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North Charleston mayoral candidates on Sept. 26 gathered for a forum to discuss the biggest issues at play in the city

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With just under a month before North Charleston residents cast votes Nov. 7 for a new mayor, candidates are getting serious about the biggest issues facing the community.

This year’s race is the first time in nearly three decades that Mayor Keith Summey won’t appear on the ballot. With this year’s packed field of 10 candidates, discussions range from public safety and overdevelopment to LGBTQ+ issues and pedestrian access. Local advocacy groups like Lowcountry Local First (LLF), the Alliance for Full Acceptance and more have said this year’s election is one of the most important in years.

At a Sept. 26 public forum hosted by LLF at Royal Baptist Missionary Church in North Charleston, eight of the 10 candidates in North Charleston took the stage to answer questions.

Former North Charleston Police Chief Reggie Burgess, retired veteran Russell Coletti, retired summary court judge Stephanie Ganaway-Pasley, business scholar Curtis Merriweather Jr., former North Charleston city councilman Todd Olds, Charleston County councilman Teddie Pryor, North Charleston businessman John Singletary and community advocate Jesse Williams attended.

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Economic development

Event moderators asked one question and gave each candidate about 90 seconds to answer before moving onto the next question, alternating between long-form answers and “yes or no” questions. The first few questions centered around local businesses and economic development in North Charleston.

“North Charleston has done a dismal job in terms of supporting small businesses,” Singletary said.

Other candidates agreed small business was vital to the city and there was more to be done to support it.

“Small businesses, entrepreneurships and nonprofits are the backbone of the city of North Charleston,” Burgess said. “We have to look at our business community and understand that the majority of the people in North Charleston need to have access to small businesses. Small business is the lifeblood of the city.”

Minority- and women-owned businesses are especially a focus moving forward, several candidates said.

“I believe in working closely with businesses and associations representing various industries to create programs and initiatives that benefit local businesses,”

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We have to look at our business community and understand that the majority of the people in North Charleston need to have access to small businesses. Small business is the lifeblood of the city.”

—Mayoral candidate Reggie Burgess

Ganaway-Pasley said. “I think it’s important to educate our community and those who want to be business owners … and have a track record of supporting these local businesses, especially in underserved communities.”

Affordable housing

Candidates also said affordable housing remains a huge issue in North Charleston, one of the fastest-growing cities in the state.

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Charleston County Council on Tuesday approved proposed changes to a historic preservation ordinance that some fear could make it easier for development to threaten historic Black settlements communities. Two more votes are required for final passage. They’re scheduled for Oct. 24 and Nov. 14.

When the council adopted the ordinance in August 2018, it established the nine-member Historic Preservation Commission (HPC) and a process to create a list of historic properties and districts. Proposed changes would remove HPC’s ability to nominate properties and districts for historic designation and eliminate the ability to regulate subdivisions. County officials have said state law gives jurisdiction to its planning commission over subdivision regulations.

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S.C. shootings: Three others died in Richland, Beaufort and Darlington counties. Nine others were hurt in Richland, Horry, Beaufort and Florence counties.

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Tourism booms, but analysis shows shifts

By Lily Levin Charleston has about the same number of visitors compared to four years ago, but they’re spending a whole lot more, according to a recent analysis.

From 2019 to 2022, the number of visitors in Charleston increased from 7.43 million to 7.68 million, or about 3%, according to the Office of Tourism Analysis at the College of Charleston.

But in the same time span, tourism spending rose over 32%, from $9.67 billion to $12.82 billion, the report said.

This increased spending is the result of a complex set of factors. One is rising restaurant prices, due to, among other things, costs on the supply end, as outlined in a 2022 Charleston City Paper article. (In fact, “dining/food” accounts for more than onefifth of a Charleston tourist’s 2022 average $1,026 in spending.)

The increased economic impact could also be a side effect of inflation, which peaked in 2022 at above 8%, significantly higher than its 2% level in 2019.

But Mark Witte, the interim director of the office that did the analysis, noted lodging and retail shopping, with 2022 spending increases of 17.7% and 13.2% respectively, were “well above the 6.5% CPI inflation rate from 2022. This suggests that both the prices paid as well as the quantity of lodging and retail sales increase.”

A third factor in rising tourism revenues was that the area now offers more hotel rooms — even though fewer, proportionally, are occupied. Despite an increase in more than 1,000 occupied rooms since 2019 in Charleston, the inventory in 2022 was 1.7% lower.

Plus, the per-room cost was $30 more expensive, on average, Witte said. Research indicates “the price of a room per night in the area increased about 10% from 2021 to 2022.”

Finally, it’s just easier to get here.

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“The city has, over the last ten years, not taken affordable housing seriously.

But this is a problem,” Pryor said. “We shouldn’t have to have our workers live in Summerville, Goose Creek or Moncks Corner to commute every day to come to work when they work in the city of North Charleston.”

Candidates said the problem is simple in theory: supply and demand.

“A part of the reason why we have the housing crisis we have in North Charleston is because it’s a supply and demand issue,” Merriweather said. “There’s not enough homes [in] the real estate stock we have.”

Other candidates said it is more complicated, especially for lower-income and minority families that are more and more often pushed out of generational homes to make room for new, often more expensive, communities.

“We are one of the richest cities in South Carolina,” Colletti said. “For 30 years, only small pockets of our city have received funding to improve those communities, while others were bulldozed over and half-million-dollar homes built. Why not reinvest the money into the homes that are already there and in incentive programs for people who live in their homes to beautify

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“The growth in the number of airlines serving Charleston International [Airport] and the increase in seat capacity to more destinations increases accessibility and affordability,” Explore Charleston spokesman Chris Campbell said. With more people flying, there’s been a substantial increase in passenger traffic — and spending from passenger pocketbooks.

Is anyone left behind?

Campbell said the overall tourism data “indicates progress towards the industry’s goal to create the highest yield visit and maximize downstream benefits for the community.” But which community?

Campbell added taxes from tourists go toward paying for “projects like the Low Battery Seawall and beach renourishment.” But the Coastal Conservation League said it is concerned about why communities like Rosemont, an older-age Black neighborhood, and Bridgeview Village, an affordable housing complex, have been excluded from the $2 billion proposal.

A New York Times article in 2020 said “the influx of expensive hotels and tourist shops has driven up the cost of living in Charleston and sent the working class — many of whom are African-American — to less expensive parts of the region.”

Working-class people are traveling here less, too. The tourism analysis showed the proportion of tourists from the lowest income bracket dropped 3% — from 11.6% of visitors in 2019 to 8.6% three years later.

And expensive tourist shops are only catering to the demographic of their visitors.

“What’s remarkable is that in 2022, the percentage of visitors with an income over $100,000 was 53.8% compared to only 35% of U.S. households,” Witte said.

Yes, we can build communities … but not at the expense of our citizens who are suffering because we are taxing them out of their houses.”

—Mayoral candidate Russell Colletti

their communities, streets and parks?

“Our money needs to stay here in the city, not be given to developers and investors,” he added. “Yes, we can build communities … but not at the expense of our citizens who are suffering because we are taxing them out of their houses.”

Education

Blotter of the Week

Earlier this year, North Charleston leaders considered pulling the city’s schools from the Charleston County School District, alleging that the district was not making lowerincome and minority students a priority. The controversy sparked a bigger conversation on the state of education in North Charleston.

Candidates weren’t asked specifically about the proposal, now a bill in the Statehouse by S.C. Rep. Marvin Pendarvis, D-North Charleston. But several candidates spoke on the improvements they would like to see in the city’s education system.

“I went to elementary [school] in Charleston County. I went to high school in Charleston County,” Burgess said. “I’m proud of being a Charleston County school kid. But what I’m not proud of is what I’m seeing.”

Others mentioned the proposal, but weren’t totally in favor of splitting from the school district.

“I don’t believe that the schools should be in a new district,” Ganaway-Pasley said. “I think that would create financial implications as well as administrative challenges.”

Singeltary agreed, adding that working with the district would be the key to success.

Almost all candidates agreed that an education liaison between North Charleston the district would be a great step forward.

“We sit down with CCSD, and we develop a contract for success where we lay out some ground rules of what our expectations are for the quality of education for our students,” Singletary said.

Other issues discussed included zoning projects along the Rivers Avenue corridor, especially as they relate to the Lowcountry Rapid Transit plan; short-term rentals in the city; public safety and more.

North Charleston police on Sept. 26 broke up a fight between students at North Charleston High School, they but weren’t prepared for a second fight among the students’ parents. The BradyBunch brawl reportedly resulted in one parent being arrested and another being charged with breach of peace. More charges may come, police said.

Summer stealing A Mount Pleasant man on Oct. 1 told Mount Pleasant police someone stole his grill off his front porch overnight.

He said his neighbor’s bike was stolen recently as well. The investigation is ongoing, so if you see a man in a ski mask grilling franks on a bicycle, you know who to call — aside from the nearest talent agency.

Fast and Furious North Charleston police on Oct. 5 aided the S.C. Law Enforcement Division (SLED) in a high-speed pursuit during which the suspect rammed through a SLED vehicle blockade, hopped a curb onto U.S. Highway 52, slammed into numerous vehicles to force through traffic and eventually fled on foot into the woods before being caught and arrested. Maybe in the next movie, Vin Diesel.

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TEN YEARS AGO: People gathered at an AFFA rally for marriage equality at the steps of the U.S. Customs House in Charleston in May 2013

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AFFA celebrates 25 years, looks to future

By Lily Levin South Carolina LGBTQ+ rights nonprofit Alliance for Full Acceptance (AFFA) hosted a 25-year- anniversary celebration Thursday to remember its activism through the years.

The event at Morrison Yard in Charleston also included the group’s vision for 2024 and what its plans were for the future.

Eight people founded AFFA in 1998.

“At that time, the focus was the rights of lesbian and gay folks,” said current AFFA Executive Director Chase Glenn. “This was a community that felt, I think, invisible in a lot of ways. And the only Glenn time they were visible was when they were attacked.”

Warren Redman-Gress, one of four founding board members who also served for almost 15 years as AFFA executive director, said the group’s initial goal was to put itself out of business — to get to a point where this advocacy wasn’t needed.

AFFA’s future

Glenn said conversations the group is having now involve more inclusivity and acceptance of those whose rights are the most at risk, such as transgender and nonbinary individuals. One case in point, he said, is the “very limited options for members of our trans community of any age to receive gender-affirming and medically necessary hormone therapy.”

There’s a lot of work that still has to be done within the LGBTQ+ community, too, he added.

Co-founder and president Linda Ketner said the nonprofit was, at one point,

resistant to including transgender — and even bisexual folks — under the LGBTQ+ umbrella. And Glenn said even today, AFFA must continue to ask itself, “How do we include the varied experiences and identities within the community?” He added, “I think we’re still, you know, figuring that out.”

When externally focused, AFFA is an education and advocacy organization, Glenn said, and it conducts different training sessions for governmental agencies and businesses on best practices when engaging with LGBTQ+ people. One recent strategy, for example, was a billboard campaign with slogans like “God loves trans kids.” Glenn said the goal was to take back the narrative on religious beliefs often used against the community.

Glenn said the Oct. 12 event was an ask for funding of AFFA’s multiple initiatives and a commemoration of those who worked with the group when the climate was much less friendly to queer identities. He said it was a place for “celebrating our accomplishments, but also holding space for the fact that we still have a long way to go.”

And there was much to celebrate. “[The founders] never thought … in our wildest dreams,” Ketner said, that they might see “marriage equality in our lifetime.” But she advised lesbian, bisexual and gay individuals not to get “too complacent” because of privileges they’ve been afforded, especially given the current political landscape of anti-trans and anti-queer legislation filed by the S.C. Freedom Caucus.

Redman-Gress emphasized the ongoing nature of this fight. Though he said he is proud of all AFFA has done, “I’m gonna say that 25 years after we started, I was kind of hoping that the world would be in a better place for the LGBTQ community,” he told the Charleston City Paper.

Added Ketner, “We’ve won a lot, which means we stand to lose a lot.”

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Mace, Dems didn’t do nation any favors owcountry GOP U.S. Rep. Nancy Mace, part of the Band of Eight breakaway Republicans, and all House Democrats did themselves no favors by voting to oust House Speaker Kevin McCarthy last week.

By the time you read this, there may be a new House speaker, but last week’s vote is important to review. It was a strategic misstep. It caved to short-term thinking and exacerbated risks to the country and the institution of Congress.

The danger of the situation became clear quickly in Saturday’s surprise, murderous attack by Hamas on Israel.

While a U.S. carrier strike group reportedly is headed to the region, at home in Washington, Congress had to sit on its hands — not able to do Mace anything for our greatest ally in the Middle East — because there was no speaker. Bottom line: Short-term drama put the nation at risk. Shame on Congress.

Other risks: Billions of dollars of more aid to Ukraine is on hold because the House couldn’t meet to consider funding. Another government shutdown looms in midNovember. And the clock ticks with no way for the House to consider 12 appropriations bills and move things along. According to NPR, having no speaker posed major risks for defense spending, Covid relief measures and

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McCarthy was a relatively weak speaker, but he was a known entity. When pushed, he would deal with Democrats (occasionally) and the Biden Administration.

Dumping him because of the tantrum by a few uberconservative members with personal beefs about McCarthy’s leadership put the institution at even more at risk. How? Unless McCarthy supporters, some Democrats and more moderate forces in the GOP step up, the House may elect someone who could be even harder to work with.

The mercurial Mace says she voted to boot McCarthy because he didn’t keep some promises. Surprise.

McCarthy, is a politician. But her non-strategic, long-term petulance wasn’t in the country’s — or Lowcountry’s — best interest.

And the 208 Democrats, including South Carolina veteran U.S. Rep. Jim Clyburn, who voted against McCarthy likewise should be spanked with a wet noodle. Better the devil you know than the one you don’t. Had Democrats been thinking of the future instead of being grumpy about some of McCarthy’s recent blame-game comments, they would have understood that keeping a weak McCarthy could have helped them regain the House in 2024.

There’s not often a lot of intelligence going on in the halls of Congress. Recent events make that crystal clear.

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 infra structure and make smart climate change decisions about develop ment, 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.

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How you might become a conservationist

By Andy Brack

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Pay attention to what’s going on in your yard for long enough and you may just become a dyed-in-the-wool conservationist, Tennessee writer Margaret Renkl suggests. But not really in a blue or red, conservative or liberal political way. More in a holistic, natural way.

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It might start with a pot of flowers just outside of a window where you can watch it bud, bloom and go to seed from the kitchen or office.

“Those things are helpful to our wild neighbors,” she said during an interview ahead of a Southern book tour promoting The Comfort of Crows: A Backyard Year, which is available Oct. 24. “Once you start being helpful, it’s a very self-reinforcing process.”

Let’s say you start with growing zinnias. At some point, you see bees flying around it. As you observe more and more, you might start thinking about planting milkweed for next year’s butterflies or a native holly so migrating birds can have something to eat other than the birdseed that squirrels might rob. You might plant a native fruit tree or an oak to feed all sorts of critters.

“And then suddenly, you’re a conservationist,” she “We like to prettify noted. “Then you talk with your neighbors about not spraying for mosquitoes [because chemicals harm nature and want it to bees]. It’s a very self-fulfilling thing to do, and it makes be very sanitary and you want to do more, and it gives you a great deal of pleasure to do it.” think some things Renkl, who has lived in her Nashville neighborhood are good and some for 27 years, has let her yard go native. It once had a traditional lawn with hedges and such. From the front things are bad.” it may still look similar, but the backyard is infrequently mowed — maybe once a year or so — to give natural habitats to animals that use land without knowing that humans see it as something that can be owned.

Renkl, who offers a weekly column in The New York Times on everything from squirrels that plant pumpkins to shopping malls and politics, uses her new book of 52 essays as a way to share her fascination with cycles of life throughout the year.

“At the most fundamental level, everything that lives ultimately will die, and everything that dies will ultimately feed the living,” she said this week in a wide-ranging interview. “I don’t think we as human beings are comfortable with that idea.

“We like to prettify nature and want it to be very sanitary and think some things are good and some things are bad.”

But that’s not how nature works. For example, you might consider a rat or a spider or a mole to be a nuisance that you don’t want in or around your home. But from another perspective, it’s just an animal trying to live its life however it can. It doesn’t know much about property lines or inside or outside.

Andy Brack “The creatures we consider a danger or a nuisance are only trying to is editor and live their lives,” Renkl writes, “and they often play beneficial roles to publisher of humans in the process. Possums eat ticks. Moles aerate the soil and eat Charleston tree-damaging grubs. Spiders eat flies, snakes eat mice, and skunks eat City Paper. yellow jackets. Wasps eat the caterpillars that eat the tomato plants.”

Have a Throughout the book, she reminds us that nature is everywhere. comment?

“We like, in our minds these days, to think it’s at the end of a drive someSend to: where. But even if you are living in the densest urban jungle, the natural feedback@ world is there. It’s in the sky above you and in every crack of a sidewalk.” charleston This new book about messy gardens, dead leaves and flowers, crows, citypaper.com. the anticipation of spring, berries, rabbits and decay is an ebullient, passionate call to open your eyes and look freshly at what’s around you. But be careful. If you do, you might bloom into a real conservationist.

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n the grand scheme of things, it didn’t cost that much for conservatives to take over the Charleston County school board.

Donations to the five candidates in the freshly elected Moms For Libertybacked majority raised $127,444.94, according to an analysis of campaign disclosure reports on file with the S.C. State Ethics Commission.

“They got off cheap,” said one Charleston businessman who gave $500 to a winning candidate. “That’s just not a lot of money. … There’s been a heckuva lot more money spent in the past on unsuccessful school board elections.”

By an odd twist of electioneering, all nine seats on the school board were up for grabs last November as the county moved to single-member election districts. The then year-old Charleston chapter of the right-wing activist group Moms for Liberty (M4L) seized the opportunity to endorse several candidates. Five running for the board won and immediately became the governing majority. Since then, dysfunction in meetings, enmity between trustees and chaos among members of the public concerned about what’s happening to education here has soared exponentially.

The money chase

One of the M4L candidates, downtown Charleston’s Pam McKinney, now chairs the school board. She raised just under $97,500 from South of Broad friends and a broad array of conservative politicos, such as former Gov. Nikki Haley, S.C. Sen. Chip Campsen and S.C. Rep. Mark Smith.

McKinney

$5,845.

Calhoun

$2,820.00

Whatley

$12,890.00

Sixty-one of her donors gave the maximum of $1,000; five gave $501 to $999; and 30 others gave $500 each.

But the other four M4L trustees gathered three times less combined — a total of $29,960 in campaign contributions.

That’s an average of $7,490 each, ranging from $2,962 for trustee Keith Grybowski of Mount Pleasant to $12,890 for board member Leah Whatley of West Ashley.

Their total is less than just under $50,000 raised by the four other non-M4L candidates now in the board’s minority.

Trustees Courtney Waters of North Charleston and Daron Lee Calhoun II of West Ashley raised less than $3,000 each.

Two others — Darlene Dunmeyer-Roberson of Hollywood and Carol Tempel of James Island — raised just over $21,000 from about 200 donors each.

Continuing dissention

Waters

$97,484.

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Watching or attending a school board meeting these days is an exercise in brainexploding frustration. And since the election, the tension hasn’t stopped.

One past school board member, Erica Cokley, dropped out of a reelection bid in October 2022, but there were problems with the process so she remained on the ballot — and won! When she didn’t accept her seat, a new election came in February, which Calhoun won.

By that time, there was a fracas over the school district’s curriculum. Then there was the struggle to get a new superintendent as well as dustups with the outgoing superintendent. When somebody leaked the names of two finalists — and they then dropped from consideration — the board offered the top job to the one remaining candidate, Dr. Eric Gallien. He took over in July.

Less than three months later, the tide turned. The majority put Gallien on administrative leave after a complaint kept secret from the public that report-

$2,800.00

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Dunmeyer-Roberson

$21,836.00

Tempel

$21,903.31

Who is Moms for Liberty?

The Charleston chapter of the conservative “parental rights” group Moms for Liberty got started about two years ago just months after the Jan. 6, 2021, insurrection at the U.S. Capitol. Among those who reportedly helped to organize the local chapter — one of more than 275 nationwide, was a Proud Boy radical with ties to Republican politics at state and national levels.

The Southern Poverty Law Center (SPLC) in Alabama describes the national Moms for Liberty movement as an anti-government “extremist group” founded in 2021 by former Florida school board members.

“Moms for Liberty and its nationwide chapters combat what they consider the ‘woke indoctrination’ of children by advocating for book bans in school libraries and endorsing candidates for public office that align with the group’s views,” according to the SPLC. “They also use their multiple social media platforms to target teachers and school officials, advocate for the abolition of the Department of Education, advance a conspiracy propaganda, and spread hateful imagery and rhetoric against the LGBTQ community.”

A new Brookings study estimates membership of the group at about 103,000 members in 278 chapters across 45 states. “Clusters of chapters appear in Florida, the Northeast (from DC to New York) and the Carolinas,” it said. According to a national M4L website, South Carolina has chapters in 20 counties.

The Brookings study concludes that M4L is a powerful new player in local

education politics across the nation that provides a conservative counterweight to teachers’ unions.

“They may be effective at placing conservative policies on the agenda through their activity at school board meetings, potentially increasing book bans, curriculum restrictions and more.

On the other hand, Moms for Liberty is such a polarizing organization, with such an extreme set of positions, that its longterm impact remains uncertain.”

Tara Wood, chair of M4L’s Charleston chapter, did not grant an interview request, but provided the following statement: “Schools answer to the elected school board and the school board answers to the voters. This is our American system of accountability. No one knows better how to educate a child than a parent, and the parents spoke loud and clear last November. That is democracy.”

In October 2022 in the Charleston Mercury, she wrote about the county’s “chance in lifetime” to take over the school board after endorsing eight candidates.

She wrote M4L “vetted candidates we believe will honor parental authority, watch over our tax dollars, accept excellent curricula and wholesome library books, have effective safety and discipline policies, communicate with parents and teachers, hold board meetings at a time parents can attend and be transparent in their agendas, their spending and their votes.” —Andy Brack

edly relates to an employee matter. Then days ago, Gallien sued the board, alleging it “seriously interfered” with him being able

to manage the district, which serves more than 49,000 students.

Meanwhile, citizen outrage grew.

Photos courtesy CCSD

Bailey

$8,263.00

Kelley

Would you give again?

In the list of contributors that M4L-backed candidates disclosed, it’s hard to find boatloads of donations from the group that spouts “parental rights” as its mantra.

Three current officers of the Charleston County chapter, for example, gave a total of $400 to Bailey during the same week in October 2022.

But because the organization is secretive and reportedly screens people who want to attend meetings, the endorsements of eight school board candidates, including the five who won, telegraphed who supporters should back at the polls and with donations.

Many of the people who gave to the M4Lbacked bloc, particularly to McKinney, appear to have given for personal reasons based on prior relationships.

Interviews with eight donors, all of whom would not talk for attribution, highlighted how friendships, not a specific political agenda, drove donations.

For example, three Charleston-area businessmen noted how they gave some money to McKinney’s campaign because of longtime family connections. But now they’re disturbed what’s happening with the school board — and with the link to Moms For Liberty.

“Under the present set of circumstances, were she running again, I do think I would have to reconsider supporting her even modestly, because doing so would imply that I endorse the actions she has taken.

And I do not,” one said.

Another spoke more emphatically: “I categorically would not have given money if I’d known she was part of Moms for Liberty and will give money to whoever opposed them next cycle.”

A third noted, “I wouldn’t give any of them any money because the disruption they’re causing in the education system doesn’t appear to be helping anyone, the least of which are the children.”

But one person who has undergone public scrutiny would give again.

“My contribution was to a friend who was running for public office,” he said. “But from a 50,000-foot view without a lot of details, they need to get their act together as a group.”

FOLLOW THE MONEY

High-dollar donations to the CCSD Board of Trustees Candidates in the county’s non-partisan school board races can receive up to $1,000 in the general election from donors. Below is a list of top donors, by winning candidate, in the November 2022 general election. The spelling of names is published as they appear on campaign disclosure reports filed with the S.C. State Ethics Commission.

Candidates who have been identified as aligned with Moms for Liberty are marked with an asterisk. For a complete list of donors, visit the Public Reporting Ethics Commission’s website (ethics.sc.gov).

P. Cochrane, Charleston; Margaret S. Cochrane, Charleston; Gary & Susan DiCamillo, Charleston; Neil C. Robinson, Charleston; Baker Motor Company of Charleston, Charleston; VCKH’s Magnolia LLC, Charleston; Robert S. Small, Isle of Palms; Anthony McAlister, Mount Pleasant; Charles & Elizabeth Sullivan, Charleston; Thomas Hash, Mount Pleasant; Mary E. Collins, Johns Island; Robert Collins, Johns Island; Roger Jones, Charleston; Teresa Jones, Charleston; Companion Associates Inc., Charleston; Jim Thompson, Charleston; Marshal D. Mize, Signal Mountain, Tenn.; William B. Ellison, Mount Pleasant; Preston J. Young, Charleston; John Warren, Greenville; Courtney Warren, Greenville; Warren Capital LLC, Greenville; Renee Anderson, Charleston; Mark Smith, Charleston.

* District 1: Keith Grybowski Total raised �������������������������������������� $2,962.00 $501-$999 donors: Total donations ������������������������������������������������18 John H. Hofford, Charleston; Susan Ford, Rennee Brockington, Charleston.

Charleston; Doyce Boesch, Johns Island; Tommy Baker, Charleston; Victoria Baker, Charleston; Harvey Brockinton, Charleston.

$501-$999 donors: n/a

$500 donors:

$1,000 donors:

$500 donors: n/a * District 2: Ed Kelley Total raised ��������������������������������������$5,845.00 Total donations ������������������������������������������������15 $1,000 donors:

George Waters, Mount Pleasant; Kristi Scottaline, North Charleston; Kelley Deaton, North Charleston.

$501-$999 donors: n/a $500 donors:

Future Prosperity Alliance, Columbia; Adam Elling, Mount Pleasant; Jacob Rabb House LLC, Charleston.

Sally Rhett, Charleston; Chad Walldorf, Sullivans Island; Cameron W. Stuhr, Charleston; Todd Garrett, Charleston; Kenneth Barker, Kiawah Island; Chris Fraser, Travelers Rest; Justin Ferira, Charleston; Kim Incampo, Johns Island; Ernie Ravenel, Charleston; Kaycee and John Poston, Charleston; Frank & Blanche Brumley, Charleston; Margaret Donaldson Interiors LLC, Charleston; Greg & Danielle Thompson, Sumter; Louis Costa II, Charleston; Greg Padgett, North Charleston; Todd Barnes, Charleston; Lynn Robers, Charleston; Paul Lieber, Johns Island; Kirk Young, Charleston; Sandra & George Fennell, North Charleston; David Morgan, Mount Pleasant; Dixon Dickens, Wilmington, N.C.; Baker Buick GMC Cadillac, Charleston; Buddy & Tammy Darby, Charleston; Donna W. Henry, Mount Pleasant; Bianca Franck, Johns Island; The Beach Company, Charleston; Cleave Ham, Charleston; Mike Seekings, Charleston.

District 4: Courtney Waters Total raised ...................................... $2,800.00 Total donations ...................................................5

* District 3: Pam McKinney Total raised ������������������������������������$97,484.94 Total donations ��������������������������������������������� 218 $1,000 donors: $1,000 donors:

Pamela M. McKinney, Charleston; Pat McKinney, Charleston; Henry Fishburne Jr., Charleston; Croghan’s Jewel Box, Charleston; Renee Brockinton, Charleston; Locked On Strategies LLC, Greenville; Sally M. Hall, Greenville; Robert T. Hall, Greenville; The McKinney Company, Inc., Charleston; Dan Grover, Marvin, N.C.; Robin Gramling, Charleston; Ben Gramling, Charleston; Connie Dewberry, Charlotte, N.C.; Darryl Dewberry, Charlotte, N.C.; Deborah Koch, Charleston; Nancy H. Barker, Kiawah Island; Harry Gregorie, Charleston; Ted Legasy, Johns Island; George Green III, Charleston; Lewis Driskell, Johns Island; Reid Banks, Mount Pleasant; Jennifer Banks, Mount Pleasant; Karyn Lee (Hewitt), Mount Pleasant; William Hewitt, Mount Plesasant; Michael Haley, Johns Island; Nikki Haley, Johns Island; John Rivers Jr., Charleston; Cary Chastain, Charleston; Chip Campsen, Charleston; Bristol Holdings LLC, Charleston; John Boatwright Jr., Charleston; Barbara Boatwright, Charleston; Whitten Meares, North Charleston; Louis Rainero Jr., Daniel Island; Lynda Gilkeson, Charleston; Philip P. Vineyard, Charleston; Luther

Lebby Consulting, Blythewood; Brownstone Construction, Columbia.

District 6: Daron Lee Calhoun II Total raised ..................................$2,820.00 ** Total donations ................................................38 $1,000 donors: n/a $501-$999 donors: n/a $500 donors:

Keith Parker, Charleston. ** NOTE: Calhoun was elected in a 2023 special election; Donations are reported from 12/29/22 to 2/12/23.

* District 7: Leah Whatley Total raised .....................................$12,890.00 Total donations .................................................51 $1,000 donors:

Renee Brockington, Charleston; Harvey Brockington, Charleston; Karen Iacovelli, Greenville; Janine Nagrodsky, Charleston; Gerald McGee, Charleston; Tammy McGee, Charleston.

$501-$999 donors:

Suzanne Leber, Charleston.

$500 donors:

Booze Pops LLC, Summerville; Kristy Gore, Hanahan.

District 8: Darlene Dunmeyer-Roberson Total raised .....................................$21,836.00 Total donations .............................................. 193 $1,000 donors:

Adriel Roberson, Stafford, Va.; Ernestine McDevitt, Johns Island.

$501-$999 donors:

Frank Mitchell, Columbia.

$500 donors:

Nelson Duckson, McDonough, Ga.; Violet Washington, Charleston; John Zloger, Johns Island; Johanna Allston, Yonges Island.

$501-$999 donors: n/a $500 donors:

Joyce Green, Mount Pleasant.

District 9: Carol Tempel Total raised:.......................................$21,903.31 Total donations:............................................ 242 $1,000 donors:

* District 5: Carlotte Bailey Total raised .......................................$8,263.00 Total donations ................................................38 $1,000 donors:

Renee R. Brockington, Charleston; W. Harvey Brockington, Charleston; Jennifer Hankey, Mount Pleasant; Gerald D. McGee, Charleston; Tammy A. McGee, Charleston.

$501-$999 donors: n/a $500 donors: n/a

Elizabeth Smith, Charleston; SC Realtors PAC, Columbia.

$501-$999 donors:

Nancy P. Moore, Folly Beach; The Six PAC, Sacramento, Calif.; Carol Jackson, Charleston; Gail Schiffer, Mount Pleasant.

$500 donors:

Clarence B. Manning, Charleston; Robert E. Welch, Charleston.

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The minority block of trustees held a press conference imploring the majority to rescind Gallien’s suspension. State representatives chimed in that the state needed to investigate. GOP Gov. Henry McMaster and S.C. Attorney General Alan Wilson said it looked like the board wasn’t following state open meetings laws.

State lawmakers turned to the state to look into the mess.

And in drama that Hollywood can’t dream, education advocates demanded that one M4L board member, vice-chair Carlotte Bailey, resign after homophobic comments surfaced.

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Avondale 5K for Charles Webb Center Lace up your running shoes for the Avondale 5K benefitting the Charles Webb Center. Registration is open until Oct. 13, the day before the race, and late registration is also available morning-of. All proceeds go directly to the Charles Webb Center, a developmental day care for children with learning and developmental disabilities. Once runners finish the race, they can enjoy the after-party in Triangle Char + Bar’s parking lot.

Oct. 14. 7 a.m. to 11:30 a.m. Prices vary. Triangle Char + Bar. 828 Savannah Hwy. West Ashley. avondale5k.com

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Phantom of the Opera silent screening Before the days of CGI and IMAX, films were black-and-white, had no spoken dialogue and lacked the breathtaking music from composers like John Williams or Hans Zimmer. Bethel United Methodist Church is bringing back the silent film experience with a showing of the 1925 Phantom of the Opera, accompanied by music from the 1986 musical version composed

by Andrew Lloyd Weber. Bethel’s own Greg Jones will play on the church’s pope organ for what is sure to be a haunting evening.

Oct. 13. 6:30 p.m. Free to attend. Bethel United Methodist Church. 57 Pitt St. Downtown. bethelcharleston.com SUNDAY

Vinyl brunch at Palace Hotel Dust off those dancing shoes and head to the Palace Hotel for a vinyl-themed brunch.

Carolina Dream, a local CBD company started by Marine Corps veterans, and One Way Forward Events will host the party which includes tasty food and delicious cocktails from the Palace and a huge selection of vinyl records from Flip-Thru Records to browse and purchase.

Oct. 15. Noon to 3 p.m. Free to attend. Palace Hotel. 525 Meeting St. Downtown. carolinadream.com WEDNESDAY THROUGH SATURDAY

Aiken-Rhett House candlelight ghost tours The Aiken-Rhett House museum is offering an eerie tour for four evenings this week. The guests will walk through the 1820s house, surrounded by haunting candlelight, as the museum curators weave together local stories and legends with the history of the house. The tour will cover tragic love and loss during the unique autumn experience.

Oct. 18 through Oct. 21. Times vary. $40. Aiken-Rhett House Museum. 48 Elizabeth St. Downtown. historiccharleston.org THURSDAY

An evening with ghost hunter Amy Bruni Fans of all things paranormal will recognize ghost hunter Amy Bruni as she takes the Charleston Music Hall stage to spill secrets on her interactions with the afterlife. Bruni is a former Ghost Hunters star and now the co-star and executive producer on her own Travel Channel show, Kindred Spirits. Join Amy to hear about her most terrifying encounters as well as her own approach to interacting with the dead.

Oct. 19. 8 p.m. Prices vary. Charleston Music Hall. 37 John St. Downtown. charlestonmusichall.com

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West Ashley thrives and has a bright future

By Alex Nettles The wide land west of the Ashley River is home to comfortable tree-lined streets with rows of homes, highways flanked by businesses and malls, villages like Avondale and emerging plans for revitalization.

With a 2022 population of 83,996 people, West Ashley is the epicenter of Charleston, even though most people consider the peninsula to be more population.

“What makes West Ashley special is the people,” said West Ashley Realtor Shana Swain, a former bartender with connections throughout the suburb. “It’s where the heart of Charleston is.”

West Of newspaper editor Lorne Chambers agreed, describing residents as having a “scrappy spirit.”

“They are not your traditional downtown Charleston people, but they are real Charlestonians,” he said. “In a way, this is the original Charlestown,” he said. “You have a lot of people over here who have a lot of pride in their community and hope for a better tomorrow.”

Dominated before World War II by farms and pastures, West Ashley bloomed into a middle-class suburban haven replete with everything from mind-numbing rush-hour traffic to chain stores that you can find in Columbus, Ohio.

But with a controversial development project being discussed at the former Piggly Wiggly site on Sumar Street and Ashley River Crossing, a planned pedestrian bridge connecting West Ashley and downtown, a question is what direction is the suburb headed.

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Vision for the future

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The West Ashley Revitalization Committee has been spearheading the suburb’s path toward development. The committee’s Plan West Ashley aims for ambitious changes from economic development to flood prevention.

The Sumar Street development project was postponed in June, causing doubts about the strength of the committee’s plans.

City Councilman Karl Brady represents outer West Ashley. A board member of the West Ashley Revitalization Commission, he said West Ashley projects like the Sumar Street development project, were voted down by people who don’t have a vision for the future.

“They see West Ashley as it is but not as what it could be,” he said.

Brady, who currently is running for reelection, said that in revitalization it is important to remember where West Ashley started.

It was the birthplace of Charleston when settlers landed at Charles Towne Landing in 1670.

“I think one thing lost on a bunch of people is that West Ashley is the birthplace of Charleston. That’s how we should treat it.”

Chambers, a former Charleston City Paper employee, said West Ashley is planning in the right direction, but there is not much to show for it.

“In people, you are seeing this shift away from these traditional big-box stores towards giving more community pride,” he said. “But

The Avondale neighborhood along Savannah Highway bustles with activity

we have to stay the course.”

Chambers said the community has historically wanted more than malls and commutes, but often ended up with Walmarts and chain businesses regardless.

Malls, he said, are a product of West Ashley’s suburban boom in the 1980s. The “retail apocalypse” of the 2010s crippled them. Now, West Ashley has a lot of vacant lots. Chambers said because the area is growing, some residents want to shed the concrete.

“Most citizens in West Ashley didn’t want another mall or gas station,” he said.

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Education

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$65M

Percent above $100,000

Entertainment, Rec

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Households below poverty line

10%

Households above $200,000

7.6%

$121M Food at home

$201M Food away from home

$144M Health care

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$213M

Households

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Occupancy

Shelter

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$83M

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A historical view

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Donna Jacobs is a West Ashley historian and author. As a former board member of Plan West Ashley, Jacobs noticed a generational difference in what residents plan for their neighborhoods.

Jacobs said the West Ashley area has been split between two different models of how to live and build. It also is split between two different generations of Americans and what they want for the future.

In many ways, these splits are between those “inside the loop” and those “outside the loop,” meaning those who live north of the swath cut by Interstate 526 and those who live south of it — an area generally with more land and open space.

She said those who live inside 526 advocate for a walkable Avondale plan. But those outside of the interstate often want to keep West Ashley’s traditional shopping centers.

“Inside the loop, some of these younger residents would happily ride their bikes to work every day and walk their kids to school, regardless of the weather,” she said.

But others see cars as their primary way of commuting, “They kind of expect those old West Ashley malls to drive to,” she said.

Jacobs said the diverse lifestyles and history of West Ashley was a strength for living in the area. She added she thought West Ashley was a nice place to live regardless of whether you believe in the Avondale approach or the mall.

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Renovated Satellite Bar hopes to attract new patrons

What’s new

By Connelly Hardaway Heather Greene, director of operations of Stars Restaurant, wants to bring a new kind of audience to the restaurant’s rooftop, recently renovated and renamed Satellite Bar. “I call it leveling up,” she said.

The renovation, completed this summer, brings new decor, an updated drinks menu and hopefully, a new audience.

“I would love to see King Street develop into a great place for adults to go,” Greene said. Currently, King Street, especially Upper King Street north of Calhoun Street, hosts hordes of rowdy party-goers every weekend (and many weeknights, too).

Greene hopes that Satellite Bar can offer a haven of sorts in the midst of this college town’s raucous party scene.

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It’s no secret that Charleston is a “serious drinking town,” a nomination awarded

by Thrillist in 2016, and rooted deep in the town since as far back as 1793, when Charlestonians were swilling Dragoon’s Punch.

Anecdotally, the city’s most popular strip of bars and restaurants, King Street, has been rowdier than ever lately, and in practice, the city of Charleston has been looking for a solution.

Just last month Charleston Police Department announced a plan to implement an undercover vice unit that will target underage drinking and illicit drug use.

In October 2022, the city officially altered traffic flow on Upper King Street, between Spring and Calhoun streets; Thursdays through Saturdays, traffic is reduced to one lane and street parking is banned after 6 p.m. The traffic change brought an increased law enforcement presence.

Greene described a conversation with a patron who asked about the police she’d seen on King Street. “She said, ‘Should we

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A recent renovation brings a fresh look and updated cocktail menu to the spot formerly known as Stars Rooftop be worried? Is it safe?’ I hate that. Because I want everyone to feel safe in our city.”

While no bar or restaurant has the answer or solutions to King Street’s rowdy problem, Greene posits that offering a different kind of experience could calm things down a bit.

what’s going on on King Street?”

Greene doesn’t necessarily have an answer to this question. Satellite Bar has toyed with the idea of being a 23-yearsand-older establishment, but Greene isn’t totally sold on the idea. Do responsible 21 and 22 year olds deserve to be left out of the rooftop fun? Can a bar and restaurant New offerings afford to put limits on who it serves?

Satellite Bar and Stars Restaurant are “I think you have to be the change,” moving away from DJ entertainment and Greene said. “And I think it would have been opting to feature more live music, both late really easy for us to have not done much and at night and on weekend afternoons. kept getting that money, you know, but that’s Satellite Bar has also launched an updated not what any of us want for Charleston.”

— and elevated — bar menu that features Earlier this month Satellite Bar launched fun and funky wines and several mocktails. a new series, Sip and Shop happy hour, “The demand for zero-proof cocktails which showcases local vendors from 5 p.m. right now is just next level,” Greene said. At to 8 p.m. on the rooftop on Wednesday Satellite Bar you can choose from four non- nights. In addition to shopping from local alcoholic beverages, including the Midnight spots like Magari Boutique and Link’d Train to Georgia, made with passionfruit, Permanent Jewelry — who you’ll find at the ginger beer and bitters. “People want a Oct. 18 happy hour — the rooftop will offer cocktail that looks like one and tastes good.” drink deals, too.

Satellite Bar hasn’t totally grown up, You can listen to live music on Saturdays though — you can still get shots. Just don’t and Sundays, and bring your kids if you ask to split them 20 ways. And please don’t want. Greene is hopeful that the city will try to bring your own drink into the bar support wider efforts to make Upper King (it happens, said Greene), because it’s just more family- and pedestrian-friendly by more work for the people who work there. blocking the street off to traffic not just for late night revelers but for street festivals or a neighborhood block party, like the MOJA Hopefully hospitable on King event earlier this month, or the “All you’re doing is policing people,” Wine + Food street fest held this spring. said Greene of overcrowded nights with And hopefully, when you make your way heavily intoxicated patrons. “And you’re up to the Satellite Bar on Friday nights, not hospitable. So how do we maintain you’ll find a place that feels like it’s risen that level of hospitality and negotiate above the fray.

Farm Haus Butcher & Beer Garden (located in Indian Land, S.C.) opened its second location Oct. 6 in Mount Pleasant’s Moultrie Plaza Shopping Center. Featuring a meat and sausagefocused food menu, Farm Haus will also have a large selection of local craft beers, as well as craft cocktails including “mason jar favorites” like the Farm Haus Tea made with Dixie Vodka. Farm Haus will be open from 11 a.m. to 11 p.m.

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Eric Casella and Nora Granger aka the Counter Cheesemongers opened a cheese shop in North Charleston last week, slinging artisanal American cheeses at 3973 Rivers Ave., Suite 105 from 11 a.m. to 4 p.m. Fridays and Saturdays. In addition to cheese, you can shop sandwiches, packaged snacks and beer and wine. Follow along on Instagram @counterchzmongers.

Prophet Coffee, the converted Subaru sprinter parked at 4411 Spruill Avenue (between Nippitaty Distillery and Wind and Waves Brewing) will open its brickand-mortar cafe in the same spot Oct. 16. Head to Prophet to try the signature coconut cold brew or a matcha paloma.

Stay up-to-date on the shop’s hours on Instagram @prophet_coffee.

What’s happening Palmetto Brewing Co. hosts a fall vegan market on Oct. 14 with a variety of vendors (all vegan, natch) including Little Sprout, Hey Crow Bakery, Mabel Mae’s Bakery and The Vegan Muva Experience. Head to Palmetto from 9 a.m. to 2 p.m to snag your vegan goodies.

Actor Jeremy Renner, a co-owner in Charleston-based Sweet Grass Vodka, heads to The Refinery on Oct. 20 as part of a bottle signing tour. The block party features live music from The Midnight City Band and Brooke Lee and the option for a bottle signing and meet-and-greet with Renner. Tickets and VIP passes can be purchased online at gridtix.com.

Vivian Howard’s book club, a salon-style series that hosts authors from a variety of genres, presents an afternoon with James Beard awardwinning author Amy Thielen at 2 p.m.

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STATE OF SOUTH CAROLINA COUNTY OF BERKELEY IN THE FAMILY COURT FOR THE NINTH JUDICIAL CIRCUIT DOCKET NO. 2023-DR- 08-1407 SOUTH CAROLINA DEPARTMENT OF SOCIAL SERVICES

of the United States of America, as contemplated by the Soldier’s and Sailor’s Relief Act, 1940, as Amended collectively designated as RICHARD ROE, and all persons entitled to claim under or through Randy Alan Nadeau Respondents

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TO: POSSIBLE UNKNOWN HEIRS OF Randy Alan Nadeau: YOU ARE HEREBY SUMMONED and required to answer the Petition in this action, a copy of which was filed in the Charleston County Probate Court on September 14, 2023, and is hereby served upon you by publication, and to serve a copy of your Answer to the said Petition on the subscriber at his office, 12 Carriage Lane, Suite A, Charleston, South Carolina 29407, within thirty (30) days after the service hereof upon, exclusive of the day of such service; and, if you fail to answer within the time aforesaid, Petitioner in the Action will apply to the Court for the relief demanded in the Petition.

IN THE INTERESTS OF: MINOR CHILD BORN 2013 TO DEFENDANT: DANIEL DAVIS YOU ARE HEREBY SUMMONED and required to answer the Complaint in this action filed with the Clerk of Court for Berkeley County on July 14, 2023, at 2:06 PM. Upon proof of interest, a copy of the Complaint will be delivered to you upon request from the Berkeley County Clerk of Court, and you must serve a copy of your Answer to the Complaint on the Plaintiff, the South Carolina Department of Social Services, at the office of its Attorney, Jason D. Pockrus, Legal Department of the Berkeley County Department of Social Services, 2 Belt Drive, Moncks Corner, S.C. 29461 within thirty (30) days of this publication, exclusive of the date of service. If you fail to answer within the time set forth above, the Plaintiff will proceed to seek relief from the Court.

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POST YOUR LEGALS HERE! CALL CRIS 577-5304 X127 COPYRIGHT NOTICE FOR THE STRAW This copyright notice informs the potential user of the name (JAREN DESMOND BROWN) and all its derivatives that is intended as pertaining to me, (JAREN DESMOND BROWN, jaren desmond brown , vakasa zene 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 PROBATE COURT CASE NO. 2023-ES-10-01584 IN THE MATTER OF: Randy Alan Nadeau William R. Lawson, Petitioner, vs.

Randy Alan Nadeau, and all persons claiming under or through the heirs or devisees of Randy Alan Nadeau, collectively designated as JOHN DOE, and any such persons who are Minors or other disability, or members of the Armed Forces

AMENDED PETITION FOR DETERMINATION OF HEIRS OF RANDY ALAN NADEAU The Petitioner, William R. Lawson, hereby moves before the Probate Court for the County of Charleston, State of South Carolina for an Order determining the heirs of Randy Alan Nadeau.

1. That Petitioner is the spouse of William R. Lawson, and they were legally married on November 17, 2008 (a copy of said Marriage Certificate is attached hereto as Exhibit A), they owned property in Charleston County as Tenants in Common at the time of his death.

2. The Petitioner will show that Randy Alan Nadeau died intestate on February 26, 2013, (a copy of said Death Certificate is attached hereto as Exhibit B) and that no formal or informal administration of his estate has been done.

3. The Petitioner is informed that under South Carolina Code Section 62-3-108 that no administration of the Estate can now be initiated, therefore he must bring this action for the determination of heirs.

4. That the Petitioner will show that upon his death Randy Alan Nadeau was married and survived by his spouse, the Petitioner.

5. That the Petitioner knows that the only heir of Randy Alan Nadeau is the Petitioner. That the Petitioner possesses no knowledge or belief of the existence of any other possible heirs of Randy Alan Nadeau or interested parties other than the Petitioner. Wherefore, the Petitioner prays before the Court for its Order determining that the only heir of Randy Alan Nadeau is his spouse, William R. Lawson.

BRUSH LAW FIRM, P.A. Thomas H. Brush Attorney for the Petitioner 12-A Carriage Lane Charleston, SC 29407 Phone (843) 766-5576 Fax (843) 766-9152 August 23, 2023 Charleston, South Carolina

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.

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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: MARY ANN SILBER 2023-ES-10-1697 DOD: 08/22/23 Pers. Rep: BRANDON BISHOP 123 SHEFFIELD RD. GROVELAND, IL 61535 Pers. Rep: CHRISTY BISHOP 315 SOUTHWALK PL. PENSACOLA, FL 32506 Atty: JONATHAN C. SULLIVAN, ESQ. PO BOX 1349 MT. PLEASANT, SC 29465 ************ Estate of: LAURINE THERESE CHARLES 2023-ES-10-1758 DOD: 11/11/22 Pers. Rep: KATHERINE T. CHARLES 404 E. 55TH ST., #15A NEW YORK, NY 10022 Atty: M. JEAN LEE, ESQ. 115 CHURCH ST. CHARLESTON, SC 29401 **************** Estate of: PAUL JOHN ZLOBA, JR. 2023-ES-10-1764 DOD: 08/30/23 Pers. Rep: JOSHUA CHRISTOPHER ZLOBA 3205 UPPER WYNNEWOOD PL. HERNDON, VA 20171 Atty: JOHN E. ROMANOSKY, JR., ESQ. ONE COOL BLOW ST., #201 CHARLESTON, SC 29403 ***************** Estate of: JENNIE LEE COOPER 2023-ES-10-1777 DOD: 08/05/23 Pers. Rep: LISA E. ALEXANDER 345 W. EL NORTE PKWY., #223 ESCONDIDO, CA 92026 Atty: THOMAS H. BRUSH, ESQ. 12 A CARRIAGE LN.

CHARLESTON, SC 29407 ***************** Estate of: LOUISE MCCOY STEVENS 2023-ES-10-1795 DOD: 08/20/23 Pers. Rep: ELIZABETH KALMAN 4061 O’HEAR AVE. NO. CHARLESTON, SC 29405 Atty: ROBERT W. HAINES, ESQ. 1092 JOHNNIE DODDS BLVD., #112 MT. PLEASANT, SC 29464 *****************

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: EDWARD JOSEPH BUTLER 2023-ES-10-0491 DOD: 07/11/22 Pers. Rep: BEVERLY LAVOI 13 BEVERLY RD. CHARLESTON, SC 29407 ************ Estate of: BRENDA M. HAYNER 2023-ES-10-1543 DOD: 01/29/23 Pers. Rep: ROBERT ASHLEY HAYNER 1917 DELMAR ST CHARLESTON, SC 29407 Atty: MARIA KIEHLING BREES, ESQ. 800 WAPPOO RD., #A CHARLESTON, SC 29407 ************ Estate of: ELIZABETH ELY SMYLIE 2023-ES-10-1707 DOD: 08/26/23 Pers. Rep: WILLIAM SHANNON SMYLIE 128 LOBLOLLY DR. PINE KNOLL SHORES, NC 28512 Atty: ANDREW E. RHEA, ESQ. 115 CHURCH ST. CHARLESTON, SC 29401 ************ Estate of: MICHAEL ANTHONY ALDRIDGE 2023-ES-10-1718 DOD: 05/24/23 Pers. Rep: GEORGE KEVIN ALDRIDGE 712 EAGLE VIEW DR. CHARLESTON, SC 29414 ************ Estate of: WILLIE ROGERS 2023-ES-10-1724 DOD: 08/08/23 Pers. Rep: FRANCENA W. ROGERS 1223 OAK CREST DR. CHARLESTON, SC 29412 ************ Estate of: WILLIAM DECATUR SONENBERG 2023-ES-10-1732 DOD: 08/25/23 Pers. Rep: MATTHEW K. KIZER 1405 PALMETTO BLVD. EDISTO ISLAND, SC 29438 Atty: F. PATRICIA SCARBOROUGH, ESQ. 115 CHURCH ST. CHARLESTON, SC 29401 ************ Estate of: HELEN ROSE 2023-ES-10-1733 DOD: 08/21/23 Pers. Rep: ROGER K. PREVOST 1314 WITTER ST. CHARLESTON, SC 29412 Atty: ROBERT S. DODDS, ESQ. 25 CALHOUN ST., #400 CHARLESTON, SC 29401 ************ Estate of: RALPH ERSKINE BLAKELY, JR. 2023-ES-10-1749 DOD: 08/31/23 Pers. Rep: ROBERT ANDREW WALDEN 5 EXCHANGE ST. CHARLESTON, SC 29401

NOTICE OF SALE 2022-CP-10-05204 STATE OF SOUTH CAROLINA COUNTY OF CHARLESTON IN THE COURT OF COMMON PLEAS YACHT HARBOR OWNERS ASSOCIATION, INC., Plaintiff, versus GREG A. SWINDELL, et al., Defendants.

Upon authority of an Order filed the 13th day of July, 2023, Mikell R. Scarborough, Master-in-Equity for Charleston County, will offer for sale to the highest bidder for cash, at public auction, the real property fully described below, in the COUNTY COUNCIL CHAMBERS, 4045 BRIDGE VIEW DRIVE, NORTH CHARLESTON, SOUTH CAROLINA, on the 7th day of November, 2023, at 11:00 a.m. or shortly thereafter. As the Plaintiff waived its right to a deficiency Judgment in the Complaint, the sale will be final.

The Quarter Ownership Interest, being Interest 306-B of YACHT HARBOR VILLAS HORIZONTAL PROPERTY REGIME. Said interest consisting of an undivided twenty-five (25%) interest in UNIT 306 as shown on the Plans and Specifications described in the Master Deed to YACHT HARBOR VILLAS HORIZONTAL PROPERTY REGIME, together with the exclusive right to occupy and possess UNIT 306 from 5:00 o’clock p.m. Eastern Standard Time on the first Sunday of each Occupancy Period assigned to the Quarter Ownership Interest in the Master Deed, and amendments and supplements thereto, until 11:00 o’clock a.m Eastern Standard Time on the last Sunday of each Quarter Ownership Occupancy Period. Such Quarter Ownership Interest is more particularly shown and described by reference to the Master Deed of said Horizontal Property Regime, said Master Deed being dated the 24th day of November, 1986, and recorded in the Register’s Office for Charleston County, South Carolina (“ROD”), in Deed Book R-159, Page 611, as amended and supplemented.

Being the same property conveyed to the Greg A. Swindell, Jacob H. Shiveler and Gloria A. Shiveler

by Deed of New Yacht Harbor Developers, a South Carolina General Partnership, dated September 8, 1988, and recorded in the ROD on December 21, 1988, in Book M-180, Page 664.

TMS#: 571-08-00-025 The property shall be sold subject to all covenants and restrictions of record, easements, rights-of-way, mortgages, taxes for 2023 and thereafter, The Master Deed for Yacht Harbor Villas Horizontal Property Regime, as amended, and other matters of record in the ROD. The property shall be sold for cash to the highest bidder. The highest bidder, other than the Plaintiff, will be required to deposit with the Master-in-Equity, at the conclusion of the bidding, cash or certified check in the amount of five (5%) percent of the bid: the said deposit to be applied to the purchase price.

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

The property is sold subject to taxes and assessments, existing easements, encumbrances and restrictions of record.

Mikell R. Scarborough, Master-in-Equity PLAINTIFFS’ ATTORNEY John J. Dodds, III (843) 881-6530

STATE OF SOUTH CAROLINA COUNTY OF CHARLESTON IN THE COURT OF COMMON PLEAS THE COMMONS HOMEOWNERS ASSOCIATION, INC., Plaintiff, versus JOHN BRADLEY FUND, LLC, a New York Limited Liability Company, Defendant.

Upon authority of an Order filed the 20th day of September, 2023, Mikell R. Scarborough, Masterin-Equity for Charleston County, will offer for sale to the highest bidder for cash, at public auction, the real property fully described below, in the COUNTY COUNCIL CHAMBERS, 4045 BRIDGE VIEW DRIVE, NORTH CHARLESTON, SOUTH CAROLINA, on the 7th day of November, 2023, at 11:00 a.m. or shortly thereafter. As the Plaintiff waived its right to a deficiency Judgment in the Complaint, the sale will be final.

ALL that certain parcel, piece or lot of land, with the buildings and improvements thereon, situate, lying and being located on the Isle of Palms, Charleston County, South Carolina, shown and designated as Lot 18, on a plat entitled “FINAL PLAT OF COMMONS COURT, LOTS 13 THROUGH 24, TRACT “E”, BLOCK “M-1”, WILD DUNES, CITY OF ISLE OF PALMS, CHARLESTON COUNTY, SOUTH CAROLINA”, dated November 10, 1992, and recorded on December 23, 1992, in Plat Book CK, at Page 180, in the Register’s Office for Charleston County, SC. Said lot having such size, shape, dimensions, buttings and boundings as will by reference to said plat more fully appear.

BEING the same property conveyed to John Bradley Fund, LLC, a New York Limited Liability Company by deed of Lorraine Pellegrini formerly known as Lorraine Porfido and Stanley Porfido, dated February 19, 2019, and recorded February 20, 2019, in Book 0778, at Page 525, in the Charleston County Register’s Office.

TMS # 604-08-00-150 Street Address: 18 Commons Court Isle of Palms, SC 29451 The property shall be sold subject to all covenants and restrictions of record, easements, rights-of-way, and other matters of record including a Notice of Lien in favor of Wild Dunes Community Association, Inc. in the original sum of $1,374.30 and delinquent taxes in the amount of $10,066.59 as of 09/12/23 which must be paid and the subject property redeemed from the Delinquent Tax Sale on or before 12/01/23. FAILURE TO REDEEM DELINQUENT TAXES WILL RESULT IN A TAX DEED TO THE TAX SALE PURCHASER AFTER 12/01/23.

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

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

PLAINTIFFS’ ATTORNEY John J. Dodds, III (843) 881-6530

STATE OF SOUTH CAROLINA COUNTY OF CHARLESTON IN THE PROBATE COURT CASE NO.: 2003-ES10-00602 IN THE MATTER OF: Roosevelt McCanick, Sr. Deceased Audrey Cochran, Petitioner, vs.

Dorene Green, Sandra Gilliard, Alexandria Middleton, Darrell McCanick, Arlene Seabrook and the Estate of Roosevelt McCanick, Jr., Tyrek Ward and Brittany Drayton, Respondents.

SUMMONS YOU ARE HEREBY SUMMONED and required to answer the Petition for Determination of Heirs in this action, a copy of which is herewith served upon you, and to serve a copy of your Answer to the said Petition on the Petitioner or her attorney Eduardo K. Curry, Esquire, at 6518-D Dorchester Road, P.O. Box 42270, North Charleston, South Carolina 29423, within thirty (30) days after the service hereof, exclusive of the day of such service, and if you fail to answer the Petition for Determination of Heirs with the time aforesaid, the Petitioner in this action will apply to the Court for the relief demanded in the Petition.

Dated this 7th day of March, 2023, at North Charleston, South Carolina.

RESPECTFULLY SUBMITTED, The Curry Law Firm, LLC Eduardo K. Curry, Esquire Cindy R. Pinckney Graham, Esquire 6518-D Dorchester Road P.O. Box 42270 North Charleston, SC 29423 843-767-5284 843-SOS-CASH 843-767-5286 (Fax) currylawfirm@bellsouth.net Attorney for Petitioner

Gilyard registered surveyor dated July 27, 1979 and recorded in book D120 at page 224 on August 24, 1979. Reference being craved to said plat to more completely and accurately determine the exact dimensions.

This being a portion fo the property conveyed to Prince Smalls by deed of Sara E. Grimball and Henry B. Grimball by deed dated February 10, 1905 and recorded in the Office of the Register of Deeds for Charleston, County on the 5th day of December 1906 in Deed Book D 22 at page 323.

TMS Numbers: 334-15-00-049 and 334-15-00-050 Property Address: Grimball Road Charleston, SC 29412.

A copy of the Complaint is herewith served upon you. You are summoned to serve a copy of your Answer to said Complaint upon Plaintiff’s attorney at: Dwell Legal, LLC, 460 King Street, Suite 200, Charleston, SC 29403, within thirty (30) days after service hereof, exclusive of the day of such service; except that the United States of America, if named shall sixty (60) days to answer after the service hereof; exclusive of the day of such service. If you fail to answer within the time aforesaid, the Plaintiff will apply to the Court for the relief requested in the Complaint.

TO MINOR(S) OVER FOURTEEN YEARS OF AGE AND 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 herein.

July 13, 2023

MORE CLASSIFIEDS ONLINE STATE OF SOUTH CAROLINA COUNTY OF CHARLESTON IN THE COURT OF COMMON PLEAS NINTH JUDICIAL CIRCUIT Case Number: 2023-CP-10-03397 Winifred Smalls Sanders Plaintiff VS. Prince Smalls, deceased, and John Doe collectively and all other firms a corporations entitled to claim under, by or through the abovenamed Defendants designated as a class “Jack Doe”; any and all unknown adults who may have claim to have any right, title, estate, designated Interest in or lien upon the real property as a class as “Jill Doe”; any persons who may be in the military service of the United States of America designated as a class as “Joseph Roe”; any unknown infants or persons under disability, including but not limited to minors designated as a class “Mary Roe”, Defendants SUMMONS TO THE ABOVE-NAMED DEFENDANTS: YOU ARE HEREBY SUMMONED and required to appear and defend by answering the Complaint in this quiet title action on property being described as follows: All that certain piece, parcel or lot of land described as Lot 3 and Lot 4 located on Grimball Road, County of Charleston on James Island, South Carolina and more clearly shown on a plat of property by W.L.

LIS PENDENS (Non-Jury) NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that an action has been commenced in the Court upon complaint of Plaintiff against Defendants, that said action is brought under the provisions of Section 15-53-10, et seq., (Known as the Uniform Declaratory Judgment Act), and Section 15-67-10, et seq. of the code of laws of the State of South Carolina, for the quieting of the title and for the purpose of obtaining a decree as to the ownership of property described in paragraph two (2) of the Complaint, and that none of these defendants known and unknown, or any persons claiming by, through or under them, or any of them had any right, title, interest, claim or state in or lien upon said property. That the property that is the subject of this action is described as follows: All that certain piece, parcel or lot of land described as Lot 3 and Lot 4 located on Grimball Road, County of Charleston on James Island, South Carolina and more clearly shown on a plat of property by W.L. Gilyard registered surveyor dated July 27, 1979 and recorded in book D120 at page 224 on August 24, 1979. Reference being craved to said plat to more completely and accurately determine the exact dimensions.

TMS: 334-15-00-049 and 33415-00-050 Property Address: Grimball Road, Charleston, SC 29412 July 13, 2023 ORDER APPOINTING GUARDIAN AD LITEM Upon reading and filing the within Petition for Appointment of a Guardian ad Litem, and after mature consideration of the same,

and it being made to appear to my satisfaction that it is necessary that a Guardian ad Litem be appointed to appear in this action and represent the interest of such Defendants as may be infants, incompetents or otherwise be under any disability, it is ORDERED that Kelvin Huger, Charleston, South Carolina, be and hereby appointed Guardian ad Litem for such of the Defendants herein who may be infants, incompetents or otherwise under disability, to appear here and represent their interest, it further ORDERED, that such appointment shall become absolute unless within thirty (30) days after the last publication of the Notice of Appointment of the Guardian ad Litem herein exclusive of such last day of publication, such Defendants, as may be infants, incompetents; or otherwise under such disability appear herein or someone appears in their behalf to procure the appointment of a Guardian ad Litem; it is further ORDERED, that a Notice of Appointment and the name and address of the person so appointed shall be sufficient publication of this Order.

AND IT IS SO ORDERED. CLERK OF COURT CHARLESTON COUNTY I SO MOVE: /s/ Charlene A. Green Charlene A. Green (SC Bar: 103174) Attorney for the Plaintiff 460 King Street, Suite 200 Charleston, SC 29403 Telephone: (803) 920-5677 Facsimile: (843) 800-8422 Email: charlene@dwell.legal Charleston, South Carolina July 13, 2023

PUBLIC AUCTION Extra Space Storage will hold a public auction to sell personal property described below belonging to those individuals listed below at the location indicated: Facility 2: 1904 Hwy 17 N. Mount Pleasant, SC 29464 11/01/23 10:15 AM Salome Grant Clothes, toys, shoes, furniture, bikes Facility 3: 1640 James Nelson Rd Mount Pleasant, SC 29464 11/01/23 10:20 AM

1426 Hwy 17 N. Mt. Pleasant, SC 11/01/23 10:40 AM

Alberta Green Household Goods

Antonio Robinson Unknown

Christopher Durante Chairs, Table, Stereo, Bags, Books, Boxes, Clothes, Shoes, Sports Equipment, Totes, Hand Tools, Shelves

Eneshia Jenkins Mattress

Anthony McNar Household items

Jessica Young Boxes bins living set

Jacquelyn Davis Household items

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.

Facility 5: 2118 Heriot St. Charleston, SC 29403 11/01/2023 1:00 PM

Darrah Madang 2BR apt, furniture, small appliances, electronics

SELL ANYTHING FOR $35 IN PRINT AND ONLINE CALL CRIS 577-5304 X127

PUBLIC AUCTION Extra Space Storage will hold a public auction to sell personal property described below belonging to those individuals listed below at the location indicated: Facility 1: 3510 Glenn McConnell Pkwy Charleston, SC 29414 11/01/2023 10:00 AM Maxicina Gadsden Couch, bed, furniture Tyronicia Richardson Furniture Facility 2: 2343 Savannah Hwy Charleston, SC 29414 11/01/2023 10:30 AM Daniel Eastman Carpentry Tools/ Household Items

Israel Broderick Clothes, boxes

Claudia Martins Dorm items

Facility 4: 1117 Bowman Rd. Mount Pleasant, SC 29464 11/01/23 10:25 AM

Facility 3: 1533 Ashley River Rd Charleston, SC 29407 11/01/2023 11:30 AM

Eric Frazier Tires, boxes

Lashonda Pugh Washer, Teens Dirt Bike, Fish Tank, boxes of personal items

Keith Williams Boxes, cloths, household items, tv Facility 5: 1471 Center Street Ext Mt. Pleasant, SC 11/01/23 10:30 AM Patrick Farrell Hand tools, power tools, totes, boxes Facility 6: 1514 Mathis Ferry Rd. Mt. Pleasant, SC 11/01/23 10:35 Deon Lincoln Household Goods/Furniture Facility 7:

Cedrick Smith Furniture and personal items Facility 4: 1861 Ashley River Rd. Charleston, SC 29407 11/01/2023 3:00 PM Stuart Irick Bedding, headboards, chairs, table, couch Timothy Scott Household Goods Erik Cole Apartment furniture electronics Erica Smith Household Goods

Deontae Prioleau Clothes, boxes, bed, tv

Tasheeka Chisolm Sofa, loveseat, queen bed, tv stand Laquinta Windley Household items

Facility 6: 1540 Meeting Street Rd Charleston, SC 29405 11/01/2023 12:45 PM

Katherine Williams Dresser, queen bed, clothing

Kamden Huckabee Tools/Appliances, Office Furn/ Machines/Equip

Professional Auto Detailing – Derrick Whaley Detail trailer and supplies

Jackson May Household Goods/Furniture, TV/ Stereo Equipment

Facility 13: 8850 Rivers Ave North Charleston, SC 29406 11/01/2023 2:00 PM Patricia Evans Household Items

Facility 7: 45 Grand Oaks Blvd Charleston, SC 29414 11/01/2023 1:45 PM Joseph Greene Household Goods Tyler Holliday Household Goods/Furniture Facility 8: 1951 Maybank Hwy. Charleston, SC 29412 11/01/2023 12:00 pm Debbi Driver Boxes Facility 9: 5146 Ashley Phosphate Road North Charleston SC 29418 11/01/2023 10:00 AM Nikki Taylor James Boxes, bags, Tv’s, 2 sets bedroom furniture, laptops and toys Percetia Green Household items, bed and dresser Janet Johnson Household furniture Jonathan Hamilton Clothing and furniture Brandi Goodman Clothes, washer and toys John Taber Household goods Susan Quattlebaum Luggage and belongings Karshawnda Simmons Sofa and king bed frame James Orvin Bikes and boxes Facility 10: 9670 Dorchester Road Summerville, SC 29485 11/01/2023 10:15 AM Adele Costa Totes of household items Michelle Wolfe 2 Bedroom Household items Facility 11: 3781 Ashley Phosphate Road North Charleston, SC 29418 11/01/2023 11:00 AM Shirley Bright Furniture, household Facility 12: 6941 Rivers Ave North Charleston, SC 29406 11/01/2023 1:30 PM Justice Sylve Furniture

Noah Montes Apartment furniture

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 IN THE COURT OF COMMON PLEAS Lakeview Loan Servicing, LLC, PLAINTIFF, vs.

Tonya E Collins; Nancy K Robertson, as Personal Representative of the Estate of Justin N Collins aka Justin Nathaniel Collins; VC, a minor; South Carolina Department of Motor Vehicles; Susan B. Fleck, DEFENDANT(S) SUMMONS AND NOTICE OF FILING OF COMPLAINT (NON-JURY MORTGAGE FORECLOSURE) C/A NO: 2023-CP-10-01251 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.

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 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: 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, were filed in the Office of the Clerk of Court on March 14, 2023 and the Amended Summons and Complaint were filed on August 17, 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. Hutchens Law Firm LLP

STATE OF SOUTH CAROLINA COUNTY OF CHARLESTON IN THE COURT OF COMMON PLEAS DOCKET NO. 2023CP1003934 Wells Fargo USA Holdings, Inc., Plaintiff, v.

Ray Porter; John W Porter; Debra P Gardner; Shonta Porter; Any Heirsat-Law or Devisees of John Porter, Deceased, their heirs, Personal Representatives, Administrators, Successors and Assigns, and all other persons entitled to claim through them; all unknown persons with any right, title or interest in the real estate described herein; also any persons who may be in the military service of the United States of America, being a class designated as John Doe; and any unknown minors or persons under a disability being a class designated as Richard Roe Any Heirs-at-Law or Devisees of Etta P Sanders, Deceased, their heirs, Personal Representatives, Administrators, Successors and Assigns, and all other persons entitled to claim through them; all unknown persons with any right, title or interest in the real estate described herein; also any persons who may be in the military service of the United States of America, being a class designated as John Doe; and any unknown minors or persons under a disability being a class designated as Richard Roe Defendant(s).

(013263-12620) SUMMONS

charlestoncitypaper.com

NOTICE OF SALE 2022-CP-10-05309

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Deficiency Judgment Waived TO THE DEFENDANT(S): Ray Porter, Any Heirs-at-Law or Devisees of John Porter, Deceased, their heirs, Personal Representatives, Administrators, Successors and Assigns, and all other persons entitled to claim through them; all unknown persons with any right, title or interest in the real estate described herein; also any persons who may be in the military service of the United States of America, being a class designated as John Doe; and any unknown minors or persons under a disability being a class designated as Richard Roe Any Heirs-at-Law or Devisees of Etta P Sanders, Deceased, their heirs, Personal Representatives, Administrators, Successors and Assigns, and all other persons entitled to claim through them; all unknown persons with any right, title or interest in the real estate described herein; also any persons who may be in the military service of the United States of America, being a class designated as John Doe; and any unknown minors or persons under a disability being a class designated as Richard Roe YOU ARE HEREBY SUMMONED and required to appear and defend by answering the Complaint in this foreclosure action on property located at 7417 Hwy 162, Hollywood, SC 29449, being designated in the County tax records as TMS# 126-00-00-077, of which a copy is herewith served upon you, and to serve a copy of your Answer on the subscribers at their offices, 1221 Main Street, 14th Floor, Post Office Box 100200, Columbia, South Carolina, 292023200, within thirty (30) days after the service hereof, exclusive of the day of such service; except that the United States of America, if named, shall have sixty (60) days to answer after the service hereof, exclusive of the day of such service; and if you fail to do so, judgment by default will be rendered against you for the relief demanded in the Complaint.

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

NOTICE

Classifieds 10.13.2023

TO THE DEFENDANTS ABOVE NAMED: YOU WILL PLEASE TAKE NOTICE that the Summons and Complaint, of which the foregoing is a copy of the Summons, were filed with the Clerk of Court for Charleston County, South Carolina on August 14, 2023.

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s/Brian P. Yoho Rogers Townsend, LLC ATTORNEYS FOR PLAINTIFF John J. Hearn (SC Bar # 6635), John.Hearn@rogerstownsend.com Brian P. Yoho (SC Bar #73516), Brian.Yoho@rogerstownsend.com Jeriel A. Thomas (SC Bar #101400) Jeriel.Thomas@rogerstownsend. com 1221 Main Street, 14th Floor Post Office Box 100200 (29202) Columbia, SC 29201 (803) 744-4444 ORDER APPOINTING GUARDIAN AD LITEM NISI It appearing to the satisfaction of the Court, upon reading the Motion for the appointment of Ian C. Gohean as Guardian Ad

Litem Nisi for any unknown minors and persons who may be under a disability, it is ORDERED that, pursuant to Rule 17, SCRCP, Ian C. Gohean, be and hereby is appointed Guardian Ad Litem Nisi on behalf of all unknown minors and all unknown persons under a disability, all of whom may have or may claim to have some interest in or claim to the real property commonly known as 7417 Hwy 162, Hollywood, SC 29449; that Ian C. Gohean is empowered and directed to appear on behalf of and represent said Defendant(s), unless the said Defendant(s), or someone on their behalf, shall within thirty (30) days after service of a copy hereof as directed, procure the appointment of a Guardian or Guardians Ad Litem for the said Defendant(s), and it is FURTHER ORDERED that a copy of this Order shall forthwith be served upon the said Defendant(s) Any Heirs-at-Law or Devisees of John Porter, Deceased, their heirs, Personal Representatives, Administrators, Successors and Assigns, and all other persons entitled to claim through them; all unknown persons with any right, title or interest in the real estate described herein; also any persons who may be in the military service of the United States of America, being a class designated as John Doe; and any unknown minors or persons under a disability being a class designated as Richard Roe, Any Heirs-at-Law or Devisees of Etta P Sanders, Deceased, their heirs, Personal Representatives, Administrators, Successors and Assigns, and all other persons entitled to claim through them; all unknown persons with any right, title or interest in the real estate described herein; also any persons who may be in the military service of the United States of America, being a class designated as John Doe; and any unknown minors or persons under a disability being a class designated as Richard Roe, .by publication thereof in the Charleston City Paper, a newspaper of general circulation in the County of Charleston, State of South Carolina, once a week for three (3) consecutive weeks, together with the Summons in the above entitled action. sJulie J Armstrong, Clerk of Court

by BLC Clerk of Court/Judge for Charleston County Charleston, South Carolina 9/20/2023 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 John Porter and Betty Porter to Wells Fargo Financial South Carolina, Inc dated January 13, 2006, and recorded in the Office of the RMC/ROD for Charleston County on January 18, 2006, in Mortgage Book Y569 at Page 419. Wells Fargo USA Holdings, Inc. is successor by merger to Wells Fargo Financial South Carolina, Inc. The premises covered and affected by the said mortgage and by the foreclosure thereof were, at the time of the making thereof and at the time of the filing of this notice, described as follows: ALL THAT CERTAIN PIECE, OR TRACT OF LAND SITUATE LYING AND BEING IN ST PAUL PARRISH NUMBER 23 CONTAINING ONE (1) ACRE MORE OR LESS AND BEING A PORTION OF THE THREE (3) ACRES CONVEYED TO ISAIAH PORTER AND GEORGE JONES BY FRANK NESBITT, ET AL BY DEED DATED July 5 1954 AND DULY RECORDED IN THE R M C OFFICE IN DEED BOOK S-60 AT PAGE 335 THIS INTEREST IN SAID PROPERTY IS ACQUIRED

BY ME FROM GEORGE JONES BY DEED DATED AUGUST 13, 1966

AND DULY RECORDED IN THE R M C OFFICE FOR CHARLESTON COUNTY IN DEED BOOK E88 AT PAGE 100 CONTAINING THE FOLLOWING METES AND BOUNDS BEGINNING AT I P ON NORTHWEST CORNER ON THE RIGHT OF WAY OF SOUTH CAROLINA HIGHWAY #162, NORTH 70°30 EAST AND RUNNING FOR A DISTANCE OF ONE HUNDRED (100’) FEET, THENCE RUNNING SOUTH 11° 30’ EAST FOR A DISTANCE OF FOUR HUNDRED (400) FEET TO I P , THENCE RUNNING SOUTH 75 WEST FOR A DISTANCE OF ONE HUNDRED EIGHTEEN (118’) FEET TO I P THENCE RUNNING NORTH 7° 30’ WEST FOR A DISTANCE OF FOUR HUNDRED (400’) FEET TO A POINT OF BEGINNING THESE METES AND BOUNDS ARE MORE SPECIFICALLY SHOWN ON A PLAT OF TWO LOTS IN ST PAUL PARRISH OF I PORTER AND LEON MUNGIN (MUNGEN)

BY LEMUEL W BOYKIN, JR REG C E AND L S #324, AND DATED AUGUST 8 1966 This being the same property conveyed to John Porter by deed of Isaiah Porter dated January 27, 1967 and recorded January 28, 1967 in Deed book D87 at page 87 and by deed of Leon Mungin (Mungen) dated April 1, 1968 and recorded April 3, 1968 in Deed Book Z89 at page 387 in the office of the Charleston County Register of Deeds. Subsequently, John Porter died July 30, 2020 leaving the subject property to his heirs or devisees, namely, Ray Porter, John W Porter, Debra P Gardner, Etta P Sanders, and Shonta Porter.

Subsequently, Etta P Sanders died March 18, 2023 leaving her interest in the subject property to her heirs or devisees.

Property Address: 7417 Hwy 162 Hollywood, SC 29449 TMS/PIN# TMS# 126-0000-077 /s/Jeriel A. Thomas Rogers Townsend, LLC ATTORNEYS FOR PLAINTIFF John J. Hearn (SC Bar # 6635), John.Hearn@rogerstownsend.com Brian P. Yoho (SC Bar #73516), Brian.Yoho@rogerstownsend.com Jeriel A. Thomas (SC Bar #101400) Jeriel.Thomas@rogerstownsend. com 1221 Main Street, 14th Floor Post Office Box 100200 (29202) Columbia, SC 29201 (803) 744-4444

STATE OF SOUTH CAROLINA COUNTY OF CHARLESTON IN THE COURT OF COMMON PLEAS DOCKET NO. 2023CP1002192 Wells Fargo Bank, N.A., Plaintiff, v.

Kimmi Mechelle James, Individually; LVNV Funding, LLC GE Capital Retail Bank Kimmi Mechelle James as Personal Representative of the Estates of Alex Zander James and Virginia Irene James; Defendant(s).

(013263-12568) SUMMONS Deficiency Judgment Waived TO THE DEFENDANT(S), Kimmi Mechelle James as Personal Representative of the Estates of Alex Zander James and Virginia Irene James: YOU ARE HEREBY SUMMONED and required to appear and defend by answering the Complaint in this foreclosure action on property located at 7831 Peppercorn Ln, North Charleston, SC 29420-7708, being designated in the County tax records as TMS# 3950600029, of which a copy is herewith served upon you, and to serve a copy of your Answer on the subscribers

at their offices, 1221 Main Street, 14th Floor, Post Office Box 100200, Columbia, South Carolina, 292023200, within thirty (30) days after the service hereof, exclusive of the day of such service; except that the United States of America, if named, shall have sixty (60) days to answer after the service hereof, exclusive of the day of such service; and if you fail to do so, judgment by default will be rendered against you for the relief demanded in the Complaint.

TO MINOR(S) OVER FOURTEEN YEARS OF AGE AND/OR 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 upon you. If you fail to do so, application for such appointment will be made by the Plaintiff(s) herein.

NOTICE TO THE DEFENDANTS ABOVE NAMED: YOU WILL PLEASE TAKE NOTICE that the Summons and Complaint, of which the foregoing is a copy of the Summons, were filed with the Clerk of Court for Charleston County, South Carolina on July 18, 2023. s/Brian P. Yoho Rogers Townsend, LLC ATTORNEYS FOR PLAINTIFF John J. Hearn (SC Bar # 6635), John.Hearn@rogerstownsend.com Brian P. Yoho (SC Bar #73516), Brian.Yoho@rogerstownsend.com Jeriel A. Thomas (SC Bar #101400) Jeriel.Thomas@rogerstownsend. com 1221 Main Street, 14th Floor Post Office Box 100200 (29202) Columbia, SC 29201 (803) 744-4444 Columbia, South Carolina

STATE OF SOUTH CAROLINA COUNTY OF CHARLESTON IN THE COURT OF COMMON PLEAS CASE NO. 2023-CP-10-04417 Specialized Loan Servicing LLC, PLAINTIFF, VS. Brittany Anne Fisher a/k/a Brittany A. Fisher; and Joshua Peter Aronson a/k/a Joshua P. Aronson, DEFENDANT(S).

SUMMONS AND NOTICE OF FILING OF COMPLAINT (231091.00119) TO THE DEFENDANTS BRITTANY ANNE FISHER A/K/A BRITTANY A. FISHER; AND JOSHUA PETER ARONSON A/K/A JOSHUA P. ARONSON ABOVE NAMED: YOU ARE HEREBY SUMMONED and required to answer the Complaint in the above entitled action, copy of which is herewith served upon you, and to serve copy of your answer upon the undersigned at their offices, 2712 Middleburg Drive, Suite 200, P.O. Box 2065, Columbia, South Carolina 29202, within thirty (30) days after service hereof upon you, exclusive of the day of such service, and if you fail to answer the Complaint within the time aforesaid, the Plaintiff in this action will apply to the Court for the relief demanded in the Complaint, and judgment by default will be rendered against you for the relief demanded in the Complaint.

YOU WILL ALSO TAKE NOTICE that should you fail to Answer the foregoing Summons, the Plaintiff will move for a general Order of Reference of this cause to the Master in Equity for 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 September 8, 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 CASE NO. 2023-CP-10-03778 JPMorgan Chase Bank, National Association, PLAINTIFF, VS. Israel Stone, Jr., as Personal Representative of the Estate of Brenda Comfort Holloway a/k/a Brenda R. Comfort Holloway a/k/a Brenda R. Holloway a/k/a Brenda R. Comfort a/k/a Brenda R. Comfort-Holloway a/k/a Brenda Rivers Comfort a/k/a Brenda Joyce Rivers Comfort, Deceased; Kimberly C. Middleton a/k/a Kimberly Middleton, Individually, as Legal Heir or Devisee of the Estate of Brenda Comfort Holloway a/k/a Brenda R. Comfort Holloway a/k/a Brenda R. Holloway a/k/a Brenda R. Comfort a/k/a Brenda R. Comfort-Holloway a/k/a Brenda Rivers Comfort a/k/a Brenda Joyce Rivers Comfort, Deceased; Makayla Middleton a/k/a MaKayla Imani Middleton, Individually, as Legal Heir or Devisee of the Estate of Brenda Comfort Holloway a/k/a Brenda R. Comfort Holloway a/k/a Brenda R. Holloway a/k/a Brenda R. Comfort a/k/a Brenda R. Comfort-Holloway a/k/a Brenda Rivers Comfort a/k/a Brenda Joyce Rivers Comfort, Deceased; Alfred Comfort, III a/k/a Alfred Comfort, Individually, as Legal Heir or Devisee of the Estate of Brenda Comfort Holloway a/k/a Brenda R. Comfort Holloway a/k/a Brenda R. Holloway a/k/a Brenda R. Comfort a/k/a Brenda R. Comfort-Holloway a/k/a Brenda Rivers Comfort a/k/a Brenda Joyce Rivers Comfort, Deceased; South Carolina Federal Credit Union; and Bank of America, N.A., DEFENDANT(S).

SUMMONS AND NOTICE OF FILING OF COMPLAINT (230268.00014) TO THE DEFENDANT ALFRED COMFORT, III A/K/A ALFRED COMFORT, INDIVIDUALLY,

AS LEGAL HEIR OR DEVISEE OF THE ESTATE OF BRENDA COMFORT HOLLOWAY A/K/A BRENDA R. COMFORT HOLLOWAY A/K/A BRENDA R. HOLLOWAY A/K/A BRENDA R. COMFORT A/K/A BRENDA R. COMFORT-HOLLOWAY A/K/A BRENDA RIVERS COMFORT A/K/A BRENDA JOYCE RIVERS COMFORT, DECEASED ABOVE NAMED: YOU ARE HEREBY SUMMONED and required to answer the Complaint in the above entitled action, copy of which is herewith served upon you, and to serve copy of your answer upon the undersigned at their offices, 2712 Middleburg Drive, Suite 200, P.O. Box 2065, Columbia, South Carolina 29202, within thirty (30) days after service hereof upon you, exclusive of the day of such service, and if you fail to answer the Complaint within the time aforesaid, the Plaintiff in this action will apply to the Court for the relief demanded in the Complaint, and judgment by default will be rendered against you for the relief demanded in the Complaint.

YOU WILL ALSO TAKE NOTICE that should you fail to Answer the foregoing Summons, the Plaintiff will move for a general Order of Reference of this cause to the Master in Equity for 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 3, 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 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

NOTICE OF SALE Docket No. 2022-CP-10-2419 By virtue of a Decree of the Court of Common Pleas for Charleston County, heretofore granted in the case of Grove Park at Grand Oaks Plantation Property Owners Association, Inc., Plaintiff, against Melissa Davis, individually and as personal representative of Estate of John Henry Fowlkes, Defendant; I, the undersigned Master-in-Equity for Charleston County, will sell on November 7, 2023 at 11:00 o’clock a.m., at the County Council Chambers, Public Services Building,

4045 Bridge View Drive, North Charleston, South Carolina, to the highest bidder, the following described property, to wit: All that certain Unit 1106 Grove Park Drive, established by Grove Park at Grand Oaks Plantation Horizontal Property Regime established by Master Deed dated July 14, 2003 and recorded July 14, 2003 in the RMC Office for Charleston County in Book E457 at Page 533, and further, by First Amendment to the Master Deed of Grove Park at Grand Oaks Plantation: a Horizontal Property Regime dated October 30, 2003 and recorded in the RMC Office for Charleston County on October 31, 2003 and recorded in Book W473 at Page 330; and further, by the Second Amendment to the Master Deed of Grove Park at Grand Oaks Plantation - Horizontal Property Regime dated February 16, 2004 and recorded in the RMC Office for Charleston County on February 17, 2004 in Book F484 at Page 675; and further, by the Third Amendment to the Master Deed of Grove Park at Grand Oaks Plantation Horizontal Property Regime dated March 23, 2004 and recorded in the RMC Office for Charleston County on March 23, 2004 in Book N488 at Page 832; and further by the Fourth Amendment to the Master Deed of Grove Park at Grand Oaks Plantation Horizontal Property Regime dated May 13, 2004 and recorded in the RMC Office for Charleston County in Book K494 at Page 251; and further, by the Fifth Amendment to the Master Deed of Grove Park at Grand Oaks Plantation Horizontal Property Regime dated August 30, 2004 and filed in the RMC Office for Charleston County in Book R507 at Page 317 and further, by the Sixth Amendment to the Master Deed of Grove Park at Grand Oaks Plantation Horizontal Property Regime dated October 26, 2004 and filed in the Amendment to the Master Deed of Grove Park at Grand Oaks Plantation Horizontal Property Regime dated December 17, 2004 and filed in the RMC Office for Charleston County in Book O519 at Page 882; and further by the Eighth Amendment to the Master Deed of Grove Park at Grand Oaks Plantation Horizontal Property Regime dated March 30, 2005 and filed in the RMC Office for Charleston County in Book C531 at Page 58; and further by the Ninth Amendment to the Master Deed of Grove Park at Grand Oaks Plantation Horizontal Property Regime dated May 18, 2005 and filed in the RMC Office for Charleston County in Book F537 at Page 397; and further by the Tenth Amendment to the Master Deed of Grove Park at Grand Oaks Plantation Horizontal Property Regime dated June 17, 2005 and filed in the RMC Office for Charleston County in Book G541 at Page 204, and further by the Eleventh Amendment to the Master Deed of Grove Park at Grand Oaks Plantation Horizontal Property Regime dated July 29, 2005 and filed in the RMC Office for Charleston County in Book U547 at Page 814, and further, by the Twelfth Amendment to the Master Deed of Grove Park at Grand Oaks Plantation Horizontal Property Regime dated September 9, 2005 and filed in the RMC Office for Charleston County in Book D553 at Page 224, and further, by the Thirteenth Amendment to the Master Deed of Grove Park at Grand Oaks Plantation Horizontal Property Regime dated October 19, 2005 and filed in the RMC Office for Charleston County in Book O558 at Page 810.

Subject to all the provisions of aforesaid Master Deed and Exhibits and Amendments thereto, including but not limited to, easements and other reservations saved and excepted in Exhibit “A” to said Master Deed and any amendments to said Master Deed, if any.

Subject to the Charter end ByLaws of Grande Oaks Boulevard Association, Inc., as established and imposed by Amended and restated Declaration of Covenants and Restrictions - Grand Oaks Plantation dated March 30, 2000 and recorded in the RMC Office for Charleston County in Book M345, Page 573.

This conveyance is made subject to any and all existing reservations, easements, rights-of-way, zoning ordinances, and restrictive or protective covenants that appear of record or that may be discerned by inspection of the premises.

This being the same property conveyed to John H. Fowlkes by deed of ROBAGU LLC, dated May 8, 2018 and recorded May 30, 2018 with the Charleston County ROD Office in Book 0722 at Page 118.

TMS No.: 301-00-00-455 Property Address: 1106 Grove Park Drive Charleston, SC 29414 TERMS OF SALE: FOR CASH: The Master-in-Equity will require a deposit of Five (5%) Percent of the amount of bid (in cash or equivalent), same to be applied on the purchase price only upon compliance with the bid, but in case of non-compliance within thirty (30) days after the date of the sale, same to be forfeited and applied to costs and the property re-advertised for sale upon the same terms at the risk of the former highest bidder.

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

The sale shall be subject to that certain mortgage lien held by Mortgage Electronic Registration Systems, Inc., solely as nominee for USAA Federal Savings Bank, in the original amount of $175,609.00, dated May 10, 2018, and recorded May 30, 2018, in Book 0722 at Page 120 with the Charleston County Register of Deeds.

Any sale pursuant to this order is without warranty of any kind.

Neither Plaintiff nor Court warrant title to any third-party purchaser.

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

See Ex parte Keller, 185 S.C. 283, 194 S.E. 15 (1937); Wells Fargo Bank, NA v. Turner, 378 S.C. 147, 662 S.E.2d 424 (Ct. App. 2008) Purchaser shall pay for all costs of recording the deed.

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

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

NOTICE OF SALE Docket No. 2022-CP-10-1861 By virtue of a Decree of the Court of Common Pleas for Charleston County, heretofore granted in the case of Woodhill Place Association, Inc. a/k/a Woodhill Place HOA and Woodhill Place Horizontal Property Regime, Plaintiffs,

ALL that certain Unit situate, lying and being in Charleston County, South Carolina, known and designated as Unit Number 106 in Woodhill Place Horizontal Property Regime, as shown on the Plans and Specifications attached to the Master Deed of Woodhill Place Horizontal Property Regime, dated August 28, 1984 and recorded in Book G140, at page 282, together with the Amendments thereto, in the RMC Office for Charleston County, South Carolina. Together with the undivided parentage interest in the General Common Elements of the property described in Section 1 of Article 4 of said Master Deed appurtenant thereto.

SUBJECT to any and all restrictions, covenants, conditions, easements, rights of way, and all other matters affecting subject property, of record in the Office of the RMC for Charleston County, South Carolina.

BEING the same property conveyed to Madie Shephard by deed of James S. Bailey, dated December 17, 2014 and recorded December 30, 2014 in the RMC Office for Charleston County in Book 0448 at Page 857.

TMS No.: 475-16-00-092 Property Address: 6297 Rolling Fork Road, Unit F North Charleston, SC 29406 TERMS OF SALE: FOR CASH: The Master-in-Equity will require a deposit of Five (5%) Percent of the amount of bid (in cash or equivalent), same to be applied on the purchase price only upon compliance with the bid, but in case of non-compliance within thirty (30) days after the date of the sale, same to be forfeited and applied to costs and the property re-advertised for sale upon the same terms at the risk of the former highest bidder.

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

The sale shall be subject to that certain mortgage lien held by South Carolina Federal Credit Union in the original amount of $55,200.00, dated December 17, 2014, and recorded December 30, 2014, in Book 0448 at Page 858 with the Charleston County Register of Deeds.

Any sale pursuant to this order is without warranty of any kind.

Neither Plaintiff nor Court warrant title to any third-party purchaser.

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

See Ex parte Keller, 185 S.C. 283, 194 S.E. 15 (1937); Wells Fargo Bank, NA v. Turner, 378 S.C. 147, 662 S.E.2d 424 (Ct. App. 2008) Purchaser shall pay for all costs of recording the deed.

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

Mikell R. Scarborough

Attorney for the Plaintiff Derek F. Dean Simons & Dean 147 Wappoo Creek Drive, Suite 604 Charleston, SC 29412

MASTER’S SALE CASE NO. 2023-CP-10-00314 STATE OF SOUTH CAROLINA COUNTY OF CHARLESTON IN THE COURT OF COMMON PLEAS

BY VIRTUE of a Decree of the Circuit Court for Charleston County, South Carolina, heretofore granted in the case of REV Federal Credit Union f/k/a Heritage Trust Federal Credit Union, vs. Craig D. Wulff; Shannan M. Wulff; South Carolina Federal Credit Union; South Carolina Department of Revenue; and Canterbury Woods Community Association, Inc., I the undersigned Master-in-Equity for Charleston County, South Carolina or my agent, will sell on 7th day of November, 2023, at 11:00 A.M., in the County Council Chambers, Second Floor of the Lonnie Hamilton, III Public Services Building, 4045 Bridge View Drive, North Charleston, South Carolina, to the highest bidder, the following described property, to wit: All that certain lot, piece or parcel of land, situate, lying and being in St. Andrews Parish, County of Charleston, State of South Carolina, known and designated as Lot 9, Block B, Canterbury Woods Subdivision, Phase IIIA, as shown on a plat thereof by Delta Surveying, dated April 24, 1989 and bearing legend “Final Plat Canterbury Woods- Phase III-A, St. Andrews Parish, Charleston County, SC,” recorded in the RMC Office for Charleston County in Plat Book BW at page 60, and having such size, shape, dimensions, buttings and boundings as will be shown by reference to said plat, which said plat is hereby craved for a more full and complete description.

BEING the same property conveyed to Craig D. Wulff and Shannan M. Wulff herein by deed of Natalie M. Sullivan and Martin Edward Sullivan, dated January 15, 2008, and recorded in the RMC Office for Charleston County on January 16, 2008 in Book X648 at Page 771.

TMS # 355-08-00-166 SUBJECT TO ASSESSMENTS, CHARLESTON COUNTY TAXES, EASEMENTS AND/ OR RESTRICTIONS OF RECORD, AND OTHER SENIOR ENCUMBRANCES, IF ANY. TERMS OF SALE: The successful bidder, other than the Plaintiff, will deposit with the Master-In-Equity or his agent, at the conclusion of the bidding, five (5%) percent of the bid, in cash or equivalent, as evidence of good faith, same to be applied to purchase price in case of compliance, but to be forfeited and applied first to costs and then to Plaintiff’s debt in the case of noncompliance. Should the last and highest bidder fail or refuse to make the required deposit at the time of the bid or comply with the other terms of the bid within twenty (30) days, then the Master-In-Equity or his agent may resell the property on the same terms and conditions on some subsequent Sales day at the risk of the said highest bidder.

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

Purchaser shall pay for the preparation of the Deed, documentary stamps on the Deed, recording of the Deed, and interest on the amount of the bid from

date of sale to date of compliance with the bid at the judgment rate of interest.

As a deficiency judgment is being demanded, the bidding will remain open for thirty (30) days after the date of the sale, on November 7, 2023, as provided by law. THE PLAINTIFF RESERVES THE RIGHT TO WAIVE DEFICIENCY UP TO SEVEN (7) DAYS PRIOR TO THE SALE. If Plaintiff or its representative does not appear at the scheduled sale of the above-described property, then the sale of the property will be null, void and of no force and effect. In such event, the sale will be rescheduled for the next available sales day.

Judge Mikell R. Scarborough Master-In-Equity for Charleston County Charleston, South Carolina August 16, 2023 SMITH DEBNAM NARRON DRAKE SAINTSING & MYERS, LLP s/ J. Ronald Jones, Jr., (SC Bar No. 66091) 171 Church Street, Suite 120C (29401) Post Office Box 22795 Charleston, SC 29413 Telephone: (843) 714-2533 Email: rjones@smithdebnamlaw. com ATTORNEYS FOR THE PLAINTIFF

of the bid within thirty (30) days, then the Master in Equity or his designee may resell the property on the same terms and conditions on some subsequent date to be determined by the Court, at the risk of the said highest bidder.

As Plaintiff expressly reserves the right to have the proceeds from the sale applied to the outstanding balance of its Judgment, with any unpaid balance thereof remaining as a personal judgment against James C. Hughes, III, Robert Hughes, and Russell Hughes, the bidding will remain open for thirty (30) days after the sale, unless waived by the Plaintiff, in writing, prior to the sale.

Purchaser to pay for preparation of the judicial Deed(s), any documentary stamps on the Deed(s), recording of the Deed(s), and interest on the balance of the bid from the date of sale to the date of compliance with the bid at the rate of 11.50% per annum.

Lawrence M. Hershon, Esq. The Hershon Law Firm, P.A. 1565 Sam Rittenberg Blvd.

Suite 103 Charleston, SC (843) 829-2022 Attorney for the Plaintiff

LOCAL · LOW FEES · GREAT EVENTS

MARGARET RENKL THE COMFORT OF CROWS BOOK SIGNING AND TALK

Wednesday, October 18 5:30 p.m. at Blue Bicycle Books

RECYCLE THIS PAPER

NOTICE OF SALE

BY VIRTUE of the Order heretofore granted in the case of:

NOTICE OF SERVICE OF PROCESS

BY PUBLICATION

Wayne Gable, as Trustee for CPSI 401K against James C. Hughes, III, Robert Hughes, and Russell Hughes,

State of North Carolina County of Forsyth In the District Court

Case No. 2023-CP-10-02137, pending in Charleston County Circuit Court, the undersigned as Master in Equity, or his designee, will offer for sale at public auction at the County Council Chambers, 4045 Bridge View Drive, North Charleston, South Carolina, on Tuesday, November 7, 2023, at 11:00 a.m., the following-described property, to-wit: ALL that certain piece, parcel or lot of land, together with the buildings and improvements thereon, situate, lying and being on Edisto Island, County of Charleston and State of South Carolina, more particularly described as a total of 1.40 Acres, more or less, on “PLAT OF THE SUBDIVISION OF A 4.80 AC. TRACT LOCATED ON S.C. HWY. NO. 174 & COWPENS RD. EDISTO ISLAND, CHARLESTON CO., S.C.” by Sigma Engineers, Inc., dated July 21, 1975 and recorded in the RMC Office for Charleston County in Plat Book W at Page 5, said plat being made a part and parcel hereof by reference thereto.

TO: David Wesley Laing, Respondent Take notice that a pleading seeking relief against you has been filed in the above-entitled juvenile action. The nature of the relief being sought is the termination of your parental rights in and to Minor Boy Lee Nomura Laing, born on August 31, 2014 in Charleston County, South Carolina. A court order from the District Court of Forsyth County directing that service of process on you take place by publication was entered on September 18, 2023.

You must answer or otherwise respond to the pleading within forty (40) days of the date of the first publication of this Notice. If you fail to answer or otherwise respond on or before November 22, 2023 your parental rights in and to the juvenile referred to above may be terminated.

If you are indigent and not already represented by appointed counsel, you are entitled to appointed counsel in this matter, and to that end, provisional counsel has been appointed for you in this matter, and the appointment of provisional counsel shall be reviewed (including the issue of whether to release such provisional counsel if you do not appear) by the court at the first hearing after service of process in this matter.

You are advised to IMMEDIATELY contact the Clerk of Court of Forsyth County, at (336) 7796300, to obtain further information about this case, including a copy of the pleading filed herein, the name, address and telephone number of provisional counsel appointed in this matter. A Pre-Trial Hearing and Termination of Parental Rights Hearing will be held following service of process on you or as otherwise ordered by the Court.

Being the same property conveyed to James C. Hughes, III by deed of Oyster Factory Road, LLC dated October 23, 2019 and recorded on November 1, 2019 in the ROD Office for Charleston County in Deed Book 0836 at Page 017.

TMS No.: 076-00-00-177 Property Address: 1084 Highway 174 Edisto Island, SC 29438 SUBJECT TO CHARLESTON COUNTY TAXES AND ASSESSMENTS. TERMS OF SALE: The successful bidder, other than the Plaintiff, will deposit with the Court, at the conclusion of the bidding, five (5%) percent of the bid, in cash or its equivalent, as evidence of good faith, same to be applied to the purchase price only in case of compliance with the bid, but to be forfeited and applied first to costs and then to Plaintiff’s debt in the case of non-compliance. Should the last and highest bidder fail or refuse to make the required deposit at the time of the bid or to comply with the other terms

In RE LAING, A Minor Juvenile File Number 23-JT-72

First published this the 13th day of October, 2023.

Publication Dates: 10/13/23, 10/20/23, 10/27/23, Attorney Dana J. Wilson for Petitioner 1066 W. Fourth St., # 101 Winston-Salem, NC 27101 Telephone: (336) 842-5146

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Don’t miss the Park Circle Art Walk The Park Circle neighborhood of North Charleston has been annually transformed since 2020 into a largescale art exhibition. Check out artwork on display in front yards and parks from 11 a.m. to 5 p.m. Oct. 14. For more details, morganserrenoeast.com/parkcircle-art-walk. —Chloe Hogan

Jeremy Croft shows Lazy Boy at Hed Hi

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Multimedia artist Luke Jones presents a series of paintings at Public Works Art Center titlted Strange Paradise, inspired by dreams, childhood, the unreliability of memories and the constant fluctuation of identity

Artist Luke Jones presents Strange Paradise

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“Enter if you dare” reads the sign on the door into Luke Jones’ exhibition at Public Works Art Center (PWAC) in Summerville.

In the small, black gallery space, once the vault of the former post office building which PWAC now calls home, Jones shows an exhibition through Nov. 11 called Strange Paradise.

In the exhibition, monsters in the dark are brought to light. Fragments of Jones’ identity — as an individual, as an American, as an artist — are splayed out and investigated. Dreams and memories serve as the primary reference material in his work, especially those from childhood.

For Jones, the way those memories, and the person who remembers them, change over time is endlessly interesting to explore.

The works in this exhibition were created over a number of years. Jones started many during the collectively isolating period of the 2020 Covid-induced lockdown, with others dating back to 2018, when Jones had moved to Charleston from his native Pennsylvania with a partner. When they broke up just before the lockdown, he found himself suddenly alone in a strange new place.

“Before this work, so much of my inspira-

tion was coming from the exterior world.

I was always doing portraits of friends, of people I meet,” Jones said.

A portrait called “Ted,” for example, has text across the figure’s protruding forehead. The words are taken from a voicemail which the real-life Ted left for Jones: “I’ll do something violent if I can do it heartily unto the Lord.”

With one brown, realistically human eye and one unpainted clay eye, the work is a portrait of a man. But it’s a self-portrait, too: of Jones’ memory and understanding of Ted, pitched somewhere between amusement and worried compassion.

“This transition happened in the work when I had moved to Charleston, and I had just gone through this breakup,” Jones said.

“I didn’t really know many people. I was very isolated, and so I started to look inside for inspiration, looking deeper and deeper.”

One of the largest works in the show, “Emotional Anatomy” gives the viewer a hint on how they might think about his work: Red and white eyes and mouths with scattered teeth take over the subject’s head, imploring the viewer to consider the many pieces of one’s constantly changing identity, and its influence on our understanding of the world and the people around us.

In his solo exhibition at Hed Hi Studio, painter Jeremy Croft depicts an array of life-sized chairs painted in oil and acrylic. An opening reception will take place from 6 p.m. to 10 p.m. Oct. 14 at Hed Hi Studio on King Street with music by Mechanical River. This event is open to the public. The work is available by appointment until Oct. 21.

Check out @hedhistudio on Instagram for more. —CH

The Destinators set for first headline show Head to Charleston Pour House and watch local band The Destinators headline an Oct. 17 show with Sensamotion as the opening act.

The Destinators, an energetic and infectious five-person band, will bring an original blend of R&B, soul and roots reggae to the 21-and-older show. Doors open at 8 p.m., and the show starts at 9 p.m. Tickets are $13 in advance, $15 the day of the show and available at charlestonpourhouse.com.

—Mary Martha Beard A long-haired character appears in multiple works — in the blue painting “Cutie Patootie,” she is a Madonna figure with spikes around her face. She might be understood as a fragmented and dissected piece of Jones’ broken heart — an expression existing somewhere between love and hate.

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Reggae rock band touring at Music Farm Common Kings, an American, Hawaiian and Samoan band from Orange County, Calif., brings its polynesian-influenced reggae rock music to Charleston. The band will bring intricate island rhythms to audiences at 8 p.m. Oct. 15 at the Charleston Music Farm. Tickets are $25 in advance, $30 at the door. Visit musicfarm.com for more information.

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It’s an understatement to say that harmonica legend Mickey Raphael gets around. His ridiculously long list of recording credits includes U2, Norah Jones, Chris Stapleton, Marcus King, Wynton Marsalis, Billy Strings and Mötley Crüe, just to name a few. Until recently, Raphael has also averaged more than 200 concert dates per year with Willie Nelson & Family.

That’s the act he’s been most closely associated with during the last 50 years.

Raphael told the Charleston City Paper his long-running globe-trotting career began inauspiciously enough when he was still a daydreaming Dead Head back in Texas.

“I wasn’t immersed in that scene to the point that I would follow them around, but the Grateful Dead was definitely my go-to band in high school,” Raphael said. “I would lay in my bunk bed for hours just getting lost in their songs. I was sort of an outcast growing up and music was my only savior.

Those guys seemed like social misfits, too, which really resonated with me.”

In those strange days, Raphael was introduced to Willie Nelson by then-football coach at University of Texas Darrell Royal at one of Royal’s notoriously rowdy post-

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I wasn’t immersed in that scene to the point that I would follow them around, but the Grateful Dead was definitely my go-to band in high school. I would lay in my bunk bed for hours just getting lost in their songs.” —Mickey Raphael

game pickin’ parties.

“During that initial jam session, I had vaguely been invited by Willie to come back and sit in any time I wanted. So, I just kept showing up and doing that until I started getting asked to actually travel with the band to gigs,” Raphael said.

For a while, however, he was merely volunteering his time, as evidenced by an apocryphal-sounding story that Raphael wryly recalled. “At a certain point Willie

asked Paul English, our drummer, ‘How much are we paying Mickey?’ To which Paul said, ‘Nothing!’ and Willie said, ‘Well, double it then.’ Eventually my persistence paid off though,” Raphael said.

And he ended up in one of the most impactful supporting roles ever in country music and beyond.

It’s hard to imagine Willie Nelson & Family without Raphael. His sparse, haunting contributions adorned most of Nelson’s massive hit singles from the ’70s and ’80s including “Blue Eyes Crying in the Rain,” and “Always on my Mind.” His harp was also an integral sonic component of Nelson’s bestloved LPs such as Stardust and Teatro.

Marveling at how things have recently come full circle for him — the Grateful Dead’s Bobby Weir shared the stage with Willie Nelson & Family multiple times this summer — Raphael said that he couldn’t be happier looking backwards and forwards night after night, with his 90-yearold boss and bandleader, for however long that road goes on.

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Charleston-based jewelry makers Alexander Klaes and Emily Hill aim to provide a hilghly personalized shopping experience

Custom jewelry makers AL&EM open downtown studio with their first brief meeting at a 2013 New Years’ Eve party on Folly Beach. Not long The team behind the boutique Charlestonafter, Klaes and Hill, then in their 20s, both based fine jewelry brand AL&EM believes separately embarked on traveling the world. in crafting pieces that transcend age and As fate would have it, their paths crossed gender boundaries, working with clients to again in Thailand. Klaes went to study create custom engagement rings and other under a family friend who was a jeweler in fine jewelry.

Australia, and Hill joined him. When the The couple behind the brand, Alexander couple returned to Charleston, they decided Klaes and Emily Hill, started AL&EM out to open their jewelry brand, first working of their living room in 2015, and this month, out of their living room before establishing they celebrate the opening of their own studio their studio a few years later at Redux space downtown at 1630 Meeting St. Contemporary Art Center.

“We wanted to create a line of accessories Now, they’ve opened up a space of their that both of us could wear and borrow from own — by appointment only on the second each other and jewelry that would work for floor at 1630 Meeting Street Road. The every age and every gender,” Hill said. “We Meeting Street site was renovated in 2018 want to make long lasting pieces that can be by Flyway Development, (formerly owned shared and borrowed by friends.” and occupied by Exxon Oil since 1926,) Over the past few years, AL&EM have and now houses a total of 19 creative busimade a name for themselves around nesses, entrepreneurs and nonprofits.

Charleston for their offering of solid gold Klaes and Hill moved into the new permanent jewelry. Permanent jewelry studio space over the summer and said doesn’t have a typical clasp for easy removal they are excited to bring in clients. When — the ends are welded together with the designing custom engagement rings, prointention of never taking it off. Klaes and viding a welcoming space and engaging in Hill said the permanent jewelry makes for conversation with clients are pieces of the a gorgeous “BFF” bracelet or a stunning puzzle which Klaes and Hill are particumemento for life’s big milestones. larly passionate about.

Beyond permanent jewelry, AL&EM “A lot of our custom work is push presoffers custom wedding and engagement ents, engagement rings, that kind of stuff,” rings. Plus, Klaes and Hill also offer a fine Klaes said. “We’ve learned in this process jewelry collection inspired by the marriage how important jewelry is to people and of their individual design aesthetics. having keepsakes and mementos. Learning people’s stories is really important and the focus of our conversation when making

How it started

Klaes and Hill’s own romantic story started

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Klaes and Hill agree: The number one goal custom pieces.” for AL&EM is to continue to provide a highly Klaes and Hill are working towards personalized jewelry shopping experience. launching their own wedding and engageKlaes said, “With buying jewelry, it can ment collection later this fall, inspired in be this very traditional, kind of soulless part by some of their favorite custom rings experience. We enjoy our work, and we they’ve made for specific clients. Hill said want people we work with to enjoy their the line will be AL&EM’s “modern interpre- experience as well. We want to make memtation of classic designs.” ories and make it a very personal experi“People want something that is unique ence for our clients.” and special,” she said, “but also something “There’s all these couples and people that that’s recognizable as an engagement ring. exist out in the world that are wearing our So we’re playing around with that and rings and our jewelry, and for that, we are seeing where that line is. We’re interested in so honored. It’s very special,” Hill said.

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clay, canvas — with melted plasticware, cotton and even a machete in one exhilarating image of a “star child.”

“I’ll go into my kitchen and start taking any plastic plates and cups and melting it,” said Jones, who prefers to work at home. “And before I know it, I don’t have any silverware because I’ve used everything in a painting.

“Whatever is going on in my life, these objects, they can come apart from the art.

We go through things so quickly — I like being able to take it and make it this permanent fixture. Almost like a diary, I can look back and see: Here’s this thing I had from this time in my life, and now it’s permanently glued into a painting.”

Working from his home studio is important to him — it means immediate response to spontaneous inspiration.

“I wake up; I’ll start painting. I come home from work; I’ll start painting. I hang out at night; I’m painting. I like having a setup that’s always there. I could wake up

from a dream, and that dream goes right into the painting.”

Jones’ paintings often feature deep, black backgrounds which seem to recess into an infinite void. These black paintings call to mind a quote by filmmaker David Lynch: “Black has depth, you can go into it. And you start seeing what you’re afraid of. You start seeing what you love, and it becomes like a dream.”

Like Lynch, Jones deals with the red fireants crawling underneath the white picket fences of American dreams. He wonders where the monster under the bed from childhood goes when we grow up. This is the juxtaposition at the heart of his work: the absurd and the familiar, reality and surreality, fear and love.

“In making this work, I was finding and discovering this world inside of myself that was this dark and scary place, and dealing with that. I’ve never looked at myself that closely, and so it was strange. But then it kind of became this like paradise, this beautiful inner world. My hope is that when the viewer sees it, they can connect with something in themselves.”

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Free Will Astrology ARIES (March 21-April 19): JooHee Yoon is an illustrator and designer. She says, “So much of artmaking is getting to know yourself through the creative process, of making mistakes and going down rabbit holes of research and experimentation that sometimes work out — and sometimes don’t.”

She adds, “The failures are just as important as the successes.” I would extend this wisdom, applying it to how we create our personalities and lives. I hope you will keep it in mind as you improvise, experiment with and transform yourself in the coming weeks.

TAURUS (April 20-May 20): Sometimes, we droop and shrivel in the face of a challenge that dares us to grow stronger and smarter. Sometimes, we try our best to handle a pivotal riddle with aplomb but fall short. Neither of these two scenarios will be in play for you during the coming months. I believe you will tap into reserves of hidden power you didn’t realize you had access to. You will summon bold, innovative responses to tantalizing mysteries. I predict you will accomplish creative triumphs that may have once seemed beyond your capacities.

GEMINI (May 21-June 20): Gemini novelist Meg Wolitzer suggests that “one of the goals of life is to be comfortable in your own skin and in your own bed and on your own land.” I suspect you won’t achieve that goal in the coming weeks, but you will lay the foundation for achieving that goal. You will figure out precisely what you need in order to feel at home in the world, and you will formulate plans to make that happen. Be patient with yourself, dear Gemini. Be extra tender, kind and accommodating.

Your golden hour will come.

CANCER (June 21-July 22): Some astrologers say you Crabs are averse to adventure, preferring to loll in your comfort zones and entertain dreamy fantasies. As evidence that this is not always true, I direct your attention to a great Cancerian adventurer, the traveling chef Anthony Bourdain. In the coming weeks, I hope you will be inspired by these Bourdain quotes: 1. “If I’m an advocate for anything, it’s to move. As far as you can, as much as you can. Across the ocean, or simply across the river. Open your mind, get up off the couch, move.”

2. “What a great way to live, if you could always do things that interest you, and do them with people who interest you.” 3. “The more I become aware of, the more I realize how relatively little I know, how much more there is to learn. Maybe that’s enlightenment enough — to know there is no final resting place of the mind.” 4. “Travel is about the gorgeous feeling of teetering in the unknown.”

LEO (July 23-Aug. 22): Author Iain S. Thomas writes, “The universe is desperately trying to move you into the only spot that truly belongs to you — a space that only you can stand in. It is up to you to decide every day whether you are moving towards or away from that spot.” His ideas overlap with principles I expound in my book Pronoia Is the Antidote for Paranoia: How the Whole World Is Conspiring to Shower You with Blessings. There I propose that life often works to help dissolve your ignorance and liberate you from your suffering. I hypothesize that you are continually being given opportunities to grow smarter and wilder and kinder. In the coming weeks, everything I’ve described here will be especially apropos to you. All of creation will be maneuvering you in the direction of feeling intensely at home with your best self. Cooperate, please!

VIRGO (Aug. 23-Sept. 22): “Never do anything that others can do for you,” said Virgo novelist Agatha Christie. That’s not a very Virgo-like attitude, is it? Many astrologers would say that of all the zodiac’s signs, your tribe is the most eager to serve others but not aggressively seek the service of others on your behalf. But I suspect this dynamic could change in the coming weeks. Amazingly, cosmic rhythms will conspire to bring you more help and support than you’re accustomed to. My advice: Welcome it. Gather it in with gusto.

LIBRA (Sept. 23-Oct. 22): I’m not enamored

by Shakespeare’s work. Though I enjoy his creative use of language, his worldview isn’t appealing or interesting. The people in his stories don’t

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resonate with me, and their problems don’t feel realistic. If I want to commune with multi-faceted characters dealing with fascinating dilemmas, I turn to French novelist Honoré de Balzac (1799– 1850). I feel a kinship with his complex, nuanced understanding of human nature. Please note I am not asserting that Shakespeare is bad and Balzac is good. I’m merely stating the nature of my subjective personal tastes. Now I invite you to do what I have done here: In the coming weeks, stand up unflinchingly for your subjective personal tastes.

SCORPIO (Oct. 23-Nov. 21): As much as I love logic and champion rational thinking, I’m granting you an exemption from their iron-grip supremacy in the coming weeks. To understand what’s transpiring, and to respond with intelligence, you must partly transcend logic and reason. They will not be sufficient guides as you wrestle with the great riddles that will be visiting. In a few weeks, you will be justified in quoting ancient Roman author Tertullian, who said the following about his religion, Christianity: “It is true because it is impossible.”

SAGITTARIUS (Nov. 22-Dec. 21): As a Sunconjunct-Uranus person, I am fond of hyperbole and outrageousness. “Outlandish” is one of my middle names. My Burning Man moniker is “Friendly Shocker,” and in my pagan community, I’m known as Irreverend Robbie. So take that into consideration when I suggest you meditate on Oscar Wilde’s assertions that “all great ideas are dangerous” and “an idea that is not dangerous is unworthy of being called an idea.” Oscar and I don’t mean that interesting possibilities must be a risk to one’s health or safety. Rather, we’re suggesting they are probably inconvenient for one’s dogmas, habits and comfort zones. I hope you will favor such disruptors in the coming days.

CAPRICORN (Dec. 22-Jan. 19): Some people might feel they have achieved the peak of luxury if they find themselves sipping Moët & Chandon Imperial Vintage Champagne while lounging on a leather and diamond-encrusted PlumeBlanche sofa on a hand-knotted Agra wool rug aboard a 130-foot-long Sunseeker yacht. But I suspect you will be thoroughly pleased with the subtler forms of luxury that are possible for you these days. Like what? Like surges of appreciation and acknowledgment for your good work. Like growing connections with influences that will interest you and help you in the future. Like the emotional riches that come from acting with integrity and excellence.

AQUARIUS (Jan. 20-Feb. 18): There are over 20 solutions to the riddle your higher mind is now contemplating. Several of them are smart intellectually but not emotionally intelligent. Others make sense from a selfish perspective but would be less than a blessing for some people in your life. Then there are a few solutions that might technically be effective but wouldn’t be much fun. I estimate there may only be two or three answers that would be intellectually and emotionally intelligent, would be of service not only to you but also to others and would generate productive fun.

PISCES (Feb. 19-March 20): Naturalist John Muir didn’t like the word “hiking.” He believed people ought to saunter through the wilderness, not hike.

“Hiking” implies straight-ahead, no-nonsense, purposeful movement, whereas “sauntering” is about wandering around, being reverent towards one’s surroundings and getting willingly distracted by where one’s curiosity leads. I suggest you favor the sauntering approach in the coming weeks — not just in nature, but in every area of your life. You’re best suited for exploring, gallivanting and meandering.

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