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What N.C. can teach S.C. about fixing health care

By Jack O’Toole

A legislative study committee tasked with examining virtually every aspect of South Carolina’s faltering health care market will not move forward in 2024 after a sweep of Gov. Henry McMaster’s veto pen removed it from the new state budget last week.

McMaster raised two objections: the study’s six-month time frame, which he said was too short, and the inclusion of Medicaid expansion as one of the 30 market reforms to be examined.

“I remain unconvinced that the expansion of Medicaid benefits — which this legislative study committee is tasked with considering — is necessary, nor do I believe it is fiscally responsible,” McMaster said in his veto message.

But supporters of the study say a close look at what’s happening just over the border in North Carolina might ease S.C. leaders’ concerns — an idea N.C. Gov. Roy Cooper seemed to echo in recent comments to the Charleston City Paper. Cooper, a moderate second-term Democrat whose state expanded Medicaid last year with supermajority Republican support in the N.C. legislature, says the Tar Heel State’s expansion has been so successful that other states have been reaching out to learn more.

“Already leaders in states that haven’t passed it have requested information and tes-

timony from North Carolina leaders,” Cooper said in a statement, “and we are glad to share all of it with our South Carolina neighbors.”

What expansion would do

Originally offered to states as part of the Affordable Care Act (ACA), or Obamacare as it’s widely known, Medicaid expansion raises the income limit for people who get health care through the program from 67% of the federal poverty level to 138% — about $20,000 a year in today’s dollars. Under ACA rules, the federal government pays 100% of the cost of expansion in the first three years and 90% thereafter.

South Carolina is one of only 10 states that has not opted to expand. If South Carolina were to participate, about 300,000 people living at the low end of South Carolina’s wage spectrum would have a chance to get better health care.

Beaufort Republican Sen. Tom Davis, who sponsored the budget amendment creating the study committee, says he shares the governor’s “concerns and reservations about Medicaid expansion” and respects his decision.

But he also warns that continued inaction in the face of significant problems in the state’s health care market, including high costs for patients, struggling rural hospitals and a growing shortage of doctors and providers, could eventually lead to far more drastic changes.

“[The committee] was an attempt to take a comprehensive look at the supply and demand sides of healthcare markets and how they could be improved,” Davis told the City Paper. “Because doing nothing will keep

The Rundown

Charleston tapped best U.S. city (again)

Readers of Travel + Leisure ranked Charleston as the No. 1 city in the country for the 12th consecutive year, according to an announcement made this week. Charleston also holds the distinction of being the only U.S. destination among the top 25.

Helen Hill, CEO of Explore Charleston, emphasized how the awards underscore and elevate the role that travel plays in the region’s economy. .

The College of Charleston’s Office of Tourism Analysis estimates tourism generated a record-high impact of $13.1 billion for the greater Charleston area in 2023. More than 53,000 local residents, more than ever before, now work in the industry.

us lurching toward the most unacceptable outcome of all — a single-payer system.”

Moreover, he notes, many states with conservative credentials every bit as strong as South Carolina’s have found ways to benefit from expansion.

“The intent would be to better understand the flexibility waivers that have convinced many conservative states to expand Medicaid,” Davis said. “Arizona, Arkansas, Indiana, Iowa, Montana and Utah have all secured (federal Social Security Act) Section 1115 waivers to operate their Medicaid expansion programs in ways not otherwise allowed under federal law.”

The North Carolina experience

North Carolina’s Medicaid expansion was signed into law in March of last year with strong bipartisan support, winning the votes of more than two-thirds of Republicans in the state legislature.

Since the law went into effect in December, about half a million North Carolinians have signed up for coverage.

N.C. Senate President Pro Tem Phil Berger, long a fierce Republican opponent of Medicaid expansion, explained his change of heart in a 2023 op-ed.

“By expanding Medicaid now — on our own terms — we increase access to health care in a thoughtful, conservative way,” Berger wrote. “We pass a plan that is good for North Carolina, and we take advantage of holding out for the past decade and secure

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116,350

The number of travelers who passed through the security checkpoint at Charleston International Airport between June 27 and July 7. It was a record-breaking number for the extended travel period. Over the July 4 weekend alone, the airport saw 35,009 travelers.

GUN VIOLENCE COUNTER

9 shot, killed across South Carolina July 4 to July 10

Charleston police are investigating a July 5 shooting that killed Brian Fokes, 44, of Charleston, and injured two others at a Romney Street apartment complex. Meanwhile, Richard Warren, 33, of Charleston, died in an earlier July 5 shooting on Charleston’s East Side. No arrests have been made in either shooting as of presstime.

Seven others died in Berkeley, Richland, Union, Pickens and Clarendon counties. Ten more were hurt in shootings across the state. Nationally, there were 23 mass shootings for the week, totalling 284 for the year. Sources: gunviolencearchive.org; S.C. official and media reports

Charleston becoming new yoga hotspot dest-ZEN-ation

By Katie Cannon

Charleston’s yoga scene in Charleston has grown in recent months, producing tightknit communities and more than 20 studios to explore.

But Sarah Frick, owner of The Works — which has several locations across Charleston — said it wasn’t always this way.

“When we opened our first studio, we were on upper King Street, there was nothing there,” Frick said. “There were maybe two other studios in town, and now it seems there is one on every street corner.”

In the midst of the yoga boom, the Covid-19 pandemic brought everything to a sudden halt. Studios had to adapt to new conditions and get creative with how they catered their services. Many were forced to close their doors. Others, however, were able to persist by offering their classes via the internet, said Trace Bonner, director of Holy Cow Yoga Center in West Ashley.

“I remember we closed on a Monday, and we opened on that Tuesday virtually only,” she said.

Some people think of yoga as a physical activity — rolling out a mat for movement based mediation practice. However, Bonner likes to think of yoga as a way of being, mixing physical and philosophical aspects together to make yoga. And that combination made it a great outlet during the pandemic, she said.

“Yoga means different things based on your understanding of it. When I think of yoga, I’m thinking that I’m centered, mindful, grounded, open in a state of ease with my actions, reactions and interactions in this chaotic world,” Bonner said. “Yoga has changed and evolved, and I think that’s what it’s supposed to do.”

Booming post-pandemic

After the pandemic, the industry changed to become more front and center and more lucrative, according to Frick. There are now more than 20 studios throughout the

Blotter of the Week

Site lists the ‘forgotten’ dead buried on city’s west side

By Herb Frazier

Volunteer researcher Julie Bowling of Charleston has created a website that lists some of the estimated 26,000 people whose remains still lie today under Harmon Field and The Citadel’s football stadium on the city’s west side.

A year ago, Bowling began a one-person effort to honor the people interred in the Tower Hill Cemetery, a 22-acre burial ground that was used from 1841 until 1927. Orphans, the poor, free and enslaved people, immigrants, seamen and Confederate soldiers were interred at the site bounded by President, Congress and Line streets.

“Under Harmon Field, Hagood Stadium, and several parking lots lie so many of Charleston’s forgotten dead — not a few hundred or a few thousand, but tens of thousands,” said Bowling, a former Louisville, Ky., middle school teacher.

“This public burial ground served Charleston’s most marginalized people,” she said. “Today, there is not even a sign to commemorate [them]. Benjamin Franklin once said, ‘Show me your cemeteries, and I will tell you what kind of people you have.’

“These people mattered, their lives were precious, and their final resting place should be preserved and protected at long last.”

For a year, Bowling has turned the pages of the Returns of Deaths within the City of Charleston to enter the names of the dead into the website she created. From the books that are on file in the Charleston County Public Library’s South Carolina Room, she has gleaned the record of 5,453

burials at the site from 1841 to 1868.

The stories of the dead

Most of the online records in Bowling’s burial database is a list of first and last names, the week or date of death, gender, birthplace and the cause of death. But some information is also incomplete, due to what was available.

Stono, 121, appears to be the oldest enslaved person who Bowling has entered on the website, so far. Born in Charleston, Stono died around the last week of October 1846 from marasmus, a deficiency of nutrients such as carbohydrates, fats and protein. At least 43 of the enslaved people listed on the website were born in Africa.

Marasmus also claimed the life of Robert Hutchinson, 3, who lived at 129 Calhoun St. He died in June 1865, two months after the Civil War ended. The death record does not list whether he was free or enslaved. Rebecca Donnohue, 35, was born in Ireland. On Jan. 21, 1868, she was murdered. She is one of 11 murder victims listed on the website and one of about 234 people born in Ireland who were buried at Tower Hill.

Bowling has demands

While some efforts have been made, Bowling said she has asked the city of Charleston and The Citadel “to correct a long-standing wrong by recognizing and honoring these tens of thousands of men, women, and children.”

North Charleston police on July 4 attempted to get an apparently drunk man to leave a Rivers Avenue convenience store, but the man refused, saying he needed to use the restroom. According to a police report, the man then unzipped his pants and urinated in front of the officers. The officers reportedly waited for him to finish before arresting him.

DIY renovations

Security footage reportedly caught a West Ashley woman on June 14 taking a faucet from a Magwood Drive home goods store, according to a Charleston police report. Fifteen days later, the woman reportedly returned to steal another faucet and an adjustable shower rod. Guess she wanted to take her bathroom renovations in a different direction.

Barking up the wrong tree

Mount Pleasant police on June 27 reportedly spoke to a homeless person after receiving calls about them panhandling near Proprietors Place. The man told officers he would stop, and asked the police for money for the bus. Ironic.

By Skyler Baldwin

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Steve Stegelin

The Blotter is taken from reports filed with area police departments between June 27 and July 4.

Illustration

Joey Izzo

Generations of children have played a variety of outdoor sports on Harmon Field. Volunteer researcher Julie Bowling of Charleston, however, wants Charlestonians to remember that the site was originally the 19th century Tower Hill Cemetery.

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a significant stimulus that avoids the financial hit the state would have taken years ago.”

Cooper told the City Paper that his state’s bipartisan legislative supermajority vote reflected the reality on the ground across his state. And already, he says, the results have been “transformative” for N.C.

“Medicaid expansion is changing lives across North Carolina. Nearly 500,000 people have enrolled in quality, affordable health care in the seven months since Medicaid expansion went live,” Cooper said. “That is transformative for hard-working families, our economy, our rural health care system and the fight against the opioid crisis.”

The coalition for reform in South Carolina

Here in South Carolina, advocates are working to create a similarly broad-based coalition for health care reform through Cover S.C., a grassroots network of more than 40 organizations including the Appleseed Center, the S.C. Small Business Chamber of Commerce (SBCC) and AARP South Carolina.

SBCC President Frank Knapp says reform is critical for Palmetto State small businesses, which need healthy workers but often struggle to provide coverage for their employees due to high premium costs.

“We have well over 300,000 South Carolinians caught in the coverage gap where they make too much to qualify for traditional Medicaid but too little to qualify for premium assistance under the ACA,” Knapp said. “It’s unfair to them and it’s unfair to most South Carolinians, who have to pay for the uncompensated care.”

Uncompensated care occurs when people who are unable to pay for medical care receive needed treatments, usually in emergency rooms. Hospitals then pass those costs along to everyone else in the form of inflated prices, which in turn leads to higher insurance premiums.

Charmaine Fuller Cooper, state director of AARP SC, said her organization sees many older South Carolinians who are trapped in the coverage gap Knapp describes, making both too much money and too little.

“People aged between 50 and 65 are often not working as many hours and don’t have the full-time benefits they would like to have,” she said. “And because of that, they can’t afford the healthcare they need.”

But like other members of Cover S.C. — and like Cooper in N.C. — Fuller Cooper stresses the importance of listening to everyone’s concerns and working together to build the broadest possible coalition for reform.

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She wants the city and the college to:

• Conduct ground penetrating radar analysis of the area.

• Help her document the names of the deceased.

• Convert the Fishburne Street parking area near the football stadium into a memorial garden.

• Reconnect Gadsden Creek with Harmon Field and convert the field into a memorial park.

A Citadel spokesman said, “The Citadel has worked to help identify and memorialize those who were buried in the city of Charleston’s municipal cemetery more than a century ago. Recently, The Citadel used ground-penetrating radar on the football field and surrounding structures.

“No graves were located during a 2018 scan of the east-side stands and, while replacing the west-side stands in the early 2000s, the college located, exhumed and reburied more than 300 remains. At that time, The Citadel put up a plaque at Johnson Hagood Stadium to memorialize those who were buried in the municipal cemetery.”

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Charleston area that work together to bring yoga to the community, she said. And with Charleston being such a destination spot for visitors and new residents, the appeal is only growing.

Bonner said she noticed another change after the pandemic. With rapid growth, she said she worried the focus has shifted more toward yoga being just another workout, instead of a practice for mindfulness and overall wellness. This, she said, could lead to yoga becoming a passing trend rather than a lifelong practice.

“I feel like people are saying kick my ass, make me sweat, make me workout,” she said. “It makes me wonder if yoga has transitioned into solely a workout that’s just another form of exercise.”

As the yoga scene continues to grow, Bonner said she hopes that as a community, yogis proceed to carry the teachings of yoga with them. Taking the balance and mindfulness practiced, and spreading that amongst others.

Pride!Summer Lovin’!

“My great hope would be that we can find peace and equanimity within ourselves, and then share that with our greater community,” she said. “If we can still practice for ourselves, we can love one another and find ease within ourselves. And that would be beautiful.”

Summer Lovin’!

It’s almost criminal South Carolina hasn’t yet expanded Medicaid program

ore than 300,000 hard-working and mostly voiceless South Carolinians are not being served by our state’s leaders. They are, in fact, being ignored, year after year, because state Republicans won’t accept available federal money to expand Medicaid coverage.

Doing so would be a tacit acceptance of something they’ve long hated — President Barack Obama’s Affordable Care Act, which included a provision to help states provide health coverage to low-income Americans by expanding the federal Medicaid program. For 10 years, the GOP has resisted taking federal aid for South Carolina that is being steered to other states because of our own recalcitrance — even though the feds would pay 100% of the costs for three years and 90% after that.

Shame on you, South Carolina. Accepting federal Medicaid expansion money would open up vital health care coverage — which would lower costs for other people and infuse cash into rural hospitals, among other things — for 300,000 people in our state. To turn away is to fail too many voters and citizens who may not look like those in power who control the state’s purse strings.

Gov. Henry McMaster again rejected the possibility of Medicaid expansion with his veto pen earlier in the month when he axed a health care policy study committee from the state budget.

The sad thing is that Medicaid expansion could work here in big ways, as shown by our friendly neighbors in North

Carolina. Last year, they woke up to accept the federal money. How did they pass it in a legislature that’s just as conservative as South Carolina’s? Through real bipartisan leadership and coalitions of nonprofits, businesses and other supporters.

Moderate N.C. Gov. Roy Cooper, a Democrat, explained to Charleston City Paper bureau chief Jack O’Toole how the proposal moved ahead in the Tarheel State:

“We built a non-traditional coalition of advocates, including Republican county commissioners who wanted to keep rural hospitals open, law enforcement leaders who knew their officers and jails were spending too much time with people who needed health care and not handcuffs, business leaders who knew private insurance premiums are lower when medical providers have less indigent care and more.”

The results? Already “transformative,” Cooper said. “Medicaid expansion is changing lives across North Carolina. Nearly 500,000 people have enrolled in quality, affordable health care in the seven months since Medicaid expansion went live,” he said. “That is transformative for hard-working families, our economy, our rural health care system and the fight against the opioid crisis.”

North Carolina is getting healthier by accepting a lot of free money from the federal government. Why can’t South Carolina politicians see that’s a smart play here, too? Wake up.

CHARLESTON CHECKLIST of community objectives

We encourage community leaders to act on these audacious priorities:

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

From elections to debate and high court

By Andy Brack

After 14 years of conservative control in Great Britain, British voters on July 4 threw out the Tories in a shellacking that was heard around the world. They elected a government that will be run by the Labour Party, which won 412 of 650 seats in the House of Commons — a net gain of 214 seats. Meanwhile, the Conservative Party lost 253 seats in a debacle that can only be described as politically cataclysmic.

Across the English Channel just days before, the moderate government of French President Emmanuel Macron faced a similar drubbing as the far-right National Rally party made big inroads in round one of the voting in France’s complicated national elections for its 577-seat National Assembly. Fortunately for Macron, a left-wing surge in a second July 7 election kept the far right and allies from cobbling together a ruling majority to replace a centrist government. But governing in France will face delays, deadlocks and quagmires over the next couple of years.

So Britain and France? Why do their elections matter here? Because they show one clear thing: voters wanted change. In Britain, they wanted to throw out 14 years of increasingly conservative rule in a country struggling with national health care, growth and immigration. In France, many frightened voters wanted to show frustration with the status quo and concern over immigration, the economy and more.

Sound familiar? Yes, these elections might provide a kind of crystal ball about what could happen here in November. But that’s kind of complicated because just what is the definition of change for American voters?

On one hand, change could mean throwing out Democratic President Joe Biden in favor of former President Donald Trump. But is that real change just to go back to what we had before? On the other hand, change could mean toppling a Trump juggernaut toward authoritarianism to protect reliable democratic (small d) institutions. Remember, Britain went to the left and France hasn’t turned everything over to the right.

Democrats need to settle down and face the music that Biden is still their best chance to defeat Trump.

Deflate the debate. Biden certainly didn’t help himself in the recent Atlanta CNN debate with a lackluster performance against Trump. But don’t forget that Trump wasn’t that great either thanks to misstatements, lies and damned lies — CNN counted 30 in the 90-minute debate. (Biden had nine misleading and wrong statements.)

What’s interesting is that American conservatives have been mostly quiet about the whole thing — not wanting to draw attention to their own performance issues. Why? Because national Democrats are in a hot panic that’s clogging the media with too many calling for Biden to drop out — after just one lousy debate.

They need to settle down and realize that at this late date, there’s really not enough time to launch a replacement candidate who could take on Trump and win.

Court on ballot. What many pundits also don’t seem to realize is that voters know the U.S. Supreme Court will also be on the ballot in November. The next president will have at least two appointments, which could tip the balance of the court to the center or left if Democrats the White House. And after months of ethical scandals involving justices over unreported gifts and more, many people are understandably tired over a high court that’s making lots of headlines for the wrong things. Throw on top of that the court’s overturning of the Roe v. Wade abortion decision, and you have a major driver for moderate voters to vote against Trump, regardless of Biden or any other candidate.

Democrats need to settle down and face the music that Biden is still their best chance to defeat Trump. And Republicans may want to strap in for what happens to voting if Trump, the convicted felon, gets his freedom taken away if a judge sentences him just weeks before the election to house confinement or worse.

The wild ride is getting wilder. Hold on.

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

What To Do

TUESDAY

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Art workshop: The Art of Pressed Flowers

Learn how local pressed flower artist Pam Hricik uses flowers in her traditional wood press, which flowers are best for pressing, and some tricks to keep the flowers from browning during the process. Then, dive into Hricik’s personal collection of designs, and make your own card, bookmark and flower journal to take home.

July 16. 7 p.m. to 9 p.m. $75/person. Park Circle Community Building. 4800 Park Circle. North Charleston. nchasculturalarts.eventbrite.com

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SATURDAY

Dog Days of Summer adoption event

Head to Aquatic Analytics this weekend for great raffle items, Roxy’s Shaved Ice food truck and most importantly, adoptable puppies! Almost as important: There will be air conditioning, too. Roxy’s will be serving up breakfast sandwiches, coffee, shaved ice and more while guests get some much-needed puppy love — and maybe find a new member of the family. Proceeds benefit Lakeside Animal Rescue.

July 13. 10 a.m. to noon. Free to attend. Aquatic Analytics. 1180 Drop Off Drive, Suite 101. Summerville. zeffy.com

SUNDAY

3

Family Day at the Halsey Institute

Join the Halsey Institute staff and tour guides for a fun-filled, family-friendly celebration of the exhibitions Elisa Harkins: Teach Me a Song and Spandita Malik: Meshes of Resistance Enjoy guided tours for your family, art activities that explore the exhibition, healthy snacks and more. The two exhibitions will be on display until July 20. On Aug. 23, catch Demond Melancon: As Any Means Are Neccessary.

July 14. 11 a.m. to 4 p.m. Free. Halsey Institute of Contemporary Art. 161 Calhoun St. Downtown. halsey.cofc.edu

WEDNESDAY

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Chow Town: Food Truck Rodeo

Seabrook Island’s annual food truck rodeo is back. This year’s rodeos are held once a month during the summer (and once in December for a bonus holiday extravaganza). Head to the town hall on Seabrook Island for local food truck vendors and artisans, plus enjoy live music from local artists while you browse.

July 17. 4 p.m. to 7 p.m. Free to attend. Seabrook Island Town Hall. 2001 Seabrook Island Road. Seabrook Island. townofseabrookisland.org

NEXT FRIDAY

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Dancing on the Cooper!

Join the Island Party Band next Friday for a rousing summer tradition at the unique and beautiful Memorial Waterfront Park. The newly formed Island Party Band is composed of seasoned musicians from James, Sullivan’s and Seabrook Islands, so put on your dancing shoes and get ready to dance to the greatest hits from the ‘60s, ‘70s and ‘80s.

July 19. 7 p.m. $10/advance ticket; $15/day of. Mount Pleasant Pier. 71 Harry M. Hallman Jr. Blvd. Mount Pleasant. ccprc.com/1175/dancing-on-the-cooper

Beach patrol

The steadfast stewardship of Kiawah Island’s sea turtle

volunteers

By Chloe Hogan

Sea turtles are incredible animals that inspire affection and curiosity across the world. Loggerhead turtles, the ones we see laying eggs on the South Carolina coast, can live up to 50 years and reach nearly 6 feet in length.

Even more amazingly — around the age of 15 to 20 years old, female loggerhead turtles return to the same general area they hatched to lay their own eggs and bury them in sand “nests.” These marine turtles’ ability to navigate comes from their sensitivity to the Earth’s magnetic fields, scientists say.

Loggerheads are a “keystone species,” meaning they are a vital part of their environments, including the coastal areas like ours where they lay their eggs each summer. But these amazing creatures face significant threats, including pollution, climate change, being netted unintentionally in commercial fishing operations, loss and degradation of nesting habitats due to coastal development. Unsurprisingly, much of the endangerment each of the seven species of sea turtles face is mainly due to human intervention.

On Kiawah Island, a dedicated group of volunteers, The Kiawah Island Sea Turtle Patrol, is mitigating some of those threats in a measured manner. As the largest sea turtle patrol in the state, 300+ volunteers work May through October to protect, record

and conserve the sea turtles’ annual egglaying and subsequent hatching. Since 2017, Kiawah has been the densest nesting beach of South Carolina’s developed beaches.

It’s estimated about one in 1,000 marine turtle hatchlings make it to adulthood.

And that’s the underlying impetus for the Kiawah Island volunteers — they want

to give these magnificent turtles the best chances to make it.

A shared sense of responsibility

The town of Kiawah is unique in that there’s not one but three biologists on the city staff — a testament to the residents’ passion for conservation. People move to Kiawah from all over the country to enjoy the area’s beauty, so it’s only natural that many of them want

to become involved in its protection.

Lead biologist Jim Jordan said the sea turtle patrol, which officially started in 1990, really began when locals started informally recording and caring for the nests in the early 1970s, a point when sea turtles were not yet a protected species. The group has grown every year and is now a popular way for folks, including part-time residents, to get involved in conservation efforts.

“We’re one of only a handful of beaches in the state that patrol by vehicles. Our crew patrols every morning, in a truck that typically has four volunteers on it — that’s our ‘nesting patrol,’ ” Jordan explained. “The bulk of our volunteers are in the ‘hatching patrol,’ where each group covers a one mile section of beach, they find and mark the nests, walk the beach every morning and check on all the nests in their zone.”

Nesting, hatching and helping

The Kiawah Island Sea Turtle Patrol allowed the Charleston City Paper in June to observe an early morning escapade, which started before dawn and included a drive down a rugged path to the beach. Longtime patroller Bill Thomae, who is also a volunteer firefighter, explained the process as he drove the sea patrol truck west down the beach, then turning around and driving more slowly east as the rising sun began to catch the turtles’ tracks in the sand.

Thomae pointed out the way to figure out the turtle’s direction from the ocean to the dunes, and the dunes to the ocean. She leaves scalloped marks in the tracks, using

Photos by Neal Kinard/Town of Kiawah Island

The group of 300+ volunteers checks the sea turtle nests each morning from May to October, sometimes discovering destruction by coyotes or other predators

her fins to drag her heavy body ashore. The track towards the shore includes a long, deep line which is the marking of the turtle’s cloaca, from which the eggs come. The way back to the water doesn’t have this line, as long as it’s not a “false crawl” in which the mother sea turtle decides to turn around and go back into the water instead of laying her eggs in that particular spot.

Once a site is chosen, the turtle uses hind flippers to dig a vase-shaped hole about two feet deep. She then lays her eggs. Usually, it will take the sea turtle about 45 minutes to lay a nest with about 100 eggs before the sun has risen. From there, it takes 60 days until they hatch, during which time the sea turtle patrol checks the nests daily. On this particular morning, two nests had been disturbed by coyotes.

The volunteers, married couple Bill and Beth, who are in their 24th year of volunteering, and Carol Medendorp, who joined 12 years ago, dig up the nest, wearing gloves and using red buckets to collect the eggs.

Bill Thomae dug 24 inches into the sand, first using a hole digger and then his hands, to find and count 38 destroyed eggs, some of which were ravaged and strewn on the sand by the coyotes. There were 72 live eggs still inside the nest. Beth Thomae marked those numbers down.

Then, they collected the live eggs, each of which is about the size of a golf ball, and placed them carefully into the red bucket. A few feet away, The Thomaes dig a new, two-foot-deep hole, which is then marked by a short stake and covered with a wire fencing. The fencing has 2x4-inch openings for the hatchlings to come out of later in the summer. Out of each nest they survey, the volunteers collect one egg for DNA testing in collaboration with the University of Georgia.

The patrol van is stocked with tools. Earlier this year, Thomae and another volunteer cut more than 400 screens and 1,600 sticks to mark the sites, based on last year’s final count, 437 nests.

Beth Thomae records the locations of the nests, communicating with the hatching patrol on which turtle crawl tracks are new this morning and should be checked for nests. They’re checked one by one, zone by zone, until we reach the end of the beach. Her husband puts a long stick into the sand, searching for loose sand which indicates a nest. Some of the tracks are, in fact, false crawls, and a handful are actually new nests which the trio of volunteers recorded, marked and protected with wire fencing.

On this particular June morning, a sea turtle was not caught in the act of laying her eggs. But the promise of that experience is one of the most exciting parts of the entire process, said the volunteer leader and S.C. Department of Natural Resources (DNR) license holder, Lynn Sager.

‘Cool

dudes and hot chicks’

Sager, who’s worked with the patrol since 2002, said the first time she saw a female turtle leaving her nest was a thrilling experience.

“She was headed back to the water after burying and camouflaging her nest. We got out of the truck and watched, and I mean, it was an absolute thrill. It’s not something you get to see every day.”

Sager explained how the patrol handles not only caring for the nests, but also helping to guide the hatchlings towards the water when it’s time for them to emerge. Once they break open their shells, the young turtles may take three to seven days to dig their way to the surface, helping to lift one another

To

nest

up. The eggs that are in the deeper and thus cooler sand will become males, and the warmer eggs will become females. (“Cool dudes and hot chicks,” Bill Thomae joked.)

Hatchlings usually wait until night to emerge from the nest. That’s when Sager and the volunteers will “line up and create a sort of runway for the hatchlings,” she said. “Part of our job is to scare off the birds, waving of hands and hollering.” And another part is making sure that residents follow the island’s light ordinance, as artificial light at night may lead turtles astray. The young turtles follow the light of the moon into the ocean, and then, the few lucky survivors make their way to the coast of Africa. (Remember the scene in Finding Nemo where the sea turtles show Dory and Marlin how to catch a ride on the current?) Twenty or so years later, those females will ride the opposite way and return to the Palmetto State’s coast to lay their eggs.

Biologist Jordan emphasized the loggerhead population is rising in recent years, in part to the help of these patrol groups which exist all over the East Coast. It will take 15 to 20 years to see the results of this day’s work, though, and the DNA study with the University of Georgia, which got started 12 years ago, is revealing the data.

“We’ve seen annual nest numbers at a steady increase in the last 10 to 15 years,” Jordan said. “There are still threats, but having these nest protection programs throughout the coastline really helps us to keep tabs on this. We can relocate nests when necessary. We can try to mitigate damage or loss from predators. So we’re seeing the effects of the work that was done 15, 20 years ago in these rising numbers today.

“The recovery of sea turtle populations, at least with loggerheads, is a success story and likely will continue to be a success story.”

Only one of about 1,000 marine sea turtles will make it to adulthood

mitigate

loss, volunteers like Bill Thomae dig up and relocate live eggs

jamilla harper: Time in Kenya made impact, changed life Digs

By Za’Tozia Duffie

Tears rolled down Jamilla Harper’s face as she peered outside the plane’s window.

Her two-week trip to Nairobi, Kenya was ending. Even today years later, she remembers how she was left to grapple with the feeling of leaving part of herself behind. She took four study abroad trips before she was a senior at the College of Charleston. But this one was by far the best.

“It is one of those moments that stands out in my mind in terms of my life,” said Harper, who now lives in an increasingly hip area of North Charleston. “It was life-changing, and it shaped me, and I just knew I wanted to go back.”

She said she knew from her first morning in Kenya in 2007 the place would come to mean a lot to her. She peeled back the curtains of the window in her apartment in Nairobi to see a bustling city of Black businesses and people thriving in their day-to-day lives.

“In the U.S., they say Black people can’t even run a community,” she said. “Yet, this is a continent of folks who look like me, who are brilliant and powerful.”

Five years after her first visit, she won a Rotary Ambassadorial Fellowship in 2012. She moved to Kenya for two years to pursue her master’s degree at University of Nairobi.

“[Rotary International’s] motto is service above self,” she said. “It gave me the foundation to be pushed on an international and graduate level.”

For the first time, she felt seen, Harper, now 37 years old recalled. She was always one of a few Black students in classes in Summerville growing up. Sometimes, she felt invisible. But the people she met in Kenya were hospitable and always remembered her name.

“There was such a connection,” said Harper, who is chief operating officer at the North Charleston nonprofit Metanoia. “I felt held and loved and supported and seen as different. I really appreciate learning that and also carrying that with me.”

Nairobi reminded her of her closest loved ones who helped raise her from the time she was a little girl in Summerville — she calls them her fictional family.

“My mom was very intentional about who she had around me,” she said. “I spent a lot of time becoming more familiar with Black culture and lifestyle through that extended family.”

Surrounded by mementos

In her Charleston home, she sits surrounded by African knickknacks, many of which are souvenirs from the places she visited while attaining her master’s degree in development studies in 2014.

“Almost everything in here has a story,” she said.

During one of her day visits to Zanzibar, she picked up a carved

wooden piece. Traditionally used on door frames in Africa, Harper said the piece reminds her of the mixture of cultures she experienced while abroad.

She also has bold art pieces sprinkled throughout her home in North Charleston. A photo of one of her favorite musicians, Andre 3000. Her home decor is bohemian style with touches of Black culture and hip hop.

Sticky notes with weekly reminders and empowering messages adorn the wall in her back room and her collection of books pervades a bookshelf in the room’s corner. Her rich arsenal of treasures also include books on philosophy and Black history. Some of her favorites include Belonging by bell hooks and Ella Baker & The Black Freedom Movement by Barbara Ransby.

“The books represent delving deeper into someone else’s world,” she said.

Community invigorates her

Like many people, Harper had a pivotal moment during her college career when she did not know what to pursue. She majored in communication and Spanish, but none of the career tracks associated with either degree appealed to her.

“I asked myself the question, ‘What

would you be doing even if you were not paid to do it’,” she said. “That centered me in the fact that I was already showing up for the community every single day.”

She said she went to conferences, hosted talks on campus and went to town meetings. She credits her college mentors who supported her and her peers at the time.

“They were supportive in shaping the experiences we wanted to have at the college,” she said. “And also in being changemakers in Charleston, although we were so young.”

Reflecting on this made her sure that she

Harper surrounds herself at home with African mementos and books

Inspirational notes take up a wall in the corner

wanted a job that was centered on community, she said.

Harper now works as the first Black female chief operating officer at Metanoia, a nonprofit based in Charleston. In her role she oversees the organization’s policies and procedures in order for the organization to sustain itself economically and grow in the future.

“It’s so boring-sounding,” she said with a giggle. But she said this work is paramount to supporting the community.

“It was a humbling experience to go through and help develop and think through each and every policy and how we can be at the forefront of supporting people.”

Now, six years into the role, she is clear that she is right where she needs to be.

“My desire to do this work has just created a very clear trajectory,” she said. “While [my role] may shift a little bit, I know this is still what I’d be doing.”

Her love of philosophy

Despite being a quiet keen observer, Harper said she loves to have meaningful conversations with people.

“I can be an introvert. I can also quickly delve into a very deep conversation,” she said. “I have a curiosity within me. I always say, ‘Let’s go deeper, tell me more.’”

She said she finds joy in asking questions and facilitating reflective discussions among her peers.

“The people who do know me openly tell me how much I make them think,” she said.

She was recently named one of the 12 Black leaders to know by The Post and Courier, an honoree of Charleston Regional Business Journal’s Forty Under 40 class of 2023, and a member of the Liberty Fellowship class of 2025.

When asked how these accomplishments made her feel she said, “Success is no proof of virtue.”

“I definitely live with the understanding that having those accolades does not mean I will always be successful,” she said. “I am going to make mistakes. I made mistakes to get here.”

She prefers to be in the background but hopes her life inspires others.

“There’s certain aspects and elements of my story which can be reflective or helpful,” she said.

The Lowdown

jamilla harper

Age: 37.

Birthplace: Charleston, S.C.

Current profession: COO, Metanoia.

Something people would be surprised to learn about you: I’m an introvert, a keen observer who loves to be in the background making connections between people and supporting them for the investment in the communities and places they call home.

Favorite things to do outside of work: Enjoying ‘the cookout,’ firepit, walks, working out, yoga, sunrise beach time.

Books on bedside table: All the Black Girls are Activists, by ebonyjanice; Ella Baker and the Black Freedom Movement, by Barbara Ransby; Emergent Strategy, by adrienne marie brown; Belonging, by bell hooks.

Favorite novel: “Parables of the Sower,” by Octavia Butler.

Favorite food to eat: Lima beans, delicious gluten-free foods.

Favorite food to cook: Greens — a vegan preparation with a mix of collards and spinach OR kale and spinach, prepared in the Kenyan style.

Five foods you always need in your refrigerator: Frozen gluten-free bread, leftovers from takeout.

Three people (alive or dead) you’d like to dine with: Ella Baker, Burna Boy/ Fella Kuti, Octavia Butler.

What meal would you want served to you for your last supper: Lima beans, rice, fried chicken, Kenyan greens, Kenyan Pilau or biryani (Kenyan spiced rice), Kenyan chapati (Kenyan flatbread).

Philosophy: Raise your consciousness to a level where you must fear to do the right thing... because it is the ONLY right thing to do.

Your advice for better living: When you know better, do better.

Your advice for someone new to Charleston: Find your people. Find your place. Find your why.

Photos by Joey Izzo

Cuisine

Local chef, mixologist, pen ocean-inspired cookbook

By Helen Mitternight

Sammy Monsour and Kassady Wiggins are looking to save the oceans, one fish dinner at a time.

The chef and the mixologist have created a book, Salt & Shore, that they hope will help to do just that. The book has cocktails that use oceanic ingredients such as algae and can be made non-alcoholic (Monsour stopped drinking five years ago). It also has recipes using fish from grouper to shellfish in dishes from dips to stews, all an ode to cooking in the Southeast.

“We really love storytelling, being docents of Southern culture,” Wiggins said. “It’s so rich and so important to American cuisine in general, and it’s what inspires us.”

Wiggins grew up in Greenville and Monsour in Cary, N.C., although he spent much of his time in his parents’ restaurants in Chapel Hill and Raleigh.

The two met at Preux & Proper in Los Angeles, where Monsour was the executive chef and later co-owner and Wiggins was working her way up to beverage director.

“I was looking for someone who was passionate about cocktails and wanted to work more closely with the kitchen. Kassady stuck out, and we ended up falling in love. Our chemistry and admiration started with being creative

together and, to this day, that’s what we do. We are life partners, married, in love, but also run a business together,” Monsour said.

Covid caused the closure of Preux & Proper, but not before it won a Michelin Big Gourmand designation. A few years later, Monsour and Wiggins opened Joyce Soul and Sea in Los Angeles, but both felt homesick for the Carolinas, which brought them in 2022 to Charleston, where they now spend half their time when not flying to oversee Joyce. They say they will transition to spending more time in Charleston as Joyce becomes more self-sufficient, and they one day hope to open a restaurant here.

Environmental advocacy

In addition to being a chef, Monsour is an environmental advocate.

He is on the advisory board for Smart Catch, a member of the Monterey Bay Aquarium’s Blue Ribbon Task Force and a founding member of the Coalition for Sustainable Aquaculture, where he has built and leads a team of 25 chefs to advocate for sustainable food systems policy in the U.S. He’s also advocated internationally, speaking at conferences in Norway and in Rome.

Wiggins learned about sustainability at her grandfather’s small farm outside of Asheville and her zero-landfill beverage program won her a green star from the city of Los Angeles.

The passion for preserving the ocean, as well as the Southern roots, join in the book, Salt & Shore, which features not only recipes, but essays introducing local craftsmen and purveyors who are dedicated to running their companies in a sustainable and environmentally responsible way. The title came from Wiggins, who said a pinch of salt is frequently a great addition to many cocktails, as well as being the foundation of ocean water.

The book also seeks to cure the “fear of fish,” Monsour said.

“Cooking seafood seems intimidating,” Monsour said. “Three out of five seafood meals in the U.S. are eaten out and

a big part is people aren’t confident in cooking fish. People don’t know what to buy, they think it’s expensive. Even some chefs are intimidated!”

He said the book focuses on the home cook and seeks to give them confidence through simple, straightforward cookery focused on techniques and flavor-building.

Monsour said home cooks can increase the sustainability in their meals by looking for local fish that is in season — some of the kinds of fish that aren’t as popular are just as delicious and sold at bargain prices.

“If you want a rule of thumb, whether farm-raised or wild-caught, buy U.S. seafood,” Monsour said. “90% of what we consume in this country is imported.”

Although the couple hesitates to single out any one recipe from the book, each has a personal favorite.

For Wiggins, it’s the Blue Bayou, a cocktail made blue by the use of algae, which earns an essay of its own.

“People eat with their eyes and this drink is the most funlooking,” she said.

For Monsour, it’s the Blue Crab and Green Chili Pimento Cheese.

“It takes five minutes to make. You make a pint, and it’s so good, you will eat it in 15 minutes,” he said.

Salt & Shore can be purchased online at simonandschuster.com.

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Sammy Monsour and Kassady Wiggins want folks to feel confident making fish dishes — and other cool stuff like oceanic cocktails — at home

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Herd Provisions recently released a new summer menu. Dishes include local summer squash; pan seared local fish with black rice soubise, fennel confit and oregano chimichurri; nicoise field greens salad with local tuna, six-minute egg and summer beans and Leaping Waters Farm beef tartare.

What’s happening

The Charleston Place hosts a brunch in honor of Bastille Day at Palmetto Cafe from 10 a.m. to 3 p.m. July 14. Guests can enjoy live music and a specially curated menu with French cheeses, croissants, Duck a’ l’Orange and more. Reservations ($65/adult; $35/kids under 12; Free/kids under three) are available on resy.com.

Odd Duck Market celebrates one year in Park Circle with a night market, live music, wine tasting and more on July 12. Things kick off at 5 p.m. and guests can enjoy kid-friendly activities, free swag giveaways and a grilled cheese collaboration with popular sandwich joint, Cold Shoulder Gourmet.

Christmas in July

Area bars and restaurants are celebrating six months ‘til Christmas with a variety of events around town this month.

All three Santi’s locations are currently collecting Christmas lights, nutcrackers and other decorations to help enhance their festive decor. All contributors will receive a free margarita.

Hotel Bennett’s Camellias hosts Tea with Santa each Wednesday this month. Catch Santa on his holiday break where he’s decorating pineapples and hobnobbing with the locals. Tickets ($95/adults; $65/kids under 12) can be purchased online at hotelbennett.com.

James Island’s Coastal Snack Bar hosts a Christmas in July party from 5 p.m. to 8 p.m. July 12. The familyfriendly event features over 20 local vendors, a DJ, food and drink specials and kids’ activities.

Holy City Brewing celebrates being halfway-to-Christmas with a local vendor market, Key West Christmas from 5 p.m. to 8 p.m. July 13. Get pics with Santa on a jet ski. —Connelly Hardaway

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Idina Menzel to illuminate the Gaillard stage

By Chloe Hogan

Broadway legend Idina Menzel brings her Take Me or Leave Me tour to the Gaillard Center Aug. 3, a one woman show featuring fan favorite songs from throughout Menzel’s illustrious career — iconic hits from Wicked, Rent, Frozen, and newer music from her dance album, Drama Queen, released last summer.

In between songs like Frozen’s “Let it Go,” Wicked ’s “Defying Gravity” and Rent ’s “Take Me or Leave Me” (for which the tour is named), Menzel will offer stories from the course of her life on the stage. Menzel is widely known for playing independent, badass female characters who defy societal norms — the Long Island native originated some of the most iconic musical theater roles of all time: Maureen in Rent and Elphaba in Wicked.

Naming the show after the song she belts in Rent as Maureen is not only a tribute to where she got her start, Menzel said in an interview with the Charleston City Paper, but also a nod to the fact that this tour shows the human side of the larger-than-life performer who’s been dubbed the “queen of Broadway” and the “Streisand of her generation.”

“ ‘Take me or leave me’ means, I’m going to give you everything. I’m going to allow you to see all sides of who I am through my music, through my voice — my inner voice and my literal voice. To quote from Rent, I’m going to ‘take a leap of faith’ and hope that you, as an audience, will accept me for who I am.”

Connecting with fans

Menzel said she’s exhilarated by the opportunity to connect with her multi-generational audience through this national tour. This tour is her second, following a world tour in 2015.

“It’s emotional for me to get on stage every night and reconnect with my audience. I feel so lucky that I’ve had such supportive fans throughout the years. We’ve grown up together in a lot of ways — many of my fans from Rent, for example, are now parents and they’re bringing their kids who love Frozen.”

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Menzel brings her one-woman show to Charleston in August and will perform the hit songs from her illustrious musical theater career alongside covers and originals

Menzel added gratitude that her fans have been supportive of her movement into different directions, like her most recent dance album Drama Queen, released in 2023.

“Theater fans are the greatest, because they appreciate all kinds of music; they’re very sophisticated listeners,” she said. “And so when I wanted to go in a dance direction, or a rock direction, or celebrate my theater career, I learned that they would actually accept all those things in one show … I used to worry that the incongruence of that would feel unfocused. But it’s all facets of who I am — that’s the common denominator.”

Figuring out the set list meant finding a balance between the songs fans expect and love, plus songs that Menzel is excited to reinterpret, or even songs she’ll perform for the first time.

“I want to do the songs that people love, but I also want to reinterpret them sometimes. For me, as an artist, I like to try new things. So finding that marriage is fun and challenging.”

And in between songs, Menzel shares stories from her life and career. Since connecting with the fans is a big motivation behind the show, she takes questions from the audience and approaches each stop on the tour with a sense of spontaneity, she said.

“I get to chronicle my life through music. I get to talk about my experience during Rent, having that experience as my very first and how it informs who I am. There’s lots of fun Wicked stories and stories about being green. There’s mom stories, stories about trying to balance being a parent and a performer … how I try to stay in the

Arts, etc.

Wit’s End presents Steven Rogers

There are two chances to catch New York City-based comedian Steven Rogers as he brings his clever, rapidfire material to Wit’s End Comedy Lounge in North Charleston at 8 p.m. July 19 and 20. Rogers is known for his debut comedy special Before He Was Super, which led him to perform on The Late Show with Stephen Colbert, The Late Late Show with James Corden and more. General admission starts at $20. witsendcharleston.com

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moment and be present in my life.

“Each audience is new for me, and I really like to find the humor in the evening.”

Bold authenticity

Ultimately, Menzel said her hope is that the Take Me or Leave Me tour is revealing and honest.

“I really do feel like the greatest shows that I’ve ever seen are ones where the performer allows us to see a little bit into their soul. I’ve always felt strongly about remaining vulnerable and trying to be as authentic as I can. Trying to take any room, no matter how big, and make it feel like my living room.”

This sentiment of bold authenticity calls to mind the characters Menzel’s known for: Maureen, who is not afraid to take on the establishment and fight for what she believes in; Elphaba, who is willing to be wicked if it means she can do good; and Queen Elsa, who exemplifies resilience, bravery and radical self acceptance. It’s not surprising then, that Menzel’s advice for young artists is to embrace their imperfections.

“[My advice for artists] would be to not compromise who you are for anyone. Know deep in your heart that those imperfections make up who we are, and end up being the things that draw people closer to us. So embrace the things that make us unique. And be patient.”

See Idina Menzel’s Take Me or Leave Me tour as she stops in Charleston, 7:30 p.m. Aug. 3. Visit gaillardcenter.org for tickets.

Up-and-coming indie rock band Homemade Haircuts will play a twonight residency at The Royal American 9 p.m. July 12 and 13 alongside New York City rock band Tennis Courts; Athens, Ga.-based group Monsoon; and Columbia pop music makers Paisley and the Birdwalkers. Find tickets for $10 on eventbrite or purchase day-of. @theroyalamerican on Instagram.

Curated open mic night at Extra Chill Happy Hour

Hosted by Extra Chill and Rip City Chs, the third ever Extra Chill Happy Hour takes 6 p.m. to 9 p.m. July 25 at LOFi Brewing. It’s free to attend and find food trucks, drink specials and an artisan market. Interested in performing? Find the sign up form at extrachill.com. More info @extrachill on Instagram.

Family-friendly Frog and Toad musical takes Dock Street Theatre

A Year with Frog and Toad is a heartwarming musical that brings to life the charming adventures of two best friends, Frog and Toad, based on Arnold Lobel’s beloved children’s books. The musical unfolds as a series of vignettes capturing the essence of friendship, nature and the simple joys of life. There’s an ASL accessible performance at 11 a.m. July 20. Or, catch it July 21, 27 or 28 with tickets starting at $40 at charlestonstage.com. Chloe Hogan

Fast-rising artist Evan Honer to perform at Music Farm

By Vincent Harris

A few weeks ago, Nashville-based singersongwriter Evan Honer released his second album, Fighting For. It’s a 16-track tour de force that touches on pure Appalachian Americana (“Nowhere Fast”), aching solo acoustic melancholia (“Mr. Meyers”) and straightforward rockers (“Wake Up, Come Down”), all anchored by Honer’s resonant but vulnerable voice, which resembles the pained but confident cry of My Morning Jacket singer Jim James.

It’s a strong album, in other words, which is exactly what Honer needed, because he was following up a debut that got some serious attention. That album, 2023’s West On I-10, was released on Honer’s own indie label, Cloverdale Records, but it did numbers like a mainstream release, particularly on streaming services. Just a year later, Honer’s music is at an astounding 200 million streams, and there are individual tracks on the album with tens of millions of listens.

Sure, Honer had critical raves from People magazine and No Depression, a roughly 5 million strong social media base, mainly on TikTok — but tens of millions of streams? How did that happen, exactly, especially for an indie release?

Don’t ask the artist; he’s still bewildered by it. All he knows is that he started out as a 13-year-old guitarist who fell in love with the music of singer-songwriter Tyler Childers, and decided he wanted to do that, too. And now, here we are, 200 million streams later.

“It surprises me every day,” Honer said. “I just started writing those songs in my last year of college and recording them with my friend that had started producing music the same time. We were just making

In just over a year, singer-songwriter Evan Honer has garnered over 200 million streams worldwide

these songs. I didn’t really think anything of it, and I’m surprised people are resonating with it.”

Stripped-back sound

Honer did, however, offer some possible reasons that his music caught on.

“I think it’s the straightforward lyrics and simple production,” he said. (Honer’s writing is almost entirely autobiographical.)

“That’s a popular trend right now. Most of the songs are stripped-back with minimal instrumentation. I think people started to miss that a lot, and now I think it’s coming back. People just like raw, emotional music.”

When it came time to make his next project, Fighting For, Honer was feeling the heat of expectation.

“I felt a good amount of pressure,” he said, “but I think a lot of it was unnecessary pressure that was just in my head. But I had so much fun making the album, and I loved it a lot. I decided that I don’t really care too much what happens — these songs mean

a lot to me, and I had a good time making them with my friends.

“If it goes to number one, then that’s awesome,” he continued, “but if it doesn’t, then it’s totally fine. That’s the way I try to look at it.”

Fighting For was released on Honer’s indie label Cloverdale Records, even though he got plenty of interest from major labels after his debut made a splash. Honer decided to stick to his own label, despite the improved promotion and distribution opportunities that a major can provide.

“I don’t think there’s any right or wrong way to do things,” Honer said. “I don’t do well with a lot of opinions and voices in my ear, whether they’re telling me about the music or the marketing side. So just for the sake of my mental health, I figured it was best for me to just keep my team as small as possible so I don’t have to worry about going through hoops. I have the freedom to do whatever I want and to release whatever I want.”

Catch Evan Honer at Music Farm. 8 p.m., July 20. Tickets are $20 advance or $25 day-of.

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SOUTH CAROLINA DEPARTMENT OF SOCIAL SERVICES

VERSUS

DELPHIA WALKER, SHARIF SMITH, MONTERIO BROWN, MICHELLE ROBINSON. DEFENDANTS.

IN THE INTERESTS OF: MINOR CHILDREN BORN 2011, 2016, 2021

TO DEFENDANTS: SHARIF SMITH AND MONTERIO BROWN

YOU ARE HEREBY SUMMONED and required to answer the Complaint in this action filed with the Clerk of Court for CHARLESTON County on May 20, 2024, at 12:02 PM. Upon proof of interest, a copy of the Complaint will be delivered to you upon request from the Charleston County Clerk of Court, and you must serve a copy of your Answer to the Complaint on the Plaintiff, the South Carolina Department of Social Services, at the office of its Attorney, 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

MORE CLASSIFIEDS ONLINE

STATE OF SOUTH CAROLINA COUNTY OF CHARLESTON IN THE FAMILY COURT FOR THE NINTH JUDICIAL CIRCUIT DOCKET NO. 2024-DR-10-1404

SOUTH CAROLINA DEPARTMENT OF SOCIAL SERVICES VERSUS

HAILEY PIKE AND DARNELL WASHINGTON IN THE INTERESTS OF: MINOR CHILD BORN 2023.

TO DEFENDANT: HAILEY PIKE 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 20, 2024, at 2:26 p.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, W. Tracy Brown, 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.

W. Tracy Brown, SC Bar #5832, 3685 Rivers Avenue, Suite 101, North Charleston, SC 29405, 843-953-9696.

ESTATES’ CREDITOR’S NOTICES

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

Estate of:

MARY GRIMBALL BROWN

2024-ES-10-1036

DOD: 4/18/24

Pers. Rep: JAMES BROWN, JR. 1141 HARTS BLUFF RD. WADMALAW ISLAND, SC 29487

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Estate of:

TIMOTHY DONISE ANDERSON

2024-ES-10-1053

DOD: 3/15/24

Pers. Rep: STACEY RIVERS

133 JODI PLACE

LOCUST GROVE, GA 30248 HAVE YOU BEEN SERVED?

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:

MARIE COLBY WERNER

2024-ES-10-1035

DOD: 1/2/24

Pers. Rep:

PETER C. WERNER

2119 BISHOP DR., CHARLESTON, SC 29414

Estate of: MICHAEL JEROME STEWART

2024-ES-10-1068

DOD: 6/12/24

Pers. Rep:

LINDSEY STEWART FREEMAN 115 ARLINGTON ST., ASHEVILLE, NC 28801

Estate of:

RUTH E. RAMBO

2024-ES-10-1115

DOD: 4/13/24

Pers. Rep:

STEPHEN RAMBO

3660 LANKERSHIM BLVD., LOS ANGELES, CA 90066

Atty: JOY STONEY-REID, ESQ.

6650 RIVERS AVE., NO. CHARLESTON, SC 29406

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:

JOHN B. CARTER, SR.

2024-ES-10-1051

DOD: 5/15/24

Pers. Rep: JOHN B. CARTER, JR. 1155 FORT LAMAR RD., CHARLESTON, SC 29412

Atty: MARK V. EVANS, ESQ.

147 WAPPOO CREEK DR., #202, CHARLESTON, SC 29412 ***********

Estate of: YVONNE MYERS

2024-ES-10-1080

DOD: 5/8/24

Pers. Rep: ROSALEE JONES

3056 MATTISON ST., DULUTH, GA 30096

Atty: THOMAS H. BRUSH, ESQ.

12 A CARRIAGE LN., CHARLESTON, SC 29407 ***********

Estate of:

ELIZA BALIS CHRYSTIE

2024-ES-10-1137

DOD: 5/8/24

Pers. Rep:

MARK R. PINNEY

17 EAST 16TH ST., #9, NEW YORK, NY 10003

Pers. Rep:

PETER H. WYMAN, JR.

157 SOUTH CHAMPLAIN ST., #302, BURLINGTON, VT 05401

Atty: M. JEAN LEE, ESQ.

115 CHURCH ST., CHARLESTON, SC 29401 ***********

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DOD: 6/6/24

Pers.

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: ROHAN CHOPRA

2024-ES-10-0995

DOD: 12/8/23

Pers. Rep: HOPE A. JOHNSTON 3090 OLIVIA MARIE LN., JOHNS ISLAND, SC 29455

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

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Estate of:

JEANETTE BROWNLEE NAPIER

2024-ES-10-0953

DOD: 4/3/24

Pers. Rep:

GRETCHEN NAPIER ALTINE

533 RHODE DR., COTTAGEVILLE, SC 29435

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Estate of:

JOSEPH V. SIMMONS

2024-ES-10-1150

DOD: 3/10/24

Pers. Rep:

MARIE T. SIMMONS

6142 MEADOW ROSE LN., CHARLOTTE, NC 28215

Atty: W. ALEX DALLIS, JR., ESQ. PO BOX 30788, CHARLESTON, SC 29417

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Estate of:

SHELLEY CROCKER WARREN

2024-ES-10-1166

DOD: 6/14/24

Pers. Rep: JOHN W. CROCKER

5260 TIMBER RACE COURSE, HOLLYWOOD, SC 29449

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.

Derivation: 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 6144 Smith Road Ravenel, SC 29470

SUBJECT TO CHARLESTON COUNTY TAXES

STATE OF SOUTH CAROLINA COUNTY OF CHARLESTON IN THE COURT OF COMMON PLEAS CASE NO. 2023-CP-10-05593

NewRez LLC d/b/a Shellpoint Mortgage Servicing Plaintiff, -vsGerrald Campbell (Deceased); and any other Heirs-at-Law or Devisees of Gerrald Campbell, Deceased, Dannielle D. Clement; 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 Defendants

NOTICE OF SALE

BY VIRTUE of a judgment heretofore granted in the case of NewRez LLC d/b/a Shellpoint Mortgage Servicing vs. Gerrald Campbell (Deceased); and any other Heirs-at-Law or Devisees of Gerrald Campbell, Deceased, Dannielle D. Clement; 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, I, Mikell Scarborough, Master in Equity for Charleston County, will sell on August 06, 2024, at 11:00 AM, at the Front Entrance of County Council Chambers, 4045 Bridge View Drive, North Charleston, SC, to the highest bidder.

SITUATED IN THE TOWNSHIP OF RAVENEL, COUNTY OF CHARLESTON AND STATE OF SOUTH CAROLINA:

highest bidder).

Should the Plaintiff, or one of its representatives, fail to be present at the time of sale, the property is automatically withdrawn from said sale and sold at the next available sales day upon the terms and conditions as set forth in the Judgment of Foreclosure and Sale or any Supplemental Order.

That a personal or deficiency judgment being waived, the bidding will not remain open after the date of sale, but compliance with the bid may be made immediately.

NOTICE: The foreclosure deed is not a warranty deed. Interested bidders should satisfy themselves as to the quality of title to be conveyed by obtaining an

TERMS OF SALE: The successful bidder, other than the Plaintiff, will deposit with the Master in Equity at conclusion of the bidding, five (5%) of his bid, in cash or equivalent, as evidence of good faith, the same to be applied to purchase price in case of compliance, but to be forfeited and applied first to costs and then to Plaintiff’s debt in the case of noncompliance. Should the last and highest bidder fail or refuse to make the required deposit at the time of the bid or comply with the other terms or the bid within thirty (30) days, then the Master in Equity may resell the property on the same terms and conditions on some subsequent Sales Day (at the risk of the former

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

NINTH JUDICIAL CIRCUIT

C/A #: 2024-CP-10-01890

SOUTH CAROLINA STATE

HOUSING FINANCE AND DEVELOPMENT AUTHORITY, Plaintiff, vs. TAMEIKA M. ANDERSON; DAVIS JONES INVESTMENT GROUP, INC.; and PYOD, LLC, Defendants.

SUMMONS AND NOTICE OF FILING OF COMPLAINT (Non-Jury) Foreclosure

TO THE DEFENDANT TAMEIKA M. ANDERSON 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 to the said Complaint upon the subscribers, at their office, 508 Meeting Street, West Columbia, South Carolina 29169, or at Post Office Box 11682, Columbia, South Carolina 29211, within thirty (30) days after the service hereof, exclusive of the day of such service; and if you fail to answer the Complaint in the time aforesaid, judgment by default will be rendered against you for the relief demanded in the Complaint.

NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that the original Complaint in the above entitled action was filed in the Clerk of Court’s Office for Charleston County on April 10, 2024. A Notice of Foreclosure Intervention was also filed in the Clerk of Court’s Office.

s/Ryan J. Patane

S.C. Bar No. 103116

Benjamin E. Grimsley

S.C. Bar No. 70335

D’Alberto, Graham & Grimsley, LLC Attorneys for the Plaintiff P.O. Box 11682 Columbia, S.C. 29211 (803) 233-4999 rpatane@dgglegal.com bgrimsley@dgglegal.com

June 11, 2024

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,

Household Goods/Furniture

John Sowards Household Goods/Furniture

Facility 5: 1514 Mathis Ferry Rd.

Mt. Pleasant, SC 29464

07/23/2024

10:35 AM

Ellen Fetridge Household Goods and Furniture

Renea Williams Household Goods and Furniture

Norman Gray Household Goods and Furniture

Facility 6: 1426 Hwy 17 Mt. Pleasant, SC 29464

07/23/2024

10:40 AM

Brooke Aherne

Household Goods/Furniture, TV/Stereo Equipment, Tools/ Appliances

Clark Bouguyon Household Goods/Furniture

Facility 7: 2443 Savannah Hwy Charleston, SC 29414

07/23/2024

10:30 AM

Crystal Kowalski Personal Items

Facility 8: 45 Grand Oaks Blvd Charleston, SC 29414

07/23/2024

11:15 AM

Michael Frazier Household goods

Facility 9: 1951 Maybank Hwy Charleston, SC 29412 07/23/2024 11:30 AM

Anthony Grant Bedroom items, furniture, boxes

Evan Mcferrin Household items and furniture

Robert Atkatz Boxes and Household Goods

Robert Atkatz Household Items, Clothing, Boxes

Norman Sterrett Filing cabinets

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 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 2: 2118 Heriot St. Charleston, SC 29403

7/23/2024

12:15 PM

D’Andrea Mack Furniture, clothes

Facility 3: 1533 Ashley River Rd Charleston, SC 29407

7/23/2024

12:45 PM

Latencia Gregory Bed, boxes and totes

Dan Ramsey Clothes, tools

Fred Croker Household items, contractor tools

Facility 4: 1540 Meeting Street Rd Charleston, SC 29405

7/23/2024 1:00 PM

Kamden Huckabee Office Furn/Machines/Equip

Brandy Jacques Household Goods/Furniture

Jade Toporek Couple boxes of clothes, shoes, couple paintings etc

Quinette Moultrie Household Goods/Furniture

Facility 5:

1861 Ashley River Rd. Charleston, SC 29407 7/23/2024 1:15 PM

Paul Wu

Contents of 4-5 bedroom house

Bethany Alston Appliances

Robin Swint mattress boxes

Ardelia A Campagnani Household Goods

Adrienne Nelson Clothing

Colin Wallace 2 bedroom apartment

Troy White clothes, shoes, containers, mattress

Rontese Smalls Household Goods

Renee Douglas Household goods

Melanie Kalyna Furniture, personal items

Kristina Hoffman Furniture, table, desk, clothes

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

Movement Mortgage, LLC, PLAINTIFF, vs. April L Nesbitt; The Townhomes at Marsh Cove Owners Association, Inc., DEFENDANT(S)

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

C/A NO: 2024-CP-10-02826 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-inEquity/Special Referee in/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, was filed with the Clerk of Court on May 31, 2024.

NOTICE TO APPOINT 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.

Attorneys for Plaintiff Hutchens Law Firm LLP P.O. Box 8237 Columbia, SC 29202 Firm Case No: 20933 - 101003

STATE OF SOUTH CAROLINA COUNTY OF CHARLESTON IN

CASE NO. 2024-CP-10-02563

BENJAMIN BESSENT, Plaintiff,

v. MELVINA RICHARDSON and if she may be deceased, their heirsat-law, personal representatives, successors, and assigns and spouses if any they have and all other persons with any right, title or interest in and to the real estate described in the Complaint, commonly known as: 2176 Richardson Road Charleston County, South Carolina TMS Number: 330-12-00-067 and also any unknown adults and those persons as who may be in the military service of the United States of America, all of them being a class designated as John Doe; and any unknown minors or persons under a disability being a class designated as Richard Roe, Defendants.

SUMMONS & NOTICE

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

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

NOTICE OF FILING

PLEASE TAKE NOTICE that the Summons and Notice, Complaint and Lis Pendens were filed on May 16th, 2024, the Order Appointing Guardian ad Litem was filed on May 17th, 2024 and the Order of Publication was filed on June 28th, 2024 in the Office of the Clerk of Court for Charleston County, State of South Carolina.

NOTICE OF APPOINTMENT OF GUARDIAN AD LITEM

FURTHER TAKE NOTICE that Carl B. Hubbard, Esquire of 2201 Middle Street, Box 15, Sullivan’s Island, South Carolina 29482 has been designated as Guardian ad Litem for all Defendants who may be incompetent, under age, or under any other disability or in the Service of the Military by Order of the Court of Common Pleas of Charleston County, dated May 17th, 2024 and the said appointment shall become absolute 30 days after the final publication of this Notice, unless such Defendants, or anyone in their behalf shall procure a proper person to be appointed Guardian ad Litem of them within 30 days after the final publication of this Notice.

THE PURPOSE of this action is to clear the title to the subject real property described as follows: ALL THAT CERTAIN LOT, piece or parcel of land situate, lying and being on James Island, on the North side of Sol Legare Road known as Lot B-4 as shown on a plat entitled “PLAT TO

SUBDIVIDE 10.17 ACRES, JAMES RICHARDSON ESTATE (TRACT B) & ROSE RICHARDSON LEFF (TRACT A), LOCATED IN THE TOWN OF JAMES ISLAND, CHARLESTON COUNTY, SOUTH CAROLINA”, dated August 22nd, 194, revised November 16th, 1994, and recorded in the RMC Office for Charleston County in Book EA, Page 540, RMC Office for Charleston County. Said lot having such shape, dimensions, butting and boundings as shown on said plat.

TMS # 330-12-00-067

s/Jeffrey T. Spell Jeffrey T. Spell

Attorney at Law 925 Wappoo Road, Suite B Charleston, South Carolina 29407 (843) 452-3553

Attorney for Plaintiff

June 28th, 2024

Date

RECYCLE THIS PAPER

NOTICE OF DEFAULT AND INTENT TO SELL

Name and address of Purchaser:

See Exhibit A, LIBERTY PLACE VACATION SUITES: A fee simple undivided ownership interest (SEE EXHIBIT A), and to the Project in perpetuity as tenant(s) in common with the Owners of other Vacation Ownership Interests in the Project, as established by and subject to that certain Declaration of Covenants, Conditions and Restrictions and Vacation Ownership Instrument for Liberty Place Vacation Suites, recorded September 25, 2019 in Book 0824, Page 157, et seq. of the records of the R.O.D. Office for Charleston County, South Carolina, as amended or supplemented from time to time (the “Declaration”), having Interval Control Number (SEE EXHIBIT A). You are currently in default of payment for the Mortgage recorded in the Public Records of Horry County, South Carolina as identified in Exhibit A. The total amount presently delinquent, with Attorney fees and costs is listed below in Exhibit A. As provided for in paragraph 4. of the aforementioned mortgage, the lien-holder has chosen to proceed with a non-judicial foreclosure procedure in accordance with Article 3 of Chapter 32 of Title 27 of the Code of Laws of South Carolina. PURSUANT TO SECTION 27-32-325, S.C. CODE ANN., 1976, AS AMENDED, YOU ARE HEREBY ADVISED OF THE FOLLOWING: IF YOU FAIL TO CURE THE DEFAULT OR TAKE OTHER APPROPRIATE ACTION WITH REGARD TO THIS MATTER WITHIN THIRTY CALENDAR DAYS AFTER RECEIPT OF THIS NOTICE, YOU WILL RISK LOSING YOUR INTEREST IN THIS TIMESHARE ESTATE THROUGH A NONJUDICIAL FORECLOSURE PROCEDURE. HOWEVER, UNDER THE NONJUDICIAL PROCEDURE, YOU WILL NOT BE SUBJECT TO A DEFICIENCY JUDGMENT OR PERSONAL LIABILITY FOR THE LIEN BEING FORECLOSED EVEN IF THE SALE OF YOUR TIMESHARE ESTATE RESULTING FROM THE NONJUDICIAL FORECLOSURE IS INSUFFICIENT TO SATISFY THE AMOUNT OF THE LIEN BEING FORECLOSED. YOU MAY OBJECT TO THE SALE OF YOUR TIMESHARE ESTATE THROUGH THE NONJUDICIAL FORECLOSURE PROCEDURE AND REQUIRE FORECLOSURE OF YOUR TIMESHARE INTEREST TO PROCEED THROUGH THE JUDICIAL PROCESS. AN OBJECTION MUST BE MADE IN WRITING AND RECEIVED BY THE TRUSTEE BEFORE THE END OF THE THIRTY-DAY TIME PERIOD. YOU MUST STATE THE REASON FOR YOUR

OBJECTION AND INCLUDE YOUR ADDRESS ON THE WRITTEN OBJECTION. IN A JUDICIAL FORECLOSURE PROCEEDING THAT RESULTS FROM YOUR OBJECTION, YOU MAY BE SUBJECT TO A DEFICIENCY JUDGMENT AND PERSONAL LIABILITY FOR THE LIEN BEING FORECLOSED IF THE SALE OF YOUR TIMESHARE ESTATE RESULTING FROM THE JUDICIAL FORECLOSURE IS INSUFFICIENT TO SATISFY THE AMOUNT OF THE LIEN BEING FORECLOSED. FURTHERMORE, YOU ALSO MAY BE SUBJECT TO A PERSONAL MONEY JUDGMENT FOR THE COSTS AND ATTORNEY’S FEES INCURRED BY THE LIENHOLDER IN THE JUDICIAL FORECLOSURE PROCEEDING IF THE COURT FINDS THAT THERE IS COMPLETE ABSENCE OF A JUSTIFIABLE ISSUE OF EITHER LAW OR FACT RAISED BY YOUR OBJECTIONS OR DEFENSES. YOU HAVE THE RIGHT TO CURE YOUR DEFAULT AT ANY TIME BEFORE THE SALE OF YOUR TIMESHARE ESTATE, BY PAYMENT OF ALL PAST DUE LOAN PAYMENTS OR ASSESSMENTS, ACCRUED INTEREST, LATE FEES, TAXES, AND ALL FEES AND COSTS INCURRED BY THE LIENHOLDER AND TRUSTEE, INCLUDING ATTORNEY’S FEES AND COSTS, IN CONNECTION WITH THE DEFAULT. Any response or inquiry should be made in writing to King Cunningham, LLC, Attn: Jeffrey W. King, Esq. who is serving as Trustee in this matter, at the following address: 1000 2nd Ave S, Ste 325, North Myrtle Beach, SC 29582.

EXHIBIT “A”, Owner(s), Address, TS Interest, Interval Control No. (Unit, Week, OEB), Deed BK/PG, MTG BK/PG, Default Amount, Costs, Attorney Fee, Per Diem; KAREN LEE PERELLIE & HEATH N. FULLER, 137 LOOMIS HILL RD, WATERBURY CENTER, VT 05677, 0.01682244733133270%, 98-0304-43B, 1173/944, 1173/971, $51,395.06, $208.53, $450, $22.53.;

KAREN SCHAID WAGNER , 809 LAKE SHORE DR., WAUCONDA, IL 60084-1529, 0.01682244733133270%, 98-0406-6B, 1112/858, 1112/863, $23,496.32, $208.53, $450, $11.13.; RICHARD THOMAS MCNAMARA & DEBORAH LOUISE BRUEGGER, 5639 TIER VIEW TRL, GREENSBORO, NC 27405-8303, 0.00399374221908844%, 98-0322-17E, 1131/549, 1131/572, $53,100.84, $208.69, $450, $22.06.;

LYNN IONE KILE, 205 KEATON DR, FAYETTEVILLE, GA 30215, 0.01682244733133270%, 980305-W50B, 1185/285, 1185/300, $39,621.40, $208.69, $450, $20.82.;

DIANA L. RUHTENBERG , 7612 OLYMPIA DR, HOUSTON, TX 77063-1921, 0.01243674632681650%, 98-U0520-W25B, 1163/374, 1163/397, $54,353.50, $208.69, $450, $27.57.;

SEMBUA SAMUEL DANIELI & LILIAN KIMWERI DANIELI, 331 ADAMS POINT DR, GARNER, NC 27529-6505, 0.01682244733133270%, 98-U0417-W44B, 936/342, 936/352, $40,324.72, $208.69, $450, $11.89.;

RICHARD W MEYER & ERLINDA HERNAND MEYER, 909 VANDALIA DR., CARY, NC 275191888, 0.00621837316340825%, 98-U0206-W36O, 1163/380, 1163/402, $20,719.70, $208.69, $450, $7.80.;

JESSICA A TAWIAH & SYLVIA A. TAWIAH, 10 NEWBURY DR, STAFFORD, VA 22556-4620, 0.01682244733133270%, 980405-W2B, 1201/664, 1201/666, $51,294.47, $208.69, $450, $22.90.

To all persons claiming an

MICHAEL TRAYNUM will apply to SCDNR for title on watercraft/ outboard motor. If you have any claim to the watercraft/outboard motor, contact SCDNR at *+(803) 734-3699. Upon thirty days after the date of the last advertisement if no claim of interest is made and the watercraft/outboard motor has not been reported stolen, SCDNR shall issue clear title.

Case No: 20230509950344

STATE OF SOUTH CAROLINA COUNTY OF CHARLESTON IN THE COURT OF COMMON PLEAS FOR THE NINTH JUDICIAL CIRCUIT CASE NUMBER: 2024-CP-10-01831 GERARDO MAGANA, Plaintiff, vs. PHILLIP WALKER, Defendant.

SUMMONS JURY TRIAL REQUESTED (NEGLIGENCE) (AUTOMOBILE WRECK)

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, Berlinsky and Ling, 2971 West Montague Avenue, Suite 201, 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.

BERLINSKY AND LING By s/ Philip A. Berlinsky

PHILIP A. BERLINSKY Attorney for the Plaintiff 2971 West Montague Avenue Suite 201 North Charleston, SC 29418 (843) 884-0000 North Charleston, SC April 8, 2024

STATE OF SOUTH CAROLINA COUNTY OF CHARLESTON IN THE COURT OF COMMON PLEAS DOCKET NO. 2024CP1001357 Towd Point Mortgage Trust 2018-3, U.S. Bank National Association, as Indenture Trustee, Plaintiff, v. Any Heirs-At-Law or Devisees of Rebecca M. Eaton and Lawrence C. Eaton, Jr., Deceased, their heirs, Personal Representatives, Administrators, Successors and Assigns, and all other persons entitled to claim through them; all unknown persons with any right, title or interest in the real estate described herein; also any persons who may be in the military service of the United States of America, being a class designated as John Doe; and any unknown minors or persons under a disability being a class designated as Richard Roe; Angelia Rogers; Thomas Eaton a/k/a Thomy Eaton; Defendant(s).

SUMMONS Deficiency Judgment Waived (011847-05287)

TO THE DEFENDANT(S): Any Heirs-At-Law or Devisees of Rebecca M. Eaton and Lawrence C. Eaton, Jr., Deceased, their heirs, Personal Representatives, Administrators, Successors and Assigns, and all other persons entitled to claim through them; all unknown persons with any right, title or interest in the real estate

described herein; also any persons who may be in the military service of the United States of America, being a class designated as John Doe; and any unknown minors or persons under a disability being a class designated as Richard Roe YOU ARE HEREBY SUMMONED and required to appear and defend by answering the Complaint in this foreclosure action on property located at 5313 Mcroy Street, North Charleston, SC 29418, being designated in the County tax records as TMS# 408-08-00-169, of which a copy is herewith served upon you, and to serve a copy of your Answer on the subscribers at their offices, 1221 Main Street, 14th Floor, Post Office Box 100200, Columbia, South Carolina, 292023200, within thirty (30) days after the service hereof, exclusive of the day of such service; except that the United States of America, if named, shall have sixty (60) days to answer after the service hereof, exclusive of the day of such service; and if you fail to do so, judgment by default will be rendered against you for the relief demanded in the Complaint.

TO MINOR(S) OVER FOURTEEN YEARS OF AGE AND/OR MINOR(S) UNDER FOURTEEN YEARS OF AGE AND THE PERSON WITH WHOM THE MINOR(S) RESIDES AND/OR TO PERSONS UNDER SOME LEGAL DISABILITY: YOU ARE FURTHER SUMMONED AND NOTIFIED to apply for the appointment of a Guardian Ad Litem within thirty (30) days after the service of this Summons upon you. If you fail to do so, Plaintiff will apply to have the appointment of the Guardian ad Litem Nisi, Ian C. Gohean, Willson, Jones, Carter & Baxley, PA, 325 Rocky Slope Road, Greenville, SC 29607, made absolute.

NOTICE

TO THE DEFENDANTS: Any Heirs-At-Law or Devisees of Rebecca M. Eaton and Lawrence C. Eaton, Jr., Deceased, their heirs, Personal Representatives, Administrators, Successors and Assigns, and all other persons entitled to claim through them; all unknown persons with any right, title or interest in the real estate described herein; also any persons who may be in the military service of the United States of America, being a class designated as John Doe; and any unknown minors or persons under a disability being a class designated as Richard Roe, YOU WILL PLEASE TAKE NOTICE that the Summons and Complaint, of which the foregoing is a copy of the Summons, were filed with the Clerk of Court for Charleston County, South Carolina on March 13, 2024.

ORDER APPOINTING GUARDIAN AD LITEM NISI Deficiency Judgment Waived

It appearing to the satisfaction of the Court, upon reading the Motion for the appointment of Ian C. Gohean as Guardian Ad Litem Nisi for any unknown minors and persons who may be under a disability, it is ORDERED that, pursuant to Rule 17, SCRCP, Ian C. Gohean, be and hereby is appointed Guardian Ad Litem Nisi on behalf of all unknown minors and all unknown persons under a disability, all of whom may have or may claim to have some interest in or claim to the real property commonly known as 5313 Mcroy Street, North Charleston, SC 29418; that Ian C. Gohean is empowered and directed to appear on behalf of and represent said Defendant(s), unless the said Defendant(s), or someone on their behalf, shall within thirty (30) days after service of a copy hereof as directed, procure the appointment of a Guardian or Guardians Ad Litem for the said Defendant(s), and it is

FURTHER ORDERED that a copy of this Order shall forthwith be served upon the said Defendant(s) Any Heirs-At-Law or Devisees of Rebecca M. Eaton and Lawrence

C. Eaton, Jr., Deceased, their heirs, Personal Representatives, Administrators, Successors and Assigns, and all other persons entitled to claim through them; all unknown persons with any right, title or interest in the real estate described herein; also any persons who may be in the military service of the United States of America, being a class designated as John Doe; and any unknown minors or persons under a disability being a class designated as Richard Roe, .by publication thereof in the Charleston City Paper, a newspaper of general circulation in the County of Charleston, State of South Carolina, once a week for three (3) consecutive weeks, together with the Summons in the above entitled action.

S/ Julie S Armstrong, Charleston County Clerk of Court, by BLC Charleston, South Carolina 4/3/2024

LIS PENDENS

Deficiency Judgment Waived

NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN THAT an action has been or will be commenced in this Court upon complaint of the above-named Plaintiff against the above-named Defendant(s) for the foreclosure of a certain mortgage of real estate given by Helen Mae Maynard to Mortgage Electronic Registration Systems, Inc., as mortgagee, as nominee for Citibank Federal Savings Bank, A Federal Savings Bank, its successors and assigns dated June 26, 2006, and recorded in the Office of the RMC/ROD for Charleston County on July 24, 2006, in Mortgage Book 592 at Page 229. This mortgage was assigned to Firstkey Mortgage, LLC by assignment dated September 25, 2019 and recorded October 25, 2019 in Book 834 at Page 51; subsequently, this mortgage was assigned to Towd Point Mortgage Trust 2018-3, U.S. Bank National Association, as Indenture Trustee by assignment dated September 27, 2019 and recorded October 25, 2019 in Book 834 at Page 52. The premises covered and affected by the said mortgage and by the foreclosure thereof were, at the time of the making thereof and at the time of the filing of this notice, described as follows:

All that piece, parcel or lot of land situate, lying and being in the County of Charleston, State of South Carolina, known and designated as Lot No. 8, Block M, on a place or a portion of Glyn Terrace Subdivision, made August 2, 1955, by W. H. Matheny, R.L.S., and recorded in the RMC Office for Charleston County, in Plat Book T, Page 88, said lot having such size, shape, location, dimensions, butting and bounding as will by reference to the said plat more fully appear.

This being the same piece of property conveyed to Thomas Maynard and Helen Maynard by deed from Thomas M. Evans Realty Co., Inc. dated March 8, 1968 and recorded March 21, 1968 in Book Y89 at Page 25 in the Register of Deeds Office for Charleston County; subsequently, Thomas Alva Maynard died testate on April 4, 1983, leaving the subject property to his devisee, namely, Helen Mae Maynard, as is more fully preserved in the Probate records for Charleston County, in Case No. 83-ES-10-358; subsequently, Helen M. Maynard died on May 11, 2011, leaving the subject property to her devisee, namely, Rebecca M. Eaton, as is more fully preserved in the Probate records for Charleston County, in Case No. 2011ES1000847; also by Deed of Distribution dated July 10, 2012 and recorded July 20, 2012 in Deed Book 265 at Page 398. subsequently, Rebecca M. Eaton died on May 22, 2023, leaving the subject property to her heirs or devisees.

Property Address:

5313 Mcroy Street North Charleston, SC 29418

TMS/PIN# 408-08-00-169

/s/R. Brooks Wright Rogers Townsend, LLC

ATTORNEYS FOR PLAINTIFF

John J. Hearn (SC Bar # 6635), John.Hearn@rogerstownsend.com

Brian P. Yoho (SC Bar #73516), Brian.Yoho@rogerstownsend.com

Jeriel A. Thomas (SC Bar #101400)

Jeriel.Thomas@rogerstownsend.com

R. Brooks Wright SC Bar #105195)

Brooks.Wright@rogerstownsend.com 1221 Main Street, 14th Floor Post Office Box 100200 (29202) Columbia, SC 29201 (803) 744-4444

STATE OF SOUTH CAROLINA COUNTY OF CHARLESTON IN THE COURT OF COMMON PLEAS CASE NO. 2024-CP-10-03137

Rocket Mortgage, LLC f/k/a Quicken Loans, LLC f/k/a Quicken Loans Inc., PLAINTIFF, VS. Any Heirs-at-Law or Devisees of the Estate of Harvey Simmons a/k/a Harvey E. Simmons a/k/a Harvey Edward Simmons, Deceased; their heirs or devisees, successors and assigns, and all other persons entitled to claim through them; all unknown persons with any right, title or interest in the real estate described herein; also any persons who may be in the military service of the United States of America, being a class designated as John Doe; any unknown minors or persons under a disability being a class designated as Richard Roe; Bernadette Brown a/k/a Bernadette Simmons Brown, Individually, as Legal Heir or Devisee of the Estate of Alma Simmons a/k/a Alma G. Simmons a/k/a Alma Garvin Simmons a/k/a Alma Yvonne G. Simmons, Deceased; Tawanna Simmons a/k/a Tawonna Simmons, Individually, as Legal Heir or Devisee of the Estate of Alma Simmons a/k/a Alma G. Simmons a/k/a Alma Garvin Simmons a/k/a Alma Yvonne G. Simmons, Deceased; Robert Myers, Individually, as Legal Heir or Devisee of the Estate of Alma Simmons a/k/a Alma G. Simmons a/k/a Alma Garvin Simmons a/k/a Alma Yvonne G. Simmons, Deceased; Jasmine Myers, Individually, as Legal Heir or Devisee of the Estate of Alma Simmons a/k/a Alma G. Simmons a/k/a Alma Garvin Simmons a/k/a Alma Yvonne G. Simmons, Deceased, their heirs or devisees, successors and assigns, and any other Heirs-at-Law or Devisees of the Estate of Alma Simmons a/k/a Alma G. Simmons a/k/a Alma Garvin Simmons a/k/a Alma Yvonne G. Simmons, Deceased; 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 Jane Doe; any unknown minors or persons under a disability being a class designated as Rachel Roe; and Sunrun, Inc., DEFENDANT(S).

SUMMONS AND NOTICES (241103.00046)

TO ALL THE DEFENDANTS ABOVE-NAMED: YOU ARE HEREBY SUMMONED and required to appear and defend by answering the Complaint in this action, of which a copy is herewith served upon you, and to serve a copy of your Answer on the subscribers at their offices, 2712 Middleburg Drive, Suite 200, Columbia, Post Office Box 2065, Columbia, South Carolina, 292022065, within thirty (30) days after the service hereof, exclusive of the day of such service; except that the United States of America, if named, shall have sixty (60) days to answer after the service hereof, exclusive of the day of such service;

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

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

TO MINOR(S) OVER FOURTEEN YEARS OF AGE AND/OR MINOR(S) UNDER FOURTEEN YEARS OF AGE AND THE PERSON WITH WHOM THE MINOR(S) RESIDES AND/OR TO PERSONS UNDER SOME LEGAL DISABILITY: YOU ARE FURTHER SUMMONED AND NOTIFIED to apply for the appointment of a Guardian Ad Litem within thirty (30) days after the service of this Summons and Notice upon you. If you fail to do so, Plaintiff will apply to have the appointment of the Guardian ad Litem Nisi, Kelley Yarborough Woody, made absolute.

NOTICE

TO THE ABOVE-NAMED DEFENDANTS:

YOU WILL PLEASE TAKE NOTICE that the Summons and Complaint, of which the foregoing is a copy of the Summons, were filed with the Clerk of Court for Charleston County, South Carolina on June 20, 2024.

PLEASE TAKE NOTICE that the order appointing Kelley Yarborough Woody, whose address is PO Box 6432, Columbia, SC 29260, as Guardian Ad Litem Nisi for all persons whomsoever herein collectively designated as “Richard Roe” and “Rachel Roe,” , defendants herein whose names and addresses are unknown, including any thereof who may be minors, incapacitated, or under other legal disability, whether residents or non-residents of South Carolina; for all named Defendants, addresses unknown, who may be infants, incapacitated, or under a legal disability; for any unknown heirs-at-law of Harvey Simmons a/k/a Harvey E. Simmons a/k/a Harvey Edward Simmons; and Alma Simmons a/k/a Alma G. Simmons a/k/a Alma Garvin Simmons a/k/a Alma Yvonne G. Simmons, including their heirs, personal representatives, successors and assigns, and all other persons entitled to claim through them; and for all other unknown persons with any right, title, or interest in and to the real estate that is the subject of this foreclosure action, was filed in the Office of the Clerk of Court for Charleston County on the 28th day of June, 2024.

YOU WILL FURTHER TAKE

NOTICE that unless the said Defendants, 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 any of them, a Guardian Ad Litem to represent them or any of them for the purposes of this action, the Plaintiff will apply for an order making the appointment of said Guardian Ad Litem Nisi absolute.

LIS PENDENS

NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that an action has been commenced by the Plaintiff above named against the Defendant(s) above named for the foreclosure of a certain mortgage given by Harvey E. Simmons and Alma Simmons to Mortgage Electronic Registration Systems, Inc. as nominee for Quicken Loans Inc., dated May 31, 2018, recorded June 13, 2018, in the Office of the Clerk of Court/Register of Deeds for Charleston County, in Book 725 at Page 518; thereafter,

said Mortgage was assigned to Rocket Mortgage, LLC, FKA Quicken Loans, LLC by assignment instrument dated May 10, 2024 and recorded June 7, 2024 in Book 1249 at Page 149. The description of the premises is as follows:

All that piece, parcel, or lot of land, with the buildings thereto, situate, lying and being in the County of Charleston, State of South Carolina, known and designated as Lot 3, Block B, Forest Hills Subdivision, as shown on a plat made by E.M. Seabrook, Jr., Inc., dated January 27, 1969, and recorded in the RMC Office for Charleston County in Plat Book Y, Page 71; said lot having such size, shape, dimensions, buttings and boundings as will by reference to said plat more fully appear.

This being the same property conveyed to Harvey E. Simmons and Alma Simmons by deed of Roberta Kelly Aschenbrenner dated October 19, 2004 and recorded October 22, 2004 in Book O-513 at Page 404 in the Office of the Clerk of Court/Register of Deeds for Charleston County.

Subsequently, Harvey Simmons a/k/a Harvey E. Simmons a/k/a Harvey Edward Simmons died on September 24, 2022 and no probate case has been opened with the probate court for Charleston County. If any party has any information as to the existence and/or opening of a probate court file for the Estate of Harvey Simmons a/k/a Harvey E. Simmons a/k/a Harvey Edward Simmons, it is requested that you contact counsel for Plaintiff immediately with that information.

Subsequently, Alma Simmons a/k/a Alma G. Simmons a/k/a Alma Garvin Simmons a/k/a Alma Yvonne G. Simmons died on May 1, 2023, leaving the subject property to her heirs/devisees, namely Bernadette Brown a/k/a Bernadette Simmons Brown; Tawanna Simmons a/k/a Tawonna Simmons; Robert Myers; and Jasmine Myers, as shown in Probate Case No. 2023-ES-10-01014.

TMS No. 404-08-00-107

Property address: 7660 Allwood Avenue North Charleston, SC 29418

SCOTT AND CORLEY, P.A. By: _/s/Angelia J. Grant Ronald C. Scott (rons@scottandcorley.com), SC Bar #4996 Reginald P. Corley (reggiec@scottandcorley.com), SC Bar #69453

Angelia J. Grant (angig@scottandcorley.com), SC Bar #78334 Allison E. Heffernan (allisonh@scottandcorley.com), SC Bar #68530 H. Guyton Murrell (guytonm@scottandcorley.com), SC Bar #64134

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

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

ORDER APPOINTING GUARDIAN AD LITEM

STATE OF SOUTH CAROLINA COUNTY OF CHARLESTON IN THE COURT OF COMMON PLEAS C/A NO. 2024-CP-10-02225

Wilmington Savings Fund Society, FSB, not in its individual capacity, but solely as owner trustee of CSMC 2019-SPL1 Trust, Plaintiff

vs. Christie Moorer, Individually and as Personal Representative of the Estate of Billy Sunday Moorer, III; Andrew Mendes, Anna Celeste Moorer aka Celeste Moorer, Billy

Sunday Moorer IV aka Sonny Moorer, Savana Thompson, and any other Heirs-at-Law or Devisees of Billy Sunday Moore, III, Deceased, their heirs, Personal Representatives, Administrators, Successors and Assigns, and all other persons entitled to claim through them; all unknown persons with any right, title or interest in the real estate described herein; also any persons who may be in the military service of the United States of America, being a class designated as John Doe; and any unknown minors or persons under a disability being a class designated as Richard Roe; and Broad River Physicians Group, LLC, Defendants.

It appearing to the satisfaction of the Court, upon reading the Motion for the Appointment of Kelley Y. Woody, Esquire 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, Esquire 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”), all of which have or may claim to have some interest in the property that is the subject of this action, commonly known as 3484 Johan Boulevard, Johns Island, SC 29455, that Kelley Y. Woody, Esquire 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; Andrew Mendes, Anna Celeste Moorer aka Celeste Moorer, Billy Sunday Moorer IV aka Sonny Moorer, Christie Moorer 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, 2838 Devine Street, Columbia, South Carolina 29205, 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 April 29, 2024.

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 Billy S. Moorer, III to Wilmington Savings Fund Society, FSB, not in its individual capacity, but solely as owner trustee of CSMC 2019-SPL1 Trust bearing date of July 14, 2006 and recorded August 16, 2006 in Mortgage Book X594 at Page 420 in the Register of Mesne Conveyances/Register of Deeds/ Clerk of Court for Charleston County, in the original principal sum of Ninety Thousand and 00/100 Dollars ($90,000.00). Thereafter, by assignment recorded on September 19, 2019 in Book 822 at Page 794, the mortgage was assigned to Wilmington Savings Fund Society, FSB Not Its Individual Capacity, But Solely As Owner Trustee Of CSMC 2019-SPL1 Trust., 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: All that lot, piece or parcel of land, with the improvements thereon, situate, lying and being in the County of Charleston, State of South Carolina, in the subdivision known as MORRIS ACRES, JOHNS ISLAND, shown on a plat of “PARTS OF BLOCK A AND B AND ALL OF BLOCK C OF SAID SUBDIVISION” by A.L. Glen, dated June, 1955 and recorded in Plat Book K, Page 69, RMC Office for Charleston County as Lot 9, Block A, Morris Acres, and having the following metes and bounds; on the North by Lot No. 8 as shown on said plat measuring thereon 218.7 feet; on the South by Lot No. 10 as shown on said plat and measuring thereon 218.7 feet; on the West by Johan Boulevard and measuring thereon 80 feet; on the East from a pipe at the eastern end of the Southern direction to another pipe; thence 61.7 feet to another pipe located on the Eastern most point of the Northern boundary line of Lot No. 10 as shown on said plat.

TMS No. 281-06-00-037

Property Address: 3484 Johan Boulevard Johns Island, SC 29455

Riley Pope & Laney, LLC Post Office Box 11412

Columbia, South Carolina 29211

Telephone (803) 799-9993

Attorneys for Plaintiff 6175

STATE OF SOUTH CAROLINA COUNTY OF CHARLESTON IN THE COURT OF COMMON PLEAS C.A. No. 2024-CP-10-02201

Rosie May Howlett, Plaintiff, v. The Heirs of Edward Chisolm, the Heirs of Rosa Chisolm, Lydia Chisolm, Bee Chisolm, the Heirs of Isaac Chisolm, James Chisolm, John Chisolm, Jack Chisolm, Viola Chisolm, the Heirs of Lottie Brown, the Heirs of Nelson Brown, Leroy Brown, the Heirs of Sam Chisolm, the Heirs of Ernest Chisolm, the Heirs of Elouise Chisolm Lee, the Heirs of Ernest Chisolm, Jr., the Heirs of Elijah Chisolm, the Heirs of John Chisolm, Jackie Viola Chisolm, Candice Chisolm-Keeling, Jason Chisolm, Bernard Chisolm, Vermell Chisolm Whaley, Patricia Brown

Lyons, Mary Brown Harley, Carolyn Brown Scott, Louella Brown Butler, the Heirs of Valerie Brown Young, Leroy Brown, Jr., Thomas Hairston, the Heirs of James Chisolm, Debra Chisolm Morgan, the Heirs of Alfreda M. Heyward, the Heirs of Marvin Chisolm, Edward Chisolm, Sr., David Chisolm, Julius Chisolm, Jr., Aaron Chisolm, the Heirs of Rosalee Chisolm Salley, Joseph Guilyard Watson, the Heirs of Dolores Chisolm, Eloise Chisolm, the Heirs of Linda Chisolm-Lewis, James Lee Chisolm, the Heirs of Florence Chisolm Howard, Mark Jane Bryant, Sarah Kelly, the Heirs of Florence Howard, the Heirs of Mary Bryant, Charles Chisolm, Catherine Greene, John Chisolm, the Heirs of William Chisolm, and all persons claiming any right, title, estate interest in or lien upon the real estate described and any unknown adults or persons in the Military Service of the United States of America, being as a class designated as John Doe, whose true name is unknown; and any minors or persons under disability, being as a class designated as Mary Roe, whose true name is unknown, Defendants.

SUMMONS AND NOTICE OF FILING

TO DEFENDANTS ABOVENAMED:

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 the Complaint on the subscriber at his office in Charleston, South Carolina, 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, judgment by default will be rendered against you for the relief demanded in the Complaint.

YOU WILL ALSO TAKE NOTICE that Plaintiff will move for an order of reference or that the court may issue a general order of reference in this action to a Master in Equity or Special Referee pursuant to Rule 53 of the South Carolina Rules of Civil Procedure.

TO: MINORS OVER FOURTEEN YEARS OF AGE, AND/OR MINORS UNDER FOURTEEN YEARS OF AGE AND THE PERSON WITH WHOM THE MINOR(S) RESIDES, AND/OR 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 may be made by Plaintiff and/or ordered by the Court.

NOTICE IS HEREBY given that the Summons and Complaint in the above entitled action were filed in the Office of the Clerk of Court for Charleston County on April 26, 2024.

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 Plaintiff

June 26, 2024 Charleston, South Carolina

ATTORNEY

GARY A. LING

ACCIDENT AND INJURY CASES

Free Will Astrology

ARIES (March 21-April 19): I trust that your intuition has been guiding you to slow down and disappear from the frenzied, agitated bustle that everyone seems addicted to. I hope you have afforded yourself the luxury and privilege of exulting in the thrill of doing absolutely nothing. Have you been taking long breaks to gaze lovingly up at the sky and listen to music that moves you to tears? Have you been studying the children and animals in your life to learn more about how to thrive on nongoal-oriented fun? Have you given your imagination permission to fantasize with abandon about wild possibilities? Homework: Name three more ways to fuel your self-renewal.

TAURUS (April 20-May 20): Actor Carrie Fisher put a strong priority on being both amusing and amused. For her, almost everything that happened was tolerable, even welcome, as long as it was entertaining. She said, “If my life wasn’t funny, it would just be true, and that’s unacceptable.” I recommend you experiment with those principles, Taurus. Be resourceful as you make your life as humorously interesting as possible. If you do, life will conspire to assist you in being extra amused and amusing.

GEMINI (May 21-June 20): As you charge into the upcoming period of self-reinvention, don’t abandon and forget about your past completely. Some of your old emotional baggage might prove useful and soulful. A few of your challenging memories may serve as robust motivators. On the other hand, it will be healthy to leave behind as much oppressive baggage and as many burdensome memories as possible. You are launching the next chapter of your life story! Travel as lightly as you can.

CANCER (June 21-July 22): Even though you and I were both born under the sign of Cancer the Crab, I have a taboo against advising you to be like me. I love my life, but I’m not so naïve or arrogant as to think that what has worked for me will also work for you. Now, however, I will make a temporary exception to my policy. Amazingly, the astrological omens suggest you will flourish in the coming weeks by being at least somewhat like me. Therefore, I invite you to experiment with being kind and sensitive, but also cheerfully irreverent and tenderly wild. Be on the lookout for marvels and miracles, but treasure critical thinking and rational analysis. Don’t take things too personally or too seriously, and regard the whole world as a holy gift. Be gratefully and humbly in awe as you tune into how beautiful and wonderful you are.

LEO (July 23-Aug. 22): Over 3,700 years ago, a craftsperson living in what’s now Israel fashioned a comb from an elephant’s tusk. It was a luxury item with two sides, one used to smooth hair tangles and the other to remove lice. On the handle of the ivory tool is an inscription: “May this tusk root out the lice of the hair and the beard.” This is the oldest known sentence ever written in Canaanite, a language that created the world’s first alphabet. In some ways, then, this comb is a precious object. It is unspeakably ancient evidence of a major human innovation. In another way, it’s mundane and prosaic. I’m nominating the comb to be a symbol for your story in the coming weeks: a blend of monumental and ordinary. Drama may emerge from the routine. Breakthroughs may happen in the midst of everyday matters.

VIRGO (Aug. 23-Sept. 22): Some astrologers assert that Virgos are modest, humble, and reluctant to shine. But a Virgo New Yorker named Ashrita Furman provides contrary evidence. His main activity in life is to break records. He holds the Guinness world record for having broken the most Guinness world records. His first came in 1979, when he did 27,000 jumping jacks. Since then, he has set hundreds of records, including the fastest time running on stilts, the longest time juggling objects underwater, and the most times jumping rope on a pogo stick. I propose to make him your spirit creature for the coming weeks. What acts of bold self-expression are you ready to make, Virgo? What records are you primed to break?

By Rob Brezsny

LIBRA (Sept. 23-Oct. 22): Libran author Diane Ackerman says, “We can’t enchant the world, which makes its own magic; but we can enchant ourselves by paying deep attention.” I’m telling you this, dear Libra, because you now have exceptional power to pay deep attention and behold far more than usual of the world’s magic. It’s the Season of Enchantment for you. I invite you to be daring and imaginative as you probe for the delightful amazements that are often hidden just below the surface of things. Imagine you have the superpower of X-ray vision.

SCORPIO (Oct. 23-Nov. 21): If I’m reading the astrological omens correctly, you are in the midst of major expansion. You are reaching further, opening wider, and dreaming bigger. You are exploring frontiers, entertaining novel possibilities, and daring to transcend your limitations and expectations. And I am cheering you on as you grow beyond your previous boundaries. One bit of advice: Some people in your life may find it challenging to follow you freely into your new territory. They may be afraid you’re leaving them behind, or they may not be able to adjust as fast as you wish. I suggest you give them some slack. Allow them to take the time they need to get accustomed to your growth.

SAGITTARIUS (Nov. 22-Dec. 21): Sagittarian actor Jeff Bridges has wise words for you to heed: “If you wait to get all the information you think you need before you act, you’ll never act because there’s an infinite amount of information out there.” I think this advice is especially apropos for you right now. Why? Because you will thrive on making strong, crisp decisions and undertaking strong, crisp actions. The time for pondering possibilities must give way to implementing possibilities.

CAPRICORN (Dec. 22-Jan. 19): People may be attracted to you in the coming weeks because they unconsciously or not-so-unconsciously want to be influenced, stirred up, and even changed by your presence. They hope you will be the catalyst or medicine they need. Or maybe they want you to provide them with help they haven’t been able to give themselves or get anywhere else. Please be aware that this may not always be a smooth and simple exchange. Some folks might be demanding. Others may absorb and integrate your effects in ways that are different from your intentions. But I still think it’s worthwhile for you to offer your best efforts. You could be a force for healing and benevolence.

AQUARIUS (Jan. 20-Feb. 18): Sometimes when gifts arrive in our lives, they are not recognized as gifts. We may even mistake them for obstacles. In a worst-case scenario, we reject and refuse them. I am keen on helping you avoid this behavior in the coming weeks, Aquarius. In the oracle you’re now reading, I hope to convince you to expand your definition of what gifts look like. I will also ask you to widen the range of where you search for gifts and to enlarge your expectations of what blessings you deserve. Now please meditate on the following riddles: 1. a shadow that reveals the hidden light; 2. a twist that heals; 3. a secret that no longer wants to be secret; 4. a shy ally who will reward your encouragement; 5. a boon that’s barely buried and just needs you to scrape away the deceptive surface.

PISCES (Feb. 19-March 20): Lake Baikal in Russia is the world’s deepest, oldest, and largest lake by volume. It contains over 22 percent of the fresh surface water on the planet. I propose we make this natural marvel your prime symbol for the next 11 months. At your best, you, too, will be deep, fresh, and enduring. And like Lake Baikal, you will be exceptionally clear. (Its underwater visibility reaches 120 feet.) PS: Thousands of plant and animal species thrive in this vital hub. I expect you will also be a source of richly diverse life, dear Pisces.

Across

Fencing sword 6. Like used briquettes

Add-ons in the self-checkout lane? 14. Slangy summons 15. Fencing sword 16. Alike, in Avignon

Single file 19. Long ride?

20. Front-of-book list, for short 21. Fails to be

22. Ab-building exercise

23. Bombarded, Biblical-style 27. Poem with a dedicatee 28. Top of the mouth 29. Forearm bone

“I ___ reason why ...”

Portrayed 37. Action seen in “The Hunt for Red October”

“Abbott Elementary” principal

Crates 43. Pretentious, as some paintings

Org. that works with the JPL 45. Blu-ray player predecessor

47. Lyric from Hall & Oates

53. Picked

54. Astronaut’s beverage 55. Classic Japanese drama form

Jabba the ___ 58. Interlocks, like what each theme answer does? 61. Title figure in a Scott Turow book

“You’re All ___ to Get By”

Small spot on a globe 65. Like doilies 66. Ancient Scandinavians

12. Full range

13. Pig feed

18. “... even ___ speak”

22. Hoity-toity type

24. Wander

25. Peaches and pears, e.g.

26. “Game of Thrones” actress Chaplin

29. Letters on Forever stamps

30. Sweetie, to Brits

31. Org. that has guards

32. Wakeup hour, for some

33. Ethyl or methyl follower

34. 1812 event

35. Do something

36. Field in a jigsaw puzzle, often

38. Cheapen

39. “The Horse Fair” painter Bonheur

40. Acidic

44. Quik maker

45. Big name in set diagrams

46. Coop up

47. Cold-shoulders

48. Monopoly buy

49. Storage spot

50. Awful, like some colds

51. Key near the double-quotes

52. Dramatis personae

53. Former “Top Chef Masters” host Kelly

56. Robert Louis Stevenson villain

58. Ending for spoon or scorn

59. TV chef Garten

60. “That’s ___ brainer”

“TIDY UP” —an apt puzzle.