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Forever chemicals in Charleston drinking water above proposed safe standard

By Lily Levin

If you’ve ever wondered whether there’s something in the water, well, there is.

A Charleston federal courtroom is the site of major national litigation over socalled forever chemicals, technically known as PFAs, or “per- and poly-fluoroalkyl substances.” U.S. District Judge Richard Gergel has been presiding over and managing a large number of related water pollution cases. More than 5,000 plaintiffs have filed PFAs-related lawsuits, according to news reports.

The local connection to these cases also is yielding another concern — whether PFAs that have seeped into tap water make it safe to drink.

PFAs are used to resist “grease, oil, water and heat,” according to the U.S. Food and Drug Administration. PFAs can be found in household items like rain jackets and nonstick cookware, and they are highly concentrated in firefighting foam, or AFFF. They’re colloquially known as “forever chemicals” because of their almost indestructible properties. And in Charleston, they’ve most definitely stuck around.

They’re in local drinking water, but it’s safe, said Charleston Water System (CWS)

spokesman Mike Saia.

“We believe 100% that our water is safe to drink,” he said. “If people are considering using a filter, we try to inform them to make that decision by publishing an annual water report, which is easily accessible on our website.”

In May, the utility, which serves about a half million people in the Charleston area, reported concentrations of two PFA subtypes (PFOS and PFOA) at 4.2 parts per trillion (ppt) and 5.2 ppt, respectively, in its drinking water.

Right now, there is no federal standard for PFAs in drinking water. Some states have their own regulations, but South Carolina does not. However, earlier this year, the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency proposed a national standard for an enforceable Maximum Contaminant Level (MCL) of 4 ppt for PFOS and PFOA, though the Maximum Contaminant Level Goal (MCLG) — defined as “the maximum level of a contaminant in drinking water where there are no known or anticipated negative health effects allowing for a margin of safety” — is 0 ppt for both. An MCL is the “maximum level allowed” and should be “as close as feasible to the MCLG, according to the agency.

If the new regulation were to become a reality, the Charleston area’s drinking water measurements would be above the MCL, which means action would be required to reduce contamination.

CWS Board Chair Thomas Pritchard told the Charleston City Paper that the agency “started testing for those things before most utilities in the country did, and we’ve been on top of it all along.”

Ongoing litigation

In a 2021 complaint at the U.S. District Court in Charleston, former U.S. Navy firefighter Michael Sloane of Spring, Texas, alleged that his exposure to firefighting foam at military installations, including the Charleston Naval Base, was “directly and proximately” to blame for his testicular cancer.

The complaint is part of the large group of similar cases managed by a single federal court and presided over by Gergel. Plaintiffs are seeking damages from major PFAs producers, such as 3M and Dupont, for allegedly knowing about the harms their chemicals would cause to individuals, prop

Get new Covid vaccine booster, CDC recommends

Americans should get an updated Covid-19 vaccine, officials say, now that the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention on Sept. 12 endorsed the shots for all Americans more than 6 months old.

The new shots from Moderna and Pfizer-BioNTech will hit markets just as the U.S. begins to enter the fall and winter respiratory virus season. The updated vaccines target the XBB.1.5 variant and are designed to reduce the severity of symptoms of infection and curb the risk of “long Covid.” While the XBB.1.5 is no longer the dominant variant, experts say the vaccines should still be effective at preventing severe infection from other circulating variants as well.

Major pharmacies across the U.S. will have vaccines available in the coming days, but experts are worried that demand may be low. In the past year, only about 20% of adults received a booster shot.

The shots are not funded by the federal government this time because the public health emergency expired in May 2023. The Covid vaccines will be commercialized like flu shots and other vaccines, putting the burden of ordering shots on hospitals, physician offices and pharmacies, and leaving the public on the hook for paying for it.

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11 killed, 9 others shot Sept. 6 to Sept. 12

North Charleston police on Sept. 11 arrested a 17-year-old boy for attempted murder after two shooting victims were dropped off at an area hospital on Sept. 10, officers said. The suspect reportedly turned himself in. No identities have been released.

S.C. shootings: Eleven people died in Richland, Berkeley, Chester, Spartanburg, Williamsburg, Horry, Marion, Sumter and Clarendon counties. Eight others were hurt in Charleston, Marion and York counties.

Mass shootings: Eleven mass shootings in the U.S., totaling 499 for the year.

Sources: gunviolencearchive.org and S.C. official and media reports.

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Surprise school board meeting was illegal, attorney says

By Skyler Baldwin

Many are still left without answers after a Sept. 11 special meeting of the Charleston County School District’s (CCSD) Board of Trustees sparked confusion and anger in dozens of community members who sat for nearly six hours, only to be told to go home.

Board members backed by right-wing political group Moms for Liberty — board chairman Pamela McKinney and trustees Carlotte Bailey, Keith Grybowski, Edward Kelley and Leah Whatley — reportedly called the meeting to discuss newly hired Superintendent Eric Gallien’s contract, but neither Gallien nor the other trustees — Darlene Roberson, Carol Tempel, Courtney Waters and Daron Calhoun II — reportedly were notified of the meeting or its purpose.

But minutes after the meeting began, McKinney called for a vote to enter executive session to consider “items covered by attorneyclient privilege,” a move that S.C. Press Association attorney Jay Bender said was illegal.

“That is not one of the permitted reasons for a closed session,” he told the Charleston City Paper. “If the discussion was for a ‘contractual matter,’ it was again an impermissible topic. The permitted reasons are narrow and specific, but school boards typically act without actually having read the law.”

According to Bender, state law says the purpose of a closed session must be specific and must indicate what it relates to.

“The September 11 special called meeting was to clarify the duties and responsibilities of the superintendent based on the contract,” McKinney said in a statement Sept. 12.

But Bender said if the contract had already been negotiated, there would be no basis for an executive session. Board members earlier this year voted 6-3 to approve Gallien’s contract, with Bailey, Whatley and Kelley voting against approval.

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Community activists at a Sept. 11 press conference accused right-wing Charleston County school board members of planning to “lynch” newly hired Superintendent Eric Gallien

We have elected them as our representatives, but they have concluded they were elected to be our rulers, and that’s not how democracy functions. It’s authoritarianism at the local level.”

—Attorney Jay Bender

Center Street has long been home to sandy surf bars and cool places to duck into for relief from the hot sun

Folly Beach celebrates 50 years as a city

By Chelsea Grinstead

Turning 50 years old isn’t just a major milestone for people. But for a community — especially one on the edge of America? It’s a pretty big deal.

The city of Folly Beach will celebrate its 50th anniversary Sept. 22 to Oct. 1 with a series of fun community events.

“It’s not a sleepy little beach town anymore,” said Mark Patrick, an assistant director for Charleston County Parks and Recreation. “It’s a vibrant part of Charleston on a daily basis.”

The calendar of events includes a 1920s-themed black tie gala on Sept. 22 at the Tides hotel with a formal dinner, craft cocktails and live music. The next day, a fleet of cars will take over Center Street for an outdoor car show, and local bars will represent a different decade with food and drink offerings. The Sept. 23 festival also includes vendors, food, drinks and live music on three stages, plus a Ferris wheel and carousel.

Head to the beachfront from 3rd West Street to the Tides to enjoy beach games from 11 a.m to 3 p.m. Sept. 24 with bocce, volleyball and kids’ activities before the after-party kicks off with live music and drink specials. For a full calendar of events, go to visitfolly.com/50-years-of-folly.

Patrick started working for the parks department on the island in 2011 and has seen the city flourish in both culture and business, he said. Folly Beach County Park has been a staple for residents and visitors for decades, and the Folly Beach Pier, which was originally built in 1995, has become iconic.

“The pier instantly became a Charleston landmark,” Patrick said, “and that version

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of the pier was great for its 25 years of service before it closed in 2021. The new pier opened last December, and it’s been very well received and is making its own place in the Charleston area.

“You never knew on a daily basis what you were going to encounter out there,” Patrick said.

“There’s always something exciting going on in Folly Beach and that’s the way it’s always been.”

Remembering simpler times

Folly Beach city councilman D.J. Rich has operated Planet Follywood eatery and bar since 2005.

“My favorite memories of Folly are preFollywood, pre-hotels, pre-stop lights,” Rich told the Charleston City Paper.

Some of his favorite memories include crabbing with his grandfather under the Atlantic House, learning to shoot pool at the old tackle shop and climbing rocks with his brother on the beach to watch the waves crash.

“I love being a part of this community,” he said. “I love being able to help steer the city as a member of the city council. Everything progresses, and change is inevitable, I get it. But it would be nice to go back to simpler times.”

For Rich, Folly Beach is a mecca for diversity and relaxation.

“Folly Beach is special because it is a melting pot,” he said. “The community is

“One amazing thing about Folly Beach County Park is the shell wishing tree,” said Lesley Carroll, co-owner and executive chef of Jack of Cups. “It’s an unassuming beauty up toward the dunes. Every time I walk by it, I put a shell on it for myself or someone I love. It’s become a family tradition for birthdays, memorials and holidays. It seems like there are often butterflies and dragonflies swirling around which just adds to the magic.”

very diverse and relaxed. You could be sitting at the bar next to a multi-millionaire and a surf bum and may not be able to tell who is who.

“We have surfers, musicians, doctors, first responders, freaks, geeks and everything in between. It’s a very eclectic mix of culture, background and history. This community has always been willing to give, no matter the cause. We take care of each other.”

Mount Pleasant police on Sept. 7 pulled over a woman near the Arthur Ravenel Jr. Bridge for driving with an expired license plate. During the stop, police discovered she was also driving without insurance. After being told this, she immediately called an insurance provider website and attempted to insure the vehicle on the spot. No word on how long she was on hold before the officer gave her the ticket.

Might have worked in 2020

A North Charleston man on Sept. 1 told police he received a call from an alleged “Captain Luke” who said his son was being held in Al Cannon Detention Center and that he needed to send him $2,000 right away. The man reportedly said he would bring the money in cash, but “Captain Luke” said that wouldn’t work “due to Covid.” Good try, captain.

Desperately in need of a deep clean?

A downtown man on Sept. 3 reportedly broke a $200 display case in a downtown store to steal three $10 bottles of Dove body wash. We aren’t saying people don’t get desperate (especially in this summer heat), but surely they had a bottle or two on a regular shelf somewhere.

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The Blotter is taken from reports filed with area police departments between Spet. 1 and Sept. 7.

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erty, natural resources and drinking water.

Two most recent settlements include a tentative $10.3 billion to $12.5 billion in damages from 3M and a $1.185 billion from Dupont to public water suppliers nationwide. These settlements still require court approval.

CWS’s Pritchard said the utility’s water treatment and wastewater treatment facilities were plaintiffs in the litigation that was suing PFAs makers because “we recognize that the cost going forward for treatment and future impacts is significant.”

There’s also a separate statewide lawsuit filed by S.C. Attorney General Alan Willson. The complaint is pursuing legal action against companies like 3M and Dupont for allegedly having “misled the public” about the harmful effects of PFAs. Documents from the nonprofit national nonprofit Environmental Working Group (EWG) show manufacturers knew PFAs “posed health risks” as early as the 1960s — and many are still producing them.

But with this suit, there is a caveat that might impact plaintiffs like Sloane, the firefighter: The state’s lawsuit “expressly excludes … contamination or injury related to AFFF or AFFF products.” AFFF is the “primary source of PFAs at military installations,” according to EWG. But it reported the Department of Defense (DoD) also knew that PFAs might be dangerous — and as early as the 1970s. Until the AFFF completes its phase-out by October 2023, some firefighters are continuing to use it, according to one news report.

Current groundwater contamination

One base where Sloane believes he was exposed to AFFF was the Charleston Naval Base, which includes the Naval Shipyard, all of which closed in 1996. But it’s still rife with contamination — in the groundwater. The Charleston Naval Shipyard in 2022 reported a measurement of 290 ppt for PFOS and 490 ppt for PFOA. In other words, the PFOA reading was over 100 times greater than the proposed MCL.

The groundwater at the area’s active duty base, Joint Base Charleston, displayed an exponentially higher PFA concentration in recent sampling. Of the 703 nationwide sites evaluated by the DoD in 2018, the base ranked 10th for the most contaminated groundwater — with a combined PFOS and PFOA ppt reading of 1.15 million.

This toxicity affects Charleston’s surrounding environment, too, analysts say.

“The whole joint base is going to be playing a significant factor into local contamination,” said Jared Hayes, senior EWP policy analyst at the group’s Washington, D.C. office.

A 2019 study published in the National Library of Medicine. found higher concen-

trations of one major type of PFA in fish in the Ashley River than the Cooper River and Charleston Harbor. The Ashley River is directly connected by a contaminated stream to drainage from a runway at Joint Base Charleston.

A 2022 Waterkeeper Alliance report found that South Carolina was one of six U.S. states with the highest concentrations of PFAs in its surface water. Hayes emphasized that water might also be heavy with PFAs because of industrial dumping into wastewater systems unequipped to filter them out during treatment. Industrial users are more likely to be in urban settings like Charleston, Hayes said, and like the Joint Air Force Base, “they are going to be concentrated particularly in … lower income areas.”

“We’ve documented that there are roughly 30,000 suspected industrial users of PFAS across the country who could be releasing these things in the environment,” said Hayes.

Huge cleanup costs

Unfortunately, Hayes noted, the billions of dollars in tentative settlements by 3M and Dupont are just “a drop in the bucket” needed by municipalities across the country to eliminate PFAs from their drinking water and wastewater treatment. Saia said that it would “cost hundreds of millions of dollars” to bring Charleston’s drinking water below the proposed 4 ppt standard.

As for holding the DoD accountable — well, one “can’t really sue the military,” Hayes said. Moreover, PFAs are not classified as “hazardous substances.” This means that although the DoD is following a process of investigation and eventual cleanup, Hayes said, it’s not a federal requirement.

“It has taken a long time for many bases to see any progress whatsoever,” he added. And Joint Base Charleston is no exception.

Time is playing a role in the results of the MDL, too. In an interview with the Charleston City Paper, attorney Joe Rice of Mount Pleasant-based law firm Motley Rice spoke of a program set up to “medically monitor [PFAs plaintiffs] as time goes forward, because [the diseases linked to PFAs exposure] are latent diseases.”

Nonetheless, one study of air servicemen in mid-August confirmed what Sloane alleged all along — a link between exposure to some PFAs in AFFF and testicular cancer.

Generally, though, Hayes said, we’re all being exposed to PFAs every day in our environment and tap water, despite not knowing “the long-term effects of a lot of these chemicals.”

“The [American] public is essentially being used as guinea pigs,” he added.

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“These people are confused,” Bender said. “We have elected them as our representatives, but they have concluded they were elected to be our rulers, and that’s not how democracy functions. It’s authoritarianism at the local level.”

Local activists rally against board

Several community activists gathered at noon Sept. 11 for a press conference ahead of a regularly scheduled 3 p.m. meeting. At the press conference, the Rev. Nelson B. Rivers III, vice president of religious affairs for the National Action Network, likened the special meeting to a lynching.

“Today, in Charleston County, this board plans to try to lynch Dr. Gallien,” he said. “But we got news for them: Lynching is over. … We’re not going to let you lynch him publicly or privately here. Our children are on the verge of a breakthrough, and how dare you try to take us back to from whence we came.”

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Community members were also outraged at an agenda item for the regularly scheduled 3 p.m. meeting of the Committee of the Whole, which ultimately sought to replace the curriculum currently in use in CCSD schools.

“We have a superintendent who has been on the job 70 days who it appears that five of the nine board members want to replace for no reason whatsoever,” community activist Thomas Dixon said Sept. 11. “We have a curriculum that has produced the best district-wide improvements in CCSD in decades and has finally gotten Black and Brown children enthusiastic about going to school, and the same five of the nine board members want to replace this working curriculum.”

The item was removed from the agenda after trustees discussed the agenda for more than a half hour.

Another community member who attended the meeting and asked not to be identified said Sept. 11, “I was completely dismayed by the dysfunction on display at today’s CCSD school board meeting. The school board seems unable to effectively run a meeting, set an agenda, communicate with the public or each other with transparency or professionalism. It’s disturbing, and our children deserve better.”

After trustees met for about four hours, they then started the special meeting. McKinney immediately asked for a motion to enter executive session but was met with several objections. Tempel and Waters said because Gallien’s contract was public, any discussions regarding it should be held publicly. These objections were ignored, and a vote to enter executive passed 5-4, with all Moms-for-Liberty-backed board members voting in favor.

Board members were in the secret session for almost two hours. After leaving the executive session, they took no action and quickly adjourned. Outraged public attendees received no explanations for what discussions had taken place behind closed doors.

“We’ve been here since 3 p.m.,” one attendee yelled.

Shortly after, several attendees began chanting, “No justice, no peace,” a rallying cry for racial justice movements. Others yelled at board members as they were leaving that they would attend every meeting moving forward.

“We’ll keep coming, again and again and again,” one woman said.

The meeting was recorded and posted on the school district’s public YouTube channel, though the recording ends before many attendee’s voices can be heard.

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Andy Brack contributed to this story.

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Attendees of the school board’s special called meeting Sept. 11 were outraged when the meeting was abruptly adjourned with no explanation after a two-hour executive session

Public bodies should stop holding executive sessions

If you boil down just about any issue before an elected or appointed public body, does it ever make sense for them to have an executive session — to meet in the shadows of secrecy when what they’re supposed to be doing is business for the public?

While the Charleston County School District Board of Trustees or various municipal councils often preen because they think they can do business in private, they should follow a simple rule: Don’t go into executive session. Ever. Do business in public. You might get occasional political blowback but not for doing the duty you took an oath to uphold.

Consider this: State law does not actually require public bodies to ever hold executive or private sessions for public business. It offers very narrow exceptions that allow public officials to meet privately — for things like contract negotiations or land deals.

But public officials too often and too easily adjourn for specious and sometimes illegal reasons just to keep voters from keeping an eye out for what they’re really doing.

Stop it. Meet in public.

Too many elected or appointed public officials seem to be ignorant or confused about what they are allowed to do. Solution: Read the law. As S.C. Press Association attorney Jay Bender tells us, “We have elected them as our representatives but they have concluded they were elected to be our rulers and that’s not how democracy functions.”

Brazen displays of ignorance about the law are not attractive. Just this week, the CCSD Board of Trustees adjourned in what was an improperly called special meeting through a motion to “convene [an] executive session to consider

items covered by attorney-client privilege.”

On its face, the motion is evidence of an illegal executive session because it was not specific.

“The Supreme Court has been very clear that the announced purpose must be very specific and more than receipt of legal advice,” Bender told the City Paper. “It has to indicate what it relates to.”

Further evidence that the illegal executive session, approved by five trustees supported by the right-wing Moms for Liberty group, is in remarks by the board chair, Pam McKinney. She explained after the illegal session that its purpose was to “clarify the duties and responsibilities of the superintendent based on the contract.”

Sorry, not good enough. There’s an exception in state law for contract negotiations, but Superintendent Eric Gallien’s contract has already been negotiated. So whatever they were talking about in private was something in an existing contract that’s already public. Shouldn’t we know about that? Shouldn’t any concerns be talked about among the people who hired the trustees, Charleston’s voters? And if trustees were getting “legal advice” about Gallien’s performance or some other issue, that should have been part of the motion.

Thanks to the continuing secrecy by the latest iteration of Charleston’s school trustees, trust in the board is at an all-time low. The only real way to restore trust is for the five Moms for Liberty acolytes to part ways with the authoritarian group and its financial backers and meet in sunshine.

The public has a right to know. It shouldn’t have to learn about shenanigans in newspapers or court.

CHARLESTON CHECKLIST of community objectives

We encourage community leaders to act on these audacious priorities:

1. Deal with the water. Build a strong resiliency plan to harden infrastructure and make smart climate change decisions about development, roads and quality of life.

2. Fix roads, traffic. Repair and improve roads and reduce traffic. Speed up alternatives, including more public transportation.

3. Be smarter about education. Inject new energy into the broken Charleston County school board by focusing on kids, not national mantras.

4. Conduct public business in public. Be transparent in public business. Stop the secrecy.

5. Invest in quality of life. Build more parks. Have more festivals. Invest in infrastructure that promotes a broad sense of community.

6. Engage in real racial conciliation. If we embark on more conversations and actions on racial reconciliation, our community will strengthen and grow.

7. Develop fewer hotels, more affordable housing. Make Charleston a more affordable place to live for everyone.

8. Develop Union Pier at scale. Let’s not put ship-sized buildings on the coveted Union Pier property downtown. Instead, make what comes appropriate.

9. Build and follow a 50-year plan. Plan for the county’s long-term future and follow the plan.

10. Pay people more. Pay a living wage. Push South Carolina lawmakers to set a real minimum wage.

How I realized my dad’s friend Jimmy was famous

By Lucy Dixon

When I was growing up on James Island, my dad’s friend Jimmy was always one of my favorite people. I remember him driving us to watch one of his friends play polo in his beat-up old Jeep and him coming over to go surfing or stand-up paddling in the creek behind our house.

He always gave me a big hug and would crouch down and talk to me like I was the most important person in the house. I’d get to play and camp with my family in his bright green “Fried Green Tomato” camper van. Sometimes, my mom and dad would take me to hear him sing at small “rehearsal shows.” There were usually only a handful of people there. I was always happy to give him an audience and dance. I knew that my dad had worked for Jimmy from before I was born — and still worked with sometimes — but that was about it.

One year, a friend and I rehearsed a dance for my school talent show. The lyrics went, “Fins to the left, fins to the right.” As soon as I rehearsed at home, my parents broke into peals of laughter. “Do you know whose song that is?” my dad asked. What a silly question. I was 5 and only doing the dance for the shark costume. “Jimmy sings that,” he said. I brushed it off, thinking it must be Jimmy’s favorite song, and his choice to sing on karaoke night. Perhaps we shared a love of sharks.

Soon after, I remember my parents having some friends over, and all the grown-ups were drinking mysterious beverages called Landsharks. I remember wanting it very badly because of the silly name. Upon asking for a Landshark Lager at the ripe age of 5 (and a half), my mother told me “No, this is for grown-ups only. Did you know this is Jimmy’s beer?” This was rather puzzling. If it was Jimmy’s, why was my mom drinking it? Surely she could get her own.

Once on a trip to Myrtle Beach, we stopped at the only restaurant with a passing food grade. “This is Margaritaville, Jimmy’s restaurant,” my mom said. I wasn’t aware Jimmy worked in a restaurant, and I was sorely disappointed when he was not our waiter.

A few years later, my family took me to see Jimmy’s band play at the North Charleston Coliseum. Traffic was bumper to bumper, and I was not happy. “Can we turn around?” I asked, “We can see Jimmy any old time.” My dad just laughed and said “No, they’re all waiting to see Jimmy too.” Surely Jimmy didn’t have enough friends to congest Charleston traffic.

Two hours later, I was royally pissed. We get to a jam-packed parking lot with a strange demographic — thousands of old people with drinks in their hands, coconut bras, hula skirts and parrots on their heads. Surely we made a wrong turn. Alas, we eventually bypassed the lines and ended up backstage at a stadium. Jimmy came over to talk to us, but he got whisked away by harried looking people forcing a head mike on him.

Dad then introduced me to a lady named Helen Hiatt, who was Jimmy’s band’s costume designer. Mom told me she also worked for Cher, Paula Abdul and Prince. I was getting very into Mom’s music at the time and hearing Jimmy’s name in the same sentence as those three almost sent me into a coma. I was starstruck and thought that Jimmy was very lucky to work with someone as famous as Helen Hiatt.

Heading into the crowd for the actual show, I understood the traffic. The stadium was bursting with these strange parrot people. Soon after, Jimmy’s and his band walked onto the stage and we were met with ear splitting applause. The woman next to me started crying. Hearing thousands of people shouting Jimmy’s name rocked my world.

That’s when it really clicked. All of these people were there for Jimmy. When he came out onstage, folks positively went insane. The shows I had seen before were only practices. This was the real thing. I got to see my talent show performance of “Fins” live, with all the parrot people doing the dance with me.

Jimmy Buffett was not, in fact, a waiter in Myrtle Beach.

It surely is a bit unbelievable that I didn’t know the extent of Jimmy Buffett’s fame for seven years. But it makes a bit more sense if you have ever talked to him. He was so unpretentious, and fun, and in my eyes he was just a cool guy who liked the ocean and sometimes hanging out with my dad.

Lucy Dixon, 18, is a freshman at the University of South Carolina from James Island.

A peek at some of the coming arts programming this season

By Chloe Hogan

Characterized by falling leaves and baskets full of food, autumn is at once symbolic of harvest and abundance, and at the same time, a symbol of decay and death.

The vibrant lineup of the arts calendar before us shows Charleston artists are, like the fall season, handling great nuance. Theater productions like the Charleston Gaillard Center’s Finding Freedom will provide an intimate look into the humanity of a hero, while visual art offerings like La Vaughn Belle’s When the Land Meets the Body at the Halsey Institute of Contemporary Art reckon with colonization and its effects on both an individual and collective scale.

Though there isn’t room here for all the exciting offerings of our region’s bustling art scene, consider checking these out especially.

The Finding Freedom poster art by Corentin Sauvage

Macy Scarborough (left), Rune Vaughan (center) and Sarah Dionna act in Golden Gate, the final play in The Void’s first season

Theatrical debut

The Gaillard’s debut of its first in-house produced theatrical work, Finding Freedom: The Journey of Robert Smalls, is perhaps one of the most highly anticipated items on this list.

Finding Freedom tells the 19th-century story of Robert Smalls, a South Carolinian born into slavery who engineered a daring sea escape during the Civil War and spent the rest of his life — including five terms serving in the U.S. House of Representatives — working for equality in the post-Civil War South.

The play, which premieres Oct. 6, is written by Teralyn Reiter with musical direction by Grammy Award-winning Charleston artist Charlton Singleton. Director JaMeeka Holloway told the Charleston City Paper that the production’s creative team, who are mostly Black and mostly Southern, have authenticated this work with the Southern-lived experience.

“To work with this team, it’s incredible, and it makes my job so much easier,” Holloway said. “Through Charlton’s guidance, for example, we’ve incorporated these Gullah traditionals throughout the play that I think will be very evocative. He’s really helping us find the musical voice to this world.”

Though one of the biggest initiatives of the Gaillard’s production is to educate audiences on Smalls’ spectacular story (especially the estimated 25,000 students it reaches annually through its educational programming), Holloway said, “this is also going to be a celebration of Black excellence and Black culture and Gullah culture.

“We want to offer Black audience members the opportunity to see themselves in all of it, in the glory and humanity. He had these moments of great fear, and yet he persisted. It’s so important to me that you can see that — that people can take that away, especially the students,” she said.

The play will also “creatively contextualize” Smalls’ story, with his mother and wife playing larger roles than they do in the history books, Holloway said.

“We give his mother a larger role than what he’s been given in history, his wife more agency in the story to have to actually have a part of his plan, his decision-making. She’s a co-conspirator in a lot of ways. We take their roles in history a little bit further with creative liberty.”

Holloway said she hopes the production will break and warm hearts in one swoop.

More coming arts events

MOJA Arts Festival, an annual celebration of Black arts and culture, takes place from Sept. 28 through Oct. 8 this year. The full lineup of events includes theater, poetry and music programming. A juried exhibition highlighting regional visual artists will be held at both the City Gallery and the Avery Research Center for African American History and Culture. For the full festival lineup, visit mojafestival.com.

Sketch comedy show Rip City announced its next three shows, Sept. 30, Oct. 21 and Nov. 18. Tickets are $12 in advance to see what’s been coined Charleston’s version of Saturday Night Live. Check out @ripcitychs on Instagram.

“This production will encapsulate a large spectrum of feelings and emotions, the peaks and valleys, because we know that it’s not all good. It shows the humanity of the hero.”

Tackling tough themes

Queer-led theater company The Void wraps up its first season at Silver Hill Studios with a Sept. 20-23 show called Golden Gate. As you might expect if you’ve seen a past show by the company, this production will be no exception to the company’s rule of intimate shows that tackle subversive material.

The play follows Beth, suddenly widowed in her 50s, standing on the Golden Gate Bridge from which she’s decided she will jump. Her plan is foiled by two good Samaritans, Izzie, a rambunctious young backpacker, and Elle, a reluctantly single 30-year-old professional.

The show is a world premiere by emerging playwright Lindsey Kirchoff and is led by a cast and crew of female and nonbinary artists. Golden Gate, said The Void’s director, Shannon Vogt, is a play about where we go when we’ve reached the end of the line — and all of the chapters that we experience along the way.

“This play immediately grabs you,” Vogt said. “There is no warming up. It’s just boom — here we are. This is going to be heavy. But it’s also really funny and heartwarming. It covers, obviously, mental health, but what really struck a chord with me is the different chapters that we have in our lives, and how you are a dif-

ferent person in different places in your life, and how that’s okay.”

Visual art from diasporic experience

La Vaughn Belle is an artist from the U.S. Virgin Islands who uses a variety of media in “unbecoming a colonial being,” according to her artist statement.

Belle presents an exhibition at the Halsey Institute of Contemporary Art, When the Land Meets the Body, open through Dec. 9. The exhibition explores the relationship of history, land and the bodies between them.

“It’s about encounters with multiple horizons and turbulent histories and what oozes from the swamps and the dirt,” Belle told the City Paper. “There are maps that look like bodies and bodies that look like maps. There is beauty and violence and sadness and joy in cut, torn and burnt paper, and digital collages and a lyric video that draws from the idea that it’s not just

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Hed Hi Studio hosts Lazy Boy, an exhibition of paintings by Jeremy Croft , Oct. 14, and Art Pals on Nov. 4, a group show of artists who’ve exhibited at Hed Hi. Visit hedhistudio.com for more.

A new special exhibition opens at the Gibbes Museum on Oct. 20. Something Terrible May Happen: The Art of Aubrey Beardsley and Edward Ned I.R. Jennings will expand on the lasting influence of “aesthetic fever” as it relates to Charleston’s visual arts. Check out the full lineup of fall programming at gibbesmuseum.org.

The Free Verse Poetry Festival is back for its seventh year. Led by former poet laureate Marcus Amaker, the festival, Oct. 18 to Oct. 22, offers two workshops, a potluck, a poetry slam for high school students and more. Check out @freeversepoets on Instagram to learn more.

The annual Charleston Literary Festival returns Nov. 3 to Nov. 12. Discover an exciting line-up of speakers from award-winning novelists to historians, biographers, scientists, artists and activists. The all-access season pass costs $625 and will get you into the opening night party, or buy tickets for individual lectures for $25.

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In When the Land Meets the Body, artist La Vaughn Belle asks viewers to consider how landscapes are manipulated by those who live within them

Image details courtesy La Vaughn Belle; Halsey Institute of Contemporary Art

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the people that do the insurrection — maybe the land does too.”

Director Katie Hirsch said the Halsey is proud to support Belle’s first solo museum exhibition.

“What’s particularly exciting about this is that there is something for everyone: collage, painting, digital work, photographic interventions, video. There are so many avenues that visitors can use to reflect on the questions La Vaughn asks,” Hirsch said.

“In Effluvia, the video work commissioned by the Halsey for this exhibition, she does this through a lyrical unraveling of the narratives on marshland surrounding Charleston,” Hirsch continued. “Using her body and voice as a tool, La Vaughn reflects on the unnatural marsh topographies that were transformed by enslaved Africans and African Americans through rice cultivation.”

There’s a lineup of events surrounding the exhibition, including an Oct. 5 poetry reading with the poet laureate of Charleston, Asiah Mae.

Narrowing the aperture

Another artist presents his first museum solo exhibition just around the block, at The International African American Museum (IAAM).

IAAM’s Chief Learning and Engagement Officer Malika Pryor said the museum’s special exhibition gallery is a space which will be transformed for every coming special exhibition, offering artistic expressions of diaspora, narrative and humanity. She hopes it’s a space that will bring folks to continually visit the museum — especially in the museum’s first year, during which the space will be transformed five times in 12 months.

The first solo exhibition for that space is an honor given to Charleston artist Fletcher Williams III — an interdisciplinary artist who is making some of the most conceptual and exciting visual work one can find in Charleston.

In When It Rains It Shines, Williams presents a semi-autobiographical, postmodern installation, where viewers walk into a haunting, compelling, colorfully lit hideaway reminiscent of a garden pergola. Stepping into the space, you’re confronted with Southern symbols, including milk crates, and hair extensions presented as palm bundles waiting to be braided. Williams takes his longtime motif of the fence into psychedelic distortion, and uses sound, light and reflection to talk about the things that disrupt or provoke his dreaming in the South.

From his artist statement: “Visitors are led through a labyrinth of Williams’s memories, rituals, superstitionse and disillusionments, collectively expressing his interest in the psychological and emotional implications of shared and private spaces, signs, symbols and experimental storytelling.”

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The IAAM will host a reception celebrating Fletcher Williams III’s exhibition from 7 p.m. to 9 p.m. on Sept. 27

What To Do

FRIDAY

Open mic night

Clerks Coffee’s monthly open mic night brings attendees an evening of talent and libations. If you’ve been missing out on this series, don’t worry, there are still plenty of opportunities to jump in — and it’s open to all skill levels. A surprise host will lead each open mic night. Enjoy cocktails and bites from Clerks’ menu while you enjoy the local talent.

Sept. 15. 6 p.m. to 8 p.m. Free. Clerks Coffee Co. 181 Church St. Downtown. hotelemeline.com/clerks-coffee-company

SATURDAY

Share Your Craft

Firefly Distillery is celebrating the statewide distribution of its most premium spirit, Bend & Steal American Whiskey, by hosting a free event highlighting local craftsmen. The Share Your Craft event will feature makers from across the state to showcase their talent — from boat builders and woodworkers to makers of fly-fishing flies, knives, furniture and more. Whiskey cocktails will be available for purchase and tasting.

Sept. 16. Noon to 4 p.m. Free. Firefly Distillery. 4201 Spruill Ave. North Charleston. fireflydistillery.com

SUNDAY

Children’s painting workshop

THURSDAY

Special 250th Early Days Gallery tour

Celebrate The Charleston Museum’s 250th anniversary with a tour of the museum’s earliest collections in the Early Days gallery, which reflects the museum’s long history, from its founding before the American Revolution to the late 20th century. Join Curator of Archaeology

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Martha Zierden for the story of the museum’s history, and take a closer look at some of its earliest objects.

Sept. 21. 3:30 p.m. Free with general admission. Charleston Museum. 360 Meeting St. Downtown. charlestonmuseum.org

Enjoy a brand-new program with The Charleston Museum educator Maggie Roof, a professional artist and graduate of the Savannah College of Art and Design. Join the team at the Dill Sanctuary to learn to paint a salt marsh landscape. Supplies, including easels and canvases, will be provided. Participants will be able to take home their canvas landscape. Reserve your space online.

Sept. 17. 10 a.m. to 11:30 a.m. $35/members; $40/nonmembers. The Dill Sanctuary. 1163 Riverland Drive. James Island. charlestonmuseum.org

MONDAY

National Cheeseburger Day

Celebrate one of the tastiest national holidays on the calendar with the perfect remedy to the Monday blues: a sizzling, savory, grilled-to-perfection cheeseburger from The Watch Rooftop Kitchen. The restaurant’s famous Watch Burger and Terrace Burger will be available for $12 to commemorate the holiday.

Sept. 18. 11 a.m. to 2 a.m. Menu prices vary. The Restoration Hotel. 75 Wentworth St. Downtown. therestorationhotel.com

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Artifacts

Redux welcomes three new shows

By Chloe Hogan

The Saint of Second Chances, a Netflix documentary that premieres Sept. 19, tells the story of Mike Veeck, master baseball promoter for the Charleston RiverDogs.

Mike Veeck is the son of the late Hall of Fame baseball owner Bill Veeck, and so it comes as no surprise that the film is about baseball — but much more than that, the film is about family. It’s about fathers and sons, fathers and daughters, legacy and forgiveness. It’s a heartfelt and unexpected journey through the comeback of a man with a good heart.

The first half of The Saint of Second Chances tells Mike Veeck’s story through flashbacks, opening with a shot of actor Charlie Day, who portrays a younger Veeck, drunk and asleep on a pool float after having lost everything. Veeck grew up in the shadow of his father, who is called in the film “one of the last great baseball hustlers.” He set out to prove himself working under his dad at the Chicago White Sox. That’s when Veeck blew up his — and his father’s — career, accidentally inciting a riot during the promotional events for which he became notorious.

The Disco Demolition Night on July 12, 1979, at Comiskey Park in Chicago was a pivotal turning point in Veeck’s life — in one evening, he had tarnished the family legacy. The event is explored in the film through current-day interviews with Veeck, in which he’s able to show a new understanding of the ugly elements that event was laced with, plus flashback reenactments that take viewers into his emotional and mental anguish following the incident.

In those flashbacks, Veeck portrays his late father alongside Day, an experience that Veeck said was quite a trip.

“In filming, there were all kinds of feelings that bubbled to the surface. I used to say that the day my dad died, he and I had nothing left to say. But that wasn’t true. I had a lot more to say to him. And I said it to him over that period of, I don’t know, three weeks? That was a great experience. I

mean, now I don’t have to go to therapy,” he told the Charleston City Paper with a laugh.

Comeback kid

Exiled from the game he loved, Veeck spent the next decade clawing his way up from rock bottom.

He redeemed himself through his ownership and promotion of teams in the minor league, where he was able to share that second chance with others, bringing players like Dave Stevens, a double amputee, on the field at the independent Minnesota league Saint Paul Saints.

“We all have scar tissue,” Veeck said. “There’s not one of us that’s ever been on Earth without scar tissue. What I learned was passing [your second chance on] is important. And you’re only as great as the people that you’ve influenced or come into contact with. I couldn’t have made it if I hadn’t had 200 second chances. I’m familiar with it, unfortunately, way more than I should be.”

While enjoying a new phase of his career at the Saint Paul Saints, Veeck got back into — and majorly expanded — the kind of baseball promotional hijinks that his family name signifies. At 40, he fell in love with his future wife, Libby, a turning point in the film’s focus.

Honoring family

It’s the last chapter of the film that will leave viewers a sobbing wreck. Veeck’s daughter, Rebecca, has a clear knack for her father’s baseball zaniness and is the heir-apparent to the Veeck family baseball throne — until she became ill and ultimately passed away from Batten disease in 2019.

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The film was originally written about Rebecca, titled at one point The Sorcerer’s Apprentice, said producer Jon Berg at a private Charleston screening in August. Berg joined forces with fellow producer and Veeck’s longtime friend Fran Zeuli to get this story into the hands of directors Morgan Neville (20 Feet from Stardom) and Jeff Malmberg (MARWENCOL), who will on Sept. 19, present the film to Netflix’s 230 million users.

The Saint of Second Chances handles the heart of the film with care and honesty, not wrapping up the tragedy of losing Rebecca with an easy bow. But it does celebrate in the face of grief. The documentary screening at the RiverDogs Segra Club on Aug. 25 ended in a moment of revelry for Rebecca, instead of a moment of silence, (complete with miniature confetti cannons and shiny noisemakers, in typical Veeck fashion).

Veeck said what he wants people to take away from the film is how much we all have in common.

“I want them to walk away realizing what wonderful creatures we are. No matter how many times we fall. It’s just you gotta get up. And I learned that from my daughter because she died with such dignity. So I want people to walk away realizing we think we’re all on our own island. But there’s so many things that unite us, that make us similar and that give us something to talk about.”

One final thing to know: You do not have to enjoy or know anything about baseball to enjoy this film.

“I don’t think a RiverDogs game is about baseball,” Veeck added. “It’s about community. It’s about children, and it’s about the sound of laughter. I hope that the documentary is the same thing.”

Redux Contemporary Art Center hosts a special opening night from 5 p.m. to 8 p.m. Sept. 22. In the front gallery, Redux will present Under the Radar, Charleston Magazine’s third annual competition for cutting-edge, emerging artists in the Lowcountry. The 10 winning artists will present a group show. In the center gallery, Lauren Ridenour shows new work, and the back gallery holds an exhibition by the current residents of the Lightning Residency program, Chloe Hogan and Cara Fischer. All three shows will remain on view until Nov. 4. Learn more at reduxstudios.org. —Staff reports

Park Circle Gallery seeks exhibition proposals

North Charleston’s Park Circle Gallery is looking for artists interested in its monthly exhibition program. Established and emerging visual artists are invited to apply individually or with a group. Artists must submit proposals by Nov. 30 through northcharlestonculturalartsdepartment.slideroom.com. It’s free to apply. — Chloe Hogan

Attend a cultural history fundraising event

The Charleston County Parks Foundation will host an unforgettable evening at McLeod Plantation Historic Site on Sept. 30. Expect a performance by the Charleston Symphony with nationally renowned baritone Philip Lima , plus drinks and light hors d’oeuvres. Tickets are $75 per person and include drinks and food. Purchase tickets online at ccprc.com. — CH

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Following the life story of Mike Veeck, promoter of the Charleston RiverDogs, The Saint of Second Chances is a documentary about baseball and family legacy that’s both funny and full of heart

Learn to dance with Holy City Salsa

By Chloe Hogan

There’s a thriving subculture of Latin dance in Charleston. You might not realize there are quite a few spots where you can regularly bring a partner or go solo to dance salsa and bachata every week — including downtown’s Forte Jazz Lounge on Tuesdays, Summerville’s Thai Taco on Saturdays, and King Street restaurant Mesu every Thursday with music by Latin Groove.

If you’re a newcomer to the scene, you might want to dip your toes in at the beginner-friendly dance studio Holy City Salsa, which celebrates its seventh anniversary this month.

Since Georgia Schrubbe founded Holy City Salsa in 2016, she’s taught hundreds of Charlestonians how to dance with a partner. One of the things she loves most about social dance is how it’s a language without words, one that can connect people of many cultures and backgrounds.

“People are dancing salsa all over the world — not just in Latin America. I went to a salsa event in Paris a few years ago, and there were people from every continent!” Schrubbe said.

She said beginners through seasoned dancers are welcome at Holy City Salsa classes. There’s a six-week beginner course where no special clothing or shoes are needed. (And there’s an online course if you’d prefer to start at home.)

Salsa is naturally a community-driven activity, Schrubbe said, as it requires dancing with a partner.

“We rotate partners throughout class, so you can come solo. Just wear something comfortable that you can move in,” Schrubbe said. “You’ll learn a new skill, move your body, meet new people and have fun in these group class sessions.”

After closing a brickand-mortar downtown studio in 2020, Holy City Salsa classes are now held at Amorous Dance at 1706 Old Towne Road in West Ashley.

The benefits go beyond just learning to dance though, Schrubbe said.

“There’s been a lot of research done on

Holy City Salsa hosts monthly social dance events for beginners and experienced dancers alike. The evening starts with a crash course in salsa basics, followed by hours of free dance to Latin music.

the benefits of learning how to social dance for aging. It’s really good for your brain. And even if you’re not thinking about long term mental health, I think in the short term, it’s super valuable too — we always joke that dance is cheaper than therapy.

“For me, dance has always been a place in a time where you are just 100% present. … I see it as a type of meditation.”

Monthly social events

Holy City Salsa hosts a monthly social dance event. It starts with a 45-minute beginner salsa class, followed by an open dance floor with Latin music where everyone dances together (or enjoys the vibe from the sidelines, or at the cash bar — if that’s more your thing).

“Some people love it and immediately they are hooked,” Schrubbe said. “If you’re coming into it for the first time, you just can’t be too worried about what other people think about you. I think being open minded is a good way to come in.”

The night starts with the beginner class, where instructors go slowly through the basics of salsa. Once you’ve got the basic steps, the friends you’ve made in class are a great place to start on the dance floor,

Schrubbe said.

“You get a chance to meet a dozen, two dozen people in class, and then when it goes into the free dance, you can ask them to dance, and you’ve already got a bit of a connection formed with someone you just met.”

When you find your groove, you can spend the next few hours dancing the night away.

Schrubbe said she hopes that folks who come out and learn social dance at Holy City Salsa will gain a new skill that can help them connect with people from all over the world.

“People are dancing salsa and bachata and all these rhythms like all over the world. So it’s pretty cool that if you get plugged into this community here, you’re going to be able to get plugged in anywhere you go. You can go and find somewhere where there’s people dancing and you’d be among friends. I think that’s just a really special part of it.”

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Different vision leads to a Prohibition that has lasted 10 years

By Helen Mitternight

You might think that a couple of Irish guys would take a look at a King Street location and open a pub where one could get “your usual pint of Guinness and a shot of Jameson.” But entrepreneur James Walsh had a different vision.

He and his best friend, Jim McCourt, created Prohibition to pay homage to the history they saw all around them in Charleston. This month, it’s celebrating its 10th anniversary. And the popular bar has been a success, they say, because they ignored hordes of scantily clad bachelorettes roaming King Street and focused instead on the over-25 crowd.

“We saw a niche in the market for cocktails and quality food,” Walsh said. “There were a lot of college bars on King Street at that time, so we decided to really focus on quality and a slightly older demographic.”

Besides, there was already an Irish bar next door, or at least a bar with Irish pretensions.

“There was a guy who owned O’Malley’s next door, but it just had a big shamrock in the window and a very young crowd. It wasn’t authentic,” Walsh said.

Instead, Walsh and McCourt brought in chef Greg Garrison and offered “white tablecloth food without the white tablecloths” — food that went beyond the stan-

dard bar fare of burgers and wings. They also offered entertainment.

“Back in the day, we noticed a lot of restaurants were wrapping up at 11 p.m., and we decided there’s a lot of people, especially on weekends, who want to continue to party on, so we made a decision to transition later from a restaurant experience to a nightlife experience,” McCourt said.

A top-shelf bar program

They modeled that transition on bars in which they’d both worked in New York, where they’d met and roomed together while working in food and beverage. Walsh, lured by the vacancy on King Street, arrived first in Charleston and soon coaxed McCourt to join him and start the beverage program that would grow to include what the pair say is the most extensive list of whiskeys in the city.

McCourt said he made a conscious attempt to include women in his bar program, something that was relatively rare a decade ago.

“There are a lot of bars that have mixologists with fancy mustaches, and they are very pretentious. I wanted to make it feel warm and comfortable and safe — more approachable and more fun,” McCourt said.

During the years, Prohibition also has

What’s new?

After Butcher & Bee closed at 1085 Morrison Drive Sept. 3, the space is now operating as a second location of the restaurant group’s popular cafe, The Daily. Pop in between 7 a.m. and 3 p.m. for coffee and tea drinks, breakfast items, baked goods, smoothies and more.

Restaurant group Free Reign , which operates Southbound, Community Table and BarPizza, will open Honeysuckle Rose Sept. 15. The new restaurant will be located at 237 Fishburne St.

Big Bad Breakfast opened a second location Aug. 29 in Mount Pleasant at 2664 North Highway 17.

What’s happening?

City Paper ’s 2023 Burger Throwdown voting is open through Sept. 20. Cast your vote and see who gets the title of King of Burgers in six categories from participating Charleston-area eateries. We’ll announce winners in our Sept. 29 issue. To vote, go to: vote.charlestoncitypaper.com

Charleston Restaurant Week continues through Sept. 17 with specials from dozens of restaurants in the Charleston area. Visit lowcountryhospitalityassociation.com/ restaurant-week for more details.

Park Circle Oktoberfest is happening Sept. 23 at Holy City Brewing hosted by The Brew Cellar General admission tickets are $10, and children ages 12 and younger are free. Purchase VIP all-access tickets for $50 to experience the Porter Room’s transformation into a German Beer Hall complete with six to eight beers from Deutschland and a souvenir stein.

Tickets to the 2024 Charleston Wine + Food Festival will be available for purchase Oct. 19. The festival will take place March 6-10, 2024.

What we’ll miss

Vietnamese restaurant and Best of Charleston 2023 winner Little Miss Ha will close its Mount Pleasant location at 915 Houston Northcutt Blvd. on Oct. 31.

Park Circle restaurant Three Sirens, located at 1067 East Montague Ave., will close its doors Sept. 17. It will continue to serve dinner from 5 p.m. to 9 p.m. through Sept. 17. —Staff reports

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Prohibition owners Jim McCourt (left) and Jim Walsh (center) brought in chef Greg Garrison to curate an elevated food menu beyond your average bar food. The bar also offers an extensive whiskey selection.

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South’s Best: New regional spirits contest

By Helen Mitternight

Southerners are known for their bourbon but get little recognition for the other good spirits their distilleries are producing, and the awards for quality tend to come from outside of the South.

Matti Antilla, founder of Charleston’s Grain & Barrel Spirits, wants to change all of that.

“I was asked if I would enter a contest earlier this year. But the contest was in a random state that had little to no relevance to our business or our customers. It got me thinking: Would it be of value to our industry peer group to be judged by experts within the region? I went to a number of my peers, and they all said this is something we need, so South’s Best was born,” Antilla said.

South’s Best is the first regional spirits competition for spirit brands produced in the South, which Antilla says he defines as 17 states, from Delaware to Texas, including Washington D.C.

Judges — mostly from Charleston — will do blind tastings the week of Nov. 6 and vote on the top in each of more than 300 categories, including the South’s Best Double Gold, Gold, Silver and Bronze medals for categories including Best of Show and Best of State, along with niche awards like Best Veteran-Owned Spirit, Best Female-Owned Spirit, Best Minority-

Owned Spirit and Best Organic Spirit. Double Gold recipients will be judged a second time to determine Best of Show. The judging will be done privately, but Antilla says future years will include inviting the public to watch the judging.

Judges include influencers such as Taneka Reaves and Johnny Caldwell, also known as the Cocktail Bandits; restaurant owners such as Nathan Thurston from Millers All Day; beverage buyers such as Mike van Beyrer of Bottles; bar beverage program managers such as Jim McCourt of Prohibition and Jamie Bolt of Gin Joint; and a non-alcoholic category judge, Emily Heintz of Séchey.

“This has been one of the most fun parts since kicking it off, seeing the variety of spirits produced in this region,” Antilla said. “The initial reaction is the South produces great whiskey, which it does, but we’ve also had rum from Mississippi, gin from Alabama, single malt Scotch from North Carolina and a non-alcoholic spirit from Texas. It’s reflective of the strength of distilling in the region, and it’s so much more than just whiskey.”

Winners of the South’s Best get “bragging rights,” Antilla said, as well as publicity, and he said he’s working on more “physical opportunities for winners to highlight their products in front of key customers.”

Winners will be announced the week after Thanksgiving.

In future years, Antilla says he plans to add a South’s Best Beer competition and a South’s Best Wine competition.

“My goal is really to have this be the Academy Awards for Southern beverages,” Antilla said.

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offered a ramen program in partnership with Two Nixons’ Jeffrey Stoneberger; swing dancing lessons with a live band; wine pairings with chef Garrison; and this month, a blindfolded dinner experience, Dining in the Dark.

“We always try to do events that keep us relevant and educate the locals and people who buy tickets to events,” Walsh said. The blindfolded event is new to them, managed by an external company that will work with Garrison. Diners who buy tickets will be escorted to one of the bar’s three sections and then are blindfolded, and they’re reliant on their other senses to appreciate the multi-course dinner.

Walsh and McCourt are expanding to Columbia late this fall with a new Prohibition and, after a decade of ignoring their Belfast roots, the two are partnering to open an Irish bar next door to

Prohibition in 2024. Needless to say, Walsh said, it won’t merely have a big shamrock in the window.

Tickets to the Dining in the Dark event are $90 and can be obtained at feverup.com/m/134907. There will be two seatings at 6 p.m. and 8:30 p.m.

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U.S. Bank Trust Company, National Association not in its individual capacity but solely as Trustee for the CIM TRUST 2023-NR1

Mortgage-Backed Notes, Series 2023-NR1, Plaintiff, vs.

The Estate of Vernethel Gadsden, and John Doe and Richard Roe, as Representatives of all heirs and devisees of Vernethel Gadsden, deceased, and all persons entitled to claim under or through them; also, all other persons, corporations or entities unknown claiming any right, title interest in or lien upon the subject real estate described herein, any unknown adults, whose true names are unknown, being a class designated as John Doe, and any unknown infants, persons under disability, or person in the Military Service of the United States of America whose true names are unknown, being a class designated as Richard Roe; South Carolina Department of Motor Vehicles, 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 339 Heyward Street, 2nd Floor, Columbia, SC 29201, within thirty (30) days after the service hereof, exclusive of the day of such service; except that the United States of America, if named, shall have sixty (60) days to answer after the service hereof, exclusive of the day of such service; and if you fail to do so, judgment by default will be rendered against you for the relief demanded in the Complaint.

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

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 the Plaintiff.

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 Vernethel Gadsden (hereinafter, “Mortgagor(s)”) to Equity One, Inc., its successors and assigns, a certain mortgage dated May 24, 2006 and recorded on May 26, 2006 in Book B585 at Page 415, in the Charleston County Office of the Register of Deeds (hereinafter, “Subject Mortgage”). Thereafter, the Mortgage was transferred to the Plaintiff herein by assignment. 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 certain piece, parcel or lot of land, situate, lying and being on the North side of Highway #162, St Paul’s School District No 23, in the Churchill Community on Yonges Island, Charleston County, State of South Carolina containing 1.076 acres, more or less, and designated as Lot 2 on a plat of Robert L Frank, Surveyor, dated March 2, 1995, and recorded in Plat Book DA at Page 366. Being the same lands conveyed to Vernethel Gadsden by deed of Ricky Porter dated April 27, 2017, and recorded May 5, 2017 in the Charleston County RMC Office in Book 0625 Page 680. Parcel No. 126-00-00-122 Property Address: 5225 Rectory Road, Hollywood, SC 29449

ORDER FOR APPOINTMENT OF GUARDIAN AD LITEM AND APPOINTMENT OF ATTORNEY FOR UNKNOWN DEFENDANTS IN MILITARY SERVICE

It appearing to the satisfaction of the Court, upon reading the filed Petition for Appointment of J. Marshall Swails, Esq. as Guardian ad Litem for known and unknown minors, and for all persons who may be under a disability, and it appearing that J. Marshall Swails, Esq. has consented to said appointment, it is FURTHER upon reading the Petition filed by Plaintiff for the appointment of an attorney to represent 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 Servicemembers’ Civil Relief Act, and any amendments thereto, and it appearing that J. Marshall Swails, Esq. has consented to act for and represent said Defendants, it is ORDERED that J. Marshall Swails, Esq., 8 Williams Street, Greenville, SC 29601, be and hereby is appointed Guardian ad Litem on behalf of all known and 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 5225 Rectory Road Hollywood, SC 29449; 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 J. Marshall Swails, Esq., 8 Williams Street, Greenville, SC 29601, 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 Servicemembers’ 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 The 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.

NOTICE OF FILING OF COMPLAINT

TO THE DEFENDANTS ABOVE

NAMED: YOU WILL PLEASE TAKE NOTICE that the original Complaint, Lis Pendens, Certificate of Exemption from ADR and Notice of Right to Foreclosure Intervention in the above entitled action was filed in the Office of the Clerk of Court for Charleston County on August 14, 2023.

D. Max Sims, Esq. (SC Bar: 103945)

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to the Complaint on the Plaintiff, the South Carolina Department of Social Services, at the office of its Attorney, W-Tracy Brown Legal Department of the Berkeley County Department of Social Services, 2 Belt Dr. 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. W- Tracy Brown, SC Bar # 5832 2 Belt Dr. Moncks Corner, SC 29461, 843-719-1007.

FOR SERVICE BY PUBLICATION

UPON THE CLASSES OF DEFENDANTS DESIGNATED AS ASSIGNS OR HEIRS AND JOHN DOE 1, JOHN DOE 2, JOHN DOE 3 and JOHN DOE 4 IN THE STATE OF SOUTH CAROLINA COUNTY OF CHARLESTON IN THE COURT OF COMMON PLEAS C/A 2023CP1002896

of the Court, pursuant to CPLR §R308(5) and CPLR §R316, and upon due consideration having been had thereupon, and as it appears that service of the annexed Summons with Notice could not be effectuated pursuant to CPLR §308(1) due to the fact that the Defendant no longer lives at the last known address and Plaintiff, through his attorneys, had to search for the Defendant and made multiple service attempts upon the defendant, it is Now, on motion of BMJ Law, PLLC, attorneys for the Plaintiff; it is hereby:

ORDERED, that plaintiff’s application pursuant to CPLR §R308(5) to serve the defendant by first class mail nunc pro tunc to February 15, 2023 is granted.

ORDERED, that plaintiff’s application pursuant to CPLR §R316 to serve the defendant by publication and to enlarge the time to serve the Summons for Divorce is hereby granted. Dated 8/22/2023, Jamaica, Queens. Hon. Maureen McHugh Heitner.

shall transfer, encumber, assign, remove, withdraw or, in any way, dispose of any tax deferred funds, stocks or other assets held in any individual retirement accounts, 401K accounts, profit sharing plans, Keough [Keogh] accounts, or any other pension or retirement account, and the parties shall further refrain from applying for or requesting the payment of retirement benefits or annuity payments of any kind, without the consent of the other party in writing, or upon further order of the court.

(3) ORDERED: Neither party shall incur unreasonable debts hereafter, including, but not limited to further borrowing against any credit line secured by the family residence, further encumbering any assets, or unreasonably using credit cards or cash advances against credit cards, except in the usual course of business or for customary or usual household expenses, or for reasonable attorney’s fees in connection with this action.

children of the marriage, the lower formula will apply, but only if the maintenance payor is paying child support to the other spouse who has the children as the custodial parent. Otherwise the higher formula will apply.

Lower Formula

1-Multiply Maintenance Payor’s Income by 20%.

2- Multiply Maintenance Payee’s Income by 25%.

Subtract Line 2 from Line 1: = Result 1

Subtract Maintenance Payee’s Income from 40 % of Combined Income* = Result 2. Enter the lower of Result 2 or Result 1, but if less than or equal to zero, enter zero.

THIS IS THE CALCULATED GUIDELINE AMOUNT OF MAINTENANCE WITH THE LOWER FORMULA

Higher Formula

the foregoing Summons, the Plaintiff will move for an Order of Reference of this case to the Master-in-Equity/Special Referee for this County, which Order shall, pursuant to Rule 53 of the South Carolina Rules of Civil Procedure, specifically provide that the said Master-in-Equity/Special Referee is authorized and empowered to enter a final judgment in this case with appeal only to the South Carolina Court of Appeals pursuant to Rule 203(d)(1) of the SCACR, effective June 1, 1999.

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:

STATE OF SOUTH CAROLINA

COUNTY OF BERKELEY IN THE FAMILY COURT FOR THE FIRST JUDICIAL CIRCUIT DOCKET NO. 2023-DR-08-1573

SOUTH CAROLINA DEPARTMENT OF SOCIAL SERVICES

VERSUS

JOHN AND JANE DOE IN RE: BABY BOY DOE UNKNOWN (DOB: 08/27/2023)

NOTICE TO: JOHN DOE AND JANE DOE

YOU ARE HEREBY SUMMONED and required to answer the Petition for Permanency Planning hearing regarding the minor child in this action, the original of which has been filed in the Office of the Clerk of Court for Berkeley County Family Court; and to serve a copy of your answer to the complaint upon the undersigned attorney for the Plaintiff at the address below within thirty (30) days following the date you receive this notice, exclusive of the day of such service; and if you fail to answer the complaint within the time stated, an affidavit of default will be entered against you and the plaintiff will proceed to seek to terminate your parental rights to the above-captioned children.

PLEASE TAKE NOTICE that a final hearing shall be heard in this matter on October 24, 2023 at 10:00 a.m in the Berkeley County Family Court, located at 300 B California Ave., Moncks Corner, SC 29463.

Sally Dey, Attorney for Plaintiff 3685 Rivers Ave., S-101 No. Chas., SC 29405

STATE OF SOUTH CAROLINA COUNTY OF BERKELEY IN THE FAMILY COURT FOR THE NINTH CIRCUIT DOCKET NO. 2022-DR- 08-1735

SOUTH CAROLINA DEPARTMENT OF SOCIAL SERVICES

VERSUS

KAYLA SCHIEFERLY, DAN HUNT, AND CORY SEPRISH DEFENDANTS. IN THE INTERESTS OF: MINOR CHILD BORN 2009; 2012.

TO DEFENDANT: DAN HUNT YOU ARE HEREBY SUMMONED and required to answer the Complaint in this action filed with the Clerk of Court for Berkeley County on October 13, 2022. 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

Dorothy M. Blackmer f/k/a Dorothy M. Dessasure, Plaintiff, vs. Arthur L. Dessasure (Deceased), and his Assigns or Heirs, if any, and all other persons entitled to claim under or through him, Amy H. Dessasure (Deceased) a/k/a Ammie Dessasure (Deceased), and her Assigns or Heirs, if any, and all other persons entitled to claim under or through her, Arthur L. Dessasure, Jr. (Deceased), and his Assigns or Heirs, if any, entitled to claim under or through him, Amanda D. Bines, John Doe 1, John Doe 2, John Doe 3 and John Doe 4, Defendants.

YOU ARE HEREBY SUMMONED and required to answer the Complaint upon the subscriber, at the address shown below, within thirty (30) days after service hereof, exclusive of the day of such service, and if you fail to answer the Complaint, judgment by default will be rendered against you for the relief demanded in the complaint.

NOTICE OF FILING OF COMPLAINT TO THE DEFENDANTS ABOVE NAMED: YOU WILL PLEASE TAKE NOTICE that the original Complaint in the above-entitled action was electronically filed with the Office of the Clerk of Court for Charleston County on June 14, 2023.

Ronald L. Richter, Jr., Esq. (SC Bar No. 66377) Bland Richter, LLP 18 Broad Street, Mezzanine Charleston, SC 29401 Phone (843) 573-9900.

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SUMMONS WITH NOTICE IN ACTION FOR DIVORCE SUPREME COURT OF STATE OF NEW YORK COUNTY OF QUEENS Index No. 720933/2021

RAYMOND WILLIAMS, Plaintiff - againstSHEREE MICHELLE ALEXANDER, Defendant.

Date Summons filed: 9/20/2021. Plaintiff designates Queens County as the place of trial. The basis of the venue is Plaintiff’s residence. Plaintiff resides at 137-28 133rd Avenue, Jamaica, NY 11436.

Upon the reading of the Summons in the above-entitled action and the annexed Affirmation of BONNIE MOHR JAN, ESQ., duly affirmed the 16th day of August, 2023, together with the Exhibits annexed thereto in support of this application which seeks an Order

To the above named Defendant

You are hereby summoned to serve a Notice of Appearance, on the Plaintiff’s Attorney(s) within 20 days after the service of this Summons, exclusive of the date of service (or within 30 days after the service is complete if this Summons is not personally delivered to you within the State of New York); and in case of your failure to appear, judgment will be taken against you by default for the relief demanded in the notice set forth below.

NOTICE

The nature of this action is to dissolve the marriage between the parties, on the grounds of **DRL §170(7) Irretrievable breakdown of the marriage for at least six (6) months.

The relief sought is a judgment of absolute divorce in favor of the plaintiff dissolving the marriage between the parties in this action. The nature of any ancillary relief demanded is that the Court grant to plaintiff an award of her separate property; that there be an equitable distribution of all the marital property; that the marital debts of the parties be apportioned between them; that the defendant may resume the use of her maiden name; that plaintiff be awarded counsel fees and costs; and for such other and further relief as to the Court may seem just, proper and equitable.

NOTICE OF ENTRY OF AUTOMATIC ORDERS (D.R.L.236)

Rev. 1/13

FAILURE TO COMPLY WITH THESE ORDERS MAY BE DEEMED A CONTEMPT OF COURT

PURSUANT TO the Uniform Rules of the Trial Courts, and DOMESTIC RELATIONS LAW § 236 Part B, Section 2, both you and your spouse (the parties) are bound by the following AUTOMATIC ORDERS, which have been entered against you and your spouse in your divorce action pursuant to 22 NYCRR §202.16(a), and which shall remain in full force and effect during the pendency of the action unless terminated, modified or amended by further order of the court or upon written agreement between the parties:

(1) ORDERED: Neither party shall sell, transfer, encumber, conceal, assign, remove or in any way dispose of, without the consent of the other party in writing, or by order of the court, any property (including, but not limited to, real estate, personal property, cash accounts, stocks, mutual funds, bank accounts, cars and boats), individually or jointly held by the parties, except in the usual course of business, for customary and usual household expenses or for reasonable attorney’s fees in connection with this action.

(2) ORDERED: Neither party

(4) ORDERED: Neither party shall cause the other party or the children of the marriage to be removed from any existing medical, hospital and dental insurance coverage, and each party shall maintain the existing medical, hospital and dental insurance coverage in full force and effect.

(5) ORDERED: Neither party shall change the beneficiaries of any existing life insurance policies, and each party shall maintain the existing life insurance, automobile insurance, homeowners and renters insurance policies in full force and effect.

IMPORTANT NOTE: After service of the Summons with Notice or Summons and Complaint for divorce, if you or your spouse wishes to modify or dissolve the automatic orders, you must ask the court for approval to do so, or enter into a written modification agreement with your spouse duly signed and acknowledged before a notary public.

NOTICE CONCERNING CONTINUATION OF HEALTH

CARE COVERAGE

(Required by section 255(1) of the Domestic Relations Law)

PLEASE TAKE NOTICE that once a judgment of divorce is signed in this action, both you and your spouse may or may not continue to be eligible for coverage under each other’s health insurance plan, depending on the terms of the plan.

Notice of Guideline Maintenance

If your divorce was commenced on or after January 25, 2016, this Notice is required to be given to you by the Supreme Court of the county where your divorce was filed to comply with the Maintenance Guidelines Law ([S. 5678/A. 7645], Chapter 269, Laws of 2015) because you may not have counsel in this action to advise you.

It does not mean that your spouse (the person you are married to) is seeking or offering an award of “Maintenance” in this action. “Maintenance” means the amount to be paid to the other spouse for support after the divorce is final.

You are hereby given notice that under the Maintenance Guidelines Law (Chapter 269, Laws of 2015), there is an obligation to award the guideline amount of maintenance on income up to $192,000 to be paid by the party with the higher income (the maintenance payor) to the party with the lower income (the maintenance payee) according to a formula, unless the parties agree otherwise or waive this right. Depending on the incomes of the parties, the obligation might fall on either the Plaintiff or Defendant in the action.

There are two formulas to determine the amount of the obligation. If you and your spouse have no children, the higher formula will apply. If there are

1-Multiply Maintenance Payor’s Income by 30% 2- Multiply Maintenance Payee’s Income by 20% Subtract Line 2 from Line

1= Result 1 Subtract Maintenance Payee’s Income from 40 % of Combined Income*= Result 2 Enter the lower of Result 2 or Result 1, but if less than or equal to zero, enter zero

THIS IS THE CALCULATED GUIDELINE AMOUNT OF MAINTENANCE WITH THE HIGHER FORMULA

*Combined Income equals Maintenance Payor’s Income up to $192,000 plus Maintenance Payee’s Income

Note: The Court will determine how long maintenance will be paid in accordance with the statute. (Rev. 3/1/20)

BMJ LAW, PLLC, Attorney for Plaintiff

By:/S/ Kirk Passamonti,Esq. 118-35 Queens Blvd, Suite 1220 Forest Hills, NY 11375. 929-930-1371

Bonnie@mohresq.com

Dated: September 15, 2021 Queens, New York

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C.A. No. 2023-CP-08-02043

L.P. No. 2023-LP-08-00340

Waterford Town Homes Owners Association, Inc., Plaintiff, v. Randall King, et al. Defendants.

SUMMONS BY PUBLICATION

TO: RANDALL KING

YOU ARE HEREBY SUMMONED and required to answer the Complaint herein, a copy of which is herewith served upon you, or otherwise appear and defend, and to serve a copy of your Answer to said Complaint upon the subscriber at his office, 102 Wappoo Creek Dr., Unit 8, Charleston, SC 29412, within thirty (30) days after service hereof, except as to the United States of America, which shall have sixty (60) days, exclusive of the day of such service, and if you fail to answer the Complaint within the time aforesaid, or otherwise appear and defend, 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.

YOU WILL ALSO TAKE NOTICE that should you fail to Answer

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 the Plaintiff immediately and separately and such application will be deemed absolute and total in the absence of your application for such an appointment within thirty (30) days after the service of the Summons and Complaint upon you.

NOTICE OF FILING OF SUMMONS AND COMPLAINT

TO THE DEFENDANTS ABOVE NAMED:

YOU WILL PLEASE TAKE NOTICE that the foregoing Summons, along with the Complaint and Lis Pendens, were filed in the Office of the Clerk of Court on July 21, 2023. THIS IS A COMMUNICATION FROM A DEBT COLLECTOR. THE PURPOSE OF THIS COMMUNICATION IS TO COLLECT A DEBT AND ANY INFORMATION OBTAINED WILL BE USED FOR THAT PURPOSE, except as stated below in the instance of bankruptcy protection.

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

CAPELL THOMSON, LLC S/ Brandon S. Cabot 102 Wappoo Creek Dr., Unit 8 Charleston, SC 29412 Attorney for Plaintiff STATE OF SOUTH CAROLINA COUNTY OF CHARLESTON IN THE COURT OF COMMON PLEAS FOR THE NINTH JUDICIAL CIRCUIT CASE NO.: 2023-CP-10-00634 FREDDIE BRUCE MINNIX AND VIVIAN DELORES MINNIX, Plaintiff, vs. THE ESTATE OF ISAAC PORCHER, Deceased, LILLIAN PORCHER, and if she be deceased, then JOHN DOE, Adults, and RICHARD ROE, infants, insane persons, incompetents, and persons in the Military Service of the United States of America, being fictitious names designating as a class any unknown person or persons who may be an heir, distributee, devisee, legatee, widower, widow, assign, administrator, executor, creditor, successor, personal representative, issue or alienee of ISAAC PORCHER, deceased, and LILLIAN PORCHER, if she be deceased, and any or all other persons or legal entities, known and unknown, claiming any right,

title, interest or estate in or lien upon the parcel of real estate described in the Third Amended Lis Pendens and Third Amended Complaint filed herein, Defendants.

THIRD AMENDED SUMMONS

TO THE DEFENDANTS ABOVE-

NAMED:

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

NOTICE OF FILING

YOU WILL PLEASE TAKE NOTICE that the Third Amended Summons, Third Amended Certificate of Exemption, Third Amended Lis Pendens, Third Amended Notice and Third Amended Complaint in the above action were filed in the office of the Clerk of Court for Charleston County on August 10, 2023.

THIRD AMENDED LIS PENDENS

NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that an action has been commenced by the Plaintiffs against the Defendants to quiet title to the below described real property in the name of Plaintiffs and to confirm a tax title relative to the said real property, together with improvements, located in Charleston County, to-wit:

ALL that certain piece, parcel or lot of land, together with improvements thereon, situate, lying and being in Christ Church Parish, Charleston County, South Carolina, and containing 3/10th (0.30) of an acre.

THE above mentioned Lot having the following boundaries and dimensions: On the North by a road leading to the Porcher Road, Two Hundred (200.0’) feet; on the East by the end of Porcher Road, Nineteen (19.0’) feet; on the South by lands of Peter Dingle, One Hundred Eighty-Eight (188.0’) feet; and on the West by lands of James McNeil, One Hundred Thirty (130.0’) feet.

BEING the same property conveyed to Embro, LLC by Tax Deed of Charleston County Tax Collector, dated February 20, 2015, and recorded in the Office of the Register of Deeds for Charleston County, SC (“ROD”) on April 14, 2015, in Book 0469, Page 219.

ALSO, being the same property conveyed to Freddie Bruce Minnix and Vivian Delores Minnix by Quit Claim Deed of Embro, LLC, dated January 10, 2020, and recorded in the ROD on January 23, 2020, in Book 0854, Page 594.

TMS#: 661-00-00-065

NOTICE TO APPOINT A

GUARDIAN AD LITEM NISI

You will please take notice that by Consent Order filed in the Clerk’s Office on September 5, 2023, Walter R. Kaufmann, Esquire, PO Box 459, Mt. Pleasant, SC 294650459, was appointed Guardian ad Litem Nisi for such of the unknown Defendants whose true names are unknown and fictitious names designating infants, insane persons, incompetents and persons in the military of The United State of America, being fictitious names designating as a class any unknown persons or legal entities of any kind, who may be an heir, distributee, devisee, legatee, widower, widow, assign, administrator, executor, creditor, successor, personal representative, issue or alienee of Isaac Porcher,

deceased, and any and all other persons or legal entities, known and unknown, claiming any right, title, interest or estate in or lien upon the real estate described in the Third Amended Lis Pendens and Third Amended Complaint filed herein; such appointment to become absolute unless the said Defendants or someone in their behalf shall procure the appointment of a Guardian ad Litem on or before the thirtieth (30) day after the last publication of the Summons herein.

John J. Dodds, III

858 Lowcountry Blvd., Suite 101 Mt. Pleasant, SC 29464 (P) (843) 881-6530

john@cisadodds.com

ATTORNEYS FOR PLAINTIFFS

LIS PENDENS

NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that an action has been commenced by the Plaintiff against the Defendants to clear title to the parcel of real property hereinafter described and to establish ownership of said parcel of the subject property in the name of the Plaintiff, free and clear of any adverse claims whatsoever. The property which is the subject of this action was at the commencement of this action and is now situate in the County of Charleston, State of South Carolina, and is more fully described as follows:

ALL that certain lot, piece, parcel or tract of land, together with the buildings and improvements thereon, situate, lying and being on Wadmalaw Island, in the County of Charleston, State of South Carolina, more fully described on a “Plat of a tract of land situate on Wadmalaw Island, Charleston County, South Carolina containing 16.5 acres surveyed and divided by W. L. Gaillard, February 12, 1964”. Which said Plat is attached to the Deed from James L. Roper to Carroll Robinson and Annie Lee Robinson as more particularly set forth below and made a part and parcel of these presents.

Specifically being that portion of said Plat labeled “Nathaniel Brooks”.

legal entities of any kind, who may be an heir, distributee, devisee, legatee, widower, widow, assign, administrator, executor, creditor, successor, personal representative, issue or alienee of Annie Lee Robinson, Von F. Robinson and Carroll Robinson, all deceased, and any and all other persons or legal entities, known and unknown, claiming any right, title, interest or estate in or lien upon the real estate described in the Lis Pendens and Complaint filed herein; such appointment to become absolute unless the said defendants or someone in their behalf shall procure the appointment of a Guardian ad Litem on or before the thirtieth (30) day after the last publication of the Summons herein.

John J. Dodds, III 858 Lowcountry Blvd. Suite 101 Mt. Pleasant, SC 29464 (P) (843) 881-6530

john@cisadodds.com

ATTORNEYS FOR PLAINTIFF

STATE OF SOUTH CAROLINA COUNTY OF CHARLESTON

IN THE FAMILY COURT FOR THE NINTH JUDICIAL CIRCUIT DOCKET NO. 2023-DR-10-0387

SOUTH CAROLINA DEPARTMENT OF SOCIAL SERVICES

VERSUS

WILLIAM QUADE, DEFENDANT.

IN THE INTERESTS OF: MINOR CHILD BORN 2011.

2023-ES-10-1280

DOD: 04/29/23

Pers. Rep:

SHARON B. DILLON 1747 SOMERSET CIR. CHARLESTON, SC 29407

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Estate of: ISIAH ROBINSON 2023-ES-10-1403

DOD: 10/29/22

Pers. Rep: JOSEPHINE SIMMONS ROBINSON 3223 CAPE RD. JOHNS ISLAND, SC 29455

Atty: ELAINE JENKINS, ESQ. PO BOX 364 JOHNS ISLAND, SC 29457

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Estate of: GORDON MULLER 2023-ES-10-1472

DOD: 07/09/23

Pers. Rep: VICKI MERIDY MULLER 601 SOLANA WAY, #575 MT. PLEASANT, SC 29466

Atty: M. JEAN LEE, ESQ. 115 CHURCH ST. CHARLESTON, SC 29401

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Estate of: VIRGINIA BLOCKER SEIGNIOUS 2023-ES-10-1474

DOD: 07/18/23

Pers. Rep:

GEORGE W. SEIGNIOUS, IV 2193 S. FLETCHER AVE. FERNANDINA BEACH, FL 32034 Atty: JEFFREY C. MOORE, ESQ.

1 CARRIAGE LN., BLDG H, 2ND FLR. CHARLESTON, SC 29407

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JULIOUS CHANDLER

2023-ES-10-1537

DOD: 06/18/23

Pers. Rep: JASMINE LALONDA CHANDLER 103 N. ROMNEY ST., #L 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 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 one year from the date of death, whichever date is earlier, or else thereafter such claims shall be and are forever barred.

Estate of:

WARREN H. OLSEN 2023-ES-10-1613

DOD: 06/10/23

Pers. Rep:

STEPHEN F. OLSEN 718 VALENCIA AVE. CORAL GABLES, FL 33134

Atty: JOSEPH D. WALKER, ESQ. PO BOX 11390 COLUMBIA, SC 29211

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Estate of:

KRISTINE A. NICKEL 2023-ES-10-1649

DOD: 01/09/23

3618 LEGAREVILLE RD. JOHNS ISLAND, SC 29455

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Estate of: JOHN M. CONKLIN, II

2023-ES-10-1567

DOD: 07/24/23

Pers. Rep: CAROL LYNN CONKLIN 2059 BAYHILL DR. CHARLESTON, SC 29414

Atty: LISA WOLFF HERBERT, ESQ. 864 LOWCOUNTRY BLVD., #C MT. PLEASANT, SC 29464

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Estate of: SYLVIA S. FERGUSON 2023-ES-10-1590

DOD: 07/17/23

Pers. Rep: SHENNETTE LEWIS 2204 SUFFOLK ST. NO. CHARLESTON, SC 29405

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Estate of: BELINDA FAYE PRIM 2023-ES-10-1592

DOD: 06/28/23

Pers. Rep: MADELINE NORRIS 2627 GLENWOOD RD. COLUMBIA, SC 29204

Atty: ERIC BLAND, ESQ. 105 W. MAIN ST., #D LEXINGTON, SC 29072

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Estate of: MARGARET C. MCKELLIPS 2023-ES-10-1627

DOD: 08/01/23

Pers. Rep: KAREN M. JOHNSTON 2582 MARSH CREEK DR. CHARLESTON, SC 29414

STATE OF SOUTH CAROLINA COUNTY OF CHARLESTON

THE FAMILY COURT FOR FIRST JUDICIAL CIRCUIT CASE NO.: 2022-DR-10-460

or incompetent persons and RICHARD ROE and JANE DOE, infants, adults or incompetent persons under disability, or incompetence, if any, including those persons who might be in the military and covered under the Soldier’s and Sailor’s Relief Act, fictitious names designating the unknown heirs devisees, distributes, issue, executors, administrators, successors or assigns of the above named defendants, and all other persons known or claiming any right, title, estate in or lien upon the real estate described in the Complaint herein, Respondents.

SUMMONS

YOU ARE HEREBY SUMMONED and required to answer the Complaint in this action, a copy of which is served upon you, and to serve a copy of your Answer on the Petitioner, or his attorney, Charlie L. Whirl, Esquire, at his office, 2112 Commander Road, North Charleston, South Carolina 29405, within thirty (30) days after service thereof, exclusive of the day of such service; and if you fail to answer the Complaint within the time aforesaid, the Petitioner in this action will apply to the Court for judgement by default for the relief demanded in this Complaint and will further apply to the Court to have you placed in default shall be rendered.

LIS PENDENS

STATE OF SOUTH CAROLINA COUNTY OF CHARLESTON IN THE COURT OF COMMON PLEAS FOR THE NINTH JUDICIAL CIRCUIT CASE NO. 2023-CP-10-03884

CLIFFORD JEROME ROBINSON, Plaintiff, vs. CARROLL ROBINSON, JR., VON BOXLEY, JOHN DOE, adults, and RICHARD ROE, infants, insane persons, incompetents and persons in the military service of The United States of America, being fictitious names designating as a class any unknown person or persons or legal entity of any kind, who may be an heir, distributee, devisee, legatee, widower, widow, assign, administrator, executor, creditor, successor, personal representative, issue or alienee of ANNIE LEE ROBINSON, VON F. ROBINSON AND CARROLL ROBINSON, all deceased, and any and all other persons or legal entities, known and unknown, claiming any right, title, interest or estate in or lien upon the two parcels of real estate described in the Lis Pendens and Complaint filed herein, Defendants.

SUMMONS

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

MEASURING AND CONTAINING one and one-half (1 ½) acres more or less. On the front or westerly line along Tacky Point one hundred (100’) feet, the same on the back or easterly line along lands of James L. Roper; on the northerly line six hundred thirty-three (633’) feet along lands of Edward Singleton, the same on the southerly line along lands which will be conveyed to Isaac Brook, all as shown on the aforesaid Plat.

BUTTING AND BOUNDING on the westerly line along Tacky Point Road; on the easterly line along lands of James L. Roper; on the northerly line along lands of Edward Singleton, and on the southerly line along lands about to be conveyed to one Isaac Brooks, all as shown on the aforesaid Plat.

TOGETHER with whatever rights of way and/or easements of ingress and egress to and from the subject property including, but not limited to, the right to use the fourteen (14’) foot road located to the south of the subject property as shown on the aforesaid Plat.

BEING the same property conveyed to Carroll Robinson and Annie Lee Robinson by deed of James L. Roper, dated February 28, 1966, and recorded in the Register’s Office for Charleston County, South Carolina (“ROD”) on May 11, 1966, in Book 0-85, at Page

2. Also, being the same property conveyed to Clifford Jerome Robinson by deed of Von Boxley, dated June 13, 2023, and recorded in the ROD on June 23, 2023, in Book 1187, Page 138. Also, being the same property conveyed to Clifford Jerome Robinson by deed of Carroll Robinson, Jr., dated June 14, 2023, and recorded in the ROD on June 23, 2023, in Book 1187, Page 137.

TMS #: 156-00-00-071

NOTICE TO APPOINT A

GUARDIAN AD LITEM NISI

You will please take notice that by Consent Order filed in the Clerk’s Office on August 31, 2023, Walter R. Kaufmann, Esquire, PO Box 459, Mt. Pleasant, SC 29465-0459, was appointed Guardian ad Litem Nisi for such of the unknown Defendants whose true names are unknown and fictitious names designating infants, insane persons, incompetents and persons in the military of The United State of America, being fictitious names designating as a class any unknown persons or

TO DEFENDANT: WILLIAM QUADE

YOU ARE HEREBY SUMMONED and required to answer the Complaint in this action filed with the Clerk of Court for Charleston County on February 6, 2023 at 4:53 PM. 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 South Carolina Department of Social Services, at the office of its Attorney, Steven Corley, Legal Department of the Charleston County Department of Social Services, 3685 Rivers Avenue, Suite 101, North Charleston, SC 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. Steven Corley, SC Bar #103431, 3685 Rivers Avenue, Suite 101, North Charleston, SC 29405, (843) 953-9625.

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 one year from the date of death, whichever date is earlier, or else thereafter such claims shall be and are forever barred.

Estate of: BARBARA ELIZABETH PATRICK

2023-ES-10-0759

DOD: 11/16/22

Pers. Rep:

TIMOTHY MELVILLE PATRICK 10 PARK TERRACE EAST, #5J NEW YORK, NY 10034

Atty: M. JEAN LEE, ESQ. 115 CHURCH ST. CHARLESTON, SC 29401

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Estate of: BRYAN THOMAS DILLON

Estate of: BILLY SUNDAY MOORER, III 2023-ES-10-1479

DOD: 04/30/23

Pers. Rep: CHRISTIE MOORER 3484 JOHAN BLVD. JOHNS ISLAND, SC 29455

Atty: JEFFREY C. MOORE, ESQ.

1 CARRIAGE LN., BLDG H, 2ND FLR. CHARLESTON, SC 29407

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Estate of: CHARLES ROY CADIEU

2023-ES-10-1480

DOD: 07/10/23

Pers. Rep: ALEXIS M. KONG 2315 N. LANDER LN. CHARLESTON, SC 29414

Atty: JEFFREY C. MOORE, ESQ.

1 CARRIAGE LN., BLDG H, 2ND FLR. CHARLESTON, SC 29407

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Estate of:

VIRGINIA LEE REEDER 2023-ES-10-1509 DOD: 08/06/23

Pers. Rep: NATALIE MOORER YOUNG

903 BILLFISH CT. CHARLESTON, SC 29412

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Estate of: WILLIAM STANLEY WOLFE 2023-ES-10-1514 DOD: 06/25/23

Pers. Rep: LISA W. KLINE 22 EASTWOOD DR. WILBRAHAM, MA 01095

Atty: ANDREW W. CHANDLER, ESQ. 115 CHURCH ST. CHARLESTON, SC 29401

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Estate of: BENJAMIN OCAMPO ZAMORA 2023-ES-10-1522

DOD: 06/13/23

Pers. Rep: MARY E. ZAMORA 3629 LOGGERHEAD CT. JOHNS ISLAND, SC 29455

Atty: M. JEAN LEE, ESQ. 115 CHURCH ST. CHARLESTON, SC 29401

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Estate of:

LUTHER WHITFIELD SEABROOK

2023-ES-10-1533

DOD: 07/05/23

Pers. Rep: KELLY A. SEABROOK 12 SUTHERLAND AVE. CHARLESTON, SC 29403

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Estate of:

Pers. Rep: KEVIN HUDSON

1428 HOLLY GLEN RUN APOPKA, FL 32703

Atty: JAMES E. REEVES, ESQ. 400 N. CEDAR ST. SUMMERVILLE, SC 29483

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Estate of:

JANICE V. WASHINGTON

2023-ES-10-1674

DOD: 05/21/23

Pers. Rep:

EMANUEL WASHINGTON

5990 RICHMOND HWY., #1310

ALEXANDRIA, VA 22303

Atty: ARTHUR C. MCFARLAND, ESQ.

1847 ASHLEY RIVER RD., #200 CHARLESTON, SC 29407

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Estate of: GERALDINE M. SPANN 2023-ES-10-1678

DOD: 03/07/23

Pers. Rep:

WILLIAM J. SPANN

1225 BOONE HALL RD., #D1 SUMMERVILLE, SC 29483

Atty: KELVIN M. HUGER, ESQ. 27 GAMECOCK AVE., #200 CHARLESTON, SC 29407

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Estate of: CHRISTIE DAWN BISHOP 2023-ES-10-1695

DOD: 08/09/23

Pers. Rep: TIMOTHY D. BISHOP 2337 TALL SAIL DR., #C CHARLESTON SC 29414

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 one year from the date of death, whichever date is earlier, or else thereafter such claims shall be and are forever barred.

Estate of: GERTRUDE LUCY PAQUETTE LESSARD 2023-ES-10-1452 DOD: 03/27/23

Pers. Rep: PHYLLIS ROOKE HINSON

PAUL ORLANDO CLUNIS, Plaintiff, v. LITA MARIE CLUNIS, Defendant.

TO THE DEFENDANT 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 thereto on the subscriber, Charlie L. Whirl, Esquire, at his office, 2112 Commander Road, North Charleston, South Carolina 29405, within thirty (30) days after the date of service upon you, exclusive of the day of such service; and if you fail to Answer the Complaint within the time aforesaid, the Plaintiff in this action will apply to the Court for the relief demanded in the Complaint and judgment by default may be entered against you.

NOTICE OF FILING.

The Summons, and Complaint for a divorce action were filed in Family Court, Charleston County, Case Number 2023-DR-10-1478 on May 17, 2023. The Final Hearing has been scheduled for 2:30 p.m. on November 3, 2023 at 9:30 a.m., Charleston County Family Court, 100 Broad Street, Charleston, SC 29401.

CHARLIE L. WHIRL 2112 Commander Road North Charleston, SC 29405 (843) 566-9705- Office

Attorney for Plaintiff

STATE OF SOUTH CAROLINA COUNTY OF CHARLESTON IN COMMON PLEAS COURT

NINTH JUDICIAL CIRCUIT

CASE NO.: 2022-CP-10-05872

MARGARET BROWN GRANT, Petitioner,

v. CHRISTOPHER BROWN, SR., deceased, CHERYL JOHNSON, DARYL WILLIAMS, RODNEY BROWN, ANDRE BROWN, JACQUELINE HUDSON, SUZANNE BROWN, LEROY BROWN, KEVIN BROWN, BRENDA BROWN, RONALD BROWN, JR., JACINTO BROWN, ARTEAA BROWN, and JOHN DOE, MARY ROE, infants, adults

NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN THAT an action has been commenced and is pending in the Court of Common Pleas for County of Charleston, State of South Carolina, upon the Petition/Complaint of the Petitioner above named against the Respondents above named for the purpose of determining the interests of the Petitioner and the interests of the Respondents in the parcel of land hereinafter described, and is brought under the provisions of the 1976 South Carolina Code of Laws; Section 15-67-10, et. seq. (known as the Uniform Declaratory Judgment Act), for the Purpose of obtaining a Decree establishing that the Petitioner and certain of the Respondents above named be declared the owners in fee simple, having good and marketable title to herein below described property, and that the property be partitioned. That the premises to be affected by the said Complaint in the action hereby commenced was, at the time of the filing of this Lis Pendens described as follows:

ALL that piece, parcel or tract of land, situate, lying and being in St. Pauls Township, County of Charleston, State aforesaid, being on the South side of S.C. Highway #162, containing some 12.50 acres, more or less.

Butting and Bounding on the North on S.C. Highway #162 and on lands of Lefie Perry and Melvin Gaillard, on the East on lands of Marion S. Perry, on the South of lands of Rosa Johnson, et al., and on the West on lands of Estate of John Edwards.

Being the same premises conveyed by George F. Bryan to William Moultrie, by deed dates December 11, 1896, recorded in the R.M.C. Office for Colleton County in Book P49 at Page 61.

TMS# 164-00-00-148

NOTICE OF FILING

YOU ARE HEREBY NOTIFIED that the Lis Pendens, Summons, Complaint, Notice of Appointment of Guardian Ad Litem, and Notice to Refer to Master in Equity, were filed with the Clerk of Court for Charleston County Court of Common Pleas on August 3, 2023.

The purpose of this action to confer title to the rightful owner(s) of the real property described in the

NOTICE OF APPOINTMENT OF GUARDIAN AD LITEM

YOU WILL TAKE NOTICE that an Order dated August 7, 2023, and on file in the Office of the Clerk of Court for Charleston County, George E. Counts, Esquire, whose office address is 27 Gamecock Avenue, Suite 200, Charleston, SC 29407, was appointed Guardian Ad Litem for such of the Defendants as may be minors, infants, person, in the military within the meaning of Title 50 United States Code commonly referred to as the Soldier’s and Sailors Relief Act of 1940, incompetents or persons under other type of disability, unless said Defendants, or someone on their behalf, shall procure the appointment of a Guardian Ad Litem on or before the thirtieth (30) day after the last publication of the Summons herein.

NOTICE OF INTENT TO REFER TO THE MASTER IN EQUITY

YOU WILL PLEASE TAKE NOTICE that the undersigned attorney on behalf of the Plaintiff herein, will move for an order, thirty (30) days from the date of service, to refer the above entitled matter to the Master-In-Equity for Charleston County, to take testimony and issue a Final Decree. Any appeal from the judgment by the Master-In-Equity shall be made directly to the Supreme Court.

_s/Charlie L. Whirl

CHARLIE L. WHIRL

2112 Commander Road North Charleston, SC 29405 (843) 566-9705 – Telephone cwhirl2112@gmail.com – E-mail Attorney for the Petitioner

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STATE OF SOUTH CAROLINA COUNTY OF DORCHESTER

IN THE FAMILY COURT FOR THE FIRST JUDICIAL CIRCUIT DOCKET NO. 2023-DR-18-1182 SOUTH CAROLINA DEPARTMENT OF SOCIAL SERVICES

VERSUS

JOHN AND JANE DOE IN THE INTERESTS OF BABY BOY DOE (DOB: 9/2/2023)

NOTICE TO: JOHN DOE AND JANE DOE, YOU ARE HEREBY SUMMONED and required to answer the Petition for Permanency Planning hearing regarding the minor child in this action, the original of which has been filed in the Office of the Clerk of Court for Dorchester County Family Court; and to serve a copy of your answer to the complaint upon the undersigned attorney for the Plaintiff at the address below within thirty (30) days following the date you receive this notice, exclusive of the day of such service; and if you fail to answer the complaint within the time stated, an affidavit of default will be entered against you and the plaintiff will proceed to seek to terminate your parental rights to the above-captioned child.

PLEASE TAKE NOTICE that a final hearing shall be heard in this matter on Nov. 2, 2023 at 01:30 pm in the Dorchester County Family Court, located at 212 Deming Way, Summerville, SC Sally Dey, Attorney for Plaintiff, 3685 Rivers Ave., S-101, No. Chas., SC 29405

Facility 1: 3510 Glenn McConnell Pkwy Charleston, SC 29414

10/03/23

10:00 AM

Amanda S Morgan Furniture and household items

Kimberly Monroe Furniture

Brittany Dent Bed set, clothes, shoes, TV’S (2) Toys etc

Mark Owens Tools and vinyl collection

Jeremy Wilcox Household items

3: 1533 Ashley River Rd Charleston, SC 29407

Susan Keenan Christmas boxes/stuff Facility 5: 1861 Ashley River Rd. Charleston, SC 29407

Veronica Flanders Household furniture Mary Graham Household goods

Shawn Nolan Furniture and household items

Mike Hess Car parts, Hess trucks, sports equipment, dishwasher, tools

Julia Weber Boxes, cloths, totes, Christmas decorations

Julia Weber Furniture, luggage, tools, desk, boxes

Helen Elangwe Furniture, boxes, TV, mirror

Jessica Lopez Bed, mattress, pool noodle

The auction will be listed and advertised on www. storagetreasures.com. Purchases must be made with cash only and paid at the above referenced facility in order to complete the transaction. Extra Space Storage may refuse any bid and may rescind any purchase up until the winning bidder takes possession of the personal property.

STATE OF SOUTH CAROLINA COUNTY OF CHARLESTON COURT OF COMMON PLEAS

NINTH JUDICIAL CIRCUIT

Case No: 2023-CP-10-02883

Michele Graham, Plaintiff -vsCooper River Love and Charity Society (1920); Cooper River Love and Charity Society (2015), Defendants

SUMMONS AND NOTICE

TO THE DEFENDANTS ABOVE-

as Richard Roe; Suzette D Graham; Cynthia Graham; Earl S Graham; Catherine Thomas; Paul Graham, Jr a/k/a Paul Graham III; The United States of America, by and through its Agency, the Department of Housing and Urban Development, DEFENDANT(S)

SUMMONS AND NOTICE OF FILING OF COMPLAINT AND NOTICE OF FORECLOSURE INTERVENTION (NON-JURY MORTGAGE FORECLOSURE)

C/A NO: 2023-CP-10-01367

DEFICIENCY WAIVED

TO THE DEFENDANTS, ABOVE NAMED:

YOU ARE HEREBY SUMMONED and required to answer the Complaint herein, a copy of which is herewith served upon you, or otherwise appear and defend, and to serve a copy of your Answer to said Complaint upon the subscriber at his office, Hutchens Law Firm LLP, P.O. Box 8237, Columbia, SC 29202, within thirty (30) days after service hereof, except as to the United States of America, which shall have sixty (60) days, exclusive of the day of such service, and if you fail to answer the Complaint within the time aforesaid, or otherwise appear and defend, 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.

Law Firm LLP represents the Plaintiff in this action and 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 of this Notice. IF YOU FAIL, REFUSE, OR VOLUNTARILY ELECT NOT TO PARTICIPATE IN FORECLOSURE INTERVENTION, YOUR MORTGAGE COMPANY/ AGENT MAY PROCEED WITH A FORECLOSURE ACTION. If you have already pursued loss mitigation with the Plaintiff, this Notice does not guarantee the availability of loss mitigation options or further review of your qualifications.

NOTICE TO APPOINT ATTORNEY FOR DEFENDANT(S) IN MILITARY SERVICE

Complaint.

July 21, 2023

CHARLESTON, SC

NOTICE OF FILING COMPLAINT

TO DEFENDANT AALEAH MONEE SHULER A/K/A AALEAH

M. SHULER:

YOU WILL PLEASE TAKE NOTICE that the original Complaint in the above-entitled action, together with the Civil Action Coversheet, Summons, Exhibits and Verification, were filed in the Office of the Clerk of Court for Charleston County, South Carolina, on July 21, 2023, at 11:28 a.m., the object and prayer of which is the recovery of a sum certain due Plaintiff by Defendant, AALEAH MONEE SHULER A/K/A AALEAH M. SHULER, and for such other and further relief as set forth in the Complaint.

action, copy of which is herewith served upon you, and to serve copy of your answer upon the undersigned at their offices, 2712 Middleburg Drive, Suite 200, P.O. Box 2065, Columbia, South Carolina 29202, within thirty (30) days after service hereof upon you, exclusive of the day of such service, and if you fail to answer the Complaint within the time aforesaid, the Plaintiff in this action will apply to the Court for the relief demanded in the Complaint, and judgment by default will be rendered against you for the relief demanded in the Complaint.

YOU WILL ALSO TAKE NOTICE

class designated as Richard Roe, Defendants.

SUMMONS AND NOTICE

LaTasha Johnson Household items

7: 810 St. Andrews Blvd Charleston, SC 29407

Damon Nelson Household goods, couches, clothes Facility 8: 1108 Stockade Ln

Wyatt Durrette Household Goods

Jovett Bamberg Business Goods

Carolyn Woods Household Goods

Lindsay Fair Boxes and household furniture

Mike Stewart Boxes and totes

Dustin Doerr Household Goods

Joe Kaminski Boat and Trailer

NAMED: YOU ARE HEREBY SUMMONED and required to answer the complaint for a declaratory judgment naming the Cooper River Love & Charity Society Successor as the legal successor to the Cooper River Love and Charity Society (1920). The original complaint has been filed in the Office of the Clerk of Court for Charleston County, 100 Broad Street, Charleston, SC 29401.

A copy of the complaint will be delivered to you upon request. You are required to serve a copy of your Answer to the Complaint upon the Plaintiff at 56 Poplar Street, Charleston, SC 29403 within thirty (30) days following the date of service upon you, exclusive of the day of such service. If you fail to answer the Complaint within the time aforesaid, Plaintiff will apply for judgment by default against you for the relief demanded in the Complaint.

Michele Graham, Plaintiff 56 Poplar Street Charleston, SC 29403

Phone: 843-532-7252

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

Village Capital & Investment, LLC, PLAINTIFF, vs. Spencer Graham and if Spencer Graham be deceased then any children and heirs at law to the Estate of Spencer Graham, distributees and devisees at law to the Estate of Spencer Graham, and if any of the same be dead any and all persons entitled to claim under or through them also all other persons unknown claiming any right, title, interest or lien upon the real estate described in the complaint herein; Any unknown adults, any unknown infants or persons under a disability being a class designated as John Doe, and any persons in the military service of the United States of America being a class designated

YOU WILL ALSO TAKE NOTICE that should you fail to Answer the foregoing Summons, the Plaintiff will move for an Order of Reference of this case to the Master-in-Equity/Special Referee for this County, which Order shall, pursuant to Rule 53 of the South Carolina Rules of Civil Procedure, specifically provide that the said Master-in-Equity/Special Referee is authorized and empowered to enter a final judgment in this case with appeal only to the South Carolina Court of Appeals pursuant to Rule 203(d)(1) of the SCAR, effective June 1, 1999.

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 the Plaintiff immediately and separately and such application will be deemed absolute and total in the absence of your application for such an appointment within thirty (30) days after the service of the Summons and Complaint upon you.

NOTICE OF FILING OF SUMMONS AND COMPLAINT

TO THE DEFENDANTS ABOVE NAMED:

YOU WILL PLEASE TAKE NOTICE that the foregoing Summons, along with the Complaint, was filed with the Clerk of Court on March 20, 2023 and the Amended Summons and Complaint were filed on May 10, 2023.

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 available Foreclosure Intervention, you may communicate with and otherwise deal with the Plaintiff through its law firm, Hutchens Law Firm LLP, P.O. Box 8237, Columbia, SC 29202 or call (803) 726-2700. Hutchens

TO UNKNOWN OR KNOWN DEFENDANTS THAT MAY BE IN THE MILITARY SERVICE OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA ALL BEING A CLASS DESIGNATED AS RICHARD ROE: YOU ARE FURTHER SUMMONED AND NOTIFIED that Plaintiff’s attorney has applied for the appointment of an attorney to represent you. If you fail to apply for the appointment of an attorney to represent you within thirty (30) days after the service of this Summons and Notice upon you Plaintiff’s appointment will be made absolute with no further action from Plaintiff.

THIS IS A COMMUNICATION FROM A DEBT COLLECTOR. THE PURPOSE OF THIS COMMUNICATION IS TO COLLECT A DEBT AND ANY INFORMATION OBTAINED WILL BE USED FOR THAT PURPOSE, except as stated below in the instance of bankruptcy protection.

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

Hutchens Law Firm LLP

SUMMONS (COLLECTION – NONJURY)

STATE OF SOUTH CAROLINA COUNTY OF CHARLESTON IN THE COURT OF COMMON PLEAS CIVIL CASE NUMBER: 2023-CP-10-03555

SOUTH CAROLINA FEDERAL CREDIT UNION, Plaintiff, vs. AALEAH MONEE SHULER A/K/A AALEAH M. SHULER, Defendant.

TO THE DEFENDANT ABOVE NAMED: YOU ARE HEREBY SUMMONED and required to answer the Complaint in this action, a copy of which is hereby served upon you and to serve a copy of your Answer to said Complaint on the subscribers at their offices, Moore & Van Allen PLLC, 78 Wentworth Street, Post Office Box 22828, Charleston, South Carolina 294132828, or to otherwise appear and defend, within thirty (30) days after the service hereof, exclusive of the day of such service, and if you fail to answer the Complaint, or otherwise to appear and defend, within the time aforesaid, the Plaintiff in this action will obtain a judgment by default against you for the relief demanded in the

s/Cynthia Jordan Lowery Cynthia Jordan Lowery #12499 MOORE & VAN ALLEN, PLLC 78 Wentworth Street Post Office Box 22828

Charleston, SC 29413-2828

Telephone: (843) 579-7000

Facsimile: (843) 579-8714

Email: cynthialowery@mvalaw. com

ATTORNEYS FOR PLAINTIFF

August 23, 2023

CHARLESTON, SC

NOTICE

This copyright notice informs the potential user of the name FRANTHEA PRICE and all its derivatives that is intended as pertaining to me, franthea aala el, an American State National, In propria Persona Sui Juris, Proprio Sólo, Proprio Heredes, that any unauthorized use thereof without my express prior, written permission signifies the user’s consent for becoming the debtor on a self executing UCC Financial Statement in the amount of $500,000 per unauthorized use of the name used with intent of obligating me, plus cost, plus triple damages.

COPYRIGHT NOTICE FOR THE STRAW

This copyright notice informs the potential user of the name JAROD JAMERE SAUNDERS and all its derivatives that is intended as pertaining to me, rod saun bey, an American State National, In Propria Persona Sui Juris, Proprio Solo, Proprio Heredes, that any unauthorized use thereof without my express, prior, written permission signifies the user’s consent for becoming the debtor on a self executing UCC Financial Statement in the amount of $500,000 per unauthorized use of the name used with the intent of obligating me, plus costs, plus triple damages.

STATE OF SOUTH CAROLINA COUNTY OF CHARLESTON IN THE COURT OF COMMON PLEAS CASE NO. 2023-CP-10-03895

South Carolina Federal Credit Union, PLAINTIFF, VS.

Audrey K. Harris; Matthew Harris; and Sheila K. Harris, DEFENDANT(S).

SUMMONS AND NOTICE OF FILING OF COMPLAINT (232258.00079)

TO THE DEFENDANTS AUDREY

K. HARRIS; AND MATTHEW HARRIS ABOVE NAMED: YOU ARE HEREBY SUMMONED and required to answer the Complaint in the above entitled

that should you fail to Answer the foregoing Summons, the Plaintiff will move for a general Order of Reference of this cause to the Master in Equity for Charleston County, which Order shall, pursuant to Rule 53(e) of the South Carolina Rules of Civil Procedure, specifically provide that the said Master in Equity is authorized and empowered to enter a final judgment in this cause.

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

YOU ARE FURTHER SUMMONED AND NOTIFIED to apply for the appointment of a Guardian Ad Litem 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 August 10, 2023.

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

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

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

STATE OF SOUTH CAROLINA COUNTY OF CHARLESTON IN THE COURT OF COMMON PLEAS FOR THE NINTH JUDICIAL CIRCUIT CASE NO. 2023-CP-10-03709

CHARLESTON OPPORTUNITY FUND, LLC, Plaintiff,

v.

To the Defendants above-named: YOU ARE HEREBY SUMMONED and required to answer the Complaint in the above entitled action, a copy of which is herewith served upon you, and to serve a copy of your Answer upon the undersigned at his office at: 925 Wappoo Road, Suite B, Charleston, South Carolina 29407, within thirty (30) days, after service hereof upon you, exclusive of the day of such service, except as to the United States of America, which shall have sixty (60) days, exclusive if the day of such service, and if you fail to answer the Complaint within the time aforesaid, judgment by default will be rendered against you for the relief demanded in the Complaint.

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

NOTICE OF FILING

PLEASE TAKE NOTICE that the Summons and Notice, Complaint and Lis Pendens, were filed on August 1st, 2023, the Order Appointing Guardian ad Litem was filed on August 1st, 2023 and the Order of Publication was filed on September 8th, 2023 in the Office of the Clerk of Court for Charleston County, State of South Carolina.

NOTICE OF APPOINTMENT OF GUARDIAN AD LITEM

FURTHER TAKE NOTICE that Carl B. Hubbard, Esquire of 2201 Middle Street, Box 15, Sullivan’s Island, South Carolina 29482 has been designated as Guardian ad Litem for all Defendants who may be incompetent, under age, or under any other disability or in the Service of the Military by Order of the Court of Common Pleas of Charleston County, dated August 1st, 2023 and the said appointment shall become absolute 30 days after the final publication of this Notice, unless such Defendants, or anyone in their behalf shall procure a proper person to be appointed Guardian ad Litem of them within 30 days after the final publication of this Notice.

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

Marquawne Benbow, Paris

Connor, Angelo Connor, Jr., Kalyn Broughton, Earline Heatley a/k/a Earline G. Heatley, Obet Heatley, Obie Heatley, Jr., and Roberta Gilliard, if they be deceased, their heirs-at-law, personal representatives, successors, and assigns and spouses if any they have and all other persons with any right, title or interest in and to the real estate described in the Complaint, commonly known as: 2025 Riverview Ave. Charleston County, South Carolina

TMS Number: 466-08-00-337 and also any unknown adults and those persons as who may be in the military service of the United States of America, all of them being a class designated as John Doe; and any unknown minors or persons under a disability being a

ALL that certain piece, parcel or lot of land together with the buildings and improvements thereon, situate, lying and being in the County of Charleston, State of South Carolina, and know and designated as Lot B, Block 10 on a plat of Windsor Subdivision recorded in the ROD Office for Charleston County on April 12, 1921 in Plat Book C, Page 170, said plat having such size, shape, buttings and boundings as reference to said plat will show, more or less, and subject to all easements as recorded in the ROD Office for Charleston County. TMS # 466-08-00-337

s/Jeffrey

T. Spell

Jeffrey T. Spell

Attorney at Law

925 Wappoo Road, Suite B Charleston, South Carolina 29407 jeff@jeffspell.com

(843) 452-3553

Attorney for the Plaintiff

September 12th, 2023

Date

Soul funk alchemy of The Psycodelics

By Chelsea Grinstead

Charleston act The Psycodelics brews a potent funk rock distilled with disco, jazz and blues, saturated by dancing bass lines, boom-bap grooves and lush harmonies.

“The Psycodelics don’t sound like anything that’s coming out of here, even though it is familiar,” frontman Cam Wescott told the Charleston City Paper. “You can hear all the influences — but it’s not an imitation, it’s an innovation. We’re trying to take the sounds and ideas musically from back in the ’60s, ’70s, ’80s, ’90s and 2000s — everything up until now — and put it all together. There’s no certain time period.”

The seven-piece band will perform its first hometown show in almost a year on Sept. 22 at the Charleston Pour House with local garage rock duo The Mobros.

The group gives off inimitable energy, and its flavor of powerhouse soul heats up an impassioned nostalgia.

“Everything we play, whether it’s loud and fast or very soft and sensual, it still hits you the same — with the same amount of umph,” Wescott said. “You leave feeling like your chest was rattled.

“We all have our different beliefs, but I feel like as a band, we believe in some kind of higher power, and we channel that in our music. Our fans don’t have to believe in what we believe in, they’ve just got to feel it. We’ve just been trying to make people feel this shit, simply put.”

The Psycodelics first formed in 2019 as a four-piece consisting of keyboardist Noah Jones, drummer Sean Bing, guitarist Whitt Burn and Wescott on bass and lead vocals.

Since then the R&B fusion band has added to its ranks guitarist Jim Rubush, drummer Demario Kitt and vocalist Harlem Farr.

After winning the 2021 City Paper Music Award for Best Soul/R&B Act of the Year and wowing crowds at The Royal American’s Boogieman Festival the past two years, The Psycodelics have since hit the road on various regional tours and walked through new doors of opportunity.

“Everything for us has been word of mouth,” Wescott said.

Collaborative composition

He said an album release is definitely on the horizon in 2024, and in the meantime the band will be working with the concert streaming service Nugs.net to get more eyes and ears on its old-school sound.

Nugs.net has recorded shows with New York rock-fusion band TAUK, Chicago-based alternative act Neal Francis, Americana star Marcus King and Nashville country artist Daniel Donato. So far, The Psycodelics recorded live material from the Mile of Music festival in Appleton, Wis., and tour stops in Nashville, Louisville and Knoxville.

Wescott said he and Jones take the lead on songwriting and composing for The Psycodelics, and their complementary skill sets mesh well.

“When we write a song it’s always inperson,” Wescott said of him and Jones. “We flesh it out right then, and then bring it to the band. It’s so easy with Noah because we fill in each other’s gaps. He has a super melodic side, and he understands harmony and chord structures in ways that my brain

has not opened up fully to yet. I’ve learned so much more melodically from Noah than I’ve learned in school. I went to school for rhythm and percussion.”

Yet each member’s instrumental finesse influences the band’s material, which is ever-changing and nuanced with each live performance.

“Whit and Jimmy have been doing a lot on the strings, bringing different elements like the blues,” Wescott said. “Jimmy’s been bringing out the slide and giving it a Delta Blues feel, and Whit has more of a Stevie Ray Vaughan style mixed with Eddie Van Halen and Jimi Hendrix.”

To Wescott, music is the one medium through which it’s easiest to communicate even if you don’t speak the same language.

“Music is the one thing that everybody likes or can relate to. … You can’t do that with everything. It’s crazy to see how people gravitate towards certain music, but if you put on Michael Jackson in any city, it’s definitely universal — and I just love music for that reason, that everybody can dig on it.”

Hometown festival returns to The Refinery

Holy City Homegrown Festival returns Sept. 23 to The Refinery. The diverse lineup includes alternative bands Stop Light Observations and Little Bird plus experimental act Sexbruise? and singer-songwriter Tyler Boone

The festival takes place from 5 p.m. to 11 p.m. Tickets are $30 and available at therefinerychs.com.

New music releases to add to your playlist

Charleston singer-songwriter

Jeep White released his third album, Don’t Dance with the Devil, which blends Americana, blues and rock. White will perform songs from his new album at the coming Southern Songwriters Festival Sept. 21 in Summerville and an album release party Sept. 22 at Southern Roots Smokehouse in West Ashley.

At 70 years old, Charleston musician David Perry released his debut roots rock album in July entitled Keep Showin’ Up on all streaming platforms. And local singer-songwriter Irene Rose will release a new children’s song entitled “Believe and Receive” on all streaming platforms Sept. 22.

Support local music with these coming shows

Charleston musicians Manny Houston and Slim S.O.U.L. present an Outkast tribute at Pour House at 9 p.m. on Sept. 24. The tribute show is in honor of the 20th anniversary of the iconic album Speakerboxxx/The Love Below and includes beloved Outkast hits from over the years. The show features Houston and Slim and several other special guest rappers, plus a full band of local instrumentalists.

Alternative rock act Whitehall, which got its start in Charleston, will perform on the deck stage with Charleston bands Homemade Haircuts and Hollifield at 6 p.m. on Sept. 23. Tickets are available at charlestonpourhouse.com. — Chelsea Grinstead

If you or your band is about to enter the studio, hit the road or has a special gig coming up, reach out to us at music@charlestoncitypaper.com.

The Psycodelics’ immersive stage presence finds its way to the Pour House on Sept. 22 with garage rock act The Mobros

We all have our different beliefs, but I feel like as a band, we believe in some kind of higher power, and we channel that in our music.” —Cam Wescott

LIVE AT REBEL

High Fidelity: Your Top 5

Tadia White is a local musician born and raised in Charleston. She’s been performing since she was 2 years old and playing the piano since she was 3 years old, Ohm Radio writes. She has her own business called Musical T Productions through which she teaches, writes, produces and performs. She is also the assistant director of local gospel group The Plantation Singers. She gave the Charleston City Paper her top five albums to relax to at the end of a long day:

Tinderbox by Siouxsie and the Banshees

Awake and Pretty Much Sober by Violents & Monica Martin

Plastic Beach by Gorillaz

Damned Devotion by Joan As Police Woman

Grazin’ By The Friends of Distinction

By Kevin Murphy Wilson

Drummer Don Brewer has been banging his way around the classic rock world for over half a century now.

On Sept. 23, this celebrated musician and producer will bring the band he’s best known for — Grand Funk Railroad — back to Charleston for an intimate performance at the Riviera Theater on King Street.

Brewer remembers feeling like he was born to play music, he told the Charleston City Paper. He ended up starting his first band in elementary school, thanks to his parents’ support.

“I grew up in an entertainment kind of family,” he said. “My father was a former drummer, my mother was a former dancer. So, when I expressed interest in the drums at a young age, my dad was on it. We went out and got a drum kit, and he would sit there with me and show me how to play along to swing band records.”

Brewer’s passion evolved into a profession after several years and some significant twists and turns.

“We were coming up in the late 1960s,” he said, “and we intentionally fashioned Grand Funk Railroad after trios like The Jimi Hendrix Experience and Cream. That streamlined strategy really paid off for us.”

In the early days of FM radio, Grand Funk Railroad was all over the airwaves. The act repeatedly showed up big with tracks like “Loco-motion,” “Bad Time,” “I’m Your Captain/Closer to Home” and “Some Kind of Wonderful.”

Then there was Grand Funk Railroad’s

“We were coming up in the late 1960s and we intentionally fashioned Grand Funk Railroad after trios like The Jimi Hendrix Experience and Cream.”

signature anthem, “We’re an American Band,” which was written 50 years ago in the midst of pretty dire circumstances.

“We were struggling,” Brewer said. “Our former manager had stolen all of our money, and he was suing us over rights to the band name. It was sink or swim time, and we needed to come up with something truly great if we were ever going to survive.

As we were roaming from town to town, just barely scraping by, I started collecting

all these outrageous little stories from the road, and then I tied them all together with the now famous tagline.”

After Grand Funk Railroad’s initial round of success, Brewer was able to transition into the role of producer. He began overseeing the debut LP from raucous rock ‘n’ rollers, the Godz. Later, he enlisted for a long-running gig with Bob Seger & the Silver Bullet Band.

These days, however, Brewer travels with an all-star version of his favorite “American Band.” Besides Brewer, who will be handling drum duties and providing some of the vocals, Grand Funk Railroad’s coming Lowcountry appearance will also feature founding member Mel Schacher on bass; Max Carl (of 38 Special) on lead vocals; Bruce Kulick (formerly of KISS) on guitar; and Tim Cashion (from Bob Seger and the Silver Bullet Band) on keyboards.

visit therivierachs.com.

Grand Funk Railroad performs at 8 p.m. Sept. 23 at the Riviera Theater downtown. For tickets and show details,

Brewer brings his ‘American band’ back to town

Allen Clark

Legendary rock ‘n’ roll band Grand Funk Railroad performs at 8 p.m. Sept. 23 at the Riviera Theater downtown

—Don Brewer

Across

1. “Highway to Hell” group

5. Palindromic formality

10. Fisherman’s bucketful

14. “I’ve got it! I’ve got it!”

15. Landmark that thanked Pee-wee Herman in a July 2023 remembrance

16. ___ dixit (unproven assertion)

17. Singer Del Rey

18. Charged

19. “___ Turismo” (2023 movie)

20. Making waves, so to speak?

23. Radiohead lead singer Yorke

24. Vulgarity

25. Illustrations for “Capt. Storm” or “Corto Maltese,” e.g.

30. “___ y Plata” (Montana motto)

31. Subtle glow

32. “Fields of Gold” singer

36. Hot rocks?

38. French fountain pen

40. “Peter Pan” henchman

41. Focused

43. Former “Wheel of Fortune” host Bob

44. Singer Janis

45. Alabama fishing village (Bubba’s hometown from “Forrest Gump”)

49. Beethoven symphony originally dedicated to Napoleon

52. Buckwheat noodles

53. December 1773 harborside taxation protest

58. Swordfight reminder

59. Pirates Hall-of-Famer Ralph

60. “Paris, Je T’___” (2006 film)

62. Clothing designer Marc (not the cookware company)

63. Toughen gradually

64. Faux

65. Tandoor-baked bread

66. “Platoon” and “Finding Dory” actor Willem

67. Bit of a hang-up

Down

1. “You’ve got mail!” brand

2. Partially burn

3. Sign on a lawn chair before a parade, maybe

4. Joanie’s boyfriend, in ‘70s TV

5. Xylophone-like instruments

6. Composer Menken

7. “Well, shoot!”

8. Part of a Latin conjugation

9. Flying foe of Godzilla

Free Will Astrology By

ARIES (March 21-April 19): So it begins: the Building and Nurturing Togetherness phase of your astrological cycle. The next eight weeks will bring excellent opportunities to shed bad relationship habits and grow good new ones. Let’s get you in the mood with some suggestions from intimacy counselors Mary D. Esselman and Elizabeth Ash Vélez: “No matter how long you’ve been together or how well you think you know each other, you still need to romance your partner, especially in stability. Don’t run off and get an extreme makeover or buy into the red-roses-and-champagne bit. Instead, try being kind, receptive and respectful. Show your partner, often and in whatever tender, goofy way you both understand, that their heart is your home.”

TAURUS (April 20-May 20): From May 2023 to May 2024, the planets Jupiter and Uranus have been and will be in Taurus. I suspect that many Taurus revolutionaries will be born during this time. And yes, Tauruses can be revolutionaries. Here’s a list of some prominent rebel Bulls: Karl Marx, Malcolm X, activist Kathleen Cleaver, lesbian feminist author Adrienne Rich, Vietnamese leader Ho Chi Minh, artist Salvador Dali, playwright Lorraine Hansberry and dancer Martha Graham. All were wildly original innovators who left a bold mark on their cultures. May their examples inspire you to clarify and deepen the uniquely stirring impact you would like to make, Taurus.

even demand more.

Rob Brezsny

LIBRA (Sept. 23-Oct. 22): My favorite creativity teacher is author Roger von Oech. He produced the Creative Whack Pack, a card deck with prompts to stimulate imaginative thinking. I decided to draw one such card for your use in the coming weeks. It’s titled EXAGGERATE. Here’s its advice: “Imagine a joke so funny you can’t stop laughing for a month. Paper stronger than steel. An apple the size of a hotel. A jet engine quieter than a moth beating its wings. A home-cooked dinner for 25,000 people. Try exaggerating your idea. What if it were a thousand times bigger, louder, stronger, faster and brighter?” (PS: It’s a favorable time for you to entertain brainstorms and heartstorms and soulstorms. For best results, EXAGGERATE!)

SCORPIO (Oct. 23-Nov. 21): If you buy a bag of popcorn and cook it in your microwave oven, there are usually kernels at the bottom that fail to pop. As tasty as your snack is, you may still may feel cheated by the duds. I will be bold and predict that you won’t have to deal with such duds in the near future — not in your popcorn bags and not in any other area of your life, either literally or metaphorically. You’re due for a series of experiences that are complete and thorough and fully bloomed.

10. What Sir Mix-a-Lot famously likes (he cannot lie)

11. Kitchen wear

12. Oscar with other awards

13. Like J, sequentially

21. Catholic fraternal org. based in New Haven (not Ohio)

22. Disneyland souvenir

25. Fountain drink

26. Like some history

27. Expenditures

28. “It’s down to either me ___”

29. Clark Kent, on Krypton

33. Faux

34. Almost

35. “Match Game” host Rayburn

37. Radio ratings service (and competitor of Nielsen, until Nielsen bought them out)

39. Carousing

42. Early Doritos flavor

46. Pulled hard

47. Big snake

48. Author and former Georgia State Representative Stacey

49. “The Beverly Hillbillies” star Buddy

50. Comedian and journalist Mo

51. Kobe neighbor

54. Fey of “Only Murders in the Building”

55. “when the rainbow is ___” (last half of a long Ntozake Shange play title)

56. Prefix in rocket science

57. Song spelled with arm motions

61. Heart chart done in the ER,

GEMINI (May 21-June 20): Gemini writer Joe Hill believes the only fight that matters is “the struggle to take the world’s chaos and make it mean something.” I can think of many other fights that matter, too, but Hill’s choice is a good one that can be both interesting and rewarding. I especially recommend it to you in the coming weeks, Gemini. You are poised at a threshold that promises substantial breakthroughs in your ongoing wrangles with confusion, ambiguity and enigma. My blessings go with you as you wade into the evocative challenges.

CANCER (June 21-July 22): Author Crescent Dragonwagon has written over 50 books, so we might conclude she has no problem expressing herself fully. But a character in one of her novels says the following: “I don’t know exactly what I mean by ‘hold something back,’ except that I do it. I don’t know what the ‘something’ is. It’s some part that’s a mystery, maybe even to me. I feel it may be my essence or what I am deep down under all the layers. But if I don’t know what it is, how can I give it or share it with someone even if I wanted to?” I bring these thoughts to your attention, Cancerian, because I believe the coming weeks will be a favorable time for you to overcome your own inclination to “hold something back.”

LEO (July 23-Aug. 22): In her book

Undercurrents: A Life Beneath the Surface, psychologist and author Martha Manning says she is more likely to experience epiphanies in “grocery stores and laundromats, rather than in the more traditional places of reverence and prayer.” She marvels that “it’s in the most ordinary aspects of life” that she is “offered glimpses of the extraordinary.” During these breakthrough moments, “the baseline about what is good and important in my life changes.”

I suspect you will be in a similar groove during the coming weeks, Leo. Are you ready to find the sacred in the mundane? Are you willing to shed your expectations of how magic occurs so you will be receptive to it when it arrives unexpectedly?

VIRGO (Aug. 23-Sept. 22): “These are the bad facts,” says author Fran Lebowitz. “Men have much easier lives than women. Men have the advantage. So do white people. So do rich people. So do beautiful people.” Do you agree, Virgo? I do. I’m not rich or beautiful, but I’m a white man, and I have received enormous advantages because of it. What about you? Now is a good time to tally any unearned blessings you have benefited from, give thanks for them and atone by offering help to people who have obtained fewer favors. And if you have not received many advantages, the coming months will be an excellent time to ask for and

SAGITTARIUS (Nov. 22-Dec. 21): Writer George Bernard Shaw observed that new ideas and novel perspectives “often appear first as jokes and fancies, then as blasphemies and treason, then as questions open to discussion, and finally as established truths.” As you strive to get people to consider fresh approaches, Sagittarius, I advise you to skip the “blasphemies and treason” stage. If you proceed with compassion and good humor, you can go directly from “jokes and fancies” to “questions open to discussion.” But one way or another, please be a leader who initiates shifts in your favorite groups and organizations. Shake things up with panache and good humor.

CAPRICORN (Dec. 22-Jan. 19): Novelist and astrologer Forrest E. Fickling researched which signs are the worst and best in various activities. He discovered that Capricorns are the hardest workers, as well as the most efficient. They get a lot done, and they are expeditious about it. I suspect you will be at the peak of your ability to express these Capricornian strengths in the coming weeks. Here’s a bonus: You will also be at the height of your power to enjoy your work and be extra likely to produce good work. Take maximum advantage of this grace period!

AQUARIUS (Jan. 20-Feb. 18): The British band Oasis has sold over 95 million records. The first song they ever released was “Supersonic.” Guitarist Noel Gallagher wrote most of its music and lyrics in half an hour while the rest of the band was eating Chinese take-out food. I suspect you will have that kind of agile, succinct, matter-of-fact creativity in the coming days. If you are wise, you will channel it into dreaming up solutions for two of your current dilemmas. This is one time when life should be easer and more efficient than usual.

PISCES (Feb. 19-March 20): “When sex is really, really good,” writes Piscean novelist Geoff Nicholson, “I feel as though I’m disappearing, being pulverized, so that I’m nothing, just particles of debris, smog, soot and skin floating through the air.” Hmmmm. I guess that’s one version of wonderful sex. And if you want it, you can have it in abundance during the coming weeks. But I encourage you to explore other kinds of wonderful sex, as well — like the kind that makes you feel like a genius animal or a gorgeous storm or a super-powered deity.

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