Lighthouse Week August 4 –11
Aug 4 & 5 • 10 am – 4:30 pm • Lighthouse on the Air: HAM radio at Lighthouse Aug 9 • 10 am • Interpretive Lighthouse Tour at Lighthouse Aug 10 • 2 pm • Grave Marker Ceremony at Saint Helena Cemetery Aug 11 • 2 pm • Barbershop Quartet at Lighthouse
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Lowcountry Summer a staple of annual Water Festival PHOTO & BRIEF BY BOB SOFALY
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What does it take to feed Frogmore Stew to a couple thousand people and entertain them at the same time? The 63rd annual Beaufort Water Festival has it all figured out. The traditional Lowcountry Supper on Thursday evening at Henry C. Chambers Waterfront Park, despite threatening skies and peals of thunder, rolled on like a welloiled machine. ”We cook up 1,300 pounds of local shrimp for starters,” volunteer cook Jason Dangerfield said prior the supper. The local delicacy had, for a long time, been prepared at various mess facilities at Marine Corps Recruit Depot Parris Island, according to Dangerfield. “Then one year their cookers broke
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2,700 dinner rolls
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5,000 ears of corn
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down and we had just a couple of hours to get it done,” he said. “We set up cookers right at the entrance to the park and pulled it off. It worked out so well, we’ve done it that way every year since”. Dangerfield said the traditional supper also boasts 750 pounds of red or “new” potatoes, 400 gallons of cole slaw, 2,700 dinner rolls, 600 quarts of cocktail sauce, 5,000 ears of corn, and 60 watermelons. All washed down with sweet and unsweet tea or lemonade, of course. After everyone has had a chance to eat, the entertainment starts, usually a band or two followed by the much-anticipated performance of The Whistlers, a local whistling group made up of past Water Festival commodores.
Photo above: What does 750 pounds of red potatoes look like? Combine them with 1,300 pounds of shrimp and 1,200 pounds of smoked sausage and you have the beginning of what it takes to put together the annual Beaufort Water Festival Lowcountry Supper. Photo by Bob Sofaly. See more photos from the Lowcountry Supper and other 2018 Water Festival events on pages B2-3.
‘The Champion of Beaufort’
Friends and family remember former mayor Henry C. Chambers
Above from left: State Rep. Shanon Erickson (R-Beaufort) holds up the Palmetto flag that flew at half-mast over the state house in Columbia in honor of the late Henry C. Chambers. About 300 family members and friends gathered at the Waterfront Park named in Chambers’ honor for a brief memorial on Monday, July 23, which would have been his 90th birthday; City of Beaufort firefighters give a hand salute after presenting the colors to begin the memorial service for the late Henry C. Chambers on Monday at the Waterfront Park named in his honor. Chambers was called the “Champion of Beaufort” and was compared to David against Goliath in saving a dying little town; Beaufort Mayor Billy Keyserling recalls a sailing story involving himself and late mayor Henry C. Chambers in which Keyserling, much to the chagrin of Chambers, overturned the boat during a regatta. Keyserling said, “Henry didn’t like to lose so we were off to a pretty bad start.” Photos by Bob Sofaly.
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COVERING BEAUFORT COUNTY
Lady’s Island man convicted of manslaughter in girlfriend’s shooting death A 45-year-old Lady’s Island man has been convicted of the 2016 shooting death of his girlfriend during a late-night argument inside his parked truck. A Beaufort County jury found Jamie Jermaine Robinson guilty of voluntary manslaughter last week in the death of Eulia Moon shortly after midnight on Oct. 29, 2016. The conviction followed three days of testimony from 14 prosecution witnesses. Robinson was also convicted of possession of a weapon during commission of a violent crime. He was sentenced to 30 years in prison. Robinson and Moon, 47, had been dating for about two years at the time of her death. Relatives of both characterized the relationship as tumultuous and sometimes violent. Robinson told Beaufort County Sheriff ’s Office investigators he had been drinking at an acquaintance’s house much of the day of his girlfriend’s death and possibly had cocaine and marijuana in his system, as well. He said Moon tracked him down and was angry about the friends with whom he was associating. They argued in his Chevrolet Avalanche, which was parked in the driveway of a home on Little Capers Road owned by Robinson’s mother. The couple also lived there, in a garage converted into an apartment. Robinson’s mother told investigators she was awakened sometime after midnight by the Jamie Jermaine family’s barking dog. When she Robinson went to her front door to investigate the commotion, she saw her son, who was yelling and behaving erratically. He told her to call 911 because he had just shot Moon. His mother made the call, then tended to Moon. Meanwhile, Robinson fled on foot down a dirt road and then into the woods between Little Capers and Sams Point roads. Along the way, he shed his shirt and shoes and tossed the weapon used to shoot Moon – a .25-caliber handgun. Robinson ran to a cousin’s house nearby and called law enforcement and initially claimed a masked assailant robbed him and shot Moon. However, when Beaufort County Sheriff ’s Office investigators told Robinson his story didn’t match crime-scene evidence, he eventually changed his story, claiming the gun discharged accidentally when Moon tried to wrest it from him as he held it to his own head. Moon was taken to Beaufort Memorial Hospital and later to the Medical University of South Carolina in Charleston before she died of a gunshot wound to her head. Robinson’s criminal record includes convictions for disorderly conduct, and felony and misdemeanor drug possession charges. Circuit Court Judge Jennifer B. McCoy sentenced Robinson to 30 years for voluntary manslaughter – the maximum penalty for that offense – and five years for possession of a weapon during the commission of a violent crime. The sentences are to be served concurrently. Smith is a member of the 14th Circuit Solicitor’s Office Career Criminal Unit, which prosecutes the circuit’s most habitual and dangerous offenders. With Thursday’s conviction, the team has earned convictions against 309 of the 321 defendants it has prosecuted since its formation in 2008.
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