authority (CARTA). “It’s a big deal.”

U.S. Secretary of Transportation Pete Buttigieg spoke during a press confer ence Oct. 12 about the U.S. Department of Transportation’s (USDOT) formal approval of the Lowcountry Rapid Transit project to advance to the next stages.

“There’s still a few more steps to get this over the finish line,” he said during the press conference in North Charleston. “There are always going to be challenges to resolve. We will be your partner to get this done.”

Initial design and operation details

About half of the proposed transit line will use new traffic patterns and infrastructure including a dedicated bus lane, while the rest will be carved from the landscape of existing area transportation, Seekings said.

“We’re going to be using a lot of already existing infrastructure along the route,”

Seekings told City Paper. “But we’re also going to be building sta tions. We’re going to be building park-and-rides, and, in certain places, new roadways and transit ways. So you’ll see those activities starting two years, plus or minus, from now.”

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The transit line will include about 20 stations with buses running 21 hours a day at 10-minute intervals during rush hour and roughly 15-minute intervals in the offhours, Seekings said.

The project will be partially funded by Charleston County’s half-cent sales tax. Upon final USDOT approval, the project will also receive a federal grant of up to $375 million, Buttigieg said.

The comprehensive project is a collabo ration between Charleston County, the Berkeley-Charleston-Dorchester Council of Governments, CARTA and the South Carolina Department of Transportation.

Completion of the Lowcountry Rapid Transit Line is estimated to take about six years.

“We’re spending a lot of time thinking about what’s going to happen in and around that corridor not just with transporta tion, but with what happens with life,” said Seekings, who also serves on Charleston City Council. “We’re doing transit-oriented development studies. We want to make sure we can create live-work-play nodes along the route where people can have access to transit, be close to where they live and be close to where they work.”

Transit-oriented development studies are particularly important for the Charleston area that struggles with affordable and attainable housing for workforce and resi

dents, he said.

“We will be working very hard handin-hand with the jurisdictions [involved with] this project to make sure that we do everything we can to make their lives easier and vice versa,” he said. “North Charleston has already [started formulating] some zoning overlays along the corridor to allow for certain types of development that would be consistent with transit.”

Food accessibility and transit

Charleston area residents are waiting for more design details to be released, and, in the meantime, are asking questions about how this project will impact neighborhood popu lations that rely on public transportation.

Lindsey Barrow Jr., founder of local market and food pharmacy organization Lowcountry Street Grocery, has been in Charleston 20 years and is eager to see a more specific plan for what the Lowcountry Rapid Transit Line will look like as far as stations, routes and pedestrian and bicycle lanes.

“I like the idea of incorporating the bus system into mass transit,” Barrow told City Paper. “We just need more confirmation on exactly what it looks like, because it still seems like there’s a good bit of it up in the air.”

Barrows said he wondered if the line’s design would take into account under served people who transit lines are intended to aid and assist or if it’s a project that will simply expedite travel for high-income and

Charleston police responded to a house in West Ashley Oct. 3 after a woman reported her $200 black and tan ceramic Rottweiler statue was missing. She called the police immediately when she got home from church the day before and saw it was gone, but she had dialed the wrong number. She showed the police a picture of the dog statue she had in her phone. Police asked her to email the picture, but never received it. But maybe there’s still a chance.

Gone phishing

A woman reported to Charleston police that she was scammed out of $17,000. She received a text authorization Oct. 4 for a Macbook purchase through Amazon, which she did not make. She called the phone number in the text. A man identifying himself as head of Amazon Security told her that her Amazon account had been hacked 109 times and in order to secure her account, she would need to pay him with various gift cards — which she did … then she found out that he didn’t work at Amazon. Police issued her a case number.

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SPA taking public input on Union Pier, prime property

By Herb Frazier

The South Carolina State Ports Authority (SPA) on Oct. 13 held its third public input session on a redevelopment plan for the 70-acre Union Pier along the Cooper River that holds the promise of more waterfront access, green spaces and homes and shops on the Charleston peninsula.

The comments from the public will be used to direct what happens to the land after the SPA sells the property to a devel oper. The site is considered to be one of the most prime pieces of waterfront real estate in the country.

Around a basketball court at Sanders Clyde Creative Arts Elementary School on Morrison Drive, more than 40 large displays showed a pictorial timeline of the pier’s history and future possibili ties. On them, residents pasted comments that included a need for more affordable housing, spaces for outdoor events and uses of the opportunity to place Charleston at the forefront of thoughtful development.

Charleston City Councilman Robert Mitchell said he asked the SPA to hold the three-hour session at the school, which is adjacent to Meeting Street Manor, to give residents an opportunity to share their opinions.

“We have to make sure that African Americans are involved in whatever hap pens at Union Pier,” he said.

The next input session will be held in the evening Oct. 27 at the Charleston Gaillard Center. Lowe, a real estate company based in Los Angeles, is collecting the comments for the redevelopment plan.

Lowe also is the new owner of the SPA’s former headquarters near Union Pier. The

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all of us,” he said. “When the pandemic hit, it shined a big bright light on the digital divide.” The S.C. Broadband Office, created July 1, 2021, is within the ORS.

In the sparsely populated Pauline com munity of about 200 people, Bailey is about a quarter of a mile from an internet cable that runs along S.C. Highway 215. As a con tractor, he volunteered to dig the trench and bury the cable to his house, but the service provider declined his offer.

company plans to turn the site into a hotel on Concord Street.

“Together, through a collaborative, public process, Union Pier will be redeveloped into a space that benefits the city and its resi dents,” said Liz Crumley, SPA’s manager for corporate communications. “We encourage the community to be a part of the public process to provide the best outcome for the people of our city.”

Rachel Hawes, who is land, water and wildlife project manager with the Coastal Conservation League, said a new develop ment presents the opportunity to connect it with existing public parks to increase down town livability. Reducing paved surfaces also would mitigate flooding, she said. The league could suggest removing the 30-acre elevated portion of Union Pier to fully expose the marsh along the river’s edge.

Robert Dunlap, a member of the Lowcountry Maritime School, said he’d like to see the SPA erect a marker to com memorate the Mosquito Fleet, which was a group of Black fishermen who plied the coastal waters to provide Charleston with fresh seafood before the advent of refrigera tion. He said the fleet docked its small boats at the end of Laurens Street, the northern boundary of Union Pier.

Union Pier is currently the home port for the Carnival Sunshine cruise ship. In the spring, the SPA announced it would not extend homeport cruising beyond 2024. The pier will continue to be used as a port-of-call for other cruise ships that would not dock overnight.

To possibly solve Bailey’s connection problem, the ORS executive director

Nanette S. Edwards suggested he try SpaceX Starlink technology. The office has partnered with the S.C. Department of Education to pilot a program using Starlink for remote rural schools to eval uate the effectiveness of low Earth orbit satellites for reliable broadband service. Bailey said he has signed up and ORS will try to expedite a connection for him. It is also investigating other solutions, he said. “If it wasn’t for Ms. Edwards’ office, I don’t know what I’d be doing,” he added.

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The public gathered at Sanders Clyde to discuss the future of Union Pier

commercial areas.

“The street line that goes from West Edge [downtown] to the Exchange Park [in Ladson] only encapsulates 5% of the Charleston region’s main transit lines, so I’m wondering why there aren’t any cross sections.”

Barrow is focused on creating a more equitable food system in the Charleston area. Through his community supported social enterprise, he hopes to combat low food accessibility, something he said is directly linked to underserved communi ties’ access to transportation.

The U.S. Department of Agriculture’s food access map is a tool he often references.

“[The Rapid Transit Line] is an interesting way to potentially open the doors for additional food access in the Lowcountry area,” Barrow said, “but it doesn’t seem to me like anyone’s putting thought into that side of things — we’re totally missing large chunks of [metro politan areas with] food inaccess [on] the USDA map.

“Overall, I think it’s great,” he said. “I just think it would behoove the policymakers to include more folks who are working on some of the [social problems] in the Charleston area, like food access and food insecurity, in some of these decisions.”

Looking at the big picture

When Summerville native Walter Rhett, 71, was growing up, there were dirt roads and people were still riding horses. His grand father’s cornfield, where he planted corn for more than 50 years, is now one of the major developments in the Summerville area.

As an urban historian, Rhett looks at the transit line from a different perspective: What will this innovation do in conjunction with the massive development of the region and for the industries that are creating the most jobs for low income workers?

“How fast and modern it is doesn’t matter if it doesn’t have a direct input on reducing the inequality and the inequity between people of lower income and people of higher income, [which] depends on where the stops are,” Rhett told City Paper

For Rhett, a chief concern is whether the Lowcountry Rapid Transit Line will be an open or closed system.

“If it’s an open system, it’ll tie into various other kinds of transportation lines — not necessarily Uber or taxis. What people have depended on for years in small Southern cities is what we call van drives: Somebody picks you up in the morning, takes you to work and takes you back home,” Rhett said.

“My concern, as an urban scholar and a native citizen, is who benefits from urban projects,” Rhett added, “because transportation is something that happens within communities.”

Leaders announce plans for Anson Burial Memorial

By Chelsea Grinstead

Near the corner of George and Anson streets will soon stand the Anson Burial Memorial to commemorate the 36 bodies of Africans, African Americans and Native Americans disinterred during the 2013 renovation of the Charleston Gaillard Center. The timeline for completion of the memorial, which has generated $800,000 in donations so far, is undetermined due to supply chain issues, officials said.

“I think this memorial is going to allow the power of the stories of our ancestors to come through,” said Charleston Mayor John Tecklenburg at a press conference held Tuesday to announce plans to build a bronze memorial statue to honor those 36 individuals.

The idea for the Anson Street African Burial Ground Project first took shape in 2013 after the initial discovery of the unmarked gravesite. In 2017, the late Dr. Ade Ofunniyin, a former leader of the Gullah Society, spearheaded efforts to protect and commemorate the site, and the project expanded to include scientific research.

Dr. Raquel Fleskes and Dr. Theodore Schurr of the Department of Anthropology at the University of Pennsylvania received a grant from the National Geographic Society to study the remains and uncover the ancestral backgrounds. They discovered through their analysis that the internment of the bodies occurred between 1760 and 1790, and the remains revealed indigenous, African and Lowcountry descent.

Sculptor Stephen L. Hayes Jr. of North Carolina and representatives from the Gullah Society, Wells Fargo, Denny’s and Spoleto Festival USA joined the mayor during the announcement of the project, which came to fruition thanks to collective efforts over the past two years.

Hayes said he will cast 36 bronze hands with water flowing out of them above a basin containing soil from this and other unmarked African burial sites on the Charleston peninsula.

The memorial project is seeking 36 people in the Charleston area to represent the ances tors uncovered at the site by taking molds of their hands for the sculpture.

“Where there’s water, there’s life,” Hayes said, “and we think about the life that these people lived, so some of the hands will also be holding objects that these people were buried with.”

Items found among the remains include beads, ceramics and coins.

Otis Rolley, Wells Fargo Foundation head of philanthropy based in Baltimore, Maryland, presented the memorial with a $300,000 donation during the Tuesday press conference. The City of Charleston donated $250,000 to the project, and the Samuel Freeman Charitable Trust, the Spaulding Paolozzi Foundation, Denny’s and Wolverine Worldwide Foundation also made donations.

To learn more about the project, make a donation or volunteer to have your hands cast, go to asabgproject.com.

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Mayor John Tecklenburg stands with members of the Gullah Society at a press conference last week about the Anson Burial Memorial design

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Elect Dr. Annie Andrews to Congress

If there’s one thing the Lowcountry needs, it’s less drama. That, in and of itself, is an outstanding reason to elect Dr. Annie Andrews to represent voters in the First Congressional District.

But she’s the right prescription in Congress for another big reason — she’s committed to make headway, not headlines, on issues important to the region where her opponent is out of step. Rather than being cagey and political about abortion, Andrews, a pediatrician, minces no words — she’s a firm believer in a woman’s right to make decisions about her body. As she clearly says in a recent television advertisement: “I’ll fight to restore a woman’s right to choose. Because we’ve come too far to go back.”

Andrews, a Mount Pleasant mother of three, jumped into the congressional race to push for reasonable ways to reduce gun violence, the effects of which she says she sees too often in her practice at the Medical University of South Carolina. In another memorable ad, she likened a bullet from a gun to an eraser: “As a doctor, I’ve seen it erase 10th birthdays, family vacations, school dances and so much more. Because guns are erasing our kids.”

Beyond issues, voters from Charleston to Hilton Head Island should elect Andrews because of her zeal to put children, not political games, at the top of Washington’s agenda.

In a July profile in the City Paper, Andrews said she decided to run for Congress after she realized she could

do more to help children and make things safer for them through representative advocacy in Washington than by treating individual patients. “Why isn’t it everyone’s priority to do what’s best for kids?” she asked. “It seems to be obvious to me.”

She also pledged to take an approach in Congress that puts science before rhetoric. “Every decision I make in health care is data-inspired,” she said in July. “Treatment is based on data. If our laws were based on data, we could do so much good. It’s a totally different approach to problem-solving.”

Dr. Annie Andrews is the kind of refreshing leader that the Lowcountry needs in Congress. We heartily endorse her candidacy and urge you to vote for her Nov. 8.

Also on the ballot for some in the Lowcountry is congressional legend Jim Clyburn , the third most powerful Democratic leader in the United States House of Representatives.

Simply put, the Lowcountry has no better friend in Congress than Clyburn. That, in and of itself, is why he must be reelected. Clyburn has a clear record of delivering, not only for the Lowcountry, but for the state of South Carolina. He’s steady, solid and passionate about improving our state, nation and democracy. We are lucky to have him in Washington and we need to make sure he remains there for us.

On Nov. 8, vote to send Andrews to Washington for the first time and to keep Clyburn in office to allow him to keep working his congressional magic.

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OPINION

Optimism seems to be springing forth

By Andy Brack

A funny thing happened on the way to the midterm elections: optimism about America’s democracy seems to be budding after months of trouble, toil and turmoil stemming from political tribalism, an attempted insurrection and a former president who can’t stop stirring the pot.

Noted Charleston civil rights lawyer Armand Derfner, who last year co-wrote a book on the U.S. Supreme Court’s long dance with race and civil rights, beamed with optimism during a bookstore discussion this week. There will be pressures put on institutions like the court, viewed as widely out of step with American sentiment on abortion after it over turned Roe v. Wade, to fall back in step with democratic principles. For the court, this may take time. But in the meantime, he said other institu tions — the presidency, Congress, state legislatures, governors and more — are stepping up to right the ship of state.

“There will be pressure to do better things more in keeping with our traditions. … Many states will be better than they have been,” Derfner said, pointing to how conservative Kansasans voted to protect abortion over the summer.

Longtime state Rep. Gilda Cobb Hunter, D-Orangeburg, says young people are waking up to the need for more civic engagement.

“While this does not apply to all young people, enough of them recognize the mess that we have made of things, especially the environment and intolerance of differences and that they are indeed the change they want to see,” she said.

Lexington native John Simpkins, a former Charleston School of Law constitutional law professor who runs a regional nonprofit, echoed her comments: “I’ve heard [young people] express an ease with diver sity, a curiosity about the world and a tolerance for difference, even across political ideology. Young people understand that we are all together in this continuous project of nation-making. If adults would get out of their way, we just might learn a few things from them.”

ACLU of South Carolina Executive Director Jace Woodrum added, “What gives me hope is seeing South Carolinians fighting back for our freedoms. … It’s impossible not to feel optimistic when you’re arm-in-arm with your neighbors to protect the freedoms all Americans hold dear.”

The U.S. Constitution also has largely worked for more than 200 years, Furman University political science professor Danielle Vinson noted.

“While some talk about violence, I think the majority of the country is not inclined to turn to violence in our current division,” she said, adding that there are people in government today who are committed to peaceful transitions of power — even when elections may not go their way.

A seasoned state administrator threw this into the mix — one of the nation’s greatest inventions was the system of checks and balances.

“My biggest fear right now is that these processes take time, some times lots of time,” he said. “The rapid nature of our discourse now has a tendency to overwhelm and eat away at the time it takes for the system of checks and balances to work.”

Not everyone is optimistic about what’s happening in politics today. “Maybe my feelings will change in my lifetime if we see a real expansion of democracy,” said Columbia restaurateur Kevin Gray, who served as S.C. campaign manager for the Rev. Jesse Jackson’s 1988 presidential cam paign. “But when you have a two-party system, two poles in which many ‘tribes’ are forced to choose one or the other or a winner-take-all system where the goal is power either party or personal, then the system will continue to erode. I’ve always felt that the expansion of democracy means a real multi-party system and coalition government.”

Be a part of righting the direction of the country. Vote on Nov. 8.

Andy Brack is editor and publisher of Charleston City Paper. Have a comment? Send to: feedback@ charleston citypaper.com.

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IS IT SAFE

Places where bacteria levels are almost always high

By Andy Brack

If you swim or paddleboard in Filbin Creek in North Charleston, Shem Creek in Mount Pleasant or near some creeks on James Island, basic science suggests you might want to reconsider — or be extra careful.

For years, levels of bacteria that can make you pretty sick have been so high at these three locations that they failed safety tests just about every week from May to October. Four other locations failed tests at least 25% of the time over about 20 weeks this year.

So what’s going on? The storm of increasing development and more paved, impervious surfaces is wreaking havoc on Mother Nature. There is less forested and rural land. And there’s more rain brought on, in part, by climate change. Combined, it’s more difficult for the Lowcountry’s sandy soil to absorb enough water, which causes runoff filled with yard waste, leaking septic tanks, animal waste and road grime to ooze into streams feeding Charleston Harbor.

“What we see is a constant threat and it feels like we’re just trying to hold the line in terms of water quality,” said Andrew Wunderley, executive director of Charleston Waterkeeper, a non profit that monitors water quality and provides its scien tific findings to the state. What’s worse, he said, is that South Carolina, which touts its beautiful places, could do so much more: “You see a state that’s only minimally adequate in terms of environ mental protection.”

As water temperatures warm in the spring, Waterkeeper volunteers take samples every Wednesday morning for enterococcus, which is a large biological classification of bacteria that, if ingested, cause all sorts of gastrointestinal prob lems. Volunteers also check site health by measuring levels of dissolved oxygen, temperature and acidity at each location.

And what keeps scientists like Wunderley awake at night is how we’re not paying attention to what’s happening

to the area’s interconnected estuarine system and the bounty that it produces for our tables and the rest of the food chain.

“The pace that this is changing from climate change and growth is beyond the system’s ability to adapt,” Wunderley said.

240 times worse than acceptable at Filbin Creek

Charleston Waterkeeper tracks the enterococcus bacteria weekly to measure someone’s risk of getting sick from being in waters or streams leading to the harbor.

“It’s the Environmental Protection Agency-preferred indicator of the risk of illness arising with primary contact from recreational activity,” Wunderley said.

The water at Filbin Creek, which is in the shadow of Interstate 526, and a looming paper mill, is an extreme example. A measurement site for the last two years, it received a passing score only once in 45 weeks for having less than 104 “colony-forming units of bacteria per 100 milliliters of water.” In other words, it failed 96% of the time in 2021 and 100% through September this year, according to Waterkeeper data.

What’s perhaps more alarming is the magnitude of failures. The average reading was 3,297 colony-forming units. But on five different weeks — four in 2021 and once in June 2022, bacte rial readings exceeded 10,000 colonyforming units of bacteria. Twice, they were greater than 24,000 units.

While Filbin Creek consistently fails in the bacteria measurement, it and other sites often deteriorate after heavy rainfall, Wunderley said. At those times, there’s just too much water for water treatment centers to handle without harming the infrastructure.

“In normal circumstances, most treatment authorities do pretty well at treating and disinfecting sewage,” he said. “It’s when we have heavy rainfall

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The state Department of Health and Environmental Control (DHEC), which has regulatory authority over water quality, said in a statement attributed to spokesman Ron Aiken that “bacteria concentrations are subject to wide fluctuations over very short periods of time, especially related to rain events, so it’s impossible to say on any given day whether or not bacteria standards in a recreational area will be met or exceeded.

“That is why we focus on broader public education of what to expect when entering a natural waterbody — that there is always some level of risk and the most current, real-time data is available through our online resources.

“Frequent installing and removing of stationary signage for temporary exceed ances that can often last less than a day isn’t as current a method as our online resources that we work to promote through news releases, social media, water keepers, com munity groups and other stakeholders.”

The DHEC statement, however, added, “Charleston Harbor is not a designated swimming area. … There is always risk asso ciated with swimming in natural waters.”

What to do about the problem

DHEC didn’t provide an answer about specific pollution and health risks for Filbin Creek, but it hasn’t been measured for too long. But for Shem Creek and James Island creeks leading into the Ashley River, it gave this answer — that each “is a priority area of particular concern in the Charleston Harbor area due to enterococcus bacteria impairment. Total Maximum Daily Loads (TMDLs) identifying necessary reductions to meet WQS (water quality standards) and restore recreation use support have been

developed for this waterbody.”

The agency also advised against swim ming or rafting during a storm or after it rains. It said to avoid swallowing river, stream or lake water, and to never swim with open cuts or wounds.

Among the ways to lower bacteria levels:

• Public participation to adopt streams and keep them clean.

• Detection and elimination of harmful discharges, such as from leaking and inappropriate septic tanks. James Island, for example, is being proactive in connecting more than 200 septic tank locations to a sewer system, which will cut down on leaking human waste, Wunderley said.

• Building more stormwater control measures.

• Picking up after pets so their waste doesn’t flow into streams and cause bacterial blooms.

• Using car washes instead of washing cars in yards.

For fish and shellfish consumption information, DHEC suggested keeping up with its advisories and those of the state Department of Natural Resources. As of last week, Charleston Harbor didn’t have any fish consumption advisories.

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Second Chance Bikes Fall Festival

Second Chance Bike’s fourth annual Fall Festival returns to Holy City Brewing with tons of family fun and “tiny bike” activities. The Fall Festival includes games for all ages, plus a vendor market by Holy City Farmers Market and music from Charleston ensemble

The Crispy Bois. Don’t miss the locally curated silent auction featuring items from more than 40 local busi nesses, a DIY caramel apple station from GrowFood Carolina and a station from Craft and Canvas that teaches how to turn used bike tubes into crafts. Second Chance is a nonprofit that restores, sells and gives away used bikes. Proceeds from the event will help launch a second location to better serve the community. Oct. 23. 11 a.m.-3 p.m. Free. Holy City Brewing. 1021 Aragon Ave. North Charleston. scbikes.org/fall-festival

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WEDNESDAY

The Addams Family: A New Musical

Charleston Stage presents a musical version of The Addams Family, the beloved 1960s TV show about a macabre aristocratic family. The adaptation features intricately arranged music compositions and elaborate set design with hidden surprises that entertain audiences with jokes, caricatures and oddities. All those who delight in the weird and spooky should grab tickets for this musical performance that follows Wednesday Addams as she falls in love with a “normal boy” and family drama ensues.

Oct 19-Nov. 6. 2/7:30 p.m. $44.50-$85.50. Dock Street Theatre. 135 Church St. Downtown. Charlestonstage.com

FRIDAY

Boone Hall Pumpkin Patch

The Boone Hall Pumpkin Patch, a fall family tradition since 1997, takes place six more times this month. Activities include a Halloween tractor tour, an eight-acre corn maze, pig racing, a giant slide, an obstacle course, a variety show, a honeybee exhibit, rubber duck races, compli mentary balloon art and live music. Pumpkins will also be sold by the pound and a handful of food vendors will be onsite.

Oct 21-30. Times vary. Boone Hall Farms. 1235 Long Point Road. Mount Pleasant. boonehallplantation.com

THURSDAY

Hispanic Heritage Celebration

Celebrate National Hispanic Heritage Month at the Public Works Art Center during this event featuring music, art, dancing, food and crafts for the whole family. The party will also include a cultural talk by Latina artists Diana Farfan and Ivan Segura, music by DJ Manolo Mix, songs by Omar Valencia and a dance class by Melanie Delgado.

Oct 20. 5:30-8:30 p.m. Free. Public Works Art Center. 135 W. Richardson Ave. Summerville. publicworksartcenter.com

SATURDAY

North Charleston Harvest Festival

The ninth annual North Charleston Harvest Festival will take over the Old Village streets with trick-or-treating, a petting zoo, costume contests, an artist market and live music by Natty Grass. Children can enjoy the kid’s zone filled with arts and crafts activities and games. Food and drink options are available from the many restaurants, bars and breweries in the area.

Oct. 21. 4-7 p.m. Free. E. Montague Avenue. North Charleston. northcharleston.org

Charleston Opera Theater brings Don Giovanni to the stage

By Michael Smallwood

Charleston Opera Theater planned to mount its first produc tion, a staging of Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart’s classic opera Giovanni, in March 2020. But then, for obvious reasons, that never happened.

“I wanted to do this back in 2020, and of course that just was not possible,” said Harold Meers, founder and executive artistic director of Charleston Opera Theater. The theater’s early life followed the popular refrain of changing plans to adjust performance abilities, a song sung by many performing arts organizations across the world during the pandemic.

It held outdoor and socially distanced performances while biding its time. Two years later, Don Giovanni is finally coming to the stage October 20 and 22.

“What is unique about it is that, outside the Spoleto Festival, Charleston really hasn’t had a year-round professional opera producing company,” Meers said. “That’s what we’re attempting to change.”

Meers started his professional career with the Opera Theater of St. Louis before making a name for himself with performances at the Metropolitan Opera, Los Angeles Opera, Glimmerglass Opera, and many more. He founded Charleston Opera Theater in 2019.

Another unique aspect of this production is its theme. Don Giovanni is frequently hailed as one of the most dramatic of Mozart’s stage pieces. First staged in 1787, the opera follows Don Giovanni, a nobleman and utter rogue. Giovanni is young, arrogant and sexu ally promiscuous, and his mistreatment of those around him leads ultimately to his punishment.

For this opera, which Meers said “highlights both the worst and the best in humanity,” he and co-director John de los Santos transplanted the action from its original setting of Spain, and dropped it right into modern-day Mexico. The show draws much of its inspiration from Dia de los Muertos, or Day of the Dead, the multi-day Mexican holiday that pays respect to friends and family who have died. Meers views this as the perfect parallel for Don Giovanni.

“The more I thought about it, the more I realized that there were a lot of opportunities to update and transport Don Giovanni to an interesting location,” he said. “Keep the heart of the story alive and not disrupt the narrative.”

Set and costume designs draw inspiration from the brightness and exuberance of Day of the Dead festivities. The holiday is not a somber one; many celebrations involve bright colors and lighter

tones. The scenic design by Meers and Charlie Calvert will place several scenes in a graveyard. And masks, drawing from the iconic sugar skull designs, will be a central part of several scenes.

“From a practical sense, there are party scenes in Don Giovanni where everybody shows up wearing masks,” Meers said. “You can’t tell who they are. That’s a pretty typical thing for Mozart to do. Everybody’s in disguise. The Day of the Dead skull masks work perfectly for it. There’s a lot of energy and symbolism there that works really well for the telling of the classic Don Giovanni story.

“While it’s not our first production, it really feels like our inau gural production,” Meers said. “It’s the first time that we’re doing a full production with orchestra and sets and lights and costumes — the way opera was meant to be done.”

This Don Giovanni performance features a cast of nation ally and internationally recognized talent. Baritone Craig Verm comes to Charleston to play the title role, one he’s played to great acclaim many times before. He’s joined by Rebecca Kyrnski Cox as Donna Anna and Brad Smoak as Leporello. But the cast isn’t just out of towners. Saundra Deathos-Meers, accomplished lyric

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SEWE tickets now on sale

General admission passes and special event tickets for the 2023 Southeastern Wildlife Exposition are now available for purchase. The 2023 edition of this regional wildlife art show and outdoor event will take place Feb. 17-19 at five downtown Charleston locations: Brittlebank Park , The Charleston Place, Gaillard Center, Marion Square and Charleston Marriott . General admission tickets provide access to all SEWE venues, shows, lectures and demonstrations. VIP Benefactor and Patron packages are also available, offering exclusive perks and events. For more information and to purchase tickets, visit sewe.com.

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North Charleston Arts Fest poster competition opens

The 40th annual North Charleston Arts Fest is now accepting submissions for its poster design competition. All South Carolina visual artists are welcome to submit a design before Dec. 15. The winning artwork will be the official poster design for the 2023 North Charleston Arts Fest, which takes place May 3-7, 2023. The winning artist will have the chance to display work in an exhibition at Park Circle Gallery during the month of May and receive a $500 award. South Carolina residents aged 18 and older are eligible to submit, and works are accepted in acrylic, oil, drawing, pastel, watercolor and 2D mixed media. Entries should be submitted online at chscp.co/ poster-competition. MS

PURE Theatre performs Broadway hit Clyde’s

PURE Theatre’s 20th season continues with a performance of Clyde’s, the recent Broadway hit from two-time Pulitzer Prize-winner Lynn Nottage. Four ex-convicts navigate their life working in the kitchen of Clyde’s, a sandwich shop run by the tyrannical namesake. The chefs seek purpose and meaning through creating the perfect sandwich. The show runs Oct. 27-Nov. 19 and stars Joy Vandervort-Cobb, Tonya Smalls, Keith Alston, Addison Dent, Shivam Patel (Oct. 27-28) and Michael Smallwood (Oct. 29-Nov. 19). Tickets are available at puretheatre.org. MS

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Cast members rehearse for the upcoming performances of Don Giovanni at Sottile Theater downotwn

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Death is a Drag shows a different side of Charleston history

By Kevin Young

Charleston Culinary Tours brought leg endary Charleston drag queen Kira Lee into its fold recently as a guide for the Death is a Drag tours, a new take on its usual tours.

Charleston Culinary Tours general manager Charley Smith recognized Lee as a local drag queen after he was sent recommendations for new guides and wanted to see if she was interested in a new concept. She was. With that, the Death is a Drag tour was born. It was Kira kismet.

“Collaborating with Kira has been so much fun,” Smith said. “She has an infec tious enthusiasm and creative spirit that has brought new life to the ghosts.”

When asked about her background, Lee responded with a story peppered with her trademark wit. “Wow, honey I’m almost old. How far back do you want to go?” she asked. “I was born in a small lumber town on the West Coast then raised in a farming area where I grew up with three sisters and potatoes. Is that too far back? I came to South Carolina in 1998 with the military.

Moved to Charleston for a fuck boy in August of 1999, but that’s another story!”

Jokes aside, Lee said she came here for the beach. As she explored the city, she fell in love with the buildings and the history. “[It was] all older than anything I had seen up to that point,” she said. “I have been here on and off [ever] since. I love this place. This is my home now.”

When guests embark on the Death is a Drag tour, they chat with other guests before sitting around a table in the climate-controlled splendor of an 1803 parlor located in the Historic French Quarter. Lee starts by explaining the city’s founding and discussing major events like war, epidemics, earthquakes and storms that have played into the Holy City’s repu tation as a haunted destination.

Although the Death is a Drag tour is a stationary endeavor, Lee promises it is an event like nothing else in the area. “You enter the space and are greeted with some welcome refreshments and meet the other

Local drag queen Kira Lee tells spooky stories while guests are served decadent desserts from local establishments during the Death is a Drag tours

Photo by Ruta Smith

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soprano and head of opera at the College of Charleston, joins the cast as Donna Elvira. Recent College of Charleston graduate and post-baccalaureate artist Abigail Oldstrom will sing Zerlina, and another recent grad Brad Morrison plays Masetto.

In conjunction with the performances, Charleston Opera Theater is hosting a Festival de Don Giovanni from 3-7 p.m. Oct. 22. The free street festival will feature food, vendors and live music on George Street. It’s a big collaboration with The Charleston Hispanic Association, Latin Groove, The Latin Exchange Club of Charleston and the Historic Latino Club of the College of Charleston.

“The digital media can reach so many people and open their eyes to the art form,” said Meers, referring to the pandemic-era output. “But for those of us that are pas sionate about it, we know that hearing it live with your own ears acoustically is really what makes it special. I love the art form,

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guests,” she said. “Once everyone is settled and what not I make my grand entrance performing a number related to the eve ning’s stories.

“I talk about the Lady in Purple, Poogan, the child in white, pirates, madams, the headless soldier, basically anything that someone has said, seen, photographed, what have you,” Lee said. “I have a rotating list of stories from the city. Any legends of paranormal activity, I’ll talk about it. I show photographs of all of it, so I can take you ‘inside,’ via picture, while my friend Dana, serves the array of desserts with each legend they are matched to. She lets everyone know what restaurants the des serts came from, then I tie them together. So each event is different.”

Lee is extremely happy the tour is a sta tionary event, “You don’t have to walk! I’m in heels, and the sidewalks suck!”

When asked about the many tasty treats served during the tour, Lee ran down a list of her favorites: from Nonnabachi’s can nolis and red velvet cake from Carmella’s to Off Track’s key lime pie ice cream, a pecan chewie from Sugar Bakeshop and Pop Your Cork sparkling wine from Well Hung Vineyards.

Hosting unique events like Death is a Drag is nothing new for Lee. “Oh darlin’, I’ve hosted many things: events, shows, men, all over the USA,” she joked.

When asked about how she became a tour guide, Lee, the consummate story teller, detailed her journey: “True story about how I got the gig. I was at a bar called Patrick’s way back in the days of dial-up AOL, MapQuest and no cell phones. I met a person that had a booth in

and it’s an acoustic art form.”

Charleston Opera Theater is hoping this will be the start of a long life in Charleston, bringing the best of opera to the Holy City.

Don Giovanni runs October 20 and 22 at the Sottile Theater. Performances begin at 8 p.m. Visit charlestonoperatheater.org for tickets and information.

the market. I had made my way downtown and was talking to them one day, I saw a carriage go by and I simply said, ‘Oh, that would be a fun job.’ That afternoon I had an interview and was hired the next day. I have been giving tours in Charleston since May of 2000.”

Thanks to her current stint with Charleston Culinary Tours, Kira Lee has the unique honor of being the first drag queen in Charleston who is also a city-certified guide. With Death is a Drag, Lee is excited that she was offered the opportunity to provide something unique to Charleston. “It makes me one of a kind,” Lee said.

Reflecting on her career as a tour guide, Lee thinks of the pros, “I like the fact that wherever I go, it’s always different because of the guests and their questions but it’s the same because of the buildings. I like that I get to meet people from around the world and share my love of Charleston with them.”

For Lee, interacting with the guests is always interesting. “I was doing a ghost tour [recently], and I had a newlywed couple in the group. I fully believed that the lady would be the slightly scared one, and I swear every time I turned my head to them, the gentleman would jump. I stomped my foot; he freaked. I shut a door; he freaked. He made me laugh so hard it was difficult to keep things as somber and macabre as I like.”

In addition to the Death is a Drag tour, Charleston Culinary Tours offers other ways to experience the city and its many culinary delights. But, Death is the Drag is your only opportunity to talks ghosts, desserts and drag with a legendary Charleston persona.

Death is a Drag tours are available now through Nov. 5. For information or to book a tour, visit charlestonculinarytours.com.

Photos courtesy David Goltra

Brad Smoak (left), Craig Verm (middle) and director John de los Santos review the libretto

What it takes to operate a food pop-up

By Michael Pham

While many new restaurants are opening across the city, there are just as many chefs popping up at breweries, events and even in other kitchens. With no dedi cated food truck, trailer or even brickand-mortar buildings to operate out of, pop-ups bring sedans and pick-up trucks filled with equipment and food to their makeshift kitchens.

“It’s definitely not the easiest way to start,” said Adrian Ion, owner and chef of Braised & Glazed, which serves handheld regional cuisine dishes. “But I would say it’s a good way to kind of test the market and see what sells and what doesn’t.”

Despite concepts like Braised & Glazed seemingly just “popping up” at events or in kitchens, there’s a lot that happens behind the scenes.

“I think the biggest misconception is that we’re just here popping up our tent and selling,” added Taylor Ion, Adrian’s wife and co-owner of Braised & Glazed. “No, we’re just as good as any other truck or trailer or brick and mortar, for that matter. We all are oper ating ... through the same type of process. It’s just the way we do it is a lot different.”

Pop-ups, like any restaurant, are still required to get business licenses and approval from city and state organizations, like the fire marshall and Department of Health and Environmental Control.

Some mandatory inspections are done through commissary kitchens, offsite kitchen spaces rented by chefs for food preparation and post-pop-up cleaning.

Jared Sullivan, owner of newly estab lished pop-up Wild Card, said getting those licenses and approvals were the hardest for him. “That is a huge hurdle that you don’t really think about before you start,” he said.

Wild Card, which hosted its first pop-up in August, has held five events at places like Munkle Brewing Co., Two Blokes Brewing and Game Night in Park Circle, serving menu items like lumpia (Filipino eggrolls), tostadas and burritos. Sullivan, who’s had tenure at places like Chubby Fish, works alongside his girlfriend Chelsea Christian, a chef at Slightly North of Broad. Sullivan said he likes to cook Mexican-inspired cuisine, while his partner incorporates her Filipino

background into the menu with creations like lumpia, pozole verde and adobo sauce.

While Mexican and Filipino flavors inspire the menu, Wild Card’s ultimate goal is “to make Guy Fieri proud,” according to its Instagram page.

Planning a pop-up requires a lot of effort — extra labor, offsite prepwork, moving large equipment, setting up, breaking down and cleaning after service.

To streamline the process, pop-ups work with hosting venues in advance.

“It’s a lot of constant communication, said Trent Caldwell, who’s in charge of booking pop-ups for Munkle Brewing Co. on Meeting Street Road. “I send out an email at least once a quarter with all of our available dates to our food vendors … and it’s sort of first come, first serve.”

Some pop-ups have biweekly residen cies or show up frequently on Munkle’s monthly rotating food vendor schedule, like Mexican-inspired Tacos de la Bahia run by San Francisco-transplant Jeremy Weiss, Wild Card and Braised & Glazed.

Scouting locations ahead of time helps pop-up chefs curate their menus.

“Logistics plays a huge role in what we do and how we operate,” Taylor said. “We can’t just pull up and fire up the grill. Adrian and I always scout out places we’re going to operate beforehand for that specific reason.”

Sullivan added, “You’re always kind of having to tailor [to] wherever you are. Do I bring my electric flat top or do I bring the

propane? Maybe a generator?”

Nikko Cagalanan, chef and owner of pop-up Mansueta’s has been serving Filipino cuisine in the Lowcountry for just over two years. He can be found in kitchens at places like Little Miss Ha or Edmund’s Oast Brewing Co., collaborating with other chefs for unique dining experiences.

“Every restaurant has a different setup, a different kitchen,” Cagalanan said. “So you have to base your menu on the kitchen setup, and the availability of their equipment.”

Even with all that planning, pop-ups can’t predict other challenges.

“In some cases, you know, stuff does happen,” said Palmer Quimby, owner of Munkle Brewing. “So you need to be a little bit nimble and be able to pivot if something falls out, or something happens.”

Fortunately, the pop-up and food truck community remain tight knit, according to Sullivan, especially for someone relatively new to the game.

“It’s been a lot of working together with other pop-ups,” he said. “There’s no ani mosity or opposition. I think because we all realize this is pretty hard.”

Pop-ups are about more than just the chefs; the places that host pop-ups are just as important.

“It’s been a very symbiotic kind of thing,” said Sullivan. It’s been great. ... It’s always a really good vibe. Everything is super respectful both ways, and we’re just all in it together.”

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What’s new

Mex 1 Coastal Cantina dropped its new hibiscus margarita made with mezcal, Cappelletti aperitivo and hibiscus sour for a dry, smokey and citrusy, dark red cocktail.

Ruby Sunshine partnered with Trop Hop Beer to introduce a limited time “Beermosa.” The Beermosa is a spin on a classic mimosa, mixing the Trop Hop IPA’s passionfruit and grapefruit flavor notes with fresh orange juice.

Charleston Wine + Food 2023 tickets officially go on sale Oct. 20. The full schedule is now available via the Charleston W+F app. —Michael Pham

What to look for

SAVI Cucina + Wine Bar is hosting a bourbon dinner at 6:30 p.m. Oct. 25. The dinner will feature special guests Michael Potter from Southern Glazer’s Wine and Spirits and bourbon enthusiast Greg Boston for a night of education with selections from High Wire Distillery Perro Grande Cigars will also be onsite, hand-rolling cigars. Tickets are $150 and available on Resy.

SEALKIDS , a local nonprofit dedicated to supporting children of Navy SEALS, is hosting its No Limit Shuck ‘Em fundraiser Oct. 21 at The Citadel Beach Club. The fundraiser will consist of an Oyster Roast Casino Night featuring food from Home Team BBQ, a special Navy SEAL parachute demo, The Citadel Gospel Choir singing the National Anthem, Monte Carlo tables and an oyster roast. Tickets are $150 and can be purchased online at impact.sealkids.org.

Little Palm will host Birminghambased Queen’s Park for its Bar Shake Over series 4-11 p.m. Oct. 19. Queen’s Park bartenders will be shaking up Little Palm signature cocktails and bringing a taste of Birmingham in each drink.

Old Fashioned Week kicks off Oct. 14-23 with more than a dozen participating bars and restaurants including MOMO at Riverfront, Little Palm, Proof, Husk and more. In this event hosted by Elijah Craig, bars will serve up special Old Fashioneds during the week. —MP Be the first to know. Read the Cuisine section at charlestoncitypaper.com.

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Braised & Glazed co-owner Taylor Ion interacting with customers at a pop-up event earlier this year

Dream Dinner

Revisiting favorite dishes

Barbara Ronnquist of West Ashley said she would like to invite Golden Globe Award-winning actress Bette Midler, weatherman Al Roker and her mother to a dream dinner. “I have lived in Charleston for seven years and try to eat dinner out several times a year, mostly for special occasions or when friends visit,” she said. “These are the restaurants and foods that hang in my memory and have become my ‘go to places.’”

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ENTREE: Grilled octopus from Oak Steakhouse.

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2850 Ashley Phosphate Road, Suite B, North Charleston, South Carolina, 29418 within thirty (30) days after service hereof, exclu sive of the day of such service.

the said deposit to be applied to the purchase price.

Master’s Sale Case No. 2019-CP-10-05999

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TO DEFENDANT: Raul A. Osorio YOU ARE HEREBY SUMMONED and required to answer the complaint for termination of your parental rights in and to the minor child in this action, the original of which has been filed in the Office of the Clerk of Court for Berkeley County 300-B California Ave, Moncks Corner, SC 29461 on the 28th day of March, 2022 at 11:55 a.m., a copy of which will be delivered to you upon request; and to serve a copy of your answer to the complaint upon the undersigned attorney for the Plaintiff at Jason D. Pockrus, 2 Belt Drive, Moncks Corner, SC 29461 within thirty (30) days following the date of service upon you, exclusive of the day of such service; and if you fail to answer the complaint within the time stated, the plaintiff will apply for judgment by default against the defendant for the relief demanded in the complaint. Jason D. Pockrus, SC Bar# 101333, 2 Belt Drive, Moncks Corner, SC 29461. Telephone number: (843) 719-1135

STATE OF SOUTH CAROLINA COUNTY OF CHARLESTON IN THE FAMILY COURT FOR THE NINTH JUDICIAL CIRCUIT DOCKET NO. 2022-DR-10-2232

SOUTH CAROLINA DEPARTMENT OF SOCIAL SERVICES

VERSUS

JOSE BAJURTO AND BLANCA MARILEN MAYORGA IN THE INTERESTS OF: MINOR CHILD BORN 2010.

TO DEFENDANT: JOSE BAJURTO YOU ARE HEREBY SUMMONED and required to answer the Complaint in this action filed with the Clerk of Court for Charleston County on July 29, 2022. Upon proof of interest, a copy of the Complaint will be delivered to you upon request from the Charleston County Clerk of Court, and you must serve a copy of your Answer to the Complaint on the Plaintiff, the Charleston County South Carolina Department of Social Services, at the office of its Attorney, Mary Lee Briggs, Legal Department of the Charleston County Depart ment of Social Services, 3366 Rivers Avenue, Charleston S.C. 29405 within thirty (30) days of this publication, exclusive of the date of service. If you fail to answer within the time set forth above, the Plaintiff will proceed to seek relief from the Court. Mary Lee Briggs SC Bar #101535, 3366 Rivers Avenue, Charleston, SC 29405, 843-953-6041.

YOU ARE HEREBY SUMMONED and required to answer the complaint for termination of your parental rights in and to the minor child in this action, the original of which has been filed in the Office of the Clerk of Court for Charleston County 100 Broad Street, Charleston, SC 29401, on the 22nd day of June, 2022, a copy of which will be delivered to you upon request; and to serve a copy of your answer to the complaint upon the undersigned attorney for the Plaintiff at 3366 Rivers Avenue, North Charleston, SC 29405 within thirty (30) days following the date of service upon you, exclusive of the day of such service; and if you fail to answer the complaint within the time stated, the plaintiff will apply for judgment by de fault against the defendant(s) for the relief demanded in the complaint. Regina Parvin, SC Bar# 65393, 3366 Rivers Ave., North Charleston, SC 29405. (843) 953-9625.

STATE OF SOUTH CAROLINA COUNTY OF DORCHESTER IN THE FAMILY COURT FOR THE FIRST JUDICIAL CIRCUIT DOCKET NO. 2022-DR- 18-1023 SOUTH CAROLINA DEPARTMENT OF SOCIAL SERVICES VERSUS

TAMIKA WALLACE, DEFEN DANT. IN THE INTEREST OF: MINOR CHILD BORN 2020.

TO DEFENDANT: TAMIKA WALLACE

YOU ARE HEREBY SUMMONED and required to answer the complaint for termination of your parental rights in and to the minor child in this action, the original of which has been filed in the Office of the Clerk of Court for Dorchester County 212 Deming Way, SC 29483, on the13th day of September, 2022, at 2: 06 p.m., a copy of which will be delivered to you upon request; and to serve a copy of your answer to the complaint upon the undersigned attorney for the Plaintiff at 216 Orangeburg Road, Summerville, SC 29483 within thirty (30) days follow ing the date of service upon you, exclusive of the day of such service; and if you fail to answer the complaint within the time stated, the plaintiff will apply for judgment by default against the defendant for the relief demanded in the complaint. Dawn M. Berry, SC Bar # 101675, 216 Orange burg Road, Summerville, SC 29483, (843) 486-1861

YOU ARE HEREBY GIVEN NOTICE FURTHER that if you fail to appear and defend and fail to answer the Complaint as required by this Summons within thirty (30) days after the service hereof, exclusive of the day of such service, judgment by default will be entered against you for the relief demanded in the Complaint.

Respectfully submitted, CLEKIS LAW FIRM, PA

S/Nicholas J. Clekis

ATTORNEY FOR THE PLAINTIFF 2850 Ashley Phosphate Rd., Ste. B North Charleston, SC 29418 843-720-3737 Tel 843-459-295 l Fax S.C. Bar# 6522 Clekislaw@clekis.com

Should the highest bidder fail to comply with the bid within thirty days from the date of sale, the Master will resell the property at the risk and expense of the defaulting bidder upon the same terms as above set out. The Sheriff of Charleston County may be authorized to put the purchaser into possession of the premises if requested by the purchaser.

PLAINTIFF’S ATTORNEY Finkel Law Firm LLC (843) 577-5460

FOR INSERTION

STATE OF SOUTH CAROLINA COUNTY OF CHARLESTON IN THE COURT OF COMMON PLEAS NINTH JUDICIAL CIRCUIT CASE NO.: 2022-CP-10-03706

STATE OF SOUTH CAROLINA COUNTY OF CHARLESTON IN THE COURT OF COMMON PLEAS Freedom Mortgage Corporation vs Eric Collins; Oak Bluff Homeowners Association, Inc.; Portrait Homes - South Carolina, LLC

Upon authority of a Decree dated the 13th day of March, 2020, I will offer for sale to the highest bidder for cash, at public auction, the prem ises fully described below, at County Council Chambers, 4045 Bridge View Drive, North Charleston, South Carolina, on the 1st day of November, 2022, at 11:00 a.m. or shortly thereafter.

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STATE OF SOUTH CAROLINA COUNTY OF CHARLESTON IN THE FAMILY COURT FOR THE NINTH JUDICIAL CIRCUIT DOCKET NO. 2022-DR-10-1797

SOUTH CAROLINA DEPARTMENT OF SOCIAL SERVICES

VERSUS

BRENNAN MARGURITE AKA BRENNAN BAXTER, ALEXAN DER MARGURITE, AND CODY COOPER, DEFENDANTS. IN

STATE OF SOUTH CAROLINA

COUNTY OF CHARLESTON IN THE COURT OF COMMON PLEAS NINTH JUDICIAL CIRCUIT CASE NO.: 2022-CP-10-02886

TRACEY L. WILLIAMS, Plaintiff, V.

ROBERT J. ASHFORD, JR., Defendant.

SUMMONS (Automobile Tort) (Jury Trial Requested)

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 said Complaint upon the subscriber at his office at

48580.F51139

Master’s Sale CASE NO. 2022CP1000791

CitiMortgage, Inc.,

PLAINTIFF VERSUS

Cedric Fields; Catrena Fields; The United States of America acting by and through its agency, the Secretary of Housing and Urban Development; and The United States of America acting by and through its agency, the Internal Revenue Service, DEFENDANT(S).

Upon authority of a Decree dated May 12, 2022, I will offer for sale to the highest bidder for cash, at public auction, the premises fully described below, at the Front En trance of CHARLESTON COUNTY JUDICIAL CENTER, 4045 Bridge View Drive, Council Chambers, North Charleston 29405, South Carolina on November 1, 2022 at 11:00 A.M. or shortly thereafter.

All that certain piece, parcel, or lot of land, situate, lying and being in the County of Charleston, State of South Carolina, known and designated as Lot 40, on a plat bearing the legend: “FINAL PLAT SHOWING HEMMINGWOOD SUBDIVISION COMMUNITY, A 24.681 ACRE TRACT OF LAND, PROPERTY OF SQUIRES HOME, INC., LOCATED IN PIERPONT ON THE ASHLEY, ST. ANDREWS PARISH, CHARLESTON COUNTY, SOUTH CAROLINA,” prepared by Andrew C. Gillette, S. C., RLS, dated May 23, 1989, and revised August 22, 1989, recorded in the RMC Office for Charleston County in Plat Book BX at page 58. For a more complete description of said lot, reference may be had to the above referred to plat of record.

TMS #: 353-02-00-114

This being the same property conveyed to Cedric Fields and Catrena Fields by deed of Wade Houston and Patricia H. Houston, dated September 10, 2001 and recorded in the Office of the Register of Deeds for Charleston County on October 3, 2001 in Deed Book Y383 at Page 807.

Current Property Address: 2440 Castlereagh Road, Charleston, SC 29414

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

The property shall be sold for cash to the highest bidder. The highest bidder, other than the Plaintiff, will be required to deposit with the Master, at the conclusion of the bidding, cash or certified check in the amount of five (5%) per cent of the bid:

Mepkin Condominium As sociation, Inc., Plaintiff, v. Brian C. McCoy a/k/a Chris McCoy, et al, Defendant(s).

SUMMONS AND NOTICES

TO THE DEFENDANTS ABOVE NAMED:

YOU ARE HEREBY SUM MONED 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, Finkel Law Firm LLC, 4000 Faber Place Drive, Suite 450, North Charleston, South Carolina, 29405, 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; and if you fail to answer the Complaint or otherwise appear and defend within the time aforesaid, the 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.

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, the Plaintiff will move for a general Order of Reference to the Master in Equity for Charleston County, which Order shall, pursuant to Rule 53(b) SCRCP, specifically provide that the said Master in Equity is authorized and empowered to enter a final judgment in this action.

If there are counterclaims requiring a jury trial, any party may file a demand under Rule 38, SCRCP and the case will be returned to the Circuit Court.

NOTICE OF FILING COM PLAINT

NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that the original Complaint in the above entitled action, together with the Summons, was filed in the Office of the Clerk of Court for Charleston County on August 12, 2022.

FINKEL LAW FIRM LLC Sean A. O’Connor 4000 Faber Place Drive | Suite 450 North , South Carolina 29405 (843) 577-5460 Attorney for Plaintiff

ALL that certain piece, parcel or lot of land, with the improvements thereon, situate, lying and being in the City of North Charleston, County of Charleston, State of South Carolina, shown and designated as Lot 4704, Block 4700, Oak Bluff Subdivision, as shown on that certain plat prepared by Harold B. Niel son, Jr., PE & PLS, of Nielson & Associates, entitled “FINAL SUBDIVISION PLAT OF OAK BLUFF, BLOCKS 4700, 7955 CROSSROADS DRIVE, OWNED BY PORTRAIT HOMES OF SOUTH CAROLINA, LLC LOCATED IN THE CITY OF NORTH CHARLESTON, CHARLESTON COUNTY, SOUTH CAROLINA” which plat is dated July 9, 2005 and recorded in Plat Book EJ at Pages 122-124 in the RMC Office for Charleston County.

BEING the same property conveyed to Eric Collins by Deed of Frederick Jeffers dated February 2, 2019 and recorded February 27, 2019 in Book 0779 at Page 873, in the Office of the Register of Deeds for Charleston County, South Carolina.

TMS # 484-00-00-497

Current Property Address: 8008 Shadow Oak Drive, Charleston, SC, 29406

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

The property shall be sold for cash to the highest bidder.

The highest bidder, other than the Plaintiff, will be required to deposit with the Master, at the conclusion of the bidding, cash or certified check in the amount of five (5%) per cent of the bid: the said deposit to be applied to the purchase price.

Should the highest bidder fail to comply with the bid within thirty days from the date of sale, the Master will resell the property at the risk and expense of the defaulting bidder upon the same terms as above set out. The Sheriff of Charleston County may be authorized to put the purchaser into possession of the premises if requested by the purchaser.

PLAINTIFF’S ATTORNEY John S. Kay, Esquire Telephone: 803-726-2700

FOR INSERTION October 12, 2022; October 19, 2022; October 26, 2022

Mikell R. Scarborough Master in Equity

STATE OF SOUTH CAROLINA COUNTY OF CHARLESTON

COURT OF COMMON

Bank of America, N.A.,vs. Rosemary Cherban and if Rosemary Cherban be deceased then any children and heirs at law to the Estate of Rosemary Cherban distributees and devisees at law to the Estate of Rosemary Cherban and if any of the same be dead any and all per sons entitled to claim under or through them also all other persons unknown claiming any right, title, interest or lien upon the real estate described in the complaint herein; Any unknown adults, any unknown infants or persons under a disability being a class designated as John Doe, and any persons in the military service of the United States of America being a class designated as Richard Roe; Meridian Place Homeowners Association, Inc.; First Freedom Bank, Upon authority of a Decree dated the 19th day of Sep tember, 2022. I will offer for sale to the highest bidder for cash, at public auction, the premises fully described below, at the County Council Chambers, 4045 Bridge View Drive, North Charleston, South Carolina, on the 1st Day of November, 2022, at 11:00 a.m. or shortly thereafter.

ALL that parcel of land in Charleston County, State of South Carolina, as described in Deed Book Y379, Page 24, ID# 3370600021, being known and designated as:

Lot 21, on a plat entitled, “Plat Showing the Subdivi sion of TMS No. 337-0000-161 into Meridian Place Phase I, Lots 1-98, Common Areas A, B & C, and New Private Rights of Way, Property Owned by Meridian Place, LLC, located in the City of Charleston, Charleston County, South Carolina,” by Richard Lacey, PLS, dated Sep tember 8, 2000 and recorded in Plat Book EE at Pages 286 and 287 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 appear.

BEING the same property con veyed to Rosemary Cherban by Deed of John C. Boozer, Jr. dated August 13, 2001 and recorded August 16, 2001 in Book Y379 at Page 24, in the Office of the Register of Deeds for Charleston County, South Carolina.

TMS # 337-06-00-021

Current Property Address: 1341 Pinnacle Lane Charleston, SC 29412

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

The property shall be sold for cash to the highest bidder. The highest bidder, other than the Plaintiff, will be required to deposit with the Master, at the conclusion of the bidding, cash or certified check in the amount of five (5%) per cent of the bid: the said deposit to be applied to the purchase price.

Should the highest bidder fail to comply with the bid within thirty days from the date of sale, the Master will resell the property at the risk and expense of the defaulting bidder upon the same terms

as above set out. The Sheriff of Charleston County may be authorized to put the purchaser into possession of the premises if requested by the purchaser.

PLAINTIFF’S ATTORNEY John S. Kay, Esquire Telephone: 803-726-2700

FOR INSERTION October 12th, 2022; October 19th, 2022; and October 26th, 2022.

Mikell R. Scarborough Master in Equity

STATE OF SOUTH CAROLINA COUNTY OF CHARLESTON IN THE COURT OF COMMON PLEAS FOR THE NINTH JUDICIAL CIRCUIT CASE NO. 2022-CP-10-01898

782A Rutledge, LLC, Plaintiff, v.

Sigifredo Gonzalez Marquez, and if he be deceased, his heirs, personal representa tives, successors, and assigns and spouses and all other persons with any right, title or interest in and to the real estate described in the Com plaint, commonly known as: 2717 W Surrey Drive

Charleston County, South Carolina

TMS Number: 411-16-00-091 and also any unknown adults and those persons as who may be in the Military Service of the United States of America, all of them being a class designated as John Doe; and any unknown minors or persons under a disability being a class Designated as Richard Roe, Defendants.

SUMMONS AND NOTICE

To the Defendants abovenamed:

YOU ARE HEREBY SUM MONED and required to answer the 2nd Amended Complaint in the above en titled action, a copy of which is herewith served upon you, and to serve a copy of your Answer upon the undersigned at his office at: 1721 Ashley River Road, Charleston, South Carolina 29407, within thirty (30) days, after service hereof upon you, exclusive of the day of such service, except as to the United States of America, which shall have sixty (60) days, exclusive if 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 Plaintiffs 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 Rule of Civil Procedure, spe cifically 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

PLEASE TAKE NOTICE that the Lis Pendens was filed on April 26th, 2022, the 2nd Amended Summons and Notice, and 2nd Amended Complaint were filed on October 3rd, 2022, the Order Appointing Guardian ad Litem was filed on April 27th, 2022 and the Order of Publication was filed on September 28th, 2022 in the Office of the Clerk of Court for Charleston County, State of South Carolina.

NOTICE OF APPOINTMENT OF GUARDIAN AD LITEM

FURTHER TAKE NOTICE that Carl B Hubbard, Esquire of 2201 Middle Street, Box 15, Sullivan’s Island, South Carolina 29482 has been designated as Guardian ad Litem for all Defendants who may be incompetent, under age, or under any other disability or in the Service of the Military by Order of the Court of Common Pleas of Charleston County, dated April 27th, 2022 and the said appointment shall become absolute 30 days after the fi nal publication of this Notice, unless such Defendants, or anyone in their behalf shall procure a proper person to be appointed Guardian ad Litem of them within 30 days after the final publication of this Notice.

THE PURPOSE of this action is to clear the title to the subject real property described as follows:

ALL THAT LOT, PIECE, OR PARCEL of land, with im provements thereon, situate in Charleston County, South Carolina, known as desig nated as Lot 521, Block EZ, on a plat of the subdivision known as Dorchester Terrace #4, recorded in Plat Book F, Page 145, in the RMC Office for Charleston County; said lot having such size, shape, and dimensions, more or less, as will by referenced to said plat more fully appear.

BEING the same property con veyed to Sigifredo Gonzalez Marquez by deed of Gerado Magana, dated December 17, 2015, and recorded December 21, 2015, in Book 0524, Page 440 at the Charleston County Register of Deeds Office.

Tax Map # 411-16-00-091 s/Jeffrey T. Spell Jeffrey T. Spell 1721 Ashley River Road Charleston, South Carolina 29407 (843) 452-3553

Attorney for Plaintiff October 3rd, 2022 Date

STATE OF SOUTH CAROLINA COUNTY OF CHARLESTON IN THE COURT OF COMMON PLEAS FOR THE NINTH JUDICIAL CIRCUIT CASE NO. 2022-CP-10-00280

Koutali, LLC., Plaintiff, v.

Sam C. Miller, a deceased person, George Smith, Lillian Vanessa Smalls, Ethel Buckley, Lee Brisbane, Phyllipa Bris bane, Taffine Hossain, Yvonne Payne, Charles Goldman, Steve Bethea, Beatrice Gross, Earl Rowe, Kenneth Rowe, Ev elyn Rowe, Joyce Rowe, Hattie James, Hendricks Miller, Jerry Miller, Addie Wright, Jewell Mikell, Alfred Middleton, Joseph Eugene Fyall, Samuel Small, Barbara Valentine, Margaret Small and Audrey Rogers, and if any of them be deceased, their heirs, Personal Representatives, Successors, and Assigns and Spouses and all other Persons with any right, title or interest in and to the real estate described in the Complaint, commonly known as:

10 Acres on Sarah Battle Lane Charleston County, South Carolina

TMS Number: 077-00-00-023 and also any unknown adults and those persons as who may be in the Military Service of the United States of America, all of them being a class designated as John Doe; and any unknown minors or persons under a disability being a class Designated as Richard Roe, Defendants.

SUMMONS AND NOTICE

To the Defendants abovenamed: YOU ARE HEREBY SUM MONED 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 at: 1721 Ashley River Road, Charleston, South Carolina 29407, within thirty (30) days, after service hereof upon you, exclusive of the day of such service, except as to the United States of America, which shall have sixty (60) days, exclusive if 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 Plaintiffs 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 Rule of Civil Procedure, spe cifically 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

PLEASE TAKE NOTICE that the Lis Pendens was filed on January 20th, 2022. The Summons and Notice, and Complaint, were filed on January 20th, 2022, the Order Appointing Guardian ad Litem was filed on January 21st, 2022 and the Order of Publication was filed on September 27th, 2022 in the Office of the Clerk of Court for Charleston County, State of South Carolina.

NOTICE OF APPOINTMENT OF GUARDIAN AD LITEM

FURTHER TAKE NOTICE that Carl B Hubbard, Esquire of 2201 Middle Street, Box 15, Sullivan’s Island, South Carolina 29482 has been des ignated as Guardian ad Litem for all Defendants who may be incompetent, under age, or under any other disability or in the Service of the Military by Order of the Court of Common Pleas of Charleston County, dated January 21st, 2022 and the said appoint ment shall become absolute 30 days after the final publication of this Notice, unless such Defendants, or anyone in their behalf shall procure a proper person to be appointed Guardian ad Litem of them within 30 days after the final publication of this Notice.

THE PURPOSE of this action is to quiet the title to the sub ject real property described as follows:

ALL that certain piece, parcel or tract of land, situate, lying and being in Murray’s Subdi vision, St. Paul’s Fire District, Charleston County, South Carolina, containing 10 acres, more or less, and comprising the area identified as Charles ton County Tax Map Number 077-00-00-023.

Tax Map # 077-00-00-23 s/Jeffrey T. Spell Jeffrey T. Spell 1721 Ashley River Road Charleston, South Carolina 29407 (843) 452-3553

Attorney for Plaintiff September 28th, 2022 Date

STATE OF SOUTH CAROLINA

COUNTY OF CHARLESTON IN THE COURT OF COMMON PLEAS FOR THE NINTH JUDICIAL CIRCUIT CASE NO. 2022-CP-10-02567

Juan Sanchez De Muniain, Plaintiff, v. James Buggs, Willie Buggs, Thomas Buggs, Frank Buggs, Margaret Buggs, Gwendolyn B. Wright, Rochelle Grimaldi, Beverly Watson and Joyce Wellington, and if they be deceased, their heirs, personal representatives, successors, and assigns and spouses and all other persons with any right, title or interest in and to the real estate described in the Complaint, commonly known as: 6239 Willcap Rd. Charleston County, South Carolina

TMS Number: 156-00-00-041 and also any unknown adults and those persons as who may be in the Military Service of the United States of America, all of them being a class designated as John Doe; and any unknown minors or persons under a disability being a class Designated as Richard Roe, Defendants.

SUMMONS AND NOTICE

To the Defendants abovenamed:

YOU ARE HEREBY SUM MONED 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 at: 1721 Ashley River Road, Charleston, South Carolina 29407, within thirty (30) days, after service hereof upon you, exclusive of the day of such service, except as to the United States of America, which shall have sixty (60) days, exclusive if 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 Plaintiffs 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 Rule of Civil Procedure, spe cifically 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

PLEASE TAKE NOTICE that the Lis Pendens was filed on June 6th, 2022, the Summons and Notice, and Complaint, were filed on June 6th, 2022, the Order Appointing Guardian ad Litem was filed on June 26th, 2022 and the Order of Publication was filed on October 3rd, 2022 in the Office of the Clerk of Court for Charleston County, State of South Carolina.

NOTICE OF APPOINTMENT OF GUARDIAN AD LITEM

FURTHER TAKE NOTICE that Carl B Hubbard, Esquire of 2201 Middle Street, Box 15, Sullivan’s Island, South Carolina 29482 has been designated as Guardian ad Litem for all Defendants who may be incompetent, under age, or under any other disability or in the Service of the Military by Order of the Court of Common Pleas of Charleston County, dated June 26th, 2022 and the said appointment shall become

absolute 30 days after the fi nal publication of this Notice, unless such Defendants, or anyone in their behalf shall procure a proper person to be appointed Guardian ad Litem of them within 30 days after the final publication of this Notice.

THE PURPOSE of this action is to clear the title to the subject real property described as follows:

ALL that piece, parcel or tract of land, situate, lying and being on Wadmalaw Island, Charleston County, State of South Carolina, now shown to contain twelve and 50/100 (12.50) acres, more or less, and more fully described on a plat made by W.L. Gaillard, dated October 30, 1984, entitled “Plat of Property on Wadmalaw Island, Charleston County, SC, Owned by the Heirs of Simon Buggs”, and recorded in Plat Book BB, Page 150, and having such size, shape, dimensions, butt ings and boundings as will by reference to said plat more fully appear.

TMS # 156-00-00-041 s/Jeffrey T. Spell Jeffrey T. Spell 1721 Ashley River Road Charleston, South Carolina 29407 (843) 452-3553 Attorney for Plaintiff October 4th, 2022 Date

To all persons claiming an interest in: 1970-14’-VHULLB82610770 Benjamin Peter son will apply to SCDNR for title on watercraft/outboard motor. If you have any claim to the watercraft/outboard motor, contact SCDNR at (803)734-3699. Upon thirty days after the date of the last advertisement if no claim of interest is made and the watercraft/outboard motor has not been reported stolen, SCDNR shall issue clear title. Case No.20220816950527

STATE OF SOUTH CAROLINA COUNTY OF CHARLESTON IN THE COURT OF COMMON PLEAS CASE NO. 2022-CP-10-03985

The Bank of New York Mellon, f/k/a The Bank of New York, successor in interest to JPMorgan Chase Bank, N.A. as Trustee for Structured Asset Mortgage Investments II Inc., Bear Stearns ALT-A Trust, Mort gage Pass-Through Certificates, Series 2005-3, PLAINTIFF, VS. Charlene Y. Willis a/k/a Charlene Willis a/k/a Charlene Yvonne Willis, individually and as Co-Trustee under the Willis Living Trust; Richard Alan Willis, as Co-Trustee un der the Willis Living Trust; Any unknown trustees, or their successors in trust, under the Willis Living Trust; South Car olina Department of Revenue; The United States of America by and through its agency the Department of Treasury, Internal Revenue Service; Harbourside Community Bank FSB f/k/a Harbourside Mortgage Company; Pinnacle Bank s/b/m with Carolina Federal Savings Bank; and Raven`s Run Homeowner`s Association, Inc., DEFENDANT(S).

SUMMONS AND NOTICE OF FILING OF COMPLAINT (221091.00079)

TO THE DEFENDANTS ANY UNKNOWN TRUSTEES, OR THEIR SUCCESSORS IN TRUST, UNDER THE WILLIS LIVING

TRUST ABOVE NAMED: YOU ARE HEREBY SUM MONED and required to answer the Complaint in the above entitled action, copy of which is herewith served upon you, and to serve copy of your answer upon the undersigned at their offices, 2712 Middleburg Drive, Suite 200, P.O. Box 2065, Columbia, South Carolina 29202, 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, Plaintiff in this action will apply to the Court for the relief demanded in the Complaint, and 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, Plaintiff will move for a general Order of Reference of this cause to the Master in Equity for Lexington 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 is authorized and empowered to enter a final judgment in this cause.

TO MINOR(S) OVER FOUR TEEN YEARS OF AGE AND/OR 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 SUM MONED AND NOTIFIED to apply for the appointment of a Guardian Ad Litem to represent said minor(s) and/ or any persons under some legal disability within thirty (30) days after the service of this Summons and Notice upon you. If you fail to do so, application for such appoint ment will be made by Plaintiff herein.

NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that the original Complaint in the above-entitled action was filed in the office of the Clerk of Court for Charleston County on August 29, 2022.

LIS PENDENS

NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that an action has been commenced by the Plaintiff above named against the Defendant(s) above named for the foreclosure of a certain mortgage given by Charlene Y. Willis to Mortgage Electronic Registration Systems, Inc. as nominee for Carolina Federal Savings Bank , dated December 17, 2004, recorded December 20, 2004, in the Office of the Clerk of Court/Register of Deeds for Charleston County, in Book V519 at Page 628; thereafter, said Mortgage was assigned to The Bank of New York Mellon, f/k/a The Bank of New York, successor in interest to JPMorgan Chase Bank, N.A. as Trustee for Structured Asset Mortgage Investments II Inc., Bear Stearns ALT-A Trust, Mortgage Pass-Through Certificates, Series 2005-3 by assignment instrument dated April 20, 2022 and recorded April 27, 2022 in Book 1104 at Page 427.

The description of the prem ises is as follows:

All that certain lot, piece or parcel of land, situate, lying and being in Christ Church Parish, Charleston County, SC and known and designated as Lot 4, Block F, Ravens Run Subdivision, as shown on a plat prepared by Keith K. Ruddy, RLS dated August 28, 1986, said plat of Phase III Ravens Run consisting of one page and being duly recorded in the RMC Office for Charles

ton County in Plat Book BP at Page 163. Said lot having such size, shape, dimensions, buttings, and boundings as shown on said plats reference to which, is hereby made for a more complete description.

This being the same property conveyed to Charlene Y. Willis by E. Mikell Carroll and Eleanor C. Carroll by deed dated December 17, 2004 and recorded December 20, 2004 in Book T519 at Page 56 in the Office of the Clerk of Court/Register of Deeds for Charleston County.

Thereafter, Charlene Y. Willis conveyed the subject property to Richard Alan Willis and Charlene Yvonne Willis, Trustees, or their successors in trust, under the Willis Living Trust, dated February 9, 2017, and any amendments thereto dated April 17, 2018 and recorded April 20, 2018 in Book 713 at Page 006 in the Office of the Clerk of Court/Register of Deeds for Charleston County.

TMS No. 561-01-00-075

Property address: 2060 Skyhawk Court Mt Pleasant, SC 29466

SCOTT AND CORLEY, P.A.

By: Ronald C. Scott (rons@scottandcorley.com), SC Bar #4996

Reginald P. Corley (reggiec@scottandcorley.com), SC Bar #69453

Angelia J. Grant (angig@scottandcorley.com), SC Bar #78334

Allison E. Heffernan (allisonh@scottandcorley.com), SC Bar #68530

H. Guyton Murrell (guytonm@scottandcorley.com), SC Bar #64134

Kevin T. Brown (kevinb@scottandcorley.com), SC Bar #64236

Jordan D. Beumer (jordanb@scottandcorley.com), SC Bar #104074

ATTORNEYS FOR THE PLAINTIFF 2712 Middleburg Drive, Suite 200 Columbia, SC 29204 803-252-3340

Master’s Sale 2022-CP-10-02330

STATE OF SOUTH CAROLINA COUNTY OF CHARLESTON IN THE COURT OF COMMON PLEAS Ameris Bank, PLAINTIFF VERSUS Timothy R. McCoin a/k/a Timothy Ray McCoin a/k/a Timothy McCoin a/k/a Tim Mc Coin, individually, as Personal Representative, and as Legal Heir or Devisee of the Estate of Daniel E. Edwards, Sr. a/k/a Daniel E. Edwards a/k/a Daniel Eugene Edwards, DEFENDANTS

Upon authority of a Decree dated the September 19, 2022, I will offer for sale to the highest bidder for cash, at public auction, the premises fully described below, in the County Council Chambers, Public Services Building (PSB) located at 4045 Bridge View Drive, North Charleston, South Carolina on the 1st DAY OF NOVEMBER, 2022 at 11:00 AM or shortly thereafter.

All that certain piece, parcel or lot of land, with the buildings and improvements thereon, situate, lying and being on James Island, County of Charleston, State of South Carolina, and more particularly shown as Lot No. 9, Block “A” on a plat of LIGHTHOUSE POINT SUBDIVISION prepared by W. H. Matheny, R.L.S., dated March 23, 1957 and recorded in the R.M.C. Office for Charleston County in Plat

MEASURING AND CONTAIN ING AND BUTTING AND BOUNDING on the northeast by Lot No. 10 - Block A, one hundred fifty (150`) feet; on the southeast on Creekside Drive, one hundred (00`) feet; on the southwest on Lot No. 9 - Block A, one hundred fifty (150`) feet, and on the northwest on high water mark approximately one hundred (100`) feet, be the said dimensions more or less.

SUBJECT to covenants and restrictions set forth in an instrument recorded in Book X-62 at Page 624 in the said R.M.C. Office for Charleston County, South Carolina.

SUBJECT, FURTHER, to the terms of n easement to South Carolina Electric and Gas Company, recorded in Book J-64 at Page 346 in the R.M.C. Office for Charleston County, South Carolina.

AND ALSO; ALL the right, title and interest vested in the Grantor and to that area northwest of said low water mark to parrot Creek and contained between the said lot lines projected to the run of Parrot Creek.

Being a portion of the same premises conveyed to Daniel E. Edwards and Glenda Faye E. Gieraltowski by Deed of Distribution dated February 15, 1994 and recorded in the R.M.C. Office for Charleston County on February 22, 1994 in Book F-239 at Page 396; thereafter, Glenda Faye E. Gieraltowski conveyed her undivided one-half (1/2) interest to Daniel E. Edwards by Deed dated October 12, 1994 and recorded in the R.M.C. Office for Charleston County on October 17, 1994 in Book W-248 at Page 281; thereafter, Daniel E. Edwards conveyed an undivided one-half (1/2) interest to Eula G. Edwards by Deed dated October 12, 1994 and recorded on October 17, 1994 in the R.M.C. Office for Charleston County in Book W-248 at Page 278; thereafter, Daniel E. Edwards conveyed his one-half (1/2) interest in the subject real property to Eula G. Edwards by deed dated October 14, 2010, and recorded on October 14, 2010 in Book 149 at Page 176; thereafter, the Estate of Eula G. Edwards con veyed her interest in the said premises to Daniel E. Edwards, Sr., by Deed of Distribution of the dated June 7, 2013 and recorded June 13, 2013 in Book 0338 at page 174 in the Office of the Clerk of Court/Register of Deeds for Charleston County, South Carolina. Subsequently, Daniel E. Edwards, Sr. a/k/a Daniel E. Edwards died testate on or about May 4, 2019, leav ing the subject property to his devisees, namely Robin Lynne Long McCoin and Timothy Ray McCoin, as shown in Probate Estate Matter Number 2019ES-10-00963. Robin McCoin predeceased Daniel Edwards on or about January 20, 2018, and the devise to Robin Mc Coin from the estate of Daniel Edwards was inherited by the co-devisee Timothy McCoin as provided by §62-2-604 (b), S.C. Code of Laws. Subsequently, Daniel E. Edwards, Sr. a/k/a Daniel E. Edwards died testate on or about 05/04/2019, leaving the subject property to his/her devisees, namely Robin Lynne Long McCoin and Timothy Ray McCoin, as shown in Probate Estate Matter Number 2019-ES-10-00963.

Thereafter, Timothy Ray McCoin was appointed as Personal Representative of the Estate of Daniel E. Edwards, Sr. a/k/a Daniel E. Edwards (Probate Estate Matter Number 2019ES-10-00963.

TMS No. 452-01-00-174

Property address: 764 Creekside Drive Charleston, SC 29412

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

The property shall be sold for cash to the highest bidder. The highest bidder, other than the Plaintiff, will be required to deposit with the Master, at the conclusion of the bidding, cash or certified check in the amount of five percent (5%) of the bid: the said deposit to be applied to the purchase price.

Should the highest bidder fail to comply with the bid within thirty days from the date of sale, the Master will resell the property at the risk and expense of the defaulting bidder upon the same terms as above set out. The Sheriff of Charleston County may be authorized to put the purchaser into possession of the premises if requested by the purchaser.

NOTICE: The foreclosure deed is not a warranty deed. Interested bidders should satisfy them selves as to the quality of title to be conveyed by obtaining an independent title search prior to the foreclosure sale date.

PLAINTIFF’S ATTORNEY Ronald C. Scott (803) 252-3340

Mikell R. Scarborough Master in Equity

Master’s Sale 2022-CP-10-00204

STATE OF SOUTH CAROLINA COUNTY OF CHARLESTON IN THE COURT OF COMMON PLEAS Quicken Loans Inc., PLAINTIFF VERSUS D. John Bernard LeBoeuf a/k/a D. John LeBoeuf a/k/a Donald John Bernard LeBoeuf a/k/a Bernie LeBoeuf a/k/a DJ Bernard LeBoeuf, as Personal Representative, Individually, and as Legal Heir or Devisee of the Estate of Matthew Leboeuf a/k/a Matthew LeBoeuf a/k/a Matthew Craig LeBoeuf, Deceased; et al.,

DEFENDANTS

Upon authority of a Decree dated the September 22, 2022, I will offer for sale to the highest bidder for cash, at public auction, the premises fully described below, in the County Council Chambers, Public Services Building (PSB) located at 4045 Bridge View Drive, North Charleston, South Carolina on the 1st DAY OF NOVEMBER, 2022 at 11:00 AM or shortly thereafter.

ALL that certain piece, parcel or tract of land, situate, lying and being in the County of Charles ton, State of South Carolina, being shown and delineated as Lot 160 of a subdivision of The Park at River`s Edge, recorded in Plat Book EJ at Page 714 (Book A-580 at Page 773) and having, according to said plat, metes and bounds as shown thereon.

This being the same property conveyed to Matthew LeBoeuf by Deed of Joseph M. Wallace, dated April 10, 2018 and recorded April 17, 2018 in Book 0712 at Page 008, in the Office of the Register of Deeds for Charleston County, South Carolina.

TMS No. 404-02-00-220

Property address: 7882 Montview Road North Charleston, SC 29418

No personal or deficiency judgment being demanded,

the bidding will not remain open after the date of sale, but compliance with the bid may be made immediately.

The property shall be sold for cash to the highest bidder. The highest bidder, other than the Plaintiff, will be required to deposit with the Master, at the conclusion of the bidding, cash or certified check in the amount of five percent (5%) of the bid: the said deposit to be applied to the purchase price.

Should the highest bidder fail to comply with the bid within thirty days from the date of sale, the Master will resell the property at the risk and expense of the defaulting bidder upon the same terms as above set out. The Sheriff of Charleston County may be authorized to put the purchaser into possession of the premises if requested by the purchaser.

NOTICE: The foreclosure deed is not a warranty deed. Interested bidders should satisfy them selves as to the quality of title to be conveyed by obtaining an independent title search prior to the foreclosure sale date.

PLAINTIFF’S ATTORNEY Ronald C. Scott (803) 252-3340

Mikell R. Scarborough Master in Equity

Master’s Sale 2022-CP-10-02164

STATE OF SOUTH CAROLINA COUNTY OF CHARLESTON IN THE COURT OF COMMON PLEAS

Specialized Loan Servicing LLC, PLAINTIFF VERSUS David E. Bertsch, DEFENDANTS

Upon authority of a Decree dated the September 19, 2022, I will offer for sale to the highest bidder for cash, at public auction, the premises fully described below, in the County Council Chambers, Public Services Building (PSB) located at 4045 Bridge View Drive, North Charleston, South Carolina on the 1st DAY OF NOVEMBER, 2022 at 11:00 AM or shortly thereafter.

All those lots, pieces, parcels or tracts of land, with the buildings and improvements thereon, situate, lying and being on St. Andrews Parish, Charleston County, State of South Carolina, and known and designated as Lots 18 and 19, Block F, Section 2, Orange Grove Estates Subdivision as shown on a plat prepared by W. L. Gaillard, Surveyor, dated May 1941 and recorded in Plat Book F, Page 82 in the R.M.C. Office for Charleston County; said lots having such size, shape, metes and bounds, location and dimensions as shown on said plat, to which reference is hereby made for a more fuller and more complete description thereof.

This being the same property conveyed to David E. Bertsch by Deed from Michael Joseph Sibbald and Rose Marie Sibbald, dated February 25, 2002, recorded February 27, 2002 in Book L398, Page 537 in the Office of the Clerk of Court/Register of Deeds for Charleston County.

TMS No. 352-10-00-038

Property address: 1410 Joy Avenue Charleston, SC 29407

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

The property shall be sold for cash to the highest bidder. The highest bidder, other than the Plaintiff, will be required to deposit with the Master, at the conclusion of the bidding, cash or certified check in the amount of five percent (5%) of the bid: the said deposit to be applied to the purchase price.

Should the highest bidder fail to comply with the bid within thirty days from the date of sale, the Master will resell the property at the risk and expense of the defaulting bidder upon the same terms as above set out. The Sheriff of Charleston County may be authorized to put the purchaser into possession of the premises if requested by the purchaser.

NOTICE: The foreclosure deed is not a warranty deed. Interested bidders should satisfy them selves as to the quality of title to be conveyed by obtaining an independent title search prior to the foreclosure sale date.

PLAINTIFF’S ATTORNEY Ronald C. Scott (803) 252-3340

Mikell R. Scarborough Master in Equity

Master’s Sale 2022-CP-10-00409

STATE OF SOUTH CAROLINA COUNTY OF CHARLESTON IN THE COURT OF COMMON PLEAS Mortgage Assets Manage ment, LLC, PLAINTIFF

VERSUS

Karen Patel, individually, and as Legal Heir or Devisee of the Estate of Eloise S. LaVigne a/k/a Eloise S. Underwood, Deceased; et al.,

DEFENDANTS

Upon authority of a Decree dated the September 19, 2022, I will offer for sale to the highest bidder for cash, at public auction, the premises fully described below, in the County Council Chambers, Public Services Building (PSB) located at 4045 Bridge View Drive, North Charleston, South Carolina on the 1st DAY OF NOVEMBER, 2022 at 11:00 AM or shortly thereafter.

All that piece, parcel or lot of land, situate, lying and being in St. Andrews Parish, Charleston County, South Carolina, known and designated as Lot 10, Block B, as shown on a plat of Drayton on the Ashley Subdivi sion, Section 1, which plat was made by James R. Bagley, Jr., dated January 11, 1965. And recorded in the RMC Office for Charleston County in Plat Book S at Page 63; said lot having such size, shape, dimensions, butting and boundings as will by reference to said plat more fully appear.

This being the same property conveyed to Eloise S. Underwood by Deed of Marvin E. Dennis dated August 4, 1967 and recorded August 8, 1967 in Book L-88 at Page 8 in the Office of the Clerk of Court/Register of Deeds for Charleston County. Thereafter.

Walter Clark underwood conveyed a one-half interest in said property to Eloise S.

Underwood by Deed dated May 18, 1979 and recorded June 18, 1979 in Book M-119 at Page 124 and re-recorded on June 21, 1979 in Book Z-119 at Page 218 in the Office of the Clerk of Court/Register of Deeds for Charleston County.

Thereafter; Eloise S. Underwood conveyed said property to Eloise S. Lavigne and Leroy F. Lavigne by Deed dated March 15, 000 and recorded March 15, 2000 in Book A-344 at Page 280 in the Office of the Clerk

of Court/Register of Deeds for Charleston County, South Carolina. Thereafter, by Correc tive Deed Elisoe Underwood conveyed said property to Eloise S. LeVigne and LeRoy F. LaVigne dated April 24, 2008 and recorded June 17, 2008 in Book J-662 at Page 860 in the Office of the Clerk of Court/ Register of Deeds for Charles ton County, South Carolina. Subsequently, Eloise S. LaVigne a/k/a Eloise S. Underwood (DOD 2/24/2012) and LeRoy F. LaVigne died intestate on or about 10/23/2021, leaving the subject property to his/ her heirs, namely Karen Patel, Donna Underwood, Helen Cleland, Sabrina Geggis; Mark Underwood, as shown in Probate Estate Matter Number 2012-ES-10-00467.

TMS No. 358-1200-188

Property address: 2863 Wofford Road Charleston, SC 29414

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

The property shall be sold for cash to the highest bidder. The highest bidder, other than the Plaintiff, will be required to deposit with the Master, at the conclusion of the bidding, cash or certified check in the amount of five percent (5%) of the bid: the said deposit to be applied to the purchase price.

Should the highest bidder fail to comply with the bid within thirty days from the date of sale, the Master will resell the property at the risk and expense of the defaulting bidder upon the same terms as above set out. The Sheriff of Charleston County may be authorized to put the purchaser into possession of the premises if requested by the purchaser.

NOTICE: The foreclosure deed is not a warranty deed. Interested bidders should satisfy them selves as to the quality of title to be conveyed by obtaining an independent title search prior to the foreclosure sale date.

PLAINTIFF’S ATTORNEY Ronald C. Scott (803) 252-3340

Mikell R. Scarborough Master in Equity

Master’s Sale 2022-CP-10-00429

STATE OF SOUTH CAROLINA COUNTY OF CHARLESTON IN THE COURT OF COMMON PLEAS Mortgage Assets Manage ment, LLC, PLAINTIFF

VERSUS Richard Eugene Hunt Indi vidually, and as Legal Heir or Devisee of the Estate of Virginia Mae Hunt a/k/a Virginia Koger Hunt; any other Heirs-at-Law or Devisees of the Estate of Vir ginia Mae Hunt a/k/a Virginia Koger Hunt, Deceased, et al., DEFENDANTS

Upon authority of a Decree dated the July 27, 2022, I will offer for sale to the highest bid der for cash, at public auction, the premises fully described below, in the County Council Chambers, Public Services Building (PSB) located at 4045 Bridge View Drive, North Charleston, South Carolina on the 1st DAY OF NOVEMBER, 2022 at 11:00 AM or shortly thereafter.

ALL THAT LOT, piece or parcel of land situate, lying and be ing on James Island, in the County of Charleston, State of South Carolina, known and designated as Lot 15,

Block K, Section 4, Lynwood Subdivision, as shown on a plat made by J. O`Hear Sanders, Jr., Surveyor, dated July 23, 1971, and recorded in the RMC Office for Charleston County in Plat Book O, Page 121; said lot having such size, shape, dimen sions, buttings and boundings as will by reference to said plat more fully appear.

This being the same property conveyed to Richard Eugene Hunt and Virginia Mae Hunt by Deed of McAdams Construc tion Corp. dated January 8, 1972 and recorded January 8, 1972 in Book H98 at Page 219 in the ROD Office for Aiken County. Subsequently, Virginia Mae Hunt a/k/a Virginia Koger Hunt died intestate on or about 03/14/2020, leaving the subject property to his/her heirs, namely Richard Eugene Hunt, as shown in Probate Estate Matter Number N/A.

TMS No. 4251000250

Property address: 1112 Kentwood Circle Charleston, SC 29412

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

The property shall be sold for cash to the highest bidder. The highest bidder, other than the Plaintiff, will be required to deposit with the Master, at the conclusion of the bidding, cash or certified check in the amount of five percent (5%) of the bid: the said deposit to be applied to the purchase price.

Should the highest bidder fail to comply with the bid within thirty days from the date of sale, the Master will resell the property at the risk and expense of the defaulting bidder upon the same terms as above set out. The Sheriff of Charleston County may be authorized to put the purchaser into possession of the premises if requested by the purchaser.

NOTICE: The foreclosure deed is not a warranty deed. Interested bidders should satisfy them selves as to the quality of title to be conveyed by obtaining an independent title search prior to the foreclosure sale date.

PLAINTIFF’S ATTORNEY Ronald C. Scott (803) 252-3340

Mikell R. Scarborough Master in Equity

STATE OF SOUTH CAROLINA COUNTY OF CHARLESTON IN THE COURT OF COMMON PLEAS CASE NO. 2022-CP-10-04373

Ajax Mortgage Loan Trust 2019-F, Mortgage-Backed Se curities, Series 2019-F, by U.S. Bank National Association, as Indenture Trustee, PLAINTIFF, VS. Darrell H. Strickland; Brenda A. Strickland; Belle Hall Plantation Homeowners As sociation, Inc.; South Carolina Department of Revenue; the United States of America by and through its agency the Department of TreasuryInternal Revenue Service; and USAA Federal Savings Bank, DEFENDANT(S).

SUMMONS AND NOTICE OF FILING OF COMPLAINT (221150.00027)

TO THE DEFENDANTS DAR RELL H. STRICKLAND; AND BRENDA A. STRICKLAND ABOVE NAMED: YOU ARE HEREBY SUM MONED and required to

answer the Complaint in the above entitled action, copy of which is herewith served upon you, and to serve copy of your answer upon the undersigned at their offices, 2712 Middleburg Drive, Suite 200, P.O. Box 2065, Columbia, South Carolina 29202, 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, the Plaintiff in this action will apply to the Court for the relief demanded in the Complaint, and 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 for Charles ton 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 is authorized and empowered to enter a final judgment in this cause.

TO MINOR(S) OVER FOUR TEEN YEARS OF AGE AND/OR 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 SUM MONED AND NOTIFIED to apply for the appointment of a Guardian Ad Litem to represent said minor(s) 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 the Plaintiff(s) herein.

NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that the original Complaint in the above entitled action was filed in the office of the Clerk of Court for Charleston County on September 19, 2022.

NOTICE OF MORTGAGOR’S RIGHT TO FORECLOSURE INTERVENTION TO THE ABOVE-NAMED MORTGAGOR(S)[1]:

PLEASE TAKE NOTICE THAT pursuant to the Supreme Court of South Carolina Administrative Order 201105-02-01, you may be eligible for foreclosure intervention programs for the purpose of resolving the abovereferenced foreclosure action. If you wish to be considered for a foreclosure intervention program, you must contact Scott and Corley, P.A., 2712 Middleburg Drive, Suite 200, Columbia, South Carolina 29204 or call (803) 252-3340 within thirty (30) days after being served with this notice. Scott and Corley, P.A. represents the Plaintiff in this action. We do not represent you. The South Carolina Rules of Professional Conduct prohibit our firm from giving you any legal advice.

IF YOU FAIL, REFUSE, OR VOLUNTARILY ELECT NOT TO PARTICIPATE IN THIS FORE CLOSURE INTERVENTION PROCESS, THE FORECLOSURE ACTION MAY PROCEED.

NOTICE: THIS IS A COM MUNICATION FROM A DEBT COLLECTOR ATTEMPTING TO COLLECT A DEBT AND ANY INFORMATION OBTAINED WILL BE USED FOR THAT PURPOSE, EXCEPT AS STATED BELOW IN THE INSTANCE OF BANKRUPTCY PROTECTION.

IF YOU ARE UNDER THE PROTECTION OF THE BANKRUPTCY COURT OR

HAVE BEEN DISCHARGED AS A RESULT OF A BANKRUPTCY PROCEEDING, THIS NOTICE IS GIVEN TO YOU PURSUANT TO STATUTORY REQUIREMENT AND FOR INFORMATIONAL PURPOSES AND IS NOT INTENDED AS AN ATTEMPT TO COLLECT A DEBT OR AS AN ACT TO COLLECT, ASSESS, OR RECOVER ALL OR ANY PORTION OF THE DEBT FROM YOU PERSONALLY.

SCOTT AND CORLEY, P.A. By: Ronald C. Scott (rons@scottandcorley.com), SC Bar #4996

Reginald P. Corley (reggiec@scottandcorley. com), SC Bar #69453

Angelia J. Grant (angig@scottandcorley.com), SC Bar #78334

Allison E. Heffernan (allisonh@scottandcorley. com), SC Bar #68530 H. Guyton Murrell (guytonm@scottandcorley. com), SC Bar #64134

Kevin T. Brown (kevinb@scottandcorley.com), SC Bar #64236

Jordan D. Beumer (jordanb@scottandcorley. com), SC Bar #104074

ATTORNEYS FOR THE PLAINTIFF 2712 Middleburg Drive, Suite 200 Columbia, SC 29204 803-252-3340

STATE OF SOUTH CAROLINA COUNTY OF CHARLESTON IN THE COURT OF COMMON PLEAS CASE NO. 2022-CP-10-04477

Land Home Financial Services, Inc., PLAINTIFF, VS. Jimmy Manigault; Carrington Chase Property Owners Associa tion, Inc.; The United States of America by and through its agency, the Secretary of Housing and Urban Development; Helen Huger Manigault, Individually, as Legal Heir or Devisee of the Estate of John Primus Manigault a/k/a John Manigault, Sr., Deceased; John Manigault, Jr., Individually, as Legal Heir or Devisee of the Estate of John Primus Manigault a/k/a John Manigault, Sr., Deceased; Norman Manigault, Individually, as Legal Heir or Devisee of the Estate of John Primus Manigault a/k/a John Manigault, Sr., Deceased; Barry Manigault, Indi vidually, as Legal Heir or Devisee of the Estate of John Primus Manigault a/k/a John Manigault, Sr., Deceased; Helena Manigault, Individually, as Legal Heir or Devisee of the Estate of John Primus Manigault a/k/a John Manigault, Sr., Deceased; their heirs or devisees, successors and assigns, and all other persons entitled to claim through them; all unknown persons with any right, title or interest in the real estate described herein; also any persons who may be in the military service of the United States of America, being a class designated as John Doe; and any unknown minors or persons under a disability being a class designated as Richard Roe, DEFENDANT(S).

SUMMONS AND NOTICES (222258.00125)

TO ALL THE DEFENDANTS ABOVE-NAMED: YOU ARE HEREBY SUMMONED and required to appear and defend by answering the Complaint in this action, of which a copy is herewith served upon you, and to serve a copy of your Answer on the subscribers at their offices, 2712 Middleburg Drive, Suite 200, Columbia, Post Office Box 2065, Columbia, South Carolina, 29202-2065, within thirty (30) days after the 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.

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 Charleston 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 Master is authorized and empowered to enter a final judgment in this cause.

TO MINOR(S) OVER FOURTEEN YEARS OF AGE AND/OR 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, Plaintiff will apply to have the appointment of the Guardian ad Litem Nisi, Kelley Yarborough Woody, made absolute.

NOTICE TO THE ABOVE-NAMED DEFENDANTS:

YOU WILL PLEASE TAKE NOTICE that the Summons and Complaint, of which the forego ing is a copy of the Summons, were filed with the Clerk of Court for Charleston County, South Carolina on September 23, 2022.

PLEASE TAKE NOTICE that the order appointing Kelley Yarborough Woody, whose ad dress is PO Box 6432, Columbia, SC 29260, as Guardian Ad Litem Nisi for all persons whomsoever herein collectively designated as Richard Roe, defendants herein whose names and addresses are unknown, including any thereof who may be minors, in capacitated, or under other legal disability, whether residents or non-residents of South Carolina; for all named Defendants, ad dresses unknown, who may be infants, incapacitated, or under a legal disability; for any unknown heirs-at-law of John Primus Manigault a/k/a John Manigault, Sr., including their heirs, personal representatives, successors and assigns, and all other persons entitled to claim through them; and for all other unknown persons with any right, title, or interest in and to the real estate that is the subject of this foreclosure action, was filed in the Office of the Clerk of Court for Charleston County on the 3rd day of October, 2022.

YOU WILL FURTHER TAKE NOTICE that unless the said Defendants, or someone in their behalf or in behalf of any of them, shall within thirty (30) days after service of notice of this order upon them by publication, exclusive of the day of such service, procure to be appointed for them, or any of them, a Guardian Ad Litem to represent them or any of them for the purposes of this action, the Plaintiff will apply for an order making the appointment of said Guardian Ad Litem Nisi absolute.

LIS PENDENS

NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that an action has been commenced by the Plaintiff above named against the Defendant(s) above named for the foreclosure of a certain mortgage given by Jimmy Manigault to Mortgage Electronic Registration Systems,

Inc. as Nominee for Land Home Financial Services, Inc., dated July 31, 2017, recorded August 1, 2017, in the Office of the Clerk of Court/Register of Deeds for Charleston County, in Book 0656 at Page 476; thereafter, said Mortgage was assigned to Land Home Financial Services, Inc. by assignment instrument dated September 15, 2022 and attached hereto as Exhibit “A”.

The Note and Mortgage were subsequently modified by a Loan Modification Agreement dated August 18, 2020 and recorded on October 27, 2020 in Book 929 at Page 716.

The description of the premises is as follows:

All that certain lot, piece or parcel of land, situate, lying and being in the Town of Sum merville, County of Charleston, State of South Carolina, shown and designated as LOT 54, on that certain plat by Tim Elmer RLS, LLC, entitled, “FINAL PLAT SHOWING CARRINGTON CHASE, PHASE 2, LOTS 42 THRU 81, PROPERTY OF LOS HOMES, LLC, LOCATED IN THE TOWN OF SUMMERVILLE, NEAR LINCOLNVILLE, CHARLESTON & DORCHESTER COUNTY, SOUTH CAROLINA,” dated July 12, 2016, revised August 5, 2016, and recorded August 10, 2016 in the RMC Office for Charleston County in Plat Book L16 at Page 0367. 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 RESTRICTIONS AND EASEMENTS OF RECORD.

This being the same property conveyed to Jimmy Manigault by deed of Los Homes, LLC, dated July 31, 2017 and recorded August 1, 2017 in Book 656 at Page 473 in the Office of the Clerk of Court/Register of Deeds for Charleston County.

TMS No. 376-06-00-080

Property address: 200 Keaton Brook Drive Summerville, SC 29485

SCOTT AND CORLEY, P.A. By: Ronald C. Scott (rons@scottandcorley.com), SC Bar #4996

Reginald P. Corley (reggiec@scottandcorley.com), SC Bar #69453

Angelia J. Grant (angig@scottandcorley.com), SC Bar #78334

Allison E. Heffernan (allisonh@scottandcorley.com), SC Bar #68530

H. Guyton Murrell (guytonm@scottandcorley.com), SC Bar #64134

Kevin T. Brown (kevinb@scottandcorley.com), SC Bar #64236

Jordan D. Beumer (jordanb@scottandcorley.com), SC Bar #104074

ATTORNEYS FOR THE PLAINTIFF 2712 Middleburg Drive, Suite 200 Columbia, SC 29204 803-252-3340

STATE OF SOUTH CAROLINA COUNTY OF CHARLESTON IN THE COURT OF COMMON PLEAS CASE NO. 2022-CP-10-04015

loanDepot.com, LLC, PLAINTIFF, VS.

Mary Catherine Becker Engle a/k/a Mary C. Engle; David Edwin Nettles a/k/a David Nettles, Individually, as Heir or Devisee of the Estate of Elizabeth Jan Becker Nettles a/k/a Betty Nettles, Deceased; Kevin Edward Nettles a/k/a Kevin Nettles, Individually, as Heir or Devisee of the Estate of Elizabeth Jan Becker Nettles a/k/a Betty Nettles, Deceased; Flora Elizabeth Nettles a/k/a Liz Nettles a/k/a Flora Padgett, Individually, as Heir or Devisee

of the Estate of Elizabeth Jan Becker Nettles a/k/a Betty Nettles, Deceased; Lashonda Linder, Individually, as Heir or Devisee of the Estate of Eliza beth Jan Becker Nettles a/k/a Betty Nettles, Deceased; Debra Ann Benton a/k/a Deborah Ann Benton a/k/a Debra Hughes, Individually, as Heir or Devisee of the Estate of Elizabeth Jan Becker Nettles a/k/a Betty Nettles, Deceased; Cheyenne Caroline Hughes a/k/a Cheyenne Hughes, Individually, as Heir or Devisee of the Estate of Elizabeth Jan Becker Nettles a/k/a Betty Nettles, Deceased; Sierra Renee Hughes a/k/a Sierra Hughes, Individually, as Heir or Devisee of the Estate of Elizabeth Jan Becker Nettles a/k/a Betty Nettles, Deceased; Savannah Grace Hughes a/k/a Savannah Hughes, Individually, as Heir or Devisee of the Estate of Elizabeth Jan Becker Nettles a/k/a Betty Nettles, Deceased; Christall Dawn Hughes a/k/a Christall Hughes, Individually, as Heir or Devisee of the Estate of Elizabeth Jan Becker Nettles a/k/a Betty Nettles, Deceased; Randall Gregg Hughes, Jr. a/k/a Randy Hughes, Jr., Individually, as Heir or Devisee of the Estate of Elizabeth Jan Becker Nettles a/k/a Betty Nettles, Deceased; any other Heirs-at-Law or Devi sees of the Estate of Elizabeth Jan Becker Nettles a/k/a Betty Nettles, Deceased, their heirs or devisees, successors and assigns, and all other persons entitled to claim through them; all unknown persons with any right, title or interest in the real estate described herein; also any persons who may be in the military service of the United States of America, being a class designated as John Doe; any unknown minors or persons under a disability being a class designated as Richard Roe; Charlotte Becker, Individually, as Heir or Devisee of the Estate of John George Becker, Deceased; any other Heirs-at-Law or Devisees of the Estate of John George Becker, Deceased, their heirs or devisees, successors and assigns, and all other persons entitled to claim through them; all unknown persons with any right, title or interest in the real estate described herein; also any persons who may be in the military service of the United States of America, being a class designated as James Doe; and any unknown minors or persons under a disability being a class designated as Robert Roe,

DEFENDANT(S).

AMENDED SUMMONS AND NOTICES (222315.00009)

TO ALL THE DEFENDANTS ABOVE-NAMED:

YOU ARE HEREBY SUM MONED and required to appear and defend by answering the Complaint in this action, of which a copy is herewith served upon you, and to serve a copy of your Answer on the subscribers at their offices, 2712 Middleburg Drive, Suite 200, Columbia, Post Office Box 2065, Columbia, South Carolina, 29202-2065, within thirty (30) days after the 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.

YOU WILL ALSO TAKE NOTICE that should you fail to Answer the foregoing Summons, the Plaintiff will move for a gen eral Order of Reference of this cause to the Master-In-Equity or Special Referee for Charles

ton 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 Master is authorized and empowered to enter a final judgment in this cause.

TO MINOR(S) OVER FOURTEEN YEARS OF AGE AND/OR 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 SUM MONED 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, Plaintiff will apply to have the appointment of the Guardian ad Litem Nisi, Kelley Yarbor ough Woody, made absolute.

NOTICE TO THE ABOVE-NAMED DEFENDANTS: YOU WILL PLEASE TAKE NOTICE that the Summons and Complaint, of which the foregoing is a copy of the Summons, were filed with the Clerk of Court for Charleston County, South Carolina on August 30, 2022.

PLEASE TAKE NOTICE that the order appointing Kelley Yarborough Woody, whose address is PO Box 6432, Co lumbia, SC 29260, as Guardian Ad Litem Nisi for all persons whomsoever herein collectively designated as “Richard Roe” and “Robert Roe,” defendants herein whose names and addresses are unknown, includ ing any thereof who may be minors, incapacitated, or under other legal disability, whether residents or non-residents of South Carolina; for all named Defendants, addresses unknown, who may be infants, incapacitated, or under a legal disability; for any unknown heirs-at-law of Elizabeth Jan Becker Nettles a/k/a Betty Net tles and John George Becker, including their heirs, personal representatives, successors and assigns, and all other persons entitled to claim through them; and for all other unknown persons with any right, title, or interest in and to the real estate that is the subject of this foreclosure action, was filed in the Office of the Clerk of Court for Charleston County on the 12th day of October, 2022.

YOU WILL FURTHER TAKE NOTICE that unless the said Defendants, or someone in their behalf or in behalf of any of them, shall within thirty (30) days after service of notice of this order upon them by pub lication, exclusive of the day of such service, procure to be appointed for them, or any of them, a Guardian Ad Litem to represent them or any of them for the purposes of this action, the Plaintiff will apply for an order making the appointment of said Guardian Ad Litem Nisi absolute.

AMENDED LIS PENDENS

NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that an action has been commenced by the Plaintiff above named against the Defendant(s) above named for the foreclosure of a certain mortgage given by John George Becker and Mary Catherine Becker Engle and Elizabeth Jan Becker Nettles to Mortgage Electronic Registra tion Systems, Inc. as nominee for loanDepot.com, LLC, dated January 21, 2017, recorded September 18, 2017, in the Of fice of the Clerk of Court/Reg ister of Deeds for Charleston County, in Book 0666 at Page 290; thereafter, said Mortgage was assigned to loanDepot. com, LLC by assignment instru

ment dated June 2, 2022 and recorded June 24, 2022 in Book 1119 at Page 111; thereafter, assigned to loanDepot.com, LLC by duplicate assignment instrument dated July 18, 2022 and recorded August 1, 2022 in Book 1128 at Page 080.

The description of the premises is as follows:

The following described in the County of Charleston, State of South Carolina, to-wit:

All my interest in and to that certain piece, parcel or lot of land, with buildings and im provements thereon, situate, ly ing and being on Edisto Island, in the County of Charleston, State of South Carolina, being shown and designated as Lot 10 containing 0.72 acre, more or less, on a plat entitled plat of two tracts of land part of Laurel Hill Tract located on Edisto Island, Charleston County, South Carolina prepared by Harold J. Lea Mond, RLS No. 2507, dated May 3, 1977, and recorded in the RMC Office for Charleston County in Plat Book PJ at Page 5, said plat being incorporated herein as a part of this description and said lot being bounded now or formerly and measuring more or less as follows: On the Northeast by Lot 9 as shown on said plat; on the Southeast by lands of Frank Smalls as shown on said plat; on the Southwest by Laurel Hill Road as shown on said plat; and on the Northwest by lands of Betty P. and Charles C. Wannamaker known as Brookland Plantation as show on said plat.

Plaintiff has contemporane ously filed a Complaint herein, which includes a cause of action to reform the legal description of the mortgage to be as follows:

The following described in the County of Charleston, State of South Carolina, to-wit:

All my interest in and to that certain piece, parcel or lot of land, with buildings and im provements thereon, situate, ly ing and being on Edisto Island, in the County of Charleston, State of South Carolina, being shown and designated as Lot 10 containing 0.72 acre, more or less, on a plat entitled plat of two tracts of land part of Laurel Hill Tract located on Edisto Island, Charleston County, South Carolina prepared by Harold J. Lea Mond, RLS No. 2507, dated May 3, 1977, and recorded in the RMC Office for Charleston County in Plat Book AJ at Page 5, said plat being incorporated herein as a part of this description and said lot being bounded now or formerly and measuring more or less as follows: On the Northeast by Lot 9 as shown on said plat; on the Southeast by lands of Frank Smalls as shown on said plat; on the Southwest by Laurel Hill Road as shown on said plat; and on the Northwest by lands of Betty P. and Charles C. Wannamaker known as Brookland Plantation as show on said plat.

This being the same prop erty conveyed to John George Becker, Mary Catherine Becker Engle and Elizabeth Jan Becker Nettles by deed of John George Becker as Personal Representa tive of the Estate of Flora May Becker, dated September 18, 2013 and recorded September 25, 2013 in Book 0363 at Page 215 in the Office of the Clerk of Court/Register of Deeds for Charleston County. Subse quently, Elizabeth Jan Becker Nettles a/k/a Betty Nettles died on or about January 1, 2021, leaving the subject property to her heirs, namely David Edwin Nettles a/k/a David Nettles, Kevin Edward Nettles a/k/a Kevin Nettles, Flora Elizabeth

Nettles a/k/a Liz Nettles a/k/a Flora Padgett, Lashonda Linder, and the following surviving is sue of her predeceased daugh ter Christina Marie Hughes: Debra Ann Benton a/k/a Deborah Ann Benton a/k/a Debra Hughes, Cheyenne Caro line Hughes a/k/a Cheyenne Hughes, Sierra Renee Hughes a/k/a Sierra Hughes, Savannah Grace Hughes a/k/a Savannah Hughes, Christall Dawn Hughes a/k/a Christall Hughes, and Randall Gregg Hughes, Jr. a/k/a Randy Hughes, Jr. Subsequently, John George Becker died on or about October 1, 2021, leaving his interest in the subject property to his heir, namely Charlotte Becker.

TMS No. 012-00-00-034

Property address: 8392 Herbert Smalls Road Edisto Island, SC 29438

SCOTT AND CORLEY, P.A.

By: Ronald C. Scott (rons@scottandcorley.com), SC Bar #4996

Reginald P. Corley (reggiec@scottandcorley.com), SC Bar #69453

Angelia J. Grant (angig@scottandcorley.com), SC Bar #78334

Allison E. Heffernan (allisonh@scottandcorley.com), SC Bar #68530

H. Guyton Murrell (guytonm@scottandcorley. com), SC Bar #64134

Kevin T. Brown (kevinb@scottandcorley.com), SC Bar #64236

Jordan D. Beumer (jordanb@scottandcorley.com), SC Bar #104074

ATTORNEYS FOR THE PLAINTIFF 2712 Middleburg Drive, Suite 200 Columbia, SC 29204 803-252-3340

Master’s Sale 2022-CP-10-01637

STATE OF SOUTH CAROLINA COUNTY OF CHARLESTON IN THE COURT OF COMMON PLEAS NewRez LLC d/b/a Shellpoint Mortgage Servicing, PLAINTIFF versus Bradley Norvell, Renee McCown, Jacob Norvell, and any other Heirs-at-Law or Devisees of Maureen Norvell, Deceased, their heirs, Personal Representatives, Administra tors, Successors and Assigns, and all other persons entitled to claim through them; all unknown persons with any right, title or interest in the real estate described herein; also any persons who may be in the military service of the United States of America, being a class designated as John Doe; and any unknown minors or persons under a disability being a class designated as Richard Roe, Park at Rivers Edge Horizontal Property Regime A, Inc., 1st Franklin Financial Corpora tion, and The South Carolina Department of Revenue, DEFENDANT(S).

Upon authority of a Decree dated the 19th day of Sep tember, 2022, I will offer for sale to the highest bidder for cash, at public auction, the premises fully described below, at the County Council Chambers, 4045 Bridge View Drive, North Charleston, South Carolina, on the 1st day of November, 2022, at 11:00 a.m. or shortly thereafter. All that certain piece, parcel or lot of land situate, lying and being in the State of South Carolina, County of Charleston, being shown and designated as Lot 126, Unit R-2, of Hidden River on the Ashley at The Park at River’s Edge as shown on plat thereof recorded in Plat Book

EH at Page 272, and also shown on survey prepared by Absolute Surveying, Inc. dated 9-27-2005 and recorded in Plat Book EJ at Page 402, and having, according to said plat, metes and bounds as shown thereon. Being the same property conveyed to Maureen H. Norvell by deed of Joshua Dale McKinney and Jordan Danielle McKinney, dated December 27, 2018 and recorded January 16, 2019 in Deed Book 0772 at Page 596; thereafter, Maureen H. Norvell died intestate on January 4, 2020, leaving the Property to her heirs at law or devisees, namely, Bradley Norvell, Renee McCown, and Jacob Norvell.

TMS No. 404-02-00-123

Property Address: 7976 Vermont Road North Charleston, SC 29418

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

THIS SALE IS SUBJECT TO AS SESSMENTS, COUNTY TAXES, EXISTING EASEMENTS, EASE MENTS AND RESTRICTIONS OF RECORD, AND OTHER SENIOR ENCUMBRANCES.

The property shall be sold for cash to the highest bidder.

The highest bidder, other than the Plaintiff, will be required to deposit with the Master, at the conclusion of the bidding, cash or certified check in the amount of five (5%) per cent of the bid: the said deposit to be applied to the purchase price. The successful bidder will be required to pay for documentary stamps on the Deed and interest on the bal ance of the bid from the date of sale to the date of compli ance with the bid at the rate of 5.1250%. Should the highest bidder fail to comply with the bid within thirty days from the date of sale, the Master will resell the property at the risk and expense of the defaulting bidder upon the same terms as above set out.

Should the Plaintiff, or one of its representatives, fail to be present at the time of sale, the property is automatically withdrawn from said sale and sold at the next available sales day upon the terms and conditions as set forth in the Judgment of Foreclosure and Sale or any Supplemental Or der. The Sheriff of Charleston County may be authorized to put the purchaser into possession of the premises if requested by the purchaser.

NOTICE: The foreclosure deed is not a warranty deed. Interested bidders should satisfy themselves as to the quality of title to be conveyed by obtaining an independent title search well before the foreclosure sale date.

ATTENDEES MUST ABIDE BY SOCIAL DISTANCING GUIDELINES AND MAY BE REQUIRED TO WEAR A MASK OR OTHER FACIAL COVERING. Any person who violates said protocols is subject to dismissal at the discretion of the selling officer or other court officials.

PLAINTIFF’S ATTORNEY RILEY POPE & LANEY, LLC (803) 799-9993

FOR INSERTION October 12, 2022, October 19, 2022, October 26, 2022

Mikell R. Scarborough Master in Equity 4764

STATE OF SOUTH CAROLINA COUNTY OF CHARLESTON IN THE FAMILY COURT FOR THE NINTH JUDICIAL CIRCUIT CASE NO: 2022-DR-10-2415

YOHELY M. GALLEGOS AMADOR

And KERBIN A. DEL CID Petitioners, V. ARTURO CARDENAS CARAZA, Respondent.

NOTICE OF PENDING ADOPTION ACTION TO: ARTURO CARDENAS CARAZA, RESPONDENT ABOVE NAMED

YOU WILL PLEASE TAKE NOTICE as follows:

1. That an action for adoption of the minor children, Cristian Arthur Cardenas-Gallegos and Alexis Ruby Cardenas Gallegos, has been initiated in the Charleston County Fam ily Court, 100 Broad Street, Charleston, South Carolina; and 2. Within thirty (30) days of receiving this notice you must respond in writing by filing with the Court in which the adoption is pending, A Notice of Intent to Contest, Intervene or otherwise respond; and 3. The Court must be informed of your current address and of any changes in your address dur ing the adoption proceeding; and 4. FAILURE TO FILE A RESPONSE WITHIN THIRTY (30) DAYS OF RECEIVING NOTICE CONSTITUTES CONSENT TO ADOPTION OF THE CHILD AND FORFEITURE TO THE CHILD.

SUMMONS

TO: ARTURO CARDENAS CARAZA, RESPONDENT ABOVE NAMED YOU ARE HEREBY SUM MONED and required to answer the Petition herein, a copy of which is herewith served upon you, and to serve your Answer to said Petition upon the undersigned attorney for the Petitioners, at his offices located at 2 Cavalier Avenue, Charleston, South Carolina 29407, within thirty (30) days after the service hereof, exclu sive of the day of such service and, if you fail to answer the Petition within the time aforesaid, the Petitioners will apply to the Court for the relief demanded in the Petition.

YOU ARE HEREBY GIVEN NOTICE FURTHER that if you fail to appear and defend and fail to answer the Petition as required by this Summons within thirty (30) days after the service hereof, exclusive of the day of service, Judgment by Default will be entered against you for the relief demanded i the Petition.

G. Edward Hawkins, III HAWKINS LAW FIRM, P.A. 2 Cavalier Avenue Charleston, SC 29407 (843) 225-7565

ATTORNEY FOR PETITIONERS Charleston, South Carolina August 19, 2022

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Black Diamond’s time to shine

By Kyle Petersen

Christian Smalls is the kind of singer that can bowl you over. Known by her stage name Black Diamond, the spellbinding singer is an undeniable force.

Smalls, a Charleston native, is frequently sighted on stages and at private parties all around town thanks to her leadership of the R&B-soul party group The Black Diamond Band as well as her Aretha Franklin and Anita Baker tribute performances. But the power of her voice — a deep, warm timbre that feels imbued with the rich history of Southern soul — is the kind of instantly entrancing sound that locks in an audience.

Despite singing professionally in town for nearly a decade, Smalls is releasing her first single Oct. 21. She said she didn’t intend to take so long to jump into an original project. The momentum of the Black Diamond Band put songwriting somewhat in the backseat as she regularly performed at Henry’s and the Commodore, as well as wedding and corporate gigs.

But Smalls, a Charleston School of the Arts graduate, said she always had an interest in songwriting. She just needed the

timing to work out.

“We’ve been so busy, because we are pretty well booked a lot, it takes away time from the creative process,” she said. “But I feel like it’s just a perfect time now to start being creative and getting out there, and that it will open up other avenues for the band.”

The song itself actually came about when Quiana Parler, singer in the Grammy Award-winning jazz-roots group Ranky Tanky, approached her about a collabora tion, which became Smalls’ debut single.

“I have always written [songs] — I have pages and pages of songs that I’ve written, but this particular song was just per fect, and it came to me at the right time,” Smalls said.

Her new track, “Winning,” follows an archetypal cheating lover song structure, but stays in a deep soul pocket, aptly show casing her talents. Riding a slinky guitar riff and deeply embellished with plenty of background vocals, the song feels less like a neo-soul or retro pastiche and more like a lost song from the ’70s that anyone from Aretha to Gladys Knight could have cut.

“The music was the easy part, honestly,”

Smalls said, who credits all of her collabora tors, especially Parler and producer Mike Brown as well as all the backing musicians, for making it a seamless process. “We have all been performing for a while now,” she said, “so transitioning into original music was just natural, you know?”

As for her influences, Smalls didn’t shy away from the Aretha Franklin connection, but emphasized the late Betty Wright as a key inspiration.

“She was one of the pioneers of the subgenre of R&B called Southern soul,” Smalls said. “She was legendary. Her range was out of this world.”

Smalls will be celebrating the single release with a “Black Diamond Meet Up” party at Uptown Social 3-6 p.m. Oct. 22, followed by a performance at the Blue Note Bistro in North Charleston for its Southern Soul Brunch 2-5 p.m. Oct. 23. The weekend also coincides with Smalls’ birthday, so the mood will be celebratory.

“I’m kind of just getting into ‘Black Diamond’ the artist,” Smalls said. “I still have the band. But now I’m focusing on my artistry. I’m ready for the people to hear my original music and what I have to say.”

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The second annual Boogie Man Halloween Festival takes over The Royal American Oct. 29-30 with 27 local and regional acts headlined by synthwave sensation Doom Flamingo and psych-pop rockers Stop Light Observations. Tickets are available tixr.com. —CG

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Charleston’s alternative chamber music company New Muse Concerts pops up at The Gibbes Museum of Art downtown at 6 p.m. Oct. 26 to perform “From Chaos to Harmony: Music and the Greek Ideal.” Violinist Lydia Chernicoff, founder of New Muse, will play with cellist Andrea Casarrubios and pianist Ronaldo Rolim as Trio Appassionata, performing an arrangement of music from famous composers Beethoven and Brahms. Tickets are available through gibbesmuseum.org. —CG

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The Riviera Theater’s upcoming season has something for everyone: variety show “And That’s Why We Drink” Oct. 29; rock band The Revivalists Nov. 1- 2; contemporary country artist Mat Kearney Nov. 3; comedian Joe Pera Nov. 20; indie rock band Mt. Joy Nov. 26; Riviera Rockin’ Holiday Special Dec. 1-2; pop artist Debbie Gibson’s “Winterlicious” Dec. 10; country music from Phil Vassar and Deana Carter Dec. 15; and comedian Chris Distefano Dec. 17. Visit therivierachs.com. —CG

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Harper’s Gambit writes life into lyrics

By Kate Bryan

Local alt-rock outfit Harper’s Gambit’s debut album Yesterday’s Dreams is a pandemic-born labor of love.

Bassist/vocalist Jake Schoenberg and guitarist/vocalist Derek Tuck, the band’s main songwriting duo, took a folk-influenced approach to writing lyrics for Yesterday’s Dreams, focusing on direct storytelling.

“We don’t really speak in metaphors,” Schoenberg said. This narrative approach gives the band’s alt-rock expression an Americana sensibility.

Much of the songwriting for Yesterday’s Dreams was driven by Tuck and Schoenberg turning angst into catharsis.

“We began recording during Covid-19. We couldn’t go out and play at that time and that was hard,” Schoenberg said. “It was challenging for us to stick together as a band when we couldn’t perform, so we kind of took that energy and put it toward recording.”

One track, “Oak Tree,” is a response to Schoenberg and his wife’s pandemicinduced wedding cancellation, delaying both the celebration of their love and the chance to see friends and family.

“Writing the song kind of helped me and my wife cope,” Schoenberg said. “I need to be playing music to keep myself level headed and to channel the heavy emotions.”

Tuck wrote “Yesterday’s Dreams,” the title track, while frustrated about the student loan debt that has crippled many in his generation. “I’m trying to think of a way of saying it without sounding cliche,” Tuck said. “It’s more a mental health kind of thing for me. Like if I don’t do it, I feel worse.”

The recording process was not without its challenges: Tuck and Schoenberg recorded

DIY recording and autobiographical lyrics weave together Harper Gambit’s debut record Yesterday’s Dreams

the album entirely on their own, making a home studio out of Tuck’s guest bedroom.

“Everything on the album we recorded ourselves,” Schoenberg said. “And every instrument we had to record one at a time and track by track.”

The result is an album brimming with not only fresh emotion, but an air of authen ticity. The album’s upbeat energy floats on an undercurrent of hyper-personal song writing, bringing an appealing earnestness that transcends genre.

Ultimately, logistical constraints didn’t hinder, but rather encouraged, Harper’s Gambit’s creation of Yesterday’s Dreams

“We could [only] create with what we actually had in that room, where we recorded everything,” Tuck said. “I think being able to limit yourself like that breeds creativity.”

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