Charleston City Paper Vol. 26 Issue 20

How you can help S.C.’s birds

By Chelsea Grinstead

Charleston City Councilman Ross Appel has photographed birds for the past five years to disconnect, slow down and appreciate what nature has to offer.

“The Lowcountry is a beautiful place with incredible wildlife — if you know where to look,” Appel told the Charleston City Paper

North America has lost nearly 3 billion birds since 1970, according to the Cornell Lab of Ornithology.

“These losses are an unacceptable tragedy and must serve as a wake-up call for all of humanity,” said Appel, who lives in West Ashley.

“Birds are dynamic, resilient animals — but they need us to chill out,” he said.

“Let’s give them a chance by dedicating ourselves to meaningful conservation investments for future generations.”

South Carolina bird conservationists say it’s not too late to do your part to help sustain the birds that migrate to and nest in South Carolina.

The City Paper spoke with S.C. wildlife advocates to hear how the Charleston community can take steps to increase food supply, habitats and safety for Lowcountry bird populations.

Make your property more supportive of wildlife

Conservationist Jay Keck of Chapin, South Carolina, said birds changed his life.

“I was hooked,” Keck told the City Paper “As I began to learn more and more about birds and why they were here, I also learned the challenges they have and how many of them are in decline.”

As a habitat manager with the South Carolina Wildlife Federation since 2018 in Columbia, Keck has educated communities on how to enhance properties such as libraries, churches, schools and corporate headquarters to be more hospitable to wildlife habitats.

• Learn more about creating wildlife-friendly landscapes in your backyard, public parks and community gardens by visiting the National Wildlife Federation at nwf.org to find the certification requirements for its Garden for Wildlife programs.

Installing bird boxes is another way to make properties more sustainable for birds, said Charleston conservationist Jennifer McCarthy Tyrrell of Audubon South Carolina.

Charleston area species that benefit from bird boxes include the Eastern bluebird, Carolina chickadee, tufted titmouse, great crested flycatcher, brown-headed nuthatch, Eastern screech owl, barred owl and wood duck, said Tyrrell, the organization’s engagement manager. Wild Birds Unlimited stores carry species-specific boxes at its Mount Pleasant, West Ashley and Summerville locations.

• Visit NestWatch.org to learn how to get involved by building a bird box or donating to the cause.

Top killers of birds include outdoor

domestic cats and window strikes from birds colliding with buildings, Keck said. Keeping cats indoors and using methods to make windows less reflective for birds are game-changers for bird populations struggling to survive.

“I talk to groups of people all the time and ask, ‘How many people in here have ever had a bird run into their window?’ ” Tyrrell added. “Almost every single person raises their hand, which really speaks to the wide breadth of the issue.”

• Visit the National Audubon Society at audubon.org to learn how to reduce window collisions.

Reduce pesticides and increase native plants

People don’t have to do anything grand to help out birds, Keck said. For example, some of the most effective things people can do is stop using toxic pesticides outdoors and add native plants to their yards.

“If we reduce pesticides going into our lawns — which eventually make it into waterways — that can increase the insects, which increases the birds’ food source,” he said. “Something as simple as that — that’s conservation.”

And it’s not as if everyone will be inundated by mosquitos, Keck added.

The Rundown

Three file for vacant school board seat

Three candidates will face each other in a special Feb. 7 Charleston County school board election to fill a West Ashley seat that the November winner didn’t take.

Newcomers Daron Lee Calhoun II and Theresa Griffith, both of West Ashley, will face former West Ashley principal Lee Runyon in the special election for District 6 school board trustee. Runyon came in second in a field of four last month.

Early voting will start Jan. 23 at the commission’s office in North Charleston. Hours are 8:30 a.m. to 5 p.m., Monday through Friday. Visit CharlestonCityPaper.com to read more.

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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.

—Editorial in The (Orangeburg) Times

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“A community that cares is made up of people who care — people who obey laws and go beyond in showing respect and affection for their locale and the people who are its residents.”

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Researchers say North America has lost 3 billion birds since 1970. Installing a bird box in your yard could help South Carolina birds, like the barred owl (above) .

United to buy 100 S.C.-made Boeing 787 Dreamliners

Airline has options to buy 100 more

By Andy Brack

United Airlines Tuesday morning announced it will buy 100 Boeing 787 Dreamliners — all of which are built in North Charleston — in a fleet modernization deal that will stretch to 2032. And to make the news even sweeter for thousands of local workers, United says it has options to buy 100 more of the jets.

Here’s the magnitude of the transaction: The company will spend at least $20 billion over the next two years on part of the order for jets made locally.

“What better endorsement of North Charleston and its workforce than with

United Airlines completing the largest purchase of widebody jets in commercial aviation history, all to be manufactured in our city,” North Charleston Mayor Keith Summey said Tuesday. “In North Charleston, we build innovative jets, and we are mighty proud of it.”

Top United officials wouldn’t reveal the total value of the package, but Boeing workers were likely all smiles in North Charleston Tuesday when the two companies formally made the historic announcement.

United executives said the deal was the largest widebody jet order by a U.S. carrier in commercial aviation history. The jets will be a backbone of the company’s

Don’t disturb shore birds

Minimizing pesticide use supports leaf hoppers, moths and butterflies.

“Birds rely heavily on insects and because we plant so many non-native species like crape myrtles and Asian azaleas, the insect population is taking a nosedive,” Tyrrell added. “Birds don’t have enough insects to feed their chicks to actually raise them out of the nest.”

Keck also said to purchase native plants at local plant nurseries, such as Roots and Shoots Nursery in West Ashley which has more than 175 native varieties.

He added that just learning about birds is a step in the right direction to valuing their existence.

Endangered shore birds that nest on Charleston shores include least terns, brown pelicans, black skimmers, Wilson’s plovers and oyster catchers, Tyrrell said.

“Shore birds are losing habitat very quickly due to sea level rise, climate change and human disturbances that kill chicks or scare nesters away from protecting their eggs which then cook in the sun,” Tyrrell said.

You can volunteer with Audubon S.C.’s Shorebirds Stewards program to help protect shore bird colonies during nesting season by discouraging people from walking through flocks or letting dogs off the leash.

“Walking through the birds’ [habitat] increases their stress levels,” she said. “It takes away from their foraging time and might encourage them to move on to a different place that maybe isn’t as productive for food sources. So you don’t want to mess with them.”

• Check out the National Audubon Society’s Bird-Friendly Communities and Lights Out programs at audubon.org to learn how to

United is adding to its fleet of

strategy to maintain and expand its position as the nation’s top international carrier to European and Pacific destinations.

“Everything at United — despite all of the challenges around the world — feels like it’s hitting on all cylinders,” United CEO Scott Kirby said in a Monday evening conference call with reporters.

United’s senior executives gushed at the capabilities of the 787, which comes in three sizes. And that flexibility, along with the fuel efficiency of the jet, is what makes it attractive for long-term plans.

“These aircraft will unlock our poten-

be more hospitable to birds in urban and suburban environments.

“Turning the lights out during migration seasons is really important because birds migrate at night to avoid predators,” Tyrrell said. “Birds use the moon and the stars and different solar cues to navigate, and lights disorient them.”

Nurture avian appreciation

The City Paper also caught up with conservation and cultural ornithologist J. Drew Lanham of Clemson University after his Dec. 8 visit to ACE Basin National Wildlife Refuge south of Charleston.

“All of those birds on that National Wildlife Refuge are there in large part because of something that every single person can do: purchase a migratory waterfowl stamp, or a federal duck stamp,” Lanham said. “A large proportion of the money [generated from] duck stamps goes back into the till for conservation. I always tell folks that one of the ways to be a conser-

vation activist is to buy a duck stamp.”

But conservation funding falls short if there is no personal motivation for people, Lanham said, who was recently awarded a 2022 MacArthur fellowship for his new model of conservation.

“I’m often disturbed by how often we talk about conservation, but we really don’t move beyond the conversation to do the conservation,” he said.

To Lanham, conservation starts with realizing birds and humans are intricately connected.

“A mantra that I frequently cite is: ‘Same air, same water, same soil, same earth, same fate,’ ” he said. “Birds and human beings will share the same fate — we are all canaries in the coal mine and it’s up to us to be motivated. We need to be inspired to do what’s right and to think broadly and not just the same way that we’ve always thought.”

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tial more than ever,” said Andrew Nocella, United’s chief commercial officer. “The 787 is an amazing jet.”

The company’s initial order of 100 Boeing 787s will replace all of United’s older Boeing 767s and some of its 777 fleet. If the company exercises its option to buy up to 100 more 787s, “think about those as opportunities as we are able to expand our international franchise,” said United Chief Financial Officer Gerry Laderman.

According to a news release, the company is expected to purchase about 700 new narrow and widebody aircraft like the 787 by the end of 2032. That means the company will get an average of two new jets every week next year and more than three every week in 2024.

More about the Boeing 787

The Dreamliner is a preferred commercial jet because of its flexibility. The smaller model can make transcontinental flights, while the medium-sized 787-9 model is good for long-range flights. The largest model seats up to 300 passengers and can fly long core flights to Japan and Europe, United officials said Monday.

Furthermore, the Dreamliner offers leading-edge fuel efficiency, which United said should help it cut carbon emissions by 25% per seat compared to the existing fleet. Kirby said Tuesday’s announcement reflects how the company is accelerating its plan “to connect more people to more places around the globe and deliver the best experience in the sky.”

In United’s statement, Boeing President and CEO Stan Deal is quoted as saying, “The Boeing team is honored by United’s trust in our family of airplanes to connect people and transport cargo around the world for decades to come.”

More international travel

A key component of United’s long-term strategy is a bet that international travel will increase from the United States. According to the company, it has added 13 new international destinations and 40 new international routes in the last two years. Its hubs serve scores of destinations. For example, Newark Liberty International Airport now serves 78 international destinations, George Bush Intercontinental Airport in Houston serves 56 and Washington Dulles International Airport serves 41.

Also of note: United will fly nonstop to 37 cities in Europe, Africa, India and the Middle East by next summer. It will also serve 20 transpacific routes at the beginning of 2023, the company said.

Also announced as part of the deal with Boeing was purchase of 44 of Boeing’s 737 MAX jets and an option to buy 56 more.

A woman’s 16-year-old son was being so disobedient and defiant that she called the Charleston police Nov. 30, according to a police report. Her son was reportedly upset that she didn’t make any food for him. The son’s therapist advised the parents to call the police if his behavior was inciting fear and anxiety. When officers arrived at the home, they got him “to relax and go to bed.” No word on whether they tucked him in.

Remote real estate

Charleston police received a call from a man who lives in Ohio and said he owns a property on Johns Island. He reported that a man had stolen his identity and attempted to sell the property by listing it for sale at $499,000. The rest of the police report was redacted, so no word on whether the perpetrator snagged an offer.

Mixup

An intoxicated man wandered into a West Ashley hotel room and fell asleep on a couch Dec. 3, according to a police report. Turns out it wasn’t his room, so the occupant called the cops. The drunk intruder was arrested for disorderly conduct.

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f there’s one thing South Carolinians seem to have in common, it’s that they don’t want people telling them what to do.

“Don’t tread on me,” a dead South Carolinian once said.

“Don’t tell me I have to wear a mask,” a live one says today.

“Don’t tell me I have to wear a motorcycle helmet,” an injured resident might say.

These attitudes highlight how South Carolina is the natural place where people should get mightily upset when somebody tries to tell them what not to read.

Oh, if that were the case. These days, unfortunately and counterintuitively for South Carolina, it’s much more likely that you’ll encounter more book nannies who want to ban books than book lovers who want you to make up your own mind about your personal reading list.

So in the spirit of St. Nick, here’s a shopping list of outstanding books for adults that have been banned somewhere. Make one a gift:

• The Bluest Eye by Toni Morrison

• The Kite Runner by Khaled Hosseini

• Hunger Games by Suzanne Collins

• Fifty Shades of Grey by E. L. James

• To Kill a Mockingbird  by Harper Lee

• A Brave New World  by Aldous Huxley

• Of Mice and Men by John Steinbeck

• The Handmaid’s Tale by Margaret Atwood

• The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn by Mark Twain

• Nickel and Dimed  by Barbara Ehrenreich

• Persepolis by Marjane Satrapi

• Beloved  by Toni Morrison

• The Catcher in the Rye by J. D. Salinger

• The Color Purple by Alice Walker

• The Holy Bible

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• Anne Frank: Diary of a Young Girl  by Anne Frank

• House of the Spirits by Isabel Allende

• Lolita

• 1984 by George Orwell

• A Clockwork Orange by Anthony Burgess

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This last book, written in 1967, is an antiwar classic that has been banned many times. In 1973, the head of a North Dakota school board ordered 32 copies to be taken from students and burned. Vonnegut wrote a forceful, outraged letter, which included this passage:

“If you were to bother to read my books, to behave as educated persons would, you would learn that they are not sexy, and do not argue in favor of wildness of any kind. They beg that people be kinder and more responsible than they often are. …

“After I have said all this, I am sure you are still ready to respond, in effect, ‘Yes, yes — but it still remains our right and our responsibility to decide what books our children are going to be made to read in our community.’ This is surely so. But it is also true that if you exercise that right and fulfill that responsibility in an ignorant, harsh, un-American manner, then people are entitled to call you bad citizens and fools. Even your own children are entitled to call you that.”

So give a banned book. And happy holidays! (Please don’t write us about the conspiracy against Christmas; we offer this closing as a seasonal greeting for all of this month’s holidays, including Christmas.)

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I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings by Maya Angelou

Year of Wonders by Geraldine Brooks

Slaughterhouse Five by Kurt Vonnegut

Revenge and

By Kevin Young

The movie’s opening is an extreme closeup of a man’s mouth as he spouts, “I would sell a Black man a boat, quicker than a cat can lick his ass, and that’s the way I feel about it now.

I was brought up that way. We didn’t know any prejudice. We were all just brothers together and that’s the way I feel about it now.”

Then the title of the film, The Corndog Man, flashes on the screen. The man spouting caustic banter into a phone is the appropriately named Ace Barker, a good-old-boy boat salesman in his late 60s. While Barker wheels and deals on the phone, his co-workers at Triple K Marine make in-person sales, engage in a bathroom peeping game and nosh on, you guessed it, corndogs. Make no mistake. This is an odd movie. Made 23 years ago, it’s kind of hard to find a physical copy these days. It’s a little creepy. And it certainly doesn’t come up in cocktail party conversation. But it may be the best independent movie made in Charleston — that you’ve never seen.

Over the course of the movie’s 83 minutes, Barker endures harassment from one old-school caller in particular which slowly unveils an ugly tale of historical blindspots, Southern hypocrisy and vengeance.

Shot in the late 1990s in suburban backyards, local bars, parking lots and a thendevastated Park

The best Charleston indie movie you’ve never seen?

Noble Willingham (above) stars in the obscure film The Corndog Man as boat salesman Ace Barker

Circle, which doubled as the fictional town of Bougherville (population 2,007). The Corndog crew included Trident Tech film staff, students and local talent — such as Theatre 99’s Timmy Finch and Greg Tavares.

The Corndog Man cruised the film festival circuit, including the esteemed Sundance Film Festival. While the film was praised for its economic storytelling on what was an equally economic budget, the film never truly entered the public consciousness and quietly wound up on VHS in 1999. Even many within the film industry never saw it, despite the recognizable veteran character actor Noble Willingham as the lead.

Paul Brown, owner of the Terrace Theater, recalled seeing the film being peddled on the filmfest circuit as he himself was pushing a film of his own.

“It was on the indie circuit as I produced Sole Survivor,” he recalled. “I remember seeing it out there but never actually getting to see it.”

“Here was this ‘little film’ that was so much more living and powerful than all the other ‘big films’ that had been shot here — but no one seemed to have ever heard of it.” —Harlan Greene

mercial and pretty thin,” he said in a recent interview. “But this one was earnest and passionate and had guts. It had something to say and it said it in a way that carried a powerful emotional kick.

Four more films you might not know

While the local movie industry has had its share of hits, it’s also had its share of misses.

A few of those misses could also be categorized as underrated or even cult classics. Here are four flicks shot in the Charleston area you need to know about:

Swamp Thing

Wes Craven, the man who gave us Scream and A Nightmare On Elm Street, took time in 1982 between scaring the bejesus out of audiences to make a monster superhero flick. In Swamp Thing, botanist Alec Holland (Ray Wise) is trying to create a new life when a horrible accident turns into a half-man/half-plant. With special government agent Alice Cable (Adrienne Barbeau) at his side, they fight off a mad scientist Anton Arcane (Louis Jourdan) and his henchmen in sections of Magnolia Plantation and Gardens.

Philadelphia Experiment

The same year Michael Paré was in Walter Hill’s Streets Of Fire he starred alongside Nancy Allen in this 1984 sci-fi flick directed by Stewart Raffill, the man who would go on to direct such cinematic oddities as Mac and Me and Tammy and the T-Rex. In the film, it’s 1943 and Paré’s David Herdeg and another sailor, Jim Parker (Bobby Di Cicco), find themselves in the future — 1984 — when an experiment on the USS Eldridge (aka the USS Laffey on exhibit at Patriots Point) goes awry. What follows is a race against time to eradicate that experiment which could create a worldwide catastrophe.

The Boyfriend School

The 23-year-old movie took the festival route before it hit stores and video rentals on VHS. You can now buy or rent it on Amazon Video, Apple TV and other streaming services.

Back in the days of Armageddon, X-Files and Chumbawamba, it was still rare for a movie — studio or indie — to be shot in Charleston. Everyone knew about “this Corndog movie” being shot in town. But to this day, any mention of Andrew Shea’s film is generally met with quizzical looks. It has floated under the film radar, available only as a standard definition streaming option with a miniscule fanbase.

Telling everyone about the film

Charleston writer and historian Harlan Greene hopes to change that. To some, The Corndog Man may seem like a trivial, grimy and sweaty exploitation piece. Greene sees much more.

So many films had been done in Charleston, but they were slick and com-

“Another irony — here was this ‘little film’ that was so much more living and powerful than all the other ‘big films’ that had been shot here — but no one seemed to have ever heard of it. In examining injustice, the film seems to have somehow courted that same fate. Ever since I’ve seen it, I’ve been touting it to everyone I know.”

Greene’s discovery and ultimate fandom of the movie took a roundabout path. After he received funding a few years ago to start documenting local LGBTQ life, Greene set out to start doing oral histories, collecting manuscript and ephemeral materials.

“I had grown up out here, worked in archives my whole life, and suddenly was goosed into realizing that no archive had ever set out to collect materials on the community,” he said. “I remembered [actor]

The Charleston area was mired in late 1980s starpower thanks to Malcolm Mowbray’s 1990 production (Don’t Tell Her It’s Me). A Police Academy graduate (Steve Guttenberg) plays Gus, a cancer survivor pining for a woman who used to cavort with Lost Boys’ (Jami Gertz) with a little help from his sister, a Cheers bartender (Shelley Long) and a little hindrance from a Twin Peaks resident (Kyle MacLachlan). The shots of Charleston scenery on James Island, Sullivan’s Island and the old Cooper River Bridge are to die for. But even more memorable is the long-ass mullet Gus dons when he remakes himself as a motorcycle-riding bad boy from New Zealand.

Deadly Pursuits

Do you like Tori Spelling? Sure, we all do. Not many people remember this 1996 TV movie about student Tim Faulkner (Patrick Muldoon) who returns home from college to find that his mom and sister have been killed. With his missing father being the chief suspect, Tim sets out to prove his innocence. He gets help from a quirky girl named Meredith (Spelling) who he meets on the way to a town that looks suspiciously like downtown Charleston. Under the classic definition, it is not a good movie. Best scene involves Meredith attempting a sexy dance to a saxophonist on what looks like Meeting Street. —Kevin Young

Courtesy Corndog Productions

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Bryan Seabrook from my bar days — he appeared as Africa, a very outspoken, very elegant African American drag queen who was an icon of sorts.

“Photographer Greg Day had taken dramatic images of Bryan/Africa that enshrined her that way. She had died by this time, and so I could not interview her — but when I interviewed others, many people had stories about Africa. I was interviewing Tom Lamme, who had worked at many of the bars in Charleston, and he said, ‘You know she was in two movies — and for one she received screen credit.’

“Tom told me the name of the movie, and I looked it up. I sat down to watch it with no great expectations. When it was over and I lifted my jaw off the floor, I knew I had to find out more.”

No spoiler

Without giving away spoilers, Greene sees Willingham’s Barker as a man who is caught in a trap he himself built and, ultimately, can only be with those he ostensibly despises. For Greene, the film is a whodunit that escalates into a morality play that feels more relevant today than when it was originally released.

“We’ve always been stalked by the demon of racism in the South, hiding

behind the skirts of politeness,” Greene said. “Homophobia is certainly an issue, transphobia even more escalatingly so. And today they have been weaponized in a way that no one dreamed about (or had nightmares about) 20 years ago.”

When asked about the representation of racism, transphobia and homophobia in the film, Greene said, “It’s a booby trap to discuss these things these days in some ways. But art is a way of doing it, and in talking about art, which this film is, we need freedom to speak. There are no stereotypes here — because the characters are human, flawed, good and bad and literally, we are them. So many of these actors are Charlestonians. So many scenes were filmed here.

“While we may think we are more elegant, more polite and more civilized than what’s in this film, we as a society are prone to the movie’s themes. So there’s no reason to chastise or get on soapboxes about representation in this film. There’s a cisgender white man portraying a cisgender white man. There’s a trans African American portraying a trans African American. And who cares who wrote the script or directed it? The actors inhabit it and if it’s painful to watch, so is reading or watching the news. But the film offers us something the horrors of the day do not — it’s art, and it delivers catharsis.”

Kevin Young, a longtime City Paper freelance writer, specializes in films.

Images courtesy Corndog Productions

The Corndog Man offers “current”-day tales of bigotry — including Bryan “Ms. Africa” Seabrook’s character (above, right) — and flashbacks to Ace Barker’s bootcamp days (below)

What To Do

8th Annual Holy City Holiday Market

Spread holiday cheer by supporting Charleston artisans and small businesses at the Holy City Holiday Market. Holy City Brewing, Firefly Distillery, Roadside Blooms, The Station Park Circle, Ship’s Wheel Hard Cider, Commonhouse Aleworks, The Codfather and Nippitaty Distillery will host pop-up markets that bring together more than 200 Charleston vendors. Guests are encouraged to walk, bike or ride in golf carts throughout the block party festivities.

Dec. 17. 12-5 p.m. Various Park Circle locations. North Charleston. facebook.com

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WEDNESDAY

A Christmas Carol

Charleston Stage brings an all-new theatrical production of A Christmas Carol to Dock Street Theatre. This performance reinvigorates the 200-year-old story of rediscovering the meaning of Christmas with a vibrant musical score and magical special effects that evoke nostalgia and wonder. The inventive set design features a dozen hand painted backdrops and more than 80 original costumes.

Dec. 14-21. 2/7:30 p.m. $46.50-$85.50. Dock Street Theatre. 135 Church St. Downtown. Charlestonstage.com

THURSDAY

Jazz night at Credit One Stadium’s ice rink

In lieu of snowfall in the Lowcountry, Credit One Stadium has transformed into an outdoor ice rink to bring the holiday spirit to life with cozy fire pits and holiday concessions such as hot cocoa, cider and seasonal cocktails. Lace up your skates and move along to live music from Grammy Award-winning trumpeter Charlton Singleton and his ensemble, The Contemporary Flow.

Dec. 15. $10; $150 VIP. Times vary. Credit One Stadium. 161 Seven Farms Drive. Daniel Island. Creditonestadium.com

SATURDAY America’s First Museum exhibition

A new year-long exhibit entitled America’s First Museum: 250 Years of Collecting, Preserving, and Educating will be on display to celebrate The Charleston Museum’s founding 250 years ago. Part one of the exhibit is open through June 4, showcasing objects from Ancient Rome, a helmet from 1798, Colonial dress and Japanese Samurai armor.

Dec.17-June 4. 9 a.m-5 p.m. $5-$25. The Charleston Museum. 360 Meeting St. Downtown. charlestonmusuem.org

SUNDAY

Celtic Woman: A Christmas Symphony

Enjoy the season’s merriment with Irish fanfare from Celtic Woman, a famous all-female ensemble with orchestral renditions of Silent Night and Deck the Halls that shine with ethereal vocals and the sounds of the harp and bagpipes. Celtic Woman ensemble has a rich legacy of Billboard No. 1 hits and has accrued more than 2 billion online streams.

Dec. 18. 7:30 p.m. $45 - $113. Charleston Gaillard Center. 95 Calhoun St. Downtown. gaillardcenter.org

Olde Colony Bakery’s new chapter

By Abby Tierney

For Sheila and Peter Rix, the longtime owners of Mount Pleasant’s Olde Colony Bakery, a career spanning 31 years has recently come to a close. After decades at the Olde Colony helm, the couple announced their retirement in October. Local business partners — and self-proclaimed devotees of the bakery — Ben Gramling and Mikell Harper took over ownership of the Lowcountry institution.

The venture represents an independent project, the new owners said, and it’s not their first foray into the food and beverage space. Also owners of Water’s Edge restaurant on Shem Creek, Gramling and Harper view the acquisition as another meaningful investment, and a rare chance to sustain a local legacy.

The Rix family vision

At the bakery, business was always a family affair. “I was 11 when we took over,” said Phil Rix, son of the former owners. “It was slightly by accident, and slightly my dad’s good business sense.”

At the urging of a family member in 1990, Peter traveled from Pittsburgh to Charleston to explore possible business opportunities. He first encountered the Olde Colony Bakery’s benne wafer — a crisp, sesame-studded staple of the Lowcountry. While savory iterations are also common, the bakery claimed the oldest known recipe for the sweet wafer, dating back more than 100 years. To Peter’s delight, the bakery was for sale.

“He bought the bakery for the benne wafers, essentially,” Phil said. At the time, his father already boasted a robust food and beverage background, formerly heading up the dining programs at Harvard University and the University of Pittsburgh. By 1990, Olde Colony, which had changed hands several times since its opening in the late 1940s (the Rix family is unsure of the exact date), was struggling.

“Our vision was to change it from a traditional mom-and-pop shop to more of a factory operation,” Phil said. Meanwhile, Charleston was growing rapidly with transplants and travelers flooding in by the year.

“As the city got more popular, so did the benne wafer,” Phil added. “Consequently, so did we.”

Olde Colony linked to benne wafers

It wasn’t long before the reinvigorated Olde Colony became synonymous with the product. The thin, coin-like wafers, packaged with the bakery’s signature gold label, could be found across the region and beyond, including on grocery store shelves, such as Harris Teeter and Publix.

The Rix family had all hands on deck in the bakery’s former downtown Charleston location.

“I’ve done everything from scrubbing dishes, replacing toilets and mopping floors to developing recipes,” Phil said. “That’s how it goes in a family business — at the end of the day, it’s all up to you.

“My dad is a fantastic cook, so I learned a lot from him, as well as the professional folks who were in the kitchen when we bought the bakery,” Phil said. “Sometimes it was like having 20 parents. Eartha Keith, who decorated our cakes, must have worked at the bakery for 40 years. She was like my mom when my mom was busy in the store.”

Through it all, the bakery’s simple benne wafer recipe has remained unchanged.

Looking for new owners

For the Rix family, preserving the wafer’s

integrity — and the bakery’s enduring spirit — has always been paramount. The value held true when, earlier this year, the family decided it was time to sell the beloved business.

Despite interest in expanding to North Carolina and Georgia, the family was adamant that the business remain headquartered in the Lowcountry.

“It seemed silly for a Charleston cookie to be made anywhere else,” Phil said. Earlier this year, an offer arrived from Gramling and Harper, partners in Gramling Brothers Real Estate and Development, a multigenerational Charleston firm.

Drawn to the bakery’s success, the duo had a personal angle, too. Avid patrons Harper and his wife had family members who had visited the bakery during its early days at its former King Street location (it’s now located off of Long Point Road in Mount Pleasant).

“When our family bought it, the goal was to get it back to its glory days,” Phil said. “We took that seriously, and so do they. They want to keep the tradition alive.”

The sale, which closed in August, seemed a perfect fit, Harper said. “We’ve been customers for a long time — we’ve personally consumed a lot of their profits,” he laughed.

Intent on continuing the Olde Colony legacy, the new owners said they plan to stay the course, while continuing to thoughtfully grow the brand’s national presence.

“The bakery is very closely associated with Charleston, and folks around here know it well. We don’t intend to change much,” Harper said. “Our goal would be to carefully grow and expand, but we plan to keep the team in place, and be very deliberate in what we’re doing.”

A la carte

Holiday happenings

Cold Shoulder Gourmet in West Ashley will provide free Christmasthemed sandwiches and coffee for those with low food security 10 a.m.-4 p.m. Dec. 25. Cold Shoulder also has a donation box for people to drop off canned and dried goods.

Blind Tiger is celebrating 12 days of Christmas with daily specials from now until Dec. 25. Party with Santa Claus Dec. 17 from 1-4 p.m., meet new friends during a North Pole Mixer Dec. 22 from 5-8 p.m. or indulge in a prime rib dinner on Christmas Eve.

The Loutrel will offer cocktail specials with locally made gin and vodka from Nippitaty Distillery Specials include Winter’s Kiss, made with butterfly pea-infused Nippitaty gin and lemon Champagne sorbet, or Flipping Apple Pie, an apple pie in a cocktail made with Nippitaty cinnamon apple gin.

CODfather hosts the 5th Annual Christmas Market and Celebration Dec. 17 from 12-5 p.m with live music, 40 different vendors, Santa Claus, a Miss Winter Wonderland contest, holiday treats and more.

What’s new?

Striped Pig Distillery is expanding operations in Charleston County with a $10 million investment. The 24,000-square-foot expansion will accommodate a new bottling line and event space, as well as create more than 50 new jobs in the area. The expansion is expected to finish summer 2023.

Uptown Hospitality Group, owners of Uptown Social, Bodega and Share House, partnered with Brewlab for three exclusive beers as homage to its establishments. The three beers, House Party, Great in Bread and Social Butterfly, can be purchased exclusively at Uptown Social, Bodega and Share House.

Sweetgrass Vodka officially launched its Sweetgrass Lounge , serving crafted cocktails mixed with the locally made spirit. The lounge’s cocktails feature colorful ingredients like “ube” (purple yam), yuzu, espresso, thyme and more. Sweetgrass Lounge is open daily 4-10 p.m. and located at The Refinery at 1640 Meeting St.

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Phil Rix

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Olde Colony Bakery’s new owners plan to preserve the bakery’s 100-year-old benne wafer recipe

Dream Dinner

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STATE OF SOUTH CAROLINA COUNTY OF BERKELEY IN THE FAMILY COURT FOR THE NINTH JUDICIAL CIRCUIT DOCKET NO. 2022-DR-08-1338

SOUTH CAROLINA DEPARTMENT OF SOCIAL SERVICES VERSUS JAMIE SANCHEZ, SHEILA BENJAMIN, SHAWN RICHARDSON, GORDAN BENJAMIN AND PRESTON PROCHASKA DEFENDANTS. IN THE INTERESTS OF: MINOR CHILDREN BORN IN 2016, 2017, AND 2019.

TO DEFENDANT: JAMIE SANCHEZ, YOU ARE HEREBY SUMMONED 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 Complaint 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.

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

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

TO DEFENDANT: KE’DERION HUGHES

YOU ARE HEREBY SUMMONED 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 Complaint will be delivered to you upon request from the Charleston County Clerk of Court, and you must serve a copy of your Answer to the Complaint on the Plaintiff, the Charleston County South Carolina Department of Social Services, at the office of its Attorney, Mary Lee

Briggs, Legal Department of the Charleston County 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.

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.

TATE 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 Representatives, Administrators, Successors and Assigns, and all other persons or entities entitled to claim through them; all unknown persons or entities with any right, title, estate, interest in or lien upon the real estate described 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 disability 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 unknown persons or entities with any right, title, estate, interest in or lien upon the real estate described 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 disability 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).

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, exclusive of the day of such service; except that the United States of America, if named, shall have sixty (60) days to answer after the service hereof, exclusive of the day of such service; and if you fail to do so, judgment by default will be rendered against you for the relief demanded in the Complaint.

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

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

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 perfected and Attorney for Plaintiff hereby gives notice that all rents shall be payable directly to it by delivery to its undersigned attorneys from the date of default. In the alternative, Plaintiff will move before a judge of this Circuit on the 10th day after service 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 Jeffrey 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 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. Thereafter, 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 TO THE DEFENDANTS ABOVE NAMED: YOU WILL PLEASE TAKE NOTICE 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 Intervention 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 Kelley 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 Defendants, unless said Defendants, or someone on their behalf, shall within thirty (30) days after service of a copy hereof as directed, 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 represent 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

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, exclusive of the day of such service; except that the United States of America, if named, shall have sixty (60) days to answer after the service hereof, exclusive of the day of such service; and if you fail to do so, judgment by default will be rendered against you for the relief demanded in the Complaint.

TO MINOR(S) OVER FOURTEEN YEARS OF AGE, AND/OR TO MINOR(S) UNDER FOURTEEN YEARS OF AGE AND THE PERSON WITH WHOM THE MINOR(S) RESIDES, AND/OR TO PERSONS UNDER SOME LEGAL DISABILITY: YOU ARE FURTHER SUMMONED AND NOTIFIED to apply for the appointment of a guardian ad litem within thirty (30) days after the service of this Summons and Notice upon you. If you fail to do so, application for such appointment will be made by 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 perfected and Attorney for Plaintiff hereby gives notice that all rents shall be payable directly to it by delivery to its undersigned attorneys from the date of default.

In the alternative, Plaintiff will move before a judge of this Circuit on the 10th day after service 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.

ESTATES’ CREDITOR’S NOTICES

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

Estate of: 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

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

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

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 Invitation for Virtual Attendance of the Hearing shall be provided by the Court to Petitioner’s Attorney 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@CHARLESTONCOUNTY.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

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

NOTICE OF

FILING COMPLAINT TO THE DEFENDANTS ABOVE NAMED:

YOU WILL PLEASE TAKE NOTICE 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 Intervention 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

DATE

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 CHARLESTON IN THE PROBATE COURT CASE NO.: 2022-ES-10-2039

IN RE: ESTATE OF JOHN A. MACK, JR. MELBA MACK, Petitioner, vs. BARBARA W. MACK, JOHN A. MACK, III and KEVIN E. MACK,

Respondents.

NOTICE OF HEARING

TO: ALL HEIRS AND INTERESTED PARTIES:

YOU WILL PLEASE TAKE NOTICE that the above-captioned action was filed on November 15, 2022 in the Probate Court for Charleston County, State of South Carolina. This action seeks the determination of the heirs of the Estate of John A. Mack, Jr. who died on November 24, 2008. A hearing has been scheduled in connection with this matter on the 13th day of February 2023 at 9:00 a.m. If you plan to participate in the virtual hearing, you must contact the Law Office of Arthur C. McFarland at the below telephone number or email address or Sydney Fowler, Esquire, Law Clerk of the Charleston County Probate Court at 843-958-5194 or sfowler@ charlestoncounty.org, prior to the hearing to receive the virtual link information.

Please be present at said hearing if you are an heir or interested party in the aforementioned Estate John A. Mack, Jr., if so minded.

Arthur C. McFarland

Attorney for Petitioner 1847 Ashley River Road Suite 200 Charleston, S.C. 29407 843. 763-3900 843. 763-5347-fax Charleston, S.C. December 6, 2022

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: YOU ARE HEREBY SUMMONED and required to answer the Complaint in this action, a copy of which is herewith served upon you, and to serve a copy of your answer upon the 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

MORE CLASSIFIEDS ONLINE

BEING the same property conveyed to the P. Bennett Murray, Jr., and Joyce H. Murray, by Deed of Lake Hileman, dated July 26, 1967, and recorded July 27, 1967, in the RMC Office for Charleston County in Book H88 at Page 271. Thereafter, the property was conveyed to Joyce H. Murray, by Deed of Distribution from the Estate of P. Bennett Murray, Jr., dated July 25, 1995, and recorded August 11, 1995, in the RMC Office for Charleston County in Book M258 at Page 407. Thereafter, Joyce H. Murray conveyed the property to Joyce H. Murray and Michelle Murray, as joint tenants with rights of survivorship, by Deed dated April 24, 2014, and recorded April 25, 2014, in the RMC Office for Charleston County in Book 0401 at Page 106. Joyce H. Murray died on August 1, 2020, an estate file was opened in the Probate Court for Charleston County, South Carolina for the Estate of Joyce Lee Murray a/k/a Joyce H. Murray as can be seen in Case Number 2022ES-10-00024, thereby making Michelle Murray, the current title holder of record.

TMS #: 309-14-00-039

Property Address: 2412 Spring Garden Street Charleston, SC 29414

SUBJECT TO ASSESSMENTS, CHARLESTON COUNTY TAXES, EASEMENTS AND/OR RESTRICTIONS OF RECORD, AND OTHER SENIOR ENCUMBRANCES, IF ANY.

TERMS OF SALE: The successful bidder, other than the Plaintiff, will deposit with the MasterIn-Equity or his agent, at the conclusion of the bidding, five (5%) percent of the bid, in cash or equivalent, as evidence of good faith, same to be applied to purchase price in case of compliance, but to be forfeited and applied first to costs and then to Plaintiff’s debt in the

case of noncompliance. Should the last and highest bidder fail or refuse to make the required deposit at the time of the bid or comply with the other terms of the bid within twenty (30) days, then the Master-In-Equity or his agent may resell the property on the same terms and conditions on some subsequent Sales day at the risk of the said highest bidder.

The sale shall be subject to Charleston County taxes and assessments and to existing easements and restrictions of record.

Purchaser shall pay for the preparation of the Deed, documentary stamps on the Deed, recording of the Deed, and interest on the amount of the bid from date of sale to date of compliance with the bid at the judgment rate of interest.

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

If Plaintiff or its representative does not appear at the scheduled sale of the above-described property, then the sale of the property will be null, void and of no force and effect. In such event, the sale will be rescheduled for the next available sales day.

Judge Mikell R. Scarborough

Master-In-Equity for Charleston County Charleston, South Carolina October 18, 2022

Elizabeth Blackwell Ross Bar No: 78756

Smith Debnam Narron Drake Saintsing & Myers, LLP 171 Church Street, Suite 120C Charleston, SC 29401 Phone: (843) 714-2533 Email: eross@smithdebnamlaw.com Attorney for Plaintiff, SouthState Bank, National Association

MASTER’S SALE CASE NO. 2022-CP-10-01337

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

1-800-Pack-Rat (SC-Charleston-5472) 7704 South Rail Road Charleston, SC 29420 877-774-1537

Tenant: Unit # Baldwin, James 804171 Barkley, Rashid 704864 Hayman, Tammy 355978 McLaughlin, April 805263 Daniel Saunders D59944 & Patrick Andre

1-800-Pack-Rat (SC-Charleston-5472), 7704 South Rail Road, Charleston, SC 29420, has possessory lien on all of the goods stored in the units above. All these items of personal property are being sold pursuant to the assertion of the lien on 12/28/2022 at 10:00 AM in order to collect the amounts due from you. The sale will take place on www.storagetreasures.com from 12/28/2022 to 1/4/2023 at 12:00 PM

BY VIRTUE of a Decree of the Circuit Court for Charleston County, South Carolina, heretofore granted in the case of SouthState Bank, National Association, vs. Michelle Murray, individually and as the Personal Representative for the Estate of Joyce Lee Murray a/k/a Joyce H. Murray; and FVE Managers, Inc. d/b/a Ashley River Plantation, I the undersigned Master-in-Equity for Charleston County, South Carolina or my agent, will sell on 3rd day of January, 2023, at 11:00 A.M., in the County Council Chambers, Second Floor of the Lonnie Hamilton, III Public Services Building, 4045 Bridge View Drive, North Charleston, South Carolina, to the highest bidder, the following described property, to wit:

ALL that lot, piece or parcel of land, with the buildings and improvements thereon, situate, lying and being in Saint Andrews Parish, County of Charleston, in the State of South Carolina, and shown as Lot No. 12, Block M, on a map or plat of a portion of MELROSE Subdivision, made by W. H. Matheny, Surveyor, dated October 27, 1965 and recorded in the RMC Office for Charleston County in Plat Book T, Page 147; said lot having such size, shape, metes and bounds as shown on the aforementioned plat; be all dimensions a little more or less.

Sugar Coated Murder hosts debut true crime book

By Chloe Hogan

Sisters Anne Varner and Karen DeVanie are on a mission. Their podcast Sugar Coated Murder, and their debut book CLICK CLICK CLICK tell the unheard stories of murder victims. The authors, who are based in Charleston, will host a book signing at Low Country Whimsy on Ben Sawyer Boulevard Dec. 17 from 1 to 4 p.m.

“There’s so much out there about the murderers,” Varner said, “but not often do we see much information about the victims of these violent crimes. In a lot of cases, the victims get lost.”

Varner and DeVanie launched their podcast in January 2020. They discuss true crime stories while baking pastries and sharing recipes, hence the name, Sugar Coated Murder. Varner and DeVanie said they wanted to approach their discussions thoughtfully when talking about real people’s stories, especially when they include victims of horrific crimes.

“A lot of true crime podcasts glorify violence and murder, and that’s not what we want to do,” DeVanie said. “The way we approach every case is that we try to learn as much as we can about the victim.”

The sisters are from the small town of Franklin, Virginia, where a handful of murder cases occurred while they were growing up in the ’70s and ’80s. These stories first sparked their interest, they said, and led them to become perhaps a little “obsessed” with true crime. DeVanie said they are fascinated with trying to understand the motivations of killers.

“It’s multifaceted,” DeVanie said. “We look at all the sides of it — not just the murder itself, but how did the murderer get there? What were they thinking?”

DeVanie and Varner released their debut book Dec. 2. CLICK CLICK CLICK, is based on a real murder that happened in their hometown: the 1990 killing of Trent Whitley, which remained an unsolved

case for two and a half years. Whitley’s disappearance baffled friends, family and authorities, and resulted in a drawn-out investigation with many dead ends and false leads. In 1992, police charged two of Whitley’s former high school classmates with murder.

“No one knew what happened to this boy,” DeVanie said. “He was a senior in high school, he kissed his mom goodbye one night to go out, and just disappeared. For two and a half years, it was such a puzzle for everybody on what had happened.”

Varner added, “Our father was the pharmacist in town. And being a small town pharmacist, you know everyone, you hear about everything that’s going on.”

DeVanie and Varner covered the case on the Sugar Coated Murder podcast in April 2020. The next summer, a producer from Investigation Discovery, a television network dedicated to true crime documentaries, reached out to them.

This producer was interested in telling the story, but understood how the small town of Franklin might be protective over the details.

“It’s a very closed-off town. They weren’t gonna talk with some high falutin’ TV producer about their town business,” DeVanie said.

“So they reached out to us, hoping we could use our name in that town and our connections to get in there and try to tell the story,” she said. The sisters delved deep into researching the murder of Whitley. When the series with ID Discovery didn’t pan out, they couldn’t let the case go.

“We realized we needed to write a book,” DeVanie said.

She explained that she and her sister

approached writing the book in the same way they approach their podcasting.

“We would work mornings before work, nights after work and just talk about the research we’ve done, the conversations we’ve had, and write it all down. Then, we would have what we called a ‘bedazzling session,’ where we added in the details to make it more visual and descriptive.”

On working together, DeVanie and Varner said their secret sister language has grown even stronger.

“We often joke that we are twins four years apart,” DeVanie said. “We have almost the same brain, so we are able to tap into this special language we have with each other — this podcast and book has made that even stronger.”

The book is the first in the Say My Name series. DeVanie and Varner hope to write more books in the series to highlight the real victims affected by true crime stories.

“We are definitely gonna do more books in the series,” Varner said. “Our hope is that we can hear more from the victims’ families — the goal is to have people know and say the names of the victims.”

DeVanie said the response to the podcast has encouraged them to keep doing what they’re doing, and to expand on that mission with the book series.

“The response to the podcast has given us so much encouragement and confidence,” she said. “We hope to continue to do it. We joke about doing the podcast in our 90s. I can’t imagine that we will ever stop doing this.”

To learn more and to purchase CLICK CLICK CLICK , visit sugarcoatedpod.com.

Arts, etc.

Brickyard Plantation hosts free holiday opera

Grab your chairs and blankets and head to Brickyard Plantation in Mount Pleasant at 4:30 p.m. Dec. 17 for Holy City Lyric Opera’s free outdoor holiday show featuring an ensemble of local singers and instrumentalists . — Chelsea Grinstead

Movies in Spanish returns to the Terrace Theater

The Charleston Hispanic Foundation brings its Movies in Spanish program back to the Terrace Theater. See the new Avatar movie The Way of Water in Spanish Dec. 16-17. Visit charlestonhispanicassociation.com to learn more. — Chloe Hogan

Hip-hop lineup lands at LO-Fi Brewing

Don’t miss good beer and live tunes at LO-Fi Brewing at 8 p.m. Dec. 16 featuring a lineup of Charleston area hip-hop acts such as Little Fish, Mahjestiq , Jeno Judges, Malcolm FL3X , Lamontae Foyay and Ben Beam Tickets are $10.— CG

It’s an Acid Christmas at The Royal American

Charleston keyboardist Ross Bogan of Doom Flamingo will join ranks with drummer Stu White of the Motown Throwdown for the “Acid Christmas” holiday show at 9 p.m. Dec. 17 at The Royal American. Tickets are $10. — CG

Charleston Christmas Special back for 27th year

Moranz Entertainment brings the Charleston Christmas Special to the Charleston Music Hall for its 27th season. Audiences of all ages are welcome to this show full of music, dancing and skits. Regular performers

Tiffany Parker, Jenna Flaherty, Michael Minor and Damon McToy will return this year, along with newcomers Tonya Williams and Christopher McCrewell, plus youth performers Addie Collins and Silas Moody-Laird. This year’s show runs Dec. 15-22. More info at charlestonchristmasspecial.com.

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Anne Varner (left) and Karen DeVanie want to shine light on victims of crime, something that they said most true crime podcasts handle improperly

BY CAROLINE HATCHELL

Ernest Thompson puts himself out there with debut album

By Vincent Harris

Charleston singer-songwriter Ernest Thompson’s new album, The Words I Heard, is something of a tour-de-force. Thompson played everything but the drums on the album’s nine tracks, mixing acoustic guitar with violin, organ, dobro, banjo and pedal steel.

Thompson’s debut also displays a broad stylistic range. Kicking off with a bouncing 12-bar blues number, “West Ashley Blues,” one might expect him to continue in that vein. But Thompson moves all over the place, going from vintage acoustic folk on the song “Desiree” and gentle rock for the album’s title track, to old-school country on “Foothills.” There’s even a sturdy bluegrass number called “I’ll Fly Away (Tomorrow).”

Some of that musical mix comes from Thompson’s background, learning folk and old-time music from his parents.

“I grew up with banjos and fiddles and mandolins in the house,” Thompson said. “So I was always interested in that kind of stuff, and I always loved the language of the banjo and the pedal steel and those kinds of instruments that are very much country/ Americana instruments.”

He spent years playing multiple instruments in different bands, but The Words I Heard marks him stepping out on his own. And his reasons for doing it are more

practical than artistic — the North Carolina native was looking to launch his musical career when he moved to Charleston a few years back. Being a solo singer-songwriter seemed to be the quickest way to do that.

“If you’re looking to get booked for gigs and you’re looking to build a network and make things happen on your own, it’s a lot easier to be a front person,” he said. “If I want to get booked somewhere, I’ll sing the songs. I’ll play the guitar. I’ll do everything myself.”

Thompson started off busking on the streets of Charleston, learning what worked and what didn’t. He moved up to open mics and bar and restaurant gigs all while building a catalog of his own songs. Eventually, he had enough tunes to record an album, which he did over the span of 10 months at Southern Harmony Recording Studio in Florence, South Carolina.

As for the decision to play all those instruments himself, Thompson said it was the best way to express himself and stay within a tight recording budget.

“It partially comes back to the issue of necessity,” he said. “I didn’t have a huge budget to hire out a bunch of studio musicians. But I’m pretty comfortable on all those instruments. This is my first album — I’m putting myself out there to the world. There are definitely some imperfections, but I think it gives it character to say, ‘Hey, this is me. What you’re hearing is me.’ ”

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West Ashley musician Ernest Thompson plays 13 instruments on his debut album The Words I Heard, including a vintage violin

Palmetto City Ballet presents a

Charleston-themed Nutcracker

By Kevin Murphy Wilson

Palmetto City Ballet brings a reimagined take on The Nutcracker to life this holiday season. The two-act ballet is a holiday classic which was adapted from E. T. A. Hoffmann’s 1816 short story The Nutcracker and the Mouse King While revisiting the time-tested tale, the artistic director at Palmetto City Ballet, Jonathan Tabbert, was undaunted by the fact that The Nutcracker is now 130 years old, and the underlying story is even older. “I don’t tend to gravitate towards classics but when I do, I always have to have my own personal stamp on them,” Tabbert said. “It is what inspires me as a choreographer and it’s also what I think makes Palmetto City Ballet so special. It takes a certain amount of bravery, or maybe confidence is a better word, to ‘tamper with tradition,’ but I think originality is always welcome, and, in my opinion, essential in having a thriving arts community.”

Tabbert, who is Palmetto City Ballet’s co-founder, told the City Paper that he has been gathering inspirational tidbits for this new production for about two years.

“The work has seen numerous iterations and interpretations in my mind throughout that time. I tend to work either from a minute detail and expand outward or an extremely broad idea and have to fine tune to pinpoint a cohesive throughline,” Tabbert said.

Tabbert came across the little-known history of The Charleston Orphan House while doing research, which may be the first public orphanage in the United States. “That immediately inspired the root of my story as

Clara being a child at an orphanage instead of coming from a well-to-do family,” he said.

Another unique twist in Tabbert’s adventurous adaptation is having the Sugar Plum Fairy as an integral part of the plot from the beginning of the ballet.

“Traditionally, she only first appears in Act II,” Tabbert said, “but I felt that since she should be the ‘maker of the magic,’ having her be a catalyst of the story was appropriate.”

Additionally, in Tabbert’s second act, Clara is whisked away by horse and carriage to a familiar-feeling town market as a nod to Charleston, instead of to the “land of sweets.”

“All of the shopkeepers show her the finest of things making up the traditional divertissements of the act. Clara is impressed and entertained, but none of them can live up to her holiday wish of having a family.”

That’s about as much of the production details as Tabbert is willing to give away, though. “You’ll have to come to see how the story ends,” he said.

“I really hope to share the love and tradition of The Nutcracker with the greater Charleston community in an original and heartfelt way,” Tabbert added. “It may seem cliché, but I would like all of our audience members to leave the theater with an enhanced sense of hope, gratitude and giving as I feel this production truly embodies the spirit of the holiday season.”

Palmetto City Ballet’s The Nutcracker will play four shows at the historic Sottile Theatre from Dec. 16-18.

Artistic Director Jonathan Tabbert reimagined Palmetto City Ballet’s production of The Nutcracker with references to Charleston

HOSPITALITY is OPPORTUNITY

“If you’re interested in the hospitality business and all that it offers, learn it from the ground up. Learn what makes it click. And that’s good service.”

You get promotion opportunities. ... You also get formal training. Room for advancement is priceless.”

To learn more about hospitality career opportunites, visit LowcountryHired.com

Rachel Renney, Visitor Planner at the Charleston Visitor Center