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While local leaders grapple with large-scale resiliency measures, like the crosstown drainage project, the Preservation Society encourages individuals to do their part for community resiliency

Preservation Society releases guide to improve community resilience

By Skyler Baldwin

The Preservation Society of Charleston (PSC) on Friday released a more-than 100page guide to help Charleston residents to improve the resiliency of their individual homes from environmental threats, such as flooding from climate change. Community resilience improves as individuals take charge of ways they can reduce their climate impact, experts say

Titled Resilience Guidance for Charleston, the document is broken down into seven key sections to improve resilience of specific areas of homeowners’ property: landscape, roof systems, exterior wood elements, exterior masonry, windows and doors, building systems and building interiors. Each section contains descriptions of how environmental threats of flooding, high winds, earthquakes and extreme heat — the biggest environmental threats facing Charleston today — can impact that component and how to reduce those impacts.

“This is a wonderful how-to document for how to increase individual resilience to physical hazards, flooding, earthquakes, wind and more,” said Dale Morris, former chief resilience officer for the city of Charleston. “If you have everyone doing that, then the neighborhood and community as a whole is far more resilient.”

While ongoing conversations around resilience in Charleston over the last few years have focused on the government-side

of things — look at the Dutch Dialogues and the sea-wall project at the Battery — Morris said it’s equally important for individuals to do their part in increasing resilience.

“It’s not an either-or thing. It’s all of the above,” he said. “Having citizens rely solely upon the government — they’re going to be less resilient overall. That’s just a fact.

“All of these things that individuals can do that really increase the resilience of their homes also increase the resilience of their communities,” he added. “That makes the government’s job a bit easier. If and when a disaster strikes, more resilient areas are likely to need less assistance and intervention post-event.”

The foundation of resilience

In the overview of the guidance, the Preservation Society writes that a property’s maintenance is the foundation of resilience — regular maintenance helps preserve buildings, structures and properties. Sustained maintenance is imperative to protect one’s home from flooding, high winds and earthquakes, it says.

“The idea of maintaining, replacing and rechecking is so important at the homelevel for resilience,” Morris said. “That ongoing maintenance is the No.1 aspect for increasing community resilience.”

That’s why the guide starts with a maintenance manual to help people track home conditions over time, problems, tasks and

contractors to help keep their property in tiptop shape. The manual is broken down into four categories: general information, property documentation, inspection and maintenance records and property review documentation.

Homeowners will find several helpful checklists and resources to keep track of maintenance and permitting, as well as find trustworthy inspectors to help.

Steps to combat flooding

While several environmental threats are mentioned in the document, flooding remains the top priority for increasing resilience in the Lowcountry. In almost every section of the guidance, there are ways for homeowners to prepare for and recover from flood events, from flooring and windows to external paint.

“Choosing flooring finishes that are easy to clean or repair can save a lot of hassle after a flood event,” said PSC Director of Public Affairs Sam Spence. “Sometimes, older wood floors can even dry out and have less long-term damage than modern materials — consulting with an expert is a lot cheaper than replacing all your hardwoods.”

Windows and doors can be some of the more significant character-defining features of a building, but also offer the most vulnerability, according to PSC Director of Advancement Courtney Theis. That’s

The Rundown

County to ask voters to extend half-cent tax

Charleston County Council on Tuesday night voted 6-2 to ask voters in November to extend a transportation sales tax to fund the controversial Mark Clark extension project

Opposing the measure were council members Larry Kobrovsky of Sullivan’s Island and Rob Wehrman of North Charleston. Henry Darby of North Charleston, who previously opposed the measure, was absent.

The ballot referendum would extend a current half-cent tax approved in 2016 to fund the county’s share of the $2.3 billion Mark Clark extension project, plus more than $2 billion in other projects.

Funding also would include borrowing of more than $600 million to pay interest costs on $1.8 billion of the county’s share of the road extension project. —Skyler Baldwin

“While it has been my intention to seek reelection, I believe it is in the best interest of my party and the country for me to stand down and to focus solely on fulfilling my duties as President for the remainder of my term.”

—President Joe Biden on July 21 in a letter explaining his decision to end his presidential campaign, making way for Vice President Kamala Harris to become the party’s likely nominee.

GUN VIOLENCE COUNTER

4 shot, killed across South Carolina July 18 to July 24

Da’Twan Gatling, 26, of North Charleston, died July 18 after being shot while working. The investigation is ongoing, and no suspects have been named. Meanwhile, Charleston police arrested Lymik Nyshawn Pierce, 26, of Walterboro, in connection with a June shooting that killed one.

Three others died in Horry, Pickens, Florence counties. Four more were hurt in shootings across the state. Nationally, there were nine mass shootings for the week, totalling 309 for the year.

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

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Trump policies could place S.C.’s trade at risk, experts say

By Jack O’Toole

Former President Donald Trump effectively doubled down on the populist tariff and immigration policies that helped fuel his surprise victory in 2016 by choosing Ohio Sen. J.D. Vance as his running mate at last week’s Republican convention. And according to political and economic experts, that selection is likely to play particularly well among working-class voters in the critical swing states of the nation’s industrial Midwest.

“J.D. Vance’s story will resonate with blue-collar workers in the ‘Blue Wall’ states of Michigan, Wisconsin and Pennsylvania,” Winthrop political scientist Scott Huffmon told the Charleston City Paper in an interview this week. “Trump needs to flip at least one of those, and that’s one of the big reasons he picked Vance over the others.”

S.C. Gov. Henry McMaster also believes Vance has strong appeal.

“I think J.D. Vance is perfect,” McMaster told Forbes from the convention floor just moments after the choice was announced. “They think alike, they like each other and they want to take the country in the same direction. I think they’ll be a great, great team — maybe the perfect team.”

But back in the Palmetto State where the economy is booming thanks largely to free trade, foreign investment and flexible labor markets, business leaders and experts are beginning to wonder what price South Carolinians could wind up having to pay for Trump’s Midwest-friendly politics.

“Over the past five decades, the Southeast has really been subjected to the forces of free trade, and as a result we’ve become very resilient and competitive in the global marketplace,” said Russell Sobel, a professor of economics and entrepreneurship at The Citadel. “So we’ve really benefited from that, as opposed to some other regions that haven’t historically been as consistent with lowering the cost of business.”

In short, South Carolina has worked hard to become a winner in the global economy, with international companies like BMW, Michelin and Samsung now beating a path to its door. And that makes the question of how Trumponomics would impact Palmetto State businesses and workers become a critical issue for South Carolinians in this year’s presidential contest.

Trouble ahead?

When people say South Carolina’s economic boom is inextricably tied to global commerce, they have the numbers to back it up.

According to state and federal statistics, South Carolina exported $37 billion in goods like cars, tires and appliances to foreign markets in 2023 — a 42% increase over the past decade. Almost 600,000 South Carolinians, or 20% of the workforce, hold jobs directly linked to trade. And at last count, more than 6,500 S.C. businesses actively exported their goods and services to customers all over the world.

Oral history, church restoration planned in Cordesville

By Herb Frazier

The WeGOJA Foundation in Columbia, which promotes South Carolina’s AfricanAmerican experience, will visit Cordesville in lower Berkeley County later this summer to interview people like Stanley Richmond.

A lifelong Cordesville resident, Richmond, 87, has memories and stories to tell about life in rural Berkeley County at a time when Black people worshiped at the Taveau Church, one of the oldest Black sanctuaries still standing in the state.

With funding from a variety of sources, the WeGOJA Foundation plans an oral history project that is reminiscent of the early-1930s Federal Writers’ Project that preserved the memories of formerly enslaved people throughout the South.

Experts say Trump’s proposed 10% across-the-board tariff, coupled with his suggested tariff of 60% on Chinese goods, could threaten South Carolina’s success in three principal ways. First, it could invite foreign countries to retaliate with tariffs against U.S. goods, placing the state’s $37 billion in international trade at risk.

“Anytime you implement a tariff, you always open yourself up to retaliatory tariffs from other countries,” said Joseph Von Nessen, an economist at the University of South Carolina’s Darla Moore School of Business. “That’s a risk that would emerge.”

That said, Von Nessen stressed the risk would depend on the exact nature of any tariffs a future President Trump ultimately decided to implement.

“Not all tariffs are created equal,” he said. “They have to be examined on an industryby-industry and case-by-case basis.”

The second major concern involves tariff-inflated prices, which the nonpartisan Petersen Institute for International Economics estimates would cost the average South Carolina family $1,700 per year.

“The scale of trade barriers proposed by candidate Trump is unprecedented,” according to Petersen’s May 2024 report. “Studies convincingly find no evidence of terms-of-trade benefits for the United States from these tariffs. Rather, the data show that higher tariffs are fully reflected in higher prices for U.S. buyers.”

These increased costs, experts say,

would have an outsized impact in South Carolina, where despite progress in recent years, incomes remain well below the national average.

Finally, the proposed Trump tariffs would hit South Carolina’s small and medium-sized businesses — which represent 85% of Palmetto State exporters — with particular force.

“Tariffs aren’t the answer, and they never work for their intended purpose,” said S.C. Small Business Chamber of Commerce President Frank Knapp. “[Instead], they hurt small businesses “that benefit from trade.”

Immigration restrictions and the specter of inflation

The other aspect of Trumponomics that concerns experts is the potential impact of large-scale migrant-worker deportations on the state’s labor market.

“Any reduction in immigration for any reason reduces the supply of labor and that puts upward pressure on wages,” USC’s Von Nessen said. “And we are already in a very tight labor market, particularly in South Carolina.”

And once again, small business leaders say they would be hardest hit, at least initially, by the resulting wage inflation.

“The number one problem small businesses in South Carolina cite is the labor shortage,” Knapp said. “You can’t pull workers out of the state without forcing businesses to raise pay — and small businesses aren’t in a position to do that.”

But this new oral history investigation will capture the memories of Black people who attended Taveau, built on the Claremont Plantation in 1835 for White Presbyterians. It became a home for Black Methodists in 1847.

Richmond attended Taveau in the 1950s with his mother, Georgiana Borden Richmond. The experience, he said, prepared him to become a deacon at the community’s Irving Chapel AME Church.

“When we were coming up in ‘40s and ‘50s your parents would make you go to church,” Richmond said lounging in a lawn chair in the carport of his Cordesville home. “You couldn’t stay home. You had to go to church and Sunday school.”

Richmond already has oral history experience. He’s featured in Edward Ball’s 1998 award-winning book Slaves in the Family. Richmond guided Ball to a forgotten burial ground hidden in the dense forest near Cordesville that holds the remains of people enslaved on a Ball plantation.

Martha Caroline Swinton Ball Taveau built the church at Claremont Plantation around the time when more than 700 enslaved people from the plantation were sold during an estate sale from five Ballowned Cooper River plantations. When Taveau died, Black families began worshiping in the church that was named for

her son Augustine. The church was used until the United Methodist Conference closed it in 1974.

The oral history project complements a Preservation South Carolina church restoration in its early phases. The

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The Taveau Church in Cordesville is the only site in Berkeley County associated with African American history that is listed on the National Register of Historic Places, according to the WeGOJA Foundation in Columbia

why multiple pages are dedicated to different ways to protect these entryways from flooding, including temporary barriers both manufactured and natural.

And building on the maintenance theme earlier in the guidance, keeping up with exterior wood elements can be a great boon against multiple environmental hazards, including flooding.

“Regular maintenance of wood cladding, trim, and porches/piazzas is key to its resilience against water in a damp environment like the low country,” PSC staffer Kerry Campion added. “Wood is known for its resilience in the event of vibrations from earthquakes, and its ability to dry out (given the right conditions). Routine painting, especially of wood that meets the ground, is one of the fastest and most effective ways to protect your exterior wood from water and pest inundation.”

Cordesville

1772 Foundation, Historic Charleston Foundation and South Carolina Humanities are providing $25,000 for the oral history project that is expected to be completed in early fall, said WeGOJA’s executive director Dawn Dawson-House.

“We are grateful that our partners entrusted to us the responsibility of capturing and documenting these important stories,” said Dr. Larry Watson, chairman of the WeGOJA Foundation Board of Directors. “We hope to learn more about family, faith, and fellowship in the Cordesville community, and continue adding authentic African American voices and experiences to the state’s historical narrative.”

The final oral history will become part of Historic Charleston Foundation’s Margaretta Childs Archive Collection. Copies also will be retained by the Taveau Legacy Committee.

Dawson-House said initial plans call for “us to interview eight to 10 people. Then later on in the year, we hope to talk to even more people about the comprehensive role Taveau played in the Coredeville community. Eventually, we hope to talk to 20 to 25 people.”

Cynthia Gibbs, chairperson of the Taveau Legacy Committee, said she expects the oral history will include other Cordesville churches.

“It is impossible to focus on just one church because of the interconnectedness of the families and the other churches in the community,” said Gibbs, an Alexandria, Va. resident who grew up in Cordesville.

“This will not be a linear conversation, capturing sequential dates and events, like a history book,” she predicted. “It will be ordinary people telling their stories from their memories about the church and the community, and it will be absolutely fascinating.”

Blotter of the Week

Charleston police on July 15 interrupted a downtown woman’s spa day when they found her bathing in the Waterfront Park fountain with a towel wrapped around her head. She was reportedly clothed, but passersby were “alarmed” and “unreasonably disturbed” possibly by what police noted as “feces” she was washing from herself. All right, then.

Road tantrums

North Charleston police on July 20 received report about road rage on University Boulevard involving a man who reportedly stuck his tongue out at a woman while driving, causing her to give him the middle finger, which then led to him ramming his vehicle into hers, shatter her window and denting the driver’s side door. This calls for a pretty heavy time-out, we think.

Shiny bread crumbs

A Mount Pleasant man on July 8 told Mount Pleasant police that his elderly mother’s jewelry was possibly stolen, as the jewelry box was knocked onto the floor open, and various pieces of jewelry “trailed into the bathroom.” Police noted nothing appeared to be missing, as all items appeared to have a matching pair. Did the house have a cat … or a gremlin?

By Skyler Baldwin Illustration by Steve Stegelin

The Blotter is taken from reports filed with area police departments between July 8 and July 20.

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Strap in for a political roller coaster ride

oy, what a difference a month makes in politics.

BIn June, President Joe Biden and former GOP President Donald Trump were locked in a close race. Then came a disastrous June 27 debate showing by Biden, causing peeps of voices calling for Biden to step aside. And then the chirps became a cacophony.

Trump, who stayed mostly quiet while Democrats fed on Biden, then narrowly missed being killed July 13 by a 20-year-old sniper’s bullet at a Pennsylvania rally, fueling Democratic and some GOP calls for turning down the volume on politics and gun violence. Next came the rapture of the Republican National Convention in Milwaukee where Trump picked little-known U.S. Sen. and sycophant J.D. Vance to be his running mate. The political winds seemed to blow increasingly Republican with many in the party seeming to think Trump’s election was assured.

But then Biden, who for weeks resisted the growing calls to step away, surprised America on Sunday by doing just that — committing a selfless act to help his party keep the presidency out of Trump’s hands. He strongly endorsed his political partner, Vice President Kamala Harris. And the winds flipped again with Harris raising more than $81 million in the first 24 hours after getting the nod and most of the Democratic

establishment behind her — at which point, Trump welcomed Harris to the race like the gentleman he’s always been.

“Wow, just watching the Fake News,” Trump wrote in a social media post on Monday, “and they’re doing their very best to turn the Worst President in the History of our Country into a ‘Brilliant and Heroic Leader’ (He was heroic because he quit!), and to turn ‘Dumb as a Rock’ Kamala Harris from a totally failed and insignificant Vice President into a future ‘Great’ President. No, it just doesn’t work that way!”

In response, Harris gave as good as she got.

“I was a courtroom prosecutor,” Harris noted. “In those roles, I took on perpetrators of all kinds. Predators who abused women. Fraudsters who ripped off consumers. Cheaters who broke the rules for their own gain. So hear me when I say I know Donald Trump’s type.”

Talk about a roller coaster that’s ahead.

So now we’re left with a campaign that America can sink its teeth into — an ex-prosecutor pitted against a recently convicted felon who is also legally considered a sexual predator after a 2023 civil court ruling.

Hold on to your hats. The next 100 days before the election are going to be wild.

CHARLESTON CHECKLIST

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.

S.C.’s colorful nicknames are becoming part of past

By Andy Brack

Spot. Goat. Boopa. Preacher. Peatsy.

Nicknames, including those of political figures of all stripes, once were commonplace, perhaps a reflection of a society that spent more time talking with each other than emailing, blogging and staring at smartphones.

These days, with what South Carolina novelist Josephine Humphreys calls the “gentrification of South Carolina politics,” political nicknames run a comparatively narrow gamut with the occasional, bland Chips and Treys.

From the history books come cool Revolutionary War nicknames like the “Swamp Fox” (Francis Marion) and “The Gamecock” (Thomas Sumter). Still in the headlines almost 100 years after his death is “Pitchfork” Ben Tillman, the White supremacist for whom the 1893 main building at Clemson University is named.

Tillman, a former South Carolina governor and U.S. senator, significantly shaped the state’s 1895 Jim Crow constitution under which the Palmetto State still operates. Students today still want the building renamed.

“To those who understood Tillman as he wished to be understood, the nickname ‘Pitchfork Ben’ fit perfectly,” writes Stephen Kantrowitz in Ben Tillman and the Reconstruction of White Supremacy. “The image of the oneeyed farmer poking at his foes before a roaring crowd masks the origins, intentions, and achievements of Tillman’s life and career in just the way that Tillman himself desired.”

In a related manner came the politically-adopted sobriquet of Ellison D. “Cotton Ed” Smith (1864-1944), the U.S. senator from Lee County who reportedly got his nickname after saying, “Cotton is king and White is supreme.”

Some more recent nicknames are unprintable in family newspapers.

Some more recent nicknames are unprintable in family newspapers. But here are some that used to be bandied about a decade or three ago at political gatherings:

• James P. “Spot” Mozingo, a colorful orator from Darlington County who served in the House and Senate. He died in 1972.

• Charles D. “Pug” Ravenel, a Charleston political newcomer in the 1970s who shook up Democratic politics in campaigns for governor and U.S. Senate. Ravenel, who died in 2017, got his nickname after breaking his nose twice while playing baseball.

• Rita Louise Liddy “Peatsy” Hollings, the politically savvy wife of late Ernest F. “Fritz” Hollings. Both nicknames arose in their childhood.

• Ann Yarborough “Tunky” Riley, wife of former Gov. and U.S. Secretary of Education Richard W. “Dick” Riley. Mrs. Riley, who passed away in 2008, was known from childhood by the Gullah word meaning “sweet little baby.”

Also in the General Assembly were John J. “Bubber” Snow of Hemingway, James P. “Preacher” Harrelson of Green Pond, Marion “Son” Kinon of Dillon, T. Allen “Snag” Legare Jr. of Charleston and “Cousin Arthur” Ravenel of Charleston. Other colorful nicknames of state leaders include Frederick Julian “Goat” Leamond of Charleston; F. Mitchell “Cussie” Johnson, a former College of Charleston board chair; and Albert “Fish” Simons Jr., a leading Charleston architect.

In Charleston when a relative mispronounced “beautiful” as “boopa,” lawyer and two-time political candidate Edward K. Pritchard Jr. got a nickname that endures today. Legal eagles still remember Julius B. Ness of Manning better as “Bubba” than his given name. In fact, he may be the only state leader who explained his nickname with another nickname.

“Bubba Ness used to say when people called him an S.O.B. that it stood for ‘Sweet Old Bubba,’ ” remembers Columbia consultant Mary Green, whose father went to law school with Ness.

Nicknames humanize people. It might not be such a bad thing if South Carolina’s leaders got some good — and printable — nicknames for a change.

Editor’s Note: This is a Statehouse Report commentary from 2015.

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

What To Do

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SATURDAY

20th annual Sweetgrass Festival

Offering free admission, entertainment and activities, the Sweetgrass Festival provides an opportunity for local basket makers to showcase, promote and market their sweetgrass merchandise to locals as well as cultural tourists from around the country. Come learn about Gullah Geechee culture and craftsmanship and take home an original hand-made work of art.

July 27. 10 a.m. to 3 p.m. Free to attend. Mount Pleasant Waterfront Park. 99 Harry Hallman Jr. Blvd. Mount Pleasant. experiencemountpleasant.com

FRIDAYS

Music on the Green

Head to the Village Green at Freshfields Village for a complimentary, outdoor concert featuring a variety of music by regional bands. Guests are encouraged to bring beach chairs and blankets as the center welcomes back one of its favorite family-friendly events. Catch this fun musical event every Friday this summer through Aug. 23.

Aug. 2. 6-9 p.m. Free to attend. Freshfields Village. 165 Village Green Lane. Kiawah Island. freshfieldsvillage.com

SUNDAY

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A Year with Frog and Toad

A Year with Frog and Toad is a heartwarming and whimsical musical that brings to life the charming adventures of the two best friends, Frog and Toad, based on Arnold Lobel’s beloved children’s books. As the seasons change, so do the delightful escapades of these lovable amphibians, from planting gardens to sledding down hills.

July 27. 11 a.m. and 2 p.m. $40/ticket. The Historic Dock Street Theatre. 135 Church St. Downtown. charlestonstage.com

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The Art of Abstraction : Sketching in the Historic Textiles Gallery

Enjoy a quiet space to draw and sketch with this self-guided activity with art materials at a self-serve station in the gallery. Guests may bring their own sketchbook and supplies, but please note, only graphite, charcoal or colored pencils are permitted in the gallery. This event is open to all, and no drawing experience or level of artistic ability is required.

July 28. 1 p.m. to 3 p.m. Free with museum admission. The Charleston Museum. 360 Meeting St. Downtown. charlestonmuseum.org

TUESDAY

Mount Pleasant Farmers Market

Head to Mount Pleasant every Tuesday through September for a local market featuring farm goods, food vendors and live music. Pick up fresh local produce, prepared meals and plenty of other goodies to stock your kitsch, including locally made olive oil, ranch dressing, boiled peanuts, Greek sweets, fresh pasta and more.

July 30. 3:30 p.m to 7 p.m. Free to attend. The Moultrie Middle School. 645 Coleman Drive. Mount Pleasant. experiencemountpleasant.com

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Followatrailoftacos aroundCharleston

City Paper staff

harleston City Paper staffers trekked the Charleston area for years in search of great tacos.

In 2013, former CP editor Stephanie Barna, along with the help of writer and photographer Paul Cheney, hit up some of the best taco spots in town. Then in 2017, writer Eric Doksa made an memorable afternoon out of visiting eight taco spots in North Charleston. Since then, City Paper writers have shared their love for tacos, whether as bar food or as good-ol’-fashioned late night munchies.

Doksa had the right idea. In the seven years since his taco trek, a solid number of food trucks have set up shop along the area of Rivers Avenue, Remount Road and Dorchester Road.

A journey for now

The taco trail can start as early as 8 a.m. Pull up to the parking lot of Iglesia de Jesus Cristo Sendred De Luz off of Rivers Avenue, where the Tacos las Fuentes food truck slings tacos for the early morning crowd to see for yourself. After all, it’s never too early for tacos. North Charleston isn’t the only geographical area that’s home to a growing number of roadside taco trucks. Head south of downtown Charleston to James and Johns islands to find a number of food trucks, especially on Maybank Highway.

We’ve detailed some of our favorite taco spots in town — from kitchens located in convenience stores and small, specialty restaurants to, of course, taco trucks. Read on for these favorites (listed alphabetically) and then keep on reading for an extensive directory of taco trucks around town.

El Molino Supermarket

1610 Sam Rittenberg Blvd., Suite 301. West Ashley (843) 225-8244

5900 Rivers Ave. North Charleston (843) 261-8260

El Molino’s Supermarket’s taqueria has simple, delicious tacos topped with onions and cilantro, a side of salsa and radish and

The tacos at Goose Creek’s Tierra Caliente are topped with cilantro and onions and served with a side of grilled veggies

cucumber slices. Choose from a variety of proteins, including barbacoa, pastor and carne asada. And don’t miss out on the spot’s Taco Tuesday taco box, which is chock full of tacos for just $35.

La Fogata of Johns lsland

3265 Maybank Hwy. Johns Island (843) 557-5162

A favorite on Johns Island, La Fogata serves tacos, quesadillas, tortas and burritos. Tacos come in orders of four with a wide variety of proteins including barbacoa, pescado, pastor, pollo, azada, carnitas and more. Get your fix for lunch six days a week

and enjoy your meal to-go or at one of the spot’s covered picnic tables.

Lola’s Authentic Mexican Cuisine

4310 Rivers Ave. North Charleston (843) 925-5243

Drive by the corner of Rivers and Durant any day during lunch and you’ll see that Lola’s serves up a hungry, busy lunch crowd. Order from a menu that includes burritos, tortas, empanadas and tacos, with proteins like barbacoa and al pastor. Pair your lunch with a nice cold Jarritos and enjoy it to-go or at one of Lola’s parking lot tables.

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Lucy’s Deliveries y mas

933 Red Bank Road. Goose Creek (843) 870-2991

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Lucy’s is worth the drive into Goose Creek. The vibes are friendly and inviting, and the tacos are just as superb. Tacos will set you back about $3 per taco, and only $4 for birria tacos — if you’re ready to get your hands a little dirty.

Maya del Sol Kitchen

1813 Reynolds Ave., Suite B North Charleston (843) 225-2390

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Though Maya del Sol Kitchen is known for its unique chef’s table experience with chef and owner Raul Sanchez, it never hurts to stop by earlier in the day on Wednesday to Friday for a quick lunch. The menu rotates with choices that can range from ceviche to tamales to even tacos. And trust us, you don’t want to miss the tacos.

Tacos las Fuentes

2068 Harley St. North Charleston

If you’re up early in the morning and starving, Tacos las Fuentes is the spot to go. You can’t miss it — it’s the bright yellow truck parked outside Iglesia de Jesus Cristo Sendred De Luz. Tacos are served on a tough corn tortilla to hold the contents. The meats are topped with, of course, onions and cilantro, and the salsa is smooth and spicy. FYI, this spot is cash only, so bring out the Jacksons and Hamiltons, depending on the amount of tacos you want ($3 per taco). And if you miss out in the morning, chances are you can find the truck further up Rivers Avenue for a nice lunchtime meal.

Tacos los Primos

5935 Rivers Ave. North Charleston (843) 330-2905

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Serving lunch and dinner daily, Tacos los Primos also offers something few other taco trucks do: an online ordering system. Order from a wide variety of tacos, with proteins that include steak, chicken, shrimp and fried pork rinds.

Tierra Caliente

134 St James Ave., Unit 7. Goose Creek (843) 718-1132

With an average 4.9 stars on Yelp, you know Goose Creek’s Tierra Caliente is going to be good. The strip mall restaurant is open for lunch and dinner daily and serves everything from street corn to tamales to, you guessed it, tacos. Piled high with onions and cilantro, tacos are served with a side of radishes, limes and grilled veggies.

Torres Superettes

843 Rutledge Ave. Downtown (843) 937-0707

If we’re talking about taco spots beloved by CP staffers, we’d be remiss not to mention the kitchen at Torres Superettes, which fed the City Paper for years when

the paper’s headquarters were on Rutledge Avenue. Head to the back of the convenience store to order lunch six days a week. We’re partial to the steak tacos.

North Charleston taco trucks

Chido Taco 4707 Dorchester Road (585) 353-5568

La Oaxaqueña Taqueria

2998 W. Montague Ave. (843) 809-4014

La Taqueria Express 2704 Ashley Phosphate Road (843) 813-0438

Moreno’s Taqueria 6550 Rivers Ave. (843) 364-9640

Rico’s Taco Cafe 6907 Rivers Ave. (843) 926-7523

Tacos De Cazuelitas (El

6907 US-78

Taco’n Madre Food Truck

2330 Ashley Phosphate Road (843) 925-8949 ordertaconmadrefoodtruck.com

Taqueria el Charro

5510 Rivers Ave. (843) 647-8825

Taqueria la Jarocha 1928 Remount Road, Suite B (843) 534-3855

Johns Island taco trucks

Gallina Loca 3247 Maybank Hwy. (843) 817-6778

Tacos La Familia 3546 Maybank Hwy. Suite A (843) 608-1397

Connelly Hardaway and Michael Pham contributed to this story.

Have a favorite taco truck or hole in the wall that should be included the next time? Let us know at food@charlestoncitypaper.com.

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La Fogata of Johns Island serves a wide variety of proteins on their popular tacos

Cuisine

Celebrate National IPA Day at bars, breweries across area

By Connelly Hardaway

India Pale Ales, most often called IPAs, are one of the most popular styles of beer and can be found at most bars and breweries in town. National IPA Day falls on the first Thursday of every August, this year, Aug. 1.

According to the Holy Grail of national holidays, nationaldaycalendar.com, the IPA was “developed out of an idea from the 1700s when shipping ale to India, adding hops to the beer increased the longevity of the brew.”

Last year Charleston City Paper’s Hops editors spelled out the differences among different IPA styles, from West Coast to Hazy to Milkshake. And, as those writers pointed out, with over 150 species of hops worldwide, the varieties of IPAs are nearly endless.

We asked local breweries what IPAs they recommend this summer (and year-round) and what the classic beer style means to them. We also rounded up our favorite tried-and-true local sips and a list of places offering deals this National IPA Day. Cheers!

Brewery picks

You can find Looking East, Commonhouse Aleworks’ award-winning West Coat IPA, on tap at the Park Circle brewery. Head brewer Andrew Thornton said: “We love brewing IPAs, and something we’ve been playing around with recently — and I’m really excited about — is new school West Coast IPAs. They’re less bitter, more fruitforward and more apporachable overall for folks that don’t love the bitterness of the original West Coast IPA.”.

Frothy Beard Brewing’s Sip Sip Pass IPA is a gold medal winner of the 2023 S.C. Brewer’s Cup for the style of Hazy IPA. The New England-style IPA is brewed with mosaic, citra and amarillo hops. Frothy’s Ryan Hetzer said that he continues to see evolution and diversity within the IPA style: “From the hop-heavy and clarity-driven West Coast IPA, to the malty East Coast IPA, to those with sour

Celebrate National IPA Day at Frothy Beard Brewing with Sip Sip Pass, a gold medal winner at last year’s S.C. Brewer’s Cup

elements and to the flavor-forward, hazy New England style, among a variety of others, IPAs have something to offer for nearly any fan of craft beer.”

The folks at Cooper River Brewing Co. said that the brewery’s Dock Day IPA is a perfect summer sipper. Co-owner Jamie Martin said: “Dock Day is a classic West Coast IPA designed for crushability with Citra and Simcoe hops leaving it citrusy and resinous enough for the hop heads to enjoy on a hot Charleston day.”

Revelry Brewing Co.’s head brewer, Ryan Coker, said that he has a love/hate

IPA Day celebrations

King Street Dispensary sells $5 IPA drafts all day August 1.

Bohemian Bull will be pouring $5 IPAs all day.

Low Tide Brewing sells IPAs for half off on Aug. 1, including to-go beers.

Sip on the Tide Chaser, the brewery’s flagship IPA, with “citrusy, dank and fruity” notes. Tie One Off XXX is also on tap, marking the return of the brewery’s Tie One Off IPA series, which was launched as a way to showcase different types of IPAs and hops. The Tie One Off XXX features notes of watermelon, mango peach and citrus fruits.

What’s new

The Matador recently debuted a private reserve line with tequila brand Codigo 1530. The Matador Private Reserve line features three distinct custom-aged barrels from Matador owner Zak Melang. The Matador team has been curating private reserve collections since 2010, seeking out tequila brands that use traditional production methods. The bottles that came from these barrels are available exclusively at The Matador. Book a reservation at the restaurant on resy.com.

relationship with IPAs. “I love a well-made West Coast IPA; to me, it’s the O.G., and its nostalgia brings me to an early, burgeoning landscape of craft beer. Fast forward 15 years, and we (brewers) have all taken aprt in the blurred lines that exist today and all own some responsibility for the style’s bastardization. ... For my money, give me a lowester, well-attentuated, crystal-clear, firmly bitter 6.5% IPA with a dank aroma all day long. I don’t know, maybe something like a Lefty Loosey IPA from Revelry?”

Editor’s picks

Coast Brewing’s HopART IPA is the West Coast IPA of our dreams. As the Hops editors wrote last year: “First brewed in 2007, HopArt is an IPA staple on the Charleston scene. Brewed with Nugget, Millennium and Cascade hops, this IPA clocks in at a banging 7.7% ABV.”

If you want a wide(r) variety of hazy IPAs, look no further than Charles Towne Fermentory and The Garden by Charles Towne Fermentory. The Sungazer is a perennial favorite and you can’t go wrong trying a DIPA (double IPA), like the Pallet Rider or the Side Stepper. .

Holy City Brewing’s Overly Friendly IPA is a classic. The beer won this year’s BOC award for Best Locally Brewed IPA, so we’re not along in our affections.

Grimaldi’s Pizzeria features new menu items this summer, including mocktails, sangrias and spritzes. Folks looking for a nonalcoholic beverage can sip on the Peachy Keen, made with diced peaches, peach puree, winter citrus syrup, citrus juices and soda. Spritz options include the Sicilian Sunshine Spritz, made with prosecco, Aperol, winter citrus syrup and lemon juices. Grimaldi’s is also launching a pizza night deal from 4 p.m. to close, Monday through Thursday. Guests can enjoy discounts on several bundles. Learn more online at grimaldispizzeria.com.

What’s hot

Charleston City Paper contributor, Amethyst Ganaway, was recently named Chef of the Year by Wine + Culture Fest, an inclusive wine festival presented by The Hue Society. The festival, according to its about page, is “dedicated to consumer education, brand awareness, industry advancement, and cultural experiences through the Black lens.” Learn more online at wineandculturefest.com.

What’s happening

Bumpa’s, in partnership with LALO Tequila, hosts Pups and Palomas from 2 p.m. to 5 p.m. on July 28. Two dollars from each Laloma cocktail purchased will be donated to Pet Helpers. Bumpa’s regular food and drink menus will be available and guests can enjoy live music from Krystal Halvorson and shop from local vendor Covey Collection, which sells Charleston-inspired pet products and home goods. Dogs are welcome to join their humans on Bumpa’s new outdoor seating.

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Southern Smoke introduces mental health program for F&B workers

By Helen Mitternight

If you’ve ever streamed the wildly popular show, The Bear, you might have an inkling of why the food and hospitality industry is so stressful.

In a 2017 study, the nonprofit Mental Health America released a study of 19 industries, and the food and beverage industry reported one of the highest levels of mental health issues. In 2015, the federal government’s Substance Abuse and Mental Health Service Administration (SAMHSA) ranked the restaurant industry as the highest in heavy alcohol consumption.

And restaurant workers say it hasn’t gotten any better since Covid. An October 2023 Charleston City Paper story looked at the stresses of chef life, with local chefs chiming in about the side effects of working in such a demanding industry.

“There’s a lot of trauma reported with people in this industry,” said Catarina Bill, chief mission officer for the Southern Smoke Foundation, which provides emergency

funds for food and beverage workers. “A lot of people are still dealing with the post-trauma of the pandemic and what they experienced through that time. The industry is hard for a lot of reasons. Expectations are very high, execution is the most important. There is no room for mistakes and that puts a lot of pressure on people.”

Southern Smoke was founded in Houston in 2015 as a fundraiser for a sommelier diagnosed with Multiple Sclerosis, and expanded nationwide to provide emergency relief in 2017. This year, it took over Pay it Forward, which was created by local restaurateur Michael Shemtov to help food and beverage workers financially strapped because of Covid. Pay it Forward was folded into Southern Smoke when the foundation moved into Charleston earlier this year.

The foundation, which also serves Columbia, has provided $81,920 to South Carolina this year so far, including $44,920 in Charleston alone.

“The top three emergency needs, month over month, are rent or mortgage, medical bills and utilities,” Bill said. “We were providing relief in natural disasters, but it seems that natural disasters are year round now. We do emergency relief in every state, including Hawaii and Puerto Rico.”

Southern Smoke has expanded its mis-

“The industry is hard for a lot of reasons. Expectations are very high, execution is the most important. There is no room for mistakes and that puts a lot of pressure on people.”

—Catarina Bill

sion from just emergency relief to mental health in a program called Behind You, named, to echo the warning kitchen workers give when crossing behind another worker. By the end of the year, Behind You will be in Texas, Louisiana, Illinois, California, New York, Maine, Massachusetts, Virginia, Tennessee, the District of Columbia and South Carolina. The organization’s model is to partner with accredited schools of psychology, psychiatry or social work, and to take advantage of the clinical hours those students must perform. Southern Smoke provides

money for clinics and students provide mental health services. The students are graduate level or above, the clinical hours are supervised, and the client gets either 20 sessions or six months of counseling, whichever comes first, at no cost.

Bill stressed that the services are confidential: No one in someone’s workplace ever needs to know that someone has sought help.

Southern Smoke receives its money from grants and donations, as well as fundraisers such as the annual Houston Southern Smoke Festival, which gave the foundation its name.

The eventual goal is for Behind You to be in every state, but the organization is proceeding with caution to ensure the partnerships are sustainable.

“The worst thing would be to start up somewhere and then have to pull out,” Bill said.

In South Carolina, the foundation is partnered with the University of South Carolina and hopes to expand to other universities. Applications from Charleston workers are being accepted this month, and Bill said they were already receiving applications from people who have heard about them.

“The Bear is a great example of the stress in this work,” Bill said. “But we want to be the reason people don’t have to go into the cooler and scream anymore.”

Bill

Culture

Zine Fest returns for 6th year

By Chloe Hogan

The number of vendors in the annual Charleston Zine Fest has more than doubled since its first iteration in 2016. Consider it proof that the day-long, free event celebrating independent makers and publishers resonates strongly with the Charleston art community. Add the dedicated efforts of organizers Leigh Sabisch and Sage Graham, and the zine fest won’t be stopping anytime soon.

Graham, who joined with Zine Fest founder Sabisch in 2020 to co-organize the event, said the topics of zines (defined as small-circulation, print publications) range from poetry chapbooks to comics, instructional pamphlets, photography and more — “The short answer is that a zine is something that is not sponsored by a big corporation. It’s under 100 pages and is directly connected to the author,” Graham said.

The DIY vibe that zines represent is also embedded in the festival’s history — it was Sabisch’s community-driven idea that, six years later, has grown into a national and eclectic celebration of indie makers and

Held at the Halsey Institute on Aug. 4, Zine Fest offers zines, lectures and a full day of community

publishers, with people traveling from all over to attend and sell.

On Aug. 4, the Zine Fest will celebrate its sixth anniversary at the Halsey Institute of Contemporary Art.

From then to now

Sabisch first started the fest while working at the now-closed Pulp Gallery on King Street.

“It was like this cool, deviant art, very interesting place, and they had a lot of zines there for sale,” Sabisch said. “It was also one of those very DIY spaces, where we floated around questions like, ‘How do we activate the community, what does the community need from a place like this? I realized there were a lot of local people making zines and nowhere for them to sell their work.”

So she worked with Pulp owner Will Eiseman to establish the festival and hold it at the gallery in 2016. Sabisch said the support she found through Eiseman was invaluable in getting the festival started. “His early support allowed it to snowball into something.”

When Pulp closed in 2017, The Zine Fest moved to the Charleston Library Society for its second year. From the third festival onward, it’s been held at the Halsey Institute of Contemporary Art. Back then, the festival was taking over just the hallway outside of

Arts, etc.

Project Pat to headline BLM benefit show

Charleston Black Lives Matter presents a special benefit show at Purple Buffalo to raise funds for the 5th annual Back 2 School Giveaway. From 6 p.m. to 10 p.m. July 27 at North Charleston’s Purple Buffalo, enjoy a performance from Project Pat, plus local musicians, visual artists, vendors and soul food from Keoni’s. Tickets will go towards school supplies for students. $35 on eventbrite or at the door. Learn more at @chs_blm on Instagram.

New artist-run gallery announced

Sonny Sisan (ceramicist and florist), Leigh Sabisch (painter and printmaker), Emily Furr (painter) and Mat Duncan (painter and sculptor) have joined forces to create Paperweight , an artist-run project focused on exhibiting contemporary artists in Charleston. Keep an eye out for its first exhibition announcement on Instagram @__paperweight.

“

The short answer is that a zine is something that is not sponsored by a big corporation. It’s under 100 pages and is directly connected to the author.” —Sage Graham

the gallery — now, there’ll be vendor booths taking up the entire Halsey space.

Expect to see

It’s the first and only festival of its kind in Charleston, so it’s not surprising that lots of local artists are getting involved. Some will give lectures, too, like Charleston City Paper’s own political cartoonist, Steve Steglin. Find zines from fashion designer Andrea Tuton, visual artist Caro Anderson, painter Emily Furr, plus cartoonists like Caroline Cash, an Eisner Award nominee; Sarah Davidson, a comic book artist; or a zine

Redux artists host pop-up art show

Redux studio artists, photographer Jillian Thorvaldson and multimedia creator Nick Kawczynski host a pop-up art show in their studio space 5 p.m. to 8 p.m. July 27. It’s a chance to purchase original works directly from the artists and get a look inside a Redux studio space. Find more info on Instagram @reduxartcenter.

Don’t miss Rip City at Silver Hill Studios

Rip City Chs is an experimental comedy show that features original sketches, characters, music and performance art — It’s basically Charleston’s own Saturday Night Live, curated and produced by Nameless Numberhead (Henry Riggs & Maari Suorsa). Don’t miss this month’s show which offers a guest comic from New York City, a music video premiere and more. Doors at 7:30, show at 8 p.m. July 27 at Silver Hill Studio. $12/adv or $15/day-of. Learn more at @ripcitychs on Instagram. Chloe Hogan

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It’s totally free to attend Zine Fest, founded by Leigh Sabisch

High Fidelity: Your Top 5

Dr. Bethany Goodier is an associate professor of communication at the College of Charleston. She currently serves as the director of the Martin Center for mentorship in communication, where she works to foster connections between students and those who practice in the communication discipline, Ohm Radio writes. In her spare time, she enjoys reading, walking the bridge and spending time with friends and family. Here is Goodier’s top five albums:

Desperado by The Eagles

Alexander re-envisions a grunge classic

By Vincent Harris

Charleston singer-songwriter Pierce Alexander, who wrote every song on his debut 2022 full-length album, The Minutehand, recently chose to try his hand at a cover of the grunge-era classic, “Doll Parts” by Hole, one of songwriter Courtney Love’s most affecting tunes.

Love’s version is already somewhat minimal, but Alexander strips his rendition down even further, relying on his vulnerable, emotional delivery and a billowing electric guitar part that sounds both dreamlike and immediate. And unlike Hole’s version, there is no screaming on Alexander’s “Doll Parts,” just a disturbing calm that hints at darkness underneath.

If you’re wondering why Alexander picked this song, the story is as unexpected as the cover itself, which was produced by Michael Flynn (Slow Runner). Alexander is partnered with Think Music LA, a music licensing and publishing company, as is Flynn.

“They were having the artists in the company do a covers project,” Alexander said, “And they had a long list of songs where all the rights were approved and everything. So I was trying to find a song that I felt like I could take and do my own thing with it rather than just doing an imitation.

Something about [Doll Parts] really stuck out to me — not just because I really love the song, but because I felt like I could bring something new to the table with it.”

Alexander got his start writing his own songs after leaving his high school band, and even as he did so, he had no idea what he was going to do with them.

“At first, I wasn’t really sure what I was about to do,” he said, “But I just knew that I

In the interim between his debut album, released in 2022, and the next album that’s in the works, local singer-songwriter Pierce Alexander releases a strippeddown cover of “Doll Parts” by Hole

wanted to keep doing music and my passion was songwriting. I tried to figure out what my sound was for a while, and I just started recording these demos. I didn’t really have another singer, so I said to myself, ‘Okay, well, I guess for now I’ll just sing.’ And I honestly didn’t know if that was going to stick or not. But the more that I did that and recorded the demos, I started to figure out different things about my sound.”

A string of singles and an EP followed, but Alexander didn’t release a full album until The Minutehand in 2022. It’s a sweeping, cinematic blend of acoustic folk,

orchestral swells and open-wound vocals that sounds like some dreamed-of version of Nick Drake if he was still with us.

The album’s emotional tone comes directly from the period when the songs were written.

“When I did The Minutehand, it was in 2020 when I was writing a lot of those songs,” Alexander said. “So the world was obviously in a crazy state. A lot of those songs that I wrote during that period actually ended up on that album.”

As for the sound, which can move from

Purple Rain by Prince Pet Sounds by The Beach Boys

Goodbye Yellow Brick Road by Elton John Grease Soundtrack by Various Artists

with interviews by the local musician-led collective, Sugarcube. The festival also offers six lectures throughout the day, including one about the solar system from an organization called Helios Genes.

Graham said the lecturers and vendors are of vastly diverse backgrounds and experiences.

“There are really interesting artists of note. But there are also a lot of authors and artists who are unknown. And that’s kind of the point — there are people in here [showing their art for the first time].” alongside more established artists. “It’s very much intergenerational.”

Graham and Sabisch said they had an overwhelming amount of applications when they put out an open call six months ago. They’re excited to welcome new faces to the festival, though a good handful of the 50 total vendors have in fact participated since the beginning, Sabisch said.

“A lot of the people who were there at the start are still vendors, which is a really fun part of it,” she said. “It’s kind of like we’re coming home and seeing the whole family.”

Print is punk

Zines are self-published, handcrafted publications that bypass traditional publishing channels, and thus embody a punk, do-it-yourself approach. Zines provide a platform for marginalized voices, allowing people to share their opinions, ideas and experiences outside of mainstream media.

“There’s this inherent camaraderie that goes beyond the monetization of the items,” Graham said. “Like, you can come in and not spend a dime and that’s okay. It’s free parking, it’s free to walk in, it’s free to go to one of the six lectures that we’re going to have. It’s free to come up to one of the demo tables that we have, and make

Grunge

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deeply intimate to full-on anthemic, Alexander can pinpoint sources for that as well.

“I think it had a lot to do with who I was listening to at the time,” he said. “I was listening to older music by Neil Young and Simon & Garfunkel and some newer music too by Chris Cohen. His album, Overgrown Path, was very influential to me. I liked how it blended elements of rock with those folkier elements. I just had a vision in my head of combining all of my different influences into something that I felt like was fresh.”

Now, with his recent release of his “Doll Parts” cover, Alexander is thinking about his next move.

“I’ve been working on album No. 2 with Corey Campbell from (popular Charleston

Find free demos on screenprinting, zine-making and more

your own button pin, or watch one of Leigh’s demo’s on printmaking.”

That’s why Graham and Sabisch emphasize they hope attendees walk away with a sense of inspiration as well as empowerment from zine-making’s DIY approach.

“Walking around, there’s all sorts of levels of production,” Sabisch said. “Some people are creating incredibly polished, really professional publications. And then there’s other people who are throwing some ideas together and seeing the response. Both are equally valid and both are accessible in different ways. Something that makes me feel good is when people come to the festival, and they say, ‘I feel energized. I feel inspired.’ ”

Don’t miss the Charleston Zine Fest, 11 a.m. to 7 p.m. Aug. 4 at the Halsey Institute of Contemporary Art. Free to attend. Learn more on Instagram at @charlestonzinefest.

“ I was trying to find a song that I felt like I could take and do my own thing with it rather than just doing an imitation.”

—Pierce Alexander

rock band) Babe Club, and we’re about halfway there right now,” he said. “So the next goal is to start releasing some singles from that.”

Stream Pierce Alexander’s “Doll Parts” cover on Spotify or Youtube. Learn more about the artist at piercealexandermusic.com.

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STATE OF SOUTH CAROLINA COUNTY OF CHARLESTON IN THE FAMILY COURT

THIRTEENTH JUDICIAL CIRCUIT CASE NO.: 2024-DR-10-1175

MIGUEL ANGEL RIOS CHACON, Plaintiff, vs. YUSMIN CRUZ FIGUEROA, Defendant,

SUMMONS

TO: THE DEFENDANT, ABOVENAMED: YOU ARE HEREBY SUMMONED and required to answer the Complaint in this action, a copy of which is herewith served upon you, and to serve a copy of your Answer to the said Complaint on the below subscribed attorney at her office at Bleecker Family Law 519 Savannah Hwy., P.O. Box 30245, Charleston, South Carolina 29417, within thirty (30) days from service hereof, exclusive of the day of such service, and if you fail to answer the Amended Complaint within the time aforesaid, the Plaintiff in this action will apply to the Court for the relief demanded in the said Amended Complaint.

BLEECKER FAMILY LAW

By: Sue Chang – SC Bar 77733 519 Savannah Highway (29407) P.O. Box 30245 Charleston, SC 29417 (843) 571-2725; (843) 571-2750 (Fax) schang@bleeckerfamilylaw.net

ATTORNEYS FOR PLAINTIFF April, 2024 Charleston, South Carolina

STATE OF SOUTH CAROLINA COUNTY OF BERKELEY IN THE FAMILY COURT OF THE NINTH JUDICIAL CIRCUIT CASE NO.: 2024-DR-08-516

MARVETTA P. MYERS, Plaintiff, vs. JOSHUA D. CROOKS, Defendants.

SUMMONS

TO: THE DEFENDANT ABOVE NAMED YOU ARE HEREBY SUMMONED and required to Answer the Complaint in this action, a copy of which is hereby served upon you, and to serve a copy of your Answer to the said Complaint upon the Plaintiff’s attorney, Tyla N. Bowman, Esquire within thirty (30) days after the service of this Summons upon you, not counting the day of service, If you fail to submit your Answer the Complaint within the time aforesaid, judgment by default will be rendered against you for the relief demanded in the Complaint.

TYLA N. BOWMAN, ESQUIRE

Attorney for the Plaintiff P.O. Box 63384 North Charleston, SC 29419-2252

T: (843) 300-0373 F: (843) 273-8481

E tyla@bowman-law.net

March 21, 2024

North Charleston, SC

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

C/A NO.: 2023-CP-10-04453

litem within thirty (30) days after the service of this Summons and Notice upon you. If you fail to do so, application for such appointment will be made by Attorney for Plaintiff.

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

YOU WILL ALSO TAKE NOTICE that under the provisions of S.C. Code Ann. § 29-3-100, effective June 16, 1993, any collateral assignment of rents contained in the referenced Mortgage is perfected and Attorney for Plaintiff hereby gives notice that all rents shall be payable directly to it by delivery to its undersigned attorneys from the date of default. In the alternative, Plaintiff will move before a judge of this Circuit on the 10th day after service hereof, or as soon thereafter as counsel may be heard, for an Order enforcing the assignment of rents, if any, and compelling payment of all rents covered by such assignment directly to the Plaintiff, which motion is to be based upon the original Note and Mortgage herein and the Complaint attached hereto.

LIS PENDENS

TO THE DEFENDANTS ABOVE

NAMED:

YOU WILL PLEASE TAKE NOTICE that the original Complaint, Cover Sheet for Civil Actions and Certificate of Exemption from ADR in the above entitled action was filed in the Office of the Clerk of Court for Charleston County on September 11, 2023.

ORDER APPOINTING GUARDIAN AD LITEM NISI

PERSON WITH WHOM THE MINOR(S) RESIDES, AND/OR TO PERSONS UNDER SOME LEGAL DISABILITY: YOU ARE FURTHER SUMMONED AND NOTIFIED to apply for the appointment of a guardian ad litem within thirty (30) days after the service of this Summons and Notice upon you. If you fail to do so, application for such appointment will be made by Attorney for Plaintiff.

STATE OF SOUTH CAROLINA COUNTY OF CHARLESTON IN THE FAMILY COURT OF THE NINTH JUDICIAL CIRCUIT CASE NO.: 2024-DR-10-1518

LAURIE A. NELSON, Plaintiff, vs. TYRONE NELSON, SR., Defendants.

SUMMONS

TO: THE DEFENDANT ABOVE NAMED YOU ARE HEREBY SUMMONED and required to Answer the Complaint in this action, a copy of which is hereby served upon you, and to serve a copy of your Answer to the said Complaint upon the Plaintiff’s attorney, Tyla N. Bowman, Esquire within thirty (30) days after the service of this Summons upon you, not counting the day of service, If you fail to submit your Answer the Complaint within the time aforesaid, judgment by default will be rendered against you for the relief demanded in the Complaint.

TYLA N. BOWMAN, ESQUIRE Attorney for the Plaintiff P.O. Box 63384 North Charleston, SC 29419-2252

T: (843) 300-0373

F: (843) 273-8481

E tyla@bowman-law.net

May 28, 2024 North Charleston, SC

Truist Bank, formerly known as Branch Banking and Trust Company, Plaintiff, v. Any heirs-at-law or devisees of Donald A. Carr, deceased, their heirs, Personal Representatives, Administrators, Successors and Assigns, and all other persons or entities entitled to claim through them; all unknown persons or entities with any right, title, estate, interest in or lien upon the real estate described in the complaint herein; also any persons who may be in the military service of the United States of America, being a class designated as Richard Roe; and any unknown minors, incompetent or imprisoned person, or persons under a disability being a class designated as John Doe; Derek Carr; David Christopher Carr; Donald Alan Carr, II, Defendant(s).

SUMMONS AND NOTICES (Non-Jury) FORECLOSURE OF REAL ESTATE MORTGAGE

TO THE DEFENDANT(S) ABOVE NAMED:

YOU ARE HEREBY SUMMONED and required to appear and defend by answering the Complaint in this action, a copy of which is hereby served upon you, and to serve a copy of your Answer on the subscribers at their offices at 3800 Fernandina Road, Suite 110, Columbia, SC 29210, within thirty (30) days after the service hereof, exclusive of the day of such service; except that the United States of America, if named, shall have sixty (60) days to answer after the service hereof, exclusive of the day of such service; and if you fail to do so, judgment by default will be rendered against you for the relief demanded in the Complaint.

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

YOU ARE FURTHER SUMMONED AND NOTIFIED to apply for the appointment of a guardian ad

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 Donald A. Carr to Mortgage Electronic Registration Systems, Inc., as mortgagee, as nominee for Branch Banking and Trust Company dated November 29, 2011 and recorded on December 21, 2011 in Book 0223 at Page 988, in the Charleston County Registry (hereinafter, “Mortgage”). Thereafter, the Mortgage was transferred to the Plaintiff herein by assignment and/or corporate merger.

The premises covered and affected by the said Mortgage and by the foreclosure thereof were, at the time of the making thereof and at the time of the filing of this notice, more particularly described in the said Mortgage and are more commonly described as: ALL that certain piece, parcel or lot of land, together with the buildings and improvements thereon, situate, lying and being in the City of North Charleston, County of Charleston, State of South Carolina, known and designated as Lot 12, Block O, Colony North Subdivision, on a plat entitled in part “Plat of Colony North Subdivision, Lots 8 thru 13, Block N, and Lots 1 thru 19, Block O” which plat is dated December 18, 1985 and recorded in the RMC Office for Charleston County on May 28, 1986 in Plat Book BJ, at Page 25; said lot having such size, shape, dimensions, buttings and boundings as will by reference to said plat more fully appear.

SUBJECT TO any and all Covenants, Conditions, Restrictions, Easements and Rights of Way of record.

This being the same property conveyed to Donald A. Carr by deed of Premiere Property Solutions, LLC, dated November 29, 2011, and recorded December 21, 2011, in Book 0223 at Page 987 in the Office of the Register of Deeds for Charleston County, South Carolina. Thereafter, Donald A. Carr passed away on August 15, 2020, leaving the subject property to his heirs/devisees, Derek Carr, David Christopher Carr, and Donald Alan Carr, II.

TMS No. 484-08-00-040

Property Address: 8038 Nova Court, North Charleston, SC 29420

NOTICE OF FILING COMPLAINT

It appearing to the satisfaction of the Court, upon reading the filed Petition for Appointment of Kelley Woody, Esquire as Guardian ad Litem Nisi for unknown minors, and persons who may be under a legal disability, and it appearing that Kelley Woody, Esquire has consented to said appointment, it is ORDERED that Kelley Woody, P.O. Box 6432, Columbia, SC 29260 phone (803) 787-9678, be and hereby is appointed Guardian ad Litem Nisi on behalf of all unknown minors and all unknown persons who may be under a legal disability, all of whom may have or claim to have some interest or claim to the real property commonly known as 8038 Nova Court, North Charleston, SC 29420; that he is empowered and directed to appear on behalf of and represent said Defendants, unless said Defendants, or someone on their behalf, shall within thirty (30) days after service of a copy hereof as directed, procure the appointment of Guardian or Guardians ad Litem for said Defendants.

IT IS FURTHER ORDERED that a copy of this Order shall be forth with served upon said Defendants by publication in Charleston City Paper, a newspaper of general circulation published in the County of Charleston, State of South Carolina, once a week for three (3) consecutive weeks, together with the Summons and Notice of Filing of Complaint in the above entitled action.

Brock & Scott, PLLC 3800 Fernandina Road, Suite 110 Columbia, SC 29210 Phone (803) 454-3540 Fax (803) 454-3541

Attorneys for Plaintiff

STATE OF SOUTH CAROLINA COUNTY OF CHARLESTON IN THE COURT OF COMMON PLEAS C/A NO.: 2024-CP-10-02065

HSBC Bank USA, National Association, as Trustee for Fremont Home Loan Trust 2006-E, Mortgage-Backed Certificates, Series 2006-E, Plaintiff,

v. La Shaun Smalls a/k/a Lashaun Smalls; Dale Holland; Renney Tayao; Service Now SC, LLC; City Electric Supply Company; CKS Prime Investments, LLC, Defendant(s).

SUMMONS AND NOTICES (Non-Jury)

FORECLOSURE OF REAL ESTATE MORTGAGE

TO THE DEFENDANT(S) ABOVE NAMED:

YOU ARE HEREBY SUMMONED and required to appear and defend by answering the Complaint in this action, a copy of which is hereby served upon you, and to serve a copy of your Answer on the subscribers at their offices at 3800 Fernandina Road, Suite 110, Columbia, SC 29210, within thirty (30) days after the service hereof, exclusive of the day of such service; except that the United States of America, if named, shall have sixty (60) days to answer after the service hereof, exclusive of the day of such service; and if you fail to do so, judgment by default will be rendered against you for the relief demanded in the Complaint.

TO MINOR(S) OVER FOURTEEN YEARS OF AGE, AND/OR TO MINOR(S) UNDER FOURTEEN YEARS OF AGE AND THE

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

YOU WILL ALSO TAKE NOTICE that under the provisions of S.C. Code Ann. § 29-3-100, effective June 16, 1993, any collateral assignment of rents contained in the referenced Mortgage is perfected and Attorney for Plaintiff hereby gives notice that all rents shall be payable directly to it by delivery to its undersigned attorneys from the date of default. In the alternative, Plaintiff will move before a judge of this Circuit on the 10th day after service hereof, or as soon thereafter as counsel may be heard, for an Order enforcing the assignment of rents, if any, and compelling payment of all rents covered by such assignment directly to the Plaintiff, which motion is to be based upon the original Note and Mortgage herein and the Complaint attached hereto.

NOTICE OF FILING COMPLAINT

TO THE DEFENDANTS ABOVE NAMED:

YOU WILL PLEASE TAKE NOTICE that the original Complaint, Cover Sheet for Civil Actions and Certificate of Exemption from ADR in the above entitled action was filed in the Office of the Clerk of Court for Charleston County on April 19, 2024.

Brock & Scott, PLLC 3800 Fernandina Road, Suite 110 Columbia, SC 29210 Phone (803) 454-3540

Fax (803) 454-3541

Attorneys for Plaintiff

STATE OF SOUTH CAROLINA COUNTY OF CHARLESTON IN THE COURT OF COMMON PLEAS FOR THE NINTH JUDICIAL CIRCUIT CASE NO. 2024-CP-10-01213

Karen Young Washington, Plaintiff, vs. Daisy Coaxum Murray Still, Ronald E. Harding, Greg P. Harding, Jacob Green, Deceased; Mary Holmes Young, Deceased; Albert Young, Deceased; Albert David Young, Deceased; Helen Stapleton, Deceased; Earnestine White, Deceased; Leon White, Deceased; Carl Harding, Deceased; Jimmy Harding, Deceased; collectively designated as JOHN DOE, and any such persons who are Minors or other disability, or members of the Armed Forces of the United States of America, as contemplated by the Soldier’s and Sailor’s Relief Act, 1940, as Amended collectively designated as RICHARD ROE, and all persons entitled to claim under or through of Jacob Green, Deceased; Mary Holmes Young, Albert Young, Albert David Young, Helen Stapleton, Earnestine White, Leon White, Carl Harding, Jimmy Harding, who are deceased, and any or all other persons or legal entities, known and unknown, claiming any right, title, interest or estate in or lien upon the parcel of real estate described in the Lis Pendens and Complaint herein filed, Defendants.

TMS Nos. 059-00-00-166, 446, 447, 448, 449, 450

NOTICE OF HEARING

It appearing that this matter has been referred to the Honorable Mikell R. Scarborough, Master In Equity for Charleston County, South Carolina, to make appropriate findings of fact and conclusions of law with authority to enter a final judgment; PLEASE TAKE NOTICE that a hearing in this matter has been scheduled and will be held on September 11, 2024 at 10:00 a.m., at the Charleston County Courthouse, Courtroom 2A, 100 Broad Street, Charleston, South Carolina.

BRUSH LAW FIRM, P.A. s/ Thomas H. Brush Thomas H. Brush tbrush@brushlawfirm.com

J. Chris Lanning clanning@brushlawfirm.com

Attorneys for Plaintiffs 12 Carriage Lane, Suite A Charleston, SC 29407 (843) 766-5576 - Phone (843) 766-9152 - Fax Charleston, South Carolina August 18, 2024

the Court for the relief demanded in the Amended Complaint.

YOU WILL PLEASE TAKE NOTICE that should you fail to answer the foregoing Amended Summons, the Plaintiff will move for a general Order of Reference of this cause to the Master-in-Equity/Special Referee for the aforesaid County which Order shall, pursuant to Rule 53, South Carolina Rules of Civil Procedure, specifically provide that the said Master-in-Equity/ Special Referee is authorized and empowered to enter final judgment in this case. An appeal from the final judgment entered by the Master-in-Equity/Special Referee shall be made directly to the Supreme Court.

YOU WILL PLEASE TAKE NOTICE that the Amended Summons, Amended Lis Pendens and Amended Complaint in the above entitled action were filed in the Office of the Clerk of Court for Charleston County on April 26, 2024.

Dated at Charleston, South Carolina on April 26, 2024.

LIS PENDENS

NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that an action has been commenced and is pending in this Court upon Complaint of the above-named Plaintiff against the above named Defendants, that said Action is brought under the provisions of the South Carolina Declaratory Judgment Act, Sections 15-53-10, et seq., Code of Laws of South Carolina, 1976, and Title 15, Chapter 67, Articles 1 and 2 for the purposes of obtaining a determination as to who are the rightful owners of the subject property and under the provisions of Section 15-61-10 et. seq for a partition of the said property described in paragraph One (1) of the Plaintiff’s Amended Complaint.

That said property affected by said Amended Complaint in this Action hereby commenced was, at the time of the commencement of this Action, and at the time of the filing of this Notice is described as follows:

STATE OF SOUTH CAROLINA COUNTY OF CHARLESTON IN THE COURT OF COMMON PLEAS FOR THE NINTH JUDICIAL CIRCUIT CASE NO.: 2024-CP-10-01795

Samuel Jenkins, Plaintiff, v. Rose Marie J. White, Aundrey Jenkins, William Rashad Jenkins, Akia Jenkins and John Doe and Richard Roe, as Representatives of all heirs and devisees William Jenkins, Rosalie Jenkins, Florabell J. Jones and William Gilbert Jenkins, deceased, and all persons entitled to claim under or through them; also, all other persons, corporations or entities unknown claiming any right, title interest in or lien upon the subject real estate described herein, any unknown adults, whose true names are unknown, being a class designated as John Doe, and any unknown infants, persons under disability, or person in the Military Service of the United States of America whose true names are unknown, being a class designated as Richard Roe. Defendants.

SUMMONS FOR PUBLICATION

YOU ARE HEREBY SUMMONED and required to answer the Amended Complaint in the Action, a copy of which is herewith served upon you and to serve a copy of your answer to the said Amended Complaint on the Plaintiff, through his Attorney, J. Chris Lanning, at his office, 12 Carriage Lane, Suite A, Charleston, South Carolina 29407, within thirty (30) days after the service hereof exclusive of the day of such Service; and, if you fail to answer the Amended Compliant within the time aforesaid, the Plaintiff in the Action will apply to

ALL that certain lot of land, with the buildings and improvements thereon, located and lying and being in St. Andrews Parish of Charleston County, South Carolina, known as Lot No. 86 of WASHINGTON PARK SUBDIVISION, as shown on a Plat made March, A.D., 1948 by G. L. Youngblood, Land Surveyor, recorded in Plat Book G, Page 47 of the RMC Office for Charleston County.

MEASURING AND CONTAINING, sixty (60’) feet in the front on Fifth Avenue, the same on the back line, by two hundred (200’) feet in depth.

BUTTIN AND BOUNDING to the North on Fifth Avenue; to the East on Lot No. 87; to the South on Lot No. 93 and to the West on Lot No. 85, as shown on the aforementioned Plat.

TMS # 418-05-00-077 Property Address: 1315 5th Avenue, Charleston, SC 29407

GUARDIAN AD LITEM NISI

PLEASE TAKE NOTICE that Conrad Falkiewicz, Esquire, 6 Carriage Lane,, Charleston, South Carolina, 29407, by Order of this Court Common Pleas dated July 17, 2024 and filed in the Office of the Clerk of Court for Charleston County, South Carolina has been appointed Guardian ad Litem Nisi for such of the Defendants herein as may be unknown infants, persons insane, or otherwise incompetent or under legal disability, claiming any right, title, estate claim, interest in, or lien upon the property described in the Complaint herein, such appointment to become absolute unless they or someone on their behalf shall procure an Order appointing a Guardian ad Litem

for such persons within (30) days after past publications of the Summons herein.

BRUSH LAW FIRM, P.A.

s/ J. Chris Lanning

J. Chris Lanning

12-A Carriage Lane Charleston, SC 29407 Phone – 843-766-5576

STATE OF SOUTH CAROLINA

COUNTY OF CHARLESTON IN THE COURT OF COMMON PLEAS FOR THE NINTH JUDICIAL CIRCUIT

CASE NUMBER: 2023-CP-10-02461

Bessie Mae Cromwell, Wanda Zellous, Audrey Mae Cromwell, Alverez C. Bennett, Gene Dale Cromwell, Vera Mae Heyward and Vergene Cromwell, Plaintiffs, -versus-

William Davis Jr, Martin Davis, Carl Davis, Curtis Henry Davis, Alaina Davis, Inez King, Janet Davis, Jelani Davis, Shantell Davis, and Terrell Davis; Janie Cromwell, Deceased and Eugene Cromwell, Deceased, and all persons claiming under or through the heirs or devisees of Eugene Cromwell collectively designated as JOHN DOE, and any such persons who are Minors or other disability, or members of the Armed Forces of the United States of America, as contemplated by the Soldier’s and Sailor’s Relief Act, 1940, as Amended collectively designated as RICHARD ROE, and all persons entitled to claim under or through Jessie Mae Cromwell and Eugene Cromwell, also all persons claiming any right, title or interest in the real estate described in the Complaint herein, Defendants.

TMS #428-07-00-092

NOTICE OF HEARING

It appearing that this matter has been referred to the Honorable Mikell R. Scarborough, Master In Equity for Charleston County, South Carolina, to make appropriate findings of fact and conclusions of law with authority to enter a final judgment; PLEASE TAKE NOTICE that a hearing in this matter has been scheduled and will be held on September 4, 2024 at 9:30 a.m., at the Charleston County Courthouse, Courtroom 2A, 100 Broad Street, Charleston, South Carolina.

BRUSH LAW FIRM, P.A. s/ Thomas H. Brush Thomas H. Brush tbrush@brushlawfirm.com

J. Chris Lanning clanning@brushlawfirm.com

Attorneys for Plaintiffs

12 Carriage Lane, Suite A Charleston, SC 29407 (843) 766-5576 - Phone (843) 766-9152 - Fax

Charleston, South Carolina

July 19, 2024

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.

STATE OF SOUTH CAROLINA COUNTY OF CHARLESTON IN THE FAMILY COURT FOR THE NINTH JUDICIAL CIRCUIT DOCKET NO. 2024--DR-10-1873

SOUTH CAROLINA DEPARTMENT OF SOCIAL SERVICES VERSUS

LYDEA BERNACIAK, DAVID CARROLL, TARRAH MAURER. DEFENDANTS.

IN THE INTERESTS OF: MINOR CHILD BORN 2023

TO DEFENDANT: LYDEA BERNACIAK YOU ARE HEREBY SUMMONED and required to answer the Complaint in this action filed with the Clerk of Court for CHARLESTON County on July 2, 2024, at 11:21 am. Upon proof of interest, a copy of the Complaint will be delivered to you upon request from the Charleston County Clerk of Court, and you must serve a copy of your Answer to the Complaint on the Plaintiff, the South Carolina Department of Social Services, at the office of its Attorney, 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.

STATE OF SOUTH CAROLINA COUNTY OF CHARLESTON

IN THE FAMILY COURT FOR THE NINTH JUDICIAL CIRCUIT DOCKET NO. 2024-DR-10-1108

SOUTH CAROLINA DEPARTMENT OF SOCIAL SERVICES VERSUS KENDALL ACANFORA AND ANTONIO MCCUE

IN THE INTERESTS OF: MINOR CHILD BORN 2022.

TO DEFENDANT: ANTONIO MCCUE

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 April 19, 2024, at 3:51 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 ID #5832, 3685 Rivers Avenue, Suite 101, North Charleston, SC 29405 (843) 953-9625.

STATE OF SOUTH CAROLINA COUNTY OF CHARLESTON IN THE FAMILY COURT FOR THE NINTH JUDICIAL CIRCUIT

DOCKET NO. 2023-DR-10-3520

SOUTH CAROLINA DEPARTMENT OF SOCIAL SERVICES VERSUS

Rashema Payton, Samuel Gibson aka Samuel Habersham, Curtis Wheeler, Joshua Shaw, Kenyiel Mitchell, Jamesha Seabrook, Betty McFadden, Katrina Sinclair, Yashece Smith, Voneisha Nesbitt, Victoria Smith, and David Henderson, DEFENDANTS.

IN THE INTERESTS OF: MINOR CHILDREN BORN 2011, 2013, 2015, 2016, 2016, 2017, 2019, 2021, and 2022.

TO DEFENDANT: Kenyiel Mitchell YOU ARE HEREBY SUMMONED and required to answer the Complaint in this action filed with the Clerk of Court for Charleston County on December 6, 2023 at 4:50 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, William Evan Reynolds, Legal Department of the Charleston County Department of Social Services, 3685 Rivers Avenue, Suite 101, Charleston, S.C. 29405 within thirty (30) days of this publication, exclusive of the date of service. If you fail to answer within the time set forth above, the Plaintiff will proceed to seek relief from the Court.

William Evan Reynolds, SC Bar # 102352, 3685 Rivers Avenue, Suite 101, Charleston, S.C. 29405 (843) 953-9625

STATE OF SOUTH CAROLINA COUNTY OF CHARLESTON IN THE FAMILY COURT FOR THE NINTH JUDICIAL CIRCUIT DOCKET NO. 2024-DR- 10-0966 SOUTH CAROLINA DEPARTMENT OF SOCIAL SERVICES VERSUS

Jessica Daise, Woodrow Rorie, and Ramon Dotch, DEFENDANTS.

IN THE INTERESTS OF: MINOR CHILDREN BORN 2009, 2014, 2015, 2018, and 2020

TO DEFENDANT: Ramon Dotch YOU ARE HEREBY SUMMONED and required to answer the Complaint in this action filed with the Clerk of Court for Charleston County on April 3, 2024 at 3:45 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, William Evan Reynolds, Legal Department of the Charleston County Department of Social Services, 3685 Rivers Avenue, Suite 101, Charleston, S.C. 29405 within thirty (30) days of this publication, exclusive of the date of service.

If you fail to answer within the time set forth above, the Plaintiff will proceed to seek relief from the Court.

William Evan Reynolds, SC Bar # 102352, 3685 Rivers Avenue, Suite 101, Charleston, S.C. 29405 (843) 953-9625.

STATE OF SOUTH CAROLINA COUNTY OF COLLETON IN THE FAMILY COURT FOR THE FOURTEENTH JUDICIAL CIRCUIT

DOCKET NO. 2024-DR-15-146

SOUTH CAROLINA DEPARTMENT OF SOCIAL SERVICES

VERSUS

Samantha Porter and David a/k/a Dave Shook, DEFENDANTS.

IN THE INTEREST OF: MINOR CHILD BORN 2014.

TO DEFENDANTS: SAMANTHA PORTER AND DAVID A/K/A DAVE SHOOK

YOU ARE HEREBY SUMMONED and required to answer the complaint for termination of your parental rights in and to the minor child in this action, the original of which has been filed in the Office of the Clerk of Court for Colleton County 101 Hampton Street, SC 29488, on the 3rd day of May, 2024, at 4:04 p.m., a copy of which will be delivered to you upon request; and to serve a copy of your answer to the complaint upon the undersigned attorney for the Plaintiff at 215 S. Lemacks Street, Walterboro, SC 29488 within thirty (30) days following the date of service upon you, exclusive of the day of such service; and if you fail to answer the complaint within the time stated, the plaintiff will apply for judgment by default against the defendants for the relief demanded in the complaint.

B.Kim Miller, SC Bar#11906, 215 S. Lemacks Street, Walterboro, SC 29488. (843) 584-4010.

YOU ARE HEREBY notified that a pre-trial hearing in this action for termination of parental rights will be held on September 4, 2024, at 9:45 a.m. in the Family Court for Colleton County, located at 101 Hampton Street, Walterboro, SC 29488.

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, -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 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:

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

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 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 independent title search well before the foreclosure sale date.

The successful bidder will be required to pay interest on the amount of the bid from the date of sale to date of compliance with the bid at the rate of 3.75000% per annum.

Mikell Scarborough Master in Equity for Charleston County CRAWFORD & VON KELLER, LLC

B. Lindsay Crawford, III (SC Bar# 6510)

Theodore von Keller (SC Bar# 5718)

B. Lindsay Crawford, IV (SC Bar# 101707)

Charley F. MacInnis (SC Bar# 104326)

Jason Hunter (SC Bar# 101501)

Eric H. Nelson (SC Bar# 104712)

Crawford & von Keller, LLC

P.O. Box 4216

1640 St. Julian Place (29204)

Columbia, SC 29240

Phone: 803-790-2626

Email: court@crawfordvk.com

Attorneys for Plaintiff

STATE OF SOUTH CAROLINA COUNTY OF DORCHESTER IN THE FAMILY COURT FOR THE FIRST JUDICIAL CIRCUIT DOCKET NO. 2024-DR- 18-0329

SOUTH CAROLINA DEPARTMENT OF SOCIAL SERVICES

VERSUS

Gloria Paniora, /aka Gloria Baniora and Enrique Mata, DEFENDANTS.

IN THE INTERESTS OF: MINOR CHILD BORN 2007

TO DEFENDANT: Enrique Mata YOU ARE HEREBY SUMMONED and required to answer the Complaint in this action filed with the Clerk of Court for Dorchester County on March 13, 2024 at 2:09 PM. Upon proof of interest, a copy of the Complaint will be delivered to you upon request from the Dorchester County Clerk of Court, and you must serve a copy of your Answer to the Complaint on the Plaintiff, the South Carolina Department of Social Services, at the office of its Attorney, Dawn Berry, Legal Department of the Dorchester County Department of Social Services, 216 Orangeburg Road, Summerville, SC 29483 within thirty (30) days of this publication, exclusive of the date of service. If you fail to answer within the time set forth above, the Plaintiff will proceed to seek relief from the Court.

Dawn Berry, SC Bar # 101675, 216 Orangeburg Road, Summerville, SC 29483 843-486-1861

ESTADO DE CAROLINA DEL SUR CONDADO DE DORCHESTER EN EL TRIBUNAL DE LO FAMILIAR PARA EL PRIMER CIRCUITO

JUDICIAL NÚM. DE EXPEDIENTE 2024-DR- 18-0329

DEPARTAMENTO DE SERVICIOS SOCIALES DE CAROLINA DEL SUR CONTRA

Gloria Paniora, /alias Gloria Baniora y Enrique Mata, DEMANDADOS.

EN BENEFICIO DE: NACIMIENTO DE UN HIJO MENOR DE EDAD 2007

PARA EL DEMANDADO: Enrique Mata POR LA PRESENTE SE REQUIERE SU COMPARECENCIA y contestación a la Demanda en virtud de esta acción presentada ante el Secretario del Tribunal del condado de Dorchester el 13 de marzo de 2024, a las14:09. Una vez comprobado el interés,

bajo petición, se le entregará una copia de la Demanda por parte del Secretario del Tribunal del condado de Dorchester, y usted deberá entregar una copia de su Contestación a la Demanda al Demandante, el Departamento de Servicios Sociales de Carolina del Sur, en la oficina de su abogado, Dawn Berry, Legal Department of the Dorchester County Department of Social Services, 216 Orangeburg Road, Summerville, SC 29483, dentro de los treinta (30) días siguientes a esta publicación, sin contar la fecha de la notificación. Si usted no presenta una respuesta dentro del plazo mencionado previamente, el Demandante procederá a solicitar intervención por parte del Tribunal.

Dawn Berry, SC Bar # 101675, 216 Orangeburg Road, Summerville, SC 29483 843-486-1861

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: 1904 Hwy 17 N. Mount Pleasant, SC 29464 08/06/2024 10:15 AM

Natasha Weston Boxes

Jenice Anderson Household goods

Facility 2: 1640 James Nelson Rd. Mount Pleasant, SC 29464 08/06/2024 10:20 AM

Renee Williams Household items

Facility 3: 1117 Bowman Rd. Mount Pleasant, SC 29464 08/06/2024 10:25 AM

Christopher Dhooge Tools, lightning, electric devices

Anthony Jayford 20 move in boxes

Facility 4: 3510 Glenn McConnell Pkwy Charleston, SC 29414 08/06/2024 10:00 AM

Terrene Mcgee Beds, dresser, washing machine, clothes, toys

Facility 5: 2443 Savannah Hwy Charleston, SC 29414 08/06/2024 10:30 AM

Ashley Wigger Couch and dining

Shamira Woodward Couch, Table, Boxes

Tiffany Jordan TV, Power Tools, Clothes

Facility 6: 45 Grand Oaks Blvd Charleston, SC 29414

08/06/2024 11:15 AM

Erik Cole Furniture, household items

Closing Repairs Household Goods/Furniture

Keisha Horlbeck

2 bedroom washer and dryer

Allison Berry Boxes

Facility 7:

08/06/2024

11:30 AM

Christopher Burneyko Furniture, appliances, boxes

Christopher Burneyko Household items

Jessica Morrow Furniture and Household Goods

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

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 8/06/2024 12:15 PM

Angel Smalls

Bunk bed, queen mattress, couch, table, dresser, 15 boxes

Christopher Burrows Furniture, clothes, misc items

Facility 3: 1533 Ashley River Rd Charleston, SC 29407 8/06/2024

12:45 PM

Afrika Frasier Tvs, freeze mini fridge bins

Gurney Rush Living room set and bedroom set

James Ellis Couch, chair, ottoman, boxes

Facility 5: 1861 Ashley River Rd. Charleston, SC 29407 8/06/2024 1:15 PM

Thomasina White Household goods

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

Master’s Sale Case No. 2023-CP-10-06154

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

PNC Bank, National Association, PLAINTIFF, vs. Francis M Christopher a/k/a Francis Morgan Christopher; South Carolina Department of Motor Vehicles, DEFENDANT(S)

Upon authority of a Decree dated the 14th day of June, 2024. I will offer for sale to the highest bidder for cash, at public auction, the premises fully described below, at the County Council Chambers, 4045 Bridge View Drive, North

Charleston, South Carolina, on the 6th day of August, 2024 at 11:00 a.m. or shortly thereafter.

ALL THAT lot, piece or parcel of land, situate, lying and being in Christ Church Parish, Awendaw, Charleston County, SC and known and designated as Lot 3, containing 1.004 acres as shown on that certain plat of James O. McClellan dated December 7, 1993 and recorded in the RMC Office for Charleston County in Plat Book CO at page 92; said lot having such actual size, shape, dimensions, buttings and boundings as shown on said plat, reference to which is hereby made for a more complete description.

TOGETHER with a Mobile Home located thereon.

Subject to any Restrictions, Reservations, Zoning Ordinances or Easements of record.

THIS BEING the same property conveyed unto Sylvester B. Case and Blanche A. Case by virtue of a Deed from Awendaw Land Holdings, Inc. dated May 12, 1994 and recorded on May 17, 1994 in Book A-243 at Page 016 in the Office of the Register of Deeds for Charleston County, South Carolina.

THEREAFTER, Sylvester B. Case conveyed his interest in the subject property to Blanche A. Case by virtue of a Deed dated January 23, 1998 and recorded on February 2, 1998 in Book R-296 at Page 463 in the Office of the Register of Deeds for Charleston County, South Carolina.

THEREAFTER, Blanche A. Case now known as B. Annette Christopher conveyed subject property to B. Annette Christopher and Francis M. Christopher by virtue of a Deed dated May 24, 2006 and recorded July 14, 2006 in Book B-591 at Page 293 in the Office of the Register of Deeds for Charleston County, South Carolina.

THEREAFTER, B. Annette

Christopher a/k/a Blanche A. Case a/k/a Blanche A. Christopher a/k/a Blanche Annette Christopher’s interest in the subject property was conveyed unto Francis M. Christopher a/k/a Francis Morgan Christopher, by Francis Morgan Christopher, as Personal Representative of the Estate of Blanche Annette Christopher, (Estate # 2018-ES-1000315), pursuant to the probate of said Estate, and by virtue of a Deed of Distribution dated January 11, 2019 and recorded July 18, 2019 in Book 0809 at Page 161 in the Office of the Register of Deeds for Charleston County, South Carolina.

6808 Seewee Road Awendaw, SC 29429

TMS# 680-00-00-140 (land & mobile home)

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

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

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

PLAINTIFF’S ATTORNEY

John S. Kay, Esquire

Telephone: 803-726-2700

FOR INSERTION

July 19,

Mikell R. Scarborough Master in Equity

STATE OF SOUTH CAROLINA COUNTY OF CHARLESTON IN THE COURT OF COMMON PLEAS FOR THE NINTH JUDICIAL CIRCUIT

CASE NO. 2024-CP-10-02510

INTERLAND INVESTMENTS, LLC, Plaintiff,

v. REBECCA SINGLETON and if she may be deceased, their heirs-atlaw, 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: 9377 N. Highway 17 Charleston, South Carolina TMS Number: 730-00-00-023 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 14th, 2024, the Order Appointing Guardian ad Litem was filed on May 14th, 2024 and the Order of Publication was filed on July 10th, 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 14th, 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 PIECE, parcel or lot of lad, situate, lying and being in the Tibwin settlement, St. James Santee Parish, County and State aforesaid, containing One (1) acre and having the following boundaries: North by Public Road, known as the Morrison Road, East by lands deeded this day to Joe Singleton, South by Tibwin Plantation and West by lands of the said Molley Brown

TMS # 730-00-00-023

Date: July 12th, 2024

s/Jeffrey T. Spell Jeffrey T. Spell

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

jeff@jeffspell.com

Attorney for Plaintiff

NOTICE OF DEFAULT AND INTENT TO SELL

Name and address of Purchaser:

LINDA H. FORKEY & SCOTT L. FORKEY

9 OCTAVIO, FORT PIERCE, FL 34951.

LIBERTY PLACE VACATION SUITES: A fee simple undivided 0.01682244733133270%

ownership interest in 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: 98-0403-38B Deed Book 1173, Page 948, Mortgage Book 1173, Page 975. Total amount presently delinquent $145,312.84, Attorneys fees $450.00, Costs $113.69. You are currently in default under certain provisions of the above referenced mortgage and timeshare instrument. 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 27-32325, 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.

NOTICE OF DEFAULT AND INTENT TO SELL

Name and address of Purchaser: CALVIN PERKINS & SHARMANA PERKINS 32 DIGGS DR, HAMPTON, VA 23666.

LIBERTY PLACE VACATION SUITES: A fee simple undivided 0.00621837316340825% ownership interest in 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: 98-0406-34O , Deed Book 1134, Page 153, Mortgage Book 1134, Page 182. Total amount presently delinquent $23,151.59, Attorneys fees $450.00, Costs $113.69. You are currently in default under certain provisions of the above referenced mortgage and timeshare instrument. 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 27-32325, 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.

NOTICE OF DEFAULT AND INTENT TO SELL

Name and address of Purchaser: VICKIE L. PURCELL & CHRISTOPHER E. PURCELL 9912 BETHWOOD DR, FREDERICKSBURG, VA 22407.

LIBERTY PLACE VACATION SUITES: A fee simple undivided 0.00841122366566636% ownership interest in 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: 98-0303-36O , Deed Book 1187, Page 582, Mortgage Book 1187, Page 584. Total amount presently delinquent $27,341.37, Attorneys fees $450.00, Costs $113.69. You are currently in default under certain provisions of the above referenced mortgage and timeshare instrument. 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 27-32325, 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.

Master’s Sale Case No. 2023-CP-10-04060

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

Sandra Loy, Plaintiff, vs. Jose Alfredo Campos Reyes and Claudia Portillo Cameros, Defendants

Upon authority of a Decree dated the 10th day of April, 2024, I will offer for sale to the highest bidder for cash, at public auction, the premises fully described below, at the Charleston County Council Chambers, Public Service Building located at 4045 Bridge View Drive, North Charleston, South Carolina on the 3rd day of September, 2024, at 11:00 a.m. or shortly thereafter.

All that certain piece, parcel or lot of land with the improvements

thereon situate, lying and being in the State of South Carolina, County of Charleston, St. Pauls Parish, measuring and containing One (1.0) Acre, more or less, designated as Lot “2-A” on a plat entitled “Subdivision Survey of 3.000-AC. Creating Lots “2-A,” “2-B,” and “2-C” ...” prepared by Robert J. Sample, R.L.S., dated April 15, 2003, Revised May 24, 2003 and May 30, 2003 and recorded in the ROD Office for Charleston County in Plat Book DD at Page 755. Said lot having, more or less, such size, shape, area, metes and bounds as shown on said plat.

This being the same property conveyed to Jose Alfredo Campos Reyes and Claudia Portillo Cameros by deed of Roberto Torres Gonzalez dated September 13, 2021 and recorded in the ROD Office for Charleston County on September 14, 2021 in Book 1032 at Page 361.

TMS # 059-00-00-434

8602 Sugar Hill Road, Hollywood, SC 29449

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

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

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

Plaintiff’s Attorney: Ashley G. Andrews, Esq., SC Bar No. 76667 544 Savannah Hwy, Charleston, SC 29407 andrews@lafondlaw.com Telephone: 843-762-3554

For Insertion: July 19, July 26 and August 2, 2024

Mikell R. Scarborough Master in Equity for Charleston County

STATE OF SOUTH CAROLINA COUNTY OF CHARLESTON IN THE COURT OF COMMON PLEAS CIVIL CASE NO.: 2024-CP-10-01888

LOUISE WILLIAMS, DARNELL WILLIAMS, CHARLENE RUSSELL WHITE and PAMELA HEYWARD, Plaintiffs, vs. CLIFFORD BROWN, MARLITA BROWN, NATHAN BROWN, GEORGEANN BROWN a/k/a GEORGE ANN BROWN, BARBARA A. PACE, MELVIN HOLMES, LISA HEYWARD unknown if living or dead, JOHN DOE and MARY ROE, being fictitious names used to designate the unknown heirs at law distributees, devisees, legatees, widow, widowers, successors and assigns, if any, of the following Deceased individuals: GWENDOLYN HEYWARD, WILLIAM HEYWARD, CHARLES T. HEYWARD, HAZEL BROWN, and LISA HEYWARD who is unknown if living or dead, and all other persons unknown claiming by, through or under them or having or claiming any interest in the real estate described in the Complaint, whether infants, incompetents, insane persons under any other disability. Defendants.

TO THE DEFENDANTS 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 subscriber at his office, located at 1847 Ashley River Road, Charleston, South Carolina 29407, within thirty (30) days after the service hereof, exclusive of the day of such service; and, if you fail to answer the Complaint within the time aforesaid, the Plaintiffs in this action will apply to the Court for the relief demanded in said Complaint.

LIS PENDENS

NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that an action has been commenced and is now pending in the Court of Common Pleas for the County of Charleston, which action was brought by the above-named Plaintiffs against the above-named Defendants to determine the rightful owners and partition by sale of the below described real estate.

That the premises affected by this action is located within the County and State aforesaid and is more particularly described as follows:

The portion of the below described property containing approximately 8 Acres more or less, lying on the southern side of Cherry Hill Road.

ALL that certain lot, piece or parcel of land containing twenty-five acres, more or less, situated in Adams Run Township, County and State aforesaid. Bounded Northwardly by Big Bay, Eastwardly and Southwardly by property now or formerly of Elizabeth LaRoche and Westwardly by land now or formerly of Thomas Williams, all of which will be seen by reference to a plat made by J.D. Taylor, surveyor, dated July 30, 1900.

TMS NO.: 165-00-00-172

NOTICE NISI

TO: THE DEFENDANTS ABOVENAMED:

NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that the Plaintiffs have applied to the Court for appointment of a suitable person as Guardian ad Litem for all unknown and known Defendants who may be incompetent, under age, or under any other disability, and said appointment shall become final unless such Defendants, or anyone in their behalf, within thirty (30) days of the service of this Notice, shall procure to be appointed a Guardian ad Litem for them.

NOTICE OF FILING

TO THE DEFENDANTS ABOVE NAMED:

PLEASE TAKE NOTICE that the Summons, Complaint and Lis Pendens were filed on April 10, 2024 and the Notice Nisi was filed on April 17, 2024 in the Office of the Clerk of Court of Common Pleas for Charleston County, South Carolina.

FURTHER TAKE NOTICE that Kelvin M. Huger, Esquire of 27 Gamecock Avenue, Suite 200, Charleston, S.C. 29407, has been designated as Guardian ad Litem for all Defendants who may be incompetent, under age, or under any other disability by Order of the Court of Common Pleas of Charleston County, dated the 15th day of April, 2024 and the said appointment shall become absolute thirty (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 as Guardian ad Litem for them within (30) days after the final publication of this Notice.

/s/ Arthur C. McFarland

Attorney for Plaintiffs

1847 Ashley River Road, Suite 200 Charleston, SC 29407

843.763-3900

Email: Cecilesq@aol.com

Charleston, South Carolina

April 10, 2024

To all persons claiming an interest in: 1981-16’-BASSTRACKERBUJ07344M81J

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 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; et. al. DEFENDANT(S).

SUMMONS AND NOTICE OF FILING OF COMPLAINT (241103.00046)

TO THE DEFENDANT 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 ABOVE NAMED:

YOU ARE HEREBY SUMMONED and required to answer the Complaint in the above entitled action, copy of which is herewith served upon you, and to serve copy of your answer upon the undersigned at their offices, 2712 Middleburg Drive, Suite 200, P.O. Box 2065, Columbia, South Carolina 29202, within thirty (30) days after service hereof upon you, exclusive of the day of such service, and if you fail to answer the Complaint within the time aforesaid, the Plaintiff in this action

will apply to the Court for the relief demanded in the Complaint, and judgment by default will be rendered against you for the relief demanded in the Complaint. YOU WILL ALSO TAKE NOTICE that should you fail to Answer the foregoing Summons, the Plaintiff will move for a general Order of Reference of this cause to the Master in Equity for Charleston County, which Order shall, pursuant to Rule 53(e) of the South Carolina Rules of Civil Procedure, specifically provide that the said Master in Equity is authorized and empowered to enter a final judgment in this cause.

TO MINOR(S) OVER FOURTEEN YEARS OF AGE AND/OR MINOR(S) UNDER FOURTEEN YEARS OF AGE AND THE PERSON WITH WHOM THE MINOR(S) RESIDES AND/OR TO PERSONS UNDER SOME LEGAL DISABILITY: YOU ARE FURTHER SUMMONED AND NOTIFIED to apply for the appointment of a Guardian Ad Litem to represent said minor(s) within thirty (30) days after the service of this Summons and Notice upon you. If you fail to do so, application for such appointment will be made by the Plaintiff(s) herein.

NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that the original Complaint in the above entitled action was filed in the office of the Clerk of Court for Charleston County on June 20, 2024.

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

Master’s Sale Case No. 2024-CP-10-01111

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

THE BANK OF NEW YORK

MELLON FKA THE BANK OF NEW YORK, AS TRUSTEE FOR THE CERTIFICATE HOLDERS OF CWALT, INC., ALTERNATIVE LOAN TRUST 2005-57CB, MORTGAGE PASS-THROUGH CERTIFICATES, SERIES 2005-57CB, vs. Dennis R. Miller

Upon authority of a Decree dated the 12th day of June, 2024, I will offer for sale to the highest bidder for cash, at public auction, the premises fully described below, at the County Council Chambers, 4045 Bridge View Drive, North Charleston, SC, on the 6th day of August, 2024, at 11:00 a.m. or shortly thereafter. ALL THAT CERTAIN PIECE, PARCEL OR LOT OF LAND, TOGETHER WITH THE IMPROVEMENTS THEREON, SITUATE, LYING AND BEING IN ST. ANDREWS PARISH, IN THE COUNTY OF CHARLESTON AND STATE OF SOUTH CAROLINA, AND BEING KNOWN AND DESIGNATED AS LOT NO. 16, SECTION B ON A PLAT OF SUBDIVISION KNOWN AS ARDMORE, WHICH PLAT WAS MADE BY GAILLARD AND GAILLARD, SURVEYORS FROM A SURVEY MADE MAY 20, 1948 AND IS DULY RECORDED IN THE

RMC OFFICE FOR CHARLESTON COUNTY IN PLAT BOOK G AT PAGE 55A, REFERENCE TO SAID PLAT BEING MADE FOR A FULL DESCRIPTION OF SAID LOT, WHICH SAID LOT HAS SUCH SIZE, METES, BOUNDS AND DIMENSIONS AS ARE SHOWN ON THE AFORESAID PLAT. SAID PROPERTY NOW KNOWN AS 1543 EVERGREEN STREET IN THE CITY OF CHARLESTON. BEING THE SAME PROPERTY AS CONVEYED FROM JOHN L. MUNZENMAIER TO DENNIS R. MILLER AS SET FORTH IN BOOK K558, PAGE 198 DATED 10/17/2005, RECORDED 10/18/2005, COUNTY OF CHARLESTON AND STATE OF SOUTH CAROLINA. TMS # 3500700008

Current Property Address: 1543 Evergreen St., Charleston, SC 29407

A personal or deficiency judgment being demanded, the bidding will remain open 30 days after the date of sale, but compliance with the bid may be made immediately. The property shall be sold for cash to the highest bidder. The highest bidder, other than the Plaintiff, will be required to deposit with the Master, at the conclusion of the bidding, cash or certified check in the amount of five (5%) per cent of the bid: the said deposit to be applied to the purchase price. Should the highest bidder fail to comply with the bid within thirty days from the date of sale, the Master will resell the property at the risk and expense of the defaulting bidder upon the same terms as above set out. The Sheriff of Charleston County may be authorized to put the purchaser into possession of the premises if requested by the purchaser.

PLAINTIFF’S ATTORNEY

William S. Koehler, Esquire Telephone: 803-828-0880 FOR INSERTION

7/19/2024; 7/26/2024; 8/2/2024

Mikell R. Scarborough Master in Equity

A-4820338

07/19/2024, 07/26/2024, 08/02/2024

Master’s Sale

2023-CP-10-03400

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

U.S. Bank Trust National Association, not in its individual capacity but solely as owner trustee for RCF 2 Acquisition Trust, PLAINTIFF versus Kenneth B. Canty, Aretha L. Canty, Lander Ridgeway, II and R&R Specialties, LLC, Cook & Boardman, LLC, ADC Engineering, Inc., Van Smith Company, Inc. dba VanSmith Concrete Company, Jack Portenier, Kristina M. Portenier, Fidelity and Deposit Company of Maryland, Sutton Leasing, Inc., The South Carolina Department of Revenue, and The United States of America, by and through its agency, the Internal Revenue Service, DEFENDANT(S).

Upon authority of a Decree dated the 4th day of January, 2024, I will offer for sale to the highest bidder for cash, at public auction, the premises fully described below, at the County Council Chambers, 4045 Bridge View Drive, North Charleston, South Carolina, on the 6th day of August, 2024, at 11:00 a.m. or shortly thereafter. The land referred to herein below is situated in the County of Charleston, State of South Carolina, and is described as follows: All that lot, piece, or parcel of land, including any and all improvements thereon, situate, lying, and being in County of Charleston, State of South Carolina, and being known and designated

as Lot I, Pierpont Subdivision, as shown on a Plat entitled “Plat To Resubdivision 4.04 Acres, Lot 62 & Part Of Lot 63, Pierpont Subdivision, Section One Located St. Andrews Parish, Charleston County, South Carolina”, duly recorded in the Charleston County RMC Office in Plat Book “EC” page “150”. Said lot having such size, shape, metes, bounds, location and dimensions as shown on the aforesaid plat to which reference is made. Being the same property conveyed to Kenneth B. Canty and Aretha L. Canty, as joint tenants with rights of survivorship and not as tenants in common, by deed of Kenneth B. Canty, dated July 14, 2005 and recorded August 16, 2005 in Deed Book K549 at Page 488.

TMS No. 353-03-00-114

Property Address: 2193 Becky Road, Charleston, SC 29414

No personal or deficiency judgment being demanded, the bidding will not remain open after the date of sale, but compliance with the bid may be made immediately. The Sale is made subject to the Right of Redemption of the United States of America, pursuant to Section 2410(c), U.S. Code, for a period of 120 days from date of sale. THIS SALE IS SUBJECT TO ASSESSMENTS, COUNTY TAXES, EXISTING EASEMENTS, EASEMENTS AND RESTRICTIONS OF RECORD, AND OTHER SENIOR ENCUMBRANCES. The property shall be sold for cash to the highest bidder. The highest bidder, other than the Plaintiff, will be required to deposit with the Master, at the conclusion of the bidding, cash or certified check in the amount of five (5%) per cent of the bid: the said deposit to be applied to the purchase price. The successful bidder will be required to pay for documentary stamps on the Deed and interest on the balance of the bid from the date of sale to the date of compliance with the bid at the rate of 4.7500%. Should the highest bidder fail to comply with the bid within thirty days from the date of sale, the Master will resell the property at the risk and expense of the defaulting bidder upon the same terms as above set out. 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. The Sheriff of Charleston County may be authorized to put the purchaser into possession of the premises if requested by the purchaser.

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 independent title search well before the foreclosure sale date. ATTENDEES MUST ABIDE BY SOCIAL DISTANCING GUIDELINES AND MAY BE REQUIRED TO WEAR A MASK OR OTHER FACIAL COVERING.

Any person who violates said protocols is subject to dismissal at the discretion of the selling officer or other court officials.

PLAINTIFF’S ATTORNEY RILEY POPE & LANEY, LLC (803) 799-9993

FOR INSERTION

July 19, 2024, July 26, 2024, August 2, 2024

Mikell R. Scarborough Master in Equity

6211

Master’s Sale

2023-CP-10-02296

STATE OF SOUTH CAROLINA

COUNTY OF CHARLESTON IN THE COURT OF COMMON PLEAS

US Bank Trust National Association, Not In Its Individual Capacity But Solely As Owner Trustee For VRMTG Asset Trust, PLAINTIFF

versus Hedy L. Fields, Any Heirs-At-Law of Devisees of Doris Collins, Deceased, their heirs, Personal Representatives, Administrators, Successors and Assigns, and all other persons entitled to claim through them; all unknown persons with any right, title or interest in the real estate described herein; also any persons who may be in the military service of the United States of America, being a class designated as John Doe; and any unknown minors or persons under a disability being a class designated as Richard Roe, DEFENDANT(S).

Upon authority of a Decree dated the 20th day of May, 2024, I will offer for sale to the highest bidder for cash, at public auction, the premises fully described below, at the County Council Chambers, 4045 Bridge View Drive, North Charleston, South Carolina, on the 6th day of August, 2024, at 11:00 a.m. or shortly thereafter. All that piece, parcel or lot of land, with any improvements thereon, situate, lying and being in St. Andrews Parish Area of Charleston County, South Carolina, shown and designated as Lot 14, West Park Subdivision on a plat dated September 4, 1958, prepared by Joseph Needle, CE, and recorded in the Office of the RMC for Charleston County in Plat Book Z at page 45. The being the same property conveyed to Doris Collins and Hedy L. Fields by deed of Dendrinks, LLC, dated December 19, 2006 and recorded December 21, 2006 in Book P609 at Page 885 in the Register of Deeds Office for Charleston County. Subsequently, Doris Collins died intestate on October 1, 2010 leaving the subject property to her heirs or devisees, namely, Hedy L. Fields.

TMS No. 3510600141

Property Address: 1967 Carrie Street, Charleston, SC 29407

No personal or deficiency judgment being demanded, the bidding will not remain open after the date of sale, but compliance with the bid may be made immediately. THIS SALE IS SUBJECT TO ASSESSMENTS, COUNTY TAXES, EXISTING EASEMENTS, EASEMENTS AND RESTRICTIONS OF RECORD, AND OTHER SENIOR ENCUMBRANCES. The property shall be sold for cash to the highest bidder. The highest bidder, other than the Plaintiff, will be required to deposit with the Master, at the conclusion of the bidding, cash or certified check in the amount of five (5%) per cent of the bid: the said deposit to be applied to the purchase price. The successful bidder will be required to pay for documentary stamps on the Deed and interest on the balance of the bid from the date of sale to the date of compliance with the bid at the rate of 4.7500%. Should the highest bidder fail to comply with the bid within thirty days from the date of sale, the Master will resell the property at the risk and expense of the defaulting bidder upon the same terms as above set out. 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. The Sheriff of Charleston County may be authorized to put the purchaser

into possession of the premises if requested by the purchaser.

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 independent title search well before the foreclosure sale date. ATTENDEES MUST ABIDE BY SOCIAL DISTANCING GUIDELINES AND MAY BE REQUIRED TO WEAR A MASK OR OTHER FACIAL COVERING. Any person who violates said protocols is subject to dismissal at the discretion of the selling officer or other court officials.

PLAINTIFF’S ATTORNEY RILEY POPE & LANEY, LLC (803) 799-9993 FOR INSERTION

July 19, 2024, July 26, 2024, August 2, 2024

Mikell R. Scarborough Master in Equity

6219

STATE OF SOUTH CAROLINA COUNTY OF CHARLESTON IN THE COURT OF COMMON PLEAS C/A #: 2024-CP-10-01116

Eastern Wholesale Fence LLC, Plaintiff,

v. C & S Fences, LLC and Clyde Farmer, Defendants.

SUMMONS AND NOTICE OF FILING OF COMPLAINT

TO: DEFENDANTS C & S FENCES, LLC AND CLYDE FARMER

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 said Complaint on the subscriber, Jeffrey L. Payne, Esquire, at his office at 1831 W. Evans Street, Suite 400, Florence, South Carolina 29501, within thirty (30) days after service hereof, exclusive of the date of such service; and if you fail to answer the Complaint within the time aforesaid, judgment by default will be rendered against you for the relief demanded in the Complaint. NOTICE IS GIVEN THAT the original Summons and Complaint in the above entitled action were filed with the Clerk of Court for Charleston County, South Carolina on February 29, 2024.

TURNER, PADGET, GRAHAM & LANEY, P.A. By: s/ Jeffrey L. Payne Jeffrey L. Payne, Esquire SC Bar #: 15136 1831 W. Evans Street, Suite 400 Florence, South Carolina 29501 843-662-9008

843-667-0828 Fax jpayne@turnerpadget.com

ATTORNEYS FOR PLAINTIFF July 17, 2024 Florence, South Carolina

ESTATES’ CREDITOR’S NOTICES

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

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 ***********

Estate of: MARTHA J. HARVEY 2024-ES-10-1172

DOD: 6/6/24

Pers. Rep: GERALD E. HARVEY, SR. 38 DUNNEMANN AVE., CHARLESTON, SC 29403

ESTATES’ CREDITOR’S NOTICES

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

Estate of: NANCY DELORA GUTHKE JONES 2024-ES-10-1202

DOD: 10/13/23

Pers. Rep: THEODORE WINTHROP JONES, JR. 8121 POPLAR RIDGE RD., NO CHARLESTON, SC 29406

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Estate of: CAROLINE OLIVEROS KING 2024-ES-10-1204

DOD: 6/20/24

Pers. Rep: GEORGINA OLIVEROS LANGE 7777 COUNTY RD. 2120, GRAPELAND, TX 75844

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Estate of: CARMEN JENKINS BENTZ 2024-ES-10-1222

DOD: 12/17/23

Pers. Rep: LESTER EARL BENTZ, JR.

ISLAND, SC 29455

Atty: BARRY C. HOLDEN, ESQ. 916 PALM BLVD., #7, ISLE OF PALMS, SC 29451

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Estate of: LOUISE BURKE HOWELL

2024-ES-10-1227

DOD: 4/25/24

Pers. Rep:

ESTHER L. UNCAPHER

224 PATCHWORK DR., LADSON, SC 29456

Atty: SABRINA GROGAN, ESQ.

300 W. COLEMAN BLVD., #205, MT. PLEASANT, SC 29464

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Estate of:

ERIC EDWARD WORMSER, III 2024-ES-10-1231

DOD: 4/10/24

Pers. Rep: DONNA WORMSER

254 STAR LAKE DR., MURRELLS INLET, SC 29576

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ESTATES’ CREDITOR’S NOTICES

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

Estate of:

PATRICIA EVON ROBINSON

2024-ES-10-1128

DOD: 11/10/23

Pers. Rep: SHANTE L. NELSON

1945 HANAHAN RD., NO. CHARLESTON, SC 29406

Atty: W. SCOTT PALMER, ESQ. PO BOX 722, SANTEE, SC 29142

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Estate of: GEORGE WASHINGTON 2024-ES-10-1228

DOD: 4/21/24

Pers. Rep: GEORGEATTA LOFTON 718 SONNY BOY LN., JOHNS ISLAND, SC 29455

Atty: ROGER S. DIXON, ESQ. 105 WAPPOO CREEK DR., #3B, CHARLESTON, SC 29412

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Estate of:

LOUIS TWELLS PARKER, JR. 2024-ES-10-1254

DOD: 5/27/24

Pers. Rep: ELIZABETH LAWRENCE PARKER 8818 TRAVIS HILLS DR., #533, AUSTIN, TX 78735

Atty: DAVID H. KUNES, ESQ. 115 CHURCH ST, CHARLESTON, SC 29401

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Across

1. Playbill roster

5. “Pardon me”

9. Call partner?

13. Classic New Yorker cartoonist Peter

14. Confusion

16. Shakespeare’s river

17. Her latest album is 2020’s “Fetch the Bolt Cutters”

19. Zeus’s wife

20. Actor Wheaton

21. Rent-___ (airport-adjacent service)

23. Sat ___ (GPS system)

24. Binge

26. Unofficial title for Stuart Sutcliffe or Pete Best

30. Frequent site for athletic injuries

31. CIO’s partner

32. Word before Faithful or school

33. Word on a gift card

35. Remarked

38. Picture in a dream

42. Underground signal carrier, maybe

45. Her “Hello” is used in the new “Weird” Al polka medley

46. Herb used in some ritual burnings

47. Element #10

48. Sheep sound

50. Category

52. Monopoly quad, for short

53. Culmination of a hero-versus-villain arc

58. Pinstriped baseball team, on scoreboards

59. Indignation

60. Pasture mom

61. Seoul-based automaker

9. “A Christmas Carol” outburst

10. Big do

11. Reef component

12. Rapscallion

64. It’s practiced as an occupation 66. Time of history 67. Answer section? 68. Light bulb variety 69. Source of milk for pecorino cheese “CREATE NEW FOLDER” —contains five.

63. Medicine bottle

65. Completely healthy, with “in”

70. “Cómo ___ usted?”

71. Brightly colored aquarium fish

72. Enjoy some jerky

73. Display

74. Basketballer O’Neal who cohosts “Lucky 13”

75. Park in London

Down

1. Half-___ latte

2. Shapiro who hosted the latest season of “The Mole” 3. Paperweight that gets shaken

“Beloved” novelist Morrison

Reddit Q&A feature, for short

Trending

Person living abroad, informally

Garden ground cover

15. Singer Bryson who duetted on “A Whole New World” (the version that hit #1)

18. ___ Romeo (sports car)

22. Memento of the past

24. Mediterranean port city

25. Pungent

27. “In that case ...”

28. Moves, as wings

29. Madison Ave. exec, stereotypically

34. Peach dessert name

36. Give ___ chance

37. 7, but not 77

39. Civil rights activist and King mentor Ralph

40. High praise

41. Minuscule, cutely

43. Territory

44. Honeycomb compartment

49. To the rear, nautically

51. Actress Palmer

53. Till bills

54. Like James Joyce

55. “That’s swell”

56. Spring sign

57. Tithing amount

62. Pruritus

Editorial staff Editor’s note

Erica Veal Guest Editor

Erica Veal is a founding member of the Lowcountry Action Committee. Her background is in natural and cultural history interpretation and she believes in the unification of Africa and the diaspora under scientific socialism.

Belvin Olasov Co-Editor in Chief

Belvin Olasov is the co-founder and co-director of the Charleston Climate Coalition. His background is in creative writing and believes in bringing vision-making and art to climate work.

Sydney Bollinger Co-Editor in Chief

Sydney Bollinger (she/her) is a writer and editor affiliated with Surge and The Changing Times. She aims to connect communities to climate action through narrative and collaborative storytelling. Find her online @sydboll.

Blake Suárez Designer

Blake Fili Suárez is a graphic designer with a focus on branding and illustration. He is a co-founder of The Marsh Project and he works out of a room that looks out on a little meadow he is planting with his kids.

Hailey Williams Creative Writing Editor

Hailey “Pell” Williams is a Charleston native, poet, and swamp-trekker. You can find her work in The Birmingham Poetry Review and Tupelo Press’s June 2023 30/30, amongst others.

Brittney Washington Cover Artist

Brittney (Blue) Washington (she/they) is a multidisciplinary artist, cultural organizer, and co-founder of Flowers for Palestine, a Black, femme-led group of Lowcountry artists and organizers. She serves as a visual arts producer for social justice groups, studies filmmaking, moonlights as a doula, and is a registered art therapist who has facilitated internationally to illuminate the historical events that shape our current experiences of racialized poverty, trauma, and disconnection. She curates arts-based spaces where folks can be brave, vulnerable, and imaginative about how to shape a liberatory future. See their work on Instagram (@thegalwhofellfromspace) and online at www.labrittneyarts.com. For commissions, email bnw.washington@gmail.com

Cover Art: “Cousin Earth”

Marker & Ink on Paper

10.25 x 10.5 inches

2024

Greetings Gentle Readers,

Welcome to the Lowcountry Action Committee’s Gullah Geechee and Earth takeover issue of Surge. The Lowcountry Action Committee (LAC) is a Black led grassroots organization dedicated to Black liberation through service, political education, and collective action in the Lowcountry. All contributors to this issue are either founders, general body or incoming members of LAC who identify as Gullah Geechee or as having Gullah Geechee roots.

LAC has been a member organization of the Charleston Climate Coalition for a couple of years now and, in 2024, we were inspired to take a more active role in exploring the intersections of the climate catastrophe, environmental racism and the human rights crisis. It is our duty to draw attention to how this triple threat impacts African descended people in the Lowcountry and take the lead in the environmental movement to fight against it. We cannot take a backseat in this struggle when our homes are flooding on a regular basis, our food supply is being poisoned and we face racial disparities rooted in slavery and Jim Crow apartheid that perpetuate our second-class citizenship in society.

As you make your way through this issue, please keep in mind that LAC does more than just write. We also feed people, host educational programs and cultural events, sponsor travel to Cuba, scholarships and more. For more information about LAC, follow us on all social networks @lctakesaction or visit www.lctakesaction.com. You can also support our work by volunteering with us or donating to our Venmo @lctakesaction or CashApp $lctakesaction.

A special thank you to Joshua Parks for providing the photography for this issue, Brittney “Blue” Washington for providing the cover art and our contributors Mosiah Asad, Rashad Brown, Karl Noble, Salifu Mack and Akua Page!

In solidarity, Erica Veal Surge Issue 8 Guest Editor

INFORMATION, EMAIL surgemagchs@gmail. com

Climate Reparations as SOCIAL JUSTICE SOCIAL JUSTICE

WRITTEN BY AKUA PAGE

As a Gullah Geechee college student studying environmental science, I am deeply concerned about the impact of climate change on my community. Gullah Geechee people, descendants of West and Central Africans enslaved on the coastal regions of South Carolina, North Carolina, Georgia and Florida, have a unique community with a rich cultural heritage deeply rooted in the land and sea. Our culture and way of life is currently under threat due to climate change fueled by environmental racism. These threats, however, are not just about rising sea levels, but include a broader range of environmental changes that are impacting our way of life. Climate reparations, a concept that is gaining traction globally, could be a key part of the solution to our historical problems.

Climate reparations refer to the idea that those who have contributed the least to climate change but are suffering the most from its impacts should receive compensation. This concept is rooted in the principles of justice and equity.

For Gullah Geechee people, whose traditions are intrinsically tied to our environment, climate reparations is deeper than just addressing current and future environmental challenges--they are also about rectifying historical injustices. We have faced centuries of marginalization and exploitation, which have left us particularly vulnerable to environmental changes. We depend on the land and sea to sustain us and, as climate change continues to impact our region, we face new challenges that threaten our way of life.

For instance, the warming of ocean temperatures has caused a decline in blue crab, a staple in the Gullah Geechee diet, economy and a significant part of our cultural practices. South Carolina recently attempted to pass a bill (S.955) regulating the harvesting of blue crabs to address their declining population. While proponents argue that a licensure program is necessary for their numbers to rebound, this could disproportionately burden Gullah Geechee fishermen and women who may lack the resources to navigate the complexities of a licensure program. This could result in the exclusion of Gullah Geechee people from a fishery that has sustained our maritime culture for centuries. Climate reparations could address this by providing financial support and grants to Gullah Geechee crabbers to access sustainable fishing gear, boats, and infrastructure and by investing in restoring and protecting critical blue crab habitats, such as salt marshes and estuaries. Reparations could also provide funding for educational programs on blue crab biology, behavior and migration patterns in response to climate shifts and seek to involve Gullah Geechee fishers in decision-making processes related to fisheries management, conservation, and climate adaptation. Finally they could establish community-based cooperatives that allow crabbers to collectively manage resources and share knowledge

Climate reparations could help address historical injustices and the climate crisis by providing much needed resources that will allow Gullah Geechee people to adapt to environmental changes, preserve our cultural heritage and build a sustainable and resilient future.

PHOTO | Nathalie Marie Visuals

PHOTO | Joshua Parks

Digging Toward Death: Phosphate Mining through a Gullah Geechee Lens

WRITTEN BY KARL NOBLE

Though phosphate rock was first discovered in the Lowcountry during geological surveys in 1795, it was not mined commercially until 1868. The phosphate industry thrived in the South Carolina Lowcountry for about 20 years before dying out and, in this short time, was responsible for about 50% of the phosphate used worldwide, absurd profits and the destruction of tens of thousands of acres of river beds. The accompanying chemical manufacturing polluted Lowcountry soil, air, and waterways, and diminished the quality of life for Gullah Geechee people who served as the main labor force in this destructive industry.

After the Civil War, the decline of the rice industry left many plantation owners struggling to maintain the massive plots of land they occupied, due to the loss of access to slave labor. At the same time, the phosphate mining industry emerged and there was a rush to found mining companies and worker towns, and sell or lease land to mining investors. Newly emancipated Africans were the preferred labor source in this industry. They were seen as conditioned to work in the harsh subtropical environments and resistant to some of the rampant mosquito-borne diseases that plagued the area. Though Gullah Geechee laborers could now earn a wage, most were only paid around $1/day for performing back breaking, dangerous work year round. Those who opted to live in mining towns often found themselves perpetually indebted to mine stores who provided them and their families with everything from medical care to food rations at exorbitantly high interests. Workers did exercise some autonomy though by refusing to work from noon on

Saturday until noon on Monday, so they could instead work for themselves.

Phosphate deposits as large as 100 feet deep and 20 feet wide were found along riverbeds and tributaries from Charleston to Beaufort. River mining was preferred as phosphate deposits were closer to the surface and higher in quality. The Ashley River was home to some of the largest mining companies which produced an average of 600 tons of phosphate rock per acre across thousands of acres, leading to mass destruction of marsh ecosystems. Working conditions were especially brutal at these riverside mines where workers dug through pluff mud along the riverbed at low tide and dove to the bottom of the river bed pits, holding their breath while extracting the phosphate rock until their fellow workers pulled them back to the surface. To make matters worse, phosphate mining also exposed workers to industrial chemicals.

PHOTO | Joshua Parks

Trace amounts of uranium were emitted during phosphate rock excavation, exposure to which has links to the development of cancer. Initially, companies shipped the phosphate off to be processed into fertilizer, but later began processing it on site. This required the production and handling of sulfuric acid:

“Sulfuric acid manufacture was probably the most dangerous of all aspects of [phosphatebased fertilizer] production. Chambers that were not well-maintained posed threats not only to the men through chemical burns and inhalation of highly poisonous gases, but leaky chambers also affected local crop lands and polluted the environment. As with labor information, information on work hazards and health effects of fertilizer production has yet to be synthesized.”

Workers had no fail-safes in place to ensure their safety nor that of the local environment and nearby communities in which they lived. While all the phosphate mines in South Carolina have since closed, their legacies live on in fertilizer manufacturing plants that still operate in the area today.

Lanxess, for example, is located on King Street Extension in North Charleston where another fertilizer company named Imperial once stood. It operates in close proximity to about a dozen Black neighborhoods. It is less than a mile away from Rosemont and Union Heights, just over a mile away from Accabee and Chicora Cherokee and there are another dozen or so Black communities within a five mile radius. A 2023 FOIA request revealed Lanxess had at least 25 incidents over a 32-year period where toxic chemicals were released into the environment despite OSHA and DHEC regulations. The EPA has stated that people living in the 29405 zip code (where Lanxess is located) have a higher chance of developing asthma, cancer and other pollution related health problems. This is the same zip code where the phosphate mining industry thrived 160 years ago. In the face of this ugly and deeply rooted history of environmental racism, it is grossly irresponsible for the State of South Carolina to allow Lanxess to operate with its reputation for neglecting the health of local communities and ecosystems. I urge all Lowcountry residents who care about and respect the environment to sign the petition linked above (see QR code) calling for the closure of Lanxess today!

PHOTO | Joshua Parks

A u g u s t 1 4 | 5 : 3 0

P a l m e t t o B r e w i n g

D r o p i n t o m e e t t h

l e a r n m o r e a b o u t

i s s u e s c l o s e t o h o w a y s t o g e t i

35 years of keeping nature & community in balance

T o v i e w o t h e r u p c o m i n g e v e n t s ,

v i s i t c v s c . o r g / e v e n t s c o a s t a l c o n s e r v a t i o n l e a g u e . o r g

Cuba’s Life Task And the lowcountry

WRITTEN BY SALIFU MACK

PHOTOS BY ERICA VEAL

I ran into an elder recently who greeted me warmly and gave me the tightest hug. While making small talk, she said to me “Baby, I don’t have a good feeling about this comin’ hurricane season.”

I asked her why and she replied, “I can feel it in the air. And when you turn on the news and you see everything that we [the US] out here doing in the world, you can’t be surprised.”

She expressed her concerns about vulnerability to natural disasters, and how she feels Black people, or Africans as I will continue to refer to us, have never been protected from them here. And she’s right. My comrades Karl Noble and Erica Veal recently wrote that:

“Our [US based Africans] relationship to environmental racism stretches back to the emergence of the local phosphate mining industry in the 1860’s and manifests today in the disproportionate exposure of Black and low income residents to environmental hazards.”

When we talk about hurricane season as Africans, we are talking about an intimate fear of the winds spinning out of control off an ocean that was once forced to swallow us whole during the transatlantic slave trade. And when we talk about the damaging effects of climate catastrophe, the South Carolina Lowcountry needs more priority. We have on our hands a number of sea islands (sacred sites for Gullah Geechee people), and low lying areas which are vulnerable to rising tides and shore erosion.

plastic bags under the kitchen sink, and reusing plasticware.

So in a society more obsessed with profits than human life, where can we look for guidance? The answer: 780 miles off the coast of Charleston on the island of Cuba. The island nation, led by the Communist Party of Cuba, has a plan that very few people living in the United States are aware of. It’s called “Tarea Vida” which literally means “Life Task,” and it’s Cuba’s long term plan to confront climate change.

Tarea Vida works first by naming the most at-risk populations and regions of the island and then lays out a chain of “strategic areas” and “tasks.” Climate scientists, ecologists, and social scientists are brought in to work in collaboration with local communities, specialists, and authorities to respond to specific threats. It’s been in play since 2017 and has targeted actions planned through the year 2100.

The government has instituted a series of measures to ensure that Tarea Vida’s goals are met. They include a ban on building new homes in threatened coastal settlements, reducing population density in low-lying coastal areas, developing new infrastructures adapted to coastal flooding, and adapting agricultural activities to the changes in land use caused by sea level rise. Reducing cultivation in areas close to the coasts, diversifying crops, planning the urban reorganization processes of the threatened settlements and infrastructures, and using lower cost measures like beach recovery and reforestation are also a part of the plan.

We also have a state and federal government with no real commitment to protecting them, or the people that have managed to continue inhabiting them despite ruthless displacement. Any policies that do exist are more so about maintaining the profits of golf resorts and wedding destinations.

This mentality is in direct opposition to Gullah Geechee culture, which was born rooted in cultivating non-exploitative relationships to the land. My grandmas, for example, are natural conservationists. They don’t collect more than they need, and almost every item that they own serves a multi purpose. However, the crisis of climate in the world today will require much more substantive solutions than crop rotation, storing

The first task of Tarea Vida is to protect vulnerable communities through relocation. The Cuban state foots the bill for relocation, including construction. However, relocation is not mandatory, and in instances where people have opted not to move, they’ve had the ability to propose their own strategies for adaptation. How is Cuba able to afford this? Well, as a socialist country, Cuba boasts the benefit of a planned economy. Unlike the United States, which leaves most economic planning to “free markets,” the Cuban government firmly regulates the economy, enabling real people to make practical decisions which will benefit society, not just profits.

Helen Yaffe, economist and author of We Are Cuba!, has written extensively about the other factors which make it possible for the island, facing a genocidal economic blockade by the United States, to invest in such an ambitious project. In addition to central planning, Yaffe highlights Cuba’s Civil Defense System. Instead of responding to troubling natural phenomena as they occur, Cuba stands on offense at the provincial, municipal, and neighborhood levels. Communities across the island are highly organized, with a system of procedures and tools to monitor, prepare, and act at the first sign of danger. As Cuban meteorologist Eduardo Planos has explained:

“Local governments set up local defense councils, which organise how the system works, distribute basic foodstuff so people don’t go without, and check electrical installations and the evacuation plan.”

On a practical level, this requires an intimate level of familiarity with your neighbors and all of those who live around you. Which homes contain elders? Young children with special needs? Who in the neighborhood is strong enough to carry sacks of rice? Who can command an audience and explain the plan? These are all questions Tarea Vida demands that citizens in Cuba’s most at-risk regions be able to answer. It’s much more than a 1800 number or fancy government office that may or may not answer the phone in the event of an emergency.

A 2020 review of the goals of Tarea Vida speaks to its effectiveness. Yaffe points out that, in just three years since its implementation, 11% of the most vulnerable coastal homes were relocated, coral farms had been set up, 380 km² of mangroves were recovered, serving as a natural coastal defense, and reforestation programs raised forest cover to 30% since 1959.

If you are a person that lives in the United States, you’ve probably been fed a lot of misinformation about Cuba. However, Cuba has accomplished all of this, even while facing massive economic and social oppression by the United States. Imagine what we could learn if we were able to cooperate with them without the threat of sanction and political repression. Cuba demonstrates the necessity of the working class taking control of the functions of the State. This is what many socialists call “the dictatorship of the proletariat.” In the Lowcountry, we live under the dictatorship of real estate developers and other industrialists whose personal interests are in direct contradiction with our lives. Before Cuban citizens were able to institute a life saving strategy like Tarea Vida, they had to band together to eject their ruling class from the driver's seat. For the sake of your children, and for the sake of my elder, there may be no better time for us to act than now.

Trouble in the Water

Forever Chemicals and Lowcountry Military Bases

WRITTEN BY RASHAD BROWN

During the great migration, large numbers of Gullah Geechee people relocated from rural communities surrounding Charleston to the industrial North area of present-day North Charleston. They came in search of jobs, benefits, and nearby housing for them and their families. What they didn’t anticipate was being exposed to toxic chemicals that would leave many dealing with terminal illnesses for decades. The Navy Yard, also known as the Naval Base, was the largest employer in North Charleston and the overall economic backbone of the city. While many have commented on the economic repercussions of its closure in 1996, what isn’t widely discussed are the levels of pollution and “forever chemicals” the base left behind that plague the people of the Lowcountry to this day.

Perfluoroalkyl and polyfluoroalkyl substances," or PFAS, are more widely known as forever chemicals because they can take thousands of years to break down. They accumulate in the bloodstream, liver, and kidneys of those exposed and cause health problems like ulcerative colitis, thyroid disease, various cancers, myelomas and more. Evidence suggests that these chemicals can even be transmitted from mothers to babies via breast

milk as well as in utero.

Forever chemicals are used in various products from non-stick cookware to waterproof clothing. Due to their ability to effectively repel water and extinguish fires, the U.S. Military began utilizing PFAS in its fire extinguishing foam in the 1960s. This foam was regularly sprayed at Charleston’s Military bases during fire drills. A chemical mist was also used on the Naval Yard to reduce the amount of chromium emissions released into the air during the ship building process. The main two producers of the foam were Dupont and 3M. 3M first made discoveries about the toxic nature of PFAS during the 1950s. Both companies and the Food and Drug Administration conducted studies revealing PFAS to be toxic the following decade, yet the Navy only began to assess PFAS pollution in 2018. While Navy scientists noted the dangers of the extinguishing foam in 1976, they didn’t make the information public. Documents published in 2019 exposed that hazardous amounts of PFAS have made their way into the ground water beneath the former Naval Base. One test revealed PFAS amounts to be thousands of times higher than suggested limits.

In 2021, former Navy Fireman

Michael Sloan filed a lawsuit against 3M after he developed testicular cancer. Sloan had been exposed to extinguishing foams while stationed on the Navy Yard and various naval ships in the early 1980s. Both 3M and Dupont made multi billion dollar settlement deals following thousands of lawsuits from various individuals and water providers nationwide as PFAS contaminants have been found in bodies of water across the country. The latest Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) recommendations for the maximum amount of PFAS in drinking water is four parts per trillion (ppt). Charleston Water Systems says they will increase customers rates to meet these standards, but that may not be enough as PFAS in our waterways don’t just affect people.

Environmental Scientist Dr. Patricia Fair and her team discovered dangerous amounts of PFAS in Charleston area dolphins. The 2019 journal Environmental Research revealed PFAS rates in edible fish collected from the Ashley River averaged at 18,600 ppt. In a study from October 2022 the Department of Health and Environmental Control (DHEC) discovered PFAS in blue crab collected from the Ashley River near Northbridge Park at a rate of 69.03 nanograms per gram, which is more than three million times the EPA’s recommended limits. Blue crab, and other local seafood, are staples of Gullah Geechee diets and the high rates of PFAS present in Charleston waterways put people who fish these contaminated waterways at risk.

Although the Naval Base closed in 1996, the Joint Air Force Base in North Charleston still poses a continuing threat to the neighboring community and the nearby Ashley River. A 2015 study done by the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) reported dangerous levels of PFAS in the area of the Air Force Base along the Ashley (and former Navy Yard along the Cooper River). This report also revealed levels of forever chemical sediments in Charleston are the highest of any urban area in the United States. The Joint Base ranks 10th highest for PFAS detected in ground water among over 700 military installations across the country. Although evaluations have been made–no clean ups have been started at or near Joint Base to date.

The forever chemicals crisis is only one of the many ways the U.S. Military pollutes the environment. The old Naval Base was also a major contributor of asbestos exposures which resulted in above average pleural cancer diagnoses among residents near the base, and especially among former shipyard workers. The U.S. Military is the biggest consumer of fossil fuels on the planet making it one of the largest emitters of greenhouse gases. The Joint Base in Charleston occupies 24,000 acres of land along 22 miles of coastline. From asbestos exposure, greenhouse emissions, to PFAS contamination, the U.S. Military is an active threat to the Lowcountry and its residents and we need to think critically about why we allow these toxic institutions to occupy our communities.

Sign the petition demanding state agencies release consumption advisories about PFAS contamination in locally caught seafood!

PHOTO | Joshua Parks

PHOTO | Joshua Parks

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WRITTEN BY MOSIAH ASAD

Ringworm

“De wata bring we and de wata gwine tek we bak.”

-Gullah Proverb

as close as we live to the ocean ain’t nobody got gas for the beach, so we be excited for rain, for floodwater. my mama don’t be, come ya out that water, fool ass

she won’t say it, but I listen so I know our elders were eaten alive, done by cancer they say, but we say a body betrayed, zoned for sacrifice by poisoned land and overworked hand. they had the best recipes and the meanest truths. now they haunt the air, they heavy it, sitting prematurely on a humid spirit plane.

they whisper

Ringworm, Ringworm but i’on wanna turn my head i’on wanna see my granny receded into herself, a deflation of the women who had master the earths ways of wastelessness and the waters way of weightlessness. with them went our greatest rituals. we were church people outside the Church. we used to meet in the clearing, the swamp-like, land-water with our New Afrikan water-ways

i want to step in their pluff mud prints, sink and sink until i find lost ingredients: sweetgrass, bullrush, pine, palmetto is it not ours? the river roads have our prints, as many of us drowned here, the rivers that rides em are bodyfilled-bountiful kin but i hear my mama now

the boy playin in that flood watta again churn be missing what they never held themselves we smell the brackish on our daddy’s breath, the salt in the wake of his step, we be ready to pull jumping fish scales from our skin, to be robed in light, dirt, and the attention of our knowing fathers. our mother’s

they speak of running the yard barefoot, sugar cane in mouth, honey suckle in sight, watermelon on deck, hands stained with granny’s berries, the water calling them by nickname now all we get is get out that floodwater, that’s why dem boy call you ringworm, now and don’t drink that tap, they can’t answer our pleading how comes, maybe it’s the same way we can smell the sky about to open, and can’t help but plot our play,

our brown-water baptism reminds us of how they shipped nana n ‘nem from marsh field to factory, how we are stream softened and river roughed people who better reintroduce themselves to the tides that will swallow us first

PHOTO | FLOOD BY BRITTNEY WASHINGTON

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