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INSIDE • Weekend of diverse local history planned for Feb. 18-20 14A • Teachers may apply now for summer institute 20A • Second Day of Giving honors memory of local teen 22A • Sun City resident served as ‘Donut Dollie’ in Vietnam 23A • On the Porch with Charlie Golson 26A

Explorers’ program offers character and leadership development

By Gwyneth J. Saunders CONTRIBUTOR

The Boys & Girls Club of Bluffton again has partnered with the Bluffton Police Department to offer the Explorers’ LEAD (Leadership, Excellence, Achievement, Determination) program.

The Explorer’s club provides an indepth look at law enforcement and military careers, and many former cadets have been successful in those fields.

“I know I can name at least 12 young people who went through the Navy, or are in the police force today, National Guard, Army, Marines,” said B&G Club Director Molly Hornbeak. “This program is a national award-winning program, and it has

definitely made an impact on these young people’s lives. It has saved their lives.”

For the past six years, the Berkeley Hall Charitable Foundation has supported the Explorers’ LEAD program. The Boys & Girls Club also received funding this year for Explorers’ LEAD from the Hargray Caring Coins Foundation.

Registration begins Feb. 16 and is open until Feb. 23 for young people ages 1218. Spring classes run through May 4 and take place at 5 p.m. in BPD headquarters at 101 Progressive St., off Buckwalter Parkway.

“We are excited to announce that the program will be held at the Bluffton Police

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Eniyah Scott takes a turn at the wheel of a boat during an Explorers Day on the Water.

State of Mind Reunion set for Oyster Factory Park Feb. 19 A Facebook group celebrating Bluffton history is getting ready to throw what promises to be an epic shindig.

A limited number of $7.50 tickets are still available for the inaugural Bluffton State of Mind Reunion to be held from 4 to 9 p.m. on Feb. 19 at Bluffton Oyster Factory Park, 63 Wharf St. The event is BYOB, but food and soft

drinks will be available for purchase via food trucks, and oysters will be available via order from Bluffton Seafood House.

A local Cub/Boy Scouts troop will have a table set up for purchase of bottled water and soft drinks.

Proceeds from ticket purchases will offset facility and event costs and any profits made will be donated to the

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Popular local band Lowcountry Boil will play and there will be a fire in the fire pit. The group hopes to have some speakers to talk about Bluffton history.

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SUNNY SIDE UP

Finding life’s little pleasures in nature’s little gifts

By Lynne Cope Hummell EDITOR

I recently saw a photo on social media, in a group that I follow, taken by a young woman who expressed her determination to not let her disability limit her or keep her from following her passion. “I will not let Ataxia stop me from capturing beautiful pictures like the ones (here),” Ashli wrote.

The photos she shared are lovely, as is the picture that her mom took of her on a Florida beach, kneeling in the sand at water’s edge beside her wheelchair to capture the image you see here.

The sunset photo struck me in both its simplicity and its complexity. The glass sphere uses light and its shape to alter what we see through it, completely differently from how our eyes see the same thing.

The simplest things we see in nature are beautiful as they are, and if we add a

different perspective, these little elements can be exaggerated, magnified and made even more beautiful.

Ashli’s experience reminded me of my younger son’s penchant for seeing often unnoticed brilliance in nature. For example, he recently posted a fast-motion video, with added music, of clouds that made them look like choreographed dancers performing in the sky.

His comment was “I wonder what the trees see?”

This son also loves sunsets. He has a collection of images of sunsets over water, over golf courses, over bridges, over fields – you get the idea. One might think a sunset is a sunset is a sunset, but that is not true, especially here in the Lowcountry with its open vistas of big sky over our beaches and rivers.

Both our sons are talented photographers. They both were born here and I believe the two of them have covered every square mile of Southern Beaufort

County and recorded most of their favorite spots with their photographs – often of cars or structures, but just as often they capture moments in nature that they love.

While the older son usually sees the bigger picture, the younger one has a knack for seeing the tiny ones. He likes the symmetry in the underside of a mushroom cap, or in the way leaves grow on a tree branch.

I find beauty in living things, especially flowers – not just their multitude of colors, but the symmetry of petals, the

intricacies of the stamen, and the shapes of their leaves. On a slow drive in less congested areas, I love to catch a glimpse of a deer and just watch what it does.

On the water, I’m always watching for dolphins at play, pelicans swooping in for dinner, and of course, mindful of sneaky alligators.

There is beauty in gentle breezes, soft rain, cute little bugs, seashells, river rocks, oyster beds, and the magic of moonlight casting shadows on things below.

Just as Ashli found a different perspective looking through a glass sphere, so too can we shift our perspective and take another, closer look at the bounty of nature around us. We don’t have to always take photos of what we see. We can just sit calmly and observe.

I have to believe that this sort of observatory behavior has to lead to lower blood pressure, less anxiety, a calmer disposition and a more positive attitude. We could all use a dose of that, couldn’t we?

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Congressional goals for the year ahead The legislature returned to Columbia on the second Tuesday in January with a Republican majority in the House, Senate and a Republican governor eager to champion many conservative causes before the close of the General Assembly’s two-year session in Weston Newton May. This year, I am not only dedicated to achieving the goals below, but I will continue to value and promote conservative, common sense planning and preparedness.

Five important items that my Republican colleagues and I set out as our Republican Caucus Agenda for 2022 include: (1) completing the once-a-decade redistricting process to accommodate for population shifts and ensure fair representation for everyone in our state; (2) wisely, prioritizing budgeting and spending the several billion Federal dollars being sent to South Carolina to give our state a much-needed infrastructure facelift with a focus on our roads, highways, water, sewer, and broadband connectivity; (3) cutting taxes for the hard working people of South Carolina; (4) passing legislation that creates uniformity and consistency in the way elections are run in this state

and ensures every legal vote is counted, making it easier to vote but harder to cheat; (5) giving parents more choice in how to best educate their children with the adoption of Education Savings Accounts with low-income families having more access to educational options.

The last week of January, Gov. Henry McMaster quickly signed legislation setting a new map for the state’s U.S. House seats. The plan makes minimal changes to the seven current congressional districts that have fairly served the state over the past decade and which were confirmed by the U.S. Justice Department and survived a number of lawsuits in federal court.

This plan keeps Beaufort County in the same congressional district with Charleston.

Over the past few weeks, the budget writers have been busy with subcommittee hearings for both the federal COVID money as well as the annual appropriations bill. During the governor’s State of the State Address, he introduced highlights from his proposed executive budget which he would like to see included in the state budget.

I share many of these sentiments and will work hard to promote a spending plan that includes the construction, expansion and improvement to our state-owned roads, bridges, highways and interstates, tax cuts on all income tax brackets, a “rainy day” relief fund and reserves for future economic uncertainties, pay raises for teachers, and fully funding

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By Weston Newton CONTRIBUTOR

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Black Excellence Awards • Officer Charles Mitchell Jr. is a member of the City of Hardeeville Police Department, and a retired Bluffton police officer – not his father – present-

On the Porch With …

• Sharon Brown’s brother, Tyrone, was in his 20s when he drowned picking oysters as one of the Oyster Factory’s “family.” Tyrone’s Porch at the seafood company is named after him.

law enforcement, public safety and other first responders.

During his address, the governor also took time to discuss election integrity and the legislation to standardize and ensure the uniform and legal conduct of elections in all 46 counties, as well as the importance of parental choice and Education Savings Accounts. I believe we will take bold steps to move South Carolina forward in this session and look forward to being a part of it.

On the personal front, serving in elected office often means time away from family, which I have experienced over the years. However, with two of my children at the University of South Carolina, I am sometimes able to grab a visit that otherwise might not be possible.

I was privileged to watch both of them participate in Carolina Day at the statehouse, a day of advocacy for students, parents, faculty and alumni promoting our flagship university.

Each of us has a civic responsibility to give back our time and talents. Rose and I have tried to instill this in our children. It was a gift for me to watch them be a part of the process.

It is an honor and privilege to serve you in the House of Representatives.

Please do not hesitate to contact me here or in Columbia.

Weston Newton is the representative for District 120 in the State House of Representatives. WestonNewton@ schouse.gov

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Baby, it’s been cold outside, but not as cold as some places With this feature, we seek to capture a glimpse of what you and your neighbors have to say about a variety of topics, issues, events –

Holly Bounds Jackson, Bluffton: “In Sweden, Christmas 2005, right after college. I brought rain boots, and soon learned they were not the right kind of boots.”

and just plain fun questions.

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Lucinda Martinez, Bluffton: “Cold enough in Michigan to get frostbite from being stranded in 5-foot snowdrifts.”

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Kitchen for lunch, we asked: “What is the coldest you’ve ever been?”

Martha M. Maddox, Sanford, N.C.: “I grew up in a farmhouse with no heat. It was so cold that we put chocolate milk in the windowsills in winter so we’d have milkshakes in the morning.”

Sylvia Fajgenbaum, Hilton Head Island: “At the Music City Bowl in Nashville when my son was playing football. It was snowing, sleeting and freezing in that outdoor stadium for three and a half hours.”

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Physical fitness, sometimes in the form of basketball, is part of the Explorers program.

Department. We felt it would be more of an impact if it was there,” said Pamela Castle, teen director for the club. “Even though we were in a pandemic, the BPD still found a way to work with our youth virtually. And we are super excited to get back to some sense of normality.”

The program focuses on developing leadership skills and learning the tools, tactics and techniques of law enforcement.

Among the topics covered in the classes are K-9 procedures; basic patrol procedures and techniques; crime prevention and community policing; fingerprinting and investigation procedures; special response team; learning about the training image simulator that helps officers practice responses to different scenarios; and vehicle collisions and searches.

Not every cadet will go into law enforcement or the military, but participants feel they have gained just by attending.

May River High School sophomore Joseph Russo, 15, was interested and then encouraged by his mother to sign up.

“I started it four years ago. … I loved it immediately,” Russo said. “I just found it new and interesting, so I kept going from there. My favorite part is – it’s all my favorite part, really. PT was the hard part, but I am better at it now.”

His family has a history of military service, but his goal is to take over his father’s cleaning and restoration company, as well

as continue creating and selling his own paintings.

“I do plan to go to college and major in business. But I would like to go to SCAD (Savannah College of Art and Design) as well,” he said.

Russo said the Explorers program has helped him learn leadership skills, which is welcome when he wants his voice to be heard. His advice for other students? “I would say try it for a year and if you like it, keep on going.”

A summer Explorers boot camp is scheduled to begin June 20, with graduation July 1. The camp is open to both current cadets as well as those who did not participate in a spring session.

Eniyah Scott, a junior who attends William Raines Senior High School in Jacksonville, Fla., last summer visited her father who works here. She wanted to try out the Boys & Girls Club, discovered the program and attended the boot camp.

That program consists of daily physical training, drill and ceremony practice, as well as class time led by service-oriented volunteers from the Bluffton Police Department and the military.

“I saw they had an Explorers program, and I wanted to try it out. And it was really fun,” Scott said. “It was a new experience for me: the whole working

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The Emily Geiger Chapter, National Society of Daughters of the American Revolution, recently honored Kelly Jardin of May River High School as the winner of the “Outstanding Teacher of American History” award, with a certificate, monetary award, and history books for her classroom. She was nominated for the honor by her principal, Todd Bornscheuer. Pictured from left are Susan Dobbs, Emily Geiger DAR Chapter Historian; Jardin; Bornscheuer; and Krista Taracuk, Emily Geiger Chapter Regent, DAR. Teacher nominations are judged based on their knowledge and sharing of American history with their students, for fostering a spirit of patriotism, and for being able to relate history to modern life and events while requiring excellence from their students.

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EXPLORERS from page 8A out, learning what it was like to become a police officer, and the discipline part. It taught me that your action affects everyone.”

Unlike Russo, Scott enjoyed the morning workout.

“I liked that a lot, although the hard part was getting up in the morning,” she said. She’s thinking about possibly joining her brother as he joins the Air Force, or perhaps becoming a veterinarian.

Cadets who complete the boot camp are invited to participate in special field trips such as a Boating Safety Course and Day on the Water facilitated by American Boating Club of Hilton Head, a Day of Aviation Careers presented by the Civil Air Patrol, and a kayak outing presented by Outside Hilton Head. Cadets also are eligible to earn volunteer hours toward an enhanced high school diploma.

Castle said program leadership works closely with the School Resource Officers to find promising candidates.

“They have a good eye being in the schools, and they can see those characteristics and leadership skills. The program really pushes career exploration, and character and leadership,” she said. “We look for those who embody those skills, and also to help others whose skills in those areas need strengthening.”

Officer David Ur is a retired New Jersey police officer and former Marine who is new to the Bluffton Police Department. He participated in last year’s program while his son took part in the summer boot camp. He will be the lead in this year’s Explorer’s course, and will be the SRO at May River High School. He said the course is challenging but the graduates he saw had benefitted from the experience.

“I think at the end it’s just a really good sense of accomplishment. It’s like when I graduated from the police academy or Marine Corps. It’s challenging,” he said.

“Everybody at times has to find within themselves the drive to complete the tasks at hand. We always make it fun so they get something out of it.”

Ur said the goal with the alliance between the police department and the Boys & Girls Club was giving the young people almost a pre-career training look at the military or law enforcement.

“This is what you have to go through whether you go to the military or the police academy. There’s still the same thing - uniform, marching, drilling. It really gives the kids a unique vision to see if that is a good career for them,” said Ur. “We get something out of it, too. It’s almost like a youth public safety ambassador that we can develop in the school system. It’s a win-win for the Bluffton Police Department, the Boys & Girls Club, and the community.”

Castle, who has been at the club for five years, has seen a marked change in several club members who joined the Explorers.

“I’ve seen people who didn’t want to be here or do anything turn around and become some of our top leaders,” she said. “I’ve really seen that transition in the summer programs, with boot camp being outside, the drilling, the early mornings, the heat. You also see them come together.

It’s really a family.”

Those interested in joining the program should contact Castle at 843-757-2845, pamela.castle@bgclowcountry.org or visit bgcbluffton.org/explorerslead.

Gwyneth J. Saunders is a veteran journalist and freelance writer living in Bluffton.

Meet our Contributors GWYNETH J. SAUNDERS, JOURNALIST Lowcountry resident for 13.5 years

Gwyneth was born in Pennsylvania, raised in South Jersey, now living in Bluffton. She retired from the U.S. Navy after 26 years as a Navy journalist. She earned her bachelor’s degree in journalism from Norfolk State University (“Go Spartans”). Married 19.5 years to Tony, an adorable Welshman. They have two sweet rescue cats, Tigger the tripod and Benji (neither are spoiled). She is a member of Sun City Veterans Association; chorus, Sundancers, softball, art, and computer clubs. A Philadelphia Eagles fan, Gwyneth love pasta, sushi and great burgers. Love my family, friends. I have the best job.

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Teens ages 13-17 and young ladies ages 18-26 are invited to enter the revived competition, to be held March 19.

The current Miss South Carolina, Julia Herrin of Bluffton, is assisting on the planning team for the event.

Directors are Josh Wall of Hilton Head Island High School and Chelsi Sweet of May River High School.

The Hilton Head and Miss Bluffton Scholarship Organization provides an opportunity for young ladies and teens to compete for cash scholarships, savings bonds and prizes, and to hone the skills of performance, public speaking, confidence, writing and poise, and offers an opportunity

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The summer institute will include field trips to historic sites, lectures by leading scholars, and development of lesson plans that examine closely three broad themes over the course of the institute: Prelude to Reconstruction; Reconstruction and its Aftermath; and Historical Memory and the “Second Reconstruction,” the modern Civil Rights Movement.

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It was the most unthinkable tragedy, the type of news that even lifelong Blufftonians say they have never had to endure.

On March 5, 2021, Bluffton native Dwon “DJ” Fields was shot and killed while driving his car on the Bluffton Parkway. The 17-year-old Bluffton High School senior was a beloved member of the community, a teddy bear heart in a linebacker’s body wearing No. 55 for the Bobcats football team.

So many of us were left wanting to do something – anything – to ease the family’s pain. With the blessing of his parents, Dwon Fields Sr. and Kema Bryant, a scholarship fund was created and a community-wide day of giving was held on May 5, just two months after DJ’s death.

More than 50 restaurants and businesses gave donations or a portion of their day’s sales. Those funds, combined with cash donations and matching donations, raised more than $52,000 to seed the Live Like DJ Scholarship Fund.

“It was just such an unbelievable outpouring of love. Nothing will replace the loss of our only child, but to have the community give back so much to honor DJ, it was just amazing,” Bryant said. “He was just such a people person, a listener, a giver. ... And we want to spread that spirit with this scholarship fund.”

The second annual DJ’s Day of Giving is set for Feb. 24 this year, the 55th day of the year. Once again, businesses are giving a portion of their day’s sales, headlined this year by Burnt Church Distillery, which will be donating a portion of sales from the

Night in Harlem fundraiser Feb. 24.

The family is working with the Community Foundation of the Lowcountry to manage the scholarship fund, which will give scholarship to students in Beaufort, Jasper and Hampton counties, with the aim to give lasting support to the kids who need a little extra financial support to both get to the college starting line and the finish line in earning their degree.

“DJ fought so hard to be an honor roll student,” Bryant said. Most scholarships available have a 3.0 GPA requirement to qualify, but this fund’s minimum GPA is set at 2.5 for a reason. “So many kids fight for those grades, start slow but finish high school strong or might be excelling but hit one or two snags that knock that GPA down. We know DJ would want to honor that fight and reward that work.”

There will be a silent auction and a raffle to win a two-night stay at Montage Palmetto Bluff (a $2,000 value). In addition, there are giving boxes placed throughout the community for donations, with boxes at Riverwalk Animal Hospital and Ruff Cuts in Okatie and Pulseology Fitness Club in Bluffton. The family is also selling special edition T-shirts for $15 to give folks another way to contribute.

“Every little bit helps. We want to give these scholarships for many generations to come, as long as the community is behind it,” Bryant said.

For a full list of participating businesses and details on how to give to the fund, visit djdayofgiving.com.

Tim Wood is a veteran journalist based in Bluffton. Contact him at timwood@blufftonsun. com.

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Film fest’s ‘Donut Dollies’ depicts Sun City resident’s experience

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Martha Spisso was one of the Donut Dollies in the 1960s, working with the Red Cross to provide a “touch of home” for soldiers in Vietnam. She now lives in Sun City Hilton Head.

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When Martha Spisso attended Mississippi State College for Women, she thought she was going to be a teacher when she graduated, but a job fair got her attention and put her career plans on temporary hold.

“There weren’t a lot of opportunities for women at the time. There were nurses, teachers, secretarial. And I was looking for some adventure,” said the Jackson, Miss., native.

The adventure she had is portrayed in “The Donut Dollies,” a documentary that will be shown at the Beaufort International Film Festival at 1:30 p.m. Feb. 26 at the USCB Center for the Arts.

The original Donut Dollies were American Red Cross women who provided a touch of home – often making and serving donuts – to servicemen overseas, when troops could not get to permanent clubs and recreation centers.

At the job fair, the Red Cross program was seeking young women to provide the same “touch of home” to troops serving in Vietnam. Servicemen could come to the Red Cross clubs and play cards, write

letters home, listen to music, and play trivia games. When the troops could not get into the larger camps, the women were flown in Army helicopters to various outposts when it was deemed safe.

As Spisso examined the job fair display for ARC’s Supplemental Recreation Activities Overseas (SRAO), she felt the influence of both her mother and her elementary school principal.

“My elementary school principal was Miss Gilliland, a World War II WAC (Women’s Army Corps). I can see her to this day. She was spunky and fiery, and full of life, yet she seemed like a very disciplined, structured person as well,” said Spisso. “And then there was my mother. She was a self-made lady and she was a nurse. She was a professional and independent woman, and she wanted her daughter to be that way.”

She signed up. The SRAO post, she said, gave her an opportunity to do something different, something with purpose.

Numerous interviews with Red Cross personnel were part of the preparations, including flying to the Atlanta offices.

“They wanted to make sure that I knew

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DOLLIES from page 23A where I was going, and what I was getting into. And that I had the support of my family. They really emphasized that. My dad was not that fond of my going, but my mother would have gone with me,” Spisso said. “It helps to be naïve and young, think nothing will happen you, and invincible. I just wasn’t afraid.”

After receiving a series of vaccinations, Spisso was sent to the Red Cross headquarters in Washington, D.C., where she joined other women in learning more about their responsibilities.

“They told us what to expect. ‘You’re in a fishbowl and people are watching you all the time,’” she said.

The standards for the women were high. They had to be college graduates, able to provide recommendation letters and meet physical requirements. That fit in with Spisso’s major of health, physical education and recreation.

Having passed everything, she and her colleagues flew to San Francisco, and then took a flight out of Travis Air Force Base.

After a short stop in Hawaii, the plane continued on to Saigon, where another

presentation was given to the 20 women in that group.

“We had to get accustomed to the culture, time, what to expect when we go out to the different areas. It was quite extensive training,” she said.

Spisso’s first assignment was in 1967 in Phan Rang, base camp of the 101st Airborne Division.

“We had a rec center in Phan Rang with the 101st because that was where they were processed coming into the country and leaving. They had time on their hands waiting, so they had time to play cards, play games, listen to music, write letters,” said Spisso. “It was the kind of things that kept their minds off the war, and it was a taste of home, knowing they weren’t going to be there forever, they hoped.”

Spisso’s first impressions when she arrived in Saigon were people riding their bicycles around, noisy, fast-paced, different, the language, and the standards were different from what she was used to in the States.

“Then I got out to the bases. I’d say it was a good thing I was a summer camp

counselor and camper. I knew what spare living was like,” she said. “We had a little Quonset hut. I was there with two other ladies, and we each had our own room.

We had a little Vietnamese lady who came and did our laundry. We had officer status on the compound. It was comfortable.

You learn what you can live without, that’s for sure. You’re down to the bare minimum.”

A typical day for the Donut Dollies began with getting up early to open the rec centers and get ready for the servicemen to come in. If the women were assigned to go somewhere as a mobile unit, they would be flown in Chinook and Huey helicopters, an effort coordinated between the field commanders and the Red Cross.

“It was pretty exciting ride to me. We’d go out to the forward areas. When they would come in from the combat areas, they would have a stand-down. That’s when they would get their mail, a nice hot meal and kind of have a little break from the battlefield. And that’s when they would schedule the Donut Dollies to come in and play those games,” said

Spisso. “We’d have Jeopardy games, and trivia games, sports and area trivia. It gave them a chance to think about something other than the war. Someone said, ‘It was as if the war was in black and white, but when the Dollies came it suddenly turned to color.’ We were in those powder blue outfits that stood out like a sore thumb.”

One time when the 101st was conducting parachute training, Spisso and her colleagues went up in the plane and saw the troops make their jumps.

“When we came back down, we served refreshments, and that’s when they gave us our symbolic wings,” she said. “That was a pretty good adventure, too, something I would never have done if I had stayed in Mississippi.”

After four months in Phan Rang, Spisso and the other two women were moved to Qui Nho’n where an Army supply depot was based.

“We were in mobile homes there, and lived right on the beach,” she said. “We had an office-type of area where we made

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DOLLIES from page 24A all our games, but then we traveled to other areas from Qui Nho’n.”

History happened while she was in Qui Nho’n.

“I was there during the Tet Offensive in 1968. We got up one morning and they said, ‘Oops, not going into the office today because they’re having some conflict coming in.’ We didn’t have any news, and we didn’t know how bad it was until we learned later,” Spisso said.

She recalled it being dusty, with bunkers and lots of sandbags around.

“They did have sort of a makeshift pavilion where they would serve the meals.

I remember mostly everything was open air. No air conditioning. No comforts.

It was sparse. We were there only a few hours, and sometimes you went to two or three areas a day. They would try to coordinate the transportation of moving the Dollies around. They tried to let you go when they felt like it was safe and not in any danger,” said Spisso. “Sometimes they would call ‘incoming’ and we’d have to go out to the bunker with our steel helmets and flak jackets. But sometimes it was all

in a day’s work, and I just felt I was being protected when I had to do that.”

Spisso’s last assignment was in Xuan Loc, base camp of the Army’s 11th Armored Cavalry Regiment Division (Black Horse).

“In Xuan Loc, we lived with nurses, and we all had our own room in a compound.

We went out with the club mobiles that carried all of our equipment and games.

They looked forward to us coming,” she said. “When we arrived, some of the soldiers would hoot and holler, some were shy, and some would kind of look at you like, ‘Who are you and what are you doing here?’ They were all very respectful.

Sometimes we would serve their meals, and the commanding officers really wanted to keep their morale up, even if it was for a little bit.”

Serving with the Red Cross in Vietnam helped Spisso satisfy some of her longing for adventure. The Donut Dollies were accorded two R&Rs – rest and recreation periods – away from their assignments.

“My first was in Bangkok. I had a high school friend whose husband was

stationed over there. Our mothers had communicated, and she couldn’t wait for me to come visit,” she said. “Bangkok is a beautiful city. It was very nice and interesting, and here again another culture that you just have to learn how to appreciate and accept those differences.”

Her second R&R was in Hong Kong with plenty of people who spoke English, lots of stores and really good restaurants.

Her return trip after one year in Vietnam included a stop in Japan.

“When I got back, I landed in San Francisco and spent a couple of days. I saw a couple of hippies and a lot of people against the war,” she said. “And I got on a Delta plane to fly back and those flight attendants – I hadn’t heard those Southern accents for a long time.”

Spisso got a job with the Red Cross in the hospital at Fort Jackson, Ga., continuing the same duties she had in Vietnam.

After a year, she returned home to Mississippi to reassess what she was going to do.

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your bearing and make sound decisions,” said Spisso. “Then I ran into a friend who said she had just gotten a job teaching in Jacksonville and she said I should call them and ask about a job. I called and they said ‘When can you be here?’ and I said I can be there Friday. And that’s when I met David, my husband. We call it destiny.”

While Spisso said the hardest thing about being over there was not having a good hairdresser, she wouldn’t give up her year as a Donut Dollie for anything.

“I went all over the world and learned we’re all basically the same even though we have a lot of differences. It gave me a sense of patience and tolerance and understanding. It was quite a personal growth experience for me,” said Spisso.

“I don’t know that we did anything really major. We talked, we listened, we represented their mothers and girlfriends. And we were just a reminder that there was another life than a war zone.”

Gwyneth J. Saunders is a veteran journalist and freelance writer living in Bluffton.

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ON THE PORCH WITH …

For restaurateur, cooking won out over a degree in English

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Armed with a degree in English from the University of South Carolina, Bluffton’s Charlie Golson headed for the kitchen. The owner of Charlie’s L’Etoile Verte on Hilton Head has been a fixture in the local dining scene for 40 years – even though that wasn’t his original plan.

“I always wanted to cook and eat, so my stomach won,” he said. “I don’t know what I thought I was going to do with my degree.

When I married Nancy, I thought seriously that we would be able to go to France and live in a village and hang out and enjoy our retirement.”

Born in Savannah, Golson made frequent trips to Bluffton where his godfather lived.

His father spent summers growing up in Bluffton. He now lives with Nancy in the house on the May River that his parents had owned.

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head since you were a baby that it’s where you can go in the summer. The breeze is three degrees cooler,” he said from the

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summer and you made it to North Carolina, you were royalty.”

After college, Golson spent a year in France in 1971 traveling and cooking.

“I had been to a couple of little cooking schools in France, but I was seriously interested in working in a kitchen and seeing what went on. I had never been in a professional kitchen,” he said.

When he returned to the states, his father got him a job at the Chatham Club in Savannah.

“I went to work in their kitchen, and Monday through Friday we served lunch, and Friday and Saturday we served dinner, which meant a long Friday,” Golson said.

“But I was the ‘gofer.’ If the pot washer was drunk, I washed pots. If one of the women in the pantry was sick, I cut fruit. They put me wherever they needed me. But I was mostly interested in seeing how the kitchen worked.”

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PORCH from page 26A While Golson was working there, a new chef from Alsace was hired.

“The previous chef was replaced with a French chef who moved up from Miami. That man took me under his wing. I thought I was a gofer before but I found out what a real gofer was,” he said. “We would do little tiny parties during the week, and it was me and him. It might be dinner for 12 – that kind of thing. But he put on the cooking shoes and I got to be a part of it.

It was worth the experience. He was really cool and he had worked in Luxembourg in some noble’s home kitchen. … He made the best coq au vin, the best quiche Lorraine.”

In 1975, Golson joined the Peace Corps and found himself in French West Africa for two years.

“It was the only time I’ve used my English degree. I taught English in a French hotel school. It didn’t require much English knowledge but all my students spoke French as a first language,” he said. “They were all waiters and cooks and bartenders, so that was fun.”

When he returned home, Nancy found him a job at a restaurant called Good Gravy

in Anderson. When he heard about a job in Charleston, the two moved to a place on The Battery while he worked for a year.

“That was fabulous. Living on the Battery and walking down Union Street to work was really pretty,” said Golson.

“Service ended at 9, and he could just pick me up and we would be down here in Bluffton by 11 p.m.,” said Nancy, who had popped onto the porch. “One Saturday night we’d just gotten home. We were actually sitting watching the 11 o’clock news here in this living room with his parents, and it said, ‘Historic restaurant burns in Charleston.’ And Charlie says, ‘*&$#! That’s our restaurant!’ Then the next morning we got up and turned on the news and it said ‘Historic restaurant catches fire again and burns to the ground.’”

Right around the corner, though, was the Hyatt Hotel and Golson quickly got a new job.

He worked in other people’s kitchens in Savannah, Charleston, Washington, D.C., and Hilton Head, the last one at Skull Creek. Like most seasonal restaurants dependent upon the tourist trade, the wa-

terfront restaurant would close from January to mid-March, and everyone was let go.

One day, the owner told Golson he needed to buy a restaurant called Bon Vivant that was for sale.

“The whole story boils down to what I really gleaned out of living in France and moving around Europe for a year was I would like to one day have a small restaurant about the size of a large living room that was family-run,” he said. “That’s what we wound up doing when I bought the little restaurant at Plantation Center. It had a clientele of retired people, and the owner cooked lunch Monday through Friday, and everyone drank a ton of wine, and had a ball. The owner wrote the menu in green paint on the glass mirror, and everybody loved it. So when I bought it, I tried to make it go into evenings, and it was very difficult. … The first week we were open, we did two dinners on Thursday.”

The Golsons had interviewed a lot of banks trying to get a loan to purchase the business.

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Golson said the story got better.

“Palmetto State Bank loaned us $1.4 million when we moved 3 miles down the street to where we are now. So now we own the property with the new restaurant. We didn’t own the property at the old one,” he said. “We went from nothing to success.

We were almost always full, but full would mean 45 at a time. And a busy night would mean we did it twice. So you need a lot of people early and a lot of people late.”

The current location on New Orleans Road is very different from what Golson encountered when he walked into his first one.

“The first year owning my own restaurant, I walked in and there was an ugly shag carpet on the floor where the customers sat. And over near the stove was a hole where someone had dropped something that burned a hole in the shag carpet,” he recalled. “The kitchen was open. That was nice. And there was one restroom for men

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PORCH from page 27A and women next to the pot sink.”

Like chefs the world over, Golson shopped daily to fill a menu.

“Every day I would buy some fresh fish.

I’d buy like five different fish, a leg of veal, a filet mignon, and sometimes we’d have lamb because it was always expensive. And today it’s beyond expensive,” he said. “And I would do all the prep, and then stay there at night and cook, but when we did only 45 dinners, I was technically leaving around 9 o’clock. I did the whole thing myself the first year.”

When their father became seriously ill four years ago, daughter Margaret and son Palmer took over running the restaurant.

Shortly after that, the 15-year mortgage was paid off.

“We were proud of that because borrowing $1.4 million just was insurmountable in my brain,” Golson said.

Nancy said both of their children have taken the restaurant way beyond what the couple envisioned.

“It’s because they’re young, they’re innovative, they know everything we don’t know about technology,” she said.

One of the innovations was signing up

Charlie Golson pauses, as if looking back in time, before sharing another story about his early restaurant days.

with a nationwide source of diner reviews called Open Table. That initiative recently garnered the restaurant kudos one of the top 100 restaurants for 2021 – the only one cited in South Carolina. It is oddly listed as being in Charleston on the website, but the photo is most definitely Charlie’s L’Etoile

Verte – The Green Star – at night.

“I wouldn’t have touched Open Table. I wouldn’t have touched anything electronic,” Golson said. “Mind you, neither child wanted to be in the restaurant business.

Palmer got a degree from Clemson in pine trees, and Margaret got a degree in Italian at

Tulane. But if they let it go they would miss a bunch of perks.”

As for the origins of the name, Nancy said that when Charlie lived off and on in Paris, his favorite restaurant was L’Etoile Verte, which served traditional French cuisine.

Golson won’t easily concede that he has achieved his goal.

“I never knew we had made it, had a successful restaurant, because every year the winter was so poor. We had a mortgage, and everybody needed a paycheck. January, February and half of March were bleak. We made it through that,” he said. “It’s been a trip. The first year I did it by myself, and then I hired a chef. We just all worked double-time helping each other. I never went home until every employee was there, and every drop of food was there, until everything was done.

“I always try to keep everybody happy, which might be a mistake,” he chuckled. “I wouldn’t do anything differently. I guess I was extremely lucky that we did everything correctly. I wouldn’t change anything.”

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Noteworthy • The Savannah Book Festival (SBF), now in its 15th season, will be held Feb. 17-20 in Historic Savannah.

SBF’s Festival Saturday, scheduled for 9 a.m. to 5:30 p.m. Feb. 19, is free and open to the public. On the schedule at various venues are 33 authors who will host 55-minute talks (four virtually).

The opening address Feb. 17, featuring David Baldacci, the Feb. 18 keynote address featuring William Kent Krueger, and closing address Feb. 20 featuring Friends & Fiction, are ticketed events.

For more information contact Erika Dongre at 912-598-4040, info@savannahbookfestival.org or visit savannahbookfestival.org.

• America’s Boating Club Hilton Head will offer the America’s Boating Course from 8 a.m. to 4 p.m. Feb. 19 at the University of South Carolina Bluffton campus, located at 1 University Blvd.

The class is designed to familiarize attendees with the fundamentals of safe boating and will qualify you for the S.C.

Department of Natural Resources boater education certificate. The class covers all the basics needed to operate a boat safely.

Cost is $75 per person for first registrant in a family, a spouse is $25 and any children are $20 each. Bring your own lunch(es). For more information or to register, contact Tom Ryley, education officer, at tomryley@mac.com or call 843298-0628.

• Hospice Care of the Lowcountry will hold volunteer training sessions Feb. 22 and 24 from 9 a.m. to 3 p.m. at its offices, 7 Plantation Park Drive in Bluffton.

Volunteers are needed as patient-family advocates, administrative assistance, bereavement support, vigil sitters, outreach and fundraising, among other services.

For more information and to register, contact Maggie Clark at 843-706-2296 or mclark@hospicecarelc.org.

• Bluffton Academy for the Arts (BAA) is now accepting enrollment applications for the 2022-23 school year. BAA

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A virtual Parent Information meeting will be held at 6 p.m. Feb. 24. To receive information about BAA and the meeting, visit blufftonacademyforthearts.com and fill out the information request form.

• The Lowcountry Chapter of the Embroiderers Guild of America meets from 10 a.m. to 3 p.m. the second Tuesday of every month in the dining room at Okatie Pines Retirement Community, 142 Okatie Center Blvd. North.

The meeting is open to all who are interested in the needle arts: novice, beginner or experienced stitchers. Classes are taught by and as well as national instructors. Most projects include counted cross-stitch, surface embroidery and needlepoint.

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Lowcountry chapter of GRASP (Grief Recovery After a Substance Passing), a support group for those who have lost loved ones to substance abuse.

Monthly meetings will be held at the Bluffton Branch Library on Saturday mornings beginning in March. For times, dates and further information, email sweber7151@gmail.com.

• Save the dates for four Wine Down Wednesdays at the Village at Wexford: March 16, May 4, Oct. 19 and Dec. 7.

Guests are invited to purchase a wine glass and stroll through the Village establishments and enjoy wine while shopping.

Proceeds from wine glass sales will benefit Hilton Head Heroes, a local nonprofit that provides free vacations for families of children who are suffering from life-threatening illnesses.

Village at Wexford is located at 1000 William Hilton Parkway, on the south end of Hilton Head Island. Tickets are $15 and will be available at villageatwexford.com and at the door.

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Coastal Discovery Musuem offers varied events The following workshops, lectures and other events are scheduled over the next few weeks at Coastal Discovery Museum.

The Museum is located at 70 Honey Horn Drive on Hilton Head Island. If registration is required, call 843-689-6767, ext. 223.

For more information visit coastaldiscovery. org.

• March 2, 2 p.m.: Bob Speare will present “Plugging Into Citizen Science,” a look at some of the products available for most digital devices. Attendees can learn how to become a citizen scientist by contributing sightings, photographs and sound recordings to important research projects being conducted around the world.

Speare has been a professional naturalist and environmental educator for more than 30 years and has led birding and photography trips throughout the U.S. and abroad.

Cost is $7 per person and reservations are required.

• Mondays, Thursdays: Discovery Lab Open House will begin in March and run

through May. Anyone may drop in and explore the Tom Peeples Lab for a fun educational experience for all ages. Get a closer look at some live Lowcountry animals like fish, horseshoe crabs, hermit crabs, frogs, lizards, snakes, and alligators.

Discover unique and fascinating stories about the Lowcountry’s history and environment through hands-on, interactive displays and games.

Cost is $2 per person (ages 5+) and no reservations are required. No fee for children 4 and under.

• Mondays, starting March 7, 1-2 p.m.: Director’s Walk allows visitors to walk the shell path and Nan Lloyd Trail with the museum director and discover some of the property’s hidden secrets. This outing will cover approximately 2 miles of uneven terrain, so be prepared with good walking shoes.

If you can’t physically walk the property, feel free to reach out to set up an appointment with the director at a different time.

Cost is $12 adult, $7 child (ages 7-12

– no children under 7), reservations are required.

Cost is $40 adult, $36 child (ages 5-12, with an adult). Reservations are required.

• March 10, 4:30-6 p.m.: The Art of Waxing Camellias workshop begins with with a tour of the Camellia Garden, with more than 130 varieties of the flowers. Camellias are fascinating plants with a rich history that have been cultivated for their beauty in Lowcountry gardens. Join the manager of horticulture to learn a little bit about the history of these charming plants.

Then, learn how to preserve flowers for several weeks through the art of flower waxing and preserve your favorite Camellia bloom to take home and enjoy.

Cost is $15 per person and reservations are required.

• Tuesdays, March through May, 10:30 a.m.: Kids Story Time invites children to look, listen, and learn! Kids will love hearing local stories and learning about Lowcountry wildlife and history. Stories are geared towards children ages 3-7 but the whole family will enjoy! No fee and no registration required. Children must be accompanied by an adult.

• Tuesdays, Wednesdays and Thursdays, starting March 10, 10 a.m.: Take a kayak trip with a certified guide for a close look at the salt marsh aboard a stable, touring kayak. Venture into creeks and inlets to view local wildlife. The tour meets at Jarvis Creek Water Sports.

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LEGAL

Avoiding legal problems is the name of the game

By Mark F. Winn CONTRIBUTOR

The tools available to an estate planning attorney are: wills, trust agreements, powers of attorney, advance directives, contracts, designations and deeds. We address present and future beneficial interests, contingencies, managing tax uncertainty.

These tools, properly used, will reduce if not avoid altogether legal problems, unnecessary legal fees and court costs, and family conflicts.

Let’s assume Betty and Bob have been married for years. They have three children, Bruce, Emily and Sue. Betty survives Bob. She inherits everything.

The assets might have all been owned jointly with survivorship rights, or designated to go to the survivor. Therefore, the administration was not too involved.

Betty thinks she should just put Bruce as a joint owner on the house and the accounts. She knows Bruce will “do the right

thing” and make sure his siblings get their share.

Is this a good idea? No. Is there a better way? Yes. What could go wrong? If Bruce is sued while Betty is alive, Betty’s house and assets could be in jeopardy. If Betty passes, and Bruce gets divorced, his wife could get half.

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There is a better way. Betty creates a revocable trust (which is really a written agreement that provides instructions Betty’s loved ones are to follow). She makes it so she and Bruce are co-trustees and that Bruce can act alone while Betty is alive.

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Now, under this better way, if Bruce is sued while Betty is alive, neither Betty’s house nor her assets will be in jeopardy due to Bruce’s actions.

If Betty passes, and then Bruce gets divorced, can his wife get half? Not if his share is left in a spendthrift trust for his benefit.

If Betty passes and Bruce’s siblings plead with Bruce for their share, are they legally entitled to it? Yes. It is Bruce’s job, as trustee, to distribute the trust property as the trust directs once the bills have been paid.

Moral: A little advance planning can make a big difference.

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HEALTH

Family history of heart disease? Live healthfully to limit risk

By Stuart Smalheiser CONTRIBUTOR

A recent Cleveland Clinic survey found that more than a third of Americans with a family history of heart disease believe there is nothing they can do to limit their risk of developing that heart condition.

While it’s true you can’t change your family history, early screening and treatStuart Smalheiser ment has been shown to save lives. In addition, there is still a lot you can do lower your risk of developing cardiovascular problems.

Invest in a few simple steps, along with some lifestyle changes, to support your heart health.

• Talk to your doctor. The first step to taking control of your heart health is

to let your primary care provider know about your family history. If you have risk factors for heart disease, it’s important that you and your provider make a plan to reduce that risk.

• Eat for a healthy heart. Focusing on fresh, whole foods will lower your chances of developing three major heart disease risk factors – being overweight, having higher cholesterol and having high blood pressure. The best daily diet for a healthy heart includes a balance of fruits, vegetables, low-fat dairy products, lean sources of protein like beans, fish and poultry, whole grains, and healthy, unsaturated fats. Minimize sodium, sugar, and saturated and trans fats. I recommend the Mediterranean diet to my patients.

• Move more. Exercise may be the “magic pill” that keeps your heart healthy – it helps keep cholesterol and blood pressure in healthy ranges, and it lowers your risk for heart disease and stroke.

Look for an activity you enjoy, because

the best exercise is one you will do for at least 30 minutes a day, five days a week.

• Be smoke free. Smoking is another significant risk factor for hastening heart problems. When combined with other risk factors, like family history, smoking further raises your chances of developing heart failure. Try to avoid second-hand smoke as well.

• Limit your alcohol intake. Continued, excessive intake of alcohol above recommended limits can increase your chances of heart failure. If you drink, do it in moderation. Certainly, if there are medications and/or medical issues, check with your physician to determine if it is wise to continue drinking as well.

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Business Brief • Hampton Long recently joined the Charles Schwab office in Bluffton as a financial consultant.

In his new role, he will provide wealth management and investing help and guidance to clients.

Prior to joining Schwab, Long spent 12 years in the financial services industry, Hampton Long most recently as a financial advisor and consultant at Bank of America/Merrill Lynch.

Long earned a Bachelor of Liberal Arts degree from Harvard University and graduated from the Vanderbilt University Law School. A lifelong learner, he has also taken additional coursework in the areas of corporate finance, accounting, private equity, and macroeconomics.

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Raised in the Northeast, Long relocated to the Lowcountry more than 10 years ago. He and his wife have a young daughter and recently moved to Bluffton from Beaufort.

Long serves as board chairman for the Beaufort Memorial Hospital Foundation, is a past board member for the Beaufort County Open Land Trust, and previously served as chairman of the St. John’s Lutheran Church Endowment.

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27th annual Shamrock Run set for March 12 The 27th annual Rotary Club International Hilton Head Shamrock Run presented by Pinnacle Financial Partners will be held March 12, beginning at 7:30 a.m.

The fun and colorful 5K Run and health walk will start in front of New York City Pizza at Heritage Plaza and finish inside Coligny Plaza. The flat and fast Shamrock Run course zooms down Pope Avenue, North Forest Beach Drive and then back on Lagoon Road.

For this race, we encourage participants to “get your Irish on” and run or walk in green attire and accessories.

The Hilton Head Shamrock 5K is a fun and healthy St. Patrick’s Day family tradition. A percentage of proceeds from the event will go to benefit The Hilton Head Sunset Rotary Club.

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EDUCATION

Culinary Institute of the South’s café and bistro now open

By Leigh Copeland CONTRIBUTOR

Looking for a new place to eat? Technical College of the Lowcountry’s Culinary Institute of the South just added two more options to Bluffton’s food scene.

The Bistro and Clist Café recently opened at the 30,000-square-foot institute located at 1 Venture Drive in Buckwalter Place.

The Clist Café offers a variety of “graband-go” items including breads, pastries, cakes, soups and sandwiches – made by students in culinary and pastry classes onsite – along with coffee, teas and more. The café, named for donors and longtime TCL advocates Liz and Todd Clist of Hilton Head Island, offers plenty of outdoor seating.

For those looking for more of a fine-dining experience, The Bistro offers a gourmet three-course lunch in the 24-seat teaching restaurant.

Dishes change each semester and are created, prepared and served by students in

advanced classes as part of the culinary arts, baking and pastry, and hospitality curriculum. This month’s menu features shrimp and grits, herb-crusted pork tenderloin with wild rice, and steak with pommes frites.

In essence, both the café and restaurant serve as classrooms that provide a bridge to the real world. These capstone experiences give students invaluable hands-on education.

“Both spaces provide real-world experiences for our students who are learning how to cook, bake, manage a business and interact with customers,” said Chef Miles Huff, dean of the institute.

Baking and Pastry program director Jackie Orak says that working in these environments allows students to put foundational cooking and baking skills together with more advanced entrepreneurial processes.

For example, students learn about using point-of-sale systems, food pricing, ordering and inventory management, marketing and even financial analysis.

Mark Bernhard, culinary arts associate degree student, working in the Clist Café.

“This type of experience teaches students how to better handle situations when serving the public and shows them what it is like to own a small business,” Orak said.

Mark Bernhard, who is enrolled in the culinary arts associate degree program, said that working in the café has been his favorite part of the program, especially since he wants to own his own restaurant one day.

“My favorite part is being able to go through the entire process of looking over recipes and understanding how much each thing costs and how to price items on a menu,” Bernhard said.

Learning and working “with all the nice shiny equipment you only see on TV” is just the icing on the cake, he said.

The Clist Café is open for walk-in patrons from 7:30 a.m. to 2 p.m. Monday through Friday. Visit www.tcl.edu/cafe for the latest updates.

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FAITH

Without Black history, American history lacks full story

By Jon Black CONTRIBUTOR

February is Black History Month.

My congregation celebrates the stories and achievements of African Americans every month. However, during February, many members will wear traditional African clothes to worship.

We view February as a time of celeJon Black brating our culture.

While African Americans make up a very small percentage of the U.S. population, less than 14%, our food, music, dance, worship, comedy and literature have a much greater impact on American culture than our numbers would indicate.

Most of our members struggle with

the notion of Black History Month. We have two primary complaints.

First, we struggle with the premise.

Black History Month seems to be based on the myth that the Black race is behind other races and is slowly catching up. When a member of the Black race reaches parity with the other races, that individual is celebrated as “the first African American” to obtain a new height.

For example, Jackie Robinson was the first African American to play baseball in the Major League. Implied is the notion that Robinson was able to hone his baseball skills to such a level that he could compete with white athletes.

Robinson was a great baseball player, but he was not the best the Black race had to offer. There was an entire Negro League that had many players who held superior skills to the average player in the Major League.

The so called “First African Americans Syndrome” is an indictment

against us all. The question should not be “Who was the first African American to play in the Major League?” but “Why were African Americans excluded from the Major League until 1947?”

Our second complaint is the notion that Black history is separate from American history. We would prefer to have Black history integrated into the teaching of American history. We do not want our stories to be a February footnote.

There are many reasons for the absence of Black history in our schools’ textbooks. Black history reminds us of our nation’s dark side. We are the greatest country on the planet. We offer our citizens the greatest potential for life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness.

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As difficult as it is to acknowledge the flaws of our nation, it is vital that we teach our citizens the full story of American history. We have become a great nation because we have learned from our mistakes. Those who are not able to learn from the past are destined to repeat it.

Jesus said, “You will know the truth, and the truth will set you free.”

If our nation is going to live up to our great potential, we must include in our textbooks, the stories of all Americans.

This will provide us with a full telling of the truth and the truth will set us free.

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PETS

Stop unwanted dog behaviors by ignoring it, giving consequence

By Abby Bird CONTRIBUTOR

We all ask ourselves why our dog exhibits certain behaviors. Not all answers are simple but many are. Other than instinctual behaviors, many behaviors are inadvertently rewarded so the dog continues to do them.

You can replace annoying attention-seeking behaviors by rewarding the behaviors you want and discouraging the unwanted behaviors by making sure your dog understands that there are consequences. Owners exhibit leadership skills by being consistent with the message of how dogs can earn rewards as opposed to receiving certain consequences.

If your dog barks when you are on the phone, and you stop talking to tell him “no barking” without ever enforcing with a consequence, then your dog will continue barking – since you stopped what you were doing to give attention.

If your dog jumps on you and you push

him away with your hands, he sees it as being rewarded by your touch. I know it sounds subtle, but it is meaningful in the way your dog interprets your behavior.

What you do to teach your dog how to behave will help when they are misbehaving. For example: Teaching an alternate behavior for jumping is teaching a lie down or a sit. When they do this, you can reward with your attention. When they know this already and then start jumping, you can have them do either to earn praise, touch or treats and toy rewards.

A negative cue such as “off” used consistently will tell your dog specifically what you don’t like. You can also teach your dog to go to a specific spot such as a dog bed when you can’t pay attention to them. Keep them occupied there with something to play with or chew on so it is rewarding to go there.

If nothing positive is working, then consequences such as removal away from you or walking through them assertively, bump-

ing them out of your way, become specific consequences. This teaches them to make appropriate choices that are rewarding.

For barking, again, teaching a place to go such as above when they are demanding attention becomes positive and rewarding to the dog. As a negative consequence using

mild correctives along with the “no barking” cue like a water spray bottle set to mist or a can filled with noisy metal such as coins, can interrupt the behavior by getting their attention.

Once again by being consistent you would be teaching the dog that barking did not get them what they wanted, but that the alternative would be acceptable while the consequences were not.

As with all things involving dog training, consistency is so important. Do the same thing every single time and making sure that all family members comply. Resist inadvertently rewarding an unwanted behavior by touching or paying attention to the dog. Providing skills the dog can learn and consequences that the dog will respect are all part of the process to ensure a better behaved dog.

Abby Bird is owner of Alphadog Training Academy. AlphadogTrainingAcademy@gmail. com

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BEAUTY

Work done at the salon requires some maintenance at home

By Joy Ross CONTRIBUTOR

The majority of my clients request low-maintenance cuts and color. While I strive to achieve this, people need to understand a cut and color that is considered low-maintenance still needs some product and TLC by the client.

I’m sure everyone has heard the saying that we are “beauticians not magicians.” I will definitely show you how to maintain your color and cut between visits, but you will need to put forth a little effort.

Now, a quick lesson on products. Rule No. 1: Less is best. Rule No. 2: You get what you pay for.

All products range in price based on the quality of the ingredients in the product.

Less expensive products are less expensive because they scrimp on the quality ingredients and use waxes and oils as fillers.

These waxes and oils will build up

on the hair and weigh it down, especially shampoo and conditioner. Just because the label says “for color treated or damaged hair,” it doesn’t mean it will miraculously fix your dry damaged hair or that it won’t eventually strip your color.

The product might have an ingredient or two that will help but not when the majority of what’s in the bottle are useless additives.

It is counterproductive to spend money for a professional cut and color and then use drug store products. Spring for the better stuff and just use less of it. Your color and style will last longer and look better.

The function of mousse or root volumizer is for “volume.” It is to be applied on the roots in wet hair and then dried, pushing the hair in the opposite direction of the way it falls, to set the roots in a lifted manner.

Styling gel is for hold. Apply sparingly to wet hair and dry. It will help keep

the style in place. It might leave the hair crunchy when too much is used.

Styling cream or pomade are both used on hair that tends to get fuzzy when drying. The cream will make hair softer and shiny while drying. It can be used both wet and dry hair. Pomade is greasier and should only be used in dry, thick, coarse hair to prevent frizzies by putting a barrier on the hair protecting it from the

moisture in the air.

Salt spray, when sprayed on curly or wavy hair when wet or dry, will help curl to tighten. It should be combed through and left alone. Wax and putty can be used on dry hair sparingly to piece out texture.

Texture powder can be sprinkled on the roots of totally dry hair to give hair texture and lift. Dry shampoo can be used for this outcome as well, but both will feel tacky and hard to shampoo out of the hair.

Oils, like Moroccan and argon, are wonderful in this climate for naturally curly, wavy or frizzy hair to tame the halo of fuzz and contain curl pattern. These also should be used sparingly.

I hope this brief list will help in your decision in what products to choose and use. Proper use can make your great cut and color stay better and look amazing!

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NATURE’S WAY

Chasing away winter blues with a trip farther south

By Collins Doughtie CONTRIBUTOR

As I have made it perfectly clear in my last few columns, I absolutely go bonkers during our winter. I know what you are thinking. How can I possibly complain when our usual winter is at best four to five weeks long, from around mid-January until the second or third week in February?

So why all the gloom and doom? The water temperature has dropped into the low 50s and, just like me, the fish hunker down. No matter how great your presentation might be with the finest baits out there, the fish just aren’t interested.

If I had to compare them to a particular actor, my choice would have to be Tim Conway in the Carol Burnett Show. Remember his skits where he played the sole employee in a butcher shop? If you are too young to remember such things, just know that character was hysterical. He never failed to have me laughing my head off.

Talk about slow, that’s me when it’s cold outside. Slug or turtle, I’ll let you decide.

Well, praise the Lord, because this year I decided to do something about this syndrome besides getting one of those lamps that folks use for seasonal depression.

Along with my wife Karen and our beagle Butterbean, we hopped in the car and headed to Ohio-on-Wheels, more commonly known as the great state of Florida.

For you old timer Blufftonians, our destination was my sister Grace’s house in

Indian Harbour Beach near Melbourne. If the name Grace doesn’t ring a bell, then how about Gay Doughtie? She was the editor of the hilarious Bluffton Eccentric newspaper back when Bluffton was half its current size.

Following a stampede of New York, New Jersey and Ohio license plates, we finally made it to her hacienda. It was 78 degrees and sunny – and within minutes I could feel my winter blues shedding away in layers, much like when you peel an onion.

Did I take my fishing rods? Absolutely!

Though I almost always have them with me when I pay her a visit, for whatever reason one thing or another gets in the way of wetting a line. From the moment we decided to head south, I made it clear to both Karen and Grace that fishing was on my agenda and should they want to join me that was cool; if not, then that was equally fine. The ocean just has a way of setting my world right when all else fails.

With a few artificial lures and a bucket full of live shrimp, the three of us, plus Grace’s pal Bill, headed down to the state park at Sebastian Inlet. Known for being a treacherous inlet for boaters heading offshore, it is also known as a place with a fair amount of fish – including my target species, snook.

Almost every time I go down to the Sunshine State, snook are out of season.

But this time I lucked out, as they are in season – even though I planned to release any I might be lucky to catch.

Kennedy Space Center (about 30 miles away) and was streaking overhead.

As my father loved to say: “Always the bridesmaid, never the bride.”

One thing that really impressed me about this part of Florida was all the parks and designated open spaces. Oh, how I wish our town and county councils would take up this manner of development before all our open land is gone.

Another sight that blew my mind was a small canal near my sister’s place that was jam packed with manatees. I am not talking about a tourist attraction, just a canal not much wider than a ditch. I stopped counting at 50 manatees. No doubt their winter home, due to a warm water upwelling, they were packed together – some on COLLINS DOUGHTIE top of one another – to retain body heat.

As a plant freak, I’m planning to load Sister Grace Doughtie caught this puffer fish on one of our outings near her home in Florida. up our car with cuttings from Grace’s incredible gardens. Succulents, air plants The tides could have been better but and oddities I have never seen before are just being out in the sun with a gentle salty heading back to good ol’ Bluffton. As for breeze, I felt a rebirth of sorts. Puffer fish Karen and I, we might not head back until kept us busy until we moved out closer to I hear the Lowcountry has warmed up. the inlet’s mouth. Within minutes someLastly, for all of you that expressed interthing grabbed my shrimp and it sure as est in my “How to Fish the Lowcountry” heck wasn’t a puffer fish – it was a snook. seminar, I will be in touch. But right now, This is when it got rather humorous.

I think I am going to wet a line, possibly As I was reeling in the snook people all take a siesta, and work on putting my around me started cheering. Thinking winter blues in the past. they were cheering for this mostly bald guy from South Carolina, I finally turned Collins Doughtie, a 60-year resident of the around and realized they weren’t cheering Lowcountry, is a sportsman, graphic artist, for me. I saw the object of their cheer: A and lover of nature. collinsdoughtie@icloud.

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This year has been a challenge with our fluctuating temperatures. We will most likely continue to see this weather trend – warm, then cold, then freezing temperatures and back to warm.

We do not advise installing new sod at this time; you will have much better results by waiting until the weather is consistently warm. Whenever you do get ready to add sod, make sure that you monitor the amount of sunlight the area receives to ensure you are putting in the proper turf-type.

Conversely, now is a great time to plant trees and shrubs! Make sure they are not planted too deep and do not use too many amendments.

Now is also the time to spray the fruit trees with horticultural oil. This will take care of insects. The horticultural oil should be applied only when the plants are dormant.

This is also a good time to prepare your planting beds. You might look into Snapshot 2.5 pre-emergent for landscape and container grown material. Make sure you read and follow all label instructions and verify your plant material is safe for this product.

In addition to applying this pre-emergent, now is a good time to select and schedule the application. We could potentially have a shortage of this product, so order soon.

As you look around your yard, you may

see volcano-type mulching covering the roots and a portion of some tree trunks.

This can cause airflow and nutrient issues for your trees and plants. You should apply mulch at a depth of 3 inches and allow 10 to 12 inches of room around the base of all trees and plants.

One yard of mulch will cover roughly 100 square feet at a 3-inch depth. The combination of a pre-emergent and mulch will minimize weeds and reduce maintenance needs during the growing season. This should be completed prior to our spring weeds germinating, approximately March 15.

Looking ahead to warmer months, notice your yard and your neighbors’ yards. You might wonder why does some grass do better than others? A well-trained turf professional can provide the facts related to turf.

Each turf type has specific needs – sunlight, mowing height, frequency of mowing, fertility, water and oxygen. If we follow the guidelines for “right plant, right place” and other elements that impact a quality lawn, you will be successful.

When you decide to renovate your turf, always think of what the tree canopy will look like over the next three to five years.

Do you have all the necessary conditions that will foster a heathy lawn?

Contact a turf professional first and ask for best recommendations based on your specific site.

Mark Deloach is the owner of Lawn Doctor of Beaufort County.

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Home or business owners generally don’t give a second thought to their property’s insulation, as it was installed when the building was new. These days, insulation is not just a choice for new construction. Now, perhaps even more importantly, existing properties or buildings are excellent choices to receive the benefits of upgraded insulation.

Spray foam insulation has evolved as a gold standard because of the ease of installation and efficiency by a properly trained professional. Traditional insulation applications require extra steps and labor, such as vapor barrier to protect against air leaks.

Spray foam insulation acts as its own vapor barrier, therefore there is no need for a separate barrier installation. Spray foam can improve your property’s comfort, air quality, and energy efficiency.

Other insulation materials like traditional cellulose and “blown-in” insulation are often crafted from recycled materials and components that can settle or degrade over time. Cellulose insulation tends to have a higher propensity for leaks than spray foam insulation.

With air leaks and water leaks, this can ultimately lead to mold growth so additional humidity damage check-ups are required to ensure that the insulation is not degrading too quickly.

Spray foam insulation also tends to

outperform traditional insulation when it comes to air intrusion which means less chance of water and humidity breaking down the insulation and your home’s building materials. The better insulated a property is, the better it can shield the property from the effects of outside changes in weather and maintain the temperature set by the property’s HVAC systems.

Insulation that maintains your comfort level signifies strong resistance against air leaks. Those air leaks don’t just let in hot and cold air; they could also allow foreign particles to enter your home and further exert your indoor air quality control measures more so than normal.

These outside contaminants and pollutants that enter your home often can decrease your air quality and pose a risk to your health.

Given the density of spray foam insulation, this material does more than protect against temperature volatility and air intrusion. It also acts as a strong noise buffering measure between rooms and floors.

Before you make any major decisions for your property, it is critical to find the right professional team to upgrade your home’s insulation. Make sure to use highly trained and experienced professionals for any of your home renovations.

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Most people don’t think of golf as a contact sport. However, the object of the game is to contact a ball that is sitting on the ground. In order to do this, you must contact the ground in front of the ball.

The act of swinging a golf club is an extremely demanding sports activity. To develop clubhead speeds from 50 up to more than 100 mph in two seconds for amateurs can put stress on muscles and joints.

According to the National Golf Foundation, approximately 60% of all amateur golfers suffer with a traumatic or overuse injury during their playing years. The injury rate is higher for players over the age of 50.

The major reason for golf injuries include: • Inadequate warm-up and lack of stretching • Poor physical conditioning • Overuse (excessive play or practice) • Improper swing technique Injuries are slightly different for males and females. Among amateur males, injuries occur most often to the lower back. This can be caused by a disc injury, pulled muscle or ligaments. The golf swing puts the lower back in a position that, with overuse, injuries can occur.

For females, the elbow, wrist and hand are common injuries. This can be caused by excessive play and practice, poor swing mechanics and miss-hits.

A common lower body injury area is the hip. The golfer rotates around their back hip, shifts their weight and then rotates forward around their front hip. Thus, the hips are especially vulnerable because of the pivoting and twisting in the lower body.

A common upper body injury is pain to the elbow. Golfer’s elbow is inflammation and pain on the inside of the upper arm near the elbow. Tennis elbow is an inflammation and pain on the “outside” of the upper arm near the elbow.

Tennis elbow is actually more common to golfers. The pain is usually the greatest at the top of the back swing and at impact.

Hikle Puzo, left, and Donna Brownell still play golf with tennis elbow and arthritis of the wrist, respectively.

Rotator cuff injuries in the shoulder region are also caused by poor mechanics.

Obviously, impact is where the majority of injuries occur. This can be caused by early extension of the back elbow and wrist prior to impact. As a result, the golfer hits the ground prior to impacting the ball.

These miss-hits typically cause injury to the elbows, hands and wrist.

What can you do to help prevent golf injuries? First of all, you need to develop a solid swing technique. A golfer with poor swing mechanics has an increased risk of injury.

Next, you need to be on a conditioning program that includes stretching. Light weights and exercising on a TRX rope that most fitness centers have is very good because you are using your own body weight to gain strength and flexibility.

Finally, before you practice or play, you need to warm up with stretches and limit your practice time using the full swing.

Instead, spend more time on the short game and putting.

Golf is definitely more fun when you are injury free.

Dr. Jean Harris is an LPGA Master Professional and teaches at Pinecrest Golf Club. jean. golfdoctor.harris@gmail.com; golfdoctorjean. com

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REAL ESTATE

Send a belated Valentine’s greeting with love to your home

By Larry Stoller CONTRIBUTOR

February is the month that love is in the air, valentine cards are in demand (kind of like houses are!), and chocolates are heavily discounted after the 14th.

We are also reminded that home is where the heart is and that our homes should be filled with love.

Here are some suggestions for adding some love to your home: • Make your home your no-stress zone, your safe haven, where you go to rest, relax and wind down. Think about peace and happiness. Take a few deep breaths before you open the door, and when you enter your home, leave your worries on the doorstep.

• Take it nice and easy. Don’t fret if your home and furnishings are not perfect. That kind of thinking can create stress. Just step back and say to yourself, “It will all come together in good time and as it does, I will

enjoy my home in all its different stages.”

• Share your place with special people.

Invite good friends over for dinner, wine and cheese, or a fun movie. Welcome laughter and happiness in to your home (and stay as long as they want to).

• Make good memories. When you

enjoy living in your home, you will also be creating fond memories. And just thinking of those memories will make you smile and love your home.

• Spend quality time there. It might not be Tara or Twelve Oaks, but it’s your home.

So don’t run out every chance you get. Get

to know your home better. Do fun things in your home.

Many years ago we lived in West Bloomington, Minn. Our daughter was just six months old when we moved there. I remember that our big husky-shephard (Bogart) would lie by the side of her crib and watch over her. That was a very comforting feeling. I loved that home.

Now we live in Rose Hill. We share our home with Cherie, our beloved standard poodle. She is always by our side. She watches over us (or maybe she thinks we watch over her). Seeing her enoying our home makes me feel very happy. I love this home.

It’s not too difficult to love to your home, and it’s not too late to show your home some love.

Larry Stoller is a broker and Realtor with Real Estate Five of the Lowcountry. Larry@ RealEstateFive.com, RealEstateFive.com, SunCityOpenHouses247.com

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Through Feb. 27 “Arts Ob We People: Winter Exhibition and Sale,” display of original work by emerging and leading artists that represents the life of Gullah people. Art League of Hilton Head Gallery, 14 Shelter Cove Lane on Hilton Head Island. Opening reception 5-7 p.m. Feb. 9. Free. artleaguehhi.org or 843-681-5060 Through Feb. 27 Rose Cofield, mixed media abstract art, featured at La Petite Gallerie, 56 Calhoun St., Bluffton. 11 a.m. to 5 p.m. Tuesday through Saturday, and noon to 5 p.m.

Sunday and Monday. For more information please visit lapetitegallerie.com.

Through Feb. 20 “The Curious Incident of the Dog in the NightTime,” based on Mark Haddon’s best-selling novel, Arts Center of Coastal Carolina, 14 Shelter Cove Lane, Hilton Head Island. Tony Award-winning play. Performances 7:30 p.m. Tuesday-Saturday, 2 pm. Sunday. artshhi.org or 843-842-2787 Feb. 15-17 “Lively Skies, Seas and Trees,” three-day plein air painting workshop by Gary Baughman, at Art League Academy, 106 Cordillo Parkway, Hilton Head Island.

Cost is $360 for Art League members, $400 for

non-members. Call 843-842-5738, email academy@ artleaguehhi.org or visit artleaguehhi.org.

Feb. 25-27, March 4-6 “Steel Magnolias,” May River Theatre, Ulmer Auditorium, 20 Bridge St., Bluffton. Performances 7:30 p.m. Feb. 25-26 and March 4-5; and 2 p.m. Feb. 27 and March 6. Tickets are $25 each and are available online at mayrivertheatre.com or by calling 843-815-5581.

Feb. 26 Harp Concert by Lowcountry Harp Society, with Hilton Head Choral Society, 3;30 p.m. at St. Andrew By-TheSea, 20 Pope Ave., Hilton Head Island. Free.

Through Feb. 26 “Young Talent,” works by art students of Bluffton High School at Society of Bluffton Artists (SOBA). Opening reception 3-5 p.m. Feb. 5.

6 Church St., Bluffton. Gallery open 10 a.m.-5 p.m.

Monday-Saturday, 11 a.m.-3 p.m. Sunday. sobagallery.com or 843-757-6586 March 4-6 “Legally Blonde the Musical Jr.” Main Stage Community Theatre, at Hilton Head Prep’s Main Street Theatre, 3000 Main St., Hilton Head Island. Tickets $25

adult, $15 student, $5 under age 8. mainstagecommunitytheatre.org or 843-689-6246. More info at info@msctheatre.org March 4-6 Sixth annual March Forth at Pat Conroy Literary Center, Beaufort. Commemorating anniversary of Conroy’s passing on March 4, 2016, with programs on major themes of his writing and teaching life. Free and ticketed events. Schedule at patconroyliterarycenter.org.

March 4 Mary Fahl, singer-songwriter, formerly of the New York City-based October Project, 8 p.m. at The Roasting Room, 1297 May River Road, Bluffton. Tickets $30.

843-368-4464 or roastingroom.live Through March 6 “Art Beyond Tradition: Interpretations,” exhibit of abstract works by 12 local artists, Coastal Discovery Museum, 70 Honey Horn Drive, Hilton Head Island.

Artist Walks every Thursday from noon to 2 p.m. Gallery hours 9 a.m.-4:30 p.m. Monday-Saturday, and 11 a.m.-3 p.m. Sunday. coastaldiscovery.org March 7-14 Hilton Head International Piano Competition, various venues and times. 20 accomplished pianists from around the world competing for cash and prizes.

Tickets at hhipc.org or 843-842-2055.

March 7-April 3 SOBA 28th annual Judged Show, 100 selections from among all entries in six categories. Call for entries deadline March 1 (see pg. 11 for information). Awards ceremony 5-7 p.m. March 9. SOBA is located ata 6 Church St. in Old Town Bluffton. sobagallery.com or 843-757-3776

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SOBA kicks off outreach efforts with retreat to Guatemala 14 spots are available for artist retreat June 16-27; Special reception from 6-7 p.m. Feb. 25 at SOBA’s Art School The Society of Bluffton Artists (SOBA) board members have been thinking outside-the-box to offer unique outreach programs for artists in the community.

This year, the non-profit art organization will offer trips to museums and exhibits in Savannah, Charleston and surrounding areas.

Additionally, they’re planning international artists retreats every other year – well-curated trips with low-key learning mixed with history, beautiful scenery, fantastic food and five-star hotels.

The first retreat, to Guatemala, will take place June 16-27, with an itinerary filled with explorations to Tikal Mayan ruins and nearby villages, as well as painting workshops with inspiring instructors.

“The group will be accompanied by local, knowledgeable guides to introduce them to hidden treasures of the sites,” said Marie Burgeson, SOBA president. “And

best of all, the travelers will be friends and fellow artists. This trip is perfect for the single traveler but will also work for couples since there will be special programs for non-artists as well.”

Anyone interested in the Guatemalan artist retreat and SOBA’s future outreach programs are invited to a special infor-

mation reception with wine and hors d’oeuvres from 6-7 p.m. Feb. 25 at SOBA’s Art School, 8 Church St. in Old Town Bluffton.

Burgeson was inspired to organize the trip for Lowcountry artists after visiting Guatemala with another painting group.

The upcoming trip will be organized

by the same boutique travel company, Explore Amazing Places. From first-class hotels and restaurants to quality individual care, Burgeson was impressed with the level of attention and knowledge by the Explore Amazing Places tour guides.

“The owners are Americans who lived in Guatemala for several years. They are charming and extremely knowledgeable about Latin America and will be with the group every step of the way,” Burgeson said.

The cost is $3,895 for double occupancy and $775 for single supplement – which includes hotels, most meals, all transportation in the country including airfare to Tikal, workshop tuition and gratuities.

The deadline to register is March 25. A portion of the proceeds will benefit SOBA’s ongoing operational expenses.

For more information, email Burgeson at sobaupdates@sobagallery.com or visit bit.ly/SOBAGuatemala. To register, visit Explore Amazing Places at bit.ly/GuatemalaRegister.

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Lowcountry Harp Ensemble concert set for Feb. 26

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NOW – FEBRUARY 20 Harpist Rhett Barnwell will be featured in the Lowcountry Harp Ensemble concert Feb. 26.

The Lowcountry American Harp Society Chapter along with the Hilton Head Choral Society presents the Lowcountry Harp Ensemble with guest harpist Rhett Barnwell in concert at 3:30 p.m. Feb. 26 at St. Andrew By-The-Sea United Methodist Church, 20 Pope Ave. on Hilton Head Island. The concert is free.

World-renowned harpist Barnwell’s arrangement of “Wade In The Water – A Lowcountry Suite” will be premiered that afternoon. Eight harpists under the direction of Tim Reynolds, artistic director of the Hilton Head Choral Society and former music director at St. Andrew, will perform a free program celebrating the musical cultures of our area. This harp ensemble work is made possible in part by a grant from the American Harp Society.

Each February, Hilton Head Island celebrates one of its most important cultural chapters with a month-long celebration in honor of the Gullah culture and heritage.

The concert is in honor of the Gullah Music

of the Lowcountry as well as Black History Month.

Barnwell is a composer, arranger and performer, and the founder of Seraphim Music, which publishes sacred, classical and meditative music for lever and pedal harp.

A specialist in classical and sacred music for harp, he has been in demand as a presenter and performer at conferences all over the country.

He is also on the faculty of Harp Column Academy. Barnwell earned a Master of Music degree from St. Louis Conservatory and did post-graduate Doctoral study at the University of Georgia. He has served as a choral director and organist for churches throughout the Southeast since 1984, and is currently Organist and Choirmaster at The Church of Our Saviour in Atlanta.

“We welcome the community to come enjoy this artistic celebration,” says Reynolds.

“It will be a special afternoon commemorating music that is unique to the Lowcountry.”

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Bluffton students win regional recognition for their art Beaufort County School District students have won 48 Southeast regional recognitions in the 2021 Scholastic Art and Writing Awards competition.

There were 12 winners at May River High and two at Bluffton High, as well as 34 winners at Hilton Head Island High.

The prestigious Scholastic Art & Writing Awards describes itself as the nation’s longest-running recognition program for creative teens and the largest source of scholarships for young artists and writers.

Students in grades 7 through 12 typically submit more than 350,000 works of art and writing in 30 categories.

Winning students earn opportunities for recognition, exhibition, publication and scholarships.

The district’s eight top award-winners – Gold Key recipients – advance to judging at the national level. Silver Key works are judged to demonstrate exceptional ability, and Honorable Mention works are judged to show great skill and potential.

Judges evaluate student artwork based on

originality, technical skill and the emergence of a personal vision or voice. Former winners of Scholastic Awards include Andy Warhol, Truman Capote, Richard Avedon, Sylvia Plath and filmmaker Ken Burns.

Gold Key winners from May River High

were Kylie Bowes for “Lighting Up the Room” (Photography); Makenzie Rice for “Isolation” (Photography); and Coda Stanley for “Savannah #1” (Photography).

Silver Key winners from May River High were Dianna Doan for “Changes” (Photog-

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A Silver Key winner from Bluffton High was Rosy Almazan for “Coming to an End” (Painting).

May River High Honorable Mentions were Lydia Benson for “Weathered in Worship” (Photography); Bianca Costilla for “Salted Air” (Photography); Diana Doan for “Quiet Strength” (Photography); Makenzie Rice for “Cowboy Stance” (Photography); and Coda Stanley for “Savannah #2” (Photography).

An Honorable Mention winner from Bluffton High was Rosy Almazan for “Por Su Futuro” (Painting).

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PRESENTS

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Music & Lyrics by Laurene O’Keefe and Nell Benjamin. Book by Heather Hach.

Music & Lyrics by Laurene O’Keefe and Nell Benjamin.

Hach.and the Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer Based on theBook novelbybyHeather Amanda Brown motion picture.by Walter Greer “Two Egrets,” oil on canvas Legally Blonde is presented through special arrangement with Music Theatre International (MTI).

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by MTI. www.MTIShows.com League of Hilton Head has released a Legally Blonde is presented through special arrangementAllwith Music Theatre International (MTI). are also suppliedArt special commemorative art calendar created All authorized performance materials are also supplied by MTI. www.MTIShows.com

in honor of the 50th Anniversary of the organization. The calendar, which includes MUSICAL DIRECTOR CHOREOGRAPHER a history of Art League, its gallery and acadDIRECTORS MUSICAL DIRECTOR CHOREOGRAPHER emy with historical photos, also features the MARK ERICKSON JOSHUA L. WALL VICTORIA K. artwork of more than 30 artist members of the League. & ALEX CLARK MONTGOMERY In addition, to honor the Art League’s founder and gallery namesake, acclaimed artist Walter Greer, one of his well-known artworks, “Two Egrets,” graces the cover and was provided $5/Under with permission of8the Greer TICKETS $25/Adults $15/Students Estate.

MARCH 4, 5 - 7PM MARCH 5, 6includes - 2PM “The calendar milestones of Art League’s 50 years as well as artwork that highlights our artists and represents all of Hilton Head Preparatory School Main Street Theatre our member artists who have played an 3000 Main St, Hilton Head Island, SC 29926 important role in our continued success,” Go Online at www.mainstagecommunitytheatre.org said Pat Batten, ALGG president.

“This & CULTURAL COUNCIL to purchase tickets or and callexciting the Box Office unique project also serves as a MSCT is a member of the 843-689-6246 | email: info@msctheatre.org Arts&Cultural Council of Hilton Head fundraiser to help support the programs of the Art League.”

Hilton Head Preparatory School Main Street Theatre The 50th Anniversary Calendar committee worked for many months reviewing 3000 Main St, Hilton Head Island, SC 29926 ALHH archival materials, photographs and soliciting a “Call to Artists” for Art League Go Online at www.mainstagecommunitytheatre.org members’ artworks to be included in the to purchase tickets or call the Box Office historical piece. The selected artworks represent the varied artistic approaches and 843-689-6246 | email: info@msctheatre.org aesthetic inspirations of 450 talented mem-

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The Calendar Committee included Batten, board members Linda Bloom and Gabriele Hoffmann, general manager Kristen McIntosh, and Fanoula Sevastos, 50th Anniversary chair. “The limited edition commemorative keepsake calendar makes an excellent gift for family and friends visiting Hilton Head Island as well supporters of the arts,” Batten said.

Art League of Hilton Head, a 501(c)(3) not-for-profit organization, attracts more than 25,000 visitors to the Lowcountry from throughout the United States and internationally, providing an annual economic impact of $1.2 million. Proceeds from calendar sales will go to support Arts League’s mission of free and accessible exhibitions, receptions and community arts education programs.

To purchase the calendar, visit ArtLeagueHHI.org, call 843-681-5060, or stop by the gallery located at the Arts Center of Coastal Carolina, 14 Shelter Cove Lane, or the Art Academy located at 106 Cordillo Parkway.

Art League of Hilton Head is a 501(c)(3) nonprofit visual arts organization. Gallery hours are 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. Monday through Saturday and noon to 4 p.m. Sunday, and 90 minutes prior to all Arts Center performances.

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Wearable Art workshop at Savannah African Art Museum The Savannah African Art Museum has added an additional “Creating Wearable Art” workshop on Feb. 19, after the first workshop filled up in less than 24 hours after registration opened.

The workshop will run from 11 a.m. to 1 p.m. at the museum’s Upbeat Village Terracotta Gallery, 201 East 37th Street, Savannah. Note that it is stair access only; no elevator or wheelchair access is available.

Attendees will begin their experience with a private tour of the museum’s newest exhibit, “Culture, Currency and Continuity: The Significance of Cowrie Shells in African Art.” Registered attendees will meet at the main entrance of the museum promptly at 11 a.m. to commence the tour. Then, they’ll try their hands at creating wearable art out of cowrie shells and other materials.

In African culture, the small, glossy shells are more than just fashionable; they had monetary value in Ancient African societies.

For centuries, the shells were a symbol of

wealth and were used as a form of currency due to their sturdy and light-weight character. They are thought to be the first pan-regional currency in West Africa. Apart from their economic value, the shells were also revered for their power to bring prosperity, fertility, healing, and spiritual connection to ancestors. Today, cowrie shells are often used in clothing, jewelry, crafts, and African braided hairstyles and headpieces.

Registration is required at savannahafricanartmuseum.org.

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JUDGED SHOW Deadline to enter: March 1, 2022

Participation limited to first 100 entries

ALL ARTISTS WELCOME TO ENTER Must be 18 years or older

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