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Castles made of sand
Beachgoers face off in Hunting Island’s annual Sand Sculpture Contest
Lady’s Island shootout leaves man dead A man was killed and at least one more was wounded in a shootout on Monday night on Lady’s Island following nearby Beaufort High School’s graduation ceremonies. The Beaufort County Sheriff's Office is investigating shots fired in the parking lot of the Circle K on Lady's Island. At approximately 9 p.m., deputies responded to a report of shots fired between the occupants of two vehicles in the parking lot of the Circle K gas station on Highway 21. It was reported that the vehicles fled the scene after the shots were fired.
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Heat ramps up demand for water in Beaufort
Creating its own version of a mythical sea serpent is D.B. Construction Co. Here, Bryan Bauer, far left, Eric Johnson and Josh Howard work on their creation during the annual Sand Sculpture on Saturday at Hunting Island State Park. Photos by Bob Sofaly.
Lauren Rowland, 11, left, and cousins Emma Story, 10, and Lucas King, 9 work on making authentic tie-died T-shirts while their grandmother, Debbi Rowland, looks on during the annual Sand Sculpture event Saturday at Hunting Island State Park. Sponsoring the event was Friends of Hunting Island Sea Turtle Conservation Project.
Several teams took part in the annual Sand Sculpture Contest on Saturday, May 1 at Hunting Island State Park. The contest, held at North Beach near the lighthouse, was sponsored by the Friends of Hunting Island. For a $1 donation, spectators were able to cast votes for their favorite sculpture in three categories of contestants. The duo of Landon and
Jackson won the Sand Fleas Division for young contestants. Team Pokeman was second. In the Sand Tribes Division, for organizations or businesses, DB Construction’s take on a dragon took first place. Jennifer DeVault’s alligator was second. In third place was TMMT’s sea turtle. There were no entries in the Sand Hopper Division.
Cummings makes it four straight junior world titles Make it a four-peat — and another world record — for CJ Cummings. Cummings claimed two gold medals and one silver at the IWF Junior World Championships on Monday morning in Suva, Fiji, becoming the first lifter from any nation to win the overall title in his weight class for the fourth consecutive year. Before Cummings’ first ju-
nior world championship in 2016, no American weightlifter had won a world title CJ at any level Cummings since 2000. The 18-year-old Beaufort native was a bit shaky in the snatch portion of the competition, hitting a 145kg
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lift before missing at 148kg and 150kg and settling for silver. He rebounded with a gold medal and junior world record performance in the clean and jerk, hitting 192kg after missing at 185kg on his second attempt. The lift bettered his own junior world record by one kilogram. “I was kind of mad because (the snatch) wasn’t my best performance,” he told
USA Weightlifting after the competition. “I didn’t think about (the clean), just went out there and did it and it was a piece of cake.” Cummings still has a chance to add two more junior world titles before he ages out of the division, but for now he is trying to secure a spot on the U.S. Olympic team in 2020. His next competition is the Junior Pan
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American Championships later this month in Havana, Cuba. “I am extremely happy and excited for this year’s gold medal,” Cummings told Team USA. “My next competition will be the Junior Pan American Championships, which I also would like to win and build up my ROBI points to qualify for the Tokyo Olympic Games.”
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Greene Street pool getting much-needed updates.
The gang takes on the Red Rooster Café.
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A lot of hot and very little rain. That’s been the weather pattern for a while now in Beaufort – record heat and no rain -- and it’s obviously raising peak water demand. Beaufort-Jasper Water and Sewer Authority (BJWSA) says customers may experience low water pressure, as well as discolored water due to high velocities in the water mains. This high demand for irrigation water significantly impacts drinking water delivery for all customers. Until it rains considerably, customers are urged to minimize or modify their irrigation times away from the peak demand hours of 4 to 9 a.m. in order to alleviate this issue. BJWSA says it is striving to meet these high demands, and water velocity in the pipe is higher than normal. The high water velocity and turbulence is scouring the inside of the pipe causing the discoloration. Every indication from water quality testing shows that the water is safe to drink and poses no immediate health concerns. As long as the discoloration is due to minerals such as iron and manganese, the water remains safe to drink. Running cold water for 5 minutes usually clears up the discoloration. For more news and information, visit BJWSA at www. bjwsa.org.