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And all over the Town Folks were hoping to stop & sit down. For presents and parties...all things fun Everyone knows Red's Ice House is the one. While trimming and buying for friends old and new Shoppers are dreaming of an icy cold brew. And while you’re out doing your holiday things There’s nothing much better than some Red's smokehouse wings. Our famous fried shrimp make such a great meal And our grilled grouper sandwich makes fish lovers squeal.

One wink to your server and what will appear But the sparkling refreshment of a bucket of beer. With service so friendly it will just make you smile So come in to Red's and stay for a while.

All through the holidays our good friends come by For music, good cheer and the seafood we fry. On Nachos! On Buff Shrimp! On Big Seafood Platters! Our servers at Red's take care of what matters. Dippin' chicken fingers in the mustard with honey You’ll have a great meal & save Christmas money!

Now in the midst of this holiday season Remember the kindness and love that’s the reason To our families and creek lovers we have this to say...

Woodlands Nature Reserve makes a comeback after permitting woes

By Chelsea Grinstead

After months of waiting in limbo, the 6,000acre Woodlands Nature Reserve off Ashley River Road last month got the green light to resume community events in the spring.

Woodlands reached a short-term solu tion Nov. 16 with the Dorchester County Planning and Zoning Department after the property’s events and camping operations were suspended in September due to per mitting issues.

“We’re thrilled that we’re able to open the gates back to the property for three events this spring, and hopefully there will be more in summer 2023 and beyond,” said Vince Iwinski, the venue’s manager for music and events. “We’re working with the county to make sure that we have all the proper code designations in place so that we can allow for year-round camping, kaya king and biking at some point in 2023.”

Iwinski said he met with Dorchester County officials at the end of October to present the Woodlands’ plan to hold events in a different area going forward. Iwinski said Woodlands is developing a piece of land with an entrance a mile north of its main entrance that is two miles back off of S.C. Highway 61 with two large parking lots and space for a stage called North Lake Venue.

North Lake Venue is located farther into the reserve property than where previous events have been held and addresses con cerns the county had with traffic and noise that have come up over the last few years.

As Iwinski unfolded the plan for the new venue, he said county officials realized

Woodlands was paying attention to the worries that surfaced about previous events congesting the traffic along Ashley River Road near the main entrance to events.

“The new location will give us the oppor tunity to get people off of the road and into the property exponentially quicker than we had in the past,” Iwinski said.

Woodlands’ owner Holland Duel added, “We have worked hard to incorporate the county’s and the community’s ideas into our newly designed location within the property. We are very excited to share

North Lake Venue with the public.”

The Rundown

S.C. may become Dems’ first primary state in 2024

After President Joe Biden said last week that he wanted South Carolina to host the nation’s first Democratic primary in 2024, a key committee at the Democratic National Committee — chaired by South Carolina’s Jaime Harrison — voted to approve the change as a way to bolster diversity. If the move comes to fruition in a final vote in February, it would end Iowa’s opening part of the presidential nominations pro cess and reduce New Hampshire’s role.

“We must ensure that voters of color have a voice in choosing our nominee much earlier in the process and throughout the entire early window,” Biden wrote in a letter to the DNC.

Staff reports

$1.9 million

The Charleston County Park and Recreation Commission purchased a $1.9 million property to provide more parking for the Shem Creek Boat Landing. Source: WCBD

The Woodlands has an additional layer of specialized zoning on top of county codes because it is in the Ashley River Historic Overlay District, said Dorchester County Councilman Jay Byars.

“Really, our normal zoning just did not

—The Washington Post wrote in an editorial on the U.S. Senate’s passage of the bipartisan Respect for Marriage Act,

bill that South Carolina’s U.S. senators, Lindsey Graham and Tim Scott, voted

New crane count: 8

As of Dec. 5, 2022, eight cranes on seven worksites were spotted on the peninsula. For more details, visit our website.

New concept will lead to re-evaluating zoning

“Members of the GOP risk losing more moderate voters by refusing to support the legalization of same-sex marriage. The [Respect for Marriage Act] might be mostly symbolic, but it’s a symbol of progress worth saluting.”

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Photos courtesy Woodlands Nature Reserve

The annual Charleston Bluegrass festival will return to Woodlands in Spring 2023

S.C. State opens new education, research center in Charleston

From staff reports

After a decade of planning and red tape, S.C. State University (SCSU) has opened its newest building, but it is not on the Orangeburg campus. The university’s Coastal Region Research and Education Center is in Charleston’s Eastside neigh borhood at 35 Lee St.

The center is a partnership between the university’s 1890 Research and Extension program and the City of Charleston. The $5.3 million in federal funds to construct the nearly 15,000-square-foot center came through the U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA).

Built on a small parcel of donated gov ernment land, the center includes a food demonstration lab, a computer lab, one classroom, a flexible multipurpose room, a leadership training board room, and offices and workspace.

During the building’s Dec. 1 opening, SCSU’s president Alexander Conyers said, “I can think of no better place to erect a building and plant our flag so that the community knows that South Carolina State is present; so that the community knows after 125 years South Carolina State University still epitomizes that Bulldog tenacity.”

Charleston Mayor John Tecklenburg noted the city’s role in donating the nearly half-acre plot for the center. “We made you a pretty good deal, Mr. President,” Tecklenburg said, referring to Conyers. “This is land that was donated by the City of Charleston for $1 to S.C. State for this facility to be right here in Charleston.

“As many of you know, my brother Michael was born deaf, and he received his first auditory and speech therapy at S.C. State,” the mayor said. “That was the first time I got to see how this remarkable institution can and does transform lives every day. Which is exactly what this new Research and Education Center is going to do here in Charleston — strengthen our commu nity by transforming lives for the better.”

For about three decades, SCSU has offered 4-H programs and science pro grams to students at the Sanders-Clyde Elementary and Burke High schools and Charleston Development Academy and other schools in Dorchester, Berkeley and Georgetown counties. Dr. Louis D. Whitesides, SCSU’s vice presi dent, told Charleston City Paper last November that with the new building those programs will continue and others will be added.

Downtown Charleston fortifies fight against underage drinking

By Chelsea Grinstead

A new technology soon is expected to help downtown bars and restaurants reduce underage drinking.

The City of Charleston has partnered with New-York based system software com pany Intellicheck to bring its mobile appli cation that authenticates driver’s licenses and IDs to 31 bars on King Street. It’s part of a six-month pilot program announced Nov. 30 that began Monday.

“It’s a whole tapestry, a whole combi nation of efforts going on by the city and by our business partners to make King Street and our business district an even

safer place — from traffic enforcement and lane closures to ID checks,” Mayor John Tecklenburg said last week at a downtown press conference. “It all fits together.”

The app enables mobile devices and point-of-scale scanners to authenticate IDs in less than a second, which means bouncers can more readily prevent underage people from getting access to bars with a fake ID.

Twenty-five businesses have signed up to participate in the program so far, city officials said. Six spots remain available for King Street businesses to participate

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S.C. second most dangerous state for drivers, study says

From staff reports

South Carolina ranked as the second most unsafe state for drivers in the U.S. after Montana, according to a new report from Forbes Advisor.

The company determined South Carolina’s rank by analyzing five key areas from the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration — number of fatal car accidents per capita, total people killed in car accidents per capita, percent of fatalities from speeding, percent of fatalities from impaired driving and percentage change in total people killed in car accidents.

South Carolina tied with Colorado at 46% for the highest percentage of fatal

accidents as a result of speeding. Impaired driving made up 36% of deadly traffic acci dents in South Carolina.

South Carolina also was the state with the fourth highest number of fatal car acci dents per capita and the total number of people killed in car accidents per capita.

From 2019 to 2020, South Carolina’s number of car accident fatalities increased by 6%, the report said.

City Paper reported in 2021 that more people died on S.C. highways that year than in any year since 2018. Last year, 1,198 people died on state byways, compared to 1,067 people the previous year.

This year through Dec. 2, 957 people have died on S.C. highways.

of the Week

Someone stole Charleston Animal Society’s pot-bellied pig, Piggy Stardust, on Nov. 26, according to the North Charleston Police Department. Six days later, NCPD detectives arrested a 31-year-old man who confessed to the crime, police said. They returned Piggy Stardust to her home at the shelter. Let’s hope she’s listening to some relaxing David Bowie tunes.

Hangry for love

Charleston police officers responded Nov. 23 to a report of an aggressive man threatening to “kill everyone” on the corner of King and Wentworth streets. The report stated that the man was also “throwing books into the street and demanding biscuits at a res taurant that does not serve biscuits.” He was arrested for disorderly conduct. You can’t make this stuff up.

Yet another shooting

A man showed up Nov. 27 at the Awendaw-McClellanville Consolidated Fire Station off of U.S. Highway 17 North and reported that he was at a bonfire when he felt like something bit him, according to a Charleston County Sheriff’s Office report. Turns out, it was a bullet. The man said he was too drunk to know exactly where the bonfire was. Two people from the area reported to the authorities that they heard gunshots that night.

By Chelsea Grinstead Illustration by Steve Stegelin

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Last week Mayor John Tecklenburg discussed the city’s new six-month pilot program that could help prevent underage drinking at downtown bars

have a way to define what Woodlands is doing,” Byars told Charleston City Paper. “It’s a unique concept. We need to re-eval uate the specialized zoning out there. The staff is looking at adding a zoning amend ment that would make an allowable use for what they’re trying to do. This is a huge piece of property and the [Woodlands team] has the ability to do some unique things. [The county] has got to do our part to be able to help make them successful.”

The temporary agreement reached between the nature reserve and the county allows for special events in the short term as the two entities work toward a longterm resolution that hinges upon rezoning amendments. It could involve a blanket permit for outdoor events.

Now that the county understands the Woodlands business model, organizers said three events are waiting to be finalized for next year: a Savage Race obstacle course in February; the Charleston Bluegrass Festival in late March; and an arts centered gath ering called Emergence in April.

When event promoters failed to obtain the necessary permit to hold a Rainbow Kitten Surprise concert in July, it was a breaking point for Dorchester County officials. The situation was further exacer bated by traffic complaints the Dorchester County Sheriff’s Office fielded from the community. What resulted was a tempo rary halt of concerts, community gather ings and outdoor activities the reserve has hosted since 2019.

The Woodlands has a hybrid business model. Its primary function is sustain able forestry and wildlife habitat, but the entertainment events sustain its ecotourism operation, which includes a tier of camping options, including glamping, and nature tours such as kayaking, hiking and biking. To end events would compromise the prop erty’s commercial appeal.

Iwinski met at the end of October with Byars, who told the City Paper in September he felt a resolution could be reached with improved communication. At their next meeting, Iwinski and Byars

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in the introductory program. Business owners interested in signing up for the program should email Meg Thomspon, the city’s director of business and neighborhood services, at thompsonm@charleston-sc.gov.

The City of Charleston and destination marketing nonprofit Explore Charleston each contributed $20,000 to fund the program with Intellicheck, which is providing its ID verification technology at a reduced cost.

“We’re really going to impact underage drinking on King Street and wherever else this model can go,” said Roy Neal, owner of

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toured the reserve.

“It’s a beautiful and very unique site,” Byars told the City Paper. “I’m very excited about what [Woodlands is] doing. It was good to get boots on the ground. The team over there really just wants to try to do something special.”

Iwinski said he and Byars spent almost two hours walking the property, and Byars understood the Woodlands’ niche business model.

“He now understands what we mean by being an event space that thrives by promoting ecotourism and camping on the property,” Iwinski said. “I think that he tapped into the overall concept of our mis sion and what we’re doing out there.”

Byars said resolving the zoning and per mitting issues with Woodlands could prove to be invaluable for Dorchester County and the Charleston area because the reserve intends to operate as a site for year-round ecotourism, which is centered on naturefocused vacations and leisure activities.

“Woodlands creates a special opportu nity that doesn’t really exist anywhere else in Dorchester County and not a whole lot of other places in the state,” Byars said.

Iwinski said, “I was able to get an audience with the county and explained that I’m going into my 25th year of pro ducing music events. I think that there was a certain level of comfort on their part knowing that I’m utilizing nearly a quarter century of experience to get this venue off the ground.”

El Jefe Texican Cantina on King Street, a business that already utilizes Intellicheck technology to check IDs.

City Councilman Mike Seekings said the idea behind the six-month introductory program was to get the ID-scanning app into the hands of local business owners to familiarize them with the product and test whether the system could be adopted on a broader scale.

“This is just one of the tools that I think we’re now going to have in our arsenal for the next six months at no charge to our businesses to make our streets safe, inviting and hospitable,” Seekings said at the press conference.

We have worked hard to incorporate the county’s and the community’s ideas into our newly designed location within the property. We are very excited to share North Lake Venue with the public.” —Holland Duel

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resident Joe Biden has thrown the South Carolina Democratic Party a long, huge lifeline by pushing national Democrats to move the first 2024 presidential primary here. Gone as the first national battleground would be the lily-white caucus in Iowa, while the lily-white New Hampshire primary faces a demotion but will still be early.

South Carolina is a state in which no Democrats won a statewide office in 2022. And after Republicans slammed through an overtly partisan redistricting map, Democrats in November lost seven seats in a S.C. House of Representatives already dominated by Republicans. So Biden’s move should help state Democrats get their act together and remain, well, somewhat relevant.

And that — despite the Republican gerrymandering — should make politics a little more competitive from Greenville to Beaufort to Charleston to Florence. More competition in political contests is what we need, not less. For that reason alone, Biden’s push is welcome.

But making South Carolina become the nation’s first primary also has benefits for the president, should he choose to run for re-election. (Other than pundits who are obsessed about what Biden will do, there’s nothing really to indicate that he won’t run.)

First, remember that the only reason Biden won the Democratic nomination in 2020 was his victory in South Carolina, backed by kingmaker and our own U.S. Rep. Jim Clyburn, turned around a flagging campaign. Having South Carolina first in 2024 would propel him out of the gate quickly

in a state he often says feels like a second home.

Second, having a primary in familiar South Carolina should discourage potential Democratic challengers as Biden will already have many of the political operatives loyal to Clyburn or Jaime Harrison, the Orangeburg native who coincidentally happens to chair the Democratic National Committee, in his corner.

Clyburn told NPR on Saturday that South Carolina was a laboratory for political primaries, particularly for Democrats.

“When people do well in a state like South Carolina, where you have such a diverse makeup of people, have a high percentage of African American voters but not an overwhelming percentage — we are around 27% African American — but it’s about reflective of the percentage of African Americans that vote for Democrats.”

South Carolina has been pivotal for Republicans, too, Clyburn noted. “McCain was doing great in his campaign for president until he got to South Carolina. George W. Bush beat him in South Carolina, went on to become a two-term president. So there’s something about the makeup of that state.”

If South Carolina makes the final cut as the first primary state, the state party will benefit from having an influx of new political professionals working in the state. Some of those who become familiar with the Palmetto State will stay and, we hope, work inside the party to expand its reach and make Democrats more competitive in future elections.

The DNC will vote in February to finalize the primary order, hopefully with South Carolina at the top of the list. Let’s encourage the members to do just that.

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Haley’s ‘great day in South Carolina’ greeting slips away

By Andy Brack

South Carolina must not be as great of a place as it used to be — at least when you call government offices.

“Business management” was the answer we heard when we called one phone number this week at the S.C. Department of Health and Environmental Control.

“Thank you for calling the South Carolina Attorney General’s Office. We are located at …,” said a recording.

Or “Are you looking for a rewarding career with the South Carolina Department of Revenue?” asked another recording.

The only place of 10 agencies that referenced the Palmetto State’s stature was a call to the Statehouse, where yet another recorded mes sage piped: “It’s a great day in South Carolina …”

Ah, finally the familiar sounds of a telephone greeting imposed upon state cabinet agencies in September 2011 by former Gov. Nikki Haley.

Even then, it was derided as cheesy, making what one writer described as something that made phoning a state agency sound pretty grim.

“As every fast food chain has taught us,” Eric Randall wrote in The Atlantic, “there is no sunny greeting that a monotone teenage employee can’t turn into something shockingly ironic. (“Welcome to Good Burger, home of the Good Burger. Can I take your order?”) But still, it feels like there must be something else the state legislature should be doing, especially if it really and truly isn’t a good day today in South Carolina.”

The attempt to frame perceptions with a perky phone greeting was widely panned in Democratic circles …

The attempt to frame perceptions with a perky phone greeting was widely panned in Democratic circles, leading two state representatives to say they would file legislation to say state employees couldn’t be forced to give the greeting until the state’s unem ployment rate was less than 5% (At the time, it was 10%; now it’s 3%).

“When you answer the phone and say, ‘It’s a great day in South Carolina,’ to be honest with you, it’s a lie,” state Rep. Wendell Gilliard, D-Charleston, said at the time. “South Carolina is being misrepresented by its No. 1 leader, and that’s the governor.”

But the silliness blew away and now it’s a part of the past — except that Haley’s past as a leader is now being dredged up as she flirts with running for president.

Back in April 2021, Haley, who left her job as governor to be the U.S. ambassador to the United Nations in the Trump administration, said she wouldn’t run for president if Donald Trump was running. She told the Associated Press, “I would not run if President Trump ran, and I would talk to him about it. That’s something that we’ll have a conversation about at some point, if that decision is something that has to be made.”

But since the summer, Haley, who now lives on Kiawah Island, has been popping up in the media at key times to remind people that she’s a moderate, viable choice. Just last week, she reminded people she’s still thinking about running for president — even though national polls show Trump with a commanding lead among Republican voters and Haley at, shall we say, the low single digits. (A Winthrop Poll of South Carolina Republicans, however, showed Trump at 45% and Haley close at 37%, which is important because the Palmetto State plays a defining role in the presidential nomination process.)

“We are taking the holidays to kind of look at what the situation is,” Haley said November 29 at a Clemson forum. “If we decide to get into it, we’ll put 1,000% in, and we’ll finish it.”

Maybe, or perhaps, it’s just political puffery to remain relevant and be considered as a moderate vice presidential candidate — which would be kind of a great day for South Carolina for many.

By the way, we sent an email — and didn’t make a phone call — to the office of Haley’s successor, Gov. Henry McMaster to find out what hap pened to the “great day” telephone policy. No response.

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

MAKE IT LOCAL

Artisans create unique gifts for the holidays

By Chelsea Grinstead and Chloe Hogan

Handcrafted items make meaningful gifts because they have the weight of a story behind them.

The Charleston area is abound with skilled artisans who create products that exude thoughtfulness and intricately capture the affection that gift givers want to show to their spe cial someone. Here are some gifts and artisans whose crafts and stories caught the City Paper ’s eye this holiday season.

3-DIMENSIONAL WOOD MAPS OF CHARLESTON NEIGHBORHOODS

SCORE & BURN, NORTH CHARLESTON

Park Circle craftsmen Chuck Johnson and Joel Trantham describe themselves as “map nerds.” It makes sense, then, that they would dive into an artisanal map-etching venture, Score & Burn, after having too much time on their hands during the 2020 Covid-19 shutdown.

Johnson looked at a lot of maps as a truck driver for 12 years before and after he owned and operated a steel fabrication company in Spartanburg, South Carolina. Trantham, his son-in-law who is a licensed architect, said they both appreciate the visual allure of maps.

“I’ve always found inspirational how maps are both a thing of beauty but also a thing of utility,” Trantham told the City Paper. “I think people find connec tion to maps of where they live because you can see a bird’s eye view of where you’ve experienced life, and whenever you look at them, it brings up memories.”

Score & Burn offers three-dimensional layered wood maps and layered paper depictions of Charleston-area neighborhoods, waterways and architecture. The customframed creations are wrought from birch, walnut and maple woods and heavy papers. Some pieces incorporate mirror material to add reflective depth to the compositions.

Score & Burn came together after the duo experimented with a laser cutter and stumbled into an artistic exploration. The first wood-burned map was a rendering of Park Circle. “When I started looking at Park Circle’s map, I was like,

Photos by Rūta Smith

Score & Burn layers laser-cut wood to create each map

‘Wow, this is just a really beautiful way that the streets are regulated, but then bend with the landscape,’” Trantham said.

Their experimentation involved burning the wood just enough and learning the dif ferent intensities of the laser.

Johnson said he remembered working on a Charleston peninsula map back when they were very new to using the laser equipment and still getting the technique down. As a result, most of the time the wood lit on fire.

“When we first finally made a map successfully,” Johnson said, “I joked, ‘I’ve burnt Charleston to the ground more than General Sherman going through Atlanta.’”

Over the past two years, meeting the dif ferent makers and crafts people in the Park Circle community is what has helped Score & Burn plug into the Charleston area’s fine arts community.

“We do a lot of work ourselves, but the community here has totally supported us and probably done more work than we have to really let us be able to branch out,” Trantham said. “It’s been remarkable.”

One of the first things they researched was wood that wasn’t going to create any pollutants. They settled on PureBond ply wood made with soybean-based glue from Home Depot.

“We burned probably 50 different things,” he said. “But we also didn’t want to put anything into that laser that was toxic because obviously we have to breathe the

smoke that comes out of it.”

Their newest offering is a map of Johns Island, and their collection includes James, Sullivan’s and Kiawah islands, the historic downtown peninsula and a Charlestonarea nautical map. The duo plans to release a line of marble-etched lighthouse depic tions in 2023.

Score & Burn’s collections vary in price from $50-$280 and are available at scoreandburn.com.

CHAKRA-INSPIRED CANDLES

PLUFF MUD MERCANTILE, WEST ASHLEY

A new line of hand-poured candles is avail able at West Ashley’s Pluff Mud Mercantile, a retail space that offers natural apothecary and beauty products, as well as candles and soaps made by local artisans. Shop owner Gina Moore opened Pluff Mud Mercantile in 2014 with a desire to make and sell “quality goods with love and intention.”

The collection of soy-based artisanal candles called Aura & Light is infused with crystals that promote a reflective mindset to illuminate times of meditation and rest.

Moore collaborated with recent College of Charleston graduate Kayla Mannis to bring the concept to life.

“When you’ve got a lot of things going on,

Pluff Mud Mercantile (above) creates each candle thoughtfully in small batches to ensure quality.

Craftsman Michael Williams (below) learned the basics of leather working on a 40-year-old sewing machine. CONTINUED ON PAGE 14

Other Charleston brands offering artisanal items this season

Garden & Gun honored Butcher & Bee’s Smoke Onion Jam, Life Raft Treats’ “Not Fried Chicken” and Tekton Game Calls’ Custom Duck Calls with its 2020 Made in the South Awards Oyster Candle Company & Coastal Gifts in Mount Pleasant features hand-poured candles and locally sourced gift items.

Lia Burke Libaire creates whimsical prints of plants and animals. Her newest line is a set of mushroom stationary cards and envelopes.

Bright Star Designs’ handmade patina jewelry is available in multiple locations around the city.

Pluff Mud Mercantile also features Charleston boutique brand Cuffels, which makes Turkish towel wristbands from 100% Turkish cotton and Broken Shells handpainted oyster shells from local mother and daughter duo Margaret and Leslie Tester.

Middleton Made Knives in Mount Pleasant creates handcrafted chefs knives.

Local Love CHS on James Island features a large selection of locally sourced artisanal brands including

macrame kits and disco ball hangers from Rosie the Wanderer, Fonte Fleur jewelry and hair ties, Think Tank Jewels hair clips, Mountain Muse Gift candles, Adventures with Dot decorative trays, greeting cards by Southern Gardener Gifts , Compass and Seam stained glass pieces, Georgia Bell Soap Co. shower steamers, jewelry and roll on oils from Lovely Dark Woods , car ornaments by Frothie Art Studio and Knots and Pots Goods .

Field + Supply will host a curated Holiday Market Dec. 9-11 at the Charleston Visitors Center downtown featuring more than 80 artisanal vendors from Charleston and the surrounding regions. Charleston artisans include Daysie simple syrups and jewelry by HART.

West Socks in Summerville makes quirky socks the whole family can enjoy. Hats, hoodies and t-shirts from Shuckable Apparel are featured in various locations around the Charleston area.

Charleston Shucker Company in Mount Pleasant features oyster shuckers and oyster shucker kits.

Photos by Rūta Smith

Gifts

DO YOU KNOW SEYAHAN?

it can be hard to find the time to really reflect and look within yourself,” Mannis told the City Paper. “I think a lot of people don’t know where to start with that kind of thing. So my idea for the candles is to get people to look inward, to practice taking time to meditate and take stock of your emotions.”

The Aura & Light collection is named with affirmations like, “I am uplifted,” or “I am clear minded.” The candle series is inspired by chakras, Mannis said. In Hinduism and Buddhism, chakras are focal points of energy, or prana, in the body. The chakra inspiration informs the aromatherapy and soy wax blend, the color of the candle, and the crystals which are embedded inside the wax.

The Aura & Light candles are hand poured in small batches in Moore’s work shop space on Ashley River Road. Each candle is thoughtfully crafted, such as “I am relaxed,” which encourages stillness with the calming and balanced aroma of lavender, lemongrass and black currant with hints of patchouli and sugarcane. The candle includes Lepidolite crystals, which can enhance emotional balance and stress relief, said Mannis.

Pluff Mud Mercantile uses a clean burning wax derived from sustainably grown and responsibly harvested soybeans as well as chemical free wood wicks.

Aura & Light’s candles are $60 each and available in store or online at pluffmudmercantile.com.

HANDMADE LEATHER WAIST APRONS

CALAVERA TOOL WORKS, JAMES ISLAND

Local craftsman Michael Williams of Calavera Tool Works embraces the moniker of “maker,” and he wants to empower others to do the same with his handmade leather work aprons.

“After working in the power tool industry for a decade and a half, I was talking with a friend when it dawned on me — there’s really high-end aprons on the market for contractors, but when it comes to the person who’s making furniture, doing fine, finished stuff, they’re usually wearing some cheap apron from Lowe’s or something,” Williams told the City Paper. “So the idea was to give those folks something they will absolutely love when they put it on, some thing that will become a daily ritual.”

When he produced the first leather work apron seven years ago, Williams knew he was onto something — and Calavera Tool Works was born. The company does most of its business online and has garnered a large social media following, with more than 53,000 followers on its Instagram account.

Williams said although the leather aprons are most popular with woodworkers and furniture makers, an apron works for

Calavera Tool Works offers full-length and waist aprons among other products

makers of all kinds. As someone who left a corporate job to create handmade goods, Williams said a nice apron can help fellow makers “get in the zone,” especially as more and more people dip their toes in what Williams called a “making revolution.”

“Whether you’re making candles or furniture, there’s so many people out there either doing it full time or as a side hustle, making things with their hands,” he said.

“Putting on the apron can totally change your approach to what you’re doing, because you’ve transformed into a different mindset.”

All of the leather products of Calavera Tool Works are handmade by Williams, his wife Marie and their team in a small shop in the middle of the woods on Johns Island. The company introduced a new product, the “Lowrider Waist Apron” earlier this year, offering a new style alongside the mainstay full-length leather apron.

“People tell us all the time, I put my apron on when I get in the shop, and it’s all busi ness,” he said.

Calavera Tool Works’ Lowrider Waist Apron is $135 and available at calaveratoolworks.com.

Photos by Rūta Smith

What To Do

Free Family Friday at the Children’s Museum

Spend time with the kids and learn something new this season at the Children’s Museum of the Lowcountry. This day of free admission includes playtime in the museum, games and crafts, a complimentary family pass for a future museum day and a free children’s book. Special community vendors will attend, including the South Carolina Aquarium, Dorchester County Library, Dorchester Paws, Family Resources Center, Girls on the Run, Itinerant Literate and the Lowcountry Food Bank. Dec. 9. 4-7 p.m. Free. Children’s Museum of the Lowcountry. 25 Ann St. Downtown. explorecml.org

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Field + Supply holiday market

The widely acclaimed Field + Supply market is hosting its first-ever holiday themed market in Charleston. More than 80 makers from all over the country, including 18 local artisans, will gather together for the two-day event. Guests can browse a wide array of artisanal products from apparel, leather goods and jewelry to food, accessories and home decor. The family fun will abound as shoppers enjoy live music, craft beer and cocktails.

Dec. 9-11. 1-6 p.m. $20/$30/$40. Charleston Visitor Center. 375 Meeting St. Downtown. fieldandsupply.com

SATURDAY

6th annual Christmas on King bar crawl

This holiday-themed bar crawl will host a costume contest and the lucky winners receive a private party for 24 people aboard a Tidalwave Watersports boat. Whether you’re celebrating Christmas, Kwanzaa or Hanukkah, it’s a good time to celebrate with friends and family for a good cause. A portion of ticket sales will go to the Mount Pleasant nonprofit Going Places, which gives bicycles to disadvantaged children.

Dec. 10. 3-6 p.m. $23-$33. The Brick. 24 Ann St. Downtown. citypapertickets.com

SATURDAY

Holiday Boat Parade

Illuminated and decorated boats will float down the Cooper River through the Charleston Harbor and into the Ashley River as part of this beloved Charleston tradition. Recommended viewing spots include Charleston Harbor Resort and Marina, Memorial Waterfront Park Pier, the South Carolina Aquarium, Liberty Square, Charleston Maritime Center, Riley Waterfront Park and The Battery.

Dec. 10. 5:30 p.m. Free. Various viewing locations. Downtown and Mount Pleasant. visit-historic-charleston.com

SUNDAY

Holiday

Magic on Ann Street

The City of Charleston joins forces with the Music Farm to host a festive block party on Ann Street. The street will be shut down to traffic and a stage will be set up featuring live music from Charleston acts such as The V-Tones, LaFaye & The Fellas and Kings of SC Reggae. Party goers can shop thrifted clothing, one-of-a-kind reworked clothing, custom furniture and wood art, visual art and crystal jewelry.

Dec. 11. 3-6 p.m. Free. Ann Street. Downtown. musicfarm.com

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DIGGING THE GRAPE

A good bottle of wine will kick up a celebration a notch

By Michael Pham

The season of giving has arrived. Friends, families and coworkers gather together to share laughs, eat good meals and drink until they’re warm and fuzzy. But those holiday gatherings bring pres sure to present something tasty and delicious: There’s not enough time to cook a hearty meal to impress everyone, and you don’t want to get a pre-made meal from a grocery store. What’s a quick option? Wine, of course. Just about everyone loves wine, even if they say they don’t (especially after a glass or two).

Fortunately, Charleston is ripe with bottle shops and sommeliers

Whites

“I’m going to France here. I think chenin blanc is amazing this time of year. Domaine Huet’s ‘Le Mont’ Sec Vouvray is an abso lute stunner for those who want to blow someone away with a rich and round white wine.” —Kevin Regan, Rooted Bottle Market and Bar, Mount Pleasant.

“I recommend Stephane Tissot Chardonnay. It’s a ‘patchwork’ blend of different vineyards that result in a per fectly balanced, nuanced white that is salty, fresh and delicious.” —Matthew Conway, Tippling House, Charleston.

“R & D Selections White Pinot Noir. People seem surprised to see a white pinot noir so I wanted to share this. This partic ular wine is based out of California with tasting notes of oak, nectarine, umami and vanilla.” —Natasha Cline, Uncork Charleston, Charleston.

Reds

to help guide you through picking the best wines.

“For me, gift wine does depend on the person,” said Kevin Regan, owner of Mount Pleasant’s Rooted Bottle Market and Bar. “If I know their preferences, it’s easy to pick for them. However, for the most part I’m sticking to classics as gifts. I’d most likely be snagging some French, Italian or Spanish classics too.”

He provided an extra tip: “I think a decanter is always a good gift for a wine lover because it can be used or decorative or both.”

Here are some recommendations for three kinds of wines — whites, reds and bubbles — to take to a holiday party, followed by some places to snag a bottle of wine from local shops.

Bubbles

“I’d be snagging from France or Spain here. For French, my go-to would be from Burgundy. A wine I’m digging right now would be Domaine Ragot Givry ‘Teppe Des Cheneves’ and from Spain, you can’t beat the quality for price from Lopez Heredia out of Rioja. Their Vina Tondonia is amazing. I love all their offerings and you can’t go wrong with any of them. Neither of these reds break the bank for their quality.” —Kevin Regan.

“I LOVE what my buddy Patrick is doing at Monte Rio Cellars — Old vine reds from Lodi that are made naturally with low alcohol. They over-deliver for their very rea sonable prices so you can gift two or three instead of one bottle.” —Matthew Conway.

“Catena Malbec out of Mendoza, Argentina. It has tasting notes of toasted almond, oak, cherry, blackberry and orange. The vines here are protected by huge rocks that help control the temperatures of the root system, a truly beautiful display of how the earth works together to make the perfect condi tions for these vines.” —Natasha Cline.

“I’m absolutely grabbing some Champagne! Depending on the budget I’m buying Vilmart & Cie ‘Grand Cellier’ or Pierre Paillard ‘Les Parcelles.’ Both are absolute stunners for the price and truly amazing.”

Kevin Regan.

“Dame Jeanne is the best ‘affordable’ bubbles. The daughter of the winemaker at Marie Courtin in Champagne is making a 100% Pinot Noir called ‘Premise’ that is extraordinary.” —Matthew Conway

“Argyle Brut from Oregon, consisting of two varietals: chardonnay and pinot noir. Tasting notes of honey, apple, brioche and lemon curd. Oregon is one of my favorite growing regions, and this sparkling house follows closely in influence to its French roots.” —Natasha Cline, Charleston.

Where to get wines

Accent on Wine Park Circle

1056 E. Montague Ave. (North Charleston) (843) 203-4536 • Accentonwinepc.com

Mon.-Wed., 11 a.m. to 9 p.m.; Thurs., 10 a.m. to 10 p.m.; Fri.-Sat., 10 a.m. to 11 p.m.

Avondale Wine & Cheese

813 Savannah Hwy. (West Ashley) (843) 769-5444 • Avondalechs.com Mon.-Wed., 3 p.m. to 9 p.m.; Thurs.-Sat. Noon to 9 p.m.

Bottles Beverage Superstore

610 Coleman Drive (Mount Pleasant) (843) 849-9463 • ShopBottles.com Mon.–Sat., 9 a.m. to 9 p.m.; Sun., 11 a.m. to 6 p.m.

Graft Wine Shop & Bar

700b King St. (Downtown) (843) 718-3359 • Graftchs.com Daily, noon to 10 p.m.

Herd Provisions

106 Grove St. (Downtown) (843) 637-4145 • Herdprovisions.com Mon. 4 p.m. to 9 p.m.; Tues.-Thurs., Noon to 9 p.m.; Fri.-Sat., Noon to 10 p.m.

Monarch Wine Merchants

1107 King St. Suite B (Downtown) (843) 576-4845

Monarchwinemerchants.com

Open Mon.-Sat., 11 a.m. to 8 p.m.; Sun., noon to 5 p.m.

Rooted Bottle Market and Bar

3510 Park Avenue Blvd. (Mount Pleasant) (843) 654-9748 • Rootedbottleshop.com Tues.-Thurs., 11 a.m. to 8 p.m.; Fri.-Sat., 11 a.m. to 10 p.m.; Sun., 11 a.m. to 6 p.m.

SAVI Cucina + Wine Bar

1324 Theater Drive (Mount Pleasant) (843) 606-1856 • Savicucina.com

Sun.-Thurs., 4 p.m. to 9 p.m.; Fri.-Sat., 4 p.m. to 10 p.m.

The Tippling House

221 Coming St. (Downtown)

Thetipplinghousechs.com

Tues.-Thurs., 4 p.m. 9 p.m.; Fri.-Sat., 4 p.m. to 10 p.m.

Uncork Charleston

476 King St. (Downtown)

Uncorkchs.com

Thurs.-Sat., 1 p.m. to midnight; Sun. and Wed., 1 p.m. 9 p.m.

The Wine Shop of Charleston

3 Lockwood Drive (Downtown) (843) 577-3881

thewineshopofcharleston.com

Mon.-Sat., 10 a.m. to 7 p.m.

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De Haas blends conservation, preservation into a full life

By Andy Brack

Roualeyn de Haas’ Dutch-African name is such a mouthful that it’s easier for Southerners just to call him “Rou” (rhymes with “you”).

Born in Zimbabwe and raised in South Africa, de Haas came to the United States about 20 years ago. For several years, the self-described “gearhead” imported equipment for off-road vehicles. Then he served for seven years as a senior sales manager at the South Carolina Aquarium. In 2021, he joined the Historic Charleston Foundation as director of marketing.

And while his current job provides great variety through coor dinating communications, marketing and public relations for the preservation-focused foundation, it’s de Haas’ side-gig that allows him to keep a connection with his African boyhood. How? He coordinates and plans high-end luxury safaris using contacts gleaned from relationships developed through the years since col lege in South Africa.

“I’ve always been in conservation and now I’m in preserva tion,” he said recently, sharing coffee in the kitchen of his West Ashley ranch home off Orange Grove Road. “I am familiar with the language — and the urgency — of protecting things” here in Charleston and in Africa among wildlife.

Going on safari

As an organizer of high-end safaris, de Haas coordinates 10-day trips for individuals and groups to spend in the African bush to take photographs of animals like lions, elephants, leopards, rhinos and the African or Cape buffalo. These, he says, are the “Big Five” that most people want to make sure they view in the wild.

As a safari organizer, he arranges and sometimes goes on trips that generally include travels to private reserves adjacent to mas sive national parks.

“I only do private reserves,” he said, explaining that in national parks, vehicles can’t go off-road. But animals, he noted, often don’t use roads. They just go wherever they want. So if you’re spending

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De Haas on the back porch of his West Ashley home.

a bunch of money to see animals in the wild, you need to be able to follow them to where they’re going, which generally ends up being near a watering hole.

“We want people to photograph the Big Five because that’s the ‘wow factor,’ ” he said. “But there’s so much more — the primates, antelopes, and little things to see, like the aardvarks and meerkats. Hyenas have one of the most interesting social structures you’ll learn about.”

Typical safaris arranged by Pioneer Africa Exclusive Safaris include arranged travel to three private game reserves, including two nights along the Zambezi River at the border of Zambia and Zimbabwe for a visit to Victoria Falls, three nights to the Okavango Delta in Botswana and three nights adjacent to South Africa’s Kruger National Forest, a 7,500 square-mile pro tected area that’s the size of the state of New Jersey. At the front and back ends of the trip are stops at Johannesburg, South Africa.

The typical day on safari

De Haas outlines the typical day on safari, an ambi tious and not inexpensive venture.

“People don’t realize how tiring a day of safari is — how tired they can get,” he said. “You’re in the fresh air and sun and have excitement with the animals coming and going. By 10 in the evening, they’re tired.”

Travelers generally stay in high-end camps, not tents, in private reserves. Typically there are about a dozen structures that hold two people each.

Those on safari wake up early and eat a light break fast. They then head to trucks from around 7 a.m. to 11 a.m., when they return for a brunch, followed by a siesta. In mid-afternoon, they return to vehicles and stay out until 7 p.m. or sunset to take advantage of views. (Animals often head to water sites at dawn and dusk.) They return to the camp for a late dinner and retire for the night, only to do it again the next day.

“Because animals tend to congregate along water, you get to see [in Zambia] crocodiles, hyenas, elephants and tons of bird life.”

On a recent trip, de Haas took more than 3,000 photos, some of which are displayed with this story.

Back in Charleston

When not at work at the Historic Charleston Foundation, de Haas keeps busy with raising his son and feeding self-admitted addictions to various “gear” — equipment related to Land Rovers and outdoor activities such as biking, photography, hiking, camping and traveling. He’s got one 2006 Land Rover that he uses daily and a 1973 one that he’s restoring slowly in a garage crammed with vehicle parts.

De Haas also keeps ties with South Africa by chairing Project Rhino Charleston. It raises money to fund anti-poaching efforts in Africa. Among its past accomplishments was establishment in 2016 of an antipoaching base camp in South Africa that is a place to train people to fight rhino poaching.

It’s just one way he’s trying to make an impact. But he encourages everyone to do what they can to improve their communities or the world.

“It can be overwhelming,” de Haas admitted. “So you look at what you can control and when you can have impact.

“That’s how I feel about conservation. If you look at the big picture and what’s at stake, it would be easy to think we have no hope. But if everybody does some thing regularly, like raising money for rhinos, you’re having an impact.”

THE LOWDOWN ON ROUALEYN DE HAAS

Age: 48.

Birthplace: Gweru, Rhodesia (now Zimbabwe).

Education: Business management degree from Peninsula University of Technology, Cape Town, South Africa.

Current profession: Director of marketing, Historic Charleston Foundation; Owner, Pioneer Africa Exclusive Safaris.

Past professions of interest: Safari guide in southern Africa; Importer of off-road vehicle products.

Family: Son, Elliot.

Pets: Shumba, Golden Retriever, 12.

Something people would be surprised to learn about you: Broke my neck at 22 in a motorcycle accident. Paralyzed from the neck down for 2 1/2 months.

Favorite thing to do outside of work: Be on safari, drive my car, tinker.

Your passion: Land Rovers; photography; and gear. “I’m a gearhead.”

Books on bedside table: The Land Rover Story, by Dave Phillips; Overkill: The Race to Save Africa’s Wildlife, by James Clarke.

Favorite foods to eat: Pizza, Mexican, Indian, Bobotie [a South African ground beef casserole].

Favorite food to cook: Steak and traditional meals from South Africa.

Favorite cocktail or beverage: “I don’t drink much but vodka and ginger ale. Or tequila.”

Five foods you always need in your refrigerator: Cheese, milk, grapes, eggs, apples.

Three people (alive or dead) you’d like to dine with: Keanu Reeves, Steve McQueen and David Attenborough.

Something that you have too much of at home: Laundry Hobbies: “My cars — 1973 Land Rover Series lll, 1997 Porsche Boxster, 2006 Land Rover LR3; photography, camping, mountain biking, karate.”

Guilty pleasures: Chocolate, baked goods and procrastination.

Describe your best day in 50 words or less: “Day drives with my son. Top down cruising a country road. Stopping for lunch and ice cream and playing our favorite music. End with a sunset and pizza at the beach.”

Pet peeve: “Bad driving, especially no turn signals and driving in the turning lane. Inconsiderate people.”

Philosophy: “1. In order to fill the cup, you must first empty it — Zen Proverb; 2. Don’t be a dick.”

Your advice for someone new to Charleston: “Take a tour; learn about your city. Join a meetup group.”

Photos by Roualeyn de Haas

De Haas took more than 3,000 photos on a recent safari.

Plant

are perfect, practical for the holidays

By Toni Reale, special to Digs

Gift-giving season is here and so is the opportunity to celebrate your indoor plant lover with something thoughtful.

While not as exciting on the surface, useful plant care gifts will light up your plant lovers’ heart. Consider coupling a few of these practical items that will show the recipient that you also care about the health of their beloved plant collection. Additionally, it shows the recipient that you value the time and effort they spend on caring for them. Let them know that they and their passions are seen and appreciated.

A pair of thin-bladed shears are useful for pruning most indoor plants. Their thin, delicate leaves and stems require a sharp cut when trimming to avoid damage to the plant which could leave it susceptible to disease. Couple a new pair of shears with high quality organic indoor plant fertilizer and soil. When spring comes and their plants move out of their winter dormancy phase, they’ll be ready to repot their plants to encourage new growth.

Hand-held misters can be stylish, but studies show that even habitual misting does not make a real impact on the longterm health of the plant. Most of the water sprayed from a mister evaporates from the leaves long before the plant can process it. What misting does is provide an opportunity to engage in the overall care of the plants which is a boost for the mental health of the plant parent. So if your goal with this gift is more for the plant parent than the plant, be sure to mention that the thought behind this gift is so that they can spend more time

observing and caring for their plants. Any basic warm-mist humidifier can be a game changer for house plants espe cially during the winter months when the heat is turned on and the air becomes dry. Use humidifiers only for those plants that would benefit from it. Snake plants, cacti and succulents do not need the additional humidity. If their plants are spread out, be sure they know to move them to one area to get the most benefit from the humidifier.

Give the gift of plant experiences

By far the best gifts are experiential gifts. Roadside Blooms and other plant shops around town host workshops which are fun, hands-on and educational. Be sure to get more than one ticket or gift card for two tickets so that if you can’t go with them they can bring someone to experience the class with them. Roadside Blooms, for example, offers a four-month in-person plant class called Plantmate, where each month reveals a new surprise plant. Participants learn about the natural history of the plant, how to pot it, care for it, and propagate it. The best part is making other plant-minded friends. Kids love giving handmade ‘coupons’ for things like “family outing of your choice,” “day off from chores,” “one-hour uninter rupted nap” (my personal favorite), etc. Why not give the most precious thing that we have, time? Give a coupon for a day of help repotting in the spring, weekly plant care help for one month, or a day hitting up their favorite local plant shops.

And then there are great plants

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easy such as a snake plant, zz-plant or pothos. With minimal care they will begin to build their confidence and be ready for the next challenge.

If they have a solid plant collection, try to find out what plants are on their wish list or ask your favorite plant shop which plants are most unique.

If you have the time and plants, propa gate one of your beloved plants and gift it with a little note on why it’s beloved, where it came from, and how to care for it. The thought behind that will go a long way.

Toni Reale is the owner of Roadside Blooms, a unique flower and plant shop in Park Circle in North Charleston. It specializes in weddings, events and everyday deliveries using nearly 100% American- and locally grown blooms. Online at roadsideblooms.com.

4610 Spruill Ave., Suite 102, North Charleston.

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A good pair of thin blade pruning shears makes a great gift for the plant-lover in your life.

Snake plants are perfect gifts for the first-time plant parent.

A reminder that beauty is in the eye of the beholder

By Chloe Hogan

Watercolor collagist Anna Chen and fantasy illustrator Victor Hart celebrate the end of their six-week shared residency at Redux Contemporary Art Center with a collabora tive exhibition, Smiling Faces, Beautiful Places, through Dec. 16.

Redux’s Lightning Residency is a fastpaced, six-week program that provides emerging artists with studio space and opportunities to showcase their work at no cost. During the residency, artists work collaboratively on a comprehensive project, which is installed in the back gallery of Redux at the end of the program.

Smiling Faces, Beautiful Places is a culmination of the work Hart and Chen created during the program. Both artists typically work from home and expressed gratitude for the time and space to work on their art.

“Having a designated space to create has been so great,” Chen said. “I also loved being at Redux these last few weeks because of the access to amazing local artists, who I could pop over to and ask for opinions.”

Hart said that creating in a space dedicated solely to art making “allowed me to focus so much more than my home environment. I currently can’t afford a studio space, so the Lightning Residency was a dream come true.”

During his studio time, Hart created 100 drawings of fantastical bird-like creatures, a series he calls “Glowls.”

“I tried to impart a unique personality and form to each one, to allow viewers to search for and find the one they most identify with,” he said. “I’m really interested in lore and world building. I have a story behind each piece that viewers can try to infer.”

The exhibition features a piece of col laborative artwork, a collage titled “Me and the Boys.”

The centerpiece is one of Hart’s glowls surrounded by smaller birds created by Chen in her signature “watercolor collage” style. Chen initially discovered the technique while trying to use up scraps of watercolor paint ings. She has since developed it into a unique medium, creating textured, two-dimen sional collages using painted paper.

“‘Me and the Boys,’ it’s a great analogy for our individual energies,” Chen said, “but the work also reflects the time we spent together in the shared studio.

“Victor and I overlapped quite a bit during our residency, so it was really fun to get to learn all about his process. He has a serious depth of knowledge about art and materials,” Chen said.

On the title, Smiling Faces, Beautiful Places, she explained: “Victor tends to create faces, and I usually am inspired by places. This exhibition questions the ‘smiling and beautiful’ part.

“Typically, my work has focused on nos talgia and warm feelings,” she said. “For this residency, I wanted to see what it would look like to create pieces that made me feel uncomfortable instead. I still focused on everyday objects and scenes, but there is an undercurrent to each piece that makes it feel slightly off,” she said.

Hart added, “We both see beauty in things that might not normally be consid ered as such.”

Smiling Faces, Beautiful Places is on view at Redux Contemporary Art Center now through Dec. 16.

Artifacts

Artists to host North Charleston open studio

Visit the collaborative art space Studio Union, 2010 Hackeman Ave., Dec. 9 from 4-8 p.m. for its open studios event. Peek into the studio spaces of potters, sculptors, filmmakers, photographers, painters and more. Singer-songwriter Kamiliah Marshall will provide original music and some festive holiday tunes. For more info, visit studiounion.com or check out @studiounion_chs on Instagram.

The Space hosts its first art show

Art Fete is a two-day gathering at The Space , (2147 Heriot St., Studio F) and marks a first for the new art gallery. All proceeds from purchased artwork go directly to the artists, including Maria White , Jeff Kopish, Christina Bailey, David Boatwright and many more. Leah Suárez will sing jazz with Tyler Ross on guitar Dec. 10 from 11-4 p.m. The party continues Dec. 11 from 11-4 p.m. For more info, check out @thespacechs on Instagram.

Catch Rip City’s monthly comedy show

Rip City CHS is an experimental comedy show featuring original sketches, characters, music and performance art. Curated and produced by comedy duo Nameless Numberhead (Henry Riggs and Maari Suorsa), the free, monthly show has a rotating cast. Catch the show at Hed Hi Studios Dec. 17 at 8 p.m. Visit numberheadcomedy.com.

Cindy Lou Who is all grown up in Who’s Holiday

Giulia Marie Dalbec stars in this wildly funny and heartfelt adults-only show that tells the story of Cindy Lou Who, now a chain-smoking, cocktail-loving holiday celebrant living in a trailer on Mount Crumpit, as she recalls that Christmas Eve she first met the Grinch and the twisted turn of events her life has now taken. See the show at the Queen Street Playhouse Dec. 8 and 15 at 7:30 p.m., Dec. 10 at 3 p.m., Dec. 11 and 18 at 7 p.m. and Dec. 17 at 10 p.m.

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Victor Hart and Anna Chen will show a collaborative exhibit at Redux through Dec. 16

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S.C. effort helps to bring back rare peach

By Helen Mitternight

Not all treasure hunters wear fedoras. Some wear overalls or baggy jeans and you can identify them by the fevered glow in their eyes as they talk about collards and rice and watermelon and the lemon cling peach.

These modern-day treasure hunters are on the prowl for heirloom seeds, treasures of produce that can be as rare as any jew eled prize.

Heirloom foods didn’t used to be rarities. They were just considered food, not “heir loom.” Before the mid 19th century, humans had evolved to know that, if food tasted good, it wasn’t poison and we’d just eat it.

But then, we got in our own way in the name of progress.

“In the middle of the 19th century, a decision was made and people began saying we need plants that produce more grains per head or more apples on a tree,” said Columbia’s David Shields, one of the nation’s foremost food scholars. “They bred for that rather than for flavor.”

That was followed with plants bred for dis ease resistance, drought resistance and ability to withstand shipping. Fields were blanketed with sturdy wheat that could stand up to almost anything. Anything, that is, except disease that targeted wheat specifically, and one other thing: the human taste bud.

People who knew food began to notice that it wasn’t just nostalgia that made them believe food didn’t taste as good anymore. Bread was bland, tomatoes were meh and watermelons were more water than melon. Farmers realized that banking solely on one popular plant could be dev astating if a disease could wipe out entire fields of that plant.

All of which brings us to today. Scholars like Fields travel to old family farms and rescue random bags of seeds, and farmers like Glenn Roberts of Anson Mills and Nat Bradford of Seneca plant those seeds and nurture them as though they are growing gold and not rice, corn or watermelons.

A real treasure

One such golden treasure is the lemon cling peach, a good example of the obstacles in bringing back heirlooms.

Slow Food Charleston, a nonprofit dedi cated to “good, clean and fair food for all,” worked with Shields to add the lemon cling peach to the international group’s Ark of Taste, a catalog of foods about to go extinct. The Ark of Taste includes more than 3,500 products from more than 100 countries, including some 200 from the United States.

“We really wanted to pour ourselves into something that can be grown by commu nity members and not just professionals, and something that would have a longrange impact on the community. When David [Shields] came back with lemon cling peach [in 2017], it felt like a really good fit,” said Carrie Larson, executive director of Slow Food Charleston.

The peach showed up in South Carolina in the late 1700s and, because of its strong peachy flavor, quickly became the go-to for peach brandy and canned peaches.

California grew the trees at an industrial level for its commercial canned peach industry. But then the lemon cling fell to more abun dant cousins, the peaches more suitable for industrial production. Soon, Thomas

Snailblazer Carrie Larson

Carrie Larson, executive director of Slow Food Carolina, will receive a 2022 SnailBlazer Award from Slow Food USA at a virtual event on Dec. 10.

The award is given in honor “to the most dedicated leaders in our community, who are deeply committed to local, sustainable and fair food systems,” according to the organization.

Larson will receive the award for her work with Slow Food Carolina to bring back the lemon cling peach.

She said she is honored to receive the award and that it demonstrates the importance of the work done by the local chapter.

“I think as a society we are used to convenience and we are used to having anything at our fingertips at any time,” Larson said. “The opportunity to slow down and both recognize and appreciate the value of something that takes time, a lot of energy and effort to produce, and recognize that the value translates to flavor, will be something that we need to cherish. Having ingredients and food production practices that are intentional and that are valued up and down the food shed is going to be important in so many of the climate change battles we’ll see in the future.”

A la carte

What’s new?

The Longboard has appointed Ryan Camp as its new executive chef. Camp spent the last 10 years working under chef Patrick Owens at Langdon’s and Opal . With Camp at the helm, The Longboard will switch its menu from its known shared plates style to a more traditional appetizer, entree and sides format.

What to look for

Munkle Brewing is hosting chef Blair Machado from Hamfish Dec. 12 and RJ Dye for a Nomadic Beer Dinner. This seven-course meal highlights local vegetables, grilled meats from KeeganFilion Farm and Vital Missions, and local seafood from Abundant Seafood and Tarvin Seafood. Each dish is paired with one of Munkle’s beers. Two seatings are available at 6 p.m. and 8 p.m. for $100. Tickets are available through EventBrite.

Happy birthday to these establishments

To celebrate Andolini’s 30th anniversary, the pizza joint is offering month-long specials and events. Every day until Dec. 31, get two slices of pizza and a Pabst Blue Ribbon for $8, or get 75-cent wings every Tuesday.

Gene’s Haufbrau in Avondale celebrated 70 years on Saturday.

Holiday happenings

Cheerwine partnered with several Charleston chefs for its annual festive recipes. Chefs Cynthia Wong of Life Raft Treats, Don Drake of Magnolia’s and Michael Leslie of Lenoir each developed recipes using the 105-year-old drink. Recipes are available online at cheerwine.com.

Bar Mash has transformed into Bar Mashmas to celebrate the holidays. The interior is decorated with festive decor, and the menu introduces playfully named bites like Cousin Eddie’s Eggnog and sloppy hohos.

The Co-op is celebrating 12 days of Christmas giveaways with special deals like BOGO frosé or half-off avocado toast Dec. 1-12 at the Sullivan’s Island, Isle of Palms and Kiawah Island locations. —Michael Pham

Ruta Smith

Food scholar David Shields of Columbia and Slow Food Charleston are bringing back the tasty lemon cling peach

Charleston chef becomes Food Network’s latest Chopped Champion

By Michael Pham

Charleston may have noticed a familiar face on Food Network Channel’s Chopped Nov. 22. Nikko Cagalanan, local chef and owner of pop-up Mansueta’s Filipino Food, com peted in the high-intensity food competi tion show — and won.

“Last year in October, they sent me an invite through Instagram,” he said. “And I thought it was fake.”

It wasn’t until a week later that Cagalanan looked into the profile of the casting agent and said to himself, “Oh, this is real.”

Several months of phone interviews later, Cagalanan was on the Chopped set, ready to be thrown into the competition.

“I think doing pop-ups helped me a lot,” he said. “I’ve been doing pop-ups forever and that really prepared me to do Chopped — not knowing what’s in the kitchen, what’s in the pantry or where everything is. Pop-ups helped me adapt quickly.”

On Chopped , four chefs compete by creating meals with mystery ingredients during three timed rounds. A contes tant is eliminated after each round, with the final chef becoming a “Chopped Champion.” Cagalanan said the competi tion was super intense because the time doesn’t stop for anything, not even a chef cutting themselves.

“So when you open the basket, you have to think of what you’re gonna make and that probably wastes like a minute,” Cagalanan said. “And then you go to the pantry to grab all your ingredients, so you maybe lose like two minutes. Now you have

17 minutes to cook. The first round is 20 minutes and goes by so fast.”

For Cagalanan’s episode, the theme was “bizarre foods.” Ingredients for the episode included items like pork uterus, cricket milkshake, rooster testicle stew and beef kidney. The only ingredient he was really familiar with, he said, was purple yam, or “ube,” a popular Filipino ingredient.

“It’s just like instinct,” he said about working with unfamiliar ingredients. “Like really using my past experience in a very short amount of time. It’s super stressful.”

And not only was the competition itself a stressful experience, but so was the judging. The first round of judging takes approxi mately 45 minutes to an hour, he said, with each chef’s food judged individually.

“So if you’re the last one being judged, your food is cold,” he added. “Your food sucks, man, because you have to wait like 40 minutes to be judged. But what’s funny is that I was actually always the last one to be judged.”

But fortunately, temperature wasn’t the biggest factor in judging a contestant’s food, as Cagalanan was crowned Chopped Champion that episode.

“When I won, I couldn’t believe it,” Cagalanan said. “They announced it and I was like, ‘Holy shit,’ and then, like 30 seconds later, they’re like, ‘and you won $10,000!’

“I wanted to prove to myself that I’m doing something right and trying to repre sent Filipino food on that stage. That was like that was the main reason for me.”

Cagalanan’s Chopped appearance is available to stream now on Amazon Prime Video.

Courtesy

Nikko Cagalanan kept his Chopped win a secret for almost a year

My Dream Dinner

Sharing a memorable burrito

Devin Grant of West Ashley would invite a musician, a comedian and late night host, and a famous novelist to a dream dinner with a healthy take on buffalo wings, a cheesy burrito and fried ice cream.

DREAM DINNER GUESTS: Tom Petty, Stephen Colbert and Stephen King.

DRINK: Hibiscus Tea Margarita from Jack of Cups. “Just about every aspect of Jack of Cups is unique, but its Hibiscus Tea Marg is one of my favorite cocktails anywhere.”

APPETIZER: Cauli wings from Basic Kitchen. “The Cauli Wings are by far the most amazing appetizer I’ve had in Charleston, and I’ve tried quite a few.”

ENTREE: Christmas Burrito from Rancho Lewis. “As a kid growing up in

San Diego, my parents took me to this hole-in-the-wall Mexican restaurant in Del Mar called the Bluebird Cafe (now sadly closed). The beef burrito there was one of my favorite things in the world. The last time I had it was in 1981, before we moved to Charleston. The Christmas Burrito at Rancho Lewis is the closest thing I’ve ever tasted to it.”

DESSERT: Fried ice cream from Rancho Lewis.

TELL US YOUR CHARLESTON DREAM DINNER FOR A CHANCE TO WIN!

Weekly winners receive a $50 gift coupon for use at any of Indigo Road Hospitality Group’s locations. Enter once a week at charlestoncitypaper.com/dream-dinner

Peach

Jefferson’s Monticello became one of the few places retaining the lemon cling peach.

The Ark of Taste approved Slow Food Charleston’s project, but it would take years before South Carolina would benefit.

An orchard in Albemarle, Virginia, agreed to grow the trees grafted with original lemon cling trees, some from Monticello and some found by Monticello staff eager to help. In 2018, germination was affected by a warm year. In 2019, a windstorm wiped out the entire crop. Finally in 2021, 150 of the trees were ready for delivery to South Carolina.

Locals selected by Slow Food Charleston, including the Charleston Parks Conservancy, the Green Heart Project and the MUSC Urban Farm, among others, picked up their trees and planted them around Charleston. Trees also went to com mercial farms around the state, and some went to home growers.

“We’re still waiting for surveys to be cre ated and returned, but I know this summer, a lot of people saw their first harvest,” Larson said.

One hiccup was that six trees had been placed with the Clemson’s Coastal Research and Education Center at Musser Fruit Research Farm in Seneca. Unfortunately, Clemson insists on a sterile orchard.

“They were supposed to enter a formal vegetable trial as our research partner, but

Vials of heirloom seeds help keep these rare crops available

devastatingly, they ripped up all of the trees and took them to a burn pit because they were contaminated with a common soil pathogen,” Larson said. “I spoke to quite a few people at Clemson and it wouldn’t have affected the commercial viability of the trees, but they insist on a sterile orchard.”

Still, Larson is enthusiastic about the project and is looking forward to a new round of lemon cling peach trees, as well as saving other heirlooms.

“We’re really interested in the fish of the southeastern Atlantic and, as a chapter, we’re going to be investing time into starting to add Slow Fish into our advocacy work,” she said.

Ruta Smith

Courtesy Rancho Lewis

2022 Holiday Gift Guide week three

in Gift Box

The iconic Japanese artist, Yayoi Kusama, sends a cheerful message to the whole world by imagining a unique, joyful and colorful creation specifically made for Veuve Clicquot. $224.99

Available at: The Wine Shop of Charleston thewineshopofcharleston.com

Monkey Bar Tool Set

This set includes a stand and five tools: corkscrew, bottle opener, jigger, strainer and cheese knife. $175 Available at: Croghan’s Jewel Box, croghansjewelbox.com

7 LOCAL BEVERAGE GIFTS

Delta-8 Bloody Mary Mix

Take your Sunday brunch goals to a new level with these infused Bloody Mary mixes. This collaboration with Southern Devil creates all natural, full flavored mixes for your enjoyment. $25

Available at: Charleston Hemp Collective charlestonhempcollective.com

The Other Mary bloody mary mix

The Other Mary adds a touch of wasabi to a locally inspired blend of sea island spices. Makes approximately eight Bloody Marys. 23 oz. bottles. $14 bottle; $24 for 2 pack

Available at: The Other Mary theothermarymix.com

“With MORE Love From Charleston” Box

Includes 16 oz. Bloody Mary mix by Natural Blonde, hand-printed rising sun tea towel by Perla Anne Press, Charleston sticker by A Little Squid, 4 oz. Charleston mini soy candle by Jet Candle Co., 2 oz. blackening spice by Harborview Homesteaders. All in a hand stamped box by Design Demon. $59

Available at: Local Love Chs locallovechs.com

Post & Beam Cabernet

Sauvignon 2020

Classically crafted from carefully selected Napa Valley vineyards, Post & Beam Cabernet Sauvignon is a pure expression of Cabernet Sauvignon with elegant layers of fruit, supple tannins, whispers of oak and a finish that is pure finesse. $49.98

Available at: The Wine Shop of Charleston thewineshopofcharleston.com

High Rise CBD Seltzer

Natural fruit infused seltzers made with North Carolina mountain spring water, U.S. grown hemp and just a pinch of real cane sugar. Each can contains 20 mg of CBD and 10 mg of CBG. $20

Available at: Charleston Hemp Collective charlestonhempcollective.com

Veuve Clicquot La Grande Dame Yayoi Kusama Limited Edition

Wellness Warrior Tincture

This naturally flavored tincture is a 1:1:1:1 ratio of CBGa, CBDa, CBG and CBD. $90

Available at: Charleston Hemp Collective charlestonhempcollective.com

Cuddly Foxes

Artist Raquel Quiroz creates these 100% cotton knit critters and so much more. $50 Available at: Charleston Crafts Gallery shopcharlestoncrafts.com

Adopt a Sea Turtle

GIFTS UNDER $100

Max Relief Roll-on 1,000 mg The 1,000 mg CBD Max Relief Cooling Roll-On adds a cooling sensation offering extra comfort to muscle, joint and tendon pain. $80

Available at: Charleston Hemp Collective charlestonhempcollective.com

Holiday Flavored Lubricants, Oral Sprays & Gels

Wet Head dry mouth sprays, GoodHead oral delight gels and personal lubricants. Various holiday flavors available. Prices vary. Available at: Guilty Pleasures, guiltypleasuressc.com

Various scents available. Candle: $29.95; Oil: $10.95

Available at: Badd Kitty, baddkittystores.com

Assorted

Travel

Gift Sets for Couples by Secret Kisses

Various colors available. Includes lip-shaped clutch, rechargeable bullet vibrator, assorted naughty games, and pasties or panties. $69.99

Available at: Guilty Pleasures, guiltypleasuressc.com

Symbolically adopt a sea turtle in your loved one’s name and receive a huggable sea turtle plush, animal fact sheet, adoptive parent decal and more. $100 Available at: South Carolina Aquarium scaquarium.org guiltypleasuressc.com

Time Place Wine Co. Wines Wine is a perfect reflection of time and place, the culmination of climate and season, site and study, and that moment you share a bottle with friends and family.

Grenache: $30.99; Cinsault: $26.99 Available at: The Wine Shop of Charleston thewineshopofcharleston.com

Kama Sutra Massage Candle and Kama Sutra Sensual Massage Oil

Furnished Rentals

VACATION PROPERTY

ADVERTISE YOUR VACATION PROPERTY FOR RENT OR SALE to more than 2.1 million S.C. newspaper readers. Your 25-word classified ad will appear in 99 S.C. newspapers for only $375. Call Randall Savely at the South Carolina Newspaper Network, 1-888-727-7377.

Waterfront

Continuing Education

MEDICAL BILLING

TRAINING

Become a Medical Office Professional online at CTI! Get Trained, Certified & ready to work in months! Call 855-602-1453. (M-F 8am-6pm ET). Computer with internet is required.

Admin

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SHORT-TERM RENTAL

WEST ASHLEY. 10 out of 10 Traveller Award from Booking. com. 335 Wappoo Rd. Beautiful new free-standing furnished short-term rental. 1 BR, 1 BA, convenient to WA Greenway, shops, restaurants, downtown & beaches, Sun-Thurs $229/night. Weekends Fri & Sat $249/ night. 14% tax is added. No security deposit and no Cleaning fee. AirBnB SUPERHOSTS, VRBO PREMIER HOSTS & PLUM GUIDE AWARD WINNERS. Call Charlie Smith (843) 813-0352, CSA Real Estate.

https://bit.ly/wappoocottage

Unfurnished Rentals

MOUNT PLEASANT

906 Ebbtide Way. 4 BR, 3.5 BA w/ 3,040 sf. Creekfront with kayak or SUP launch from backyard. Large fenced-in yard, open floorpan w/stone fireplace, chef’s kitchen, screened-in porch, 2-car garage, Generac home generator & tankless water heater, $1,500,000. $2,500 lender credit available if financed through preferred lender. Call Teibert & Associates, Carolina One RE at (843) 530-7001. MLS# 22028619, https://bit.ly/906ebbtide

Moncks Corner

MEDICAL TRAINING

Attention Active Duty & Military Veterans & Family! Begin a new career and earn your Degree at CTI! Online Computer & Medical training available for Veterans & Families! To learn more, call 866-243-5931. (M-F 8am-6pm ET). Computer with internet is required

Industrial

DRIVER JOBS

ADVERTISE YOUR DRIVER JOBSIn 99 S.C. newspapers for only $375. Your 25-word classified ad will reach more than 2.1 million readers. Call Randall Savely at the S.C. Newspaper Network, 1-888-727-7377.

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DOWNTOWN 33 1/2 A Charlotte. 1 BR, 1 BA, apt w/ loft, living room, kit, porch, parking. No pets, available now, $875/mo. Call Just Rentals 843-225-7368.

Real Estate Services

ONE BLOCK FROM LAKE 1722 Waterslide Blvd. 4 BR, 2 BA, w/1,958 sf. Boat lover’s paradise, community dock, oversized lot, close to community playground, lots of updates, new water heater, carpet, range and freshly painted, JUST REDUCED, $319,900. Call John Saunders, (843) 343-3684, BHHS Carolina Sun RE. MLS# 22019463, https://bit.ly/WaterslideBlvd

RETHINK MOBILE HOMES

Amazing floor plans & flexibility. Sturdy, well-built models (Wind Zone 3) for hundreds of thou sands less than traditional homes. Land/ home packages. Locally owned and operated for over 25 years. Call (843) 821-8671, www.nandmmobilehomes.com

Cats

Electronics

4G LTE INTERNET

NOW AVAILABLE! Get GotW3 with lightning fast speeds plus take your service with you when you travel! As low as $109.99/mo! 1-888-519-0171.

CELL PHONE SERVICES

SPECTRUM INTERNET

Spectrum Internet as low as $29.99, call to see if you qualify for ACP and free internet. No Credit Check. Call Now! 1-833-955-0905

TV SPEAKERS

CLEANING-HOLIDAY SPECIAL

LONG DISTANCE MOVING

Call today for a FREE QUOTE from America’s Most Trusted Interstate Movers. Let us take the stress out of moving! Call now to speak to one of our Quality Relocation Specialists: Call 1-855-787-4471

Sports & Recreation

BUGS

Male, Senior. A loyal boy who loves to hang out on the couch. Call (843) 795-1110, www.pethelpers.org

AKC Olde World, Long Coat German Shepherds. Great bone structure and color. Great with kids! Raised with family, for fam ily. Bouchard’s Best shepherds has had an A+ rating w/BBB since 2008. First and second shots done and two complete vet checks! We have been crate training & socializing for you, with kids, adults, and other dogs. For more info call: (978) 257-0353. AKC Papers, health certificate, UTD on shots and two year guarantee. Located in Charleston, SC, $2,250

Switch and save up to $250/ year on your talk, text and data. No contract and no hidden fees.

Unlimited talk and text with flexible data plans. Premium nationwide coverage. 100% U.S. based customer service. Limited time offer – get $50 off on any new account. Use code GIFT50. For more information, call 1-866-275-0142.

DIRECTV for $64.99/mo for 12 months with CHOICE Package. Save an additional $120 over 1st year.

Trouble hearing your TV? Try TV EARS’ Voice Clarifying Wireless TV Speaker. Better than a soundbar and/or turning the TV volume way up. Special, limited time $50 off offer. Call TV Ears. Use code MBSP50. Call 1-833-856-0470

Financial

CASH FOR CARS!

We buy all cars! Junk, high-end, totaled – it doesn’t matter! Get free towing and same day cash! NEWER MODELS too! Call 1-866-535-9689.

CC DEBT RELIEF!

JAVA

Female, Adult. Playful and affec tionate, looking for her fur-ever home! Call (843) 795-1110, www.pethelpers.org

First 3 months of HBO Max, Cinemax, Showtime, Starz and Epix included! Directv is #1 in Customer Satisfaction (JD Power & Assoc.) Some restrictions apply. Call 1-844-624-1107

DIRECTV SATELLITE

PEANUT

Male, 10 y/o. Peanut loves being the center of attention and receiving head scratches! Call (843) 747-4849, www.charlestonanimalsociety.org

Toy Size AKC Mini American Shepherds aka Toy Australian Shepherds. We are socializing these pups with kids, crate training, house breaking & leash training these little ones before Christmas so they are ready for their furever homes. We are doing the ground work for you. They will have had all shots, rabies & 3 complete check-ups, and ready to go anytime from Thanksgiving to Christmas. 12-15 pounds when mature. You can always have an early Christmas! A+ rating w/ BBB since 2008, $1,500. Located in Charleston, SC. Call today: (978) 257-0353

DirecTV Satellite TV Service

Starting at $59.99/month! Free Installation! 160+ channels available. Call Now to Get the Most Sports & Entertainment on TV! 1-877-310-2472

DIRECTV STREAM

Carries the Most Local MLB Games! CHOICE Package, $89.99/mo for 12 months.

Stream on 20 devices in your home at once. HBO Max included for 3 mos (w/CHOICE Package or higher.) No annual contract, no hidden fees! Some restrictions apply. Call IVS 1-855-237-9741.

Reduce payment by up to 50%! Get one LOW affordable payment/ month. Reduce interest. Stop calls. FREE no-obligation consulta tion Call 1-855-946-3711.

DONATE YOUR CAR TO KIDS.Your donation helps fund the search for missing children. Accepting Trucks, Motorcycles & RV’s , too! Fast Free Pickup – Running or Not - 24 Hour Response - Maximum Tax Donation - Call (888) 515-3810.

DENTAL INSURANCE

from Physicians Mutual Insurance Company. Coverage for 350 plus procedures. Real dental insur ance - NOT just a discount plan. Do not wait! Call now! Get your FREE Dental Information Kit with all the details! 1-855-397-7030 www.dental50plus.com/60

Residential & Commercial: Traditional Cleaning Service including: Carpet Cleaning, Pressure Washing, Strip & Wax Floors, Senior Citizen’s Discount, Move-In/ Move Out. Call or text Monda’s Cleaning Service, (843) 568-7412. Lic, Bond & Insured.

DONATE YOUR VEHICLE

DONATE YOUR VEHICLE to fund the SEARCH FOR MISSING CHILDREN. FAST FREE PICKUP. 24 hour response. Running or not. Maximum Tax Deduction and No Emission Test Required! Call 24/7: (855) 504-1540

FREE 3-NIGHT STAY WORTH $1200 INCLUDED WITH PURCHASE Buy any Shipping Container: receive combined $2500 in dis counts and offers! (Code #3A02) Limited time only. Call: (833) 762-7793

GENERAC GENERATOR

Prepare for power outages today with a GENERAC home standby generator. $0 Money Down + Low Monthly Payment Options. Request a FREE Quote. Call now before the next power outage: 1-844-775-0366

GENERAC PWRCELL

NEED NEW FLOORING?

Call Empire Today to schedule a FREE in-home estimate on Carpeting & Flooring. Call today 1-844-254-3873.

WALK IN TUBS

BCI Walk In Tubs are now on SALE! Be one of the first 50 callers and save $1,500! CALL 1-844-514-0123 for a free inhome consultation.

PORTABLE OXYGEN

Portable Oxygen Concentrator May Be Covered by Medicare! Reclaim independence and mobility with the compact design and long-lasting battery of Inogen One. Free information kit! Call 1-833-230-8692

UPDATING BATHROOM?

BathWraps is looking for calls from homeowners with older home who are looking for a quick safety update. They do not remodel entire bathrooms but update bathtubs with new liners for safe bathing and showering. They specialize in grab bars, nonslip surfaces and shower seats. All updates are completed in one day. Call 1-866-531-2432

55G SALTWATER AQUARIUM

Purchased from TIDEWATER AQUATICS in N. Charleston. 55 gallon salt water tank with steel black stand, complete salt water filtration system and protein skimmer & accessories: 55 lbs of shale rock, 12 lbs of clean plain salt water gravel, 25 lbs of clean color salt water gravel, 35 lbs of clean fresh water color gravel, 20 lbs sea salt, 4pc. large coral, 30 pc. small coral, 10 pc. med. coral, several shells and misc. rocks 20 or 30 pc., 2 large volcano rocks, Pro. water test kit, filter balls and mediums, 10 gal lon complete fish tank with filter and extra filters for other fresh water tanks. Originally $3,000 new! Asking ONLY $500 for all. Clean & ready to set up. Tank has never leaked & is in great condition with a back drop too. Call (843) 343-3684 or email, icehaven98@aol.com

Notices

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SC PRESS

Tuesday, December 13, 2022 is the last day to redeem winning tickets in the following South Carolina Education Lottery Instant Game: (SC1362) LUCKY NO. 7 DOUBLER

SPHINX

Female, 9 y/o. I have a gentle meow, a stunning purr, and just the most gorgeous fur you’ll ever see! Call (843) 747-4849, www.charlestonanimalsociety.org

Dogs

AKC FRENCH BULLDOGS

Born 11/6, will be 7 weeks on Christmas Day, vet checked, up to date on shots, even tempered house dogs that thrive on attention from an easy going personality. 3 males and 2 females, $4,000 neg. Call (843) 430-4102. 15 Years experience.

GOLDENDOODLE PUPPIES

Family raised Medium & Mini F1B Puppies for sale. Complete with 1st shots, health certificate, and 1yr health puppy guarantee. Located in downtown Charleston, SC. Price. $3,300. Visit us at: www.DoodlesofSC.com or contact (919) 332-2467 for more infor mation. (Charleston, SC)

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Misc

BATH UPDATES!

BATH & SHOWER UPDATES in as little as ONE DAY! Affordable prices - No payments for 18 months! Lifetime warranty & professional installs. Senior & Military Discounts available. Call: 1-877-649-5043.

BATHROOM RENOVATIONS

EASY, ONE DAY updates! We specialize in safe bathing. Grab bars, no slip flooring & seated showers. Call for a free in-home consultation: 1-844-524-2197.

CLEANING GUTTERS?

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HOME WATER DAMAGE?

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GUTTER CLEANING

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HOME REPAIR WARRANTY

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ROBBIE

Male, 5 y/o. A sweet coon hound looking for his fur-ever home! Call (843) 747-4849, charlestonanimalsociety.org

CROSBY

Male, 6 y/o. Crosby has the biggest heart and loves to run around. Call (843) 747-4849, www.charlestonanimalsociety.org

ZITI

Female, Senior. An affectionate coach potato who loves kisses. Call (843) 795-1110, www.pethelpers.org

AKC GERMAN SHEPHERDS

AKC MINI AM. SHEPHERDS

STATE

FORECLOSURE

TO THE DEFENDANT(S) ABOVE NAMED:

SOUTH CAROLINA DEPARTMENT OF SOCIAL SERVICES

VERSUS JAMIE SANCHEZ, SHEILA BEN JAMIN, SHAWN RICHARDSON, GORDAN BENJAMIN AND PRESTON PROCHASKA DEFEN DANTS. IN THE INTERESTS OF: MINOR CHILDREN BORN IN 2016, 2017, AND 2019.

TO DEFENDANT: JAMIE SANCHEZ, YOU ARE HEREBY SUM MONED and required to answer the Complaint in this action filed with the Clerk of Court for Berkeley County on August 5, 2022 at 11:35 am. Upon proof of interest, a copy of the Com plaint will be delivered to you upon request from the Berkeley County Clerk of Court, and you must serve a copy of your Answer to the Complaint on the Plaintiff, the South Carolina Department of Social Services, at the office of its Attorney, Jason D. Pockrus, Legal Department of the Berkeley County Department of Social Services, 2 Belt Drive, Moncks Corner, S.C. 29461, 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. Jason D. Pockrus, SC Bar # 101333, 2 Belt Dr. Moncks Corner, SC 29461, (843) 719-1095.

RECYCLE THIS PAPER

YOU ARE HEREBY SUMMONED and required to appear and defend by answering the Complaint in this action, a copy of which is hereby served upon you, and to serve a copy of your Answer on the subscribers at their offices at 3800 Fernandina Road, Suite 110, Columbia, SC 29210, within thirty (30) days after the service hereof, exclu sive of the day of such service; except that the United States of America, if named, shall have sixty (60) days to answer after the service hereof, exclusive of the day of such service; and if you fail to do so, judgment by default will be rendered against you for the relief demanded in the Complaint.

TO MINOR(S) OVER FOURTEEN YEARS OF AGE, AND/OR TO MINOR(S) UNDER FOURTEEN YEARS OF AGE AND THE PERSON WITH WHOM THE MINOR(S) RESIDES, AND/OR TO PERSONS UNDER SOME LEGAL DISABILITY:

YOU ARE FURTHER SUMMONED AND NOTIFIED to apply for the appointment of a guardian ad litem within thirty (30) days after the service of this Sum mons and Notice upon you. If you fail to do so, application for such appointment will be made by Attorney for Plaintiff.

YOU WILL ALSO TAKE NOTICE that Plaintiff will move for an Order of Reference or the Court may issue a general Order of Reference of this action to a Master-in-Equity/Special Referee, pursuant to Rule 53 of the South Carolina Rules of Civil Procedure.

Holmes Street, in the City of Charleston, State aforesaid, known and designated as Lot No. 43 on a plat of Fredrick J. Smith, dated June 10, 1893, and recorded in the RMC Office for Charleston County in Plat Book “B”, Page 169, and more fully shown on a plat of the same made by Gedney M. Howe, Registered Engineer, dated November 25, 1946, which is recorded in the RMC Office for Charleston County in Deed Book P-47 at Page 27.

MEASURING AND CONTAINING in front on Nunan Street, thirty (30) feet, the same on the back line, and in depth on the East line ninety-three (93) feet and on the West line ninety-four and 75/100 (94.75) fee, be the same more or less.

The above is known under the present number of the streets of the City of Charleston as No. 38 Nunan Street.

This being the same property conveyed to Rodney S. Kopish by deed of Harriet M. Mack dated October 15, 2002, and recorded October 17, 2002, in Book F422 at Page 748 in the Office of the Register of Deeds of Charleston County, South Carolina. Thereaf ter, Rodney S. Kopish conveyed an undivided one-third (1/3) interest in this same property to Jeffrey F. Kopish by deed dated June 22, 2004 and recorded June 29, 2004 in Book E500 at Page 078 in the Office of the Register of Deeds of Charleston County, South Carolina.

TMS No. 460-07-02-001

Property Address: 38 Nunan Street Charleston, SC 29403

NOTICE OF FILING COMPLAINT

procure the appointment of Guardian or Guardians ad Litem for said Defendants.

AND IT IS FURTHER ORDERED that Kelley Woody, P.O. Box 6432, Columbia, SC 29260 phone (803) 787-9678, be and hereby is appointed Attorney for any unknown Defendants who are, or may be, in the Military Service of the United States of America and as such are entitled to the benefits of the Servicemember’s Civil Relief Act aka Soldiers’ and Sailors’ Civil Relief Act of 1940, and any amendments thereto, to repre sent and protect the interest of said Defendants,

AND IT IS FURTHER ORDERED That a copy of this Order shall be forth with served upon said Defendants by publication in Charleston City Paper, a newspaper of general circulation published in the County of Charleston, State of South Carolina, once a week for three (3) consecutive weeks, together with the Summons and Notice of Filing of Complaint in the above entitled action.

Brock & Scott, PLLC 3800 Fernandina Road, Suite 110 Columbia, SC 29210 Phone (803) 454-3540 Fax (803) 454-3541 Attorneys for Plaintiff

the Complaint.

TO MINOR(S) OVER FOURTEEN YEARS OF AGE, AND/OR TO MINOR(S) UNDER FOURTEEN YEARS OF AGE AND THE PERSON WITH WHOM THE MINOR(S) RESIDES, AND/OR TO PERSONS UNDER SOME LEGAL DISABILITY:

YOU ARE FURTHER SUMMONED AND NOTIFIED to apply for the appointment of a guardian ad litem within thirty (30) days after the service of this Summons and Notice upon you. If you fail to do so, application for such appointment will be made by Attorney for Plaintiff.

YOU WILL ALSO TAKE NOTICE that Plaintiff will move for an Order of Reference or the Court may issue a general Order of Reference of this action to a Master-in-Equity/Special Referee, pursuant to Rule 53 of the South Carolina Rules of Civil Procedure.

YOU WILL ALSO TAKE NOTICE that under the provisions of S.C. Code Ann. § 29-3-100, effective June 16, 1993, any collateral assignment of rents contained in the referenced Mortgage is per fected and Attorney for Plaintiff hereby gives notice that all rents shall be payable directly to it by delivery to its undersigned at torneys from the date of default. In the alternative, Plaintiff will move before a judge of this Circuit on the 10th day after ser vice hereof, or as soon thereafter as counsel may be heard, for an Order enforcing the assignment of rents, if any, and compelling payment of all rents covered by such assignment directly to the Plaintiff, which motion is to be based upon the original Note and Mortgage herein and the Complaint attached hereto.

NOTICE OF FILING COMPLAINT

the Plaintiff, the Charleston County South Carolina Depart ment of Social Services, at the office of its Attorney, Mary Lee Briggs, Legal Department of the Charleston County Department 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, 843-953-9464.

demanded in the complaint. Sally Young, SC Bar# 4686, 3366 Rivers Avenue North Charleston, SC 29405. (843) 953-9625.

ESTATES’ CREDITOR’S NOTICES

613 LONG POINT RD., #100 MT. PLEASANT, SC 29464 ************

Estate of: LINDA W. MONROE 2022-ES-10-1755 DOD: 09/18/22

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

C/A NO.: 2022-CP-10-04350

Wells Fargo Bank, N.A., Plaintiff, v. Any heirs-at-law or devisees of Rodney S. Kopish, deceased, their heirs, Personal Representa tives, Administrators, Successors and Assigns, and all other persons or entities entitled to claim through them; all un known persons or entities with any right, title, estate, interest in or lien upon the real estate de scribed in the complaint herein; also any persons who may be in the military service of the United States of America, being a class designated as Richard Roe; and any unknown minors, incompetent or imprisoned person, or persons under a dis ability being a class designated as John Doe.; Any heirs-at-law or devisees of Marlene K. Kopish, deceased, their heirs, Personal Representatives, Administrators, Successors and Assigns, and all other persons or entities entitled to claim through them; all un known persons or entities with any right, title, estate, interest in or lien upon the real estate de scribed in the complaint herein; also any persons who may be in the military service of the United States of America, being a class designated as Richard Roe; and any unknown minors, incompetent or imprisoned person, or persons under a dis ability being a class designated as John Doe.; Jeffrey F. Kopish; Laura M. Kopish-Mostafai; Wells Fargo Bank, National Association s/b/m to Wachovia Bank, National Association; South Carolina Department of Revenue, Defendant(s).

(Non-Jury)

YOU WILL ALSO TAKE NOTICE that under the provisions of S.C. Code Ann. § 29-3-100, effective June 16, 1993, any collateral assignment of rents contained in the referenced Mortgage is per fected and Attorney for Plaintiff hereby gives notice that all rents shall be payable directly to it by delivery to its undersigned at torneys from the date of default.

In the alternative, Plaintiff will move before a judge of this Circuit on the 10th day after ser vice hereof, or as soon thereafter as counsel may be heard, for an Order enforcing the assignment of rents, if any, and compelling payment of all rents covered by such assignment directly to the Plaintiff, which motion is to be based upon the original Note and Mortgage herein and the Complaint attached hereto.

LIS PENDENS

NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN THAT an action has been or will be commenced in this Court upon complaint of the above-named Plaintiff against the above-named Defendant(s) for the foreclosure of a certain mortgage of real estate given by Rodney S. Kopish and Jef frey F. Kopish to Mortgage Electronic Registration Systems, Inc. as nominee for Wachovia Mortgage Corporation dated June 22, 2004 and recorded on June 29, 2004 in Book G500 at Page 279, in the Charleston County Registry (hereinafter, “Mortgage”). Thereafter, the Mortgage was transferred to the Plaintiff herein by assignment and/or corporate merger.

The premises covered and affected by the said Mortgage and by the foreclosure thereof were, at the time of the making thereof and at the time of the filing of this notice, more particularly described in the said Mortgage and are more commonly described as:

ALL that lot, piece or parcel of land, with the buildings thereon situate, lying and being on the North side of Nunan Street between Ashley Avenue and

TO THE DEFENDANTS ABOVE NAMED:

YOU WILL PLEASE TAKE NO TICE that the original Complaint, Cover Sheet for Civil Actions and Certificate of Exemption from ADR in the above entitled action was filed in the Office of the Clerk of Court for Charleston County on September 16, 2022. A Notice of Foreclosure Interven tion was also filed in the Clerk of Court’s Office.

ORDER APPOINTING GUARDIAN AD LITEM AND APPOINTMENT OF ATTORNEY

It appearing to the satisfaction of the Court, upon reading the filed Petition for Appointment of Kelley Woody, Esquire as Guardian ad Litem for unknown minors, and persons who may be under a disability, and it appearing that Kelley Woody, Esquire has consented to said appointment.

FURTHER upon reading the filed Petition for Appointment of Kel ley Woody, Esquire as Attorney for any unknown Defendants who may be in the Military Service of the United States of America, and may be, as such, entitled to the benefits of the Servicemember’s Civil Relief Act, and any amendments thereto, and it appearing that Kelley Woody, Esquire has consented to act for and represent said Defendants, it is

ORDERED that Kelley Woody, P.O. Box 6432, Columbia, SC 29260 phone (803) 787-9678, be and hereby is appointed Guardian ad Litem on behalf of all unknown minors and all unknown persons who may be under a disability, all of whom may have or claim to have some interest or claim to the real property commonly known as 38 Nunan Street, Charleston, SC 29403; that he is empowered and directed to appear on behalf of and represent said Defen dants, unless said Defendants, or someone on their behalf, shall within thirty (30) days after ser vice of a copy hereof as directed,

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TO THE DEFENDANTS ABOVE NAMED:

YOU WILL PLEASE TAKE NO TICE that the original Complaint, Cover Sheet for Civil Actions and Certificate of Exemption from ADR in the above entitled action was filed in the Office of the Clerk of Court for Charleston County on August 31, 2022. A Notice of Foreclosure Interven tion was also filed in the Clerk of Court’s Office.

Brock & Scott, PLLC 3800 Fernandina Road Suite 110 Columbia, SC 29210 Phone (803) 454-3540 Fax (803) 454-3541

Attorneys for Plaintiff

STATE OF SOUTH CAROLINA COUNTY OF CHARLESTON IN THE FAMILY COURT FOR THE NINTH JUDICIAL CIRCUIT DOCKET NO. 2022-DR-10-1558

SOUTH CAROLINA DEPARTMENT OF SOCIAL SERVICES VERSUS

JOLISA GARNER, DEFENDANT. IN THE INTEREST OF: MINOR CHILD BORN 2021.

TO DEFENDANT: JOLISA GARNER

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 27th day of May, 2022 at 2:55 PM, 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 default against the defendant for the relief demanded in the complaint. Adam Ruffin, SC Bar# 101350, 3366 Rivers Avenue, North Charleston, SC 29405. (843) 953-9625.

All persons having claims against the following estates are required to deliver or mail their claims to the Personal Representative indicated below and also file subject claims on Form #371ES with Irvin G. Condon, Probate Judge of Charleston County, 84 Broad Street, Charleston, S.C. 29401, before the expiration of 8 months after the date of the first publication of this Notice to Creditors, or else thereafter such claims shall be and are forever barred.

Estate of: RUSSELL ALBERT PARKER 2022-ES-10-1772 DOD: 07/04/22

Pers. Rep: MICHAEL B. VAN LANDINGHAM 134 MARY ELLEN DR. CHARLESTON, SC 29403

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Estate of: RICHARD L. WEAVER 2022-ES-10-1832 DOD: 09/28/22

Pers. Rep: MARY P. CANTON 945 COMPASS PT. CHARLESTON, SC 29412

Atty: MERIDITH J. HENEAGE, ESQ. 115 CHURCH ST. CHARLESTON, SC 29401

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Estate of: BETTY YOUNG SEGAL 2022-ES-10-1892 DOD: 10/04/22

Pers. Rep: AMY LYNN SEGAL WALSH 1474 BLUE CASCADE DR. MT. PLEASANT, SC 29464

Atty: SETH A. LEVY, ESQ. 21 GAMECOCK AVE., #A CHARLESTON, SC 29407

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Estate of: SHEILA JUNE DAVIDSON 2022-ES-10-1919 DOD: 08/24/22

Pers. Rep: SAMUEL READY BRADFORD, JR. 221 SHADY LN. CHARLESTON, SC 29407

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Estate of: ROBERT HART HOLLING 2022-ES-10-1941 DOD: 07/26/22

Pers. Rep: JOAN L. HOLLING 750 WATERLOO ST. CHARLESTON, SC 29412

Pers. Rep: CHINEQUA M. DAWKINS 591 HOWLANDVILLE WARRENVILLE, SC 29851

Pers. Rep: LARRY B. MONROE 216 TOPSAW LN. MONCKS CORNER, SC 29461

Atty: GEORGE E. COUNTS, ESQ. 27 GAMECOCK AVE., #200 CHARLESTON, SC 29407 ************

Estate of: JOHN CARROLL HINES 2022-ES-10-1765 DOD: 09/21/22

Pers. Rep: SAMUEL MIDDLETON HINES, JR. 2457 SYLVAN SHORES DR. CHARLESTON, SC 29414

Atty: KATHERINE C. MANGUS, ESQ. PO BOX 80309 CHARLESTON, SC 29416 ***********

Estate of: JANICE LEE GLEATON 2022-ES-10-1813 DOD: 09/01/22

Pers. Rep: DAWN C. MICALIZZI 379 COMMONWEALTH RD. MT. PLEASANT, SC 29466

Atty: JOHN S. WEST, ESQ. 207 CAROLINA AVE. MONCKS CORNER, SC 29461 ************

Estate of: EILEEN M. VAUGHAN 2022-ES-10-1827 DOD: 08/21/22

Pers. Rep: JAMES A. VAUGHAN, III 5808 HIGHCROFT DR. CARY, NC 27519

Atty: DAVID H. KUNES, ESQ. 115 CHURCH ST. CHARLESTON, SC 29401 ************

Estate of: MCKINLEY WASHINGTON, JR. 2022-ES-10-1831 DOD: 07/24/22

Pers. Rep: BEULAH J. WASHINGTON 2913 HWY 165 RAVENEL, SC 29470

Atty: ANTHONY B. O’NEILL, SR., ESQ. 1847 ASHLEY RIVER RD., #200 CHARLESTON, SC 29407 ************

STATE OF SOUTH CAROLINA COUNTY OF CHARLESTON IN THE COURT OF COMMON PLEAS C/A NO.: 2022-CP-10-04058

PennyMac Loan Services, LLC, Plaintiff, v. Curtis Priester; Colony North Management Group n/k/a The Reserve Colony North Homeowners Association, Inc.; Capitol City Homes, Inc., Defendant(s).

SUMMONS AND NOTICES (Non-Jury) FORECLOSURE OF REAL ESTATE MORTGAGE

TO THE DEFENDANT(S) ABOVE NAMED:

YOU ARE HEREBY SUMMONED and required to appear and defend by answering the Complaint in this action, a copy of which is hereby served upon you, and to serve a copy of your Answer on the subscribers at their offices at 3800 Fernandina Road, Suite 110, Columbia, SC 29210, within thirty (30) days after the service hereof, exclu sive 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

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STATE OF SOUTH CAROLINA COUNTY OF CHARLESTON IN THE FAMILY COURT FOR THE NINTH JUDICIAL CIRCUIT DOCKET NO. 2022-DR-10-1280

SOUTH CAROLINA DEPARTMENT OF SOCIAL SERVICES

VERSUS

Atty: KERRY W. KOON, ESQ. 147 WAPPOO CREEK DR., #203 CHARLESTON, SC 29412

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Estate of: PETER ALAN SMITH 2022-ES-10-1965 DOD: 10/15/22

Pers. Rep: JANET DAY RICHEY 3014 OLD BRIDGEVIEW LN. CHARLESTON, SC 29403

STATE OF SOUTH CAROLINA COUNTY OF CHARLESTON IN THE FAMILY COURT FOR THE NINTH JUDICIAL CIRCUIT DOCKET NO. 2022-DR-10-2422 SOUTH CAROLINA DEPARTMENT OF SOCIAL SERVICES

VERSUS

CAJMERE ALEXANDER, KE’DERION HUGHES, CHRISTAL SMITH, YOLANDA GILLIAM AND STEPHON CAIN IN THE IN TEREST OF: MINOR CHILDREN BORN 2021, BORN 2022.

TO DEFENDANT: KE’DERION HUGHES

YOU ARE HEREBY SUM MONED and required to answer the Complaint in this action filed with the Clerk of Court for Charleston County on August 22, 2022. Upon proof of interest, a copy of the Com plaint will be delivered to you upon request from the Charles ton County Clerk of Court, and you must serve a copy of your Answer to the Complaint on

TANAEKIA GRANT, PERRY GRANT, CHANDRA GRAY, CHANDRICK CAMPBELL, AND ANDREW WILLIAMS, DEFENDANTS. IN THE INTEREST OF: MINOR CHILDREN BORN 2018, 2010, 2017, 2004, 2019, AND 2020.

TO DEFENDANT: CHANDRA GRAY YOU ARE HEREBY SUMMONED and required to answer the complaint for termination of your parental rights in and to the minor children 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 4th day of May, 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 default against the defendant for the relief

Atty: JOHN E. ROMANOSKY, JR., ESQ. 1 COOL BLOW ST., #201 CHARLESTON, SC 29403

ESTATES’ CREDITOR’S NOTICES

All persons having claims against the following estates are required to deliver or mail their claims to the Personal Rep resentative indicated below and also file subject claims on Form #371ES with Irvin G. Condon, Probate Judge of Charleston County, 84 Broad Street, Charleston, S.C. 29401, before the expiration of 8 months after the date of the first publication of this Notice to Creditors, or else thereafter such claims shall be and are forever barred.

Estate of: CHAD EVERETT BELUE 2022-ES-10-0857 DOD: 12/26/21

Pers. Rep: DONNA JEAN BRYAN 17851 LOWCOUNTRY HWY. RUFFIN, SC 29475

Atty: G. RUTLEDGE DURANT, ESQ.

Estate of: HERSCHEL CALVIN BATTLE 2022-ES-10-1844 DOD: 07/27/22

Pers. Rep: ALYSSA NICOLE BATTLE 112 TYGER ST. SUMMERVILLE, SC 29485

Atty: AMANDA M. LEVINER, ESQ. 207 W. RICHARDSON AVE. SUMMERVILLE, SC 29483 ************

Estate of: LORETTA G. SMALLS 2022-ES-10-1845 DOD: 07/19/22

Pers. Rep: ACECILY D. FREEMAN 117 CLIFFORD RD. HOLLY SPRINGS, NC 27570

Atty: JOSEPH F. RUNEY, ESQ. PO BOX 6 CHARLESTON, SC 29402 ************

Estate of: ANN JENNINGS MAXWELL 2022-ES-10-1853 DOD: 12/02/21

Pers. Rep: DENNIS D. MAXWELL 400 QUAY CIR., #411 CHARLESTON, SC 29412 ************

Estate of: GRISTELLA SIMMONS 2022-ES-10-1954 DOD: 09/18/22

Pers. Rep: ERIKA MACK 2985 CONSERVANCY LN. CHARLESTON, SC 29414

Atty: JOHN E. ROMANOSKY, JR., ESQ. 1 COOL BLOW ST, #201 CHARLESTON, SC 29403

STATE OF SOUTH CAROLINA COUNTY OF CHARLESTON IN THE PROBATE COURT IN RE: THE ESTATES OF

FRANK BROWN

CASE NO: 2022-ES10-02085

AND ORALEE BROWN AKA ORIELEE

BROWN AKA OLIELEE BROWN CASE NO: 2022-ES10-02087

NOTICE OF HEARING - VIRTUAL HEARING

DATE OF HEARING: January 23, 2023 TIME: 9:00 A.M.

PLACE: Virtual Hearing for the Charleston County Probate Court Historic Courthouse, 84 Broad Street, Second Floor Charleston, South Carolina 29401

DESCRIPTION / SUBJECT OF HEARING:

Petitions of Clara Brown Cromwell, aka Clara Cromwell to determine the lawful heirs of Frank Brown, deceased, who died September 1, 1965 and to determine the lawful heirs of Oralee Brown aka Orielee Brown aka Olielee Brown who died July 23, 2007.

A full copy of the Summons and Petitions are available from the undersigned Attorney for Petitioner. Notification of Invita tion for Virtual Attendance of the Hearing shall be provided by the Court to Petitioner’s At torney prior to commencement of the scheduled Hearing. Once received, Petitioner’s Attorney shall provide the Notification to all parties entitled to Notice. Any and all parties having any interest in either or both of these matters may request attendance at the hearing by phone or email communication to Sydney Fowler, Esquire, Law Clerk of the Charleston County Probate Court, 843-958-5194, or SFOWLER@CHARLESTON COUNTY.ORG

s/John J. Dodds, III 858 Lowcountry Blvd., Suite 101 Mount Pleasant, S.C. 29464 john@cisadodds.com (843) 881-6530

Attorney for Petitioner

Daulton Gantt, Tracy Gantt, Nephfetia Anna Johnson, Valerie Willis Jackie Gantt Braithwaite, Ralph Darrell Gantt Eugene White, Walter White, Emma White Martin, Joseph White, Marie White, Herman White, Paul White, Silas White, Lucille White, Christopher White, and Nathaniel Whiteand all persons claiming any right, title, estate interest in or lien upon the real estate described in the Complaint herein; 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 as a class designated as John Doe, and any persons in the military service of the United States of America being as a class designated as Richard Roe. Defendants.

NOTICE

TO: THE, DEFENDANTS, Estate of Christopher C. Gantt, Sr., Estate of Anna Brown Gantt/a/k/a Anna Brown Gantt Aiken, Estate of Moriah Gantt, White, Estate of Christopher C. Gantt, Jr., Estate of Robert Gantt, Estate of Hasten Gantt, Estate of Alma Gantt Simmons, Estate of Harold Gantt, Estate of Alex Gantt, Aundria Gantt Douglas, Estate ofGloria Gantt Wilford, Estate of Chrysandra Gantt HollowayEs tate of Deanna Theresa Gantt, Pamela Simmons Beasley, Vincent L.Simmons, Carmen Simmons Adderley, Rodney Simmons, Rosie Bowie, Iris Coleman-Payne, Kevin Coleman, Yvette Coleman, Shakeema Johnson Carrasquillo, Daulton Gantt, Tracy Gantt, Nephfetia Anna Johnson, Valerie Willis Jackie Gantt Braithwaite, Ralph Darrell Gantt Eugene White, Walter White, Emma White Martin, Joseph White, Marie White, Herman White, Paul White, Silas White, Lucille White, Christopher White, and Nathaniel Whiteand, John Doe, Mary Roe, and Richard Roe.

Take NOTICE: That the original Summons, Lis Pendens, Notice Nisi, Notice of Intent to Refer, and Notice of Right of first Refusal, in the above-captioned case were filed in the office of the Charleston County Clerk for the Circuit Court of the Ninth Judicial Circuit on the 6th day of June, 2022.

SUMMONS (Quiet Title)

TO THE DEFENDANTS ABOVE NAMED:

and Notice upon you. If you fail to do so, application for such appointment will be made by the Plaintiff.

Dated this 4th day of June, 2022, at Charleston, South Carolina.

LIS PENDENS (Quiet Title)

NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that an action has been commenced and is now pending in the Court upon complaint of the above named Plaintiff against the above named Defendants to quiet title to the below described property. The premises covered and affected by the said action at the time of the filing of this Notice is described as follows:

SEE ATTACHED AS EXHIBIT “A”

TMS#: 098-00-00-126

Dated: June 4, 2022

NOTICE NISI (Quiet Title)

TO THE DEFENDANTS HEREIN, NAMES AND ADDRESSES UNKNOWN, INCLUDING ANY THEREOF WHO MAY BE MINORS OR UNDER OTHER LEGAL DISABILITY, IF ANY, WHETHER RESIDENTS OR NON-RESIDENTS OF SOUTH CAROLINA, AND TO THE NATURAL, GENERAL, TESTAMENTARY GUARDIAN OR COMMITTEE, OR OTHERWISE AND TO THE PERSON WITH WHOM THEY MAY RESIDE, IF ANY THERE BE:

NOTICE IS HEREBY given that Willie B. Heyward, Attorney at Law, of Charleston, South Carolina, has been appointed Guardian ad Litem in the above entitled action by Order and that such Order will become absolute thirty (30) days after the last publication of the Notice of Appointment herein unless such of the Defendants as may be heirs, devisees, distributees, administrators, executors, guard ians and all those persons who may be minors, incompetents, in military service, under any legal disability, or other persons claiming by, through or under the deceased persons above named, or someone in their behalf in the meantime procure to be appointed Guardian ad Litem for them, and that such Order is on file in the Office of the Clerk of Court for Berkeley County, Berke ley County Courthouse, Moncks Corner, South Carolina.

Dated: June 4, 2022, Charleston, South Carolina.

NOTICE OF INTENT TO REFER (Quiet Title)

TO THE DEFENDANTS NAMED ABOVE:

TO THE DEFENDANTS ABOVE ALL KNOWN AND UNKNOWN NAMED:

PLEASE TAKE NOTICE OF YOUR STATUTORY RIGHT OF FIRST REFUSAL.

The Court shall provide for the non-petitioning joint tenants or tenants in common who are interested in purchasing the property to notify the Court of that interest no later than (10) days prior to the date set for the trial of the case. The non-petitioning joint tenants or tenants in common shall be allowed to purchase the interests in the property as provided in this section whether default has been entered against them or not. 1976 SC Code of Laws, Section 15-61- 25 (A).

/S/George E. Counts GEORGE E. COUNTS, ESQUIRE COUNTS AND HUGER, LLC 27 Gamecock Ave., Suite 200 CHARLESTON, S.C. 29407 (843) 573-0143

ATTORNEY FOR PLAINTIFF Charleston, South Carolina DATED: June 4, 2022

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YOU ARE HEREBY SUM

MONED and required to answer the Complaint in this action, a copy of which is herewith served upon you, and to serve a copy of your answer upon the subscriber at their offices, Berlinsky and Ling, 2971 West Montague Avenue, Suite 201, N. Charleston, South Carolina, 29418, within thirty (30) days after the service hereof upon you, exclusive of the day of such service; and if you fail to answer or otherwise plead within the time aforesaid, the herein will apply to the Court for judgment by default for the relief demanded in the Complaint.

BERLINSKY AND LING

By s/ Bradley W. Bonville BRADLEY W. BONVILLE Attorney for the Plaintiff 2971 West Montague Avenue Suite 201 North Charleston, SC 29418 (843) 884-0000

North Charleston, SC November 2, 2022

STATE OF SOUTH CAROLINA

COUNTY OF CHARLESTON IN THE COURT OF COMMON PLEAS DOCKET NO. 2022CP1004476

of such service; and if you fail to do so, judgment by default will be rendered against you for the relief demanded in the Complaint.

TO MINOR(S) OVER FOURTEEN YEARS OF AGE AND/OR 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 upon you. If you fail to do so, Plaintiff will apply to have the appointment of the Guardian ad Litem Nisi, Ian C. Gohean, Willson, Jones, Carter & Baxley, PA, 325 Rocky Slope Road, Greenville, SC 29607, made absolute.

s/Brian P. Yoho Rogers Townsend, LLC ATTORNEYS FOR PLAINTIFF John J. Hearn (SC Bar # 6635), John.Hearn@rogerstownsend.com Brian P. Yoho (SC Bar #73516), Brian.Yoho@rogerstownsend.com Jeriel A. Thomas (SC Bar #101400) Jeriel.Thomas@rogerstownsend. com

1221 Main Street, 14th Floor Post Office Box 100200 (29202) Columbia, SC 29201 (803) 744-4444

Columbia, South Carolina

STATE OF SOUTH CAROLINA COUNTY OF CHARLESTON IN THE COURT OF COMMON PLEAS DOCKET NO. 2022CP1004476

U.S. Bank Trust National Association, not in its individual capacity but solely as owner trustee for Legacy Mortgage Asset Trust 2018-RPL4, Plaintiff, v.

Association, not in its individual capacity but solely as owner trustee for Legacy Mortgage Asset Trust 2018-RPL4, Plaintiff, v.

Case No. 2022-CP-10-2540

HARVEY GANTT

Plaintiff, versus Estate of Christopher C. Gantt, Sr., Estate of Anna Brown Gantt/a/k/a Anna Brown Gantt Aiken, Estate of Moriah Gantt White, Estate of Christopher C. Gantt, Jr., Estate of Robert Gantt, Estate of Hasten Gantt, Estate of Alma Gantt Simmons, Estate of Harold Gantt, Estate of Alex Gantt, Aundria Gantt Douglas, Estate of Gloria Gantt Wilford, Estate of Chrysandra Gantt Hol loway, Estate of Deanna Theresa Gantt, Pamela Simmons Beasley, Vincent L. Simmons, Carmen Sim mons Adderley, Rodney Simmons, Rosie Bowie, Iris Coleman-Payne, Kevin Coleman, Yvette Coleman, Shakeema Johnson Carrasquillo,

YOU ARE HEREBY SUMMONED and required to answer the Complaint in this action, a copy of which is herewith served upon you, or to otherwise appear and defend, and to serve a copy of your Answer to the said Complaint on the Plaintiff or his attorney, George E. Counts, Esquire, at 27 Gamecock Avenue, P.O. Box 80399, Charleston, South Carolina 29416, or to otherwise appear and defend the action pursuant to applicable court rules, within thirty (30) days after the service hereof, exclusive of this 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 the relief demanded therein, and judgment by default will be rendered against you for the relief demanded in the Complaint.

TO MINORS OVER FOURTEEN YEARS OF AGE, AND/OR TO MINOR(S) UNDER FOURTEEN YEARS OF AGE AND THE PERSON WITH WHOM THE MINOR(S) RESIDE(S), AND/OR TO PERSONS UNDER SOME LEGAL DISABILITY: YOU ARE FURTHER SUMMONED AND NOTIFIED to apply for the appointment of a guardian ad litem within thirty (30) days after the service of this Summons

PLEASE TAKE NOTICE that upon the expiration of thirty(30) days following the service of a copy of the within notice of Intent to Refer upon you, the Plaintiff intends to and will appear before the Honorable Presiding Judge of the Court of Common Pleas in and for the County of Charleston, State of South Carolina, at the usual place of judicature, and will move His or Her honor for an order referring the above entitled action to the Charleston County Master in Equity, for the purpose of holding a hearing into the merits of said cause, together with the authority to enter final judgment therein, and to provide that should any appeal be taken from the final judgment therein, and to provide that should any appeal be taken from the final judgment of the Dorchester County Master in Equity, as aforesaid, that such appeal shall be made directly to the Supreme Court of South Carolina or alter natively to the South Carolina Court of Appeals.

/S/ George E. Counts

GEORGE E. COUNTS

Dated: June 4, 2022

NOTICE OF RIGHT TO FIRST REFUSAL (Quiet Title)

STATE OF SOUTH CAROLINA COUNTY OF DORCHESTER IN THE FAMILY COURT FOR THE FIRST JUDICIAL CIRCUIT DOCKET NO. 2022-DR- 18-0920 SOUTH CAROLINA DEPARTMENT OF SOCIAL SERVICES VERSUS YOLANDA YOUMANS, OMMNI COBBS, AND BRANDON WILLIAMS, DEFENDANTS. IN THE INTERESTS OF: MINOR CHILDREN BORN 2022

TO DEFENDANT: BRANDON WILLIAMS YOU ARE HEREBY SUMMONED and required to answer the Complaint in this action filed with the Clerk of Court for Dorchester County on August 22, 2022. Upon proof of interest, a copy of the Complaint will be delivered to you upon request from the Dorchester County Clerk of Court, and you must serve a copy of your Answer to the Complaint on the Plaintiff, the South Carolina Department of Social Services, at the office of its Attorney, Dawn Berry, Legal Department of the Dorchester County Department of Social Services, 216 Orangeburg Road, Summerville, SC 29483 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. Dawn Berry, SC Bar # 101675, 216 Orangeburg Road, Summerville, SC 29483, 843-486-1861.

STATE OF SOUTH CAROLINA COUNTY OF COLLETON IN THE COURT OF COMMON PLEAS FOR THE 14th JUDICIAL CIRCUIT CASE NUMBER 2022CP1500641

EDWINA EDWARDS, Plaintiff, vs.

CLAUSS DAWSON, CLAUSS DAWSON JR., & SIMPLY CONVEY, LLC, Defendant(s)

SUMMONS

JURY TRIAL REQUESTED (NEGLIGENCE)

TO THE ABOVE NAMED:

U.S. Bank Trust National Association, not in its individual capacity but solely as owner trustee for Legacy Mortgage Asset Trust 2018-RPL4, Plaintiff, v.

Irvin Wittrell; Valerie Wittrell, In dividually; South Carolina State Housing Finance and Develop ment Authority Valerie Wittrell, as Personal Representative of the Estate of Leroy Wittrell; Any Heirs-at-Law or Devisees of Anna Lee Wittrell, Deceased, their heirs, Personal Representa tives, Administrators, Successors and Assigns, and all other per sons 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

Deficiency Judgment Waived (011847-05028)

TO THE DEFENDANT(S): Irvin Wittrell, Any Heirs-at-Law or Devisees of Anna Lee Wittrell, Deceased, their heirs, Personal Representatives, Administrators, 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 YOU ARE HEREBY SUMMONED and required to appear and defend by answering the Complaint in this foreclosure action on property located at 1722 Bozo Ln, Johns Island, SC 29455, being designated in the County tax records as TMS# 279-14-00-081, of which a copy is herewith served upon you, and to serve a copy of your Answer on the subscribers at their offices, 1221 Main Street, 14th Floor, Post Office Box 100200, Columbia, South Carolina, 29202-3200, 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

1221 Main Street, 14th Floor Post Office Box 100200 (29202) Columbia, SC 29201 (803) 744-4444 Columbia, South Carolina

NOTICE

THE DEFENDANTS ABOVE NAMED

YOU WILL PLEASE TAKE NOTICE that the Summons and Com plaint, of which the foregoing is a copy of the Summons, were filed with the Clerk of Court for Charleston County, South Caro lina on September 23, 2022.

s/Brian P. Yoho Rogers Townsend, LLC ATTORNEYS FOR PLAINTIFF John J. Hearn (SC Bar # 6635), John.Hearn@rogerstownsend.com Brian P. Yoho (SC Bar #73516), Brian.Yoho@rogerstownsend.com Jeriel A. Thomas (SC Bar #101400) Jeriel.Thomas@rogerstownsend. com

1221 Main Street, 14th Floor Post Office Box 100200 (29202) Columbia, SC 29201 (803) 744-4444

Columbia, South Carolina

NOTICE OF FORECLOSURE INTERVENTION

PLEASE TAKE NOTICE THAT pursuant to the South Carolina Supreme Court Administrative Order 2011-05-02-01, you may have a right to Foreclosure Intervention.

To be considered for any avail able Foreclosure Intervention, you may communicate with and otherwise deal with the Plaintiff through its law firm, Rogers Townsend, LLC.

Rogers Townsend, LLC repre sents the Plaintiff in this action. Our law firm does not represent you. Under our ethical rules, we are prohibited from giving you any legal advice.

You must submit any requests for Foreclosure Intervention consideration within 30 days from the date you are served with this Notice. IF YOU FAIL, REFUSE, OR VOLUNTARILY ELECT NOT TO PARTICIPATE IN FORECLOSURE INTERVENTION, THE FORECLOSURE ACTION MAY PROCEED.

s/Brian P. Yoho

Rogers Townsend, LLC ATTORNEYS FOR PLAINTIFF

John J. Hearn (SC Bar # 6635), John.Hearn@rogerstownsend.com Brian P. Yoho (SC Bar #73516), Brian.Yoho@rogerstownsend.com Jeriel A. Thomas (SC Bar #101400) Jeriel.Thomas@rogerstownsend. com

Irvin Wittrell; Valerie Wittrell, In dividually; South Carolina State Housing Finance and Develop ment Authority Valerie Wittrell, as Personal Representative of the Estate of Leroy Wittrell; Any Heirs-at-Law or Devisees of Anna Lee Wittrell, Deceased, their heirs, Personal Representa tives, Administrators, Successors and Assigns, and all other per sons 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).

ORDER APPOINTING GUARDIAN AD LITEM NISI Deficiency Judgment Waived (011847-05028)

It appearing to the satisfaction of the Court, upon reading the Motion for the appointment of Ian C. Gohean as Guardian Ad Litem Nisi for any unknown minors and persons who may be under a disability, it is ORDERED that, pursuant to Rule 17, SCRCP, Ian C. Gohean, be and hereby is appointed Guard ian Ad Litem Nisi on behalf of all unknown minors and all unknown persons under a dis ability, all of whom may have or may claim to have some interest in or claim to the real property commonly known as 1722 Bozo Ln, Johns Island, SC 29455; that Ian C. Gohean is empowered and directed to appear on behalf of and represent said Defendant(s), unless the said Defendant(s), or someone on their behalf, shall within thirty (30) days after service of a copy hereof as directed, procure the appointment of a Guardian or Guardians Ad Litem for the said Defendant(s), and it is

FURTHER ORDERED that a copy of this Order shall forthwith be served upon the said Defendant(s) Any Heirs-at-Law or Devisees of Anna Lee Wittrell, Deceased, their heirs, Personal Representatives, Administrators, 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, .by publication thereof in the Charleston City Paper, a news paper of general circulation in the County of Charleston, State of South Carolina, once a week for three (3) consecutive weeks, together with the Summons in the above entitled action.

Clerk of Court/Judge for Charleston County Charleston, South Carolina

STATE OF SOUTH CAROLINA COUNTY OF CHARLESTON IN THE COURT OF COMMON PLEAS U.S. Bank Trust National

Irvin Wittrell; Valerie Wittrell, In dividually; South Carolina State Housing Finance and Develop ment Authority ; Valerie Wittrell, as Personal Representative of the Estate of Leroy Wittrell; Any Heirs-at-Law or Devisees of Anna Lee Wittrell, Deceased, their heirs, Personal Representa tives, Administrators, Successors and Assigns, and all other per sons 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).

LIS PENDENS

Deficiency Judgment Waived DOCKET NO. (011847-05028)

NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN THAT an action has been or will be commenced in this Court upon complaint of the above-named Plaintiff against the above-named Defendant(s) for the foreclosure of a certain mortgage of real estate given by Leroy Wittrell to Beneficial Mortgage Co. of South Carolina dated December 19, 2006, and recorded in the Office of the RMC/ROD for Charleston County on January 2, 2007, in Mortgage Book T610 at Page 211. This mortgage was assigned to LSF8 Master Participation Trust, c/o Caliber Home Loans, Inc. by as signment dated 6/26/2014 and recorded June 30, 2014 in Book 414 at Page 12. This mortgage was assigned to U.S. Bank Trust National Association, not in its individual capacity but solely as owner trustee for Legacy Mortgage Asset Trust 2018-RPL4 dated August 3, 2022 and to be recorded. This loan is subject to a Loan Modification dated May 1, 2015.

The premises covered and affected by the said mortgage and by the foreclosure thereof were, at the time of the making thereof and at the time of the filing of this notice, described as follows:

ALL that lot, piece or parcel of land, with the buildings and improvements thereon, situate, lying and being in Johns Island, County of Charleston, State of South. Carolina, and being known and designated as Lot Nine (9), Block G, on a plat of a portion of a subdivision known as DUNMOVIN, by EM. Seabrook, Jr., C.E. and L.S., dated the 16th day of September, 1965, which plat is duly recorded in the R.M.C. Office for Charleston County in Plat Book T, page 126.

Said lot having such size, shape, dimensions, buttings and boundings as shown and delineated on said plat which is made a part and parcel hereof by reference thereto.

This conveyance is made subject to restrictive covenants, or modi fications thereto, easements and/or rights-of-way heretofore granted affecting the abovedescribed property and recorded in the RMC Office for Charleston County, South Carolina.

This being the same property conveyed to Leroy Wittrell and Valerie D. Wittrell by deed of Nathaniel T. Commodore, dated April 4, 1997 and recorded April 8, 1997 in Deed Book H282 at Page 346. This being the same property conveyed to Leroy Wit trell by deed of Valerie D. Wittrell dated November 4, 1998 and

recorded November 10, 1998 in

Deed Book L314 at Page 265.

Subsequently, Leroy Wittrell died intestate on December 14, 2020 leaving the subject property to his heirs namely Anna Wittrell, Valerie Wittrell and Irvin Wittrell as is more fully preserved in the Probate records for Charleston County, in Case No. 2022ES1001457; subsequently, Anna Lee Wittrell died intestate on May 18, 2022 leaving the subject property to her heirs namely Valerie Wittrell and Irvin Wittrell.

Property Address: 1722 Bozo Ln Johns Island, SC 29455 TMS/PIN# TMS# 279-14-00-081

/s/Jeriel A. Thomas Rogers Townsend, LLC

ATTORNEYS FOR PLAINTIFF

John J. Hearn (SC Bar # 6635), John.Hearn@rogerstownsend.com Brian P. Yoho (SC Bar #73516), Brian.Yoho@rogerstownsend.com Jeriel A. Thomas (SC Bar #101400) Jeriel.Thomas@rogerstownsend. com

1221 Main Street, 14th Floor Post Office Box 100200 (29202) Columbia, SC 29201 (803) 744-4444 Columbia, South Carolina

the foregoing Summons, the Plaintiff will move for a gen eral Order of Reference of this cause to the Master in Equity for Charleston County, which Order shall, pursuant to Rule 53(e) of the South Carolina Rules of Civil Procedure, spe cifically provide that the said Master in Equity 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 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, ap plication 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 November 1, 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 Administra tive Order 2011-05-02-01, you may be eligible for foreclosure intervention programs for the purpose of resolving the above-referenced 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 be ing served with this notice. Scott and Corley, P.A. repre sents 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.

(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

YOU ARE FURTHER SUMMONED 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 16, 2022.

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

Free Will Astrology

ARIES (March 21-April 19): Aries filmmaker Andrei Tarkovsky wrote, “To be free, you simply have to be so, without asking permission. You must have your own hypothesis about what you are called to do, and follow it, not giving in to circumstances or complying with them. But that sort of freedom demands powerful inner resources, a high degree of self-awareness, and a consciousness of your responsibility to yourself and therefore to other people.” That last element is where some freedomseekers falter. They neglect their obligation to care for and serve their fellow humans. I want to make sure you don’t do that, Aries, as you launch a new phase of your liberation process. Authentic freedom is conscientious.

TAURUS (April 20-May 20): The term “neurodi versity” refers to the fact that the human brain func tions in a wide variety of ways. There are not just a few versions of mental health and learning styles that are better than all the others. Taurus musician David Byrne believes he is neurodiverse because he is on the autism spectrum. That’s an advantage, he feels, giving him the power to focus with extra intensity on his creative pursuits. I consider myself neurodiverse because my life in the imaginal realm is just as important to me as my life in the material world. I suspect that most of us are neurodiverse in some sense — deviating from “normal” mental functioning. What about you, Taurus? The coming months will be an excellent time to explore and cel ebrate your own neurodiversity.

Nhãt Hanh was one of the finest humans who ever lived. “Where do you seek the spiritual?” he asked. His answer: “You seek the spiritual in every ordinary thing that you do every day. Sweeping the floor, watering the vegetables, and washing the dishes become sacred if mindfulness is there.” In the coming weeks, Libra, you will have excep tional power to live like this: to regard every event, however mundane or routine, as an opportunity to express your soulful love and gratitude for the privi lege of being alive. Act as if the whole world is your precious sanctuary.

SCORPIO (Oct. 23-Nov. 21): A reader named Elisa Jean tells me, “We Scorpio allies admire how Scorpios can be so solicitous and welcoming: the best party hosts. They know how to foster social situations that bring out the best in everyone and provide convivial entertainment. Yet Scorpios also know everyone’s secrets. They are connoisseurs of the skeletons in the closets. So they have the power to spawn discordant commotions and wreak havoc on people’s reputations. But they rarely do. Instead, they keep the secrets. They use their covert knowl edge to weave deep connections.” Everything Ella Jean described will be your specialties in the coming weeks, Scorpio.

STATE OF SOUTH CAROLINA COUNTY OF CHARLESTON IN THE COURT OF COMMON PLEAS CASE NO. 2022-CP-10-04355

Wilmington Savings Fund Society, FSB not individually, but solely as trustee for Residential Mortgage Aggregation Trust, PLAINTIFF, VS. Charles Raymond Tonge; Pamela Edith Tonge; and Inland Bank and Trust successor by merger to Cambridge Bank, DEFENDANT(S).

SUMMONS AND NOTICE OF FILING OF COMPLAINT (221106.00059)

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GEMINI (May 21-June 20): Poet Jane Hirshfield says that Zen Buddhism is built on three principles: 1. Everything changes. 2. Everything is connected. 3. Pay attention. Even if you are not a Zen practi tioner, Gemini, I hope you will focus on the last two precepts in the coming weeks. If I had to summarize the formula that will bring you the most interesting experiences and feelings, it would be, “Pay atten tion to how everything is connected.” I hope you will intensify your intention to see how all the apparent fragments are interwoven. Here’s my secret agenda: I think it will help you register the truth that your life has a higher purpose than you’re usually aware of — and that the whole world is conspiring to help you fulfill that purpose.

SAGITTARIUS (Nov. 22-Dec. 21): Of all the signs in the zodiac, you Sagittarians are least likely to stay in one location for extended periods. Many of you enjoy the need to move around from place to place. Doing so may be crucial in satisfying your quest for ever-fresh knowledge and stimulation. You under stand that it’s risky to get too fixed in your habits and too dogmatic in your beliefs. So you feel an imperative to keep disrupting routines before they become deadening. When you are successful in this endeavor, it’s often due to a special talent you have: your capacity for creating an inner sense of home that enables you to feel stable and grounded as you ramble free. I believe this superpower will be extra strong during the coming months.

STATE OF SOUTH CAROLINA COUNTY OF CHARLESTO IN THE COURT OF COMMON PLEAS CASE NO. 2022-CP-10-05053

Caliber Home Loans, Inc., PLAINTIFF, VS. Jerome Singleton; South Caro lina Department of Probation, Parole and Pardon Services; and Charleston County Clerk of Court, DEFENDANT(S).

SUMMONS AND NOTICE OF FILING OF COMPLAINT (221136.00122)

TO THE DEFENDANT JEROME SINGLETON 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 Middle burg 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 ser vice, 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

IF YOU FAIL, REFUSE, OR VOLUNTARILY ELECT NOT TO PARTICIPATE IN THIS FORECLO SURE 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 BANK RUPTCY PROTECTION.

IF YOU ARE UNDER THE PRO TECTION OF THE BANKRUPTCY COURT OR HAVE BEEN DISCHARGED AS A RESULT OF A BANKRUPTCY PROCEEDING, THIS NOTICE IS GIVEN TO YOU PURSUANT TO STATU TORY 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

TO THE DEFENDANTS CHARLES RAYMOND TONGE; AND PAMELA EDITH TONGE ABOVE NAMED:

YOU ARE HEREBY SUMMONED 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 ser vice, 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

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 for Charleston County, which Order shall, pursuant to Rule 53(e) of the South Carolina Rules of Civil Procedure, spe cifically provide that the said Master in Equity 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:

CANCER (June 21-July 22): Author Flannery O’Connor wrote, “You have to cherish the world at the same time that you struggle to endure it.” I will add a further thought: “You have to cherish the world at the same time that you struggle to endure it and strive to transform it into a better place.” Let’s make this one of your inspirational meditations in the coming months, Cancerian. I suspect you will have more power than usual to transform the world into a better place. Get started! (PS: Doing so will enhance your ability to endure and cherish.)

LEO (July 23-Aug. 22): Many sports journalists will tell you that while they may root for their favorite teams, they also “root for the story.” They want a compelling tale to tell. They yearn for dramatic plot twists that reveal entertaining details about interest ing characters performing unique feats. That’s how I’m going to be in the coming months Leo, at least in relation to you. I hope to see you engaged in epic sagas, creating yourself with verve as you weave your way through fun challenges and intriguing adventures. I predict my hope will be realized.

VIRGO (Aug. 23-Sept. 22): Venus is too hot and dry for humans to live on. But if travelers from Earth could figure out a way to feel comfortable there, they would enjoy a marvelous perk. The planet rotates very slowly. One complete day and night lasts for 243 Earth days and nights. That means you and a special friend could take a romantic stroll toward the sunset for as long as you wanted, and never see the sun go down. I invite you to dream up equally lyrical adventures in togetherness here on Earth during the coming months, Virgo. Your intimate alliances will thrive as you get imaginative and creative about nurturing togetherness.

LIBRA (Sept. 23-Oct. 22): As far as I’m con cerned, Libran Buddhist monk and author Thích

CAPRICORN (Dec. 22-Jan. 19): Capricorn author Edgar Allan Poe made this mysterious statement: “We can, at any time, double the true beauty of an actual landscape by half closing our eyes as we look at it.” What did he mean? He was referring to how crucial it is to see life “through the veil of the soul.” Merely using our physical vision gives us only half the story. To be receptive to the full glory of the world, our deepest self must also participate in the vision. Of course, this is always true. But it’s even more extra especially true than usual for you right now.

AQUARIUS (Jan. 20-Feb. 18): Aquarian theolo gian Henri Nouwen wrote, “I have discovered that the gifts of life are often hidden in the places that hurt most.” Yikes! Really? I don’t like that idea. But I will say this: If Nouwen’s theory has a grain of truth, you will capitalize on that fact in the coming weeks. Amazingly enough, a wound or pain you experienced in the past could reveal a redemptive possibility that inspires and heals you.

PISCES (Feb. 19-March 20): Piscean novelist Viet Thanh Nguyen says it’s wise to talk to yourself. No other conversational partner is more fascinating. No one else listens as well. I offer you his advice in the hope of encouraging you to upgrade the intensity and frequency of your dialogs with yourself. It’s an excellent astrological time to go deeper with the questions you pose and to be braver in formulating your responses. Make the coming weeks be the time when you find out much more about what you truly think and feel.

Homework: What action could you take to rouse unexpected joy in a person you care about? Newsletter.FreeWillAstrology.com

Richard W. DeChamplain

Richard W. DeChamplain was born Jan. 12, 1934, to William and Iphigenie DeChamplain, two saints of the highest order, in New Hampshire’s thriving paper mill town, Berlin. The day was frigid, so perhaps in response, Richard spent the rest of his 88 years setting the world on fire.

Growing up, Richard enjoyed small jobs delivering his grand mother’s dairy products by wagon, playing swashbuckler with his cousins, playing hockey (of course!) and jumping off the ski jump built by the Nansen Ski Club, oldest such club in the nation. He was mostly a dutiful altar boy at St. Joseph’s Catholic church, but always a mischievous student. He was known to be caught sneaking cigarettes in the boys’ room, mistaking it as outside the nuns’ purview.

Upon graduating from Berlin’s Notre Dame high school in 1952, Richard attended the University of New Hampshire until 1954. He was one of only 10 students chosen to progress to dental school after just two years of undergraduate education.

Richard’s dental education was at Tufts University College of Dental Medicine, where after being student body president and national president of the Xi Psi Phi dental fraternity, he graduated in 1958 to enlist in the United States Army Dental Corps. Early in his military tenure, Richard met army physical therapist Edwina Pope, a beautiful woman from a North Carolina dairy farm. Their courtship was rapid. The two met in October, took one another before Christmas to meet family, above and below the Mason Dixon line, married the following April, and started their family the next year.

Edwina was a strong supporter of Richard’s careers, but more importantly, she supported his home and family life. The couple had three children—Jennifer, Suzanne and Richard—as the army gave them a global tour. France, U.S., Germany, every three years a new neighborhood, new schools and often different cultures.

Richard was a loving husband, father and grandfather. Known as “Pepere” to his family, he loved nothing more than to be with his family and always slipped the grandchildren a pack of M&Ms when he

saw them. He was immensely proud of everyone’s accomplishments and exem plified unconditional love. He was also known as a jokester with his friends and colleagues, always eager to share a joke or funny story. He will be fondly remembered and greatly missed by family and friends.

While in the Army, Richard held many leadership roles directing oral/maxillofacial residencies, chairing surgery departments and commanding dental clinics at sev eral assignments, including Tripler Army Medical Center where Richard and his team primarily repaired the jaws of injured Vietnam veterans.

During his military career, Richard suffered a life-changing health challenge when, in Germany, he contracted viral encephalitis and nearly died. He was evacu ated to the United States where he endured 10 months of treatment and intense rehabilitation at Walter Reed Hospital. Ultimately, Richard learned to walk, speak and maneuver again. He then successfully worked to compensate for his permanent left side numbness and went on to have a fulfilling and prestigious career as an oral and maxillofacial surgeon.

Richard received the Army Commendation Medal, the Meritorious Service Medal, the Legion of Merit and the Legion of Merit with Oak Leaf Cluster. He retired from the U.S. Army in 1979 with the rank of full colonel and went on to pursue his second career.

Richard’s post-military career began as chairman of Oral and Maxillofacial Surgery at the Medical University of South Carolina where he also served as chairman of hospital dentistry. Later he became assistant dean for hospital affairs and graduate programs. In 1993, Richard became dean at the college, a position he held until retirement in 2004. From 1997 to 1998, Richard served as the president of the Southern Conference of Dental Deans and Examiners.

Upon his retirement at the college, Richard was granted the title of dean emeritus for his tremendous service to the school, including the groundwork for a new facility, the Clinical Education Center that became reality after he retired.

Richard published widely and lectured extensively at numerous meetings and continuing education programs across the United States, Europe and the Pacific

theater. Richard spoke French fluently and often translated French medical and dental literature, as well as patient records.

In 1995, the South Carolina Dental Association presented its Meritorious Achievement Award to Richard for his outstanding service to dentistry. He was inducted as a fellow into the American College of Dentists, the International College of Dentists and the International Association of Oral Surgeons for his many contributions to the art and science of den tistry. In 2005, he was the national recip ient of the William John Geis Foundation Award from the American Association of Oral and Maxillofacial Surgeons.

Along civic lines, Richard was a member of the Charleston Exchange Club. He also chaired the Medical University’s United Way campaign in 1997. Richard was a lifelong devout Catholic who attended many churches over the years and countries, but last worshiped at St. John the Baptist Catholic Church during his tenure in Charleston.

After visits from his immediate and extended family, Richard passed quietly on Nov. 22, 2022, finally at rest after a slow decline, ending a remarkable life well lived. He is predeceased by his parents, William and Iphigenie, and by his brother and life long friend, John. He is survived by his wife of 64 years, Edwina and three children: Jennifer Aufricht (Cody) of Southlake, Texas; Dr. Suzanne Renfro (Dr. John) of Greenville, S.C.; and Dr. Richard E. DeChamplain (Laura) of Georgetown, 10 grandchildren, Dr. William Aufricht (Joanne), Dr. Graham Aufricht, Madeleine Supplee (Geoff), Sloan, Sarah and Emma Renfro, Dr. Bryce DeChamplain (James), Hunter Lemmons (Leland), Trevor and Pearce DeChamplain.

As he approached the end of his journey, Richard had many wonderful care angels, but the family wishes to recognize and give special thanks to LaFrance Ladson and Faith Sullivan for their dedication to Richard and Edwina’s well-being.

Richard will be cremated, and his ashes spread in sentimental locations in Berlin, New Hampshire, Arlington Memorial Cemetery and New Sterling Church in Stony Point, North Carolina.

To honor Richard, please consider dona tions to the Saint Anne Catholic Church Cathedral Renovation Project (Berlin, New Hampshire).

Lexi Noise is a fresh take on classic rock

By Kate Bryan

Lexi Noise, one of the newest rock outfits in the Charleston scene, is not afraid to experi ment its way to a distinct sound.

The four-piece is composed of lead vocalist Q Wilson, guitarist Mikey Sloan, bassist Jake Mahaney and drummer Keenan Morrissey, who formed the band as students at Elon University in North Carolina. The group moved to Charleston shortly following graduation in 2021.

The band’s initial meeting was “instant chemistry,” according to Sloan, a compli mentary mixture of different viewpoints.

Morrissey added, “All four of us have completely different musical backgrounds in terms of what we grew up listening to and what we enjoy. So, it’s a real melting pot.”

Emerging on the scene right at the tail end of the pandemic allowed Lexi Noise to reap the benefits of students’ cabin fever by putting on house shows and engaging restless audiences with the energy of live performance.

Eager to continue writing new original music after moving to Charleston, the band released a debut full-length album, Broadway Chronicles, in June. While the songs vary stylistically, each track exudes straight ahead rock energy funneled through contemplative instrumentation and often irreverent lyricism.

“For Broadway Chronicles, we really wanted each song to almost be like its own genre. We wanted to make as much variety as possible,” Morrissey told the City Paper.

The group released a new single, “Archangel,” on Oct. 31. The track is as close to old school rock ‘n’ roll as a contemporary indie band can get. The drawling track takes unexpected shifts in tempo and vocal power as it keeps you listening.

The initial guitar part had been written years before by Sloan, but as a slower, more melancholy acoustic riff. After bringing it to the group, they saw another vision for it, and it transformed into the iteration that is heard on “Archangel.”

“At the time, we were all listening to a lot of sort of hard rock songs with a lot of variety and a lot of dynamic switches and we wanted to do something like that. So I had the idea of bringing back that guitar riff, but didn’t know if it was our sound or not, because it’s very dark sounding,” Sloan said. “But the other guys seemed to like it and it was kind of a breeze, writing it structurally and coming up with different parts for it.”

The band’s collaborative songwriting process usually starts with the instrumental structure then moves to melody and lyrics,

which primarily fall to Wilson to pen. Lexi Noise recorded both projects, Broadway Chronicles and “Archangel,” with guitar instructor, musician and producer Chris Holly in Mount Pleasant. The four of them were highly involved in the recording pro cess, saying “it was a lot of hands on mixing and producing” despite it being the act’s first album.

For future projects, Lexi Noise wants to continue on its current path, playing with different influences while leaning into grit

Summers Corner to host holiday showcase

Summerville Orchestra will perform a collection of holiday songs with a 100-voice choir at 3:30 p.m. Dec. 10 at the Summers Corner Performing Arts Center in Summerville. The lobby of the performing arts center will transform into a vendor village so guests can do some holiday shopping and support local businesses. Tickets are $22 and available at summervilleorchestra.org.

The Washout announces December live music

The Washout on Folly Beach offers live local music 8-11 p.m. every Friday and Saturday in December from longtime Charleston acts including rock ‘n’ roll from Big Apple Sour on Dec. 9, Malin Wagnon & Friends on Dec. 17. and Bender Funk on Dec. 30. Dan’s Tramp Stamp & The Money Bags will ring in 2023 at The Washout’s New Year’s Eve party. Check follywashout.com for additional live music information.

Barn Jams set to finish out 2022

Awendaw Green’s rustic outdoor venue has been home to local and regional musicians alike with its weekly Barn Jam showcases. Each show is $10 cash at the door on Wednesday from 5-10 p.m. Guests can enjoy food from Eats by The Roost Bar and Grille, Wood Fired Pizza and Holy City Popcorn Company. Charleston acts include roots music and folk rock from Danielle Howle on Dec. 7 and 28 and Uncle Tim’s Bench on Dec. 21.

Rebel Taqueria offers free local music

Newly expanded North Charleston cantina Rebel Taqueria features local music every Friday and Saturday night for free starting at 9 p.m. Charleston acts include Tommy & the Chucktown Players Dec. 9, Seitu Soloman Steeplan Dec. 10 and Slim S.O.U.L. & Friends hip-hop night Dec. 17. For the full schedule, visit rebeltaqueria.com. Chelsea Grinstead

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Burgeoning Charleston rock act Lexi Noise dropped a new album, Broadway Chronicles , ahead of its new single, “Archangel”

HOSPITALITY is OPPORTUNITY

“Michael Blake started as a dishwasher at Kiawah Island Golf Resort. Now he leads more than 200 employees as director of food and beverage at The Charleston Place, which he calls “the epicenter of Charleston hospitality.”

Michael Blake, Director of Food and Beverage at The Charleston Place

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and entrepreneur Leah Suárez does a little bit of everything. Her boutique creative production house DELALUZ Global offers artistic and event consulting, business and nonprofit planning and development, music booking, voiceover and narration, copywriting, music composition, and media and mar keting campaigns. Unsurprisingly, the “random shuffle” playlist of albums she gave the City Paper is just as varied. Don’t miss her at Art Fête Dec. 10 at The Space (2147 Heriot St.):

Just another story from Kennedy Williams

New school R&B artist Kennedy Williams, who made a space for herself in the Charleston scene in 2019, never really pictured herself pursuing a musical path professionally.

“I kept my relationship with it to myself. I usually only shared my creations with my family,” Williams told the City Paper.

The dynamic changed when Williams began studying at Purdue University Fort Wayne.

“After my freshman year of college, I decided to submit an audition tape to The Voice and they ended up calling me in for a private audition,” Williams said. “Although I did not make it through, that was a major turning point for me.”

That brief encounter proved impactful in that it demonstrated to Williams that there were people in the industry who believed in her enough to give her a chance. “This con fidence made me want to take even bigger chances on myself,” she said. “So, I moved to L.A. and lived with my sister and kind of just threw myself into the scene.”

The first time she moved to California in 2016, artistic growth happened fast. Once there, she quickly started performing live and working in other people’s studios as the

opportunities presented themselves. After a wandering yet wise journey from California to the Holy City and back again, she created a home recording space of her own to craft original material.

Then she took a big step forward in 2020, officially signing with an indepen dent label called Silver Gun Records. “Working with them has been such a blessing,” Williams said. “There is a lot of behind the scenes work that’s involved in the business and marketing of music. SGR has made it a lot easier for me to solely focus on the creative side.”

With that sort of label support, Williams was freed up for composing and curating the exquisite batch of tracks that comprise her newly released debut LP, Just Another Story. Her ethereal song arrangements have funky undertones and bluesy moods, inter weaving electric and acoustic elements with a light touch.

Although, her first album endeavor was anything but a rush job.

“I wrote this album over the course of about five years,” she said. “I think each song on the project really captures where I was at the time. The album is about navigating the highs and lows of a relationship. It’s also about finding peace within yourself and trusting what the universe has in store for you.”

Given her recent round of introspection, it’s not surprising that Williams remains modest about her overall career aspirations.

“At the end of the day, I would just love for people to know me for my music. To hear a song and be like, oh yeah, that’s Kennedy Williams,” she said.

and grunge. “I guess we’re at a point now where maybe we found our sound, but we’d still love to explore different avenues,” Sloan said. “Currently, we’re getting into a heavier sound, an edgier rock sound.”

The group plays a show Dec. 9 at the Tin Roof in West Ashley, a venue the band said has offered integral support for lesser known bands playing original tunes. “Even like 10 people watching you, it makes it worth it,” Sloan said.

Morrissey added, “I think for us, we’re fortunate that music works as our escape. When things are getting too crazy in the world, it really clears our heads.”

Lexi Noise is excited to bring fresh energy to the Charleston musical landscape and

provide a new perspective.

“We’re very different from a lot of bands and a lot of artists around here,” Sloan said. “We want to make our mark. We want to be unique, and when people see our name, they know our sound.”

Musician

Count Basie / Sarah Vaughan - Sarah Vaughan Café Atlántico - Cesária Evora Buena Vista Social Club Presents Omara Portuondo - Omara Portuondo Living in Clip - Ani DiFranco Midnite Vultures - Beck

By Kevin Murphy Wilson

Singer-songwriter Kennedy Williams’ debut album is a grounding, soulful listening experience

For Broadway Chronicles, we really wanted each song to almost be like its own genre. We wanted to make as much variety as possible.” —Keenan Morrissey

CONTENTS

From the Editors

The joy of serving the brewing community 4

Craft Brew Profile Pay it Forward Charleston steps in to help 6

The Hops Master List

Where to find the breweries in the Charleston area 7

Calendar Weekly beer events 11

The Big Story David White is also known as the Dropping Pin Guy

Brewery Visit Indigo Reef has plenty to share 14

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The joy of serving the brewing community

Happy Holidays! Feliz Navidad! Happy Hanukkah! Happy Chrismahanukwanzakah! Joyeuses Fêtes! Forhe Feiertage!

Kyle Wallace: To me, winter weather and the holidays means it’s stout season! You can have a dry Irish stout, oatmeal stout, milk stout but my favorite is the imperial stout. Here are just a few: the Cordial Offering line-up of stouts by Edmund’s Oast, the delights that come out of Westbrook Brewing like Coconaughty and Mexican Cake, and All My Dark Imperial Double by Hobcaw Brewing. Summer is for lagers, but fall and winter are for stouts!

Tarah Gee: Oh, man, Kyle. You forgot one of the best stouts in the market right now — Munkle’s Bourbon Barrel Aged Upstrike Imperial Stout! (My apologies to all who witness my love for this beer in their taproom.)

With this issue, we celebrate the one-year anniversary of HOPS! We would like to thank the beer community and com munity at large for their support. 2022 was an interesting year for the local brewing community. We made some new friends and we lost a few along the way. But we hope to continue serving you and providing you with a place to find what’s hap pening around town.

Speaking of what’s happening around town, here’s a holiday list of activities for you to enjoy:

Stock The Staircase: Stop by Brewlab all month long and help “Stock the Staircase” by purchasing a $5 ornament. All proceeds go to the house charity, SealKids, which helps fund the education for military members’ children. More: sealkids.org

Low Tide’s 7th Annual Ugly Sweater Toy Drive & Karaoke Party: 8 p.m. to 11 p.m., Dec. 9. Chicken Fats food truck. Bring a toy or donate $20 to Our Lady of Mercy and receive $4 beers all night.

Bevi Bene Holiday Market: Dec. 10.

Holiday Home Brew Competition at Rusty Bull: 4 p.m., Dec. 11, 2022. $10 to sample all homebrews. Ugly sweater competition. Toy Drive and Live music.

Hobcaw Holiday Market: 1 p.m. to 5 p.m., Dec. 11. Twentyfive local vendors, live music, bounce house for the kiddos.

Indigo Reet Holiday Party: Dec. 16. Beer specials, ugly sweater contest.

Freehouse Holiday Market: Dec. 17. Local vendors, beer release, food truck and live music.

Charles Towne Fermentory Anniversary Party: Dec. 17, at the Beer Garden. Beer releases, brunch food truck, live music.

Two Blokes Holiday Celebration: Dec. 17. Chewbacky Band, Santa Clause, firkin specials and tacky sweater contest.

Palmetto’s New Year’s Day Brunch: Jan. 1, 2023. Gobble Gobble food truck, live DJ, and more!

Tarah Gee aka Barefoot Beertender

Kyle Wallace aka Charleston Brewery List

Pay it Forward Charleston steps in to help

By Kyle Wallace

Debt is such an ugly word. It means you owe something to someone. Whether it is a home mort gage, car payment or a credit card, most of us owe money somehow. On occasion, we can come up short on these bills. And it may not even be a big one. Car repairs, rent or utility payment. Sometimes, these bills can be devastating — especially in the food and beverage industry, where a lot of people live paycheck to paycheck.

This is where Pay It Forward Charleston steps in.

HOPS magazine recently sat down with Carrie Larson, executive director of Pay It Forward Charleston, and discussed a desire to help others in times of need.

“Our motto is serving those who serve us,” she said. “It’s our way of supporting the Charleston food and beverage community during crises.”

Larson grew up outside of Atlanta, where her father worked for Coca-Cola. She moved to Charleston to pursue a degree in corporate communications at the College of Charleston. While studying, she worked in the food and beverage industry. At the same time, she began working for Charleston’s Spoleto Festival USA and fell in love with the art of event planning. It takes more than nine months of work to do the festival, and Carrie said she enjoyed every minute of it.

While working in this community, she met her husband, Jacques Larson. He has been cooking professionally since 1992, and has helped to open some of Charleston’s favorite restaurants including Peninsula Grill, Union Hall and Mercato. He is now the executive chef at Wild Olive on Johns Island.

In 2015, Carrie Larson joined Slow Food Charleston, the local chapter of the world wide Slow Food International organiza tion. It is dedicated to the farm-to-table movement, conserving agricultural biodi versity and protecting traditional foods. Its mission is to promote healthy living, help sustainability and provide quality into our food system. She is now the board chair of the local chapter.

Carrie Larson’s work in the food and bev erage industry shined a light on the need for occasional assistance. Most F&B workers have to pay for their own doctor’s bills since most restaurants do not offer health insurance. So when they get hurt or sick, these costs are often hard to cover. This was especially promi nent during the outbreak of Covid-19.

She joined Pay It Forward Charleston in November 2020.

“Pay It Forward Charleston began as a

collaboration between farmers, restaurants and community members who united in an effort to feed food and beverage workers during the COVID-19 crisis.”

The organization is the result of Michael Shemtov and the Butcher and Bee group wanting to help the Charleston commu nity. During the Covid crisis with every $10 donated, someone would receive goods purchased at a discounted rate from local farmers. The donations helped local food producers who were affected by restaurants closing and provided fresh food to people out of work. The work was so successful that the group was able to start offering grants to help out the local food and beverage community.

“The average grant is $500 or less,” Carrie Larson said. “We try to process all applicants as quickly as possible. It doesn’t help someone to get funds a couple of months after they need it.” There are guide lines as to what a grant can be applied for. These can be found on the Pay It Forward Charleston website.

“You have to hustle working for a nonprofit,” she added. “You have to find a value for a donor and fight for donor loyalty. But the job is rewarding. You get to work with people that aren’t here for a paycheck. They want to get the word out and find that com munity support.”

Local organizations like Holy City Brewing, Baker and Brewer, and Lowcountry Local First have held events to help raise money. The Charleston Beer Week finale, which was held at The Garden by Charles Towne Fermentory, recently also had a raffle of dozens of items donated by breweries.

If you work in the Charleston food and beverage industry, and need help, visit payitforwardcharleston.org

Provided

Carrie Larson joined Pay It Forward Charleston in 2020

Baker and Brewer

94 Stuart St., Downtown

11 a.m.-10 p.m. daily

Bevi Bene Brewing

1859 Summerville Ave., Downtown

1 p.m.-8 p.m. Monday-Thursday 12 p.m.-9 p.m. Friday and Saturday 12 p.m.-8 p.m Sunday

Brewlab Charleston

2200 Heriot St., Downtown

4 p.m.-9 p.m. Monday-Thursday

1 p.m.-9 p.m. Friday and Saturday 1 p.m.-7 p.m. Sunday

Charles Towne Fermentory

809 Savannah Hwy., West Ashley

2 p.m.-9 p.m. Monday-Thursday 2 p.m.-10 p.m. Friday and Saturday 12 p.m.-7 p.m. Sunday

Coast Brewing Co.

1250 2nd Street North, North Charleston 4 p.m.-7 p.m. Thursday and Friday

Commonhouse Aleworks

4831 O’Hear Ave., North Charleston

Closed Monday 4 p.m.-9 p.m. Tuesday and Wednesday 4 p.m.-10 p.m. Thursday 11:30 a.m.-10 p.m. Friday and Saturday 11 a.m.-9 p.m. Sunday

Cooper River Brewing

Co.

2201 Mechanic Street B, Downtown

Closed Monday-Wednesday

4 p.m.-8 p.m. Thursday

4 p.m.-10 p.m. Friday

2 p.m.-9 p.m. Saturday

2 p.m.-7 p.m. Sunday

Edisto River Brewing Co.

209 Main Road Suite B, Johns Island

Closed Monday-Wednesday

4 p.m.-8 p.m. Thursday

4 p.m.-9 p.m. Friday

2 p.m.-8 p.m. Saturday

12 p.m.-6 p.m. Sunday

Edmund’s Oast Brewpub

1081 Morrison Drive, Downtown

11 a.m.-10 p.m. Monday-Sunday

Edmund’s Oast Brewery

1505 King St., Downtown

11 a.m.-9 p.m. Monday-Sunday

Estuary Beans and Barley

3538 Meeks Farm Road, Johns Island

8 a.m.-9 p.m. Sunday-Wednesday

8 a.m.-10 p.m. Thursday

8 a.m.-11 p.m. Friday and Saturday

Fam’s Brewing Co.

1291 Folly Road, James Island

11 a.m.-10 p.m. Monday-Sunday

Fatty’s Beer Works

1436 Meeting St., Downtown

4 p.m.-9 p.m. Monday-Thursday

4 p.m.-10 p.m. Friday

12 p.m.-10 p.m. Saturday

12 p.m.-6 p.m. Sunday

Baker and Brewer

Bevi Bene Brewing Brewlab Charleston

Charles Towne Fermentory

Coast Brewing Co.

Commonhouse Aleworks

Cooper River Brewing Co.

Edisto River Brewing Co.

Edmund’s Oast Brewpub

Edmund’s Oast Brewery

Estuary Beans and Barley

Fam’s Brewing Co.

Fatty’s Beer Works

Freehouse Brewery

Frothy Beard Brewing Co.

Frothy Beard Off World

Ghost Monkey Brewery

Hobcaw Brewing Co.

Holy City Brewing

Indigo Reef Brewing Co.

LO-Fi Brewing

Low Tide Brewing

Munkle Brewing

New Realm Brewing Co., CHS

Oak Road Brewery

Palmetto Brewing Co. SC

Revelry Brewing

Rusty Bull Brewing

Rusty Bull at Chucktown Brewery

SNAFU Brewing Co.

The Garden by Charles Towne Fermentory

Tidelands Brewing

Tradesman Brewing Co.

Two Blokes Brewing

Westbrook Brewing Co.

Wind and Waves Brewing

Freehouse Brewery

2895 Pringle St., North Charleston

Closed Monday

2 p.m.-8 p.m. Tuesday-Saturday

12 p.m.-6 p.m. Sunday

Frothy Beard Brewing Co.

1401 Sam Rittenberg Blvd. Suite 1, West Ashley

11:30 a.m.-9 p.m. Monday-Wednesday 11:30 a.m.-10 p.m. Thursday-Saturday 11 a.m.-9 p.m. Sunday

Frothy Beard Off World

117 South Main St., Summerville

Closed Monday

4 p.m.-10 p.m. Tuesday-Thursday

11 a.m.-11 p.m. Friday and Saturday 11 a.m.-6 p.m. Sunday

Ghost Monkey Brewery

522 Wando Lane, Mount Pleasant

1 p.m.-8 p.m. Monday-Thursday

1 p.m.-9 p.m. Friday

12 p.m.-9 p.m. Saturday

10:30 a.m.-8 p.m. Sunday

Hobcaw Brewing Co.

496 Long Point Road, Mount Pleasant

Closed Monday and Tuesday

4 p.m.-8 p.m. Wednesday and Thursday

3 p.m.-9 p.m. Friday

1 p.m.-9 p.m. Saturday

12 p.m.-7 p.m. Sunday

Holy City Brewing

1021 Aragon Ave., North Charleston

11 a.m.-10 p.m. Monday-Sunday

Indigo Reef Brewing Co.

2079 Wambaw Creek Unit 1, Daniel Island

Closed Monday

4 p.m.-9 p.m. Tuesday-Thursday 3 p.m.-9 p.m. Friday 12 p.m.-9 p.m. Saturday 11 a.m.-8 p.m. Sunday

LO-Fi Brewing

2038 Meeting St., Downtown

Closed Monday

4 p.m.-7 p.m. Tuesday and Wednesday 4 p.m.-9 p.m. Thursday and Friday 2 p.m.-9 p.m. Saturday 2 p.m.-6 p.m. Sunday

Low Tide Brewing

2863 Maybank Hwy., Johns Island

3 p.m.-10 p.m., Monday-Thursday 12 p.m.-12 a.m. Friday and Saturday 12 p.m.-10 p.m. Sunday

Munkle Brewing

1513 Meeting Street Road, Downtown

2 p.m.-9 p.m. Monday-Thursday

1 p.m.-9 p.m. Friday and Saturday 1 p.m.-8 p.m. Sunday

New Realm Brewing Co., CHS

880 Island Park Drive, Daniel Island

11:30 a.m.-9 p.m. Sunday-Thursday 11:30 a.n.-10 p.m. Friday and Saturday

Oak Road Brewery

108 East 3rd North St. Suite C, Summerville

Closed Monday and Tuesday

3 p.m.-9 p.m. Wednesday-Friday

12 p.m.-9 p.m. Saturday

12 p.m.-6 p.m. Sunday

Palmetto Brewing Co. SC

289 Huger St., Downtown

4 p.m.-10 p.m. Monday-Thursday

12 p.m.-10 p.m. Friday and Saturday

12 p.m.-8 p.m. Sunday

Revelry Brewing

10 Conroy St., Downtown

12 p.m.-10 p.m. Sunday-Thursday

12 p.m.-11 p.m. Friday and Saturday

Rusty Bull Brewing

3005 West Montague Ave. Suite 110, North Charleston

4 p.m.-10 p.m. Monday 12 p.m.-10 p.m. Tuesday-Thursday 12 p.m.-11 p.m. Friday and Saturday 12 p.m.-8 p.m. Sunday

Rusty Bull

at Chucktown Brewery

337 King Street, Charleston, SC 29401

11 a.m. - 10 p.m. Monday

11 a.m. - 11 p.m. Tuesday- Thursday 11 a.m. - 12 a.m. Friday - Saturday 11 a.m. - 10 p.m. Sunday

SNAFU Brewing Co.

3280 Industry Drive, North Charleston

3 p.m.-7 p.m. Monday-Wednesday 3 p.m.-9 p.m. Thursday and Friday

2 p.m.-9 p.m. Saturday 12 p.m.-6 p.m. Sunday

The Garden

by Charles Towne Fermentory

1331 Ashley River Road, Charleston

Closed Monday and Tuesday 2 p.m.-10 p.m. Wednesday-Friday 12 p.m.-10 p.m. Saturday 11 a.m.-8 p.m. Sunday

Tidelands Brewing

4155 Dorchester Road, North Charleston

Closed Monday and Tuesday

11 a.m.-9 p.m. Wednesday and Thursday

11 a.m.-10 p.m. Friday and Saturday 11 a.m.-9 p.m. Sunday

Tradesman Brewing Co.

1647 King Street Extension, Downtown

12 p.m.-8 p.m. Monday-Thursday

12 p.m.-10 p.m. Friday and Saturday 12 p.m.-6 p.m. Sunday

547 Long Point Road Suite 101, Mount Pleasant

4 p.m.-9 p.m. Monday-Wednesday 3 p.m.-9 p.m. Thursday 2 p.m.-9 p.m. Friday 12 p.m.-9 p.m. Saturday 12 p.m.-8 p.m. Sunday

Westbrook Brewing Co.

510 Ridge Road, Mount Pleasant

Closed Monday

4 p.m.-8 p.m. Tuesday-Friday 12 p.m.-6 p.m. Saturday and Sunday

Wind and Waves Brewing

4427 Spruill Ave., North Charleston

4 p.m.-9 p.m. Monday-Thursday 12 p.m.-10 p.m. Friday and Saturday 12 p.m.-7 p.m. Sunday

Editor’s Note: If you know of a new brewery headed to the Charleston area, please let us know at: info@brewhopchs.com.

Amenities Key

Weekly Brewery Calendar

Monday

4-5 p.m. Munkle Brewing Co.

Happy Hour, $2 off pours

6 p.m. Snafu Brewing Company

Name that Tune Trivia

6 p.m. Low Tide Brewing Bingo

6:30 p.m. Brewlab Charleston

Buy two pints, get six wings! Plus, Music Bingo

6:30 p.m. Estuary Beans and Barley Trivia

7 p.m. Baker & Brewer Trivia

Tuesday

4-5 p.m. Munkle Brewing Co.

Happy Hour, $2 off pours

6:30 p.m. Estuary Beans and Barley Music Bingo

7 p.m. Palmetto Brewing Co. Two Fer Trivia Tuesday

7 p.m. Fatty’s Beer Works Phish Nights

7 p.m. Wide Awake Brewing Trivia

Wednesday

4-5 p.m. Munkle Brewing Co.

Happy Hour, $2 off pours

7 p.m. Brewlab Charleston

Burger & Beer Night - $15 Plus, Trivial Trivia

7 p.m. Charles Towne Fermentory Trivia

7 p.m. Low Tide Brewing Trivia

7 p.m. New Realm Brewery

Name that Tune Trivia

7 p.m. Rusty Bull Brewing Trivia (first Wednesday only)

7 p.m. Tidelands Brewing Music Bingo

8 p.m. Fam’s Brewing Co. Trivia

Thursday

All day Brewlab Charleston

Better Call Sal-Sa, 5 tacos for $10

4-5 p.m. Munkle Brewing Co. Happy Hour, $2 off pours

6 p.m. Ghost Monkey Brewery Brewery Bingo

6 p.m. Hobcaw Brewing Co. Team Trivia

6:30 p.m. Indigo Reef Brewing Co. Music Bingo

6:30 p.m. Sanfu Brewing COmpany Bingo

Friday

3 p.m. Revelry Brewing Sun-sets with Sparkbox

4-5 p.m. Munkle Brewing Co. Happy Hour, $2 off pours

Saturday

1-9 p.m. Charleston Brewery District Free trolley Sunday

11-3 p.m. Commonhouse Aleworks Sunday brunch

Coming soon

High Score Brewing — Coming to the Ashley Phosphate Road area in summer of 2023. It plans to feature craft beer and 1970s-90s arcade games in the taproom.

Stone’s Throw Brewing — Stone’s Throw Brewing is set to reopen January 2023 in the former Wide Awake Brewing location with their own concept and remodel of the building.

Leaving the scene

Wide Awake Brewing — Wide Awake Brewing originally opened in the Sangaree area in 2018. In 2020, it closed to begin moving to the fire station in Goose Creek as part of the city’s drive to bring a brewery to the area. It joined with Creek City Grill to have an in-house restaurant food option. In September of this year, the endeavor closed.

David White is also known as the Dropping Pin Guy

By Tarah Gee

“W

e call him the Mayor,” people say.

Of course, David White isn’t the actual mayor of Charleston but that’s the nickname that his friends and family lovingly refer to him as, said Tawana Tolbert, one of White’s “real friends.” White has a lot of friends. You might know him as the Dropping Pin guy. He’s a staple in the Charleston food and wine scene and if you know, you know.

“I’m the black food guy of Charleston,” White proclaimed.

Born and raised in Charleston’s Eastside, White is a stranger to no one. His warm presence and ear-to-ear smile, is welcoming to everyone who crosses his path. White began his love affair with the Charleston community as a young participant in the Boys and Girls Club. After high school grad uation, White traveled up to Orangeburg for college, where he received his bachelor’s and master’s degrees from South Carolina State University.

Upon returning to Charleston, he began working in social services. Soon after, he helped to found the nonprofit, R3 Incorporated, a youth program to help younger generations become integral parts of their communities through activism and academics. R3 has helped juveniles re-enter society and helped students to reach high school graduation. The program also largely supports Laundry Matters, which provides a free, safe space for low-income residents and the homeless to clean their clothes.

“R3 reached out to me as a freelance publicist in 2013,” Tolbert recalls. “I worked on a couple projects and newsletters for them. And then we just became really good friends.” Tolbert’s velvet voice and tone conveys a deep love for White. The two continue to work on multiple projects outside of R3 because naturally when you love

Jay Wayne

Native Charlestonian David White started The Dropping Pin taste and travel blog in 2008

“

Videos and photos have become my forte. Most of my satisfaction comes from hearing friends and family say they enjoyed their experience with a place I have chosen for them.”

—David White

and care about your community as White does, the path opens up for multiple ways to support it.

“Tawana has been around almost since the beginning. She’s the logical one to make my wild ideas make sense. She’s crafty with her words and usually is able to translate my thoughts into what I want to say. She’s been a hip hop publicist in the area for years and coming over to my line of work was new to her. But she’s a beast,” White said.

White has hosted events with Tolbert’s public relations assistance at Edmund’s Oast Exchange, Edmund’s Oast Brewing, Container Bar, The Watch Rooftop Kitchen and Spirits, and Commonhouse Aleworks, just to name a few.

About The Dropping Pin

Way back in 2008, White started a blog called The Dropping Pin, a taste and travel profile.

“This was back before Instagram, when if you wanted to know about an area, you might google “Lowcountry food” or “Charleston food,” White said. If so, you’d find his blog detailing the Charleston food scene. While White admits he’s not much of a writer, he does love taking photos and posting them for people to enjoy.

“Videos and photos have become my forte. Most of my satisfaction comes from hearing friends and family say they enjoyed their experience with a place I have chosen for them.”

From there, things began to fall into place. Restaurants and breweries began reaching out to White to create content for his blog. The networking events grew and then came the collaborations.

During the pandemic, White teamed with Tha CommUnity, a black woman owned brewing concept. Together, they took an idea to Holy City Brewing.

Next, White teamed with Revelry Brewing Company. Owner Sean Fleming described his relationship with White: “He’s always been super supportive of Revelry. When he shows up, it’s a party.” The fit was natural and Revelry was more than happy to work with White, Fleming said.

“Never Let Me Down,” is a brew released in June 2022. The sessionable wheat ale targets a nostalgic Charleston summer day. White’s eyes sparkle just a little more when he talks about this beer and his friend ship with the owners of Revelry. He admits Revelry is his favorite brewery. “I love all kinds of beer but the vibe is something that keeps me coming back.”

“He’s just a good dude,” Fleming said, “and we love to support his mission.”

White’s beer, “Never Let Me Down” is an homage to Kanye West’s College DropOut album from 2004.

“Chris Kemp and I came up with the design and I came up with the name of the beer. It’s one of my favorite songs and speaks triumphantly. It reminds me of where I came from and the adversities I’ve

overcome being a black man in Charleston. It’s also a reminder to always bet on David.”

Looking to a more diverse future

As the craft beer industry continues to grow and we look for more ways to diversify not only our portfolios but our representation, I wonder how I can bring more diversity to my own taproom. I asked White, “How do we as a community get more BIPOC {Black, indigenous and people of color) to apply to our breweries?”

The answer isn’t as easy as it sounds. “We are more than kitchen staff,” he said. “Continuous education, hosting events with black community leaders and working with black travel groups to facilitate tours are all ways to increase exposure to my commu nity. We want to feel like we belong.”

Between various events and projects downtown, White teamed up with Jesse Van Note and Andrew Ross, owners of The Whale, to bring Wu Wednesdays to Charleston. While Wu Wednesday — weekly tribute events for music like that of the Wu-Tang Clan — is not an original con cept and can be found in various locations around the country, White hosts the local meetup, continuously bringing between 40 to50 people to each event. Although it’s not on a consistent schedule, White said he tries to plan at least one a month. The meetup includes a DJ spinning an eclectic mix of jams and the crowd really gets into it.

Other events you can find White include the Black Food Truck Festival, and Charleston Wine and Food.

While White said he enjoys traveling, his heart remains in Charleston for the foresee able future. When he travels, White likes to connect with other influencers in the area and learn the dynamics of that space and how he can bring that knowledge back to Charleston.

“As cliche as it sounds, I want to live like we don’t have tomorrow. Don’t let what you don’t know hold you back,” White said. “My best experience traveling so far was to Barrel and Flow black-owned beer festival in July.” And he said he has more plans to travel soon to San Diego and Colombia. Of course like most beer aficionados, his ulti mate beer destination is Germany.

White is so popular in Charleston that most recently, he had a day declared for him by the city.

“David White Jr. Day is the last Monday in May every year. Mayor [John] Tecklenburg recognized me for the positive contributions to my community through R3 Inc, local youth non-profit and Laundry Matters, the only public laundromat on the Eastside of Charleston that serves as a community center as well. I don’t have a lot of plans for the coming years, but I do designate that weekend, “MemorialDave Weekend” to serve my community and have some fun.”

So maybe he really is the mayor — or could be soon.

The Whale, a craft beer collective

You can find David White hosting Wu Wednesdays at the Charleston location of The Whale inside Meeting Street’s The Refinery. This “craft beer collective” features a tasting room and outside patio with almost daily food trucks and events galore. You can often find a who’s who of the local beer industry gathered here on any given day tasting the newest offerings.

While working at an Asheville brewery, owners Jesse Van Note and Andrew Ross created the idea for a craft beer shop that would pour beers from all over the world. Thus, the first location of The Whale opened in 2017. Since then, three more locations including Charleston have opened. The concept is a hit for old school craft beer lovers and newbies.

Inspired by the 1980s cool vibe of Miami Vice meets 1950s Graceland jungle room, the location is perfectly set for gatherings like Wu Wednesday, a concept executed at all Whale locations, but White is the community connection to bring more diversity into the craft beer community.

Bottle shops like the Whale have been gaining popularity over recent years by bringing in an eclectic mix of offerings from all over the world. From German Helles Lagers to Imperial Stouts and everything in between, they have become not only a place to pick up beer outside the grocery store or by visiting a brewery, but a place to gather. The Whale is only one local bottle shop with more opening every year, including:

• Odyssey Bottle Shop, James Island

• The Brew Cellar, Park Circle, North Charleston

• Edmund’s Oast Exchange , Charleston

• House of Brews, West Ashley

• Stono Bottle Shop, James Island

Photos provided

Follow @thewhalechs on Instagram for Wu Wednesdays and other events

Q&A

Indigo Reef has plenty to share

From staff reports

If you take a short drive up Clements Ferry Road, and turn right into a small business complex, you will find the brewing gem, Indigo Reef Brewing. With a spacious and welcoming patio as well as a taproom with a beautiful bar made of recycled glass,it offers an inviting setting.

With over 10 tap lines, it’s easy to find something here to suit your palate. Beers like the Brewster creation Siren’s Song Pale Ale, Crunchy Peach Kettle Sour and our seasonal favorite — Butter Go Nuts Chocolate and Peanut Butter Porter — pair well with several in-house kitchen options. With live music on the weekends and weekly events, the taproom has plenty to share.

Owners Chris and Nicole Ranere were passionate homebrewers when co-editor Kyle Wallace first met them in 2018 at a gathering of Lowcountry Libations Home Brew Clu8. The brewery was already under construction, opening in June 2019.

Dedicated to brewing with sustain ability, cold water is used to knock out the beers but recaptured in its hot liquor tank to be reused on the next brew. Empty grain bags are reused as trash bags. Spent grain from the brews goes to local farmers to feed animals.

“We realize our actions won’t singlehand edly reverse the damage already done, but we operate under the mindset that every little bit helps,” Ranere said.

HOPS sat down for a Q&A with Indigo Reef.

Where did the name Indigo Reef come from?

Chris Ranere: Nicole and I are both scuba divers and love how calm and

relaxing diving is. We wanted to pull this through to our beers and taproom and thought “reef” would be a perfect way to do it. We also wanted to include a local component to the name without saying “Charleston Reef,” so we decided to go with Indigo as it was a cash crop used in the lowcountry.

What is your history as a brewer?

CR: Nicole and I started out as home brewers many moons ago. When we toyed with the idea of opening a brewery, a brewing assistant position opened up at Two Blokes, and I took it. Matty [Symons] was amazing and helped me learn the production elements of brewing on the “big” system.

You have a strong female team. How did Jen Skoy Krizan come into your concept?

CR: Funny story — At one of the brew ery’s anniversary parties, Jen and I were talking about diving, beer and all the fun

Chris and Nicole Ranere with a brewery mascot

things. She mentioned that she would love to work at IRBC, and I said that we would love to have her. Given how loud the music was (and how many beers we had had) we had to regroup the next day to make sure we were on the same page (Ha!). She has been a great asset to IRBC. When our pre vious Taproom Manager left, Jen stepped in to fill the position until we could find a new taproom manager (Tessa). All of our accounts and reps from Lowcountry Craft love working with Jen as well! (Krizan is the leader of the local Girls Pint Out Club.

CR: From the beginning, Nicole and I have always said slow and steady growth is the key to success. As Clements Ferry Rd continues to grow we are sure that we will see more people in the taproom. Our short term next steps are to get a few more fer mentation tanks, increase our distribution footprint and also to continue to grow our brewery family. My long-term dream is to open a small brewery on one of the barrier islands that focuses on tiki-drinks and fun tiki-themed beers.

What are your long-term plans for the brewery?

Photos by Reese Moore Photography