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By Skyler Baldwin Recently installed North Charleston Mayor Reggie Burgess has been sitting in the mayor’s office for a little over a month now, but he’s been serving the North Charleston community for 35 years. While growing up in the city, he said he came to know the people and families that made up its many communities, several with what he called “deep roots” in the area. Burgess joined the North Charleston Police Department in 1989, rising to become chief of police in 2018. Now, he said he’s taking the experiences and education from that time into a new seat in the mayor’s office. We sat down with Burgess this week to discuss how he got there and what’s ahead.

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City Paper: How is the mayor’s office different from your time serving as chief of police? Reggie Burgess: The pace is about the same. When you’re in law enforcement, things happen all the time — it may be some small events, good things, bad things — your head is always on a swivel in law enforcement. Being the mayor is more holistic. I’m looking not only at law enforcement, but I have to think about all of the departments. I need to engage with the planning and zoning. I need to engage with finance. And I have to have patience — I need to listen intently to every department head in every situation. For me, it may be a listening session, but to them, it’s what they do. I have to slow my heart rate down.

CP: What were you able to take away from your time as chief of police that has helped you transition into the mayor’s position? RB: I went to the University of Louisville in 2001 to administrative officers’ school … and when I got there, I’m with all these other leaders. At the time, I was just a lieutenant, and being around those people from these

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North Charleston Mayor Reggie Burgess said his top priorities in his new role are fiscal stability, planning and zoning, and public safety big cities, I’m learning in that command experience, we all have the same issues. That education I got early in my command life gave me a lot of institutional knowledge and the understanding of an organization and how to navigate and work through issues. One of the biggest things I’ve learned is how to bring in people and have them think the way you’re thinking, even if we don’t see it the same way — what can you bring to the table that’s going to make our community better? That’s one of the biggest things you learn at command school. It gave me another key to use when I’m negotiating or bringing someone into the team.

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CP: The community engagement factor was so important during your time as chief. How has that transposed into your mayoral role? RB: It’s tremendous. A couple days ago, we had a food store chain invited to come sit with the mayor. And you know me, I’m not the only one who’s going to shop in this store. So I called the community presidents around the area that this store may want to possibly invest in, and brought them to the table. So you have the store owners, which is business; you have the government, which is me; and you have the community. You

can’t lose. When you do that, you’re doing right by the people you serve, instead of us making decisions for the community — especially when it comes to a food chain — we want them at the table at the inception of the decision-making process. It’s involving the people who are going to be the most affected — they’re the ones who are going to be walking in through those doors. CP: How sustainable is that practice, considering how quickly North Charleston is growing. Can you do that every time? RB: No, no you can’t do it for everybody. It’s not practical for every situation. I was on the SWAT team for over 10 years. There were two ways to go in: dynamic — when you just kick the door in — and then there’s stealth. You have to understand the situation you’re in. There are times when we as a government have to talk about the issues alone, but we know there are times when it is more valuable to bring in the community as well. When it’s practical, and you can include them from the beginning … they’ll take that back to their communities. CP: Do you think growing up in North Charleston yourself has given you a lot of that perspective to help know which of CONTINUED ON PAGE 6

Just hours after President Joe Biden captured a decisive Democratic presidential primary win in South Carolina, former S.C. GOP Gov. Nikki Haley shredded Republican frontrunner Donald Trump in a withering Feb. 3 opening sketch on Saturday Night Live. In what Politico called Haley’s “you only live once” moment, she poked fun at a campaign misstep over the Civil War and mocked a comic stand-in for Trump over his refusal to debate. Haley portrayed an audience member in the sketch and asked, “My question is why won’t you debate Nikki Haley?” The actor portraying Trump responded, “ ‘Oh my God, it’s her, the woman who was in charge of security on Jan. 6. It’s Nancy Pelosi.’ ” Haley faces Trump in the S.C. Republican primary on Feb. 24. —Staff reports

“This appears to me as an authoritarian (some would say fascist) over-reach on your part.” —Charleston County School Board trustee Carol Tempel to board chair Keith Grybowski after he reportedly sent board members an email stating his intent to sign an employment contract of newly chosen Superintendent Anita Huggins without a board vote.

GUN VIOLENCE COUNTER 5 shot, killed across S.C. Jan. 31 to Feb. 6 John Baldwin, 51, of Summerville, died in an exchange of gunfire with Summerville police on Feb. 6 after he barricaded himself in a Lilac Drive residence. No others were hurt during the incident. Meanwhile, North Charleston police are investigating an attempted murder after a 41-year-old man was shot on Feb. 2 on Northwoods Boulevard. No names have been released. Other S.C. shootings: Four others died in Dorchester, Greenville, Horry and Anderson counties. Nine others were hurt in shootings across the state. Sources: gunviolencearchive.org; S.C. official and media reports

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A story, however, that is not on display is the modern-day friendship between two scholars — one Dutch, the other a South Carolinian — that “set in motion” the possibility of a partner center for the Anne Frank House, which opened in August 2021 at the University of South Carolina (USC) in

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Jan Erik Dubbelman (left), the retired director of the international outreach program at the Anne Frank House, and Doyle Stevick, executive director of Anne Frank Center at the University of South Carolina, explain how this office at night was where Otto Frank sat at the desk to the left to review the business’ paperwork while his daughter, Anne, sat the other desk to write in her diary. On May 11, 1944, she wrote: “You’ve known for a long time that my greatest wish is to be a journalist, and later on, a famous writer.”

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Columbia. The Anne Frank Center is the only partner site in the United States. Other locations are in Berlin and Buenos Aires. In 2013, USC education professor Doyle Stevick visited the Buenos Aires partner site where he saw the potential of an Anne Frank affiliate to host an exhibition to teach about Anne Frank on the Columbia campus. “It was always my dream, and I needed someone to give me a house,” he told the Charleston City Paper. A decade before, he studied why central and eastern Europeans resisted efforts to teach the Holocaust, which led him to research attitudes toward the Holocaust globally. He co-edited a collection of essays, As the Witnesses Grow Silent. The work was done for the International Bureau of Education within the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural

Organization (UNESCO). One of the essays came from Dutch historian Deinke Hondius, whose husband Jan Erik Dubbelman, unbeknownst to Stevick, was director of the international outreach program at the Anne Frank House. Dubbelman managed the Anne Frank House’s traveling exhibit program that sent educational material on the Anne Frank story to children in 89 countries.

A broken ankle knits a friendship

When Stevick was invited to lecture in northern Germany, he used the opportunity to meet Hondius in Amsterdam. Because she had broken her ankle while ice skating, she invited him to her home where she was healing. That set up Stevick’s serendipitous meeting with Dubbelman. When the 6-foot-3-inch Stevick arrived, his presence and booming voice filled Hondius’ two-story flat in Amsterdam’s Jordaan District near the Anne Frank House. Ten minutes after Stevick and Hondius sat at her kitchen table, Dubbelman arrived to check on his wife. He joined the conversation with Stevick, and they’ve never stopped talking. They connected immediately through a shared interest in the Holocaust, and they also bonded personally. Dubbelman was fascinated to meet an American scholar from the South, the center of the 1960s civil CONTINUED ON PAGE 6

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AMSTERDAM | Tourists pose for pictures outside the Anne Frank House before they quietly file in to choose one of nine languages for an audio tour through an empty house filled with horror and hope. Each year, more than a million people wind their way up the steps of a narrow, four-story building that during Germany’s occupation of the Netherlands doubled as Otto Frank’s herbs and spices business and a place to hide his family and friends from the Nazis. Frank, his wife and their two daughters and another family, with the help of friends, found safety for slightly more than two years in the 1940s from German persecution of Jews. Eventually, they were discovered and were either executed or died from diseases in concentration camps during the Holocaust, the genocide of an estimated 6 million European Jews during World War II. Of the eight people in hiding, only Otto Frank survived. When liberation came at the end of the war, Frank received a diary that his teenage daughter, Anne, wrote while in hiding. He published the diary, widely known as the Diary of Anne Frank. Printed in 70 languages, the book resonated with young readers worldwide. After Otto Frank rescued the house from demolition, it opened in 1960 as a museum along one of Amsterdam’s picturesque canals. Today, its walls are covered with video and text panels that tell the story of their ordeal along with excerpts from Anne’s writings. On May 26, 1944, she wrote: “One day we’re laughing at the comical side of life in hiding, and the next day (and there are many such days) we’re frightened, and the fear, tension and despair can be read on our faces.”

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S.C. woman files new lawsuit challenging state’s 6-week abortion ban By Jack O’Toole A South Carolina woman who says she tried to follow the rules embedded in South Carolina’s six-week abortion ban but was forced out of state for care is now suing for clarification and an injunction. The lawsuit, filed Feb. 5 in state circuit court, says it seeks to clarify ambiguity in the state’s so-called “fetal heartbeat” law that criminalizes abortion when an embryo’s heartbeat is detected. South Carolina resident Taylor Shelton says in the lawsuit that she learned last year she was pregnant four weeks after her last menstrual period. She quickly decided she wanted an abortion and tried to get an appointment with an in-state provider. But the clock built into the state law ran out. As a result, she “made three trips to North Carolina, spending roughly 20 hours driving in total,” and finally obtained an abortion at a Planned Parenthood clinic in Wilmington “roughly six weeks and four days” into her pregnancy. “The entire experience left me angry and quite frankly, traumatized,” Shelton said in a statement provided by Planned Parenthood South Atlantic (PPSA). “I want everyone to understand the impact South Carolina’s abortion restrictions and unfair

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rights activities he watched as a boy on Dutch television. “I was very upset about police dogs biting peaceful protestors,” he said. Television coverage of the Vietnam War also was difficult to view, coming from a country he loved. “I was pro-American,” he boasted. “My favorite books and music were American. “If you ask any American where you should put the Anne Frank Center USA, nobody would say Columbia, S.C.,” Dubbelman said. “It is so surprising that it intrigues. Why there?” Anne Frank’s diary was not popular in Europe, but the story came to life in America, Dubbelman said. Having an Anne Frank Center in Columbia is a “huge opportunity to connect the curses of antisemitism with anti-Black discrimination.” Stevick said, “The American experience of race can give you a distorted interpretation of the Holocaust. [In America] race is a skin color concept, but for the Nazis they talked about blood. In the U.S., most of us grew up thinking of Jews as a religious group. The Nazis didn’t treat Jews as a religious group, but as a race. It leads us to misunderstand how the Holocaust

treatment are having on real people, and I hope my story shows how punitive and cruel these abortion bans actually are.” The Charleston City Paper requested but was not granted an interview with Shelton, for whom no age or hometown was listed in the lawsuit. She is joined in her lawsuit by PPSA and its chief medical officer, Dr. Katherine Ferris.

later with S.C. Gov. Henry McMaster hailing the decision as “a historic moment in our state’s history and … the culmination of years of hard work and determination by so many in our state to ensure that the sanctity of life is protected.” Among those sued in the new lawsuit were S.C. Attorney General Alan Wilson, S.C. Department of Health and Environmental Control Director Edward Summer and members of the What is a ‘fetal heartbeat’? S.C. Board of Medical Examiners and S.C. The question raised in the complaint Board of Nursing, as well as 9th Circuit turns on the definition of “fetal heartbeat” Solicitor Scarlett Wilson of Charleston under the statute — specifically whether and 5th Circuit Solicitor Byron Gipson the law “prohibits abortion at the detecof Greenville. Dr. Stephen I. Schabel of tion of the earliest embryonic electrical MUSC in Charleston is BME vice presiactivity, after approximately six weeks dent; Kelli Garber of Mount Pleasant is a of pregnancy … or at the point when the registered nurse on the BoN. heart forms, after approximately nine “We’ve defended this law vigorously in weeks of pregnancy.” the past,” said Robert Kittle, a spokesman The S.C. Supreme Court recognized this for Wilson, “and will continue to do so.” ambiguity in its August 2023 decision Those suing the state over the law seek upholding the law but chose to leave the a declaratory judgment to define fetal carquestion “for another day.” diac activity or relief from the “vagueness” The case is the latest in a series of legal in the current law. They also call for an challenges to South Carolina’s abortion injunction to halt enforcement of the law ban, the first version of which was struck until the current case is settled. down by the state’s high court in January 2023. A modified statute, passed four This is a developing story. Visit months later, was upheld eight months charlestoncitypaper.com for updates. unfolded.” Stevick is now the executive director of USC’s Anne Frank Center. In schools that accept the Anne Frank traveling exhibit, teachers prepare students to talk about difficult issues of the past, Stevick said. The students, he said, “talk about the history and what it means to us today, and they lead conversations with their peers.”

A USC president gets involved The day that USC’s president, Harris Pastides, announced the first of two retirements in October 2018, he said if it were up to him all of the university’s students would learn about Anne Frank and the Holocaust, Stevick recalled. He remembered replying that if there were a place on campus to set up a traveling exhibit, all the undergraduPastides ates could see it. Two days later at a private dinner, Pastides announced he had a house on campus that could be used for that purpose. Pastides, who now lives in Charleston

County, met Ronald Leopold, executive director of the Anne Frank House, during his visit to USC. That meeting accelerated the idea of an Anne Frank Center at USC, now housed in Barringer House on College Street. Leopold said the Anne Frank House, the USC center and the centers in Argentina and Germany “all tell the story of a past that is very painful and of our shared humanity and [common] values. Otto Frank lost his entire family, and he was still capable of turning that tragedy into a mission for the young … to overcome everything that separates us because we have our shared humanity.” In March 1959, Frank traveled by boat to New York City for the premiere of the Anne Frank movie, which he declined to watch because it was too painful, Dubbelman said. Dubbelman speculated that while in the United States, Frank likely heard about Martin Luther King Jr. and the civil rights struggle. This may explain his decision to give the museum a “broad mission to educate against all forms of discrimination,” he said. “In a way, USC is supporting Otto’s vision.” Visit charlestoncitypaper.com for more on the center from S.C. Gov. Henry McMaster.

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those situations you’re in? RB: My faith in God, first, has done that. But you’re right, growing up here in this community, knowing everybody no matter what color … North Charleston is the most diverse community of its size. Columbia is there, but with our situation it’s different. My great-grandmother was born in the late 1890s, but they were here since 1690. A lot of the people who live here in North Charleston, their roots go back all the way to the days when African Americans first arrived. You’re not just talking about diversity, you’re talking about people who have been here forever. And now their kids are here. And I’ve known these people all my life.

What’s ahead

CP: What are some of the specific challenges you want to tackle in your first year in office? RB: We have a super team here. Mayor Keith Summey put this team together, and all I have to do is keep the team together and keep winning. As we try to win, we’re going to lose some things along the way. The main critical things for me as mayor: Fiscal stability. We have to pay our bills — public services, recreation, trash and garbage, arts and culture — all these things we provide. Second: Planning and zoning — we need it because we’re growing tremendously. Then that third piece: Public safety. We have to keep law enforcement in those neighborhoods. The people not only deserve it, but they want it. Those are my three main objectives for sure — keep it going, keep us straight. As the years progress, we’re looking hard at development. We are the No. 1 developing city in the state, and we have to keep that. North Charleston became a city due to economic development. We have to keep our businesses flowing in our city. When our businesses prosper, neighborhoods are elevated. We can take more funds and tax dollars and uplift things that need to be lifted in our communities. And we are the center point — to get down to the city of Charleston, you have to go through North Charleston. To get to Mount Pleasant, you have to go through North Charleston. To get to West Ashley, you have to go through North Charleston. To get to Summerville, Goose Creek, Moncks Corner, you have to go through North Charleston. It’s a great thing. But you have to have the pieces together and keep them glued. Sometimes they come unglued, but that’s where leaders are made. The average person would just say “I don’t know what to do,” but when you’re a leader, you can almost feel what change

CP: How do you find the line between supporting economic development and overdevelopment, which a lot of people see as a threat to those roots you’re talking about? RB: I don’t believe any business we work with in the city has a sense of going in there trying to hurt the community. They see something they can make better. But we have to be realistic — there are houses in Union Heights that three to four years ago were at $52,000 to $58,000. Now you look at them and they’re at $283,000. That’s a great thing when you go into [these older communities] and you’re fixing it and building new homes, but the issue for the people living there … when equity goes up, taxes go up. We don’t want the people in these homes to get pushed out. There are cities in America facing the same problem we are — gentrification — and we are absolutely not trying to move anybody out of their homes. We are trying to find innovative ways and new best practices to keep people where they are because that’s their home. That’s their neighborhood. That’s why I’m looking at these economic tools we can use to help them. CP: One of your top three goals you mentioned was law enforcement, how are you working right now to reduce crime in North Charleston? RB: As you know, our crime level has always been something that has plagued the city of North Charleston, but over the course of the last two years, our crime has reduced. That will continue. I contribute that to both the government and the citizens. There was a time when even me, a true homeboy here in North Charleston, couldn’t go into a neighborhood and get people to talk to me about who shot that person, who broke into that house — some cultures were not going to talk to you out in the open. You had to find a way to get them to trust you enough to even engage with you. That is one of the biggest things we had to overcome. When I became chief in 2018, it was my opportunity to implement those changes. And I did it. Now, you walk into a neighborhood, and even if they don’t like you, they know who you are. You can go into a store, like Bertha’s Kitchen, in full uniform, and people will be like, “Hey, Burgess, what’s up, how are you doing?” Because now they don’t fear you. When you can do what you need to do to get their respect, they’re going to believe that you are there to look out for their best interests. That was the key. We had to change our approach. We could no longer sit back and say we were going to respond in these communities, we had to be a part of them. … That’s why we have less complaints now. That is what, to me, is the difference between public safety then and now. That’s what we have to keep going.

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A downtown woman on Jan. 27 reportedly ordered two drinks at a King Street bar, grabbed both and sprinted out of the building with her friends without paying, police said. The bar manager reportedly chased after them, heading north, where a police officer joined the chase. We hope a fourth party eventually joined the scene with a boom box playing Scooby-Doo music. Almost fell for it A West Ashley gas station clerk told Charleston police on Jan. 29 that a man wearing a black hoodie with the words “Stay Hard” printed on the front tried to pay for $40 of gas with a fake $50 bill with the words “In Copy we Trust” and “Play Money Only” printed visibly on the front. The man reportedly told the clerk he would just use his card at the pump, but instead ran off. Careful, grandpa A North Charleston man on Feb. 3 told officers he was threatened by an elderly man with a knife at a W. Montague Avenue convenience store. We have a lot of sympathy for the alleged victim here: It must be difficult to know how much to fight back before it just starts to feel bad for everybody involved. By Skyler Baldwin Illustration by Steve Stegelin The Blotter is taken from reports filed with area police departments between Jan. 27 and Feb. 4. Go online for more even more Blotter charlestoncitypaper.com SPONSORED BY

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Draconian abortion law needs to go nd now we start seeing the pain. Too many South Carolina women are hurting and scared because of blinders worn by conservative state lawmakers, mostly White men, hellbent on controlling lives, decisions and bodies. It’s the 21st century, but these prudish, unenlightened South Carolina officials are acting as if the times are more like those when slavery was legal. Since the South Carolina Supreme Court flipped its view last August that a statewide abortion ban was an unconstitutional invasion of privacy, hundreds of women in the Palmetto State have been suffering, forced to have babies that they don’t want for a variety of reasons. Or they have to go outside of South Carolina to have an abortion that was legal here just three years ago. Legal abortion is a safe medical procedure used by one in four women in the U.S. during childbearing years, medical experts agree. Women who opt for abortions do so for a variety of personal — and sometimes medical — reasons. But because South Carolina now has a so-called “fetal heartbeat” law that essentially bans abortions six weeks after a woman gets pregnant — a time that many do not even know they’re pregnant — conditions are untenable. In recent months, Planned Parenthood clinics here turned away 75% of women who sought abortions, according to a new lawsuit seeking clarification of the ban. From Aug. 23, 2023, to Jan. 31, 2024, the organization, which operates two of the three clinics in

South Carolina, turned away 906 of 1,209 women who sought abortions. Of those, 778 had pregnancies that were nine weeks or less from their last menstrual period. In the same span a year earlier, the clinics provided 1,819 abortions. “Put differently, over the same period of time, [Planned Parenthood] was able to provide less than 17% of the abortions it did before the act went into effect, and the number of people making abortion appointments dropped substantially.” South Carolina resident Taylor Shelton and Planned Parenthood now are suing. Shelton says she realized she was pregnant — even though she was using birth control — in her fourth week. She tried to follow the rules in South Carolina, but couldn’t get the treatment she wanted. She was forced to make expensive, time-consuming trips to North Carolina to get the safe treatment she sought. “I was forced to jump through so many unnecessary hoops in order to receive the care I deserved,” Shelton said in a statement. “The entire experience left me angry and quite frankly, traumatized. I want everyone to understand the impact South Carolina’s abortion restrictions and unfair treatment are having on real people, and I hope my story shows how punitive and cruel these abortion bans actually are.” The state’s courts need to approve a request for an injunction from the draconian abortion ban as it clarifies the case before it. Otherwise, more of South Carolina’s women will suffer under this unsafe, unhealthy law that needs to be thrown out like the trash it is.

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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Stop fiddling around on aid for Ukraine By Andy Brack A huge plume of gray smoke rose after the shattering boom of a Jan. 23 missile attack in downtown Kyiv, Ukraine, as commuters drove to work, their headlights of their cars illuminating the snow on the ground.

Americans need to know that Ukrainians are on the real, bloody and violent front line fighting to protect democracy and thwart Russian aggression, he emphasized. “They — and I’m saying this — will die to the last person to protect their country and their democracy,” Price told us Thursday. “I have not come across anyone who is negaThree weeks earlier in a video at the same downtown tive or says anything about stopping the war location, Charleston resident Jamie Price was watching or backing down. They’re going to proceed Netflix in the wee hours of the morning when air raid sirens until the end when they win – and I know squealed frightening warnings of a possible attack, only to they will win.” quiet moments later. But right now, Ukrainians are worried “People are concerned,” Price said Jan. 2, “considering about having enough ammunition and what happened a few nights ago before I got here, when arms to persist. Fortunately, European several missiles hit the city. Even when they shot down the countries are stepping up, as the U.S. drags drones with the missiles, of course, they fall and they can its feet. On Feb. 1, the European Union Price in Kyiv do a lot of damage.” approved a $54 billion aid package to keep The war in Ukraine isn’t stopping. Russia keeps up pressure Ukraine’s economy going. in its attempt to thwart democracy and pound an authoriBut, as Price pointed out, “They do know that the U.S. tarian hammer on the country. But the people of Ukraine help is very critical because of their capacity to make aren’t giving up, despite more than 10,000 civilians killed and weapons and ammunition.” military deaths that could be seven times as high, according to That’s why it’s vital for South Carolinians to let their informed estimates. (Ukraine hasn’t released figures of casucongressmen and senators know it’s time to stop playing alties.) Russian losses are thought to be even higher. politics with more military aid for Ukraine. For conservative “There is tremendous stress,” said Price, who recently Republicans — mostly those in the U.S. House — tying up went back to Kyiv with a third round of medical and other Ukrainian aid to a deal on illegal immigration or something supplies to support a country where the friends he’s made else is unbelievable. This strategy will lead to more people have become like family. “But there is also a tremendous dying and will aid Russian leader Vladimir Putin’s effort to resilience in living life and that’s what they do.” injure freedom. Even more to the point: Who would have ever

thought that Republicans, the party of Commie-basher Joe McCarthy, would have ever fallen in lock step with anything to empower the Russian tyrant over Ukrainian freedom? In the U.S. Senate, Angus King, an independent senator from Maine, this week highlighted how not helping Ukraine would help Russia and, ultimately, China. “[W]hat we’re looking at here is … the struggle between the idea of democracy and the rule of law and authoritarianism and totalitarianism,” King said. “Ukraine is the opening wedge in that…conflict. … [I]f we cut and run in Ukraine, that will change Xi Jinping’s calculus about Taiwan. He’s going to Provided say well, the Americans aren’t going to stick. We don’t have to worry too much about them helping the Taiwanese defend themselves.” Just like France didn’t abandon the fledgling American colonists during the Revolutionary War, we need to lead all of the allies of democracy by supplying the ammunition and arms that Ukraine needs to win. Remember, they are supplying the lives to protect freedom. Call our congressmen today and tell them to stop fooling around. Tell them to support Ukraine, not Putin. Reach the U.S. Capitol at (202) 224-3121. Andy Brack is editor and publisher of Charleston City Paper. Have a comment? Send to: feedback@charleston citypaper.com.

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Artist Lee makes myths through sculpture By Chloe Hogan Iconic American writer Joan Didion once said, “We tell ourselves stories in order to live.” For Folly Beach-based sculpture artist Annie Rhodes Lee, investigating the stories we tell is crucial and almost compulsive. Her works, which employ clay expertly disguised as concrete, intricate wood carvings of animals and humans, porcelain, natural materials and textured papers, are embedded with rich narratives in response to her observations of human nature, culture and spirituality. She often works from dreams and is frequently inspired by literature. “I’ve always had a narrative bent,” she said. “Growing up in the South, it was very obvious that there’s this pastoral portrait that exists — for example, Alice Ravenel Huger Smith, which I adore. But this pastoral portrait is really a narrative that does not connect to the reality of this place.” And so making work from a place of questioning and playing with narratives became I would get in a a fixation, “and how cultures are formed; how we write them into subway and just existence to a large degree.” ride and ride and She works out of a sunny studio overlooking the lush ride, drawing scenery of Folly Beach. It’s detached from the main house people. And then and contains a kiln, dozens I would get home of works in different states of completion, and a balcony for and I would birdwatching. Preserved lizards imagine what I and cicadas hang on a wall in the bathroom, pointing to her thought they were deep reverence for nature and thinking.” our connectedness to it: “We are —Annie Rhodes Lee nature. I do not believe we are outside of it,” she said. She listens to audiobooks while she works and takes inspiration from an impressive catalog of art books, looking at Bosch, Escher, Michelangelo’s fascinating slave sculptures and Anselm Kiefer’s complicated watercolors. Though born in Summerville, Lee spent most of her life in New York City. Just after graduating from Virginia Commonwealth University’s school of art, she moved north of the Mason-Dixon line to immerse herself in art and culture. Ten years ago, Lee moved back to the Lowcountry. She misses the Big Apple (and visits often to feed her cultural appetite), but being home means more specific access to the complexities she confronts in her work — race, history and culture.

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and composition to describe the complicated layers of personality and perception. “I would get in a subway and just ride and ride and ride, drawing people. And then I would get home and I would imagine what I thought they were thinking.” Looking at the project on her website, called “Notes from the Underground,” (a Dostoevsky reference) one can’t help but wonder, how much of this portrait is informed by Lee’s imagination? How much comes from the sitter’s openness, or lack thereof? How much is informed by where they are coming from or going? “We have this impulse to narrate things into being,” Lee said. “We see someone who looks down, and we go, oh no, they’re fine. They’re happy the way they are. We don’t really look at the layers underneath and why we’re telling ourselves those stories.” Growing up, Lee spent a lot of time in the woods, resulting in a deep appreciation

for wood, one of her favorite materials to manipulate — her family is in the timber business, and her mother worked in the family’s lumber mill on McLeod Mill Road her entire life. Like wood, each of Lee’s works has its own distinct rhythm and flow, created in response to the material, and often pulls together many smaller spheres within one work. The way she activates color, form and material assists in her telling stories and asking big questions. For example, a recent drawing on the studio wall shows a face split in half — one eye and one half of the nose and mouth are Lee’s, the other side, a Haitian friend with a darker skin tone. “I used a brown paper for her and a light paper for me, but I used the same pastels for both portraits. So the colors were going to be affected by our backgrounds, regardless that our perspectives were similar. …

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Lowdown Annie Rhodes Lee Age: 70. Birthplace: Summerville, S.C. Education: Bachelor’s in sculpture from Virginia Commonwealth University. Family: My husband Stuart and his family, my two brothers and their families, all unique! Something surprising you might not know about me: I love to dream but not to sleep. Favorite thing outside of work: Seek culture. Books on bedside: North Woods by Mason, Landscape and Memory by Schama, Frederick Douglass: Prophet of Freedom by David Blight on Audible while I work.

Wood and clay are some of Lee’s favorite materials to work and live with It communicated about that depth of background in a literal and figurative sense.” That kind of storytelling through materiality is the throughline that exists in each of Lee’s diverse-looking works: complex and vast drawings on textured papers; a stack of crumbling concrete blocks with figurative details you must see to believe; a sculpture called “Time and Tide,” which is comprised of segmented sections of porcelain, wood and clay with eye-level eyes staring back at you. (You can even find a reflection of yourself painted in the irises.)

Telling stories of people on the move

A spirit of collectivism is perhaps one of the most intriguing and endearing qualities of Lee’s work. Her figures often call to mind themes of migration on both personal and historical scales, like the snow-globe-esque sculpture “The Things They Carry With Us” (above) which describes, Lee said, “a woman with a landscape moving through her [to talk about] the courage it takes to migrate — the things you have to carry with you and the things you leave behind.” Rubble and concrete blocks are a common motif for Lee, sometimes stacked one on top of another. “It can either be like a partition or protection. It can be used to define a boundary, or it’s going to crumble CONTINUED ON PAGE 15

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Let’s lead with eco-friendly values By Toni Reale, special to City Paper Many entrepreneurs (like me) have led different lives and have tried several different avenues to create something meaningful that reflects their core values. Before owning a plant, flower and rock shop and designing wedding and event florals, I taught at the College of Charleston in the Geology Department for 11 years. I have a master’s degree that focused on paleoclimatology in which I studied in detail the geochemistry of the pre- and post-impacts of humans on Earth. I’ve always been interested in the natural world — how it works and how to protect it — since I was a kid coming home with pockets full of rocks. My science roots and passion for the environment shape most of my decisions even now as a business owner. While teaching at the College of Charleston, I volunteered to be on the board of a nonprofit called Lowcountry Environmental Education Programs (LEEP, for those of you who might remember our biodiesel school Reale bus). This nonprofit took underserved, primarily minority students in the Charleston area to the marsh and to the beach to teach them about how to be better stewards of our fragile ecosystem. Many of these young students had never been to the beach, even though they only lived 15 minutes away. I was interested in helping to develop an environmental curriculum with LEEP but also found myself on the events committee, even though I never planned a big party. I noticed previous fundraising events

never matched our core values. Events were wasteful so when I took over, we executed Charleston’s first zero waste event in which everything was recycled, composted or reused. We had 400 guests and walked away with a box of trash mostly filled with packaging and cigarette butts. It was quite the feat for the early 2000’s. I was really interested in infusing environmental standards into the wasteful event industry, so I founded a company in 2010 called Blue Planet Green Events as a side hustle to my adjunct teaching career. It wasn’t an easy transition getting wedding and event vendors to think sustainably. But I was really passionate about showing others how easy it could be to tweak standard operating practices. Eco-friendly event planning led to incorporating flowers, which added another layer to figure out how to become more sustainable. In 2012, I read a book called the 50-mile Bouquet written by my now mentor and friend Debra Prinzing. It opened my eyes to the incredibly harmful environmental and labor practices of the floral industry. When most think of flower farms, they think of open fields of beauty with happy workers living their best lives. But over 80% of all flowers used in America for anything from weddings to funerals are imported from other countries with little to no environmental or labor laws — think animal factory farming but for flowers. People and the environment pay the ultimate price for the general populations’ demand for all things to be grown all year round regardless of the season. The first article I ever wrote for the City Paper in 2020 tackled this CONTINUED ON PAGE 15

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issue in detail. I’m inspired by nature, science and humanity to take a continual look at how to have less of a footprint and inspire those around me to care about the environment.

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Support more sustainably grown flowers and better working conditions by purchasing 100% American and locally grown flowers for the retail shop and 90% for our wedding work. Every week for the last four years or so, we’ve donated any leftover flowers to Amor Healing Kitchen. It’s a wonderful nonprofit that delivers all healthy vegan meals (and our flowers) to those undergoing chemotherapy while mentoring high school students in the kitchen.

We pay SMART Recycling to pick up all of our flower compost every week. Last year, we composted 17.99 TONS of floral waste that would’ve ended up in our landfills. That’s the weight of more than two male African elephants. We recycle all cardboard received in packaging if it can’t be reused. What I have learned in over 13 years in business is that I alone can’t fix all of the issues with the floral industry, but we certainly can help chip away through leadership and education. Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. once said, “We must use time creatively, in the knowledge that the time is always ripe to do right.” We are always pivoting to do better. Toni Reale is the owner of Roadside Blooms, a unique flower, plant, crystal, rock and fossil shop in Park Circle in North Charleston. roadsidebloomsshop.com.

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and be destroyed. I started using it for its metaphorical content.” One of the first times she incorporated the concrete motif was in the ceramic work titled “A Dwelling in the Evening Air.” Here, unlike other works where the figures rise above or are crushed within the concrete, the four faces look directly at one another, each painted like a purple-hued sky after the sun has just set, each eye twinkling slightly. And on the outside edges of the work, cave paintings, inspired by a moving experience Lee had in Dordogne, in the south of France, where she visited prehistoric cave

paintings in the Vézère Valley. “You go in and everything smells like prehistory. … Looking at these cave paintings is an epiphany [that makes you think] what are we fighting about? We’re all one people.” The work inspired by this experience is aptly named for a Wallace Stevens poem called “Final Soliloquy of the Interior Paramour.” “There’s a line in it, ‘we make a dwelling in the evening air, in which being there together is enough.’ It’s nice to think that in all this rubble and contention, where things are broken apart, that there’s a dwelling in the evening air where we look at each other; we’re forced to look at each other to put the cube back together.”

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Lee takes inspiration from the natural world, history, literature and dreams

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See flight demonstrations up-close by different raptors including falcons, eagles, owls, hawks and more while learning about their role in our ecosystem. Feb. 16 through 18 at 10:30 a.m. Feb. 16 and 17 at 2 p.m. Marion Square Free.

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Busch Wildlife Sanctuary Show A perenial favorite, the Busch Wildlife Sanctuary Show will give you an up-close view of alligators, bobcats, snakes, foxes and more. Seating is first-come, first-served. Feb. 16 through 18 at 11 a.m. Feb. 16 at 4 p.m. Gaillard Center Included with GA tickets.

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Women in Conservation panel aims to educate, address representation

By Lily Levin his year’s annual Southeastern Wildlife Exposition (SEWE) includes its first Women in Conservation panel, an event borne out of what SEWE’s Mary Roberts said was a desire to highlight representation in the field — and the organization’s existing connections to the panelists. The panel’s appeal lies in the work and accomplishments of its “four incredible people,” Roberts told the Charleston City Paper. Each of the panelists, she said, are conservationists in land, sea or sky with a different area of expertise and knowledge. • Mandy Feavel, vice president and director of programs and operations at the Avian Conservation Center in Awendaw, works to rehabilitate injured creatures of the sky. • Dr. Forrest Gomez is director of conservation medicine at National Marine Mammal Foundation, which has an office on Johns Island, and focuses on aquatic mammals. • Amy Kight, director of Busch Wildlife Sanctuary in southern Florida, treats injured and orphaned wildlife which reside mostly on land. • Panel moderator Julie Scardina, animal ambassador and corporate curator for SeaWorld, is an expert on aquatic animals.

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SEWE’s Roberts said the panel will address “the future of women in conservation and any challenges they’ve overcome.” But even though the event aims to underscore women’s experiences in conservation, it’s a field where “women tend to be underrepresented” to begin with. Panelists, however, noted they have experienced varying degrees of representation in their individual fields of conservation science and medicine, with Kight seeing an abundance of representation at the Busch Wildlife Sanctuary. “I’ve been in my current job for 20 years [and] 95% [of staff] are female,” she said. Kight, who said she wanted to work with animals for as long as she can remember, added it was important to show young girls that women are “doing these … rugged jobs. That’s really exciting.”

Feavel’s career has been similar, though she said she’d like to see more women in leadership positions — and for these positions to be visible. “Women have been well represented in animal welfare/wildlife medicine roles,” Feavel told the City Paper. “It is critical that fellow young professionals and women see the impact being made by women in the field of conservation.” Gomez agreed. “Veterinary science and marine science traditionally do not have good representation,” she said, adding that race too is a central factor. These fields are “traditionally very white.” If voices of women and people of color are missing, Gomez noted, conservationists won’t come up with “as creative of answers … as impactful of answers” to global environmental problems.

‘A critical juncture’

Gomez’s organization — which is based in San Diego and Charleston — also engages with their communities through STEM programming and education. A primary goal, Gomez added, is to use research she’s conducted on bottlenose dolphins — “sentinel” species — to inform the health of Lowcountry residents. Though Gomez is an expert in the field of veterinary medicine, like Kight, she expressed eagerness to share tips during the panel about what folks can do “in their day-to-day lives” to protect the environment, which in recent years has been especially important. “We are at a critical juncture, as many of us know, in conservation and climate change … habitat loss, extinction of species,” Gomez said in an interview. Although conservation involves a long and slow road forward, “everyone can help no matter where they’re from and who they are.” Scardina echoed Gomez’ excitement to share conservation knowledge with the SEWE audience and help attendees acknowledge their personal stakes in the well-being of the ecosystem. “Engaging with all ages to inspire action is critical, as challenges mount in achieving a future where earth’s resources can remain sustainable for all creatures — including humans,” she said. “We must be able to communicate relevance, and do so in a captivating way. … These women

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The Women in Conservation panel will convene at 4 p.m. Feb. 17 at the Gaillard Center are dedicated, extremely knowledgeable and fascinating — a perfect way to get the audience involved — motivated to make a difference themselves.”

Tangible impacts of harm

In addition to inspiring communities into action, some panelists wanted to share the tangible impacts of human harm — and how to reduce it. Both Kight and Feavel said a significant number of animals are brought into their respective workplaces with injuries caused by human activity. “We field thousands of calls from the public regarding birds every year,” Feavel told the City Paper, explaining that she uses these interactions to inform local residents about the “history and ecology of the species and how they can help if the bird is injured.” Kight said she’d like the audience’s biggest takeaway to include education about steps anyone can take to protect the ecosystems that are, literally, in their backyards. “People can turn their own little piece of the planet into a green space for our wildlife by planting native plants — not covering everything with sod or exotic

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landscaping,” she said. Kight added she’s looking forward to sharing her knowledge with people other than those she might encounter at, say, an education initiative hosted by the Busch Center. But more than anything, she expressed her excitement to sit on a panel “with these incredible women. And we’re changing the world.” “I feel like I’m still a 6-year-old little kid who just wants to volunteer with animals,” she chuckled.

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The Habit, which opened at 213 East Bay Street last year, has changed its name to The Peacock Charleston. “Our first six months have exceeded our expectations,” co-owner Michelle Van Jura said in a press release. “We look forward to the next six months and beyond as we continue to provide ... a unique and unforgettable experience in our beloved city.” The Red Palm Tavern is now open at 45 Romney St. The “old-style” American tavern and sports bar features a covered patio, billiards, darts and lots of TVs. Follow the spot on Instagram @redpalmtavernchs for updates and daily food specials. Sorelle debuts Wood Fired Fridays this February. Every Friday night starting at 9 p.m., chef Nick Dugan will offer a limited run of Neapolitanstyle pizzas beginning at 9 p.m. Walk-ins are welcome.

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Dominguez said she and her husband decided to keep the restaurant’s phone number the same, capitalizing on folks who were used to calling in for takeout Greek food. Dominguez laughed when recalling how the first takeout callers came into the newly renovated restaurant and realized they were grabbing food from an entirely new place.

“They’d come back and bring their whole families,” she said. “So many people had been dying for that. There are not any other fullservice Greek restaurants in Summerville.” It’s no surprise that fast-growing Summerville would be looking for more dining options; according to Dorchester County Economic Development, since 2000, “it has grown the fastest of the state’s large and medium-size municipalities by an immense 63%.” “We want more real restaurants where you can [sit down with] your own little community,” Dominguez said. “We’re building up a nice base of regulars, which is exactly what we wanted.” Summerville joins the rest of the tricounty area’s suburbs in its ever-growing need for solid, family-friendly restaurants. Folks are more often choosing to stay in their own neighborhoods for a night out, rather than make the trek downtown. In that vein, Dominguez is starting to offer more events and activities at Top of the Tap, from wine and food pairings to wreathmaking classes during the holiday season. “People have to travel downtown to paint and sip. … We’re only five minutes away from their house,” Dominguez said. “You can actually go and do something on a weeknight.” And, Dominguez, added, you can actually get some high quality eats, too. “It’s feel-good food,” Dominguez said. “There are a lot of vegetarian options, or you can go full-out carnivore with lamb gyros and steak souvlaki. Our guys are prepping up fresh vegetables every day.”

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Carolyn and Danny Dominguez opened Top of the Tap last summer, serving up fresh Greek food to Summerville From spanakopita, a savory spinach pie, to classic gyros and chicken souvlaki, Top of the Tap’s menu is small but mighty, designed to keep things simple and fresh. And with 25-plus beers available both on draft and in bottles and cans, Top of the Tap is staying true to its craft beer designation, too. “We’re family people,” Dominguez said. “We wanted a place where families can go for a decent meal. We’re doing everything super fresh, made from scratch and cooked to order.”

Celebrate the day of love with a Valentine’s Day dinner at Gabrielle, located in Hotel Bennett. From 5 p.m. to 9 p.m. on Feb. 14, enjoy a prix fixe menu ($115 per guest) with dishes like an endive salad, seared cobia and smoked center cut beef tenderloin medallions. Costa celebrates Valentine’s starting at 5 p.m. Feb. 14. A prix-fixe menu ($145 per guest) is served family style and includes dishes like caviar, wagyu beef and black winter truffles. Reservations can be made online at resy.com. Bodega serves up love-themed, specialty cocktails throughout the month of February including the Cupid’s Club made with Hendrick’s gin, raspberry puree, lemon and egg white and the chocolate covered strawberry latte made with espresso, chocolate ganache and strawberry milk. The Charleston Place partners with HART Jewelry Studio from 2 p.m. to 4 p.m. Feb. 9 through Feb. 11 for a HART to Heart Galentine’s Tea series. Enjoy tea martinis, tea bites and HART’S charm bar, where guests can create a customized piece of jewelry. Tickets ($135) are available on Resy and include one take home gift, one drink and bites. —Connelly Hardaway

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There’s something about a neighborhood bar and restaurant — when it’s done right, it can offer more than just good food and drinks, but a true place to land, too. For Carolyn and Danny Dominguez, nothing says neighborhood joint like a taverna, the Greek word for, as you could likely guess, tavern. “We really wanted to open a local restaurant that could turn into a neighborhood tavern in our part of town,” Carolyn Dominguez said. “We wanted to offer our neighbors something different than Taco Bell and KFC.” As the name Top of the Tap suggests, the Dominguez’ were initially looking to open a craft beer bar and restaurant. When they discovered Greek restaurant Opa Cafe for sale, they pivoted and combined their craft beer idea with a Greek cafe. The couple befriended the owners of Opa and even learned a number of recipes from Opa owner Tom Tsivelekidis before opening Top of the Tap last August. In addition to learning more about Greek flavor profiles and foods from Tsivelekidis, Dominguez said she and Danny researched the decor and vibes of traditional tavernas, adding warmer elements to the interior (as opposed to the traditional coastal blues and whites of many Greek spots) and created a bar for people to “come in and hang out.” “We’re pushing people to dine in more,” said Dominguez, who noted that Opa had been a takeout spot for the past three years. With Top of the Tap conveniently located off of Dorchester Road, Dominguez hopes that more and more people will start stopping in and staying a while.

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STATE OF SOUTH CAROLINA COUNTY OF CHARLESTON IN THE COURT OF COMMON PLEAS CASE NUMBER: 2023-CP-10-05007 Donnell Burch f/k/a Donnell Bonneau and Ophelia Mae Burch, Plaintiffs, vs. Ada Bennett, Anthony Bennett, Maxine Turner, Hattie Mae Turner, Peter Turner, Beverly Rouse, Jimmy Turner, Terrell McPherson, Robert Mitchell, Claudia Mitchell, Earnestine Burch, Mary Jane Palmer, Renee Burch, Randy Burch, Bernard Burch, Eva Wallace, Brad Tucker, Charles Rainey, Melba R. Thompson, Frank Burch, Gene Fanning, Marcus Fanning, Jamie Jameson, Melba Rainey James Rainey, Arthur Brown, Sr., Faye Nick, Emma Gene Brown, Ruthie Mae Grant, Vernell Mathis, Frank Brown, Roy Brown, Joyce Koon, Ann Rainey, Margie Rainey, Dee Rainey Lloyd, Fatima Horne, Lucretia Rainey Alston, Tim Rainey, Jackie Rainey, Benjamin Rainey, John Rainey, Jr., Lavonda Rainey, William Rainey, Jr., Anthony Rainey, Curtis Rainey, Loretta Rainey, Kenneth L. Rainey, Jeremiah Turner, Patrice Mitchell, Shinique McLellan, Crystal Flegg, Cora Burch and JOHN DOE, adults, RICHARD ROE, infants, insane persons, incompetents and persons in the military service of the United States of America, being fictitious

names designating as a class any unknown person or persons who may be an heir, distribute, devisee, legatee, widower, widow, assign, administrator, executor, creditor, successor, personal representative, issue or alienee of London Rainey a/k/a Lounow Rainey a/k/a Lonnon Rainey, Rhina Rainey, Benjamin Rainey, Elizabeth Myers Rainey, Benjamin Franklin Rainey, Elizabeth Rainey Turner, Edward Rainey, Sr., Mary Rainey Burch, Jerry Turner, Brenda Rivers, Ronald Mitchell, Rosetta Burch, Ada R. Fanning Verna Rainey, John Rainey, Sr., Anna Lee Brown, Edward Rainey, Jr., George Melvin Rainey, Arthur Brown, Jr., William Lewis Rainey, Sr., Bradley Burch, all of whom are deceased, and any or all other persons or legal entities, known and unknown, claiming any right, title, interest or estate in or lien upon the parcel of real estate described in the Lis Pendens and Complaint herein filed, Defendants, SUMMONS FOR PUBLICATION YOU ARE HEREBY SUMMONED and required to answer the Complaint in the Action, a copy of which is herewith served upon you and to serve a copy of your answer to the said Complaint on the Plaintiffs, through their Attorney, J. Chris Lanning, at his office, 12 Carriage Lane, Suite A, Charleston, South Carolina 29407, within thirty (30) days after the service hereof exclusive of the day of such Service; and, if you fail to answer the Compliant within the time aforesaid, the Plaintiffs in the Action will apply to the Court for the relief demanded in the Complaint. YOU WILL PLEASE TAKE NOTICE that should you fail to answer the foregoing Summons, the Plaintiffs will move for a general Order of Reference of this cause to the Master-in-Equity/Special Referee for the aforesaid County which Order shall, pursuant to Rule 53, South Carolina Rules of Civil Procedure, specifically provide that the said Master-in-Equity/ Special Referee is authorized and empowered to enter final judgment in this case. An appeal from the final judgment entered by the Master-in-Equity/Special Referee shall be made directly to the Supreme Court. YOU WILL PLEASE TAKE NOTICE that the Summons, Lis Pendens and Complaint in the above entitled action were filed in the Office of the Clerk of Court for Charleston County on October 11, 2023. Dated at Charleston, South Carolina on October 11, 2023. LIS PENDENS NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that an action has been commenced and is pending in this Court upon Complaint of the above-named Plaintiffs against the above named Defendants, that said Action is brought under the provisions of the South Carolina Declaratory Judgment Act, Sections 15-53-10, et seq., Code of Laws of South Carolina, 1976, and under Section 15-67-10, et. seq. for the purpose of obtaining a decree establishing that the Plaintiffs and Defendants are the owners of the said property described in paragraph One (1) of the Plaintiffs’ Complaint. That said property affected by said Complaint in this Action hereby commenced was, at the time of the commencement of this Action, and at the time of the filing of this Notice is described as follows: All that lot, piece or parcel of land, with improvements thereon, known and designated as Lots A, B, C and Residual Tract, situate in Charleston County, South Carolina, shown on a plat entitled: “Subdivision of a 5.37 Acre Tract Owned by the Estate of London Rainey into Lots A, B, and C Each Containing 1.00 Acre and a 2.37 Acre Residual Tract” by Lewis E. Seabrook, RLS, dated May 22, 2001 and recorded in Book DC, Page 987 in the Register of Deeds Office for

Charleston County. TMS #s 583-00-00-303 – Lot A 583-00-00-029 – Lot B 583-00-00-304 – Lot C 583-00-00-305 – Residual Tract GUARDIAN AD LITEM NISI PLEASE TAKE NOTICE that Conrad Falkiewicz, Esquire, 6 Carriage Lane,, Charleston, South Carolina, 29407, by Order of this Court Common Pleas dated January 18, 2024 and filed in the Office of the Clerk of Court for Charleston County, South Carolina has been appointed Guardian ad Litem Nisi for such of the Defendants herein as may be unknown infants, persons insane, or otherwise incompetent or under legal disability, claiming any right, title, estate claim, interest in, or lien upon the property described in the Complaint herein, such appointment to become absolute unless they or someone on their behalf shall procure an Order appointing a Guardian ad Litem for such persons within (30) days after past publications of the Summons herein. BRUSH LAW FIRM, P.A. s/ J. Chris Lanning J. Chris Lanning 12-A Carriage Lane Charleston, SC 29407 Phone – 843-766-5576

STATE OF SOUTH CAROLINA COUNTY OF CHARLESTON IN THE COURT OF COMMON PLEAS FOR THE NINTH JUDICIAL CIRCUIT CASE NUMBER: 2023-CP-10-03127 Stefan L. Gresham, Plaintiff, -versusRichard Stewart, Dustin Pendergrast, Hazel E. Whitney a/k/a Hazel Gaillard, William Shecut a/k/a William Linneaus Shecut, Helen Pendergrass a/k/ Helen Pendergrast, all Deceased; and all persons claiming under or through the heirs of Hazel E. Whitney a/k/a Hazel Gaillard, William Shecut a/k/a William Linneaus Shecut, Helen Pendergrass a/k/a Helen Pendergrast, collectively Designated as JOHN DOE, and any such persons who are Minors or other disability, or members of the Armed Forces 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 Hazel E. Whitney a/k/a Hazel Gaillard, William Shecut a/k/a William Linneaus Shecut, Helen Pendergrass a/k/ Helen Pendergrast, and also, all persons claiming any right, title or interest in the real estate described in the Complaint herein, Defendants, TMS #460-07-04-030 NOTICE OF HEARING It appearing that this matter has been referred to the Honorable Mikell R. Scarborough, Master In Equity for Charleston County, South Carolina, to make appropriate findings of fact and conclusions of law with authority to enter a final judgment; PLEASE TAKE NOTICE that a hearing in this matter has been scheduled and will be held on February 20, 20224, at 11:00 a.m., at the Charleston County Courthouse, Courtroom 2A, 100 Broad Street, Charleston, South Carolina. BRUSH LAW FIRM, P.A. s/ Thomas H. Brush Thomas H. Brush tbrush@brushlawfirm.com J. Chris Lanning clanning@brushlawfirm.com Attorneys for Plaintiff 12 Carriage Lane, Suite A Charleston, SC 29407 (843) 766-5576 - Phone (843) 766-9152 - Fax Dated this 24th day of January 2024 Charleston, South Carolina

STATE OF SOUTH CAROLINA COUNTY OF CHARLESTON IN THE COURT OF COMMON PLEAS FOR THE NINTH JUDICIAL DISTRICT CASE NUMBER: 2023-CP-10-06057 SUMMONS FOR PUBLICATION YOU ARE HEREBY SUMMONED and required to answer the Complaint in this Action dated December 13, 2023, which was filed with the Office of the Clerk of Court for Charleston County on the December 13, 2023. A copy of said Complaint is herewith served upon you, and you are to serve a copy of your Answer to the said Complaint on the Plaintiff or his Attorney, Thomas H. Brush, at his office located at 12 Carriage Lane, Suite A, Charleston, South Carolina 29407, within thirty (30) days after the service hereof, 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. Dated at Charleston, South Carolina on the 29th day of January 2024. BRUSH LAW FIRM, P.A. s/Thomas H. Brush Thomas H. Brush Attorney for the Plaintiff SC Bar # 000974 tbrush@brushlawfirm.com 12A Carriage Lane Charleston SC 29407 The original Summons and Complaint in the above captioned action were filed with the Clerk of Court for Charleston County on the 13th day of December 2023. LIS PENDENS NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that the Plaintiffs bring this Action pursuant to the provisions of the “Uniform Declaratory Judgment Act” contained in Title 15, Chapter 53, Code of Laws of South Carolina, 1976, as amended, for the purposes of obtaining a determination from this Honorable Court as to who are the rightful owners of the subject property, and further, pursuant to the provisions contained in Title 15, Chapter 67, Articles 1 and 2, Code of Laws of South Carolina, 1976, as amended, to determine adverse claims, if any, to the subject property and to quiet title thereto in the names of the Plaintiffs, Defendants and any lawful heirs of Defendants. And that the Plaintiffs bring this Action pursuant to the provisions of the Clementa C. Pinckney Uniform Partition of Heirs’ Property Act contained in Title 15, Chapter 61, Article 3, Code of Laws of South Carolina, as amended, for a partition by sale of the subject property described below. All that certain piece, parcel or lot of land, with the buildings and improvements thereon, situate, lying and being in Charleston County, South Carolina being shown as Lot 1 – TMS# 250-0000-212, Lot 2 – TMS# 250-00-00213, Lot 3 – TMS# 250-00-00-214, Homestead Exemption TMS #25000-00-037 and Residual Areas TMS #250-00-00-036, on a plat entitled “LOT 1, LOT 2, LOT 3 AND RESIDUAL PART OF TMS NO. 250-00-00-036, A 14.591 ACRE TRACT OF LAND ON COOKE ROAD WOEDN BY NADEZHDA MIDDLETON, LOCATED ON JOHNS ISLAND, CHARLESTON COUNTY, SOUTH CAROLINA” prepared George A.Z. Johnson, Jr. Inc., Land Surveyors, dated May 2, 2007 and recorded May 18, 2007 in Plat Book EK, at Page 707. Said lot having such size, location, buttings, boundings, courses and distances as by reference to said Plat will more fully appear. BRUSH LAW FIRM, P.A. /s/ Thomas H. Brush Thomas H. Brush SC Bar # 974 tbrush@brushlawfirm.com J. Chris Lanning Attorney for the Plaintiff SC Bar #73957 clanning@brushlawfirm.com 12 Carriage Lane, Suite A Charleston SC 29407 Phone 843-766-5576

Dated: December 13, 2023 ORDER APPOINTING GUARDEN AD LITEM Upon reading and filing the within Petition for the Appointment of a Guardian ad Litem and after mature consideration of 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 of the Defendants as may be infants, incompetents or otherwise under any disability, it is ORDERED, that Conrad Falkiewicz, 6 Carriage Lane, Charleston, South Carolina 29407, Upon reading and filing the within Petition for the Appointment of a Guardian ad Litem and after mature consideration of 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 of the Defendants as may be infants, incompetents or otherwise under any disability, it is ORDERED, that Conrad Falkiewicz, 6 Carriage Lane, Charleston, South Carolina 29407, be and is hereby appointed Guardian ad Litem for such of the Defendants herein as may be infants, incompetents or otherwise under disability, to appear herein and represent their interest; it is further ORDERED, that such appointments shall become absolute unless within thirty (30) days after the last publication of the Notice of the Appointment of Guardian ad Litem herein, exclusive of such last day of publication, such Defendants, as may be infants, incompetents; or otherwise under any 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 of the name and address of the person so appointed shall be sufficient publication of this Order. AND IT IS SO ORDERED! s/Julie J. Armstrong Charleston County Clerk of Court

NOTICE OF PUBLIC HEARING Notice is hereby given that Charleston County Council will hold a public hearing on Tuesday, February 27, 2024, at 6:30 pm in the Beverly T. Craven Council Chambers, Lonnie Hamilton, III Public Services Building, 4045 Bridge View Drive, North Charleston, SC, regarding an ordinance to amend the portion of Charleston County Code of Ordinances section 2-137 pertaining to fees in the Zoning and Planning Department to establish a fee of $25 to apply for an amendment to designated historic properties and historic districts. Public comments, written and oral, are invited. Those wishing to provide written public comments for the public hearing should email comments to public-comments@ charlestoncounty.org by 12:00 noon on Tuesday, February 27, 2024. Kristen L. Salisbury Clerk of Council

NOTICE OF PUBLIC HEARING Notice is hereby given that Charleston County Council will hold a second public hearing on Tuesday, February 27, 2024, at 6:30 p.m., in the Beverly T. Craven Council Chambers, Lonnie Hamilton, III Public Services Building, 4045 Bridge View Drive, North Charleston, S.C. regarding proposed amendments to the Charleston County Historic Preservation Ordinance. Proposed amendments are available for inspection on the Charleston County website at https:// www.charlestoncounty.org/ departments/zoning-planning/

files/HP-O-Packet-2-27-24-PH.pdf or at the Clerk of Council’s office located at 4045 Bridge View Drive, Suite B-270, North Charleston, SC 29405.

STATE OF SOUTH CAROLINA COUNTY OF CHARLESTON IN THE FAMILY COURT FOR THE NINTH JUDICIAL CIRCUIT DOCKET NO. 2023-DR-10-1192

Public comments, written and oral, are invited. Submission of written public comments is encouraged and those wishing to provide written comments for the public hearing should email comments to public-comments@ charlestoncounty.org by 12:00 noon on Tuesday, February 27, 2024.

SOUTH CAROLINA DEPARTMENT OF SOCIAL SERVICES

Kristen L. Salisbury Clerk of Council

IN THE INTERESTS OF: MINOR CHILDREN BORN 2012, 2013, 2017, AND 2021.

STATE OF SOUTH CAROLINA COUNTY OF CHARLESTON IN THE FAMILY COURT FOR THE NINTH JUDICIAL CIRCUIT DOCKET NO. 2023-DR-10-1557 SOUTH CAROLINA DEPARTMENT OF SOCIAL SERVICES VERSUS DONNA MILLIGAN AND SCOTT TREADAWAY IN THE INTERESTS OF: MINOR CHILD BORN 2010.                 TO DEFENDANT: DONNA MILLIGAN YOU ARE HEREBY SUMMONED and required to answer the Complaint for Termination of Parental Rights in this action, filed with the Clerk of Court for Charleston County on May 23, 2023, at 8:56 a.m. Upon proof of interest, a copy of the Complaint for Termination of Parental Rights will be delivered to you upon request, and you must serve a copy of your Answer to the Complaint on the Plaintiff, the Charleston County South Carolina Department of Social Services, at the office of its Attorney, Sally R. Young, Legal Department of the Charleston County Department of Social Services, 3685 Rivers Avenue, Suite 101, North Charleston, S.C. 29405 within thirty (30) days of this publication, exclusive of the date of service. If you fail to answer within the time set forth above, the Plaintiff will proceed to seek relief from the Court. Sally R. Young, SC Bar #4686, 3685 Rivers Avenue, Suite 101, North Charleston, SC 29405, 843-953-9521.

STATE OF SOUTH CAROLINA COUNTY OF CHARLESTON IN THE FAMILY COURT FOR THE NINTH JUDICIAL CIRCUIT DOCKET NO. 2023-DR- 10-0653 SOUTH CAROLINA DEPARTMENT OF SOCIAL SERVICES VERSUS Olivia Dunnigan, Kevin Winkfield, and Shemaiah Yates, DEFENDANTS. IN THE INTERESTS OF: MINOR CHILD BORN 2006. TO DEFENDANT: Shemaiah Yates YOU ARE HEREBY SUMMONED and required to answer the Complaint in this action filed with the Clerk of Court for Charleston County on March 1, 2023. Upon proof of interest, a copy of the Complaint will be delivered to you upon request from the Charleston County Clerk of Court, and you must serve a copy of your Answer to the Complaint on the Plaintiff, the South Carolina Department of Social Services, at the office of its Attorney, Adam S. Ruffin, Legal Department of the Charleston County Department of Social Services, 3685 Rivers Avenue, Suite 101, Charleston, S.C. 29405 within thirty (30) days of this publication, exclusive of the date of service. If you fail to answer within the time set forth above, the Plaintiff will proceed to seek relief from the Court. Adam S. Ruffin SC Bar # 101350 3685 Rivers Avenue, Suite 101 Charleston, S.C. 29405 (843) 953-9625

VERSUS SAMANTHA BELL, DYLAN BELL, FRANCIS CALES, DONNA CALES, DANIEL BEESON, AND AMBER MIXSON, DEFENDANTS.

TO DEFENDANT: AMBER MIXSON YOU ARE HEREBY SUMMONED and required to answer the Complaint in this action filed with the Clerk of Court for Charleston County on April 19, 2023, at 10:13 AM. Upon proof of interest, a copy of the Complaint will be delivered to you upon request from the Charleston County Clerk of Court, and you must serve a copy of your Answer to the Complaint on the Plaintiff, the South Carolina Department of Social Services, at the office of its Attorney, W-Tracy Brown, Legal Department of the Charleston County Department of Social Services, 3685 Rivers Avenue, Suite 101, North Charleston, SC 29405 within thirty (30) days of this publication, exclusive of the date of service. If you fail to answer within the time set forth above, the Plaintiff will proceed to seek relief from the Court. W-Tracy Brown, SC Bar #5832, 3685 Rivers Avenue, Suite 101 North Charleston, SC 29405 (843) 953-9625.

RECYCLE THIS PAPER STATE OF SOUTH CAROLINA COUNTY OF CHARLESTON IN THE FAMILY COURT FOR THE NINTH JUDICIAL CIRCUIT DOCKET NO. 2023-DR-10-3579 SOUTH CAROLINA DEPARTMENT OF SOCIAL SERVICES VERSUS CRYSTAL JOHNSON, DEVONTAE GRUNDY SR. DEFENDANTS. IN THE INTERESTS OF: MINOR CHILDREN BORN 2009, 2017. TO DEFENDANT: DEVONTAE GRUNDY SR. YOU ARE HEREBY SUMMONED and required to answer the Complaint in this action filed with the Clerk of Court for CHARLESTON County on December 11, 2023. Upon proof of interest, a copy of the Complaint will be delivered to you upon request from the Charleston County Clerk of Court, and you must serve a copy of your Answer to the Complaint on the Plaintiff, the South Carolina Department of Social Services, at the office of its Attorney, Sally R. Young, Legal Department of the Charleston County Department of Social Services, 3685 Rivers Ave., Suite 101, N. Charleston, South Carolina 29405-5714 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. Sally R. Young, SC Bar # 4686 3685 Rivers Ave., Suite 101 N. Charleston, South Carolina 29405-5714 (843) 953-9625

SOUTH CAROLINA DEPARTMENT OF SOCIAL SERVICES VERSUS JOLISA GARNER IN THE INTERESTS OF: MINOR CHILD BORN 2023.                 TO DEFENDANT: JOLISA GARNER YOU ARE HEREBY SUMMONED and required to answer the Complaint for Termination of Parental Rights in this action, filed with the Clerk of Court for Charleston County on January 17, 2024, at 12:06. Upon proof of interest, a copy of the Complaint for Termination of Parental Rights will be delivered to you upon request, and you must serve a copy of your Answer to the Complaint on the Plaintiff, the Charleston County South Carolina Department of Social Services, at the office of its Attorney, Adam S. Ruffin, Legal Department of the Charleston County Department of Social Services, 3685 Rivers Avenue, Suite 101, North Charleston, S.C. 29405 within thirty (30) days of this publication, exclusive of the date of service. If you fail to answer within the time set forth above, the Plaintiff will proceed to seek relief from the Court. Adam S. Ruffin, SC Bar #101350 3685 Rivers Avenue, Suite 101 North Charleston, SC 29405 843-953-9229.

STATE OF SOUTH CAROLINA COUNTY OF CHARLESTON IN THE FAMILY COURT FOR THE NINTH JUDICIAL CIRCUIT DOCKET NO. 2023-DR-10-1648 SOUTH CAROLINA DEPARTMENT OF SOCIAL SERVICES VERSUS JESSICA STRICKLAND AND MARKUS TAYLOR AKA MARCUS TAYLOR IN THE INTERESTS OF: MINOR CHILD BORN 2022                 TO DEFENDANT: MARKUS TAYLOR AKA MARCUS TAYLOR YOU ARE HEREBY SUMMONED and required to answer the Complaint for Termination of Parental Rights in this action, filed with the Clerk of Court for Charleston County on June 2, 2023, at 9:44 a.m. Upon proof of interest, a copy of the Complaint for Termination of Parental Rights will be delivered to you upon request, and you must serve a copy of your Answer to the Complaint on the Plaintiff, the Charleston County South Carolina Department of Social Services, at the office of its Attorney, Regina Parvin, Legal Department of the Charleston County Department of Social Services, 3685 Rivers Avenue, Suite 101, North Charleston, S.C. 29405 within thirty (30) days of this publication, exclusive of the date of service. If you fail to answer within the time set forth above, the Plaintiff will proceed to seek relief from the Court. Regina Parvin, SC Bar #65393 3685 Rivers Avenue, Suite 101 North Charleston, SC 29405 843-953-3713.

STATE OF SOUTH CAROLINA COUNTY OF CHARLESTON IN THE FAMILY COURT FOR THE NINTH JUDICIAL CIRCUIT DOCKET NO. 2023-DR- 10-2743 SOUTH CAROLINA DEPARTMENT OF SOCIAL SERVICES VERSUS Jolisa Garner, DEFENDANT. IN THE INTERESTS OF: MINOR CHILD BORN 2023. TO DEFENDANT: Jolisa Garner

YOU ARE HEREBY SUMMONED and required to answer the Complaint in this action filed with the Clerk of Court for Charleston County on September 15, 2023. Upon proof of interest, a copy of the Complaint will be delivered to you upon request from the Charleston County Clerk of Court, and you must serve a copy of your Answer to the Complaint on the Plaintiff, the South Carolina Department of Social Services, at the office of its Attorney, Adam S. Ruffin, Legal Department of the Charleston County Department of Social Services, 3685 Rivers Avenue, Suite 101, Charleston, S.C. 29405 within thirty (30) days of this publication, exclusive of the date of service. If you fail to answer within the time set forth above, the Plaintiff will proceed to seek relief from the Court. Adam S. Ruffin, SC Bar # 101350, 3685 Rivers Avenue, Suite 101 Charleston, S.C. 29405 (843) 953-9625

ESTATES’ CREDITOR’S NOTICES All persons having claims against the following estates are required to deliver or mail their claims to the Personal Representative indicated below and also file subject claims on Form #371ES with Irvin G. Condon, Probate Judge of Charleston County, 84 Broad Street, Charleston, S.C. 29401, before the expiration of 8 months after the date of the first publication of this Notice to Creditors or one year from the date of death, whichever date is earlier, or else thereafter such claims shall be and are forever barred. Estate of: JAMES ALLEN HINTON 2024-ES-10-0045 DOD: 12/24/23 Pers. Rep: BARBARA A. HINTON 2103 BISHOP DR. CHARLESTON, SC 29414 Atty: LISA WOLFF HERBERT, ESQ. 864 LOWCOUNTRY BLVD., #C MT. PLEASANT, SC 29464 ************ Estate of: GEORGE ALLEN ALSTON 2024-ES-10-0050 DOD: 10/5/23 Pers. Rep: JUDY ANN ALSTON 7696 SILVER FOX DR. COLUMBUS, OH 43235 Atty: ROBERT W. HAINES, ESQ. 1092 JOHNNIE DODDS BLVD., #112 MT. PLEASANT, SC 29464 ***************** Estate of: CHARLOTTE ANN SARNOWSKI 2024-ES-10-0063 DOD: 12/15/23 Pers. Rep: LOREEN MARIE SMITH 353 FAGAN DR. INMAN, SC 29349 ***************** Estate of: ROBERT F. WITTSCHEN 2024-ES-10-0086 DOD: 9/17/23 Pers. Rep: ROBERT ALEXANDER WITTSCHEN 404 WHITE END CHAPIN, SC 29036 Atty: L. K. HARRELL, ESQ. PO BOX 1000 CHAPIN, SC 29036

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 cla 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: MARGARET SUZANNE DOSCHER 2023-ES-10-1545 DOD: 12/7/23 Pers. Rep: WILLIAM G. WOODARD 45 COBURG RD., #204 CHARLESTON, SC 29407 Atty: LISA WOLFF HERBERT, ESQ. 864 LOWCOUNTRY BLVD., #C MT. PLEASANT, SC 29464 ************ Estate of: THOMAS PATRICK CAMPBELL 2023-ES-10-2187 DOD: 10/18/23 Pers. Rep: BONNIE BENNETT CAMPBELL 1070 FT. SUMTER DR. CHARLESTON, SC 29412 Atty: DAVID W. WOLF, ESQ. 748-C ST. ANDREWS BLVD. CHARLESTON, SC 29407 ************ Estate of: WEONA JACOBS CARROLL 2023-ES-10-2196 DOD: 10/24/23 Pers. Rep: ALICE CARROLL 7681 CHIPPENDALE RD. NO. CHARLESTON, SC 29420 ************ Estate of: JOSEPH NELSON, JR. 2023-ES-10-2286 DOD: 11/22/23 Pers. Rep: ROSE SHERRIE DAVIS 1008 FRIARSGATE BLVD. IRMO, SC 29063 ************* Estate of: MARY MAZYCK SMALLS 2024-ES-10-0019 DOD: 10/12/23 Pers. Rep: CAROLYN E. HUDSON 1694 WILLIAM HAPTON WAY MT. PLEASANT, SC 29466 Pers. Rep: DELORES A. SMALLS 1854 MONTCLAIR DR., #A MT. PLEASANT, SC 29464 ************ Estate of: VERMELL GREEN JARIDAU 2024-ES-10-0023 DOD: 12/23/23 Pers. Rep: SAMUEL E. JARIDAU, JR. 2931 SUGARBUSH WAY CHARLESTON, SC 29414

NOTICE OF SALE 2022-CP-10-05199 STATE OF SOUTH CAROLINA COUNTY OF CHARLESTON IN THE COURT OF COMMON PLEAS SHADOWMOSS PLANTATION HOMEOWNERS’ ASSOCIATION, INC., Plaintiff, versus CHARLES M. WRENN, JR. aka Charles M. Wrenn AND KIMBERLY WRENN, Defendants. Upon authority of an Order filed the 21st day of December, 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 5th day of March, 2024, 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 piece, parcel or lot of land with the buildings and improvements thereon, situate, lying and being in the City and County of Charleston, State of South Carolina, shown and designated as Lot 39 on a plat entitled “SHADOWMOSS PLANTATION, CITY OF CHARLESTON, CHARLESTON COUNTY, SOUTH CAROLINA, PLAT SHOWING THE SUBDIVISION OF TRACT I TO SHOW PHASE B AND THE SUBDIVISION OF PHASE B, SECTION I”, made by George A. Z. Johnson, Jr., Inc., dated August 25, 1988, and recorded August 25, 1988 in Plat Book BT, Page 8,

Register’s Office for Charleston County, South Carolina (“ROD”). BEING the same property conveyed to Charles M. Wrenn, Jr. and Kimberly B. Wrenn by deed of John A. Neuroth and Janet M. Neuroth, dated October 12,1995, and recorded in the ROD on October 12, 1995, in Book X-260, at Page 656. TMS # 358-04-00-144 Street Address: 98 Shadowmoss Parkway Charleston, SC 29414-6815. The property shall be sold subject to all covenants and restrictions of record, easements, rights-of-way, and other matters of record including 2023 real property taxes and a first Mortgage held by Wells Fargo Bank, N.A. in the original principal sum of $123,400.00 recorded in the ROD on October 12, 1995, in Book Y-260, Page 203. 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

ORDER APPOINTING GUARDIAN AD LITEM STATE OF SOUTH CAROLINA COUNTY OF CHARLESTON IN THE COURT OF COMMON PLEAS C/A NO. 2023-CP-10-05593 NewRez LLC d/b/a Shellpoint Mortgage Servicing VS Gerrald Campbell (Deceased); and any other Heirs-at-Law or Devisees of Gerrald Campbell, Deceased, their heirs, Personal Representatives, Administrators, Successors and Assigns, and all Unknown Heirs of Deceased Defendants, and all other persons entitled to claim under or through them being a class designated as Mary Roe; All Unknown persons with any right, title or interest in the real estate described herein, being a class designated as Jane Doe; also any Unknown 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, persons under a Disability or persons incarcerated, being a class designated as Richard Roe It appearing to the satisfaction of the Court, upon reading the Motion for the Appointment of 7. Kelley Y. Woody as Guardian ad Litem for all unknown persons and persons who may be in the military service of the United States of America (which are constituted as a class designated as “John Doe”) and any unknown minors and persons who may be under a disability (which are constituted as a class designated as “Richard Roe”), it is ORDERED that, pursuant to Rule 17, SCRCP, Kelley Y. Woody is appointed Guardian ad Litem on behalf of all unknown persons and persons who may be in the military service of the United States of America (constituted as a class and designated as “John Doe”), all unknown minors or persons under a disability (constituted as a class and designated as “Richard Roe”), any all other persons entitled to claim under or through them being a class designated as Mary Roe; All Unknown persons with any

right, title or interest in the real estate described herein, being a class designated as Jane Doe, all of which have or may claim to have some interest in the property that is the subject of this action, commonly known as 6144 Smith Road, Ravenel, SC 29470 that Kelley Y. Woody is empowered and directed to appear on behalf of and represent all unknown persons and persons who may be in the military service of the United States of America, constituted as a class and designated as “John Doe”, all unknown minors and persons under a disability, constituted as a class and designated as “Richard Roe”, unless the Defendants, or someone acting on their behalf, shall, within thirty (30) days after service of a copy of this Order as directed below, procure the appointment of a Guardian or Guardians ad Litem for the Defendants constituted as a class designated as “John Doe” or “Richard Roe”. IT IS FURTHER ORDERED that a copy of this Order shall be served upon the unknown Defendants by publication 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. SUMMONS AND NOTICE TO THE DEFENDANT(S) 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 ALL OTHER PERSONS ENTITLED TO CLAIM UNDER OR THROUGH THEM BEING A CLASS DESIGNATED AS MARY ROE; ALL UNKNOWN PERSONS WITH ANY RIGHT, TITLE OR INTEREST IN THE REAL ESTATE DESCRIBED HEREIN, BEING A CLASS DESIGNATED AS JANE DOE; YOU ARE HEREBY SUMMONED and required to answer the Complaint in the above action, a copy which is herewith served upon you, and to serve a copy of your Answer upon the undersigned at their offices, PO Box 4216, Columbia, South Carolina 29240, within thirty (30) days after service upon you, exclusive of the day of such service, and, if you fail to answer the Complaint within the time aforesaid, judgment by default will be rendered against you for relief demanded in the Complaint. NOTICE NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that the original Complaint in this action was filed in the office of the Clerk of Court for Charleston County on November 14, 2023. NOTICE OF PENDENCY OF ACTION NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN THAT an action has been commenced and is now pending or is about to be commenced in the Circuit Court upon the complaint of the above named Plaintiff against the above named Defendant for the purpose of foreclosing a certain mortgage of real estate heretofore given by to Gerrald Campbell bearing date of April 27, 2013 and recorded May 13, 2013 in Mortgage Book 0330, at Page 415. in the Register of Mesne Conveyances/Register of Deeds/ Clerk of Court for Charleston County, in the original principal sum of $62,964.00 that, and that the premises effected by said mortgage and by the foreclosure thereof are situated in the County of Charleston, State of South Carolina, and is described as follows: SITUATED IN THE TOWNSHIP OF RAVENEL, COUNTY OF CHARLESTON AND STATE OF SOUTH CAROLINA:

ALL THAT CERTAIN PIECE, PARCEL OR LOT OF LAND, WITH IMPROVEMENTS THEREON, SITUATE, LYING AND BEING IN THE TOWNSHIP OF RAVENEL, COUNTY OF CHARLESTON, STATE OF SOUTH CAROLINA, BEING KNOWN AND DESIGNATED AS LOT NO 27 IN BLOCK “C” OF THE SUBDIVISION KNOWN AS RAVENEL ACRES SUBDIVISION, RECORDED IN THE RMC OFFICE FOR CHARLESTON COUNTY IN PLAT BOOK K AT PAGE 155. SAID LOT HAVING SUCH SIZE, SHAPE, DIMENSIONS, BUTTINGS AND BOUNDINGS AS REFERENCE TO THE AFORESAID PLAT WILL MORE FULLY AND AT LARGE APPEAR. SUBJECT to all conditions, covenants, easements, reservations, restrictions, and zoning ordinances that may appear of record, on the recorded plats or on the premises. THIS BEING THE SAME PROPERTY CONVEYED BY DEED OF MARY R. ELROD TO GERRALD CAMPBELL DATED JANUARY 30, 2002 AND RECORDED FEBRUARY 4, 2002 IN BOOK W395 AT PAGE 167. TMS#: 187-15-00-037 Physical Address: 6144 Smith Road Ravenel, SC 29470 Crawford & von Keller, LLC PO Box 4216 1640 St. Julian Place (29204) Columbia, SC 29204 Phone: 803-790-2626 Email: court@crawfordvk.com

STATE OF SOUTH CAROLINA COUNTY OF CHARLESTON IN THE COURT OF COMMON PLEAS FOR THE NINTH JUDICIAL CIRCUIT CASE NO.: 2023-CP-10-04586 Kimberly Graham, Plaintiff, vs. Tracy Hamilton, Defendant SUMMONS TO THE DEFENDANT ABOVE NAMED: YOU ARE HEREBY SUMMONED and required to answer the Complaint in this action, a copy of which is herewith served upon you, and to serve a copy of your answer upon the subscriber at their offices, Brett M. Ehman, Attorney at Law, 2971 West Montague Avenue, Suite 203, N. Charleston, South Carolina, 29418, within thirty (30) days after the service hereof upon you, exclusive of the day of such service; and if you fail to answer or otherwise plead within the time aforesaid, the Plaintiff herein will apply to the Court for judgment by default for the relief demanded in the Complaint. BRETT M. EHMAN Attorney at Law /s/ Brett M. Ehman S.C. Bar No.: 102443 Attorney for Plaintiff 2971 West Montague Avenue Suite 203 North Charleston, SC 29418 (843) 225-3607 brett@ehmanlaw.com September 19, 2023 North Charleston, South Carolina

PUBLIC AUCTION Extra Space Storage, on behalf of itself or its affiliates, Life Storage or Storage Express, will hold a public auction to sell personal property described below belonging to those individuals listed below at the location indicated: Facility 1: 1108 Stockade Ln. Mt. Pleasant, SC 29466 02/20/2024 10:00 AM

Taylor Denahm Household Goods

Daniel Layfield Furniture

Allen Owens Household items

Facility 10 1951 Maybank Hwy Charleston, SC 29412 02/20/2024 11:30 AM

Facility 2: 1904 Hwy 17 N. Mount Pleasant, SC 29464 02/20/2024 10:15 AM

Jannie Bowers Appliance, furniture

Tammy Vanderhorst Furniture and household items

Sarah Polega Household items and clothes

John Webb Furniture

Anthony Grant Bedrooms items, furniture, boxes

John Webb Beds, dresser, sofa, few lamps, several boxes of miscellaneous stuff

Daniel Gentry Furniture and tools

John Webb Household items Facility 3: 1640 James Nelson Rd Mount Pleasant, SC 29464 02/20/2024 10:20 AM Kaylea Lyerly Boxes, clothing, dorm room furniture Israel Broderick Clothes, boxes Cares Clinic Medical supplies Renee Williams Household items Renee Williams Household items Christopher Johnson Totes, electronics Facility 4: 1117 Bowman Rd. Mount Pleasant, SC 29464 02/20/2024 10:25 AM Michelle bowers DJ equipment Facility 5 1471 Center St Mt. Pleasant, SC 29464 02/20/2024 10:30 AM

Zach Monirzad Furniture Facility 11 8850 Rivers Ave North Charleston, SC 29406 02/20/2024 10:45 AM Brandi Shanahan Boxes, Furniture Tracey Graham Household Items Porsche Foxworth Furniture Alderico Silva Construction Material Sadie Wright Boxes, Furniture Dream Big K&B Area LLC / Bridget Shaw Furniture Facility 12 3781 Ashley Phosphate Rd. North Charleston, SC 29418 02/20/2024 11:00 AM Joanne Kirkham Household furniture, collectibles Tamesha Finney Household furniture, boxes, bags Brian Welenc Household Goods

Dan Batten Household goods

James Willis Household goods, furniture, luggage

Furniture Boxes

Linda Priester Household goods

Facility 6: 1514 Mathis Ferry Rd. Mt. Pleasant, SC 29464 02/20/2024 10:35 AM

Akahla Dais Household goods, event supplies

Bertrum McQueen Household Goods/ Furniture

Facility 13 9670 Dorchester Rd Summerville, SC 29485 02/20/2024 10:15 AM

Renee Williams Household Goods/ Furniture, Tools/ Appliances

Susan Gresh Furniture, washer, dryer, seasonal items,boxes

Renea Williams Household Goods/ Furniture

Michelle Harris Misc Household items

Facility 7 1426 N Hwy 17 Mt. Pleasant, SC 29464 02/20/2024 10:40 AM

Bre Washington Household items

Zachary Bradley Household Goods/Furniture Robert Robinson 2 couches, bed, 2 small Tvs Cara Woschenko Household Goods/Furniture, TV/ Stereo Equipment Facility 8 3510 Glenn McConnell Pkwy Charleston, SC 29414 02/20/2024 10:00 AM Alberta Grimes Furniture and household goods and clothes Edith Walker Misc household items Wendy Rivers Washer, dryer, beds, household

Mashica Edwards Household Items/Boxes

Facility 9 2443 Savannah Hwy Charleston, SC 29414 02/20/2024 10:30 AM

Regine Butler Household items

Harlie Stevens Household Goods

Kelly Scialampo House furniture and boxed house goods Keyanna Stanley Bed toddler bed toy car boxes Maria Hamilton Bed set and couch Alisha Simmons Couch, loveseat, end table, coffee table Alexis Bobo Two TVs, antiques, clothes, canvases Letica Watson Boxes, misc household items Keisha Salley 2 bedroom apartment, Kahndis Thomas King sized Head Board, Dresser Clothes Facility 14 6941 Rivers Ave North Charleston, SC 29406 02/20/2024 12:30 PM Janequa Greer Boxes bedroom furniture, household items

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STATE OF SOUTH CAROLINA COUNTY OF CHARLESTON IN THE FAMILY COURT FOR THE NINTH JUDICIAL CIRCUIT DOCKET NO. 2024-DR-10-0133

Marion Richardson Clothes, tv Antonio Holman 2 beds, couch furniture Lakesia Tindall Bedroom kitchen and livingroom Shanekqua Scott Household items Facility 15 5146 Ashley Phosphate Rd North Charleston, SC 29420 02/20/2024 12:00 PM Rebecca Richardson Household furniture Makayla McCollin Boxes, furniture, tv’s, video games and documents Sheena Jackson Boxes Percetia Green Kids toys, household furniture Kalimah Canty Wheelchair and toddler bed Larry Heyward Mattress, household items Brandi Goodman Clothes, washer, toys Facility 16 45 Grand Oaks Blvd Charleston, SC 29414 02/20/2024 11:15 AM Branon Purrone Household Goods/Furniture Ashley Wiley Household Goods/Furniture BJ Harper Household Goods/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.

PUBLIC NOTICE Extra Space Storage, on behalf of itself or its affiliates, Life Storage or Storage Express, will hold a public auction to sell personal property described below belonging to those individuals listed below at the location indicated: Facility 1: 810 St. Andrews Blvd Charleston, SC 29407 2/20/2024 11:45 AM Dorian Gethers Safe, Personal items Facility 3: 1533 Ashley River Rd Charleston, SC 29407 2/20/2024 12:45 PM LaShonda Pugh Washer, Teens Dirt Bike, Fish Tank, boxes of personal items.

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Keith Barnes Clothes, shoes Joshua Wilson Furniture, boxes Shoan Williams Washer, dryer, table, ac unit, 2 dresser, 2 couch Facility 4: 1540 Meeting Street Rd Charleston, SC 29405 2/20/2024 1:00 PM Ernest Murray Household Goods/Furniture. Wesley Walls Household Goods/Furniture Octavia Robinson Furniture and clothing and other

household goods. Tonya Chapman Household Goods/Furniture. Facility 5: 1861 Ashley River Rd. Charleston, SC 29407 2/20/2024 1:15 PM Charles Miller Boxes, bed Christina Miller Household goods Frank Kalmbach Contents of apartment, dining table, kitchen items, couch Carol Stent-Westbrook Household goods Jairo Santos Mattress, nightstand, other household goods 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 NINTH JUDICIAL CIRCUIT CASE NO.: 2023-CP-10-05843 DANIEL SMALLS, Plaintiff, v. THE MODERN FREE AND ACCEPTED MASONS, SUNSHINE LODGE NO. 30 AND THE PRIDE OF WADMALAW ISLAND, CHAPTER 25, EASTERN STAR, UNINCORPORATED ASSOCIATION, and BEN STANLEY Defendant. SUMMONS TO: THE DEFENDANTS ABOVE NAMED YOU ARE HEREBY SUMMONED AND REQUIRED TO answer the Complaint in this action, a copy of which is wherewith served upon you, and to serve a copy of your Answer thereto on the subscribers, Charles A. George, Esquire and Renee M. Anderson, Esquire, at their office at the address below, within thirty (30) days after the date of service upon you, exclusive of the day of such service. YOU ARE HEREBY GIVEN NOTICE FURTHER that if you fail to appear and defend and fail to Answer the Complaint as required by this Summons within (30) days after the service hereof, exclusive of the day of such service, judgment by default will be entered against you for the relief demanded in the Complaint. s/Renee M. Anderson Renee M. Anderson, Esq. Charles A. George, Esq. George Law Firm, LLC PO Box 1340 Goose Creek, SC 29445-1340 charles@george-law.com renee@george-law.com (843) 323-4383 Office (843) 375-6040 Fax Attorneys for the Plaintiff January 22, 2024 Charleston, South Carolina

STATE OF SOUTH CAROLINA COUNTY OF CHARLESTON IN THE COURT OF COMMON PLEAS Case Number: 2023-CP-100-2883 MICHELE GRAHAM Plaintiff v. COOPER RIVER LOVE AND CHARITY SOCIETY (1920) COOPER RIVER LOVE AND CHARITY SOCIETY (2015) Defendants NOTICE OF HEARING A hearing has been scheduled

for the above-referenced case for February 29, 2024 at 10:30 AM. The hearing will be held via the WebEx Virtual Courtroom. To access the virtual courtroom, go to the South Carolina Judicial Website at SCCOURTS.ORG. Click “Calendar”, then “Monthly View”, then “Circuit” on the day the hearing is scheduled. Scroll until you find Judge Jennifer B. McCoy then click the Virtual Courtroom link. Enter your full name and email address to join. Memos and briefs are to be e-filed with the Clerk’s office prior to the week the hearing is scheduled. For questions, contact Michele Graham at 843-532-7252 or the court.

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STATE OF SOUTH CAROLINA COUNTY OF CHARLESTON IN THE COURT OF COMMON PLEAS Carrington Mortgage Services, LLC, PLAINTIFF, vs. Carl L Eustace, Jr; Elizabeth Ansley Eustace; Ethel Kesler and if Ethel Kesler be deceased then any child and heir at law to the Estate of Ethel Kesler distributees and devisees at law to the Estate of Ethel Kesler and if any of the same be dead any and all persons entitled to claim under or through them also all other persons unknown claiming any right, title, interest or lien upon the real estate described in the complaint herein; Any unknown adults, any unknown infants or persons under a disability being a class designated as John Doe, and any persons in the military service of the United States of America being a class designated as Richard Roe; Jane Kesler Uphshur a/k/a Jane Kesler Upshur a/k/a Jane K Upshur, Individually and as Personal Representative of the Estate of Ethel Royal Kesler and as Trustee under the Jane K. Upshur Trust, DEFENDANT(S) SUMMONS AND NOTICE OF FILING OF COMPLAINT (NON-JURY MORTGAGE FORECLOSURE) C/A NO: 2023-CP-10-02756 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 June 7, 2023. NOTICE OF APPOINTMENT OF ATTORNEY FOR DEFENDANT(S) IN MILITARY SERVICE TO UNKNOWN OR KNOWN DEFENDANTS THAT MAY BE IN THE MILITARY SERVICE OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA ALL BEING A CLASS DESIGNATED AS RICHARD ROE: YOU ARE FURTHER SUMMONED AND NOTIFIED that Plaintiff’s attorney has applied for the appointment of an attorney to represent you. If you fail to apply for the appointment of an attorney to represent you within thirty (30) days after the service of this Summons and Notice upon you Plaintiff’s appointment will be made absolute with no further action from Plaintiff. THIS IS A COMMUNICATION FROM A DEBT COLLECTOR. THE PURPOSE OF THIS COMMUNICATION IS TO COLLECT A DEBT AND ANY INFORMATION OBTAINED WILL BE USED FOR THAT PURPOSE, except as stated below in the instance of bankruptcy protection. IF YOU ARE UNDER THE PROTECTION OF THE BANKRUPTCY COURT OR HAVE BEEN DISCHARGED AS A RESULT OF A BANKRUPTCY PROCEEDING, THIS NOTICE IS GIVEN TO YOU PURSUANT TO STATUTORY REQUIREMENT AND FOR INFORMATIONAL PURPOSES AND IS NOT INTENDED AS AN ATTEMPT TO COLLECT A DEBT OR AS AN ACT TO COLLECT, ASSESS, OR RECOVER ALL OR ANY PORTION OF THE DEBT FROM YOU PERSONALLY. Hutchens Law Firm LLP

Notice of Initial Application to Operate Employment Agency Insight Global, LLC Please take note that Insight Global, LLC has applied to the Secretary’s of State’s Office for a license to operate a Private Personnel Placement Service in the name of Insight Global at 997 Morrison Dr. Suite 602, Charleston, SC 29403. The agency will be operated by Jessica Calzaretta. Inquires: (470) 829-7518 rachel. larsen@insightglobal.com

STATE OF SOUTH CAROLINA COUNTY OF CHARLESTON IN THE COURT OF COMMON PLEAS NINTH JUDICIAL CIRCUIT Case No.: 2023-CP-10- 05514 LLOYD ELLENBURG, Plaintiff, vs. JELISA JACKSON, Defendant. SUMMONS Tort: Automobile Collision TO THE DEFENDANT ABOVENAMED: YOU ARE HEREBY SUMMONED and required to answer the Complaint in this action, a copy of which is herewith served upon you, and to serve a copy of your Answer to the said Complaint on the subscriber at his office, 3045 Ashley Phosphate Road, N. Charleston, South Carolina 29418, within thirty (30) days after the service hereof, 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. JOHN PRICE LAW FIRM, LLC s/ Bobby O. Phipps Bobby O. Phipps (S.C. Bar #66535) 307 Old Trolley Road Summerville, SC 29485 P: (843) 552-6011 F: (843) 871-3232 bobbyphipps@johnpricelawfirm. com ATTORNEY FOR PLAINTIFF N. Charleston, South Carolina Dated: 11/9/2023

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STATE OF SOUTH CAROLINA COUNTY OF CHARLESTON IN THE COURT OF COMMON PLEAS CASE NO.: 2023-CP-10-05722 TERRELL AULTMAN, Plaintiff, vs PHILLIP DRAYTON, and JOHN DOE AND MARY ROE, adults, and RICHARD ROE AND JANE ROE, infants, persons under disability or incompetent, if any, including those persons who might be in the military and covered under the Soldiers’ and Sailors’ Civil Relief Act; being fictitious names designating the unknown heirs, devisees, distributees, issue, executors, administrators, alienees, successors or assigns of the above named Defendants and the UNKNOWN HEIRS OF MARIA ROBINSON, a/k/a MARIAH ROBINSON, also any and all other persons or legal entities, known or unknown, claiming any right, title, interest, estate in or lien upon the real estate described in the Complaint herein, Defendants. SUMMONS (Determine Heirs and Suit to Establish Easement) TO THE DEFENDANTS ABOVENAMED: YOU ARE HEREBY SUMMONED and required to answer the Complaint in this action, a copy of which is on file at the Charleston County Courthouse, and to serve a copy of your Answer to the said Complaint on the attorney, Kenneth A. Campbell, Jr., at his

office, 1337 Green Pond Highway, Walterboro, South Carolina 29488 or to Amy Campbell Kelly, 1106 Liberty Court; Mt. Pleasant, South Carolina 29464, within thirty (30) days after the service hereof, exclusive of the day of such service, and if you fail to answer or respond to the Complaint within the time aforesaid, the Plaintiff in this action will apply to the Court for the relief demanded in the Petition. LIS PENDENS TO WHOM IT MAY CONCERN: PLEASE TAKE NOTICE that an action has been commenced in this Court under the aforegoing title to establish an easement in the below described property located in Charleston County, South Carolina: ALL that certain piece, parcel or tract of land, situate, lying and being in St. Paul’s School District No. 23, County of Charleston, State of South Carolina, containing one (1.0) acre, more or less, and being bounded now or formerly as follows: on the North by land of Annie Drayton, on the east by lands of Maria Robinson, on the South by lands of Maria Robinson, and on the West by lands of Annie Drayton. As further shown on a plat recorded November 7, 1994, in Plat Book EA at Page 298 in the RMC Office for Charleston County. BEING the same property conveyed to Ronnie Leon McLendon and Arthur Kurk Mead, Jr., by deed of Arlene Donna McLendon, dated May 22, 2012, and recorded June 5, 2012, in Book 0225 at Page 843 in the RMC office for Charleston County. SAID property designated on Tax Rolls of Charleston County as TMS #120-00-00-052. NOTICE OF FILING AND NOTICE OF INTENT TO REFER TO MASTER IN EQUITY TO THE DEFENDANTS ABOVE NAMED: PLEASE TAKE NOTICE that the original Lis Pendens, Summons, and Complaint in the above entitled action were filed for the purpose of establishing an easement, in the Office of the Clerk of Court for Charleston County on the 17th day of November, 2023, and the Notice of Intent to Refer to the Master in Equity was Filed in the Office of the Clerk of Court for Charleston County on 5th day of December, 2023. NOTICE OF ORDER APPOINTING GUARDIAN AD LITEM NISI TO: Any and all persons whomsoever herein collectively designated as John Doe, Mary Doe, Richard Roe and Jane Roe, AND ANY DEFENDANTS HEREIN, NAMES AND ADDRESSES UNKNOWN, INCLUDING ANY DEFENDANTS THEREOF WHO MAY BE MINORS OR UNDER OTHER LEGAL DISABILITY, IF ANY, WHETHER RESIDENTS OR NON-RESIDENTS OF SOUTH CAROLINA AND TO THE NATURAL, GENERAL, TESTAMENTARY GUARDIAN OR COMMITTEE, OR OTHERWISE AND TO THE PERSON WITH WHOM THEY MAY RESIDE, IF ANY THERE BE: PLEASE TAKE NOTICE that the Order appointing J. Reaves McLeod of Walterboro, South Carolina, as Guardian ad Litem Nisi, for all the persons whomsoever herein collectively designated as John Doe, Mary Doe, Richard Roe and Mary Roe, defendants herein, names and address unknown, including any thereof who may be minors or under other legal disability, whether residents or non-residents of South Carolina, was filed in the Office of the Clerk of Court for Charleston County on the 29th day of December, 2023. YOU WILL FURTHER TAKE NOTICE that unless the said minors or persons under other legal disability, if any, or someone in their behalf or in behalf of any of them, shall within thirty (30) days after service of notice of this

Order upon them by publication, exclusive of the day of such service, procure to be appointed for them, or either of them a Guardian ad Litem to represent them for the purpose of this action, the Order making the appointment of said Guardian ad Litem Nisi, shall become absolute. _s/Kenneth A. Campbell, Jr. KENNETH A. CAMPBELL, JR. Attorney for Plaintiff SC Bar No: 1095 1337 Green Pond Hwy Walterboro, SC 29488 (843) 893-2677 Email: kcampbellatty@yahoo.com Walterboro, South Carolina This 15th day of January, 2023.

STATE OF SOUTH CAROLINA COUNTY OF CHARLESTON IN THE COURT OF COMMON PLEAS C/A NO.: 2023-CP-10-06152 Lincoln Heritage Life Insurance Company v. Kenneth Manigo Summons and Notice of Filing Complaint TO THE ABOVE-NAMED DEFENDANT KENNETH MANIGO: YOU ARE HEREBY SUMMONED and required to answer the Complaint in this action, a copy of which is hereby served upon you, and to serve a copy of your Answer to this Complaint upon the subscriber, at their offices at 1320 Main Street, 17th Floor, Columbia SC 29201, within thirty (30) days after service hereof, exclusive of the day of such service, and if you fail to answer the Complaint, judgment by default will be rendered against you for the relief demanded in the Complaint. YOU WILL ALSO TAKE NOTICE that the original Complaint in the above-entitled action was filed in the Office of the Clerk of Court for Charleston County on December 19, 2023.

to answer after the service hereof, exclusive of such service; and if you fail to answer the Complaint or otherwise appear and defend within the time aforesaid, Plaintiff in this action will apply to the Court for relief demanded therein, and judgment by default will be rendered against you for the relief demanded in the Complaint. 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) RESIDE(S), AND/ OR TO PERSONS UNDER SOME LEGAL DISABILITY: YOU ARE FURTHER SUMMONED AND NOTIFIED to apply for the appointment of a guardian ad litem within thirty (30) days after the service of this Summons and Notice upon you. If you fail to do so, application for such appointment will be made by Plaintiff. YOU WILL ALSO TAKE NOTICE that pursuant to Rule 53(b) of the South Carolina Rules of Civil Procedure, as amended effective September 1, 2002, Plaintiff may move for a general Order of Reference to the Master-in-Equity for Charleston County, which Order shall, pursuant to Rule 53(b) of the SCRCP, specifically provide that the said Master-in-Equity is authorized and empowered to enter a final judgment in this action. s/Derek F. Dean S.C. Bar No. 65279 Attorney for Plaintiff Simons & Dean 147 Wappoo Creek Drive, Suite 604 Charleston, SC 29412 843-762-9132 dfdean@charlestonattorneys.net September 18, 2023

NOTICE OF SALE Docket No. 2022-CP-10-2419

Yasmeen Ebbini Nelson Mullins Riley & Scarborough LLP 1320 Main Street, 17th Floor Columbia, SC 29201 (803) 799-2000 Counsel for Plaintiff

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;

THE SUMMONS AND COMPLAINT WERE DULY FILED IN THE COURT OF COMMON PLEAS FOR THE NINTH JUDICIAL CIRCUIT IN CHARLESTON COUNTY ON SEPTEMBER 18, 2023 AT 4:26 P.M.

I, the undersigned Master-in-Equity for Charleston County, will sell on March 5, 2024, 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:

STATE OF SOUTH CAROLINA COUNTY OF CHARLESTON IN THE COURT OF COMMON PLEAS FOR THE NINTH JUDICIAL CIRCUIT CASE NO.: 2023-CP-10-4583 SIENNA AT GRAND OAKS HOMEOWNERS ASSOCIATION, INC., Plaintiff, v. PATRICE A. SUNE AND PATRICK C. BISHOP, Defendants. SUMMONS & NOTICE TO: PATRICE A. SUNE, DEFENDANT: YOU ARE HEREBY SUMMONED and required to answer the Complaint herein, a copy of which is herewith served upon you, or to otherwise appear and defend, and to serve a copy of your Answer to said Complaint upon the subscribers at their office, 147 Wappoo Creek Drive, Suite 604, Charleston, South Carolina 29412, or to otherwise appear and defend the action pursuant to applicable court rules, within thirty (30) days after service hereof, exclusive of the day of such service; except that the United States of America, if named, shall have sixty (60) days

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

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

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STATE OF SOUTH CAROLINA COUNTY OF CHARLESTON IN THE COURT OF COMMON PLEAS C.A. No. 2023-CP-10-01712 Robert Lee Ford, Sr., Plaintiff, v. Steve Ford, Defendant. NOTICE OF HEARING YOU WILL PLEASE TAKE NOTICE that a final hearing concerning Plaintiff’s requested relief will be held on Thursday, February 15, 2024, at 10:00 a.m., before the Honorable Mikell R. Scarborough, Master in Equity for Charleston County, at the Charleston Cunty Judicial Center, 100 Broad Street, Courtroom 2A, Second Floor, Charleston, South Carolina s/Lawrence M. Hershon Lawrence M. Hershon (SC Bar No. 77514) The Hershon Law Firm, P.A. 1565 Sam Rittenberg Blvd., Suite 103 Charleston, SC 29407 Telephone: (843) 829-2022 Facsimile: (843) 829-2023 lawrence@hershonlawfirm.com Attorney for the Plaintiff January 31, 2024 Charleston, South Carolina

NOTICE OF SALE BY VIRTUE of the Order heretofore granted in the case of Wayne Gable, as Trustee for CPSI 401K against James C. Hughes, III, Robert Hughes, and Russell Hughes, 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, March 5, 2024, 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. 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 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 15.0% 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

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STATE OF SOUTH CAROLINA COUNTY OF CHARLESTON IN THE COURT OF COMMON PLEAS FOR THE NINTH JUDICIAL CIRCUIT CASE NO. 2024-CP-10-00533 County of Charleston, Condemnor, vs. The Heirs of Jake Ford, Landowners, Norman Ford, Other Condemnee, and JOHN DOE and MARY ROE, fictitious names used to designate all other condemnees whose names are unknown, and persons in the military service within the meaning of Title 50, United States Code, commonly referred to as the Soldiers and Sailors Relief Act of 1940, as amended, if any, and the unknown heirs at law, devisees, widows, widowers, executors, administrators, personal representatives, successors and assigns, firms or corporations of any of the Landowner(s), Other Condemnee(s) or Unknown Claimant(s) who may be deceased, and any and all persons claiming any right, title, interest in or lien upon the real estate or other property described in the Condemnation Notice or any part thereof, Unknown Claimant(s). SUMMONS AND NOTICE OF FILING TO: LANDOWNERS AND UNKNOWN CLAIMANTS NAMED ABOVE: YOU ARE HEREBY SUMMONED, advised and notified, that pursuant to the South Carolina Eminent Domain Procedure Act, S.C. Code Ann. § 28-2-10, et seq., the within Condemnation Notice and Tender of Payment, a copy of which is herewith served upon you, has been filed with the Clerk of Court for Charleston County, South Carolina. The purpose of this action is to enable the Condemnor County of Charleston to acquire certain real property for its public purposes, as is more fully stated in the attached Condemnation Notice and Tender of Payment. Responsive pleadings to the Condemnation Notice and Tender of Payment are not necessary. LIS PENDENS NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that the Condemnor County of Charleston, pursuant to the South Carolina Eminent Domain Procedure Act, S.C. Code Ann. § 28-2-10, et seq., has brought an action against Landowners, named above, to acquire a permanent and exclusive drainage easement (the “Easement”), consisting of 2,787 square feet (0.064 acre), more or less, over, on, through, and burdening the real property described as follows: All that certain piece, parcel, or tract of land, with any improvements thereon, situate, lying, and being in St. Andrews Parish, Charleston County, South Carolina, containing 2.361 acres (102,846.95 square feet), more or less, and being shown as “LOT NO. 3B” on the plat entitled “PLAT SHOWING THE SUBDIVISION OF A LOT 3, A 3.05 ACRE TRACT OF LAND INTO LOTS 3A AND 3B; OWNED BY THE ESTATE OF JAKE FORD; AND LOCATED IN ST. ANDREWS PARISH IN THE RED TOP COMMUNITY, CHARLESTON COUNTY, SOUTH CAROLINA” prepared by Clarence S. Matthews, and recorded April 13, 2001 in Plat Book EE, Page 739, in the Register of Deeds Office for Charleston County, South Carolina. Being a portion of the property conveyed to Jake Ford by deed from the Heirs of T.W. Messervy, dated October 8, 1938, and recorded June 12, 1939, in Book O40, Page 611. Tax Map Parcel No. 287-00-00-300

The size, shape, location, and butting and bounding of the Easement are depicted more particularly on the plat attached hereto as Exhibit A, reference to which is hereby made for a more complete description. The County’s acquisition of the Easement is necessary for public purposes, more particularly for, or in connection with, the construction, operations, maintenance, and/ or reconstruction of a stormwater drainage system associated with improvements to Seaman Lane in Charleston County, South Carolina. NOTICE OF ORDER APPOINTING GUARDIAN AD LITEM NISI TO: UNKNOWN CLAIMANT(S) NAMED ABOVE PLEASE TAKE NOTICE that the Order appointing George E. Counts, Esquire, Counts & Huger, LLC, P.O. Box 80399, Charleston, South Carolina 29416, (Telephone: 843-573-0143), as Guardian ad Litem Nisi, for all persons whomsoever herein collectively designated as John Doe and Mary Roe, Condemnees herein, names and addresses unknown, including any thereof who may be minors or under other legal disability, whether residents or non-residents of South Carolina, has been filed in the Office of the Clerk of Court for Charleston County. YOU WILL FURTHER TAKE NOTICE that unless the said minors or persons under other legal disability, if any, or someone on their behalf or on behalf of any of them, shall within thirty (30) days after service of notice of this order upon them by publication, exclusive of the day of such service, procure to be appointed for them, or any of them, a Guardian ad Litem to represent them for the purposes of this action, the Condemnor will apply for an order making the appointment of said Guardian ad Litem Nisi absolute. CHARLESTON COUNTY ATTORNEY’S OFFICE Brittney M. Darnell, Esquire Lonnie Hamilton, III Public Services Building 4045 Bridge View Drive North Charleston, South Carolina 29405 (843) 958-4010 bdarnell@charlestoncounty.org Attorney for Condemnor Charleston, South Carolina February 1, 2024

STATE OF SOUTH CAROLINA COUNTY OF CHARLESTON IN THE COURT OF COMMON PLEAS FOR THE NINTH JUDICIAL CIRCUIT CASE NO. 2024-CP-10-00532 County of Charleston, Condemnor, vs. Samuel L. Gibbs, Jr., individually and as the Co-Personal Representative of the Estate of Helen Virginia Wright Gibbs, Anthony Gibbs, individually and as the Co-Personal Representative of the Estate of Helen Virginia Wright Gibbs, Sheila R. Gibbs, individually and as the Co-Personal Representative of the Estate of Helen Virginia Wright Gibbs, Landowners, Nationstar Mortgage, LLC, Other Condemnee, and JOHN DOE and MARY ROE, fictitious names used to designate all other condemnees whose names are unknown, and persons in the military service within the meaning of Title 50, United States Code, commonly referred to as the Soldiers and Sailors Relief Act of 1940, as amended, if any, and the unknown heirs at law, devisees, widows, widowers, executors, administrators, personal representatives, successors and assigns, firms or corporations of any of the Landowner(s), Other Condemnee(s) or Unknown Claimant(s) who may be

deceased, and any and all persons claiming any right, title, interest in or lien upon the real estate or other property described in the Condemnation Notice or any part thereof, Unknown Claimant(s). SUMMONS AND NOTICE OF FILING TO: LANDOWNERS, OTHER CONDEMNEES, AND UNKNOWN CLAIMANTS NAMED ABOVE: YOU ARE HEREBY SUMMONED, advised and notified, that pursuant to the South Carolina Eminent Domain Procedure Act, S.C. Code Ann. § 28-2-10, et seq., the within Condemnation Notice and Tender of Payment, a copy of which is herewith served upon you, has been filed with the Clerk of Court for Charleston County, South Carolina. The purpose of this action is to enable the Condemnor County of Charleston to acquire certain real property for its public purposes, as is more fully stated in the attached Condemnation Notice and Tender of Payment. Responsive pleadings to the Condemnation Notice and Tender of Payment are not necessary. LIS PENDENS NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that the Condemnor County of Charleston, pursuant to the South Carolina Eminent Domain Procedure Act, S.C. Code Ann. § 28-2-10, et seq., has brought an action against Landowners, named above, to acquire a fee simple interest in a strip of land consisting of 536 square feet (0.012 acre), more or less, from the real property described as follows: ALL that certain piece, parcel or lot of land situate, lying and being North west of Red Top in the Bear Swamp Section of Charleston County and containing ___ of an acre as shown on a Plat by W.L. Gaillard, Surv. The above mentioned lot having the following boundaries and dimensions – on the North by lands of Estelle and Samuel Gibbs, 94 feet. On the North by lands of Estelle and Samuel Gibbs, 94 feet. On the East by a small road, 190 feet on the South by County Road #394, 68 feet- and on the West by a small road, 124 feet – BEING the same property conveyed to Helen Gibbs, Anthony Gibbs, Samuel L. Gibbs, Jr., and Sheila R. Gibbs by deed of distribution from the Estate of Reverend Samuel Levi Gibbs, Sr., dated February 8, 2007, and recorded February 16, 2007, in Book N615, Page 769. Tax Map Parcel No. 287-00-00-023 The size, shape, location, and butting and bounding of the real property sought herein is depicted more particularly on the plat attached hereto as Exhibit A, reference to which is hereby made for a more complete description. The County’s acquisition of the real property is necessary for public purposes, more particularly for, construction and improvement of Seaman Lane in Charleston County, South Carolina. NOTICE OF ORDER APPOINTING GUARDIAN AD LITEM NISI TO: UNKNOWN CLAIMANT(S) NAMED ABOVE PLEASE TAKE NOTICE that the Order appointing George E. Counts, Esquire, Counts & Huger, LLC, P.O. Box 80399, Charleston, South Carolina 29416, (Telephone: 843-573-0143), as Guardian ad Litem Nisi, for all persons whomsoever herein collectively designated as John Doe and Mary Roe, Condemnees herein, names and addresses unknown, including any thereof who may be minors or under other legal disability, whether residents or non-residents of South Carolina, has been filed in the Office of the Clerk of Court for

Charleston County. YOU WILL FURTHER TAKE NOTICE that unless the said minors or persons under other legal disability, if any, or someone on their behalf or on behalf of any of them, shall within thirty (30) days after service of notice of this order upon them by publication, exclusive of the day of such service, procure to be appointed for them, or any of them, a Guardian ad Litem to represent them for the purposes of this action, the Condemnor will apply for an order making the appointment of said Guardian ad Litem Nisi absolute.

S.C. Code Ann. § 28-2-10, et seq., has brought an action against Landowners, named above, to acquire a fee simple interest in a strip of land consisting of 821 square feet (0.019 acre), more or less, from the real property described as follows:

CHARLESTON COUNTY ATTORNEY’S OFFICE Brittney M. Darnell, Esquire Lonnie Hamilton, III Public Services Building 4045 Bridge View Drive North Charleston, South Carolina 29405 (843) 958-4010 bdarnell@charlestoncounty.org Attorney for Condemnor

BOUNDED as follows, viz: North by lands of Ben Manigault Estate, now or formerly property of James A. Postell; East by a lot now or formerly owned by William Rogers; South by lands now or formerly owned by Estate of Jacob Ford and West by remaining lands now or formerly owned by the Hasting Ford Estate. All of above more fully appearing on a plat of the property hereby conveyed made by James A. Postell, Surveyor, on February 10, 1942.

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STATE OF SOUTH CAROLINA COUNTY OF CHARLESTON IN THE COURT OF COMMON PLEAS FOR THE NINTH JUDICIAL CIRCUIT CASE NO. 2024-CP-10-00530 County of Charleston, Condemnor, vs. Samuel L. Gibbs, Jr., individually and as the Co-Personal Representative of the Estate of Helen Virginia Wright Gibbs, Anthony Gibbs, individually and as the Co-Personal Representative of the Estate of Helen Virginia Wright Gibbs, Sheila R. Gibbs, individually and as the Co-Personal Representative of the Estate of Helen Virginia Wright Gibbs, Landowners, and JOHN DOE and MARY ROE, fictitious names used to designate all other condemnees whose names are unknown, and persons in the military service within the meaning of Title 50, United States Code, commonly referred to as the Soldiers and Sailors Relief Act of 1940, as amended, if any, and the unknown heirs at law, devisees, widows, widowers, executors, administrators, personal representatives, successors and assigns, firms or corporations of any of the Landowner(s), Other Condemnee(s) or Unknown Claimant(s) who may be deceased, and any and all persons claiming any right, title, interest in or lien upon the real estate or other property described in the Condemnation Notice or any part thereof, Unknown Claimant(s). SUMMONS AND NOTICE OF FILING TO: LANDOWNERS AND UNKNOWN CLAIMANTS NAMED ABOVE: YOU ARE HEREBY SUMMONED, advised and notified, that pursuant to the South Carolina Eminent Domain Procedure Act, S.C. Code Ann. § 28-2-10, et seq., the within Condemnation Notice and Tender of Payment, a copy of which is herewith served upon you, has been filed with the Clerk of Court for Charleston County, South Carolina. The purpose of this action is to enable the Condemnor County of Charleston to acquire certain real property for its public purposes, as is more fully stated in the attached Condemnation Notice and Tender of Payment. Responsive pleadings to the Condemnation Notice and Tender of Payment are not necessary. LIS PENDENS NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that the Condemnor County of Charleston, pursuant to the South Carolina Eminent Domain Procedure Act,

ALL that certain lot, part, parcel or tract of land situate, lying and being near “Red Top”, St. Andrews Parish, Charleston County, in the State aforesaid containing One (1) acre, more or less, being a part of lands of the Estate of Hasting Ford, deceased.

BEING the same property conveyed to Helen Gibbs, Anthony Gibbs, Samuel L. Gibbs, Jr., and Shelia R. Gibbs by deed of distribution from the Estate of Reverend Samuel Levi Gibbs Sr., dated February 8, 2007, and recorded February 16, 2007, in Book N615, Page 777. Tax Map Parcel No. 287-00-00-013 The size, shape, location, and butting and bounding of the real property sought herein is depicted more particularly on the plat attached hereto as Exhibit A, reference to which is hereby made for a more complete description. The County’s acquisition of the real property is necessary for public purposes, more particularly for, construction and improvement of Seaman Lane in Charleston County, South Carolina. NOTICE OF ORDER APPOINTING GUARDIAN AD LITEM NISI TO: UNKNOWN CLAIMANT(S) NAMED ABOVE PLEASE TAKE NOTICE that the Order appointing George E. Counts, Esquire, Counts & Huger, LLC, P.O. Box 80399, Charleston, South Carolina 29416, (Telephone: 843-573-0143), as Guardian ad Litem Nisi, for all persons whomsoever herein collectively designated as John Doe and Mary Roe, Condemnees herein, names and addresses unknown, including any thereof who may be minors or under other legal disability, whether residents or non-residents of South Carolina, has been filed in the Office of the Clerk of Court for Charleston County. YOU WILL FURTHER TAKE NOTICE that unless the said minors or persons under other legal disability, if any, or someone on their behalf or on behalf of any of them, shall within thirty (30) days after service of notice of this order upon them by publication, exclusive of the day of such service, procure to be appointed for them, or any of them, a Guardian ad Litem to represent them for the purposes of this action, the Condemnor will apply for an order making the appointment of said Guardian ad Litem Nisi absolute. CHARLESTON COUNTY ATTORNEY’S OFFICE Brittney M. Darnell, Esquire Lonnie Hamilton, III Public Services Building 4045 Bridge View Drive North Charleston, South Carolina 29405 (843) 958-4010 bdarnell@charlestoncounty.org Attorney for Condemnor Charleston, South Carolina February 1, 2024

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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.

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Arts, etc. Catch a tribute to J Dilla, MF Doom In celebration of record producer, drummer, rapper and songwriter J Dilla’s birthday, Charleston Pour House will host a Feb. 9 show featuring The Psycodelics, MCs Slim Soul, DJ Dollamenu, Abstract that Rapper and more. The two-set show costs $15 and starts at 9 p.m. Doors open at 8 p.m. Attendees younger than 21 must be accompanied by a parent or guardian and will be subject to a $5 surcharge. Learn more at @chspourhouse on Instagram.

Recent Remnants focuses on plastic waste, consumerism Visit Summerville’s Public Works Art Center through March 16 to see Recent Remnants, a show of environmentally themed work curated by Kim Thomas. The show brings together artists Carson Caroll, Vassiliki Falkehag and Shannon Hopkins. These works serve not only as a reflection of the beauty of nature, but also as a call to action. Learn more at @publicworksartcenter on Instagram.

Queen Street Playhouse presents intimate drama

Culture 02.09.2024

By Ryan Biddix

The Queen Street Playhouse (QSP) is set to transform its stage into a realm where the complexities of family, mathematics and mental illness converge. PROOF, a Pulitzer Prize-winning and Tony Award-winning drama, takes center stage through Feb. 18 under the direction of Jackson Clark Haywood, known to QSP audiences for his recent directorial work in Misery and Who’s Holiday. Since the play’s Broadway debut in 2000, PROOF has maintained relevance, Haywood told the Charleston City Paper, due to playwright David Auburn’s clever exploration of family dynamics, mental illness and challenges faced by women in academia — which continue to deeply resonate with audiences. He quoted Shakespeare’s Hamlet, suggesting the play acts as “a mirror up to nature.” PROOF follows Catherine, the daughter of Robert, a recently deceased mathematical genius in his 50s and professor at the University of Chicago. The drama centers around Cat’s struggle with her inherited mathematical genius and mental illness, set against the background of the family home in Chicago. Her older sister Claire, a practical and successful woman, distances

herself from the family’s run-down home in pursuit of a new life in New York City. The presence of their recently deceased father, Robert, lingers in Cat’s imagination and is explored through flashbacks of his work marred by delusional mental illness. And when a revolutionary mathematical proof emerges with unclear authorship, Cat’s struggle in the male-dominated academic world mirrors her father’s. As the play probes the links between brilliance and its costs, Cat must determine if she is on the same grim trajectory as Robert.

Bringing the drama to life

Haywood reflected on the challenges of directing a play which, on its surface, appears to be centered around lots of dialogue and little action. “We spent a lot of time at the table talking about the play and understanding the nuances of Auburn’s writing so that we could elevate the conversations from ‘talking to each other’ to actionable events that allow this fantastic cast to confidently exist in our south Chicago backyard,” Haywood said. Haywood recognizes assistant director and stage manager Matthew Willingham for playing a vital role in bringing the production to life. “[Matthew] has a keen

Jewish Film Festival returns to the Terrace The 11th annual Jewish Film Fest returns to the Terrace Theater with five acclaimed films that offer Charleston a rich sampling of international content. The lineup includes documentaries, comedies and discussions ranging from activism to humor. Advance tickets are available at terracetheater.com/jewish-filmfest and cost $14 or $11 for students. Photos courtesy Footlight Players

PROOF centers around Catherine’s relationship with her father, a recently deceased mathematical genius eye for small, effective adjustments. The goal was to provide the actors with enough movement to heighten the stakes without distracting the audience, and I think we’ve found an elegant balance.” When exploring the characters, Haywood said, “It requires four actors to be committed to telling an authentic story CONTINUED ON PAGE 30

Holcomb duo brings ‘Home’ to Music Hall Americana husband-wife duo Drew & Ellie Holcomb will play Charleston Music Hall Feb. 17 as a part of the “Feels Like Home” tour across the U.S. Shortly after their marriage in 2006, the Nashville-based couple began touring together and has supported many national touring acts. Doors open at 7 p.m., and the show starts at 8 p.m. Tickets start at $29.50 at charlestonmusichall.com. —Chloe Hogan

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Manager Emily Ravita (above) is one of Monster’s passionate staffers who assists customers in finding new music, vinyl, band T-shirts and more memorabilia

By Chloe Hogan If you’re a local music lover, you’ve likely visited the widely loved West Ashley record store, Monster Music & Movies. Though it was opened during a time of declining CD sales, the store has not only survived but thrived over the last 20 years due to a resurgence of popularity in vinyl sales. The record store represents the core of what record collectors all have in common: a deep love of music. And for Galen Hudson, the longtime general manager and, as of this year, the store’s new owner, his life’s path has been guided by his love Hudson of music. Hudson said he became a “record nerd” while growing up in the 1980s in Chapel Hill, N.C. “I just couldn’t get enough of it — learning about new artists, new music. There’s this sense of discovery that happens at a record

store. When I got out of college, naturally, I got a job at a record store,” he said. When Hudson moved to Charleston in 1993, he started working for Manifest Discs & Tapes, an independent record store chain based in Columbia with five stores in the state. In 2004, Manifest announced it was closing operations and sold off its individual stores. The Charleston store was purchased by Bruce Carlock and Mike Wise who operated a chain of stores called Cat’s Music. Hudson, who was then overseeing three Cat’s stores in the Charleston area, took over management at the West Ashley Manifest store — now called Monster Music. “We had to change the name, and there was a giant sign up over the store, ‘Manifest Discs and Tapes’ and these giant, probably 4-foot neon letters. We said, ‘Well, what can we change the name to so that we can use as many of those letters as possible?’ Somebody had the idea of Monster Music.” Hudson’s managed the store since, and three years ago, began the process of buying the business, fulfilling a lifelong CONTINUED ON PAGE 30

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infuse authenticity into the character. “Heart-wrenchingly, I’ve dealt with multiple deaths in my life that relate closely to similar mental illness and degeneration,” she said. Trust and vulnerability with her fellow actors, Dalbec noted, were the keys to unlocking the profound emotional depth of Catherine. Chad Estel, who portrays Robert, said his journey in understanding his character relied on comfortability between the cast and director Haywood. “Our director took a whole rehearsal to do a play analysis where we went through the events in the play, and that really helped me to understand Robert’s character,” Estel said. The cast’s chemistry, born out of laughter and shared vulnerability (as described by Estel), weaves into the fabric of PROOF, creating a familial atmosphere both on and off stage. And breathing life to the older sister character Claire, Meghan Lowther taps

into personal history too. “Even though we fought like cats and dogs, I would do anything to make sure my sister was healthy and happy,” Lowther said. In the role of Hal, one of Robert’s former doctoral students, is Michael Okas, who expressed his delight in playing a character with nuanced villainy. “Hal is determined — for both good and bad, — he’s a gritty, funny, charming and brilliant individual.” The synergy among the four cast members is sure to create a powerful and balanced dynamic that promises an emotional roller coaster for the audience. Audiences are invited to witness a symphony of emotion, intellectual brilliance and familial bonds.

versation a little bit, show the world what role the record store plays in its community and the relevance it has to its customers,” Hudson dream to have a store of his own. said. “We got record companies to create some exclusive releases just for record stores who were participating in Record Store Day. A changing industry For Monster, I turned it into a store-wide sale Monster — a store that sells CDs, DVDs and with bands, food trucks, a big party. vinyl records — has survived in a rapidly “By that time, the newness of the iPod changing industry partly because Hudson had kind of worn off and people had started created a used record section of the store getting kind of frustrated with a couple of in the mid-2000s when vinyl’s popularity things,” Hudson said, like missing the physresurged and partly because of Record ical experience of finding and buying music. Store Day, a nationwide celebration. Every year between 2007 to today, “Around the mid 2000s, the CD sales Hudson said there has been a nationwide started to decline, year after year after year ... increase in vinyl sales. That’s when things felt a little bleak,” he said. “It’s the biggest part of our business,” The tide began to change in 2006 Hudson said. “We’re not comparing it to — Hudson would annually represent streaming — we’re comparing it to what it Monster at an industry trade group called the was 20, 15 years ago. And the fact that it’s Music Monitor Network, where independent grown every year, that’s fairly dramatic. music stores would get together to create There’s some relevance there.” initiatives to drive physical music sales. In 2006, the network conceptualized “Record Making space for connection Store Day,” and Monster hosted its first Record Store Day celebration the next year. Another reason for Monster’s success, Hudson “It was an effort to kind of change the con- said, is its customer-focused approach and

offering of things like posters, T-shirts and more — “stuff that a Walmart or Best Buy is not really going to care about. Our focus is on knowing our customer and the kind of experience they want to have in our store.” The staff at Monster is full of passionate melomaniacs — looking at the store’s Instagram account, you’ll find staff members pictured with favorite records, photos of wellattended listening parties and an annual music-themed Halloween costume contest. “I want to help promote local bands, create a space where you can find live music from time to time,” Hudson said. “I think for a lot of people, the store has that same importance that my record store in Chapel Hill meant to me — it’s the place you go to learn about new music, to learn from really passionate music people and meet fellow music fans. “Over the years, I’ve known and met a lot of people who ended up marrying people that they met in record stores,” Hudson said. “This is so much more than just about moving units, moving units is boring. It’s really all about the personal connections we make over this shared love of music.”

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PROOF runs at the Queen Street Playhouse until Feb. 18. For tickets and more information, visit footlightplayers.net or call the box office at (843) 722-4487.

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