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From the Editor CONTRIBUTING WRITERS Amy Pittsenbarger Elaine Samples Lilli Serral Lori Samples Duncan Rachel-Elise Weems Rebecca Vigne
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2 Summer is here!
Events
3 What’s Happening?
Let’s Talk
4 A Flowertown Legend Grows & Gives Back 7 The Art of Learning 8 Dinosaurs: Land of Fire and Ice™ Roars Into Edventure Children’s Museum
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14 A Few Words From Margarita
Murphy 16 Start The Summer with New Evening Fitness Classes 18 Back 2 Health Physical Medicine
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24 Meet Realtor Loren Bethea
26 The Big Rooster- Meet Richard
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44 The Gift of Children
12 One Wild & Precious Life
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elcome to Charleston Woman Magazine! We are so glad you decided to take a copy home with you today. We hope you are having a wonderful spring. Charleston has often been called one of the most beautiful cities in the State of South Carolina. This time of year bears witness to that fact. This issue was especially fun because of our Flowertown Women. What an impressive group of women. So many talents and wonderful ideas are on the cover of this one issue of CWM. Look for stories about them in the upcoming months. From Loren Bethea to Dr. Chellis each of these women own or manage businesses that have a made a commitment to you the Charleston Woman to provide quality products and services. We hope you enjoy reading about them as much as we enjoyed writing about them. As always CWM Celebrates the Survivor in you! This issue we featured Anona Tolar a local resident who has fought and wont the battle of cancer. She also made an interesting career change late in her life! You may even recognize her from a little stint in Hollywood. See if you can guess where you recognize her from? Google her name and you will be tickled to know she is your neighbor! We are excited to celebrate her with you in this issue. As always we want you to tell our advertisers where you saw them. It is because of their support of women in our community that we are able to make this publication available to you at no charge. I look foward to seeing you in the Summer! Your friend, “My meaning simply is, that whatever I have tried to do in life, I have tried with all my heart to do well; that whatever I have devoted myself to, I have devoted myself to completely; that in great aims and in small, I have always been thoroughly in earnest.� -Charles Dickens, David Copperfield
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Events
What’s HAPPENING? Freshfields Village Outdoor Movie Series Starting May 28, 2014 Starlight Cinema
Grab a beach chair or blanket, pack a picnic and head the Village Green at Freshfields Village for Starlight Cinema, a free outdoor movies series. Beginning May 28, Starlight Cinema will take place every Wednesday at 8:30 p.m. until August 27.
Firefly Friday: Charleston Harbor Dolphin Sunset Sail
Set Sail for a dolphin sunset sail with the Palmetto Breeze with proceeds benefiting the Susan G. Komen fight against breast cancer. For more information please see www.charlestoncvb.com
Fourth of July Picnic on the Harbor July 4th, 2014 South Carolina Aquarium
Enjoy one of the best views of the fireworks over Charleston Harbor with the Fourth of July Picnic at the South Carolina Aquarium.
Charleston Middleton Place Plantation Tuesday, July 1 - Thursday, July 31
Middleton Place, located just 14 miles northwest of Charleston, South Carolina, is a National Historic Landmark and a carefully preserved 18th-century plantation that has survived everything from the Civil War to natural disasters.
Charleston’s Ghosts & Graveyards Tuesday, July 1- Thursday, July 31 Walking Tour Charleston’s ghostly secrets are waiting to be shared with you on the chilling Charleston’s Ghosts & Graveyards Walking Tour.
TODDLER,DAY-SURF,SAND, AND SUN June 25, 2014 360 Meeting Street Charleston, South Carolina 29403
t’s time for the beach! Create sand art and decorate a sand bucket. These classes are designed for toddlers (18 months - 3 years) and a parent, grandparent, or friend
to play and explore in The Charleston Museum. Each program includes four craft projects as well as finger paints, a puppet stage, a sandbox, and more. All classes are on Wednesdays from 10 - 11 am. $6/Museum members, $9/Nonmembers. Price includes Museum admittance and program for one child and one adult. See the website to make reservations online.
PATRIOTS POINT 4TH OF JULY BLAST 40 Patriots Point Road North Charleston, South Carolina
Enjoy a professional fireworks display and shore side party with a beach music band. Tickets on the flight deck will be sold in a limited quantity. For $20 per person ($10 for children 11 and under), guests on the Flight Deck will enjoy special access to the USS Yorktown starting at 6 p.m., with catered food and beverage available for purchase, as well as live musical performances and activities for kids throughout the evening. Once the sun sets in the Charleston Harbor, the Flight Deck of the Yorktown will offer a front row seat to the fireworks display, which will feature firework shells shot from a barge in the Cooper River. Lawn chairs are encouraged for guests on the Flight Deck; but no coolers or personal food will be permitted.
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A Flowertown Legend
Grows & Gives Back
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raveling to Legend Oaks down historic highway 61, from Summerville or Charleston, is the prelude to an entrance of the neighborhood and golf course through an avenue of 300 year old live oak trees. Brian McCallen, editor of The Golf Magazine compared this drive to the famed road Magnolia Drive, which leads to the icon of golf, Augusta National, home of the Masters.
While Legend Oaks is a rather large community with over 1300 homesites, its charm is the closeness and charitable nature of the community. With a diversity in the community from boomers to millennials, both locally and from outside the area, they have found Legend Oaks to be a community to be proud of. The unique landscape of the Lowcountry is seen in the beauty
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of the azaleas, various wetlands species and magnificent live oak trees. Then there is the exceptional wild life, including bald eagles, herons, egret, wild turkeys, red hawks, turtles and of course alligators. From the award winning golf and tennis programs at the club to family oriented dining and social programs, Legend Oaks Golf & Tennis Club has something for everyone. The facilities include an 18 hole championship golf
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course, four lighted hard surface tennis courts and a pool complex with a junior Olympic pool and smaller children’s pool. Unlike many semi-private clubs, membership at the club has grown 50% over the past 7 years. The club also boasts new Diamond greens installed in early 2014 and GPS tablets on each golf cart so distance and hazards can be managed more easily by the golfer. The clubs family orientation is delivered in part with its Little Legends golf program, and summer swim team,
Let’s Talk Easter egg hunt and sports camp programs. Education is vitally important to the world and is very important to residents of the Legend Oaks community. There are education options for the children, as the community is part of the highly acclaimed Dorchester 2 public school district and it is located only 15 minutes from the Pinewood Preparatory K3-grade 12 private school. Another very important part of the club and community is the Legend Oaks Give Back (LOGB) charitable giving program. LOGB is a year long program that includes a 5k race, golf & tennis tournaments, a silent auction dinner,
We could not do this without the support of the entire community.
back to school drive and holiday toy drive that occur at various times throughout the year. At the beginning of the year, members of the club nominate their favorite charity to be included. The community volunteers communicate and coordinate with businesses for sponsorships and gifts for the events. “We could not do this without the support of the entire community”, says Janette Chipas, Co-Chairman of LOGB. Some of the charities that have benefited include Meals on Wheels of Summerville, Palmetto House, The Ark, MUSC Children’s Hospital, Dorchester Children’s Center and Hollings Cancer Center. LOGB has raised al-
most $200,000 in just 5 years. “I am so proud to be a part of a community that supports their neighbors in need” said Jim Chickarello, Managing Partner of Legend Oaks Golf and Tennis Club and Co-Chairman of LOGB.
Corner which, is adjacent to Legend Oaks, is an area to see early development of the overall master plan with two new schools in 2015 and over the next several decades several thousand new families will be coming to the area.
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Educational Programs at the CMA by Amy Pittsenbarger
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ime flies when you’re having fun, and Karen Brosius knows this better than most. When I sat down to speak with her in her office at the Columbia Museum of Art, she smiled and said, “I can’t believe it’s been 10 years!”
Karen first started her career thinking she would be a college professor or museum curator. She earned her master’s in music history, and was accepted to a Ph.D. program at Columbia University, but she decided to take some time off to pursue a career. Karen was first offered a position with the Pierpont Morgan Library and Museum in New York as an administrative assistant, a museum that has perhaps the best music manuscript collection in the nation, with an eye on being a curator there. After a short time, she was hired away from the museum to work for Philip Morris, a corporation who internationally supported the arts, where she stayed in various positions for about 20 years, having discovered her passion for museum management. In 2004, she and her husband, a native South Carolinian, decided to move to SC so she could begin her new job as the executive director of the CMA and create a positive change for the museum. “The reason we have these objects is to engage and to educate. Sometimes, people have the incorrect perception you have to know a lot about art to come to a museum. It’s time to break down barriers and perceptions of what a museum should do,” Karen says. “I really like the outreach that museums do in the community for people of all ages, and along with that comes the idea of sponsorship and fundraising,” she explains. At the beginning of her stay, she explained that she also spent a fair amount of time determining what it was that identified the CMA and how it could be a unique experience for visitors. “It’s a museum that reaches out to
every corner of the state. We’re the only museum that has a general art collection in the state,” Karen says, meaning their art collection stretches from antiquity to present day. “I like to think of us as providing a wonderful experience looking at art from everywhere and all times,” she goes on. The true challenge of her job, she says is handling the ups and downs of a museum endowment. A museum relies on a variety of funding sources, which is ideally balanced between endowments, government funding, and other, private support and sponsorships from individuals, foundations, and corporations. Unfortunately, a struggle with the CMA is their relatively small endowment. Karen has worked tirelessly over the past 10 years of her directorship to grow the overall funding base and now is focusing on increasing the endowment, to help strengthen the museum’s programs, outreach, and accomplishments. The beauty of an endowment,
she told me, is that money from an endowment is preserved forever in the collections and upkeep of a museum. “Your money,” Karen says, “is working for your beloved institution.” All summer long, the museum has several exhibits, all based around the theme of “animals in art”. They have partnered this year with the Riverbanks Zoo and there are plenty of activities available for children. In the spring of 2015, the museum will also host an American impressionist exhibit, featuring the lavish paintings of Charles Courtney Curran. This unique and special museum brings joy to people, the joy that comes only from being with art, Karen explained to me. “You can just see people’s faces light up,” Karen says. For additional information on the incredible impact Karen and the entire staff has on Columbia’s art scene, visit http://www.columbiamuseum.org/. Or visit the museum on Sundays-they have free admission!
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Exhibit Utilizes New Research to Create Distinct Dinosaur Environments
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OLUMBIA, SC– April 25, 2014– EdVenture Children’s Museum is pleased to announce Dinosaurs: Land of Fire and IceTM, opening June 7 through September 14. Crossing the threshold of this exciting exhibit means traveling back in time to explore to the Cretaceous Period (145 – 65 million years ago), the time when dinosaurs last lived on earth. As visitors move through the exhibit, they encounter unfamiliar landscapes, touchable dinosaurs of all shapes and sizes and opportunities to investigate clues about what these mysterious creatures left behind.
In the steamy "Land of Fire," visitors experience the sizzling prehistoric home of the Triceratops and T-Rex. Children don insect costumes to buzz through a volcano with oozing lava or a swampy bog, and identify an ecosystem of animals and plants. A frozen trip across the "Land of Ice" introduces visitors to a Troodon and Edmontosaurus, two dinosaurs who made their homes in cold climates. Activities include climbing rocky steps, breezing down an icy slide and hopping across stepping stones over an icy river. In the Field Research Station, children step into the role of paleontologist, uncovering fossils and creating drawings of the dinosaur environment. The exhibit also features a station to create a prehis8
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toric ecosystem, a dino play table and more. Dinosaurs: Land of Fire and IceTM is presented by Aflac. Dinosaurs: Land of Fire and IceTM was created by Minnesota Children’s Museum.
The mission of EdVenture is to inspire children to experience the joy of learning. EdVenture is dedicated to lifelong learning through its 92,000 square feet of indoor and outdoor interactive exhibit space and in its educational outreach programs and after school programs. The museum has welcomed visitors from all 50 states and 18 foreign countries, creating shared experiences and memories for families learning together. For more information about EdVenture, visit www. edventure.org or call (803) 779-3100.
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f you’re a young parent, one of the greatest challenges you will likely face in building a brighter future for your children is to find a way to help them afford higher education. One of the best solutions of course, is to have a pool of money saved to help pay at least some college expenses. If you value post-secondary education for your children, this should be one of your top financial priorities, along with the need to save for your own retirement.
The realities of higher education costs In general, the cost of college continues to rise faster than inflation. According to the National Center for Education Statistics (NCES), in the decade ending with the 2010-2011 school year (the last year data was provided for by the NCES), tuition, room and board at a four year public university rose 46 percent. During that same period, the broad inflation rate, based on the Consumer Price Index, rose just 27 percent. Applying this to actual costs, the average cost for four years at an in-state public university for 2010-2011 was more than $62,000. If inflation trends continue, four years at a public university could cost more than $130,000 for a child born today. Combine those startling figures with the fact that the most widely available form of financial aid to students today is in the form of loans. Grant and scholarship aid may be limited, and more readily available to students with a demonstrated financial need. Start early and stick with it The best strategy to build a college fund is to start it as early as possible with a regular savings program. Some parents choose to set aside a portion of their income each month for just that purpose as soon as a child is born, or even earlier. This gives them the ultimate advantage of the time value of money.For example, saving $300 per month in a college savings plan for a child beginning at birth and earning an average annual return of 7 percent (no fees or taxes are assumed) will build an education
fund valued at nearly $130,000 by the child's 18th birthday. In essence, the parents had to save just half of that amount, about $65,000, to accumulate what was needed to cover the potential future cost of four years of college. The high cost of waiting If your child is now five years of age or older, you've lost some valuable time but still have an opportunity to save a significant sum in a similar fashion. But to accumulate close to $130,000 for college by the time the child turns 18 (under the same circumstances outlined above) will require savings of $510 per month.Wait until your child is ten years old to begin saving, and you must set aside $670 per month to achieve a similar result. As these examples show, the burden of saving becomes much more severe if you put off starting an education funding strategy.
Depending on your circumstances, it’s not always reasonable to be able to save regularly over the course of your child’s pre-adult lifetime. If your child is a teenager and you’re just beginning to save, here are a few suggestions:
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ummerville’s Anona Tolar shares her journey as she answers the question posed by Mary Oliver’s poem “The Summer Day.”
What is it you plan to do with your one wild and precious life? Over the course of a lifetime, childhood dreams are often forgotten, pushed back or overshadowed. It is a rare occurrence to have the opportunity to achieve them later in life, but Anona Tolar is a living testimony that no matter your place in the walk of life, there is still time to make your dreams come true.
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Tolar grew up knowing that she wanted to be an actress. She participated in performances as a child and went to arts camp for five summers. In her junior year of high school she studied at the Interlochen
Arts Academy concentrating on perfecting drama, dance and voice talents. However, the thought of moving to big cities like Los Angeles or New York was daunting, so Tolar decided to fulfill her other
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lifelong dream of being a wife and mother. “There is no greater joy than my children,” she says. Being a stay-at-home mom was Tolar’s calling until about three years ago, at
the age of 50, when she realized she could still reach for her dreams of becoming an actress. It all fell into place when a friend started a new talent agency in Mt. Pleasant, Tout Talent. Tolar participated in some Sum-
Celebrating the merville theater productions with the Flowertown Players, and after a few local commercials and a part in an Indie film, Tolar recieved the call for an audition for the movie Ride Along starring comedian Kevin Hart. The audition was a dream come true, so Tolar took a chance and travelled to Atlanta to try out for the role.
in Atlanta for the role of a lifetime. A trailer on set with her name on it made the dream a reality, and working with someone as talented Kevin Hart was the icing on the cake.
and right in the middle of all that Kevin Hart and Ice Cube sit next to me at the make up trailer,” she laughs, “I was thinking to myself ‘This is going to be funny someday.’”
Being on set with a Hollywood comedian may sound glamorous, but in the role as “Bearded Biker Wife,” Tolar felt anything but.
“I just felt like I had the part,” she says, “And I never feel that way.”
“I had my hair slicked back in a bandana, no make up on. She [the make up artist] was putting whiskers on my face, I had cotton balls stuck in my upper lip to brown out my teeth
If Tolar’s story of achievement wasn’t inspiring enough, she shares that she is an 18-year breast cancer survivor. While her acting career came long after her battle with cancer, she believes that defeating the disease gave her to courage to take advantage of her time and go for her dreams.
A lot of leather and some fake facial hair later, she got the part and began filming
“Once you first start to
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recover you are so grateful for every breath, for every day,” she explains.
Tolar hopes that her journey encourages more women who have put their dreams on hold for family, heath or anything else to achieve greatness in whatever they want to do. She believes that “God puts dreams in our hearts and writes a destiny over our lives,” “When I act, even in auditions, I feel like its my destiny. It’s what I was made for,” she says.
Once you first start to recover you are so greatful for every breath, for every day.
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A Few Words
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ince 2010, Julia, a retired nurse had experienced an unusual urge to use the bathroom at the most inappropriate times; it did not matter what she ate. This made even short trips impossible. Her life revolved around the bathroom visits, she had tried multiple forms of treatment without success. If she left the house, which was rare, it meant taking an extra set of clothes and wearing pads. "I declined social invitations because I didn't know when I would have an accident." One day her friends invited her for a long weekend in Myrtle Beach. The fear of having accidental bowel leakage in front of her friends was such that she decided not to go. "I was too scared of being embarrassed and I didn't feel like telling my friends about my problem. I asked myself, would I ever be able to do the things that I enjoyed so much again?" It was then that she decided she needed help. She consulted with her primary care doctor who referred her to see Dr. Margarita Murphy, a colon and rectal surgeon in Mount Pleasant. Robert had worked hard all his life to reach his retirement. Howev-
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er, when that time finally came, he started having bowel leakage which he could not control. Initially the events were scarce. Eventually, they became so frequent and large that he had to hire two caretakers to help him keep his house clean. Instead of enjoying his retirement he was now almost completely homebound. His worst experience came when his son convinced him to go to a family reunion. His son picked him up in his car and shortly after Robert felt the bowel movement starting. They could not find a bathroom fast enough. Completely embarrassed, he asked his son to turn around and take him home. The whole way he was mortified, sitting in the mess. "It was very upsetting" he said. "You feel very helpless." His son did some research and found Dr. Murphy. You Are Not Alone It is now estimated that one in every five women in the United States suffers from some level of fecal incontinence. Accidental bowel leakage or fecal incontinence, is a devastating problem that affects women more frequently than men. It affects self-esteem, close relationships, employment and family life. The social consequences are immense, to the point that patients with fecal incontinence restrict their lives in an
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attempt to cope with it. In an era when people talk about just about anything, fecal incontinence is one of the few medical conditions that is so embarrassing and disturbing, that people do not even tell their doctors about it. Yet, because you do not hear about it, this does not mean that it does not happen often. "This is a debilitating condition in otherwise healthy individuals that drastically affects their quality of life" says Dr. Murphy. "People often become housebound or live as hermits because of the stigma." Ending the Embarrassment After a brief series of tests and evaluations Dr. Murphy recommended a sacral nerve stimulator for both Julia and Robert. "It was so easy to talk to Dr. Murphy. She made me feel comfortable from the moment I met her," explains Julia. "Even though, I couldn't imagine or grasp how this implant would work, I immediately trusted Dr. Murphy and decided to move forward." The Sacral Nerve Stimulator is not much different from a heart pacer, this tiny device is inserted under the skin in the upper buttocks region. It sends mild electrical pulses stimulating the sacral nerves that control the bowel,
rectum and bladder. It helps patients regain control of bowel and bladder functions. After a successful two-week trial, Julia and Robert received a permanent implant. Despite her "guarded optimism," Julia started seeing the results immediately. Now, over a year after her procedure, she is enjoying her life and is free of accidents. "I finally get to go anywhere I want to, I couldn't be happier!" Robert is able to spend lots of time with his grandchildren at last. "This is what retirement should be like and I could have never experienced it without the help of Dr. Murphy." Dr. Murphy is rated number two in the United States, making her one of the most experienced doctors for this amazing technique. "It has completely changed my practice. The last year and a half has been the most satisfying in my career. I have been able to change people’s lives in such a radical way with this quick, minimally invasive procedure." Dr. Murphy, spends her time in her office in Mount Pleasant seeing patients and teaching the theory and technique of sacral nerve stimulation for Fecal Incontinence to doctors all over the United States, Central, and South America.
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fitness classes Health To You (H2U) is expanding its popular exercise classes with an assortment of evening options at Summerville Medical Center and Trident Medical Center that can help you live up to your New Year’s resolutions. The following selections are now being offered in the evenings: • Zumba – Dance fitness classes set to high-energy Latin and international beats. • WERQ – A fiercely fun dance class based on pop, rock and hip-hop music. • Pilates – An innovative, safe system of mind-body exercise that improves strength, flexibility and agility and also teaches body awareness, good posture and graceful movement. Trident Health’s H2U members can take an unlimited number of evening classes for $15 a month. Otherwise, anyone in the community can drop in and pay $5 a class.“An important part of succeeding and sticking with a program is finding one that works for your lifestyle,” says Catherine Grych, director of H2U at Trident Health. “We hope to meet the needs of our community by adding the evening offerings.” The evening schedule is geared to participants who have daytime jobs and the setup will be easy for professionals who work at or near the hospitals. “They like the convenience of walking to 16
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class right from work.” The new classes are in addition to an already existing selection of H2U daytime options at the Faith Sellers Community Center in Summerville (Tai Chi, low-impact aerobics, weight training, gentle yoga and line dancing) as well as water aerobics at the Summerville YMCA. H2U members can continue to take an unlimited number of daytime classes for $10 a month or take a mixture of daytime and evening classes for $15 a month. H2U members can sign up for the special exercise class rates on a month to month basis, making it flexible for people who need to take a break for traveling or other reasons. “H2U also keeps important paperwork on file for our members, such as physician clearance and emergency contact information, so we can keep our exercisers safe,” says Grych. In addition to high-quality exercise classes at reasonable rates, H2U also provides access to health screenings, social activities, discounts and informative publications. One membership costs $20 a year or $35 for two years. A couple or household can join collectively for $35 a year when signing up together.
For more information on H2U and the evening exercise program, please call the Trident H2U office at 843-847-5068.
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would like to introduce myself by telling you about my personal experience. Give me 2 minutes! In the last 15 years I have relocated, even if it is just a few miles, more than a handful of times. At the same time I have had new responsibilities. Working out has always been a stress reliever for me, but with less time to devote to the things I loved my energy dropped. Last year, I a realized that my workload escalated together with my stress levels and that I was personally feeling the effects of stress on my health. So I took my own STRESS TEST AND FAILED. My pH was slightly acidic, and my blood pressure didn’t rise when I stood up. This is a test for adrenal gland exhaustion. This gland is called the stress gland and secretes 50 hormones that can play a roll in PMS and menopause, influence your energy, sleep, digestion, and weight. That was enough for me. I immediately
placed myself in my own clinic’s schedule so I would “fit in” the time to take care of my health and my body. I did the ALCAT test since common everyday problems like pain in the neck, shoulders, low back, headaches, aching joint, eczema, sleep troubles, fatigue, hormone problems, obesity, moodiness, digestive disorders have been linked to food sensitivity and chronic activation of the immune system. I also bought all the necessary tools to work out at home; I started taking more care of my diet and put myself on one of
our holistic prescription, “Stress and Adrenal Support”. In a week I noticed that my strategy was working, I had more energy and I was sleeping better. If YOU are suffering from any of these symptoms, let me know! And for those of you who think you are doing just fine and stress is not a factor, you still need to be checked to see if your body is been hurt by stress or external influences. When will you discover that stress has taken its toll? At your first heart attack, when your cholesterol just won’t go down, when you are taking 6-8 medications a day, when you have diabetes? Don’t kid your self, I didn’t. It takes courage to face the fact you might need to make some changes to regain your energy, youth and vitality. Call Back2Health Physical Medicine Clinic for a free consultation to see if we can help you. We are an integrated physical medicine clinic with a team of doctors. I will make sure that we spend whatever time is necessary to find out how we can help. The worst thing that could happen is that you keep on putting it off and you will never find out what we could have done for you. We have saved a limited number of appointment slots for the cities in the area so call as soon as possible to find out if we have availability.
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Carolina One Real Estate Loren Bethea is a Certified Foreclosure Specialist (CFS) and as an Accredited Buyer’s Representative (ABR), Loren is able to offer a higher level of professionalism to her buyers and sellers.� Recognized as a Realtor of Distinction for many years now, Loren is committed to helping every family and every budget exactly what they are looking for. LowCountry Women's Specialists We are specialists in Women's Healthcare dedicated to bringing women of the LowCountry the best quality Comprehensive HealthCare. Our practice has been a part of the LowCountry for more than 20 years and has 2 locations (Summerville & North Charleston) to serve you. We are 7 American College, Board Certified OB/GYN, ARDMS registered Ultrasonographers and a Certified Clincal Counselor. Charleston Spine Center Dr. Carolyn Hunter began her graduate studies at Life University in Atlanta, GA graduating magna cum laude as a doctor of Chiropractic in 2000. She relocated to SC with her family in 2005 and has been practicing in the Charleston area ever since. Dr. Hunter maintains a special interest in helping people with chronic conditions such as fibromyalgia, headaches and various neuralgias as well as low back pain and neck pain and those injured in auto or workplace through natural, painless and non-invasive techniques. Chellis Chiropractic Dr. Tara Chellis was born and rasied in Conway, SC. She attended the Universi-
ty of South Carolina where she earned a Bachelor of Arts in Psychology. Dr. Chellis earned her Doctorate in Chiropractic from Life University in Marietta, GA. Chiropractic techniques include: Activator, Cox Flexion/Distraction, Diversified, Thompson Drop, Extremity Adjusting and Webster's Intrauterine Constraint Technique. Knight & Whittington Kelly Knight's primary areas of practice include commercial and residential real estate transactions and corporate law. She also serves as Attorney for the Town of Ridgeville, South Carolina. Low Country Dentistry Dr. Beth Haffner earned her Bachelor of Science in Biochemistry while attending College of Charleston where she was a collegiate swimmer. She went on to earn her D.M.D. from the Medical College of Georgia in her hometown of Augusta. She has been practicing dentistry in Summerville since 1999. She is committed to maintaining excellence in her practice while putting her patients at ease. New Creations Salon Wanda Wood owns New Creations Salon, a full service family beauty salon established in 1983. With their creative talents and expertise, our friendly staff will provide you the look and feel of well-being that you deserve. Our team's enthusiam makes New Creations Salon in Summerville, the successful salon that it is today. Miler Properties Cordially invites you to explore the housing opportunities available to you in the greater Charleston area. We special-
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any people spend their entire lives searching for the right fit in a career and never find it. Not the case with Loren Bethea, who after a number of years in the automobile business with her husband John, decided she would get her real estate license in 2007 and began her career as a Realtor . In her very first year, with business beginning to slow from it’s red hot pace of the mid 2000s, Loren earned the honor of Rookie of the Year in her Keller Williams office. At the end of 2009, Loren’s husband John closed his used car operation and joined his wife as a partner in the real estate business. The decision was made to join Carolina One Real Estate at that point and the Bethea’s have never looked back. The early years took a lot of hard work”, Loren explained. “Not only were we in a recession, but I was just starting out in the business and it takes time to develop a client base.” Loren went on to explain that real estate is a very people oriented business, and gaining their trust required being at the “top of her game”. “One of my mentors told me,” Loren added, “Have a good team working with you. Have experienced professionals to call on when you need help.... good mortgage bankers, attorneys, inspectors, … ‘GO TO’ people. Getting to where she is now was no easy task, but Loren says she couldn’t be happier. Over the years, Loren has achieved a number of special designations in order to better serve her clients. As a Certified Foreclosure Specialist (CFS) and as an Accredited Buyer’s Representative (ABR), Loren is able to offer a higher level of professionalism to her buyers and sellers.” Recognized as a Realtor of Distinction for many years now, Loren commented, “ You have to keep learning all the time. The more I learn, the better job I can do for the folks that trust me with one of the most important decisions of their lives. “ She added,” You can’t have any complaints filed and still qualify
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for the exclusive and prestigious group that is The Realtor ' s of Distinction.” Recently, Loren received her accreditation as a Certified Negotiation Expert (CNE), a level of training and expertise that is held by only 1000 agents nationwide. Only through an intensive course of study at the National Real Estate Negotiation Institute can this designation be achieved. When asked about the future, Loren smiled, “I’m having a great time in this business partnered with my husband, but we are always looking at ways to get better. So this year, I think I may get my Broker’s license. Who knows where that might lead?”
My mission is to deliver more value to my clients than they expect and to provide uncompromising service based on truth, fairness, professionalism, and enthusiasm.
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As a firm believer in The Golden Rule, Loren says she lets it be her guide. “If I were buying or selling a home, I ask myself ‘How would I like to be treated by my agent?’. In closing, Loren remarked how special her office at Carolina One on Main Street in Summerville is. ‘”All of the realtors in our office are professionals. All of them are committed to helping one another”, she explained. I work with some awesome people who have tons of experience helping clients with their real estate needs.” “One day I think I will write a book,” Loren laughed. “ I’ve seen and done some crazy things so far, including walking into the wrong house or walking into a house and having a half naked man step out of the shower. I’ve even heard a ghost while on a home tour and chased a chicken that got inside my open house! It’s all part of the business we love!” For more information on how Loren can assist you in finding a new home, selling an existing home, or just a question about real estate, call her at 843.696.1156, or contact her atLbethea@carolinaone.com, or visit her website at LorenBethea.com.
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The Big Rooster Meet Richard “Dickie” Miler
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ach morning of the work week, Dickie Miler walks into his Summerville office of talented real estate professionals, begins with an office prayer, and looks forward to a day of success and freshly baked cookies. That’s right, every day at Miler Properties you’ll find not only savory sweets, but also a highly dedicated, all female staff. Miler and his wife, Debbie own the family-run full service real estate company, Miler Properties. Since 1993, the pair, and various family members at different times, have operated a real estate and residential sales, rentals, and real estate investments business in the town that they have always called home. A Summerville native, Miler has had extensive experience in the real estate business since he started out as a mortgage broker some 30 years ago after finishing his studies at The Citadel. Little did he know that three decades later he would find himself the only man in an office of 14 women. Miler is no stranger to an all-female environment. With four daughters, an office filled with women holds a very familiar feeling. “My whole world is around women between my daughters and work. They call me the big rooster,” he laughs. According to Miler, raising his daughters has been a huge help in the success of his fiscal endeavors. He has grown to love working with only women and embraces the atmosphere of his chatty and talkative workplace. He jokes, “I have learned to walk on eggshells in a very polite and professional way.” All kidding aside, Miler truly appreciates the rewards of his unique situation. “I really do love working with them,” he says, “Women all have a wonderful sense of what’s right and wrong.” He compares his staff to an extended family with many sisters, which fits in well with his company’s goals and philosophy. Fifteen years ago, Miler was compelled to 26
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dedicate his business to the Lord. The group’s dealings are conducted in a Christ-like manner, encouraging integrity, honesty and fair play in every aspect of the business. Employees are considered family, and customers are friends.
We want to bless our friends as opposed to selling to customers,” he explains. His philosophy in dealing with customers, or friends, is to “find great people to work with and then grow together. The office is a fun, open, relaxing and gracious environment. A morning prayer is followed by a day filled with music ranging from a Christian blend to the best of the 60s. And of course there are always fresh cookies. The heavenly aroma hangs in the air all day, a warm and inviting welcome that one could only assume adds to a positive and relaxing day at work. Miler and his wife are active and respected citizens and business owners in the town of Summerville. Debbie has been named one of the top ten women to watch in the industry and they are heavily involved in organizations where they donate their money and time to help those in need. “We’ve always felt so blessed to be a part of the community we love,” says Miler. “We see every day as an opportunity to serve people.”
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once heard someone say that all parenting is –is the process of letting go. From the first moment the umbilical cord is cut we are teaching them how to leave us. Excited about the first time they can walk away from us, eat without our assistance, dress themselves, bathe themselves, and all the other milestones that we put on Facebook as they occur. As parents, we walk the fine line of letting go too soon or hanging on too long. It seems at this time of year, I always find myself lamenting over the milestones that each of my four children have checked off the invisible list. This year is kind of a big one. On May 31st at 4:00 pm or shortly thereafter, our oldest son will officially graduate from White Knoll High School. Trey has worked very hard to be a part of all that WKHS has to offer, from DECA to FCA, from All State Chorus to Football. My son has won many awards and been afforded some pretty amazing opportunities in leadership through sports, academics and with Palmetto Boys State. He has also made some pretty amazing friends. I am very humbled by all he has accomplished like many of your children; he has enjoyed his four years of high school and is ready for the next step. This is a tough season for me as a mother. I covet your prayers, and I will be praying for all of us who have seniors that will be leaving us for college next year. Colton is also “graduating” Only he is graduating from 5th grade to 6th. He enjoyed a trip to Charleston with the South Carolina State Honors choir for elementary students and he has had a fantastic baseball season with Lexington Dixie Youth playing on the very accomplished Absolute Glass Team this season for the Ozone division. Soon they and Cofield Law will be competing in the playoffs for the coveted # 1 spot. My little C man will officially be finished with elementary school in a few weeks. He amazes me as he continues to be our little encourager. Nothing new frightens him where school is concerned. He is definitely a glass half full guy. I am blessed that God chose me to help parent Colton. Abby is finishing up an exciting sophomore year. She has been bitten by the drama bug. She loves the class and is planning to attend Show Chior Camp in the summer. Music just oozes out of her pores. She is happiest when she is preforming, playing guitar, piano, or acting. She thinks she may want to be a drama teacher. If you have parented a middle school daughter, you know they are uniquely qual- ified to fill this position. Seriously, she is a joy to watch grow into a responsible young woman. I am proud to be her mom as well. Ryan is finishing up 1st grade. He has had the most wonderful teacher. So far, his school experience has been a very good one. Ryan is a little more serious than he used to be, and recently told me that he was worried that becoming a veterinarian might not be an option. “I can’t bear to operate on an animal, Mom. I think I just want to work at SeaWorld and swim with dolphins or whales.” Whatever makes him happy - as long as they build a SeaWorld in Lexington so he can be near his mama when he begins work. I am thankful for all four of my children. For every baseball game, chorus concert, soccer game, end of the year school play, award ceremony and every moment that I get to share another milestone with them. I am sowing seeds in their lives in hopes that one day I will sit somewhere close and watch their gardens continue to grow. Each day of our lives we make deposits in the memory banks of our children. ~ Charles (Chuck) Swindoll
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Summerville Medical Center provides dedicated pediatric care for children — newborn to age 17. Our beautiful new Pediatric Emergency Department and inpatient unit are now open! They were created just for young patients.
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Residents of Dorchester and Berkeley Counties, North Charleston and surrounding communities are now just minutes from emergency pediatric services. As a national leader in quality care, Summerville Medical Center is proud to make this healthy commitment to kids.
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