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Entrepreneur Andrew Yang bringing campaign for president to Beaufort By Mike McCombs Andrew Yang will bring his campaign for president to Beaufort County on Thursday, Aug. 15. The Democratic candidate will speak at the North of the Broad Democratic Club meeting at the Grand Army of the Republic Hall at 706 Newcastle Street. The gathering and greeting begins at 6:30 p.m., followed
by the meeting at 7 p.m., but Yang probably won’t speak until roughly 7:45 p.m. Yang is Andrew known for Yang his signature policy, called the “Freedom Dividend.” The Freedom Dividend is a form of Universal Basic Income (UBI), where
all Americans 18 and older would receive $1,000 a month. According to Yang, this will soften the blow of an increasingly difficult U.S. labor landscape as a result of current and future job elimination due to automation. Yang’s two other major platform issues are Medicare for all and human-centered capitalism. The founder of Venture for
America (VFA), a non-profit that focuses on creating jobs in struggling American cities, Yang is pro-choice, opposes discrimination based on sexual orientation or gender identification and wants the United States to rejoin the Paris Climate Accords. Speaking before Yang will be the scheduled special speaker, Gloria Holmes, PhD, a professor at the University
munities with diverse cultural, social, historical, and political profiles. Yang joins a growing list of 2020 candidates who have visited Beaufort County since the spring. Previous candidates to swing through the Lowcountry include Beto O’Rourke, Elizabeth Warren, Cory Booker, John Hickenlooper and Marianne Williamson.
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2 rescued on water By Mindy Lucas Two water rescues within four days of each other have kept area first responders busy recently. The first water rescue involved a 30-year-old woman who was rescued from the Beaufort River after she was swept away from a dock around 6 p.m. July 31, said Battalion Chief Ross Vezin with the City of Beaufort/Town of Port Royal Fire Department. It was first thought the woman had jumped from the Woods Memorial Bridge after a 911 caller reported a person had jumped from the bridge. However, officers arriving on the scene at the Henry C. Chambers Waterfront Park, later learned the woman had decided to go for a swim from the city’s day dock. According to the officers, she was then “carried away by the current,” said Patrick Schmucker, a spokesman for the Beaufort Police Department. An officer with the fire department spotted the woman drifting towards the Old Point neighborhood. The woman tried to cling to the piling beneath the bridge but the current was too much for her, Vezin said. “She couldn’t hold on and that’s when he saw her go under several times,” he said. Firefighters were eventually able to rescue the woman after throwing water rope rescue bags from a dock off Port Republic Street in Old Point, then jumping into the water to get to the woman as she passed by. The woman was given medical care by EMS and taken to the hospital. It was not known what her condition was as of Monday night. The City of Beaufort/Town of Port Royal Fire Department,
of South Carolina Beaufort. She teaches on "Cultural Diversity in Education," preparing students to demonstrate an understanding of the depth and breadth of cultural diversity within the United States. Also, Holmes is a member of Bridge4Unity, an interracial dialogue and cultural exchange project that bring together three distinct com-
By Mike McCombs Though we’re still in the dog days of summer, it’s that time of year again – it’s football season. Area high school players took to the field this past week, beginning practice for a INSIDE season that WHHI releases begins in less its slate of local than three high school weeks. football games The seafor the 2019 son kicks off season, A7 for northern Beaufort County’s public school
teams on Aug. 23. Whale Branch travels to rival Battery Creek, while Beaufort High takes on A.C. Flora in Columbia. Both games are at 7:30 p.m. The next week, head coach Mark Clifford and Beaufort Academy open their defense of the SCISA 8-man state championship with a road game at Clarendon Hall. Between now and then, area athletes will endure some grueling summer practices. But it won’t be long before the officials are spotting the ball.
Walter Wilson
Above: The Battery Creek Dolphins defensive squad goes through its agility drills during an early morning practice Monday. BCHS is coached by Walter Wilson. ••• The Beaufort Academy Eagles football team began practice this week taking advantage of early morning cooler weather. Here, assistant coach David Fess, center, teaches his linemen their assignments on a double-team (left) while pulling guards come at him from the right. BA is coached by Mark Clifford. Photos by Bob Sofaly.
Mark Clifford
Firefighter injured in suspicious mobile home fire By Mindy Lucas An area firefighter responding to a suspicious fire in a residential area in Burton on July 31, was injured after helping to extinguish the blaze, a fire official has said. Fire crews from the Burton Fire District and the Beaufort-Port Royal Fire Department responding to the fire on Walker Circle around 6 p.m. found a mobile home “heavily involved” in flame, said Captain Daniel Byrne
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with the Burton Fire District. The home, believed to have been abandoned, was within 50 yards of other homes in the neighborhood. High heat and humidity and thick vegetation growing on and around the home made it difficult for firefighters to respond, Byrne said. The fire was fully extinguished within about an hour and investigators remained on the scene for several hours after, he said. The injured firefighter suf-
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fered from minor burns. He was treated by EMS on the scene, then returned to fighting the fire. When reached by phone Monday, Byrne said he was otherwise doing fine. The fire is being called suspicious and remains under investigation, Byrne said. Anyone with any information about the fire is asked to call the Beaufort County Sheriff’s Office or the state arson hotline at 1-800-92-ARSON.