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Ladies Who Lunch North of the Broad head to the Penn Center

Coastal Community Foundation, a grant making organization serving coastal South Carolina, today announced that 2016 awards from The Beaufort Fund totaled $592,000 to 55 nonprofits from the Southern Lowcountry – Beaufort, Colleton, Hampton and Jasper Counties. This sum includes awards to 12 three-year grantees, organizations receiving renewable support in recognition of a highly effective program and business model. Nonprofits and supporters from the Southern Lowcountry community gathered at an annual reception on Friday, February 12th to honor grantees at the Port Royal Sound Foundation’s Maritime Center. The reception brought together many guests, including Mayor Billy Keyserling of Beaufort, to celebrate the success of grantees from across the region. “We are sincerely honored that The Beaufort Fund enables us to partner in some capacity with so many worthy organizations,” said Ali Titus, Program Officer at Coastal Community Foundation. “The collective impact of all of our 2015-16 grantees is an inspiring reminder of the power of community. I am continually NONPROFIT continued on page 8 humbled by their dedication

Ladies Who Lunch North of the Broad pose with Aunt Pearlie Sue who catered a scrumptious lunch for them in the Emory Campbell cafeteria at Penn Center. The Ladies then toured the Penn Center campus. Pictured standing left to right are Donnia Barnes, Hattie Brown, Claudette Humphrey, Ruby Johnson, Alvesta Robertson, Terry Marquez, Veronica Miller, Hazel Murray, Rebecca Cooper, Sue Yearwood, Shirley Patterson and Lottie Miles. Seated are Marie Lewis, Aunt Pearlie Sue (Anita Prather) and Etta Mann.

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Bronze Star awarded to Beaufort native Story by Cpl. Fatmeh Saad

Photo by Staff Sgt. Mark Morrow

Staff Sgt. Nathan A. Hervey, an instructor with the Advanced Infantry Training Battalion at the School of Infantry-East, was awarded a Bronze Star Medal at Stone Bay rifle range, Camp Lejeune, North Carolina, on Feb. 5th. He received the award for his actions while carrying out duties as a scout sniper section leader with 3rd Battalion, 2nd Marine Regiment, in support of Operation Enduring Freedom. The

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medal was accompanied by the combat distinguishing device for acts of valor, known as the Combat “V”, and he was cited for extraordinary heroism. Hervey, then a sergeant, was deployed to Afghanistan and tasked with surveillance of northern Musa Qala, a district in Helmand Province. On May 21, 2011, his squad entered a firefight with insurgents attempting to transport weapons for use STAR continued on page 6

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